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The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
Sharks No Real Danger.

Contrary to what is generally sup
posed, the fully equipped modern
diver does not dread sharks in the
depths; though there are cases on
record where these monsters have bit
ten savagely at the air-pipe, causing
a serious leak and almost drowning
the man before he could be hauled up.
Sharks are, however, VIGOROUSLY
timid, and all the experienced diver
has to do to brighten them away is to
open one of the air-valves in his dress
and cause a stream of bubbles to rise
up all around him., w%hereupon the
.tiger of the deep" will make off in
abject terror. A far more real danger
Is getting entangled.-St. Nicholas.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
WHY DO BIRDS FLY SOUTH?

places where food is abundant and cas-
lily obtained. Under certain conditions.
however, al when crossing large
bodies OF water or regions scantily
supplied with food, they are sometimes
obliged to travel partly, or perhaps
even exclusively, by night. Excellent
examples are the robin (Merula).
horned lark (Octocoris) and most Ic-
teridae (bobolinks, blackbirds and orr
oles).
Birds Of easy, tireless wing, which
habitually feed in the air or over very
areas, migrate exclusively
by day, because being able either to
obtain their usua! supply of food as
they fly or to accomplish the longest
journeys so rapidly that they do not
require to feed on the way, they are
Under no necessity Of changing their
usua habits. The best examples are
swallows, swifts, and hawks"
II you who read this article on the
migration wish to have an experience
that will appeal to you as being little
of startling, take a field glass
with a two-inch lens and focus it upon
the full moon, and then take up a
nightly vigil. If conditions be favor
able you will see clearly the forms
of the southwark flying birds as they
pass across the moons face.
There is no experience known to the
bird student, perhaps, which has the
interest that is held by this midnight
study.
If the place of observation be elevat-
ed. the interest is heightened by the
fact that while the images of the birds
fall upon the eye their notes as they
call to n another through the semi
darkness drop tinkling down upon the
ear. Though you may see them not,
because their pathway does not hap
pen to cross that Of your line of vision.
yet you may recognize the call of the
grosbeak, the twitter of the swallow
or the "chink" of the blackbird as il
marking the time for each successive
wing stroke.
One observer more lucky than his
fellows saw a sparrow hawk stop sud-
denly in its flight, seemingly in the
very heart of the moon, and there
hover fully a minute, while it's wings
beat with lightning-like rapidity to
keep it at it's chosen lowering point.
The sparrow hawk hui poises before
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
GAME OF GUESSING CAKE.
Charming Party Idea Which Is Easily
Carried Out.

This is a charming party idea and
easily arranged, as it does not require
elaborate preparation, but brings out
a lot of ingenuity on the part of the
guests who are to strive to win a prize
by giving the best idea Of the cake
they are to represent.
Each guest must select the cake he
or she decides upon, and then wear
some ornament either on The shoulder
or in the. hair which has something
about it that will suggest the name of
a cake.
For instance, at a party given not
long since, one of the boys had a toy
hen fastened to his coat sleeve, near
the shoulder. This was intended to
represent a layer cake. A young girl
had securely pinned to her hair a saw
buck made of light p%asteboard, across
which a sheaf of wheat was fastened.
This was for b~uckwheat cake. An ear
of corn stood for corn cake; a hoe
for the old-fashioned southern hot
bread called hoe cake; a tiny muff in
a box, muffin; a pan with a miniature
turner, pancake; a finely dressed doll
with trailing gown, represented lady
cake; a sponge tied with gay ribbons,
sponge cake.
When you put on your thinking cap
you a find so many things which
will represent the cakes familiar to
you that it will be easy to find one
you like. The one who gets the prize
is the one who finds something that
will not be guessed the moment it is
seen, yet is a correct representation
of the word that describes the kind of
cake it claims to represent.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
The Wants Of the Army.

The duke of Connaught is telling an
amusing story of his recent
visit of inspection to Egypt.
While he was in Cairo he
went for a stroll one morning, and
on his way back to his quarters he
came face to face with an old English
man wearing the ribbon of the Indian
mutiny or his breast. The duke
stopped and spoke to the man about
his military service for some little
time.
Presently the man said, not knowing
of course, to whom he was speaking:
Are you in the army yourself, then.
sir?"
The duke smiled and admitted that
he was.
Getting on all right?" was the next
question.
The duke smiled again and said that
he had not very much to grumble at
on the whole, though perhaps he was
not doing quite SO well as he could
wish.
mo, and you never will, my boy"
was the surprising retort of the vet
eran. What you want in the army
to-day is either brains or a tremen-
dous amount of influence behind you
You take my tip, old chap, and chuck
it!"-Boston Herald.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28

ed journeys that for peril and distance
would strike terror to the heart of
man. armed though he be with reason
and foresight.
The weaker birds seem to prefer the
night time migration. William Brew
ster of Cambridge, Mass, has settled
this point probably definitely.
He believes the reason the wrens,
the w~arblers. the vireos and all the
thrush family except the robin prefer
the night journey is because they are
afraid of the exposure by daylight, or
are unable to continue such journeys
day after day without losing much
time in stopping to search for food.
By taking the nights for travelling they
can devote the days entirely to feed,
BOLD, restless, strong-winged birds
migrate chiefly or very freely by day
because, being accustomed to seek
their food in open situations, they are
Indifferent to concealment, and being
further able to accomplish long dis
tances rapidly and with slight fatigue.
they can ordinarily spare sufficient
time by the way for brief stops in
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
Tomato Sauce.

The following is a good recipe and
n that has been well tried by a
hotel chef. 1t is tomato sauce and
can be served with many kinds of
meat:
Melt two tablespoonful of butter
in a saucepan and cook in it half an
onion cut fine. When the onion is
yellow add two tablespoonful of flour
Then turn in two cupfuls of toma.
toes, a small glass of wine, a bit of
bay leaf, two or three cloves, a bit of
a garlic Glove and salt and paprika.
Cook ten minutes, strain and keep
for serving.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
Mr.. MAsANO HANIHARA, second

MIR. MASANO HANIHARA, second
IVA secretary of the Japanese embas-
sy and a social ~favorite of the diplo-
matte corps, was SO severely injured
from the result of his daring rescue
of an American woman from a run-
away horse that he may suffer the
consequences for the remainder of his
life. The Japanese diplomat was bat
tered and bruised and had his foot
so badly crushed by the horses hoof
that it will be months before it is
healed. The rescue occurred some
days ago.
Mr.. Hanihara was walking along
Rhode Island n on his way to
the embassy and had started to cross
the street when his attention was at
tracted by cries of Look OUT" by
several persons in the vicinity. Turn
ing he saw a horse drawing a light
runabout with a young and
a companion dashing toward him. The
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
If we conceive for a moment of a

condition in which an army of birds
newly sprung to life, finds itself in a
temperate country with foraging con
dltions of the best, and then suddenly
lnds itself face to face with frost and
famine we can understand why the
army pressed by hunger and cold
should take up the march for another
and a better camping ground.
What is 1t that has sent the birds
back to the country which less than
six months ago chilled them and
starved them into the deserving Of It's
borders? No n knows, and there
are those scientists who, unlike most
of their brothers who never are willing
to admit any problem unsolvable, are
not backward in saying that the mi
grafton will remain a mystery until
the end of time.
Aristotle 800 and more years before
Christ wrote of the yearly movements
is writing upon the same subject and
it may be that the scientist of more
than 20 centuries hence will write of
the migration and end his writings
with the same old Interrogation.
1t has been said that the birds feel
the touch of frost and famine and i'm
mediately take up their march.
In the month of September the war
blers (family Mniotiltidae) hurry
southwark. Countless thousands of
them pass over the city and country
in the darkness of the night. They are
mites of creatures, these warblers, be-
ing but a degree or two removed in
size from the humming-birds and the
kinglets, yet they undertake unchart-
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28

striking, and what little straggler of
the great bird army fell a victim to
that hawks rapacity can only be a
matter of conjecture.
Thousands upon thousands of birds
are killed every year by striking
against the panes of the lighthouses
which line the coasts of lakes and
seas. The birds become bewildered by
fog and rain and are attracted by the
light which is meant to be a beacon
of safety for the travellers by sea, but
which proves to be the lure to destruc-
ton of the wanderer of the air. OBJ
servations have been made systemat-
ically at nearly all the lighthouses
under government control, and the fig
ures of bird mortality are startling
The student of the birds finds himself
wondering hen he contemplates the
slaughter in the bird ranks due to the
shotgun, and the killings due to fog
and storm, that the question of the
migration of the birds does not cease
to be of interest because there are no
birds left to migrate.
Just a word on the good that the
warblers do. In a government report
prepared by F. E. l.. Real of the bio
logical survey this appears: Although
warblers are individually small their
numbers are great, and the quantity of
insects they destroy in the aggregate
must be large. In the month of May
when the apple trees have expanded
rosettes of small leaves and flower
buds, a multitude of warblers of sew
eral species were seer going through
an orchard examining these rosettes,
and apparently picking something
from each. An investigation of the
trees not yet reached by the warblers
showed that each rosette contained
from one to a dozen large plant lice.
Watch sharply during September for
a daytime migration of the hawks.
Some morning or afternoon you are
certain to see the birds Of prey flying
in great numbers owe city and coun-
try. l have watched them travelling
over the city from sunrise to sunset
on one day and far into the afternoon
of the next. You will see them from
the great rough-legged hawk, the
red-tail, the red-shouldered and the
others, down to the diminutive SPAR
row hawk. sailing, ever sailing, south
ward across the blue.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28

THE refusal of Minister and Nine.
j GUIDE to participate in the German
led by William H. Taft will not pro-
duce a diplomatic incident between
Norway and the United States. 1t
cannot, because the United States
has no official social functions and
the squabbles about precedence never
have anything more than an indirect
effect upon diplomatic relations.
The minister created a great deal
of talk among the many diplomatic
officials in Washington, not because
he had refused to participate, but be-
cause he allowed the hotel manage
ment to know why he refused.
The diplomatic view is that Minis
ter GUIDE made an awful blunder in
not recognizing the fact that Mr.. Taft
has a better chance, probably, of be-
coming president of the United States
than any other man, and that in stand
ing upon his undoubted right to de-
mand first place or none he did the
worst thing possible.
What If it is his right and duty
to say he will not walk behind a mere
private CITIZEN" said a minor diplo-
matte society man in discussing the
incident. What good will that do him
when Mr.. Taft is the president? Will
the then president have forgotten that
the minister said he would not dance
in the German with him."
1t was tactless for M. GUIDE to even
suggest his rights to a pig of a mai
ire de hotel" say the diplomats, be-
cause he should have known that the
hotel man would tell the newspapers
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
CALIFORNIA; Rootless Cactus Has a
Remarkable Growth.

Curious among vegetable growths of
the new world, and one which is sell
dom seer of men, is the rootless cac
tus of the California desert. This
plant, a round, compact growth, rolls
about the level floor of the desert for
some eight or nine months of the
year, tossed hither and yon by the
winds which blow with fierceness over
all of California's sand plat during
those months.
At the coming Of the rains, or,
rather, the cloudbursts, which sweep
the desert in its springtime. this cac
tus takes root, wherever 1t happens to
have been dropped by the last wind Of
which it was the plaything and imme-
diately begins to put out all around
it small shoots, which In turn become
cacti, exactly like the parent plant.
These young growths increase in
size rapidly, sucking the moisture
both from the parent plant and from
the surrounding earth. The roots do
not nenetrate the sol deeply. but
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
Pennsylvania Giant Pine.

A giant white pine tree was cut in
Cameron county, Pennsylvania, re-
Gently, which produced the following
number and length of logs: Twelve
16-foot logs. two 14-foot logs, eight IL
foot logs, three 10-foot logs and six
8-foot logs. and the whole bunch scaled
the magnificent total Of 10000 feet
board measure. The butt log meas
ured 60 inches. or S feet, in diameter
at the small end. The tree was not
1874 feet high, as it would seem from
the figures, but it had two forks and
three branches of immense size, hence
the large number of logs. The tree
vas out down during the deepest snow
Of the last winter, and hence it was
not much broken because the snow
dea6ened the fall.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
Social Incident Makes Society Smile

about it and in that way his refusal
would come to the ears of Mr.. Taft.
The only thing at all in favor of the
minister is the fact that there is not
a great deal of diplomatic business to
transact between Norway and the
United States and Mr.. Taft is likely
to be SO busy for the first few months
after he goes into Office that he will
forget there was such a man as GUIDE
or that he ever declined to walk
through the German behind the mas
sive back of William Howard Taft.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
Homemade Chair Bottoms.

Take strong, heavy wrapping paper,
cut out just the form you desire, and
with a firm paste stick six thicknesses
Of the paper together, making a thick
pasteboard. Trim the edges smooth
like the pattern you cut, and with
round-headed tacks nail it to the
frame. After it is we'll dried varnish
and you have a neat, strong seat to
the chair, with little OF no expense.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
A Sweeping Hint.

On sweeping days / have found 1t
an excellent plan when busting to first
the greater part with a dry
Dust cloth, then to go over the furni.
ture a second time with a cloth which
has been moistened with a little crude
oil. The oil not only spares the throat
and lungs of the housewife, but also
gives a fine polish to the furniture
Harper's Bazaar.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
Starch for Curtains.

Take a large clean pan with no
symptom of rust and put in it a half
cup or more of starch, according to
the number of curtains to be starched.
Add cold water to mix to the consist
ency Of thin cream, then pour in boil
ing water from the teakettle in a thin
stream, stirring constantly to avoid
Jumping. Add a teaspoonful kerosene
or stir with a sperm candle kept for
this purpose, and cook until clear.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
A Weiahty Question.

Frederick-Constance dear, what
would you fill an empty barrel with to
make it lighter?
Constance-Don't be silly, Freddy.
Observation-Disclosures darling, what
would you fill an empty
Constance-Oh, / don't know.
Frederick (briefly and to the point)
-Holesl"
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
SaIve for BojIs.

Melt five cents worth of beeswax;
into this stir one tablespoonful of SUI
gar and as much laundry soap as bees
wax. Add one tablespoonful of cold
sweet a. Spread On cloth, apply
to boil and put on fresh every morn
ing until the core is drawn out.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
PUDDING.

One cup sugar, n cup flour, one tea
spoon baking powder, one cup English
walnuts cut fine, n cup dates cut
fine and Toured, three eggs, the whites
unbeaten; one-half ~teaspoonful almond
extract; bake IS minutes; serve with
whipped cream.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
FREAK OF VEGETABLE WORLD

spread often over a circle whose
radius is not less than ten feet. These
roots, too, are small, but practically
innumerable, and they get every bit of
moisture and plant food to be had in
the territory they coyer.-Techrical
World Magazine.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
DADDY sToRK's MISTAKE.
It Taught CIarissa a Lesson of IN
%seifishness.

For a long time Clarissa had prayed
for a sister-a nice little baby sister,
whom she could love and fondle. And
now the mean old stork had brought
her a baby brother that fretted and
squalled and looked V e SO GROSSLY
at her.
Daddy Stork must have made a
mistake. I'm sure he must; and | do
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
BOTTLE "STUNT."
Way in Which You Can Provide a Few
Moments Diversion.

Spread a newspaper fiat On the table
and upon the paper stand a bottle,
mouth downward.
You may then with per-
feet confidence that you can draw the
newspaper from beneath the bottle
without upsetting the latter.
Grasp firmly two ends Of the paper.
Ask a friend to pound gently upon the
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
YEARLY MIGRATION OF FEATH.
Erred HOSTS AN UNEx.
PLANNED MYSTERY.
OBSERVING NOCTURNAL FLIGHT
Can Be Seen with Opera Glass Cross.
ing Face of Moon-AristotIe's
kinglet-Other Points in Con-
nection with This Species.
RY EDWARD q. LAR

IL d SLHnN.
associate Member American Ornithol-
ogists' Union.)
Copyright, Joseph E. Eowles.)
Who shall explain the mystery of
the migration? Regularly every year
at the first pulsing of the spring and
at the first chilling of the fall the
great bird army takes up its march Of
migration. Why?
For centuries scientists have been
striving to answer the question. An
swers have been given by the score,
but as yet the answer is to come
which shall spell satisfaction to the
multitudes who wonder at the mys-
terry.
If we conceive for a moment of a
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-28
Unnecessary.

Mr.. Johnson-Tommy, didn't you or
der this trunk from the trunkmaker's
the other day?
Tommy-Yes, father.
Mr.. Johnson-Why did he send no
strap?
Tommy-Why, the fact is, father. ]
told him you wouldn't need a strap.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-05
AFTER JUNGLE JOE"
'Ding-Dong" Bell Is the Man Selected
to Oppose Him.

Chicago, Sept SIN the Cannon
bdfstrirt Of Illinois the Democrats have
selected H c. Bell, otherwise known
as the ''Ddng-Dong'' Bell, of Marshall,
Clark county. to make the race
against Uncle joe"
Bell was an assistant attorney gen.
keral under the Cleveland administra-
4ion.
Speaker Cannon will also encounter
Ghe AdIai Stevenson combination
(which win exert every energy to en-
compass the defeat of Governor De-
ineen.
The Democratic congressional COM
lznfttee. It is said, would rather defeat
kSpealcer Cannon for reelection than
bany dozen Republican congressman
seeking reelection To relegate the
head OF the house organization to the
trear IS a contamination which Con-
lgressman Lloyd and his associates in
kcharge of the Democratic congre1ion-
bs1 campaign would consider a great
svtctory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-05
PUTS QUIETUS ON FAKE.
Government Takes Hand in Alaskan
Wheat Fraud.

The United States department of agri-
culture put the finishing touches to the
Alaskan wheat fake today, by making pub
one of its agents who was sent to Idaho to
investigate the magnificent, rainbow
colored fake printed in the Saturday
Evening Post. The department of agricul-
ture unhesitatingly brands the wheat
story a fake.
In reaching this conclusion the United
States department of agriculture is only
about two weeks behind the Kansas de-
partment of agriculture, which is doing
very well for ''Tama" Jim. F. D. Co
burn publicly declared the Idaho story to
be a fraud the day after it was printed
in the Post
The following is the dispatch from
WASHINGTON announcing the result of the
government Investigations:
Washington, Sept. 5.-An agent sent by
the department of agriculture to Juniata
Idaho, to investigate the present status of
the so-called Alaska wheat said to yield
over 200 bushels per acre today made the
following statement by wire:
Alaska yielding % bushels per acre.
Badly mixed. Grain inferior. Quality
soft and white. Ordinary wheat yielding
fully as much. Best varieties more.
An ANALYSIS recently made by the de
partment of agriculture shows that Alas
ka wheat contains only a little more than
8 per cent of protein while soft winter
wheats average 10 per cent; hard winter
wheat II per cent and hard spring wheats
1212 per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-05
King Edward.

A cigar expert said: Three thou
sand dollars was actually paid by King
Edward for 1 900 cigars two years ago,
and the margin of profit, even at that
price, must have been exceedingly
small, for the cigars were eight inches
in length, and at the thickest part in
the middle, one inch in diameter.
''They were made of the finest Vuel-
ia Abajo tobacco. Each leaf passed
through the hands of two solicitors,
and it required the examination of
thousands of leaves to obtain those
that were uniform in color and size.
The time consumed arl1 the expense
incurred were in the selection of the
leaf, in using gold leaf to initial each
cigar and encasing them in separate
silken envelopes.
80 far as the actual quality of the
cigars was concerned, they were no
better than those smoked by many
wealthy men. The 500 cigars which
have now been ordered will have thin
bands of gold on them, but they will
not be wrapped in silk. They will be
made from leaf which has been sea-
soned for three or four years, and will
be manufactured from the upper half
of the leaf only, as that part is said
to contain the most fragrance and
aroma"
The king is heavy smoker. his af-
fections vacillating between a big N-
gar and a short briar-root pipe, which
he always carries about with him, but