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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-08-01
From Lincoln HarboId.
Plano. Iowa. July %. 1911

Plano, Iowa, July 20, 1919.
Dear Mr.. Sykes, Aberdeen, Miss.
Your interesting letter and cata-
log of the Pine Crest Farm sale of
red pigs, received, and glad to hear
from you. When you mention red
pigs, it makes me feel like home.
At this time, it will be impossi-
bic to come down | am right in
the midst of shipping wheat and
timothy seed. We will ship 100
cars of wheat and oats, and posi-
bly, 30 cars of seed, and | have got
to give this my personal attention.
However. will say. hurrah for
the breeder of red hogs or any
other breed of pure bred stock.
This is what your country needs
better bred stock
Even with the breed of hogs you
have got now, | can take them and
finish them under my system of
feeding, and top any market in the
United States. | don't know what
they would sell for. if they were
bred up like the Iowa hogs.
Mr.. Sykes, you have got the best
climate in the world for breeding
and raising the pig up to 100
pounds, and can produce it the
cheapest of any State in the Union.
| am going to try to make Aber-
deem, the center of the United
States for a stock hog proposition,
and all you people will have to do
is to encourage better and more full
blood herds. / prefer the red hog
but | will not discourage any breed
of good hogs.
| feed at my different feed lots.
25 900 hogs usually keeping about
5000 on feed at Aberdeen all the
time.
| am going to try to arrange to
bunch my feeders at Aberdeen, for
my Iowa feed lots. [ expect, next
winter. to make a speciality of the |
stock hog at Aberdeen. | will per
sonally be on the job, and tell the |
people to save their good, red pigs, |
and for Gods sake don't cut their |
tails off.
/ put out II cars of hogs at my
different breed lots this week, at an
average of 26S pounds. and the
average price was 1858 per hun
dred weight. up at home.
Well, | have got to close and give /
the red hog breeder my regards.
Yours,
LINCOLN HARBOLD.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-08-01

To the People of the State of Mis-
sissippi:
As candidate for State Revenue
Agent Mr.. Beall has made as close
a personal canvass as it is possible
for candidate for State office to
make. The first primary draws close
to hand and there are many of you
whom he has been unable to see in
person. We take this means of adj
dressing to those whom he has not
seen a final appeal
The people who know Mr. Beall
and have known him all of his life,
youch for his ability to administer
this office and for his merit as man
and citizen. The members of the
labor organizations in this county
are supporting and endorsing him.
A man can receive no better COM
mendatiOn than the whole hearted
support of his neighbors.
The cost of announcing in all of
the county papers in the State Is
about So, 900. The expense of this
was. to him, prohibitive, Mr.. Beall
has therefore been denied the com
plimentary write-up which all pa
pers give a candidate who has paid
for an announcement in its columns.
The candidate opposed to Mr.. Beall
has announced in most of the pa
pers and has circulated a campaign
document containing over 100 eX-
tracts from these complimentary
write-ups. In reply to that we offer
you the unbought and unsolicited
endorsement of all classes of men
who know Mr.. Beall. We might
also say of all factions, since Mr..
Beall in his eight or nine years in
political life has always asked for
office solely on his merit as a man
and citizen and refused to ally him
self with any faction or to become a
tail to any man 5 kite.
The candidate opposed to Mr.. !
Beall was elected clerk of the house
of representative as a Nardaman
man in 1912, and as State revenue
agent as Bilbo man in 1915. He |
carried his advertising in the Issue
four years ago. but he does not now |
patrOnize Nardaman' Weekly, so !
we do not know where he stands. |
We are sure that the fact Mr. |
Beall is a merchant and farmer.
and not a lawyer, will not be count
ed against him, as he has made a
success in this line. We present |
Mr.. Beall to you. therefore, as a |
successful business man and an eff
fficient officer and sincerely free from
factional ENHANCEMENT in politics.
He is in every way worthy of your
vote and you will make no mistake
if you support him.
COUNTY BEALL CLUB
STEPHEN l.. BURwELL, CHI man.
S. G.. KERN. Secretary,
Political Advertisement
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-08-01

J. c. MCFARLAND, JR., President.
W. S. CARLTON, Vice President.
]. t. EVANS, Vice president.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-08-01
HIS COMPETITORS TALK.

Quoting from the East MiSsis-
Sippi Times. four of Mr.. Claude
K. HOrne's business competitors
had the following TO say about
him:
IF that man was my worst en-
envy, | would feel like ii was my
duty as a citizen to vote for him
for Railroad Commissioner be-
cause | know he is capable, re-
sOurceful and honest and thor
oughly understands the problems
that the railroad commission has
to deal with"
Another said: Claude Horne
is a man of strong and positive
convictions, and if he is elected
railroad commissioner, he would
sacrifice everything he possesses
on earth but his good name, be-
fore he would knowingly do the
public or the railroads an injus-
tice. He has always been a
'stiCker' for a square DEAL"
Another said: 'He is a bust
ness man in the strictest sense of
the word, alert, progressive and
aggressive"
He is a man who does the
things-a true friend and an hon
est, straightforward. cool-headed
business man."
For the PURELY business office
of Railroad Commissioner Claude
Horne is opposed by 'profes-
SiOnal" politician or man who
has made a living out of politics
for twenty odd years and by a
third man who is a professional
barber with about fourteen years
Of barber shop experience. 81 40
political Advertisement
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One way to relieve habltual con-
stipation is to take regularly a mild
laxative. Doan's Regulets are recon-
mended for this purpose-30c a box
at all drug stores. lAdv.l
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-08-01
For Justice OF the Peace.

Second District, Western Division.
j. w. BOGGAN.
r. F. YOUNG.
Central Division End District.
II. T.. BIRD.
Third District, Western Division,
j. @. PINNIX.
LEM +. POPE.
q. L. SMITH.
Il. L. EASTER.
W. l.. SEELEY.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
=. A DALTON.
BUFORD Z. BRANNAN.
For Constable.
Western Division. Second District
ID. r. FRANKLIN.
r. A. MCDONALD.
Eastern Division, Second District.
w. b. THOMAS.
Third District,
GUS L. LAVENDER.
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Smite the Common CauSerS"
Hip and Thigh.

Nardaman men, what do you
think Read the following from
the Jackson newspaper that said
drown all the Vardaman pups
while the creek is up" Go TO
the polls next Tuesday and smite
this Combination of common
causers" hip and thigh. The
peoples cause must survive, and
by the eternals, it will survive
through the fearless exercise of
a freeman's vote. Lee NJ. Russ
ell represents the peoples cause
and Jeffersonian democracy, vote
for him next Tuesday and pre-
serve constitutional liberty to
yourself and your poSterity:
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MUST GET TOGETHER

A letter from the campaign head
quarters of Lieut.. Oscar Johnston
popular candidate for governor, was
received by the Herald yesterday,
and it conveys the information that
it Will be impossible for Lieut.. John
ston to come to Vicksburg to make
un address until after the first pri-
mary ,-Vicksburg Herald.
While the above is evidently
predicated on the belief that Oscar
Johnston will be in the second pri-
mary. it does not say so, and affords
a text for a little political sermon.
The Clarion-Ledger has no doubt
but Oscar Johnston will make
speeches in the second primary,
either as a candidate or as a man
who desires to see the last vestige
of Bilboism routed out in Missis-
sippi, its baneful influence destroy
ed forever.
of course Johnston will be heard
in the second primary.
SO will Longino be heard, either
as the leadsI-Qf the opposition fac
tiapvtprRIbosN ardafY1aAisA, Tor as
Obj Whb y willing to aih Iih defeat
III klHoiiss fbof and drs&qbJs.
,s'The vSsas~6f Ross Collins will
siisaafiSasEsS l.lIFF1ssis'HHSsI H glsessss
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w. B. McCLUNEY. Cashier.
NEIL McCASKILL. Asst Cashier
H. I. PAYNE, Asst Cashier.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-11-21
The hero's search for the
Tobias treasure begins
again under most faScinat-
ing circumstances.

Gro BE CoNTINUED.l
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-11-21
Calypso!

Synopsis-The man who tells this
story-call him the hero, for short
is visiting his friend, John Saun-
ders, British official in Nassau,
Bahama islands. Charles Webster,
a local merchant, completes the
trio of friends Saunders produces
a written document purporting to
be the death-bed statement Of Hen
ry p. Tobias, successful pirate
made by him in 1859. 1t gives two
spots where two millions and a half
of treasures were buried by him and
his companions. The conversation
of the three friends is overheard by
a pock-marked stranger. The docu-
ment disappears. Saunders, how
ever, has a copy The hero, deter
mined to seek the buried treasure,
charters a schooner. The peck
marked man is taken on as a pas
senger. On the voyage somebody
empties the gasoline tank. The hero
and the passenger clash, the pas
senger leaving a manifesto bearing
the signature, '4Ienry P. Tobias,
Jr." The hero lands on Dead Mems
Shoes. There is a fight, which is
followed by several funerals. The
hero finds a cave containing the
skeletons of two pirates and a mas
sive chest-empty save for a few
pieces of eight scattered on the bot
tom. The hero returns to Mas
sau and by good luck learns the
location of Short Shrift island
Webster buys the yawl Flamingo,
and he and the hero sail for Shert
Shrift island. AS the Flamingo
leaves the wharf a young fellow,
"Jack Harkaway," jumps aboard
and is allowed to remain. Jack
proves an interesting and mysteri-
Gus passenger. The adventures
capture Tobias. Jack Hathaway
proves to be a girl and disappears.
The hero sails to Short Shrift is
land, sees an enhancing Sirl with
Spanish doubloon. Follows an even
more enhancing sight of the girl.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-11-21
CHAPTER III.
CALYPSO.


OF course a glance and the first
sound of his voice had told me that [
had to do with a gentleman-one of
those vagabond English gentlemen in
exile who form a type peculiar, 1 think,
to the English race; men that are q
curious combination of aristOcrat and
Gypsy, soldier, scholar, and philoso-
pher; men of good family, who have
drifted everywhere, seen and seen
through everything, but in all their
wanderings have never lost their sense
and habit of 'form," their boyish zest
in living, their humorous stoicism, and,
above ALL their lordly accent.
"Now that you have found us, Sir
Ulysses" continued my eccentric
host motioning me, with an indie
scribably princely wave of the hand to
accompany him-'you must certainly
give us the pleasure of your company
to luncheon. Visitors are as rare as
black swans ON this Ultima Thule of
ours-though, by the way, the black
swan, cygnus atratus, is nothing like
so rare as the ancientS believed. /
have shot them myself out in Australia.
Still they are rare enough for the pur-
pose of imagery, though really not SO
rare as human being one can talk
intelligently to on this island"
Talk! My friend indeed, very evil
IDENTIFY was a talker-one of those fan
tastic monologists to whom an audi
ence is little more than a symbol, |
saw that there was no need for me
to do any of the talking. He was more
than glad to do it all. Plainly his en-
counter with me was to him like a
spring in a thirsty land.
Solitude" he continued, lis per-
haps the final need of the human soul.
After while, when we have run the
gamut of all our ardors and our
dreams, solitude comes to seem the
one excellent thing, the summum
bonum"
murmured that he certainly seemed
to have come to the right place for it.
'Very true, indeed" he assented.
with a courtly inclination of his head,
as though ! had said something pro-
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-11-21
CHAPTER Il-Continued.

"Ha! hal" called a pleasant voice,
evidently belonging to a man of an
unusually tall and lean figure who was
approaching me through the palm
trunks; 80 you have discovered my
hidden paradise-my Alcinous garden,
so to say" and he quoted two we'll
known lines of Homer in the original
Greek, adding: "or if you prefer it in
Pope's translation, which 1 think
don't you?-remains the best:
Close to the gates spacious garden lies,
From storms defended and inclement
skies
"and so on. Alasl for an old mans
memory! 1t grows shorter and shorter
like his life, Ell? Never mind, you
are welcome, sir stranger, mysterious
ly tossed up here like Ulysses, ON our
island coast"
l gazed with natural wOnderment
at this strange individual, who thus
in the heart of the wilderness had
saluted me with meticulously pure
English accent, and welcomed me in
a quotation from Homer in the original
Greek. Who, in the devils name, was
this odd character who, 1 saw, as l
looked closer at him, was, as he had
limited, quite an old man, though his
unusual erectness and sprightliness of
manner, lent him an Elusive air of
youth? Who on earth was he-and
how did he happen in the middle of
this haunted wood?
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-11-21

IILIlIIEllIIIlIIEII lIIlIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIT
OOpyright By poubleday, Page s Company.

found; very true, indeed, and yet,
wasn't it the great Bacon who said:
Whoever is delighted with solitude is
either beast or a egodY-and this
particular solitude, I confess, some
times seems to me a little too much
like that enforced solitude of the
Pontic marshes of which Ovid walled
and whimpered in the deaf ears of
Augustus"
could not help noticing at last
as he talked on with fantastic magnifi-
cence, the odd contrast between his
speech and the almost equally fantas-
tic poverty Of his clothing The suit
he WORE though still preserving a
certain elegance of cut, was so worn
and patched and stained that a negro
would hardly have accepted it as a
gift; and his almost painful emacia-
ton gave him generally the appear
anee of an animated framework of
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style that I assure you it was very
captivating.
''You should have been an actor, my
lord Aleinous,n I said, laughing. |
seemed already curiously at home,
seated there at that table with this
fantastic stranger and that being out
of fairyland toward whom dared only
turn my eyes now and again by
stealth. The strange fellow had such
a way with him, and his talk made you
feel that he had known you all your
life.
"Ah! have had my dreams. have
had my dreams !' he answered, his
eyes gazing with momentary wistful-
ness across the orange trees.
Then we talked at random, as friend
ly strangers talk over luncheon, though
we were glad enough that he should
do all the talking-wonderful, rides
cent, madcap talk, such as man here
and there in ten thousand, gifted with
perhaps the most attractive of all hui
man gifts, has at his command.
And, every now and again. my eyes,
falling on the paradoxieal sQualor of
his clothing, would remind me of the
enigma of this courtly vagabond;
though-need I say it?-my eyes and
my heart had other business than with
him, throughout that wonderful meal,
EMBODIED as / felt myself once more in
that golden cloud of magnetic vitality.
which had at first swept over me, as
with breath of perfumed fire, among
the salt pork and the tinWare of
Sweeney's store.
Luncheon over, Lady Calypso, with
stately inclination of her lovely
head, left us to our wine and our
cigars.
The time had come for the far-trav-
eled guest to declare himself, and I
saw in my hosts eye a courteous invi-
tation to begin. had been bordering
what account to give of myself, and I
had decided, for various reasons-of
which the Lady Calypso was, of course.
first, but the open-hearted charm of
her father a close second-tO tell him
the whole of my story. Whatever
his and her particular secret was, it
was evident to me that it was an in
nocent and honorable one; and, be-
sides, may have had notion that
before long I was to have family
interest in it. So 1 DEMONSTRATING in
with little prelude in the manner of
my host, just to enter into the spirit
of the game:
"My Lord Alcinous, your guest, the
far wanderer, having partaken of your
golden hospitality, is now fain to open
his heart to you, and tell you of him
self and his race, his home and his
loved ones across the wine-dark sea,
and such of his adventures as may
give pleasure to your ears" :.
though, having no talents in that di-
rection, was glad enough to abandon
my lame attempt at his Homeric style
for a plain straightforward narrative
of the events of the past three months.
had not, however, proceeded very
far, when, with courteous raising of
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rags and bones, startlingly embodying
the voice and the manners of prince.
Yet the shabby tie about his neck was
bound by a ring, in which was set a
turquoise of great size and beauty.
Presently, as we loitered on through
the palms, we came upon two negroes
chopping away with their machetes,
trimming up the debris of broken and
decaying palm fans. They were both
sturdy, Notwithstanding fellows, but
one of them was veritable giant.
"Behold by bodyguard" said my
magnificent friend, with the usual pos
sessive wave of his hand; 'my
Switzers, my Janissaries, SO to say"
The negroes stopped working,
touched their great straw hats, and
flashed their splendid teeth in a de-
lighted smile. Evidently they were
used to their masters ways of talking,
and were devoted to him.
''This chap here is Erebus," said
my host, and the appropriateness of
the name was apparent, for he was
certainly the blacklist negro had ever
seen, as superbly black as some wom-
en- are superbly white.
'And this is Samson. Let's have a
look at your muscles, Samson-there's
good boyr
And, with grfns of pleasure, Sam
son proudly stripped off his thin calico
jacket and exposed a torso of terrify-
ing power, but beautiful in it's play of
muscles as that of a god.
Leaving Samson and Erebus to- con-
tinue their savage play with their
machetes, we walked on through the
palms, which here gave particularly
junglelike appearance to the scene
from the fact of their being bowed
out from their roots and sweeping up
ward in great curves. One involunta-
rily looked for a man-eating tiger at
any moment, standing striped and
splendid in one of the openings.
Then suddenly to the right, there
came flash of level green, suggesting
lawns, and the outlines of a house,
partly covered with brilliant purple
flowers-a marvellous splash of color.
"Bougainvillea Bougainvillea spec
tabilis-of course, you know it. Was
there ever such a purple? Not Solo
mon in all his glory, ct cetera. And
here we are at the house of King
Alcinous-a humble version of it in
deed"
1t was a large rambling stuccO
house, somewhat decayed looking,
and evidently built on the ruins of an
older building. We came upon it at
broad Italian-looking l0ggia, supported
by stone pillars bowed in with vines
very cool and pleasant-with messy
slabs for it's floor, here and there
tropical ferns set out in tubs, some
wicker chairs standing about, and a
table at one side on which two little
barelegged negro girls were busy set
ting out yellow fruit, and other APP
purtenances Of luncheon, on a dazzling
white cloth.
HAS your mistress returned yet,
my children?" asked the master.
mo. sar." said the older girl, with
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-11-21
His TactfuI Purpose.

First Married Man What are y0u
cutting out of the paper?
Second Married Man-An item
about a California mans securing a
divorce because his wife went through
his pockets.
First Married Man-What are Jon
going to do with it3
Second Married Man-Put It IN M
pocket.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-11-21
! hand, King Alcinous suggested

his hand, King Alcinous suggested a
pause.
eff you would not mind" he said, 81
would like my daughter to hear this
too, for it is of the very stuff of ro-
mantle adventure in which she de-
lights. She Is brave girl, and, as
often tell her, would have made
very spirited daredevil boy, If she
hadn't happened to be born a girl"
This phrase seemed to flash light
upon the questionings that had stirred
at the back of my mind since had
first heard that voice in Sweeney's
store.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-10-24
LOANS TO CATTLE MEN
MUST BE PAID NOV. is

Loans amounting to $3,1S2,346.
which the War Finance Corporation
made to cattle growers in the south
west during the war. have been called
in for payment November Is, and
it is announced that extensions will
be made only in exceptional cases.
Applications from approved banks for
advances up TO- 100 per cent of the
amount advanced by them to cattle
men to pay Off loans due the cor
poration will be considered by the
government.
The War Finance Corporation gives
as a reason for it's action the fact
that it wishes to liquidate its loans
and close up its wartime business
as soon as practicable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-10-24
f. C. C. WILL DECIDE IF
RAIL RATES SHOULD RISE
Director Hines Will Place at Its
Disposal Information Gained
by. Experts.

Whether an increase shall be al
lowed in rail transportation rates to
meet increased operating expenses,
and what the increase shall be If al
lowed. is to be decided by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission.
Director General Hines of the rail-
road administration after conference
with representatives of the Associa-
ton of Railway Executives yesterday
reiterated that the government would
not initiate any advance in rates at
this time. but said he would place at
the disposal of the railroad compa-
pies all the information he had bear
ing on the subject Of rates and oper.-
ating costs. and would further lend
the aid of his traffic experts in study
ing the situation. This offer was &C
cepted by the association and prepa-
ration of data for presentation to the
Interstate Commerce Commission Will
begin at once.
What advance will be asked has not
been indicated, and it is probable NO
one knows yet what the figure will
be- Last summer reduced business was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-10-24
MARINE CORPS ORDERS.

MAI Gen. J. A. Lejeune has been de-
tached from duty at marine head
quarters. this city and ordered to ma
rine barracks. ouantico. Va. for duty
as post commander. relieving Col
John T. Myers.
Brig: Gen; s. D. Butler from head
quarters; this city, to Quantico.
cCaptii =: ~: Spencer, and First Lieut..
adelphia. o''eo 70 1"ii
Capt; g: Mosley and H. D. Linscott,
rpm Quah.lco to Paris Island, s. c.
\, Cap., a. Gait; and Second Lieuts. e.
~ i sS Rriaold and R. F. Slinglun,
First Lieut.. /. II. Pryor, from San
Diego, Calf. to Guam.
p seSono Lleuts. e. r. Schaefer and
Prig.d a: Lesser. from Quantico, to I'd
o''s@oe' dominican Republic,