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The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
Education for Prisoners.

Socrates advanced the theory that
crime is ignorance, and from his day
to this no one has been able TIC relute
il. The converse of the proposition
thai ignorance is crime-is indeed IL
Illustrated in every prison, and is really
the fundamental doctrine on when
compulsory education is based. Since
this is the case, observes Youths
Companion, it seems strange that no
general and whole-hearted effort mas
been made to educate the very per-
sons who most need educatlon-the
men and women who illustrate the
theory by being in confineemnt. 1t Is
q good sign that Superintendent Col-
Inns. of the prison department OF the
state of New York, has brought the
matter forward in his annual report
and that DR.. Andrew S. Draper, the
state commissioner of education, mas
announced his readiness to cooperate
with him. In the prisons OF NE"
York state there are always more lhah
900 conyicts who cannot even read or
write. An effort has been made 10
give them at least the rudiments OF an
education, but ii las been only on d
small scale. in desultory fashion, with
the aid of convict teachers. Yet the
results have been SO good tina, here
after the work will be carried on more
Systematically and more generously
by the state. Even the little that IL
has been possible to do has nae the
effect of increasing the reasoning pow
ers of the men, Of turning their
thoughts into better channels, and, Ill
general, of exercising a reformatory
influence. The movement is in ac-
cordance with other changes winch
SUPERINTENDENT Collins has introduced
all of them in the direction OF enllght-
ened and therefore Of humane treat
ment. The locks,ep and the close
cropping OF the hair have been apol-
ished. The striped suits, as
a precautionary measure against eS-
cape when prisons were less secure
and less well guarded, have given
place to neat uniforms of gray, which
impart a soldierly appearance to the
wearers. and breed a spirit CT self
respect and decercy. Such reforms as
these are the wisest as well as the kind
est philanthropy. So long as fortunes
are made out of what were once called
waste products" society cannot afford
to throw away all the precious human
material which finds its unhappy way
to prison.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
WHILE TRYING TO ESCAPE.
Lieut.. Francis Boone, Convicted by
Court Martial, SFot While
Trying to Escape.

Vancouver Barracks, Wash. March
16.-Lieut. Francis Boone, whose con-
viction by c~ourt-martial was made
public Tuesday, made a desperate at
tempt to escape from the barracks,
Wednesday, and was shot by sentries.
Two serious, though not necessarily
fatal, wounds were inflicted, n bull
let entering the head and another
piercing the shoulder. Boone is in a
debilitated state of health and blood
poisoning is feared. The attending
surgeons. however, express the opin-
ion that they will be able to save his
life. 1t is reported that Boone court
ed death at the hands of the sentries.
making a break for liberty to draw
their fire.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
BIG STORM IN CALIFORNIA
Thousands Of Dollars Worth of
Property Destroyed.
Telegraph and Telephone Com.
municatiOn Suspended and Traffic
Of All Kinds DemOralized.

Santa Barbara. Cal, March a.
Many thousand dollars worth of prop
cray was destroyed in this city by the
storm which has been in progress since
Saturday night. Telephone and tele-
graph communication with Los An
geles is entirely suspended. Every
vessel in the harbor was damaged on
Sunday, entailing a loss of SAC, 900.
The Pride, a gasoline schooner, vas
dashed to %splinters, and the yachts
Altene, Chispa, Belvedere and all the
fishing vessels met a similar fate.
Breakers 20 feet high pounded against
the newly-conStructed ocean boulevard
and washed away 900 yards. Railroad
traffic is entirely suspended. Six pas
senger trains are in the city, with no
prospects of moving for some time.
The steamer State of California, due
here Sunday afternoon, vas unable to
land, and proceeded to San Francisco.
Four inches of rain has fallen in sc
hours, and rain is still falling. The
northern end of the county reports
even worse conditions than here. AT
Santa Ynez the strong wind blew down
several barns and the roofs from
stores and residences. The mountain
streams and torrents are impossible.
The bridges are out between Ventura
and Saugus, and trains are stalled.
An earthquake Of severe proportions
is reported to have been felt at Santa
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
THEY GET THEIR MONEY BACK
subscribers to the Inauguration
Guarantee Fund VIII Have
Their Money Refunded.

Washington, March 16.-At what will
probably be the last meeting of the
inaugural committee. the report of
Chairman Glover, Of the finance COM
that after all the expenses of the in
augural committee, amounting to
about $50, 600, are paid, there will be
a surplus of $4,000, out of which will
be returned to the subscribers the
guarantee fund of $62,3S0. There were
100, 900 visitors in the city on March 4,
which is So, 900 greater than the crowd
at the last Mckinley Inauguration, and
between 10000 and $4,000 greater than
at the first Cleveland Inauguration.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
SUGAR KING FOUND DEAD.
The Passing Away of "a Boston MILL
i~Onnire Under circumstances EN-
b~arrassinG to His Family.

New York. March 16.-Henry r.
Reed, a millionaire sugar refiner OF
Boston, highly respected, a director in
a half a dozen corporations, and senior
member of the firm of Nash, S~paulding
& Co, Broad street commission mer-
chants, was found dead in his room
at the Grand Union hotel, under cir
cumstances that pointed at first to his
possible murder, then to his suicide
and last to death from natural causes.
There is even yet somewhat of mys-
terry in the case, and the police are
looking for a woman who accompanied
him to the hotel and was registered as
Mrs. Reed She was not Mrs. Reed.
She disappeared from the hotel, wheth-
er after his death or before, it is not
known.
The first known of Mr.. Reeds death
was when a chambemaid went to room
No. $50. She entered with a pass key,
and was startled to see Reeds body
lying upon the bed. DR.. Drury, OF
Bellevue, who was called, refused to
tdhe lHS MAJ l y INC AooPi1di, SoyAhS
that he had been dead several hours
probably eight.
The authorities profess to believe
that Reed died of heart failure, de-
spite the fiat assertions Of the family
physician to the contrary. Several de-
tectives have been assigned to the
case. The chief efforts will be direct
ed toward the solution of the mystery
of the oma in black who posed as
Mrs. Reed"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
JAPANESE TROOPS
OCCUPY TIE PASS
Their Seeming Inactivity Was Only
Temporary.
JUST GETTING THEIR BREATH
The Report, Which il Lacking I'm De-
tails, Would Indicate That Oya-
mn Has Been InduISing ia
Strategy Again.

NEW CHWANG, MARCH 16.-AT
MIDNIGHT or WEDNESDAY THE
JAPANESE OCCUPIED TIE PASS.
NOTHING OF A DEFINITE CHAR
ACTER, BEYOND THE MERE AN
SOUNCEMENT OF THE VICTORY,
HAS BEEN RECEIVED HERE.
IT is REPORTED THAI THE
ACHIEVEMENT WAS ACCOM-
PLIsfEED BY ANOTHER DISPLAY OF
THE BRILLIANT STRATEGY THAT
HAS BROUGHT FIELD MARSHAL
oYAMA INTO UBTIC VIEW AS ONE
OF THE GREATEST MILITARY
COMMANDERS IN THE WORLDS
HISTORY.
ACCORDING TO THIS REPORT, THE
BATTLE on TUESDAY, SOUTH OF
TIE PASS, HERALDED BY THE RUS
SLAMS AS A VICTORY FOR GEN.
MIsTCHENKO'S CORPS, AND IN
WHICH 1000 JAPANESE ARE SAID
TO HAVE BEEN LEFT DEAD ON II
FIELD, WAS MERELY a DEMON
sTR ALTON TO ATTR ACT ATTENTION
FROM ~ ENEMY IN FORCE
WHILE THE BULK OF THE RUSSIAN
FIGHTING FORCE WAS THUS DRAWN
TO TIE SOUTH. A FLAMING ARMY
ASSAULTED THE MAIN POSITION
FROM THE NORTH AND SWEPT
DOWN TIE COMPAR &TivELY WEAK
OPPOSITION.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
OF ARMY
IN MANCHUR|A
Much Anxiety Felt in St. Petersburg
in the Absence of News.
GEN. LINEVlTCH IN COMMAND
The Latter Expected to Have n Com
siderable Accession of Troops
in "a Day or Two, which Are
Leaving Harbin.

st. Petersburg. March IS, 1850 a. m.
decided anxiety is felt regarding the
fate of The army in Manchuria under
its new commander, no news of mill
tary developments during the last two
days having been received.
Dispatches Are Lacking.
The only dispatches from the front
are the brief announcements that
Gen. Linevitch had assumed command
and that Gen. Kuropatkin was depart
ing for St. Petersburg, d%isposing of a
rumor that Kuropatkin had committed
suicide. and the press Changtufu
dispatch filed the morning Of March
16. and written at the station Of Kai-
yuan. which was then held by the
Russians. In this correspondents
opinion. no u in the japanese adj
vance is probable for I'M time. The
Russians are losing heavily in the
rear guard actions. and Japanese col
umns are reported 10 be pushing
northward as fast as possible to COM
plete the development Of the Russian
forces.
Reinforcements for Lincvitch.
Gen. Linevitch will have a conSid-
cradle accession of fresh troops in a
day or two. the Fourth European
corps being now at Hardin and de-
parting southwark. Military officers
declare that there are now 26S,00O
men at Gen. Linevitch's disposal in
Manchuria, and it is believed that this
force will be sufficient to cause the
japanese to exercise greater caution
in their pursuit.
To Prepare for New LcYics.
Prince Hilkoff, who Will leave St.
Petersburg soon TO prepare the ST
berian railway for forwarding the new
leyies which have been determined on,
said there had been nc breakdown as
yet. and that he hoped as soOn as nav
| igatiop opened It would be possible &c
transport o%ne-fourth Of the outgoing
soldiers by the rivers and relieve tho
railroad to that extent.
sympathy fGr NuropatItin.
Although Gen. Kuropatk:n'S down
fall was inevitable from a military
SI|d0GDCIut, II ttTOuSSS SyLIpdtAS III I'll
cles familiar with the long campaign
that has been waged against him by
the general staff. Gen. Saihacof was
his open enemy and Gen. Dragomiroft
his most severe critic. and many of his
own su~bordinaJes were jealous and
grudginely obedient. Many epigrams
about Gen. Kuropatkin's shortcomings
are attributed to Gen. DragOmiroff.
and the suppression OF the former at
such a critical moment is directly at
tributed to DraGomiroff's advice, En-
peror Nicholas now giving ear to the
veteran strategist in military affairs.
Lfnevitch is Handicapped.
Gen. Lineyitch is distinctly a line
officer. with a long record as a fighter.
He is almost as cordially disliked by
the general staff as is his predecessor.
and there is also bad blood between
Kuropatkin and ~Lineyitch, dating
from a personal quarrel in the days
when kuropatkin vas commander o
the traps-Baikal.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
THE SIMPLE LIFE.
Ways That Are Pleasant and Paths
That Are Peace.

1t is the simple life that gives length
of days, serenity of mind and body
and tranquility of soul.
Simple hopes and ambitions, bound
ed by the desire to do good to ones
%neighbors, simple pleasures, habits,
food and drink.
Men die long before their time be-
cause they try to crowd too much into
their experiences-they climb too high
and fall too hard. A wise woman
writes of the good that a simple diet
has done her:
81 have been using Grape-Nuts for
about six months. l began rather
sparingly, until l acquired such a lik-
ing for it that for the last three
months l have depended upon it al
most entirely for my diet, eating moth
ing else whatever, but Grape-Nuts for
breakfast and supper, and I believe l
could eat it for dinner with fruit and
be satisfied without other food, and
feel much better and have more
strength to do my housework.
When l began the use of Grape
Nuts was thin and weak, my muscles
were so soft that l was not able to do
any work. / weighed only 10S pounds.
Nothing that | ate did me any good.
| was going down hill rapidly, was
nervous and miserable, with no ambi-
ton for anything. My condition inn
proved rapidly after / began to eat
Grape-Nuts food. 1t made me feel like
a new woman; my muscles got solid,
my figure rounded out, my weight in
creased to 1926 pounds in a few weeks,
my nerves grew steady and my mind
better and clearer. My friends tell
me they haven't seer me look so we'll
for years.
Il consider Grape-Nuts the best food
on the market, and shall never go
back to meats and white bread again.
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Look in each pkg. for the little
book, "The Road to MELVILLE"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
TORTURE
PAIN SUFFERED BY MIR. MARST0N
AS GREAT AS MORTAL CAN STAND.
For Six Months He Could Not Turn In
Bed-He Tells of n Remedy Which
Has Given Perfect Relief.

For Blk MOntns lit ouiu ~ VII
Bed-He Tells of n Remedy Which ..
Has Given Perfect Relief.
The case of Mr.. Marston shows that
sciatica can be cured, and no one afflicted
by it should allow himself to be dis
heartened. He was first stricken about a
year ago, and for six months he suffered
pain which he thinks the most intense
that any man could possibly stand.
Asked about the details of his remark
able recovery, Mr.. Marston gave the fol-
lowing account: al was attacked by q
numbness or dull feeling just back of my
right hip. / didn't know what the mat
ter was, but thought it was simply a
stiffness that would wear away i'll a
short time. 1t didn't, however, and
soon the pain became SO very bad that
every step was torture for me. When I
finally succeeded i'll getting home, it was
lust as much as I could do to reach my
room and get to bed.
1.-THE doctor was sent for, and when he
had examined me he said | had sciatica.
He prescribed for me, and advised me not
to try to leave my bed. The advice was
unnecessary for L couldn't get out of
bed if / wanted to. 1t was impossible for
me to turn from one side to the other.
The moment I attempted to move any
part Of my body, the pain became so X
cruciating that I would have to lie per-
fectly motionless.
81 suffered this torture for six months
without getting any relief. Then l dis
charged the doctor, and on the advice Of
a friend I bought q box of DR.. Williams
Pink Pills and began to take them, three
at a dose, three times a day. l was de-
termined to give them a thorough trial.
1.-TWO months after I began to use
them I was able to leave my bed and
walk about the house, and amonth later
I was entirely cured and able TO go about
my work as usual. Think DR.. Williams
Pink Pills are the best medicine L ever
used, and I heartily recommend them to
anyone who suffers from sciatica."
Mr.. Marston is a prosperous farmer
and nay be reached by mail addressed
to Charles P. Marston, Hampton P. o.,
New Hampshire. DR.. Williams Pink
Pills have cured other painful nervous
disorders, such as neuralgia, partial par.
alvsis and locOmotor ataxia. They are
sold by all druggists.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
WINS q Last Resnrf.

London, March 18.-A Times St. Pe-
tersburg dispatch says: Gen. Line
vitch's appointment to succeed Gen.
moment, because all the generals En-
perez Nicholas consulted, including
Grand Duke Nicholas, Soukhomlinoff,
Grodekoff and Roop declined to as
sumo the heavy burden"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
Too Much Heat.

The commission appointed to ascer-
tain the causes of the prevalence of so
much pneumonia in New York reports
that the overheating of dwellings is re-
sponsible for many cases of the disease.
1t is found that a large percentage OF
deaths from pneumonia last month oc-
Cured among people who lived in lux
uriously warm apartment houses. DR..
Dudley A. Sargent, of Harvard univer-
sity, estimates that 40 per cent. OF the
total mortality in the United States is
caused by overheating.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
POINTS ABOUT o P

Many English newspapers. includ-
ing the London Spectator speak of
President Roosevelt as a "whig."
Rear Admiral Coghlan, in command
of the Brooklyn navy yard, is 60, and
has four years yet to serve before re-
tirement.
United States Senator-elect George S.
Nixon, of Nevada, now many times a
millionaire, was a telegraph operator 26
years ago.
A Chicago woman, Miss Nellie Car
lin, attorney, is under the heaviest bonds
of any living woman. They total the i'm
mense sum of 5 .40O. coo.
The French government has bestowed
the decoration Palmes Academiques on
Miss Frances Johnston, of Washing
ton, D. C. But one other American
oma has been honored II this way.
Mrs. Matilda A. Pereau, of Nashua, N.
H, IS years old, has Is children, SO
grandchildren, and 6S great-grandchil-
dren. Thirty of her descendants voted
for President Roosevelt on November
s last.
James H. Wolff, a negro, who has
been elected commander of the Massa-
chusetts Grand Army Of the Republic,
is the first colored man chosen to that
high Office. He is a graduate of Dart
mouth college and the Harvard law
school, and has practiced law in Bos-
ton for some years.
Mrs. fairbanks, wife of the vice pres
ident, holds three collegiate degrees.
She graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan
university at Delaware, o., in 1872, in
the same class with her husband. She
at once began the study Of law, also
with her husband as a classmate. She
received the degree of bachelor of laws
and afterward took a full course of
international and parliamentary law.
During the infancy of her children Mrs.
Fairbanks studied medicine.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
BANKER FINDS HIS CHILD.
After Years Of Searching, He Finds
Her Working In u Laundry
In Kansas.

Parsons, Kas., March 14.-E. F.
Woodward, a Denver banker, found
his daughter, of whom he has had no
trace for 10 years.
Woodward and his wife separated Is
years ago, and the child was given to
the mother by the courts. Later, the
mother married a man named Lang
don, and as the child was known by
that name the father could not locate
her.
BY chance the banker found his
daughter and former wife. The girl
was working in a laundry. She will
return to Denver with him.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
Paid Sunday Schools.

10000
Is the time coming when Sunday
school teachers will be paid as other
teachers are? And will the parents OF
scholars pay a small tuition fee for
them? The question is not an idle one,
for the paid Sunday school is already
being taken into active consideration,
and is more than a possibility. In a
way, the experiment already has been
tried. Up in Teachers college, Column
bia university, New York city, there
is paid Sunday school, and has been
for some little time past. What is
more. the plan has worked capitally.
The scholars pay, and there is a regu-
lar course of instruction, just as in a
day school. So much more is learned
than in the ordinary Sunday school
that the application of the idea to par
ish Sunday schools is being seriously
considered. Year by year Sunday
school teachers are becoming more diff
ficult to get. 1t used to be that good
teachers were rare and the best avail
able, no matter how inferior. must be
taken. Now. any candidate is eagerly
welcomed, and in most Sunday schools
the supply is never large enough to go
around. A new interest has suddenly
been aroused in Sunday schools. Over
the country they are being taken up
and put OF a very practical plane.
This is known to-day in religious work
as the forward movement" The aim
of this movement is to make the Sun
day school as effective and as thorough
in its teaching as is the day school.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24

The work of irrigating arid or part
Nv arid lands in the United States is
being carried on to an extent which
is very impressive. Not only is it pro-
ceeding rapidly under the supervision
of the national government, but pri-
yate enterprise is doing a great deal
in the same direction. An official
statement made at Washington shows
that the total area in this country ir-
rigated by private effort is 9,5O0,0Oo
acres, at a cost of s200, 900, 900. This
means a vast region made capable Of
profitable cultivation.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
MIR. LITTLE HEARD FROM.

He CabIed His Paper Direct From
on Tuesday.
Chicago, March 16.-Mr. Little ca
bled direct from Yinkow. Tuesday, to
the Chicago Daily News. He said he
had been captured by the Japanese
and was being taken to Kobe. The ca
blegram contained references which
demonstrated that the message was
from Mr.. Little personally, and that he
was alive and well. Yinkow is the
seaport of New Chwang, and is the
place where Little would naturally be
taken en- route to Japan.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
Three Yaaui Indians killed.

Culican, Mexico, March 14.-The
band of Yaqui Indians who recently
held up and robbed the MazatIan stage
of $4,000 were overtaken near Tecu-
ala by a force of rural police. In the
fight that ensued three of the Indians
were killed and two were captured.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
TO Command at VIadivostok.

St. Petersburg, March 18.-Gen.
Kazibee has been appointed comman-
der-in-ch;ef of the forces at Vladivos-
tok. M. Bobrirsky succeeds Count
Vorontsoff Dashkoff as president of
the organizing committee Of the Red
Cross society.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
Mnx Delax Adiournment.

Washington, March 1S.-It is thought
the desire of the president and the H.
linois senators. to have the judicial
nominations in that state made and
confirmed may delay final adjourn
ment of the senate.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
SCENES OF DISCRIMINATION.
DemoraIized Condition of Affair
Re4yyeen TIE Pass and Hardin.

beGvESeH kGe RlNs IA
Paris. March 1S.-The correspondent
of the Matin at Hardin telegraphs a
description OF the scenes of d~isorgan-
ization witnessed during the railroad
journey from Tie pas to Darbin. The
wounded, the correspondent says, were
lying exposed and unJtended every
where. and the soldiers were unable
to obtain provisions. Hundreds Of
stragglers can not find their regi-
The trains fastening to Har-
lin were occasionally attacked by Chi
ese bandits, who at several places
isplaced rails. The correspondent
adds that Russian officers are indig-
lant, saying that the retreat was or
dered when the positions at Tie pass
were still tenable.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
Fatal Shootin. mt Deadwood.

Deadwood, S. D., March 14.-Richard
Calvin, a mining man here, was IA
tally shot, Monday, by E. P. Farm
ham, formerly postmaster at Central
City, now general manager of the
ham is alleged to have shot in self-de-
SenSp
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
Not Very Much Left.

Monroe, ILL.,, March 16.-Fire here
destroyed four residences, entailing a
loss of $4,000. The blaze is thought
to have been Of incendiary origin.
Last week all stores in the town were
burned.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
Famous Pacing stallion Dead.

New York, March 16.-Direct, 2:05A,
formerly the champion pacing stallion
and sire of many grand circuit win
ners, dropped dead of rupture of the
heart at Eastview, James Buffers
stock farm. He was valued at about
$50. 900.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
Withdrawn From Hi. Mission.

Rome, March flowing to COM
plants which have been received here,
the vatican has withdrawn from Mgr.
Broderick, auxiliary bishop of Hanava,
the mission intrusted to him to urge
the American bishops to increase the
collection of Peters Pence.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
Bomb Exploded, Nobody Hurt.

London, March 18.-A dispatch from
st. Petersburg to a news agency re-
ports that late last night a bomb ex-
ploded or the tramway line close to
the residence OF M. Pobiedonosteff, the
p~rocurator general of the holy synod.
Nobody was injured.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
Mrs. Lawrence Dies On Train.

New Orleans, March 14.-Mrs. Mary
Lawrence, widow of the late Rheuna
D. Lawrence, former mayor of SPRING
field, ILL.,, died suddenly on a train
while en- route from Jacksonville, Fla,
to here.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
conscience Fund sweIIed.

Washington, March 16.-In an en-
velope bearing the pcstmark of Jersey
City, the secretary of the treasury re-
ceived a conscience contribution OF
s12, 900. An inclosed communication
was signed Sinner"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
Farmer KILLED by Cars.

Virden, ILL.,, March 14.-William A.
Gibson, so years old, a stock raiser,
Eve miles north of this city, was killed
by a car Of the Illinois Traction Co.
at a late hour at night
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24

A mule has died at Mountbrien, Coun-
ty Tipperary, Ireland, at the age of So.
For As years it made two journeys a
day, with milk, to Tipperary, which is
three miles from Mountbrien.