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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-07-13


CetksdaIe Banners A .CIarksiale Iads Is So tender
hearted that she cOldn9 XIII chicken but she wanted
Tor dinner and e0nd lose any time so she picked
its'ive and her husband killed it after he home.
BrOokbaven Leader: Mississippi's timber wealth i
great and cannot be too highly appreciated or carefully
guarded The people of Mississippi will soon even il
tne remoiest corners, stop cutting down q ten-dolar
wne OAK 10 catch ten-cent coon, Chancellor Byre
would say. The fun is too expensive
Winona Tines In every industry represented In Mis-
ssspp there has been steady advance during the past
four years Not only this bat new ones have been add
ca 80 our industrial progress represents only growth
in the lines hitherto developed hut an expansion into
fields and a like development there.
West Point Times; Yes, yes, every county ought 10
have an agricultural fair They must be inaugurated in
the interests of livestock poultry fruit and crop pro-
l mouon' Let us have fair and let all people with
Drains pray the Lord to give legislature which will
remove the obstacles which makes successful fair
in Mississippi practical impossibiv,
Koscusko Star Ledger: Little Elizabeth Brook Hunter
OF Colonel g. NJ Brooke an able member
OF the koscluskO bar, the hundred dollar prze in
New YORK City In the international beauty contest between
Lhe Unl'ed States and England offered by the New York
recently lhls shows that the city and country
IAN produce beauty as well talent
Monticello Press A person who possesses no other ac
0mpshment than that of the harshest criticism for
Everybody and everything is certainly In a bad wav.
" nat wonh tins world be if everyb body did that? II
You'd not be tit to live in and would lie such an
ION OF gOsspng wickedness that the day of Judgment
oud not long be ayerted If is your desire to make
u your friends or enemies the case may be- so con.
uc themselves as to appear without fault or blemsh
ont try to correct their evils by trolling them under
our tongue as sweet morseP' in their absence but 0o
them and In spirit of love plead with them to reform
low can we remove the mote from our brothers. eve
men our own vision is obscnred by beam9 How true
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-07-13

The organization of Young Mems Business Leauge
in Greenve is something the city has needed for long
time Factories and small industries are locating every
day somewhere in ourstae and it is for the advanta
ges and lack that Greenvle does not gel
any of Them but organization show these advanta
ges and invite the promoters and ncorpoators come
here and see them Business leagues have been organized
before in Greenvile and have proved failures This
not because they not good thing, but the right
men we're not placed at the head and the proper interest
taken in it by the members Let us urge that at the
meeting next Thu sday night only those we'll fitted for
the different Offices be elected and that only workers be
placed the commttes. Ii this is done Greenyilles
League will be success and the city will reap great
benefits.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-07-13

We print in todays Issue the preached June
SOth BY Rev Quincy Ewing Rector Of ST. James Episco.
pal church in this city, Il is mastery discourse deliver
ed by one Of the abest dyines in the state, and
people of all creeds will find it inter estng reading.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-07-13

CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE.
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Great Mems PIayfelIows.

Thomas Jeffersons happiest hours
were spent in working and playing
with his children and grandchildren.
Charles Dickens found his best recrea-
ton in the same way. Abraham Lin
coin soothed the anxieties of war days
by romping with his boys in the White
House. And New England's grand old
man, Everett Hale, has kept young in
spite of a long life of hard public labor
by cuItivating the society of his chill
dren and their children.-Indianapol
News
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His Shining Future.

A cab driver of the nighthawk spe-
cics, who begins to look for his prey
even before the sun goes down, patron
ICES a little Italian bootblack named
Tony. Every evening about o'clock
he pulls up In front of Tony's stand,
climbs from his perch, seats himself in
the chair and demands a shine Tony
always responds with great alacrity,
but never gets any pay. Still he seems
satisfied. How is it you shine his
shoes for nothing?" asked another Gus
toner last evening, as the Jehu climbed
up to his seat and drove off. Oats
Jeem," replied Tony, smiling until
his white teeth fairly cleaned. "Jeem
is-a ma frien'." Yes, he seems to be
your friend" said the man in the
chair. you give him a shine every
night, don't you? What has he ever
done for you?" ooh, Jeem, he's-a all
right replied Tony. Hes a good-a
fel. He say to me once: Tony, you
give-a me shine ezra day, an some-a
time 1 taxa you out an give-a you a
ride" How long ago was that?"
asked the customer. "T'ree year ago"
said Tony, still smiling. "Some-a time,
Jeem, he taxa me out. Jeem, he's a
good-a Philadelphia Record.
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portant papers. As he made a hurried
investigation of his bag he said
IF I did leave those papers I'm a
fool"
He continued the search, and a mo-
ment later exclaimed:
III bet it'll turn out I'm a fool"'
For the third time lie rummaged
through the bag, and as he reached the
last bundle he repeated:
Yes, sir, believe it'll turn out I'm a
foolr"
Now the travelling British public
greatly resents any disturbance of its
solemn silence, and man On the other
side of the compartment. who had list
ened frowningly to the farmers defini-
ton Of his own status, looked over his
newspaper and said, with sarcastic in
tereSt:
"Oblige me, sir, by laying a little
money that same way for me-"
The proposition was not accepted,
partly because betting is immoral, and
pnrtly because the farmer felt that his
companion would have n sure thing
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Dromedaries Smoke Tobacco.

Dromedaries are said to be particu-
larly fond of tOsDacco smoke. and can
be made to do almost anything while
under its influence. Travellers, it is As
serted, rely more on their tobacco
smoke for their control over these huge
beasts than anything else. When trav
cling on long journeys the dromedaries
are in many cases required to travel
night and day without rest, and they
are kept up to their task by smoking
cigars. The driver carries a triangular
piece of wood, which is pierced at one
point like a cigarholder. This is in
serted in the mouth of the animal the
cigar being lit and pressed into tb.
hole. The dromedary closes its eyes
and puffs away through its nostrils
until the cigar is burned away. The
indulgence appears to refresh it. and
the keeper has no difficulty in persuad-
ing the animal to plod on without
further rest.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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The refusal of the Secretary of War
to remit the penalties imposed by court
martial on the rowdy West Point ca
diets will do much to enforce the whole
some reign of discipline and good order
in that institution. His course is APP
proved by the President. United States
Senators of the highest influence inter
coded unsuccessfully in behalf of the
cashiered cadets. The offenders must
take their medicine, some in expulsion,
some in suspension for different periods
and others in loss of rank. The penal
ties appear to have been equitably dis
tributed according to the demands of
justice in each case. If the egregious
violations of discipline at the military
academy had been condoned the stu
dents there at school to learn the duties
of soldier-the first duty being obedi-
ence-would have been corrupted by
faint which would have been virulent
throughout their future careers. They
never would have unleGrned the bad
lesson. The education of students at
West Point is to fit them for the future
duties Of commanding officers in the
army. If they do not learn first to obey
they never will learn to command. The
outbreak at the school was nothing less
than mutiny. The mutineers were just
ly punished.
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Remarkable Tree in Germany.

Naturalists in Germany are much in
terested in a wonderful old tree which
has been discovered near Homburg
1t is an oak, and is notable not only on
account of it's great bulk, but also for
the fact that at the base of the trunk
it is entirely hollow. The trunk, indeed.
is not more than eight or nine feet high,
but it is more than twenty feet in cir
conference. Some idea of the size of
it's interior may be gathered from the
fact that four persons recently found
ample room in it.
In winter the old oak looks very bare
and gaunt, but, according to peasants
in the neighborhoOd, who have known
it for many years, it regularly puts
forth new twigs and foliage every
spring, so that, ancient and decayed
though its trunk may be, it is neverthe-
less crowned and surrounded with
masses of green leaves, just as it was
in the days of its youth. The people
of Homburg are very proud of this nat
ural curiosity.
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the arrest the girl declared the value
of the trinkets did not attract her so
much as the danger of detection, which
fascinated her and caused her to repeat
her crime time and again as she noted
the efforts to discover the thief. She
knew she was doing wrong and that de-
lection meant disgrace and perhaps a
term in prison, but she could not resist
the impulse to steal articles that would
be missed and cause efforts to be made
for their recovery. She told her father
that on one occasion she stole a dia-
mond ring belonging to her roommate,
and then, filed with remorse, replaced
the ring before its absence was noted.
Within twentyfour hours she again
stole the ring. She declares her steal
ing gave her a mental eXhilaration
which was enjoyable, and that after
the first offense it was impossible for
her to stop the practice.
Some of her friends believe the girl
to be a victim of hypnotism. Others
think she is mentally unbalanced as the
result of an accident about a year ago,
when she received an injury to her
head that rendered her unconscious sew
eral hours. Two prominent physicians
have reported that Miss Burt is suffer
ing from mental arrangement and
should receive treatment.
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The Dunkards originated in Ger
many, out of which country they were
driven by persecution early in the
eighteenth century. They came to
Pennsylvania ON the invitation of VIII
liam Penn, and in that State they
throve and grew numerous. Until re-
Gently Pennsylvania has been the head
center of the Dunkards, but so many
of them have emigrated to the farm
lands of the far West that the center
has now shifted.
1t was from one of the Pennsylvania
communities that sprang an even more
curious and interesting Development
that of the monastic Town of Ephreta,
Pa, once a manufacturing and com
mercial metropolis, now a mere vii
lage.
Nearly 200 years ago Conrad Beissel,
of Dunkard parentage, was baptized
into the German Baptist Church. He
was man of great study and piOus
zeal, and he became convinced that
the seventh, instead of the first, day
Ofssthe. week should be observed as the
Sabbath day. He wrote tracts in sup
port of this view and urged it so
strongly that to avoid trouble, he was
finally compelled to withdraw from
membership IN the society. He retired
into what was then a wilderness and
made his home in an old cave on the
bank of a river, where he lived the life
of a hermit. Gradually some of his
friends and others who were convinced
that he had the right way of thinking
gathered about his cavern, and in 1872
communistic life was entered upon by
those who followed him. The men
of the society wore long white flannel
gowns and cowls, with shirts, trousers,
and vests of the same material. The
women were attired in the same way,
with the exception that short petit
coat was substituted for the trousers.
There were no vows of celibacy taken
nor required, though the idea was
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taught by Beissel. Both the brothers
and sisters were known by mOnastic
names. About these two mOnastic
communities gathered Il good sized
community of people who believed in
the doctrines taught by BeisseI and
wanted to follow him. All property
was held in common, and i'll a few
years the farm lands held by the COM
munity and worked by the brothers and
sisters became extremely productive
and valuable. Gradually also Touring
mills, paper and saw mills, and wooden
mills were erected on the banks of the
river by the community, and at one
time they were the largest mills of
their kind in the United States. The in
come from all these enterprises was
large, and it all went into the COM
mon fund and was used for the COM
mon support. The community was also
active in PROSECUTING, and set up one
of the first printing presses in the
country to turn out its own books and
tracts.
Now the mills are almost all in ruins.
The great estate of the old community
has practically passed out of the hands
of the few surviving members of the
society, and the last of the brothers in
white gowns has long since passed
away.
The old cloisters, where the brothers
and sisters lived until a few years ago,
are now leased to a number of families
and are fast crumbling into decay.
Within their walls one will first be
struck with the strange fact that all
the doors are extremely small and of
the same size, measuring exactly five
feet in height and twenty inches in
width. This, it is explained by the
old Dunkards who still live about
Ephreta, was intended to be a constant
reminder to the faithful, as they
stopped and twisted to get through the
doors, that the way which leadeth to
eternal life is narrow and steep.
These Dunkards are inclined to live
together in communities, though this is
less pronounced than formerly. They
are cut off from the rest of the world
not only by their peculiar dress but by
many of the religious beliefs and OBJ
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flying admission that the American
woman leads very different life from
her French sister. 1t will be news
throughout the millions of homes on
this continent to learn from our recent
visitor that lin America home scarcely
exists. People live i'll hotels or employ
housekeepers" This is so many leagues
from the truth that it merely provokes
a smile, but what do our readers of
the gentler sex say to Sarah's asser-
ton that the American woman mar
ries as late as possible" and that while
in Europe the girls make haste Ito
escape from the family hearth and get
married." in America the girls are in
no hurry to enter the bonds of matri-
mony, because to them marriage brings
an obligation from which the unmar-
ried are free" 1t would be interesting
to know from what shallow gossip
about American family life the divine
but lax Sarah derived her stock of mis-
information in regard to American
homes and American girls. So far as
our girls are concerned, no one has ever
known them to show any backward
ness about assuming the obligations of
the married state. 1t is only a Ques-
ton with the great majority of them
of meeting the desirable and desired
| mate. Instead of marrying as late as
possible our girls are a great deal more
prone to marry in haste, in spite of
the ancient injunction about repenting
at leisure, than their cautious and
canny brothers. The American girl,
guided by an instinct that seldom fails
her, regards the fresh bloom of early
womanhood as the most fascinating
possession of her sex. 1t is the charm
that brings the suitors to her side in
droves so she can choose. After it has
passed she knows that, save in excep-
tional cases, her matrimonial fate will
be summed up in the aged spinster's
prayer, Good Lord, any man."
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servances. Altogether they now num-
Der more than 100000 members, though
there is not much if any growth in their
numbers of recent years. The young
people who grow up in the dcnomina-
ton seem TO be more and more inclined
to leave it in recent years for some
faith which will give them more lib
erty Of thought and action.
Every congregation of the Dunllnrds
is entirely Independent of the rest and
elects its own deacons; ministers, and
Bishops. None Of the clergy IS paid a
regular salary, but if he IS poor the
church members will contribute to his
support. When there are questions
which involve more than one congrega-
ton district and general conferences
are held, and the Dunllards meet by
the thousands in the open air to settle
them.
At every conference, as well as at
the love-feasts which are held in every
congregation twice year, the first GER
emory is that of the washing of feet.
All the men of the congregation sit on
one side of the meeting house and all
the women ON the other side. Then, as
the candles are lit, the members on the
front benches remove their shoes and
stockings. Men and women come in,
carrying tubs of lukewarm water, and
a man on the mans side and a woman
on the woman's side then wash the
feet, one by one, shaking the right hand
of each individual as the washing is
completed and giving the kiss of peace.
Closely following the person who does
the washing comes another person,
girded about the waist with a long
towel, who wipes the feet and bestows
the kiss of peace and the right hand
OF fellowship in his or her turn. AS
one benchful has the ceremony per-
formed another takes its place until all
the congregation has taken part. While
the feet washing is in progress the min
lister makes a brief speech or reads
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1t may or may not be true that King
Humbert's assassin, Bresci, was tur-
tured by his guards. Probably he was
not dealt with very gently. But no
amount of mere physical suffering
which his keepers could have inflicted
without running the risk of kill
ing him could have been worse
than that made necessary by the
very nature of his sentence. He was
in solitary confinement, with nothing
to do and just sufficient food and exer-
else to make it impossible for him to
sicken and die. The human mind can
not get along without occupation and
remain sane. To be placed in small
chamber with only stone walls to look
at would soon shatter the strongest
nerves. To be confined thus with the
certainty that the confinement is for
life probably would result in partial or
total arrangement for almost any per-
son living. Italy considers the death
penalty too severe a measure for any
crime, but it may well be doubted if
the few minutes of terror before guillo-
tine or scaffold is not a less fearful
punishment than the slow process
which drove Bresci to madness and
then to suicide.
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Origin of "Grass Widow. ~

Society in India, it appears from the
Bengal papers, is being disturbed just
now over the origin of the term grass
widow" and a considerable amount
of research has been directed to the
subject. So far the inquiries made
have succeeded in tracing the word
back to the year 1874, when it was used
in the Calcutta Review. In the opinion
of qualified philologists the term is a
corruption of the much older one
''grace widow" This is derived from
"vidua de gratia," which may be in,
terpreted literally as widow by ia
vor.''-LOndon News.
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1t is reasonable to suppose that the
first successful attempt to travel by
automobile from New York to Chicago
will cause other automobilists to make
similar experiments until the perform
ance will cease to be regarded as I'M
usual. The Chicago gentleman who,
with his wife and a machinist, enjoys
the honor of establishing the record
succeeded in covering the distance in
less than eleven days, while the time
actually consumed in travelling was
only about ninety-eight hours. In 9TH
er words, the automobile, if it had pro-
ceeded continuously, would have COW
cred the distance from New York in
only a little more than four days. The
success of this experiment may be TAX
en- both as a sign that the American
roadways are probably improving and
as another inducement for continuing
the good-roads movement If the jour-
ney can be made now in approximately
ten days, allowing for stoppages, break
downs and delays due to imperfect
roads, the time schedule should be re-
duced much further when the roads
have been brought to the standard of
perfection Of European roads. With
cheap and rapid automobiles, good
roads and well-appointed inns lining
the route, what would a few hundred
miles matter to the traveller bent on see
ing the country?
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The real wealth of nations is not to
be computed by statisticians, who can
do no more than make rows of figures
representing what they judge to be the
value of Ats material possessions and
resources and foot up the items to a
grand total. The character and capa-
city of a nation rather than its stores of
wealth, whether in one form or another,
make and keep it great. The editor Of
the London Statist a few days ago OBJ
served that the natural resources of the
United States do not wholly account
for its present keen industrial rivalry
with European nations. He keenly re-
marks that the red men had the same
country and the same resources, though
they never seriously competed for the
trade and commerce of Europe.
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from the Bible some passages abiding

from the Bible some passages abiding
to the ceremony.
In the meeting houses the back of
every third bench is so arranged that it
can. be turned on a pivot and trans
formed into a table, about which the
faithful gather for the sacrament of
the Lords supper. The pew back is
covered with a white cloth, upon which
are placed large bowls of soup. Three
or four people help themselves from
each of these bowls. After this the
communion itself is administered, and
the services conclude with the singing
of hymns and preaching.
In case of sickness among the mem
bers of the church the orthodox mem
berS cling to the ancient ceremonies of
amounting the patient with oil and pray
ing over him. Word of each case of i'll.
ness is sent to the elders of the church
and at an appointed time they appear
pour oil upon the head of the sick man
lay their hands upon his head, and of
fer prayers in his behalf. Baptism is
administered in running water and by
threefold immersion.
Almost all of the Dunkards are en-
gagged in farming. They will suffer Il
wrong rather than go to law about it,
and are not accustomed to take any
part in politics, though more and more
of the young men of the church are
to be found among those who vote
regularly and take an intelligent in
tereSt in matters of public policy. The
old-fashioned Dunkards pride them
selves on the peculiarities which sep
arate them from other people, and are
accustomed to refer TO the members of
thir church as Goods peculiar people. -
But it is the disinclinatiOn of the young
people of their church to cut them
selves off from others of their own age
that has proved to- be the greatest
weakness of the church. 1t is said to
be barely holding its own at the pres
ent time.
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Inform a ton. from Headquarters.

excepted.
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Conductor-You wouldn't had to run
no more; we got orders to stop for
cripples.
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A Crushing Defect.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
OniuouS,

First neutrality-suspicious. has been
chuckling to himself over his work all
day. He must see something very
amusing in the figures he's working
with.
Second Bookkeeper-That so? Well,
let's watch out and get away the
minute clOsing-up time comes. His g.
year-old boy has been saying some
thing cute again.