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East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26
D. Ward King Epigrams.

Good roads are a matter of good
heads; get the heads of the people
right and the roads will take care
Of themselves.
The best material for filing q
mud hole is mud.
The sort Of drag you use doesn't
make so much difference; anything
you can hitch team to will make
the roads better, if you have a man
to drive it.
Let the man alone who won't
drag his road. He has his reward
the nelghbors sLeer at him, his
doctor throws it up to him. and
once in while an unrighteous
travelling man cusses him.
The more road is rOunded-up
in the middle the better it will stand
up through wet spell.
Nine times out of ten a man
doesn't drag his road for fear some
one he doesn't like will get the
benefit of it.
You can't poison a hog, and
some men won't take the good
roads fever.
Some people want their corn
shelled. You can't have rounded
up road and one that the horses
won't slip on when wet.-Prince-
ton (Mo.) Times.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26
A Bill to Increase the Presidential Term

A bill has been introduced by
Senator Works, of California, for
extending the presidential term
from four to six years. This is a
bill that most everyone in this
country except politicians would
like to see passed, and if the voters
throughout the country will con-
tinue to lombard with letters we
will soon be electing presidents
every six years, and prohibiting
them by law from serving more
than one term. During a presi-
dental year every business man
must expect business to be slow,
and it is foolish for this country to
indulge in so much politics when it
gains nothing by it, but suffers a
positive loss,
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26
The Sanitary Alphabet.

Aim to make May day annual
cleaning up" day.
Danish the tin can district from
your city.
Clean up back yards and alleys.
Destroy rubbish by burning.
Educate housewives to demand
clean markets.
Fine every member of the club who
does not work,
Give free lectures upon civic inn
provement
Have campaign against unsightly
billboards.
Interest city authorities in "ciean-
ing up" day.
Join all forces on the anti dirt cru.
sude.
Kill sidewalk splitting or it will kill
you.
Let your slogan be: "bo it for
home, sweet home"
Make requests Of preachers for
clean up" sermons,
Next to Goodness is cleanliness.
Organize the children into civic
leagues.
Plant trees, and then plant trees
and more trees.
, Question authorities about expend-
itures.
Remember to plant parks and play
r grounds,
Study city ordinance. and work
for their enforcement.
Try to make the school buildings
social centers.
| Use every effort to arouse the citi-
zens,
Vanquish the opposition with good
nature. ...
Wage nnceasing war upon weeds,
hes and mosquitoes,
xact obedience 10 city sanitary
laws.
Your city is you, never forget that.
Zeal, courage and patience will
clean up" your city. - Ex.
change.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26
The Shortest Way.

will you allow me to ask you Il
question, " interrupted a man in the
audience,
Certainly, sir" said the lee
turer.
You have given rs a lot of
figures about immigration, increase
of wealth, the growth Of trusts,
aud all that" said the man. Let S
see what you know about figures
yourself. How do you find the
greatest common divisor?"
Slowly and deliberately the or
ator took a glass of water.
Then he pointed his finger
straight at the queStioner. Light
ming flashed from his eyes, and he
replied i'll a voice than made the gas
jets quiveri
Advertise for it, you igno-
ramnsI'
The audience cheered and yelled
and stamped, and the wretched
man who had asked the question
crawIed out Of the hall q total
wreck. Tit Bits.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26
The Country Paper.

One OF our leading metropolitan
papers was kind enough to publish
the following, which contains more
truth than poetry'
Our state is dotted with small
villages, in which one or more
small newspapers are published.
They do not make any claim to
being a review of the entire world,
even though they do not carry fea-
ture articles of a general nature,
nor do they boast that their circu-
latiun is prodigious. Yet these
country newspapers, appearing
faithfully week after week, record
Ing the happenings of the neigh
borhood, lending assistance to he
unfortunate, extending sympathy
md consolation to the hereaved,
telling with pardonable pride of
any improvement in the town and
bringing to the freside record of
those apparently triding Happen
ings that are really Of more ilnp0r-
tance to the readers than the crown
ing Of George the Fifth hs en-
petor of India, teet demand in
our rural life. The country news
paper is Of inestimable value in
4 maintaining the moral and fihan-
Uial standards Of the community.
1t is something III which the entire
neighborhood can feel Il common
interest. 1t is deserving OF the
steady support, not only Of the
hometolkS, but. also of those who
look back with cherished memories
I to their life in the little town,"
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26
Brooks Will Not Enter Congressional
Race.

In a recent issue of the Times
there appeared a communication
over the initials &c. w. H. urg-
ing Hon. Hardin Brooks, our dis
trict attorney, to enter the race for
congress. The Macon Beacon, Mr..
Brooks home paper, makes the fol-
lowing comment on the commune
cation:
Besides the above correspond
ent of the Times many of his
friends have been urging Mr..
Brooks to become a candidate for
Congress. To the Beacon he stated
that, while he appreciated as much
as any man could the honor con-
ferred by those calls, yet he could
not see his way clear to enter the
contest this time. Having just
been elected district attorney, Mr..
Brooks said he had his work cut
out for him for the next two yeres
at least, and he was going to fill
the office the people elected him to
to the very best Of his ability.
Mr.. Brooks has for some time
been looked upon as fine congress
sinai timber, and his entry in the
race would quicken the pace might
lily. His record as district attorney
has brought about his ability prom
inently before the people of this
district, which is a large part of
the congressional district, and he
he has many strong admirers who
would champion his cause with en-
thusiasm.
"Noxubee has the making of a
great congressman in her eloquent
son, and will see him in congress
before many years"
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26
A Moral Town.

A town that has been considered
a model town in many respects has
been discovered in Ironport, in the
southern part of Ohio. 1t is a min
ing town of 700 inhabitants and
evey miner owns his own home. 1t
is a little world all to itself, and is
isolated from all the rest of the big
world. The people live to them
selves. Although ten miles east of
GAINESVILLE, its people seldom visit
there. On October 81 the postoffice
was closed because the postmaster
had not sold a postage stamp in
five weeks, nor had he received a
single piece of incoming or outgo-
ing mail. The people have cut
loose from their kind and kindred,
and claim they have no one to
write to, and no friends to write
them. They are too busy to read
or write letters. There has not been
an idle man in the town since 1909.
There has not been an arrest in
six months. The police force has
been disbanded, the chef saving
that his department had nothing to
do, and that it was waste of pub
lie money to keep salaried police
men. Three is no fire department,
and the village has had only one
ti.e, a 5000 loss, in two years. The
four school teachers employed in
the schools say the children are un-
usually bright, owing to the moral
influences of the place. No circus
has visited in three years and not
a person has been seen on the
streets as late as II o'clock ut
night.
Of the population, recent CEN
sus shows that there are 637 Irish,
II Wehch and 52 Germans. Every
man, woman and child is mem,
ber of some church. They are an
honest, industrious and neighborly
folk, who are similar to those de-
scribed in Gray's famous "Elegy:"
"Far from the madding crowds ignoble
strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to
stray.
Along the cobl sequester'd vale of life {
They kept the noiseless tenor of thei1t
way" !
Yet charmful, soothing and idyl5
lie as this may appear, and com-l
patible with the servieesof God and
man, only the peculiarly constit
tuted could tolerate such condi-,
tions, Most peopre crave excite,I
ment and are unwisely willing to
pay the imposes. They believe.
with one of our Southern poets,
that better day of strife, than a
century of sleep" These people
are very much awake. They are
not asleep They are concerned with
their own affairs, of which it may
be said as it is said of people in the
larger world, these little things
are great to little men. (" r.
Certainly the town is remark
able one and it has very few equals,
anywhere. Z,
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When April smiles you never
LYnxx, xr,h at hax, che ,1,oox,. "a
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26
Congress and the Voters,

Congress has complained OF the
most active bombardment of letters
froll constituents of any previous
congress in the history'of this
country, They say chat the people
are watching legislation in congress
closer than ever before. One eff
feet Of this letter writing to con
gress is the passsge of the bill pros
hibing the use of poisonous phus-
phorus f1t' the manufacture OF
matches. President Taft has just
signed the bill which will prevent
the manufacturers from using the
white phosphorus which often
caused the daath of its employees. !
a9,oo7@o~0~o, a. ',''-
Jack johnson having announced
ihal he will positively never fight
again, we expect to see a bumper
crop of white hopes spring up,
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26

We note with our usual surprise
that the Hon. Joseph &. Cannon
has been renominated by the usual
majority in the Eighteenth Con.
gressional district. 1t will also
surprise us as usual if he should be
reelected as usual.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26

The English sutfragettes declare
that they are ready and willing to
be killed for the vote. As the goy-
ernment Is exceedingly anxious not
to kill them, the situation is more
embarrassing.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26

President Markham, of the Hi
nois Genital, has sent $500 to Mrs.
Perry, of Columbus, whose, son
was shot and killed while doing
strike duty as a member of the
National Guard at Water Valley
last winter.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26

The Grand Lodge Knights of
Pythias of Mississippi will assem-
bic in annual convention at Gulf
port on May 13 to 10. The Knights
Of khorassan will hold q ceremonial
also at the same place. Reduced
rates of fare on all railroads will BE-
given to all who may desire to at
tend.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26

Farmers who are troubled about
late planting" should remember
that an early frost doesn't hurt a
hog or dairy crop. And the moral
of this is' plant more pigs and
cows" pertinently suggests an ex-
change,
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26
Drag, Brother, Drag.

If your road is soft or rough,
Drag, brother, drag;
Once or twice will be enough,
Drag, brother, drag;
Wheels won't sink into the rut
Every lime you strike cut
Teams won't worry if you'll but
Drag, brother, drag.
'Twon't take long to fix your road,
Drag brother, drag;
If you'd pull Il bigger load.
Drag, brother, drag:
1t means dollars in the end.
Saved on teams and wagons, friends.
So to this your best ear lend
Drag, brother, drag,
Paw Paw Bazoo.
And "it at first you don't succeed,
Drag, brother, drag;
And once or twice don't fill the need
Drag, brother, drag;
When shower of rain mas passed,
And the sun shines out at last,
While the roads are drying fast,
Drag brother, drag.
livery time you drag the road,
Drag, brother, dag;
The lighter to your team the load
Draga brother, drag;
twill pay you every time,
Just to see your horses srmTle.
As they. quickly trot a mile,
Drag, brother drag.
And ~Gabe'' will come along and see.
Drag, brother, drag;
just how good road ought to be,
Drag, brother, drag;
When he gets home he'll take his pen
And write you up the best of men.
And you'llibe mighty famous then (y9,
I Drag, brother, drag
-Republican Press, Butler Mo.
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Vardaman and Tom Watson are
both for Underwood for the presi.
dency. Underwood, however, should
not be held responsible for this. He
is helpless and innocent in the mat.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26
Parcel Post System.

The activity of voters through
out the country has compelled
congress to formulate a bill which
will insure the establishment of a
parcels post. The express compa-
MES are bitterly fighting this bill,
but congressman are hearing from
their constituents in such unmis-
takal lie terms that they realize that
if 'hey do not pass the bill many of
them will remain at home.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26

1t is going to soothe the public
more to maintain all those off
shoots of the Standard Oil Co., for
their competition seems to consist
mainly in each trying to declare
the largest dividend.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26

When April smiles you never
know whether she means it.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26

The Original Taft man" would
come in for severe castigation if
he were somebody else.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26

In the City Court Of Nashville,
Tenn, on Monday Judge Killen
fined President Hirsig and Man
agel Schwartz Of the Nashville
baseball club 80 each for Sun
days game, and then remitted the
fines on the ground that the Nash
vile club did not play ball--the
score being Chattanooga 6, Nash
vile 0.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1912-04-26

If it be true as reported that the
senate committee which has been
investigating Lorimer's election is
equally divided it shows how diff
ferent the senate committee is from
the common people.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-06
SEE FINE HAND OF HANFORD
IN REMOVAL OF CLERK CLOSE

really scheme to get rid of him.
Yesterday afternoon, without no.
tice, he was asked to resign.
Hanford now has things all his
own way. Drake in charge of
the court here for years has been
Hanford's personal representative
in Tacoma, helping him in his land
deals. Engle, the clerk in Seattle,
occupied the same relation TO
Hanford there.
1t looks like a personal Hanford
court now, the lawyers say, and
they are up in arms.
Jameson Innocent.
Jameson says he knows moth
ing about the causes back of the
removal of Close and that the first
he heard of it was last night when
he was called to Seattle and asked
to take the place,
He says he told both Drake and
the Judge that he did not want
the place but finally agreed to take
1t for the present to help Drake
out, as he has had experience in
lsimilar positions.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-06

Albert p. Close was removed
from the office of deputy clerk of
federal court here yesterday and
r. w. Jameson, member of the
legislature, was appointed.
Many Tacoma lawyers are dis
gusted at the removal of Close
andgthey declare the whole thing
is a piece of political juggling,
showing the fine hand OF Judge
'Hanford.
Close has been getting 1000 a
year. He Is conceded to be the
most Competent clerk the court
has ever had. When the circuit
court was abolished the first OF
the year ]. C. Drake was made
chief deputy to Engle of Seattle
at $4,000 a year and Close was
cut to $1,000, 1t is said.
Close Made Kick.
Close naturally demonstrated
against his salary being cut in
view of the fact that he was doing
practically all the work in the Of
flee. The out, 1t appears, was
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-06
TELLS HOW
WOMAN
WOUNDED

just before leaving the stand
this noon, Calvin described the
actual shooting.
II went to Eatonville to tell her
he said. II wasn't go
ing To South Bend to work. took
her little ways out into the
woods.
What are you going to do
nowg she suddenly demanded,
calling me a vile name. Then she
drew a revolver in her left hand.
grappled with her and IL went
off,"
The Frank Calvin case Is drag
ging along slowly today with the
Il object" of the state being the
big feature in the proceedings.
Calvin reviewed his testimony of
yesterday showing how the nurse,
Vivian Irvine, had bled him until
his money was gone.
He said today that preceding
the Winlock row she had come to
him and told him she was going to
leave him as his money was gone.
She was drunk, he said, and de-
manded her letters and kilograms.
She followed him around the town
swearing and raising disturb
ance, slapped his face and heaped
other indignities upon him.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-06
Barred F rom Magazines
Writers Become Speakers

What the socialists claim Is
proof of the "Morganizing" of
many popular magazines is the
fact that Charles Edward Rus
sell. Eugene Wood and other
writer's have taken to the lecture
platform.
Their material is no longer ac-
ceptable to the magazines, such as
Everybody's," said one socialist
today. "They have to take the
lecture platform to finish telling
of the stories of graft in business
and politics"
Wood comes here tomorrow aft
ernoon at 2 to speak at Germania
hall on "How We Are Gouged. !"
He promises to speak right out in
meeting.
Eugene Wood is we'll known as
the chronicler of life in the small
town, and those who have enjoyed
his humorous presentation of
"The Old Red School House, :"
."The Sabbath School" and THE
Furnace of Affliction," in Nc
Clure's, Everybody's, Golfers,
Hampton's and other magazines,
will be glad to learn that he is
coming to- this city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-06

And they had to start over
again. And there were lot
more babies waiting.
How do you manage to keep
them stil long enough to take
their pictures?" said the Times
man (he's a bachelor) when he
finally got chance to talk to
Mrs. Ihrig the other day.
Il haven't any system" she
said. Il try to let them enter
tain themselves. Let them get in
terested in something, then snap
the picture before they know it.
Doesn't it wear you out?"
Love Is Secret.
ooh, ! love them ALL" she said.
THAT makes it easy. It's hard
work, but it's fun too"
Mrs. Ihrig-make 1t just Har-
riette Ihrig, please. she says, not
Mrs. Ihrig-says she has been
taking pictures ever since she was
IA. She started her own studio
six years ago.
Society? Dear, no." she said,
answering a question. 81 haven't
time. | take pictures in daytimes
and work over the books at night.
But it's fun"
However, she didn't deny that
she needed rest after the holi-
day rush.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-06
BROTHERHOOD
COMMENDe!
PETIT

ave want it distinctly under
stood, first. last and all the time,
that we stand behind those who
seek to purify the city, and make
it Il safe place for the youth of our
community"
So voted the Epworth Brother
hood of the Epworth Methodist
church, one of the largest in the
city, last night, commencing the
city commission for revoking the
license of the Kentucky bar in the
Sandberg dive.
No action taken by Commits
sioner Petit since he took office
eight months ago has brought such
spontaneous commentator as his
putting this dive out of business.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-06
INJUNCTION IS
ASKED AGAINST
SUNSET

The Puget Sound Independent
Telephone company today secured
q temporary restraining order
from Judge Clifford against the
Sunset Telephone company to en-
Join it from cutting off the in
terchangeable service for long
distance between the local Home
Telephone company subscribers
and the Farmers Mutual Tele-
phone company of Bellingham.
The Farmers company has in
vested about $4,000 in exchanges
and telephone lines in Whatcom
county and had 20-year contract
with the Home company of Taco
ma for interchange of business
which the Sunset company in TAX
ing over the Home company has
cut off.
The Sunset company is cited to
appear next Friday to show cause
why the restraining order should
not be made permanent.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-06

Poor service by the street rail-
way company has brought another
clash in the courts.
This morning R. w. Wilkinson,
a real estate man. signed a COM
plant for the arrest of the conduc-
tor on PIT. Defiance car 139 who
last night allowed alleged over
crowding. The car had seats for
54 and there were over 100 on
the car.
II will file another complaint
tonight and another every night
the present service continues,
said Wilkinson today. This SER
vice is absolutely unbearable and
We will not stand for it any long
or. / waited 40 minutes at 9th
and G street the other night for a
car"
For some time the service has
been apparently getting poorer
and citizens have been raising a
vigorous protest. The city COM
mission was to have had confer
ence with the company yesterday
but postponed it until Monday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-06

Rev. Clarence Virgin thompson
Richeson was former pastor of the
ultra fashionable Emmanuel Bap-
tist church of Cambridge. Avis
lLinnell's home was in Hyannis,
Richeson's first charge.
Richeson recently stabbed him
self in the groin with a piece of
tin in the st. Charles street jail
las his guards We're being changed.
Rieheson S confession was made
in the form of letter to his at
torneys 1t was addressed to At
ltorneys John l.. Lee, William A.
Morse and Philip Dunbar. 1t read:
Gentlemen: Deeply penitent
for the sin, and earnestly desiring,
as far as in my power lies, to
make atonement, l hereby confess
that am guilty of the offense for
(which | stand indicted / am NOV
ed to this course by no induce
ment of benefit or leniency.
AZ recognize there is still the
mercy of the Chief Master and
lsome remnant of divine spark
of goodness still lingering with
In me-"
"Will not admit of my still
further wronging by public
trial her whose pure young life
have destroyed
Under the lashings of remorse
I have suffered and am suffering
the tortures of the damned. In
this l find measure of comfort.
"In my mental anguish l recog-
nize there is still, by the mercy of
the Master, some remnant of the
divine spark of goodness still lin
gering within me. ! can wish to
live only because within prison
walls l might in some small
measure redeem my sinful past,
might help some other despairing
soul and at last find favor with
God.
"You are instructed to deliver
this to the district attorney or the
Judge of the court.
Sincerely yours,
I"CLARENCE V. T. RICHESON."
The confession was handed by
Richeson to his attorneys yester-
day. All through the night the
attorneys for the Self-confeSSed
murderer pleaded with District At
torney Pelletier for leniency.
For many hours Pelletier insist
| ed that Richeson pay the death
penalty for his crime, but shortly
after l o'clock this afternoon he
gave in.
Since he mutilated himself
Richeson has been on the verge
of a nervous and mental collapse.
He told his lawyers that he had
discovered that she was soon to
become a mother, and to prevent
Miss Edmands from learning of
this fact he purchased bottle
of cyanide of potassium and gave
Miss Linnell a sufficient quantity
to cause her death.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-06
TRAIN BANDIT
MAKES GOOD
ESCAPE
(By United Press Leased wire.,

(By United Press Leased Wire.s
REDDING, Cal, Jan. 6.-Pos-
tai detectives arrived here today
to investigate the mail robbery of
the Oregon express near here yes
terday. Local authorities admit
that the lone unmasked bandit
who forced Mail Clerk Charles ].
Rhein to bind and gag his asso-
ciates after which he rifled the
registered mail pouches, has made
good his escape. They. declare
that he has completely covered sis
tracks. Many believe that the
bandit is being secluded by friends
in Redding.