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The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

whether anybody was killed or not.
was the craziness of being up in the
and not caring for responsibility,
like a drunken chauffeur running
a crazy automobile through a crowd of
children, and acting mac because they
were in the way of progress.
We laughed and chuckled at the
we had caused, but cared no
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16
WILL TAP VAST COAL FIELDS

This vast %storehouse is located in a
rectangle $50 by 200 miles in extent,
comprising 10000 square miles or 49,
zoe, 900 acres.
To put this tract in direct commune
cation with the outside world, two OPP
posing engineering parties are strenu-
ously at work. d. C. Corbin, president
of the Spokane International railroad,
has secured a charter from the provin-
cial government of British Columbia
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

Those burglars at Mark Twain's
house showed considerable strength
when they carried the %sideboard with
it's rich load of solid silver" out into
the yard. But if they had tried to
carry away the joke that Mark after,
ward pinned on his door, they might
have found that rather heavy, even for
them.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16
New Railroads to Northwest Will Make
As, ooo, 10000 Tons Accessible.

Forty-five billion tons of coal, in
cluded in the greatest coal fields in
western North America, will be avail
able as soon as railroad extensions
now in progress tapping the Crows
Nest Pass region are completed, going
far towards averting the predicted fuel
famine, says the Technical World.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

for a railroad connecting with the
Canadian Pacific east of Michel, B. c.,
and extending In a southeriy direction
IA miles. Construction gangs are now
in the field rushing work. This line
will open coal lands in II sections, a
total Of 10000 acres, for which the
company holds crown grants from the
provincial government Of British Co
lumbia.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

An Austrian inventor has recently
patented a process for making butter
from cottonseed oil. 1t is assumed
that the new product will find a ready
sale in Roumania, Turkey and other
countries where Mohammedans and
Jews, who will eat no substitute for
butter which contains hog fat, live in
large numbers and, of course, will
greatly increase the demand for an
American product.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

The Ohio State Journal notes the
misprints look much funnier to the
editor when they're in some other pa
per. Yes. but they look about ten
times as big in his own paper.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

A man in Port Jervis, N. Y, ex-
hibits the skin of a blacksnake ten
feet long which he killed a few days
ago. In which connection it is proper
to remark that, according to nature
takers and others, the skin of a snake
may be stretched, after its removal, to
fit almost any size of snake story.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

The "F1orodora" chorus girl has
again come into prominence. The
husband of this particular one was
shot in a quarrel over hens. 1t is g
small sort Of scandal, but it is good
enough for the limelight, and, after all
that is the main thing.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

A Berlin doctor says that most men
might with advantage study the man
ner of eating by the giraffe, which
masticates every mouthful 1T times
before swallowing it. But look at the
long neck he has,
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

A man in st. Louis is seeking a di.
yorce from his wife because, among
other things, when he demonstrated
with her on her style of dress, she told
him to mind his own business. The
st. Louis man is not alone in taking
this admonition as a serious insult.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

The duke of Aosta has been enter
tanning American officers. AS brother
to the young prince who is to marry
an American girl, he probably feels
ted States.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw says that she
is not going on the stage again and
will not marry again. Let us be
thankful. She likewise says that she
would like to be let alone. She ought.
to be accommodated in that respect.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

1t has been decided in New Jersey
schools that the children in them need
not pray if their parents object. But
no hint is given that New Jersey is in
no need of more prayers
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

The reported shortage in the price
of cranberries will probably be accept
ed as an excuse for raising the price
of turkeys along about Thanksgiving
time.-Toledo Blade.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

1t beats all how the size of woman's
hats is increasing and the contents of
the mans pocketbook are decreasing.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

II the Mauretania could dance on
the water like a cork it is apparent
that ocean liners must be made a few
thousand feet longer to insure abso.
Lutte stability.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

1t is no longer In style to sneer at
the farmer and crack Jokes at the
country man. The real greenhorn OF
the day is the cliff-dweller OF the city
flats or the cave men of the city
Slums.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

ing of %electing Castro president for
life. Perhaps they believe it would
be a clever thing or their part to beat
him to it.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

Great Britain has placed another i'm
mense order for material in the United
States out of which to make the roast
beef of old England.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

Some one has invented a machine
that will write 10000 words an hour"
Now invent another one to boil 'em
down to 10, 900.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

Umbrellas were introduced in
l712.' We suppose they began to dis.
appear singly about the same time.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

That domestic who stole $1,000
worth of jewelry under the very eyes
of her mistress in Philadelphia never
was born to be a servant girl.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

The best quality of pork is pro-
duced by feeding wheat, rye, pats
and other grains carrying consider
able nitrogen.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

A c~hewing-gum magnate in Ohio has
been sued for divorce. Certainly, any
kind of a wife ought to be able to
make a husband of this sort stick.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

The kaiser gives the lnterparliamen-
tary Union a ringing peace message.
War is in almost as bad repute every
where as it vas in the Russian army
after Mukden.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

A man oven in London has shown
that he can operate a typewriter by
means of the wireless. But think
what a lonely job that would be,
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

That Pittsburg mar who recently
gave his children 81, 600, 900 apiece was
not much impressed by the Thaw ex-
amples.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

One could hardly tell whether that
Cleveland youth who had to pay
$4.S9 for kissing a girl got a bargain
until one saw the girl.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

1t is the farmers duty to himself
and to society that he read and profit
by the bulletins issued by the expert
ment station.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

Evidently the person who remarked
that history repeats itself had inside
information. Earrings are in style
again.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

Light grain rations fed in connec-
ton with succulent foods pro
duce a high quality of pork and at a
low cost.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

Although but a few miles from the
mouth of the river Thames, noted for
its fogs, the atmosphere of Herne bay,
England, is rarely obscured.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

Though in some instances the glory
of woman may be her hair, it does not
in most cases stack up to that of her
hat.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

Fardon our ignorance, but how can
"hlps' be eliminated without a sur
gical operation?
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

World aeroplane records are getting
bigger right along, but they remain in
the family.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

Why continue to till a soil that
never grew a goad crop Of anything
and never will;
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

The delivery of London's milk re-
quires $500 horses.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

Don't worry about the weather. IL It
doesn't exactly suit you. You are not
to blame for it.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16
Farm Boys Sticking to 1t.

Recently the United States COVER
ment placed $4,000 in the hands of
well known advertising agents to
spend in advertising for recruits for
the navy. The agents decided that
they would use a part of the appro-
priation in agricultural papers and
did so. Parties who wanted to know
the result of such advertising made
inquiry of 1000 young men who re-
sponded to the governments adver-
Using and were accepted for service.
They found that very few of them
came from the farm. And they figured
that while every man secured through
advertising in magazines and city
papers cost the government $3.50,
every one secured through the agri-
cultural papers cost it sos. Evidently
it will not pay Uncle Sam to adver-
tise for sailors in agricultural papers.
This is not the fault of these papers,
for they are of course good advertis-
ing mediums for the right lines of
business; but it is due to the fact
that farmers sons have SO much bet
ter opportunities at home than the
navy can offer them. Men who are
out of work or are working for only
enough t keep them in cities are the
ones who will join the navies, and it
is needless to advertise for recruits
among people who are busy at better
paid work than naval service. Farm
ers' sons are not going to the cities
in such numbers as they were. Many
have realized that they have good
opportunities at home; and a good
many, too, have recently had the
benefit of a few object lessons in the
shape of busted" city men going or
returning to the country. The prob
lem of keeping the boys on the farms
is not nearly so acute as it used to be.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

A joke never gains an enemy, but
often loses a friend.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

A handful OF common n is
worth a bushel of common cents.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

Brain is a coarse, tibrous food not
adapted to the digestive organs of
the pig.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

Many farmers will look upon sci
ence on a farm as a very complex
matter and dream of blast furnaces,
laboratories, ETC., but these things
are not necessary to apply science to
farming. They may be necessary for
somebody, but they are not for the
farmer. His course is a simple and
easy one. 1t is to take what the eX-
pertinent station has prepared for
him and the investigators make it SO
easy that he doesn't even need to
shake before taking" The course
of scientific agricultural information
must be the experiment station.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16
ALL HIS OWN.

my! What a big figure you are
g%etting!"
We'll, what does that matter? !
haven't taken yours, have II"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-16
ALGERNON PERKINS Is
NOT LEAGUE OFFICIAL
Noted Magnate Helps Form Bankers
Organization and Arranges Sched-
uIe for Teams to Cover
Twelve Weeks

Algernon Perkins. although he has
not yet attained the financial status
commonly designated as a banker"
extended the helping hand to the bank
clerks of Los Angeles yesterday and
helped them organize a ball league of
four teams, each nine to be made up
of the employees in the various financial
houses of the city.
A twelve weeks schedule, which Will
have it's opening on May 2, was ar
ranged and the teams which promise
to do their best for the honor and
glory of their respective houses are as
follows: Farmers and Merchants,
American National, First National and
the National Bank of California. 1t Is
possible that other teams may be taken
in later.
AS Mr. Perkins says, a tentative
offer has been made by the presidents
of the banks represented by teams of
suitable trophies to the winners of the
twelve weeks series. The clerks are
not adverse to having the bosses chip
in few coupons toward squirting them
on, and anything from block of Penn
stock to a picture of the fleet will be
welcomed.
George S. Pickerell of the American
National is president and treasurer Of
the new league and ]. Rizan of the
National Bank Of California is secre-
tary. This is the only amateur league
in existence which is not "secretarized"
over by the Hon. Perkins. And he's
a good boy, too.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-16
u. S. SENATE PASSES
ANTI-GAMBLING BILL
Bo0KMAKING AT BENNINGs
TRACK KILLED
Within Twenty-Four Hours After
Close of Spring Race Meeting
ProhIhltory Measure
Is Carried

WASHINGTON, April 15.--Without
discussion or dissent or division the
senate today, within twenty-four hours
after the winding up Of the spring race
meeting at Bennings, passed the bill
prohibiting betting in the district of
Columbia. The bill was called up by
$ nator Carter If the district commit
tee and after being read was immedi-
ately put on its, passage.
The anti-gambling provision is a.
rider on a bill providing for the widen
ing of Bennings road, the principal
thoroughfare leading to the race course
at the suburb of Bennings. The bill
originated In the house and has passed
that body, so that it would not be nee
esshry to send 1t back there but for the
fact that the form of the betting Sec
tion was changed by the senate. If
the house does not accept the change
1t will be necessary to place the bill
in the hands of a committee for thu
adjustment of differences In phrases
ology.
AS 1t passed the senate the gambling
prohibition reads:
"It shall be unlawful for any person
or association of persons to bet, gam
BILE or make books or pools on the re-
suit of any trotting or running race of
horses, or boat race, or race of any
kind or on any election or any contest
of any kind, or game of baseball Any
persons or association of persons vio-
lating the provisions of this section
shall be fined not exceeding $500 or be
imprisoned not more than ninety days,
or both"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-16
FRENCH AND ITALIAN
CARS TO SHIP TOGETHER

SEATTLE, April 15.-The French car
and Italian car in the New York to
Paris automobile race left for Vladi-
vostok yesterday morning on the
steamship Aki Maru. The foreigners
have an excellent start on the
American car. The Italian car
is second n the race and the French
car third. They will go from Dalny to
Vladivostok, thence travelling across
Sberias frozen wastes to Paris.
The steamer Glenlogan, on which the
German car goes from Seattle to Vlad-
ivostok, arrived here yesterday from
Tacoma and began loading for the far
east The German car is expected here
Friday or Saturday and the ship will
get away Saturday. night. She will
make the run in abou. three weeks, ar
irving at Vladivostok about May 10.
The French and Italian cars, on the
Aki Maru, will have to be transshipped
at Kobe, where they will arrive May 5.
If they make connections at once
with the ships for Vladivostok they
will arrive in the latter port about the
same time as the German car. The
Alaska section of the journey has been
positively abandoned. The Americans
were warned against attempting the
trip from Valdez to Nome, but the au-
thorities in the New York to Paris race
would not consent to change at that
time.
The American car will arrive here
Friday on the steamship Bertha and
probably will sail on the Glenlogan
with the German car.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-16
NO CHANCE TO KICK
ON NEXT WEEKS MILL
M'CAREY NOT PLEASED WITH
RECENT SHOW
Johnson : and Flynn Promise to Put
Up Real Flgtt-Van Court Is
Helping Big Russian
Boxer

Tom McCarey wasn't slipped any
riper chunk of citrus produce Tuesday
night than his patrons, but at that
those who dug up their coin 10 see lne
frosty bunch of bouts at the Cabin are
not kicking half as much as the pro-
moter. What 1 ought to have done
was to have them thrown out one by
one," said Mac. II try to give the fans
the best possible for the money ana
when they don't get 1t no one teeis
more badly than l dc"
According to McCarey, the spectators
won't have a chance to kick on the
next card, in which Jim Flynn ana
Battling johnson come together IN
return clash. The Fireman hung IL on
Car Nicks representative in their otn-
er encounter and feels that he can 40
1t again. But that isn't the real point
with McCarey, for he is going TO take
the last show presented by the PAIR as
a model and practically guarantee tnat
Tuesday nights go will be duplicate
in every respect, save that the VIII
ners end may be switched.
Johnson has entirely recovered from
his defeat at Flynns hands and once
more Jim Gaines is beginning to dream
about betting the family COWS on nm
in championship fight. De Witt Van
Court has been working every day
with the big fellow, teaching him the
inside points of the ring game, and the
instructor feels that he has accom-
plished something.
Nine times out of ten 1t does more
harm than good to try and drill a nat
urally awkward man into d scientific
fighter in a short time, but Van Court
seems to think the first nine numbers
on the card have been played and he
holds the only trump left. Johnson has
displayed remarkable aptitude in doing
as he is told and unless the old stone
age t,.ctics are brought out again by
Flynn's rushes he will know what to
do with his hands better than he did
on his last appearance in the arena.
No preliminaries have been arranged
for the Johnson-F Flynn battle, but Nc
Carey is scouting around in the bush
leagues and will try and uncover some
new material The bunch which per-
formed the other night wrote their own
"23" signs, and the promoter feels that
something besides the stalling kids is
needed as a preliminary to the gru-
elling battle Johnson and Flynn are
expected to furnish.
And while on the subject of fights
in connection with CcCarey's club 1T
would not be amiss to say that he
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-16
DOG BITES DYNAMITE,
AND, OF COURSE, 1T IS +.
A CASE OF DOG G0NE''
Owner Keeps Safe Distance from
Retriever Until He Literally Dis
appears from the Face of
the Earth

BAY CITY, Mich. April 15.-"Good
doggie; nice doggie; drop that stick
of DYNAMITE"
Thomas Olmstead, lumber jobber,
from his lofty perch in the branches
of a towering elm sought to soothe his
pet. But the dog only wagged his tail
with greater v.gor and set his teeth
the harder on the explosive he had re-
trieved from log jam.
Drop 1t, Shep. drop it," called Will
liam Butler, Olmstead'sN companion.
who had fed to neighboring field
When the dog heard Buffers voice he
relaxed his vigil beneath the tree in
which Olmstead had sought refuge;
then he ran toward Butler.
Bang!
Dog goneir murmured Olmstead as
he slid down the tree trunk.
Olmstead and Butler who reside at
Standish. set out this morning to break
a log jam in the south branch of Pine
river They were accompanied by
Shep, noted for his ability as a retriev-
er. When Olmstead tossed q stick of
dynamite among the logs Shep brought
it back. Olmstead climbed tree and
Butler dashed to a nearby field.
when that dynamite exploded
said Olmstead today, "Shep just natur-
ally disappeared
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-16
METROPOLITANSEASON
STARTS AT AQUEDUCT
But Little Noticeable Change in Bet
ting System, Despite CIamor.
Jack Atkin Scores in
Carter Handicap
BY Associated Pres.

BY Associated Pres.
NEW YORK, April 15.-The metro
politan racing season of 1908 opened to-
day at Aqueduct park track, and the
days program was carried out without
interference and with only slight
changes in the usual system of betting.
Outwardly there were no signs of the
stubborn fight that has been waged at
Albany for two months to make race
track gambling impossible in this state.
But to one familiar with old condi-
tons and methods on New York race
tracks there were manifest many small
concessions to public sentiment against
the betting system.
Results:
Five furlongs-Pantoule won, voorhees,
second, Frank Lord third; time 1:02h.
Bay Side steeplechase, two miles-Per-
centage won, Jimmy Lane second, Jim Nc
Gill third: time 4:32.
Four and half furlongs-Apron won, In
tervene second, Madrilono third; time :57
Fourth race the Carter handicap, 3-year-
olds and up, guaranteed cash value $4,000,
seven furlongs-Jack Atkin, 1872 (Musgrave).
s to l. to / and to l. won: Red River,
los (Fairbrother), 80 to J. 10 to l and to
to 2, even and l to 2, third. Time / 27 4-5
Brookdale Nymph, Meelick, Rieman, Wei
bourne Don Enrique, oxford, Berkeley, An
gelus and Rosmiro also ran.
Seven furlongs-Zal won. Galavant second
Altila third; time 1929 10. Mark Anthony
finished second but disqualified fol
fouiing.
Six furlongs-Rialto won, Halket second
Troublesome third; time 1:15.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-16
How Adam Was Punished

A prominent pastor tells this story
IT visited a certain school one day
where Bible instruction was part of the
daily course, and in order to test the
children's knowledge, asked some ques-
tons One class OF little girls looked
particularly bright, and I asked the
tallest one: what sin did Adam COM
mit?'
HE ate forbidden fruit
fright. Who tempted Adam"
Eve
Not really Eve. but the serpent.
And how was Adam punished?"
1.-THE girl hestated and looked con-
fused Behind her sat a little S-year-
cid, who raised ner hand and said:
'Piease, pastor. | know
"'WelI, tell us. How was Adam pun
ished?'
He had to marry Eve "-Harper's
Weekly.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-16
DANCER TO
PUBLISH "REMINISCENCES

BERLIN, April 15.-Loie Fuller, the
American dancer. who is known in
Europe as La Loie," is about to
blossom out as an authoress. She ar
rived in Berlin to confer with pub
fishers here with view to bringing
out a German edition of her rem
iniscences, which she desires to have
published simultaneously in English,
German and French.
The book will deal with Miss Fuller's
long professional career on the Euro
pean and American stage, and will con-
tain, it is said, many hitherto unpub-
lished and striking revelations affect
ing personages conspicuous in the
political, intellectual and artistic life
of London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna. ST.
Petersburg, Budapest and Constan-
tinople, as well as New York, Chicago.
Philadelphia and other leading Ameri-
can cities.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-16
SEVENTEEN ACT GAME
CAPTURED BY SEALS
oakIands' Errors at Critical Times
Result in Loss of Long Game.
Hogan Raps Out
Homer
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 15.-Not-
withstanding the fact that Hogan
raped out a home run for Oakland, the
San Francisco team annexed another
game today by a score of to 8. 1t
required seventeen innings to obtain
that result, however, and from the be-
ginning of the fifth, when both teams
had three tallies, to the last half of
the seventeenth, when San francisco
again scored critical errors lost the
game from Oakland. Score:
CAN rp ANCTGTn
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-16
REFUSE REQUEST TO PUT
OFF MOTOR BOAT RACES
By Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 15.-Postpone-
ment of one month of the international
motor boat race for the Harmsworth
cup, requested by the Motor Yacht club
of Great Britain, was refused last night
at a meeting of the Motor Boat club
of America. The refusal was based on
the fact that all arrangements for re-
gatta week at Huntington park have
been arranged and that the original
date, September 1, was accepted by the
English yachtsmen some time ago.
Announcement was made of the for
nation of the proposed syndicate
among wealthy owners Of the club and
several motor boat enthusiasts outside
of it for the building of the best pos
sibIe defending boat. The sum of
$40 900, if necessary, will be available.