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Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1902-05-02
Bill Nye as a Dairyman.

When | was young aud used u
roam around over the country,
gathering wateunelons ~ the light
of the moon, ! used TO think
could milk anybody'sc COW, but now
. ] don't think SO. ] do not milk
the cow unless the sign is right,
and it hasn't been right for a good
many years. The last COW tried
10 milk was a common COW, born
in obscuritv, kind Of self-made
COW. ] remember her brow was
low, but she wore her tail high and
she was naughty, oh, 50 naughty.
made commonplace remark
10 her; one that is used in the very
best society; said 80 and she
'soed Then told her to Hist
and she listed But thought
she oyerdid it. She put too much
expression IN it.
just then ! heard something
crash through a window of the
barn and fall with n thud, sicken-
ing thud, on the outside. The
neighbors came 10 see what it was
that caused the noise. They found
that ! had done it in getting
through the window.
asked the neighbors if the barn
was still standing. They said It
was, Then asked them if the
COW was injured much They said
she seemed quite robust. Then /
requested them to 90 in and calm
the COW a little and see il they
could get my plug hat off her
horns.
| am buying all of my milk now
from milkman. select gentle
milkmau who will not kick, and
feel rs though eau trust him.
Then if he feels as though he can
trust me, it's alright.-Bill Nye.
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1902-05-02

There are busting, hurrylug
people; people that seem to be ac-
complishng everything, in farm
lug rs in all the other walks of
life. \ superficial view of such
people gives the idea that they are
accomplishing a great deal; and
vet in point of fact they are usual
iy poor workers They eXpeud a
great deal of steam in kicking mp a
dust. The men who accomplish
the most never seem in hurry, no
matter how much they have to do.
They are not troubled for lack of
time, for they make the most of
the minutes by working in cool,
clear. orderly and methOdical
fashion. 1t will greatly reduce the
liability to waste from business If
plans are formed in advance of ac-
ton, and in the main adhered to
when when the time for doing ar
riveS,
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1902-05-02
Dan Don't Drink.

1T is seldom that a president Of
the United States feels called upon
10 proclaim that has private secre-
tary doesn't drink, SAID Congress.
man Bartholdt, Of St. Louis, the
other day, reports the New York
Times. But Grover Cleveland did
| it once, and Col. Dan Lamont was
the private secretary. IL was this
way: Cleveland was on his first
| trip to the Mississippi. and was re.
viewing the parade IN his honor in
my town. The day was chilly,and
the mayor, after the parade had
been going on about an hour ,whis-
pered to Col Lamont, who had
just come on the stand, hat, ~
view Of the temperature, the pres
ident might like to fortify himself
with a little something 'Of course
he would, the colonel promptly
replied. Haven't You asked him
yetY No. the mayor replied. |
didn't just-er-like to. Go
ahead and ask him, said the colo.
mel, and the mayor obeyed. where
is lt9 said the president, by way
Of reply, and followed the mayor
into room just off the stand. The
mayor set out and filled three
glasses with good old red liquor
calculated to kill the effects of the
chillest Of temperatures. The pres.
ident counted the glasses and then
the people in the room. There
were himself, the mayor and La
mont. Who, asked the presi-
dent, is the third glass for?' Why
I'll, said the mayor, 'One is for
you, Mr.. President, one is fol Col
Lamont, and one-er-for me.
The presidents eyes twinkled. He
took up the glass assigned to La
mont, poured it into his own glass,
and, as he raised it to his lips,
said, Dan don't drink, and swal-
lowed it at IA gulp.'
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1902-05-02

A country editor on visit to the
metropolis gathered come new
ideas from the bulletin boards of
the great dailies. Returning home
he put up a big bulletin board and
the following was his first attempts
600 am. Deacon Jones dau-
gerously sick.
900 am Doctors are now in
consultation.
1915 am. Doctors have given
mp all hopes.
II 80 ain. Deacon Jones is
dead and gone to heaven,
Along about one O'Clock wag
happene that way and added the
400 pm. Great excitement in
heaven. Deacon Jones has not ar
rived.
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1902-05-02
The Average Congressman

The men who 90 30 Washington
% Congress especially, are men of
mark in their communities. They
are not the average men OF the
country they arc the men whom
the average man regards as SUPERB
or. They may be intriguers, or
political sharpers and charlatans,
or She tools of INSCRIPTIONS party
leaders or statesmen Whatever
they are, they are superior to most
Of their neighbOrs, aud have 50
stamped themselves upon the com
munities in which they dwell that
they have been preferred 10 their
opponents. Their cmincnce may
be bad or good their service may
be that Of the subtle and cunning
tool Of the strOng-mludcd leader, 1t
may bc the conscientious labor Of
the drudge, or IT may be the bril-
liant career Of n statesman essen
tally IT is the possession Of some
degree aud of some kind Of intel
lect which carries man 10 Con
gress Even the men who are said
to he in public life because they
nrc rich, with the exception Of an
infutesimul number Of inberitors
Of wealth, are men necessarily Of
mental capaclty.--IIenry LOOMS
Nelson IN May Century.
No doubt this is "A fair presenta-
ton of the cast. Mr.. Nelson states
truth that is almost automatic
when be says that the average
Congressman Is superior in ability
10 the average man who votes to
put him in office. The writer
might also have SAID that the aver
age Congressman is fully as good
as the people of his district. IL
he turns out TO be dishonest or OBJ |
noXious in any moral sense, it IS
probable that the people knew of
his defects when they sent him TO .
Washington. We hear great
deal about the "betrayaP' Of the
public by men IN Congress, which
is the verIest rot. Once in long
while some man generally suppos-
ed 10 be worthy, has been seduced 1
from the straight and narrow path
at the pationnl capital, but the
chances are that he was always
morally weak, and was known to
he so lay many who voted for him.
In such case the people have only
to blame when they are
discredlted by their representative.
Our members Of Congress often
make mistakes, and some Of them
neglect the business they are elec-
ted TO attend to, but the great ma ,
Iority of them try to do their duty
Is they see Memphis Scimtar. |
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1902-05-02
A State Printer.

The Herald copies for the pur-
pose of endorsing every word of
the following from the Mayersville
Spectator;
To our mind, the State Of Mis-
slssippi should go back to the old
custom aud re.estabhsh the Office
of State Printer. The State would
save money by it, All this work
is sent off To foreign concerns and
is never done on time. The laws
passed by the last legislature have
been in the hands of printing
concern in Nashville since the leg
islature adjourned the proofs were
just sent down to Jackson to be
read for correction, this will take a
few days, Then they have to go
back to Nashville; the errors cor
rected, the forms made up, the
printing and folding done, and
then bound. They will not be flu
ished before the last of May, aud
maybe not before the first of June.
The county officials all over the
State are compelled to transact
business all this time without
knowing whether they are comply
ing with the law or not.
With State Printer not half
this time would be taken up. They
would start upon the laws as soon
aS they were enacted and get them
out. The old State Printer system
was the best.
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1902-05-02
CURES WHEN DOCTORS rAIl.

Mrs Frank Chnsson, Patterson, La,
writes June 9Th, 1901: 81 bad malarin
fever in very bad form, was under treat.
ment by doctors, but rs soon Ny %Sfi199e9ai
turn, used a sample bottle Of llorbine,
found It helped me. Then bought two
bottles, which completely cured me. |
feel grateful to you for furnishing such
splendid medicine, and can honestly
recommend It to those suffering from ma.
lana, as it will surely cure them" Her.
bne. SOC bottle nj II S Mhelnss.
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1902-05-02
REVEALS A GREAT sEcREr

It Is often asked how such startling
cures. that puzzle the best physicians. are
effected by Dr.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption Here the secret. Il cuts
ont the phlegm and germ-infoctci mucus.
and lets the lite-giviug oxygen enrich and
vitalize the blood 10 heals the inAamed,
eough-worn throat aud lungs. Hand colds
aud stubborn coughs soon yield 70 DR..
KINGS New Discovery. the most infalh-
BILE remedy FOR all Throat and Lung dis
eases. Guaranteed bottles 5lc and 81 90
Trial bottles free az x = Mheless.
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1902-05-02

Biliousness is a condition characterized
by a disturbance OF the digestive organs
The stomach is debilitated, the liver tor
pid. the bowels constipated. There is a
ioathing Of food, pains in the bowels, diz-
illness. coated tongue and vomiting, first
OF the undigested or partly digested food
and then Of bile. Chamberlain stomach
aud Liver Tablets allay the disturbances
Of the stomach and ereete healthy ap-
petite. They also tone NJ the liver to q
healthy action and regulate the bowels
Try them and you are certain 70 be much
pleased with the result. For ssle BY jas
Mccormick.
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1902-05-02
Alter getting a mortgage on a

After getting a mortgage on aud
control of most of the trunk line
railroads in this country, Mr.. j.
2. Morgan mas jumped to London,
from which place it is announced
chat he has secured control of a
majority OF the trans-AtlantiC
steamships. Dangerous Is Mr..
Morgan of New York and his mon
ey to the general welfare Of the
country.
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1902-05-02
FOR THOSE WHO LIVE ON FARMS

Hr. Bergin, Pana, HIS, writes IL have
used Billiards. Snow Lniment; always
recommend 1t to my friends, as am con-
fdent there is no better made. II is a
dandy for burns Those who hive on
farms are especially liable to many acct
dental cuts, burns and bruises, which
heal rapidly when Billiards. Snow Lini
mcut is applied. 1t should always be
kept in the house for cases Of emergency,
poe. soc and Sl.00 at r l. Wheless.
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1902-05-02
@MAv.r-

rhis signature il on every box q the genuine
laxative BrOmO-Q uinine tablets
ne rrnedy that cureH = Geld IN enc cay
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1902-05-02
Peculiar to Itself

Bad FoolIngs In Spring I'm the
spring was feeling very badly. My blood
was very poor, ] began taking Hoods
think It Is a wonderful spring medicine and
recommend II to all sick and suffering"
ETHEL L. BEAN, Eaton Center N. H.
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1902-05-02
Hoods T0rSdDGriIL0

viii give you a good appetite,
purify and enrich your blood, over
come that tired feeling, give you
mental and digestive strength and
steady nerves.
BE sure to ask for HOODS, the
best medicine money can buy. 1t is
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1902-05-02
Spring Medicine

There's no season when good
medicine is so much needed as in
Spring, and there's no medicine
which does 50 much good in Spring
as Hoods Sarsapanlla.
DO not delay taking it.
Don't put it off till your health
tone gets too low to be lifted.
- .E1
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1902-05-02
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS


C. TODD President General Manager; MARK WEISS, First Vice
Presidents j. HUDSON, Secretary; L. A. DeVOSS
rotary; j. r. PARKS Treasurer
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-10
"RAILRoAD JACK.v

Beginning tomorrow evening "Rail- road Jack" has an engagement of three performances at Polls, matinee being given on Saturday. Aside from the highly amusing situations in the play and the hilarious antics of Weary Jack Raggles. the tramp. scenic effects have been added with unstinted liberality, and the mark of painstaking drilling and severest discipline are apparent in every scene, and in the work of every participant in the performance The characters of the play have been changed, the scenic equipment has been greatly enlarged and the special ties are said to be wonderfully clever this season. The tornado scene in which a circus tent is blown to pieces and during the storm lady is thrown into a lions den with large. ferocions lion and rescued from most horrible fate, are said to be the most sensation ay and realistic scenes on the Ameri- can stage. Prices are popular.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-10
Great Fall of Snow.

CUMBERLAND, Md, April 1O.-The Potomac river is rising, although not rapidly, as the snow is melting slowly. The river is about fifteen feet above low water mark. Such a volume of snow so late. in the season has never before been known, and the worst is feared when it commences to go off with a rush. The Blackwater and Cheat rivers have overfiown their banks, inundating considerable farm inglland and destroying large amount of property. Snow has fallen at Fair faxJ ". Va, to the depth of thirty-two inches.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-10
STEEL IN BUILDINGS.

An examination of the statistics of iron and steel production, published by the American Iron and Steel Associa- tion, discloses the fact that even with very great recent increase the con- sumption of steel i'll the building trade has not yet grown to sufficiently large dimensions to make this very promi- nent matter in the steel trade. Ac- cording to the most recent figures pub lished, the total production of all kinds of steel was 10,1SS, ,329 gross tons in 1900. The production in the same year of all kinds of iron and steel structu- ral shapes was S15.161 tons. It will therefore be seen that less than one tenth of the steel production found it's way on the market in the form of ma terial for building purposes.
 It must further be born in mind that out of this production of structural shapes a considerable portion was di- yerted to the bridge works, as well as to manufacturing establishments using structural shapes for variety of pur- poses. It is believed that about one half of the production of such shapes was used by the builders of steel bridges and for miscellaneous purpo- ses. A great many shapes are worked up for car trucks and other railroad supplies and a very considerable ton mage goes into cranes, crane runways and other uses which are unnecessary to be enumerated. Even if the DOT tion of the production of structural shapes devoted to other purposes than buildings was only one-fourth of the total quantity it would still leave the consumption for building purposes not much in excess of 500,000 tons, or about one-twentieth of the entire pro- duction of steel.
 The construction of buildings. of course, involves a considerable quanti- ty of cast iron. This is, however, not nearly so large a matter as formerly, when cast iron columns were largely used and building fronts of cast iron were frequent. The use of the foundry for this purpose has been heavily cur tailed. The method of constructing buildings has so changed that the pro- portion of cast iron used is quite small
 To show how much more important are some other branches of the steel 'rade. q few comparisons may be in or
 In 1900 the production of rails
 2.3S5. 6S2 tons, which easily rep resents four times as great a tonnage was consumed in the building trade In the same year the wire industry used a much larger quantity of steel and iron than was used for buildings. This is shown by the figure for the out put of iron and steel wire rods which were S4G,291 tons. A part of these rods is worked up into rivets and other products. and thus did not come on the market in the shape of wire, but it is very probable that not over one fourth was diverted from the wire trade. The quantity remaining was undoubtedly very considerably in ex- cess of the quantity of shapes used in buildings.-The Iron Age
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-10
sKILFUL PRACTITIONERS.


 The dramatic career of Dennis, the hangman, in "Barnaby Rudge,' is re- called by the recent death at London of William Ellington, who was for years the public executiOner. The hangman, says the London Express, Is no more than contractor, and the re- sponsibility for his engagements rests with the sheriff, who may take any person he chooses, but who will obvi- ously accept the services of some one with experience. It is in this way the business has become to be more or less monopoliZed by one individual. AS we have heard the same name con- tinuously for period of years, Cal craft, Marwood or Ellington, an idea has grown up that the office of hang man exists, which is not thel case. It might be better if there were more system and if the authorities arranged for some one to become familiarized with the work as the assistant of a skilled practitioner, Marwood once said that it was a source of profound regret that he had no young man in training, no one to whom he could leave his secrets and his most approv- ed methods. Amateur candidates have not been wanting to assist in the grewSome work For some time Mar wood was accompanied by a young doctor, who went everywhere with him, and society was not long since shocked at the morbid tastes of a cer- tain baronet who oficiated as the hangmans assistant under a fimsy disguise.
 It may be that now Billington's suc- cessor may be a little aStray at first but. as matter of fact, there is not much mystery about hanging q man. Executioners have varied i'll their pro- cesses. Thus, old Calcraft was for "Short drop" Marwood for q Hong" and the latter used to be very par ticular i'll knowing all about the height and weight of his patients be- fore lie prepared the rope. Another speciality is in tying the knot; and it is curious fact that many hangmen have followed the trade of shoemaking and sold shoe 1aceS which presumably, were warranted to tie very tight. The home office does not actively, interfere as to the selection of the hangman be- yond assuring itself that he is a sober, steady. reputable person-not always the case. But it closely superviSes the machinery of execution so to speak, since the miserable failure at Exeter a few years back, when the rope broke more than once and the convict in con- sequence escaped with his life. The hangman arrives at the jail on the evening preceding the execution and is lodged within the walls where he is hospitably received. In old days it was customary to give him what he called for in the nature of good cheer. but limits have been properly imposed on the supply of food and drink Oysters and champagne were not re- fused at one time, but now plain supper and breakfast before the cere- mony are all he gets and his conduct must be sober and correct. His fee. which is provided by the sheriff, is bare f10 note for each convict exc cuted.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-10
zOLA'S PLAIN TALK.

Emile Zola's debut as a.1ecturer IS the sensation of the hour in Paris.
 He was invited to deliver series of three lectures before an exceedingly aristocratic womens literary and po- Iitical club. At the very beginning he told his smart" rustling hearers that they knew nothing about literature or politics, but were simply possessed or that surface knowledge which society women find useful in daily chit-chat to create an impression of intellectual culture Then he proposed to demon strate that q real understanding Of lit erature or politics required hard work of which such an audience as he saw before him manifestly was lncapaple.
 .sYou pretend to be interested Ill these questions,'' M. Zola said, 'but really you are not
 Your days -are solely devoted to foolish amusement and useless act ions, interminable toilet-making, se- ances with dressmakers, luncheons, dinners, pink teas, so-called literary lectures, receptions, balls and theaters. You spend ycur time in gossip which is stupid when it is not wicked.
 You Sh1rk motherhood, ana when you have children they are mostly in- trusted to mercenary hands.
 You groyel with astonishing alac- rity to gain admittance into social cir cles above your own, and cannot con- ceal your asinine contempt for people supposedly below your set.
 ''You reduce your reluctant duty of charity to paltry offerings for a few famous institutions.
 ..This is the sort of life society woman leads. What right have you to meddle in philosophy, literature and politics?
 Tt is a mere accident of birth that you are not factory girls or dry goods saleswomen. And were you such. can you feel certain that you would have the courage to prefer honest, laborious misery to blameworthy ease?'
 The audience was stupefed. Sev- eral of the members moved, Saturday, that the invitation be withdrawn for the two remaining lectures, but the majority refused to do so, arguing that such sincere man as M. Zola should be allowed freedom of speech, however startling and severe his words might be.-New York World.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-10
JAMES KENMORE COOPER.
The Creator of Three Distinct ant
 Notable Types of Fiction.

The Creator of Three Distinct and
 Notable Types of Fiction.
 Few American romancers have written so many books as James Fen imore Cooper; none achieved like him, the honor of having created three dis tinct types of fiction. It is not too much to say that Cooper's novel, .The Pilot set the fashion for all Sea sto- ries that followed it. his ''Leather- stocking tales were the progenitors of the hundreds of romantic tales of life and adventure among the Indians, and his Spy was the first great novel with scenes and characters of the Revolutionary war. It must be ad- mltted, also, that no other author of high repute wrote books so widely diff ferent in merit and interest; some of his stories are so weak as to be scarce " known, by name even, to his heart lest admirers, yet to-day. more than half century after his death, some of his books are in steady demand at all the libraries in the land. and several publishers find profit in issuing new editions for individual purchasers.
 No other American authors works have been so heartily received in Eu- rope as were Cooper's. or have been as highly praised by foreign romancers or nigh reputation. Commentator as high as was lavished upon some of Cooper's stories by Sir Walter Scott. Miss Edgeworth. Balzac and the elder Dumas would astonish and delight ihe greatest American novelist today, whoever he may be. Not only were his greater books translated into most Iap- guages of Europe. but at least one of
 lem. The Spy" is still read in Arabic
 i'd Persian.
 let scarcely any other author so vol luminous has made so little use of Iiy- ing characters. or who, using such models. has 9scorned such advantage as might have been obtained by free use of actual names. Had Cooper not ad- mltted after the book was published that John Paul Jones was the hero of The Pilot.' the secret would have died with him, for Jones is not once named in the. story.
 In "The Spy Cooper's second and greatest novel. the impressive and in. fuential Harper was drawn from Washington. but this is learned only by inference, and some men who have read and re-read the book with great delight have been obliged to take the inference at second hand. There were brilliant and popular figures i'll Wash ington's camps on the Hudson-Put- mum. Heath. Hamilton. and many oth- CTS. and the modern historical novelist makes free use of them. but Cooper in- troduced none of them-not even as si- lent characters in great scenes.