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The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
Mrs. Astor Scores Members of Society

give entertainments to foreigners, Mrs.
Astor says; Their sole object is
notoriety, a thing that no lady ever
seeks, but rather shrinks from"
She says that women of this stamp
are few here, but they are appallingly
active. They have done untold harm
to the good name of American society
in the minds of foreigners.
When a distinguished man arrives
from the other side he is seized upon
relentlessly, although possibly a
stranger to his hostess, and plunged
into a mad whirl of extraordinary fes-
t~ivities. He enters upon them with
much the same spirit that we would
have as spectators of an Indian war
dance, and thus he forms his opinion
of us.
The best women in New York so
ciety, those of the greatest influence
and those who give it it's true tone,
are almost unknown outside of their
W circle. Society newspaper noto-
riety is interesting to them, as it is
to me. as a study, a very amusing one,
too, sometimes, as one gains SO much
information about certain women sup
posed to belong to us, but whom we
neve see and do not know even by
sight"
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
TALK OF NEW YORK
Gossip of People and Events Told
in Interesting Manner.
To Reveal Mrs. Gould's Extravagance

sibly wear if she worked day and night
at nothing but changing her clothes.
The dealer asserts when he timidly
suggested to Mrs. Gould that she pay,
she OKd the bill and airily suggested
that he send it to Mr.. Gould"
Mr.. Gould, however. would have
o n of it. Hence the suit. Mrs.
Gould says that the process server,
whose name she did not know, want
only, maliciously, and cruelty insult.
ed her. She says in her complaint,
now on file in the supreme court, that
he seized her by the throat, choked
her, and applied insulting epithets.
And the complaint goes on to say that
'by reason of the assault the plaintiff
has been rendered sick, sore and lame;
has sustained a sever shock and nerv-
Gus injury, and has been mortified.
Inundated and chagrined, all to her
damage in the sum of $4,000"
While the bill of $24S remains un-
paid, the marital differences between
Mr.. and Mrs. Gould are yet to be adj
justed by the courts. AS the separa-
ton case now stands, Clarence ].
Shearn, counsel for Mrs. Gould, is OBJ
jecting to a jury trial, while Mr..
Gould's lawyers have asked the court
that the merits of the case be sub
mitted to a iury.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02

II of the IS naval medical hospitals
on the coasts of the United States.
From time to time thereafter other ex-
aminations will be held, and within a
few years the corps will number about
$50 highly trained women nurses,
who will be under the command of
the surgeon general and prepared
for any sort of duty. Several of
these women will be sent to the
United States naval hospitals in Yoke
hama, the Philippines and Honolulu,
while others will be stationed in the
United States.
Miss Hasson's selection to head the
new corps is wholly due to her record
of exceptional merit and almost a life
time spent in the care of the sick.
Her record during the Spanish-Ameri-
a war and since that time is equaled
by few other ONE in the annals of
the war department.
Although a B~altimorean by birth.
Miss Hasson has since her early child
hood been only a short time in any one
city, as her family for generations
has been connected with the army and
was constantly travelling. In 1895 she
was graduated from the Connecticut
Training School for Nurses, and until
the outbreak of the war she was sta
toned at several hospitals in New
York. For more than three years she
served in the war, first in the camps
in this country and later on the hos
pital ship Relief, in Cuba and Porto
Rico. After the close of the wal she
was sem to the Philippines, where she
remained for two years at the First
Reserve hospital in Manila, and at a
hospital in LuZon. Since that time she
has been engaged in private nursing.
Her army training has made her en-
ing up a nurse corps for the navy. She
is a great believer in the efficiency of
women as nurses, even on the field of
battle, and, although she is extremely
reticent concerning her record, Off
GERS who served neal her in the war
tell that many American soldiers
their lives to her care and persever-
anCe. Al present she Is the nlSnoSt
paid woman in the navy department,
her salary being $500 a year. Before
her appointment she was compelled
to take a rigorous examination at the
hands of a board Of surgeons, and her
high marks demonstrate that she is
fully capable of bringing the nurse
corps to the highest state of eff
cheney.
An unusual feature of Miss Hasson's
%genealogy is the fact that relatives Of
hers have served in practically every
war which has been undertaken by the
United States. A great-grandfather on
her mothers side was one of those
who fought under Braddock in the
French and Indian war, her great
grandfather on her fathers side took
up arms during the revolution, her
grandfather was a volunteer in 1912,
her father served as surgeon in the
civil war, while she herself was en-
gagged in the war with Spain and in
the Philippine insurrection.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02

mander-in-chief of the Grand Army OF
the Republic at the encampn. ent here.
The election occurred on the first
ballot, which gave Mr.. Nevius asa
votes, compared with 254 for former
Gov. Van SAINT of Minnesota and 80
for L. T. Dickson Of Illinois.
Col. Nevius, a native of New Jersey.
was studying law with the late Rus
sell A. Alger of Michigan when the wa
broke out and enlisted from the state
with the Lincoln cavalry. Young
Nevius rose to a commission with the
Seventh Michigan and the Twenty
fifth New York cavalry regiments and
lost an arm in front of Fort Stevens
when the union army was engaged
with Gen. Early. Col. Nevius, besides
betting twice department commander
of New Jersey, has been a judge and
president of the New Jersey state
senate.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
Portraits and Sentiments.

In this game the players sit in a
row Each whispers to his right-hand
neighbor the name of some person and
to his left-hand neighbor some senti-
ment, original or quoted, supposed to
be written under the portrait of that
person. Each then announces aloud
whose portrait has been presented to
him and what is inscribed under it.
For instance, a player may be given
the portrait of Bluebeard. with the in
scription: He was an indulgent hus-
band and estimable gentleman"
The names chosen may be those of
characters. real or fictitious, ancient
or modern.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
RAILROAD STORY FROM RUSSIA.
How a Student Thought to Relieve
the Tedium of Travel.

The tedium of railroad travelling in
Russia was relieved the ether day in
an unexpected manner. In a compart-
ment of the train going from Kursk
to kief sat a beautiful young lady
next to a chatty priest, with whom she
held an animated conversation. OPP
posite sat a student who envied the
priest the causerie which he was en-
jOying.
AS the evening came on the girl fell
asleep, and the priest nodded his head
in slumber. That was an opportunity
which nc self-respecting practical
joker could afford to let slip. Bending
forward, the student kissed the sleep
ing damsel and sprang back into his
seat.
The salute awakened the girl, who,
thinking that it was her neighbor, the
priest, who had dared to kiss her,
jumped up and gave him a sounding
box on the ears. The student re-
joiced greatly. There was a commo-
ton, the policeman accompanying the
train was summoned, and he at once
drew up a 'protocol' against the
wronged priest, while the student Of
fered to appear as a witness in the
law court at Kief.
But at the last moment a young
Jewess who had been sitting in a dark
corner unobserved by anybody stepped
forward, exonerated the poor priest
from the terrible accusation, and then
it was the students turn to feel mis-
erable.-LOndon Globe.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
NOT FoREWARNED OF DANGER.
Veteran Engineer on the Subject oil
Premonitions.

Old Sandy McNaughton. who has
been driving an engine OF a road run
ming out of Chicago for 80 years, says
he has had scores of premonitions,
some of which have proved true,
though none of them ever got his
name or his picture on the first page
of a newspaper as a nan who had
been warned by some unseen agency
of danger and by needing the Fremont
ton saved 100 lives.
Sure, / have premonitions, and
some of them prove true" declared
Sandy. For instance, in my young
days ! used to have a premonition egg
ularly that three days before pay day
| would be broke and would borrow
five dollars of Larry Brannigan, and it
always proved true, except when
Larry didn't have a five, but as far as
ever being warned before of an acct
dent hat would occur that never has
been n of my long suits.
Yes, | used to have p~remonitions
about as regularly as l would have in
digestion. Whenever l would eat any
thing that didn't agree with me I
would have a queer feeling that
warned me that something was going
to happen. My fireman called it a plain
case of being off my feed, the doctor
called it some long names l couldn't
pronounce, and called it a bargain for
two dollars, and the boss called it
c~owardice.
Il remember n rainy, blowy and
cold night. All the day before / had
been feeling sort of queer and when
we started it seemed to me that dan
ger was just waiting at a certain
bridge on the line. Just before reach
ing this bridge there was a sharp
curve so that one could not see the
bridge until right on top of it, and the
surroundings were such that if there
had been a wreck there the loss of life
would have been terrible.
AS we drew nearer and nearer to
the bridge that night the feeling of
impending disaster kept growing
stronger; it seemed as if | could hear
a voice warning me as plainly as if
some one were in the cab talking to
me. So strong did this feeling grow
that just before we reached the bridge
| gave in and slammed on the air.
we came to a stop more suddenly
than carefully; the passengers tum-
bling out of their berths and landing
in heaps on the floor.
bill Carter, who was brakeman on
the train, had been riding on the back
platform, and when the brake slammed
on he gave an exhibition of grand and
lofty tumbling. When he came up to
the engine with the rest of the crew
and an excited bunch of passengers
10 see what was the matter he was
not in the best state of mind or ap
pearance.
We'll, | had put on the brakes while
still out of sight Of the ridge, but we
Slid a ways so thai W. stopped right
on the edge OF it. A fe# feet farther
and We would have Ieen hurled into
the chasm, hat is, providing the
bridge wasn't there, but it was there,
standing as strong and pretty as
ever, and what Bill said wasn't nice to
hear"
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02

president, the tablets unwilling was
made the occasion for the gathering Of
a great of men who helped
to win the war of the rebellion.
AS told by Gen. J. l.. Bostford of
Youngstown, o., who was at the time
quartermaster of the Twenty-third
Ohio volunteer infantry, of which Nc
kinley was a member, the story of
heroism thrills with interest.
Mckinley was commissary sergeant
OF the regiment at the time of the
battle of Antietam," Gen. Botsford
says, land his duty should have kept
him with the supplies, which were
about two miles from the firing line.
During the hottest course of the bat
tie, however, the young man, who was
only 20 years old, conceived the idea
OF making coffee for the boys at the
front. Pressing into service some of
the Stragglers, he filled a wagon with
hot coffee and bareback and personally
conducted it into the midst OF the
fighting men.
Tremendous cheering heralded his
arrival, and our division commander,
Gen. Scammon, sent me to learn the
cause, which | very soon found to be
Mckinley and his hot coffee. The
rOusing welcome he received from
both officers and men can be readily
imagined when the fact is considered
of his leaving his post of security and
driving into the middle of a ~frightful
battle with a team of mules. 1t
showed, ever then, the character and
determination which were a part OF
the man whose later life proved his
stability.
He was ordered back time and
again, but he pushed on, and, as he
gave a a of coffee and a bareback to
a soldier who had been shot the man
murmured: God bless the lad Those
words, Mckinley afterward told me
alone repaid him for the trouble and
danger to which he had exposed him
self in ministering to the needs of his
comrades.
The result of this sort of thought.
fulness on the part of Mckinley had
a tremendous effect on the lines, and
when, later, the final order came to
charge the men fell to with renewed
vigor and energy
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02

NEW YORK.-The public is prepar-
Nv ing to hear many interesting things
regarding the extravaganza of Mrs.
Katherine Commons Gould, wife of
Howard Gould, when her suit asking
$4,000 damage from Frank A. Nc
~Laughlin, a shirtmaker, to trial.
Mrs. Gould declares Mclaughlin
caused a process server to summon
her in a suit to enforce the payment of
a bill for SEAS.
The shirtmaker is preparing a live
ly defense, and has fortified himself
with many instances of how Mrs.
Gould made the money fly. She or
dered dozens of lace handkerchiefs in
a prof1igate manner, he declares, and
bought great quantities of the most
expensive lingerie without ever a
thought of paying. Mrs. Gould always
insisted on having the very best of
everything, he says, and ordered far
greater amounts than she could pos
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
Railroad Work Pushed.

The rails of the Chicago, Milwau
kee & st. Paul railway have been laid
through ST. Maries, and already freight
is being shipped to and from the town
The road is being rushed as fast as
possible, and before spring some oil
the finest transcontinental trains in
the country will he running through
st. MarieS.
Besides the main line of the new
transcontinental railroad, a branch
road is to be built from st. Maries uI
the st. Maries river and will tap the
biggest belt of white pine timber in
.dhe United States.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
A Pathetic Appeal.

The disappearance of another horse
car line from the streets of New York
recently brought up many interesting
rec~ollections concerning that antiquat-
ed method of transportation. During
the early days many of the conductors
made money by knocking down
fares. At one time the evil became so
great that it was difficult to tell whom
to trust.
An old fellow who was in hard luck
found that it was necessary to get en-
ployment as a conductor, and he went
to the president of one of the com
panies and asked him for a position.
DO you really want the job, Bill?'
said the president.
Il do, indeed"
"All right, Bill" he answered, you
can have it. but for Heavens sake
bring back the car!"-The Sunday
Magazine.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
Washington Range Riders Expect to
Corral Five Thousand.

Spokane, Wask.-Five thousand
range horses are to be corralled and
several hundred colts branded during
the roundup now in progress in the
Kittitas valley, southwest of Spokane.
Bill Taylor frontiersman and veteran
ranger, who has been in the saddle for
more than 81 years in this part of the
country, has marshaled the best riders
in the district and it is expected to
complete the work before the end of
June.
Horsemen say there are so or more
outlaws in the band, and of these two
stations stand out as being fleet and
untamable. One of the animals broke
out of a corral nine year. ago, after
being branded, while the other has
never been roped. They have caused
numerous stampedes and are not
afraid of any horseman on the range.
The range horses are OF better quail
fly than in years and there are fewer
cayuses. Many Of III animals cut out
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02

THE gastronomic feats performed in
i New York during the last three
known as the silly season." seem al
most incredible. Nearly every record
for the consumption of various kinds
of food has been broken.
Early in the summer "Beefsteak
Pete" a Bowery character, consumed
II pounds of the meat from which he
takes his cognomen at one sitting, and
five days later he raised this figure to
"a pounds, thus making a total of Al
pounds of meat consumed in two days.
A little later the champion pie eater of
Brooklyn, who also claims the pie
championship of the world, consumed
81 pies in 81 minutes, a record which
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02

Nh RS. WILLIAM ASTOR, who for
IVA many years was recognized as the
leader of New York society, has shown
her disapproyal of the methods of
some members of society in an inter
view, and declares that many women
have given entertainments that belong
under the circus tent rather than in a
gentlewoman's home"
Mrs. AstOr. who recently, owing to
her age, has been obliged to relinquish
her position as leader, says: q am
not vain enough to think New York
Will not be able TO get along very well
without me. Many women will rise
up to take my place. But | hope my
influence will be felt in n thing, and
that is in discountenancing the undig-
nified methods employed by certain
New York to attract a follow
ing"
Speaking of the class of women who
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
BRIDGE EVERY MILE
STRETCH OF RAILROAD TRACK
THAT is UNIQUE.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail-
road Has New Record for Mum.
her Of Bridges in a Single
Territory.

One of the most remarkable
stretches Of railroad track in the
world will be encountered by the pas
sengers who, within a few months,
will be able to take passage for east
ern cities yer the new Chicago. Mil
waukee & st. Paul, when he passes
along the Musselshell river, separat-
ing Fergus and Yellowstone counties.
The stretch referred to is lis miles in
length and in travelling over this sec
ton the passenger will go from Fer
gus into Yellowstone county SO times
and return into Fergus county So times
during the ride. He will thus
have crossed the county line separat-
ing the two counties III times. When
1t is considered hat the line which
separates the two political divisions
is nothing more nor less than the
MuSselshell river, the feat will become
even more remarkable. For each
crossing of the line there is a bridge,
hence III bridges have been con-
structed in a distance of lis miles.
This is an average of more than one
bridge to every mile, and 1T separate
opportunities for the Respondent pas
senger desiring to commit suicide by
drowning.
This fact was included in the report
of the lev road filed with the state
board of equalization, and shows the
amount of track it had on March l,
which will be subject to taxation this
year. The report indicates the point
where the road enters the state, and
follows the course of it's line through
Fergus county. The line enters the
state and passes easterly through
Custer county to the county line be-
tween Yellowstone and Fergus coun-
ties" says the report. Continuing in
a generally easterly direction it
crosses the Musselshell river, which is
the dividing line between the county
Of Fergus, on the north side, and the
county Of Yellowstone, on the south
side of the river, III times, passing
thereby into Fergus county SO times
and from Fergus county into Yellow
stone county So times"
The report shows further that the
road has q total of 174.6S miles of
roadway in the state, with 1870 miles
of siding. This length of rail is di-
vided between four counties as fol
lows: Custer, roadway 1920, side
track IA; Meagher, roadway, 26.07,
sidetrack 1.2S; Yellowstone, roadway
30.41, sidetrack 80; Fergus, roadway
40, sidetrack 3.05. Coming up Sixteen
Mile canyon in Meagher and Fergus
counties the railroad has been con-
structed, and crosses the creek more
times, if possible, than the old road.
The Montana railroad formerly held
the record for the number of bridges
in a given stretch in Montana. 1t had
two bridges to every mile. Now, how
| ever. it is probable that in a stretch of
almost 200 miles the Milwaukee holds
the worlds record for bridges. The
bridges have been constructed in such
| great numbers in order to follow an
air line as nearly as possible, and also
to eliminate grades to some extent
Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
Smallest Railroad Chartered.

Gov. Stuart of Pennsylvania has ap-
proved the application for a charter
Railway Company, a line which is
the smallest to be chartered this year.
1t is to be just 35-100 of a mile in
length. The capital is $4,000, with
these officers: F. X. Martin, Pitts
burg; president, ]. c. Billy, F. X. Mar
tin, j. G. Evans, S. T. Tone and w. B.
Carson, directors. The road will run
between the borough of Carrick, Ale
gheny county, into a point in Baldwin
township.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
Evolution of Speed Mania.

Imagine a locomotive of the power
required to haul the lightning express
trains OF the eastern trunk lines
placed in the uncertain controlling
hand of a nan intoxicated with the
mania for speed, temporarily Obvious
of the danger to himself and other per-
sons in the madly %careering machine
that creates in him an exalted sense
of pcwer-and you have some concep-
ton of the menace to life and limb
that has come with the marvellous evo-
luton of automobiling in this coun-
try.-Atlanta Constitution.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
Grain Men Go Over New Line.

Mr.. Frank w. Morse, vice-president
and general manager of the Grand
Trunk Pacific, has just taken an i'm
portant party of grain men over the
new line west of Winnipeg. AS the
first imposing structure in a new town
in the wheat belt is usually a grain
elevator, these grain dealers are the
first to arrive. Some of those in Mr..
Morse's party were elevator men
looking for sites. For the past two or
three years settlers have been open
ing up new farms along the line, and
these will be ready to ship wheat,
many of them this year.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
Entitled to a Day Off.

Experience has proved that after
120, 1000 miles have been reeled off a To-
connective is entitled to a layoff and to
hospital treatment. Steel will not
stand the thunderous jar and vibra-
ton that shakes the 1874 tons dead
weight of a locomotive making 60 to
70 miles an hour. Figured at so miles
an hour, even a locomotive must be
1000 hours running to complete the
mileage stunt. Then, no matter how
clean her record of behavior, she must
go in for an overhauling generally.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02

IF a traveller from Trieste or any
q other ac~ross-the-sea city were to be
led blindfolded into Wall street at
present, if the blindfold were to be
then removed and he were to be
asked quickly what he judged from
appearances, the attitude of the street
was toward the coming presidential
election, his natural reply, translated,
might be, "Oh, you joker"
Although the election is only a short
time off, it is true that there are few
indications in Wall street of its prox-
Unity. A round of a score of broker
age offices does not bring to the ear
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
YOUNG M'kiNLEY's HERoIsM.
Tablet Unveiled Showing Him Serving
Coffee During Battle.

MISUNDERSTANDING Mckinley as
a commissary sergeant in the union
army, serving hot coffee to men on
the firing line during the progress OF
the battle of Antietam, has been per.
petuated in bronze in a tablet which
was unveiled at Wilmington, Del, a
few days ago on the anniversary of
the death of the president.
Erected under the auspices of the
Mckinley Memorial association, OF
which George Gray of Delaware is
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
Suez Canal Shippinu.

Consul General Robert ]. Wynee
makes the report that the returns OF
shipping and tonnage of the Suez
canal for 1907 show that the net ton.
mage exhibits an all-round increase,
the figures for the last year showing
an increase of 1,2S2,930 tons as com
pared with that of 1906 and an in.
crease of 1884, 1923 over 1905. Receipts
during 1907 showed an increase OF
S 1857, 000 as compared with 1906.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
The KINGS Favorite,

1t seems a little strange that so
many women of the world should be
arranging the hair after the fashion
made famous by the favorite of a king,
whom she served for "a years. Then
her beauty waning, her use in this
world was over, and she made way
for another. And she was but A years
old, Inflated Madame de Pompadour.