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The Tupelo journal., 1905-09-29

Mr.. Roosevelt is now due an
apology to Mr.. Parker for his
strenuous denial to the latter's
charge that the great corporation
had been requested to contrib
ute to the republican campaign
fund and were putting up the
money to buy votes. A number
of these corporations have plead
ed guilty to the charge and the
President is placed in very en-
barassing position.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-09-29
Do Wei

In passing through the crafty
ing experience incident to the
'apid growth of a city like Tupe-
10, there are so many needs made
Imperative that it is impossible
Cor anyone to see them all. In
deed, the little needs, little inI
comparison to many, are pecu-
liarly apt to be overlooked or UNI
derestimated. Visitors who come
TO the city only occasionally du-
ring the year are always remark
ing on the great improvement
and growth of our city. The
building activity is especially no.
ticeable and this more than any
hing else attracts attentiontion.
But we who live here see other
things that would greatly add to
the appearance and business of
the place that visitors never see.
We have needed for some time,
and each months growth adds
70 that need, one thing we desire
70 emphasize now. We refer to
a suitable place set apart for
ilitching. The facilities for hitch
ng are very inadequate, to say
nothing of the unfortunate place
where hitching is now allowed.
Can't our business men do some
hing towards providing a lot,
with some facilities OF a wagon
yard, where the farmer may hitch
and feed his team and thus be
saved the necessity of feeding on
the street? It looks bad for a
city like Tupelo to turn the man
with team out on the street.
The streets are Uttered up and
detracts from the appearance of
the town as well as the health.
Again, such a hitching place
as we have in mind ought to be
so arranged that the horse trader
who is so much in evidence on
court days. could be taken off
the street. A busy thorougfare
is no place for trading horses,
any more than playing ball. The
pedestrian is very much inter-
fered with by the infringement
Of the horse trader, an infringe
ment, however, unintentional on
the part of the trader in ques-
ton, and an infringement even
made necessary by the lack of a
suitable place for his operations.
In any ordinary busy day nearly
every one walking to and from
The business districts, are annoy
ed by the hitching now allowed
along the street. Especially
since the classic publicity of the
ceca citrant activity of Maud, we
are iearful of the rear quarters
Of al, the genus, because mere
sight fails to discriminate be-
tween the mule with Maudine
proc ivities and the mule that
mas them not. The result is the
oedes trian has either to drive
the nimal off or take to the road
instead.
Sc let us take some action to
cleaf our streets of an incum-
orarce, by no means to be toler-
aztec as necessary evil. DO
we eed it?
The Tupelo journal., 1905-09-29
BUY GOOD OIL

Why use cheap, Sinking oil
4 vn,r lamps which is tnjurions.
5 your eyes when you can buy.
National Ligh; oil that does not
smoke Or l,larkan the chimney NO
,ffeneiye odorS. Accept nothing
Just as good. National Light oil
j ahsolnt & the best. For sale a.
Is cents per gallon exclusively n
Z t.rl hy.
Tri.. RAYMOND Hdw, Oh,
The Tupelo journal., 1905-09-29
RATES OF ADVERTISING

DISPLAY advertisements at rate of
81. 90 per running inch per month of
four weeks. Liberal discounts made on
yearly contracts.
Notice of meetings of strictly CHAIR
table organizations will be inserted one
time free; all other notices must be paid
for.
All local notices will be charged at
the rate of scents per line each insertion
No lecal taken for less than rs cents.
There will be no deviation from this
rule
The Tupelo journal., 1905-09-29
Capt. James KincannOn.
"The silver cord is loosed,


The pitcher is broken at the fountain.
The circle which has bound
happy and united family togeth-
err for SO many years has a broken
link. The husband and father,
the counsellor and guide, has
given his final blessing and said
his last goodbye.
Since the union which enriched
his life with a large family of sons
and daughters, he has been actu-
ated by an unfagging and heroic
purpose to secure to those de-
pendent upon him every moral,
social and educational advantage.
AS a husband, he was affection
ate and deferential, recognizing
without reserve the wife's oppor-
tunity and right to direct all do
nestle affairs and the mothers
heaven-born power to guide the
lives of his children. From their
infancy he taught his children to
love and revere their mother
above all others thus displaying
the generosity of heart which
never felt a selfish motive.
To his four sons, born first to
this union, he earnestly endeav-
ored to inculcate from innocent
infancy to manhood's maturity,
principles of honor, goodness and
truth, impressing them at all
times that the obligations of citi-
zenship should be zealously and
sacredly discharged.
To his four daughters, he was
affectionately gentle and tender:
and he strove faithfully to sur
round them with all of those en-
nobling and elevating influences
which abound in a cultured and
refined home. He believed and
he taught that woman's mission
was a holy one, and that home is
her divinely appointed realm.
He realized in the fullest sense
that "children's children are the
crown of old men," for in his
grandchildren he found perpet-
ual joy, and through them he re-
newed his youth as the eagle.
His first tie of friendship was
that which bound him to the Con-
federate soldier. There was an
ever abiding love in his heart fol
his comrade in arms, which grew
stronger and gentler as age wrote
Its wrinkles on his brow. He
believed in their cause; he believ-
| ed in their honesty; he admired
their courage and patriotism, and
| he rejoiced that he had shared
both the sunshine and the shadow
which fortune cast athwart their
way.
To his neighbors, he was con-
siderate at all times, and follow
ing the injunction of the Great
Teacher of men, he loved them
as he did himself.
AS citizen, he was transpa-
rently honest and devoutly patri-
otc. He believed that the gov
eminent should be so administer
ed as to secure the greatest hap
piness to the greatest number,
and he instinctly revolted at
hypocrisy and deceit whenever
discerned in the private indivld-
lal or the public official.
In common with all humanity
e had his imperfections, cut in
purpose he practiced rather than
roached the cardinal graces of
christianity. To himself he was
true, and being true to himself
it follows that he could not be
a!se to any man.
The indulgence of a charitable
public is asked on account OF this
,abIication which is a brief and
imperfect tribute from a son who
las often disappointed and grlev-
ID him, but who has always loved
aim and who will always revere
his memory.
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Federal Court.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-09-29

1t has been suggested that
President Roosevelt be sent to
Panama to finish the canal at
the expiration of his term of
office. The country would have
been benefited if he had been
sent there to dig the canal before
he was ever made a presidential
possibility. He would have GER
tainly been engaged in a more
laudable undertaking than buy
ing the presidency, or at least
having it bought for him.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-09-29

Why couldn't a charge of en-
bezzlement be sustained against
President Mccall and other lead
ing insurance officials for misap-
propriating the trust funds that
came into their hands,. The
charters authorizing these insur-
ance companies to do business
certainly do not authorize the
expenditure of the policy holders
money for political purposes.
There has been a clear misappro-
priation Of money belonging to
other people in these cases and
those guilty Of so grave an Of
Tense should be made to suffer
for it.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-09-29
The latest and best drink of the sea
is Dandy at Hughes.

For Sale Al Z room house in the q
2 acre lot set to Bermuda $1,000 see
G. Boggan.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31
Silver Bill Riley and Others
BY HUGH E. KEoUeH.

tolerance, and he had not forgotten a
name or a face. Riley has been fol-
lowing the trotting circuit Of late
years, barking for the auction stand
and wheedling the money out of diff
dent spectators.
In the days when the game Of eating
a quail day for thirty days had pos
session of the people as six-day walk
ing matches had a few years before, a
hungry-looking gent who deemed him
self a champion at this unique CASTRO
nomic feat besought Riley to match
him against pretender who poured
into town with a forty-five-day record
and a good appetite.
Riley did not fall for the proposition.
He did not think that eating a quail a
day for thirty days was much OF an
accomplishment. He said to the ap-
plicant for patronage: You're a piker.
If you come IN the alley with me I'll
point you out a dozen chair warmers
who can eat a turkey day for sixty
days, with a mess Of corned beef and
cabbage for a chaser"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31

Not long before his sudden death
had talk with Mr.. Vanderbilt one
winter day in his Fifth avenue palace
on the subject OF horsefesh. There
were great goings on in railroads just
then, and scores Of reporters had vain
ly tried to see the head OF the Wander
bflt properties on that subject, but
without avail Wanting to talk
horse" with him, I had a friend who
knew Mr.. Vanderbilt send him a note
stating my desire. He won't see YOU"
was the friends comment; "he can't
get out Of the house. and all the re-
porters in New York have been trying
to get him for six months
But the sick millionaire, like many
another man. would talk horse" when
he wouldn't talk railroads or finance,
and back came a note asking me to
call that afternoon. We talked horse"
to the limit, and Mr.. Vanderbilt dwelt
on the good drives he had enjoyed with
Small Hopes, seeming to think more
OF that horse than of Maud and other
faster ones he had owned In later
years.
The last time saw Small Hopes was
after both Mr. Vanderbilt and the man
to whom he gave the horse were dead.
The brown gelding was included in an
auction sale at the Cleveland track,
and It so happened that the day he was
sold w. X. Vanderbilt and other Of
| lcials OF the New York Central and
Lake Shore roads were in Cleveland on
tour Of inspection. They came out
to the auction, ahd saw Small Hopes.
once the best horse in the Vanderbilt
string, sold for a paltry $500. He
might have gone to life Of drudgery
for all W. K. Vanderbilt cared, but,
as luck would have It, Eli Ager, a
Pennsylva,nian, who liked Small Hopes
for his bygone speed and courage, bid
him In and saw that he had a good
homo for life.
All rich men, however, are not indif-
| ferent to what becomes of horses that
have served them well. Frank Work.
New Yorker. who has loved driving
horses ever since he was a boy in Ohio.
and who is now close to the 80 mark.
has for more than thirty years pro-
vided In his viii for the disposition of
his roadsters after he dies.
! Mr.. Work has a magnificent stable,
with glass dome IN the roof, so that
his horses may have all the sunlight
there is going, and alongside OF the
main structure there is a ninety-foot
covered runway with tanbark footing
for exercise on winter days when no
| driving is done. AS soon as Mr. Work
has tried a horse sufficiently to know
| that II Will suit him he adds a oodicile
to his will. naming the horse and pro-
viding thatin case Of his death the an
imal shall be taken to his Long island
farm and given the best of care for the
balance Of its days. never being har-
messed.
Mr.. Work never, in the days when
his stable was filed with champion
road horses. invited anybody to GO
driving with him. IT'S no pleasure, u
he said to me. ito have another man
in the wagon-I Just want myself and
the horses. I keep a good trotter OF
two for the use Of my friends when
they call. but the horses drive are for
no one else, now or hereafter"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31

Silver Bill Riley is still with us, as
nebonair and sprightly as he was TWEEN
Nv years ago when he was the king Of
Calhoun place. If luck had dealt as
4xindly with Silver Bill as time has. he
would be a millionaire a few times
over.
In the times when the authorities
were not looking as sharply as they are
now. Riley had a small but extremely
productive speculative world all to
himself. In those days in 1.-The Alley
Khe pool room was not considered vlo-
lation of public morals. II was In that
noisome dungeon in the reimbursement
that plungers were made and broken.
There the devotees of the racing game
assembled daily and Riley handled
their offerings at a percentage that
would in these days be considered ruin
Gus. He was rich beyond the dreams
of ayarfce. When the blow came, he
ketook himself to- New York to mingle
~rtrb the heavy specuiatcTS at Gutten-
oure. There they took liberties with
his bank roll. 1t had come so easy for
him that the ways were creased for its
getaway. Bill did not care any more
for a dollar than an incendiary does
for a match. He shed money like an
Intoxicated mariner. They finally took
MIN. but Bill faced the world like a
game man and wasted no time on vain
regrets. He has never got back TO
where he used to be, but you would not
know it from outward appearances.
I saw him dallying with the runners
at one of the New Orleans tracks last
week and occasionally betting as much
as 500 on a race. He was the same
bright-eyed. keen-witted. joking. gray
haired man that knew twenty years
ago. He mingled with the throng,
whose acquaintance he formed in the
alley in the piping times Of municipal
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31
Ringing Trotters in the Old Days
BY HENRY TEN EYCk WHITE.

The night before the entries closed
Michigan and his merry men We're
sitting IN the reading room OF a sub
urban hotel. Michigan was improving
his mind by reading Boston paper
The man who had charge Of entering
the horse was trying to think of new
name for Small Hopes. Finally he ap-
pealed to McGuigan. and that worthy,
glancing at the newspaper In his hand,
saw a staring headline which read:
THE Westbrook Tragedy"
Call him Westbrook," said Nc
Guigan, and accordingly the brown
geldtng was nominated as directed
When the party got to Boston and the
pool selling on the three minute race
began the night before the opening Of
the meeting. the men who were back
ing Westbrook were delightfully."- sur
prised at the fine betting. Two other
horses, both ringers (aithough they did
not know IT'D, were backed to the limit,
and there were several New England
nags with support. It really looked as
II the final pie OF the season was going
to be Juicy one.
Out came the horses the following
day. The Judge said go" and away
they started. For a three-minute race
late In the fail the clip that three of
those green" trUtters struck was
something fierce. They were at the
quarter pole IN :Ss. and then, as the
straight work OF the back stretch, was
reached, they f1attened out and stepped
over to the half Ike free for alters.
getting there in I'LL. But McGuigan
was foxy. His watch showed him what
the time was. and he smeIled danger.
Back into the ruok went Westbrook,
while the other pair tore 20 the wire
In such phenomenal time for q three
minute race fhat the Judges grabbed
every horse they could lay hands on
and wanted to know how about It.
Only one Of the ringers escaped. That
was q nag owned near Chicago. His
driver scented danger and drove right
out Of the track gaia. knowing that
once OF the premises the judges would
have mo Jurisdiction. But westbrook,
alias Lapland, alias Lokhair, and prop
eriy Small Hopes, was caught az last.
The dye stuff on his legs came of
when soap and warm water were ap-
piled, and Che horse and ali hands were
expelled.
Then Small Hopes, stYIl one Of che
greatest tTotters in the land. was
bought By William n. Vanderbilt
grandfather OF the present generation
| OF the family that are prominent al
! horse shows. William H." as he was
called, was q natural horseman and al.
| ways willing TO pay the price for q
good trotter. Putting Small Hopes ir
double harness with Lady Mac, he es.
tablished pole record Of a:zs with
them. Finally. when Small Hopes was
pretty old and not At for racing, Mr.
| Vanderbilt, a man OF sentiment in
horse matters, although he did not iooh
1t, applied to the National association
70 have the horse retnEtated, but the
request was refused. Then he gave
Small Hopes to a friend.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31

that once he invented a signal to tel
a man whether to slide head first o
feet first when he was stealing second
Tom Loftus-now out in Dubuqu,
and out OF the game which he love
and which he honored for years-Wa.
one fine manager who never brok'
much fee, because fee picks wer.
scarce. He was a winner IN the OLE
WESTERN winner of games, but no
Of money-but when he got into bii
company he was unlucky IN gettini
teams.
Never but once did I see Tom mad
That was at Boston years ago. Chi
cago had the game won by big ma
jority. but in the ninth Boston brok
loose and hammered out run after run
In vain LOTUS called up. the reinforce
ments and tried stop the slaughter
Boston refused to stop. They wallope,
the ball until they pounded homo fy
runs and then-with one long driv'
Collins settled the game.
I met Tom coming off the field. whit
around the mouth. and saying thing
He was abusing Jocko Mcnefee-wh'
hadn't been in the game at all.
What did Jocko do, Tom ?" asked
Dol Dol" he repeated. What di,
he do? Why, the BANKED. BANKED
blimed, blasted. blin.xed blank. Whel
they were right IN the 4enter Of tina
smuggling he sat on tkH end of tn
bench swinging hAS Leg and humnlini
q love Song"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31

yer. edo you remember a conversation
that you had with Mr.. J. concerning
signs used on the Chicago infield?"
'I had many conversations with him
about the club said Burns.
do you remember telling him about
your secret signals?"
at may have-I don't remember any
especial conversations"
Don't you remember that in CONVEX
sation with Mr.. j. yoC told him that
you and Williamson and PETER had a
set of signals that you didn't let the
Old Man know, because he was such a
- old lunkhead he couldn't under
stand them?"
''Yes, sir" said Burns. And then An
son was sorry he had praised Burns as
a judge of players.
The relative merits Of a bench man
ager and a playing manager have been
discussed everywhere. I believe. how
eer, that the bench manager is far
more effective unless the playing man
ager happens to be born demonstrators
and able to show the men how to do
just what he orders them to do. Nc
Graw for instance, was as great a
manager on the field as off. perhaps
even greater. Joe Kelley was just as
-
anything he asks his men to do.
Chance, McGraw, Fielder Jones. Jake
Stahi. and others are successes because
they are great players besides having
managerial abilities. Yet Collins and
LaJoine-the1r superiors-are failures
because they lack something OF the
managerial instinct, and, worse than
that, appear TO have lost control over
their men.
1t Is well even for a bench manager
If his men cannot remember what he
did or did not do when he was a play
er. Once when poor Tom Burns was
managing Chicago he ordered Gene
Demont to cut one to right field.
why, yuh ole gray-headed fool, -
said Demont. 'yuh nevah hit .240 in
yoh life. What do yuh mean tryin'
tub tell ball playahs how tub hit?"
Billy Barnie was one of the great
old-time managers-and quite a sue
cess. He was a perfecter of the sign
system in playing baseball. The teams
that he handled had to sit up late al
night studying the signs that he made
I'M fnr than Thax voE to this dan
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31

The manager OF professional ball
club Is about 90 per cent OF the playing
strength OF his team. Whenever you
see a team OF good BAH players drag
ging along In the ruck of the race Just
put 1t down that tho fault lies with
the manager. Whenever you see q team
OF mediocre players win q pennant,
give the manager the bulk OF the
credit.
The manager first must get together
the talent best suited to his needs from
the available material and then make
it work. Almost any man. backed by
sufficient money, can set together q
good ball club but not ono IN a thou
sand can make them work together SO
as to win consistently through sea-
son.
To prove these statements look at the
American league race OF last season,
The clubs finished In the order OF the
ability OF their managers and not IN
the order Of the ability Of their players.
Boston. Cleveland and New YOrkT-the
three strongest clubs-finished IN the
xruck, while Philadelphia and Chicago
the weak teams well handled-landed
first and second.
This, however, should not detracs
anything from John McGraw's credit
In landing the New York club winners
in the National league. He had the
best club-but 1t would have finished
third or fourth with some other man.
eger.
The best manager OF O. ball club in
the world today Is Bill O'Rourke.
BIZ has system Of handling ball
players that is ef1cacious to the great
est degree of any ever invented He
knows that there are but two ways &c
convince ball players: to take their
money from them In fines, OF to why
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31
Some Managers ! Have Known
BY HUGH 8. FULLERTON.

them. Bill doesn't believe that man
ayers should take money from their
players.
When one OF O'Rourke's players tries
TO loaf, or gets drunk, or tries to dis
organize the club, Bill simply takes him
around back of the club house, and in
fair battle, whips him into traotability.
The player who whips Bill probably
will be made manager-but that has
not happened yet.
Arson generally was considered one
OF the great managers, but he was not.
I'll never forget the shock I expert
enced when discovered that fact. The
cid team-the champions-needed no
manager; they played ball on the CO.
operative plan, and one man had about
as much to say as the others. The
teams Arson managed in his latter
years We're Anson's-and they did not
do well.
The idea the players had of Anson's
managerial ability was shown during
the hearing OF the case of Burns
against the Pittsburg ball club years
ago. Burns, with a dead arm, was I'M
loaded upon Temple by the Chicago
club and he started with a long-term
contract. The club dropped him and
he brought suit on the contract. It
happened that one of the lawyers for
the Pittsburg club knew some of the
inner workings Of the old "stone wall
infeid.''
Arson was called to the stand He
praised Burns to the skies. He de-
c1ared he was great ball player. He
declared ne was a good Judge of ball
players. Indeed, under questioning, he
said he would take Burns Judgment
of a player almost as he would his own.
Burns was called.
'Mr. Burma said tina onnnsinz- Jaw
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31
THE TALE OF JOHNNIE.
(Milwaukee Sentinel.

milwaukee SenuneL)
Johnnie lit a cigarette.
Up near old Nantucket;
Johnnie dropped HIS burning match
In a powder bucket.
This is all ! have TO tell
OF this little story:
Johnnie took the airship route
glory%
TO
up
straight
Sailed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31
FROM eR'ER WILLIAMS.
(Atlanta CONSTITUTIONAL

(Atlanta Constitution.)
''Ef all de worp wuz happy, some folks
would hunt 'roun' 'twei dey kotched Mis-
cry an started her in de sideshow busI-
ness
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31
A BAD INVESTMENT.

((Ally Slippers ualf-Holiday.)
Married for money. didn't you. Ole
mnn?"
'YeS, but the wits hasn't declared any
dSvidsnd vakfa
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31
LOTS FOR SALE.

Detroit FIRES Press)
''Bjones Is doing a rushing real estate
business
SEP
Yes. he's selling dirt cheap"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31
A REASON.

washington Starr
why is genius so oftsn misuzdss,
stood7" asked the literary person.
Probably" answered the man wht
doesn't caro- for poetry. ''it's because sc.
mus so frequently fails TO talk plainly.