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The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-05
HERE AND THERE.

-Sows confined to small pens and
fed trash will rarely bring strong
healthy pigs. She needs plenty OF
green food and exercise.
One days or seven days record
is but little indication of the value OF
a dairy COW. What she can do in a
year tells the true story.
A field turned out to rest is like
a human ~loafer; if it is not kept busy
raising 81 crop it is sure to get into
mischief by growing weeds to seed
the useful acres.
Conditions point to a high pc.
Rod for beef cattle for a long series
of years, making strong inducements
for growing beef cattle in the corn
belt, and for many years to come.
Tt hardly pays to doctor a sick
hen unless you know what is the mat
ter with it. If a fowl gets sick with
some unknown disease, take it away
from the flock, and if it does not get
better, kill it.
Perhaps the wagons or. nipple
ments do not need paint, but if it has
been on a year or more it may be re
freshed and preserved by washing and
coating with pure linseed oil, allow.
ing it to dry thoroughly.
After all is said and done, does
any human being really like . fat
hen cooked? Does anybody eat the
fat of a hen, or a duck. or a goose, OF
q turkey? Is not all poultry fat real
Is nauseous? Its flesh that is wanted.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-05
WHO ARE THE LUCKY ONES ?
A Vienna Miser Leaves a Fortune to
Brothers and Sisters Living liz
the United tates

Vienna, Dec. 1.-The heirs, some of
whom are living in the United States,
are wanted to an estate valued at
about 100000, left by Heinrich Oes-
terreicher, a miser, who recently died
here. The Vienna authorities found
among his papers a schedule of Sc
c%urities worth 500, DOC, but only GER
tifcates to the value of $4,000. Upon
being questioned, Oesterreicher's land
lady produced a batch of securities
worth SIT, 900, and said that the de-
ceased had presented them to her the
day before he died. The woman has
handed over the papers to the authori-
ties, but without renouncing her claim
on them
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Of thing in college before he went
to the mining school. Buck made an
awful fight, but he jest couldn't do
nothin', and cause we-all had to see
fair play we had to stand by and see
a milk drinking tenderfoot lick the
best man in Yaller Dust camp.
when that fight was over Buck
crawled home. We-all expected to
see him show up with his gun, but
he didn't. You-all may think I've for
gotten to tell you why this gulch is
called Tenderfoot Canyon. I'm jest
comm to it.
"Iou see, Buck Bradley had a lit
tie girl jest eight years old and
named Jennie. Buck was spliced
when he was only 10, and his wife
cashed in when Jennie was born.
Buck thought more of Jennie a heap
than he did of himself, and all the
gold in the Rockies. Jennie run kind
a wild like. She was always goin'
into queer places after flowers and
the like. The day after Bucks fight
with the tenderfoot Jennie started
out to get some mountain sandwort
for the school-teacher that we-all
had just imported. It's a pretty
flower, the sandwort, and it snuggles
close to the rocks, and it don't mind
the snow and the ice a little bit.
."Jennie went up the mountain
along the edge of the canyon. She
got up 300 feet, and l tell you-all
that it was a sheer straight down,
with hardly a break to the bottom.
The little one seen some sandwort
CROWN in a hole jest over the edge,
and she leaned over to pick some,
an she leaned too far an fell. There
vas a three-foot ledge with some
bushes on it 40 feet below. Jennie
landed in the bushes and she wasn't
hurt. There was more than $50 feet
below her and nary a break. and the
face of the cliff above was smoother
than Nosey Ike's pool table. Jennie
had good nerve. She wasn't hurt
a little bit. She jest lay there for a
few minits and kept on thinking.
She knowed she mustn't move or
she'd tumble. Then she let's out a
little yell. and then another. and an
other, louder and louder. Then she
looks straight up and she sees a
face perrin over the cliff and the
eyes lookin' down on her. It's the
tenderfoot. He was out prospectin'
and he heard Jennie zip.
keep still, little un,' he says. AN
I'll save you And 20 he tales his
lariat and ties, one end around a
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-05
WHY so SLOW TO LEARN ?
Numerous Factors in Farm Economy
Which, if Observed, Would Tend
to Greater Profit.

AS we go here and there over the
country and see the condition of the
farms we are constantly impressed
with the fact that our southern farm
ers are slow to learn. They have been
taught by observation and experience
and instruction many things of i'm
portance. But they do not seem to
have learned them.
Their practices are much the same
as they were a generation ago. A
thousand experiments have proved
the value of deep soil, but the average
farmer is still blowing shallow.
1t took fifteen years to teach them
the value of cottonseed and it is quite
as difficult to teach them the value of
their corn-stalks. They continue to
throw away a valuable crop after it
has been made.
The same is true in regard to beef
cattle. 1t is a well-established truth
that the common scrub cattle of the
country will not make ~first-class
beevs. A Shorthorn or Here
ford can be raised for about the same
cost as a scrub, and be worth more
times as much. But we see the coun-
try filled with scrubs.
They seem to have learned that the
razor-back hog is no good, but why
do they not learn the same fact about
the scrub or native cows?
Their experience has shown them
that cotton is the most expensive and
least profitable crop that they grow.
but still they persist in planting and
growing so much cotton that the
price is kept too low for profit.
They have been taught that it is
not good business to rush their cot
ton on the market every fall faster
than the demands of trade will call
for it. But here they go, from the
field to the gin, from the gin to the
warehouse and sell regardless of the
market demands.
They see the value, yea, the neces-
sity Of organization in every vooa-
ton of life, yet they refuse to come
together and help each other, and,
| by so doing, help themselves.
They see the folly and ruin wrought
every year by the credit and mort
gage system, still they go on buying
on time things that they could easily
raise on their farms. They mortgage
what they have and what they expect
to have for things that they could
pay for. So we might go on and
lengthen this list. Why, we ask, are
| the farmers Of the south SO slow to
learn?-Southern C~ultivator.
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10 ~ ~ AAk 4
stunted pine and down he goes hand
over hand an gets a footin' on the
ledge.
"Now Buck Bradley had got scareI
when he heard Jennie had gone up
the mountain by the canyon and he
gets me- and Bill Peters to go along
with him to hunt for her. We all
gets to the place where Jennie tum-
bled Jest after the tenderfoot had
gone over the cliff on the lariat.
We see the lariat tied to the stump
and pokes u heads over and looks
down and then we knows what's do
in. Buck Bradley goes pale even to
his nose, which is saying much. We
amt got no ropes o nothin' with
us and we howls down to the ten
derfoot to wait till one o, US goes
back to camp and brings up some
stuff, fer the lariat he has over the
cliff we see won't stand much strain.
"'We can't wait yells up the ten
derfoot, the ledge is a-shakin' and
it may go>any mint. T1l bring her
up safe he says, don't you fear
"Then he takes Jennie on his back
and she's good stuff and clings fast
about his neck and says: 4 amt
scared Then that fellow comes up
the lariat hand over hand with the
little one on his back. l never seen
no n else do such a thing. We
knows now why it was he could lick
Buck, he's that strong. He gets up
to the edge foot by foot. Buck leans
over and grabs the girl and swings
her clear up to the rock by his
side. Jest as he grabbed her the
lariat broke where it had scraped
the sharp edge of the rock and the
tenderfoot went down to death 800
foot below.
snow if you-all will look through
your spy glasses up there where the
trees is you'll see somethin' white.
It's a tombstone over a grave and
any human coyote who NEEDLES
with that stone OF grave won't be
given prayin' time if Buck Bradley
hears of it.
you can read what it says on the
stone from here. Buck got a book
shark to write It before it was cut
in the stone. l amt strong on spell
in, but give me a piece of paper and
a pencil an I'll write it for you.
.........-....s.s
Hear lies /:
!: THOMAS WRIGHT, TENDERFOOT.
!: A better man than Buck Bradley
witch continent Buck sines
with hart and hand. !:
/: BUCK BRADLEY. f:
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"IT MATTERS NOT TO Me-"

We're selfish all, nor do we feel
The ills of life, the woe or veal
swift or slow on others steal;
ut matters not to me-"
Men writhe beheath the tyrant's lash.
Or, whelm'd' beneath misfortune's crash,
Fal swift and, far like meteor'S flash;
That matters not to me-"
In deep distress men walk through life
Despairdng, faint, midst hopeless strife.
Heart and hope dead. misery rife;
Nor matters this to me-"
Souls. speeding swift to 6arksome night,
Or soaring high in endless fight
To thrilling scenes OF blissful light;
Matters not this to me-"
All. no.! Not thus! The rather may
We feel for others, toll ana pray.
And, loving each, tenderly say:
1T matters much to me-"
Then, giving all of self In deed
To every cad of brothers need
Fore'er We'll know by Heaven decree0
1T matters all to me-"
REV. ID. Il. Lowell, d. D., in N. Y. OBJ
server.
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NEwsY NOTES.

Frances walnut crop will probably
prove 80 per cent. below that of a
normal year.
The number of laborers engaged on
the Simplon tunnel in September was
3,O14, who added 334 metres to the
tunnel, which now measures 1920
metres.
The Paris Gaulois thinks that the
collapse of the Grand Palais in the
Champs Elysees is only a question
of time. It was built in the years
1S90-1900.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-05
Spear Points.

Singing saints are seldom sad ones.
A good man will always find some
good in men.
The light of love is not created by
the friction of religious controversy.
Small vices may be fordable one at a
time, but they soon unite into an i'm
passable river.
You may try to do many a days
worry, but you can only do n days
work at a time.
Some men lay the loadstone of lust
alongside the compass of conscience,
and then talk about its being q good
guide.-Ram's Horn
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-05
SEVERE PUNISHMENT.
The Extent to Which the British
Punished the RebelliOus
Waxiri Tribesmen.

Peshawur, British India, Nov. 3d.
Twenty-Five Waziris killed, 202 taken
prisoners, two wounded, SO towers
and three villages destroyed, 5000
head of cattle and As guns captured,is
the net result of the British expedi-
ton recently sent against the rebel
lious tribesmen. The effect of this
punishment upon the offending tribes
is said to have been salutary.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-05

Chicago Record Herald.

For the first time in a number OF
years New York has no liking of the
dudes" this season. This doubtful
distinction, once held by Berry Wall,
j. Waldere Kirke, Archie Bell and
others, is not claimed by or credited
to any particular dandy this year,
Doubtless the title, with all its bi.
r glory, has passed away for
good, for nowadays a dead level OF
excellence in sartorial matters makes
it almost impossible for anyone to
shine conspicuously in this respect.
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A Jealous Foo1,. Deed

Wardner, Idaho, Nov. 3o.-Incensed
by jealousy, Arthur Goode fired five
shots into Mrs. James Auberry, Fri.
day night. The woman died a few
minutes later. Goode then drew q
second gun and attempted to turn II
on the woman husband but the lat
ter overpowered him.
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To ne Congratulated.

Manager have read your play
carefully and cannot find the slightest
trace of a plot.
Playwright-Have you any sug-
gestions to make?
aOh. no-nothing but congratula-
tions.-N. Y. Herald.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-05

Commodore Vanderbilt, the first of
the Vanderbilt family and founder of
the fortune, used to say this: "Never
tell anybody what you are going to
do till you do it,"
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-05
III Proper Gauge.

First Fair One-They say you-never
know a a until you have summered
and wintered with him.
Second Fair One-My experience is
that you never know him until you
find out how much alimony he a pay.
IN. Y. Herald.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-05

A contemporary says that gasoline
has raised a few cents. We have known
it to both raise and RAE other thing,
when it got the right start.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-05
Cotton Gin Burned.

Ardmore, I. T., Nov. 30.-The cotton
gin of O'Brien and Byrd at Long
Grove, was destroyed by fire to-day.
Loss. $4,000: fully insured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-22
Colombia and the Canal.

The New York Herald describes the Pan
anna canal as 1.-The ditch of death" There
Is much to warrant the appellation. Fevers
are uncomfortable there, and thousands
have persisted. The death rate while the
French were digging was high. and we
have every reason to believe that our own
tribute IL we begin work will be in the same
proportion. The bulk of the labor employed
VIII not be acclimated and the risk there
fore will be great. And this OF course will
operate to put up the price of labor and add
to the cost of the enterprise. Our pay rolls
will have to carry feature of life insur-
ance.
1t is well to recall this fact now that CO.
lombia is showing disposition to touch"
US in the matter of terms. She is acting
her power; as IL her climate was perfect,
the route through her borders the best,
and that all things pointed to Panama or
no canal. She Is of course greatly mis-
taken all along that line Her climate is
far from perfect. Panama was chosen
largely because of bargain counter consid-
erations. and Nicaragua Is an alternative
recognized by the canal law, with a good
many strong supporters. 1t might not re-
quire great pressure to cause the Senate to
ratify canal treaty with Nicaragua, for
INFLATED In accordance with the authority
given by last sessions legislation, notwith-
standing the Senate's vote of that session
and the report of the Attorney General on
the subject of Panama's title. Such a spirit.
as Colombia has since exhibited toward the
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United States was not suspected at the
time the canal vote was taken.
There should not be on our part the
slightest modification OF our demands In the
premises. We must be supreme In the mat
ter OF control. II we dig at Panama 1t VIII
be on scale which In its effect win make
profound impression on the world. We
shall contribute to the world one OF the
greatest OF enterprises, and one that VIII
steadily grow In value and Importance.
1t may prove to be the very greatest reach
Of waterway In existence. As the owner
and operator OF such work We must at all
times be prepared to defend 1t and be abso-
lutely free to manage 1t in our own way.
The strip Of territory on either side neces-
sary to such an end must be to all intents
and purposes American territory.
We are not. as Colombia seems to think.
at her mercy, nor do we seek to place her
at our mercy. We have come to the point
where work on the isthmian canal has been
authorized by Congress and the people are
expecting an early Inauguration OF the en-
terprise. If not the Panama canal, then
the Nicaragua canal. and many men OF
prominence would be glad to see the latter
route chosen, considering 1t to be on the
whole distinctly the better way.
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Fit Punishment for HOUSEKEEPING

From the Cleveland Leader
Human life, even the life Of criminals, Is
not held so cheaply in this country that
men and women are ready to applaud the
killing of any one. unless there Is very good
reason for feeling that the homicide Is both
Just and necessary. Many persons have es-
capped legal penalties after staying their fell
low-men, on the pretext of self-defense or
other like grounds, when public opinion by
no means approved their deeds of blood
In the two cases which have recently oc-
CURED in Lorain county in which burglars
have been slain by householders there is no
such hesitation or division of opinion In ac-
quitting the men who have taken life
Practically all good citizens feel and say
the killing was good for the country, entire
ly right and just. The sIayers Of dangerous
criminals shot in the very act Of burglary
are commended and admired by the whole
body Of their fellow citizens.
The reason Is that housebreaking, at night
especially. and by armed and desperate
burglars is very brutal and wicked crime
Burglary, in Inhabited dwellings, is always
a threat Of assassination. 1t is instinctively
and naturally regarded as a crime desery-
ing any punishment which may come to the
lawbreaker at the hands of the man or wo-
man whose home is entered. Public opin-
ion Is quite right. Burglars deserve no con-
sideration. They cannot be killed too often,
while in the act of housekeeping, for the
general good of the country and the world.
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creased IN proportion. The latter move Ii
justified by the claim that Increased wages
stand for increased cost OF operation and
that the freight sender must pay his share.
The same proposition Is advanced In the
case Of the coal mine operators who. when
ever raise in wages is forced by the men.
add sufficiently to the price Of the product
to recoup for the additional outlay. Some
times the addition to the price more than
compensates for the swelling Of the pay
roll. and in that case the operators profit
by the demands Of the men. Probably In
the present case II the wage increase Of
ten per cent asked by the anthracite miners
Is granted thee public wild be mulcted In
from fifteen to twenty per cent In additional
coal cost. Just so with the freight rates,
increases in which are more likely than
otherwise to keep ahead Of the wage in
creases. And IL these rates are raised the
shippers will, 'of course, not stand for the
difference. They will pass 1t along. perhaps
with a fraction of profit added to the
wholesaler or retailer, who in turn will dump
the burden on the consumer And In the
last analysis 1t Is the consumer who pays.
Some economists declare that this Is only
right. that the consumer should pay prices
which are calculated upon the total cost OF
production. computed In terms OF wages,
plant, materials and transportation. Ger
tain 1t is that the consumer has no redress,
but must swallow his medicine. In this
particular instance he does not begrudge
the railroad hand his added income, and IL
assured that this increase OF pay is a guar
antee against strikes and paralysis of the
transportation business he will cheerfully
indorse the move. But when the praise for
the generosity toward the men Is bestowed
the humble Individual who eats the gro
ceries and meats and wears the clothes and
shoes and burns the coal transported by
the railroads at increased freight rates
ought to be remembered
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Let US all hope for the best from the
turn things have taken at Scranton. The
country would have followed with con-
stantly decreasing attention an investiga-
ton spun out on lines of business details,
and even the parties In immediate interest
would necessarily have wandered from the
main point. Sharp passages between wilt
nesses and counsel, and efforts of the COM
mission to hold both sides to the text would
have produced irritation and biliousness.
and the final result might not have satisfied
anybody. We might have witnessed that
old familiar spectacle Of the principal losers
repairing to the nearest tavern and sooth-
ing their wounded feelings by "cussin the
court" If therefore after these few days
of sparring the contestants can be brought
to shake hands and agree upon terms for
the future, surely everybody. the public in
Guided, will be the gamer.
The terms suggested appeal at once to
the popular imagination. Sympathy aroused
for the miners has been based upon their
complaint that their pay was too small and
their hours of labor too long. They asked
the public to believe that their only object
was to better their condition within the
bounds Of fair treatment for men In pros
porous country enjoying prosperous times.
The public did not know the actual situa-
ton; but as good pay for hard work stands
generally approved in the United States
this complaint of the anthracite coal miners
arrested attention and strengthened Mr..
Mitchell in his management of their case.
If therefore the coal operators are now will
ing to increase the wage rates and arrange
for shorter hours the miners have. so far
as the public can see, won their fight. and
should be content with that achievement
The recognition Of the miners union in the
anthracite region will not now, we are told,
be insisted upon. That is point about the
value Of which the public is but little ad-
vised. Labor is so widely organized today,
and its organizations are so generally rec
ognized, 1t would appear to be but matter
of a little time and detail for the anthracite
coal miners to share in this recognition.
At any rate the anthracite coal operators
cannot expect to sustain themselves upon
the simple proposition. IL that should be put
forward. that labor unions are not to their
taste. The miners have the same right to
organize that they have; and that they are
united in the matter of dealing with their
men has been made very plain. But they
have right to insist that the miners union
shall be thoroughly responsible institu-
ton, which may be held to it's obligations at
all times and in all circumstances.
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At Manila Yesterday.

The meeting of Gov. Taft and Mgr Guidi
at Manila yesterday inaugurates work Of
great Importance to this government and
the Roman Catholic Church in the Philip
pine Islands. The addresses Of the two off,
Gals were in keeping with the occasion. and
give promise of satisfactory adjustment
of all difficulties. OF course the, church and
the state are working together there tenn
porarily and for a specific purpose. When
that purpose shall have been accomplished
church and state, as at home here, will go
their separate ways. But as at home here
also, both will be working to the same end
so far as law and order are concerned
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A Fayorita of Fortune.

Yaller dog out In de sun,
Prancin' 'roun' an habbin' fun;
Doesn' know de cost O. coal
Muffin tall to fret his soul.
When it's time fob him to eat
Knows rs gwineter glib i'm meat:
Nebber feels a sign o. care
Reckons dat It's my affair
Whah I gifts de daily bread,
When ives ready to be fed.
Knows I'll hab it without fail.
Simply comes an wags his tail
Lookin' friendly In my eye
Hain't de h'aht to pass i'm by.
kin O. wish dat I could see
Some one lookin' out fob me
When de times is hahd an grim,
Same as looks out fob him.
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For Bryan's Ear.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
Col Bryan has been advised to turn his
paper Into an agricultural and live stock
journal till he can ascertain the direction
in which the political wind Is blowing.
The greater number Of candid and unbiased
people know already, but there are those
who think that the colonel, brilliant as he
Is in other matters, Is little slow of COM
prehension on this particular point