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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26
Purified the Spot He Had Sat On.

Outside certain native bazaar in
Egypt Frenchman sat bucily paint
ing. Inside sat the dusky salesman.
Unlike most other bazaar keepers, he
had not instantly shut verything ny
and made himself scarce as soon as he
saw that he and his belongings were
being photographed. He simply sal
stolidly there. The Frenchman, hav.
ing finished, packed up his traps and
disappeared. Then the bazaar keeper
gave quiet order, and a youth camt
out with thurible in his hand filled
with burning incense, and carefully
and slowly incensed every inch of the
spot the Frenchman had occupied ant
the whole of the immediate neighbor
hood as well.-New York Press.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26
The Heron's Powder Down" Spots.

An examination of herons and eer-
tain other birds shows that whether
the light has been seen or not there
are singular spots upon birds that are
well adapted to produce it, These are
familiar to anyone who has examined
herons, and are called powder down"
spots. One, and usually the most con-
spicuous, is on the breast and in the
exact spot where the light was seen by
the sportsman. Pushing the feathers
aside there is apparent secretion of
some oily substance and continuous
decay of the base of the feathers which
results i'll an accumulation of yellow
matter not unlike PHOSPHORUS. This
is the powder down patch, and if the
feathers are disturbed the yellow pol.
len-like matter drops out and imparts
its oily nature to the surrounding
feathers. That there is a chemical
destruction of part of the feathers il
very evident and the decomposition
might we'll be accompanied by thu
phenomenon of phosphorescence which
is common feature of so many ami
mails and plants.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

Ihere are two recorded instances in
which bees have been used as missiles
in war. The first occasion was at the
siege of Themiscyra, when the Roman
general Lucullus was warning against
Mithridates. The Romans built
mounds and mines, and the people of
Themiscyra opened these mines by
digging into them, and hurled hives
or bees, as well as wild animals,
through the holes onto the Roman
workmen. Bees were once used in
England with equal success. Chester
was besieged by the Danes and Nor
wegians. The town was defended by
the Saxons with Gaelic auxiliaries. and
they repulsed the Danes, but the Nor
wegians, who protected themselves by
means of hurdles, tried to break
through the walls into the town. Then
the Saxons collected all the beer and
water and boiled them together. This
mixture they poured upon the Nor
wegians, who were under the hurdles.
The Norwegians, however, covered
the hurdles with hides to prevent being
scalded. The Saxons' next move was
to get all the beehives in the town
and throw them down upon the Nor
wegian army. The enraged bees stung
the men in the hands and legs, and
the swelling which resulted prevented
them from moving. In the end the
Danes and Norwegians retired, and left
the SaXons in peace.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26
cHEsTNUTs GROWN IN AMERICA

1t was three-quarters OF a century
after Du Points importation of Euro
pean chestnuts that Japanese chestnuts
began to attract attention in this
country. Probably the largest grove Of
Japanese chestnuts in America is sit
uated near Cleminton, N. ]. Here a
tract of land 500 acres in area is given
over to the culture of these trees. The
tract was originally forest of native
American chestnut trees. They were
all cut dc wn, and after the shoots had
grown two years they were grated
with the Japanese chestnut. In from
two to three years the grated trees be-
gan to bear, and at the end Of ten years
they were yielding a bushel of chest
nuts to tree. The orchard, if such it
may be called, is crudely cultivated
with a rough harrow, and the fallen
leaves are permitted to rot and en-
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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

den to myself. Was troubled witt
smothering spells, also palpitation o.
the heart and that bearing-down feel
ing, and could not be on my feet much
Il was growing worse all the time
until L took your medicine.
''After taking three boxes of Lydis
q. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Lozenges, the tumor passed from me.
my health has been better ever
since, can now walk quite distance
and am troubled no more with palpita-
ton of the heart or bloating. l rec
ommend your medicine to all sufferers
from female troubles
1t is hardly reasonable to suppose
that any one can doubt the efficiency
of Mrs Pinkhan's methods and medi-
cine in the face of thu tremendous vol
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26
THE FAKlR'S CONFESSION.
Experience Has Taught That the Peopl
Must Have What They Want.

Nhusb nave w nat lney W ant.
"There isn't any doubt that I've
got the best washing machine on the
face of the EARTH" said the patent
right man with great complacency, as
he leaned back in his chair and jim
gled the silver in his pocket. "It
does the work in half the time-saves
half the soap-any child can run it,
and so forth and 50 forth. Every re-
spectacle family ought to have one,
and the price is mere nothing"
''But the trouble is to make the
people believe in it," said the man
with the orange-colored whiskers.
''That's it, of course; but I'm not
kicking I was up in the Northwest
for month last summer, and, though
L did not sell single machine, 1 was
$3.50 to the good when [ folded my
wings. 1t was all because [ under
stood what the people wanted"
"They didn't want your washing
machine, it appears"
''Not any. [ never worked harder
in my life to make sale, but it was
no go. [ gave two public exhibitions,
and then took the machines from
house to house, but, while everybody
admitted that it was good thing, no
one was willing to give up the wash
board. Then L gave them what they
did want. 1 ran down to New York
and bought twenty-four gold-plated
watches and pint OF so of bogus dia-
mond rings and pins, and the very
first sale made was to.the Mayor of
the town. The folks just tumbled
over each other to get at me, and the
proft-gee whizl L had talked for
about three weeks to sell machine,
but it was no go. In four days I un-
loaded all that bogus jewelry on the
same people, and they felt SO tickled
over their bargains that the brass
band serenaded me, and a score of
prominent men were down at the de-
pot to see me off.
"Patent rights are all right" con-
tinued the man, as he carefully re-
moved the tin foil from a cigar, "but
if the public doesn't want a washing
a windmill or q burglar
alarm, then give 'em what they do
want. You can always hit 'em if you
itudy to do so, and by hitting 'em you
an indulge in this brand-two for a
lollarr Pm. Quad, in Philadelphia
Press
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together
and until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For great many years doctors
pronounced ii local disease and prescribed
local remedies, aud by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced it in
durable. Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease and therefore requires
consti tutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure
manufactured by f. j. Cheney 81 Co., Toledo,
Ohio, is the only constitu tional cure on the
market. 1t is taken internally in doses from
10 drops to n teaspoonf,l. 1t acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of the. system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any case
it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials. Address FL. CHENEY& Co, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26
TREASURES OF THE DeEP.
Attempt to Recover Pirates Sunken
Spoil.

An interesting effort is being made
in Dunworley bay, on the Irish coas,
near Cork, to recover a considerable
amount of treasure which there is good
reason to believe. lies beneath it
waves. Tradition has a long told fab
ulous tales of armada galleons los
there but the more prosaic and re
liable pages of the history Of Bandon
tell of a sunken pirate schooner and G
vessel Of name and type unknown
which foundered there during the
reign Of William and Mary. The ex-
istence Of these two wrecks was per-
fectly well known in the 40's-when
they were examined by one OF the frs
professional divers who worked on tbs
Irish coast, Patrick Collins, and tbs
father of the diver who is con-
Quoting the present endeavors. The
elder Collins worked in what
is now called open Dress and
experts in the progress of an
exceedingly useful but Attlo under
stood craft know that that was the in
'"hNAO4is IL 1919 Vi DleDt, anu NOAASiSN
ed merely of helmet riveted to the
upper part of a protective and water
tight garb which did not extend below
the waist. With this primitive gear
he was able to recover some drinking
vessels, ivory tusks, head Of Egyptian
origin and coins of William and Mary
In addition to several guns. The diver
was told that according to local legend
the pirates had sunk their treasure
chest, dashed between two guns, rather
than allow it to be seized but no signs
Of it were to be seen. More than
month ago j. Mulcahy and T. r. Hol-
land entered into negotiations with
local salvage contractor to make fur
Their researches, engaging Collins
through whose fundamentally chiefly
the sunken lightship Putin was raised
last year. The result, so far, has beer
that a dozen guns in remarkable pre-
servation, and apparently about 2OS
years old, have been brought to tbs
William Ill, some more beads anc
ivory. The examination is, however
| going on, and, if necessary, the hullf
will be blown up with tonite or dyna
mite cartridges These guns cannot
| however, claim to be the oldest objects
ever recovered from the deep w. A
! German has amassed an interesting
collection of relies of famous wrecks
and has in this the wheel of a pulley
block from Henry Wills ship thu
Mary Rose brought up after 295 years
immersion. Some carpenters tool
from an armada hulk in Vigo ba,
there are also, as we'll as several yer.
ancient coins and vessels, but perhap
no item in the group has a greater in
terest than an officers sword, recov
cred in 1890 from what remained afte
its explosion in action of LOrient, tn
French flagship and which had there
fore been under water for ninety-tw
wears
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26
Er>ptian Dislike of the French.

The Frenchman in Egypt is an I'M
pleazant person from the native point
Of view. French artists, wandering
from place to place in search of sub
jects for their paintings, carry with
them, in addition to their artistic para
phernalia, their own peculiar notions
of civilization. The Arab Shiekh, who
with dignifed kindness offers to the
perfect stranger the most frank and
generous hospitality, is trea as dirt
beneath his feet. The AraS )mau,
passing along the villose street, with
only her Iustrous eyes visible above
be- moving veil, is favored with a
49, the like of which cannot be con-
ceivsd by an American man who has
never lett his own chivalrous country.
The little children of five or six
years, who come and stare at the won
derful stranger, and who get in his
way, are whacked with the French
mans stick.
The dogs of the native villages,
which for protection are trained to
sleep in the daytime and keep awake
in the night, know them, and hate
them. At intervals through the night
these dogs bark and howl in desul
tory fashion, calling to their canine
friends and relatives in other little
villages mile or two away. If the
dogs fall asleep the Arabs stir and
awaken in the unaccustomed silence
Then they think their dogs cannot be
keeping proper lookout, and, get
ting up, they rouse them, and the mo
notonous p-yap-yapping is resumed
New York Press.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

Johnny More proposed to a girl.
She said she would send her answer
next day. He was surprised to receive
a green leaf. He took it to botanist,
and since then he has been mournful.
1t was leaf from sick-o' More tree.
Worlds Comic.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

Railroad officials claim that II Is very OK
pen i've to run their lightning express trains,
and are talking about reducing the speeu. ~
is likewise expensive to the health to rusn
and struggle compete in business analrs
as men do nowadays The brain, the nerves,
the muscles. the whole system gives out for
restoring strength after business worries,
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is the proper
remedy. 1t is an ideal tonic for the tired, tn
KUN down and the weak.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26
TUM0R EXPELLED.
Unqualified Success of Lydia e..
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

Mrs. ELIZABETH WHEELocK, Magno
liza, Iowa, in the following letter de
scribes her recovery from a very crit
cal conditions:
DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-I have beer
taking your Negeta bic Comnound. anG
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26
World,s wine Productlon FOR One re,r

According to the Moniteur Vinicol.,
the worlds wine production for 1896
was 1882 100, 500 gallons; for 1897, g.
SAB, 1882 gallons. The production in
the United States was in 1895 1866
600 gallons in 1897, 80, 3O3,74O gallons
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

ANuNty W SOttDh
It's praises. ii
has done won
ders for me in
relieving me
of n tunor.
" My health
has been poor
for three years.
Change of life
was working
a upon me. !
N was very
~ much bloate(
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

Fitsipermanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness fter first days use of DIR. Kline Great
Nerve Res torer S2trial bottle nd treati Sc free
DIR. K. II. KLINE, Ltd, g3l Arch St., Phila, Pa.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

We have not been without Piso's Cure for
Consump tion for 25 years.-LIZZIE FERREI,
Camp St. Harrisburg. Pa, May 4, 1891.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

Don't TOBACCO S1'1l I'D 57llJAo TUT k'Ie H"@ss
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
etic. full OF life, nerve rud vigor' take MOTTO
Bac the wondcr-worlSer, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, 5oc or 81. Cure guaran'
teed Booklet aud sample free Address
Sterling Remedy Co. Chicago or New YORK
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrup forchildren
teething, softens the gums reducing infiamma-
tion ,allays pain. cures wind collie 2jc. bottle
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

Clean blood means clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar-
tic clean your blood and keep it clean by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm
Danish pimples, boils, blotches blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, -beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed. l0c, 25c, soc.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

When fool opens his mouth his head is
soon empted.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

Some women are jealous of an echo be.
cause it always gets the last word.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

Nature works wonders and men endeavo
to get them patented.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

1t is a funny thing that woman can never
Try standing up.
Probably Jobs wife never thought she
could play whist.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

Either girl is in love or else man looks
funny when he proposes.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26
Don't tobacco 50, sd 5i.oHO Your lire Aw.y.

The name is too often but shadow larger
than the man behind it.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26
Beauty Is Blood Deep.

1t is the little that a man wants here below
that is always the hardest to get.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

Riches may fly away, but mans bald
head always sees him through.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26
10 Cure Constipation Forever.

Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. l0c or 25c
nc. G. G.. fail to cure, druggis is refund none
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

You can make 50 per 100 collecting names for us.
Splendid opportunity. Send loo for blank book and
instructions. Manufacturers Union, New Orleans La.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26
Railroad Trains to Run Slower.

The ducks you kill, but can't find, don't
count.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26
To Cure a Cold i'm One pov

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund money If it f. IS to cure. Csc.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

Men need higher moral courage more than
they do higher foreheads.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

The lazier man is the more he is going to
accomplish tomorrow.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26
MM ND a n n HA@ cured at home with
n H HW q EN- out pain Book of par
EEg w 1Va ticulars sent FREE

TO KIDNEY, BLADDER AND LIVER
y sufferers. A fellow sufferer from the terrible
Brieht's disease now cured will from gratitude send
rec on application NJ. D. Russell, 1859 Evans Ave,
Chicago
WANTED-Cass of had health that R'IpA.N.S
w will not benefit Send cts to Ripans Chemical
90 NewYork for 10 samples and 1000 testimonials
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-26

Love never begins to come home to man
ill he begins TO come home to love.
When it comes to rheumatism and neural
ria a man has no choice.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-15

the other The good people of john
ston county are in favor of unfolding
the law, but between the moonshiner
and the disreputable revenue officer they
find little to choose"
The jury promptly acquitted Coley.
Mr.. Pou's speech created Il great sem
sation While he was calling the roll
of moonshiners who, he said, were I'M
der the special protection of the reve-
nue. officers District Attorney Bernard
pretended to be taking them down.
There. is much speculation as to whether
he will have them indicted.
After the trial Mr.. Pou said to a
News and Observer reporter:
The revenue outrages in Johnston
have become unbearable. The men
whose names | called are such men as
are usually sent up here as delegates
to Republican conventions. To all such
they give protection. To others, not
Republicans, when indicted, they often
offer to stop the prosecution if they will
become Republicans. Thus the revenue
service in this district has become a
great political machine"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-15
FIRST DAY A SUCCESS.
Crowds Gathered on the Opening Day
at Presbyterian Bazaar.

In the rooms on the second floor Mt
No. III Fayetteville street yesterday a
large number of Christmas buyers were
present and many of the extremely
beautiful articles offered for sale, by the
ladies of the First Presbyterian church,
Were purchased The display is one of
the most attractive ever presented in
Raleigh; the handiwork of these good
women being worth a deal more than
the prices named by the fair young
women who have charge of the various
booths. The decorations are appropriate:
holly and other evergreens being the
predominating decorations.
The lunch room is easily n winner.
Fair young women are in charge, dis
pensing substantial food as well as
dainty lnnches-and all this is for a fair
price. The Klondyke Mine is decided
success, though one is liable to dig for
some time before securing the prize.
However, the game is worth several
times the candle and bids fair to be
most popular. The most attractively APP
pointed room is that in which are the
young women who know how to tell
of the good quality of the genuine ar
ticles such as they offer for SALE 1t is
safe to say that after the successful
opening of yesterday the Bazaar will be
all that the public could expect, and will
receive its full share of patronage. The
Bazaar will be open today from 8
o'clock a. IN. until 10 O'Clock p. m, and
open tomorrow at the same hour, closing
one hour later.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-15
Eclipse of the Moon.

An eclipse Of the moon. practically
total. will be visible tomorrow night.
The moon will enter the shadow of the
earth at $40 p M, central time, reach
the maximum of observation at 1926
p. M, and will leave the shadow of the
earth at 1904 y. m. The shadow of the
earth VIII cover almost the entire disk
of the moon, excepting a small section,
which, under certain conditions, may be
altogether invisible. If the atmospheric
conditions are favorable for observation
the obscnred moon will appear as a cop
per red disk at the time of the greatest
observation, owing to the diffused light
it receives from the rays of the sun
refracted through the atmosphere of the
earth. 1t will be visible over nearly all
Of the United States, in Europe and
in some parts of Africa.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-15
THE TYPHOID AT THE NORMAL
DR.. Lewis Makes Important Discovery
as to the Water.

DIR. r. III. Lewis, secretary to the
State Board of Health, returned yester-
day morning from Greensboro, where
he went Wednesday to inspect the work
being done to remedy the cause of the
outbreak of typhoid fever in the State
Normal and Industrial College.
He found the work of removing the
soil around the leaking sewer pipe in
progress but all the saturated earth
has not yet been taken out. Every par
tcle of it will, however, be removed and
dry dirt put in its place.
The infected wells will also be filed
up, and everything possible will be done
to prevent recurrence of the present
deplorable epidemic.
DR.. Lewis says all the patients now
at the college are doing very well. ex-
cept two or three, who are in a very
serious condition. DIN the case of one
young lady, Miss Davis from Gran
vile. gangrene has set in and it is
probably only a matter of a few days
before her leg will have to be cut off.
Another student, Miss Tinnin, of Or
ange, had about recovered from typhoid
fever when she had another violent at
tack of malaria.
While in Greensboro this time DR..
Lewis made another discovery which
goes far toward proving the correctness
of his report, printed in this paper two
weeks ago. In that report he gave it
as his opinion that the cause of the
fever was impure well water. This
opinion was borne out by a bacteriologi-
cal examination of the water by DIR. AL
bert Anderson, but it was noted as a
remarkable fact that only students who
lived in the college dormitory were SICK
while the day scholars living in the city
were not affected.
This, however, was explained Wednes-
day when the janitor of the college
buildings, Zeke Robinson, negro from
this city. on being questioned. said that
he had been accustomed to fill the wa
ter coolers in the buildings, from which
both day and boarding pupils drank
with water from a mineral spring near
by. But the servants in the kitchen, it
was learned, supplied the table with
water from the central well-the one
found so badly infected And this ex-
plains how it was that the boarders be-
came sick while the day pupils remained
well. Robinson, who is a very relia-
Bile negro, ON being questioned as to
why he had made the change in the
water, said it was because Mr.. Forney,
the bursar. had complained that the well
water tasted bad.
Nearly all the old pupils and many
new ones, DIR. Lewis says. have indica-
ted their intention Of returning to the
school when it opens again i'll January.
1t was reported here yesterday that the
Greensboro Female College had closed
on account of an outbreak Of smallpox,
but investigation proved the absolutely
falsity of the rumor.