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The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
Adventures in Discontentnent
BY Strickland w. Gillian.

away we went to a jewelers.. Nothing
was said on the way, but everybody
except myself showed signs of being
in deep thought. Just before we got
to the village l stopped and said:
Gentlemen, l am really wasting
your time shamefully in this frivolity,
and l can see that in some way I have
hurt your feelings and robbed you of
interest in your work. Now l will be
frank with you. l am perfectly sure
the borings we have in the cute little
p%asteboard box that o SO luckily
CHANGED to have with you ale of good,
pure gold. Otherwise you would have
bored in some other part of the brick.
l am willing to admit this and con-
tinue the deal. Here is my wad Of
money. Just hand over the whole
brick and l will trade even"
At this they stopped and looked at
me, then went apart and held a few
minutes conversation. ! could see
that something was annoying them. 1
could not imagine what it was, as
none of them had got a telegram from
anybody since we had met, and was
certainly playing the game accommo-
datingly.
Finally one of them (my original
spokesman came to me and said, con-
cealing his emotion with difficulty:
Sir, my friend is unwilling to Go
this. The Indian, also, is inclined to
follow his racial instincts. If you will
leave them with me for a moment"
There was pleading in his voice, so
I left them a few minutes. Returning,
/ could see nothing of them, and only
some tracks, very far apart, leading
toward the railway station. I
So all I could do was to bank my
money, which I did with a deep sigh,
regretting that the adventure had not
turned out as I had so often heard of
them. ! wonder If / played the game
too eagerly for them? l have always
been enthusiastic to a fault.
Copyright. 1909, by w. G. Chapman.)
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of mail matter that were mailed in the
United States last year. These to-
tailed 13,173,340,3 1923. A large proper
ton OF these consisted of newspapers,
for which no stamps are used. But
in addition to the stamps which were
sold a tiny rifle of 1865 ,559
stamped envelopes and wrappers was
sold by the department. These Uncle
Sam began to sell in 1852, when he
placed round 5000, 900 on the mar
ket.
The figures for the mail handled
were begun in 1885. when Uncle Sam
carried 3,474,O00,O0 pieces of mail
The figures have quadrupled in a lit
tie more than twenty years.
In 1879, when Uncle Sans p~ostofice
started business with Benjamin Frank
lin as postmaster general, there were
,seventy-ive postofices, and In the
first year of their operation they did
$37,935 worth of business, at an ex-
pense of $32,140. Since then the
balance has moved to the other side
of the ledger, and for the last year
the of the department were
the pretty little sum of $191,47S,633,
while the expenditures were $2OS,351.-
S86.
The number of postofices jumped
from rs to 81 ,158; the extent OF the
post routes from 1875 to 450,73S; the
miles of mail service performed from
a little over 100000 to 5~3S,43S,722, and
the compensation of the postmasters
from $SS, 1913 Sto s25,599,397.
The most astounding growth was
marked by the rural free delivery
service. 1t was begun in 1897, with
SO routes, covering 1,S43 miles, at an
expense of $14,S40. Last year 1t a
grown to 39,143 routes, with S91,432
miles, and costing 34,5O0.Oo
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The best record obtained was from
a Ben Davis tree sprayed with Bor-
deaux before bloom, and once heavily
with a~rsenate Of lead soon after the
bloom fell.
The Ben Davis tree were estimated
to be less than two per cent. wormy,
including the drops, and the picked
harvest was only a fraction of one per
cent. wormy. The Baldwins averaged
one or two per cent. more wormy
than the Ben Davis, owing to the fact
that they were further advanced when
sprayed. The third orchard of trees,
20 years old, which was sprayed
about two weeks after the bloom fell,
ran from three or four per cent.
wormy on some trees, to 80 or "a per
cent. wormy on others. The only un-
sprayed check that was reserved yield
ed 42.5 per cent. wormy. So far as
could be determined, the second and
third sprayings with poison had SO lit
tie effect in reducing the percentage
of worminess that they did not pay.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16

AIRS. PERRY BELMONT has not
WA abandoned her plan OF invading
Washington society. The new home
Of the Belmonts, just completed, which
stands in a fashionable section OF
New Hampshire avenue. will be dedi-
Gated to the objects for which 1t was
built and will become the center OF
social and political interests in the
national capital.
There was a story that the Bel
monts had decided to give up their
Washington venture on account of
the obstacles which President Roose-
Welt put in the way of their social
plans. This disposition of President
Roosevelt to regulate everything took
4 remarkable turn in the Isl of the
Belmonts, and Mr.. Roosevelt, it is said,
asked his cabinet officers and others
high in the official scale to stay away
from the Belmonts' functions.
The first entertainment was q fail
ure because of this taboo. The men
came In large numbers and their
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liked her birthday present. He was
met at the door by Aunt Jane herself,
who hastily showed a familfarlooking
parcel and an envelope into his hands,
with the remark:
There's your birthday offering.
young man, and the insulting note
that came along with 1t. l may need
a mustache cup. but II l do l don't
require you to tell me OF it, nor to
buy it either. Affectionate nephew,
Ell? I'll affectionate broomstick you
if / ever catch you around here
again."
"B-but, / made a mistake, Aunt
Jane; Il" stammered Joggins, but
he was not permitted to finish the
sentence.
You're right, young man; you never
made a bigger mistake in your life!
Don't you Aunt Jane mel" she shouted
excitedly. "All you've got to do is
to keep your hat on and travel! I've
seen and heard all l want to of you
for one spell! Come. get out Of my
sight or Ill-I1l-"
And not knowing what Aunt Jane
might be led to do in the violence of
her anger, Joggins complied with her
request by hurriedly betaking himself
out of her sight.
In a month or so when his wrathy
relative has cooled down a triie, jog
gins is going around again and en-
deavor to explain matters; but in the
meantime he will gladly dispose Of his
prospective chances for a legacy from
Aunt Jane at bargain-counter rates
for spot cash.
Copyright, 1909, by W. G. Chapman.)
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
TiIage Of Asparagus.

The question of the size of aspara-
gus shoots is merely a matter of soil
fertility and good tillage.. Very few
growers have reached the limit in the
amount of manur that can be used
proftably. Manure may be worked
into the soil in the fall, early in the
spring, or after the cutting season.
The size of plants secured from the
end of the cutting season until cold
weather determines the size of shoots
that will be cut the next spring.
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hens in the world. And | guess Pm
the only man outside of Witham what
knows the secret"
"Why, for the lands sake!" gasped
Edgar. "Ain't it lucky l happened to
speak of hawks?" And he slyly winked
at the barn. What is this stuff"
1T was made from the blood of a
mountain wolf and was sent to
Witham by a relation in Colorado"
solemnly explained Trad. "You give a
drop to a hen in water and inside of
"a hours she'll lick her weight in
wildcats and go begging for something
difficult to wallop.
so no wonder the stuff is worth a
cool million a year to the man who
first puts it on the market" added
Trad, as Edgar made a gurgling sound
il his throat. You see, Jim never
thought of selling it. Just used it on
his own hens" +
"When can I git a bottle of that
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
Prize Offered Aeronauts.

The king of the Belgians has Of
fered a prize of the value of $1,000
for the best work on the progress
of aerial navigation and the most eff
Gent means of encouraging it. For
eigners are especially invited to par
ticipate equally with Belgians in this
competition, and may send in their es-
says in their own language. All the
essays have to be sent to the ministry
of science and art in Brussels not
later than March /, 1911. The jury
who will award the prize will con
sist of three Belgians and four Of
other nationalities.
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RESULTS OF SPRAY
Interesting Experiments with
Apples in Ohio.
Best Record Was Obtained from Ben
Davis Tree-No Husseting Of Fruit
Detected, and hut a Small Per
Cent. Were Wormy.

The Ohio agricultural experiment
station last year made some interest
ing experiments with spraying on an
apple orchard. A summary, as writ
ten by H. A. Gossard is in part, as
follows:
The orchard used for experiment.
the property of Mr.. John A. Stokes,
consisted of IL acres located nea Ere
mont, Sandusky county. Four acres
consisted Of trees "a years old, four
acres of trees 20 years old and four
acres Of trees IL years old. The three
orchards contained 534 trees in all.
Besides these were about two acres
of scattering trees Of various ages,
not included in the experiment, but
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
Cleaned Up Their Pin Money

Two Indiana women dubbed to-
gether and purchased a small
house cleaner at $40 and are now
earning good pin money in that way.
They rent it out to neighbors at 50 a
day for cleaning houses and house
furnishings, a boy being employed at
small charge to operate the simple
machine.
There are cheaper cleaners
on the market, but they bought a good
make, which has paid big returns or
their investment Of SIS each.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
The Serpent Smiles.

The serpent came to the roadside
fence and watched mere man fat on
his back trying to mend a broken
down automobile.
"Ha! Hal" laughed the serpent.
You seem amused?" i~nterrogated
the friendly frog.
Much SO, my little friend. After the
days of Eden | was the only thing
that crawled III the dust, and man
laughed; but how things have
changed"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
MoIasses Feeds.

The class of feeds that are fast
gaining popularity among the dairy
men are the ~so-called molasses feeds,
which are extremely ~palatable and are
made from screenings from cereals
and well-cured corn stover soaked in
molasses.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
Pea Lice.

Pea lice often become troublesome
especially if the crop is started in the
spring. The best mea of proven
ton is to use tobacco stems in the
burrows at the time<of planting. These
may be purchased about $12 per ton
which is about their manurial value
Should the lice appear 1T any time on
the plants the most effective treat
ment is to sprinkle the vines with to
bacco dust.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16

The one to his aunt a as follows:
Dear Aunt Jane: With this / send you
as a birthday offering the one thing
which / consider the most appropriate TO
your needs, and l humbly trust 1t Will
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16

meet your approval, and that each time
you use it you will think gratefully of the
donor. Your affectionate nephew,
j. HENRY JOGGINS.
Joggins went around to- Aunt James
an evening or so later to see how she
Times-promoter., 1909-10-07
RESCUE GIRL; ARREST FATHER
Drink -Crazed Man Barricaded House
and Threatened Child.

Atlanta, Ga.--Fearing that 6-year
old girl would be slain by her father il
they attempted to force their way into
a room in which he was barricaded, a
posse of ten or twelve police were held
at bay for three hours by DR.. Ira De-
Lamater, leading druggist Of Atlanta.
DeLamater was crazy drunk, and when
police came to arrest him he barricaded
the room and swore he'd kill the child if
the officers entered.
While talking through an open win
dow, Capt. Beavers made grab for the
druggist and tried to climb in the room,
but DeLamater slammed down the win
ow sash and caught Capt. Beavers
hands, mashing them. After three hours
DR.. DeLamater fell into stupor and
the police entered and rescued the girl
and arrested the father.
Times-promoter., 1909-10-07

restraining tne removal or the offlceS
to San Antonio
The Rev. Henry F. Xavier. known
In Yonkers, N. Y, as the Strenuous
clergyman" expressed from the pulpit
in st. Joseph's Roman Catholic churcn
his intention to publicly chastise cy-
cry couple in his parish whom he finds
spooning in secluded streets.
G. w. Bruce, superintendent of The
state school for the blind, at Fort Glib
son, Okla. has requested Governor
Haskell to have the census enumera-
tors make separate list OF the blind
children of the state, that they may
be induced to attend school. Bruce
believes there are 300 blind children
in the state, and Of that number only
fifty-seven have been enrolled In the
school.
Judge A. II. Huston, OF the Logan
county district court, declined TO ac-
cept the appointment to be United
States district attorney of the West
ern district or Oklahoma to succeed
John Embrie, resigned.
The report is published in Honolulu
that President Taft may VISIT the
Hawaiian Islands4and that he will go
there on the cruiser st. Louis. It
does not appear thst there is any
foundation for the report.
. + y 4
Times-promoter., 1909-10-07
What About Pellagra?

A great deal is being said in the public
press these days about a supposedly new
disease that has been discovered as prev
alent throughout the country. While
the medical profession is not agreed upon
the causes for this disease, a majority
have attributed it to the use of damaged
corn meal It's symptoms and progress
have been given general publicity and
do not call for repetition. Suffice it to
say, that it is being advertised as seri
Gus malady and largely confined to the
South.
Reliable research has proven 1t to be
one of the oldest maladies to which
human flesh is heir, having been prev.
alent for hundreds of years in number
of the old countries across the waters.
Then too, there are those who have in.
vestigated and claim that it was well
known malady, even before corn or In
dian maize was discovered. Instances
have been given where the victim was
never known to have eaten a piece of
corn bread. So it is possible if not prob
able, that when the true cause is To-
Times-promoter., 1909-10-07

the apiculturist would be complete mas.
ter of the situation, moving the combs
OF honey and at once replacing the same
with combs emptied with the extractor.
Any one who desires to go into bust.
ness in this alluvial country should
handle large number of hives (not less
than 1907 and spend at least one season
with first-class bee-keeper, as there are
thousand little things to be learned
by observation.
For books / would only recommend
Langstroth on the Honey Bee, revised
by Charles Dadant, as practical work.
There are two diseases of bees to con-
tend with, ''foul BROOD" which destroys
the old as well as the young bees, and is
very contagious. We have never been
troubled with it. The other is Chilled
or black brood,' pronounced by Prof.
Phillips, of the chronological bureau, as
European foul BROOD" and is very con-
tagious. The young bees and larvae
(maggot stage) become chilled in the
spring from cold, damp weather and die
when the old bees remove them and the
queen lays the fresh eggs in the cells
Times-promoter., 1909-10-07
MISS CLEMENS WEDS PIANIST
Bride Is Daughter of Mark Twain,
the Humorist.

New York Without bridesmaids o,
attendants of any sort, and supported
only by her aged father, who gave her
away, Miss Clara L. Clemens, daughter
Of Mark Twain, the humorist, Wednes.
day became the bride of Ossip Gabrilo.
witsch, the Russian pianist.
About twoscore of the most intimate
friends of Miss Clemens and Mr.. Gabrilo-
witsch were present.
The wedding took place in the parlor
Of the brides home, the ceremony be-,
ing performed by the Rev. Twitchell
DR.. Twitchell, who lives in Hartford
Conn.,, is lifelong friend of the humor-
ist, he being the original of Harris, in
Mark Twain's "a Tramp Abroad"
Times-promoter., 1909-10-07
WALSH MUST SERVE TERM
Appeals Court Finds Criminal Intent
in TRANSACTIONS


Chicago.-The verdict of the triaI
court, which found John R. Walsh guilty
of misappropriation of the funds Of the
Chicago National Bank, was affirmed by
the United States circuit court of ap.
peals here Tuesday.
Mr.. Walsh must serve the sentence of
five years imprisonment imposed upon
him by the trial jury, unless the supreme
court upsets affirmation of the verdict of
guilty.
Counsel for Mr. Walsh in their appeal
laid the greatest stress on what they
alleged was a lack of criminal intent on
the part of the defendant. In their very
lengthy brief much law was quoted to
show that the convicted banker, news
paper publisher and railroad owner used
the funds of the bank in what he con-
sidered legitimate manner.
Times-promoter., 1909-10-07

Gated it will be far removed from our
| popular diet of corn pone.
The South has been generally named
as the home of this disease and the inn
preston left that it was another of the
plaques to which we had fallen heir, to
run its course as did yellow fever With
in the last few weeks comes the an
nouncement that one of the middle north
ern states had 100 cases and the investi-
cation was not half over Others in
the same section reported number, and
the indications are, that it does not con-
fine itself to any particular section. Mis-
sissippi has no more of it than Illinois
and we do not enjoy the unfayorable
advertising that has been given us re-
Gently.
If it is caused by immature or mould,
ed corn as claimed, our people can soon
get rid of it by raising their own corn for
bread and making sure that it is thor
oughly ripe and dry before being gath
cred. Western corn is usually cut be-
fore being thoroughly dry but not SO
here in Mississippi. Let us hope that
it is only one more scarecrow that will
soon vanish. At any rate, it is not con
fined to the South, but thrives in other
sections of the United States as well.
Beekeeping in the Delta.
No country can surpass the Yazoo
Delta for the production of honey, which
is the paradise of bee-keepers who fol-
low the occupation on large scale for
profit.
Few have gone into it as an avoca-
tion, as it requires thorough study as
science with reasonable enthusiasm, cou-
pied with hard work.
The great revolution in bee-keeping
able frame, by which the bees were made
to build their combs on frame that
could be moved from the hive, all hives
was caused by the invention Of the NOV
being Of the same construction 80 a
frame could be passed to any one of the
hives of the apiary. The invention also
of honey extractor so the honey could
be thrown from the comb by centrifugal
force after the cappings were removed |
by sharp knife are a great help.
With such improvements honey can
be harvested ON q large scale and the
comb removed from the hive many times
during the season and returned to be
filed again, preventing the bees from
building an additional comb, which would
consume much time and great quantities
Of honey, to the bee-keeper's loss. When,
the hives were hlled with ssmb
Times-promoter., 1909-10-07
Plan CENTRAL BANK
SITUATION BORN OF 1907 DIS.
AsTER MUST BE MET.
Solution of Panic Problem-Presi-
dent Tart Favors the Project.
Politics to Be Kept Out.

Washington. = The coming Congress
must meet situation born of tn,
panic of 1907, when the issue o.
clearing house certificates by the gov
ernment to supply sufficient eur
rency to meet the demands of the
business interests of the country wa:
necessary, although Americas Golfers
were overflowing with gold
The temporary legislation enacted
during that critical period must either
be supplanted or enacted into perma.
nent law, and foremost among the yari.
Gus projects that have been advanced
as proper solution of the government
problem stands the proposed national
central bank.
1t is the common belief that it will
form the basis of the curative legisla,
tion to be recommended by the none.
tary commission, as President Taft, in
his recent Boston speech, signifed his
own favorable disposition toward the
project.
"a band of the people and for the peo.
pie" is the definition of this institution,
made by George M. Reynolds, president
of the American Bankers Association, in
his Chicago speech. He pointed out that
the people were to be the stockholders,
for any one would be permitted to buy
the bank stock just as he might a gov.
bond
Times-promoter., 1909-10-07

and the colony soon acquires its normal
strength. / am satisfied that it is not
contagious. All the large bee-keepers in
the country have been affected by it, and
the damage has been from 10 to Is per
cent In spite Of it the bee-keepers will
produce more honey than last year.
The resources for honey in this great
alluvial delta are beyond computations
where one bee-keeper with $50 colonies
last year made $1,000 pounds, which is
equivalent to II gallons to the hive, and
three other large ones produced from
nine to ten gallons.
Bookkeeping is no light work, and it is
not to be supposed that the bees do most
Of it. To have good constitution, plen-
ty of energy, perseverance and mod
crate amount of enthusiasm are the re-
quisites.
Two rules must be observed in bee
keeping: Keep your colonies strong by
uniting the weak ones and take the sur.
plus honey as fast as the bees bring it.
All bee-keepers in this country use the
Langstroth frame. 1t is the standard
hive, simply constructed and of easy and
rapid manipulation.
To make honey work for extracted
honeyto lose your time and money try
for comb honey.
O. M. BLANTON.
sT
The expenditure Of $4,000 on the part
of the state will be worth more than
100000 to the people in five counties
next year alone, to say nothing Of the
future. If that small amount was worth
so much in the eradication of the cattle
tick, think Of the great good that could
be accomplished during the next two
years with the larger sum that will be
asked for.
State Senator James Mcdowell is pre-
pairing bill to be introduced at the
coming session of the Legislature provid-
ing for state reformatory. This is
one Of the imperative needs for our
state. Young boys should not be kept
alongside hardened criminals for term
of months or years, serving for the in
fraction Of law. They should, by all
means, be given chance for reforma>
tion. Senator McDowell's bill il I'm.
doubtedly good one.
Times-promoter., 1909-10-07
Bishop Wards Body Coming.

Tokio-The body of Bishop Seth
Ward, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, who died Sept. 20, while
on his annual tour of inspection among
the missions in Japan, was sent to San
Francisco Tuesday on board the steamer
Nippon Maru. Bishop Wards son, who
was with his father when he died, is
accompanying the body.
Times-promoter., 1909-10-07
Will Sue for Miami Lands.

Muskogee, Okla. Special Assistant
United States Attorney Paul Ewart is
here preparing to file suits against per-
sons holding alleged fraudulent leases to
.$9,0o0,oOo worth Of zinc and lead lands
in the Miami district.
Times-promoter., 1909-10-07

/ hold it as point Of self-education,
that the student be continually engaged
in forming exact IDEAS, and in express
ing them clearly by language. -Faraday.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-27

the. door with the hilt OF his sword and
Numbered forth: Surrender in the name
Of the Continental Congress. and IL you
don't, by God, I'll make you!'' His
torians have usually quoted Allen as
calling for the surrender in the name Of
the Great Jehovah and the Continental
Congress-
Along with the restoration Of Fort
Ticonderoea has proceeded the res.ora-
ton Of the old Pell house on the shore oil
the lake just below the fort. There Pres
ident Taft and other guests at the cele-
bration will be entertained by stephen
n, p. Peil and the members OF the Lake
Cnsmplain Iercentenary Commission.
The house was built originally in 1925
by William Pell, great-grandfathc or OF
Stephen n. p. Pell. He had been n
royalist, had moved to Canada in v
utionarv times and had returned to this
c ountry after the war. he CHANGED to
stop at Ticondcroga on his return from
Ia NADIA. was impressed with it as n site
for a home and bought the land where
the fort and>ihe house now stand from
Union College and Kings Wolumbia)
College. to which the land had been
granted by the national Government after
the war ended. The house he erected
was burned in 1926. and he present hous
took it's place.
Many curios have been found by the