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case. What is the reason? The main
cause is the lack OF suitable seed beds
in the south.
Experiments have shown that, while
it sends many of its roots three or
four feet deep, the corn plant places
the great body Of its feeding roots
from three to twelve inches below the
surface where the soil is made loose
enough by blowing or by frost to per-
NIT it. The roots send out in every
direction an infinite number of hair
like growths, which absorb moisture
and food. On soils properly prepared
and in sections of fair rainfall the feed
ing ground for corn is usually from
two to twelve inches below the sur
face. This is strictly true in the great
corn belt of the northwest. In the
south there has been too much shall
low plowing. Breaking three or four
inches is not deep enough to make q
suitable feeding place for corn roots;
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vigorous, Well-eared stalks in the field,
because corn is fertilized from all the
surrounding plants. Therefore it is
better to select a medium ear from
field where the average corn is excel
lent than a model ear from a field
where most of the corn is inferior.
Much depends also upon the vitality
of the .seed. To insure high vitality,
corn must be gathered before the fall
rains, put in a dry, well ventilated
place, and kept free from weevils.
Corn is especially responsive to good
treatment and careful selection. It is
a crop easily improved and deterior-
ates as the result of bad management
with corresponding rapidity. The IL
lustration shows the difference be-
tween shallow and intensive cultiva-
tion and the old method of deep culti-
walton, after planting. These tracts
are side by side on the same farm ir
North Carolina.
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VALUE OF CORN CROP
Great American Grain Food for
Men and Stock.
Demonstrated Thoroughly That With
Proper Preparation and Cultivation
Southern Farmer Can Grow as
Much as In Northern States.
BY S. A. KNAPP, Special Agent II
Charge Of Farnners, l,n-nnarativa

BY S. A. KNAPP, Special Agent in
Charge of Farmers Cooperative
Demonstration Work.)
The great American grain food for
men and stock upon the farm is corn.
Corn intelligently managed, will pro-
duce more food per acre than any 9TH
er cereal, and it is generally one of the
safest of crops, which is an important
item, because where men and animals
must be fed, certainty of production
stands among the first requisites. More
corn brings into use the pastures and
idle lands of the farm. 1t is the ba-
sis Of cheaper food supply for the
masses. Therefore, the production of
an abundant supply of corn is one Of
the essentials of good farming.
The southern farmer should grow
enough corn for every possible need of
the farm, and he can. It has been
demonstrated thoroughly that with
proper preparation and cultivation he
can grow as much per acre as the
best farmers in the corn growing
states. At prevailing prices it is
cheaper to produce it than to buy it,
even with IL and Is cent cotton. Fur
thermore, the best farming requires
systematic rotation of crops on all
lands. 1t is plant of wide adapta-
bility and can be produced in nearly
all portions of the United States. 1t
is especially valuable from the fact
that we not only get the corn, but can
grow with it heavy crop of COW
peas, which will give a supply of nj
trogen and humus, two of the most val
liable items in building up SOIL
Corn is tropical plant, and all other
things being equal, it should thrive bet
ter in the southern than in the north
ern states. This, however, is not the
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It was 2 o'clock in the afternoon
on a certain day when Miss Ethel
Blaine left the manor house known
as The Willows for walk down the
highway and then a turn to the LETT
into the hills. There was cave there
among the rocks and scrubpines, and
it was her intention to pay it visit
At just the same hour, on the same
afternoon, Mr.. Hugh Wentworth left
the manor house known as The Pop
lars for a walk up, the highway and
then turn to the right into the hills.
There were partridges among the
pines, and he had his gun along to
make victims. He was accompanied
By his dog. It wasn't high-bred dog
and thing of beauty, but he had a
mission to perform before getting OF
the EARTH
The distance between The Will
lows and The Poplars was two miles.
There wasn't a willow within three
miles of The Willows and there wasn't
a poplar within four miles of The Pop
lars. Miss Blaine had just returned
home from a year out west, and Mr..
Wentworth had been civil engineer
ing in the south.
Miss Ethel found the cave all right.
It wasn't much of cave. One sit
ting down in it was only four feet
from the entrance.
There was romance there, however.
One could sit down on stone and
hear the pines whispering. the squir-
reIs chattering and the partridges
cIucking. One ould think of the In
dian maiden who committed suicide
there rather than wed rich young
white man. Counterfeiters and horse
thieves had used that cave. Gallant
knights had slept there and cooked
their own breakfast Of bacon and
eggs while out on tours to rescue
damsels all forlorn. Lovers had sat
there and pledged their vows.
No place could have been better
adapted to meditation. True, sort
of animal odor clung to the cave, but
one could think of the past and won
der over the future. Many girls have
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potential age of man should certainly
be placed at well over 100, and it Is
noticeable that centenarians are now
adays quite frequently heard of. The
number of potential centenarians
among animals is comparatively small.
Among mammals we have only man,
whales and elephants, and among
birds eagles and parrots.
There is no relation between size
and potential longevity. A canary
lives almost as long as an ostrich,
while a parrot lives longer than an
ostrich.
Among reptiles there are well-es-
tabished cases of turtles and tor
toises living to $50 and 200 years.
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You Never Can Tell.

A certain 'cellist was once sn
bound for three hours at a small
road station. He unpacked his C.
and played his dozen fellow suffer
a request program with the result
one Of them took him to Europe fc
year. You never can tell as you b
your precious fiddle-case through
streets what magic easement may
open on the foam (of steins),
what fairy hand may not beckon
within to do the one thing needfu
opus fifty-nine, or draw a valiant
in the battle of Schumann quinte
Robert H. Schauf11er, in the Atla1
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Or. Chalmers Mitchell Doubts II
Natural Deaths Occur Among Any
Animals Including Man.

DR.. Chalmers Mitchell, secretary OF
the Geological Society Of London, In
3 lecture on problems of Animals IN
Captivity" at the Royal institution,
said:
at is extremely doubtful II really
natural death ever does occur in any
kind of animal, including man"
Doctor Mitchell supported Metchni-
koff's theory that the changes Of
a.snility are the result of external ac-
eidents. OF the poisons of various dis
esses or OF unsanitary conditions. Il
all these causes we're removed most
animals, including men, would live to
a far greater age than they do now.
To an animal living in a perfectly
hvgienic world. sheltesed from all
diseases, death would eventually come
as the result OF the slow accumulation
oil waste matters of all kinds IN the
tissues.
According to Doctor Mitchell the
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WILL RUN HEALTH TRAIN.
Visiting Important Points and Giving
Demonstrations.


Jackson.-Dr. w. S. Leathers, Director
of Public Health and Sanitation for the
state of Mississippi, announces that a
health train will be placed in service in
this state, visiting the places of principal
interest and giving demonstrations in
matters pertaining to the betterment OF
the health conditions surrounding the
people of Mississippi.
The exact date when this train will
be placed in commission has not yet been
announced, but it will be in a very short
while, Just as soon as DR.. Leathers and
his associates can complete the necessary
arrangements.
This health exhibit gives valuable in
formation upon the cause and prevention
of infectious diseases, such as cOnsump-
tion, hookworm disease, typhoid fever,
malaria, smallpox, ETC., and also gives a
valuable display of dental hygiene, modes
of caring for and protecting the teeth,
and showing the Importance of this in
the protection of the health of the indl-
vidual. Dairy sanitation is also care
fully worked out and placed before the
public in manner it can understand, in
dicating how to handle the milk and
keep the dairy in the prevention of dis
ease. Special attention is given to the
work of inspection and school sanitation.
In connection with this exhibit will be
stereopticon lectures and such other work
as will prove most effective in arousing
interest in public health matters, and in
the promotion of better health conditions
throughout the state.
DIR. Leathers has been hard at work in
a campaign of education for several
months, trying to place before the people
of Mississippi simple rules which if OBJ
served would do much to lessen the NOR
tality rate in Mississippi, and has been
wonderfully successful in arousing pub
lie interest in this most important mat
ter.
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PosToFFIcEs IN MISSISSIPPI

List of Appropriations Made by Congress
for Work
Following is list of the pending ap-
preparations for the erection of new
federal buildings in Mississippi:
Brookhaven, postoffce, $33, 900.
Canton, postoffce, $4,000.
Clarksdale, postoffce, $4,000.
Greenwood, postoffce, $4,000.
Grenada, postoffce, $4,000.
Holly Springs, postoffce, $1,000.
McComb, postoffce, $4,000.
Tupelo, postoffce, $4,000.
vicksburg, postoffce and courthouse
$4,000.
West Point, postoffce, $4,000.
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A trial package of Munyon's Paw Pa
Pills will be sent free to anyone on
quest. Address Professor Munyon, SD
Jefferson Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. If you a
In need Of medical advice, do not fail
write Professor MunyoR. Your commur
cation viii be treated in strict confdenz
and your case viii be diagnosed as cd
fully as though you had a personal int9
view.
Munyon's Paw Paw Pills are unlil
all other laxatives or cathartics. Ths
coax the liver into activity by gent
methods. They do not scour, they
not gripe, they do not weaken. but the
do start all the secretions of the lv
and stomach in a way that soon pV
these organs in a healthy condition al
corrects constipation. In my opinis
constipation is responsible for most q
ments. There are % feet of humi
bowels, which is really a sewer pip
When this pipe becomes clogged t
whole system becomes poisoned, car
ing biliousness, Indigestion and impu
blood, which often produce rheumatis
and kidney ailments. No woman W
suffers with constipation or any LV
ailment can expect to have a cle
complexion or enjoy good health.
I had my way would prohibit the sa
of nine-tenths of the cathartics that a
now being sold for the reason that thI
soon destroy the lining of the stoma
setting up serious forms Of indigestl
and so paralyze the bowels that they !
fuse to act unless forced by strc
purgatives.
Munyon's Paw Paw Pills are tor
to the stomach, liver and nerves. Tn
invigorate instead of weaken; they e
rich the blood instead of impoveFi
it; they enable the stomach to get +
the nourishment from food that is p
into it.
These pills contain no calomel, 1
dope; they are soothing, healing "a
stimulating. They school the bow,
to act without physic.
Regular size bottle, containing 45 Pill
% cents. Munyon's Laboratory, SD
Jefferson Sts., Philadelphia.
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MISSISSIPPI DOCTORS MEET.
DR.. D. ]. Williams of Ellisville Elected
President.

Jackson.-The State Medical Associa-
ton had a three days session in this
city. The following officers were chosen
for the ensuing term: President, DR..
d. J. Williams, Ellisville; vice-presidents,
DIR. J. I. Longino of Jamestown, S. E.
Eason of New Albany and J. G. McNair
of Fayette. The association named five
members of the state board of health, to
be appointed by the governor in 1912, Sc
leeting DIR. John Darlington of Yazoo
City, DIR. G. S. Bryan of Amory, DR.. E. A.
Cheek of Arcola, DR.. T. E. Ross of Hat
tiesburg and DIR. /. w. Cooper of New
ton. DR.. E. T. Howard of VicksDurg and
DIR. L. B. Sparkman of Cleveland were
unanimously reelected to the positions
of secretary and treasurer, respectively.
An address of extraordinary interest
read during the day was by Il. 7. Suth-
erland of Rosedale, former president OF
the association, on "The Duty of the
State in the Conservation of Human
Life and Energy" The paper made such
an impression on the members of the
association that the association, by a
unanimous vote, ordered its publication
in all state papers and the daily papers
of New Orleans and Memphis.
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FIRST DEMAND FOR MONEY.
Bondholder Asks State Auditor for In.
terest Warrant.

DOnOnOlQeL ASKS state AuQlI0r Tor In
terest Warrant.
State Auditor z. j. Smith has received
demand from one of the purchasers of
state bonds, the legality Of which was
questioned by the state treasurer, and
which Judge w. A. Henry of the circuit
court passed on this week, for warrant
for the interest from July 1, 1910, to
January 1, 1911.
This demand was made by a small
holder of bonds who resides out of the
state, but the warrant has not been is
sued, as the state treasurer has an
nounced that he vii not pay any war
rant till the supreme court has finally
passed on the question he raised three
months ago. Mr.. Smith does not know
what action he will take, as the case is
to be appealed to the supreme court,
and he probably viii not issue this or
any other warrant till the states high.
est tribunal has passed upon it.
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MANY ARE D1sFRANcHISED.
$4,000 Voters Said to Have Failed to
Pay Poll Tax.

misunderstanding to the delinquent
poll tax lists, published in the various
county papers of the state, it is estimat-
ed that from 35 to 40 per cent of the
voters Of Mississippi have failed to quail
ify, and that there will be from $4,000
to $4,000 voters cut off under the law.
The poll tax provision of the constitu-
tion has been generally ignored in past
years in some counties, but in these
counties a new registration has been
called for ana the illegal voters will be
scratched from the rolls. The law will
be more rigidly enforced this year than
ever, according to reports, and many per-
sons who nave been allowed to vote in
past elections without paying their poll
tax will be eliminated. This will make
a heavy reduction in the vote, it is said,
as compared with the primary for United
States senator in 1907, and some of the
counties that showed tremendous votes
in the returns to the secretary of state
four years ago win show a greatly re
duced vote this year.
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GETTING READY FOR WORK.
New Orleans Great Northern to Soon Lei
Contract.

Jackson.-The New Orleans Great
Northern railroad, it is said, will begin
work on its jackson terminals in short
time. Just when the contract will be let
is not known here, but it is understood
the officers of the road desire to get
started on the work as soon as practica-
bic.
Details are being shaped up, it is un-
derstood, and as soon as the prelimina-
ries can be arranged, the contract viii be
let and orders issued for the work to be.
gin as soon as the contractor can assem-
BILE the material.
1t is not known what the new termi.
nails of the Great Northern will cost, but
it is the general opinion that the road
will spend something like 100000 for
it's local terminals.
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to mediate on street corners and in
back yards. Miss Ethel had sat in
the cave meditating for a long half
hour, and had become sleepy over it,
when the dog of destiny aroused her.
He uttered a bark close by, and she
heard a human voice not far away
crying out:
"sic 'em. Rover! Go for it. old
boy!"
At the back end of the cave there
was a small tunnel between Jagged
rocks. The girl thought she heard
a stir back there, and the animal
odor became more pronounced.
"Hunt him down-hunt him down."
cried the voice as the dog barked and
whined.
The dog appeared at the mouth of
the cave and glared and growled at
the girl. He had seen girls before,
but never one in a cave. She wasn't
on his masters land, but she was in
ambush and suspicious person. And
The dogs master, who seemed to be
delayed by the tangle, shouted again:
go In, Rover-go in! BY George,
/ believe it's fox! After his scalp
old mani"
Then red fox, whose den was at
the back end of the cave, and who
had been keeping tab on the girl
from the first, made rush for free
dom. At the same moment the dog
made a rush into the cave.
Miss Ethel rose up. TO be knocked
down again, and while the animals
were lighting beEide her body up came
Mr.. Wentworth and hlazed away with
his shotgun. He was an excitable
goung man. He put as many shots In
to the dog as he did into the fox, and
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Agricultural High School.

Yazoo City.-At joint meeting Of the
county school board and the trustees of
the Agricultural high school, site for
the new agricultural high school was se-
lected, the location being three-fourths Of
a mile southeast of Benton.
The site is said to be one Of the most
beautiful in the county, and is admira-
bly, suited for the purpose Tt was do
mated by the people Of the Benton neigh
borhood, and the site covers an area Of
eighty acres. It viii require about $10,.
600 to erect suitable builai@a.
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INJURY DONE BY GRAIN MOTH
Southern Farmer Generally Applies
Term "FIy WeeviI" to Destrue-
tive Little Insect.

Like practically all agricultural pro-
ducts, corn and other grains are sub
ject to the attack Of numerous de-
structive insects, some of them COM
mencing their depredations in the
ripening grain in the fields, while
others abide solely in the barns, store
rooms or cribs where the grain is
stored.
The actual loss occasioned by In
sects in whole grain and the various
stock foods cannot be accurately
estimated; the grain is not only re-
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is certainly a bad practice to leave
corn cut ard stacked in the field, for
in such condition more ears are ex-
posed to egg deposition than would
be if the corn were S ored in the grain
cribs /. The moths will not be present
in the gTanaries during the fall months
if proper precautions have been taken
to get rid of all infested grain of the
previous years growth.
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Orders Issued for Encampment.

Jackson. -Adjutant General Fridge has
issued orders for several companies to re-
port for rifle practice, and for a school
of instruction at Camp Williamson,
Vicksburg, commencing Monday, April
IL, and ending June IL. In this time the
entire national guard of Mississippi will
have seen service. Gen. Fridge viii be in
command of the camp and Capt. G. A.
Hogaboom will be in charge of the small
arms practice Capt J. R. Burnett will
direct the signal corps, and three ser
geants and four privates from the Third
infantry will be detailed as instructors.
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Jackson Governors Noel of Missis-
sippi and O'Neal of Alabama have united
in a proclamation calling into session the
Tombigbee River Improvement Associa-
ton, the object being to take steps to
make campaign for further appropria-
tions for the Tombigbee. The convention
i, o meet in Columbus, May so and 81.
8 his proposed improvement would be of
mutual benefit to both states. The fed
eral government improves and protects
In the Northern and Eastern states rivers
much smaller thau the Tombigbee.
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Pine Belt Firm Fails.

Jackson Another pine belt firm has
been compelled to file voluntary petition
in bankruptcy. The parties are the
Parkman-Shivers Company of Shivers,
Simpson county, composed of d.
C. Parkman, v. P. Shivers and
Mrs. V. P. Shivers, whose schedule
Of assets and liabilities accompanies the
petition. According to the schedule the
total liabilities amount to S14,6 and
the assets to S12,085.
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THE W. c. T. U. AT WORK.
Trying to Convince Doctors on Alcohol
Question.

Jackson.-The active and aggressive
spirit of the work being performed by
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union in Mississippi was strikingly
shown here during the convention of the
Mississippi Medical Association.
A delegation of members from the
Mary Erwin chapter distributed several
hundred pamphlets setting forth argu-
ments against the use of alcohol in med
ical practice.
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MUST LIVE IN STATE TWO YEARS
Cannot Vote Unless Resident for Re.
quired Period.

Jacksonville department of justice
has received many inquiries from various
sources about the qualifications of
voter, other than those covered in the
recent opinion of Attorney General Hud-
son relative to taxes.
These inquiries come up in different
forms. One of the latest questions is
whether young man who has not resid-
ed in the state for year, but has be-
come of age since coming to Mississippi,
is entitled to vote. Assistant Attorney
General Carl Fox prepared the opinion
on this and holds that the young man
cannot vote till ne has been in the state
two years, as required by the constitu.
ton.
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A Noble Sacrifice.

Il suspect that the real hero here
tonight isn't on the stage"
sNog"
sHe is more apt to be a young man
sitting In the sixth row, center, who
has brought bis sweetheart. her two
older sisters and his prospective
mother-in-law to see the play.
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Ar IndIviduaIist.

The reason for the individual d
ing cup had been explained again
again to the children and they
become sturdy supporters of the
So it was not surprising to I,
Henry calling: ma, ma! Nelly
got my individual applet"
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ReauIt Of PosItIon

What a peculiar gait your friend
Hobbies has"
That's because he Is the sort Of
man who is always on the fence"
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There is an ancient saying. faI
among men, that thou shouldst
Judge fully Of a mans life befor
dieth, whether it should be c
blest or wretcned. Sophocles.
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On the ship.

"Ma, did you observe that man walk
ing up and down the deck-what a
searching expression he has?"
Guess he's a custom-house officer" !"
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The better you behave the b
you'll get along. Now. try 1t.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-01-26
MOTHER JONES CONES
ON LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY
Working Glass Joan Of Arc viii
Speak at Martins Ferry
In Afternoon.

Mother Jones. working class heroine
will speak at Martins Ferry on the
afternoon of Sunday, February II,
and the announcement viii create
much pleasurable anticipation on the
part Of the working people Of this
vicinity. Mother Jones is known from
coast to coast and, in fact. to the
working class of other countries, as
the interchangeable champion OF the
toiilng masses, as her long life has
been spent in a continuous and sell
sacrificing effort to uplift the masses.
The occasion will be the observance
Of Lincoln's birthday, and the meeting
will be held in Snodgrass theatre,
Fourth strete. opposite the Center
school.