Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1901 — Page 3

AGRICCULTURAL

To Test Crimson Clover Seed. The germination of crimson clover seed even when the seed Is comparatively pure often leaves much to be desired. The seed deteriorates rapidly with age. There is, however, a simple quality test within the reach of any buyer, as shown in a home-made germlnator Illustrated in a circular of the Department of Agriculture. A plepe of moist flannel is laid upon a plate, and a certain number of seeds are counted out and laid upon the flannel, a second fold of which is placed over them. Then another plate Is Inverted over the whole. The seeds are removed and

HOME-MADK SEED GERMINATOR.

counted as fast as they germinate. Good crimson clover will sprout 80 to 90 per cent of the seed within three days. Ground Bone aa Fertilizer. As a fertilizer for certain purposes ground raw bone deserves a high place, if it is the genuine article, and is very finely ground. Much of that which is sold for that purpose is not fine enough, and not only requires too long to become available, but in some cases never becomes so, as it seems to become coated or glazed over so that the acids of the soil cannot act upon it. The bone is not adapted for a fertilizer for field crops, or for general use upon light soils, but in a strong soil well filled with vegetable matter it is good for seeding down to grass, as its decay in the soil may require years during all of which time it is feeding the grass crop. Yet w 6 think we have found better results from using it around grape vines and the bush fruits than in any other way. There is nitrogen enough so that when used in the early spring it will promote a good- growth of wood and foliage, just enough for a thrifty bush or vine, but not enough to continue that growth during the fall, while the phosphoric acid will help to make a growth of fruit and a jucier and better flavored fruit than would grow without it. It certainly lacks potash, and unless upon new soil Its effects would be Improved by using about half the same amount of muriate of potash with it, which will make the wood stiffer and more hardy. The amount to use per acre must depend upon the number and size of plantbut liberality is generally the best economy.—American Cultivator. ,

Market Wagon Improvement. It is a convenience, when peddling vegetables, fruit, etc., to have a long bodied wagon, rather than to pile barrels and boxes high. With a longbodied wagon very little climbing is

MARKET WAGON PLATFORM.

necessary; with a short-bodied wagon constant climbing becomes tiresome. The plan herewith shows a board platform extended beyond the body of the wagon and on it barrels, boxes, bags, etc., can be placed and held securely by a rope.—Farm and Home.

Grain Ruat. The red rust which often appears on rye and wheat is the same that appears earlier in the season upon the leaves of the barberry bush. We have heard It both asserted and denied that the same rust attacks the oat, but never were able to trace the rust on oats to the direct vicinity of the barberry, as we have that which appeared on rye. But where these grains are grown we advise cutting and burning of all the barberry bushes near the Held. In some parts of England they have very strict laws, obliging this to be done. There are probably some other plants upon which this rust can be found, as it is sometimes found on grain when there is not a barberry bush for miles, but where they are it always starts ©n them before it does on the grain. iAbout the time the grain begins to

harden this turns to a black rust, which is only an advanced form of the same disease. It does not hurt the kernel of the grain, unless to cause it to shrink if it comes very early.—Exchange. - .1 The Pea Vine Louse. Not long since we said that we would not give up trying to grow peas, although the louse worked a great deal about us last season, tout we hoped that they might die out or be greatly reduced after one or two years prevalence. Now we have the rteport of the experiment station at Amherst for 1900, which says of this pest: “Less has been heard about this insect than in 189$), though it has caused considerable loss in several places in the South. Whether it will increase in importance during 1901 is at least doubtful.” As ( it appears upon clover and some other plants, as well as upon the pea, to stop planting peas would not starve them out. The season probably was not favorable last year to many species of insects, as a warm spell started eggs to hatching early, and it was followed by a cold period that was too severe for the very young, and probably many perished. But it is not best to trust the work entirely to nature when we can find a way to assist in the good work of defending our orchards and plants by spraying or by other means.— Massachusetts Ploughman. Corn Planting. If corn is planted while the ground is wet and cold, the germ does not start, or starts only to decay. In this it differs from the smaller grains, most of which seem not to require the heat or the air to promote growth, which are needed by the corn. These causes operate to oblige many farmers to replant much of their cornfields, if they attempt to hasten their work by putting the seed in the ground too early. A depth of two inches is deep enough for putting seed corn, unless it is planted very late in a warm and dry soil. For level culture we would prefer to wait longer, and then possibly go a little deeper, but while level culture seems to have found favor in the so-called corn-growing sections, and is almost a necessity where the weeder or light harrow is run over it after the corn is up, it is difficult to convince the farmer in New England that he should not hill or ridge it up a little as he cultivates it.—New England Homestead. Sign Board Advertising. If the farmer when he visited the city saw nothing on the store fronts to indicate what was for sale within, he would think the merchants were very much lacking in business ability. But if he rides out through the country he seldom sees anything to tell him who has a cow or pig, eggs or seed corn to sell, and he must inquire and hunt about it if he wants to buy, unless he has chanced to hear before he left home. It would be well for each farmer to have near the entrance to his grounds a blackboard on which he could each week put an announcement of what he may have to sell, or wishes to buy. It would be likely not only to help him dispose of his products, but by bringing more customers, and some farther away, enable him to obtain better prices. It is a cheap and very effective mode of advertising.

Soaking Corn for Horses. One who has tried it advises soaking corn for horses. Have a clean pail or jar, and after each feed put in as much corn as is intended for the next feed and cover with cold water. At feeding add a little salt to this and give it, then prepare the next. He says he does this and has no trouble with sore mouth or teeth from the use of hard, flinty com. But we prefer to have the com cracked when we mix it with oats, or ground fine and the meal put on hay that has been cut and moistened. We think it more thoroughly digested by the latter method. If one is where he cannot get his corn td mill, the above hint may be of some value to him, though we would prefer more than six hours soaking if we trusted to that entirely.—Exchange.

Horticultural Notes. Hardy hydrangea stands drought well. , There is no abatement in the demand for decorative nursery stock. a The Otaheite dwarf orange pot plarft is attractive, whether in fruit or flower. English ivy is well recommended for shady places, such as bare spots under trees. Plant your peaches on high ground, for it is coolest in summer and warmest in winter. The extraordinary demand for geraniums this year runs very largely to semi-double kinds. The “light pink" Lorraine is another of the variations from the beautiful and popular Gloire de Lorraine. Leading fruit-growers have claimed that where lime and sulphur are used as a wash for trees there will be no pear blight Dahlia growers all over the world are striving to produce a better flower. The color la better, the stems longer, and the flower more vigorous. Fashion rules in flowers as well as dress. It is said that English leaders In floral Matters have decreed the downfall of Incurved chrysanthemum*.

VICTORY FOR EXPANSION.

Supreme Court’s Gratifying Decision in Insular Cases. The Supreme Court’s decisions are an overwhelming defeat for those who contended that in their own constitution the American people had deprived themselves of any of the attributes of sovereignty. Whatever else may be said of them, they are a sweeping victory for the principle of national sovereignty and for expansion as an application of that principle. The order in which the Court announced its decisions, and the fact that evening newspapers Jumped to the conclusion that the first decision covered the whole field, have caused a certain confusion in the public mind as to the purport of the court’s rulings. Upon consideration of all the decisions together this confusion disappears. In the De Lima and Dooley cases the court decided that Porto Rico became American soil from the moment of the ratification of the treaty of Paris. “From the moment,” to quote the court, “the United States ceased to be a foreign country with respect to Porto Rico, and until Congress acted, importations were free from duty from one place to the other, or vice versa. The right to free entry of goods continued until Congress constitutionally acted.” In the Downes case, however, the court held that, while Porto Rico became American soil by the treaty of Paris, ft did not thereby acquire all the privileges of an, American State. “Porto Rico,” the court said, “is a territory belonging to the United States, but not a part of the United States within the revenue clause of the constitution.” Therefore the Foraker Act, imposing a ta,x on Porto Rican products, is unconstitutional. The distinction here made the court based upon a variety of reasons. “The said Mr. Justice Brown, “has been longcontinued and uniform that the constitution is applicable to territories only when and so far as Congress shall direct.” “Power to acquire territory,” he added, “implies not only power to govern, but to prescribe upon what terms the United States will receive its inhabitants, and what their status shall be.” “The logical inference Is,” he concluded, “that if Congress had power to acquire new territories, which is conceded, that power was not hampered by the constitutional restrictions.” Justices White, Shiras, McKenna, and Gray reached the same conclusion by different roads. They pointed out that the Paris treaty expressly provided that the civil rights and political status of. Porto Ricans should be determined by Congress, and that Porto Rico “had not been Incorporated into the United States, but was merely appurtenant thereto as a possession.” Therefore Congress was not controlled by the revenue clause of the constitution. The Supreme Court’s decisions have cleared away many misapprehensions. They have declared our new possessions American soil, and thus refuted the Bryanite attempts to pick flaws in our title. They have delivered us from the danger of having suddenly injected Into our citizenship millions not yet fitted for all its "privileges. They have left us free to apply to these millions the test of fitness, and to say when they may be properly admitted into full membership in the American family. On the other hand, the court has said that we cannot govern these peoples oppressively. It requires us to consider their needs as well as our interests in governing them. It has declared that the American people have not in their constitution deprived themselves of any attribute of sovereignty, but may in the future, as in the past, exercise all their powers for the education and elevation of all who come under their sway.—Chicago Inter Ocean.

Concerning Reciprocity. Habitual disregard—suppression, it might be called—of central principles and facts seems to be a uniform characteristic of the votaries of tariff tinkering by means of special trade treaties secretly negotiated and secretly confirmed. They argue along general lines that, If we are to sell more to foreigners, we must buy more from foreigners, unmindful of the complete negation of this theory by the enormous increase in the export of our agricultural and manufactured products in the past four years of adequate protection. They urge that our trade balances are too large and must be cut down by an increased acceptance of foreign commodities to take the place of articles which are now produced at home; but when they are itsked to specify the extent to which this Industrial hari-kari shall be carried into effect, where it is to stop and what lines of domestic production shall be driven out of business in order that we may buy as much as we sell, or thereabouts, they make no answer; they dodge the point. A conspicuous instance of this tendency to ignore leading questions and disregard inconvenient facts is exhibited by the Philadelphia Ledger of recent date in commenting upon the attitude of the American Economist in its controversy with Hon. George E. Roberts, Director of the Mint. Mr. Roberts, says the Ledger, was asked by the Economist “to what extent fair trade and reciprocity would Introduce foreign merchandise and supplant production in the United States." A fair question, was it not? Yet the Ledger in defending the position of Mr. Roberts utterly fails to make note of the fact that that gentleman did not answer the question, but applauds him for evading it by a quotation from the Republican platform of 1896, while suppressing the more recent, and therefore more binding, declaration of the National Republican platform of 1900, -which limits reciprocity “to what we do not ourselves produce.” It is a con-

venient memory which can forget 1900 and remembers 1896, but it is a mental eccentricity absolutely peculiar to the strenuous advocates of “fair trade and reciprocity.” The St. Paul Pioneer-Press exhibits the same Idiosyncrasy when it says: “To designate the failure of the treaties as shameful is hardly too severe. The reciprocity clauses of the Dingley law were included in response to a very general demand for reciprocity, and as the first step in the redemption of a pledge in the Republican platform.” Again the platform of five years ago, but not the platform of eleven months ago! The official proceedings of the twelfth Republican National Convention, held at Philadelphia in June, 1900, are incorporated in a neatly bound volume, which is, or should be, in the library of every newspaper office. The little book is undoubtedly on the shelves of the Ledger and the Pioneer-Press. Presumably its existence has been forgotten. So we venture to refresh the editorial memory by directing attention to the paragraph which begins at the bottom of page 105 and ends at the top of page 106. It should be read over and over again by some people, for it possesses a peculiar pertinency to the question of “fair trade and reciprocity.”—American Economist. A New Market. While the free traders are looking all over, the earth for new markets, they are overlooking a very important one that ought to be gained, and gained easily. This information is of great value, but the American Economist gives it freely to our poor, blind, deaf (but not dumb) American Cobdenites. During the fiscal year 1900 there were imported into the United States $849,941,184 worth of merchandise, a part of which can be grouped as follows: Animals $3,597,953 Breadstuff's Chemicals, etc 21,599,570 Cotton manufactures 39,789,972 Earthen, stone and china ware 8,646,224 Fibers and manufactures of. 32,986,486 Fish 5,826,731 Furs and manufactures of.. 5,426,998 Fruits and nuts 11,799,419 Glass and manufactures of. 4,905,388 Iron and steel and mfrs. of. 20,857,844 Jewelry and precious stones. 13,290,466 Leather and manufactures of 13,130,742 Liquors , 11,892,581 Oils 2,531,416 Paints and colors 1,515,697 Paper and manufactures of. 3,787,523 Provisions • 2,255,491 Rice 2,062,298 Silk manufactures 30,358,777 Sugar, confectionery and molasses 80,800,221 Tobacco and manufactures of 13,597,162 Toys 2,893,116 Vegetables 2,707,964 Wood and manufactures of. 14,113,231 Wool and manufactures of. 30,656,715 Total of ab0ve5382,156,813 Most of which could be produced in the United States. In fact, we are importing annually over $400,000,000 worth of merchandise ■which could be produced at home. Our total imports for 1900 were, in value: Free.. 5367,236,866 Dutiable 482,704,318 $849,941,184 Why not look into this, free traders? Think of the freight we could save, and think of the additional labor that would be employed and the amount of wages that would be paid. Why go to Europe, Asia and Africa looking for a chance to sell a few million dollars’ worth of stuff when there is a market for over $400,000,000 to be gained at our very doors? As A. Lincoln said of the rat hole, this will bear looking into.

AGE OF THE EARTH.

Scientista Place Habitable Time at 20,000,000 Years. Figures, it must appear to many thinkers, lose their substantial meaning after they pass the million stage; the fact that we can say seven or ten or a hundred million does not mean that we/an grasp what these millions have power to effect or that we can follow them out into the beginningless tract of time and space. However, to such people as may think they are able to follow battalions of figures it may be of Interest to give the latest opinions on the work of the geological ages. Lord Kelvin estimates the age of the earth, since it was sufficiently cooled to become the abode of plants and animals, to be about 20,000,000 years, within limits of error perhaps ranging between 15,000,000 and’ 30,600,000 years. This estimate, nearly agreeing with another by Clarence King from similar physical data, has generally been regarded by geologists, says Warren Upham In the American Geologist, as too short for the processes of sedimentation and erosion, and for the evolution of floras and faunas, of which the earth’s strata bear record. More probably, as ratios and computations by Dana, Walcott and other geologists somewhat harmoniously indicate, the duration of time since the beginning of life on earth has been three to five times longer than Kelvin’s estimate, or from 60,000,000 to 100,000,000 years. The larger figures Imply from the dawn of life to the development of the Cambrian and Silurian faunas probably 50,000,000 years; thence to the efid of Paleozoic time perhaps 30,000,000 years; onward through Mesozoic time about 15,000,000 years, and through the Tertiary era about 5,000,000 years. The comparatively very short Quaternary era, having In its organic revolution, as shown by the marine mollusca, no higher ratio to tertiary time than 1.50, may therefore have occupied only about 100,000 years.—American Catholic Quarterly Review.

Punctuality, honesty and brevity are the watchwords of life.—C. W. Field.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Minister’s Black-Sheep Son Abducts* a Girl and Then Deserts Her—Attempt to Wreck a Sedalia Store—Prominent People Arrested for Shopliftins. In the disappearance of Miss Ora Atkinson, aged 16, a rival to the famous Nellie Berger case has developed. Miss Atkinson started for church in Morocco one Bunday evening in April. On the way she was accosted by Calvin Tuggle, son of a prominent United Brethren minister, who invited her to take a drive. She consented and after entering the buggy he informed her that she was in his power and that he>would run away with her. He told her that in ease she attempted to escape he would kill her. The pair drove to ReHssellaer, where they boarded the train for Monon, there registering as husband and wife. Later they went to North Judson, San Pierre, Knox, Medaryville and Francisville, reaching Argos recently. When the girl left she was warmly and attractively attired. Now she has but a thin shirtwaist, skirt, shoes and stockings. As the result of abuse and exposure she is critically ill. The hotel proprietor recognized the couple and by threatening arrest forced Tuggle to wire the girl’s parents. He immediately disappeared. Dynamite Placed in a Die Store. At Sedalia the other night an attempt was made to blow up the big store of Miller & Roll with dynamite. When discovered the fuse, attached to five pounds of the explosive, which had been placed in a window of a storeroom, had burned to within six inches of the bundle of dynamite sticks, tied together with twine. The burning fuse was extinguished by a small boy. The attempt is supposed to be due to the fierce temperance war which was waged in the town for several years and which resulted in the destruction by dynamite of the only saloon in the town, a few weeks ago. Miller & Roll have been prominent in the fight against the saloons. • Church People Go to Jail. Mr. and Mrs. James Sanders, active members of the First Methodist Church of Marion, were arrested on the charge of shoplifting. The superintendent of police and three patrolmen went to the Sanders home with a search warrant and found SI,OOO worth of silks, linen, silverware, diamonds and jewelry that was identified by the local merchants as stolen from their counters. Accept Invitation to Stea’. Thieves entered the Standard Oil Company’s office in Evansville and robbed the safe of $750. The safe is always left open at night and this sign hung on the door: “Help yourself; don't crack the safe.” The officials acted on the theory that it was cheaper to leave the sr.fe open than to run the risk of having it blown open.

Flock of Sheep Burned by L ! rr’'t-' , ’><-. At the approach of a storm H. K. Johnson, a Kokomo farmer, drove his Hock of fine merino sheep into the barn, expecting to shear them. Just as the door was closed the barn was struck by lightning and entirely consumed by fire. The fiock of forty-nine sheep was burned. The loss was $3,000. Within Our Borders. Several cases of smallpox are reported ft-om Doolittle’s Mill and Sigler Creek. William J. Irwin, a prominent politician, fined $250 for disturbing a meeting at Vincennes. Chas. J. Sweazey has been recommended for postmaster at Nappanee, to succeed Frank Brown. Bicycle and buggy shop of Sidepbender & Bennett, Delphi, darpaged $1,500 by fire; partly insured. Edna Gray, 12, Henryville, was killed by an engine while trying to save her pet do£ from being run over. Charles Cain, Connersville contractor, died of internal injuries caused by falling from second-storj A. L. Donaldson, Bloomington, will build nine miles of pike road from Greensburg to Milhousen for $17,240. L. W. Fletcher, for nearly half a century identified with the pork-packing industry in Indianapolis, died suddenly, aged 75. Widow of Wolf Betz, whose body was found in the Wabash below Mt Vernon, has sued Louis A. Lengelson for SIO,OOO. He was last seen in Lengelson’s saloon. The plant of the Rushville Furniture Company was damaged $30,000 by fire. D. J. Kosse, foreman of the finishing department, was fatally burned by an explosion. J. W. Chipman, Indianapolis, sold his franchise for an electric line through Cambridge City to the Central Traction Company and, it is thought, that company will buy the Indianapolis ami Greepfield line and build through to Richmond. « Charles Ridgeway, a local athlete and boxer of Kappa, has become insane. On a recent night he engaged to meet all who would stand before him. His opponents were numerous, and, though he put out twelve men in the carnival, the effort was too much for him, and as a result he is now violently insane. A breach of promise suit was filed in the Circuit Court at Vincennes by Miss Hannah Mayes against Aaron G. Jordan, a wealthy merchant of Decker, asking $25,000 damages. She alleges that in February, 1896, she and the defendant became engaged to be married and that Jordan kept postponing the fulfillment of the engagement from time to time, till April 15 laat, when he married Miss Pearl Elliott, a beautiful young school teacher and very popular. Mr. Jordan is said to be worth about $75,000. Mrs. Lucinda Reagan, 63, Kokomo, ruptured a blood vessel Iwher throat and died soon. Gen. Lew Wallace will build an elegant lodge on his fish and game farm, near Crawfordsville. Warehouse of the Western Cane Sewing Company, Michigan City, burned. Loss $65,000, insured. Rufus McPherson, aged 70. the famous Greenfork twins, la dead, aml his brother is prostrated. Kokomo Steel and Wire Nail Company, which will employ 1.000 men, is likely ’ to buck the steel trust hard.

PULSE PRESS

Locking children in a house alone ought to be made murder in the Oth degree.— Detroit News. The trusts have more to fear from their own work than anything else. —Brockton (Mass.) Times. Strange that riotous strikers never profit by the sad experience of others who tried the same game and failed.— Detroit Free Press. A new Indiana law makes it life imprisonment for kidnapers. But what good is such a law if the kidnapers are all of the Pat Crowe variety?—Toledo Blade. The next time we get one of those Albany dispatches from St. Petersburg, let us not feel obliged to be horrified at the cruelty of the Czar’s government.— Detroit News. *•' George Washington never held a rank higher than that of lieutenant general in the army of the United States. Gen. Miles has a right to feel his honors.—Omaha Bee. Returns from the national banks I* Nebraska, outside of Omaha and Lincoln, show that the deposits are steadily on the increase. The State banks show a similar condition.—Omaha Bee. Divorces are becoming so common that it is suggested that it may soon be necessary for the applicant folr a lady’s hand to bring letters of recommendation from his last wife. —Topeka Journal. Three terrible Turks have successively come to this country and walked off with the wrestling honors. If sitting crosslegged on a cushion develops this type of physique it Is time for the professors of gymnastics to explain.—St. Louis GlobeDemocrat.

It is stated that Kansas will need 20,000 laborers from outside the State to get in the wheat crop. It will be a busy time out there and fantastic politicians and reformers of various sorts will have to take a back seat until it is all over.—New York Evening Sup. The Niles bank wrecker, who left some $175,000, more or Htra, to be provided by the stockholders, is released on SIO,OOO bail, and will spend the warm months at a summer resort, while his dupes apply thdir noses to the grindstones to meet his deficiencies. —Detroit Free Press. Regarding his appointment as brigadier general in the regular army it will be observed that Br’er Funston “ain’t - sayin’ nothin’." If he continues to hold his tongue as hard as he is holding it now he may yet be President of the United States.—New York Mail and Express. The surgeons think nothing nowadays of taking out a man’s stomach. At Santa Ana, Cal., they have relieved a sufferer of one lung, much to his benefit. They will soon take people’s heads off and leave them more intelligent and more beautiful than they were before.—New York Evening Sun. •

Gen. Chaffee is a positive man and when he said that American and British soldiers would never again face each other on the battlefield he only said in a positive manner what he thought. But it’s ten to one he had in his mind a proviso that if they ever did the Yankee soldiers would always be “face-on.” —Milwaukee Journal. If Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith be right when he says that “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is responsible for John Brown’s raid and the Civil War, then it is responsible for Abraham Lincoln, and Ulysses 8. Grant, and W. T. Sherman, and a lot of other prominent results—including a good deal of free advertising for Mr. Smith.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The fact that Benjamin Harrison was once President of th§ United States does not interfere in the least with the other fact that he had a right to dispose of his property by will in such manner as seemed to him just and expedient Newspaper comment on lys action in this matter is not only superfluous, but impertinent —Philadelphia Bulletin. In . the action of the Illinois Central Railroad Company providing for a pension to old employes may be seen another development of the spirit that has recently started among moneyed men. The act is further evidence that the interests of employer and employe are bound together on something more than a dollar-and-cents basis.—St. Louis Republican. > The German reichstag appears to have realized that China is a rotten orange, and that far too much money has already been wasted upon the German Asiatic expedition. The Russian plan could be executed if the concert of the powers should consist of absolute monarchies, but not in a world of representative, constitutional governments. Philadelphia Record. It is one of the great advantages connected with the public school system of the United States that it has a powerful influence toward preventing the erection of barriers between different sections of the people and toward promoting among them all a sentiment of community. Here, by far the greater number of parents send their children to the public schools, and attendance there carries with it no social disabilities whatever.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Capital punishment has been restored to the statute books by the Colorado Legislature, in the hope that the deplorable lynching record of the Centennial Stats may be intermitted and redeemed by observance of the laws. Among the fortyfive States of the Union Rhode Island, Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin are now the only communities in which the penalty of a life for a life is not exacted under terms of statutory enactment.— Philadelphia Record.

Decrease in New York’s Death Rate.

New' York's health .department was created in 1866. At that time, according to the Public Health Record, the death rate in the city was 34.92 per 1,000, with a population of 767,979. In 1900 the death rate had decreased to 21.04 per 1,000 in a population of 3,444,675. y Harvard College observatory station at Arequlpa, Peru, has discovered a’new comet. _____ Robbers got $1,500 from the G. & (k Railroad station, New Albany, Miss.