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The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
Letter From Christ
Found at Foot Of Cross.
Published by request. J

Greenfield, Tenn.-The Greenfield
Times published this week what is pur-
ported to be a letter from Christ, writ
ten just after his scrucifxion on the
cross. The letter was published at
the request of hrs. Rubie C1utchfeld,
route 1, Irrelevant, Tenn, who said
that she has had the letter three years,
and that bad luck has continually fol-
lowed her until she decided to obey its
Injunction and have it published. The
letter says:
And he that hath a copy of this
letter without publishing it to others
shall not prosper, but he that publish
eth it to others shall be blest by me,
and if their sins be as many as the
stars of the night, and if they truly
believe, they shall be %pardoned."
HISTORY OF LETTER.
Mrs. Fannie Workman. of Marion,
Ind, knows something of the letter. 1t
was when Mrs. Workman had the letter
published that Mrs. Crutch6eld is sup
posed to have gotten possession of it.
The following is taken from a Marion
paper:
Mrs. Workman says she lived in
Dalton, Ga, until last August, when
she came to this city. She said the
letter given below was first found I'M
der a stone at the foot of the cross on
which Christ was crucifed. On the
stone was written, Blessed is he who
shall turn me over" No one knew
what this inscription meant until a
child turned the stone owe and dis
covered the letter written by Christ
himself.
The letter came into the hands of a
man who had been converted, and who
kept it as a sacred memento of the Sa-
vior. He, however, refused to have it
published, according to the orders of
Christ, and consequently he v
prospercd. He kept the fact that he
possessed the letter a secret, and on
his death gave it to his son. Thus the
| letter was kept in the family for over a
thousand years, and was brought to
this country by early settlers.
MORE ILL LUCK.
1t was kept a secret by the famil y
while they lived in Virginia, but they
never p~1ospered, and III luck contin-
1ally followed them, as it did their
ancestors, until on the death Of the :,
only daughter the letter was turned
,ver to a lady by the name of Mrs.
rownson, who, not wishing to disobey
hi order of Christ, at once had it pub
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
Chcerin1 Up.

when your work seems to be go.
irg wrong" says a III who mixes
practical philosophy with her work,
blow yourself to something nice. Go
ont ard buy yourself a Lovely dinner
1T a nice pace, or get a new dress,
or bay some flowers fer your apart
nent. Yes, | knaw it will cost money,
but tie impetus it viii give you in
year work will amply reay you. When
you see these things you will say
10 Yourself: Well I'm doing pretty
wei, after all, when l can afford to
bow myself So and when you feel
that you are doing we'll you will d.
well"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
Life ard Literature.

A young girl once asked Mark
Twain if ie liked books for Christmas
gifts. Wen, that depends" drawled
the great humorist. IF a book has
a leather cover, it is really valuable
as a razor strop. If it is a brief, con.
else work, such as the French write,
it is useful to put under the short
leg Of a wabbly table. An old-fash:
Toned book With a clasp cant be beat
as a missile to hurl at dog; and q
large book, like the geography, is as
good as a piece of tin to nail oyer a
broken pans Of ylass."-Ckristiap Reg.
lister:
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
FOR SALE.

A good new home inside incorporation.
House of five rooms and hall, with
nice, wide yeranda. Well of very best
water on veranda. -Four acre lot with
fine garden spot. and young orchard.
Apply at Journal Office.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-13
TRANSPORTATION IN ALASKA

Improved transportation facilities are admittedly amoas the most ar gent needs of the mining industry m Alaska
 The field parties of the |. s. Ge,.- logical Survey report that much prog ress was made during 1908 in the con struction of roads and trails. but these can only supplement and can not suis plant railways. The iaadequacy oi the river transportation lines in se..- sons of low water was strongly em- phasized by the coalitions that pre- vailed on tie Yukon last summer.
 The advancement Of several rail ways. among which were the ra lways to the Matanuska coal fields and to the inland copper fields from both Valdez and Katalla, hich had been ac lively pushed during 1s05. was great. ly retarded by the unfavorab'e finan cial conditions; but in gratifying con trast to the slow headway made by thees enterprises was the -ap'd pros ress made by a railway being built UT Cpper River from Cordova- T1is line was completed to Childs Glacier in September. In connection with this road steamers are to be run from Abercronbie Rapids. SO that during the coming year 1t will be possible to avoid the long overland journey from the coast to res ..f he Chit'rs- cop q ct
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-13
WAR BEING WaGED ON
 WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC

Mayors and ehief3 of police of the larger cities all over the United
 States, as well as leaders in philan-
 throp'c work. government prosecutors
 and immigration officers, will be asked
 to cooperate and advise in the or
 ganIzation Of q protective alliance to stamp cut Of existence. if possible, sSc appalling traffic in grls. who are
 trapped and sold into disgrace. It aas been decided to secHre the coun-
 sel Of those who come into closest contact with this white slate trade"
 as United States District Attorney Sims has styled it, in order to de term ne the best way 10 fight it sf fectuaiiy. The Florence CrittentOsI Mission has interested itself in the matter, letters from Mrs. Kate W. i Barrett. general superintendent hay ing gwen assurance or the co opera | tion of the Mission and of Charles N. ! Crittenton. its founder, in the WO- mans Worlds campaign to suppress
 the ev Is, with the effects of which the Crittenton Missions deal. More | than % years ago." she wrote, "Mr. | CrittentOn publislsd a book called | Traffic in Girls and Florence Crit
 tenton Missions. showing the terrible ! ravages of this awful white slave
 traffic even then; but in those days it
 was looked upon as the outcome of a diseased religious enthusiast and was | given but little credence by the ordi- neray thinking pubic. Now that all of the civilized nations of the globe have made the abolit on of the white slave traffic matter of international 1 tagreement. persons receive it in a diff ferent SD. rit." Hundreds of other let teTs have been received which show
 the need of organized effort. A Cali fornia woman asSed for anotler srti- cle in the Womans World, upon
 what the women Of America can do
 to help bring about legislation that
 would stop the white slave traffic"
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-13
SOMEBODY WAS JOBBED IN
 BIDS FOR GREAT REGISTER

ies; the actual cost for the extra five
 hundred copies woal1 not amount to
 $50. still by arrangement with the clerk of the board ar Kemp was paid
 just double what he contracted 10 print the register for.
 Mir. Berner refers us to the follow ing section of statute governing the printing of the great register:
 Within fifteen days after making such list (registration) the RECORD FIR must have printed. under the di- rection and control of the board of su- pervisors, a sufficient number Of cop ies thereof to supply each election precinct in the county with not less than ten copies thereof. and fifty ad-
 dition for every one thousand votes
 cast at the next preceding election. Notwithstanding this plain statute the clerk advertised for five hundred
 copies: the contract was made for
 five hundred copies, but later on MT
 Berner. without any order from the
 board of supervisors, took 1t upon
 himself to increase the contract price just double what 1t was originally.
 The fact remains that the contract
 originally was made for printing the
 great register for six cents per name
 and that twelve cents per name was
 paid for the work.
 When it was decided that 1000
 copies were to be printed. instead of
 500, there should have been a new , contract let for the work. There was plenty of time for this. The writer
 was told long before the great regis
 ter was made up that Kemp was to |. .F. I,.T, ,ss
 register contract.
 If Mir. Kemp eoald make money printing great registers at six cents per name for 500 copies he could make more money printing great registers at seven cents per name for l00O copies; but Mir. Berne- or the beard
 of supervisors saw fit to fatten the
 ribs of Mir. Kemp by giving him twelve cents per name
 Mr. Berner when asked if he WAS
 authorized by the board of supery1s- ors to enter into the new contract with Mr. Kemp regarding the print | ing of the great register said that one
 of the members of .he board was pres ent when he gave the order. Asked | as to what member was present. ne
 said that Supervisor McCabe was | present. Asked if MT. McCabe au- thorized this order. ha said that notn- | ing was said. but .haU he was present. ] Mr. Bcrner volunteered the state ment that the Bisbee Review received ! 15 cents per name for printing the great register in 1906. Admitting that this was the price paid the Reyiew.
 it may be pertieDnt to say that the Review received the contract as the
 tower bidder and tbat there was DO i Juggling with the contract after it was
 aWarded by the supervisors. Under
 the system of contract:ng as follow
 cd by Mir Berncr the Review might lhave been paid oae dollar per name, ! by simply adding to the number to be printed and doubling up the price.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-13
FUTURE OF THE
 CEMENT INDUSTRY.

Edwin c. Eckel. one Of the leading experts in the cement industry and until recently in charge of the cement work for the Unite States geological survey, recently stated before the As sociation of American Portland Ce- ment Manufacturers. according to Ce- ment Age. New Tcrk, that while the actual annual output of Portland ce- ment may be expected to increase as population increases and as new uses are found for the Iioduct. 1t cannot be expected that this increase will, in she future, be as steady as it has been in the past. The astounding grost;i of the industry, fro7u 4a,0O0 barrels in 1880 to more than 1G000.o00 barrels in l907, has now, ceased. the produe- tion fer 1908 being estimated al i about 47.OO0.OGO barrels. or two-thirds of the capacity of the existing plants. Two of the three business depres- sions that the iudustry has passco through left it ulscathed, but tho third one. that of last year, brought the fact home to the cement manu. lecturers that benceforth the course Of the trade will oe marked by sue cessive periods of high and low out 1 put, corresponding to the condition O
 general business at the time. Mir EckeI also stated that prices will. il left to absolutely unrestricted cOmpe
 tition, tend to fall to a point whict vii yield a fair profit only to the iarg est and best mills. The future de
 crease in prices, however. caphot b'
 compared in amount to that whicl
 has already been experienced. sine
 manufacturing costs show little pros pect of marked decrease.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-13

then. Because wages and the average diaries of employed men and woE.e' -e ro- advanced in proportion tc n, increased cost of living many poopl- ind that the boas+e1 general p-cspe- ty entails upon them hardship.
 And yet the wage esrner would fare verse but for this general prosperity or he is the first so feel the saff Of ard times or of temporary bust ass depression. Wherever the indus
 ial politicians want to re5ullc a pre-.
 lent they stop ~usinoss and throw ie wage carner ort Of employment reduce his wages. When Wal treet gamblers CT, ite Q money panic that checks general prosperity the wdSo earner is Ief, with the bag to hold. Yes, there ia a seamy side tc prosperity-for some people
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-13
(Douglas IDternationall

The International called attention ;o what was evidently a job in the contract for printing the great regis ter of Cochise county last year. h is not the intention of this paper to do an injustice to anyone. and there t becomes our duty 60 correct the state ment that five hundred copies, the number originally contracted for were sufficient to supply the precincts and the recorders office and leave a surplus of l70 copies. In this We were mistaken as to the exact reading Of the law, which directs that ten copies be provided each precinct and that in addition 50 copies be printed TOT every one thousand registered voters in the county.
 This does not alter the fact that the county was jobbed in the matter Of the great register printing and that those who bid for the contract were jObbed also.
 Under the law pointed out by NIT. BerneF it should have. been knOwn' a year ago, when the great register con- tract was let that i've hundred copies would not be sufficient. Why was only five hundred copies advertised for Dy the clerk of the board in the face or the law which provided more than that number? Had one thousand cop ies been called for a year ago the bids would have been practically what they were for five hundred cop
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-13
PROsPERITYS sEAMY SIDE.

Of course prosperity is good thing under any and all circumstances 5ut our esteemed contemporary, the Nash. vile Banner. discos ers that there Is a seamy side to what is called general prosperity-the kind which is of such boasted advantage to the coun- try.
 The Banner IooKs askant upon the prosperity which raises the prices of the necessaries of life to a maximum, but does not proportionately increase the wages of working people, does not impress itself as a blessing upon the thousands who have to strain their un- increased, or but seantily increased. earnings in order to make both ends meet. Prof. Joseph French Johnson of New York university, speaking Of the increased cost Of living. says: "lt took s362s last year to pay for the necessaries of living that could be bought for s25oo - 1907. sixty-nine cents ten years ago had the buying power of the dollar of today Ac cor5ine to these figures the wage e--ner who ~-s rs'. $2-50 a day ten -e, 6 ago 1ui | aw to receive ss-ee day now to live as well as he lived
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-13
THE GREAT REGISTER CONTRACT.

The Review does not be- grudge Mir. Kemp, Of the Wilcox News, the money which was paid to him for printing the great register of Cochise county last fall, as tho price paid was no mora. than it was worth for good work But We do ob- 1ect to she method pursued in that transaction in order io provide fair price for carrying out q contract which had been aSarded at price for which the work could-not be done without loss 10 tho one who did it.
 The contract was advertised for and let to the lowest bidder; the ad vertisement for bids called for soc copies and competitive bids were sub mitted on that basis. The contract was awarded to Mir Kemp at 6 cents per name for 800 copies.
 After the contract was let. without ever consulting the board of super risors, the clerk of the board ordered 300 hundred more copies Of the great register. It seems that under tho law regulating the printing of the great register 5od copies were not sufficient. Right here Is the iose in this contract. Under suo'i a system of contractins for public work the bidder might be not only protected from IbSs, but he might be assured good profit no matter what was his bid Why was it that sufficient copies were no' called for?
 Whoever is responsible for the great register job e last year should be marked by all who believe in the square deaI'' for NH as an undesir able public official.
 The contract for printing the great register was awarded at $ cents pei name.
 The printing of the great register was paid for at Che rate of F cents per name.
 At cents per rame for prindni  five hundred copies the contracto stood to lose money. but. prest' change. and he has a contract for | cents per name for 1000 copies whicl give him a handsome profit Tor th work and more than was bid for tn work by other bidders when the con tract was awarded
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-13
NEW APpoRTIoNnENT
 snouIo RE PROVIDED.

The coming session of the logisla- turc should not fail to provide ne"
 legisiative apportionment for the ter rifory. Just government must neces- sarily rest of equal representation Of the people. The present apPortion- ment Of the members of the legisia
 tu-e in this territory is not in accord ance with wealth Or population; il was made years ago before many or the counties had got started on the road to prosperity. Cochise county esnecially. is without just representa- ion in the legislature Other coun' ties. Gila, for instance. Is in the same fix. Some of the counties have more members of the legislature than they are entitled to. Let us have an equio able apportsonment cf the legislature
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-13
NOTICE.

A reward of $500 will be paid for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the parties stealing The Review from subscribers.
 THE BISBEE DAILY REVIEW.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-13

Selr-esteem never ies- dp until it reaches the jumDiag-off place
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-13

A prominent Douglas republican re- marked in the Gadsden hotel a few evenings ago that Cameron and state hood" had been put to sleep by "Kib- bey's Kibosh." Kibbey's statehood proposition was certainly sufficient to put congress to thinking It will re- auire time to convince congress that it is right to make a farce of state hood and self-government.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-13

The Fl Paso Times vas considerate in providing prizes. for the Bisbee golfers who will be in that city en the occasion of the tournament which has been provided i:. connection with the opening Of the new club house of that city. but We expect that Bisbee will bring home all tEe pri1es provie- cd for that occasion
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-13

Isn't 1t about time to start some thing in the way of baseball in Bis bee for next season. Bisbee ought to hay a baseball team '.nis h would compas0 ~ith all other pa,et things of this city.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-13

ND one need be surprised should P5eS.dent Roosevelt take occasion to ,ubu:t a few more biIef, pertinent re- marks to congress before it adiourns-
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-13

H PasO golfers are getting ready for the match gaue of their lives The- VI be up against en. real thing when .sey go on tae G--s witr tf , boys from Bisbee.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-11-27
SOIL MAP MAKERS
COMING NEXT WEEK
Sumter County Soil to Be
Thoroughly Surveyed.

. Advices received here from Wasn-
fngton are to the effect that the rep
resentatives of the Department Of
Agriculture charged with the making
of a soil map of Sumter county in its
entirety may be expected to arrive in
Americus ON next Monday, Nov. 20.
It is presumed from this that the
department will send out its agents to
begin the work of surveying the soil
OF the county and pushing the work to
completion without further delay.
The Importance of a soil survey OF
the county is generally recognized,
Two or three Georgia counties only
have so far had their soil mapped ont
and its peculiarities and advantages
pointed out by experts sent from
Washington for that purpose.
Once the work is done and the map
and explanatory matter published a
prospective settler will be in a posi-
ton to study the county without
trouble. Every variety OF soil in t
will be shown, with its exact location,
and information will be furnished as
to what it is best adapted to raise.
The best methods of improving
the respective soils will also be dealt
with. In fact wealth of exceedingly
valuable information is furnished by
the map and the accompanying print
ed matter.
These soil surveys are very popular
and highly instructive and valuable.
All over the county the experts
sent out from Washington are engag-
ed on this work The demand for their
services is great and it is compli-
ment to Sumter county, the most pro-
gressive in all south Georgia, that its
agricultural supremacy has been rec
ognized at Washington by its selection
as one of the first In Georgia to he
handled in this scientific way.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-11-27

For that reason wish we could get
our business men and property owners
together and place before the people
ticket that will ensure fresh blood,
new activity and hearty cooperation
all along the line to make Americas
a greater town than it is. More than
ever we have been brought to real
ize the past year that people must
be united to progress, and hope
lessly divided Council Is not apt to
do much for the benefit of the city.
I hope l haven't talked in too pessi-
mistic tone, but l believe there are
hundreds here who feel as l do and
who would like to see a genuine busi-
ness mems Improvement started to
| put out a ticket that will promise us
relief and progressive policy calcu-
lated to set Americus on the high
way to a greater prosperity and de-
veiopment than it has ever known be-
/ fore"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-11-27
COUNTY MAP MAY
SOON BE SECURED
Atlanta House May Make
Survey and Issue 1t.
Would Meet One of the
Most Pressing Needs
Known i'm Sumter.

Sumter county may have county
map in the near future, something
that it has long needed and something
| that 1t suffers very much from the
lack of
A county as old as Sumter. with a
/ history dating back over three quar-
ters of a century. with large business
| interests, with farm values among
the highest in the state, and with .
citizenry second to none in intelli,
gence, is surprisingly derelict in the
| matter of map.
Other counties, many of them of far
less Importance, have maps that give
the details of the county, showing all
the subdivisions into militia districts,
school districts, etc, giving all the
water courses, the public roads, the
rural postal routes, the subdivisions
of the lands. etc, making it possible
for even the entire stranger to speed
lily learn the lay of the land and ac-
quaint himself with not only the to-
biography of the country, but with the
exact locations of the farms.
But Sumter has nothing of this to
offer either to it's own citizens or to
prospective settlers. Even its own
officials suffer from the inability to
have the entire county directly before
them in their work. The County
commissioners, for instance, well ao-
quainted as they are with the county,
are still hampered in their operations
in laying out comprehensive road
system by the absence of a map. Real
estate men, too, are often seriously
inconyenienced, as are attorneys, land
owners and business men generally.
In fact, if there ever was one need
that was distinctly pressing in its ma
ture it is this very need of first
class county map.
1t is understood that an Atlanta
map house is willing to make a com
plete survey of the county and pub
lish a map that will give every detail
desired provided the county will adopt
it officially and protect 1t against any
other map being made in the near
future. While the county cannot keep
others out of the field there is, OF
course, absolutely no reason to be-
lieve that any rival house would go
over the same ground again. The
first house preparing and Issuing
such a map will sell copies to all
needing them and so fill the wants of
the city andl county that no one else
will have an opportunity to open to
compete for long term of years.
1t is said that the cost of making
the survey and. getting out the map
would be somewhere In the neigh
borhood of $1,000. The need for such