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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-09-19
SHOW YOUR
PAPERS If YOU
WANT TO WE'D
A EUcENlC MARRIAGE LAW Is
BEING FRAMED FOR
MISSISSIPPI.
ALL MUST Be HEALTHY
Diseased Persons WilII Not Be
Able To Get License II The
New Bill Passes Legislature.

j jackson, Sept. 18.-An eugenic
marriage law is being framed BY
State Senator j. G, Walker, Of Boil
ivar county, and well be offered for
passage at the approaching January
session of the legislature.
Senator Walker has been at work
on the bill for several months. He
has incorporated the best features
of the statutes recently enacted in
! Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and
feels confident that the measure will
receive favorable consideration.
Briefly the bill provides that all
persons applying for marriage license
must present certificates from repu-
table physicians that they are not
afflicted with any disease rendering
them unfit for wedlock.
Senator Walker intends to wage
a state wide campaign through the
press in behalf Of eugenics. He will
shortly send copies Of the bill to the
press, and the measure will also be
read at the several church denOmi-
natiolal conventions to be held dur
ing the autumn to secure the endorse
ment of those bodies.
In discussing the proposed reform
Senator Walker says:
II hope and believe that the bill
will receive the endorsement Of the
best people of the state. 1t is a much
needed measure and if we have a
predominant wholesale public senti-
ment in this state it will cluster
about it. 1t is no impeachment to
marriage; it places no stumbling
block in the way of the altar: but it
does say to the man who is about to
enter the most olemn, sacred and
holy relations of life to purify him
self, if need be, to the end that he
may produce his knd,and guarantee
to his offspring, as nearly as may
be, immunity from transmitable di-
sease. No person who is not in a
position to do this should be per-
mtted to marry, and the sooner the.
world wakes up to this fact, the.
sooner will be ushered in that bet
ter day when diseases and suffering
will be less common and roses wilE
bloom in the cheeks of children.
where they are sadly wanting now. -
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-09-19
PELLACRA SPREADS
IN MISSISSIPPI
Widely -DIffused Infections Caus-
Ing Alarm and Government
Aid Is Asked.

jackson, Miss, Sept. 18-Pella
era is spreading steadily in Missis-
sippi, according to the official reports
Of the State Board Of Health. While
the spread Of the disease is causing
considerable apprehension, the situ-
alton is not alarming.
The ravages Of pellagra have be-
come so serious that the Federal
government has been requested to
establish laboratory in the State
for the purpose Of making expert
mentS for the benefit Of the medical
profession. Dr.. Lavender Of the
Marine Hospital service has been
making study Of the disease for
some time, and the Federal govern
ment will be asked to place DR.. fav-
ender in charge of the proposed
laboratory.
The records of the Board of Health
show that from Jan. ! to July / of
this year there were 1888 cases Of
pellagra officially reported in the
State. OF these 588 were whites
and 665 were negroes. The deaths
during the same period were 267,
seventy-four being whites and 1913
negroes.
Pellagra has been reported from
every county in the State, but the
disease seems to be more prevalent
in the Delta than any other section. /
1t is said there are ESQ cases in
Washington county and ESQ cases
in Bolivar county. Thrty-nine
cases have been reported on one plan-
tation in Boliver county.
As pelIagra is making greater head
way in the Delta than in other por-
ions of the State, the Federal gov
will be asked to establish |
he proposed experimental laboratory
n the Delta section.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-09-19
RR.' 'SFOR
NOT MARKING
UP TRAINS
JUSTICE HOLDS LINES LIABLE FOR
NOT NOTING DEPARTURES.
HE WOULD CONVICT MORE
But Their Attorneys Had Enjoin-
ed the Court From Inter-
ference.

Jackson, Miss. Sept. 1S.-Justic'
of the Peace Spraggins has fount
two of the railroads that enter the
Jackson depot guilty Of failure tc
post their bulletin boards as to the
departure Of passenger trains, ane
would have convicted al the rest q
them if their attorneys had not en-.
joined the court from interference
The fines imposed amount to a con-
siderable sum, being $50 for each
offenSe, and there does not seem to
be any escape from liability, the law
on the subject being plain.
Several months ago the railroad
commissions issued a pamphlet con-
tanning az the laws avs and rules for the
government Of Railroad trains, and
distributed them broadcast over the
State, seeing to it that all railroad
officials received copies of size con-
venieEt to carry in the pocket of
their train operators. Rule 1Greals.
1T is the duty Of every railroad
to keep conspicuously posted at each
depot bulletin board which shall
show the time of arrival and de-
parture Of trains carrying passengers;
and when said trains are delayed
notice of the delay shall be made on
the bulletin board of each depot
where telegraph office is maintained,
stating as near and as early as can
be aScertained the extent and place
of delay, and when the first or any
subsequent noted time of delay has
been passed, further notice of delay
shall be entered. If the said trains
are on time the bulletin board shall
so state"
The next section gives a rule to
be observed in case of wrecks or
distractions, and makes it the duty
of the railroad company to bulletin
the particulars of the wreck or cause
Of delay, with all information bearing
upon it, while ithe conductor must
give notice to passengers Of possible
delays before leaving the station In
the direction of the wreck.
The railroads centering here have
been diligent in the posting Of arrivals
of trains, but the departure column
is ommited and there is no telling
when they leave.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-09-19
She Wasn't Sure.

A Presbyterian minister going
through one OF the mountain districts
came near house and he deciced
to ask permission to spend the night.
He called out and lady came to
the door. He asked: is your hus-
band at home?"
No; he has gone coon hunting"
Minister-"Does your husband
fear the Lord!"
He always carries gun.' she
replied.
Are there any Presbyterians
around here" he inquired.
Il don't know whether there are
o. not. He. has all the skins ON the
back of the woodhouse, you can go
out there and see if any of them arg
Presbyterians." !"
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-09-19
PAsCAGoULA MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
COST OF LIVING
STILL ADVANCING
Bureau Of Labor Experts Shows
Increase in Prices of
Necessities.

Washington, Sept. 18.-The cost
of living on June IS was approx.
mately so per cent higher than the
average between 1890 and 1900
more than 3 per cent higher than
it was a year ago. and nearly is per
cent higher than it was two years
age.
investigations of retail prices in
forty cities conducted by experts of
the bureau of labor, show prices
practically at the same level as last
November when the high records of
the last quarter century were reach
ed.
Fifteen articles of food were in
vestigated and compared with the
average prices between 1890 and
1900. Every article except sugar,
showed a marked advance; bacon,
which led in the soaring, went 1885
per cent.
Other articles which showed re-
markable advances. were:
Pork chops, Ill per cent; round
steak, 1925; smoked ham, "a; hens,
1858; sirloin steak, 75.2; rib roast,
IS; lard, 65.5; corn meal 81 3; pota-
toes, 44.4; butter, 1.3; eggs, 4O.8;
milk, 1874 and flour 28.6. During
the same period sugar showed de-
cline Of s per cent.
During the last year prices of
eleven of fifteen articles investigated
went up. Bacon advanced 1872 perl
cent; smoked ham 14.1; pork chops
1874; hens 11.8; eggs III; round
steak 1O.1; sirloin steak 9.S; lard, |
IL; rib roast 6.8; and milk Al.
The other four declined as follows:
Potatoes 31.9; sugar 15.2; wheat
lour IL and corn meal 3.9.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-09-19
GOOD ROADS AND
BACK TO THE LANO.' .

| believe that the country is the
place to bring up boys and girls and
| also believe that many now living
in the city will in future live in the
country. But if they do, it will be
because the roads are good. have
a friend who married an Illinois far
Iner; and as she was accustomed to
town, he boughta a house there, went
into the coal business, and drove out
TO the farm only every few days. A
fine highgway was built past their
property and a few months ago they
rented the city house. took their
four children out to the farm to live,
and now Mr.. H. has an automobile
and his wife brings him in to the
office and the children to school.
They have the pleasures and con-
veniences of the city and the free
dom and health of the country.
Every splendid road is cause for
rejoicing because the task OF getting
the children to school or the whole
family to church has been minimized.
A regularly attended school or church
is usually a good one. Therefore
good roads influence education and
religious sentiment. We are Begin
ming to get splendid roads all through
the South and the desire for more is
lost in thankfuIness for what we
have.-Mrs. W. N. Hutt, in The
Progressive Farmer.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-09-19
Order Calling Special Term OF
Court.
State Of Mississippi,
Jackson County.

1t appearing to the Judge Of the
Second Judicial Circuit Court Dis
trict of the State that the business
ofthe Circuit Court in andfo Jackson
County requires that Special Term
of Court be held in said County.
1t is therefore ordered that Special
Term of the Circuit Court of Jackson
County, in the State of Mississippi,
be held in the Court House of said
County, at PascagouIa Formerly
Scranton), Mississippi, to commence
on the Third Monday of October,
A. D. 1913, being the 10th day of
October, 1913, to continue for such
time as the business before said
Court may require.
1t is further ordered that the Clerk
of the Circuit Court OF Jackson
County, together with the Sheriff
and Clerk of the Chancery Court Of
said Jackson County, proceed to
draw jurors for said Special Term CT
Court, as aforesaid, at the time and
in the manner provided by law,
drawing fifty (5O) names for the first
week of said Special Term of Court,
and thirty (3O) names for the second
week Of said Special Term of said
Court, and that the Clerk of the
Circuit Court Of said County issue
venire facias for said jurors so drawn
as aforesaid returnable accordingly.
The Clerk of the Circuit Court of
Jackson County will give at least
three weeks notice of the time of
holding said Special Term of Court
in some newspaper published in
said County.
Witness my signature this the 5th
day Of September, 1913.
T. H. BARRETT,
Circuit Judge End District.
Mississippi.
All witnesses, litigants and jurors
take notice of the above order and
be governed accordingly.
By order of the Court, this the
9th day of September, 1913.
w. c. HAvENs.
Clerk Circuit Court Jackson
County, Mississippi.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-09-19
YOU'RE JUDGED BY
YOUR STATIONERY
It You Own a Farm or ANY Other
Business Have Printed
Letter Heads.

| Every farmer who owns a hundred
acres of land or more ought to have
printed stationery, with his name
and the name of his farm and his
postofflce address properly given.
The printed heading should also
give the names Of whatever crops he
specializes on, and of whatever va
rieties of seed or whatever breeds of
hogs, cattle, or poultry he keeps.
Printed stationery gives you standing
with whatever person or firm you
are writing to and gives you a new
dignity besides insuring that your
name and address will always he
given properly and in full.
Moreover, suce printed stationery
increases your credit. An advertiser
wrote one of our readers the other
day saying: I'VE usually require
cash with order for all our goods,
but we have found that it pays to
trust a man who uses printed
stationery as you do; so we are
shipping your order at once"
If you want to write to your Con.
Eressnan or member Of the Lepisla-
ture; or if you have a request to
make of your County Superintend-
ent OF Schools; or if you. wish to get
information from any business house
in any case your letter will have in
creased weight and get prompter at
tention II you use printed stationery.
Even if you use postal cards, buy
ZOO to 500 at the time and have
your name and address printed in
the corner.
Get the habit of using printed
stationery. The next time YOU 90
to town, why not drop into one of
the job printing offices and give an
order for l 900 sheets of printed note
paper and 1000 envelopes to match9
1t will be one of the best investments
yeu have ever made in your life.-l
The Progressive Farmer.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-09-19
UNCLE SAM TO
PUBLISH MONTHLY
Magazine viii Review Crop Con:
ditions Nationally And By
States,

Washington, Sept. 18--The United
States government is going into the
magazine publishing business for the
benefit of farmers. This is the an
nouncement made by the depart
ment Of agriculture, which adds that
the first issue of the magazine will
be out this month, and that other
issues will follow regularly at month
ly intervals. The publication will
be devoted principally to detailed
review of crop conditions nationally
and by states.
"This information will be prepared
in a purely popular way" Assist
ant Secretary Galloway declared,
with a view to enabling farmers to
determine at a glance just what plant
crop and animal crop conditions are
prevailing in his own state compared
with other states and the country
at large, and important foreign pro-
ducing areas"
It is the departments purpose to
make this periodical, which will
bear the title, "The Agricultural
Outlook, a magazine Of from 18 to
20 pages. 1t will deal not alone with
the production and condition Of crops.
but will instruct the farmer as to
marketing his wares.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-09-19
ROAD LAWS TO
Be CHANGED
Important Work Ahead of Miss
isslppI Legislature For
Next Session.

Jackson, Miss, Sept. 18.-COm
plete reformation and reconstruction
Of the road laws Of Mississippi is ar
important work confronting the nex1
session of the Legislature, in the
opinion of Representative D. c.
Bramlette, member Of the LegiSla.
tive Investigating Committee, which
has been sitting in Jackson.
"A thorough revision and re.
codifcation of the road laws Of Mis-
sissippi constitutes part Of the more
important and constructive legislation
that should be undertaken by the
Legislature in its 1914 session." de-
elared Mr.. Bran,1ette to-day. Our
present laws relating to the con-
struction, maintenance and repair of
our public highways are in a chaotic
condition with regard to certainty
and clearness of intention and mean
ing.
There are a number of methods
for caring for public roads, but it is
difficult in many instances for a
county to determine the law in re-
gard to its particular method Of
working roads. They should be
clearly divided and all laws applying
to the different methods placed in
divisions, or preferably the
law should be made more general in
its terms so as to apply more definite
ly and certainly to all methods.
For example, most of the sections
of the code relating to the duties of
the supervisors in emergencies only
affirmatively refer to conditions ariS-
ing under the overseer system,
while probably it was intended that
these statutes should apply to other
systems as well. No doubt that
under the contract system in cx-
.reme cases where a road suddenly |
becomes !mpassable and dangerous
% human life, and the contractor is
unable or refuses to act, all Of these
sections should apply.
In the chapter Of the code on
roads, ferries and bridges there are
:wo sections that have the same
heading, Roads may be worked BY
contract which. is the SOURCE s|lrce o'f
considerable confusion to supervisors
\ inoterpreting the l!aw. These two
sections SHOULD be merged into one
hat would cover all cases now
covered by the two.
"A number of statutes relating to
his subject could be eliminated or
corrected by adding few lines to
hose remaining and in other re-
;pects, in order to be more definite
md certain, the law should be made
uller. In fact. an entire revision of
he road laws is necessary"
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-09-19
Cap. Horn Lost In Gale.

The Norwegian bark Captain
Horn, wi ich has been in dry dock
at New Orleans for repairs since be-
ing grounded off Horn Island and
was towed to Gulfport for cargo by
the tug Ell Toro, broke her tow lines
oft Chandelier Island in the SOUTH
east gale Of Sunday and came to an
anchor. The tug Gulfport was dis
patched in search Of the Captain
HON.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-09-19
vardaman's Bolt.

The Weekly is not surprised to see
Senator Vardaman do the right thing
at the right time. Hts bolt Of the
rule Of the Democratic caucus tor a
higher income tax on large incomes
dis the girth OF what his friends ex.
pected OF him and demonstrates the
qualities Of greatness. ststesmsuship
aud pstriotism.-Aberdeen Weekly.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-09-19
Cost to Drive Out Charbon.

Gulfport, Miss, Sept. 18.-Harri-
son County's cost of vaccinating
stock to prevent the spread of char
bon will be nearly 5000. The last
report from the field workers states
that the disease was entirely eradi-
Gated. Some work had to be per-
formed in Hancock County, as stock
owned there was in service in this
county.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-09-19
SawmIll and Gin Burns.

Moniecello, Miss, Sept. 18-The
sawmill and gin plant of John S.
Lambert. near here. was destroyed
oy fire Saturday night. Several
thousand feet of lumber on the yards
and about the sheds burned, the to-
tal loss being estimated at S6, 600.
with no insurance.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-09-19

A man in the backwoods was
walking along the road, when an
automobile ran up behind him, knock
ing him down. He arose, brushed
the dust off and looked after the
auto. A little farther on a motor
cycle came up behind him, knocking
him down. He arose, brushed his
clothes as before, looked after it and
said. 81 be d-m If that amt the
COLT" j. A.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-09-19
ACCOUNTANTS REPORT BRIS-
TIES WITH CHARGES Of
WRONG D0INGS IN
INSTITUTION.
MEAT SUPPLY SHORTAGE
lIIesed State Has Been Defrauded
Out Of Many Thousands OF
Dollars.

Starkville, MISS, sept. lo-IJOCu
mentary evidence showing how tn
State Insane Hospital at jackson ha.
been looted was given out here BY
the legislative committee which i
investigating the affairs of all State
institutions. The evidence is in tht
shape Of the final report of Ray
mond G. Cranch & Co., account
ants employed by the committee to
audit the books Of the Insane Hos
pital.
\ The .eport Of the accountants
slrly bristles with sensational charg-
es Of wrongdoing by certain officials
and employees Of the lunatic asylum.
The record of the auditors alleges
that the State has been defrauded
out Of thousands of dollars. The
alleged frauds, according TO the evil
dence of the accountants, run from
embezzlement down the scale of
crime to common thievery. The
final report Of the accountants on the
affairs Of the Insane Hospital was
delivered to Chairman A. c. Ander-
son and Vice Chairman S. j. Owen
at jackson.
Wishing to consult the full COM
mittee before making the report pub
lie, Messrs. Anderson and owen
brought the documents with them to
Starkville. The committee consid-
cred the evidence and authorized the
publication Of a portion Of it. The
committee decided to withhold some
portions of the evidence for the
present because further develop
ments are expected. The most in
teresting features Of the evidence
given out was the report Of the au:
ditors alleging that large sh0rtage
exists in the meat supply depart,
ment of the asylum.
BIG MEAT SHORTAGE.
The report, in part follows:
The kitchen acquisitions on the
Storeroom previous to the last fiscal
year have been lost or mislaid, which
has made it impossible to check up
the use of beef in the kitchen ex-
cept for one year. The records of
OF the institution for that one year
show beef delivered at the State
asylum 277,667 pounds, and beef
consumed or sold as per records 25l,-
H4 pounds, or shortage Of "a, ,6o3
pounds, which is over one-tenth of
the total purchase.
This is the shortage without con-
sldering the beef and veal slaught-
cred from the herd of the institution,
which testimony shows amounted
to more than 1000 pounds. The
total shortage would thus be over
1903 pounds within single fiscal
year, and this may not be all Of the
shortage, for in weighing without
notlce the beef shown on the cooks
Feaulsition for a day we find the
actual weight to be 463 pounds,
while the entry upon the cooks
requisition book was 500 pounds.
From this it is evident that the shorts
age may have teen more serious
than appears from the records"
Accountant Cranch's auditors also
discovered an alleged shortage in
the hog meat department of the
asylum.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-09-19
New Supt IN Charge.

Moss Point, Mss. Sept. 49,
Prof. Claude Bennett, Of Hatties-
burg, newly elected superintendent
Of the city schools, took charge
Monday.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-09-19
Barber Record voIuminous.

The documents in the Barber case,
at GuIfport, are the most voIumin-
Gus ever taken to the Supreme court
from Harrison county.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-08-08

MISS BROWN
She Made AtOnement for Wrong
Committed Eight Hundred
Years Before.
BY H. M. EGBERT.

Little Miss Brown had n bright
spot in her otherwise drab life; that
was her friendship for Merton Cald-
we'll.
She was decidedly an old maid, as
New England reckoning goes. She
looked thirty; she was actually thirty
Eve. Caldwell was thirty-seven, but
then a man ages more slowly than a
woman On her thirtieth birthday
Miss Brown had looked at her refec-
ton In her mirror and said: Now /
do not expect ever to marry
Caldwell was no hero; he wal just
a New York business nan He spent
his summer vacation at Cape Cod, in
the village where the little schoolmis-
tress taught. The Browns were OF an
old family, and had settled in Mas
%sachusetts very soon after the Pill
grims landed. The friendship which
sprang up between Miss Elizabeth
and the visitor was so spontaneous, 80
naturally renewed each year for those
three weeks Of Caldwell's vacation,
that 1t was accepted by both as the
most ordinary thing In the world.
Some Of the neighbors gossiped, but
that was what n%eighbOrs always did,
Miss Brown reflected.
81 shall not be here next summer,
Miss Brown" said Caldwell one
bright afternoon in August. They
had been strolling together along the
shore. The wind had caught the
schoolmistress' hair and blown Il
about her tanned cheeks. She looked
the picture Of health and beauty-but
Caldwell did not see anything unusu-
al. He was a silent, retrospective
man; she might have assumed the con-
tour and aspect Of a Venus and he
would not have noticed.
81 am going to take six weeks and
visit England" he continued. not
knowing that Miss Brown was sudden
ly quiet, Il am going to take in all
the old Northumberland castles
and"
Northumberland" echoed Miss
Brown.
Yes. Ny family came from there"
but 80 did mine" said MisS Brown
quickly. The Brownies OF Constable