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The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-05-05
A POSITIVE NECESSITY.

Having to lay upon my bed fourteen
days from a severely bruised leg, l only
found relief when l used a bottle OF Bal
lard's Snow Liniment. | can cheerfully
recommend it as the best medicine for
bruises ever Sent 20 the afflicted. 1t hes
now become q positive necessity upon
myself. ID. r. Byrnes, Merchant, Do
verssille, Texas. 25c. SOC. ST. 90. Sold
by M. E. Ward, the druggist.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-05-05
sTRAYED !

Strayed Or stolen from me at Oak
Grove. Miss, on or about April End, one
dark bay horse mule, under medium
s'za, partly broken, marks of rough use
of bride about corners of mouth, about
three years old. Any Information lead
ing to the recovery of said mule will be
rewarded by Buck wilkins,
Oak Grove, Miss,
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-05-05
Subscriptions Received.

Since our last issue we have received
and herewith acknowledge subscrip-
tons from
Scooba-J. G. johnson, SOC.
Pea Ridge-H. D. McLaurin, $1.00.
Snoody-R. r Rush, $1.20.
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THE HERALD.
Secret and Fraternal.

Jefferson Lodge No. lag, A. F. & A. NJ,
eets Thursday night on or before the
first full moon in each month, at Z O'Clock.
NJ. Z. Ward, Secretary.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-05-05

Seed Corn
Ullathorn's Champion Early Dent
white and yellow.
Also, Golden Yellow Dent.
Home raised. At
JAMES H. DUKES.
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WORLDS FAIR, ST. LOUIS.

Tickets at low rates now on sale.
For particulars apply to any Mobile
and Ohio r. r. Agent.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-05-05

Seooba Camp No. "a. W. o. w., meets
the let and Ord Tuesday nights in each
month. at Z o'clock.
J.. w. Carter, Clerk.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-05-05

Scooba Lodge No. 2i35. K. of H., meets
the LIST and Srd Tuesday nights of each
month. at 8 o'clock.
ID. e. Turner Renorter
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-05-05

Soooba Lodge No I56, K. of P meets
the LIST and Ind Monday nights in each
month, at Z O'Clock.
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Subscribe for the HERALD.
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j. P. II, Hallford, X. r. s.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27
A Gibraltar Discovery.

An interesting relic has just been
fished up from the bottom of Gibral-
tar Harbor, having been accidentally
discovered by a diver in the course of
some operations. 1t is a gun about
nine feet in length, and, owing to the
fine quality of the gun metal, it is in
an excellent state of preservation. 1t
must have been quite Long Tom
in its day 1t is reasonable to suppose
that the gun was used against the
Rock during the great siege (1779-S3) i,
and that the ship from which it was
fired was sunk by the fire from the
fortress. After lying for 40 years at
the bottom of the sea, the gun is
brought to the surface, to reveal it's
nationality, name and age. It bears,
besides the arms of Spain, beautifully
embossed, the following inscriptions:
lei Telegone. Violati Fulmina Regis.
Philip ", Hispaniar Rex. Elisab.
Farm, Hispan. Regin. Vole-Fabet
Fecit, Sevilla. Ammo D 1926"
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27
Malay Clay Eaters.

Consumption of earth as food is
common not only in China, New Gale
donna and New Guinea, but in the
Malay Archipelago as we'll. The testi-
mony of many travellers in the Orient
IS that the yellow races are especially
addicted to the practice. In Java and
Sumatra the clay used undergoes a
preliminary preparation, being mixed
with water, reduced to paste and the
sand and other hard substances re-
moved. The clay is then formed into
small cakes or tablets about as thick
as lead pencil and baked in an iron
saucepan When the tablet energies
from this process it resembles piece
of dried pork. The Javanese frequent
ly eat small figures roughly modelled
from clay, which resembles animals
or little men turned out in pastry
shops.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27
ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION Will BE
GREATEST EVER HELD ON EARTH
Cost of Is
Fifty Million Dollars-NIes of Wonderful
Displays In More Than Twenty Buildings.

1t is now a little more than two
months before the gates will open
upon the Worlds Fair at St. Louis and
the public will be invited to see the
greatest exposition that has ever been
created. The vast exhibit palaces are
complete and many of them have been
finished for several months. Within
the next two months all of them are
to be frightened with new coats Of
paint so that, on the opening day, the
magnificent array of palaces will ap-
pear as fresh as a newly blossomed
rose.
No one, no matter how vivid his i'm
agination, can picture to himself the
scene that will be presented when the
Exposition is complete. The more one
sees this great collection of exhibit
the more deeply impressed he be-
comes with the grandeur of the under
taking. AS the days grow longer and
the air becomes balmy with the
breezes OF spring, the Exposition will
take on far greater activity than it
has seen during the boisterous days
of winter. In spite of the severe
weather, work has not ceased upon the
construction of the Worlds Fair for
more than a day or two at time and
there is every expectation and prom
Use that it will be complete on the
opening day.
The buildings and grounds, magnifi-
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27
load Poison.

The popular theory that a toad's
skin contains venom has been con-
f1rmed by Prof. Kravkoff's investiga-
lions. Irritation, Inflammation and
even gangrene and death have been
known to occur from contact with a
toad's skin. Prof. Kravkon, from ex-
periments on animals with the active
principle of poison, s'phrynin," has
found the results of simultaneous in
lection to be increased blood pres
sure, marked influence on the
hearts action, which first beats quick
ly and irregularly, and finally stops. In
warm-blooded animals, salvation.
vomiting, diarrhoea, asthma and con-
vulsions occur.
All three symptoms are the same as
with digitalin, the active principle of
the foxglove. Phrynin may also be
used as a local anaesthetic, like CO
caine.-London Express.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27
MARKETING FOR THE SEA COW.
1t Is Necessary Now to Cut Through
Ice to Get at the Eel Grass.

1t Is Necessary Now to Cut Through
Ice to Get at the Eel Grass.
The man who does the marketing
for the Aquarium's sea COW has had to
do some lively hustling this winter to
keep that big animal supplied with
food.
The sea COW is eight foot long,
weighs 800 pounds, and has healthy
appetite. In the first eighteen weeks
after its arrival here from Florida, on
Sept. last, it ate ninety bushels Of
eel grass, six bushels of fennel-leafed
pond weed and two bushels of ulva,
or sea lettuce. making ninety-eight
bushels of aquatic plants in all in
eighteen weeks, or an average Of
about five and one-half bushels a
week, which is about its present rate
of consumption.
The eel grass and other things for
the sea cows table are gathered in
Gravesend Bay or the waters there
with connected. Baymen say that the
present has been the hardest winter
hereabouts on the water in twenty-five
years. On many days it has been nee
essary to cut through the ice to get
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27

been 10th to believe such a statement.
But such is the TACT. The exhibit pal
aces of the Louisiana Purchase Ex-
position average much larger than
those of Chicago and are greater in
number. About 100 acres of floor
space are provided in the various pal
aces OF the present Worlds Fair and
more than twenty buildings will be
used for exhibit purposes The larg-
est of these is the Palace of Agricrl-
ture, which covers twenty acres. The
next in size is the Palace of Transpor-
tation, covering fifteen acres and con-
tanning four miles of railway tracks
for thu exhibit OF locomotives and
cars. At the Chicago Exposition
there were practically no outdoor ex-
hibits At this Worlds Fair about 100
acres are given up to outdoor displays,
supplementing in a most pleasing
manner the hundreds of thousands of
indoor exhibits. At the Chicago Elk
position one building was used for
no less than three important depart
ments. At the Worlds Fair in ST.
Louis four buildings, covering forty
I've acres, are given up to the same
four departments.
The total cost of the Worlds Fair
is estimated at from forty to fifty
million dollars, exclusive of the value
of the exhibits. The Palace of Ma
chinery alone will contain exhibits to
the value of eight million dollars.
AT THE WORLDS FAIR, ST. LOUIS
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27
Trees inside a Church.

Ross, Hertfordshire, can boast of a
church where two fine elms are grow
ing one on either side of a pew occu-
pied by member named John Kyrle.
Mr.. Kyrle was great lover of trees.
and especially of elms, Of which he
planted an avenue near the church.
One of the trees of this avenue was
cut down, and it is supposed that its
offshoots have grown up inside of the
church at each end of the pew. The
parish church at Kempsey contains a.
chestnut tree which grows from the
tomb of Sir Edward Wilde. The
school children of the village used to
sit in the chancel, and it is said on
one occasion their teacher found one
of them eating chestnut, and that
he snatched it away and threw it be-
hind the tomb, where it took root and
has fourished.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27
How the starfish Feeds.

A starfsh can neither see nor hear.
Neither has it the sense of smell In
spite of those seeming impediments,
nevertheless, it seeks and deyours its
prey as neatly as an ordinary fish. The
starfish lies upon its prey and folds
its arms" or rays completely about
it Then it pushes its stomach out
through its mouth and viii wrap even
large oyster and shell within the
folds of the stomach The, mouth of
the starfsh is in the center of its
rays.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27

the North Pole. 1t is one of the
largest unexplored tracts in this hem
isphere. Hardly score of white men
have ever visited any portion of the
tableland. The only human beings
known to dwell in Labrador, aside
from five thousand Esquimaus, half
breeds and whites living on the coast.
are two clans of the Cree Indians, the
MOntagnais, or Mountaineers, who are
found as far west as Lake ST. John,
in the Province Of Quebec, and the
Nascopies, or Nascaupees, as some
spell their. name, a less numerous
tribe, who live on the barren country
extending to the far north. Compar-
atively few of the latter have ever
seen white man. They are said to
be the last tribe of Indians in North
America living in absolutely primitive
conditions.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27
OBJ CLOCK 4 woNpER.
Ancient Tinsepiece Furnishes Minister
on Sunday Mornings.

Ancient Tinepiece Furnishes Minister
on Sunday Mornings.
The old-fashioned grandfather's
clock is becoming a rarity. and only
now and then one of them is offered
at public sale in the country dis
tricts. Then they bring big prices.
one recently selling for $2e5. when the
competition between descendants of
the original owner was lively.
Recently C. C. Meyer of Orwigs-
burg, Pa, bought one of these anti
quated timepieces. and as result of
his reconstruction the clock, instead
of merely striking the hour, now
shows the date. day of the week and
strikes different bells for the hour and
the half-Eour. Then on Sunday morn
ings, at precisely $3.50. the clock
church chimes ring, a small door
opens above the dial, and the figure
of man appears, book in hand. This
figure remains above the dial all day
Sunday, disappearing late on that day.
and not appearing till the following
Sunday.
Young Meyer, who is "a years old.
is noted for his ingenuity. At an early
age he became interested in the con-
struction of odd machines. The old
clock adorns his home and is a much.
admired piece of furniture.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27

Exposition season, thousands of birds
representing many species and climes.
The largest hotel ever built, contain
ing 1900 rooms. is within the Worlds
Fair grounds. The largest statue ever
cast will stand in the Palace of Mines
and Metallurgy as the exhibit of the
Iron Industries of Birmingham, Ala.
Twelve acres are devoted to mimi G
gulch containing all manner of mining
machinery and exhibits. a floral clock.
112 feet in diameter, the hands of
which weigh more than q ton each,
will tell the time of day upon the slope
north Of the Palace of Agriculture. A
map of the United States, six acres in
extent. planted with cereals and other
plants common to the various states.
is an interesting display by the United
States Bureau of Plant Industry.
Forty acres are devoted to the Phil
ippine exhibit and thirty acres are de-
voted to the Indian display. Six acres
are devoted to the garden of roses.
Twenty acres are set apart for the &C
commodation of airships, which will
participate in the contests for prizes
amounting to 100000. The Quadren-
NAL Olympic games, will be held dur
ing the Worlds Fair upon the athletic
field of the Exposition Grounds. An
intra-mural railway, having fourteen
miles of track will convey the visitors
forty restaurants will feed the multi
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27
THIS Wild GOOSE is q
There Is Proof Of It's Age in the Court
Records of Minnesota.

There Is Proof Of IFS Age in the Court
Records of Minnesota.
'aThe weli-attested pedigree OF al
wild gander % years of age is ali that
saved a grocer of Minneapolis from a
heavy fine for violating the game laws
OF Minnesota" said q citizen of the
Gopher state.
'.Our game wardens are veritable
sleuths. and they recently secured;
what they considered evidences of a
bad violation OF the game laws by a
grocer, in the shape of Wild goose
which was exposed for sale.
when the case was brought for
trial the grocer offered evidence to
show that the alleged contraband
goose was only haif-breed purchased
from poultry raiser named Johnson,
Mr.. Johnson testified that % years
before he found q stray wild goose
egg, which he placed under hen with
the result that gander was Matched.
This gander, now celebrated in Mime
sofa court records for nearly quarter
of a century was crossed with tame
geese and the half-blood produce mar
keted regularly every year.
Mr.. Johnson volunteered to pro-
duce the gander in court if necessary.
and the game wardens retired. baf-
fed and defeated. New York Sun.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27
Wholesale MARRIAGE.

No fewer than forty-two couples
were married simultaneously at Plou-
gastel (Lower Brittany one morning
recently. Work, in the village and In
all the surrounding hamlet was en-
tirely suspended for the day, for the
excellent reason that there was scarce
1y living soul in the neighborhcod
not related to one or other of the
brides or bridegrooms, for the good
people of Plougastel never marry out
side their own commune.-London
Mail
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27

cent though they be, are but the set
ting for far more interesting display.
In all the buildings the best products
that the world can offer will be arrang-
ed in the most attractive order and
will convey to the mind a better idea
of what the wide world is doing than
would years of study and inquiry.
Fifty-one nations of the world and all
of the states of the American Union
will be represented in this extensive
portrayal of the worlds present-day
effort
Those who are familiar with the
Columbian Exposition at Chicago have
often asked if the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition would equal in ex-
tent or grandeur the celebrated Elk
position of 1893. When told that it
would be twice as large in extent of
grounds and so per cent larger in
exhibit space in buildings, they have
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27

To mention the big things of the
Worlds Fair of 1904 would be to give
catalogue Of the greatest achieve
ments Of man in many lines of en-
deavor. For example: We shall see
the largest locomotive ever built,
weighing ninety-ive tons and having
twelve driving wheels. We shall hear
the largest organ in the world in the
most beautiful festival hall ever built.
We shall see some of the greatest sea-
coast defense guns manufactured for
the United States government. In the
Government Building, which is the
largest exhibit building ever erected
by federal authority at an Exposition,
there will be a model of a half of a
battleship for the Navy display. The
United States Government has also
erected a bird cage SO large that tall
trees grow within the Enclosure, in
which will be held captive during the
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27

land David 1onged, and said: oh, that
one would give me drink of the water OF
the well of Bethlehem. which is beside
the gate III. Samuel. xiii. Is.
It seems just like t'uz yesterday,
An me a younker o. thirteen
One-galused, freckled, full o. play,
TIL boy-est boy you ever seen!
A-rompin' over ali tn town
An gettin' net up fit to kill,
Then takin' time to simmer down,
AT that oil well by Mitchells mill.
Remember it? Tn shaky pump
18th water drippfn' from tn spout,
Or gushin' When-kalump! kalump!-
We'd almost pull tn handle outi
We'd get a cup full an we'd drink
An, say, but it was cold an sweet!
It makes me young again TO think
How it I'D sptatter on my feet.
wy, XII Dunlap one time he said
That water wuz tn best on earth,
An any man whose thirst 'uz fed
18th it I'D get his moneys worth
Yes, sir-th' best! Wy, even yet
hear him sayin' 1t. as plain
An he had traveIed-don't forget!
From California plum to Maine.
wellwater .powadays-- But. pshaw!
They amt none now that fills tn bill
I never drunk an never saw
AS good as that at Mttchells mill,
An when I think o. how I uset
To let 1t run an go to waste,
My thirstiness Is all Embossed
An I fair shrivel for a taste!
w. D. N. in Chicago Tribune.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27
swiss Industrial schools.

There are industrial schools for
clock and watch making in Geneva,
Locle, Chaux-de-Fonds, ETC.; there are
art and industrial working schools in
Zurich and other cities for women,
and there are industrial schools for
the hand trades in most of the cities
and towns of the country. The sub
jects taught in these schools are draw
ing, arithmetic, geography, bookkeep-
ing, German, French and practical in
struction in the trade chosen by the
pupil.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27

A Salem, Mass. sexton recently had
some trouble in getting stone door
of tomb in place after burial. He
entered the tomb and pried on the
stone until it closed on him, all but a
narrow crack. He yelled for help, and
a small boy, who was not frightened
by the cry from the grave, ran for
help. The sexton was freed. none the
worse for his experience.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27

at the eel grass required for the sea
cows food, sometimes through ice ten
inches in thickness and often through
ice of five or six inches.
Sometimes when the ice had moved
out with a shift Of the wind. leaving
open spaces, access to the eel grass
would be easy, but frequently the ice
would have closed in, and then it
would be necessary to cut holes in it
to get at the eel grass below.
So the work of supplying the sea
cows table has been so far this win
ter attended by more or less difficulty,
but there has never been a day on
which the sea COW has had to go hun
gry.-New York Sun.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27
Euasne FIeLd,s Bank Account.

handbook No. 1S of the Windham
county savings bank at Newfane, Vt.
is in the name of the late Eugene
Field. It contains q deposit OF SIS
made by his grandmother, Esther
Field, with the proyiso mot to be paid
until said Eugene is q years Of age .
The book has never been taken to the
hank since It's issue, and the amount
now due TO the estate Of EugeBe Field
Of Chicago is $685..
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27
Brain Growth.

Brain development is found by Prof.
Seggel of Munich to have two periods
of acceleration-from 10 to II and
from II to Is in girls, and from II to
Ii and 10 to 20 in boys. At the period
of most rapid increase in height-from
II to IA years-the growth of the
brain is less than one-hundredth that
of the body, but at II to 10 it grows
one-thirtieth as fast. and at 20 reaches
one-seventh of the body growth.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27
LITTLE KNOWN OF LABRADoR
Vast Territory is Inviting Field for
E~piorere

Vast Territory is Inviting Field for
Explorers.
The report of the death of Leonidas
Hubbard, Jr., in the interior of La
brador, from starvation, while con-
Quoting. an exploring expedition across
that inhospitable country, emphasizes
the fact that there is almost at the
doors of New York peninsula hav-
ing an area equal to that of the Mid
die and South Atlantic states, or OF
England, France and Austria com
bined, the interior of which is almost
unknown. This country, the first on
the mainland of the Western CONT
nent to be discovered, is only little
better known than the region about
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27
He DID NOT UNDERSTAND.
Amusing Error of Frenchman Ths
Cost Him SIS.


A French visitor to New York, an
enthusiastic automobilist, has learned
a lesson as to how things are done
in America. On several occasions
when speeding a machine through
Central park he has seen policemen
hold up a hand. The result was an
increase Of speed and wave of the
hand in return. The police have been
in the hopes of catching him, and
finally one of them did so by placing
his horse in the autos track, COMPEL
ing it to come to a standstill. In court
the Frenchman was amazed at the
cause of his arrest. He took the sig
nails of the officers as commentators
and congratulations and turned on
more power to show them what he
could do. The lesson cost him SIS.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27
Given Eair Warninn.

The other day the East Monkton,
vt, correspondence of the Burlington
Free Press contained this grim notice:
1.-The Man Who stole the kerocene
Oil. from the Thomas. saw mill and
put Waiter in its place. can settle it
by leaving town, by Jan 1S, 1904.
Other Ways. there VIII be. another
Method. used"
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ROYAL pREsENT q LouvRE.

Magnificent Art Collection Donated to
French Museum.
Who is the Partisan who does not
know NJ Daisteau? Who is the lover
OF art, of the beautiful and the curl
Gus in craftsmanship of the past who
would not know NJ. Daisteau?
NJ. Daisteau has just made a won
derfuI present to the Louvre. Instead
of procrastinating and making will
some day by which he would donate
some OF his beautiful things to the
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27

If the scientist who disseminated
the theory that money was full of
microbes had any idea that 1t would
lead people to come around and I'M
load their paper dollars upon him he
knows better by this time.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27

tude, and an amusement street mile
long, containing the most novel and
wonderful entertainments, will furnish
diversion to the guests of the Exposi-
ton.
All st. Louis is preparing for the
Worlds Fair, which will open on April
80 next and continue for seven
months. Hundreds of buildings have
been remodeled into hotels, and thou
sands of homes have been listed, upon
invitation of the Worlds Fair manage
ment, to help care for the visitors.
Every preparation has been made for
a period of unusual festivity, and st.
Louis expects to give her visitors a
delightful season OF sightseeing and
entertainment.