Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-22

owe us u COIlt uCFOSS- H. ne log
cant live on wind and ii it has sick
~ appearance of late its debtors are
to blame. Come across gentlemen.-
Ruleville Yellow Dog.
Many Mississippi women viii pre-
sent petition to the next legislature
urging the submission to the people
of constitutional amendment pro
viding for woman S suffrage in presi-
dental elections. Crystal Springs
Meteor
There is distinct joy in owning
land, unlike thai which You have in
money, in houses, in books, pictures,
or anything else which men have de
vised. Personal property brings you
into society with men, but land is a.
part of God S estate on the globe;
and when a parcel of ground is deed
ed to you, and you walk OVER it aud
call it your own, it seems as if you
had come into partnership with the
original Proprietor of the earth-
Franklin Advocate.
This observation emenates from
the columns of the Bay Springs News:
Little cheap john" shows are en-
tirely too numerous in this country.
Most of them are indecent and vul-
gar. The last one here ought to
have been closed up by the officers.
1t would be a good thing if people
quit going to them. / am not oppo
sed to shows when they are decent;
but such shows as are passing around
over the country ought to be outlaw
ed There is much to be learned in
first-class show bat in these little
shows such as we have had here of
late, there is nothing but vulgarity,
low slang. etc. People ought to quit
patronizing them.
The Hickory-Index Reporter ana
lyzes the much heralded Two Cent
Mileage book rate, recently put into
effect by the Mississippi Railroad
Commission, just that critically that
all such Class favoring legislation
should be disSected, here the pro-
duct of his sergical knife:
The railroad commission has or
dercd that all railroads in the state
except the Gulf s. Ship Island shall
sell mileage books containing 1000
mile' for two cents per mile. Who
wants to buy 2000 miles at one time?
The rich millionaires and their light
hearted and light headed wives and
daughters who come south to spend
the winter travelling and wolowing
in luxury at the health resorts on
the gulf. A SO the rich wholesale
merchants of the North who furnish
transportation for their drummers to
run over the state and skin the mer-
chants. The merchant wants to
travel some, too, but he does not
want 1000 miles The one-gailos
and sockless farmer takes a short trip
occasionally, but he does not want
to pay for 1000 miles at one time.
The doctor, lawyer, editor and Urea
cher want to go somewhere at times,
but everybody knows they haven t
enough money to buy 1000 miles, no
matter how bad they want to go that
far.
On March 3 Postmaster Genera
Cortelyou issued an order that seri-
riously threatens Southern mail ia
cilities. The order provides that in
weighing the mails the number of tons
carried shall be divided by the hum-
Der of working days. The mails are
not to be weighed Oh Sunday and the
railroads will receive no pay for mail
carried on that day. Therefore when
the order becomes operative Sunday
mails in the south will have to be
discontinued. This will mean a seri-
Gus drawback to the business inter
ests OF that section of the country
having Sunday mails, and southern
men in Washington believe that the
order Of the Postmaster General was
aimed directly at southern business
nterests-Gulfport Review.
We wish to interpose rejoinder
to that part of the above article that
would seem to draw the conclusion
that the South is harmed by the Sun
day discontinuance of mail transpor-
tation. 1t the balance of this great
country, the Great Western Pac fic
slope for instance, which is farther
removed from the center of popula-
ton that our section, can make out
without having their Boston, New
York, and Chicago mail matter tray
el on the Lords Day, surely we of
the Southland, famed for its purity
Of morals can too manage to hold our
breaths on this one day, unconcern-
I'd about business affairs. In cases
of urgent emergency we can resort
to the wires to convey matters that
vonId not carry over till Monday.
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