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Oueer Place for q Magaztnn

An American traveller who explored the northern part of Siberia states that he found in the hut of Korak peas ant picture of Mayor Dix cut out of copy of Harper's Magazine. The Mayors picture was cnthroned on a wooden shrine, and adored by the Korak and his family as their house hold deity.
 This is probably the most extreme case on record of veneration for a mag. azine page. But fifty years ago in this country it was not uncommon to find a single copy of a magazine being read by fifteen or twenty families every month, and regarded by all as an in. fallible authority.
 It is said that when the Shah of Persia visited England several years ago it was one of his chief delights to buy dozen magazines and Tread the pictures" As there are only about 5000 people in Persia who can read and write, his amazement at the num- Der of magazines is not surprising.- Woman's Home Companion.
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Dangers in Paper.

1t is not pleasant thought that the brilliant white note paper which your hand rests upon may have in it the fiber from the filthy garment of some Egyptian fellah after 1t has passed through all the stages of decay until it is saved by the ragpicker from the gutter of an Egyptian town; and yet it is fact that hundreds of tons of Egyptian rags are exported every year into America to supply our paper mills.
 At Mannheim on the Rhine the American importers have their rag picking houses, where the rags are collected from all over Europe, the disease-infected Levant not excepted. Our best papers are made of these rags, and our common ones of wood pulp.
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An Amplified Woman.

"The car was entirely empty, wish the exception of one man," said Miss Myra Kelly. "He was the reverse of the car. AS I entered he rose, made me an unsteady but magnificent bow and said:
 Madam, phleashe be kind 'nough to asshept thish plashe.' There was nothing else for me to do, so thanked him and sat down.
 And for twenty blocks that idiot hung from a strap, swaying in the breeze, with not soul in the car but ourselves Occasionally I have been taken for other women; but never before had any one think that 1 was a car full.'
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Books by the Foot.

Not many years ago, man who had accumulated a few millions by ex- tensive lumber operations in the North west went into politics and was so liberal in supplying the campaign com mittee of his party with funds that he was rewarded with appointment to one of the best places at the disposal of the administration
 He went to Washington and hired a furnished mansion from a wealthy Senator whose term had expired. When he removed into the house, he found all the rooms furnished except the library. The Senator, of course, had removed his books and left the library shelves bare.
 The lumberman measured the empty shelves carefully, and wired to one of his newspaper friends in New York: "Ship me hundred and sixty seven running feet of books for li- brary."
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The Gentle Voices He Heard.

"Naomi," he said softly as he gazed at the moon above them, isn't the evening beautiful? Do you know, strange fancies throng my mind on q night like this. Every zephyr seems to bear gentle voices, perhaps from the spirit world. Do you hear such yoices?"
 Silence for moment.
 T think I do, George"
 "What do they sound like to you?"
 "They are very indlstinct, but they make me think that papa and brother Henry are calling the dog."-London Tit Bits.
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TURF METHODS IN RUSSIA.
Inn perial Com m ission Rules the vari.
 IonIrn.s Elsul

| 'mpcTAul SOmmleslOu auleo tno V0rts ous Jockey Clubs.
 Everything in Russia Is done in the name of the czar and racing is no ex. ceptiOn, says J. O. Keene in the H. lustrated Sporting News. There is an imperial commission, of which the Grand Duke Constanovitch is the whole thing" so to speak, and under this commission the affairs of the various jockey clubs are conducted. That is to say, they are supposed to be conducted, for in reality the jockey clubs do just about as they like and their rulings are seldom interfered with | or changed in any particular.
 There are three jockey clubs in Rus sia one being at Moscow. one at War saw and one at St. Petersburg. They occupy somewhat the same relative position toward one another as do the Eastern, Western and California clubs in this country. They have only few interest in common and it is the eX- ccptiOn rather than the rule for the findings of one of the clubs to be re- spected by either of the others. Racing begins in Moscow May 6. Following this meeting comes the one in Warsaw, which in turn gives way to St. Peters, burg.
 The tracks are all turf and are pat termed strictly after the English courses. They have only three days racing a week in Russia and Sunday is the "big day." as it is in France. That is the day when all the Derbes and other rich prizes are contested.
 Among Russian trainers such thing as special preparation for race is practically unknown. It matters not how great the prize or how much is at stake on the result; the horse entered is never given a workout or put to any test to determine his ability to go the distance and carry the weight. In fact, Russian training is wholly confined to walking and slow gallops and this is what enabled me, educated as 1 was in the American school of training, to so prepare my horses and place them in the races as to make them practically nvincible.
 Any American horse taken to Russia to be raced would be so handicapped and hampered as to make it an i'm possibility for him to win. Likewise, horses trained by Americans and rid den by American jockeys are made such prohibtive favorites that it is out of the question to think of backing them. There are no bookmakers in Russia, all betting on races being by the French system, and this, too, is controlled by the government
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WOMEN AND THEIR HATa
Discovery of the Charm that Results
 from Si ri DIicity in Headdresa.

Discovery of the Charm that Results
 from Simplicity in Headdress.
 Women have discovered that they can ''go without hats" For a year or two now this has been quite notice able. As matter of fact 1t isn't such discovery" as they think it is, for the earliest woman of whom We have authentic records didn't cover her head, at least when out around in the garden. But such has been the variety and the aggregation of ugliness in headgear since the days of Eve that we don't blame the women of this century for reveling in all the joy of q discovery.
 The trouble Is they are not carrying their discovery far enough. Dame Fashion still has a soft spot in her heart for the milliners. And the mill- iners. If we should look back through the newspapers to the time of Cam byses we should see reflections in print of the popular sentiment as to millinery. That retrospect, we may remark in passing, furnishes fairer way to judge of the merit of the newspaper criticism. At the time Of the criticism, here and there a parson may think the editor was biased and his opinion warped. This here-and- there person may have seen milin. cry creation "just too lovely for any thing the moment before she read the broadly applicable paragraph. But let any one look over the fashion plates-the accepted standards and ideals of the passing hour-beginning, say, only three years ago and running back, say, only to the Queen of Sheba. Look at them till your eyes burn and your brain reels. It won't take you over three minutes to arrive at that condition, we'll warrant. Then having looked, would you say that the con temporary newspaper criticism was too severe? Was it anywhere severe enough?
 There are women who simply have got to have a frame for their faces, and there are seasons and occasions, in a New England climate, where women should not trust wholly to the protection of their cultures. It was the modern frame of rolling hair which helped on the hatless discovery, no doubt, as the pretty little curls on our schoolboy's head helped the pop ularity of the back-of- the head caplet. The discovery which it remains Tor women to make is the fallacy of the millinery arguments. So many faces, so many frames. So many cannot be held accountable for this. The indi- vidual woman is to blame. If, after she has bought a hat, she goes out on the street and sees another at all like it in design, the millner has to take the penalty.
 So the discovery which one day is positively to eXalt women is much bet may go hatless when all can't. It is the discovery of that simplicity in headdressing which shall (and certain ly wilD lend itself to all types of beau ty, which can offend no eye, which shall be fully as good weapon for the fiirt, and pictures of which shall be pleasing a thousand years hence because they are true art--Hartford Post.
 R0Oka hY the EOOt.
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Took in the Lines.

Jack-Won't you write to me when I return home?
 Ernestine-Hardly. You see. have accepted Dick.
 Jack-But even if you are engaged you can drop me line.
 Ernestine-No, when I catch fi>h I stop dropping lines.
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Fair Warning.

Patient--It's up to you, doctor. If you fail to cure me you'll get nothing for your services
 Doctor-How's that?
 Patlent-I haven't money enough to pay both you and the undertaken.
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AS Others See Us.

"I don't have to work for living" said the shiftless individual.
 "Of course you don't" rejoined the busy man. If you did it's safe bet that you wouldn't be living"
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When a young man leaves an odor of cigarettes in his trail, there develops a growing dissatisfaction with the girl who will agree to marry him.
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Death Of Griffith Bailey.

This morning at about 3 o'clock
Deaths Angel came suddenly to
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Griffith
Bailey and claimed the husband,
leaving the young and devoted
wife alone and desolate.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bailey had been.
residents of this city only a few
months. He was a brother of
Mrs. w. E. Price, and at the time
of his demise held the responsible
position of book keeper for the.
Price Drug Go. He was Of illus
trious ancestry and by nature as
well as BY inheritance was a gen
tleman in the truest sense of that
term. For years he had suffered
with tuberculosis and died from
hemorrhage, with no warning nor.
prem0nition of Deaths approach.
To the bereaved sister and
affectionate wife, whose love for
her husband was the browning.
glory Of his life and the star that
steadfastIy led her to forsake all.
others and cleaye to him alone,
unbounded sympathy goes out
from those who knew of their de-
Votion to him who has passed be-
yond the shores of time.
The body will be taken to Wi-
mona for interment.
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ReYs. Jones and CrisIer.

The following resolutions were
passed by the 4th Quarterly Con-
erence of BrookhaYen Charge,
Mississippi Conference:
Whereas, By the law of our
church, Rev. B. +. Jones, D. d.,
presiding elder of the Brookha-
ven District, and Rev. G. w.
CrisIer, pastor of the Brookhaven
M. E. Church, South, having
served in their present relations
for four years are to be removed:
Therefore, Be it
Resolved, That we, the mem
bers Of this Quarterly Conference
take this means of expressing to
these brethren and pastors our
profound appreciation of their
constant, efficient, and fruitful la
bors in our midst. The associa-
ton has been precious and they
have our abiding esteem and love.
We believe that we voice the feel
ing of our whole congregation
and membership in making this
expression and in assuring these,
our pastors, that they will take
with them into their new fields of
labor our prayers for their happi-
ness and success in the work for
our divine Master and Lord.
By order Of Quarterly Confer
ence.
H. G. HAWKINS, Com.
Brookhayen, Miss. Dec. 2, 1904.
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Honor Roll Of the Graded School.

First Grade Mary Ard, Ber-
trand Cohn, Naomi Galbreath,
Flora May Grafton, James Per-
kins.
Second Grade Myron Buie,
Myra Dunning, Warren Hender-
son, Alice Ray Higdon.
Third Grade Kathleen Beck,
Vida Ford, Jessie Greer, Iveria
Laird, Elizabeth McBee, Connie
Mcmillan.
Fourth Grade MaybelIe Hen
derson. Ola Entrican, Ruby Par
sons, Thomas Perkins, Lula Turn
bough, Julien Willoughby.
Fifth Grade Dunton Crisler.
Lizzie Hart. Huldah Leary, Per
ry Ripley, Jimmie Storm.
Sixth Grade Mary Apple
white, Edwin Barron, Bennie
Beacham, Ivy Cato, Rose Cooke,
jamie Dunning, Lucille Harris,
w. P. King, Thad Montgomery,
Maimo Redding, Clifton Sasser,
Josie Smollen, Mamie Warnock,
Anna Buckets, Pink McCalip,
Susie Lee Perkins, Ola Waldrop,
Mable White, Kate Stewart, Yir-
gil Currie, Lula Sasser.
Seventh Grade Matthews Ard,
Annie Cranberry, Fannie Greer.
Aileen McNair, Gladys McNair,
Dougald Mccormick, Albert
Powell.
Eighth Grade Belle Atwood,
Annie Blue, Neva Buie, Jere Cot
ten, Mamie Harris, Ruth Mckee,
julia Van Hook.
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The Companion Informs and Enter.
tains.

The Youths Companion uses
entertainment as a means rather
than an end, conveying always IN
its fiction and its articles some
convincing truth or some contri-
button to The useful knowledge of
its readers.
The 225 men and women enlist
ed to write for The Companion
represent an infinite variety of
talents and callings. Through
The Companion they address not
only the young and Impressions
BILE, but the fathers and mothers
Of the nation. The entire family
claim 4 share in the good things
which fill The Companion's pages.
Full Illustrated Announcement
describing the principal features
of The Companions new volume
for 1905, will be sent to any ad
dress free.
The new subscriber for 1905
will receive all the issues of The
Companion for the remaining
weeks Of 1904 free from Che time
of subscription, also The Campan-
ion Carnations Calender for
1905. Autographed il twelve col
aors and gold.
The Youths Companion.
lA4 Berkeley Street.
Boston, Mass.
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controlled together or individually, are
already developed"
The speelaIizea Mechanic.


Is the multiplication Of machinery
making specialists Of workingmen in
restricted lines? Is it tending to put
the old time versatile mechanic out of
business?
Look at the carpenters trade" says
Egbert Watson in the Engineering
Magazine. 1T is no longer necessary
for the carpenter to piow out mold
ings and house trim generally. Mills
supply such details at 1.-THE OF the
expense and Of uniform quality
throughout. Sashes and blinds, doors,
winding stair treads, transoms, every
thing required In house almost, Is de-
livered at the carpenter shop ready to
hang. The same is true of boiler max
ing. Details of an kinds that formerly
had to be hand made can be purchased
IN open market. With the advent Of
hydraulic Hanging the most difficult
and critical work the boilefmaker had
to execute by hand is now delivered
as per blue print furnished exactly to
dimensions. All this is Of benefit to
every one except the man who has I'd
sell manual dexterity. .
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carefuIly Guard Their. Dee,l..

The care with which the Creek Indi-
ans guard their allotment certificates,
patents to lands and other papers of
value has been the source of much
amusement.
These papers are never carried in a
coat pocket, as a white man would
protect them, but are carefully wrapped
In tissue and placed inside some large
receptacle, generally a satchel, but Of
ten gunny sack. Indians recently
appeared together at the Indian agen-
cy in Muskogee to make arrangements
for the sale Of their lands by the gov
eminent Each carried carefully
strapped over a shoulder large meal
sack, apparently one third full Of some
thing. However, when the wrappings
were removed only a single deed app
peared in each of the bags. Kansas
City Journal.
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The encyclopedias describe the o.
trlch as polygamous. In California,
however, he adopts American institu
tons ana chooses but one wife. a
shallow hole scooped out III the ground
serves as nest, where every alter
nate day an egg Is laid. Such an eggl
Half q yard around the longest way
ana tipping the scales at three and
half poundsI A single egg would be
q breakfast for a large family. though
by no means an economical one. From
twelve to eighteen eggs are laid. Then
the forty day sitting begins, in which
the male assists. Taking his shifts at
night, visitors seldom see him engaged
ia this feminine occupation. Having
many enemies In their wild estate, ma
ture, with unerring foresight, has de-
creed that the hen brooding by day
should match the sand, while the part
ner, who takes her place when the
shades Of evening are drawn, is the
color Of the night. When a week old
the chicks are worth $25 apiece and d
pair Of four-year-oEd ostriches $500.
This is no wonder, for the hen, for
getting the seasons in a land Of per-
petual sunshine, lays all the year
round instead of twice year. as In
Africa. Each bird produces every nine
months crop of feathers worth about
$50, while the tourists who pay to see
them and carry of their expensive
plumage as souvenirs form the largest
crop Of ALL Sunset Magazine.
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BOGUE CHlTTO NOTES.

Cotton and Port Arthur are
still falling.
The new bank building is near
ing completion.
We worshiped with a few of
Bro. Loves people at Arlington
last Saturday.
The change in the weather on
last Saturday night was timely on
our fresh killed pork, and we are
now reveling in sausage, souse,
spare ribs and back bone. We
are enjoying our hog and hominy
without the benefit (?) of the
Farmers League.
We have neighbor who says
that ever since he was married he
makes his wife do just as she
pleases, hence he has no domestic
troubles, so to speak.
Since hearing Judge Wilkin-
sons live wire charge to the
grand jury, some of US down this
way are trying to feel a Bit pious.
Our merchants are all sweeping
up for a holiday boom.
After hearing his father, who
was deacon, speak of installing
their new pastor, a little boy said:
Papa, are you going to put EN-
IN a stall and feed 'em? Looks
like they had Bro. Scarborough
in two or three stalls, don't it?o
Some men never show how ex-
ceeding small they are until they
are elected governor of a great
State. Then they avail them
selves of the opportunity.
We have preached to larger au-
|diences, but never to a more at
Itentive one than greeted as at the
Methodist church at Easterling e
Nays Mill, on the 4th Sunday ii
Oct.
Put our names in the pot, Bro.
Joe Dale, for we want TO pull
ino on the Is. Have plenty of
EproYender in the stall for the To-
connective for she will be tired and
hungry on her arrival. Don't
ask us to make a speech on the
occasion; lest we might attempt
TO do it.
The Pine Grove school is flour,
lishing under the management of
Miss Hazel Montgomery as prin-
Icipal and Miss Norma Gilleon, as
lsistant. Miss Hazel is one Of our
home girls who is making her
mark as a first class teacher.
We were held up on the street
| the other day by Yves Brown, Of
I beat 4, who presented papers au-
thorizing us to tie the nuptjal
knot between him and Miss Liz
zie Reeves, who was then by his
side. We conducted them to the
Goss Hotel where they were made
one in the presence Of one OF
more witnesses.
DR.. Felix Thompson and his
mother have returned from an ex-
tensiVe visit to Louisiana. The
doctor appears much improved il
health. j. "a. s..
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problem 81 medical Etfquette.


1t is an ancient custom in Hungary
that when a medical candidate has
passed his examination with dibtinc-
ton and the doctors degree is con-
ferred sub auspiciis regis he should
receive from the emperor Of Austria
Qkfng Of Hungary ring bearing the
initials ST. j. set in brilliants. After
a certain time he is admitted to present
bis thanks in person to the sovereign.
In connection with this custom a Curl
GUS problem recently exercised the
mind of a young doctor who was sery-
ing his time in the army as a lone
year volunteer" Being invited to pre-
sent himself before the emperor, he
was greatly puzzled how to do SO, for
on the one hand as a private soldier he
ought to wear his shake, while on the
other as a doctor Of medicine he should
carry his hat under his arm. In his
perplexity he sought counsel OF his
colonel, who after careful considera-
ton delivered himself Of the following
opinion:
IF the emperor speaks to you In
German, which is the language Of the
army, you must regard yourself as a
plain one year volunteer, and you will
therefore keep your shake on your
head. But should his imperial majesty
address you in Hungarian this mean
that he sees in you doctor of medi-
cine rather than a soldier, and you
must therefore uncover your head. -
London Globe.
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Some years ago William T. Smedley
boarded in the same house with
young man who prided himself ON his
likeness to the artist, though, truth to
tell, he was very plain. while Mr..
Smedley was quite handsome. says
the New York Times. One morning at
breakfast he turned to Mr.. Smedley
and said:
do you know, l am thought very
ike your"
"Indeed," was the answer, Il cannot
see any resemblance.
.sWell, give me good look now and
tell me who am like"
The artist looked at him steadily for
q few moments and then replieI:
You look only like the boarding
house martyr at the steak
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An Exciting kite impairment.

~
Two military kites attached by steel
wire to winch were sent up at an
exhibition in England, and, the wind
being strong, man named Baker de-
cided to go up on a third and larger
kite, made Of light canvas, with bam-
boo and hickory wood framework. To
this was attached cane seat, in which
the man sat The large kite went up
easily along the wire, but at an alti-
tude of 200 feet was blown to pieces.
Baker and the wreck were left dam
Cling on the wire. Deprived of the sus-
pending power Of the large kite and
with the weight Of the man depending
on them, the two smaller kites and the
whole apparatus began rapidly to fall.
The men at the winch worked in the
wire as fast as possible, but the Scout
and the kites came down at an alarm
ing rate, and at one time Baker turned
a somersault. He alighted on the roof
of a villa and escaped without injury
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Labor saving inventions never do
any real harm to Iaboring men and
women, said Professor S. r. Langley,
the scientist and aeronaut. ~They
who bemoan the appearance Of labor
saving devices are unwise.
Professor Langley smiled.
Such unphilosophica persons, he
resumed, should learn a lesson from
the stable cat. Have you heard Of the
stable cat? It sat on the horses back.
Dear, DEAR the horse walled.
Now that automobiles are coming into
such favor fear shan't be wanted.
Nonsense, said the stable cat
Don.t carry on SO, brother The
mouse trap didn't do away with me.
did ltT
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Santa Claus Letters.

Old Santa Claus had the cour-
age to peep into our sanctum the
other day, and when we told him
how fondly we had remembered
him all these years, since we were
a little child, he left his RENDERS
that had raised such a cIattern
out on the porch, and handed US
through the window two little let
tiers two brown-eyed little boys
had sent him lately.
One read this way
Dear Santa Claus, / am a good
little boy. Please bring me a
gun, an air gun what will shoot,
and wagon. / want some sky
rockets and shots and some pack
ages Of Iirecrackers.
Bertrand Wilson Coin.
The other read this way:
Dear old Santa Claus / am a
good boy. Bring me a train and
a drum. ] want a gun and any
thing that will shoot. Christmas
is my Worlds Fair.
Henry Ware Hobbs.
Old Santa was delighted to hear
Of two good'' boys in Brookha-
ven; and because of their timely
information Cd this important
subject his eyes twinkIed merrilV
as he droveof for the very things
these little lads asked for.