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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1913-02-21
HIGHLAND.

The writer had to leave off dots last
week on account of sickness.
Messrs. Geo. Fryer and Ned Pierce
made flying trip to Lexington last
Saturday.
Mr.. John Wigley made flying trip
through our streets last Saturday on
his way to attend court at Mr.. Jerry
Spells store, to which he was sum-
moned to attend.
We are sorry to hear of Ed Ables
being quite i'll. We hope him asspeedy
recovery.
Mrs. Ganey is sick withsa bad cold.
We are glad to hear that Mr.. John
Pierce has gotten up and is able to go
around.
Mr.. JIM Burrell and daughter, Miss
Rosa, went to Ivy Malone last Sat
urday evening and spent the night and
Sunday.
Mrs. Joe Landum Ables went to see
Ed AbIes, who is quite i'll, last Sunday.
c John Burrell called on Miss Victoria
Ganey last Saturday evening.
d. J. Wigl1y, of Coxburg, called on
Miss Rosa Burrell last Wednesday.
Raiford Ables spent sunday with
his father in Yazoo county
Messrs. Minor Roberts and Cleve
Rodgers were seen passing through our
town last sunday
Miss Victoria Ganey and John Bur
rell caIedEon MissF RANGES Wigley last
Sunday.
John Rodgers called on Tom Ed
wards last Tuesday.
We are having some mighty hard
rains this week. 1t dop't look like we
are going to make much this year.
| believe that it is put on us for a
burden because we are not living in
the right way. We don't do what God
has commanded us to do. We will
have to carry, out his commandments if
we live right.
We are sorry to hear of Benny Wig
ley getting hissfoot split open last
Tuesday. DR.. Phillips made three
stitches in the cash which was about
three inches long. He was splitting
stove wood and the AK glanced and
split hissfoot. BLUE BIRD.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1913-02-21

night with her little friend. Miss Ber-
tha Yeager and reported q nice time.
MISS Elvlra Walker spent Saturday
with her friend, Miss Ina Farmer.
Misses Eliza Gresham, Dora Rella
Afford and Nora Walker spent Satur-
day night very pleasantly with Mr.. and
Mrs. W. W. Holmes.
Miss Maggie Dodd spent Saturday
night with her friend, Miss Mrytle
eager and was accompanied home by
Garland Ellis Sunday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Z. Yeager and chill
dren spent Sunday with his mother.
Mrs. M. M. Yeager
Mrs. Matte Melton and sister. An
ME Smith, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. b. b. Farmer.
Mr. and Mrs. /. B. Farmer and |, B.
Smith took dinner with Mr.. and Mrs.
S. v. Farmer Sunday.
Miss Eliza Gresham spent Monday
night at Mr.. and Mrs. Nj. A. Walkers.
Mr.. Al Harvey called on Miss Eliza
Gresham Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. w. X. Autry filled his regular
appointment SUNDAY afternoon.
Bro. Clark spent Sunday night at
Mr.. and Mrs, W. H. Hewitt 8.
Little Lavania Holman spent one
night last week with her little school
mate, Matte Yeager
Mrs f. A. Walker took dinner with
Mrs. r. H. Yeager Saturday.
j. +. Walker called on his best girl
last Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Inez Dodd and sweet little baby
called on her father, W. A. Greene,
Saturday afternoon
r. p. Smith went to see his brother,
w. c. Smith, near Hoffman, Sunday.
Mr. Spencer Ellis has returned home
from Drew, where he has been work
ing.
Tell Hewitt and Misses Dora Rella
Afford and Nora Walker were seen out
Continued on Page Z.
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OVER THE COUNTY
WEST

Let your enthusiasm be of the kind
that will make you hustle, and your
hustlng of the kind that will make
Others enthusiastic.
If you are honest and know it, re-
joice-for you may be sure that other
men will know it and rejoice also.
Miss Mary Park Rosamond, one OF
Kosciuskos attractive girls, was d
recent visitor to DR.. Rosamond
The many friends Of Mr.. k. A. Cross
are constantly and anXiously enquiring
of his condition while he is in the sani-
tarium at Jackson, where he has under
gone serious operation. Mrs. Cross
remains at his bedside.
Dr.. Rogers spent several days pro-
fessionally in the capital city.
LittleCaroline Jackson is visiting her
aunt, Mrs C. B. Alexander, while Mrs.
Jackso> is in st. Louis.
Among the Masons from here who
attended the Grand Lodge at Gulfport
were Nose Garry, R K. and Tom
Brock.
Johnnie: Mamma, my toes are not
as hard as leather, are they?" Nam
ma: ."No, Johnnie" Johnnie: Then,
Mamma, how do they wear themselves
through my shoes"
'Bredren an sistern, said the old
colored preacher, Use gWine to preach
a powahful sermon dis maWnin'. Sc
gWlne to define de undefinable. Sc
gwine to explain de unexplainable, an
Use gwine to unscrew de unscreWa-
ble.
MIR. and Mrs. A. J. Stevens and little
Andrew left Monday night for Sardis,
where Mr.. Stevens has accepted the
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iring energy that they were purchas.

tiring energy that they were purchas-
ed.
We are glad that Mrs. w. F. Green
was not seriously hurt from being
thrown from the buggy while returning
from church Sunday.
Miss Johnle West, a nurse from the
Sanitarium at Winona, spent while
with Mrs. John Holmes Sunday.
"The mother in her Office, holds the
key
Of the soul; and she it is who stamps
the coin
Of character, and makes the being
who would be savage.
But for her gentle cares, a Christian
man;
Then crown her queen of the world -
AS ever, Your friend, TOM.
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We Call Your Attention

To an advertisement Of Olds engines
in this paper 7 ou may believe all that
is said in this advertisement Of the good
quality Of the Olds. We feel quite sure
that the public will believe us, in any State
ment we make about engines
But having better engine to
offer our customers, we take pleasure in
stating that we shall be glad to make es-
specially good prices on the Olds engines
that we have in stock. These are right
new engines, guaranteed to be the best
that can be made by the Olds factory. If
you are in the market for and Olds engine,
it is your good fortune to be able for a
short time to buy them at considerably
reduced price---that is, as long as they last
Come to our big ware-rooms and get
this special sale price on the engine you
are interested in. We must make room
Tor our new line.
MCBGG Engine & Implement Co.
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How the Extinction MANS ANCESTORS About the LINE

During the period the brute-man existed overcame
the big animals He probably multiplied rapidly for
time, learned the OF fire and his food He
killed of the mammoth. the bear. the sabre
toothed tiger the Irish elk but left their skeletons for
us to see and study. All trace OF mis- existence
has disappeared for those skulls and lately found
do not belong to his period but much later one
Was the missing link of gigantic stature as
Professor Dawson believes? Was he capable of deeds
OF daring and feats of overcoming Natures barriers
such as man individually to-day Is not? Undoubtedly
he vas powerful mid-1nan the way OF killing and
extermnating. Anything that would obey him or
could not be tanned and made to work for him put
out OF existence All animals capable of being domesti.
Gated by the women saved and it is due to this
fact that we have the horse the other domestic
animals.
This missing link became wanderer and one ever
athirst for the blood of those whom could not en-.
slave There is one prominent trait In nature
We can trace from this Ind-man-the hatred of races
differing in mere color and the desire with even
our kind. For breeds war; bloodhunger
begets bood-hunger. Not until these traits are absent
from mans makeup claim TO have left behind
the missing link.
We still killing Present man extermnated tbo
North sea COW. the aux, the buffalo The Indians
are disappearing and many of the Of POLYNESIA
have been completely exterminated. Man to-day ;s
rhessy killing all bird and animal life through sheer
love Of slaughter and vanity. Why? II is an inherit,
ance from missing link ancestor
Only by studying the history Of man in his treatment
Of those differing in c6lor his tribe or family can
we arrive at insight cause OF the exter
minaton of the missing link. this color or race
hatred confined to Ii exists to-day among ami
mails The gray squirrel instance will not allow
the presence OF red squirrels in the grove or trees
they inheot They will kill drive away every red
squirrel coming into their territory
Man has always made ruthless on every living
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nction the race we call the missing link wa due
in all probability to this passion killing each other
1T is also probable that the numbers OF people
were greatly reduced until but few were left
These fled to regions where geological changes swal
lowed up all traces of their existence. 1t
to believe that something OF happened to that
selni-human link all scientists have been hunting
some OF the fastenesses the Thibetan plateaus a
family or two found safety and sprung again
our white race. Buried under geological upheavals
may be found the bones of primitive ancestors. \
But why our present and persistent hatred between
the white and dark colored peoples? The explanation
is to be found in knowledge psychology is In
our subconscious memories Memory stuff passed on
through thousands and thousands Of years. For the
year Of race is the day OF 1t is fixed un.
comfortable ancestral memory, and as much part Of
ourselves as is the color OF skn-aso ancestral
The bloody killings, tort,lres and horrible deeds OF
our od'time enemies, mutilatng orgies. covering
the lives OF hundreds of generations, fastened in our
brain memory cells which are brought into activity
the sight of those whose skins are colored black
red, copper or bronze. This memory is az fixed
as the one which causes to shun and fear snakes
We born with it; 1t neradicable and NAV ma for
the best.
Just as the white the traits OF straight hair
high nsep the wooly hair fiat feet as pnys
fcal marks of inheritance, do possess in our
brains memories of fear and hatred for those
who extermnated our forebears-the missing link To
certain extent depending the mental develop
ment, so do the dark-skinned people have ancestral
memories OF killings and torture
This deep, subconscious hatred or dislike of white
people for black people is the result OF past ancestral
the law OF afinites, in which, when afnites come
together, they both increase strength and vitality
The white men in the Antipodes the white men in
Aaska the tnsishman in India. the German in Africa
al! and each Of feeling the color line due
10 'ne inheritance of the same ancestral memories.
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lowing several drops per fly each meal thousands
OF the pests will take large OF blood from an
OK or a horse in the OF day.
An interesting discovery made that In the
afflicted region majority OF the flies
IN straw which, after the grain harvest had been
tered more or less over the fields and by rain
Even the straw in stacks, when 1t happened be
damp, was infested 800 pupae being found in single
cubic foot of it. The moral OF which is that straw
with vertical sides rounded up top shed rain
or else burned-uness (Which is best of alb it be
ploughed under the soil
All Of sufficiently we'll acquainted with stable
flies They look much like the ordinary housefy
that the person would notice difference
between the two. But the stable fly unlike its domestic
cousin, has biting beak and knows how it.
IN the Summer time persons who wear low shoes
liable to suffer from attack by the stable ny.
Stable flies breed like the househy, in manure.
But damp straw in warm weather suit their
requirements admirably The female lays nearly 800
eggs. In stables they cause immense deal OF suf-
ferlng TO horses everywhere During the Texas plague
1t was found expedent protect the horses by putting
trousers their legs, which supplemented with
burlap suits 10 cover the back, sides and neck.
such distress 10 horses everyw here in the Summer
time The poor animals endure agones from the at
tacks OF this insect
With all the undertaking Of the housaay there has
been up to the present time nothing said that worth
mentioning in regard to the dangerous character OF
the stable fly. Now that the latter has suddenly come
TO be recognized carrier OF diseases, among human
beings as well animals, stringent o. one
kind or another looking 10 its extirpaion, at all
events to the restriction OF its breeding will presum.
ably be undertaken.
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clothing 10 allow OF free perspiration, evaporation
through the skin is the keep the body heat
Cold water-not iced waer-should be freely used
inside and outside and the intestinal tract must be kent
Tree and active Mental excitement anger passions of
al sorts, vii! soon put your system and brain
II good condition TO succuub effects OF heat
Inc majority OF OF sunstroke brought 10 the
hospitals show an overloaded else phys-
cal exhaustion from careless living as the real cause
" course this excludes those heat strokes due
TO working n fire rooms refneries other places
where the temperature is always abnormally high
No girl should bareheaded in the streets of city
where the radiation from pavemeats and buildings
SENDS up an enormous amount Of unnatural heat In
the country and the shore, where the breezes
dow II IS not so dangerous. But under conditions
when he sun is high the head should be protected by
some light colored and light weight material Blondes
especially should keep OF the glazing sun II they
do not want their skins notled their hair to be-
brittle.
When person falls from sunsroke immediate &C
ton is necessary. Don't wait for the doctor or tha
ambulance Five minutes delay may make differ
ence between life and death; worse still a living
but useless brain. Remember the blood is over
heated; every minute 1t is allowed TO pass through the
brain in this state Injuries the cess Loosen all
the clothing; strip the body If necessary and apply
cold the whole surface. Not Just TO the head
and temples. Modesty and life saving are not com
pauble attitudes Put ice 10 the temples ankles
II II is child wrap its body in a sheet soaked in
cold or iced water Keep up this method OF cooling the
blood until the doctor arrives
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are reduced to 675 volts before being sent
through the third rail to the substation. from
whence the electric current Is returned to
power house so that continuous circuit Is
ensured. The brush of the motor car picks
up the current, and in passing through motor
the electric current drives it, then returns
to the third rail.
Now the tendency of all electric currents
Is to return to the earth. and when any con-
ductor, that is, any body through which cleo
tricity will pass, Is placed on third rail at
one end and allowed to rest on the earth
with the other, the entire electric current
contained in third rail will rush through this
ians term short circuit. Now when a hu-
man being or a dog places one foot on the
third rail, remaining in contact with earth
at the same time, as anything on legs is
hound TO do, a short circuit is formed the
675 volts OF electricity rush through the ami
malls, or through the human body, and in
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A PLAGUE Of stable flies in Texas last Summer
~ gave rise TO special study Of this insect by
'A - the Government Bureau of Entomology: and an
outcome OF the investigation is the discovery that the
stable fly is responsible for vastly mischief than
was hitherto supposed
Not only does it great loss to owners of live.
STOCK but it is the carrier OF several diseases of cattle
horses and other domestic animals. In the Old World
IT transmits and distributes the dreaded "surra" which
destroys immense numbers OF camelS horses and cat.
tie AS yet this particular malady has been kept out
or the United States, but il may arrive any time
The stable fly is carrier OF both CHAMBERS and
swamp fever among horses. 1t distributes anthrax
among domestic animals, and probably some extent
among human beings That it is the carrier OF in.
lantlie paralysis has only recently been ascertaned
IhlS ny Is one OF the most widely distributed of in.
sects, being found in all inhabited parts the world
The presumption is that il introduced into the
United States from Europe with livestock brought by
the earliest coonists. 1t attacks all warm-blooded ami.
mails causing severe injury to horses mules and cattle
pastures), and even chickens suffer.
During the outbreak OF 1912. in northern Texas MANY
dairymen found their output OF milk reduced forty
to sixty per cent. In some the dried up
All cattle. horses and other domestic animals were
greatly reduced in flesh losing to fifteen per cent
OF their weight. Dairy herds fit to exhibit
Farm poughng had be suspended because the horses
and mules suffered much.
Even the men engaged in tho fields were trightfuy
bitten the flies getting them through their garments
observation showed that after while the cattle
horses gave up the fight, allowing the flies swarm
over them. The blood taken by stable fly at one
FEEDING is soon dgested, and the is ready for
another meal The loss Of blood is very serious Al.
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Why BIRDS Are NOT KILLED by the THIRD IRA

w IHlLE waiting at a railroad crossing
w after the gates were down, but be-
fore the train had whirled by, you
may have been Mortified to see fat robin or
i portly starting flutter 10 earth and calmly
step upon the third rail. OF course you ex-
pected 10 witness a piteous wiggling of the
dainty body, nuttering OF the wings and
then-death. Instead, wholly unconcerned,
the bird hoped along the rail, neandered to
earth and hoped back again, and all the
while YOU watched him in fascinated amaze
ment, wondering what magic saved the bird
from electrocution.
The problem is very simple. It is not due
to any biological difference between birds
and other animals or human beings, but to
the nature Of electricity.
AT every power house 1000 to 10000 volts
are generated the number varying according
10 the distance 10 be traversed In short
services such as the ordinary suburban serv-
ice, about 1900 volts are generated, which
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thing lower In scale-his fellow man
or animals. Only those animals and
men which could be ens!aved were
saved from extinction. Man in the
dim past not only wiped out his own
pedigree, but we have well-known
medicines of this in modern times.
The Beothuk tribe, Of Newfound
land, was so venomously hated By
the white men that the thousands
comprising the tribe we're reduced
In the year 1919 to one survivor
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Fish with No Mouths

r F you have visited a side-show circus or mn.
\ scum you cannot have failed to see arnlless won.
ders" who write with their toes; elastic skin men
who stretch their hide six inches atoed
women who have the whole Doomsday Book linked into
their flesh; fat men, bewhiskered women and even ly.
Ing skeletons. Even who swallow reptiles, frogs,
fish and whole aquaria known
But none OF these marvels any way as strange
as the species OF fish of the carp family just brought
to the knowledge of by Professor j. W. Fehl.
mann, Master OF Arts and naturalist OF London Eng
land.
Professor Fehlmann himself astonished at find
ing these carp experienced collector that he is These
strange fish live and thrive without any mouth
whatsoever. They in this respect like a Pullman
car without entrance either end. For four years
these carp lived, dgested normal fashion.
There was neither entrance exit for food.
The fish exactly the a closed pipe far
as was evident from without.
When, however, DR.. Fehlmann dssected the carp de-
scriDed, the stomach and digestive canal found
be literally swarnng with the usual victuals OF the
piscan tribe. There numerous nayfes, larvai,
grubs plants, lttle and similar ament Of
fish in the food canal
This explained how the mouthless creature fourshed
cefts bat they also able drink and eat by
means Of these respiratory openings Although the carp
lived In good health four years, there was not the
slightest signs OF adpose tissue be found bodS
Professor Fehmann is convinced that there Is
true species OF mouthless FISH, but he determined
to find out if possible. whether these freak fish can be
developed.
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the case of small animal such as rabbit
or dog, it is bound TO be fatal. A human
being requires from 1900 to 100 volts to
be killed, but 675 volts will burn q man
badly-perhaps SO badly that he may die
from the effects.
1t is necessary to clearly understand the
foregoing before we can understand why a
bird is not killed by the third rail. robin
Or starting, to return TO our example will
not reach down to the earth with one foot
and upwards to the third rail with the other.
He solidly plants both his little feet on the
dangerous third rail, which Immediately Is
rendered non-dangerous, because the bird
rests entirely upon 1t and in no way has
established connection with the earth The
dangerous 675 volts pursue the dangerous
tenor OF their way, leaving the fat robin un.
molested.
But, were a waddling goose to come along,
and to lift one foot TO the rail while the
other remained the earth it's fate would
be the same as the rabbits or the dogs,
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What Became
Of the Races
MISSING LINK?
By WILLIAM LEE HOWARD, MD.

n the missing link literally that form of
human being which have existed at some
time. First the man-ape, and later the up
right man and one who had learned use his hands
and live IN family groups. This missing link the
man who spans the period between ape and savage
We know something about the big apes and more
about man. but nothing about what scientists agree
must have been link between these extremes of
living beings. To-day the gorlas brain measures
man about 1,l50 centimetres. Where has gone the
intermediate whose measured midway of
these figures?
He existed at time; there doubt about
this fact unless all scientists and evolution
is chimera The probable fact is that one time
more momenous. tremendous changes took place upon
this earth than comprehend. Life in and
q diet OF fruit gave way to the seashore and
banks OF rivers and 20 the eating OF fesh-per-
haps human flesh
All land animals originally 0, the ocean and
swamps. Some of these mammals went back to the
seareal animals like the whale sea COW the seal
These had existed land migratory animals.
What caused them 20 take to the deep of the
ocean? This missing the middle link in our
process OF evolution for this period he was chasing
and killing off the big animals for food sport and as
measure OF personal safety. Just beasts are
now being externtnated by
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stead of tones which are spoken. or sung or
produced by musical instruments or tuning
forks.
In this way the ear and the brain channels
OF hearing can slowly but surely be re-
educated by kind or drilling which is the
result of this new "siren method" Deafness.
partial or complete, deaf.mutism, and all
kinds and grades OF auditory troubles have
Of late been thus encouragingly treated by
Professor Marage and his students
A regular series OF vowel sounds and
vowel forms produced by such a siren, can
be made 10 fit each individual case There
is no doubt that this original and highly
practical plan OF treating deafness will re-
suit throughout the world in the relief Of
many OF these unfortunates