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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
ON 7HE SPUR
or The MOMENT
L Don't Care.
~ ROY K MOULNON.

Don't Care.
with the usual apologies to Eva -Iansl
Let food go up; let prices soar
don't care.
Let ultimate consumers roar,
dom care. ..,is
Let Statesmen all go forth and battle
Upon the cost of hogs and catties
1 listen not to their fiery praile,
For don't care.
CHORUS.
don't care, 0s
/ don't care
/ sit still and keep right cool;
Ny wife's got good job teaching school
So don't care.
Let other folks to their labors' CO.
Out in the cold and the sleet and snow.
don't care.
Let others all get out and hustle
And swear and sweat and Toll ana tusslc
I never exercise muscle,
For I don't care.
CHORUS.
1 don't care,
/ don't care,
There's no use in worlin', you'll agree,
When the rent and the grub and the
clothes are free.
My wife makes enough for her and me,
So don't care
Let others satisfy ambition,
I don't care
I'm satisfied with my ambition.
/ don't care.
L would not elevate my station;
do not seek emancipation.
All wants my daily ration,
And L don't care.
CHORUS.
I don't care.
I don't care.
1 shake Dull Care with a snappy jerk.
greet hard times with a happy smtrk.
love to see my dear wife work,
So 1 don't care.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
KANSAS COAAENT
PROFITABLE FARMING.

Tobacco is now an established crop
| in this county. Nine of the substantial
farmers, after experimenting have built
barns and will now raise tobacco every
year. They are: Messrs. Starnes,
Burre, Spencer, Logan, Taylor, Lesland
Aaron, Ballard and Hoffman. Last
year these men raised so acres of to-
bacco which produced an average or
about 1880 pounds to the acre and 1T
is being sold for Ia cents pound or
total of $4,000. After allowing 500
an acre rent for the land it leaves
$4,000 to pay the men, and the interest
on the money invested in barns. To-
baccO is an easy crop to handle and a
very profitable one. A man can buy
40 acre farm in Leavenworth county
for $4,000 containing all the necessary
improvements and he can build barn
for 20 acres - tobacco at the cost OF
another $4,000 making total OF $o,Ooo.
The 20 acres in cultivation will keep his
house and pay all expenses. The ~
acres of tobacco after paying all ex-
penses, including interest on $4,000, VIII
leave a net profit Of more than $2,oOo
year. The farm would pay for it
self in our years.-LeavenWorth Post.
CONSERVATION.
The State Cracker Conservation
congress held a meeting at B1ngV1lie
yesterday. 1t was an enthusiastic
meeting and there were present dele
read and speeches made and the
meeting was decidedly beneficial TO
all.
The committee on statistics which
has been working three years made an
interesting report. 1t proved, by rig
ures that hundreds of dollars worth
of cracker crumbs are wasted annual
ly. People are careless in hanofng
crackers. They allow them to break
and the crumbs are brushed away ana
/ 11cr~ ic 1nC
It was voted to employ several ad-
ditional speakers to instruct the peo-
pie how to handle crackers SO that
so many small bits will not be wasted
1t is believed this instruction Will re-
suit in reducing the cost of living.
It was also voted to ask the state
legislature to appropriate $25,oOO TO
the congress to aid these speakers in
touring the country and saving this
waste in crackers.-Salina Union.
THE RECALL
The Times has not believed that the
recall should extend to judges but
perhaps with the provision that Is per
cent of those who voted for the judge
must sign the petition for his reca
before he can be called before the peo-
pie again the measure Will be SAFE.
This provision is most excellent one
in any case. It ought not to be pos
sible that the men who voted against
a candidate should have the power to
make him go to the trouble and eX-
pense of another campaign before the
time for which he was elected expires
If that were allowed the state might
be kept in continual turmoil. But
where 81 very considerable part OF
those who supported him have become
so dissatisfied with an official that they
are willing to have him recalled 1t
would appear that there is some good
reason for doing so. Under such
provision no official who serves any
normal community faithfully need fear
the recall If the community be alb
normal then he will have to take his
chances. Laws cannot be made that
will fit such cases as that.-Leaven-
worth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
sEFLEcTIoNs OF 4 BACHELOR
[From the New york press

The reason a woman knows what the
baby is trying to say is the baby isn't.
1t scares a man to get any money and
think what If his family should find it
out.
The reason girls father thinks she's
as innocent as the day she was born IS
nobody else does.
Fat women can't believe it of them
selves, even when they have to buy their
dress material by the mile
What a girl means when she makes a
man think how much she likes him is if
she really did she'd act as II she didn' t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

Colombia in her attempt to collect
her Panama claim from Uncle Sam. has
the sympathy of Topeka. The capital
city has been trying to collect a debt
from the state for many years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

The people who think the single
six-year term is intended to hurt Ted
dy are entirely mistaken, says the
Washington Post. Thousands of vot-
ers would be willing to give the col
onel one more term, who don't care
about eIecting him for life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

Attention is being called to the course
of the legislature in not making any
provision for lowering the taxes. But
does anybody ever lower the taxes?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

tions were removed from wood
alcohol it could be made perhaps for
or cents a gallon. The gas had little
odor as it came from the generator
and practically none after it had been
burnt in a stationary engfne.-New
York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

When Col. Roosevelt was fealrs years
Old his father punished him for biting
his sister. One with teeth. like those
must find use for. them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

A New York bank has adopted a new
rule forbidding clerks the bliss of
matrimony unless their salaries are
more than 800 month. Thus the bank
has it in its power to enforce single
blessedneSs indefinitely
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state Journal is a member or S Sns
4eIeeranh -eport of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive AFTERNOON
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The stare 'ou.
,,oI h,,ildirT- over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

Blue sky banking bills patterned
after the Kansas law are pending in
legislatures of about thirty states. An
other case of the Kansan abroad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

There is a tendency on the part of
legislators to make matrimonial can
didates obtain the doctors consent as
well as that of pa and ma
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

A law to regulate the blowing of au-
tomobile horns is being called for. II
the auto driver did not blow his own
horn who would do it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

Anybody who is going to Washington
TO hear President Wilson's inaugural
address is not likely to get the worth of
his money. 1t will contain only about
. 600 words
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

Tt develops that the bill for the pro-
lection of frogs is not due to any spe-
cial love for these animals but to the
fact that they absorb the mosquito crop
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

Bachelors have resented the PROPOSE
ton to tax them by moving for tax
on cats with the idea of taking it Out
on the spinsters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

The Mexicans seem to have found a
way to stop the revolutions by killing
all the rebels. The execution of 80
In one day recently is recorded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

Madero seems to have made a mis-
take in not shooting first His Glenn
encv to Diaz doubtless cost him his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

Some persons say it would take US
many years to subdue Mexico. Didn't
take very long in the late 40's. But we
did not undertake to occupy the coun-
try permanently
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

Every Indian becomes a chief when
he gets away from home. In that par
ticular he differs little from his white
1,nt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

GOV. Wilson has been making fire
ouent visits to the dentist recently. L
he preparing to use his teeth instead o
an aye? l..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

A singular fact in connection Win
the Mexican affair is that the coionel
has not said a word about it publicly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

Missouri suffragettes are trying te
bride the legislators with apples. Mo1iiei
Eve worked out that lead long ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

The national banks system passed the
fiftieth anniversary of Its EXISTENCE
Tuesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

Porfirio DiaZ appears TO De one vi
the small army of persons VINO kho"
when they have enough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

Cracksmen blew safe in daylight
IN Boston. The Hub should begin
putting on metropolitan airs after tnat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
Caught on the Fly.

Castro says he doesn't think much
of America anyhow. Well. the feeling
seems to be entirely mutual.
Obadiah 4 ~rdner may be the next
secretary of agriculture. Obadiah GER
tainly sounds the part. ..f.--
A Kansas farmer lost $500 diamond
in his yard. Being Kansas farmer
he should search his whiskers first
Mr.. Taft will get 5000 a year as
a Yale pfessor. The football coach
gets $4,000.
Mr.. Rockefeller says: Save your
Rockefeller.
There are 10 grades of eggs on the
market. About Is of them are from
Strictly Fresh" down to Fresh"
1t is said Mr.. Wilson will listen to
Bryan. He is one of the few who
can do that without buying lecture
tickets.
The total gold production in the
United States during 1912 was $s1 $685.
1907. The II cents will probably be
divided equally among the ultimate
consumers.
The Modern Farmer.
This farmer dialect we see
In print is mostly bosh,
cultivated man is he
He never says "B' goshi'
He never chevs a piece of hay;
He is no rubber neck;
The English that he speaks is pure,
He never says "by heck!'
He travels in his motor car;
! His wife wears classy gowns;
He spends his moments laughing at
THE rubeS who live in towns.
He doesn't read the almanacs
To get news of the day.
He has party telephone,
And hears 1t all the way.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-02-07
THREE FARM TRAINS
WILL BE OPERATED DURING MONTH
OF FEBRUARY.
Territory to Be Covered by the Trains
Includes That Along Line Of G. &
S. l., Queen and Crescent and
Mississippi Central.

JAckson-Three Farmers trains" will
be run in Mississippi during February
and the schedules include more than a
hundred stops.
When the Gulf and Ship Island rail.
road arranged for the exhibition train
over its line, and announced that It
would be sent out under the direction of
Commissioner Of Agriculture II. Z.
Blakesiee, other railroads began to con-
slider doing the same thing, and the r.
suit OF considerable correspondence be-
tween the commissioner and the roads is
that q train OF this character will be
run between Jackson and Picayune, via
Meridian, leaving here on the morning
Of Monday, February 10. Later in the
month a similar train will run from
Hattiesburg to Natchcz.
The Gulf and Ship Island train will
leave Gulfport on February 3, and after
making numerous stops will come here
on February 10.
The train to go from here to Pic
ayune will make eight stops between
here and Meridian, and proceeding south,
on the New Orleans and Northeastern,
to Picayune will make 20 stops.
The Mississippi Central will operate
their train from IIattiesburg on Feb
ruary "a, and make 25 stops before 1t
reaches Natchez on March /.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-02-07
MSSISSlPPI'S BIRTH RATE
TOTAL OF 2,357 REPORTED FOR
MONTH OF NOVEMBER.
Was First Month Of the Vital Statistics
Law, and the White Births Re
ported Exceeded Negro
Births.

JGekson.-There were 1857 children
born in the state OF Mississippi during
The month Of November, according to the
report filed with the state board Of
health under the new law requiring the
registration Of births and deaths.
OF this number Of births 1897 were
white and 76O negroes. Making the
birth rate for the state 1913 per 1000
population, The white rate being 23.7,
the negro rate s.s. No doubt the &C
tuai negro birth rate is in excess of the
white, and these returns would indicate
that the negro births were not being
reported. The birth rate OF white chill
dren in this state compares fayorably
with the states that have been register
ing births for several years.
II is important that each child's birth
be registered The records of births and
deaths will in the future often be re-
quircd for legal purposes. Parents and
i%latives should see teo it that they are
promptly reported.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-02-07
BIG SUIT AGAINST
6. & S. 1. RAILROAD
POSTAL TELEPHONE co. FILES AN.
SWER AND CROSS BILL.
Claim That Rival Company Inspired
Railway TO Interfere With Postal's
Right of Eminent Domain
Over Right Of Way.

MISUNDERSTANDING $500 actual
and $780, 900 punitive damages, the
Postal Telegraph Company filed answer
and cross bill TO the injunction recently
filed against that company and the Mis-.
sissippi Telephone Company by the Gulf
and Ship Island Railroad Company,
wherein the two defendant companies
were restrained from stringing telegraph
wires along the ~rightof-way Of the Gulf
and Ship Island from jackson to Hatties-
burg. The cross bill nswers the various
counts in the original bill and allege
that the Home Telephone Company ac-
quired a right of eminent domain over
the property and the Gulf and Ship
Island railroad under condemnation pro-
ceedlngs and claim that this right was
obtained in the same way that the rail
road company claims got its rights be-
fore the road was constructed. The tele-
phone company claims that having ac-
quired its rights in this way, it has a
perfect right to enter into contractural
with another company whose
use of its rights does not place an addi-
tional burden on the railroad company.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-02-07
Shoots Wife.

Shawnee, Okla.-When the court 70
fused DR.. T. T. Cohessy the custody Of
his children, Cohessy followed his wife,
who was accompanied by her attorney
and a deputy sheriff, to the Rock Island
station and shot her down and when
seized by the sheriff tried to shoot him.
self. They were divorced last March and
Cohessy has been trying to get posses.
sion of his two minor children. This
shooting occurred in the crowded station
Just at train time. A bottle o. acid and
> phial Of s~tsychnins were found on c.
hessy.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-02-07
Crop Investment Association.

Natchez.--Mr. p. P. Garner, stats
agent Cor South Mississippi, represent.
ing the federal department of farmers
cooperative demonstration work, 10
starting the ball rolling in the direction
OF county crop improvement association.
A Chicago firm has appropriated one
hundred thousand dollars to be divided
among the first one hundred county r
Improvement associations, one of the
conditions being that the county raise
one thousand dollars for the work. tho
amount to be paid is two years.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-02-07
BEULAH LEvEE GIVES WAY
Area to Be Inundated Will Reach 100000
A~cres-River Being Lower, Flood
Less Than Last Year.

Beulah.-Due, it is said, to a section
OF the new levee around the Beulah
crevasse of last spring not having been
completed, and water in its rise overtop-
ping Beulah Lake, a surglng torrent from
the Mississippi river broke through the
uncompleted levee and quickly swept
aside the emergency work and soon Il
rapidly growing sheet of water started
across the lowlands surrounding.
Negligence on the part of some one IN
authority in not having the entire loop
around the old crevasse at least halfway
completed in charged by officials in Jack
son, Greenville and Vicksburg, and an in.
vestigation will be started.
As the big head of water will in a
measure be stemmed by the banks of
Beulah Lake, no such inundation as that
OF last spring is anticipated.
No lives have been reported lost, rs
citizens OF the country around, both
black and white, had been notified of the
approaching danger and were in a meas
ure prepared for it.
Owing to the fact that the stage of
the river is much lower than it was last
year the territory inundated will be
much smaller, including Bogue Phalia
and a portion of the Sunfower
River Valley south of the Southrn Rail-
Way. Ahout oO0 nm ooras -. oho,,4 10
per cent of the Mississippi levee district
will be flooded, composed of the coun-
ties of Bolivar, Sharkey and Issaquena,
md portions of Yazoo, Washington and
Warren, unless more water than is now
n sight comes down the river.
Government work of months was
swept away in a few minutes and esti.
of the loss have not been made.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-02-07
wEEvIL WROUGHT HAVOC.
Cut Cotton Crop in the Jackson Terri
tory.

Jacksonville extent of the agricul
tural evolution brought about by the i in
vasion of the boil weevil is strikingly
illustrated by a compilation of figure,
showing receipts of Wagon cottcl al
sixty intrior market points in the terri
tory contiguous to Jackson, as compared
with receipts for former years.
During the season now drawing to a
close, the receipts of wagon cotton
amounted to only 91,601 bales, as com
pared with 130,s92 bales in 1911, 216,922
bales in 1910, 249,4SO bales in 1909. and
321,3S6 bales in 1908.
These figures cover the period since
the boil weevil first invaded Mississippi,
and furnish a fair illustration of what
cotton growers may expect in other
states where the pest has commenced its
r avages.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-02-07
RAILROAD DOING
A GOOD WORK
ILLINOIS CENTRAL OFFICIALS A19
KEPT VERY BUSY.
Demonstration Work to Be Carried On
During the Current Year Actively
Under Way-LOcation of
the New Farms.

Jackson.-Under the direction Of G.
B. Harper, assistant industrial and i'm
migration commissioner of the Illinois
Central railroad, c. n. Brumfeld and
j. NJ. Rigby, agriculturist and assistant
agriculturist, respectively, are busily
engaged in establishing fifteen additional
experimental farms Of the Illinois Gen.
trail and Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
railroads.
Thirteen of the farms have been pos
itively located, while the reamining two
are being projected. When all of the
farms are located a total of twenty
seven on the Illinois Central and Yazoo
and Mississippi Valley railroads will be
in operation.
All of the farms, with the exception
of two in Louisiana, are located in Mis-
sissippi. OF the t~wenty-seven, thirteen
are OIL the Ilnilois Central and the re-
mainder on the YazoO and Mississippi
Valley railroad.
The farms located this year are at
Oxford, Magnolia, West Point, Duck Hill,
Gluckstadt, Kiscousko, Hazlehurst, in
the Birmingham district near Corinth,
Denham Springs, O'Reilly, Mound Bayou,
Wayside, Natchez, and two in projection
at Morehead and Silver City. With the
exception of Denham Springs, La, all
Of the farms are in Mississippi.
The farms located last year are at
Como, Grenada, Duratn, Terry, Brook
haven, Clarksdale, Marks, Greenwood,
Yazoo City, Martin, Harriston, Miss,
and Gurley, La.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-02-07
LIES STRUGGLE
With ILLNESS
Mrs. Stewart Tells How She
Suffered from 16to45 years
old-How Finally Cured.

Euphemia, Ohio. -"Because of total
ignorance Of how to care for myself
when verging into womanhood, and from
taking cold when going to school, I sui.
fered from a displacement, and each
month ! had eve pains and nausea
which always meant q lay-off from work
for two to four days from the time I
wa 16 years old
"Iwentt to Kansas to live with my sis.
ter and while there Q doctor told me Of
the Pinkham remedies but I did not use
them then Al my faith in patent medi-
cines was limited. After my sister died
! came home to Ohio to live and that
has been my home for the last 10 years.
"The Change Of Life came when / was
Il yesrs old and about this time Is~aw
my physical condition plainly described
In n Of your advertisements. Then T
began using Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg J
etable Compound and I cannot tell you
or any one the relief It gave me in the
first three months. It put me right
where I need not lay off every month |
and during the last 10 years I have not
paid out two dollars to doctor, and have !
been blest with excellent health for a wo- \
woman Of my age and I can thank Lydia I
E. Pinkham'sVegetabl Compoundforit
"Since the Change Of Life is over I /
have been a maternity nurse and being !
wholly self-supporting I cannot over [
estimate the value Of good health. +
have now earned Q comfortable little
home just by sewing and nursing since
! was 52 years old. Ihave recommended
the Compound to many with good re-
suits, as it is excellent to take before J.
and after childbirth. miss EVELYN
ADEIIA STEWART, Euphemia, Ohio.
II you want special advice write to
Lydia e. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confl.
dentiaI Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered By q
woman and held In strict confidence. F.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-02-07
Seeks Land Tax Information,

INSTRUMENTATION Thompson has re.
eeived q communication from Lorenzo
B. Batson of the Batson-McGehee Com
pany of Hilliard, giving in detail an out
line of the timber land acreage held by
their firm, located in Marion, Lamar and
Pearl River counties. The total acreage
is 1890 acres, and the presumption is
that emitting the 1000 acres which the
land tax of 1912 exempts from the 20
cents acreage tax, the area for which
they would be taxable would be 1890
acres. The writer asks for instructions
how to proceed.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-02-07
TAKE STITCHES IN HEART.
Squirt of Blood Almost Blinds New Or.
leans Surgeon.

New DEMONSTRATING a half-dozeu
stitches in a negro's heart while almos,
blinded by blood which spurted from
tina organ was part of a successful ope.
ration performed by DR.. Joseph A. Dan.
ma, house surgeon at Charity Hospital
The patient, Lodge Lee, who was
stabbed in a row, was conscious through.
out the ordeal and conversed with those
about the table. Hospital attendants
say he will live.
Sinking his scalpel into the incision
already made by the stab, the surgeon
opened the surface down to the outer
casing of the cocainized heart.