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The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27
AWKWARD DINING IN JAPAN
The First Meal Partaken Of by an
American There Is Sure to
Be Trying.

If it's your first Japanese dinner you're
having a dreadfully hard time. In the
first place, writes Bertha Runkle, in
Child Life in China and Japan you
must sit on the floor, for they don't have
any chairs in Japan. You kneel down,
and then you turn your toes in till one
laps over the other, and then you sit
back between your heels. At first you
are quite proud to find how we'll you do
it, and you don't think it's so very I'M
comfortable. But pretty soon you get
cramped and your legs ache as if you
had a toothache in them. You don't say
anything, because you think that If the
Japanese can sit this way all day long,
you ought to be able to stand it a few
minutes Finally both you feet go to sleep
and then you can't bear it a moment lon
ger, and you have to get up and stamp
round the room to lrive the prickles out
of your feet, and all the dancing girls
giggle at you. This isn't your only trou-
BILE, either. All you have to eat with is
pair of chopsticks, and you're in terror
lest you spill something on the dainty
japanese house isn't just the floor; it's
the chairs and sofas and tables and beds
as well. At home it would be mortify-
ing enough to go out to dinner and spill
something on the floor; but in Japan,
where people sit and sleep on the floor,
it seems even worse So you are unhappy
till your little nesan (who is the waitress,
and almost as prettily dressed as the
dancing girls, but not quite) comes
laughing to your aid, and shows you how
to hold your chop-sticks. After that you
manage nicely the rice and the omelet,
but the fish and the chicken you can't
contrive to shred apart without drop
ping your chop-sticks all the time. SO.
between dances, the maiko-little girls
about II years old-kneel down beside
you and help you. They can't keep from
eiggling at your awllwardness; but you
don't mind-you just giggle too; and
everybody giggles and has lovely
time.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27

says they do not call to the front
fathers of families. That is only writ
ten for you of Europe and America.
They take widowers with large families
of small children. One of these men,
called to the service, hung his three
small children and reported the fact to
the military authorities There was no
one with whom to leave them.
Another, called to the ranks on the
day of the death of his wife, who left
him a two-year- old baby and a new
born infant, took an ak and killed the
children and placed them in the coffin
with their mother. Another man when
called to the army killed his wife, his
children and himself.
! Groans of Agony.
We see it all at close range. We hear
the means Of agony, we see the misery
and oppression of the people, and We are
told that the war is going to last long,
very long.
How many graves, then, does the
| car demand? The cars governmel-
asserts that he has enough wretched
victims to exhaust the accumulation OF
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27
A NEW-STYLE CASKET.
An Innovation Which Does Away
with the Uncomfortable
Appearing Coffin.

1t is not so much what you pay for,
nor what you pay, but what you get
that needs your attention in the selec-
ton of casket, for the genius of the
twentieth century has been just as busy
in the way of funeral furnishings as in
other lines, until to-day the styles Of
caskets are quite different from what
they were fifty years ago and changing
every day.
This is especially true in Metallic
Caskets, the old style heavy cast iron
goods having given away to the more
up-to-date copper Innings which are
neatly fitted into the best grades Of
vanished or cloth covered work.
One of the latest designs as recently
brought out by the National Casket Co..
is what is designated as Couch
Casket, which has the appearance OF
a comfortable couch when open, yet re-
tains all the requisite outlines Of the
best styles in regular casket work when
closed.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27

massacred in order to protect their
monetary speculations, forests, lands,
mines and railroad grants.
1t is false that defenders not Of the
country but of forcibly annexed lands
so to death eagerly and die in the ecstasy
of patriotism.
In the first lines of battle are placed
not Russians but peoples prosecuted by
the Russians-PCles, Jews, Finlanders.
Our brother Poles constituted 40 per
cent of the first Manchurian army.
Amid the groans and prayers of the
dying, our Polish tongue was heard on
all the bloody battlefields. 1t filled the
darkened earth with curses for the per
petrator of this devastation.
Opposed to the War.
1t is false that voluntary cOntribu-
lions are given by the Poles. These
voluntary contributions" are deducted
from the salaries of officials without
their consent or obtained from citizens
by threats. They knew the money
would disappear into the pockets of Of
fetal thieves who fattened on the hard
earnings of the Russian people. To-day
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27
BEHEAD FAILING BANKERS.
Summary Treatment of Chinese FL
nanciers Who Are Unsuccess-
full in Business.

Col. II. O. S. Hestand, assistant adj
jutant general, U. S. A., has, locked up
in his safe at department headquarters
on Governors Island, Chinese bank
note, only one other of which is known
to be in existence That other one is
in the possession of the British museum.
The bank note which is guarded so
zealously by Col. Heistand is more than
Is inches long, very nearly a foot in
width, and is gray and crumbing with
age. The good quality Of the ink used
by the Chinese is evidenced by the
clearness of the characters, considering
that the note was printed In 1401 A. d.,
Or nearly 100 years before Columbus set
foot on the shores of America.
This ancient specimen of John China
mans banking efforts was secured by
Col. Heistand during the occupation OF
Picking by the foreign troops in 1900.
when he was chief of staff of the Amer
lean forces in China. The bank note is
an accurate proof of the antiquity OF
certain customs which are in vogue to
some extent throughout the civilized
ing to make an egg stand ON end and to
prove that the earth was round, the
Chinese were printing newspapers.
They had banking laws and were versed
in philosophy and science to degree
that far exceeded the knowledge of the
discoverers of the new world.
The custom bequeathed to present day
civilization is that of burying in the
corner stone of public buildings and
places of worship coins of the nation
The bank note secured by Col. Heistand
was found in the stomach OF Buddha
idol which was thrown down and broken
at the time of the fire in the summer
palace in Picking, during the occupation
of the city by the foreign troops.
The note came into his possession
intact together with specimens of all
other forms of Chinese currency. The
bank note was taken to the leading Chi
nese scholars of the empire. who identi-
fed it and assured him of its anthem
ITCHY. 1t is a treasury note issued by
the Chinese board of revenue during the
reign of Hung WI. in 1401 A. D., the first
emperor of the Wing dynasty. Similar
notes were then in general circulation
and were equivalent in value to 1000
Chinese pennies, one tael or one ounce
of pure silver.
The laws against counterfeiting in
China are much more severe than in
Uncle Sans domain, and while the bank
notes were in circulation Hung WI, who
must have been a strenuous monarch,
authorized the Chinese board of revenue
to behead him who should counterfeit
note and to reward with $50 taels any
person who should arrest the counter
feiter
Chinese banking laws are all severe,
but, according to Chinese savants, the
end has justified the means employed to
keep the nation free of ''frenzied
finance" When a bank fails in China all
the clerks and managers have their
heads cut off and thrown among the
books of the firm. which are set on fire
AS a result of this penalty for over 100
years a bank has never been known to
fail.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27
TOLD OF BALDHEADED MEN
They Want More Hair Cuts Than
Men with Hair, Says a
Barber.

The secretive, taciturn barber was
finally induced to talk, says the Frovi-
dence Journal He remarked: I've no.
ticed one popularity about my CUSTOM
ers that | could never quite explain.
The less hair man has the more at
tention he pays to it.
There's real estate agent who
comes in here nearly every week for a
hair cut, and if shaved him clean from
the back Of his collar to his forehead
you'd never know that I'd touched him.
He's got a short, light cOlored fringe,
that plays around under the rim of his
hat, like the soft, fluffy fringe you see
on those shawls the women wear over
their shoulders, but you'd think to hear
him that he could braid it and do it up
in coils Wants me to be particular and
trim it close on the neck and around tho
ears | humor him, of course. take
a handful of somebody else's hair and
sprinkle it on the cloth put on him and
then l snip the air gently for ten or 10
minutes and make a great ado when /
whisk him off.
"And when he leaves the chair and
says he mustn't fet it grow SO long again
| say it was pretty long. | hope the
Lord will forgive me. Nine out of every
ten of the bald heads are that way, but
men who've got plenty of hair will keep
away from here until they look like the
edges of an old-fashioned hayloft It's
curious and. as | said, l never could &C
count for it,
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27

The especial advantage of the Couch
Casket is found in it's relief from that
stiffness usually noted in all other de-
signs, and impressing the minds of the
friends as we'll as that Of the family
with feeling Of peace and restfulness
not known before.
II it is desired to retain all of the
preservation qualities as found in the
copper Innings, the Couch Casket can
be enclosed in a metal lined outside
box, which will then answer the double
purpose of preserving both the casket
as we'll as the remains.
All undertakers in the south should
be in position to furnish these latest
improved goods, as the National Casket
Co.'s large plant at Nashville, Tenn,
has been especially fitted up for fur
nishing them on short notice, and large
sales already proves that their efforts
are being appreciated by the best class
Of people everywhere.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27
NAVAL ALLIANCE SUGGESTED
English Officer Sees Move of Economy
in Combine of John Bull and
Uncle Sam.

In Il years the naval expenditure OF
the United States has trebled, while that
OF Great Britain has doubled, and under
existing conditions The international
rivalry for supremacy on the sea Dlds
fair to necessitate still further increase
in the annual outlay on the manufacture
Of fighting ships. Lieut. Carlyon Bel
lairs, of the royal navy, says the North
American Review, proposes an arrange
ment between Great Britain and the
United States which would enable both
countries to effect vast economies by
curtailing their annual naval output,
without impairing in any degree the
guarantee of their national or imperial
interests which their navies are in
tended TO provide.
These patrons have no interests which
conflict in any material way, their pol
icies are identical and neither power
can be successfully attacked except from
the sea. Should they jointly agree to
come to each others assistance in tho
event of either power being threatened
by a coalition of three maritime pow
ers. they could each afford to reduce the
rate at which, as matters stand. they are
compelled to add yearly to the strength
of their respective navies Says Lieut..
Bellairs:
THAT population and riches are no
match in war against such careful Or
ganization, we have seen in the case of
Russia 1t is only the knowledge that
the sea barrier is impenetrable which
will effectually prevent the expanding
Teutonic, Slavonic and Latin races OF
Europe from contemplating aggression
on the American continent Ii unable
to do so singly. nothing but sea power
will prevent them from trying to effect
their purpose in combination. They
have combined in the past for the parti-
ton of Poland. By the Russian declara-
ton of February 26. $780, Russia,
France, Spain. Holland. Prussia. Sweden
and Denmark combined to resist the
right of search. and the same powers
were acting together against Great Brit
ain over this question in 1900.
''In 1907 Great Britain had to break
Napoleon's compulsory alliance. framed
by the treaty of Tilsit. by Selling IS
Danish and eight Portuguese battle
ships and by blockading the Russian
battleships Thus fresh union of over
140 battleships was nipped in the bud,
but such decisive action could not have
been taken had not Great Britain been
in the plenitude of her naval strength
with 212 battleships. We learn that
within a period of q years there were
three European alliances of three or
more great powers against Great Britain
and all were broken up by the operation
of sea power"
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27

should escape the vigilance OF the Rus
sian army and police. but the precau-
lions would have all proven fruitless
had it not been for his own powers or
endurance. his determination TO escape
military service for hated ruler and
the assistance of devoted wife, who
managed to throw the officers OFF the
scent until her husband should be well
over the Austrian boundary.
The sealed rubber package carried by
MaZuroWski on that night contained
message to the newspapers of America
which they were asked to give TO the
mothers of America 1t tells of present
conditions in stricken Poland; of huS-
bands ordered to the front, who, rather
than leave their families to suffer, kill
them before joining their regiments; of
lovers, who, rather than leave their
sweethearts to become the prey of
Hcentious army officers, kill them and
then themselves. 1t tells of conditions
so revolving and so terrible that it IS
almost impossible for the enlightened
people of this free land to believe them,
and yet this noble Polish woman asserts
they are true.
The Appeal.
Her letter to American mothers is as
follows:
When several years ago, at the wish
of Gar Nicholas H., the first peace
conference gathered at The Hague, it
was received by the friends of humanl-
ty with applause. 1t seemed to herald
the dawn of new era. We Poles alone
knew that the whole project of Mura-
vieff was a fabrication to mislead the
civilized nations. The car announced
peace, but in his own land there was
no cessation of strife. At the time OF
the conference half the provinces were
under martial rule; and now, while a
second conference is about to take place
not this time on the initiative of a
despot but of an elected leader of the
American people-Russia unmasked, is
conducting in the far east such devas-
tating, unnecessary war as is unparal-
leled in history,
1t is not war; it is massacre! All
scientific and technical progress intend
ed for the increase of the power OF the
human race is being used for the work
of devastation. A hail of bullets COW
ers whole regiments Battlefields are
30 thickly streWn that it is necessary
to burn the bodies or to place the dying
and the dead in one grave. New regi-
ments of victims crowd from all portions
of that great country which Russia
claims, to hail, by order of their SUI
periors, the 'peace-loving car
1t is said that the government of the
car did not wish this war. No, it was
not war that was desired, but new pos
sessions! Therefore it preached dis
armament to deceive your alertness,
that il need not fear foreign ornaments.
The Gear, Not Russia.
The Russian government, you must
not forget, governs unchecked by the
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27
A Southern Judge Cured
COLLECTION OF ORR KIDS.
A Bunch That Must Have Impressed
the Naturalist as Being Elk
ceedingly Fine.

One of the stories John Burroughs, the
aged naturalist, loves to tell has to do with
a friend of his named Orr, says the New
York Press. On one of his trips Mr.. Bur
roughs happened to be in the town where
Mr. Orr lives. Meeting him in the street
Mr. Burroughs insisted that his friend
should accompany HIM to the hotel for
luncheon. AS they We're eating AIR. Bur
roughs inquired if his friend was not in
terested in any speciality.
Il think" said the naturalist, every
man ought to have collection of some
kind 1t adds zest to life"
oh, yes" said his friend. Il have quite
a collection. | am interested IN flowers.
Come home with me and I'll show them
to you"
As they approached the Orr home six
fine, healthy children. playing on the lawn,
ran to meet their father.
These" said Mr. Orr, with twinkle in
his eye, form my collection OF orchids.
Amt they grand specimens"
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27

New York.-On dark, stormy
night in October Stanislaus Mazurowski
left his humble home in southern Po-
land and swan the Vistula river near
Sandomiera, on the border between
Russia and Austria In this manner he
escaped military service in the Russian
army in Manchuria, and started on his
long journey to America.
Concealed in tightly sealed rubber
case Mazurowski carried with him a
letter to the American people from a
Polish woman of noble birth. His cap
ture with that letter in his possession
would have meant death not only to
himself as a deserter, but death also to
the fair woman for whom he was act
ing as messenger. Knowing this, every
possible precaution was taken that he
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27

its vitals. You now see only defeats
on land and sea: we look upon mis-
cry that brushes millions.
1t is not enough that our brothers are
perishing by thousands in foreign
land, paying with their blood for the
perfidy of that government which tore
from them their freedom and their
fatherland. Our people are brought to
the last stage of misery. Tens of thou
sands without work-fathers who can
not feed their children-walk the streets
of Warsaw and LODI.
Yet there is not enough misfortune
Mobilization is announced Another
10000 victims are drafted from Poland
the land of graves and crosses.
Savage Despair.
You cannot imagine the savage de-
spair which overpowers the masses torn
from the pillow, from the hearth, from
wife and children. IF we are going to
perish, let us perish in Our own country!
Let us die by the hands of those who
are our enemies!" is the cry of the re-
serves. ''The very stones cry out when
they take us. They clamor to the peo-
pie of Warsaw We are not going to de-
fend Russia. Our country is here!"
You do not know that women throw
themselves under the wheels of the
trains that carry their relations to the
far east; that cases of sudden death
and madness occur every day; that in
Pultusk, Czanstochowa and Lodz, SOL
diers fired into the people and killed
many. In Gostynin, when the order was
given to decimate the resisting reserves,
the colonel, Dzwonkowski, a Pole, shot
himself in front of his regiment
In Kutnow the women, maddened
with despair, threw themselves upon the
Russian officers, then knelt upon the
tracks, raising their hands and calling
the vengeance of Heaven upon the car.
The Russian government lies when it
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27

bicycle or run over by a cab. To your
house comes a seedy Individual, who
tells you that he saw the accident and is
prepared, for a consideration, to give
evidence on your behalf in court OF
law touching the responsibility Of the
cabman or the bicyclist. He has recon
structed the scene," in his own imagin-
alton, and warmed b. his eloquence and
his graphic details, you begin to imagine
yourself the most injured of mortals.
Touched by his enthusiasm for your case.
you give him something for his trouble,
and arrange for his attendance at the
case. But the a;truism Of your visitor
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27

japanese bullets and grenades, to strew
the valleys of Manchuria and fill the
mountain passes; that he must be vic
torious regardless of cost.
A Polish woman protests against this
Ubiquitous determination. She calls not
in the name Of a clique or party, but
in the name of those peasant women
who threw themselves under the car
wheels; in the name of those mothers
who with their little children are thrust
helpless into the streets; in the name of
those who suffer, weep and curse.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27
POLISH PEASANTS FORCED TO FIGHT
FOR A HATED RULER.
SOLDIERS KILL THEIR FAMILIES
Rather Than Leave Them to Fate Worse
Than Death, Fathers and Lovers Murder
Their Loved Ones Before Leaving for the
Front-Stirring Appeal OF a Polish Woman
to All American Mothers. :

people. 1t is untrue that the govern
ment of the car is Russia. That gov
eminent never receives the sanction and
mandate of the people. The government
acts, Russia is silent. 1t is false that
Russia is Russia. Russia is Poland, Fin
land, Lithuania, Armenia, Georgia
Russians are Tartars, Kurds, Yakuts
and other peoples harnessed under the
yoke of despotism.
1t is false that necessity compels Rus
STA to the war The moral necessity was
to eyacuate Manchuria at time set by
herself. 1t is false that the interests OF
Russia required a further occupation.
Not the interest of the people is here
at stake. but the interest of a handful
of titled and untitled parasites, who
send the people to massacre and to be
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27

the Russian papers report that hero
who received a decoration for courage
on the battlefield had not even shirt
on which to pin the symbol. 1t is false
that the injured rise from their beds
and rush into the lires eager to fight
again. The injured have no beds; the
moneys appropriated for the purpose are
stolen.
We knew all this loI e before you did.
You saw only the immense empire
which haughtily spread over two hem
ispheres; we saw the vermin gnawing
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27

A wretched- looking man, long and
lean, was charged the other day before
the Tribunal Correctionnel with being
a vagabond, says the London Pail Mall
Gazette. He was asked what his occu-
patton was and replied: Il pose for
obesity" The magistrate was mysti-
fed and the prisoner proceeded to ex-
plain. He had been employed by q
chemist who sold 'santifat" to pose for
his picture of before" and latter" treat
ment. For the first picture he wore
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27

Your homes are not surrounded by
gendarmes and spies. You can move
the eonsciences of your brothers; you
can demand that they put an end to
this horrible massacre, which sets on
the twentieth century in its infancy a
brand of shame
If you will not do this, if our voice
rouses no response, then there are no
silent, unpeopled desert, on which
hyenas dwell. Then the proposed con-
gress of peace is, like the first, per-
fidious comedy, a proclamation, deri-
sion of the untold misery of a wretched
people.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27
Some Curious Paris Industries

suit of gutta-percha ami was then In
flated like balloon; in the second he re-
sumed his normal bulk, ind that did ex-
cellently well for the purpose Of con-
trast. Unfortunately, it was not trade
that lasted forever, and here was the
poser, face to face with tie other poser
how to live on air when 1t has escaped.
Paris is noted for its curious indus
tries. There is, for instance, the pro-
fessional witness. Your case gets into
the paper; you are knocked down by a
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-01-27
Discarded War Material.

Some idea of the vast quantities OF dis
carded war material thrown upon the
general market by the successive
changes in armament adopted by the
various great powers may be gathered
from the list of arms now offered for
sale from this cause by the Italian gov
eminent. The list includes 10000
rifles, adopted so recently as 1887, with
48, OOO, 900 cartridges; 1000 nine-pound-
er and 500 seven FOUNDER guns, with
100000 shells, and ITO seven-pounder
mountain guns. with 1900 shells.