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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

First Doctor-"Was the operation
successful?' Second Doctor-'Oh, very.
1t will probably necessitate several
more. philadelphia Record.
Belief do wish men wouldn't go
out between the acts so often" Nellie
Il wish they wouldn't come in be-
tween drinks so often. cleveland
Leader.
do you ever quote Khayyam %
asked the literary girl. NO." answered
the busy broker, I'VE never handle
any stock that isn't listed. Washing
ton Star.
st. Peter-"What makes you so
busy?" Recording Angel-"Taking the
names of New Workers who are still
insisting that they have no taxable
property. "-Harper's Bazaar.
At the musical-"What marvel
lous strain that isl" said the musical
genius
yes said the unappreciative, 81
too feel it. "-Harvard Lampoon.
Teacher lin manual training SCHOOL,
what may be regarded as the fore
runner of the modern automobile?'
Shaggy Haired Pupil-"Anybody that
gifts in its way."-Chicago Tribune.
Hyker-"Yon don't seem to be
worrying any about your failure in
business" Pyker-"Oh, no; that's
one of the things | have turned over
to my creditors. Chicago Daily
News.
Spendall-''If I'd known you were so
extravagant l would never have mar
ried you"
Mrs. Spendall-"If l hadn't been,
papa would never have let you.'-
Puck.
Canyasser-"Is your father at
homer" Child-"No; daddy and
mummy are both out; but Auntie's i'm
Canvasser-"Has you Auntie got a
voter" Child-'No; she's got bron-
chitis Punch.
zone who is sincerely devoted to
music must not love money" remark
ed tn eartist. 81 infer that" answer
ed Miss Cayenne, from the scale of
prices for every big performance" -
Washington Star.
Pretty Girl (sentimentally)-
There's always something said about
parting, isn't there?" Bill Collector
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES depends on
whether or not you've succeeded in
getting the money"-Detroit Free
Press.
$50, my dear madam, you will not
consider for a moment Mr.. Foreman s
wish to see you to ask your daughter
hand?" Il will not" answered Mrs
Malaprop, firmly. And you may tell
him this is my automaton. Baltimore
American.
"a Missouri man stood on his head
twenty minutes in order to win a
wager. He died the next day" What
killed him? Congestion of the brain?"
mo. If he had had any brains he
wouldn't have done Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Let Aud Acquaintance Be Forgot
Solicitor (making a concession to his
client in the matter of charges-"Weel,
Sandy, seeing l kent your father, I'll
make OF sax guineas." Sandy-"Guid
sake, mon! I'm glad We didn't ken
grandfaetheri"-Pun
did you ever know remarked the
medical authority, that any one who
will constantly practice singing can
stave off consumption" Even So" re-
piled the hardheaded man, "some peo-
pie might stand chance of living
longer by letting consumption take its
course. "-Philadelphia Press.
Uncle Eben telling the Sugarville
news to his urban nephew)-''An' Bill
Hanks hez hung out his single ez a
lawyer" THAT fellow? Why, he can't
even read" "Oh, Bill knows what he's
a-doin.' He's goin't' make speshulty
of this onwritten kind, thet's maxim
sech hit hyur lately. Puck.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

Recently famous railroad mana
ger appeared on the witness stand
and admitted that he sold the bonds
of his railroad company to himself
at sixty-fiye cents, and then, as man
ager of an insurance concern, bought
them of himself for the company at
ninety-six cents. Either he robbed
the railroad company by selling its
bonds too low, or he robbed the in
surance company by making it pay
him too much for the bonds, ex-
claims The Commoner. But as he is
a power in the financial world, and
as this is what is called high
finance" he will not be dismissed in
disgrace, On the contrary he will be
more powerful than ever because the
bond transaction Melted him neat
pile Of money whereby to manipulate
sther and larger deals
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

: According to a dispatch from Read
ing, Pa, to the Philadelphia Record,
the Ladies Auxiliary of Modern
,Woodmen," in session at the Berks
County metropolis, consumed mile
of sausage" This performance de-
serves consideration as an endurance
test at the hands of Professor Fisher
and his vegetarian record makers,
declares the New York Tribune.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07
Misunderstood.

DR.. Parkhurst told the other day a
story about a famous bishop.
"The bishop" he said, likes a good
cigar, and was travelling to Albany in
the smoking-car.
"A laboring man took the seat beside
him, eyed his clerical garb, got a
light from him, and said, as he settled
back for a comfortable smoke:
g .Parson, sir?'
.sThe bishop hesitated. Then he an
swered blandly:
L was once.
"'Ah, said the laboring man, drink,
| suppose?' Washington Star.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

The exposure of abuses must GER
tainly tend to reduce for time the
volume of business, but, for the in
evitable damage, they are response
BILE, the Christian Register charges,
who provide the evils which have to
be exposed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

Industrially New York is too big
to remain a centralized city, pleads
the New York World. 1t is easier to
carry the industry to the workers
once for all than to carry the work
ers to the industry every day for
years. Decentralization should mean
for them better health, more air, bet
ter dwellings and less dependence
upon overburdened street car COM
panies.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07
ovERFEED1NG THE PLANTS.

The remarkable results obtained
by excessive feeding in case of tuber-
culosis is now generally appreciated,
but a Wisconsin horticulturist now
comes forward with the astonishing
statement that excessive feeding
when applied to plants produces mod
ifications of type which is often as
marked as those observed in different
varieties of the same plant.
For instance, in growing tomatoes
in dollhouse bed fortified with nj
trate of soda at the rate of 500
pounds, sulphate of potash 600
pounds and dessicated bone 1000
pounds per acre, he produced varia-
lions of flower, foliage and fruit
which was very marked and cuttings
from different plants when rooted
and transplanted to the open field
produced such variations. This ex-
perimenter, according to the Wiscon-
sin State Experiment Station record,
believes that excessive feeding may
be resorted to as method of secur.
ing new varieties of plants.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07
QUICKLY GROWN RHUBARB.

QUICKLY GROWN RHUBARB.
When the warmth of spring ap-
proaches the system Graves some
fresh acid, and nothing is more CRATE
full than rhubarb. A most satisfac-
tory practice is to cover a couple Of
thrifty stools of rhubarb with an old
half barrel inverted and pile around
it green manure. This will force it
into quick growth.-American Guilt
vator.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

I Only twenty-four out of the 119
counties in Kentucky remain "wet. :"
Nevertheless the ancient joke concern
ing the insult to the colonel from the
Blue Grass State because he was
asked to drink water will live for
ever, is the derisive comment of the
Baltimore American. "a
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07
AN EASILY MADE TELEPHONE.

The materials you will require are
two pine boards ten by thirteen
inches, and half an inch thick, two
fresh beef bladders, one box of four
ounce tacks, two large gutta-percha
overcoat buttons, some strips of thin
leather one-quarter of an inch wide,
and lastly, some flexible wire. The
best wire for the purpose is that used
in book-binding machines, but, if it
cannot be obtained, any soft, flexible
wire will do.
Prepare the bladders first by blow
Ing them up tightly, and leaving them
SO for a day or two until they are
thoroughly stretched, but do not let
them become dry and hard. While
the bladders are stretching you can
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07
In and Out of Prison.

A good many people have been put
into prison by bench, but three
coiners have broken out of Haze
brouck Prison by means of bench
one Of the more wooden kind. They
took this useful piece of furniture out
of the refectory and employed it as
a ladder whereby to get on the wall,
as a bridge to pass over roofs, and as
shoot" when they got to the out
side wall. Their method was inform
al but effective. for Hazebrouck Is
conveniently near the frontier, and
they are now safe in Belgium. Pail
Mall Gazette.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

From Bristols Woods, in Southern
Prospect, after midnight on Friday, a
wildcat pursued a big deer until from
exhaustion it fell through the roof of
the side hill hen shack of Edison
Black
Guinea fowls set up great commo-
ton, and with the deer's desperate
struggles for liberty, cooped up in a
shack Is by IL, with nearly eighty
fowls, there was such a racket that
a trusty watch dog awoke Black.
He went to the hen house, to find
thirty-tw0 fowls trampled to death,
every pane of glass and all the roosts
broken, and the deer dying of a
broken neck. It's TANKS were lacerat
ed from the claws of the wildcat,
tracks of which were in the COOP
where it remained until frightened
away by the approach of Black.
waterbury Dispatch to the New York
Herald
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07
PRoPAGATING RUBBER ]

PROPAGATING RUBBER PLANT.
Many farm homes contain India
rubber plants and many an owner
would like to know how to propagate
them. With a sharp knife cut off
a pair of the leaves, say the fifth pair
from the top. Run the knife upward
from just below the leaf joint about
an inch or more, so that perceptible
cash shows. Put moss in the opening
and tie bunch of it completely about
the stem and keep it wet continually.
In about two months roots will be on
the moss, when the branch may be
cut off and potted.-Florida AgTicul-
turist.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07
Fright Brought slecp Of Death.

Fright has been known to cause
prolonged sleeping. A case in point
Is that q woman of forty-five,
seamstress, who after having under
zone . narrow escape from death in
gale, fell into a sleep which lasted till
death.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

Finley Peter Dunno, author of mt.
Dooley." is an occasional visitor at o
certain academy not far from New
York On recent visit there he was
accompanied by well known banker,
who, being impressed by the beauti.
full surrounding country. suggested
that they should take walk the next
morning at o'clock.
THANK you." replied Mr. Dunno,
but never walk in my SLEEP. Lip
pincotts
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

Heres a dime, said Muskogee
man to young Salvation Army wom-
IN who wanted to sell him War
Cry. Give the paper to some one
that needs it worse than dol"
Thank YOU" answered the woman
sweetly, I'll take it over to the
zesl. kansas City Journal.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

Tipping has been characterized as
one of our national vices. Possibly
it is, says the Savannah News. But
we have become used to viciousness
of that character and to being held
up by those who serve us. ,zs
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

It is not possible for our imagina-
ton to exaggerate the sufferings en-
dured by millions in Russia and
China under stress of famine and
disease
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

/ The final census report on cotton
shows that for the year 13,290,677
bales have been ginned. That means
that the factories of Europe will be
busy, for America exports its cotton
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

There is no disputing the frank
declaration of some railways that
they can make the service bad
enough to correspond to any reduc-
ton of fares, admits the Washington
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07
fHE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF HI VI.

I.
King of an isle in a tropical sea,
Hi vi was a monarch of small renown;
But there with his dusky spouses three,
Oh and All and the gay Tehee,
lie lived content in his capital town
Ohmy was capital town.
Hi Yi-how happy a king was he,
There in his capital town-Ohmy;
For life is easy and ways are free
On five-acre isle in tropical sea
Their rent was low and their spirits high,
Till the bolt fell out of cloudless sky.
How the trouble began?-A marooned
shipman,
Ben Salt, appeared at Ohmy one day,
Voyaging in on catamaran
That sailed on highly original plan
Rugged with 'brella most wildly yellcr,
And christened the Myra May.
The king to the ladies (aside) said:
"Please
Quit combing your ebony locks awhile"
And then in mellifuent Dotellese,
He welcomed the stranger, saying:
"These
Are the queens of my lovely tropical isle, y
See and All and Tehee smile!
V.
Now the Myra May is royal navee,
And proud commander is Admiral Ben
But the peaceful days and the easy ways
OF the island ended there and then
For the ladies three could not agree
Whose that yellow umbrella should be;
And the king declared, by royal decree,
He'd keep it himself and take to the sea.
VI.
He boarded the catamaran at the beach
And hoisted the weller umbreller;
And the ladies emitted triune screech
While the tears coursed over the cheeks
of each
AS the King Hi Vi with mournful cry
Babe them forever and ever goodbye
And Ben Salt became king of Ohmy.
Edward M. Teall, in St. Nicholas.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

It is said that in Austria forty
four out OF every 100 doctors die Of
heart disease.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

WHERE NOW IS NO MANS LAND?
The question is prompted by the
description which has just been APP
piled to the cannibal New Hebrides,
where folk can hardly call their bod
les their own, much less their souls.
Officially the name belongs to small
island in the Atlantic five miles from
the Massachusetts coast, but as it
comes under the jurisdiction of Mas
sachusetts it is indeed somebody's
property. Until seventeen years ago
there was real no mans land-a
small tract of land wedged in between
Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Kan
sas and Indian Territory. 1t was the
Alsatia of refugees, desperadoes, &C
tive resisters, anti-taXpayers, and peo-
pie of that sort until 1890, when Col
orado was appointed constable by
Uncle Sam.-New York Globe.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

From the hawksbill turtle of Il /
Caribbean Sea comes she .frti'ss
'asil Of ef pnsD~
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

Spain is the greatest producing
country and Germany second.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

obtain the other materials. To begin,
brought it to the required dimen-
sions, draw a circle in it's centre
eight inches in diameter, which you
must saw out, taking care to keep on
the line, for if the opening is not
round or even, the instrument will
not work satisfactorily.
Next take one of the bladders, and
after cutting the neck off cut away
about one-third of it from end to
end; then soak it in water, warm,
but not too hot, until it becomes
white and soft; after which stretch
it loosely but evenly over the open
ing, letting the inside of the bladder
be on top, and tack temporarily all
around one inch from the edge of the
opening.
Now test it by pushing the centre
with your finger; if it stretches
will do; but if it does not, you must
change it's position until it does So
Next take a strip of leather and tack
completely around the edge of the
opening, putting the tacks closely
together, and taking care to keep the
so. When you have it tackled prop
erly, take your knife and cut away
that part of the bladder on the out
side strip Gig. ID.
This done, break off three feet of
the wire, and after attaching it to
one of the buttons Gig. 81, pass the
free end through the centre of the
bladder until the button rests on its
surface ca Fig. u, then fasten a
weight of eight pounds to the end of
the wire and set in the sun for two
hours or more until thoroughly dry
Gig. %.
Proceed with the other materials
In like manner, and when you have
both drums well dried, place one on
each end of the line, and connect the
button wires with the main wire by
loops, and stretch it as tightly as pos
sible, and with few sharp angles.
Whenever a support is needed use a
loop.
To call up, strike the button with
a lead pencil, and the one called up
will respond in a like manner. This
is not toy, but is a practical tele-
phone that is serviceable from three
feet to three miles.
THE GREAT WATER BEETLE.
The Rev. Theodore Wood, writing
IN the London Tribune, about the
great water beetle, says:
A good many beetles live in the
water, and should like to tell you
something about one which is very
common in almost every weedy pond.
It is called the Great Water Beetle,
and If you should catch it you may
know it at once, for it has broad
yellow band ali round the middle part
of it's body and another down the
outer edge of each wing case, while
in general color it is brown above and
dull yellow beneath. 1t is about an
inch and a quarter in length.
This beetle is interesting for sew
eral reasons. In the first place, 1t IS
a very good swimmer. Its body is
really a kind of boat, and it rows it
self through the water by means OF
It's hind legs, which are made just
like cars. They are very long, very
broad, very fat, and good deal
curved, while al along their inner
edges runs row of stiff bristles,
elaced SO closely side by side that
water cannot pass between them. #
you watch great water beetle swim
ming you will notice that he uses
these legs just as a rover uses his
oars and they are fastened to his
body in such a way that, as he brings
them forward after max ng stroke,
shey tllrA siatuigss SO that ! .slg
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

Rubber has been made artificially,
but the cost of the manufactured arti-
Gle is so much greater than that of the
natural rubber that the process is of
no commercial value.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

John S. Porteous, of Paducah, KY,
"a years old, is seven feet tall and is
still growing.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

What is regarded as the worlds
shearing record has been established
by nine men on Hawkes. Bay station,
Australia. They succeeded in shearing
1884 sheep in nine hours.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

sharp edges may cut their way
through the water and offer as little
resistance to it as possible. A water
beetle Feathers" his legs, in fact.
just as human rover feathers" his
oars.
OF course, these legs are not OF
very much use for walking: but, as
the beetle never comes on dry land,
that does not matter. If you want to
play little trick upon the beetle,
however, the way to do it is to lay
him on his back in the middle of
saucer. He tries very hard to turn
over, but his swimming legs cannot
take any hold of the slippery plate,
and the only result of his struggles is
to set him spinning round and round,
faster and faster and faster, till at
last you cannot see the beetle at all.
The only thing that you can see is
brown blur in the middle of the
saucer, and I should think that the
poor beetle must get dreadfully
giddy.
Then, in the second place, this
beetle can dive very we'll. | 6ol t
merely mean that it can swim under
water. 1 mean that it can stop under
water for very long time. although
it breathes air just as you and l do.
Indeed, it can easily remain under
water for an hour, or even for an
hour and half The fact is that it
is able to carry down good deal of
air with it. If you look at the beetle
sidewise you will notice that its wing
cases are a good deal arched, and if
you were to lift them up you would
find that it's body underneath them
was good deal followed. The con-
sequence is, of course, that a good
deal of space is left between the two.
Now, this space serves as sort of
air cistern, and just before it dive
the beetle fills it with fresh air. So
when it is under water it can breathe
quite easily until this supply of air is
all used up.
Then, in the third place, this beetle
can fly very we'll Underneath it's
wing cases it has pair of broad and
powerful wings, and almost every
night it leaves the pond and goes for
a good long fight in the air. And
when it wants to return to the water
it does so in a very odd way. Instead
of flying down to the edge and then
crawling in, it hovers at a height
above the surface and suddenly folds
it's wings, so that it drops into the
water with splash.
Only sometimes it makes rather
odd mistake. Flying over a green
house on a moonlight night, it sees
the moonbeams glittering on the glass
roof, and mistakes it for water. So it
folds its wings and drops, often with
such force that for some little time
it is completely stunned by the fall.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

In Mexico the national anthem is
held in such high esteem that permits
sion must be secured from the author
tiles to play it at places not included
in the list provided by law.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

Andrew Carnegie, sober Scot that he
is, writing about Canada in the North
American Review some years ago, said
impressively, Nov that the young
colony has grown to the estate of man.
hood, it begins to prove an undutiful
daughter to the mother country"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

Native signalers of Nigerian regi-
ment in Africa are able to transmit
message by flag, lamp or heliograph in
English, with great accuracy, though
they know nothing of the language.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

The average weight of full-grown
elephant is 5000 pounds.
The average annual death rate of
all the standing armies of the world
is 8 in 1000
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

Cock cartridges are caught on
French shootings by means of a trap
that closes on the entrance of a bird
the lure being mirror in which it sees
it's own reflection, which it is anxious
to attack.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

Soap has been in use for 5000 years
Some time ago soap boilers shop
was discovered in Pompeii, having been
buried beneath the rain of ashes that
fell upon the city in the year 70, A. D.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-06-07

Evelyn Chandler, of Norway, Me-,
who is years old, is said to have a
peculiar power over reptiles. She is
a natural snake charmer and handles
the most venomous serpents with i'm.
punity.