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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
Ate the Ribbons.

A visiting young man recently ate
the ribbons tied around the sandwich
served to him at a party. He was
very polite, and didn't like to ask
what the ribbons were for, and SO he
ate them. AS he a at least four
sandwiches it is estimated that he
ate fully three yards of ribbon. We
have SO often had occasion to point
out the plumbers made by visiting
Topeka people. that we charitably re-
train from saying where this unfor-
tunate young man was trom.-Atchr
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
Tea Possibilities,

Il have just had an invitation to an
electrical tea to be given by a woman
DOCTOR" said the bachelor girl. I'm
looking forward to it and wondering
what is going to happen to us
whether she will give us a little bat
terry and let us entertain ourselves.
make the tea on an electric stove, or
jus electrocute the bunch of US"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

; The action Of King Manuel of Por-
tugal in decorating his mother for
bravery in trying to defend him at the
his bestowai of honor on the police
man who killed the murderer of his
father will doubtless make him doubly
popular. There is too much human
appeal in this tribute to mother love
and to heroism in humble life not to
arouse response in the popular heart.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
Staff Gets No Pay.

Gov. Noel has not heretofore paid much
attention to the misconception that
seems to prevail in regard to the part
which the respective stats of the gov.
ernor and commander-in-chief and the
major-general commanding the brigade
of the Mississippi National Guard in
the distribution of the $4,000 appropri.
ated for the maintenance and support
of the guard.
The governor states that the public
ought to know that no part of the appro-
p~riation for the guard goes either to
the governors or the major-generals
staff. The governor receives nothing for
any expense to which he might be put,
from either state or federal appropria-
tons; neither do the staff officers, ex,
cept when actually engaged at encamp-
ment O. detail duty or holding them
selves subject thereto.
The members of the staff receive moth
ing when accompanying the governor on
such expeditions.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

And now m the disillusioner to
remark that man-eating lions are the
old, decrepit fellows with bad teeth.
1t is too bad. Next they will be tell
Ing us that gorillas do not twist gun
barrels around their necks.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
Sees Water-Goes Mad.

New Orleans, Aug.-John Higgins, an
English sailor, tonight escaped from the
local Pasteur Institute. Later in the
evening he went mad at the sight of a
glass of water on a bar in a saloon,
hurting the glass out of a window and
falling to the floor. He died in con-
vulsions in a few minutes.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
Rainfall Light.

The monthly meteorological summary
issued by the Mississippi department Of
the weather bureau. shows that the total
rainfall in July was only 1877 inches,
as compared with a 3s-year average of
$50 inches, a deficit in precipitation
of 3.94 inches. However, the rainfall rec
ord is still ahead of the average, the ac-
cumulated excess since Jan. l being 3.94
inches. The deficit for July is attributed
to the heavy excess of rainfall during
the months of May and June.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

! Great Indignation is being expressed
in Chicago over high poker playing by
fashionable women and homes are
being disrupted. There must be some
stop put to this continual encroach-
ing by women on masculine privil-
eyes.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
SERIOUS WRECK ON l.. & N,
Passenger Trains Enters Open Switch
at Galloway, Tenn.

Passenger Trains Enters Open Switch
at Galloway, Tenn.
Memphis, Tenn.-Running at a high
rate of speed into an open switch lead
ing into the siding at Galloway, Tenn,
t~wenty-eight miles east of Memphis on
the Louisville 4 Nashville road, south
bound passenger train No. 1913, from
Louisville, KY, crashed into passenger
train No. 102, northbouhd, from Mem
phis to Cincinnati, causing the death of
Joe Lewis, the engineer on the Louisville
Memphis train, and the injury of a half
dozen or more of the train crew and pas
sengers. The wreck occurred at 2:15
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Arthur Bell, porter on train No. 1O2,
is said to have been responsible for the
wreck.
Havig a. letter to post, Conductor
Rooker walked forward to the mail car,
and had just deposited the missive when
he heard the whistle of the on-cominp
train, and looked forward to see that
Bell was in his place, SO that he could
get out of the spur as 0 as possible,
in order to make up the several minutes
lost. He was attracted by the sight of
Bell scrambling up the bank of the
switch. Evidently he had forgotten that
he had closed the switch. With the
s%outhbound train but a few hundred
yards from the switch, the panic-stricken
negro leaned forward as he reached the
post, and with a jerk pulled it open just
as the big locomotive Numbered up to
the fatal spot and swerved into the
death-trap, which a second later was a
scene of terrible confusion, as with a
crash the big engines struck, rending
steel and shattering woodwork and glass.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

The season is at hand for the an
nual Sunday drownings. Every sum-
mer the warning for prudence and
care is given, and just as regularly
the warning is disregarded. This sea-
son will probably have it's due share
of water pleasure tragedies.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

A New Orleans inventor claims
that he has 4 wireless device by which
warships may be blown up at a dis.
lance of -four or five hundred miles.
The best that can be said about such
inventions is that they make people
careful about giving provocation to use
them. Otherwise, they do not tend to
show the progress of the humane in
humanity.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

1t is said that the best residents of
Newport are to organize a revolt
against freak entertainments, monkey
dinners and the like. They are join
ing the safe and sane procession, so
far as the summer season is con-
cerned. And the monkeys will be quite
as we'll pleased as the best residents.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

= A man has just died in New Jersey
who left a fortune of 500, 900, made
out OF a penny toy shop. This was
absolutely untainted money, for every
cent of it meant a child's happiness
given in return, which is rather a rare
record as fortunes go in these DAYS,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
Railroads Report.

The reports of common carriers on the
business for the quarter ending June 80,
which they are required to furnish the
railroad commission, continue to come
in slowly. The report of the New Or
leans & Northeastern for the period
named shows total receipts for the June
quarter, 1909, to have been $231,199.T4,
as against $2Os,697.73 for 1908. The
total operating expenses for 1909
amounted to $171,s45.O5, while those for
the same period in 1905 were S149, 967. OF.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

The Chicago University professor
who says hat woman is to blame for
everything ought to be ashamed at
this late date to be falling in line with
h generations of plagiarists of Adam.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
CONSERVATION MEETING.
Clifford Pinchot Suggests Such Gather
ing at New Orleans.

New Orleans, Aug.-The commission
in the Southern states for the conserva.
ton of natural u may hold a
convention in New Orleans following
that of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Wa.
terway Association here in November.
Clifford Pinchot, chief of the United
States forestry bureau and chairman OF
the national conservation commission,
has written to the New Orleans Pro
gressive Union, suggesting such a meet.
ing.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

All the world loves a lover, no mat
ter what his salary; but when he as
sumes the responsibilities of matri.
mony at SO per week society's SYM
Pathy Justly becomes a desire to
spank.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

After having been caught in sudden
showers two or three times the intel.
ligent man learns to carry an umbrel-
la and thus bring on a protracted
drought.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
WHAT HE FOUND HARD.

Hit suttinly must be hard, Sambo,
to have de reputation foah chicken
stealin' wot you've got!"
"Yass, chile, but chickens is so
scarce nowadays, dat de hardest part
is tryin' ter live up ter dat reputa-
fiCpfo
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

1t is all right to sing and talk and
rave over the scent of the new-mown
hay, but take a thought of the chaps
who have to harvest 1t.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

1t is said that the Cubans have no
loV for Americans. which was to be
expected after we have done so many
faVors for them.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

n fine growing weather of the
last few weeks will tell on the cost of
O before long, and the story will
be of the right kind.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
Touch the picnic lemonade lightly

Long columns of hot weather ad-
vice are not needed. The best is the
shortest-"Keep cool"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

Until the earth gets softer aero
planning is hardly likely to become a,
safe a sport as %croquet.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

o. This Is the best month in the yea,
In which to get statistics about thu
kissing germs.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

Inc north pole seem to have few
er chances of remaining undiscovered
now than ever before since the world
began.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

Soon ~areoplane accidents will be as
fashionable as appendicitis operations
were a few years ago.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

Cuba has four times too many star
boarders in public office. They are
eating up all the yer
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
POOL TEXAS COTTON CROP.

Union Pledges 100000 Mem
bers to Scheme.
Galveston, Tex, Aug.-The Texas
Farmers Union, boasting of a member.
ship Of 25o,ooo, has pledged it's members
to pool the Texas cotton crop, and has
perfected all details for the holding OF
the product until prices are satisfactory.
The union members control 90 per cent
of the Texas crop, which means that the
union will DO in . position to dictate
prices.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

Radium will not soon become a
household necessity. 1t is quoted at
9 1000, 900 a pound.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
Honor Mrs. Hayes.

Agreeable to the general order and re-
quest issued by Gen. Robert Lowry, CON
handing the Mississippi division, United
Confederate Veterans, that the Confed.
crate allied organizations hold suitable
memorial services and exercises in honor
of the memory of the last surviving child
of Jefferson Davis, such exercises were
held in st. Andrews Episcopal Church,
and the attendance was large and the
service simple and appropriate.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
Smith Feeds State Stock.

Information received is to the effect
that Charles R. Smith, the wealthy plant
er who was recently convicted of the
murder of E. A. Laurent and sentenced
to imprisonment for life, has been put
to work feeding stock on the state con-
Wet farm in Rankin county. Mr.. Smith
owns thousands Of acres of land in the
rich prairie section of Lowndes county
and hundreds of head of stock, but it is
safe to say that he never filed q hay
rack or ~replenished a corn trough until
he reached the Rankin county farm.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
Court Bills Must Be Paid.

VVUI DIS MUST DE EaId.
Acknowledgement Stirling has received
q lengthy inquiry from the board of su.
pervisors of Harrison county as to
whether the circuit court is superior to
the board Of supervisors in the matter
of allowing accounts, or whether it il
mandatory upon the board to allow an
account, although known to be erroneous,
after it is allowed by the circuit. court,
The attorney-general holds that super.
visors may not inquire into the actions
of the circuit court, and must allow what,
ever accounts the judge APPROVES.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
Powers Complaining.

Powers Complaining.
State Superintendent Of Education
Powers has mapped out quite a busy
month or six weeks, during which he will
be on the wing practically all the time.
During these trips Superintendent Pow
ers covers two principal topics, school
term extension and agricultural high
schools, lines upon which he thinks deep
ly n upon which he never loses an OPP
p%ortunity to say a few words during his
educational campaign tours.
Mississippi Day at Asheville.
A Mississippi Day celebration has been
decided upon, to be held at Overlook
Park, Asheville, N. c., OF Wednesday,
Aug. Is, to which all Mississippi people
in western North Carolina, both ladies
and gentlemen, are cordially invited. A
dinner and a good old-time gathering will
be arranged. Those who wish to attend
will notify Clifton Livingston, Mango
Terrace, Asheville, N. c., before Aug. IL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28
A Curfew Law Needed.

Sentiment for local curfew law, the
advisability of which has lately been taken
under consideration, has unquest1onably
been growing during the past few years,
and probably If the matter were referred
to the parents of the District they would
give their voice Overwhelmingly for some
measure of police power insuring the re-
tirement of the children from the streets
after o'clock at the latest. 1t appears
from statements of the child labor inspect
ors that an effort has been made lately
to prevent the lettering of boys on the
business streets after o'clock by insert
ing clauses to that effect in their vending
permits. Thus in limited way a curfew
regulation has been established. But
there is plain need of a broader law on
the subject. The streets are at present
occupied long after dark by children OF
both sexes who do not fall under the oper-
atoms of the child labor law and who
are being exposed to unwholesome inf1u
ences and positive dangers.
This matter cannot be disposed of by
casting the responsibility solely upon the
parents. There are many fathers and
mothers who do not realize the risk that
is run by their children in taking advan-
ldSe VI lIDcIly dllcE
These people are in need of instruction
and help, even as the children themselves
require admonition and restraint. The
city suffers from such laxity OF domestic
discipline. Young lives are ruined that
should be saved for a share In the work
of Washington and the uplift Of the COM
munity. The work that Is being done by
the Juvenile Court clearly proves that pre-
ventive measures are needed even more
than the corrective processes which that
court provides.
With the rapid increase in the number
of motion picture shows the presence of
children on the street after dark without
proper attendance has become more mark
ed than ever. 1t needs but a single visit
to the down town streets in the evening
to demonstrate the extent of this condi-
ton and the urgent need of some restric-
ton upon the individual child in its use
of the liberty unwisely granted by indif-
ferent parents. On Pennsylvania avenue
any pleasant night several hundred chill
dren may be seen parading up and down
without adult escorts. or skating on the
pave and exposed to physical and moral
dangers obvious to any onlooker. 1t
should lie within the power of the police
to send these children home If their
parents do not themselves take the neces-
sary steps to restrain them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28
The Inaugural Date.

The following editorial paragraph from
the New York Tribune Is of familiar
kind:
Another effort will be made in De
cember to get Congress to shift the date
of the presidential inauguration from
March to April 80 or to the last Thurs
day in April The change is advisable,
but Congress has been very reluctant to
make it, inertia being too strong for the
advocates of the reform. 1t IS to be
hoped that the present Congress Will find
time and energy enough to alter the
calendar so as to insure more season.
able inaugural ceremony and to equaliZe
in the public interest the length of the
two regular legislative sessions"
There is no doubt whatever of the
sentiment of the country on this sub
iect of a change Of inauguration date
The advocates OF this reform are num-
bered by millions. They dwell in all
parts of the country. They are the citi-
zens who have been here to attend in
augural ceremonies and have suffered
the crowds last March: they are the rela-
sives at home of these sufferers from
inaugural perils and discomforts. In
addition to those who have personally
felt the need of readjustment Of
citizens who realize the absurdity Of ad-
herring TO an accidental date involving
peril not merely to multitudes OF spec
tators, but to the heads of government
simply because Congress has lacked the
initiative and enterprise to press the
necessary reform to a conclusion
Immediately after last Fourth OF u arch
The Star conducted canvass of the
House and Senate on the subject OF a
change of date with the result os show
ing a virtual unanimity in favor of the
constitutional amendment necessary to
effect the reform 1t was for a time
hoped that the amendment would be
pressed to a vote during the special ses-
sion, particularly as for weeks at a time
each house had abundant leisure to con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28

slider such a question. But the policy OF
sticking strictly to the program Of tariff
legislation was RENTED only in favor
of the enactment of certain imperatively
necessary measures which had failed at
the regular session. and thus the inaugu-
raj change was permitted to rest.
When Congress meets nine months will
have passed since the Inauguration day.
Practically every member of the two
houses will have a personal recollection
of that occasion Of deadly menace. It
will be unnecessary to do more than men
ton the subject to bring to the minds
Of all Legislators the scene of suffering
and intense disappointment then enacted
In Washington. The sentiment in favor of
change of date is as strong now as it
was Immediately after the blizzard of
March. 1t is urgently important to lay
the constitutional amendment before the
legislatures now even though thirty-six
months remain before the next Inaugural
ton. The process of securing concurrent
action by the states is slow. If the
amendment is proposed by Congress at
this session it will be possible to secure
the necessary ratification In season. If
the subject is again postponed it is doubt
full whether the amendment could be
brought before the legislatures Of the
states in time to make it effective for the
ceremony of 1913
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28
The STANDARD OIL DECISION.
From the Omaha Bee

From the Omaha Bee.
Now that the Standard is engaged in its
final battle for existence. the significance
of Mr.. Rockefeller's recent remark that
life is just one constant struggle for him
becomes more apparent.
Judge Sanborn has ordered the STANDARD
Oil Company of New Jersey to dissolve;
but that concern has a habit of being very
disobedient at times.
From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
A full definition of the word merger
has been postponed until the highest
court of the United States gets through
with its consideration.
From the Columbus Evening Dispatch
However, the dissolution of the Stand
ard Oil Company is not SO immediate as
to suggest calling of the undertaken.
From the Albany Evening Journal.
However, the Standard Oil Company's
lawyers are not in their hearts dspleased
because of the litigation against it.
From the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Perhaps the Standard will have to ap-
ply little more oil to get over the rough
places.
From the Toledo Blade.
Instead of dissolving. ii will be more
like the Standard Oil Company of old to
raise prices
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28
A SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN.

We've married sister or at last, and pa and ma
glad; :.
The troubles that we had are past; we've all
Now mebby I'll have things to wear that wasn't
And none Of us will have to care about expense
more.
They say his fathers got q pile; he gave
Where him and her will live in style. with
servants. after this:
Pa used to fret lot about the price OF meat
But now bis heart Is free from doubt and joy
is In his soul.
/ acted as they said should and pa quit bein'
Ma. every chance she got would tell about
And made him think we had swell and old,
old family tree.
We all pretended to believe that sis was some
And that we'd set around and grieye IL she
would meet her fate;
Ma often got him c0axed aside and In trenholm
Would tell about the boys who'd tried to win
her for their own.
We went in debt to dress her well-of course
Gee. but we kept her lookin' swell; she was
outclassed by few;
And eyerytbing was cooked immense when he
stayed here to eat.
We've got her married of at last. and pa and
The troubles TINT we had are past; we've all
It took all We could raise to dress her SO she'd
The way the plan worked out 1 guess it pays
IS. e. Kiser, in Chicago Record Herald.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28
zELAYA.

From the Memphis CommercialAppeal
President Zelaya in his busy little way
has been doing things in his tea pot rev
olution, and he has gotten very near to
the business end of Uncle Sans buzz
saw.
From the st. Paul Dispatch.
1t may be necessary to show Zelaya
that Americans in Nicaragua must not
be treated as innocent bystanders.
From the Concord Evening Monitor.
Uncle Sam should take Zelaya between
his thumb and finger and deposit him
some distance from Central America.
From the Los Angeles Express.
That man Zelaya is one of the brand of
trouble breeders who should be 'sot on
and good and hard, too.
From the Birmingham Age-Herald
Zelaya is full of resources. and it is
much too early to say his days are
numbered.
From the Chicago Journal.
President Zelaya acts like a man on
the morning after Possibly Uncle.
Sam will be able to prescribe a bromide.
From the Springfield Union.
!, President Zelaya's method of collecting
war fund evidently is to make. the
American merchants in Nicaragua put up
or be shut up.