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The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-02-17
War IN THE PHILIPPINES
The Personal Experience and OBJ
servations of One Who Was
There.

After the Bun-a-Bung expedition
we were left in peace for few
months. In fact bat one more en-
gagement took place between our
forces and the natives on Minda-
mao. This was of but little con-
sequence as it resulted in no casu-
alities for the American forces.
1t occurred on the shore of lake
Lanao up in the mountains. The
cause of the trouble was the in
reference of natives in the con-
struction of military road around
the lake The constabulary oc-
cupying that portion of the island
were supposed to look after this
matter but were unable to cope
with the situation. We marched
against them and won the day
more by coercion than force of
arms. In the month of June fol-
lowing this expedition we surroun-
ded and killed most noted Moro
bandit Ben Abdul Ali. Some say
he was he was the real Ben Ali
who gave the 23rd infantry SO
much trouble. Although the off :
Ger commanding that expedition
reports having killed him on tina /
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-02-17

ing for he knows he will never
see us again. And Abdullah, the
faithful G slave, is there too to see
us go. Even his savage heart has
caught the spell of the parting mo-
ment. We fall into line and march
away. Half way between the fort
and beach we meet the incoming
troops. Our colors dip salute.
We are relieved from duty in the
Philippines after a pleasant voyage
of 80 days. We landed at San
Francisco Nov. %, 1907, and ar
rived at Fort Smelling, Mimi, on
Thanksgiving day Nothing that
would interest the reader occur
red from this date.
1t is IL clock noon June the 9th
1908. Cap in hand | stand at at
tention in the office of my corn
handing officer. | am about to be
discharged from the service of the
United States army. To a soldier
who intends to enlist, being dis
charged is only matter of form.
He will go on duty the next day
as though nothing has happened.
But to one who like myself, is leav-
ing the service to enter again upon
the duties of civil life, it is an
event not soon forgotten. | had
learned nothing N the service
which would assist me in civil
life. In fact at that time | felt as
though | had fairly burned away
3 years of my early manhood. But
now, after having in some meas
ure, regained my interest in the
affairs of civil life, do not regret
the course | then taken. | am
now positive that I'll never serve
again in the army of my country
except in a case of dire necessity
| have now come home to stay af-
ter having bumped up against the
world in a most extraordinary
manner, SO learned the truth of
the old adage: There are no
friends like old friends" and No
place like home
Very resp ectfully,
Walter L. Goodman,
Late Pvt Troop E 5th Cavalry.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-02-17
Rules For Poultry Club.

All girls regularly enrolled
in the Public Schools of Tlsho-
mingo county are eligible to mem
bership.
2 Names must be sent to DR.
Carmack by March 10, giving age,
postoffice and if possible the breed
to be raised.
3 Prizes will be awarded on
the following breeds Rhode
Island Reds, either comb, Barred
Plymouth Rocks, White Leghorns
either comb.
a Prizes will be given for Cd
best pen consistiong of four pull
lets and one cockerel, CD best
pair, CD best cockerel, CD best
pullet, 60 heaviest cockerel, Co
heaviest pullet, Cd pullet laying
the greatest number of eggs be-
fore exhibition. The last to be
certified to by parent or guardian.
S When chickens are placed on
exhibition a certificate signed by
parent or guardian must accom-
pany the coop, stating that the
fowls are the property of the girl
making the entry and were raised
by her. A detailed report must
accompany the coop, giving, the
date of Matching, number of eggs
set, number of chickens Matched,
kind of feed used, weight of chick
ems at two months of age, at four
and at six if they be that old when
exhibited also give number of eggs
laid by flock A blank will be
furnished members on which the
foregoing information may be Civ
en-.
E Exhibition will be held in
the fall of 1910, the time and place
to be selected by the committee.
The value of the prizes will be
announced later. The teachers
expect to raise at least $50, and
there will be others from the out
side. Mrs. ] P. Matthews,
Miss Whitaker,
Committee.
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Committee

FOR RENT-80 acre farm, 90
acres in good bottom land in Gull
tivation. New residence on same
and farm in good repair. Good
barn and spring and well watered.
Apply to w w Harris & Co.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-02-17

Meridian Home Mixture and Me-
ridian Blood and Bone Guano is
the best. For sale by
w. w. harris & Co.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-02-17

We will receive within the next Ten Days
a Car of Woven Wire Field Fence in all
heights up to So inches and will be in
position to take care of your wants in this
line to any amount at prices never before
offered in Iuka. Don't buy your wire
fence until you see our fence and get our
prices.
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Webster and Clay Reincarnate

NF0U visit London. after having assidu-
ously read Dickens and Thackeray, and as
you walk down oxford or Regent street or
cross London bridge scan the thoroaghfare
from cab of knifeboard of any omnibus you
confront their characters you have read about.
There's Sam Weller. sure as shooting,
YOU say to yourself, as q natty London cock
ney youth with bundle under his arm goes
whistling by, hat on one side and swing
and a stride s If he owned all London, lock
stock and barrel. You would want to see
Sam entering the portals of the White Hart
inn or see sam perehed up alongside a beefy-
faced top coated, whip swishing bus driver
Of twenty odd stun weight, and you would
have Samuel and his esteemed parent in
propria persOnae-
Now and then you imagine you get
glimpse of Mr.. Pickwick or perhaps his
brother. who strongly resembles him. Jingle,
we'll ] once knew en- insurance agent in
London whose physical makeup and manner
Of talk was as close to Jingle one human
being could be 10 another
In canvassing for an accident policy he
went about it so: Get Up IN morning. Needle
in carpet Big toe Inflammation. Can
~.rene. Death" And again: Back to FIRE.
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Cold day spark Coat burned through.
Spine blistered. Six weeks in hospital" ETC.,
etc.
Peggety you can see thousand times
# you are given 10 -promenading in the early
morn when doorknobs are polished and door
steps secured.
Mr.. Turvydrop you can meet in Bond street
any fine afternoon and in the East End You
can see a Bill Sykes leaning up against the
bar of any public house you go into.
Fagin you meet In the alleys and byways
with a bag Of something on his back and
Scrooge scowls at you from his shopdoor
as YOU walk by and fail to walk in
You run into Pendennis in Fleet street and
imagine you see Colonel Newcombe walking
down Cheapside, leading a little bare headed
leathern belted blue coated boy by the hand.
Becky and Captain Rawdon be seen
any sunny afternoon in HYDE park and Cliye
YOU are sure 10 see coming out of South
Kensngton.
Dobbin and Amelia, arm in arm, engrossed
within and between themselves, to the eX-
clusion of all the world, stroll by. and as you
turn in TO the Temple, the ripping fountain
that danced 50 merrily for Ruth Pinch dances
also for you and in each ripple you seem
10 see old Martin and the younger Mark
Tapley coming out strong and the oily Peck
sniff. The others are all there, but you pass
and are sure you have caught a glimpse
Of Uriah, on high office stool, gnawing at
the end Of a ruler for you remember how
Uriah was whacked good and plenty the
l1nuckles when accounting day finally ar
rived
goes by in a carriage and pair with her
mother and the SILK becalved footmen and
-four and lard ebeplastered pates hang on
behind and look dignffied and keep up the
character OF the 'ouse.
And 50 you move along. butting into every
body you ever read about in Dickens, Thack-
cray any other English writer.
one Gay business took another gentleman
and myself down the Mississippi river and we
went by boat so as To ruTninate over
the departure of the halcyon steamer days
of old on the Father of Waters, when the
gambler held the saloon tables and 'sniggers
roasted on the safety valves, while planters
cheerfUliy saw their stores OF bacon and salt
pork thrown under the boilers so that the
other boat could be beaten, even If things
Were blown sky high in the attempt AS We
sat at table far down at the other end there
sat two men We had seen many a time
knew perfectly Well had not only read of
them. but read and memOrized their speeches
we'll knew every wrinkle in their faces
and accepted their standup collars stocks
the current style of the present day. To
have seen them attiFed in >anything but a
black, long tailed coat and eloaked would
certainly have been out of place. And there
sat Daniel Webster and Henry Clayi No
two. The big headed, broad browed. open
faced Webster, and the narrow faced, sallow
compleNioned Clay Although next to each
other, Webster at the head of the board and
Clay al his left. they both held their peace
never addressing each other during the meal
but confning their words TO the walters
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class consciousness in hts needs and
questionings. So I do not hesitate to
put a finger on this In any attempt at
summing up the thing that may
MAKE; nave seen its evil and it's inter-
twining good.
Well, you asked me to write of my
self, and I'm straying.
- was born 30 years ago in ST. Louis,
MO. MY father was colonel in the
army, who made the mistake of trying
to go into business. He broke up, of
course. and the breakup landed me cut
on western Nebraska ranch at the
age OF 10. And ] grew up there some
years, without enough schooling 10
make much of show. foot free and
without much raising And at 19 /
was rounded up by my sister and in
ouced to come east-Madison, Wis, al
ways seems east--and at the age when
most FELLOWS are starting into college I
nadnt got out of the seventh grade
books. But I got into high school.
though the rough years that had gone
before left me no chance at graduating.
and ! got into the state university for
Just one term in the same predieament.
And then came the Spanish war, and
even before 1t I had left school. for
never liked it bit and was glad to
get away. IT any one had told me when
l was "a that should ever write I'd
--STNC
must have been the fact that nay sister,
who had grown up under far different
surroundings, had become very sue
cessful newspaper woman, which led
me to it-I can't recall anything else.
Let me tell you something. At 49,
when ! first heard this scheme to put
me in high school, Thought it was a
sort of penal institution with high
fence stuck with glass on the top and
Winchester guard at the corners; and
when did get there and some teacher
asked me if I was going to study
physics. / said: Hell. no: I don't
want to be no DOCTOR Conidentially
and honest.
Well in those four Madison years
they learned" me few things And
the 19 before never counted for much;
never had any books nor saw anything
except a weekly county paper never
went to church at all, and to school
mighty lfttle-maybe you'll under
stand with all this how the writer's
trade sat on me rather weirdly when,
afterward, the mere mischance of bad
leg, and being broke in a st1ange city,
set me at it. And even since I've never
owned any books-never bought a
novel in my life nor read more than a
dozen and have done most of my writ
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striking the water with her wings and fairly
binding the intruder every time he ad-
Vances, win Walery oatn thar SO oeoras-
giles his pIumage and disconcerts him that
he Is glad to beat a retreat
The mother bear will drive her cubs UP a
tree out of harms way and face the enemy
beat nearby mastery retreat. keeping
her eye the whining cubs up in the
branches and ready to return and lay down
her life IL need be for her young. No hunter
need make light of a bear with cubs, espe-
ciaIly a grizzly
The spirit of seIf-sacrihce is evinced in life
no stronger than in motherhood The OFF,
spring first and self afterwards
The man at the throttle seems to have an
easy life with clear track on a clear day
and all signals set right, as he sits in his
cab and ticks off mile after mile, over bridgeS&
culverts, crossings but let rain and fog ana
snow and sleet come with all their attendant
dangers and that man will stick to his post
to the last and only too frequently be found
pinned under his dismant1eds engfne when the
wrecking crew arrives He had loved ones
at home, true, and he had a hundred maybe
five hundred human beings whose lives are
absolutely in his hands and often, when a
jump would have saved him, he stands by his
lever and does all that human effort can
prompt him to do to his train. He
could have saved his life moments ago, but
is to save his train. with all that 1t means
to those aboard And the strain Of II all
to drive the train through fog and mistI
The man on the bridge at sea, who, when
anything happens, is the last to leave the
ship, his hours of suspense when fog and
icebergs menace the safety Of all on board.
and what q headon collision with an ice
berg, even with steamer at quarter speed
means Is something that one forgets not if
through the experience once. The order reads
to slow down one half, maybe quarter speed
when crossing the banks. Again IL time is
lost" the the captain must explain
and is told not to let it occur again. So the
whistle Is blown and is kept blowing and IL
they cross the banks on quarter or half
speed the dials do not show it and If the
men who go down to the in ships after
fish never return from their travels in their
dorieS or II the fishing smack itself is pushed
under or crushed into matchwood by the
mighty steamer. who is the wiser? The
steamer has made time and when the smack
even felt so much Jar.
So the man on the fishing smack who rows
his dory and bats his hooks and draws his
lines and nets. although the sea is a broad !.
pathway. yet he gets into the way and whersS
he does he pays the penalty The livelihood
of a fisherman is fraught with many dangers
In his attempt to earn money and keep the
wolf from the door
And yet the sailor who walks the streets
of a city In heavy gale. with shutters bang
Ing and now and then loose sign falling
upon the pavement, feels unsafe from dang
ers he knows not of and wishes himself back
upon the staunch craft and out at sea, even
if the roll and the winds do blow He
knows the points of the compass whence
danger comes at sea-. but on land he is all
at sea.
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writing under foolish impression that
I'd make living out of it-began it
with a pair of crutches and SIS capital.
and the crutches stuck to me great
deal longer than the SIS did. I wrote
a II chapter story, and friend Of
mine got. drunk and lost it, and then
I wrote short stories OF all sorts and,
apart from Juvenile adventure stuff,
never was able to sell one of them.
And as hated auitter and hate to
be licked I stuck to it long after was
on two good legs and able to drift on,
and SO l wrote on six or seven years,
and then was no more able to get sto-
ries accepted than | was before; and
after that much time spent l concluded
ii was too late to back out. and T. be-
sides, had got an unappeasable curios-
ity as to whether or not I could beat
the game, for il was literally a gam
bler's game with me and nothing else
to win a point at IL meant to. eat. and to
lose meant not to. Just. as a man might
buck faro layout with his last dollar
down and try to study another
system, Maybe you know what
I'm getting at. and maybe you
dont-only you may understand that I
lived and worked as far from any lit
erary atmosphere" II you except the
newspaper experiences, haphazard and
wandering, that I've seen-as it was
possible for a writer to live. And / en-
joyed it all--not the writing. but the
seeing and living and the chances.
You see, IN the last IA years of my
life, I've never lived as much as FIVE
months under one roof, nor nine con-
tinuously in the same town, SO the op-
portunity to write has. for me, been
mighty small, intermittent and crowded
In with A lot of other things and a lot
of idling and drifting, but yet there
came to be some pleasure of grim sort
in it, and a desire for finances If the
thing was to be done at all. along with
the ever present sense of chance which
keeps man interested in a problem
even when he knows the odds are q
hundred to one against him. For. as to
getting my work accepted. 1t never hap
pened but four times in ten years-ex-
cepting the juvenile adventure stuff
and have never bothered much about
its acceptance. From all / ever got out
of the ma gazine editors about it. it was
much too Strong" though now, as
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How We Risk Our Little Lives

greater act of hereism can a man perform
than the giving up of his life for another7
This is repeatedly exempihed when human
being and animal will risk life and limb TO
save the helpless one
And yet the man who day by day follows
a perflous calling that he may supply his
family with the necessities and comforts Of
life is a hero. an every day hero. If not
spectacular one He may not receive a gold
medal. but he is hero and no mistake
The partridge whose nest and brood OF lit
tie ones has been discovered will give the
danger whistle or cluck and then all but
sacrifice itself to the intruder. that the little
ones may not come to harm 1t will fetgn
broken wing or injured leg and wallow and
f1utter just outside the reach OF the pur-
suer little farther and farther away. until
when at a safe distance. the bird wiz take
swift wing and cfrcling to the spot where
its brood is hidden under leaf. twigs. grass.
etc. lead them again to safety.
The teal. after warning her little brood
of downy ducklings into the rushes will
boldly attack the hawk, in her own way,
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r. HE man who works in powder mill no
doubt would prefer to work. elsewhere,
but there is bread to be earned for the
family and self or starvation all around. Any
day spark may cause the powder works
to vanish into smoky air and leave only
hole in the ground and few foundation
stones. All else has gone. A peak of cap,
a sole of a shoe button may be found;
but what has become of the flesh and bone
constructed and clothing covered bit of NOV
ing animation that was man? Nothing
is left to tell the story. The powder works
man never knows when this is going to
happen and the good wife finds 1t second
nature to look UP with or less
prised look her husband lifts the latch
after the day Is over and walks in. If blast
ing were going on within the hearing Of
the powder mans wife we can ina gine her
a physical nervous wreck in twenty-four
hours. But they don't blast in the vicinity
of powder mills.
Then there is the man who works in the
chemical manufactory and who goes about his
work with resprator tied over his moath
and which half the time he does not wear.>
taking his chances in breathing the deadly
fumes. That mans span of life is circum-
scribed and he knows 1t and he keeps at
his job until. physical disability sends him
to hospital and grave.
The deadly imployme nts are many and their
pernicfous effects manifest in way
or another. from child labor to powder max
ing
The boy who sorts bristles is not to be a
long lived man any more than knife grind
will live out his allotted years of three
score and ten.
The miner who works in the vicinity of the
deadly damp, far down in the coal mines. will
risk his own life, that of comrades and the
very existence of the mine itself and break
into remove the seal from his safety lamp
to light his pipe. His calling is not hazard
Gus enough in his struggle against starvation
but he must add fncalculable percentage
of risk to 1t.
and fagpo1es, 30O-yes, 500 feet-up IN the
just for second and they pick him up a bag
of bones from the pavement.
The man who patrols the beach takes his
life in his hands when the winds roar and
the waves run high and the ship is groaning
all responsibility free was Ham Peggo-
ty There are mouths at home to feed and
the wolf must be kept from the door, even 10
wind and wave in battle array must be
fought to do And when the rockets go
up the call of duty sup ersedes all other
sideranons, let the outcome be what 1t may.
The fire engine man seems to lead idle
and ideal life as he lounges off duty around
the fire engine house. but the elang of the
gong, the rush of the horses, the swapping
of harness and the blowing of alarm whistle
may all mean but thing to him before the
day is over. falling wall, an explosion, the
deadly back draft, rotten floor a falling
cornice may send him to the hospital to his
home and loved on stretcher, breathing
his last. Duty to the fireman is just apt
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Curious Sights Seen at Sea

IT is your first trip across and for months
| preparations have been In the making
Finally the day of sailing has come and
with baggage safely under the hatch your
cabin trunk and grips safely slowed in your
room, you at the rail waving farewell
to your friends on the pier, as blowing her
whistle the great liner. amidst cloud of
noisy, putting, saucy, mosquito like tugs,
backs her way into midstream and points her
nose down the bay and toward Europe.
Whether the time ball on the Western I'm
ion building drops steamer time. or
whether the liners that leave New York sail
Western Union time not is question
but the tick of the chronometer. at
the minute advertised as the sailing hour,
the captain and officers and mates are all
animation; the lines are cast off and the
whistle blows and woe betide the man who
did not accept the warning to go ashore
with all that were going, for he must 'yump'
at the risk of his life o0 limb or go down
the bay and come back to town somehow or
other, at more less personal inconveni-
and Joss of time.
The statue of liberty. Staten Island. the
light ship and finally the horizon encircles
you and let the day be ever so clear you.
when well at sea. sweep the circle with your
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toast attractl you no more at noontime and
you resume your place at the dinner table
The air is now alive with gulls who, with
out seeming effort. keep up with the ship
They know we'll what a steamer means and
the galley scraps afford them change from
their daily diet of fish. 1t is an interesting
sight to study the aerial evolutions of these
graceful birds as they dive and mount upward
and soar the livelong day. Now and then
strings baited, thrown over and one
of these free lances of the air is hauled in.
studied, stroked and allowed to go. Woe be-
tide the passenger who would willingly harm
or kill one of these birds were the sailors
to learn of it.
Then there the porpoises that, mat
ter how fast the ship may be running, these
swift fro1ickers of the deep always manage.
to keep ahead and in sportive way dive and
waliow in the sea to illustrate that 80 knots
an hour is not very swift sailing in porposel
land
And so the days go by. clear day, may
be the ocean like mil1pond and the old
liner just cutting her way through the water,
and bets being made the high figures
to her run for the "a hours.
The sights on board ship are to the
most interesting and you see them in the first
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"The Day of S0uls'' may not
be the great American novel.
but 1t comes nearer to being
that than any other novel that
has yet been written.
The scene Of @The Day OF
Souls is San Francisco as it
was 10 years ago. Not VIII
Irwin, nor Gelett Burgess. nor
Gertrude AthertoH, nor any
other has written of the city as
Charles Tenney Jackson writes
Of Ii.
Fer those who would read OF
the realities of existence, who
revel in the picturesque and
dramatic, but who demand that
the verify be not sacrificed to
effect; for those with apprecia-
tion of how the best of us would
have the substance rather than
the shadow and fiction that has
the joys aud sorrows, the strug-
giles and laughter of life rather
than the sugar pills of romance
for these "The Day of Souls
Is the great book.
Chicago Daily journal.