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The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
NORWAY ASKS RECOGNITION
Its Must BE Stable Be-
fore United States Will
Recognize 1t.

Washington, July 27.-Through c.
Hauge, until about a month ago the
first secretary of the Sweden and Nor
way legation here, this government has
received what is thought to be a virtual
request that President Roosevelt rec
ognize the government of Norway. Mr..
Hauge resigned his position in the Dip
iomatic service of Sweden and Norway
to become representative here of the
new Norwegian government. Repre-
sensations to the state department,
made by him, have been transmitted
to President Roosevelt, and are now
at Oyster Bay awaiting action.
The United States government will
make a careful investigation of the
status of the new government before
taking any definite steps.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
BIG SEIZURE OF sTOGIEs
Forty-Eight Thousand StOsfes Seized
at st. Louis For Being Inn
properly Stamped.

st. Louis, July 27.-Forty-eight thou
sand stogies shipped to st. Louis by
three New York manufacturers, i'm
properly stamped, have been seized by
Collector Ben Westhus. The stogies
arrived here in three lots. The first
shipment, consisting of 10000 stogies.
was seized on Saturday in the depot OF
the Columbia Transfer Co. The sec
ond consignment, OF $4,000 stogies, was
taken, Monday, in the warehouse Of
the st. Louis Transfer Co. The third
lot, consisting of 10000 stogies, was
found Wednesday in the freight depot
Of the Louisville & Nashville railroad.
Cass avenue and Collins street.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
~DEMONS1RATVE WELCOME
Yokohama in Holiday Attire to
Welcome the Americans.
a Noisy Display OF Daylight Fire
works Greeted Secretary Taft
and His Party.

Yokohama, July 26.-Secretary Of
War Taft and party received a demon
strative welcome to Japan, the build
ings, streets and wharves Of this city
and the shipping in the harbor being
gaily decorated.
A noisy display of daylight fire.
works along the streets fronting the
harbor announced the arrival of the
steamship Manchuria at the quarantine
grounds, ard continued until the yes
sci was locked.
Lloyd G. Griscom, the American min
lister, the attaches of the legation and
Consul-General H. B. Miller, of New
Chwang, together with representatives
of the Japanese imperial household,
foreign Office, war department and
Asiatic society boarded the Manchuria
end extended formal greetings to Sec
rotary Taft and Miss Roosevelt, who
held an informal reception upon the
deck.
The party was then driven to the
railroad station through the crowded
streets and boarding a special train, de-
parted for Toxic at 10 a. m, amid
cheers Of the assembled multitude.
Upon arrival at Toxic, Secretary
Taft and his personal staff were taken
to Shiba, where a detached palace was
provided for their accommodation. Miss
Roosevelt accompanied Minister Girls
com to the American legation.
The welcome given to Admiral Togo
on his return from his victorious opera
tons at Port Arthur can alone be COM
pared with the ovation given Secretary
Taft by the ~populace of Toxic. The
streets were crowded and there was a
o1,+;n,1.,e rcor of span1aicr
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
Rural Death Traps and Motors.

A new style of deadly grade cross
ing has come into existence with the
development of the h~igh-speed auto
mobile. These cars, literally locomo-
tiyes, are sent across country at rail
road rates and over steam-road tracks
without heed for the common rules OF
caution. Owing to the failure OF the
states to make laws requiring the
sinking or raising of the lines over
country roads, as well as city streets,
there are thousands Of places in the
thickly settled parts Nof the country
where human life is exposed to dan
ger at all hours. This danger is espe-
cially great after dark, in the wooded
parts of the rural districts. In many
places the railroadt tracks are invisible
ten feet from the first rail, save Tor
the immediate space of the crossing.
In consequence, chauffeurs, driving
their w machines pellmell over the
roads, run upon the lines only to be
crushed by trains, the approach OF
which they have not heard or seen.
The automobiles of the country are
relied upon by the common people
for aid in the establishment OF a sys-
TEN of good roads. says the Washing
tor Star. They have not accomplished
much to this end thus far. Here, how
ever, lies an opportunity for them to
contribute to the public welfare While
they are conserving their WI inter
ests and protecting their lives. II
they would organize for the purpose
of forcing state legislation for the
abolition of all such death traps
throughout the eastern states they
would go far toward overcoming the
public prejudice against their class,
aroused by the wild actions of some OF
their number in city streets and country
roads. A systematic demand for the
abolition of the rural grade crossings
would, of course, be strenuously OPP
posed by the transportation lines. The
expenditure involved would be very
heavy. But the time is coming when
the railroads and the towns, counties
and states must make this concession
to the public security. If the work
were undertaken now on a gradually
increasing scale the cost might be so
distributed that the burden would not
fall prohibitively upon any corporation
or community. The expense of chang
ing the grade of a country road is by
no means so heavy as that of raising
or lowering a city street, and, despite
the great number Of dasgeroussplaces
to be thus reformed, the project is en-
tirely feasible.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
SEIZED ALL THE DOCUMENTS
Russian Police Seize All Documents
Relating to the Recent Zemstvo
Congress in Moscow.

MOSCOW, July 28.-The police visited
the house of M. Golovin, president Of
the permanent bureau of zemstvo or
ganization for the Moscow district, who
presided at the recent all Russian
Zemstvo congress, and also the house
of M. Pollner, secretary of the bureau.
They seized all the documents relating
to the proceedings of the congress.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
OBJECT OF THAT INTERVIEW
The Kaiser, 1t is Said, Would Like
to Put q HOhenxollern Prince
ON NOrway's Throne.

London, July 27.-The correspondent
Of the Daily Mail at Stockholm says: 4
1.-THE object of Emperor Williams
interview with Emperor Nicholas was
to obtain consent Of the latter for q
prince Of the house Of Hohenzollern
to ascend the throne of Norway. 1t is
possible that the Russian emperor will
consent, provided Russia be permitted
10 slightly rectify her frontier on the
Atlantic"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
A SHOCKING SUSPICION.


New York, July 26.-That F. E. Carl
ton or McCandlass, which is now be-
lieved to be his real name, caused the
death of Mary Gorham Carlton by in
o~culating her with lockjaw germs is
the belief of the police. This theory is
the result of a post mortem examina-
ton of the exhumed corpse of the
woman.
Women are turning up all over the
country who claim to have either been
smitten at one time or another by this
man, whom they term another Johan
Hoch, or to have at least received his
affectionate advances.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04

Boss" Cox, the Cincinnati republic
can dictator, is a big man physically.
and makes little or no attempt to con-
ceal that he is supreme in the politics
of his party. A magazine writer called
ON him recently and explained that he
was d student Of politics-corrupt pol
itics and bosses. II understand you
are the BOSS Of Cincinnati" Mr.. Cox
frankly acknowledged that such was
the case. But you have 2 mayor, =
council and judges, too" "Oh, yes,"
was the blunt erply, sbut ! have Z
telephone. toe"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
shot wife and KILLED Himself.

Longview, Tex, July 28.-Clem Sum-
mers, 20 mikes from here, fatally
wounded his wife by shooting, and
then killed himself. His mind probably
affected by wound received in the head
in battle with bank robbers several
years ago.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
Murder and Attempted Suicide.

st. Louis, July 26.-Frank W. Card,
who has a wife and six children, shot
and instantly killed Mrs. Beulah Craft,
a grass widow, aged 30 years, in the
home Of Mr.. James Taheker, on north
Broadway, where Mrs. Craft boarded.
and then attempted suicide, but the
bullets only 1attened On his skull.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
CHINAS CONSENT DOUBTFUL
May BE Impossible to Secure China's
Consent For Exclusion of
Chinese LabOrers.

Washington, July 28.-Some doubt is
expressed in official circles whether it
will be possible to obtain China's con-
sent to another treaty with the United
States, providing for even the exclu-
sion of Chinese laborers from this
country.
The present treaty will soon expire,
and China is inclined to sign any sim
liar convention.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
John MuelIer,s Novel Plea.

Chicago, July 27.-John Mueller,
charged with killing his wife and child,
makes the novel plea of epileptic SOM
nambulism.. Mueller declares there was
no motive; that he slew his wife dn his
sleep, and that his actions were due to
q blow received during q labor riot.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
kew.nee votes Library nonds.

Kewanee, ILL.,, July 27.-At q special
election, Kewanee township voted by I
large majority to issue bonds for $15,-
900 to buy a site and an equipment
for a new library building to be erect
ed with money given by Andrew Car
negie.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
Drowned In Black River.

South Haven, Mich, July 28.-In
sight of SO resorters at Cold Springs, on
the Black river, Miss Fanny Hochfeld-
err, aged Is, of Chicago, and William
Head. aged nine, son of w. H. Head,
proprietor Of the resort, were drowned
by the capsizing Of a rowboat.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
saved BY Admiral Clark.

New York, July 26s-At the interces-
sion of Rear-Admiral Clark, Emil Lot
terman, formerly q sailor on the Ore
gon, under sentence of death for killing
Sarah Martin, has been granted a COM
mutation to life imprisonment by Gov.
Higgins.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04

If you are a serious-minded mar or
woman, you must experience moments
when you feel that the times are very
much out of joint. That is exactly
where you reach the point of supreme
individual obligation, says the Kansas
City Star. When you are troubled with
the suspicion that the machinery of
justice is warped, and that greed is
stronger than righteousness, you
must ask yourself what you, unaided
and independent of all other forces,
can do for the success of your princi-
pies. Well, you can always do this.
You can be clean and decent and right
yourself. That will contribute one
good unit to society. And the prac-
tice of this doctrine by all persons
who can appreciate the influence Of
such action will contribute many units.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
Died at Ninety-Five.

Quincy, Ill, July 26.-Albert Hughes,
q resident of Ursa, Ill, since 1885, died
at the age of IS years.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04

Christiana, Norway, July 28.-The
Norwegian government has proposed to
the storthing the holding Of a referen-
dun on the dissolution of the union
with Sweden. The proposal wa re-
ferred to a special committee.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04

When Children Are Truthful.
MY little boy never tells a lie"
Jaw, come Off"
when there are visitors present,
Wait until l finish, can't you.'-Cou-
rier-Journal.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
GULF COAST INSPECTED.
Surgeon Wasdin Found No Evil
aances of Fever Along the Coast.

Washington, July 28.-Surgeon Was
din reported to the public health and
marine hospital service, Thursday, that
he had made a thorough inspection OF
the gulf coast and had found no evil
dence Of yellow fever.
Passed Assistant Surgeon Barry, now
stationed at New York, and Pharma-
cist Morris, of st. Louis, have beeen
ordered to New Orleans for service IN
connection with the yellow fever situa-
ton.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
Due to Caroline Explosion.

Pittsburg, July 26-Two are dead.
two fatally burned and three others
seriously injured through en- explo-
sion Of a gasoline stove at the home
Of Levi Titus, . kosher butcher, at
Braddock, Pa.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04

New York, July 26.-Charles Canepi,
the s~ix-year-old son Of James Canepi,
Jr., a Yonkers contractor, who has lain
in t~rance-like stupor for 100 days, is
apparently awakening from his long
sleep
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04

Paris, July 26.-The st. Petersburg
correspondent Of the Matin says: Aft
er having been in the fear Of an Anglo
French alliance, the kaiser now breads
= possible alliance between japan and
Russia
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04

When the duke of Sutherland sailed
for home from New York recently,
not less than 500 persons assembled
on the pier to get a glimpse Of him.
All were doomed to disappointment,
for the duke had slipped on board
quietly the previous evening, and kept
TO his stateroom until the steamer
backed out into the river. The pas
senger list included nearly 1900
names, and so great was the jam that
an extra force Of police was necessary
to keep the gangWay clear. And yet
royalty has no charms for us.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
G,bbon. Celebrate. birthday.

GibbOns CeIebrates
New York, July 26.-Cardinal Glib
bons celebrated his seventy-first birth
day at Southampton. There was a per-
petual stream to his house of people
of all denominations. who extended
congratulations. The cardinal is en-
joying excellent health.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04

Caracas, Venezuela. July 26.-Dr.
Juan Pablo Rojas Paul, former presi-
dent OF Venezuela. is dead. He was
born in 1S45. DR.. Rojas Paul was pres
ident Of Venezuela from February 20.
1888, to February 20, 1890.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04

Among those successfully passing
the mental examinations for admission
to the naval academy was Luther
Welsh, of Kansas City, who, finding
during his preparatory work that he
was too short to meet the require
ments, which demand that those en-
tering the academy must be at least
five feet, two inches in height, under
went a stretching process in which a
specially devised machine figured.
Welsh gained the needed two inches.
Nothing extraordinary about that. Lots
of men have their legs pulled.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
want More For Carrying Mails.

W6M4 MUxc NUx O6KJFuB 1ue1kBs
St. Louis, July 27.-Unless the gov
eminent increases the rate for trans
portation OF the mail to % cents .
mile the United Railways Co. (street
& line) will terminate its contract
for carrying mails on streets cars.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04

Duluth, Mimi, July 28.-"Mack," q
water spaniel, owned by Mrs. Frank
Spindeck, saved two children from
Growing. He swan to struggling
children, aged I and II. end brought
them to shore.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
Crisis In Norway.

Crisis In NORWAY.
Stockholm, July 26.-The cabinet
has resigned.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
No Use for Philippines.

The question was put to Mr.. Sato rs
to any possibility or conflict with the
United States in the future, as sug-
gested by some of the American press
at the outbreak of the war, and Mr..
Sato asked what could bring about
such a conflict. When it was suggest
ed that Japan might covet the Philip
pine islands, he laughed heartily and
replied that Japan would not have the
Philippines as a gift, even though a
bonus accompanied the gift.
The Washington times., 1905-09-24
Winner Names Successor

For the facility of making a
choice, they have established rules
that a European government or a
former recipient of the prize must
nominate candidate for the peace
reward and must have his mana in
the hands of the committee by Feb
ruary /, before the day of decision.
Mr.. Roosevelt could not be consider
ed if this rule te adhered 70 until
December. 1906, and then there
would be some doubt about his ELI
sfbility as promoter OF peace in
the twelve months Immediately pre-
ceding December 10, 1906.
The first award was made in 1901
and was divided between DR.. Henry
Dunant, a noted Swiss physician
and founder of the Swiss Red Cross
Society, and NJ. Frederic Passy. of
Paris, founder CT the Universal Peace
Unicn. The next year, the commit
tee divided tie money again. be-
tween NJ. Ellie Ducommun. a Swiss
newspaper editor, who organized the
international Bureau of Peace. a
union of arbitration societies, and
NJ. Albert Gobat, who induced the
Swiss government 10 submit here
after all of its disagreements about
commercial treaties to The Hague
court. For the first time, in 1903
IL was given undivided, the winner
being an Englishman, William r.
Cremer, M. p, publisher of the Arbi-
traitor, of London. Each time the
choice was a man who had work
ed zealously, unselfishly for the
ideal of having all nations argue
their differences in an international
court of law and contract to abide
The Washington times., 1905-09-24
A Curious Coincidence

II is a coincidence well worth at
tention, too, that his act in bring
ing peace between Russia and
japan is the climax to the under
taking of Alfred Nobel in his life
time to hasten a day Of freedom
from strife or arms. The Norwe-
gian began his construction Of en-
gines of destruction of human life
by manufacturing submarines for
Russia. His ultimate ambition was
TO make the results of the use or
these instruments so sickening that
men would abandon war altogether.
In the course Of time. damage to
the Russian navy by submarine
mines did open the way to a land
struggle so horrifying in the des-
truction of human beings that the
world called: Stop" And the man
who did put an end to the slaughter.
who did bring peace out OF the re-
Voting conditions, which Alfred
Nobel hoped 20 quicken, was Theo-
dore Roosevelt
If word could be had from another
world of what Nobel himself wished.
it would not be surprising if the
message were Give it 10 RoOse-
velt.'
The Washington times., 1905-09-24
THE PLUTONIA FIRE

BY o. HENRY.

ard beat him on the back and called
him names-names hign up in the
galaxy of the immortals that We ad-
mired. And Petit yawned and beg
ged 10 be allowed to sleep.
On the morrow l dragged him to
an editor. The great man read, and,
rising, gave Petit his hand. That
was a decoration, a wreath Of bay
and a guarantee of rent.
And then old Petit smiled slowly
l call him Gentleman Petit to my
self. It's miserable name to give
man, but il sounds better than 1t
looks in print.
Il see," said old Pettit, as he took
up his story and began tearing It
into small strips, Il see the game
now. You can't write with ink, and
you can't write with your own
hearts blood, but you can write with
the hearts blood of some one else.
You have to be cad before you can
be an artist Well, | am for old Ala
BAN and the majors store. Have
you got a light, Old Hoss?"
went with Petit to the depot and
died hard
'Shakespeare's sonnets?" I blurt-
ed. making a last stand.
"A cad" said Petit. They give it
to ycu, and you sell it-love, you
know. I'd rather sell plows for
father"
But" protested. you are revers-
ing the decision OF the worlds great
est"
"Good-by. Old Hoss." said Petit.
Critics" ! continued. But. say
if the major can use a fairly good
salesman and bookkeeper down there
in the store, let me know, will your
The Washington times., 1905-09-24
Continued from Page Four)


New Hampshire, who was studying
applied design, fell deeply in love
with him. She was the intense sort,
but externally glace. such as New
ENGLAND sometimes fools US with.
Petit liked her mildly, and took her
about a good deal. She worshiped
him, and now and then bored him.
There care a climax when she
tried to Jump out of window, and
he had to save her by some perfume
tory. unmeant wooing. He wrongly
showed me some of the letters that
she wrote him every day. Even l
was shaken by the depths of the alb
sorbing affection she showed
Home. friends, traditions, creeds,
went up like thistle-down in the
scale against her love. 1t was real
ly discomposing-
One night again Petit sauntered
IN, yawning. AS ne had told me
before, ne. said he felt that he could
do the great story, and as before L
hunted him to his room and saw him
open his inkstand At l O'Clock the
sheets of paper slid under my door.
read that story, and | jumped up,
late as it wes, with whoop Of JOY.
Old Petit had done 1t Just as
though il lay there, red and bleeding,
4 woman's heart was written into
the lines. You couldn't see the join
ing. but art. exquisite art, and pulls
ing nature had been coTbined into q
love story that took you by the
throat like a quilZy. Bad illustra-
ticn, that I broke into Pettit's room
The Washington times., 1905-09-24

faithfully by the decision of the
judges.
2ut Theodore Roosevelt is no
dreamer of the realization of an
ideal He knows human nature
and he acts on not what our dispo-
sitions should be, but what they are.
In his last message to Congress, he
said:
IF these great civilized nations of
the present day should completely
disarm, the result would mean an
immediate recrudescence of barbar-
ism in one form or another. Under
any circumstances. sufficient
armament would have to be kept up
TO serve the purposes of interna-
tional police, and until international
cohesion and the sense of interna-
tional duties and rights are far more
advanced than at present, nation
The Washington times., 1905-09-24


life work was the contriving and
production of explosives and materi-
ais of war His father was an In
ventor of submarine torpedoes and
powders, and the son, with his bro
theirs. continued the business In
his native Norway, in Russia,
France, Italy, Scotland and Cali
fornia, he had factories for the
manufacture of dynamite and nitro
glycerin. When he died he left
behind him a sum of money larger
than nine millions of dollars. All
but a very small fraction of 1t he
willed to a fund for prizes for
achievment in promoting the peace
full Improvement of his fellows. in
cluding the advance of the "frater-
nifty of nations" The seeming con-
tradiction between the source and
the use of his money never wor-
ried him. Without a voice in doubt,
it is universally accepted, that in
the drawing of the will and the
devising of the peace prizes there
was no idea Of conscience money.
In the manufacture and work at
invention of chemical compositions
TO destroy in war. he held that he
was aiding peace by making war
such a slaughter that men would
turn away from 1t, repelled by the
sickening results. He aided war to
push 1t the more quickly to unen-
durable extremes. AS Mr.. Roosevelt
would fight for peace, Alfred Nobel
helped war for peace. Warrior
though the President has been and
to some extent is today, Nobel
would probably be pleased that the
prize should go to a man of his
own mold of mind
What the Norwegian provided in
his will about the prizes was this:
THE entire sum will be divided into
five equal parts, one to go to the
man who shall have made the most
important discovery or invention in
the domain of physical science; an
other to the man who shall have
made the most important discovery
or introduced the greatest improve
ment in chemistry; the third to the
author Of the most important dis
covery in the domain of physiology
or medicine; the fourth TO the man
who shall have produced the most
remarkable literary work of an
idealistic nature, and finally, the
fifth to the man who shall have
done the most or the best work fol
the fraternity of nations, the sup,
preston or reduction of standing
armies and the formation and pro
pogation OF peace congresses"
Each part, that is as the income o.
a large fund, averages $4,000 With
IL goes a medal bearing an effigy OF
the donor
The committee of judges is made
up OF five members of the Norwe
gian storthing or parliament. They
meet In October annually to choose
and on December 10, the date of the
death of Nobel, present the none,
and the medals. For their service:
they are each paid about 81 $50 /;
year.