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w 00 8 ' 5 3 oo 78 95 SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS (Continued from last week! ALLOWANCES Marshall & Bruce, file case ... E. Wllroy, freight . Jtarnard A Co. stationery. .1 M Chamberlain, election commissioner 3 CO It K Johnston, same . W Wilson, same. • A R Taylor A Co., desk. 52 50 3 00 <0 00 80 H Bowe. nails. Marshall A Bruce, stationery. J P Buford, state cost.. I. C Coward, keeping paupers. W'iLson A Bro. building bridge. Merrin A Fraaler. nails. Times-Promoter, printing. I'oote-Davls Co. stationery. H W Mclngvale, painting bridges l-'oote-Davls Co. stationery. .1 W Barbee, express etc. SiierifT Noxubee Co. cost in Trice case 2 45 28 90 .31 40 . 17 10 . 55 25 71 25 00 5 75 72 00 58 50 : 20 «ji A Brewer, running pump etc. Town of Nesbitt, refund of com. tax. '07 44 85 R P Funderburk, lumber etc. 32 30 52 89 J W Branan. lumber. N B Miller, repairing bridge -1 W Barbee, keeping pr'soners . 144 40 >V I, Farley, bridge and lumber A Brewer, putting waterworks In jail 75 55 .! VV Barbee, cost lunacy case . 18 00 U L Dabney, salary and ex. services 100 00 Town of Nesbitt, refund of com. tax ... 44 77 adv. " 12 00 74 04 61 93 3 00 A1 Tate, refund of com tax St K B Logan, state eost. 1 60 l>ockery A Emerson, repairing bridges . 12 00 20 00 W 51 Birmingham! same Off AUGEP TO ROAD CONTRACTORS 40 00 ... 25 00 .1 0 Davis, repairs on road r. J W Hudson, same. ACCOUNTS CONTINUED • Li E L Morgan, salary for June. 100 00 " " " " July....100 00 26 G4 . 12 00 30 00 ... 12 00 -I C Owens, lumber. Si C Riley, same. F U Wriglit. work on road. W L Hudson, repairing bridge. Resignation of Jr C. Lauderdale as voad contractor fifth district was re jected. Account of T. M. Sharp for work on road was rejedted. - — Notice to School Patrons. Under the law a man who is not a patron of the school cannot serve as trustee of that school. Those who are not patrons will please notify the other trustee and let them hold anoth er election of trustees. Any trustee who is not a lawful trustee cannot vote for in the selection of teachers wo by promptly getting out j ou may •save som teachers trouble. No trustee can vote for a teacher related to him by blood or marriage. Please take notice of this in selecting teachers, otherwise the selection will be void. R. E. L. Morgan, Superintendent of Education. „ T ,., , ,, _ M1 DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills are prompt and through and will m a short timesbengthen weakened kid-; neys and allay troubles arising from infiamation of the bladder. Sold by Hernando Drug Store. j n r! DO IT N0WI Have Your House Painted I have A. FuhereV secrets and will be glad to do your Paintirlg and Paper Hang ing & & J H. W.McINGVALE L JMR. BUffilHI ffiAMBYT 48-2 Will be in Hernando Office Every Monday. TELEPHONE: I 1 '. O. Holmes B. A. Tucker, jr. TOILM1B2 ''is TO€1KIHR Practices in all the courts of DeSoto and adjoining counties. IB. Jl. WIXAH® Will practice in all courts. Hernando, Miss. Office 48-2 Residence 48-3 Opposite Hernando. Drug Store. Hernando, Miss. Telephones WiMo Ao Pm>w@H IPIhiys'ldiMi Sflargoomi Telephones jgS ei ; c -?; 2 3 Hernando, Miss. Center Street. Mahon Given Ovation at His Old Home. August 1st.—Five of the six candi dates for Congress spoke at Hudscn ville Friday at a big picnic and bar becue. A large number of voters from Marshall and Benton counties were present. All the speakers were given close attention, but a great ovation was given Senator Mahon when his time came to speak. This is Senator Mahon's old home, where he was born and reared, and his old friends are loyal and enthusiastic in their support of his candidacy. It is generally conceded that Marshall county will go for Mahon by a large majority.—Memphis* News-Scimitar. A. & M. College Pupils. All boys who wish to enter the A. & M. College at Starksville will please call on me as soon as possible. If there are any boys in the county who desire to attend this college and havn't money enough to go on, let them cometo me at once. I think we can put them through if they have grit, pluck and determination. R. E. L. Mosgan, Superintendent of Education. To I. I. & C. Students. Examination for applicants in the I. I. & C. will be held at the court house in Hernando Aug. 15, 1908 at 9 o'clock. All applicants must be on hand at that time for there will be but one examination. There are only five vacancies. R. E. L. Morgan, Superintendent of Education. Notice to Tax-Payers of Filing of Assess ment Rolls. Tax-payers of DeSoto county will take notice that the personal assess ment rolls of the county were filed with the board of supervisors this day, and that at the September, 1908, meeting of said board, towit, begin ning on Monday, September 7tli, 1908, said rolls will be taken up by said board for approval or rejection. At such meeting complaints will be heard, and the assessments raised or lowered as the right may require. After said September meeting, no complaints as to said assessment rolls can be heard by said board. This the 3rd day of August, 1908. R. F. Coward, Tax-Assessor of DeSoto County. Speaking ^of Economy. "I used to know a clergyman," said Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture recently, "who owned a fine farm and ran it on very econorn ical lines, so that it paid splendidly. Tak] hls l1SU!ll dai , y MroU over his . , . , , , 1IC . 1, )!oa< acros - 110 mu\ a plowman, while the horses rested, sitting on t.ie handle of his plow. It occurred to the minister that he paid this plowman 10 cents an hour, besides board, and he stoppcd'nnd said gently, but reproach fully; " 'James, wouldn't it be a good plan for you to have a pair of pruning shears here and- be cutting a few bushes along tbe fence while the horses are taking their short rest?' ".Tames returned the minister's seri ous gaze, and in the same gentle yet reproachful voice he answered: " 'Look here, sir, wouldn't it be a good plan for you to have a tub of po tatoes in the pulpit and while they're singing the hymns to peel 'em for the pot?' " Bound In Calf. A millionaire cattleman who was as ignorant as he was rich led a visitor into a great room lined' with thousands o^volumes. • "See them books?" he said. "Yes," said the visitor. "They're all bound in calf, ain't they ?" "Yes," the visitor agreed; "they seem to have a uniform binding." "Well, sir," lie said, "I killed all them calves myself." Jolt For the Judge. Governor Fort of New Jersey tells •this story: An old Quaker woman was a witness In a case which was being tried one day before Judge Garrison over in Jersey, and she wore a big poke bonnet which inutiled her ears and prevented her hearing the lawyer's questions. Finally the-lawyer appealed to the judge, and ho ordered her to re move tho bonnet. "I'll do no such thing." she said tartly. "1 am accustomed to having my will respected," said the judge. "Well, I don't care if you are a judge, that bonnet stays right w it is!" "Perhaps, madam." the judge put in Ironically, ".von would like'to take my ;(>. too. oh?" placi "Not a tit. of it." site shot out. "There ,s j: are enough- old women on the bench in Jersey as it is." VJI-.cn Iho-Mir.litcr Missed. i;:g a golf match between the Rev. Dr. tslerret and Justice Harlan Dur of the United States supreme court at the Chevy Chase Golf club, near Wasb d his ball style for a fine iugton. the doctor discuv teed up in tempt! bra sale shot. AYTtb the" utmost delib eration he went through the prelim inary "waggles'* and with a supreme effort—missed the ball. For fully a minute he gazed at the tantalizing sphere without uttering a word. At length Justice Harlan remarked sol emnly, "Doctor, that was the most pro fane silence I ever listened to." Two Kind* of Bass. A gentleman told his wife one Satur day morning on leaving the house that he was going to spend the day at the lake fishing and would later wind up his week's work at the office during the cool evening and would therefore not be at home till late. He promised to send out by messenger at 0 o'clock the result of the day's catch. Before joining the other three gentlemen in the game of palmistry that he thus sought to cover up he telephoned the store where he was accustomed to get all bis table supplies to send up to his house about 0 o'clock a dozen bass and for the messenger to say to bis wife that they came from him. When he came home on the last reach toward midnight be asked his wife if she had got the fine bass he had caught She showed them to him. The purveyor of table delicacies had sent him a dozen Bass of the bottled kind. . A Countermanded Prayer. A devout clergyman had just mar ried a couple and, as was his custom, offered a fervent prayer, invoking the divine blessing upon them. As they seemed to be worthy folk and not over burdened with this world's goods he besought the Lord to prosper the man and greatly to increase his business, laying much stress on this point. In filling out the blanks it became necessary to ask the man bis business, and, to the minister's horror, he said, "I keep a saloon." In telliug the story to his wife after -1 ward the clergyman said that as he j wrote down the occupation lie whis- j pored, "Lord, you needn't answer that prayer."—Ladies' Home Journal., ■ ■ Woman—a Mystery. You gaze at a star for two motives, because it is luminous and because it is impenetrable. You have by your side a sweeter radiance and greater mystery—woman.—Victor Hugo. i A Gambler on Gambling. We live In this world where nearly everybody is a gambler. Hence it is but natural that there should be gam bling. There are only three things you don't gamble for—your room, clothes and food. Everything else connected with life is gambling. You seek employment; you gamble You go to an insurance company and j have your property insured against ! fire. Well, don't you gamble there? j for a better place. Don't you bet the company that you may have a lire, and they bet you you may not? Your premium Is the odds you get. You have your life insured; you enter into a gamble with the insurance com panv. You invest your money; you gamble there again, aud so on all along the line.—Richard Canfield. Curious of tho Future. "Have you fixed up my will just the way 1 told you?" asked the sick man, who was the possessor of many needy relatives and some well to do but grasp ing ones. "I have," asserted the lawyer: "Just as strong and tight as you can make it, eh?" asked the client. Tho lawyer nodded. "All right," said the sick man. Now I want to ask you one thing—not pro fessionally—who do you think stands the best chance of getting the property when I'm gone?"—Youth's Companion. ! Poor Land. Ouee a Kansas farmer met on the hot, dusty road a homesteader pushing on excitedly toward the Cherokee strip. "Whar ye bound?" said the farmer. "For a hundred and sixty acres o' free land in the skip," was the reply. Aud the man vanished in the glitter j of dust and sunshine. A month or two went by, and on the dusty road tbe Kansas farmer same mot (lie homesteader returning. "Hello," ho said, "what ye done with them hundred and sixty acres?" The homesteader pointed his whip proudly toward his mule team. "See them mules?" said he. "Veil, I traded eighty acres of my claim i'er 'em." "What ye do with the other eighty?" "Dou't gimme away," was the re ply, "but the feller was a teudorfoot, and 1 run in the other eighty acres ou him without hls knowin' it." A Suggestion From Japan. A young Japanese, with tho national love of cleanliness, came to London to As. he was a stranger la the city be had to select his own lodgings. Ills first choice was not happy, hall especially was very dirty, the newcomer did not like, but 'decided to say nothing then. One rainy day. the maidservant put study. The This up this notice: "Please wipe your feet." Seizing bis opportunity, the Japanese Btudeut wrote underneath, "On going oat."—Ladles' Home Journal. The Laughter of Childhood. The laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still. Strike with hand of fire, O weird musician, thy harp strung with Apollo's golden hair; All the vast cathedral aisles with symphonies sweet and dim, deft touch er of the organ keys; blow, bugler, blow until tliy sliver notes do touch and kiss the moonlit waves and charm the lovers wandering mid vine clad hills. But know your sweetest strain* are discords all compared with child hood's happy laugh—the laugh that fills the eyes with light and every heart with joy. O rippling river of laughter, thou art the blessed boundary line between the beasts and men. and every wayward wave of thine doth drown so mo fretful Bead of care. O Laughter, rose lipped daughter of Joy, there are dln^fes enough In thy cheeks to catch and hold and glorify all the fears of grief.—Robert (L In gersoll. - With an Ey« to Busineaa. At a dinner given In Washington in honor of Admiral Dewey's seventieth birthday the famous sailor after drink ing from a loving cup that belonged to George Washington said: "This wine is superb. It is ns fine in its way ns the sign that I once saw over an inn door in Germany. The sign read: . " 'Good beer sold here, but don't take my word for it. Hans Schwartz, Prop. Her Denomination, posed, "Wliy not?" asked Pat, with a tone of sadness in his voice, » » "I'm sorry, I'at. but I cannot lie your wife," said Bridget after Bat had pro "Well, Pat, I suppose I must tell you the truth—I'm a somnambulist." "A what?" "A somnambulist." "Sure, and that won't make any dif ference. You can go to your church, and I'll go to mine."—Judge's Library. Heredity. "Your daughter plays well," a wo man said to the mother. "Yes," was the reply, have a flue touch, and it's no wonder, for she loves the piano aud never tires i I >he does Ye see, she's a great taste for of. it. nfusic; but, theu, that's only natural, for her grandfather had his skull-frac tured with a eoruet at a picnic." Conducting by Illustration. Once Dr. Hans Richter, the famous London orchestral conductor, not satiS fled with the rendering of a scene from "Tristan and Isolde," stopped the re hearsal and asked for more dignity in the playing; adding that Isolde was the daughter of a king, not of a cook. On another occasion, while rehearsing Tschaikowsky's "Romeo and Juliet" music, Richter was by no means satis fied that the needful warmth of ex pression had been obtained. "Gentle men, gentlemen," said he, "you all play like married men, not like lovers. The other day, while rehearsing a Mozart symphony in which the first violins had a number of delicate trills nud turns to perform, these xvere play ed too heavily for Richter, and he ex claimed: "Blease, gentlemen, pianissi mo! Queen Mab—not suffragettes." »> Grant the Philosopher. Mrs. Grant once asked tb6 general to disdiarge their old coachman,'who had made a botch of some simple er rand. "Well, mother," replied the hero of Appomattox, "if John could do everything you wanted him to do and do It right^ho would not have to bo our coachman." mined to see that the food provided was up to the standard he required. "Remove the lid from that pail," he said to the man. The man removed Now let me taste that," life What It Tastsd Like. The men were at dinner one day, and the orderlies were burring back ward nud forward with steaming pails of soup when Lord Wolseley, passing by, stopped one of them and deter the lid. said. "But plaze yer"— "Let me taste it, I say. Before tho man could say .or do any thing Lord Wolseley got a spoon, dip ped it into the pail and tasted. It. "Disgraceful!" he exclaimed. "Call that soup? Why, it tastes like nothing In the world so much as dishwater." "Plaze yer honor, that's exactly what it is." Unusual. "She 'is always talking about her mince pies. Did you ever see any thing unusual in them?" "Yes. I saw a shoe button in one mice." Tho Sensational Collector. The doctor was iu church. He oc cupied a front pew. The church was crowded, tho preacher preachin g elo queutly. aud a perfect silence reigned. But suddenly a man dashed iu at the door. lie held up Ills baud for the preacher to pause; then be,cried: "Is Dr. Henry Smith here?" With all eyes centered upon him. Dr. Henry Smith rose slowly in hia front seat and turned round. "What is wanted?" he said. He had the grave, weary air of a man who !» almost overburdened with the respon sibilities heaped upon him. "Are you Dr. Henry Smith?" "I am," "Well, doctor, I am Cache & Co.'s new collector. When will It be con venient for you to settle that little ac count of theirs?" Either Bad Weather or 8unday. "Golfing one day in the autumn on the St. Andrew's links, in Scotland," says Andrew Carnegie, "I said to my caddie: 'Angus, man, the leaves are falling. The-green is turning red and brown. Winter will soon be upon us. And do you get much caddying to do in the winter, Angus?' "Angus frowned gloomily. . " 'Xa, nn,' said he, blowing his nose. 'There's nae muekle caddyin' In win ter. If it's no' snaw It's frost, if it's no' frost it's snaw, if It's neither frost nor snaw it's rain, an' if it's fine it's sure to be the Sawbath.' <» It A WOMAN'S WAIL. "I am a victim of consumption, so my physicians say, Induced by drink and drugs, 1 am abandoned of my friends and living on the charity of a great city. 1 am alone. 1 am In the depths of despair. " 'Late! So late! But we can cuter still?' " 'Too late—too late! Ye cannot en ter now!' "IIow the despairing wail rings in my ears! My young life is spent. All my hopes are withered. 1 cannot turn back. It is too late—too late!" The cry of agony is not taken from a novel. It is a chapter from real life, the wail of a once famous actress. There is iu it a fearful warning.^ And you do not need to read this popr little sermonet to find it. How ever— It may not be out of the way to em phasize this warning to the woman or girl who is just beginning to take an occasional drink because she thinks she needs it or because she is tired or blue or discouraged or who takes a i drink just for "fun" or because her I "set" does this thing. I wish this editorial might lead you to read again the wail of the poor wo man and burn into your soul the con sciousness of the irremedlal evil of the use of drug potions and drink stimu lants— Because students of social conditions ray the drink custom and the drug habit among women are alarmingly on the increase. It is not strange that a woman should contract an appetite for stimu lants. The habit is not more abnor mal than the male habit. Especially are those women tempted who keep late hours and Indulge in social dissi pations. But they are not more tempt ed than the poor woman drudge whose vitality is spent in ceaseless toil or be cause of poverty or of ignorance or of abuse. Nevertheless— The curse is the same whether upon 'for at tho last it bit man or woman, eth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder." It is also true that the tfffect of liq uor or drugs habitually used is worse in its effects upon woman. Her finer sensibilities are the more easily rav aged, the fine edge of her keener sense of delicacy the more easily blunted. If she is rich, she may hide her growing coarseness in a sheltered home or disease may take her to a premature end. If she is poor,'humili ation may drive her to suicide or pov erty may lead her to something worse. t There is an awful warning in that despairing cry, "Too late—too late!' Two Readings. 'A young farmer who had great con ceit, little discretion and scarcely any education presented himself once at a Presbyterian conference and said he wished to be ordained as a preacher. "I ain't had any great learnin'," be said frankly, "but I reckon I'm ealled I've hgd a vision three That's why I'm here." to preach, nights runnin*. "What was your vision?" inquired one of tho elders. "Well, I dreamt 1 see a big. round ring in the sky, an' iu the middle of it groat letters—T*. C. I knew was two that meant Presbyterian Conference, an' here I am." There was an uncomfortable pause, which was broken by an elder who knew the young man and was well acquainted with the poverty of his family and the neglected conditions of their farm. "1 haven't any gift at said the old man reading visions,' gravely ns he rose from his seat, "but I'd like to put it to my young friend whether he doesn't think it's possible those two letters may have stood for 'Plant Corn?' n