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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-14
A MISSISSIPPI SLIP.

81 Perkins and his brother Bill.
Were farmers by profession,
ST farmed an upland billy place.
They say that's retrogression.
And Bill was satisfied they say,
To live down in the Delta,
Where through the summer DAYS he plouohed
And course also would swelter.
Harvest time came round at last,
They gathered in the grain,
And plOdding loaded up the carts.
To haul it to the train.
OF course Bill Perkins had the most.
Cause ground down low produces.
Hllly places grow bout half,
Some say they're just excuses.
The clouds came up, the sky got dark.
The rain came down in ~spatters,
Round Bill Perkins Delta home,
These things are serious matters.
But ST who lives up on the hill,
A little rain don't mind,
He sold his stuff in town next day,
With Bill two months behind.
Of course Bill started right with 81,
But muddy roads don't care,
they'll stop a team and wagon too,
Most place or anywhere.
And up where 81 lives water drains,
Right down the gullies clean,
And don't make fellows stop and say,
Language they call obsence.
That hily crop that ST had raised,
Brought much as Bills big bumper,
Though all the livelong summer through,
Bill called Sis crop a slumper.
Which goes to show the things you've raised,
Including dogs and children,
Aren't worth a thing to you, you see,
Until you've gone and milled EN-.
But getting to that mills the thing,
A roads just what you make II,
That roads don't do you any good,
S a bad idea, forsake it.
Greenwood, Miss. w. R. CHANDLER.
Read all Of the public road Improvement matte
this paper. It's reliable,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-14

Judge A.. w. Evans next regular
Justices court day in Greenwood will
be on Saturday, April 29th, and on
every other Saturday thereafter. All
interested will take due notice thereof
and govern themselves accordingly.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-14
GREENWOOD COTTON RECEIPTS

WOOD KECEIPIS.
Since Sept. l., 100, ZIG
Same date last year .--------1 1856, lat
Week ending April IS, 1916--- $50
Same week last year 859
Same date last 1926
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-14

Read all Of the public road Improvement matter
In this paper. It's reliable.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-30

Some of them have been mutilated by
the enemy's shell, and one | saw had
only single sail left, which still
stood upright a. though tefying the
Germans q few hundred Yards away.
Mr.. Bielaski's business is consider
ABLY more difficult than that OF the
ordinary policeman, inasmucII as the
former must ferret out the criminal
intentions Of Would-he ViolatorS Of
law and checkmate them before they
can accomplish their purposes, A
good example Of this sort OF work was
his exploit in arrestng group Of
Germans in New J ork city who plan
ned to blow up the Welland canal. Mr.
Bielaski knew all about their plans,
but he waited until the lest moment
in order to obtain all possible cvi-
dence. Then he made his arrests and
the canal today Is safe. Scores Of
other neutrality cases have been nan
died in similar manner.
Mr.. Bieaski is Il young man Back
in 1905 he finished law school and got
q job with the newly organized bureau
Of investigation. The bureau was
very small in those days and its work
under the supervision of Stanley
| Finch, was chiefly concerned in sup
pressing the white slave traffic
Mr.. Bielaski is the son Of the Rev.
Alexander Bielaski, Methodist min
lister at Annapolis, Md His father in
| terested him in studies rather than
kelly pool or the standin,' of the base
ball clubs, and, as a result, the
younger Bielaslii attracted attention
of his superiors short time after he
had entered the government service.
The work of the bureau gradually in
creased and Mr.. Bielaski was given as
signments increasing in their degree
of Importance as his experience and
efficiency in the work increased 1t
was not long before he was full
Pledged operative Of the bureau, and
when Mr.. Finch left the department
the young sleuth was ready to step
into his shoes.
Today Mr. Bielaski has his fingers
on hundred different kind Of Grim
inal activities in the United States,
and his entire efforts are bent upon
suppressing them. He is married and
has three children. Friends of the
family say their mother cannot hide
the jam where the little ones cant
find it because they inherit sixth
sense which enables them to find any
thing under cover
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-30

it be devoid of sympathy? And shall
we rely on military might for carry.
ing it through? Or shall we above all
things seek to give justice, courtesy
and a square deal?
"America's crucial problem with
Asia lies, not in Asia, but in America
Not Our diplomacy in the Far East
but our treatment of Asiatics in the
Far West is to be determinative OF
our Oriental relations"
The speaker urged that law be
passed providing the maximum per-
missible annual male immigration
from any people shall be q definite
per cent, say five per cent. of the
total of American born children of
tnat people plus the naturalized citi-
Zens of that people.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-30
INVISIBLE WAR
in FLANDERS Is
D|SBEARIEh|NG
Except for Ruined Houses
and Shattered Trees
Nothing Is Seen.
BY Fl. Warner Allen.
(Official British Press Representative
L. 1. IL

lOlil cldl DflllSil feSS representative
With the French Army.)
Somewhere in Flanders, April %
It is no easy matter in the flat plains
Of Flanders to reach the advanced
lines. The smallest eminence gives so
wide. view that the enemy's look
outs can, on clear day. spot a motor
car many miles away, and the Ger
man gunners are generally ready to
welcome such target. However,
there is much mist in Flanders, and
under it's cover it is possible to reach
! without danger points where, in sun
shine, one would surely have been
bombarded.
There is certain village at an i'm
portant crossroads. Here the visitor
can gather a very fair idea of the
famous Flanders mud. Every cavity
and depression was full of water thin
ly frozen over On the day | visited the
lines, and one could only marvel at the
magnificent patience and endurance of
the men who stood for days up to the
knees in what was practically freez-
ing mixture.
Nowhere along the line is war more
invisible than in Flanders. A misty,
grey line Of trees, a ruined farmhouse,
a stake or two with tangled barbed
wire-that is all there is to show
where the enemy is lying AS for our
own defences on close inspection they
prove most encouraging. A master
mind has been at work, taking ad-
antage of every little hill and depres-
sion in the monotonous plain.
Is there a spot where barbed wire
entanglements can lie concealed from
the enemy's artillery, to prove at the
moment of the assault a fatal
obstacle? There you will find neat
rows of stakes intertwined with that
deadly barrier which has done so
much to change the whole system of
warfare.
Occasionally the bare expanse is
broken by good-sized wood. In such
flat country the cover given by trees
is invaluable. Indeed, the underground
of a coppice is far more powerful
defense than the strongest wall of
medieval castle. Such a wood may
hold regiment, brigade, division
"a veritable army, and it's resistance
could only be overcome at terrible
cost.
To the stranger the only gay thing
about the countr yis the windmills.
Right up within the zone Of fire they
continue to throw up their arms with
extravagant gestures to the skies,
working away steadily at their daily
task, despite the invader, with true
Belgian persistence and obstinacy.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-30
FRECKLE.FA
Sun and Wind Bring Out Ugly Spots.
How to Remove Easily.

Here's a chance, Miss Freckle-face,
tc try remedy for freckles with the
guarantee of reliable dealer that i;
will not cost you a penny unless it
removes the freckles; while # it does
give you clear complexion the ex-
pense is tyifling.
Simply get an ounces of oth!ne-
double strength-from any druggist
and a few application should show
you how easy it is to rid yourself If
the homely freckles and get a beauti-
full complexion. Rarely IS more than
one ounce needed for the worst case
Be sure to ask the druggist for the
double strength othine as this is the
prescription sold under guarantee OF
money back if it fails to remove
freckleS
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-30
RAV tRIANS JAIL AMERICAN.

Munich, April 29--An American
recently with a friend, visited a
restaurant where he insisted on speak
ing English, although he was warned
that the other guests might take CT
Tense and do him bodily harm. Whe,i
requested to leave by The proprietor
he became very abusive. Calling the
Germans a nation of criminals and
murderers he declared that the United
States would surely join the allies
and smash the kaiser and his minions.
He was arrested, but obtained his
liberty again after three days in Jail
when he declared that he was under
the influence of liquor and did not
know what he was saying.
HOW TO MAKE IT PAY.
els this problem play?"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-30
Committees in Charge of
Details Have Final
Caucus Today.
OFFICIALS TRACK
MEET ANNOUNCED
DR., william Breatbwitt and T.. 4.
Howell to Serve as Field. Judges,
and Drs. Harry Williams, Jr., and
B. d. Luck Field Physicians.

Everything is in readiness for the
annual state i1rterscholastic track and
field meet, musical and literary con-
tests. to be held here the last three
days Of the new week. and all indi
cations are that records will be
broken, if not in the athletic events,
at least in the matter of number of
participants and spectators.
The committees in charge of thu
details of the arrangements for the
affair will hold a session at 1890
o'clock this forenoon, at the chamber
Of commerce, to assure the entire
membership that no matter has been
overlooked, and to receive final re-
ports from each department and from
each of the committee chairmen. IT.
is being urged that each of the mem
beers Of each committee shall be pres
ent this forenoon, that there may be
no doubt whatever as to the compile
ton of all the most minute details OF
the affair.
The dressing rooms have been COM
pleted, and are ready foE the boys
who will take part in the contests.
1t had been planned originally to
lease tents for such purpose, but later
il was decided to erect permanent
dressing rooms under the grandstand,
and this work has been completed,
the material being purchased by the
committee and the actual work OF con-
struction being done by high school
boys There will be twenty of these,
dressing, rooms, each sufficiently
large, and thus ample space is pro-
yided for all the athletes, while the
improvements are permanent in their
nature, instead of being makeshlf's
only, as tents would be.
The track and field is in we'll nigh
perfect condition, and nothing but
very bad weather can now interfere
with the carrying out of the contests
in the most satisfactory manner. Inc
track is believed to be in better con-
dition than. any other cinder track in
the state. better than it has ever been
at any time in the past. and should
there be records broken. little sur
prise would be occasioned among the
men who are posted on the condl-
tons.
Athletic Officials.
The announcer and the starter has
not vet been named, but all 1.-THE other
officials have been selected, and nave
written their acceptances. The OIL
Gals who will serve are as follows.
Chief clerk of course, Waiter H..
Deaver.
Assistant clerks, scorers, Arthur f.
Gadmer, w. O. Vance.
Field judges, DR.. William Brea'''-
wit, e. A. Howell.
Judges, pole vault, Sam B. Russell
Sorrells Dewoody, Henry Haizlp.
Judges, jump, Charlie White, Gar
ence Hanf, A. G. Bedell.
Judges, discus and weights, H. i.
Speers, v. M. Harrison. Haynes Greg
DRY.
Judges, races, walter wilkins,
chief: IF. B. Tomlinson, r. NJ. Reeves,
Spencer Fox.
Timers, w. D. Hearn, thurman
Louthan, Henry Jordan, o. D. Lump"
kin.
Physicians. DR.. Harry Williams il"
DR.. B. D. Luck.
Inspectors, Adam Robinson, Leslie
Mcintyre, w. c. Alexander, w. n
Moss.
Surveyor of track, Frank Allen
Hugh Humphreys.
Marshal, Frank Stewart, and assls-
tants.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-30
GERMANS DEPORT DANES.

Berlin, April 29.-Dozens of Danish
subjects have recently been deported
from the province of Schleswig- Hols-
tein. No reason for this step is given
but it is assumed that the expelled
persons were suspected of being Eng
fish spies, or that the relations be-
tween Germany and Denmark are be-
coming strained on account of the
submarine warfare,
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-30

Why encounter fatigue and disap-
pointments hunting your wants in
person, when The Graphic classified
ads will do the work better. If
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-30

1T is our aim to please you in the
smallest detail. Northumberland
Laundry Co., phone 146.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-30

Eyes, but you can't see the prob
lem
"Why not?"
'srhe manager is wrestling with it
in the box office"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-06-08
DRIVERS MUST ABSTAIN

Absolute abstinence from liquor
before dEving is the only safe
rule for the man at the wheel Of
an automobile.
Now the amount Of alcohol in a
stein of beer is rather small
about four or five per cent. of the
whole, probably. But scientists
have demonstrated that even
small quantities of alcohol will
measurably dull a PERSONS judg~
ment and injure his muscular
control. Judgment and muscu-
lar control, of course, are the
principal factors in safe driving.
But that is not all. Recent
experiments with beer show that
it contains other poisons than
alcohol. These come from the
hops used in brewing, and are
identical with those found in
hashish, the Oriental drug of for
getfulness. 1t is claimed that
the stupefying effect of beer
comes from these hop poisons
more than from alcohol.
Obviously, then, beer is a dan
gerous beverage for a man who
is to drive an automobile and to
whose care lives are entrusted ~
lives not only of those in his car,
but of those afoot or in other
cars he meets.
The difficulty is that no man
who has taken liquor is good
Judge of his own condition as tC
judgment and muscular control.
1t is way John Barleycorn has
Of misleading his victims. They
feel an exhilaration that convin-
ces them they never were strong
er or more capable. But scien-
tific tests show that in fact they
are much less efficient.
The man who drives needs a
quick eye and a steady hand
He has no right to endanger
others by deliberately reducing
his own efficiency. There are
enough careless and ignorant
drivers on our congested streets
already, without unnecessarily
increasing their number.-Min.
neapoIis Journal.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-06-08
THE THRIFT HABIT

The trouble with a great many
people is they expect to acquire
good habits in old age, while they
spend most of their youth in
cultivating bad ones. 1t is so
easy to postpone doing the things
that are hard until tomorrow,
and so easy to drift along to-day.
Not only is He'll paved with good
intentions, but the pathway of
the average man is streWn with
the wrecks of good intentions.
The whole scheme of right living
contemplates that man should
not put off until tomorrow the
things he should do to-day.
One of the habits we hope to
acquire some time is the habit of
thrift. This habit often comes
late in life-not always from
choice but often from necessity.
Having satisfied habits that are
destructive, when the passions
are burned out of a decaying
mind and body, men find them
selves more or less free from
temptations, and mistake a flick
ering fame for a ripening virtue.
Any habit which is forced is like
ly to find itself in an unhealthy
environment, and becom e S
meaningless in it's practice.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-06-08
AsKov PINE COUNTY, MINNESOTA THURSDAY JUNE g. 1916.

struggle as he may, and wish as
hard as he might, he cannot
change his nature. Old age may
compel thriftiness because there
is nothing more to waste, but the
saddest commentary on human
life is to find at the close nothing
stored up Of energy, money, or
property, for which the best
years of life have been given.
Thrift is a composite virtue.
1t includes the desirable attri-
butes of economy, self denial and
saving; but it is no relative to
niggardliness or meanness. The
man who would let his grand
mother starve is not a thrifty
man, but a brute. Any virtue
carried to extremes becomes un-
desirable and no longer a virtue.
The thrift that does not make a
man charitable sours into avarice.
Thrift means better homes, bet
ter citizens, more comforts, more
enjoyments, little waste, little
anxiety,-peace. Out of it grows
productive energy, steady cour-
age, opportunity, independence,
self respect, aimfulness in life,
manhood. 1t is the one material
habit that has no shady side. 1t
is acquired little by little-a
steady pressure lin the right di-
rection) until it becomes second
nature to save and thrift becomes
a habit.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-06-08

made the addition necessary, and
even with a churn of this size it
will be necessary to make two
churnings some Tuesdays, the
day the largest amount of butter
is turned out. The average out
put of butter per week at this
time is 5000 lbs. and Butter
maker Hoiberg says it will run
above that mark the next few
weeks. The contract for building
a cistern of 60 barrell capacity
has been let to Hans Clausen,
who will commence work this
week. The cistern will be on the
north side of the building and a
filter will be put in. thereby as
suring the very cleanest water
for use in the creamery.
Considerable improvement has
been made in the creamery the
past year, new and larger machi-
merry having been installed and it
will perhaps not be long before
it becomes SO crowded that it will
be found necessary to build. The
creamery is the means of a neat
and dependable income to nearly
all our farmers and is a great
benefit to this community finan.
ciallV.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-06-08

Before you can practice a vir-
tue, YOU must desire the results
which that virtue brings, and
understand the process through
which it comes. Many a man
has gone to his doom because he
hoped to stop drinking, or spend
ing, or gambling. some day, but
his hopes never came to the
point Of action.
Frequently you will find stand
ing alone, or in groups, on a
Wind-sWept plain, trees with no
branches on what the sailor
would call the "windWard side,
and leaning sharply in the direc-
ton in which the wind blows.
This has been no sudden process.
For years the north wind has
blown gently or fercely against
the tree, so that little by little it
became distorted in shape, until
it has become it's habit to grow
lopsided.
No bad habit is acquired in an
instant-it is a subtle process,
little by little becoming SO fixed
that the nature becomes dis
torted, like the trees, battling in
vain against an adverse wind.
If this habit of thrift is to be a
wholesome, sweet, and fruitful
one, it must be acquired while
the body is healthy, and the
mind vigorous. 1t must not be a
dying reformation. It's best work
can be done when the earning
power is greatest, the resisting
power strongest, and the future,
it may be. afar off.
No man has ever become q
spendthrift at a single leap. The
wasteful habits which he allows
to grow become so fixed that
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-06-08
A MOUSE IN THE CREAM

Some years ago when Thomas
l., Calvert, chief Inspector of the
Ohio dairy and food department
was running a general store in a
country town woman came into
the store with a small quantity
of butter which she wanted to
sell.
I'VE made this for our own
use, but we found that a mouse
had run through the cream, so
we decided to sell it," she said.
"You know it will make no diff
ference Just so the person who
eats the butter does not know
that the mouse was in the cream, !"
she added. r@*
Mr.. Calvert bought the butter,
padded it into a different shape
and put it away in a cool place in
the rear of the store. Two days
later the woman came back to
the store to buy some butter. Mr..
Calvert sold her the butter he
had bought from her. He had
bought it for that very reason in
tending to teach the woman a
lesson. The next time the woman
came to the store she told Mr.,
Calvert that the butter he had
sold her was of fine quality, and
she asked where he got it.
1T was what you sold me; you
know you said it would make nc
difference If no one knew thai
the mouse ran through the
cream" Mr.. Calvert said. --Ex
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-06-08

Erik and Fred Frederiksen re-
turned yesterday from a visit at
Des Moines, Iowa.
Mr.. Claig of Des Moines, Iowa,
came up here yesterday, for a
visit, bringing his little grand
daughter with him, whom he
took out to the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Claig.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-06-08
TALKS ON
THRIFT

This article is a part of a series
prepared by the Savings Bank Sec
tion Of the American Bankers Asso-
citation, No. 5 Nassau Street. New
York City, in connection with the
celebration in 1916 of the one hum
dreth anniversary of Savings Bank
ing in the United States.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-06-08
BOYS AND GIRLS CORN
GROWING CONTEST

A boys and girls corn growing
contest will be carried on by the
Sandstone Commercial Club dur
ing the season of 1916. The con-
test is under the supervision of
the Agricultural Department of
the Sandstone High School.
Who MAY ENTER.
This contest is open to any
boy or girl ten years of age and
not more than eighteen, July l,
1916, living in Pine Lake, Finlay-
son, Partridge, Dell Grove or
Sandstone Townships. Each boy
who expects to take part in this
contest must enroll with the
Agricultural Department Of the
Sandstone High School.
RULES.
The contest will be conducted
under the following regulations;
l. Each contestant must grow
at least one-half an acre of corn
2. Each contestant must furn
ish his own seed. Any of the
established varieties Of dent corr
NAV be grown but flint varieties
will not be accepted.
3. He must do all the Worl
himself except that very young
members may secure help ir
pIow!ng or Other heavy work.
a. He must keep a complete
record of all operations on blanks
furnished him, and must send ir
his reports promptly.
| 5. He must write a story OF
not over five hundred words tel.
ling how he grew his crop.
6. He must show ten ears ot
corn grown on his plot at some
fair or exhibit approved by the
management.
T. He must be member OF
some active boys and girls club
PRIZES.
The following premiums have
been arranged for: First, $500
second, $4.0O; third $500; fourth
$500. Other premiums are be
ing arranged for.
SUGGESTIONS
In order to secure the results
you are expecting to get, it is go
ing to be necessary for you to dc
your best. Select good piece
of land, prepare it well, select {
good variety of corn and get gooC
| seed, plant it the best way yor
| know and cultivate well this sum
mer. If you do these things wei
you will be deserving the honor
of winning the contest. For bul
letins on corn growing apply tt
the
Agriculture Department,
Sandstone High School.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-06-08
CREAMERY DOING GOOD
BUSINESS

Last week the local creamery
installed large new churn with
a capacity of 1000 lbs. The
steadily increasing bu s mess
which this creamery is enjoying