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The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
FARMER AND PLANTER.
EXPERT KNOWLE LEDGE.
Its Value to the Practical Farmer OF
Inestlmable Value and =
Modern Necessity.

A graduate of the Texas A. and Nj.
college agricultural department, who
has accepted a first-class position in
the A. and M. college of neighbor-
ing states, and is now making pre-
linminary tour to various similar col
leges, writes home that, in New Or
leans, Baton Rouge, and elsewhere, he
has met a number of his old fellow
students, and that they are all doing
we'll" Some of these are engaged in
agricultural pursuits and some In me-
chanical, but all of them hold respon-
Sible and lucrative positions. The
authorities of the Texas college say
that they can not fill all the demands
for young men qualified for positions
in agriculture, mechanics, civil engi-
neering, ETC., and that every graduate
of the college can have good posi-
ton open for his acceptance upon
leaving the school. Before agricultur-
al colleges were established the opin-
ion prevailed that the only education
a farmer needed was reading, writing
and 'rithmetic; that the chief qualifi-
pillow, or hoe, or an ak, coupled with
the alb ty to split 200 rails per day,
or drive unruly oxen on a hot sum-
mer day, or break in a wild mule by
thrashing all the spirit out OF his hide.
1t was considered a matter of muscle,
and not of mind. Education has SO far
enlightened the dark places in rural
life that it is now conceded by all in
telligent people that it is even more
important to know than to do, for il
one knows how thing ought to be
done, but lacks the physical ability to
do the actual work, he can still direct
others how to do it to best advantage.
for best results requires more scientific
learning than that of agriculture. A
civil engineer must be a scientist, and
yet he may dispense with botany,
anatomy, animal physiology, entomolo-
gy and many others, the practical
farmer has daily use, and the best re-
suits can not be attained without
their aid A complete education in all
the natural sciences is hardly prac-
ticable in this hurrying age, but a
practical knowledge of climatology,
soil physics, plant physiology, ento-
mology, animal physiology, hygiene
and nutrition, chemistry, and other
branches can be obtained and prac-
ticed by any intelligent persons, and
should form part of the education of
every farmer Remember that the
schools are merely a preparation for
the acquisition of knowledge; that eu-
ucation is to be acquired afterwards.
Therefore, full appreciation of the
value of knowledge is the first step in
the pursuit thereof, pursuit that
should cease only with life ITSELF
Texas Farm and Ranch.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
LAWYERS TN BATTLE.
VIII Fight to Save $4,000 for Mrs.
Florence Maybrick.
Executors of Her Grandfather's Es-
tate VIII he Forced to Give Acc
cOuntinG-Disappea
of Great Riches.

Fighting for fortune for Mrs. Flor
years after her release next July and also
those of her faithful old mother, lawyers
nave begun proceedings to recover more
than $4,000. That is all that is left OF
the immense fortune of Darius Blake
Holbrok, grandfather OF the American
woman now spending the last months of
a lie sentence, committed to Is years, in
an English prison.
Before John H. Judge, referee, at No.
~ broadway, New York, S. V. Hayden, OF
Washington, D. c., attorney for Mrs.
Maybrick, asked an accounting from
Gardiner. of New York city. They were
the executors of the will of Mr. Holbrook,
who left his vast estate to his daughter,
now the Baroness Won Roques and a resi-
dent OF Rouen. France. with reversion-
airy interest to her daughter, Mrs. May
brick.
Tens Of thousands of that fortune went
to save Mrs. Maybrick first from the
gallows, when she was sentenced to death
in 1889 for poisoning her husband. Hun
dreds of thousands we're spent by the
Baron Won Roques, an Austrian, who
married the American heiress long be-
fore her daughter by former husband
had been accused of murder.
Darius Blake Holbrook also owned
$500, 900 acres of coal and iron lands in
Virginia and West Virginia, and suits to
recover them have been instituted.
Should they be successful Mrs. Maybr!ck
may become one of the wealthiest women
in the United States.
Mr.. Holbrook was capitalist of Mo-
bile. Ala. He was associated with Cyrus
Field in the laying of the first transatlan-
tic cable, he founded the town of Cairo,
ILL.,, and was one of the promoters of the
Illinois Central railroad. When he died,
in 1868, leaving two children, he was one
of the wealthiest men in the south. He
left his entire fortune to his daughter,
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02

1T is of course conceivable that grea
moral issues may arise in which on
party will stand for righteousness ant
the other for iniquity. 1t came prett.
near to that in the year just precedin,
the civil war; and there were gOot
| many churches in those days which
| stood solidly together in support of thu
| principles and the candidates of ont
party and against those of the other
while there were many pulpits from
which emphatic teaching was heart
which seemed to have very direct bear
| ing on politics. We heard in those day!
a great deal of angry talk about politi
is unfortunate when a clear issue O
| fundamental morality is raised between
political parties, for in such cases tn
churches and their ministers are boun(
to take sides. 5@
Such cases are, however, excep
tional. 1t does not often occur that thu
one party represents virtue and thu
other vice; and the economic and finan
cial questions which divide them are
questions with two sides, on which meI
have right to differ The church has
no call to take part in the settlement Of
such questions; and, if it consults its
own peace and prosperity, it will lei
them severely alone"
What, then, it may be asked, Is the
proper work of the church? Has it nc
function to fulfil in the improvement OF
law and the administration of politica
affairs? To these questions Dr. GLADDEN.
answers:
Its business is to apply the law OF
Christ to all the concerns of life, and
TO reveal the spirit of Christ in the lives
of it's members. Its high calling is tC
fit men and women for self-government
to fill their minds so full of the wisdom
that is in Christ and their hearts so full
of His love that good government shall
be the spontaneous and inevitable ex-
preston of their lives.
This means that the teaching of the
church with respect to social and politi-
cal principles shall be clear and author
itative. 1t means that the pulpit shall
show men what the law of Christ means
and how it works in existing human re-
lations; that it shall take the great
ideals of brotherhood and service and
hold them close to the life of every day
SO that men may see what it means to
be Christians now, in this twentieth
century and in all the business of this
complex civilization.
Here the duty of the church ends
These Christian citizens, thus in
structed and inspired, must unite in
other organizations to give effect to the
truth which has taken possession OF
their lives. 1t is not for the church, in
its meetings or by its official action, tc
seek to make nominations, or to elect
officers, or to frame legislation; the
working out of these principles must be
left to other agencies. Either through
the parties to which they belong or
through independent organizations
these Christian citizens must exercise
their political functions"
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
A Small Flock of sheep.

Hundreds of farmers Iail to keep
sheep because they have lot enough
land. This idea that large pastures
are necessary to successful growing OF
sheep is erroneous, and also injurious
Few will deny that even small flock
of sheep is profitable # well kept and
properly utilized One hundred head
may be considered a small flock, but
large enough for most farmers. Fiji
teen or twenty acres, properly divided.
and the divisions planted with plants
that give a succession of grazing, to-
gether with little grain feed raised
on other acres, may be made as profit
able as if they had 500 acres to roam
over. Thus kept at home and under
good fence, they are exempt from most
attacks of carniverous animals, such
as dogs and wolves, which eat up much
of the profits from sheep having I'M
limited range.-Farm and Ranch.
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HERE AND THERE.

Free rural delivery is helping the
country wherever it is used. One of
the conditions is that the roads must
be kept in good condition.
The heaviest tax on the farm comes
from ignorance. 1t may be largely
lessened by intelligent study of good
farm papers.
The well-bred steer pays you
good profit on every bushel of corn
and every pound of hay he eats. Does
the scrub do it?
Lime is cheap, is good disinfcct-
ant, is esasily secured and is one of
the best purifiers, and should be USED
often as a wash for coops, perches,
nest boxes and the sides of the houses.
The best managers on the farm
are not those who work all the time,
but those who find some time every
day for little rest. A man will wear
longer and better if he does.
Dust for the chickens is ESSENTIAL.
Put boxes of fine, dry, floury road
dust where the fowls can battle" in it.
Sprinkle it freely ON perches, on floors,
on droppings. Furnish it in abundance.
Cattle feeders often purchase infe-
rior grades of steers because they can
buy them so much cheaper than they
can good, high grades. This shows
that high grades sell at higher prices
than do scrubs. 1t costs no more to
raise the high grade than it does the
scrub.
There is no specie of poultry that
can be raised with as little grain feed
as geese. They are natural grass eat
ers, and after the young goslings be-
come large enough they will run in
good pasture, with plenty of pure
water, and will need but little grain.
The whole mission of the steer IS
to convert feed into beef, and the
quicker he converts given amount OF
feed into beef, the more pounds of beef
he will get for the food consumed
Keep the animal busy every day at It's
proper work, from birth to sale day.
There is one thing that prevents
the farmer from adopting regular
hours for beginning and ending his
days work. He has no roof over his
fields, and frequently rains interfere
with the progress of his work. Since
he can not make it rain nights and
Sundays he has to have more or less
irregular hours.
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sentative in the house of commons. The
new marquis, who was born on October
%, 1861, was educated at Elton and al
University college, Oxford. His politi-
cal career began early. At the age OF
"a he contested the Darwen division OF
Northeast Lancashire, and, successful
by the narrow majority of five votes
held the seat until 1892. At the general
election of that year he was defeated
but in the following year he was re-
turned unopposed for the constituency
his elevation now leaves vacant. During
the South African war he served with
his battalion of the Devonshire militia
and earned the c. B. In 1900 he was an.
pointed under secretary of foreign
affairs. W
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02

Caroline Elizabeth, now the Baroness
Won Roques. with reverslonary interest
to her daughter, then the infant child of
William G. Chandler Mobile banker,
who died soon afterward.
The child grew to womanhood and was
married to James Maybri of Norfolk,
Va, ard Liverpool, England. Two chill
dren were born to them. Mrs. Chandler
remarked. her second husband being the
Baron Won Roques. They lived abroad
and the Holbrook fortune went fast.
Then came Mrs. Maybrick's arrest in
Liverpool, her sentence to death and
communication of sentence to life impris-
onment.
Holbrook's original executors moved
away or died, and in the early '70s Ham
ilton B. Bradshaw and William H. Gardi-
ner, of New York, were appointed, with
out bond, to serve with Rev. John P. T.
Ingraham, now of st. Louis. The action
brought against the executors does not
include Rev. Mr. Ingral0 m, as he did not
participate in the administration of the
Holbrool1 estate after the appointment
of the other two
Mr.. Hayden, who conducted the nego-
tiations which resulted in an order for
Mrs. Maybrick's release next July, has
seen her twice He said to a New York
Herald reporter that she is very we'll
preserved woman, and does not look her
40 years.
''She told mei' he said, that she lives
only for her mother and her children.
looking woman, and one of the shrewd-
est ever met"
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
JUDGE HENRY C. IDE.
Vermont Jurist VIII Become Vice
Governor of the Philippines
Next January.

Henry Clay Ide, of Vermont, who will
succeed Gen. Luke E. Wright, as vice
governor of the Philippines, is now a
member of the Philippine commission.
His promotion will be brought about by
the appointment of Judge Taft to the
war portfolio and the subsequent pro-
motion of Gen. Wright to the Philip
pine governorship. Mr.. Wright has seen
service in both branches of the Vermont
legislature. He was appointed United
States commissioner to Samoa in 1891,
and two years later was made chief JUS
tice of those islands under the tripar-
tite arrangement between Great Britain,
Germany and the United States. He
served in Samoa until 1897, when the
island group was divided between the
three powers mentioned. In 1900 he
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02

ties is at present uncer the control of
parties; and the kind of strife and con-
tiict which is thus involved would be
fatal to the peace of the church engag-
ing in it and destructive TO its spiritual
life. If both parties were represented
IN the church. the church could not
favor the Policies or the candidates of
one party without opposing the other;
and the struggle of the partisans to con-
troll the action of the church would not
tend to edification. The alternative
would be that every church should be a
party organization, including in it's
membership only the adherents of one
political party, and then we might look
for a lively scrimmage between
churches of opposite politics. which
would be equally scandalous. 1t is clear
that SO long as our political affairs are
in the hands of opposing parties Chris
tian churches cannot become actively
interested in them"
Nor does it seem wise to Dr. GLADDEN.
that Christian ministers should discuss
in the pulpit questions of party politics.
He writes on this point:
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Reputation at Stake.

In handling fruit and vegetables one
of the common tricks is in facing the
packages, but the deception is soon
discovered, and the buyer, nine times
out of ten, is pretty sure to find out
the trick, and the sellers reputation,
if he has any, is badly damaged. If,
on the other hand. care is taken to
grade and uniformity is adhered to,
an enviable reputation can be built
up which is lasting. Buyers, whether
in the local or distant market, soon
learn the brand of the honest shipper.
Midland Farmer
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
A PRISON REFORMER.
English Home Secretary's Policy IN
Connection with Treatment of
Criminals IL Unique.

With the exception of those who are
taking the chief parts in the so-called
fiscal controversy" now raging in Eng
land no member Of the British cabinet
has been more talked of of late than the
recently appointed home secretary, the
Right Hon. Aretas Akers-Douglas. In
his capacity as head of the department of
the government which deals with crimi-
nails, Mr.. Akers-Douglas has just laid
before parliament scheme regarding
the treatment of wrongdoers which he
hopes will solve problem that has been
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
THE VALUE OF COW PEAS.
As n Catch Crop, As Feed for AMI
mails and As n Soil ImprOver
They Arc satisfactory.

| have been growing cow peas more
or less for number of years, usually
as a catch crop, and have always found
them very satisfactory, both for ami
mails and as a soil improver, in fact
in the latter capacity | do not think
l have ever had as good results as
have from cow pease. Even where
the tops are removed from the land
the lands Improvement from the roots
and stubble is quite marked.
Last year, after moving ten acres
field and sowed half with cow peas
and half with Hungarian grass. The
pease were cut and mixed with corn
in the silo, and the Hungarian made
into hay. The ground was prepared
for wheat by use of the disk harrow.
Conditions of culture and fertilizing
were the same for both the catch
crops, and the fertilizing for wheat
the same on the whole field. The
wheat following the peas was consid-
erably better than on the Hungarian
land, while the new seeding of clover
and timothy in the stubble show to
the decided advantage of the pea
ground.
Of course, much better results can
be had in production if enough of a
season can be given them to make
a full-grown crop before frost, but
their value on land that would other
wise be unoccupied during the heat
of late summer and fall is inestimable.
1 have now growing fine sowing that
was made after oats were cut for
hay. The peas were showing green
over the field five days after sowing.
This particular lot of peas are to be
used for late hog pasture, and as an
experiment l sowed rape with the peas.
The fate of the rape is in the future.
My rule is to harvest all catch crops,
either for soiling, for the silo, or for
hay, as much more can be realized
from them thus than by pasturing
them; but my lot referred to above
as for hog pasture is an exception to
lily Tulc, do 1 ACCu tilO hClu do OAOiS ASO
ground for special lot of hogs.
l am not an advocate of the eX-
pensive method of enriching ones land
by blowing down valuable crops that
can be harvested and fed to profit
able animals. When the manure is
carefully saved and applied to living
crops as soon as possible, green
crop covering the land in the winter
and catch one in summer, the home
manure supplemented and made more
valuable by added commercial manure,
soil productivity can be more rapidly
and at the same time profitably in
creased than by expanding labor, time
and money growing crops to pillow I'M
der.
There are exceptions, however. The
field in which / will plant my pota-
toes next spring is now in corn for
curing, and has a fine stand of crimson
clover growing in It, The mission
of this clover is to take care of the
land next winter and furnish good
place to receive the manure for the
potatoes. This will be applied with
a spreader on frozen ground during
winter. To wait on this clover till il
is large enough for cutting would make
late potato planting. Therefore il
will be plowed under. Other fields
of crimson clover will be used fol-
soiling and for hay. and the ground
plowed for corn for the silo.-Country
Gentleman.
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Not satisfied with One.

On the South African ostrich farms
it is no uncommon thing to see male
bird strutting about followed by three
or four broods, all of different sizes
When the incubating process is COM
pleted the cock bird leads his young
ones off, and, if he meets another
proud parent, engages IN a terrific
combat with him. The vanquished
bird retires without q single chick
whilst the other, surrounded by TIVE
broods, walks away triumphantly.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
CHARLES ]. BONAPARTE.
Appointed by Interior Department to
Investigate Alleged Frauds
Against Indians.

Charles ]. Bonaparte, who has been
appointed by Secretary Hitchcock to
investigate alleged frauds against the
Indians in Indian Territory. is one of
the leading lawyers of Maryland, and
was only recently appointed by the
president to prosecute the frauds in
the postal department now under in
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02

A well-known Continental scientist
declares that he has often heard mice
sing. He says the music" generally be-
gins about sunset. One evening he
noiselessly opened a cupboard. and OBJ
served for about half minute the
movements of the throat of mouse,
which he says emitted song like that
Of the wren, though, Of course. nothing
like so shrill, the snout being elongated
and held up in the air as dog does when
It bowls.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
EmblemnticaI Of the Union.

In some private grounds in Kent
there has long stood an interesting
memorial OF the union CT Scotland and
England. It consists of Scottish fir
and an oak growing close together,
and mingling branch with branch. The
trees, it is stated, were planted in 1907
expressly to commemorate the union
of the two sister realms.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
DEv. DIR. WASHINGTON GLAD

DEN, of Columbus, O., was re-
Gently asked to outline his idea
of the function of the church in it's re-
lation to politics: In view of the fact
that he himself went into practical poll
tics not long ago. and served his home
city in legislative capacity, his words
have more than ordinary weight. The
conclusion at which he now arrives is
that it is wisest for the church in all it's
activities to keep itself free from en-
tanglement with practical politics" but,
he says, "the church whose membership,
including its minister, is not actively
at work in securing good government
in the community in which it stands has
neglected great part of it's duty" He
says further, in the Christian Endeavor
World (Boston):
THE first and most obvious reason
why the church should not engage in
practical politics is that practical poll
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
Did Not Need HI. RraI.

A newly arrived westerner was con-
fronted in a street of New York late
at night by ruffian with leveled re-
volver who made the stereotyped de-
mand. "Give me your money or I'll
blow your brains out" BLOW away
said the westerner; '.you can live in
New York without brains, but you can't
without money"
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
His Rise in the world.

Pedro Alvarado, the multi-million-
aire mining man, who died recently at
Parral. was one of the most spectacu-
lar characters in Mexico Six years
ago, he was barefooted peon, work
ing in mine at 80 cents day. He
discovered wonderful prospect, now
known as the Pal Milo mine, and in
q short time was worth millions
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
AN idea worth INITIATING,

Newly-married couples in England
are now honored with cooperative
gifts. When couple are about to
marry, their friends club together,
combine the cash which they intend to
invest in presents, and give them a
choice selection of useful or handsome
presents. There are, no duplicates, no
trash, and there is no worry about the
right articles to choose.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
Curious. insurance Idea.

A French (feminine) writer suggests
that every couple before marrying
should compulsorily insure the future
of their children. She suggests one
cent q day would be q sufficient pre-
MUM.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
MARQUIS OF SALISBURY.
New Head of the Historic House of
Cecil Has Been in Public Life
for Many Years.

By the death of his father, the late
Marquis of Salisbury. James Edward
Herbert Gascoyne-Cecil Viscount Gran
borne, becomes fourth Marquis of Sails
bury, and Rochester city loses it's repre-
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
Peculiar water AnimaI.

A peculiar water animal is the synapta.
which nature has provided with anSan-
Choir somewhat similar in shape to those
used by ships BY means of this the in
sect holds itself firmly in any desired
spot.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
The Wtndiest Point.

Although the Pacific ocean is compare
lively free of storms-hence its name
Point Reyes, California, is the windiest
place in the United States, if the matter
is to be left to the thermometers of the
weather bureau.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
what GaIvanised Iron II

Galvanized iron is merely iron
dipped into molten zinc.' The coating
is not electrically applied. as the word
galvanized seems to imply.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

Easy come. easy go, and hard to get
again.
It takes two women longer to explain
over telephone why they can't 60 to
lunch together than 1t does dozen men
to draw up plans to build railroad
N. Y. Press.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-02
Door. Made of Paner

Some of the new dwellings in French
cities are fitted with doors made en-
tirely of paper. 1t is finished to re-
semble any kind of wood, and there is
no warping, shrinking or cracking.
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travelling Il Cheap i'm Japan.

Low fares prevail on the railroads
Of Japan This is because about one7
half of them are owned and run by the
government.