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Old Iime Rank sInseures.

In the old days the Bank of England
was paternal in its treatment OF its
clerks. One young fellow was dis
tinguished only for his zeal as mem
ber of the volunteer corps which now
is defunct. His clerkly services were
negligible and neglected. but when II
was brought to the notice Of the di-
rectors they remembered his martial
ardor and gave him nice little sine
cure. Another clerk wss reported to
them as a really clever amateur paint
er. They saw his pictures. "lt Is a
pity that such talent should be wasted
over ledgers." was the kindly verdict
So they gave him room at the bank
for use as studio aud appointed him
10 the post Of experimenting the burn
ing of Cancelled bank notes every Fri
day afternoon. London Chronicle.
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The Greek Fiouro.

Greek figures of men appear taller
and more graceful than those OF mod
erns Modern artists make the upright
figure seven and one-half times the
length Of the head. The Greeks ma0e
IL eight times, lengthening the shin,
and the longer sweep from knee to
heel gave the figure increased grace
and dignity. The same plan was fire.
quently adopted by Lord Leighton, In
whose paintings the same effect Is OBJ
tained.-New York American.
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Teacher-If one servant girl could
clean two rooms IN teo hours. how
long would it take two servant ggls
20 do NJ Little Girl-Four hours.
Teacher Wrong 1t would only take
one hour Little Girl oh. ! didn't
know you was talking about servant
girls that wasn't on speaking termsl--
London Tit-Bits.
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TERRITORY Of oklahouIa, )

Territory Of Oklahoma,
County Of Logan. -
l. Robert Sohlbcrg. Cashier of the above
named bank, do sOlemnly swear that the
above statement Is true 10 the best of my
knowledge ana belief.
ROBr, SoHLBERC, Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
22nd day of May, 1901.
(SeaD Marie E Terrell Notary Public.
MY Com, expires Nov. Is. 1905
FRANK DALE,
u. q. GUSB.
O.. A. HUGHES
Directors
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ANrAoNY CO.'S To ooNeREss.


Topeka. Kas. May 23-- A special
election IN the First Congressional
district was held today TO MI the va
cancy caused by the resignation OF
Charles Curtis. The election of ID. r.
Anthony OF Leayenworlh, the Repub
lican nominee, Is assured as he is
Without opposition.
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Disests What You Ea,

Botanical Society of Washington. The
memorial address was delivered by
Dr. Edward l.. Green of the smith
sonian Institution.
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Want Lawn Mower? We can sup
ply you. A fine assortment from $3.50
up at DAY BROS. Also Scythes an1
Hand-sickles..
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Kapt His contract.

Patient thought you extracted
teeth without pain. Dentist Well. you
still have the pain. hayer't your life.
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Talk about beating them to death.
". d. Packer does 1t. He does II
With his up-to-date line Of farm i'm
plemcnts.
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Report Of the Condition OF


The Guthrie National Bank, at Guthrie
IN the Territory of Oklahoma, At the close
OF business, May 20, 1907
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PENNsYLvANIA LAWN MOWERS
THE BEST MADE. At tllRScHl q
ISNEeEt 60,
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KOdOl
Dyspepsia Cure

dI0ests what you eat, takes the strain on
Of the heart. and contributes nourisnrnent
strength and health to every organ Of the
body. Cures Indigestion. Dyspepsia. Sour
Stomach. Inflammation Of the mucous
membranes lining the Stomach and Diges-
tive Tract, Nervous Dyspepsia and CAtarrb
Of the Stomach.
AMER eating my food would distress me By maiins
ny heart palpitste and would become very weak
Finally got bottle Of Kodoi and Il gave me lnims
kiats relef After using a few bottles am cured.
MRS. L0RlNQ NICHOLS. Penn Yam. N. "
had stomach trouble and was In . bad state - |
bad heart trouble with II. took kodol Dytpepsls
Cure for about four months and Il cured me.
D. KAURLR NaYadA O
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800 pairs Childrens and Misses
Shoes one-half prics-Robi1son's.
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Washington. ID. c.. May 22 The
200th anaicefsary Of the birth OF Won
Lime. the boianist. was commemoral'
% Eaay at a special metlng u lhs
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1907-10-04
Crop Conditions are Given at 67.7
and an Average for the
Past Ten Years Of 67.S
CROP CONDITION IMPROVING
Ninety Five Counties out of Seven
Hundred not Heard From on
Ginning Reports Is
sued in One Day.

Washington, Oct. 2.-Census
bureau reports 1,430, ,265 bales
Counting round and half bales)
glnned from the growth of 1907
up to Sept. 25. This is in com.
parison with 2,057, ,283 bales fol-
the same period last year.
Of the 700 counties, 95 were
not heard from.
The unreported counties had
2,177 active ginneries and ginned
l99, ,426 bales to Sept. Is, 1906.
Total quantity, 2,057,28 bales
ginned last year to Sept. rs, and
1856, TIC in 1905.
Number active ginneries re-
ported this year, 16, ,3O7. Total
operated to Sept Is last year, TO-
416, and Fl, 389 for 1905.
CONDITION REPORT
Washington, Oct. 2.-Agricul-
tural department reports cotton
condition to Sept. 25 as GIT,
against 72.7 on Aug. Is, 1907;
71.6 on Sept. 25, 1906; 71.2 on
Sept. Is, 1905, and a ten year
average of 67,8.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1907-10-04
Verona

Mrs. Jas. Givhan of Lyons is visiting
her sister Mrs. Garrett. Miss 10 Bell
our popular music teacher made visit
to her sister, Mrs Charlie Roberts of
Nettleton. Friday afternoon returning
Sunday.-We are glad to know that
Miss Leila Gregory has so far recovered
from severe spell of typhoid fever as
to be able to be up again. nice
walk built on Church street adds very
greatly to the comfort of pedestrians
and the appearance of the town.-The
commodious residence OF Mr.. Steve
Sparks in the north part of town is
nearing completion. Mr.. j. B. Gregory
has sold his residence on Raymond
street and will Immediately begin the
erection of new home on the lot ad-
journing Maj Wharton. The Twen-
tieth Century Book club will meet with
the President, Mrs. w. C. Spencer,
Saturday Oct 5th, 1907. Miss Vera
Johnson returned to Blue Mountain
last Wednesday where she will resume
her studies for another year. --Drs. w,
c. Spencer and C. E. Spencer have
moved into their handsome brick office
on South street. Miss lola Linton left
Wednesday for New Albany, Miss,
where she attended the marriage Of
our friend and former music teacher,
Mrs. NJ. M. Stowe to Mr.. B. Brady Of
Pontotoc.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1907-10-04
Verona

Mrs. Treadway of Ramsey, Ala. has
been guest in the home of Mrs. T. j.
Seawright for two weeks-Miss Bell of
Minter City, Ala, is winning golden
opinions from large music class by
the effective work she is doing among
them. Miss Bell has had excellent ad-
vantages in the music world. The pa
irons of the public school are to be con-
graduated upon securing her services.
The graded school opened early in
September with the expected largest
enrolment in its history The local
patronage is greater than usual, owing
to the fact that number of families
have moved to town for the purpose of
entering their children in the school.
The number of boarders in attendance
is already in excess of the number en-
rolled last year. The citizens ara work
ing with the teachers to maintain the
high standard set for the institution in
the past. While Verona is accommoda-
ting pupils who want high school edu-
cation, she is furnishing to other insti-
tutions students who are striving for
college education, as is shown by the
number attending the various colleges
in the state: Messrs Eugene Grissom,
Sidney Spencer and Victor Johnson,
entered the State University. Karl
Coggins is to study at Millsaps College
and Misses Erin Bunch. Olga Sinton
and Nora Gregory will attend the l. l.
& c., while Shelby Spencer will return
to the medical college at Mobile, Ala
Miss Udie Farmer of Hickman, KY, is
making the millinery department of
Clark's store attractive and popular.
Several years experience and natural
talent have made her skilled milliner
Miss frankie Jones, winsome young
girl of Corinth, was the guest of Miss
Adele Clark recently. She left on
Thursday to re-enter the l, I. & C. at
Columbus. Miss Myrtle Coleman, of
Macon, visited Verona last week. Her
friends are legion. The children look
forward eagerly to her return the first
of November, at which time she will
resume her duties as teacher in the
graded school. The patrons of the ly-
ceum course, which was so deservedly
popular last season have rare oppor-
tunity for pleasure and culture during
the season 1907-09. The management
has been fortunate in securing a large
number of talented attractions for the
course. The first number will be Oct
18th when the Castle Rhine Company
will appear with their combined talent
of reader and musicians. This attrac-
ton will soon be followed by the ap-
Ipearance of Hon. Luther Manship. the
next Lieutenent Governor Of Mississip-
pi. Other numbers will be announced
later. A liberal patronage is expect
ed for this excellent course.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1907-10-04
TUPELo MISSISSIPPI FRIDAY, OCTOBER a. 1907

to open and at intervals, to keep
the surface of the soil loose. The
nearer dust you can get it the
better. When bolls commence
opening, simply quit plowing.
Don't lay by with a turning plow.
Top the cotton when hip-high.
Any cotton planter will know
the conditions under which cot
ton should be topped.
Use early maturing seed,
such as King, Little Brandon,
Alredpet, Pink Bloom, Peterkin,
Walker, Green seed, etc. Any
of these cottons under good care,
should bloom in As days from
planting. and picking should
commence in from 60 to rs days
thereafter.
'Fertilizing goes without say
ing and intelligent fertilizing is
absolutely essential. :
For planting, select the best
seed and step drop at 3 to b feet
in the drill. With selected seed
one bushel should plant from 6
to 8 acres.
Rotate your crops. Follow
cotton with oates and oates with
late corn. and you can make
three crops in two years on the
same land. Plant COW peas in the
corn and turn under the vines
stalks and your land will build
up. Besides, rotation of crops is
made necessary by the root rot,
die-back and other diseases which
attacks land planted year after
year in cotton.
Reduce the acreage in cotton
and produce more to the acre. 1t
costs the same to cultivate an
acre yielding one-quarter of a
bale as it does to cultivate an
acre which YIELDS one full bale.
Many of my demonstrators have
grown over a bale to the acre
this year in the face of every
adverse conditions. -
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1907-10-04
Defense of an Ancient Custom.
Published by request of Mr.. E. M.
Witherspoon.)

One Of those fair but intellec-
tual young women who answer
questions on cannon law, pedia-
tries and plain sewing for the
readers of ladies' magazines, ri
ses to pronounce her high ban
and anathema upon the ancient
custom of employing edged wea.
pons in conveying food to the
mouth
Eating with the knife she
says, lis confined only the ig-
norant and vulgar. Knives are
used for cutting food and not
for lifting it from the plate. All
meats and vegetables should be
eaten with the fork"
It sounds just and virtuous,
this laying down of the law, and
a great many persons, no doubt,
will concur in it, but at the risk
of being rash we beg to enter a
demurrer. We admit freely that
eating with the knife is forbid
den by social usage, and that
those who break the rule are Of
ten low, coarse fellows, but we
must insist, without reservation,
that there is nothing in the rule
itself nothing that commands, or
even deserves, repect. It is, in
deed, utterly absurd and fatuous,
and it invades, in a peculiarly
gross and outrageous manner,
the rights guaranteed to all good
citizens by Magma Charta and
the Constitution of the United
States.
Given the impulse to do so,
and a feeling Of pleasure in the
act, why shouldn't any man eat
with his knife? Is it in any re-
mote sense disorderly, criminal
or indecent? Does it endanger
the life and limb of the public?
Does it strike a blow at free in
stitutions? Does it interfere
with any ones right of peace
full assemblage, ,domicilary refuge
or religious worship? Does it
make existence hazardous or pol
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1907-10-04
Cotton Merchants Notified Of an
Additional Raise Of IS cents
on Bale for Storage.
THERE IS NO LEGAL REMEDY
Fifty-Two thousand Bales Handled
Last Year and Should Like Num-
ber be Handled this Season, the
Increase Cost WILDE $4,000

The first of October the Gulf
Compress Co., notified the ham
dlers of cotton here that there
would be an additional raise of
fifteen cents per bale for storage
and handling of cotton at the
compress at this place. This is
the second raise in the cost of
handling cotton at the compress
since the Gulf people bought the
local plant, and there is no guar
antee that each season will not
see an additional cost piled up.
This extra cost is taxed against
the cotton men on the plea that
it costs great deal more than
formerly to handle the cotton.
While the local plant was in the
hands of the citizens of this place
there was no cost for storage;
the stockholders being satisfied
with the dividends resulting
from the compress fees. These
dividends were among the best
paid by any local business, and
far in excess of the profits aris-
ing from the working of orr
other industries.
Upon assuming charge of the
business the new people fixed a
fee of ten cents for storage and
handling of each bale. While it
was understood by our mer-
chants and cotton men that there
would be no extra cost in the
handling of their cotton by the
new people when the sale ard
transfer was made to them,
there was No kick made against
the additional fee of ten cents.
At the beginning of this season
the notice of an additional cost
of fifteen cents would be made,
came as quite a surprise and cot
ton circles have been excited over
the stand taken by the present
owners. Upon investigation of
the law it is found that there is
no remedy from that source to
prevent the compress people from
increasing their schedule of rates
+at their own pleasure and for the
present, and as long as there is
no competition, the rates will be
increased at the pleasure and op-
ton of the owners. This addi-
tional cost or twenty-five cents
bale will very greatly add to the
cost of handling our cotton, and,
of itself, will be a very nice rake
off for the compress. More than
$1,000 bales of cotton went
through the plant last season.
Should a like number of bales be
handled this season the increased
cost to the farmers of this Sec
ton for handling their cotton
would be $13, 900.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1907-10-04
lutte the sanctity of the ballot or
give aid and comfort to the pub
lie enemies?

l.
an operation or sport as entirely
harmless as lawn tennis or pen
ochle. It is less destructive of
the public welfare than the act
of playing the piano. and inf
nitely less than that of wearing
inf1amable celluloid collars. The
man who eats with his knife is
ordinarially a man Of sane and
peaceful instincts, who enjoys
his meals and likes to lay back
afterward and smoke his pipe.
He is commonly an honest man
a man of large heart and surpas-
sing honesty "a man devoid of
cant, sham and pretense-a man
so utterly masculine and elemen-
tai that to call him vulgar is to
make the term a title Of honor.
Eating with the knife requires
skill and courage. The blade is
smooth, slippery and without
rails, scuppers or life-nets. The
slightest tremor-and a mouth
full of peas may go bounding
over the table, lap and floor. The
slightest ineptness and there
may be carnage. The eater takes
his life in his hands. At any
moment time he may cut off his
tongue, mutilate his lips or slit
his face from ear to ear.
This very danger is at the bot
tom of one of the chief argu-
ments against eating with the
knife. It is urged that the con-
stant consciousness of irnpen-
ding disaster exercises a disturb
ing effect upon all other persons
who may happen to be present,
and through agitation of their
higher nervous centers, inter-
feres with their digestion, clogs
their pores and makes them bald.
But the point is not we'll taken.
In all normal human beings the
constant threat Of shock is
not a depressant but a stimulant.
The act of facing the threat, in
a word, becomes a sport, and so,
like all other healthy and manly
sports, it does good instead of
harm. 1t invigorates the stom-
ach and increases the supply of
gastric juices. 1t prods up the
liver, lungs, kidneys and brains.
It conduces to valiant effort and
high thinking to money-making
and poetry.
Therefore, the objection van
ishes in a cloud of futility and
imbecility. Eating with the
knife harms no one. It gives
the eater courage, a steady hand
and a quick eye. It gives the
spectator a gentle and salubrious
thrill. Only the social purist is
outraged and the social purist
has no rights worth discussing.
In defiance of all logic and COM
mon sense he calls it indecent to
wear a dress suit before 6 o'clock
or to wear tan shoes at ones
wedding, or to combine a crush
hat with a red waistcoat. Of
similar arbitrariness and lunacy
are all of his commandments. He
is a loose and despotic thinker
a bigot and an undesirable. The
mere fact that he denounces eat
ing with the knife is sufficient
to make the custom one to be
dearly loved, cherished and de-
fended.-N. 0. Picayune,
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1907-10-04
The Soul Winners Band
(By Dol. w. L. Clayton)

Yes, they expect me to write
up the proceedings of the Band
whether / am present or not.
Last Friday evening l was not
present, and "how can you there
fore write it up" you will say.
Well, | reply, just like most of
history is written, we have men
now writing the history of the
Revolutionary war, who have
been home since | served in the
war of 1861. So, looking to one
of the sources of information for
history writing, that of informa-
ton from an eye witness, / shall
proceed to let you know what
was done Friday night at the
meeting of the Soul Winners
Band. But some inquisitive soul
will be saying why were you
not there, you seem interested in
the objects for which the meet.
ing was held?" Well, a business
trip to Shannon that day held me
off till t, late. AS l passed in
my buggy in hearing of the
church where the meeting was
held I heard the singing. and
that was a few minutes before
eight o'clock. Thinking / might
be able to returnnin time for the
meeting, / decided to go in my
buggy with the concurrence of
my genial and companiable
friend, Claude Clayton, who was
to accompany me, and who, out
of the kindness of his heart,
drove for me on the trip down;
but his wife being at Nettleton,
and having a feminine weakness.
he DETECTED to that place, and
left me to drive home alone. AS
we went | was charmed by the
conversation of my companion,
who is an enthusiastic lover of
nature, and the trip was through
the primeval forest part of the
way; and as | returned / myself
thought of and admired the Won
derful works of God, as shown
forth in the beautiful sunset, and
the many tinted leaves, and the
golden rods waving in the braze.
So thus coming in late and weary
my absence at the Friday night
meeting of the Band is account
ed for.
The meeting was conducted by
Mrs. John M. Allen in that quiet,
but charming way so natural to
her, and her theme was, Jesus
as a Friend. +" She herself gave
an interesting and helpful talk
on the worth of the human soul.
| We pass among the poor and
needy, and our sympathies are
enlisted, and we relieve their
temporal wants, but cast not a
thought often of the greater
1 want Of the soul, whidh is the
real man or woman, which is tc
] live forever, in bliss or woe,
while the body, which we pay
so much heed to, is to moulder
| to it's mother dust. The soul
cries out for help, and we see
mot nor heed its wailing cry. Oh!
lif we could but lift the vail and
see the wailings and nashing Of
1 teeth Of a lost soul, and realize
| the joys which such soul might
have had through Jesus as a
/ Friend, what ought we to do in
Jour personal work to help others
4 to take this Friend as their
Friend.
i Then Scripture readings were
had, giving the souls cry and
+
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1907-10-04

God S answer. When the Phil.
ippian jailer cried to Paul and
Silas from the depths of his soul,
What must do to be saved?"
God, through his faithful ser.
wants, flashed back the answer,
Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved"
And when the Psalmist cried out
in deep distress and anguish of
soul, MY God, my God, why
hast thou forsaken me?" the
Mind that never sleeps and al
ways takes note even of a fallen
sparrow. sends back the reply,
j will never leave thee nor
forsake. - "A mother may for
get her child but l will not for
get thee. " when my father
and my mother forsake me, then
the Lord will take me up" And
when the poor lost and ruined
thief on the cross, properly con-
demned, but near to Jesus, cried
out with a last and almost hope
less wall, Lord. remember me
when thou comest into thy king
dom," with the quickness of the
lightning's flash, there came a
voice, even mellowed by the ag-
onies of the cross, saving, Yer
lily, say unto thee, today thou
shalt be with me in Paradise. !"
And when the soul has been
touched by the kiss of Divine
Love, and lifts up it's cry for
peace and joy, and help and
strength, the thought comes
from the Book of God, ''The an
gel Of the Lord encampeth round
about them that fear Him, and
delivereth them" And when
the Christian man drops by the
wayside, as David did, and from
the great deep of a penitent soul
says, Hide thy face from my
sins, and blot out all mine iniq-
uities," the Father of Light and
Love comes with the healing
balm, "The Lord is nigh unto
them that are of a broken heart,
and saveth such as be of a con-
trite spirit - Oh, is Jesus a
friend? Yea, a friend that
sticketh closer than a brother. "
After this came the chain of
prayers by the young ladies, who
are devoting their lives to SER
vice-the service of God and HUI
manity. The services were in
terspersed with music. After
devotional services We're conclud-
ed, Mr.. Read the President, took
the chair and made some appro-
pirate remarks. and a committee
was appointed to lay out the
work, so to sbeak, for the Band.
Itseems from the reports which
have come in, that there are
many yet in our little city who
are not christians, and for whose
salvation the Band is to work.
Let the Association have the
thought ever in mind THAT when
they have helped others to know
this Friend as their personal
Friend, He thus comes dearer to
them.
:. 'Tis not all of life to live,
Nor all of death to die;"
But,
There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign,
Infinite day excludes the night
And pleasures Danish pain."
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1907-10-04

We have handled Mercutol for three
years and our demand for it increases
which is evidence of the remedies
merits. Stewards Drug Store, Amite,
La.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1907-10-04

You are espe tally requested to in-
spect our stock Of Pickard Hand Paint
ed china. Quality unequalled. Pound,
Kincannon & Elkin.