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New-York tribune., 1908-04-12
Appraisal Committee.

Estate Board of
s by the
III fhe adjoining list of members. A CERTIFICATE
PRAlSA therefore, seal of Boardis
vested with authority the
to EXECUTORS, TRUSTEES, INSTITUTIONS nd
ON BOND
For the is Into
districts 10 each district of
in that tsecon
haveth ni-
changes, witho
a be fixed.
Therefore, appraisal the iudgme
it. AS a uthsa
guard. each appraisal is reviewed
ApprasaIs by this Board are the Most Reliable TO be had
a erntnat
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New-York tribune., 1908-04-12

For terms and other information address
Chairman Appraisal Committee, 1856 Broadway.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
CHANGE IN FOOD
Works Wonders in Health.

1t is worth knowing that change
in food can cure dyspepsia. Il deem
it my duty to let you know how Grape
Nuts food has cured me of indigestion.
II had been troubled with it for
years, until last year my doctor recon-
mended Grape-Nuts food to be used
every morning. I followed instruc-
tions and now / am entirely well.
"The whole family like Grape-Nuts,
we use four packages week. You
are welcome to use this testimonial
as you see fit"
The reason this lady was helped by
the use Of Grape-Nuts food, is that it
Is predigested by natural processes
and therefore does not tax the stom-
ach as the food she had been using;
1t also contains the elements required
for building up the nervous system
If that part of the human body is in
perfect working order, there can be no
dyspepsia, for nervous energy repre-
sents the steam that drives the engine
When the nervous system is run
down. the machinery Of the body
works badly. Grape-Nuts food can be
used by small children as well as
adults. It is perfectly cooked and
ready for instant use
Read "The Road to Wellville," in
pkgs. There's Reason
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of human
Interest.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
On Being Well Fixed.

You frequently hear some one speak
of farmer as being "well fixed" Gen.
orally the meaning is that the farm
er has lots of land and cattle and pos
sibly other property. The true mean
ing does not necessarily mean that he
has a great deal of property. The
poor farmer can be we'll fixed as
well as the rich one. The News idea
of a well fixed farmer is one who
has nice house, with shade trees,
shrubbery and vines in the yard, a
good well of water that is piped into
the kitchen and lots, good fences and
gates in repair, good barn and sheds
and convenient lots, poultry and rab-
bit-proof garden, good orchard and
vineyard with variety of fruits and
berries, and good soil, we'll titled
drained and in good cultivation. The
fact of the business is there are more
well farmers of moderate wealth
than those who have an abundance.
The homes of many of our wealthy
farmers are more like camphouses
than homes. There is little comfort
and less convenience, and they are
not "wel1 fixed" The main cause of
this is that 99 out Of 100 farmers try
to cultivate too much land All of it
is halfway titled and many things are
neglected that could be attended to
if too much land was not put ink.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
Help the Weak Farmer.

1t is the duty of the strong to help
the weak. 1t is the duty of every
land owner to assist his tenants and
endeavor to make them prosperous
and contented. Every white tenant in
the South should be encouraged by
the land owner to get on cash basis,
diversity his crops, send his children
to school, and if possible, ultimately to
buy and own small farm. If this is
not done there can at least be coop
GRAFTON between the land owner and
the tenant, which would greatly
strengthen the control and marketing
of the cotton crop each season. The
weak cotton growers of the South are
the men who need help in the mar
keting of cotton. They preponderate
both in numbers and bales grown in
the cotton area of the South.
The greatest prosperity in any ag-
ricuutural country will be found in
the success of the small farmer. The
small, thrifty land owner means better
roads, better homes, better schools, a
higher type of educated husbandry and
withal a more advanced, cultured and
progressive civilization. We want to
call the specific attention of large land
owners to the subjects discussed above
and request their serious consideration
of the policies advocated and their
prompt cooperation in getting them
into practical co-operation-Win
La) F. u. Banner
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
THOUGHT IT NATIONAL TRAIT.
Driver Couldn't Understand American
Not Being In Hurry.


A traveller returned from Jaffa tells
tale at his own expense. Having
journeyed to the historical seaport on
his way to Jerusalem, he succeeded
in hiring conveyance to carry him
to the station. BY speech and gesture
he informed the native driver that he
wished to be carried in a leisurely,
sightseeing fashion through as many
as possible of the principal thorough
fares of Jaffa, and to be delivered at
the terminal just In time to take the
outgoing train
He had no sooner seated himself In
the vehicle. however, than the driver
whipped up his horse and whirled the
dismayed traveller at a furious pace
through all the dust and over all the
stones of the noteriously rough streets
of Jaffa. The passenger was too bus
lily employed in saving his bones to be
able to see anything Of the interesting
town.
Arriving at the station, he found
that he still had two hours to wait
why in the world" he demanded,
Indignantly, Ibid you ever hurry like
that?"
"You American" responded the
driver with an expressive shrug. "All
American like go very much fast
Youths Companion.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
Economical Physician.

Ambassador Wu Ting-fang was
once, it is alleged, telling about GER
tain selfish politician He said: "The
man reminds me of doctor of Shang-
hal. A mandarin came to this doctor
for advice. He could not sleep, had
no appetite, suffered good deal from
depression and nevertheless was TAX
ing on fat at an alarming rate. Well
soon put you in condition again. said
the physician. What you need is ex-
ercise, good, hard exercise. Four
times week you can come here and
put in the morning polishing my
floors But why not my own f1oors?'
the mandarin inquired. Nine said
the physician, are larger"
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
BOY KEPT SCRATCHING.
Eczema Lasted Years-Face Was All
Raw-Skin Specialists Failed, But
Cuticura Effected Cure.

when my little boy was six weeks
old an eruption broke out on his face.
l took him to doctor, but his face
kept on getting worse until it got so
bad that no one could look at him.
His whole face was one crust and
must have been very painful. He
scratched day and night until his face
was raw. Then l took him to all the
best specialists in skin diseases but
they could not do much for him. The
eczema got on his arms and legs and
we could not get a nights sleep in
months. got set of Cuticura Rene
dies and he felt relieved the first time
| used them. l gave the Cuticura
Remedies a good trial and gradually
the eczema healed all up: He is now
seven years old and l think the trou.
Bile will never return. Mrs. John G.
kiumpp, so Niagara ST., Newark, N.
j., Oct. II and %. 1907"
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
Ready to Pay Fine.

II know where s3,O00,O00 in cash
lies concealed" said a New York law
yer. This vast sum lies concealed in
the inside vest pocket of the 10000
automobilists of New York state. Each
man carries 500 of it in one crisp
note, ready to be paid out in fine, if
he should be arrested for speeding.
Fines, though, don't appear to stop
speeding" he continued. Perhaps
the rich automobilist regards them
much as the Suabian wood thief did.
The thief was arrested. The magis-
trate said to him: You are brought
up on the charge of stealing wood.
This charge has been proved against
you. But you are old and poor and
you shall be let off this time. Only
don't do it again NONSENSE retort.
ed the thief. Let us not have any
false sentimentality here. l steal my
wood, pay my fine, and there's an
end of it.''
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
The colorino Matter

DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, the govern.
ment's famous food expert, was talk.
Ing about the adulteration of wines.
"One day." he said, II heard wine
salesman discussing a new price list
with his father. The father was going
to buy some wines. He turned page
after page of the list, ticking off his
selections with a pencil.
" Look here, son. he said how is it
that your red wines are all dearer
than your whites?'
why said the son Indignantly,
do you think that crimson lake costs
Rothing?"
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
Parcels Post Example.

The other day we sent package of
$50 note heads to a man at town
where there was no express office. The
postage was IS cents. The very same
hour we sent the same sized package
of note heads, together with $50 en-
velopes, all wrapped in heavy shipping
paper, to another man by express for
25 cents. And yet a parcels post
would not be self-sustaining, and would
be the ruination of the South!-Farm-
ers' Union Journal.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
One Of the
Essentials

Of the happy homes Of to-day is a vast
fund of information as to the best methods
Of promoting health and happiness and
right living and knowledge of the worlds 3
best products.
Products Of actual excellence and
reasonable claims truthfully presented
and which have attained to worldwide
acceptance through the approval Of the
Well-Inforned of the World; not of indi-
viduals only, but Of the many who have
the happy faculty of selecting and obtain
ing the best the world affords.
One Of the products of that class, of
known component parts, an Ethical
remedy, approved by physicians and COM
mended by the Well-Informed of the
World as valuable and wholesome family
laxative is the well-known Syrup of Figs
and Elixir Of SIENNA. To get its beneficial
effects always buy the genuine, manu-
factured by the California Fig Syrup Co.,
only, and for sale by all leading druggists.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
FARMER AND
PLANTER
Spring Fever.

spring Fever.
i don't want to work, or nothing,
don't want to read or walk;
don't want to drink, don't want to
think
Don't even want to talk.
You can hardly call it lazy,
You can't rightly name it sick,
Only I just want to lie
On the fat of my back and look
through a crack
In the trees at the warm, blue sky.
| know | ought to make garden,
| know | ought to rake
The trash that lies in the yard and
be helping mother to make
Soft soap. But l just can't do it
I'm not in the right condition,
But if someone'd dig some bait and
rig
My tacke, I'd go fishin'."
Farm Journal.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
HomeIy Philosophy.

A man hates to wear collar that
doesn't fit-so does a horse.
When man blows his own horn
he is nearest the small end of it,
Cotton is King" and those who
raise cotton exclusively are his slaves.
A man frequently gets warm under
the collar when he is given the cold
shoulder.
Continual fault-fnding with your
boy is a good way to drive him off
the farm.
Lots of folks never get to the top
because they try to carry the bottom
with them.
The farmer who wants to be inde-
pendent doesn't keep his smokehouse
in Chicago
One mistake may be better than a
success-if you don't make the same
mistake twice.
A bunch of radishes in your own
garden is worth half a dozen in the
other fellows crate.
If your home isn't made attractive
for your children, don't blame them
If they prefer to seek more congenial
surroundings elsewhere.
We should not ask other people to
do for us what we are not willing tc
try to do for ourselves.
Don't give your boy a pig to raise
in the spring and then pocket the
cash when he sells it in the fall.
The farmer who raises everything
he needs to eat at home doesn't wor.
ry about the high price OF smoked
bacon
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
COMPLAINTS ABOUT PAINT.

The time to complain about paint
is before the painter applies it. The
man who puts up the money should
not shirk the responsibility of choos
ing the paint. True, the painter
ought to know paint better than the
banker, the professional man or the
merchant. The trouble is, the house.
owner too often deliberately bars the
competent and honest painter from
the job by accepting a bid which he
ought to know would make an honest
job impossible
Secure your bids on the basis of
National Lead Companys pure White
Lead and pure Linseed Oil and see
that you get these materials.
No one need be fooled by adulter-
ated white lead. A blowpipe testing
outfit will be mailed to anyone inter
ested in paint
Address, National Lead Company
Woodbridge Building, New York City.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
WHERE TRUCKERS WIN.
Not Depending on Any One croh
They Succeed,


These are the advantages the truck
er gets from diversifcation of veg
etable and fruit crops: "a The same
unfayorable weather will not injure
them all. (2) The necessary work
will not fall SO much. on the same day,
and there will not be the hoeing prob
lem that many strawberry growers
have to face, or the picking problem.
CD The market price for all kinds of
vegetables and fruit will not be low
the same year. (4) Helpful changes
in the crops grown on given piece
of land can be made from year to
year, so plant diseases and insect
pests can be more easily controlled
(5) The land will respond better to
the food demands of crops grown in
rotation.
The reason of every trucker who
reflects on these points will see they
are true, and that growing several
crops is advisable. During fat years,
when one is giving all his energy to
one or two crops, he will not take
these points seriously. He may admit
them-and dismiss them in the same
breath. But when he has had one or
two or three lean years, has had to
scrape and beg for money to carry
him till he can market a crop, he
is ready to hunt something that will
pay him and make a yearly income
of decent size; Common sense sug-
gests that he had better not wait till
he is in dire straits before he looks
to his own safety.
If children eat unripe fruit and
suffer pain, we feel that after the
pain they suffer and the bitter med
icine they have to take they ought
to know better than to go back to
the dangerous unripe fruit again.
Truckers are about as bad in some
Instances. After going wild on straw
berry growing, making good profit
year or two, maybe, but finally suffer
ing distressingly lean years, they go
wild on growing cabbage or some 9TH
er crop that for a time offers good
profits. Lean years will come to the
cabbage grower. The trucker who
lodges about from one crop to an
other, and does not have a large
enough variety in his crops puts him.
self in the class of the child that eats
green fruit, suffers aches and bitter
medicine, and then goes back to eat
ing green fruit.
If truckers associations will get
their members to work on the diver
sification plan, it will be just as easy
to get the crops to market easily and
quickly. The same buyers who may
come from distant cities can stay
right on the ground from week to
week to purchase the crops in the
fields or at the railway station, or
the truckers can make their own
shipments. All this can be done just
as well as if the number of crops
raised was small. Distressingly lean
that are so fat that the trucker is
encouraged to get extravagant with
suddenly acquired wealth may not
come often, but on the whole the
net profit will be better and surer.
Home supplies are also more likely
to be raised, and more stock are like
ly to be kept. Until truckers get to
having good number of market
crops, they are in danger of very lean
years. No other one thing has larg-
er influence on their success than
this single principle. If it seems good,
do more than admit it-practice it
Starkville, Miss, Southern Farm Ga
zette.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
DESERVED TO WIN HIS CASE.
Really Able Argument Put Forward
by Accused Sailor.

A very good story has recently been
told in the fleet of an incident which
happened when Admiral Evans was In
command of the Indiana. An old-time
bluejacket was at the mast before
Capt. Evans, charged with getting
food out Of mess chest outside OF
meal hours. This getting of food for
night watches is common and strong
desire on the part of most men aboard
ship.
Capt. Evans asked the man what he
had to say; and the man, sizing up
the delicate situation, said:
Captain, didn't take no food outer
that chest. Why, captain, there
weren't no food in that chest! l
looked in that chest, and, captain.
met cockroach coming out Of that
chest with tears in his eyes."-Har-
per's Weekly.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
You Would Not Accept Counterfeit
Money, Why Accept Counterfeit


Good money is made by the Govern
ment in which you have implicit faith
and confidence. Good goods are made
by manufacturers who are willing to
stake their regulations on the quality
of the material offered to you through
the medium of their advertisements in
this paper. Counterfeit goods are not
advertised. The reason for it is they
will not bear the close scrutiny to
which genuine advertised goods are
subjected. Counterfeit money pays
more profit to the counterfeiter. Coun-
terfeit goods are offered to you for the
same reason.
Insist on the Genuine-Reject the
Counterfeit.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
A Kansas Girls Advice,

A Lincoln county girl writes this aC.
vice to the Kansas City Star: why
do young men do so much loafing? Go
to work. Push ahead. l am but a
young girl, but / clothe myself and
have money in the bank. I lay UP
more money every year than any
young man within three miles cf my
home. When they get dollar they
&C to dance and go home a dollar
out. / advise all girls to cut clear of
loafing boys. Stand by the boy who
works, and never put your arm
through the handle of jug"
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
Natures Pattern.

A prairie dog not only claims the
hole he digs and occupies, but he
seems to think that little of the
ground adjacent to that hole should
be his also. He does not try to mo-
nopolize the entire prairie, however,
so as to make his fellow-dogs bring
him part of the grass roots and mes
quite beans which they gather The
unspeakable biped calling himself
man should not always refer to these
little quadrupeds as Tower" animals.
Farmers Journal
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
"Makes 1t Go Way"

We simply can't do without it. We
are not going to try. When Bobby
stubs or cuts his toe. it's MA, where's
the Lightning Oil?" When Lizzie
burns her hand or arm, it's Where's
the Lightning Oil?" When little Dick
been playing with humble bee, it's
Where's the Lightning Oil?" The
echo of all our Affections is Where's
the Lightning Oil?" It's the balm that
makes the pain go way. Sincerely
yours, P. CASSIDY,
Montevallo. Ala.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense Of smell
and completely dersnge the whole system when
entering 1t through the mucous surfaces. Such
tons from reputable physicians as the damage they
will do ten fold to the good you can possibly de.
rive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. Cheney & Co., Toledo o., contains no mer.
curry Sad fs taken internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In
buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the
genuine. 1t is taken internally and made in Toledo
ohio, by F. j. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Take Has Family Ps for asc psu ooate
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
BIG COTTON FARMS.
Their Effect on the General Diversifl-
cation Plan


cation Plan.
Diversification is one of the great
modern methods by which the agricul-
turist will redeem the South. The one
planting of the cotton crop from year
to year will certainly result in hard
ship to the Southern planter. To make
money on his cotton he must raise the
supplies of the home on his plantation,
planting little of everything needed
in the home, that he has, that he does
not want or can not use, he can al
ways sell at a very good price. Di-
versity has beeu preached to the Tex
as farmer for so long, but cotton was
selling at a big price, and cotton lands
going up fast in value. The landlords
of many places compel the tenant
farmers to cultivate each year so much
cotton, letting him have but little land
for anything else. This Is on of the
hardships of tenant farming in the
South. As I write this l can look out
of my window and see far in the dis
tance one of the largest ranches in
this country the Light Brothers
ranch, one of the biggest in this coun-
try except the Jot l. Gunter at Gun
ter, Texas. The Gunter ranch is six
miles square, and seven or eight miles
across. The Light Brothers is some
twelve miles square, but is not al
together square, some fifteen or more
miles across. Just think of the i'm
mense cotton fields of these ranches.
1t is some sixteen miles from here to
CeliEa; that is Pilot Point. You, on
leaving Pilot Point going east, begin
to go along beside the Light Brothers
ranch and travel on to Celina in Col
lin County all the way beside this
great ranch. When you get to Celina
you see another, the English ranch, of
some twenty-five or thirty thousand
acres all in one body. All of these
are worked by the tenant farmers on
the share of one-third of grain and
corn and one-fourth of cotton. Just
imagine that you were in Texas and
saw the immense wheat, corn and cot
ton fields cotton fields mostly, of
these jumbo ranches.
Diversity is the thing that most of
the Southern farmers should do with
their crops, and many have made a
success of it this year; but others can
not. Why? The landlords will not
let them have the land; to get land
to work they must work so much cot
ton; pay money rent for all the land
they work outside of corn and cot
ton, and some exact money rent for
the corn lands.
The modern method of diversifying
crops is one of the salvations of the
South, with working of less land, CIV
ing the same better culture, but un-
til the landlords agree to this it can
not be done by the tenant farmer,
who is in the majority of farmers
VIM. L. Moore, in Southern Cultivator.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
A Household Necessity.

/ would almost as soon think of
running my farm without implements
as without Hunts Lightning Oil. OF
all the liniments / have ever used, for
both man and beast, it is the quickest
in action and richest in results. For
burns and fresh cuts it is absolutely
wonderful. l regard it as a house
hold necessity. Yours truly,
s. HARRISON,
Kosciusko, Miss.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
Aristocratic Disease,

From phat OF hears these society
women sa-ay," impaired Pat, the
coachman, to Bridget, the cook, they
do be dyin' off at tn receptions!"
AN phat is ut kills 'em?" inquired
the curious cook.
"A disease they calls 'ennui.' I'll.
lustrated Sunday Magazine.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15

q critical time of life
! was on the verge Of
q collapse with kid
ney troubles, back
ache, dizziness, puffy
dropsy swellings and
urinary Irregularities.
! lost flesh and felt
laHguid, nervous or
,4
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
A New Definition.

Senator Harte, who has introduced
at Albany bill against the sale and
manufacture of cigarettes, has many
original views. These he has the tai
ent to express in terse and striking
terms.
Discussing medicine, in which he
places none too great faith, Senator
Harte said neatly at a recent Albany
banquet:
Medicine is the art of amusing the
patient while nature cures the dis.
eaSe."
The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
AmiabiIity Plus Science.

The public expects much of the
modern nurse-the same self-sacrifice,
righteousness and pureness of liv-
Ing as in the past, but combined with
q technical skill and an amount OF
learning unknown to our predecessors.
The Nursing Times.