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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11
THE TOO TALKATIvE MATINEE
GIRL.

GIRL.
'Tt is a good thing there are
enough of the typical matinee girls
to fill the theatres on Saturday az
ternoons," said the man in the box
office, otherwise there would be a
good many vacant seats. Gradual
ly the prejudice against the matinee
girl crowd is growing.
Give me a ticket for any per-
Torrance except Saturday afternoon,
Is the request that we hear more and
more frequently. The jabbering and
the giggling that seem to be an in
evitabie part of Saturday afternoon
performance mar the pleasure of the
earnest theatregoer.
1.-THE trouble is said one wo-
man who is a good judge of plays
and actors, that the Saturday matt
nee folks laugh, cry and applaud In
the wrong places. There is one
strong play on the boards now that
illustrates this tendency perfectly.
From the beginning the girls" of all
ages who are not familiar with the
story of the play make bets with
each other as to which girl the vacil-
lating hero will marry, and all allu-
sions to the plight of the apparently
forsaken sweetheart call forth an ex-
-plosion of giggles, especially from
the top balcony. At no other per-
Torrance do the vital points in seri-
Gus PLAYS miss the mark New
York Sun.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11

man II the committee. 1--WE helped
two such cases last year. Some fam
lilies with little children where the
parents are Ill have been assisted, but
we have not spent all our money this
year, nor did we last year."
But do not the town and county
spend something for charity?"
Eyes, and there is a poor farm, but
It has only seventeen inmates, all of
them there because infirm, sick or
aged. 1t is really hospital. 1t has
steam heat and bathrooms, and Is
more a home than public refuge.
The city marshal sometimes takes food
or coal to families in town, but it is
when sudden misfortune has visited
the home and not because of poverty
IN the usual sense of the word"
This was characteristic of other
towns in which inquiries were made.
Many OF them had even a better rec
ord, not having so many railroads
and SO escaping the trampdom that
guides its movements by the direction
of lines of ties.
The tramp problem, closely allied as
1t is to poverty, exists in the plains
region as elsewhere While distances
are expansive and opportunity for Sc
curing work so numerous as to be
impertinent the procession of able
bodied men loafs along the highways
and halts in the parks and groves.
Questioned, most of the members OF
the Guild of the Wandering Foot will
say they are bound for the Coast"
or are "going East to the wife's folks"
Many towns have ordinances making
the giving of aims to strangers an Of
fence, specifying that beggars shall be
sent to the city authorities
In summer when the farmers are
begging for help in the harvest it is
aggravating to see able bodied men
living their irresponsible life and re-
fusing 81 a day and board for work
in the wheat fields. Kansas asks for
$4,000 workers in harvest every sum-
mer, Nebraska uses $4,000 and the
DakOtaS as many more.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11
TO SOLVE POSTAL PROBLEM.



There will soon be presented to the
Postal Commission, which by direc-
ton of Congress is inquiring into the
working of second class mail regula-
lions to learn whether it's classical
ton Should not be grounded upon
practical rather than ideal distinc-
tion,'' plan for the settlement of the
disputes over classification long trou-
bling the Postoffice Department. This
plan, it is expected, will take the
place of the proposal of the depart
ment, everywhere warmly denounced,
to combine the second and third
classes of mail at a uniform rate of
four cents pound
The suggestion comes from the
Periodical Publishers Association,
the organization of magazine and
weekly newspaper publishers repre-
'senting all the prominent periodicals
in the country.
1t is in effect that the commission
recommend to Congress the creation
of permanent postal tribunal on the
lines of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, to deal with problems in
postal classification, as the other COM
mission deals with railroad rates.
Such commission, it is contended,
would speedily settle disputes which
now cause so much friction between
the department and the publishers,
and at the same time would rid the
second class mail of the many sheets
masquerading as periodicals, while
really nothing more than gratuitously
circulated advertising mediums. The
effect of such clearance would
greatly reduce the deficit from second
class mail handling and would render
abortive further agitation for an in
crease in the second class rate.
The Publishers Association will
suggest that such a commission be
composed of three members, one of
whom should be familiar with the
publishing business. 1t should have
Jurisdiction over all matters of postal
classification, with an appeal only to
the United States Circuit Court. +
should have the right to deny the us
of the mail to violators and to pa
on all applications for admission I
second class privileges.
With such a commission wedding
out offenders against the postal reg
ulations, the association believes that
the present rate for second class mail
should stand, except possibly in re-
gard to free sample copies of period
icals. The plan has been submitted
already to the postoffice authorities.
and it is likely to have their endorse
ment. IT the commission accepts it.
1t will probably be enacted into law
at the next session of Congress and
permanently end the troubles Of the
Postofice Department over second
class mail rates.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11
Frances Prosperous Dairies.

France alone among European
countries is agriculturally prosperous
The New York Tribune gives this
interesting summary of it's dair!
work:
There are 100 creameries whicl
yearly produce 20O00,O00 pounds
butter, worth S5.00O,09O. The tota
butter product of France is now
worth more than s5S,O0O000 a year
and the cheese is worth $25,O0O,00O
And all this is over AMI above tn,
vast quantity of milk consumed b.
the people. There can be No doub
that the cooperation system of or
ganization and conduct of bushes,
is also to be credited with a largI
share of French prosperity. There
are now more than $500 cooperative
diaries in the republic, and the mum
Der is steadily Increasing. These
combinations enable the peasant will
only two or three COWS to purchase
supplies and to dispose of his pro
ducts as advantageously as though
he had herd of hundreds.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11

which is stationary, is composed of
electro magnets. The central part,
known as the armature, is round,
like a drum, and rotates. Being
mounted on the car axle, the revo-
luton of the armature propels the
:ar itself.
An electromagnetic is bar of soft
ron surrounded by coil of copper
wire, through which an electric cur
'ent runs. 1t behaves like any other
magnet so long as the flow continues,
>ut loses it properties when the cur
ient is shut off. Just as with the
common needle, there is a north and
Iouth pole to an electromagnetic, the
polarity depending on the direction
N which the electric current flows
lround it. For certain aWork that
S done by electro-magnets-say, in
,elegraphy-it is usual to put two
luch objects side by side, the north
)ole of one pointing the same way
Is the south pole of the other. For
>ther work they are placed end to
md except for gap between. The
forth pole of one then points directly
,oward the south pole of the other.
This is the plan followed in the ar
angement of an electric motor. The
after may be composed of two or
more magnets, and the gap between
hem-sometimes called the field"
lis barely big enough to accommo-
late the armature.
If one could examine an armature,
le would see that it was composed
argely of copper wires. These are
wound on a ring-shaped frame,
which forms the outer part of the
immature. At intervals they reach
lown to the axle, something like the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11
FASHION NOTES.

Furs are charmingly mixed witt
velvet and lace.
Lace medallions, mounted on buttoI
moulds decorate some of the dreSsy
coats and wraps
A touch of pink or yellow in yes
or folds often relieves the sobernesi
of the otherwise all gray costume.
Fashion struck a sensible note whel
she set her approval upon the soh
smoke gray that is having such
run this season.
Fancy black blouses are quite the
vogue, the trimming consisting of lace
and embroidery or silk folds
Many will buy the shoes with clotl
tops that are having a wide vogut
this season, for they fit the instel
and ankle snugly and give a trim
well set up appearance.
One of the richest of fur coats il
of sable, long and loose, with deel
band around the bottom, wide cuff
and t1rned-back collar of the fur show
ing the shaded lines running oppositi
to those in the coat.
The wreath of soft pink roses that
entirely encircles the crown of al
artistic hat is supplemented by &
feathery paradise plume which
springs from among the roses at the
side.
A pink silk lining for a semi-trans
parent cloth gown of gray is a daint!
expedient for furnishing this reliev
ing note.
There is no more fashionable neck
wear just now than the hand-embroid
cred stiff linen collars.
Three straps of ribbon are laid ovel
a plated princess gown in girdle ef
feet, emphasizing the waist line anS
breaking the length of line from
shoulder to the foot UT the skirt tina
is sometimes desirable.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11
What Makes the Wheels Go Round7
The Mystery of the Machine Under Trolley Car.


position, In line with each other.
Aim the north pole of one directly at
the south pole of the other. Leave
short gap between them. Arrange
a single horizontal wire at right an
giles to them in the gap in such
way that 1t can easily rise or fall
without losing its connections. So
long as no current flows in it there
will be no difficulty in making it stay
ut any desired level. Now send
current through it, and it will move.
bodily either up or down, the direc-
ton depending on that of the cleo,
tricity. The effect here is not ex-
actly the same as in the needle ex--
pertinent, but it is interpreted as
modified form of repulsion. An in
reference occurs between the invisi-
BILE magnetic envelope of the wire
and the unseen force emanating from
the poles of the magnets. Relief can
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11
RAILWAL AUTOMOBILES.
Beginning to Be Used for Several Pur-
poses in Europe.

Beginning to Be Used for Several Pur-
poses in Europe.
Railway automobiles are beginning
to be considerably used in Europe
Cd as early and late postal trains, (2)
on branch lines and others where pas
sengers are few, CD on trunk lines
where it is often difficult to secure
convenient secondary trains, (4) in
industrial centres and city suburbs.
Furthermore, the automobile railway
train can be attached for a certain
distance to an express and detached
at the station where the road branch
eS.
There is an economy in the person
mel of the train, in the expense of
traction, in material. capital and main
tenance, and there is additional traffic
because of the increased number of
stations made possible by the facility
of starting and stopping. Up to the
present time the carriages construct
ed are steam and electric.
The Belgian State Railway has car
riages 46 feet long, weighing so tons,
and having a seating capacity of SO
passengers. The ordinary speed of
these trains is 10 miles an hour, al
though they can be pushed to 80. Two
men handle train
The Russian State Railway employs
ten steam coaches which are really
two stories. To Il men are used, and
.7-s.ss!zgsss---gets about niles an
hour. They burn naptha. The North
ern Railway of France has postal
steam autos, with room for II people
in the back of each coach. The Italian
MeG-,erranean Railway has autos on a
line from Milan to Monza, the carriages
each having seating capacity of 80
passengers, and the trains travelling
at q miles an hour
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11

How many out of the thousands
who ride in trolley cars understand
the mechanism which moves these
vehicles? Only a few, we suspect,
are familiar with the form of the ap-
paratus which serves them, or the
principles involved in its operation.
An electric motor consists essen
daily of two parts. The outer one,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11
No Other Senator Near.

A senator hurried into the United
States Senate chamber one morning
early, and said to page:
Young man, did you find a $40 bill
On my desk last evening? wrote
a letter, intending to inclose the bill
but somehow / failed to do so, AMI
left it behind on the blotter..
Yes, Senator" said TIE page, TAX
ing out his wallet Il did find thai
bill, and here it is. And it's lucky
thing for you, sir, that none of the
other senators happened in before
saw it."
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11

We are accustomed to 4thornless
cactf' and "seedless oranges" but
here is new "puckerless per-
simmons" They are the result Of
cross between the Japanese and
American varieties. and the fruit is
garanteed not to pucker the dps
Farming
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11
GIRL LOOKS LIKE A WEEPING
WILLOW

Hats trimmed with so many droop
ing plumes that the wearers lool
like weeping willows are among the
new headgear. Miss Mathilde Town
send, just home from Paris, seems to
have taken a violent fancy to the
new style, and in less than a weel
she dazzled New York and Washing
ton folk with five mountains of lace
and flowers topped with feathers. Mist
Townsend has returned to her ma
tive land with purple, lavender ant
gray gowns and with black ones te
give a sombre cast, which she seems
to like as chapOe.-New Yorl
Press
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11
THE AMERICAN WOMAN IN
ENGLAND.

The day has been when the Eng
lish-woman was called the worst
dressed woman in the world, while
ever since the American woman EAR
rived her position as the best
dressed woman in the world has new
er been disputed. She has already
taught the world to desire American
hair, American compilations, Ameri-
can teeth, American style" of dress,
American shoes, and especially Amer
lean freedom of nina anG manner.
And the Englishwoman has gone
about remodeling herself along the
approved lines, until, goodness
knows, one has to admit sometimes
that she is running the favorite
pretty close second But it is only
the occasional Englisawoman, who
dresses really we'll, while large ma
jority of American women manage
In some way to make themselves look
well, as only an American woman
can look, which is something that no
French or English word yet coined
can quite express.-Eleanor Franklin,
in Leslie's Weekly.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11
BOGUS GEMS IN VOGUE.

1t is reported that New YorA
jewelers. are scared blue by the arti
fetal gems-some new kind of emer
ais and sapphires which have appear
ed in the wholesale district-for
is manifest that Jewels are the de
sire of modern life, and real or false
must be worn Hence the traffic in
artificial products Importers and
buyers have their troubles. 1t viii
also be hard telling what's what al
the opera this winter Women with
the real million dollar article viii
have to wear tag, certifying to the
fact, while other women will say;
80, | can afford to wear reconstruct
ed gems, because l have the rea
things in the safety vault: No one
would accuse me of anything else -
Boston Herald.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11
MOST STRIKING WOMAN IN CAPT.


''Who is the most striking figure
in the streets of Washington? said
a visitor few days ago to a wo-
man who knew the capital thorough
ly. "You would guess many times
before you'd guess right" was the
answer "None of your diplomats
from quaint countries fills this BILL
No, indeed; the individual is the
nursemaid in the household of Mile.
van Swinderen, wife of the Dutch
Minister. This nurse wears the gay
head dress and embroidered finery of
the peasant class. Her young charge.
little girl just beginning to walk,
is wheeled around in her lazier mo-
ments in high and still-looking per-
ambulator. Nine. van Swinderen has
induced the nurse to discard her
(wooden shoes. but in all other re-
spects she Is ancompromising Her
stir linen cap. with flying curtains,
her necklaces of gold and silver beads
and her bright yellow gown, which
clears tho ground by three inches,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11

Beneath the soil of the South Amer
lean republic of Colombia there have
just been brought to light some re-
markable buried treasures in the line
of curious animal-shaped pottery, each
incised and made of black clay These
specimens are perhaps the only YES
tiges left of the vanished empire of
the Chibehas, which flourished in this
region in pre-Spanish times.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11

The Review of Reviews says Butte
Mont, is a fiowerless, grassless. god
less town.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11
BROWN IS QUEEN OF COLOR.

BROWN IS QUEEN OF COLOR.
Brown, then, is the queen of col
ors, and exhibited its merits in the
satiny broadcloths, the l1strous silks
and shining satins and the luxurious
veIvets which were the fabrics EN-
ployed in the most artistic gowns al
the openings of the month.
Pomegranafe reds, deepening To
warm wine colors, aspire for atten
ton. The becoming talents of these
charming pigments permit the reds
to set off the compilations of blondes
and brunettes. Everyone cannot wear
brown, but everyone may look well
in red. Neither have the Russian
green's, nor the Gobelin blues, mol
smoke grays, nor prunes, departed
Accepting the color idea of rich
luscious shades, one may enter an
emporium of fashion and rejoice in
the drapings of broadcloths which
are first in. fabrics, messalines first
among the silks, eoliennes first among
the wooden and silks, and materials
without end.-Chicago Post.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11

The city of New York maintains on
its pay rolls nearly 61,G09 workers al
an annual expense Of 100000
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11

Wagner's opera, die Meistersing-
err" was sung for the first time in
America at the Metropolitan opera
house, Jan Q, 1886.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11

Asbestos can fairly lay claim to the
title of being the most useful of all
minerals. 1t has been called a miner
illogical vegetable. 1t is both fibrous
and crystalline. elastic, yet brittle,
floating stone, which can be readily
carded, spun and woven into tissue.
In Germany it is known as stein-fachs
(stone fax, and the miners of Que
bee give it quite as expressive name
pierre cotton Cotton stone).
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

In Colombia rice is served twice
at the tables of the rich as well as
the poor.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11

Only FIVE in each 1000 English
people own land In Russian Ia
out OF every 1000 are landowners.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11
lions of postcards.

lions of postcards.
Last evening at shutdown | climbed
the hill of the quaint walled fortress
which guards Mini Novgorod. The
failing sun was furnishing the doomes
of innumerable churches, a hundred
sweet toned bells, beaten with wooden
hammers, made the evening melodious.
There was the heavy tramp of full
kitted Russian soldiers mounting the
hill to the fortress; there was the dis
tant babel of a city doing business at
the top of its voice; down below on
the Volga was the scurrying of tug
boats hauling mammoth cattle boats
and snakelike RATS into place, and
the constant shrill warming boots of
the sirens; away eastward, Siberia
ward, stretched a fiat and unbroken
land to the very horizon, with a low
ering purple sky deadening to black.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11

Sicily produces about 100000 tons
of sulphur annually, or 80 per cent.
of the entire production of the world
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11
IMEySeAggeeIN(S@EE
lNsN@ %NHssS

lend picturesqueness to the nelghbor
hood of the Dutch legation-NeW
York Press.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11

Russian, of course-of THE Geisha."
Nowhere have | seen such jostling
of East and West.
One likes to think Mini Novgorod
fair is Oriental. 1t is customary to
associate the Orient with the dazzling.
But there is nothing dazzling about
the fair. The Eastern practice is fol-
lowed of having all the shops selling
particular wares in one district. /
looked for old silver and found cart
loads of crude Austrian electroplate.
| sought antique rugs and got head
ache looking at the vile, highly colored
and grotesquely patterned mats manu-
featured in German Poland The only
embroideries were imitation rubbish
from Switzerland. In a dirty cafe
did come across some melancholy Per-
slams who had turquoise and opal
stones to sell, and we spent rainy
afternoon in haggling.
Yet there is fascination in the null
titude of articles. At times cne can
imagine that all the manufactures of
shoddy articles have dumped their
things on Volga-side. Try to picture
a third of a mile of tombstones for
sale-though, Hibernian like, most of
the stones are of wood. Here the
merchant from the far interior may
acquire really striking monument
which will make him the envy of his
neighbors who have never been to the
fair. A whole street is devoted to
the sale of ikons, pictures of saints
set out in Byzantine style in flaming
gilt, and to be found in every Russian
house in the right hand corner at the
upper end of the room.
There are streets sacred to the sale
Of Russian boots-there must be mil
lions of them. Battalions of sacks
laden with raisins block one thorough
fare; another road is maze of bales
OF wool. A row of shops is given up
TO the sale of umbrellas, and there is
merriment watching the astonished
countenance of simple peasant wo-
man having an umbrella opened in her
face for the first time Miles upon
miles of cotton goods are here, with
no nonsensical half shades about them
but strong and unmistakable reds and
greens and blues and yellows. Half
street is given up to cheap German
toys
In the centre of the fair is a large
red brick arcade with shops selling
the usual tinsel and expensive things,
with the usual band playing in the
afternoon, and the usual row of wooden
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11

Twenty-six letters of the alphabet
and nine numerals neatly engraved on
an ordinary pinhead. This apparently
impossible feat of infinitesimal etch-
ing has been accomplished by Eugene
Wrenger, an expert steel and copper
plate engraver Every letter and fig
IRE can be seen plainly through the
microscope or without glass if one
has good eyes. 1t has been placed on
exhibition in a public museum in
Philadelphia.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-11

Ploughing is done by steam on prac-
tically every one of the largest ranch
farms. Instead of ploughing just one
furrow. as in the olden days, num-
Der of ploughs are attached to the en-
CINE and every trip across the field
leaves a stretch of newly turned earth
ten to twenty feet wide. Twenty-Five
acres in twelve hours. Three horses
work for one engine. although many
farmers make the machines do forty
acres in twelve hours. Three horses
and one man to each plough turn over
three acres in one day. The engineer
is the principal power in the newer
way.