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The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
kinosIey,s pebble RIDGE.

Readers and admirers of Charles
Kingsley will learn with regret that
his beloved pebble Ridge" at West
ward Hot has suffered serious damage
from the recent gales.
This remarkable barrier Is about
fifty feet wide and twenty feet high,
and extends In a straight line for
about two miles from the distant cliffs
to the mouth of the Taw, like an arti.
fetal embankment. It is a singularly
uniform and compact structure, form.
ed of rounded slate, stones or pebbles.
varying from six inches to two feet
in diameter. Formerly the "potwal.
lopers," as the neighboring common.
ers are opprobriously called, used to
vindicate their rights by replacing the
scattered stones every Whit Mon
day, but of recent years this laudable
practice has disastrously fallen into
desuetude.-Pall Mail Gazette.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
JAPAN GETS INTO
MEXICAN GAME
DENIES IT is SEEKING POSSES
SION or MAGDALENA BAY.
England Advised tho United States.
British Railroad Interests Are
Pleased With Troops.

Washington. - Japan doomed up
ominous Friday az a shadow in the
background of the international COM
pLcations with reference to the
emergency relations of the govern
ment to its great and powerful neigh
Dor, Mexico.
1t was generally rumored that japan
had entered upon special commercial
relations affecting that particular
part of Mexico where the president
expected the new republic of Mexico
to be formed by the secession of the
insurrectos in Northwestern Mexico
and Lower California.
The Japanese ambassador, Baron
| Uchida, vaulted Unexpectedly into the
arena by denying specifically what
has not been charged officially. that
Japan has sought, or is seeking to ac-
quire Magdalena Bay.
1t has been ascertained, however,
that Mexico is fostering a new and
great Japanese commercial enterprise
of a line of steamships to operate from
| Peru to ports in Northern Mexico.
This fact has attracted the specific
attention of this government because
of the i~ndisputable and necessary con
nection it would have as between
Japanese interests and the %proposea
new republic which the ~insurrectos
propose to form in Lower California
and North Mexico, and which, as ad-
mitted by President Taft, it is the
intention of this government to pre-.
vent with its whole naval and military
force.
1t was not surprising, therefore, to
find that the Japanese ambassador
had projected his nations affairs into
the Mexican trouble by discussing the
moot question whether Japan had
ever offered to negotiate with Mexico
for the Magdalena Bay, The am
bassador, of course, denied the allega-
ton and proceeded to talk of the
large commercial interests which
Japan has with Mexico.
The news came direct to the war
department today that Great Britain's
railroad interests, SO far as concerns
their representatives in New York,
which is the most important center OF
interest, ARE satisfied with the present
arrangements"
This indicates unerringly, notwith.
standing ineffective denials, that
formally, at least, Great Britain did
ascertain what the United States pro-
posed to do in case of the inability of
President Diaz to control the stu
alton in his dominions.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
APPROPRIATE s1,025,4 400, 662
Taft Only Missed the Mark by
Million DoIIas,

Observation-Disclosures at the
last session of congress aggregated
$1,025,4S9,662. according 10 the state
ments issued by former Representa-
tives Tawney of Minnesota and Liv-
ingston of Georgia, who were re-
sp~ectively chairman and ranking Dem
ocrat of TIE house appropriations COM
mittee in the last congress. MI.
Tawney says this is less than $1,000
600 in excess of the total estimates OF
President Taft, on which the appro-
priations are based, pays high tribute
to the executive for good faith in
scrutinizing estimates and computes
that the surplus Of revenues next year
will be not less than SIG, 542, 900, which
with any part of the treasury cash
balance may be applied to the sink
ing fund.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
Advice
Gives Prominent Doctors Best
Prescription-Is Easily Mixed.

= Get ore ounce Of syrup of Sarsapa-
rilla compound and one ounce of Toris
compound. Then get half a pint of gooo
whisky n put the other two ingredi-
ents into it. Take a tablespoonful Of
bed time. Shake the bottle before us
ing" This is not new in this city as
many of the worse cases of rheumatism
and back-ache have been cured by IT..
Good results come the first day. Any
druggist has these ingredients On hand
or will quickly get them from his
wholesale house. Any one can mix
them.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
GOLDEN WEDDING UNIQUE
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolphus Busch Central
Figures.

Pasadena, Cal.-Probably the most
elaborate golden wedding anniversary
ever celebrated in the world took place
here with Mr.. and Mrs. Adolphus Busch
as the central figures. The most beauti-
full and costly of presents was the
diadem presented to Mrs. Busch by her
husband. 1t is a crown of gold, studded
with diamonds and pearls, and valued
at 100000. At the wedding feast Mrs.
Busch will be crowned and given a seat
beside her husband on a miniature
throne.
The presents received by the couple
are valued at half a million dollars.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
Brought the Tears.

An unusual incident marked a re-
cent fire in New York. The fire start
ment and before it was extinguished
the IS families in the building and all
the firemen were weeping c%opiously
from inflamed eyes. In the cellar
many bags of onions had been stored
The chief fireman allowed the tenants
to remain in the building, assuring
them that the fire was confined to
the cellar. They did not stay, how
ever, when the onions had got well
afire.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
Ducks Driven BY Hunger Into Harbo'

Ducks Driven by Hunger into Harbor
Owing to stress of weather outside
where they generally dwell In security
from mankind, q large number Of
coots, black ducks and king elders
have come up into the slack water
above Martins Point bridge and are
trying to find means Of sustaining life
until warmer weather opens up their
regular feeding places.
It will be recalled that q few years
ago the fats, even up through the
bridge. we're frozen over and nothing
but hand feeding for q number OF
days saved large numbers OF these
fne birds from starvation. 1t may be
necessary to resort to the same treat.
ment again, for the hats above the
bridge are pretty well iced up and
only a small section OF open water
and moist ground remains for the
birds.--Portland Argus.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
EDITOR BROWNE
OF The Rockford Morning Star.

about seven years ago l ceased
drinking coffee to give your Postum a
trial.
81 had suffered acutely from various
forms of indigestion and my stomach
had become so disordered as to repel
almost every sort of substantial food.
My general health was bad. At close
intervals | would suffer severe attacks
which confined me in bed for a week
or more. Soon after changing from
coffee to Postum the Indigestion
abated, and in a short time ceased
entirely. / have continued the daily
use OF your excellent Food Drink and
assure you most cordially that | am
indebted t. you for the relief it has
brought me.
wishing you = continued success, ]
am Yours very truly,
j. Stanley Browne.
Managing Editor.
OF course, when a mans health
shows he can stand coffee without
trouble, let him drink 1t, but most
highly organized brain-workers SIM
ply cannot
The drugs natural to the coffee ber-
ry affect the stomach and other organs
and thence to the complex nervous
system, throwing It out of balance and
producing disorders in various parts
Of the body. Keep up this daily pois-
oning and serious disease generally
s~upervenes. So when man or woman
finds that coffee is q smooth but dead
~ enemy and health Is Of any value
at all. there is but one road-Quit.
It is easy to find out If coffee be the
cause of the troubles. for If left of 10
days and Postum be used in its place
and the sick and diseased conditions
begin to disappear. the proof is UNI
a~nswerable.
Postum is noe good II made by short
boiling. 1t must be boiled full Is min
utes after boiling begins, when the
crisp flavor and the food elements are
brought out Of the grains and the bev-
era6e IL ready to fulfill its mission Of
palatable comfort and renewing the
cells and nerve centers broken down
BY coffee.
"Theress q Reason"
Get the little book, "The Road to
ssWellville.s Ii pkgs.
Ever read the n~bovNnIotters A new
0me npneoxs from time q time. They
are genulnes trues and all Of human
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
OBJECT TO NEGRO CARRIER
Farmers Refuse to Receive Mail From
Negro Carrier.

Baynesville, Kass-Half the farmers
living along the rural free delivery lines
Of mail out Of this town have pulled
down their boxes and refused to accept
their mail from a negro carrier. Many
Of the farmers applied at the ~postoffce
here for. their mail and announced their
intentions Of continuing to do 90 until .
white man should be made carrier.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
NEGRO KILLS WHITE MAN
If Captured, Summary Justice Seems
Almost Certain.

Poplar Bluff, Mo.-An alteration
occurred between Henry Owens,
white, and j. Lynch, negro, ten miles
south of here, resulting in the death
Of the white man. In the fight Owens
hit the negro with a scale weight,
and the negro picked up an axle
which was lying LEI the spot and hit
Owens on the head, resulting in the
white mans death.
Immediately after hitting Owens,
the negro realized what he had done
and made good his escape. A posse is
after the negro, and if he is captured
it is expected he will be lynched, as
feeling is at white heat.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
PRESIDENT ASSURES DIAz
Military Maneuvers Have No Reason
to Worry Mexico.

Mexico City, ENTHUSIASTICALLY
setting at rest all rumors that the
United States is preparing for inter-
vention in Mexico, President Taft sent
to President Diaz a telegram in which
he says the military maneuvers being
conducted along the frontier in Texas
have no significance which should
cause concern to Mexico. The mes
sage was transmitted to the depart
ment Of foreign relations
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
Warned,

A serious-minded New Yorker. who,
because of his dignified outlook on
life, has sent his son, aged twelve, to
a particularly strict and proper board
ing school in New England, unexpect-
eddy visited the school last week. AS
pertaining the location of his young
hopeful's room, he climbed the four
flights of stairs necessary to reach it
and entered. On a mammoth pla-
card suspended from a steel engrav-
ing of washington and Generals"
presented to the youth as a Christ
mas gift by his admiring parent was
the cheerful sentiment:
Don't spit on the ceiling. We have
lost our ladder"
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
wireless to AeropIane.

West Palm Beach. Fla.-For the
nrst time in the history of aviation
wireless telegraph messages were re-
cetved by a passenger on an aero
plane here when Percy c. v. Norris,
operator at the Palm Beach station.
ascended with Aviator J. A. d. Nc
Curdy and reported distinctly hearing
signals exchanged between the Key
West and Havana stations. He also
picked up q message sent by q fruit
steamer to the Key West wireless
station.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
$500 4 NIGHT TURNED Town
Too Busy, Says E~x-Speaker. Offered
/ Engagement.

Washington.-"Five hundred dollars a
night for one hundred nights was an
order telegraphed from q Western
lyceum bureau to Representative Cannon
Of Illinois, the retiring speaker of the
house.
"Too busy was in substance the reply
telegraphed back by Mr.. Cannon. The
offer prescribed that Mr.. Cannon could
name his own speaking dates on the
circuit.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
SHOW $40, 863,465 INCREASE
Operating Revenues Reach High
FIGURE.

Philadelphia.-The annual report Of
the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company
shows that the total operating
nue. were $160,457, 29S for the past
year, an increase of $10,S63,465 over
the previous year. The operating ex-
penses were $114,S12,628, an increase
of ~$12,621,193. Outside operations
show a deficit OF s. 1909, 1888, making
the toal net revenue $~44,335,281. De-
Quoting fixed charges, the net income
amounts to $~37,775,484.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
Seven Pensioners in One Family.

Seven brothers and seven sisters
living in Foulsham, England and the
adjacent parishes are receiving old
age pensions. The oldest of the seven
is eighty and the youngest seventy
one. Their united ages total $50
years. Their father was Philip Lam
bert, a carrier between Foulsham and
Norwich, who had a family of 16, all
born in Foulsham and of whom II are
now alive.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

The hobble skirt may figure In an Of
fetal INQUIRY. It appears that 2 mum
Der Of Syracuse ladies have filed with
the public service commission a com
nlaint against the traction company op-
Grating lines In that city. alleging
that the steps OF the a r are too high.
thus preventing women from getting
ready access thereto. And the defense
NAV ne that ii the ladies did no wear
constructed garments they would have
less difficulty entering the cars.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

At a hearing in New York on a pro.
posed ordinance to limit the length
and powers for mischief Of the femf-
nine hatpin a number of women pres
ent approved Of the measure and not
a single voice was raised against it.
The fair sex may always be relied on
to do the unexpected thing.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

Uncle Sam certainly has grown to
be a big boy. The census OF last year
shows that the three Pacific coast
states. California. Oregon n Wash
ington. now have a larger population
than that of the entire thirteen
colonies when they started the Revo-
luton and set up in business for
themselves. And the fathers never
even dreamed that there would be
Pacific coast states.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

Sanitary reform is marching on.
The New Hampshire legislature mas
adopte a law empowering the State
Board of Health to restrict the use
of common drinking cups in public
places. Combined with the move
ment by railroad companies to elimin-
ate the common drinking cup In pas
sanger cars this means much in the
way of safeguarding health.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

In a contest in New York to decide
what are the 25 most beautiful words
In the English language the judges
threw out TRUTH" because they
thought it had a metallic sound. An
other surprising thing about the on
test was hat the man who won did
not have money" in his list of beau
tiful words.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

In Ohio there is a judge who holds
that a woman may take money from
her husband without his knowledge
or consent and be guiltless Of steal
ing. This is likely to cause more
bachelors to struggle along without
wives.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

The gutenberg bible, the first PRINT
ed book. IL worth $4,000, and yet
there isn't any more In It than there
is in the Bible that you ian buy at
the secondhand bookstore for =
nickel.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

Now that the aeroplane has demon.
strated its ability both to rise from
the deck of a warship and land there
on. its practical possibilities for war
fare will be largely increased. In
fact, the next big war will be unique
in the worlds annals, unless SO many
wonders in the way of invention act
to keep it from occurring.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
Population Statistics.

Washingotn.-Of the male popula-
ton of Arkansas 81 years old and
over, 71.S6 per cent, or 2S4,29S, are
white; 1913 per cent, or 111,732 r
negro, and 1853 are Chinese, Japanese
and Indians.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

A western man tried to commit sui.
eide because he had too much house
work to do. He had reached a point
where breaking dishes no longer re-
lieved his feelings.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

A Chicago professor has won an
automobile in a guessing contest. We
believe this is the first time a Chicago
college professor has ever admitted
hat he was guessing.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
WILL REDUCE ACREAGE
Cotton Growers Decide to Cut Sea
Island Acreage.

Waycross. Ga.-An agreement to re-
duce he Sea Island cotton acreage
90 per cent. and to hold all unsold
cootton for more satisfactory prices
was the result of a convention at
tended by 300 cotton growers Of South
Carolina. Georgia, Florida and Ala
bama in Waycross. Charles S. Bar
rett. president Of the Farmers Educa-
tional and Cooperative Union, pre-
sided.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

We are assured that a ace of bald.
headed women is threatened. Maybe,
but many a man will not discover any
evidences of this until after the nup-
tial knot is tied.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

The proposed trouser reform has
raised a great howl in the ranks of
the knock-kneed, pigeon-toed and thin
shanked Apollos.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

New York subway crowds fatally
trampled upon a young oma And
yet that city is hoping for a popula-
ton of 5000, 600 eventually.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

To save our life, we can't get deeply
interested in the tomb of Ananias.
There are too many live liars in this
world.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

A Boston woman advances the
theory hat ~overeating is likely to
cause race suicide. 1t is likely also
to cause bankruptcy.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

The light of a new star recently dis.
covered in the Milky Way was $50
years in reaching the earth. Pretty
slow, as things go now.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

Scientists have discovered a new ele
ment, celtium. Will it also be used as
a cancer cure until another new ele-
ment is discovered?
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
Domestic Amenities.

Father-I think the baby looks like
you.
Mother-Yes. it shuts its eyes to an
awful lot.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

A man in Boston wants a divorce
becauses his wife throws knives at
him. 1t takes so little to make some
husbands peevish.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

It's just about time for a new dis.
ease to be discovered. Pelagra and
Eookworm are becoming ordinary.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

When it comes to having bulldogs
stolen by burglars, one must indeed
feel the biting irony of fate.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

The truth may be the worst of in
suits. but that does not necessarily
make it a libel.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

Fashion doesn't give fine feathers a
chance to make fine birds: it needs
them all for hats.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
We all admire a man who won't
poach and an egg that will.

A "busbandette" is apt to be found
washing the dishes In a "kitchenette."
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17

With some assistance from gasoline
this has become a pretty fast country.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-17
PROOF POSITIVE.

He-Oh, yes; / write verse occasion
ally-but l tear it all up as 500 as
/ write 1t.
She-Ah! I knew you were clever.
Evening star., 1911-08-27

The Doc CATcHERS
BIG. NET.

not later than in the morning, it de-
while the woman folk are busy with their
morning work. But even the early hour
fails to fool the dogs and the people: a
subtle flash runs from house to house be-
fore the wagon comes in sight. often:
the dog catcher's coming" it says, and
Mrs. Soandso waits on her front stoop
with teakettle when the wagon drives
up. and. '.afther my little Fido, ar-re We,
kase he have no muzzle? Well, IL We
shtep A fut i'm me yar-rd I'll scald tn
black shkin off yez' And then a shout
to the neighbor across the street. "Oh.
Mrs. Schmidt. tis tn dog catcher; hurry
and get Bismark into tn house" Then
the (dog catcher's) hand has to be consid-
erably quicker than the dogs eye, or
the red wagon draws a blank. The fact
that the wagon never goes back to the
pound empty Is a silent testimonial to the
quickness of hand of the men who handle
the big net
Poundmaster Kuhn. who holds in tine
hollow of his hand the lives of the Dis
trict's stray and unmuzzled CANNES. went
on the job on the 18th of July last. He
for more than thirty years had charge of
the pound, and, new broom that he is. he
is sweeping clean. The red wagon comes
in, every day except Sunday, loaded to
the Plimsoll marks with the strayS and
waits Of District dogdom. The wire
cages and the Immediately whitewashed.
Slated pens are full-so full that fire.
old boarders must make the trip to the
zinc-lined box. where, in the charcoal
fumes favorite method of Frenchmen
tired of life-they go to sleep.
Evening star., 1911-08-27

coming to Washington with an American
wife.
Nine. Bakmetieff soon after her mar
riage began the study of Russia, it's Ian
guage, people and traditions. Her hus-
hand is Greek and entered the services of
Russia after he had attained his ma
jority. The foreign office of Russia
seems to possess many distinguished men
from other lands. The last ambassador.
Baron Rosen, was German and a native
of the Baltic provinces He became a
naturaliZed Russian after serving for
some time in the German army. The
ambassador who preceded Rosen, Count
Arthur Cassini, was. as his name pro-
claims. Italian. and his father had come
from the royal observatory. at Turin to
take charge of the Russian Astronomical
College near ST. Petersburg. But NJ
Bakmetieff is a devoted adherent of the
car and stanch supporter of his poll
cies. His service in Toxic after the Rus
so-Japanese war placed him in the
front rank of diplomatists. He had also
served in Korea during the troublous
times before and after the Chino-Jap-
anese war and just prior to the brush
between Russia and Japan. During this
time Nine. Bakmetieff proved how much
assistance sympathetic and intelligent
helpmate can be to diplomat Having
Evening star., 1911-08-27

father was connected with the German
consulate in New York.
The presiding lady of the Russian en-
bassy comes in direct line from that
Thomas Beale of Georgetown. one of the
original proprietors of the Federal city.
This Thomas Beale came from the border
country between England and Scotland
and took up valuable lands in the newly
established city of Georgetown, the
mother city of Washington. He was one
of the committee of land owners who
met the father of the country March 80,
1891 and agreed to sell all their land on
the east side of the Tiber or Goose creek,
now Rock creek, .'in consideration of the
good which they expected to derive from
having the Federal city laid off from
their lands as the old agreement reads.
This paper, bearing the signatures of
George Washington and of Thomas Beale
and Dave Burns and the other original
proprietorS. is among the cherished
chronicles of the Beales, and which in
cludes all their landed transactions from
the year 1746 until the establishment of
the Capital city.
Mime. Bakmetieff's father Edward
Fitzgerald Beale, was the young son of
Thomas Beale, and with his brother, the
late John Beale of Georgetown, was the
joint inheritor of his wealth. Edward
Evening star., 1911-08-27

cousin of the former Mrs. George BloomeP.
now Mrs. Laurence Heap. who was Violet
Beale, daughter of the late John Beale
of Georgetown. and OF Beale Bloomer. res
Gently married to Miss Katherine Cla-
baugh. daughter of Judge Clabaugh Of
the District court
With the coming of Mime. Bakmetien
the number of American mistresses to
ambassadorial homes in Washington In
how three. the other two being
Nine. Jusserand and Countess Won
Bernstorff. wives of the French and
German envoys. The mother of Mrs.
Bryce was an American woman, so she
calls herself granddaughter OF Uncle
Sam In the lower diplomatic rank. that
of minister's there are Americans presid-
ing over such important homes as the
following: the Dutch legation. -.ane.
London. who was Miss Lydia Eustis OF
New Orleans; the Danish, Countess Won
Moltke. who was Miss Cornelia Thayer
of Boston: the Belgian, Nine. Havenith.
who was Miss Helen Ffoulke OF this city:
the Spanish. Nine. Riano, who was Miss
Alice Ward of New York. and the Greek.
Nine. Coromilas. who was Miss Anna
Cockerell of Missouri The presiding lady
of the Turkish embassy is a young
American girl, formerly Miss Carey Fell
loves of Brooklyn. who is the wife OF the
ambassadors son and his first secretary.