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The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-14

means known to our wisest leg
islators has been tried to improve
the roads and afford he people
good throughfares over which
they travel and market their
wares, except the issuance of
bonds and building first class
roads with the money obtained
from the sale of them. We do
not now recall the fact if any
county in the state has ever is.
sued road bonds. Quite a num-
. Der of them have worked their
roads under the contract system
and in this way have improved
the roads, but the funds avail
able are never sufficient to build
good roads. Monroe county is
one of the counties under the
contract system and we know
that her roads have been improv-
ed by the work done under the
contractors. But, the funds are
never sufficient to build good
roads and the money spent each
year goes to patch up. This
yearly expenditure for patch
work would more than pay inter-
est on a~sufficient sum, that could
be obtained through the sale of
bonds, to build good roads. These
bonds could be made to run as
long as desired and the burden
of constructing new and better
roads would fall on the taXpay-
ers in such a way as to never
prove a burden but a blessing.
The only way to have better
roads is to issue bonds and build
them at once. We should have a
law.premiting each supervisors
district to issue bonds against
the property of that district, as
is done in swamp land districts,
to obtain money to build roads
in case the entire county could
not be induced to issue them.
We can never have good roads
under the present system and
the sooner we realize this the bet.
ter for the peoplein the vari Gus
counties,
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-14
HON. w. D. ANDERSON.

Hon. w. D. Anderson, our able
representative in the senate, has
proven himself one of the ablest
and safest representatives in the
entire legislature. His work has
been devoted largely to straight
ening out the many kinks in the
code of 1906 and also to the pas
sage of such measures as will
give the people of the state re-
lief from a number of evils re-
sulting in lack Of laws or lame
places in those now on the stat
ute books. One of the measures
he has advocated and helped to
get through the senate is one
that prevents a debtor from SELL
ing his stock in bulk and thereby
cut out all creditors except the
one he prefers. This measure
should have easy sailing in the
house, as it commends itself to
honest people as a fair and just
law.
Another law that Mr.. Anderson
seeks to get through is one doing
away with the fellow servant
law as it is now written. In lieu
thereof Mr.. Anderson would give
to employees of railroads and Of
her corporations the same rights
as individuals in asking damages
through the courts for personal
injuries. This measure shout
also become a law and it now
seems that it will go through.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-14

cents; potatoes, IS cents: peas, IS
cents.
The above illustrates differ
ence in freights on probable
hauls, while the following fig
ures show the difference on prob;
able hauls: The rates quoted are
from Horn Lake, Miss, to Mich
olson, Miss, and an equal haul
in Alabama:
In ~Alabama-Hay per car load
s66; ear corn, SGT, so; shelled
corn, $6S; cotton seed, SCI.
In Mississippi-Native Hay,
per car, $50, ear corn, $50: she'll
ed corn, $50; cotton seed, $50.
The difference in less than
car load lots, is even greater
on molasses, potatoes, peas, ETC."
This is indeed a splendid show
ing, and as surprising to most of
us as it is gratifying.
Mr.. Kincannon shows also,
that Alabama has appropriated
$50, 900 to enable her commission
to enforce legislation, and adds
that Mississippi, owing to it's
better laws and efficient Board
does not need such a sum, but
urges, for the benefit of his sue
cessor, that the State make lib
eral provision for the travelling
expenses of a body that is expect
ed and required to be almost
continuously on the move. -Aber-
deem Examiner.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-14
OUR ADVANTAGE OVER ALABAMA
IN FREIGHT RATES.

Hon. J. c.. Kincannon, who
was one of the most energetic
and practical members of our
last Board of Rail Road Com
missioners, is Of the very sensi-
BILE opinion that the people are
much more interested in secur-
ing cheap freight rates on their
exports and imports, than in
cutting down the cost of travel.
In an interview at Jackson, he
illustrates the success of his
Board in securing freight con-
cessions for the people, by cit
ing a few comparisons, as foil
ows:
I'm Alabama-Native ear corn
per car load, Sal, native shelled
corn per car load, SAB; cotton
seed per car load, $40
In Mississippi-Native ear
corn per car load, S25; native
shelled corn per car load, $25;
cotton seed per car load, $50.
The following rates apply to
less than car lots, and per hum
dred pounds:
In Alabama-Native molasses,
3l3 cents; potatoes, At cents;
peas, 213 cents.
In Mississippi Molasses %
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Non-Resident Notice.

State of Mississippi to Mrs. j. E
WEIGH, goth and E. Washington Ave,
North Little Rock Ark, Argenta Sta.
ton, and Fife C WEIGH and Miss Mary
Branscomb, Argenta, Ark, defendants
You are commanded to appear before
the Chancery Court of the County OF
Lee, in said State, on the third Monday
of March, A D, 1908, to defend the suit
in said court of Mrs Maud WEIGH Pow
ell, complainant, wherein you are de-
PENDANT.
Teis 23rd day of January. A D, 1903.
[sEAL] NoRBIN JONES, Clerk
GUY MITCHELL, Solicitor for Com
plainant
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-14

The lynching of Eli Pigot,
Il negro, charged with the Grim.
inal assault of a young lady neal
Brookhaven by a mob on Monday
was the first lynching of the
year In the state, and therefore
the first under the administra-
ton of Gov. Noel. A special
term of court had been ordered
by Judge Williamson of the cir
cult bench and a venir summon
ed to try the negro who was
ready it is said to enter a plea of
guilty. Soldiers of the National
Guard had been ordered to be on
hand to protect the prisoner and
upon the arrival of the train with
the prisoner and soldiers a mob
met them and took the negro and
proceeded to lynch him by shoot
ing, cutting and hanging him.
While such incidents are to be
regretted it seems that the off
GERS OF the law with all the aid
the mlllatia can give, are power
less the mob bent on wreaking
vengeance. Soldiers only serve
to cnrage the people and their
presence only adds to the deter
mlnation of mobs to punish their
victim. tits a mistake to have
them on hand and we believe that
the state would be better off
II 1t had no miliatia. The ex-
perlence of the companies at
Brookhaven go to show that the
militia is not composed of real
officers and it is a useless expen-
SC for the state to support them.
This negro deserved to have his
neck broke and it would have
been through legal process with
III . very short time. 1t is to be
regreted as the good name of the
state suffers from such Incl
dents.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-14

A bill originating in the Lower
House of the Legislature, seeks
to make the railroad passenger
rate at 2cents per mile, with the
authority vested in the railroad
commission to increase this rate
whenever it was shown to the
satisfaction of the commission
that any road filing it's statement
had not made money at the rate
of two cents. The proviso is
well inserted as the people of the
state do not desire the roads to
be run at a loss to the stockhol-
dcrs, nor would they desire the
passenger rate lowered at the eX-
pense of good service. The roads
have for the past few years
very greatly improved their pass
cnger service. Better equipped
trains, better time and better
service in every way has been
conspicuous and we do not want
to go back on the ways and equip
mcnts. We are assured that the
roads of their own voiition will
make such rates as will meet the
demands of the people for cheap
CT rates. With the concessions
we should not demand a law tina
would prove a boomerang in it's
enforcement.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-14
This is st Valentine Day.
Did you get your valentine?
The Masonic grand bodies are
in session at Hattiesburg.

If Mr.. Roosevelt continues to
advocate democratic policies We
feel constrained to ask if it would
not be more in order for Mr..
Roosevelt to nominate Mr.. Bryrn
in the Democratic National Con-
venfion, rather than Mr.. Bryan
nominate Mr.. Roosevelt in the
Republican Convention, as sug-
gcsted by John Temple Graves?
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-14
SSUE BONDS.

In its last issue the Aberdeen
Examiner, whose able editor al
ways sees the practical and SEN
sible side Of all economic ques-
tiona, comes out in favor of the
issuance Of $50, 900 in bonds for
tbs purpose of improving the
roads Of Monroe County. The
question of good roads is one that
has ve1ed every legislature and
every board of supervisors since
the State became a State. Every
The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-14
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for.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13
He Preferred Them Soft.

NINE. SEMBRICH, at one of the dim
1V1 ners in New York that the unwel-
come news of her approaching retirement
elected, vivaciously related stories Of the
stage.
Il know" said Nine. Sembrich, that
YOU have in America a tragedian who
PLAYS Hamlet behind a screen, selling to
procers after each performance. the
fruit and vegetables that have missed
their mark.
This tragedian must be amusing. j
regret that / have never seen him. I
have. though, in Texas, seen Callino
Callino sings in falsetto the tenor role
of Puccini's 'Tosca
The public, especially in the star
song. makes a target of poor Callino. and.
the afternoon I heard him sing. the DAFT
creature was pretty badly bruised
In the midst of his star song some
one hit him with turnip. His nose be-
gan to bleed and he held up his hand
for silence. When the music stopped
Callino said:
Ladies and gentlemen, in the last
act your missiles were chiefly eggs. Eggs
are messy things; they make ones cos.
tune so stiff and sticky, and it's awfully
odd, but 1 was just about to remark.
when that turnip struck me, that l pre-
ferred turnips to eggs-only would ii be
asking too much of you to boil them
first?'"
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The New Paris Hat.

MISS MARY CAssATT of Paris. the
AvA well known artistic member of the
Cassatt family OF Philadelphia, at a
recent luncheon in New York described
the Paris fashions
The 'dernier cri' i'm the way OF q
winter hat she said, lis a copy of
the bearskin shake. 1t is hat OF
marabou or of long soft hairy fur. 1t
comes down to the ears. 1t is in shape
like dome or like a muff on end.
Il saw young woman buying one of
these hats in a shop in the Rue de Ia
PaiX last month. The hat she chose
was very high. and 1t set SO low on her
forehead that it nearly hid her eyes. In
fitting it the mlliner pointed to it's fash
ionable height and to the fashionable
way it came down to the nose, and she
said
Now. if madame wears this hat to
the matinee. and the people say behind
her that they cant see the stage for it,
then madame can retort that 1t is nothing
she can't see the stage for it herself
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esting. Even the dull monotonous re-
hearsals with the never ending repeti.
again are but relishes serving to whet
the appetite OF the extra men. The first
night. with its blur of faces, its glare OF
binding lights. its music and its rush and
hammer and slam. is the reward.
And no super ever yet lived who did not
look forward expectantly to that first
night.
AS an example Of what trifing Incl
dent can do to mar heavy scene a
story is told of a melodrama once playing
in Washington that was changed to
comedy right at the climax through the
unsupported efforts of a single supe.
In the climax. which occurred during
the third act, the hero was lying wounded
on small cot in an underground hut.
He was waiting for some dispatches and
the audience was given to understand
that his soul would never rest in peace
until he got them. He did not care for
anything but those dispatches. During a
good part of the scene he lay on his cot
and fretted and fumed because the dis
patches were not there. and whenever
anybody attempted to calm him or per-
suade him that everything would come
out right in the end he tried to climb out
Of bed and hop around the floor.
In the middle Of this touching scene one
Of the supes was supposed to break the
long tension by rushing down long
flight of steps leading from the ground
above and presenting the coveted dis
patches to the feverish hero. A short
stout supe, built on the lines of an apple
dumping. was selected as the bearer Of
the dispatches
After the hero had raved and ramped.
and snarled and snorted. in a thoroughly
unpleasant and boorish manner. the supe
was led to the top of the stairs by the
stage manager himself
Now be careful" whispered the stage
manager, hoarsely; start slowly at first
and increase your speed as you go down."
The supe started.
Just as the stage manager turned away
a startling bump caused him to leap wild
ly and glare at the stage. He beheld his
supe ungracefully sliding toward the
hero. The supe did not seek to regulate
his speed. He simply sat where he was
and the laws of gravitation sent him
scooting down the steps at the rate OF
twenty miles an hour i'm the direction OF
the hero. Arriving. at the bedside of the
hero. the supe saluted and offered the
dispatches to the wounded soldier. with
out moving from his sitting position.
Here they are, SIR he announced.
calmly cycling the audience. which howled
Historically.
$50 see," said the hero. in a slightly
choked voice.
The hero did not seem at all happy now
he had his coveted papers, and despite
his earnest efforts to disguise his feelings
it was easily seen that he did not like the
supe who had brought them to him.
And the first night of the play. which
was advertised a thriller, developed a
frSt-class comedy strain-all because Of
one small slide and that by supe.
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Winter Strawberries.

r EGaNALp wASp nar ha,ro at hors.
berries figured in the dessert, told .
strawberry story.
lone of these dealers in rare fruit. he
began, said one morning at the height
of the dollhouse strawberry season:
Good gracious, / am ruined!
".How can that be- asked the mans
cashier. The crop was excellent and the
prices are unusually high
Yes. but said the dealer, you know
how careful | was to have the bottom
of my boxes built close up to the top?'
Yes.
And Just as the crop was ready to
gather the head nurseryman got drunk
and 7 had to engage a new one?'
Yes
We'll. that new man went and filled
the boxes wrong end up.
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forgivably young, so young that one
wonders If he was made up by his
nurse before he came on the stage More
than that, there is painful lack of ply
steal culture about him that gnaws on
the beholder. He seems to need some
thing to eat.
When the hero weighs go pounds and
the assistant hero tips the scales at an
even 200 and the two are cornered be-
hind some rocks way Up in the noun
tains. the audience likes to see the at
lacking party show some kind of spirit.
1t is unpleasant to feel that if the hero
really lost his temper and assailed the
attacking party there would not be
enough of it left to make a fair-siZed dust
heap Yet such is the case nowadays.
Just as the hero finishes the dying speech
and declares that he will sell his life
dearly crowd Of thin young men, rather
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ly he turned from the great actor and
crept rather than walked to the dressing
rooms. and at the morning rehearsal an
other super less emotional filled his place.
Frequently men of sensitive natures
supe on the stage, but they do not last
long. Unusually some unkind, caustic re-
mark leads to hasty retirement on their
part.
Whatever deficiencies the old-time hood
lum may have possessed. he was superior
to the present-day article in the matter
of physique He was usually broad about
the shoulders and deep of chest. and
these two charms. combined with a nat
urally ferocious countenance. tended to
make him awe-inspiring as he marched
about with his little tin spear.
The present-day super, as rule, is I'M
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"HERE THEY ARE SIR" he ANNOUNCED, CALMLY EYE1NG

the same manner that the average man
would pick up snake and fires. Before
the hero gets a fair chance to draw
bead on him he tlops valIantly on the
stage and proceeds to kick up the shrub
berry. This makes the hero look foolish.
Anybody looks foolish when an oppo-
nent dies out and out before he has been
shot at.
With this particular attacker out Of the
way the rest reluctantly march upon the
hero. slowly. lamely, falteringly, and be-
gin their half-hearted attack. 1t is clear
ly evident that they are afraid of him.
When he fixes his eagle eye upon some
particular supe that super jumps and fires
Come on, you dastardly caitiffs. 1 have
something waiting for each of YOU and
the assistant hero emits wild and fer
vid cheer, the unfortunate supes look
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inner mechanisms of a production. He
joins with the supplemented. whole
souled intention Of trying to break up the
show. When few college youths Of this
type are allowed to join as supes they
usually eniven things quite a bit before
they are discharged.
Several years ago a melodrama was
playing in Washington that had won for
itself reputation as one of the widest.
wooziest -and-drag-outs that
had been here for some time. In the
third act the hero was tried for some
unheard-of crime and condemned by the
villain, a colonel, to be shot The hero
was backed up against wall. blind
folded and the firing squad called. Now
it happened that the company, without
knowing it. had secured the services Of
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a number of young fellows from one coll
lege. Consequently there was an I'M
wholesome feeling of friendliness among
the members of the firing squad that
BODIED ill.,
After the villain had coldly refused to
listen to the pleas of the heroine and
the audience was all wrought up Won
dering what was going to happen next
the cue was given for the advance of the
firing squad.
Make the best of your remaining min
utes. Jack Hawthorne. for you have but
a few more minutes to live" Kissed the
villain.
These words had hardly left his mouth
when his firing squad came in. Even a
mild-tempered, easy-going colonel could
have hardly accepted such firing squad
as that. Each man had developed some
form of lameness which seriously affected
his walk. Some limped on their right
feet and some on their left and some on
both. In addition the sergeant In COM
mand developed the habit of yelling
Hep, hep, hep-hep-I p" in a voice so
loud that it drowned out all conversa-
ton. When those young men came off
the stage the audience. supposng that
the comedy had been purposely injected
into the play. Laughed and shrieked at
the scene until the squad was forced to
repeat its wild, weird march. Needless
to say. that squad did not play more
than one night.
Although it is not a generally recognized
fact by laymen, the super is one of the
important adjurcts to the present day
in the play is relatively the same as
the furniture and the scenic effects He
has certain things to do in line with
the ideas of the stage director. but withal
he is an important adjunct. In his two
rehearsals he must learn his cues and
come in at the right time. If he fails
in this he may destroy the dramatic
value of some scene. Individually the
super is a nonenity; collectively he is of
paramount Importance.
All stage directors seek to get supes
whose facial characteristics are in keep
ing with the local color of the play For
instance, when certain ''frenzied
finance play was here the management
procured the services of SO many well
dressed men. so many shabby men. SO
many young men and so many old men
that the great scene in the New York
Stock Exchange might seem real
The object, according to Mr.. Sherwood,
in getting a certain number of raggedly
dressed men to play in this scene was to
represent the hanger-on of the stock eX-
change. Little details are always kept
in mind by the stage director.
Mr.. Sherwood declares that a young
man cannot be made up TO look old. gray
and bearded. If the supeS are to be men
with whskers Mr.. Sherwood is in favor of
searching the town for men with hirsute
appendages that can be hired at 30 cents
per performance.
The work of making up the supe is no
light task. but is usually accomplished in
a manner highly complimentary to the
talents Of those in charge of this wor &
When a crowd of men of all sizes and
shapes are gathered together the work
of hiding various defects of nature is a
laborious one. Frequently in present-day
plays the supers will go on the stage
without any makeup save possibly
slightly darkened eyelash and a rouged
face.
The work Of the supe is always inter-
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frantically about for some place to hide.
They are not used, it seems. to being
addressed in this unmannerly fashion and
without an introduction.
They stick it out until several of
them are killed by the hero's unerring
aim and then the rest fee. It is very
effective and nice and all that, but the
audience feels dissatisfied. They wish
that the attacking party had more
physique. The poor young men seem
to have about as much chance as an
outsider in a friendly game and
well, one wonders whether that attack
ing party was gathered by conscrip-
ton and whether all of the able bodied
came were dead when the party was
mobiliZed
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pale and self-conscious, appear on the
stage to attack him. To the disinter-
ested spectator it is plain that they DO
not wish to attack him. From their de-
jected manner and the startled way in
which they look at their guns 1t is easily
gathered that they would far rather be
home in bed or engaged in a quiet little
game with ten-cent limit than attack
ing the 25O-pound brute VINO is waiting
for them behind a rock.
* x
Finally, after a short. whispered con-
sultation which the audience imagines to
be a sort of you do it, "oh. no. you go
first nature. one of the attackers GIN
gerly raises his trusty weapon in much