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"TVie Lexmgtoh Advertiser j The Advertiser PabUsblac Co.. Pnblkhet* Entered at the Pontoffie* at Lexington. Eton.. Mai! Hatter of the Second Clem. - Editor MtDltjinic Editor JOHN KYLUNG8TAD • • E. A. POVALL • • FRIDAY, FEB. 21. 1913. FOR SUPERVISOR DIJTRICT XO 4 STERLING H. LUSK. Supervisor District No. 4, Holmes county, is paricularly fortunate in the fact that a man of Mr. Sterling H. Lusk's business ability has consented to make the race for member of the board in the special election to be held March 6. 1913, and has authorized the Advertiser to acquaint the voters with that fact The chief reason urged by the advocates of the redistricting of the county was that the delta part constituted two-fifths of the territory of Holmes county, and had for several decades been unrepresented on the board' by a man resident in the delta, the "hills ' always outvoted them, and that they desired, and it was hut just that a member of the board should re side in the delta, and in conformity with these wishes the county was re districted by which District No. 4 was wholly segregated from the hill sec tion. In Mr. Lusk they have a man who is a life-long resident of their sec tion, and who is thoroughly acquainted with all conditions as they obtain and knows all the needs and requirements peculiar to the delta. And what is as essential, he is a man of superb exe cutive ability and unquertioned probity, lie is a most successful and progress ive planter and has large land holdings and is necessarily vitally interested in the most economical and efficient con duct of the affairs of his particular beat and the county at large. His suc cess in private matter?, and his integ rity and high moral worth, are assur ances that his conduct of public affairs will redound to the signal benelit of his bailiwick and county. Capt. R. G. Wentworth has a timely article in this issue on the subject of permanent good roads, which is well worthy of perusal and earnest consid eration. The subject of good roads is one that has puzzled mankind from the very dawn of history and is about as great a problem as ever, the roads are not kept much better than they were thousands of years ago, and usually not as well. Permanent good roads is the best investment that any community can make and is cheap er in the end, no matter how great the I initial cost than temporary makeshifts. to be of ly be At least | Our suprernp court on Monday, ren- ; a dered three very important decisions, j In one, they held that oil mills are cov-! n ered by the new law prohibiting work as over ten hours in any factory will require three shifts of laborers, instead of two, and will make such a large additional expense as to render it This AfteranySickness nothing so rapidly restores health j and vigor as SCOTT S EMULSION. It is the essence of natural body nourishment, so medically perfect that nature immediately appropri ates and distributes it to every organ, every tissue—feeding, nourishing and restoring them to normal activity. SCOTT'S EMULSION is not a patent medicine, but is nature's body-nourishment with curative, upbuilding properties and without a drop of drug or alcohol. It con tains superior cod liver oil, the hypophosphites of lime and soda with glycerine, and is so delicately emulsified that it enters the system without digestive effort—builds, tones and sustains. After croup, whooping cough, measles and other child ailments it is nature's ally in restoring health. After grippe or pneumonia it imparts strength and health, and for colds, coughs, sore, tight chests and throat troubles SCOTT'S EMULSION gives the greatest relief known. Scott ft Sown. Bloomfield. 14 . j. l»-» Bank of Holmes County First and Oldest Established Bank in Holmes County, Miss. Ample Resources, Courteous Treatment Conservative Management INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS We solicit your accounts and promise you prompt, courteous and efficient service. unprafitable to operate many oil mills in Mississippi. Some will remove to other states where the ten hour law In another case. does not prevail State vs. Mose Armistead, our stat utes punishing laborers, renters and share croppers from leaving the places where they had engaged to work, and working elsewhere without giving no tice they were under contract, was de clared unconstitutionl and void. It fol lowed the decision of the U. S. su preme court which recently annulled a similar law in Alabama. The attempt to hold laborers under this invalid law, according to the decisions of the Unit ed States courts there cited, would be In another case, State vs. in of peonage. Rawles, this supreme court overruled the opinion rendered about two years ago, which annulled the criminal law punishing bank officers for receiving deposits when they knew, or had rea to believe the bank was insolvent, in doubtful condition. While the legislature amended the law that was invalidated, the supreme court now holds, unanimously, just as Judge Smith held in a dissenting opinion, in the first case, that the officers of banks are punishable for receiving such de Under this opinion, such offi be punished even though the son or an of in but psits. cers can deposit was received before the legisla ture amended the law. Mr. Louis Jones, of the Drainage Bureau of U S. Department of Agri culture, was in Lexington Monday, gathering up data pertaining to the width and course of Big Black and the quantity of lands that are overflowed. He is working this week on that river to get up available data, by personal inspection, and will be for about a month. As soon as he has made a general investigtaion, he will make a report to the department at Washing ton, and a meeting will be held at Du rant to determine whether or not an accurate survey will be made of Big Black, from Montgomery county to the A. & V. Railroad bridge, and to discuss the advantages of the proposed drainage of the river, held about the 15th of March, notice of wheih will be given. Dr. L. S. Ro gers is doing splendid work towards putting the drainage matter before the people. When it is understood, it will be adopted to the wonderful advantage of all owning lands which now overflow and to the people living in near by towns. _ This will he As any ers ate will and how Governor Brown, of Georgia, recent ly commuted to life imprisonment the sentence of a negro condemned to hang for the reason that the accused was defended by an inexperienced lawyer. He contended that an indigent defend ant, when on trial for his life, should be furnished by the state with an ad vocate whose long practice would en a bi e him to give the full extent and weight of the evidence in such a man n er as will exhaust the fountains of 80 it has are to ing be justice for the poor man as thoroughly as paid counsel will exhaust them for the rich. throwing such cases to the rising young attorney to try his skill upon has doubless at times resulted in a miscarriage of justice. The general practice of Prof. J. M.Kimbrough, our progress ive county superintendent of public j ns t ruc tjon,has formulated and inaugu a system of credits for home wor k j n connection with the public schools, which is fully explained else The incentive of where in this issue, prizes will have a wholesome effect will make farm and hone work more interesting to the children and neces sarily make all such work more sys tematic, orderly and effective. We are pleased to learn that teachers, patrons and childen are taking enthusi astically to the innovation, which will insure its success from the start. One of the causes of large expenses in counties, to be paid for out of coun ty treasury, is the length of terms of courts—circuit courts. Most of these terms, in some counties, aie taken up in trials of damage su ts against rail roads and otl e • corporations. Crimin als, through fines where there are county attorneys more than pay for the costs'of the criminal prosecutions, but the county has to pay for the ex penses of the civil courts outside of witness fees meets at Jackson n about a week anf has about three hundred cases for t dal. Half of them are against railroads and about thirty against the city of Jack Hinds county court These will take up half of the son. court. In this couruy there are thirty three suits against the railroad at this term of court and several suiU against Lexington and one or more against the town of Durant; and these will take up a good part of the court and their trials will cost a great deal of money to the county. There is a bill in congress, which has passed one house, which proposes to regulate dam claims arising out of operation of age interstate railroads, and to provide for speedy and just settlements and in a way that the money will go to the injured parties or their families at very small expense of collection, instead of about half of it to lawyers as is now the case. It is to be hoped that the bill will become a law very soon. When large verdicts are rendered in a county against railroads, cases occur ring in other counties are often brought there in hopes of similar result, thus adding to the tax burden of the county thus imposed on. The origin of the word "skeezicks ' would he hard to define, but it was formerly much in vogue to designate an inconsequential, "no-account" sort of person. It used to be spelled skee- six, and as the word has no authorized standing one spelling is as good as an- other. A Washington paper once illus- trated the use of the word by saying that at a meeting in Indiana a speaker named Long responded to a loud call ami took the stand. But a big, strap- ping fellow persisted in crying out in a stentorian voice, "Long! Long!" This caused a little confusion, but after some difficulty in making himself heard the chairman of the meeting succeeded in stating that Mr. Long was now addressing them, "Oh, he he --!" replied the fellow; "he's the little skeesicks that told me to call for Long." This ended Mr. Long's use fuless as an orator. The word belongs in the class of colloquialisms that serve a useful language of the street, but are never recognized in polite so ciety. __ Many of our subscribers have per it cliff park cloth have Hopi as hold tial in ton. mitted their subscriptions to run peril ously near the "scratching out" point. As all know, the National government does not permit a newspaper to extend unlimited credit on subscriptions, and any paper that violates this order lays itself liable to forfeiture of the second class mail privileges. Under the cir cumstances, we hope that the subscrib ers will come up and pay so as to obvi ate the necessity of our removing their names from the books. A good many will attend the ensuing session of the circuit court in some capacity or other, and it would be desirable for them to drop into the Advertiser office and see how their subscription account " ' is less ly Ihe in Ihe price of gasoline has advanced 80 per cent in less than a year,—and is would not be going too far to say that it has decreased in grade at about the same ratio. Automobile riding is be coming more and more of a luxury, even though the price of the machines has been revised downward, and the owners of stationary gasoline engines are finding them almost too expensive to use. The New York Times is wag ing a fight against the high price of gasoline, and has offered a prize of $100,000 for a cheaper fuel that will take its place. Here is a splendid op portunity for some reader of that little booklet, "What to Invent." If you can't invent it, discover it Congress on Thursday turned down the bill to appropriate $2,000,000 to the San Francisco Panama Exposition. When New Orleans and the coast city were in the struggle for official recog nition as the Exposition City, San Francisco emphatically stated that she would not ask for one cent of govern ment assistance. New Orleans, on the other hand, insisted that if it was to be a national exposition, the govern ment should and would be expected to bear the expense of its own exhibit. San Francisco won, but her represent atives are now asking for a federal appropriation, just the same.—Sardis Reporter. _ The establishment of the postal sav ings banks throughout the United States has so far had the effect of keeping over $12,000,(XX) in the United States that would otherwise have been sent to foreign countries for deposit This is shown by the corresponding decrease of the international money order business. People have absolute confidence in the stability and integrity of the government, and it is not such a far cry now to the government own ership of public utilities. The parcel post is a most effective "entering wedge' that will eventually force the extension along this line. The origin, growth and development of the cotton industry in the United States have received considerable at tention from historians, ethnologists and statisticians, says the Charleston News and Courier. Much interest has been manifested in the identity and de scription of the varieties which formed the foundatoin of the American upland cotton, but only recently has there been a systematic study and analysis of the types of plants which make up the field crops today with a view of accomplishing this object. The fact that cotton was used and of necessity cultivated by the Indians is recorded by several early Spanish explorers, as cent pay the corn out sas er. ters ed ing er, An and to ed 200 By of of "i BEALL'S DRUG STORE The Store in which purity and quality of drugs stands first regardless of the price. A Graduate, Licensed and Registered Pharmacist Fills Your Pre scription. 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Today, among the Hopi Indians of Arizona, the cotton plant is highly esteemed, and its fiber enters into many of their ceremonies, as well as into many practical house hold activities, tial by them that all strings employed in religious services be of native cot ton. __ That Mississippi farm lands pay dividend on the capital invested ' them than farms of any other state is not generally known, but neverthe less true,according to statistics recent ly published by the Yazoo Ihe Sentinel shows t.*at the average Mississippi farmer earns forty-two per Alabama It is considered essen a in Sentinel. •investment. cent on his farmers come next with forty-one per cent; Georgia and Arkansas show thir ty-four per cent, and Louisiana farms pay twenty-seven per cent. The great and wheat producing states of the middle west get no such dividends For instance, Kan corn out of their farms. farms pay only seventeen per cent; Ohio fifteen per cent, and Missouri fourteenjper cent.—Brookhaven Lead sas er. The original meaning of the word "pun" was to pound, pun being an abbreviated form of the longer word. Shakespeare makes one of his charac "He would pun thee into The word pun, ters say, shivers with his fist." the sense of a joke or a play upon words, was not found in the older En glish dictionaries, and some have trac ed the word in that sense to the pound ing or hammering on words, er, that may be, it is certain that the word pun originally meant to pound. An early English writer gives ceipt for a liniment of "calve's suet mixed together, Howev a re and (jeer's marrow with the leaves of the white St. Ma ry's thistle, punned all together and reduced to a liniment." An amazing plan for changing the entire climate of the Atlantic Coast of North America, by deflecting the great heat-bearing Gulf Stream from its and sending it more directly in course to the arctic region, has been suggest ed by an engineer of New York, plan involves the building of a wall, 200 miles in length, eastward from the coast of Newfoundland,which structure would turn the cold Labrador current eastward until it encountered the northbound Gulf Stream in deep water. By this process it is claimed that the larger portion of the cold stream would flow under the warm current and the ice-laden upper part would be turned northward again instead of continuing south.—From the March Popular Me The chanics Magazine. Methodist Minister Recommends Chamberlain's Couch Remedy. Rev. James A. Lewis, Milaca, Minn., writes: "Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been a needed and wel come guest in our home for a number of years. 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