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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

ing in torrents shortly afterward, and
that the rain continued all night. II
would indeed often seem as though ma,
ture was not above a joke.
At daybreak next morning there was
unusual activity in the field. A mum.
Der of hired men appeared with spades
and lumber. Shifty shook some OF the
water from his clothes and climbed
| over fence.
whats going on?s he asked.
We're going to dig potato pits" they
replied.
Shifty didn't like this Development
It seemed to him that these prospective
potato pits were much too neal the
buried treasure. He asked for the
owner of the field and found In him
old Amadee Pierson, who had bought
N of his watches the day before fol
$40.
i've just been looking for you to pay
you back that 49," began Shifty sol
EMMY. Its been troubling my mind
"Oh, that's all right" replied Amadee
I'm not kicking. That was business
and | got valuable experience. Any.
thing | can do for you?'
Why, yes,' answered Shifty. sThe
circus people want to rent a field to put
some old circus wagons and things on.
I'll give you $40 for a years use of this
field"
Amadee scratched his head with d
puzzled motion.
Seems kinder funny they didn't
come themselves" he remarked. "Still
it's none of my business. I was Just
going to put some improvements on
this lot and I'd figured on making quite
some money out of it. I'll let you have
the field for six months for $3.50 an0
not a cent less. And I'd want the cash in
advance. seeing as 1 don't know you.r
I'll take it," Shifty replied, after q
suitable pause. IF you'll give me a re.
ceipt I'll give you the money. Imme.
date possession-and say, just chain.
up your dogs at night, will your"
That night, in another pouring shower,
Shifty Simmons dug up the precious
satchel. He carried it lovingly to the
tool house and opened it carefully I'm
der the Pickering glim of a little Ian
tern. He picked a neatly folded note
out of the satchel and read:
MY boy Eph limped like the bank
burglar and Josh painted the satchel
green. We lay for you.- The American
farmer is quick to learn and it's a bad
business to cheat him out of $40.
"AMADEE PERSON"
In conclusion it may be set down.
Judging from Shlfty's subsequent re
marks and manner, it would seem that
there are few things so irritating as for
a man to be tripped up at his OWL
game.-New York Evening Sun.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21
House 81 Lords Mcr,oershlp.

Tne British house Ur iUrus Eas lon;
since ceased to be a strictly heredi
tary body. Over 200 Of it's $50 mem
bers owe their presence to othe
auses than descent. Quite a numbe
of the hereditary lords are debarre,
from voting by the feet that they ar
either minors, u~ndischarged bank
rupts or inmates Of lunetic asylums
The non-hereditary lords comprise tn,
archbishops and bishops of the Churcl
Of England and these wEo have bee
created peers by Queen Victoria an
King Edward fer special services srer
dered to the crown.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

The readers ofthis paper will be pleasedto
learn that there Is at least one dreaded dis
ease that science has been able to cure in all
its stages, and that is Catarrn. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now knownto
the medical fraternity4 Catarrh being q con
stitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Halls CatarrhCure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy
ing the foundation OF the disease, and givin ,
The patient strength by building up the con-
stitution and assisting nature in doing It's
work. The proprietors have SO much faithin
its curative powers that they offer One Hun
bred Dollars for any case that 1t fails to cure.
Send for list Of testimonials. Address
+. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O..
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21
In Iail for sneezinu.

AS one of the good, kind ladies was
walking along the tier after the
church was over, saying kind words
to the unfortunate sons Of Adam. she
stopped in front of cell 602 on the
sixth floor. She said: my good, kind
man, what in the world ever put you
in here?" He said, "~Sneezing." She
said, MY goodness! How in the
world could they put you in here for
sneezing?" He said, II woke the
gentleman up"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21
THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER.
Interests of Every Town Require That L
Shall Be Supported.

Interests of Every Town Require That II
Shall BE Supported.
1t is to the interest of every town to
support a good newspaper, not through
local pride alone, but for practical bust.
ness reasons. A newspaper is con.
stantly doing ten times as much for its
town as it could eve hope to get pay
for-more than it could charge for, if
it would.
The more prosperous a paper is the
more it is able to do. Show rs a good
weekly paper, full of live local ads,
with 4 general circulation throughout
the county, and we viii show you an
up-to-date, prosperous, progressive
community.
Show us a community that persist.
emily proceeds on the idea that the
editor Of the home paper can live on
the "pi" that accommodates in the
office, whose official bodies think it a
waste of public money to throw him a
bit of public printing occasionally at
livipn me come
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

An Atchison man. newly married,
was sounding his wife's praises to his
men friends. "Why, she is so much
better than l." he said, 81 don't see
how she came to marry me-" His
friends all agreed to this so promptly
that he got mad; said he was as good
as his wife any day, and wanted to
whip the crowd.-Atchison Globe.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21
KIpIing to His Comrade-Poeta

kIpiing to His Comrade-PoetA
Let the lover sing of his lady
8 is part Of God His plan.
Let he gentle sing as he feeleth-
Ia also Is God to man.
But for you, my comrades, I order
We shall question from sod to star;
I'VE shall paint the thing as we see II
For the God Of things as they are"
When we strike we shall strike with fire.
When we bless we shall bless with joy
With the fire that God He lent us, :
With the gladness u~nknowing alloy.
Yet eve as each knoweth his weakness
We shall frestrike only to bless:
And even as each knoweth his sorrow.
We shall gladden. that sorrow be less
This have we sworn, my comrades,
Wherever we scatter or shift
My wild, gentle. true-hearted comrades,
Dear comrades, forever adrift.
And when our Lord God He shall call III
To answer the orders He made.
We shall fall into ran and salute Hin
Like gentlemen urafraid."
Il. F. Watson in Pittsburg Gazette.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21
An Admirable Tonic.

Congressman Mark Fl. Dunnell, National
Hotel, Washington, D. c., writes:
Your Peruna being used by myself and
many Of my friends and acQuaintances, not
only as a cure for catarrh but also as an
admirable tonic for physical recuperation,
/ gladly recommend it 20 all persons re-
curing such remedies" = Mark FL. Dun
nell.
If you do not derive prompt and s~atisfac-
tory results from the use Of Peruna, write
at once to DR.. Hartman, giving a full state
ment of your case and he will be pleased to
give you his valuable advice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President, OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21
Beware.

Beware.
0 friend, when doubts assail thy mind
When dark the way before,
Remember to be doubly kind
To those of lesser store
If they believe, what.er 1t be,
Try not to prove it wrong,
Think how their love has made them free
Their faith has made them strong!
And thinking thus how other fare,
Upheld by simple creeds,
OF thine own unbelief beware
Lest it shall curb thy deeds,
For better tits to wish life we'll,
To help each brother man,
Than to dispute DER heaven or hell,
Or frame a better plan.
We do not know we can not tell,
The way that lies ahead,
Not one who knows futurity,
Not one by wisdom led,
The humblest faith may far outreach
Proud reasons highest call,
And in its gentle service teach,
To love Is best of all.
Charles w. Stevenson.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

Why are there still some bachelors left
To litter the wallis Of LIFE
trembling and mum,
p~o1efully dumb,
with never the nerve to wife2
Why are there still some bachelors left
To faiter and blush and grope?
II is rlain to me.
And you Will agree,
IT'S to give scrne old maid hope.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

Tho Rise Of Z Great industry In the
Southwest.

southwest
solve oil Is now being shipped BY
the ton from the Salt river valley OF
Arizona and the business Is on the
BOOM" said B. r. Franklin of Phoenix.
Ariz., to q Washington Star man. "The
entire valley Is becoming dotted with
olive orchards, and at this season of
the year the trees are covered with
thousands Of tiny little starlike buds.
which VIII soon be followed by the
fruit formation, which when matured
on the tree will amount to hundreds
OF pounds o. fruit. Olives remain on
the trees until they are thoroughly
ripe before they are picked to have
the oil squeezed and pressed from
them.
when the olives are ripe 1t re-
quires large number of hands to
pick them, for the work must be done
quickly. This is usually done by
spreading large canvas sheets around
the trees, upon which the pickers
throw the olives as they are pIucked
on the branches. Once they are picked
the fruit is carried to the crushing
machine, which breaks the fruit up
much as apples are crushed for cider.
The pulp is then put into a machine
which presses the Juice from it. which
runs off into a tank, where by force
OF gravity the oil proper rises to the
top and is SKINNED off and put away
for several months to settle before it
is bottled ready for the market. 1t
requires about seventy-five pounds O.
fruit to produce a gallon of OIL"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21
The summer Bath.

Nothing Is more refreshing 5sn,i g or invIgoratiag
tepid water and good soap. Ivory Soap is
ideal for the bath: 1t is pure, fathers quickly
and leaves the skin soft and white. The
bath should be taken early in the morning
or Just before retiring at night.
ELEANOR R. PARKER.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

He Cat the ball)-~Just look q
that dashirg Mrs. re Style. She has
diamonds stuck Ell cyer her."
Shelves: there is rcthing equa
to paste as a sticker:''
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

John H. Benton las seen forty years
of continuous service in the United
States bureau Of pensions at Wash
ington.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

Night had come. Shifty Simmons,
tired out with his philanthropic labors,
slowly walked up Main street to the
hotel which he was gracing with his
presence. A low whistle sounded. Sim
mons stopped and looked around with
ready apprehension. He had philan-
thropic funds in his pockets. Through
the darkness he perceived a short man
carrying d satcnel and limping around
the corner. A gas lamp glinted for a
moment on the satchcl. 1t was green.
Shifty Simmons gave a stage start and
followed. His air was determined. He
seemed to be saying sSh-sh' to him
self.
The short man limped through the
town and out into the country. After
an horr's walk he jumped oyer a fence
and ran nimbly owe a freshly plowed
field. Shifty laborlously followed.
keeping close to a fringe Of trees that
bordered the field. The short man went
to q little tool house and obtained a
shovel, with which he dug a deep hole.
He then opened the satcllel. Shifty
saw him abstract a few yellow backed
bills, leaving the rest of the contents.
He then placed the satchel in the hole,
carefully covered It up, put the shovel
back in the tool house and silently
stole away. !
Shifty Simmons now took a promi-
nent part in this little drama. He
sneaked up TO the tool house and began
cropping for the shovel. Enter the
trained beasts-two large, cavernous.
bounding. resounding and ravenous
bulldogs-who dashed across the field
from the farm house in the next lot.
Shifty fed. He spent the. night just
outside the fence and kept an unwink-
ing eye upon the spot where the olive
colored satchel lay buried.
As a strict matter Of history it should
+ SHOULD be stated that it started rain
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21


I have seen the buds unfold
In their setting of dewy grass.
Why watch the flowers droop?
Why wait till the grass Is dead?
What more has life to offer
When youth and Joy have fed?
Yet the coward soul. in fear,
Will shrink from the reckoning hand
Or the boatman's whispered word
AS ever he waits on the strand:
1t Will drain the bitter dregs.
1t will watch the flower decay
For a ruined life Is still a life
God grant US one more day!
Fannie Barber Knapp in Chicago Inter
OaaQn
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

The House of Representatives costs So,
900, 900 q year and the Senate 81 10000.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

Paris has the biggest debt of any city in
the world. 1t amounts to s400, 900 900.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for childrs1
teething soften the gums, reduces innamma-
tion ,allays pain cures wind collie. 25c. abottle
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21
The faces Thai Smile.

-
brother, you are gazing backyard to-
ward the scenes of your mistakes:
You are weeping Ger your errors till
your proud heart almost breaks,
You're r%epenting and regretting. you are
signing, 20, alas!"
And you're missing all the glories of the
present as they pass.
Leave the grim and grewsome picture
look the other way awhile,
For the face that's toward the future is
the face that wears a smile.
You are lost in contemplation of the
blunders you ave made;
You are signing Ger the countless times
your soul has been dismayed.
But the futures sun is shining on the
futures verdant trees,
And the futures birds are s~insing-you
are missing all of these.
Cease that useless gazing backward, look
the other way awhile,
For the faces toward the future are the
only ones that smile.
When your back is to the future then
the blazing lamp of hope
Throws your shadow Ger your landscape
and with blin6ed eyes you grope
For the blessings that had vanished with
the times they strove to bless;
Face about and you'n discover all your
groupings fruidessness.
You'll be oezzled by the glory of the
prospect for awhile,
But with face turned to the future you
will learn to wear a smile.
IS. w. Gillian in Baltimore American.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

Don't allow your dazzling prospects to
blind YOU.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21
GIVE US MEN,
BY THE BISHOP OF EXETER.


Give us meni
Men-from every rank,
Fresh and free and frank;
Men of thought and reading
Men of light and leading,
Men of loyal breeding,
The nations welfare speeding:
Men of faith and not of fiction,
Men of lofty aim in action;
Give us men-I say again..
Give us men!
Give us men!
Strong and stalwart ones:
Men whom highest hope inspires,
Men whom purest honor fires,
Men who trample self beneath them.
Men who make their country wreath them
As her noble sons,
Worthy of their sires!
Men who never shame their mothers,
Men who never fail their brothers,
True, however false are others;
Give us men!
Give us men-I say again,
Give us meni
Men, who, when the tempest gathers,
Grasp the standard of their fathers
In the thickest fight;
Men who strike for home and altar
LET the crowd cringe and falter),
God defend the right
True as truth, though lorn and lonely,
Tender, as the brave are ouly:
Men who tread where sain Is have trod,
Men for country-home-and God;
Give us men! | say again-again-
Give us such men!
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

MI ISS NELLIE CURTAIN, 646 Pearl
IN1 street, st. Paul, MINI, head sales
woman in a department store, writes:
81 haze charge OF a department fn
dry goods store, and after standing
the larger part of tie day, I Uoutd
90 home Nth a duI ache, genera Itv
through my entire body. I used Pc
runa aud feel so much better that 4
cGEk to and from the store 4soiC. I
knoU PerunG TO be the best medicine
on the market for the diseases pecu-
tar to tConten.''-Mts Nellie Cur
tain.
Nothing is so weakening to the human
system as the constant loss of mucous. Ca
starrhal Inflammation of the mucous men,
sbrane produces an excessive formation Of
mucous. Whether the mucous membrane be
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

mo, sir" said the reporter. 81 sen
up my card to his room and 1t wal
sent back with this written on It:
"'Mr. Jefferson has retired"
And then the actor who sleeps
twenty years in every performanc,
took the reporter out and bought hin
a ive-dollar rat-fsaw York Times
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

located in the head or pelvic organs, the
discharge of mucus il sure to occur.
This discharge of mucus constitutes a
weakening drain; the system cannot long
withstand the loss of mucous, hence it is
that women afflicted with catarrhal affec-
tons Of the pelvic organs feel tired and
languid, with weak back and ~throbbi-g
store health by cutting off the weakening
drain of the daily loss Of mucus.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

lido not believe Piso's Cure for Consume
iionhasa an e4ualf for coughs aud colds-JoHy
i. BorER, Trinity f~'prings. Ind, Feb. Is, 1sJ).
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

a natural result more than
&alf of them die in many Of the islands
before they are a year old.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21
TULANE UNIVERSITY Of LA.
NEW ORLEANS.

Full courses In Languages, Sciences
Engineering, Law, Medicine. Splendid de-
partment for women tn Newcomb College.
Tulane makes leaders In oil vocations. It's
facilities for instruction in Engineering ore
Unexcelled opportunities for
the study OF Sugar Chemistry. Many schel-
arships in the academic department. Elk
penses low. Board and accommodations
in dormitories at low rates. Opportunities
afforded academic students for self-heip:
No worthy boy. II needy. shall be turned
away from its doors. Next session begins
October 1st. Send for Catalogue. Address
THE REGISTRAR, Gibson Hall.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21
Too Swift Concurrence.

1t is better to put on airs than to cut of
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21
REPORTER TOLD THE TRUTH.
Had Absolute Proof That jefferson
Had Retired.

Had Retired.
Joseph jefferson, the veteran actor.
is very sensitive on the subject OF
his retirement from the stage. He
has been before the footlights since
a small child, and he has never
shown any desire to leave 1t. The
interviewer who puts the question OF
farewells to him gets a rather SHARP
but pleasant reply, but a reporter in
thesouth recently got the best Of him
The actor came down stairs at the
hotel one morning and was much dis
turbed to find a long but mysterious
ly worded article in which the word
retired was closely connected with
his name. He knew the managing
editor and made a half-hearted com
plant. The reporter was called In
and asked where he got the story
THE city editor told me to see Mr.
Jefferson said the young man, "an(
ask him If he was going to retire."
well. did you see him?" said tht
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

FITS perSaanontl y SIRED. No fits or nervous.
ness after first days use of DR.. Kline's Great
NerveRestorer. $2trial bottle and treatisefree
DR.. r. H. KLINE. Ltd, eS1 Arch St., Phila. Pa
Monday is the f~avorite day for commit
hing suicide.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

ing in torrents shortly a~fterward, ana
that the rain continued all night. II
would indeed often seem as though ma,
ture was not above a joke.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21
THE OPERATIONS
OF SHIFTY SIMMONS
AT PEAPACK.
.A2-
A LITTLE STORY OF THE
FARMER AND THE FAKIR.

He village of Peapack was
radiant. 1t was a legal
holiday and the circus was
in town. Every one was
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21
Child Mortality In the West Indies.
In the West Indies infantile mortalit,

: XeTKe heavy. As o on as te-eA44dreenA-
\ -rnr-tcids about they
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-21

AT daybreak next morning there was
unusual activity in the field. A mum,
Der of hired men appeared with spades
and lumber. Shifty shook some OF the
water from his clothes and climbed
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-20
10 MCDILL'S SER MON.

True or not true, stranger things have hap.
pened, and | may be pardoned for observing
that it is the men and women who believe some
thing that do something. The man who does
not believe-who has no deal-has no proper
place in this world of struggling humanity.
The religious enthusiast has an ideal-often
poor one it is admtted-but a poor one is bet.
ter than no ideal at ALL
But, to proceed with the story.
The Lord was sorry, and promised Noah that
He would not again cleanse the earth with
water. For all ordinary purposes, food like
Noah's would seem sufficient, and the wisdom
OF the Lord might be questioned were it not
that modern science has revealed the fact that
fire alone is the perfect purifier.
To-day, great food is upon us, and its
waters are toul with mans pollution.
hasten to the application.
Twenty of the leading railroads of the Unit.
ed States have advanced wages of employees 10
per cent President Cassatt of the Pennsyl-
vania, says that the cost of living has adva Yced
as per cent, and it is time employees are per-
mlted 10 share in the general prosperity"
Along with the advance of wages of EN-.
ployes is the advance in freights. Oneion:
Who pays the advance of wages? 1t ikes
me that farmers will put up goodly share OF
the advance. Peter is to pay Paul's bills, and
the worshipful magnates of lakes and s,Ie ms
have scored another great victory for mon. ed
| benekcence.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-20
A SERMON ON FLOODS.

AS my name indicates, am of Scotch ances-
try. 1t is poor sort of Scotchman who can
not preach sermon upon occasion.
My text for this poor effort is somewhat
broad, but so is my application. 1t is easier to
cover wide field than narrow one when the
grasp is insignificant compared with the theme.
For this article, l have selected "Noah's
Flood" For the information of people who
have not read the Bible, l will state in few
words that Noah a good man, of remote
antiquity, and that in Noahs day, people were
so generally and perversely wicked that the
Lord determined to drown everybody but Noah
and his family, consisting of three sons and
three daughtersin-law. (Look beyond Noah
for the "missing link").
In accordance with this decree, the Lord in
structed Noah in the building of water-tight
vessel known as Noah's Ark. At the appoint.
ed time, OF which full warning was given, the
Lord broke up the foundations of the great
Deep" and caused a rain to fall OF forty days
and forty nights duration. Water from beneath,
water from above, water everywhere. All life
was destroyed except the lives of Noah and
his family and the lives of the animals which
Noah was instructed to take aboard and provide
for in his large water craft.
1t is not my purpose to discuss the truth of
the story. The agnostic doesn't know; the
in6del ridicules; the orthodox asserts that the
J story is true.