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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1903-06-12
Mississippi Money.

The New Orleans Times Demo
crat of June ,, contains illustra-
tions of three pieces Of paper
money issued in Mississippi prior
To and during the civil war. The
first is a $50 bill Issued in 1899 by
the Madisonyille u Pearl River
Turnpike Co.. under Legislative
authority. at time when there
was n craze for the issue of paper
money, but it was overtaken by a
financial crash that followed few
years later, and Of course became
worthless.
The second Is a cotton pledged
note of the denomination of -,
issued 10y the State of Mississippi
and commonly known as cotton
money. 1t was understood To be
guaranteed by pledges of cotton
for its redemption and enjoyed
probably greater confidence and
healthier circulation than any of
the state moneys" issued during
the war period.
Then - note issued by the
State of Mississippi in 1864. on
its simple promise to pay" which
came out after the State capital
had been removed To Macon TO pre-
vent capture by the Federal army
then in possession of the city of
Nicksburg That issue bore the
signature of our lamented fellow
citizen, Col. \. j. Gillespie, Audi
tor for that term. Only limited
however, gained circula-
tion, and great stacks of it were
burned by Auditor Gillespie be-
fore the official signatures we're
There was a large number and
variety of other paper bills in
greater or less circulation during
that period, embracing State is
sues, private bank notes and even
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1903-06-12
Do You Enjoy What You Eat?

If You don't your food does not do you
much good kodol Dyspepsia Cure J.
the remedy that everyone should take
when there Is anything wrong with the
stomach. There Is no way Ia maintain
the health and strength OF mind and body
except by nouri~hment. There Is IN" way
To nourish except through the stomach
The stomach must be kept healthy, pure
and sweet or the strength will let down
and disease will set up. No appetite, loss
Of strength. nervousness, headache, con
s'ipation, bad breath, sour risIngs, rift
ing. indigestion, dyspepsia aud all -tom
ach troubles are quickly cured by the use
OF kodol Dyspepsia Cure. Phoenix
Drug Co.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1903-06-12
A Good Place TO Stop.

He really ought not to have
gone into the Latin class that day
He was called up first. and read as
far as he had prepared Then he
skirmished on little farther. This
is the way it went:
I, Ulysses. saw her (Dido's)
heavenly form advancing like a
goddess in the sunlight. | sprang
toward her and she welcomed me /.
Her hair fell down upon her shoul-
ders like the sunbeams on Oiym-
pus. Her eyes shown like two
Jewels of the sea II threw my
arms-my arms-about-about her
her neck neck and and that's
as far as | got. Professor FIX.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1903-06-12

Speaking of the recent flow of
artesian water obtained at Jackson,
and sounding note of warning
against the experts" who may be
called upon for analysis of its
properties, the Clarion-Ledger
says:
Some months ago the board of
control bored some wells for the
convicts in the Delta, and the water
seemed fine and was much appre-
ciated 10y the convicts who had
often been compelled to slack their
thirst with sipe water 1t was con-
sidcred SO good that a gallon was
sent to AN expert for examination
Ia short while he sent in his an
alysis, and likewise his bill. with
the statement that the water was
positively dangerous and should
not he used by man or beast. In
the meantime the convicts had
thrived so well on the water that
the board decided they should con
tinue its use; and today the con-
victs at that place are healthier
than any in the State, and the
guards and officials have grown
fat and happy.
so it will be seen that the opin-
ion of experts amount TO little. and
the people of jackson, who nave
been clamoring for artesian water
so long, will take slowly to the
opinion of any chemist who an
nounces the water from the artes-
ian well is bad"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1903-06-12
Ladies' and Children Invited.

All ladies and children who cannot stand
the shocking strain of laxative syrupS,
sathartics, etc, are invited To try the ia
nous little early riser pills. They are
different from all other pills. They do
not purge the system. Even a double
dose will not gripe, weaken or sicken;
many call them the easy pill. VIII How
ell, Houston, Texas, says nothing better
can bo used for con stipation, sick head,
sche, etc. Bob Moore, Lafay ette. Ind.
says oil others gripe and sicken, when DE
Wits Little Early Risers do their work
veil and easy. Phoenix Drug Co
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1903-06-12
Cuts, Bruises and Burns
Quickly Healed.

Chamberlain's Pain Balm is an anti
septic liniment, and when applied to cuts,
bruises and burns, causes them To heal
without maturation and much more q quick-
~ than by the usual treatment. For sale
by Phoenix Drug Co.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1903-06-12

Chamberlain Stomach and Liver Tab
lets are just what You need when you have
no appetite, feel dull after eating and wake
up with bad taste ia your mouth. They
will improve your appetite, cleanse and
,nvigorate your stomach and give you a
relish for your food. For sale by Phoe-
nix Drug Co.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1903-06-12
Farmers Institute.

Commencement being over. we
are now giving our attention TO
the Farmers Institute programme
for this summer, and are arranging
definite dates for same. Please
give notice to the people of your
county that they can have from
two to three Institutes free of all
cost by applying TO the president
of the A. Il NJ College. Prefer
ence will be given to the commun-
tiles of the county sending in the
largest petitions asking for an in
stitute. We would like for the
petitions to state what subjects the
people of the community would
like to have emphasized; whether
dairying, live. stock, trucking. dis
eases of animals and plants, fertil-
izers, or general agriculture. and
also about what time in July or
August would suit.
This campaign for the summer
will close with a roundup Farm
ers' Institute and Industrial Con
yention here at the college the
latter part of August. We will |
have with US upon this occasion
some of the leading agricultural
lists of this country. The railroads
will give one fare round trip. and
a pleasant time is promised all who
come and all are invited. The ex-
lct date will be fixed later.
j. G. HARDY. President
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1903-06-12
Proceedings Board of Super
viSOrS.
JUNE TERN, 1903.

Present: j. w. Maynard, pres
ident; w. X. Cowley, j. NJ. Dur
rett. d. +. West, G.. G.. Lusby
mem bers; II. o. Jones, clerk, and
j. G.. Crosby, sheriff.
n. w. Hatch, county treasurer,
made his report; approved.
II. Il. Davenport, superinten-
dent education, made his report;
examined and approved.
j. /. Taylor and j. A. Lay, com
missioners to lay out change in
Old Hamilton road. reported as
follows: To leave old road 20
yards south of bridge and to inter
sect same 300 yards south of
bridge near J. w. Carriers. Said
route was established, and so
damages was awarded X. 6. Hill
for land through which road Is to
run.
Petition for voting precinct at
Gattman was rejected.
Compton Cosby was apprenticed
to n. +. Jaudon, and Julia and
Sula Cosby were apprenticed to
M. +. Pool.
Newt Jaudon and A. >. Duke
minier were released from poll tax
being under age.
Henry Boyd was appointed road
overseer on Werner road in place of
Will Harris; Clodie Ware, on Sam
Holiday road in place of W. X.
Holiday; L. +. Wamble, on Cot
ton Gin and Okolona road; w ID.
Shempert, on county line road, and
A. j. Many, on Bristol road.
Clerk was ordered to- advertise
contract for building approaches
to bridge across Buttahatchie
river. on Aberdeen and Werner
road.
Back tax assessments against
Mrs. f.. w. Moore were vacated
and same against G. X. Sykes were
continued.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1903-06-12
To Cure Cold in One Day xs5,. xS$
rake Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. m Il on every
,smona. signature, o. IIXzo.1~ box. 25c

individual small promises to pay"
known as ''shinplasters,' but for
the time and for the purposes at
hand lit passed. with about equal
currency to the Confederate money
itself.
On the first Indication of kidney
trouble, stop 1t by taking Foley'S Kidney
Cure. Sold by j l.. Shell j Co.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1903-06-12

Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab
lets are just what You need when you have
no appetite, feel dull after eating and wake
up with a bad taste in your mouth. They
will improve your appetite, cleanse aud
invigorate your stomach aud give you
relish for your food. For sale by Phoenix
Drug Co.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1903-06-12

TT Davenport, salary and postage o. 90
After statutory allowances, etc.
Board adjourned to meet first
Monday in July.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-27
THE ANGElUS.

The day draws to- an end; the evening
light
Turns all tie carven images to gold:
While round the spires. in Interviewing
flight,
The swallows wing as though they
wrought ere night,
To weave a sheer invisible fabric bright
OF sun and blue. to shroud the dying
day
Ere she be laid in shadows dark and
cold,
Ere all her beauty. whitening. pass
away.
From the high tower the angelus Of rest
Kings out at last day-labor's passing
bell:
While in the fields Of harvest east and
west
And north and south the reapers. head
on breast,
Breathe their last prayer. and turn from
toilsome quest,
Wherein since dawn they have labored
in the sun;
Full glad to see the clear sky promise
we'll
For ending of their reaping we'll begun.
o Love' may we, when life draws near
to eve.
And bright the sunset glow upon the
brow,
OF all the world of toiling take our leave,
Forgetting all the woes that fret and
grieve;
Remembering only flashing joys that
weave
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-27
CAT FOSTERS WOLF CUB,

wolf, so the remaining animal was
carried home and placed in Tabby's
nest along with the black kitten. The
motherly animal at once began to lick
the doggish little brute and the latter
sucked at her breast as if he belonged
to the cat family. The black kitten
also took up with the stranger, wres-
tied with him at meal time and played
with him as if he were his brother.
The kitten is older than the wolf,
has his eyes open, while the "blinkers"
in the little round head of the wolf
are still sealed. The kitten thus has
the advantage of the wolf in feeding,
but when the latter fails to fully ap-
pease his hunger he sets up snarling
and wailing that quickly brings one
of the Blanchard Children A nurs-
ing bottle is then produced, the whelp
is given hold of the nipple and he
keeps it until the bottle is empty.
This is the regular season for catch.
ing and killing Illinois wolves; and
although it is not generally known
that many of the gray fellows are left
to tell the story of pioneer times the
county clerks count good many
scalps and pay out considerable sum
in bounties. The usual price is one
dollar a scalp for the young, while
ten dollars is paid for the scalp of an
old she wolf.
The old wolves generally know when
their dens are being robbed of their
young and set up dismal howl that
may be heard many miles. The night
is made hideous with their barking
and wailing, the mother making
fruitless search for the young that
have been taken from her.
A man who lives within an hours
ride of Chicago has successfully raised
and tanned a black timber wolf. The
animal was the only one of three that
were caught at the same time that
could be tanned. The owner taught
him to do all kinds of tricks and the
wolf now hunts foxes for his master,
coins, rides horse with
the bride rein in his mouth, distrib.
utes handbills and does many other
interesting things. The owner called
him Teddy and wanted to give him to
the president, but Mr.. Roosevelt de.
clined the gift.-Chicago Daily News.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-27

The French have found reason for
the popularity of the cakewalk in Paris.
The thing is French! One of the ne
groes at the Nouveau Cirque, inter-
viewed by Paris paper, says that the
origin of the dance was French. Ac-
cording to this latest account, some of
the French refugees from the court of
Marie Antoinette introduced the minuet
into New Orleans about the time of
the revolution, and it was the native imi-
tation of the most fashionable dance in
Europe, that was afterwards developed
into the cakeWalk. +
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-27
WHEN BEDTIME COMES.

Just when I'm having such good times
Inever had before.
With all my playthings spread around
On table, chairs and floor;
When it's dusk behind the sofa back
And black dark under the stair,
And wonder what strange animals
Perhaps are lurking there;
And think I'll go a-hunting them,
And begin to clean my gun,
Then mamma shuts her book and says:
"1t's bedtime. son."
Outside the window by my crib
I see the sky all red,
Where the poor old sun, like me, I s'pose.
Has been carried eff to bed.
He never sees the fireflies Dance
Or hears the whippoorwill;
He never sees the rockets dart
Straight up from Signal Hill;
He never sees the wee star eyes
Wink open, one by one.
l. wonder now who says to him:
tits bedtime, SUM-"
MARY Marshall Parks, in Youths Com
paniOn.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-27

" ON many OF you nave ever seen
LIZ that little delusion of the
swamps, commonly called the peep
er?" One of the first signs of the
spring he is, peeping away through
the soft, warm nights. Did you ever
try to catch one? If you had tried you
would know why call him ''delu-
sion" When you reach the place
where the sound seemed to come from,
you don't see the little piper-he es-
capes you as surely as the mystical
o'-the-wisp," and chooses much
the same kind of place to live in.
The other day Dick, my persistent
nature-boy q call him that because
he usually succeeds in prying out ma
ture secrets when he makes up his
mind to try), declared he was going to
find ''peeper." A friend told him he
had watched hours in vain for one, an
other said her father watched about
an hour for one, and at last he saw him
sitting right in front of him in the
tall grass. When the man got there
the Keeper just stopped his music and
CLAW low" The next day some one
brought Dick copy of magazine
which had in it photograph of a
peeper-said to be the first ever taken.
That night after supper, as soon as
# began to grow dusk, Dick put on
his rubber boots and started for the
swamp. Inabout half hour he rushed
into the house, wildly shouting:
'.I've got one! I've got one!" go.
In his hand was q little pinch of
soft mud. He said he had gone to the
place where he had heard the peeping
and waited. Finally, after keeping
stiu some time. one little fellow
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-27
CAT ADOPTS "A WOLF.
Peculiar "HapDy Family'' Discov.
cred ON . Farm Only Two Hours
Ride from ~Chicago.

A singular outcome of wolf hunt
near Byron, Ogle county, only about
two hours out of Chicago on the St.
Paul railway, is that two-weeks-old
snarling wolf whelp has been adopted
by cat owned by J. G. Blanchard, who
lives on farm near that town. The
motherly animal is at the same time
rearing a kitten that doesn't belong
to her. @-...l, &1N
One day recently Mr.. Blanchard
found on his farm wolf den, from
which he dragged ten. whelps that
were not more than a few days old.
Nine of these were killed and the
bounty of one dollar scalp was paid
for them. Mr.. Blanchard's folks
thought they would like to have pet
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-27

"A LETTER FROM HIRAM WIGHT.
on earth but his creature comforts,
but what do I care what he cares or
whe Their he cares-I don't care one lit
tie bit; of course not, but / would
just like to KNOW am going in to sit
with Grandma Gordon for awhile.
"Yes, my dear, that is my dearest
friend. Is she not beautiful woman :?
I>hardly think any picture can do her
justice, but you can get some idea of
the high ideals, the sentiment and the
romance, of her nature. That's very
old-fashioned word, my dear, but I am
an old-fashioned woman, and I love
it, and it is not altogether, an map
propriate word to apply to Caroline,
history.
"Tell it to you? Are you really so
interested in an old lady's friends?
Well, Caroline Richings and I were
schoolmates-but first, dear, put an
other log on the fire and pull up that
low rocker for yourself. Do! You
would rather-sit on that stool? Well.
then. lean against my knee. It is a
dreadful day, isn't it? Such snow
storm! There, that blaze is quite
CHEEKY.
"Well, we were girls together, as I
said, and never were two girls better
friends. I don't believe that even had
a lover CHANGED to come between us.
he could have changed the friendship
that we felt for one another. But that
never happened, and when we got to
the time for lovers, married my first
one. Twas very young, but some times
the first is the right one, my dear,
and it happened to be so in my case"
And grandma reverently raised her
eyes to the portrait hanging above the
mantel, and the painted eyes of her
first and last love looked back at her
with something of the tenderness with
which they had rested on her in life.
"But it was not so with Caroline, for
though she had many lovers, she did
not marry. The years slipped by, and
she became what the world calls an
old maid. leading a busy, useful life,
taking care of her old father and
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-27
BY MRS.E:H.SMI1H

peeped again, and Dick grabbed the
mud where the sound was, and inside
was the frog.
We put him in a bottle, and Dick
rushed off to show him to-the natur-
alist, who had wanted to see one all
his life, and that now he could die
happy.
Such a cunning little fellow he was,
a perfect little frog, a bit over an
inch long; of an amber color, I
should say, he looked in the lamp
light, though I haze seen him de-
scribed as having "brown back
with dark cross on it, and white
stomach" I intended to examine
him more carefully by daylight. We
left him in the bottle with piece of
netting over the top. When Dick
went to look at him in the morning,
there was just patch of mud in the
bottom of the bottle, and not a sign
in the meshes of the netting of the
runaway's escape. We never saw or
heard him again. Dicks little
brother "did hope he got back to the
other little peppers" He had what
looked like a bladder on his throat
This is called his vocal sac" When
he wants to peep" he fills it with
air. I have read that he has tiny
round sucker on the end of each toe,
by which he can easily cling to tho
grasses, and he knows how to
''freeze" when he hears anyone com.
ing. All winter the peppers stay down
in the mud, but come out when the
warm weather arrives, and finally
leave the water and live in the trees
through the summer.-Littlo Chrop-
iel0.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-27

a long thin needle into the pea. This
forces it always to return to its place.
A piece of thin wire can be used in
stead of the needle, which in order to
remain invisible, should not be bright
and shining. Care must be taken that
the needle or wireis fastened we'll into
the pea, so that it will n OF drop into the
performers mouth.-Louisville Cou-
rier-JOurnal.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-27

Torquato Tasso was famous through
out Italy before he was nine years old, as
an accomplished Greek and Latin schol-
ar, and the author of clever and polished
verses; and at IL he was the intellectual
center of the brilliant court at Urbino.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-27
Got Tired 81 the Gun.

Z A Clay county man, says the Platteburg
Democrat Lever, took his pastor out hunt
ing one day. They had but one gun be-
tween them and the preacher carried it.
After they had been out half an hour the
man felt something poking him in the side.
preached poking him with the muzzel Of tho
guns fumbling over the hammers. "Say,
brother" asked the minister, ''how do You
Let these things down. The man has
sworn of taking preachers huntins.-kaa.
- City Star. Ea~
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-27

For love a sheer imperishable beauty
bright,
And hear with happy hearts. as We
hear now,
The angelus at failing Of the light.
-Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. in Chambers
Journal
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-27
AN EFFECTIVE TRICK.
Dancing Pea Will Amuse the Boys Of
To-Day as Much as 1t Amused
Their Fathers.

This is remarkab bly, simple but
always surprising and effective trick.
The performer takes the stem of q
broken clay pipe or straw and, hold
ing it perpendicular to his mouth,
places pea quickly upon the upper
end. Then he makes the pea hop up
end down to a lively tune on the piano.
The whole trick consists in sticking
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-27

The alphabet shrieked when Alexan-
der fell. At least. it would have shrieked
if it had foreseen the new Serviau cab
met list
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-27
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THERE is no reason why I should
rC< ~ and ctav a VAR with Ma
ELEANOR ARNOLD.

THERE is no reason why should
not 60 and stay a year with Ma
rion, but I have been my own mistress
so long that somehow I dislike to shut
up the old house. Some times when I
think how free am to come and 60,
how there are no ties to bind me and
no one to miss me, I almost wish
Yes, will go to. Marion's; I'll 60 to-
morrow. Tomorrow? Tomorrow il
Saturday, and-Tom ,McNair usually
calls on Sunday. No, I'll wait till
Monday. %, yes, had much better
wait till Monday. It would hurry me
4 to 60 Saturday. O, yes, decidedly,
Monday would be q much better day
for me to 60. s
And I will not tell Tom that am
going. away. for. a year, because he
would want me to write to him, and
never could do it. Somehow one shows
oneself plainer&in letters than in talk,
and if were to write to him, I know
/ would say lots of things that I never
could say with those serious gray eyes
on me. T might show him-he might
think that cared
I have been two months at Marion's,
and am beginning to wish that I had
promised to write to Tom. Poor fel-
low! He looked so kind of forlorn
when I told him I was going and never
said word about letters; but I sup
pose it was merely that there would
be one less place for him to call and
spend Sunday afternoon. What
cranky old bachelor he is, anyway.
I don't believe he cares for anything
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-27
msder. Coave.lsaes..

The Abilene Democrat tells Of mar whe
stopped over night in small town near
there and registered At the hotel pointed aus
In the morning he wanted to take bath and
consulted the proprietor about it. The pro.
prietor shouted back to the rear: Here,
Tom. this here gent wants to take bath.
Bring the fxin' 8. Tom soon appeared, car
rying cake Of yellow soap, 4 towel and Z
Dick. "What's the pick for?" asked the
guest. "Why," said the proprietor; you'll
Star. -t ~ ..~y.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-27

"A woman gains weight might fast when
she has habit of sitting on her husband .
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-27

How the short haired women dislike the
long haired men!-Chicago Tribune.