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The Tupelo journal., 1909-12-24
Notice of Bond Sale.

| Board Of Supervisors, Lee County,
Land District, Lee County, Miss,
Bonds.
Notice is hereby given that Under and
| the decree of the Board of Super
granted on the 10th day of December.
1909, in the above matter, | will on
Monday, the Sd day of January, 1910,
| within legal hours, before the south
door Of the court house in Tupe,o, in
| said county, offer for sale to the high
| est and best bidder for cash at public
| outcry the following fifteen bonds of
| said Lower Town Greek Swamp Land
| District:
Bond No. 1, due 3-1-1911, 1914 "a.
Bond No. 2, due 3-1-l9l2, $364.9 {.
Bond No. 3, Que 3-1-9113, $3S6.8 {.
Bond No. a, due 3-1-1914, $4,000.
Fond No. s., due 3-1-1915, $434.6 g..
| sfBond No. 6, due 3-1-I916, $3.50. 70.
Bond No. Z, due 3-1-1917, $4S8. "a.
Bord No. 8, due S-l-1918, $5l7.6 So.
Bond No. 8, due 3-1-19I9, $548. 68.
Bond No. 10, due 3-1-1920, 1851. 60.
Bond No.E11, due 3-1-192l, $685. so.
Bond No. II. due 3-1-1922, 1858. so.
Bond No, Is, due 3-1-1923, 1892. 70.
Bond No. Ia, due 3-1-1924. $734.25.
Bond No. Is, duh 3-1-1925, $778. 30,
Each of said bonds having 6 per cent.
interest coupons per annum, payable
annually, attached.
Any and all bids subject to be re-
jected by said board.
By order of Board of Supervisors
this the 10th day of December, 1909.
Norbin Jones,
37-3t Clerk Board of Supervisors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-26
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.1


Occasionally we meet a woman these
days who seems conscious of wearing
too much hair. But, when a woman
thinks it is possible she has on too
much, she has on terrible lot.
The fight for universal justice won't
be completely won until the mule is pet
ted more, and the dog less. The mule
Is the greatest worker in the animal
kingdom, but all it gets credit for is
stubbornness and kicking.
When a woman and her children are
invited out to a meal. she dresses her
self first then dresses them, and then
leaves for the dinner on a dead run
with her children in order that she
may get them there while they are still
clean.
Of course a man becomes an angel
after he is dead. But, in case angels
know what is going on below, would a
man angel feel right about it on hear
ing that his wife had married again.
He might say, "She will not be so lone
some.'' but would that satisfy him?
Reporters" said an old newspaper
man, seem to be divided into two
classes: Those with so much energy
they write items that make trouble for
the editor, or those with so little en-
ergy they don't write items at ALL"
We have noticed, as a proof Of the
deadly boredom of life, that while
tombstones say of husbands and wives
that they were always kind, honor
able, loving and indulgent," none of
them ever say that they were interest
ing.
We don't know of anything that
could take the conceit out of the men
more effectively than to glance back
into the parlor five minutes after
making a call: Every woman in 1t
yawning, and complaining of being
bored to death.
Many a man is unhappy and some
thing of an anarchist because he can
not afford champagne. He has heard
that champagne is good, and grurn-
bles because he is too poor to afford 1t
with his meals. AS a matter of fact,
champagne is not very good Take this
from a man who has been terribly sick
from drinking champagne.
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GRAD DAYS"

Probably the experiences of most
persons is all that is needed to sub
stantiate the theory of DR.. Herman
Swohoda. a noted Viennese physician,
that all men suffer from physical and
mental exhaustion, for no apparent
reason or excuse at recurrent PERIODS.
DIR. Swoboda contends that these
periods come regularly each twenty
three days, or on multiples of that
number and he goes so far as to con-
tend that nearly all natural deaths oc-
cur during one Of these critical periods.
He saws that men suffer one of these
bad days. without having committed
anv excess of any kind. A bad day.
comes to a man without any appre-
ciable external cause. He may suffer
from headache, palpitation of the
heart. indigestion. nervous excitability,
or lassitude.
There NAV be some experts who will
be able to dispute Dr.. Swoboda's idea
that these bad days" come with I'M
erring regularity, but certain it is that
day comes along occasionally with
every man when he feels scarcely able,
either in body or in mind, to do his
days work, no matter how laborious
anybody who does not experience these
| bad days" he is an unusual and
fortunate individual. According to a
London specialist who agrees in gen.
eral with DR.. Swoboda's theories in this
regard, there is only one thing to do
when a man feels he is having a bad
day." HE must go into the country
saws the Londoner. 'If it is summer,
let him lie in a lonely field and think
of nothing, but the cows. But also he
should not eat meat" 1t would be easy
for almost everyone to follow the latter
part of this advice. Denying oneself
meat for a day or two is not much of a
task But the rub comes in getting out
| into the country for a day off on a
bad day" This would strike the aver
age sufferer in this respect as an ideal
and delightful sort Of a cure. I'm
fortunately though. most men cannot
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HYHAWKER JOTS

Ralph Faxon's serial editorial on
Concrete Bridges is running mer-
rily along in the Garden City Tele-
gram. It was still vigorous at Chap
ter XIV.
This must be a mature fake" or a
tells of a young woman in that town
who recently made a dress in three
hours.
The lola Record sees in the Con-
gresham Murphy resolutions on Mis-
souri, federal judges an assurance
that the old-time populist sentiment
has come back to its own.
The "Sunf1ower Seeds" department
of the Wichita Beacon refuses to bite
on the question as to what split in
finitive is, but it casually remarks
that split peas make elegant soup.
And the Atchison Globe did not
even SO much as crack a smile when
it remarked that its attention had
been attracted by an article in a west
ern Kansas paper giving advice on
Sea Bathing"
A Jersey cow was recently hauled
through Kansas by the express COM
panies. This tag was appended to
her collar says the Salina Journal:
Feed me and water me, for I am
far from home"
The new law making it a INSIDE
meanor to employ child actors in
Kansas after June 1 may. suggests
Charles Blakesley, force the Uncle
Tom" shows to require Legree to
double" in the role of Little Eva.
Evidently the cover Our State"
man of the Hutchinson News was re-
membered by his friends on the occa-
sion of his marriage for he remarks
with a tone of sadness: But the su-
preme court has decided that char
ivaris are unlawful rowdyism too late
for some of u.s.
Some news items recently furnish
ed the Sedan Times-Star by its Salt
Creek Valley correspondents: The
humid showers continue to descend.
The defunct and once impreg-
nable valley has sprung upon it's feet.
The indicative signs are Sunday
school singing school and numerous
amusements which have their re-
creative part. We are not looking
for that man who will take us by the
hand and lead US Alright. We have
awakened out of our dormant state
and are now in line all the time Here's
to the eievating class of 1909.
A jamboree was enjoyed by the young
people Saturday night at the home
of Harry Bleachea. Black Jack
schoolhouse was incinerated on the
night of the goth. 1t is supposed to
be the work of an incendiary. Parties
have been arrested by the insurance
company, who are supposed to be i'm
plicated
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BUSINESS BEGINS TO HUM.

A birds eye view of the conditions
which are now prevailing in all ave-
nues of the business world, and which
is really terse summary of news
items of industrial activity throughout
the country which have been printed
in the newspapers during the past
week or ten days is contained in
paragraph in the current financial re-
view issued by Henry Clews & Co., the
New York banking house, as follows:
"Our industrial situation shows
steady improvement. Nearly all lines
of industry are beginning to feel the
stimulus of renewed confidence. Rail-
roads, the largest buyers of materials,
are making heavy purchases of iron,
steel, cars, locomotives and other prod
ucts, partly to carry out deferred i'm
provements and renewals and partly
for new extensions, as well as to meet
a now growing increase of traffic. Gross
and net returns plainly show that our
railroads are once more enjoying nor
NAL conditions. Building and real es-
tate circles are experiencing pro-
nounced recovery. In mercantile cir
Giles there is also more activity. Re-
ports from interior merchants are gen.
orally of a favorable character; con-
sumptive demands are increasing, and
a general spirit of hopefulness pre-
vails.'
This does not overdraw the picture
OF the business conditions in the nation
in any way. 1t is as conservative as
are all of Mr.. Clews' statements and
opinions. 1t is founded on facts. And
it shows that great prosperity
is advancing on the people of the
United States again, which will be
larger and more lasting than any that
have gone before. 1t will pick up inn
petus with great vigor as soon as the
tariff legislation has been determined
upon. Nor does it matter much how
this vexed question is settled. When
it is finally decided upon the business
world can make its plans accordingly
and then get down to the work at hand
of developing the United States to
greater degree of its possibilities. And
t-:ey are well nigh limitless.
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ty'' one. as the dressmaker had sur
missed. 1t would do no harm to say
Yes" anyway.
Did you. Sophrony " he persisted.
would you put UP with a man who
has only one leg?"
Indeed I would, If twas you,
SAM" replied Sophrony. honestly.
Come over here, my girl" en-
treated Sam, holding out his arms
longingly. All his shyness seemed to
have disappeared.
Sophrony went and knelt beside
his chair, and as his arms closed
around her Sam said: IF it hadn't
been for this blessed cardr-he pulled
1t out of his breast pocket--"I'd never
would have had the courage to ask
you.'
Sophrony caught her breath sharp
then she hesitated-'T never sent
that one, but" she added hastily as
she read the verse, 'I would have IL
I'd seen it. I think it's just lovely"
Sam drew the pretty blushing face
against his shoulder again. well, it's
all right, then; but see, here are your
initials down in the corner. Who do
you suppose sent 1t ?"
TITS that blessed little dressmaker,"
said Sophrony. with flash of COM
prehension.
Land O. Goshen, I guess there'n
be a wedding in this family fore
long, tee-hee," giggled LOUSY, from
the doorway, almost dropping the
pitcher of cider in her excitement.
IT just guess there will" replied
Sam, rfully.-(Copyright. 1909,
by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-26
DANGERS OF SPRING CLEANING

That spring cleaning" especially
when certain simple precautions are
not observed, says the Literary Digest
of recent date, has many possibilities
for evil, is asserted by an editorial
writer in the London Lancet He says:
1.-THE cardinal fact connected with
this procedure is that there must al
ways be potentialities for evil lurking
in dust and dirt, and general house
cleaning means the removal of these
deposits, which usually represent the
sum of a years accumulation. 1t would
be strange indeed if this accumulation
was free from disease-producing organ
isms, and it never is Bacteriologlcal
examination would be bound to reveal
a rich garden of pathogenic entities in
the household dust and dirt annually
removed in the spring cleaning process:
cit follows that only that method or
spring cleaning can be approved WHICH
secures the removal of the dust ana
dirt as against one which merely scat
ters them. Spring cleaning, after all,
amounts to the application OF aseptlc
principles to the dwelling mousse anu
modern refinements teach tnaL uiliess
the process is we'll done it might as
we'll he left undone. The accumulation
of dirt in a house is repugnant TO SAM
tary Ideas. but the process OF cleaning
should not be an annual ceremony Dul
carried out at more frequent Intervals;
Few hOuSehOlQeFS, nOWSFCAs HOuAN 49,
II Convenient. we imagine, to submit
the house to a kind of aseptic process
more than once a year. and yet the
fact that it is commonly done only
once means that an accumulation OF
some depth and intensity mas 10 DC
dealt with Theoretically, no ma
terials that may probably contain DOR
mant disease-producing entities should
he allowed to accumulate their forces.
and therefore spring cleaning as an
houses is wrong in principle Accord
ing to this view spring cleaning should
be abolished in favor of regularly
conducted cleaning process kept up all
the year round at comparatively short
intervals This is the course pursued
the nubiic would do we'll to follow their
example,
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CFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
A woman's idol is frequently an idle
man.
Many an actress has discovered that
a farewell tour doesn't fare we'll
At fashionable wedding the BRIDE
groom always seems to be a necessary
evil
The social climber is tickled to death
to be numbered among the almost
present.
The fellow who marries his widow.
sister must be awfully fond of his
mother-in-law.
The orators farewell address will de-
pend whether he goes to heaven or the
other place.
We are not so interested in what the
future holds in store for us as in vhas
she is going to let go of for US.
The veteran actor who signs for tba
good old days OF the drama would
days
Miss Antique-'He told me nv tee+h
were like stars" Miss Caustique-"Ah
I suppose he meant they came out at
night a.
You can't always measure a mar -.
his dignity. The young lieutenant gen
orally has more of it than the arizzIad
admiral
Many man wouldn't know VIVA. ..
do with million dollars who has bIs
mind firmly made up as to what he
would do with ten. He
Nell-'Did you ever see such a th,,
girl?" Belief never did. They sstr
instead OF going to a dressmaker ~
has her clothes made by an upholstere
err"
God made the country, and man
made the town." quoted the wise Ga, Gu
Then the devil must have made ~.
suburbs" added the Simple Mug NE .,e
had recently invested at Swamphur. ~
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
lFrom the Chicago News.l

TFron the Chicago News.1
A circle of friends is nice to have
round.
Among other high rollers we have the
elevated trains.
The good we do is an excellent antidote
for the i'll We think.
Silence is indeed golden to those who
are paid to keep quiet.
Men who travel on their nerve are
apt to become nervous wrecks.
Good luck never hangs around a man
long enough to become tiresome.
Somehow but few women seem to
grow old until after they get mar
ried-
Absence never fails to make the heart
grow fonder of the almighty dollar.
It is easy for a woman with false
teeth to bit off more molasses candy
than she can chew.
Nature has equipped every man for
happiness, but he gets strenuous occa-
sionally and slips a cog.
A girl can make a young man believe
she doesn't want him to kiss her when
she is almost daffy for fear he won't.
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KANSAS COMNENT
ABSORBING POP THUNDER.

ooOfbING POP THUNDER.
olo populists have come into their
own m the past seven years. They
| nave seen about everything they ad-
'ocateo except the sub-treasury taken
Up anu either enacted into law or en-
vi ecu IN ringing resolutions" by
Ea.ious conventions. In the cam
Eaish or 1S92-or was it 1894 the
pops passed a. ringing resolution
against the usurpations OF the federal
5uoses, IN the last few years no less
an authority than Theodore Roose-
welt practically endorsed that doctrine
ana now Republican representative
mas introduced resolution in the
lower mouse asking that two of the
leueral judges be investigated. The
pops never got any further than talk
Win their campaign against the fed
eral Judges. but they tried to take
IL out On the district judges. They
erected one to Office who had never
studied law and because this judge
didn't permit foreclosures in his
court the state suo;em court got af-
ter him. Then old Theodosius Bot
KIN, who used to hold court in west
ern Kansas with a gun and a black
bottle, was imDeacled by the state
Judgement. If the pops ever try to
rev'Ve the party they will not have
many issues on which TO run.--Iola
Record.
o.
1T IS GOOD FOR THE JUDGE.
1t is all right to take hard swat
at FEDERAL judge occasionally. 1t
helps him.
A federal judge is only a human
man with a life. job and too much
power. 1t spoi1s him.
When he enters a court room a
superannuated deputy marshal utters
superannuatel court cry. Every
one gets up and goes through Sew
enteenth century mockery Of making
obeisance to the court The federal
judge feels the power of all this fiat
tering fapdoodle and it makes him
incline to bigotry.
When he travels from court to court
he is surrounded by federal court at
taches, and they fawn and fiatter the
judge. His word becomes law. and
he gets to be a petty tyrant believing
that what he says is right. merely
because it gees.
Therefore, in the interest of real
American humility, and for the good
of the judiciary system itself, it is all
right to do what they did in Missouri
this week-express free opinion if His
Honor. 1t will let him know that
there are still some plain people and
that he is one of them.-Wichita
I;eacan.
* ANOTHER WOMAN SPOILED.
Emma Eames5 was in Oklahoma
City a few days ago. They treated
her like a queen, giving her a vast
audience. While she was waiting
for a train to leave town a fond
young girl asked for an introduction.
She has a voice and an ambition
and felt that she would be happy if
she could only meet and speak to
the great Eames. When the matter
was explained to the Eames woman
she said Tell the girl no." The
Eames woman is a snob. and we
foolish, boosting, enthusiastic Amer
leans have made her so. Lord for
give us!-Wichita Beacon.
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He's a man of lovely breeding,
He is always most polite;
Anything that he is needing
He won't shout for as right
No. he's not at all exacting,
Most uncommon in a guest.
Like a gentleman he's acting,
He's pattern to the rest.
II the coffee should need straining
If the buffers rather rank
You won't hear that man complaining,
He is not a carping crank
or the people with us staying
He's the one we like the best.
Such urbanity displaying,
He's a model for the rest.
We have some that should nav double.
They're so ugly and so mean,
But THIS one just makes no trouble
And he keeps his room so clean
Still, there's one consideration
That is not exactly small,
He has shown no indication
Yet of paying up at all.
-Chicaxb Naws
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do this when their bad day. comes
along. They are cog of some sort in
the business machine that gives them
employment. And they cannot be
spared from playing their part, small
or large though it may be, without
causing more or less confusion. So
they simply have to grin and bear it.
But all of them are likely glad that DR..
Swoboda has given voice to his
theories. 1t will help them over their
bad days" They will no longer be
looked upon as signs of deterioration.
They are merely one OF mans natural
burdens.
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HUNOR or THE DRY

He (desperately)-Tell me the truth. It
is not my, poverty that stands between us?
hope)-1 admit that am poor, and So un-
fortunately, is. my. father; but I have an
hgeS uncle who i is ,xaa rich and
long survive She (delightedlyl-How kind
and thoughttfu,l yoE areS WIN you intro
Pat lwaking up)-An phwat happened
to me? Ambulance Surgeon.You were
vance before-in me lift arrum-but it
didn't take thot time.-Cleveland Leader.
Caller-NelIie, is your mother in? Mel
lie-Mother is out shopping. Caller-when
will she return. Nellie? Nellie calling
back)-Mamma, what shall L say now?-
Short Stories
Observation-Disclosures Gotrox is de-
will leaving $4,000 to establish a home for
poor singers. Wagg-How inadequate.
house all the poor singers.-Minneapo
Journal.
you say the train was telescoped7'' ''It
was" But how did you escape injury?''
Il was on the through car."-Cleveland
Leader. ~ s4Sq
Dukes. counts?. Bah, why doesn't she
marry an honest blacksmith 60 easy,
society girl get to meet a bIacksmittT'N
Washington Herald.
Why hide your light. under bushei
when a pint measure will answer the pur-
pose Judge.
Are they ., people Of any standing in the
engaged to a titled foreigner and their
only son has been in three automobile ac-
cidents involving ladies of the chorus
cago Record Herald.
PA, what does Fiat Justitia' mean?''
1T means that the man who wrote to the
editor didn't have the courage of his con-
be willing to sign his own name "-Chf-
cago r ecord-Herald.
she1I always begin a novel in the mid
I have two problems to get excited over
how the story will end and how it will
begin Boston Transcript.
Dat new neighbor has his place ar
ranged mighty coy an, convenient" said
MI p Miami st l groWn: 9asm," answered
place I knows of. He's got
de chicken coop right mex to de back
fence, an de watermelon patch mex to de
chicken coop. "-Washington Star.
Teacher-Now children, who was II
came after Charles the First? Bright Bow
Please, miss, the executioners.eBosto
Transcript.
PA. what are the longest days of the
YEAR," The days the baseball team is
away, my boy.'-Detroit Free Press
Stella-Does she accompany on the piano,
Bella-No. she just sits in the audience
and hums.-Puck.
Mother-Why,. baby what are you do
ing? Baby with her ear to crack in floor
above the dining room)-Don't know hut
nurse does it.-Punch.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

If all thoughts were worth money
everyone would be well-fixed. finan-
cially.
An uneasy conscience is more an
noying and uncomfortable than the
seYen-year itch.
\
There is this drawback to being a
baseball fan. He generally has to put
up with cold supper.
X 4
Many persons have the failing of not
announcing their predictions of things
until after they happen.
X X II
A man doesn't have to wait fifty
years to celebrate his golden wedding
II he is engaged to a girl with millions.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
FFrom the New York Press. ]

What girl likes about having sew
eral beaux is she can count them as
several more.
A woman specially likes a mans
compliments when probably he doesn't
mean them.
People who can do useful things are
always considered by those who can't
to have very little intellect.
If man could get his finances
Strengthened out he would be willing to
consider Strengthening out his morals.
One of the hardest things for a wise
old man to remember is that there was
much more fun in being young fool.
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rich and his cronies. including a few
Democrats, had the votes to carry the
day against this proposition. Still,
there is great satisfaction to the peo-
pie of Kansas to know that they are
being properly represented by their
United States senators even If they
are on the losing side.
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The punishment cannot be too swift
=. severe for the rowdies who defaced
the walls and works of art in the high
schools assembly hall. It is difficult
to conceive how such vandalism as this
could have been committed in a civil
lied community
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What an adept at fine sarcasm is
DR.. Judson Smith. secretary of the
American Tract society, who told the
delegates to the general assembly of
the Presbyterian church that the board
Of foreign missions wants more arith-
netics to place in the hands of the
Eatives of Uganda so that they may
equip themselves to compute the num-
Der of animals killed by Mr.. Roose-
welt during his African hunt