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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-05-07

Messfa. d. z. Schlater and q. p. Ian,
were down from Schlater on business,
this week.
Miss Leonora Gardner, Of Tennessee
will arrive next week to be the guest O
Mrs. Harris Ray.
Capt. A. Ct. Smith, of Nashville, Tenn.
is spending this week in Greenwood and
on his plantations near Rising Sun.
Manager Mcleod, of Armour & Co.
visited lndianola relatives and friends
last Sunday.
Tennis Shoes for Ladies,
Men and Boys, at
FOUNTAINS.
Mr.. John Erskine was over from Run
nemede on business the latter part of
last week.
MIR. r. II. Hit, a leading citizen of
Winona, was in the city a few hours
Monday.
Mr.. Geo. N. Morris has been at Rush
vile, Ind, the past two weeks on &C.
count Of the illness of his mother.
W. S. Barry and wife, of Greenwood,
were among the Sunday visitors to the
capital Clarion-Ledger
Miss Mary Hamilton, Of Jackson, was
the guest of Mrs. W. H. statham last
week-returning home Monday.
Hon. W. M. Wilmington visited rel
atives and friends in Franklin County
the first Of the week.
We have just received our complete
line of Stetson Hats.
D. c. PETEET g. BRO.
The members of the faculty Of Jefer-
son Davis School report a delightful and
successful session of the State Teach
ers' Association at Natchez last week.
Mr.. J. A. Richardson, the talented ed
tor of the Sunflower Toesin, was in the
,ity Wednesday evening, en- route to a
Meeting Of the Shriners at Brookhaven.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-05-07
CIR Commonwealth
j. L. GILLESPIE, EDITOR.
||ROUND THE TOWN
Gathered IN the Round Up.

Mr.. E. N. Kearney, Of Beat Two, was
in the city on business Monday.
DR.. Hamilton, Of Money, was in the
city Monday.
MI. A. E. Lumpkin was up from Pc
teet's Switch last Sunday.
Mr.. R. Thayer spent the first of the
week at Schlater.
Tennis Shoes at Fountains.
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Miss Hattie Dunn visited Winona
friends last Sunday.
Mr. ]. Obergfell was over from his
Lake Henry plantation Monday.
Mr.. H. T. Coward was down" from
Money on business the first Of the week.
Mr.. ". A. Swift came up from Swift
on business Wednesday.
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Mr.. Robert d. Portwood was over
from ltta Bena last Tuesday night.
tI
Cashier Quinn, of the Bank Vt Sidon,
spent last Sunday here.
Mr.. J. H. Townsend, of Quito, was a
business visitor to our city Monday.
Hon. A. Henderson was over from
Runnemede the first of the week.
Mr.. Il. D. Walker made a business
trip to Chicago the past week.
Bone meal for chickens every Tues
day and Friday. Phone Is.
SAM ESTES MARKET.
Mr., Lon Mabry was over from Itta
Bena last Sunday.
Mr.. J.F. Rogers was up from Cruger
on business Tuesday.
Hon. G. A. Wilson, of Lexington, Wis
tied Greenwood this week.
Mr.. Oscar hernandez was down from
Money last Wednesday.
DR.. W. D. Wilson, of Schlater, was in
the city Tuesday.
Mr.. W. B. Fuikerson, of Morgan City,
was In the city on business Wednesday.
Mrs. Tabor. left Wednesday for New
YORK, where she will spend the summer.
Mr.. B. T. Sayre was down from Min
Nr City on business Tuesday. 4,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-05-07
For Rent June 1st.

8-room house; electric lights; we'll
screened; al modern improvements
Apply at this Office or address Box S84,
Greenwood, Miss.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-05-07

II you want to secure . SEQ LEE
SCHOLARSHIP, BY copying . chapter IN
the Bible, write 10 HARRIS BUSINESS
UNIVERSITY, Jachsoa, Aiss.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-05-07
Baseball, Tennis, Basket
Ball and Gymnasium Shoes at
FOUNTAINS,


Mrs. lnnis Mcintyre was the charm
ing hostess Of the rock club on last
Saturday afternoon. Several visitors
we're present. An interesting game
was heartily enjoyed. Delicious re-
freshments were served.
Mr.. Sam Montgomery has accepted
the position Of bookkeeper with Mr.. W.
7. Fountains Big Busy Store. Mr..
Chas. r. johnson, who has held this po-
sition for some time, resigned in order
to 60 into the fire and life insurance
business.
The recital given by the pupils of
Miss Branch and Miss Jesty, at the
court house, last Monday evening, was
we'll attended and very much enjoyed.
The interesting program was admirably
executed throughout.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. @. Clarke left Tues
day for Boston, Mass. Mr.. Clarke has
been bookkeeper and buyer for Dahmer
Bros, for the past four years, and goes
to Boston to take the position as head
bookkeeper Of the Eastern Department
Of the Buick Automobile Co.
Look at our Black and Tan Strap
Pumps. D. c. PETEET & BRO.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. T. Shurley, Of Yazoo
City, have moved to Greenwood and
will make their permanent home here.
They have secured. rooms at the res
idence Of Mr.. and Mrs. r. C. King, on
West Washington street.
Mr.. ". r. Melton and family, having
sold their home and stock Of goods last
Saturday, left the first Of the week for
Texas, where they will make their fu-
ture home. We regret the loss Of this
excellent family, but hope that the
Texas climate will improve the failing
health Of Mrs. Melton.
Mr.. J.S. Parker, who was operated on
for appendicitis at the Kings Daugh-
ters' hospital about three weeks ago,
is able to be up and about again. Mr..
Parker expresses the highest apprecia-
tion Of the splendid treatment and at
tention given him while at the Hospital,
declaring that the service received
could not be excelled anywhere.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-05-07
You are Invited to Attend the
DEMONSTRATION
Given by
MISS HELEN ATWOOD
of the
West Electric Hair Curriers'.
Beginning
MONDAY, MAY 10th TO17th.
Al FOUNTAINS
BIG BUSY STORE.
@' ths BEST because the LARGEST
tt The LARGEST hecaus. the BEST.


nf. !. ]. Hamrick, one Of Carroll
e0onty's substantial citizens. was in
''e city tie frst Of the week.
nr''. y. Bole, one OF CARROLL couoty's
Tuesday. 'a''
at. y. r. streat.r, a prominent cit
? planter Of Minter City, was In
u '''y Oh business Monday.
10y .ne best-i 1t don't cost any more.
SAM ESTES MARKET.
-. and Mrs. Sumter Gillespie spent
\ IS the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
~ Kent, near Rising Sun.
NJ l.: and Mrs. J. Y. McNeill. Mn. ".
]. als and little son, Of Bs~rclair, sre
A''isoa's Wells for ! lev weeks.
" v
"a. =. 3. skillman attended the -.
,-. 'esslcn q The STATE u. b. .. c..
= 49, Point tAis wss.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-05-07

Mrs. lnnis Mcintyre was the charm
ing hostess Of the rock club on last
Saturday afternoon. Several visitors
we're present, An interesting game
was heartily enjoyed. Delicious re-
freshmenta were served.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-05-07

Manager Mcleod, of Armour & Co..
visited lndianola relatives and friends
last Sunday.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12

mittee. or acquitted by a sympathetic
 jury of his peers.
 Our modern Torquemada would do no more than destroy the provisions of State Consultations refiecting the spirit of the Declaration of Rights, which reflected a public sentiment that made itself felt some 900 years after the good Tomas displayed his zeal by cons fiscating property and snuffing out lives for the sacred cause. But that Is going far. when we consider the changes in laws and customs, and the increasing appreciation of the injustice of infringement upon individual liberty that have marked the progress of the
 civilized world from the Fifteenth century to the Twentieth.
 Texas win be wise if she reads ths
 meaning in the returns in the Alabama election, where the Anti-Saloon League fanatics would have added to the in suit of the notorious Fuller law the injury and Humiliation of a constitii, l tionai amendment to open the doors oI the living room. the library, the pantry and the bedchambers to the servants of modern Inquisition: to subject every
 residence to the intolerabls injustice Of
 unwarrantable search and seizure, and
 every family to the rude intrusion of rufianly deputy sheriffs upon the
 peace and privacy to which all who arc not malefactors are entitled. Other
 States might profit by considering the
 situation in Alabama of the Anti- | Saloon League, which, according to our Southern contemporaries. played c large part in the light for the adoption l of the constitutional amendment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12

within the city. One of these mosaics represents nude sea goddess dressing her hair. Two genii, likewise nude. bear her aloft upon seashell. Dol phins gambol about her. The back ground of the picture consists or red drapery. The other mosaics. framed in acanthus leaves, tendrils and Yolutes,
 with birds fitting among them, shows
 us another nude goddess, in the midst of the waves, seated upon Triton's tail: she holds up her tresses with her
 hand; light fiimy veil floats above her head.
 No one knows what the next dig gings will bring forth. Has Timgad yielded up her last secret? Perhaps inscriptions will senable scholars to
 write her history, though I fear that 1t will remain shrouded In mystery for long time to come. Still, I confess
 that this absence of details. this lack of knowledge, give an added charm to
 the dead city.
 When last saw Timgad. cold mist covered the treeless plateau. Not a
 house was to be seen as we followed the road from Lambese. I climbed the | first foothills of the Aures. whose sum-
 mits were barely visible along the horizon Poor farms, a dismal green,
 were lost among the brush. Oh, but | the landscape. looked gloomy.
 The wind swept the mist away, and pale ray Of light tinted the mountain
 background a delicate purple. The air | had a rosy transparency when the
 whole city came before me. gently out ! lined along the slope of a hill. It's I arches of triumph, its columns and
 pilasters. and the broken walls of its | houses and shops and temples lay
 ranged along broad avenues. In the
 center, the symmetrical lines of the | forum made starting place for paved
 streets leading to the theatre and the | baths. Further on was the Jumbled
 mass of a Byzantine fort. Around this tangle of ruins were still other ruins l foundations rising from the earth | half-broken arches, remains of houses. and pillars of basilicas, all this reached
 away and away. out from the inclosure
 of the city, till Lost in the bare desert country.
 Viewed thus, in the glaring sunshine and beneath that humid sky. the dead
 city of Timgad seems as If seen In a | dream You can understant how men should have forgotten it and allowed
 1t to sleep so long beneath the sand. | But when you come nearer, now that
 it has been almost wholly uncovered,
 you see how sumptuous and how won | derfuily alive it must once have been. You enter by a triumphal gate.
 adorned with pedestals that supported
 statues. The Cardo Nord, once border | ed with porticoes, leads In a straight
 line to the furum. passing before a
 magnificent semicircular building that
 must have been library. Here are the propylaea and stairway of the public square where the people oi
 Timgad assembled. A gallery. whose
 columns rested upon a high masonry
 base, adorned it's four sides there the l statues of gods and emperors were erected. No buildings came, as al Rome, to cucumber the open space.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
LIE CouRIER-JouRNAL.

the Holy office. The difference be tween Torquemada and Baker is one of time and opportunity rather than temperament and intolerance.
 Tomas de Torquemada was Inquisi- tor General of Spain, and a man of large authority. The sinews of war were furnished from a confiscati0n fund kept fat by continually waging war upon the heretic. It Is contended and not without reason--by Catholic historians that he was guilty of noth- ing more than exaggerated zeal in the discharge of his functions, and that in infiicting judicial torture he merely ap- piled the methods then in vogue in Christendom. It requires no stretch of the imagination to find points of similarity between conditions in Texas, where rangers are excused by pro- hibItionists for hammering citizens over the head with the butts of pistols because they are pushing pro- hibition. and those in the good old days of the Inquisition when Torque- mada and his half dozen apostolic councillors held court high-handedly at Cordova, Seville and Villa Real. AL lowances must be made for differences in the types of civilization existing in the Middle Ages in Europe and in the Twentieth century in America. It must be borne in mind that long after Tor quemada f1ourished in Spain it was the custom in England to exact the death penalty for petty crimes and misde- meanors; to hang, draw and quarter a man for moral obliquity, for which he would now be merely muclSraked by the magazines. whitewashed by a com
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12

with blue stones and surrounded with portico was fountain. Awnings to shelter the vendors were upheld by slender columns. Further on we come to the house of the gardeners. so pret- tily decorated with flower baskets!
 Springs in the gorges of the Ain Morris supplied the city. furnishing all the water needed for the baths. foun- tains. markets public edifices and dwellings. After washing the streets. the water passed through aqueducts and sewers to replenish the gardens of the outlying districts. It was one of the finest things about this city of the desert that its streets were al- ways white and clean. its squares cooled by splashing fountains. its surrounding country gay with greenery.
 These abundant waters were the very life of Timgad. When the first Berber invaders swooped down. the city of Trajan was sacked. but as the aqueducts were not destroyed, water still flowed in from the Ain-Morris. In the immense desert that reaches down from the mountains of the lures to- ward Batna. Thamugadi remained g sort of oasis. IL emerges from It's ruins. A Christian city. smaller but beautiful and nourishlng. took the place of the Roman town. Then arose the basiiicas, the baptisteries, and the convents whose imposing remains have been discovered. A fort, built by Solomon. successor to Belisarius, pro- tected the city against fresh incursions. It lived in peace-for how long a timer
 Of its final destruction nothing def- mite is known. M. Albert Ballu tells us that in the eighth century the Berbers camped on It's ruins. This time, Timgad was not to rise again. The wrecked aqueducts no longer furnished water. Houses and pbulic buildings were over thrown. The desert crept over the place where Timgad had stood. Dust storms buried the debris. Sand-storms completed its interment It seemed to sink into the earth In that awful soli- tude no witness was at hand to make record of its fate. only the entablature of e great triumphal arch was left above the surface to indicate that the place had once been inhabited.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
The Modern Incqllisition nonnu uousvnrn

political organization--or in it's own words 'the most potent organization in politics outside, of the two great political parties. yet working with either or both, and not hesitating to change from one to the other over night:
 This most remarkable feature of the work of the league = Is that 1t Is not always for prohibition. It goes just as far and just as fast as the public sentiment of the church will permit. It fights for for local option and against prohibition in Missouri, convinced that Missouri Is not yet ready for so radical a step as Statewide prohibition"
 To begin with this paragraph Is a islander upon the chufch. which has | never fallen to the level of an annex of the Anti-Saloon League. Secondly, it is a confession that the Anti-Saloon Leagsle aims ultimately at the abolish ment of the Bill of Rights, everywhere. It lacks the courage of it's convictions in Missouri. while 1t seeks to take ad- vantage of a disturbed and infiamed condition of the public mind in Ala bama, which. as last Mondays events proved. it erred in believing to be an indication of the mental incompetence of majority of the voters.
 If 1t were possible to foot up the sum of misery and crime since the be- ginning of history Intolerance" would be written in large characters across Ithe computation as the cause of the greater measure of the grand total. It is in the name of, right. and even of religion, that some of the most grotes-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
BY ,. MARVIN NICHOLS

idea of Taos-the most ancient spot of the New World.
 Rev Antonio Jose Msrtinez a Mexi- can philanthropist. established the frst school in Taos nearly ninety years ago. That same year he brought to the Territory of New Mexico the first printing plant set up in all the West On this press he published his own school books and the first newspapers ever printed west of St. Louis
 The Pueblo Indians are probably the most religious people in the world. Every act from January to December is accompanied by its own religious ceremony. The prime objects of ad- orationf are the sum-. the moon and the evening star. They have innumerabie under-deities and fetishes. The chief priest holds ofhce for life and has two assistants They are intrusted with the traditions and all the se- cret ceremonials of the Pueblos- These secrets are never printed. but are handed down from generation to generation. Of the real nature of wor- ship none but the initiated may never know. At their annual festival--the feast of st. Geronimo--the Pueblo men enter secret chamber whose doors are closely guarded. No alien foot ever crosses that threshold, for 1t IS here that the dead secrets of the Pueblos are to be transmitted from sire to son.
 The emblem of the order is the swastika. It stands for secret as sacred as the keystone with it's square and compass and the, mystery of the letter c. With all the attendant mNl- edictions of the same sacred vow. the Pueblo knows the sting of the points of the compass. He has been receiv- ed upon time. To reveal the secrets of their order he would as surely find himself cable-tow's length from shore.
 The Swastika is the oldest known symbol and Is found in prehistoric graves and ruins in every quarter of the globe. It Is carved upon the solid rock in the moun(ains of India and painted upon the walls of the canyons of Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. It is dug up out of the ruins of an- cient Greece; from the graves of the Mound Builder Indians of Ohio found in the pottery of the Cliff- dwellers of North America. and upon the prehistoric pottery in Brazil. and Is common in Japan and China. Thomas Wilson, Curator of the United states National Museum. in his book The Swastika," declares that what seems to have been at all times the attribute of the Swastika Is It's char acter as charm or amulet. as a sign of benediction, blessings. long life.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12

without-principles. the Anti-Saloon League. have pooled their interests and issues with 1t in the hope of getting into office. Once In, they would of course. make no attempt to enforce probition laws.
 The Houston Post, pointing the moral that adorns the tale of the defeat of the attempt of the fanatics and grasp ing adventurers to abolish the Alabama Constitution. has this to say:
 There is much for Texas to learn from Alabama's experience.
 They may learn. for instance, that if given the power. the Anti-Saloon League would halt at no form of tyranny that might be calculated to promote their- radical programme. They may learn that Alabama had the experience of plain Statewide prohibit ton at first and latterly of the ex- treme brand before constitutional pro- hibitiOn was submitted to them. Tiiey were distinctly dissatisfied with both kinds. and by rejecting the amendment condemned both of them. fa
 "The people of Texas may learn. If they will, that local self fgeyernment is the surest method of preserving peace and order, and that local option, under just laws. offers the best solution of the liquor problem.
 They may learn that it is the height of folly to put Into the organic law any provision that is admittedly an imperfect means of reaching the de- sired end. which at least is the wisest. and most reasonable form of regulation consistent with the liberty of the citizen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12

"A faulty law upon the statutes may be quickly corrected by majority. but blunder in the Constitution may curse the State for generations.
 Texas already has had experience of search and seizure. ruffians invading private homes at midnight and ter rorizing unprotected females, and pri- vate citizens banged over the head with six-shooters in the hands of desperadoes commissioned by the State.
 That is but the beginning of the scheme of regulation with the extrem- ists of the Anti-Saloon League would infiict upon the State if they ever ob- tained power.
 ."The people cannot be too jealous of | their liberty. The school of political | philosophy which would make men l good temperate or religious by law l has no place in a free country like ours. and 8 step in the wrong direction PaYght lead to bitter results in the long | run aes fs
 ,%The road to peace. happiness and order in Texas lies along option lines.
 rThe friends ef temperance have made greater progress In Texas under local option than the people of any State have ever made under State wide prohibition. And the result in Alabama indicates that the people of l that State--no less earnest in behalf l of temperance than we-are going back to local option, after most un- satisfactory experience of Statewide probition."
 And now let us turn. for moment, l to the AntI-Saloon Leagues en1ighten- ing statement of its high aims as a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12

Rene Faace, in L'Iilustration.
 Dead for many centuries its site forgotten and its name preserved only in certain ancient writings, Timgad has shaken off the mantle of sand that entirely covered 1t and come forth ance more into the Algerian sunshine. To M. Albert Bal1u, director of the Service des Monuments Historiques, we owe the excavation of this ancient Thamugadi, the important Roman city founded by Trajan at the entrance to the defiles to the Aures. In less than twenty years Timgad has been exhumed. and now remains to unearth the suburbs that stretched away to- ward Tebessa, Mascula and Lambese
 The last campaign of digging un- covered the extension of the Triumphal Avenue along an extent of nearly seven hundred feet. and that of the Ducumanus- Maximus- Est till a monu- mental arch was reached that re- sembles the beautiful gate of Lamese. The fiuted Corinthian columns, the cornices, the frieze and the entire entablature lay scattered about on the ground; an inscription informs us that the arch dates from I'll, A. D. The slabs of the pavement still show the deep ruts worn by chariot wheels in the days of Marcus Aurelius.
 Other highways were discovered out side the city walls bordered with little shops, with workrooms and work mems lodgings in the rear as we'll as the shopkeepers' own abodes. Here the country people could make pur- chases at once without entering the city. Soldiers from the Augustan Third Legion used to congregate here. These suburban districts were bustling with activity.
 Among mediocre dwellings rose cer- tain larger more luxurious houses, with paved vestibuies at the front and portfcoes around the outside. Huge square basins occupied the middle of these buildings, and the rooms opened upon atriums paved with marble mosaics. lr.
 The principal event of the campaign was the excavation of the great Tim Rad Monastery. The diggings of the preceding years had unearthed the basilica and several contiguous build inKs. The work is finished now. We zee the long alignment of galleries and cells, the common rooms, the lavatory and laundry, and the hexagonal bap- tiEtrv with It's central tank. which was reached by three steps sheathed in Tnosafcs. Extensive additions to the abbey show how the~community grew and prospered.
 And this magnificent Christian edi- flee. 5SO feet long by 2aO broad, dis- appeared one day like all the pagan monuments of Timgad. when the bar barrie invaders swooped down from the Aures. A cemetery was established on the site, and 1t was necessary to re- move the tombs in order to reach the monastery pavements below. And they are worth all the toll 1t takes to re- move them. They are adorned with zigzags. chrIsms, laurel leaves and panels in bright and varied colors.
 stilI more remarkable are those that M. BaIlu discovered in two houses