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The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-02
No Doubt About "Everlasting Fire"

v OOGOb HOOOh ioSh'i9 .
A dentist recently made a new set
of teeth for the bishop of -. He
anxiously watched the prelate as he
examined himself and his teeth in the
pier glass and was startled when he
heard the bishop mutter something in
which he emphasized the fearful words,
into everlasting fire"
The dentist ventured to suggest that
his lordship might feel rather uncom-
Portable at first, but in a little time he
would get used to them.
Without appearing to notice the
dentist, his lordship exclaimed, with
tremendous vehemency, Into everlast-
ing fret'
But, indeed, my lord, if you have
patience" pleaded the dentist, lin a
weeks time or So"
What do you mean?' inquired the
prelate, turning round with a be-
nignant smile. Why should | have
patience? The teeth fit beautifully. 1t
is the first time | have found myself
able to pronounce. the Athanasian
creed with distinctress for these TWEEN
ty years"
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-02
The Doctor and the Farmers Wife.

DR.. Clarence ]. Blake of Boston tells
the following story:
A farmers wife was found too run
treatment. She told him that she and
her young daughter did all the farm
house work for a family consisting of
her husband, two hearty sons and
two hired men. And sometimes when
/ go to bed at night and think over
what's on hand that must be used to-
morrow and what will keep over and
what must be cooked and bought and
all the rest | just wish that my folks
could have their v%ictuals made up into
an inte-ment an rubber into en-
Journa of Home Economics.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-02
rI-UENCY NOT ALWAYS THERE
Even Orators Recognized as Great
Were Sometimes at a LOSS for
the. Right Word.

The difficulties which Demosthenes
surmounted before he became a great
orator are tolerably familiar to most
readers, but it is not so wen known
that many of u modern great orators
did not reel off their speeches as flu
entity as they appear IN print
Henry Clay a never at a loss for a
word, or 'boggledY while speaking.
With Mr.. Webster it was different, and
he often would hesitate and then rub
his nose with the bent knuckles of his
right thumb.
Mr.. Calhoun, when at a loss for a
word, would give a petulant twist at
his large, tu~rned-over shirt collar, and
then run his bony fingers through his
long, gray hair until it stood up like
the hair on an electric toy.
Mr.. Benton would sink his voice and
humble something that no one could
understand, and General Cass would
"Aw! aw!" in the English style. pass
ing his hand beneath the lower edge
of his capacious white waistcoat.
Mr.. Webster was almost invariably
"stuck" when he attempted to use a
Latin quotation, and when Mr.. Everett
was in the senate he used invariably to
appeal to him.
Some of the present day orators have
a very poor delivery, but it does not
really matter. 1t is the of the
speech and not the style that makes an
impression.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-02
Love BY TELEPHONE
BY LUCY eoRToN BARRoWs.-


mol" shouted Simon Barclay IN a
~+hunderous tone, crushing out the
fondest of human hopes, lmmoVanie
as a rock.
His pretty niece, Hetty, covered her
face with her hands and broke down
utterly in a storm of tears.
'Cruel-cruel!" she sobbed.
And a last meeting with this gay
%gallivanting young man-understand?
pursued her callous-souled relative.
You are breaking my hearth"
moaned Hetty, and really believing it.
1T isn't because Ned Monroe is
after your little fortune, as most
young fellows are nowadays"
.'What-what is it, them" faltered
poor Hetty.
IT'S because he's an electrical
maniac. Huh-telephone! Who
heard of such a thing in my young
DAYS? Gossip-breeders. l call 'em!
Worse than that-catering to laziness.
Tried to get me TO put n in my
house. Id like to see EN-! Now I've
said M say. Drop this beau, or III
send you off a thousand miles TO my
sister, where you can't see him
Anticipated, narrow-minded Simon
Barclay had invented a new name
for the most estimable young man in
Redfern. He hated all innovations,
. especially a telephone. There was a
reason. Simon had ~bargained too
slowly in the purchase of a piece of
property he coveted, a shrewd neigh
Dor had got to a telephone n out
bid him. He hated telephones after
that. and Ned Monroe in the bargain,
for was not that energetic young man
the head linesman of the district tele-
phone plant?
Hetty moped around he house all
day. She was disconsolate. If ever a
girl loved a bright intelligent young
fellow, it was she. AS to Ned, she
knew that she was to him as the
apple of his eye. She dreaded meet
ing him, but she was loyal to a prom
Use she had made to her uncle that
there would be no exchange of notes,
no ~clandestine meetings. Hetty knew
that promptly at $50 Ned would pass
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-02
roo HAPPY TO BE SORRY
Wherein Rapturous LoverGiv a New
Meaning to "From Hand to
Mouth"
..To the sweetest girl know:

~ Luc sweetest BIb ! hllON
Il kissed you. Just once, mind, and
the point to be settled is, can a man be
forgiven who doesn't repent? You see,
/ don't pretend to repent. I'm 100
happy to be sorry.
Remember, Roseleaf, | had the soft
light of the conservatory to back me.
and the scent of the Killarneys. There
was a little fountain somewhere,
splashing s%prinkles into a quiet pool
The vIolins back in the ballroom
throbbed the T~ipperary one-step and
the dancers hummed the words. All |
did was to kiss your fingers as they
lay on my coat sleeve.
TT is a long, long way to go, sweet
ness, before a fellow as young as | am
can hope to provide a suitable home for
a wife, your father says. Oh, yes, I've
lust come from seeing him and quite
by accident ! stumbled on to a secret.
Ages and ages ago your father loved
my mother, but wise old %grannies IN
terfered until-Ill tell you the rest
when | come down tonight, if / may
come, and if you-if If we!
"Oh. blossom child. you little flower
maiden, listen! About that kiss, if you
don't forgive me this minute III do
worse yet. III 90 from hand to mouth
That's another phrase your father
taught me.
Till tonight, then, and these roses
to love you every moment. Oh. the Joy
of loving you. Yours forever,
JACK"
Chicago Tribune.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-02
Awaited Orders to Surrender.

During the disastrous war which
the little republic of Paraguay waged
for five years against the combined
forces of Brazil, Argentina and Uru-
quay many heroic feats were per-
formed in honor of the flag. On one
occasion a sergeant intrusted with. the
colors remained at his post though
his comrades all around him were shot
down. Finally he also was wounded
and captured. When asked by his
captors why he had not surrendered
before, as he had no possible chance
of escape, he calmly replied, Il had no
orders to surrender. With him ODE
dience to orders and not self-preserva-
tion seemed to be the first law Of ma
ture.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-02
LEARN FACTS OF HEREDJTY
Spread of Scientific knowledge Has
Shown That Many Wrong Ideas
Have Been Held.

It has been we'll said that ghosts
and haunted houses decrease in fire.
queney in a definite inverse ratio to
the increase of our means of light
ing. No self-respecting ghost will live
in a house lighted with electricity, in
which the person who should receive
the ghostly visitant with due awe can
Just lean quietly out of bed, touch a
button and flash the whole room full
of light. The candle-lighted dwelling
was the favorite ghostly haunt. The
same is true of the specter Of the
heredity of disease. The more light
is thrown on the subject the less sig
nificance heredity has.
This is confirmed by a recent care
full study in detail of the spread of
tuberculosis in five counties in Min
nesota made by an expert for the
state department Of health. Tuber-
culosis is proved once more by this
study, as shown in the current public
health reports, to be an infectious
and not a hereditary disease. Only
those catch the disease who are much
exposed to It, and then only when
both patient and those near him are
careless about the infection. There
is no reason for the dread of inherit
ing it, and no good reason for fearing
its contagion if even a few reasonable
precautions are taken.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-02
DR.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
His important Medical Discovery
Should Be Recorded in His
Memorial.

There has been a suggestion that
in a memorial to DIR. Oliver Wendell
Holmes some worthy recognition be
made of his Incompatible service to
mankind in the discovery and propaga-
ton against obstacles that would have
deferred a less honest and sympa-
thetic mind of the cOntagiousness Of
childbed fever and its remedy. Lay
persons and unfortunately many in
the profession are nawar of this
epoch-making discovery by "a man
whose memory is beloved and hon
ored for his literary attainments
only. A disease which consigned
thousands of recent mothers to I'M
timely graves was suddenly deprived
of it's malign prevalence by the dis
covery of Doctor Holmes that it a
contracted by contact with the doc
tor or nurse and that simple precau-
lions by them would prevent its oc-
c%urrence. Prosecuted in his w
country by the ridicule of great pro-
fessors in that speciality, Holmes pur-
sued the even tenor of his way until
his idea was accepted in England.
Thence it was carried to the con-
tinent, where it was taken up by q
Hungarian physician who reduced the
mortality in the Vienna hospitals enor-
mously. To the latter his countrymen
have erected a monument in Buda-
pest, and annually homage is paid to
his memory, while. Holmes is barely
remembered in the United States for
this scientific discovery, which it is
said he valued more highly than hif
literary fame.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-02
He Knew.

A teacher in a children's institution
was giving the geography class a les
son on the cattle ranches. She spoke
of their beef all coming from the
West, and, wishing to test the chill
dren's observation, she asked:
And what else comes to us from
these ranches?"
This was a poser. She locked at
her shoes, but no one took the hint.
She tried again:
What do we get from the cattle
besides beef?"
One boy eagerly raised his hand.
II know what it is, it's tripe," he
announced triumphantly.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-02

Reason cannot show itself more
reasonable than to cease reasoning on
things above reason.-Sir P. Sidney.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-02
For Bailif

FIRST DISTRICT
L. T. HOLLY
SECOND DISTRICT
j. S. KEITH
ARNOLD HILL
C. A. KEYS
LICE BURNS
: THIRD DISTRICT
JOHN FILGO
r. H. A
JACK FORD
IVES GARNER
j. E. CARR
l.. l.. LAMB
FOURTH DISTRICT
7. E. HUFFMAN
T. F. KYLE
J.. C. COGGIN
MARK MONTS
j. B. GIBSON
E. M.
FIFTH DISTRICT
j. w. BUTLER
SAM p. YOUNG
G. b. MCNEESE
BOB
CLAUDE ROEBUCK
G. B. JOHNSON
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-02
For Justice of the Peace

SECOND DISTRICT
j. P. YOUNG
H. G. GRUBER
w. C. SHACKLEFORD
j. l. PHILPOT
THIRD DISTRICT
A. W. HALL
JESSE WADE
t G. w. RITTER
j. M. BILLINGSLEY
j. Y. CUMMINGS
M. l.. COOK
FOURTH DISTRICT
]. M. SAMPLE
F. w. E
FRANK B WEST
D. L. PHILLIPS
JOE S. COOPER
A.. G. MCVAY
FIFTH DISTRICT
KEITH N
d. B. MCGAUGHY
w. j. IVEY
j. w. SULLIVAN
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-02
For County Treasurer
For Supervisor

FIRST DISTRICT
E. F, BRISTOW
j. w. YARBROUGH
B. F. PARKER
A. &. KELEUM
@. P. NORTON
SECOND DISTRICT
WILL MILAN
ARTHUR PEACH
T. NJ. MARTIN
JOHN F. BARRETT
A. S. PARHAM
j.. H. HOLLOWAY
ELY BYNUM
THIRD DISTRICT
W. T. POUND
F. F. FILGO
FOURTH DISTRICT
S. S. YOUNG
BEN GREGORY
w. D. MCGAUGHY
j. VANCE MCFARLING
HUGH B. COBB
A. j. KENNEDY
FIFTH DISTRICT
/. B. COGGIN
M. E.. CONWILL
W. r. D. HAIRSTON
+. c. LANGSTON
JOHN RILEY JOHNSTON
w. A. MONTS
j. w. BATTLE
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-02
ANNOUNCEMENT

ANNOONCEME NIS
The Journal is authorized to announce
the following named gentlemen as can
didates for the Offices under which
their anne appear, subject TO the &C.
ton of the Democratic Primary, 1915
For District Attorney
j. K. RANKIN
JULIUS E. BERRY
For Senator, 38th District
N. E. BLACKWELL
EB GARNER
T. X. BOGGAN
r. L. HARRISON
F. A. GREEN
For the Legislature
R. L. SHANNON
J. S. HOWERTON
p. E. CAROTHERS
RICHARD WHARTON
F. l.. KINCANNON
w. V, MlTTS
For Floater Representative.
R. S SHEFFIELD
{. A. GILBERT y
For Sheriff
WILL INMAN
OSCAR T. TRAP
JOHN B. RAINS
t. N. LYLE
W. D. BROWN
jim BUTLER
GEORGE w. GREEN
j. w. HOYLE
For County Attorney
q SAM P. LONG
- JOHN BOGGAN 4
ST JOHN r. ANDERSON
For Chancery Clerk
JOHN M. WITT
JOHN G. KELLY
For Sup't Education
THOMAS M. MILAN 4
For Circuit Clerk
w. W. THOMPSON
S. D. SHELTON
GEO. w. LONG
j. P. BOOZER
For Tax Assessor
c. r. DAVIS "a
SAM BURT
BOB KELLUM I
TOM G. MONAGHAN
GEORGE w. LOVE
For County Treasurer
CHARLES A. PORTER
N. L. REEDY
TOM LLOYD
JNO. M. BILLIARD
c. H. NEWBERRY
For County Surveyor
j. A. GLADNEY
w. A. DOZIER
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-07-22
TAKES WAR LIGHTLY
Russia Shows Little Evidence OF
Great Conflict.
Determination to Win and Break Ger
man mIlitsrlsm Is the Spirit Of the
Cars People-No End to
His Armies.
BY SLOAN GORDON.

Correspondent OF tne Nnicabo NeWs'
Petrograd. Russia.-How the great
war has drained the human reservoirs
OF France-how the boulevards OF
Paris are manless wastes; how the call
to arms has taken male Germans from
the farms and the villages and the
cities; how rare are men OF fighting
age upon the streets OF Budapest and
Vienna. and how, even In London,
there is noted marked falling OF
in the number OF visible male beings
all these evidences OF the effects OF
international blood letting have been
set forth in countless columns in the
newspapers OF America for months.
That the stories are true OF those
German and Austrian and French and
even British centers there can be no
reasonable ground for doubt-the nu.
merous authorities attest their accu-
racy. But It may be set down that
this is not true Of Petrograd. To all
outward appearances in this war cap
ital there is no war. There are evi.
dences here and there of great milf
tary activity. There are daily drills
upon the public squares and there are
Red Cross signs in great profusion.
But OF men, or. rather the absence OF
men--there is no such thing.
Great, mysterious, brooding Russia
the unfathomable Russia-goes
about her daily ways with noncha-
lance that is battling TO the western
mind Her streets are crowded-the
streets OF oetrograd and OF Moscow
and even OF Warsaw, where the Tight
ing lines are but a few miles distant.
Tens OF thousands, literal hordes OF
men OF all ages jostle and crowd along
the famous Nevsky Prospekt from
morning until night and far into the
night. The hotel lobbies are iammed
with men and women in furs and
hnery.
rs Il always like this?" exclaimed
an American who has spent many
years in Petrograd and other parts Of
Russia. in response to inquiry, We'll,
lust about | wouldn't know there was
war going on II 1t weren't for the
newspapers.
Russia" he continued. lis going
about this war business with an air
of confidence that ! have never seen
before. II is not quite the same con-
fidence that your typical Britisher dis
plays, the sort we always associate
with the English and which has been
variously classed as bullheadedness.
arrogance. egotism and plain nerve.
II is none Of these with Russia. 1t
is merely a concrete national example
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-07-22

Quoted" After giving holy communion
10 200 officers and men within a mile
OF the German lines. in a schoolroom
the roof OF which had been taken on
by a shell, he was told at the end Of
the service $50 men and officers from
other regiments were outside asking
for their Easter communion.
Guns were booming hard by and
British aeroplanes we're circling like
guardian angels over the service to
guard the attractive target OF 1000
men and officers with the Bishop OF
London in the middle.
1T made a scene that was very i'm.
pressive," said an eyewitness.
France is not alone In its fighting
priests. Reports at the Vatican on
October indicated that there we're
$4,000 ecclesiastics serving with the
Belgian, French and Austrian armies.
Russia contributed several thousand
priests and Germany has several thou.
sand pastors in its ranks.
In fact, so great is the number Of
priests engaged that Emperor William.
acting on a petition of Cardinal Hart
mann Of Cologne, ordered that French
Catholic priests who entered the ranks
as French soldiers and we're taken
prisoners should be treated in the
same manner as French soldiers.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-07-22
DEVOTED HIS TO GOOD WORK
oevout Little Johnny Would Give His
Penny to Buy Bibles for
Poor Kids.

The little visitors at Aunt Mary's
we're Helen, age six, and John age
four. They played keeping grocery
under the piano, envelopes, books and
other articles representing the stock
in trade. They took turn about as
grocer and customer. The grocer bore
the name OF Mr.. Popcorn.
"Mr. Popcorn" said Helen, have
you any rabbits this morning?"
"Yes'm." answered the polite grocer.
"Are they nice and fresh?"
"Yes'm."
Then you may give me a good, big
fat one for 15 cents"
During a lull in the grocery trans
actions Aunt Mary gave each OF the
visitors two cents-two cents In real
money.
"And what are you going to do with
the money!" asked Aunt Mary.
I'm going to put my two pennies in
the bank" said Helen.
"And l." said John, "Tll buy candy
with one penny"
"And what will you do with the 9TH
er penny?"
And John, who has been impressed
by the missionary talks at Sunday
school, answered.: I'm a-goin' to give
1t to buy Bibles for poor kids. s."-Provi-
dence Tribune.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-07-22

OF what is really underneath the sur.
face-a Russian individual character
istic. Your Russian is fatalist in
great crises. When It comes to
something really big he settles down
to an imperturbable calm, shrugs his
shoulders. and takes his medicine"
That the general attitude OF Russia
toward the war has changed since hos
tilities began Is testified to by those
who have observed.
In the beginning OF the war" said
one OF these observers, a Russian mer-
chant with large interests in Petro-
grad and Warsaw, I'VE felt that we
we're fighting only to repulse an en-.
emy-to prevent invasion OF our ter
ritory. There was little show OF bit
terness against the Germans. But Il
Is different now. This war has done
more to make Russians think and TO
draw them together than anything
that has ever happened In the histor,'
OF the country. Today there is a fixed
determination to fight It out to a
finish and to end the probability OF fu-
ture conflict by destroying Prussian
militarism. That may sound strange
TO those who bave looked so long upon
Russia as a military nation, but II
is nevertheless true. A new feeling
of patriotism has been born"
And do you know" he added, much
as though II were a matter OF course
that II is impossible for Russia to
lose-for the allies TO lose this war?
Russian resources OF men and money
are too vast. Why. there are a mil.
lion young men arriving at military
age every year. Russia could lose q
million every II months, which is in,
conceivable, and still keep her armies
In tho field In undiminished number
Russia can feed her armies. and never
feel IT, All the blockades In the world
cannot affect usl We raise our own
food, and can and will make our own
supplies OF every sort. II necessary
We have the money, we have the
men, and, by heaven. we have the
spirit"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-07-22
The Fire Eiend

Mayor Thompson Of Chicago. who is
advising stricter measures to pre-
vent insurance frauds, said:
There are, you know. a great many
business men who in their ideas about
insurance are like Exc.
Tim afraid. father said Exe's son.
this property isn't worth repairing
any more
Very well. son. said Exc. Send,
then. for Smith OF the Marine and Fire
company at once. Let us always bear
in mind the old proverb: What can't
be cured must be insured"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-07-22
DODGE FOE MONTHS.
British Soldiers, Separated From
Command, Have Exciting
Time.
Play Hide and Seek With Germans
for Nine Months, Cross Frontier
Behind Enemy's Lines and
Escape Into Holland.

Rotterdam.-There have just cross
ed the Belgian frontier behind Ger
man lines and come into Holland, six
British soldiers These men we're at
Mons, in the tragic days OF August,
and were cut on from their regiment
in the great retreat. They crept
through the encircling Germans. and,
for nine months, have been fugitives
In France and Belgium, living in fields
and dugouts. They have passed
through experiences probably with
out parallel. playing. through all these
nine months, a game OF hide and seek.
TO have lost which would have meant
summary execution.
James Carrighan told me the history
OF the adventures:
1T was on August 26 that the Ger
bans got round us properly. Our
little lot OF odd men were collected.
and went into one trench. The Ger.
mans are surrounding u.s. said the
captain. Then we heard the call to
Cease fire. Don't mind that, men.
said the captain. A German is sound.
Ing It.
"Se we kept plugging away. Three
times the Germans sounded the call
Cease Are. Then the captain stood
up to send four men out to the flank
He got bullet In the heart and was
killed instantly. then took
command and gave the word to charge
We went at them once. but had to
retire. A second time we charged
got hit In the hip.
THE third time. when we mad an
other go, II was pitch dark We mad
TO come back again, and | found there
were only seven men with me. We
we're absolutely surrounded.
"But we managed TO hide in a ditch
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-07-22
Forced to Make up for Lost Time.

Whenever I'm yur in Kay See."
stated sandstorm Smith OF Rampage.
Okla, who is for the nonce in the
city's midst, Il don't go to bed with
the chickens. by any manner of means.
and yet I'm never triflin' around so
late at night that don't see hundreds
of prominent people scooting through
the scenery in automobiles. Strikes
me that folks y1r are scandalously be-
hind with their riding. kansas City
Star.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-07-22
Prisoners NAV Fish.

Greencastle, Ind.-A fish pond prob.
ably soon will be built on the state
penal farm. according to the trustees,
Deer creek passes through the farm.
and the trustees say they will stock
the stream with game fish. The trus.
tees say they want the prisoners on
the farm to have some recreation.
They are OF the opinion that fishing
win be about as good as any.