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CTibCr.-TEFUo IS q premium q
cents on the cent piece OF 11S9.
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It is the tea grown on the huIsides OF
the WOrld-famOUs NuWara Eliya district
in CeyIOn. used i'm --SaIada" Tea thai
gives IL that rich, uniform delicious
ravOr-Advr.
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LOCAL MENTION.

Delicious Homemade Pies, zoe.
For dessert there's nothing better than
a Holmes Homemade Pie All favorite
kinds. delivered, fresh from oven 10 table
Mix Bread. 81. Holmes Bakery. list and
L SITS. Phones Linen. lI40 and Ifu.
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Date Of Terra Gotta Wreck-

OdLt u 4eIId NOLJd wreck
C. A. THE Terra Gotta wreck hap
pened on The evening Of December 30
on the Baltimore ana Ohio line. II you
call at the circulation department Of
The Washington Times Company they
Will be able TO supply you with copies
Of the paper containing the story Of
the disaster
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Chicago Jewel Gas Ranges Are the
best Q. A. Muddiman & Co, SIC 18th NV
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"StaT Of the East" Flour, S5.75 Bnl
6 no. sample. l9c. New Homlny. 4ikc OF.
New Beans. Sc ct, Potatoes, z5c PIX.
Onions, 25c pix. Malaga Grapes, Zoe To-
4 cans Tomatoes. 25c: Corn. &C. j. T D.
Pyles' stores.
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Carpets Cleaned and Relaid, Mattresses
Renovated T. p Hinkel & Co., ASS
4atne ave. sN. Phone NJ. 2025.
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Genuine Chill COn-Carne
Aids digestion The Ranch. COZ r ST. NV.
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Correct Acknowledgment of a Wedding
Present

.. s. Write a note to the sender
OF the wedding present thanking them
for the particular article sent Make
the note very simple and sincere.
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Drills at Fort Myer.
H. a. NI.-The drills at Fort Myer will
be resumed about the LIST of November.
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Games for Halloween Party.

NJ. II. H--HaVe a card and candle
for each guest, the candles I'm as many
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Convention Hall.
a. J. Enquire at the hall.
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did look reasonable, for they had only
little of the stuff.
GAS the other village was not many
miles away we divided the party. Has
san took his Malays and the beach la
mar interpreter and a thoroughly ter
rifed guide from this settlement and
set off through the bush to take the
other village in the rear and to wait
until we got up to it by the river in the
boat with my FIJI boys. Then he was
to take such action as the circumstances
seemed to warrant.
$50 we went along up the left hand
continent and kept a close watch for
this other village. 1t was the right
place sure enough, for we saw boat
drawn out on the bank. Well with
Hassan and his Malays taking them IN
the rear and the Fijians on the river
we soon brought them to terms. We
found what we were after and then we
turned about and came back
"Mv wordi" calculated Strangways.
''I'm glad I took to pearling if the
copra trade makes a man as sententiOus
them to terms and then came back. 1t S
true, every word of it true, but it's
not exactly descriptive.
''There must have been 300 of the
Frizzlies capable of bearing arms, and
all of them proving their eapability. At
the river side we had six Fijians, and
back in the bush Hassan and his Malays
numbered just exactly eight.
FOf course the village swarmed out
to meet us, not knowing anything about
the party in the rear. Even at that they
found the Fijians entirely too much to
handle-every one Of those boys under
cover and shooting as close as II Fhey
were on a range competing for cup.
'EThe Frizzlies soon found that they
were getting more than they could take
care of. when. all unknown to them, old
Hassan troops his Orang Laut IN among
the houses and goes into action. They
didn t make anything like the average
the Fijians were rolling up, but the
noise counted for quite as much as the
accuracy. AS a punitive expedition it
was A clear success. and it s not likely
that white man viii be scOtfed up the
river for some time to come.
"'There was no need in particular, but
we got some of the survivors to own up.
It was the usual thing-eaten.
FEHe had no business going in for ex-
ploration. and because he was foolish he
wouldn t go about it the only right
way. Eaten. of course What else could
he expect? But we brought some Of
him back, just enough for a funeral.
"Back home they took up collections
in the parish churches for the Abort
gines Protection Socierv. 1t seems to
me there is some need of another sort
of protection where such aborigines as
these are concerned.
''But we shouldn t have had any
thing to bring back. =" said the copra
buyer, if it hadn t been for Strang
ways. In all this disturbance a big
chief was dancing about, encouraging
his people to stand up and fight. Strang-
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and so into the Malay settlement,
whence soon arose a mighty howl
mingled with strong shouts and the
beat of drums.
From the discharge. of their duty to
the representative of law and the ma
chinery of order the two white men
went TO the veranda of the Currency
Lass.
''Got your man, I hear,' said Jones,
the trepang fisher, cat least
As much of him as we expected to
find, replied the copra buyer "We
if it hadn t been for the keen eve of
Captain Strangways. He found it. -
"'Bosh, said Strangways. 81
should never have had the chance to
use that keen eye if it hadn t been for
Carstairs and his FIJI boys. They
cleared the ground and took all the
fight out of mighty risky crowd of
Frizzlies up there in the black woods
After that everything was easy; all
one had to do was to walk about and
then somebody was sure to find it if
he kept on looking long enough. -
Strangways seems to want to con-
vey the impression that he was a
member of the infant class in a Sunday
school parade said the copra huyer.
cts quite different from that. He
found it, but it WASH t merely by walk
ing around and looking for it. He went
after it with big club, and first he had
to get that club away from a most
viciously active colored gentleman who
was wearing a necklet that attracted
Strangways s attention. -
Suppose you tell us the story said
Jones, the trepang fisher. ''It was your
boat, Mr.. Carstairs. Suppose you tell
the story. and we III sc that this Captain
doesn t interrupt. Go ahead
then.
"Anv of you ever put into the Fly
delta?' the copra buyer asked.
Indeed, yes, just once" replied
Jones. 81 had cleaned up reef lying
just off shore and the fancy struck me
to have look at big island up there,
named Kiwai, for trepang grows where
YOU find it and you always have to keep
looking.
$50, sir, I stood in for this island,
and that was my one experience in the
water was about the consistency of skill
~ tucH AL-bulchtutu 10 pea soup anu
then / found | was hard and fast. To
my dying day l'll swear L WASH t
aground. I was just stuck in the
water, which was too thick to sail
through.
Sounded all around with the lead
and with poles. You could have all the
fathoms you wanted if you only wait
ed long enough. Never saw such mud
nor so much of it. If I was a hydro
graphic officer making a chart should
put in note that there is about two
feet of water with eight miles of mud
beneath it.
Not being such a person, got out !
the boats-fortunately there was wa
ter enough to float them-and pulled !
the schooner out; and l want no more
IF Fly river.
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WAYS spotted the neck ornament he was

/ ways spotted the neck ornament he was
wearing-a lower jaw.
''4n itself this was nothing unusual,
but Strangways saw a flash of gold in
the teeth, which betokened a white man
of course. Then he made up his mind
to get that chief, and he did it, laid
him out with his club and replevined
all that we could definitely identify as
Forrest.
''When 1t comes 20 definite results
Hassan is the one to be congratulated,
That Malay evened his score with exact
justice.
"YOu remember that he told us here
on this veranda that the Frizzlies owed
him two of his Orang Laut, alive pref
erably, but certainly in kind. 1t was as
grim as you can imagine anything to
be. After the row was over Hassan
asked if it were certain that his Malays
had been killed.
GAS soon as we told him that there
could be no doubt at all he put his kris
into play with such effect that two cuts
Melted him two heads of as many FriZ-
lilies. He and his men spent the whole
of that night drying them in the smoke,
and at every camp we nave made since
that time those heads have been smok-
ed.
"Now he has taken them into the set
Element, and they are likely to howl
over them for week and to keep those
smoked trophies Hor as long as any
memory of the affair can remain. The
emotional spree of the savage must be
scarcely distinguishable from intoxica-
ton.
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Thrilling End of
South Sea Search
Thursday Islands Concluding Duty to Foolish
Amateur--.Expedition Among Savages
of New Guinea

n. Y. Sun-In such spots of remote
earth as Thursday island no delay is
involved in preparation for such an ex-
petition as that proposed in search of
the foolish amateur explorer Forrest.
The men who discussed his fate on the
veranda of the Currency Lass at Port
Kennedy had vessels convenient for the
purpose. All these pearlers and shelters
and trepang fishers were accustomed in
the days work to cruising on the very
edge of things and then beyond, and
to them it did not appear much of a
venture to essay the chances of the
Fly river and its muddy course through
the dark iungles of New Guinea. the
ragged horizon of their daily view to
the north.
The announced determination of the
Dyak Hassan to go in search of the two
men of his people who had gone up the
river with Forrest served but to bring
to quicker resolve the willingness of
the European captains to take up the
work. That Carstairs became the leader
was the natural result of the fact that
he was the only one who knew, the
missing young Englishman at all well.
Furthermore, his schooner was particu-
larly well fitted for such a cruise, and
the Fiji boys who composed his crew
ready and willing to fight in any cause
which their captain might take up.
So simple a matter was the prepare
tiOn for this expedition that it could be
accomplished overnight, and the copra
schooner and the Malay prahu might
have sailed at daybreak had it not been
for the fact that as their course in
vOlved no little casting Torres strait
was locked in that direction until the
sun should pass to the westward of the
meridian. Only with the sun behind
them could the pilots see the coral
patches through which their way must
be threaded
At noon the population of Port Ken.
nedy was on the beach to see the ad
venturers make their start. The two
vessels were soon under way and work
ing out through, the well known chan
nels of the harbor. and in the early aft.
ernoon the glasses brought to bear upon
the northern sea from the Currency
Lass showed schooner and prahu stand
ing steadily toward the great island and
what it might reveal.
The return of the expedition was as
prompt as its starting. On the tenth
day the two vessels were sighted in the
dawn standing in for port, and the
Malavs on the beach through some
mystery of signals on Hassan's prahu /
were gossiping of vengeance wrought |
for the loss of their brothers White |
men soon learn to place reliance on this |
sort of information, for it is recognized
that news spreads fast among these
islanders by means which the civilized
intelligence cannot fathom.
, When the vessels had come to an
Choir Carstairs and Strangways lost no
time on the beach, but went at once
to the stipendiarv magistrate and left
with him a small package. Hassan
came ashore at the same time carrying
larger bundle, slid through the throng
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A man slightly the worse off for tina

4 man slightly the worse off for that
which inebriates, but does not always
cheer, was on his way home when he
collided with box picket fence which
had been placed around tree to protect
it. Being somewhat unsteady on his
limbs, the man grasped hold of what
he supposed was a picket fence and
started to feel his way along it. After
rotating around the tree for half an
hour he appeared somewhat puzzled at
the extraordinary length of the fence,
but he kept bravely on for some time.
Finally, however, his courage failed
him. and he sank down at the foot of
the box fence with groan Of despair.
"Fenced int he moaned.
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Isaac 0 Barns, once pension commits
sioner in Boston, appointed by Presi-
dent Franklin Pierce, was known for
his terse and cutting sayings. 1t was
told of him that he promised to sub
scribe for the erection Of Baptist
church on condition that they should
- baptize 'em in hot water" 1t is of
Mr.. 0 Barns the story is told that when
on his deathbed, or when he thought
he was dying, and the doctor had pro-
nounced his feet warm and said that no
one had ever died with warm feet, the
old gentleman inquired in a whisper
whether the doctor had forgotten the
case Of John Rogers.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-01-10
Trustees Sale.

By virtue of the authority conferred
by a certain deed of trust executed by
J. G. Coggin to Asa w. Allen, dated
January 81. 1904, and recorded in Book
SO, Page 44O of the Record of Deeds in
the Office of the Clerk of the Chancery
Court of Lee county, Mississippi, to Sc
cure certain indebtedness therein men,
toned, default having been made in
the payment thereof, |, as Trustee in
said deed of trust, will offer for sale,
for cash, to the highest bidder, at pub
lie cutlery, within legal hours,
On January 31st, 1908,
in front of the postoffice door in the
town of Tupelo, Miss. the following de-
scribed property, to-wit:
One black horse about IL years old
named Sam.
One bay mare mule 2 years old NAM
ed Pete.
One dark brown muley COW 8 years
old named Minnie and her heifer.
Sixty N (61) acres off of the east
side of the S w / of Sec. 5 of Town. II,
Range 6 East. except n acre fol
church
Also Forty-four (44) acres off of the
west 'ide of the S E t of Sec. s., T.
IL, Range 6, East, excepting the LAND
hereinafter described, to-wit:
Fifty-two (52) acres off of the north
end of the above described land.
All above described property being
in Lee county, Mississippi.
This January 8, 1908,
G.. H. CUNNINGHAM, Trustee.
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w. H. Armstrong and E.
Armstrong
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Messrs. Whorter and Reuben Jones
spent several days with their father,
Mr.. G, S, Jones of Belden, during the
Holidays. The former is one of the
train dispatchers for the M. & O. at
Murphreesboro, ILL.,, while the latter
holds a responsible position with the
Cotton Belt at Waco, Tax. The friends
of these young gentlemen congratulate
them upon the success they have at
tanned in the railroad business.
In another column of this issue will
be found the statement of the condition
of the Bank of Tupelo, and a mere
glance will convince the most skeptical
that this old and reliable institution is
in the pink of financial condition. The
directors, officers and those in the en-
ploy are all good, safe, conservative
men, and are TOO well known to depos-
itors of Tupelo and surrounding coun-
try to require further endorsement
or commentator from us.
No colds to bother you and endanger
health this winter if you depend on our
cold tablets. 25c.-P. K. & E.
Mr.. J. E. Mabry has just returned
from Oklahoma and Arkansas, where
he and a brother from Tippah county
went to join in a reunion of the family.
The occasion was a happy one to the
members of the family, some of whom
had not met in %thirty-one years. Mr..
Mabry M home fully satisfied with
Lee County, although he saw some fine
| country in Oklahoma. He was accom-
panied home by his brother. Mr.. Seburn
Mabry, and his nephew. Mr.. G, E. Ma
bry. who will remain some time visit
ing relatives here and in Tippah county.
Clyde Dabbs, who has been bookkeep-
err IN the Peoples Bank & Trust Co.
here for the past two years has gone
to Nettleton to become manager Of the
branch bank there, to succeed Mr.. G.
A. Roberts who has resigned to GO
with the Nettleton Supply Co. Mr..
Roberts gave entire satisfaction to the
management who regretted to lose him.
Mr.. Dabbs is well qualified to take
charge of the business and run it, and
we congratulate him upon his promo
ton. MIR. Floyd Adams has been elec-
ted assistant bookkeeper in the bank
here and has entered upon his duties
as such. He is a most capable and de-
serving young man.
When you start to smoke again at
end of the "swear of" try our Stiers
Smokers. It's a mild, pleasant smoke
that just suits be- ~inners, 5c.-Pound-
-Elkin Co.
Miss May Stewart. who will appear
in '%'lngomar" tomorrow afternoon at
2;;30, and tomorrow night in "As You
Like It." one of the strongest and most
pleasing of S~hakespeare's comedies, is
recognized by theatre goers and the
profession generally as one of the stron-
gest and most gifted young actresses
now before the American public. Man
ager Mullen is to be commended for
having secHred such a theatrical treat,
and the public will miss the best enter
tainment of the season if they fail to
see this gifted young star. She is sup
ported by a strong company, and Biagi's
Orchestra will furnish music for the
evening. Seats now on sale at st
Clair's drug store.
Libby Cut Glass and Picard's Hand
Painted China at Pound -Kincannon-E FL
kin Co.'S.
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Honor Roll.

FIRST GRADE
Eloise Duggar ,Iary Pegues
Annie klncannon Mary Bonner Topp
Paul Ballard Robert Clark
Harvey Keys Alfonso Hambrick
Murphy Thomas.
SECOND GRADE
Gayle Rogers Springfield Murff
Harry Duncan Susui May Wood
Blanche Paulk Rebekah Wilson.
THIRD GRADE
Miriam Azwell Ports Angle
Mary E. Houston Oliver Kincanaon
Donald McCune Clayton Kitchener
Carl Strauss.
FOURTH GRADE
Annie Lawson Elizabeth Topp
Viola Vandiver Miller Allen
Glenn Ballard Willie Joe Rea
FIFTH GRADE
Lowell Francis Norwood Brigance
Sadye Miller Robert Brown
Clay McGaughy Oline Coffee
Gertrude McCune Kathleen Bonner
Lucille Basemore Nell Robins
Dora Wallace Francis Broyles
Emma Cruber.
SIXTH GRADE
Bessie Allen Antoinette Clark
hurry Gardner Kate Kincannon
Minnie Lawson Mary Bib Long
Keys Mitts Christine Robertson
Halle Slavery josephine Wilson.
SEVENTH GRADE
Gussie Miller.
EIGHTH GRADE
Paul Allen Mary Sue Langston.
NINTH GRADE
Adessa Miller FAINT Rogers
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w. H. Armstrong and Ed.
Armstrong
I, the undersigned, Sheriff of Lee
county, Mississippi, will, on Monday,
the Bird day of February. A. D. 1908,
between the hours of eleven o'clock
a. m. and four O'Clock p. M, sell at
public auction to the highest bidder or
bidders, for cash, at court honse door
in the city of Tupelo, Miss, the follow
ing described property, or so much
thereof as may be necessary to satisfy
the hereinafter mentioned writ and all
costs, to wit:
SEA- Sec. 8 AMI East Half of Sec. II,
all in Town. 10, Range 6, East; also,
beginning at a point west Of Spring
Street and south of Troy Street, at the
intersection of said streets, and run
south "a feet, thence west 100 feet,
thence north "a feet, thence east 100
feet to the beginning, and being in S E
including all buildings thereon; also the
South rs feet of Lot 9 in Block l, ac-
cording to the Bessonett Survey of the
Mayfield Reese land. being all Of said
Lot No. 8, south of j, l.. Finiey's brick
store honse and running back to the al
ley and from said brick store to Troy
street, all in S E / of Sec. 81, Town. 8.
Range 6: also Lot 8 in Block 4 in S E /
Sec. 81. Town. 8, Range 6, according
to Weatherford and Hilderbrand sur
vey Of said town of Tupelo Aug. 1902
now used as a pool room; also the OPP
era House which is located as being the
second story of Lots 10 and IL, Block A
of the Weatherford and Hilderbrand
survey of Tupelo. Miss, S E Sec. 81,
Town. 9. Range g., in Lee county, Mis-
sissis ,ip"i. said property having been
levl,d on by me on the Goth day of Dec
a.. II 1897, as the property of w. H.
Armstrong and E. w. Armstrong, by
virtue of IA writ of execution issued in
the above styled Ease by F. l.. Kincan-
non, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lee
county, Miss, on the 10th day of Dec.
A. ID. 1907.
Witness my signature, this the Sth
day of January. A. D, 1908.
O. T. TRAP, Sheriff.
J. M. Thomas, Atty tor Plaintiff.
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AND MANY or THEM.

It's a good move on your part
your wife will endorse this
statement-to resolve to place
your orders for wall paper and
interior decorations generally
with us from the first Of Janua-
ry, 1908 to the first of January,
19O9-longer if we obey your be-
hests to the letter; perhaps 90
you one better, and satisfy you
every way. Gus paper patterns
and our work await your test.
MOORE & CRANE,
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Non-R esiden Notice.

Non-Kesident Notice.
State of Mississippi,
To Fate May Slavery. a minor who
resides with her mother, Mrs. H. T.
Savery at Somerset, KY, defendant:
You are commanded to appear before
the Chancery Court of the county of
Lee, in said state, on the 3rd Monday of
March, A, d. 1908. to show cause, if
any she can, why the final account of
F.. M. Sayery, administrator of the es-
tate of P, M. Slavery, deceased, should
not be approved and allowed and said
administrator be discharged, wherein
you are a defendant.
This 9Th day of January. 1908.
NORBIN JONES. Clerk.
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Nonresident Notice.

Von-KeSldent Notice..
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
Lee County
To Nick Johnson, postofice unknown:
You are commanded to appear before
the Chancery Court of the county of
Lee, in said State, on the third Monday
OF March, A. D. 1908, to defend he
suit in said Court of Mary johnson for
divorce, wherein you are a defendant.
This 9Th day of January, 1908,
NORBIN JONES, Clerk.
Wiley Blair, Sol. Compl't,
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You have the cough. We have the
cure. It'sGAUNS for 25c.-P. X. & E.
Saddles, Brides, etc., at Godsey's
upstairs next door to j. j. Rogers.
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FOR SALE. One house and lot near
School house, large lot. 6 rooms apply
L. 3. GATES Tupelo, Miss.
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FOR SALE

Good Two-Story Residence on South
Green street. 8 rooms, bath room, wa
ter works. lot rs #. front x 1856 #.
back, good garden spot andwell fenced.
For terms and price apply on premises.
38-4t H. S. MCCLENAHAN
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& CRANE,
The Sooner the Better
Delay is a Fetter"

and a fetter of your own forging
if you neglect the insuring of
your house, store, factory, barn,
stable or household belong. ngs
against loss by fire. What we are
here for, as representatives Of
very strong companies, is to in.
sure your property as to fire dam
age. Are we not reasonable
when we ask that you visit US
soon?
Sayery's Insurance AGENCY
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Sheriff. Sale.

John Knight, w. J. Yancey.
w. D.. Nesbitt, r. H. Nesbitt
comprising firm Knight, Yam
1853 cey & Company,