East Mississippi Times
Pskllihed Every Friday by Wa. Ward.
WPAItK VILLA, I MISSISSIPPI
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Precipitation Is aviation's worst en
emy.
Airships have not yet filed freight
tariffs.
Winter Is looking over the fence
at us.
Nicaragua gives signs of refusing
to slay put
“The hohble skirt is passing,” says
a fashion note. But slowly, of course.
One of the requisites of an aero
plane flight Is a check for a good-sized
amount.
One of the shocking new plays
brought out In New York Is named
“Electricity.”
The thumping of the steam pipes In
the early morning means more noise
but not more heat.
Chinese officials must give up their
Jobs or their queues. The latter will
naturally have to go,
A London scientist has Invented a
sure cure (or a cold. So has every
body else In the world.
A Hoosler dentist has planned a
tooth insurance policy. He may bite
off more than ho can chew.
In future, when aviation meets are
to be stopped by the police, they will
have to have more “fly cops.”
There are 80,000 rooms In New
Tork without light. And yet they
boast of the Great White Way.
With aeroplane makers organized
the pickets could have lots of fun
making faces at non union craft.
King Chulalongkorn Is dead. Com
positors will bo glad to learn that his
Successor’s name Is Chowfa Malta Va-
Jlravauch.
A lecturer declared lately that the
perfect woman of the future will not
be a mother. Then she will not be a
perfect woman.
The woman who has a pet bon con
strictor 11 feet long shouldn’t kick If
her husband brings homo a load of
snake bite cure.
Man Is n useless creature, asserts a
Chicago woman lecturer. What? Who'd
stay home and tend the baby If It
wasn't (or men?
Still, there are some young men who
are more Interested In the price of
American beauty roses than In the
cost of beefsteak.
About the time a man begins to
grow brush heaps In his ears ho loses
Interest In the changing vagaries df
fashions In socks.
The Massachusetts girl who can
Jthrow a baseball like Ellam la a fac
tory girl. No college or society girl
pan compote with her.
Shakespeare may have had the man
birds In mind when ho mentioned the
condition of being “horsed on the
alghtless corners of the air.”
It la alleged that dressed Peruvian
monkeys are being sold ns rabbits In
the London market. What a waste
there must bo In monkey tails.
A Toronto girl who thought she was
marrying a young capitalist soon dis
covered that her husband was a bur
glar. Is not marriage a lottery?
The Swiss are going to construct
another tunnel through the Alps. Evi
dently they do not take much stock In
the aerial route taken by Chavez.
Three of the Inst load of deer
brought Into Bangor, Me,, says an ex
change. were shot by women. Who
■ays a woman can't hit anything she
alms at?
They are going to put up another
huge building in New York, this time
one of 40 stories. Daylight will yet
be at a premium on the Manhattan
street level.
A preacher says that young women
prefer marriage to missionary work. II
they tackle the former, however,
they’ll find that they’re In for a bit
of the latter.
Only scientific Institutions or learn
•and chemists will be permitted to buy
radium. As It is $36,u00.000 a pound,
one can readily see what hardship
this arbitrary regulation Is going t
work among the general public, seek
ing radium bargains.
In Detroit a man was arrested be
cause he shot off firecrackers on tha
twenty-fifth anniversary of his wed
ding, A man who wants to celebrate
because he has been married twenty
five years ought to have some privi
leges.
“ An Oregon detective has been deco
rated by China for guarding the Chin
eee prince on the latter's recent visit
to this country. But a detective sport
Inga yellow Jacket and a peacock
feather would be rather hampered It
ils business of secret Identity.
STUDY OFGRIMINALS
Bavarian State’s Attorney Writes
Article on Juvenile Courts.
Munich Prosecutor Finds Less Than
500 Youthful Offenses in One
Year Among More Than
600,000 People.
Now York—Slates Attorney Rup
precbt of Munich. Bavaria, has writ
ten an article for the Munchener Me
llzlnlscho Wocbenschiift on juvenile
courts and the study of the Juvenile
delinquent as the result of his expe
riences as a practitioner In the chil
dren’s court In Munich, concerning
which the Medical Record says;
"One result of the establishment of
children’s courts ihould boa more In
telligent study of the juvenile delin
quent. The boy criminal differs radic
ally from the girl offender. Youthful
offenders differ from adults. The chil
dren also differ, as to the relative fre
quency of offenses, according as they
dwell In agricultural, manufacturing
sr commercial communities.
"In that city (Munich) the chil
dren's court takes cognizance of all
Offenders between the ages of thir
teen and eighteen, Inclusive. The lad
or girl of healthy stock must at this
period bo regarded as potentially a
criminal, because character and will
are undeveloped, and experience has
not yet had Its Innings. Such must
not be confounded with defectives.
“Munich has but a small contingent
of youthful criminals. In a population
of nearly 600,000 there are less than
Bvo hundred serious offenses a year
committed by juveniles. Petty of
fenses multiply this five fold, but with
these wo are not concerned.
“Theft Is the great offense of youth.
It overshadows all others so far that
the latter appear almost freakish. The
boy steals In an unpremeditated fash
ion. while the girl has a plan. Boys
tend to steal ‘Junk’ —not to sell, but
for making playthings. Girls tend to
appropriate cosmetic articles.
“We have heard much as to moving
picture shows tempting boys to pat
tern after burglars and highwaymen.
This theoretical position may be quite
offset by the actual knowledge that In
Munich boys steal to be able to visit
these entertainments, which, for all
we know, may be highly moral. The
temptation Is so strong that even a
‘‘good’ boy may pilfer the price of the
entertainment. He will do as much to
get hold of a Nick Carter or Sherlock
Holmes story.
“The boys In Munich also steal In
connection with deep laid plans for
Visiting the frontier and lighting sav
ages. But the Bavarian youth must
be much more long headed than the
Anglo-Saxon In this respect, for he
usually steals a horse and firearms be
fore sallying forth. He robs the fam
ily strong box for the sinews of war.
“Girls sometimes steal to make a
present to a favorite school teacher.
One took the flowers oft a grave for
this purpose.
“When caught In the act of a theft
a boy usually confesses, repents and
refuses to betray his associates. A
girl lies until the last minute, and
then endeavors to throw the blame on
someone else. Boys almost always
rob In bands; girls usually act alone.
“A boy seldom robs his employer,
but some outsider; the reverse Is the
case with girls, who, since they pilfer
cosmetics, adornments, etc., must al
most necessarily rob their mistresses.
‘The chief value of Rupprecht’s
study Is that It deals with normal
subjects, the policies advisable In
dealing with whom have hitherto re
ceived comparatively little attention.”
CHINESE SAILORS FEED FISH
Crew of Steamer Chatham Throw
Food Overboard for Member
Lost by Drowning.
Boston.—So that their drowned
brother might not feel the pangs of
hunger while on the spiritual high
road to the other world, 23 Chinese
sailors, comprising the crew of the
British steamer Chatham, which
reached Boston the other day from
the west coast of South America,
threw rice and other foodstuffs Into
the sea all the way from off the coast
of Brasil to Boston lightship. Li Chow
was the late lamented. Chow fell over
board while engaged in boat drill
when the steamer was off the coast
of Brazil. The Chatham was stopped
and lifeboats launched, but before the
speediest of them got within twenty
feet of Chow he disappeared beneath
the waves. Almost immediately after
the steamer resumed her way the rest
of the Chinese on board began stinting
themselves and casting overboard
what they saved from their own fare
so that Chow might not go hungry.
That the Chatham encountered se
re weather in her 10.000-mile Jour-
Bey was amply testified to by dam
aged deck fittings and smashed deck
houses. The steamer was very bard
hit when passing through the Straits
of Michigan, sustaining most of the
damage at that period. She was
caught in a blizzard that kicked up
waves, which in washing over her
decks tore up steamplpes and washed
all movable objects overboard. The
steamer's hospital was smashed In by
one comber and several of the crew
had to cling with all their might lest
they be carried overboard by the re
ceding water. Throughout most of
the passage from Chile ta Montevideo
CHICAGO’S MONUMENT TO GOEEHE
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THTGOCTHC HIMOX/Al.
CHICAGO. —Preparations for the of the memorial to the poet
Goethe In this city are progressing, and art lovers are congratulating
themselves on the fact that Chicago is to have a monument that Is at once
unique and artistic In design. The model selected was the work of Prof.
Hermann Hahn of Munich. It is surmounted by an Ideal figure of Youth,
and bears a portrait of the poet In relief.
IGNORANCE OF LAWS
Much Money Lost Through Care
lessness in Using Coins.
Jewelers Guilty Every Day of Commit
ting Criminal Offense In Filing
One Side of Coin Smooth—
Other Offenses.
Chicago.—Thousands of dollars are
lost yearly by big Arms through ig
norance or carelessness in observing
the federal laws governing abuse of
coins.
Just lately in Chicago a piano com
pany came to grief In this way. Had
they asked the proper authorities (the
information would have been furnish
ed gratis) or had they looked up the
law they would have found in Section
165, public act No. 350, these words;
"Whoever fraudulently, by any art,
way or means shall deface, mutilate,
impair, diminish, falsify or lighten
. . . the gold or silver coins which
have been or which may hereafter be
coined in the mint of the United
States . , . shall be Aned not more
than $2,000 and imprisonment of not
more than Ave years.”
Much trouble and expense would
have been saved the Arm and the gov
ernment had the law only been read.
It all happened in this way: Some
clever advertiser conceived the idea
of an "ad" of metal just the size of a
dime, with the wording and printing
placed in such a way that at Arst
glance it would appear as a dime
the steamer was covered with Ice and
snow, winter weather prevailing.
The Chatham started from Junin,
Chile, on August 22. and called at five
ports while en route. At Antofagasta
she took on 3,010 tons of silver ore,
valued at $500,000, and thus her cargo
was one of the most valuable ever
I "ought to Boston from South Amer
ica.
COWS IN HILARIOUS FROLIC
Make Bacchanalian Raid on Cider
Mill, Easily Accumulating Joyous
Old Jag.
Rocksburg. N. J.—When the work
ers at the Warren county cider mill,
near here, went home the other day
at noon they left the trough of apple
mash uncovered, with the result that
a herd of ten cows from an adjoining
farm, wandering In from the tn
closure, ate most of It. Farmhands
were attracted to the place a short
time later.
The cows were frisking about, kick
ing Into the air and assuming atti
tudes that In a human being would
have been described as hilarious. Pus
sled at these antics, the farmers be
came worried when one after another
of the cows sank to the ground. Be
lieving the prevalent epidemic of hog
cholera had reached the supposed Im
mune cows, they summoned a veter
inarian, whose diagnosis relieved the
anxiety of the situation.
"Just a Jersey elder Jag of unto
ward proportions," was his verdict
The cows’ heads were bathed In Ice
water and In a short time they re
covered, since which time they have
refused all food, subsisting on copi
ous draughts from the pasture spring.
The idea was cleverly executed, A
fair imitation of the head of Liberty
was on one side and the advertise
ment on the other. The number was
placed where the date on a dime is
and the first glance certainly im
pressed one as the real coin. The
other side bad a sheaf of wheat and in
the center the words “On Time."
The firm had no desire to defraud
the public. But unscrupulous people
who had access to them did. Several
waiters at a summer park lost money
by accepting the advertisement for
real money, chewing gum machines
were Ailed with them and at last the
secret service learned how matters
were :.nd began an investigation.
There were 150,000 of the metals
conAscated. Some stray ones, how
ever, were in circulation and it took
almout a year to “hunt them down.”
Jewelers are guilty every day of
committing a criminal offense. Every
day someone of them lays himself
liable to the law. According to the or
dinance quoted above, to mutilate
money is an offense in the eyes of
the law Jewelers Ale one side of a
coin smooth and monogram it. The
other side is perfectly good. Pins,
bracelets, lockets and numerous other
things are made. The owner never
means to use the article for money.
But someone gets hold of the pin or
locket. He thinks the money would
be more useful and so passes the coin
with the pin or ring pulled off and tbs
good side up.
To "change the complexion" of a
coin also is an offense. That means
to dip silver in gold. Only a few days
ago a "lot” of shirt sets were confis
cated and sent to Washington. Ths
sets were made of Panama halfpen
nies glided. Carelessness of the law
again.
The only kind of coin that can bo
worn is that so completely mutilated
that there can be no chance at all of
passing it; for example, the Allgresd
dimes that the Mexicans make.
SILK FARM STARTED IN U. S.
Syrian Is Raising Worms and Will
Erect Looms In Louisiana— First
In South.
New Orleans.—An experiment in
silk culture which is watched with
Interest by the United States depart
ment of agriculture as well as the silk
Industry at large has been started by
a Syrian, Kalil Joseph, near Pica
yune, La., about 92 miles from New
Orleans.
Mr. Joseph has raised many thou
sands of silk worms from eggs hatch
ed on a farm two miles from Pica
yune. He says Picayune Is an Ideal
section for silk culture on account of
the numbers of wild mulberry trees
there. The silk made from the co
coons is as Ane a quality as any made
in Syria, which is famous for ita silk
worm farms.
Mr. Joseph has formed a company
capitalized at 1100,000, and will erect
looms and handle the silk In much the
same way as it is manufactured in the
great silk centers. The officers of the
company are: Kalil Joseph, presi
dent; Ellas Salk, vice-president; W.
A. Stockstill, secretary, and Charles
Marcelle, treasurer.
The Kalil plant will bo the Arst
bona Ade silk farm in the south, and
the factory will be the Arst In the
country where the raw silk Is trans
formed Into the Anlshed product at
the same place where the silk is spa*
from the cocoons.
-FARM DEPARTMENT-
Edited by G. H. ALFORD I
All Questions Pertaining to the Farm Addresaed to Him, Box 182, West
Jackson. Miss.. Will bo Uladly Kecelved and Answered In These Columns
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DIPPING CATTLE IN SOUTH ALA
BAMA.
Monday was "dipping” day In Dallas
county. The farmers of south Sumter
“dipped” yesterday and those of Ma
rengo will "dip” today. The farmers
all along the black belt region are
"dipping” twice a month. The fad has
spread to the cities. Merchants, bank
ers, business men, clerks and shop
people have caught the fad, and are
dipping. Those that have no call to
dip themselves go out and see that It Is
well done.
A “dipping” vat has been establish
ed in the city of Selma for the accom
modation of the people at the expense
of the town, and county. “Dipping”
fluid for the free use of the people Is
prepared in a big tank In the city of
Selma for the use of other vats that
have been built all over the county for
the people. It Is a great movement.
It marks an epoch in the history of Al
bania. It is no senseless fad. Perhaps
you do not understand. It is a sim
ple proposition. It has been described
in this correspondence before, but per
haps the item escaped you.
As every cattle man of experience
knows, it is useless to undertake to
raise cattle In Alabama as long as the
cattle tick is allowed to exist. A gov
ernment quarantine against all Ala
bama cattle prohibits the raising of
cattle for commercial purposes. Cattle
shipped from Alabama are discounted
from 20 to 30 per cent, by reason of
the existence of the cattle or Texas
fever tick. It means an anual loss to
Alabama of not less than $2,000,000,
and Alabama has not been classed as a
cattle raising state at that. When it is
considered that this might become one
of the greatest cattle raising states in
the Union but for the tick, the loss Is
Incalculable. The Western cattle raiser
would come to Alabama to engage in
the business if It were not for this
pesky parasite, which, really, as
•trange as It may seem, has been fos
tered by the people of the state.
No wise man will engage extensively
In business when his neighbor Is al
lowed nr persists in breeding ticks on
the adjoining farm. Though the one
Intelligent farmer may keep his cattle
free of ticks, the ticks on his neigh
bors’ cattle makes the general quaran
tine effective and he loses in the sale
of his cattle.
A few years ago the agricultural de
partment at Washington sent a num
ber of cattle tick experts into Ala
bama. They begun a campaign of edu
cation, but found rough sailing. The
people could not be brought to see so
much harm In the little tick that they
had been used to seeing ail their lives.
They resented the interference of
"hook farmers” from the government
office. If they had tlcky cows, It was
their business, and Washington had no
right to interfere. To make eradica
tion effective, the county had to en
force the stock law—that Is, require
every man to keep his cattle under
fence the year round. This aroused
vigorous opposition in most of the
counties, and the county officials,
afraid of their political future, sided
with the people, who In more than one
instance held monster mass-meetings
to threaten the county commissioners
If they dared to interfere with their
“personal rights.”
But the more Intelligent farmers of
the state began by degrees to listen
to the experts. They soon aroused
themselves to the vital importance of
the problem and began to study the
matter. The result was that they soon
became en*huslastlc tick eradlcators.
The movement was infectious. County
commissioners changed their positions
and began to enforce the laws neces
sary to make eradication effective.
There are still some people in all the
counties that are skeptical and stub
born, but they are forced to follow the
rules and are being benefited against
their choice. Large vats are provided
In almost every community where the
people have adopted the plans of the
government. The cattle of the commu
nity are driven through these vats
filled with water and a small percent
age of the arsenic. The cattle are
cleansed of all impurities and the tick
is killed. The cattle are really ben
efited by the arsenic dip Instead of in
jured, as some of the skeptics believe
would be the result.
The dipping is done twice a month
and dipping day in the black belt is a
holiday. It is one of the most Inter
esting sights in the state. It is esti
mated that by September of next year
those counties that have adopted the
method will be free from the pest and
the quarantine will be raised. The
method is not expensive and most of
he counties are bearing the expense,
though many of the vates are being
built by public and private subscrip
tion. Every enterprising cattle raiser
In the state has hi* own vat on his
farm and gives its free use to his
neighbor. The building of the vat with
MOTOR FIRE ENGINES.
Buffalo Is the latest city to doom
the fire horse. Contracts have been
let for the last horse-drawn fire en
gine that the city will buy. The fire
commissioners announce that any ap
paratus they purchase in the future
will be of the automobile kind, and for
each piece installed five horses will be
put out of commission. That is the
motor engine will be both a pump and
a hose wagon and one of the new
•tyle vehicle* will carry all the equip
ment of two of the old-faahioned kind.
cement costs about $35. The dlpp
mixture, water and arsenic, 400 to I,
inexpensive.
The existence of the cattle tick
the only Impediment In the way of
abama becoming one of the most i
portent and profitable cattle raisi
states in the Union. The eradicat
movement Is spreading to ail parts
the state, and within a few years
beef animal raised in Alabama sho
stand side by side with the best tl
is raised in the West, and will be
the farmers will not stand in their o
light and will forget the small pn
dice they have nurtured in their hea
for these past years. It means millk
to the state.
POVERTY VS. WEALTH.
“No man is rich whose expenditu
exceed his Income; and no man
poor whose income exceeds his o
goings!" These are the words of c
of the world’s great men. Of cout
it is customary to cry out against i
struggling for money, but whate’
may be said of the dangers of rich
the dangers of poverty are tent
greater. The man who is exposed
continual want, not only of the lu
ries of life, but of the actual necei
ties of life is no condition to exerc
the higher functions of mind and sc
He is hourly beset by many temi
tlons which the well-to-do man ne’
encounters.
It is wealth that, above all otl
things, gives standing in this couni
We will not admit It, but It is so. W 1
out money, talent, learning and mo
worth have but little Influence in cc
mandlng the respect of men. Aim
every man you meet graduates the
gle of his bows according to the a
of your bank account. Let us, th
frankly admit that, even in the tov
and cities, there are fifty yeung n
who need incitements to hard w
and economy where there is one v
needs to be checked in hie pursuit
money.
GOOD PLANTING SEED.
The variety tests at the experlmi
al stations in this latitude name
best varieties. We act very fool
when we buy seed that the experira
stations have not shown to be the I
by actual test in the fields throng
sufficient number of years to eliniln
weather conditions. We ought not
buy seed because of high sound
names or on account of exagera
statements from seed dealers. ’
business world is rated in Dun’s i
Bradstreet’s; the varieties of seed
rated in the bulletins of the exp
ment stations.
Now is the time to buy seed to pi
next year, and it is advisable to
the best seed from some repuU
breeder or grower and in the yean
come use every known scientific m
od to further improve the seed. 1
buying of the best seed will save y<
of labor and expense In breeding
the seed; however, this must be
lowed by the most careful seiec
and the best cultivation or the a
will rapidly deteriorate. The si
principles and practices that have b
employed with such striking result
the Improvement of the diffei
breeds of animals must be foliowei
breeding up seed. •
BUSINESS SENSE.
The successful farmer of the prei
and the future must combine busii
sense with increased knowledge
how to economically Increase the
tlilty of soil; must know how to
nomlcally breed up his stock; he n
know how to breed up his seed;
must know how to prepare his I
and how to cultivate his crop to
best advantage; and he must
know how to dispose of his product
the best advantage. In other words
must know how to produce the n
and the best of everything and at
same time know how to dispose of
products at remunerative prices.
EDUCATION.
The difference between the avei
yield of corn and cotton In this sec
and the largest yield is about flve-l
The average cost of cultivating an i
of cotton and corn is double the i
economical cost. We have, therel
between the average and the bes
farming an attainable thousand
cent. This difference of one thoui
per cent against the average farmi
due wholly to conditions which he
easily control with the neces
knowledge. The educated fat
knows how to make his soil excep
ally productive by plowing an Inc
so deeper every time It is broken
practicing rotation of crops, by pi
ing leguminous crops, by keeping i
ty of good stock and saving the
nure and putting it on the land, am
turning under a large amount of v
table matter. The educated far
knows the advantage* of strong te
and labor-saving implements
It I* figured that the co*t of mo
power of the horse-drawn appar
is about SI,OOO a year for engine
wagon and that the automobile
largely reduce this.
Although a great deal of *uga
Imported from Cuba, some people
ttnue to borrow it from their nf
hors.—Chicago New*.
A woman can even be proud of
huaband'a bad habita it hell at
church on Sunday.