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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-06
Pa on the Man With the Hoe,

From the Chicago Times Herald
II wisht l knew what all this Talk about
the man with the Hoe means" nav sed
when paw Got his sigar lit and Had his
feat Up on the Portch railen. You can
lcok at paper emmy more without seem
Sumthing about the man with the Hoe,
and m saprised that Thay amt Got to
sellin the man with the hoe shoes and
shifnmi@s and Singer cured Hams Who
is he emmy how, and What Did he hoe?"
Paw bowed a few Rings of smoke out in
the atmosfear and Then sed:
The man with the Hoe is a Poem about
the Down trodden Farmer what Has to Go
out and Work mite and Day Becos He Can't
Git Ennybuddy to Help him.
whats the Reeson he Can't Git no
Help" NAV asst
Dawgs." Paw told Her. you intent be-
leave it jst to Go out and Look Around
But this Here Country is in a Harrabul fix
L Cess it can't Last Mulch Longer.
Good Crashes nav Says, what's the
matter with it emmy way?"
THE farmer He's Got to Be a Bruther to
the OK paw ansered, land there's agoin
soon, and then he's agoin to Git out and
quit Being a Dumb Turner and Shake his
first at people what Don't Haft to work,
and l woulden't Be thare fer ten dollars a
mint
/. My .sakes,' NAV says, I'm Glad we
Don't live on no farm. Why Duz the
Farmer Haft to work Hard?'
'Becuz He Don't no emmy Better than TO
Go and put in a lot of Crops in the Spring
that Has to be Harvested in the FALL" paw
says You'd Think if He had emmy SentZ
he could see Before it was too Late that he
was only fiXin up Job fer Himself. But
Ben stolid and stunned with a Bruitle jaw
and a Brow that's Slanted Back and a lite
in His Brane that sumbudy Blew Out, as it
Says in the poam, you couldn't expect Him
to no mulch, so he goes to work and plants
away fer weeks at Time in the Spring
and the Furst Thing He nose Thay are a
lot Of Crops on His hands. Then what
Duz the Blame fool Do?'
Don't asst me-" nav says all kind of
Trimbly and Turrable interested.
why" paw says BLOWN out Some more
smoke rings, He sneaks into Town and
Goes Down to the Deepo WHARF He sees a
Lot of fellers laying in the Shade Behind
Putin on His arken stoop he sneaks up to
WHARF thay are without Lettin them see
Him. and the F'urst Thing thay no thare He
stands Before Them and Says He will Give
Them too dollers Day and Find them il
thay will Come and Help Git in His Crops.
But that's WHARF He's mistaken. He
mite give the too dollers a Day But He
don't find them when He looks again. Ali
around the next Corner. So He has to Go
Home and Git to Be Bruther to the OK
agin, and Set on mowen mashean all
Day and Let His team Do the Work what
men yoost to Do with THAR Hands Before
Things got in Sich Horrabul Shaipe"
but why Don't the men want to Help
himY' nav says.
'Becoz they Can see the Turrable fait
sered. ''Ths first Thing. they would no
Every one Of Them would Be a man with
to cit ID. Thats what W. at fer Bein
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-06

Blud was Boilin and you Thot you would
fife fire with fire." l says.
l CESS it must Bin the blister on the
end of His tung what kept him frum seem
the joke. GEORGE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-06
TunlbIed,

From the Chicago News.
Pearl-"Is it true that her brother fell at
San Juan hill?"
Ruby-"Yes; while touring the island this
summer he attempted to mount the hill on
his bicycle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-06
Uncertainty of the Horse.

Horse Owner-"Suppose the motor Of
your automobile gives out when you are
half way between towns. What Them"
Horseless Carriage Owner-'Well I
wouldn't be any worse off than If l were
half way between two towns with horse
and buggy and the horse should de-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-06

Nodd--"I wonder If shall ever be rich
enough to own a steam yachtT'
Todd-"Um. that isn't my ambition"
What is?
II want to be rich enough after own
enc to run 1t for few weeks each season."
Detroit Free Press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-06

ure TO attend meetings ana pay Their uueS'
We're reinstated and accorded the right to
vote.
Surrenders His Privileges.
Another dispute was precipitated when
Mr. Miller surrendered the privilege, just
regained, to Mr.. Robert E. Mattingly by
giving the latter his proxy. The assertion
was made that Mr.. Mattingly not a
resident of the twenty-second district. and
this brought out the interesting fact that
not only others who held proxies, but some
of the committeeman themselves did not re-
side in the districts they represented. Mr.
Mattingly was finally admitted, and after
DR.. Charles Allen qualified proxy for
Chairman Thomas B. kalbfus and Jackson
Yates was admitted the proxy of Rob
ert E. Doyle the nominations for national
committeeman We're announced to be in or
der by Vice Chairman John A. Clarke who
presided. DR.. Allen nominated Mr.. James
L. Norris in an eloquent speech recount
Ing his active services in behalf of demo-
cratic principles. and he followed in
the same line by Messrs. Donovan and
Whelan. George killeen presented Mr..
Edwin A. Newman's name and was sup
ported by Messrs. Boyer and Mattngiy,
and Mr.. Holmead was nominated by John
Boyle and seconded by DR.. Darling and Z.
L. Jordan
The first ballot stood, Norris. Q; Holmead
Z: Newman, ), and j. Fred Kelley, the sec
rotary of the committee l.
The BnIIoting Proceeds
On the second ballot the vote for Kelley
went to Norris, making his vote ten, and
on the third Mr.. Norris received the larg-
est vote he got during the evening, which
was eleven, or within one of the majority
of the twenty-five votes necessary to his
election. Eight other ballots We're taken
with varying results and the eleventh and
last stood Norris ten, Holmead three, New
man five, Kelley two, and VIM. Dickson
two. The latter had written a letter. which
was read BY Mr.. Scanlon early in the
meeting, declining TO allow himself to be
considered in connection with the national
committee. He expressed the hope. how
ever, that the meeting would elect a demo-
crat who was loyal and true to the
democratic party the late Lawrence
Gardner. The vote for him therefore was
complimentary.
Realizing that further balloting would
result in merely protractng the struggle
without possibility of reaching Il settle
ment the committee shortly after midnight
adjourned, subject to the call of the chair
man.
There was a large crowd in the hotel and
its vicinity all the evening, eagerly receiv-
ing every kind of information that trickled
out from the meeting, and portion of the
gathering was entertained with Bryan
speeches. and songs by DIR. Hendricks a
blind Spanish-American soldier. whose
eyes We're permanently deprived of vision
during the fight before Santiago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-06
A Phase of Femininity.

From Judge.
Jones (of Brooklyn)-'I saw your wife on
the street yesterday"
Smith (of Hoboken)-''You surprise me!
How did you know herr"
Jones-"She was wearing that new neck
tie you bought for yourself the day before -
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-03

Lifeis a bureau drawer which sticks,
and through a crack we helplessly
thrust our fingers at the things we
would like to reach.
Woman can't throw a stone, but
when she drops a flower pot out of a
window she always hits somebody.
The ideal woman is one whose pre-
served strawberries hold out until
fresh Strawberries get cheap.
Three -fourths of the bread cast upon
the waters returns because it has a
string tied to it.
Few women can sit through a SER
mon without hoping that the cook
won't let the dinner burn.
In the chase after happiness there
are too many crossroads and too few
guideboards.
1t is wise woman who never re-
minds her husband that he forgot to
kiss her.
After bad dinner human nature is
cross; after a good dinner it is stupid.
Mans experience is like his spec
tacles-seldom a good fit for any other
man.
You cannot forgive friend without
lowering yourself in his estimation. -
Chicago Record.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-03
WILL EAT UP SMOKE,
New Invention Which VIII Bring Re-
lief to Soot-Laden Cities,

New Invention Which VIII Bring Re-
lief to Soot-Laden Cities.
A newly-patented smoke consumer
was tested recently in Washington.
The tests were rigid ones and were
satisfactory to the witnesses. BY an
ingenious mechanical device the smoke
from the boiler CRATE which usually
finds access to the outer air by way of
the smokestack is supplied with oxy-
gen sufficient to cause combustion
and result in the complete burning of
the smoke, the flames from the latter
adding to the heat received by the
boiler. In the tests the CRATE was
first filled with soft coal refuse and n
hot fire reached. No smoke was OBJ
seryable issuing from the smokestack
connected with the boiler CRATE until
the inventor cut off the oxygen. Then
it poured forth in heavy volume from
the stack. In an instant after the
burner was again put in operation
there was no smoke perceptible The
CRATE was then filled with mass of
rags and dirt and the same expert
ment as described above again sue
cesstully carried out The fire was
drawn from the CRATE and the steam
pressure in the boiler allowed t. re-
duce to nothing. A new fire of wood
en- barrels was started, and in fifteen
minutes a steam gauge of the boiler
registered pressure of 50 pounds.
BY means of an aperture in the
brick wall of the combustion chamber
in which the boiler was located it was
possible to witness the burning of the
smoke and see its flames wreathing
the boiler on all sides. An examina.
ton of the deposit left from the smoke
after combustion showed it to be a
light, almost white, impalpable pow.
der, with none of the characteristics
of SCOT whatever. 1t is claimed by
the inventor that boilers and other
power-producing appliances requiring
great heat can he operated at half the
cost now incurred for them by use OF
the burner, because the cheapest
grades Of coal which produces the
greatest amount of smoke ordinarily
can be used without loss of any heat
giving properties.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-03

Even the beggar life in Spain has its
bright side. In the following story,
which was told only three years ago,
the feeling shown was just as noble as
could have marked the conduct of a
prince.
A traveller, stopping at Madrid, had
been in the habit of giving few CEN
timos daily to a little girl on the street.
One morning, as he passed the corner
where she stood, he gave her, as he
supposed, the usual sum. Presently
he heard some one calling him and
looking around saw her running after
him. On overtaking him she held up
a two-peseta piece and said:
"Your honor has always given me
centimos, bit today, by mistake, this
was among them"
Similar episodes help to fill the
notebook of the traveller who fingers
a few months in Spain. If he pursues
his researches beyond the lines drawn
by couriers, tourist bureaus and hotel
attendants, he will meet everywhere,
both among the educated and the
poorer classes Of modern Spain, the
hidalgo spirit of the days of Calderon.
Youths Companion.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-03

In Manila the large export houses
fix the price on corriente abaca, and
allow proportionate price for second
and third qualities.
In addition to the uses to which
hemp is put up making rope and cord
age, the natives weave from the fine
tibres, carefully selected, a cloth called
Bicol dialect, lupis; from the coarser
tibres very strong and durable cloth,
called all over, the archipelago sina-
may, is made. This cloth is worn by
all Of the poorer classes. From a
mixture of the fbres of the pineapple
leaf and Of carefully selected hemp a
cloth of much finer quality, called
just, is made. This cloth is thought
by many to bemore beautiful than the
piua, made entirely of the pineapple
fibre, for which the islands are noted.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-03
Dangerous Art.

A newly arrived German in New
York ct ty, who was apprenticed for
years to trunk and bag maker in
Berlin, Germany. undertook the other
day to paint his own sign, and the re-
suit looked like this-except that
crooked letters cannot be made with
these type: Gustav Fritz hei mer,
maker of trunk sandbags." lie me
see some O thin sandbags," said a
new member of the force, deftly con-
cealing his billy. Sand bags?" re-
peated the German. "Sant- begs? 1
haf no santbegl What you mean? A
beg for SAINT? Mine peezness is trungs
and begs. L sell you a handsome beg
for tollar seventy -" But the
policeman, seeing a great light, re-
marked; ''My friend, you are prac-
tical joker, but go out and hire a
painter to change your sign. You
make my beat look suspicious. New
York Press.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-03

Some minstrels recently started on
a tour, and advertised in a town to
give performance for the benefit Of
the poor. Tickets reduced to 25
cents" The hall was crowded, and
the next morning committee for the
poor called upon the treasurer of the
concern for the amount the said
benefit had netted The treasurer ex-
pressed astonishment at the demand.
81 thought" said the chairman OF
the committee, "you advertised this
concert for the benefit of the poor !"
WELL" replied the treasurer,
didn't we reduce the tickets to twenty
five cents so that the poor could all
Gomez"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-03

sale of remnants upstairs, and at the
noon hour he was struggling to make
his way through the vast crowd of
ladies which surged about the counter,
when little woman in a rustling silk
gown turned suddenly and faced him.
1t was shei
He passed her with only formal
and hurried bow, but he had time to
observe, with pain, that she wore her
hair in pompadour.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-03
CANNlBALlSM IN CANADA.
The Existence of the Practice Indicated
by the Arrest of Two Indians.

The Existence of the Practice Indicated
by the Arrest of Two Indians.
Recent arrests of Northwest Cana
dian Indians by detachment of the
mounted police go to prove that can
nibalism is still practiced by Canadian
aborigines. Two prisoners brought
into the barracks at Edmonton by the
police were captured redhanded, but
they seek to defend themselves from
the charge of murder by declaring
that their victim was addicted to can
nibalism, and that having surprised
him in the act of feeding upon human
flesh they killed him on the spot, in
accordance with their custom. These
Indians believe that when one of their
number once tastes human flesh, even
to assuage the pangs of hunger, he
becomes changed into a windigo or
man-eating monster, who will not hesi-
tate to kill in order to crafty his ap-
petite whenever the opportunity offers.
Phey therefore consider it solemn
duty as well as simple act of self
preservation to kill at sight, if posi-
Bile by stealthy blow from behind,
any one known to have practiced an
thropophagy.
The missionaries say that it is
usually hunger and not passion for
human flesh that drives them to the
practice. Father Dabion tells in his
journal of a disease that was quite
common among some of these Indians.
The victim suddenly became hypo-
chondriac, his malady developing into
a mania. In its succeeding stage the
insane was. seized with such hunger
for human flesh that he sprang like
famished wolf upon all that he met.
''In proportion, says the good father,
''as he finds wherewith to glut this
hunger, it grows like thirst in dropsy,
and accordingly the Indians never fail
to kill at once any one seized with
this disease"
This will be the line of defence made
on behalf of the present Indian pris-
oners at Edmonton. Father Nedelac,
who journeyed as far north as Lake
Mistassini to minister to the Indians
there, reports the murder of young
man Is years of age, in 1867, by his
Wv II ihOthOiJ lol tuC lSuSOh, anu
another missionary tells the story of
the murder by another Indian woman
of two entire families, with the excep-
tion of one young man. The victims
included two men, two women, three
boys, and four girls, and she subsisted
for some time upon their flesh. The
late Father Durocher converted to
Christianity Naseapee woman named
Veronique, who was an inveterate
cannibal, and only escaped death at
the hands of other members of her
tribe because of the dread which she
inspired in them by reason of her
powers as sorceress. Her first vic
tim was her husband, who had died of
starvation, and she continued her
feast until she had devoured three of
her children, two of whom had died of
hunger, while the third was killed by
its unnatural mother. She. next killed
a woman of her own tribe, who had
herself feasted upon the body of one
of her children and became food in
turn for the wretched Veronique. 1t
was thought within the last few years
that cannibalism was extinct among
Canadian Indians, but the contrary is
evidently the case.-New York Sun.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-03
VOL. l..
THE lNFALLlBLE MAN.

There was man who never made
"A bunder in his life;
He loved a girl, but was afraid
IL she became his wife
That he or she might rue the day
That brought them bliss, and so
He put the happiness away
That welded lovers know,
One day the man who never made
Mistakes perceived the way
That led to fame, but still afraid,
Drew back and stole away;
He Stunned the winding paths that led
To distant, unseen ends,
And kept the road that stretched ahead
With neither sleeps nor bends.
At last the man who never made
Mistakes fell by the way;
In garments that were badly frayed,
And pale and starved he lay;
No weeping friend bent DER him there,
Nor servant, child, nor wife;
But victory was his-he ne'er
Had blundered In his life.
S. E. Kiser, in Chicago News.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-03

George, do you know of any nice,
quiet restaurant where 1 can get my
meals for while?"
''Why, what's the matter, old fell
low-any trouble at home?"
"Yep. My wife has begun talk
ing about taking up carpets. "-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-03

'Do you believe in predestination?
inquired the serious friend.
81 don't know exactly" was the
answer. "But l can so so far as to
say 1 can name the baseball club that
will finish at the bottom of the list.
Washington Star.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-03

Papa--So Emily stands at the head
of her class in French?
Mamma Yes. She and another girl
were exactly even in the written ex-
amiuations, but it was decided that
Emily shrugged her shoulders more
correctly like the French. Tit Bits.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-03
The Gold Mines of Siberia.

There are now about 40, 900 miners
at work in the gold mines of Siberia.
The grains of Siberian gold are said
to be on an average larger than those
of any part of the world.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-03
NO.'50,
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY

An automatic teapot, infusing ten
any required number of minutes, Is
the idea of Scotch chemist, Mr.. Ed
ward Stanford. The infusion vessel
stands on an ordinary teapot. An in
dicator regulates the speed at which
quantity of water falls into the infu-
sion vessel, aud at the end of four
minutes-or the time necessary for
the infusion-the liquid, having risen
to a certain height, runs by means of
a siphon into the teapot. The appa-
ratus is useful not only for tea, but
for pharmaceutical infusions.
A ninth satellite of Saturn has been
discovered by means of the Bruce
Photographic telescope, at the Har-
ward observatory at Arequipa, Peru.
The eighth satellite was also discov-
cred by Harvard astronomers in 184e.
The new satellite is Of the 1915 mag
nitude; the span of the orbit is about
Is, $50, 600 miles and the time of rev.
olution about II months. 1t is ap-
Froximately 1875, 900 miles from the
planets centre, or about IL times
that of Iapetus, formerly the outer
most satellite. 1t is so faint that with
out the Photographic plate it probably
would not have been noticed.
BY the use of electricity, it is now
possible to carry on the seasoning of
timber much more efectually and ex-
peditiously than by natural methods.
The timber to be treated is placed in a
solution of borax, rosin, and carbon
ate of soda, contained in a large tank,
and the two poles of the dynamo are
connected by wires and lead pipes to
the upper aud lower surfaces of the
wood, the positive plate being at the
bottom. The action Of the current is
10 cause the sap to rise to the surface
of the bath, while the solution pene-
trate the pores of the timber. This
operation lasts for from five to eight
hours, and then the wood is removed
and dried, either in a kiln or naturally.
Timl er which was treated by the pro
cess described and thea exposed to
the air in summer for two weeks is
stated to be as we'll seasoned as wood
which had been stored for five years.
The experiments made by NJ. Ber-
thier of Paris, France, have resulted
in the discovery of a simple method of
imparting to clothing fabrics the quail
ty of repelling water and yet admit
ting air for ventilation, the basis in
this case being the use Of wool which
still contains the animal grease. Tests
were made with lanoline, product of
the publication of this animal grease.
deprived of soap and acid fat and
made neutral. The results were very
favorable, and the impermeable effect
was secured by a mixture Of ten to
twenty grams OF lanoline to 1000 grams
Of spirits OF petroleum MS n dissolvent,
this spreading itself rapidly in the
tissue and evaporating quickly; the
impermeability of the material is in
sured either by dipping it in the mix
ture for a few moments and then
wringing out, or by applying it with
sponge to the surface, the last pro-
cess being the more economical, but
not so satisfactory as the first. 1t ap-
pears that material thus treated is
healthy, the tissue is not clogged, the
weight is not increased and it dries
rapidly in the open air
In view eff the fact that millions of
tons of Stag are annually produced as
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-03

In view eff the fact that millions of
tons of Stag are annually produced as
waste in original processes in certain
localities, a writer in the Pittsburg
Dispatch points out that when Stag is
utilized, as asbestos has been, it will
be reasonable to look for efforts to turn
furnace gases to practical accoun', as
is the case in Scotland, the coke gas
into fuel and the coking ammonia into
nitrogen for agricultural uses, etc.
Cheaper nitrogen for the lands that
will not grow leguminous plants is
one of the urgent needs of agricul-
ture, and the ammonia from coke max
ing promises a supply until the means
are devised for extracting it from the
air in quantity. This writer mentions
crude petl oleum as probably the only
crude product in the above-named
localities that is manipulated so as to
yield all of which it is capable; that
is, aside from illuminating and lubri-
eating oil, it is made to yield about $50
by-products, some of them being rather
more valuable than the main produc-
tion-an important fact when weighed
against what otherwise would be actual
loss