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The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1910-10-13

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pull together with a mighty pull
until the readjustment takes place
and all are on the high road to
genuine prosperity.
Just at this time, we desire to
emphasize three points:
/. We must keep the laborers.
We cannot do business without
labor This means that the credit
merchant and banker must supply
the laborers the actual necessities
of life for a year or two. The cred.
it system is the curse of the South,
but such a chronic disease cannot
be cured in one year.
2. Every farmer must produce
all food required for the men and
animals on the farm and enough
to spare to feed the town people
and their stock.
8. The boil weevil does not pre-
vent the growing of profitable
crops of cotton. We know where
of we speak when we say that prof
liable crops can be grown in the
worst infected districts. We tell
you with all the earnestness of our
soul that every farmer who carries
out the Governments instructions
will grow profitable crops Of cotton
in average seasons. OF course,
those who will not carry out the
Governments Instructions are ad-
vised to go out of the cotton grow
ing business.
The Government says: Fist,
destroy the weevils; second, force
the plants to early maturity.
The destruction of the weevils is
accomplished as follows:
I, Burn the cotton stalks early
in the fall and destroy 4ll the rub
blsh in and about the field which
might serve for hibernating quar-
tiers.
2. When the weevils appear in
the spring on the little cotton, pick
them off and destroy them.
8. The punctured squares must
be picked up and destroyed for
sbQAt six weeks.
The production 81 an early crop |
of cotton is accomplished as fol
lows:
/. Cut the cotton acreage to five
or six acres to the mule, in order
that GHltRral methods may be close
iy followed.
2. Plant only the warm, quick
making lands in cotton.
;. Where the soil responds to
commercial fertilizers, use fertil-
yer that hastens maturity.
4. Thoroughly p4lveFize the soil
before planting. Work the soil
until it is like an ash heap for sew
efal inches deep.
S. Plant early, rapid-fruiting,
prolific cotten seed,
6. Plant as early as the season
will permit in rows little wider
apart than the cotton usually grows
tall,
2. Use a section harrow across
the rows before planting, after
and as soon as the cotton
is up to avoid crust and grass, the
great enemies of cotton.
s. Commence to work the cotton |
as soon as possible and never let a
crust form or the field become
grassy. Use rapid shallow culti-
vation. Continue till the cotton
begins to open.
The farmers who carry out the
above instructions will continue to
be prosperous and there is no other
way to be prosperous in boil weev-
i territory.
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H M STRRET

A. concurrent resolution proposing an
amendment to the Constitution re-
quiring that all amendments. changes
or alterations be Inserted by the
Legislature at the next succeeding
session after the election requiring
such change, aItes alton or amend
msnt,
RESOLVED, BY the Legislature
of the State of Mississippi. two
thirds of each House agreeing
thereto, That the following amend
ment to the State Constitution be
submitted to the qualified electors
of the State for ratification or re
lection at an election to be held on
the first Tuesday after the FIRST
Monday in November, 1910. viz !:
Amend section 273 of the Con-
sutution so that it will read as fol-
lows
SECTION 273. Whenever two
thirds Of each House of the Legis-
lrture shall deem any change. al
teration or amendment necessary TO
this Constitution, such proposed
amendment, change or alteration
shall be read and passed by two
thirds vote of each House respect
lively on each day. for three sever
al days public notice shall then be
given by the Secretary of State at
least three months preceding an
election, at which the qualified
electors shall vote directly for or
against such change. alteration or
amendment, and if more than one
amendment shall be submitted at
one time, they shall be submitted
in such manner and form that the
people may vote for or against each
amendment separately. and if 1t
shall appear that majority of the
qualified electors voting shall have
voted for the proposed change, al
teration or amendment, then it
shall be inserted at the next sue
ceeding session of the Legislature
as a part of the Constitution and
not otherwise.
Adopted by the House of Repre-
sentatives, January 9th, 10th and
18th, 1910.
H. M. STREET,
Speaker House of Representatives.
Adopted by the Senate February
3rd, 4th and nth, 1910.
LUTHER MANSHIP,
President of the Senate.
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SrATR oF MIss1ssIPpr.

TO David Willis:
You are commanded to appear
before the Chancery Court OF the
County Of Claiborne, In said State,
on the
First Monday Of November, AID. 1910
TO defend the suit In said court Of
Matilda Willis wherein you are the
defendant.
Thls BIB day Of October, AID. 1910.
AK BRASHEARs Clerk.
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use and to sell. All are going to
pull together with a mighty pull
until the readjustment takes place
and all are on the high road to
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1910-10-13

And the same is published and
will be submitted as required by
section 773 of the State Constitu-
tion.
Given under my hand and the
Great Seal of the State OF Missis-
sippi. this 1st day Of October, 1910.
JOSEPH w. POWER.
Secretary of State.
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SECTION SO. The Legislature
shall meet at the seat of govern
ment in regular sessions on the first
Tuesday after the FIRST Monday in
January of the year A. D 1912,
and every two years thereafter un-
less sooner convened by the Gov
ernor.
Adopted by the House Of Repre-
sentatives on April 9Th, 9th and
18th, 1910.
H. M. STREET.
Speaker of the House.
Adopted by the Senate on April
r3th, I4th and 18TH, 1910.
LUTHER MANSHIP,
President of the Senate.
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BOARD OF ALDERnEN.
CcOucluded From Last week.

The action of the mayor and
clerk in issuing the following war
rants during vacation was approved: !:
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r. c. HASTINGS, Treas.
which report was received and filed
and ordered spread OH the minutes.
The Supt. of the E. L. & w. w.
plant reported as follows;
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-02-24
How Peanuts Grow.

"Do you know how peanuts grove"
asked Mr.. Joseph d. Warren, of Rich
mond, Va. in a recent interview. II
have found few persons of the North
and West who can answer that ques-
tion. Some say on vine, some on
bush. some on a tree, and some in
the ground. like potatoes.
"The peculiar thing about a peanut
is that it grows in two ways-on a
bush and like a potato. The first
step in the process is the planting of
a single peanut. From that a bush
grows. lying close to the ground. A
branch stretches out close to the
earth. and sends up into the air
shoots on which are little yellow
flowers, like buttercups. Directly
beneath these flowers, growing
straight downward. small, sharp
pointed shoots appear, like thorns.
They are called pegs" and grow
back into the ground. 1t is at the
end of these pegs that the peanuts
are found"
Forest reports declare that within
a few years there will not be a single
chestnut tree within twenty miles of
New York City. A fungous disease
is killing them. and is reported as
spreading in all directions. The
elimination of the chestnut would be
serious loss to timber resources,
for chestnut wood is valuable. The
esthetic loss of this noble tree would
also be lamentable With it would
go the joys of chestnutting. one of
the most delightful pursuits asso-
ciated with the first frosts of au-
tumn. These excursions of old will
always hold delightful place in all
"reminiscences of youth. Indiana
Farmer.
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Pertinent Pointers.

II your flock of poultry shows per-
slstent lack of thrift and robust
health, the best thing to do is to
change stock. You will not accom-
plish much otherwise. When a fell
low gets on the wrong track, the best
thing is usually to back out and start
entirely new.
No wonder the poultry business is
growing each year. There are more
than 5000 poultry shows being held
annually in the United States and
Canada. each one of which is a val
liable bureau for the dissemination of
poultry lore and the chicken fever.
Cabbage is one of the most popular
winter green foods for fowls. 1t is
easily grown, easily kept. and easily
fed, and the fowls seem never to tire
of it. A good way to feed it is to sus-
pend a head in the air by sticking it
on nail in the wall, making the
fowls jump a few inches in order to
reach It,
Fumigate the hen house often
enough to destroy all germs and ver-
min. 1t also pays to use good dis
infectant frequently and freely
around the houses and yards. Disin-
fecting and fumigation are two i'm
portant matters and should receive
more attention than they do.
The Importance of exercise for poul-
try might well be placed subordinate
only to good housing and feeding.
But writer in agricultural month
ly pertinently remarks that scratch
ing to get a minutes peace from
mites and other pests is not the right
kind of exercise" The truth Is OBJ
vious.
Give the fowls plenty of encour-
agement to scratch for their grain
feed by keeping portion of each
pen deeply bedded with leaves or
straw. There is nothing like it for
promoting thrift and contentment
among a flock of fowls in the winter,
and it is also a great aid towards
getting fertile, hatchable eggs.
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The Cultivation of Corn.

From my observations | am con-
vinced that this latter-day machinery
for shallow cultivation" is not, in
the majority of instances. on the cor
rect principle; at any rate in this lat
itude. With the present improved
soil conditions we have, by under
draining, clover, etc, the low average
of twenty-five bushels per acre-as
reported for all the States-is most
deplorable. Even the forty bushels
credited to Indiana this year. which
than half what it should be.
We should plant deeper. and after
the first and second plowing, with
small shovels, go straight down along
side the plants. After this the object
should be to keep out, leaving the
roots undisturbed. There are only
two methods by which this can be
done properly. One is by the use of
larger shovels in order to throw the
dirt over to the corn: the other ex.
treme shallow cultivation, with drag
or harrow, circumstances to govern
the matter according to conditions of
soil, season and time OF doing IL.
However, under most conditions /
find the larger shovel the better, as il
throws the soil up over the roots TO
nourish and fully mature a crop OF
ears. In ''ye olden time" the corn
ground was furrowed out with a large
shovel plow, or maybe a little mold
board, corn dropped down in the bot.
tom of the furrow, covered with the
hoe, drag or ''straddle bug" and cul-
tivated with larger shovels on the
plow or cultivator. And it took a
hard wind to throw down the corn in
those days. and needless to say ears
hung over the rows. long and hard
as stove wood. The writer can re-
call as a boy, taking one year as an
instance, in 5000 bushels he raised
there wasn't a bushel basketful of
nubbins to feed COW. Indeed had
to break the ears over the doorsill of
the old log crib to get It small enough
to feed.
Let us get down TO common sense
in the matter by procuring a planter
AOI auJuStinB lhe idlleT devices Tor
attaching to the ordinary ones in
use) that has the tenders, or pairs of
discs set before the runners OF tho
planter, making a furrow OF sufficient
depth for the seed, but not necessa-
rily covering deeper than it should
be, or would be without them. There
is reason, yes. true science in the at
tachments where such planters are
to be used, as the discs cut looser and
throw up and out the soil in the diff
ferent grades, mingling together as II
falls over the corn as the runners
pass through. This method. properly
applied. would work a revolution in
corn growing.--I. NJ. Miller. In the
Indiana Farmer.
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The Turkey Industry.

Blackhead' among turkeys has
come so near to working extinction
of the national bird" in New Eng
land and elsewhere that an extended
investigation of the cause of the dis
ease is being made by such scientists
as DR.. Theobald Smith and DR.. T.. E.
Tyzzer, of the Harvard Medical
School, and DR.. Philip Hadley, of the
State Experimental Station, of Rhode
Island. A similar disease has of late
spread to game birds, such as par
tridges and quail, and the Massachu-
sets fish and game commission is
prosecuting an investigation in this
special line.
When the disease attacks a turkey
or game bird, there is no hope, say
the scientists. The cause has brought
forth variety of opinion, the most
forcible being that the common Eng
lish sparrow carries the organism
which affects the larger birds.
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COWS. and II the revenue only equals
the cost of production there is no
profit in the industry. He is losing
the interest on his investment and re-
alizes no profit on his capital IL the
expense of operating his dairy is not
less than the gross receipts of the
dairy products.
The profits in the dairy industry
are measured by the average produc-
ton of the cows. One animal will
produce 5000 pounds of milk in a sea-
son. and another COW 5000 pounds.
which. sold at 81 per 100 pounds,
would represent a difference of $50
in the annual income between the
two cows. If the smaller producer
only paid for her feed and attendance
the larger mixer would net the own
er d profit of $50. A herd of twenty
mediocre cows may only produce op-
Grating expenses, while a dairy of
twenty good cows would yield a net
profit of $1,000. 1t is to the advan-
tage of the dairyman in every partic-
ular to weed out his poor cows and
replace them with profitable produc-
ers.
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SOCIETY AND
THE OPERA.
ssessesssessese eeesessesees 3

In Harper's BaZar, Ralph Pulitzer,
son of the great editor of the New
York World, continues to hammer
New York society with the relentless
brilliancy shown in his December ar
ticle in the same periodical. Among
other things he says, discussing the
opera:
''The dinner being leisurely COM
pleted, the hostess remarks obviously
to her husband that she supposes the
men might perhaps smoke their Gig
ars on the way to the opera. This is
probably more from kindly desire
to free the women from one another's
society in the drawing-room than
from any desire to reach the opera
earlier, but the men always acquiesce,
and pile into one carriage or auto
mobile and with their cigars and Gig
arettes, while the ladies enjoy one
another's company in another vehicle.
"They quickly reach the opera, and
walk up cne flight of stairs, to the
distant muffied murmurs of the Or
chestra and an occasional high note
from one of the singers, loud enough
to force its way out to them. These
solitary and sudden notes, robbed of
all musical quality by the inaudibil-
ity of their context, sound as If some
sublimated butcher shop within were
being operated to slow music. But
one of the guests, at some unusually
penetrating scream. is sure to breathe
'Ah!' (as she hastens her steps up
the stairs); 'Ah!' in tones of tender
and preposterous appreciation. Why
she does it she could not herself ex-
plain, for she has not the least inten-
tion of listening to the music when
she reaches the box. 1t is probably
done from the same instinct that
would make her honestly declare, il
questioned, that she was devoted to
music or to children, although she
might not know a fugue in one from
a whooping cough out of the other.
A curious traditional attribute of her
sex, this devotion to music and chill
dren, which she still feels it seemly
to subscribe to in theory
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the fairest, my boy? Jane has the
poise, and Ann the eyes, and Susan
is my hearts delight"
The three girls playfully shook
their heads at the gallant host.
And when they looked at Horatio
he knew he was flushing to the very
roots of his hair.
A little later he found himself
alone with Jane. She suddenly
smiled.
Cousin" she said. did you write
that letter with an icicle?"
He flushed again.
"Jane," he answered, and It was
wonderful what nice sound the
name had suddenly assumed, 81 was
a fool and snob. But you paid me
for 1t in very bitter medicine"
"It was Just the medicine you ex-
pected to take?" laughed Jane. And
you don't entirely disapprove of us?"
"Disapprove! cried the young
man. why, you are the three most
charming things that ever happened.
1 couldn't be more proud of you!
Will you be my uncle's guests at
luncheon tomorrow"
Jane laughed.
"If you think he will approve of
u.s." she answered. I'VE are abso-
lutely dependent on our only New
York relative, you know"
And the glance she gave Horatio
thrilled him through.
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"And beads and red blankets, "
cried Susan.
And then they trooped up the stairs
with much laughter, the irrepressible
Susan bringing up the rear with a
few sharp "yip-yips" and prolonged
whoop.
A little later the hostess, who
seemed i'll at ease, excused herself on
the plea that the girls might need
her, and followed them to the upper
floor.
1t was not pleasant quarter of an
hour for Horatio, but it finally ended
and he heard the girls coming down.
They wore long wraps and hoods. and
he could not discern the changes they
might have made in their costumes.
Hope you didn't find the wait
long?' said Jane.
I'VE are considered quick dress
ers, added Ann.
Susan giggled.
"Susan!" cried Jane, warningly.
Horatio took his hat and coat
And may l ask where we are 60
ing?" he said.
I'VE are going to Colonel Abner
Slows home" Jane replied.
Colonel Abner Stow" repeated
Horatio. "The railway man?"
"Yes. He was our fathers partner
for twenty years. The reception is
just for us, you know, and not a big
affair at all. The colonels house is
only block away. We can walk"
Horatio didn't say much during
that brief walk. He was glad the
girls were going to the home of an
old friend-and a Western man at
that.
And the very eminent captain of
finance had been their fathers part
ner? He wished to know more about
them.
The colonel and his wife met the
little party at the doorway and gave
them a warm greeting.
Don't wait for the girls. my boy, /"
he said to Horatio in his bluff way.
Come right down and talk with me. f"
So Horatio hurried down and the
colonel shook hands with him again.
You're lucky lad" he said.
you've got the three finest girls ON
the Pacific Coast in tow tonight. oh,
I've known them since they were kid
dies. They're ,dearer to their father
than his eyes. There's nothing money
would buy that he hasn't lavished on
them, and they are as fine ladies' as
their mother---and | couldn't say
more.
And then Horatio heard a rustic be-
hind him and there stood his three
| cousins.
He gave little gasp.
What they wore he didn't know,
but It was something filmy and fas-
ctnating. and their hair was beautiful
to behold. It was magic trans
formation. and he gasped again.
~The three Western graces.s cried
the colonel. "Dare you say which d
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Every time anything Is said that re-
minds her Of Oregon she gets home
sick and cries. She wants to go back
there to her tame bear and her crop
cared burro."
"It's no such thing" said Susan,
sharply. "1'm going to give my bear
away"
Susan" said Jane, in deep tone,
remember where you are, miss.
Look at Cousin Horatio and see how
shocked he is.
They all looked at Cousin Horatio,
who appeared very uncomfortable.
He felt that he must say something.
I'm afraid" he remarked, "that
you haven't seen enough of New York
to Offset your Western prejudices.
II think we have" said Susan,
promptly. "We were on top of the
Metropolitan tower"
You are not a real New Yorker,
are you, cousin?" Jane demanded.
Il was born near Boston," Horatio
answered. Il came to New York
four years ago."
"Im glad of that" said Ann. "I'm
glad you are not a real New Yorker
New Workers are so cold and offish
and SO lacking in everything genial
and friendly"
Horatio remembered his letter with
a little twinge, and his face flushed
, He wished he hadn't sent it. lie
wished he had hurried out of town
instead of consenting to meet these
dreadful Westerners.
But before he could reply the vol.
uble Jane came to his relief.
Have you been abroad, cousin?'
she asked.
"Once for a brief stay he an.
swered.
"We have been to Japan twice,
said Susan, land three times to the
Philippines, and twice to Honolulu
You must get Jane to dance the
jubajam for you. She does it aw-
fully we'll, only you have to take all
the furniture out of the ROOM
why, Susan!" cried Ann.
There was a sudden laugh from the
hostess. They all looked at her.
Excuse me-" she said with a lit
tie effort. II was Just family won
dering how that dance could be done
in Harlem fiat"
Even Horatio was forced to smile
but it was a painful effort. He was
never more uncomfortable in his life
His Western cousins with their dread
ful hair and Haunting ribbons were
fully as uncultured as he anticipated
1t was an unsatisfactory repast. And
there was all the evening at the re-
ception ahead of him!
But at last the tea came to an end.
They went back to the reception
room, but the three girls paused in
the doorway.
"You must excuse us for a little
while, cousin" said Jane. "We have
to do some extra fixing up, you
know"
Paint and feathers" added Ann.
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Shecp-ISilIing Dogs.

1t Is announced that Missouri
farmer has contrived a method of
disposing of dogs which are prowling
about of nights after sheep. He
built in his pasture a square pen of
logs and rooted it, but left a big hole
in the middle in which he suspended
part of sheep. Nearly every morn
ing when he went to the pen he found
one or more dogs in there, which he
quietly put out of business. In the
course of the winter he caught about
forty dogs and didn't lose any more
sheep. Moreover, he kept on good
terms with his neighbors, which is a
hard thing to do If you shoot their
dogs and go about Dragging about it.