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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23

The cocoanut tree in Porto Rico is
the natives most valued possession;
the roads are lined with them; the
green fruit contains an insipid water
that is drunk by everybody, and, in
deed takes the place of our ice cream
soda as a favorite beverage. The
sweetmeat of the country is made from
the ripe cocoanut, soaked in water for
an hour, then grated and cooked in a
thick sirup of brown sugar and water.
This when dried is hawked about the
streets in tones similar to those of the
festive strawberry or peach huckster
Of home.
The cocoanut trees have not been
planted in groves like our orange trees
in the South, and but few, if any,
seem to have been exported, though
there is every reason to believe that
this can. be done at a profit. Fruit
such as the orange, banana, lemon
and guava grow wild by the wayside,
and pineapple plants may be seen
growing in between fences. along roads
and in bitches, with absolutely no
,ultivating. If these can be raised in
Florida, where the cultivator has to
contend against frosts, and provide
expensive sheds, what cannot the en-
;erprising fruit-grower extract from
Porto Rico?-Chicago Record.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23
Added Terror to War.

Reports have been published of ex-
periments with the Canet quick firing
field gun, which is to be the new
weapon of the Frennh artillery and
concerning which until quite recently
the greatest secrecy was maintained.
Judging from these reports, the efec-
tiveness Of the gun must be truly Won
derful. Twenty-Five shots per minute
were fired at one official trial, and two
hundred dummy soldiers placed at a
distance of two and one-half miles by
way of target were bowled down in
one minute and three-quarters. Stimuli
taneously ordnance officers in England,
putting a new field piece made for the
British army through a test, were de-
lighted by the almost incredible ac-
curacy of the weapon. First a shot
was fired without particular aim, and
a telescope, having been focused on the
point of impact of the shell, was
fixed in that position. Each succeed
ing shell fred from the gun-and they
were many-exploded within the field
of the object glass of the telescope.
Such are the pleasant diversions of ma
tions which have officially accepted in
vitations to the Cars peace congress
and the most advanced nations at
that. Philadelphia Record.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23

During a street blockade one time,
load of oats was stalled by a large
express wagon. Behind the oats was
clean and hungry Cassius" sort of a
horse acting as motor to an ash wagon.
The animals most noticeable parts
were his ribs. They seemed waiting
to burst through the skin in way
menacing to anatomical beauty. His
nostrils were more prominent than
his ears on this particular occasion,
and as he knew oats when he smelled
them, so also did he know to avail
himself of an exceptional change.
Craning his neck toward one of the
bulging sacks, he united the string
with. his teeth. The life-sustain-
ing provender flowed out and down
the nav of the ingenious and half
famished beast. The kleptomaniacal
equine indulged until he was satisfied,
quietly and ioyously, when the block
ade was Strengthened out and all
moved on, one, at least, made better
and happier by the incident.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23
WISE WORDS.

Culture will convert tares into
wheat.
Fierce storms may mean a quick
voyage.
Weak minded men are apt to be OBJ
stinate.
A good conscience is the best armor
against calumny.
Happiness is in enjoyment rather
than in possession.
True education never induces con-
tempt of the ignorant.
The man who has injured you will
be the last to forgive you.
When we despair, not only our com
pass, but our ship, is gone.
The body is the temple, the heart is
the altar, love is the incense.
A crack in wall may be 7ery small
but you can see great deal through
it.
Ii is not the man who is painting
the house who is doing the greatest
work.
Money may buy horns for donkey,
but it cannot hide his brogue when he
speaks.-Ram' Horn.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23

Two cases notably illustrative of the
African natives power of endurance
are reported from the British Central
Africa Protectorate. In each instance
a man was dragged from his canoe by
a crocodile, and had an arm bitted al
most to apulp. The men had to be
taken long distances overland. On
reaching Zomba each had the injured
limb amputated and quickly recov-
cred. DIR. Douglas Gray, acting chief
medical officer there, remarks further,
in his report, upon the growing con-
ddence of the native in the European
medicos. Reports of cures-more es-
pocially in relation to surgery spread
rapidly amongst the natives, and the
one old cure-a fibre band tied round
a limb above the seat of disease-is,
he says, fast losing its reputation. -
London News,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23
PRIVATE BLAIR OF THE REGULARS,

1t was Private Blair, Of the regulars, before
dread Ell Caney,
Who felt with every throb of his wound the
life-tide ebb away;
And as he dwelt in a fevered dream on the
home OF his youthful years.
He heard near by the moan and sigh of two
OF the volunteers.
He raised him up and gazed at them and
likely lads they were,
But when he bade them pluck up heart he
found they could not stir
Then q bullet plowed the sodden loan, and
his fearless face grew dark,
For he saw through the blur sharpshooter
who made the twain his mark.
And his strength leaped into his limbs
again, and his fading eye burned
bright;
And he gripped his gun with a steady hand
and glanced along the sight;
Then another voice in that choir of fire out
spake with a deadly stress,
And in the trench at Ell CaneY there lurked
Spaniard less
But still the means of the volunteers went
up through the murky air,
And there ltindled the light of noble
thought in the brain of Private Blair
The flask at his side, he had drained 1t dry
in the bllstoring scorch and shine,
So, unappalled, he creptsand crawled in
the face OF the firing line.
The whirring bullets sped o'erhead, and
the great shells burst with n roar,
And the shrapnel tore the ground around
like the tusks OF the grisly boar
But on he went with his high intent, till he
covered the space between,
And came to the place where the Spaniard
lay and clutched his full canteen.
Then he wrigged back DER the bloody
track, while death drummed loud in
his ears,
And pressed the draught he would fair
have quaffed to the lips of the volun.
teers.
s'Drinkl" cried he; "don't think of me, fol
I'm only regular.
While you have homes in the mother-land
where your waiting loved ones are.'
Then his soul was sped to the peace of the
dead. All praise to the men who
dare,
And honor be from sea to sea to the deed
of Private Blairl
Clinton Scollard, in Leslie's Weekly.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23

Portland reports cat that will only
drink Sebago water from a faucet.
When she is thirsty she perches her
self on the sink and news piteously
until some one comes to her relief.
The faucet is turned on just enough so
that the water drops slowly and the
cat cranes her head and as each drop
leaves the faucet out goes her tongue
like q flash to catch it. Sometimes
when the drops come too rapidly.
Floss varies her mode of drinking by
catching several of them in one paw
and then slipping the water daintily
therefrom. -Bapgor Commercial.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23

late war. In the calm days of the truce
that followed the hard fighting at
Caney, and on the San Juan ridge of
the first of July, I heard many COM
pany commanders tell stories of the
intrepidity Of the 'wire-cutters =
soldiers who are equipped with in
struments adapted to cut the barbed-
wire fences which abound in Cuba.
Many companies and regiments were
inextricably mixed up in the advance
through the death-swept woods on the
San Juan River, and it often happened
that when a company commander called
for wire-cutter to come forward, he
did not know who the soldier was that
answered him, and there was neither
time nor opportunity to find out.
This wire-cutter worked almost al
ways at the imminent risk of his life,
The barbed-wire fence was we'll calcu-
lated to delay the advance OF power
full force. Sometimes the fence was O
fortifcation; sometimes it was merely
the accidental boundary of an old field
or an estate. In either case, the wires
were looped loosely from the posts so
that, as rule, no axe or machete
could separate them by blow at the
post. They were in dropping tangle
which no two hands could separate to
enable a mans body to pass through,
and the wires were invariably so high
that no one could vault over them.
These defences always compelled a
halt Commonly, nothing served to
open the way except the heavy shear
like implements known as wire-cut-
ters, with which wise provision had
furnished every regiment of the Amer
ican regular army. The man who
carried these wire-cutters had more
important Office than the color-ser-
geant, for the colors are seldom car
ried into battle. If he were disabled
and left his wire-cutters behind him,
his company might be detained for a
long time at the cost of many lives.
A terrible instance of the effective
ness of this defence occurred in the
open field at the base of the San Juan
hill, before Santiago. Here barbed
fence forced whole regiments to halt
in the face of withering fire of Span
ish musketry.
In the fre-swept zone ofthe Mauser
or Krag- Jorgensen rifle, it is no cow
ardice for soldiers to lie down, or,
when an advance is to be made, to
run in crouching position. Indeed,
the men are commanded to do SO, and
often rebuked by their comrades when
they stand too erect. Nearly all the
men who marched through the belt OF
woods and the open meadow that lay
in front of the Spanish position on the
San Juan ridge, had lain on the ground
and advanced by series OF these
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23
LEAKEsvLLE, GREENE COUNTY, MISS THURSDAY MARCI1.23
INDIAN wlTcHcRAFT IN ALASKA.
The Government Trying to Stamp Out the
Practices of the Medicine Men.

Practices of the Medicine Men.
The United States Court Of Alaska,
acting under instructions from Wash
ington, is endeavoring to stamp out
witchcraft, as practiced by the Indian
tribes on the southeastern coast of the
Territory. A number of Indians are
at Juneau under arrest, and their
cases are being considered by the
Grand Jury that is now in session.
These Indians are very superstitious,
even more SO than those of the inte-
rior. If the medicine man is unable
to effect cure in any case he pro-
nounces the patient bewitched. The
relatives of the sick Indian will accuse
some of the tribe of boing the ''witch
devil" The accused is confined until
the fate of the patient is decided. In
every case he is put to death if the
sick man dies. The number of In
dians killed as witch devils" in
creased during the past year, and
Governor Brady gave it prominence in
his report.
Judge Johnson, in charging the
Grand Jury, said: ''You will be called
upon to investigate number of Of
fenses peculiar to this Territory grow
ing out of the belief in witchcraft pre-
valent among the native people. Many
of the cruel murders among them may
readily be traced to this belief, and it
is your duty not to ignore, but to make
patient inquiry and return true bills
where the evidence so warrants, for
the protection of these people The
stamp Of the laws disapproval of all
such practices must be emphatic -
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23

The President of the United States
receives an average of 100 letters a
day. One-half Of them ask fayors of one
kind or another. The other half offer
advice on every subject under the sun,
or express their approval or disap-
proval of executive acts and policy
Just now the question of expansion
suggests the topic for most of the let
ters, and ninety eight per cent. of them
approve it.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23
THE MERRY SIDE OFLIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

Having Been in Cuba-Their Only Hope
a He Had Found It-Enbarrassing-
a Classical Child-The Fool and His
Money-The Intricacies of English, Etc.
Il was in Cuba" the stranger said.
Said the m alden, "You lovely MANI
And she said to hersglf, "Illkeep him away
From the other girls here, if l can"
Il was in Cuba" the stranger said.
Said the maiden "Oh, how splendid"
And she danced with him, and she talked
with him
II was in Cuba, D." the stranger said.
And then-how she froze himl for
Il was in Cuba last year" he said,
Bat l left before the war"
Washington Post.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23
The Fool md His Money.

Optimism" said the sorry fool, sis
seeing the green side of a fve-dollar
bin
And What is pessini SNIP" asked his
friend.
Seeing neither side Of q dve-dollar
tiser.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23
Bad FORM.

"What a painful, shocking way
to take ones self out of the world it
must be to drink carbolic acid" re-
marked the young woman in the fur
jacket.
"Shocking?" replied the young
woman in the yellow buskins. Its
worse than that. It's disgraceful.
It's the way the servant girls commit
suicide?" ?"-Chicago Tribune,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23

Lava streams in Mexico have been
known to retain their heat forty-six
years after an eruption, while two
such streams that flew in Iceland in
1888, attaining the volume of Mt.
Blanc, have not quite cooled in 11j
years. In 1876 it was possible to ignite
wood in a lava stream that flew from
Vesuyius in 1872. Two years later
his was no longer possible.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23
The In.ricacics of TusIisI,.

Monsieur De France-"You wind
mp re clock to make him go?"
English Tutor Exactly"
Monsieur De France-"Zen what
for you wind up re beesiness to make
him stop ?"-Jeweler' Weekly.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23

SCI wish now," shrieked the angry
young wife, II wish now, George
Winchester, you had married Luce
Jones instead of me? That's what 1
wish!'
81 would have married her, "
howled the equally angry young hus-
band, 'only she wouldn't have me
and you would Chicago Tribune.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23
No silly Superstition.

"And you wouldn't begin journey
on Friday?"
'Not mel"
81 can't understand how you can
have any faith in such silly supersti-
ton"
'No superstition about its Satur-
days payday"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23
A Classical Child.

Old Gentleman taccosting small child
in Hyde Park with nurse)-''Ah, my
pretty drill And what is my little
dirls name?"
Up-to-date Child (aged fve)-
"Nurse, kindly hand one Of mammals
cards to the gentleman Tit Bits.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23
As He Had Found 1t.

'What soured your hfe?' asked the
Judge of the desperate. "You seem
TO have gone back on the world. Why"
Cause it hain't sQuar', yer honor" :"
Detroit Free Press.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23

cts a terrible thing to be near
sighted"
Cant dodge your creditors?"
"That's not the worst. I'm always
walking into the parlor when my wife
has company. Chicago Record.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23

The tall savage seized the news
paper which the waves cast upon the
tropic strand and eagerly perusedit.
Clothing" he exclaimed, coming
to- the advertisements, sis as cheap as
Dirt"
"But not so durable" urged the
stout savage, who was notoriously in
clined to be benighted, not to soy re-
dictionary. Detroit Journal.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23

She-"Do you think we will ever
save up enough money to get married."
He-"Not unless we break off the
engagement. "-Brooklyn Life.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23
NO. 81,
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

The fishes of the Canary Islands, Of
which Mr. O. T. Cook has collected
dfty-Eour species, four Of them new,
prove to be essentially those of the
Mediterranean, the fauna having little
in common with that of the West
Indies.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23
THE WIRE FENCE
AT SAN JUAN.
ny u n Cha,nherlin-

n every war some
Of the bravest of
the brave, who
do deeds worthy
of praise, ar e
never known by
name. t hi s is
true is an espec-
n -
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23

Near Salmon City, Idaho, a gold
dredging plant Of remarkable proper
---~-~ - - saroeess Of NJ -, c, l4y o
company Of Chicago. IT, l'le
plant is of the New Zealand type,
with all the heavy parts OF annealed
steel and with a daily capacity esti-
mated at 1900 yards. The boat was
aoated some time since, and the vast
machinery exhibited the most salts
factory efficiency for the purpose, the
final tests to be made in the near
future. This plant has been worked
heretofore by hydraulicking, at such
times as the water supply permitted,
and it produces what has the reputa-
tion of being the purest article of gold
found in Idaho, being worth nearly
800 per ounce as it comes from the
ground. Moreover, the pay streak of
this remarkable locality is 200 to 800
feet wide, twelve to twenty feet deep,
and averages sixty cents per cubic
yard.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23

There are hundreds OF millionaires
in Russia whose fortunes are in the
shape of vast domains containing gold
and silver of incalculable value, but
which have never hsen developed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-23

An interesting trial with oil as fuel
was Inodo on hoard the torpedo boat
destroyer Surly at Portsmouth re-
gently. There are four boilers on
board the Surly, and two of these have
been adapted for oil, the other two
being retained for coal fuel. An over
head feed tank supplied the oil, which
lad flashing point of $50 degrees,
Fahrenheit, and was injected as spray
Three runs were made over the meas
lred mile in Stokes bay, and a mean
speed of fourteen knots was attained,
which was considered fairly satisfac-
tory for a preliminary trial. although
sixteen knots had been hoped for.
This was the first time oil fuel had
been tried at sea in the British navy.
Aluminium is coming into use
among the natives of India, particu-
Iarly at Madras, where Professor
Chatterton, of the local university,
has recently started experiments with
it among the Woodworking classes of
the School of Arts. This led to the
equipment of factory, which, after
being in operation but five months,
now produces over a ton month of
finished articles. While it is difficult
in such a conservative country as In
dia to induce the natives TO accept any
innovations, nevertheless, by carefully
following the eetololiehvd ehe1gos esad
finish, it has been found possible to
introduce the new ware with consider.
able success. In addition to making
ordinary utensils, ornamental and ar
tistic work is done al the factory, and
considerable is anticipated from this
department, as the natives of India
possess great skill as metal workers.
The daily sentinel., 1899-12-08
MINERS ON A STRIKE.

Glenwood Springs-Fifty miners en-
ployed at the Northern company's coal
mines, four miles above Cardiff. went on
strike at noon. They demand an in
crease of S1.5O per yard for digging.
They have been receiving SO. so Per yafd
and now demand 49, They notified the
superintendent Of their demand two days
ago. Receiving no reply they took sum
mary action. There are no indications
of rioting. Last week the miners in the
Midland mine were given an increase Of
81 per ton. The ssriking miners have
been putting out about 300 tens Of coal
per day.
The daily sentinel., 1899-12-08

Armorer Howard hoisted . new storm
flag on the Armory at noon today. 1t
greatly improves the troop quarters and
adds military appearance to the Ar
mory.
The heavy rime frost which presented
itself, on all out door venduss this morn
ing, remained in plain vein until after
noon, when it sparklsd in the bright
sunshine atfording pretty sight.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-01-27
The Wife and Her Husband S
Business

1T is cause of amazement to
HE that a man can go on, year
in and year out, toiling for a
family whose mem bers show no
interest in his work further than
to spend the money he makes,
and who look upon him as the
family mint" writes Frances
Evans in the January LadIe' S
Home T0uynaL. "My firm belief
is that had he, in the first flush
of married life, talked over his
business and ambitious. with
his wife, she would have become
interested IN both, first for bis
sake, and afterwards for her own
and their children's. Think OF
the gulf that lies between a man
and womanunited in marriage
when he never speaks at home
Of the affairs which absorb his
entire day! Mutual interest will
bind people together indissol>
ubly even when indifference,
that dangerous of signs, has
swallowed up affection .
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-01-27
Bynum' S Cross Roads.

P. NJ. Eason and family, have
moved from this section to Gates
Co., near Sandy Cross. We
wish them well.
Mr.. J. H. Dale has gone to
Churchland, Va, to make it his
home. We miss him from our
midst.
Mr.. G. w. Hobbs, of Virginia
was here on q visit last week to
his father. Mr.. Hobbs is look
in 6 we'll.
W. are glad to see Mr.. A. P
Paine out again after a serious
illness.
Miss Jennie Bynum left here
Monday for Churchland, Va, to
make it her future home.
Mr.. Henry Hobbs, an aged
citizen of this place, died on
December 23d., aged SO years.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-01-27
A Proposed Lumber Comb ne

Baltimore Sun says: ga strong
Boston syndicate is negotiating
for the consolidation of variors
concerns engaged in the Nortl
Carolina pine industry. The
aim is to place this important
business under one control and
to carry out such a plan about
twenty-five leading concerns
would have to be included IN
the ombination. These concerns
turn out about 600, 100000 feet
of lumber a year, and if consol
idated would dominate the
North Carolina pine market
Such a com bination would take
about $40, 100000 to finance
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-01-27
ITEMS GATHERED HERE
A-NO THERE
BY CHARLES MORGAN.

SOME THINGS He SEES AND HEARS Al
POINTS WHERE WE HAVE NO
REGULAR REPORTER.
Mr.. w. G. Williams went to
Suffolk on business last week.
Mr.. Nilsson and Joe Brothers.
of Rosedale, have put up a
shuck factory.
Mr.. ]. f. J. Warren. of Num-
ford, is on the sick list this
week
William Brothers, Of E. City,
is visiting w. T. Stafford this
week at Mumford.
Miss Maggie Askew, Of Nuns
ford, is visiting relatives and
friends in Berthe county.
Miss George Brite spent last
Tuesday night with Miss An
ME r. Stafford at Mumiord.
S. J. Jones, of Mumford, spent
part Of last week with Philip
Pritchard, near the Fork ueI>, b.
borhood.
Miss Maggie J. Williams, of
Mumford, is spending this week
with her brother, d. T.. Will
liams, at South Mills.
Mrs. p. G. Pritchard and Mrs
]. c. Perry, of the Fort, spent
Tuesday with the family
of r, Nixon Morgan, near Il.
City.
Mr.. Charlie Sawyer and Ms S
Ollie Brothers, both of RISE lie,
were married last Thursday
evening at half past three
O'Clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Granville Smith
son, who were married last
week in Pasquotank county,
will leave for their homes i'll
Virgins Saturday.
Mr.. G. w. Ove1man and wife,
who have been visiting relatives
and friends in Pas luotauk
county, will return tomorr ow
to their homes in Berkeley.