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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1908-05-01
BARRETT GROCER CO.
GET CALIFORNIA ORDER

Barrett Grocer Co, on Monday re-.
ceived an order from J. s. White, oil
Portersville, California. for supply
Of their early seed corn. This is an
evidence of the extensive business
cone by this reliable and hustling
firm whose trade territory is not linn
tied by state boundaries, and to whom
distance is no barrier in disposing OF
their articles. It Is also o tribute TO
the excellency OF the Advertiser--in
which Mr.. White saw their advertise
ment--as publicity medium and pat.
ronage.getter. In fact
The Advertiser presses never rest;
Each week 1t comes welcome guest
From Manitoba g plains of snow
To sunny slopes of Mexico.
But all assert, it's good for them.
The business of the Barrett Grocer
Co., having grown so as to render it
impossible for L. Il. Barr to keep the
books and to attend to the buying and
other duties, he has been relieved of
the bookkeeping part, which is now
attended to by Joe Lew.
~~-~~~~~~eeo~.~-~~N
Cling village of about 800 Inhabitants,
now city of 80, 600. A million doll
ars hotel has been recently completed
which requires, as | was told. $50. 600
per day to cover all expenses, consist
ing of interest on mony invested, in
surance, lights, water and service.
Places of great interest to me, were
Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge
and Chickamauga National Park, the
latter places embrace 222, 900 acres OF
land and the handsome monuments
erected by the General Government
and some of our Southern States, to-
gether with the splendid macadamized
roads, indicate the expenditure of a
great deal of money. Several towers
of considerable height enable one to
overlook the park, which has also
been re -forested. Standing on the top
of one of these towers, on the summit
of the celebrated "Snodgrass Hills" it
required but little effort on the part of
the student of history to draw vivid
mind picture of the two great armies
in November 1868, of more than
100, 900 men clashing arms amid the
roar of artillery and the rattle of small
arms. The great guns that did such
awful carnage on each side, in the
battle lasting SO hours of almost con
tinuous fighting, occupy the same po-
sitions held on that eEentful occasion.
Oh, what difference between those
two days of strife and battle, compared
to the two days of the Lavmen's s meet
ing in our beautiful Southland, as men
come from the North, South, East and
West under the leadership of thePrince
of Peace, men who are equally de-
termined for the accomplishment of
their purpose. | could not refrain
from thanking God for this great
change and hope most earnestly that
the mission in which we are engaged
will ultimately bring all men to their
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1908-05-01

]. Fink has established a general
merchandise store at Tchula.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1908-05-01

The business of the Barrett Grocer
Co., having grown so as to render it
impossible for L. Il. Barr to keep the
books and to attend to the buying and
other duties. he has been relieved of
the bookkeeping part, which is now
attended to by Joe Lew.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19
PROSECUTION OF S. p ROAD
LOGICAL CLIMAX OF ENOLLRY

sentative who owes his place to the
Southern Pacific machine. These men
may do their duty; In some instances
they have already done 1t. But the
Southern Pacifc's System" usually
works very smoothly, and the outcome
of the present suits will be worth
watching.
1t is possible that some further at
tempt will be made to justify rebating.
Attorney Dunr for the railroad
claimed that no injustice was done. but
unfavored merchants seem to think the
other way. High officials of the road
have declared that rebating has all
stopped within the last year. This is
denied by the new traffic association
in San Francisco, but will of course
not be an issue in the trial, as the Of
lenses to be considered all took place
prior to the Lane hearing.
The hope that rebating will be
crushed out is not caused merely by
the injustice that is done to the UNI
favoi cd shippers. Worse STILL the sys-
tenn of playing favorites has been used
by the road to crush out any sort of
independence, as has been seen prob
ably in every community In California
Let any public movement arise where
the railroad has interests at variance
with the popular demands, and II is
almost sure to be nipped by the secret
anuagonism of influential merchants
who are afraid OF losing the Friendship
of the company.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19
THE PERPLEKENG MLXUP
OF PARTIES AND OF ISSUES

publican national convention inuorscs
the present administration the hypoc7
rIsy OF the Endorsement viii be undef'
stood"
But Ropubiicanism has another voice
than Rooseveltism and we hear SIM
Infamous expression of that voice from
Governor Hughes.
THE Republican party Is the party
of stability and the party of progress
Its fundamental policies have deter
mined the course of the nations his
tory. Largely they are now without Sc
rfous challenge and are removed from
any controversy the issue of which,
might be regarded as doubtful They
include the policy 9of union in oppose
ton to every divisive sentiment or
disrupting force. They include the
policy of establishing the national
credit upon d SUR foundation in OPP
position to those financial vagaries
which, paraded at one time with SOL
emn argument and fervid appeal as the
hope OF the people, are now by COM
mon consent relegated to our museum
of political absurdities, wholly amusing
save for our keen appreciation OF the
reril we narrowly escaped
Which of these voices will be adopted
by the party in Which both Roosevelt
and Hughes are leaders? The past OF
the party is certainly represented by
Hughes. Certainly the immediate past
OF the Democratic party Is represented
l.y Bryan and Roosevelt The south
will speak for Demecracy--which voice
will 1t adopt?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

IN HE question. what must we uo
with our retired presidents? has
IL been revived by President Roose-
welt. who has confessed that all that
he has to look forward to after his
term of Office is a. hunting trip In the
Canadian Rockies. But what must he
Go for a life occupation? He cannot
pass the rest of his days as hunter
and ira Jper a presidential Leather
Stocking. Theodore Roosevelt has
managed to pack several ordinary
lives into his less than fifty years. He
was born with a gold spoon in his
mouth, and with the consciousness OF
ancestry. He was member OF
distinguished family, and. with suffl-
Gent income to support him In COM
fort assured, could have lived the lie
of a pIeasure-seeker and a time-slayer.
But this was absolutely forbidden by
his pedigree, and those who say that,
in spite of dog show and horse show,
there is nothing in pedigree, will find II
hard to get away from the fact that
yelt's life, Americanism and Reform,
are as naturally his as the song Is the
birds. In his makeup physically ana
also in respect of that strange mixture
OF inheritances and ORDINATIONS, the
rnind-he is composed of the strongesr
reform elements that have ever at
fected human history. Theodore Roose-
Welt is in part the Dutchman, the
fighter of the devouring seas in the
il wlands Of Holland, the dyke builder.
the daring boatman and swimmer, who
won fiat reaches of fallow land from
the angry wave and kept his prize in
spite OF tempest and tide. The Dutch
man first asserted the freemar's right
OF freedom to worship God. and well
coined the English Pilgrim Fathers be-
fore they sailed westward. Incident
ally the cynical or hypercritical might
here inter5ect the remark that the
cons of the Pilgrim Fathers in after
years took a strange method OF show
ing their gratitude, for they wiped
New Amsterdam" off the map and re-
rlaced it by New York. and from New
England and the Atlantic coast all
traces Of Dutch domination soon dts
appeared, excepting few names Of tn,
cid landed families, that OF Roosevelt
among the rest. But THE Roosevelt
is more than Reformation Dutch. He
Is also Huguenot. Some Of his ances-
tors in France asserted the plain life,
simplicity in religion, freedom to think
ana to express thought and freedom to
worship God. They. too, formed At
llantic settlements and their Evan
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19
LIBRARY CONVENTION

A MID the uproar of business, of pol
" tiles and Of the strenuous life, the
- California Library association and
its work should not be forgotten or
neglected. After a three days prelim-
mary institute the California Library
association is in session in San Jose.
From the point of view of the public,
the most interesting topic for discussion
Is the proposed state library school,
which win be a recognition of the fact
that the work of the librarian is pro-
fession rather than a mere occupation,
and that she must bring to it qualifica-
lions beyond the mere ability to make
neat notes of the loans and returns of
books. We say She" for by almost
unanimous consent it is acknowledged
that library work is better performed
is a species of housekeeping. The
librarians keep house for the books,
and they must see that the health and
comfort of their charges are duly at
tended to and that they are always IN
good condition, and must do all In their
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stolen or from going astray.
But more is required OF the librarian
than a knowledge of cataloging, book
repairing and classifying. She must
have an intelligent knowledge Of liter
atul'e. both classical and current. She
must be able to answer questions about
authors. She must not be like the
bookshop girl in New York, who said
to student who asked for Greek
dictionary: 1--WE are all out of Greek
dictionaries today. Would German
dictionary do just as well7"
Because she shapes the reading and
50 guides the thoughts OF hundreds OF
people, old and voting, she should be a
leader and a teacher. Enthusiasm,
earnestness. executive ability, culture.
tact, literary knowledge, sympathy for
children and knowledge Of library
methods are among the requirements
of a successful librarian. The library
convention is not little" convention.
IT is a big convention, and one thai
Ii OF the highest Importance and sig-
nificance 10 the comnlunity
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19

gelines called the cattle home and were
the mothers of the first American
rancilmen.
But the descendants of the Pilgrim
Fathers in the north and the English
Cavaliers and Scotch Presbyterians in
the south were too strenuous for the
humble and simple Acadians and the
peaceable folk OF the Huguenot farms.
Soon the English language only was
heard, Or perhaps now and again kali
YARD" for Huguenots and Presbyte-
rians began to intermarry, and it was
from one OF these marriages that an
ether of Roosevelt's reform ancestors
was born. Persevering Dutch reform
e-s, brave but non-resisting Huguenot
reformers and strenuous and sanguin-
cry Scottish reformers, who went
through life with a broadsword in the
right hand AMI a Bible IL the left
from this ancestry in course of time,
and in the most natural and expected
manner possible-a singular triumph
for certain thinkers who are lightly de-
nounced as theorists-there is evolved
Theodore Roosevelt, American.
Theodore Roosevelt can no longer be
accused of being an ambitious man.
No one without provoking a smile
could say that he is schemer who is
trying to improve his condition. No
human being ever re-entered plain So
ciety and everyday life at such an an
Gle of vantage. The future is his
What will he do with it? Let us be
among his thousand and one advisers
Let him devote four conscientious
years-a presidential term-to writing
with circumstance and detail the his
tory of the United States from 1896
down to date. II he should tell the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but
the truth, and neglect no branch of
the subject, but devote equal space and
study to social, moral, economic, mill
tary, naval, political, financial and ed
uoational development, the people of
the United States will not only enroll
him among the greatest presidents, but
the greatest benefactors.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19
ROOSEVELT A NATURE FAkIH

That the prominent gentleman who
has stirred the nation by his exposure
of the nature-fakir ring should HIM
self be guilty of nature-faking will
doubtless be shocking news to many.
Yet this charge is made and substan-
tiated in Harper's Weekly by a CORE
spondent, who writes as one having au-
thority. 1t appears that Mr.. Roosevelt.
in the course of a recent magazine
article entitled Small Country Neigh
bors,' asserted that the chipmunk (Ta~
mias striatus) "hibernates.p Neither
the president nor any one else" points
out Mr. Roosevelts critic, ever found
chipmunk alternating. As boy
routed many a one out of its nest to
secure the store of nuts, especially
beechnuts, which it had lad up for its
winters food. No alternating animal
lays up store of food. The hibernat--
ing animal becomes dormant and does
not need food Mr.. Hornaday, who mas
forgotten more about the animals or
North American than all the nature
falrirs put together ever knew, says OF
the chipmunk: 1t does not become DOR
mant 1t comes out in the winter ana
enjoys the light and warmth. ! nave
seen this to be true more than nun
dred times, and the fact is Wen KNOWN
to all observing boys and men VINO live
where the chipmunk Is common. rms
misstatement made by Mi Roosevelt
would not be noticed had he not Deer
so free and so brutal In denouncing
similar nlisstatements when MADE py
others"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19

Luther Burbank says he is tired of
reading about himself as the plant
wizard When a man accomplishes
feats that are apparently beyond the
pale of possibility and that cannot be
argued out by any of the ordinary rea-
soning processes. he must be regarded
as a wizard. In the dark ages, Brother
Burbank would have been tortured and
burned long ago. This is sad, but it
is true. He would have been in good
company, because Edison, Marconi and
many others would have likewise per-
ished at the stake. Their offenses
against the conventional truths" of
the centuries far exceed in enormity
that of Calico, who only declared that
the world moved. Mr.. Burbank, you
are the plant wizard. You cannot get
away from 1t.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19
ORIENTAL OUTLOOK

TN HE Sick Man of Turkey is begin
ming to recover his health. For
Il thirty years he has been sullenly
recuperating from the campaign OF
Skobeleff. He has heard military crit
les assert that it was lack of money
that caused the fall of Kars, and he re-
members that Plevna was more distin-
guished by Turkish fatalist valor than
by Russian grit. He has seen another
Oriental nation awake from the slum-
Der of centuries, and by force, ingenu-
ity and fatalism crush superior num-
bers of armed Russians. He sees
China yawning and bestirring herself.
During his thirty years of quietude the
Turk has been meditating revenge.
Civilization, aghast at the Armenian
massacres, threatened TO support
Russia with moral and armed
force If she would wage a
holy war against the Saracen
and Moslem. But Russia preferred to
do some massacring on her own ac-
count, and the atrocities committed up
on the Jews deprived her of the SYM
pathy of her fellow Christians when,
as DIR. Talmage used to say, 1.-THE Lord
sent the hornet" the Jew financed
the japanese" Turkey, beholding the
savagery and the punishment of Rus
STA, lost awe of her. The old dream
of an Ottoman empire began to be
revived. This was the dream that was
encouraged long ago by Beaconsfield,
who saw in a discreetly managed and
not too Independent Ottoman power
perpetual safeguard to Britain's pos
sessions in Asia. With Japan gazing
hungrily toward Hindustan, 1t is again
good British policy to encourage the
Ottoman. To play Turkey against
Russia, and then to involve victorious
Turkey in war with Japan that will
chaser the latter, even II 1t does moi
subdue her. is the Imperial British pol
icy indicated by present conditions. AS
a result, Russia will be out of commits
sion for years to come, while the Orient
will be nicely crippled without the sac
rifice OF white men or white mems
money. And Uncle Samuel and Johr
Bull will exchange winks across sea
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19

weight 10 their views. one OF
the latter is former Judge Charles S
Whitman, a recognized authority on
criminology. whose long service in the
court of general sessions of New York
city has given him rare knowledge of
the ways of lawbreakers. Judge Whit
man believes that death or life impris-
onment should be the penalty melted
out to mature Offenders. Explaining
his views In detail in the New York
Herald, he expressed the opinion that
the criminal 30 years old is hopeless
and his reformation is impossible. The
offender who has reached that age, the
judge declared, should be put away for
life. At least he should be regarded as
habitually criminal and should be pre-
vented from perpetuating his kind. A
state prison is not a reformatory, and
the public is binding itself to facts,
asserted Judge Whitman, when it does
not recognize that a released prisoner
is greater and more dangerous GRIM
inal than he or she was when the
serving of sentence was begun. A
prison chaplain of twenty years ex-
perience in one of our penal institu-
lions of New York admitted with re-
greet to the Judge that he had never
known one case of true reformation.
Judge Whitman added:
"The growing and misplaced SYM
pathy OF fne average easy going cltizeIi
for the detected criminal is producing
condition of the gravest peril. Senti-
mentality is taking the place of Justice
and the result Is becoming disastrous"
Very probably there are many people
who Will agree with the New York
judges views, which have In one form
or another been advanced before. says
the San Diego Union. But 1t may be
doubted that they will ever be carried
into effect, and the men and women
who oppose them may not be lightly
brushed aside as mere 'emotionalists."
1T is never too late to mend" is as true
today as when Charles Reade wrote his
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19

Isl n XII set forth in a national Re-
ia H2I publican convention before
III MI many days have elapsed,
ia IA III what will they be? If the
MANI Roosevelt policies are adopt.
ed Organism becomes Re-
publicanism and Democrats who fol-
low Bryan must swallow or be swal-
lowed. There will be no difference in
anything but words and offices. We
are made sure of this on reading Mr..
Bryan's Endorsement of the presidents
latest message, which is q document
too long Tor full criticism and must
be read to be appreciated-a docu
n.ent which defends against attack,
denounces enemies and sets forth poll
cies, but has not one word to say when
confronted with the self-evident fact
that what it denounces Roosevelt has
done and what 1t approves Roosevelt
has failed to do. Despite all this, Mr..
Rryan says;
Its warnings are entirely in har-
mony with the warnings which Demo-
Gratis have been uttering for more than
a decade, and hope that the Demo-
Gratis in the senate and house viii
promptly challenge the Republicans to
meet the issues presented by the presi-
dent.
There ought to be enough Roose-
Welt Republicans in the two houses to
join with the Democrats and insure
some remedial legislation at this ses-
sion. If there be none the public ought
tc know it, so that when the next Re-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19
Equals Our Ted

In the London Sketch appears pic
ture of the most versatile man." Louis
M. Eishemus, who has painted 5000 pic
lures, written forty novels. written
plays in English. French. German,
italian, Spanish, Arabic, Sanskrit and
Chinese; who has composed 100 songs.
been around the world seven times, and
last and greatest has a reputation as a
piemaker. If this man ever gets across
the border into Germany it will be him
for the rock pile for life on charge of
lese majestic.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19
why KISS snd Rum?

Now the Toledo Blade kicks in with
the foolish suggestion that kisses Of the
proper sort should be Of twenty-five
seconds duration, Why on earth does
the Blade man want TO hurry good
thing like that? Who is this Blade
person with soul SO dead? Has he
never fingered kissfuIly and blissfulIy
in the soothing shades Of a sunbonnet
worn by an apple checked school,
ma am? What sort Of trapped, frosted.
wlndblasted EDITORS 30 they have in
Ohio?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19
More pefarmed Spelling

This is the way a slice Of the kings
English looked after the sinplified
spelling board fixed it up on the new
rules:
"The captiv with mum Inns sat by a
demolisht {. AMT bilding on a hight on
a loren lie, a leag from the shore. and
Taking sissors took an old sithe to cut
q piece of cloth to bind his thum. He
did not succede, and being vext bit his
tung SO 1t aked.'
Isn't that sheer murder?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19

ABOUT 10 De reached In the
prosecution by the department of jus
tice of the Southern Pacific for giving
rebates and also, it is understood, of
shippers for accepting refunds. There
has been a long period of preparation
for these trials. 1t is to be hoped that
1t will bear fruit in a thorough and
open minded portrayal of the facts at
issue.
1t is to be feared, however, that this
is just what is not to occur. For one
thing, the defendant corporation, the
Southern Pacific, has practically adj
mitted the facts in the case, outside
of court, and defends them by excuses
which will not be material at the trial.
In other words, the attempt will be
made to escape conviction upon tech
nicalities, which means a long period
of diminishing among the lawyers,
says the Fresno Morning Republican.
In the second place, the public has
little confidence in the men who in
the ordinary course of events, will con-
duct the prosecution. The United
States attorneys in the western dis
tricts are all appointees of the pres
ident, but they are in their places, In
nearly every instance, because OF the
recomne of a senator or repre-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19

novel with that dictum as its title. and
1t is as true today as 1t was centuries
ago when it was first promulgated by
the great Teacher himself. The Chris
tian world will never accept the doc
trine that genuine repentance is Inn
possible, no matter how improbable 1t
NAV be-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19

An automobilist fined for rushing
said the machine had bad habit of
getting up reckless speed before the
chauffeur was aware of it. With
thanks to the Irish for having i'm
vented the bull. we say that an auto
mobile that takes the bit between its
teeth and runs away is menace to
society.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19

The highway commission win try TO
take the bumps out of the roads from
the mountains to the sea. What. no
more good old New England Thank
ye-nia' ams2"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19

1t is evident that the iceman who
said zone on me" when three hundred
pounds of freeze fell on him has been
SO long in the ice business that his
sense of weight has been lost
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19

Iowa says that saloons cannot law
fully be owned by corporations The
point of the decision which affirms
this Is that corporations are in prac-
lice irresponsible, and that the lazy
wishes 20 make each Individual saloon
keeper responsible for his trade and
its consequences. SO far, SO good.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19

The Japs are still pungling up like
little men for the feet entertainment
fund. II they are our enemies. they
have queer way Of showing 1t.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19
Not All This Seasons

"Naturalists say there are 10000 diff
ferent kinds of butterflies"
Eyes. doubtless. and there are about
that many varieties of butter. Our
grocer keeps them ALL
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19
jungle for Servians

A Chicago man is trying to Gust King
Peter of Servia from his throne. Has
the meat trust designs on Servia?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19
SRA'RK:'S:.::
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LIVE. WIRE.
Educational Features

Educational Features
Beck-Isn't this race war business
getting fierce?
Peck-What's broke now?'
Beck--When a negro thumps chink,
a Jap butts In and an freshman rush IS
them all to the station it's mixing 1t
some.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-19

Ice gorges, blizzards and bleakness
in the east. Same ola sunshine in
California