Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
NO. II.
There are more breadw ers
among the girls than there are I'd.
makers these days, observes
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The tricky japanese SAID be
robbing Americans of their OPP m
tiles in Korea Rcbbing the American
whose eyesight is so defective that
he must go to Korea to see an oppor-
tunity is so easy, remarks the Courier
Journal Oouisville), that it should be
beneath the dignity Of a self-respect
ing Jap.
If the prosecutors do not stop per-
scouting the Standard Oil company,
warns the New York Press, Mr..
Rockefeller may lose his patience and
either raise the price of oil another
cent or cut down his gifts to educa-
tion by eight or ten times the amount
of the fine exacted from the bursting
Golfers of his benevolent monopoly.
The Ohio State Journal philoso
phizes: 'When the waiter sweetly
and gently put finger bowl before
him and he dipped his digits into the
geranium water. he left a quarter by
his plate. Somehow or other there
is mystic connection between a finger
bowl and a tip. 1t makes a fellow
feel that a quarter is the merest
trife."
! The responsibility OF caring for
his own safety and comfort rests up
on the one most particularly interest
ed in fulfilling necessary require
ments, declares the New York Her
aid. 1t is how he himself feels, not
what others may say. If he is cold
without his overcoat, why not wear
one? And even if he doffs it in warm
er weather so much the more will
he appreciate its protection when he
needs it again.
There is one particular feature of
the manning and killing as a result Of
reckless overspeeding and incompet-
ency in the driving of automobiles
the fatalities are pretty impartially
divided between the occupants of the
machines and the unfortunates who
are run down, asserts the Philadelphia
Record. Out of this common peril
there may come salutary amendement,
more rigid statutory restraint to pro-
tect the public and more caution Oh
the part of owners and chauffeurs.
You might say, offhand, that a
young man should not make himself
too useful in a certain capacity. All
of us have known scores of bright
fellows, notes the New York Press,
who get stuck in narrow inches and
were kept there for life, because they
were so useful" But most of them
were not cut out for bigger things or
places. They lacked initiative, and
remained so long in the rut that they
became victims of inertia. At forty
they wanted to change, but did not.
At fifty they longed to change, but
dared not At sixty they still felt
that a change was their due, but
could not make it. Then-Oslerism.
According to "The Baltimore News"
there's a new occupation in that city.
It's title is "dischargee." AS ex-
planned by an employe, when anybody
makes a complaint at a big establish
ment the discharge" is called up be-
fore the complainant, and vigorously
reproved "Why didn't you deliver
that parcel to Mr.. Jones?' asks the
/ boss. The discharge" makes some
lame excuse, carefully rehearsed be-
forehand, and gets in return a tor
rent of denunciation and an order
to "go to the Office" and receive his
pay. The discharge" gets his mon
ey, and Mr.. Jones goes away happy
because he has cost a man his job.
Half an hour later the discharge"
goes back. to be dismissed for some
othar anorv customer
The drainage of submerged lands in
the eastern states is a counterpart Of
the irrigation work in the far west,
and more and more attention is being
given to the subject by the govern
ment scientists, declares the American
Cultivator. A plan for draining
swamps which has worked well in
some localities is the construction of a
driven well, which is sunk through
the upper layers of the soil into the
gravel which often underlies at a
moderate depth The difficulty, of
course, is that in some -swamps there
is no such layer of loose soil, and wa
ter would not go off through the well
opening. Where the soil is suitable
the water is rapidly taken away at
low cost. A three-inch well. including
easing, can be driven for 81 a foot
with the ordinary wel-driller's outfit.
The mouth of the well should be an
/; excavation below the bottom of the
pond or swamp, and the top Of the
we'll larger in diameter than the main
part, in order to increase the inflow
of water A large brick catch basin
with screen-covered openings over the
top of the well, will keep out dirt
leaves, etc., without reducing the ca