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lntimidating Voters.
cotton market,

1t Is not one whit worse for cor
poratiOns To contribute to campaign
funds than to compel their EN-
ployes to vote the Republican ticket
under threat of being thrown out
of work It is merely TWO different
ways of accomplishing the same
thing. In one case an attempt is
made to buy the election outright
by the use of money, while in the
other an attempt is made to accom-
plish the same thing by force. OF
the two the latter practice is the
more reprehensible.
Hence John w. Kern's letter of
protest to d. NJ. Parry, former
president of the Manufacturers As
sociation, was both timely and to
the point. The railroads and other
corporations employed the same
tactics in 1896 that they are resort
ing to this year to encompass the
defeat of the Democratic ticket.
Then they intimidated their en-
ployes into voting the Republican
ticket by threats that they would
be thrown out of employment in
the event of Democratic success.
They used the fifty-cent dollar
argument to show that the country
would go to the demnitiOn bow
vows and that industrial work
would cease all over the land.
Mr.. Kern has not only exploded
this superstition but he denOunces
the attempt Of certain of the manu-
featuring interests who are endeav
oring to frighten workingmen by
posting notices calculated to bull
doze their employees into voting the
Republican ticket. In most States
there are laws against getting votes
by bribery and intimidation and il
is certain that the methods being
employed by the benefciaries of the
Republican tariff are in violation
of the spirit if not the actual intent
of these laws
There Is nothing in this so-called
prosperity campaign. anyway.
Ii prosperity can be made to come
at the heck and call of the people
affected by hard times, they would
have had it return last winter. Nor
can the m anufacturers promise full
time and high wages" in the event
of Mr.. Taft's election. Mr.. Taft
declares that be viii carry out Mr..
Roosevelt's promises and conse-
quently there is no occasion for de-
laying the arrival of full time and
high wages. 1t might have proven
a blessing to the Republican party
If it can control prosperity so easily
II the mills and factories had re-
sumed operations months ago.
Why wait until November The
proof of the pudding is in the eat
ing. If the beneficiaries of a rob-
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11
Cocaine and the Nigger.

1t ought to be punishable with a
life imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary for man to sell a negro co
caine. When under the influence
of this pernicious drug, these semi
brutes become absolutely wild and
despe rate. The brutal instincts and
passions are aroused and the crimes
which they will commit are limited
only to their capacity. A few days
ago maddened from the effect of
cocaine, a negro in the village Of
Mount Olive, Mississippi, ran
amuck and in his wild and desper-
ate condition he Killed two inno-
cent white men and terrorized a
whole community. The two men
killed are worth more than all the
niggers in the state of Mississippi.
Where these negroes get the cocaine
it is difficult to discover, but the
officers of the law ought to become
more vigilant and when the seller
of the deadly drug shall :be discov-
cred, he ought to be given the full
penalty of the law. The officers can
not be too vigilant for the appre-
hension and punishment of the
keeper of the blind tiger and CO
caine dive, for, from those dens of
iniquity come most of the crimes
that are committed in this southern
country. The Issue.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11
The Farmer is More than a Mere
Feeder.

There was an incident in a recent
meeting of Southern farmers which
small though il may seem to some,
yet appeared to one looker-on at
least 10 be significant TO a broader
conception of the farmers independ-
ence and of higher appreciation
of his mission among the forces Of
civilization 1t was but the merest
ripple, maybe, but it showed the
setting Of the current toward the
splendid ideal of citizenship which
had been portrayed by Dr. Knapp
the night before. The farmer who
owns his farm, said DR.. Knapp,
[ am not talking about the man
whose farm is mortgaged, but the
farmer who owns his own farm, be
it great or small, is a part of the
government 1t Is in our funda-
mental law that his farm is his own
realm, he controls that much of the
area of this country, he governs it,
he is king of it; his home is his
castle and the king even may not
enter, and when the farmer owns
his own farm he Is TO the extent of
of his acres a part of the govern
ment of these United States and
YOU need not expect him 10 destroy
or overturn the government but the
rather to be an ever safe and con
se,yative factor in its preservation .
He presents in this striking way an
enlarged conception of the farmers
citizenship. And this enlarged con
ception which the farmer is getting
of his citizenship and of his mission
among his fellow men is raising his
dignity among the worlds and tax
ing place among the things which (
III t..l
nc iiiIluelu hlii1eu dU at IiIe DC
ginning OF the foregoing paragraph
came out of the wording Of a reso-
lution offered I'm connection with g.,
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11

A press dispatch from Austin
1 Texas announces that political
Rance has been formed between
- National Farmers Union and
the American Federation Of Labor
The dispatch states that the
agreement was had between the
two organizations at the Farmers
Union annual convention held at
Fort Worth last week. OF course
the Farmers Union is non
political order, but cannot hope to
better the condition Of its members
without dabhling in politics in some
manner or other. The laws of the
country materially affect every class
of producer or laborer, and unless
some influence Is exerted to bring
about the enactment of law salu-
tary TO that class there could be no
benefit derived from cooperation
other than social educational or in
dustrial 1t is hardly possible that
the Farmers Union can remain ab- /
solutely non political, that Is hold I
itself aloof from exerting influence
as to political measures where the /
interest Of its members is vitally /
concerned. The alliance with the +
Federation of Labor is /
among the first steps in that direc-
tion, as viii he discerned by reading
the following resolutions, adopted
at the Fort Worth convention
Resolved. That national legis-
lative committee he created for the
of futhering such legisla-
ton that viii protect and promote
the rights and interests Of the farm
ars, and to prevent the enactment
Of legislation inirnical to our inter
asts
Resolved, That this convention
IF the Farmers Educational and
Cooperative Union of America,
hereby instruct its officers and legis-
ative committee to cooperate with
he American Federation Of Labor
along economic legislation and
1ther lines Of mutual benefit and
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11
The Farmers Wife

Is very careful about her churn. She
scalds il thoroughly after using. and gives
it a sun bath TO sweeten it. She knows
that if her churn is sour it will taint the
butter that is made in it. The stomach is
q churn. In the stomach and digestive
and nutritive tracts are performed pro-
cesses which are almost exactly like the
churning of butter. Is it not apparent
then that if this stomach-churn is foul IL
makes foul all which is put into IT?
The evil of a foul stomach is not alone
the bad taste in the mouth and the foul
breath caused by it, but the corruption Of
the pure current Of blood and the dissem-
inatiOn OF disease throughout the body.
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
makes the sour and foul stomach sweet.
1t does for the stomach what the washing
and sun bath do for the churn-a bsolutely
removes every tainting or c0rrupting ele-
ment. In this way it cures blotches,
pimples, eruptions, Scrofulous swellings,
sores, or open eating ulcers and all
humors or diseases arising from bad blood.
II you have bitter, nasty, foul taste in
your mouth. coated tongue, foul breath,
are weak and easily tired, feel depressed
and despondent. have frequent headaches,
dizzy attacks, gnawing or distress in stom-
ach, constipated or irregular bowels, sour
or bitter risings after eating and poor
appetite, these symptoms, or any consider
able mum Der of them. indicate that you are
suffering from biliOuSBess, torpid or lazy
liver with the usual accompanying indi-
gestion, or dyspepsia and their attendant
arrangements.
The hesI- -agepts knQHp q medical SCI
ence Tor Lie GQ1EQ III Lne- aDoxe -SymptomS
an1 c01dIIlons. as atL1Sl61hX the- -MLItIngs
OF leading IeacherS-And -pLactitioQeL2 q
al the seYeraI Schools Of medical pracfIce.
have been skilltullx2DQ haIERQQlQ4sIy
cQWhlQed Il pE. Pieces Goldan-M Medical
nIsc0YerYA That this Is absolutely true
will be readily proven to your satisfaction
to Dr. r Y. Pierce, Buffalo. n. Y. for a
free copy of his booklet of extracts from
the standard medical authorities, giving
the names of all the ingredients entering
into his world-famed medicines and show
ing what the most eminent medical men
of the age say Of them.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11

The governments crop report,
which will be made public this
week show material decreases in the
corn and wheat crops from last
month s figures as did the govern
ment's cotton report issued last
week. The estimates for all crops
have been exceedingly roseate, so
much so in fact as to depress prices
and cause producers uneasiness.
But now it is becoming evident that
the 1908 crops of corn, wheat and
cotton are little above the average.
and soon prices must be established
to conform to the true condition, -
that is as good or better prices than
were obtained for American pro-
ducts last year.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11

There is a vast difference between
a house and a home. The house is
but the building and furniture. the
outward shelter and gathering place
of the household. The home in
clundes the kindly family affection,
the thoughtful care and ready
sympathy and mutual confidence
and trust Of the members. A true
home breathes the atmosphere Of
love. A child should be made to
feel that his home Is indeed home,
the happiest place in the world to
him, not merely an outward shelter
and resting place, but a center of
enjoyment, sanctifed and purified
by love, the thought and remem-
brance Of which shall be the safe
guard Of his life as he goes forth in
to the world, giving strength and
proportion to his character, and
turning his thoughts to all that
may prepare him for the heavenly
home when the scenes Of earth shall
have passed away Grenada Sen
tinal.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11
HOUSE
work

Thousands Of American women
III our homes are daily sacrificing
then lives 10 duty.
In order to Keep the home neat
and pretty, the children well dressed
and tidy, women overdO. A female
weakness OF displacement is often
broughtOn and they suffer in silence,
drifting along from bad TO worse,
knowing well that they ought to
have help to overcome the pains and
aches which daily make life burden.
1t is to these faithful women that
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11

Bilious? Feel heavy after dinner?
Tongue coated? Bitter taste? Com
plexion sallow? Liver needs waking
up. Doan's Regulets cure bilious at
tacks. 25c. at any drug store.
One hour a day withdrawn from
frivolous pursuits and protitably
employed would enable any man of
ordinary capacity TO master a COM
plete science. One hour a day
would make an ignorant man a well
informed man in ten years. One
hour a day would earn enough TO
pay for two daily and two weekly
newspapers, two leading magazines
and a dozen good books.
In an hour a day a boy or girl
could read twenty pages thought
fully-over seven thousand pages or
eighteen large volumns in year.
An hour a day might make all the
difference between bare existence
and useful happy living. An hour
a day might, nay, has made, an
unknown man a famous one, use
less one a beDefactor to his race.
Consider, then, the mighty posi-
bilities of two, four, yes six hours
day that are on the average thrown
away by some of our young men
and women in their desire for fun
and diversion. .-Ex.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11
Passed Examination Successfully

James Donahue, New Britain, Conn.
writes: 81 tried several kidney rem
edies, and was treated by our best
physicians for diabetes, but did not
improve until | tack Foley's Kidney
Remedy. After the second bottle
showed Improvement, and five bottles
cured me completely. / have since
passed rigid examination for life in
sufance " Foley's Kidney Remedy
cures bachaehe and all forms of kid
ney and bladder trouble. Sold here
by Phoenix Drug Co.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11

The run-off in the Congressional
primary in the eighth district, be-
tween Pat Henry and J.W. Collier,
will take place on the 10Th, and
promises to be a close contest.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thIrty years Lydia Z. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fibrOid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, fiatulency, indiges-
tl0n, ,dizZiness,O or nervous prOstratiOn.
Why don't YOU try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health Address, Lynn, Mass.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11

The assessment rolls that con-
tinue to pour into the Auditor :
office show little increase in valua-
tions over the rolls of last year.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11
oBITuARIEs I'D TRIBUTFs.

OBITUARIES AND TRIBUTES.
Obituaries viii be accepted. by The
Weekly when not exceeding ten lines.
free OF charge. For each additional
line charge of five cents will be
made and collected.
For Tributes of Respect and other
publications, emenating from lodges
or similar organizations, charge or
five cents per line viii be made for
every line contained. Count seven
words TO the line and make your own
calculation as TO the cost in each case
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11

The Farmers Union has secured
a contract with the Wesson Mills to
furnish a wrapping, manufactured
from cotton, that will satisfactorily
take the place of bagging.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11

ber tariff can cause prosperity to
return i'll November, they can cause
it to return now 1t is absurd to
presume that they are sitting idly
10y taking things as they are when
they can bring back the good times
that were merely by saying the
word
The Republican campaign is one
big bluff = Clarion-Ledger.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11

Don't think that piles can't be cured.
Thousands of obstinate cases have
been cured by Doan's Ointment. 30
cents at any drug store.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11

The grand jury empaneled at the
Lee county circuit court, returned
twenty -one indictments.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11
MOZLEY'S LEMON ELIXIR

Cured me of long-standing case of
chills and fever by using two bottles.
J. C. STANLEY,
Engineer E. T. Va. & Ga. r. r.
All druggists sell DIR. Mozley's Lem
on Elixir.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11
LYDIA e. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND

comes as Il boon and a blessing,
a. it did to Mrs. f. Ellsworth, of
Mayyille, y. Y, and to Mrs. W. +.
Boyd, of Beaver Falls, Pa, who say /:
"a l was not able to do my own work
owing to the female trouble from which
! suffered. Lydia h. Piukham' Nege-
able CompOund helped me wonderfully,
and am SO well that I can do as big a
days work As 1 ever did. 1 wish every
sIea woman wouLl NV l.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11

The annual convention of the
Farmers Union, held at Fort Worth
Texas, last week, disagreed as to
whether the minimum price for the
new crop of cotton should be fixed
at II or 10 cents. The incident in
dicates that the convention believes
that the price of a commodity can
be fixed arbitrarily without regard
to the relation of the supply to the
demand, when in fact the price of
all products, whether agricultural
or industrial, is regulated almost
wholly by that relation.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11

Foley's Orino Laxative is a new
remedy, an improvement on the lax
atives of former years, as it does not
grippe or nauseate and is pleasant to
take. 1t is guaranteed. Sold here by
Phoenix Drug Co
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11

DeWitt's Little Early Risers are
small pills. easy to take, gentle and
sure. Sold by Phoenix Drug Co.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11

The Tupelo Journal says that the
dollar campaign fund is not meet
ing with the success that was ex-
pected and does not seem to think
that a sufficient amount can be got
ten together in that way to meet
campaign expenses. Tie Journal
concludes with the following prac-
teal advice; let the man who
loves the party and the principles
it is fighting for give all he wants.
and if he comes down with his
500, 900 take it to offset the con-
tributions of the millionaires of the
East.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11

The Philadelphia Record says:
The Democrats of the South laugh
to scorn the pretention that its solid
strength can be broken for the pres
idential candidate Of a party that
holds over its people the menace of
a loss of representation in congress
for the sole reason that they are
protecting the elective franchises
and decent state governments from
a dense and dangerous mass Of
ignorance Such a pretension is
little less than an insult to the in
telligence and patriotism of the
voters of the South. -
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11

Since one of the important speci-
alists on what to eat in hot weather
has cautioned every one against the
use of raw fruit there has been a
change in the daily menu. 1t is
hard lines on those who welcome
the summer because of its chance
hourly to eat fruit of all kinds. 1t
has usually been considered a
healthy diet, and the majority
spoke with pride of making three
meals a day off fresh peaches, black
berries, cantaloupes and other
toothsome fruit. Now the doctors
are agreed that this kind of eating
must be cut out. All fruit must be
cooked in some way Or it starts up
strange disorders in the blood. 1t
is agreed that this is the cause Of
almost all summer ills-the intoler-
ance of heat. the lack of sleep. and
indigestion. You can't cook water
melon and cantaloupe, so those
fruits viii have to be eliminated.
-Okolona Messenger.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11

Generally debilitated for years.
Had sick headaches, lacked am bition,
was worn-out and all rundown. Bur-
dock Blood Bitters made me a well
woman. Mrs. Chas. FrietOy, Moos-
up, Conn.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11
Quick Relief for Asthma Sufferer.

FOley's Honey and Tar affords inn
mediate relief to asthma sufferers in
the worst stages and if taken in time
viii effect a cure. Phoenix Drug Co.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-09-11

Farmers, mechanics, railroaders, la
bOrers, rely on DR.. Thomas Electric
Oil. Takes the sting out of cuts, burr S
or bruises at once. Pain cannot stay
where it is used.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-18
THE FOOTBALL PLAYER
BY HUGH w. ROBERTS.

a gridiron prodigy if there is running up his backbone, the tiniest streak of vel low" No coward, physical or moral, has ever had brilliant football career. No physical or moral coward has ever cap tained football team of Yale.
 A great football warrior may, in his manhood, become a thief. His physical perfection may become wrecked as re- suit of dissipation He may degenerate into a character utterly worthless to so- ciety He may become a prey to the great majority of temptations. He may commit such heinous offenses that the law will take him into custody. and he may wind up his career as life tenant of a penitentiary.
 But no great football captain, possessing all the requisites as MT. Patterson ''Paul' possessed. can in his manhood become a sneak, he can never degenerate into a moral and physical coward. or be- ooma the miserable, contemptible cur that MT. Patterson's Paul became
 The metamorphosis of Paul the you'h into Paul the man was as impossible as the transformation of Dr. Jekyll lnto NIT Hyde. Stevensons purpose was to start with the weird and to entertain. MT patterson's plan was the delivery oi ,,reacbment. and, inasmuch as this Is true ha seriously blundered in posing the ltn- possible as an actual character III e'ei~ day life.
 If is "up to- Joseph Medill to come again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-18

MT Joseph Medill Patterson of Chicago, whose vision, one would judge, has never beheld an honest man, and whose mind has never acknowledged sincere oplhloli in another, has, in his book, A Little Brother of the Rich," done the football players of America a great injustice
 Concerning the society of which the author treats, that in which no man, wo- man or child Is honest or honorable, ana m nerson. whatever his station in hfe, the nossessor of those morals which en- titles one to the respect of his fellows, if is barely possible that his environ ment qualities him to speak author1ta- lively. But when in one chapter, he pre- sents his hero as the splendid captain of A Yale championship football team, and in the next describes him as moral degenerate. an infamous coward, and ver;tahle cur. MT. Patterson reveals an nrfamiliarity with the stock from winch great players come In so picturing his "Paul" MT Patterson does the Amerl- can exponent of football the greatest iniustice. and against the innumeraole clan of gridiron champions commits an unpardonable offense.
 To star on any football field man must in addition to great strength, great speed. great skill in the science Of the game insurmountable determination and the clearest intellect, be possessed or the greatest physical and moral courage. The strongest, swiftest, and most aggres- slve player in America. cannot become