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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-11-03
DEMO CRATIC STATE TICKET.

DEMO CRATIC STATE TICKET.
For Governor,
A. Fl. Lougino. of Washington.
For Lieutenant Governor,
Jas. T. Harrison, OF Lowndes.
For Secretary of State,
J. L. Power, of Kinds.
Fer Auditor,
" IS s. 5s savssi Fl OF Y hs1sysst..
For Attorney General,
Monroe McClurg. Of Lefore.
For Superintendent of Education.
II. L. Whitfield, of Rankin.
For State Revenue Agent,
Writ Adams, of Kinds.
Fer State Land Commissioner,
E n. Nall, of Holmes.
For Clerk Of Supreme Court,
W. Brown, of Copiah.
For Railroad Commissioners,
A. Q. My, of Simpson,
J. d. McInnis, of Lauderdals.
J. G. Kincannon, of Lee.
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the ashes of our fire. They'll make
one in the same place, but that's all the
good it'll do them. Still, think we'd
better stop up that hole, SO they can't
get through if they do find it,
"Better do it at once, them" replied
Taylor, and the two men started for
the entrance to the gully. When they
had reached it Tarbox pointed to a
big bowlder lying almost on the edge
of the opening and said:
Call the rest of them and we will
roll this chap down. 1t won't go far be-
fore it wedges, and then no living man
can come through"
But it required half an hours labori-
Gus work to accomplish this. They
we're obliged to fell small tree for
lever, and even then it required their
united labor to move the heavy bowl
der. Inch by inch, however, they forced
it along until it overbalanced. Then
with sullen crash it felLinto the rocky
bed and bounded down the steep way
for some 80 yards until it reached a
turn. Here it wedged itself fast, COM
pletely blocking the passageway.
But, mingled with the crash of its
Judgment, the men distinctly heard a
muffled shout from beyond it, which
caused them to stare blankly at each
other.
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HABITS OF SPEECH.
Faulty Language Used in Child
hood Is Hard to Correct in
After Life.

"Why do educated parents allow
their children to contract habits of I'M
grammatical speech that will have to be
conquered in after-life?" asked spin
ster of a mother.
because they hate to worry the poor
little things about such matters when
they are young and should be care free.
It seems cruel to be all the time cor
recting them and keeping them on their
good behavior. They will have to learn
the rules of our dreadful language all
too soon as it isl
"Yes," said the spinster, land in ad-
dition to learning to speak properly
they will have to unlearn the tricks of
speech in which they have been allowed
to indulge all their little lives. KNOW"
laughing, that there is much ridicule
of old maids children but 1 believe
that my theory in this case is correct.
1t is positive unkindness to let your
child double his negatives and say
amt when several years from now he
will be harshly reproved for such
lapses. The child must learn to talk,
anyway, and is it not as easy to teach
him to say 1T is T. as It's me?' And is
it not as simple for the little tongue to
lisp Il saw it, as 4 seen it?' Hove baby
talk, and should not correct child for
his mispronunciation of hard words.
AS he grows older he will himself see
his mistakes in that line and change
them. But insist that it is parents
duty to make the difficult path to gram
NAUTICAL speech as easy as possible by
never allowing the little ones to stray
from it in the Acknowledgment
Bazaar.
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CHAPTER Xr.
JUST TOO LATE.

When Joe Tarbox left the mate and
his companion and started on his way
to Dyea the latter watched him until
he disappeared behind the first hill.
Then he turned to Rider and rubbed his
hands together gleefully.
"You done that fine!" he exclaimed.
eve are all right now! Let's make
tracks. I'm itchin' ter git my hands on
some Of the yaller boys. Did yer notice
how that Teller choked himself of when
he started ter say somethin' bout a
nugget? I wouldn't give 4 cent for his
chances of SEEM 'em agin."
Their horses were soon ready, and
once more the two adventurers took up
their route. Several times they missed
the trail, but after four days travel
they came to the white cliff mentioned
in the letter.
make sure what it says" said the
miner, and Rider produced the precious
document at once.
ut says keep to the left" he an
nounced.
"All right. Here goes, but don't see
no signs of any trail. Well have to
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Some Mexican Laws,

A Topeka man who recently toured
Mexico tells that they have some very
curious criminal laws down there. For
example, the statutes make it twice as
much of an offense to mutilate the face
of q woman as that of man. While in
the City of Mexico he attended court
one day and saw man sentenced to
one year in prison for cutting his para
mour across the face with knife. If
his victim had been man the sentence
would not have been more than four
months at the outside. The law seems
to be based on the idea that woman's
best possession is her beauty, and that
to mar it does her great injury. There
is another curious law. If q person
should be wounded in an encounter the
punishment to the offender is fixed by
the number of days his victim has to
stay in the hospital or under doctors
care. A line is fixed at 40 days in the
way of general division. If the in
jured man occupies more than 40 days
in his recovery the penalty doubles up.
AS we understand the Topeka man
these are not court customs, but statu-
tory observation-disclosures City Jour-
nal. a !.
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A great lake steamer can go up to
Hudson, III miles from the mouth; that
is 100 miles from the nearest point on
Lake Ontario and 240 from the nearest
point on Lake Erie.
The United States geographical sur
vey has just issued map of New York
and vicinity. The map is engraved on
copper and printed from stone. The
cultural features, such as roads, rail-
roads, cities, towns, houses, ETC., as we'll
as the lettering, are brought out in
black, and other features, like swamps,
etc., are clearly defined, making valu-
able chart of the territory.
More matches are used in the United
Kingdom than in any other one coun-
try in the world. 1t has been estimated
that English people use an average of
eight matches each person per day, and
annually over 1,7oo,ooo,ooo,oo are
burned. The largest match factory is
in Austria, and each year it uses $4,000
pounds of phosphorus, turns out $780,
000,000,000 matches, and for the boxes
alone 100000 feet of wood are used.
One pound day is said to be the most
that an organ grinder ever takes, while,
with some exceptions, five shillings
is about the least, SO that London or
gan grinder may be regarded as fair
ly prosperous man. An organ can be
hired from the makers for one shil-
ling sixpence day, while the price of a
new organ is G25. The cost of setting
an organ to new tunes is about four
pounds, and, since novelty is essential.
this is frequent source of expense.
II you wish to make fountain pen,
take two ordinary steel pens of the
same pattern and insert them in the
common holder. The inner pen will be
the writing pen. Between this and the
outer pen will be held supply of ink,
when they are once dipped into the ink
stand, that will last to write several
pages of manuscript. 1t is not neces.
sary that the points Of the two pens
should be very near together, but if
the flow Of ink is not rapid enough
the points may be brought nearer by a
bit Of thread or a minute rubber band.
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SLEEVES IN SUMMER.
The Latest Are Made to Counter.
balance Tightness of the
New Skirts,

Sleeves are becoming an objective
point in the costume. This is probably
due to the extreme tightness of the
skirts and the desire to increase the
width of the shoulders as counter
balance. Plain sleeves are becoming
only in perfectly-formed woman, and
hence the efforts OF the modistes to in
troduce them have failed. Among the
sleeves seen on eight imported gowns,
the first sleeve is that of an apricot
colored satin. It is cut in a point upon
an epaulette of mousseline de sole. The
bottom is cut out in points upon puff.
ing of mousseline. There is vine OF
embroidery at the top and at the hand.
The second sleeve is that of plain cash.
mere gown, and is made elegant and be-
coming by tucks. The third sleeve is
that of wool challie. 1t is cut in two
plaits on each side under rosette; the
top is open upon plating of mousse.
line de sole, with small ruches. The
fourth sleeve is that of q silk poplin
gown, with guipure insertion and
ruches of mousseline. The fifth belongs
to tailor-made gown, and the sixth is
that of q mauve wool, cut into several
parts and fastened down by buttons.
The seventh sleeve is that of gray
poplinette gown, the edges finished
with ruches of mousseline de sole. The
last sleeve, of black satin, has the up.
per part covered by guipure, which is
framed by loops of ribbon.
Sleeves will in the near future form
still more important part of the
gown than they do even now.
AS to the tight skirts, there is some
thing almost shocking about the
swathing lines which now so unequiv-
ocally reveal the entire figure of fash.
ionable woman. She has Invested her.
self of every possible morsel of inside
drapery which it is given her to discard,
and wears her frocks meat" to quote q
big man milliner, over combinations or
long woven vests which reach to the
knee, where they are joined by lace or
silk flounces.
Of course, this new skirt, fitted as it
is without single wrinkle over the
back, when trailing foot or two in
length over green lawn or velvet pile
carpet, is all very we'll; but how about
the half-attempted, half-accomplished
version ofthe country dressmaker,w who
just misses the right curves and
grows creases in the wrong places?
Then, indeed, the drastic denouement
is obvious. The new dresses in her
hands become deeds of disaster instead
of things of beauty, and there is much
crashing of teeth over disappointed
ambitions.-N. Y. Sun.
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A CENTURY SETTLEMENT.
The Government 10 Paying q French
Claim Hundred
Years Old.

The United States government has
just decided to settle claim exactly
u century old, and is sending the money
to the grandchildren, the great-grand-
children and the great-great-grandchil-
dren of the original claimants. The
justice of the claim was never doubted,
but it took 100 years to complete the
unwinding and winding of the neces-
sary amount of red tape.
The brig Matilda sailed from New
London, Conn.,, early in the year 1899,
bound for the island of St. Bartholo-
NEW. Gideon Leet was captain. The
ship carried cargo of cattle and man.
fractures, and was to take on n return
cargo of molasscs, sugar and rum.
Before it reached ST. Bartholomew
the brig was captured by French
privateer. That was on May 20, 1899.
The privateer La Coragcnce was the
captor, and was commanded by Capt.
La Cyrenee. The brig was taken into
the harbor of Gustava, and her crew
set ashore. They afterwards worked
their way home as best they could, but
never again heard of the Matilda,
which was given a French name as
well as a French flag and crew.
French privatecrs were actively seiz-
ing other American ships as we'll mt
about that time, and much hard feeling
arose OH account of the acts, and de-
mand for indemnity was made by the
United States government.
The claim for the Matilda and cargo
was $4,000, and this, with others, made
up the list of what became known as
the "French spolia' ion claims"
When the Louisiana purchase was
consummated, one clause of the treaty
specified that the United States would
assume the payment of the spoliation
clause. The numerous claimants were
jubilant, but they found their rejoic-
ings premature.
The United States admitted the cor
rectness of the claims, but began I'M
winding red tape. Appeals were in
vain. Years passed, and all of the orig
inal claimants were dead, while but
two or three of the claims had been
settled.
A second generation collected two or
three more, and then those who had
fallen heir to the remaining claims,
like that for the Matilda, gave up all
hope.
Finally in June, 1899, the Matilda
case has been reached, and distantly
descended heirs of Capt. Leet and the
other owners are being searched for,
and a number of checks have already
been sent out.-N. Y. Journal.
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COULD NOT KILL THE HOBO
Rusty Rufus Was ON the Pilot Milk
Ing Cow After Running Into
Herd.

ut was way back in the '7Os," said
nm old engineer 81 was pulling the
limited east from Council Bluffs to
Chicago over the Rock Island The
night was bitterly cold. We had gone
about 20 miles out, and had stopped
at night Office for orders, and had
started up again, when the fireman
reached over and said: There is a
hobo on the pilot; saw him get on at
the depot 'Surc?' / asked. Go out
on the running board and see if he's
there yet The fireman did as he was
ordered to do, and returned with the
information that the hobo was still
there.
"'Well,' said 7, it's bitter cold
night, and if he can stand it out there
I am willing he should ride with me-
And on we went toward Chicago, with
old '211' barking like sixty at the low
joints ahead and forgetful of our head
end passenger on the pilot.
"By and by, by the faint glmmering
of the headlight, thought saw ahead
what seemed to be bunch of cattle on
the track. AS we approached it the
bunch seemed to grow larger. 1t was
now too late to do anything, so 1 just
pulled her wide open and old 211 hit
that bunch of cattle 'ka-bif.' 10 para
phrase the language of Tcnnyson, who
glides into raptures of admiration over
the charge of the Light brigade at Bala-
klava, there was just simply cattle to
the right of US, cattle to the
left of us, but none any more in
front of us. After it was over our
thoughts reverted to the hobo Oh the
pilot. GO out and see if he is still
there I said"
"Well," said an old brakeman, under
whose feet the frosts of many winters
had cracked as he wendell his way in
the dark over many a long train of box
cars, and who had been listening to
the story. "Well," said he, twas he
killed?"
NO." replied the engineer. "There
he sat, as large as any hobo could sit,
on the pilot with an oyster can milking
one of those burned COWS. Topeka
Capital.
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"Dou't you count me7" pouted Clara.

years to wear its way down through the
rock to this depth. Right here where
we are standing it seems to have backed
up and made sort of basin, which &C.
counts for the rocks being worn out SO
much wider. When there was freshet
the water couldn't get out through the
opening fast enough. But we must be
getting the rest of the goods in here.
Drop your loads here till we have it all
out of sight"
The others obeyed and as they went
back and forth he told them how he had
discovered the opening.
eve came down from Selkirk," he
said. "but we struck off somewhere
north of where the trail divides. twas
lastsummer. We were prospecting and
headed over this way. We got all mixed
up in the woods and at last we came
out at the other end of the curious
gully. We found gold and stayed there.
One day I followed this place down
from the other end and came out here"
It required some time to carry all the
goods into the opening, and although
Tarbox soon returned and even the
young girl assisted with all her
strength it was an hour later when
Dick Taylor pulled the sheltering mass
over the entrance and hid it from view,
saying:
There! We are safe now from all
prying eyes. The next thing is to get
all this stuff into camp. It'll be a tough
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HAD $1,000 BUT WAS HUNGRY.
How a Lucky Tramp in Chicago Got
the Name of Being an Hon.
est Man.

"I've slept under shed with the
thermometer way below Zero" said
the tramp, land I've gone two long
days with nothing to eat, but Tn tell
ing you straight that when I once had
$1,000 in my pocket I was worse off
than at any other time I can remem-
Der. I had just been let out of the
bridewell in Chicago, and was begging
on the streets and being turned down
on every hand, when 1 picked up
$1,000 bill on the sidewalk. l thought
it was dollar, and you bet 1 made
hustle to get down a side street. When
l lodged into doorway and made out
that I was a thousand dollars ahead
of the game the sweat started from
every pore and my knees knocked to-
gether. I was regularly seasick for
ten minutes, and my heart thumped
away until thought it would break
out.
'That $1,000 meant a heap for me,
you understand, but I was so excited
that it was two hours before I could
do any planning. The first thing was
to buy new suit of clothes, and I en-
tered store and picked them out.
When I exhibited that $1,000 bill the
clothier ran to the door to call a po-
liceman. I got away by close squeeze,
and then realized the situation. Tramp
as was, couldn't get it changed at
q bank nor use it to make me more
comfortable. If it had been a ten I
could have had lodgings and bed,
but I'm telling you that walked the
streets as hungry as shark, and slept
at q police station and in lumber
yards.
Under the circumstances the bill
might as well have been a piece of
brown paper. I tried all sorts Of
lodges to get 1t busted, but it was no
60. Every time showed it ran the
risk of arrest. offered butcher 500
to get it changed, but he refused to
have anything to do with it. I'd have
sold 1t for half price and been glad to,
but there was no such thing as maxi
ing deal. Finally, in despair, went
to one of the newspaper offices and
looked up the advertisements for the
week past. The loser had advertised,
and went to his Office in big build
ing and gave up the bill. The reward
was $50, but he counted out ten dol
lars on top of that and said:
"'I wouldn't have believed there was
such honesty in the world. You could
have kept the bill as we'll as not
HE took down my name and all that,
and gave the affair away to the report
ers. They wrote me up as the Honest
Tramp and had my picture in the
papers, but you may guess didn't en-
joy it over much. l had $50 in place of
$1,000, and us for honesty, it was all
bosh. I returned the bill because had
to, and though I'm hungry and dead
broke and don't know where to turn
in for the night, I'm not looking for
any more big finds. Something with
figure '2' on the corner will just
about fit my vest ocket."-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
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keep our eyes open for that feller's
tracks. I suppose rejoined Rider
wheeling his horse as he spoke. Its
a mighty blind sort of route along
here, but I'll find it if there's gold at the
end of our trip waitin' fer us. See if
don't. I'm as good as one O. them di-
yinin' rods any time"
He seemed TO be right. for he picked
mis- way along with marvellous accuracy
until at length they reached an open
spot. Here he paused and said:
Its guesswork now, but we'd bet.
ter keep as nigh the same direction as
we kin. We amt far from the end
now"
But for once he was wrong. Had he
diverged more to the left he would have
soon reached the turn from which a
view of the gorge was to be had. AS it
was they inclined to the right, and as
it was nearly dark they decided to
camp for the night. Hank Bowers rest
less eyes were always on the alert. and
as they were unsaddling their animals
he suddenly gripped Riders arm with
one hand and pointed with the other.
"See that smoke!" he exclaimed.
'Look!"
Rider did look, and there, plainly de-
fined against the setting sun, was COL
umn of black smoke curling upward far
to the southwest.
What do you suppose it is?" he in
quired.
''That is a signal! No fool would try
to cook with wet wood when there's
plenty O. dry ter be had! You stay here
and don't move till git back!"
Without another word he strobe off
in the direction of the smoke, which
seemed to be beyond heavily wooded
hill not more than mile away. At the
right of the hill stood ragged rock
like sentinel on duty, and toward this
he bent his steps. He was not long
reaching it and from its shelter he
peered cautiously around the outer cor
ner.
| A partyo of men were unsaddling their
horses near the foot of a high cliff, and,
as he looked, he distinctly saw woman
among them. The twilight was deepen
ing fast, and he could not distinguish
any features, but he muttered aloud:
IF that don't beat all! I don't I'M
derstand it nohow. I must know who
they be, an what they're after!"
With stealthy steps he drew near the
party, sheltering himself easily behind
the powders as he proceeded. Soon he
was near enough to be certain that the
men were strangers to him, and he
watched the thick smoke with curiosi.
ty. He did not see Joe Tarbox, for the
latter had disappeared before the
watcher drew near, but as the latter
crouched behind rock he suddenly
uttered savage oath.
"Sold! Curse him! He must have
been on to mel"
For there before him stood the man
he had parted with on the trail, while q
fifth man was shaking hands heartily
with one Of the party, his joyous shout
Of "Avery!" being plainly distinguish
able.
For few moments Hank Bowers
watched the preparations for camping,
then, apparently satisfied that the par
ty was settled for the night, he stole
noiselessly away, his evil face lighted
up with look of triumph.
[To BE Continued
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samoans 1nveternie Beeears.

An American who visited the Steven-
sons in Samoa relates that the Samoans
have practice of begging. They bold
ly ask for whatever they may covet
wherever it may be found. The novelist
became tired of this practice and there
fore said one day to a Samoan friend
who had acquired from him necktie,
handkerchief and some other trinket:
us there anything else you want?
There is the piano." suggested Mr..
Stevenson, ironically. eyes," replied
the native, II know, butt" he added,
apologetically, II don't know how to
play it."-Chicago Chronicle.
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Natural Instincts.

There has never yet been discovered
woman so strong-minded that She
didn't long and pray for sealskir
sacque and white satin sofa cushion.
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In Practice.

Yeast-Did you ever take any of
those mud baths?
Crimsonbeak-Well, I ran for Office
once.-Yonkers Statesman.
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Could click" That Fellow Easily.

One day Tommy accompanied his
mother on shopping expedition, and,
seeing large candy man in a confec-
toners window, he paused in front of
it with wistful look Then, turning
away, regretfully, he said: Mamma,
could lick that fellow with both hands
tied behind me."-Troy Times.