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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
HIGH IN DARKTOWN'S "4Oo'
Surely Little Question a. to the soeia
Status Of M. Samuel
Brown.

Senator Morris Sheppard OF Texas
is an ardent advocate OF river i'm.
provements. Apropos OF the river
steamers, before the advent OF the
railroad, he tells the following anec-
dOte:
la "befo' de war" times 1t was Gus
tomary. among the dusky bellies, 20
regard the stOker on a steamer as one
OF high social status. At q negro ball
one night. on the Mississippi river
bank, o Certain Sam Brown was IN
troduced to q dusky belle Facing he'
former partner. she turned Up her
nose and remarked:
What fur does yer introduce me
ter such loW-doYn trash as Sam
Brown"
Sam Brown loV-aOHn trash" eS-
claimed the man, rolling the whites o'
his eyes in surprise Why. oman. yer
don't know what yer is talking about
Why. Sam Brown is the biggest man
In Nississippi-he Ares de middle fur
mace on de River Queen oil by his
SELF
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
ADVICE GIVEN TO FARMERS
Every Branch of Business Is Bene
fitted by interchange of Views
Practical Suggestions.
CBy A. n. MILLER)

Sometimes | feel annoyed at the
vice to farmers. At times it looks as
though all the farmers needed guard
ians, judging by the amount of un-
solicited advice they receive from city
timely, sensible talk giving new ideas
or practical suggestions. We all need
that Every branch of business is
helped by an interchange of views, but
it will relieve my mind to say that the
average farmer knows his business
better than any other people possibly
can.
The chief trouble with the man in
the country is that he is what they
call unsophisticated. He does not put
up much of front. He is slow and
careful, but that does not mean tina:
he is stupid.
Some of the best thinkers l have
ever known were men who could not
express themselves well and could
not meet people in bright way and
let them know what was on their
minds.
Such farmers make poor bargains.
they buy wrong and sell wrong and
are apt to be imposed upon by glib
brokers, agents, merchants and other
city people with whom they have to
do business.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
WINTER JOBS FOR FARMERS
splendid Opportunity Offered for
Clearing Fields Of Old Stumps-
Other Odds and Ends.

on many farms this is considered q
oetWeen-seasons period. with little de-
mahdlng immediate attention. How
ever, the successful farmer is COM
ing TO see that if his plant 10 to pay
dividends there must be no period
OF ldleness, but that there must be en-
pIoyment every working day in the
year Tor men, horses. machinery and
capital.
Right now We would call attention
10 the stump-ridden fields that can
never be farmed satisfactorily and
most proftably until the stumps are
removed. True, stumping large fields
Is no small-sized job, and calls for
the expenditure of both energy and
cash; but it is job that can only be
zone by going about it persstently
ana determinedly, and the present
winter days offer a splendid cpportu
hlty Tor prosecuting this sort OF work
Another job that We may we'll tackle
at THIS season is that OF retaining
the waste, nOnpToductive spocs about
the place. These are mainly the
CALLED, quilted areas that have come
as result of our not properly look
ing after our hillside lands; and the
wet spots that nov refuse % grow
crops but which, by the use OF .
lew open bitches or some rain tile.
may be made the most productive
areas on the farm. Look your place
over, and if you fail to find such waste
spots as these, then you are entitled
TO place your farm in the blue-ribbon
class.
other jobs that may claim cur at
tention are looking after the farm
manure and seeing that none OF it 10
allowed to go to waste; housing and
repairing the farm implements; pro-
vidlng plenty of good dry wood for
mother; breaking lands that are not
occupied by cover crops; and arrang-
ing for our fertilizer purchases for
1915.
Compared with the North, the
South, by reason OF its mild winter
climate, possesses a tremendous eco
nomic advantage. Let's make this ad-
vantage count by filling the winter
days With work that will make our
farms more slightly, productive and
acknowledgements Farmer.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
Served HE Country Well.

Alfred Sully, soldier, was O distin-
guished son OF o distinguished sire,
born at Philadelphia, January 2, 1921.
His father was Thomas Sully, the IA
nous portrait painter, pupil OF Benja-
min West, painter Of many OF the
great men of his day and ranking Sec
ond only to Gilbert Stuart. The son,
however, had ambition for the life
military, was graduated from West
Point in 1S41 and was Immediately ap-
pointed second lieutenant in the
Second infantry. He campaigned
against the Seminoles in Florida, was
in the Mexican war, and for conspicu-
Gus services at the siege of Vera Cruz
was promoted to first lieutenant and
captain. At the outbreak Of the Civil
war he was appointed colonel OF the
First Minnesota volunteers, was q lit
tie later given command of brigade,
distinguished himself at Fair Oaks and
Malvern Hill, was promoted to briga-
der general Of volunteers and led his
command with conspicuous gallantry
at South Charlottesville. After the
war he was engaged in Indian cam
paigns in which there was savage
fighting. He was brevetted brigadier
general in the regular army and
major general Of volunteers.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
BIG EATERS HAVE BAD
KIDNEYS AND BACKACHE
Take a Glass Of Salts at Once II Your
Back 10 Hurting or Kidneys and
Bladder Trouble You.

The American men and women must
guard constantly against Kidney trou-
BILE, because We eat too much and all
our food is rich. Our blood 10 filled
with uric acid which the kidneys
strive to filter out, they weaken from
overvork, become sluggish; the elimi-
native tissues clog and the result is
kidney trouble, bladder weakness and
Q general decline in health.
When your Kidneys feel like Jumps
is cloudy, full of sediment or you are
obliged to seek relief two or three
times during the night; If you suffer
with sick headache or dizzy, nervous
spells, acid stomach, or you have rheu-
matism when the weather is bad, get
from your pharmacist about four
ounces Of Jad Salts; take table
spoonful in glass of water before
breakfast for o few days and your kid
neys will then act fine. This famous
salts 10 made from the acid of grapes
and lemon juice, combined with lithia,
and has been used for generations to
flush and stimulate clogged kidneye;
to neutralize the acids in the urine so
1t no longer 10 . source Of irritation,
thus ending bladder disorders.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in
ture, makes Q delightful effervescent
Whitewater beverage, and belongs in
every home, because nobody can make
. mistake by having Q good kidney
flushing any time.-Adv.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
GOOD AMERICAN FARM HANDS
Workman Who Does Not Match Sun
Too Closely and Who Is Indus
trious Is Appreciated.

Some of the arguments used by
union organizers are that unless we
organize our conditions will be as bad
as they are in England. / don't be-
lieve the time will ever come in
America when farm workmen will be
treated as slaves-half-fed, over
worked and poorly paid. American
farmers, so far as l can judge by 20
years of experience, are disposed to
treat workmen decently and pay fair
wages. OF course, there are excep-
tons, but as a rule a good workman
who does not watch the sun too close
ly and who is willing and industrious
Is appreciated. The class of Ameri-
can farm workmen is a great deal
better than in England now, and as
the condition of our farms is steadily
improving the quality of workmen will
grow better, not worse.-A Farm
Hand.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
THICK, GLOSSY HAIR
FREE FROM DANDRUFF
Girls! Beautify Your HairI Make It
Soft, Fluffy and Luxuriant-Try
the Moist Cloth.

Try as you will, after an application
Of Danderine, you cannot End q single
trace of dandruff or falling hair and
your scalp will not itch, but what will
please you most, will be after Q few
weeks use, when you see new hair,
fine and downy at first-yes-but real
ly new hair-Towing all over the
scalp.
A little Danderine Immediately dou-
bles the beauty of your hair. No differ
ence how dull, faded, brittle and
scraggy, just moisten q cloth with
Danderine and carefully draw It
through your hair, taking one small
strand at a time. The effect 10 i'm
mediate and amazing-your hair will
be light, fluffy and wavy, and have an
appearance of abundance; an incom-
parable luster, softness and luxuri-
ance, the beauty and simmer Of true
hair health.
Get a % cent bottle of KnoWlton's
Danderine from any store and prove
that your hair In as pretty and soft
as any-that it has been neglected or
injured by careless treatment-that's
all. Adv.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
VALUE OF MARKET REPORTS
Posted on Conditions and Prices
Makes Serious Mistake.

The farmer who fails to keep fully
informed as to the condition of the
markets and the value of the products
which he has for sale is making a Sc
rious business mistake Such a mis-.
take If made in any other business
would mean immediate bankruptcy.
Most buyers of stock and produce
are not philanthropists, but are look
ing for the dollars. and they usually
look closely. They are also we'll post
ed concerning the market value.
There is no excuse in these modern
times for dereliction in this respect on
the part of farmers. The mail brings
the daily newspapers containing the
market reports and the telephone may
be brought into use when required
Keep in touch with the markets, es-
pecially for those products which you
hav, for sale or may soon have to
offer.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
SEEMED A PROPER QUESTION
When You Consider II, How Was Old
Dad Bing to Know IS to
Strangers Chances?

"Eh-yah!' philosophically observed
ola Dad Bling, the veteran Oklahoma
cattle baron. You KANT never tell
about some people. Last time ! Vas
yur in Kay See, went up on top OF
the landscape DER, as It were, and
about the first thing | seen vas fell
Ter over near the east edge, wrinkling
his face, tearing his hair and other,
wise acting in q sort OF general way.
Going to Jump, Podner" says |.
yes he yelled. Jump and end 1t
all, Ar-r-r-r-r,'
ct Judged So says 7, but II it's Q
fair question, which way do you ex-
pect to go"
We'll, sir, he acted like he was pro-
voked about something. and snarled
around like q scalded dog for q spell,
and then went down the way we'd both
come up. HoW'n'ell did | know what
kind OF o life he'd been leading?"-
Kansas City Star.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
lIHER! LOOK At
|CHILDS TONGUE
y. feyerish, ConStipated,
~ "CaIifornia Syrup
of Figs"

.,,ve today saves a sick child
Children simply will not
-. lime from play to empty their
hitch become clogged up with
liver gets sluggish; stomach
~ II the tongue, mother! If coat
,our child is listless, cross, few
.reath bad, restless, doesn't eat
=, ,ull of cold or has sore throat
,tber children's ailment, give a
I,,,pl of California Syrup of
hon don't worry, because it is
,s,v harmless, and in a few hours
a. constipation poison, sour bile
smenting waste will gently
ant Of the bowels, and you have
"a playful child again. A thor
inside cleansing" is ofttimes all
necessary. 1t should be the
= r,.tment given in any sickness.
are of counterfeit fig syrups
ssthe store for a 5O-cent bottle of
.s.mia Syrup of Figs" which has
neions for babies, children of
- and for grown-ups plainly
y on the bottle. Adv.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
TO SECURE SOUND SLUMBER
Conditions Must Be Right, Especially
To Man Who Must Quiet Ao-
tivity Of Brain.

Many men and women, especially
those past their first youth, find dim
Guilty in procuring the sound, restfuI
sleep so necessary to keep mind and
body At. Although, physically, the
body is tired out, the brain is as aler'
as ever, and perfect Oblivion is impos
sible.
A vell-known physician gives some
Interesting advice on the matter
Insomnia" he states, lis one or thi
penalties OF the increasing strain
modern life throws upon our brains
The man who works with his muscles
and lives in the open air Is rarely
victim OF sleeplessness.
THE essentials for O good nights
rest are mental repose, q requisite
amount Of muscular fatigue, comfort
able body heat and plenty Of ventila
ton.
1.-THE most difficult to secure is les
sened brain activity. An excellent
plan is to take brisk half-hours wals
just before bedtime, followed by !; hot
bath and q rundown, and then q cup
full OF warm milk and o biscuit or two
a. one gets into bed.
IF. in addition, the mind be focused
on some pleasant but not exciting
topic. q nights rest is assured to al
but the most chronic sufferer.
The type in which the sleeper sud
denly awakes an hour or 30 after haV
ing fallen asleep usually means that
more outdoor muscular exercise Is re
CURED"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
Success With Poultry.

A certain poultryman in northern
Missouri lives on 40-acre farm, most.
ly woodland. and keeps 500 brown
Leghorn hens. He ships the eggs
each week to Chicago in filters placed
in heavy cases. The eggs are care
fully graded and sold on special mar
ket. Over all expenses he makes ten
TO fifteen cents a dozen above market
price, Ii is paying him. Some farm.
ers, with smaller fiocks, cooperate
and make as good profit by sending
their eggs to these far-off special mar.
kets.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
MORE POTASH COMING.

American crops and soils are still as
hungry for Potash as before the out
break OF the European War. which
curtailed the Potash shipments.
Some Of the Fertilizer Companies
are trying to induce farmers to buy
the one-sided low Potash or no Potash
fertilizers OF q generation ago. This
means q fertilizer that is profitable TO
the manufacturer but not the best for
the farmer. When the Syndicate in
1910 started the direct sales OF Potash
to dealers and farmers at reasonable
prices, Potash sales increased s. per
cent. in one year, o clear proof that
farmers know that Potash Pays. They
know that Potash gives good yields,
good quality and resistance to plant
diseases.
Many OF the Fertilizer Manufactur.
ers are willing to meet the farmers
wishes and sell him what he thinks he
needs. These manufacturers are now
willing to furnish as much Potash as
they can secure. They offer goods with
per cent. and even IN some cases 10
per cent Potash, il the farmers insist
on 1t.
Shipping conditions are improving,
more Potash is coming forward al
though the costs Of production and
transportation are higher. The higher
price OF fertilizers is not due wholly
to the slightly higher cost OF Potash.
Much of the Potash that will be used
in next springs fertilizer had reached
America before the war started.
There is no substitute for Potash.
We can no more return to the fer
tiliZer Of twenty years ago than we
can return to the inefficient farm i'm.
plements or Improbable livestock OF
that period.-H. A. HUSTON. Adv.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
\ forced smile gives itself away.

"A forced smile gives itself away.
trouble SHES at a coed digestion.
Limited wants make contentment.
Abuse will take money out of your
pocket.
Flooding is a greater winner than
plunging
Some women are not as bad as they
are painted.
The spectators vision of wealth is
usually a mirage.
Try petting the cows and see how
quickly they respond.
The silo is a sign of contentment.
and contentment is a sign Of sue
cess.
The economic distribution of farm
products is today the worlds great
est problem.
In many a business consolidation
one man furnishes the con" and the
other the solid"
Every man is gullible about every
business save his own, and not infre-
quently about that.
right? Sometimes dullness in school
Is merely dizziness of sight
If a business can be run without
large wastes and graft, why not run
the state in the same way?
Performing each task well is a pair
OF easy rising steps to a final ambi-
ton or any limit of height.
Why does the man who raises hogs
buy packing-house hams? A leather
medal is offered for the best reason.
Political fences are quite often nee
essary in order to keep the politicians
constituents unaware of his political
offenses.
Many a man who cannot afford to
get his wife washing machine would
think nothing of a 1855 coifin-and
store flowers!
What If the cost of living is some
what higher than it was in the early
nineties? Most of us now have the
price TO pay for it,
Ignorance is the mother of suspi-
cion, hate, backbiting. lies, SANDER,
and the whole brood of evil imagin-
ings that keep people apart.
The eyes have a very large bear
ing on the efficiency of men, not only
directly in defective vision, but indi-
rectly upon the general health
Violent energy is always spectacu-
lar, but the power shown in the grad
ual growth of a plant is as wonderful
as that exhibited by a cyclone.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
UGH! CAL0MEL MAKES YOU SICK!
CLEAN LIVER AND BOWELS MY WAY
lust Once! Try "Dodsons Liver Tone When Bilious Cons-
pated Headachy-Dont Lose Days Work

Liven up your sluggish liver, Feel
fine and cheerful; make your work Q
pleasure; be vigorous and full OF am
bition. But take no nasty, danger
Gus ealomel, because it makes you
sick and you may lose a days work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver,
which causes necrosis OF the bones.
Calomel crashes into sour bile like
dynamite, breaking it UP. That's
when you feel that awful nausea and
cramping
Listen 20 me! II you want 90 enjoy
the incest, gentlest liver and bowel
cleansing you ever experienced Just
take q spoonful OF harmless Dodson's
Liver Tone. Your druggist or dealer
sells you 50 cent bottle OF Dodson's
Liver Tone under nv personal money
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23

back guarantee that each spoonful
will clean your sluggish liver better
than a dose of nasty calomel and that
it won't make you sick.
Dodsons Liver Tone is real liver
medicine. You'll know it next morn
ing, because you will wake up feel
ing fine. your liver will be working,
your headache and dizziness gone,
your stomach will be sweet and your
bowels regular.
DodsonS Liver Tone is entirely
vegetable. therefore harmless and
cannot salivate. Give it to your chill
dren. Millions of people are using
Dodson's Liver Tone instead Of dan
gerOus Calomel now. Your druggist
will tell you that the sale Of calomel
is almost stopped ehtirely here.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
FARMER IS PRACTICAL MAN
Really Marvellous What OId-Fashioned
TiIler of Soil Knows and Does
Is No eraggart.
CBy r. G. wEATHERsToNE)

The man of the soil is a we'll
equipped parsonage in spite of all his
seeming deficiencies. He can't stop
to theoriZe when things want doing.
He must plod along and get work out
of the way. Sometimes a couple of
hours means the saving of a big field
of hay or corn. The man on the job
has to know how and has to act on
the hour. A hurry-up call to get in
five or six loads of hay before rain
falls or to finish planting field of
grain means quick work and hard
sweating hustle. The practical farm
er meets all such problems as a mat
ter of course. Usually he does not
brag about what he accomplished.
That is one trouble-he does not know
how to put up bluff and lot of peo-
pie think he does not know anything.
l want to say that it is really marvel
Gus what the old-fashioned farmer
knows and does.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
Ideals.

Have you ever noticed that in al
most every case the successful farm
ers are men who have definite aims
that they are men with ideals? A
thinking man who plans to get the
better things usually gets them, too.
We need more ideals in farming.
Especially is it important that the
young men should get the right ideals.
Unless a man starts cut with a belief
in live stock farming and a determine
ton to get something out of life be-
sides money he cannot make the
greatest success. In forming these
ideals a good plan is to consider the
methods used by the successful farm
ers in your community quite care
fully
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
BAD DREAMS
Caused by Coffee.

nave been a coffee drinker, more
y "'s' ever since can remember, I'M
Jew months ago | became more
- more nervous and irritable, and
v could not sleep at night for /
y = horribly disturbed by dreams of
=. sors and species of distressing
- siiy' after hearing the expert
- VI numbers of friends who had
s sss coffee and were drinking Postum,
~ earning of the great benefits they
ueriVed, | concluded coffee must
ue cause of my trouble, so got
- rostum and had it made strictly
'ulng 70 directions.
~. vas astonished at the flavor and
-. II entirely took the place of
4. sno TO my very great satisfac-
~. began to sleep peacefully and
=. MY nerves improved, and l
ns could wean every man, woman
~. 1i'o from the unwholesome drug.
~, s0pie DO not really appreciate or
se what a powerful drug it is and
terrible effect it has on the hu.
system. If they did, hardly a
Vi coffee would be sold. | would
~ mink of going back to coffee
l would almost as soon think
pu'ting my hand in a fire after I
once been burned. Yours for
sum comes in two forms:
,reu'ar Postum - must be well
lSc and 25c packages.
nt Postum-is a soluble DOW.
teaspoonful dissolves quickly
cup Of hot water and, with cream
sugar, makes a delicious beverage
Unity. zoe and SOC tins.
y cost per cup of both kinds is
the same.
es Reason" for Postum.
sold by Grocers
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
Decrease in Contagious Diseases.

S~~' ~eS~ ~ >S'eeS'S~S S'oCdoCos
In view Of the alarming increase in
heart and arterial diseases, nervous
troubles and insanity, as well as can,
Ger, it is at least comforting to find
from recent statistics that the NOR
tally from diphtheria and cerebro-
spinal meningitis has been reduced
nearly go per cent in New York alone
since antitoxin was first understood
True cholera infantum, too. is rarely
seen now that baby feeding has be-
come Q science, while the great cpl
denies of typhus and smallpox which
used to sweep the country. are prac-
tcally unknown
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
Not His First Love.

Am ! the first girl you ever loved?"
sighed the maid.
You certainly are mott" proclaimed
the youth
This was not what she had been
brought up to expect, so she became
really interested.
Il am not?" she repeated
you are not. You are merely the
best OF the bunch. Are you satisfied
with that?"
Well, was she?-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
CARE FOR CHILDREN'S
~ sad Skin With cuticura. Moth
Inc Easier. Trial Free.

h Soap to cleanse and purify the
y and scalp, the Ointment to
- snG heal rashes, itchings, red.
roughness, dandruff, etc. Moth
istte: than these fragrant super
ny emollients for preserving and
lying the skin, scalp and hair
nipple each free by mail with Book.
hsu postcard, Cuticura, Dept. Ky.
nm Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23
PASSING the Word AIonu,

"Pa, why does corn pop"
We'll, you see, the starch polygons
are OF such q nature as to facilitate
expansion and render it explosive in
character: there 10 q fraction of a
particle along its two radii, the endos-
perm swelling very considerably, the
peripheral portions cohering with the
hull. but the fractured quarters turn
ing back to meet below the embryo
why, son, where are you going?"
Il was going to tell little sister,"