The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-25

and great numbers are expected to join in with Jackson folks in showing appre- ciatioii of their services. One of the en- dance for the whole regiment, and they all seemed to be on hand-the girls play
 ing no favorites as between officers and privates The dance was on one of the best paved streets in the city-a street 100 feet wide and many blocks long-and hun dreds of couples were on the floor at the same time without crowding. The paymaster of the army is here and will dole out more than S5O,O00 during the next few days, after which the men will go their several ways. DYNAMITE IS USED | During the past week dipping vats in three different counties have been dyna
 mited by enemies of the statewide dip ping law, but so far their identity has not been discovered Dr. H. H. Chad | wich. secretary of the state live stock sanitary board, who is in charge of this 1 dipping vat work has visited the scenes | of the Iawiessness but has not been able | to procure sufficient evidence on which to base affidavits. However, the dipping wll be statewide after April l. and all cattle will be dipped
 LABOR AGENTS BUSY Labor agents have been at work all over Mississippi the past few weeks and thousands of negroes have been induced to leave their homes for the north and west, They have passed through Jackson Gy tho carload, and many more are go- Ing. The several sheriffs of the state have been doing their best to land the labor agents in Jail, and some few have been caught. but the work goes on just as well as If experienced German spies were on the job The labor problems in Mississippi bids fair to become serious in the near future.
 AN UNUSUAL CASE Justice Stevens of the supreme court handed down a decision this week that was of such peculiar interest to all southern white men that he went into a full explanation. Briefly, it was as fol- lows: A wealthy journalist of Connecti- cut, Tinney by name, took an S-year-old negro girl named Ivy Hill into his home several years ago and raised and educated her as one of his family, graduating her at a fashionable Boston college Shortly after graduation she was married to w.
 
 gro who had also graduated from down east" school. The wedding was a swell affair. Invitations had been sent to the friends and relatives of the Tinney family, and they all responded with best wishes and handsome presents for the bride, who came down the softly car petted stairs leaning on the arm of her benefactor. The wedding over the dusky pair came south. and the husband was made president of a negro college at Meridian that was maintained by north ern phlanthropists
 In course of time MT. Tinney came down to visit in the Lucas home, remain ing two or three weeks, and during which time he presented the bride with a S10O00 or S15,000 residence. However, in order to protect the woman, as he stated, he took notes, and retained a mortgage on the property. In 1912 MT. Tinney was taken to Connecticut hospital to be operated on. Fearing that he might die under the knife he made an effort to cancel the the mortgage on the Lucas home in Mis- sissippi, sending the papers to a firm of lawyers in Meridian. But before the title could be cleared Tlnney went the way of all flesh, and the notes and mortgages fell into the hands of his .housekeeper, a Mrs. Mead, who instituted foreclosure proceedings at Meridian. However, the facts came out on the trial and the prop erty was awarded to the defendants. The bsupreme court declared the verdict was just and should stand.
 THE STATE TAX BOARD The legislature of 1916 created a state tax commission of three members and gave them power to equalize taxes in the various counties. The tax. rolls as returned by the several boards of supervisors were out of all proportion. IT. ror f.,rt rtnr ,r ,,I- averaged more than s100. while in the adjoining. county, perhaps, mules were listed at $40. Of course. the tax board knew any old mule was worth more than $40 and the value was raised.
 Even then the average value of mules
 was not enough. but the board thought
 their raise sufficient for the first year
 Some of the counties refused to accept
 the values given by the state board
 and went into court to test the con-
 stitutionaiity of the new law. The su- preme court holds it is good and bind ing.
 CONFERENCE ON RATES The railroad commission has called a special meeting for March 2S, to which all commercial organizations
 are invited for the purpose of con- l ference as to rates on the railroads out of Memphis and on intrastate rates. IneSe lnlraState rates are higher III
 Mississippi, 1t is claimed. than in most afTy other state already, and any ;n- crease would prove disastrous to ev- erybody. All cities and towns are asked
 to send representatives to this con ference.
 VARDAMAN IN JACKSON
 Senator James K. Vardaman arrived
 in Jackson a few days since to spend a while with his family He has a great many personal and political friends here and elsewhere over the state who will no doubt stand to him no matter what he may do at Wash ington, but he no doubt finds scores of them who show little or no cor diality in their greetings. That Ward aman's course in opposing the Presi- dents policy of preparedness has cost him a large following there is no req
 son to doubt. He Is by no means the Moses he "used to was"
 FIVE CONNECTS ESCAPE