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REAL MASTER 1)F LANGUAGES AppH^pnt for Place a^Tutor 8ald He Could Speak Philately Like 4 a Native. Sixty years ^go there appeared in I the iiewgpapers dtaice of the disso lution of a scholastic pdltnership in the neighborhood of ^London, which was signed by one of the teachers of youth with his mark. Disclosures of this sort do nbt often hit one in the face nowadays; abut a northern schoolmaster came near to falling a victim lb effrontery of a somewhat similar character the other day. Being in urgent need of%i tutor, he opened up negotiations with ‘^master of languages” whose inva^ uable services were on offer in the columns of a London newspaper. Could he speak French ? the schoolmaster demanded of this par agon. Oh, yes, fluently. Had he a nodding aqpaintanee with Italiana? Indeed, lie had—was excellently well versed in it, in fact. These answers pleased the school master mightily, but tie was an en thusiastic stamp collector, and pre ferred to have, if possible, a tutor with corresponding tastes; so he tel egraphed the question: “Have you uany knowledge of philately ?” And back came the triumphant answer: “Can speak it like a native, sir!” The negotiations ended abruptly. WHEN WOMAN WAS SOLDIER David Lloyd-George Says That Her Reputation In Battle Stands Very High. They say you cannot make good soldiers out of women. You have never tried. There was a race at one time, I believe, that had ah army of women, and its traditional repute in history stands very high. The women gave up the job; they thought it was better suited to the intellect of men. But after all, men, of course, are better for some tasks; women are better for others equally important. Men make the better soldiers, women make the better nurses. After all, the healing of wounds is a nobler work than inflicting them. What is more, it demands higher quaulities of brain and heart. War, after all, is not a permanent institution. Heaven forbid that it should be. The duel is vanishing, and I think you will see war reced ing along the same dark road. And if women by their presence on the register, saved us from the infamy of a single war they would have jus tified their vote before God and man. And when women get the vote, not merely here, but on the continent, for the movement is not confined to this country, 1 think you will find that the mothers of these great coun tries will see that the fields of Eu rope are not drenched with the blood of their sons.—I.loyd-George's Ad dress at Bath. AFFINITIES OF EXPEDIENCY. Love, like the smallpox, is most dangerous when you take it the nat ural way. Those made matches, which heaven is supposed to have a liana m, wnon placing an unmarried 1 man’s property in tlie neighborhood of an unmarried woman which des tine two people or each other in life, because heir well-judging friends have agreed “They'll do very well; they were made for each other;” these are the mild cases of the malady; this process of friendly vaccination takes out the poisdii of the disease, substituting a more harmless and less exciting affection. —Charles Lever. > NOTHING MORE TO SAY. “John Henry, there is about a half bushel of dirt and ashes to take out of the cellar. I want it done right away.” “Hang it all, can’t you let me alone for a minute, Mariar? That job’ll take half a day.” “John Henry, I’m surprised at you. A little job like that! Uo you know that there are 35,669,715 cubic yards of dirt still to be excavated at Panama ?” “Aw, gimme the shovel!” ORATORICAL IDEAL. ‘That was a fearful long and tire some speech of yours,” said Senator Sorghum. “I was trying to bring my auditors to a state of conscientious introspec tion.” “But you are hardly justified in giving them the third degree.” TALKING LOSES MANY A JOB M*| Succeeds Is Not He Who * 8pends the Working Hous} ^ in Conversation.* Conversation has los^nany a man his job. The man who spends a part of%is working hours in conversation decentralizes his*energies, wedcens his ability to concentrate and p>urs sand into the machinery of the insti tutions The man who puts “the punch” into his work is not the man who gossips with the man at the neigh boring desk, or who hang^. around corridors and corner cigar stores in dulging infidle conversation. The man who makes the toilet room of an office building a social resort never gets to the top of the ladder. The toilet room orator may be popular with the drones of the in stitution, b#t it is always observed that he Itos neither influence nor rvi nnmr f a lntli 1 TTit ia Mnnrnllv tVic kind of man who tries to use a “pull” to get a raise. Failure in life is the result of the abuse of opportunity and malinger ing. It is the man who keeps busy who keeps healthy, and only the healthy in mind and body rise to the top. Some men are so busy looking for help that they forget to help them selves. The only “pull” that counts in getting closer to the goal of success is the “puli’ that comes from per sonal effort on one’s own behalf, abil ity and push. The man who expends his energies in expatiating on the merits of this or that baseball club robs himself of the energy required to seize opportu nities and advance.—The Mediator. BUTTING IN IN DANGER FROM UGHTNING Obaervatorlea on Lofty Mountain* Often Struck If They Ar* > Built In the Snew. One of the greatest dangers to mountain observatories is from lightning. This was illustrated tost year, when the observatory on the summit of Mont Blanc was struck; one man was injured ao badly that he has sinoe died. The reasons for this danger are evident The ground is frozen and snow is a bad conductor of electric ity. This particular building is of wood, buried in the enow. The roof was covered with copper plateB, but the copper is not to be blamed as the building was struck by lightning in 1909 while building and before the copper was put on. Another Mont B1 me observatory,! built in the snow, was struck a few j years ago, with the resut that nails were forged together. This was in spite of a lightning rod supplied with a wire cable to a rock 300 yards away. In spite of additional lightning rods, the shocks continued. On one occasion a visiting guide reported that for two hours and a half he watched ribbons of fire passing hori zontally across one of the rooms. Not'far from these is another ob servatory that in 13 years has never been touched by lightning. Instead of being built in the snow, it rests directly on the rock. Its copper roof and even the stovepipe are connected with the lightning rods, from which conductors lead down into the rocks and are fastened to them. RADIUM IS COMMON CURE Its Application, Chiefly by Drinking and Inhalation, an Established Usage in Germany. Application of radium, chiefly by drinking and inhalations, has now become quite an established usage in most of the German cure stations. T>r. Frumesan, who has visited most of them, has likewise become firmly convinced of the efficaciousness of the radium cure through inhalations, and has gone to considerable expense to set up an installation in Paris. The most effective way of applying the cure is by means of inhalations of radium emanations. For this purpose a comfortable room has been especially prepared. The doors and windows have been thoroughly pad ded and made almost hermetically tight. Accommodation is provided for eight or ten patients, who may take the cure simultaneously. The radium emanation is provided by a “vollinhalatorium,” a device which is already popular and widely used in Germany. The “vollinhalatori um” is a sort of upright tube, stand ing a yard or more high, at the bot tom of which the radium is placed. Special currents of air are forced up through the tube and convey the emanations of radium through the room with the air, which is itself constantly renewed with a spec-cial supply of oxygen. ) HARD TO BELIEVE. _ ( “Think of it, my dear,” remarked Mrs. Emily Streat. looking un from the morning paper she had cabbaged at the breakfast table, “just think of it! This paper says that there are three thousand millions of dollars in circulation in this country!” “Is that so.” responded Mr. Streat, as cheerfully as possible under (lie circumstances. “Well, well! Judg ing from the difficulty I always expe rience in getting you to give me ten cents more than carfare every morn ing, I thought there couldn't be more ' than $3.50 in the whole world.” Conversation languished a good1 bit after that. MELBA AS A WHISTLER. Mme. Melba is to have her portrait hung in the national gallery of her native Melbourne. And another na tive of Melbourne remembers that Mme. Melba, when a pupil at the Ladies’ Presbyterian college, was al ready famous among her fellow pu pils—as a whistler. She could stick two fingers into one comer of her mouth and whistle as long and as loudly as the most accomplished lar rikin. We may be thankful that her early ambitions were shunted. PEACE AND GOOD WILL. Aunt Prue—Wretched boy! What have you been doing? And in the church, too! Choir Boy—Teaching Billy Thwaites he’s not going to Bing “Peace and Good Will” instead of me for nothing!—London Opinion. raXXXKXXXXXXXXXXXXXXRXXXXXXKKXXXXXXXXXXXX |THE COUNTRY STORES | •. . . .WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. ... 1 i . i 1 Through February We Are Going To r i Close Out For Cash. x I THEN OPEN UP FOR CREDIT! | | EVERY PIECE OF WINTER GOODS MUST GO ! g jgj < # # S3 X At the same time we will make some unheard of X X i _ _ _ . X X prices on staple goods, that you use every day: X x .X 3*3--- Jv 3*C Eagle Thistle soda, 8 pounds for... 25c W * Coal Oil, one gallon for. 9c KJ Misses shoes and stockings, one pair each. 90c 0*3 • * ^ Ladies shoes and stockings, one pair each.$1.00 K Men’s wool sox ... 12£c jjj; K _ A *» Men’s Jean Pants.-.. 90c # ^ 3*5 Men’s lean Pants, better grade—. 1.15 £■* Ladies all wool skirts. 1.00 VJ K Men’s and boy’s odd Vests...25 to 50c jjj qjQ Good Buggy Collars.- 50c JXJ w * • K x - ' - K | All Winter Underwear At Cost! f x From Now Until March 1st, For Cash ! | x SAY, BE FRIENDLY! COME IN AND SEE US. x ! LONC HOUSTON CO. I XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX THE JOURNAL -Has Prepared a - • • Containing over One Hundred Pictures of the ^ f ^ | Principal Scenes, Public Buildings and I Residences of the City Which makes a nice present or keepsake. It is gotten up in attractive style and the | price is only § 50 Cents Can be had at the office of the Tupelo Jour | nal, or will be sent upon receipt of price. | HELP BOOST YOUR TOWN ! | ' • — I ' V$f? J\~4 s Wellington—So he has finally suc ceeded in hutting into society ? Swellington—Yes. He ran his auto into the De Wealths’ tally-ho, I believe. UNPOPULAR TAX. Among other unpleasant taxes there used to be a tax upon the Eng lish hearth. In 1G62 it was ordered that “hearth money,” 98 cents, should he collected for each house holder for the privilege of warming Ins feet. This, too, on each hearth fire or stove in his house. It was not a popular tax. It was hard to evade. The tax collector was given power to count the chimneys from the inside of the house, and chimneys, unlike windows, cannot be blocked up and concealed until the assessor has taken their number. The tax was collected with vigor until William III. repealed it, “in order to erect a I lasting monument of their majesties’ goodness in every hearth in the king dom.” NAMING THE BOY. _ Old Jum, gardener and general factotum, was accompanied one day by a bright looking lad eight or ten years old. “Is this your boy ?” I asked. “Yessuh, he mine, de last one I gat suh—Junior, you wuflless nigger, mek you manners ter de white folks!” “Junior,” I commented. “Sq he is named after you ?” “Nawsuh,” the old man replied, rather indignantly; “he ain’ name fur me! My name Jumbo, whar my mammy git out’n de Bible. Dis hyar chile name Junior cuz he wuz bawn in June.”—Lippincott’s. CONSIDERATION. Flubb—Norah, mail this post card and while you are out get me three good cigars. Mrs. Flubb—But you have lots of cigars here. Flubb—AJy dear, do you think it’s | right for me to make the girl go down three flights of stairs merely to moil a postcard ? We must lx considerate of others.