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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1915-01-01

They say that action and reaction
are always equal"
YES: one of my ancestors worked
himself to death. and I'm the reac-
ton. Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1915-01-01

There is no man that has not his
honr. nor Is there anything that has
aot its place.-Rabbi Ben Asi.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1915-01-01
Children Cry
FOR FLETchER'S
& a 8 TO RIA

"a THE INDEr ENDEAT
osB YfAsR 0ABDoLA-AR
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-23
FINE SPECIMEN SUDAN GRASS
AT BUSINESS LEAGUE.

There is on exhibition at the
Business League a sample of
Sudan grass grown in North
Greenwood at the home of Mr..
F. M. Aldridge. The sample
shown is about ten feet tall and
has been all permitted to 90 to
seed as Mr.. Aldridge desired to
secure seed for planting on a
larger scale next season. The
sample in the League room GER
tainly seems to bear out all that
is claimed for it. The following
instructions for growing and
handling is quoted, also claims
made of its value as stock food:
Should be planted in drill, about
So inches apart, and one grain in
drill, about every 5 or 6 inches.
1t should be planted after dam
ger of frost is past, in the Spring
and Summer, and in deep flat
broken land in rows about 36 in
ches apart, so that it can be cult
waited just enough to keep down
weeds or other plants until the
heavy foliage Of the Sudan grass
begins 10 shade the ground, after
which the Sudan grass will take
care of itself, and will be ready
for cutting in about As to so days
after planting, and may be cut
every thirty days thereafter, until
killed by the frost in the fall.
1t should be cut as soon as the
grass is in full boot or well headed
out, as the hay cut at this stage is
better feed than when cut earlier.
AS many as four crops of hay
per season in the South, averag-
ing one to two ton per acre per
cutting may be expected.
In quality it is rated next to al
falfa and clover, being relished by
all hay eating animals.
No better hog or dairy COW
pasture known.
A splendid catch crop with peas
on oat land. adding to the curing
of the peavine hay and doubling
the natural yield.
When sown broad cast 6 or Z
lbs. to acre should be used.
On rich land, for pastures four
to 8 head of cows may Craze to
each acre planted to Sudan grass,
Hogs and Horses do equally vel
on it.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-23
BANKRUPTCY NOTICE.

In the District Court Of the United
States for the Northern District OF
Mississippi.
In the matter of R. 8. Bridges, bank
rupt- In bankruptcy.
To the creditors Of. r. 8. Bridges
of Swiftown, Miss. in the County
of Leflore and District aforesaid, q
bankrupt.
Notice is hereby given that on the
18th day of July, A. D. 1915, the said
r. S. Bridges was duly adjudged a
bankrupt, and that the first meeting of
his creditors will be held at Tunica,
Miss. in Referees Office on the
18th day Of July, A. D. 1915, at IL
o'clock in the forenoon, at which time
the said creditors may attend, prove
their claims, appoint . trustee, ex-
anime the bankrupt, and transact such
other business - may properly come
before said meeting.
This the 18th day Of July, A. D. 1916.
J. D. MAGRUDER, Referee.
Tunica, Miss.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-23
TAXPAYER OPPOSES A CON
STITUTIONAL CONVENTION


Through the courtesy of the
Progress-Warden | am given a
short space to say a few things
about a Constitutional Conven-
ton for Mississippi.
This question has been agitated
for several years. but has been
turned down at every effort made
to put this burden on taxpayers
of Mississippi by wise men who
know the enormous expense Of
such a convention.
AS late as the last session of
the Legislature an extraordinary
effort was made to pave the way
for calling this Convention, but,
thank God, it was defeated.
II you ever experience one you
will then say, like myself, may
there never be another.
What does it mean to us? 1t
means that the number of repre-
sentatives and senator's in our Leg
islature will be wonderfully in
creased, which certainly means
larger appropriations of the peo-
pies money to pay them their
salaries.
1t means that it will cost the
taxpayers of $780, 10000 to $685.
10000 to call this convention and
pay for its labors.
It means a new and complete
Codification of all the laws of
Mississippi by big lawyers who
would grow fat on the peoples
money.
It means a we'll hidden scheme
to pave the way to increase taxa
ton in this portion of Mississippi
and lower it in other portions of
the State by the creation of a
State Equalization Board who will
pass on our farms after our as
sessments have been turned over
to the State by our Assessor.
1t means extra appropriations
of money to pay this Equalization
Board.
Mr.. voter and taxpayer, wake
up to the gravity of this question.
Do you want to shoulder the
burden of a State Constitutional
Convention?
If you do not and if you are
like myself the time is opportune
for calling on the candidates for
the Legislature in Webster Coun-
ty to express their position on
this question and do it Immediate
ly. What say the candidates?
Times are hard, money scarce
and prospects good for low price
cotton, possibly no market at all
for cotton.
Webster County Taxpayer.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-23
For Constable, Beat 3
H. w. PETTEY
7. F, PACE
TRUSTEES'S SALE.

IN = DALI.
On Saturday, July 31st, 1915, within
legal hours, I will sell at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash, at the
South door of the court house of Le-
fore County, Mississippi, in the City
of Greenwood, under and for the u
pose of paying the indebtedness secur-
ed by the deed of trust executed by
Lizzie Wallace, on July LIST, 1914, to J.
A. Bell as trustee for the benefit of
Virgil Mcpherson and Peggie McPher-
son, recorded in Book II, at page 500,
of the records of mortgages and deeds
of trust on land of said County, the un-
divided one-half interest conveyed by
said deed of trust in and to that certain
tract or parcel of land in the Henry
Addition to the City of Greenwood, in
Leflore County. Mississippi, described
as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the
Northeast corner of lot sixteen (16), in
block eight (8) of said Henry Addition,
as shown by q plot thereof recorded in
Book II, at page 200, of the records OF
land deeds Of said County, and running
thence Southwark along the Eastern
boundary line of said lot sixteen a dis.
lance of one hundred (1OO) feet. thence
Westward and at right angles to said
Eastern boundary line Of said lot a dis.
lance of so feet, thence Northward and
at right angles to said last mentioned
line and parallel with said Eastern
boundary line of said lot sixteen, a dis.
lance of hundred (10O) feet to the
Northern boundary line of said lot six.
teen and the Southern boundary line Of
Henry Street in said City, thence East.
wardly along the said Southern bound.
airy line of said Henry Street, q dis
lance Of fifty (5O) feet, to the point Of
beginning, with all ap~purteaance.
thereunto belonging.
July 9Th, 1915. J. A. BELL, Trustee.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-23

The following good advice is wor-
thy of careful consideration: "Youne
man don't forget that your CONNER
cial standing is married by your asso-
citation with bad men. Don't let any
body fool you with the suggestion
that you can lift some rascal into de-
cency by making him your yoke-fel-
low. You can't lie down with a dog
and get up without having 1eas. You
had better listen to the advice Of men
and women whom you know to be
your friends"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-23

"Of all the contemplate people on
earth, / believe the worst are the
we~asel-eyed, lantern-jawed, Ratchet
faced, grim-visaged, knock-kneed,
hammered-down gossipers. Do you
know that an angel in heaven couldn't
come down and mix with the people
you meet every day and then go
back to heaven without being fumi-
gated and cleaned with carbolic acid,
formaldehyde and lye?"-Exchange.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-23
VOTE FOR w. B. WILSON.
To the Voters of the Northern

To the Voters of the Northern
District of Mississippi:
l hereby announce myself as
candidate for reelection to the
office of Railroad Commissioner
for the Northern District of Miss
issippi. l thank you for the
splendid vote you gave me four
years ago.
In announcing my candidacy
for reelection l refer you to the
manner in which l have perform
ed the duties of the office for the
past four years. l promised you
before the last election that if
elected / would give the duties of
the office my best thought and
energy. / have made an honest
effort to fulfill that promise. l
have ayailed myself of every op-
portunity to inform myself of the
power and duties of a Commits
sioner, and in each complaint
made for action by the Commits
sion | have diligently inquired in
to the merits of the complaint by
personally going on the ground
and becoming acquainted with the
facts at first hand. Every action /
have taken upon every item of
business coming before us has
been that which l thought was
right and which justice demanded.
| have no doubt made mistakes,
but if so it was of the head and
not of the heart.
If reelected | again promise to
do the very best my ability will
permit to properly discharge the
duties Of the office. l feel that
my experience Of four years in Of
flee has been a valuable school to
qualify me for better and more In
telligent service in the future.
My platform: l will give each
complaint to me or to the Com
mission, and each item of business
coming before tine Commission, an
honest, candid and fair investipa-
ton upon IFS merits and dispose
of it as | think honest, fair and
Just.
! can only refer you to my rec
ord as evidence Of my good faith
III laying down the above plat
form. Il you consider the record
worthy Of endorsement BY q sec
ond term, / win greatly appreciate
il and redouble my efforts 10
make You Z better Commissioner.
Respectfully,
(adv.1 N. b. WILSON'S
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-23
FOR RENT.

Residence at COS Henderson
street. Two bedrooms, reception
hall, dining-room and kitchen,
bathroom, bath tub, lavatory and
sewerage connection. Hot water
and electric fixtures. Possession
given at once. Apply Perry B.
Dennis at Weiler's.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-23

TO Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up The System
Take the Old Standard GROVES
TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know
what ..'ou are taking, as the formula is
printed on every label, showing it is
Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form.
The Quinine drives out malaria, the
Iron builds up the system. so cents
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-23
D1ARRHoEA QUICKLY CURED

"About two years ago I had a Sc
for over a week." writes w. C. Jones,
Buford, N. D. II became so weak that
I could not stand upright. A druggist
recommended Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The
first dose relieved me and within two
days / was as we'll as ever" Obtain.
able everywhere.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-23
After Four Years Of Di.couraging
Conditions, Mrs. Bullock Gave
Upm Despair. Husband
Came to Rescue.

catron. Ky.-ln an interesting letter
from this place, Mrs. Bette Bullock
writes as follows: 81 suffered for four
years, with womanly troubles, and during
this time, l could only sit up for a little
while, and could not walk anywhere at
all. At times, l would have severe pains
In my left side.
Tho doctor was called in, and his treat
ment relieved me for a while, but l was
soon confined to my bed again. After
thai, nothing seemed to do me any good.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-23
FOR RENT.

Residence IN Congress Heights.
Groom House. Can give pos
session July 1st. One Of the neat
EFT bungalows in town. Call or see
GORDON GILLESPIE
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-23
HUSBAND RESCUED
DESPAIRING WIFE

| had gotten so weak I could not stand,
and l gave up in despair.
At last, my husband got me a bottle Of
Cardui, the woman's tonic, and | COM
menced taking it. From the very first
dose, l could tell it was helping me.
can now walk two miles without itS
firing me, and am doing all my work."
If you are all run down from womanly
troubles. don't give up in despair. Try
Cardui, the woman's tonic. 1t has helped
more than a million women. In Its 50
years Of continuous success, and should
surely help you, too. Your druggist has
sold Cardui for years. He knows what
it will do. Ask him He will recon-.
mend 1t. Begin taking Cardui today.
Write to: Chattanooga Medicine Co.. Ladies.
Advisory Dept. Chattanooga. Tenn. for SpectdI
Instructions on your case and 6-paze book, Home
] Treatnaat fer Ws@sn." sent In plain vraopss. l<s
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-06
OTHER BOOKS.

In the edition for 1915. the eleventh
the valuable Exporters Encyclope-
dia" (E&porters' Encyclopedia Com
pany, New York; takes cognizance
of the war unostentatiously by print
ing in the proper places the changes
made by the existence of war condi-
tons, the precautions shippers must
take, the lists OF articles pronounced
COntraband and so on. As usual It
supplies the Information shippers need
regarding every country in the world,
including the commercial regulations
md laws; the amount and variety of
this information Is astonishing. 1t
is a book prepared for the exactlng
requirements OF the trade, which it
meets fully.
The two volumes of South Amerl-
can Handbooks" (Appletons) by
George j, Mills on Chile" and Ar
gentlna" are disappointing, About
both countries readers would like
to know a great deal just now
Mr.. Mills provides them with 4
scrap of history, bits Of general
information and of natural his
tory and with long statistical and
geographical lists, put in narrative
form. He dwells on what ne thinks
may interest British readers, bun
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-06
BOOKS ABOUT THE WAR.

BY this time the literary men and
tho ministers have recovered their
breath and are ready TO emit what
opinions they have formed as regards
the participants in the war. In a pert
and rather offensive outburst The
Prussian Hath Said in His Heart"
laurence j. CONNIE. New York; Cecil
Chesterton tells his present feelings
about the Germans, past and present.
He ingeniously seeks TO make the
late Frederick the Great responsible
for the alleged outrages on the Bel
CLANS and others. George Bernard
Shaw contributes a preface to his
sprightly effuslon.
on the other hand L. Cecil Jane In
The Nations at War" (E. p. Dutton
and Company seeks TO penetrate the
future and TO guess at the outcome OF
the disturbance. He goes back, how
ever, to seek for obscure causes of the
war which he takes into consideration
in figuring out his idea OF the final
settlement.
The Rev. DR.. Henry A. Stimson OK
presses very laudable sentiments in
when tho War RACES" (The Abln.-
don Press, New York;, sentiments APP
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Published s; The Macmillan Company '4 New ~ York 4y
PASSING OF A LONDON
LOVER OF BOOKS

The late Bertram Dobell OF London
was something more than mere book
seller he was booklover, publisher,
literary researcher. prose author and
poet Mr.. DoboN began life in poverty
and he had reached the age OF 30 before
hard earned ten pound note enabled
him TO set UP as stationer and news
vender in Kentish Town. Twenty years
later Dobell had become name to
every bibliophile.
Two things stand to the credit OF
Bertram Dobell-hls research into the
literature OF the seventeenth century
and his generosity to struggling authors.
II was he who sought out James
Thompson. author OF The City of
Dreadful Night" befriended him. pub
lished his verses, found him employ
ment. did his utmost TO save him from
the drink, nursed him. and after his
death collected his poems and prefaced
to them a biography of the writer.
Bertram Dobell was of course a IA
mlliar figure at Sotheby's He was a
queer looking old man with n quaint,
characteristic gesture with which he
passed whatever did not interest him.
and often he would flash criticism and
epigram upon the auctioneer's pulpit
and the buyers table.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-06
TWO ENCYCLOPEDIAS.

Tho seventh volume Of the "Ency-
clopgdia OF Religion and Ethics"
edited by James Hastings ct. and I.
Clark; Charles Scribner's SOns), keeps
IN to the high standard set by the
volumes that have preceded it, the
articles in condensed form give as
complete information as Is obtainahle
on the subjects with which they deal
and the longer articles, in which a
number Of competent authorities COM
blne, survey the whole field and open
the way to further study by the care
full photographers that accompany
them. In this volume, which COM
prlses the subjects included between
Hymns and Liberty" the article On
Hymns takes up 60 pages: It touches
on Babylonian. Buddhist, Celtic, Chi
nese, Egyptian. Greek and Roman,
Hebrew and Jewish, Inca, Japanese,
Nanichaean, Moslem, Samaritan and
Vedic HYMNS, as well as those OF the
Christian churches, Greek, Syriac,
Ethiopic, Irish. Latin and those OF the
modern denominations. Six columns
are devoted TO Ibsen. Images and
Idols" takes up 90 pages, "lncarna-
ton" IS pages, "Indo-China" and Tn
donesians" % pages, and J. G. Frazer
writes the latter article, "Infalli-
bility" 22 pages; inheritance" "a
pages. 'Ishtar" 0 pages, Israel" p
pages, Jesus Christ" 4s pages, "Juda-
ism 81 pages, Kant" Z pages Kin
7 pages. king" "a pages, kissing
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plicable to any war and which may
be generally accepted.
Three more expressions OF British
opinion come in oxford Pamphlets"
issued by the oxford University
Press Humphrey Milford); Thoughts
on the War" by Gilbert Murrey. re"
printed from the Hilbert journal. Of
all publications: "England's Mission"
by w. BENEFIT, and '1s the British En-
plre the Result OF Wholesale Rob
berry," by II. f. Egerton, a question
which, put IN a potter form, Is GER
tainly more open to academical discus
sion than tho author seems TO think.
Tho war provides further material
for fiction in THE Guns OF Europe"
by Joseph A. Altsheler (Appletons).
the first of a series Of books that are
on the border line between juveniles
and grown up tales. The style ts that
OF the former class. in which the author
has achieved distinction. He utiliDes
very slSilfully his own experiences in
Europe at the outbreak Of the war In
the beginning. Next he takes up one
romantic feature OF modern warfare,
the feats of tho aviators, and carries
his readers along with him. The story
is hardly complete; It will only be fair
to await the completion of the trilogy
before judging It.
| A sample of one painful form OF
war literature will be found in "The
Years 1914 10 1923 in Bible Prophecy,
by r. Troward (Stead. Dandy and
Company, London; School of the
Builders. New York;, a style of book
that every great calamity brings out.
The abridgment OF Or. Stanley
| Shaw's larger biography, THE Kaiser"
! (Methuen and Company; Macmillans)
has the great advantage Of having
/ been written before the outbreak of
/ hostilities. 1t presents a view OF the
/ German Emperor which Is British,
to be sure but not blinded by the pas
slons Of the moment. The additional
chapter by another hand while It adds
very little Information Is also written
in a sane and temperate tone.
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both his books are mechanical, per-
functory products, in which the au-
thop seems to take no great interest.
The report OF the State Game and
Fish Warden OF Oklahoma has been
converted into a poetiCal panegyric
OF the natural advantages OF the
State by Frederick S. Barde, in out
door Oklahoma" cooperative Publish
ing Company, Guthrie, OlSla.), a beau
tiful specimen of printing, with fine
illustrations that will appeal to all
sportsmen and lovers of nature. II
should make a strong argument for
conservation,
A second edition Of Carl NJ. Han
sens Universal Safety Standards" is
issued by the Universal Safety Stand
ards Publishing Company, New York.
II contains the laws on the subject
and the directions of the association
Of underwriters called the Worfmen's
Compensation Service Bureau with re-
gard to general safety and to machine
shops and foundries, together with
suggestions for improvements. More
space Is devoted to pictures Of the
devices for safety than TO the text. II
] - ~ very N'lilplVt' HlllNil HhllibppNs
| Statements OF the requirements for
admission to many patriotic societies.
with descriptions OF their badges, will
he found in sydney A. Phillipss PA
triotiC Societies of the United States
and Their Lapel Insignia" CBroadway
, Publishing Company, New York;.
The author has collected forty-four Of
these societies and counts twenty
eight more that are not yet included
in his book.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-06

Coal Industry Of America" Arthur Il.
Sunern. HoughtOn Mlfnin Company
Welfare as AN Economic Quantity" q.
p. Watkins. -'Houghton Mifnln Come
panyD
The Creation OF Wealth" j. II. Lock-
wood. (The Standard Publishing Com
pany, ClncinnatiD
The Law of BiogenesIs" j. Howard
Moore. Charles II. Kerr and Company.
ChicagoD
The Life Of Cervantes" Robinson
Smith. George Routlcdge aud Sons: r.
=. button and Company
What I Found Out" An English Gov
erness, Chapman and Hall, LondonJ
The Wooden Horse" THE Gods and
MIR Perrin" "Maradck at Forty" The
Prelude to Adventure" "FortItudr
The Duchess OF Wrexe." 6 vols Hugh
Wapole, George ii. Doran Company
The Harbor' Ernest Poole. (Mac-
milans.)
"Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley" Belle
X Maniates little. Brown and Com
pany,D
"iIomeburg Memories" George Fitch
(Little Brown and Company
Under the Spell of the Firs" AnnabeU
Jerome. tBroadway Publishing Company.
New York;
George Washington" Mary Hazelton
Wade. Orchard G. Badger. Bostonl
"Homeric Scenes" John Jay Chapman
Laurence j. CONNIE, New York;
Crack O. Dawn Fannie Stearnn
Davis. tMacmillansl
"a Page OF Dreams" George King
The Gorham Press. Boston,
The Conquest" Richard Osborne.
CThe Gorham Press.D
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-06
A SOCIALISTS STORY
OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES

she had devoured her books OF fable
and romance. There IL no mistake
about this. The story says: with
series of sidelong glances she de-
voured her stranger knight" He was
a tall, well built man with a strong
light OF life in his brown eyes lie
wore a Norfolk jacket of fashionable
make. When he spoke his accents
were those of a gentleman THE
child of nature that had suddenly
become a woman drank in his common
places 10 intoxicatlon." His name was
James Burkett, at which We do not
thrill. HE was stopping at Ford
Hinton with Squire Radleigh for some
shooting" Facilis est descensus-the
story employs these ancient and dis
turbing words in speaking OF the
meeting OF love and life on high hill
sides under the stars.
It is told how trouble came to Mar
garet; how she bore It havely, de-
manding nothing Of her lover, refusing
to let him Sacrifice" himself for her;
Z how James Burkett married Helen
Darrell who was mentally and spirit
ually his superior: how the young
curate, Mervyn Ingestre, loved Helen,
and how after her marriage she dis
covered that she loved him; how the
young curate, after listening to the ar
ments Of Bin Ridley, a workingman
and socialist who had lost two fingers
while running a turning lathe, had
been moved to withdraw from the
church; how Helen was killed by q
fall from her husbands famous race
horse Thracian Sea; how Mervyu
Ingestre died of heart disease on
, Helen's grave; how Margarets son, g
/ jockey, saved his fathers tottering
/ fortune by winning a horse race; how
James Burkett recovered from his
| habit of drink, and how he and Mar.
garet were happily married at last,
The story has plenty of reflections
unconventional andpresented in strk'
ing language, and many passages OF
a romantic and poetical character. Ii
great part, however, It Is realistic
and this Is true particularly or the de
scriptions OF horse racing.