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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1915-03-20

We are authorized 20 announce
E. b. TYSON
as candidate for Road Commissioner
for ward seven, Grant parish, La, al
the election to be held on Monday,
April s. 1915.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1915-03-20

Spring shoes for men, women and
children at J. w. DUNCAN Co.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1915-03-20
We are authorized to announce
l.. DOW WARDLOW

as candidate Tor Road Commissioner
for ward seven, Grant parish, La. at
the election to be held on Monday,
April 5, 1915.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1915-03-20

Choice spring goods of all kinds at
]. w. Duncan Co.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1915-03-20
We are authorized to announce

rs a candidate for Road Commissioner
Tor ward seven, Grant parish. Id, a,
the election to be held ON Monday,
April s, 1915.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17
POVERTY A DISEASE.

A large part of the poverty of the world
is a disease, the result Of centuries OF bad
living, bad thinking and SHINING. /.
We know that poverty is an abnormal
condition because it does not tit any human
beings constitution or give him happiness.
1t contradicts the promise and the prophecy
of the divine in man.
There are plenty of evidences that
abundance of all that is good was mans IN
heritance and thatif he claims it stoutly he
will have it.
If it were possible for all the poverty
stricken people in the world to firmly turn
their own backs on their dark and discourag-
ing environment and bravely face the light
and cheer, and to resolve that they are done
with poverty and a slip-shod existence, this
very resolution, persistently kept up, would
soon revolutionize civilization.
Many think they are doing their level
best to get away from poverty, when they
are not making one-tenth the effort possible.
The love of ease has wrecked more
careersthan anything else except dissipation;
and laziness and dissipation usually 60
together.
In a strong character there are certain
traits that are irreconcilable with prevent
able poverty. Self-reliance and manly in
dependence are foundation stones in strong
characters.
We sometimes find these high qualities
in the man who is poor because he is victim
Of misfortunes and disasters he could not
control. But the man who is poor because
he has no courage, no faith in himself, no
higher ideal than a hand-to-mouth existence,
is to be pitied. He is afflicted with the dis
ease of poverty. Z
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17
THE REASONS H

On every hand we see plenty of young men
and women who should have been heard from.
They embarked on life with high aims and pros
pectuses which should have become finished
works, but which have never been matured.
They have disappointed the hopes of their
friends; they have hidden their talents in nap
kins, and have gradually subsidized into obscurity.
They waited for prosperity instead Of win
ming it, and, of course, never found it. Micaw-
ber-like, they waited for something to turn up
but, as usually happens in such cases, only dis
appointments turned up. Good thigs must be
dug for.
Many of them started out with great ex-
pectatlons, but their ambition and energy
evaporated.
Some of the finest i~ntellects have exhaled
away in this sluggish evaporation and left no
vestige on earth except the dry froth the obscure
dreams; and others have done Just enough to
show how important they would have been,
had they awoke sooner, and kept awake longer.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17
STICK 70 rflEPARM

With winter here, and the crops safely
harvested and slowed away, many young men on
the farms are doubtless casting longing eyes to.
ward the great cities.
They would leave the green fields and their
pleasures and seek the glare Of the electric
lights and allurements Of the great white way
They would taste Of the greater life.
And therein Turks the most haunting peril
that confronts our country today, for the nation
is dependent upon the farmer.
Our population is increasing by leaps and
bounds, the millions Of additional mouths must
be fed each year.
From the soil of the farms must come the
produce which ~sustains life and body for the
countless thousands who throng the cities.
And year by year the young men of the
country are leaving the farms to seek their for
tunes in the human bee hives.
And each one who forsakes the farm re-
duces the producing capacity Of the country,
although our constantly increasing population
calls for greater farm production.
Young men of brains are needed on the
farm. Their presence there means much to
their country thousand times more than they
realize.
TIL city offers but one chance in a hundred
for success, for every large city is already over
populated, and for every job worth the having
there are many applicants.
Today, as we write this article, every city
IN the country is groaning under the burden of
its unemployed. Many hundreds of thousands
of people are without bread and wholly de-
pendent upon charity. That is the condition of
the great cities today-a condition which should
not appeal to any intelligent young man from
the farm.
The farm offers the young man a life of
honor, and of peace, and Of plenty.
The glare of the electric lights offers him
all that he should not have.
Young men Of wisdom should stick to the
farm.
Fools have no wisdom to lose.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

II is always a pleasure to look through The
Common rallh's advertising at this time OF
year, with all the suggestion Of holiday good
cheer that It brings. Reading these advertise
ments about gifts, luscious food, and winter
supplies, atcms like walking along in front OF
the show windows in some brilliantly lighted
street.
Even if one can not afford to buy much Of
all these good things, there is a pleasure either
in looking al them or reading about them in the
newspaper. And most Of US get some share OF
them.
The story told by our large number of ad-
v~ertiscls IN this issue is one of business enter
prise and forethought. The money tied up
here in Christmas stock represents a big invest
ment, made in the faith that the people will
buy literally AS in the past. For sensible mind
ed people there is no end Of useful presents in
clothing, furniture and dry goods. For the
children there is the same old beWildering array
Of toys. For good livers there are fruits and
goodies and substantials of the year. For all
which the public is referred to our advertising
columns, for a real human interest story.
This issue of The Commonwealth, containing
the aforesaid human interest" story, has the
largest number Of special Christmas Holiday
advertisements Of any newspaper published in
Mississippi this good year Of 1915, and the
writer appreciates that fact more than he can
find words to properly express. To have the
unstinted approval Of the big-hearted and mag
m business men of Greenwood in such a
substantial and enthusiastic manner, is a COM
pliment Of which one has Just cause to feel proud
and we want each one of these splendid
gentlemen represented in our advertising col
umns to know that we appreciate both their
friendship and their most liberal patronage.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17
SOMETHING WE X

Charles Rosen, a New Orleans attorney, O
member of the Jewish race, in addressing the
Young Mems Hebrew Association in the Ores.
cent CITY recently made this splendid declara.
ton:
In relation to the national life. l am an
American; my Judaism is my own private aft air,
and has nothlng to do with my relation to the
country as a nation, excepting to increase my
zest Tor service to America and her ideas. The
interests OF America are our interests, and our
future must be her future. We Jews of this
nation are or must be proud of America, and
even more SO than other people, since we owe
SO much TO her. We are American Jews, not
Jewlsh-Amerlcans The Jew has never adopted
TIE hyplen and never will"
We like that. 1t is true Americanism If
there rs such an ism and we believe there is.
Rah! for Rosen.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17
N AND HAPPINESS.

We can waste a lot of pity on people who
do not require it or want it. One case is in mind
A mans business failed, and for all hi
efforts he could not get hold again. The il
luck that pursued him was persistently inexor
able. His wife, who had graced his prosperity
was quite helpless to redeem his distress anc
saddled him with blame and complainings. His
daughter made an undesirable marriage, and his
two sons, instead of being a help and hope to
him, ungratefully relieved him of what little
property he had left.
Friends who met this man on the streets
experienced that kind of embarrassment which
one has in speaking to a person about a heavy
bereavement. But such embarrassment really
was unnecessary and uncalled for. The mans
laugh was light, his face was free from lines,
and his step as springy and eager as in the days
OF his palmy prosperity.
I've got half a dollar in my pocket" he
said to a friend with a slap on his thigh, land
off to see the vaudeville"
And off he went like a boy without a care.
1t is no made-up story, but is an every day
affair.
Contrasted with it, We see dozens of men
every day, flush with prosperity, who can hardly
a smile.
The world over, the heartiest laughter is
heard not in the avenues of the rich, but in the
little side streets.
We are strange creatures, set on end, for
unknown reason, between the earth and
stars, and seeking happiness like a benighted
traveller following a will-o' -the-wisp.
But of this we may be reasonably certain
from experience and observation, that the road
TO happiness is not paved with money.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17
THE BANKER

Under. the modern credit syssm
the merchant is really the farnery
banker, the main difference betvesa
him and the professional banker bsns
that the latter requires . proftanls
interest on money loaned, while ~
dealer charges nothing for his &c..
ing service and does not even defdla
security. In this he probably deseE
es no special commentator; IL n
good business. Our whole bussns
system is founded on IN elabcssH
credit basis and, because Of tho e..
parative scarcity Of money, it wceaa
be impossible for al business
change to q strictly cash plan.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17
MADE IN MISSISSIPPI.

Many southern people are going dippy,
About the timely slogan, MADE in Mississippi
Don't you think we ought to get in line ?
Enter the ring, now, people, let's make 'em shine
I'm ready fellows, here's the gladstone hand,
Now is the time, to join the humming band.
Made in Mississippi is the greatest thing to do,
In our sunny homeland it's best for me and you.
Simple is the ~slogan-goodly is the phrase,
SO let's be up and going to give more than praise
In bottomland& hilltop We'll tickle natures pride
Swellin' up with crops that almost busts her side
Sowing, reaping, working, singing with mirth,
In beauty land of Mississippi, place Of our birth.
Pull together, people, and take a little tip.
PUSH the cause and keep a steady grip,
IN the home OF JOY and love-in Old: Mississippi.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

fertility, sueh = ~ iseunmA
peas, peanutA, bssas, aaf.ass
vetch. There are family di.e--s.1.
about the feed and care Of - -
the COW and how to feed and slL
Four tools are essential on -.
farm, says Mrs. Mathis. rh., ~
stalk cutter, a disc harrow.
horse turning pillow and . sub-,.n,s-
pillow.
Cotton is the chief crop on ali u.
Mathis farms, but she insists that q
her tenants must raise q year. q
ply Of food for their families and ~
for their livestock.
Mrs. Mathis compels q tenant *.
rents so acres Of cultivated land -
her to plant l6 acres in corn,5 D.
in oats, to be followed BY cowue,..
acres in hay, 2 acres in veeet.L-
and potatoes, ! acre in waterml..s.
and ] acre in sorghum. Twentytr,
acres must be planted in cotton. 4.
addition to the crops, the tenant IL.
a contract to keep = brood nov ~
raise 500 worth Of meat per 81,
and to keep a COW and raise !. e.Wt 3
be a year old before killing. He M
also agree to work one brood NJ.
and raise one mule colt each yea.
Bud Jones was n Of Mrs. M,tA;.,
tenants. He moved every year, i,
all the years Of his farming n Il
accumulated only a sorry team. 4.
could scarcely make a living for 4.
family. Mrs. Mathis rented hin q
acres Of land she had built up. Az
ne moved on the place she found Y
owed $3.50. She will not ALLOW
renter on her farm to owe bill.I I
she took Bud to her bank and N
herself, went his security. sh. Il.
troduced him as a share cropper =
her farm, making him 4 partner. Al
was never inside a bank. The cordi.I
reception he got from the banks ~
ident made him feel more like / NJ.
and equal to the years work.
Bud sowed 10 acres Of spring ~
and harvested 100 bushels Of er,Ia
Tor feeding and cut the balsne.
for hay. On two acres Of oat I,ad
ne planted sweet potatoes and 81 /
acres corn with cowpeas between II
rows. On IL acres Of the poor Ind
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17
THE VILLAGE GAMBLER.SMrfT

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Under a spreading chestnut tree
There sits a gambling man;
Mr.. Smith a poor gambler Is he,
With five spots in his hand.
His hair is crisp, and black, and loug.
His face is like the tan;
His brow is wet with sweat,
He wins whate'ef he can.
Week in, week out, from night IN
morn,
You can hear him cussing low;
You can hear him swing his hssv5
fist,
On the table with measured bet
and slow.
When his children come home I'm
school
They look in at their home door;
They see their mother crying
And see their daddy" is sore.
He goes back to the woods on Sunday
And sits among the boys;
He hates to hear the parson prsash
And the superintendent voice.
Toiling, swearing, Borrowing,
Onward through life he goes
Each morning he's lost fifty
Each night sees it close.
Thanks, thanks to thee, my wofsag
friend
For the message which Is 10 trv
Thus in wi life time If We lose
: We sure will feel blue.
Miss. s. ]. BROWN, n
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

on Mrs. Mathis offers small prize.
OF a e hat, a pair Of boots or !
new tie for the man who raises the
Fest crop of corn or cotton on Door
'iand or whose hay has been cured and
stacked the best.
Mrs. Mathis tacks up cards every
month n the house, 50 that the wife
ana children a read them, with !
ils1 q the work to be done that month
giving careful directions. She prints
z Inst q crops which robs the soil asd
wy q those which hslp Is yegturs
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17
BECOME A MEMBER NOW.

Every merchant
Every planter
Every property owner
Every manufacturer
Every man that's trying to make good
should be a member of the Greenwood Business
League and help Boost and Build up our country.
In doing so we help ourselves. We have the
best country on earth, and the way to convince
the outside world of this fact is to join hands
with the procession of boosters.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17
Many a fool coughs up wisdom

q system Of crop rotation and
cover crops. She has trebled the
yields Of cotton an acre on land
bought for So an acre and sold it
after . few years for $40 an acre.
Every spring Mrs. Mathis holds a
council Of all her tenants on the farm
usually in q grove Of trees. The
tenants are asked to tell what sue
cess they had with certain crops on
certain lands and their methods Of
planting end cultivation. Confer
snea taks place several times ! sess-
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17
YAZOO SENTINEL'S BIG EDITION.

The combination Holiday and Dollar Day
Edition OF Hon, f. r.. Birdsalrs always ably
edited lazoo sentinel last week was superb
number IRON every standpoint. 1t contained
forty pages of interesting reading matter and
attractive advertisements 1t was a complete
success and we congratulate friend Birdsali m
on 1uIiy maintaining his merited reputation of
beng the best newspaper man in the State.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17
HOW ONE WOMAN WINS sue.
CESS IN FARMING

Make your tenant feel that he has
a direct interest in your farm, take
counse! with him what to plant and
SOW and let him know that he Is an
essential part Of the whole farm
organization and you will get greater
results on the farm
This is the doctrine Of Mrs. G. H.
Mathis, the well known retainer Of
worn-out scuthan farxss tAruueA
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

Philadelphia returns to gang rule after
four years of experience with the administra-
ton of a we'll meaning reform mayor, who had
no fundamental knowledge of reform whatever,
and no desire to acquire it. Such reformers in
office usually make gang rule popular.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17
FEELIN' FINE!

They amt no use in kickin', friend,
If things don't come your way;
1t does no good to boiler round,
An grumble night and day.
The thing to dos to curb yer grief,
Cut out your little whine,
An when they ask you how you are,
Jest say, Pm feelin' fine"
'They amt no mar alive but what
Is booked to get his slap;
They amt no man that walks but .
What from trouble gets his rap.
Go mingle with the bunch, old boy,
Where all the bright lights shine.
And when they ask you how you are,
Jest say, "Tm feelin' fine."
eyer heart may be just Dustin with
Some real or fancied woe; "'
But if you smile, the other folks
Amt very apt to know.
The old world laughs at heartaches. friend.
Be they your own or mine;
SO, when they ask you how you are,
Jest say, Pm feelin' fine"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

Uncle Joe Cannon" is quoted as declaring
thai In times like these every American should
support the Presidnt. Democratic congressman
who oppose the Presidents defense program
may now explain that they are merely opposed
to any policy supported by a stand-pat Republi.
can like Uncle joe"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17
WHY NOT BE A BOOSTER?

do you know theirs lots of people
Sitting round most every town,
Growing like a broody chicken,
Knocking every good thing down.
Don't be that kind of cattle,
Cause they amt no use on earth,
But just be a Booster rooster,
Grow and boost for all you're worth,
If your town needs boostin' boost her
Don't hold back and wait to see
If some other fellows willin'
Sail right in, this country's free.
No ones got a mortgage on it,
It's just yours as much as his:
If your town is shy of boosters,
You get in the boostin' biz.
If things don't seem to suit you
An the world seems kinder wrong,
What's the matter with a boostin'
Just to help the thing along?
Cause if things should stop again,
We'd be in a sorry plight,
You just keep the horn a-blowing!
Boost her up with all your might.
If you see some fellow tryin'
For to make some project 10,
An you can boost it up a trife,
That's your cue to let him know
That you're not going to knock it,
just because it amt your shout
But that you're going to boost 4 little
Cause he's got the best thing out"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

The acceptable Christmas gift to most peo-
pie is the inexpensive one, that won't require a
costly return next year.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

If every man in Greenwood would make a
practice of devoting two hours a week to yard
improvement it would be but a short time when
we would have the most beautiful community in
Mississippi. Why not?
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

II the pen is mightier than the sword 4
must be taking a snooze. 'o1u =
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

Pay your subscription as a Xmas gift, and
we'll call it square. '
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

This crowd gonig over to stop the war by
Christmas is not the Children's Crusade of the
Middle Ages resurrected, but merely Henry
Ford's little Sunday school picnic.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

Our Office devil makes the positive state
ment that a widow can talk to grown man
while a girl just simply primps and giggles.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

successful men hunt business. Others wal,
for it to hunt them. ' 'Aets "ai
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17
SOME YULET1DE THOUGHTS.


SlhLo MAo!
Does the word hold special Significance
for you! Does it mean more than Just the day
on which Christ was born!
And does it occur to you that because OF
the birth of Christ the world has emerged from
darkness into the c~ivilizing light of humanity
and Christianity!
And do you remember on this day of uni.
versal giving that the Child of the Manger was
the greatest of all givers? That he offered up
the only thing he had to give-his life7
And if Christ could give HIS LIFE that we
might have JOY in our souls, could we not give
JUST A LITTLE that some one less fortunate
may taste Of the blessings of this day?
ONLY A WORD!
So little, and so easy to give!
And yet that word, if spoken, might bring
cheer and a little brightness to the life of some
lonely person this Christmas day-a day which
to them may hold little of joy, may even be but
an empty name, a tantalizing phantom of the
brain.
Shall we pass beyond the beaten track and
speak that word?
Shall we make just a little effort to radiate
the sunshine of our existence yet a little way
beyond our own Preside?
Shall we devote a few minutes of the day
to the gladdening Of the heart of some wander
er who has no husband, no wife, no children,
possibly NO HOME?
Only a word!
But there are times in our lives when even
a word is more precious than gold.
AND THE LITTLE ONES!
Did you ever pass a child on Christmas
day and forget to extend it a cheerful greeting?
Probably you have-we all have.
And the little children are so appreciative
on Santa's day!
They like to be remembered-to feel that
they are of some use in the world-that they
are OF sufficient Importance to command recog-
milton from their elders, from grown ups"
You was a child once, with the same sensi-
tive heart that beats in each little breast, and
you we'll remember how we'll pleased you felt
when some man or woman patted you on the
head and gave you a kindly word.
Are YOU going to remember the little ones
on this day-this day that should be joyful to
them, as we'll as to you?
PERHAPS there is some one in this COM
munity who has no relative, no close friend, no
one to extend them the greetings of Christ's day,
no one who cares if they be as the sheep that is
lost from the fold.
Most likely there is.
And quite likely in the enjoyment of our
own blessings we will be f~orgetful of the fact
close to us "some one is spending a sad
and lonely day-that "some one" has not re-
the message Of good cheer-that "some
one may want for a crust of bread-that "some
one" may even wonder if God ever intended
Christmas should be. for them!
But it is the way of the world today.
And we are of the world, and of today, and
forgetful.
1t might be different.
1t COULD be different.
BUT WILL 1T?
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

When you can see yourself as others see
you, you will have reached the are of wisdom,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

over half OF the world is fighting and tn,
other half is having spasms in fear of a fight.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

The Commonwealth wishes for its many
and patrons a Merry Christmas and 3
Happy New Year.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

Soon we will be forced to. the inevitable
conclusion that there is a scrap going on in Eu-
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

Don't worry about your rivals little jabs
at you. You have him going, and HE knows II.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

Our Christmas edition teens with suQpes
tons from Greenwood's progressive stores.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-17

They say the dawn of prosperity is at hand
but we would rather see the full break of day.