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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-05-05

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The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
A Birthday Custom,

A pretty birthday custom is Oh
served by a fmily rejoicing in the
possession of six beautiful children.
On the first natal day of each child a
tree is planted, and each succeeding
year the same custom prevails
When the tenth birthday is reached
a real festival is held, and the tree
planting is made the feature of the
occasion. There is a procession
around the lawn, and the birthday"
child is permitted to choose the va
riety of tree to be planted, and, if
possible, it is obtained. Oftentimes
there is a stree guessing" contest OF
some kind, or the refreshments will
all be from tree" products. 1t is
needless to say that these children
are devoted to their W special
trees, and watch their growth with
scrupulous care. 1t is certainly a s
tom worthy of emulation, and not ex-
~pensive, so it is within the reach Of
almost every one.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
Daughter Of Snowman
Initiates Wild Person

here was work for a society for pre-.
vention of cruelty to children. The
girl crouched in a corner, with her
massed hair about her face, and gave
no heed to anyone, nor could she be
made to show that she understood a
word addressed to her.
When anyone reached a hand to
her she viciously grabbed at it. The
congressman reached out his hand.
which the girl made an effort to grasp.
but she was more successful when his
friend attempted the same expert.
ment, clutching it with great force.
She threatened to scratch and bite,
but as he offered no resistance the
girl Immediately stopped her attack.
The congressman asked for an ex-
PLANTATION, and the keeper, after the
most outlandish stories, finally ac-
knowledged the girl was his W
daughter. Watson say the prescott.
ing attorney, who will stop the I'M
natural exhibition. !
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24

ton as on a late or long-jointed cot
ton. Besides the factors of short joint
and low fruit limb, the fruit limbs
especially the first limbs, should be
long-continued in growth, for a max
imum yield in a short period OF time.
They should not stop after growing
two or three bolls, but should continue
to grow boils. In buying seed the
farmer should demand of the dealer or
seed breeder that the cotton be of this
character, and when seed are thus
bought the purchaser can know def
nitely that he is getting ar early, rapid
fruiting and productive cotton.
In the average seed cotton only ten
per cent of the seed are of the early
variety. The seed from the short
jointed aimbs will produce a much
larger quantity Of cotton per acre than
the long-jointed. This fact should in
duce the planters to incur more ex-
pense to obtain the latest improved
seed. The fruit on the short-Jointed
cotton plants are sufficient to make
one and one-half bales per acre while
that on the 80 per cent. poor stalks
was only sufficient to make one-third
bale per acre at the time of counting,
which was 80 days from the date Of
planting. II by proper seed selection
Is per cent. of the stalks could be
made al good as the ten per cent.
stalks in this case the grain would be
one and one-half bales.
These Investigations show another
fact that is instructive, and that is,
that the large boil and thick hull cot
tons are storm proof, since the burrs
do not curl backward and leave the
locks unsupported. The thin hull cot
tons curl completely backward, open
ing, and the cotton falls out by it's own
weight or from winds. An earlier va
riety of cotton is about the only thing
that will head off the weevil.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
MISSISSIPPI NEWS
Weevil in Mississippi.

Cotton fields Of Central Mississippi
are being ravaged by blight and in.
sects, the latter believed to be the Mex
lean boil weevil. The crop is being cut
short. Stalks are shedding heavily.
This is the situation at Collins, Voss-
burg and Ellisville and the surround
ing sections. At Mills, east of Hatties-
burg, an insect is eating into the boil
and causing it to drop off. Mr.. Clark,
who lived in Texas thirteen years and
knows boil weevils, having the weevil
on his farm in Texas, declares the Mis-.
sissippi bug is the genuine Texas boil
weevil.
Frank Meyers says up to a week age
he had a fine cotton prospect, but that
an insect has eaten into the bolls in one
week and almost destroyed it. He de-
clares there are millions of them in his
field. but they are hard to catch.
Other prominent men believe the
weevil reports are a mistake. w. Con-
ner of the Southern Cotton Association
does not believe the insect the weevil.
7. A. Hightower agrees with him.
State and federal authorities will in
veStigate.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
HEADING OFF THE WEEVIL.
II Can Be Done BY an Earlier Variety
of Cotton.

The boil weevil has educated the
planters to the fact that they must
discover an earlier maturing cotton
plant or that insect will destroy one
third of the present product. Educat-
ed breeders of plants are now engaged
in hybridizing the earliest cotton
plants, and good results are antici-
pated, and in some places already re-
allied. Prof. Bennett, of Texas col
lege, has learned that early cottons
have short joints, and the first fruit
limbs are near the ground; that late
cottons have long joints n first fruit
limbs are a considerable distance from
the ground. Early fruiting is there
fore dependent upon low fruit limbs;
the first fruit limb should not be high
or than the fifth or sixth joint above
the seed leaf joint. Rapid fruiting is
dependent upon short joints on the
main stem and fruit limbs, and If the
boil is larger the greater will be the
yield. Large bolls can grow and do
grow as readily on a low-fruiting,
short-jointed cotton or an early cot
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
Feeding MoIasses to Horses.

There Is an immense waste of sweets
In the great sugar mills, and how to
use that waste has been ably discussed
by Prof. Dalrymple, of the Louisiana
state university, and the economy OF
his discoveries has been Endorsed and
applied to feeding of the mules that
cultivate the sugar cane. One of the
sugar mills that had to feed several
hundred mules annually paid between
$4,000 and $4,000 for oats alone.
Since the test of feeding resulted IA
vOrably no more oats are brought from
the north, but homegrown grains and
molasses have been substituted, and
the expense of feeding reduced 40 per
cent. This was a. wonderful saving to
the sugar mills, and farmers who had
an opportunity to buy the blackstrap
molasses at very small cost.
Prof. Walton, chemist of Fiji sugar
estates, says: That for working horses
the sugar in cane molasses is a salts
factory substitute for starchy food, be-
ing readily digested and transformed
into work. That Is pounds of cane
molasses can be given daily to a 1910
pound working horse with advantage
to the health of the animal and to the
efficiency Of his work. That it pro-
duces nc undue fattening, and that the
high proportion Of salts in it has no in
furious effect.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
WOMAN TELLS OF
CANNIBAL FEAST

"At last, when 1t seemed to me that
l surely could stand it ne longer, the
savages formed in line and started to
march away. The tide had flowed in
and we were free. The frightened
sailors who had rescued me made
haste to pull away.
"Yut now we were seen. The saw.
ages broke their line and rushed to
the beach. A score or more of them
entered a canoe and pursued us. We
had a lead of several hundred fathoms.
but their canoe, driven by a score OF
savage arms, fairly leaped through
the water.
"They gained upon us, fast, faster.
I turned sick at heart. l hardly had
strength to pray.
The island is a German ~possession
though inhabited chiefly by cannibals-
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
MISSIONARY SAW ELEVEN SAIL.
ORS KILLED AND EATEN.
IS WRECKED ON AN ISLAND.
Miss TuthiIi, With Others, are Pursued
In Canoe by Party of Savages-
Saved in Nick OF Time by Ger
man Gunboat.

Chicago.-Mlss Beulah Logan Tut
hill. 80 years of age, a Methodist mis-
sionary, whose ancestors were mis-
sionaries before her, told the big
Methodist camp meeting on the Des-
PLANES river how she saw eleven per-
sons killed and devoured by c~annibals.
She was taken to the Caroline islands
when she was six years of age and be-
gan her missionary work when she
was II. In 1900 her parents left the
Carolines and went to Sidney, Aus.
tralia. She remained on the islands
for several months, and then she took
passage on the steamer Aragui for
Sidney. A terrific storm drove the
vessel near the island of New Ireland,
200 miles northeast of Australia, and
Miss Tuthill was swept overheard. She
was an expert swimmer and was
picked up by some Christian Malays.
They were subsequently wrecked on a
sand bar, on which a schooner was go
ing to pieces. This bar was two miles
off the cannibal islands.
GAS the tide began to rise to free us
the horror began" she said. Zone of
our lookouts gave an exclamation of
terror. We looked, and there on the
shore we saw a horde of savages COM
ing down the beautifully 200 of them
in full war pauoply, armed with
shields and spears and heavy clubs.
"They stole down upon the schoon-
er and then attacked it with a rush.
The sailors made no resistance. They
had concealed themselves in the hope
of escaping, but one by one, eleven
men in all, they were found, dragged
out and killed with a blow on the
back of the head with a war club.
Then they dragged the bodies ashore
and prepared for the feast. They
beat on tom-toms and strange drums.
""The victims were laid in a circle
on the ground while the savages
brought brushwood and great logs for
the fires. Then a strange thing anne
They seemed actually to make a sort
Of religious ceremony out Of this hor-
rible affair. They beat their tom
toms and pulled their hair and uttered
their weird, cultural cries.
"The rest Is too horrible-how they
cooked their human food, how they
danced about their victims, how at
last they tore the smoking human
flesh to pieces with their nails and
teeth in a mad orgy. The chief ate
first, and then allowed his followers
to partake.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
Wealthy ohioan Arrested as a Crook
in Indiana.

L~ogansport, Ind.-Preston H. Robin
son, so years old, who is serving a Jail
sentence in this city for stealing a ride
ON a Panhandle freight train. has been
identified as a wealthy citizen OF Plain
City, O., worth at least $4,000, but
with a mania for "hoboing" it over the
country. When first arrested Robin
son gave his name as James Smith,
but after admitting the name was fic-
titious, he was held for further inves-
tigation. In his possession were found
a revolver. a gold watch, a draft for
s75 on a Plain City bank, blank bank
checks and a grip full of drugs.
The police thought they had cap
tured a notorious crook and a careful
Investigation was made. A letter
from j. w. Latham, marshal of Plain
City, says that Robinson is a resident
of that city worth $4,000, and that the
lraft he carries Is good.
The marshal said that Robinson has
been making a practice Of going on a
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24

Three miles away, across the bay.
there was a German station, and for
this we headed. They gained on US
more and more. We could hear their
savage cries but, thank God, there was
a German gunboat in sight. They
saw our ~predicament.
'Glancing toward the warship l saw
a little puff of smoke curl out from
it's bow and a four-inch she'll came
ricochetting across the water toward
the cannibal canoe. 1t missed. Then
another, and this time it hit squarely
and exploded and dealt death and de-
struction. l could see the survivors
jumping into the water and swimming
for the shore.
The Germans welcomed us and I
could not thank them sufficiently"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
HAVE A MANIA FOR HOBOMG

bum" at certain intervals for years,
and that while on n of his trips he
met with a railroad accident and lost
one of his feet. Despite the accident.
however, Robinson persists in travel
ing in box cars without paying any
railroad fare and seemingly enjoys
this style of travel. When arrested
here he was fined for stealing a ride
on a train, and after paying his fine
was rearrested on a charge of tres
pass. He refused to pay the second
fine and was sem to Jail.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
Mexican Clover.

Mexican clover, while not a true
clover, has similar habits. It is an an
nual and grows in the corn and cotton
fields of the south after ceasing to
ploy the lands. 1t will produce as high
as a ton Of feed per acre, If cut at the
proper time. 1t will come with crab
grass and a be turned under In the
fall as a green fertilizer. 1t makes a
fair feed If cut at the proper time. It
will not become a pest, nor will it be
OF remarkable value as a feed, but is
as worthy of being saved as crab-grass.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
Japanese Glover a Friend.

Japanese clover will grow on any
kind of land, fro ma clay loan to q
rich bottom. When it gets a start 10
g field it o spreads all owe it. Don't
be alarmed If it gets a start. 1t is a
friend and one that your stock will
welcome to your waste lands. It is
rich in nutritive properties, will fatten
sheep, hogs, cattle and horses. st is
next to alfalfa as a feed In the hay
condition. 1t will improve the land
wherever it takes hold. It will not
grow in the fields that are being Guilt
waited. Welcome It to you soils.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
The Sofa Bean.

A correspondent in Tennessee
writes: In regrad to sowing sofa
beans, the best way is to let them get
almost ripe, for if you let them get too
ripe you will lost most of them. They
will pop open. Then take your binder
and cut them like wheat and shock
them. Let them stay in the shock
until you think they are dry enough
to shred and run them through a
shredder. Then you have a fine lot OF
hay, and your beans are not knocked
to pieces like a thresher does them.
Be careful that your beans do not
yet heated, as this may spoil them for
seed. The beans are good for all
kinds Of stock. They are among the
best grain for laying hens and will
fatten hogs very fast. A mule will do
good work on them. Some horses pre-
fer sofa beans to any other food. They
are hay and corn, both.
BY the way, if wou want them for
hay, SOW the sofa beans broadcast,
putting about n bushel per acre.
Cut when in bloom. Be sure and put
your land in good fix. Cultivate it we'll
before you put your sofa beans in. Do
not cover too deep.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
To Grow MeuIotus.

Melilotus has the possibilities OF i'm
proving the soil, equal If not superior
to peas. 1t is a legume, and the roots
OF this plant will form bacteria about
equal to alfalfa, but the bacteria is
somewhat different, but induces alfalfa
growth. Melilotus must have a liberal
share Of lime in the soil to thrive. II
your soil has not the lime. burn 100
bushels and put rs bushels OF the fresh
lime on each acre this winter and SOW
melilotus seed next spring.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
Peddlers Not Wanted.

A mass-meeting of the tax payers OF
Coahoma county passed resolutions in
dorsing M. j. Bouldin, sheriff, in his
effort to make peddlers of all classes
pay the privilege tax required by law
and pledging themselves to do all in
their power to destroy their trade in
the county. The planters have been
considerably worried by peddlers OF this
character and this meeting accentuated
their desire to drive them from the
county if possible.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
Penalty for Thinking.

In the town of Bethel, VT, there
lives atFrench-C Canadian named Peter
Burrell, who is quite a character and
the source of considerable mirth to
the townspeople. He had occasion
the other day to chastise one of hin
small boys, and after giving him a
thorough whipping noticed that the
boy was sullen and ugly. Looking
at him, he said: Nov, whad yer
tiEk? l know whad yer tink-yer
thinks damn, and I ticks yer for dat
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
Stock Raising Profitable.

For the purpose of inducing success
full cattle raisers and stockmen in the
Northern and Western States to move
to Mississippi and engage in the indus
try, the immigration department of the
Illinois Central road is sending out
1OO, 900 circulars to the farmers in that
section setting forth the many superior
advantages of this State.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24

The BARKER" announced that she was
a gorilla girl and very dangerous.
Her keeper would throw scraps OF
meat to her, which she would catch
with great ~dexterity and devour rav-
enously, tearing the tendons with her
teeth and eating with horrible noises.
Congressman Watson became inter
ested. He gazed in compassion on the
girl and expressed the belief that
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
Want the Veterans.

Hattiesburg is a candidate for the
next annual reunion of the Mississippi
division, United Confederate Veterans.
1t is expected that Columbus and Me-
ridian will also ask the honor of enter
tanning the veterans IN 1907, and invita-
lions will probably be sent by Biloxi,
Gulfport and Vicksburg.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
A STRANGER From Brazil.

A tall grass, and a stranger to the
vicinity, has been found growing in Q
ditch in southern Tennessee. Investi-
cation shows it to be a South American
grass, known al paspalum dilatatum.
In Brazil it grows several feet high.
bearing five or more horny spikes, and
Is considered an excellent grass for
pasture In that country. 1t will endure
drought exceedingly well. 1t is valua-
BILE for late summer and autumn feed,
at which times 1t makes its principal
growth.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
Getting Ready for School.

The institute season is in full blast
over the State and hundreds OF school
teachers are perfecting themselves in
methods of work preparatory to the be-
ginning of the school term. In nearly
all of the separate school districts the
term will begin on the second Monday
in September. In rural districts the
openings will be considerably later,
owing to shorter terms.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
Fall Races.

Plans are being formulated for a Sc
ries of fall race meetings in Mississippi
to take place during the autumn fair
season, commencing at Grenada during
the early part of October and winding
up in jackson during the Mississippi
industrial exposition.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
Bond Sale Closed.

The last detail Of the bond sale trans
action between the State of Mississippi
and Rollins, Son & Co., Of Chicago,
was concludnd when Vice-President
Taylor reached Jackson with $501 800
in cash, which sum was paid into the
treasury and the bonds delivered to
Mr.. Taylor.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
BIG Timber Deal.

Wisconsin parties bought 3,444 acres
of land in Perry and Lamar counties,
paying a purchase price OF S392,5OO.
The sellers are John Landers, Spring
field, Mo-; L. N. Arson, Merrill, Wis,
and George F. Gilkey, Oshkosh, Wis.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
Carnival at B~rookhaven.

Plans are being perfected by the
Brookhaven Progressive Union for a
merchants carnival and county fair
early in October. The exhibition will
be varied and the premiums numerous
and attractive,
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
Downpour at Meridian.

The heaviest rainfall that has visited
Meridian in the past fifteen years fell
there one day last week. The precipi-
tation was $40 inches, and the greatest
amount OF downpour was reached when
one inch fell in ten minutes.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24

Hagerstown, Ind. - Congressman
Watson and friends were at the
Hagerstown fair and in n of the
side shows they found what was rep
resented to be a Filipino girl chained
to a post and half clothed in skins.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
Finds Grape Culture Profitable.


Capt. Shannon has been c%ultivating
pears, grapes, pecans and figs near
Ocean Springs, Miss, and they have
been profitable. He has cultivated the
Champion grape, which grows in large
punches, fruit medium size, vines are
prolific. He has found a ready sale
for his grapes in New Orleans, fire.?
.quently selling eight-pound baskets at
IS cents. The Italians of New Orleans
buy the grapes and make them into
wine. Capt. Shannon has realized as
high as $500 per acre for his Champion
grapes. That is certainly a high per
cent. on the investment. He also cul.
tivates the Herbemont for manufac-
turing wine. The S%cuppernog grape is
another variety that Is noted in the
iG eg. Gimp o ghfimnatacuruf5kL
south for its great abundance and free
dom from disease. The ~Scuppernong
il a prolific, long-lived and very profit
able grape, and yet it is seldom found
In the country home.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
Bamberee to Remain in Mississippi

The United States department of ag-
riculture has instructed Prof. w. M.
Bamberge. boil weevil expert, to spend
the autumn and winter period in Missis-
sippi. AS soon as the cotton picking
season is we'll under way, Prof. Bam-
berg will commence a tour of the State
for the purpose of %instructing farmers
in the use of fertilizers, illustrating the
methods whereby the greatest good can
be obtained from the smallest amount
Of fertilizers.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
Picnic and Reunion

Fully 1900 persons attended the pic
mic and reunion of McLean's Camp,
United Confederate Veterans, at Ar
chusa Springs, near Quitman.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
Silver Service Fund.

Mississippi's fund to purchase a silver
service for the batileship Mississippi
has reached the sum of $4,000, that
amount being now in the hands OF the
GOVERNOR.