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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-04-14

ments. But the greatest beautifier was
the soft light in her changed eyes.
On lovely summer morning, Lii
Burdell. plump and rosy from weeks OF
care and kindness, stood ON the back
porch of the Gleason farmhouse, scat
tering corn 10 a flock of hens. Mrs.
Hill sat near, Smelling peas freshly
picked in the morning dew; and Thusa
Hill Gleason, looking years younger
and prettier, was stirring in house,
wifely fashion about her spacious
kitchen, getting ready substantial
breakfast.
Look, grandma" said Lii, "ain't
they pretty? An squawkin' jes' like
they did the Gay came for the eggs
an neither me nor them a dreamin'
how soon we'd all be Twin here to-
gether."
All, Lii, yon little guessed what you
were doing that day, when you stopped
at the wrong house-the first house
where the hens were "a-squawkin'!"
Nor did your Miss Thusy-who will al
ways be Miss Thusy" to you-realize,
on that cold spring evening, that the
ragged, tempted little tramp, with
whom she shared her own scanty meal,
was an angel entertained unawares.-
Leslie Dane, in Good Housekeeping.
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herself for wasted time and strength
crept into bed beside her adopted
child
Henry Gleason was also keeping
vigil with memory. A chance wort
with Nathan Burnside had led to ar
explanation OF that summer evening
ride so long ago. Was IL too late to
sue for pardon? Would Thusa be de.
ficient in proper pride, if she would
listen to second avowal? She still
remained young and lovable in his
eyes. Yet, after all, she had been to
blame in not explaining the breaking
of the appointment.
So pride and affection commended in
the widower's heart also. The circles
made in the ocean by the casting in of
a pebble go on widening; and phi
losophers tell us that every physical
movement produces never-ending vi
brations in the cosmic ether. The
thoughts set vibrating in those two
practical, middle-aged hearts were to
have swifter results than either
dreamed.
Two or three days later, just before
Easter, ILL Burdell was carrying a
basket along the village street. She
wore made-over calico gown of Miss
Thusas, shoes and stockings, warm
underclothing, and neat straw hat
on her smooth hair. Proud of her de-
cent apparel and the trust reposed in
her as rRnreSented nv "nuartaro
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-04-14

"Miss Thusy says will you pleas
let her have dozen fresh egg
for Easter, an she wants 'em goot
an big"
Henry Gleason stared at the ODD
little figure, who stood stock-still aft
er delivering her message.
Miss Thusy! Was the world com
ing to an end? Then the explanation
occurred to him. Thusa must have
sent this queer child to his next
neighbor, Mrs. Wilson, who sold eggs
regularly and the girl had mistaken
the house.
A sudden thought whirled into his
mind. Not being widely read in the
poets, the line
Take the goods the gods provide thee,
did not occur to him, but he acted on
the principle implied. He took the
basket and the money, and babe the
child come in. He was alone, the
housekeeper having gone to the next
town to do some trading" and the
hired boy was blowing.
Easter eggs! Thusa should have
such an Easter basket as no young girl
in the village could boast. In the bot
tom of the basket, he arranged two
| dozen of the finest, freshest eggs he
could find in the henhouse. Then he
wrote hurried note-not high-sound-
ing, but with true love in every line.
Truly he was making up for lost time.
He cIinna6 tho rnonau inci5o oIa5 4bo
letter and laid it on the eggs, folding
paper over ali. Then he went to the
housekeepers cherished window plants
and loaded the basket to the very
handle with Easter lilies and roses
Amt there no change from the
quarter?" asked sharp, city-bred Lii,
looking curl ously from him to the
flowers and back.
"Inside-in an envelope. Miss Thusa
will understand"
did he spose I'd lose it, if he gave
it to me in my hand?" said ILL to her
self rather scornfully. trudging off
with her fragrant load. A little later.
the flUwer-ladcn basket was dumped on
the Hills kitchen table by breathless
Lii, who had come as near to running
as the safety OF the eggs would permit
HE sent you all these lots an lots
of flowers, Miss Thusy, an the eggs an
change is at the bottom of the basket. |
He said you would understand"
He! What was the child talking
about?
Didn't you go to Mrs. Wilson'S,
Lip"
Il went to the first white house with
green shutters"-Miss Thusa dropped
white and trembling into the little
kitchen rocker-"where the hens was
an the man that come to
the door give me the eggs an the flow
ers. l didn't see no woman any
Thusa sprang suddenly from the
chair and lifteo out the flowers, Lii
water for them in an old.
pitcher. When the note ap-
'eared, Thusa caught it up and fed to
Ter room, scarcely glaneing at the
ggs. Kneeling beside her patchwork
overed bed. Thusa wept and smiled by
urns over her old lovers note, in which /
e told her he would be with her in an {
our. Then womanlilke, she got up {
nd began to freshen and improve her t
lded face and hair, her plain gar t
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-04-14
AN EASTER MIRACLE.
How II Saved Little Austrian Town
from Destruction by
Napoleon.

1t was in the year 1899, when thu
armies of Napoleon were passing ovel
the continent of Europe and conquer
ing all that came in their way.
1t was Easter morning, and the sun
shone brightly on Feldkirch, a little
town situated on the Ill river, just
within the borders of Austria. The Ill
flows into the Rhine.
Quite early on this morning there
suddenly appeared on the heights
above the town to the west the gilt
tering weapons of $4,000 French sol
oilers, the division under the command
of Gen. Massena.
There was hasty assembling of the
town council, and it was decided that
deputation be sent to Messena with
the keys of the town and petition for
mercy.
In the midst of all the confusion of
the hurrying to and fro and the anxious
consultation the old dean of the church
stood up serene as was the morning,
with no thought of fear in his brave
Christian heart.
1T is Easter day." he said. "We have
been reckoning on our own strength,
and 1t is but weakness. Let us ring the
bells and have service as usual. We will
leave our troubles in the hands of the
Higher Power"
Soon from all the church spires of
Fehkirch the hells rang ont ioyously.
The street bAcame thronged with wor-
shippers on their way to church. Loud
er and more triumphant pealed the
bells as they rang out the glad mes
sage, and the Hills putting on their new
green echoed back: Christ is risen.
He is risen from the dead
The French army heard the sounds
of rejoicing and Massena concluded
there could DE but one reason for it. |
lie was sure that the Austrian army |
lad arrived in the night.
He ordered lis men to break up
camp, and almost before the bells had |
leased ringing-long before Easter
services were over, the French army
was in orderly retreat.
BY noon, not tent, not a soldier.
lot a glittering bayonet was to be
een on the heights above Feldkirch.
Boston Globe.
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OF Dlue;
When We walked to Sunday meetin' o'er
the meadows green and sweet
Where lilies waved In welcome. with vlo-
lets at our feet
1t amt the fancy fixin's mind so much
the bills
For birds and funny feathers-aI the fine
new-fangled frills;
Fer l know that fashion changes-that IL
rules the world complete;
but the old-time Easter bonnet was so
simple and so sweet!
Ats ribbons matched the color OF the blue
sky overhead
An the lips that smiled beneath II seemed
to mean the words they said!
Inc lips that smiled SO sweetly-never
KNOWN any art
An the eyes whose sunny glances made a
light around your heart.
I've nothin gainst the fashions-they've
got TO have their day:
But love the simple bonnets OF the far
an far away:
An thinkin' how she looked In 'em-there,
In the long ago,
sign, an praise the Lord from whom all
blessin's used to flow!
-. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
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No wonder He smelIed II.

A commercial traveller whose wife is one
OF those women who borrow trouble inds'
criminately had occasion to make a trip
east recently.
His wife was very anxious about him and
felt certain that he would fall victim to
smallpox, which was reported to be preya-
lent in the city to which he was going, She
begged him to carry little lump OF asatetida
in his pocket to ward off contagion.
Naturally he objected and positively re:
fused to be made the permanent abode OF
such a persistent odor.
When he came home from his trip he said
to his wife:
at is wonderful, the power of the magma
ton Why, don't you know imagined that
! smelled asafetida the whole time | was
gone!'
1T wasn't imagination at all, quietly re
Piled the willy little woman ] sewed a bit
of asafetida in the corner of your coat be
fore you went !"-Memphis Scimitar.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-04-14

She set the table In the little sitting
room-they played at being well-to-do
in numberless innocent, childlike ways,
these two slim sparrows-and put on
the two little brown-fowered plates,
the two thin china cups and saucers with
the tiny faded rosebuds and the almost
invisible line OF gilt, and the worn sill
yer spoons, the last OF the mothers
wedding outfit. Thusa cut the bread
and butter, set the tea to draw. then
Went to the buttery for the prunes.
The window looked on a side lane, and
Thusa was startled TO see that IL was
open, while a white, wolfish, hungry
face was framed in the aperture. and
desperate hand was emptying the bow!
OF prunes, scattering the purple juice
recklessly over the snowy shelves.
Thusa suppressed little scream.
that she might not startle her mother,
and stared at the intruder. The crea-
ture, as If turned to stone, held it's hand
arrested midway from bowl to mouth.
A childish terror began to overspread
the sharp features, and Thusa stepped
nearer TO the window.
Poor soul!" she said. gently. "Are
you so hungry that you have to rob
our shelves? Don't be frightened. /
wouldn't hurt you for the world.
Take this"
She quickly buttered a slice OF bread,
and the marauder. clutching it, burst |
into tears, which she wiped away with |
her juice-stained fingers, creating a
fearful effect.
81 never stoled!" she cried, 'but l
amt had scarcely bite for two days,
an when l see them things in the
dish, jest had to take EN-"
"Come around to the kitchen
ioor," said Thusa, pityingly. She
spread a second slice of bread, and
poured into little pink-sprigged cup
Ter own slender allowance of milk.
n view of such abject misery what
nattered milkless tea and short
ned ration of bread and butter? The
-irl slipped around to the kitchen door
nd stood there, ragged. unkempt, al
ogether wretched. Thusa watched
er compassionately, as she ate and (
rank like a starved animal--for the
ime being she was little more. TAX
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-04-14

The Paschal candle is the name giver
to the light which appears on the Cos
pei side of the altar during mass and
vespers from Easter to Whit Sunday
1t symbolizes the rising from the grave
of Christ, the Light of the World
In the year 1457 it was recorded that
the candle used at Canterbury was OF
300 pounds weight. There is also men
toned as a matter of history that ON
one occasion the Paschal candle in the
church at Norwich, England, was so
tall that it had to be lighted through
an opening in the roof over the choir.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-04-14
1AUSA Hills
EyTeRBASlke.

HUSA HILL h a d
come into the lit
tie front yard for
a breath of fresh
air, before putting
on the kettle for
tea. Her life was
enciI'cled by such
a narrow horizon
that this was the
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-04-14

ing the cup from the grimy finger,
and going back to wipe the shelves
Thusa brought out third slice O
bread and butter.
By gentle questioning, she learne,
that the girls name was Lii Burdell
that she was 10 years old; had live,
with woman in New York, who bea
and abused her, trying to make he
steal; and that she had run away
tramping and begging by day; sleep
ing in barns at night; honestly try
ing to get work at the farmhouses
and nervously warned off the prem
ises of most, with few cold pieces
as if she had smallpox, that dread o.
rural districts.
Her clothing was literally rags
fastened about her, heaven knows
how! yet there was certain frank
and Independent look about the small
sharp features. despite the stolen
prunes. Thusas starved maternal
feelings yearned over the child. She
brought her in to sit by the fire, then
kitchen and sitting-room, she told
her mother the pitiful story. Mrs.
Hill let the tea grow cold in her cup
as she listened.
Il was thinking" said Thusa, as
she refilled her mothers cup, that we
might-if you are willing-take this
poor child in, to help around the
house, and give me a chance to do
more sewing"
"lf you think it would be best,
Thusa. should hate not to take her,
if it wouldn't be flying in the face of
Providence-with the interest money
to meet. and ALL
"The winters about over. The
Lord seemed to put it into my head.
l believe He'll open the way for us to
afford it. And l don't see how it can
be flying in the face of Providence, to
follow the verse that says: Feed my
lambs.'"
Wen, you're the one that keeps
things a-going, Thusa. You've the
best right to say" and the old lady
drank the last of her tea, and ate the
remainder of her bread and butter,
looking fondly at her little brown
Powered plate as she did SO.
1t was long past the hour for steady
going villagers to be in bed. Lii Bur
dell, fed, washed, consoled, was Sleep
ing like an infant, in one of Thusa's
bedgowns. Her ben
efactress sat by the small window,
gazing out across the fields. She
was restless, and her thoughts were
Of her old lover. Ministering to the
starved and homeless walf had set her
of what might have been, if |
she had not been so proud and defiant |
IN those early days. Henry had sure
" been entitled to an explanation. |
All. but that bitter. reproachful look |
If hisi She could not forget it. He
night have had more faith in her, in
tead of marrying Cicely Mellen with
n a month. If he had waited, he
would have seen that Nathan Burn
ide was nothing more than an or
mary friend. (Alasi he had seen it,
fter he had forged his own fetters.)
So pride and regretful love battIed 1
! the lonely heart. The night wore i
n, and Lii Burdell dreamed laven- /
er-scented dreams. 1t was halfway :
dawn when Thusa, reproachiug t
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-04-14
Birds of Passage.

mo, I do not make friends as easily as
] used to with my fellow travellers said
the man who was relating European ex-
periences. 1T is not because feel less So
ciably inclined, but because of the cold
setback | received at Gibraltar, In the ho'
Eel Office one morning l entered into CONVEX
sation with an Englishman and woman who
seemed to ME to be the right sort They did
not meet my friendly overtures with the
usual OH and an English stare. On the
contrary, they. seemed anxious to become
acquainted with me, and, soon we were chat
ting pleasantly l congratulated myself
upon my good fortune in falling in with
such agreeable people, who were almost nice
enough to be Americans. We discussed Glib
raltar and were just planning sightseeing
expedition for the following day when one
of the hotel walters thrust his head in
the doorway and said: The missus wants
the both of yez. My new-found friends
were the maid and man servant OF the duch.
ess OF Cleveland, Lord Rosebery's mother"
Detroit Free Press.
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o.,,,nr A. the Facts.

Wife latter the honeymoon)- did
YOU deceive me about your incomeE
Husband-I didn't, my dear.
eyes, YOU did. You told me you were
getting $50 week when you asked me TO
marry you, Lid
"You evidently misunderstood me. ! said
my position was worth $5O-and 50 II Is
but for some reason best known to the boss
he gives me only ten dollars" - Chicago
EVaninO NakVa
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-04-14

Among the GregoIian Armenians the
periodical blessing of the house" takes
place at Easter. This consists of the
repetition Of a prayer by the priest.
accompanied BY the burning of in
eense. and the sprinkling with holy wa
ter in the ''sala" or central room of
the house.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-04-14
.AH OLD . s...-
EASTER BONNET

WISH the Easter
days were now
like those that
once ! knew,
When Jenny wore
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-04-14
Good Engagement.

First Veteran Actor-Well, how goes It!
Good engagement, / suppose good pay!
Second Veteran ActoI-Well, old friend,
you know how these things are. Salary,
properly speaking, don't get, but eat the
nnd act N Y World
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-04-14
MAIN ST. GREENvILLE, MIA

If you want any kind of town lot have it. The pro apd
made to suit you
If you want plantation of any size in the Delta have
If you want to borrow money, have it. Terms and m
and low rates of interest
IF YOU want insurance, have 1.-THE very best
You have rents to coectG collect them and will re
proceeds promptly.
am satisfied that it will be to your interest to me b
invest in any of these things which have to SELL I'll I
and you money
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-01-11
HOW RAISlNS ARE SEEDED,
Ingenious Machines That Tur1 SiExs Zen
or Twelve Tons Daily

or Twelve Tons Daily
Unlike the eastern imitation, the
California seeded raisin is subjected TO
A dry temperature Of 140 degrees Fab
renheit from three to five hours, i'm
mediately after which the fruit is sub
mitted to chilling process, and while
in this reduced condition Of tempera-'
ture is passed through cleaning or
brushing" machines, which remove
every particle Of dust and the cap
stems, thus making it pure and
wholesome article. 1t Is then taken
automatically, by elevators, to room
where, spread upon wire trays, it Is
exposed to q temperature Of l30 de-
grees Fahrenheit, which brings tho
fruit back to its normal condition,
and in this processing" the berry Is
converted into pectin, that delicious
jelly which gives to fruits their best
favor. The raisins having been pre-
pared through this alternate heating
and chilling to keep indefinitely and
resist climatic influences, are passed
through seeding machines, each OF
which has capacity Of from ten to
twelve tons daily. The raisins are
pressed between rubber or similar sur
faced rollers, which at first fatten the
berry and press the seeds to the sur
face, when an impaling roller catches
the seeds between its needles or teeth
affixed to its periphery, deftly remov-
ing every particle of the flesh. The
seeds are removed from the roller by
r'flicking," or whisping device, and are
sent along to the seed receptacle, inal-
ly ending their journey in the eSSape
room, where they are burned as fuel.
Four hundred and fifty carloads Of ten
tons each, or 100000 pounds Of seed
ed raisins, were shipped from the Fres-
no district last year, and very much
larger tonnage will be turned out this
year. Some estimate can be formed
of the possibilities OF the Fresno seed
ed raisin plants when it is stated that
their aggregate capacity for this sea-
;;;n will approximate from LOO to q
600 carloads, while it is probable that
1,400 carloads will be the output. Eace
seeding plant has from five to twel -
machines of ten tons daily capacity per
machine. Some of the packing houses
cover a ground space Of $50 by 225
feet and Are three stories high.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-01-11

Figures are sometimes impressive
simply by being so stupendous that
the human mind grasps them with
difficulty. An English physicist in
recent lecture, in order to bring to
the comprehension of his hearers the
idea of ultimate particles of water, said
that if he were to empty tumbler
containing half pint of water, letting
out each second number equal to one
thousand times the population of the
earth, it would require somewhere
between 100000 and 1900, 900
years to empty the tumbler. Lord
Kelvin says that if a drop of water
were magnifed to the size of the earth
the particles would be between the
size of cricket balls and that of foot
balls. IF that statement is correct,
the drops of water in all the oceans
are not many times as numerous as
the particles, or molecules, in single
1pop
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-01-11

Views of men everywhere differ in
many respects as to extent and the
direction that public education should
take, but all, or nearly all, will agree
that if public education is to proceed
further than providing facilities for
rudimentary English education it
should be in the direction of manual
training. With trade or technical
knowledge in some special line a man
is always self-supporting, aud in near
ly every case is sure of lucrative en-
ployment There is great or greater
field for the achievements of fame or
wealth in the mechanic arts as in the
overcrowded, so-called learned pro-
fessions.
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Palmetto Notes.

Attorney General Bellinger wishes 1t
known that all OF the clerks fer the en-
crossing department have been appoint
ed. He does not know the names OF all
of the appointees.
The present sessions Of the State
board of control have been the most
uninteresting and uneventful OF one
past six months. The board seems SIM
ply to be making time" and waiting
for the legislature to have its annual
review. The dispensary business mas
maid ins75, ,O00to the credid OF the school
fund during the year just closed, anu
has had a fine years business. NO"
the members of the board are resting
on their oars.
Las. Friday afternoon while Vance
Cooley and Claude Poore, aged about 10
years each, were bird hunting near
WILLIAMSON covey of bords was
flushed, and in his attempt to Kill the
game, Poore emptied the entire charge
Of bird shot into the head, face ana
side of young Cooley at very close
range. The unfortunate boy was taken
to his home in town and attended by
Dr. w. w. Wilson, who soon relieved
him of his superfluous shot and his
mind of the idea that he was in dying
condition, so that the young sports
man is now resting comfortably. Fortu-
nate it was that the gun was loaded
with bird shot, or young Cooley would
most swely have been instantly killed.
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Chicago's municipal pawnshop, au-

Chicago's municipal pawnshop, au-
taorized at the last session of the Illi-
nois legislature, has been established
and is now operated under charter
from the state. at which money will
be advanced on personal security at
the rate of one per cent. monthly ill.,
stead of twice that amount, as the pri-
vate pawnbrokers have been i'll the
habit of charging. At the same time
it may be reasonably assumed that the
amount advanced will bear more
equitable relation to the value of the
pledge than has generally been the
case in transactions of this character.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-01-11

A remarkable application of the
principles OF the telephone and the
phonograph jointly is claimed for a
Danish engineer by Engineering. He
has invented what is practically a
photograph which will take telephone
messages. Unlike the phonoSraph
now in use, it has no wax plates, the
impression being recorded on steel
band which may be used an indefinite
number OF times, as the records can
be wiped off like writing off slate.
If this invention is practicable it will
be boon to the busy Office man to
whom there is no greater pest than his
clerks constant cry, "You are wanted
at the phone, sir.