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The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
The Unknown Great.

Wasn't a famous man born around
here somewhere" asked a sightseeing
visitor in Caldwell n. ].
"Huh?" queried his driver.
Wasn't a. former president Of tho
United States BORN in this neighbor-
hood?"
Him. Not as 1 ever heerd of. What
was his name?"
observation-disclosures Cleveland"
WAS he PRESIDENT"
Eyes, indeed-twice?"
"Sho! An was he born up here?"
yes"
There goes Jim Duggs. III ask
him. Hi, JIM"
Mr.. Duggs sauntered up.
did you ever hear about a man
bein' president up here-feller named
Cleveland?"
Nav. He lived in Brooklyn or
somewhere, didn't he?"
HE lived in Buffalo," explained the
visitor. He was born in Caldwell
Il never knowed anybody by that
name" replied Jim Duggs, IAN I've
lived here thirty years"
"Gues you must be mistook, Mister"
said the driver. eff there'd yer beer
a president in these parts Jim'd ha'
knowed about it long ago."-Exchange,
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
LOVE AS A
1t Can Do More Towards Beautifyins
the Face Than All Things
Else.

Love is the greatest beautifier. The
reason is easy TO see. Love itself is
beautiful, and If we give unselfish love
a lodgment with us it is constantly ex-
erting a molding influence upon Is.
Love always appears at its best. When
it goes wooing it always chooses the
most becoming attire and the most cap
tivating adornment. So love, when it
gets possession of a human body, pro-
ceeds to mold the face of that body
into the most attractive form, for love
always seeks to clothe itself in the
most attractive garb.
That is the explanation of the trans
who is a mother. She may be plain
otherwise, but when she bends over her
babe in an ecstasy of mother-love she
becomes beautiful. And in proportion
as we give place to unselfsh love do we
become attractive. .
There is no masseur like love to work
miracles in a homely face, says the
Christian Endeavor World. There is
no facial specialist who can begin to
do as much to make a plain young man
or woman attractive. to overcome de-
formity or hide biemishes, as the msgi-
clan love can do.
To hate is to become hateful. To
love as Christ loved is to become love-
ly. 1t is not a cheap recipe, for such love
costs in proportion to its depth and
intensity. But anyone that is willing
to pay the price may be beautiful.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
BIT OF FINE PHILOSOPHY.
Liking Just What One Has Instead
Of Looking Around for What
One Likes.

why do you not go away oftener for
rest and changer" asked one friend of
another, feeling a little anxious over
the crowded days that seemed too busy
and burdened. Don't you care to go?"
she questioned further. Don't you like
to visit about and take diverting little
~journeys?"
"Oh, yes, I like it," was the answer in
a tone both brisk and blithe, but you
see | don't have to go looking about for
what I like, because I always like just
what I have"
Could there be finer philosophy OF
sweet content and resolute cheerfulness
than this? 1t came warm from a trust
ing heart. 1t was the outcome and ex-
preston in speech of a devoted life and
loving spirit.
To have what we like, though we
spend unmeasured time in cropping and
! grasping after it, may be among the
impossibilities, but to like what we have
Is among the attainables, else why the
command: BE content with such things
as We have?" The truest, happiest con-
tentment cannot fill the heart if there
is a constant revulsion against life's
conditions and a loathing of what is out
wardly borne with submission, says
Young People. There must be some lik-
ing OF what we have If we are going to
walk worthy of u vocation" and
unto all pleasing" To like what we
have, we must guard against too con-
slant comparison with what we have
not. Then if the work set for our doing
is not in itself the p~leasantest or most
congenial, let us get the joy out of the
doing of it. The consciousness of do
ing our best is enough to give a certain
buoyancy and brightness to life, even
il the task is not what might be chosen.
The delight of accomplishing is in itself
a reward, and this makes it easier to like
what is done.
The search for what we like may be q
.ruitless quest and a waste of time, but
liking what we have conserves our store
OF happiness and is the safer and surer
Way ..
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
GOOD HOME MISSION STORY
The Church Bell and the Drum Of
the Salvation Army
Lass.

A good story was told at the Bible
Christian missionary meeting, held in
London. A Salvation Army lass was
beating a drum in the market-place of
a certain village. The vicar came out
and protested.
Are you obliged to beat that drum ?
1t makes such a horrid noise, and l do
so dislike it,"
"Are you obliged to ring your church
bell on Sundays" asked the girl. at
makes such a noise. and don't like ii"
ooh, but" he rejoined, that's very
different; the bell seems to say to the
people: Come! Comet that's why !
like it."
"Well, sir" the Salvation lass re-
Joined, like my drum, because itseems
to be saying about the people: Fetch
EN-, fetch emil" Home missions, said
the speaker, mean fetching the people
who might never come.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
GEMS OF THOUGHT.
An ounce of originality is worth a to,

An ounce of originality is worth a ton
of imitation.-United Presbyterian.
The man who stands for something
has a place and a force in the world
Rams Horn.
Gratitude is the homage the heart
renders to God for His goodness; Chris
tian cheerfulness is the external nan
Hesitation of the homage.-Christian
Work.
Childhood is the time of danger as well
as the time of hope. The corn that is
f~rost-smitten in the spring brings no
golden ears to the day of the ingather-
ing.-United Presbyterian.
The judgment of Jesus is simply show
ing a man what he is in the light of
what he ought to be. The outer dark
less is the shadow love casts when one
refuses to let it shine through him.
William De Witt Hyde.
When | found that it was Christ's ma
ture to lift men out of weakness to
strength, out of impurity to goodness.
out of everything low and debasing to
superiority. | felt that l had indeed
found a God.-Henry Ward Beecher.
There is no mystery whatever about
happiness. Put in the right ingredi-
ents, and it must come out. HE that
abideth In Me bringeth forth
much fruit" and bringing forth much
fruit is happiness. The infallible recipe
for happiness, then, is to do good; and
the infallible recipe for doing good IS
TO abide in Christ.-Drummond.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
PROSPERITY N JOY.
The First Does Not Always Produce
the Second-Religion a Neces-
sary Element.

Passing by a busy corner upon State
street the other day. we were attracted
by a din of pounding which made the
other noises of the city seem soft and
unobtrusive. says a writer in Chicago
Interior. Presently we discovered that
this furious uproar was caused by the
rapid strokes OF an automatic hammer
with which the worllmen were rivetins
together the immense iron beams of d
new sky-scraper now in process OF erec-
ton. The work was accomplished with
such marvellous swiftness and dexterlty
that many paused a moment to admire
the operation of this comparatively new
device. a device by which a cold, stiff
iron bolt was, as it were, melted right
down to and pressed close against the
fiat surface through which it a been
thrust. Whenswe went on. we pitied our
ancestors-and enyied them.
For. after all. it matters less how long
it takes to erect a mansion tina what
kind of a life is lived beneath its roof:
and business as we'll as pleasure may
be set at a pace that kills. Our numbers,
our inventions, our productions, make
the days of our forefathers seem
strangely childish; but is the kingdom
any nearer the world to-day than it was
when they. in cities less congested, lived
their simpler lives? That is worth ask
ing ourselves when We write that our
population is now upwards of so, 0OO, 900
souls and our annual output estimated
at a valuation of 81. 400, 000. 900. A
nation may be numerous and Il may
be rich, and still it may miss all that is
worth living for.
The truth is that the old-time prophet,
Isaiah, knew everything about sociology
except it's name when he foretold as the
distinguishing characteristic of the Mes
sianic kingdom that in it a nation
might be increased in numbers, wealth
and power. and yet increased in joy;
for that is the correct rendering OF
Isaiah 9:3, as our revisers all agree.
In religion we have the only solvent
of irreconcilables. the one element
which thrown into the bubbling pot
sweetens the bitterness of the draught
and makes the whole wholesome. Civ
ilization is dependent upon numbers, but
at war with joy, unless indeed in that
civilization the moral element predom-
mates and controls the material pros
0erity
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
Schoci Fund Facts.

Col. FL. M. Street. of Meridian,
one of the most prominent finan-
ciers in the State, has made a tabu-
lated statement showing the in
capabilities in the school fund distri-
button. and insists that the methods
should be changed so that more
counties would be compelled to pay
for their school facilities. Accord
ing to his statement, there are twen-
ty-siX counties in Mississippi which
draw annually from the State treas
ury for school purposes alone 49,
900 more than they pay in from
every source, while there are twenty
six other counties which pay into the
State treasury about $4,000 more
than they draw out. This leaves
twenty-eight counties to pay for
their own schools and also to fur
nish all the money to carry on the
State government. Col. Street holds
that this is very unjust and unequal
and is apt to place a deficit on the
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
Good Roads Movement.

Interest in good roads has been
growing some in Mississippi of late,
and the boards. of supervisors of
more than one county have adopted
special orders directed to their con-
tractors or o%yerseers. In Jefferson
and Tate counties the boards Of SUI
pervisors INDUCED in some very
plain talk, telling the contractors
that if they do not put their roads
in good condition at once, they will
hear something still more unpleas-
ant. In Iazoo county, the good
roads question has come to the front
so very positively that the board of
supervisors have ordered an election
held on September 3 to decide
whether or not the county shall
abandon the old s~lip-shod method
for the contract system. The SUI
pervisors of Simpson county having
had their attention directed to the
terrible condition Of the roads in
that county. have ordered the oyer
seers to get to work at once, or suf-
fer the consequences when circuit
court shall have convened.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
He Cares for the Littlest.

DO you suppose" said Johnny, as hic
little cousin laid away her largest, rosi-
est apple for a sick girl, that God cares
about such little things as we do? He
is too busy to notice us much"
Winnie shook her head, says the Bap-
fist Union, and pointed to mamma, who
had just lifted the baby from the crib.
do you think said Winnie, chat
mamma is so busy with big folks that
she forgets the little ones? She thinks
of the baby first because he's thelittlest.
Surely God knows how TO love as well
IS mother"
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
Mississippi State News
Another Campaign for Longer Schools


State Superintendent of Educa7
ton Whitfield has begun another
campaign for longer school terms
and will have a petition presented
to the supervisors Of all the counties
in the State asking that the exten-
sion of the school term be voted and
that the county levy be increased
for this purpose. The following let
ter was mailed out last week to the
prominent citizena of the different
counties:
81 enclose herewith the blank petit.
ton addressed to the board of super.
visors of your county, asking that
honorable board to levy a tai for the
purpose of extending the school term.
l also inclose some arguments in favor
Of the longer school term.
"Under the law passed in 1904 the
board of supervisors a appropriate
as much as $3.50 out of the balance
in the school fund to a new one. The
money raised by this local tax car be
spent as desired in building larger
or repairing school houses. :
AS you doubtless know, am de-
voting practically my entire time to
this movement, and | write you this
letter to ask you to help me in this
great work. VIII you not see the
taxpayers of your neighborhood and
vicinity and as many others as posi-
BILE and get them to sign this petit
ton?
Il have discussed this question be-
fore thousands of people during this
year and have taken a vote on the
proposition at each meeting. So far
not a vote has been cast against me.
Our people are practically unant-
nous on the proposition. If you will
undertake this work, please notify me
at Jackson, and be certain to send
your petition to me at Jackson by the
25th of August so that l can get all
the petitions together and have them
placed before the board of supervisors
a. their September meeting"
III. l.. WHITFIELD"
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
Secret Of Her Power.

What was the secret OF such a ones
power? What had she done? Abso-
lutely nothing, says Rams Horn, but ra-
diant smiles, beaming good humor, the
tact of divining what everyone felt and
everyone wanted, told that she had got
out of self, and learned to think of 9TH
ers; so that at one time it showed it.
self by sweet words; at another, by
smoothing an invalid's pillow; at an
other by soothing a sobbing child.
None but she saw those things. None
but a loving heart could see them
That was the secret of her heavenly
power.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
JUST ONE DAY
Free from the Slugger Brought Out
a Fact.

During the time I was a coffee
drinker," says an Iowa woman, Il was
nervous, had spells with my heart,
smothering spells, headache, stomach
trouble, liver and kidney trouble. l
did not know for years what made me
have those spells. l would frequently
sink away as though my last hour had
come.
For q years l suffered thus and
used bottles of medicines enough to
set up a drug store-capsules and pills
and everything l heard of. Spent lots
of money but l was sick nearly all
the time. Sometimes l was so nervous
l could not hold a plate in my hands;
and other times l thought l would
surely die sitting at the table.
This went on until about two years
ago when one day l did not use any
coffee and l noticed l was not so nerv-
Gus and told my husband about it. He
had been telling mt that it might be
the coffee but l said: No, l have been
drinking coffee ali my life and It caa-
not be- But after this / thought |
would try and do without it and drink
not water. 1 did this for several days
but got tired Of the hot water and
went to drinking coffee and as soon
as l began coffee again I was V
again. This proved that it was the
coffee that caused my troubles.
"We had tried Postum but had not
made it right and did not like it, but
now I decided to give it another trial
so / read the directions on the package
carefully and made it after these di-
rections and it was simply delicious,
o we quit coffee for good and the re-
suits are wonderful. Before, l could
not sleep, but now I go to bed and
sleep sound, am not a bit nervous now
but work hard and can walk miles.
Nervous headaches are gone, my heart
does not bother me any more like 1t
did and I don't have any of the smooth
ering spells and would you believe 1t:
! am getting fat. We drink Postum
now and nothing else, and even my
husbands headaches have disap-
peared; we both sleep sound n
healthy now and that's a blessing.
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
Look for the book, "The Road to
Wellville," in each pkg.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
THE ONLY VOICE.

His once dark locks bieached snowy white,
In the shadowy valleys rhine,
Where hangs the rivers veil of mist
Between eternity ant time.
Stands he who was at life's bright morn
Mysteriously given breath.
Now in the chill evening cleaning
Facing the mystery of death.
All they who cried: "Lo here, 10 there,
Ere yet the light of day grew dim,
Are silent as the shadows are
And have no hand of help for him.
Philosopher, and sage and seer,
Who counseled him how best to come
To that dread place, now he is near
The bar of destiny, are dumb.
AS IL the dead had never lived,
As if the living were unknown,
There by the ~bridgeless rivers beetlfng
brink 2
The old man stands alone.
And hears, o JOY %ineffable!
o peace OUTLYING mortal strife'-
Who spake as never man: Il am O.
The Resurrection and the Life.
Il. ID. Perkins, in n. Y. Observer.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
The Persistent Appendage.

Once upon a time there was a
primordial cell of p%rotoplasm that put
out a short, slender thread, which it
wiggled, and then rejoiced in a tail.
After that came a fish, and a saurian.
and a bird, and the long list Of nam
mails, to the monkey.
Behold" said the scientist among
the monkeys, "all living creatures are
troubled with tails, and the higher
civilization the longer the tails"
Then one of his auditors insisted
that they had cousins, called men, who
had no tails.
I'VE will see," answered the scien-
fist. Go where the men are and yeri-
fly your statement if you can"
The other monkey went, and after a
while returned.
"At first l thought that was right"
he reported, "but l must admit that l
was wrong, for after hearing the men
talk l learned that each one had an
extremely long tale of woe"
Moral-A tail by any other spelling
may be as long.-New York Herald.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
Mississippi Day at the Fair.

Gov. Vardaman and Commission
er Henry will make a program for
Mississippi Day at the Worlds Fair,
which is September Is. It was de-
termined at a late meeting that the
governor and his staff and possibly
a detail of the National Guard will
attend and assist in conducting the
exercises on this day, which are prin-
cipally to consist Of speeches, and at
night a reception at Beauyoir, the
Mississippi State building.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
Level Best an Unworthy Aim.

Only by getting above our usual
level, can we make the progress we
ought. The man who merely maintains
the level to which his life has hitherto
risen is, at the best, standing still.
and that means falling behind, says the
Sunday School Times. Il did my level
best is not high enough. Our average
ought to be considerably higher, and an
average is never raised by being merely
equaled. Only by beating u average
can we raise our average. Better than
my BEST is a worthier standard than
"my level best
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
Aroused No Enthusiasm.

Very little enthusiasm seems to
have been aroused by the announce
ment that a Populist State conven-
ton is to be held in Jackson on
July rs to nominate presidential
electors. Populism in Mississippi is
lust about as dead assit well could
be, and the State convention will
not tax the capacity of the hotels
to take care of the delegates who
will be in attendance upon the State
meeting Of that party.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
New Bank at Greenwood.

The Bank Of Commerce, a new fl
nancial institution organized last
week in Greenwood, is now open for
business. The bank has ample capt.
tai. and is differed by some of the
most sagacious business men OF that
city. Greenwood is showing great
improvement, and many new enter
prises are being planned for this
hustling delta city. An effort is also
being made to get up a county fair
this fall. and it will likely succeed.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
Examination for Teachers.

State Superintendent Whitfield
gives notice that the fall examina-
ton for teachers this year will all
fall in September under the new
law. This will make the examina-
tions earlier than usual. The sched-
ule of fall examinations for teach
ers will therefore be as follows: For
white teachers on September 2 and
3 and September 16 and II. For
negroes the examinations will be on
September 9 and 10, and % and "a
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
New Albany to Issue Bends.

New Albany is one of the hustling
towns of Mississippi, and one, too.
that is determined not to be outdone
by any of the rest. Her citi-
zens have decided to issue $780,
900 worth of bonds for the es-
adjustment Of an electric light plant
and water works system, Many towns
in the State already own such utili7
ties and the indications are that be-
fore long all of them will grant mu-
nlcipal ownership of these enter
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
Bonds for WaterWorkS.

The authorities of town of Lum-
berton have advertised for the sale
Of twenty thousand dollars worth
of municipal bonds for the purpose
Of putting in a complete system of
watpr works
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19

ESUS points us to
the common flow
ers of the field and
urges us to consid-
er them, for they
have a message
for the soul of man.
Throughout t h e
ages since Jesus
spoke these words,
God has been plant
ing His garden in
the fields, and the
fraprant hloccoypc
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
chamuion Strawberry Grower.

W. ?. Roberts. a resident along
the Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City
railroad, holds the record in that
part of the State for growing straw
berries. Last spring he raised 6,0l2
quarts on II acre, and cleared
1858 after paying all expenses.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19

There goes Roxham. Every time |
think of that mans financial embar-
rassment it makes me yearn to help
him." Financial embarrassment
Eyes; he's got so much money he
doesn't know what to do with it,
Catholic Standard and Times.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
IA MESSAGE FROM
THE FIELDS <<
IA Sermon by the Highway and ~
~ Byway" Preacher. ~
Copyright, 1904, by J. M. Edson.)
ItXI-
Matt. 6:2s

Chicago, Sunday, Aug. IA, 1904.
Text:-"Consider the lilies of the field
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-19
10 oNsIDER the lilies Of the field

10 ONSIDER the lilies Of the ield,'
y because they speak of Gods
faithful care, because they reveal a
sweet faith, a humble trust, a willing
obedience and a glorious mission. God
the Creator on His part giving to the
little plant all 1t needs. And the Gre
ated thing on its part patiently, trust
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-15
PLATT AT OYSTER BAY.
New York Senator Visits the President
at His Home.

Oyster Bay, July 15.-United States
Senator Thomas c. Platt of New York
arrived here today and had confer
ence with President Roosevelt. The
senator came by invitation of the
president. who desired to consult him
regarding the outlook of political af-
fairs in general and in New York
state in particular. President Roose-
Welt is seeking the counsel and advice
of Republican leaders throughout the
country-of men in whose political
sagacity and wisdom he has conf
dence.
Some of these men he sees personally
If a conference can be arranged without
too great inconvenience but with many
he exchanges views by correspondence.
His personal mail. aside from purely
official business. is very heavy and he
devotes much time to ii each day.
Through Secretary Loeb the president
is in receipt of a telegram from D. j.
Davis. of Wilkesbarre. Pa. one of the
officials of the United Mine Workers.
saying that il will not be possible. for
the miners committee to come to Oys-
ter Bay today or tomorrow as requested
by Secretary Loeb, but the committee
would come early next week IL that be
satisfa Glory. Mr.. Davis telegram in
dictated that the committee to present
the Colorado petition will be appointed
at meeting of miners to be held next
Sunday.