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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-15

At my rate 1t la quite clear that the sol
diers. healthy and sick were given inferior.
unpalatablc and unwhoesome food. and no
amount of lodging and utilization can avoid
that conclusion
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-15

Senator Mason Of Illinois dealt some stag
gering blows at imperialism. The odious thing
can't stand many more such onslaughts as
those of Hoar and Mason.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-15

rascaiy sophisticators who sent unat supplies
TO the soldiers would not hesitate TO send the
same sort Of stun to any market wherc they
could md place for II. They are discredt
to the country and danger to les CONNER
cai prosperity. General Miles has done
great public service Ia calling attention to .
peculiarly odious sort Of villainy."
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-15

Tho Pittsburg Dispatch thinks that these
tyrant impcrialists who aver that tho Declara-
ton OF Independence Is more sentiment"
that we have "outgrown the constitution
and who would Violate the principles of the
Monroe doctrine and Wnshington's farewell
address. would also 20 farther. They propose
to violate the Golden Rule
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-15

"Ccin" Harvey and his contribution box
continue their engagement at playing the role
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-15

Aiger seems to be IN for no END Of trouble
again. all on account Of Eagan.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-15

Few persons realize the extern
Cinnamon have seized upon sns
business of this town. There
1000 Chinese laundries In the cM
more than 500 run by persons =. "
tionalities. One seldom or 49,
Chinaman employed as hired 49, ~
American laundry. Perhaps no 40
has fallen so nearly into the
single nationality.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-15

| The hrst few days at Austin have brought
forth bills enough to keep the Legislature busy
three months. And the thing has Just begun.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-15

Editor Nat @. Henderson wishes 1t distinct
ly Understood that while he has not been In
the habit OF lodging anything good that comes
his way. he Is not and has not been an appli-
cant for any old position at the hands Of a
democratic legislature. However. 1t may be
remarked in passing that Nat is about as
much entitled to something as some who have
been applicants.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-15

Messrs. Lay Smith arc the editors and
proprietors of the Lockhart Post. formerly
the Photograph. The new owners propose
tn exercise their utmost diligence to provide
tho citizens OF Lockhart and Caldwell with
dean. up-to-da newspaper. In politics
the Post will be strictly democratic.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-15

\ cemmlssary General Eagan abused the New
York papers for publishing army scandals,
yet he gave his outrageous and indecent testi-
mony before the war investigating commits
took every precnutton TO see that It's Nth and
slime were blazoned abroad, to the disgrace
OF both the army and the government. In
comparison with his conduct, the yellowest OF
the New York journals IS a paragon of virtue
and honor.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-15

With the change Of management the Austin
Statesman has changed Its views. It is now
an ardent adnirer OF Colonel w. j. Bryan
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-15

Messrs. Rogers and Wilkinson are now the
publishers of the Waxahachie Morning Star,
having purchased the paper from Its recent
founder Mr.. w. X. stokes The Star shines
brightly and, as the publishers claim, 1T
never grows dim -
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-05-04
CURIOUS FACTS.

tne 1bb1faeR c6ckauJ' 5h gig oima ma rs
mark of the servant.
More women than men 60 blind in
Sweden, Norway and Iceland; more
men than women in the rest of Eu-
cope.
Several States in New England
have statutes forb idding kissing on
The streets. The law is an old one
and obsolete. -.
A grain of fine sand would cover
about 100 of the minute scales of the
human skin; each scale covers from
300 to 500 pores.
The utilization of grain elevator
waste for sheep and cattle food hal
given rise to new industry in the
Northwest. The waste brings 81
ton.
John Hooper, man with mani
for tombstones, stole eighteen of then
from Graceland Cemetary. Chicago
and used them for bric-a-bracs at hi
home.
a., Some of the petrified wood found IN
Arizona, it is said, is SO hard that
steel tools will not work it, the petrl-
flcations being only three degrees less
in hardness than the diamond.
The walking advertisement known
as a Sandwich man" is by no means
modern idea. In 1916 procession
of men dressed to represent straw
covered wine bottles used to parade
the streets of Florence, Italy.
Tea drinkers in London are swim
died systematically. A number of old
women go about and buy up from SER
wants tea -leaves that have been used.
The leaves are then artificially col
ored, dried, and sold as good tea.
In Japan is a venerable camphor
tree, which, it is said will hold fifteen
full grown persons in its hollow trunk.
According to Japanese tradition, it
grew from the walkingstick of the ia
nous philosopher Kabodairs, who
fourished about the year 780. The
tree is certainly 1000 years old.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-05-04
TAHITpS WAR SCARE.
EVERYBODY Excited Except Yankee Who
Had Timber For Sale.


The worst scared people of the year
1898 probably were those inhabiting
the French isles of the Pacific, espeo-
ially in Tahiti. The people of such
islands as New Caledonia, Tahiti, etc.,
receive news from the outside world
when it is months old, and the white
inhabitants, being mostly French, are
easily excited. New Caledonia is
convict settlement of the French Gov.
eminent, where there are thousands
of exiled criminals. This made an
exceedingly anxious time for the re-
spectacle inhabitants of the principal
town, Noumea, during their war scare.
At Tahiti the officers of the French
transport ship Aube, hearing Of the
war talk between their country and
England several weeks after it started,
bacame disturbed at the movements
and signaling of several foreign ves-
sells, and straightway ordered all har-
Dor and lighthouse lights out, and be-
gan Collecting and carting all stores
inio the country, the work being car
riea on at night. To heighten the
scare several of the crew of an Ameri-
can ship went on spree and started
row in the market place at Papeete,
and the natives joining in, the fight
became general Then was spread the
rumor that the English had landed and
1890 &C. H., GylA-,' Mora than half
of the natives and a large number of
French women and children made for
the country, taking their goods and
chattels with them, and have not re.
burned yet, thinking that terrible
war is going on.
For few days boats and cutters
were kept busy taking emigrants to
Morea, a mountainous island lying
twenty miles away, and the Governor
of Tahiti, the Captain of Aube anS
the military officers held council of
war. This council decided to make
a new fort, the soldiers being started
on the work in pouring rain, the
wet season having just begun. Every
thing portable from the Aube was
landed and her guns were mounted on
the new fort. and the vessel was
prepared to be taken to the entrance
Of the harbor and sunk, la Hobson
and the Merrimac.
The man who reaped the profit Of
the scare was Yankee timber mer-
chant, and at last accounts he was
still doing an enormous business, TAX
ing orders and saying nothing.
The sighting of the Ovalau, an in
nocent ship of commerce, caused in
;ense excitement, as she was first
aiken for the expected enemy. just
before this steamer turned up it had
been decided at second council of
war to call out every man capable of
carrying arms. However, the appear
ance of Ovalau quieted things down,
and peace promises to reign once
more in the principal town, but the
poor people who fed to the back
country and the other islands will be
some weeks in learning the situation.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-05-04

An American visitor to the great
docks in London, England, is i'm
pressed with the fact that he sees
goods being shipped to every part of
the Inhabited globe; places the names
of which he is entirely unfamiliar with.
The United States is very rapidly be-
coming shipper to all foreign coun-
tries. Even Siam, of which we know
so little, is receiving exports from this
country, some of the principal expor-
tations being kerosene oil, lamps,
tools, clocks and watches, and high
class machinery for electric tramways,
cotton good and medicines, The ship
ment of locomotives to Korea, Japan
and Russia is now an old story.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-05-04

1t required no table of statistics
rom the Treasury Department to
prove that the year 1898 was "the
farmers year But the extent to
which American farms have furnished
food for the world can only be ade-
luately appreciated by reference to
bhe comprehensive tables compiled by
The statistical experts of the Treasury.
The tables disclose the fact that the
farm products exported from the
United States last year we're valued
1T the enormous sum of $3.50, 900, 900,
which is a gain of $12O, 900, 900 over
bhe exports of 1897, and SURPRISING
by over 500, 600, 900 that of the great
export years of 1891 and 1892. Oh
Oreadstuffs alone the exports of the
year were $65, 100000 greater than
hose of 1897, while the exports OF
,otton were also considerably in ex-
,ess of those Of 1897 and 1895. That
he Europeans are beginning to ap.
,reciate the nutritive value of oul
,orn is also indicated by the fact tina
or the first time in our history th,
exports passed the 200, 900, 600 bushe
mark
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-05-04
Fifteen Ruled Her Life.

In the Courant Of March 16, 1884,
we printed the following queer story,
which our readers will pardon US for
repeating. Some of them may have
forgotten it: Hebron, February Is,
1784.-This day departed this life,
Mrs. Lydia Peters, the wife of Colonel
John Peters and second daughter Of
Joseph Phelps, Esq. She was mar
ried at the age of fifteen, and lived
with her consort three times fifteen
years and had fifteen living children,
thirteen now alive, and the youngest
fifteen years old. She hath had three
times fifteen grandchildren. She was
sick fifteen months and died the 18th
day of the month aged four times fiji
teen years. Hartford Courant.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-05-04
Embarrassing For the Lecturer.

Civilized people when they listen te
a lecture on some abstruse scientific
subject applaud even if they do not
understand. But there is evidently
more frankness among savages, &C.
cording to story told by Captain Guy
Barrows. A white man one evening
tried to explain to some members of
an African tribe, the Mobunghi, the
wonders of the steam engine and
steamship. He drew diagrams on the
sand, and the audience listened and
looked with apparently intense inter
est. At last he asked his hearers
whether they understood. ''Yes,"
they replied, "they thought they
did," ''There was deep silence"
Captain Barrows says, ''for some time,
and then q voice in the centre of the
crowd expressed the unspoken senti-
ments of the whole assembly in one
emphatic word, uttered in tone OF
the deepest conviction-I iarp" En-
barrassing for the laeturerl-West-
minister Gazette
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-05-04

England is preparing to spend
$500, 900 year for thirty years for
great lake for irrigating purposes to
be made by damming the Nile. OF
the results of this dam building, Mr..
F. G. Penfeld speaks thus in the Cen
fury; The Egypt of the map shows
more than 400, 900 square miles, an
expanse nearly seven times as great as
New England, but the practical Egypt
that which produces crops and sustains
life-is barely as large as the States
Of Vermont and Rhode Island taken
together. This is the ribbon-like strip
of alluvial land bordering on the Nile,
few miles wide on each side, and
measuring not more than 10, 500 square
miles. The extension planned, and
to be completed in the next six or
eight years, wholly by irrigation, is no
less magnificent in conception than
the rescuing from the Libyan and
Arabian deserts of $500 square miles,
or twice the sarea of Rhode Island.
This will be exploitation in its truest
sense, and its accomplishment Will be
verifcation of the ancient saying
that Egypt is the Nile, and the Nile
is Egypt.
AS an object lesson this Egyptian
enterprise should have no more inter-
ested observers than in America, es-
pecially in Colorado, Nevada, Califor'
MIA, and other States of the West,
where the irrigation expert is succeed
ing the railway builder as a devel'
oper.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-05-04

The idea of national university is
as old as Washington's historic be.
quest for that purpose, and, indeed,
must be older, says the New York
Mail and Express. The life of the
Nation has always, from its inception,
held fast to the development of its in
tellectual side, not alone among the spe-
,ially educated, but among the people
universally, as an essential surety of
the maintenance and endurance of
Republican institutions. Before
France inscribed upon its liberated
;1i-color the motto of Liberty, Equal
ty, Fraternity" the young Republic
81 the thirteen original colonies had
already made the Stars and Stripes
he emblem of that universal educa-
ion which is the basis of the trinity
Of civic achievement, resting upon
representative government. The com
non school has clasped hands with
The theory of local self-rule as we'll as
With the principle of federated union
aver since the original Confederation.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-05-04

Harry 7. Montgomery, private in
the Thirteenth Minnesota, now sta
toned at Manila, in a letter received
by his uncles, w. E. Montgomery, at
Macon, Mo-, relates a curious Incl
dent there. A merchant of the we'll
to-do class came to the camp one day
and told of the death of friend. He
said his friends last request was that
q certain one of those those "beauti-
full American tunes" be played during
the march to the cemetery. The mes
senger did not know the name Of the
piece, and the leader of the regi-
ment band played a few notes from
different selections until he struck ga
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"
The native clapped his hands and
said that was the identical tune his
dead friend wanted. 1t seemed q
trife odd to play that rollicking air at
funeral and the musician endeavored
to point out the ineongruity of it, but
it was no use-"A Hot Time in the
Old Town" was wanted and nothing
else. The obsequies were big thing
and the members of the band did then
best to keep straight faces as they
slowly headed the procession down
the streets, grinding out as solemnlJ
as they could our "new national an
them" 1t was probably the first oc
casion where GA Hot Time in the Ole
Time" did duty as dirge. Kansas
City Times.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-05-04

Protecting Orchards FROM Light Frosts.
1t was, we believe, William Saun-
ders, the enlightened Chief of the
Government Experiment Gardens at
Washington, who, some fifty years
ago, insisted, in leading magnates,
that the textbooks were wrong in
teaching that heated air assembled
that is, assembled in an active sense.
It was, rather, pushed up by the
heavier cold air pressing against it.
1t seems a slight distinction, but it
has immense practical Importance.
For instance, those who understand
this smile at the Florida orange grower
who builds fires around his orchard
to make smoke when he fears a frost
is coming. He lightens the atmos-
phere at the same time among the
trees, and makes it all the easier for
the heavy cold air to push in and take
itS place.
The modern thought to spray with
water is more philosophical. Water
is a good conductor of heat, and would
add to the chances of resisting cold by
the heat il would abstract from its sur
roundings. Horticulturists have long
known that evergreens are quite hardy
in a moist atmosphere, when they
would easily succumb under the same
temperature in a dry one.-Mahan's
Monthly
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-05-04
Replaced the woman's seaIp.

The remarkable surgical operation
recently performed in Paris is still be-
ing much talked about. A laundress
had her scalp torn off from the nape
of the neck 10 the eyebrows, by her
hair catching in some betting. She
was taken to the Broussais Hospital,
where DR.. Malherbe, after seeing her,
sent for her scalp He obtained it
after delay of several hours, shaved
offthe hair, washed it with antiseptics,
40. applied it in place again. Ths
scalp has grown onto the head.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-05-04

Great Britain has ordered two new
battleships, each to have displace-
ment of IA, 900 tons, and cost IS, 000,-
900. That is what England thinks OF
the disarmament scheme.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-05-04

Mexican school children are allowed
to SNAKE during lesson time, provided
they have attained certa'G standard
of excellency
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-05-04

Advertising rates furnished on APP
plication.
Local reading notices sc. per line.
Address all communications to rub.
.lshers at Leakesville, Greene County,
Miss.
Entered in the postoffice at Leakes-
vile as second class matter.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-05-04

OFFICIAL JOURNAL or GREENE COUNTY
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-05-04

Subscription, s1.OO Per Year, in ad
vance.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-29

Fine Quality of Brick and Lime Pro-
duced From Native Sources.

Al Haines' MiAslon a hrtckyard has lately
neen eatabHshed, and is making very nne
quality of gray brick from the native Clay.
During the present season It's operations
have been Handicapped by lack of proper
machinery. The clay afYcrdjug the oest
material for brick lies few feet below tina
surface. and the apparatus used thus far
has not been suitable for reaching and
stirring II up; but this need is now pro-
vided for and when everything Is In place
the residents In that vicinity Will De able
10 obtain good brick from local sources at
n moderate price. Heretofore the sole sup
ply has been such brick as have beeu
these have sold a. ss2 per thousand in
Sitka.
A good lime kiln has also been erected at
Haines Mission and finds good market for
its Dr0Cuct
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-29

There is none who believes that the naming
Of Mr. Miller means that the office has
been permanently filled. In fact, il - stat
ed that the appointment was made Simply
to rid the directory Of the annSyance or
applicants until suitable man could Be
appointed.
Mr., Miller. when the position was offered
to him, shortly after Mr. Newman res.g-
nation declined the honor owing TO press
Of other business. The position OF prssi-
den, OF the Great Northern Express CON-
pauv. II is said is not an honorary eos,
but most decidedly active, ard one that
requires all the time a man whose aseen-
ton is nor otherwise taken Up ear devote
20 IL Il is The general impression that be-
fore long another change Will ne made.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-29

az the North Seattle camp Among the
lot are a Few matched teams that are
much taller and almost as heavy as the
hest dray horses seen On the street. OF
Seattle. AZ the other extreme are score
or 81 OF din!nu'ive little pack mules
scarcely larger than q Shetland pony that
have never felt the touch of draft harness
bat that have patiently trudSed day after
day through the lungles - Cuba and
Porto Rico bearing packs made up os
army supplies A great many Of the army
mules a, the camp are veterans ~ the
Spanish American war and will not rs
making their frst sea voyage when they
leave Seattle aboard the Port STEPHENS
The mule camp IS never without visit
ors Hundreds OF people g out to take
q look at II every CAV. For the at'ult
once is enough but "a tn" small boy the
camp has stronger attractions. and after
school is cat the camp Is daily overr}n
with motley crowd OF Youngsters who
have recently become 80 much OF nui-
sRncs that they ara not allowed to 90
into the stables EXCEPT nv sI-~rial permits
sion and are prorntiy chased cut Of the
camp ~ 4 sieciai Ts7lice man.
TIE s'ahIemeu At the camp are kept
pretty busy during tire dag Roughly
Speaking each man has from h.teer 70
twenty mules % look ogt eor. fee-i. water
and keep clean. The u5Ijes are led - the
watering troUghs 'wo AZ a time and IN
the same wsy are t2ily gtvsn a h;t OF
recreation Confinement with 9ienty o:
good oats ard hay "a sst ana ~ work 20
do has hrourh. hack the eoltish spirit IN
nqaIas ing past their coltis1 lays. ana ire
resut, q ;ha, a pair - risky mules often
indulge fl fo-se-rl2v tAat IS more zuT.re-
ctst~d ty tfe careless t&ers about tie
camp -Na- by ,hA anxious man a. the ends
o. ~ halter ro0~-
Wnen the chores" are done The s.ah,N-
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-29
IMPROVED TOURIST sLEEPERS.
Railroads Are AccedIng to Demands
of Middle Classes who Want
Better SIeeptpu Car SerVfc~

In response - the demands Of the times
the q. r & N and Its connections are
placing in operation a much better grade
o. tourist aleepers for Pacific Coast servtce
than AZ any previous time The largely
Increased irafftc 70 this section Of the
country has demanded all the Improve
msnts or iat'er-day transp0rta ton and
IN consideration Of this the railroads
are establishing service which is ex-
cellent IN every particular No. only are
the wishes az the frst-ciass passengers
served, but those who are travelling "a
and from the Eas. m second-clasx tick -
are sniend!dly cared for There was A
tims when a tourist sleeper appealed rs a
limited number % people wao ser. travel
ing on the cheap order In every
meaning Of TIA term Now however
there has been a radical change WITH
The better tourist slee9@rs in operation,
the class IL passengers has been i-nprnvad
and one may now travel upon them AMI
enjoy ali the privileges OF . first class
sleeper AZ greatly raaue III rate
Daily. on the q, x. 4 - "astbrind fast
mail - attached one OF these laiasr i'm
proved tourist s!eepers a model II beauty
and handsome appointments The new
cars are almost an exact cCuuterpar. Of tre
fIrst-c4sss xisepers
one noticeable feature OF he new tour
~ cars ~ n" a absence - smoking ars~t-
Tent ira 0t@ cars being built Nv TIE
tNlFn7r 'orrranv are not prd.itssi with
SIT King apartments This new Departure
HaS hf'n f2krn because Of the ra0t mat
most fnrruzh trains arr provided with
composite cars which provide a smoker
YcF ne sleeping ar passengers.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-29
TWO MORE CAPE NOME VESSELS.
:. Y. r. Secures santa Ana and steam
Schooner LAX me.

Two more vessels have heen secured for
The Seat.le-Cape Nome run. General Man
2Eer A. |. Hawiey ann3uaced yesterday
,ha; the Seattle Yukon Transportation and
Trading Company had chartered the Santa
Ana. steamship now building m Cali
forn.a waters. and the steam schooner
Iakme.
The Santa Ana Is 10 have freight carry
ing capacity OF lao tons, and her pas
senser accommodations are t2D cabin and
tte second class. AZ a passenger vessel
Mr.. Hawiey says none will he finer Or
more spleneid!y equipped on the Coast.
Her speed IS 10 re twelve knots
Charles Nelson, the weil-knqyu San
Francisco shipper. is building the Santa
Ana. He Is also the owner Of the Lakme
and other vessels operating on the Coast