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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09
IGNORANCE HEcErs CRIME.
Reflections Of an Editor In q States
Prison Newspaper.

Prison Newspaper.
| A great many men commit crime
because Of their sheer ignorance. or
course. q knowledge of this fact
doesn't bring satisfaction to house
holder who has been robbed, or a
citizen who has, been stood up on the
highway and relieved of his posses
sions. But, nevertheless, fact remains
true that ignorance breeds crime.
There il many a little kid today play
ing on the city dumps and in the al
| leyways of the slums, who, fifteen or
twenty years hence. will be the COM
mon drunk, the hobo" the second
story man, the highwayman and the
burglar-and the reason therefor is
not hard to find. Instead of being in
school learning that which is to fit
him for the battle of life, he Is behind
lumber pile shooting craps with
loaded dice, for the battle of life with
him has already begun.
instead of the soft suasion of
moral home, In which he is protected
by loving and capable parents from
the evils which surround him-he is
even now, tonight, in hundred cities,
on the way to the gin mill to have
Murphy fill up the can for the loud
smelling ignoramus he calls father.
Instead of sweetfaced little
mother. whose good night kiss. whose
softly intonated prayers whose songs
of childhood lulled him 20 sleep, and
whose voice keeps calling to him down
the empty years IL he goes wrong,
Come back! Come backl" whose
kindly eyes smile upon him through
tears; though they may have been
closed in the last long sleep for years
and years, instead of these things our
child in the street, our future crook,
has in many instances a well-inten-
toned but work-exhausted mother,
who through the day pants over
washtub and at night mends the
household rags.
She hasn't the time nor the energy
to inculcate much morality in him,
and what little she does the environ
ment in which he finds himself quick
ly teaches it out again. In other in
stances she hasn't any to spare. This
is the kid over whom fifteen or twenty
years hence, when grown TO mans
estate, future district attorneys will
sob and cry, upon whom future judges
will frown, future sheriffs bring to
prison, and about whose doings future
wise men will debate seeking the
cause therefore.
It is not overestimating it to say
that 80 per centum of the men in
prison today wouldn't be there If they
had had any kind of a show at all
during their early years-but as we
mentioned above, it affords no salts
faction to q man who has just been
raped over the head with a piece
of lead pipe, to reflect that the person
who raped him wouldn't have done
so if he had had college education
neither for that matter does it af-
ford any real satisfaction to the man
who has had his safe pried open, to
learn that the gentleman who did it
received his knowledge at a leading
university nor does it lessen the
touching grief of a man who has just
cashed a bad check to know that the
careful penman is entitled, by virtue
of beautifully engrossed parchment,
to wear several letters after his name.
Still in a great majority of cases:
Ignorance begets crime. Auburn
Editor 25,S1S, Sing Sing Star of Hope.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09
Llolrt as a Heallnu Accent.

In view Of the growing Importance
of the application of light as a heal.
ing principle in medical science the
medical congress which recently COP.
yened ct Wiesbaden invited Prof. Bic
of Copenhagen to read a paper on the
subject. The lecturer explained the
principle of employing light for heal
ing purposes after excluding it's chem
ical effects. The results obtained by
this method in cases of smallpox, &C
cording to the lecturer, are such that
the question is raised whether the
light treatment shall not be made
compulsory. Prof. Bic approves the
apparatus invented by DR.. Finsen OF
Copenhagen, with which the latter has
achieved such remarkable success in
cases of lupus, but urges that no one
but qualified doctors should be allowed
to apply the light treatment, as dis.
turbances are apt to occur which rem
der it necessary to break it of sud
denly
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

waiting for more than nod he darted
off toward the theatre where he knew
Dorothy and Stephen were attending
the matinee. He DIDN'T End them,
missed then In the crowd later, and
when he went rushing TO her house at
dinner time found her mother in tears
and the house bedlam. The report
ers had been therel The story Of the
license was "out." Harry rushed back
pell-mell to the newspaper offices to
have ii Stopped but when he got out
Of the carriage and bought the late
editions of the evening papers, tne
story was there, looming black, sensa-
tional and prominent ''All about the
sensation in high society" Harry
read It over and-grinned THAT
won't do thing but put a crimp In
Stevel" he muttered.
He pleaded with the city editors and
insisted that the whole business was
joke. They promised to do their
best for him and interviewed him and
sent reporters to interview Stephen.
1t was an awful mess Harry out of
breath and anxious to pacify the Cars,
fastened back to Dorothy's home to
find confusion worse COMPOUNDED.
Stephen had been there in towering
rage. He had scolded Dorothy. read a
lecture to old Mrs. Carr. cursed Harry,
and left in a sullent huff" Dorothy's
mother glowcred at poor Harry and
then burst into tears.
THAT for your jokes. you mischief
makeri" she screamed at him when he
tried to explain, and then, for the first
time in his life Harry Hatch was
abashed, disconnected, ashamed.
But Dorothy, too, was in a passion.
Not at Harry but at Stephen. She
even forget her proverbial filial re-
spect, and when her mother resumed
her TRADE at the scape-grace, said with
snrlII vehemence:
Stop. How dare you scold him
What is it after all but a tempest in a
teapot? A few paragraphs of a silly
sensatfonalism in the newspapers. 1t
might have been source of fun for
anybody but an owl-faced blockhead
like Stephen Hatch. | wouldn't marry
him now If he had all the money In
the world. I'm of age and the whole
thing was my doing, and I'm glad OF
it. So, therei"
And she and Harry walked away in
to the garden silently, but very con-
fidently. Mrs. Carr didn't speak to
Dorothy till the very day of her mar
riage to Harry, but old man Carr.
Dad" as Dorothy called him, who
liked the scape-grace and finally con-
WINGED mamma that he'd rather have
Dot married to a good Indian like Har-
ry than to coupon-clipping, joss-like
Stephen, fixed up matters so adroitly
that the wedding turned out to be the
SWEETEST, happiest. most promising af-
fair that even the practical joker him
self had ever assisted at
You're all right, Harry" said papa.
when the bride and groom were going
away, you're all right, but-well, that
was a great joke-on Steve" -Chica-
go Record-Herald.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09
APOSTLES OF EATING LESS.
Food Faddists Have Had Great Year
For Their Theories.

1t has been a fine year for the in
creasing thousands who have fads
about their food. The high prices of
given the opportunity. The advocates
of no breakfast, of meat once day,
of no meat at all, of certain kinds of
vegetables, of no kinds of vegetables,
of nuts only, of the absolute avoid
ance of nuts, of raw fruit, of fruit
nor tea nor sassafras, and of all the
other things, or of any part of things,
or of no things at all, have come forth
not singly, but in battalions, and have
told us how to live to be hundred
If we don't die.
1t would be gross ingratitude not to
be thankful to these advisers. They
are sincere. They want to do good.
They give their time for the benefit
of others. They are sad to think of
ignorant thousands going to early
graves on full stomachs. They raise
their warning voices against safety.
People should stop eating before they
get enough. The old saying about
losing what is left on the plates finds
no echo in their doctrines. Eating
for the sake of eating is sin. Eating
all the things that are offered is
wickedness. So they find something
bad in every number of the bill of
fare-from typhoid fever in raw
oysters to dyspepsia and vain regrets
In pie.
They have a right to their convic.
tiors. A man down in Virginia went
without food for thirty days this year.
But like as not they doubled the price
of his board for the next month. Peo-
pie use the starvation plan for many
ailments. Many of them go to health
resorts and pay $50 to the hotel doctor.
who strikes off the bill of fare all the
good things they would like to eat
The hotels get their savings, the doc
tor gets his big fees and they ret
hungry. But most of the faddists
have their imaginations in their cul-
mary departments, and it is not rea-
scnable of them to expect the robust
members of society to follow their ex-
amples. 1t may be wrong, but the
average American wants breakfast. 1t
may hurt him. but he will have meat.
He ray be jeopardizing his very soul,
but he likes to play with the menu all
the way from soup to satisfaction
And somehow it agrees with him. ook
at the other nations. We don't know
of any that beat him when the food or
the fuel within him works its way to
results in the progress and civilization
OF mankind.-Saturday Evening Post.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09
BIRDS OF A FEATHER.
How Producers of the Same Class
Flock Together.

Every one familiar with trade in
the metropolis knows how certain
kinds of business are concentrated in
newspapers are published in or near
Printing House Square. An immense
number of jewels are sold in Maiden
Lane, while Wall street, and its i'm
mediate vicinity is the centre of spec
ulative operations. In like manner
one can find special localities given
up almost exclusively to drygoods, to
hides and leather, to clocks, lamps or
furs. So, too, taking the country as
as whole, some lines of manufacture
are localized TO remarkable degree
More than SIS per cent of the collar
and cuff trade is carried on in Troy,
according to a census bulletin just is
sued in Washington. This is the
most extreme illustration of the OBJ
served tendency, but there are others
almost as striking. Baltimore con-
trolls more than ga per cent of the
oyster canning business, or did in
1890. Gloversville and Johnstown,
N. Y, make 81 per cent. of the gloves
produced in the United States. Con-
nellsville manufacturers 40 per cent.
of the coke; Waterbury. 81 per cent.
of brass; Philadelphia, As per cent OF
the carpets; Providence. R. l., and the
adjoining towns of Attleboro and
North Attleboro, Mass, together mo-
nopolize As per cent. of the jewelry
making, while Providence alone makes
&c per cent. Of the American silver
ware. Chicago now turns out "a per
cent. Tor about one-quarter) of the
country's agricultural implements,
whereas ten years ago she produced
less than one-seventh. In the last
decade Peoria, Milwaukee and Racine
have jumped ahead slightly, Spring
field (Ohio) and South Bend have
barely held their own, and Auburn has
fallen behind in that branch of indus
try.
A natural consequence of this sort
of concentrating is that in many places
the wage earning part of the popula-
ton is almost exclusively employed in
one special occupation. In South
Omaha, for instance, about 80 per
cent. Of the paid labor is engaged ia
the meat packing business; at Nc
Keesport, Perm, SS.S per cent. in ircr
and steel working; in East Liverpool,
Ohio. STA per cent in the potteries;
in Fall River. S0.4 per cent. in so:u-
ming and weaving cotton; in Brocktor.
Mass, TIA per cent in snoemaking,
and in Troy, 6S.7 per cent. in prod'ls-
ing cellars and cuffs.-New York
Tribune
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09
NEW IDEA FOR EXPRESS TRAINS.
Makes No Stops, But Drops Passen-
cars Of a: Stations.

Makes No Stops, But Drops Passcn-
gers Off az Stations.
A model of a new device was re-
Gently shown before the members OF
the British Association, by means OF
which it is possible to put passengers
off at any station along a railroad
without stopping the train.
The model showed circular track.
The last carriage on the train was
slipped as each station was passed,
and passengers wishing to alight at
the next station would proceed to the
last carriage, the train Being Of course
continuous on the American plan, so
that access could be had right
through. Then the slipped carriage
had deposited its passengers and TAX
en- up fresh load, it would be started
ard the next train would be allowed
gradually to catch it UP. 1t would
then form Part of the new train until,
having passed a sufficient number OF
stations, II came to be the last car
riage again, when it would be once
more slipped. OF course the cars
ould be electrically driven, and the
author exhibited model showing
how by an electrical device it could
be shown in the separate car and In
the overtaking train how far the two
were apart.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09
sUIcIDE OF sIRERIAL EXILE.
Crazed by the III Treatment to Which
He Was Subjected.

Serke Kaleshnikoff, formerly an of
hcer In the Russian navy, was ban
ished to Sredni-Kolymsk, after the
usual term of European imprisonment
in 1899, says Harry de Windt, WHITING
about Siberia in Harper's Weekly. He
was a young man, intelligent, well
educated. and endowed with a bright
hopeful disposition that had resisted
the baneful effects of even this arcti-
Inferno for an unusual length OF
time. Even the officials liked him
with the exception of the late Chief
of Police-one Ivanoff.
One day last summer Kaleshnikor
while fishing from a canoe on the
kolyma, espied the barge of Ivano1
returning from visit to the settle
ment of Nijni-Kolymsk, 300 miles
Town the river, near the Arctic ocean
The young exile, who was expecting o
letter, raddled out to intercept the
barge and boarded her, leaving his
canoe to trail astern. Accounts differ
as TO Iyanoff's condition on the day
in question, some averring that he was
intoxicated. others that his temper
was only worse than usual--whIc.l
says n great deal. in amy ease
Xaleshnikof's polite inquiry was met
~ coarse epithet, which be c,ile
resented with some warmth Angry
words followed, with thr result that
Tvanoff, now foaming with rage. sum
uoned assistance. Kalesnil1off was
seized. stripped and fiogged by half
dozen Cossacks. He was then IN.
bound and thrown, streaming with
blood ard almost insensible into his
~anoe. while the barge proceeded on
her way
The occurrence took place some
miles from Sredni-Kolymsk. and it
was only the next evening that
Kolymsk, was able to. regain the set
tlement. in an exhausted condition
from weakness and loss of blood. A
sense of abjsct degradation allied
with acute physical pain seemed to
have paralyzed his mental faculties.
FOR. with vacant look; he silently
waved his friends off, and they saw
aim disappear through the doorway of
his dwelling. Presently the report of
firearms was heard, and Ergin rushed
to ascertain the cause. Kaleshnil<of
was found lying on the floor Of his hut
dead. still grasping the revolver with
which he had taken his life. Tho
sentence "Goodbyl | leave for a
happier land" had been hastily
scrawled in pencil on sheet Of paper,
probably just before the writer had
died.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09
A FAMILY POISON BOOK.
Recommended for Persons Not Too
Excited to Use II.

Recommended for Persons Not Too
Excited to Use II.
ct would be an excellent idea for
every family to have little book civ.
ing briefly prompt antidotes for vari-
Gus poisons," said a prominent New
York doctor. Physicians know that
there are scores of cases Of acciden-
tai poisoning never heard of outside
of the family concerned. I've had sew
eral cases of poisoning by an acciden-
tai dose of the chloroform and aconite
iniment that almost every one keeps,
and one woman gave her child muri-
attic acid that was kept for cleaning
the marbles.
Prompt action is the great thing in
cases OF poisoning. By the time one
ran get help from a doctor or druggist
t is often too late to save the patient.
few antidotes for the common pois-
0ns would be easy TO learn. Still, l.
there was such book suppose most
persons would be too much excited
10 use il In time of emergency"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09
STRIKE OFF.

Houston, Tex.-The members Of
the fire department who went on
strike called 1t off otter having
found that public sentiment was en-
tirely against them. The city coun.
ell held a public meeting and ex-
pressions were that If the iremen
did not call the strike off their
places be filed as quickly as pos
sible. As the strike was called of
the codncil agreed to consider the
inntta,. ~ Us wtc.. .r.n.~rs hnr,nn N fial
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

A Paris searcher after facts has
made the discovery that to Balzac be
longs the honor of having invented tbs
wood block pavement for streets. Tho
first reference to it is found in th5i
authors comedy, Mercadet. which was
played at the Francois. in which Mer
cadet dilates on the advantage of such
pavement. since with wooden blocks
In the streets barricades are impos-
sible.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

When Carthage father became SO
badly Jagged few nights ago that he
could not walk. his muscular son threw
him over his shoulder and ~tcted" him
home much as he would have carried
a sack of four-an exhibition which
tends to disproye the theory that fllial
affection is decreasing .-Kansas City
Journal.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

With local applications, as they cannot reach
The seat OF the disease. Catarrh is O blood
unconstitutional disease, and in order to cure
it YOU must take internal remedies Halls
Catsrra Cure is taken internally. and acts
diracsly on the blood and mucous surface.
Halls Catarrb Cure is no. a quack medicine.
1t was prescribed ly one Cd III ffss ah rsgS5i-
nlar prescription. II r. composed of the
sest tonics known. combined with the best
blood purifiers, acting directly on the mu
cous surfaces. The perfect combination OF
the two ingredients is what produces such
wonderful results in curing catarrh. Send
Tor testimonials, free.
T. j. CHENEY Il Co.. PROPS, Toledo, o.
sold by druggists, price. 75c.
Halls Family Pills are taa heat
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

Shanghai taoting has pre-
sented the January installment of
the international indemnity on a sill
YER basis lie explained Lis inabili-
ty to accept the Interpretation of
the protoco. adopted by the Inter
naesnnAl Rankcrs' Assnninti,,n.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09
Short sinhted Justice.

A German soldier at Stuttgart has
been sentenced to two months i'm
prisonment for failing to salute an
officer in the street The man pleaded
that he was short-sighted, and accord
ingly received another two weeks i'm
prisonment for not reporting his af1lic-
tion.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

New Orleans. The appraiscment
of the estate OF A. G. Hutchinson,
late president of Morgan's Louisiana
and Texas railroads, shows its value
70 be 1891, 160.87. The bulk of this
property will 60 to the medical de-
partment of Tulane university.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

AIRS. WinsloW's Soothing Syrup for children
leeflin 5.softeatas gums, reduces nnamna-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

FITS permanently cured. No fits o. nervous
ness after first days use of DR.. Kline's Great
Nerve Restore-. 81 trial bottleand treatise free
DIR. Z. I'll. KLINE, Ltd, 931 Arch ST. PhiIa. Pa
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

At St. Augustine, Fla, is the only mill
10 the word that gets its power direct
from an artesian well.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

II she is frugal even the old maid can
husband her resources. - s@''
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

Some people run into debt and other,
CAIN they are pushed in.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

About 1000 diamond workers in Amster.
dam are ont of work.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

fiso Cure is the best medicine we ever used
lor al affections OF throat and lurgs.-Wn.
v. ENDsLEY, fanburen. Ind. Feb. To- 1900
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09
To learn alas

To learn, alas! sAass (
The starry glitter in the grass.
The light he climbed for, is q bit CT
glass. E
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

God help them all
Whose lives less honey than gall,
Who build on the unreal that must
fall.
Madison Cawein, in Lippincott's.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

have been paying 81 and IS. not believing they
could get tirst-class shoe for $3.50 or $3.C6.
He has convinced the.a hat the style. fit.
and wear of his $3.50 and $500 shoes is Just
as good. Placed side by side it is impossible
TO see any difference. "A trial will convince.
Notice Increase Cssa Sales: 4e. 20ss, $751;
fn Business lIeg Sales: &T.02A.nAo.0O
gain OF s.. $50. 45G-1D in Fonr Years
". L. DOUGLAS Sa.cc GILT EDGE LIRE.
worth $500 Compared With Other Makes.
The best imported and American feathers ReuFs
Patent Caif EnaHsef Box CGf Calf. Wei Kid Corona
Colt, and National kangaroo. Fast Color Egefets
nauffans The genuine have w. L. DOUGLAS
vontlvus name and price stamped on bottom.
Shoes tY nIQif csc. eFfrg. fi9f G0fni00 free.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

OANa%tA1A
and who served
three years at
West Point, has
the following to
saw of Peruna:
ALLOW nee to
express my graft
tude to you for
the benefit derived
from your Won
derful remedy.
One short month
has brought forth
! a vast change and
| now consider my
self a we'll man
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

DR.. Llewellyn Jordan, Medical Examiner.
of u S. Treasury Department, graduate OF
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

and l after months of suffering. Fellow
sufferers, Peruna will cure YOUR.
L.ewellyn Jordan.
Geo. c. Havener, NJ. D., of Anacostia,
ID. c., writes:
The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus. O.:
Gent,emen-"In my practice l have had
occasion to frequently prescribe your val
liable medicine. and have found its use ben
eficial, especially in cases Of catarrh. -
George G. HayeEer, NJ. ID.
If you do not derive prompt and satisfae'
tory results from the use of Peruna, write
at once to DR.. Hartman giving a full state
ment of your case, and he will 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, 1903-01-09

He breasts the height of dreams. to see
That which he strove for, yea, can
never be.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09
THE IpEALlsT.

With heart self-blind,
lie struggles on. at last to find
The best of life. the real. is left be-
hind.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09

proves their superiority ;
they ara worn by more
people In all stations OF
life than any other make.
Because w. l.. Douglas
isthe Observation-Disclosures
he can buy cheaper and
produce his shoes at o
lower cost than other con-
Germs, which enables him
to sell shoes for $3.50 and
$500 equal in every
way to those sold else Va
where for 81 aud $500. A
w. L. Douglas 81 20 ff25
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-01-09
,8f RSo N!
nv E- UNION MADE

WI. Douglas makes and soils more
mems $3.50 and $500 shoes than any ether
two manufacturers In the world which