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The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1904-04-22
Truth IS Stranger Than

Mr.J S. Box whose no
Union county was in Tup,
day en- route to Booneviil
he formerly resided. The
was an interested listener tc
that is stranger than fiction
lated by Mr.. Box. The stor
of pathos and the old gent
JOY at the happy sequel is |
to witness. Mr.. Box was
the mountains of northwes
bama. Just prior to the civ
he was married to woman
choice and sweet little girl
to b ess and brighten. their
When the child was four yea
age the father responded to
for volunteers aud enlisted in
Goth Miss. Regiment of Volun
having moved to this state,
Immediately entered the Confe
ate service. While he was a
his wife died and his little
was taken by kind hearted fan
and cared for. The family mo
away, taking the child, and u
I the fathers return from the war
could find no trace of his lit,
girl nor the family who had take
her. In the great disorder prevail
ing Immediately after the wal
when there were no mails, but few,
newspapers. and those of a loca
nature, it was almost impossible te
locate people who had become sep
arated. After many weary years
of fruitless search the father des
paired of ever again meeting with
his lost child whom he still
held IN fond memory as priceless.
treasure. Although receiving NJ
encouragement through all the in
tervening years the old man con
tinued to write letters to make in
qfiiry for the lost baby. On Nov
ember the Z. 1908, while living
}few miles north of Shannon in thi
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1904-04-22
Knights Of Pythias.

Tupelo Lodge No. 1913, K. OF P. meets
every Monday evening at 7.3O O'Clock,
Castle Hallsin Masonic Temple. Visitors
Welcome. A. H. DELAY. C. c.
!; r. H. MULLEN; K. oi r. IS.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1904-04-22
StraYed.

ttwo horse mules, about
id one mare mule. about
leigh about 700 lbs. each
brown color. Two Of
gest. are western. the
Will give a liberal re.
pyery,o or any informa.
r. rLLlorg.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1904-04-22

Lumpkin Bros. entire stock of mattings will be
sold at Csc on the dollar Come down and the best
quality of mattings All patterns sacrificed 65c on
the dollar. 400 Rolls display counter to select from.
A fine Japanese carpet pattern mating 3Oc and 35c
value By the roll at this sale at 22ac per yard.
Heavy Chinese mating zoe variety, at 13lc yard.
REMNANTS.
We have few small mating remnants. 3, 5, 10, Is
and 2l yards in piece suitable for gugs worth up to
4Oc yard, your choice Zoe and 12c yard.
It's time to buy Mating There is floor COW
erng for summer equal to good mating
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, ia true, but it all counts in the end
when you are not certain they consider
! themselves paid IN full.
"But l only have to keep this mat.
ter off about three years more. Dan
Lapham is the only heir. He is now
nineteen. If he neglects to take action
for year after he comes of age he loses
all his rights under the statute Of linn
itations."
GLOW about the gillnetters, hus'
band?" inquired Mrs. Seadog.
"Well, fish are getting scarce on their
side Of the river. They are scarce
everywhere, fol that matter. But
since the government jetty was built on
that side, the fish run in larger schools
On this side. The gillnettters claim
that am across the line. They are
threatening to destroy my traps and
swamp my boats.
81 sent one of my trusted men among
them, who joined their union and he
informs me that they are planning to
make night raid in a few days.
have had conference with the govern.
or of the state aud he is holding the
militia IN readiness to come on notice
from the sheriff. l shall furnish them
boat at good rental in which they
will patrol the river and keep the
south-siders back.
"The only trouble, though, is that
the state may take up the matter, and
induce the United States government
to make survey. This will cost me a
number of traps or a neat sum to the
surveyors. These two are matters Of
magnitude, but the Chinese importa.
ton trouble will be easily handled.
will send the half-breed and his daugh.
ter's husband to the pen and that will
STOP them.
"And Dan Lapham-well, he is a
daring devil. You know he tends a
trap alone. Although he can swim like
trout. the single boatmen are lost
sooner or later
The conversation had lasted until
long after daylight. The husband and
wife were suddenly interrupted by one
of their sons.
"Have you heard the news?" he
asked as he entered hurriedly, and then
without waiting for reply, he added
Gone fishing boat went down near
the sand spit and two fishermen were
lost. Another was seen entering the
breakers at Pacific Rocks. Still anoth-
err, thought to have contained Dan
Lapham, turned turtle off Chinook
Point, and old Ringwold and Sankala
shot behind Disappointment Rocks. 1t
is the worst morning of the season."
cit is an ill wind that blows no one
good!" remarked old Seadog.
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census was taken of the popula ton
of Buenos Ayres. One million were re-
corded.
Thibetan treaty, but England has won
in the game.
A treaty has been exchanged between
Thibet and Great Britain. both sides re-
i leasing prisoners.
The Japs have taken possession Of the
coal mines at Yentai. where their main
force is now stationed
Nicaragua and Honduras have settled
their differences and Honduras has with
drawn her troops from the territory OF
the former.
At a recent concert in Warsaw the
hall was suddenly invaded by spiders,
which. attracted by the sound Of vio-
lin. came from cracks and crannies in the
building. The other lovers Of music left.
The Northeastern Railway Company,
England. has arranged for number of
it's leading officials to visit the United
States to report on the newest methods
for dealing with passenger and freight
traffic
DR.. Watanabe, the japanese mining
expert estimates that the onefourth of
the new Iwate gold fields he examined
will yield $500, 100000. The other three
fourths is being explored by the Japan
| csc government.
A German chemist named Bau has
succeeded in hquefying illuminating gas,
in that form it gives a good light. which
Is useful in country houses. railway
trains, etc. 1t costs more than ordinary
coal gas. but less than electric light.
America is to manufacture typewriters
for Syria, the machines being fitted with
a new alphabet Of fifty characters. which
was arranged recently by Selim Haddad,
Syrian artist and inventor. The actual
Syrian alphabet contains $50 characters.
Some Of the leading French statesmen,
including Rouvier, Combes and Trouillot,
have given their sanction to the socialis-
tic scheme Of granting every person aged
over 80 pension Of $72 a year. This
scheme, If carried out. would cost the
country $6O,OOO,OOO a year.
The only Persian newspapers which
resemble those published in other coun-
tries are those issued in India and Egypt.
which copy English models. The few
papers published at Teheran contain lit
tie beside the Shah's proclamations and
pictures of prominent officials.
An officer sent to investigate the at
fairs of a government farm in the Trans
vaal, near Potchefstroom, found an ex-
pert at $4,000 a year. an assistant at
$1,000 and another at s1,50O in charge
Of 200 chickens. Similar management
had resulted in a loss, to date, Of 81, 5OO,-
OOO
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GAMBLING IN HUMAN LIVES.
The Weird Sport La Carried on II
London.

The Weird Sport Is Carried on in
London.
"Policies, I'll wager, are already be-
ing taken out In London on the life of
little Alexis, the new heir to the Rus
sian throne" said an insurance agent
to a writer for the Louisville Courier
Journal. ''The English gamble horribly
in life insurance, and Alexis must ap-
peal to them as wonderful risk. They
will pay high for him, though.
1.-THE insurance rates on all royal
lives are q tribute to the power of the
nihilists and anarchists, for they are
30 huge as to be almost prohibitive.
The rate on the King of England is
enormous, and among monarchs his Ia
the lowest rate of any. That on the
Russian Car is the higest. The Gar
is bad risk. Many companies would
not insure him on any considera ton.
but Lloyds, the great London con-
Germ, would insure anything or any
body-Prof. Langley going up in one
of his flying machines, a Japanese spy
about to enter Port Arthur, Russian
battleship going into battle. And hence
I4loyds is willing to insure the poor
little Russian heir, and a certain class
Of men, taking advantage Of this fact,
are procuring policies upon the baby's
life.
Gambling on lives IL a CHASTITY form
Of sport. and believe that it II prac-
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}CH9go1zSI-
100 @StLEaEs

Purdue University opened with the
largest freshman class in it's history.
The University of Pennsylvania began
It's one hundred and forty ninth annual
session with an increased enrolment.
DR.. G. B. Wilson, professor of zoology
at Columbia University. has been elected
member Of the Academia del Lincei,
Rome.
Miss Eleanor Wallot has given 2OO,-
600 marks to the University of Heidel-
berg for the higher education of women
in Germany.
DR.. Ralph Arnold, assistant in geology
at Stanford University, has been appoint
ed assistant to DR.. Dali of the United
States geological survey.
Prof. Koch Of Heidelberg is the only
instructor Of any university in Germany
who lectures on journalism. He has for
several years lectured there OH this sub
ject.
Alexander Moffert, champion amateur
swimmer of New York, has been chosen
director of the new 100000 gymnasium
of the Missouri Athletic Club of st.
Louis.
Dr. James ii. Capheld, librarian of
Columbia University, is delivering a
course Of lectures ON various subjects
this fall before the graduating class at
West Point
For the first time in the history Of
German universities a deaf mute has OBJ
tanned a doctors degree. The Univer-
gty of Leipsic has conferred a Phi. D.
Oh DR.. Walter Kuntze
Prof. w. w. Campbell, director Of the
Lick observatory, has been elected a
foreign member of the Society Degli
Spellroscopisti Italiani, composed of thir-
ty Italians and thirty foreigners.
-Four Filipino students, sent to this
country to be educated at the expense
of their government, have entered the
Indiana University at Bloomington for
a full three years course in law.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-11-12

The oIxnified citizen had just finish
ed telling his story to the grand Jury
and, duly impressed by his Importance
as a cog in the machinery of the law.
had started for the door. He was halt
ed by a call from one of the grand
jurors.
"Mr Binks! Just a momentw
Mr. Binks stopped. slowly retraced
his steps and again took the witness
chair.
Mr.. Binks," said the inQuiring jur-
or, didn't you say you live on the
north side?">
II did, SIR said Mr.. Binks. with
the Importance which some north side
people always assume. He looked at
his inquisitor, but the black beard
tinged with gray of the grand juror
and the twinkling eyes behind the
glasses told him nothing.
"Mr. Binks," went on the juror,
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Ito he continued)
Storm CannOna.

The storm cannons now in use along
the southern side of the Alps, where
damage from hailstorms during har-
vest time is imminent. look like huge
megaphone, such as boat-crew coaches
use, and they are set, with their wide
mouths gaping skywand, beside little
houses that look like sentry boxes.
When they are fired they boom like
sure enough" cannons, and send re-
verberating, echoing. boom-booms car
roming about among the hillsides; but
instead of ball or shell, or other SIM
liar projectile. they emit a ring Of
smoke which grows larger and larger
as 1t ascends, until at last, before it
breaks, it is big enough to surround a
ten-acre field. What the effect of q
smoke ring upon a mischievously In
tent cloud is cannot exactly say, but
instead of hail, only rain falls when
the guns are used, and damage to
crops is prevented.
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didn't your father at one time keep
drug store on the north side?"
HE did," replied Mr.. Binks. Won
dering what that had to do with hi
testimony.
Now. Mr.. Binks," pursued the
grand juror, didn't you at one time
steal a number o. wine bottles from
your father
Certainly not. sirv' shouted Mr.
Binks. standing up Indignantly. while
the other twenty-five jurors stared
at the bearded member
Eyes, you did, Tom," exclaimed that
mysterious person. lea wing his seat II
the row Of Jurors and advancing to
Mr.. Binks with extended hand, be
cause l helped you and l took EN-
around to the front and sold 'em again
, to the old man. Don't you know me
you old fraud"
Then they had a reunion and The
grand jury took q recess.-Chicago
Daily News.
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to
know how to make man physically
sentimental empty stomach
Is
unfaihfuness and many young
material and sordd to woman out is
marres he mares Tor nome Out
in when night
body that longs tor some
peace 1t is the womans part Of the
defauled
mpor
false married good ree
fewe liquidation In love-
women
thousand VINO knows now
things he wants to do The
think that marmony eormaty
their husbands from enjoying them
Keeling
husband interfering MS
change his habits
Of companionshp
baby babys arrival the
simply The young mother doesn't
She
baby to be rocked to sleep The
relieved
out Of evenings amuse himself
has forgotten what
calculations
a baby a husband =
they appreciation Wives
They
grateful that somebody furnish their
they
beaming joy they
torchlght
like to feel that
sacrifices
After worked like from morning until night
his board that's about all the
whine reproaches he
Finally lastly fail because they
comfortable wife
labor and and skill and tact and but that the kind
when married she doesn't like
the single
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-11-12
CHAPTER x.
Bitter Prospects.

The storm had continued throughout
the day and arose at night with renew
ed fury. 1t was common thing to
have weeks of storms at this season of
the year and the sun rarely ever showed
itself. But every storm was the
worst" and the oldest indiv dual
would verify the fact.
1t only goes to show how quickly
people forget even the unpleasant
things Of life. A month of rain and
sleet and snow last year, which at the
time was declared unbearable, is for
gotten in the spring sunshine and when
another winter storm comes, although
mild compared with former ones, it is
record breaker while it lasts and the
complaint is long and loud
But such is the way of weak, frivolous
humanity. 1t was sunshine yesterday !;
Is storming today and tomorrow will
be whatever the temperament suggests.
1t amounts to nothing anyway; foreve,
complaining forgiving, expecting, be-
ing disappointed and disappointing 9TH
ers; yesterdays friend is today's enc
my; in the deepest poverty and dis
tress yesterday, rich and happy today
After all the mind is the weather vane
in life's short span of time and the
tongue the thermometer. Whatever the
mind conceives is so, and the tongue
indicates the state of the mind. Life
is storm or sunshine just as the mind
makes it, and the wagging tongue re-
cords the impression.
But whether in reality ii was the
| mildest or most severe storm in the
history of the fishing village on the
north banks of the Columbia, in the
mind of one it was the darkest hour of
her life. The wind blew louder, the
rainfall on the roof was more rasping
and the night had closed in with great
er darkness. The fire fickered more
eloomily and the shadows fitted about
more ghostily.
The cupboard seemed scantier, the
furniture rougher, the bed clothing
lighter, the floor was more bare and
even the good natured house cat seemed
gloomier as the rain and wind ragged
outside and beat upon the cabin as if it
were cursed and doomed forever.
Sankala was usually of light heart
and spirit, but her nature was all
crushed tonight. She sat beside the
bed which was drawn near the fire
She gazed into the flames with tear
stained eyes. She would look into the
future, but there was nothing to- see
Then the terrible episodes of the day
flashed through her mind like success
sion of Nightmares, or hideous dreams.
Blu. she did not forget her duty. As
regular as the clock would she turn and
change the damp cloths upon Ring
wold's head and examine the hot
smoothing-iron at his feet. The cloths
were kept cold and the irons ws-e KEEP
hot.
I Ringwold barely breathed. The ex.
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&sss;|szNofAsLrS

Winston Churchill will not stand for
reelection to Parliament.
John Jacob Aston has ordered a thirty
horse power automobile in Paris.
Tamagno, the noted Italian tenor, is
III pontics. He wants to 60 to Parlia-
ment.
e. Komolsky. a Hungarian artist. is
painting two portraits of John d. Rookie
Teller.
, The wife OF the Archbishop Of Canter-
bury IL the daughter Of her husband 3
predecessor.
Sir John Usher, who died at Cairo the
other day, was a great Edinburgh phi
lanthropist.
The Sultan has sent a valuable collec-
ton Of Assyrian weapons as a gift to the
King Of Italy.
The wedding presents Of Emperor Will
liam, or some Of them, will be ON exhi-
bition at ST. Louis.
Herr Schabelitz, 4 weIl-known Zurich
publisher, who died recently, did all his
correspondence with postal cards.
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dced nowhere but in England IL
ought not to be practiced there. The
law ought to prohibit it. At LloydA
however. it is always going on. Poll
cies at Lloyds are continually being
taken out on persons of eminence all
over the world"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-11-12

A little girl went timidly into
Fifth street store the other morning
and asked the clerk how many shoe
strings she could get for cents
How long do you want themy d.
asked.
II want them to keep" was her an
swer, In a tone Of slight surprise
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-11-12

II the circus finally cuts out tn'
parade, 1t will be left only for MN
strels and bridal couples to give tns'
kind Of free entertainment
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-11-12
Where the Preacher Work

Where the Preacher WORKS.
Church-The average man likes
sit idly and see some other man do Oh
the work.
Gotham-Why Ii II, then, that moo
men don't 60 to church? - Yonken
Statesman.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-11-12
Dis1racin1 Herself.

Mrs. Smartset-For mercy's sake,
don't let me hear you talk about books
in society again.
Cultured Daughter-Dear me! Why
not?
Mrs. Smartset-Strangers will think
you have been . cash girl In q book
store.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-11-12

Johnny Makes . Suggestion.
Knicker-My son, come with me.
Johnny-Er-say, pa. don't yo'
think since we have got baby In the
family you might abolish the knout!~
New York Sun.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-11-12

HE first why women fall as wives Is because
marriage been esteemed one OF the learned
professions which only a highly qualified individual
fitted practice On the contrary 1t Is held to be
kind of jackeg any giEl pick up at min
utes notice carry successfully without the slight
est previous knowledge training. No girl would be-
conceited enough to think that she could practice me
cine or dentistry without devotng years its
study She wouldn't dream of hiring out as a sten
ographer without first learning how to mike pothooks
but she bthely cocksurey tackles the most difficult
complicated job existing. that of being WIFE,
the falacious assumption that knowledge OF how to
manage man. and r:ake him happy and comfortable
The Lamar register., 1904-06-22
INJUNCTION SUIT
BEGUN BY PRESIDENT BURNS
Portland Mine Manager viii Appeal to
Federal Court to Restrain
Governor Peabody.

Denver June 1S.-The News this
morning says: Governor Peabody was
served yesterday with notice that on
Wednesday next James F. Burns Will
apply to the Federal Court at St. Lou
is for temporary writ of injunction
restraining him and the military from
interfering with the operations of the
Portland mine. This introduced a new
feature into the Colorado labor trou-
bles. There is an opinion prevailing
that the Meyer habeas corpus case
may fail of its desired end when Gov
ernor Peabody makes his return on
July 5th. as he will set up that Mr.
Meyer is no longer in his custody. At
torneys are somewhat divided on the
question. but there is little doubt that
in considering the Portland injunction
suit the Federal Court will take up and
pass upon the military policy as pur-
sued by Governor Peabody and Adju-
tant General Bell in handling the
strike.
In connection with his injunction
suit Mr.. Burns has also served notice
on Governor Peabody. General Bell,
C. C. Hamlin. secretary of the Mine
Owners Association, and others con
nected with that body; Sherif Ed
ward Bell of Teller county. and his
deputies who assisted in shutting
down the Portland mine, of his inten-
tion to bring suit against them Tor
100000 damages, which he claims due
him because of the closing down OF
the mine and the arrest and deporta-
tion of many of his men. The damage
suit will be brought in the Federal
Court of Denver.
ie haf n
his own personal suits Mr.. Burns will
also assist the miners formerly en-
ployed in the Portland mine who were
arrested and deported by General Bell,
to prosecute damage suits in the Fed
eral Courts against the governor and
military.
The petition for the injunction sets
forth the history of the present strike
from its beginning last August to the
closing down of the Portland mine.
1t refers to the Independence dynamit-
ing tragedy as criminal in its nature,
and says that the mine was shut down
as a result of that occurrence. 1t is
further stated that unless an injunc-
tion can be obtained restraining the
defendants from further interference.
the mine must remain closed. to the
great loss and detriment of complain
ant.
1t is also stated that about 800 men
were employed in the mines and that
complainant offered to surrender TO
the authorities men whom they might
designate as amenable to the laws,
but that this offer was rejected, the
reply being made that it had been de-
cided that no mine should be operated
by the Western Federation of Miners,
and that this mine was harbor and
asylum for lawless characters.