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Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04
IGNORANCE AT THE WHEEL

The tHne of year has arrived when pleasant Sundays are followed by . much larger aftermath of casualties and fatalities from automobile acci- dents than drownings, and the list s-na6ily increases because of the null tirliczrIon of the machines and the fncompetency of the men at the wheel or the worn and unreliable condition of the machines. many of which are unfit for speedy road work The care ful operator Of a good machine is in no danger on his own account but he ss from the Incompetent or drunken driver who may overtake him and run over him In a speedier motor car or unexpectedly collide with him as he rounds e corner
 IL appears to be no longer possible to keep an accurate record of sales because of the secondhand cars WEic are constantly changing hands and represent models three five and some times eight and nine years old, and not always fin able hands.
 4 Contemporary. dwelling upon the De-ils oc the road just at present, says:
 The plain fact is that the roads are thronged as never before with gu- rcmobile- Of all makes and every aga It is equally true that there is more Ignorance at the steering wheel today than there has ever been
 This means trouble It means loss Of property and loss Of life. If recent history Is . criterion. it means a rap- Idly increasing casualty list from week to week
 The only thing possible under Che circumstances is a rigid enforcement of the law-tle law of the state and the law of the road. The ordinary sensible responsible motorist needs no suggeSticn- His first hour on the road any pieass Tt day imprasses the need of caution The addlepate, the speed uaniacs. the daredevil, the whole company Of hair-brained reck- less motorists to whom casualties are escribable can only be kept within bounds by a strong hand And iudg- ing from last Sunday's record, the sooner that hand is sternly appied the better"
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

Tt must be a fine thing to have national reputation,'' said the retired merchant. Just consider J. Pierpont Morgan, for instance. If he goes into follow his around and cut pieces off his coat tails for souvenirs, and the re- porters fall over each other to inter view him. A man may pretend that he doesn't enjoy that sort of thing, but down in his heart he always does.
 When I was in business in our county seat town I was a bit of a mer- chant prince. There were no flies on my trade palace There was nothing like it within fifty miles. There were several smaller towns in the county, and used to visit them every now and then. The local paper used to say that l made those trips to attend to i'm portant business, but the truth is that l went to those towns because the in habitants always treated me as though l were a travelling circus in disguise, and l had chance to swell up.
 T am now old and out of business and I can confess such things without humiliation I used to think of my tOcOi greatness. and long for greatness on a bigger scale It was such soothing business. to strut around in the neighborinS villages what a sweet boon 1t would be to go into big ho- tel in New York or Chicago and see the hotel clerk fall dead of heart fail ure when he read my namei Oh, whiskers. Now that I am out of busi- ness l wish l could go away some where and find a lot of reporters breaking into my bedroom with jim mics to get an interviewI"
 Fame is all right if you don't have too much of it. said the lhoteIkeeper, but it isn't all fun The famous per son has heavy responsibilities. Sup pose man makes a great reputation by delivering a red-hOt speech. He has set his own standard and he must live up to it or the same people who are applauding him today will be call ing him four-husher tomorrow. Ev- cry time he opens his mouth he'll be expected to produce some masterpiece of oratory, and the first time he falls down the people will deride him.
 "A long time ago I had a reputation as weather prophet. I was running a hotel in a quiet country village and l began forecasting the weather just to pass away the time. I made some
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04
The Robins Lament.

The cherry tree wears a disconsolate look. A robin visited it yesterday;> gag ed about for moment. shook it's head and flew away. We fear this is a ba sign Perhaps it saw Jack E'rOsts foot prints on the blossoms and went off with sorrow in its heart. It had counted on that tree. It had been there before Last year it left us just three cherry pies out of a treeful.
 Well it is all right. God was rais- ing those cherries for the robbins, and if MT. Frost came and killed them all, it is only because stores of good things are provided elsewhere. God takes rare of the robins all right. But what about the cherry pie? Oh, there will be
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04
TREATING TUBERCULOSIS A
 HOME

The fact that tuberculosis may be cured as readily at home as in a spe- sizI camp is established. and all that Is necessary is the expense of open air sleeping apartments and the same diet and care which are employed in the camps upon patients who were un- able to establish home conditions for xhe prevention Of the disease
 Dr. Eastman Is authority for the statement that the best system for lighting tuberculosis in the cities is by home treatment; and it not only cures the sick person. but sbolishes the cause and prevents other members of the family from contracting the dis vase
 The same things are required at Aslone as in the preventOriums estab- .ished at different health resorts. and include cleanliness. sanitation and care in the use of proper food and clothinE- to induce people to change -h@ir habits of living. to exercise out of doe-s. to sleep as much as possible sn the open air. and to do at home Frhzt would be required of them if un- der the constant supervision Of doctors and nurses
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

cherries enough for that, waited hither on south wind, filled with the fra grant air of the tropics. Frost isn't ev. anywhere.
 Nor does he kill everything. There is the raspberry People who have sworn off on pies will always except the raspberry pie. That Is the sun crown ed summit of piedom and in our an- guiSh over the loss of the cherry, heart warming glances emanate from the raspberry bush- But we did want to see the robins feast on cherries again.-Ohio State Journal.
 There is 8 mile of wire in a good piano.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

which this scheme is intended to pro- mote and would really like to see it carried out at Mohegan park. It does she boys good to know the wild crea- lures better, to live more intimately with nature but there is a limit.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

The St. Albans Vt.) Messenger thus comments: Thirty-three divorces granted by the Washington county court so far this terml Think of it! What is the trouble with the marriage law of XermOnt2
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

The Bulletin is fearful there are more republican insurgents in Nor wtch than there are in congress; and
 so it goes in most places of the coun- | try
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

than in any previous year for a quar- ter of a century. The same might be truthfully said of Connecticut
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

Massachusetts suspicious that the privately conducted employment office anu the white slave traffic are too closely allied
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04
WILL HELP THE BOYS.

According to The Messenger a St Aibans man has offered to go to the expense of starting a colony of sQuir- rels on the city park, provided the school Soys of St Albans will guar antee them protection Considering g the kindly treatment which Manches- ter boys. in common with the rest of our population, have accorded the handsome grays that have made their homes for some months on Hanover common and in other parts of the city, we do not hesitate to ajdvise the pub Ii- spirited citizen of St Albans to take a chance Manchester Union.
 An things like this that teach chil- s7rera kindness to animals and an ap- prec5ation of and love for the natural beauties about us. help to rear genera sfous Of better citizens with higher ideals It is an aboriginal instinct in man that still prompts the youth whenever he sees a creature of the woods, fields or air. to try to kill it. It is time to emphasize the live-and- 1et-live philosophy that pertains to this civilized age. Here is an oppor- runffy to put the youth of St. Albans on their honor never to molest the squirrels and always to consider them the wards and pets of the community. There will be an object lesson and rrperience in f. that will do the boys good and It will add one picturesque bnek-to- nature touch to the city.-St. AIbans Messenger
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

Happy thought for today: The way of the transgressor may be hard, but he sits down in contentment with his millions
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

The starting from one point in an airship and going to another regard less of the wind marks the real dawn of air navigation.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

The clown who prematurely explod- ed a box of powder asked the doctor fl Ie blamed a fellow for losing his ears over a sound like that.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

The colored troopers in Vermont, in furiated by bad grog and jealousy, ar using "the sabre" ferceIy upon on another.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

The press of Tennessee condemns Governor Patterson for pardoning the
 snurderers of Senator Carmack and it promises to become live political is-
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

Just think of itI Horses so excess sively high that anything in the shape If horse will sell; and automobiles thic zer than ever.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

The drug fiends in the United States are estimated to number iron one to four millions.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

The coId-storage chicken three months dead is said to have no flavor 10 distinguish it from the freshly kill cd bird
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

Congress has the baseball fever to such an extent that it is said to in terfere with legislation.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

The chances are that Holland will name several tulips after Roosevelt and his family.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

Postal savings banks are doubtless a necessity where there are not plenty of savings banks.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

A scientific revision of the tariff has been slow in coming, but it is now foreshadowed for 1912.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

The Queen of May cannot have a merry time in muslin. The weather usually calls for furs.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

The antitrust protest against the appointment of Hughes to the su- preme bench looks funny.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04
EDITORIAL NOTES.

1 News comes from New Jersey that | the hay and peach crops are all right.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

It is stated that more apple trees are to be planted in Rhode Island this year
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

Mark Twain's father took no stock in his jokes and thought it would pay Sam better to be more serious.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

Rutland, Vt, has no license com missioners and not even a licensed drug store The News says: Rutland is dryer today than it was even under the old prohibitory law.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

London loses one inha bitant a week from starvation. This is just one too many.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

There was young lady named Hough Whose father had plenty of dough; But his breeding was low,
 And his neighbors allow That he ate like a pig in a trough.
 Chicago Record Herald.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

there's hope. When you last passed this way we used to kill a man for stealing bread to keep himself alive, but now we see things differently. We've got more wisdom and mercy. and we begin to understand each other the good and bad. Maybe, when next you pass this way, we'll have this whole old world of ours just run by kindness. Leastwise, that's the way we're trying to work it out right now. W. G. Shepherd, in Milwaukee Jour
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-04

And yet and yet Squirrels rob birds nests, and if protected as dogs are in Turkey. they may become so numer- <>us as to become a nuisance and a r>~f. The Bulletin fosters the spirit of klndzin inass to all Gods creatures
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-15

ners for best gains and the second
best SOW pig and the best boar pig.
on show points were Poland Chinas
and all from one litter These four
plgs-for Mamie Skies and Carlton
Carpenter won two premiums each
with their pigs-we-e indeed n re-
markable litter for any SOW to pro-
duce. and form n good illustration OF
the value OF really good brood SOW
over an ordinary one. Another pig
from this little was also on exhibit
ton and was rs good an individual
as any OF the others. but had not
made quite ms good gains. probably
because not so we'll fed These five
pigs from one litter. ut S "a months
old had reached n gross total weight
OF over 500 pounds.
While the gains, or weights, OF
these pigs are not especially remark
able. they are good and can not fail
TO teach n useful lesson to those
young boys and girls who fed them
and to those who saw them on exhi-
bition.
The oktibbeha Pig Club is a sue
cess and Superintendent Miller and
Prof Hugh Critz, who originated
and pushed IL along. deserve great
credit.
Nearly 500 has already been rails
ed for premiums for next year. and
while these boys and girls made the
best showing OF hogs ever made at
the county fair. much better results
are promised for next year.
Why not have these pig clubs in
every county? The corn clubs have
done wonders. but the pig clubs will
do even more, II they serve as
means of starting the South In the
growing OF its live stock.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-15
MEMPHIS COTTON.
GRAIN AND FEEDSTUFFS.

CORN IN BULKM Per Bushel-No. white
asis. No. 3 mixed 57ts: No. 2yellow 5sla.
BRAN-Per Cwt-oil2
OATS-Per Bushel-No 3 white. ssh; No.
mi xed. S5r.
HAY PEI Ton. In Bales-No SIS 00@Sl9 90;
No SEQ GOA 81. 90; choice, tai5lM22.00.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-15
Pull Stumps i'm the Wet Weather.

Messrs. Editors: 1t is raining con-
stantly and it is too wet to do almost
anything except pull stumps. l find
1T splendid time to pull stumps
while the ground is wet and soft.
1t does not take more than one
half the power to pull a stump if
you pull it when the ground is real
wet. A. G.. COX.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-15
OUR LAND EXCHANGE
Farms Wanted or Offered For Sale or Rent

In this department we shall pub ish off rings
OF all land wanted offered for sale o. for
rent We do not extend our general advertis
ing guarantee to this department because
everv purchaser should see land for himself
before buying, but no man ia permit,e to of.
fer land for sale in this department until he
mas first shown us satisfactory references as
to honesty and financial responsib lily.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-15
COTTON CROP CONDITIONS.

The Bureau of Statistics of the De-
partment of Agriculture estimates
that the average condition of the cot
ton crop on September 25 was $50
per cent of normal, as compared
with 72.1 on August rs, 1910; 5S.5
on September 25, 1909; 69.7 on Sep
age of the past ten years on Septem-
Der 25.
Comparisons of conditions by States
follow:
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-15
Farm For Sale or Exchange

A farm of 42o acres. in the Black Prairie Belt of
East Mississippi wi be sold. or exchanged for a
farm in the Delta. All but for acres will grow
Alfalfa. All but hfts acres cleared Loca ed on
line Mobile and Ohio Rair ad, one-haif mile from
depot The farm has residence. stables, cabins.
orchard w,ls. etc. A very desirable Tar - of black
lime lsud Address G. Care The Progressive
Farmer and Gazette, Stark lille, Miss
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-15
U. S. Government HELPS

In addition TO all the natural advantages of
these lands settlers have also the help of the
Uni.ed States Government. The Department
of Agriculture mainteins at FruitdaIa Ala
bama-w.ich is located in close proximity to
the Wa h'ngton and Choctaw Lands-an OK.
pertinent ] station with sa'aried representa-
yves IN CHARGE whore Business and pleasure
II IL tc aHv'se ard assist settlers along lines
that will be a material helm to thin In nh.
tanning the best results Such assistance ia n
great boon TO settlers in a new district.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-15

GIG mn m will buv 525 acre highly improved
NV VoV'oV Delta Farm Best of land Good
community. Mile riv front naviga ble stream
In midst OF good hunting and good fishing coun-
try. Terms one III cash. balance to suit pun
chaser For further particulars, see or write
w. 7. PITTS, lndianola Miss.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-15
FARM LAND FOR SALE

have 1921 acres best farm land in the world
Hight improved Will sell for SOS 600 90 Will
take land or impr we'd property to amount sl5,-
0I0O0. Cesh $4,000 60. Balance to suit pur-
chaser For further particulars. wrie
w. L. PITTS, Indianola Miss
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-15
Mississippi Delta Farms For : ale

All sizes. prices and terms to suit No use toll
your life away on poor lands W here il takes all
you make to for fertilizer. Com to this Delta
country that the G.d above fl he'd and said ir is
go d. For further par ticulars. write
w. u. PITTS. lndianola Miss
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-15
16O Acre Favm

IN Central Oklahoma Fifty acres in Gu tivation
crop failures unknown. Will sell for $1,000, or
Trade for Mississippi lands. Address
r. l.. PHELPS, West Point Miss
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-15

The herd that Is In the best hands
will make the best showing.-Prof.
VIM. Dietrich.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-15
MEAL AND FLOUR.

CORN MEAL Dbl Sc e5 to $500.
FLOUR, hard wheat. Kansas patent-S5.2 20 TO
ss,S5.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-25

moral Is so plain that even a rabid
Vardaman supporter ought to be
able to see it.
The day of the firebrand, the
fulminatOr the agitatOr, the
mountebank, the man who habitu-
ally speaks without thinking, who
hurls reckless charges right and
left without any regard whatever
for truth and veracity, is dead
and gone, never to return. There
may be some survivors, but they
are merely curious relics of faroff
and unhappy times, and we look
upon I'm much in the same man
ner as we would a live megathe-
rum, or the far famed diplodocus
that the scientists tell us so much
about.
In the minds of some people it
may sound like harsh judgment
on Vardaman to put him in the
same class with Davis and Hey
burn, but that is where he be-
longs. If elected to the senate he
would never miss an opportunity
to touch off pyrotechnics. He has
such mania for skating on
thin ice that even the grave re-
sponsibility of that high office
would not deter him. He is af-
f1icted with such an incurable
mania for listening to the en-
trancing music of his own voice
that sometimes we wonder wheth-
er it is congenial aff1iction or a
contagious disease. Keeping in
the limelight, regardless of meth
DDS, is meat and drink to him.
When we place him in the categO-
ry with Hepburn and Davis it is
but doing for him what he has al
ready done for himself. In
word. he "does his own grading,D
and we sincerely hope that he is
with the intellectual
he keeps-Jackson News
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-25

Mr.. Percy is a man of high
character, force and distinguished
ability; he will doubtless fill the
place to which he is chosen with
honor to himself and credit to his
State. He has never held any
conspicuous public office and is
therefore, comparatively un-
known to the people of the State
at large. But where he is known
he highly and wioely esteemed.
On the other hand, there is
not a man in Mississippi more
widely known or better loved by
his friends than he against whom
Mr.. Percy was pitted in the final
bollot. James K. Vardaman has
proved his mettle; he is a young
man, and this defeat will not be
the last of him.
The legislature has done it's
duty, as it saw it, and the result
will be accepted, without cavil,
by the people generally. Our
only regret is that East Missis-
sippi did not receive the honor.
Meridian Dispatch.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-25

The man who deliberately en-
deavors to stir up sectional strife
and race prejudice, no matter
what his motive may be, cannot
hope to command respect from
sober-minded, right thinking. men
The Atlanta Journal compares
these agitators to "gutter snipes
skulking through Westminster
Abbey trying to defile the tombs
Of the great warriors and states
men buried there
The grand old Magnolia state.
in common with the American
nation, faces a destiny wonder
full, and has too many things to
achieve, both morally and mate
rally, to waste time with men
who go back across a dead half
century to nose out old hates.
The ofice-seekers who have
been making political capital out
Of the negro question, and pseu-
do-issues involving sectionalism,
may as we'll make up their minds
right now that they con do so no
longer.
The honest. intelligent, God
fearing people of this common
wealth have grown weary of
this perpetual agitation of the So
called negro problem. Dema-
gogic denunciations. 'nigger,
niger, damn the nigger," have
been dinned into our ears until
we are sick and tired of it.
Many other matters of far more
Importance, a multitude Of meas
ures Of far greater significance,
command our attention. and it is
time for the people to rise up in
their majesty and inform the
fulminators that in the future
any man who attempts the fire
alarm game thereby writes his
own political obituary.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-25

it's editorial with the statement
that: 1T is to the lasting crdit
of Union veterans that such i'm
passioned speeches as that of
Senator Hepburn against the
veterans of the Confederacy
very rarely, come from them"
Former Governor Vardaman is
not a Confereate Veteran.
There is a closing paragraph
in the editorial of the Pittsburg
Gasette- Times which deserves
careful attention on the part Of
the men who are voting for For
mer Governor Vardaman. Here
it is:
That Hepburn incident re-
veals a change that must be ta-
ken to represent the final passing
of the south haters." d"
Every state in the south re-
ceived these messages from the
United States senate and the
north with feelings Of pleasure
and satisfaction. Mississippi
has a chance to send a reply.
This reply must come from the
members of the state legisla-
ture. 1t will be embodied in the
election of a man to fill the un-
expired term of the late United
States Senator A. J. McLaurin.
The election Of Jas. K. Varda-
man will be a rebuke to the Uni
ted States senate and to the
north. 1t will mean that the
Mississippi legislature has taken
that "bloody shirt" which was
buried and raised it aloft as it's
battling flag to be forced into
the United States and upon the
people of the north.
The election of Leroy Percy,
the one man who gave the for
mer governor to understand that
and false charges
would not be tolerated for a
moment will be taken as a guar
antee of the fact that Mississ-
ippi is in line with the states that
stand for united country and a
united people. .-Natchez Demo
crat.