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The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25
Small Wonder,
BREAD DYSPEPSIA.
The Dipestine Element Left Out.

The Digesting Element Left Out.
Bread dyspepsia is common. 1t af-
fects the bowels because white bread is
nearly all starch, and starch is digested
In the intestines, not in the stomach
proper.
Up under the shell of the wheat berry
nature has provided a curious deposit
which is turned into diastase when it is
subjected to the saliva and to the pan
creatic juices in the human intestines.
This diastase is absolutely necessary
to digest starch and turn it into grape
sugar, which is the next form; but that
part Of the wheat berry makes dark
flour, and the modern miller cannot
readily sell dark flour, so natures val
liable digester is thrown out and the
human system must handle the starch
as best it can, without the help that ma
ture intended.
Small wonder that appendicitis, peri
trouble exist when we go so contrary
to natures law. The food experts thar
perfected Grape-Nuts Food, knowing
these facts, made use in their expert
ments of the entire wheat and barley,
including all the parts, and subjected
them to moisture and long continued
warmth, which allows time and the
proper conditions for developing the
diastase, outside of the human body.
In this way the starchy part is trans
formed into grape-sugar in a perfect
~ natural manner, without the use of
chemicals or any outside ingredients.
The little sparkling crystals of grape
sugar can be seen on the pieces of
Grape-Nuts. This food therefore is
naturally pre-digested and its use in
place of bread will quickly correct the
troubles that have been brought about
by the too free use Of starch in the
food, and that is very common in the
human ace to-day.
The eeffct of eating Grape-Nuts ten
days or two weeks and the %discontin-
uance Of ordinary white bread is very
marked. The user will gain rapidly In
strength and physical and mental
health.
there's a raasop."
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25
METHUSELAH.
Story Of a Decrepit Dog and How He
Repaid a Little Girls Kindness
by Saving Her Life.

Violet Amanda's eyes were as big as
| tea plates, and fairly bursting out Of
| her head as she rushed into the sitting
| room, where Marcy and the boy were
playing.
"Dey's a mad dawg undah de sink!
| Fob de Lawd, he jes' come rushin'
| straight in at de back dol"
Where? Where?" saiu the boy and
Marcy in one breath.
"Undah de sink. He done pinted
fob dat dahk conan, an l tuhned nah
heels an ran for you'alls."
What does he look like?"
LAX a imp of Stain, an dat's do
| trufe. He's brack as de debbil hisself.
| You-alls bettah not go out dab. Yo'
gwine git bit, and had de hydrofabby.
shot,"
Father was away and mother was
| sick, so there was no n to hinder
| them. and the children Immediately
made tracks for the kitchen.
Sure enough, under the sink in the
| dark corner by the pipes was a dog
not black, but yellow, and his eyes
were staring and ~bloodshot. But
| Marcy saw something more thar this.
| She saw the end of a rope.
There's a rope around his neck, and
| he's choking. That's what's the mat
ter. | don't believe he's mac a bit"
"You better look out, Marcy.
The boy'a bump of discretion was
more fully developed.
But Marcy could not see any living
| thing suffer, and not try to help it.
Poor doggie! Poor doggIe!" she
| said in her soothing voice, and went
straight up to him.
The dog looked at her, wild-eyed and
painting, with his tongue hanging out.
| Marcy felt of the rope. 1t was tight,
and the dog could scarcely breathe.
| He covered as she touched him, but
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DO I know Of a single publisher who Is
in better circumstances than myself"
you amaze me. sir!" ] cried. THE
popular impression is quite otherwise"
THE popular impression is usually
wrong. / assure you, sir. that the
American publisher places Literature
above material prosperity, and esteems
himself fortunate If he is able to pro-
vide for his family even so modest q
home as that which you see before
YOU"
But surely" said l, "the profits of
book-making were never greater than
to-day"
True. And royalties were never so
high. The authors reap all the profits.
1t is they who occupy the apartment
houses, who keep carriages, who are to
be found in Capri, or Rome, or Paris.
or cruising in their yachts through
summer cas-"
But your grea. successes. your Best
Sellers"
ION a Is or 20 per cent. royalty the
o Best Sellers l publish the more
money / lose. 1t Is only by publishing
a magazine on the side that I contrive
to keep the scales even. II I published
nothing but successful novels I should
be sold out by the sheriff. and my little
wife would be without q roof for her
head"
I was deeply affected, and for a space
there was no sound in the room save
the scratching of my pencil.
How, sir" I asked presently, do
you account for the prosperity of Mr..
Plates, the publisher, whom know
well. He lives in style and keeps his
ent income"
plates is a printer, or a reprinter,"
replied Mr.. Greatheart. He issues
only reprints of old books, which he
sells in sets at a dollar a month. Dead
authors ask NJ royalties. That is not
being a publisher; that is not dsvoting
ones life to the cause Of Literature.
One cannot serve both Literature and
Mammon."
AS Mr.. Greatheart spoke these ring
ing words the door opened and his
wife entered-a brave-faced little wo-
man, plainly but neatly dressed. She
had been to a de'icatessen store, she
explained, and smil,ngly, even gaily,
exhibited her purcbases-three kinds
OF sausage, rye bread and Dill pickles.
l must stay and take supper with
them, she said.
But l was compelled to decline the
invitation, as l already had a dinner
engagement at the Waldorf with a IA
mou Indiana author.
l was rather glad of 1t, l confess, for
the dinner proved uncommonly good.
But as l sat slipping ny champagne
and smoking the expensive cigars my
host provided, the picture of Mrs.
Greatheart doing reedlework by lamp
light rose In my mind. And when my
novelist friend informed me that he
had just signed a contract with Mr..
Greatheart for another book, on a fiat
royalty of 20 per cent. l felt so sorry
for the. publisher that l could barely
murmur NV congratulations.
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~sYMPToMATIc OF SPRING.
When the Awfully Tired Man HES
Elm to the Water for Tussls
with the Fish.

Yes, my dear; the man is very
tired.
He has been working Awfully Hard
for the Past Year. Now he will pro-
coed to take a Rest.
He will rest, / said. Tomorrow he
will shoulder a F~ishfngrod, lug a can
of Worms in one hand and a basket
of Lunch in the other and HE him
self to the River for a Fishing Stunt.
Will that rest him?
He thinks it will, and that is
Enough. Five days a week for the
past year he has sat at a Desk three
Hours in the forenoon and three hours
in the afternoon, debating letters and
telling Other men what to do. This
has been very strenuous, and he Is
Much Fatigued. So tomorrow he will
tramp 'steen miles through mud and
sand and brush, stand in the hot sun,
drink river water, eat a Cold Lunch
full of Ants and Bugs, and in the
evening he will drag himself home,
wondering all the way if he will ever
Get There.
In the morning he will arise as
stiff as a poker and as sore as a gum
boil. but he will be Rested. 1t was
a day off from the strenuous business
life, and that Is Sufficient.
But it is Funny, isn't it, that a mar
can get Rest out Of that sort OF
thing?
No, he will not get any Fish.
He will get Sunhurn. M"''~'H and
Chiggers: but he will get no FISH
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Bubble
and
Squeak
By B. L. TAYLOR
With soma extracts from tho unpub-
iished work Of tho late Walter
Blackburn Harte.


There is nothing so satisfac-
tory in this life as to accomplish
something without anyone's aid.
A hearty mental vote Of thanks
to ones own self is the most in
spring sensation one can ever
experience.
Too many mistake the COM
monplace for the common, and
so fritter away their art in tri-
vialities instead Of realities.
am a believer in intimacy be-
tween husband and wife-even
that intimacy where politeness
may be neglected. If l were a
woman I would rather live with
a man quarreling and pickering
half the time, and love-making
the other half, than with a cere-
mony which precluded demon
stration in any shape or form.
The former mode of living is
like eating palatable, if indiges-
tible food, which makes 1t neceS-.
sary to follow it up with bitter
medicine. But the latter is like
living on n monotonous diet Of
healthy porridge. Give me the
mixture of tasty relishable indi-
gestibles and bitter medicine!
The man who listens to an
other mans wife's domestic trou-
bles is usually the cause of the
greatest domestic i%nfelicity. %
To be the apologist of a fool
is not an cnviable POSITION but
there is no doubt that it requires
some cleverness.
l hate those women who, after
two minutes conversation, be-
gin to discuss the servant Ques-
ton.
1t Is one of the distinctive
characteristics of a lady" to loll
and have headaches. The serv-
ants are NOT supposed to have
such an ailment.
y
She-Don't you think it abso-
lutely wicked - degrading - to
turn a brilliant f1irt into a mere
ly good domestic woman?
y
No woman experiences a great
er thrill Of pleasure than a
plain woman who has a particu-
larly handsome husband who de-
clares and vows that she is
beautiful.
WALTER BLACKBURN HARTE.
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The Worst Over.

An old lady from the far north OF
England was travelling by the North
British railway, justly famous former
ly, says the author of "reminiscences
of Manchester" (England), for taking
the longest possible time for making
the shortest possible distances.
There was a man travelling with her
in the carriage, and when they APP
preached some terminus where they
were to change to another line, he
thawed sufficiently to ask the old lady
where she was going.
"Ganging? Well, I'm ganging ava
to China" she replied, "but, Ell. mon,
I'm mair ma thankful that I've gait
the wairst O. the journey a'er."
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how this young archduke, riding lie day in a country district, had compelled
a funeral procession to halt and remain standing while he jumped hist horse
backwards nc forwards wei tn coffin containing the body o. a poor peasant
woman.
And Pernerstorfrs next story of the Archduke Otto, Franz Ferdinands
brother and next heir to the crown, was infinitely more discredtabe. Amid
intense excitement the socialist leader told of an incident in the archduke
life when he al stationed in the garrison at Klagenfurt, and had been nal
Iid only four months
The archduke a e a supper party, when everybody got drunk, and then
in this hilarious condition Otto offered to show his brother officers his wife
the Archduchess Maria Josepha, in bed, remarkng that he supposed they
had lever seen a princess in her night dress before The archduke's aid de
camp, less drunk than the rest oft the party, interposed in a vigorous manner
and, drawing his sword, stood before the O leading to the archduchess
apartments and defed the archduke or any of the Others to cnter. And they
didn't attempt it.
These We stories were the ON topic O conversation in h country, and
as they we're uttered in parliament the press could publish them without
interference, and they were circulated everywhere.
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Father toiled on the hide,
ooh, it was such hard workD
And had he been n of US,
Perhaps he'd have shirked!
Then when twas quite ready,
A strange little man
Came into the home
And examined the tan.
Then he laid out his tools.
And his lasts (oh, so qLeero
But this always happened,
At least once a year..
Soon he set to his task,
And he cobbled away,
With peg, awl and hammer
Taking more than a day!
AT last they were ready
OF course, you've guessed whose:
Why, John Nathan P~errygreens
Pair of new shoes.
They were paid for in foodstufs;
In change, not a dime
All little boys shoes-yes;
In great-grandfather's time!
-Adelbert F. Caldwell, in Brooklyn
Eagle.
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CLOTHES AND D

Addison could not write his best IN
less he was well dressed.
Every man and every woman feels
the influence of clothes and appearance
upon conduct.
Indeed, in a millennium Of free
clothes of the, latest fashion we shall
all be erchangels.
You have heard c. the lonely man in
the Australian push who always put
on evening dress for dinner. so that
he might remember he was a gentle
man.
Put a naughty girl into her bes.
Sunday clothes, and she will behave
quite nicely. Put d ~blackguard into
khaki and he will be a hero. Pu:
an omnibus conductor into uniform
and he will live up to his clothes.
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been having heavy backache and
nv genera health was affected when
began using them. My feet were
swollen, my eyes pulled. and dizzy
spells were frequent. Kidney action
was irregular and the secretions high
ly colored. To-day, however, am a
well woman, and I am confident that
Doan's Kidney Pills have made me
so, and are keeping me WELL
Sold by all dealers. so cents a DOH.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25
BRITISH MINISTER OF EDUCATION

A position of much prominence and some
embarrassment is that occupied by the Right
Honorable Augustine Birrell, minister OF educa-
ton in the new Liberal cabinet in Great Britain.
To his lot it fell to introduce the education bill,
which may be described as having given moder-
ate satisfaction to the Nonconformists, alarmed
c~hurchmen, and is fercely attacked by the Labor
party, who desire that education shall be entirely
secular. Under it's provisions full public control
is taken Of all schools, religious tests for teach
ers are abolished. and the local education au-
thority becomes responsible for the maintenance
of the faoric of the non-provided schools. Provi-
sion is also made for non-denominational teach
ing in schools on two mornings in the week.
Should four-hfths of the parents desire 1t, non
denominational teaching may be given every day.
On all sides the measure is described as weak
and vacillating.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25

"He's bitten! My own Methuselah!"
walled Marcy, kneeling by him.
And it was true. Father took him
tenderly to the barn, that the children
might not see him suffer. Soon a shot
was heard, and they knew hat Methu-
selah vas beyond all his troubles.
That night father took his little girl
tenderly in his arms.
Marcy, girl" he said, you shall
keep all the old useless dogs and cats
you want to. I'm thankful enough that
you kept methuselah. Sarah Noble
Ives, in Boston Globe.
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TWlcE-ToLD TESTIMONY. /
A Woman Who Has Suffered Tells
How to Find Relief.
The thousands of women who suffer
languor, urinary disorders

and Other Kidney
ills, will find COM
fort in the words
of Mrs. Jane Far
rell, of COG Ocean
Ave-, Jersey City,
N. j., who says:
81 reiterate all I
have said before in
praise of Doan's
Kidney Pills. / had
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25
SENATOR CLARR,s SUCCESSOR

F. Augustus Heinze, who, 1t is said, will sue
coed Senator Clark as Montanas mouthpiece in
the upper house of congress, as a result of a
peace compact between the two rival mining
magnates, is noted for the bitter fight he has car
ried on for the last five years against the Anal
gamated Copper interests. He went into the
northwest as a struggling mining engineer, with
out capital. and by means of Napoleonic craft
and luck has piled up an immense fortune. Born
in Brooklyn in 1869, he was graduated from the
Polytechnic Institute of his native city and from
the school of mines of Columbia university.
Study in Germany completed his education and
in 1889 he went to Montana equipped with scien-
tifc knowledge which in a few years made him
master of half the state. His financial interests
led him to enter into politics.
He has now sold out his copper interests for
s25, 900, 900. The ending of the war leaves him
without an occupation. The natural assumption
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25
LEADING AUSTRIAN SOCIALIST

Engelbert Pernerstorfer, aggressive leader of
parents; his father dying when the boy was only
four years old, he was brought up amid hardships
and poverty. By dint of hard work and great
self-denial, he managed to obtain a good educa-
ton, even going through the Vienna university.
lie managed to get into the reichsrath. and bis
oratorical abilities did good service for his party
One speech he made has become historical, main
ly on account of what followed it. During a de-
bate in the house in 1883, Pernerstorfer took the
opportunity of telling two stories-parliamentary
utterances even in Austria are privileged and
matters can be debated openly in the reichsrath
which can scarcely be whispered outside.
These stories touched closely two archdukes,
the nearest heirs to the throne. The first was
told Of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the en-
peror's nephew and heir presumptive. 1t was
not q nice or creditable tale relating as 1t did
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25
Seave>d Of Norway.

Along the shores Of Joderen. on the
southwest coast Of Norway. the seaweed
grows In yeritable forests; not the COM
mon grass variety but actual trees from
five to six feet in height, with stems like
ropes and leaves as tough as leather. It
begins to sprout In March and April and
gradually covers the ocean bed with .
dense, ~impenetrable brush
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25

amusement for young people from the
time of our grandfathers; but, eX-
plains the Chicago Daily News, mod
ern ingenuity has devised many other
figures of the same kind.
One of them is a swan, which you
are to picture as gliding along the
surface of a pond, and turning its
head to preen it's feathers. Here is
the figure, which is made by holding
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25

| made no effort to run. Few animals
looked at Marcy without trusting her.
Get me the butcher knife" she said.
The boy brought it, and the cruel
rope was cut. The dog sank painting
on the floor, and closed his eyes.
"Do you think he's dying?"
Nom, Miss Marcy" said Violet
Amanda, who had recovered her
senses, nom, he amt dyin'. He's
jes' restin'. You got de beatin'est way
| wild dumb beasts, l ebah see."
Marcy patted the yellow head, and
the dog opened his eyes and licked her
hand. So their friendship was begun,
and a bowl of milk and a dish of
| chicken bones sealed it for life.
OF course father said she might keep
the dog. Margy's hospital amused but
never annoyed him. Marcy proceeded
to take stock of his ailments, and they
were not to be sneezed at. Besides the
rope, there was a broker tail, three
lame legs and several spots on his
back where the hair had been scalded
off. He was blind in one eye, and
| Margy's futile efforts TO attract his at
tention by calling proved him to be
utterly deaf. A poor old thing he was
"a dog to be gotten rid of, as the rope
would indicate.
But Marcy loved him, and words
cannot paint the devotion of Methu-
selah Gas he was named) for his mis-
tress. He would follow her when she
walked, lie by her side when she
worked or played, and howl disconso-
lately if a door was shut between
them.
A week or two later father came
into the house, followed by two hard
faced men.
These men say, Marcy, that the
dog is theirs-that he killed sheep, and
that they must kill him."
Il don't believe it," said Marcy, hot
ly.
How are we goin' to prove that he
don't?" said one of the men.
We'll" said Marcy, hes deaf, for
one thing, he's half blind and he's got
three lame legs. Any sheep that
couldn't get away from him ought to
be killed! So there!"
well, anyway, he's a nuisance, and
he's too old to live. We'd better take
him off and kill him. sissy"
"You shan't! You shan't!. He's
mine. l saved him."
Then father spoke:
II think the dog is harmless, and if
my daughter wants to keep him I'll
take the responsibility"
The men went off, muttering, and
Methuselah came from behind Margy's
skirts, wagged his broken tail and
licked her hand with grateful tongue.
The next few months made up for all
the sorrows of his past life.
How it all happened no one knows,
but one day, late that summer, the
children had been playing in the front
yard, When Methuselah suddenly
reused himself with a low growl.
Then they saw him shaking something
and tossing it about, growing vicious
ly all the time.
Marcy and the boy ran towards him
and he tossed a limp thing aside and
wagged his tail as they drew near.
"It's a snake! It's a snake! Hi.
father" shouted the boy. And father
came running from the shop.
"Himmel! It's a rattlesnake. The
first I've seen in 20 years."
"Methuselah killed him."
"And you playing right here In the
yard! Thank heaven you were not
bitten. Methuselah, you're a brick.
You've earned the best there is for the
rest of your life!"
But Methuselah was lying on the
ground, and his eyes were rolling in
pain.
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crime, etc While yt a n Undergraduate in the medical school he VA sum
moned, in conjunction with Dr. Carlos F. Macdonald. by the state o perform
the autopsy and examine the brain of Czolgosz the assassin of President
Mckinley. Since then he las examined the brains of many criminals. His
anatomical researches include morphological studies o the brains of the
two Lrs. Sequin, father an sn Maj John w. Powell, the eminent geologist
George Francis Train, Maj j. B. Pond. Prot Leidy and many other prom
irent mel.
Dr. spitzka has made careful studies n a series OF brains of criminals
executed in NeT York state, including the Van Worme- brothers, Thomas
Tobn and Frank Burmese. He has studied a large number OF brains Of various
races, including Eskmos, negroes, Papuans, Andaman n NNobar Islanders
IS well as the brains of many animals of various orders. His researches, how
yer are OF confined to the brain, but include all the structures in the bod.
of man and animal.
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in Montana is that he will get a seat in the senate n devote himself t
lawmaking.
Senator Clark would not have gained his seat if he had not been wealthy
Mr.. Heinze my reason that his wealth qualities him to be Senator Clarks
successor. If he has been promised the support of the Amalgamated com
and the promise is kept, he undoubtedly will be elected. Copper rules
Montana when all the mn who are in copper pull together.
ne ownership O. millions does not make a nan ineligible for a seat in
the senate. 1t is possible that he may have the qualities of an excellent
legislator The intimation that a millionaire nay be sent to the senate
through a compromise between warning mining factions is repulsive to those
who have regard for the dignity of that body. The cold blooded way in which
some citizens of Montana speak of the senatorship being thrown in as boo
honor of their state
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25
VICE ADMIRAL DOUBASSOFF

Governor General Doubassof, of Moscow, at
whom a bomb was thrown recently which wound
ed him and killed four persons, including the
assassin, has been governor general since jan
uary / last of the city in which Grand Duke
Sergius was killed on February II, 1905. He is
also an aid of the emperor and a member of the
council of the empire.
Since his appointment to his present post
several plots against him have been uncovered.
Almost Immediately after he had taken office he
incurred the enmity of the revolutionists, who
entered into a conspiracy to abduct him, but this
failed. In January he was advised that an at
tempt would be made at the celebration of the
ceremony of the blessing of the waters to assas-
sinate him.. AS a result Princess KoslOvska was
arrested, charged with being an accessory to the
conspiracy.
In March a holder attempt on Vice Admiral
nOuhaccof'c 1ifo woc fr,,ctrafnd nv tho orroct ~ q
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Got Away in Time.

Policeman's Boy (breathlessly-)-
Mother, there's been a big row iown
town. and several officers are hurt.
Policeman's Wife (~excitedly) -
Where vas it?
p. Bon fathers beat.
P. w. with a sigh of reliefi-Oh,
I'm 50 glad. Of course, your father
wasn't there when it happened?
p. B.-No, mother.-Tit-Bits.
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SHADOWGRAPHS.
Some New Figures Which Can Be
Made on the Wall After a
Little Practice.

You are all familiar, no doubt, with
the figure of a rabbit on the wall,
which is made by arranging the hands
in a certain position, and holding
them between the wall and a light.
This has been a favorite form of