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The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-11
Machinery on the Farm.

The Importance of mechanical pow
er on a farm is not generally appreci-
ated as it ough to be. Every con-
~trivance that lessons muscular labor
is a time saver. Many progressive
farmers use improved implements for
preparing land, planting, ~cultivating
and harvesting their crops; but all are
operated by hand or horse power. A
power is needed that a be used in
side the barn, to run a t%hresher, to
grind feed, to operate the churn, to
pump water, to saw wood, to turn a
lather or grindstone. There are many
powers adopted to these purposes, but
many farmers do lot use them. Some
farm ers are not able to buy a steam
or gasoline engine, or an efficient
windmill. In such cases a tread mill
operated by horses, at little expendi-
ture of muscular energy, will be found
cheap and efficient. 1t "a be hauled
from place to place by a team of
horses, and then operated by the same
team. There is no danger from explo-
sion or fire in these machines, and
they can do an immense amount OF
money saving labor.-TeXas Farm and
Ranch.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-11
SACRED MEMORIES.
Religious Influences of the Home
Have II Power Beyond Human
Ability to Compute.

The religious influences Of the home
are potent. Its religious life ought to
be pure, cheerful, full of sweet content,
it's piety unassuming and goodness real.
Then its joy will chasten every sorrow.
The Bible has a place in the family as a
household treasure. There, with no
doubts or cavils or questionings about
it, 1t is read by the quiet freight as the
gloom of evening time comes on. Who
can forget the sacred associations of
those hours? The morning incense and
evening oblation of ascending prayers,
the gathering in the old parlor on Sab
bath afternoons, the deep-toned organ
notes. the sacred songs and sweetly sol
emn tunes. There is the child kneeling
at mothers knee in snowy white night
robes not purer thar the little heart, and
the sweet voice is lifted softly, tenderly,
In words of prayer, reverently saying:
Now lay me down to sleep"
Or, when older grown and the voice
better modulated, but not sweeter. and
the vision broadened, the wisdom clear
er. Joining all the family circle in repeat
ing: Our Father. who art in Heaven"
How well we remember the last gath
ering for prayer about the old hearth
stone, the tremulous words of alteration
n petition, the singing of God be
with you till We meet again" Then,
with silent hand-clasp the Mizpah ends.
and we go out to tread life's busy path
ways, with its sweet melody ringing in
our ears, and the religious spirit of the
home fingers yet.
Religion in the home' There Christ
writes His image on many a child heart.
never to be effaced, but to be frightened
and enlarged all along life's journey.
How we pity a mar who has no home;
who has no tie of family: in whose heart
are sad traces of neglect in youth; whose
retrospect of home is a dreary blank!
How much he needs the friendship of
Christ, and homes that are full of JOY
ought to be opened to him. The genesis
OF a home! Who can describe it! Here
is a maiden fair and graceful and a man
noble and brave. She is coy and win
some, he is stalWart and strong. To-
Setner tney pllght their love, and there
is a betrothal. Lcve's golden clasp binds
it and loves canopy hangs above it.
Then come the marriage altar. the
bridal wreath, the wedding bells and
then home. There is a doubling of every
JOY and the halving of every sorrow.
She brings the dover of her good sense
and serenity of temper, and he his I'M
daunted courage. ar indomitable will.
and together they share many a cup of
JOY and drink many a cup of sorrow.
The world looks to womanhood for it's
moral and spiritual advancement. In
the home we find its highest type as wife
and mother. Here she manifests her
sublime faith and womanly courage.
Here she shows the supremacy of disin-
terested love and service.-Rev. A. c..
WEIGH.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-11
A FOREST RANGER.
Nothing Like His Work for the Young
Man who Wants to Get Near
to Natures Heart.

For the young man who loves out
door life there is hardly any employ
ment which offers better inducements
than that of ranger in one Of the great
forest reserves of the west. The govern
ment has devoted much attention to the
problem of protecting its forests and
the wild game therein, and it offers
fascinating employment to young men
who know something of Woodcraft and
who are willing to dwell alone in the
wilderness the greater part of the year.
The position of forest ranger has its
drawbacks as we'll as its advantages.
The ranger is often called upon to fight
the forest fire for days at a time, and
again he may come in conflict with
poachers on government land-desper-
ate men who are not inclined to parley
with anything but the rifle or revolver.
He may be snowbound for weeks and
months at a time. with no companion
but his pony, or perhaps some tiny
squirrels or other wild animals which
he has coaXed to his cabin, and with
which he has struck up a companion
ship. On the other hand, there is no in
dividual who has a better opportunity
of enjoying the wild, free life of the
wilderness, of studying animals in their
native haunts. of learning the secrets
of that never ending book of the forest,
of whipping ideal trout streams and of
spending pleasant hours in pursuit of
game, either with the camera or the
rifle.
The forest ranger is not held to GER
tain hours of labor as strictly as the
government employee who labors in an
Office and who registers his arriving and
departing time on a clock. He is prac-
tically his own master, sending written
reports to his superiors and sometimes
going weeks without seeing another
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-11
Water a Potent Factor.

Water is the most potent factor in
farming. Some farmers can't get
enough water on their fields, and 9th
ers can't get the water off. Irriga-
ton and draining are therefore the
most important subjects for agricultu-
raj contemplation. In buying a farm,
or land to be devoted to farming,
facilities for drainage should be con-
sidered. 1t is often the case that good
drainage can be secured by proper lay
ing out of fields and a very little Of
ditching. Irrigation, to some extent at
least, can be provided for by damming
a ravine and blowing out burrows to
direct the course of the storm water.
But generally this calls for elevating
the water by windmillS, or other pow
er. Some land can be irrigated from
shallow wells by pumping to an ele-
waited reservoir and putting the water
on the land by the gravity process.
Drainage is almost as important as ir-
rigation, and can be made a much less
costly process. Too much water is as
deleterious as too little.-Farm and
Ranch.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-11
HELPFUL AMI TRUE.

Wise sayings often fall on barren
ground; but a kind word is never thrown
away.-Arthur Helps.
Our character is but the stamp on our
souls of the free choice of good and evil
we have made through life.-Geikie.
The heart that cherishes anger is like
an ocean in storm-an emblem of tumult
and not of peace.-United Presbyterian.
Nothing will make us SO charitable
and tender to the faults Of others as by
determination thoroughly to known
our own.-Fenelon.
Selfishness cannot forgive. Love can
not help forgiving. Love de-
fines our neighbor as the man whom we
can help, and measures our duty to him
by what we would wish for ourselves.
William De Witt Hyde.
Love mems possibilities, as your Lord
has e them, and it will not be difficult
10 be patient with the stages of imper-
lection by which they attain. Is not
time theirs as well as yours? And shall
you learn nothing for their advantage
from the patience of your Heavenly Fa-
ther?-Isaac Ogden Rankin.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-11
HERE AND THERE.

Cotton seed meal fed once a day
is n of the best feeds for fowls. 1t
will make the chicks grow rapidly and
help the hens to lay regularly. What
more is needed in a chicken feed?
If any single farmer possessed all
the grain wasted in one year by the
farmers in a single state his name
millionaires.
Much of the beauty of any bust
ness is in the profitableness of it; and
yet many farmers pursue their o
ton year after year with only the most
meager profits.
Scrub stock and bad farming go
together. When YOU see the scrub
stock you know all you want to know
about the kind of farmer who owns
them.
On account of late planting, disre-
gard of character of seed, rains,
droughts, boil worms, boil weevils and
red rust, it is possible that the en-
tire cotton crop will not sell for more
imam SOU OOO,OU0.
A poultry journal says ducks
should not be required to roost with
the chickens. And there is no indica-
ton in the paragraph or the context
that it was intended as a joke. Just
fancy a duck roosting!
I'm almost every cas- of vicious
ness in a horse, the horse has con
tracted the vice from man. In cases
of inherited vice it is the fault of the
man If it has not been cured. Vicious
associations corrupt horses as well as
men.
I'm the growing of hogs or other
live stock, good pasturage and plenty
of it is the cheapest of all feeds, and
as good as any that can be devised
for animal growth. Pasturage in
creases the profits by curtailing the
cost of production.
Indications are that throughout
the country eggs are becoming un
usually scarce on account of the short
CROP" Why such a contingency should
be general throughout so large a coun-
try is hard to explain, unless, perhaps,
hens are partaking of the great strike
epidemic now everywhere prevailing.
What their demands are we can not
iamagine. Perhaps the cold storage
people can enlighten US.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-11
CIVIL AND MILITARY CLASH.
Civil Officers Accused of Aiding and
Abetting the LavIess Ele-
mcnt at cripple Creek.

Denver, Col, Dec. 4.-Gov. Peabody
declared Thursday that he would take
steps to nullify the action of the court
at Cripple Creek should it liberate any
of the bull pen" prisoners.
"The reign of the law-breaking e1e-
ment of the Western Federation of
Miners has got to end in this state"
said the governor.
Attorney-General Miller has advised
the governor to instruct the military
to rearrest and hold at Camp Goldfield
any of the prisoners charged with
crimes who may be set free by the
civil authorities at Cripple Creek.
Teller county is in a state of an
archy," said Mr.. Miller. mo attempt
is being made to sustain law and or
der. The civil authorities are aiding
and abetting the lawless element. No
one can get a fair trial in the county,
and no trial should be held until mat
tiers have become more normal"
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-11
FAITH in GOD.

When dangers come. We fear the worst
And vet, Goo rules and reins above:
de has a purpose from the first,
lie rules and reigns in love.
we Know not why. we see not how;
AND yet, Gods plans for us are best.
Whatever comes, to Him Wen bow,
wen husband in Him rest,
Nhate'er befalls, the time will come
When darkness fades before the light;
When we with joy shall reach our home,
a hcme forever bright.
rms faith in God shall be our stay,
Our anchor when wild pillows roll.
Inc tiercest storms shall pass away,
There's safety for the soul.
John NJ. Morse. in n. Y. Observer.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-11
GOOD FOR FITS.
PASSION, I~dieness, Extravaganza, Am
bttion, Dependency. Doubt and
Fear-AII Have Remedies.

For a fit of passion.-Walk in the
open air; you may speak YOU mind to
the winds without hurting anyone, or
proclaiming yourself a simpleton.
For a fit of idleness.-Count the tick
ing of a clock; do this for one hour,
and you will be glad to pull off your
coat the next and work like a beaver,
says an exchange.
For a fit of extravaganza and folly
Go to the W~orkhouse or speak to the
inmates of a Jail. and you will be con-
WINGED that who makes his bed of
brier or thorn, must be content to lie
forlorn."
For a fit of ambition.-Go to the
church yard and read the gr~avestones.
they will tell you the end of ambition.
The grave will soon be your bedcham-
Der and the earth your pillow.
For a fit of despondency.-Look on
the good things God has given you in
this world and to those He has prom
ised to His followers in the next. He
who goes into His garden to look for
cobwebs and spiders no doubt will find
them; while he who looks for a flower
may return into his house with one
blooming in his bosom.
For all fits of doubt, perplexity and
fear.-Whether they respect the body
or the mind; whether they are a load
to the shoulders, the head or the heart.
the following cure may be relied on.
for had it from the Great Physician:
Cast thy burden on the Lord, and He
will sustain thee"
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-11
A LITTLE LEAVEN.
The symbol of EVIL Because of Its
InSidiOus. Swift. Penetrating
and Transforming Power.

"A little leaven leaveneth the whole
lump" That is an adage, and the en-
phatic word is the adjective little, says
Wellspring. Every n knows that leav-
en- leavens, but it is not so generally un-
derstood how small a quantity will do
the work. A little yeast will diffuse itself
through a large pan Of dough, and many
a young h~ousekeeper has spoiled many
a baking because she has used too much
yeast. Just a little is sufficient. Yeast
is alive. and anything that is alive, no
matter how insignificant in appearance,
Will achieve great results if you do not
check IL by a higher form of life, and only
give il time in which to work. Leaven
is like contagion, and contagion spreads
from centers so small they are not Wis
Idle to the naked eye. A little smallpox
just that on one small boy-will leav-
en-, unless fought, the entire school and
at last the whole community. Moral
~leavening works in precisely the same
way.
So secret and insidious and swift and
penetrating and Transforming is leaven
that men came early to see in it the SYM
Dol of evil. For evil works in secret
n with intense and conQuering en-
ergy. In Jerusalem and also in Rome
and in many another city the priests of
religion banished leaven from their
feaSts and ceremonies at certain sea-
sons of the yea to remind themselves
M the people that all malice and cor
ruption must be driven from the heart.
1t is because influence is SO subtle and
so powerful hat our Lord called it leav-
en- and eXhorted His disciples to beware
OF it. Beware of the leaven of the Phar-
isees and Sadducees!" so He said and
says. And Paul, taking up His thought.
reminds the Corinthians and the Gala
tians that a little leaven is sufficient to
leaven a whole lump. There was one rot
ten man in the Corinthian church, and it
was fatal to allow him to stay there for
the reason that the little leaven-one
bad man held in esteem and high posi-
tlon-will demoraliZe and degrade an
entire congregation. In the churches of
Galatla there was a false idea abroad.
Along with 1t there went much truth,
but one false principle introduced at the
basis of Christian teaching will weaken
and ruin the whole; which, being in
terpreted, means that n evil compan-
ion will, unless resisted. undermine and
poilute an entire social circle, and that
one evil habit left neglected in the heart
will spread infection and death into
every department of life. Oh, that
young folks We're wise, and that they
would beware of the leaven. of I'M
righteousness, no matter how little the
leaven may be,
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-11
DEER GOES TO SCHOOL.
nounced and Receives Hearty
Welcome.

Little girls do not often have such a
playmate as came unannounced to the
schoolhouse at Spruce Run, in the state
Of New Jersey. What do you think it
was?
Mamie and Gladys and Elizabeth and
Margaret and oh! SO many other little
girls were doing sums and locating in
their Biographies the lands of the Chi
naman and the Jap, just too good for
anything, when in through the door
came a deer. 1t was a young doe, the
light of love ard timidity in its great,
brown eyes, and just trembling with
fear. or curse the children were
frightened. The only deer they had
ever seen were in the geological gar
dens. Some of the little girls got up on
their seats and others hid behind their
books. Gladys screamed and it made
every one of them shiver.
Now the pretty little doe became
quite bold, and while Elizabeth was
holding Gladys hand and begging her
to be quiet the teacher approached the
deer and patted it's glossy neck. 1t liked
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-11
PROFITABLE INVESTMENT.
University of Nebraska Wins Seven
Prizes and Clears 81 900 on
Champion Fat Steer.

Chicago, Dec. 4.-Challenger, the
champion fat steer of the live stock
exhibition, was the center of attrac-
ton at the stock yards Thursday. 1t
was announced that Challenger had
set a new record in cattle investments.
having been bought by the University
of Nebraska for SOS. He was fed on
a special diet. costing about 20 cents
a day, for six and one-half months.
The total cost of the steer up to the
day he was landed in Chicago vas
slightly over $120. Since he was
brought here Challenger has won sew
en- prizes, the cash bonus ~aggregating
$3.50. He will be sold at public auc-
ton to-day, and it is expected to sell
for about $500, giving the university
a profit of approximately 81, ZOO.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-11
WARSHIP MAY BRING TREATY.
to Use Warship to COnvey Treaty
From Panama to Washington.

Washington, Dec. 4.-Secretary Hay
had a talk with the president Thurs
day about the developments on the
isthmus of Panama. AS a result of
the conference it is possible that one
of the states warships now at Colon
will be used to bring the Panama
canal treaty, ratified Wednesday at
Panama, to the United States. The
authorities here have decided hat it
was proper to facilitate in any way the
conclusion of the treaty and, influ-
enced in some measure by the urgings
of the Panama representatives here.
cabled instructions to United States
Consul Gudger to assist in all proper
ways in the dispatch of the treaty on
its return to Washington. The treaty
should reach Washington in the ordi-
nary course about December 10.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-11
THE EXPRESS TO sLEEPTowN.

] know a little traveller
Who every single night
Starts upon a long, long journey,
That lasts till broad daylight.
Her ticket readsc "Sleeptown Express"
Stamped "Papa's Goodnight kiss
And, when she pays him with a hug.
He says: Il thank you, Miss.
Just a the berth marked 'Dreamyland.'
You mount 1t by the stairs.
Make haste, because the train should start
Soon as you've said your prayers.
"Remember, too, on this express,
You tightly close your eyes;
And no one reaches Sleepy Town
Who talks. or laughs, or cries.
so. when the sandman engineer
His engine bell has rung,
The Passenger for Sleepy Town
Must surely hold her tongue.
BE ready, then. to jump aboard,
Kiss mother at the gate.
It's after half-past even, and
The train is due at eight.
Gertrude o. Gaskill, in Christian Resis-
ter.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-11

employe of the government. He is fur
| nished with comfortable quarters, usu-
ally a rustic cabin in an ideal retreat.
and he has the use of a pony. His salary
may not be large, but there is little OPP
portunity for spending money, and as a
result he may save more in a years
time than a city employee who draws
twice as large a figure from the gov
eminent treasury.
The work of a forest ranger in a re-
serve like that adjoining the Yellow
stone is sufficiently varied to keep him
from feeling any touch of ennui. The
rangers day usually begins at sun up,
for the men of the west are not a sloth-
full breed and are generally astir at
dawn. The ranger turns out of his
comfortable bunk, or mayhap rises
from the bed which he has made at his
cabin doorstep outdoors. Although the
nights in midsummer are cold even to
the point of freezing, the ranger like
others Injured to western life, prefers
plenty OF fresh air, and consequently
half of the time he rolls into his blank
cts out of doors and pulls his tarpaulin
over his head, choosing to sleep that
way rather than in his we'll aired cabin.
Sometimes he will find an inch of snow
over his t%arpaulin when he awakes.
But for nine months of the year he
practically sleeps as we'll as works out
of doOrS.-N. Y, Tribune.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-11
AN INALlENABLE PROPERTY.
consequences of Our own Actions Are
Possessions of Which We Cam
not Rid Ourselves.

There is just one thing in this muta-
BILE world that we can be sure of Dos
sessing. Money proverbially takes to
itself wings, fame is fugitive, power
slips from the hand. We cannot be
sure of our friends. our fortunes. our
circumstances; but we can count. with
unerrlng accuracy, upon possessing the
consequences of our own actions. We
inherit, says Philadelphia Young Peo-
pie, from the deeds of every day an
lnalienable legacy, and though each
year adds to it, it can never be dimin-
ished, and passes with us through that
gateway of the grave where all else is
left behind.
There are in nature neither re-
wards nor punishments. there are con-
sequences" said a shrewd thinker of
the last century. We need not expect
the nature of things to be changed for
our benefit. Nature is under law. and
effect must follow cause: If we do an
evil act, We inherit evil consequence
and must possess it whether we will
or no. If we do a good act, no power
Soh hCCP bdth HULL US lIlc SOOu COi-
sequence that is its legacy. Neither
consequence may be immediate, but
when the hour for them comes full
circle they will arrive too, be sure of
that.
The common law, which in it's es-
sence, is common sense, holds that ev-
cry man intends the consequences of
his own acts, and so is responsible for
them. If a man doesn't think how his
act is going to result, he is liable for
that result, lone the less.
The Divine law holds just the same
view: Whatsoever a man soweth. that
shall he also reap" Yet many young
people appear to think hat careless
action carries no responsibility with it.
Il can't help it: l never stopped to
think. I'm sorry it has turned out so;
but it really isn't my fault" is reason
ing that Some seem to consider valid.
Alas! the consequences remain exact
ly as before, I'M the responsibility
cannot be shifted or lifted from the
the burdens and shames of their folly
and always must.
We make or mar our lives as we go.
There is sadness in the thought, but
there is more hope than sadness. For
those who start out and act rightly
must win in the end. One good conse-
quence after another is heaped UP, an
inalienable treasure. There may be de-
lay, and heartsickness, and discourage
ment, but things are safe, neverthe-
less. A lifetime Of good means an eter-
nifty of joy, as certainly as conse-
quence follows ecu The reward of
the righteous is not capricious; it is
part of Gods law. "a mans good deeds
are his best friends"
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-11
DOGS BLOW
Unique LebOr-Saving Device of n
New 1Ark Blacksmith which
fassersby Watch.

On an uptown street, on the east side
Of the city, hundreds of people daily
pause at a blacksmith's shop to watch
three large Newfoundland dogs, which
are employed by the brawny smithy to
work the bellows OF the FORCES of his
shop. In one corner of the shop is a
large wooden wheel, about eight feet
in diameter, and wide enough for a dog
to stand in. When the wheel is at rest
the dog stands in much the same posi-
ton as a horse in a child's rocker, with
its head always turned toward the forge,
awaiting orders. When told to 'go
ahead the beast on duty at once starts
on a brisk trot, which makes the wheel
turn around rapidly, and by mean of a
crank and lever the power is conveyed
tt the bellows.
The dogs work willingly and with such
intelligence that people are eve weary
of watching the efforts of the animals
to keep the smithy's fires bright. Each
dog works in the wheel for one hour
and then rests for two. They cost their
owner about two dollars a week for each
to feed, and he estimates that they save
him $12 a week, as otherwise it would
require the services of two men or a
small engine to do their work.-N. Y.
Mail and ExDress.