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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

The summit of the Broken, or
Blocksberg. the highest Of the Hartz
mountains in Prussian Saxony, pre-
sents a singular optical phenomenon
eight or nine times during the year. 1t
Is usually seen at sunrise or sunset
and consists of gigantic projection of
the observer, or observers, upon misty
clouds, which rise out of the valley on
the side of the mountain opposite to
the sun. Sir Walter Scott wrote of IT,:
Among the various legends current in
that wild country there is a favorite
one. which supposes the Hartz to be
haunted with kind of tutelar demon,
In the shape of wild man of huge
stature, his head wreathed with oak
leaves, and his middle cinctured with
the same, wearing in his hand a pine
torn up by the roots. 1t is certain that
many profess to have seen such a
form, traversing with huge strides, in
line parallel to their own course, the
opposite ridge of mountain when d.
vided from 1t by narrow glen;. and,
indeed the fact of the apparition is SO
generally admitted that modern skep-
ticism has only found refuge by ascrib-
ing it to optical deception"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

Since first coming to the Congo, tho
further l Travelled the further canibal-
ism seemed to recede; everybody had
it to say that their neighbors on be-
yond were bad, that they "eat men,"
till began to grow skeptical; but here
at Bangala l absolutely caught up
with it and was obliged to allow what
l had hoped to be able to maintain
as mot proven" 1 will not sicken you
with the details of the preparations,
as some of our boys gave them when
they came to tell me, in the hope that
should be able to interfere, but be-
fore they reached the steamer the big
drums dunn dunn announced the final
act. The natives could not, or at least
appeared not to, understand why the
white man and his people should take
exception to their proceedings. why"
said they to one of our boys, do you
interfere with us? We don't trouble
you when you kill your goats. We
buy our nyama (meat) and kill 1t; It
is not your affair."" From this point
ON the evidences of cannibalism were
continually recurring, though the re-
luctant manner In which at some
places the people acknowledged being
'man-eaters' leads US to hope that a
sentiment against it already exists
From Pioneering on the Congo" b
the Rev. w. Holman Bentley.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21
A TALL JACKPOT.
Noat Sum OF $4,000 Won at Lttla
Cana


0ama
New York Special to Chicago Times
Herald: A story of poker game with
q tall jackpot has leaked out. The
game, SO the story goes, was played at
the Democratic club, and Maurice
Untermyer is winner thereby of the
neat sum OF 10000 Among the losers
are mentioned some Of the Leading
lights of Tammany Hail. John T. Car
roll being not the least of these. Last
Friday afternoon five members OF the
Democratic club sat down to game
of poker. Two of the five were Mr..
Carroll and Mr.. Untermyer. The game
grew In interest and the stakes in size
until Z o'clock, when, 1t is stated, Mr.
Untermyer remarked he would soon
have to leave to go to his brothers at
the Greystone. well, we will have
just one more jackpot" said Mr.. I'm
termyer, "and then quit. The others
agreed and the cards went around but
us no one caught openers" the pile OF
chips continued to grow. Finally enc
of the players came into hand which
enabled him to open the jackpot. No
body out. Two drew cards, one dis
one. Mr.. Untermyer drew one card.
Mr.. Carroll drew one card, and former
Judge Howard of Philadelphia, Wis
itor, remained pat. Betting began eau
ticusly. With seeming reluctance Mr..
Untermyer pushed stack Of five blue
chips toward the center. Mr.. Carroll
eyed him suspiciously, smiled and saw
him five better. you can't TELL" said
one of the other players; gentlemen
may sometimes bluff. l guess I'm still
in It," and he pushed his little stack
of blues forward. Judge Howard kept
in the race with an imperturbality that
had made the others nervous. Mr..
Untermyer had by this time apparent
ly fallen into brown study. With a
mechanical. sort of movement he shov-
ed triple row of blue stacks to the
fore. You have either a royal flush
or royal nerve" said Mr.. Carroll
Guess I'll drop out" Two others
dropped out also. Judge Howard re-
manned. well, I'll call you," he final
ly said. Mr.. Untermyer laid down a
royal flush Of hearts. Judge Howard
remained. We'll, good-by, gentlemen,
said Mr.. Untermeyer, after cashing in
chips. Sorry to have to interrupt the
game"
Judge Howard, 1t is said, made out a
check to Mr.. Untermyer's order for
$4,000.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21
Majestic Power.

A British correspondent In South At
rica tells the following highly inter
estlng story OF Dom Paul; Once, when
out on shooting expedition, q party
had gathered around camp fire, and
the conversation turned upon litera-
ture. There were Englishmen, Hol-
landers, Germans and Beers present.
and each OF them had much to say con-
corning celebrated writers of prose and
poetry, except Dom Paul. He smoked
his eternal long stem" and held his
peace. The Germans and the English
men nearly came to the stripping OF
OF coats concerning the relative merits
OF Goethe and Shakespeare. At last
the Englishmen turned to the one ST.
lent figure of the camp fire, saying,
Look here, now, Dom Paul, which DO
you think the greater writer OF the
two-Goethe or Shakespeare" Never
read either of en-" growled the even
then celebrated man. with brutal
frankness. "Mein Gott!" calculated
the German; here Is man whom the
Goethel" Never read Will Shake
speare?" howled the indignant Briton;
then what the deuce have you read?"
Only this" said Dom Paul, pulling a
frayed and battered Bible from his
pocket, "and l have not half mastered
It's glories. yet have read 1t day and
night for well nigh forty years. When
I've exhausted the Bible. I'll perhaps
find time for Shakespeare and Goethe.
Tell me, had either Of those men more
wisdom to teach than can learn from
the Book OF Proverbs? Could either
OF them write such glorious lines as
King David, the ancient poet Of the
Jews, has left us In his wondrous Book
Of Psalms? Could either Shakespeare
or Goethe have written the Songs Of
Solomon"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

There Is a student at the Carlisle In
dian school whose father was lead
er in the battle of the Little Big Horn,
where Gen. Custer and his entire COM
mand were killed. Some authorities
tell us that 277 men fell in that awful
massacre and none lived to tell the
tale. The opposing Indian force is
set down at about 1900. This student
says his father informed him that
there were no less than 5000 Indi-
ans in the battle. Nine thousand
tame" Indians were settled on sur
rounding reservations, and many of
these slipped away in the night time
to Join sitting Bull for raid, return.
ing under cover of darkness to their
homes. Nearly 1000 were with him
when Custer made his fatal error
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21
THE HORRORS OF MAcoEeURc.
No Such Victory Since the Taking Of
Troy,

Troy.
While Gustavus was hindered from
coming to its relief Madgeburg was In
vested by the forces of lilly, with
those of Count Pappenheim, who
served under him, writes Stephen
Crane in New Lippincott. Having or
dered the elector of Saxony to comply
with the edict of restitution and to
order Madgeburg to surrender. and
having received firm refusal, Tilly
proceeded March 80, 1851, to conduct
the siege personally with great vigor.
and finally, after a long, heroic de-
Tense, his men carried it by storm
May 20. Falkenberg was one of the
first to fall. Then began the stored
horrors of Madgeburg, the slaughter of
the soldiers, the citizens, the children,
the murder of the women, many of
whom killed themselves to escape the
demons let loose by lilly.
Many Germans felt pity for the
wretched women delivered into their
hands, but the Walloons of Pappen-
helms army were monsters of brutal
fury. The scenes of crime in Madge-
burg were unsurpassed in animal in
sanity by anything that has been re-
corded When some officers of the
league, sicllened with these sights, ap-
pealed to lilly to stop them. he said:
1.-THE soldier must have some reward
for his danger and his labors."
The inhabitants themselves, it is
said, set fire to the city in twelve diff
ferent places, preferring to be buried
Under The walls to yielding, but some
authorities say it was fired by Pap
penheim. Only the cathedral and fifty
houses were left from the conflagra-
ton; the rest had gone to ruin. SCOT
and ashes.
At last ON May %, lilly walked
through the ruined streets of the city.
More than 5000 bodies had been thrown
into the Elbe. A much greater num-
Der of living and dead had been con-
sumed in the flames. Altogether 10000
were killed.
On the 14th TIE Deum was chanted
in the cathedral by Tilly's orders, and
he wrote to his emperor that since the
taking of Troy and the destruction Of
Jerusalem no such victory had been
seen. He then marched his men away
through the Hartz Mountains. avoid
ing q meeting with Gustavus.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21
How News VIII Travel.

"While on a visit to the south re-
Gently I obtained box OF your let
terine, recommended for all skin dis
eases. / find it to be marvelously
good thing. 1 wish to get some more,
and would like to establish an agency
here for its sale. Please let me know
the price OF ono dozen boxes. w. Q.
Mccall, Granville, Ohio" At drug
gists or by mail for Soc. from J. I.
Shuptrine. Savannah. Ga.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

There is more Catarrh in this section Of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed 10 DO
incurable. For n great many years doctors
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced it in
durable. Science has proven catarrh to be
constitutional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure.
manufactured by T. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the
market. 1t Is taken internally in doses from
10 drops to teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any case
1t fall to cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials. Address FL. CHENEY& Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21
Depreciation of Money.

In 1873 silver dollar was worth one dol
Mar and six-tenths In gold. In 1878, eighty
nine cents; in 1888, eighty-ive cents; II
1888, seventy-two cents; In 1898, sixty cents
and In 1895 forty-fve cents. Money may
depreeiate but there is one standard stomach
remedy, which has not changed In half &
century, and that is Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters. 1t always has been the one unsur.
passed remedy for indigestion. dyspepsia
liver or kidney troubles.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

or the $50 stamps which have been
issued the values have ranged from
one cent to $4,000. Five dollars Is the
highest value among postage stamps,
but newspaper stamps reach the 500
mark, while revenue stamp may rep
resent $4,000.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

It is said that Queen Margherita has
the most beautiful bicycle in the
world. The wheels are OF gold, and
the frame is richly inlaid with jewels
and mother-of-pcarl. Lady Dudley,
one Of tho famous beauties of Eng
land, has white enameled wheel,
whose handles are Of ivory.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21
SUFFERING AND RELIEF
Three Letters from Mrs. johnson.
Showing that Lydia q. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound
Cures the Ills of Women
Wrote for rIrs. PInkham's Advice
November. 1897

A~oNShA1Shs Ao>f
DEAR Mrs. PISKHAM Il am great
sufferer, have much trouble through
the lower part of my bowels, and am
writing to you for advice. Menses are
irregular and scnnty, am troubled with
leucorrhea, and ache so through my
back and down through my loins. I
have spells of bloating very badly,
sometimes will be very large and other
times very much reduced. "-MBs. CHAs.
E. JOHNSON, Box SO, Rumford Center,
Maine, Nov. 90, 1897.
Improvement Reported December,
1897
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM II wish to
tell you that am improving In health.
| am ever so much better than when I
wrote before. The trouble through
the lower part of bowels Is better and
l am not bloated SO badly. Twas very
much swollen through the abdomen
before took Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. / still have feel
ing of fulness across my chest. havc
used three bottles of ii and am on the
fourth. "-MRs. CHAs. E. JOHNSON, Box
80, Rumford Cente Maine, Dec. IS, 1897.
Enjoying Good Health June, 1899
DEAR Mrs. PINBHAM Since year
ago have been taking your medicine,
and am now strong and enjoying good
health. have not been 80 we'll for
three years, and feel very thankful to
you for what Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound has done for me. I
would advise ell who suffer with fe-
male troubles to try your medicine. -
MRS. CHAs E. JOHNSON, Box SO, Rum
ford Center, Maine, June /, 1899.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

Mrs. A. G. Russell. Nashville, Tenn. wrote:
DR.. Moffett's TEETHINA (Teething Powders)
is the greatest blessing to teething children
that the world has ever known.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

Mrs. Blmm: 1.-THE Dobsons at last have n
girl they hope to keep" Mrs. Grimpi Abb
''she was born to them yesterday. "-Phila-
lphia North Anne rican,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

FITS permanently cured. No Ats or nervousness
after first days use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve
Restorer. 81 trial bottle and treatise free DIR. r.
H. KLINE, Ltd, 93l Arch ST., Phila., Pa.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

A satirist is man who discovers things
about himself and then says them about
someone else.-Life.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

What did you say to the lawyer about
breaking your fathers will In your interest?''
Il told him hoped he would allow me res-
sonable per cent on what he got out Of it."
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21
British Ignorance of Canada.

What would be the answer of the
typical intelligent Briton If he were
seized without notice by an Inspector
OF schools, or by board schoolboy In
the sixth standard, and required to
name the provinces in the dominion Of
Canada? 1t is to be feared that In nine
cases ont of ten, or perhaps more fire.
quently than that, our fellow country
men would find such a question quite
beyond their depth.-London Chronicle.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

THE Bible tells of one thoroughly congo
NAL couple, anyway. Who were they?"
"Ananias and Sapphira."
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

One fourth of what a man eats enables him
to liye-and the other three fOurths enables
his physician to live.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

Ffsess Cure is the best medicine we ever used
.. ENDsLEY, VSnburen, Ind, Feb. TO-, 1850.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

Dyeing is as simple as washing when you
use furNiE FADELEss DYES. Sold by all
druggists.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

A woman who boards is as busy as one who
keeps house, but she will never admit that ii
consists largely of frittering,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

Every life touches MANY other lives. Let
us move softly through the world lest our
touch be harsh and hurtful touch.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

Women are permitted to wear mems attire
In France, but for this privilege they are re-
quired to pay a tax of fft7 francs year.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reducing inflama-
tioh, allays pain. cures wind collie, Csc bottle
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

If you want "good digestion to wait upon
your appetite you should always chew bar
of Adams Tutti Fruit.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

The Best Prescription for Chills
and Fever is q bottle OF GROVES TAsrRnEss
CHILL TONIC. It is simply iron and Quinine IN
q tasteless form. No curo-no pay. Price Soc.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

The Manufacturers of Carriers Ink have had
forty years experience in making 1t and theJ
certainly know how. Send for '.Inklings," free
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

If people were to get paid for all the foolish
things they say and do poverty would soon lie
a thing of the past.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

There is a period in every girls life when
she thinks that the most vulgar thing in the
world is boys healthy appetite.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

When family adopts girl of sixteen, it
means that they will have kitchen girl in
uture without wages.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

To Cure q Cold in One Day.
Take LAXATIVE BRoAo QUININE TABLETS. An
druggists refund the money If 1t fails to cure.
Y. W. GROVES signature is on each box. 25c.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

The English peerage is divided into
dukes, narquises, earls, viscounts and
harons, and the spiritual peerage into
archblshops and bishops. -
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

Deliberate much before doing or SAYING
anything, for you have not the power of re-
calling what has been said or done.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-21

AS o man grows older he gets just as con,
Trajectory and obstinate as he was when he
was young.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-10
4 Story of Anthony Hope.

When MT. Anthony Hope Hawkins visited America in 1897 he had to go through much interviewing. On one occasion about twenty reporters gath cred around him in his managers offica near Union Square, in New York. The novelist, shy, retieent and almost bash ful, sat at the center table, while the newsmen stood around him, and the spokesman asked him all manner of questions, first of all, of course, how he hKed America. AS MT. Hawkins had only been ill America four brief hours, he was unable to express any opinion of value upon the subject. Then came in quick succession inquiries as to oth. CT authors and their relative merits. Probably u 9 question which was the hardest to answer was an important one, propounded by self-authorized interrogation It was: MT Hawkins, what in your opinion is your greatest work?" It never has been written. sir, was the reply of the Englishman. And then deep silence fell upon the group.-M. A. P.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-10
Decrease of Births in Europe.

Analysis of the official figures of dif- serent European countries, in respect to births and deaths, shows that the country in which the decrease of births is most striking is England, including Wales. whose co-eficient of decrease is 0.306 per one hundred; Scotland whose mean birth rate is nearly the same, decreases but o.027 per one hum dred; and Ireland, whose birth rate $ much smaller, decreases only 0.233 per one hundred. Somewhat after Eng land and Scotland, but before Ireland, are found Holland and Germany, hay- ing a coeff1cient of decrease of 00244 per one hundred followed closely by Belgium, 0.0239. Then, passing by Greece, comes Frahce, whose natality decreases annually by 00179 per one hundred. After France comes Russia, 0.0158; Sweden, 0.0l47; Switzerland OOPS, and last come, having less than 0.01 per one hundred, Denmark, 0.0078; Austria, 0.O077; Pomerania, 0.0O39, and Hungary, 00o24. On the other hand. an increase is noted in Italy and Spain, while Seryia and Norway are nearly stationary.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-10
s''' A SOcIALiSTIC CITY.
Where the Municipal Ownership Ex-
 tends Even to the Cemetery.

Huddersfeld, a city of Yorkshire, England. is perhaps the best illustra- tion of a city governed on socialistic ideas to be found anywhere in the world. Every municipal monopoly is operated for the benefit of the citizens gas, street cars. waterworks, electric lighting, markets, abattoirS, 6anitari- ums, lodging houses and even the cemetery. As to gas, an exchange gives these particulars: s'In 1872 the gas works were taken over, the ob- ject being to reduce the price of gas land increase its use by the poorer classes. To this end the department .etroduced penny-in-the-slot meters, which have been so well received that about one-fifth of the population is now supplied in this way When the meter is used a stove is supplied and fixed" free of charge. Not one penny need be invested, except for the thirty feet of gas sold for cents. This Is 9 great boon to the poor. who find it difficult to save enough to purchase fittings outright. Stoves alone may be returned at 10 per cent of cost price per year. and the department has it's Gwn stores containing styles to suit the poorest or the most fastidious. The price of gas has been steadily reduced eTtil now it is shillings 3 pence (6e cents) for lighting and 2 shillings (49 eents) for heating and trade purposes Inded, the city has been so considerate Of public welfare in every way that practically the whole population con. sumes municipal gas"
 Electricity is supplied in much the same way, and throughout the prinei pal of monopolization is carried into effect wherever practicable and possi- ble. As everybody seems to be satis- fled with the results obtained, Hud- dersiedld fay properly claim to be the model soeialistie town,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-10
SARCEYS DOUBLE.
Has a Great Many Troubles On Account
 of the Resemblance.

of the Resemblance.
 A leather merchant named M. Bonier. who is in business near the Place de Ia Kepublique, is the hero, or the vic. tim, as one likes, of a most remarkable resemblance to the eminent late dra- matie critic. M. Francisque Sarcey. says the London Post NJ Bonier has just been relating his woes to a sym. Fathizing journalist. He cannot, he says, pass along the street without ob- serving elean-shaVen individuals start and turn pale when their eyes light on him. But worse things befaH ii. Bon- fer. In the Rue de Douai few days ago well-dressed young woman faint ed on pereeiving him. When she re- covered she repeated in terror-strieken accents, Tt is he, It is he!" and the crowd, mistaling the reason of her fright, imparted to M. Bonier the in- formation that he was an old rascal and ought to be ashamed of himself. Equally amusing was the leather mer- chants experience at the ambassadors concert, where M. Sareey's former foe, Yvette Guilbert, is now appearing. The singer, noticing NJ. Bonier, reeited some verses on the subject of M Sar- cey, and by her gestures drew the at- tention of the audience to his double. The public were delighted, of course, but not so M. Bonier, who got up and left the concert. M. Bonter much re- grets his resemblance to the late critic, the results of which he declares to be most annoying to a peaeable trades man. He says that one day he was asked in the street for letter of in- troduction to NJ Jules Claretie. which so vexed him that he almost came to blows with the applicant.