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M0CRATIC EXECUTIVE CON-
MITTEE MEETING.

>atic Executive Ton-
y Ccnrtv TO-
20 ass .ssed the candidates as
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MADE LATE
BY BREAKDOWN

"A broken down motor Dausea az
Il Ae' in sntsiag -'''ss'
syap-a. =. Iacs, slssd n~~
prompt a tion on the pafi e Mr,
Fred w. Boek manager OF the Nea
Orlean office Of the Mergenthaler
Linotype Company in shipping u q
leaned motor while ours is beias
overhauled, we could not have go
ten out this issue. We viii be
on schedule time after this.
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SUDAN GRASS FOR HAY

VIII produce more hay and graz
;ng on good land than amy hay seed
that you can plant. Sow broadcast
twenty pounds to the are as late
rs July 18th You will net be dis
appointed in the results. Packed in
100 lb. sacks. Per 1G0lbs. $3.50. In
mali quantities 8 cts. per lb.
r. B. BUCHANAN SEID co.
IS s. Frort S. Memohis, Tenn.
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EPWORTH LEAGUE PATRIOTIC
ROLL CALL MEETING.
JULY 1ST.
LEADER-MICHELL cox.


Song.
2-Respond Reading Of Xiv 18th
Mitchell Cox.
3-Prayer-The Lords Prayer.
4-Read;ng Heb II, 32-40 Lyman
Husey.
Announcements.
6-Leader's Address, Mitchell Cox.
Roll Call.
8-Duet-Margaret Gore, Georgia
Butler.
9-Song.
differentiation.
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Mr.. Barney Smith Of Pottscamp
Miss, who has been visiting Miss
Evie Hill, left Tuesday for Oxford
where he will visit his brother.
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SAVE ALL FOOD, DON'T LET 1T
WASTE
So many people have many beans
and cannot sell them. Don't let them
stay on the vines and ruin the vines;
pick them off and can them. People
will get hungry for beans after
Christmas and will be ready to- buy
tlI-ms Get your cans and be ready to
en- all Of your tomatoes.
MARY A. DIXON,
Co. H. D. A.
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Mrs. Maggie Barron left Tuesday.
accompanying her daughter, Mrs Vi
Wan McGreger, to Oxford.
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>lll state candidates $3.50; all
County candidates $4.O0; all candi-
dates for Board Of Supervisors $4.0O;
{ strict candidates $3.50; other can
d dates for beat offices $1.00.
Other candidates can get their
names on the ticket up to fifteen
days before the election, by sending
check. Send your checks to the
Secretary at Coffoeville, Miss.
w. I. STONE,
Secretary.
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Miss Bessie Lou Mauldin returned
home Tuesday from Winona where
he had been as delegate for the
Young Peoples Missionery Society
Mr.. j. B. Tipler Of Memphis was
in the city Tuesday on business.
Evening star., 1923-02-04

THAT was my first and last attempt
l. to domesticate the little savage.
During the next few weeks Bow
doin's home was snow bank on the
sloping hillside behind the house,
where he played from morning TO
night, ascending liesurely to the
height of the slope. then deliberately
stretching out his four legs and de-
scending swiftly on his stomach to
the bottom! Apparently he was su-
premely happy; certainly he had
plenty to eat, for there was an abund-
ance of tender, young seal meat and
plenty of blubber.
I grew very fond if him, for each
day he accompanied me on my
rambles over the hills and up the long
white flords in search of the eggs of
the big burgomaster gull, the dovekie
and the white gyrfalcon-cream-
drops to him. And now and then we
went to the edge of the ice for his
swim. A red-letter day! How he
did enjoy that cold water and how
reluctantly he always left it! 1t was
very evident why Nan-nook is called
the "water-bear."
On land or ice the polar bear is a
bit awkward and ungainly, but in the
water or under water he is perfectly
at home. Once when a large bear
visited our harbor and was seer
swimming from headland to head
land, the natives thought at first that
he was a white whale-so perfectly
did he dive and swim.
Weeks went by. Our relief ship
failed to arrive. Little Bowdoin was
now so strong that I harnessed him
to my sledge; and off we went for
ride-always going where he wanted
to go. never where I did. One morn
ing ! paid him my usual visit. To my
surprise he had worked his way out
of his iron latticed box and was seated
on top, looking intently off toward
the south and listening to the distant
music of the waves as they Tapped the
edge of the ice pack. Within his
heart there was a yearning for the
bigger life.
Here there was plenty OF food and
quiet rest, but out there were the
things for which he was born
strong winds. rough water, hying
spray, crushing icefelds, towering
bergs, all inherent parts Of his life
and all, for him. made to battle
against. 1t were much better not to
have lived than not to have matched
ones strength against such elements
I stroked his fine little head and
placed him back in the box.
A few more walks together and
then one morning-the box was
empty. I had lost my playmate. but
was happy and l like to think OF
him away up there almost within
the shadow of the pole stalking from
berg to berg. standing proudly on
their heights. looking out over
stretching snow fields. buffeting icy
waves. crouching on drifting ice pans,
drenched with freezing spray, and
facing the biting winds and the dark
ness Of the long winter night-for |
know then that real life has been
bestowed upon him in its fullest
measure.
(Copyrightl
Evening star., 1923-02-04
First Inventions and Nature

roll off a shelf and break. We have
today all sorts of round things so
ingeniously constructed that they
cannot roll off.
They simply roll round and round
in the same spot and therefore they
are perfectly safe laid anywhere on
fat shelf or table. But nature
knew all about that trick years ago.
She built the egg of seabird called
the murre on this principle. Place
one of these eggs on the edge OF a
table and it will not roll off. If dis
turbed. it simply rolls round and
round in nearly the same spot Nature
evidently designed the eggs of the
murre in this way because the bird
had habit of laying them on shelv
ing rocks where a slight wind might
easily blow them off. 1t was a pro-
tective precaution that saved the
birds many unpleasant results.
The Holsters claw Is said to be
the original gasf1tterS pincers. There
are many other pincer-carrying ami
mails. especially the scorpions and
among these we find nearly as great
Shears and scissors are very simialr.
in operation to pincers, and we find
a number of creatures carrying such
tools. The earwigs for instance,
carry a pair of forceps as skilfully
constructed as any dentist uses. The
power of the big pincers Of a crabs
or a Holsters claw is well known
and some of the modern instruments
used for gasfltting are based on prin-
ciples of construction somewhat sim
liar.
The first pump invented was the
heart of man or animal, and it is
today one of the most perfect pumps
in use. The heart as a pump is de-
cidedly up-to-date and engineers un-
animously agree that it's principles of
construction for the highest efficiency
are correct and that 1t is not sur
passed by any pump invented by man.
1t is not only a powerful force pump
of incredible efficiency. but 1t Is self
repairing and self-renovating. While
the mechanism is in action it cleanses
and purifles itself For it's size and
work it is the greatest pump Of the
ages.
The principle of the ball and socket
joint is used as the basis Of many
of our tools of today, but the first
invention of this kind was that of
a shoulder or leg or spine of some
animal. The snakes, for instance,
have long chains Of balls and sockets
working in perfect harmony.
Evening star., 1923-02-04

North Cornwall. Fortune favored us
with two bears within the next few
days, while the northern boys got one
The night the boys left us Nu-ka
ping-wa placed his rife against the
entrance to our snowhouse ready for
visitor. At 4:30 am. he or she ar
rived. the approach being heralded
by a commotion among our dogs
Nu-ka- -ping-wa slipped out of his
sleeping bag and ducked through the
door, having on only socks and
pair of drawers
As he went out the whole snow
arch. which borders the door, fell on
his bare back. At twenty below zero
this accelerated rather than retarded
his scramble for his rife. 1t afforded
me. however, considerable amuse-
ment and dropped the curtain for a
good view of the scene of action.
Nu- -ka ping-wa squatted in the snow
and pulled his automatic three times,
leading me to believe that each shot
was a miss and that we had lost our
fresh meat. I was soon relieved by
his chuckle and the one word "Toko-
wok'' (dead).
"Why did you shoot so many
times?" / inquired.
I'VE were both undressed." he re-
piled. ut was blowing and drifting,
and I was afraid that he would get
away, so 1 thought had better make
sure"
On the return trip three days later,
when only a few miles distant from
this spot, our dogs lifted their noses
and turned seaward. We whipped
them back onto the trail. thinking
they must be mistaken, as it was a
good clear day. and however care
fully we scrutinized the field. not
thing could be seen. Repeatedly
they lifted their heads, shifted the
air. and bolted to the right. until,
out of patience with their persist
ency, we allowed them to take their
course. expecting to have the pleas
ure of seeing them fooled at any rate.
To our complete surprise the largest
bear l have ever seen walked out
leisurely from behind a knubble Of
ice where he had undoubtedly been
sieepin5. 90 idi &c "ao me- III ioSl'
that our Immediate thought was for
the safety of our dogs. The Eskimo
skilfully snapped his sledge upside
down. SO that the long forward
turned upstanders clutched the COM
pact snow as a ships anchor clutches
the mud. thus fastening his team Sc
curely. In a moment he had Joined
me and was throwing his long raw
hide whip out over the heads and
Evening star., 1923-02-04

sharp edge of the snow bank. II
broke away in my grasp. and down
1 went into the inferno of hair, yelps.
sharp claws and a tremendous red
mouth-which appeared at the time to
be filed with at least four or five sets
Of huge white teeth.
AS struck bottom a swish of
tremendous paw fiattened one of my
dogs to the snow. breaking both hips
and his back. That was the only
thing ! saw except my way out; !
never lost sight of that for an in
stant. MY head came up over the
bank just in time for my ears to re-
ceive the full effect of the crash of
the Eskimo .401 automatic, fired at
close range as he came running up
wondering what had become of me.
At last we had our longneeded
fresh meat. My pleasure at the
thought of it, however, was consider
ably mitigated by the sight of my
dog crawling toward me on his breast
and whining piteously- / stroked his
head and walked away. A 90 bullet
ended his misery. The Eskimo kindly
did 1t for me; couldn't do it.
After feeding our dogs and load
ing the remaining meat onto our
sledges, we drove along toward one
of our old camps. When our dogs
were hitched for the night they had
had plenty to eat. The singing stove
was lit. the door was closed and con-
tentment reigned. Scarcely were we
tucked away in our sleeping bags
when a sharp yelp from one of the
dogs held US at attention. few
hurried whispers of Nan nook -suah"'
(Big bearD were followed by E-took-
a-shoo jumping out of his bag and
clapping his eye to the peephole over
the door "I-shoo-woo" t"Sure
enough.") he said, under his breath.
In the twinkling of an eye I was
alone. My Eskimos had gone, leav-
ing their clothes behind. merely slip
ping on their kamiks (boots).
The picture before me as I emerged
from the snowhouse will live long
in my memory-three naked, brown.
muscular bodies standing on a mound
of ice with rifles to their shoulders.
all taking careful aim. / hastened
toward them.
The short bark of Arklo's auto
matte and the snappy report of Nu-
ka-ping-was .401 were followed by
the crash of E-toop- a-shoo's .35.
Nanook became a huge white ball of
hair. claws and swapping teeth in
his cndeavors to bite holes In his
hinG nIiartfrs Down IN and down
again. Then. with a hop, skip and
Evening star., 1923-02-04

n n ANY of the great Inventions
Nn of man find their counter
lV parts in nature. While man
may not have stolen his
patents direct from the great living
world about him, he must have been
Influenced more or less by observa-
tions Of these natural objects. Some
of the very commonest things in use
today have an obscure origin and
their history shows that they must
have developed slowly rather than
sprung suddenly upon the world.
For example. hinges are so old
that the basic patent could never
have been filed in any patent Office.
The first perfect hinge was probably
that of the oyster. The thorny oys
ter of the Pacific coast has two shells
joined together by a hinge as fine
as any found in any hardware shop
in the world. There are other hinges
found in nature, but that of the oys-
ter reaches the highest perfection.
Man has made but little advance upon
this in all his years of patenting
and inventing.
carry around with them batteries that
can be charged with sufficient cleo
tricity to kill or render unconscious
their enemies. The electrical plates
Of the torpedo ray often number as
many as half a million and these are
arranged like the metallic portions of
voltaic pile. The plates are sep
arated from one another by very thin,
delicate membranes. The electric
organs of the eel are even larger
than those of the torpedo ray anu it
can deliver a shock that will cause
suffering to man or fish.
The lantern fly of tropical America
is the original electric lamp which
gives a bright light without heat.
Even our common fireflies may be
studied with profit In showing how
illuminate the night with his lamps
and torches
Today we possess all sorts of boxes
and some of these are of clever de-
sign and Workmanship. but nature in
vented the first box and also one of
the most perfect. The stout shell or
box in which she packs her Brazil
nuts quite excels any of the Chinese
puzzle boxes.
The nuts are packed in this box
H anu when removed by man it is i'm
possible to restore them to their
original place. There seems INSULT
cient room for them in the stout shell
and it is a puzzle that has not yet
been solved how to get the nuts back
again.
But even more wonderful is the
shell of the tortoise, which is so
marvellously adapted to the living
creature therein that it is called the
box of boxes. 1t is perfect in con-
struction and when the tortoise is
inside it fills every bit of space.
In recent years good deal of
work has been given to the construc-
ton of boxes or other round things
that would not roll off the edge OF
a fat surface. Now the egg Of the
hen is notorious for its tendency to
Evening star., 1923-02-04
Explorer Has Thrilling Battles With "Whie Tiger of the Mort

rapid, easy travel. The soIes of his big
feet are admirably adapted for skiing
r X X
WITH protruding upper lip and now
w and then a rapid exhalation of his
breath, he glided on, taking but lit
tie notice of me and the camera a few
yards away. His eyes were on the dogs,
which nipped his heels and nimbly
sprang beyond reach of his lightning
like paws.
AS soon as l had secured my pho
tographs / signaled Nu-ka- ping wa to
bring up the Sand that was the end
of hammock.
and E-took- a-shoo ON the southern
shores Of Axel Heiberg Land and head
ed for Etah, Greenland, with our sledges
well loaded down with bear and musk
OK skins-specimens for the American
Museum OF New York and warm cloth
ing for ourselves and for the Eskimos.
When crossing Smith sound we were
surprised TO discover a forty-pound
polar bear cub feeding upon the re-
mains of a seal. The mother had evil
IDENTIFY been killed by a passing hunter,
leaving the little fellow to a precarious
existence. A chip Of the old block, he
stood squarely on his four stubby legs,
stuck out his upper lip and defied the
world to come within reach Of his white
teeth and those steel hooks cunningly
concealed within the long hair on his
forefeet.
With careful maneuvering we placed
ropes about his body and bound him
firmly to the top of my load of skins
for transportation home. He was so
tractable, however, when released at
night to be fed, that he was tied to a
leash. and remained so to the end of
the journey, following close behind my
sledge or at my heels for some thirty
miles.
Upon our arrival at our headquarters
led the little fellow into the house and
tied him to the leg of the carpenter
bench. l had hardly attended to nv
dogs when the cook burst through the
front door with both hands in the air
yelling, Come here. Come here quick,
He's tearing the house to pieces,"
And he certainly was, He was a
champion of free air and had deter
mined to have it. The stove was
overturned, the pipe was down. the
bench was swept clean Of all tools.
and the floor was covered with debris
of every description. Right in the
midst of it was a black and white
whirlwind which I recognized as
Bowdoin. as l called him, comically
and generously marked with SCOT
from the stoke pipe. His efforts
were directed mainly toward attain
ing the light of the back window
the only thing that he recognized in
his strange surroundings.
Whining with rage at being re-
strained by the rope round his neck.
and evidently considering me to be
the cause of it all. he turned from the
lighted square and rushed at me like
little tiger. When he found his
mouth full of my bearskin mitten and
realized that no harm was done, he
dropped his head and cried in anger.
sounding very much like baby with
the Group.
Evening star., 1923-02-04

ing on the sledge critically survey
ing my very much excited dogs. In
another instant eighty more with fly
ing traces had Joined in the attack.
The bear leaped from his vantage
point directly into the center of the
pack. My picture was forgotten.
Knowing that my dogs were handi-
capped by being harnessed to the
sledge, 1 feared for their lives.
X x
EVERYTHING was in chaotic
IL mass. My sledge was overturned
In the midst of the melee The bear
was buried beneath the yelping fight
ing dogs and the whole mass seemed
to he tightly bound together with
the ten sixteen-foot traces. Yelps of
pain from the dogs and yells of ex
citement from the eight Eskimos add
ed confusion to the fight Nu-ka-
ping-wa was brandishing a killing
iron, but refrained from throwing it.
fearing lest he might kill one of the
dogs. Ak -kom-mo ding wa was
dancing round madly with a So Win
chester at full cock, while the rest Of
us lodged and ducked the muzzle.
At last l grabbed it from his hands,
and forcing the barrel between two
of the dogs, fired through the body of
the bear into the ice.
This Eureka sound region furnish
ed US with seven bears within the
next few days. One magnificent male
specimen very easily protected him.
self against our ninety dogs knock
ing them to right and left with his
rubber balls. Two dogs were brought
into camp upon our sledges bleeding
freely from wounds received. One
died within an hour-its lung had
been punctured by the bears big
eyetooth.
me to believe that our objective point
far to the west could be attained; /;
but food failed at the very time that
we needed 1t most. Having killed
nothing for a week before arriving
at King Christian Island. / hoped
lHdl lHiS new ldIu WHICH we were
the first to reach. might be we'll
stocked with game. We found old
tracks of caribou and white wolf
along the ice-foot. but no signs of
bear or musk oxen.
A hunt among the hills might have
yielded results had weather permit
ted, but a two-day blizzard precludcd
all thoughts of such an attempt
When that had passed and we emerg-
ed from the shelter of our snow house
1 decided to conserve what little food
we had for retreat eastward to the
musk OK grounds.
All day We travelled without sight
or sound of a. living thing when sud
denly out from behind large berg
popped a bear. not more than thirty
yards distant. Instinctively / reached
for my camera as my Eskimo boy
snatched his rife from the canvas
cover. Both teams Immediately
swerved toward the animal and were
now at full speed AS the bear
stopped and swung on his hind legs.
the boy fired from his sledge. The
Evening star., 1923-02-04

ears of my dogs with telling effect
Whining, yelping and trembling with
eagerness, they crouGhed in the snow
to avoid that terrible lash.
let them go anead to overtake and
bring the bear to bay while I ran on
with the camera. And here l noticed
something which perhaps has never
been recorded, and which explains the
peculiar motion of the polar bear. AL
though he was going rapidly. his feet
never left the ice. He was skiing. And
with the skill of professional I'm
doubtedly when conditions are right-a
smooth, slippery compact surface-the
polar bear takes advantage of it for
Evening star., 1923-02-04
Magnetic Action.

AN attractive line of experiments
is carried out by floating bicycle
balls in mercury and bringing a
strong magnet near them. They ar
range themselves symmetrically un-
der the influence OF the stresses and
assume very curious positions, varying
with their number and the intensity
of magnetization. 1t is a variation
of an old experiment known as
Mayors needles. in which needles are
floated in water by bits of cork and
are subjected at the same time to the
influence Of magnet -
Evening star., 1923-02-04

weeks right in the front yard! The
bottom had fallen completely out of
the high price of meat. We had so
much now that we could not possibly
carry it; therefore I decided to re-
main here for another day, rest our
dogs and feed to the limit.
When living upon the country in
the far north it seems to be often a
feast or a famine" Here we were
with meat piled high. and yet only
six days later l was so concerned
over our food supply that l felt it
necessary to divide my party for
safety, sending Arklio and E-took-
a-shoo northward to Axel Heiberg
Land, while Nu-ka-ping-wa and
plodded southwark in the survey of
Evening star., 1923-02-04

had harnesscd my dogs to his sledge.
At o'clock they were back with the
sledge red with meat.
And would you believe it. Scarcely
had we slipped down into<our warm
bags again when another bear walked
into camp and almost UP to our very
door. Undoubtedly he would have
Evening star., 1923-02-04

animal rolled completely over, but
was on his feet in an instant and
headed for the deep furrow which is
always found at the base of a berg
excavated from the compacted SHOWS
by the eddying winds.
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n ATU-kA-PING-WA with "a quick
~ slash of his hunting knife across
the traces now severed his dogs from
the sledge. They shot past me on the
dead jump and disappeared over the
crest of the drift. 1 should have done
likewise, but my desire to get a pho
tograph of the fight prompted me to
hold on to the last. My sledge poised
for an instant on the very edge of the
hole then plunged down into the fight
ing mass of clawing bear and swarm
ing dogs.
A quick wing shot" with my came
ra was the best / could do before 1
rolled to the right and clutched the
Evening star., 1923-02-04
Knows the Great North.

Few men = any have jour-
neyed. hunted or explored more
widely over the white dome of
the world than has Donald
Macmillan. With Admiral
Peary, he helped to plant the
Stars and Stripes at the north
pole, and himself later became
leader of the Crocker Land eX-
pedition. Again penetrating the
arctic, he led another expedi-
tion In the exploration Of the
vast snow and ice-sheathed
island of Eaffin Land. From
this venture he has recently
returned. The two articles of
this series recount some OF the
high spots" of the explorers
long experience in dealing with
arctic big game.
Evening star., 1923-02-04

a jump, he headed for the sound.
E-took-a shoe ran for his clothes and
Arkilo for his dogs, while Nu-ka-
ping-wa squatted on his hams and
yelled.
x K X \
E-OOk-A-SHOo. now dressed.
II raced south over the sea ice on
Evening star., 1923-02-04

alarm. The gods of the arctic were
delivering our orders of the last two
Evening star., 1923-02-04

the trail OF the bear, but he was soon
overtaken by Nu-ka-ping-wa. who
with better judgment had dressed and