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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08

which, once purchased, are constant
expense to keep in spick and span or
der. The average player, too, spends
moro than S. year on caddies.
Around New York that much n month
is nearer the limit.
At Shinnecock Hills, during tour.
nament, caddie receives 81 a round
and at other tournaments the prices
averages fifty cents for eighteen holes,
the exact sum depending on the num-
Der of caddies to be had from the
neighborhood. In an isolated section
prices rule high; near factory town
or village a more moderate tarifpre-
walls. But aside from tournaments,
caddie charges will average thirty to
forty cents for each eighteen holes
played, with usually dime extra for
cleaning the clubs. As an instance of
the way caddies make money it is q
fact that one boy last year, only work.
ing after school hours and during the
vacation on the links on the Marine
and Field Club, where the tariff was
then twenty-five cents for two rounds
of the short nine-hole course, bought
himself two suits of clothes, $40 BIZ
cycle, aud had $50 in the bank at the
end of the season.
On these many accounts, therefore,
$40, 900, 900 would be close estimate
of the money to be expended during
the present year in golf. AS to the
valuation of the links and clubhouses
of the country with other investments
of the golf clubs at $50, 900, 900, the
doubter has but to visit tho Ardsley
Club, Chicago Golf Club, Country
Club of Westchester, Brookline Coun-
try Club, Washington Park Club,
Newport Country Club and score
more clubs to learn by calculation
Of the value of each clubs property
that this total is far under the mark.
There is no initiation in this estimate.
New York Sun.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08
No Excuse For Old BIunder.

Adm, nephew of Galvani, dis
covered that it was possible, by the
aid galvanism, to distinguish good
teeth from bad. The passage of the
current through the teeth gives rise
to no discomfort when healthy; but
its application to decaying molar,
for example, is followed by violent
pain, "and an involuntary motion of
the body" The Medical Press goes
on to say that, ''now that their atten-
ton (dentists) has been called to dis
covery some centuries old there will
be less excuse than ever for such a
blnnder" as that of removing sound
tooth by mistake. = Philadelphia
Record
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08
RIGHT AND WRONG.

Aasi how easily things go wrong;
A sigh too much or kiss too long,
And there follows mist and weeping
rain,
And life is never the same again.
Alasl how hardly things go right
'Tis hard TO watch on a summer night,
For the sigh will come and the kiss will
stay,
And the summers night is winters day.
And yet how easily things go right
II the sigh and kiss of the winters night
Come deep from the soul in the stronger
ray
That is born in the light of the winters
day.
And things can never so badly wrong
If the heart be true I'D the love be strong;
For the mist, if it comes and the weeping
rain
Will be changed by love into SUNSHINE
again.
George Macdonald
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08
Roadside Adornment.

In improving country roads there is
not infrequently danger of destroy
ing something of the charm and pic
turesqueness which bushes, flowers
and vines give to the roadway in many
rural districts, and the danger of do
ing this is sometimes actually used as
an argument for not undertaking
much-needed improvements. There
is, however, a middle course which
leads to the preservation of natural
advantages alongside the construction
of hard roadways. Such course the
Norwich Bulletin declares itself in IA
vor of, "when the country road is of
sufficient width and shape to be worthy
the name," and it then pertinently
adds:
"The wild and breezy hedge and
the wild flowers in their day, begin
ming with the violet and the dandelion
and closing with the fringed gentians,
the purple asters and the golden rod,
make for appreciative people o pleas
ant way; but there are many cart
paths in Connecticut where roads
ought to be. There are too many of
the marrow, concave, rolly, rutty,
muddy, crooked, ten-feet cart-paths
now parading in this State under the
title OF roads, with sumach and hack
matack for a border, and Canada
thistles and wild-carrot blooms for a
decoration. The cart-paths are dirty,
slumpy, corrugated ways which add
to the discomforts of life. New road
building makes for their adjustment,
and for the establishment of wide.
convex, well-drained roadbeds, along
which the wild hedge and flowers
make a setting that is both pictur-
esque and charming"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08
A Tombstone Problem.

A man who went away from homo
some time ago to attend convention
of church people was struck with the
beauty of the little town in which the
gathering was held. He had plenty
of time, and while wandering about
walked into the village cemetery. It
was beautiful place, aud the delegate
walked around among the graves. He
saw monument, one of the largest in
the cemetery, and read with surprise
the inscription ON it:
"a Lawyer and an Honest Man."
The delegate scratched his head and
looked at the monument again. He
read the inscription over and over.
Then he walked all around the monu-
mont and examined the grave closely.
Another in the cemetery approached
and asked him:
Have you found the grave of an
old friend?"
NO." said the delegate, 'sbut I was
wondering how they came to bury
those two fellows in one grave. Tit
Bits.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08
GOOD ROADS NOTES,
N99N9Ie<IEG4l1E KK77lG7lKe94AeAe0A9
The Lesson of the Present.

It may be seriously questioned
whether any country that can Big
classed among the civilized nations OF
the earth can show such poor wagon
roads as the United States, unless it
be Russia and the smaller principal
tiles of southeastern Europe. The
early settlements in the United States
were mainly along the banks of navig-
able waters, and the steam railway
came SO soon after commerce de,
veloped betweenthe growing towns that
the roads, which had in some cases
been started, were neglected.
In Europe, wagon-roads were con-,
structed long before tho introduction
of steam, and conditions there have.
made it necessary to maintain and de-
velop them. 1t is only within ten
years that America has begun to learn
how much she loses from the present
bad condition of her highways, and is
at last beginning to set about improve
ments in earnest.
At present the condition of Cuba is
attracting much attention. We al
reHuy see inc LOSSES buab nave Ueeu
entailed there by the absence of any
thing that can be called a road, and
we will realize much more fully in o
short time what decent highways mean
to a country when they begin to BIO
opened up in the long dormant ex-
Spanish Islands and their many re-
sources are developed.
America is entering upon a period
of increased activity III commerce and
manufacture She has lately been
forced into unexpected relations with
the other powers of the world. Dis
tant outlets are demanded for our
productions and more perfect facilities
at home for their preparation. Sue
cessful competition in the great
markets of the world means that all
classes at home must enjoy prosperity
and develop conditions of the greatest
possible efficiency, and, to accomplish
this, nothing is more important than
the best means of transportation and
perfect inter communication among all
sections of the country over firm high
ways.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08
CALLING FOR MOTHER.

Always calling for. his mother-never stops
from morn till night;
Last words on his lips at bedtime; first
words In the morning light.
Nothing ever seems to please him; nothing
else he'll ever say
Butt wants-I wants my motherl"
And his mother far awayl
Always calling for his mother:-give him
this and give him that
Rig him out in little breeches, and ribbon
round his hat;
Give him painted sticks OF candy-still tho
same thing. night an day
Always calling fo- his mother, and his
mother far away
Always calling for his motherl Well,
at best the mother Is
Sweetest of our sweetest mem 'ries, and her
kiss the sweetest klssl
Surely, when the darkness gathers-when
the light has left the skies,
We shall meet In heaven the welcome OF
the mothers lips and eyesl
Frank L. Stanton.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08
Proctor's Solemn wit.

One day, in the Senate, Senator
Vest, of Missouri, in the midst of an
impassioned speech recited one of
Millions poems in very tragic man
ner.
The author of that great poem,"
said Vest, in an impressive undertone,
was John Milton-and it has been
set to music by the great Beethoven. I"
There was a religious silence all
over the Senate, when Senator Proc
tor, whose face had assumed the for
lorn and forbidding expression of a
professional mourner, arose and re-
marked in deep bass voice that was
heard all over the Senate chamber:
"Vest, sing itl'
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08
The Big Niagara Bridge.

The new steel arch bridge being
erected at Niagara Falls to replace the
last of the suspension bridges will be
the largest of its kind in the world.
The main arch will be S5S feet long,
the next largest being the 566-foot
arch of a bridge at Oporto, Portugal,
The approach on the Canadian side is
210 feet long, and that on the Ameri-
can side 100 feet, making the total
length of the structure 1868 feet. The
bridge will connect the two great free
parks. Queen Victoria Falls Park, on
the Canadian side, and the New York
State Reservation on the American
side. 1t will be single structure,
having width of little over forty
feet. In the middle twenty three feet
of this will be electric railroad. On
either side of this will be carriageways
eight feet wide. Outside of these
drives will be foot passages, slightly
elevated above the roadways. The
middle of the arch is $50 feet above
the gorge. 1t was impossible, of
course, to build false works to sustain
the main arch, and it was built out
from either end to the middle, the old
suspension bridge furnishing an an
chorage and a platform from which to
cooperate. The work was extremely
perilous, and in order to give the
mechanics every protection possible q
boat manned by an expert oarsman
was kept under the bridge. New York
Press.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08
A New Idea.

"What is all that newspaper stuff
hanging over your desk?" lotterer
asked man who writes for his living.
"That?" the man answered, point
ing to long strips of newspaper clip
pings which were pendant from a gas
chandelier directly over the desk at
which he sat, "that is my scrap book.
You've heard of the hanging gardens
of Babylon, haven't you? Well, this
is my hanging scrap-book. People
generally go on the plan that a scrap
book must be neatly pasted full of
clippings, and then piled away on
top shelf of closet, or in the bottom
of trunk where you never can get at
it without much time and trouble.
Now, my idea of a scrap-book is one
that You can have where you want it
and when you want it, so I have pasted
these long strips of blue paper to-
gether, over the cross-bar of my old
fashioned gas chandelier. On these
strips-as l clip short newspaper bits
relative to my work-bits of prose or
poetry, jest or philosophy, statistics
or other information, I stick a little
dab of library paste, and up the clip
ping goes. 1t is convenient. and cas-
lily renewable; there is no patent on
it, and the hanging ap-book' will
be found valuable to all writers who
like things where they can clap their
eyes on them. Detroit Free Press.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08
Good Roads in Sight.

New York has actually taken its
place among the States that are giving
public aid to the making of good roads.
The first contract was awarded yester-
day under the good roads law, which
is the product of Governor Black g
suggestion and active announcement.
This section of the State may take
some local pride in the fact that the
first work under the bill will be on the
high road between Troy and Schenec-
tady.
General Shafter places bad roads as
next to the climate as hindrance to
the army's movements in Cuba. War
is exceptional, but the needs of pea CO
are constant. And it has been a glar-
ing fact that every source of income,
especially in the agricultural districts.
has been reduced by roads that have
increased the cost of transportation.
lessened the facilities of travel and in
creased the distance of every farm from
the market for it's products. Good
roads will make the geographical mile
no longer than it should be. And the
impulse that began in the Empire State
the movement, whose beginning had
been so long delayed, for decent roads
was an act of craftsmanship.
IN. Y. Times.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08
Spelling His Sense of Hunor

On Saturday afternoon as a newly
created police officer, who had donned
his braided uniform and sword for the
first time, was coming out of the Gov
eminent buildings, Pretoria, his sword
and his legs got mixed and he came
an ignominious cropper. The police
man on guard presented arms in the
orthodox manner, but was unable to
control his merriment. This enraged
the officer, who, noticing that there
was button missing on the zarp's
uniform, passed sentence of three
days sentry-go round the Government
buildings. Johannesburg Times.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08
Nearly Killed by a Dream,

A strange case of hallucination was
nearly the cause of the death of our
co-religionist, Cesare Calvi. He was
travelling on August from Genoa to
Legnano, in Lombardy, and, being
asleep in his carriage, he dreamed Of
collision in the train. The fear
made him wake, and, after opening
the window, he saw a goods train
coming toward his train, but without
any danger CT meeting. He mixed
reality with vision, and to save him.
self from the supposed peril he
Jumped down through the window.
People thought it an attempt at sui.
eide. Fortunately enough, he had
no severe injury from the experience.
and doctors declared him to be well
within q week.-Jewish World.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08
A Dad Roadso Traredx

"Smothered to death in the dust of
the public highway" was the verdict
OF the Coroner's jury sitting in the case
OF Lars Backyard, who went to Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Iowa, a few days ago, and
started home in the heat of the day.
A mile from the town he was overcome
by the heat and fell from his horse.
The dust was ten inches deep and very
line. Backyard fell on his face and
was unable to turn over.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08
PITH AND POINT.

"Ihear you've got very industrious
husband" eyes, mum; he's always
finding something for me to do.
"I love you, dearest girl' he said.
ooh, be minel'
She handed him her card. 1t read,
"Ida Kline"
"You say that he is a nobleman in
disguise? Why is he unwilling to be
known2" "He is a Spanish noble
man."
Diggs-"A physician tells me that
if man works steadily he never wor-
RES" Biggs-"Pshaw It's working
steadily that worries me-"
Bobby, you must not talk when 1
am talking" "Well, mamma, you
don't 'spose I can wait till you've gone
t. d?"-Detroit Free Press.
Customs Oficer-"Anything dutia-
ble?" Mrs. Browns Husband
"Nothing but me. I'm dutiable hus-
band, you know. boston Transcript.
"If 'all the world loves lover 3"
Said he to his love, said he;
81 am happy; for you, my darling,
Are 'all the world to me-"
Philadelphia Bulletin.
An Old Bachelors Toast: "Woma an
the morning star of infancy, the
day star of manhood, the evening star
of age. Bless our stars, and may they
always be kept at telescope distancel'
"Bridget, you've broken as much
china this month as your wages amount
to. Now, how can we prevent this oc-
curing again?" 81 don't know, mum.
unless yez raise me wages. What to
Eat.
'I s'pose you noticed that the war
had quite religious favor?" mo.
In what way?" Gail the yachts were
converted and many Of the rumors
were confirmed. "-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
ct understand Susie Smartweed
was dropped from the hospital service
in disgrace" eyes. She used the
chief surgeons best knife to sharpen
her lead pencil. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Farmer Ito young thief)-"What are
you doing under the tree with that APP
ple?" Bright Boy-"I was just going
to climb up the tree to put back this
apple, which, I see has fallen down."
-Pittsburg Bulletin.
First Tramp-"Do you believs~in
dreams?" Second Tramp-"Yes,
do. I dreamt last night I was in
clover" First Tramp-"Well2" Sec-
ond Tramp-"I was asleep in hay.
NOW" Yonkers Statesman.
Anxious Passenger-'I say, my man,
is that boat going up or DOWN." River
side Loafer-"Well, she's leaky old
tub, so shouldn't wonder if she was
goin' down. Then, again, her bilers
amt none too good, so she might go
up"
'Did Maud Ethel tell you about be-
ing unable to get to the party on &C.
count of her dressmaker disappointing
her?" ''She didn't put it that way.
She said her equipment was not for
warded in time. indianapolis Jour-
nal.
eff L were only man," she said,
eve could"-"Possibly we could"
he said, ''but the chances are We
wouldn't. If you were man I
wouldn't be here. I'd be saving nice
things to somebody who WASH man."
Sometimes it is worth while to think
OF such facts as these. Chicago Post.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08

A proposal has been made by a
French chemist to obtain easily ass;m-
liable iron tonics from vegetables by
feeding the plants judiciously with
iron fertilizers.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08
The WnrId,s TnnnaIs

LII all tho tunnels of the world were
placed end to end they would reach
distance OF Ola miles. They number
about 1142.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08

The origin of the American navy
dates from October 10, ITS. when
Congress authorized the equipment Of
two cruisers.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
PROVED HIS GRIT.
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}, no, don't kill
the poor thing.
Let it CO."
7 h u s e K
claimed q beau
tiful girl of nine
teen, the daugh-
ter of Captain
Blake, master of
the bark New
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-08

There are more players, it is safe to
say, on the roll of the U. S. G. A..
who spend over $3.50 year on golf
than who manage on $125. One 6rm
dealing in golf goods has sold 800, 900
imported golf balls during the past six
months. The retail valuation of thir-
ty cents each amounts to about 500
600. This firm is but one of num-
Der importing golf balls, and there are
two American manufacturers turning
out balls in large quantities. The
gutta percha ball, considered alone, is
quite an item of expense, to say moth
ing of the wooden and iron clubs.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-21
Grand Comp Advisory Council De-
GIde3 AJQIDSI Him,
THE ADVERSE VOTE WAS IHENTY.OHE 10 TEN
Not Guilty OF BrIbo Taking, Hut nm
Improper Person to Re Grand
fommander or ~ Member OF the
History Committee OF tho Grand

Lynchburg, Va, Jan. 90, 1898.
The advisory council of the Grand
Camp Confederate Veterans Of Vir-
sinia, met here to-day at noon to con-
slider the Stubbs case. The committee
OF the Grand Camp which mot in Rich
mond December 9th ITO investigate
charges of misconduct on the part Of
member or members OF the History
Committee, reported advising THE re-
movnl OF Grand Commander j. NJ
Stuhhs from the History Committee and
his resignation as Grand Commander.
Colonel SiubbS then called the advisory
council to meet In this city and pass
Judgment upon ,the investigating COM
mir,ces report The council is com
posed OF the commanders OF all the
camps III the state. cghty-nlne in
hummer About thirty camps are rep
rcsem:ed here. First Lieutenant Grand
Commander John j. Williams, OF Win
chester, presiding. Colonel Stubbs Is
not in Ihc city. hut his counsel, Gene
RAJ George j. ilundley, is In attendance
me afternoon session was taken up
with the reading Of the stemographer's
repor; CT the testimony 'taken before
bAe committee nj ltichm0nd.
The night session was devoid of SEN
Sationnl incident, and good feeling
seemed TO prevail in the discussions.
After considerable debate the follow
ing resolution was adopted by vote
Of 81 to TO-
Resolved. That wo, the council, find
upon examination Of ihe evidence he
fore us. that Commander Stubbs has
not been guilty nf receiving a bribe, but
W" do find that he should no longer be
IN command OF the Grand Camp, or n
lnenbsr Of the History Committee of
the Grand Camp
he council adoTHcd a. resolution fa.
Nor'ng II bin by the Legislature to pro-
Nlde FOR disabled and INDECENT Confed-
crate veterans
General Iundley, Colonel stubb.s
counsel, said in an interview after tho
councils action, that he would 81
vlse Colonel Stubbs ito accept the ac-
tion as final.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-21

Ihe election has attracted good deal
or attention in the House, owing to it's
bearing on the SpcakcrShip contest.
Senator White was supported by the
friends of Representative Bailey, who
are favorable to that gentleman's cam
didhcy In case the next House ID Dem
ocratic Mcses:s. McRac, of Arkansas,
Richardson. of Tennessee. Osborne, OF
wyoming, and Mess, of Indiana, had
been prominent in the race Owing to
the Spcakership issue. however the
friends of Mr.. Bailey felt that it was
desirable that Senator should head
the committee so that the chairman
snip and the Speakcrshlp should be en-
tirely separated
The meeting was quite fully attended.
thirty-threc members being present,
which allowing for the several orphan
states" made almost full representa-
ton.
AS to the sccreaaryahip, Il Is generally
conceded that Lawrence Gardner. the
present incumbent, will retire. The
most prominent candidate before the or
ganization committee is James Kerr.
former clerk of the House. ,
The meeting adopted resolution re-
affirming its adherence 10 the Chicago
platform.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-21
JAPANESE CRUISER CI1nrsrEsEp.
MISS Long Rclenscd Six white Doves
as fhc Kasnsi Took the.Nntcr.

Philadelphia, Pa. Jan 2O-'rhc Japa-
nese cruiser Kasagi was launched at
cramps sh!p-yard to-day. True Orien-
tai spirit pervaded the events. and
perhaps for the same reason that the
DAINTY Japanese began their dinners
with pie and end them with SOUP this
deadly engine of war was chistened
WIN an the emblems of peace, t,nn-
Huility and love. When the brcathlcss
moment came and the huge ship be-
San 10 Rllde down to her first bath in
the muddy Delaware. six doves fIut-
tered from basket nj the bow, and
circlinE about the fast rcced!ng hull.
scattered flowers on her dccl: and on
the nond"scIjpt structure Of timber
ana iron. from which she sipnph
gracefully away, 1t was n very prettv
Piece of mechanism ana IL was not
at all inccngruors that the cil!af oc,Gr
OF tho allc2ory should be a CHARMING
iAmerican Gir!-M lIeien Long
daughter of the Secretary afa;h HaSy.