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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-02-07

The Weekly will be glad to receive
communications from members of the
Farmers Union and will take pleasure
in publishing anything that looks to
the good of that order, or to the edu-
cation of che agricultural masses.
The Farmers Union appears 60 be di-
recting its work along lines that will
prove helpful to all classes that live
in this section, and the columns Of
the Weekly are always open to pro-
mote its undertakings.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-02-07

One of the four silver dollars
coined in 1904 has been located in
the possession of a man at Worces-
ter, Mass. This is the fifteenth one
of the four that has come to light.
If the coin is genuine. it is worth
$1,000.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-02-07

And now II has come to light that
the father Of John d. Rockefeller,
the richest man in the world, was a
bigamist, having married a second
wife under the assumed name of
Livingston while his first wife was
living.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-02-07
Delinquent Land List, Fiscal Year 1907.

Mississippi, Monroe
Collector
MONDAY. DAY
0
county
fromd day
until Of sad landsa are
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-02-07

A child labor law is certain to be
enacted Children under II years
of age will be restricted from work
ing in factories, etc.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-02-07

The bill appropriating 81 800, 900
for the support of the com0on
schools for the years 1908 and 1909
has passed both houses and has the
approval Of the Governor. In most
counties Of the State, the teachers,
up to this time, have taught with
out any money in the treasury to
pay them In Monroe, however,
this has not been the case. Every
Monroe teacher has been paid
promptly on presentation Of his re-
port.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-02-07

The Monroe delegation is promi-
nent as members on the following
COMMITTEES: Senator Leftwich, Com
mittee on Rules, Judiciary, Peni-
tertiary and Prison. Public Lands,
Temperance (chairman,) Library;
H F Broyles, Liquor Traffic, Roads,
Ferries and Bridges, Eleemosynary
Institutions (chairman,) Census
and Apportionment; T r Caldwell,
Pensions, Ways and Means; d. A.
Beeks, Penitentiary and Agricul-
ture. 1t Is gratifying to the con-
stituency Of them gentlemen to see
them situated so as to exert in
huence over a wide range of legisla-
ton.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-02-07
LaGrippe and Pneumonia.

Foley's Honey and Tar cures la
grippe, coughs and prevents pneumo-
MIA. Refuse any but the genuine in
the yellow package. L. Shell 81
90.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-02-07

The ground hog came out. saw
his shadow and retired for another
month. This means bad weather
for February.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-02-07

The old old Jonah" bills. tax
dogs and compulsory education are
pending in the Senate.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-02-07
MOZLEY'S LEMON ELIXIR

Cured me of a 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, 1908-02-07

Roosevelt's late message to Con-
gress, vitriolic and uncompromisingl
opposed to predatory wealth, capital
istic lawbreakers and stock gamblers,
won for him encomiums of praise in
the Lower House, Monday. Repub-
licans and Democrats alike, showered
eulogy on the President for his fear
less attitude towards criminal corpor-
ations, and, if the demonstrations of
approval INDUCED in by Congressman
of both parties indicates anything, it
looks as if Mr.. Roosevelt has made a
ten strike. Burke Cochrane eulogized
the President and denounced all other
Republicans. Col. Hepburn followed
in praise of the President and heaped
calumny upon the South, especially
Mississippi. The political antipodes
seemed reconciled as to the PTesi-
dents policy, but were disagreed as
far as party organizations are con-
cerned. Does this mean that leaders
of the two parties are not averse to
wiping out party lines and rallying to
a platform dictated and supported by
Theodore Roosevelt? God forbid.
The concurrent resolution to submit
to the people an amendment to the
constitution abolishing the Office of
county treasurer, passed the House
Monday. If the bill should pass the
Senate and be ratified by the people
at the polls, it would not become eff
fective before the expiration of the
present four years.
The fact that the United States is
assembling a battleship squadron of
fourteen vessels to be sent to the
Philippine Islands, has revived war
talk with Japan.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-02-07

The editor of the Memphis, Tenn,
Times writes: I'm my opinion
Foley's Honey and Tar is the best
remedy for coughs, colds and lung
trouble, and TO my own personal
knowledge Foley's Honey and Tar
has accomplished many permanent
cures that have been little short of
marvellous. Refuse any but the
genuine in the yellow package.
L. Shell & Co.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-13
The Evils of Congestion.

A COMMITTEE on Congestion of Popu-
lation in New York. has been formed in
that city. embracing philanthrOpic indi-
viduals and delegates from a large num-
Der of civic organizations. Its purpose Is
to prepare an exhibition which shall be
an object lesson showing the dangers in
cident to the crowding of humanity into
unsanitary tenements. Almost every So
ciety of Importance is cooperating, and
it is expected that the exhibition, which
isto be held in the Museum of Natural
History. will awaken public sentiment
in favor of better tenement regulation
laws.
A conference in connection with this
exhibition will have for it's chief object
discussion Of a paper prepared Tor the
Medical Record by DR.. W. II. Guilfoy,
chief of the bureau of statistics Of the
Board of Health. The paper deals with
the death rate Of the city as it is affect
ed by the cosmopolitan character OF the
population, and presents statistics show
inc how the rate is increased by conges-
ton. Dr. Guilfoy declares that the inttu-
ence of the negro's presence upon the
mortality rates is always cumulative;
the general rate, 1856 per 1000 OF the
selected negro block is more than double
that of the city at large, which is 1880.
He says that the rate from pulmonary
tuberculosis is three and One-half times
the average for the city, and is only ex-
ceeded by the Chinese block. The Syrian
and Armenian section is also menace;
it threatens to detrimentally affect the
mortality rate, the general rate III that
section of the city being 1888 per 1000,
almost equal to that of the negro block
Although the Jews live in crowded quar-
tiers. the death rate for the example
block is comparatively low, because the
Jew is temperate, and is therefore able
to resist infection because OF his better
physical condition.
The exhibition IN New York will be OF
value to the sanitary authorities OF
every center of population in the United
States. 1t will reveal the necessity OF
steps for the prevention of congestion.
DR.. Guilfoy states that some OF the
causes of high death rates are not re-
lated to immigration, although the new
corners are inclined to huddle into close
quarters because of their poor financial
circumstances. The seat of the trouble
is doubtless laXity in the sanitary regu-
lations. The sanitary laws make quar-
antine compulsory when contagious dis
eases break out in homes. These same
laws ought to be made strong enough
to prevent conditions under which dis
eases are likely to spread from one tene-
ment room to another. The regulations
concerning light and air and the SAM
tary conyenienceS which every home
builder is obliged to provide should be
made so rigid that owners will be COM
PEELED to maintain healthful tenements.
Congestion where sanitary conditions are
comparatively good is bad enough; but
the crowding of tenements where SAM
tary laws are violated and sanitary con-
veniences are absent is intOlerable.-
Evening Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-13
GREAT BIRD STUNT.
Vultures Came Down Head First with a
Roar Like War Rocket.

The rush of scavenger birds when big
game is killed is wildly described by r.
@. Vaughan in book on Portuguese
East Africa.
Having shot an elephant" he says
Il sat by while the great slabs of skin
were removed from the gigantic sides
and the carriers. hastily summoned from
a neighboring village, proceeded to cut
up the vast mountain of flesh.
almost Immediately a shadow fitted
across the carcass, and looking upward
one became aware that the deep blue
above was rapidly filling with countless
black wheeling specks.
1.-THE buzZards, kites and scapulated
crows boldly alighted on the grass and
ON few neighboring bushes and await
ed calmly the moment when we should
take our leave, while overhead at great
height the shyer varieties, including the
marabous, large bare-necked vultures,
and screaming fishing eagles continued
to hover.
appOrtioned, the tusks chopped out and
we We started for camp. but before we had
marched twenty yards every one of
those waiting birds was settled upon the
remains, while with rush like the roar
of war rocket the greater vultures fell,
with wings tightly folded, from a height
of 300 or 400 yards to take part in the
feast.
''The startling noise made by these
heavy birds falling head foremost
through the air, to check their plunge
with outspread wings so close to the
ground as to make destruction appear
inevitable, was most singular and i'm
preSsiVe."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-13
SENATORS HIS VICTIMS.
Baltimore Man with Simple but Profit
able Game.

A certain confidence man over i'll Balti-
more has been in the habit OF playing
upon the vanity of new members OF the
United States Senate for several years
and the crop of statesmen who have re-
Gently made their debut in the Sixtieth
Congress better be on their guard. Ii
any of them receive a letter announcing
that the fond parents of a new born son
in Baltimore have decided to christen
their offspring in his honor, he will do
we'll to tear it Immediately into small
pieces and throw them into the waste
basket. Many a new senator has been
the victim of such an appeal to his van
ity The writer of the letter usually eX-
plains that he formerly lived in the state
represented by his victim and hopes soon
to be able to resume his residence and
political activity there. He has never
met the senator personally but has known
him by reputation for many years; has
admired his character and conduct; has
recognized his ability and usefulness and
predicts for him a long and successful
career. AS practical evidence of his ad-
miration and confidence, he asks permits
sion on behalf of his wife and himself to
christen their new baby boy in his honor.
Very few young senators have ever be-
fore received a request like that, and it
is perfectly natural that it should crafty
their pride and appeal to their vanity.
The inevitable consequence is a gushing
letter of appreciation inclosing a check
for $50 or $50 to buy a suitable present
for the kid or to start a bank account
for the namesake Some senator's have
even taken the trouble to purchase silver
cups or bowls, or spoons, or similar gifts,
and to have them properly marked, but
that form of recognition has put the gen
tleman in Baltimore to a good deal of I'M
necessary trouble. He prefers the cash.
This hoax would not be so bad if the
honor were confined to a single senator,
but the swindler usually writes duplicate
letters to every newly elected member Of
the Senate, and as rule most of them
fall into tne trap. There have been sew
eral attempts to hunt the villain down,
but he has never been arrested. Senate
rial dignity prevents his accusers from
going into court and confessing how they
have been Standardization e. Cur
lis in the WaShingtOn Star
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-13
THE WINDS OF THE WORLD.
Fight Between the MonsOons-LOcal
Breezes and Some Of Their Effects.

| Being credibly Informed the other day
| by a ueer old man of the seafaring per-
SuaSiOn that the southeast monsoon was
still fighting the northeast monsoon to
see which would conquer, and the in
formation being followed by disserta-
ton on the failure of the last sports
owing TO the same perversity Ct vet
eran tagging SuperiuOuS on the stage
when he ought to have left the boards
empty for the keen northeaster, it oc-
CURED to me that there was Il consider
able amount of information to be OBJ
tanned about winds without discoursing
OH windness.
Until one actually experiences it there
| is Il lot of romance hanging around the
outskirts of the word monsoon. We
speak of the monsoon being late or early,
of the east coast being practically closed,
but unless we go down to the sea in
ships the wind affects us but little. In
the great continents of India and Aus
trala, however, the breaking of the
rains is a matter of real moment, of gen
eral interest to everyone, OF painful and
keeneSt anxiety to many, and Ill such
cases the word is fraught with a mean
ing which is greater than ever book con-
veyed to the mind of man.
Apart from the winds of regular habit
there are the many local winds which
occur in different parts of the world and
are generally unkind in character. Of
such may be mentioned the Simeon,
SirOccO. Harmattan, the Puma of Peru,
the bitter northeaster of Britain, the
A[istral of Marseilles and that coast, the
Pampero Of the Andes. With all these
local breezes, though in fact they are
oftentimes gales of some velocity, many
curious effects are coupled, and one Of
the most noticeable of these is that the
blowing of tine genuine nOr'easter at
home is always cOincident with the great
est number of deaths from consumption
and brain disease.
There is here opened up Il wide field
of most interesting research for the
curious in weather study and humanity
lore, for the effect of wind on sentient
beings has never been as deeply con-
sidered as it might be. Thus in the low
er planes of life the animals are dis
tinctly affected by winds, and in partic-
ular cats, as any one viii remember #
they consider the peculiarities of cats
when high winds are blowing. Cattle,
too, are susceptible to winds, and pos
sibly more to the premonition of wind.
while the blowing of Il nOr-wester will
exhilarate some temperaments in Il man
ner not quite the same as anything else
wilI-Sinpa nore Free Press.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-13
TOURISTS FIND ICELAND.
1t Is Described as Fascinating-Sturdy
Iceland Ponies.

Many misconceptions as to Iceland ex
list i'll our country. 1t may surprise
many, says the National Geographic
Magazine, to know that the Icelanders
who have emigrated to America are said
by their relatives at home to complain
bitterly Of the extreme cold of our win
tiers.
HalldOr Bjarnason, a Lutheran minis
ter ON the north coast of Iceland, writing
of the past winter in his district, says
that at no time did he observe the tenn
perature to drop below 3 degrees Fair
enheit. That was almost on the Arctic
circle.
Two lines Of steamships maintain reg
uIar all the year sailings between Den
mark. Scotland and Iceland by way Of
the Farce islands. The gle passage
to neykjavik, the capital OF the island,
on the southwest coast, requires from
three to four days from Leith, or five to
seven days from Copenhagen.
The steamers of these lines are annual
ly carrying more and more tourists to
an island which is but just becoming
recognized as one of the most interesting
and fascinating lands in the world
Excluding meals, which cost 81 day,
the round trip fare between either Co
penhagen or Leith and Iceland is about
$50.
Barring the possibility Of driving on a
narrow carriage road for about one day
ride from the capital, and possibly less
ride from some of the smaller towns, all
travel must be made on pony back
Much has been written about the Ice
landic pony. He is individual, a type by
himself, and the word sturdy is his
best description.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-13
Practical Forestry for Yale Men.

The senior class of the Forest school
this year, as in the last four years, will
spend the spring term in practical field
work on large tract of forest land.
The classes of '04 and 'O5 were at Mil
ford Pa: the class of 'O6 was at Water
vile. ~ H., on the land of the Interna-
tional Paper company, and last year the
seniors spent three months in the Ozark
mountains, near Grandin, Mo-, on the j..
3. White Lumber company tract. The
forest map and estimates which the class
of '07 made for this company proved so
valuable that this year several lumber
companies have applied to Prof. Graves
to have the senior class come and camp
on their land From among these offers
the tract of the Caul Lumber company
in Coosa county, central Alabama, has
been chosen as the location of the camp
for the spring of 1908. This region is
midway between the coastal plains and
the mountains, in rolling country where
the forests of long leaf pine and many
forestry work The students will I've
in a camp located at an elevation of
about 800 feet above the sea, 25 miles
from HOlins, Ala, and near a spur of
the logging railroad. The work will be
similar to that done last spring, includ-
ing the making of topographic map Of
the whole tract and estimating and de-
scribing all the stands of timber. There
will also be abundant opportunity to
study in detail methods of logging and
railroad construction, and an interesting
part of the work will be to devise q
practical plan by which the tract can be
mana ged with financial profit in such
way that reproduction of the most valu-
able species of trees can be secured. the
young timber protected from fire and q
future yield attained.-Yale Alumni
Weekly
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-13
EAGLE THAT WEIGHS A TON.
It Is of Wood and Once Ornamented tn
Prov of the Niagara.

An immense eagle, ten feet high
twelve feet long, and weighing about q
ton, is enclosed in great wooden cage
in the joiner shop at the CharlestOwn
navy yard. 1t will start soon for the
Jamestown exposition ON special car
in compliance with orders from the navy
department at Washington.
For many years this bird, which is
carved in wood, has made it's home at
the local yard, where it has been the
wonder of thousands of visitors from all
parts Of the world.
1t was originally designed for use as
a stem ornament on the United States
steamer Niagara. In order that the
wings might fit properly a section of the
birds back was removed, and when the
Niagara was put out of commission and
stripped of her fittings at this yard soon
after the war, the eagle was removed
and placed III one of the buildings.
Finally the back was filled il and the
bird was painted ana set up on the ped
estal which had Deen built for it. In
order to make it still more lifelike a pair
of the largest artificial eyes mcnufac-
tured was set in place.
While the local navy yards officials
are glad to be able to send so striking
an exhibit to the exposition, they are
fearful, according to the Boston Tran
script, lest it never be returned.
1t has been their sad experience in
sending exhibits to the eXposItions at
Chicago and st. Louis to find that when
the fairs were over the exhibits were not
returned. They have been sent to Wash
ingtOn
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-13
MOST MODERN SALT PLANT.
Ready for the Table Without Ever Being
Touched by Human Hands.

Thirteen hundred barrels every TWEEN
ty-four hours of fine salt-mined, puri-
fed and crystallized, packed ready for
the table without the touch of a hand
this is the last achievement in salt max
ing, the final round in reduced cost of
production, says the Technical World
In the city of Saginaw there has just
been completed and put in operation the
most modern salt plant in America The
rock salt is mined and brought to the
surface in the form of brine, through
wells nearly 800 feet deep. This brine is
pumped into tank and filtered and run
into settling tanks. From there it is
drawn off into grainers, where the salt
crystallizes
These grainers are made of solid con-
crete and are much better than the old
wooden tanks. Steam exhaust pipes pass
through the grainers, which heat the
brine to such q temperature that crystal
lizatiOn begins.
This is most interesting action.
Watching the steaming surface of the
brine. a pellicle of salt forms, which soon
breaks and sinks down, to be followed by
another and the crystallization then pro-
ceeds rapidly. It is n fact that the esti-
mated capacity of each grainer, of 100
barrels every twentyfour hours is be.
ing greatly exceeded, and more than 100
barrels are being made.
mo such fast salt making was ever
known before" said Salt Maker Mason
''It beats all how the crystals form on
the bottom and sides Of the grainer. /
never saw anything like it, and | have
been liking salt-and good salt. too
for twenty-five years
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-13
WHERE TwINE PIECES COUNT.
How One Ball Serves Busy Postal En-
plOYe Seven Years

Though it handles some thousand mil
lion dollars year the United States
government is not unappreciative Of the
value of small things, SUCH for example,
as piece of second hand twine Per-
haps the ordinary ragpicker wouldn't
regard it as a good business principle
to stoOp for a discarded 12-inch string
when he is hurrying through the city
at dawn in keen competition with all
classes of ragpickers for what there is
OF commercial value in the ash barrels
and scrap heaps, but that may be due
wholly to his inability to foresee some
OF the future possibilities in the practice
OF noticing such trivial things Similar
ly 1t may be that a certain government
employee who attached himself to the
New England division of the United
States railway mail service six or seven
years ago did not pin much faith in lit
tie dlngy string pieces, for he was some
grades above the trained ragpicker in the
social scale, yet ne stopped to pick up
such string pieces as came under his
observation in the ordinary routine of
his business, and it resulted in the be-
stoWal upon him of a distinction which
has not come to his companions of less
economical tendencies. How much it
counts toward his promotion in the serv-
ice is problematical, but it has carried
his name and fame with favorable com
mentS to the attention of the United
States poStOftice authorities, says the
Boston Transcript.
When this man reaches the next step
up and his salary is increased accord
ingly he will have some difficulty in dis
sociating his luck from the little string
pieces he has picked up in his years Of
service, and his mind may be coached
by a little justified pride in the follow
ing official paragraph clipped from the
most prominent position in this weeks
general order of the New England di-
vision of the United States railway mail
service over the signature of his super
intendent:
"A clerk in this division, appointed in
1901, with the exception of having been
furnished with one ball of Irvine, has
never made a requisition for an addition
al supply, having reused the Irvine which
he saved from packages received by
him !"