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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08
Do Horses Think2

''Will he go in the barroomy You
just watch him." He was Jim, the
famous old patrol horse of the Tenth
district. Since he has been placed
on the pension list he has had nothing
to do but visit his friends. While
strolling down the street near the
station house where he used to hang
up his harness, several of the police
men asked Bill Miller, who was walk
ing with Jim, if the animal would en-
ter the barroom of nearby saloon.
After giving an affirmative answer.
Miller led the way and Jim followed.
When asked what he would have.
the knowing animal walked over to
the ice water jar, indicating that he
was on the water wagon" After a
light lunch of cheese and crackers
Jim left the place, demonstrating
that ''you can lead horse to- bar.
but you cannot make him drink. -
Philadelphia Record.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08

hesitate. Inside the building floor
fell with a crash, and as the ladder
swayed back for the fourth time, and
great blast of sparks and flame shot
out from the tower at the corner, as
with one voice the flremen and the
people shouted, 'Now!'
'"The ladder swung slowly inward,
and at the same instant the manager
leaped far out through the air.
Down he plunged: the fireman on
the ladder braced himself for the
shock, and then a dense cloud of
smoke swept across the street, en-
folding everything; but in an instant
it cleared away, and two men chung
to the top of the ladder, unframed,
while high above the horrid roar of
the flames and the din of the engines
came cheer on cheer from the vast
throng in the streets.
"And that" concluded the FORE
man, as he hung his apron on the
dead copy" hook and took his coat
from the peg in the wall back of the
job press, was the most thrilling
sight / ever saw or ever expect to
see. From the Youths Companion.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08
He Paid the CHARGES.

A guest who had just registered at
the hotel was approached by a boy
with telegram. 1t had 81 charges on
it.
What" said the guest, before open
ing it. "a dollar charges! I won't
pay it. Anybody who cannot pay for
his message when writing me is GER
tainly cheap one. Wait a minute!
I'll just let you report this uncollect-
ed and the sender may pay the charg-
es."
At that he tore the envelope open.
AS he read a smile settled ON his
face, and, pulling dollar from his
pocket he handed it to the boy.
'It's all right" he said.
Then he threw the message on the
counter. Read it," he said to the
clerk. The message read:
"Papa's little girl sends him 80 bush
els of love and wishes he was home to
kiss her goodnight. Nellie."-Denver
Post.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08
WISE WORDS.

Truisms, whether they lie in the
depths of thought or on the surface,
are at any rate the pearls of expert
ence.-George Meredith.
No stream runs higher than it's
source, and a government by the peo-
pie will be no better than the people
make it.-Grover Cleveland.
Have you never observed that if
you conscientiously neglect to do
your work it somehow manages to
get done without you?-Henry Har-
| land.
Sin is misdirect energy, and the
capacity for wrong means also the
capacity for good; but weakness is
the capacity for nothing. To do moth
ing is no virtue.-Elbert Hubbard.
We might just as well appoint a
committee to sit down on the sun, to
keep it from going on it's way, as to
attempt to obstruct the socialistic is
sue of the capitalist mode of pro6uc-
ton and distribution.-Prof. G.. D.
Heron.
The fundamental error, the capital
| heresy that troubles humanity to it's
| last foundations, is to believe that
| life is possession to be retained, and
that we must attach ourselves to it
and love it for itself.-Rev. Charles
Wagner.
No man can have two standards of
morals, one for his individual life
and the other for his business life,
without the inevitable result that the
baser standard will prevail. AS a man
is in business life so will he become
in his private life.-James B. Dill.
| The cultivation of the religious
spirit is for us as serious obligation
as the cultivation of the body or the
mind; for without this spirit our life
is as deficient as would be our body
if it had no heart, or mind If there
were no brain.-President Harper of
Chicago University.
No restlessness or discomfort can
change your lot. Others may have
other circumstances surrounding
them, but here are yours You had
better make up your mind to accept
what you cannot alter. You can live
beautiful life in the midst of your
circumstances Rev. J. r. Mil
| Ter.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08
TRIANGLE.

On Kathryn's birthday her grand
mother gave her a parcel of silks
which she said she could ID ca a
quilt for her dolls. The silks were
very beautiful, and Kathryn was so
delighted that she ran off at once to
get her needle, thimble co, and began
to sew very industriously. She worked
until she was quite tired, and her
grandmother suggested that, as con-
siderable snow had fallen the night
before, she might take her dolls out
for a sleigh ride. Kathryn thought
this would be great treat for her lit
tie family, as some of them had new
er seen the snow before. She put
them all into the sleigh and covered
them up warmly, saying, NOW, chill
dren, we, us and (4) are going out
for some fresh air, and we will come
right in again. They stayed out I'M
til Kathryn saw her grandfather GO
ing into the house, and then she said
it was time to go in. When she went
in she found that her grandfather had
brought her book in which he had
written her name, but she thought it
odd that he didn't know how to spell
1t. He had used an ''i'' instead of a
"" and had actually put in two (5)'s.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08
NEWSPAPERS IN THE MAIL.
They Do Not Cause the Yearly Deficit
in Postal Revenues.

A Congressional commission is now
considering number of reforms in.
tended to do away with the heavy
annual deficit in the Postofice De.
partment. One of them involved sec.
ond-class matter, in which the news.
papers are included. The depart.
ment estimates that the $50, 900 tons
of second-class matter handled an
nually constitute sixty-seven per cent.
of all the mail carried, and yields
only $6,000,000 revenue, whereas, to
pay expenses, it should yield $685..
100000. On this basis is set up the
claim that the newspapers are being
carried at loss.
The newspapers do not wish to be
treated as objects of charity by the
Government. They are able to pay a
fair price for all services done fol
them, and willing to do so. More.
over, they are in favor of postal re.
form. But the commission should
look into the facts carefully.
In the first place, the bulk of the
expense of handling second-class mail
is caused by the carrying of maya.
zines, weekly periodicals and fictitious
newspapers" issued for advertising
and other purposes than the publish
ing of news. The daily newspapers
are not extensively circulated more
than 800 miles from the place of pub
LEGATION. They are put up in sacks
and bundles addressed to agents and
are delivered at the trains. About
all the Postoffice Department does
is to provide room in the mail cars
for them and throw them off at the
proper stations.
On the other hand, the magazines
and periodicals and the fake papers
are each addressed separately and
they go all over the country and even
to the uttermost parts of the world.
Every piece must be handled as if il
were a letter. The fact that the
Government is not carrying the
newspapers at loss is proved by the
fact that the express companies will
take them for the same rates now
paid, or lower.
That the Postoffice Department is
operated at loss is due largely to
the officers of the Government. The
department itself sends by mail a
great deal of material for its own
use which could as well be forward.
ed by slow freight. Then the frank.
ing privilege is grossly abused. II
is even employed for the transporta-
ton of Office desks and sofas. Tons
of free seeds are also distributed by
this means. If the Government does
these things it can not reasonably
expect to find the yearly balance OF
the right side of the sheet.
AS for the newspapers, they will
gladly pay their fair share of the
postal expense, whatever it may be-
Cleveland Leader.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08

Investigation by the Bureau of the
Census, at Washington, D. c., shows
that in 1902 twenty-six States had
inheritance tax laws, yielding $1,000
900. This amount is believed by the
Census officials to have increased in
the present year to $10,000,000 OF
$12,000,000.
The inheritance tax collected in
1902 follows: California, $290,447;
Colorado, $269; Connecticut, s334,-
1856; Delaware, 1888; Illinois, $685.
SIG; Iowa, s117.932; Maine, $780,
ST.; Maryland, $S3,7S0; Massachu.
sets, s433,710; Michigan, 1884,.
6S3; Minnesota, $6077; Missouri.
$229,854; Montana, $36,331; Ne
braska, $32; New Jersey, S149,577;
New York. s3,304,555; North Caro-
lima, s4241; Ohio, $13,055; Pennsyl-
vania, $1,213,706; Tennessee, $685..
639; Utah, 1859; Vermont, $685..
44O; Virginia, s16.266; Washington.
1884; West Virginia, S6340. To-
tai, s7,035.919.
In addition Hawaii collected 1898
of inheritance tax.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08
Housekeeping in the Park.

Up in Central Park the carpenter has
erected large number of little houses
way up in the highest branches of the
tallest trees. The houses are built of
small tree branches and are about a.
foot and a half long and a foot wide
In the forward part of each little house
small doorway has been cut to admit
the entrance of birds. Flocks of Eng
lish sparrows and robin red breasts
make these houses their homes. A
flock of sparrows have one house and
flock of robbins have another. but
the birds never live together in the
same house.
The birds build their nests in these
houses as well as store their food in
them. Occasionally there is a dispute
as to ownership. Recently large gray
squirrel tried to force an entrance in
to- the house occupied by flock OF
robins. The robins attacked the would
be intruder with so much vigor that
the squirrel fed in confusion. Most of
the children who go into the park with
their nurses always bring along a bag
of bread or cracker crumbs to feed to
the birds. Some of the sparrows be-
come so bold that they hop right I'D
In the children's laps.-New York
Press.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08

4. Divide place where provisions
are kept and find shallow vessel also
used for holding provisions and 70 en-
deavor.
S. Divide the act Of rising ana nnu
an indefinite article and perfume.
6. Divide something we like TO wear
about the neck on cold days and nnd
an extremity and favorite.
Z. Divide a word meaning to separ-
ate grain from chaff and find what we
like to do when we enter a contest
and the present time.
8. Divide kind of male voice and
find a number and conjunction.
8. Divide an adverb by word OF
mouth and find a part of speech and
confederate.
0. Divide a science that treats OF
the human body and find the two
indefinite articles, a proposition and
possessive pronoun.-New York Trib-
une.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08

eight quarts capacity, and the other
two four quarts each. After the
viands In the kettle have been ex-
posed to the heat of the stove until
boiling has taken place for a minute
or SO, the lid is clamped into place,
and the whole pot transferred to one
of the pockets of the cooker.
The actual time consumed in the
preparation of food by this process is
about double that ordinarily required,
but the food may be left in very long
and will not be overdone. The saw
ing Of fuel resulting from the use of
the cooker is considerable, and the
burdens of the housewife are about
halved.- American.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08
A True War Story.

A long time ago, before you were
born, there was little boy who lived
in Tennessee. Do you know where the
state of Tennessee is? If not, get the
atlas and find it, then you will ALWAYS
remember where it is located and be
ready to answer if any one asks Won
the question. There, now, must be-
gin again. A long time ago a little
boy lived in Tennessee, and there was
big war being fought between the
people of the North and the people OF
the South; and this little boy was OF
the South, and his father was a can.
tain in the Southern Army.
One day the little boy was down by
the front gate watching some soldiers
marching by, and one of the soldiers
stopped and asked the little boy if thew
had any buttermilk at the house. Ha
was told yes" and the soldier said. "If
you will get me some buttermilk Ia
drink, l will give you a handful Of
nutmegs." Now this little bow knew
that nutmegs were used to flavor
things to eat and make them tasts
good, SO he ran to the house and got
the buttermilk and gave it to the
soldier to drink, and received in re-
turn the nutmegs, which the little bow
took in great glee to his mother. And
what do you think? When the cook
went to use the nutmegs she found
they were not nutmegs at all. but
pieces of wood carved to look like
nutmegs. Wasn't that a funny thingf
This is a really true story, and /
have heard that the soldiers from
Connecticut carved these wooden nut
megs when in camp. to amuse them
selves and traded them for something
to eat or drink wherever they could
The Circle.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08
CHICKENS A PENNY APIECE.
A Cow For $3.50 and 4S Glasses of
Beer For Two Cents.

Beer For Two Cents.
Two cents or it's equivalent would
buy a pair of chickens-in the four
teenth century. For the value of a
nickel one could acquire goose fit
for Christmas dinEer-in the four
teenth century.
A penny would purchase dozen
strictly fresh eggs-in the fourteenth
century; while for two cents the
brewer was compelled by law to sell
three gallons of beer, the equivalent
of forty-eight glasses.
A man could buy the finest fat
sheep for twenty-four cents. A COW
was more expensive, says the Me-
chanic, but one dollar and a half
would buy the best in the market,
while for fat hog one need only part
with eighty cents.
Wheat sometimes fell as low as
forty cents a quarter, though after
a great storm or in a time of griev-
Gus famine it would rise as high as
four or five dollars quarter. Still at
these prices a good many pounds of
bread could be bought for pendy.
Pasture and arabic lands were
ridiculously cheap-two cents for the
former and twelve cents for the lat
| ter being considered a fair annual
rental. Draught horses were a drug
on the market at seventy-two cents
each and oxen at one dollar and
twenty-five cents. In the days of the
second Henry fifty dollars would have
equipped a farm with three draught
horses, half a dozen oxen, twenty
cows and 200 sheep, leaving a bal
ance of two dollars toward the pay
ment of the rent, which would be
perhaps five dollars year.
The other side of the story, so far
as the laboring man is concerned,
comes in the following figures. Three
cents day was considered good
wages for an ordinary laborer Even
at harvest time four cents was the
| highest amount expected.
House rent was so low that the
Lord Mayor of London only paid
$3.50 a year to his landlord. The
Chancellor had an annual salary of
| 1872. When father sent his son
to university four cents a day was
looked upon as a comfortable allow
ance, with margin for such luxuries
as wine at eight or twelve cents a gal
lon.
A salary of $24 year was con-
sidered munificent. King Edward VI.
gave his daughter an allowance of
! $3.50 a week, with an additional
| $247.60 a year for the maintenance
| of her eight servants.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08

The wife Of a farmer had a sisteI
come from Chicago to make visit
One day the threshers came, and tht
guest insisted on doing the work
alone and sent her sister away tt
rest. When twenty-seven threshers
filed In to supper that night they
found sandwich tied with ribbon
one chicken croquette, one cheeseba
the size of marble. and a button
hole bouquet at each plate. EN-
poria (Kansas) Gazette.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08
squlrreIa to wait unon Guests.

Squirrels to Wait Upon Guests.
1t has taken Fisk Goodyear of Burch-
town, two years to train his pet squir-
rels, but his efforts are now repaid,
and on Thanksgiving day he treated
his friends to a surprise.
Gathering half a hundred or more
gray squirrels, Mr.. Goodyear taught
them to go into the woods and pick up
nuts, carrying them to his home.
On Thursday night at dinner his
guests noticed a small board running
from a window to a nut bowl. The
host gave one knock on the table with
his knife. A squirrel popped down the
plank and dropped a chestnut in the
bowl. Two wraps brought another
squirrel with walnut; three knocks
a shellbark. Finally a grave old squir-
rel took his place and cracked the
nuts, winding up the performance by
brushing off the crumbs with his thick
bushy tail.-Philadelph North Amer
lean.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08
Too Realistic.

Winston Churchill, the novelist.
described at dinner in New York
the difference between realism and
romanticism in fiction. ITO make my
meaning clearer" Mr.. Churchill
ended, II will take the case of a
young man and a girl-sweethearts.
The young man, a romanticist, said
passionately to his girl: Darling, ii
shall be my life's one purpose to sur
round you with every comfort and
to anticipate and crafty your every
WISH The girl, a realist, smiled
family as she answered. oh, Jack
how good of you, and all on 50 o
week, too. Kansas City Star.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08

Meerburg and Filipps (Pharm.
zeit. say that copper can easily be
detected under the microscope by
means of cesium chloride, which
gives with copper double salt in
the form of handsome red crystalline
needles or prisms. These crystals
are observable when only extremely
small proportions of copper are
present. If much cesium chloride
be added. yellow crystals form, which
become red on the addition of a lit
tie cuprous chloride. Cobalt some
what affects the distinctness of the
reaction: lead and bismuth are In
different.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08

sary of this battle fell on August 20
Just passed. A bit of land has been
set apart for the proper mounting of
the boulder and a copper plate telling
it's tale in brief will be set into If.
Chief Turkey Foot was Wayne's OPP
ponent. In the crisis of the battle he
gathered his braves around the boul-
der and with them died fighting. The
victory opened the great Maumee
country to the whites.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08

serve all the purpose that is served
by that metal in the industrial
world.
The new metal is said to be of
equal ductile strength with nickel
and to possess all its other essential
qualities, but it is not claimed that
1t would serve the purpose of nickel
steel used as armor p1ate.-Ameri-
can Metal Market.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08

/. Divide a musical composition
used in church and find an insect and
an edge.
2. Divide a bowman and find a part
Of circle and feminine pronoun.
3. Divide to perform particular
kind Of surgical operation and flEd a
form Of verb TO be-" verb mean
ing to place, and the past tense Of the
word omitted In the following quota
ton; IF any weuld not work. neither
should he 49,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08
Individual Cup,

The latest design of individual
communion cup sets include chalice
provided at its bottom with a multi
plicity of spouts by which it is pos
sible to fill several dozen cups in one
operation by simply placing them in
a tray which contains separate ring
or holder for each cup.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08
Metal to Replace Nickel.

A new metal called momel, which
is expected to cause something of a
stir in the industrial world, is being
produced at the works of the Ca
madam Copper Company at Sudbury.
1t consists of a compound of copper,
nickel, iron and one or two other
minerals which are found in the dis
trict, and its Importance lies In the
fact that it is much less costly than
nickel, is less liable to rust and will
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08

Denmark, famous for her great ex-
portation Of butter, has five hundred
cows to every thousand OF her inhabi~
tants. and Il i've are counted to q
family, there are two and .one-hals
ne~a C. every family.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08
Look Pleasant. pleased

Look Pleasant, Pleased
Minnie's like a camera.
Snapi there go her eyes,
And her mind has taken
My thoughts by surprise.
/ don't dare be horrid
When she Is around,
For her busy shutter
Scarcely makes sound.
SO find 1t better
Just to smile and laugh
IL I'm always sitting
For my photograph.
isabelle Howe Fiske, in Christmas Reg
lister.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08

Some scientists believe that North
America was in contact, during pre-
historic ages, with Africa and with
Europe, the former connection COM
ing first.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08

d. L. Bathurst. clerk in the New
York City Postofiice, expects soon to
secure a goodly share of $4,000, 600
and wear the title Of Baron Of Lach-
lade.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08
Turkey Foot Rock.

Turkey Foot Rock, large lime
stone boulder, marks the spot on the
Maumee- River where General An
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-02-08

thony Wayne won the Battle of
Fallen Timbes0. The 1Osth anniver-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-18
THAT BAKING POWDER TROUBLE
The Three Carloads Caught at Wichita
Meant for Oklahoma.

Wichita. Kan. April 1S-C. E
Jaques, president of the Jaques Manu-
featuring company of Chicago, which
manufactures * C" baking powder,
is in the city. The purpose of Mr.
Jaques's visit is to confer with the
wholesale grocers of the city, concern
ing the three cars OF TX. c." baking
powder, which were caught in this city
recently by John A. KIeinhans, state
pure food inspector. on the ground
that some of the cans were not correct
" labeled. Mr.. Jacques said:
Il have conferred with DR.. s. J.
Crumbine, secretary of the state board
of health 1 explained to DR.. Crum-
bine that all the powder which had
been shipped to Kansas for distribu-
ton in Kansas was properly labeled
in accordance with the law but that
in the three cars which were shipped
to the wholesale grocers of Wichita
there were some barrels of powder
destined for Oklahoma, Texas and
New Mexico. which were not labeled,
for the reason that the laws of Okla
homa- Texas and New Mexico do not
require labels. and that the inspector
happened to get hold of few cans of
this unlabeled baking powder"