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The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1910-02-24
THREE SHOT IN STRIKE RIOT

Philadelphia, Pa, February %
Three boys were shot and proba-
bly, fatally injured, while several
received less severe wounds today
in riots which followed the re-
sumption of service by the Phila-
delphia Rapid Transit company.
The shooting occurred in attacks
on cars in the northeastern section.
Market street, the principal bus
mess thoroughfare in the heart of
the city, was the scene of disturb
ances during the entire day. Cars
were stoned and two policemen
were roughly handled by mob of
several thousand persons. A doZ-
en- arrests were made and the priS-
oners put in a trolley car. This
was stOrmed by the mob and two
of the prisoners escaped. Prepa-
ratiOns were made by the authori-
ties to call up the entire force of
state militia if the police tomorrow
are still unable to cope with the
President Murphy of the Cen
trail Labor union still regards a
general strike of all trade unions
in the city as inevitable, although
Organizer Pratt is reported to be
the move. A delegation
of labor leaders left for Washing
ton today to ask Senator Penrose
to use his influence for a peacea-
bic solution of the trouble.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1910-02-24
Quarterly Visitation.

The following are the quarterly
visitations announced by Presiding
Elder j. +. Thomas, of the Metho-
dist church, for the Columbus dis
trict, second round.
Starkville, March 81; Macon,
March 1914; West Point, March
20-21; Crawford, at Soule Chapel
March 26-27; Brooksville, at New
Bethel, April ga; Shauqualak, al
CooksvilIe. April 1O-11; Sturgis, al
Bethel, April 1917; Cedar Bluff, at
Phoeba, April p; Mathiston, at
Providence April 1924; Mayhem.
April %; Winstonville, Macedonia,
April 30 annd May I; Columbus,
First Church, May 8; Columbus,
Second Church, May 3; Starkvile
Circuit, at Steels Mills, April IA
Is; Hebron, at Cochran, Ala, April
22-23; Columbus Circuit, April 28-
%.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1910-02-24
SORSBY SENTENCE AFFIRMED

William A. Sorsby must face the
dictum of the court and jury which
tried him last March and serve a
life sentence in the state peniten-
tiary for the murder of Charles
Fitzgerald, which is the effect of
the decision in his case by the
supreme court at Jackson, which
was handed down Monday morn
ing by Hon. j. S. Sexton, special
justice, appointed to sit in the case
in the place of Justice Mayes, who
excused himself owing to close
social relations with the late In
spector Fitzgerald, in whose home
he had been an inmate at the time
of his death.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1910-02-24

Leroy Percy of Gfeenville, law
yer and planter, was chosen Tues
day United States senator from
Mississippi to succeed the late
Senator A. J. McLaurin, and to
serve during the three years o.
his unexpired term by majority
in joint legislative caucus of five
votes over former Gov. James K
Vardaman.
The result came on the fifty
eighth ballot and was brought
about through a process of elimi-
mating a deadlock which has pre-
vailed during seven weeks,
When the caucus met Tuesday
it was after a recess since last
Friday following an announce
ment by Governor Noel that
should no selection be made dur
ing the present legislative scs-
sion he would appoint Gen.
James Gordon, the present tenn
porary appointee, to serve dur
ing the unexpired term.
Tuesday Withdrawals of the
several candidates having the
lesser votes, came fast and Con-
gressman A. Byrd, John Kyle
and M. H. Street successfully
followed in their turn of elimina-
tion until the fight narrowed
down to the leading contestants.
The votes controlled by those
candidates who withdrew went
almost solidly to Percy, giving
him 81 votes to 81 for VardamaD
on the first ballot.
In severaT respects the Itsi.o -
caucus has been one of the most
remarkable political ever held in
the south. From the start par
tisan feeling has been intense
and the contest early resolved
itself into a factionat struggle
between the adherents and op-
ponents of the former governor.
Throughout Mr.. Vardaman has
maintained his original vote and
at times gaining enough to bring
him within a few votes of the
goal. However, the majority
was always distributed among
the other several candidates.
Mr.. Percy retained second place
also throughout the contest.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1910-02-24
CORINTH GETS
ANNUAL FIELD DAY
PEOAGOGUFS PLAN MEET
SPELLING ADDED TO LITERARY AND
ATHLETIC CONTESTS, TO Be HELLO
APRIL u.

The following special from Tu-
pelo, giving the details of the
coming annual Field Day which
is to be held in Corinth on April
p, will be read with interest:
AT the court house Saturday
morning at 1O:30 O'Clock the
Northeast Mississippi Schoolmas-
ters' Club met in regular session
to provide for the annual high
school meet"
Previous to the meeting of the
club the executive committee
named Corinth, Miss, as the
place and April p as the time
for the meet.
Many rules which governed
previous meets" were adopted
by the club. 1t was decided to
limit declamations to six minutes.
to exclude from contest in decla-
nations and elocution negro
dialect selections, to allow those
schools to participate in athletic
events which have contestants
in at least one of the literary
contests. The club added a con-
test in spelling for teams of three
from each schools in the ass0-
citation. Miss Emma EdmOnds
of Tupelo was chosen enunciatOr
in the contest. The prize for
this is a Webster's unabridged
dictionary given by Mr.. w. T.
Pate.
Arrangements for transporta-
ton were left entirely to the
field manager, Mr.. Frierson.
Those present at the meeting
were: President ID. a. Hill.
Bonneville; d. c. Langston, Tu-
relo; A. L Burdine, Verona; w.
p. Dobbins, Corinth; w. v.
Columbus; S. w. New
ell, Tppelo; X. S. Archer. Nettle-
ton; r. T Strickland, Tupelo, IT.
M. Milan, Baldwin; B. T. Schum-
pert, New Albany; G. +. Capps.
West Point; J. c.. Meadows,
Amory.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1910-02-24

ing themselves before the crisis
comes.
, If | were asked to name the
most important crop for Missis-
sippi for the next few years
would not hesitate to answer
corn.
1t is claimed by some that this
is not a com country. | would
respectfully refer those making
this claim to the origin of the
plant. Corn is a semi-tropical
plant, requires warm weather to
make its best growth. There
fore, with the proper culture
should make better yields in the
south than in the northern and
western states.
1t is urged by some that our
soils are not adapted to corn. Yet
the boys in the corn clubs last
season taking the southern states
as whole. made an average of
60 (sixty) bushels per acre with
quite a number passing the 100
Zone hundred) mark.
Again it is asserted that the
negro an'not be made to grow
corn successfully. 1t is a well
know fact that negro labor is used
almost exclusively in the delta
and yet reports from our dem
farms in Washington
county showed an average yield
of above 40 (forty) bushels per
acre, and in every instance the
workswas done by negroes.
The above yields were made |
by following the methods advo-
Gated by the United States De-
oartment of Agriculture.
On account Of length these
methods will not be published in
his article, but may be had free
If charge by any one who will
,all at my office No. AZ Colum-
ous Insurance & Banking Co. !
or writing me box No.
}52, Columbus, Miss.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1910-02-24
CAREER OF NIX. PERCY.

Leroy Percy was borni in Washing
ton county, Mississippi, Novem-
Der 9, 1861, and is the son of the
late Col. w. NJ. Percy, formerly
of Alabama. He graduated from
the University of the South at
Sewanee, Tenn, and also a grad
uate in law of the University of
Virginia. His post graduate
course was at Princeton univer-
sity.
After his collegiate course Mr..
Percy returned to Greenville and
engaged in the practice of law
in connection with the manage
ment of extensive land interests
and since early manhood has
taken an active part in the polit-
ica 4 'ao- affairs of the state.
i1tuas never heretofore held Of
fee.
Mr.. Percy was married in 1888
to Miss Camille E. Bouger of
Louisiana.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1910-02-24
METHODS To MEET
COMING BOIL WEEvIL
AGRICULTURAL EXPERT TALKS
GOVERNMENT AGENT WILSON TELLS OF
VITAL IMPORTANCE TO FARMERS OF
THIS SECTION OF PLANTING CORN

Mr.. R. S. Wilson. state agent
U. S. Department of Agriculture
urges upon farmers the necessity
of adjusting their affairs fer the
arrival of the boil weevil.
Speaking of the pest and the
methods of meeting the problem,
he said:
There has been a great deal of
discussion and differences of
opinion as to the probability of
this section being invaded by the
Mexican boil weevil.
1t is no longer a question with
thinking people. but a fact that
sooner or later we must deal with
this pest in every part of the
cotton belt.
1t was hoped aby many that
climatic conditions in North Mis-
sissippi and North Alabama were
such that the weevil could not
thrive. This hope has been
blasted as the weevil has already
invaded Oklahoma and Arkansas
and wrought considerable dam
age further north than any part
of Mississippi. According to
map issued by the United States
Department of Agriculture Jan.
1, 1910, based on carefully gath
cred facts, if a line were drawn
due east from the northern limit
of infestation in Oklahoma it
would almost bisect the state of
Tennessee
We must now turn our atten-
ton to the best methods of meet
ing the problem and minimizing
the calamity.
Under normal conditions we
need not expect any material
damage from the weevil under
three years. In that time those
farmers who are wide awake to
the situation can adjust their af-
fairs in such a way that the
damage may be reduced to a |
minimum. }
1t has been proven by repeated
tests that on limited acreage cot
ton can be successfully grown in
spite of the weevil by following
the methods advocated by the
Department of Agriculture.
Numerous instances may be cited |
in the boil weevil district to sub
this. These instruc-
tons will be published in due
time.
For the present the most i'm
portant step is to get our farms
on self sustaining basis. Bank
ers and merchants will not and |
cannot afford to advance corn,
meat and hay in the present
large quantities on a cotton crop
after the boil weevil arrives and |
while it would always have been
better to produce these at home
it is now imperative, and the
wise farmer will take advantage
Of the two or three years reprieve
and get into the habit of supply
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High class vaudeville attrac-
tions at the Dixie Theatre
throughout this week. Strictly
moral and refined for ladies' and
children.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1910-02-24

One of the prettiest attractions
that has appeared in the Column
bus Theatre this season, will be
seen tomorrow night when THE
Europern Folk Dances and
Songs" by the girls of the |. |. C
C.. will be presented under the
direction of Miss Emma Ody
Pohl.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1910-02-24
Special Vaudeville Attraction

One of the most highly recon-
mended vaudeville attractions
that has appeared in Columbus,
will be put on by the Dixie Thea
ire, beginning with a special
matinee this afternoon at $3.50
o'clock. The Three Cannons"
high class singers, comedians,
takers and dancers, besides the
usual program Of pictures and
illustrated songs, will entain the
patrons Of the Dixie. Feb. "a, 25,
and 26.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1910-08-27
Don't Be Like This Man

Said a well known business man to
lis the other day: 1T would not hurt
you to occasionally mention our bust
ness in the paper. 1t would help to fill
up, you know" Yes, we might do it.
We haven't the least idea on earth
that it would hurt US, and it would, as
he suggests, help to fill up. We
might do all this, but at the same time,
thank God. we do not have to do it,
unless we feel like it 1t would not
hurt him, neither, to come around and
say: Give me column or a half
column of space for an advertisement,
and here is the money for it. By
doing this. he would become deserter
to that grand army OF deadheads who
expect the newspapers to continually
note the improvements they make by
giving them free puffs and for which
they never pay cent 1t is high
time for all classes to learn that a
newspaper is business enterprise, the
same as dry goods store or gro
Gerry, run for living for its owner.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1910-08-27
ONE WEAK SPOT
Most Elkton People Have A Weak Part
And Too Often It's The Back

Everyone has weak spot.
Too often it's a bad back
Twnges follow every sudden twist
Dull aching keeps up, day and night.
TELLS you the kidneys need help
For backache is really kidney ache
A kidney cure is what you need.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kid
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Cure backache and urinary ills.
Good proof i'll the following state
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Mrs. Amanda Carnog, Choate St.
Newark, Del, says Il had kidney
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from dull, bearing down pain through
my back. spells OF dizziness and in
tense headaches seldom felt wei
and was gradually growing worse
When D%n's Kidney Pills were
brought to my attention, procured
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use brought the most satisfactory re
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kidney complaint.
For sale by all dealers, Price S
cents. Foster Milburn Co, Buffalo
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! Remember the neme-Doan's San
take no other.
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Instead, they broke down into This
is the prophet OF Nazareth OF Galilee.'
Were they afraid, then. OF the Phari-
sees?
Vss. 1913. This remarkable scene
was the most dramatic deed in the lie
Of Jesus. 1t was the act OF Master.
The commercial spirit had invaded the
temples. The money-changers were
doing legitimate business in wrong
place. The people who came to pay
their temple tax had to pay it in the
lawful way with the prescribed com,
and these money changers took their
larger and foreign coins and changed
them so they could each have the He
brew half shecke They charged an
exchange profit The doye-sellers
sold them in pairs to the poor for the
burnt offering ordered for those too
poor to buy lamb The bus ness was
right enough, but the courts of the
house of God were not the place for 1t.
So Jesus drove them all out in indg-
nation at the PROCLAMATION
VS.. a. Here is the same old story.
He was always doing good. The
blind and the lame came. He healed
them He will yet. Are you blind
spiritually? Jesus can make you see.
But you must go to him.
VS.. IS. Where have his enemies
been all this time? Thev were in the
city They appear now The chief
priests were sore displeased. The
children had caught the song OF their
parents and friends, and they kept it
up. "Hosannap they cried. There is
always some one to be angry when
there is too much noise in the name Of
Christ. These priests forgot all the
good he was doing in their sight.
Wrath filled them because he allowed
children to cry Son of David"
VS.. 10. DO you hear?" So the
chief priests asked him directly. Yes"
he answered That is perfect praise. :"
And his answer angered them the
more because he quoted Scripture to
justify what the children did
VS.. ". Night came. Darkness
found him again in Bethany. He rode
no more. The glory had passed. His
next march was to be cross-laden TO
Calvary Jerusalem lost its one great
opportunity when on that Palm Sun
day night he babe it farewell Their
house was indeed left unto them
desolate.'
SUGGESTIONS.
The main question with any one
should be, not who am L? but am |
doing what Jesus said do?
To obey IS sometimes the hardest
Al, 4 oh "a
the proof of faith
Jesus usually called himself Son OF
Man" Now he called himself "The
Lord" Say "The Lord hath need OF
them" Why this changer
The prophecies that were fulfilled by
the events of the life OF Jesus are
| many and wonderful What do they
| prove as to the Old Testament pro
phets?
Simple obedience is often the high
| est test Of faith.
HoSannas are too often the songs
of excitement A broken and a con
trite heart are better than shouts Of
exuitation.
The cry on the hillside with its free
dom was a better cry than the answer
in the city where the authorities could
hear.
To do a right thing in the wrong
place is equally bad with doing a
| wrong thing in the right place.
The worst wrath the world ever
knows is born of its hottest PROBES.
sions. Think of priests angry because
4 man does good, and because exuta
ton proclams him divine.
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finally with Dwvcr. for whom 10 won
upward OF SiOO.OGO IN stakes and purses.
and an untold sum IN wag"r-. for tn" un-
handsome g"Siing was as true ~ steel and
would run aS straight ~ a string under
punishment in fact he was as nearly a
pie~e OF machinery as you could md IA
the thoroughbred ranks
-PriC" cuts no great hgur" for an un-
tried performer. remarked "A hyStand"r
Tn" Dryers used to paw tremendous
figures for tn" Iruthers and sisters 81
their great horses but they got tired
OF ~ when on one occasion tN"V gave
more than tSsl 90 for hatch ot y"arlingS
and out of tho lot got not a zIngl" stake
candidate. IN fact think they won a few
selling races with som" at their gold
bricks, high amonE which was Jo. BLACK
burn, brother Ia n" famous LUX" 10"
was the worst ! ever saw. and No
laughlin wore ou' half "a dozen good
whips trying to maNe HIM RIM
-On. Of IN" iirst lemons ~ tho thor
oughbr"d line ever s"-ug-d Nv ANYBODY
was King Thomas. tn" hig brother 10 Ran
Fox. for which the hate SENATOR Hearst
paid s2n ISL King Thomas could run
about fast enough To- heat Albert Ioouer's
buggy hors" and when b" shufllrd around
Sh"-pshead BfT m IA" morning. old Alu"Tt
would shak" his bead and numb" SOME
thing about foolish I"upl" with NOR"
money than hoTs" sens" About all that
King Thomas had 10 r"courH and hir 80
any time was bulk, and you can hav" too
much Of that when ~ COMES "a carving
~ a mile and a quarter. or oven IN some Of
the great thr".-ye1r Did prizes. like the
Realization STAKES
You all overlooked a pretty cool hhr To-
dire dOllah hus- vh"I You II int mention
Proctor Knott SPOKE. up "a ke1tIckiau. .
1 remsmhEIh ia" tay Sam BTya made
you all sick with him NJ SheeU~heai Ray
Yea all were som" -ick wheI 81 sam
jufhuc IA" whit" facet gcliiUg ont IN
the JuT IoT Guam Iup Stakes ~ Nor mouth
Park tut tn. fututify was what tho
Freu ch men would call the cooT, te grare
for you New. Yorker. who thought sal.
vatore wIus the clas-is-t hoes n"t that
yeah.
Yes. sun. that gamcCock on tho hack
Of Sans Jacket was happIn' his wiz 81
when Piksy barnes. tn" best littl" uigg'lh
ridah ~ Kentucky, pat II "n Sal vator and
Isaac Murphy. Murphy Of cohse wa p
Kairtucky riZgBh top. but while he VIZ
"A finishpd riGsh and a. great Judge - pace
he couldn't FIR i>h like Pikey. aud We all
got the money
1T ma e Sam Bryant spruce up. an
perhaps he wasn't some class fob some
time round Ioxii gtop' Poah old sam.
he Wa fond - hoG.s~s an he was game
to the last. going g. the racrtrack ~ $50
the colors wheU the doctors told him he
might lie on the way
There waS q Night in the Ker tuck ian =
eyes ~ he hri-hel which meant much
II told more eloquently than words that
Ia his opinion Bryant had risked his life
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limit OF what most Of these little fishes can
stand. 10 the attendants sst about making
tho water in the balanced tanks COOLER.
They took out half the water from each OF
these tanks and replaced IL with water OF
a lower Temperature.
The Aquarium = salt water circulating
tanks are kept supplied not with the
polluted water Of IT," harbor but with
sweet salt water brought In from the open
sea outside SANDY Hook and stor,i IN
a reservoir under Battery Park FROM
this reservoir it Is pipci into ia" Aquarium
and TAI the tanks. to run tneuo.' through
a filter back TO the ressry or. tho cirC'lia-
ton thus maintained being constant
his water WAS now M L. - degrees.
which would do nicely for H." lI'tleiishes
but which would scarcely do 20 mix with
water ~ NJ. 'h'' temperature ~ n" water
remaining IN the Jars
Al that time the water IN the h2rhor
here Wa ot "A Temperature" OF ~. 80 " lat
they did was to take part r"~"r' cir water
a. IS and part harboT wa AT ~ With
which to iii up the jars. and hy the u-s
~ cooler waters IN this CpmbinatIou
they reduced b" t"mIeratuT" Of a." Nator
IN the jars from - Ia ~ Now they have
got II down TO g. and in water oi this
temperature tho little hshes'in halanc,-I
tanks are comfortable.
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shrewd observer on the running or trot :
ting turf The late John D.. Mcdonald
was another smart turfman who regarded
Morello a. a potential champion. and
should buy him. Mcdonald sent a man
to pay the asked price, - 500. but he
found that Van Ness had forestalled
him by a few minutes.
IL was big turn for young Dos
a colt that cost him 500 only ten
months before and had then disposed Of
him for g. 500. Van Ness was not afraid
of the CURLY hooks which blemished
Morello Speed marks he called them
and he straightway prepared Morello
for what WAS a most sensational career
Those who saw the big bay colt win the
Futurity have always referred to Il ~
the most remarkable race they have ever
seen. The colt had been suffering from
distemper. and ten days before the race
IL was a dollar to "A doughnut that he
could not be prepared for the big race.
then worth upward Of $4,000 TO the
winner Van Ness when racing trotters
had done some remark able things. a fcw
Of which were not according To Hoyle.
and when he sent Morello 20 the post
for the Futurity with the youngster show
ing plainly that he was then suffering
from the ravages 81 distemper the smart
fellows shook their heads and prophe-ied
that MoTello would choke and perhaps
fall before the race was half over
Jimmy Rowe. who started the race.
said that the colt cou ghed a dozen times
while AT the post. and Billy Hayward. the
veteran Jockey who had the mount
often Said before his death that hc eN-
p@cted To- have TO pull the youngSter up
before half the distance was over. That
sick giant. however, was good enough to
toy with one OF the hes, fields Of two
ysar-olda out that year. and although
many Of us had bets on other candidates
We threw up our hats and Cheered madly
when the gallant colt marched to the
front in the last f,Irlong
1T was the most remarkable achieve
ment ! have ever seen. for u must not he
forgotten tnat there was AN impost Of
100 pounds in the saddle Morello must
have been steel and whalebone. fCr he
got no let up that winter. hut was raced
at New Orleans and then on through the
West. winding up the following winter
in California
-Raceland was another hundred dollar
yearling.- broke in a listener Joe Jll-
man. who IL almost . memory now as a
phnger. was the lucky purchaser OF the
big angular gelding by Billet and II Joe
had kept klc~land during his entire rae
ing careaR and bet on him exclusively
he wOuldnAB have died brokeD financially.
40 rimor has Il
Like Morello. Racsland had n curb.
and like Morello he was rejected because
OF IL. Old Bones was his nickname,
and hs gained fame in the Colors Of Ull-
man. the elder August Belmont. and