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The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1914-03-26
Plantation Stories.

Mr.. Andrews Wilkinson, whose
writings have long been recogniz-
ed to be of a very high order, has
just completed a book, entitled
"PIantation Stories of Old Lou
isiana." The book is being pub
lished by Page & Co. of Boston,
and will be issued some time dur
ing April. The publishers have
the following to say of the book:
"Primarially, these nature and
animal stories are for the chiI-
dren's hour, but their underlying
philosophy and humor will charm
every member of the household
from the smallest toddler to the
old folks. In old Jason, the auth
or has created a character who
will rival the justly famed Uncle
Remus. The old fellows legends,
related in the quaint negro dialect
of the South of years ago, are re-
markable examples of a vanishing
folk lore and are certain to enter
tain even the most blase reader.
Nor has the author been satisfied
with having created only that de-
lightful character. He has inelqdr
ed in his volume STOKES OF birds
and animals which will take rank
With Kipling's Jungle Bookss be
hss given US stories in the hitherto
little known Creole dialect, and
through them all he has maintained
an attractive interest which grasps
the reader at the very outset and
holds him until the last page has
been read"
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1914-03-26
Enter-schOIastiC Debate.
EAdl

The annual inter-scholastic de-
bate between Millsaps, French
Camp and Chamberlain Hunt will
take place Friday night. One de-
bate, between MiIlsaps and French
Camp will be contested at French
Camp, one at Jackson between
Millsaps and Chamberlain Hunt,
and the other at Port Gibson be.
tween Millsaps and, cAambeElaiR-
Hunt. Each, debate will be pulled
loft tomorrow night. and the sub
siect will be the same for each de-
bate, Woman Suffrage. c. H. A.
will be represented at Jackson by
w. H. Mactee and Charles Guice.
The boys who will debate MiIIsaps
here are Joseph Liddell and ] F.
Crenshaw. They will have the St-
6rmative side of the question, Tbs
debate will take place at the opers
bhoAse, directly after the moving
Ipictures. Admission 10 and 20 cts
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Mr.. Louis R. Levy.

The community was shocked
Saturday by the announcement of
the death of Mr.. Louis R. Levy,
which occurred in Vicksburg where
he recently suffered an operation.
1t was generally known that bis
condition was not encouraging. but
none knew that his life was 80
near the end,
Mr., Levy became i'll about two
weeks before his death, and it was
found that an operation was neces-
sary. The operation revealed
complications which caused grave
apprehension on the part of the
family and physicians.
Mr.. Levy was the youngest son
of the lateSMr apd Mrs. Lazrarus
levy. He was boFn and reared
lin Port Gibson, and was in the
s2nd year of bis age. He had been
engaged in the mercantile business
until a few months ago. and was
known to almost every resident ol
the county, many Of whom were
bis warm personal friends.
The deceased, had seryed many
Ikerhg as alderman OF Port Gibson
land was recognized as a faithful
and painstaking official.
Mr.. Levy leaves two sisters
Mrs. Louis Abraham OF Port Glib
son aud Mrs. Chas. D. Bloch 0
Vicksburg. and two brothers, By
ron Fl. Levy OF Port Gibson ans
William B. Levy OF Vicksburg.
The funeral services were he'll
from the residence of his brother
Byron Fl. Levy. Sunday Afternoon
at two o'clock, Rabbi Sol. Kory Q
Vicksburg officiating.
A large number Of sorrowinl
j relatives and friends were presen
: 10 pay last tribute to bis mem
! Tory. Those from . diatsnce were
IMw ana Mrs A he Cnisnnherue =,
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DR.. MELVIN ACCEPTS.
Becomes SnRerIH4endent OF Education
of Presbyterian SCHOOLS. VIII
Reside In Jackson.


DR.. NJ. g. Melvin, president of
C. H. Academy, who was recent
ly elected superintendent of educR-
ton of the S Presbyterian schools
in Mississippi, but took the matter
under advisement, has decided. to
accept the positeA, His duties
las president OF Chamberlain Hunt
will terminate with the present
session. DR.. Melvin will make bis
home in Jackson, but Mrs. Melvin
will remain in Port Gibson during
the summer.
1t is the general opinion that
the synod could not have made I
better selection, bpt the friends Of
Chamberlain- Hunt feel that, while
he is still at the head of the insti'
tuition. the school has sustained !
heavy loss,
| However, it is generally believed
that Maj. w. G. Martin will sue
ceed DR.. Melvin. He has beer
dean of the faculty for some time
and is virtually head of the dis
cipline of the institution now. NJ
doubt, there would be no percepti
BILE change.
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Chamberiain's Tablets FOR Constipa-
tion

Cor constipation, ChamberIain's
Tablets are excellent. Easy to
take, mild and gentle 10 eject.
Give them a trial, FoE sale By all
dealers.
EA5v1
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COUNTY NEWS,
Interesting Letters from Different
Sections Of the County. Written
by Our Regular Cors
respondents.
Rockp sprinse

The spring equiuox' is making
itself felt by this cold snap, which
ives usbeEed 10 BY dashes OF snow.
4 few Of our citizens were IN
Jackson last week aud attended
the auction sale Of Hereford cattle
at be Davis stock farm. Howev-
er,oo one from this section invest
ed, IS the prices were beyond the
aveage farmers means.
M. P. 3, Regan Visited rela'
tive. 10 this vicinity the past week,
retyning to Reganton with Mr.. 7.
S.McCay and daughters and Mrs.
Lhra Lum, who we're down to
chrch services Sunday morning
at locky Springs.
| liss May Russell is at home
1agn from a six weeks lecturine
It@ 10 Alabama.
Relatives from EsteIline, Texas
expected at the home Of Mrs
Rssell this week.
The teachers ofDist. 3 will hoIt
he Reading and Defamation
~ =. al. - o u. x~~~ i
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Special Meeting.

A called meeting of tide Board
of Mayor and Aldermen OF Port
Gibson was held March goth.
Present. Aldermen Gordon, Guth-
rie, Walne Allen and Wharton.
Absent. Mayor Smith and Alder
man Jones.
On motion Alderman c. r.
Wharton was elected mayor pro
tenn.
On motion the board adjourned
gHOS. M. REA, Clerk.
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March 27tb.

March a7th.
Mrs. w. H. Parker is visiting
her relatives at Liberty and Mr..
Parker has gone to Louisiana.
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DeposItors by Stockholders Of Bauk
Of EfermanvllIe at Meeting Held
Last Tuesday.

A meeting of the depositors anc
stockholders of the Bank of Her
manville was held Tuesday to dis
cuss the situation and form plans
for settling the affairs of the insti.
tuition. The meeting was perfect
ly harmonious, and it was unani-
mousIy decided that the bank be
re-opened for liquidation, the of
ficers to furnish bond of $4,000.
All of the depositors were not
present, but the agreement was
put in writing and will be present
ed to the absent ones for their
signatures. The signatures of
those representing the larger part
of the amount deposited have al-
ready been secured.
The agreement states that as
soon as $4,000 has been collected
it is to be proFated among the de.
Ipositors.
The depositors were guaranteed
IS per cent of their deposits. If
the collections do not amount to
this much, the directors will make
up what is lacking out of their pri.
vate fluids. This is certainly com.
mendable.
Mr.. Gradick, the former cashier,
will probably liquidate the affairs
of the institution, under the super
vision of the directors.
OF course the bank will do no
business further than collect out
standing indebtedness and disburse
the receipts.
One of the surprises developed
by the tailute was TIE lsyge num-
Der of negro depositors.
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Not Paint

The worst mistake in painting is
not putting off. That costs about
10 percent you keep YOuE money
a year and pay 70. per cent for i.
Paint would have to come-down
as. per cent TO make 10 per cent on
TIE Job, for wages do not go.down.
The worst mistake is "cheap"
paint. 1t costs from so per cent
to 100, first cost, and another 10
wear,
What a liar ''cheap" isl ssPqt-
off" is bad-euough; "chsap" is ten
times worse.
DEVOE
EAdvI
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Nc. 0omer

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Mitchell
and two children, Mary Lou and
Earl, spent the week end with Mr..
Mitchell's father near Red Lick.
Miss Stanley Snodgrass spent
last week with Miss Ktta Valen-
fine.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1914-03-26

Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Geisenberger,
Mr.. S. L. Benjamin of Natchez;
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Levy, Mr..
and Mrs. c. D. Bloch, Messrs. L.
Adler and M. L. Calm of Vicks-
burg.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-09-25
1.-THE PLACE OF THE MORNING GLOW"
Something

fireplace: and Fewkes and others
think they may have been ventilator
shafts to keep the smoke from blow
ing back into the room; but In Casa
Grande they are in rooms where there
Is no fireplace. What were they for I,
Others think thy were whispering
tubes. for use in time of war or rell-
gious ceremony, but In a house OF
open doors would Ii not have been as
simple to cali through the opening?
Yet another explanation is that they
were for drainage purposes, the cave
mans first rude attempt at modern
plumbing; but that explanation falls
down, too, for these openings don't
drain in any regular direction. Such
structure as Casa Grande must
have housed a whole tribe in time of
religious festival or war; so You come
back to the explanation of ventilator
shafts.
The ceilings of Casa Grande are ex-
| trardinarily high and bodies found
buried in sealed-up chambers behind
/ the ruins of the other compounds
ars five to six feet long showing this
was no dwarf race. (''For there were
/ giants in those days.') The rooms
! do not run off rectangular halls, as
/ our rooms do. You tumble down
stone steps, through passage so mar
row as to catch your shoulders, into
\ q room deep and narrow as a grave.
Then you crack your head going up
other steps off this room to another
! compartment Bodies found at Casa
Grande lay flat-headed to the east.
| Bodies found in the caves were truss
ed up. knees to chin, as at birth; but,
as usual. the bodies found at Casa
Grande have been shipped away east
/ to be stored in cellars. instead of be-
ing left, carefully glassed over, where
they We're found.
Lower altitude, or the great age, or
the quality of the clays may account
for the peculiarly rich shades of the
pottery found at Casa Grande. The
purples ani reds and browns are
J tinged an almost iridescent green
Running back from the Great House
is a heavy wall as of a former court
yard, the only walled Indian ruin
that 1 know in the southwest. Back
ing and thanking the walls, appear
, to have been other houses, smaller
/ but built in the same fashion as Casa
Grande. Stand on these ruined walls
: or in the doorway of he Grea'
| House, and you can see that five such
; big houses have once existed in this
compound Two or three curiou:
J features mark Casa Grande. Inside
! what must have been the main cour
| of the compound are elevated earth
: en- stages or platforms three to si'
) feet high. solid mounds. Were these
, the foundations of other Great Hous
/ es. or platforms for the religious the
atricals and ceremonials which entel
, SO largely into the lives of the south
: western Indians? At one place Is th'
r dry bed of a very ancient reservoir
a but how was water conveyed to thi
E big community we'll? The river i
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-09-25

Yuma and made Imperial valley. |
Twenty years ago YOU could squat
on Imperial valley land.
Today it costs $1,000 an acre and
Yields high percentage on that invest
ment Today YOU can buy Casa
Grande lands for from SIS to SIS an
acre Wait tin the water is turned
on the ditch and it will not seem such
hard shedding.
II you want to know just how hard
and lonely it is, drive past the home-
steads at nightfall, as / did. The
white tent stands in the middle of a
harbed wire strung along juniper
poles and cedar shakes-no house.
no stable, no buildings of any sort.
The horses are staked out. A wo-
man is cooking meal above the
chip fire. A lantern hangs on bush
in front Of the tent-flap. Miles
ahead you see another lantern gleam
and swing, and dimly discern the
outlines OF another tent-the home-
steader's nearest neighbor. Just now
Grande town boasts 400 people.
housed chiefly in one-story adobe
dwellings Come in five years, ani
Casa Grande win be boasting her
ten or 10000 people. Like mush-
rooms OF one night, the little towns
spring up in irrigation lands.
You catch the first glimpse of the
ruin about eighteen miles out--a red
roof put on by the government, then
huge square four-story mass OF
ruins surrounded by broken walls,
with remnants OF big elevated court
yards. and four or five other COM
pounds the size of this central house,
like the hastions at the four corners
of a large old-fashioned walled fort
! The walls are adobe of tremendous
| thickness; six feet in the house oil
Z temple part, from one to three in the
/ stockade, a thickness that in an age
/ OF only stone weapons must have
/ been impenetrable. The doors are
so very low as to compel n person OF
ordinary height to bend almost dou'
| BILE to enter. and the supposition i:
this was to prevent the entrance o
an enemy and give the doorkeeper {
/ chance to eject unwelcome visitors
/ Once inside. the ceilings are high
/ timbered with vigas of cedar strength
| ened by heavier logs that must have
| been carried in a horseless age {
hundred miles from the mountains
| The house is laid out on rectangular
| lines. and the halls straight enough
but so narrow as to compel passag'
sidewise.
In every room is a feature that ha.
/ puzzled scientists both here and il
the cave dwellings. Doors were, o
| course, open squares off the halls, o
other rooms: but in addition to thes
L openings you will find. close to tn
floor of each room. little round "ca
i holes" one or two or three of them
big enough for beam but withut
beam. In the cave dwellings thes
little round holes through walls fou
and five feet thick are frequently o.
: the side of the room opposite tn
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-09-25

don't know what reason there Is
for Il. neither do the indians OF the
southwest. but Casa Grande-the
"grest House" or the place OF the
Morning Glow '--is 30 them the Gar
den Vt Eden of their race traditions,
the scene Of their mythical golden
age when there were no Apaches
railing the crops nor white men steal
INK land away. when life was a per-
petual Happy Hunting Ground. only
the hunters didn't Kill, and all the
animals could talk, and the desert
was an antelope plain knee-deep in
pasursgc and flowers, and the
springs were an fuu OF running wa
ter.
casa GraEde Is undoubtedly the
oldest OF an the ruins IN the United
states il lies some eighteen or
twenty-five miles. according TO the
road you follow. north OF the station
called o., that name in Arizona on
4he Southern Pacific railroad, The
drive can be made with ease in an
afternoon. but better give yourself
two days and stay out for a night
1T The tents Of MIR. Pinkley, the gov
ernmeui custodian OF the ruin
The ruin has been set aside as a
perpetual monument You drive out
over a low mesa Of rolling mesquite
and greasewood and cactus. where
the giant suaharo stands like a coll
umned ghost OF centuries OF bygone
ages.
How old are they?" I asked my
driver as We passed huge cactus,
high as house and twisted in con-
toriions as IL in pain. From tip to
root the great trunk was literally
pitted with the holes pecked through
by little desert birds for water
-Oh. centuries and centuries old,
he said "and the queer part is that
in this section of the mesa, water Is
sixty feet below the surface. Their
roots don't 20 down sixty feet.
where do they get the water?
guess The bark acts as cement or rub
ber. preventing evaporation. The
spines keep the desert animals oft
and during the rainy season the cac-
tus drinks up all the water he's go
ing to need for the year and stores i
up in that big tank reservoir Of his;
but his time Is up round these parts
Settlers have homesteaded all round
here for twenty-five miles. and nexi
time YOU come back Wen have or
ange groves and pecan orchards.
Far as you Mould look were the lit
sle shacks and white tents of th'
pioneers. stretching barhei wire line:
round ls0-acre patches Of sagebrush
with a faith 10 put Moses 10 sham'
when he struck the rock for spring
These settlers have had 10 bore dow
from thirty TO sixty feet to water lev
el with very inadequate tools; AM
you see little burros chasing home
made windiasses round and round, L
pump up water. Ii looks ike 'th
9aiih that lays 1t down and jies''-
SLOW. hard shedding, this kind o
Sarrzl. but it is this kind Of dauntles
faith that made Phoenix and mad
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-09-25

two miles away ana no spring Is Wis
ible here, Though YOU can see the
path of sandaled feet worn in the
very rocks of eternity, an irrigation
ditch has not yet been located. This,
however, proves nothing, for the
sand-storms of single year would
bury the springs four feet deep. A
truer indication OF the great age of
the reservoir is the old tree growing
out OF the center; and that brings up
the question. how we know the age of
these ancient ruins-that is. the age
within hundred years or so, Ask
settlers round how old Casa Grande
is and they will tell you five or six
hundred years, Yet on the very face
of thinks Casa Grande must be thou
sands of years older than the Other
ruins of the southwest
Why?
| First as to historic records: die
Coronado see Casa Grande in 1906
| when he marched north across th'
country? He records seeing an an
cient Great House, where Indians
dwelt. Bandelier. Fewkes and {
dozen others who have identified hi
itinerary say this was not Cas-
Grande. Even by 1910 Casa Grand
was an abandoned ruin. Kino, tn,
great Jesuit, was the first white maj
known to have visited the Grea
I House, and he gathered the Pima
and Papagos about and said mas
there about 1894. What a weird seen,
1t must have been, the purple SAGA
ton mountains glimmering in tn
/ clear morning lilac light. the man,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-09-25

CONTINUED on Page seven)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-05
MAUD {. SILVA
IS RAMMEO BY A
STEAMER At SEA
CAPTAIN SENDS LETTER TO THE
OWNERS AND SAYS STEAMER
DID NOT EVEN STOP TO SEE
THE EXTENT OF DAMAGE.

A letter received yesterday from
Captain P. Peterson, of the fishing
schooner Maud E. Silva, by the owners.
E. e. Saunders & Co., states that his
vessel was rammed at sea on last Fri
day morning by an unknown steamer,
evidently a frufter out of Mobile or
New Orleans, and although the look
out on the steamer could easily see
the distress signals from the injured
smack she made no attempt to come
to her aid The position of the Silva
was longitude S7.10 west, latitude $50
north, and she was burning her an
could be seen for five miles. The letter
was given to passing fishing
schooner bound for Pensacola. The
Silva is endeavoring to make port.
The letter of Captain Peterson is
as follows:
Dear Sirs: I wish TO inform you
that my vessel was run into by an
unknown steamer at 8: 80 o'clock ON the
morning of Friday, October 80. The
! weather at the time was very clear
and our anchor light burning bright
and should be visible for five miles
or more.
zone man was coming ON deck when
we were struck, but he had to get be-
low to avoid the wreckage and spars
falling from aloft. The steamer hove
to about a mile away for a while,
then kept on her way, although We
were burning distress signals to try
and bring her close enough to read
her name.
The main rigging on the port side
has all gone; also the main topmast,
main boom broken and all iron work
aloft broken and twisted. We have
fixed up a rigging to keep the main
mast In her and are working under
the storm trysaiI, which is very slow
work. the vessel handling awkward.
THE steamer that ran into us was
white painted, most likely a fruit
steamer bound south, and must have
left South Pass or Mobile on Tuesday,
October 81, to have arrived at cur
position by Friday morning.
1T was a miraculous escape for all
hands She never scratched the paint
on the hull, but her bridge or poop
must have caght our rigging and
spars. I do not know how it will be
possible to find her name, but I would
advise the custom houses of Mobile
and New Orleans. do not think the
steamer will report it, owing to his
failure to return to our assistance. He
saw by the light Of the torch on deck
that we were launching the dorieS,
but he kept on his way. Our riding
light was burning bright when lowered
to the deck, so we could use the lHt
to help launch the dories, which plainly
showed that no lookout had been kept
on the steamer.
Respectfully yours.
PETERSON"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-05
"The Sins of the Father" Tonight"

Nc OTIS OF GFtG dkHSF S41I-
Tonight. at the Opera House, Mr..
Thomas Dixon's most noted play, The
Sins of the Father" will be shown.
Apart from the fact that this excellent
attraction is a big feature on the cal
endar of this seasons successes, the
fact that Mr. Thomas Dixon, the
author and noted novelist, will be in
the city and will appear between the
acts and address the audience, should
prove an extra drawing card. AS is
we'll known Mr.. Dixon on various oc-
casions appears in the role of orator.
and upon his recent appearance in
Philadelphia, a price of 81 was levied
to hear him speak. Tonight Pensa-
colians will have an opportunity TO
hear Mr.. Dixon for the same price of
admission as is paid for tickets 70
1.-THE Sins of the Father. The will
ingness of Mr.. Dixon to speak be-
tween the acts of the play is certainly
an act to be appreciated, and those
many Pensa colians vino have read
many of this noted authors books,
will have the opportunity of hearing
him discuss certain phases of his
works The scale of prices of Is
cents to 81 is cheaper than In many
cities and with the added attraction
Of Mr. Dixon's talk, should prove the
magnet of drawing a large and en-
thusiastic audience. Tickets now
selling at Balkcom's.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-05
French Remedy Aids
Stomach Sufferers

France has been called the nation
without stomach troubles. The French
have for generations used simple
mixture of vegetable oils that relieve
all stomach and intestinal ailments
and keep the bowels free from foul,
poisoness matter. The stomach is left
to perform its functions normally
Mr.. Geo. H. Mayr, leading druggist
of Chicago, cured himself with this
remedy in short time The demand
is so great that he imports these oils
from France and compounds them un-
der the name OF Mayr's Wonderful
stomach Remedy. People everywhere
write and testify to the marvellous re-
lief they have received using this renne-
dy-one dose will rid the body of pois-
onous accretions that have accumu-
lated for years and convince the most
chronic sufferer from stomach, liver or
intestinal troubles. Mayr's Wonderful
stomach Remedy is now sold here by
The Crystal Pharmacy and Balkcom
Drug Company. (adv)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-05

For the sake Of the patrons OF the
Pensacola Postoff1ce who have been
greatly Inconvenience during the past
year by the incomplered condition OF
the building, it is to be regretted that
there was no one in Washington suffi-
GENTLY interested in the matter to
make it his business to see that the
detail mentioned above was not over
looked. When business picks up ana
Pensacola again gets on her feet, it
may be possible fer the Chamber Of
Commerce to send a representative
there to assist in directing official at
tention to just such details.