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BEECH AND THIRD STREETS
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PREPARE FOR THE HOT WAVE.
The hot sun is doubly dangerous
if there is a mass of undigested food
in the stomach. Foley Cathartic
Tthlrtr i/jvr jimnnit nnrl nurr r"lirf
They act gently but do their work
thoroughly. They cleanse the bowels,
sweeten the stomach and benefit
the liver. For indigestion, bilious
ness, bad breath, bloating, gas.—
Walker’s Pharmacy.
MARRIAGE LICENSE.
Ed Obanion to Mrs. Rosie Kasin
ger, both of Swifton.
J. W. Bagswell to Mrs. Pearl Edi
son, both of Tupelo.
Arthur McDowell of Auvergne to
Terressa Robinson (colored), New
port.
E. Ar Evins to Miss Laura Ball,
both of Pennington.
S. F. Davis of Tupelo to Miss
Bama Parkison, of Newport.
Clarice Eines Miller of Newport to
Miss Iva Ramsey of Tuckerman.
George Levison of Weldon to
Lena Slaughter, (colored), of Shoff
ner.
T. W. Stultz to Mrs. Sarah Eliza
beth Sexton, both of Newport.
Willie Grant Gray to Miss Susie
Jane Davis, both of Union Hill.
Virgil L. Higginbottom to Miss
Winnie Brown, both of Bengel.
Barney Barker of Swifton to Miss
Pearl Lester of Elgin.
NOT TO BE IGNORED.
The kidneys are as important to
good health as the heart, lungs,
stomach or any organ in the body.
Lame back, swollen joints, sore mus
cles, rheumatic aches and pains, are
most often signals of kidney trouble.'
Foley Kidney Pills give relief to
kidney trouble sufferers. They ban
ish bladder irregularities.—Walker’s
Pharmacy.
Subscribe for the Independent.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
N. B. Wishon to H. E. L. McCol
lum, Lot 153 in Walnut Grove Ceme
tery, $25.00.
D. D. Camp and wife to L. A. F
ley, lot 3 in Block 10 of Barnwell’s
First Addittion to Grubbs, $l.r
F. M. Parsons and wife to W. T.;
Altman, part of Block 38 in Town of
Swifton, $8,500.
Lovis Collier to M. F. Hardin, one- '
fifth interest in NW',i of the NW14
of 29-9-2, $425.
F. L. Bleakley and wife to Marion
Babb annd Della Babb, Lot 9 in Block
6 in Town of Auvergne, $100.
J. F. Parish, county clerk, to C.
M. Erwin and C. G. Henry, Block 21,
of Yelverton’s Addition to Tucker- j
man, $1.78.
J. F. Parish, county clerk, to C. M..
j Erwin and C. G. Henry, lots 3 and 4,
Block 3 of Simpson’s Addition to
town of Tuckerman, $2.97.
J. F. Parish, county clerk, to C. M.
Erwin and C. G. Henry, Lots 4, in
Block 2, of Loftin’s Second Addition
1 to Grubbs, $1.78. |
J. F. Parish, county clerk, to C. M.
Erwin and C. G. Henry, Lots 5 and 6
in Block 4 of Simpson’s Addition to
Tuckerman, $2.97.
W. H. Shoffner and wife to H^
Covington, Part SE14 of the SE!4 of
31-10-2, $200.
Annie Littlejohn annd Morris Can
non to Jesse Rogers, Lot 12 in Block
12 of Daugherty’s Addition to City
of Newport, $1,400.
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IT’S IN THE AIR.
Windblown pollen, carrying the
germs that cause hay fever, is
abroad in the land. One remedy is
; known to give relief and comfort
j from choking, gasping astma and
' tormentting hay fever. Foley’s
Honey and Tar spreads a healing
coating on inflamed membranes,
stops coughs and colds.—Walker’s
Pharmacy.
In asking the people to Invest in
War Savings and Thrift Stamps, the
government is not asking them to
vr—a- puying har.ia.-_______
“Dash, determination and Inring—
i also efficiency”—That’s what our
i boys at the front are doing Keep ’em
go!ng! War Savings is a message to
the kaiser that will “get over.”
Hot Springs, Arif.
The Wonder Spot of America.
FOR MALARIA, CHILLS, FEVER,
RHEUMATISM AND OTHER CHRONIC DISORDERS.
Owned and Controlled by U. S. Government.
High up in the Healthful Ozark Mountains.
Delightful Balmy Days. Cool. Sleepy Nights.
T? A r>TT T\f The latest analysis by the U. S. Govern
* ment of these wonderful Hot Springs
Waters were found to be highly Radio-active.
TOURIST RATES—Low tourist round trip rates now in
effect on all railroads, from all points in America. Insist
on this rate.
Cut out coupon and mail
toda:r to
Business Men's League
Hot Springs : : Arkansas
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IDEAS HARD TO ERADICATE
Erroneous Geographical Notions That
Have a Firm Hold on the Minds
of Most People.
It Is curious to note with what per
sistency people will adhere to current
ideas without ever thinking that these
ideas do not, under all circumstances,
denote one and the same thing. As a
matter of fact, the maximum heat is
“between” North and South—viz, along
the equator, and it is as cold at the
South Pole as at the North Pole. Also
the words North and South are as rela
tive terms as East and West, and do
not, to everyone, convey the same
idea.
To make this clear, let us suppose
that A stands at the North Pole and,
turning in the direction of the country
from which he came, feels the wind
blowing in his face. He would, of
course, claim that this wind was south
erly, and nobody would dare contradict
him, for does not the wind come from
Norway, which is south from the Pole?
His companion, B, however, who stands
a little distance further off, let us say
50 steps beyond the Pole, on the
hemisphere on which America is situ
ated, will just as emphatically assert
that this wind is northern, ns it blows
from the North Pole, and the snow
flakes it carries after having passed
the polar point no longer are directed
toward the North, but the South. There
is no use disputing; both are right and,
although separated by a few steps
only, that which to A is north is to B
south.
ENJOY SINGING IN CHORUS
Why Children ShotVd Be Encouraged
to Take Part in Exercises of
Juvenile Glee Clubs.
Anyone who has watched a class of
schoolchildren singing their songs to
gether, or the members of a juvenile
glee club raising their voices In mel
ody, knows to how great an extent chil
dren enjoy expressing themselves mu
sically. It is perhaps one of the few
times when they begin to get an ap
preciation of what concerted action
means in creating strength and power
both for the individual as well as the
group. You seldom get a child to stand
up and sing- alone, but place him
among a large group of children and
note the change in him—the change in
his expression, his bearing and his
whole attitude.
It is therefore a cause for much en
couragement to hear the news that peo
ple are growing interested in commu
nity choruses for children. The move
ment for grownups has become wide
spread and its good results have been
appreciated by all who have taken an
active part in it. The question natur
ally arises, then, why wait until a per
son is grown up before you let him
take part in that which undeniably is
beneficial to him? Why not give the
child an opportunity to musically ex
press himself before he has grown too
self-conscious to do it freely?
Rescuing Fish.
The rescue of fish is one of the ac
tivities of the bureau of fisheries. It
Is an important work, but the nature
and importance of it ore little under
stood by persons outside of the regions
in which it is carried on. While the
bureau conserves fish, propagates and
distributes fish and labors to educate
mankind on the subject of fish, it also
rescues fish. In times of flood, when
streams and rivers swell beyond their
banks and overflow wide stretches of
land, myriads of valuable food fish are
carried along with the water. The
flood passes, the rivers subside into
their normal courses and the fish are
left inland to perish as the flood-water
evaporates or seeps into the land.
Gangs of men under the guidance of
the fisheries bureau gather the fish
from these overflow lakes, which are
often of great extent, and cast them
Loose in the streams or rivers.
Yiddish.
Yiddish Is A UHileil upulicn by the
Jews of central Europe, consisting of
corrupted Hebrew with a large admix
ture of German. It has been carried
by immigrants to Great Britain and
this continent, and is now of practical
ly world-wide use. The old Hebrew
Uncial, or Capital, letters are made to
give way to a cursive or script letter
in writing; and a regular written lan
guage, and even a literature lias come
into being. But for religious usage the
nncient Hebraic form and words, em
ployed in the written Torah or Law is
strictly adhered to, and, it will be
found as a rule that even those who
use Yiddish commonly, have also a
familiarity with the ancient language
of their race.
Somewhat Expensive Error.
A large steamer was once wrecked
because one of the sailors was named
West.
The vessel was outward bound from
Rotterdam, and the sailor was on deck
polishing some brasswork. Suddenly
the captain called him, and told him
to go below. The second officer on the
bridge heard the captain call out the
man's name, and thought it was an
order to change the course of the ves
sel to the west. He did so, and the
result was that the vessel ran onto a
dangerous shoal. That name cost the
owners of the vessel the sum of $500,
000.
Not Hatched.
Visitor—Hus your little baby sister
got any teeth?
Tommy—Oh, yes! I guess she’s got
them, but sbe ain’t hatched ’em out
yet."
PRETTY LEGEND OF NIAGARA
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How the Great Lakes Joined in Their
Wondrous Leap Over the Fa
mous Ridge.
In old, old times, on the highest
peak of a great mountain, there dwelt
a hunter nnd his five sparkling daugh
ters. Their lodge was of bright hetuln
bark and on clear days they could see
the distant ocean flashing like a silver
band. “Come out! Come out!" cried
the youngest daughter, the little Er.
“Come Su ! Come Hu ! Come Mi! Come
Cla! (The names stand in order for
Erie, Superior, Huron, Michigan and
St. Clair). Let us away to the sen,
where the foaming breakers roar!” So
they left their lodge nnd leaped and
sang with happy hearts. Their robes ,
were of blue nnd chrysolite green nnd ;
floated on the breeze. Their moccasins
were of frozen water drops and their
wings of painted wind. And they scam
pered and romped across the plain or
floated beneath the sky, or rushed past
valley tuid hill and field, singing and (
shouting with glee. At last they came
to a precipice of jagged rocks and ,
moss. “Alas I” cried Er, “what a dread
ful leap! But we have come so far .
that we must go on or our father will .
laugh at us! So come Su ! Come Hu! j
Come Ml! Come Cla ! and follow me!”
So over the steep they sprang and j
floated down on their painted wings.
They leaped and they sang like happy- |
hearted birds. Then the little Er cried:
“Let us up and down the steep again!”
And up and down the five maids
skipped and laughed at the sport and
foam and called it Niagara Falls. And
today, through the rainbow mist, you
may see their robes of blue and ehryso- ■
life green and their painted wings nnd
their twinkling feet, as the five play
in the waterfall.—New York Evening
Post. I
ROOM FOR MANY MILLIONS
Vast Spaces of Siberia That Have Yet '
to Be Surveyed and Exploited
by Man.
The biggest and loneliest land on
the globe is Siberia, of which at the
present moment there is so much talk,
says London Answers. Any one who
would set about its conquest by in
vasion would find the task a herculean !
one, 'for it contains nearly five mil
lion square miles, and is about 45
times as big as the British isles!
In these vast spaces there is a popu- (
lation less than London contains by a |
couple of millions, and there are hun- ;
dreds of thousands of square miles of
territory where no human being is to
lie seen. The mighty rivers of Siberia ,
are almost rendered useless by the !
fact that they flow mostly into the
Arctic ocean, and their lower courses
are icebound during the greater part
of the year, and their mouths are at |
all times very difficult of access. Arc- ■
tic Siberia is a vast country in itself,
but very inhospitable.
Siberia, it is said, is destined to be
the granary of the world; and the
opening of the railway across its en
tire breadth has certainy done much
to develop its resources.
Burglars Dread a Noise.
“Noise is the greatest enemy of the
burglar and is what he most fears.
Bear that in mind if you believe a
thief has entered your home.”
So says Frank McCarrick, lieuten
ant in Manhattan’s downtown detec
tive headquarters, whose long years
in the police department give weight
to his statements.
“The best of alarms in a household,”
he continued, “is a glass or chinaware
pitcher or similar vessel. Slam it
through the window and its crash
above will he followed by another as
the missile falls to the street or the
areaway below.
“Never grapple with a midnight
prowler, for he is prepared for such
eventualities and has it on you. Gen
erally no qualm of conscience would
come between him and murder if there
was danger of his being caught.”
Etiquette in Mexico.
Travelers tTmrrnrh—Mmci c«—report
many peculiar customs which reflect
the temperament of the people. Some
of these are founded upon supersti
tions hundreds of years old while oth
ers date from more recent days. There
is a prevailing belief in the country
that there is bad luck in a sequence
of threes and wherever possible the
combination of three is avoided. Tins
is shown very often to persons strange
to tlie land in the lighting of a cig
arette.
In the United States one often sees
three men light their pill from one
match. It would be a gross insult
in Mexico to offer a man a light from
a match that had already started two
cigarettes going. Instead one must
blow out the match and give him a
light from the Ignited coffin nail.
Frogs That Have Hair.
“Finer than frog hair” has long been
a slang method of expressing the su
perlative degree. Doubtless no one
ever gave it a thought whether frogs
have hair or not. Probably no one
ever realized they did until Prof. Q.
A. Boulenger discovered in the Ger
man Congo frogs that had growing
upon their bodies either hair or a very
good Imitation of It. It has since de
veloped that anatomically it is not
hair, in the sense in which that term
applies to mammals. Our own hair Is
akin to finger nails; It Is a horny
growth, whereas the “hair” on the
i Afrlcau frogs is «n abnormal devel
! opment of the tubercles that appear
i on the skin of the ordinary frog. The
ordinary person, however, who places
appearance above origin, will doubtless
call it “hair.”
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OLDEST LOVE LETTER FOUND
Modern Scientist Declares It to Have
Been Written About the Time
of Abraham.
The oldest love letter in the world
has been found—and rend by eyes for
which it never was Intended. Dr.
Stephen Herbert Langdon, Museum of .
Art and Sciences, University of Penn
sylvania, was the man to find this •
billet dome, written on a tablet of clay !
about the time of Abraham. He also ]
has brought to life what is said to be j
the oldest map in existence, drawn .
about 1500 B. C. or another tablet of
clay.
Here is the letter, which, sad to re- 1
late, is partly selfish: .
“To Knkn and Mirslia say: 1
“Thus saith Si'n-mngir. i
“May the Sun-dog give you good j
health.
“How is this business?
“For a whole month you have not ,
sent anybody to ask nbout my welfare. ‘
“Now I direct Sluimnshepirl unto '
you. ■
“Send me 30 pints of barley meal
and ten pints of bean flour. !
“I am in trouble.
“Give quickly. ,
“What you send deduct from your
tithes.
“As to the rest, send it according to
future instruction
Evidently the writer was fond of
both Ivaka and Mirslia, two sisters. Al
though the letter could scarcely be
called affectionate, as the present gen
eration understands the word, Its
translator assures us that it is a bona
fide cross-your-henrt love letter.
The map found by Doctor Langdon
was of Babylonian origin and indicates
a supposedly suburban district joined
together by canals.—Rehoboth Sunday
Herald.
NO TRUTH IN TRADITION
Old Legend of the Drowning of Prin
cess in PetrOgrad Fortress Proved
to Be Without Foundation.
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The fortress of SS. Peter and Paul,
In Petrogrnd, has an evil reputation
as the former place of imprisonment
of many of Russia’s idealists, includ
ing Prince Kropotkin and Madame
Breslikovsky; but one blot on its
’scutcheon is removed by an illustrated i
article In the London Sphere. The
article reproduces a painting by the
Russian artist Flavltsky, showing a
beautiful woman standing on her bed
in a cell in this prison, seeking to es
cape the rising waters of a flood that
threatens her life. This was the Prin
cess Tarakanova, who had Incurred
the enmity of Catherine the Great. The
tradition is that she was drowned, by
order of the empress, during the in
undation of 1777. The Sphere, how
ever, shows that she died of tuberculo
sis two years before the flood swept
through the fortress. Thus tills gloomy
prison and the great empress are re
lieved of one of the tragedies with
which they have been associated.—
The Outlook.
In Praise of Music.
■Music adds nothing but good; sub
tracts the evil; multiplies that which
we already have; discounts our ail
ments and compounds all of our inter
est. If you believe this is true, “push”
music. Aid the choir, choral and or
chestral societies. Sympathize with
and in every way support public
school music.
A foreign traveler in our country
said he was deeply impressed with our
silences. He heard no reapers sing
ing in the field, he heard many a bird
carol, but no human songs. That re
minds me of the old saying: •‘Blessed
is the man who sings ut his work.”
Take an interest in creating a musi
cal atmosphere in the home, and soon
America will he s', ging and we shall
be able to take in music not only by
the small channel of the ear, but
through every pore of our bodies
straight to the root of our souls.—The
Musician.
Mint to Mothers.
T.f't us never be like the mother wliu
biuu ner boy was not interested In any
thing. For the boy’s teacher when
she called noticed that he had a box
which he seemed to take care of, and
it was not long before she learned
that it was a collection of caterpillars.
Yet the mother said that her boy was
interested in nothing. The teacher at
once showed her pupil that she, too,
was Interested in his collecti m. She
learned from the boy a great many
things about caterpillars that she did
not know, and in turn taught him
things he did not know. Teacher and
boy became great friends; through
this common interest others sprang up
and the boy changed from a sullen
inattentive boy to a broad-minded,
wide-awake man. If the mother could
only have shared her boy’s interest,
how much more helpful they would
have been to each other.—Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
Practice Handwriting.
For years business people have de
pended on the typewriting machine
for their letters, and have neglected
their handwriting. The dearth of ma
chines Is now being generally felt, es
pecially in commercial houses, and
once more It has become necessary to
be able to write clearly and legibly.
For the first time the other day the
head of a big business firm took the
trouble to get specimens of the hand
writing of his staff of female clerks.
There were scarcely six who could
write a really good hand. “People
won’t take the time to read a busi
ness letter unless It Is legibly written."
was his querulous comma it.
:OMM!TTEE ISSUES
FAIR PRICE LIST. I
At a recent meeting of the “Fair JJ
Price Committee’, appointed by the
bounty Food Administrator, the foll
owing were agreed upon as being
’air prices:
D-S Meat, per pound_32c
lams, per pound_38c jjjl
breakfast Bacon, per pound_60c j
Smoked Bacon Bellies, per pound._38c
'ure Lard (bulk), per pound_36c ■’
1-lb. Buckets Pure Lard,
>er bucket _$1.50 lj
0- lb. Buckets Pure Lard,
>er bucket _ $3.00 a
Compound Lard (bulk), per
>ound _ 30c M
1- lb. Buckets Compound Lard,
>er bucket _ .___$1.36 • |
!0-lb. Buckets Compound Lard,
)er bucket _ $2.75 |
Mb. Std. Corn, per can_20e |j
Mb Std. Tomatoes, per can__15c
Mb Std. Tomatoes, per can_._25c |
lice, per pound_.___.lfijc
Std. Meal, 25-ib. sacks, per sack gm
'ream Meal 25-lb sack, per sack $1.60 :M
'ream Meal, 10-lb. sacks, per ak. 70c jjl
Mavy Beans, per pound__-_20c
,ima Beans, per pound_20c 1||
'into Beans, per pound_16c J;|
Wheat Flour, 24-lb. sacks_* $1.75 S
lorn Flour, per pound_10c ;
2 ounce loaf of Bread_10c
!4 ounce loaf of bread_20c ■
These prices will be changed from |
ime to time as condition warrant. '?§
FAIR PRICE COMMITTEE
for Jackson Counuty. :8
HUSBAND AND WIFE. 4
Mrs. Frank P. Wood, Box 18, R. F„ 4
3. 2, Morrill, Me., writes: “Foley '3
Kidney Pills help me so much. My
tusband also has received much bent ,m
■fit from them. He was so luat K 1
ould not stoop over and now he fee!t. M
’.o pain.” Lame back, sore muscle ^
biff joints, rheumatic aches and
jains quickly conquered by Foley
Kidney Pills.—Walker's Phamacy. J ^
:AUGHT COLD AT PALM BEACH, i
Southern climate is no protection
igainst summer colds. Helen R.
Landers, (120 2nd Av., W. Palm J
Ber.ch, Fla., writes: “My severe M
■old on the chest was relieved by Ftt* | 1
ey’s Honey and Compound." Thla
'ine old family remedy can be de- | -S j
pended upon to relieve sttnamer
ay fever, asthma and croup.—Walk
i'ARKER CONVINCED " >4
BY HIS EXPERIENCE Mj
‘1 Can Recommend Tanlac In the s
Highest Terms,” Says Wellr \
Known Alabama Dentist— -3
Declares He Ib Well Man. jtM
“I am firmly convinced from my
own experience with Tanlac, that it
vill do all people claim for it, ti I ?
am a well man now, after suffering i
-or twelve years until I took .yM
iac,” is the frank statement of Dr. .
3. J. Parker, a well known dehtiit
,f Roanoke, Alabama. —
“I had a bad form of stomach txott-.
ole, which distressed me centi “
all these years,” he con
‘Terrible headaches would com®
me frequently as a result of a OK
rted and upset stomach and
last for hours. These attacks