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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

day." Brit went on, "and along indurin
of the week l had took and snapped u
right tolerable good fiddle to Lum
llankins for a long tail blncl, coat--a
reglar Winchester, as Aunt Liza Raj
born use TO say-and six bits TO boot.
That want no rale, genuine, store
bought coat, you understand, From the
best q my recollection | reckon Lum
lIanlins must of got il made outen one
Of his mothers old black dresses. But
ut any rates it was a rcglnr calf wiper,
wind splitter and earth sweeper. But
the general style and cut of my shirts
was so Internal broad and long and
full and bountiful like till burned IL
| had room enough TO wear one with
my coperas breechos--which they did
fit me as snug as a bug in rug-and
there l was, as the man says in the
show.
$50 when Christmas comc-it was n
warm and windy winter day. clutn
into my red leather shoes and them
coperas breeches, pIlled on my long-tail
black coat and bnttoned it up tight
and clost in front NO nobody couldn't
tell for certain that ! didn't have no
signs of such garm@nt-ticd lovely
red handkerchief around my neck
put on my hat and sprinkled a few
cinnamon drops on my hair-hooked
up my little steer, Brindle, TO the cart,
and lit out for IIucklebcrry Ridge with
the higgins and the fiNments on.
"Say, RUFF, don't you remember that
blame little slab-sided, razor-baclI, wob'
steer, which called his
name Brindle, and which ! driv over
to HuckIeberry Ridge that Christmas
day? Well, man, sir, Brindle went
all the gaits and worked anywheres,
single or double, and then he woald also
do his level durndest to eat up every
thing in sight-from hay stack TO
u cord of gum stumps.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02
MUSIC AND MICE.
Suggestion of a Novel Trap-Effect of
Piano Playing on Rodents.

A Suggestion of Novel Trap-Efect of
Piano Playing on Rodents.
Truth, Of London, suggests that as
mice like music there is an independent
fortune awaiting the man who will in
vent small music box which when
wound will run all night, since such d
| continuance would serve to call mice
! into traps and would be to the mice
/ what decoy is to a flock of ducks, or
looking glass to tiger After this sug-
gcstion, which is not untrue to nature,
Truth went on to say that music that
sounds out of killer to a critics ears
would also drive mice from the house.
| If the Truth writer had even actually
seen a mouse under the influence of
music he would never have made that
mistake. Neither would he have said
IAN accordion would also make the
agile rodent desert the house as he is
said to desert the sinking ship"
Whether music affects rats is a ques-
ton not yet settled by students Of
natural history
As to the actual doings of a mouse
when listening to music it has been OBJ
served that the playing of a piano, even
the tum-tum of beginner learning his
first tune, will cause mice of the com
mon house variety to run up and down
behind the plaster of a house, causing
it to rattle in a way fit to disturb the
most earnest student. One night half
a dozen persons were gathered in the
patlor of an Adirondack home, listen
ing to skilled player, who, as a woods
man said, could make pianner talk"
when it was observed that the mice
were acting i'll an unusual manner. The
ordinary conduct of mice when they
hear piano music is to merely rattle tho
plaster, but on this night they squeaked
and squealed and ratified the plaster as
they had never done before. The rush
of the rodents died away after the
music stopped, but it was hours before
the last squeak was heard.
One of the human listeners was boy
who had some little skill as a harmonica
player, and he went frequently to the
woods, where, with the aid of the in
strument, he succeeded in calling chip
hunks, red squirrels, and, on one oe-
casion, woodchuck, besides wood mice
including the deer mouse-and the
smaller birds. The mice chiefly ran
about the player, with now and then
squeak, but sometimes a low strain
with slight modulations would seem to
drive them insane, and then, without
hesitation, they would run over the
player, as if he had been stump. The
squirrels were less demoLstratiye.-
Y. Sun.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02
IT WAS ROUGH ON HIM.
His Nisit to brewery with = YOuas
Lady and the Roault.

Hia Visit to Brewery with YOuas
Lady and the Rosult.
IT WINS at the opening OF big brewery
one day lately, says the Washington
POST The young woman in the seal
skin cape had the air Of one Summing.
The young man wore his Bible-class
manncr. They glanced about with
slightly disappearing interest.
I'm so glad to have seen IT," said
The young lady in the sealsllin cape. at
seems wong to think of so much
money being wasted in manufacturing
beer"
at is wicked" said the young man,
firmly. "There must be great deal
of beer consumed In Washington"
just then round and more than rosy
man with a derby hat awry and large
diamond In his shirt front, came up to
She two.
"Why, WHY" he said MS he graspcd
che young mans hand enthusiastically,
81 haven't seen you for two weeks,
Have you and your lady friend had
something to drink"
Inc young woman shuddcfed. 1 ne
young man shook his head.
well, you'd better get something"
went on that afTable person. Say, it's
good stuff. Why haven't you been into
my place lately2 Got it fixed up fine.
Best beer in town, Say, come round
again I've missed YOU
The young woman in the sealsNin
cnpo walked toward the door The
young man sneaked after her. She
spoke no word, but there was that in
her manner which chilled the maIrow
IN bis bones.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

With that | laughed as had laughed
a hundred times before at Brit Foster
and his Christmas story. And as for
them Texas fellows, they laughed and
laughed till they jest naturally had to
| lay down and roll over in it, But Brit
never could find where the laughin
| part come in, and there was PARKWAY
| solemcholy look on his face as he
breshed the tears from his eyes and
went on with the story:
IF in the fulIness of time it was
! give unto me to live hundred years ]
| never could forgit the ups and downs
of that sad and orful day. didn't have
blamed blessed thing in the round
| created world which | could call my
own eXceptin my little steer Brindle,
and it took my level durndest to keep
from KILN him on the spot.
when | got back home up and told
my Uncle Gritiin-which you remcm.
Der, Rufe, my own dear father was
dead and gone then, and me and moth
CT we had went to live with Uncle Gri.
i told him what had come to pass
and bantered him TO buy my little steer
Brindle. lie laughed at me till it was
4 sin and a scandalation, but finally at
last harnsnoggled him into a trade and
sold him Brindle for seven dollars and
six bits (S725), spot cash.
That night | packed up little wal
let which helt all l had in the way of
this worlds goods eXceptin the torn
and tattered remains of that burned in
fernal OLD long tail Winchester coat,
slipped out of the back window and
down through the orchard and run
away from home. The next day made
it to Bellies Landin down on the Ala
bama river and there | struck a steam.
boat goin to Mobile. l up and told the
captain all about the orful time | had
the day before over on Huckleberry
Ridge, and soon as he could stop laugh
in long enough he told me if | would
promise TO tell my troubles to the crowd
on the boat he would let me ride with
him to Mobile free gratis for nothin
That was a sad and terrible thing for
me to tell, but money was money then,
and the captain was traded with on
the spot.
when l struck the city I was a
plum show to them town folks, and
somehow the gamblers they took TO mo
as quick and natural as a sick kitten to
a pan Of sweet milk. In the run of
time fell in and learnt the game and
went to gallopin with the gang Some
times the documents have come nv
way Rufe, and sometimes they have
run from me like a shot. But accordin |
TO what the Scripture says, everything !
hat goes up must come down.
From the day and night when I left |
he old home and went forth into the |
old world alone, ] never haze went |
pack TO the Panther Creek settlement |
RUFUS SANDERS.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

You must rccolect, Rufe, that in
them plain old days some of Gods own
people lived right down there in the
Panther Creek settlement Most in
generally speakin they belonged to the
Old School Baptjsts-God fearin, debt
Layin, dram drinkin, democratic people
hut they were pore, Rufe, most bella
tt0us pore-wbich / always did main
tain they didn't mean no harm by that
And let me tell you, fellow citizens
money was money then, and it took
some tall scratchin and starYin stintin
10 pay off the feed bills and keep mp
with the store account. Consequential
ly as you no doubts recollect, RUFF, in
our young and gaIlin days the where
withals and raiments with which I
clothed my awkward body were the
plainest and but blame few at that.
Now | can remember the slleerce ana
scanty manner of my dress the same as
If it was but only yesterday. Honest to
God, fellow citizens, l was passin out
from boyhood into manhood with whis-
kers sproutin on my face and women
bearin on my mind before / ever climed
up on the inside of n full suit of clothes.
In the summertime | had to wear ii
long tail homespun shirt, and in the
winter it was that same long tail shirt
spliced out below with a pair of -wool
socks to keep my hayward feet from
freezin slap off.
But finally at last I was feelin nv
pats so promiscus and plentiful till
nothin would do but | must 90 out
amongst the female generation. In the
main time old man Larry Benton was
i'yln over there on Huckleberry Ridge
and raisin of a tremendous large and
oyely crop Of girls. And it did look to
me like Of all the places in the discov-
cred world for a youngster to go and
have high heel good time that was
he mainest place. But from that
bright day down unto this blessed hour.
so fur as anybody knows, l never have
been caught foolin and fumblin around
with passle Of gay and gorgeous girls. |
By gatlins. / give EN- all the road now
i'll they git broke and bride wise and
quit pullin on the bit Anyhow, after
itayin wake Of nights for a week /
vrastlin with the question which would I.
be the best, to go or not TO go-thinkin /
bout that drove of girls over at old |
nan Larry's, and pickin out the prit-
lest one in the pack for my own and
,ulysst sweetheart lowed that I
would go. After that the mainest thing
With me was the higgins and the fix
nents 10 pnt Or
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02
FARM FIGURES.

The present seasons crop OF cottoll
In Egypt promises to surpass all pre-
vious years in quality.
The government sta.st of Victoria
estimates the wheat yield of the colony
at 100000 bushels, quantity which
he considers sufficient for local wants
The annual seattle crop" of New
South Wales is about 100000, with an
annual consumption In Sydney of no.
900 head. The Queensland "cattle
,rop" is about 100000 head, with oil
annual consumption of about 10000
head
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02
A bO-Cent Calendar Free.

Perhaps themost beautiful Calendar issued
Art Calendar, which is given to each sub.
scriber to the paper for the year 81 II Is
madeup OF four charming pictures, beautiful
~ reproduced in twelve harmonious colOrs
II is in form a fOur-page folder which, when
extended, Ia l0x24 inches In size. The sub
iects are delightfully."- attractive. The Calen-
dar makes desirable ornament for man.
tel, center-table or writingdesk. 1t is Of
fered for sale only by tho publishers of THE
YOUTHS COMPANION at 50 cents per copy.
Only because OF the enormous number pub
lished is 1t possible for tho publishers of
The COMPANION to send 1t free to all Con-
PANIoN subscribers.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02
STATE or ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO, ?,

FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is the
senior partner Of the firm of f. j. CHENEY
& Co, doing business in the City Of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED Doll
LARS for each and every case OF Catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use of Halls
CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn 10 before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December AID. 1856.
r.-r1 A. w, GLEASON,
t9AALJ Notdtp Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system Send for testimonials,
free. f. j, CHENTY a. Co., Toledo, y.
Sold by Druggists, 75c,
Hallis EamilY Pills are the best
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

tail Winchester coat. Many and many S
the time l have heard Brit tell that
story, which at the same time, you I'M
derstand, it was the unwashed truth
and | have laughed and laughed TIL by
gracious | would ache all over in spots
as big as a saddle blanket.
But Brit he never could find where
the laughin part come in. With him
it was "a passle of most hellatious sad
and solcmcholy facts in history"
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

Those anxious to proloug this rapid transit
tory existence of ours beyond the average
span, should foster his digesGea, negatively
by abstaiuing administrations in diet, and
attirmatively by the useO of thatpeerless stom-
achiC, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters when he
experiences symptoms of indigestion. The
impairment of hedigestive function is fatal
TO yigor Subdue with the Bjtters, also, fe-
yer and ague, buiousness and constipation,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

manentiy beneficial effects and were salts
fed with transient action; but now that 1t
Is generally known that Syrup of Figs will
permanently overcome habitual constipa-
ton, well-informed people will not buy
other laxatives, which act for time, but
finally injure the system.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

SHE HAD READ THE PAPERS. Papa"
said young Mrs Hunker, ''won't you please
you want that much money for2r eve want
TO build s., 900 house. n-Harlem Life.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

WE say that the good die young AS a
matter of fact it is the young that die good.
Boston Transcript.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

"MAUD MUFFETT says that the age of
chivalry has passed. ~ guess she means
she has passed the age when she may ex-
pect any, Indianapolis journal.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

PERHAPS more good might be accom-.
plished by ringing curfew for grown
people.-N. Y. Press.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

E-7"-01 = y = 7 NF1 . ''TE-7'F TT
Halls Family Pills are the best

MIRIM-"Dou'tv You think my new hat is
a poem, Ned2r Ned critically -"From its
height, dear, should compare it instead to
a short story t'-Spare Moments
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

LIKE Oil Upon Troubled Waters is Hale's
Honey of Horehound and Tar upon a cold.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

DEopsY treated free by DIR. II, H. Green's
Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy
specialists in the world. Read their adver-
tisemeut in another column of this paper.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

DAR's so many hills on de road ter Heaven
dat some folks misses de place entirely by
buildin' a railroad round 'em.-Atlanta
Constitution.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

SOME young men would get along better
If they had less point TO their shoes and
more to their conversation. springfield
Ill) Register
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02
Yoke FeIlo,

. . as. gFdilh anu SnlluItn,
But eher plts steal weakness or disc.
added o q wotiians burden II becomfl
togethe too heavy. No woman csl
cheerip Oh hopeful who is dragged 4
by Continual pain and physical wi
edness. L.
The 'pecial weaknesses peculiar al
feminin, organism are comparatively
to Overcome If the earlier symptom
given p'oper attention. But if allow
60 uncieeked, they are liable to der
into Serious, chronic complications.
Any Woman afflicted with these del
ailment ought to have the iinmediao
of DR.. Heroes Favorite Prescription.
perfec and unfailing specific for auz
eases Of the feminine organs, 1t wau
vised tr this one purpose, and acc
fishes is purpose as no other medc
has eve done.
For narly 80 years DR.. Pierce has
chief consulting physician of the Inval
Hotel AID Surgical Institute, at But
N. y, where in conjunction with his /
of associate specialists, he has SUGGEST,
treated many thousand cases of fee
complai t. i"
No physician living has had more
tended pportunity TO study this clasl
diseasesin actual practice. No medil
ever INVITED has done for women wl1a.
Favorie Prescription has.
DR.. Ferce's Pellets cure constipat
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

PEOPLE expect too much credit for be-
having themselves properly, when in fact
1t is really debt they owe to society. Mil
waukee journal.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

AFTER physicians had given me up, was
saved by Pisos Cure.-RALPH ERIEd, Will
Transport, Pa, Nov. %, 1893.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

For torpid liver, use DR.. Carlstedts
German Liver Medicines.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

THE great System Renovator, DR.. Carl
stedt's German Liver Medicines.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

Some people are not as bad as they look,
while others are great deal Worse.-W ash
iugtOn tIa.) Democrat.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

THE real purpose of arbitration is to show
that the other fellow is WrOng,-L. A w.
Bulletin.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02
THE MARKETS.

HARDLY anybody likes to have his family
physician criticised. Washington (Ia,( DEM
acrat.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

You can tell the size ov a man by the
noise he makes -Truth.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

$50 your friend didn't catch his train
sitter all"
"Noi he'sa detective. "-Clicago Jour
gnI
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02

When ne girl comes to be wottlafa
look out. If she starts out in vigorod
womanly Iealth then it is pretty safe
say she Yill be healthy, attractin
beautiful woman.
The beginning of womanhood is y
real crisis i'll woman's life. Mead
always something is wrong then in ID
distinctly feminine organs. Maybe
isn't very serious-no matter-the TIL
to stop disease is when it starts !.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-02
BAN Flrhtlnr {. ProtitnbIe.

According to figures set forth in a
Madrid dispatch, GueITita, the king of
the toreadors, earned Sol 200 in the
lart season of seven months. During
ttat time over 5000 horses and bulls
TO the value of 100000 were butchered
in order to furnish entertainment on
Spanish holidays, while the number e.
persons killed or crippled exceeded in
- the
arena.
The Red Cross society ~ ,,sdo -,
way into the TransyaalP a. tbirtv.
ninth power that has welo o,ned this 90.
eiety,
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-26
CONTEST FOR A RAILROAD.
Injunction Proceedings Against 500, 0O0,.
p00 Bond Issue of New York Central.

Injunction Proceedings Against 500, 000,.
p00 Bond Issue of New York Central.
New York, Dec. 25.-A motion for an
Injunction was made yesterday to stop
the issue of bonds by the New York Cen
tai RAILROAD under it's 500, 10000 mort.
vage to the Central Trust Company,
which is ia connection of the Iefunding
scheme. The petitioner is Charles DE
Neufville, stakeholder of the New York
and Northern railroad. Other stockhold.
ers of the same railroad are associated
with him in the suit
The litigation of which this application
is the outcome has been pending since
1895, when u suit was begunto De Neuf-
willie aud his associates to recover prep
erty which was conveyed under foreclos-
ure to the New York and Putnam COM
pany and subsequently to the New York
Central. The complainants ailege that
the New York Central Company has Oh
tanned a controlling interest in the New
York and Northern stock by irregular
means.
The United States circuit court found
in favor of the defendant, but this decis.
ion was reversed a short time ago by the
United States circuit court Of appeals.
A trial of the origin suit was then or
dered and is still pending. Similar pre-
ceedings in the State supreme court re-
suited in decree upholding the foreclos-
IRE and sale of the property of the New
York add Northern. but this decision was
reversed NV the State court of appeals.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-26
A j. EVANS.
II. NJ. BUTT.
G. b. PRICE.
December IS, 1897.

AS successors to the iiirm of Evans,
Butt g. Price we desire to thank our
friends and the public generally for past
favors, ana by courteous treatment and
careful attention TO your wants hope to
lave a'liheral share of your future pat
Gonage BUTT, PRICE & Co,
No. '23 Campbe avenue, Roanoke, Va
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-26
among the Churches

Belmont Missiou-The Belmont BSp-
list Mission Sunday-school at 3 p. M.
Robert Norman Mission-This Sun
day school meets at Melrose Hail on
Park street at 5 p. III. Mr.. W. r. Hes
ser is superintendent. All are cordially
invited.
Trinity-Usual sermons at. II a. III.
| and 1880 p. IN. by the pastor, Rev. j. c..
Jones. Sunday school at $3.50 a. IN, j.
| Is. Andrews, superintendent. Epworth
Lesgue on Friday evening at 1880
Greene Memorial Preaching at
Greene Memorial NJ. f.. Church, South
at | a. IN. and 1870 p. IN. by the pastor,
Rev. Thos. +. Carson. Morning subject,
"Peace-song of the Angels Special
Christmas music. Sunday school at 9:30
a. IN. Epworth League devotional SER
vices ut z p. III.
United Brethren--At the United Breth-
rem Church there Will he preaching by
the pastor, Rev K. l.. Rice. The morn
ing subject will se "WaInirgs." evening
subject, "Forsaking SIM New mem.
bers will be received at each service.
Sunday-school at a:45 IA. m, NJ. l.. avis
superintendent.
At Calvary Baptist Sunday-Regulai
services will be held ut Calvary Baptist
Church both morning and night, at
which time Rev. Weston r. Gales will
fill the pulpit. The pastor, DR.. Brough-
ton, has been advised by his physician to
refrain from active work, aud while he
will be unable to take part in the ser.
vices, he expects to attend the morning
worship. MIR Gales subject for his morn
ing sermon Will be "TakinG Account of
Stock" evening sermo Oh subject, ''Signs
of the Times Prof. Wolfsohn will Head
the singing at 10th services.
st. Johns Church-There will he the
usual Sunday services and, sermons to-
day at IL a. III. and T:45 p. m.