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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-10-28
A Cause of Drowning.

In swimming under blazing sun the
body is submerged at low tempera
ture While the full force, of the sun
beats on the unprotected head To add
to the obvious dangers of such a state
of things the blood is forced into the
head by thes pumping action of the
limbs in swimming, thus causing the
arteries in other parts of the body to
be overflfed. The consequence is often
violent headache. which may be. fol-
lowed by insensibility. The swimmer
sinks and unless help is at hand adds
another to the long list of the mysteri-
ously drowned
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-10-28
The Diamond Cure

The latest news fromi Paris, is that
they have discovered q diamond cure
for consumption. If yol fear con-
sumption OF pneumonia il will how
ever, be best for you to. take that
great remedy mentioned by W. /.
,McEhee. of Vanlcer, Tenn had a
cough for fourteen years. Nothing
helped me until. took Dr. KRIS
New Discovery 1og e6hsameeIOas
coughs, colds, Whihc gave instant re-
lief and affected permanent cure
Unequalled quick cure for throat aTld
lung troubles At Finlay,s drug store
Price soc and $I.oo. guaranteed
Trial bottles free.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-10-28

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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-10-28
The power Behind the Purse.

The determining factor in all mod
ern life is money. The'hand that holds
the purse rules the world, though the
spirit must regulate it. Man is the
wage Garner. but the purchasing pow
er Of the nation is in the hands of the
woman-that is, among the only wo-
men who are of any account in the EN-
pire. the women of the middle Gn all
its tiers) and the lower classes.-Lon-
don Mail.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-10-28
A Surprise PARTY

A pleasant surprise party may be
given to your stomach and liver by
taking a medicine which will relieve
their pain and discomfort, VIZ: Dr..
Kings New Life Pills. They are a
mast wonderful remedy affording
sure relief and cure for headache. diz-
ziness and constipation. 25c at Fin
lays drug store. 3o-4
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-10-28
An Odious Comparison.

You haven't the aristocracy that dis
tinguishes society abroad said the.
critical foreigner.
no. answered Mrs. Cumrox, eve
may not be as aristocratlc as you folks,
but some OF US can act heap haught-
ier."-W Washington STAR
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-10-28
Morning or EVENING"

The learned Henry Ainsworth says
that as darkness was before light (Gens
esis |, 81 the evening is named first,
and the Jews began their day in the
evening. The Athenians did the same.
The Chaldeans counted from sunrise,
the Egyptians from noon. the Romans
from midnight Notes and Queries.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-10-28

B Lsek, of Concord, Ky says
Fer 70 yeafssF suffered Agenies with
. sore on my upper lip, so painful
sometimess that could not eat AZ
ter yainly trying everything else, I
cured ii with BuCkien Arnica- SaIEea
It's great for burns, cuts and wounds
AT. Finlay's drug store. only age
s3o-4
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-09

Then we went out to the dining tent and
took dinner with the crowd and had jolly
time. There was woman trapeze performer
on one side of pa at dinner, and she began to
kick at once about the meals, and when the
waiter brought piece of meat to us ala
great big piece that looked like corned beef
she said "For heavens sake, amt that ele-
phant that died all been eaten up yet" and
then she told pa that they had been fed on
that deceased elephant until they all felt like
they had trunks growing out Of their heads,
and pa poked the meat with his fork, and
thought it was elephant, and he lost his ap-
petite, and everybody laughed. I eat some of
it, and if it was elephant it was all right.
In Circus Girls Lap
Well when dinner was about over, all filled
their glasses to drink to the health of pa, the
old stockholder and new manager, and pa got
up and bowed, and made little speech and
when he sat down one of the circus girls was
in his chair, and he sat down in her lap, and
the crowd all yelled, except Spanish bull
fighter, who seemed to be the husband of the
woman pa sat on, and he wanted pas blood,
but the old circus manager took him away to
save pa from trouble, and he glared back at
pa, and l think he will stab pa with dirk
knife
We got out of the dining tent, and went
to the barn, where the animals are kept all
winter, and pa wanted me to become familiar
with the habits of the beasts, cause they were
to be in pas charge, with the keepers of the
different kinds of animals to report to pa.
Nobody need tell me that animals have no
1
a joke. We are apt to think that wild ami
mails in captivity are worrying over being
confined in cages, and gazed at and comment
ed on by curious visitors and that they dream
of the free life they lived in the jungles, and
sigh to go back where they were captured
and prow around for food, but you can't
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-09

Just then the boss canvasman came along and
he said
Hello, old man, what are you doing up
there% and pa said some of the pirates in
the show had kidnapped him, and seemed to
be holding him up for ransom, and he said
be would give ten dollars if some one would
let him down.
Had Fun With Pa
The boss canvasman said he could fix it
for ten all right, and he blew whistle and the
gang came back and the boss said: Bring
blanket and help this gentleman down." so
they brought a big piece of canvas, with
handles all around it. and about dozen fell
lows held it UP, and the rope man let pa down
on the canvas and unhitched the ring, and
when pa was in the canvas he laughed and
said: Thanks, gentlemen, | guess | am not
much of horseback rider" and then the
fellows pulled on the handles of the canvas,
and by gosh, pa shot up into the air half way
to the top of the tent and when he came down
they caught him in the canvas and tossed
him up whole lot of times until pa said: ooh,
let up and make it $2o"
Just then the proprietor who had intro
duced pa to the men came in and saw what
was going on, and he said: "Here, you heather,
you quit this hazing right here" and they let
pa down on the floor of the ring, and he got
up and pulled his pants down, that had got
above his knees, and shook himself and took
out his roll and peeled off $50 bill and gave
it to the canvasman, and he shook hands with
them all, and said he liked joke as we'll as
anybody and for them to spend the money
to have good time, and they all laughed and
patted Pa on the back and said he was dead
game sport and would be an honor to the pro-
fession, and that now that he had taken the
first degree as circus man he could call on
them for any sacrifice or any work, and he
would find that they would be Johnny on the
spot.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-09

TOO often" he continued, modern
papers are needlessly thick and coarse.
They are all right for quartos and
folios, but when used for smaller sizes
they make stiff and snappy leaves, hard
to fold and to sew. Look at this Aldus.
See how thin and yet how tough and
opoque is the paper
How does our modern paper COM
pare with the old in durability"
There is no comparison, especially
since the introduction of wood pulp pa
per. 1t is doubtful IL any one out OF
a thousand Of the ordinary run OF
books turned out by publishers today
will outlast century. Linen paper of
the kind you see here, will survive for
many centuries. Indeed with such care
as is bestowed upon the books pre-
served in these cases, II is practically
indestructible, like vellum."
do not the terms folio, duarto, etc,
refer to the manner in which the paper
when printed must be folded by the
binder2"
Certainly. In the early days paper
was made on frames OF uniform size.
The completed product was sheet
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-09

ct handkerchiefs. At first linen paper
was found to he too rough to take ink
readily. Finally the art of calendering
or polishing 1t came in from Persia.
rs the old hand made paper supe-
rior to that made today by machne?'
"Yes. it is. Printing on a hard press
is merely fad In actual fact hand
press produces results inferior to those
attained by the modern steam press.
But hand made paper is more crafty
ing to the eye and more durable than
machine made paper. 1t had become
practically a lost art until recent years.
Today there is only one firm which
really knows how to make It, and that
firm is in England. In all books and
manuscripts you can detect the hand
of the master workman from that OF
the apprentice by the superior fineness
OF the product Let us look at this
book for example"
Mr.. Kimball turned over the pages OF
one OF the books belonging to the lib
rary. and by holding the pages to the
light he showed that some were thick
er and less finished in appearance than
the others
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-09

fool me. Animals that formerly had to go
around in the woods, hungry half the time,
and occasionally gorging themselves on dead
animal, and sleeping out in the rain in all kinds
Of weather, know when they have struck
good thing in a menagerie, with clean straw to
sleep in, and when they are hungry all they
have to do is to sound their bugle and they
have pre-digested beefsteak and breakfast food
brought to them on silver platter and II the
food is not to their liking they set up kick
Ike star boarder at boarding house. Their
condition in the show, in its changed cond1-
ton from that of their native haunts, is like
taking a hobo off the trucks OF freight train
and taking him to the dining car OF the linn
tied and letting him eat to finish.
People talk about animals escaping from
captivity, and going back to the jungles, and
humane societies shed tears over the poor,
sad-eyed captives, signing for their homes,
but you turn them loose at South Bend, and
run your circus train to New Albany without
them, and they would follow the train and
overtake it before the evening performance
the next day, and you would find them trying
to break into their cages again. and they
would have to be fed
Pa Among Wild Animals
When pa and | went into the barn where
the cages were, to take an account OF stock
and get acquainted with our animals, they
acted lust like the circus men did when they
saw pas clothes The animals were about
half asleep when we went in, but big lion
bent one eye on pa, and then he rose up and
shook himself, and gave roar and cough
that sounded like he had the worst case OF
pneumonia, and he snorted couple of times,
as though he was saying to the other animals: ::
Here's something that will kill you dead,
and want you all to have piece of it, raw,
and he brayed some more, and all the animals
Joined in the chorus, the big tiger lying down
on his stomach and waving his tail, and
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-09

century the Egyptian manufacture OF
papyrus began to decline. 1t ceased al
together before the eleventh century.
Meanwhile parchment had grown SO
scarce and so dear that copyists were
driven to the expedient of erasing the
writing from older manuscripts and
converting the parchment to their own
use. In this dilemma the east once
more came to the rescue. China had
made paper out of rags since the first
century. Japan had followed suit ana
soon outstripped her pioneer in the
quantity and quality of her output In
about the thirteenth century Japan
paper reached Europe. Tho secret of
its manufacture was soon learned. But
to this day the better sorts OF Japan
paper are not excelled in the western
world"
''Yes, | know. of course, that Japan
paper is used in the most expensive
and sumptuous Of our books, as well
as for the higher class Of engravings." {"
You are right The Japanese make
paper that can be turned to multitud-
inous uses-nreproof saucepans. water
proof overcoats. the finest sort OF pock-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-09

Nevertheless, Mr. Kimball would not
accept my remark without qualifica-
ton. 1t was possible, he thought, that
the very first products of Gutenburg's
press were so inferior that they had
perlshed or been destroyed.
Like other arts, that of printing
was not discovered and elaborated by
one mans mind, but was evolved after
numerous efforts and gradual advances
Books with rough engravings printed
from wooden blocks and surrounded
by written texts came irst, then gram
mars with cast metal texts. Finally
Gutenberg's invention of movable types
permanently superseded books written
by hand 1t is true. however. that all
subsequent advances have made no
change in the theory and few changes
in the elementary processes OF print
ing.
TT would appear" continued my in
structor, that the first books were
made in imitation of and were sold as
manuscripts. Blanks were left at the
commencement of the regular divisions
OF the work for the illuminator to NIL
in with letters and ornaments. as was
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-09
The Making Of Modern Books Now One of the Fine Arts
lln RINTING," said I, seems to
have leaped into being full

elfN RINTING," said l. Seems to
have leaped into being full
grown and fully armed"
! made this none too original re-
mark to ingalls, Kimball. as he stood
before the Mazarin Bible loaned by
Pierpont Morgan to the Columbia Uni
versity library. Mr.. Kimball. in his
quality as a book connoisseur. had
pointed out that this, the earlies;
known work printed from movable
types, was likewise one OF the most
perfect.
'rhe clear, clean type of the Mazarin
Billie may be initiated but not sur
passed at the present day. The almost
equally famous Psalter of 1457"-this
was grouped in the same case-'seems
TO have been made to demonstrate the
full capacity of the newly discovered
art In the Mazarin Bible, as in old
manuscripts. the initials arc painted by
hand In the Psalter they are for the
first time printed, in red and blue. and
for centuries the Psalter continued to
We called the perfection OF color print
Ing
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-09

usual in manuscripts. So perfect is the
imitation that even In our day only a
chemical test can determine which is
manuscript and which is printed mat
ter. OF course, in any event the printed
text was bound to follow the fashion
in writing, or no one would have been
able to read it, Now, at the time of
the Introduction of printing two styles
of writing were in use for manuscript.
Roman and black letter. In the end,
both in printing and in writing, black
letter everywhere save in Germany,
gave way TO the Roman character.
Originally books were printed az
manuscripts had been written, entirely
in capitals. Small, or 'minuscule.' let
ters are of later formation, and, indeed.
only attained their definite and modern
form after the invention OF printing"
what material were the first books
printed on?"
EITHER or vellum or on linen paper
vellum. sheepskin was used among the
Romans. In the early middle ages both
vellum and papyrus were used by the
scribes. who prepared the manuscript
books. But by the end OF the seventh
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-09
one Kind of Ambition

Secretary Hay, before he went
abroad for his health" said congress
man. talked little sadly about am
bition.
''He was Ill, and ambition seemed
to be, after all, not very wise thing.
He told me. with smile. of
little English farm boy whom he hal
once heard say:
q 4 wish / was king
interested and amused by such
remark. MIR. Hay said to the little farm
boy;
land what would you do If you were
king?
The lad answered soberiy:
"Td eat my fill OF fat bacon ana
swing ON a gate all day long "-Minne-
apolis Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-09

about 15x15 inches. If the binder fold
ed 1t once in the middle the product
was folio If twice, a quarto; II three
times. an octave; If four times six
teen-mo, etc At present the terms
have no very definite meaning"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
The Goal of Rich americans.

Charlemagne Tower, the American
Ambassador to Germany, was speak
ing of the Americans love for Paris
at dinner he gave in Philadelphia.
"Our love for Paris is no doubt
great he said, "but I am sure it is
not so great as our European cousins
would have US believe We all, of
course, have heard the European say
ing, when a good American dies, he
goes to Paris In Berlin, from a
bearded French diplomat, 1 heard last
year a novel variant of this. The
diplomat said he was sure I would
sympathize with the profound and
ingenious emotion of young Ameri-
can girl, who lived, he said, in bleak
western city. There We're in those
days no Institutes for the treatment
of rabies, save in Paris. The young
girls life was very menotonous. One
day she burst into a neighbours house,
almost beside herself with joyous ex-
element.
''Her dark eyes flashed. Her cheeks
had delicate rose flush. Painting a
little she cried in a tremu1ous voice.:
"'Thank goodness, we are going to
Paris at last Dad has been bitten by
mad dogp"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
Modern Dogs OF Var.

The German Army, fighting in Her
zero land, under Gen. Won Trotha, en-
ploys a corps of 200 dogs One of these
dogs was recently struck and wounded
by bullet in the engagement of Opa-
jbo, while scouting In front of the
skirmishing line. He displayed the
greatest fearlessness under fire and
worked faultlessly until disabled
The japanese are using a number OF
dogs for accommodating purposes. They
are attached to long ropes and well
trained The Russians are employing
dogs for sentry and messenger work.
Capt Persidsky of the late Count
Keller's staff. writing from Odessa,
says: "In finding the wounded men
with which the millet fields are strewn
nothing has succeeded like our seven
dogs; their intelligence, especially the
English bred ones, is extraordinary"
have been asked several times to sup
ply dogs to the Russian army, and only
quite recently was commissioned to
purchase sheep dogs in the highlands
for the German ambulance dog-train-
ing establishment. Perhaps instead of
breeding and exporting dogs for for
e1gn armies, we may some day ind oux
dogs Of service to their own country.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

he sneered, pocketing the order and
tearing the letter with one angry jerk.
Then he paused, put the torn edge of
her communication together, and re-
read it. "Oh, how my lonely heart
goes out responsive" That line started
him, and he laughed till the bookkeeper
stared and the Stenographer Joined in
the merriment.
I'll get back at her." thought Dan
Kent, as he opened his desk. And he
spent two hours that evening trying to
Guido the f1orid periods of his Olds-
burg protege. But he didn't send back
the fifty. On Saturday he got an an
swer that fairly scintillated with
flashes of Cupid's arrows. He had sup
posed that his letter rose to every
seemed commonplace and tawdry be-
side the glittering fabric of her latest
epistolary composition.
He had to get "The Children of the
Abbey" from the public library before
he could answer that letter. and in or
erous effusion, he wound up his ecstatic
billet with superbly servile petition
for her picture. He said counterfeit
presentment'' first, but for fear she'd
regard that as mercenary allusiOn, he
scratched the words away and substi-
that arrived in the next letter was
worthy of the foolish girls correspond
ence. A simpering, weak smile, evil
IDENTIFY calculated to display two pretty
dimples and a row of the white teeth I;
mass of fluffy blond hair, falling al
most to the eyebrows; white lawn
dress of the style that had been con-
sidered smart few years ago; BAN
| gle rings on the dainty fingers!
"She looks the part" laughed Dan,
"and if I don't send her my picture
now this sport will come to a sudden
end"
The letter suggested an exchange,
and Dan, in the exuberance of what
seemed such a capital joke. determined
to send her the picture of his barber, q
dashing young gallant with melancholy
black eyes and tightly waxed Viii
helm mustache.
| 1t was Kent's irrepressible love OF
| fun that led him into this thoughtless
and, for him, unkind correspondence
But the letters had passed so rapidly
and with such increasing and almost
outlandish expressions of romantic
emotion that he had not taken time to
look at any but the funny side Of the
affair. He had shown the letters to no
body, destroying them as soon as they
!; were read. When he had mailed the
BARRIERS photograph to Kate with hi:
j autograph on its back he resolved t.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
New Blood in Naval Ensiaeerins

From the Baltimore Sun
1t may be questioned. in view of the
Bennington explosion, whether the
Navy Departments policy of restrict
ing engineering appointments in the
navy to graduates at Annapolis is best
for the service. The graduates Of the
Naval Academy are bright fellows, no
doubt, but only a few of them have
talent for mathematics, physics, me-
chanics and other like sciences that
underlie the engineers equipment. 1t
is well known that there is difficulty in
getting from their number enough men
to take postgraduate courses at the
Boston Technological School, and thus
prepare themselves for the engine room
and machine shop of the modern bat
tleShip or cruiser. The result is that
the service is short of capable trained
men who know how to handle boilers,
engines, repair shops, electrical install
lation, etc. The Bennington Is not the
first of our warships to be injured by
reason of insufficient attention I'm the
engineering department. The remedy,
it seems, is to inject some new blood
from civil life into the engineering de-
partments of our ships. It is all very
well to reserve good berths for the An
napolis graduates, but the practice Is
carried too far when 1T results in starv-
ing the engine rooms. There are many
graduates yearly from our chronological
schools who are as capable as any that
can be found The engineering depart
ment of the navy ought to be recruited
in part from the outside talent, which
has been educated in the art OF ship
construction, management and repair
1t is possible to carry too far the policy
of keeping all appointments In the navy
for naval officers, especially when nc
exception is made of classes of ap
pointmentS for which Annapolis grad
yates have no especial qualifications
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

the members were allowed to enter the
club, which was a palace of white mar
Bile. All the servants were females
Lady guests, however, were welcome.
The annual subscription to the club
was $1,000, but there We're enormous
extra expenses. All dishes were served
on gold and silver plates. The drapery
was of the coStlieSt material. and was
embroidered with Jewels after designs
by Cyril, who, it will be remembered,
in company with his boon companions,
INDUCED in orgies similar to those at
the club even at the front in Manchufta
until the Gar recalled him.
King Edward is an enthusiastic
golfer, and has little course of his
own at Windsor.
The Princess of Wfed, who is a prom
inent figure in the court circles at Ber-
lin. and whose husband is in the line
of succession to the throne of Holland.
buys all the ill-used horses that come
to her notice and gives them the benefit
of a stay in her weH-appointed stables
and meadows
While the Emperor of Germany does
not fail to transact a large amount of
public business during his various voy-
ages for rest and recreation, when
on his yacht at sea he is a very diff
ferent man from the ruler OF a great
nation living in state at Berlin.
President Loubet of France has taken
the barefoot cure; that is, himself, wife
and daughter have gone barefoot, ex-
cept for light sandals, on all but cere-
monious occasions during this hot sum-
.mer. The sandals worn by the Presi-
dent and his family come from Africa,
being the approved Arabian kind. The
President advises sandal wearing in
summer for these reasons: 1.-THE
naked foot not only benefits that mem
Der, keeping it cool and allowing it to
breathe, but benefits the whole physi-
cal system and the mental as well.
Liberate the foot of the customary en-
closures, socks and shoes, and your
nerves will grow stronger; if you are
excited or worried. it viii wear off
easier"
Van Calava