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Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-07-09

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Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-07-09
A Now Railroad.

A new railroad line which will open
up 10000 acres Of hardwood timber
land in Northern Mississippi Is about TO
be constructed by : company consisting
Of H. L. Underwood. OF Birmingham,
Ala, and other capitalists. The total
length OF the road will be about sew
enty-seven miles, and II il to run from
Grenada to Nettleton, to connect with
the Kansas City, Memphis & Birming-
ham, the Mobile = Ohio and the Illinois
Central railroads in that section Of the
State.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-07-09
Heavy Wind and Rain.

A heavy wind and rainstorm visited
Aberdeen last week. A storm swept
through the town and suburbs, blowing
down trees, unroofing houses, and also
damaged and blew down corn to q con-
siderable extent Crop prospects are
very gloomy indeed. caused from the
continued hard and frequent rains and
winds. Farmers are very much behind
and in the grass.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-07-09
A Good Woman Gone.

Mrs. E. III. Fitzpatrick, lady highly
esteemed by everyone, died at Meridian
last week at the advanced age of IS
years. Mrs. Kilpatrick's home was con-
verted into veritable hospital during
the war, and there are doubtless today
many old Confederate soldiers to whom
she ministered who will regret to hear
of her death.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-07-09
Attala County's Primary.

The Democratic primary held in At
tala county last week resulted in the
nomination of j. C. Clark for senator;
representatives, j. F. MeCool and j. +.
Allen; sheriff, G. A. Thornton; chancery
clerk, ]. II. Hollingswortb; circuit
clerk, j. III. Sullivan; treasurer, A. f.
Temple; tax assessor, T. s. Proctor;
superintendent Of education, w. G.
Campbell; surveyor. J. H. Killbrough;
coroner and rangor, w. Fl. Pace.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-07-09
A Paying Crop.

G. L. Butler carried wagon load OF
peaches to Terry last week and received
therefor $50 so. Terry is one Of the
noted peach sections of Mississippi, and
the crop there this year is said to be
excellent.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-07-09

Vicksburg, July 5.-The past week
has been rainy in all sections of the
State, and but slight athount of sum
shine has been received. The tempera-
lures tended to high range, but thun'
derstorms were of almost daily occur
renee, and so tempered the afternoon
heat as to give about normal tempera
lures.
Crop prospects have been unfavorablJ J
affected by the prevailing wet weather
Very little farm work has been done
during the week, and the grass, already
bad in most localities, has continued tt
spread in the fields. Cotton is not TAX
ing on proper growth, going too much
to stalk and presenting weedy appear
ance. Some reports of rust and lice are
made, but are not general. Dry and
sunshiny weather is badly needed fol
this staple.
Reports on corn are still of very sat
isfactory nature, although the amount
OF rain generally received has exceeded
the requirements of that crop. Some
lowland corn has been injured by the
rains, and high winds accompanying
thunderstorms have done some damage
by blowing down the stalks.
Good yields of hay are reported from
the interior portions Of the State.
Minor crops have been more or less
unfavorably affected by rains, yet the
reports are by no means discouraging
Tomato shipments are showing a de
crease in the vegetable districts, and
melons are coming in their turn. Fruit
continues in excellent condition. Plant
ing of sweet potatoes and peas has beer
carried on during the week.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-07-09
Falling on In valuation.

The compilation of the personal as
sessment rolls of Kinds county has just
been completed and shows falling off
in valuations of nearly is per cont Last
year the personal assessments amounted
to 81, ,9s2, 4s1, and for this year to only
81, ,69l, ,315. decrease OF $291, 1855. II the
reduction all over the State is in the
same ratio it will amount to upward OF
So, 600. 900. The personal assessments
have been showing . steady decrease
since 1898. That year the total assess
ment was s47, ,24o, 160, and for 1864
s4a, 74o, ,o7s, total loss OF %, ,so1, ,o01.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-07-09
Fell Dead.

Miss Molhe Hay was found dead at
Wesson last week in the garden near
the residence occupied by her and her
only sister, Miss Jennie. She had been
sick for about one month. 1t seems that
she was in the garden cutting weeds
from under peach tree and fell dead,
as there were no signs OF her having
moved after falling. She had not been
seen by the neighbors for about three
hours. A coroner's jury was summoned
and rendered verdict of death from
heart failure, from which most of her
close relatives have died.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-07-09
A MOUNTAIN COURTSHIp
BY W. j. LAMPTON.

Q s A N STEBBINs
was by all odds the
best looking girl on
Grassy Lick, without
b e ! n g retaaTka bly,
beautiful. for beauty
is not a n o t 1 C e.
able characteristic of
mountain women, old
or young, and how
she had ever come to
marry Lem Skaggs
was q wonder to me,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-12-27
ELLEN osBORN's LETTER.
Hints That Bustles Are Creeping
on Us Unawares.
The Girl with the Chateiaine-This Years
sleeve and Last Years Coat-Bicycls
Clothes for Skating-win Psniers
Come Again.
COPYRIGHT, 1898

After all, even the Vatican sheperd-
esses, herding their fiocks in aeecy
finery, under pictured skies which re.
manned conveniently rainless - even
they wore bustles-of wool.
Which from our pretty lambs we'll
pull perhaps, or all of the lightest down
compact; one can't imagine them using
woven wire or any such horrible con-
trivance of the age of steel.
They say that bustles are coming in
again. hesitate to believe it, and
hope that the tentative beginnings of
them which our eyes can't help seeing
will not grow to such monstrous pro-
portions as some of us-alas!-are old
enough to remember, but will remain
at least as innocuous as the horsehair-
lined skirts which are all that are left
us from the crinoline panic.
In way, the things go together. The
stiff wide skirts we have now look none
the worse for the insidious bit of full
ness at the back, and so little by little
the thing might grow again to tie an
cient horrors; but
Pleasanter to think upon are the tri-
fies of scissors, purse, thimble lockets
and the like-in useless silver all
which hang from beauty's waist. Even
while skating one wears the jingling
chatelaines, so that a skate key, if she
needs it, is one of the most appropriate
bits of brlc-a-brac. Whatever. there
may be thus dependents, it must'be lit
tie and of silver or gold, solid and set
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-12-27

&C the shoulders, falling well over the
sleeves; Il is an interesting example of
the use of materials that would once
have seemed dissonant that the low
neck of dressing gown may be Dor
dered with feathers quite as appropri-
ately as with lace. Show gowns are
also made with neck ruffies of roses or
violets anchored to the low bodices by
straps Of velvet, black usually, to show
OF the soft wilderness of the neck.
Whoever has attempted the heart
breaking operation of stufing this
years dress sleeves into last years
coat will not wonder that the favorite
cloak of the season has no sleeves at
all, but gets there just the same by
means of generous cape covering the
huge arm-holes. With such garment
length of skirt is necessity; it may be
trimmed or enlivened with a yoke
say of white satin upon dahlin velvet,
and sparkling jet upon the satin-bor-
dered with bands Of fur which diverge
ell the way down it's length to the
ground. Such cloak will have at the
collar a roll of fur so high that the
wearer can with difficulty look over II.
The problem of wearing this years
cloak over next years gowns won't
present itself, if one INDUCES in one OF
these perishable glories of satin and
fur and passementerie. 1t seems like
conspiracy on the part of the milliners
to bankrupt their patrons; but doubt
less milliners have seemed always to
be doing that since long before Napo-
leen locked up Empress Josephine's
most subtly successful modiste in a
fit of desperation at her bills, bills,
bills!
The combination of green and blue
of not greatly dissimilar density of
shade is one of the seasons ways,
which is rather trying to those of dull
color sense.
Bicycling is easily possible in most
parts of the country during some por
ton of every month in the year, but un-
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-12-27
DIDN'T NEED A DICTIONARY.
Minnesota Teacher Who Was His Own

Minnesota Teacher Who Was His Own
Lexicon.
Agood story comes from Meeker coun.
ty and has TO do with a well-kuown
country school district there. When II
came time last summer TO hire teacher
the local board discovered that there
were two applicants, both young men.
As 10 salary there was no difference be.
tween them, but the second one in.
sisted that if he were employed the
board should provide a dictionary for
the schoolroom. The first one made no
such demand, and said that he would
De well able to get along without die.
tionary. As he expressed it, il was use.
tui only IN the matter of defining words
and giving their pronunciation. No.
! got the school. The other day the
board made its first visit to the building
Everything went well for the first /;
minutes, but finally a red-headed,
freckled-faced youth in the rear of the
room held up his right hand and
snapped his fingers in very energetic
manner.
What is il, Charlie?" asked the
teacher.
81 want to knoy how to pronounce q
word" said Charlie.
Spell it," replied the teacher.
Charlie, in loud voice, spelled on,
the word vocabulary"
Vocabulary" responded the
teacher, placing the accent on the
"bull," and he added as to its meaning:
"Appertaining to horned cattle"
The board cut short its visit and ID
now looking for new teacher and get.
ting ready to buy an unabridged die.
tionary.-Minneapolis Journal.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-12-27
FOWLS IN WINTER.

An Excellent Heater end ventilasDr for
Poultry Houses.
Among the many plans now in use for
warming the poultry house, the heater.
illustrated below, supplies heat and
ventilation. or supply of fresh, warm
air. Any kind of a fiat top stove. or
even kerosene stove will give sufficient
heat. The size of the stove should de.
pend on the size of the house, but 40 de-
grees is sufficient heat. The illustration
shows closed box a yard square and
an inch deep, made Of ordinary sheet
iron. The box or heater is placed on q
small stove, or if legs are attached to
each corner of the heater, q lamp may
be placed under it. The cold air comes
In at A, passes through the box, be-
coming heated, and energies at the pipe
d. The cold air pipe is one-half inch
In diameter, and the warm air pipe one
inch. The pipe A should be long enough
to extend through the walls to the OUT
side, SO as to bring in the pure air. No
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-12-27

y
Upper and lower forehead, root and
ridge of the nose, root and dimple of the
upper lip, and all the other features
were measured, compared and calcu-
lated. As result of the inquiry, it
was found that,no great deviation from
the average measure existed, except in
those who were unnaturally emaciated
through illness or who had suffered
from unnatural fairness.
The final estimates given to Herr
Setfner to guide him in his task were
the normal measurements of eight
healthy men between so and ~ years of
age, with the maximum and the mini
mum of each. With this group of facts
before him, the sculptor again set 10
work. Adhering closely to the meas
urements supplied to him by Prof. His,
he constructed face in plaster over the
cast taken from the skull. That face,
when completed, was found to be an ex-
act likeness of the musician. More
over, it proved to be endowed with that
convincing quality which belongs to
great masterpieces, and which immedi-
ately compelled those who saw it to ex-
claim: How lifelike 1t isl"
The church wardens of Leipsic have
decided to lay the remains Of Bach in
the church Of ST. John, and they are
now collecting funds to erect In it, as
soon as the building is completed,
monument to his memoryC The pic
tures' illustrating this accoS Ct of the
Identification of his remains we're taken
from the report by Prof. His to the
council OF the city of Leipsic, giving
the final judgment of the committee
appointed to make the investigation,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-12-27

I'll spring 1t can hardly hope to be a
leader. The bicycle gown does very
we'll for skating; and the question nat
urally arises, as they say in the grad
nation essays, whether the bicycle
boomers also will do on ice. They, or
something like them will certainly be
worn, but not, think, In very large
numbers. Indeed. eSn for bicycle use
the baggy boomers are not making the
progress their friends had hoped.
Chiffon and tulle are inexpensive and
docile materials much in use by the
young folks for ball dresses. Freshness
is SO necessary in an evening gown that
there is a general disposition to avoid
In their construction the use of very
expensive materials, except in the case
OF women no longer at an age when
much dancing allures. The curious use
Of fur and feathers in all sorts of unlike
ly places and ways creeps in even here,
and the necks and Jokes of ball gowns
are apt to be bordered with it. The low
square, neck opening is the favorite.
Diminutive puffs at the sides which NAV
develop into paniers cause some uneasi-
ness. If we are to have Vatican
shapes, bustles and the like, paniers
VIII doubtless be in keeping with them.
All women are Frou Frous now, but
the rustic Is the hissing of silken petit
coats, not the crackle of starch.
An evening wrap of satin lined with
stamped velveteen seems like revers-
ing the usual order of things.
ELLEN OSBORN,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-12-27

with tiny stones if ones purse be long
enough. Gems glitter, too, in the gold
tiligree of the high comb which ladies',
young and old, wear with such cosuet.
fish effect.
The "beefeater hat" has become o
stovepipe, low crowned and dccked,
perhaps, on one side with high flaunt-
ing plume. Such hard and glossy
bit of picturesque ugliness looks we'll,
seen as | saw it to-day surmounting
G skirt of green cloth with white kid
piping and border of black astrachan;
a black astrachan coat faced with the
kid all down the long lapels, and high
collared blouse underneath of shot
green and blue silk, with an applique of
fine lace down the front; and demure-
ly pretty face above the beloved and
beribboned stock collar. The piping
of white kid is carried through all the
seams of the black jacket and let me
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-12-27

Friend-How are you coming on?
Author-Good. I've got the material
on hand for first-class novel.
"You are lucky man."
That's not ALL I've got the material
for a splendid comedy besides"
"You are fortunate"
"Yes; all need now is the material
for a new pair of trousers. "-Pearson's
Weekly
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-12-27
It PAYS to Preserve Forests.

The farmers wood pile and the prob
lem of American forestry preservation
are intimately connected. In New Eng
land much of the old forest growth has
been cut off and saplings and young
trees now take the place of the giants
of the forest. 1t will pay in dollars and
cents to use great Judgment in selecting
wood for fuel. Cut out undesirable va
rieties of wood, fallen trees. broken
branches and begin careful system of
forest growth. Lumber will before
long be obliged to advance in value be-
cause of its growing scarcity, and al
ready forest tracts are being bought in
several sections as an investment.
Farmers, save your forests.-Farm and
Home.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-12-27
bust which bore very striking resem-
blance to the portraits of Bach.

bust which bore very striking resem-
blance to the portraits of Bach.
Still the critics were not content.
Some Of them asserted that the clever
sculptor could form any face he pleased
over any skull that had no gross de-
formities; and to prove their case they
requested Herr Seffner to make bust
of Handel over the skull of Bach. The
sculptor succeeded in producing per-
feet external likeness, but internally.
TO quote the words used by the writer
on the subject, the bust was an anat-
omical lie. The artist had been obliged
TO cover the forehead with a thick layer
of plaster, and to leave the chin bone
(where in life the flesh is thickest on
the human face) almost bare. Obvious
~ likeness produced in such fashion
was a mere monstrosity.
The professor and the sculptor. en-
couraged by this result, setabout their
task ohce more. They were obliged to
take up the subject practically from
the beginning. The possibility Of iden-
tifying skulls had indeed been much
discussed in Germany during the last
20 years. Thus in 1881 Prof. Kupffer
had studied the skull of Kant; in 1888
Prof. Welcker, the pretended skull of
of Schiller; and more recently skull
found at Menidi, believed to be that of
Sophocles, had been submitted to Prof
Virchow. But in none of these cases
were the methods employed in any way
conclusive; and Prof His and Herr Self
ner had consequently clear field for
their researches.
The question which the sculptor put
to the anatomist, and which lay at
the root of the whole matter, was
this: "Are there certain laws which
govern the exact thickness of the
feshy parts covering the several fea-
lures of the face?" After course of
practical experiments, entered upon
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-12-27

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known that since Bach's death only IL
oak collins had been inferred in the
open ground, and the investigation was
accordingly narrowed at once. On Oc-
toher % the workmen came upon some
pieces of an oak coffin. but the remains
on being examined by Prof. His, of the
Leipsic university. were pronounced to
be those of ayoung woman.
On The afternoon of the same day an
other oak coffin was found, and this
time the remains proved 10 be those of
an old man. They were taken 10 the
dissecting-room Of the university, and
after being cleaned and dried we're aa4.l
out in order on a slab.
The great question 70 be decided
was whether OF not this skeleton was
that of Bach. Attention was al once
concentrated upon the skull. II had
four peculiar characteristics. There
was moderately large brain pan, de-
veloped in broad occipital bone. The
forehead was retreating and the arches
OF the eyebrows so strongly developed
that they formed q ridge over the nose,
which consequently sprang from deep
indentation under this ridge and pro-
Jected at sharp angle from the face.
The eye sockets were rather elongated,
being more broad than high. Lastly
and this was the most remarkable fea-
ture of all-the lower jaw projected be-
yoyI the upper one.
The skull was now compared with the
two portraits of Bach preserved at
Leipsic. These portraits are at first
sight rather dissimilar, but on being ex-
amined closely were found to have in
common precisely those structural fea-
lures which were so strongly marked in
the skull. A collateral piece of evidence
was the fact that a portrait of one Of
Bach's grandsons, who was known to
have closely resembled him, was con-
spicuous for the same slanting line of
forehead noticeable in the skull.
1t seemed, therefore, only reasonable
to conclude that the remains which had
been discovered were indeed those OF
Bahc; but the savants and antiqraries
engaged in the investigation were not
quite satisfied. They were anxious to
obtain still more decisive test; and
1t was while meditating upon this
problem that Prof. His hit upon the
remarkable discovery referred to. He
conceived the idea of reproducing
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-12-27
sTovEPIPE.

say it is, if an old device, still q good
one.
Where the beefeater survives, Il ia
a mere fat pad Of silk, putfed and fiuted
about the edges, not to be recognized
for what it is save by one who has seen
its decline and fall. It is prettier for
the falling, when all is said, almost as
dat as tam, but much richer.
Another popular hat Is perfectly fiat
In the brim and piled high with bill
lows Of ostrich plumes.
A skating gown Of gray corduroy vel
vet above the waist and gray cloth
skirt; the bodice is slashed down each
side, in front, to show a cream white
silk strip, and the edges are defined
from neck to waist by vertical bands
OF fur, and fur also borders the plain
skirt The girdle is gray silk-almost
1t might be red or some SUCH brilliant
note-and the sleeve are belled at the
wrist.
Bolero bodices .ass fitted with Wide
iapels coming down to the waist. In
one design of merit such q bodice sur
mounts plain skirt of glace silk, gold
shot and piped with white satin. The
bodice Is the same silk with wide la
peis, or more correctly revers, Of white
satin frilled with chiffon and appliqued
with yellow lace. The soft vest is frilled
IN many tiny folds and finished with
three big bows of lace. The sleeves
strike an entirely new note. being fig
ured In big designs.
The seasons dressing gown, too, has
angel wings, as these big revers COM
ing quite to the waist might be called.
In some examples they are very wide
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-12-27

In plaster over
u cast of the skull
features carefully
calculated fro m
his knowledge Of
the human anato-
my. This idea he
communicated 10
Herr 6effner. Q 70
m Q as @ erm an
scsliptor. who q
pnee undertook the
taAk, and in swo
dass produced .
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-12-27
DOAD NOTICE.

We, the undersigned, citizens and tax.pa, ers
notice that We intend to petition the Gonntv
commissioners for Frederick County, Mary.
land, after publication hereof for six weeks IN
a s, newspaper published In said county, begin.
December, 1896, for location and opening " q
new public road In Catoctln District, commenc.
ing Tor the same, near Forrest SchooI-house, IN
tne public r ad leading from thence to Wolfs.
p p,nle, ana running through the lands OF Robert
ana others, running to intersect the public
road leading from Mrs. Samuel Brandenburo,s
saw ss mill to Wolfsville, aud making distance
~ ~ aoou, z OF mile. said road TO be not less
Assembly In such cases. NV vi
JOSEPH STOTTLEMYER.
JAMES o. HARNE,
ROBERT Z. PRYOR,
uec' o'H. And Others.