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The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-30
Fortune Recovered.

The negro porter in the Conner Bros.
store at Hattiesburg was about to pitch
the sweepings from the store into the
rear alley when a police officer reached
down into the pile of rubbish and picked
out an envelope, from which he pro-
ceeded to draw greenbacks, bank checks,
and other negotiable papers to the value
of $31,93S.12. The money and papers
were the property of DR.. ]. A. B. Skies
of Iron City, Ga, who spent a few days
at Hattiesburg ard then travelled on
to New Orleans before lie discovered that
his fortune, carried in an envelope, was
missing. Then he notified the police of
his loss. The package had evidently
been left on a shelf by the absent-mind-
ID owner. 1t had hon knocked down on
the floor and, as the envelope was old
and worn, it was being swept out as
rubbish.
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BoOMERANCS.
The Truth About This Queer Native
Weapon Of the Australian
Tribesmen.

More has been written, and less
understood, of the boomerang than of
almost any other weapon. 1t Is gen.
orally known to be a fiat STICK or
wood bent into a shap which suggests
a combination of a ~" and a u,
although with the extremities spread
apart until they are at right angles
with each other.
In point of fact, boomerangs are OF
almost every shape from semi-circu-
lar to nearly straight, and seem to
depend for their efficiency not so
much upon the evident form as upon
the curves which are shown on their
fiat sides. If one takes a boomer
ang and looks along its sharp outer
edge, it Is seen that this edge pre-
sents a wavy appearance delicate
ly adjusted s~inuosity like the line
of a long screw. This curve is not
deliberately fashioned or smoothed
into e%venness; the hard wood OF
which the boomerang is usually made
being picked out with short blows
from a sharpened flint held in the
hand, almost always shows, indeed in
definite irregularities.
What rule of construction the
savage artificer follows even he him.
self would probably be unable to
say. Yet he has some definite plan
in mind, no doubt, for while he chips
and pecks away at the wood, he takes
frequent squints along its edge to see
how his CURVES are progressing. You
will never see two boomerangs that
are just alike, but all are similar in
their relation of curves along the fiat
side. The boomerang maker knows
instinctively just where his boomer
ang will go when he throws it, al
though he never seems to aim any
two in the same way.
More lies have been told about the
boomerang, declares the Philadelphia
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THE DISAPPEARING DIME
Clever Trick by Means Of Which You
Can Mystify Your
Friends.

Provide yourself with a piece Of
India rubber cord, about IL inches
long, and a dime with a hole on the
edge; attach the dime to the cord
with a piece of white sewing silk,
and after having done this, sew the
cord to your coat sleeve lining, but
be very careful and ascertain that
the end upon which the dime is at
tached does not extend lower than
within two inches of the extreme end
of the sleeve when the coat is on. 1t
is better to have the dime in the left
arm sleeve. Having done this, bring
down the dime with the right hand,
and place it between the thumb and
index finger of the left hand, as rep
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no larger than a Newfoundland dog
their height is % inches, slightly less
than that of the ordinary table-are
as woolly as sheep, and quiet as
lambs.
Seven of these little fellows we're
imported by Mr.. Jamrach. the natural
list. and he insists, says the New York
American, that they are quite at
home and well hammered in the house
and that a baby might play safely
with them. Two of the herd are
chestnuts, two mouse, n bay, one
black, but the "pick of the bunch" is
the smallest of all, has a long cream
colored coat and a tail that sweeps
the floor.
All seven were bought at SIS each
on the first day Of their exhibition.
One of the customers is an inti-
mate friend Of the qneen, so that it
is quite probable that a pigmy pony
will find a royal mistress.
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Mississippi legislature
SENATE.

The senate receded from its action
providing an amendment prohibiting the
district attorney from appearing before
the grand jury to advise what course it
should pursue in presenting persons
whom it might be investigating.
Senator McLaurin called up the bill to
empower the board of supervisors of any
county to appropriate money for screen
ing cisterns and taking other steps to
destroy the stegomyia and prevent the
introduction and spread of yellow fever.
The bill was passed with n or two
amendments increasing the jurisdiction
of the board of supervisors in certain
matters pertaining to the enforcing OF
health protective measures.
The bill requiring railroads to provide
separate places at which the white and
colored races may purchase tickets and
so avoid trouble that exists now was
passed.
Mr.. Houston called up the bill to au-
thorize the erection of a monument to
the gallant Confederate soldiers who fell
at Prices Cross Roads in Lee county.
The bill failed to pass owing to the lack
of just one vote.
The bill to place all of the State
schools under the control of one board
was postponed indefinitely.
Senator Belk called up chapter 81, on
dram shops, and asked that it be taken
up for consideration, as several senators
wanted to argue amendments to the pro-
vision requiring towns to have 1000 in
habitants in order to be in a position to
secure liquor license. Senator Brandon
sent up an amendment to strike out
1000 and insert in lieu thereof 500. Mr..
McLaurin of Sharkey fought the propo-
s%ition, as did Mr.. Heidelberg, while
Messrs. Glover, w. X. McLaurin, Bran
don and others supported it, as it was
only a side entrance to a system of
statutory prohibition, and the State OF
Mississippi is not yet ready to adopt
that policy. The amendment was
adopted after a brief debate.
Mr.. Dunn introduced a bill to reim-
burse the board of trade and cotton eX-
change of Meridian, for expenditures oc-
CURED in carrying on the suit of the in
terstate commerce commission against
the Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Com
pany.
BY Mr.. Yarbrough, a bill to encourage
cotton raising and the establishment of
cotton factories in the State.
By Mr.. Kendrick, providing a salary
for the expenses of the field officer of
the State board of health.
The senate passed the bill to prohibit
banks and similar corporations liase to
taxation on capital from permitting the
use of its name by any person l0aning
money secured by mortgage or deed of
trust, and to prohibit the use of such
person using the bank as a place of de-
post. The bill passed by a vote of 20
to IA.
Senator McLaurin attempted to secure
consideration of his bill to differentiate
iynching from murder, and to provide
that mob work, or those participating
therein. shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
only. This bill has been considered BY
the judiciary committee, and came back
to the senate with an adverse report.
Mr.. McLaurin argued in vain for the
senate to take up and consider his bill,
which it seems he had introduced at the
last session, and a motion to indefinitely
postpone was adopted on a yea and nay
vote of 10 to IL.
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Press, than can well be enumerated.
and nearly every Australian traveller
comes back with a fresh assortment.
One hears of men who can so throw
a boomerang that it kills an enemy
behind a tree, and then come fiutter-
ing cheerfully back to its owner.
who %thereupon hurls it ON a fresh
mission of carnage. A flock OF
frightened cockatoos. speeding in in
tricate CREATIONS through the air to
escape the attack of natives who want
a bird for dinner, are pursued at every
turn by these erratic weapons, which
strike them down by the dozen, and
then return to the hand that cast
them. Old wives fables. these, at
which Australians laugh, knowing in
the nature of things their falsity.
In the first place, the war boom
erang is not made for return, and is
only slightly bent, so that it may go
hopping and bounding along the earth
like a hoop, and make big holes in
the body of the adversary. These are
of hard, heavy wood, and ugly things
to inflict a blow; but the return BOOM
erang is simply a plaything, or to be
used in light hunting, and although
it might give a man a painful rap,
could not seriously injure him. AS
for the cockatoo story, it has this
much truth-that a native boomerang
hurler, if he saw a flock flying by him
in a straight course. could so cast
his weapon as to come upon them I'M
awares at a given point, and, per-
haps knock one down; but his boom
erang would drop, too. having no
power of flight after it has struck any
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Monuments Dedicated.

vicksburg.-Headed by Gov. Samuel
W. Pennypacker, ex-Gov. Hartranft, ex-
Gov. Beaver, a fermer communicable
chief of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, and a score of officers of high rank
in the Union army during the war be-
tween the States, 500 Pennsylvania vet
Grams and descendants of veterans dedi-
Gated the monument and markers erected
by the State of Pennsylvania on the
v~icksburg's battlefield. Gov. Vardaman
of Mississippi, accompanied by his staff
and prominent members of the Legisla-
ture, participated IN the ceremonies.
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A v Library.

Aprlna Indian library is an interest
ing one. An Arizona judge, who has
been studying this tribe, says that they
select several promising youths of
their tribe from time to time for repos-
itaries OF their traditions, and they are
carefully instructed in the historical le-
gends pertaining to their tribe, being
required I o commit them faithfully to
memory. They in turn instruct their
successors. and thus preserve the ira
ditions in the exact language recited by
their ancestors of many years ago.
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of large sums grow irresponsible and
wasteful and, alas! end by filing the
grave of the drunkard or the suicide.
All history combines to prove that too
much luxury breeds corruption, tempts
individuals to dishonesty. and menace
the very continuance of a dominant
people. That which happened in the
dim past to Greece and Rome may hap
pen to America in the twentieth CEN
fury of the Christian era, II we shut GU
eyes to lessons that are given in the
glimpses we have Of the smart set.
Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles)
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Students and Chapel Service.

BY an innovation just effected the
Princeton faculty takes cognizance Of
the religious attitude of the students
SO far as it is attainable in this way.
Every student attending chapel is now
required to hand in a slip Of paper or
card bearing his name. This enables
the faculty to know who the students
are who never attend chapel exercises
as well as those who do attend. It
at least supplies IN indication of the
attitude of the student towards public
worship, wen though the underlying
principle may not always be discern
ihle.
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District Attorneys Criticised.

In delivering an opinion in the case
of Ollie johnson VS.. the State of Mis-
sissipri, Judge Truly, speaking for the
Supreme Court, took occasion to criti-
else district attorneys who persisted in
calling attention of the jury to the fact
that the defendant failed to testify In
his own behalf. The district attorney
made only an indirect comment on this
fact, and the case was reversed and re
manded because of his remark to the
Jury. No other error appeared in the
record of the case.
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Death of 7. w. Bailey.

After a months illness Joseph w.
Bailey, father of Senator j. w. Bailey
OF Texas, died in the New Orleans San
itarium in his seventy-second year. In
torment took plaza at Crystal Springs.
Mr.. Bailey was a native of New York.
He went to sea at an early age and then
located at Vicksburg. He entered the
Confederate army at the outbreak Of
the civil wal and served until the sur
render. Thereafter he located at Crystal
Springs.
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Prettv Plant Stand.

Take a common stepladder, paint
it green and screw on small casters,
so that it can be moved easily. Stand
the pots on the steps. Mine has q
basket of running vines on the top
step which hangs down the sides. |
put the small slips or the low back
step. The stand can readily be moved
to the different windows.
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DastardlY Deed.

Miss Liza Aiken, an aged maiden
woman yesiding five miles northwest If
Biloxi at Coopels, was set upon by a
negro who gave his name as Frank
Barnes, about 20 years OF age, and
beaten and choked in a shocking man
ner. Miss Aiken is IA years of age,
and lived with another maiden sister
near tie scene of the assault.
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OUR SMART SOCIETY
DO NOT THINK RICHES AND vrR.
TUES CANNOT HARMONIzE.

4 Minority of Our Wealthy Citizens
Included in the Smart Set-A Re
cent Popular Novel Depicts the
Smart Set as Cruel and Corrupt
The Picture Even. If Overdrawn
Points a Warning-America Must
Heed the Lesson or Suffer the Fate
of Greece and Rome.
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Hand

Hand embroidery is used whenever a
woman can afford it either u of her
own skill or from her purse. Some OF
the designs are very elaborate. They
are butterflies, in tiny stitches, and
wide-lipped baskets with handles over
flowing with posies, but simpler de-
signs, which can be done at home and
vet which add SO much to the elegance
of a garment, consist merely of a vine
and dot,
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PONIES SMALL AS o
Miniature Horses from Iceland Which
Have Been Made Pets by
London Society.

London society has a bad case Of
the zoologicals. Tiger cats, gentle
little lemurs; gazelles. with their
soft brown eyes," fretful porcupines,
and %ant-eaters have all in turn been
made pets. but they have all been de-
throned as rulers of petdom by the
parlor ponies of Iceland.
These tiny creatures are the funni-
est little things imaginable. They are
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Bettering Beauvoir.

Hon. T. M. Henry, secretary of the
board of trustees of the Beauvoir Sol
diers' Home, speaks hopefully of the
prospects for the future of the institu-
ton. Mr.. Henry states that he hopes
to get a very good set Of plans for the
additional buildings, and that they are
much needed right now. In order to ac-
c%ommodate the overflow he has four
tents erected capable Of housing eight
inmates, and as the warm weather is
coming on he has no fear that the old
soldiers who may have to occupy them
will not be comfortable.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-30
Peach Crop Destroyed.

The orchard men of South Mississippi
are heavy losers by the recent cold
weather. The peach crop, which prom
Used to be unusually heavy, is almost
entirely destroyed.
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Commission Makes Order.

The railroad commission has made an
order on the Mobile, jackson & Kansas
City railroad, requiring the company to
run their trains to the corporate limits
of the town of Pontotoc.
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A NEAT BORDER.

strong finish. The outline should be
run out twice with soft cotton, then
worked over in buttonhole with flannel
embroidery silk or soft mercerised cot
ton OF which there are many excellen.
makes to be purchased.
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Newton,s Contribution.

A contribution of nearly $3.50 was
raised by the citizens of Newton for the
benefit of the tornado sufferers at Meri-
dian, and same has been forwarded to
the relief committee.
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Wants Two-Cent Fare.

Gov. Vardaman, in a message to the
house, advocated the passage of a bill
forcing all the railroads in the State
to charge only two cents a mile for pas
sengers travelling between points in the
State.
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A ~BUTTONHOLE BORDER.
No Decorative Needlework Is More
Favored Now and Always Comes
In Well on FlAnnels.

This border is suitable to be worked
on the edges of flannel p%etticoats, in
fants' flannel h~ead-squares, or any fan
mel article requiring a simple yet
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Phosphate Dealers Indicted.

The grand jury of Sharkey county in
dicted all the phosphate dealers in Roll
ing Fork, which caused quite a stir.
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To q Young.

And to get back to keeping young,
the very best OF common sense is for
every woman to look ner best every
minute of her life.
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For Brittle Nails.

Rub a little skin food into your nails
every night. 1t will keep them from
breaking. Wear a pair of old gloves
when you work.
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THE SWEATER BRIGADE.

Down the street they do come,
A strange, jolly crew;
In sweaters and leggings,
Some old and some new.
They're the sweater brigade,
From all parts of the town;
And each little sweater
Clothes one of renown.
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~Sunburned.

If badly burned apply a little lime
water and sweet oil. Let it remain
until the skin stops smarting.
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SCHOOL LESSON.
1.-THE Two Foundations - Interna-
tional Sunday School Les
son for April /.

BY REV. WILLIAM EVANS, B. d.
Director Biblical Department of thS
Moody Bible Institute, Chicago; Off
cha Lecturer of the Cook County
(Chicago) Sunday School Assoc
citation on the International
S. S. Lessons.1
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unhealthiest CAPITAL.

st. Petersburg is now considered to
be the unhealthiest capital in Europe.
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OF RENOWN Gid / say?
Well, the statement is true,
For tn brigades' many mothers
Each will tell this to you:-
That HER boy is the brightest,
The dearest and best
Who has ever appeared
In a gay sweater dressed.
And that II he but lives
To reach mans estate
He will certainly be
A person most GREAT.
So, you see this brigade,
Dressed in sweaters SO gay,
Holds the brains and the Drawn
That will rule US some day.
Maud Walker, in Cleveland Leader.
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BIG DAY FOR OWATONNA ] =.
,eG,-Gf} ~: ,,,..~.; :,
Masons Will Lay Cornerstone Of q
$4,000 Public Building.

OwATONNA, MINN.-The date for the lay
ing Of the cornerstone Of the new $4,000 city
and 1rehall has been set for Sept. 8. The
exercises Will be under the auspices of the
Masonic order. The .owatonna Military band
will furnish music and County Attorney Little
ton will be the orator. Other speakers will be
Mayor Harvey s. Dart and Chief E. NJ. Twi.
ford
The political situation in this county has
be much Of contest at the pri
maries and the general election. The fight
in this county centers around that of, sta te
senator t. f. eastman, a leading democrat
having filed for the nomination against ". s.
Weatherston. The. former is conceded the
nomination and will run against the present
republican senator. George ". Peachey. 49,.
One OF the worst rain and electric storms
that has ever visited Owatonna and vicinity
struck Saturday evening. The country land
city were flooded and much damage was done
In the country lightning did much damage. The
storm was in the nature Of cloudburst and
lasted for Ave hours. Fortunately the farmers
have their grain in the stack or threshed sc
that 1T not injured. o.
"a An important event in the local history Of the
Star of the. West lodge. No. IA, l. 0. o. F..
took place last week when the handsome new
! lodge In the, third story of the Parrot &
Smith building was appropriately dedicated by
officers of the Minnesota grand lodge The
ceremonies were followed by a banquet Grand
Master B. G.. Covell Of sAtwater presided al
the dedication. =, .... ,7
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SOUTH DAKOTA -. '' -. ~. . -. ...'.1%,
PUBLIC. WEDDING !! Nc ]: 4 {:
n: :: FEATURE Of FAIR
BROWN COUNTY ASSOCIATION
g, !, SEEKS A NERvY COUPLE.
Prize Of $50 Will Be, Offered TO- Levers
Who Will Wed in Presence of. Crowd
at Aberdeen Iowa State 1T Senator
Buys Brown County Farmland. ,> ~"

Special to The. Journal, 49,. "
Aberdeen, S. d., Sept. 3.-The Brown County
Fair association has about completed the pre.
liminary work incidental to the county fair to be
held In this city the first week In October: A
subscription list of more than 81 600 has beer
raised for premiums and this amount will be
increased before the finance committee finishes
its work. ''>gr,, 49, r~~.i ~. !, -"
One Of the features Of fair week will be- q
public wedding, the association having decided
to offer $50 prize to the couple that pos.
sesses nerve enough to be married in full view
Of the crowds. ~ :. 49,. ,.-4 "a -.
Many good attractions have been booked and
1t is confidently expected the fair will be one
Of the most successful in the history of the
county. g. 6'j".' go. .:.~., ~r.s-. -.
-''"7 Sheriff Misses Train. !. -
One Of the first cases to come before the
September term; Of the United States court at
Deadwood today is one, in which Sheriff Ander.
son of this city unjust appear. That official
| should be at Deadwood now; instead, he did not
get away, for that place until this. morning.
He blames, a conductor the, Milwaukee for
the delay, and this;is how it happened: =, - :.
:.On Saturday the sheriff boarded. the train,
and few minutes before the time for, Its
departure he was :eahed into the ticket office
att the station to- identify. Indian interpreteI
who going, toisDeadwood with six In,
dams wanted as,!wttnesses in case Of liuuor,
selling on the Cheyenne reservation. The inter
prefer wanted to- cash check and purchase
tickets to: ,Deadwood and, seeing the sheriff
asked. him to assist him In getting his check
cashed!,ij.or": - r. f-rs..a:.,,f .2.-s.,=, =
him If the train would be held until all the
persons then in the" ticket Office had purchased
tickets. The conductor assured him the train
would be held andnthe sheriff left the coach,
Two minutes later othe train pulled, out and
twenty passengers. most Of whom; were going
,
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to Deadwood, were left behind the sheriff among
them. He left this morning after sending u
wire to Deadwood to explain his absence. 81:
@..5' Cavalry Squadron Orders. >,,. ,.
Major W. A. Halle of this, city, commanding
the first squadron cavalry, South Dakota ma
tional guard, has issued orders to. the com
manders of Troops "A of selby and B of Pierre
relative to the annual practice march,. which
begins Sept. % and continues till the 2Sth. The
squadron staff will meet at Redfeld on the
18th and both troops will ride from their re-
spective camps on that day and meet at Forest
City at a. point where the Little Cheye
river empties Into the Missouri From there
the squadron will ride into the western part
ot the: state, carrying rations for five days,
Both troops will be recruited to forty enlisted
men EACH, and some hard riding is planned.
Troop sis commanded by Captain Overholser
OF selby. and Troopo B by Captain Logan Of
Pierre. -. ~ -
u Iowa Senator Buys Land. e.
State Senator ]. E. Bruce of Atlantic, Iowa
has just purchased farm lands in this county
amounting to $32, 900. The deal was engineered
by q local bank, and it is understood that
Bruce already has purchasers for the land, Whic,
vii! be divided into ten farms and sold to Iowa
families who will come here as soon as they
can dispose Of their present interests. Bruce
has another deal pending for five quarter sec
lions In the northern part of Brown county
which he expects to close in a few days