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The Tupelo journal., 1911-12-29
Politics and Business,

A well-known English politician WI o
always enjoyed a safe seat was mu. b
distressed when he learned that lie
was to be opposed at the next cleo
rtion
Hearing that the opposition was be.
ing engineered by a local dry goods
merchant, he strongly demonstrated
with him
What Is the use of fighting met"
he asked. Its a waste of time and
money, for had a majority Of 5000
votes at the last election. Moreover, ]
have served the constituency well for
many years. and l think l deserve a
walkover this time"
Certainly you do, sir, and only
stern necessity compeis me to force a
contest upon you." answered the dry
goods man. Unfortunately, my
bungling manager, making sure there
would be an election. has bought q
huge stock Of colored handkerch1efs
and ribbons as party favors. and ]
sha'n't have an earthly chance Of get.
ting rid Of them unless | rig up q fight
OF some sort"
The Tupelo journal., 1911-12-29
INTERNATIONAL
LESSON
LESSON FOR DECEMBER 81
REVIEW.

GOLDEN TEXT-"If we confess GU
sins, he is faithful and just to forgive u
our sins, and to cleanse us from all I'm
righteousness."-I John 1:9.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-12-29

To the Tax PAYERS Of Lee County:
The taxes for 1911 are now due and | am
ready to receive same. Ny term expires the
first Monday in ~Janua.y, and l desire to turn
over to my successor the books in the best
shape possible and make my final settlement
with the county and state with as much cred
it to my efficiencyssas an officer as possible. In
order to do this the taxpayers will have to
come toward promptly and secure their receipts
Resides, my services are compensated by fees,
and as have done the work for the year |
feel that ! should receive pay for it. This
pay comes from commissions on the taxes and
| feel that the people Of the county recognize
my rights to them. l shall visit the various
precincts and afford everyone an opportunity
of securing their receipts without the trouble
and expense Of going TO Tupelo.
During my term l have never pressed the
taxpayers and in closing my term | want to
thank them for their promptness in settling
with the county.
shall take it as a special personal favor
if you will come forward and secure your re-
ceipts before Jan. LIST 1912.
Assuring you Of my deep appreciation Of
your support in the performance Of my duties
and always remembering most gratefully your
acts Of kindness. l remain
Your friend,
o. T. TRAP.
Sheriff and Tax Collector. Lee County.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-12-29

IS HELPS
CARING FOR STREET TREES
Newark, NJ. j., Has Gone Into Subject
Further Than Any Other City
and With Good Results.

With the increasing appreciation OF
the necessity for scientific care for
1.-THE street trees OF cities and towns,
There is developing-in leatiet and
,pamphlet-an interesting, II fragmen-
,tary literature on the subject. To this
the well-organized and earnestly act
I've shade tree commission Of Newark.
IN. j., has made important contribu-
ttions. These include a city map on
(which are shown the streets that are
lin the care of the commission and the
variety of trees that is planted on
leach. a leafet giving most elaborate
directions for planting and care. and
Ia pamphlet that contains this matter
land a great lea more besides-the
ordinances, the lists Of trees and
shrubs In use, the arguments for
t~streettree care, an account OF the In
sect enemies of trees and how to deal
with them.
The relative extent to which New
lark has gone into this matter is ind1-
Gated by the. report which shows b a
for 1906 15,44S.21 was expended for
the planting, protection and care OF
trees on the streets. For this sum
nearly $500 trees were planted. on
;f~orty-six streets; the trees on twenty
-four streets were pruned; and the
trees on 1873 feets were sprayed or
otherwise especially treated for in
sects. With this sort of work in prog
,ress every year, it would not take long
to put the streets of a city In first
tclass condition as to trees-and how
much that would mean for the COM
immunity!
The Tupelo journal., 1911-12-29
Petition For Pardon.

To His Excellency, Gov. E.. F. Noel, Governor of
Mississippi !:
We. the undersigned citizens of Lee county,
Mississippi, most respectfully request your Elk
cellency to grant a pardon to William w. Blay.
lock. who was convicted of murder at the Aug
ust Term, 1908, of the Circuit Court of Lex
county, Mississippi. and given a life sentence in
the State penitentiary.
We are informed that this man has made 8
good faithful prisoner while in prison and that
his health is failing and is now in the hospital foi
treatment. This prisoner has in this county 8
wife and several small children that are in des-
titute circumstances and are in need of the as
istance and protection of the husband and father
We further believe that said prisoner has beer
sufficiently punished for the crime with which
he was charged. if any he has com mitted, about
which we have very grave doubts.
Respectfully submitted,
35-5t w. w. BLAYLOCK AND OTHERS.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-12-29
Commissioners Sale.
W. R. Cunningham, ct al.
VS., No. Z994.

VS., No. 1894.
E. D. Cunningham. ct al.
By virtue Of a decree Of the Honorable
Chancery court Of Lee county, state of r4ssis-
sippi, rendered at the October term. A. D.
1911 thereof, ordering a sale Of certain lands
mentioned therein, Norbin Jones, the under
signed. appointed Commissioner. to execute
said decree, will, on Saturday, December 30th
1911, expose at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash in front Of the court house
door in the city Of Tupelo, within legal hours,
the following described land t-owit: Begin.
ming at the northwest corner Of the Academy
LOT in the town Of Shannon, Miss, and running
thence north 216 feet TO a stake, thence east
140 feet to a stake, thence north 20 feet to a
stake, thence east IS feet to a stake, thence
north 20 feet to a stake, thence east 279 feet
to a stake, thence south 255 feet to a stake,
thence west 404 feet to the place Of beginning,
and more fully described as being situated in
the southwest one-fourth Of section IL. town.
ship IL, range 6, east III the town Of Shannon,
Lee county. Mississippi. Together with the
appurtenances and Entertainments thereunto
appertalning.
NORBlN JONES, Commissioner
Dated 5th day Of December, 1911.
Clayton, Mitchell & Clayton, Soils for Defts.
c. P. Long, Sol. for Complts.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-12-29
Notice.

To the Banks Of Lee County. Mississippi:
You are hereby notified that at the Regular
January meeting Of the Board of Supervisors
Of said county, it is the intention of the Board
to create a County Depository, under the pro
visions of Chapter 1877 of the Acts Of the Leg
~islature Of 1910, and for that purpose the
Board will, on the first Monday of January,
let a contract with the Bank in said County
which makes the highest and best bid for the
keeping of the funds Of said county for a term
of one year, beginning January 1st, 1912, and
ending January list, 1913. No bids of less
than two per cent per annum on the average
daily balance kept on deposit in such depos-
itory. Bids should be sealed and filed with
the clerk of this Board on or before the first
day Of January, 1912.
B. F. PARKER, President.
NORBIN JONES. Clerk.
Tupelo, Miss, Dec. E, 1911.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-12-29
A CURE For CARE.

DO net worry: trust instead!s
That Is what the Master said.
And 1t cannot be denied
That his teaching. when applied.
Proves a sovereign cure for care
Lightens brudens anywhere.
Heather men who never heard
OF the Masters restful word
May be pitied II they let
Anxious thoughts their spirits fret,
But disciples all may learn
OF the Master to discern,
That, while God doth reign above,
Providence" means Watchful love.
The Tupelo journal., 1911-12-29
For Sale.

NV home on Jefferson street Mod
ern ten room: two story house, with
modern improvements. Lot l O5x3H
feet. w. X. Wilson, Tupelo, Miss. 35tf
The Tupelo journal., 1911-12-29
..ssl. a Question Of Economy.

Rafferty," said MI. Doian. do you
think there's anythin' at all In this
talk about locomotive engines runnin'
on wan rail?"
Il dunno. II the expense OF steel
rails is as bad as some people say.
mebbe they'll have to-"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04

While the result of DR.. Stiles in.
Vestigation into the alleged relation
between the lint of cotton mills and
the condition among southern mill
workers is what practical mill men in
the north expected, it is nevertheless
gratifying to have the assurance of a
recognized expert that there is no
basis whatever for the claim advanced
In the south that the condition was
due to lint rather than to the hook
worm, says the Manchester Union. DR..
Stiles caused an investigation to be
made in many New England mills, and
of the results he says: "As the New
england mills are using southern cot
ton, and as the mill hands are breath
ing in the same kind Of lint as are the
southern hands, these observations
give proof of the error of the popular
idea that the condition OF the latter
mill hands is due to the breathing in
of lint" He says further that such
an array Of data is now ON hand not
in harmony with the lint theory that
when all facts are published it is be-
lieyed public opinion will of necessity
undergo a change. Hook-worm dis
ease Is due entirely to soil pol
luton
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04
DEATHS HEAD IN THE PULPIT.

An extraordinary story comes from
Geblingen, a small town not very far
from Metz. 1t reads like parody OF
Hamlet in the pulpit. The priest
Of this place had been worked into
state of great indignation by the loose
attitude towards sacred things dis
played by the youth Of both sexes De-
longing to his parish. A short time
ago when mass was over the priest
appeared in the pulpit determined 10
read his flock a severe lesson. From
under his robe he produced a SKULL
and, to the terror of the congregation
held it up before them. Then he De-
gan to address the grim relic.
Art thou the skull Of a maid or OF
a youth?" he asked art thou nus
band or a wife? Didst thou live IN
Geblingen? Are any Of thy relatives
in this church? Vert thou a drunk
ard? Art thou in heaven or in hell?
Then after a pause he again address
ed the skull eff thou art in he'll
give me no answer" The preacher
received no answer, a proof that the
former owner of the skull was in hell.
Weak-minded people tainted, and at
the conclusion Of the sermon the con-
gregation filed out pale and excited.
and not likely to forget that particu'
lar sermon for a long time.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04
CAT NURSING A RAT

Cats and rats are commonly regard
ed as inevitable enemies, but a story
comes from Scotland of an instance in
which this hatred has given place to
warm affection. The other day while
potatoes were being lifted in. Glen
feshire Forest, near Kingussie, one of
the workers came on rats nest con-
taining number of young ones These
were promptly dispatched with the ex-
ception of one, which the finder re-
tanned. Shortly afterwards the baby
rat was adopted by a cat which at
the time was nursing kittens. Instead
Of devouring the rat, as one would
expect, pussy quietly gave it place
beside her own offspring, bestowing
upon the newcomer as much care and
affection as she formerly devoted to
her own family. At the time of writ
Ing. the rat was still under pussy's
ma ernal care.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04
BOYS EXTRAORDINARY CRIME

An extraordinary crime has been
committed in country place in
France by a small boy, nine years of
age, who killed his baby brother only
ten months old because, he said, the
baby cried too much. The two chill
dren were in a farmhouse, whilst
the mother was lying on the floor un-
conscious from drink. The boy was
in another room with the baby. A
neighbor happened to pass, when the
boy ran out to him, and said, Il think
that baby is dead When the neigh
Dor entered he found the child dead in
the cradle with it's skull smashed,
and about twenty knife-cuts. The
boy first said that the baby had fallen
and struck it's head against the wall,
but when closely questioned the blurt-
ed out that he had killed his little
brother He was trying to sleep, he
said, when the baby started to cry
He was unable to quiet it, and then
he got angry, and struck 1t on the
head with a hammer, besides stab
bling it with a table knife all over the
body.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04

Mayor Fitzgerald has received from
the Boston Home and Social associa
ton a draft of proposed curfew ordi
nance, which provides, among other
things. that IN engineer at city hall
shall blow a whistle each evening at
R:50 o'clock to warn children under IL
years of age to hasten to their homes.
The proposed ordinance provides that
all children under IA years shall not
loiter or remain upon any street, high
way, park, square, thoroughfare or al
ley in the business section of the city
after nine o'clock at night, says the
Boston Globe. A fine Of FIVE dollars Is
provided for violations.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04
DWARF AND GIANT BEES

In some of the East Indian islands
and on the mainland of Hindustan are
to be found the smallest race of honey
bees in the world. These dwarf honey
collectors are known to entomologists
as Apis fIorea. Their honey combs are
no larger than child's hand, and the
cells are about the size OF small
pin head. This honey is excellent, as
is the wax The little creatures build
the combs on the branch Of low tree,
and as they have not to provide for
winter they work all the year through,
raising broods like themselves.
In this same land there is q race
of giant bees, Apis dorsata, as large as
field crickets. These monsters Of the
bee world build honey combs that are
from six to seven feet in length, four
or more feet in width, and which weigh
from 800 to 400 each.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04
NEW USE FOR BEEHIVE HAT.

Two young smartly dressed Partisan
ladies, wearing large beehive hats, ar
rived at Bellegarde the other night in
the Geneva-Paris express. They de-
clared nothing and ostentatiously
opened their baggage at the depot.
An official, however, noticed that they
seemed to experience much difficulty
in balancing their large hats on their
heads, and the ladies were requested
to pass into a private room, where
their headgear was examined. The
roofs of the beehives contained not
honey, but saccharine packed in an
alright box fitted ingeniously into the
hat. On the ladies paying heavy
fine they were allowed to continue
the journey minus the saccharine, but
retaining their hats, which might have
been confscated also.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04
IN NORTHERN cLtMEs.

II. G. Wells thinks that some day
anere VIII be universal flight from
our northern climate to live through
ahe winters in the south. That time
VIII never come. For the person born
IN the northern climate that is best.
Tihe monontony of tropical life is op-
presslve; every day the same: no
arosts, no freeze, no icy blasts-this is
a sad lot. The particular commenda-
tlon or the tropical life is that it is
mostly, outdoors; that one gets pure
air and sunshine. But one can get
THESE things in the north and in a way
enat makes them real. The bedroom
window can always be open. The house
may De Kept temperate, IS to 70, an !
moist, says the Ohio State Journal.
ihen one can robe himself and strike
out into the keen air with a relish.
These are better than a monotony of
warmth. There is the variety of life
IN the northern cline, somewhat that
gives 1t spice and zest. That is the
secret of our civilization. It is what
makes man get a move On himself.
Let one walk along the woodland ways
OF the tropics as the sun goes down,
and feel all the soft luxury of the
event, and the experience is not half
as grand as when one puts on his
great coat and dashes out into a big
sunlIt morning, when the thermome-
ter ls ten degrees above zero, and
the crisp air makes the blood fairly
shout for joy.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04
Brutal
Bull Fights
i'm Old
Mexico
By &c. THOMPSON

baseball fan when the horses and bull
20 heap there is chance Of bood's being spilled
fight satisfy myself to actual conditions and to
there
IS purely one-sided affair.
bull chance and realize its predicamen
short and tries to escape its ormentors.
horse and from work and abuse bindoded
eve only the BULL the of
He compelled carry his rider long he stand up
being goed maddened BULL injured MORALLY
to be sent again at some future date
the they have shields behind when the gets
dangerous When there they safe those the
They stay there until other fellow
part Of the ring then bavey walk again help
of the predicament.
Great spo And of our from the attend
ing regularly enjoying with laughter the native
making heroes of the performers
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04
REALIZED FORCE OF LOGIC
posaiblv There Are Other BUSINESS
Men to Whom This Story
Might Apply.

When he left the house SatuIua'
morning Burton yanked at the door
a IL he would pull it off its hinges.
When he could not open it ne star.eu
to grumble until his wife came 70 hi0
assistance.
'eWhat'n In blue blazes is the matter
with the door?" he grumbled, giving
It another powerful yank without De-
ing able to open it.
"The trouble with you, John, DEAR
the wife ventured, lis that you are
always down on everything-doWn III
the mouth-down on the world. Let
me try it."
With a gentle tug upward on the
knob she easily opened the door.
John was about to sputtef out q
sarcastic remark when the force OF
his wife's logic sank into his thick
skull.
81 get it," he exclaimed. Il get the
lesson"
That afternoon when his wife VS.
tied his Office she saw over the cesA
a little motto with the words: me
for the uplift- youngstown Ieie-
gram.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04

day on Novemls Der 4 last. Mrs. Roder-
iguez was born in sangue de los La
COS, Mexico, and has lived in Bakers
field for rs years. Her food is sweet
ened milk and cake and she stays in a
heated room, requiring the same care
that is given an infant. Her hear
ing and ey9sight are practically gone.
She while5 away her time with a
needle, hit of thread and cloth,
and is under the impression that she
is doing }high-class fancy work, an
art at which she was formerly very
efficient.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04
RELIGION FOR BURGLARS

Religion takes strange forms in In.
dia. Sir Herbert Risley, speaking
of the castles of eastern Bengal
at a meeting of the Royal An
chronological Institute, said curious
system of religious worship prevailed
among a caste who were professional
burglars. They made space In the
ground, and a man then cut his arm
and prayed to one of the earth's gods
that there might be a dark night and
that he might succeed in obtaining
great booty and escape capture.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04
HUGE jWHALE is CAPTURED

I'm the days of Captain Cook" and
until (about 1879, whales were very
nlenRiful on the coast of New Zealand,
hut large numbers of whalers were at
traAted there and almost exterminated
thosse huge creatures by killing COWS
and young incidentally. It is there
fod.e interesting to read that 60-foot
night" whale was recently captured
fdur miles off Wellington Port. AT.
tier being harpooned the monster tow
ed the whale boat for rs miles before
! it was killed. Its value was $500.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04

"It is"
am sorrv' detectives showing his but
you accompany the station We have had ee-
gram the sheriff Mcpherson giving full and
address, asking hold you charge of fraud"
He had only been in Mcpherson
night had failed sell his goods had paid his hotel BILL and
following morning At the police station he convinced the
released his
the following which time further details
pected.
When morning telegram
desk from clothing firm at MCPHERSON which read follows:
ness you money! imprson you obtaining goods under
The sender Of the telegram Vance had heard Of
description received Mcpherson the police station
during him. of the and dis
mis- his suspect.
Then Vance began to think He remembered that the train
nearing Mcpherson his the smoker had been dap
young with whom he had exchanged cards. after few minutes
It afterwards had the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04
ADOPTED CHILD OF A QUEEN

In the Princess Mary Village Homes
at Adhesion, Surrey, lives little Rosie
Bloxham, who has the unusual dis
tinction of being the adopted child OF
a queen, Mary of England. On Christ
mas Queen Mary sent the little one
china tea set, together with a card
on which was written in her majesty's
own hand: Rosie Bloxham. from the
queen. Christmas, 1910"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04

Every now and then you hear some
one discussing the weather, say: The
paper said" SO and SO. Now, the pa
pers have enough to answer for with
mt being charged with the mistakes of
the weather bureau.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04

Two Hackensack church deacons are
charged with playing pinocle and both
refuse to resign. Pinocle may seem
like an innocent game. but 1t loses
r,,,cb of this innocence at five cents
a point.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04

II Is the correct thing now in Chi
cage to print the names OF those po-
aicemen who get chance to shoot
hold-up men The latter, however. are
understood to strongly condemn this
form of fulsome notoriety.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04
And in the Meanwhile.

Lady-Can't you find work?
Tramp-Yessum; but every one
wants a reference from my last en-
ployer.
Lady-And can't you get one?
Tramp-No, mum. Yer see, he's
been dead twenty-eight years.-Lon-
don Punch.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04
COLLIE GOOD TROUT FISHER.

Charles Sherwood of Albion, Wis.,,
is looking for expert information as to
how far an owners responsibility ,ex-
tends over a dog that persistently vio-
lates the game laws of the state. Mr..
Sherwood has a collie with a pen
chant for trout fishing He has cuffed
the dog for it, but each time it only
returns with larger fish.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04

Women will be more interested in
the news of that earthquake in Turke-
stan when they learn that Karakol.
where the coats (some of them, any
wayl come from, has also been wiped
off the map.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04
Some Do.

In Brooklyn few weeks ago sun
day school teacher asked his class OF
hopefuls this rather debatable ques-
ton:
who will tell me what is the chlet
end of man."
From the most attentive pupil came
forthwith this answer: ITO glorify
God and annoy him forever
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04

Last summer, while visiting friend on
his ranch in Edwards county, Texas, I ate
goats meat for the first time, and I want
to say that it is delightful dish OF
course it was the flesh of fat young kid,
and not an ancient and tough billy, that 1
helped to dispatch.
] never would have suspected that it
was not mutton had not my host told me
the facts.
People in that remote region raise i'm
mense herds of goats, but scarcely any
sheep, and for that reason roast kid is
very common item of the family menu.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04

When a person with a bad cough
and a red nose and wrapped-up
throat and a general appearance sug-
gestive of the influenza steps up to you
and sneezes in your direction and tells
you how catching the grip is are you
not annoyed?
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04

In London a petticoat manufacturer
claims that he was bankrupted through
adoption of the hobble skirt. How
ever. he mustn't consider himself to
be the only one who has fallen down
on that account.