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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24
FATHERS IN VERMONT.


"Forty years ago the Adirondack
panthers used to bother the northern
Vermont farmers a great deal, sale
Capt. Peter Mcintyre, telling al Pack
ards tavern, in the Maine woods, OF
some of his early experiences In the
Green Mountain state. I'm the winter
when the lake was frozen they would
come across on the ice and get their liv.
ing from the Vermont farmyards. II
did not take long to find out that pan
Their had arrived in neighobrhood, the
slaughtered sheep and pigs and young
cattle soon told the story. and then the
farmers would turn out with guns anc
dogs to hunt the brute down, or at least
scare him away. But while he was in
the neighborhood it was noticed thai
people stayed home at nights more thar
common, and everybody felt better
when he was gone. | remember being
one evening at the house of Henry Hap.
good, who lived at the end of the long
covered bridge in the town of Under
hill, when his boy Zetf and his cousin
John came in looking pretty badly
scared and saying they had seen
panther. They were coming home, and
had got over the bridge, when the crea.
ture crossed the road just in front OF
them. Hapgood and took gun and
lantern and went down to the place
and there were the panthers tracks
plainly to be seen in the new snow. He
had crossed the road, leaped on stnne
wall, run along the wall for some dis
lance in the direction the boys were go
ing, and then jumped off into thicket
Perhaps he wouldn't have touched the
boys under any circumstances, but il
was as close a call as they cared to have
But the queerest panther story that
ever knew of was of frozen panther
The last of the brutes that was known
to cross Lake Champlain came into the
township of johnson in the January OF
1884, and killed the farmers stock left
and right. The people of the town got
up a party and set out to hunt him
down, but before they could come up
with the panther a hunter, out on his
own hook, had killed him. The brute
was taken to the village on a sled
propped up in a natural position and
left to freeze. One night of a Vermont
winter was enough to do the business
and then he was placed on exhibition.
Thousands of people that winter PAID
an admission fee to see him, and / reck
on that he was the most profitable dead
panther that anybody ever owend. He
stayed frozen solid as long as colo
weather lasted, looking natural as life;
then his skin was taken off and stuffed |
and that is the last l heard of tn |
Y Cup
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24
BLONDE-HAIRED WOMEN.
pOetry, Romance and History in All
Lands Have Paid Tribute
to Fair Tresses.

With a web of gold tresses Helen
shared the heart of Paris; it was with
blonde hair that the Magdalen wiped
the feet of the Master. ''Dante's BE,
atrice" was blonde; Tasso's ''Armide"
was inspired by the fair and blonde
Eleonore d'Este, one of the most beau.
tiful and remarkable women of that
epoch, and one with whom, of course,
he was desperately in love. The beau.
tiful Cleonice supplants all brunette
rivals in the heart of her royal lover
where she wells her pearly tears in the
shining gold of her hair" Venus, the
goddess of beauty and love, rises
from the sea-foam with dead-gold
locks. The virtues, Faith, Hope and
Charity, have blonde hair, and Aurora
god, has hair as yellow as the sunshine
1t was the golden hair of the beautiful
Della, mistress of Tibullus, that be-
witched the poet, and Catullus sang the
glories of Berenice's golden hair. The
radiant ideals of Titan, Murillo and
Raphael were as Eugene Sue described
Adrienne de Cordoville: ''Her hair was
Of reddish hue, of that peculiar color
seen in many of the most admirable fe.
male portraits" Phryne, the fair,
when brought before her judges, sud
denly threw off her peplum, and daz.
zled the lawmakers with her wondrous
beauty, clad only in the waves of rip
ping hair. Men have not changed
through the centuries. Beauty was
then, as now, a woman's best defense.
and her pardon was granted instantly.
Among the poets we remember the
red-haired ''Pyrrha" of Horace, Kings.
ley's 'Hypatia," Bulwer's "Adeline de
Montreal Virgil's Venus" Homer's
"Agamede," Shakespeare's "Portia,'
Millions Eve" and Halleck's Fanny
The heroic women of history were
of the red-haired sisterhood - lisa.
belle of CASTLE, Helen of Troy,
Catherine I. of Russia, Joan of Arc
Elizabeth of England, Mary Stuart
Anne of Russia, ex-Empress Eugene,
Lucretia Borgia and Beatrice Cenci.-
Will NJ. Clemens, in Woman's Home
Companion.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24

the General Federation OF Women's
Mrs. Lowe has been long known in the
south as wealthy and philanthropic
woman. She has handsome home in
the aristocratic quarter of Atlanta. and
there dispenses notable hospitality
amid the most luXuriant surroundings.
First attracted to club life during
the Cotton States and International eX-
position, she became imbued with the
idea at once, and it was at her home that
the Woman's club of Atlanta was born.
From this beginning the Georgia Fed
Grafton grew, and Mrs. Lowe was unan'
imously elected its president. In 1895
she was elected presiding officer of the
general federation at the Denver con.
vention. The work of spreading the
club idea among the women of the south
fell to her lot, and few have any com.
plant to make of the success she has
made in this somewhat stubborn field.
Mrs. Lowe has crossed the meridian
of life, but she is still youthful in ap.
pearance, and though not large WON.
an has an imposing appearance and is
an excellent and impressive speaker
She is of rather slight stature, her eyes
are blue, and her brown hair is tinged
with gray. She wears eyeglasses,
dresses with elegance and taste and has
the charming, easy manners that per-
tain to the ladies of the south. How she
is held in estimation of the members
of the general federation may be gath
cred from the fact that shea south.
erner-could find friends enough to
elect her the executive head of this ire
large body of American
women, the vast majority of whom live
in the north.
Before her marriage Mrs. Lowe was
one of the most beautiful and popular
bellies in the south. She has a son and
married daughter.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24
FOR THE BRIDE-ELECT.
Linen, Book and Rose Showers Are
Becoming Popular All Over
the Country.

The bride of to-day is being made the
recipient of many social honors. All
her girl friends pay her tribute by
these pretty entertainments, and the
popular maid must be ready for her
wedding several weeks before the event
transpires, for at each of the func-
tons she is supposed to wear one of her
trousseau gowns. Most of these af-
fairs are luncheons or breakfasts, eacL
with special feature. A ''linen
shower" for instance, consists of each
guest bringing piece of linen, doiley,
centerpiece or bureau scarf, whatever
one chooses, and as the party leaves
the table the pieces are thrown at the
brideto-be.
For book shower each guest
brings book appropriately inscribed
to her friend, with sentiment which
the giver fancies. OF course, each hos
tess can use her own ideas in planning
her entertainment, and III her invita-
tions puts in one cornec what each
guest is to bring for the honored one.
Teaspoons" ''cups aad saucers,"
plates and sofa pillows" are all ac-
ceptable. These contributions go to-
ward furnishing the brides new home
with memories of her girlhood days and
friends. The rose shower should be
left for the last affair before the we'd
ding. and as the bride departs an i'm
mense bag filled with rose petals is
burst over her head, and each maid
throws handful of the fragrant bios
SONS, signifying the hope that her fu-
ture may be rose-strewn. The bag is
made of tissue paper, and the girls will
all have been saving their rose petals
for weeks for this Chicago
Times-HeTald.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24

for over 500 years. The stump is over
seven feet in diameter at the height of
the fence. On its top is the church bell,
surmounted by little roof and cross.
The belfry is reached by acurfous lad
der formed by Stats on board leaning
from the roof to the tree trunk.
Over the tree grows beautiful Eng
fish ivy. This ivy has found its way
into the church through crack in the
simple chapel. There it grows, beau
tifur decoration for the interior of the
house. 1t is green even at this sea-
son.
The bell was given by the Sunday
school of old ST. Peters church, of Phil
adelphia, and the church is known as
ST. Peters Episcopal church. Mr..
Cheal is the rector. t'ft
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24
MRS. LOWE HoNORED.
Georgia Lady Appointed to Repre-
sent the Club Women of America
mt the Paris Exposition.

Mrs. William Bell Lowe, of Atlanta,
Ga. president of the General Federation
of Womens Clubs, has received notice
of her appointment as honorary presl-
dent for America of the woman's board
of the Paris exposition, and has notihed
Nine. Poquard, leader of the woman b
department of the exposition, OF her
acceptance.
Mrs. Lowe is one of the few southern
women who have become conspicuous
during the past few years in the wom'
ems club movement, and she is now the
official leader of that movement in
America. Although it is only short
time since she became identified with
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24
TREE TRUNK SPIRE.
st. Peters Church, at Tacoma, Wash,
Is Quaint and simple
House of Worship.

Christmas bells rang at Tacoma,
Wash, from peculiar church spire. 1t
is Douglas fir tree stump. The church,
a small, primitive structure, was built
in the midst of rough lumber camp in
the seventies by the side of the tree, so
that the latter might be used for
s,eeple. Bishop Morris, who is still
bishop of Oregon, built it.
The church was built in less than
week. but the steeple had been growing
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24

italian Catholics propose to celebrate
he nineteenth century by erecting
is colossal statues of Christ in conspic-
Ious points of the peninsula. Among
he places selected are Mount Soracte,
he Gran Sasso d'Italia, and the toe. the
leel and the instep of sthe boot" The
tatues are to be of gilded cast iron.-
I. 7. Journal.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24

The time required for a journey
lround the earth by a man walking
lay and night, without resting, would
De 42s days; an express train, 40 days;
sound, at a medium temperature, 321s
hours; cannon ball, 21A hours; light,
little over one-tenth of a second, and
electricity passing over a copper wire,
! little under one-tenth of a second
Tribune.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24

Thereeent investigatiop,I,'
the Pacific Ocean have rev ~,
ing fact, that il not upon n' raas
gradually become encrustsS Wy !
and seaweed, heavy enous ,S J,
This, ia, like dyspepsia, MIN
checked, grows until Il | ha!l
health. Hostetter's StomacGh' XIV "
vent as well as cure indissa.u,'
biliousness, liver and kidness'ull
makes weak stomachs stro".,
SCI. il. 'ohs
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24
A competent Defense.

The homeliest man in congress is Eddy, of
Minnesota. He rather glories in the distinc,
ton of ughness, especially as all his other
characteristics are enviabe During his last
campaign the enemies of Mr.. Eddy charged
him with being double-faced. He met the
icism. "Great heavens" said Mr. Eddy to
his audience. edo you think that if I had two
faces would wear the one am showing you
3"-Arponaut.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24

The sparkle of crystal for the mo-
ment rivals the simmer of silver on my
lady's toilet table. In trays. boxes, bot
ties, everything to which it can be
adopted, appears the cut and engraved
crystal, with, of coarse, more or less sill
yer ornamentation.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24

Don't you think" said the friend.
that Mare Antony's Grafton is mag.
nificent specimen of its kind?"
yes answered the statesman.
Its pretty good. But you ought to
read the speech I am going to print in
the Congressional Record before long"
Washington Star.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24
FOR MIDDLE-ACED \

Two Letters from Women H.,..
the "Change of Life" by
hams Vegetable Compouns
DEAR MRS. PrNKHAM w
wrote to you 1 was in a ye,I
dition. 1 was passing M
change of life, and the dOal
had bladder and liver trouVI
suffered for nine years. NJ
to do me any good. SinceIIl
Lydia E. Pinkham's vepesl
pound, my health has imur
much. l will gladly reconnI
medicine to others and am M
will prove as great a blessip,
as it has to me-" -MRs. GA
901 DeKalb Ave-, Brooklyn n
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24
Gold and silver Purses.

Of sterling GOLD are the links of the
wee spurse. The gold mount is partic-
ularly handsome. :. These little purses
are also seen in sterling silver and in
steeEs The steel are handsomer than
the silver, but, of course, the golden
purse is far and away the most gor-
geous of them all.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24
Relief Came promt

fI
"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM.-Il
under treatment with the N
four years, and seemed to get,:
l thought l would try your I
My trouble was change Of N
must say that l never had (
help me SO much as Lydia
hams Vegetable Compoupl
came almost Immediately.
better health now than | EVIL
feel like a new woman, !
strong. I give Lydia E. N
Compound all the credit, Al
not do without her medicine
thing. / have recommend.
several of my friends. Thu
need of women suffering 50 \
Mrs. Pinkham's remedies an
cure. y MAHALA BUTLER,
water, Ill.
Another Woman Hid,
DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:-Ia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable d
during change of life and der1
benefit from it's use. MANI
1876 Coydon St., Bradford, Pa
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24

Some fastidious women have night
eaps made of white wash lace with a
circular sachet pad fastened in the
crown. The caps are coquettish and
pretty. the lace mesh allows free ac-
cess of air and the sachet imparts a,
faint but distinct fragrance TO the hair.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24

A professor Of English M
Kansas university once pos WIZ
"In communicating with ' ~
students will whisper as oi, w
He was Mortified next mern sia
written under his notice. ''a IN
talk to yourself in whisne,. y
can. Chicago Chronicle
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24
" Shanogv Brooks
Are Often Noisy"

You haze headache, back
ache, eruphons or kidney
troubles, or "that tired feel
ing.'' These are the SHALLOW
brooks qwah their noise. Seek the source
of the brook and It Is deep and quiet.
The source of illness Is impure blood.
america S Greatest Medicine, Hoods Sar-
saparfIa, Is Natures oqDn means of
cleansing the entire system. It has no
superior. no equal. only h,Hators.
Debllity-"My system 4uas ali run
doEvn. I had blackheads and that tired
feeling. Ibegan taking Hoods Sarsapa-
rilia and haze gained ten pounds In qDeight
and feel like neu man." William j.
Knight, S2I Bluff Street. Ri4sburg, Pa.
hoods eyaldqbmiM
Elazzd lEfl25lrrz
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24

The eccentricity of genius is one thing;
the foolishness of mediocrity quite another.
1t is one thing to have your farm muddy now
and then; another to have it all swamp
Hudor Genone.
A Blessing Topeka has deaf mute bar
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24

and Fever is a bottle OF Gno,.'
CHILL Tonic. tits simplyiro',
atasteless form. No cure-nCo,Os.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24

Why can't somebody give us list of things
which everybody thinks and nobody says,
and another list of things that everybody
says and nobody thinks?-Oliver Wendell
Hnlmea
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24

Silent neighbors make a AL
borhood, Chicago Daily Nsr.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24
Honey an Excellent Eonh.

Scientific men say that honey is g
much more healthful sweet than sugar
and has many valuable properties. 1t is
nutritive, and when used freely with
bread makes an excellent food for chill.
dren. 1t is laxative, and may be used
adyantageously in place of medicine by
persons of sedentary lives. Being also
the daintiest and most delicious of
sweets-an extract of blossoms-it il
hardly possible TO eat it to an injurious
extent. II needs no digestion. as sugar
does, and even acts as digestive aid.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24
Flat Comfort.

Mrs. Flatte-What do you suppose they
are leaving a load of ice down at the door
for?
Mr.. Patiently, that's what they heat
the fiat with, isn't it?-Detroit Free Press.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24

More mushrooms are raised in the
vicinity of Paris than in any other
place in the world.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-24

no attention to facts, but criticised in
discriminatory, and afterward virtu-
ally had to eat his words.
But there is one point which has
been raised in regard to prison Irvine,
that Swenska Folkets Tidning did
not touch upon that bears directly up
on the management and Involves it,
and that is the alleged inferiority of
the Irvine. 1t has been alleged that
some of it was very poor and not of a
smooth quality, being lumpy SO that
it did not run we'll, but bothered
greatly in the machinery when in
operation. This is the fault of the
prison management, in that the work
was not watched closely enough in it's
manufacture. Editor Cowles, of the
ST. Peter Journal, also states that it
ran sh ort in length to the ball as COM
pared with that of private manufac-
ture, and that he has made comparison
nd knows whereof he speaks. This
10 HaItcl UHdI VIII WelSH HOlo
heavily against the fusion reform ad-
ministration, than that of price, which
it is probably not wholly to blame for.
If the management has been so slack
that the work is poor the auministra-
tion must stand the blame for it.
No trouble of this kind ever happen
ed under Republican management nor
while Mr. Wolfer was in charge All
alleged shortcomings preferred by
Governor Lind against the Republi
cans were proven false Here is
most serious allegation against fusion
management. How is it with re
form?''
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-24
THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE.

Former United States Senator Lee
Mantle, of Montana, in his letter re-
nouncing his allegiance to Organism,
say IS "To my mind, the paramount
issue today is the issue of maintaining
the honor and dignity of the nation
and the supremacy of the flag where
ever it is rightfully floating. 1t is the
issue of whether we shall preserve the
fruits of all the blood and treasure ex-
pended and all the splendid courage
and patriotism exhibited in the cause
of humanity and in defense of unde-
niable rights, of whether we shall re-
solutely discharge the great obliga-
tions which have devolved upon us, or
whether we shall abandon our adj
vanced position, throw down our
arms, cravenly hoist the white flag,
and admit to the world that we are in
capable of solving the problems which
confront u.s.
Mr.. Mantle puts the question well.
But this does not in the least lessen
the danger of free coinage from Bryan
tie sources. Bryans personality is SO
bound up in free coinage that once
elected, he would bend his energies as
actively in the direction of getting the
minis opened to the free and unlimit-
ed coinage of silver as he would to
hauling down the flag on any of our
possessions. Bryan's whole personality
is opposed to our present prosperity
and the American people are hardly
likely to repeat their disastrous expert
ment Of 1899, and vote down and out
the prosperity they are at present en-
joying.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-24

Finally, the conduct of the Philip
pine annexationists condemns itself.
They have changed their flag as they
change their shirts, and are animated
solely by the momentary ulster OF
stolen gold. but by their vile conduct,
aided by their thriving country. they
are only raising their own scaffold.
God grant your excellencies many
years.
1t can hardly be expected that the
American people will approve OF and
give power to a party that conducts it.
self in such way that it gives en-
enlargement to men who are in rebel
lion against the government. Even
were Mr. Bryan's plan carried out,
the policy which the administration,
with the approval of congress, is pur-
suing would have to be conducted to
the end and peace fully restored be-
fore anything could be done. So that
Democracys course at the best, is but
raising false hopes in the hearts OF the
Filipino leaders.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-24
REFORM" TACTICS.

Swenska Folkets Tidning, of Min
neapolis speaking of Governor Lind S
statement last winter that he would
not accept the Democratic nomination
again, and the information of his pri-
vate secretary that he would, says that
possibly the governor fooled himself
but that he fooled no one else. All
that he did was to scare the fusionists
and that was doubtless what it was
for. They have been very lamb-like
toward him ever since.
AS to the line of attack which the
fusionists are making on the Republi
cans in which they ridicule and be-
little Captain Van SAINT and make an
attack on Tasm Bixby, Swensk Folkets
Tidning says it will not win. ''If"
it says, 1.-THE Democrats can find no
better method of campaigning than to
abuse, roast and ridicule Tams Bixby
they might as well quit right now.
Tams will keep right on at work, and
his work will tell. He isn't the Re
PUBLICAN party, it's nominees or its
platform. He is the engineer of the
locomotive that is going to run over
and make grease of the Democratic
donkey.
AS for Captain Van SAINT it will do
the Democrats no good to make fun
of him. 1t will not make votes for
them to make reflections on his war
record and endeavor to connect it with
his honorable peace occupation of
owning and controlling river steam
boats engaged in rafting. Captain Van
SAINT has good army record. He need
not be ashamed of his title because he
honorably came by it as the captain of
| a river steamer.
Referring to the prison Irvine mat
| ter, it says that ''In 1898 the Demo
Gratis made savage and unjustifed at
| tack on the management of the state
| prison Irvine factory. The farmers
were made to believe that the institu-
ton was so conducted as to make
money out of their necessities. The
argument was the most sophistical
and demagogical used in that cam
paign. Now the Democrats are taking
their own BASTARD OIL 1T the nalludes to
the fact that Irvine made by private con-
Germs has sold for less during the har-
vesting season than the prison Irvine,
and the bad look this has on the face
of it. 1t is claimed by the fusion lead
ers that the private manufacturers
sold at less than cost. Possibly they
/ did, though they are not in the habit
of doing such tricks However, as
Swenska Folkets Tidning points out
the fact that prison Irvine under the
Democratic administration sells for
more than under the Republican ad-
ministration, and yields no profit to
the state, as was the case then, while
it looks discreditable, is due largely
to facts having no connection with
management, as the price of materials
have been higher But it should be
remembered that in his criticisms
two years ago, Governor Lind paid