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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06
Magnolia News.

Magnolia News.
What vast number of people in
the United States do not own foot
f land! What vaster number
still earn barely enough to keep the
wolf from the Goor. Then there
is another great army who earn
enough to live in imperative com
fort who makes a livtng and no
more. If you are Disseminated with
your lot and your poverty grinds
you, remember you are one of the
great majority. Life is what you
make it. Discomfort is mainly a
habit of mind. LAS man THINKS
in his heart, so is me-" Right llv-
ing brings the only true happiness
here below. Yet we cannot live to
ourselves alone. Injustice and
swinish greed are throned in high
places. 1t is ones duty to fight
these, for the sake of ones fellow
men, as we'll as ones own. The
path of opportunity should be
broadened for those and they con-
stitute the human family in great
part-who wish to live and let live,
and are not consumed by IN inor-
di ate thirst for gain.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06

TRANQUILITY is once. more welcome
to a politically stirred country.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06

The storm ard anxiety of another
great campaign is over.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06
YaZoo Sentinel

Yazoo Sentinel.
The home paper should be found
in every home. No children should
grow up ignorant who can be
taught to appreciate the, home
paper. 1t is said to be the STEP
ping stone of intelligence to all
those matters not to be found in
books. Give your children a for
eign paper which contains not a
word about any person, CT thing
which they ever saw or perhaps
ever heard of, and how could you
expect them to be interested? But
let them have the home paper and
read of people whom they met and
of places of which they are famil-
lar and soon an interest awakened
which increases with every arrival
of the local paper. Thus a habit
of reading is formed and those
children will read the papers all
their lives and become intelligent
men and women, a credit to their
ancestors, strong in knowledge of
the world as it is today.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06
Nashville Christian Advocate.

The time has come when tranps
ought not to be fed. No able
bodied man who tries can fail to find
manual labor sufficient to feed and
clothe him. Professional tramps
exist because of the soft-hear e |
people, women chiefly. who cannot
bear to turn anybody away who
claims to be hungry. But profess
ional tramps are a menace to So
ciety. They constantly decoy away
boys and start them on a life of
crime. Every woman who feeds an
idle man at time when work is
to be had on all sides should reflect
that in doing it she is endangering
the future of her boy or of SO ne
other woman's boy. If the women
would stop feeding them and the
railroads would stop lett ng them
ride, the tramps would disappear,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06
PentecoStal Herald.

Pentecostal Herald.
We are in need of a new Tom
Jefferson who shall write another
Declaration o: independence de-
claring that the U. S. is and of
right ought to befree forever from
all sinful completely it'll the iniqui-
tors liquor traffic. If King George
III oppressed the colonies with the
iron h:el of tyranny, King Alco-
hol is more sorely depressing the
nation today. AS the political
bands that united us with the for
mer were cut by the keen edge of
the Revolutionary sword, the cords
that bind US to the latter should be
broken by ballots. III
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06
[EASSggaSSghSaS;s4ss5sgg|sds
Home
Circle
]. Depart
rr1ent.

There are too many fathers who
will tie up the dog at night and
let the boy run loose.
Some women are awful touchy.
A widow has bought an action
against a paper which said that
her husband had gone to happier
home.
What is needed most of all in
bringing up children is example.
What they see and hear and take in
by absorption in their young years,
will in most cases become the
ruling traits of their lives. Par
ents rarely fully realize to what
extent they stand as models to
their children.
There is no surer safeguard
against the temptations that come
to young men and women than
love for home. 1t has brought back
and held many wanderer in a safe
place. 1t is something not only to
love home but to know that YOU
love it-and know that you are
happier at home than in any Other
place on earth.
The sooner children are brought
to understand that idleness is
crime, and that no amount of fine
cul ure can make them pass ion
valuable IN the worlds eye If they
are unable to earn livelihood, and
so must become hangers on for
others to support. the better for
them That daughter who helps
her mother Coos and scrub, is far
more worthy than she who only
paints and plays. and obliges her
overworked father to pay a SER
want that she may MT soil her
dainty hands.
There is charity that consists
in withholding words, in keeping
back harsh judgments. in abstain
ing from speech is t. condemn
such charity hears the tales of SIAN
der, but doe S not repeat it; listens
in silence, but forbears comment;
then locks the unpleasant secret up
in the very depths of his heart.
Silence can still rumor; it is speech
that keeps story alive. and lends
1T vigor. 1t is in the kind and
gentle heart that charity abides
with the peacefuluness of a dove
There it makes It's home, and by
the word withheld and the kindly
one outspoken, we have the sign of
the dove of peace nesting in the
heart. For kinds words are like
"apples gold IN ictures of
silver
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06
Epworth Era

Epworth Era a.8 =.
The man who can forego salty
and cutting retort after he feels the
provocation has been furnished has
got the better at least Of himself.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06
Bay Springs News.

If could be the means of estab-
fishing an insti .utlon of learning
that would be an honor to the
country and a blessing TO human
ity, what care | for what p eople
say and think o. me. If could
We the means of helping only a
few struggling young men an
women to a fmore useful life.
would gladly bear all the little,
mean lies told on me. They dc
not worry me in the least. nor hurt
me a particle.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06
Changed By Kindness.

I'VE were married thirty-seven
years." man said, who had lost
his wife, and in all that lime
she never gave me a cross word
But | shall never forget the first
time ! scolded her. One m rning
when we had been married twe
years, ! found a button off my
shirt. | threw the garment at
her, and said in rough voice.
"Sew a button on!" She got q
button and sewed it IN, saving,
Forgive me, husband, had a
great deal to do yesterday, and
forgot it; but it shall never hap
pen again" Her gentle words
almost broke my heart. | could
have gone down on my knees to
ask her forgiveness. She made a
different man of me, and the
world has been a different place
since she died.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06

Those who habitually correct
their children in their faults by
whipping and boxing them, must
not be surprised when they find
them slapping them in return, and
rough and abusive towards one
another. They are simply trying
to enforce their own little ideas of
right as they have seen their elders
do. The mother who spends most
of her time fussing over the
wardrobes of her children and her.
self, starching, ironing and deco
rating and making them fashion
able, will find the lessons she taught
cropping out in dudeism; in van
ity that prevents the development
of solid character and useful habits.
The father who smokes and drinks
and spends his substance in riot
Gus living, will have better luck
than management if his children
turn out to be strong, healthy and
citizens.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06

The Greene County people who
are fast having to and are coming
! to turn to the soil for a livelihood,
should take warning from the les
son our neighbors over in the
Western portion of the state have
learned by dearly bought exper-
fence, and from the first adopt the
plan of diveriifi crops. That is
the most independent, the hap
piest and the surest living yet.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06
Vicksburg Herald.

The Woodville Republican, pub
lished in a county which the boil
weevil has already overrun, thus
hopefully forecasts two years
hence: After that tim, we will all
adapt ourselves to new conditions,
plant more feed stutfs, raise more
hogs, cattle and horses, and withal
stop making cotton pay for those
things that we can raise at home.
Then we will wake up to find that
the coming of the boil weevil was a
blessing in disguise. =" However
costly the lessons of this pest may
prove, there is common argument
that the change to the farming
economies which were practiced by
the fathers of the present genera
tions, and have been preached by
every speaker and writer upon the
subject in the past forty years, is
now presented as a message and a
mandate that all must heed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06
HOMESTEAD NOTICE.
Dep rtment of the Interior
T. . Lana once at Jackson. Miss.
Sept % ions


NoClcc Is hereb% given that Edward b. LopeF
ol LeaktSV'lIe Miss, who on December .. 1906
mace Homestead Application. NO 4I6s2S O5O6
LOT I-2s-w IA and sw IA NV IA Section a.
IOWnSDlp IN Range 6w, St. Stephens Merid-
i IAN mas hled notice of intention 10 make final
Communication FroOf to establish claim to the
IIuu above described, before Clerk of Circuit
court Greene Co. at LeakeSviile on the
9TH day of November 1903.
Claimant amts aS witnesses: Joe VALLEY
Richard Wal.er. Henry Rainwater and Charles
White. all of Leakesville Greene County Miss.
l.. q. .. LAMAR. Register
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06
EDITORIAL

And SO its President VIM. H. Taft.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06
NEICHBORHOOD|
);R NEW,,k(

Mr.. Frank Malone has recently
returned from Leakesville, where
he went to purchase some cattle.
While there he observed some
things that are superior to those
found in Mobile county and Citron-
ellie. He says they have fine
large two story school house build
ing, and the bridges over the
streams are made of steel. And
the county in which Leakesville is
situated is considered the poorest
in the state. While Mobile is con-
sidered a rich county, we ought to
have things different here and may
be we will some day when the town
gets through votingf franchises to, ir-
responsible companies Chronicle
ALA Call.
One of our graduates Mr.. H. H.
Breland who was principal of the
Raleigh High School, Raleigh,
Miss, stood the literary exaIoina-
ton in Mississippi for the Cecil
Rhodes scholarship and was the
only man to pass this year out of
the three that stood. The others
were University of Miss. men.
AS there will be no appointment to
the Cecil Rhodes scholarship this
year Mr.. Breland is going to spend
next session in Harvard University
studying Meridian Messenger.
The young man above alluded to
is the eldest son of Rev. R. Alden
Breland who is the eldest living
brother of the Breland Brothers Of
which Shift. Dan and Eugene are
members.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06

There are too many fathers who
will tie up the dog at night and
let the boy run loose.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06

Some women are awful touchy.
A widow has bought an action
against paper which said that
her husband had gone to a happier
home.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06
ClarionLedger

Night riding in Mississippi
seems to be thing of the past,
with no great injury for any acts
committed, which seems to have
consisted in posting notices to gin
ners who paid no attention to them.
For a while it was feared that
might riding" would assume
threatening proportions in Missss-
ippi, as it did in Kentucky, but in
reality 1t existed more in imagi-
nation than in fact.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-06
Other Editors Chatter
lSs!S9g9!SsS!S1!&1S8|

An Ohio woman got a divorce
last week on her complaint alleging
that her husband had not taken a
bath in II years Elk. John Allen
says every man ought to take a hath
every year whether he needs it or
not and if this Teller had take a
Johns advice he would have live
a cleaner life.-Southerrn Sentinel.
Scott County Register.
There never was a law in Miss
issippi that was so unjust 20 the
people of the state as the PRIV
ilege Tax" and we believe if it
was put to the test it would prove
to be unconstitutional The prop
erty tax valuation should be suffi-
cient to run the state without hav-
ing to burden a man to death
with a privilege on every little
two-bit business he engages in.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-28
AWARDED A WATCH
THE MISSIONARIES AND
THE MISSION
MABEL JOHNSON,
santa Clara. Age Is Years


Wherever the Spaniards undertook to
settle. whether in the West indies,
Mexico or California. the missionaries
went to preach to the natives to win
them to the Catholic faith. At first
the Jesuits were very active in Mexico
and Lower California The Jesuits
were succeeded by the Franciscans.
who had many powerful friends among
the Mexicans.
Immediately the Franciscans under
took the founding of a great many
missions, extending from Lower Cali
fornia to Monterey. The leader of all
these missionaries was very remark
able priest named Father Junipero
Sierra. and as he went from place to
place ablishing new missions he be-
came a hero of that period of California
history.
The first mission that was founded
in California was at San Diego, where
the cross was erected by Father Sierra
in July, 1863. In the same year an
exploring party of soldiers were sent
from San Diego to Monterey bay to
erect another mission, but by mistake
his company missed that place and dis
covered San Francisco bay, which they
named after their own st. Francis.
Father Sierra worked for Is years,
founding mission after mission, until
the time of his death. Altogether the
Franciscans established 21 missions.
Their names are very numerous in Cali
fornia, such as San Diego. San Fran
cisco and San Luis Obispo. few
places, like San Jose and Los Angeles,
were founded as puebloS.
Each mission usually consisted of a
church or chapel These buildings
We're mostly made of adobe. The fields.
orchard and vineyard were cultivated
by the Indians.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-28
THE MONROE DOCTRINE
MATILDA BUZZINI
ii Years, Eighth Grade, Suisun.
CRYSTAL District

In 1882 Russia made settlements on
the Pacific coast, which is now Cali
fornia, and Spain having ruled the col
onies in the United States carelessIy
they each separated and formed an in
dependent government of their own
Spain tried to get these republics back.
but could not do it,. Seeing Spain could
not succeed Russia, Prussia, Austria
and France formed holy alliance to help
Spain.
These holy allies then asked Great
them. But Great Britain did not like
Spain and did not want to see her get
anything.
The prime minister of Great Britain
told the holy allies they had better
not meddle with South American re-
publics, and then asked the United
States to join in against them.
Adams was greatly opposed to having
any more European settlements in
America, so he got Monroe to take the
opportunity, offered. Monroe then made
a declaration, and sent 1t in his annual
message to congress. December 2, 1928.
This was called the Monroe doctrine,
and said:
/. That the American continents
Were no longer open to European
colonization.
2. Referring to the conduct of the
holy allies, he said that the United
States would not meddle in the political
affairs of Europe.
3. That European governments must
not extend their system into any part
of North or South America, or in any
way to seek to control the destiny of
any of the nations of America.
This doctrine was effective, because
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-28
AWARDED A WATCH
PURCHASE OF LOUISIANA
HAZEL ANDERSON,
8I44 Twenty-secOnd street, San Fran
cisco. Horace Mann School, Sew
enth Grade. Age IA.


Napoleon at the head Of France, and
designs OF a new French empire in
America. Jefferson. believing in the
growth Of the country, and seeing the
danger OF having an ambitious neigh
Dor like France. opened propositions
for purchase. James Monroe was sent
as a special envoy TO France, the presi-
dent assuring him that on result of
the mission depended the future of the
republic. Napoleon, being in need of
wrest the country from him, Louisiana
was bought in 1903 for Sl5,000,000. The
American progress was now great and
the great rivers became the outlet of
western commerce.
Three explorers of the Oregon coun-
try were Lewis, Clark and Gray. The
territory purchased was an unknown
selected two officers. Lewis and William
Clark. and sent them 10 ascend the
Missouri river to its headwaters. Their
explorations We're extended TO the
Pacific ocean. giving to the public the
first information about the northwest,
and a fair claim TO the ownership OF
the oregon country
The explorers set out in 1904. with
the party well selected. They worked
$500 miles. then on wild horses which
they had caught. They crossed throuh
mountains TO the streams which they
followed TO the sea
On the way they met an Indian
tribe that had never seen a white man
before The Columbia river had been
discovered in 1892 by Robert Gray of
Salem. Mass. who had sailed in the
ColuPbia Rediva.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-28
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE
EUGENE F.. BATLESS,
CfOverdaIe. CIoyerdaIe Public school.
Sixth Grade. Age 10 Years

The English did not think much
about the new world till Queen Eliza
beth came TO the throne.
Francis Drake was the most daring
Englishman of that day. On one OF
his expeditions he landed on the 18th
mus OF Panama. where he climbed to
the top OF a tree. from which he saw
the Pacific ocean. When he saw 1t. he
longed to sail upon it.
He returned 70 England and four
years later. 1871, he set sail on his
famous voyage. he started with five
small vessels. wen armed and fitted for
a long voyage. brakes chief aim was
plunder.
He sailed for the west coast of South
America, and hoped TO plunder every
Spanish ship he came upon He was
successful and captured a Spanish
treasure ship from Peru.
His own vessel sailed through the
strait of Magellan. but the other four
did not. 1t was supposed that they
were lost in storm. The name OF
brakes vessel was The Pelican" and
after passing through the strait he re-
named her the Golden Hind
voyage. but kept right on Up the west
coast of South America. plundering
Spanish ships. He continued his jour
ney as TAR as the coast of Oregon
When he returned to England his ship
was laden with treasures which had
been captured from Spanish ships.
Queen Elizabeth received him with
great honor. She dined on board
brakes vessel and knighted him and
his name became Sir Francis Drake
He then sailed across the Pacific. thus
completing his circuit OF the world.
the nrst Englishman to accomplish that
feat.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-28
LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
RAY r. JOHNSON.
272 Second Avenue. Age IA Years

Abraham Lincoln, known as Honest
Abe" the sixteenth president of the
United States, was born on Nolint
creek, Hardin (now Larue) county,
Kentucky.
Abe was very intelligent, and always
liked to read books.
He worked at all trades. He was a
When Lincoln was years of age he
was taken to live in Indiana, where
his mother died in 1918. His father
married again, and his stepmother grew
to like Abe very much.
In the year 1912 he made voyage to
New Orleans on q fiatboat.
Lincoln enlisted in the Black Hawk
war in 1882, where he served three
months.
bar, and his Office as lawyer was very
successful, on account of his honesty.
He was married in 1912, and became
interested in politics. In 1916 he served
one term in the house of representa-
tives, and voted against slavery.
In 1850 he made fine speech which
made him great man in republican
politics.
He was elected president of the
United States by a large majority. He
urged the people to unite in upholding
the Union. The south wanted slaves,
but Lincoln refused, saying, ''The
United States Is a free country" and
the civil war followed.
The south drew out of the Union.
and formed the Confederate states of
America.
The war lasted from 1851 to 1865.
when Lee surrendered to Grant and all
the states were back into the Union.
Four days after the close of war
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-28
The Oriental Department Of San Francisco Public Schools
BY Cecilia c. Newhan

AS the boys and girls who read The
Junior Call can not of necessity visit
the Oriental school, unless, of course.
they play truant,'' as children say, let
us instead make an imaginary visit to
the various Glasses of this interesting
school. Entering the main entrance on
Clay street, we find on our right the
baby class" of wee little boys and
girls, and at our left the pupils of the
highest grades.
First the little ones claim our atten-
tion, and We are at once attracted by
the pretty sight of dear little girls in
oriental dress, in marked contrast to
the small boys garbed in American
fashion; these little ones are very will
ing to entertain us and sing with vim
and grace the motion songs that are
taught in all the public schools OF this
city hence we hear Angel Eyes Are
Watching, Mr. Duck and Mr.. Turkey"
Grandpa Come and Dance With Me-"
etc, in clear, sweet voices. the little
ones watching and obeying every mo-
ton of their teacher. But time will not
permit a longer stay, and after making
the acquaintance of Leong Quai Ying,
Jare Cue, Teong Gum OF, three dainty
little maidens, and receiving a shrill
''goodby'' in chorus from all. we pass
across the narrow passageway to the
class that represents the fulfillment Of
the work begun in the one just left.
Here we listen TO stories Of great
men and great achievements in hiss
tory, and we wonder at the interest
taken in the historical events of our
country, and right here we are told
little story by the teacher.
Captain r. p. Hobson of Spanish
war fame visited the school one morn
ing and entered this classroom first; the
pupils had learneds of the heroism Of
Captain Hobson, and their hearts had
been fired by it; so when the smallest
boy in the class, YIN Ping, was called
upon to give suitable history story,
the little fellow came forward, and
standing manfully in front of Captain
Hobson, and announcig his recital as
a Brave Act told in clear English the
story of Hobson's bravery so dear to the
hearts of all American boys, you can
imagine Captain Hobson's astonishment
and also his look of almost boyish en-
barrassment
Much more could be told of these
higher grade pupils, of their attentive