Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-06-21

aristocratic maiden lady have their
finger and toe nails carefully mani
cured every morning, and their teeth
brushed, each canine having his own
outfit.
If that is not preparing ito lead
apes in helP' it is certainly neither
preparation nor practice for anything
quite human or at all useful in this
life.
Oh, no, I don't belong to the So
Animals. 1t is not because / have no
care for doggie or pussy. have al
most an affection for dogs and horses,
and, unlike the "crank" referred to
by Shylock, have no antipathy to the
harmless cat"
Tribute to Charles Croker.
Miss Jennie Croker is a Cali
fornian. She is a granddaughter of
Charles Croker, one of the original
'big four" to whom all Californians
owe the first trans-continental rail-
road built in the state, which added so
much to the comfort of US all, and to
the prosperity of the state. Many of
us knew Mr.. Croker in his lifetime,
and those who knew him best liked
him most. He had enemies a-plenty,
but most of them were persons who
never met him, and whose objections
were purely academic. The railroad
in whose directorate his name appear
ed did some things that were not en-
tirely right. Do any of you know
any great enterprise of the present
time or of any past time that was en-
tirely without SIM" 1t became pop
ular to rail against the railroad,
and the railing was done very largely
because of the roads political activity.
Also the railing was done in a large
part by politicians who schemed night
and day to keep the railroad in poll
tics in order to make it pay to get
legislation passed which would be
beneficial to the people as whole, or
to stop the passage of such legislation
as would be detrimental to the rail-
road and to the public alike.
The late Charles Croker was an
abrupt man, as was natural to one
of his birth, bringing up and lifetime
habits. But he was a man of very
hard common sense, and never put
on bit of style" nor made any pre-
tensions because he had happened to
become very rich man. AS million
aire railroader he was as democratic
as when he was country miller back
in Indiana. Nor was he curmudgeon,
either, but often gave generously Of
his means to persons in need or for
proper purposes.
More In Crocker's Line.
From my own knowledge of him /
have a fixed opinion that he would
much rather have endowed a bed in
a hospital or asylum where sick and
necessitous children might be cared
for, than to build a palatial kennel
for dogs. It would be much more like
his good common sense to send box
of tooth brushes to such an asylum or
hospital than to buy one for the most
highly-bred pup that ever uttered
'bOw-W0W.
I have known great many maiden
ladies in my lifetime, some of them
sweet sixteen, and some of them just
as sweet at sixty. They were In all
respects most estimable persons, full
of kindly sympathy and cheerful as
the birds that sing In the summer
day, without particle of bitterness
bred from disappointment in the
matrimonial or any other line. Yet
always felt sorry for them. and the
more sympathetic, bright and con-
tented they were, the more my pity
grew. No. 1t is true, my lamentations
were not always for the spinsters
themselves. but divided itself into
their account and that Of some man
who had missed the inestimable bless
ing Of lifelong companionship and
partnership with them. Nay, my stock