THE TUPELO JOURNAL PUBLISHED WEEKLY. ~TOPELo71 < i MISSISSIPPI. ' (Copyright, l®03, by Dully Story Pub. Uo.) MOST assuredly, since you insist on it, I will make the transfer for you, Linda. I have no wish to dictate, now or at any time, but I am certain you will regret the step.” The rose-tints deepened hotly on the cheeks next him. “I don’t care what you are certain of,” flashed the young woman, angrily. “I’m tired of your overbearing ways, Kirke Morris! I’m competent, I think, to man age for myself.” The lawyer’s face flushed and then turned dull white. “Does that mean you wish your entire freedom from my care, Linda?” She fixed her eyes stubbornly on the papers before her. “Just as you choose to interpret it,” she answered, coldly. He looked at her with a stricken, in credulous gaze. “You will pardon me if I seem slow to comprehend this,” he said, with forced quiet. “Of course, I have no desire to hold you unwillingly to your promise. But some sort of an explanation is no more than my due, I think.” A bright spot was all there remained of the flush on Linda's cheek. “It’s a woman’s immemorial privilege to change her mind—a process, I suppose, HE PAUSED AT THE DOOK. hardly to be comprehended by so staid and constant a person as Kirke Mor ris.” The fine sarcasm seemed lost on her hearer, but the flippancy cut him like a knife. “In truth, it is all a riddle to me,” he said, slowly, after a moment. ‘‘I honestly believed that you loved me, Linda.” The red lips curled. “It is a common delusion of your sex that they are indispensable to the happi ness of ours,” she answered cuttingly. “You are skillful with your hard words', all at once,” he said, with bitterness. He rose, and took his hat. “I leave you to your freedom, and your reasons.” He paused at the door, and his searching gaze seemed to her age-long. She sat like a statue, and he went out, unsteadi ly Linda’s stubbornness disappeared like magic. Her head dropped limply on her arms, and she broke into unrestrained sobbing. If Kirke had only quarreled, and given her a chance to have at him with the truth! For who can hurl jeal ous accusations at an offender so meekly devoid of the appearance of guilt? A tempest of futile wrath, chagrin, and something very like desolation, shook her soul. Through a mutual friend, all the busi ness pertaining to her small estate was promptly turned over to her. Hurt and bewildered, she flounder ed through the interview, and at its close locked the vexatious doc uments in her bureau drawer. Kirke had completed the sale of the property over which their difference began, and which he had declared it inadvisable to dispose of on account of its steady rise in value. The price, in H. & O. bonds, constituting the bulk of her little fortune, was a part of the package, which grew more hateful to her every time she looked at it. A bitter reminder it was, of the bright days when she first put her business affairs and heart both into his keeping. How proud she had been, -when through per severance and self-denial he arose to the dignity of a gilt sign and a growing practice! They were to have been mar ried in November. Here Linda invari ably brought a sob up short. Something very foreign to business matters made a COME ON NOW. Come on, meet your daddy! Come on now and run! My, if you could see your curls Lifting in the sun! My, If you could hear your laugh Lilting as I do. You would understand why I Snuggle down to you! You would understand why I Run and grab for you! You would understand why I , Love you like I do! You would understand what makes All the long day glad! , It's a picture, dear, of you, Arms outstretched to dad! It’s a picture, dear, of you When the day grows old; It’s your laughing eyes o’ blue. It’s the tousled gold Of your curly, tangled hair. Lifting on the breeze; It’s the laughing lips o’ you; It’s your chubby knees! It's your chubby outstretched arms! It’s the way you run! It’s your awkward baby legs! It’s the glint of fun In the eyes that look to mine When I grab you up! It's the arms about my neckl Life’s a brimming cup! You would understand it, dear. Understand it all, Why I like to see you run. Love to hear you call— Dearie, life's a battlefield, Life is cark and fret— It’s because your baby love Makes your dad forget! —J. M. Lewis, in Houston Post. Consistent. O’Brien—Hi vin save us, Casey! Phwat are ye swarin’ in thot terrible way fur? Casey (on the rnn)—Iim late fur church ag in this Sunda’ mornin’, thot’s phwat!—Philadelphia Press. mocking blur across the picture. A month went by. She heard that Kirke had left town. There was no one to upbraid her for her fickleness, for she was without relatives, and held her friends proudly aloof. The voice of her heart she would not. listen to. The package of papers still lay un touched, when one day an advertisement in the morning paper claimed her notice. She read and re-read, the idea taking al most visible grip on her: “Wanted—Party with $5,000 to Invest in strictly legitimate business. Security given and 25 per cent, dividends guaran teed. Call on or address J. Cresco, 400 Blank Bldg., Chicago.” Linda devoted several minutes to ex cited calculation. Her bonds bore only 4 per cent.; they could easily be con verted into cash. Under Kirke’s man i agement her income, though reliable as I the sunrise, had never gone above eight per cent. Here was a chance to more than treble it. Linda investigated the matter, palpi tating with freedom that hurt while it exhilarated. She found J. Cresco all that could be desired, at least in deferential courtesy and bland confidence. She left his office wrapped in dreams of luxury, but extremely misty as to her concep tions of the “business” whose returns were to realize them. During the following three months she reveled—or tried to—in reflections over her shrewdness. At the end of that time, her promised profits did not appear. She waited two weeks, when a suave letter came, expressing regret at the delay, and promising a payment directly. Six weeks passed, filled with growing fore bodings. She had put all her available cash into the scheme, and began now to be decidedly cramped to meet her bills. At exactly the end of the half-year, she wrote a very decided demand for a remit tance. The answer delayed. Then, one morn ing, Linda took up her paper, to read under staring headlines an ac count of “Get-rich-quick” institutions raided, and prominent among them the name of her Golden Vision. There seemed to be no way but to swallow her pride, and face the ignominy of having been victimized. She went to a lawyer, who in turn referred her to a well-known legal firm in the city. In this thinly-veiled superciliousness Linda read her doom; and it is to be hoped a more frightened and desolate soul nev er set out on that journey. In the luxurious private offices of Gay, Overman & Co., the second-named gen tleman was donning hat and gloves. He turned back at the last minute, address ing the firm’s latest acquisition in a junior partner: “Gay said there'd be a woman in at three, to see something about that Cresco business. She'd invested all she had, I believe. Gay said to tell her she might as well try to pump up the bed of the Pacific, and that we couldn’t undertake a suit.” He went out. The matter had half slipped the new partner’s mind, when an office boy laid a card on his desk. He had barely glanced at it when the door opened, and his client was admitted. She stood transfixed, as he rose; a hot flush ran up to her forehead, and then she grew pale as a lily. “Kirke!” she gasped. “Linda!” he cried, coming quickly forward. “Good Lord, dear! It wasn’t you who got caught in that beastly scheme?” Linda drew back. Her lips quivered, and her lashes drooped heavily. Kirke stopped, but only for an instant. The sight of her misery was sending the old protective tenderness thrilling through him, to the obliteration of his wrongs. He followed persistently, and took pos session of her hands. “You’ll have to let me take care of you, now, darling,” he declared, with sudden, mischievous triumph. “Every cent of your money is gone! ” Linda tried to pull away, and failed. Back of the crushing shame that her hu miliation lay bare before the last eyes she desired should see it. something else was working havoc within her. “I can starve, then,” she retorted an grily. “Let go my hands, Kirke Morris! What would Helen Ritter say?” He loosed his hold, staring. “Helen Ritter?” he repeated, in aston ishment; “Helen Morris, you mean. She and Cousin Dick were married five months ago. Good Heavens! as light burst suddenly upon him—“It can’t be you were jealous, dear, because I escorted Helen to a few places? She was my aunt’s guest, you know, and Dick was confined to the store.” Kirke’s arm was around her, but she slipped out of it and hid her face. “If I am so poor—” she began, but Kirke gathered her resolutely to him again. “And since you are,” he finished for her, with a happy laugh. “I’m going to make it the business of my life to prove the scriptures true, in that I have the poor always with me.” BOSTON HOLDS WIDOW RECORD Massachusetts Ofllclul Collects Sta tistics for French Scientist— Their Lot a Hard One. A Boston state official who has been investigating the subject for Prof. Fried rich Prinzing, of Paris, has discovered that Boston has more wudows in pro portion to its population, than any oth er city in America, even Chicago, Phil adelphia, New York, and other large centers. The young widow, he says, is one of the most unfortunate of beings, and not at all the gay butterfly wrhich popular fancy has pictured. Prof. Prinzing has collected a re markable group of statistics which show that poverty sorely oppresses the widow, and that she is more subject to insanity, consumption, conflict with the law, and death than her married sister. All these woes fall more heavily on the young widow. Dr. Prizing’s opinion is that the state should make provision for the support of the widowed and their chil dren. directly, instead of indirectly through hospitals and insane asylums. There are 3,200,000 widows in every 55,000,000 of population, of whom 400, 000 have absolutely no income. He’ll Do. City Editor (to new reporter)—If a ten-story building would fall down, what would you do? New Reporter—Write it up, of course. —N. Y. Times. Wasteful Womeu. Church—I understand your wife is very short of breath. Gotham—Yes; but it’s not to be won dered at; she’s wasted a rot.—Yonkers Statesman. Mississippi State News < ---—*— ___ Geological Survey of the State. The Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College has begun a geo logical and industrial survey of the State. This promises to be the most important piece of work ever under taken by that institution and it em phasizes a function of the institu tion that has not been sufficiently prominent in the past, that is, the college is intended not only to give instruction to the boys and young men of the State, but, through its experiment station, its farmers’ in stitutes, and its other industrial de partments, to help in the material development of the State. As an object lesson to what should be ac complished in every county of the State, the board of trustees of the instituion have authorized a geolog ical and industrial survey of Oktib beha county embracing the following features: By Dr. W. N. Logan, Professor of Geology and Mining: 1. Physiog raphy—The surface features, relief, etc. 2. Hydrography — Streams, lakes, wells, springs, water supply, rainfall, etc. 3. Stratigraphy—The geological formations, their distribu tion, dip, relations, fossils, etc. 4. Economic Geography—(a) Cements —A report on experiments in the manufacture of cements from the va rious formations of the county, (b) Building Material—The manufac ture of brick, etc. By Prof. W. L. Hutchinson, Di rector of the Mississippi Experiment fetation: feoils and fertilizers. By Dr. W. F. Hand, State Chem ist: Artesian waters, and water supply. By Prof. Gleen W. Herrick, Pro fessor of Biology: Grasses and live stock. Bv Prof. A. B. McKay, Professor of Horticulture: Trucking and for estry. By Prof. J. W. Fox, Professor of Civil and Rural Engineering: Dirt roads and road materials. The result of these investigations will be published as a special report to the legislature, and will furnish facts that will enable the legislature to determine definitely whether or not such a geological and industrial survey would be of practical value to the State. It is the belief by those who have studied the question that this work must be done, if Mississip pi is to be properly and intelligently advertised to the world in her true light as having the greatest undevel oped resources of any State in the Union. Water Famine Is Critical. The water famine in Mississippi, caused by the long drouth, is daily becoming more serious and a condi tion has been reached that can be considered as nothing less than crit ical. Each day brings to Jackson a long caravan or wagons lrom tne country, the sole object of their trip t to town being to secure water from the river, and at any hour of the day these wagons may be seen on the streets wending their way homeward and carrying from two to six barrels tilled with the precious fluid. From all parts of the State comes the com plaint of scarcity of water, and a heavy burden has been added to the expense of operating manufacturing plants on account of the long dis tance they are compelled to haul wa ter. The famine is causing great distress among the cotton ginners, and many of these plants are closing down each day, finding it impossible to obtain water. In numerous sec tions of the State gins are from ten to fifteen miles away from available water supply. For instance, the gin at Flora, over twenty miles from Jackson, is hauling water from that city, and the expense thus incurred has reduced the profit on operation almost to nothing. Contract for New Well. The city authorities of Indianola have awarded a contract for sinking a second artesian well. The entire water supply is furnished by one well, and since the location of so many industries at that place, the pressure has at times been inade quate. The water from the first well is so heavily charged with soda and sulphur that it is somewhat undesirable for drinking purposes, and the new wrell is being sunk al most a quarter of a mile distant. The old well is a little more than 1,200 feet deep and furnishes about 200,000 gallons a day. Pearl River Traffic. There promises to be considerable commerce on Pearl river during the winter and spring season. For many years traffic on this stream has been neglected, but last year two small steamboats were placed in service and handled large quantities of cotton seed and cotton from inte rior points. This year a new boat will be placed in service from Jack son to Carthage, and a new boat will ply the lower river trade between Co lumbia and Jackson. Oyster Commission Report. Auditor Cole lias received the fi nancial report of the Oyster Com mission. The report shows that the total collections of the commission have been $14,025.45 and the dis bursements have been $11,660.25, leaving a balance of $2,159.93 in the treasury of the commission. Five thousand dollars of the amount ex pended was allowed the commission for the propagation of new oyster beds by the last legislature. k Exempt From Supervision. The railroad commission of this State has been permanently enjoined by Judge Niles from making rates on the Gulf & Ship Island railroad. The Gulf & Ship Island railroad, ever since it was built, has claimed that it was exempt from the super vision of the railroad commission, settitng up that its charter exempted it from such supervision. Some time ago the road secured a temporary in junction preventing the railroad commission from interfering with the rates on this road. Last week Judge Niles handed down an opin ion in which he made the injunction a permanent one. The charter of the road was granted in 1882, and it exempts the road from the supervis ion of the commission. The Su preme Court, in a case a few months ago, decided that the commission had no supervision over the road. Judge Niles, in his opinion, holds that the charter granted by the legis lature is binding, and that the com mission has no ri^ht to supervise either the passenger or the freight rates of the road, and makes the temporary injunction perpetual. Cotton Crop Prospect. Fine headway was made during the week just closed with the pick ing of the cotton crop in Mississippi. The dry weather has caused the sta ple to open with astonishing rapidi ty, and all available labor forces have been constantly employed in marketing the crop. There is no longer any doubt that Mississippi's yield will be shorter than last year. Less than half a dozen counties re port a top crop, and this causes the heaviest reduction in the prospective yield. The delta crop will average from 15 to 30 per cent, below that of last year, although the bottom and middle crop is about up to the av erage. The interior movement to the market towns continues quite lively, and there is very little ten-; deney on the part of the farmers to hold back the staple. Fine Stone in Rankin. Prof. Ec-hel, the government geol igist who is making a survey in Mis sissippi, makes a highly favorable re port on the Kankin county stone quarries, near Star, which he finds to be a good quality of fine-grained, white sandstone, occurring in beds of from ten to fifteen feet in thick ness, separated by thin layers df clay, and having a total thickness of workable stone at least fifty feet in depth. Prof.^Eckcl states that the clay deposits found in Mississippi are the equal of any in the country. Tried to Kill a White Man. Considerable excitement prevail ed at Taylor, in Lafayette county, last week, when a negro, Simpson Barry, attempted to kill a white man named Joe Tubbs. The negro used a razor and it took effect upon the throat of Tubbs. Tubbs is a highly respected citizen and a lynching was averted only by the vigilance of some of the citizens who guarded the ne gro until the arrival of the sheriff from Oxford. Everything is quiet now, but Tubbs is in a serious condi tion. Bureau of Statistics. State Senator W. B. Walker of jlonroe county will introduce in the legislature at the January session a bill providing for the establishment of a bureau of vital statistics. There is hardly any doubt that a measure of this kind will be enacted by the body, as public sentiment Seems to be strongly in favor of it as the best means of promoting publicity of the State’s resources. Heavy Cotton Receipts. For the months of September and October the town of Newton has received over 1,000 bales of cotton more than it did for the same two months last year. During Septem ber and October last year 3,612 bales were marketed there, while for the same period this year the town has bought 4,667 bales. The yield in Newton county will no doubt be better than last year. Fancy Price for Cotton. A fancy price was paid at Green wood last week for 308 bales of Ben der cotton, this amount being pur chased at 12 cents per pound, the transaction amounting to over $19, 000. This section of the State pro duces the finest cotton to be found in any part of the cotton growing belt. To Improve Pascagoula Harbor. The Mississippi members of con gress will make a strong fight at the coming session to secure an addi tional appropriation for the im provement of the harbor at Pasca goula. Chief Engineer Gillespie of the government engineering force has recommended an appropriation of $225,000 for this purpose, and an item for this amount will be offered in the rivers and harbors bill, and an esort made to secure the full pmount. Yazoo City Cotton Statement. Cotton receipts for Yazoo City for the week ending October 31, were 4,056 bales, against 3,306 last year; shipments, 3,135, against 1,759; stock in warehouses, 10,880, against 9,534. Beceipts since September 1, 21,164, against 16,377; shipments, 10,411, against 7,182. The fine weather prevailing for picking con tinues, and cotton is being gathered as fast as possible. The grades are running cleaner than usual Makoa Important Recommendations. State Superintendent of Educa tion Whitfield has commenced work on the narrative feature of his bien nial report to the legislature, which will be one of the most important documents of this kind submitted to the lawmakers. Superintendent Whitfield will make a strong recom mendation for the establishment of a State normal school, to be con ducted under the supervision of the department of education, and in urging this action he will have the unanimous support of the* school teachers of the State. The superin tendent will also suggest the estab lishment of a rural high school sys tem, better salaries for county su perintendents, and the placing of new subjects in the common school curriculum, including the elements of agriculture, vocal music and drawing. Many New Banks. Within the past month six new banking institutions have been launched in Mississippi, and the next report of the auditor’s office on banking institutions will show a good increase in the amount of cap ital invested in this branch of fi nance. The latest bank to apply for a charter is domiciled at Carthage, to be known as the Leake County Bank, with a capital stock of $30, 000. Lumber Industry Booming. With the completion of the branch line of the Gulf & Ship Island from Mendenhall to Columbia, a distance of sixty miles, saw mills and lumber manufacturing enterprises having Q ci rrrrrrirrrt 4-a nnnilol af ntmi* flAfl -PO ©-—[-w -’ 000 will spring into existence. Al ready saw mills are being started along the line of the road and will be in readiness for operation before trains commence running. A Chinese Farmer. Claiborne county lias the honor of claiming the only Chinese farmer in Mississippi. His name is Quong Thomas, and the almond-eyed Celes tial runs a farm of 100 acres near Port Gibson, where he cultivates a fine variety of cotton, all of which is shipped to the Orient. Thomas has been quite successful, and within the past few years has accumulated a snug amount in the savings bank. Piney Woods Development. The development of the piney woods section of the State seems to be in its infancy, judging from the large number of new lumber manu facturing enterprises that are being chartered each week. The latest charter of this kind to reach the gov ernor’s office is that of Collins & Co., who will establish a $150,000 plant in Marion county near Oloh. A Peculiar Accident. Jean Petit, a native of France, and a well known resident of Scran ton, was fatally injured last week at the Farnsworth Lumber Company's saw mill. He was working at the edger when a sliver of a plank was torn off and buried in his side near the abdomen. Fund for Superannuated Preachers. Rev. A. F. Watkins, of Jackson, agent for the fund of $5,000,000 which is being raised for superan nuated preachers by the Southern MVUl, nrlicfo cove; I li o f n l c mn/ifinn1 with much success in getting to gether this large fund. Since his appointment he has attended several hundred conferences all over the South. White Boy Robbers. An organized gang of thieves, composed of white boys, last week broke into two stores in the western part of Meridian and succeeded in getting away with considerable booty. The police believe all of the members of the gang belong to re spectable families of that section of the city. A number of arrests are expected to follow. Decapitated by a Switch Train. A shocking accident occurred in the Mobile & Ohio yards in Meridian last week, when a man named Lewis Dossett, about 50 years of age, was run over and instantly killed by a train drawn by a switch engine,, Dossett’s head and shoulders were completely severed from the rest of the body. Sent Up for Kidnaping. Traveling Sergt. Dodds of the penitentiary brought in from Jack son county last week three prison ers for the penitentiary who were re cently given prison sentences. One of the number was convicted of kid naping, and is the first criminal of this class to be placed in the peni tentiary in some time. Delta Real Estate Active. The real estate market in the delta of Mississippi is enjoying a season of remarkable activity. Never be fore has there been such an influx of capitalists and realty agents seek ing to purchase rich cotton farming lands and uncleared tracts which can be easily converted into produc tive farms. Bona fide homeseekers are pouring in from all sections, and the next year will show a large increase in the acreage under culti vation. Delta Development. At present only about 50 per cent, of the delta is tillable land, but the next two or three years will show valuable farms and plantations where dense forests and canebrakes in which deer and bears now abound in existence. The country is being converted into a beehive of industry, and it is doubtful if there is another section which offers so many induce ments to homeseekers of the sturdy sort. is mm ” _ J The Defacto Government of the In dependent State of Panama is Recognized. TWO TELEGRAMS DISPATCHED ' BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. One Sent to Acting l nited States Consnl-General Ehrman, at Pan ama. and the Other to I nited States Minister Beanpre. at Bogo ta. the Colombian Capital. Washington, Nov. (I.—The t’nited States government hits recognised the lie facto government of Panama. It was announced at the state de partment, after the return of Secre tary May from the cabinet meeting, Friday afternoon, that instructions hnvc been sent to l lilted States Min ister Beanpre, at Bogota (assuming that he tins not left thecnpitiil yet), uud to Mr. F.hrman.the I nited States vlce-consnl at Panama,and now not ing cun mi I there, to inform tlie gov ernments of Colomliln and l’anitma, respectively, Hint the