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The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
HE RACES WITH DEATH.
Stricken With Paralysis, Wharton Hur-
ries to Texas Home.

Colorado Springs, Colo.-An expensive
ly equipped race against death was be-
gun yesterday by A. B. Wharton, a
Texas millionaire. Boarding a special
car on the Colorado & Southern at 2:40
o'clock, he left for the Texas line, and
hopes to reach Fort Worth before paraly-
sis claims him as a victim.
Wharton was stricken a week ago.
His entire right side is paralyzed, but
his physicians who have attended him
believe that the altitude will work a
quick recovery.
Tom Waggoner, father-in-law of Whar-
ton, is the richest man in Texas, and it
was he who engaged the private car at
an expense, it is said, of over $4,000.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17

ture from Etah made a good passage
through the long channels, and ar
rived safely on the shores of the sea,
where the explorer was to start on his
sledges for the north pole.
But at Cape Sheridan Peary was not
as far west as he probably had hoped
to be. He had announced his inten-
ton, in the previous year, of making
his sledge route to the pole along
some meridian much further to the
west of his route in 1906, when he
made the highest north attained up
to that time-87 d. 6 m.
Impeded by Drift of Ice.
On that occasion he was greatly i'm
peded by the rapid drift of the ice to
the east which a little retarded his
progress north, and worse still, car
ried him SO far to the east that he
had to make his landing on the coast
of North Greenland, many days march
from the Roosevelt, his base of sup
plies.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17

least important of its citizens. In
spite of the gibes of cynics and the
walls of the Unmatched, matrimony.
for the masses, will continue to be
popular. Mr.. Henry Hawkins and his
Eliza do not affect the problem novel;
their only problem, indeed, is the ma
terial one Of how to procure an ade.
quate Sunday dinner. With pensions
for mothers, the birth-rate might once
more rise, and with it our hopes 81
figuring. in the future, as a great I'm.
perial race.-The Sketch.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
EXCAVATION DECREASES.
Report on Canal Shows Reduction
for August.

Washington.-Total excavations on
the Isthmian canal for August show a
reduction from the previous month, the
August figures being 2,755,17s cubic
yards, against 2,S43,26o cubic yards
in July.
Concrete laid during August amounted
to 7,643 cubic yards, against $3.50 in
July, while 454,677 cubic yards of fill
were placed in dams in August, against
55S,401 in July.
"Good progress is being made on the
Panama canal, and four sections OF it
have been finished" said Col. Goethals,
chief engineer in charge of the construc-
ton of the canal, upon his arrival here
tonight from the isthmus. Col. Goethals
returned to this city on leave.
"The excavations will fall of from
time to time as each part is finished"
he said. "The report for each month
gives the average excavation for tho
whole project, but if the work for Guile
bra cut alone were figured out it would
be found that we are doing more there
at present than at any previous time"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
STOLE u. S. COAL LAND.
Charge Made Against Four Men Now
Under Arrest.

New York.-George W. Dolly, Rufus
Ireland, Wherefore Sully and Frank T.
Wells were arrested here by United
States Marshal Henkel, charged with
conspiracy in defrauding the government
out Of 1,760 acres of coal lands in Lam
der, Wyo. The prisoners were arraigned
before United States Commissioner Gil
risch, and all gave $4,000 bail for exam
~ination.
Wilberforce Sully is a lawyer and is
yice-president and a director in the Amer
lean Malt Corporation, which has a cap
ital of $50, 100000, and is also chairman
of the board Of directors of the American
Mailing Company, with a capital of $751;
O0O,0 600.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
Cavalrymen's Best Shots.

Sea Grit, N. 1.-The Gould rapid fire
match in the Sea Grit tournament was
won by the United States cavalry team
by the score of 7s9. The United States
marine corps first team was second
with 1872. The Seventy-irst Regiment
rapid fire match was won by First Dis
trict of Columbia with S04. The all
corners revolver match was won by DIR.
Grant Anderton, New York; score, 135.
Capt. Simon, Ohio, led at the wind-up
of the Thurston match with a score of
149.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
Destitution Widespread.

Washington-Great restitution and
suffering continues among the flood vic
tins at Monterey, Mexico, and the adj
jacent country, and prompt help is great
" needed. In a telegram to the state de-
partment, dated Sept. 8, from Philip c.
Hanna, the United States consul at Mon
terey, he says that nearly 1000 have
been clothed from the supplies at the
American consulate, but that the demand
constantly increases. Several carloads of
goods have reached him from the United
States.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
Al HAND ACCUSED.
Shots Fired From Wagon Into Rich Ital-
ian's Home.

New Orleans.-What is believed to be
the sequel to a Black Hand conspiracy,
which was attended by tragedy, oc-
Cured here Thursday night, when a vol
lev OF shots was sent into the residence
of Pietro Giacona, a wealthy Italian
wine merchant. Some months ago Gia-
cona shot and killed three of his coun-
trymen, after an attempt at blackmail
had been made upon him under guise
of the Black Hand.
A wagon bearing several occupants
halted in front of Giacona's house, and
several shots were fired upon the MEM
bers of the family, who were seated on
the front gallery. No one was injured.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
GROW TOBACCO IN MISSOURI.
Kentucky Farmers Leave State Because
of Night Riders.

Weston, Mo.-The great tobacco belt
of the Missouri river valley has proven
to be a harhor of refuge for many of
the growers, who have found Kentucky
u~nbearable, because of the night riders
and tobacco trusts.
Things are very much on the boom.
Great barns are under construction in
which are to be housed the 100000
pounds of tobacco grown this year.
The growing of tobacco in Missouri
was an experiment a few years ago.
Today it is so much of a reality that
within a few miles of Weston more than
a thousand acres, every n yielding
from 1870 OTTO 1000 pounds, are under
cultivation.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17

form, with four faces and three sum
mits or peaks. The faces are the
great ocean basins, those of the At
lantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, and
one in the Arctic circle. He places
the peaks in Canada, the Baltic and
Siberia.
According to the Able, earthquake
shocks number about 10000 a year.
They seem to occur with some regu-
larity, being more numerous in winter
than in spring, and more frequently
happen at night than by day. AS vol
canic and earthquake shocks indicate
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
ROBERT E. PEARY.
EXPLANATION OF MESSAGE.
BY Cyrus c. Adams.

ny CyTuS ". ADAMS.
Member of American Geographical
Society,"
copyright: 1909: By New York
Times.1
New York.-The foregoing dispatch,
though condensed, tells clearly the
leading facts in the story, not only
of Peary's journey to the north pole,
but also of a remarkably fast sledge
trip over the ice of the open polar
sea.
The dispatch says that the Roose-
welt passed the winter of 190S-1909 at
Cape Sheridan, on the coast of Grant
Land. The vessel had threaded the
comparatively narrow channels, sew
eral hundreds of miles in length, lead
ing from Cape Sabine to the Arctic
ocean.
Conditions Were Favorable.
This journey is apt to be difficult
and sometimes impossible, but the
conditions were evidently favorable.
The ship that disappeared in the fog
while the crew of Peary's auxiliary
steamer Erik were watching it's depar-
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
Million in Reparation.

Washington.-An order involving APP
proximately a million dollars in repara-
ton was issued by the interstate com
merce commission. It include claims in
what is known as the Central Yellow
Pine Association neutrality-suspicious.,
Mississippi and Western Alabama-and
involved a %refunding of amounts paid by
a large number of shippers of yellow
pine lumber from the territory to points
in other states on which an o~vercharge
of 2 cents a hundred pounds was col
lected by various railroads.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
Floods HOLD Not Bryan.

Corpus Christi, Tex.-William Jen-
ninps BRYAN refuses to be held back by
foods. He is now making q wild dash
through the flooded country in q power
FIJI automobile to reach his ranch at
Mission. The st. Louis, Brownsville &
Mexican road is out Of commission be-
cause Of recent high water. General
Manager Rogers permitted Mr.. Bryan to
nae 1 special train as far as it could go,
and the Nebraskan then took an auto
mobile. He will reach his ranch only
after great difficulty.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
. NERVOUS ENGLISH LORD
Northcliffe Says Germany Is Prepar-
ing for Big Fight.

Winnipeg, Man. Lord Northclife,
owner of the London Mail, in an inter-
view here, predicted war between Ger
many and Great Britain. He said in the
Krupp works alone 100000 men are
working night and day and on Sundays
preparing for war.
Il will make the suggestion with all
respect to the Canadians who are invest
ing their money and labor in construct
ing railroads and building grain eleva-
tors, that they keep an eye on European
affairs and begin to figure out why it
is all the ship building yards in Germany
are busy constructing rapid cruisers and
first-class battleships and why it is that
Krupp's works have increased their
hands to over 100000 men, nearly the
population of Winnipeg"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
Gen. Mccook Dead.

Chicago.-Another of the fighting Nc
Cooks" has answered the last roll call.
Gen. Edward M. McCook died Thursday
at the Chicago Baptist Hospital Of
Bright's disease. Gen. E. N. McCook was
rs years old. He fought in the civil war
with his father, eight brothers and sew
eral cousins, all Of whom gained dis.
tinction In the service of their country.
After the war he was made provisional
governor of Florida and twice served as
territorial governor Of Colorado.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17

Nowadays, when marriage seems
temporarily out of favor and we are
deluged not only with novels on its
problems, but with little books full of
advice on "how to bear it," it is re-
markable to find a woman leaving a
substantial sum of money to dover
two poor girls every year, in order
in the words of the testatrix-'that
two young girls may each year be
thereby made very happy" This Is
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
Maneuver Near Norfolk.

Norfolk, va.-According to advices
received at the British vice consulate
here. sixteen battleships and cruisers OF
the British navy are to engage in
maneuvers off this coast with Hampton
Roads as their base. All supplies will
be obtained from the cities of Hampton
Roads. The plan, it is announced, is to
have ten British warships that are to
participate in the Hudson-Fulton cele-
bration in New York come to Hampton
Roads, where they will be joined by six
other warships to be sent direct from
England.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
Two Members Absent,

St. Louis.-All but two members Of
President Taft's cabinet will make the
trip with him down the Mississippi river
from st. Louis to New Orleans in Octo-
Der. Postmaster General Hitchcock will
be on the governors boat, and Secre-
taries Nagel, Dickinson, Knox and Bal
linger will be ON the presidents boat.
Secretaries Meyer and Wilson will be
on the cabinet boat, the Erastus Wells.
So far 1875 congressman have accepted
invitations to accompany the president.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
Heroes Recognized.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. displayed by
two "Jack Tars," each of whom saved a
fellow shipmate from drowning, gained
due recognition from the secretary of
the navy when he recommended that life
saving medals be awarded to Roy w.
Akers, coxswain, U. S. S. Albany, and
Thomas Mcdonald, gunner's mate, U.
S. S. Virginia. Secretary Meyer per-
sonally commended Martin F. Curran,
gunner's mate of the U. S. S. Montana,
for gallantry in jumping overheard to
rescue a shipmate.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
To Reuiue Matrimony.

a widows handsome tribute to her
belief in the welded state, and it is
a wonder that these provisions for
dowerless girls are not made more
often. It is a question, indeed, if we
should not do better as a state by
pensioning strapping and deserving
young brides than by lowering the
old and feeble. The children of the
state are its most valuable asset and
the young mother assuredly not the
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
CHASTITY FUTURE FOR EARTH
French Scientist Predicts All Kinds
of Misfortune in the Not Dis
tant Future.

In a recent number of "1Illustra-
ton" Able TIL. Moreux depicts the
tacle. He assume that earthquakes
have caused it's surface to contract in
such a fashion that in course of time
it will take a shape of pyramidal
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
NAVY Wants 10000 KNIVES,

Washington.-The naval bureau of
supplies and accounts is in the market
for 10000 jack knives of the new type
recently adopted. This il a knife with
two blades, a large and q small one.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
Broke All Records.

Quarantine, N. Y.-The Cunard Line
steamer Mauretania broke all trans-At-
lantic records Thursday by making the
crossing between Queenstown and this
port in four days, eleven hours and IS
minutes.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
First Authentic Account Of the Arctic
Explorers Expedition, by Himself.
Gives Brief Summary Of Progress To and From
Frozen neutrality-suspicious. Of Condensed
Dispatch By Well-Known Scientist.

north pole, April 6
All returning left north pole April
Z. reached Cape Columbia April 23, ar
irving on board Roosevelt April q.
The Roosevelt left Cape Sheridan
July IS; passed Cape Sabine August
8; left Cape York August 26; arrived
at Indian Harbor with all members of
expedition returning in good health
except Prof. Ross G. Marvin, drowned
April 10, when As miles north of Cape
Columbia, returning from Sc degrees
north latitude in command of the sup
porting party.
ROBERT &. PEARY.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
new YORK DEMOCRATS
DISSATISFIED WITH PRESENT
MANAGEMENT OF PARTY.
Judge Party Seys Republican Party
Is Responsible for Non-En-
forcement of Laws.

Saratoga, N. "a permanent organi-
cation to be known as the Democratic
League" promises to grow out of the
Democratic conference, which began here.
A resolution was presented to be acted
upon later by John N. Carlisle of Wa
tertown, proposing this league. The res
olution recites the leagues purposes to
be to strengthen the party, to bring
back those who have left the party, to
attract Independent young voters of the
State and offering a place to Republicans
who feel their trust in their party has
been betrayed or who deprecate its
wastefulness or look with apprehension
on the Capitalization of government.
The resolution provides that the execu-
tive committee shall call a meeting of
the general committee on or before Feb
ruary l, 1910.
Attacks Thinly Yelled.
While all the speakers urged co-opera-
ton and declared that the conference
was not against any leader of leaders of
the utterances of some of them were
looked upon as thinly yelled attacks upon
certain leaders of the present State or
CARNATIONS.
The organization leaders were not in
vited to this conference, although those
instrumental in bringing it about de-
clared that the gathering was not
against the present party organization
or any leader, State or national, but
was rather to forward the true interests
of the Democratic party.
Prominent among the conferees are
Alton B. Parker, former chief judge Of
the Court of Appeals, and Democ-
racy's presidential candidate in 1904;
ex-Justice D. Cady Herrick, who ran for
governor the same year; Edward Nj.
Shepard, who was defeated for mayor OF
New York by Seth Low; Thomas M.
Osborne of Auburn; ex-Pustice Morgan
j. O'Brien, Augustus Van Wyek and
District Attorney jerome.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.

The following preliminary account
by Commander Peary Of his success
full voyage to the north pole was Is
sued on September 8 by the New York
Times Company at the request OF Com
mander Peary and for his protection,
as a book only. copyrighted and ex-
posed for sale before any part OF 1t
was reproduced by any newspaper in
the United States or Europe, in order
to obtain the full protection of the
copyright laws. The reproduction Of
this account, in any form, without per-
mission, is forbidden. The penalties
for violation of this form of copyright
include Imprisonment for any person
aiding or abetting such violation.
Copyright, 1909, by the New York
Times Company.
Report on the Discovery of the North
Pole by Robert G.. Peary, Com
mander U. S. NJ, Copyright, 1909,
by Charles r. Miller, as Vice-Pres-
ident of the New York Times Com
pany.
Battle Harbor, Labrador, via Wire
less, Cape Ray, N. F.-As it may be
impossible to get my full story through
in time, partly as a prelude which
may stimulate interest and partly to
~forestall possible leaks, l am sending
you a brief summary of my voyage to
the north pole, which is to be printed
exactly as written.
Summary of Expedition.
Summary of north polar expedition
of the Peary Arctic club: The steam
sr Roosevelt left New York on July 6,
1908; left Sydney on July II; arrived
at Cape York, Greenland, August 1;
left Etah, Greenland, August s; ar
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-17
How the News Reached the World,


On his expedition of 19O5-06 he tried
hard to force the Roosevelt a good dis
lance to the west of Cape Sheridan,
but the ice baffied him. For one rea-
son or another on the edge Of the arc
tic winter last year he did not or
could not take his vessel along the
northern coast of Grant Land to the
west of Cape Sheridan, and so it spent
last winter not so far from it's old
berth in the ice in the winter OF
1866.
The sledge expedition left the Roose-
welt on February Is, while it was still
practically dark in that latitude. The
sun scarcely begins to peer above the
hills for a few minutes a day, even
several hundred miles to the south of
the coast where the Roosevelt was
w%intering. 1t comes into view a little
later in that more northern latitude
and the party made slow time to the
west as it felt it's way along.
Coast Difficult to Travel.
The northern Grant Land coast is
likely to be exceedingly difficult to ira
verse, especially in the early spring,
on account of the masses of sea ice
that have been pressed on the shore
or broken into great blocks and
stranded along the sea edge.
1t is no wonder that it took the
party Is days to travel westward as
Zoe oc Conn Columbia II ic Gko1v
however, that Commander Peary sue
ceeded, before winter set in, in cache
ing supplies to the westward SO as to
accelerate a little the westward
movement of the sledge party before
it struck out northward over the sea.
Peary's summary seems to show
that he was a little over IS days on
the journey from the land to the
north pole. In this time he was de-
fayed about IA days by water leads,
leaving a little more than three weeks
for the actual sledging work.
We may get a good idea of the
average rate of travel by taking the
first sea and the north pole records.
He passed the British record on
March 2 and reached the pole on
April 6. The distance between them
is AGO statute miles, and the time in
making the journey was "a days, in
Guiding the time of detention by wa
ter leads. This is an average of lit
tie less than IL miles a day, which
is the best record ever attained for
long route sledging on the open polar
sea.
Records of Other Explorers.
The Italian, Cagni, of the duke of
the Abruzzi expedition, who made the
highest record till Peary beat it in
1906, made an average of only about
seven miles a day on his great jour-
ney, and in ten days, on account of
deep snow, they covered only 43k
miles to the north of their ship.
Cagni expressed the wish before he
started that he might make ten miles
a day, but said he knew this was i'm
possible.
Peary has not only reached the pole
but he has attained it at an earlier
date in the year than any of the other
high records in the arctic have been
made. He was at the pole one day
earlier in the year than hansen
reached sc degrees and five minutes,
10 days earlier than Cagni reached Sc
degrees "a minutes.
This is significant of the surpass-
ing achievement in sledge work that
Peary has accomplished, because all
such endeavor is necessarily limited
on n side, as far as sea journeys
are concerned, by the time of sunrise.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-01-28
AGE NOT COUNTED BY YEARS.
Just What II Means ls a Matter Hard
to Determine.

This Is Walt Masons story A few
days ago an aged man was planted In
a little Kansas cemetery. That he
was highly thought of was evidenced
by the long cortege that followed the
plumed hearse to the City of Rest
Friends stood by the open grave and
shed real tears, yet none of them
would have called him back to life
had that been possible. For he had
died of old age and consequent infirm.
tiles; the toll and tribulations Of rs
years had battered him down; and for
a long time before his death he mere
ly went through the motion of living
HE was an old, old man." said the
mourners, as they turned away from
the grave, when the clods had been
heaped upon the coffin lid.
"His age wasn't hurting him any
responded a white-haired man, who
stood by the newly made grave, lean
ing upon a stick. The speaker was
the dead mans father. He was ss
years old.
What is old age?-Kansas City
Journal.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-01-28
The Oriain of pie.

The origin of pie, especially mince
pie, like the origin of sausage, is
shrouded in mystery, but certain it is
that it was known as far back as the
time of Piers the Plowman, and it may
be that in his dinner pail could have
been found the precedent which Mich
ael of Pittsburg, now of the hospital,
sought TO follow. Those who are sur
prised, after being led to believe that
New England is the habitat of the ar
tcle, to learn that pie is an old Eng
lish institution, can easily accept the
further statement that planted on
American soil IL forthwith ran ram
pant and burst forth into an untold
variety of genera and species" Like
the Irish potato, which is said to have
been originated in the new world, 1t
has been so ingrafted into the life Of
its adopted country that 1t seems more
like native than an alien.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-01-28
INDICTMENT OF THE LANDLORD.
Stern Words for Those Who Surren.
der Themselves to Greed.

Wherein is the difference between
a poisoned well and a poisoned air
shaft? Suppose, deliberately and
knowingly, we allow our fellow-men
to inhabit rooms, to live under con
ditions which mean a lingering death.
The thing has to be proved to us
beyond question; then the moment
that it has been proved beyond ques.
ton, it becomes not simply a scien-
tific question, it becomes a question
of morals, a question, ultimately, of
religion. / like that phrase in the Old
Testament where. speaking of those
who violate certain fundamental prin-
ciples of health and well being, the
statement was made that such a man
was "an abomination unto the Lord"
Now, We want that taught TO the land.
lord as well as to the tenant, that there
are some things which are abomina-
lions unto the Lord, and there are per-
sons who are denominations unto the
Lord.-Rev. S. NJ Crothers, Cam
bridge.