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The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19
Keep the Farm Neat.

May l not put in a plea for neat
ness on the farm? What do | mean by
this? l will tell you. Some things
may be proved by contrasts. The
other day l passed a farm where the
house and barn stood on opposite
sides of the road. The house had a
careless look,as if the occupants were
very busy people, and had little time
to spend on personal appearance,
either of themselves or their home.
But the barn was the worst place to
see. The door stood open, and /
could see everything around all over
the floor and sides of the building.
And about the yard outside-why, it
was simply dreadful. Turned up by
the side of the fence we're a mower. a
reaper, two or three bob-sleds, a har-
row, an old wagon, a hay-rigging, and
no end of plank boards tossed around
as If there had been a cyclone in the
neighborhood. 1t was enough to make
one really sick to look at it.
Less than half a mile away was an
other farm, presenting a decided con-
trast. Here the house and barn had
a trim look. Things seemed to be all
in place, and there were no sleds, old
wagons or farm machinery out of
doors rotting down. This was a neat
farm. Who would not like to have
his own place like it? We all may.
This l plead for.-F. l.. Vincent, in
Farm and Eirecida
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greater attention than can be given
now.
The old manor house, which, from
its appearance and close surround
ings, would seem in place perhaps a
hundred miles removed from the hustle
and dine and movement of modern life,
lies within a few minutes walk from
this city's limits, and but seven miles
from the gates of the white house.
1t is located on what is known as the
Jones' Mill road, and is beautifully
situated, overlooking miles of the
surrounding country, and at it's feet
flow the historic waters of Rock creek.
On the slope of the hill, about a hun
bred yards beneath the house, is the
spring from the purity of whose
waters the curious name of the
manor IS taken.
On expressing a desire to see the
spring we were taken down to it,
passing through the old apple or
chard ON way. AS we RECALLED
ourselves with the really fine wa
ter we were told that we were
then standing on the stone slab on
which Washington stood to drink
when he stopped there on his return
from P%ittsburg, after the defeat of
Braddock, in IT'S. He was accom-
panied by a few of his men, and the
party afterwards went up to the
manor house to rest and visit the
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19
A CONDUCTORS PLANT.
He Turned n Woman Passenger
Around to Face the Car When
AlishtinE and Made Trouble.

eff the powers that be-" said a con-
ductor on a Madison avenue car, ac-
cording to the New York Commercial
Advertiser, would make it a INSIDE
meanor for a woman to get off a nov
ing a backward, fewer people would
be injured, the company would ave
money and we conductors wouldn't get
gray so quickly. We all try our best to
teach women how to get off a car, but
many of them seem to be unable to
learn such a simple thing as that.
"When they fall and are hurt they
blame US for it of course. But what
saddens me is the way they resent your
efforts to teach them how to insure
their safety. I turned one woman half
way around one day in an effort to get
her to step off in the direction in
which the a was going. She slapped
my face, 'sassed' me good and reported
me to the company as an impertinent
scoundrel who ought to be in Jail. If
1 hadn't caught her when I did she
would have had a bad fall. Encourag-
ing, isn't it? What did the company
do? Oh, they understand such things
all right"
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19
AN UNEXPECTED HONOR.
A Boys Courteous Guide
Proved to Be the President of
the United States.

"Many years ago there happened to
me in Washington one of the pleasant
est episodes of my life," said former
Gov. Thomas G. Jones, of Alabama, to
a Washington Post interviewer re-
Gently.
81 was a mere stripping of a boy and
was proud of the fact that my father
had allowed me to make a journey
to the national capital on my own
hook. The National hotel vas then
the chief hostelry and thither l re-
paired, anxious to get a glimpse of the
notables l knew to be living there. In
wandering about the house it seems
that l got into a private parlorg quite
by accident. The solitary occupant
was a nice lookingold gentleman with
a very benevolent face and very oon
we were chatting together in the free
est way.
81 told him that / came from the
south and that my chief ambition was
to shake hands with the president. At
this he seemed greatly amused, but
presently grew serious and told me
that if I'd wait only a few minutes
he would promise me the meeting that
I longed for-that I should see and
talk with the president.
presently he left me, but in a short
while a servant brought word that l
was wanted outside and conducted me
to the street, where the kind old man
sat in a fine carriage drawn by a pair
of splendid horses. Get in said he,
and I lost no time obeying. All the
way to the white house / was in a
kind of trance, and it was not until
we reached the executive mansion that
l woke up
sit must have been the extreme de-
ference that I saw a lot of people and
attendants pay my venerable friend
that caused me to realize, as by a
flash of intuition, that I had been
taken under the wing of James Buchan-
an. 1t was the president himself that
brought me to The white house. For
a minute with boyish difidence I
hung back, but he made me go in-s
side, and for an hour or more / was
as royalty entertained as though I
had been a young prince"
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19
Ancient s-kyscrapers.

Numerous conflicting estimates have
been made of the height of the tower
of Babel, but one'fact never has been
denied, and that is that it was a sky
scraper. St. Jerome, in his commen-
tary on Isaiah, says that the tower
was already 1000 PAGES high when God
came down to stop the work. A pace
is about 2H feet; therefore 1000 PAGES
must be 10000 feet; consequently Ba-
bel was 20 times as high as the Pyra-
mids (which are only about 500 feet).
Father Calmet says the tower was ST.
600 feet high, and that the languages
were COMPOUNDED because the archi-
tects were COMPOUNDED, as they did
not know how to bring the building
to a head. Moreover, it is understood
that the Chinese language of to-day
was originally the same language as
the high German.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19

family. Another event that this re.
calls, and adds to the historic inter-
est of the place, is that during the
British invasion of Washington, in
1914, MIR. Thomas Monroe, then post.
master of Washington city, took
refuge at Clear Drinking manor, Mr..
Monroe keeping the post Office open
there till after the British had gone.
The United States mails were taken
TO a log house then standing oppo-
site the manor house. From this
point were seen the flames of the
burning of the capitol.
The estate of Clean Drinking
manor has been in the family whose
descendants live there to-day since
1850, when it became the property of
Col. John Coates, who was the grand
son of either John Coates or Col.
Henry Coates, who came from Sprox-
ton, England, in 1889. 1t descended
to Elizabeth, the daughter of Col.
John Coates, who married Charles
Jones, gent, who built the present
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19
bermuda Grass.

Prof. S. M. Tracy pays this high
testimonial to the value of Bermuda
grass: 81 have been over a large por-
ton of Georgia, Alabama and Missis-
sippi, the region where the drought
has been most severe, and / find the
Bermuda pastures the only ones
which are able to furnish forage af-
ter six weeks of %scorching sun. N
fact,t the drought-resisting character
istics of the Bermuda constitutes one
OF its chief values in all regions SUBJ
.ject to severe summer drought. 1t
is the foundation of every really good
pasture throughout the entire gulf
states region.
1T is essentially a rich land grass"
continued Prof. Tracy, ''and nowhere
in the world does it do better than
northeast Mississippi, the creek and
river bottom lands in the central part
of the state and on the moist, alluvial
lands of the delta. In careful feeding
tests made at the state experimental
station Bermuda was found to be
about eight per cent. more valuable
than the best timothy hay for both
mules and cattle. It's yield exceeds
that of any other grass-making hay
OF equally good quality, and it's
thrifty growth, where properly cared
for, has changed many Mississippi
counties from importers to exporters
of mules.
The apidly-growing appreciation of
its value is doing more than any 9TH
ed one thing to develop live stock in
dustry in the state. The Bermuda
fields of Mississippi will soon rival
the famous Bluegrass region of Ken
tucky."-Farmers' Home Journal.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19

AS will be seen, one peck of seed
gave a greater yield of both hay and
shelled peas than any larger quantity,
while the greater the quantity of seed
the smaller the yield.
On May 90, 1901, another series Of
plats were sown with seed varying
from 1914 pounds to 100 pounds per
acre. They were drilled in rows az
feet apart. The variety was the Whip
%poorwill, and the results fully con-
firmed the previous test. The station
will this season test still smaller
amounts of seed, and not the results.
A test like this is of great value to
farmers, as the seed of the field peas
are generally costly, and often three,
four and five pecks per acre planted.
Texas Farm and Ranch.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19
HERE AND THERE.

Sheep will live and thrive on pas
turage SO short that cattle can not
get enough grass during the day to
do them over night.
In making the best quality of
butter it is essential that the cream
should have a uniform consistency
as well as uniform ripeness.
The mesquite grass of western
Texas furnishes ideal pasturage for
sheep, and the scrub oaks of n por-
ton of Texas form ideal browsing for
goats.
"A combination that has never
been fruitful of good results is that
of trying to grow an exposed garden
and poultry at n and the same time.
No hen on earth can refrain from
scratching.
Feeding sheep r car just
now; how long that condition will
prevail at market centers defies prog
n~ostication, but range men, who hold
the visible supply, display no DISPOSE
ton to sIoosen up.
The very people who ought to
have the best milk and butter really
have the worst. Do we allude to
farmers? Well, that is just the size
and shape of it. Some don't know
how and some know how, but do not
do how.
The man who buys a flock If COM
mon Mexican goats, and kills or mar
kets the billies, and supplies the flock
with well bred Angora breeders, will
soon have a flock he will be proud of.
To do this he must not permit the
crossbred males to breed, but must
use the knife early and sell them al
or before they are a year old
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19
THE ONLY
His Arm Wasn't Long Enough to
Make Up for Deficiency
of His Eyes.

When Mr.. Snow began to realize that he
was not quite as young as he had been, the
truth mad a disquietlng effect on 4im, and
made him at times very irritable. He knew
his weakness and regretted it, says Youths
Companion. IF | outlive my faculties" ne
said one day to his wife, I'm afraid I'll be
the techiest man in this township"
His brother, who was bald at 80, put on
strong spectacles at IS, and lost his hearing
at SO through the agency of a fever, had no
sensitivness on any OF these points, and was
a great trial to Mr.. Snow.
One day his brother happened to see Mr..
Snow in a cool corner of the barn, holding
the weekly paper as far away as he could get
it, and working his head from side to side
with squinted eyes TO decipher the news.
Soho! Your sights begun to fail We at
last" said the visitor, bluntly. "Well,
faint surprising at your age"
Mr.. Snow turned on him an indignant
glare.
my eyesight's all right" he roared.
The only trouble is my pesky arm isn't
long enough"
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19
QUEER OLD MANSION.
Known in History 'as the Clean
Drinking Manor.
Was Built in 1750 and still in Excel
lent COnditiOn-Washington's
Name Associated
with 1t.
Especial Washington letter.

a LTHOUGH the law of entail.
law and the statutory laws of
Great Britain, there has never been
any effort made to engraft that ex.
crescence of ~aristocracy upon the
laws of our land. Therefore it is
strange and almost anomalous to
find an estate which has been in one
family for more than 200 years on
It's continent, and near the capital
city of Il great republic.
AS the French origin of the word is
well known it will not be necessary
to explain to readers that the law
of entailment is a cutting of" OF an
estate from all other estates, so that
it proceeds directly from II heir to
another, through many generations.
Although the law is a rule by which
estates are fixed it also extends III
some instances to incorporeal hered'
itaments in law. 1t was with refer
ence to this that Prior wrote OF
'Joab's blood, entailed on Judah's
crown"
Driving over the country roads
north and northwest of this city IT
sometimes happens that the Oldest
residents here come upon places OF
historic interest which are not known
to the public and have no place IN
history. Such a place is Clean Drink
ing manor, within an hours drive OF
the executive mansion, on a road
over which not less than three score
of our people travel every day in
their peregrinations for pleasure ana
recreation. The old manor house IL
sheltered by foliage and does not at
tract the attention of casual observ.
ers. It is half surrounded by a broad
veranda as beautiful originally as
any of the verandas of colonial n
a~nte-eolonial days.
Built in 1850 the venerable frame
mansion is yet in good condition, al
though time has dealt unsparingly
with it, giving the outer timbers a
weather-beaten appearance and wear
ing away some of the interior wocdt
work. But there are very few evil
uenceS OF decay III any PoICIou oA
the place. There have been no
changes nor alterations made in the
house. On one side is clustered
what remains of the old kitchen and
servants quarters, built of bricks
made in England.
On the other side, surrounded by
an old-4ashioned stone wall, is the
manor garden, now overgrown with
hedges of lockwood, which at n
time bcrdered the trim, fancifully-
shaped flower beds, but are o SO
thick that they completely hide the
little beds they used to outline
Round the entire garden, inside the
stone wall, is a magnificent hedge of
tall lockwood. This is reputed to be
finer even than the famous box at
Mount Vernon, planted at about the
same time. Roses and vines, lilac
and other old-fashioned plants and
shrubs, u riot nov over porch, wall
and outbuildings, making the house
quainlly picturesque amidst its set
ting of tall cedars, locusts and hem.
locks. When servants were numer
GUS, all of these plants received
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19
His Curiosity Aroused.

"Mr. Diggles," said the boy with big
rufles on his shoulders, 81 wish you
would let me come and see where you
live; I want to look at your room"
"Why, certainly. But what made you
think of that?"
my sister said it was better than
your company, SO I thought it must
be something fne."-Tit-Bits.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19
THE WHIPPOORWILL PEA.
Results of a Test Made by the Ar
kansas Experiment Station with
Whippoorwill Peas.

The Arkansas experiment station
has made a test Of the effect of diff
ferent amounts of seed on a crop of
whippoorwill peas.
On May 4, 1900, six plats sown
with quantities of seed varying from
one to eight pecks per acre. The
variety used was Whippoorwill. The
results were SO contrary to what was
expected that the test was repeated
for 1901, and the previous results con-
frmed. Following is the table show
ing the first test in 1900, giving the
amount Of seed per acre, the first
column the yield Of hay in pounds
and the second column the yield Of
raoc
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19
Household Economy.

Bramble-Why do you always agree
with your wife in everything she
says?
Thorne- find it cheaper to do
that than to quarrel with her and
then buy diamonds to square N.Y.
self.-Judge~
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19
Youths Unrestraint,

"Don't you sometimes long for your
childhood's happy days?" said the
sentimental person.
eyes," answered Miss Cayenne,
there are times when I would enjoy
hanging on the fence and making
faces at people I don't like, instead
of having to say, How do you do,
dear? So glad to see youl"-Wash-
ington Star.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19
His Method.

Madge-What method Of courtsnip
does he use?
Prue-Oh, he affects to have found
the only girl in the world who under
stands him.-Detroit Free Press.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19
Cold Facts,

Patiently wife insists that my
sickness is purely imaginary.
Doctor-Don't let that worry you.
There will be nothing imaginary
about my bill.-Woman's Home Com.
panion.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19

One on the Old Man.-"Honesty, my son."
said the old millionaire congressman, Ifs
the best policy" well, perhaps it is. dad"
rejoined the youthful philosopher, "but it
strikes me you have done pretty well, new
ertheless. Chicago Daily News.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19

Don't let the little ones suffer from
eczema or other ~torturing skin diseases. No
need for it. Doan's Ointment cures. Can't
harm the most delicate skin. At any drug
store, so cents.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19

Nodd-"I think that doctor of ours will
give us something to stop the baby's crying
now" Todd-"Why?" Nodd-"Tm 60
ing to move next door to him."-London
Tit-Bits.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19
Stops the Cough

That man is worthless who knows how
to receive a favor, but not how to return
one.-Plautus.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infalli.
BILE remedy for coughs and colds:-N. w,
Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. j., Feb. II, 1900.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19
Dennftion.

A tornado, by the way, says the Chi
cago Tribune, is acyclone boiled down.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19

Two million Americans suffer the tortur-
ing pangs of dyspepsia. Noneed to. Burdock
Blood Bitters cures. AT any drug store.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19

The fellow who sits down on a bent pin
doesn't see the point of the joke.-Milwaukee
Sentinel.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-19

and works off the cold. Laxative Brom,
Quinine Tablets. Price % cents.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-03-06
WON'T SLIGHT CHARLESTON.
It 10 Thought President Will ignore
Personal Action Taken BY
James TiIiman.

It Is stated in Charleston that Lieu
tenant Governor Tillman's action in
withdrawing the invitation to Presi
dent Roosevelt to present the sword tc
Major Jenkins will have no effect on
the exposition program for the presi
dents entertainment, even if it is al
lowed to stand.
The sword presentation was an Incl
dent only Of the presidents visit to
Charleston and in no way connected
with the exposition program. The
sword was purchased with a fund
raised by subscription among the wo'
men of South Carolina and others,
largely under Lieutenant Governor
Tillman's stimulation. The arrange
ments for the presentation was left
with him. It was not intended oTigl'
nally to have the president make the
presentation, but in view of his expect
ed presence at the exposition the
opportunity was deemed fitting for
such feature.
The invitation was extended by
Lieutenant Governor TillInan and a
place for the ceremony was made on
the program by the exposition commit
tee at his request.
The whole matter is outside Of expo
sition or Charleston control.
According to a Washington special,
the statement was made at the white
house Thursday night that the presi-
dent has not abandoned his proposed
trip to Charleston.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-03-06
SCHLEY AND HOBSON,

Entertained BY Daughters Of Revolu-
zion at Charleston Exposition.
Admiral and Mrs. Schley were the
guests Thursday of the Daughters Of
the Revolution at the South Carolina
Interstate and West Indian exposi.
ton.
The admiral and his wife arrived
during the morning and were escorted
later to the exposition grounds by a
committee of the daughters. His greet.
ing, as he passed through the streets,
was very enthusiastic. The exercises
at the exposition were set for two
o'clock. Addresses were mace by Ad-
miral Schley and Captain Richmond P.
Hobson. The beautiful weather
brought out an enormous crowd.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-03-06
NO FLUNKEYISM HERE.
Daring American Official Forces OBJ
noxious Canadians to Decamp.

Daring American Official Forces Oh
noxious Canadians to Decamp.
Some time ago the secretary of the
treasury received unofficial informa'
tion to the effect that J. Ivey, collec'
tor of customs at Sitka, had Instructed
his deputy at Unalaska, not to permit
Canadian vessels presumably about to
engage in pelagic sealing to obtain
supplies at that port. The collector
was informed that If such orders had
been given they must be rescinded'
Last Wednesday the department re-
ceived a telegram from Ivey saying:
MY instructions were not against
vessels engaged in alleged illegal seal
fishing, but against Canadian vessels
actually engaged in pelagic sealing,
which is Illegal and criminal when
committed within the marine jurisdic.
ton of the United States. If there is
an ancient treaty between the United
States and Great Britain by which
British subjects can commit depreda-
tions, destroying American property,
and depicting our revenue of tens OF
thousands Of dollars annually, while
our own citizens are denied these priv.
ileges, the sooner such treaty is abro
gated the better.
your new collector will arrive in
time to enforce your orders. My Amer
icanism will not allow me to rescind
an order which gives British subjects
privileges within our marine jurisdlc-
ton which are denied our own people.
= 81 have recently issued orders to the
deputy at Skagway which have put the
Canadian officer located there out CT
business, and sent him to his own ter
ritory. You are aware of the fact
that this officer became so offensive
that he interfered with American Off
GERS in the discharge of their official
duties, opened United States customs
mail, dominated over the railway Off
cials, Disseminated in the order Of
shipment in favor of Canadian mer-
chandise against that shipped from
Seattle, established Canadian quar-
antine at Skagway, collected moneys
and performed other acts Of British
sovereignty in a port of the United
States, such as hosting with bravadc
the cross of St. George from the flag
staff Of his custom house.
Il have sent the concern, baggage,
flag and other paraphernalia flying out
of the country. You may fear the
shadow Of international complications
and rescind this order, but Reed, an
Olney or a Blaine would not"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-03-06
MESSAGE FROM MISS STONE.

Liberated Missionary Communicated
With Her Family In Massachusetts.
The first message from Miss Ellen
M. Stone, the American missionary, to
her family and friends was received
Tuesday night by her brother, Charles
A. Stone, Of Chelsea, Mass. The ca
blegram told of her release by the
brigands and her. warm welcome by
Bulgarian friends: in the village of
StrumitZa.