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The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1912-02-29
South of Paden

Oat sowing is the order of the
day.
Miss Sibbie Woodruff has been
teaching at Burnt Mills the past
two weeks in the place of Mr. Lu-
ther Owens, he being sick with
the measles.
Miss Georgia Slack is spending
few days with her cousins Misses
Pearl and Flora Paden.
Messrs F T and Charlie Paden
and Olen Patterson seemed to be
enjoying themselves at Paden last
Saturday, it being Jockey Day.
Mr. and Mrs Archie Deaton Wis
tied his father Saturday.
Mr. John Hughes made a flying
trip to Paden last week.
Mr. Johnie Slack is visiting
friends in Golden. q
Guess Me Now.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1912-02-29
NOTICE.
R. L. Smith 6 Co.

On Friday night Feb 10th the
above firm was practically burned
out at Burnsville, Miss. Our loss
consisted of our store house COM
posing buildings 75x9O feet and
in these buildings we were carry
ing an immense stock of general
merchandise of every description
as are commonly carried in a gen
eral store. Also in addition to
these buildings we lost our ware
house consistingS of Wire Nails,
Wagons, Farming Implements.
But in our warehouse we had quite
lot of goods that were only
slightly damaged by fire, also in
our main buildings we had quite
lot of Hardware, such as heel
bolts, trace chains, carriage belts,
buck-heads, sad irons, firedogs,
wedges, axes, sugar kettles, and
numbers Of things too numerous
to mention. All of the above stock
is now on sale and will be disposed
of at such prices that you could
not afford to investigate. In addi-
tion to the above sale we will have
other merchandise that we expect
to puton sale as early as we can
get same ready at which time we
will give notice through ovr week
ly papers.
We are Offering this sale from
the fact that we carried such small
insurance that we are forced to
make disposition of this stock
that we may be able to resume
business. Also, in addition, one
member of our firm was 50 unfor-
tunate as to lose his home with a
number of household goods which
were covered with about one fourth
insurance. Now III addition to
the above sale we wish to say to
our friends and customers that
we do not feel it necessary to go
into details to explain our great
misfortune. One glance at the
scene that we haze just gone
i through will convince you of all
we have said. We will ask you
to please come forward and let us
have all the amounts that are due
us as we have all our. records in
4 tact for a. speedy settlement and
we hope you will appreciate It's as
your servants for the past ten
years at this place to respond at
once to our needs. Your friends,
r L Smith & Co.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1912-02-29
Eastport News

Mr. E A Payne was in Eastport
Monday looking after his farm.
Mr. and Mrs Willie Long visited
Mrs r P Garmon Sunday.
Quite crowd of young folks
went to Bear Creek Sunday after
noon to take boat ride but got
disappointed as the boats were
locked.
Mr. c A Hills renter, Mr. Nun
ley moved last week.
Mr. Charlie Bacon Jr is qnite
sick again.
Mr. Isaac Hubbard had the mis-
fortune to lose one of his mares
last week,
Mr. Bunyan Skinner has rented
Mr. A H Bacon's place and will
move there soon.
Mr. Willie Long is making an
addition to his house and has also
paled his yard and garden.
Mr. Ruth Hill visited Iuka last
week.
Mrs Mary Walker spent Friday
and Saturday with home folks.
Mr. d F Medley is rafting for
Mr. Henry Wafford at Waterloo.
Mr. w r Alexander is paling
Mr. Medleys yard and garden.
Messrs t A Long and r P
Garmon are hauling ties for Mr. c
A Hill.
Mrs Nancy Booker has rented
from Mr. II A Long and moved
last week.
Born-To Mr. and Mrs R T
Garmon a fine girl, on the 22d.
M G. & B B
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1912-02-29
From Ashland

AS I have promised to write
once in a while to the Vidette, I'll
take time to drop a few lines.
This is Feb 10th. | have just re-
turned from Liberty, one of my
churches, where l preached on
Sunday the eighteenth. Had a
large crowd of good looking peo-
pie. At this place we have a
drilled choir, good organist and a
most beautiful church house, in
fact all of the church houses are
good, wMh organs in four of them.
My first Quarterly Conference was
held Saturday 10th with small at
tendance on account of the bliz-
gard, which came Friday. We
did not have snow you had at
Iuka, but we had some sleet and
rain and then a freeze so that it
was unsafe to ride or walk but
the conference was good for such
a time. Bro Tucker is a fine P E
and preacher. Each Sunday when
| start to my appointment. | think
the churches on the Iuka circuit.
| hope Bro Bazzel has moved by
this time. / am SO sorry for the
good people who had deposits in
the bank when it went out of bus
ness, but l have not yet lost con-
fidence in the human family. |
am sure there are some people in
Tishomingo county that are
sound and true and how it would
afford me pleasure to see some of
them. But | am in a good county
among a good people, making new
friends and learning to love them.
| am looking for good meetings
this year on the work and would
love to see some Tishomingo co.
folks among us. Would be glad
to show them our little county
seat, the beautiful court house and
the nice groves of black locust,
walnut and hickory. The Jail
stands within 200 yards of the
parsonage but we do not have
many prisoners. The business
was not sufficient to justify a
court so our court was put off till
summer. Ashland has one bank
doing a good business, good
school, fine teachers, fine lot of
boys and'girls and girls and one
splendid county paper. | must
say before | close that we enjoy
reading the news in the Vidette.
Lest my letter require too much
space | will close. With best re-
CARDS to all the good people in and
around Iuka, l am sincerely yours
X lanes.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1912-02-29
How Cold Affects The Kidneys

Avoid taking cold if your kid
peys are sensitive. Cold congests
the kidneys, throws too much work
upon them and weakens their ac-
ton. Serious kidney trouble and
even Brignts disease may result.
Strengthen you kidneys, get rid of
the pain and soreness, build them
up by the timely use Of Foley Kid
ney Pills. Tonic in action, quick
in results. Model Drug Store.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1912-02-29
Bridge Notice

will let to the lowest respon-
sible bidder in front of the Court
House door, in Ilika. within legal
hours, on Monday, March 4th 1912
the building of a bridge across
Clear Greek, on Stemini Ferry
road. Plans and specifications on
file in the Cbancery Clerks S office.
By order of the Board of Super
visors Feby term 1912.
d L Anderson.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1912-02-29
Killed BY Lightning

Little William Burkley Sanford,
son of Gordou Sanford, deceased,
was playing before the open fire
place, by the side Of his uncle FL
ton Wright, on Feb goth, when a
fash of lightning came down the
chimney, killing him almost in
stantly. Sweet little Burkley is
no more; his spirit has gone to
God who gave it. Weep not dear
ones for he is at rest. ED
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1912-02-29
Money To Loan.

On farm and town real estate
at S per- cent simple interest; 10H
years to repay in annual, semi
annual or monthly payments. A
few good agents wanted at once.
Call on or write, National Savings
& Loan Co., 646-64S Randolph
Bldg, Memphis, Tenn. L J
Allen, Mgr,
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1912-02-29
For Sale or Rent

I offer for sale or rent what IS
known as the Roach place near
Burnsville. There are about 1S0
acres in all, 140 acres level, 90 in
cultivation, fairly good houses for
two families, only " mile from
depot. Apply to S P Gray r |
Iuka Miss.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1912-02-29

| blamed my heart for severy
distress in my left side for two
years. " writes w Evans, Danville
Va, but | know now it was in
digestion, as DR. Kings New Life
Pills completely cured me-" Best
for stomach, liver and kidney
troubles, constipation, headache or
debility. 25c at ] c Iourdans.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1912-02-29

This is the season of the year
when Mothers feel very much con-
cerned over the frequent colds con-
tracted by their cullelen, and have
apun.salat reason for it as every
cold weakens the lungs, lowers the
vitality and paves the way for the
more serious diseases that SO often
follow. Chamberlain S Cough
Remedy is famous for its cures
and is pleasant and safe to take
For sale by all dealers.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1912-02-29
Respectfully,
E A Payne, Elk Sheriff and
T J Foote, Sheriff.

There is no better remedy made
for colds than Chamberlains Cough
Remedy. 1t acts on natures plan,
relieves the lungs, opens the Sc
cretions, aids expectoration and
restores the system to a healthy
condition. For sale by ali dealers
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1912-02-29
Paden No l

There was a very sad occuTrance
I two miles west. of PSden on last
Tuesday afternoon The little
Eve year old son of Mrs Doxie
Ann Sanford was killed by a bolt
of lightning. The little boy, to-
gether with some other children,
was sitting in the house at the
time. He died instantly. The
bereaved mother, children and
relatives have our sympathy.
We are still have rain and bad
roads.
We are expecting that many new
cases of measles will very soyn be
heard of in this part,A as many
have been exposed.
There has been but lit lie work
done on the farms this winter.
Some of our farmers are want
ng to SOW oats, but will certainly
be late.
The boozy crowd was. in Paden
Saturday eve and there was some
disturbance, but no serious trouble
1t seems that our town officers
do not know that it is their duty
to arrest a person in Paden, or at
least they don't do much of it. If
we could get men in office who
would enforce the law, our good
women would not be disturbed
when they come to town. If we
don't have have a change in Pa
den very soon we will speak of
this more plainly later.
Messrs M c Fleming and J A
Lee of Route 2, made a trip to
Iuka last week.
Mr. ] w McDougal has moved
from Tishomingo to the place he
purchased from Mr. Jasper Davis
on Route 2. AS to who I am
You Know.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1912-02-29

For Reht-The Roach place at
Burnsville, Miss. 90 acres cleared
level land, 2 sets tenant houses.
Apply to S P Gray, r l, Iuka
Miss
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1912-02-29

Mr. James Clopton, of Aber-
deen, is visiting his sister, Mrs
w B Bills, who is quite i'll.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1912-02-29
PROGRAM FOR B. Y. P. U.
MARCH 3RD, 2:3op. m.
S -.bject Gods Estimate OF Chris
tians. 1st Pet 2: 9 and 10
Leader: Mr. D ] Akers.

-LsaQer: MT IL J AKerS.
/ Song, "All Hail the Power
OF Jesus Name" )"
: Prayer.
) Song, my Jesus I Love
Z ,ee."
+ Scripture Reading by Misses
Raby Francis, Grace Hubbard and
Vcgie Cresap,
) Song, Il Am Trusting Lord
s Talk by Mr. 0 c Moor, 1st
and End paragraphs in Quarterly.
! 7 Talk by Mr. G Dudley, and
and 4th paragraphs in Quarterly.
8 Closing Exercise.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1912-02-29
To the Election Com nissioners
of Tishomingo County.

You will please take notice that
tina names of the following persons
were double OF enormously assess
ed and enormously advertised and
should not be disqualified to vote
on account Of their names oppear-
ing on the delinquent list, as they
have paid their taxes:
Will Thompson Of the 1st District
f B Gober, 2nd
John Henley = 4th "
K G Uptain 5th "
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-12

a scientifically precise manner, through psychological analysis of mental processes and now, if advan- tage be taken of this method of de- termining his bent through analyz- ing the psychological reaction or re sponse" to certain subjects, the stu dent need not wait until he had spent all his available time and money in acquiring a special training, for which he might subsequently, demonstrate his utter unftness.
 Some few of the colleges, particu- 'larly the swomen's schools, (Bryn Mawr, Smith, Wellesley and others) are teaching domestic science, physi- ology and food vaIaues, dietetics and practical hygiene. care of babies, etc. and our agricultural colleges give practical courses on pomology, stock breeding, and intensive farming.
 Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee has the correct idea.
 Acquiring useful technical knowl- edge by doing the thing is indubi- tably the practical educational meth cd. The schools and universities are too superficial too much is attempted, too little accomplished. The effort to cover twenty or thirty studies (nany of them. useless in the busi- ness or professional career subse- ,duentiy adppted9 is nanifestIy absurd q. What is the result? Ask nine out of ten college graduates what they re- member of: their studies. Inquire five years after gradua tion as to the Kep- lerian Laws, or what they know of the saurians or the paleozoic era; who Draco Iycurgus Siddart11a, were; or their concept of the Prolog- omena of Kant; and they will prob ably stare at you with the fshlike expression of the Ancient Mariner and answer-"Oh, knew something of these subjects when I left college. but I don't recall anything of them now;" ditto with geometry, algebra, trigo- nometry, higher mathematics, Latin, Greek, and the many other studies whose chief value lies in the so-called
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-12

E
 Another matter and sIs hay How few college graduates hal er! seriously studied the work af Fly slop, Camille Flammarian, the Esy- clical Research Society Proceedings, Sir Oliver Lodge, Caesar Lombroso and the host of writers who have "sci- entized' the great question of the continuation of conscious existence af- ter death through psychological ex- perirnentation and research Instead of developing materialistic concep ltions and popularizing Ernst Haeeksl and Buchner, college men and wofhe4 should be the staunchest allies of re- ligion in it's highest, and tfuest sense. through their ability to furnish rre- futable scientific information concern ng these transcendentallys important questions. Then. and only then, will it be possible to say truthfully, that a.those who came to scoff remained to pray" or to paraphrase Browning. The rest may reason and wondof, Wis we collegians know"
 DIR. EDWIN F. BOWERS.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-12
OUR FALLAClOUS
 EDUCATION SYSTEM

As q. race we have been attempting to fit round pegs into square holes, and vice versa, for so long that It has become second nature to continue the effort. Almost without exception ed- ucators admit that the school system is thoroughly inadequate; that its practical results are far from satls- factory, and yet but little effort IS made to correct the defects.
 Adolescent children, at the most sdelicate period of their lives. are driv-. en through a course of studies neees- sitating home work supplementary to their class room activities, some times requiring hours which should be devoted to healthful outdoor re- creation.
 Until recently "selective studies" was considered the idle dream of a visionary. The pupils were ground through curriculum consisting of Latin, Greek, history. trigonometry, geometry, mathematics, algebra, lit- erature, philosophy, physiology, biol ogy, hygiene, geology paleontology. astronomy physical geography, chem istry, physics, drawing, music, econo- mics, etc., etc. The result was that they 1'had a smatterrng of everything and a Knowledge of nothing, and within a few years forgot the greater portion of what they had so laborious- ly acquired.
 Now Darwin, Davy, Tyndall, Hugh Miller, the Humboldts, Pasteur and a host of others-thinkers who have revolutioniZed modern thought, and radically changed our conceptions of biology physics geology paleoutoi- ogy, physical geography, medicine, chemistry-were not college men, or else they attended Gas Darwin did1 a term or less before they were con- vinced that the schools had nothing
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-12
Tribute Is Paid German Americans
 For Loyal Citizenship Qualities

!, thrift, of persistence. of industry. EAnd the Goldman brought that lesson | at a time when the change in eco- homie conditions made it particularly Invaluable.
 Then the German did another amaz- 1 ing thing. After his debt to industry and thrift had been paid he took his wife and children with him for rec reation. He shared with them In pleasure as from time immemorial he labor.
 This nations social organization had been laid deep in the Puritan idea What pleasure and recreation there were here was violent protest where men gathered for enjoyment good women were impossible: At their very best, social spIeasures were seri, ous functions.
 But the German breathed into them the spirit of music. He leavened the heavy Puritan loaf of song. He taught us that music. which up to his advent had been restricted to dismal accompaniments of gloomy religious feryor might be made the language of joy and of freedom In the larger sense. Germany gave music to the world And in a definite and special sense the German irnmi grafton of the last century gave music to America.
 MUSIC SELF EXPRESSION.
 Music to Germany has been some thing more than an art. 1t has been the expression of the German spirit. It has been the soul of Germany sing ing for freedom. And let it not be forgotten that freedom is the corner stone of the German character. De- spite political forms and governmental agencies. throughout the ages the Ger man has kept in his heart the love of liberty.
 Tt was the rock, of German liberty against which the vast despotism or the ancient world beat itself to pieces. When in the course of centuries the erty, he reconpensed himself with in- teliectual freedom. Tn the midst or medieval tyrannies he struck the shackles from the mind of man.
 The history of Germany is the his tory of our civilization. Germany is not a, political term or geographical division. Germany has no bounds. It is an empire of the mind. The thrift that induced the German peas ant immigrant to build a bank ac- count out of lettuce heads grown in his dooryard is the identical quality that translated by German scholars into German science, has made Ger many the laboratory of civilization.
 While the Celtic peoples were for getting their ancient language, Ger man students were digging into its records and bringing the hidden glo-. ries of it's literature to light. Today when our own Shakespeare is so little known, in the Englishr speaking the atre as to be a joke for the irreverert the indefatigable Germans are study ing his matchless poetry and present ing it from their stage as an inspira- ton and a guide to national taste.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-12
mental discipline.,s

"pental discipline.'s
 Froebel developed the Aristotehaa principle of didactic teaching. and applied it to instructions in the ele- n1entary branches with a degree of success which is only now being rec ognized. The Kindergarten method is the natural one but it shouldn't be begun until the seventh or eighth year; then it should be continued in definitely.
 I believe that much more thor ough and practical education can be secured by adopting limited curricu.. lum adjusted to the sympathies and abilities of. the individual student, all so that scholastic development can be permanently enhanced and nurtur- ed, instead of satiated and stultified.
 speak from knowledge of this matter based upon a personal ac- quaintance, Gin many instances quite .intimate), with between 4,5O0 and B. 900 physicians. and dentists, almost all of them college graduates. Their fa- miliarity with the classics; with Sp- phocles, AeschyIus, Euripides, Homer, Horace, Arisfophanes;-wit the real .crux of the Tragedy of Oedipus Tyran- nus, for instance,--is conspicuous mostly by it's absence. The golden mines of Plato, Epictetus. Marcus Au- relius, Seneca. Epicurns crystal lized wisdom of the ages. as found in Kant, Humboldt, Locke, Scheepepe Thauer, Hume Haecke1, Hegel, Goethe, Schilling, Spencer, Emerson are to them almost terra incognita. The marvellous beauty and physical insight of Robert Browning; the sturdy den- ocracy of Walt Whitman; the magic music of Shakespeare and the great storehouses of beauty and romance of all ages are practically ignored.
 This. I contend, is. not so much because of lack of time as from lack of inclination. The study habit" has been killed by superabundance of studies. The mental appetite has suffered from surfeit-from the fool ish endeavor to accomplish too much.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-12

to offer them. The time spent in study of material for which the pupil has an absolute distaste is worse than wasted, for it has inhibited the incli- nation to acquire knowledge-~even along congenial lines.
 In medicine it is acknowledged that food taken into the system in excess of physiological requirements becomes under oxidized," (insufficiently con- verted), and develops poisonous, lend products" which menace the life IT we'll ll-being of the individual. The mass is undigested. ,, It remains a physiological depressane. Just so with mental pabulum taken in excess of assimiliatives capacity. The child who would eagerly absorb four or five studies-interesting presented = is 3satiated and appalled, by the constant and unremitting grind He be- comes apathetic and unemotional, inn agination is inhibited, the wonderful creative faculty is smothered, and a. permanent antipathy against study has been developed Ns5 s
 Herbert Spencer said that a man was in no condition nor, mood to en- joy the beauties of the mountain seem. cry if he was obliged to- carry a heavy pack upon his back during the ascent. He contended that sthe at- tempt to get the real significance of the Greek philosophy, for instance, was futile if one had to struggle to it through a, mass of roots. lenses and declensions-with the aid of a lexi- con. Emerson said that he would as soon swim the Charles instead of crossing on the bridge, as to read an original if good translation was availble.
 The field of learning is too broad and comprehensive for one to attempt to master more than a moderate por- tion of it.
 Prof. James, a short while before his death, made a strong plea for modified curriculum of essential stu dies based upon the pupils adapta- bility. This plan he wex1xea cut an
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-12
THE CAVALRY TROOPS

Adjutant General George M. Cole was asked yesterday regarding the special dispatch from Washington to the effect that the war department has approved Representative Tilson' s Suggestion that two new troops of militia cavalry be organized in Con- necticut so as to make a complete squadron The dispatch said that to Connecticut to investigate the matter and determine where the new troops had best be organized and stationed, General Cole said that the dispatch was the first he had heard of the mat ter. The question was first for the state to decide. rather than the war department, and it would be Up to the next Legislature to say whether it thought the state could bear the added expense by the maintenance of two additional troops of cavalry. He had not seen Captain Marshall and knew nothing about the matter.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-12
MICHAEL H. HOGAN
Prominent Torrington Mans Death
 Follows Operation.

TorriuEton. July 12-Michael H. Ho- gan, aged forty-five, died here last night shortly after o'clock after a brief illness Mfr Hogan underwent an operation Wednesday for intestinal trouble which was thought to be sue cessful.
 Mir Hogan was born in Ireland, coming Ito Warrington about thirty years ago. Jie was manager of The RaymoHd notel for the last fifteen years and was held in high esteem by a large circle of friends and relatives. He wass a cousin of the late James H8gan, rhe Yale football star. He is survived by his wife. son, Ray mond and two daughters, Grace and Mabel, also his father, Patrick Hogan, and three brothers, John, Dennis. Thomas. land three sisters, Mrs. David Ryan, Mrs. Thomas Hennessey and Mrs. McGtath of Thomaston.