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The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
TAFT TO URGE REVISION
RECENT DECISION OF SUPREME
COURT AN ARGUMENT.
General Revision to Be Chief Fea.
ture of the Presidents Mes
sage in December.

Washington.--The decision of the SUI
preme court in the commodities clause
case will be used by President Taft
as one more convincing argument in
favor of a general revision of all the
interstate and antitrust
laws.
Various recommendations that such
a disposition of these laws be made
along the lines Of clearness and GER
tainty will form the chief feature of
the presidents message to- congress next
December. 1t can be laid down almost
as a certainty that one of these recon-
mendations will be that congress enact
a law forbidding a railroad company to
W or operate directly or indirectly,
through ownership or otherwise, any
concern the products of Which it carries
over its lines.
In other words, congress will be
called upon to close up the gap opened
by this decision of the supreme court
and to bring back common carriers en-
gagged in interstate ommerc to the
common law basis, namely, that rail-
roads shall only engage in the business
which they were organized to carry on.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
Prevent consumptives Marry.

Tallahassee, FLA bill to prohibit
consumptives from marrying in Florida
was introduced in the house of repre-
~sentatives Friday. 1t provides that be-
fore marriage both contracting parties
shall have the certificate of a physician
that they are not affected with tuber-
'~culosis. The house passed a bill amenr-
ing the general statute covering blind
tigers SO that the first offense is termed
. misdemeanor, and can be disposed Of
by county courts, while succeeding OF.
lenses are to be termed felonies.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
MORSE IS PENNILEss
EVERY vEsTIGE OF $50, ooo, 600
FORTUNE Is GONE.
Says No Member of His Family Haa
Any Property in Which
He Il Interested.

New York.-Charles w. Morse, the
former banker, who is now in the Tombs
prison, under sentence for violation OF
the national banking laws, has not Q
share of stock, q bond or a piece of rea,
estate left Of his fortune, which was
estimated at $30,00o,ooo, according to
evidence which he gave in supplement
airy proceedings made public Friday.
Morse was at one time n of the
largest holders of securities of the $50,
600, 900 Consolidated Steamship Com
pany and controlled three national
banks. He testified in the. supplement-
airy proceedings that he had given all
his property to creditors to secure his
debts.
Mr.. Morse said that the largest
amount of bank stock which he formerly
owned was hypothecated Sin some TWEEN
ty-odd hundred banks" through Moseley
& Co. He stated that he owed ED. B.
Berwind $1,140,000, and that he gave
Mr.. Berwind 81, 900, 900 of Consolidated
Steamship stock and his residence on
Fifth avenue, all of which, Mr.. Morse
said, was insufficient to cover his in
debtedness.
Mr.. Morse said that no member of his
family had any property In which he
was interested.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
Keeping Sweet Potatoes.

There are many different ways of
preparing that delicious tuber for Ia
Bile use, but first ! will give my meth
cd of storing them away, as we keep
them until late in the spring, and
longer, only there is usually such a
clamor for seed potatoes WI have to
divide. Boxes and barrels are lined
with several thicknesses of newspa-
per. Sound smooth potatoes are
wrapped separately in paper and laid
in rows in the boxes until they are
full, then set where they will not
freeze. The small potatoes are kept
by laying in alternate layers with pa
per, the potatoes not touching. There
is a verg small loss, especially as
they sell xapidly at 81 per bushel or
more fol bedding purposes. The cut
potatoes are washed, boiled tender,
peeled, mashed and dried in the stove
oven. In the winter they make de-
licious custards. boiled soft in sweet
milk.-Mrs. D. B. Phillips. In Rural
New Yorker.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
Education of Value.

The school garden has no equal as
an aid to nature study. 1t brings the
child in close touch with nature and
natures laws. 1t can be used in cor
relation with all other branches taught
in the school room The practice in
measuring and marking out the gar
den, Systematically planting the seed.
teaches the child to put into actual
practice the mathematics he has
learned in the school room. Much Ian
guage can be taken up in connection
with it, as can also writing, painting,
drawing and geography. In many in
stances the products of the school gar
dens are taken to market and sold
and the money deposited in the bank,
thus giving the pupils some idea Of
everyday business methods.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
BOOKKEEPING ON THE FARM.
Agriculturist Should Know Cost Of
Production and Profit on Every
thing He Raises.

To be up to date the farmer must
plan ahead. If he is wise he will open
an account in his ledger for every crop
he raises, including horses, cows,
sheep, swine and poultry. He will
have a system of bookkeeping that
will show him at the end of the year
which crop paid q profit and which
created a loss.
1t will be a great satisfaction to
know how the potato, the onion. the
general garden, the hay and the straw
crops paid. His ledger will show how
many days his teams worked, credit
ing them with such amounts as he
would have had to pay had he hired
teams to do the work. Against this
will be the price Of feed. There need
be no item for labor in attending to
the horses, as the and the
use of the animals for pleasure drives
will offset that.
The income from the cows and the
sheep, the swine and the poultry
would have to be the cost of feed.
The writer knows of a progressive
farmer who follows that system year
after year, says a correspondent OF
the Oklahoma Farmer. His daughter
keeps the books. He reports each
night the sales, the purchase, the
hours the teams were at work, etc,
and thus is he able to keep a record
of his doings and knows exactly what
each crop means to him.
Beginning the new year, the farmer
should lay out. his plans for the spring
operations, the size Of the vegetable
garden, the varieties to grow, the in
crease of the small fruit plots and
the additional trees to the orchard,
the changes and the repairs that
should be made to the barn and other
buildings, not forgetting improve
ments on the old homestead.
The farmer is a business man and
each year the farm is becoming more
important to the welfare of the coun-
try. The farmer is no longer the sub
ject of ridiculous cartoon, but the en-
blem of prosperity in all the high-class
publications. The whole world looks
to the sturdy tiller of the soil for the
means of maintaining prosperity in the
land.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
NOT DRUGS
Food Did It.

After using laxative and cathartic
medicines from childhood a case of
chronic and apparently incurable con-
stipation yielded to the scientific food,
Grape-Nuts, in a few days.
From early childhood I suffered
with such terrible constipation that I
had to use laxatives continuously go
ing from n drug to another and suf-
fering more or less all the time.
"a prominent physician whom Icon
suited told me the muscles of the di.
gestive organs were partially par
alyzed and could not perform their
work without help Of some kind, so I
have tried at different times about
every laxative and cathartic known,
but found no help that was at all per-
manent. had finally become discour-
aged and had given my case up as
hopeless when / began to use the pre-
digested food, Grape-Nuts.>
Although / had not expected this
food to help my trouble, to my great
surprise Grape-Nuts digested imme-
diately from the first and in a few
days | was convinced that this was
just what my system needed.
"The bowels performed their func-
tions regularly and am now COM
pletely and permanently cured of this
awful trouble.
Truly the power OF scientific food
must be unlimited" There's a
Reason"
Read The Road to MELVILLE" In pkgs.
Ever read the above letters A new
one appears from time to time.
interest.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
Not His Business.

"Pow'ful fertile country daoun theh
In Texas" said the colonel. Yes. sch!
Why, sch, l know spots daoun theh
where the trees grow so close togetheh
that you-all couldn't shove youh hand
between theh trunks. And game, sch!
Why, sch, I've seen Fehginyuh deeah
in those same forests with antlehs
eight feet spread! Yes, seh!"
At this point some meddlesome idiot
asked the colonel how such deer ever
managed to get their antlers between
such tree trunks.
"Thet, seh," said the colonel, draw
ing himself up with squelching dig
nifty, SIS theh Observation-Disclosures
Magazine.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
BROTHERSiN-LAW IN DUEL
One Killed Instantly, Other Nor.
tally Wounded.

Fulton, Ky.-In a desperate duel
fought in Weakley county, Tenn, Will
lard Wiley was instantly killed by his
brother-in-law, Matt Bynum, who also
received fatal wounds. Bad whisky
caused the trouble between the erst-
while friends.
Last fall Wiley shot Jack McClain,
an aged man. He later left the coun-
try, and at the next session of the grand
jury he was indicted ON the charge. He
refused to return to Kentucky without
requisition papers, and, as a result, was
not brought back. A few days later,
however, he returned and gave himself
up. Later, while resisting arrest, he en-
gagged in a running pistol duel with
Deputy Sheriff Collier.
He was still later in trouble in May
field, Ky, some few months ago, after
which he eloped to Fulton with Miss
Edna Bynum, a sister of Matt Bynum.
Learning that officers were after him,
Wiley, with his bride, fed to Oklahoma.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
The Little Pigs.

The little pigs should be encouraged
to eat at as early an age as possible.
The dividing of narrowing pens, so
that the pigs can have access to a
shallow trough away from the SOW, is
of great value. Keep everything scru-
pulously clean, or serious digestive
troubles will likely result.
Feed only in limited quantities, and
allow no old feed to remain in the
trough from one feeding to the next.
If the little pigs and the sow are con-
fined inside all the time a few sodS
and roots will greatly benefit them il
given every two or three days.
Young pigs fed in this manner will
not fall away in condition when they
are separated from their dams. In
fact, they will practically wean them
selves by the time they are eight or
ten weeks of age.
Abundant exercise and frequent
feeding are essential to the best
growth and development of the young
pigs. By the time they are ready to
wean some kind of forage crops or
pasture should be available for them.
The gains made upon pasture and
green forage crops are not rapid. but
are very economical; and the pigs de
gestive powers are greatly enlarged
and their bone and muscle are better
developed by the time their fattening
period arrives. A good variety of for
age crops and pasture is necessary to
provide plenty OF grazing during the
season.
Alfalfa, clover, oats, peas, rape and
rye may be profitably utilized as pas
ture and forage crops for pigs. Land
that is utilized for hog pasture will
gain rapidly in fertility, and will be
in excellent condition to produce larg>
crops of roots for winter feeding.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
EDITORS BOARD BATTLESHlP
Members of Louisiana Press Associa-
ton Guests OF Mississippi.

New Orleans.-Lying serenely at an
Choir in the great stream whose name it
bears, after having journeyed through
the passes and up the river without I'M
toward happening, the U. S. battleship
Mississippi was boarded and inspected
by a throng of interested visitors Fri
day. Among those who went on the
big ship were a hundred or more Louis
lana editors. They were passing through
New Orleans on the way to their re-
spective homes, after attending the an
nual meeting of the Louisiana Press As
ISOLATION, at Covington, La.
Numerous tenders of hospitality have
been extended to the officers and crew
of the Mississippi during it's stay in
this port. The principal feature OF en-
tertainment will be a banquet to the Of
fcers of several Southern states. Prom
inent officials of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf
Deep Waterway Association are expect
ed to be present.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
Seed Breeding.

The profits from any crop are large.
ly dependent upon the reliability OF
the seed from which the crop is
grown, says R. N Blinn, of the Colora-
do Agricultural college. A mixture in
the variety, Or a poor quality in the
seed of some crops may be a very Sc
rious injury; but with a special crop
like cantaloupes, that has market de-
mands to meet, the use of poor seed
may mean the total loss of a seasons
work. On several occasions in the
early days of the cantaloupe indus
try at Rocky Ford, when the growers
depended upon the seedsmen for their
seed, entire fields were worthless on
account of mixtures and u~nmarketabls
types.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
To Have Warehouse.

The executive committee of the
Farmers union of Texas county re.
Gently met with the business men OF
Guymon, and the result is that Guy.
mon is to have a warehouse. The
definite plans have not been promoted
up to date, but as an evidence of good
faith the business men of the town
have deposited in the bank 5000 for
the construction of the warehouse.
The 5000 is to be forfeited to the
Farmers union of the county if the
plan for the warehouse falls through.
SO it looks as though the town would
at last have a warehouse.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
Water for the Chicks.

Good drinking fountains can be
made for the little chicks by punch
ing three or four holes in the rim of .
fruit can or coffee can, and filing it
with water, setting a aucer on the
top and then invertinz the whole
The water will come out Of the can
just to thellevel of the holes that you
have made. and thus supply fresh
clean water to the chicks.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
Shiloh Church to Be RepuiIt.

An effort is being made to build a
suitable memorial church on the site
of the original Shiloh church, on Shi-
lob battlefield, now one of the most
attractive of military parks. 1t was
on this very spot the bloody battle Of
Shiloh was begun or the morning OF
April 6, 1862. 1t is the purpose to
build a memorial church to cost not
less than $40, 1000. The names of all
contributors will be recorded in a
permanent register and kept on ex-
hibition in the church, which will be
open to visitors and tourists.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
Hargis' Sorrows Increase.

Lexington, Ky.-Sorrows are coming
in battalions upon the house of Hargis.
Beach Hargis was sentenced to life inn
prisonment last week at Irvine for the
murder of his father, Judge james Har-
gis, and now comes the threatened men
tai arrangement of Ensign Edward G.
Hargis, of the United States navy, who
has been at the home in this city OF
his father, former Senator Alexander II.
Hargis, on sick leave, but is now with
relatives at jackson, the seat Of all the
familyss troubles.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
"Uncle Toe" is rs.

Washington.-Joseph Quincy Cannon,
speaker of the house of representatives,
Friday reached the 73d milestone in his
active career, mostly spent in public
life. Mr.. Cannon received the congrat-
ulations and good wishes of his friends
and political enemies in his office at
the capitol, where he remained through
out the greater portion of the day. The
Republican members from North Caro-
lima, where the speaker was born, in
1886, presented him with an unusually
large dipper made Of a gourd from the
Tarheel state.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
MUST SERVE PEONAGE TERMS
Federal Supreme Court Denies Writ
in w. S. Harlan Case.

Pensacola, Fla.-Manager w. S. Har-
Ian, of the jackson Lumber Company,
of Lockhart, Ala; Robert Gallagher, as
sistant superintendent, and three of the
c%ompany's' foremen will have to serve
terms in the Atlanta federal prison, to
which they were sentenced in the United
States circuit court here three years ago
on the charge of conspiracy to commit
peonage.
The United States supreme court has
denied the writ of certiorari by which
it was sought to have reviewed the de-
cision of the court of appeals, which
denied a new hearing.
Manager Harlan is one of the most
prominent lumber men of the South, and
the mills at Lockhart, where it was al
legged foreigners were held as poems, are
the largest in this section.
Mr.. Harlan is a nephew of Justice
Harlan, of the United States supreme
court.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
ECZEMA E HIM..
itching Torture Mas Beyond Words
Slept Only from Sheer Exhaustion
Relieved in "a Hours and
Cured by cuticura in a Month.

II am sev~enty-seven years old, and
come years ago l was taken with &C.
zema from head to foot. l was sick
for six months and what l suffered
tongue could not tell. | could not
sleep day or night because of that
dreadful itching; when l did sleep it
was from sheer exhaustion. | was
one mass of irritation; it was even in
my scalp. The doctors medicine
seemed to make me worse and l was
almost out of my mind. / got a
set of the Cuticura Soap, Ointment and
Resolvent. / used them persistently
for twenty-four hours. That night I
slept like an infant, the first solid
nights sleep / had had for six months.
In a month / was cured. w. Harrison
Smith, Mt. kisco, N. Y, Feb. 3, 1908"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole Props, Boston
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
Aged Couple Cremated.

Middlebury, Ind.-The bodies Of Sam
uel Hoover, a prosperous farmer, and
his wife, were found in the ruins OF
their burned barn by ~neighbors that
had put out the fire with buckets Of
water, and from I'LL the available evil
dence it is gathered that Hoover and
his wife were murdered, their bodies
carried into the barn and the barn set
on fire. The fire was discovered at 1880
o'clock this morning. Fifteen minutes
before that hour Hooyer's son passed the
homestead, driving cattle to pasture.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
CAPTAIN M WILLING
Says Navy Is Without Sectional
Prejudice and Boundaries.

Charleston, S. Capt. John G. Ere
mont, commanding the United States
battleship Mississippi, does not object
to the placing of the portrait of Jeffer-
son Davis upon the silver service which
the war vessel is now on her wap up
the Mississippi to receive from the state
in whose honor she is named Respond
ing to a question as to whether he and
the other officers of the Mississippi were
in sympathy with the antagonism which
the placing of the likeness of the dead
chieftain of the Confederacy has aroused,
Capt. Fremont said:
"The navy is without sectional preju-
dice, and its patriotism knows no boun-
daries save those of the great country
at large"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
Improvement N Texas.

Waco, Tex.-Crop prospects nave
greatly improved during the past ten
days. In Central Texas good rains have
fallen from Waxahachie south, extend
ing as far as San Antonio, and west to
Brownvood. While about two weeks
late, cotton is practically all planted,
a fair portion up and doing well. South
Texas is about three weeks late, and
while this section received scattered
showers recently, more rain is needed.
Southwest, West and Northwest Texas
are suffering very much from the droutE.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
TENNESSEE BOY KIDNAPPED.
Lads Mother Believed to Be Behind
Scheme to Get Him.

San Bernardino, Cal.-kidnaped and
furnished with money by an unknown
party, young Bryan Alexander, the ~
year-old son of I. j. Alexander, was
stolen away from his home near Red
lands, and placed aboard the Salt Lake
limited, bound for his old home in Nor
ton, Tenn, where the boys mother re-
sides. Alexander, with his children,
came to California for his health. His
wife refused to follow, and is believed
to have furnished the money to start
the lad home.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
Work Of Fish Hatcheries.

As the result of special efforts In
the hatchery work during the year
the output of fish and eggs in 1905 was
greater than ever before in the history
of the national bureau, reaching a to-
tai of 2,S71,456,2S0. OF this number
2,413, 500, 225 were young fish distrib-
uted for the stocking and restocking
of public and private waters, and the
remaining 457, 7.055 were eggs de-
livered to state and foreign hatcheries.
The output of young fish exceeds the
greatest previous record for any one
year by 376. 600, 600.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
For the Head of the Herd.

Whatever the character of a dairy
herd there should be a thoroughbred
sire at the head of it, and he should
be of the dairy and not of the beef
type. Once in a while you may u
across a dual purpose" cow, but ma
ture does not provide dual-purpose
bulls.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14

The Trenton IN. j. board of educa.
ton has notified principals that no
child in the lower grades must be al.
lowed to leave school with a stranger.
This is to prevent danger of kidnap-
ing. The regulation is a good one,
like that for fire drills. But the value
of both depends not upon a tempo
rary enforcement, while the mater is
in mind, but upon a steady obedience.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14

At last the hired girl, butt of heart
less generations of jokers as she has
been, is getting her innings and can
throw her proud def" at the chorus
girl. A kitchen maid in New York has
Just fallen heir to a fortune of a mil
lion dollars.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14

A congressman is sending the Con-
g%ressional Record to the public schools
in his home town, hoping in that way
to induce the pupils to take an interest
in the doings of congress. He is count
ing his readers, too, just as the base
ball season is opening.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
ANOTHER PROHI. BILL PASSED
Missouri House to Test Sincerity OF
Senate.

Jefferson City, Mo.-The Missouri
house, which has overwhelmingly voted
for submission of prohibition to the vot-
ers without any amendments aimed to
kill the proposition, today passed Rep
resentative Hardesty's bill, which pro-
vides that any person who buys an in
t~oxicating drink for another person shall
be subject to a fine of S. to $25. The
bill now goes to the senate.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14

Government experts have been test
ing a rifle provided with electric lights
for night work. Soon the luxurious
soldier will refuse to fight unless his
weapon be provided also with con-
soles and janitor service.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14
DRYS WIN IN LINCOLN.
Republican Candidate for Mayor Wa
Elected by 800 Majority.

Lincoln, Neb.-In the hottest city
election in years Lincoln went dry"
today by a margin of nearly 500 votes
in a total of 5000. In voting for abb
solute prohibition, the city rejected a
compromise proposition to close the sa-
looms at $50 p. M, and to limt the
number of liquor licenses to rs. Don
L. Love, Republican, was elected mayor
over Robert Malone, Democrat, by 300
majority.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14

AS to the Boston woman who sued
her husband for divorce because he
threw a pie at her, there may be two
sides to the question. Possibly it was a
cherry pie of her own baking, with
the nits in it.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14

Lieut.. Shackleton has named a
south pole mountain peak after Queen
Alexandra of England. But if he ex-
poets her to traipse down there to un-
furl a flag or break a bottle of cham
pagne, he will be disappointed.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14

A central New Yorker has refused
an election as supervisor because he
did not get as big a majority as some
other candidates on his ticket. He
thinks that he was traded off by a
fellow candidate. Few officials are so
sensitive.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14

When Gen. Booth establishes the
Salvation Army in Russia it is hard to
see how he is going to avoid the or
g~anization of a few good active Cos
sack regiments to bring the thing to
the attention Of the plain people in
the way they are accustomed to.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14

Atlanta Constitution: Countries in
search of a new constitution are in
formed that we have an old n which,,
when taken from the top shelf and
thoroughly busted, is a model for the
world.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-14

A Georgia court rules that to call a
mar a liar in the south is a breach OF
the peace. AS Washington practically
is in the south it would seem that a
certain distinguished citizen has got
away inst in time.