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The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03

w ASHINGTON.-Every man on the
w streets here on June 13 wore a
tag by string from his buttonhole. It
was plain cardboard tag such as the
express companies use, and it did not
add to the appearance Of ones dress,
but it saved money and holdup to
wear 1t. June 13 was tag day in
Washington. Tag day was a device
to squeeze dimes and quarters out OF
every pedestrian for the benefit Of a
CASTOR children's playground. 1t was
pretty mean man who would not
hand out a dime at least once for a
tag. 1t was an excessively heightened
or reckless one who would not wear 1t.
No dime, no tag. No tag, no peace.
The holdup of wearers of untagged
coats occurred every Is feet. Some.
thing like $1,000 was realized as a re-
suit Of the 'holdups" for the play.
ground.
Children peddled the tags in all
parts OF the city. and no man escaped.
There were store tags, house tags
automobile tags, cab tags and personal
tags and five-dollar tag that made
the owner immune from attack in all
quarters. The store tag cost dollar
likewise the house tag. Every woman
was held up In every store, and it cost
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03
Loud and Lusty Advertising.

There can be seen every once in a
while the front of some erstwhile dig.
nified store plastered with flaming red
signs. announcing unheard-of bargains,
tremendous reductions, sensational,
disastrous, ruinous cuts in price, and
the rest of the well-worn expressions
so common to the cheapest grade OF
stores 1t seems that a merchant
is extremely apt to succumb to the
wiles of the man who believes in adj
vertising through megaphone and
with bucket of red paint. What man
has the most influence-the man with
the loudest voice? What friend gives
advice which is heeded-the man with
the heaviest tone, who yells in your
ear and enforces it with crazy gestic-
ulations? Does the man who exag-
gerates extravagantly claim faith and
trust the most? Advertising is fight
and proper, but advertising with such
methods is cheapening and harmful.
1t appeals to the senses in the wrong
way.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03
Seek to Attract Attention.

There are many ways in which the
average retailer can get up a cheap
though effectual advertisement An
advertisement recently put out by a
local concern was cheap one in SO far
as the expense of preparing and circu-
lating 1t was concerned. The fact that
it was novel one, and one which
brought the subject matter to the very
door of the consumer made it good
one. 1t was the advertisement of a
dye and cleaning concern. The
proprietor Of the concern seemed to
be the owner Of very pretty Spitz
dog. He advertised his business
through the medium of this dog. One
day he would be a red dog, another
day he would wear coat of green,
and so on for the various days Of
the week. The odd colors attracted
the attention of all at once and In
many cases awakened sympathy. The
dog, as If jealous about his masters
business, had become perfect rover.
30 the advertisement was seen about
the town whenever the canine donned
new coat. This is somewhat
after the idea employed by the man
agement of large sewing machine
company that uses greyhounds to ad-
vantage.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03

T. VERY time person ticks a United
Il States postage stamp he gets a taste
OF sweet potato. The gum with which
the stamps are backed is made from
that succulent vegetable because I'm
Gle Sans lieutenants consider it the
most harmless preparation of the sort
All of the gum used on American
postage stamps is mixed by the gov
eminent at the bureau of engraving
and printing, where the stamps are
made. 1t is spread on the sheets after
the stamps have been printed.
The gum. in liquid form, is forced
up through pipes from the basement,
where it Is made. These pipes lead to
series of machines consisting of roll
ers, between which the sheets of
stamps are fed, one at at time.
A continuous fine stream of the
liquid gum falls upon one of these
rollers. The sheet with it's wet coat
ing Of sweet potato mucilage passes
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03

THE American consul at Dunferm-
line has furnished a guide to
suckers" in report warning the
American tourist what not to buy in
the way of antique and art objects.
Prefacing his remarks with the
statement that even a man with much
money cannot take 30 day CORE.
spondence course In art and antiquity
and then tell what he is buying, he
points out these familiar receptions
that are now being hung up abroad for
rich Americans who are thirsting for
artistic environment:
Robert Burns Chairs-Bobbie did
not keep an installment furniture
house, and what the constable did not
take, buyers long ago have.
MARY Queen of Scots Tables-The
queen was rather migratory, owing to
circumstances. and did not carry many
tables around with her.
"Shefaeld Plate-It is mostly mod
ern. aged with processes that are new.
"Engravings and Prints-Ancient
copies are turned on the press every
day for the snsh' from America.
Crystal and China-The servants
broke most of the old stun centuries
ago. and the old shapes are entirely
new.
Rare Old Furniture-This Is made
with pumice stone and oil, which will
age any old chair or table In week"
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03
Postage Stamp Gum as Article of Diet

from the rollers into a long horizontal
fiue with hot air. When it energies at
the other end the gum is dry.
The government makes two kinds of
postage stamp mucilage. If one could
see the packages Of stamps as they
come to the post office ready to be
sold one would find them labeled. &C
cording to season, Summer Gum" or
Winter Gum" The former is much
the harder of the two and was devised
some years ago to keep the stamps
from getting sticky in warm, moist
weather.
While Uncle Sam tries to make the
lot of the stamp Ticker as innocuous
as possible, he does not advise making
a meal off his sweet potato gum. The
whole process of gum making and ap-
plying is made as clean as possible,
but there is yet another item to be
considered.
A sheet of postage stamps is han
died good many times before it even
leaves the bureau where it is made. II
you must lick any Of your stamps pick
out those from the middle of the
sheet. The corner ones have gone
through the fingers of half dozen or
more counters, not to mention the per-
forators and the separators and the
rest
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03
Mrs. Meyer Rouses Feminine Tempest

west or the south of the Beacon street
circle if they thought it obligatory for
them to call on one so far removed
geographically. 1t was broadly init.
mated she would not be at all offended
If the lesser social lights-wives OF
congressman Observation-Disclosures
her from their visiting lists.
Then Mrs. Meyer aroused tempest
in the teapot by her treatment of her
associates In the cabinet circle. She
invariably ignored her colleagues
when she was getting up such smart
entertainments as the dinner and re.
ception to the duke of the Abruzzi or
the duchess of Sutherland. She invited
only members Of the diplomatic corps.
and selected principally the wives OF
millionaires from the resident society
Mrs. Meyer was, before marriage,
Miss Alice Appleton, daughter of the
well-known head of the great publish
ing company. She inherited a large
fortune
Mrs. Meyer recently departed for
London. She will spend the season
with her two daughters, Miss Alice
and Miss Julia Meyer. These young
women have already bowed to the
three monarchs, the car the emperor
of Austria and the king of Italy. They
will soon make their courtesy to the
ruler of Great Britain.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03
KEEPING UP-TO-DATE,
Pertinent Suggestions to Storekeepers
As to Doing Business Rightly.

Greatest successes in the retail
field, have been made by men who
have employed system in all branches
Of their business. Men of antiquated
methods who have made successes
would have made more money had
they been systematic In their bust
ness. Up-to-date methods OF book.
keeping. a system for checking over
goods as they arrive and as they go
out when the orders are filled are most
essential. Stock should be kept in
such a way that the merchant does
not have to waste considerable time
before being able to know whether
he has any need of any line to fill
stocks.
One excellent way in which the
country merchant can keep his ideas
up-tO-date is by spending a day or
two each year in visiting the large
cities and studying the methods en-
ployed by the firms engaged in his
line Of business. A day off occasion
ally in some strange town where a
study Of windows and store interiors
and methods may be made is more
than helpful.
In the home town one can never get
away from the practices of his fellow
tradesmen, unless he benefits by ex-
periences had elsewhere. In strange
place we are of the gazing crowd,
and we see things from a different
point of view than when at home
Some criticism may point out a
fault that we have been guilty Of a
hundred times and never noticed, and
a criticism of stranger sometimes
forces us to realize that We can i'm
prove In our own methods and we
profit by the suggestion.
A country town storekeeper may
learn much in city but much of it
may be little suited to rural condi.
tions. The small town merchant needs
some lessons from progressive mem
bers of his own class Remember
that there are many who can excel
us in some ways If We fail to keep
alive. some more enterprising COM
petitOr will beat US out.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03

IAN American society affairs be con.
~ Quoted along lines laid down by
the European nobility?
Mrs. George Won Lengerke Meyer
wife of the postmaster general, has
been doing some experimenting the
past season.
Resenting the free and easy custom
of everybody and anybody visiting the
cabinet homes. Mrs. Meyer has at
tempted to introduce foreign methods
as regards calling and the general pro-
gramme.
Not since Mrs. Levi P. Morton drew
such line of distinction between &C.
cidental Official position and heredi
tary social standing has Washington
been SO wrought up as over Mrs
Meyers naughty attitude toward the
wives of cabinet officers and other
men in public life.
Mrs. Meyers treatment of wives oil
members of congress has caused nc
end Of criticism. She inaugurated the
habit of asking women from the far
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03
PHicE-cuTTiNo.
IN the End the Consumers Are MOI
Ones Who Gain Benefit.

The average merchant Is informed
as to the evils of price cutting. He
knows Just where to draw the line,
Just how far he dares go in lowering
quotations for the sake OF drawing
trade. He realizes that even II the
principle of using leaders" to attract
customers is permissible, It Is limited
In Its usefulness and exceedingly dan
gerous when overdone. Not only 10 1t
apt to degenerate into indiscriminate
cutting OF prices, to lead to dissatisfac-
ton among customers, and has ten
dency toward giving a store a cheap
reputation, but it is inclined to arouse
suspicion among other merchants and
the people as well.
While the merchant is so thorough.
ly grounded in the matter of price-cut-
ting, the public has not been so gen.
orally educated There are those who
exult when store managers are at war
believing that they may profit by the
losses of the competitors. 1t is just
the old fable of Aesop over again
the lion and the bear fight over the
prey until both are too much exhaust
ed to move, and then the sly fox comes
along and picks up the dainty and
bears 1t away to eat at his leisure
The public rejoices over the price
cutting campaigns. 1t profits by them,
and on account of the fact that II
has been taught to consider prices
only. 1t feels justified in taking every
advantage offered it.
The store which starts campaign
of price reduction and bellows and
roars and screams for the sake Of
drawing custom, will either go under,
because 1t has been foolish or be-
cause 1T has made up it's mind to de-
fraud its creditors, or else it sells
goods which are far lower in merit
and true value than it pretends.
The public loses, but it does not
realize it. If store fails to pay it's
creditors, the wholesalers. and manu-
facturers must make their losses good
in some way. If the store seeks to
foist inferior goods upon the public
at lower price, the public gets what
1t pays for, no doubt, but believes
that 1t has been cheated and robbed,
and comes to have a low opinion of
merchants as whole. The whole
trouble lies in the fact that the pub
lie, instead of being a prey to the
merchant. is really playing into the
hands Of sharpers while seeking, too
often, to get the best of the mer-
chants.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03
ROUND THE CAPITAL
Information and Gossip Picked Up Here
nnd There In Washington.
Many Holdups on Tag Day in Capital

her dollar to continue her round oil
shopping without further solicitation.
President Roosevelt came across
for a five-dollar tag that allowed him
to take his customary drive on tfrse
back without being held up at tho
bridge. Attorney General Bonap
was tagged twice. A beautiful yoX
woman held him boldly In front of t.
White House Friday, which was day
in advance of official time for the free
booting. He dug up round dollar
cheerfully and said it was worth It,
But he forgot the tag when he saun
tered out Saturday, and he had to shell
out again.
Young Quentin Roosevelt made a
schoolhouse and took 1920 in an hour
peddling ten-cent tags. Then he moved
down to the Mall before the White
House, where he suspected money
would come in bigger pieces, but he
was dashed to the mast there In nc
time after two automobiles drove up
filled with daintily clad girls, who
piled out and worked the thoroughfare
and White House grounds to finish.
The girls then ventured into the sa.
cred precincts of the White House and
sought Mr.. Loeb, but could not find
him. Learning that he, like the pres
ident. was exempt, under the rules Of
the game. they left, by virtue of the
five-dollar tag, complimentary tags for
both just for luck.
Next the bevy Of young beauty as
sailed the Riggs National bank and
held up every one from the president
down.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03
I'M EZDHlE NOU7y6

of having attached to it's staff young
woman who has the requisite knowl-
edge and skill to cover baseball and
football games, horse races and ath.
letic sports of various kinds.
The young woman-she is only "a
years old-who holds down the sport.
ing editors desk on the Chronicle
News so we'll that the applications OF
male Candidates for the job are never
considered, is Miss Ina Eloise Young.
When she was asked to tell how it
happened she said:
Il have been doing newspaper work
for three years-general reporting, and
covering everything from a fire to a
suicide.
1T was by accident that / became
sporting editor of my paper two years
ago. At the opening of the baseball
season, which, in the west, is the only
real sporting season of the year, there
was not man on the paper who could
even keep box score or knew prac.
tically anything of the game. I do
know baseball, for l learned it about
the time when boys of my age learn
to play ball. My brother taught me
The game because he always needed
somebody to fill base or some posi-
ton, and 1 could do it.
When 1 grew up he taught me how
to keep score and evolved a method
Of my own of following the players
from home plate around to that sta
ton again-if they could do it.
Il began covering games to fill in
until a man could be secured for the
position. and have been doing it ever
since, the managing editor consider
ing my work sufficiently good to
guarantee keeping me.
Since then I've done football games,
as l learned to understand that game
while l was high school student and
subsequently during my college work
at the University of Colorado. l be.
lieve I've covered all sorts of sporting
events with the exception Of prize
fights, which l have never been re-
CURED to do.
Understanding baseball and liking
it best, naturally do my best work
with those games. l love to do horse
races, however, but as there have been
no races here for more than a year
| have grown a trifle rusty in that
kind of work.
Il ride horseback, but all western
girls do that. In covering events that
happen in the mining camps around
here horse is the quickest method OF
transportation"
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03
"A Change for the Better.

Miss Lillian B. Hill, the advertising
expert. said at clothiers' banquet in
Grand Rapids:
Il am glad you clothiers now adver-
tise, now print pictures of mems and
boys fashions. Thus you smarter up
the country, and you help to abolish
the cutting-down of the fathers clothes
for the son.
You have educated our little boys
to dress and few of them could bear
to wear now their fathers garments
made over by their mothers awkward
hands
1T was not always so. l remember
how. In the distant past, my little
brother rushed whimpering into my
room one night
"'Oh, dear he whined, pas had his
beard shaved on, and now l guess
I've got to wear the old red thing!'"
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03
THE ENGLISH LION-HEAR 1T
ROAR!

The curiosity of the visitors and
the townspeople was at white heat,
and they fiocked into the tent as soon
as it was opened.
There was Dickey in a hastily con-
structed cage, securely bound down On
all tours, properly arrayed in his
checked trousers, white spats, with his
monocle fastened securely in place
and himself decorated with a bushy
tail. The chairman's young hopeful,
CARRIED in continental uniform and
cooked hat, was operating the tail
piece. This was but doubled strand
of rope fitted around Dickey's stom-
ach so tightly that when given an
extra twist or two it became torture
to the victim, and produced the prom
Used roar.
The crowd went wild with delight
at the novelty of the entertainment
while Dickey roared, and howled, and
swore, and vowed vengeance upon
Plumville and the entire nation.
The 500 worth of fireworks with
which Pmmville wound up it's celebra-
tion were promptly paid for when the
bill was presented. Dickey spent his
birthday in bed in the town hospital,
and has not been heard from since the
day following, though the fame of
Plumville's British lion has spread
from ocean to ocean. Should he fail
to return for his birthday this year,
the town will be able to replace the
present hospital with more commodi-
GUS structure out of the old gentle
mans fortune which it inherits,
should Dickey not meet the conditions
of the will
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03
WOULD carry Lava to the Sea.

Should the volcanic vent, or chin.
ney, of Vesuyius become blocked
writes Sig. Coartino, in recently
published pamphlet-the danger Of an
explosion becomes very great, and, to
afford an outlet for the molten mass
Of rock he proposes to bore a tunnel
at the base OF the mountain to carry
the lava into the sea. He also points
out the possibility Of leading the lava
into molds. so as to form it into
blocks for building quays, breakwa-
tiers, etc, and smaller slabs for pAv.
Ing the streets of Naples, such as are
now obtained from the cooled lava.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03

w w tHe young man signed II,
or "Dickey' Brown as he
was Familiarity known to his intimates.
But the fortune had conditions at
tached, conditions that were "a beast
ly bore, don't you know"
Old Peter had been one of the old
settlers of Plumville; his son had
been born there and married there,
and "Dickey" had first seen the light
of day at the same place. But with
the increase of fortune "Dickey's"
mother had developed society lean
ings, and she had taken "Dickey"
east where she could dabble in the
edges of the society sea, and ''Dickey"
had grown up in the atmosphere of
Saratoga and Newport, with an occa-
sional visit to London when the sea
son" was on.
When it came to the question of a
university nothing short of Oxford
would answer; all America was too
provincial to be thought Of So it was
that he spent the greater part of his
teens and neared his majority in Eng
land, at all times a willing student of
English esnobbery.
1t was with considerable disgust
that Dickcy read the letter from his
American lawyers warning him that
il he wished to have the handling of
his grandfathe1's money after his
twenty-fifth birthday it would be nee
essary to comply with the old gentle
ho
spend each of his birthdays from his
twenty-first to his twenty-fifth in his
native town Of Plumville.l
"a beastly bore don't you know
said Dickey, as he read the letter for
the third time. Il say now, why could
not the old codger have left that out?''
1t was on the first of July that
Dickey arrived at Plumville, monocle,
brilliantly checked trousers, white,
spats, walking stick and all the other
essentials without which life in Lon.
don would be scarcely worth the living
Plumville just at that time was very
much imbued with spirit of patriot.
ism, and looked at everything English
very much as the audience looks upon
tne villain in the show. The town was
going to celebrate, and they were go.
ing to do it on very big scale-for
Plumville. Everything had been ar
ranged for with the exception of the
evenings fireworks when the sub.
scribed funds began to run low, and
it seemed as though Plumville's cele-
bration was not destined to wind up
In a blaze of glory. Rather, that was
the way it seemed before Dickey's ar
rival.
The finance committee of the cele-
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03
EXTRAORDINARY CELEBRATION
ATTRACTION!

The committee on arrangements of
the Plumville Fourth of July celebra-
ton, announce the engagement of q
GENUINE ENGLISH LION.
The only one in captivity in this
country. He will be securely Gagged,
and will provide entertainment by
roaring when his tail is twisted.
DO NOT FAIL TO SEE 1T,
The admission price will be % cents.
When Fourth of July morning
dawned, large size tent was one of
the features of the grounds on which
the celebration was to be held. Across
it in large letters was the sign:
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03
hearte That cheer.

They are the best comforters and
helpers Of their fellow men who go
about with larra hopefulness and
cheerfulness in their own hearts,
trying to put little more hope and
cheer into the life of every one they
meet. What most people really need
In their troubles is not to have the
burden lifted OF, but to have their
own hearts strengthened with fresh
hope and cheer, SO that they may
overcome in their struggles. R.
Miller.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03
LOTS OF FUN Az TIE
TOWN CELEBRATION

bration felt that he should and would
provide the needed funds for the fire.
works, and the chairman waited upon
What Dickey said to the chair,nan
that official did not repeat, but he did
report to the committee that the funds
for the fireworks would be forthcom-
ing, and the town paper contained the
following notice on the morning of the
third:
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03
80 l.ailsiA
The pav After.

well, my boy" said the good man.
Il see you have your arm in q sling.
Did you get hurt celebrating the
Fourth?"
Nav" replied the sweet child; Il
broke me wrist tryin' not 70 let me
right hand know what me left hand
was doin'.'
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03
american Suckers" Warned by Consul

Summing up, he says that for more
than 90 years collectors have ran
sacked every available nook for an
tiques and works Of art, and that wher-
ever one is to be found it costs money
and ought to be accompanied with
responsible dealers guarantee.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03
Naval Master.at.Arms

A master-at-arms is a petty officer
In the navy who forms one of the no.
lice OF ship. In the United States
navy there are four grades of master
at-arms-chief master-at-arms and
master-at-arms of the first. second and
third-class. Large vessels have one
chief and several of the lower ratings.
In small ships a first or second-class
master-at-arms is the chief of the
ships police.