davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06
OLD NAVAJO BLANKETS.
They Are Now So Rare as to Be Almos
Priceless

They Are Now So Rare as to Be Almost
Priceless.
DR.. w. H. Work of Charlestown has
returned from a trip to Arizona and
has brought back with him several Ma
Vajo blankets. But" he remarked
sorrowfully, they are not what they
used to be. The Navajos are too i'm
provident and lazy to make such blank
cts as they used to make in the years
gone by and before the white man be-
gan to banker after that particular
weave.
THE blankets now turned out are
pitiful and tawdry affairs compared
with those of bygone times. Those of
today can be bought for about $50,
while real old-fashioned blanket is
really priceless and cannot now be
bought. Those ancient blankets were
half an inch thick and would hold
water as well as a wooden tub. The
finest of them are found buried with
bodies of dead chiefs, and they are
practically indestructible.
THE women who weave the blankets
of today can make the old-fashioned
blankets just as well, for they know
the secret of manufacture, hut cheaper
blanket is easily sold and takes only
a short time to make, while it would
take nearly a year to weave one of
the real blankets, those glorious combi-
nations of colors and material, one of
which would easily be worth $500.
''Tney have an exquisite color sense,
these women, and blend their materi-
ais perfectly. The coloring is fast, and
is made of vegetable and mineral mat
ter, the secret of making being handed
down from generation to generation.
A tribe can be known by the color
scheme of it's blankets. The designs
vary greatly. Sometimes religious cere-
monies are tyqifed, sometimes person
al history or other themes, all of
which may be read by those skilled
in the sign and color languages of these
Indians.
How are the blankets made? Oh,
the manner is very primitive and seems
simple enough. They are woven on up
right frames by hand, and the threads
are pounded together as tight as posi-
BILE. But the glory of the Navajo blank
ct has departed, and l expect before
many years the secret of their making
will be lost '-Indianapolis News.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

An improved egg-testing process,
which has been awarded a medal by
poultry breeders in Saxony, is claimed
to determine the age almost to a day.
1t depends upon the fact that the air
cavity at the blunt end of the egg en-
larges with age, giving increasing ten
dency to float point downward in a
salt solution. A scale at the back of
the vessel gives the inclinations cor
responding TO various ages. A fresh
laid egg lies horizontally on the bot
tom of the vessel, when three to five
DAYS old it is raised to an inclination
of about 20 degrees from the horizon
tai; at eight days The angle increases
to about As degrees; at IA days 1t
is so degrees; at three weeks it is
abcnt rs degrees. and after four weeks
the egg stands upright on its point.
The solution contains about eight
ounces of salt to pint Of water,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

A clean youth makes clear old age.
A mud-slinger must be mud-seek-
er
A false friend is worse than a fair
foe.
Loves labor for the lost is never
lost
Truth does not depend on tempera-
ment
self-confdence reveals silf-igno-
rance.
Happiness is the fruit of heart
health.
The test of any recreation is. does it
recreate?
To fight any form of truth is to fos-
ter some error.
The greatest grief may be gilded
With some gratitude.
Feeling is like smoke, indicative not
of heat but of the fuel.
Past experiences give good counsel
but make poor patterns.
The shield of faith was not meant
to protect the conscience.
There is difference between draw
ing the people and reaching them.
Men will not be kept from the love
Of the world by making the world un-
lovely.
To neglect politics for private inter-
cu.s is as base as to manipulate them
for the same reasons.-Ram's Horn.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06
Changes of the Earth.

How does one generation of men
succeed another? The fathers are not
swept away in body to make room
Tor the children, but one by one the
Did drop off and the young come on,
ILL day Is reached when ncne OF
hose remain that once were here.
How does some form of human speech
become extinct? About hundred
Years ago an cid lady named Dolly
Dentreath died in Cornwall. She could
speak the Cornish language; after her
ieath there was nobody that could.
Thus quietly did the living Cornish
language become dead language;
md in like unobtrusive manner have
been wrought most of the new becom-
ngs which have changed and are
Hanging the earth.-Harper's.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

Bachelors are like any one else, they
spend money when they have it," says
an interview in The Inter Ocean.
Chicago bachelors live in somewhat
different manner, from the fellows in
New York, and their regular expenses
are heavier. In Manhattan the boys live
in apartments and eat at the cafes
Here-some of US at least-keep our
own homes, have our servants, and. in
fact, run a regular establishment. That
costs more money than the New York
manner of living. If bachelor has a
fad he can spend good deal of money
in that way. His clubs cost him some
thing, and perhaps he goes out con-
siderably A man could keep family
about as cheaply, for bachelor is gen.
orally pretty free with his money, even
if he is not spendthrift. /"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06
reatn OF Kossuth's Sister.

News of the death of Louise Kos
sdth Ruttkay at Buda-Pesth has come
to hand. Mrs. Ruttkay was sister OF
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot,
and wife of the late Joseph Ruttkay.
She was over eighty-six years old.
After the rising against Austria In
1853, furthered by Kossuth, then in
England, his mother and three sisters
were banished and the mother soon
after died at Brussels, while the sis
ters came to this country. OF the
three Mrs. Ruttkay was the last sur
y.vor. and made her home in America
until 1881, when she went to live with
her brother at Turin and was with
MIN when he died. In his last years
she kept up his correspondence with
his old comrades in this country.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

DR.. Steiner, Dutch physician, re-
Gently made q curious discovery while
travelling in Java, says the London
Chronicle. He CHANGED to stop one
day at Sourabaya, where the Jayanese
maintain large hospital for prison
ers. His notice was directed to the
fact that in the treatment of such
cases as necessitated an anaesthetic
the native physicians did not resort to
a drug, but instead they were mani
festly reducing their patients to con-
dition of stupor by COMPRISING the
carotid artery with their fingers. The
Dutch physician was so much i'm
pressed with this primitive method of
rendering the patient at least partially
insensible to pain that he made care
full study of it. He discovered that
this method OF anaesthcsia, although
unknown to modern surgery, was in
all probability in vogue among the an
ii &c
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06
HUMOROUS.

He-"Won't you sit in this chair,
Miss Spooner?" Miss Spooner-"Af-
ter YOU"
He-"You should remember that
consistency is jewell" Shelves;
but jewelry is so vulgar"
She's made a fool of that young
fellow" well, she didn't have to
economize on the raw MATERIAL
Gyer-"Bald heads remind me OF
kind words" Myer-"What's the an
swer?" Gyer-"They can never dye"
1T is when a young man is in love, .
remarked the Observer of Events and
Things. that he hasn't a single idea in
his head"
How is your brother making out?'
"Oh, he's doing fiourishing business. -
"Ah. indeed" Eyes, he's a profess
sional card-writer.'
Old Party-''Stick to your mother
my young friend" His Young Friend
II will, sir. 1t costs to much to
board any place else"
Customer emerging from bargain
counter crush)-Help! My leg is brok-
en-! Floorwalker-You will find the
crutch department, sir, on the fourth
floor in the rear.
Usual NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the
matter, Cholly? 70 look weary. Chol-
ly-well-aw-I was just thinking
/
you're exhausted.
Edna-"Do you think your mar
riage with Miss Lolita Coyne, the heir
ess, will have a pleasant outcome? %
Edward can't say-but the thing
that attracts me is the income"
Hook-"Miss Gotrox has a wonderful
memory for faces" Nye-"That's
tight, was engaged to her last sum-
mer at the shore, and today she actu-
ally bowed to me on the street"
There is train of thought passing
through my head at this moment, -
said the self-appointed lecturer
That's right" said voice from the
gallery; you have wheels in your
head"
I'm sorry can't accommodate
you," said the clearinghouse keeper
but we only take in single gentle
men," What's the matter?" asked
Weddman; find the married ones toe
shrewd to be taken in?"
Martha-'That horrid Mr.. Roamer
kissed me in the hall last night" Con-
stance-"You don't mean it! How did
it happen?" Martha-'It was pitch
dark in the hail." Constance
"Ah, see. That accounts for it, dear"
Mrs. Tawkey-'T hear the Popley's
new baby is very delicate Mrs
O'Bull-"Yes, it's an incubus, you
know" Mrs. Tawkey-"An incubus ~
Mrs. O'Bull-"Yes; they had to put
it in an incubus to hatch it, Just like
q little chicken
Miss Nuritch-"Yes, indeed, he was
real attentive to me and he's an able
man, too" Miss Ascum-"May Outwit
met him. too, and she declares he's an
actor, and low comedian at that. y
Miss Nuritch-"Not at all. He assured
me he was Lord Admiral of the Swiss
navy"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

ELGIN, ILL.-In a very recent commu-
nication from this place comes the news
that Mr.. Arthur Ernest Kidd, a we'll
known architect of that city, has made
complete recovery from catarrh of the
head, from which he had suffered for
nearly q quarter Of century. He writes
from IS Hamilton ave-:
II am q years Of age, and have had ca
tarrh of the head for over half of my life,
as a result of scarlet fever. followed by
typhoid fever. got so bad that | was al
most constantly coughing and clearing my
throat The eatarrh greatly impaired my
eyesight, and the hearing in one ear, and
reduced my weight to ITO pounds.
81 tried nearly every catarrh remedy ad-
vertised, besides a great many different
physicians treatments. all of which failed
81 had heard and read of Peruna, and
finally decided to try it two months ago.
l have now taken seven bottles, and
weigh l72 pounds. Never felt happier Of
merrier Feel tip top."-A. E. KIDD
If you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case and he win be
pleased to give you his valuable advice
gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of The
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus. o.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06
The Point OF Vien.

Old Moses, who belonged to Judge
=, of Macon, Miss, .befo' the
wah," was fer many years sexton and
a devout member of the Presbyterian
church, says Harper's Monthly. Short
ly after the war the colored Metho-
dists of the community held rous-
ing meeting. in which Moses loudly
! protested conversion. and joined the
Methodist church. Some days after
ward the judge met him, and asked !:
''Ifpws this. Nose? | hear you have
joined the Methodists. | thought
brought you up better than that
Mosk took off his hat and solemnly
scratched his woolly pate as he re-
piled: "Yessir. massa, dat's so-dat' S
so--de Presbyterian people am a
mighty fine people, and de Presbyte-
rian church am mighty fine church
--but-massa-don't you tink 1t am
powerful dismal fex nigger?"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

She possessed mind Discerning.
That was stored and crammed with learning
And her thoughts, forever burning,
She could suitably express
All her sentences were rounded
Aud her words imposing soundedi
was really quite astounded
As listened, l confess.
IT was rather an infliction,
All this verbal unrestriction, 81
But her elegance of diction,
Each precise and polished phrase
And the beautiful selection
OF the words and their connection
And her most correct infection
They we're quite beyond all praise. I,
But saw her very lately, ~
And she did not talk ornately;
All that language suaye and stately
She no longer kept on tap.
She was saying. "Bessums, diddums!
Where de bad old pin got hiddums,
In his muzzer's p'ecious kidkums,
To the baby In her LAP.
Chicago Daily News.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

Many women and doctors do
not recognize the real symptoms
of arrangement Of the female
organs until too late.
81 had terrible pains along my
spinal cord for two years and suffered
dreadfully ] was given different
medicines, i wore plasters; none of
these things helped me. Heading of
the cures that Lydia E. Pinkhaln's
Vesetable Compound has brought
about. I somehow felt that IL was
what needed and bought bottle to
take. How glad am that / did so ;
two bottles brought me immense re-
lief. and after using three bottles more
I felt new life and blood surgiRg
through my veins. 1t seemed as
though there had been regular house
cleaning through my system, that all
the sickness and poison had been taken
out and new life given me instead
have advised dozens Of my friends TO use
Lydia T.. Pinlrhan's Vegetable
Compound. Good health is indis-
pcnsiable to complete happiness, and
Lydia II. Pinl1ham's Vegetable
Compound has secured this to me.
MRS. LAURA +. BREMER, Crown
Point, Indiana, Secretary Ladies Relief
Corps. = 5000 foyeft 4 original ef abovs Istts,
prouinq Qrnalneness cannot be prbsaced.
Every sick woman who docs not
understand her aiineRt should
write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn,
Mass. Her advice Is free and
always helpfuIs
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

For the last time." said the vii
lain, Il ask you to become my wife. If
you refuse me it will mean life of
poverty and misery. # you marry me
liveried servants will be at your COM
mand; apartments hung with the most
gorgeous tapestries of the Orient
and"
TANNED full of worthless junk that
You will call antique bric-a-brac," in
terrupted the heroine scornfully. ''Nev-
er, Gilbert Doane!"
And catching her torn and frayed
skirt. she majestically swept forth
into the binding observation-disclosures
polls Sun.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

The servant problem is different in
Hungary from what it is here. Appar.
emily servants are so plentiful that the
project of Jaszbereny, Hungarian
town, has dared to issue the following
decree.
In view of the fact that domestic
servants are getting more and more
in the habit of neglecting their work
in order to amuse themselves, hereby
give notice that any female domestic
servant who is found out of doors or
even on the doorstep of the house in
which she is employed after 8 p. m.
will be summarily arrested and pun
ished by a fine Of Ell lbs. 4d., or four
days Imprisonment. London Elk
press.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06
NOT WHAT THEY SEEM.

The juggler may not be inclined
To daily with the Jug;
The sinful smuggler may be just
The opposite Of SNUG.
The skipper isn't always one
Who like the lambkin skips.
And. with disgust, the walters know
The tippler seldom tips.
s. Z. Kiser. in Chicago Record Herald
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

as mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely derange the whole sys.
tenn when entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never be used
except on prescriptions from reputable ply
sicians, as the damage they viii do is ten fold
to the good you can possibly derive from
them. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. J. Cheney 4 Co., Toledo, o., contains
no mercury, and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
Of the system. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure
be sure to get the genuine. 1t is taken in
ternally, and is made In Toledo, Ohio, by j.
J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
- Sold by Druggists; price, Use. per bottlc.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06
askyourDruggistfor Aires Ps-ru-naAImaHac

of a garden paling made wholly out of the
swords of swordish.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

These were the questions which
troubled her, filed her waking thoughts
sent her restless to bed.
And while she still waited she be-
came the victim of yet another conf
dence. this time from man again,
but middlc-aged and iron-gray-
"You look like sensible little girl, :"
he began, abruptly Are your"
Il hope sol" She smiled.
Then. although we don't know
much OF each ether. you'll forgive me
for asking you question or two which
may seem beyond my limit. believing
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

Universal penny fares are to be tried
for six months on the Sheffield, England,
municipal electric tramway system.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

FITS permanently eured.No fits or nervous
ness after first days use of Dr.. Klire's Great
NerveRestorer. 50 trial bottleand treatise free
DR.. B.H. KLINE, Ltd, 931 Arch ST., Phila., Pa.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

Pfso's Cure for Consumption is an infalllble
medicine for coughs and colds.-N. w.
SAMUEL. Ocean Grove, N. j., Feb. IT, 1900.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

Timber is being exported from Bosnia
TO South Africa to be used in rebuilding
farms destroyed during the war.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

Mrs. Winslow's SoothingSyrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces innamme
tion. allays pair, cures wind cole. 25c. bottle
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

Some men don't even become successful
failures
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

The fellow with the gift of CAB is apt
70 give himself away.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

Few men can lose their money and re-
tain their popularity.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06
Anaesthesla Without Drugs.

Perhaps two may live as cheaply as one,
but somehow or other they never do.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

ANY ono can dye with PUTNAM FADE
LESS DYES; no experience required.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-06

Beware of Ointments For Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-01-15
MUST RAISE THE
BLOCKADE FIRST
CASTRO REQUIRES THIS BEFORE
ARBITRATION is BEGUN.
HAS ITALYS SUPPORT
That Country Being Influenced Purely
by Economic Considerations, But Is
Still Thoroughly Loyal to Alliance
With Other Powers-5owen Vene.
zuelan Commissioner.

Washington Jan. 13.-Adyices re-
ceIyed here indicate that while Minis.
ter Bowen comes as the Venezuelan
commissioner in the negotiations look.
ing to the settlement Of the claims Of
the allies, Castro has made il a condi-
ton that the blockade shall be raised
before Bowen proceeds with the pre-
paration Of the protocol for a peaceful
adjustment of the claims Moreover il
now develops that in this request Ven
ezuela is likely 10 have the support Of
Italy The United States, though not
a party to the negotiations, Of course
viii throw the weight Of its moral H..
fuence on the same side The Italian
government is Influenced in its course
by purely economic considerations. II
does not desire 10 crush Venezuela
but simply to procure the payment Of
claims The continuance Of the block
ade. BY sapping the very life OF the
country, threatens to make IL impos-
sible for Venezuela to pay their claims
within any reasonable period, so that
any adjustment rendered against her by
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-01-15
Wisconsin State News

George HanawaIt was killed at Uni
~ by a falling tree.
The Wausau Paper company has re-
so.yed to spend about $250,0O0 in en-.
larging it's mill at BrOkaw.
Mrs David Prints, living near
Shamrock, took paris green with fatal
tefect She leaves a husband and fam
! lily.
Charles H. Waters, a Marinette bust
ness man. has become insane on the
subject of religion, and sent to Osh
kosh for treatment
Eau Claire business men threaten
to start a grocery package company
unless the local dealers cut down
prices and reach for farmer trade
August Spies. in an interview, de
MES the report that the Marinette and
Menominee Paper company have
joined the General Paper company
Harold Chester. aged Q years, was
caught in a belt in a machine shop at
OrJnomOwoc and whirled in the air,
.but escaped with only a broken leg
While digging in the cemetery at
KIbourn, the sexton found the body
OF a man, who had evidently been
buried with his clothes on and without
a coffin.
There is at present s71.520.84 in
the state treasury paid under the in
valid legacy law, and It requires an
act Of the legislature 10 return IL to
the owners
At Kenosha the lamps In the light
house went out Saturday night. Keep
er Dediemar and his assistants had TO
fight the slush ice several hours be
fore they could reach the station and
relght them. They almost persisted
from cold,
The directors Of the Scandinavian
Workingmen's association have closed
their semiannual meeting with the
election Of John Erickson Of Hayward
as secretary. Madison and Ashland
we're selected as sites for the midsum-
mer celebrations
Gambling will have to stop IN Green
Bay according to the mayor. and Of.
fcers confscated several thousand
dollars worth Of gambling apparatus
one night The mayor was elected on
q reform ticket, and waited until he
had evidence before making his raid.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-01-15

allowance of claims made by other
persons processing to be members of
the late royal family of Hawaii
Judge Under Cloud,
The committee refers to cha gcs of
corruption and incompetency made
against Judge John w Kalua, circuit
Judge in the second judicial circuit in
the island. and gives the testimony
adduced in support of the charges. It,
however, makes no comment but says
that Judge Kalua made no reply to
the charges.
Speaking of the t eatment of en-
ployes on the large plantations the
committee expresses the opinion that
good provision in the way of houses
is made for them and adds that all
of those employed seem to be living
in happiness and contentment In
addition to houses. fuel and medical
attendance. farm Iaborers receive
from SIG to $40 per month,
The committee finds much reason
fo~ encouragement in respect to the
coffee industry in the islands and
recommends a bounty of -four cents a
pound for ten years
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-01-15
dNH'
flLlPlNOS WANT ,on
TAI T TO STAY.

Manila, Jan. IA delegation OF .
former insurgents visited Goyerlor
Taft yesterday and II gcd him To rq,..,
main here and not accept the nomlp. IN
alton as associate Justice OF thee
supreme court Tho delegates sWdnH
the whole Filipino people pctltIongd ,as
President Roosevelt to allow Tart to-.
stay here, Tho delegation sent
cable message to Washington urging
his retention rs governor Of the Phil,
ippinos
Expressions rayorlng TAFT remninH
Ing In the islands as COVE nor, arq ~
coming from all parts Of the archipotHdl
another larger demonstration Il. in ,sI
another larger demonstration In ..
favor Of his retention Of It is finally
decided TO recall him 10 tho United
states The people here fear h"H
change of policy II Taft Is recalIbd e'II