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The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26
JOHNNY FINDS THE "TIcKS."
Youngster Examines Papa's Watch
and Mamma Gets Excited.

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A youngsters desire to learn what
made the ticking of a watch caused
the finger of suspicion to be pointed
at an innocent woman one day last
week. The mystery was not cleared
until the child had completed his
search for the tick" and brought the
remains of the watch to his mother.
The case" said the detective who
investigated it, occurred last Thurs
day. A woman came to headquarters
and said her husbands watch had
been stolen from his waistcoat, hang
ing in. the hallway at home. AS there
was no one but her son Johnny, SIX
years old, and a woman in the house,
she wanted the other woman arrest
ed.
After assuring her such action
would be taken if necessary, l went
to the house.
the loss, correct. But the suspected
woman, when questioned, disclaimed
all knowledge of the missing time
piece.
But the climax was brought about
by little Johnny, who had been n
s~picuous by his absence. He sudden
ly came into the parlor. In his hands
he held a bunch of springs and the
case of what was once a valuable
watch.
"'Oh, mamma he said, here is
where the ticking came from that l
heard in fathers pocket this morning.
l have been taking it apart for the
last two hours. l have found it at last
under this big spring"
Needless to say, there was an apol-
ogy by the mother. This was follow
ed, | suppose, by a seanc in the wood
shed, where Johnny was introduced
to a. slipper welded by his irate
mother. "-Washington Post.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26
BACK TO PULPIT
What Food Did For a Clergyman.

A minister of Elizabethtown tells
how Grape-Nuts food brought him
back to his pulpit: "Some S years
ago / had an attack of what seemed
to be La Grippe, which left me in a
complete state of collapse and 1 SUI
fered for some time with nervous
prostration. My appetite failed, I
lost flesh until I was a mere skeleton.
life was a burden to me, I lost inter
est in everything and almost in
everybody save my precious wife.
Then on the recommendation of
some friends I began the S Of
Grape-Nuts food. At that time l was
a miserable skeleton, without appe-
tite and hardly able to walk across
The room; had ugly dreams at night,
no disposition to entertain or be en-
~tertained and began to shun society.
II finally gave up the regular min
istry, indeed l could not collect my
thoughts on any subject, and became
almost a hermit. After / had been
using the Grape-Nuts food for a short
time l discovered that / was taking
on new life and my appetite began to
improve; | began to sleep better and
my weight increased steadily; 1 had
lost some so pounds, but under the
new food regime I have regained al
most my former weight and have
greatly improved in every way.
81 feel that l owe much to Grape
Nuts and can truly recommend the
food to all who require a powerful
rebuilding agent delicious to taste
and always welcome" Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
A true natural road to regain health,
or hold it. is by use of a dish of
Gfape-Nuts and cream, morning and
night. Or have the food made into
some Of the many delicious dishes
given in the little recipe book found
in pkgs.
Ten days trial of Grape-Nuts helps
many. There's a reason"
Look in pkgs. for a copy of the
famous little book, THE Road to
Wellyille."
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26
Cold STORAGE Game.

The startling disclosures OF the
practices of the meat packers may
we'll give pause to the consumers OF
cold storage game. If it be the com
mon practice of the packers of beef
and mutton and pork and sausage and
canned chicken to use deadly cheml-
Gals for preserving the meats, for re-
storing the color of diseased flesh and
n~eutralizing the odors of that which is
rotten, what may we not assume to be
done in the same direction by the
dealers in cold storage game? AS is
well known, immense quantities OF
game are kept in the cold storage es-
adjustment for year, whence the
product is removed for consumption
as opportunity offers. Anyone who
has eve seen the stuff in mass knows
what a disgusting object it sometimes
is, and will readily understand that
some of it must be subjected to a
meat packers process OF renovation
before it can be served, even to the
confiding and ignorant consum-
er. Of course, much of this cold stor-
age game is eaten by persons who
have game served to them because
it is the correct thing, who have a
notion, too, that game to be game
must be "high," and who eat the BIRD
that is set before them, no matter
how alarming it may be in color and
flavor. In the light of the Chicago
packing house revelations, the con-
sumer of cold storage game may not
unreasonably view the dish with sus-
picion. and refrain from it with pru-
dence.-Forest and Stream.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

numerous family of poisonous snakes
in India, chief of which is the cobra.
The effect of a bite from any n OF
these is Similar partial paralysis.
intense thirst. sluggish in circulation
and death. The bite Of the cobra and
American rattlesnake end fatally IN
about fifteen or twenty minutes and
there is intense physical suffering.
1.-THE snake / discovered in Borneo,
about 140 miles north Of KIM Balu,
and which so far as I know has not
been classified, Is ten inches long, n
not much thicker than a lead pencil.
The head of the specimen obtained
was three-quarters of an inch in clr-
conference, and the retroverted pol
son fangs were one-thirteenth OF an
inch in length.
Its existence is known to only a
few Of the older Dyaks, and up TO
sixty or seventy years ago, one OF
these snakes was an heirloom and
used exclusively to iniict death on
the very old and on the bedridden
and helpless.
81 did not zee any of these human
sacrifices, but | experimental on
numerous dogs and pigs and was IN
formed that the effect ON the human
subject is the same. Immediately al
ter the snake struck a pig, the AMI
mails eyes became glazed and the
body began to shrink, until the skin
hung in folds. The animal suffered
no pain apparently, bat grunted m
tentedly and ate as usual. The erect
on dogs was similar. Death came
quietly within twenty-four hours.
"An old Dyak woman told me that
she wanted to die by the bite of the
peang-pin, as they call it, because
death by that method was e~cstatlc,
and that the subject enjoyed the most
delightful sensation of restful languor
that could be imagined. She had seen
her grandmother, grandfather, and
many aged members of the tribe put
to death with the snake bite, and de-
plored the fact that the Dutch mad
made it a penal offense to continue
the practise. l have no doubt That II
is continued secretly.
The ~peang-pin is the only poison
GUS snake | know of whose bite is
followed by such remarkable physical
phenomenon as the shrinking OF the
tissues. l saw only one specimen in
Rorneo and il escaped from me or
was stolen."-New York World.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26
a Doc,

Mark Twain is immensely popular
with the farmers living around Quar-
ry arm" his summer home near Ell
mira, N. Y. He and his ~neighbors
exchange experiences and both profit
thereby. The genial humorist tells OF
one farmer who purchased a hunting
dog that was highly recommended to
him by a man who did not seem par
ticularly reluctant about parting with
it. When the dog was delivered the
farmer looked it over with consider
able misgivings. 1t seemed shy and
bashful and hardly the animal it was
cracked up to be. Anxious to give it
a trial. however. he took it out shortly
afterwards and, as luck would have
it, ran across a fox. The dog took af-
ter the fox and the two we're soon out
Of sight, the farmer following as rap
idly as he could. Finally he meet
another farmer who, in response to
his inquiry, stated that they had
passed in his direction. Asked as to
how they were running, the second
farmer replied: "Wall, 1t was nip and
tuck, but l think the dog was about
three feet ahead."-Lipp1ncott's.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

Thousands of settlers rom the Unit
ed States have crossed the border north
of the Dakotas, and report that they
like the country, the land, the neigh
bors, the government, and the pros
pect, and expect to transfer their al
legiance and become subjects Of King
Edward, observes Harper's Weekly. II
is a new thing, this crowding of Unit
ed States Americans into Canada,
though the reverse has been going on
for generations. 1t seems a good thing
Tor the emigrants, and nobody objects
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

Farmers complain of having manS
grievances against the automobile y
its users. but there is another side te
the story. There are some farmers
who have been guilty of conduct cal
culated 70 cause harsh feelings toward
tba whole class of Automobiles. Be
sides the timing traps manned by
country co~nstables, the unjust arrests
and the punctures caused by new nails
deliberately bent and strewn on the
road. the motorists have been an
moved and imposed upon in many
WAYS by some bucolics. One interest
ing illustration of this comes In 8
s+orv from lower California telling Of
how a thrifty farmer near Venture
adds to his income. His place is or
the Mission road leading from Los
Angeles to FL Canine Real, a highway
much In favor with tourists. There Is
a ford in the Ventura river near the
farm house which is deeper this
spring than it was last year, and in
onsequenc the automobiles that at
tempt to ford it get stuck and have tc
be hauled out by a team of horses
that the thrifty granger keeps in read
mess. The cause for complaint is that
there is no natural reason for that
ford having a hole in it in which the
engines Of the motor cars get drowned
out of action, while the ford yet re
mains safe for horses. The farmer
does not explain. He grins and takes
the money.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

The automobile is rapidly becoming
a business necessity in many fields,
but one would scarcely expect to find
it associated in this way with the tcle-
phone. This seems to be the case,
however. The general manager of a
telephone company at Nashville,
Tenn, reports that the company now
owns fourteen automobiles of the run
about type, which are used in place
of the old horse-drawn repair wagons.
Although each machine costs about
twice as much as a horse and buggy,
it is really considerably cheaper In
the end, because it does three times
the work of its four-legged predeces-
sor. A distant break whose repair
was formerly an all days job is o a
matter of but an hour or two. The re-
suit is that the same force OF mem
can maintain the lines over a much
larger territory.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

1t is the opinion of Nature that "a
strong man should come forward and
by his influence compel all philolo
gists, the whole world over, to adopt
the Lepsius alphabet with two OF
three trifling changes) as the stand
ard which all persons must adopt IN
transcribing the languages OF the
world not already and anciently ex'
pressed in Roman letters; nay, more,
it is to be hoped one day that all the
civilized tongues of the world-Eng'
lish, French, German, Russian, Greek,
Arabic, and every other form of let
tering, and according to n standard
perhaps the ~Lepsius-of expressing
sounds by letters"
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26
Result Of Recent Experiments Made
by European Physicists.

ILLUSTRATION (Parisj gives the fol-
lowing results of recent experiments
on the subject Of the color Of water:
After long hesitation, scientific men
agree today in admitting that water
physically pure, seen in mass, is SKY
blue. This color is that taken by the
white light of the sun when absorb
ed by the water, in consequence OF o
phenomenon the explanation OF which
would be a little long. 1t is not due
TO the chemical purity of the water
since the sea (Which is the bluest wat
er) is also that which contains the
most salt. Nevertheless, according tc
Lorel's experiments, the matter In sol
alton should be the predominant eau
of the notifications Of color; upon
which act besides the matter in u.s.
pension, the color of the bottom and
the reflection of the sky and of the
banks. Consequently blue water is
pretty rare in nature; a good many
seas and lakes that give us the impress
sion of this tint are green. The water
1t present acknowledged to be the
bluest is that of the Saragossa Sea, be-
tween Cape Verde Islands and the An.
titles. The water G. to = 9 i-Gr-GA'
can off the French coast and around
Capri is bluer than that of Lake LIE.
man, much less blue itself than that Of
the Lakes of Kandersteg and Arolla
In Switzerland. Hitherto they have
not exactly determined the relation be-
tween the color of water and its degree
of purity. The Belgian Professor
Spring, who has been a long time
studying this delicate question, hai
Just communicated to the Academy Of
Sciences at Brussels some interesting
figures. Pure water containing a mil
lioneth part of ferric hydrate appears
brown under a thickness of six meters;
a ten-millionth is sufficient for it tt
be green and, in order that it may re
main blue, is needed less than a TWEEN.
ty-millionth. AS to humic matter, il
causes the blue coloring to disappear
in a quantity less than a forty-mil
lionth. Tho calcic compounds should
have a great influence upon clarified
ton as they eliminate up to a certain
state of equilibrium the ferric ant
humic compounds"
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The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

Quite a little while ago Hannibal
crossed the Alps, and the other day
King Victor Emmanuel went through
them. OF the two feats, King Victor's
is the more wonderful. The Simplon
tunnel, just opened for trafic, Is an
engineering triumph of the first mag
nitude. Said the king: 1T is a vast
enterprise, the result of half a cen
fury of study, eve years OF work n
the expenditure of nearly $15,OOO,OO0
This generation will be known in his
tory, maintains the Philadelphia Rec
ord, not from it's weaknesses, but fol
it's strength, as shown in such mar
wells as the Simplon tunnel and such
monumental charities as that evoked
by the San Francisco calamity.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

The possibility of terrestrial magne-
ism being due to the rotation OF the
earth, the outer crust of which is cleo
trified by the presence of ions escap-
ing from the interior, is pointed out.
Supposing that electromagnetic mass
could be detected by a balance, 1t 1ol-
lows that those atoms whose electrons
are moving the most rapidly will be
the heavier, and the ration OF the
atomatic weights will not be the ratio
Of the number of e%lectrons. Devla-
tons from Prout's law could thus Df
axpected.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26
A novel use Of compressed air

made by some railway companies l
the Southern states Of America, say
the Railway News. When the loads
Of cotton for export r being taken
to the coast, there Is always some dan
ger Of such highly inflammable ma
terial becoming damaged through
sparks from the locomotives. 10
prevent this, the locomotive boilers
are filled with compressed air. A train
load of several thousand bales OF cot
ton can be hauled by these locomo-
tives at a rate Of twelve miles an
hour, although no fire whatever Is
used in working them.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

The Alexander-G osling expedition In
Africa has secured the first living
specimen of the okapi. The first skin
Of that animal eve seen in Europe
was sent to the British Museum by Sir
Harry Johnston in 1901. The okapi
Is of the giraffe family, but with short
and thick neck. On the head are three
horn cores. The animals coloring is
remarkable. The cheeks and jaws
are yellowish white, and the neck
dark. The forehead and a line down
to the muzzle are a deep red chest
nut and the large ears are In the
same tint, fringed with black. The
neck, shoulders and body range from
let black to red. The tail is chestnut.
The legs and headquarters are white
Dr. pale rea color, marked with pur-
ple-black horizontal stripes and
blOtcheS.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26
UNABLE TO WALK.

Sore on Ankle Caus, d Awful sur
fering-Could Not Sleep-Cured
by Cuticura in Six Weeks.
81 had a terrible sore on my ankle, and
had not walked any for eleven months. !
tried nearly everything without any bene-
tit and had a doctor, but he didn't seem
10 do eay good. He said ! would have
to have my limb taken off, and that !
would never walk again. | suffered aW-
full, and at night l could not sleep at an
thought there was no rest for me-, put
rs soon as | began to use Cuticura Soap
and Ointment it commenced healing llcely.
[ bathed the ankle with warm water and
Cuticura Soap, and then applied Cuticur'
Ointment TO the affected part, and iald Z
cloth oyer the sore to hold it in place
After two weeks | could walk around II
INV room real good, and in six weeks tlm'
my ankle was entirely cured, and ! WA
walking around out of doors. Mrs. Mar;
Dickerson. Louisa G. H., Va, April q
Io15"
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

France TO- joins the penny post"
community, and will presently be car
rying letters all over the republic and
to all her colonies for the equivalent
of two cents of our money a letter.
In that she is following the example
of the United States and the United
Kingdom, which have long success
fully practiced such a system. Such
transportation of letters certainly
seems cheap enough at present, and
there may not soon be any effective
call for further changes in that direc-
ton. But a lesson which America may
well learn of other countries, thinks
the New York Tribune, is that Of the
parcels post, and it maybe that some
day there will be devised a practical
method of establishing an interna-
tional postage stamp system.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

A report had already been publish
ed which shows how closely the
growth of trees is dependent upon
rainfall. Not only was this seen in the
case of n and two-year old trees, but
In an investigation extending over a
period Of twelve years, during which
time the annual rings of growth were
carefully examined. With an annual
precipitation of from thirty to thirty
i've inches a width Of ring vas pro-
duced varying from II to Is inch. If,
on the other hand, there was either
an unusually large or small rainfall in
any given year this was followed by a
corresponding tree growth in the fol
lowing year.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26
No Past Tense in Politics.

Congressman Sydney E. Mudd OF
Maryland, was approached in one of
the House Hobbies recently by a Mary
lander in search Of a job. The appli-
cant wanted the congressman's in
dorsement. where do you liver"
asked Mr.. Mudd. "In Baltimore" re-
Piled the applicant hopefully. "But
Baltimore's not in my district" de-
clared Mr.. Mudd, edging away. 81
know I'm not in your district" re-
piled the seeker for political Office,
but l used to live in your district
once, for almost three months" Son."
said Mr.. Mudd, impressively, there
is no past tense in politics-only pres
ont and fntnro
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

vi Wash, writes:
81 feel better than / have for over four
years. / have taken several bottles Of
Peruna and one bottle Of Manalin.
Il can now do all of my work in the
house, milk the cows, take care of the
milk, and so forth. Think PerWnG Is
q most WONDERFUL M edcffne.
II believe l would be in bed to-day if
/ had not written to you for advice. l
had taken all kinds of medicine, but none
did me any good.
"Peruna has made me q UeLL aud
happy girl. l can never say too much
for Peruna."
Not only women of AMI and leisure
praise Peruna, but the wholesome, useful
women engaged in honest toll would not
be without DR.. Hartman's world renowned
remedy.
The Doctor has prescribed it for many
thousand women every year and he never
fails to receive a multitude of letters like
the above, thanking him for his advice,
and especially for the wonderful benefits
received from Peruna.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26
STRANGE SNAKE IN BoRNEo.
Bite is Followed by Ecstatic Languor
For Hours Before Death.


DIR. Joab Welstock, of London, who
has just completed a three years tour
in Borneo and little known islands In
the Northern Pacific ocean, arrived in
New York recently from the Pacific
coast. and will sail for England next
Wednesday. His specially is toxicol-
ogy and the principal object of bis
trip was to study and analyze the
poison of serpents.
I'm Borneo," said DR.. Welstock. I
found a snake, apparently unknown 70
the majority CT students of natural
history. J have examined the venom
sacs and their contents Of the Amerl-
can rattlesnake. the c~opperhsad, and
the smaller variety of vipers. and the
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

times dizzy spells when everything
was a blur before me. The passages
of the kidney secretions were irregu-
lar and painful, and there was con-
siderable sediment and odor. l don't
know what / would have done but
Tor Doan's Kidney Pills. | could see
an improvement from the first box,
and five boxes brought a final cure"
Sold by all dealers. SO cents a
box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
NJ "
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

A physician who makes a specially
of modern nerves says that an hour
of silence should be vigorously I'M
posed on each patient daily. In seri'
GUS cases it may even be desirable 70
enforce silence for two hears eacn
day. 1t may be that a large part OF
this doctors patients with nerves
are
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

Fruits, in some form, should enter
very largely into u diet during the
summer and fall months. We would
live longer and feel better if one meal
a day was made up Of an assortment
of fruits. The pure, disease-destroy-
ing water they contain is needed to
flush the system Of impurities which
accumulate from the eating of too
much meats, often diseased, and 9th
er concentrated foods.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

The New York Post notes that Chi
cago was quick to point out that the
proposal to pay members Of the Brit
ish House of Commons some $500 a
year is a step towards reproducing the
high grade of craftsmanship which her
own Board of Aldermen displays at
that price.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

Wireless messages have been re-
ceived at distances up to $50 miles
by means of kites flown 1000 feet
above the earth, and carrying up a
steel wire with delicate antenna wire
attached. The electric impulses reg
tstering the messages passed through
the hand of the man holding the kite
string and through the receiving oper-
ator, who clasped his hand in his own.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

The vast fortunes of the few are not
always harmful to the masses of the
people observes the Florida Times
Union. 1t all depends on how they are
used. A law that would result In the
breaking up of large fortunes would
not appreciably benefit the millions
who would get nothing from them in
either event. What matters 1t to the
public whether a millionaire leaves all
his fortune to n son or divides it be-
tween five. And. how does the over
capitalization of a corporation hurt a
man who has no stock in it?
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

Il was SO weak
ened and gener-
ally run down
with kindey dis
ease that for a
long time l could
not do my work
and was five
weeks In bed.
There was con-
tinual bearing.
down pain, terri
BILE b~ackaches,
headaches and at
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

One of the first reasons for the aDan-
doned farms in New England is the
inherent restlessness of the American
boy, maintains Prof. w. M. Munson.
of Orolo, Me.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-26

Cingalese medical books of the
sixth century are stated by Sir Henry
A. Blake, Governor of Ceylon, to
ave described 81 varieties of mos
ouitos and 424 kinds of malaria fever
caused by mosquitoes.