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The Tupelo journal., 1904-06-17
DISTINGUISHING ENEMIES.
Didn't Talk Like Natives They
Were Sent Back.

Senator Stone, of Missouri, declares
the only way to carve" a watermelon IS
to bust 'er," but says that every state
has a peculiar way of doing things as
well as its W style of pronunciation.
1T is said that when the first tide OF
New England settlers began to drift to
Kansas" said the senator, according to
the Des Moines Times, "Missourians
tied a cow at each crossing of the Mis-
souri, river. II the emigrant said cow
he was permitted to cross, but If he pro-
nounced it 'keow' he was told to return
to the east, because the natives were
satisfied he was an evil minded aboli-
ZIONIST. The Kansas people evened up
by tying a bear on their side OF the river,
and if the emigrant said bear he was
given the right hand of fellowship, but
# he pronounced it bar he was given an
hour to get back to Missouri, because he
was an advocate of slavery.
so that's about the size of it wher-
ever you go-everybody to his or her
W liking in the matter of prOnuncia-
ton and-'carving' q watermelon"
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WOMEN "BUCK THE TIGER"
How the Dealers in a Montana Gam
bling Resort Get the Work.
ing Girls Wages.

In Butte, Mont, there is a gambling
house where the patronage of ladies
is the special feature of the manage
ment, and where all kinds of women
play the good old game of faro, perfectly
at home and without fear of Interrupt
ton. The entrance is from an alley lee
Broadway, and the house is luxuriously
furnished. Carpets are laid on the
floors, softened lights shine over the
players, courteous attendants deal and
shuttle the cards and pay bets or take
winnings without the slightest sugges-
ton of the incongruity Of the situation,
says the Denver Republican.
Here many ~fashionably gowned wom-
en- of Butte's elite come in parties or in
pairs with escorts, to quietly venture sill
yer or goldpieces coined from copper by
their husbands, who busy themselves in
Butte's continuous political war.
Women of the business world keep
track of the game, and both dealer and
player usually maintain a rigid silence.
Money is passed out for chips with the
simple word, five" or ten, "and con-
versation is economical to a minimum.
AND there are schemes to inveigle the
unsuspecting that only the initiated I'M
derstand. Many women of the middle
classes are among the most regular pa
irons of the place. A waiter girl was re-
Gently observed playing her weeks
wages with phenomenal luck. With SIS
she had won $50 and had cashed in her
chips with charming GOODNESS prepared
to go home winner" The dealer paid
her without comment. He counted out
the mOney-two twenty-dollar bills, ono
ten, one five, four dollars in silver, two
half-dollars. She picked up the money.
put the bills in her purse and laid a
half dollar on the ace. 1t lost. She laid
down a dollar. 1t won. Another few
moments and she had lost the silver. Re-
~luctantly she drew out a i%ve-dollar note
and began to play again. In a few deals
she was playing heavily again. In half
an hour she was broke. 1t was a simple
trick which has won the bank many mil
lions of dollars after the player cashed
in-the name of payment. One is re-
luctant to break a bill, but silver is con
venient to lay down on a card, and most
gamblers will do it. Before they know it
they are again drawn in to the game.
They sometimes win, it is true, for the
games are ON the square, but one cannot
win always, and the chance on a second
round is in favor of the tiger"
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ouI III HUI
orable retirement in Massachusetts at
the age of over tour score years; J. d.
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, who was
secretary of war for a little less than
a year towards the close of the admin
istration, and George H. Williams, of
as Landaulet Williams, who was at
torney general, who was nominated
%fatuously for chief justice of the United
States, and who at last accounts was
acting as mayor of Portland, Ore, at
an age when most men have aban-
doned earthly activities.
OF Tyner it is said that no man was
more surprised than he when the
president called him to the white
house to tell him Of his promotion to
the cabinet.
Marshall Jewell, of Connecticut, was
postmaster general. He had been firt-
ing with the candidacy of Secretary
Bristow, whose aspirations for the
presidency were not favored by the
administration, and one day about the
time of the national convention Grant
called Jewell into the cabinet room
and asked for his resignation, at the
same time requesting him to suggest
a successor. Jewell yielded grace
fully, and suggested Tyner, who was
at that time first assistant postmas-
ter general. Grant sent for Tyner,
who promptly came to the white
house, for he was not accustomed to
being summoned by the president.
"Mr. Tyner," said Grant, looking at
him severely, Il have decided to
make a change in the Office of first as
sistant postmaster general" Tyner
gasped and turned pale. II should
like to have your resignation" con-
tinued the president, "as soon as you
can give it to me-" Tyner bowed
submissively. "And, if agreeable to
you continued Grant, 81 should like
to have you accept the office of post
master general"
Tyner almost fell to the floor in his
establishment. It had never occurred
to him that he would have a place in
the cabinet.
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department, from which were to be
cast bronze figures to surmount the
granite pedestal. In spite of all this,
and in spite of me fact that over
500, 900 was raised, no monument was
ever erected, and, what is stranger
still, no money was ever returned to
the subscribers. Both monument and
money have disappeared in tradition,
and it is only by chance that 1T is
brought back now to recollection that
such In enterprise was ever contem-
plated.
The National Lincoln Monument as
ISOLATION was chartered by congress
in 1867, and the list of incorporators
included cabinet minister's, senators,
representatives and other dis
tinguished citizens. i.
OF all the lncorporators only one
is known to survive-Shelby NJ. Gull
lom, now United States senator from
Illinois, and then a representative in
congress. Cullom does not remem-
When he was reminded of it not long
since he said the whole business had
entirely slipped his mind. And yet at
least $100.O00 must have been con-
tributed for the monument. because
the IL bronze guns were issued by the
war department to the association, &C
cording to the official records; and
under the act of incorporation it was
provided that no guns should be is.
sued until the voluntary subscriptions
actually in the hands of the treasurer
should amount to $4,000
There are occasional references to
the proposed monument in acts OF con-
gress and department records, down as
far as 1882, when all allusion ceases and
oblivion closes over the enterprise. But
500, 900 seems to have been successfully
swallowed up.
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Many Monuments. obla distance
In almost every instance our presi-
dents appropriately have found burial
in the place where they made a home.
Grant, who could hardly be said to have
had a home, is buried in New York.
Arthur, who was born in Vermont, and
spent most of his life in New York
city, lies at Albany. Garfield's tomb
is at Cleveland, instead of at Mentor,
which his residence made famous. Zach
airy Taylor, who was born in Virginia.
died in Washington, and was more
closely identified with Louisiana than
any other state, is buried in Kentucky,
among his ancestors.
Two presidents lie buried at Rich
mond-Tyler and Monroe-and two lie
buried at Quincy, Mass.-John Adams
and John Quincy Adams. There is no
other town in the United States thus
honored. Five presidents are buried in
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Jefferson. Madi-
son. Monroe and Tyler; four in Ohio
William Henry Harrison, Hayes, Gar
field and Mckinley; four in New York
Grant, Arthur, Fillmore and Van Blu
rem; three in Tennessee-Jackson, John
son and Polk. Benjamin Harrison is
buried at Indianapolis; Taylor at
Springfield, KY, Pierce at Concord, N.
H., Buchanan at Lancaster, Pa, and
Lincoln at Springfield, Ill.
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ing 5000 horsepower, besides others OF
a similar type of smaller capacity. This
is the first display of turbine engines
at a large exposition, as it's develop
ment is a very recent achievement OF
mechanical engineering and invention.
At the Chicago Exposition the larg-
est gas engine developed only ten
horsepower; the visitor to ST. Louis
may see a gas engine with the capacity
of 800 times larger than the Chicago
engine. The 5000 horsepower gas en-
CINE is the largest engine of it's char
acter ever built. Many other gas en-
gines of various types developing from
1000 to 1850 horsepower complete this
feature of the exhibit, and there are
many of the more familiar reciprocal
ing engines of the latest pattern and
highest efficiency.
OF the total number of prime movers
harf are comprised in what is known as
the Exposition power plant, the other
half being exhibitors engines. Nearly
all these engines are connected with
electrical generators and the power is
transmitted by cable throughout the
grounds to the electric railways, the
machinery in operation in the EXPOSE
tiOn buildings, the pumps supplying
water to the cascades and fountains,
the r~efrigerating plant and for other
purposes. The total horsepower used
at Chicago did not exceed 1000 and at
the Pan-American not over 5000, in
comparison with the 10000 to $4,000
here,
Electricity had only five and one
nine acres are given to the same de-
partment, besides a large display of
electrical generators in the Palace OF
Machinery.
No one should be deferred from visit
ing the worlds fair because of the fear
that living expenses in st. Louis are too
high. If anyone has this notion it is
high time that it be ~dispelled. There is
absolutely no doubt of the fact that one
| can find excellent living accommoda-
lions in st. Louis now at rates not ex-
ceeding the charges this same month in
New York, Chicago or any other great
American city.
No one need pay more than one dollar
a day for a good room. That is an aver
age rate, though many accommodations
of excellent character may be had for
less. There are many unrented rooms
at five dollars a week, advertised every
day in the newspapers. Hundreds Of
restaurants serve meals or give short
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Perils of "Self-D octoring."

Large numbers of people in prosper
ous circumstances die as s~exagenarians
from maladies which are evidences of
degeneration and of premature senil-
ity, while many who pass this period
&c on to enter upon an eighth or ninth
decade of life. The former class ON
prise those who have lived without re-
straint of their appetites and who have
sought to allay some of the conse-
quences by Standardization, while the
lived reasonably, and who, if annoyed
by imperfect digestion, have sought re-
lief by abandoning the errors from
which it sprang.-London Lancet.
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THE WONDERS OF THE
WORLD AT ST. LOUIS
They Are to Be Found in the Great Palaces and Along
"The Pike"

Exhibitions; Glass Weaving, Spinning;
German Tyrolean Alps; Golden Chariot;
Grants Log Cabin; Galveston Flood;
Haunted Castle; Hereafter; Hunting in
the Ozarks; Infant I%ncubators; Indian
Congress and Wild West; Irish Village;
Japanese Village; Jerusalem; Jim Key
Educated Horse); L%incoln's Log Cabin;
Moorish Palace; Model Playground;
Miniature Railway; Magic Whirlpool;
Morocco; Mysterious Asia; Naval Ex-
hibition; Old Plantation; Old st. Louis,
Mo-; Old Cahokia Court House; Old
Virginia Homestead; Observation
Wheel; Palais Du Costume; Pottery;
Weller: Paris and France; Scenic Rail-
way: South African Boer Exhibits;
Streets of Seville; Statisticum; Sub
marine Diving; New York to the North
Pole: Trained and Wild Animals; Under
and Over the Sea; Upper Mississippi
Views: Water Chutes; Wireless Teleg-
raphy.
What runs in all; what supplies the
power that makes the countless wheels
go round? The majority of visitors are
intensely interested in the mechanical
motive force of this greatest of eXposl-
tons, and we'll they may be. One OF
the most striking features is the power
plant. Never before at an exposition
has there been even half as much
power developed as supplied from the
various prime movers in the Palace of
Machinery. In a large boiler house
standing west of the Machinery build
ing, filled with the latest and best pro-
auctions of skilled boiler manufactures,
steam is generated to supply 10000
horsepower to the various engines in
the Machinery building. In addition
to this about $1,000 horsepower is re-
ceived by electric cable from power sta
tons in the city of st. Louis. But the
greatest interest is in the engines them
| selves rather than in the large capacity
of the exhibit, for among them is a
giant turbine or rotary engine develop
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been created, and for the first hour or
more of their stay inside the grounds
but few get further than the point from
which they catch their first view of this
grand picture.
1T almost takes my breath away,
exclaimed one near whom | was
standing as she caught her first glimpse
of the beauty of the cascades and the
magnificence of the grand exposition
palaces. Such is the general verdict.
For beauty, for magnificence, for extent,
st. Louis has beat the world.
There is another feature, or rather
collection of features, which seemingly
appeals to every visitor, and with good
reason. and that is 1.-The Pike" The
fair management do not wish to appeal
to the public with a side-show. They
built an exposition which should stand
forth to the world on its merits as an
educator. as a monument to the worlds
progress, but realizing that an amuse-
ment feature was necessary they set to
work to provide the biggest and best in
this line that has ever been known. That
they have succeeded in this is evident
TO every visitor who travels The Pike"
Nor is this great amusement feature
lacking in educational interest. Here
one NAV study the architectural fancies
of the world; here he may study the
nations of the world, their methods OF
life their surroundings, their customs.
He sees realistic pictures OF the Esqul-
maux in their snow and ice bound homes
in one minute, and the next is trans
norted 10 the jungles of tropical Africa.
eeTbe Pike is not an aggregation OF fat
women and the skeleton men, in no
sense a circus side-show, but a realistic
picture of the world upon which five
millions of dollars has been spent.
Six thousand performers from foreign
countries. and busy artisans from every
remote corner of earth are engaged to
reproduce the life of rs different peoples.
Eifteen hundred animals are required to
lend reality to the varied scenes. TWO
elbows in the list of 40 represent an out
Law of 81, 400, 900. Twenty OF them cost
not less than 500, 900 apiece, and hardly
an attraction less than $4,000.
Some idea of what there is to be seen
Of pike features may be had from a list
of the educational amusement features
which this section Of the fair contains:
Alaska and Esquimaux Village; An
cient Rome and Hawaiian Volcano; Bat
tIe Abbey; Bohemia; Crystal Palace;
Cliff Dwellers; Chinese Village; Colorado
Cold Mine; Creation; Coal Breaker;
Cairo. Constantinople; Fire-Fighting
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'J S ooOo
secretary. for 60 years more
before he drops off the scene of &C.
ton. He was private secretary to
Gen. Grant when Grant was president
of the United States, and there is no
other man now living who has more
interesting "reminiscences of the great
soldier.
Gen. Grant," says Col. Sniffen,
was the greatest nan l ever knew.
He was simple minded as a child, and
as trustful as a child of those whom
he regarded as his friends. He on
fided in them as he would confde in
his wife. For one of them to have
betrayed his confidence would have
been dastardly, and only n of all
the men he trusted in public life ever
did betray his confidence, SO far as l
know. l shall never forget the grief
upon him. 1t was something so en-
tirely foreign to his manner of
thought that he was simply dazed and
stunned. That was at the time of
the whisky ring revelations. With
all his capacity for achievement, Grant
had no pride of performance. He
would adopt suggestions without COM
ment, and if after he had written a
message somebody had changed the
literary style of it throughout, he
would accept the lamentations as a
matter of course.
sVof C,or+ voc ~ro.iIar} o,,or, WIN
ute of the time. He reached his own
conclusions and stuck to them. When
ever a crisis came, it was he, and not
the members of his cabinet, who de-
termined the policy of the administra-
ton"
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st. Louis.-Early visitors to the Louis
lana Purchase exposition have found
at st. Louis an exposition sc nearly COM
plete that they have in no way missed
the few minor details that were unfin-
ished on the opening day, and which
have since been completed. In fact in
an exposition of such proportions as
this it would be impossible to discover
a thousand little details that might lack
completion.
Weather conditions were against the
exposition management for a few days
preceding the opening. Now every
thing is favorable, and the great fair
is entirely complete, a completeness, we
must repeat, that is so enormous that
it is all but impossible to comprehend
what it has meant to the builders. The
last vestige of scaffolding that for a
few days surrounded some Of the less i'm
portant buildings has been torn away;
the last wagon load of refuse hauled
from the grounds; every flower and
shrub the landscape gardeners included
in their scheme of decoration growing
under the benign influence of a spring
sun, and the exposition stands forth a
completed giant, beautiful in concep-
ton, wonderful in execution, stupendous
in size, by far the masterpiece OF the
worlds eXpositions.
S%tupendous size does not half express
it. This worlds fair has many sur
prises for the visitor, but its immense
size is the greatest %astonisher of all.
Amusement at the extent of the fair is
heard from every visitor.
1t has been interesting to watch the
visitors these first days of the fair. In
teresting to see what would appeal to
then strongest, but after one has studied
the mass of humanity in their quest for
the wonders it is hard to select any one
feature that could be designated as a
general favorite with all. Of course all
visitors are enthusiastic over the general
picture, the grand en- semble, which has
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Big Man and Little Woman.

She was a demure little woman with
did not put the little one, who was old
enough to sit up, on the seat beside
her. She carried it on her lap, and
made room for a fie~rce-lOoking, big
man with a newspaper.
The child kicked it's tiny feet in de-
light at the strange things it saw while
riding along, and it's shoes rubbed
against the big mans trousers.
Perhaps, madam" he exclaimed.
"you imagine that this conveyance is
your private ~carriage?"
ooh, no l don't" was the prompt re-
ply. "If it were you wouldn't be riding
in it."-Tit-Bits.
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order service at the same rates
that prevailed before the exposition
opened.
1t is suggested that the stranger in
st. Louis, who wishes to find reasonable
clearinghouse rates, make inquiry at
a grocery store or meat market in the
vicinity where he desires to stop. The
grocers and butchers know nearly all
the boarding houses in their neighbor-
hoods, and they are quite willing to
oblige the stranger by directing him to
a place to suit his purse and his tastes.
The want" columns of the daily news
papers also contain columns of small
advertisements for boarders or dodgers.
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IL IA
near happening when Reed was speaker
and Adlai Stevenson was vice president
dent, for Frye, of Maine, was president
pro tenn. of the senate then, as now; but
there was no time in that period when
there was a vacancy in the Office of vice
president, so as to give Frye the full
dignities of the place, so far as the SEN
ate was concerned.
Cannon is the first speaker of the
house who ever hailed from Illinois, and
Illinois has had only one vice president
Stevenson. If Senator Fairbanks
we're to become vice president, he would
be the second from Indiana to hold that
Office. Schuyler Colfax was the first,
and Colfax was also the first Indiana
speaker, Michael c. Kerr being the only
other.
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE.
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eralSnlp Oh the
army, after the
retirement of the
e S e t incum-
bent, Gen. Dodge,
is one of the most
interesting fig
ures in the mill
tary service of
United States.
Sniffen is about
60 years old now,
but he has the
appearance a n d
i g or of a man
of 40. and appar-
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of the United States
has found a burial
place in Washing
ton. The nearest
approach to it. Of
course, is the tomb
of George Wash
ton, 16 miles down
t h e Potomac, at
M o u n t Vernon,
while Jefferson, at
C h a r l~ettesville;
Madison, at Mont
pelier; Monroe, at
Richmond, and Ty-
Ter, at Richmond,
are within reason
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N. Tyner, W h o
was Grants last
postmaster 6 e n :
eral. With three
exceptions, Tyner
is the only sur
vivor of those who
served in the cab
i n e t d i n G
Grant S two ad-
illustrations.
The other eX-
C e p t | o n s are
George S. Bout
well, who W a S
secretary of the
treasury, and who
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dent, the curious
result would fol-
low that the pre-
siding officers OF
both houses of con-
e would come
from hi same
state - Illinois -
provided, of course,
that a republican
house should again
m a k e c a n n o n
speaker.
Such a conjunc-
ton has never hap
pened before in the
history of the gov
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His d

"You growled ct cold weather."
20, yes"
"And you'll growl When it's hot?"
That's what"
We'll, what do you reckon you're here
for, anyhow"
MY friend" was the reply, that's jest
what keeps me eAgrowlin'-I can't find
out!o-Atlanta Constitution.
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Abraham Lin
coin, it is recalled
that nearly 40
years ago a SIM
il a movement
W a s authorized
by o n s s,
backed by some
OF the best known
men in the United
s t e s, t h a t
money was raised
by popular sub
s%cription, the de-
sign for a monu-
ment approved,
O cito co1oo&oS
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Tombs of the Presidents.

1t is an interesting, though not sur
prising fact, that not a single president
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TALK OF WASHINGTON
TIMELY AND INTERESTING Cos
SIP OF THE CAPITOL.
REMINDERS OF GEN. GRANT
His Former Private Secretary Soon to
:. Be Paymaster-General of the
Array-Tyner Was a Mem
Der of His Cabinet.

Washington.-Col. c. c. Sniffen,
who is in line for the paymaster gen
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Tyner's Promotion.

A pathetic reminder of the Grant
administration was the trial of James
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a Monument to Lincoln.

Now that it is proposed to build in
Washington a suitable monument to
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Illinois md the ca walls

1IIinoiS and the GaVeIs.
If it should happen that Representa-
tive Hit should be elected vice presi-
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and captured cannon turned over 70
the monument association by the war
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Pecans still attract attention from
land owner in some sections of the
State. Land can be used for them that
is not adapted to other uses. A bear
ing pecan orchard is a profitable in
vestment. Experience has proven that
no country is better adapted to their
culture than this. The industry bids
fair to show a large increase in the
next few years. The matter is well
worthy of investigation at least.
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The demand for old fashioned open
kettle molasses is always good dur
ing the summer months when the
acuum evapoated article will not
keep. This molasses is now selling
at from fifty to seventy-fve cents per
gallon. There is in the State millions
of acres of land adapted to the culture
of cane syrup. 1t is being raised with
profit by some of the farmers and it
IS strange that more of them do not
try it. No crop offers a better field for
profit.