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The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
BULL COTTON MARKET
PREDICTION THAT STAPLE MAY
GO TO 30 CENTS.
Manufacturers Need 2,5oo, 900
Bales With 10, 100000
Bale Crop.

New York.-Spot cotton will reach 20
cents a pound within the next ten weeks,
an unprecedented high mark with the
exception of the Civil War period, ac-
cording to prediction made by Frank
b. Hayne, who for more than decade
has been one of the biggest factors in
the cotton future market of New Orleans
and New York.
Facts and figures are used by Mr..
Hayne in support of his bullish state
ment. The supply of raw cotton in ex-
istence, he declares, is not sufficient to
meet the demands of the spinners this
year.
He estimates that the manufacturers
will need 12,500,000 bales of the staple
to fill their orders for cotton goods, so
great is the demand for this class of
clothing material. The governments es-
innate of the total crop is approximate
ly 10,500,000 bales.
Mr.. Hayne is in New York with W..
p. Brown, another daring operator, for
the admitted purpose of starting bull
campaign in cotton. He is stopping at
the Waldorf-Astoria and comforting with
men who are familiar with the local sit
uation.
q do not believe it is extravagant to
predict that spot cotton will reach the
extremely high price of 20 cents pound
by the middle of March," he said.
There is absolutely no condition in
sight to prevent q steady rise. If the
figure named is reached the market will
only be keeping pace with the demand
SIN answer to the demands of the con.
sumner which have increased at an almost
unbelievable rate in the last ten years,
wool, leather and all other raw mate
rials extensively used have gone up in
price much faster than cotton. l am
confident that the results of this condi-
ton will cause a big rise"
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
MEMORIAL FOR WASHINGTON
Splendid Structure Will Be Erected
at the Ca pital.

New York.-Some patriotic women, of
energy and resource, have undertaken to
establish at Washington a $2,000,000
memorial to George Washington. Their
vehicle of appeal and collection of the
money is the George Washington Me-
mortal Association, several years dor
mant, but now revivified by "new
blood" They expect to be able, on
Washington's birthday next month, to
give concrete assurance that the project
is Immediately to be carried out.
Patriotic, medical, scientific and edu-
cational bodies are cooperating. The
Washington Academy of Sciences has
pledged 100000. Seven chapters of the
Daughters of the Revolution have lately
guaranteed money. Private subscrip-
tions have come to the extent of 100000
in few weeks, and there is besides the
contributions in bank, received previous
ly, about $4,000.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
pINCHOT is DISMISSED
CHIEF ,FoREsTERS LETTER TO
DoLLIvER CAUSES DISMISSAL
Taft Must Uphold Dignity-Would
Have Remained Silent If
Personal Matter.

Washington, D. Clifford Pinchot,
chief forester and intimate. friend of
Theodore Roosevelt, Friday, was dis
missed from the service of the United
States by President Taft for insubordi-
nation.
Thoroughly indignant over the action
of Mr. Pinchot in inducing Senator Dol
liver to read letter from him in the
senate, President Taft would listen to
no advice that the forester's violation of
executive orders be overlooked, pending
the inquiry soon to be undertaken by
congress.
He declared that the dignity of the
office he had been chosen by the people
to fill was being attacked, and he would
be unfaitnful to his trust if he submitted
longer.
Political observers in Washington de-
of many years. What the outcome will
be no one is willing to prophesy.
In the house of representatives Friday
Speaker Cannon lost his first fight to
the insurgents" who, combining with
the Democrats, caused to be adopted an
amendment to the Ballinger-Pinchot in
quiry resolution so as to take from the
speaker the power to appoint the house
members of the joint special committee
of investigation.
The margin of victory was a narrow
one of three votes, but the insurgents
and Democrats alike are jubilant.
The dismissal of Pinchot has lent fuel
to the flame of their celebration, and
they are venturing all manner of pre-
dictions as to what is to happen in the
future.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
S2OO,OOO,OOO GAS DEAL.
Will Pipe Gas From West Virginia
to New York City.

Huntington, w. Va.-A deal, which
involves approximately 5000, 900, 900, and
by which New York capital, said to
be backed by the Standard Oil Company,
will control the entire gas output of
West Virginia, has practically been
closed
For some tine the New York interests
have controlled the gas situation
throughout the northern and central
parts of the state, and by the new deal
they will gain control of the southern
fields also.
This deal involves the United Fuel Gas
Company, of Pittsburg, which only re-
Gently took over the extensive holdings
of the United States Natural Gas Com.
pany in this state; the Columbia Gas and
Electric Company, which supplies Cincin-
natl; the Interstate Gas Company, Ohio
Fuel Supply Company, and others, all of
which draw their supply from Southern
West Virginia. 1t is said to be the in
tention of the New York men to pipe
gas to New York, Philadelphia and other
neahnard citias
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
Overcome Boil Weevii.

According to adviees to Commissioner
of Agriculture Blakeslee, the people of
Southwest Mississippi, and especially
down through Adams, Amite and Will
kinson counties, where the boil weevil
has made itself felt most disastrously
to the cotton crop raised this year, are
taking the invasion in philosophic spirit.
Speaking of some parts of that terri
tory, particularly around Gloster and
Centerville, he states that it is most
gratifying to note the manner in which
they are taking the coming of the boil
weevil and the steps that they are tax
ing to get along in spite of the noted
insect. He has recently paid q visit to
that part of the State, and from his OBJ
servation there are few sour faces or
discouraged farmers to be seen, and
while they do not underestimate the ex.
tent of the calamity that it has wrought,
there seems to be feeling that it is
condition that can be circumvented by
intelligent effort and conservative farm
ing.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13

The Farmers National congress, III
session at Raleigh, N c., passed res
olutions asking for an amendment of
the general parcels post regulations
admitting to the mails parcels up to
the weight Of eleven pounds and re-
ducing the rate to IL cents a pound,
and also for the adoption of the rural
delivery parcels post for a local serv-
ice at lower rate. says Boston Her
aid. Professions of interest in the
farmer, inspiring desire for rural up
lift. and the effort to conserve the
country life of the nation might find
practical expression in this postal
legislation which every organization
of farmers throughout the country has
Endorsed, and which successive post
masters general have approved, and
which the express monopolies have
been most interested in opposing.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
KANSAS. CORN AND BABIES.

Kansas has some reason to be pro i'd
of its record this year in the produc-
ton of corn. wheat and oats, and es-
pecially of corn. The total of tho three
crops is placed at more by st5,0o0,000
tan In any previous year in its his
tory. and obviously that is q showing
to be proud of. But singularly enough
along with this proud showing the CEN
sus bureau comes forward with the de-
pressing information that the baby
crop in Kansas has fallen off in the
same year. says Manchester Union.
There were $3.50 babies born In
Kansas in the fiscal year 1907. and
only zS,S5o in the fiscal year 1908. OF
course the first question that presents
itself is what the fiscal future of a
year has to do with such a matter any
way. Yet 1t is obvious that one must
start from somewhere in such compu
tations, and perhaps the beginning and
end OF the fiscal year are as good
points as any. The thought that is
sure to suggest itself is, were the
Kansas farmers so busy planting theii
big crops of wheat, corn and oats thai
they overlooked the graver problem
of population?
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
SECRET VOTE DECIDED ON.
Vardaman Followers Made a Fight for
the Open Ballot

By vote of 101 to 90, the caucus of
the Mississippi legislature decided to-
night to vote secretly on the nominations
for United States senator.
Ex-Governor Vardaman made fight
for the open ballot, but the majority
were against him, and the historic pre-
cedent that has governed such cases was
adhered to.
1t was unanimously decided that there
would be no nominating speeches and
that the only addresses that would be al
lowed were those from the several can
didates.
Before a vast and brilliant assembly,
which taxed the seating as well as the
standing capacity of representatives hill,
the legislature of Mississippi, as a DEM
ocratic caucus, assembled. While there
was plenty of enthusiasm during the one
hour and half consumed in carrying out
the organization preliminaries, it was all
good-natured, with modicum only of
acrimony appearing, and that not fire.
quently and by no means serious.
The climax was reached, when Senator
Leftwich sent to the desk resolution
providing that the caucus vote by ballot
and that each member pledge himself
to abide by the decision of the caucus
and vote as legislature for its nomi-
nee. The resolution further provided
that the names of the candidates before
the caucus be printed on ballots after the
usual manner, the same to be supplied
Al. { 4
There was nothing for it but a roll
call, the result showing 1oi for to SO
against the resolution, which disposed of
the question by adoption of the ballot
plan as against the viva voce call.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13

II man doesn't love his work, he
would better get something else to do.
But the trouble is that such people
will hardly love any kind of work. The
trouble is in them. They lack intelli-
gence. If they knew enough to know
good work they would soon learn to
love it. The manual training scheme
has this in view-to surround the job
man is doing with such intelligence
and taste as will make it attractive to
him. THE man who is in love with
his job gets more contentment out of
life than any other" says Brander
Matthews; and he gets great part of
his contentment in doing his work
right. No man can love his work who
shsrks. No man can be contented who
is dishonest about his work. This is
Sinking or doing it negligently. So
these things always go together-hon-
est work, contentment and love of the
job.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
PINCHOT'S ANNUAL REPORT
Total Stand of National Forest Tim
Der Increased Ten Billion.

Washington, D. C.-In his annual re-
port Clifford Pinchot, chief forester Of
the United States, shows the total ex-
penditure made on account of the for
estry service for the fiscal year ended
June 30 last to be $3,936,297, while the
receipts from all sources credited to the
forestry service aggregated $1,s07270.
This latter amount was derived largely
from the granting of privileges and the
sales of timber
The report says the total stand of ma
tional forest timber, reported last year
as three hundred and ninety billion feet,
was increased during the year by ten
billion feet. This does not include the
timber in the two national forests in
Alaska, the extent of which is unknown.
Mr. Pinchot says that some eight bill
lion feet of timber are destroyed annual
ly by insects, fungi and borers. To pre-
vent this, a vast amount of creosote and
zinc chloride has been used in treating in
sected forest trees.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
vARDAMAN LED EVERY BALLOT.
Three Ballots Taken in Caucus, Without
Result,

After taking three Intellectual ballots
Friday night, a process that consumed
more than two hours, for the purpose
of deciding the choice of the Democratic
caucus for candidate for United States
senator, the body decided to adjourn and
make fresh attempt Saturday. The re-
suit of the ballotng was as every one
expected, showing that while James X.
Vardaman was the strongest candidate
of the several entered, he had not de-
veloped sufficient strength to win out
First Ballot-Vardaman, II; Alexan-
der, "a; Anderson, 81; Percy, 81; Kyle,
Ia Byrd, ~; Critz, S; Truly, /; Lon
gino, 1. Necessary to a choice, So.
Second Ballot-Vardama IS; Percy,
80; Alexander, 20; Anderson, 10; Byrd,
10; Kyle, 16; Critz, 6; scattering, Is.
Necessary to a choice, IS.
Third Ballot-Vardaman &c; Percy,
90; Alexander, %; Anderson, II; Byrd,
Is; Kyle, IS; Critz, 4; scattering, 4.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
FARMERS, ATTENTION.

You probably saw that hogs were
selling in the Chicago live stock
pens at $905 hundred for the best
quality.
This means that hog meat will be
very high all year.
What are you going to do about it?
Grow all the chickens you can.
Get some good cows, and have
good pastures for them.
Get good, broad sows now, and be
ready to fill your own smokehouse
next winter.
The more vegetables you have, the
less meat you will have to buy.
Get good garden seed, then, and
plant a garden.
Also, get some early corn.
Corn on the cob is most nourish-
ing food.--Memphis Commercial APP
peal.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13

The cerulean "sky-piece" has made
Its jaunty appearance in our midst.
Time was when a man attired himself
only In sober hues, as befitted his dig
nifty and Importance, says Washing
ton Herald. No frivolous frolicking in
fanciful garb appealed to the mascu-
line taste. A strong reaction from the
days OF silken hose and brocaded.
gold-laced coats and small clothes
swayed the balance in favor of Puri-
tanical and Quakerish garb of the past
two generations. But man is becoming
emancipeted from his somber thral-
dom; not all at once, but gradually, as
is usually the case with great and i'm
portant reforms. The necktie has long
since succeeded to the Inevitable, and
its fiamboyant brilliancy now shames
the rainbow and the peacock. Mascu-
line hosiery, too, has assumed the col
ors of the spectrum in weird and won
derful design. In hats we have passed
the quiet black. brown and gray stage,
apparently. The lurid college hatband
was only the forerunner of the solid
green hat which burst upon startled
public a year or so ago. 1t was
modest shade of green, to be sure, but
green for all that.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
JACKSON.
BRIEF SESSIONS IN BOTH HOUSES

Appropriation Bill to Pay Members.
Bills Providing for Support of Common
Schools.
There were brief sessions of the two
houses of the legislature, Tuesday, both
assembling at 10 o'clock, and at each
end adjournment being taken before IL
o'clock. Among the first of the bills
presented was the legislature appropria-
ton bill, carrying $97, 500, to cover mile
age and per diem and contingent ex-
?enses. 1t was quite significant that
there were two bills providing for ap-
preparations for the support of the
common schools of the state introduced,
and each of them carrying an increase
over the same measure which was en-
acted two years ago, the one $250,0oo in
excess and the other 100000. 1t is an
other significant fact that in each house
there was introduced bill to establish
additional agricultural experiment sta
tons, one to be located in Grenada coun-
t. or in that section, and another for
the southwestern section of the state.
Both bills are said to reflect the opinion
and sentiment of the people of the sec
lions in which location is proposed
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
Will Follow Old Rate.

The service of injunction notices upor
the railroad commission, following thc
order of Judge Niles, in the cases argued
before him and submitted to him last
November, restraining the enforcement
of the new rates on cotton, has been
followed by notices from several of the
railroad companies that the new rates
will be ignored and the old rates, which
have been in effect for some time, will be
charged. The railroads have stood by
each other firmly in opposition to the
rates, which they claimed cut their rev.
enues deeply, while at the same time
the representative of the state govern
ment have not scrupled to increase their
assessment and taxation rate.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
Sends Blanks to Banks.

State Auditor Smith is having sent
out to the 929 State banks doing bust.
ness in Mississippi blanks for the direct.
ors' reports, which are required under
the provisions of chapter ITO of the laws
of zoos to be returned, showing the cor
dition of these institutions by personal
examination of the books, accounts and
business as OH the first Wednesday OF
January, April, July and October of each
year. The next report will cover tbs
condition of these banks, branch banks
and trust companies at the close of busi.
ness on Wednesday next, January &
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget of State N Items Gathered by Osr Special
Correspondent at Jackson.
Nine Candidates Enter.

The Mississippi legislature convened
at the noon hour Tuesday. All the
members have reached the city, and the
all-absorbing subject is the contest for
the unexpired term of the late United
States Senator A. j. McLaurin.
There is question of procedure to be
determined by the legislature relative to
taking up the election of senator,
whether the matter will rest in allegiance
until the second Tuesday after the
meeting, or whether the body will re-
solve itself into caucus, take informal
ballots as a convention to nominate, and
then, when the second Tuesday arrives,
proceed to ballot officially, which is q
matter that rests with the Legislature
itself.
The roster of candidates thus far an
nounced is as follows:
C. II. Alexander, jackson.
Leroy Percy, Greenville.
j. X. Vardaman, Jackson.
w. d. Anderson, Tupelo.
Adam Byrd, Philadelphia.
c. c. Dunn, Meridian.
+. a Critz, West Point.
]. c. Kyle, Batesville.
Oscar F. Bledsoe, Grenada.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
DOCTORS FAILED.s
RESTORED BY PERuNA.
Catarrh of the Lungs
Threatened Her Life.

Miss Ninette Porter, Braintree, YER
mont, writes: az have been cured by
Peruna.
al had several hemorrhages of the
lungs. The doctors did not help me
much and would never have cured me.
al saw testimonial in Peruna
almanac of case similar to mine, and
! commenced using 1t.
at was not able to wait on myself
when 1 began using it. 1 gained very
slowly at first, but could see that it
was helping me.
"After had taken it a while I COM
menced to raise up stringy, sticky
substance from my lungs. This grew
less and less in quantity as I continued
the treatment.
az grew more fieshy than had been
for long time, and now call myself
well"
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
Harvard Scored.

1t was the morning of the Yale-Har-
ward game at Cambridge, and two Of
the New Haven collegians were wan
dering through the Harvard yard
looking at the university buildings.
Down a walk toward them came a
youth of serious aspect, but palpably
an undergraduate.
81 beg your pardon" said the Yale
man, who is a bit of wag, to the
stranger, "can you tell me where
can find Harvard university"
Pm very sorry" said the serious
one, with never smile. They've
locked it up. You see, there are so
many Yale men in towa."
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
A WOMAN DOCTOR
Was Quick to See that Coffee was
Doing the Mischief.

A lady tells of bad case of coffee
pie and straightforward that literary
skill could not improve it.
81 had neuralgia headaches for IL
years." she says, "and suffered untold
agony. When l first began to have
them 1 weighed 140 pounds, but they
brought me down to ITO. / went
to many doctors and they gave me
only temporary relief. So l suffered
on, till one day woman doctor told
me to use Postum. She said looked
like was coffee poisoned.
$50 l began to drink Postum and |
gained Is pounds in the first few
weeks and continued to gain, but not
SO fast as at first My headaches be-
gan to leave me after / had used
Postum about two weeks = long
enough to get the coffee poison out of
my system.
'Since l began to use Postum I can
gladly say that I never know what
neuralgia headache is like any more,
and it was nothing but Postum that
made me we'll. Before used Postum
l never went out alone; would get
bewildered and would not know which
way to turn. Now go alone and my
head is as clear as bell. My brain
and nerves are stronger than they
have been for years.
Read the little book, 1.-THE Road to
MELVILLE, in pkgs. There's Reason"
Ever read the above Ietfers new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of humns
interest.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
Would Redistrict State.

The proposition of Gov. Noel relative
to judicial district overhauling or re-
districting, which he deems as strong
and essential factor in promoting expe
ditious disposal of litigation and Grim
inal trials, continues to attract attention
and to excite favorable comment. That
the general run of public opinion is with
the governor on this proposition seems
undoubted, and there is likelihood
that the legislature will take up the
matter and act as speedily as possible.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
Surfing Presents Case.

Seeking to dissolve an alleged pact
among retail lumber dealers of Missis-
sippi, Attorney General j. B. Stirling
submitted briefs today in the Supreme
Court of the United States. The retail
lumber dealers were accused of entering
into combine in restraint of trade, and
after a protracted fight in the lower
courts the state won out. One of the
charges against the lumbermen was that
they entered into an agreement not to
patronize wholesale lumber dealers who
sold direct to consumers.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
Want Treasurer Abolished.

The first step in the biennial attempt
to abolish the office of county treasurer,
a matter that is sprung at about every
session of the Mississippi legislature, was
taken when Representative Langston of
Webster county introduced a concurrent
resolution with that object in view. The
resolution refers back to section 1876 of
the constitution of Mississippi, which
specifies the several county officers, and
would amend that by striking out the
word treasurer" from the list.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
Will Sell Thaw's Effects.

Pittsburg, Pa.-If Referee in Bank
ruptcy Blair will allow, Alice Copley
Thaw, sister of Harry X. Thaw, now
in Mattewan Asylum, New York state,
will pay $4,000 for some cuff links,
scarf pins, cigar cutter and hooks said
to have been Harry Thaw's when he was
boy in Pittsburg. A petition has been
filed by the trustee of the estate OF
Thaw, requesting that the personal eff
fects of the former Pittsburger be sold
for the benefit of his creditors.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
Governor sugpends City Officials.

Governor Noel issued an executive or
der peremptorily suspending and remov'
ing from office Mayor A. G. Delmas and
Alderman S. B. Richards and M. G.
Feore, of the city of Pascagoula. The
order is based alone on the undisputed
fact that the board had illegally in
creased the indebtedness of the city
without authority from the voters, the
removal under these circumstances be
ing made on the authority conferred by
section 1920 of the code.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-01-13
NAvY's SECRETARY PRAISES.
Risked Lives to Save Shipmates May
Get Medals.

Washington.-The secretary of the
navy has personally commended w. Har-
tenstein, F. Winsor, R. F. Koegel, w.
Ritzenhein and f. Armstrong Of the bat
tleship Nebraska for their gallantry in
risking their own lives recently to save
that Of shipmate.
The commander of the Nebraska has
recommended that Hartenstein be award
ed silver life-saving medal for his
courageous action on this occasion.