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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-04-12
Dress Goods.

Easter Offerings in Dress Goods
Lotus Lawns to go at sc. yard.
One Caseof Scarbora Cord Dimity
in stripes, checks, plaid, to go at
&c. Children's Dimity at 1Oc.
Melrose Lawns, 10c. Cordelack at
Sc. Kohmoor Lawn, 121c. Asturra
Jackonet, 10c. British Dimity,
1Oc. Batiste Indume 10c. Zephry
Lawns, 10c. Milford Dimity, 10c.
Dimity Diaphone, 15c. Jackonet,
1Oc. Irish Dimities, new and
artistic effects, stripes, dots,
figures and flowers, fast colors, 15c.
Pine Apple Batiste Soft Sheer,
Cotton Fabric, Foulards Patterns,
a wide range in designs, 1880.
We offer a large assortment of
fancy figured Batiste, also Fancy
Stripes, all new spring patterns.
A very big line at 10c. We also
have large stock of Pique Welts
and anything you may want in
White Goods.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-04-12
VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS

Are grand, but Skin Eruptions, rob life
of joy. Bucklen's Arnica Salve cures
them, also Old Running and Fever
Sores, Ulcers, Boils, Felons, Corns,
Warts, Cuts or Bruises, Burns, Scalds,
Chapped Hands. Best cure in the
world. Drives out Pains and Aches.
Best Pile cure on earth. Only % cents
a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by Jas.
w. Legg, Druggist.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-04-12

Love at first sight is all right,
but what a girl wants is a man
who will love her every time he
sees her.
Sometimes there is more gener-
oslty in kind word than there is
in giving a dollar to public charity.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-04-12
Mccall Patterns.

We agents for the Mccall patterns These
patterns are strictly up to date and absolutely
correct, perfect fitting, economical, and in every
way desirable.
They are designed in such simple way that the
least experienced can readily understand them and
need not hesitate to undertake the cutting of any
desired garment. l0c. and l5c. None higher.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-04-12
Stylish Hosiery.

Fancy coored and lace effect in Ladies and
Mems Hose destined to have and to hold the hrst
place in fashions favor for spring and summer wear
Our stock of them pleasngly bendd with all kinds
and most reasonably priced.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-04-12
Easter Trimmings.

Come here with your trimming wants and vel
fill them with accuracy and satisfaction.
Your Easter gown will surely need garnitures
AID trimmings to give it soft, regal appearance.
The stock is as fresh an Easter lily and you'll
find every sort of ornament and trimming that Dame
Fashion has ordered in her endless uses
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-04-12
Considerable to Say About Silks.

Silk fabrics enjoying Fashions strongest
support and the styles blendngs and color schemes
more beautifully artistic than ever. Our stock
embraces everything which taste and fashion de-
mand; from the conventional black to the most ex-
treme novelties.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-04-12
Paraso1s, Umbrellas,

The Biggest assortment ever
shown in Marietta, all colors and
all price from the cheapest to the
best. When our Mr.. w. A. Flor
ence was east he closed out
drummers sample line which will
be sold at J price. This will be
one of the Biggest things we will
have to offer this season. You
have never saw as pretty a line in
any one store to make your selec-
tions from. Just think of it, a
$500 parasol, you can buy it for
$3.50. A six dollar one for $500
and SO on. They won't last long
at these prices. Children Fancy
Parasols-we start them at 10c.
and run to $1.00. Ladies' Fancy
Parasols at $1.00 and up to $500,
white, black and all colors.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-12
GSSISSIPPI MATTERS.
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
By J. L. POWER.
BY J. L. POWER.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

way, and when, at the close of devo-
tional exercises, President Kincannon
proposed that the students might make
up ON Saturday for the holiday on
Wednesday, and asked our consent"
we gave our emphatic No!
The materials are being placed on the
ground for the infrmary and additional
dormitory. The plans are beautiful.
The cornerstone will be laid by the
Masonic grand lodge on Monday, May
IA, and on the day following the session
will close with graduating exercises.
There will be thirteen full graduates,
and it is coincidence that there were
thirteen graduates in 1898 and thirteen
in 1899.
The main college building is in very
bad repair, and much of the furniture
unfit for further use. The roofs will
have to be thoroughly repaired or made
new. 1t is thought that the improve
ments will increase the capacity to five
hundred, and there will be more than
that number of applicants for admis-
sion.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-12
THE SHADOW OF A KING.
Empty Show of Power of the Bey of
Tunis and other Titled Heads
of the Orient.

The man who was sovereign and is
a figurehead is always pitiful to see.
Under the British empire many princes
still retain an empty show of power.
In the colonies of France the fiction is
almost disregarded. A visit to his
highness Ali, hey of Tunis, is like visit
to an extinct volcano. DEGREES are
still issued in his name, but he is
scarcely appraised of them beforehand,
You may spend weeks in Tunesia,
says Mr.. Herbert Vivian, traveller of
experience, and remain unconvinced of
the bey's existence. Should you, how
ever, chance to be near the Italian rail
way station of Tunis on a Monday
morning, you may witness the arrival
of portly old gentleman, who hurries
into a ramshackle medieval carriage,
with beflagged escutcheon on the
door, and drives off as fast as his pair
of white mules can carry him.
He has come to pay the visit which
he is required to make on the French
officials who may have instructions for
him. Under no circumstances will they
pay him the compliment of a visit even
when they are living in their summer
quarter, hard by his palace.
The only occasion when you may
hope to come in contact with the
hey of Tunis is during the days of
Biairam, the Moslem holiday which fol-
lows the fast of Ramadan. Then he
holds a public reception. Like his
father, he wears semblance of Eu-
ropean costume. His face is benevo-
lent, but weak, and by no means intel
ligent. He seems scarcely to take in
the compliments of the French presi-
dent, clumsily translated to him by
Gen. Valensi.
"Hamdou lillah (God be praised),
l am well" is his constant refrain. The
resident, as the chief French official is
called, remarks that his highness wore
a fur coat on his drive, and trusts that
his highness did not feel cold.
mo, Hamdou lillah, did not feel
cold. Itwas my son who compelled me
to wrap myself up" and faint smile
plays upon the expressionless lips.
Poor beyl His attention often wan
ders, and you realize that he is think
ing of the contempt he must excite
among his compatriots-
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-12
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Germany has at present 80 dock
yards, where last year 52s vessels were
built.
The Russian army is the only one in
Europe employing women as medical
officers.
Switzerland uses more postal cards
in proportion to its population than
any other nation in Europe.
The British army standards, colors
and guidons are all made by hand, but
the jack flags are made by machine.
Waiter girls in Munich restaurants
seldom receive any pay from their en-
ployers. Their fees amount to from
fifty cents to five dollars day.
In his state clothes, including the
crown, the sultan of Johore wears
diamonds worth 2.4O0,O00. His col
lar, his epaulettes, his girdle, his cuffs
sparkle with precious stones.
Word comes from Berlin that many
well-to-do young men. to avoid com
pulsory military service, have been
taking drugs which produce tempo
rary heart weakness, seeking to de-
ceve the army physicians.
Buenos Ayres suffered from unusual
heat in January and the first weeks
OF February. For January the aver
age temperature was 90 degrees, which
is ten degrees higher than the record
for 16 years. On February it ran
up to between % and 104 degrees.
with over so per cent. of humidity,
and stayed there for week. There
were $50 cases of sunstroke a day,
and the deaths between February 2
and February 9 amounted to 121. In
most cases people dropped dead as if
struck by lightning. No such heat
as occurred in February had been re-
corded in the 40 years since meteoro-
logical observations have been pre-
served.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-12
GENERAL LAwToN's MoDEsrY.
Being Lionixed Was Worse to HIS
Than Facing the Guns Of
the Enemy.

The late Gen. Lawton, admittedly
the greatest Indian fighter Of the
army, with all his energy, perseyer-
ance and natural military genius, was
as conspicuously modest as Gen. Grant.
On public occasions, says a writer Ia
the New York Tribune, he was bash
full as a girl, and as his great height
made him the center Of attention in
crowd, there were many occasions
when his bashfulness was evidently
painful. Admiral Bradford, who is one
of the giants of the navy, first met Gen.
Lawton just after the famous l,6O0
mile chase for Geronimo, wherein he
had displayed that genius for moving
his men which was SO conspicuous
throughout the Philippine campaign.
Il went to white house reception
in 1886 for the first time, says Admiral
Bradford, ''and when | got into the
jam of the east room could see moth
ing but sea of heads, until found
myself looking above the crowd at
handsome young man, whose whole
head stood above the general level.
He was the hero of the hour, just back
from his capture of Geronimo's band,
and apparently was suffering agonies
from the attentions showered upon
him."
When Gen. Lawton came home from
Cuba last year, it was found that he
had gained no more self-possession
than he exhibited when unwillingly
lionized ten years before. The pres
ident insisted upon his going to Ala
bama with him when Tuskegee was
visited. At Montgomery the president
and Gen. Wheeler spoke, and there was
eloquence on all sides. Finally the
governor of Alabama introduced Gen.
Lawton as 1.-THE hero of Santiago"
Lawton was forced to say something.
1t is said to be the single speech OF
his life. He stood for long time, bow
ing to the wildly cheering crowd, and
after several attempts to hide himself.
only to be lifted to his feet again, he
was finally induced by the president
to make some response to the applause.
He advanced to the front, and when he
could be heard, said simply:
81 am not hero. Iamjust regular.
l can't make a speech. Thank you"
Then he succeeded in hiding himself
for the rest of the tour.
His last appearance in Washington
was at great Gridiron club dinner
to the army and navy. Gen. Shafter
unrolled manuscript and read few
remarks; Schley, with his ready wit
and ease, charmed everybody; Sigsbee
talked well amid cheers; Gen. Breck-
inridge was as eloquent as usual; but
when Lawton was called, he rose, trem-
bling, and after bowling in silence took
his seat.
No greater ovation was ever given
a man than he received when his name
was uttered. There was cheering and
waving of napkins for several minutes
The guests all rose to their feet, while
he alone remained seated. Afterward
he declared that twas hundred times
as bad as the assault on FL Caney.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-12
1t Was DIR. Palmer.

When the synod of Mississippi met in
Jackson in 1870, several of the minis
tiers, as is the custom, were assigned to
the local pulpits and other places of
worship on the Sabbath day. Rev. DR..
B. M. Palmer, of New Orleans, was at
tending synod, the guest of the family
of Judge Thos. j. Wharton. He was
assigned, or rather preferred, to preach
at the State prison that morning. 1t
so happened that as his congregation
assembled, DR.. T. J. Mitchell, then
prison physician, was passing through
the chapel on his way to the dispensary.
He stopped to ask Judge Wharton why
they sent such piney-woods specimen
of preacher to preach to the convicts.
The Judges only answer was a smile.
A hymn was sung, and the preacher
opened the Sacred Word and read-as
he only can read-a chapter appropri-
ate to the occasion. The Doctor lis
tened, and, forgetting the dispensary,
remained through the sermon. Then
approaching Judge Wharton, he said:
Judge, there is only one minister that
can read and preach after that fashion.
am prepared to be introduced to DR..
Palmer"
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-12
NAMES WOODcHUCK MAN.
Like the Animal He Goes to Sleep
Every Fall and Sleeps on
Until Spring.

eff don't wake up before the blue
birds come" said Cyrus Brown on the
evening of December 10. 1899. burn
match under my nose and stick a
needle in my arms. l want to be out
in the woods by the time the sap gets
to running"
Mr., Brown is known locally as the
''woodchuck man." SO called because
he has slept continuously through the
winter months for the past IL years,
beginning his long nap before tho
middle of December and coming out
about March 90 He is nearly 70 years
old, and until he was hit in the head
by falling limb while working in the
woods in the winter of 1888 he had
been very robust man. He was fell
ing logs on lot some distance from
camp, and when he did not come in
to supper men went out and found
him lying senseless under a fallen
limb. with a scalp wound on the top
of his head.
After lying in comatose condition
for three days he was wrapped in
warm blankets and put in hogshead
filed with straw. to be carried so
miles to the nearest railroad station.
Everybody expected that he would be
dead when he reached home, but there
was no apparent change in his condi-
ton. He remained in a deathlike
sleep all winter. About once week
he took half pint of brandy and
four raw eggs, and then fell asleep
again as if it was the only thing for
him to do. The doctors who visited
him tried many experiments in the
hope of waking him up but without
any success.
Meantime his body had turned to
chalky white color and his tempera
ture had fallen to near the freezing
point. One doctor who had come on
from New Brunswick to see him told
his family that he was dead beyond
question, and that this faint agitation
that could be felt over his heart was
no more than reflex action of the
muscles A coffin was ordered and the
burial robes were made ready, when
his body heat began to go up. 1t rose
two or three degrees during the day
and fell back degree or less in the
night, but. though the gain was small,
it was in the right direction, so the
family postponed the funeral and
waited.
After the animal heat in his body
had reached 10 degrees pulsations
were felt in his wrists and his chest
rose and fell from ~ to Is times an
hour, indicating that respiration had
set in. The coffin was put out of sight,
and on March 81 the sick man opened
his eyes and called for food. He ate
a hearty meal, slept three days longer
and then got up and went about his
work as if nothing had happened.
Every year since then he has dropped
off to sleep at the beginning of settled
cold weather and has not awakened
until the early spring birds come
north. In the warm weather he
seems as active and vigorous as he
ever was, although his memory has
failed of late, and at times he COM
plains of headaches. The doctors give
no name to the malady, but say that
it is due to a torpid condition of the
body which is allied to the hiberna-
ton of animals. For want of better
title the people have named him the
woodchuck man.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-12
ON HIS GOOD BEHAVIOR.
shOestring PeddIer Agreed Not to
Turn Burglar Until the Old Lady
Reached California.

"It's one pair for three cents, or two
pairs for five cents, you know, said the
shoestring faker to a Washington
small that but for an occasional bit
of luck I'd be hard put for three meals
a day. just now, however, I'm not
worrying over the next two weeks.
The other day a motherly looking old
lady bought two pairs of strings from
me, and then asked about my sales and
profits. When l gave her straight
goods she said:
"'Young man, are you ever tempt
ed to crime?'
"'Yes'm, 1 am says 1.
"'But you always resist tempta-
tion?'
at always have, but can't prom
Use for the future. I'm getting tired
of this shotstring business
"'Do you think you might turn bur-
glar?'
81 do, ma'am. That's what 1 shall
go into if 1 make change
"'How soon might you become bur-
glar?' she asked, after looking me
over.
"'I may begin tonight says I.
"Look here says she in whisper,
I'm MORALLY afraid of burglars. I'm
going to California with my daughter
in about two weeks, and I'll tell you
what I'll do. If you will not turn
burglar for fortnight I'll give you
five dollars
"'It's pretty small sum, ma'am, but
being it's you I'll strike hands on it
and keep my word
"And she outs with five, = laughs the
fakir, "and hands it over, and If yon
hear of any burglaries within the next
few days you can be sure that didn't
have a hand in the business. I'll wait
till the old lady gets ON the other side
OF the United States"
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-12
p1rH AND POINT.

If woman is good cook she owes
the world no apology if she does not
show off well in society. = Atchison
Globe.
Everybody says he likes people who
say straight out what they think, but
nobody does like them. Washington
(Ia.) Democrat.
knowledge is power. If man
empties his purse into his head no
one can take it away from him.-Chi-
cago Daily News.
Book Agent-"Is the lady of the
house IMP" Cook-"We're all ladies
here, yez moonkey-faced divil! If yez
name the misthress, say so!"-Harlem
Life.
Willie Lightcoat-"I hear that Mr..
Perry married an old flame" Maud
Smith-"Yes, and now that fame has
to light the fire every morning.
Judge.
what kind of a man is hep" "Oh,
he's the kind of man that's always
coming into your Office when you are
hurrying out to catch a train.'-Ohio
State Journal.
He-"Ah, my darling, so you will
really marry me? My love, | would
willingly die for you if" Shelves,
Harry. just before you do you'll work
for me just little. 1t would be aw-
full to be poor widow, you know"
Philadelphia Press.
In the roar of battle the command
ing general was heard to exclaim:
"Cover that retreat" Herewith, the
press censor, ever alert, FASTENED
quickly to push the blue pencil
through the articles written by ting
war correspondents. - indianapolis
Sun.
"Were you ever crossed in love?"
"Ies, once. There was beautiful
girl whose father was rich and she
loved me. | called her up by tele-
phone to arrange the details of our
elopement, but wires were crossed
that morning and the old gentleman
heard what we said. boston Trav-
eler.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-12
strange California LandsIIde.

A landslide of remarkable proper
tions followed the recent earthquake
in San Jacinto county, in southern Cal
ifornia. A tract covering 600 acres on
San Jacinto mountain and 1000 feet
above the sea level slid $50 feet down
the mountain and filled the small val-
ley with debris. Great masses Of gran
lite were split by crevices four feet wide
and seventy-five feet deep. The falling
mass was upheayed as it fell, giving the
earth the appearance of mighty con-
vulsion. The theory Of local biologists
is that vacuum under the mountain,
caused by drawing of water for irri-
CATION, became filed with gases and
that the explosion Of these gases tore
through the crust Of the mountain and
produced the earthquake and land
slide.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-12
Couldn't Attend tho Shrine.

AS stated elsewhere, Hamassa Tenn
pie, Mystic Shriners, of Meridian, had
Ceremonial" conclave at West Point
recently. All the members throughout
its wide domain were invited; but of
course all could not attend-among
others, Noble Geo. B. Power of Natchez,
the poetic son of this writer. Here is
his excuse, transmitted through Noble
C. M. Rubbish:
l received your invitation to the meeting
of the Shrine,
And as l cannot get there, I'll just drop
little line"
To tell you how I'd like to go with you and
join hands,
In escorting would-be mobiles across the
burning sands"
Oh, Cecil! I'd like to be there; for know
of nothing finer
Than to take in such meeting-that is
when ones Shriner.
The fun one has is worth the trip, no matter
what expense;
Just to see man reach Spion Kop, is in
itself immense.
Just heat the desert sands to a red-hot fam
ing heat,
And see how high the Novice can raise his
tender feet.
Then trot that big old camel out and take
him for a ride
And if he says it wasn't great, please tell
him that he lied.
If his trip to Mecca has been smooth-to
him not more than forms
Just muster up the winds and see how he
can weather storms
Please hit each Novice once for me, and hit
him till he squeals-
Just fix him so that, for week he'll stand
to take his meals.
Els Salamer Aleikum!! To every Noble,
Greeting
I'd like to be there with you, from the start
on through the eating;
In fact, all Noble Shriners, If they had but
half show,
Would be right there to help you out and
see YOU ''let Ter gol"
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-12
Tuckerman.s RavIne.

One of the remarkable scenic feat
ures or the celebrated White noun
tains, of New Hampshire, is Tucker
mans ravine, great gulf in the south
erly side of Mount Washington, which
is every year SPAWNED by beautiful
SNOW arch" or cave of snow, which
remains until the latter part of Aug
ust. The name was conferred upon it
in honor of the discoverer, Edward
Tuckerman, an enthusiastic explorer Of
these famous hills.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-12
The Summer Normals.

At meeting of the State board of
education April 20 the following points
wore agreed on for holding normals,
for whites: Corinth, Okolona, Maybin,
Carthage, University, Brandon, Poplar
vile, McComb City, Gloster, Port Glib
son, Pittsboro, Pontotoc. Two other
points are being considered. For the
colored normals: Batesville, Oxford,
Vicksburg, Natchez, Greenville, Green
wood, Yazoo City or Jackson, HALE
hurst. From the great number of ap-
plicants for the positions of conductors
and instructors, it is thought suffi-
Gent and competent number can be
selected. The normal at Okolona is to
be specially for separate district work.
A resolution was adopted positively
forbidding all persons thus employed
to act as agents or solicitors for school
book companies. Any disregard of this
will incur dismissal and forfeiture OF
nav.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-12

This eminent citizen of Mississippi
died at his home in Macon on Friday
afternoon, April 81 He was in the
prime of life, and until recently the
picture of health. Toward the close OF
the recent session of the legislature he
contracted very severe cold. He died
of apoplexy. Mr.. Dinsmore was born
near Macon, in 1855. He served with
conspicuous ability and fidelity in the
legislature several sessions, and at the
last session was chosen president pro
tenn. of the senate. He was wise,
conservative, industrious legislator.
His bill for the removal of the peniten-
tiary from Jackson. and the three bills
for the suppression of the blind tigers,
and other good measures, were OF bis
framing. He had just fully entered
upon bright political career, and, had
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-12

he been spared, the people of Missis-
sippi would have certainly called him
up higher. This writer will not soon
forget his always kindly greeting and
warm official commentator, and he
prays that the sod may rest lightly on
the spot that encloses all that is mortal
of the big-hearted and true John R.
Dinsmore.