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Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

falling interest for artists. The site
is of the finest; grand avenues OF
great trees meet at the space where
the fountain is situated.
Bernini is dead about two centuries
and quarter, but the fountain he de-
signed is still playing. and gives un-
measured JOY TO the ear and the eye
OF generations who hardly know more
of him than his name.
Among ruins in the neighborhood
of Rome, which. like the dying emper-
ors. laurel-crowned. decay in the midst
of vegetation and the sweet flowers of
the seasons. are those of the Villa of
Hadrian. near the Tiburtine way. The
emperor whose name the villa bears
had travelled much, and seen men and
cities and wonders of,nature and art
On his return TO Rome he determir cd
to copy. as far as possible. the strange
and beautiful things he had seen. and
place them within a villa.
Here buildings Of great beauty.
adorned with statues celebrated still
after many centuries for their charm
and workmanship. and lawns and
trees. and all the picturesqueness that
constitutes the attraction of an i'm
perial villa. were displayed with roy
al profusion.
Now IL is very wilderness Of in
applicable ruin. The very names Of
the various broken masses of build.
ings are only guessed at: but nature
has been kindly to the broken down
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

middle ages, and its semi-decayed
machicolations on the summit show
how readily the medieval work went
TO ruin. The description on the great
slab on enc side of the monument
tells that II was raised by VI. Plau
titus Silvanus for himself and his wife
Lartia and his child His descend
ants subsequently used II for sepul
chral purposes. and among those in
urned here was Tiberius Plautius Sill
vanns, who served in the Roman army
in Britain. and died in the year A. ID
76. II is stated besides. by Murray,
that Aulus Plautius. one of this fam.
lily. laid out the plan of an encamp
ment on the site of the Tower of Lon
den. and may possibly he regarded
as the founder Of the city
Thus, apart from it's picturesque
ness. II has history sufficient to jus
tify careful investigation. Few land.
scape artists who visit this side OF
the Roman Campagna but find time to
make a sketch OF IL. The rich. warm
tones of the monument, the glaucous
muddy hues Of the river. the green
Of the trees and the varied purples
and greens Of the hills. constitute n
OF colors-to say nothing
of the variety Of forms-that gladdens
the heart Of an artist.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23
cIubman Makes Distinction.

Sir William Harcourt is said to have
remarked, when he was offered q
peerage: II prefer to remain an Eng
fish gentleman" It calls to mind
the London clubman who put up a.
placard asking the nobleman" who.
had taken his umbrella to return it.
Asked why he thought nobleman had
taken 1t, he replied: This club is for
noblemen and gentlemen, and l am
sure no gentleman took it."
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

The Japanese have not succeeded
in getting a single Matanzas mule in
all their bombardment of Port Arthur.
one Russian lawyer. who was num-
bered as a victim, being as near as
they could approximate
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

For the protection of the masses,
and in order that they may readily de-
tect it on their 500 bills, we will state
that the name of the particular bacil-
lus which infests green backs is sta,
phylococcus.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23
Sadness of Dead Sea.

Mr.. Ackroyds, in his report of the
Palestine exploration fund, says that
the sadness of the Dead Sea can not
be fully explained by the accumulation
of salt from Palestine rocks or by it's
being an arm OF the Red
sea- He produces evidences to show
that 1t is largely from the atmos-
pheric transportation of salt from
the Mediterranean.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

Please where is the glory of livins
century? an animated mummy is
not pleasant to look upon, and the
majority of us find it hard enough
having to rub through half the time.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

A New York language sharp will
soon publish a volume treating the
correct use of the propositions. con-
functions. relative pronouns and ad.
verbs in English speech. We trust 1t
will not overlook the classic question:
Where am at?"
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

A Harvard professor says college
students are singularly lacking in i'm
agination. But some of the professors
seem overstocked with it, so the sup
ply is about normal. after all.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

A Chicago woman makes the asser.
ton that there are no good husbands
but dead ones The moral of that
seems to be. when marrying, marry a
dead one.-Journal.
A good many do.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

II the people to whom John L. Sui
Ivan, now sick and penniless, has
given money would repay even 10 per
cent the ex-champion would be fixed
for life.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

Even the woman most anxious to
trespass upon mans preserves lets
him enjoy his bald, head in peace.
The most advanced woman would
never stand for bald head.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

The horse is slowly but surely be-
ing deprived of his constitutional lib
critics. A court of justice has just de-
cided that he has no right to get
scared at an automobile.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

What a woman likes about buying
a thing on the instalment plan is
that if she died before it was paid
up she would be that much money in,
New York Press.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

Now the fashion editors say that no
self-respecting woman will try to
get along without a new hat fer
every month in the year. This is too,
too much.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

A ST. Louis man has willed $1,000
year to his pet horse. Now, IL the
horse has found out how TO live on
twenty cents a day he ought to be
able to leave quite neat little sum to
his relatives when he dies.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

Every gem known to the lapidary
has been found in the United States.
though Holland has the record for cut
ting. 1t is not a very unusual thing
there that diamonds are cut so small
that 1,500 go to a karat The diamond
is not the Oldest known gem.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

man wants a woman to look like
an angel. and yet if she really ran
around clad in her wings and a lit
tie rag OF cheesecloth he would put
her in an insane asylum.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

Men with a system for beating the
horse races are always present at
each meeting, but they change from
year to year. The same old faces are
TO be recognized among the book
makers.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

A twelve-inch shell dropped into q
city from distance of seven ard
one-half miles may be ineffective in
military sense. but is apt to produce
general insomnia.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

The estate of ex-Mayor Grace of
New York is estimated at from s10,-
100000 to s20,O00,OO0. And nobody
asks disparagingly where he got it.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

Even II the worthy Marquis OF
Queensberry has gone into bankrupt
ry for the fourth time. II is some con.
ISOLATION for him to know that tie
rules that bear his family name stB
rontrol the social revelings of tks
tize yirg performers.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

Robertus Love, a st. Louis poet,
thinks of running for Congress. If he
can poll the poet vote he'll be able to
ride Pegasus in on walk.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

Prof Langley says that with s25, 900
more he could fly. Canada has har-
bored many an American citizen who
few with less sum.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

--Agninaldo. is coming to the United
states this summer" Who the deuce
IS Aguinaldo?
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

OF all known illuminans. electric
light is easily first from the hygienic
standpoint. since its light Is produced
without sensible combustion.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

Show me your garden. and l will
show you what You are like" says
Alfred Austin. BY lingo, we'd like tc
see Alfred's.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

II any curious person asks you
There Shan-Hai-Kwan is, just tell him
it's west of Yin-Kow.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

Tom Lawson of Boston tells of
clearing $4,000, 900 in one deal Some
body must have forgotten to cut the
cards.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

1t appears that two newspaper men
have bought the Washington baseball
club. But where on earth did they?
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

Yucatan is enjoying a greater era
of prosperity than ever before in its
history. Well, buy gumi
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

Whatever sin you commit, don't be
guilty of having anything Of push in
sight.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

ing army from 1000 men to 5000
this country may breathe easier.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

American locomotives are used on
the Yafa-Jerusalem railway. although
II is owned by Frenchmen.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

The only time a boy doesn't slam
the door is when he doesn't want his
mother to know he is going out
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23

Sh Doesn't Need Them.
Japan has fifteen docks capable of
accommodating warships.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-02-19
GOOD ROADS IN CONGRESS.
senator Latimer Gives Five Reasons
Why Government Should Aid in
Building Highways.

Next to Panama and the canals, the
subject Of good roads appears to be the
leading question before congress this
winter. In fact, the Panama question
had to stand aside while Senator Lat
imer made a speech on his good roads
bill. He is the Junior senator from
South Carolina, and an enthusiastic
supporter of the government aid prop
osition. The scheme outlined in his
Dill is quite similar to that Of the
Brownlow bill which is now occupying
a large share of public attention. Each
bill carries an appropriation of $24 ,000,-
900 to be used during the next three
years, and each provides that the fed
eral government may aid in the i'm
provement of the roads to the extent Of
one-half the expense; but the Latimer
bill places three commissioners in
charge of the proposed bureau of high
ways instead of one director.
Senator Latimer's speech vas clear
and convincing. He discussed the ques-
ton along the usual lines. He answered
the charge of "unconstitutionaIity" by
citing the fact that congress had APP
propriated and the government had
spent many millions for bodybuilding
in the early part of the last century.
He also pointed out that the govern
ment continually uses the public roads
as postroads and argued that it was not
only constitutional but just that it
should help to construct and maintain
them.
The South Carolina senator
lied the arguments for national aid
as follows:
First. Because the history of road
building demonstrated hat a complete
system of public roads has never been
constructed in any country except by
the aid of the general government.
Second. Because the revenues of the
government are raised largely upon ar
ticles consumed by all of the people,
thereby distributing taxation equally,
and as all the people could contribute
to the construction and Improvement
of the roads, it is only by federal aid
that this can be accomplished.
Third. Because it is the duty of
the federal government to bear it's Just
proportion of the expense for the ON
struction and Improvement of the
roads which it uses for the delivery of
the mails and for military purposes in
time of war.
Fourth. Because better roads are a
national necessity; they closely on
Germ the general welfare of the nation,
and are therefore a proper object of
national aid.
Fifth. Because a surplus OF about
s2OO, 900 900 is lying idle in the treasury
which belong to the people and should
be expended for their benefit in a man
ner which will accomplish the greatest
good to the largest number.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-02-19
IN BUTTER.
Maximum of Water Content Fixed
by the Government and Adopted
by Many Municipalities.

Some time ago the government made
a ruling on the water content allowed
in butter and put Is per cent. as the
highest. Recently butter dealers in Chi
cago have had their attention called to
this matter by the government officials
having such matters in charge. Some
creamery butter was found in Chicago
having a water content of "a per cent.
Some ladle butter and some whey butter
also came under the ban of the law. It
will be well for all makers of butter for
the general market to take heed to this
ruling, as they may otherwise subject
themselves to heavy fines. If butter is
made that has too much water in it. it
will be far better to keep it on the farm
and consume it there than send it to
market. Butter that is churned at from
SO to IS degrees probably never has a
moisture content in excess of thai al
lowed by the law. 1t is far otherwise
with butter churned at say 80 degrees.
as the higher the churning point the
greater the amount of water'incorpor-
ated. In the past some butter makers
have taken advantage of this fact to
work into their butter an unusual
amount of water. Hence laws were
made establishing a maximum standard
for the moisture content.-Farmers' Re
view.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-02-19

spikes and nails, and the next day be-
gan to erect his silo, and in two more
days the silo was completed ready to
receive the silage corn, remarks a
writer in Hoard's Dairyman.
We see no reason why this silo is
not a perfect silO in every particular,
and as good in every way as one cost
ing several hundreds of dollars. and
which would take weeks to erect. When
a perfect silo can be built as cheaply
and as quickly as was this one, we see
no reason why anybody may not have
silage if he wills. This style of silo is
the octagon shape, or eight-sided, and
ceiled perpendicular with two thick
nesses of inch hemlock boards with felt
paper between. A silo, II feet in diam
eter and "a feet high, will not cost more
than $25, foundation included. Such a
silo calls for 1000 feet of good hem
lock boards, 900 feet 2x7's. with felt
and nails. The expense of roof and
foundation will be the same as for any
other style of silo.
A low foundation OF stone and ce-
ment is first built, then the stills are
placed OF and the corners nailed. Then
the boards are set up at the corners
and plumbed with a level that works
vertically. One man holds the joist on
the outside where it belongs, placed
two feet apart and nailed from the in
side. The joists are spiked together
at the corners as the work progresses,
for the first II feet: then the upper sec
ton is continued in the same way. A
number of joists can be sawed with a
crosscut saw, by punching them to-
gether, thus ensuring even lengths. 1t
will be seen that the joists and boards
at the corners all have the same slant.
or angle of As degrees. This style of
silo saves latching with iron hoops. or
the tedious method of making wooden
hoops for the round silo. Each range
of octagons forms the hoops, and the
octagon avoids corners, and has every
advantage that the circle has.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-02-19
VERY EASY OF HER
Not So Good at Figures, But the Prob-
lem Was just One II
Her Kind.

A "woman's reason" with all its tradi-
tional lack of logic, came out IN an anus.
ing fashion at a recent dinner party in
Brooklyn. relates the New York Zines.
In the course of the evening te CONVEX
sation drifted around to those old little
mathematical bits of the How-dd-is-Ann
variety, when one of the company, with
explanations that the next problem would
not be "A very difficult one, questioned as
follows:
'If a bottle and d cork together cost
Sl.l0, and the bottle cost a dolhr more
thar the cork, how much did ne cork
COST
Almost instantly one of the lalies was
ready with the answer:
why. the cork cost five cents and the
bottle 81 .05. That's too easy"
The lady's husband. familiar through
wears of experience with her woeful lack
of skill in figures, looked up in astonish-
ment. -.
Heavens" he exclaimed, How did
you come to get that so soon?'
WHY. my dear" was the reply. "corks
always cost five cents, don't theys"
The Tupelo journal., 1904-02-19
Keeping Cows Clean.

The COW ought to be kept cleaner
than the horse. This is difficult be-
cause of the habits of the animal, but
for this reason the cows should re-
ceive more care. Their TANKS should
be kept free from manure; they
should be brushed. and the bag should
be wiped with a damp cloth or sponge
just before milking to prevent dirt
from falling into the milk: The
amount of dirt and filth that gets into
the milk from the COW is surprising
and is one OF the chief causes OF the
rapid spelling of milk. To reduce this
still further, good dairymen are be-
ginning to use special pails.-Prof. w.
H. Conn, in Farmers Review.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-02-19
THE eason of catching cold is upo

THE season of catching cold is upon
/ us. The cough and the sneeze and
nasal twang are to be heard on
every hand. The origin of chronic
catarrh, the most common and dreadful
of diseases, is a cold.
This is the way the chronic, catarrh
generally begins. A person catches cold,
which hangs on longerthan usual. The
cold generally starts in the head and
throat. T~henfollows sensitivencss of the
air passages which incline one to catch
cold very easily. At last the person has
a cold all the while seemingly, more or
less discharge from the nose. hawking,
splitting frequent clearing of the throat,
nostrils stopped up, full feeling in the
head and sore. inflamed throat.
The best time to treat catarrh is at
the very beginning. A bottle of Peruna
properly used never fails to cure a COM
mon cold, thus preventing chronic
catarrh.
While many people have been cured
of chronic catarrh by a single bottle of
Peruna, yet, as a rule, when the catarrh
becomes thoroughly fixed, more than
one bottle is necessary to complete a
cure. Peruna has cured cases innumer-
able of catarrh of twenty years'stand-
ing. 1t is the best, if not the only
internal remedy for chronic catarrh in
existence.
Butprevention is far better than cure.
Every person subject to catching cold
should take Peruna at once at the
slightest symptom OF cold or sore
throat at this season of the year and
thus prevent what is almost certain to
end in chronic catarrh.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-02-19
RELIABLE RAT TRAP.

must be of different lengths, the middle
one the longest, so that when slipped
into the saw cut they will close the
hole effectually.
Before putting the sceels in the saw
cut, put in some old rags or %sheepskin
to make a nest for the rats, also to
keep them from seeing clear through.
Put a little straw in the mouth of the
hole to fix both ends Of the piping
alike. Put the trap under the barn sill.
If you have made the trap right you
will clean out all the rats.-Henry Mes
son, in Farm and Home.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-02-19
CHEAP OCTAGON SILO.
Built by u Western Farmer In n Few
Days and without Any Ex-
pert Assistance.

The first cost of a silo usually fright
ems the would-be builder from building,
and the building is therefore postponed
for another year The writer saw this
silo built by a farmer in a couple of
days with no expert assistance-just
built by the farmer and his ordinary
help. The day before the erection of
the silo the farmer had not a stick OF
material on hand. On the day men
toned, he brought a couple of loads of
logs to a nearby sawmill and had them
sawn into 2x7-inch planks. In the same
afternoon, he went to town and
brought home a couple of loads of hem
lock boards and a roll of felt and some
The Tupelo journal., 1904-02-19
A FEW ORCHARD HINTS.

Keep an eye on the young orchard
and the rabbit.
Fruit that is not picked until over
ripe is already nea the end of it's life
history and will deteriorate rapidly IN
less stored soon after picking in a low
temperature.
The generally short fruit crop in Eu-
rope last year will make an opportunity
for American dried fruit exporters.
Spain was the only European country
having a large crop.
The big red American apple has long
been a favorite in Germany-even to
the remote corners, while the fine Cali
fornia dried fruit, now for sale in every
grocery, is indispensable to the average
household.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-02-19
COWBOYS OF DUDE RANCH,
Plant for the Reformation of Rapid
Young Men of the East in
North

Many a son of a well-to-do family in
the east will read with interest the an
nouncement that the Eaton ranch at
Medora, N. d., once well known as the
dude ranch" has been sold. The pur-
chaser of this property is a New York
er. reports the Sun.
The ranch is situated at the crossing
of the Little Missouri river, along what
is known as the Custer trail. The first
owners, the Eatons, came from Pitts
burg.
For a number of years they engaged
in the buying of wild animals, such as
bear. elk and deer, for eastern parks
and menageries. 1t was a profitable oc-
cupation, buffalo being carried for a
time as a side line.
While one of the cations was paying
a visit to his home in the east an old
friend asked him, as a personal favor,
to take charge of his younger son, a
hayward youth, in the hope that in the
west, away from metropolitan tempta-
lions, he might make a man of himself.
Eaton readily agreed.
This gave him an idea as to the pos
sibilities of the dude traffic. Many east
ern families of wealth had sons who
were giving them more or less anxiety
and worry at home, and a summer in
the west appealed to them as a good
thing. Thereafter, the Eatons looked
out for such visitors.
The young men looked upon it as a
great lark, and came west in droves.
The Eatons boarded them, furnished
them with horses, guns and all neces-
sary accoutrements and organized per-
sonally conducted excursions in the way
of hunting, range riding, round-ups and
the like.
Upon the ranch they erected a great,
small rooms, in each of which we're a
bun and whatever furniture was neces-
sary. This became known to the cow
boys as the dude pen," and here the
visitors slept.
Sometimes one summer was enough
for them, but some of them remained,
secured capital from home and to-day
are among the substantial men of the
state. They were a constant source of
amusement to the cowboys of the range,
largely from their fondness for immense
hats, big revolvers. rattlesnake belts
and leather chaps"
Hundreds of young men got their only
taste of the life of the range On the
Eaton ranch, but in time the supply of
young men ran short and in recent years
the place has been devoted to the more
or less prosaic life of the region. The
place brought $50, 600.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-02-19
Beauty Counts for Much.

A beautiful and valuable farm across
the way at one time could only be APP
preached by a weed-grown lane. 1t
was bought by a Woodworking farmer
with little surplus money, but plenty
of determination. BY a little thought
and work he changed the bare front
yard into attractive, park-like grounds.
He hauled gravel at odd times, and set
out a row of shade trees along the
driveway. Smoothly-clipped sod took
the place of the weeds along the lane.
Taken altogether his place now has IN
air of dignity that it did not possess
at one time.-Farm Journal.