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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-11

18S (Neebe). An act concerning taxa ton.
 Tuesday. April 15-2 p. m.-Execu tive session.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-11
EXCISE.

Room 80, 4th floor, West Side.
 Chairman - Senator Frohlich. House Chairman-Mr. Lyman, Mid d1efeld. C1erk-Mr. O'Keefe, Orange. Tuesday, April 15-2 p. ms. B.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-11
INSURANCE.

Room "A, 4th floor, West Side. (Chairman-Senator J. McA. John son. House Chairman-Mr. Arning- ton, Ki1Iingly. Clerk-Mr. Harrison, Salisbury.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-11
LEGISLATIVE HEARINGS ON
 FOR NEXT WEEK
GETTYSBURG COMMISSION.
RooEja IS, 1st floor

Thursday, April 1o-1O a. m.- There will be meeting of the com mission.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-11

2 Litchheld County-There will be meeting of the representatives from Eitchfeld County on Tuesday, April 18th, at p. m.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-11
BY T. S. ANDREWS.

Very frequently boxing fans will be heard to remark that such and such
 fighter had
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-11
Fnon 7O. 4fIh fIoor

BOUNTY MEETINGS.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18

would get me a new father and she
cried awfully hard. Still i'm sure the
president will get me one If / write
to him because he got me thelast one.
Mother met father at a wife house
reception she told me so. She fell in
love with him because she didn't know
about the Creature then. The Creature
is the lady that had a date with father
at the monument.
March the eleventh i wrote to the
president yesterday about a father.
told him how awful it is to be without
one and i explained that he wouldn't
have died if he hadn't met the Crea-
ture. | didn't show mother the letter
or tell her anything about it because
she always cries when i tell her about
a new father. But i guess if the pres
ident sends n along she'll take him
in all right because she took a tramp
Yesterday and he went off after din
ner and said he didn't feel like saving
wood after eating her pie. | don't
blame him because i had three pieces
myself and they felt awful heavy. we
are going to have duck for my birth
day dinner after all.
March the thirteenth no anSer has
come from the president. | guess he
is looking up a father for me. 1t isn't
easy to choose the right kind of a
father. Susan says maybe hell send
a long a black one and then well have
chicken for dinner sure. hes prom
ised not to tell mother about my letter
to the president. / asked her what my
father died of and she looked at me
awfully queer. l guess it was the
Creature killed him because mother
said she had broken a lot of hearts IN
/, her time and it was a good thing she
was getting old and losing her power.
March the forteenth j must write
this down at once before ] forget all
the circumstances. we are going into
washington tomorrow to have my
birthday party with mrs gregory that's
the lady who introduced mother to
father at the wife house reception.
she wrote a letter to mother yester-
day and said she hadn't forgotten that
the fifteenth was the Little Fellows
Mrthday-thats me she said what q
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18
WHEN FATHER LEFT
Little Fellow Writes President
for New Papa and Request
Brings Old One.
BY FRANK FlLsoN.

March the forth it's going to be q
miserable birthday for me on the If
tenth / guess. Last year we had two
ducks stuffed with sage and uniuns
and I had a birthday party and a lot
Of other boys and girls but this year
there isn't going to be anything. We
never have duck now anyway be-
cause since father died mother has
been so darned poor I'm sure / don't
blame her would you.
March the sixth / find on looking
over my diary that i didn't explain the
Observation-Disclosures says that's the
way it ought to be spelt. l must tell
YOU first that father used to be in the
secretary of states office at washing
ton. We live near washington but
we've moved into a smaller house
since father died. 1t vas a pity he
died so young because father and
mother had a bad folling out about a
girl the night before and he didn't
have a funeral or anything. 1t was a
girl father used to know before he
was married and mother said there
wasn't any harm in that but why did
father have a date with her at the
Monument. Father said he didn't have
q date. but both happened to be there
and If mother hadn't come shopping
around all would have been well.
Mother said she wouldn't stand for
such langwidge and the next day
father died.
We moved into a tiny house after
father died. The last house had two
bathrooms and a big kitchen and
three maids and a dog but this house
has only one bathroom and kitchen
and only one maid. Susan is a colored
maid because it makes her cheaper. I
wish i had a new father.
March the ninth i'm going to write
to the president to get me a new
father. The president thought a great
deal of father and mother used to go
to his receptions but she hasn't been
to any since father died. it's odd how
different it is after you haven't any
father. Mother neve goes Any where
now and she doesn't see any of her
old friends except Susan. Last night,
mother read my diary about father
having died after their falling out and
it made her cry. l asked her If she
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18
Making Man Love Woman.

Can a woman make a man love her?
Yes, often she can if she lays herself
out to do it. But not always. The
most important point is that he must
not know it.
The worlds history has many in
stances of the love-compelling power
of even unattractive women. Here's
the recipe:
To compel love a woman must
sympathize with a man.
She must not often contradict him.
She must 1atter him and let him
think that his opinion is the only one
that matters.
She must put him into good con-
ceit with himself.
She must exert her powers OF
charm and never bore him.
She must be bright and amusing in
his presence.
She must see a good deal of him,
for absence generally makes the heart
grow fonder-of some M else.-Re
hoboth Sunday Herald.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18
Goats to Protect Sheep.

In order to Illustrate an attack on
his flock of sheep by a catamount, or
panther, David Glover, of near Haney-
vile, has purchased two Angora goats.
The ~pugnacity of these goats is such
that no animal Of prey dare attempt
to despoil a flock.
The sheep raisers of that wild Sec
ton have suffered severe losses to
their focks of late years since the big
increase in black bears and catamount
and now with a real panther in the
~neighborhood it became necessary to
do something desperate. Mr.. Glover
hit upon the Angora goat idea, and it
seems to have settled the problem.
The goats are masters of all they sur
vey, all right, even the men folk
fighting shy of getting too close to the
sturdy creatures. At this season of
the year the sheep are on the wild
ranges. Other sheep raisers are
watching Mr.. Glover's experiment.
Philadelphia North American.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18
NO MORE FRATS

The Supreme Court on Monday handed
down a decision reversing the decision OF
Special Chancellor T. L. Lamb who had heard
the case of ]. P. Waugh, a student of the
University of Mississippi, who filed a petition
in chancery to test the act of the legislature
of 1912, excluding secret fraternities and So
~rorities from the University.
The petition sought to declare the act
unconstitutional as being in violation of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States.
Justice Reed asked to be excused upon
the hearing of the case and Judge Robert B.
Maves, former Chief Justice of the Court was
appointed as special Justice in the place of
Justice Reed. The decree in the case was
prepared by Justice Mayes and reverses the,
opinion of special Chancellor Lamb and holds
the law valid.
The decision of the Court will no doubt
set at rest the controversy which has existed
for some time over the question of secret So
cieties at the University. There has existed
two sides to this controversy and some hard
feelings were engendered when the act intro
duced by Senator Russell, of Lafayette coun-
ty, was finally passed and became a law.
The courts have settled the matter ad-
versely to the fraternitles and the friends of
the University should accept the result and
lend their assistance to its building up.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18
TRAVELLER RELATES HIS WOES
Experience at Russian Custom House
Worse Than Anything Experienced
Even in America.

The method of examination of pas
sengers' chattels by the Russian ex-
else officers is the subject OF an in
teresting article by Robert Weather
burn in THE Railway Magazine" the
New York Tribune's London corre-
spondent writes.
Describing his arrival at st. Peters
burg, Mr.. Weatherburn says: Amid
yociferations and hoarse shouting, we
at length moored alongside the quay
of Washill Ostroff Zone of the islands
on which st. Petersburg is built. The
babel Of tongues in various languages
had almost a bewildering effect. From
this | was aroused by the customs Of
fcials, who, Selling my trunks and
boxes and demanding my passport, led
me to their superior. The examina-
ton was pretty stiff and it included
the smelling and testing by a lot OF
dirty-handed persons of certain jars
of preserves and plum cakes which L
had taken in my baggage, and it was
not exactly amusing to see the hasty
and indiscriminate manner adopted IN
repacking those innocent articles.
Heavy boots and plum cakes, pre-
serves, writing paper and ink, Well
ironed white shirts and collars, neck
ties crammed into coat sleeves-aN
| that had taken weeks to carefully pack
and stow away-were thrown in a
mass in a box or trunk, the gaping
lids of which, failing to reach the lock
by some inches, seemed to remain
open mouthed in silent protest
against such i'll usage.
"Afterward the dirty hands were
held out for 'natchi,' or tea money, an
institution of which l knew more. The
quarreling of the isvostchiks, or cab
men, who, like sharks, had already
scented their prey, would at any
| other time have been intensely COM
ical. !
"After some trouble I succeeded in
| getting the lids of my boxes closed,
but not until plum cake and boot
heels, burst preserves, white shirts,
ink, castor oil and pills were all COM
mingling in one glorious state of de-
mocracy. Half an hour later found
me in the English hotel, where, after
recounting my troubles, l was laughed
at, the experience being OF nearly
everyday occurrence" -,,v
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18
CALLS BANANA PERFECT FOOD
Invaluable as Medicine, and, Weight
for Weight, 1t Beats Beefsteak,
Is Assertion of Authority.

"My doctor has ordered me a pint
of beef tea daily" a weakly woman re-
marked six months ago. Rubbish,
was the answer, "eat bananas in
stead" She stared i~ncredulously.
Nevertheless, after a few question up
on her part she agreed to give the
suggestion a trial. Today she is liV-
ing monument to the virtues of the
banana.
It is only ignorance which keeps
this marvelously nutritious fruit from
being even more widely used than
it is today. Bananas, besides forming
a pleasant addition at dessert, are in
valuable as a medicine. Weight for
weight they beat beefsteak. In the
countries where the fruit is grown it
forms the staple diet of the laborers.
The banana is absolutely pure, which
fact, perhaps, in these days of jungle
horrors and tuberculosis meat, will ap-
peal more strongly than any other.
Perhaps the most striking triumph
of the banana has been achieved in
California, which recognized as one
of the fruit gardens of the world.
The fruit does not grow there, So,
considering that almost every other
kind does, it was thought scarcely
worth while to introduce it. How
ever, during the loft" season some
one made the experiment, when, to
the amazement of all, caught" imme-
diately. Now trains loaded with moth
ing but bananas are sent from the
ports on the eastern coast to Cali
fornia. Meat is bad for rheumatism;
bananas are an antidote for hat as
we'll as for govt and liver complaints.
Indeed, there is no other food, either
animal or vegetable, even including
the many valuable cereals, which sur
passes the banana. 1t is good alike
for old and young, and is beneficial,
both in sickness and in health. The
exact meaning of the scientific name
of the banana means food of the
wise man."-Cincinnati Inquirer.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18
Jeffersonian Simplicity.

It was August. The secretary OF
state had called at the White House
to talk over the impending war with
Japan. The hired man was sitting on
the front steps playing a mouth or
gan, while a rosy-cheeked maid kept
time with her churning.
The secretary of state strolled
around to the lot back of the execu.
tive mansion. Here he discovered
the president and vice-president pitch
ing ~horseshoes. Both wore overalls
and bingham shirts.
"Howdy, Bill?" nodded the presi.
dent and the vice-president.
"Howdy, Woody; howdy, Tom?" re-
turned the secretary of state.
"Sit down and referee this game,
Bill" said the president. "Tom has
bet me a yearling heifer against my
bicycle that he beats me. Then you
can stay for supper, Bill, and We'll
have a game of checkers."-E0
change.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18

shame It wal that his sturdy littel
Inns should be cooped up In the
country when he might be running all
round her parlor. mother asked me If
/ would like to go and | said yes. af-
forwards | heard her talking 1t over
with Susan. She tells Susan every
thing because shes black and faithful.
She asked Susan If she thought there
would be any danger in taking me into
washington and Susan said no and it
was a shame / was to be hidden away
in the country when mother had so
many loving friends in town and so
were going in to have a dinner with
mrs gregory as i've mentioned above.
March the fifteenth this is my BIRTH
day. Mother gave mt a spotted rock
ing horse and a pair of roller skates
and Susan gave me a pie and i'm to
eat it when / have time but in needn't
say Any Thing about it to Some Body
because she thinks too much pie isn't
good for Any Body. / must lay aside
my pen now to say that i have to put
on my best clothes and shoes and |
must wash the back of my neck extra
gregory ~immedatly after breakfast
and she hopes i will behave myself
and there wont be any need for a
dose of Some Thing in jam tomorrow
like last year if / don't eat too much
pie.
no letter from the president.
March the sixteenth / take my pen
in hand to inform you of the aston
fishing events of yesterday. we ar
rived in Washington on the eleven
five and went straight to mrs greg
orys house. mrs gregory is a nice
old lady with silver hair and when
she saw mother they both began to
cry. | stood by shepishly and present
ly mrs gregory said so this is the Lit
tie Fellow how he has grown. I said
Yes Nam. Mother said don't YOU pity
me. You poor thing, said mrs greg
DRY from the bottom of my heart !
do. Then they began to talk earnestly
and Some How / knew that they were
talking about my new father. So
said Mrs gregory i wrote to the presi-
dent for another father and | guess he
has spoken to you, hasn't he. What
she cried, starting up, SO that was
You. Mother was furious and told
me to run away into the garden to
play. i played till i was tired and
went back into the house round the
back way. When i got outside the
parlor door i heard a sound of SOD
bling and suddenly a well remembered
voice cried in tones that froze the
blood in my veins Where is the Little
Fellow Phyllis l must see him at
once. The door flew open and who
do you think was there. My father
the same one. And he hadn't died at
all but only gone away. l never saw
mother laugh and cry together as she
did then and they wouldn't stop kiss
ing me. They said the credit lay be-
tween Me mrs gregory and the presi-
dent and that the Creature has mar
ried and gone away.
we had two ducks for dinner
copyright, 1918. by W. G.. Chapman.)
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18
Il BOIL WEEvlL

The progress eff the boil Weevil this spring
places him within a short distance OF our coun-
ty. He has made his appearance IN oaihoun
county and the northern portion OF LoWnues
county which two points are the tartnes' nortn
ne has appeared in Mississippi. ne mas ap-
peared in vast numbers around Little ROCK,
Ark, which is about on a parallel with THIS por-
ton of North Mississippi.
His progress north during the past year
seems to have been about thirty miles or the
average length of a Mississippi county. Ac-
scording to this rate he will reach Lee county
the latter part Of next year, in time to hlDer-
nate and be ready for an early start IN the
spring of 1915.
While many in this section DO not pelleve
that the pest will reach US we are CONFRONTED
with physical facts that should prove TO US
that it is only a short while off when we will
be called upon to fight to maintain ourselves
against this foe to our principal crop.
In Texas where the weevil has been for
years the cotton planter has learned to avoid
much of the disaster by picking the squares In
their early stages and burning them, thus de-
stroying the weevil and eggs at a time when
little damage is done. This requires great ad-
ditional labor in the making OF crop and only
the w%ide-awake and energetic farmer makes a
crop under such adverse conditions.
In the meantime we should gather all the
information possible and be ready to meet the
pest when it appears.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18
Jacob Oppenheimer was executed in sacra.

Jacob Oppenheimer was executed in Sacra-
mento. CAL, for an assault made upon a fellow
prisoner in the San Qninten penitentiary. Or
penheimer had murdered two men and was serv-
ing a life sentence when he made the last as
sault that brought a death sentence under the
recent act Of the California legislature which
makes assault on a fellow convict a capital Of
tense. This is the only instance in the history
of the country where a man has forfeited his
life in answering to a charge of an assault.
While there is a strong movement on foot in
California to abolish the death sentence, there
seems to be a stronger sentiment to punish more
severely than ever before.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18

After thirty-eight years the act of con-
gress known as the civil rights bilr' has
been declared null and void by the supreme
court of the United States. The act vas
passed by a republican congress in 1875 to es-
tablish the negro on social equality with the
whites, but the measure met with such oppo-
sition in the South that it was never enforced
South of Mason's and DiXon's lines. The
court holds that the act does not rest upon
the right of congress to control interstate
commerce and is null and void.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18
Turned Down.

can apt retort!" said Senator du
Pont in a tariff argument. AS apt a
retort as the pert young girls.
"This young girl repulsed very
haughtily the proffered attentions Of
a young man. He, wounded to the
quick, exclaimed:
".Ah, well, you're as full Of airs as
a hand organ
"She tossed her head.
"'Maybe / am she said. but, all
the same, I don't go with a crank"
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18

Congressman Mcclellan, representing the
tenth district of Tennessee, will make an eff
fort to have one of the regional reserves
banks provided for in the new currency bill,
located in Memphis. Should the new bill be-
come a law, the territory which does business
with Memphis should be represented in the
location of the reserve banks.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18
William Was Wise.

William, who was erecting an edi-
flee out of building blocks. showed
such unusual bungling workmanship
that his father, who, is a carpenter,
took him to task.
What kind of a shack would you
call that?n he asked the bay.
"Oh. that's all right, papa" replied
William. I'm building it to rent"
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18

The board of engineers for rivers and har-
ing in the Tombigbee Valley between Columbus,
Miss, and Demopolis, Ala, that they would not
recommend an appropriation to place that por-
ton of the Tombigbee in a navigable condition.
They assign as a reason for this decision that
there is not sufficient to warrant the
necessary expenditure.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18
It is reported that Gov. Brewer W

1t is reported that Gov. Brewer will
recommend in his MESSAGE to the legislature the
establishment of an insane hospital for neg
70 patients. Negroes are only received at the
Jackson hospital for the insane and the crowd
ed condition of that institution makes it neces-
sarv to provide more room. The segregation
of the races is at all times desired and the
legislature should respond to the Governors
recommendation.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18

In the circuit court of Kinds county the
State agreed TO a verdict of not guilty in the
case against A.. c.. Davis who was under indict-
ment for malfeasance in office. Davis was the
clerk at the Sunfiower county farm, and was
charged with having received money from the
sale of cottonseed. Governor Brewer asked that
the case against Davis be discontinued.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18

A clever author says there are three kinds
Of men in the world:-"The wills, the wont's
and the ~cant's." The first effect everything,
the next oppose everything, and the last fail
in everything. Il will" builds our railroads
and steamboats,; Il WON'T" don't believe in
experiments and nonsense; while Il can't"
grows weeds for wheat and commonly ends
in a court of bankruptcy.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18
RIGHT and Left.

Representative Longworth at a din
ner in Cincinnati said of a defeated
candidate for congress: We'll, after
all, it's a great consolation for a mans
conscience to tell him, when he is
left, that he is right
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18
THE RAzoR'S LEGAL STATUS

The Mississippi supreme court has ruled
that a razor is not a deadly weapon" within
the meaning of the statutes. Wonder how the
learned Judges would feel about it if some fel-
low would get after them with one.-Fayett
Chronicle.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18

The enterprising merchants of West Point
have inaugurated automobile delivery of goods
and wares to farmers along the routes of the
good roads of that county. Orders sent in by
phone will meet with prompt delivery in the ear
ly morning hours.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18

Pastor BASTARD of John D. Rockefeller's
church says that John D. is "a rose bush in
the garden of the Lord" Although in the
scar and yellow leaf John D. still has attrac-
tions for those who worship at the shrine of
Midas.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18

A. H. Whitfield, Jr., son of Judge A. H.
Whitfield, died at his nome in Jackson Monday
after an illness of three days with acute kid
ney trouble and indigestion. Deceased was a
prominent young attorney of Jackson.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18

Lowndes county has sold $50, 900 of good roads
bonds for the second district to local capitalists
and will begin Immediately the construction OF
macadam roads.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18

Postmaster J. w. Price. of Meridian, has
been arrested by p~ostoffice inspectors and placed
under bond. The accounts of the postmaster
are reported short to the amount of $4,000.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18

Judge Thomas W. Vert of the law and
equity court of Morgan county, Alabama, has
enjoined the Southern railroad from delivering
whiskey shipments in Decatur and New De-
catur.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18

If Bulgaria really desires a pretext for fight
ing it might start after the modistes who placed
the responsibility for the Bulgarian blouse at its
door.-New York Evening Sun.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18

The heat of the past few days has been
so intense that if given a chance would dry
the water out of water melon. -GreenVllle
Democrat.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18
TUPELO. MISSISSIPPI. JULY IS, 1918

The contractors on the good roads IN the
first district are making good progress and VIII
have the roads completed before the winter be-
gins.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-07-18
RATES OF ADVER TISING

DISPLAY advertisements at rate of S1.00 per running
il oh per month offour weeks. Liberia discounts maze
on yearly contracts.
Notice of meetings Of strictly charitable organlzations
will be inserted one time free; all other notices must DC
paid for.