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The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18
FARM RAN PLANTER
SUGAR CROP OUTLOOK.
The Conditions Have Been PrOpf.
tfons For the Cane Sugar Crop
In louisiana.

The weather has remained propi-
tious for the planting of the balance
of the seed cane for the sugar crop Of
1904, and the work is practically
completed. All the seed cane was
found to be in excellent condition,
hence, there is ground for congratu-
lation that the crop has made a most
promising start.
Owing to the uncommonly favorable
weather during the winter, planters
have been able to properly prepare the
land and to plant the entire crop. No
seed having been spoiled, a full
acreage has been put in, and, as no
delays have been encountred, the
planting has been completed weeks
ahead of the usual time. These facts
insure a good start for the growing
season.
While an early start is not sufi-
cient to make a good acreage as well
as a heavy tonnage, it is certainly the
essential element to a full acreage,
and in most cases to a full tonnage per
acre. OF course, a poor growing sea-
son may cut down the final results
as far as sugar yield is concerned,
but the very fact that the winter has
been comparatively dry should bring
a reasonable abundance of moisture
later on, when it is most needed.
The crop during the past two years
the growing period. and last year this
defect was felt all the more, because
the crop had made a very late start,
and, therefore, backward before
the drought period was reached. An
equitable distribution of moisture and
sunshine is needed during the entire
growing season. Should the crop just
planted experience such conditions,
there will be every chance of a big
sugar yield next fall.
Commenting upon the present sit
uation in the sugar district, the Louis
lana Planter says:
Favorable weather conditions are
still prevalent throughout the sugar
district, and the work of planting cane
has now been practically finished and
all the seed has been found to be in
excellent condition. We now have
before us the c%ultivating season, and
it is anywhere near as favorable in it's
weather aspect as the planting period
has been, the cane crop of 1904 should
prove a record-breaker, so far as the
yield per acre is concerned.
There has been comparatively lit
IL rain during the past few months,
and. if the law of averages is to be
worked out in our weather, this would
indicate that we have good prospects
Of escaping the unfortunate drought,
which so often visits us in the late
spring and early summer, when the
n are so much in need of copious
supplies of moisture."-New Orleans
P%icayune.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18
EARLY PLANTING BEST.
Folly of Putting on Planting Of
Crops Until the Season Has
Too Far

Last year demonstrated the impor-
lance of early planting and the folly
of putting off planting until out of sea-
son, the soft, understandable corn,
short oats crops, low-grade tobacco, all
are evidences. Oats were sown in May,
when the regular season is late March
or early Auril; corn was planted in
June, that should have been planted in
the period from April 10 to May 20;
tobacco equally late. 1t is true that
last spring was an exceedingly unfa-
vorable season for spring work, but
did we make the best of the conditions?
Did we begin as soon as we should
after the rains ceased? Didn't we give
up because it was too dry, as we
thought? Didn't the neighbor who
tool advantage of every moment dur
ing the planting season, blowing the
driest lane when it would do, without
waiting till the whole field was dry
enough, and working up the clods and
planting when it seemed too dry. sue
ceeded in getting through in season,
and so raise a fine crop? / have in
AilIu Two renters ON the same farm,
one, with rs acres to enc in corn, put
in every moment that would do, and
raised a bumper crop h~igh-grade corn.
The other one with 80 acres, found it
too wet to pillow, and before he got
to work it was 90 dry; so he planted,
at last, rs days later than he ought.
raising a poor yield of soft, unmar-
ketable stuff, too sappy to keep, or to
sell at more than rs cents per bar
rel, when matured corn was $3.50 per
barrel. In this state | have had bet
ter success with oats sown from the
list to goth of March, having to re-
SOW only once in ten years on account
of freezing out; with corn planted from
the middle of April to the middle of
May, or even earlier, with the late
heavy yielding sorts, if the ground is
warm. Having corn frosted down
when six inches high, without having
to replant, and a fine yield, too.-Cor.
Epitomist.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18
HERE N THERE.

The vermin, which are so trouble
some among chickens can do little on
ducks and geese, because of the heavy
down; they are also subject to few
diseases, and easy to raise.
The most economic way to begin
with pure-bred poultry is to buy eggs.
Set them under a good hen. You may
raise some as good as the breeder
from whom you obtained them, and
at a large price.
With all our wisdom and skill in
breeding, no n has yet produced a
COW that will make as much milk
from discomfort as she will from COM
fort. An animal of extreme hardness
may be produced; but good. paying
cows are not built on those lines.
Some farmers spend enough time in
looking for tray stock to more
than keep their fences in good repair.
1t is not pleasant work looking for
strays, especially when they are found
in some other mans lot. neither is it
conducive to neighborly friendship.
1t is often recommended that male
fowls be separated from the flock as
soon as the laying season is over. We
are not in sympathy with this, as it
is not natures method. The males
are the hens natural defenders and
associates, and they are lonesome
without him.
There is often a ''runt' pig among
the others, and, If fed with the others,
he does not get his share. He should
be put in a pen by himself, or the
trough should be SO arranged that
each n will have an equal chance.
Stats nailed across the trough helps
some.
1t is not always the largest hog that
pays, but the hog that will put on the
largest gain in the least time with the
least outlay of fed. A pig that drops
in April should make a. good-sized hog
by the close of the year. In order to
do this, it will be necessary to have
him well bred, and then he should be
well fed.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

fCoTea as the czar had in Manchuria, and
rany people have thought her right was
a little better than Russia's to Man
churia. Japan had not tried to gobble
up Corea, while Russia apparently had
tried to get Manchuria right out from
under the nose of China, which was I'M
able to defend herself. AS Japan and
Russia were likely to be such zeal neigh
bors, the ministers of the mikado de-
cided last year to ask the ministers of
the car to talk the matter over and set
tie how they would get along together.
So the two sent notes to each other
saying what they would do and what
they would like to have the other side
do. They disagreed on about four things,
at least. Japan asked Russia to sign a
paper, called a treaty, saying that she in
tended giving Manchuria back to China.
Russia, on the other hand, asked Japan
to promise to let Corea alone, to build
no forts at the lower end of Corea where
the tongue comes down neal the lower
end of the islands of Japan, and to mark
out a strip of and on the Corean side
VI Lie Idlu IIfcI Ou WHlCu uGllupT OF
them should go.
The car declined to say in writing
that he would return Manchuria. The
Japs could not see why they Should be
obliged to do in regard to Corea what
Russia would not do in regard to Man.
churia. Nor could they understand why
they should promise not to put up forts
on ground which did not belong to Rus
STA. 1t was hardly fair, either, to ask
the Japs to give up their right to land
on one side of the Yalu river when Rus
STA would not do the same ON the other
side. Russia had been claiming the right
to cut down trees in the valley of the
Yalu river on both sides of the liver.
The mikado's ministers thought Russia
was not treating them fairly, and when
the czar's ministers did not answer their
last note for a long time, apparently be-
cause the car wanted to get ahead OF
Japan and be ready to fight, Japan decid-
ed not to wait for the note and sent her
warships out
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

part of China and Corea and the islG-S
of Japan by themselves. Siberia, every
one knows by this time, belongs to Rus
STA. Running along the lower edge of
Siberia and crossing the claw of it near
the sea of Japan is a big river called the
Amoor. On the lower side of this
river lies a country called Manchuria.
For many years Manchuria belonged to
China. Jutting off from Manchuria into
the midst of the Yellow sea and the Sea
of Japan is a tongue of land called Korea
on some maps and Corea on the others.
Now, look closely. A river will be found
running part way across this tongue OF
land between Corea and Manchuria.
This is the Yalu river, about which so
much IS being said.
Now. Russia for several years has been
building a railroad from Europe across
Siberia to the sea. Of course, the rail-
road, in order to be of use, ought to end
zeal the water, where ships could bring
to it freight and also take freight from
it. Siberia is so ear the north pole that
it is very cold in some places in the win
ter time. In fact, so cold is 1t that all the
bays along the coast freeze over in the
winter and no vessel car get in or out
with their freight. 1t was planned to
build this railroad to a place called by
the long name of Vladivostok. This
town is at the head of a bay opening into
the Sea of Japan at the foot of the claw
of Siberia. The cars ministers thought
it would be much better to build the rail-
road to a bay which did not freeze over
at any time of the year, SO somehow he
got an opportunity to build it across
Manchuria, which belongs to China, to
a place now known as Port Arthur. This
place may be found at the end of a small
tongue of land extending out into the
gulf of Pe-Chi-Li. This gulf is at the
head of the Yellow sea, to the left of
Corea, and on a level with Picking, the
capital of China.
Two or three years ago a lot of bad
Cinnamon, called Boxers, who wanted
to get the foreigners out of China, shut
up the foreigners in Picking and would
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18
This Is Miraculous,

Manhattan, Hans, March 4.-One Of
the strangest cases that has ever been
heard of in Riley Co. is that of the three.
year-old daughter of Mr.. Jonas BrubakeI
of this place.
Some time ago the little girl took whoop.
ing cough, which was followed by pneu.
monia. When the pneumonia left her, she
was taken down with malaria fever with
at times symptoms of Spinal Meningitis.
The family doctor brought her safely
through these troubles, but after the fever
Bright's Disease set in and the doctors
gave her up. Her father tells the rest OF
the story:
we began to give her Dodd's Kidney
Pills and after she had taken about three
and a half boxes, she was entirely cured.
Now she is we'll as any. child, running and
playing as if nothing had ever been the
matter with her. The doctors said she
was beyond the reach of medicine. Dodd's
Kidney Pills certainly saved our little
girls life, when she was so far into the
chronic stage of Bright's Disease that we
thought nothing could save her."
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18
COTTON BELT SITUATION.
The Principal Are Boil
WeeviI. Decentralization and
Neglect of Home Supplies.

Cotton growers were never before
on a better financial footing or nor
hopeful to the future than now, with
the possible exception of ~ante-bellum
days. Among their enemies, however,
are the boil weevil, danger of over
production and the neglect to raise
necessary home supplies. These must
be combatted while prosperity lasts.
Improve the home by a judicious ex-
penditure of surplus cash, raise meat,
vegetables, etc, for home consumption,
and plant no more cotton than can be
prepared for and fortified properly.
The planter must move faster than the
boil weevil by adopting cultural meth
DDS.
There are many evils that may
befall the cotton planter. A general
European war, which the conflict be-
tween Russia and Japan may bring
on, would injure the cotton market,
and the price of the staple would
fall, while ~foodstuffs would increase
in value. This would injure the money
crop of the southern farmer and in
crease the price Of necessary home
supplies. Overproduction hurts any
business, and to no other crop is it
more fatal or less excusable than to
cotton. Wise acres" told us a few
years ago that We would never again
see ten-cent cotton, while knowing
one now talks as if cotton will al
ways fluctuate in the double figure
column. The conclusion of the one is
as faulty as was the opinion of the
other. But the price of cotton can
be kept up to a paying figure by in
telligent Investigation. If not in past
dition, the cotton raisers are now in
a position to adopt this system.
Cotton is selling for Jour Or five cents
more than in December, 1902. This
is partly owing to decreasing supply
and increasing demand, but not wholly
so. Speculation has had something to
do with this advance. A full, or even
an average crop, O. an excessive acre
age, such as is likely to be put in this
year, may not only lose to the farmer
the present prices, but coupled with
speculation, which it is sure to be,
may send prices as far below the cost
of production as they are o. above it.
Speculation is on the farmers side now,
because the supply is short. Keep it
there by raising home reconsideration
all the cotton You, can.
The farmer should make his home
attractive, and prevent his children
from seeking a livelihood in the city.
To do this, "one-sided" farming must
be abandoned. Change the system Of
education which teacher that it is de-
grading or beneath the dignity of an
educated person to labor on the farm.
Acquaint the rising generation with the
fact that agriculture, rightly conducted,
calls for a higher order of intellect
than any other profession, is surest in
its returns to all the essentials of hap
pines. Agriculture is the backbone of
the nation; the life of the world; the
noblest of all pursuits, and therefore
the most useful and honorable.-Cor.
Farm and Ranch.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18
FOOTWORK ON THE PIANO.
''First steps in Music by a Youth.
full Artist with Too Much
Pedal.

Clifton Bingham, the author of In Old
Madrid" is not himself a musician, but
his ear is delicate and sensitive, and notn-
ing annoys him more than to hear bad
singing or bad playing says the New York
Tribune.
lie was visiting a cousin of his in Lon
don, and this cousin has a son, a boy of
II or Is, who practices on the piano every
morning. The muscular lad, banging false
notes from the instrument with ire
mendous vigor, tried Mr.. Bingham not a
little.
What on earth are you playing there,
jimmy the song writer called from the
next room one morning.
AN exercise from First Steps in
Music the boy answered.
Il knew you were playing with your
feet" said Mr.. Bingham, but would you
mind stepping a little lighter on the
keys?"
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18
He Didn't Have to Prove It.

the train at Hopkins and said to a man
on the depot platform: Can you tell me
who is the best lawyer in this town" Il
am replied the man on the platform.
without hesitation. The stranger seemed
somewhat Disconnected by this display of
egotism and gently said; Excuse me, sir,
but l should like to have you prove it."
the man on the platform. 81 admit it. l
am the only lawyer in the tow sir" And
immediately the stranger got a lawyer
and the lawyer got a client.-Kansas City
Journal.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18
The Stone Cutters BIunder.

A small headstone in a cemetery in
the western part of Pennsylvania is
pointed out to visitors as one Of the
sights of the neignborhood. 1t was
placed over the grave by a widower
who, while not lacking in love for the
departed one, was penurious to a de-
gree. He ordered a small stone be-
cause it was cheap, and told the mason
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

The farmer who has confined his eff
forts to two or three staple crops does
not know how his farm would respond
to some one OF more special crops.
This is a day of s%pecialities and
many men a make a success grow
ing some special crop, who are not
now making a good living growing
some of the staple crops.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

to engrave on 1t this inscription:
Sarah Hackett. Aged 80 years. Lord.
she was Thine" The stonecutter said
there was too much inscription for so
small a surface, but was told to go
ahead and squeeze it on somehow"
Here is the inscription as squeezed:
Sara Hacketr. Aged 80. Lord, she
was Thin"
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18
10000 Plants for 10c.

This is a remarkable offer the John A.
Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis, makes.
They will send you their big plant and
seed c~atalog, together with enough seed 20
1000 fine, solid Cabbages,
1000 delicious Carrots,
1900 blanching, nutty Celery,
1900 rich, buttery Lettuce,
1000 splendid Onions,
1000 rare, luscious Radishes,
1000 gloriously brilliant Flowers.
This great offer is made in order to in
duce you to try their warranted seeds
for when you once plant them you will
grow no others, and
ALL o BUT 16c POSTAGE,
providing you will return this notice, and
if you will send them zoe in postage, they
will add to the above a package of the ia
nous Berliner Cauli1ower. TX. Ii
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

Gilbert-"I went to the lunatic asylum
yesterday Noyes-"And they let you
come away? Perhaps the places were all
taken ?'-Boston Transcript.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18
One Big Braid.

Towne-Her hair is positively golden.
Browne-So they say, but it seems very
strange to me. [ knew her when she was
a little girl.
"Well?"
Philadelphia Press.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18
3 But 16c

PA, how much is Mr.. Rockefeller
WORTH" "Oh, about a billion dollars, my
SON." How much is that in ~doughnuts,
pa ?'-Town Topics.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken OF
Ave, n, Minneapolis, MINI, Jan. +, 1900.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18
w. l.. DOUGLAS
$50 &s3 SHOES y saBE

w. l.. Douglas
shoes have by their
excellent style,
easy-fitting, a d
superior wearing
qualities, achieved
the largest sale of
any shoes in the
world.
They are just as good
as those that cost you
81 to S5-the only
difference is the price.
Sold Everywhere.
Look for name and
price on bottom.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

To Cure n Cold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

Just as you are pleased at finding
faults, you are displeased at finding per-
fcctiOns.-Lavater.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

GU1ETas UsFs VOTOlla NS<9IN WMSSJ/%4gI3G
Coltskin, which is everywhere conceded TO
be the finest Patent Leather vet ~roduced
fast Color EyeietS used. Shoes by mail. 25c. extra,
Write for CatalOg. WI douglas. Brockton. Mass.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

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Tin form Of Chocolate Coated Pills, Csc. per vial Of COZ.
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house So; Paria, ) Rue de Ia Psix; Boston, 1871 Columbus
Ave. Potter Drug & Chem Corp, Sole Props.
e. Send for " All About the Skin aud Scalp"
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The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1904-05-28

Noun, Pleasant. Utah. May EST,
ahd . medicine ,bs; will cure every al
ueni due 10 diseased or disoidervd X !
usys has been The aim Of many pl s.i
clans and chemists.
Mr., G. T.. Peterson, . farmer Of thii
plaos aAvs be has found such q rened,
and that be has tried IL with snooee. il
bis uwn case. Mr.. Peterhon says th,
remedy IL Dodd's Kidney Pills, q medi.
cine introduced here about sever
naonths Aeo.
81 am glad 70 be allowed " testify e
What good things nodd's Kidney Pills
Rave done for me. Hsed this remedy
for Kidney trouble and IL cured me-
completely.
II cAn heartily recommend podd .
Kidney Pile 70 all Who suffer with
any kind Of Kidney t, oubls."
Mr.. fe,srson's case 10 only one Of
nAuy iust - convincing that have been
reported rsoently. This new remedy
srems 10 have conquered Rheumatism
completely, not . single case having
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The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1904-05-28
pe-ru-na Protects the Entire House.
hold Against Catarrhal
Diseases.

One Of the greatest foes with which
every family has 70 contend is our
ehAnEeabls climate. To protect the
family from colds and coughs il always
serious problem. and often impossi
BILE.
Sooner OF later il lie the inevitable
tate Of very one 10 catch cold. Care IN
avoiding exposure and the use Of prop
er clothing will protect from the FIRE
quency and perhaps the severity Of
colds. but with the greatest Of plecau-
tiona they will come. This is a settled
fact Of human experiences. Everybody
must expect 10 BE- caught somewhere or
somehow.
Perhaps il will be wet feet, or 9
draught, or damp clothes, or il may be
one Of 8 thousand other little mishaps.
but no one is shrewd enough 10 always
avoid the inevitable catching cold.
There is no fact Of medical science
better known than that PeTunA cures
eAiArrh wherever located. Thousands
Of families in all parts Of the United
States are protected from colds and ca
tATh by Peruna. Once liz the family
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1904-05-28

Peruna always stays. No home can
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Mrs. A. Hobson, 225 Washington
ST., Lansing, Mich. writes:
''Peruna has been such a blessing
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that feel induced to give my testi-
mo1ial. he has always suffered from
eatar1h Of the head and throat, and I
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70 have him exposed 10 damp or cold
weather. Last year he was taken
with La grippe, and as il was a severe
case, caused me much anxiety. No
med Cine helped him till he took Pc
runa. ! noticed an Improvement az
once and In three weeks he was a diff
ferent child; the grippe had been COM
pleteiy cured and { noticed that the
eatarrh was made better. lie kept
taking e two weeks longer. when he
was entirely well. I now use IL off
and on for colds, cramps, indigestion
or general indiSpoSition, and find IL
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We have on file msny thousand tes-
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We can only give our readers a slight
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endorsements we are receiving every
month. No other physician in the
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