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The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-25
KEEP UP
"ood Roads VIII Surely Come II All
Who Need Them ClamOr for
Their Establishment.

While the people OF this ountry have
been expanding their energies and
means in contributing the best system
OF railroads upon the earth, there has
been little attention given to building
highways according to modern ideas.
There has been no adequate system for
maintaining them. and their condition
in this age of general development and
improvement is a disgrace to a civilized
nation.
1t seems to be settled beyond argu-
ment that the public roads in this
country are to be improved. Argument
is all on the affirmative side, and there
is no opposition. The only question to
settle is Of ways and means, and the
attention of the people is being direct
ed to national aid to road improvement
as outlined in the Brownlow bill.
In countries that are famed for their
good roads their general government is
A large factor in their general manage
ment. Nearly 100 years g our nation
al government was engaged in project
40 oAN cuiiuibS oy otCIlS vi
public highways to develop the re-
sources of the country, and probably
would have continued sun policy but
for the rapid growth Of steam railway
systems that seemed better adapted to
the needs of the expanding business and
the increasing traffic of the country.
Within recent years, through the de-
partment of agriculture, the Office of
public road inquiries was established
and is maintained by yearly a%ppropria-
tons from the public treasury, result
Ing in great good in promoting road
improvement. and there has been an in
creasing demand upon this Office, not
only for achieving aid, but for material
assistance.
In responding to the peoples call
for government aid there has been made
a safe and healthy beginning and it
seems an opportune time to enlarge and
extend the work.
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Sexes In Strawberries.

In planting a strawberry bed, there
Is one important point to remember.
that strawberry plants are of two
kinds-pistillate and bisexual, says an
eastern strawberry grower. The BIZ
sexual plant has a perfect flower, and
will produce fruit of its own accord,
but the pistillate plant has an imper-
feet flower, and unless it becomes fer
tilted by the pollen from some of the
strong staminate varieties, will not
produce fruit. A great many failures
have been experienced on account of
people not being aware OF this deficien-
cy in some kinds of plants. Ten years
ago all of our best varieties were of
the pistillate sort, and WI had 10 use
them, but since then a lot of new va
rieties have been introduced, the ma
jority of which are bisexual varieties,
SO that at the present time we have no
need to plant pistillate varieties.
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no sign of being different in structure
from that of ordinary species.
The cobra sometimes grows TO a
length of six feet, and often finds its
way into the walls and roofs of houses,
being fond of the rats which abound
in such places in India. These snakes
go about iT pairs, and they never
stray far from each other. The female
lays about II eggs, which are nearly
as large as those of a pigeon, white,
and very soft shelled.
The natives of India have what they
call snake %stones.'' which are very
porous and absorbing substances, and
when these are applied to the wound
they draw up a considerable quantity
of blood. How such crude treatment
can " effect a cure seems incred-
ible. but many instances have been re-
ported by Elglishmen where deception
was out Of the question, The wild
jungle fowl are said to feed on the
young snakes, and the curious little
furry creature. the mongoose. is the
cobra's worst enemy, showing great
Skill and cunning in attacking and
avoiding the fangS of the reptile. The
snake is invariably killed in these en-
counters.
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Cut enough salt pork into bits to
make a scant half cupful; mince an
onion and mix with the pork. Put a
piece of butter in a pan and when
quite hot. turn in the pork and onion.
Fry them brown. stirring all the time
to prevent burning. Now add three
large potatoes cut in Thin slices. Cover
with boiling water and cook till quite
tender. Salt and pepper to taste. Now
add one pint scalding milk (sweeD and
a little powdered sage or ground celery
seed. Rub a scant tablespoonful of
-four in a little cold milk, stir into the
mixture and let boil a few minutes
longer. Toast some crackers or bits of
bread, place in a tureen and pour the
chowder over them. Serve hot.--Farm
and Home.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-25
THE MEAN MAN LOST.
Fate or Something Else Came to the
Aid of the Pink-Haired
StenOHrapher.

The Broadway car was approaching
Thirteenth street, relates the New York
Sun.
The fat man leaned forward with a
gasp and touched one of the meekly
standing women with his folded newspa-
p@r. Then he rose with a mighty sigh
and moved toward the door, while his
grateful beneficiary dropped into the
vacated seat.
A pink haired steno2rapher, not raw
ishingly pretty, who chung to a strap i'm
mediately in front, viewed the incident
with surprise. and afterward assumed a
contemptuous smile. Then the car
lurched into Dead Mans Curve and she
swung out on the strap like "Curfew
Shall Not Ring Tonight" Her lips
moved busily for a lasting arch of corn.
The mean man, seated opposite. was
interested. Over the top of his paper he
observed these facial changes of the
pink haired stenographer. and be noted
their cause with fiendish pleasure.
The passenger beside him vas folding
his paper and buttoning his coat. AS the
passenger rose the mean man touched
the arm OF a woman standing next the
pink haired s~tenographer and drew her
attention to the vacan seat.
The pink haired stenographer looked
over her shoulder with a glance of
amazement and hatred. Then she saw
the mean mans expression. and under
stood that he had acted with malice
a~forethought. She turned her back
squarely. crimson to the tips of her ears.
The mean man exulted inwardly.
Watching the seated passengers ar
rowly, he was enabled to repeat this
performance twice more. each time land
leaving the pink haired stenographer
still %clinging to the strap. Insthe OPP
posite window he could see her face re-
fiected; and her lips were set in a danger
Gus line.
The supply Of standing passengers
was depicting. The mean man began to
look worried. Then came the influx
from the crosstown line at Thirty-fourth
street, and business seemed to be picking
up.
The new arrivals were crowding up
the aisle, when suddenly the pink haired
stenographer abandoned her strap with
a curious CLEAN in her eye. Wedgine
herself ~sinuously into the advancing
mass. she brought it to a struggling
pause just in front of where the mean
Ia sat.
There was a wild sWaying and shutting
in which the pink haired stenosrapher's
gray jacket mingled vaguely. Then the
car started amid a confusion of out
stretched arms. and the mean mans
hat was knocked from his head far into
the aisle.
He sprang forward to save it from
certain destruction, and was back in a
secondhand he found the pink haired
st~enographer comfortably settled in his
seat. But the scornful arch had vanished
from her lips. likewise the dangerous
line; and her eyes looked beyond the
NEAR man in a gaze of dreamy content
ment.
Then the mean man hooked himself
into a strap and tried to look calmly re-
Elective as he computed the runningtime
tn Ei0hfy-thir Ctraat
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MOST vENOMOUS SNAKE.
Hooded Cobra of India Is.the Direct
Cause of Hundreds of Deaths
Every Year.

One of the most interesting, as well
the hooded cobra, of India. In that
country hundreds of people die every
year from the venomouS bite of these
reptiles. AS it lies coiled up in a little
heap in it's cage, it looks inoffensive
enough. and not nearly so unpleasant
as the stub-tailed ebony moccasins. But
when excited. the cobra rears up its
head and about one-third of its body.
and we now see the reason for the
name hooded" The ribs just back
OF the head are very long and slender,
and when they are extended straight
out from the body the skin stretched
between them forms a curved shield or
hood around the head. On the back
of this hood, in the adult snake. is a
most remarkable ornament, looking
like TWO eyes with a pair of ~spectacles.
nOsepieces and all. In no two snakes
is this ornament exactly alike, andsome
individuals lack it altogether.
When the snake sways back and
forth. all ready to strike, its tongue
playing like lightning, II may indeed
be glad that a thick sheet of glass is
between him and this terrible threat of
death. But one must remember that
this tongue has nothing to do with the
venom or bite, the poison fluid being
stored up in little sacs, and when the
snake strikes it is forced down and
out through the hollow teeth.
This is the snake which the snake
charmers of the east use in their per-
formances. and the photograph shows
a snake in one of the very baskets
which these strange people use. The
music of the flutes evidently eXcites
them to spread their hoods, as does the
presence of food.
When the hood is not in use. it is
closed back upon the neck and folds so
neatly between the ribs that it disap-
pears, and the neck of the snake shows
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-25
FOX FOOLED THE WOLF.
An Animal Story with n Moral Which
Had Its Origin AmOng the
IrOIuois Indians.

AS everybody knows, the wolf hates
the fox. According to the ~Iroquois In
dams, this is why:
One cold wintry day a fox, who was
proving about looking to see where he
might steal his dinner, saw a wagon
coming. 1t was loaded with fish, and
was driven by some fishermen who
were taking home their days catch.
"Ah, hal" said the cunning fox.
Here comes my dinner" and he fell
down by the roadside and pretended %
be dead.
The fishermen, seeing him, picked
him up and threw him into the wagon
among the fish. Then the fox slyly
threw out some fish. and when the fish
ermen were not looking jumped out
himself and made off with the fish he
had thrown out.
Pretty soon afterward he met a wolf.
who said: 4 am hungry, and | guess
| will eat you for my dinner?"
But the fox said: Would you not
rather have fish for dinner?"
The wolf replied that. ON the whole,
he thought he would prefer fish. Then
the cunning fox told him of the trick
by which he had just got his own din
ner, and advised him to try it. The
wolf was pleased at the idea, and so
he ran through the woods and head
ed off the team which the fishermen
were driving. falling down in the road
in front OF it and pretending to be
dead. But the fishermen, who had by
this time discovered the trick the fox
had played upon them. instead of talk
ing him into the wogan. beat him with
clubs so that he barely escaped with
his life. And on a hillside heal by sat
the fox who lauphel and anohnd
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-25
INCREASED SALE OF RAZORS.
More Men Than Ever Before Now
shave ThemseIves-Many own
More Than One Blade.

There are sold in this country TO-
day said a cutlery man to a New York
Sun reporter, "a hundred times as many
razors as were sold here 40 years ago.
Some share or this increase is due,
of course. to the advance in population,
but the greater part is due to the large
increase in the proportion of men who
shave themselves. More men than eve
before now possess this polite art. With
a greater number of individual users of
raZors there are, of course, many more
razors now sold. And, of course, plenty
of men own more than one razor; every
one ought to own two, at least, as many
men do. One good razor properly cared
for might serve its purpose continuously
and well for a long time without re-
grinding or honing, but an accident
might happen to it, and against that a
man guards by having at least one extra
razor.
MANY men buy sets of seven raz0rs,
one for each day in the week, and there
are men who have sets of 81 razors, one
for every day in the month. And trav-
elers going to distant countries and into
regions where facilities would be lack
ing buy cases of razors to take with
them. A traveller starting out with a
case of half a dozen razors in perfect
condition would have a razor outfit that,
with such care as he could bestoW upon
it himself, would serve him well for
years. The best razor that can be made
can be bought with a plain handle for
So; anything more than that in the cost
of it would be in the mounting-in pearl
handles and so on. You a buy a case
of seven fine razors, simply mounted,
for S12, or you can pay $50 or more for
a case of razors with the same blades,
but with fine mountings and in a finer
case"
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-25
SOME POPULAR PEANUTS.
For Light Soils the EARLY Spanish
Variety Is Considered nm Ex-
ceIlcnt Forage Plant.

The cut shows respectively the small
est and largest ''goobers" that have
reached our notice, says the Rural New
Yorker. The small variety is known as
the Early panish, and is considered an
excellent forage plant for light soils in
hot seasons. The tops are cut and cured
for hay before frost, and are claimed
to be as nutritious as clover. The pea
nut is a legume like clover. and grows
best when the roots are studded with
tubercles, but the demand for plant food
to develop the numerous large oily seeds
is SO great that it cannot well be used
as a soil improver. The Spanish variety
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-25
FADS N
Odds and Ends of Feminine Finery
for the Winter Sea-
yOr,

Pastel blue Isl a new and fashion
able color.
One of the prettiest skirts in velvet
is shirred at the waist and finished
with a row of fringe at the hem. A
skirt of this o r allows of an elab-
orate bodice.
Chiffon velvet is the elegant fabric
for dinner gowns. When the color is
shaded into three tones it is most
fashionable.
White cloth is Ole of the prettiest
fabrics for the reception gown. espe-
cially if it is relieved with embroidery
Or insertions of some contrasting tint.
Lovely sets now come in the popu-
lar purple tints. A favorite one in
pinky violet tone comprises a hat, a
tie of tulle, a graceful collar of taffeta
and one of those huge new muffs.
M%ousquetaire gloves are coming in
once more-especially the shorter
lengths-which are worn with tailor
touch at the wrist.
Typography and Swedish woodwork,
initiated in papier mache, are other
novelties of the season. They come as
buckets, boxes of all shapes and wash
tubs.
Brocade silks arc back in favor. In
deed, Powered patterns are obtaining
even among the velvets.
Leather is pressed into service for
short motor coats. They are perfectly
plain in exterior finish, and are fire.
quently lined with expensive fur. but
the leather coat has not the vogue it
obtained in earlier seasons.
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BABY PAULINE'S YARN.
Little GIRL with IA Large Imagination
Proved Herself Equal to
Sudden

Little Pauline is about five years old
and has a large imaginationM She makes
the widest statements with the most
demure air, and then puts her head on
n side and watches with dancing eyes
to see if you took in the joke. The room
of a family friend is a regular curiosity
shop for her. She has sat andiistened
by the hour to descriptions of various
odd things that are in the collection of
curiosities. She took great interest in
a magnet used for a paper weight and
has played with it when her best beloved
doll had lost it's charms. One day she
walked into the Dor with an exceed
ingly important air.
What do you fink?" she said.
4 don't know, I'm sure. A bear?'
was the reply.
mo, sir. | sawn a little girl what
had swallowed a magnet, and what dc
you fink happened to her? Evewy time
she goes to eat, her spoon hops down
her troat, and the other day she was
playing wifi some nails, and the first
fing she knowed she swallowed 'em,
and her mother gived her a penny to buy
some candy wifi, and she swallowed ii
fore she got to the store. Amt that
dreffie?" she exclaimed.
Fearful! What did they do for her?'
She paused a moment, evidently un-
prepared for such a question, but her in.
vention was equal to the emergency
Why" she said, with big eyes and
bated breath, they got a great big mag
net-oh, a 'normous big one-and opened
her mouth, and all the things coined w
again."-N. Y. Times.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-25
The Feast of Jusgernaut.

The temple of the Juggernaut is ii
Bengal, India. Every year in March
occurs what is known as the festiva
of J~uggernaut. when the idols are al
taken out of their temple, and on cars
or chariots are drawn to visit theil
c~ountryhouse, which is about a mile
and a half from the temple. These
chariots are drawn by people, and i
is true that in former years the vo'
taries Of the gods, in their transports
of religious frenzy, would throw them
| selves under the cars and be crushed
to death by the moving vehicles. buf
no occurrences of this kind have beer
permitted during the past century o.
more.
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Sweet oil taken internally is said to
be an antidote for the bites of rattle
snakes, of spiders and other insects,
for Sory poison and for arsenic and
strychnine poisoning. 1t will cure bloat
in animals which results from eating
too much of fresh clover. or similar
foods. The dose for a man is a spoonful
taken internally; for a horse eight times
as much. Every farmer should keep a
bottle in his house constantly.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-25
D A TORTOISE.
German Animal Trainer Has q Steel
which, Although slow, Is
Said to he Sure.

wild Arabian nag for this gentleman.
He much prefers deliberate and pain
fully slow travel via tortoise-back, as
the picture shows. The rider is an ami
ma trainer in a German menagerie and
his specially is educating huge South
Sea Island tortoises for racing purposes.
Not they are designed to repeat the
%proverbial competition with the hare,
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Homemade cider.

The making of cider in small guam
titles is rather a difficult matter. The
apples should be allowed to mellow I'M
der cover for about two weeks, then
they should be crushed and allowed to
stand until somewhat cleared, Pour off
and strain well, then draw off into a
large cask and allow to stand; for win
ter use cider can be bottled.-Good
Housekeeping.
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sets an immense crop OF little, thin
shelled nuts of excellent flavor. They
are too small for general commercial
uses, but meet a demand in the manu-
facture of fancy confectionery. They
make an excellent fattening food for
hogs, which may be pastured OF the land
after the tops are cut and allowed to root
out the nuts for themselves.
The Spanish peanut natures so quick
iy IN comparison with other kinds that
1t may be grown as n garden plant in
most northern states, with a fair chance
of good yields. They should be planted
preferably in light soil in rows like bush
beans, and require about the same cul-
ture. The foliage is neat, and the numer-
GUS bright yellow blooms are very pretty.
Frequent stirring of the soil is benefi-
clal in promoting growth and in en-
aiding the embryo nuts to bury them
selves in the soil in the natural way.
The nuts are very sweet and pleasant
when properly roasted. and are partic-
ularly good keepers. We have held them
over W years in an ordinary cellar with
no apparent deterioration in flavor.
Commercial peanuts are of a larger
type, averaging more thar double the
size of the Spanish kind. The shells
are large and long. often containing
three kernels or peas. Every effort is
made in curing these nuts to retain the
fresh, bright straw color they have
when taken from the soil
The large nuts in the figure are sent
out as the New Mammoth. They are
handsome and of very good quality. In
pennsylvania this variety makes a neat
bush Is inches high and ripens many
of the mammoth, thick-shelled nuts. but
farther south, we understand. it is a
strong runner and very prolific in WELD.
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somewhnt TuI.t.n-

The average American in the PhTiD.
pines makes sorry work of the Spanish Ian.
guage; but the Spaniards also have diff.
Guilty in mastering English. A Detroit
woman opened a Manila paper the other
day, and saw the following advertisements
OF a prominent Spanish dry goods house
that caters to American trade:
importing house receiving by all mails
from Europe. The highest novelties in
weavings of silks and linen. Hats. and ali
sorts OF Adjoining for ladies and children,
A complete assortment of all kinds OF
goods for gentlemen .'1Detroit Free Press
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An UnfimeIY Death.

An untimely death so often fellows
neglect OF slight cough or cold. II lay
or's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum
md Mullen is taken in time it will pre-
rent any evil results. 1t cures coughs,
colds and consumption.
At druggists, 25c., Soc, and $lN a
bottle.
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but to strive with one another. His
method is to mOunt the she'll of one of
these huge creatures and urge it on to
a designated goal by holding before its
eXpectant beak a bunch OF fresh and
tempting lettuce, or other vegetable
particularly pleasing to the tortoise
palate.
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Mrs. Jilt-"And when you told him l
was married did he seem to be sorry;
Miss Hilt-.Oh, yes; he said so quite
frankly" Mrs. Jilt-"Did he, really"
Miss Hilt-Yes, indeed; he SAID he was
exceedingly sorry, although he didn't know
.he man personally. philadelphia Press.
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GIycerfn for Windows,

People who are troubled with the
frost on the windows of a cold room may
keep them transparent by rubbing them
with glycerin. This will prevent a
heavy frost forming on them.
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Genius.

Wiggles Dawson is a versatile sort of a
chap, isn't he?
Waggle-I should say he was. He can
make just as good a speech at a ward eau.
Gus as he can at the anniversary of a Sun.
day school.-Somervills Journal,
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Rox IN POSITION

out of reach, and no gate is near. Why
not use the swinging mail box i'm the
illustration? II can easily be swung
around until within reach, and then re-
turned to its former position.-Orange
Judd Farmer.
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Omit Coughing.

Why cough, when for 25c and this notice
you get Is doses of an absolutely guaran.
teed cough cure in tablet form postpaid.
DIR. SKlRVIN CO., La Crosse, Wis. TX. III
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Here, take this rife" cried the excited
Snowman. The leopard has escaped.
When You find him, shoot him IN the
pot" (which spot, SIR" gasped the
peen circus hand.-Scribe.
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Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken Of
as a cough cure.-J. w. OBrien, 322 Third
Ave, n, Minneapolis, MINI, Jan. 6, 1900.
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Those who are formed to win general
admiration are seldom calculated to be-
stow individual happiness.-Lady Blessing
ton.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-12-25

All creameries use butter color. Why
lot do as they do-use June Tint Butter
Color,
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Capitalization has proved to be a some
what unsatisfactory substitute for capital.
Puck
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The downward road is not so downy.-
Chicago Tribune.
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Confidence is the secret of strength
Monod.
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To Cure q Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c.