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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19
A FORGOTTEN ART.
Creek Indians No Longer Skilled In
Manufacture of Earthenware.

Manufacture OF EarthenWarc.
Civilization has caused the making
or baskets and earthenware vessels
to become lost art among the Creek
Indians, who in early days were skill
ed in their manufacture The small
cost of these articles at stores made
their purchase more desirable than
the toll of weaving and molding them
at home. The baskets and pottery
were made exclusively by the women
Early in the spring, when the sap
was rising in the trees, the clay was
ripe" or in condition just adapted
to the use of the potter. 1t was dug
and placed where other soil would NOT
mix with it. Spring water and pulver-
lied mussel shell were added 20 it,
and the women were ready for work.
jars we're built up from the bottom
The rOughness was removed by rub
bing the jar with q stone After the
lars were burned in the kiln they were
allowed to cool gradually. The in
terror of the jars was so,Iahci with
pebbles. The exterior was never per-
fectly smoothed, and was ornamented
with crude figures and characters.
Many jars were broken in the process
of burning. The finished vessels With
stood the hottest fires and were the
only cooking utensils OF The Greeks.
Alice M. Robertson, supervisor of
schools in the Creek natior, in a re-
port to the superintendent of schools.
said:
"The Creeks long ago were very
Industrious people, and skilled in
primitive manufacturers. The men
titled the ground and wrought in wood
and metal, and the women wove fab
RIGS of cotton on rude upright looms
Ike those still used by the Navajo.
The women also made garments of
buckskin. Their headwork was of
unique beauty, and they were skilled
in pottery and basketry. Scarcely. a
woman is now living who can make
pottery. The stone jar from the trad
er's shop has taken the place of the
great ollo-shaped earthen 'Ahi-kus-
wah,' standing in the chimney corner
with it's generous supply of 'cofkey'
the national dish made from corn,
which is both food and drink to the
Creeks. In my travels among the peo-
pie | have given especial attent On
to native industries, because of the
very general consideration which this
subject is receiving in connection with
manual training. While many Creek
women still understand basketry, 1t
does not seem practicable to revive
this industry. The material they use
is long, flexible strips split from the
outer surface of cane stalks. In the
Creek nation the herds of cattle have
long since destroyed the formerly
dense canebrakes and only in remote
wilds of the Choctaw nation can the
bamboo-like growth be found. st
Louis Post-Dispatch. ~
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19
Magnificent Men.

# Z 81
The hardest and most courageous of
the human race are the miners who in
habit the mountainous. regions They
spend their lives delving for the gold
which almost invariably passes
through their rough. toil-stained hands
to enrich the already rich, says The
Era. They are used to danger. 1t is
a part of their lives. A promising
claim. half way up the mountain side,
must not be abandoned because a
quarter of mile of thick timber near
it has been hurled down into the can
yon by an avalanche the previous win
ter. They take the chance of snow
slides as they do that of warming
giant powder and picking out missed
shots. Daily they snowshoe across the
track of avalanches, taking the risk
knowingly. Nothing but the event it.
self will stop them, and then-the end
of all risks for them. "a NJ
1t is not so much what the noun
taineers are in their daily lives that
make them reaiaT kable 1t is what
they are capable of when a crisis
arises. If a comrade is overcome by
Doxious vapors and falls In the stope
or drift, or is imprisoned in a burning
mine, or buried in a slide, it is amaz-
ing and pathetic to witness the self
abnegation that is shown by the noun
tain miners. They rush to the assist
ance of unfortunates, laying down
their lives with absolute disregard.
No risk is considered, when there is
the Slightest chance of rescne for a
comrade, or of even the recovery of
burned. or mangied or frozen thing
for woman to mourn over
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19
Mo Questions 20 Be Asked.

When ]. P. Morgan was travelling
for pleasure through rural France on
one occasion, he engaged a local pho
tographer to take and develop some
views of interesting places. The pho
tographer. receiving nothing as re-
tainer, did not begin the work until
be had consulted with the manager of
the. hotel where Morgan was stopping
In the neighborhood. Yes-the man
ager knew Morgan, and thought Nor
gan all right. sK-IE4 k8.4 Il.
But, monsieur" said the photog-
rapher, sit is such large order! Can
safely trust this American for 800
francs?"
Mon Dieu!-3O0 france!" ex-
claimed the manager. Trust him!-
yes; for anything and everything un-
der heaven he may take it into his
head to dream of! He is pre-eminent-
ly a reliable mani"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19


Chicago women have learned the les
son Of dismounting from street cars
properly In the last two years, and
where there were ten reports in the
records of the police department bear.
ing upon accidents caused by women
stepping off backward from street cars
two years ago there are now only four,
says the Chicago Tribune. The police
men who are detailed on patrol-wagon
and ambulance service declare that
the change is due to the conductors
of the many traction lines, who hsve
made ID a rule to warn all women pas
* myers who start to leave car when
it is in motion
The many women who are employed
in the downtown district learned the
lesson first, and through them those
who never visit the retail district ex-
cept to shop have picked up the adj
vice given their working sisters.
Strangers In Chicago have remarked
upon the deliberation SHOWN by Chi.
cago women in ieaving street cars.
and one. of the features of traction ser.
vice in this city that strikes the out
slider is the large number of women
who have become expert both in
mounting and dismounting moving
cable or electric train.
Three years ago there was hardly
day passed but every patrol wagon
was called into service at least once
in twenty-four hours to care for
woman who had fallen as a result of
stepping the wrong way in leaving a
moving car The. conductors of the
street railway lines unwittingly fell
into the habit of calling out, wait
until the car stops when woman
arose to leave the vehicle.
The employees Of the street railway
companies declare that the short skirt
that was two years ago the style is to
a great degree responsible for the
alertness of women of today stepping
on and off moving cars The traction
employees say that the habit was form
ed IN the short-skirt days, and when
the longer garment succeeded the
walking skirt it was but day or so
before the wearer of the new style
had adapted herself to lifting the long
skirt to a point where the shorter
skirt had been.
Men who follow the fashions of the
day see in the habit large field for
accidents when the tight-fftting skirt
again becomes the rage. These men
say that the tight skirt. If 1t ever be-
comes the proper thing later in
life, will be an incumbrance to the
woman who leaves or boards a moving
car. The skirt is liable to trip the
most adept woman. and as result the
ratio of accidents that existed in Chi.
cage three years ago is likely to re-
turn. Conductors do not agree with
these forecasters, however. $50
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19
MARKS OF REFINEMENT.

There are many traits that mark the
innately well-bred woman. Not alone
the well-bred but the observant woman
who cultivates her own manners until
she carries an atmosphere of culture
This can only be done by constan,
practice. 1t never win be obtained
when used and practiced for com
pany"
Nothing points out the well-brcd
woman more quickly than the posi-
ton taken when she sits down. The
stamp of vulgarity is marked upon
the woman who sits with her knees
spread far apart; lack of refinement
is shown by knees crossed Extensively;
lack of ease by stiff and constrained
positions of the shoulders; a general
carelessness and 3indifferende by the
very common fault Of sitting in. the
Shoulders that is, Of doubling the
spine so that tine upper rather than
the lower part of it rests against the
back of the chair
The body. should be placed well back
upon the seat, chair, sofa or whatever
ID may be- The feet should rest on
the floor, one somewhat in front of
the ether because 1t is easier to rise
from that position, says the New
York Herald. The head must be kept
well UP and the chest poised slightly
forward.
The lower. part of the spine may
be pressed against the. frame of the
chair, but if one, after sitting a while,
should need to rest a little more, the
shoulders may also touch upon the
same support The hands should re.
main as they naturally fall from this
position, hanging at the sides, or they
may be placed easily over the arms OF
back of the chair or allowed to lie
peacefully on the lap.
To rise properly from a correct sit
ting position there should be several
preparatory movements.
The chest is first poised far forward
and at the same time the foot is
firawn back under the seat The foot
drawn in should be the one opposite
from the direction to be taken in start
ing up. ,s.....ff s-yI
4 As you rise throw the weight firm
ly upon the foot in the rear. AS the
body comes. to its full height change
the weight to the forward foot. SO
that the other foot merely touches the
floor very lightly. This brings you
to standing position. ready to walk
easily In the direction you are going.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19
THOMAS A. EDIsoN's HABITS.
Not Allowed to Be So Absorbed In
& Work as Formerly.

Work as Formerly.
An amusing story is told in Success
of Thomas A Edison's first marriage.
Shortly after the ceremony he was
called away to his laboratory on an
important experiment. He plunged
into the work At midnight one OF his
friends called to see him. He had Just
accomplished the offset of his labors
and was preparing tic quit work.
Il guess I'd better go home" he
said as he hurried into his coat and
damned his hat down on his head.
You know l was married today"
But the days of complete absorption
In work have passed Tor him. The
second Mrs Edison has undertaken
the task of keeping the inventor
healthy. She will not permit him to
neglect his meals or to work more
than she thinks is good for him. She
Insists that he shall leave the labor
atory at a certain hour each night,
and she undertakes to see personally
that he does So At times Mr.. Edison
objects, but in a very mild way, to
this regime. Not long ago he was
deeply engaged in a certain expert
ments when Mrs. Edison called for him
and Insisted upon taking him home.
After some resistance he at last con-
sented, saying, however, by way OF
final protest as he stepped into the
carriage:
BILLY CHS pet name for Mrs. Edi-
SOM, you're a nuisance" @
Were it not, however, for the saw.
ing influence which Mrs. Edison ex-
ercises over her husband it is doubt
ful if he would accomplish so much.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19
LSAA - BITS or - Asn
GSsS 4 EEr\lNp@TYAs IN
49, AZ a2S

A beautiful hair ornament is a dra-
gon fly with outstretched wings of
opal.
Triple capes are decided feature
of the new coats.
Coral is the fad of the hour, and
coral lorgnette chains are being worn.
They can be found in the uncut coral
or in coral beds of varying size that
range in color from the palest pink to
dark red.
Narrow braids used for trimming
are in best style when put on with
stitching on the edges, so that they
stand up, ma
Effective black velvet appliques
show designs in cream lace Braid.
Heart-shaped brooches of dull red
glass are rather novel. They have
crossed foils, in gold, as a decoration.
The old-fashioned tippet of our
grandmother is again in vogue. The
most fashionable are made of squirrel
fur.
Skirts are no longer as tight-ftting
nor as fat as during the spring and
summer.
Black velvet gowns are especially
simple in fashion this season.
The period of 1880, with a touch of
the days of Henry III. is upon the fem
mime kingdom.
Velveteen frocks in fawn or gray
will be much favored by mammas who
have daughters in the early teens. 40
Black is very much worn for in
doors and out of doors and for form
al, as we'll as informal, occasions.
New crocheted waistcoats are tenn IT.
ing. They are single or double breast
ed, with silk sleeves. or sleeves of the
material. Most of them are in greens.
reds. blues or white. They are very
comfortable on cool days beneath light
weight jackets. AEE Ell
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19

For feed for the first few days,
would recommend stale bread. soaked
In milk or water, squeezed dry, and If
you have eggs to spare, boil the eggs
hard and mix with the bread crumbs
A good feed for young chicks is
cake made of equal parts Of shorts,
Inc corn meal. oat meal. and a little
lean meat. chopped fine, with a little
salt and baking soda added. Cook this
in a pan in the oven. I would not
feed much green stuff until the chicks
are week or two old. When they
are about q week old, you can stGrt
and feed fine wheat, coarse oat meal
chopped cooked meat, scraps from the
table. pot barley, rice, and millet seed.
| would not feed too much meat at
first; the main thing Is to keep them
warm. | think a good many of the
chicks die from not being kept warm
enough for the first two or three
weeks. Cold and too much soft feed
is the cause of so much bowel disease
Get your chickens out early and be
careful how you feed them, and keep
them clean. Do not forget to give
them grit of some kind, as they need
it as well as the old fowls. When /
say to get your chicks out early,
mean about April and the first two
weeks in May. | always find that early
chicks do the best; they are more
free from disease and lice. You all
know that more children die in the
warm months of summer than at any
other time of the year, and so think
it is the same with chicks. That Is
why | advise you to get them out ear
ly.-Thomas Reed, in paper read
before the Winnipeg Poultry Associa-
tiCl.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19

The question has been raised
Ghether if it should be practicable to
attain to a speed of 100 miles or more
An hour by rail, the engineer could
stand the strain. 1t has been affirmed
oy a physician that such fearful go
ing would wear out his nerves in a
little while. The question has been
answered already by one experienced
engineer before a meeting of scien-
lists. Asked as to the probable eff
fects, in case of common accident,
Of speed of more than sixty miles
an hour, he said: "A smash-up at
sixty miles would make splinters of
everything; at 100 miles the splinters
might be finer but the destruction
could net be more complete" That is
to say, when an engineer runs his
engine at sixty miles he is under as
severe a strain as he would be at any
ether speed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19
A WHOLESOME FOOD.

Cottonseed oil is q wholesome food
for men and animals. Mixed with
grain mash 1t Is remedy for pertain
bowel difficulties OF stock. 1t Is large
ly used by the people of this country
as an adulterant Of lard, and II Is real
ly much better food than lard.
Prejudices against 1t as an oil" has
prevented many from purchasing It.,
yet the people pay more for it as lard
than they would have to expend If
they bought 1t under its correct name.
If the prejudice against cottonseed
'oil' could be overcome the price of
lard would decline.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19
Not All Are JubiIans.>

II have lost good rOund pile THIS
season." said the novelty man. so
WHEY won't get the sealskin that had
been promised and daughter. viii have
to wait another year for the red auto
mobile. 49, ~
you see, ] went in for coal strike
novelties. Yes. and went in heavily.
Have you noticed that bon-bon box
a big lump of coal with a miner, with
his lamp and tools standing on it?
The candy was to be put in the lump
Of coal, which was hollow and had a
lid. got 10000 of those boxes but
who will buy them, now the strike Is
over?
81 got out $4,000 miniature scuttles
of brass, to be flled with black licor-
ice candy, cut coal-like, in irregular
Jumps. These scuttles were to sell
at 10 cents EACH But they won't sell
at all. -
II got out some scarfpins with
Jumps of real anthracite SET in their
heads, and some rings. with bits of coal
set in TIFFANY setting.
They're all on my hands-all On
my hands. "-Philadelphla Record.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19
G.!sEpfEI'AzEs
GLOVES.

There is q great paucity Of Invention
In the matter of gloves for travelling.
1t is best to have kind thi4t gives
freedom to the fingers. Too hard and
too thick gloves are most distressing.
and too thin Suede ub out at the fin
gers; perhaps it is on this account
that people are tolerating the idea of
thread GLOW; i, but naitner thread, cot
ton, nor silk is likely to be ad2aitted
in polite society. ia &ssA
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19
sERvANTs IN 1900 A. D.
WIN Not Be Noeded-Lshor-5ay
Devices IN Homes.

The thread-tare servant problem
will have become s. thing of the past
by 1000 A. D. Domestics seem to be
necessary nowadays to supDlen ent
the deficiencies of some housewives,
and owing to the incompleteness in
the construction of many houses. The
tendency of modern apartment houses
Is to minimize work so that no sery-
ants will be needed.
The homes of the future viii prob
ably be warmed in the walls from
some power generating station. Air
will enter through proper tubes in the
walls which will warm the house and
will capture the dust, and it will be
spun out again by simple devices.
Scientific builders are now planning
to do away with the walls meeting
the floors at right angles, as by
rounding off the angles between wall
and floor, sweeping and cleaning will
be lightened.
If window is cleaned hurriedly
and left wet, it dries in spots, and
dirt is left in solution By the touch
water that contains a solvent, water
would be forced down the window
panes from pin holes in a pipe above,
into a groove below, and this would
be followed by pure rain water, and
window cleaning would be done sans
domestiques.
And within few years, perhaps,
the French scientists will have fur
Their perfected the taking of nourish-
ment and enjoying whole meals from
a few drops, or few pellets, from
two to three Walls, thus doing away
with chefs, and the elaborate part of
housework.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19

Down IN many. of the great coal
mines. of Pennsylvania are telephones,
tool repairing establishments, black
smiths shops. and various other insti-
buttons that the surface worker would
never think of as connected with cav
erns 500 or more feet away from day
light A moving-picture show portray
ing work in the mines was given Ia
the city. last week. One of the views
contained a miner holding the receiver
Of a phone in a subterranean pay
station. An attempt is made in the
large mines to provide everything nee
essary to prevent employees from going
to the surface during working hours.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19
PEARLS IN THE HAIR

Strings of pearls are now used to
give the correct finishing touch to the
fashionable girls coifrure. Sometimes
they are woven in with the braids,
when the dressing is a low one, and
then again, if the coffure is high. they
are used in strands to encircle it. An
other idea is to have the pearls ar
ranged in small garlauds and fastened
back Of the ears. So fashionable are
pearls for the hair that no only are
strings of pearls user but pearl tiaras
and pearlstudded combs.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19
Complied With the Law.

NJ. Baron, the French actor, recently
accepted a railroad pass, and as the
French law requires that all such bill
lets shall have a picture of the holder
upon 1t Mr.. Baron had himself photo
graphed as Mephistopheles. In this
character he il better known than as
a private individual, and both the rail-
way and the government officials are
content to regard the law as fully
complied with
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19
sornan's Bonsvolent Association of

ChlcaEOs
Mrs. Henrietta A. s. Marsh, President
Woman's Benevolent Association, of 327
Jackson Park Terrace, Woodlawn, Chi
cago. ILL.,, says:
Il suffered with la grippe for seven
weeks, and nothing helped me until | tried
Peruna. | felt at once that had at last
secured the right medicine and kept stead
lily improving Within three weeks was
fully restored. Henrietta A. s. Marsh.
independent Order of Good Templars, of
Washington.
Mrs. T. W. Collins, Treasurer |. o. G.
T., OF Everett, Wash, has used the great
catarrhal tonic, Peruna, for an aggravated
case of dyspepsia. She writes:
After having a severe attack of la
grippe, I also suffered with dyspepsia.
After taking Peruna could eat my regu-
lar meals with relish, my system was built
up. my health returned, and i have re-
manned in excellent strength and vigor
now for over year. Mrs. I. w. Collins.
II you do not derive prompt and satisfac-
tory results from the use of Peruna write
at once to DR.. Hartman, giyinga full state
ment of your case and he viii be pleased
20 give you his valuable advice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President of The
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19
Bernhardt to Play in Berlin.

Sarah Bernhardt has scornfully re-
fused to play in Berlin ever since the
Franco-Prussian war, but now it Is
announced that she has signed con,
tract to appear in the German CAPT.
tQ1
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19

FITSpermansntly cured. No fits or nervo1s-
nessafter 1rst days use OF Or. Klne's Graz
NerveRestorer. S2trial bottle and treatissfrss
Dr. r. II. KLINE, Ltd, 931 Arch ST., Phila., "a.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19

Mrs. Winslow' s Soothing SyrSp for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces inaam ma
tion, allays pain, cures wind collie. zoe. abortIe
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19

Orange juice is one of the best dressings
for black shoes or boots
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19

Let the seraph and the poet change
places If you would judge these sing
ars Alright.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19

Aluminium 10 largely coming into
use al substitute for copper II the
transmission o1 electricity.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19

do not believe PIso's Cure for Consump-
tion has an equal for coughs and colds-JoHs
+. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. 10, 1900.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19

Carpets can be colored on the floor with
PUTNAM FADELEss DYES. s.assaa
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19
WALDlNe. KINSAN & MARVIN, Wholef

The average wrecks in the Baltic Sea is
one every day throughout the year.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19

The sun gives us &c, 100000 times as much
light as all the stars put together.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19

In her search for the idesl man q
girl often ovsrleoks lot ef real ones.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19
CRAIG AND THE PRESIDENT.

The chance of two finger prints being
alike is not one in 64,000,00
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19
How's Thise

The projected railway from Khartoum
to Suakim wiz traverse recently discov-
cred coal fields.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-19

There are only 100000 white people in
British South Africa