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The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-09
=. WALKER
A TEN DOLLAR BILL.
Starkville. Mississippi.

The old time Angus breeder. J. P. Vissering.
Box 10. Godfrey, Ill writes: If this were writ
ten on ten dollar bill it would scarcely be more
valuable to yeu than the message it now contains.
You know our Western ranches broken up,
and that our future beef must come from farms.
Beef prices and will be high To obtain top
prices you need top cattle, and you know there is
nothing superior to Angus blood. Now listen:
offer you more Angus quality for the money than
you can find elsewhere bulls that sire market
toppers. sell 80 per cent of my cattle mail
orders with privilege of returning if not as rep
resented But would you would come
and see them. Send for my free booklet. 1t con-
tains my story. 1t is free
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-09
Breeders Cards
AND
Farmers Exchange

We will insert ads, for our Progressive Far
NOR and Gazette ruadera In this department
and In this style type at tho rate of cent? a
word for orc week two weeks. cents a word:
thrce wc-Aa. eonta. four weeks. TO c-ntA:
throe usontha 81 ecntn: ak months 80 erntH:
ono year. ccrtA- Zach word nanhrr OF initial
Including and asidrcnal counted an a 30
parsts sord. Srnd cash with order II tho
rate se~ras high. remember IL would cost sazD
for Postage alone to send your al by letter To
each homo 10 which wo carry IL a, this low
rate Stampa accepted for amounts lona thar 81
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-09

A correspondent wants to pur-
chase female peafowl. Those hav-
ing such for sale should advertise.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-09
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CLEAN-PER POUND.

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'~-p" per 10 |ohh brennan Durant. Miss
EsEa vi. h'oosicd BUN Rock Eggs at 81 % to
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-09

BARRED Rocks Eggs. s. 90 per Is J. A Savage
Alderman. Aisa
& { 4 l. Rod Exss o. Is for Ia Mrs Eala
k.nhia. iLaJd~yn. Mias
For sale rhosuash6rsi Shepherd Pups Porter
Greene. nooa~vili.. Mtsa
Triumph Cotton Seed. u =. over 10 bushels o. To-
ID III War. Ausufy. Misc.
First Class HAIRED Rock kgxs. 81. op per 10. Mrs
H. X Foss. Midnight. Atss
Single Comb brown Les horn Ess.. IS cent. per
Ia Satisfaction guaranteed. G. fartlow. Plan
tnrsvillo. Ass
For Sac 80 acres. level black land all In nne
timt-r. usostly oak Ash. poplar. etc. Geo. C.
Hogaboom. Basic. AiaA
fof Ssle barred Roek Eggs. 81. 90 per Is Ring
let and Fillmore Strains. Walter McCutchen
Seettstoru Ala
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15

the transmutation of private revenge into public
revenge. At one time or another nearly every
fendish cruelty has been tried a crime
ITO make the punishment fit the crime" to
quote popular opera, disregarding the idosyn-
crasies of the Individual has been the creative
principle Of much of our penal law and such
even to-day Is the common opinion of the masses.
History, as Lydston points out. shows that when
capital punishment inflicted for slight Of
lenses. was once the case instead of decreas-
ing crime it increased 1t by brutaizing the
people, while the eclat of public executions Of
fered suggestion to the vainglorious criminal
of the means whereby he too might occupy for
one brief moment the center of the stage. Hap
PLY the present tendency of the administration
of the criminal law is to ascertain first what is
wrong with the individual and then to apply
remedy seemingly likely to cure the wrong
There are no crimes, only criminals" said La
cassagne. and that indicates the line along which
criminal law and lore must develop If we are to
improve mankind
The level of criminaity is rising and has been
rising during the whole of the present century
throughout the civilized world. In France 1t has
risen several hundred per cent? so also, for sew.
eral kinds of serious crime in many parts of Ger
many. while in Spain the number of persons sent
to perpetual imprisonment nearly doubled be
tween 1870 and 1888. In the United States the
criminal population has increased within 80 years
relatively to the population. by one-third Crimi-
nality is much like insanity. Among primitive
races, like insanity 1t is But the rising
rather should 1t spur to the great task of
social betterment a profound thinker has OBJ
served. Education will not rid us of criminals
for there are already. as we know, many edu-
Gated criminals. Punishment alone as a specific
for crime Is failure. Both education and pun
ishment are but factors in the reformation of the
criminal.
To large extent the child is nodded before
he is born. There is invariable fatalsm in
the influences that work before BIRTH but 1t does
make great difference whether a man is well
born and starts happily or whether he is heavily
handicapped at the outset of the of life-in
word. whether he is born free from vices of
nature or whether the contrary is the fact. There
is much evidence to show how greatly the welfare
of the child depends on the general physical and
emotional health Of the parents and that the
childs fate may be determined by
tional trouble at conception or during pregnancy
Take the remarkable case of Jesse Pomeroy who
as a boy, committed several murders of little
children with brutality that was dendish. for
which he was incarcerated for life In Massachu
setts prison. 1t commonly reported and be-
lieved that the bloodthirsty impulses of the boy
were the direct result of parental Influences, the
mother 1t is said, having when pregnant been
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15
THE ROAD TO POPULARITY
Recipe Has Been In Use Many Years
But It ls Not Always Safe to
Trust II.

The way to be popular has been ex-
planned by one of the marshmailow
magazines which initiates Itself with
the idea that 1t is directing modern
life. when you shake hands with
a man. runs the recipe. grasp the
hand as though You were glad to see
the owner. look him in the eye, and
give him smile from your heart"
This is sure-enough recipe. 1t
has been worked by some OF the great
est frauds in Christendom to subserve
their own ends. The man who is
seeking popularity. posing for 1t,
angling for 1t. usually doesn't deserve
1t. Keep your admiration for mer
who show you their real selves, who,
when they are bothered or worried
or mad, or glad. make 1t manifest by
appropriate facial expression, and
who are not constantly standing them.
selves before the mirror.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15
ABANDONED 1T
For the Old Fashioned Coffee Was
Killing.

IL always drank coffee with the rest
Of the family, for 1t seemed as II there
was nothing for breakfast II we did
not have 1t on the table.
Il had been troubled some time
with my heart, which did not feel
right. This trouble grew worse steadily.
Sometimes 1t would beat fast and
at other times very slowly, SO that
would hardly be able to do work for
an hour or two after breakfast, and If
walked up hill, it gave me Sc
we're pain.
II had no idea of what the trouble
was until friend suggested that per
haps 1t might be caused by coffee
drinking. tried leaving on the coffee
and began drinking Postum. The
change came quickly. I am now glad
to say that l am entirely well OF the
heart trouble and attribute the relief
to leaving on coffee and the use OF
Postum.
"A number of my friends have aban.
doned the old fashioned coffee and
have taken up with Postum. which
they are using steadily. There are
some people that make Postum very
weak and tasteless, but II 1t is boiled
long enough, according to directions
1t is a very delicious beverage. We
have never used any Of the old fash.
ioned coffee since Postum was first
started in our house"
Read the little book, "The Road te
Wellville. I'm pkgs. There's Reason
Ever read the above Ietterf A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full OF humns
interest
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15

crimes especially murder and violent assault, oc-
cur in the same family Morrison reports that
among the inmates of English Industrial schools
81 per cent are either ilegitimates or have one or
both parents dead the offspring of criminals.
further proof of the potency of heredity is
shown by the Investigations of the Rev. DR..
Stocker Of Berlin. He traced 834 descendants OF
two sisters who died in 1925 and found among
them rs who had served 116 years In prison, 1874
prostitutes LOG illegimate children. IT pimps. 142
beggars and 64 paupers.
Assuming 1t, then. proved. first that the aim
of all criminal law and procedure is public protec-
tion against crime and. second. that criminal ten
denotes well virtuous tendencies trans
mited by Inheritance. does there not follow the
night the day. the logical conclusion that criminals
ought not to be allowed to propagate their specesi
BY criminal" is meant, of course. that class
best described "fnstinctfve criminals" who have
an instructive propensity to crime and to whom
many authorities refer as born" "congenital
criminals" and who are possessed of an ingrained
malignity of disposition.
II. then. 1t has been shown that heredity is the
most potent source of crime and that society
should protect itself by preventing the further
breeding of criminals. how may society accomplish
this?
Various methods have been suggested, among
them a rigid regulation of marriage which shall
prohibit the criminal from mating, segregation or
colonization of the criminal and vasectomy. It
may be possible by legislation to diminish
rage but doubtless the effect would be to increase
the number of illegtimates. thus augmenting In
tion or colonization" Of the criminal. thus making
impossible the commingling of the sexes, is ap-
proved chiefly by those who have apparently
known of vasectomy. As matter of fact, 1t has
been tried by the law for time to which the
memory OF runneth not to the contrary--for
what else is 1t than imprisonment within four
walls. and has this not already proved its inefi-
cheney?
Coming. then to vasectomy. subject in which
increasing number of state legislatures is be-
coming interested. the physician furnishes meth
cd of sterilizing the criminal.
This method is in actual operation in at least
one slater In March, 1907 the Indiana legislature
passed bill authorizing sterilization.
There appears to be wonderful unanImity of
favoring opinion to the advisabity of the steri-
lization of criminals and the prevention of their
further propagation.
Will public opinion Justify the use of this rem
edy in the Of desperate and incorrigible
criminals? While scientists have studied this sub
5ect fraught as 1t is with appalling public impor-
tance. popular ignorance touching 1t is amazing II
certainly deserves the most careful consideration
OF all who are interested In the diminution of
crime and the uplifting and betterment Of the
human
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15
Used to II.

Recently lady witness In court
up the state was subjected to a
troublesome fire of cross questions.
and the lawyer. thinking that some
apology was necessary. tried to square
himself.
II really hope. madam" said he.
that I don't annoy you with all these
questions"
"oh, no." was the prompt reply; 81
am accustomed to IT,
You don't mean it?" wonderingly
returned the lawyer.
Yes rejoined the lady. 81 have a
six-year-old boy at home"
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15
Scientific saIesmanshIp.

1T makes you look small" said the
saleslady to the eiephantine woman
who was trying on hat.
Soldl
ut makes you look plump" she
said to the cold. attenuated damsel
Sold!
1T makes you look young" she
said to the fair-fat-and-forty female.
Sold!
ut makes you look older" she said
to the slate-and-sums miss.
Soldl
ut makes you lock short" she said
to the lamp-post lady.
Sold
''It bring out your color" she said
to the feminine ghost.
Soldl
And. OF course, all the hats were
exactly alike.-Inland Grocer.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15
A small Loaf.

A half-famished fellow in the south
ern states tells of baker (whose
loaves had been growing small by
by degrees and beautifully less") who.
when going his rounds to serve his
customers, stopped at the door OF one
and knocked, when the lady within ex-
claimed: Who's there?" and was
answered; THE baker, What do
you want?' ITO leave your bread"
well, you needn't make such fuss
about it; put it through the keyhole"
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15
Reason for Envy.

The stingy man had come home and
had objected when his wife attempted
to kiss him.
I've Just had tooth pulled" he
explained.
We'll. I envy the dentist" his wife
replied.
You envy the dentistY What do you
meant"
"Oh, nothing much" the wife sighed.
only he's the first person I've ever
heard of who succeeded In getting
anything out Of you."-Woman's Ma
tional Daily.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15
HopeIess.

your store is no good, sir! /
asked for lace curtains last week. and
/ couldn't get EN-"
"Indeed?"
Yes And asked for silk socks
yesterday. and couldn't get 'em."
That's strange"
"And to-day / asked for credit, and
can't even get that. Is this a regu-
lar store, or what?"
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15
could Have Been worn.

Damocles was intently watching the
sword suspended over his head by =
single hair.
"Oh, weli,' he chuckle6, sit might
have been worse. Just suppose my
wife had found that long golden hair
on my toga."
Whereupon he ate his meal with
great composure and hilarity.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15
Trapped.

The perpetually clever man listened
solemnly to the tramp's hard luck
story.
That's the same old yarn you told
me last week." he said. winking At
his companion.
Maybe 1t is" admitted the weary
one as he started on. I'D forgotten
having met you. | was in the peniten-
tiary last week.''-Success Magazine
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15

Where is Bill these days~
"Fired"
"oh, yes. believe did hear the
report."-Lampoon.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15
A BIT of policy.

But what made you irritate her
father?"
II had to do It. I wasn't any too
popular with the girl until her father
forbade me the ouse."-Louisvills
Courier-Journal.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15
In Reno.

He-There goes that handsome Wild
ow Jenkins.
she-widow? Why. she's only .
widowreno.-Life.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15
At the servants8 BAN.

And your mistress is sitting up
till you get homer"
"She must. My dress fastens down
the back-"-Meggendorf Biaetter.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15

much about the shambles where her
husband, the boys father. was
butcher. and the sight of the blood
having thus worked out In the child.
The begetting of children is the
highest of all human functions and
carries consequences that beggar de-
scription. 1t is well. therefore. to re-
member that every falling away from
health, every new strain or break In
man or woman may lay an additional
burden on a man or woman yet I'M
born. perhaps wreck life or sue
cession of lives.
Carefully drawn statistics of 1000
criminals taken from the Elmira re-
formatory show that drunkenness ex-
listed in the parents of 3S per cent.
and probably more. DR.. Christian. OF
the Elmira reformatory. reports that
of 5000 prisoners received there dur
ing the last eight years 1913 per cent.
were tuberculous. 43.7 per cent. were
affected with some form of mental dis
ease. and that 37.4 per cent. were men,
tally defective. Mario finds that on
an average Al per cent. of the crimi-
nails he had examined had drunken
parent. as against 16 per cent. for
normal persons. A large number OF
criminals Investigated by Rossi be-
longed to criminal families. DR.. ALI
son. superintendent at the Matteawan
State Hospital for the Criminal Insane
New York;, is impressed with the
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15
ceAD>~.shr 1@e&eJo~ ms ca

He best way to
train a child Is to
begin with his
grandfather" is a
remark attribu-
ted to that genial
philosopher, DR..
Oliver Wendell
Holmes. and its
wisdom is appar-
ent to all stu
dents of the his
tory of crime and
criminals.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15
HOWARD {. BURTON, ASSAYER & CHEMIs1

LEADVILLE. COLOkADO.
Specimen prices; Gold. silver. lead. 81; gold.
silver. 75c. gold. SOC: zinc or copper, 81.
Mailing envelopes and full price list sent on
application. Control and umpire work sor
iicitcd. reference: Carbonate National Bann
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-15

RON l. tfnK Dsa,sr n an kinds ot Me-
log mailed free. Cor. 18th & Blake. Dsutsr
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-10
STRONG RESOLUTIONS ARE ADOPTED

Resolutions were adopted by the Lay
men s Missionary Movement convention
Wednesday in which the churches Of
Salt Lake pledged themselves to the
support of foreign missions. The reso-
lutions were drawn by q committee con
sisting of W. G. Lyme, f. J. Lucas. NJ
l.. Ritchie, l.. n. Page, n. +. Schwenck
and j. c. McClain. The resolutions
read;
Your committee on folow-up policy
respectfully reports the following reso-
lutions and recommends their adopts
by the churches OF Utah:
Whereas the business men OF our
churches have been blessed. not only ac-
cording 70 their material needs but also
In the spirit OF the abundant life there
fore. be II resolved as follows. to-wlt;
We rejoice In the good news from the
other half Of the world.
We appreciate the encouraging reports
In literature and In living epistIes of our
day.
We believe the churches ought 10 be
their opportunities.
Ii Is n logical conclusion that the lay
mon ought to cooperate with pastors
and missionary boards in their ministry
to this generation.
We commend the zeal and indorse the
appeals Of our gifted platform workers
In their sollcltude for united prayers,
united efforts and persistent energy OF
the Christian men OF our state for full
fillment of personal and organized re-
sponsiblities In the evangelzation OF the
world.
WEI recommend the foIIow-up idea
that nothing lie lost"
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-10
New nCOrporatioNS

A copy of the articles of incorporation
Of the Utah County Mattress company OF
Provo was hled with the secretary OF
the company Hs @G SaPR dHded ssG'f nf6 S
shares OF the par value OF 81 each.
Charles Burrows is president: walter
Cox, vice president; Fred Hlllas. secre-
tary. and these. with Lydia Burrows, are
the directors. Leroy Dixon is treas
urer.
The Plymouth Land and Livestock
company OF Plymouth, Box Elder coun-
ty. fled copy OF its articles of incor-
II is capitalized at $4,000. divided into
shares of the par value of 81 each. W.
II. Thornton is president: L. A. Rose. vice
president, Z. II. Rudd, Sr, secretary and
treasurer. These: with A z. Zundel A
l.. Cdy. ]. L. Hess and T. J, Nash, are
the directors.
An amendment to the articles OF in
corporation of the Sevler River Orchard
secretary OF state. by which the capital
stock of the company is increased from
$1,000 10 S50.000 divided into shares OF the
par value of 500 each.
The Excelsior Fruit and Produce com
pany of Clearfield Davis county filed nm
amendment to its articles OF incorpora-
tion with the secretary OF state by which
the capital stock Is Increased from $500
TO $4,000. divided into shares of the par
value of So each.
The LewisIana Land company orpa-
nized at Milford. filed n copy OF its ar
ticles Of incorporation with the secretary
OF state. The company Is capitalized at
100000 divided Into shares of the par
value Of 500 each. A. B. Lewis is presi
dent; Tom Ferguson, vice president a.
r. Lewis, secretary and treasurer. These
are also the directors. The company takes
over the Lewisiana farm. located In
Beaver county.
a cop of the articles of incorporation OF
the Aetna Accident and Liability COM
psny of Hartford, Conn, was filed with
the secretary OF state, The capital stock
OF the company Is not less than $50 600
and not more than 81 600. 900, divided into
shares OF the par value OF Sl00 each. w,
S. Faxon is Vice president, J. S Rowe,
secretary. and the state insurance COM
missioner is named as resident agent for
Utah
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-10
MISSIONARY MEN LIKE
SALT LAKE NEWSPAPERS

Al the conclusion OF the evening meet
ing of the Laymen's Missionary Move
ment convention a rising vote OF thanks
was rendered tho Rev. c. c. Mclntire.
pastor OF Westminster Presbyterian
church, who has been the executive sec
retary OF the committee which has ar
ranged for the convention. Many Kind
words were spoken of Mr.. Mclntire, and
he WAS pointed out as the man who had
borne the heavy burden of the work.
The Rev. II, j, Talbot. state superin-
tendent for the Methodist church. mount
cd tho platform, holding in his hand two
newspapers One was copy OF The
Tribune and the other a copy OF the
Evening Telegram.
II desire at this time" said DR.. Tai
bot. Ito call attention to the generosity
that has beer displayed by the news
papers OF this city. They have given
us liberal space and their accounts have
been accurate and complete. In one
OF the papers there are two columns OF
the report of our convention, That Is
generous. But In the other (The Trib-
une) | find an entire column In the best
position on the front page and an entire
page on the next"
The Rev. + B. Short pastor OF the
First Methodist church. added, II would
like to say that the other morning paper
devoted nearly two columns Of editorial
TO our meetings.
This was accepted and the resolution
that followed extended the expression
OF appreciation and thanks TO the papers
OF the city.