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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
Suit Against Insurance Companies.

Supplementary to a suit recently filed
by the encouragement and district at
torney at Tupelo alleging violations of
the antitrust laws of this State by
twenty-seven insurance companies, Dis
trict Attorney J. d. Thomas filed suit
in the chancery court at Vicksburg
against thirty other companies operating
in Mississippi omitted in the original
suit, seeking the assessment of maxi
mum penalties a%ggregating $250,0O0 900.
The declaration says, in effect, that
the companies sued own stock in other
corporations, some own stock in other in
surance companies who are competing
corporations, and it is alleged this is in
violation Of the antitrust laws of Mis-
sissippi.
The penalty for violations of the anti
trust laws is prescribed at not less than
5000 nor more than $4,000 fine per
day.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
ce-oPERATlON IN ENsLAND
Been Tremendous Success from
the Very Beginning.

Contemplation OF the magnitude of
cooperative merchandising in England
almost staggers one. Cooperative
stores are counted by the thousands
there, and each one is q unit in a stu
pendous whole. Years ago the then
comparatively few local cooperative
stores combined to establish a whole
sale. from which they could draw sup
plies from first hands without paying
outside Intermediates IN profits.
The movement was successful from
the start, though the beginning was
small. To-day that central establish
ment. owned absolutely by the local
cooperative associations, is doing q
business of over $500. 600. 900 a year,
and much of the merchandise it sells
is comparatively manufactured!
This system virtually makes pro-
Queer and consumer one, and the Ell
tire profits OF the business go to
each in proportion to his contribution
to the business. The tremendous
chasm between producer and con-
sumner, which costs so mucn to cross
in this country, is unknown in Eng
AdAO. oo dlC lldll OluSI hOuSSS-
those monsters that terrify the souls
Of u country retailers-unknown
there. There is no place for them
among the common people of Eng
land, and as we'll managed co-opera'
tive stores increase here there will be
less n less pickings for mail order
houses. Every retailer VINO makes OF
his store a cooperative unit is doing
more to embarrass big mail order
houses than a score of retailers car
do by denunciation of such houses, OF
trying to destroy them by legislation
n as a rule, retailers are quite as
antagonistic to cooperative stores as
to mail order houses. Yet one or the
other will eventually do the major
part of the distribution of merchan
disc.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget of State News Items Gathered 81 Our Special
Correspondent At Jackson
County Fair Dates.

The county fsi. season will be for.
mally Inaugural ed in Mississippi this
week, the initial event being the Win
will commence on Sept. Fl and continue
for a period of three days.
The next event on the calendar will be
during the following week, the Tri-COun-
ty Fair at Tupelo, Sept. 2S-Sept. 80, i'm
elusive.
The dates for other events, in the OF.
der they will come, are as follows:
Alcorn County Fair, at Corinth, Oct.
6-S.
Oktibbeha County Fair, ct starkville,
Oct. 6-s.
S~eott-Newton Fair, at Lake, Oct. lila.
Delta Fair, at Greenville, Oct. lilo.
Prentiss County Fair, at Bonneville:
Oct. 1914.
North Mississippi Fair, at Holly
Springs, Oct. 1916.
Mississippi-Louisiana Fair, at Natchez,
Oct. 1920.
HOLMES County Fair, at Lexington,
Oct. 1916.
Mississippi and West Alabama Fair,
at Columbus, Oct. 1922.
Covington County Fair, at Mt. Olive,
Oct. 1921.
Y%alobusha County Fair, at Water Val
ley, Oct. 1923.
Yazoo County Fair, at Yazoo City,
Oct. 1924.
These events will give active aid and
cooperation to the big wind-up enter
prise, the Mississippi State Fair, in Jack
son, Oct. 26-Nov. 5, sending their choic-
est exhibits to Jackson to compete for
premiums.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
252 BODIES ARE FOUND
MANY STRIPPED or CLOTHING
AND ARE UNIDENTITIED.
Belief Expedition Fesds Over 900
People Who We're IN Stafv-
inH Condition.

New Orleans, lathe total death ron
now 252. And that represents only the
Known dead. Searches now being made
by relief expeditions in the stretches of
marshes and lowlands in Terre Bonne
and LaFourche parishes will undoubtedly
reveal more casualties.
A section gang working Oh the Louis
vile railroad found thirty-six bodies be-
tween Dunbar and Claiborne, all of them
being almost stripped of clothing, and
with nothing to identify them.
The islands on the southeast coast Of
Louisiana and the lowlands nearby We're
visited, and while there was great de
struction of boats and houses, there was
no loss of life there.
A. Cardona, who went on a relief ex.
petition in the lower stretch of Bayou
~LaFourche, going as far south as Lee
vile, at the mouth Of the bayou, reports
an awful condition existing there. He
says they fed 500 people, who were In a
starving condition, without homes and
without clothing. :
He also reports that at a point on the
Terre Bonnie sid of Bayou LaFourche,
near the mouth, seventeen members of
a family. were drowned in one house, and
that the n%eighbors surviving had to burn
the wrecked building and cremate the
bodies to avoid disease.
He says that the drowned cattle, hogs
and other animals are beginning to pu-
trify now that the water has receded
and that the atmosphere is very foul.
There are a thousand refugees in Hou-
ma, who are being cared for. Relief
is being sent from New Orleans to Hon
ma and Congressman Broussard has ap-
pealed to the federal government to have
Col. Foote, the local army commandant,
detailed to take charge of the relief in
that section.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
Work of Colleges.

I believe that the agricultural col
loges are doing a great work in that
they are teaching the diversity of
crops that can be produced in the diff
ferent sections. The agricultural col
lege is one of the factors in turning
the tide of people toward the country.
l think the teaching of domestic
science here is important. l think it
is, a reflection upon their country
that we spend more than forty times
as much in preparation for war as we
do in developing the things the farm.
ers are interested in.-William Jen'
ninPS Bryan,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
KEEP RATS AWAY FROM MEAT
Arrangement of Timbers with Metal
Disks at Each End Will Serve Pur-
pose in Satisfactory Manner.

rats and mice eating the salt or
smoked meat will find the described
device inexpensive and highly salts
factory. Two-inch timbers or poles
are placed across the smokehouse in
the usual and the hams and
sides hung on them with strings.
Round disks or pieces of galvanized
iron or tin are cut about ten inches
in diameter and placed on each end
of the hanging bars as shown. A
hole is made in the center of the tin
for the bar and the disk is then cut
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

Another Operation Avoided.
Chicago, Ill. -" want women to
know what hat wonderful medicine,
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, has done for me. Two of the
best doctors in Chicago said / would
die if 1 did not have an operation, and
l never thought of seeing q well day
again. Ihada small tumor and female
troubles SO that 1 suffered day and
night. A friend recommended Lydia
+. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and it made me q well woman."-Mrs.
ALvENA SPERLING, II Iangdon ST.,
Chicago, Ill.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from roots and herbs,
has proved to be the most successful
remedy for curing the worst forms of
female ills, including displacements.
Inflammation, fbroid tumors, irregu-
larities, periodic pains, hackache, bear
ing-down feeling, fatulency, indiges-
ton, andnervous prostration. Ii costs
but a trife to try it, and the result
has been worth millions to many
suffering women.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
HONOR HEROES OF GRAY.
Federal Government Raises Shaft tt
Confederates.

Salem, n. J.-One of the first monu-
ments to be erected by the federal gov
eminent to Confederate prisoners of wal
who died on Northern soil during the
civil strife will be raised in the national
cemetery at Firms Point, along the Del
aware, below this city, according to a
dispatch from Washington.
The war department has just closed q
contract with the Van Awnings Granite
company, of Boston, for a Pennsylvania
white marble shaft eighty-three feet high
to be erected to the memory of the brave
fellows in gray who died at Fort Della.
ware, near which the national cemetery
is located.
Similar shafts are to be erected in all
parts of the country where other Con
federate prisoners of war lie. .
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

ing. The hook is illustrated herewith
The bar ALB is of quarter-inch iron
one inch wide and Is inches long. with
a split three inches long and about
three-quarters of an inch wide at each
end. A five-inch arm E-T is riveted ia
ALB IL inches from D, making the dis
lance from B to e about Is inches and
providing for fowls too small to spread
from A to B.. The staff CD is of half.
inch round iron IS inches long with a
shoulder at D and riveted on the under
side of ALB, SO that the latter will
swing freely.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
TAKE PICTURES OF THE SUN
Spots Seen May Have Caused Aurora
Display.

Washington-An investigation of a
Photographic negative of the sun taken
by astronomers of the United States
naval observatory here Sunday discloses
the fact that there was one large spot
on the "going off" or west side of the
sun, with a number of smaller spots
south of the large one. In its present
position it is estimated that the large
spot will disappear from the sun in
about four days and the small spots
probably sooner.
The spot period, according to the Off
Gals, occurs about every 10.1 years, and
this period is now nearing the minimum,
the maximum having been reached about
100 or 1905. 1t is expected that in the
course of time the spots will entirely dis
appear.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
Negro Murderer Lynched.

Live Oak, Fla.-Swinging from a limb
in front of his shoe repairing shop at
Perry, Taylor county, the dead body of
Charley Anderson, a negro, was found
early Sunday morning. A mob had inn
posed the death penalty as a reward for
the bullet Anderson sent into the heart
of Marshal Hawkins. The place of the
lynching was almost at the spot where
Marshal Hawkins was slain, the officer
having been in the act of placing the
negro under arrest when he met his
death at the hands of Anderson.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
Treasurer Counts Cash.

State Treasurer Edwards balanced off
his cash Saturday, to find that the &C
count exceeded that of one year G on
the same date by ~$169,673.25.
The figures We're: Cash in the drawer,
$65.66; cash in the repositories, $191,-
311.45, or a total cash account of $685.
377.11. On Sept. Is, 1908, the cash bal
ance stood %$25,7O3.s6, leaving the differ
ence in favor of 1905 as indicated above.
There will be steady drains on the
treasury from now on, and very little
coming in by way of offset, but the pros
poets are that the first of November will
lind quite an unusual balance of cash
for that period of the year.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
Will Unite Hospitals.

According to Rev. DR.. W. r. Lambuth,
general secretary of the board of mis-
sions of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, who met representatives from the
two Mississippi conferences and talked
over the general Methodist hospital prop
~osition, the plan proposed for memorial
izing the general conference through the
annual conferences ought to have great
weight in determining the action of the
central body. If the GENERALIZATION
scheme or chain urged by the committee
should become an accomplished fact, it
would include those hospitals already es-
tablished and maintained by the Meth
odist connection. These are the Wesley
Memorial Hospital, in Atlantis; the
Barnes Memorial Hospital, of st. Louis,
and the Galloway Memorial Hospital, at
Nashville.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

Statistics compiled by a technical
journal recently show hat in Europe
n physician can care for 1000 of the
general population If such a proper
ton holds good for Europe, it is rea-
sonable to suppose that q similar pro-
portion would. be sufficient for the
United States. And yet, according to
the census of 1900, we had one doe
tor to every 504 Of our population.
It is estimated that the 1910 census
win show at least 154, 900 doctors in
the United States. It is stated on
authority that we are IS years Ii ad.
vance Of the natural requirements,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

The large plant to be erected at
Wells, Mich, for the extraction of
tannic acid from hemlock bark, rep
resents an improvement in the pro-
cess of tanning which has established
economies in the manufacture of
leather and enabled tanners to sell
their product at lower figures. For
merly the tan bark vas shipped in
sail and steam vessels to the various
tanneries, where 1t was ground up
and subjected to treatment for the
extraction of the tannic acid while
the process Of tanning was at the
same time in progress.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
Will Cover Old Capitol.

General Manager Mckay of the State
Fair. who is also secretary of the expo
sition association, which organization is
the lessee in fee simple of the old cap
itoI and grounds, states that arrange
ments will be made at once for the re-
covering of the unroofed portions of the
old building in such way as to protect
the interior of the structure as far
as possible, pending ultimate disposition
of hte property, by either selling or re-
pairing, by the legislature.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

General Manager n. G. Pearsall of the
New Orleans Great Northern road states
that the work of getting the company's
tracks between jackson and Columbia in
irst-class shape is making good head.
way, and when the task is completed the
matter of providing q double daily 80
service between jackson and New On
leans will be taken up. 1T is our inter.
ton, Of course, to provide . double daily
service in and out of jackson, said Mr.
PearsaIl, and the date Of its commences
meut deperds wholly On the work Of 81
tine the fasdbed in proper f!lapc
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

1t is somewhat surprising that in a
country of such thrifty persons as
France lotteries should flourish to the
extent they do. The man who saves
money on small earnings seldom takes
the gamblers chance on which all
lotteries depend, but it is a fact that
France abounds in these institutions.
So pronounced is the evil that the
government has taken up the matter.
having just submitted to the Chamber
of Deputies a proposition looking to
the adjustment of lotteries.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
Surveying Pearl River.

The parties in charge of the survey
and investigation that is now being
made along uppe Pearl river, with a
view to determining the n~avigability of
that stream, are now engaged in the pre-
liminary work, with F. 3. Pratt of the
United States engineer corps in general
charge.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
New Insect Rayaging Cotton.

Commissioner Blakeslee of the depart.
ment of agriculture and commerce has
from an Amite county planter
specimens of a species Of insect closely
resembling the lightning bug, which, ae-
cording to this planter, are ravaging the
cotton crop in that section of the State.
The planter says that this bug does not
work in the fields during the day, but
commits his depredations at night, and
the disastrous results that follow are
very similar to the ravages of the Mex
lean boil weevil.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

Lieut.. ~Shackleton of the British
forces, who came within an ace of dis
covering the south pole, will lecture
in this country to make up the moun
of his expenses in this important ex-
petition. OF course, England will take
the glory of his discoveries, but, up to
date, he is left to pay the cost, which
shows how much superior present
gratitude is to posthumous glory and
post-mortem monuments.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
Vardaman Goes to Maryland.

Ex-Gov. James K. Nardaman has &C.
cepted an invitation from the chairman
of the Democratic State executive com
mittee of Maryland to deliver a series of
addresses in that State in support of
the proposed constitutional amendment,
which virtually DISTINGUISHES the negro
voters of Maryland.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

Another prince is reported to be
paying attention to an American heir
ess. Now that even royalty is anx-
ious for the pretty American girl and
her millions, the chances of the young
American man ought to have been
considered in the tariff at high pro-
tective rates ON Princes.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
Celery Needs Water.

Celery needs lots OF water. If water
cannot be applied to the plants ari-
fcially, cultivate SO as to constantly
keep a dust mulch to hold the mois-
ture. Do not cultivate celery plants
when they are wet with dew or rain,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

The homeward rush of sightseers
has set IN from Europe. We wonder
how many of them have ever gone
through Yellowstone Park, have gazed
upon The wonders of the Grand Ca
W of the Colorado, or camped in the
reEWoods of California?
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

Even the accursed mosquito has it's
uses. In New Jersey they get rid of
tramps by Handwriting and exposing
them to the mosquitoes. In a few
minutes the tramps are ready and
eager to leave town. This is almost
as barbarOus as capital punishment.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

A young man in New York commit
ted suicide because two girls had re-
jected him within 40 minutes, one for
the fiftieth time. He ought to have
been immune after such an expert
ence trom the deadly love germ.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

The baby emperor of China has
been formally proclaimed commander
OF the army and navy. 1t is to be
hoped that those two important
branches of the public service are
not infant industries.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

from one side as shown to the center.
1t is then placed over the bar and
bent until slightly cone-shaped. with
the rounding side away from the
meat. Do not make the disks fast.
Leave them loose but so arranged on
the hanging bar that they will not
fall. They should be placed about
six inches from the ends of the bar.
Rats or mice cannot pass the disks to
reach the meat. Any dc can will
do for these disks.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

The French have discovered that
~whiskered kisses leave on the lady's
lips bacilli of tuberculosis, diphtheria
n pneumonia, besides unclassified
microbes. And yet it's doubtful if the
w~hiSkered kiss will go.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
Damage to Timber.

Reports received from that section in
dictate that the amount of timber felled
in the long leaf yellow pine belt by
the tropical hurricane on Monday night
was not SO heavy as at first feared.
While the damage to timber will be
very extensive, and cannot be made fully
known for several days, confidence is
felt that it will not be as heavy as that
in 1906, when fully S. 5000, 900 worth of
yellow pine in Mississippi alone was de
stroyed, one large syndicate suffering a
loss closely approaching $1,000, 900.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

When Prince Miguel renowned the
throne of Portugal, which he had no
chance of ever getting, it must have
been almost as grave a step as swear
ing off smoking.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

Aviation is the craze of the hour.
Luckily, it is not a craze which can
becom as general as some others
have been, and while some foolhardy
ones will pay the usual price for
reckless temerity, the experiments in
h main will be confined to those who
ook upon the question of air travel
as something more than a passing fad.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
DOCTOR
ADVISED
OPERATION
Cu~redbyLydiaE .Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Paw Paw, Mich.-"I suffered terri.

Oily o Ielldle Ills,
including inflam-
nation and conges-
ton, for several
years. My doctor
said there was no
hope for me but an
operation. / began
taking Lydia L.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound, and
/ can o say i am
a well woman"
EMMA
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

A professional walker is confident
he can walk from San Francisco to
New York in a hundred days. But
why should anyone waste so much
time when trains are handler?
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
Good Water Necessary.

One of the most important considsra
tons or the farmer should be the wa.
ter supply. both Tor the household ead
for the animals.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
Will Discuss Live Topics.

II. E. Blakeslee, commissioner of agri-
culture and commerce of Mississippi, has
received a draft copy of the suggested
program to be followed at the conven-
ton which is to be held here Nov. 16,
II and 10, next. The program contem-
plates full and cree discussion OF agri
cultural topics, including practical ags-
culture, chemical research, soil survey
and analyses, field and farm work and
results generally. and boil weevil and
other chronological hindrauees 70 crop
development
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

A San Francisco man is to marry
the richest, of the young east Indian
princeSses. 1t is time We were get
ting back some matrimonial millions
into this ountry
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
A Waste of Money.

Hub-Reckless and extravaganza?
When did | ever make a useless pur-
chase?
Wife-Why, there's that fire eXtin-
guisher you bought a ear ago; we've
never used it once
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

While the amateur aeronaut is quite
likely to come to some untimely fate,
he is less a menace to the public than
the amateur chauffeur.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

A man in New Jersey is going to
train q lion to guard his chickens. He
might do better with a trained mos
quito squad.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

London has been having a naval
procession of $50 warship. This dem
onstration ought to scare off that
phantom German invasion.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

There is only n more pole to dis
cover. Nations which may feel piqued
at American success in One direction
are at liberty to get busy in the other
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

There cannot be too much light in
the streets. The more light the less
opportunity for criIle.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01
HOOK FOR HOLDING w
Very Convenient Device to Be Used
in PIucking and Is Cheap and
Easy of Construction.

C. K. Graham of the Storrs station
in Connecticut has devised a convent
ent hook for holding fowls for pluck
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

earned was given to them for a birth
day present Or something like that.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

uncomplimentary to call a man a cab
bage head.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

what effect will the discovery OF the
north pole have on the price of ear
NUTS?
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

As a killer che s%corching automobile
is too misceIianeous.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-10-01

Whether from Colds, Heat, Stomach or
Nervous troubles the aches are speedily
relieved by Capudine. It's ~Liquid-pleaS-
ant to ~take-Effects Immediately. 10, Is
AID 50c at Drug Stores.