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The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-11-11

The open season for quail began Nov
1, with promise of good sport on thu
part of the nimrods, the birds bein;
unusually abundant.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-05-13
THE ORDINARY'S LETTER.

Greensboro, Ga, April %, 1909.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: Your letter of the 9th
inst. received. [ am mailing you some
matter in reference to the estate Of
Mr.. Gwyn Allison which was admin
istered in our county.
| find that the estate was involved
in litigation, and notes due the estate
were settled by compromise at great
discount, and the bills Of the various
banks itemized In the appraisement
were disposed Of also at discount.
There were PSI acres of land sold at
public sale, which brought $1,000.
This was bought by my father. I
noticed this land does not appear in
the sale return, but was sold by the
administrator and properly accounted
for in distribution. Greene County
recovered $4,000 as her part for the
education of the poor children of the
county in final settlement of the
estate. There is considerable matter
of record, such as returns and orders,
and should you need anything more,
kindly state wIl45 you will most likely
wish
There is no charge for what l have
done. We expect to SEND you the will
Of Gwyn Allison in day or SO. |
am writing with some dificulty,-have
been unwell for three weeks. ! an,
Most truly yours,
(Signed) James III. McWhorter.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-05-13
A GOOD JEFFERSONIAN.
A. G. Barton.
Box 400, Ocala, Fla.

Box 400, Ocala, Fla.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: hope conditions are get
ting ripe for through organization
and union of all honest parties. Time
is valuable. Much it to be accom-
pEshed. District, county and State
organizations should be rushed ana at
work, National organizations can
rest while. When you start national
organization, I've twenty-five dollars
for your expense account.
[ think the Jeffersonians are
stronger and more effective detached
from "Taylor Trotwood 81
Herewith please find my check No.
237 for fifty dollars, stamps 10 cents,
for which please send me five Jeffer-
sonian bonds. IF the supply is not
exhausted [ want five more in May.
Best wishes for your success and
the Us. [ am
Respectfully,
r. G. tombstone.
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A LETTER FROM MR.. BRYAN.
r. G. tombstone.

Lincoln, Neb., March IL, 1909.
Mr.. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: desire to thank you for
your interest and assistance during
the campaign just ended. The cleo
ton of the Republican ticket prevents
me from recommending to Congress
for enactment the principles enunci-
ated in the Denver platform; but the
defeat should not dismay or discour-
age those who are laboring unselfshly
for the promotion Of good government.
[ have again taken up my editorial
work on The Commoner which was
temporarily laid aside through the
campaign, and hope to have your con-
tinued support Of the paper in it's
efforts to bring about legislation that
will better protect and promote the in
terests of the great masses of the
people.
Your subscription to The Commoner
is paid to the first of March, but I
trust that your interest in the success
Of the principles for which we are
contending and the manifest impor-
lance of keeping the progressive
Democrats throughout the country in
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-05-13
JUDGE HEARD'S LETTER.

Greensboro, Ca, April 20, 1909.
Dear Sir:
1t has been exactly forty-four years
this day since Gwyn Allison made his
will, and [ herewith enclose copy
of that will to you. [ believe this
estate never turned out as much as
$4,000, but you make the calculation
before you state it publicly. I am not
we'll enough to make the calculation
right now. There never was anything
wrong about it's management at any
time. The character Of the men con-
nected with it all the time is against
any other view. Besides, the records
show correctness at all times.
Truly, etc.,
(Signed) Columbus Heard
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-05-13

impress of my notaria1 seal, this the
day and date above written,
VIM. M. Jones.
Notary Public, Dallas County, Tex.
Statements from letters addressed
to me in reference to the matter from
Mrs. Maggie A. Lambert:
She says, Thomas E. Watson
was employed by my father and my
father turned over the deed to Mr..
Watson, and Mr.. Watson gave my
father every assurance that we would
get our money in a few weeks"
Quoting from another letter from
Mrs. Lambert, cit was in the year
1876 my father employed Thomas b.
Watson to force Mcdaniel to settle
the estate of Gwynn Allison I re-
member very we'll of Mr. Watson S
visit to our home, and at one time he
told my father he would soon have
the money, and in a month from then,
he told my father he had lost the
will" Most respectfully,
G. A Norton.
(Mr Watson s reply will be found
Oh Editorial pageO
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-05-13

may have left a great blessing upon
the Southern people. What about
our Populist party? 1t seems like
these times would rouse the people to
reform action. In such times as these
in the past Populism made great leaps
forward; it gave US all enthusiasm
[ am going to send you lot Of old
papers you can use and rest you up;
some splendid things in them. Can't
you give my book write-up and give
it a send-off so that somebody may
send for it? Will send it for 81, or
your paper one year and the book
price, the book at 80 cents, cost me
10 cents each for postage. [ have a
hundred books and pamphlets on the
money and reform question for sale
cheap. [ have 100 law books for sale,
dates from 1868 to 1899, cheap; have
40 Congressional Globes to sell; also
200 valuable books on various sub
jects at bargain; one Bible I'll years
old. Can you sell these for me, if you
had list of them? Please let me
hear from you.
Yours truly,
A. G. Barton.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-05-13
BOOKS FOR SALE.
G.. Allison. Il. S..)

Danville, Ill, April IA, 1909.
Hon. Thomas E. Watson, Thomson,
Ga:
Has the promise Of prosperity
struck you people yet? Mr.. Taft was
lingering in the South so long that he
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-05-13
REV. G. A. NORTON.

card appearing in your paper, the
Jeffersonian, April 16, | wish to say
that in no word, spoken or written,
about or to you, has there been the
slightest thought or intent; and IN no
wise, nor under any consideration,
would [ defame, Witty, scandalize or
injure any man on earth. For he who
robs another of his good name, has
robbed him Of that which he can not
restore, and can only be attained by
the grace and favor of God. And in
saying what [ have said, repeating
what has been said to me, and repeat
edly so, for 16 or more years, spoke
in reference to same, honestly and
with all Of the sincerity Of soul. [
have no desire to criticize any one
with the intent Of injuring. And to
prove to you and others that | have
not wilfully nor with any malicious
intent done so, produce the follow
ing paper (affidavit) and other state
ments, in addition to the certifcate'
already having appeared in reference
to "lost papers, or said to be "lost
papers, which cover what | have said.
Affidavit.
The State Of Texas,
County of Dallas.
|, Maggie A. Lambert (nee Roberts)
hereby make the following statement
under oath After the death of my
grandmother, Lucinda Starke (nee
Allison), Of Walton County, Georgia,
whose estate was inherited by the
children Of my mother, Mrs. Mary
Jane Roberts (nee Hillsman),
daughter of Lucinda Starke, by her
first husband; my father, A. j. Rob
erts, of at that time, Warren County,
Georgia (my mother having died be-
fore my grandmother) employed
Thomas E. Watson, an attorney at
law of Thomson, Georgia, to collect
the money coming to my mothers chill
dren, from my grandmother estate,
the principal part or probably all of
the assets Of said estate, as | under
stand it, having come to my grand
mother through Inheritance from the
Gwynn Allison Estate Gwynn Allison
having been the brother of my grand
mothers father, and his estate con-
trolled at that time by Ex-Governor
Mcdaniel, Of Monroe, Georgia, who
refused to make any kind Of settle
ment, whatever, and Thomas E. Wat
son was employed by my father, A. }.
Roberts, to force a settlement and
accounting.
Valuable papers in the case were
turned over by my father to Thomas
E. Watson, among which, have al
ways been told, was the last will and
testament of Gwynn Allison, and all
of those papers were claimed by Wat
son to have been lost. And he has
never made any accounting to any one
of us of his action in the matter, save
that he lost the papers intrusted to
him by my father.
Maggie A. Lambert.
On this 22d day of April, 1909, per-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-05-13
COPY (GWYNN ALLIsoN's WILLY
State Of Georgia,
Greene County.

Greene County.
In the Name of God, Amen.
I, Gwyn Allison, Of the county of
Greene and State of Georgia, being
now of sound mind and disposing
mind and memory, and knowing at
the same the uncertainty Of life, do
now make the following disposition
of my property in manner and form
following, VIZ.
LIST. [ give to my brother John ALI
son, three thousand dollars.
I'd. I give to my brother Jesse Ali
son three thousand dollars.
Sd. | give to my brother Reubin AL
lison three thousand dollars.
18th. give to my brother William
Allison's son David, two thousand
dollars.
5th. I give to my negro boy Joe, one
hundred dollars.
9th. I give to my negro boy Edmond
one hundred dollars.
9TH, [ give to my negro boy William
one hundred dollars.
8th. wish my executors to give the
negro women twenty dollars each.
The above amounts given to my
negroes must be paid in silver.
9th. I give all my negroes leave to
choose their master and if they choose
one that don't treat them we'll that
they shall have the right to choose
another, SO as to give them the chance
of making something for themselves,
the women to choose for their children
until they become twelve years Of age,
and I further direct that they are not
to go out Of Greene County. | don't
wish them to be sold. [ depend upon
my executors not to sell one of them.
10th. I give and bequeath to the
Inferior Court of Greene County,
twenty thousand dollars, to be placed
in the hands Of four men who are to
give bond and security, whose duty
it shall be to loan out said amount and
pay over annually to the Inferior
Court the interest to pay for the
education of poor children, belonging
to said county, and that no part of
the principal to be used for that pur-
pose.
18th, And all Of my property, hogs,
cattle and land, and all the money
which is left from what [ have stated
above I wish to be divided between
my three brothers, John, Jesse and
Reubin Allison equally share and share
alike.
18th. | hereby nominate and APP
point John Allison and William L.
Strain my executors to carry out this
my last will and testament into full
effect
In witness whereof [ have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Goth day
of April, 1865.
Signed, sealed and acknowledged in
presence of the undersigned.
j. F. Zimmerman,
Isaac R. Hall,
James w. Godkln.
G.. Allison. Il. S..)
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-08
CARE OF GLOVES.

Its is strange that few people
really take care of their gloves, that
is, in one particular" said Newark
woman. Il suppose we all know that
pulling gloves off by. the finger tips
spoils the shape of the gloves and
also endangers the material itself.
{. What is the right way? To peel
them off, as it were, inside out and
then turn them. A glove man told
me once that the life of my gloves
would be perceptibly heightened if
would do this, and also initiate the
gloves on turning them right side
out This would help to put them
into shape and at the same time help
to dry them, if they we're moist from
the haLds.
Silk gloves may be successfully
cleaned on the hands. Wash them
with borax water or suds of some
pure white soaL, as though washing
the hands. Rinse them under a
stream CT clear water and dry with a
towel. keeping the gloves on Until
they are nearly dry. Remove very
carefully; fold in shape and put them
between two pieces of cloth with a
weight on top.--New Haven Regis
ter.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-08

| Tom" she said, shyly, II heard
all you said to that man"
| II raised my voice so you should
It was to you I was talking. think
I bored Weldon"
when l came home from Aunt
Laura's I heard you had come here
went to your house, and your cou-
sin Julia told me you had gone be-
cause you were tired of farm life"
"But she surely gave you the long
letter left for you!"
No; not even message. Then
came your note from the college, and
well, l didn't write again, because
every time / saw Julia she said she
| had heard from you and that you
were having such gay time, that you
lived in a big boarding house and
were going to theatres and dancing
schools
Toms laugh rang out Justify.
II am at big boarding house, but
as yet only know one man to speak
to. Haven't been to theatre-we
will go to one to-night-and as for
dancing school-well, the nearest
have come to it is the Y. G.. "A.
gymnasium.
Her laugh was mirthful, but lit
tie apologize.
II ought to have seen the method
in Julias madness"
"Tell me why you came here, Bes-
sie?"
81 was so lonesome, couldn't stay
there. My uncle got me this posi-
ton"
"And you like it so much you new
er want to go backi" he said with a
sigh. "And you are making so much
money
She looked at him ruefully.
"Oh, Tom, after pay my board,
washing and car fare will have
twenty-five cents week. I work un-
til at night and go to bed at 8, and
I don't know soul to speak to. It's
very gay!"
The little break in her voice was
sweet music to Tom.
''To-morrow will be Saturday, Bes-
sic. Will you resign and let me take
you home tomorrow night? I'd like
to make Julia deliver that letter.
There is much in it to answer"
Tom, l did resign. I couldn't
stand it any longer"
'And 1 may take you homer"
Eyes, Tom.
stAnd you will stay there until l
come home in March!"
Eyes, Tom"
"And will you say yes, Tom to
what asked in the letter-the one
Julia did not deliver?"
81 don't know what you asked,
Tom"
Bessie! You do KNOW
'Ye-es, Tom" belle Maniates.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-08
The Limit of Laziness.

DIR. Charles A. Eaton, of the Madi-
son Avenue Baptist Church, said in
the course of a brilliant after-dinner
speech in Cleveland.
''Laziness is responsible for too
much of the misery we see about us.
1t is all very well to blame alcohol for
this misery, to blame oppression and
injustice, but to what heights might
we not all have climbed but for our
laziness?"
He paused and smiled.
eve are too much like the super
numerary in the drama" he went on,
who had to enter from the right and
say, My lord, the carriage waits
&c Look here, SUPER said the stage
manager one night, 1 want you to
come on from the left instead of the
right after this, and I want you to
transpose your speech. Make it run
hereafter, The carriage waits, my
lord
"The super pressed his hand to his
brow.
More study! More study!' he
groaned cleveland Leader.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-08

full specification of taxicab of the
year 265 A. D., and the accompany
ing photograph shows model of the
chassis made by Professor Hopkin-
son. This history describes the vehi-
Gle as follows
"The measure-mile-drum is
drawn by four horses. In the middle
of it there is wooden figure of a
man holding drumstick toward a
drum. At the completion of every
III (the Chinese mile) the man
strikes a blow on the drum
Other records, covering the Chinese
reigns from A. D. 815 to 987, further
discuss the appearance of the "taxi-
cabs"
They are painted red, with pic
lures of flowers and birds on the four
sides, and are in two stories, hand
somely adorned with carvings. At
the completion of every Ii the wood
en- figure of man in the lower story
strikes drum. and at the completion
of every ten III man in the upper
story strikes bell. There is a pole
with a phoenixlike head and team
of four horses. Formerly the chariot
held eighteen soldiers, which number
was increased to thirty by the En-
peror T'si-Tsung.
The popularity of this peculiar car
riage, even as late as the fourteenth
century, is attested by a poem en-
titled lode to a Taxicab '--Harper's
Weekly.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-08
WISE WORDS.

Diligence is the mother OF good
fortune. -Cervantes.
Nothing wins man sooner than a
good turn.-Robert Burton.
Where an opinion is general it is
usually correct.-Jane Austen.
Industry is a lodestone to draw all
good things -Robert Burton.
Truthfulness is at the foundation
of all personal xcellence.-Smiles.
The counsel you would have an
other keep keep first thyself.-
Proverb.
Our occupation is that which we
select, our interruption is that which
is sent us,
You may reform hardened old
reprobate, but fool or saint is a
hopeless proposition.
There are lots of complaints that
are catching, but experience is not
one of them -Hutchinson.
Only let us give heed that we are
ripening in all goodness as the swift
days pass Queen Louisa of Prussia.
If man would hasten toward the
good, he should keep his thoughts
away from the evil.-East India Say
ing.
There is no man so friendless but
what he can find friend sincere
enough to tell him dissgreeable
truths.-Bulwer Lytton.
The effort to do right does not
necessarily lead to the happy, spon-
taneous and loving practice of good.
ness. This is to be found, not in the
law, but in the Gospel; not in tbs
sight of duty, but in She sight Of
love. 1t is affectionate, tilial graft
tude of unbought, unearned mercy
1t is the great love of Him who has
forgiven much.--James Freeman
| Clarke.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-08
MAKING SUNSHINE
It Is Often Found in Pure Food.

The improper selection of food
drives many a healthy person into
the depths of despairing illness. In
deed, most sickness comes from
wrong food, and just so surely as
that is the case, right food will make
the sun shine once more.
An old veteran of Newburyport,
Mass, says; In October, was
taken sick and went to bed, losing AZ
pounds in about 60 days. had doc
tor after doctor, food hurt me and /
had to live almost entirely on mag
nesia and soda. All solid food dis
tressed me SO that water would run
out of my mouth in little streams.
81 had terrible night sweats and
my doctor finally said had consump-
ton and must die. My good wife
gave up all hope. We were at Old
Orchard, Me-, at that time, and my
wife saw Grape-Nuts in a grocery
there. She bought some and per-
Suaded me to try it.
Il had no faith In it. but took it to
please her. To my surprise it did not
distress me, as all other food had
done, and before had taken the fifth
package was well on the mend The
pains left my head, my mind became
clearer and gained weight rapidly.
Il went back to my work again
and now after six weeks use of the
food am better and stronger than
ever before in my life. Grape-Nuts
surely saved my life and made me a
strong, hearty man, Is pounds heav-
Ter than before was taken sick.
Both my good wife and are will
ing to make affidavit to the truth of
this. -"
Read "The Road to MELVILLE" in
pAgs. There's a Reason.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of human
interest.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-08

San Juan. The bid was $314,000
The total cost of the Capitol when
completed will be 100000.
The Senate, House Of Representa-
tives and Supreme Court will occupy
the Capitol. Work will begin at once.
Three schooner loads of cement will
be shipped to San Juan from New
York for its construction The build
ing is of Greek design.
Speaking of the construction of the
building, Mr.. Perkins, who received
the American contractors bids, said
The Capitol will be erected with
the possibility Of earthquake in view
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-08

Foamy Omelet. - Two eggs, cne-
quarter cup of milk. two teaspoons of
butter, Cne-half teaspoon IF -four;
cock in oven and serve with cream
sauce made as for toast.
Buttermilk Cake - One mixing
spoonful lard, one cuoful molasses,
me cupful buttermilk, one teaspoon
full soda, one-half teaspooaful each
kind Of spice; fc lr tc make stiff bat
ter; raisils or citron to suit taste.
Scrambled Eggs.--Take four eggs
and beat thoroughly; add three cups
of milk, butter size of small egg,
enc teaspoon salt Put all above in
gradients in a double boiler and boil
until thick like baked custard. Do
not stir.
Original Rice Cookies. Three
5unces each of ground rice, -four.
butter, sugar, one egg; little lemon
Juice Rub butter into the -four, add
the other Ingredients; if not quite
moist enough add little milk; roll out
quite THU and bake in hot oven
Potatoes Au Gratin. - Slice pota-
toes thin and put in layers in but
tered pudding dish, sprinkling each
layer with salt, pepper ard bits Of
butter When all are in, pour in gill
of hot water or hot milk and sprinkle
top layer of potatoes thickly with
salt and pepper and bits of butter
Bake, covered, for thirty minutes.
Uncover and brown.
OrangeAIce Cream Mix one pint
heavy cream with two cups rich milk
and the juice from one dozen oranges
with little grated peel; sweeten to
taste; freeze, using three parts finely
crushed ice to one part rock salt.
Serve with crushed strawberries. Re-
move stems from one box strawber-
ries, cut in halves lengthwise; place
on back Of range, mash, using sill
yer fork, and sprinkle with sugar to
sweten Serve slightly warm, but
not hot.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-08

GAS long ez wuz po'," said
Brother Williams, II wuz humble
enough ter be thankful fer what I
wuz bout ter receive; but one day
! found $40 in de big road, and after
dat went bout holdin my head so
high dat couldn't see what wuz
befo' me, an felled in a dry well.
an staid dar three days, hollerin' fer
folks ter pull me out. Satan hisse'f
wuz once a angel in heaven, but he
couldn't stan prosperity, an look
whar he is now"-Aflanta Constitu-
ton.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-08
STEAM HEATED GARDENS.
How Paris Market Gardeners Manu-
facture a Suitable Climate.

HOW TarlS NAaFHcC OaruCHCNS HAtAAA~
facture a Suitable Climate.
The market gardeners around Par
is do not dream of waiting for spring
before they raise spring vegetables.
AS one man put it, they move the
climate of Monte Carlo to the sub
urbs of Paris.
This they do at enormous expense
in money and in time. The gardens
whenever possible are placed on land
with q slope to the south and are
we'll protected by walls on the north
and east, walls built to reflect light
as we'll as to give protection from the
northeast winds.
The ground is practically covered
with glass, not as in a greenhouse
but by glass frames in the open, three
light frames of uniform size, twelve
feet by four and half; and also by
glass bells. These, too, are of uni
form size about the shape of chap
ell bell, little less than seventeen
inches in diameter and from fourteen
to fifteen inches high. The French
call them cloches. You may often
see over thousand frames and over
ten thousand glass bells in one two
acre plot in the suburbs of Paris.
A more recent innovation, accord
ing to Success, is the employment of
hot water pipes run under the soil,
making of the earth a veritable steam
heated hotel, with this essential diff
ference, that the hotel keeper here
is desperately eager not to keep his
guests, but to persuade them to leave
on the earliest possible day,