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The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
HAD WORKED HARD
APPLICANTS REFERENCES SAT.
ISFIED THE HOUSEWIFE.
Better Than Any Documentary Evil
dence She Might Have Car
ried Was Mute Testimony
offered by Cook.

She was a gaunt, m~iddle-aged wom-
an, In a clean but faded calico dress.
Her hair drawn into a tight knot at
the crown Of her head left her rugged
features and furrowed cheeks unre-
lieved and her little black straw hat
cooked at a humorous angle on top
of her head transformed her into a
living ~caricature.
Mrs. Torrance opened the door to
her with a sigh. All day long she had
been answering the doorbell and ex-
aiming specimens from the intelli-
gence Office, and her nerves had about
reached the raw edge of endurance and
were ready to jump over. Such speci-
mems! Mrs. Terrence shuddered at
the thought of letting one Of them into
her dainty, well-ordered little fiat.
Yet you can't do your homework
and have time to make yourself lovely
and charming for a young and dis
eliminating husband, too. Mrs. Tor
rance simply had to have a maid.
At sight Of the latest conner her
heart sank. The big Irish woman i'm
pressed her more u~nfavorably than any
OF her predecessors. Mrs. Torrance
was almost beginning to tell her that
she hau been suited already and to
turn her away, when a wistful look in
the woman's eyes made her ask her to
step in.
II was stint by the intelligence,
num-" said the woman, briefly.
."Have you a reference?" Mrs. Tor
rance put that question first, because
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
FRIENDSHIP A STRANGE ONE
Cat and Duck Are Chums, According
to a Story That Comes from
England.

We have had the usual crop Of curl
osities as to nesting places and strange
families adopted by birds and animals,
but nothing more diverting than a fell
lowship which exists between a GER
tain ample "mouser" and a duck of
gooselike proportions.
Puss waits by the side of the pond
in which the duck takes its bath, then
the two retire in company to the shade
of the trees and lie down in amity.
How the cat tolerates the wet feath-
ers of it's comrade is a mystery; but
there they lie, the duck with one of
it's wings spread as a shield over the
cat, the tail of the latter curled like a
very smart boa about the neck of it's
feathered friend.
So long as the worm keeps beneath
the turf and songsters do not stoop too
low in the air the idyl lasts, and all
local life wonders.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
English the World Language.

The new world language, Esperanto,
seems to have already won more advo-
Gates than the older Volapuk. No
manufactured language, however,
seems to have much chance in COM
petition with English, which long ago
displaced French as the most useful
and widely spoken language and which
Is gaining faster than ever in all parts
of the world. Quite recently the Ger
man government has ordered that all
railway officials and employees must
learn to speak English. In Antwerp
also the authorities are urging all
classes to study English and are pro-
viding special facilities in the public
schools; the city has become almost
an English-speaking port" In Japan
all school children are now obliged
to learn u language. A few years
hence tourists from this country will
be able to get along there as easily
rs on a trip at home. With Great
Britain, India, Australia, Canada, the
United States and large sections of
Africa using English, what hope Is
there for any other language?
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
The Roads Question.

The question that confronts us to-
day is not, "Shall W. have good
roads?" but What is the best way to
secure them?" 1t must be conceded
that an initiative step is to give up
everywhere the time-worn and per.
nicious system of working out road
tax. In many communities a direct
road tax has been substituted, the
proceeds of which are expended on the
highways under the supervision of ex-
perts. The subject of state and ma
tional highways has been broadly dis
cussed and generally approved, though
there is still a mooted point az 70
how much the general government
shall furnish, how much the state
shall pay and what proportion of the
expense shall be borne by the oun
ties and acknowledgements
Farmer. 3
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10

CATS ABLE TO STOP TRAINS
Engineers Say Eyes Of Feline Family
Are Like Signal Lamps
at Night.

Brookfeld, Mo.-"Did you ever see
a black cats eyes when they were in
the line of an electric light?" asked
Ben Woodlief, travelling engineer for
the Missouri division of the Burling-
ton road. eff one steps on the rail-
road track ahead of the engine and
looks up the engineer sees two vivid
lights ahead of him as large and
clearly defined as any signal service
lights on the road. Sometimes they
are red, but most generally green or
white. In the night time, of course,
the engineer can't see the cat, and
all he can do is to run in obedience
to the cat-eye signals. If they are
white he goes ahead, without slack
ing; if green he is cautious; II red
he applies the air to make a stop.
Sometimes a train is brought to a
dead halt before the engineer learns
what's up against him. The running
men tell mi that. the eyes Of polecat's
and rabbits are almost as perfect sig
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
Dripping Pan on Tombstone

One frequently comes across curious
epitaphs, but we have never before
heard of that useful and necessary
kitchen requisite the dripping PAN
figuring upon a tombstone. The fol-
lowing curious lines, however, are to
be found in Wooditton c~hurchyard,
near Newmarket, England, and let into
the head of the stone is a dripping
pan:
To the memoir of William Simonds,
who died March 1, 1853, aged so years.
Here lies my corpse who was the man
That loved a sop in dripping a
But now believe me l am dead
See here the a stands at my head
Still for sop to the last I cried
But could not eat and so 1 died
NV neighbors they perhaps may laugh
Now they do read my epitaph.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
FARMER AND PLANTER
PRESERVING SOIL FERTILITY
Value Of Vegetable Matter Returned
to the Soil and the Importance
Of Sowing Legumes.

We spent a very pleasant day, re-
Gently, down at the experiment sta
ton at Griffin, Ga. We got a good
many good ideas, but M impressed
us more than the rest. We have al
ways known that 1t was very impor-
tant to low our lands In vetch, grain
or peas, to return vegetable matter to
our soil and to rest it from SO much
| clean culture. But just how valuable
this was we had w determined.
This is the true mission of the expert
ment station, to do this and like
classes of work for us, as they have
both the facilities and the time. Prof.
Kimbrougn showed us two acres of
land Is near the same natural fertn-
ity as it is possible to find, right side
by side. On one he sowed hairy vetch
and turned the crop under after ma
turity. The other was cultivated in
cotton. The next year both were
planted in cotton, fortified and cul-
tivated exactly alike. In the fall that
one that had been sown in vetch
yielded 1000 pounds of seedcotton.
the other one only 1000 pounds of
seed cotton, or only MALT. Now If our
southern farmers would only put this
valuable lesson in practice, it would
pay us all the experiment station will
cost us in a thousand years. Why
will we persist in planting 100 acres
in cotton every year, when we can
make just as much cotton on so acres
II we will SOW the other SO acres in
vetch and peas and we can save the
hay, only returning the roots and the
stubble to the land. This is evidently
far the wisest policy, SO let's get to
following it. At least try this plan on
several acres this fall. In September
sowit In vetch. If planted in cotton,
SOW 1t in your cotton, by putting Is
pounds of hairy vetch seed per acre
and covering lightly with wide scraper
or cultivator. After you have gathered
your cotton and when the ground is
frozen in the winter, knock the
stalks all down close so you a cut
your vetch. In May next cut this
vetch and SOW one bushel OF coWpeas
per acre, and cut when pease begin
to ripen, and see if in 1908 this does
not double the yield of your land that
has been continually planted in cot
ton; thus giving you the hay clear
profit. For all expense of peas and
vetch will be saved in what would
otherwise go to cultivate a crop of
cotton upon this land.
AS we ride over our southland and
look out upon the land CALLED and
bleached from continued cultivation
in cotton, it seems to cry out for
humus or vegetable matter, in tones
loud enough to reach the heart of
any man, especially if he be a land
lord. Unfortunately so much OF lands
are rented out to negroes who know
nothing but to raise cotton and must
of necessity plant it to meet their de-
mands in the fall. Sucn farms can
not be brought up to a high state Of
fertility. We call upon those who are
tilling their own lands to begin to
pursue a wiser course. Look to your
land, no so much for immediate re-
suits as for permanent AMI bet
ter results. We need more system and
a better one in our farm work.
Southern C%ultivator.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10

she had determined that she would
take no one until she had looked her
up and found her well recommended.
The Irish woman looked taken back
for a moment. Then she stretched out
two big, hard, rough, red, knotted
hands. The veins stood up upon them
in purple lines and the finger nails
were worn to the quick. The skin was
calloused and chapped until it looked
ready to peel.
There, num-" she said, quickly,
"thim's me riferince."
"Ill take you," said Mrs. Torrance,
impulsively.
That night, as Mr.. Torrance sat
down to the best dinner he had eaten
for months, he looked his congratula-
tions across the table to his wife.
well, you have a jewell" he ex-
claimed. How did you find herr"
ooh, William" said Mrs. Torrance,
Il don't know where she comes from
nor anything about her. 1 just took
her on circumstantial evidence"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
NORTH CAROLINA TOWN
HAS A new HOBO CURE
Marshal Lines Up Tramps and Makes
Them Run Race, Threatening
to Flog Loser.

Raleigh, N. C.-The town of Will.
son, this state, has introduced a new
form of "sport"-tramp racing. When
a hobo hits the town" he is arrested
and incarcerated in the lookup.
When several have been accumulated
the whole lot is marched out into the
public square. Across this a line Is
drawn and the tramps are told to line
up. Hardly has the ragged line been
formed when the town marshal con-
fronts them, rawhide whip in hand,
and informs them that one mile down
the road is a ditch that marks the
corporate limits of the town. At a
given signal they are to start for the
ditch, and it is to be distinctly under
stood that the hobo whose tattered
Dat tail last 1utters across the ditch
is to be treated to such a flogging as
he will have cause to remember all
the days of his life.
This prOnunciamento Is announced
with an impressiveness that leaves
no doubt in the minds of its hearers,
and the Ragged Bobs' Immediately
begin to inspect mi another in an
effort to size up each others sprint
ing ability, the short hobo cycling the
long legs of his neighbor with envy.
Line I'D an toe the mark square, -
shouts the marshal.
cit seti"
"Go!"
The line surges, then breaks and
off go the hoboes. The marshall and
his assistants leap upon their wait
ing horses and are off after the flying
tramps, catching up with them and
squirting the ambition of the laggards
with sharp warning ficks from their
whips.
Straight down the road goes the
flying company, their heels patterine
upon the ground with spurts of dust
From tattered bulks they quickly
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
Mouse's House Of Toothpicks.

Manchester, N. H.-An ingenious
arrangement for housekeeping made
by a mouse was revealed by house,
cleaning operations on the part of an
Exeter resident recently. A carton
ST wood toothpicks had been placed
in the rear of a drawer in the pantry.
Between the end of the drawer and
the partition was space enough to lay
a toothpick l~engthwise. The mouse
made it's way into the drawer and
removed every toothpick from the
carton and carefully built them up
into a square in the space at the
rear. They were carefully placed one
above another, the o layers hold
ing the whole fabric firmly. Then
the mouse made a warm nest in the
bottom.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
Set Fashion in Surgery.

Confined at st. Luke's hospital, Den
yer, having recently undergone an
operation on one of her fingers, which
had become deformed from a break
and which was Strengthened, is Miss
Mary H. Gartside, who, according to
the Times of that city, has the dis
tinction of being the first person on
record to have the vermiform. appen-
dix removed.
1t was because of this operation,
which was purely experimental and
which was resorted to in the last ex-
tremity, that the possibility of remov-
ing the appendix was discovered.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
Book 1000 Years Old.

A descendant of the ancient Baby
lonians, Mrs. Annie Naparian, of
Nashua, N. H, has in her possession
a book written in the language Of the
race and supposed by her to be dated
many years before the Christian era.
The book is 10 inches long, 8 inches
wide and 5 inches thick. The covers
are made of black walnut covered with
leather. The leaves of the book are
not of paper, but are made of some
kind of skin.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
A Fence Of Doors.

Near Ridgewood, in Brooklyn, there
Is perhaps the oldest fence in Great
er New York. 1t is composed entirely
Of doors-scores Of them, all of a
height and Joined together. The fence
has stood for years on the Myrtle
avenue line Of the Brooklyn Heights
railroad. What strange freak induced
it's owner to erect 1t is a mystery, but
it furnishes a constant ource of COM
ment to persons passing that way.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
Sofa Beans and Corn.

Sofa beans can be planted with corn
that will be grown for making .ensi-
lage. The beans and vines can be
harvested with the corn, and as the
beans are rich in protein. they will
improve the corn ensilage. The beans
will greatly increase the quantity Of
ensilage, and not exhaust the land,
but improve it. The bean vines will
add a value of $40 per acre to the
yield OF ensilage.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
Glass Floors for Safety.

Glass floors around electrical
switchboards are recommended for
safety by an English expert. Several
fatal accidents have occurred on ac-
count of the operator coming in con-
tach with exposed parts charged with
current while standing on the iron
or wood grating commonly used in
the platform. Many English plants
are now putting in the glass floors.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
cantaIoupe Crop in the South.

The increased acreage in canta-
loupes and tomatoes in the south will
demand many cars. L~awrenceburg
and Decherd, Tenn, will lave mill
lions Of c~antaloupes this season.
These places have not heretofore
grown these melons for market. The
railroads will be short of cars If the
crop should be what it at present. In
dicates. The acreage in Lawrence
county, Tenn, is estimated at 5000.
This is an indication of the progress
going on in the sunny south.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
BIBLICAL

A Canton CO., theological student in
terested in baseball wrote a thesis or
Baseball Among the Ancients," from
which are cleaned the following facts:
Abraham made a sacrifice.
The Prodigal Son made a home run.
Cain made a base hit when he killed
Abel.
David was a great long-distancs
thrower.
Moses shut out the Egyptians at the
Red sea.
Moses made his first run when he
slew the Egyptian.
The devil was the first coacher. Eve
stole frst-Adam stole second.
When Isaac met Rebecca at the we'll
she was walking with a pitcher.
Samson struck out a great many
times when he beat the Philistines.
The real test of virtue comes after
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10

the five-story main building. Then
the superintendent crept up the lad
der left by the f1remen, under cover of
the gathering darkness, disguised as
a patient.
Pretending to cover his movements
with utmost secrecy, he edged his
way to Daily.
I've been here a s long as you
have" the superintendent whispered;
'this is our chance. Let's climb down
and run while it is dark"
DAILY, who had spurned every bait
offered during the day and had threat
ened to hurl himself to the ground
and to death if any one tried to put
hands on him, was charmed. He fol-
lowed DR.. White down and was
seized by hidden attendants as he
stepped upon the ground.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
Admirable Arrangement

"Where are you going to spend
your vacation this summer, Cross
way?"
1--WE are going out to my brothers
farm in the country"
You're not afraid to leave your
house ~unoccupied during your alb
sence?"
ut won't be ~unoccupied. My broth
er and his family are coming to the
city for their vacation, and they'll use
the house while we are away.'-Chi-
cage Tribune.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
AN ASYLUM PATIENT DEFIES
GUARDS FOR 12 HOURS.
THREATENS TO KILL SELF
Various Schemes to Capture Him
Prove Fruitless Until Superin-
tendent Finally Lures Him
to Safety.

Chicago.-Dr. o. C. White com
pleted his third day as superintendent
of the Dunning institution by Turing
from a roof and rescuing Joseph DAILY,
an insane patient, who had defied
hospital attendants and others for IL
hours.
AS twilight came the guards, fire.
men and voluntary helpers were sent
away. Daily apparently vas to be left
to his devices aloft on the cornice of
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10

dwindle into ragged specks and are
soon lost to view in a cloud of dust,
while the assembled spectators shout
with glee.
AS a matter of fact, no man has yet
been f1ogged, but belief in the fog.
ging of the last man across the ditch
is firm and no tramp that has once
to return to the town of Wilson.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10

mails as cats eyes. No, there's been
no talk of training cats to act as sig
nalmen. Engineers would stand for
it, because they hate cats on general
principles, and If they had their way
would be happy to lay the universal
feline on the rails in front of their
locomotives and crowd on all steam"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
Not a Trouble Seeker.

Wedderly-Why don't you take a
wife, old man?
Singleton-And thereby do some
married man a personal favor? Not
ue.-Chicago Daily News.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
DoUBLE-BAss A MONSTER
Extraordinarily Large Instrumen,
Made in Germany for Use in
Chicago Orchestra.

The extraordinary large double-bass
here illustrated was made by Herr
Otto Roth In Markneukirchen, and Is
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10

The real test of virtue comes after
office hours.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-10
A Grecian bowl of the fifth century
B. c., showing the method of teaching
the young boys by illustration.
Insect Examples,

Use done observe dat busy bee
Dey tells SO much about,
Bout copyin' his industry
I sho'ly has a doubt.
De butterf1y's de one dat knows
De way to do de trick.
He allus wars his Sunday clo'es
An never works a lick!
-Washington Star.
The Delta independent., 1906-07-20
Of INTEREST TO YOU.
Ice Wagon Speed.

Sometimes the ice-wagon is slow and
the good housewife who has friends for
dinner often stampedes the whole fami-
ly because it doesn't get there. But
last Monday was an off day. Never be-
fore in its history has the ice wagon of
this berg made such glorious trip as
occurred then. 1t is said that cool
draft from the ice startled the horses
and in their mad endeavor to get away
from it took the wagon with them.
The speed was so great that the intense
friction caused during the run melted
all Of the ice and the driver was obliged
to go back to the sheds for another
load. And this is no frost" either.
The Delta independent., 1906-07-20
WANTED! EARLY FRUITS
FOR STATE EXHIBIT.
All Ranchmen Having Anything Fancy in Cherries,
Apricots, Early Peaches Or Other Products Which
Can be Kept by Cold Storage, Requested to
BRING Them in at Once.

Bring fancy early futs Arrangements have been made
with the State Fair people to place into cold storage
hbts early which may be suitable for display next
September Pueblo There absolutely expense attached
this display and all that asked of the exhibitor dona
ton of the products brought The Fair Association have
ranged all shipments and all cold storage charges and ask
only that cooperation gathering the exhibits be given
Thad Seaton of the Seaton Drug Company has charge
of gathering the showing and everything should be brought to
his cvmpany's in Delta From there it will be taken
of by the committee and forwarded Pueblo the next
train after reaching these Headquarters.
The County Commissioners have agreed furnish $780, the
larger part the be used in sending the
county little later in the who will be instructed to make
for the shipments products which rpen later
The balance of the fund will be used in employing versatile
attendant Pueblo Delta County to stay at the
booth during the fair and inform gseers of the wonders of
this district and the desirab of locations here AS has
been mentioned before these columns the results gained by
counties last year very gratifying in comfy
investment of million dollars resulting from their
exhibit at Pueblo.
All ranchmen must cooperaie. The growers name and
residence will accompany each lot of stuff shipped and will be
tagged display Suitable literature concerning the coun-
try will be hand and chance like this must not be
looked.
Get busy Don't leave it to the other fellow. You
the other fellow. Bring in of those fine cherries
those large aprcots Gather bunch of that uXuriant alfalfa
and keep until later in the Big vegetables are also
wanted. They will keep indefinitely if placed on ice.
personal interest i" this
h6T at Pueblo be the largest Of all fruit growing Counties DO
your share toasa,d waking it g'o"d Success
The Delta independent., 1906-07-20
N0.0 900 lbs. Of Apricots.

Manager Conklin of the Delta Coun-
ty Fruit Growers Association, informs
a representative of this paper, that he
has contracted for one hundred tons of
apricots to be shipped to the Paonia
canney. This Is quite pile and rs
one mrn said didn d seem possible that
so many could be gathered. The Pao-
MIA cannery is certainly doing business
these days. AS sohn as the Austin can
merry is completed the stuff grown in
this end of the county will probably be
handled there. In the meantime the
meantime the Delta cannery presents a
sepulchurous appearance.
The Delta independent., 1906-07-20
Broke Collar Bone.

Jack" Smith, a brakeman on the
branch, had the misfortune to meet
with painful and rather peculiar acci-
dent on last Sunday afternoon. He
was playing with some children in the
yard surrounding the home of Joe Cra-
bill, where Mr.. Smith boards. While
running with one of the little ones in
his arms he collided with a clothes line.
The impact sent his head to one side
and the sudden wrench broke the collar
bone near the neck. Mr. Smith waited
until the next day for physician, DR..
Hick, the railroad surgeon being ab-
sent. Finally DR.. Burgin was called,
DR.. Hick not returning. Mr.. Smith
will be laid up for several days.
The Delta independent., 1906-07-20
Entertained the deacon"

A jolly little party bade good bye to
F. W. Bennett, the retiring manager
of the Ramsay Dry Goods Company, on
last Saturday evening at the home of
Thad Seaton. The affair was strictly
stag" and the evening was consumed
with a world of pleasure in cards and
refreshments. Long did all linger at
the table, loathe to say good bye to
Mr.. Bennett, one of the very best o
fellows and who has, during his stay in
Delta, always proven himself worthy in
every regard. The event will be q
bright spot in the days of those who
attended, moment to look back upon
with pleasure and fond reccolections.
The Delta independent., 1906-07-20
Delta Brick Hard.

An interesting little story comes
down from Paonia in regard to the Del
ia brick. One of the masons, who has
been in the habit Of using the soft red
blocks of clay that have long been in
use in the county, was trying to break
one of the Delta brick with his trowel
He tried several times and each time
the trowel descended no visible impress
sion was noticeable. Finally, he re-
sorted to sledge hammer and the
third blow the brick broke IN two
pieces. Delta brick are certainly going
to be popular for such material will last
long after you and are gone and for
gotten.