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The Columbus commercial., 1913-05-08

Mr.. G. T. Heard of Brooksville
has been spending the past few
days in the city. Mr.. Heard has
been sick for some time, and but
recently returned from Memphis,
where he was confined in a hos
pital. The Commercial is glad
to learn that the treatment which
he underwent in the Bluff City
was successful. having been fol-
lowed by a marked Improvement
in his condition.
The Columbus commercial., 1913-05-08
Rummaee Sale.

A rummage sale was held in
the Hogan building on North
Market street last Saturday un-
der the auspices of the Young
Ladies' Philathea Society of the
First Methodist church. Numer-
Gus clothes and other articles
were disposed of. and quite q
tidy sum was realized as a resul,
of the sale. Another one will
be held Saturday.
The Columbus commercial., 1913-05-08

Today is the eighth of May,
Emancipation Day, and will be
appropriately celebrated by the
negroes of Columbus and the sur
rounding country. The various
societies will turn out, and base
ball games and other pastimes
win be indulged in.
The Columbus commercial., 1913-05-08

Hon. Blewett Lee, chief coun
sci of the Illinois Central railroad
with headquarters in Chicago,
was here Monday on a brief visit
to his aunt. Miss Mary B. Harri.
son. Mr.. Lee was en- route to
Greenwood. where he went to
deliver an address before the
Mississippi Bar Association.
The Columbus commercial., 1913-05-08

Penner, one of the pitchers Of
the local team of the Cotton
States League, has been released
and has returned to his home in
Memphis. While Penner failed
to make good here. he is still
young. and many local fans be.
lieve that he will develop into q
fine player.
The Columbus commercial., 1913-05-08
JURY IN fLlPPO CASE
CAN'T REACH VERDICT
Case was Last on Docket. and
Circuit Court Adjourned After
Jury was Discharged
Duncan Out on Bond.

After having been out about
twenty hours. the jury impaneled
to try E. G. Flippo on the charge
of arson returned to the court
loom about 3 O'Clock yesterday
afternoon, and reported its ira
bility to agree upon a verdict.
Judge Carroll declared the result
mistrial and discharged the
jury.
This was the last case on the
docket, and after the jury had
been discharged court adjourned
for the term.
After a brief recess, the spring
term of the the circuit court re-
convened Tuesday morning.
The only case of Importance
disposed of was that of the State
VS.. E. G. Flippo, which was
taken up soon after court con-
vened. Flippo is accused of hav-
ing instigated a fire which last
August destroyed house on the
Ottley plantation in the Cher
okee neighborhood. The house
was used as a place of domage
by Mr.. Tom Blewett and an In
dian named Pat Erwin, though
neither was in the building when
the fire broke out. 1t is an estab-
lished fact that the fire was of
incendiary origin, the negro who
started the blaze having con-
fessed and been sentenced to the
penitentiary. The contention of
the State was that Flippo, actu-
ated by a feeling of antagonism
toward Pat Erwin, the Indian,
hired the negro to set fire to the
house. and the prosecution was
conducted on this theory.
Shortly after the house was
burned Flippo lad a preliminary
trial and was placed under bond
to await the action of the grand
jury. When that body met in
September a true bill wa s
promptly forthcoming, and when
Flippo learned that ne had been
indicted he skipped. He was
later located in Georgia, and was
brought back to this county for
trial.
Flippo was represented by Mr..
z. P. Landrum. while District
Attorney Brooks appeared for
the State.
Lindsay Duncan. whose life
has been twice placed in jeopardy
on the charge of having mur-
dered Arthur Manning, and has
had two mistrials. having on the
first trial been absent from the
court room while charges were
being read, and the jury impan.
eled for the second trial having
failed TO reach a verdict, was or
Monday admitted to bail in the
sum Of $4,000 by Judge Carroll,
Duncan promptly secured accept
able sureties on his bond and was
released from custody.
The Columbus commercial., 1913-05-08
cnknDEDc uflu TuDEE
ONAFTLhO WIU lHnLC
VERY EASY VICTORIES
GAMES DULL AND LSTLESS
CoIumbians Open q Series in
ClarksdaIe Friday. Return
Monday for Series With
Same Team.

In a listless and long drawn
out game Pensacola defeated Co.
lumbus by a score of IL to IL
yesterday afternoon. Pensacola
worked four twirlers, Kerby.
Hamilton, Gudger and Benn hav-
ing all had turns at fiinging the
pigskin. Columbus worked two
twirlers, Poole and Chappelle.
The game, like the one played
Tuesday, was a regular school
boy affair. It was a batfest from
start to finish, Columbus having
made nine scores in one inning,
while both Blanchfeld and Har-
ris smashed out home-runs.
The band of the Lewis Stock
Company has played at the ball
park every day this week, and
the music has been greatly en-
joyed by the fans.
Today is an off day. and Co.
lumbians will play in Clarksdale
Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The Clarksdale team will accom-
pany them home, opening a
three-game series here n ex t
Monday.
Tuesday was "Children's Day"
at the ball park, and the several
hundred kids who went out to
see the contest between Pensa-
cola and Columbus witnessed a
regular old-time school-boy game,
which after a couple of hours of
listless work which included
many ''muffs, misses"
boots and ''boggles," finally
resulted in a victory for the visi-
tors by a score Of Is to 3.
None Of the Discoveries seemed
| to be feeling well, and their work
was pretty rocky. Sewer start
ed in to do the twirling, and was
numerically mauled by the Snap
pers, who touched him for fifteen
hits during the six innings that
he remained on the mound. AT
the close of the sixth he was re-
lieved by Cooper, and while the
southpaw gave up only two bin
giles he was put in too late to
save the day-or rather the game.
Burmeister, who pitched for
Pensacola, gave up nine safeties,
but most of them came at inop-
perfume times and counted for
naught.
The field work was as one.
sided as the pitching, the locals
having made three boggles, while
not a single error was charged
against the visitors.
The opening game Monday af-
ternoon resulted in a victory for
Pensacola by a score of IL to 5.
Poole started in to pitch for the
locals. but was hit freely, and
retired at the termination of the
third session. He was followed
by Johnson, but that twirler was
also in bad form. and soon gave
way to Cooper, who pitched the
remainder Of the game.
| Burmeister, who started in to
pitch for Pensacola, was also hit
freely and was relieved by Benn,
who kept his bingles scattered
and held the score down.
The Columbus commercial., 1913-05-08

Miss Vesta Propst leaves to-
day for Birmingham. where she
will visit with her sister. Mrs.
Vandegraft. for a few days, after
which she will go to Denver. Col
orado, where she expects to
make her home with her brother.
The Columbus commercial., 1913-05-08
UGLY SCANDAL IN THE
STATE PRISON BOARD
LAWRENCE YERGER DEFAULTS
Clerk Of Board is Short Nearly
$4,000 In His Accounts
Others Higher Up May
be Implicated.

Mississippi has an ugly scandal
In her State Penitentiary board.
Lawrence Yerger. clerk of the
board, has confessed a shortage
of something like $3.50 in his
accounts, and was placed under
arrest last Saturday night, hav-
ing later been liberated under
bond in the sum of S25, 600.
1t is intimated that men
higher up" are implicated in the
defalcation. and other arrests are
expected at any time. The
money embezzled came from the
sale of cotton raised on the State
farms, and a rigid investigation
of all the transactions that have
taken place since Yerger has
been in Office will be made.
In this connection it is inter-
esting to know the method en-
ployed in the securing of evil
dence against Yerger. aside from
his confession, and of alleged
evidence against others who, it
is said, may be taken into Gus.
tody at any moment. The de.
tectaphone. recently put into use
by the VIM. ]. Burns Detective
Agency. in place of the dicta-
graph, played very prominent
part in the work of the Burns
sleuths, who, at the instance of
Governor Brewer, have been try
ing for months to get at the
bottom of alleged shady trans
actions connected with the peni-
tentiary department of the state.
1t is rumored that before the
investigations set in motion some
time ago by the governor are
finished there will be sensational
developments TO show that the
treasury vaults of the state have
been cheated of hundreds of
thousands of dollars during the
past few years.
Yerger was arrested Saturday
night charged with being de-
faulter in the sum Of $14.627.
The amount may reach double
that sum. Yerger is said to have
acknowledged to Governor
Brewer that he was short in his
accounts.
An affidavit was filed against
Yerger by Attorney General Ross
A. Collins, alleging Yerger had,
by making erasures and other
wise defacing his books, covered
up receipts that had been turned
into the prison Office and appro-
priated the money to his own
use. The money was derived
from the products of the state
farms. Yerger. it is charged, so
mutilated the records of those
transactions that it was impossi-
BILE to trace the amounts paid,
while in some instances no rec
ord of them appeared upon the
books kept by him.
yerger, when placed under ar
rest, at once waived examination
and in a short time was released
on $25, 900 bond, signed by so re
of the leading citizens of Jack
son.
Yerger is twenty. nine years
old, married. and is from one of
the most prominent families of
the state.
The Columbus commercial., 1913-05-08
City Council Meets.

The city council met in regular
monthly session Tuesday night,
only business of a routine nature
having been transacted.
The Columbus commercial., 1913-05-08

Mr.. d. S McClanahan. who is
erecting a large building for the
Lucas E. Moore Stave Company
in Mobile. and is making tenn
porary headquarters there. is
here for a short visit to his family.
The Columbus commercial., 1913-05-08

DIR. ]. A. Root of Erie. Penn.
has been spending the past few
days in the city. DR.. Root is
president of the Interstate Lum-
ber Company, and is here on
business connected with that cor
poration.
The Columbus commercial., 1913-05-08

The W. C. 7. U. will meet
with Mrs. Tom St:..son at her
home on South Sixth street this
afternoon at 4 o'clock.
The Columbus commercial., 1913-05-08

i.iiss Ruth auiiias is in Gre
nada attending a meeting of the
Young Woman's Missionary Con-
ference.
The Columbus commercial., 1913-05-08

Have your feet fitted to a pair
of mems Keith Konquerer shoes
at Lipsey & Chapsky.
The Columbus commercial., 1913-05-08

Mrs. w. NJ. Williams of Birm-
ingham is visiting Mrs. Carl
Tesch at her home in South
Columbus.
The Columbus commercial., 1913-05-08

Why be constipated. when you
can buy LIV-VER-LAX at John
r. Laws?
The Columbus commercial., 1913-05-08
SOME LADY hut
TEN DOLLARS TONIGHT
GOLD EAGIE TO Be GIVEN AWAY
First Count in Commercial Gen.
test will be Made Tonight, and
Ten Dollars Awarded to the
Highest Contestant.

The first auxiliary prize in the
Commercials Great Voting Con-
test will be given away this
evening at 7:30 o'clock, when the
lady having the largest number
of votes to her credit will re-
eeive ten dollars in gold.
The presentation of this pre-
lum in no way effects the grand
prizes which are to be given
away at the close of the contest.
To use an expression familiar
among the Creoles in Louisiana.
it is merely lagniappe, an extra
inducement offered the ladies to
put forth special efforts during
this period and prevent interest
in the contest from tagging.
The ladies seem to appreciate
the opportunity which is offered
them, and are working energeti-
cally. Many new subscriptions
have been brought in and numer-
Gus old ones have been renewed.
The ballot box will close at7:3O
o'clock Thursday night, and the
contestant having the largest
number of votes at that time will
receive the ten dollars in gold.
For every seven new subscrip-
tions 1900 extra. making total
of 5000.
For every seven renewal SUBJ
scriptions 1900 extra, making a
total of $500.
For every seven back subscrip-
tions 1000 extra. making a total
of 1890.
Good until the first count,
Thursday, May 9Th. Ballot box
closes at 1880 o'clock D. m
Coupons must be brought to this
Office and checked in order to get
bonus.
Remember to have your friends
trade with the merchants giving
coupons.
The following ladies have been
nominated in this contest:
Columbus.
Miss Marie Mullen
/" Bessie Mai Weir
" Reita Craddock
Mary Hull
+" Mary Paine Chapman
" Ida May Blanks
Esther Hobbs
" Maggie Murrah
" Ruth Mullin
I" Vera johnson
" Laura Halbert
I" Media Larkworthy
" Lizzie Baxter
Pauline Pollock
Mrs. II. X. Robinson
Mrs. A. T. Williams
Mrs. Julia Cox
Mahew:
Miss Mary S. Tate
Miss Rose Kennedy
Miss Bessie Lance
Steens:
Miss Lucille Harris
Miss Dolly Porter
Miss Annie Logan
Miss Ethel Leech
Artesia:
Miss Marguerite Gladney
Miss Susie Butts
| Caledonia:
Miss Katie Duncan
Miss Birdie Stillman
Miss Mary Miller
! Miss Lottie Egger
Miss Normer Vaughn
Miss Hortense Robinson
Miss Stella Andrews
Miss Evie Green Stevens
Miss Lucille Morris, R. F. d.
Miss Matte Smith, r. F. d.
Miss Lucille Dodson, r. f. d. 2
Miss Ella Holley, r. F. ID.
Miss Grace Molloy, Star Route
Brooksville:
Miss Mabel Woodward.
/ pickensville Ala
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
Aristides the lust
BY REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

it, What harm has Aristides
done you?" asked the great man.
"None at all" answered the man,
but | am sick and tired of hear
ing him called the Just
II was q fortunate day for hn-
manity when it was decided that
the policy Of Athens should be de-
cided by Themistocles rather than
by Aristides. Morally speaking,
Themistocles was not fit 10 tie
Aristides' shoestrings, but the
event showed that Themis,ocles
was right and ATistides wrong.
When the mighty invasion under
XerXes came it was the Athe-
nian navy that saved the day II
there had been no Athenian bat
tleships. it is as certain as can be
that the Persians would have
oveIrun Greece and blotted out tie
glorious civilization
When Aristides, Obeulenr 10 me
voice of the people, went mo
banislment. he expressed the rope
that his countgymeu might EsNSl
regret their action. But they g. a.
After some SIX years Of exile L1v
grand old man was recalled. Eis
got back in time To take par IN
the battle of Salanls ana 70
share in the glory of P-arca.
His nature had not -Ourey. no.
whether at home or in exile re
was a simon pure patriot.
Old NerXes being dispose o,,
AristiLes played an iulpg -..-I
part i'm the affairs Of his country
and by his wise counsels did ml-n
toward securing TO his native ~
its proud pre-eminence ahol4 ~
neighboring republics. go.
In the meantime the AtAeL-a-.
were thinking Of another apl551ti
to the OstraciSm. Il helll-s-I-
was looming rather large, anu
not Just the way tnat 49,
good. and once more the gl,i-g
We're asked: Is there any ~
whom YOU consider dangerous
the state2 If so whom ---l
this time the shadow fell on AIS
tides old political adverse 80
Ar.stides died three years -
tl. 0stracism of Them-s.
fr-T of wears and honor-- Oh.
poor that his friends uaa
his funeral expenses Pr
itrr.+ iu the -.ur.- vI
tss. h- belonged 70 rle
usn.r .uml5Ly ". l"H.--
clans.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09

TINE ostracism of Aristides
took place, as near as can
be reckoned, about 1856 b.
-, four years after the glorious
victory Of the Athenians over the
Persians at Marathon.
In that immortal action Arts
tides bore a conspicuous part. and
it may be said that but for his
enthusiastic support of Miltiades
there would, in all probability.
have been no battle at that time
and place.
After Marathon (Miltiades hav-
ing died under a cloudJ Aristides
and Themistocles were the two
great men Of the AJhenian state
and the hottest of political rivals
OF the two men Themistocles was
probably the greater intellectual
~. while Aristides stood much
higher in the esteem of his coun-
trymen on account of his rock
ribbed integrity Of life and pur-
pose.
The bone of contention between
these two famous politicians ana
their respective aGnerentS was
this: Shall Athens be converted
from d land power into a sea pow
er2'' Themistocles said Yes.
Arisrides No In a pure 0emoc-
Iacy like Athens the inevitable
result was political storm auG
confusion.
But fortunately there had been
provided a way cut Of the diff
ticulJy. When two or more party
leaders. each powerful in influ-
encc, had embarked on the pro
longed and bitter opposition
which threatened TO become a
menace TO the state. the danger
might be warded OF by the "os-
tracisul." so-called.
4 number of citizens-never
less than 6.000-were asked to
vote secretly upon the question
Is there any man whom you
think vitality dangerous TO the
state: If 50. whom p" Upon the
counting Of the ballots. the man
against whom the largest number
II votes appeared was banisned
for ten yr1-t-
The vote was taken, and jla
shadow fell upon AriSJiGes she
Jus. who Immediately went into
exile. Every one r=m-mbe-s Tie
story uf the AJleuiau voter syuy.
unable. -o W-i-e roak his Sa-. -,-
Aristior~ s.I-n tl- r-4ur>a --at "-
.T.te ,Ae name yt A.ls-.les uV1u
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
THINKING OF GETTING MARRIED?
An Open Letter to Trouble Maker

self, it would never occur to Bet
ty that she must police her hus-
band and keep him in leading
strings as if he were a baby, but
mother puts her wise.
When Tom is a few minutes
late f'r dinner mother throws out
dark suspicious about other
women" II Tom wants to stay
down town and spend the evening
with a friend. mother adjures
Betty not to allow herself to be
neglected. and works her up 10
such a pitch OF Indignation overa
perfectly innocent matter that
there's a big scene when Tom
gets home. It's mother who for
bids Tom to smoke IN his own
parlor or drink a glass of beer
at his own table, or 10 do any
thing else that he wants to.
And when the inevitable trials
of life come To Betty. as they do
TO everybody else. when she has
to work and take care Of sick ba-
bies, and do without things she'd
like TO have. its mother that pit
les her. and weeUs over her. and
Door dears her until she makes
Betty feel that she is a domestic
martyr. It's mother that shat
ters Betry's romance and makes
her see Tom not as a demi goo.
bur as a tyrant ana an Oppressor
And that's why mother becomes
- g. - - ill.,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
Be Blind to Faults. ,

The meaurst uOther-iu law Is
THE woman Who calls her chilu'S
attention To faults in the one Jo
whom he or She is married, who
uses the affection Of her child and
the influence that she has with
her own 20 foment quarrels be-
tween the husband and wife and
who. when she sees the two drift
ing apart, does not use all OF her
skill! to bring them together in
stead Of eXerting her strength to
push them apart.
And the next meanest mother
in-law in the world is the woman
who. when she finds that her own
presence in her sons or daugn-
ter's house is UnwelCome ana
cause Of strife. doesn't remove
herself from It, though she has
now here TO go but the poorhouse.
The only way % be good
mother in-law Is to he blind To
what you see in your sons o.
Gsught ar's mouse. dumb Is 90 tine
uGy * j. ran. and to make your
visits to f. short and far ap4r--
-, doing THAT you can avoid
H-l.. ify5:le In tga mean mot frI.-i,f-
.zD Sass. DOROTHY Din
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
LETTERS FROM READERS OF THE GEORGIAN


this dreadful disease.
Every one knows that plush
ear seats are not sanitary. Also
that carpets put on the floors 81
hotels stay there without ever
being successfully fumigaJed or
SJeuhzsd until they arr worn out
or the hotel Is burned. IL we
could abolish carpets from hotel
floors. and use leather seats in
ptSseEs er coaches. the number of
luoercls bae'Oi orc1tlrd Mould Dee
grcaTl, decreased. ?. would b..
faE u--lrr 500 G1vr nar| wood
~l-S ~ "ss- auJ .yeEyvf-r.
else -.- ~. present r.us ones
CONSTANT READER.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
By DOROTHY DIX.

begins to call Johns attention to
faults i'm Mary that he has never
noticed She criticises Mary's
housekeeping to him and tells him
that Mary is eNtravagant in her
use of sugar. and that she wastes
the butter, and then mother signs.
and says it's mighty hard for q
man TO get along with a wife who
isn't thrifty and doesn't care how
she throws things away.
Then. some day, Mary stays
little longer al her club and din
ner is late. and mother says to
John, who is as irritable as a
hungry bear. that she is sorry 10
see that Mary is one of these gad-
around women, who neglects her
husband and her home and that
il is pity that she can't APP
preciate "A good husband when
she's goo one.
AT first John warmly defends
Mary: but there is no other hu-
man being that has SO much in
duence over Us as our mothers.
and by dint of listening To her
criticisms of his wife. and of
having tine spotlight always turn
ed ON every one of her shorloom-
in@a ae begins 90 see what
poor. faulty creature he has mar
ried and 20 feel that he DIDN'T
set as good "a wife as he deserved.
Mother has gotten in her work.
Shr has inserted the thin edge
of the wedge Between husband
and wife. Disiuu~ion man about
mis- wife. make him feel that me
has been go.d-bricSed iu mar
riage. ana it doesn't take him long
TO come TO the point where he is
tired Of her and is OF TO seek the
society of some woman about
whom there stilI is a glamour.
Throws Out Dark Suspicious.
And that's the end of happiness
in that home. And It's the moth
er-in-Iau 9 work. Half OF the taen.
i'm the world would never md out
their wives faults II their moth
ers didn'J point the defects out to
them.
Jus as often. the WsaueSt
lutlyI-in-law IS the vite-S moth
yr and she follows precisely rht
same lac-ics
- finds E--jy Just C-@e il
.sg with l-r l-s Haug. Tom. and
N-.l.rlD- -i.r -y-f E,Hu- rTrf
IoHE "er~ f~ r-"r. Len &c Ev4-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
WOOD SEATS VS.. PLUSH ONES

80 = CHarIes Avenue
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-09
Bv GARRETT P. SERVISS.

a MONG tue recent advances
n of science none appeal more
powerfully to the imagina-
ton than discoveries about the
inhabitants Of the sea. Their world
is marvelously different from ours
because il is many stored
world. Moreover it is more than
twice as extensive as ours in
area.
We live at the bottom of our
ocean-the ocean of air-and even
the birds do not permanently in
habit u higher level. Tney come
down to the ground to pass the
night, or to feed, or rest. In the
sea it is different
The ocean averages two OF three
miles in depth, and in some
places attains a depth of five or
six miles. II is inhabited, more
or less, from top TO bottom. but
not by the same creatures. 1t is
like a gigantic apartment house.
in which each story is not only
occupied by animals of particular
species, but where it is death for
those of one story TO invade an
other story above or below. In
fact. it is practically impossible
for some of these creatures TO
rise much higher o. descend much
lower than their native level.