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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-04-01
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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-04-01
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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23
A Man.

80" said the head of the firm.
you've decided to go into business for
yourself, have you? Do you think you
can make more money that way than
we are paying you?"
'Im afraid not" replied the employee.
"Then why do you want to leave
here? Haven't we treated you we'll ?
You get a vacation, with pay, every
summer. When you happen to be sick
you're not locked, and I've always
made it rule to treat my men as we'll
as | know how. If it isn't going to be
to your financial advantage, / can't
see why you should want to leave us"
swell, you see, was reading the 9TH
er day that no man can serve two mas
tiers, and I've been thinking about it
q good deal since, and about made up
my mind that it's So"
Two masters? What do you mean?
/ guess I'm the only master around
here, amt I?'
'Yes-but.'
''But what? If there is anything go
ing on in this establishment that |
don't know about. I'd be very much
obliged if you'd tell me of it."
Its not here. You see, II got mar
rjed about a year and half ago and
and the honeymoon's over, and the
lady has assumed control. She has
found that the wife of man ON sal
airy doesn't seem to inspire much en-
thusiasm in society."-Chicago Record
Herald.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23
Only an lnterlude,

Close vines of honeysuckle overhung
The door with lowering sweets;
Round the white pillars they luxuriant
swung
And cooled the summer heats,
And made the narrow way a narrower
seem;
So that, In passing through,
You shook the spray upon you. CLEAN on
gleam,
And were baptized in dew.
And. with the morning. to the door she
came,
The vines around, above
A radiant picture in that glowing frame
And atmosphere of love-
She took a tender blossom in her hand.
Toyed with her finger tips,
linen mingled with it, as her mouth she
The honey of her lips.
And !, stranger since the night before
A lovers quarrel ours
In hiding, watched her standing in the
door,
Fairest of all the flow'rs.
|. who so loved her. dared not go to her.
had been in the wrong
And sleep had not been mine: nv suffer.
ings were
Remorse the whole night long.
came-she saw me-smiIed. We met
half way,
Embraced in newborn bliss
ana, Oh our quarrel bad no word to say:
Twas smothered in kiss
You crush a fower-its perfumes will
In sweetness for the pain:
SO. grieve woman, and she Yields loves
Forgiveness. poured like rain.
George Birdseye.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23
OFFERS BIBLE FOR TOBACCO.
Aged Southerner's Extremity Meits
Heart of West Side Grocer.

Heart OF West Side Grocer.
A Chicago grocery man tells OF a
see6y-looking individual, with the ap-
pearance of better days in his mem
DRY, who came into the grocery, and,
In the accent of the old South, asked
for credit for a package of smoking
tobacco. This was refused. The old
man, who wore an ancient silk hat and
long frock coat, turned away with a
sigh, but returned shortly with pain
ed look and a copy of the Bible.
my name is Rust, sub"
you look it," the grocer interjected
81 am a brother, sub, of Gen. Rust
of Miss'ippi, sub, and not in the habit
Of making propositions of this kind
sub. But if you will take this book
sub, in pledge, and trust me for the
smoking material, sub, l pledge you
the honah of a Rust, sub, that | VIII
redeem it in very few days"
And yet the grocer refused to par
with the 'noxious weed"
Again the old man turned away ant
with a sigh remarked:
well, sub, if you won't take my
word nor the word of God eyether,
presume that it is best to close these
negotiations. Good day, sub; goot
day"
That was too much for even a:
hard-hearted a man as I am" said the
grocer. 81 called the old gentleman
back and made him happy with {
package of tobacco, and l didn't keel
his Bible, either"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23

Odd Question Put to CHIEF Justice
- -


Shaw by an Audacious Boy.
Chief Justice Shaw, though very
rough In his manner, was exceedingly
considerate Of the rights OF poor and
friendless persons. Sometimes persons
unacquainted with the ways of the
world would desire to make their own
arguments or would In some way In
terrupt the business Of the court. The
chief justice commonly treated them
with great consideration.
One amusing incident happened
quite late In his life.
A rather dissipated lawyer who had
case approaching on the docket one
day told his Office boy to go over to
the supreme court and see what In
hell they are doing" The court were
hearing q very important case In
which Mr.. Choate was on one side and
Mr.. Curtis on the other. The bar and
the courtroom were crowded with
listeners. AS Mr.. Curtis was In the
midst OF his argument the eye Of the
chief justice caught sight of the young
urchin, 10 or II years old; with yellow
trousers stuffed in his boots and with
his cap on one side of his head, gazing
intently UP at him:
He said: stop a moment, Mr.. Cur
It's"
Mr.. Curtis stopped and there was a
profound silence as the audience saw
the audacious little fellow standing en-.
tirely unconcerned.
What do you want, my boy?" said
the chief justice.
Mr.. P. told me to come over here
and see what in hell you was UP to,
was the reply.
There was q dive at the unhappy
youth by three or four of the deputies
In attendance and roar of laughter
from the audience. The boy was eject
ed But the gravity of the old chief
justice was not disturbed.-Senator
Hoares autobiography.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23

and when at last morning came-a
pale. foggy. colorless morning. found
myself in wide open field. A Curl
GUS sparkling light spread over the
whole landscape; the leaves of the
trees and the grass looked as IL they
had been burned up in an unseen fire:
everything was shriveled up and hung
disconsolate In the cool daybreak
wind, and yonder in the furrow an old
peasant drove his plow deep in the
heart OF the EARTH.
"'Where is the white marble cas-
tle?' / asked. and he looked at me
amazed.
81 have lived here for twenty years.
but I have never heard as much as
rumor of any white CASTLE he an
swered, doggedly.
"But, seeing my desolation. he put
his hand upon my arm.
Don't indulge in dreams. young
knight he continued; they are never
realized in life Look, the only conso-
lation of existence is work. Do as
do. and you will learn to forget
II did as he babe me. l broke my
sword in two ieces and made them
into a plowshare; wound : rope from
the strings of my harp, put 1t upon the
neck of my horse to use for halter.
and began to pillow.
"All the rest of my life was spent in
hard work, and yet l never learned to
forget"
He broke off.
II should very much like to know
what possible link there can be be-
tween this story and the visionary
sufferings of your present day exis-
tence?" asked the critic, ironically
LET us say you really went through
all that; this time you live in quite a
different milieu, where you are not ex-
posed to those pleasures nor to those
temptations as in the former one"
"Let him finish his storyw cried
Countess Rolla; ''it's impossible that
this should be the end. What next?"
Only the lady of the house remained
silent. She hid her face behind her
hands. and as she leaned a little for
ward a spray of lilies from her hair
fell at the feet of Adam Doroszlay.
what nextF" repeated he. "There
is nothing else to tell. In this second
existence my whole time has been
spent in search for that scarcely known
and lest sweet lady, and when at last
l have found her, now, as in the past,
she is the wife of another man."-The
Lady's Realm.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23
Men as ProJectlIes.

A Singhalese newspaper published
in Colombo, Ceylon, is tired of the
paucity of news about the war, and in
order to regale it's readers it now and
then manufactures some, Of which the
following is a sample-a translation
by the Ceylon Times:
"The sultan was communicated with
regarding an approaching conflict, and
being a great friend Of the Japanese
monarch, he sent a specially trained
company of swordsmen. each of whom
with sword in his hand is shot away
from the mouth of a gun at the enemy
lust as ordinary shrapnel would be
On arrival among the enemy he makes
short work Of them by his sword play
These swordsmen are now fighting foi
Japan and gaining victories"
Small wonder that Kin-chow and
Nan-Shan fell!-New York CONNER
ciai
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23
Cook on Atlantic Liner Neatly Foilt
Alleged American millionaire.

Cook on Atlantic Liner Neatly Foils
Alleged American Millionaire.
The classical confidence trick has
been neatly played on a would-be
swindler in Paris by his intended vic
tim. The latter. cook on trans
Atlantic liner, had been done himself
before and was too old bird to be
caught again. He struck up an &C
quaintance with an engaging but OBJ
vIously sham American millionaire In
the train to Paris, confding to him
that he had 10000 francs in his bag
and meant to amuse himself on the
boulevards. well met. indeed" said
the millionaire; Il have also. made
my pile and intend seeing the merry
side of life in gay Paree."
They started the evening with an
expensive dinner, paid for by the
American millionaire. At coffee the
latter exclaimed: "Hullo, have not
any cigars; suppose you go and buy
some. You can leave your bag here.
where it will be quite safe. But, as
you might be suspicious here's my
pocketbook. Keep it till you join me
again."
AS soon as the cooks back was
turned the American millionaire, of
course, bolted with the bag, but the
latter only contained old newspapers
and the cooks card, with the words:
II have been had before; you have
met your match this time" In the
would-be swindler's pocketbook was a
sum of G24 in French notes, which
the cook took to the police station.
asking the officer to whom he told
his tale with understandable relish to
give the money to the poor.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23
FRENCH QUEEN OF THE MAY.
Pretty Custom That Prevails In
Southern Villages.


An ancient custom which still OBJ.
tains in many villages in the south OF
France is pretty variation Of the
choosing of the May queen with
which we are so familiar. At this
season of the year the mayor-each
tiny village in France boasts OF a
mayor-and six of his political off,
GERS choose from among the village
maidens the most beautiful girl. AS
soon as the choice is made known
the queen, dressed in white even to a
long white veil and wreath of white
roses, assemblies with her parents and
all the villagers in front of the may.
or's house. Here he and six friends,
dressed in frock coats and top hats,
form in procession, the mayor and
queen leading, and march to the
church, where there is short cere.
mony.
They then march back to the may.
or's house, where a favored few are
entertained at luncheon. When he
proposes her health he enumerates
her virtues, kisses her on both cheeks
and hands her an envelope which con
tains the prize, 5000 in money. Blu,
the ceremony does not end here
They form in procession, the band
leading this time, and in a sort oil
follow my leader" game walk
through the village, up lanes and over
hills for three hours That evening
ball is given at the inn, where the
queen dances first with the mayor and
his six friends and aftsrward with the
lads of the village, and so the cele
bration ends. The queens white veil
and wreath, are carefully folded away
and are brought out again only when
she becomes a bride
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23
The UmpIre,s Revenge.

mo. Mr.. Wilson," said the beautiful
girl, coldly, Il realize that you are
good and kind and true and noble
that your prospects are bright. and
that there would be no objection on
the part of my family. think might
make you good wife, and know that
you would be kind to me. have a
little money saved up, and with that
and your salary for the season we
might live comfortably In a little cot
tage somewhere, where, after the
gamesy you could come home and NOV
the lawn and work in the garden. II
would be pleasant, admit, but / can
never be yours-never, never!"
Look here. young lady" said the
baseball umpire. calmly, "one more
such bunch of back talk, and I'll fine
you ten dollars for delaying the game. y
Then he called "Time!" and wet
nm
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23
oPossUM A CRAFTY BEAST.
Writer Declares He Is Very Much
More knave Than Fool.

More knave Than Fool.
To the uninitiated the opossum is
slow-going, stupid beast, with hardly
enough ambition to eat his food. But
those who have studied his habits de-
clare that there is more of the rogue
than the fool in his makeup, and that
his apparent stupidity is but part of
his business policy. He seldom goes
hungry, and he always has a hole to
crawl into when he is sleepy. And.
in spite of the slowness, he manages.
some way, to catch many animals
much swifter than he is. 1t is said
thai even the brisk squirrel falls
prey to him in the open woods. where
one would think the spry little crea-
ture had all the advantage. The
opossum catches rats and mice. and
eats ground birds and their eggs. He
is not entirely restricted to a meat
diet, however, but is fond Of nearly
all the berries and other wild fruits
that grow in the woods and fields,
and has been known to creep into or
chards and berry patches to devour
cultivated fruits Detroit News-Trib-
une.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23
=7777---7----77777-
Chinese Execution.

Before Chinese bandits are executed
in Mukden they are suspended for a
week or ten days by their thumbs and
great toes. so that their knees just
touch the ground. Just before the tor
ture would kill them their heads are
cut off. All this is done by the Chinese
courts, to s.-hich the Cossacks turn over
the bandits, or alleged bandits. after
arrest
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23

According to the United States GEN.
sus in 1890 there were 81, 1890 members
of tie bar in the United States. or one
to every Cos of the population. Accord
ing to the census of 1900 the total num-
Der was 114.703. or one to every $50
of the population. Since 1000 there
has been a very considerable addition
to the number Of lawyers.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23


What's the secret, some one tell
Makes the Jappy fight SO we'll?
Is it from the food he swallows
Or the exercise he follows!
is it rice, his daily dish,
Or uncooked, unseasoned fish?
Comes it from the kind of hash,
Put beneath his silken sash?
Has his drink of tea-and-water
Made him talented for slaughter?
Comes it from the fan he twirls
Coyly at the Geisha girls?
Or perhaps the secret lies
In his daily exercise.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23

The Hoom.
Here In this old deserted room.
Where cobwebs fringe the tapestries
Swaved by the breezes in the gloom,
My heart renews life's ecstasies.
There where the dusty shades let down
Against the yellow light l see
A Bonded form whose silver crown
Is more than queenly crown to me.
There in the quiet corner nook
leathern chair leans to the wall,
There Bonded Ger some cherished ooos
A form arises In the pail:
A form / looked to- with delight
In days of childhood when trods
A vagrapt and a tott'ring wight,
A trembling babe DER vernal sod.
I list the voices faint and sweet
Borne TO me in soft roundelays.
Like echoes from some dim retreat
OF lifes exquisite choral days.
And while the mould'ri ring tapestries
Swayed by the breezes in the gloom
Crumble to dust, life's ecstasfes
Bring back the sunshine to the room.
Horace Seymour Keller.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23

AhO ANCOCSCdct vi
Topeka, Kans., Room
10, S12 Kansas ave.
nue., writes: II used
Doan's Kidney Pills
during the past year,
for kidney trouble and
kindred ailments. /
was suffering from
pains in the back and
headaches, but found
after the use oe one
box of the remedy
that the troubles
gradually disappeared
SO that before / had
finished a second
package l was well.
|, therefore, heartily
endorse yOur rem odv -
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23

Does iiu-iitsu's game impart
Fighting muscles to his heart?
Is he strengthened by the very
Healthful act of hari-kari?
Does some martial charm reposs
In his digitate1 hosey
Who can tell me what it is
Makes the Jappy such wiz?
Makes him daily victor where
Fools and heroes only dares
Science might reply with ease,
1t is due to all of these"
Unenlightened ! would say,
Looks as though he's built that way"
Wallace Irwin, in the Globe.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23
"Thy Will Be Done"

Yesterday, when I said. Thy will BE-
DONE"
i 1 knew not what that will of thine
would be;
What clouds would gather black across
my sun,
What storms and desolation waited me:
I knew thy love would give me what
was best,
And I am glad could not know the
rest
Thy will be DONE" say. and to the
scroll
OF unread years conserving set my
name.
Day after day their pages will unroll
In shining words that prove thy lv-e
the same
Until my years are gathered into one
Eternal. sauctified. Thy will be done -
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23
COULDN'T STOP HER

I'm heaven quoted the man who
was trying to hold the lid on, there
is neither marrying nor giving in mar
riage'
NO, nor in the other place, either
replied the leap-year maid, firmly
THAT is something we must attend to
while here on earth. Will you-er-
name the day, Mr.. Nix, or shall IY'
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23
Red 4 Favorite Flao Color,

Red seems to be the most popular
of national colors. If flags may be used
as criterions. OF the twenty-five lead
ing national flags nineteen have red
in them The same cannot be said OF
any other color. The chief flags that
are marked with red are those of the
United States, England, France, Ger.
many, Austria, Italy, Spain, Denmark,
Belgium. Sweden, Switzerland, Tur.
key. Mexico. Chile, Portugal. and
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23

A new Swiss watch contains a tiny
hard rubber monograph plate which
calls out the hours loud enough to be
heard twenty feet away. Sentiment
can be added by having the words
recorded on the plate in the tones of a
dear friend-as those of a mans wife
or children.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23

(Signed) MRS. G. E. BUMGARDNER,
A FREE TRIAL-Address Foster.
Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale
by all dealers. Price, 80 ce1ts.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23

The experiments of c. Gutton,
French physicist, have shown that
phosphorescence is increased by the
action of magnetic field. Phosphores-
cent substances prove very sensitive to,
magnetism, but only when the field is
not uniform, and an intense but uni
form field has no effect The magnet has
even been made to act upon the eye.
Objects in an obscure chamber were
dimly seen, and they appeared to be-
come brighter when the magnet was
brought near the eye. The Mays,
which also have this effect, were care
fully screened off by lead foil. Ear
lier attempts to find out whether a
strong magnetic field affects the hui
man body have given only negative re-
suits, and even magnet large enough
to admit the head between the poles
showed no influence.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23

The new arc lamp of Andre Blondel,
the French engineer, claims three SUBJ
stantial Improvements, viz: One of
the carbons contains certain salts that
Increase the luminosity; the positive
carbon in the direct-current lamps is
placed at the bottom, and a reflector
encircles the upper carbon. The eff
ficiency is much increased by these fea-
lures. The light can be varied coEsid-
erably and made much whittier than the
ordinary arc, and the light is very
brilliant and economical.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23

The serious student of nature can
have no interest in belittling or in
exaggerating the intelligence of ami
mails, declares the Century Maya
zine. What he wants is the truth
about them, and this he will not get
from our natural-history romancers,
nor from the casual, unframed OBJ
servers who are sure to interpret the
lives of the wood folk in terms OF
their own motives and experiences,
nor from Indians, trappers, or back.
woodsmen, who give such free rein
to their fancies and superstitions.
Not to Romanes or Jesse or Michelet
must we goifor the truth about ami
mails, but to the patient, honest Oar
win, to such calm, keen, and phil
osophical investigators as Lloyd
Morgan, and to the books of such
sportsmen as Charles st. John, or to
our own candid. intelligent, and wide.
awake Theodore Roosevelt - men
capable of disinterested observation,
with no theories about animals to
uphold.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23
A QUICK RECOVERY.

A Prominent Officer of the Rebeccas
Writes to Thank Doan's Kidney Pills
For 1T.
Mrs. c. e. Bumgardner, local officer
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23

FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first days use of DIR. Khne's Great
NerveRestorer. $2trial bottleand treatise free
DR.. r. 81. KLINE, Ltd, 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23

From measurements made by 2.
Bachmetjew we learn that the tenn
perature of an insect may be varied
within wide limits without doing harm
to the insect.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23

Kuropatkin has ordered all corrcs
pondents to the rear. This ought to
satisfy the correspondents who have
been anxious to get to the Japanese
front. comments the Washington
Post.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23

Timber wolves tn the country north
Of Laramie, Wyo.. are said to be more
numerous this season than for years.
Heavy losses of live stock have re-
Gently been caused by these gray
thieves in that part of the State.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23

Monsieur Deibler, French execu
TONER, is collecting material for the
history of the death punishment ip
Europe.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-23
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