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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-28

ant will compare advantageously in
this respect with the "well-to-do",
and they do not all move every year,
either. [ have neighbors who are
tenants and have remained in the
same houses for seven years, which
speaks well for both sides, and |
have sister who has had the same
families on her farm for thirty years.
[ have seen both men and women
with plenty of pride and ambition.
If their children wore "red dresses"
what of it? Why not red, if they
like it? There is economy in cutting
four dresses from the same piece. as
the scraps come in and help. l teach
my pupils as my mother taught me,
that 1T is not good taste to criticize
peoples clothing, and that if we can
not speak we'll of our neighbors, to
be silent. | would not be talking
now but that | feel somewhat hurt
at the charges laid against an hon
est, noble class of people, many of
whom are my friends.
'Half-Croppers" do read, and some
of them read lots. Tom Watson's
books and papers go into many of
their homes, along with other good
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6be 3effersontan
Conducted BY Grace kirkland

everybody will be welcome, or the
dinner will be public, but should
serve our dinner at home, with those
present who will be welcome.
I admit that children do not go to
school as regularly as they should,
but the blame does not at all times
rest properly with the father and
mother. Sometimes they are so ham
pered they can not do as they would.
This is an open question which |
hope to live to see settled in way
which will better the school life of
our children.
Miss Parrish says: Their NOR
ais are lax
Look out! Be mighty sure you
are right. This is a serious charge.
I have not found laxity Of morals
among the 'Half-Croppers" more
than among the landholders, but |
have found as good morals, as pure
virtue, as fine principle, as much truth,
honesty and uprightness among the
tenantry as I have seen among the
so-called upper classes. The ten
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-28
WOMAN'S BEST AGE is PAST
THIRTY.

l have been studying and writing
for some years on age and those
things which oppose it and render
it not only endurable but enjoyable,
and everything which touches upon
ii is of interest to me.
Recently the editor of the New
York Evening Journal, discussing a
prominent actress and her play,
makes some good points on youth
and age that are worth thinking
about
He says: "The play impresses
upon the public two valuable les
sons-one is due to the playwright,
one to the strong, consistent. con-
scientious personality of the actress.
"a woman of sweet character has
passed her earliest youth. She set
ties into old-maidhood. Her admir-
er takes her at her own valuation,
and apparently ceases to care for her
She decides, wisely, that she will be
young again She abandons demure,
unsightly dress, gives nature
chance, and-but see the play for
yourself.
"The play proves what every wom-
an should know: That not years,
but lack of mental freshness, makes
woman old.
''The highly-prized girlish years,
from eighteen to twenty-five, are
really years of babyhood
''The most beautiful women in the
world, able to attract and hold the
greatest men, have almost invaria-
bly, been women past thirty-very
often they have been past forty.
"a woman lacking full mental de-
velopment is like a green peach. She
may be very pretty to look at; but
that is all. Of course, if she is to
spoil before maturity, better take her,
as you would take the peach, when
it is little green, rather than after
it has spoiled.
"And that fact-that women of
maturity attract men worth while
is very unimportant compared with
this other fact: The mature woman
is the best mother.
Continued on Page 81
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4 SONG IN AUTUMN
By HeodoSia Garrison in Cosmopolitan

Autumn, Autumn, give me of your crimson,
Give it for courage, for the year has left meek
And your crimson banners flying the sign of your deymg
Shall dare my hearts denying the patience of the weak
Autumn, Autumn, give of your yellow,
Give it unto me for hope-the hope could not hold;
For where your gold is burning feel the dream returning,
The darling pain of yeang, whose passing left old
Autumn Autumn, take to your heart SO,
The bold heart, the singing heart, whose strength shall
make me strong;
Send my healed life farng in colors of your wearing
Your gold and crimson bearing against grief too long
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pers'' of South Georgia.
This article may be found in vol
ume six, number eighteen, of The
Jeffersonian, bearing date October
IA, 1909, and is on page two of that
paper.
Miss Parrish has put me to think
ing and as the Hon. ThOs. E. Watson
stands for truth and right, I am bold
to write about this matter, hoping
that we may see the facts as they
exist down here among us. | feel to
know nearly as much about our peo-
pie. as a rule, as any one can, for l
have labored in Middle and South
Georgia among the poor and the
rich as a public school-teacher for
thirty-seven years, having taught
both in town and country, though
mostly in the latter, and [ can but
feel sure that the writer of the
aforementioned letter to The JEFF
fersonian has been most unfortunate
ly placed as a teacher and observer.
[ feel that she has not had a broad
and fair view of South Georgia as it
is. in that her paper on the subject
misleads. Since Tom Watson's pa
pers and other printed works have so
wide a circulation, going as they do
everywhere in the United States and
into Canada, think it is our duty to
give our dear Southland fair dis
play-to let the light shine on the
clean bright spots as we'll as on those
that are dark. AS teachers in the
schools Of the State, we are employed
to serve this very people of whom
Miss Parrish speaks so unkindly.
We are expected to go among them
without prejudice, impartial in our
views and with an eye single to our
duty. This we can not do if we have
no faith in them.
Let us put our heads together, and
with our hearts in the work face the
charges against our neighbors and
candidly look at them.
Firstly, then, she says: ''There
olC uu11O1 Gus, CD ChOuo1Au0, VI hoAA-
troopers and wage-hands in South
Georgia"
We admit that. What would our
schools do without them? God bless
their bright boys and girls, for they
keep the schools running.
She says: 'They are shiftless and
lazy"
Not all of them are, by big ma
jority. We have drones among
teachers, preachers and "well-to-do
farmers" as we'll as among tenants.
AS rule poor man has to hustle
to live, and Christ hath said: ''The
poor We have with you always" So,
we had better be careful how we deal
with them, some of whose sons are
destined to become our lawmakers.
have seen as much intelligence
displayed among the children of the
"Half-Croppers" as I have ever no.
ticed anywhere else. The landlord s
son does not outstrip the tenants
son in energy or interest in my
schools. AS a rule the landlord S
son looks to help from his father to
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PAGE TWO
''THE HALF-CROPPER."
By Mrs. B. +. Kennedy.

lying before me is copy Of
The Jeffersonian, in which
Sallie T. Parrish speaks pref
- ty plainly of the "Half-Crop-
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-04-01
Truth and
Quality

appeal to the Wen-Inforned in every
walk Of life and are essential to permanent
success and creditable standing. Accor-
ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs
and Elixir of SIENNA is the only remedy OF
known value, but one Of many reasons
why it is the best of personal and family
Iaxatives is the fact that it cleanses,
sweetens and relieves the internal organs
on which it acts without any facilitating
after effects and without having to increase
She quantity from time to time.
1t acts pleasantly and naturally and
truly as a laxative, and its component
parts are known 70 and approved by
physicians, as il is free from all objection
able substances. To get its beneficial
effects always purchase the genuine
manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug
gists.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-04-01
DANDRUFF GERMS MUST GO

In America the dandr7aff germs must
60. The war Of determination has been
declared. The battle has begun. and
already thousands Of intelligent Amer
leans have permanently ria themselves
Of this flthiness.
Today it is no more necessary for a
mas to have -dandruf in his hair than
to have tartar on his teeth.
Dandruff can never be cured until
the small aggravating and lndomitable
danjruff gdrm is conquered and de-
stroyed.
And millions Of dandruff germs have
been destroyed, thanks to the great
scientist and derTnatologist who gave
to the world Partisan Sage, the only
real dandruff cure and hair grower the
world has ever known.
II you have dandruff, Partisan Sage
will cure you in two weeks, or your
money back.
But besides Kidding the scalp OF dan
dPuff, Partisan Sage IS guaranteed TO
stop falling hair and itching Of the
scalp. 1t is not a dye. It is a prime
favorite with women of refinement. It
makes the hair soft. lustrous and beau
tiful and Is not sticky or greasy.
A large bottle for so cents at The
Lee & Osgood Co. or by express,
charges prepaid, from The American
makers, Giroux Mfg. Co., Buffalo, N. 7.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-04-01

THERE Is no advertising medium n
Eastern Connecticut equal to The Bul<
latin tor business results.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-04-01
BRIEF STATE NEWS

Wsterbury.-This city is to have
taxicab services.
Portland-Pftchblend, from which
comes radium, is said to have been
found in Striclland's quarry at Port
land.
NorwaIk.-Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P.
Crossman Of Norwalk recently ceIe-
brated the Goth anniversary of their
nlariage.
Winsted.-Winsted sent a delegation
to Hartford Wednesday to support the
petition for an appropriation for a
state armory here.
New 5ritain.-There is talk that
some local philanthropist will give the
w. c. T. U. a site for the proposed
home for deserving women.
BetheI.-The Rev. NJ. P. Bowie. who
was locked out Of his church at Beth
Ell, has accepted a call to the Church Of
the Holy Trinity Cincinnati.
New HaVen.-The New Haven Yacht
club viii b. oren on May ] for the
benefit Of the members who are anx-
ious to get their boats in condition.
The formal opening win be held May
Is.
Meriden.-The officials Of the s. n.
T. Telephone company have sent out
detectives to run down the men who
are cutting the company's wires in
New Haven and in vicinity Of Meri-
den.
Watertown.-Six Of the participants
IN the cock hight here Sunday were
rounded up by police and in the DO
lice court. before Justice Curtiss B.
Atwood paid fines OF 81 and costs OF 81
each.
Windsor.--The Progressive club OF
Griswoldville has voted to Observe
Good Friday as Arbor Day. There will
Be setting Of trees. making of side
wayks and a clearing up after the new
railroad etc.
Bridgeport Approprlations aggre-
eating $1.513.10S.75. which Will be the
cost Of running the government of this
city during the next fiscal year, will
became available today cThuSdayli
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-04-01
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The Rescued Boy.

SIR. Editor: Allow me to express my
hearty endorsement of the short ed
itorial in this mornings Bulletin on
/ "A Good Motto" In my thirty-tWo
years Of evangelistic and pastorate
work. as well as in the years Of jour
nalistic work before, I have come in
contact with many varieties of boy"
and not a. few specimens whose home,
and sometimes school training, had not
calculated to make him particularly
tractable. or enjoyable to refined so
ciety, and who would be termed by
many as a hard, tough case. But this
/ have found, that while boys" need a
firm hand, yet when the 6rrnness is
well mixed with unquestionable kind
ness, sympathy and love, the appeal to
manliness, sense of honor and noble
ambition has generally been met by
most gratifying response; and in all
my ministry I have never yet had to
put a boy out of a meeting, or make
appeal to the police.
I well remember a lad Of fifteen, so
wild and untaneabIe by the usual
methods that a pastor and Sunday
school superintendent had determined
to deny him future entrance even TO
the church building. / requested them
to wait till the meetings I was then
beginning were concluded. The lad
was q fine singer, and placed him IN
the choir directly behind me, telling
him wanted him 20 help me with his
fine voice by singing with so clear and
true a tone that the rest would be car
ried along Alright by hts leading voice.
He gladly accepted the responsibility
and was true to his promise. AS the
week passed and the Sunday of his
proposed expulsion drew near, I drew
him aside one evening and said:
Johnny. do YOU know that. as far as
I can find, about everybody has given
you up as "a bad egg except two
Jesus has not given you I'D. and /
haven't" The tears cam etc his eyes,
as he replied IT want to be good, Mr.
Luther" and the next moment he was
kneeling with me in prayer. There
was no trouble with him after that
and when f~went back to that church
seven years later he had won his faith
er, mother. brothers and sisters all to
Christ, and to membership in the
church. Years afterward in another
city, fine looking man stopped me on
the street with, How do you do Mr.
Luther For a moment I could not
place him; then memory recognized the
features. and I replied. "Oh, you are
my JOHNNY" Eyes, he said. I'm your
Johnny" and then he told me Of his
marriage TO a fine Christian girl. his
success as a Sunday school teacher in
a large city school, and his position as
superintendent IN a large manufactur-
ing establishment at a fine salary: and
he was the hoy" untameable. wild. in
corrigible, according to common notion
twenty years before.
c. c. LUTHER.
Norwich, March 81. 1909.
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Local Laeonies.


Miss Ethel Stillman is visiting rela-
elves in Norwich.
Rex. Thomas O'Brien of Providence
is visiting his parents in Westerly.
Alton II. Enos and family of New
York have arrived at their Watch Hill
cottage.
From present indications there will
be no widening of Bay street, Watch
HILL, during the season Of 1909.
Only four times during March was
there fog sufficient to cause the opera
ton of the recently installed fog horn.
Brucker camp, Spanish War Vet,
Grams, has a committee arranging for
the first entertainment of the camp
next month.
The frost is we'll out of the ground,
but as yet nothing has been done to-
wards paving the Stonington portion
of the Broad street bridge with vitrified
brick
Miss Sarah e. Sheffield and Miss
Catherine Adams of Northfield are
Mortified Seminary with Mrs. F. II.
Sheffield Of Liberty street.
Miss Harriet e. Cottreu of Westerly.
accompanied by Mrs. A. n. Lewis and
two sons, sailed from New York for
Rotterdam on Tuesday. They will
spend the summer in Europe.
Two bank books belonging to the
estate of Sarah c. Gallagher were sold
at public auction. One on the Me-
chanics' Savings bank with deposits of
$4,000 was bought by Arthur L. Perry
for $1,000, and the other on the Ston-
ingtons Savings bank, with deposits
of S20s, was sold to Attorney il P.
Hair Of Providence for S21.
Bill Collins who claims the title of
middleweight champion of Connect
cut. and Young Perilo Of New London,
welterweight champion of Paterson,
n. J., are scheduled Tor a wrestling
bout in the Pawcatuck armory building
this Thursday evening. Best two out
Of three falls to a finish, pin falls TO
count.
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NEWMARKET HOTEL,

First-elass wines. liquors and cigars.
Ae2ks and WEIGH rareblt served 10
order John Tuckie. Prop. Tel 4g-6
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the first day Of the municipal new
year.
OakVilIe.-At the last meeting Of the
Oaiiville Mothers club it was voted
to have a school visiting committee of
two to be appointed each moth to
visit the schools at least once during
that time and to report at the next
meeting.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-04-01

The town Of Westerly, according to
population, has more physicians than
any town in the state, which IL
in part explained by their practice COW
ering a good part Of the adjoining town
Of Stonington and other contingent
territory. These physicians all seem
to have successful practice, and for
some time all. save four, have been
owners OF automobiles. Two Of these
four have ordered horseless carriages
for immediate delicery. 1t win be only
a matter Of a short time when the 9TH
er two will join the ranks Of the au-
tomobilists.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-04-01

Regulars .......oOOHOoo-i 3 3
Yannigans 40 10000 o. 8 I
Thursday afternoon the Westerly
High school team win play with a
team from the Star theater at the Oak
street grounds, for six innings.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-04-01

If you have backacf1s and urinary
troubles you should take Foley's Kid
ney Remedy to strengthen and build
up the kidneys 50 they will act prop
erly, as a serious kidney trouble may
develop. Lee & Osgood Co.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-04-01

Upon tho invitation Of James A.
WEIGH, president Of the Westerly Mar
row Fabric company, a number VI ciG-
zens interested In the establishment Of
the industry in Westerly went to Paw
catuck Wednesday and witnessed the
operation of the new loom which is to
be used by this company, and which
has passed beyond theexperimental
stage. having been in practical opera
ton for more than a year.
The visitors were pleased with the
demonstration and were surprised at
the possibilities of this new loom. The
quality Of workmanship, the quantity
Of product and the cost of production,
all favored this loom over any other
in existence, and will tend to revolu-
tionize the narrow fabric business.
II Is understood that the looms will
be IA operation in Westerly within the
next three months.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-04-01

Charles p. Williams Of Stonington
has had one of his large automobiles
converted into a sort Of barge, with
side capable Of accommodating fifteen
persons Mr.. Williams. who formerly
had between twenty and thirty horses
IN his private stables at Stoneridge,
has become partial TO automobiles, and
some time ago disposed Of his large
string Of blooded horses. He is an en-
thusiastio admirer of baseball and ia
a strong supporter of the Stonington
team, and II Is said he proposes to
transport the members Of the Stoning-
ton team in his remodeled automobile
20 and from the games in the Rhode
Island-Connecticut league.
The Adair County news., 1909-02-10
Passed His Seventeen MiIep0St.

Last Thursday Gov. J. R. Hindman.
of this place, was seventy years old.
He is hale and hearty, having had bet
ter health this Winter than for several
years in the past. He weighs 100
pounds and stands six feet two and one
half inches in the clear, straight as an
arrow and more active than many men
fifteen years his junior. He has not
lost his fondness for the chase, and is
out with his dogs running reynard
when ever the weather is suitable. He
is valuable citizen, a man of correct
habits, prominent in the affairs of the
county, known throughout the State as
a man of honor and usefulness. That
he may live to celebrate many more
birthdays. is the wish OF every body in
Adair county.
The Adair County news., 1909-02-10
Stock Items.

l.. b. Cain sold one pair of mules to
j. FL. Smith for $3.50. He also sold a
four-year-old horse mule to same party
for $l42.50. Silas Cain sold one pair of
mules to Steve Gluff for $3.50. One
mule to Cash Coffey for $3.50. One to
Geo, Wooten for $135. One to a man
named Rogers for S13O.
600
Mr.. Chas. Moody sold one pony horse
to Richard Gains of $16O. Hatcher cor.
Bingham Moore bought two draft
horses of c. S. Sharp. Consideration
$500; Coy Dudgeon bought one horse
from Wyatt Feese price SIPS; also one
of James Todd for $12O. Cane Valley
cor.
Mr.. j. H. Morris bought a one year
old mule of w. B. Morris for SS5.
-Absher cor.
Jake Wooten sold 20 fat hogs to L.
w. Bennett last week. Dirigo cor.
Mr.. Tone HUM and son George
bought one cow from S. A. Winfrey for
$40. Edith cor.
The Adair County news., 1909-02-10
II is Worth Your Attention.

To the Adair County News
Too many of our people are annually
dying from consumption. We ought
not to allow it. 1t can be prevented.
l have supplied myself with the best
modern appliance, fumigating and kill
ing the germs of that dreaded disease.
If l can get the hearty cooperation of
the people, and especially the doctors,
l will undertake to reduce the number
of deaths in our county. l must be no.
titled of every death that takes place,
or can do nothing. l hold myself in
readiness to go to any part of the coun-
ty, and put the houses in order. A
postal or telephone call is sufficient.
U. L. Taylor, Health Officer.
The Adair County news., 1909-02-10
A Timely Suggestion.

There are many reasons why all COM
munities should seek to better public
conditions None have attained per.
lection and but few, comparatively,
have made the progress desired, but SO
long as it requires money, brain and
energy, SO long as sacrifices must be
made to broaden the avenues of ad-
vancement, so long will there be spirit
ed conflicts and diversity of opinions as
to means employed and results to be OBJ
tanned. In this part of the country it
seems that political matters have the
lead; that men will permit themselves
to battle year in and year out for the
advancement of their party and the
welfare of their candidates and never
think it task. while the same people
Will refuse to give small portion of
their time or money to improve the in
dustrial, moral or intellectual condition
even though they realize its most ur-
gent need.
so far as we are able to see there is
no effort on the part of any one to ad-
vance the industrial condition of Colum-
bia. The people seem content with
present conditions but are willing to ac-
cept the improvements which naturally
come IN the slow moving of time, yet,
not inclined to take any chances in in
vestments that have remote possibility
of loss even though the community's s
best interests demand it.
Before Columbia can hope to make
permanent and rapid strides in indus
trial lines her business people must
come together as in a political battle
and then, and not until then will real
prosperity come. The Commercial Club
ought to be exerting it's power to bring
better public conditions, but so far the
little chickering's of individuals and the
trivial expense of its maintenance have
proven dead weights and it is therefore
the same as dead.
Gentlemen of the town, why not al of
us get together, resolve to make a
reasonable sacrifice for the welfare and
advanment of Columbia and Adair coun-
ty. We are hedged in by mud and cut
off from the activities of the world
through the lack of transportation
facilities We could soon have pike
connection with Greensburg or could
have railroad connection if we all had
the determination. The opportunity is
ours, the conditions warrant a united
and determined effort. The News
hopes to aid in the rescue.