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The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1911-04-20

New Reporter-The auto turned ter
rapin. and City Editor-You mean
turned turtle. New Reporter-Well, L
was a high priced machine.-Judge.
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1911-04-20
REST AND Health 10 MOTNER AND eNIID

Mas. WINsLOW's SOOTHINo 6YnUP has been
used for over SIXTY WARS BY MILLIONS Of
MOTHERS for their CHILDREN Will IL
TEETHING, with PHRFHCT SUCCESS. ID
SoOIHES the CHILD, SORTHNS the UAS,
ALLAYS all PAIN CURES WIND COLO, aud
10 the best remedy Tor DIARHHOiA. ID d alb
eolutely harmless BE sure aud AK for " Afrs.
Winslow's soothing syrup" and take 40 Olhcg
Kind. Twenty-Five osnls bottle.
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1911-04-20
AM RIaht. Perhaps..

Patient Father Dearie, baby's eat
ing my glove now. Is II all rightf
Dearie from above)-oh, quite all
right-pause) you're sure it's yoursH
Punch.
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1911-04-20

Baptist Church-Preaching every 2nd
and 4th Sunday. Rev. Collier, pastor.
Sabbath School 10 q. m, +. q. Hawk.
Superintendent.
PRAYER Meeting Wednesday nights.
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1911-04-20
THE BANNER.
Church DsrectorV.

M. r. Church, South. -Preachink every
LIST and 3rd Sunday at II a. m. and 3 p. m.
X, O. Williams, Pastor.
Sabbath School 10 q. m. W. N. Sheats,
Superintendent.
Prayer Meeting Thursday nights,
Young Mems prayer meeting Tuesday
nights. Everybody cordially invited.
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1911-04-20

The superior man has neither anxi-
ely nor fDaT.-C Onfuciua.
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1911-04-20

Shields Warren, Receiver, Gainesville.
WASHINGTON COUNTY OFFICERS.
Circuit Clerk-W. G. Jockey, Vernon.
County Judged. A.. Hutehison, Vernon,
sheriff.. G. Allen, ChipIey.
Treasurer-H. b. Tiler, Vernon.
Tax Asssssor-J.J j. Williams, Chipley.
Tax Collector-W. B. Gamer, Econhna,
Supt. Public Instruction.-B. + Gainer,
Wausau.
supervisor of Registration -. w.
Gamer, Econfna.
County Solicitor A. d. Carmichael,
Chipley.
County Surveyor-ThOs Collins, Cary
vile, Fla,
County Commissioners;
J. M. Simmons, Chairman, Vernon
s. w. Bush, Chipley.
b. Il. Evans, Vernon.
J.'H. Porter Millyllle.
j. T. HightOwer, Vernon.
School Board:
G. b. Bush, Chairman, Orange Hill
8. j. Gamer. st. Andrew.
w. f. Russ, Vernon.
cHIPLEY CITY OFFICIALS.
Mayor-H. H. Wells \.t
Marshal-H. M. Farrior,
Clerk and Treasurer-W. w. Cook.
Councll-A. d. Carmichael, chairman,
G. b. Dunn, j. r. McGeachy, @. e. Tharp
w. o. Butler, Jr
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U. S. LAND OFFICE OFFICIALS.
d. s. Chubb, Register, Gainesville, Fla,
Shields Warren, Receiver, Gainesville
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-10
His Ten-Cent Romance,
2 panhandler was fnsistent.

The panhandler was fnSfStent.
why, brother" he said to his vic.
tim, Il never got SO low as to ask a
man FIR a dime before. N-no, sir. But
1 just walked In from Chicago-look
at me shoes-an' me old wound Is
botherin' me again. Ouch! got it in
tn Spanish Merican war swimmin' tn
river out there in tn PHILIPPINES with
old Central What's-His-Name. an
every time tn weather changes / get
a twinge. A dime amt much-but
maybe you're English. If you are you
ought to be glad to know that served
under Kitch'ner at Ladysmith an got
a Boer bullet through me shoulder.
Ten cents won't break you"
Hold on!" cried the victim. Il
amt English-I'm a Turk"
lis that so?" said the panhandler.
We'll, l can't say l ever served in tn
Turkish army, but l got a brother
who used to get up early every morn
in an blow tn Golden Horn"
Then his grimy fingers closed on
the profered dime.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-10
He Had a Past.

Il can't, l can't. 1 can't!" he groaned.
Can you not?" she said sympathet-
lcally. The girl loved him.
NO" he cried. Il have a past. and
it is only fair that you should know.
l would marry no girl on false pre-
fences. She might find it out after
ward. l have a past"
Reveal it," she cried softly. 81
could forgive you anything" For the
girl loved aim.
Il told you that I left my home town
to seek my fortune" he said hoarse-
ly. THAT is not true. l had to fee it."
zone day-about six o'clock. it was,
well l remember the time-a fellow
townsman passed me with his little
boy. Suddenly the child fell. slipped,
stumbled, to the street.
'Ah, I see it is Sol DOWN. 1 re-
marked, gazing up at the sky.
"A number of citizens heard me;
the news spread, and-well, to make a
short story shorter, the town got too
hot for me. Can you forgive me for
that?"
Shuddering, the girl shrank away
from him. Her lips moved, but the
power of speech had deserted her.
Sadly he reached for his hat
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-10
ROTATION Is NEEDED
Some System Is Necessary for
Thrift and Prosperity.
One Of Great Failures in American
Farming Is Lack of Orderly Way
OF Doing Things-Farmer
Should Think Ahead.

II we are ever to become great and
prosperous farmers and have thrift
everywhere through the country we
must adopt some system Of rotation
At least We must have a plan about
our farm SO that we do not continue
to raise the same crop on a field each
year. Soil dislikes to be put at the
same task every year just as much
as a boy gets weary of doing n Job
he veal round. And this is the second
part OF our proposition. The first, as
stated. Is to plant something in the
corn, and for that matter in the cotton
too, where there is no infestatton of
boil weevil. OF course where the boil
weevil is present it is necessary to
pillow the lane early in the fall, but
where there is no boil weevil, planting
rye and vetch in the cotton for the
winter crop is an excellent plan.
1t e not hurt the cotton and it does
a great deal of good to the land. In
Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, it is
generally o dry at the time the cult
walton Of cotton is discontinued for
the safe planting. of crimson clover or
vetch, and under boll weevil condi-
tons their growth would be so small
before it was necessary t fall pillow
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-10
Real Father of Greenback

of mine. While studying medicine,
however, he saw what the opportuni-
ties for scientific investigation were,
so that he went to New Haven, and
studied under the famous Silliman,
professor of chemistry at Yale.
1T was while he was studying chem
istry that he became almost by chance
possessed of information which he af-
g~reenback. He put the discovery
aside for a while, but something
which he never could explain led him
to take 1t up again, n at the begin
ming of our Civil wal he announced
that he had invented a green Ink
which would stand any climatic raw
ages and retain its color for all time.
so much for that. Now, after Sec
rotary Chase had received authority
to issue legal tenders, he was anxious
to give the notes a distinctive appear
ance. He wanted to have them as I'M
like ordinary banknotes as possible.
One day, he was speaking incidentally
about this to Judge Lafayette S. Fos-
ter, who at that time was a senator
from Connecticut and was often con-
SuileU ny LAiCOAu, saying that he earl
estly desired to get the legal tender
note SO printed that it would be in
stactly identified by the eye. Judge
Foster suggested that he have the
bach printed in a green ink. saying
that a former tovnsman OF his, DR.. T.
Sterry Hunt. had invented a green ink
which would never fade, but that it
had eve been put upon the market.
That will be just the thing said
the secretary of the treasury. He got
samples OF green ink printing pre-
pared. obtained proof hat the ink
would not fade. and then gave the
order that the new legal tender notes
should. upon their reverse side, be
printed with this green Ink. And In
that sense" said Colonel Wait, DIR.
I. Sterry Hunt is the father of the
/ greenback."
! Copyright. 1911. by E. ]. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved)
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-10

There are a number OF golf courses
in and near Philadelphia and there
are thousands of golf enthusiasts in
this city. They will probably be in
terested to hear that golf players all
over the country spend $4,000. 900 on
golf balls each year.
With the increase In interest In all
out-of-door sports golf has steadily
grown more popular until today few
communities in the United States are
without at least a nine-hole course.
Five years ago 1t was said there were
a quarter Of a million golfers in
America Today there are certainly
half a million. It Is a bit dihicult to
estimate the number of balls used. for
players vary in times over the course,
losses and In the damage they do to
the gutta percha spheres. Then, too,
come have old balls remade and soiled
balls repeinted. It IL pretty certain,
however. that at least two dozen balls
q season are purchased by the or
binary golfer. That mean l1.0O0, 600
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-10
Jury Duty a Godsend.

While many men seek to escape
Jury duty there are others who are
anxious to serve, says the New York
Evening Sun. Recently Commissioner
Allison received the following letter.:
Il most earnestly beg you to place
my name on the jury every year ill.,
stead of every second year as here
tofore, and to let me serve as often as
permissible by law and compatible
with the requirements of your depart
ment. Strange as this request may
seem, l will regard it as an act OF
charity to have it granted. Having
had to retire from business and from
all accustomed busy and active life
by order of doctors, my days have de-
generated into a dreary series of
walks and reading, so that the least
break in it., even that Of jury duty,
that l formerly regarded as a hard
ship, would be welcomed. / will hail
it as a godsend, as a temporary break
In the unbearable MONOTONE"
Another man, anxious to serve,
wrote to the commissioner:
Some people hate to do jury duty,
but l love it. l have not served in
this city, and as 1 am not over busy
at this time Of the year it would
please me greatly If you would be
kind enough to have me on a jury. l
am qualified to serve"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-10
Familiarity With Contents of the Sen
ate Document Room Enabled Hin
to Talk tho Wilson Sugar
Tariff to Death.

: Matthew Stanley Quay. chairman Of
the Republican national committee
which carried on the successful persi-
Dental campaign of 1888, and United
States enator from Pennsylvania
from 1887 to 1905. gained the reputa
ton of being the most expert political
manager of his time. The public. how
ever. did not know that Senator Quay
found his chief recreation in his IL
brary and vas almost as good an au-
thority upon literature. classic and
modern, as he was upon politics.
While he was in the senate Mr..
Quay devoted much of his leisure to
tie reading of the documents on
tanned in the senate document room,
and he was almost as familiar with
those which bore upon tariff discus
sions as vas the famous AMI Smith.
who carried in his head a complete
record Of all the documents, thousands
IN number, in the senate document
room, of which he was superintendent.
This acquaintance with general litera-
ture. and especially with the docu-
Hents in the senate document room
bearing upon tariff questions, was the
weapon upon which Senator Quay re-
lice for defeating one clause in the
Wilson tariff bill of 1894.
Soon after the bill was reported 10
the senate and while it was still in the
senate committee. it was observed
that Senator Quay made frequent
visits to the document room and was
III earnest conversation with AMI
Smith. When a colleague met him one
Gay as he came away from h docu-
ment room with a bundle of docu-
ments under his arm, Quay was asked
what he purpOsed doing with all those
documents.
oh. / may have to make a speech
or the tariff BILL" was the reply.
After the bill was reported to the
Senate Quay announced that he did no
approve of the sugar clause of the bill
aud that he purpOsed to speak in op
position to it. He gave notice of the
day when he would speak, and at the
appointed time he arose in his place
and began his speech. His manner
was very quiet. He used none of the
arts of rhetoric: but at the same time
he impressed upon the senators the
fact that he purposed fighting the
sugar clause to the end. He occupied
ell of the time set apart for daily dis
cusSion and then, as he took his seal
Quay remarked: "Mr. President, l In
tend to go on with my speech tomor
row
When 10 morrow came Senator
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-10
How Quay Won Big Victory

Quay again took up all the time set
apart for daily discussion, concluding
with the announcement that he would
continue his remarks the following
day. when, the hour for daily discus
sion at hand, he arose and wandered
off into the field OF literature, modern
and classic, being careful. however, to
apply such literary comments as he
had to make to the subject matter OF
his speech. And just before he sat
down on that third day he gave notice
that his speech was not yet finished.
So, upon the fourth day, Senator
Quay rose to continue his speech. He
had the right to the floor; no one
could take it ava from him. And
upon this occasion he sent to the
clerks desk a large volume, asking
that the clerk read certain marked
passages therein. The clerk droned
away for more than an hour and had
not finished the reading of the ex-
tracts when the hour for adjournment
came. Therefore, Senator Quay's un-
finished speech went over to the next
day, when it was observed tina Quay
had upon his desk a large number of
senate documents n many volumes.
A curious colleague asked him how
long he expected to speak.
Until doomsday, or until this con
gress adjourns, Dr. until the senate
.otes dow the sugar schedule" vas
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-10

tility could be ma1rsained bJ planting
every third year in cotton. then run
two years to corn, planting between
the rows each ear some fertilizing
plant like cowpeas, crimson clover. or
rye and vetch. This would restore the
fertility to such an extent that We
would probably get as much cotton
out of the crop planted once in three
years as we get out of the crop in
two years Some farmers may be able
to take a longer rotation. If SO. they
are wise farmers who do this. A four
year rotation is an excellent plan
where cotton is planted only once dur
ing the period, corn twice and cow
peas and oats once Other rotations
will suggest themselves according to
conditions. Ultimately in cotton pro
duction the successful planter must
establish a rotation which includes
some pasture Or heavy-shading leg
luminous crop that will kill out the
weeds. One Of the most damaging
things in cotton production today is
the presence of weeds and grass. They
SO foul the land, overawe and subju-
gate the young cotton plants. that |
believe about our times as much
damage is caused by foul lands as by
the local boil weevil. However. we
can never expect 20 reduce this condi-
ton very much or eliminate weeds
and grass until our highways and
fence corners are kept free from
weeds which distribute seed on every
hand. Sooner or later We shall be
compelled to make war OF weeds.
But do not fail to have a plan. 1t is
just about as wise to commence build
ing a house without a plan as to run
a farm without a plan, and the plan
must include improvement in fertility
as we'll as in an annual cropping. ]
think one of the great failures in
American farming is lack of system
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-10
Artificial Breeders,

We like the artificial brooders bes.
ter than the natural brooder. If. you
sell the cockerels when they are about
three pounds apiece you can keep the
balance of the pullets there right up to
this time of the year, says a writer in
an exchange. When you keep chickens
out on free range you have to shut
them up at night, and it is easier to
shut up 100 in a coop like that than
to shut up Is under a hen. The
houses all have board floors, and
skunks and weasels cannot get into
them. We have not been able to evolve
any scheme of doing without shutting
them up. We raised $500 chickens
last summer. They had a run of As
acres OF land.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-10
Z~achar;aS Of Michigan by His Per.
sonai Force ana William e. of
New Hampshire by Adroitness
Made Hayes President.

One evening in the midsummer Of
1881, after a day in which the wounded
President Garfield had been sc e5ae
from suffering that his physicians were
strongly of the hope that the crisis
had been reached and passed and that
the president was on the road to re-
covery, the secretary Of state, James
G. Blaine, chatted with two or three
of his fellow members Of the cabinet
as they stood upon the porch Of the
White House refreshing themselves
in the cool Of the evening.
Il have always thought" began Mr..
Blaine, without first explaining what
had awakened his train of thought
another Blaine characteristic-"I have
always thought that no other two men
of the United States that l have known
of personally O r through history could
have organized SO swiftly and so tri.
umphantly for their party a great cleo
ton contest did the two Chambers
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-10
Two Chambers a Great Pair

OF the Republican national committee
that directed the party's presidential
campaign Of 1876.
"Zachariah Chandler, chairman of
the committee, was a man of great
physical and mental force. From the
time he became prominent in national
politics as a senator from Michigan, in
1857, Until his sudden death in Chi
cago, in 1879, he did things in politics
in sieagehammer fashion. l rernem-
Der we'll the radical manner in which
he opposed the extension of slavery;
OF his strenuous advocacy of a vigor.
Gus prosecution of the Civil war by
the Union; and all of you must surely
recall the virulent attack he made on
Jefferson Davis just a short time be-
fore his death. He was a man who
never tired. His physical strength was
equal to his mental vigor. His dis
position was to overwhelm by some.
thing like brute force.
That was the head of the commit.
tee. On the ether hand, William e.
Chandler, also a native of New Hamp-
shire, and, l have been given to under
stand, a distant ~relativa of Zachariah.
has been 2 iaaster of fness ever
since knew anything about him. He
is n of the most adroit manipuiators,
one of the most skilful artisans upon
political wires, whom 1 have ever
known. He is slight of physique. His
mental power is acute, shrewd. subtle.
He is, In short. the direct antithesis Of
what Zachariah Chandler was, and be
cause he was, and because each man
understood the other and respected
the others peculiar powers and both
were in full accord, there was perfect
equipment, mental and physical, for
the direction of the Republican ma
t1onal committee in 1876.
THAT was made plain on the night
OF the election. 1t was after midnight,
when the election of Tilden was being
generally conceded, that the MANAGING
editor Of the New York Times told
William E. Chandler that If the three
doubtful states Of Florida, Louisiana
and South Carolina had gone Repub-
lican then Hayes was elected by one
vote. Chandler instantly grasped the
proposition and its possibilities with
intuitive vigor and ~shrewdness, he as
instantly worked out the details of the
plans to insure those three doubtful
states to the Republicans; while Zach,
ariah Chandler, the chairman, with his
massive, overwhelming personal force,
put those plans into instant execution.
And the Republican returning boards
of those three southern states, recog.
nizing the strength Of the support that
they would have in the national com
mittee, at once claimed everything fol-
their party.
II do not know Of II other two
men who could or would have acted
so promptly and worked together sc
perfectly in SO momentous a matter;
l do not know of any other two per
sons who would have so supplemented
each others peculiar ability for such
work. And so I think 1t can safely be
said that but for the two Chambers
chairman and secretary OF the Repub
lican national committee, Tilden, in al
probability, would have been declared
elected and that declaration would
have been accepted without the slight
est cavil."
I Rights Reserved.)
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-10
HOW INDIANS MADE HISTORY
Truth OF Their Traditions lns4anced
by Ore Story From Annals Of
the Beavers.

If we could only get at the facts of
the history of our Indian tribes. it
would be of interest to compare these
with what is related as the fortune
OF most civilized nations. 1t is only
in tradition that the history of the In
dian lives, and only one version of
the story is ever heard. Sometimes
this is so true to nature that no room
for doubt "a be found. Such is the
following chapter. from the annals of
the Beavers, a Canadian tribe.
One day a young chief shot his ar
row through a dog belonging to anoth-
er brave. The brave revenged the
death of his dog, and instantly a hun
dred bows were drawn. Ere night
had fallen some eighty warriors lay
dead around the camp. the pine woods
rang with the lamentations Of the
women: the tribe had lost its brav-
est men.
There was a temporary truce. The
friends of the chief whose arrow had
killed the dog yet numbered some
sixty people. n it las agreed that
they should separate from the tribe
~ SCCh SuCIA AOItuuS III luS vast
wilderness lying to the south.
In the night they began their
march; sullenly their brethren saw
them depart, never to return. They
went their way to the shores of the
Lesser Slave Lake, toward the great
plains which were said to be far
southwark. by the banks of the swift
rolling Saskatchewan.
The tribe of the Beavers never saw
this exiled band again, but a hundred
years later a Beaver Indian. who fol-
lowed the fortunes of a white fur
hunter, found himself in one of the
forts of the Saskatchewan. Strange
Indians were camped about the pals
AIDES; they were members of the great
Blackfoot tribe, whose hunting
grounds lay south of the Saskatche-
wan. Among them were a few braves
who, when they conversed, spoke a
language different from that of the
Others; in this language the Beaver
Indian recognized his own tongue
Har per's Weekly.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-10
New News Of Yesterday
60 BY E. J. EDWARDS @===@

the reply. Il have tariff documents
here by the yard; l have volumes bear
ing upon tariff questions that would
I'LL a library. I purpose entertaining
the senate with these volumes and ex
tracts ron these documents, for these
are to be considered a part of my
speech"
1t was soon realized that Senator
Quay had the enate at his mercy I'M
der the rule of the senate which pro-
vided that, whenever a senator an
nounced that upon a certain day and
in the hours set apart for addressing
the senate he should speak, he had the
right to occupy the full time set apart
each day for discussion until his
speech was finished. Quay was pre-
pared to talk the tariff bill to death.
His speech had become a perfect mo-
sale of his own remarks and interpo-
lated paragraphs and extracts from
numerous tariff documents and vol
umes of literature and was without
precedent in the history of the senate.
At last a senator said to him:
aren't you firing yourself out, Quay? 2"
THE senate is more likely to be
tired of me than l am of myself" was
the reply.
And in that statement Senator Quay
was correct. The senate tired of him,
acknowledged that he had the body
by the throat, so to speak, and was
only too glad to concede all that Quay
had been fighting for for more than
two weeks.
Copyright. 1911. by E. ]. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.)