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The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
HISTORICAL GLEANINGS.

One of the fads of ITO was the
wearing of two watches.
The drum is said to have been the
first musical instrument of the human
race.
Four shillings per annum was the
rent of a five-roomed house in Henry
Wills time.
Records of Firfax county, Virginia,
show that George Washington owned
at the age of q $4,000 acres of land.
and in 1890 the Washington family had
killed $50 hogs for their use.
New York was first called Gotham by
Washington Irving and ]. X. PauldinS
II their humorous work "Salmagundi,"
in sarcastic allusion to the singular
wisdom of it's inhabitants. There is a
Gotham in England, seven miles from
Nottingham, the people of which are
Usually styled the wise men of Goth
am" because for hundreds of years
they have been credited with saying
and doing the most foolish things.
Automatic cooking boxes were in
general use among the Hebrews nearly
1000 years ago. The Greek n Ro-
man writer's frequently refer to them.
In his edition of "%Juvenal," for exam
PIE. Friedlander cites a commentator
who refers to the Jews who, a day be-
fore the Sabbath, put their viands hot
into the cooking boxes. the pots being
covered with napkins and wrapped
about with hay. SO that they may have
warm food on the Sabbath"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
ACTIVITY is THE KEYNOTE
Only Drawback to the Fullest De-
veIopment of the COuntry's BUSH
ness is Railway Congestion.

New York, Nov. 18.-Bradstreet's
weekly review says:
Activity is still the keynote of the
industrial and commercial situation.
Colder weather and the coming Christ
mas holidays have caused a heavy dis
tribution in practically every section
of the country save in the northwest,
where the rather high temperatures
and railway congestion prevent the
fullest development. Railway earn
ings are enormous, but the widespread
blockades are assuming a serious phase
and tend to curtail production in some
industrial lines. Manufacturing lines
are remarkably active. Consumption
of iron and steel is proceeding at an
enormous rate, with no apparent sign
of a let-up in the immediate future.
Outdoor construction work is being
conducted on an enormous scale, and
a shortage of labor is reported from
many sections. Commodity prices
steady at close to the highest. Collec-
lions On the whole are classed as good.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
PRINCE LOUIS HAS TROUBLE
While the AdmiraI-Prince Has Been
Enjoying Himself His Men
Have Been DESERVING.

New York, Nov. 1S.-After all the
good times Rear Admiral Prince Louis
of Battenburg has been having on
American soil he has to swallow a
bitter pill. The men of his command
have found American life so attractive
that they are 10th to return to their
prosaic duties as British tars. Five
hundred of them--180 from the flag
ship Drake alone-have taken an in
definite extension of their shore leave,
with the result that some of the ships
Of the squadron have hardly enough
men to coal ship, and his majesty's
petty officers are securing the high
ways and byways of the city in en- ef-
fort to rouni them I'D.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
ADuLTERAT|ON OF SEEDS
Pamphlet Issued By the Depart
ment Of Agriculture.
of Grass Seeds and Publishes the
Names Of Those Selling Them.

Washington, Nov. 14.-Secretary
Wilson of the department of agricul-
ture has issued a pamphlet giving the
results of an investigation Of the sale
of adulterated grass seeds, conducted
under the direction of DR.. B. T. Gallo
way, the chief of the bureau Of plant
industry. The investigation showed
that the custom Of mixing inferior
seeds with those Of standard quality
was practiced in a great many cases,
the average adulteration ranging from
three to forty per cent. A great deal
Of this adulteration is done in Europe
in the cas- of seeds imported, while
quantities of inferior seeds also are i'm
ported from abroad and afterwards
mixed with those of better quality in
digenous to America before being Of
fered for sale. In compliance with the
law on the subject, the secretary has
published the names Of the dealers sell
ing the adulterated seeds.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
FIRE AT KNOXVILLE, TENN.


Knoxville, Tenn, Nov. 1S.-Fire
broke out at lao this morning in the
four-story building of Suffer & Beller,
pants makers, on the east side of Com
merce avenue. between Gay and State
streets. Before the firemen got to work
the flames spread across the alley to
the wholesale clothing house of Bick-
ley, Mcclure & Co., on Gay street, be-
tween Commerce and Wall avenues.
Suffer & Boilers place is entirely de-
stroyed, with a loss on building and
contents of $50, 900. Buckley & Mcclure
are entirely ruined. Their loss will be
close to $100, 600. The fire was got un.
der control at 2:3O, and did not spread
beyond the two buildings mentioned,
and $500, 900 will cover the loss.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
TALK WITH The PRESIDENT
Senator Dryden, of New Jersey, and
the President Talk Insurance.
The Senator VIII Introduce n Bill
Providing for Federal Suprrvi-
sion of Life Insurance.

Washington, New. Ex-senator Dry
den, of New Jersey, who is president
Of one Of the largest life insurance
companies in the country, had a talk
with the president on the subject OF
insurance, which the president will
discuss freely in his forthcoming mes
sage to congress. Senator Dryden will
introduce ct the approaching session a
bill providing for federal supervision
Of life insurance. 1t will differ in
some respects from the measure Mr..
Dryden introduced in the last con-
gress, but the principle will be the
same. He indicated, in response to in
quiries, that the supreme court never
had passed upon the constitutionality
of a federal law regulating insurance,
although it had held, in the considera-
ton of cases involving purely state
laws, that interstate insurance was not
interstate
1T is a fact" said Senator Dryden,
that eminent lawyers of the country
differ as to the constitutionality of a
law providing for federal supervision Of
life insurance. That difference, prob
ably, will have to be resolved by the
supreme court"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
THERE WAS A IMAM BEHIND
Developments In the Case of Minnie
Mitchell and Aline Bowers.
Cause of Their Death as Yet Unde-
cided, But There Are Apparent
Inducements for Suicide.

st. Louis, Nov. 18.-Dr. Hochdoerfer,
city autopsy physician, reported to
Coroner Lloyd Friday afternoon that
a thorough analysis of the stomach of
| Minnie Mitchell, found dead with her
| beautiful cousin, Aline Bowers. in their
fiat at 1927 Finney avenue, did not re-
veal the presence of poison. In the
blood he detected traces Of carbon mo
noxide gas, which is found in illumi-
| mating gas, but he has not determined
whether it was present in sufficient
quantity to cause death. He has not
| completed an examination Of the stom-
| ach and the blood of Miss Bowers.
Letters found in the fiat reveal that
O. H. Smell, a prosperous and promi-
| nent mar of family in Moberly, Mo-,
had notified Miss Bowers. who had
been in his employ for several years
before coming to st. Louis, of his pur-
| pose to withdraw his friendly interest
| and urging her to desert the cousin.
Other letters indicate that Miss
| Mitchell had quarreled with members
| of her family, we'll known in Moberly,
and that they had commanded her to
return home, a command which,
through her affection for her beautiful
cousin, she d~isregarded.
Smell is in the real estate business in
| Moberly. He is so years OLD, married
and the head of a family. His wife is
recognized as the leader of the Moberly
400.
The letter which seems to indicate
Minnie Mitchell's motive for sharing
in a suicide pact was received Novem-
Der 13 from her sister. 1t reads:
Miss MINNIE Mitchell: l write you
once more telling you that father said
if you expected to make his house your
home again, you had better come home
at once or never, just as you prefer. !
have performed my duty, so l will
close" JUNE MITCHELL.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24

white beds are women and girls who
are awaiting or recovering from opera
lions made necessary by neglect.
Every one of these patients had
plenty of warning in that bearing down
feeling. pain at the left or right of the
womb. nervous exhaustion, pain in the
small of the back, lcucorrhoea, dizzl-
ness, fiatulency. displacements of the
womb or Irregularities. All of these
SYMPTOMS are indications of an I'M
healthy condition of the ovaries or
womb, and if not needed the trouble
will make Roadway until the penalty
has to be paid by a dangerous opera
ton, and a lifetime of impaired useful-
ness at best, while in many cases the
results are fatal.
The following letter should bring
hope to suffering women Miss Lucia
Adams, of the Colonnade Hotel, Seattle,
WASH, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
"About two years ago / was a great suf-
ferer from a severe female trouble, pains and
headaches. Thedoctor prescribed for me and
finally told me that / had a tumor on the
womb and must undergo an operation Ii 1
wanted to get well. I felt that this was my
death warrant, but l spent hundreds of dol
lars for medical help, but the tumor kept
growing. Fortunately 1 correspondent with
an aunt in the New England States, and she
advised me to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound, as it was said to cure tu-
mors. 1 did so and Immediately began to
improve in health, and l was entirely cured,
the tumor disappearing entirely, without an
operation. 1 wish every suffering woman
would try this great preparation"
Just as surely as Miss Adams was
cured of the troubles enumerated in
her letter, just so surely will Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cure
everv woman in the land who suffers
from womb troubles, Inflammation of
the ~ovaries, kidney troubles, nervous
excitability and nervous ~prostration.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all young
women who are i'll to write her for free
advice. Address, Lynn, Mass.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
THE FACE OF THE RETURNS
Depend Upon Them and Exist
ing Election Decisions.

New York, Nov. 14.-At a meeting
held at the Office of former Judge
Alton B. Parker, at which were present
II attorneys, all Of whom have been
retained TO represent Mayor Mcclellan
before the board Of county canvassers,
it was decided to rely entirely on the
as it Is recorded in the statutes. Mr..
Parker pointed out that there was only
n question involved, and that was
covered by the decision of the court of
appeals, which was written by him. He
said that it was a dangerous practice
to open the ballot boxes, and in his
opinion was not within the province
of the law.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD
federate Reservation of the Ar
linEtOn National Cemetery.

Washington, Nov. 14.-Plans for the
raising of funds to erect a monument
in Arlington cemetery to the confed-
crate dead are to be formulated by a
joint committee from every confederate
organization in the District of Column
bia at a meeting for that purpose to
be held shortly. A sculptor, whose
name is withheld for the present, has
offered to design the monument with
out compensation. The cost of the
construction and erection is placed at
between $4,000 and $4,000, to which
fund it is proposed to ask contribu-
tons from all confederate societies OF
the south. The monument will be
placed in the reservation for the con
federate dead in the national cemetery.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
BITS ABOUT PLANTS.

Tea plants at the & Of seven
years yield 700 pounds of tea per
acre.
In Java there is on orchid, all the
flowers of which open at once, as il
by the stroke of a wand, and they also
all wither together.
Plants with white blossoms have a
larger proportion of fragrant species
than any others; next m red, then
yellow and blue; after which, and in
the same order, may be reckoned vio-
let. green, orange. brown and black.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
THE TREMENDOUS
MORAL UPHEAvAL
Gov. Folk of Missouri Talks to the
Knife and Fork Club.
CIVIC REGENERATION GOING ON
The Revolt From Political Oppres-
sion is Rearing Its Head in City
After City and State After State
All Over the Land.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 17.-Edward
Rosewater, editor Of the Omaha Bee,
and Gov. Joseph w. Folk of Missouri
were the guests of honor at the month
ly dinner here of the Knife and Fork
club.
Gov. Folk. in the cours OF his
speech, said:
1.-The next few years will be distin-
guished as the time in which industrial
problems are settled, the reign of spe-
cial privileges brought to an end, the
recognition of the doctrine OF equal
rights fixed in national policies and in
the conscience of mankind. We are
in the midst of the most dramatic pc.
riod Of American history, the period
in which the peoples rights are TO be
defined and observed as they never
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
PASSING OF PORRIDGE.
Makes Way for the Better Food of a
Better Day.

"Porridge is no longer used for
breakfast in my home" writes a loyal
Britain from Huntsville, Ont. This
was an admission of no small signif-
canoe to one brought up" on the time
honored standby.
zone month ago." she continues, II
bought a package of Grape-Nuts food
for my husband, who had been an in
valid for over q year. He had passed
through a severe attack of pneumonia
and la grippe combined, and was left
in a very bad condition when they
passed away.
81 tried everything for his benefit,
but nothing seemed to do him any
good. Month followed month and he
still remained as weak as ever. l was
almost discouraged about him when
1 got the Grape-Nuts, but the result
has compensated me for my anxiety.
'In the one month that he has eaten
Grape-Nuts he has gained 10 pounds
in weight, his strength is rapidly re-
turning to him, and he feels like a
new man. Now we all eat Grape-Nuts
food, and are the better for 1t. Our
little 5-year-old boy, who used to suffer
from pains in the stomach after eating
the old-fashioned porridge, has no
more trouble since he began to s
Grape-Nuts, and l have no more doc
tors bills to pay for him.
1--WE use Grape-Nuts with only sweet
cream, and find it the most tasty dish
in our bill of fare.
Last Monday I ate 4 teaspoonfuls
of Grape-Nuts and cream for breakfast,
nothing else. then set to work and got
my mornings work done by 9 o'clock,
and felt less tired, much stronger, than
If l had made my breakfast on meat,
potatoes, etc, as I used to. I wouldn't
be without Grape-Nuts in the house
for any money" Name given by
Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Rad the little book, "The Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs-
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24

More aluminium is manufactured in
Niagara Falls than in any other place
In the world. 1t was on August 20,
1895. that the works at Niagara Falls
started operation, and in the ten years
that have passed the development has
been wonderful, greatly benefting the
steel interests, for in the modern meth
Cd Of making steel aluminium is used
il small quantities. Usually from two
to five ounces of aluminium are put
In each ton of open hearth steel made,
and from six to eight ounces into a
ton of Bessemer steel.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24

The municipality of Freiburg, Ger
many, is the grand-daddy of the pub
lic-ownership idea, for it owns and
runs about everything in town, from
the usual public utilities to the pawn
shop, insurance business, cemetery,
theater, restaurants, and the daily
paper. The best part of this unique
plan is that every department turns
over a profit yearly to the city treas
ury. Only the schools and the theater
are non-supporting-both educational
institutions. You can hear the opera
for nine cents and can get a supper
afterwards for six cents.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
FIREMAN KILLED, TW0 HURT
Philip Conway, a Fire Engine Drl-
yer, Killed by His Machine When
the Horses Bolted.

st. Louis, Nov. 17.-Philip Conway,
driver of the engine of Company No.
90 met death by being run over by his
machine when the horses became I'M
manageable, and in a wild plunge over
a hole in the street dashed him to the
ground.
Firemen James Ward and Michael
Waters were caught by the collapse of
a burning ceiling at No. 112 South
Penth street. Both were scorched and
lacerated and were saved only by the
heroic efforts of their comrades.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24

There is a stone which it is assert
ed unfailingly foretells changes in the
weather. This stone raj found in Fin
ians many years ago by an explorer
and has been watched by scientists
with great interest. 1t is known as
the samakuir and presents a white
mottled appearance in sunshine, grad
ually turning from gray to black as
3 rainstorm approaches. The sama-
kuir is made up of clay, inter and
ock salt. In dry weather the salt in
The stone is prominent, but when the
air is filled with moisture the salt alb
serbs the moisture and turns black.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24

have been before. The man who shares
in these activities in any capacity, no
| matter how humble, is taking part in
| the tremendous moral upheaval now
going on.
There have been great reform
movements in the days gone by: but
they were local; the vampires Of graft
were driven away and remained hut a
| season, and then returned after the
waves of public Indignation had spent
their fury. The present presents a
situation of brighter promise to our
| vision. Reform shows signs of becom-
ing universal instead of local and tran
STORY. The revolt from political OPP
preston is rearing its head III city
| after city and state after state. A civic
| regeneration is going an all over the
| land.
"Will It last, is the question. Will
not the people o forget n allow
things to continue in the same old
way? I answer no. Revolutions never
| go backward, and this is a revolution
that has been wrought in tho con-
| science of men. We are but in the be-
| ginning Of the movement for higher
ideals in our political life, which will
gather strength Is the years go by.
The elections of last week are but the
taking Of the first breastworks of the
opposition. The fight will go on with
unceasing vigor, and the time will new
err come when the people can rest on
their arms in idleness."
The present movement, Gov. Folk
said, did not mean the destruction OF
political parties, but rather the putting
of the organization of political parties
on a higher plane.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
COLLISION AT PUEBLO, COL
Five Persons Injured, Three Seri-
ousIy, I'm n Denver 81 Rio Grande
and Rock Island Collision.

Pueblo, Col, Nov. 14.-Five persons
were injured, three seriously, in a coll
lision between Denver & Rio Grande
passenger train No. 4 and Rock Island
passenger train No. 40 in the Rio
Grand yards here. The seriously in
jured are: Miss Edith Robertson,
Rockford, H.; r. G. Boot, Rockford,
ILL.,; Martha j. Davis, Kansas City.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24

Royalty costs a great deal more than
Is generally known. During the 62
years of her reign Queen Victoria re-
reived the enormous sum Of $133, no.
BOO. She was not expected to provide
for her family out of her salary. as
other people have to do. For con-
descending to come over from Ger
many and marry her the prince con-
sort received $150.000 per mum. The
prince of Wales. before coming to the
throne, drew $26.670,OO0 from the
treasury.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
MUST SERVE HIS SENTENCE
Harry q California State
Senator, Convicted of bribery,
tented n New Trial.

Sacramento, Cal, Nov. Hilary
Bunkers, the former San Francisco
senator, convicted last April Of bribery
and sentenced to five years imprison-
ment at San Quentin, must serve the
sentence imposed, according - a de-
cision handed down by the appellate
court, denying the convicted e~x-legisla-
tors appeal for a new trial.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24

A strange cure is that now being
tried in the arctic regions. A large
number of consumptive patients left
Halifax, N. S., a few months back for
q cruise along the central coast OF
Greenland. The promoter of the
scheme, DR.. Sohn, who twice accom-
panied Commander Peary in his
search for the North Pole, claims to
have cured himself of tuberculosis by
such a visit and sojourn in the icy re-
gfOns.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
MET DEATH IN A RUNAWAY
tractor, Killed On the Eve of
Inherfting $4,000.

st. Louis, Nov. 14.-John Henry He
man, a contractor, Sc years old, a
killed by being thrown from his buggy
in a runaway at Theresa and Washing
ton emu Heman was to have re-
ceived $4,000 as his share in his ia
TIERS estate within two weeks. The
estate has been in litigation for three
years, and the claims of the heirs only
recently had been satisfactorily adjust
ed.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
TRIPLE EXPLOSION
Two Men Killed and Two Seriously
Injured In n Powder Works Ex-
pIOsiOn at Edwards Station, Ill.

Peoria, ILL.,, Nov. 17.-In an explosion
at the Buckeye powder works, at Ed
wards station, IA miles northwest Of
Peoria, two men met instant death
and several other employees were in
jured, two of them seriously.
The dead:
Addison Long, aged %.
William Hassler, aged As.
The seriously injured:
Fred Fogelman.
Ellis Henderson.
The cause of the explosion Is not
known. The loss is 1 5000.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24

Miss Gerston Jones, daughter of the
late Isaac d. Jones, who was attorney
General under Gov. William Pinkney
White, has deserted fashionable life
in Baltimore and assumed the manage
ment of a large farm On the eastern
shore, to which she fell heir when her
father died.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24

The recent laying of a new Atlantic
cable between Canso, Nova Scotia, and
Waterville, Ireland, does not seem to
indicate that submarine telegraphy is
to be entirely supplanted by wireless
In the immediate future.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
EXTENSIVE COTTON FIRE
A Large Amount of Cotton Destroyed
and Much Damaged by Fire at
Columbus, Ga.

Columbus, Ca, Nov. 17.--More than
2,08O bales of cotton were destroyed,
about 1000 bales badly scorcEed and
several hundred bales damaged by fire
which started in property used Jointly
by the General Railroad Of Georgia
and the Atlantic Compress Co. The
fire started from a spark from a switch
engine. The total loss is placed at
$3.50, 900; fully insured. Imam & Co.,
of Augusta, were the principal losers.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24

A number of cases of coma have
been manifest in Iowa during the past
month, and persons have slept from
eight days to Sc without waking. Ma
son City had the strangest case in Will
liam Burke, who slept for nearly 60
days and died without having been
awake once. A lady in the same town
was in a comatcse state for a consid-
cradle length of time, but finally
awakened and is to-day alive and well.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
seven Girls Injured.

New York, Nov. 14.-Seven girls
were injured and damage amounting to
about $50, 600 was caused by a fire
which destroyed a five-story factory
building at Leonard and Meserole
streets, Brooklyn
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24

In 1904 $500, 900 pounds of alumni
mum were made in the United States,
an increase of 100000 pounds over
1908. In 1902 the output in the United
Stated was 100000 pounds. The out
put. in 1903 is of particular interest. be-
cause of the fact that 20 years before
that the output was only SO pounds,
and at the end of the first decade OF
manufacture, in 1898, only 339,629
pounds were made.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24

For naval victories he won, a pen
sion of $4,000 a year was granted in
1882 to Lord Rodney and his heirs for
over. The family has already drawn
over S1,2OO,0 900. The present lord
has 5000 acres of land, with rental
of $4,000. Similar pensions are
drawn by hundreds of noblemen
amounting to many millions annually.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24
The Rock Island Wreck.

Topeka, Kas., Nov. 1.-THE tender
of the locomotive, one mail car and n
baggage car of the fast Rock Island
e%ast-bound passenger train No. A, were
derailed lea Valencia, Kas., about II
miles west of Topeka. The Rock ISL
and officials claims that nobody was
killed or seriously injured in the wreck.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24

Harry H. Baughman, superintendent
Of the gas and water company at Ro-
anoke, Va, who had been i'll for v
eral days with a cold in his head, In
sneezing burst a blood vessel and died
a few DAYS later.