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The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
"KEY MONEY" IN LONDON.
A Curious Phase of the Invasion of
the English Metropolis by
Foreign Jews.

key money" in the east end of Lon
don is the fragrant sign of overcrowd-
ing. 1t is also an engine devised by the
enterprising foreign Jew to push out
a native population.
Most is heard of it in Stepney. In the
window of one of the mere five per
cent. of houses tenanted still by Gen
tiles in that borough the recent an
nouncement, This house to let. No
key money. No Jews need apply,"wa was
like the last ditch to an invading army.
1t meant that some poor tenant had
refused So or ga, not SO much to
please the landlord-whose acceptance
of the offer could not bind-as to sat-
isfy a patriotic idea.
Key money is a consideration paid
to an outgoing tenant by a would-be
successor who wants to have the first
word with the owner of the dwelling.
If it is accepted he goes to that for
tunate person and says, in more or less
broken English: "I>have bought the
key of your house. 1 will give you II
shillings a week" The landlord does
not trouble to explain that the key
was not the tenants to sell. He gen.
orally says: "IIl take is shillings,"
and gets that after the necessary hag-
Cling. The Jew-it is always a pale,
overworked Jew-knows quite well, in
fact, that his purchase of the key was
without legal effect.
Rents are rising fast in Stepney and
in all the poor residential streets neat
the city. If Jewish tenants are ap-
pearing in streets further afield, it is
only because they cannot now find
h%ouseroom in the business heart of
London.
Their eagerness to pay high rents,
seeing that they are a thrifty race, is
excellent proof of the east with which
they make a living where the native
population could not. They pay them
regularly and without fail. After
ward, they buy the houses, put a new
coat of paint on them, and raise the
rents still higher to their coreligion-
lists coming later. Key money ten
years ago for a 16-shilling house was
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two pounds. That is a sun which
makes it worth the while of a Gentle
with a few sticks of furniture to think
about looking for another house.
If he takes the money, it is not evil
dent at first sight why the original
East ender should feel aggrieved. He
does. What he says is that "these
'Ebrew Jews can't be satisfied without
driving him out of 'ouse and 'ome."
The fact is that their ability to do
this, and not the key money, is his
grievance. Key money is the hateful
sop thrown to him as he quits.
Besides, English house owners have
of late years accepted the situation in
ever-increasing numbers, andsoldlout;
~whereupon their tenants have had to
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Stockings with White. Feet.

A physician, in a published inter-
view, says the indianapolis Journal,
urges that the wearing of stockings
with white feet will do more to pro-
mote ease in walking and relieve foot
ills that anything else to be suggested.
Socks or stockings of cotton or Isle
thread in black bind the feet and
make them swell, he says, no matter
how fine and open they may be. The
black dye with the hard thread of the
Isle variety is a combination that is
particularly %torturing to tender feet.
Thin, unbleached balbriggan he
recommends. Preferably the whole
sock or stocking may be white, but at
least the foot should be. A further
caution is added that new cotton hose,
as well as all new cotton u%ndergar-
ments, should be washed before being
worn, to take out the sizing used by
manufacturers.
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ANCIENT GREEK MIRROR.
Once 1t Was the Property of mn Attic
Belle, Now 1t Is in Chicago
Art Institute.

This is the kind of a mirror the
Greek beauty used when she set about
to add to the natural adornment of
her Attic features. 1t is now in the
art institute at Chicago, having been
purchased by Martin A. Ryerson in
Paris and deposited in the institute.
1t is said to have been dug up in
Etruria, but is pronounced by Greek
scholars of undeniable Greek manu-
facture, and not Etruscan. The mirror
disk has a diameter of 10 centimeters.
The rejecting surface is slightly, and
at present not uniformly, convex. The
edge of the disk is ornamented with
the egg" pattern, which is not visible
in the illustration. The back is plain.
Twenty years ago it was the COM
ment of Greek scholars that despite
the fact that mirrors were shown by
Attic vase paintings and reliefs to
have been in common use, not one had
been found. Since that time a number
have been discovered, of which the
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the process. Wood prepared in such
a way will not burn. To make the
trick more interesting and to avoid
the suspicion that the splinters are
prepared, mix them among other un-
prepared splinters after marking
them in a certain way.
After burning a few splinters, pick
out n of the prepared one and de-
clare that by your magic influence
the splinter you hold in your hand
will become incombustible. Hand it
over to the audience, and it is easily
understood that nobody will be able
to set it afire.-Boston Globe.
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ARP ON CHRISTMAS.
He Loves the Old S%uperstitions That
Cluster About the Day.
Tells Of When and How 1t Began to
He acknowledgements a New
Years Resolution for the
Youngsters.

Christmas day is about here ice
more. Its joyous week is right upon
US when millions of dollars will be
spent to please the children and mil
lions of hearts be made happy. One
day in seven is not enough-we want
a whole week at the end of the year,
and according to Scripture it is a
good thing to have a whole year III
seven-a year of jubilee when even
the land we till shall have rest and
time to recover itself and renew its
wasted energies. Blessings on the
holy fathers who established the
Christmas holidays, and on the good
men whofor1S centuries have preserved
it for us and our children. 1t is d
blessed heritage and belongs to all
alike-the rich and the poor, the
bond and the free, the king and his
subject. But these good old ways
are changing and becoming circum-
scribed. Mankind is growing too
stingy of time. Christmas used to
last from the 25th of December to the
9th of January, and for IL days there
was neither work nor toll, nor Off
cial business, nor suits for debts,
dunning. nor preparations for war,
but all was peace and pleasure and
kindly feelings. The peasant was on
a level with the prince, and the girls
and boys wore chaplets of ivy and
laurel and holly and evergreen, and
it was no sin for them to take a sly
kiss while the rosemary wreaths en-
circled their brows, for a kiss under
the rose was an emblem of limo
cence and had the sanction of Heav-
en-, and love whispered while wearing
the mistletoe crow was too pure
to be lost or betrayed.
l love the old .superstitions that
cluster around this season of my
JOY and gladness. Long did 1 lament
the day when my childish eyes were
opened and l learned there was no
Saint Nicholas nor Santa Claus, no
reindeer on the roof, no coming down
the chimney to fill the stockings hat
hung by the mantel. Even now L
would fain believe, with Shakespeare,
H"' y thSSO La ddyo NIuCucS anu
hobgoblins and devilish spirits had TO
fly away from the haunts of men
and hide themselves in the dark pits
and caves of the earth, while the good
spirits who love us and watch over
US nestled their invisible forms
among the evergreens that hung
upon the walls. 1t was pleasant to
think that on the last day of the
twelve the cattle knelt down at mid
night and humbly prayed hat souls
might be given them when they died,
so that they, too, might live in Heav-
en- and worship God. l hope the poor
things will have a good time in the
next world, for they see a rough one
in this, and l reckon they will, con-
sidering what a splendid pair of
horses came down after the prophet
Elijah. Heaven wouldn't be any the
less Heaven to me to find my good
dog Bows up there, all renewed Ill
his youth, and to receive the glad
welcome that ways in his tail.
Now children, let US imagine we are
around the cheerful Christmas fire and
talk about Christmas and tell what it
means. Of course you know that it is
the anniversary of the birth of Christ,
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0 L HOME.
Made of Sticks, Pieces of Broken
Oars and Other Wrecknge and
Weighs . Pounds

1t is good luck to have a fishhawk,
or osprey, as it is sometimes called,
build its nest on ones farm. That is
what the farmers say, and although
the nest of this bird is as wonderful
and as full of odds and ends as an
ancient curiosity shop, they never
modest it. 1t is only when some
cold-blooded naturalist comes along,
who wants to get the scientific fasts
about everything, that it is possible
to learn about the home of the fish
hawk.
Such a nest, says the New York
Tribune, was recently found on Gar
diners island by naturalists from
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one now at the art institute is a sam
pie.
This mirror has its handles now de-
tached from the disk. At the back the
bronze part of the handle is prolonged
upwards in the form of a palmetto,
which served to make the attachment
to the disk secure. In front the orna-
mentation consisted of a figure of a
siren with recurved wings, surrounded
by scrolls and palmettes.
The especial interest which attaches
to this Chicago mirror is the fact that
the handle proper is preserved-a cir
cumstance which is recited as unusual
among Greek mirrors of that historic
period. For determining the date of
the mirror there is no evidence, ex-
cept the style of the bronze relief. The
composition as a whole seems to indi-
cate hat it was made in the fifth cen
fury B. C. The year $50 B. c. has been
taken as the approximate date of its
manufacture and use.
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L HAD A LARK.
Pony Scattered Delicious
Butter Balls Along Half n
Mile of Street.

Billy was a beautiful ~bay-colorcd
pony. He was none of your heavy,
slow-going farm horses that have to
be urged on their way. Not he!
Lake a swift deer he cleared the
ground, and horseback riding on Billy
was a delight. Everyone loved him
he was SO beautiful. He would toss
his fine head and arch his neck il
such a saucy way when being har'
messed that one was sur he was
only waiting impatiently to be of
on a gay canter.
one morning the weekly supply Oh
butter was needed and Arthur was
asked to run over to the farmhouse
Tor 1t. He was just waiting his
chance to ride Billy, SO he said there
was not time to walk before school
SO he guessed he'd ride Billy over.
Mother protested, but Arthur
pleaded, and so much time was los;
that mother saw that she must st
without the butter or allow Arthur
to ride the colt.
billy looked very sweet and limo
cent OF any mischievous plan as he
trotted out of the yard at a very
mid pace. 1t was the first time
Arthur had ever been on his back
ana he sat proudly. The only thing
that made him realize that he was
not a valiant knight on a prancing
charger was the tin butter pail on
his arm.
Arthur reached the farmhouse in
good time, and the empty butter pal
was exchanged for one filled with
half-pound prints of delicious yellow
butter.
Arthur started for home. Billy, il
hne feather, was cantering along
gayly. A few rods from the farm
near the road, stood a small black
smiths shop, where several men were
lounglng about, waiting for the
boss" to come and set them to work
AS Arthur rode by one of the men
gave a long, low whistle, which start.
ed Billy on the round run. Arthur
was nearly thrown by Billy's sudden
spring forward, and in his efforts &c
regain his seat and control the horse
the pail of butter slipped further W
his ARM, the cover fell off and Billy
n Arthur went prancing through
the main street of the village, sea-
tering balls of golden butter behind
them.
Everyone rushed to doors and win
davis of tho c1af+ar nf hoafc aoJ
soon men and women, girls, boys and
babies started in a procession after
the proud knight, who was scattering
gold in his path as he scampered by
on his proud steed.
When Billy dashed into the yard
the last print of butter lay in the
road some yards behind him, and
mother rushed out to find a DISNEY
eled rider, a painting horse, and all
the neighbors with all their children
congregated in her backyard. But
that was not the worst of it; she
found an empty pail.
Arthur had to walk back to the
farm for more butter, and he had
plenty of company on the way, who
thoughtfully pointed out the little
soft yellow heaps to him, lying at
intervals in the road.
But Billy? Well, he was not a BIT
penitent. He only smiled when they
led him in the stall and tossed his
head as much as to say: THAT was
a fine lark, wasn't it?"-N. Y. Trib-
une.
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pig was Getting Better,

In a country school in Pike county,
Pa, one of the scholars, a small and
trembling boy, timidly approached the
schoolmaster, one afternoon, and in
quired if he might bring an offering of
fresh pork, explaining that the folks
at home were about to kill a pig. The
schoolmaster thanked the boy, and
said he would be delighted with a por-
ton. A week or more passed, with no
sign of the pork; and the teacher
good-humoredly inquired of the boy
what had become Of his good inten-
tions. "P-please, sir" faltered the boy,
"the pig got b-b-better."
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
On Irish Soil.

The customs officers examined and a1-
amined. They tasted and tested. They
snlelled, they eyed, they felt. Then the
OF Oirish sile." Zen shovels of Irish soil!
And to-day they are in a box a yard
square liz a Washington street GROCERY,
or semi-hotel, where Irish immigrants are
first landed within our corporate limits.
The newcomer is allowed to pull it out
into the center of the room and stand on
it, while he wave. the Irish flag and
sings Wearing of the Green" Talk
about your foreign legations in Wash'ng-
ton, where foreign soil is a fact! WHAT
OF this Washington street Irish soil?
Also a fact! Go there any day and see
Mike on his native heath.-N. Y. Press.
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leave without any key money what
ever. mo Jews need apply" means
only, in many cases, that the land
lord will not countenance key money
because he hopes to put the equivalent
of it in his own pocket at one transac-
ton. He refuses Jewish tenants, and
waits for a Jewish purchaser.
On the other hand, say the London
Mail, a few good-natured landlords
will neither let nor sell over the heads
of old tenants. In one row of Stepney
houses, where the occupiers are all
English, two widows have lived % and
"a years, respectively. The landlord
says they shall die there. He has not
raised his rents a penny.
House agents are strangely sympa-
thetic to this attitude. One reason
may be that the Jewish landlord is his
own rem collector.
1t may seem curious that feeling
should be stronger on this question of
key money than on that of industrial
competition. But the Jew is not so
much an industrial competitor as a
merchant. He lands at Blackwell
without a word of English, and next
morning you see him in some market
street with a bundle of handkerchiefs
and the word penny" He gets rich
without anyone knowing how his COM
petition pinches.
The East ender does not take him
light-heartedly as a neighbor. He is
undesirable in that capacity till Angh-
cized.
What makes this now a burning
question is that the skirts of the jew
ish area are being spread more rapidly
than ever.
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THE MENAGERIE.
Oh, look at my M%enagerie

Oh, look at my Menagerie
And see the funny things!
They are the widest animals
With horns and tails and wings.
The beetle is a 'Noceros,
This bugs a Buffalo,
l call the mole my Elephant
Because he's big and slow.
The spotted yellow lady-bug
A lovely Leopard makes,
This monster fish-worm is a Boa,
These monster caterpillars, Snakes.
The grasshopper's a Kangaroo
(You know they both can jump
The snail's a Camel, for his shell
Is just a truly hump.
l dared to catch a bumble-bee
And keep him in a cage
OF morning-glory; he's a Lion,
Just hear him roar and rage!
The lizard is a 'Potamus,
The hop-toad is a Bear;
Oh, look at my Menagerie,
But not too near-take care!
Farwell Brown, in Congregational
iSt.
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Hunt for Missiuxs re-.

When Frank Buettnef, a wealthy
contractor, of Cleveland, Ohio, awoke
on a recent morning, he missed his
false teeth, and naturally inferred that
he had swallowed them. He was taken
to a hospital, where surgeons made in
cisions in his stomach, to hunt for the
missing molars. Before they had
sewed up the incisions, his sister-in-
law rushed into the hospital, with the
grinders in her hand. She had found
them under the bed.
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WOOD.
How to Perform n Little Trick That
Is Calculated to Mystify Your
Young Friends.

Alum and glue in equal parts are
dissolved in water strongly saturated
with salt. Both solutions are mixed
together. Dip splinters of wood into
the fluid until every part is sat
urated, let them dry, and repeat
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
THE BABY
Head and Spine Troubles Are Caused
Sometimes Where Incorrect
Ways Are Used.

The accompanying suggestions and
illustrations, for which we are indebt-
ed to Leonard's Illustrated Medical
Journal, are worthy of attention:
THE child should always be lifted
with both hands, held lightly, but
The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-26
Christmas Holiday Excursion Rates, Via
Southern Railway.

Southern Railway will sci tickets between
all points on its lines and connections East
of The Mississippi and South of the Ohio and
Potomac Rivers except between points in
Florida) to the general public December
23rd, oath, 25th, Both and 3lst, 1902. and Jan.
uary lst, 1903, with finaI limit January 3rd,
1903, at rate of one and one third fare for the
roundt trip. For further information, call
on any ticket agent of the Southern Railway.
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of the head unsupported. When this
is done, the movements of the body
of the mother or nurse in walking,
OF, indeed, the sudden lurching of the
baby itself, may seriously affect the
head and SPINE"
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Gentle Reminder,

Mr.. Staylate-Was that ten or II
that the clock just struck?
Miss Cone (wearily)-Will it make
any Observation-Disclosures Bazaar.
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The Usual WAY

He-How did you come to get in
terested in that story?
She-I liked the way it eaded.-De-
troit Free Press.
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Mrs. Blank-Is your husband going
to Mrs. Jason's funeral?
Mrs. Dash-Decidedly not! She
never returned my last call.-Smart
Set.
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Treatment Suited Him.

Henpekt-That new doctor you intro
duced me to, Bowler, is a great symptom,
otologist-great student of human nature.
Bowler-Suits you, does he?
Thoroughly. Had MIN last night to
treat my wife for a cold, and he SAID
she didn't need any medicine, but lat
she must be particular, above all things,
to keep her mouth shut and breathe
through her nose."-Stray Stories.
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Thouwht He Knew Better

Shelf takes all kinds of people to
make the world.
He-Not for me. It takes only one,
Chicago Tribune.
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Both.

Baron Smooth-Did Lord Outofcash
put up here last week?
Hotel Clerk-Yes; he did and be
didn't.-Baltimore American.
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Hard to Und erstand.

eff love is blind" remarked the OBJ
server of Events and Things, .'how is it
that it is always looking for the girl
with money?"-Yonkers Statesman.
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Mrs. Bouncer-'I have been to see Mrs.
Grace this afternoon. What delightful
company she isl" Mr.. Bouncer-"les , [
understand that she is no talker."-BoS-
ton Transcript.
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ruu.51d Confoss;ou

The Lady-What is your station in
life?
The Tramp-The police station
most of the time.-N.Y. Herald.
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There are no less than 1862 different
species of fish inhabiting the waters
of America north of the isthmus of
Panama.
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Logic. Male and Female.

She-I know that it is not so, but ]
cannot help feeling that it is.
He-I don't care whether it's so or
mott don't believe it.-Judge.
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To Cure n Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c.
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How My Throat Hurts!-Why don't you
use Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar?
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
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Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of
Ave, n, Minneapolis, MINI, Jan. 6, 1900.
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He-"Why didn't you answer my let
ter asking you to marry meI" She
"You didn't inclose a Town and
Country.
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No one finds it SO hard to forgive mis-
takes as the person who most frequently
makes acknowledgements News.
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Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
81 had suffered for three years with
terrible pains at the time of men,
situation, and did not know what
the trouble was until the doctor pro-
nounced it inflammation of the
OvarieS, and proposed ar operation.
81 felt SO weak and sick hat 1 felt
sure that l could not survive the Or
deal. The following week / read an
advertisement in the paper of Lydia
H. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound in such an emergency, and SO
L decided to try it. Great was my joy
to find that l actually improved after
taking two bottles, and in the end L
was cured by it. L had gained eighteen
pounds and was in excellent health"
- Miss ALICE BAILEY, so North Boule-
ward Atlanta, Ga.-S5OoO forfeftT ORIGINAL
Of aboue letter proving genuiHenesS cannot be pro-
duced.
The symptoms of Inflammation
and disease of the oyaries are
q duh thrObbing pain, accom-
panied by a sense of tenderness
and heat low down in the side,
with occasional shooting pains.
The region of pain sometimes
shows some swelling.
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q Miss Alice Bailey, of u
Atlanta, Ga, tells how she was
permanently cured OF inilamma.
ton of the Ovaries, escaped sur-
geon's knife, by taking Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-05-08
THAT he WHO RUNS MAY READ.

The lesson of this statement is not
hard to learn: John Wanamaker pays
one thousand dollars day to the news
papers of his hometown for Advertising,
says the Macon Evening News.
Those who do not think it pays to
advertise, should be convinced by this
example; for truly, there is no doubt
that this merchant prince knows what
''pays, and how to succeed in business.
The Wanamaker stores are the biggest
in the country, and their immense and
complete stock is being offered to the
public through the columns of the
newspapers. And for this service Mr..
Wanamaker pays 1922. 800 per year.
To the Press he pays go, 600; to the
Ledger 500, 900; to the North American
S75, 055 and to the Evening Telegram
$50, 900.
Up to few months ago MIR. Wana
maker was using page in the Record
at the rate of $50, 900 a year, which
would have made an annual expendl-
ture of $312, 500 When he wanted to
renew his contract with the Record the
publishers asked $37, 800 more, or a
total of $112, 500. Mr.. Wanamaker re-
fused to pay that sum, thinking that no
one else would pay that for a page.
The proposition was put to Int Bros,
who accepted the contract without a
moments hesitation, and they are now
paying that enormous sum for the use
of the page for one J ear.