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The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
MILK Exposed to Odors.

Besides bad lamentations. there is
another cause of poorly favored but
ter, says Oscar Err. This comes from
cream or milk having been exposed to
foul odors, which are absorbed and
given to the butter. The theory that
milk does not absorb odors when
warm and cooling has long been
abandoned. Experiments show that
milk in hat condition is even more
susceptible to odor than in any other
state. In the ripening process this
odor can be partly eliminated by
aeration or by pasteurization of the
cream, but in case of a bad fermenta-
ton some ~antagonistic germ must be
added in order to check the progress
of the undesirable one. This antag-
onistic fermentation is commonly
known as a starter, and if properly
prepared contains the right kind of
flavor producing bacteria.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
GOOD ROADS IN JERSEY.
the Rate of One Hundred and
Fifty Miles u Year.

Good-road building is probably
making greater progress in New Jer-
sey than in any other state in the
union. Ten years ago the legislature
passed a state aid bill permitting
each county to spend on road i'm
provement an amount equal to one
fourth of one per cent. of it's rata
BILE property.
In the following year our counties
out of the 20 in the state built to-
gether nearly Is miles of road. Last
year II counties built their quota of
roads, completing during the year
nearly 1856 miles of sound, level high
ways
Since the passage of the act more
than $1,250,0OO of the states money
has been spent on good-road build
ing and more than 700 miles of road
ways have been constructed under
the most approved modern methods.
The work is so popular that there is
a demand to double the amount per-
mitted to be expended on the roads
under the law. The last legislature
increased the states contribution
from $150,000 to S250,000 and the
counties met this with their own APP
preparations.
At present petitions to build $50
more miles of roads, at an estimated
cost of S., 404, S51. are on file and, pro-
vided the state appropriation is lib
eral enough to meet the amount ex-
pended by the counties, in a few
years all the leading roads a be
covered with gravel and stone.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
Harvesting the Hay Crop.

1t is a very desirable thing to be
able to haul all the hay into the barn
the same day it is cut. The worri-
ment and anxiety consequent upon
the liability of a storm before morn
ing are thus avoided. and experience
has taught that hay having no more
than three or four hours sun will
come out in the spring perfectly
sweet and in fine condition for the
cattle. In adopting this plan it is
well to keep the hay constantly
stirred with a tedder. There has long
been a fear of putting hay into the
barn that contains a noticeable
amount of water, but if it is pro =
ly packed by being evenly Distribute
over the NOW, each forkful trodden
upon and the barn kept closed as
much as possible the result will prob
ably be very gratifying.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
THE FARMER DAIRYMAN.
II He Raises His Own Feed He Can
Make His Cows Pay n Hand
some Profit.

Perhaps n~ine-tenths of the dairy
products of this country are pro-
duced from farms where dairying is
but n of several branches Of agri-
culture carried on, and it is best that
this should be so, for mixed farming
is the most profitable system, and
dalrying in connection with the
growing of field crops and other
stock is best for the land as well as
for the a who owns it, says Dairy
and Creamery.
There are farms in this country
which have actually been impover-
lshed and very much reduced in value
because for a long series of years
cows have been kept on them and
milk from them sold to cities or
condensing factories or taken off the
farm for some other purpose.
There is a vast difference between
selling the butter fat to a creamery
and returning the skim-milk to the
farm and selling the whole milk.
But very little fertility is taken off
the farm when butter alone is sold.
The butter is produced from sun and
air, the elements being taken up by
growing plants and transformed into
feed for the cows and then returned
In the way of butter fat.
The mineral elements in the milk
and the nitrogen in it in the shape
OF protein are the things we want to
keep on the farm, and but a trifing
quantity of these is carried away
when butter fat alone is sold.
The farmer who keeps a few cows
and raises his own feed is the one
who gets the best price for his feed
and the most money from his cows,
providing he sells only the butter fat.
This being true, it follows that
every such dairy farm should plan
to produce on his own farm as large
a quantity of the best feed he can,
and the capacity of the farm will i'm
crease in the course of years in ex-
actly the same ratio that the farmer
takes advantage of the means at his
command to make his farm more fer
tile and his crops greater.
We have not yet reached that
looked for period when we can keep
a COW on every acre of land, but it
is entirely within the limits of posi-
bility to do this.
The land should be drained. The
farmer who has a well-drained farm
is, to a large extent, independent
of abnormal weather conditions,
whether it be too wet or to dry.
Well-drained land produces a better
crop in any kind of a year than does
land not drained.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10


surroundings and made herself at
home in one corner of the shop. Itwas
a cold, clustering afternoon, and the
workman who had charge of closing
the shop didn't have the heart to put
the cat out into the storm when he
went home. Since then ''Tabby" has
lived at fire headquarters. and is con-
sidered an attache of the department.
"Tabby" has no long pedigree, and
has never won blue ribbons in cat
shows, but for intelligence tiremen are
willing to wager their months pay that
there is no cat-show feline who de-
serves higher marks. She knows every
man attached to headquarters. and al
most every superior officer in the de-
partment. Ike tiremen and horses, she
has learned to count the alarm bells
which ring in the station, and is said
by firemen to know the boxes to which
tower wagon No. 2 responds. Lieut..
Porter has charge, and she looks upon
him as her master. She will obey
commands from him, but has been
known to ignore firemen in his squad.
The Oliver street blaze was the great
est that "Tabby" ever witnessed, and
the distance was the longest she ever
Travelled on a fire wagon, but it was by
no means the first fire she had been
to. Firemen tell stories of the cat
following the tower for blocks a year
ago, not daring to mount the drivers
seat for fear of being driven back to
the station, and having remained I'M
der the tower until the fire was out.
During the past few months she has
been to a number of fires and ridden
beside the driver.
The other evening the excitement
was so intense in fire circles that
"Iabby" almost lost her head. 1t was
the night when seven bell alarms were
sounded inside of two hours and fire
men were kept on the jump. The con-
slant ringing of bells caused "Tabby".
to run back and forth in the station
and cry to go out.
When the bell came for the tower
company to start, "Tabby" made a leap
to the drivers seat. She was there be-
@N 'HS ho1SSS hud lSIt tbSlI otdllo.
The driver knew that a big fire was in
progress, and that there was some dis
lance to travel. His first thought was
to tell ''Tabby" that she couldn't go.
He pushed her off the seat with a
command to remain behind. But "Tab-
by" was not to be left behind. She
seemed to realize hat something out
of the ordinary was going on and want
ed to be at the scene.
just as the tower was leaving the
house "Tabby" nee more leaped tothe
drivers seat. This time she remained,
because the driver had his hands full
taking care of the horses. She rode to
the fire with her forepaws on the driv-
er's knee and her head between his
arms. While the tower was in use she
remained on the seat, notwithstanding
the fact hat the tower was located
close to the burning building, where
the smoke was the Gensest and where
sparks were falling frequently. Tab
by" got back to the station unframed.
She appeared to have enjoyed herself
so much that in the future she will not
be mclested when she expresses a de-
sire to accompany the tower to a fire.
Boston Globe.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
To Mx4e a Square Kite.

One of the t-siest to make, perhaps,
Is the square kite. The frame is con-
posed of split bamboo, and should be
covered with tightly stretched Scotch
cambria. Although called square,"
yet it is not exactly so, it being about
one-haff longer than it is broad. The
frame should be bent backward, both
at the top and bottom. This is to
make the kite bulge outward, a posi-
tion which should be maintained by
means of Irvine stretched from the
orners, both above and below. The
breastband should be attached in the
usual manner, and the completed kite
should have two tails instead Of one,
one at each lower n
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
WORLDS WAX SUPPLY.
1t II Not Obtained from Bees Alone,
as Most of Us Have Always
Been Taught.

Bees are by no means the only pro.
ducers of animal wax, although prob
ably 80 persons out of 100 would say
so if asked.
The very biggest animal in the world
is one of the most important wax pro-
ducers, and a fine wax it is. 1t is sperm
aceti, and it is obtained from the head
of the sperm whale.
When a sperm whale has been killed
and is brought alongside, the first
thing that the whalemen do after the
chains are passed around the flukes to
hold the big creature alongside of the
whaling ship, is to cut the head from
the body.
This head alone often weighs several
tons. and it is no light job to raise it
from the water. Immense tackles are
used, and as the whalers, who stand
on the whale and on stagings rugged
over it, cut through the vertebrae with
their keen cutting-out spades other
men on the deck of the ship heave and
haul on the tackle until the mighty
head is clear of the body.
Often a head like that will be so big
that while part of it is still in the
water the tip of the mouth will be
high in the air, as high as the spars of
the whaleship.
Then the whalers begin to cut into
the head until they open what is known
by them as the cease" This contains
the spermaceti. IT is a beautiful, clear.
whitish fluid, and it is dipped out with
bucket and put into special casks. 1t
is stored away in the hold in a separate
place from the whale oil, and it brings
a good price at all times. for the de-
mand for spermaceti is u~nceasing.
The Chinese obtain a great deal of
extremely fine wax from a small in
sect called pela. 1t lives on trees, and
the Chinese cultivate the pela just as
other races breed the honey bee. The
pela, however, produces nothing ex-
cept wax.
This insect produces small masses
OF pure white wax, and it is used by
the Chinese and japanese for making
candles to be burned in Buddhist tenn
pies. The wax is used also for me-
dicinal purposes.
Another wax insect lives in certain
districts of India. 1t is not propagated
as the Chinese pela is. but it produces
a very valuable wax, which will be
made an article of considerable COM
mercial Importance some day.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10

will say when you offer to do it, but
let us show you how easy it is and then
you can show them.
. Having laid down the first match,
place the IA astride of it, with the
PHOSPHORUS ends in the air and the
other end resting on the table. These
ends should point alternately right
and left and the matches must be
close to each other, side by side.
Now if you lift the first match the
others will fall off, of course, and
scatter on the table; therefore you
will not try it. But lay an extra match
along the top of the IA, where they
cross the first one, and you can pro-
coed confidently with your experiment.
For when you lift the first match the
IA will de held in place by the one you
have placed on top of them, and thus
the system will be made firm.-Brook-
lyn Eagle.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
Figs and Thistles.

Reproof is the proof of a friend.
No man fails of success who con-
quers himself.
Success is not salvation but saliva
ton is success.
The rich need our charity as much
as the poor.
The supreme things n seen with
the soul instead of with the senses.
What would make a model for one
last might only make a muddle in an
other.
The value of a mans opinions on a
subject depends on what it costs him
to live up to them.-Ram's Horn.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
A Y AND NIGHTS.

n days were only twice as long,
'Tw ould be a splendid thing!
Cause, don't you know, fore you're quite
dressed
The breakfast bell will ring:
And then it's time to go to school.
And then run home at noon,
And back to school; and four O'Clock
Most always comes too soon;
And then you just begin to play.
And then it's time for tea;
And then, in such a little while,
Your bedtime comes, you see.
If nights were only twice as long.
'TWouid be a splendid thing!
Cause. don't you know, when you're tucked
W,
Sometimes your mother'll sing;
And first you lie and watch the stars.
Or maybe there's asmoon,
And then YOU get all nice and warm.
And sleepy pretty soon;
And then, perhaps. you shut your eyes,
And then your motherl say
'Have l & little boy who means
To lie in bed ali day."
Boston Budget.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
STRANGE DWARFS OF SPAIN
Uncivflized Nomads of the Mountains
Who Have Descended from
PhOenician Slaves.

One of the Strangest races of dwarfs
in the world dwells among the noun
tains of Asturias, inthe north of Spain.
They are a standing puzzle to scien-
lists, says a London paper.
A Spanish physician, DR.. Rubio,
claims to have discovered that they
are descended from slaves brought to
before the birth of Christ, to work the
mines from which the vast wealth of
Tyre and Sidon was drawn.
The Phoenicians had to abandon the
mines, but they left their dwarf Stoves
behind. To this day they remain
there, still wandering about the noun
tains where they were planted by their
masters 1000 years ago.
They are called Vaqueros. The wom-
en- are rarely taller than -four feet
and the men four feet six. They are
utterly unlike the tall, athletic race of
Spaniards among whom they dwell.
The Vaqueros are uncivilized no.
MAIDS who never settle down in any
permanent abode or till the soil. They
o about from mountain to noun
tain, pasturing their focks and herds
as their ancestors did thousands of
years ago. The Spaniards ~despise
them as barbarians, and they hate the
Spaniards so bitterly hat they will
not even speak to them. They have
only recently been Christianized.
AS they have never mingled or inter
married with their neighbors, the
racial peculiarities of the Vaqueros are
as strongly marked as they were in
Phoenician days. The race is dying
out, owing to intermarriage between
a few families for many centuries.
Most of the Vaqueros left to-day are
idiots or degenerates.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
Let this Coupon be your Messenger of Deliver.
ance from Kidney, Bladder, and Urinary Troubles.

It's the people who
doubt and become cured
while they doubt who
praise Doan's Pills the
highest.
Aching backs are eased.
Hip, back, and loin pains
overcome. Swelling of the
limbs and dropsy signs
vanish.
They correct urine with
brick dust sediment, high
colored, pain in passing,
dribbling, frequency, bed
wetting. Doan's Kidney Pills
remove calculi and gravel.
Relieve heart palpitation,
slceplessncss, headache,
nervousness, dizziness.
TAYLoRsvILLE, MISS. -"I
tried everything for q weak
back and got no relief until /
used Doan's Pills"
j, N. LEWIS.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
The Cost and the Profit,

Profit depends upon circumstances.
The hen that lays the largest number
of eggs does not always give the great
est profit. One dozen eggs in winter,
at 80 cents a dozen, permits of a
greater profit than two dozen when
eggs are Is cents a dozen. The sum
derived is the same, but it costs less
to produce n dozen eggs than it does
to produce two dozen, and although
the same amount of money is received
in both cases, yet the profit is not
what is derived in the gross sum-, but
that which is produced above the cost;
hence, a hen is profitable according to
the season during which she lays the
greatest number, and the prices OBJ
tanned therefor. In summer. how
ever, the eggs may cost nothing If the
hens r on a range.-Farm and Fire
side.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
q THE DOCTOR SAYS.

No case of smallpox has been found
in a revaccinated person for years in
Chicago, says the commissioner OF
health.
Lithium is a metal used only in med
icine, its salts being valuable in rheu-
matte affections. 1t costs 81, 100 a
pound.
Citric acid added to sea water pre-
cipitates the salt, making a harmless
mineral water. Seven ounces Of citric
acid will supply a shipwrecked man
with water for week.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10

Waters, OF Hartford, Conn, turned
his auto into a pump.
Mr.. Waters stationary engine at
tached to the water supply was
broken mysteriously just at a time
of day when a large quantity of wa
ter was required to satisfy the thirst
of his cattle. To repair the engine
would take several days, and Mr.. Wa
ters needed a substitute at once.
In his emergency he backed his au-
tomobile up to the ~well-house, ele-
waited the rear wheels clear of the
ground. affixed a belt, and applied the
juice.
Answer: Plenty of water, satisfied
cattle, and a contented farmer.
And yet some people think an auto
has no good use.-Chicago Journal.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10

The reason you can get
this trial free Is because
they cure Kidney Ills and
will prove 1t to you.
WEST BRANCH, MICH
Doan's Kidney Pills hit the
case, which was an unusual
desire to urinate - had TO pet
up five or six times of a might
/ think diabetes was we'll i'm.
der way, the feet and ankles
swelled. There was an in.
tense pain in the back, the
heat of which would feel like
putting ones hand up to a
lamp chimney. have used
the free trial and two full
boxes of Doan's Pills with the
satisfaction Of feeling that
am cured. They are the rem.
edy par excellence"
B. F. BALLARD
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
Drain All swampy Places.

That swamp ought to be drained.
In it's present state 1t breeds both
malaria and the mosquitoes to carry
the malaria and vaccinate you and
your family. Drained, it would prob
ably become valuable, either as a
source of muck, valuable to use on
your fields, or as q rich expanse of
tillable land. Drain at once Trans
form it from an eyesore and a pest
hole to a valuable and attractive
area.-Midland Farmer.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
Failure In Credit Habit.

Generally speaking, the credit sys-
tenn is a system of business that a
farmer should view with as much
dread as he does a ease of bubonic
plague. In fact, it is a worse dis
ease, for the plague kills him out
right, while the disease contracted
by buying on credit kills him by de-
grees and keeps him in torture all
his life. But" says some farmer, 81
haven't got any money, and ! have
to-" And in reply I say that if you
have to. and do buy on credit this
year you will be placed in a condi-
ton that will ~necessitate your buy
ing on credit rext year and proba-
bly, the next 40 years if you don't
fret yourself to death about your
debts before that timer. H. Scott,
in Farm and Home.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
TABBY, THE FIREMAN.
Isoston Cat Which Attends Fires and
Enjoys the Excitement as
Much as "a Boy.

"Tabby" is the name of a pet cat
which rode to the scene of a fire on
Oliver street beside the driver of tower
wagon No. ? the other night. Some
thing like six or seven years ago Tab
by" strolled into the repair shop on
Bristol street, near fire headquarters,
looked around, appeared to like the
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
Butter Making q Science.

Within recent years many changes
have taken place in butter making. 1t
was formerly supposed that most any
one who was neat and tidy could make
good butter. Since Investigations have
been pursued along scientific lines we
find that it requires skilled labor, says
Stockman and Farmer. The men who
are pursuing dairying at our schools
now are possibly 25 per cent. in adj
vance both in education and skill Of
the students who took dairy work
seven or eight years ago. AS we look
the country owe we find the people
who have become famous in the dairy
world are men of unusual intelligence,
who would undoubtedly have made a
success in most any other line of busi-
macs
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10

Expectations Of . Windfarl.-'Dear,s
said the physicians wife, when can you
the medical man, II hope to cash a draft
shortly, and then" Cash a draft,
What draftg" -The one l saw Mrs. Jenk-
ms sitting in this morning. Philadelphia
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
TRICK WITH MATCHES.
1t Seems N Rather Difficult PrOpo.
%sitiOn, But 1t, Is in Reality,
a Very Easy One.

Lay a match on the table, and so ar
range IA other matches on it that you
can lift the whole system by holding
one end of the first match. That
seems rather a difficult proposition,
doesn't it? So your friends at a party
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10

A butcher named Matthews was de-
livering meat at a house at Administer,
England, when the horse attached to
his cart bolted. The butchers dog at
once vent in pursuit, jumped and
caught hold OF the reins near the
horses mouth and stopped the runa-
way.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
Lime ms nm Insecticide.

Lime is in general use as a fertilizer,
and to a limited extent, also, as an in
secticide. Testimony as to it's value is
conflicting, and this is due to its con-
dition when applied. Lime as an in
secticide ought to be in the form of a
dry hydrate. To shell lime or lime
stone just enough water is to be added
to Stake; then sift through a mod
e~rately fine sieve and dust on the in
sects when they are wet. Only soft
bodied insects can be reached by this
substance. and the application must
be made so that the caustic properties
of the lime may have a chance. The
larvae of the potato beetle and as
paragus beetle are good subjects, and
the testimony of its effectiveness ON
the cabbage worm is not wanting.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10

"He used to kiss me every tim. We
passed through a tunnel before our mar
rage" said the little woman, with sad
reflections.
"And does he do so now" asked the
bosom friend.
"No, he takes a drink Chicago Daily
News.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
Not QumliAea.

Young Lawyer-Madam, you need some
tect your interests.
She-Young man, I've just got married.
Yes. l know your husband."-Detroit
Free press
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
UNIQUE YANKEE NOTION.
Thrifty O%nnectic Farmer Makes
Automobile Do Service as a
Farm Pump.

That the typical down east" yam
kee is a hard mar to down has long
been generally understood, but was
perhaps never better demonstrated
than by the manner in which Andrew
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
POST LIFTING MADE EASY.

IOpI III I1NNN N1NDT EIfS1.
vice for lifting and removing posts.
Hook the chain around the post and
the other end over the end of the
bar, taking a short purchase. and then
pull down as indicated by the arrow
Farm and Home.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10

He (gloomily)-"Do you know how much
the luncheon you nave ordered will cost"
She-"No, don't take away my appetite!"
Town Topics.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10

Uncle Reuben says: 81 reckon dat most
men aim to speak de truth, but at de same
time dey am within to make most any sort
of promise an trust to luck about car
ryin' 'em out."-Detroit Free Press.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
Warfh Something.

The new metal, radium, is said to be
worth 3,000, 900 a pound. Don't neglect
to save up your scraps Of radium.-Chi-
cago Record Herald.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10
HOW TO LIFT S
An Easy 1Afng to Do, Provided One
Knows just How to Tackle
the Work.

A crowbar, chain and two-foot piece
of joist as shown in the illustration
make an excellent and convenient de-
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10

Its Status.-Tourist-"What is the size
Of this place, ~uncle?" Colored Citizen
Dis town hab got about 1000 popularity,
s~ah!"-Puck.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-10

Sincerity is more than a match for sub
tlety.-Ram's Horn.