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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-10-16
AN AMERICAN GIRL AND AN IRISH EARL

When Ogden Mses
residence
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-10-16
Aspiration Treaty with China

Washington. Oct. 9-The propos-
ed arbitration treaty between China
and the United States was signed at
the state department Thursday by WI
Ting Fang. the Chinese government.
and Secretary Root On behalf of the
American sovernment.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-10-16

marched away to their cabins.
The cruise started in play about the
water edge and ended in woodshed,
when, with wet clothes stretched tight,
every spat stung fiercely and walls
sounded over the Inundated bayou
dats.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-10-16

Hish-sreed c.eetrsc reading, as we.a
rs h:sh-steed aa.olAobiling. often has
Death at he lever
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-10-16

To be o. 'Ise in the world is the only
way - h. - 'oy n6arsen.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-10-16

A is a rope Of any size desired and
READ THE HERALD.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-23
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LIVING EXPENSES.
Steady Upward Movement During Re-
publican Rule.

publican Rule.
partment Of Commerce and Labor
shows. that last October-the month
which brought the Republican panic
from the depressing effects Of which
tho country has since sufrered-the
wholesale prices OF 258 representative
staple articles reached the highest
point known in the eighteen years for
which the figures are given in the re-
port, and doubtless the highest since
the Civil War period. With the COM
modities divided into nine groups.
every group shows an Increase of price
In 1907 over 1906. For farm products
the Increase was 1919 per cent: for
food, as per cent. for clothing. 5.6 per
cent: for. fuel and lighting. "a per
cent; for metals and implements.
81 ner cent; for lumber and building
material. 40 per cent; for drugs drugs t ana
nishing goods. 6.s per cent, and for f., the e
were the people of the country imposed
upon in the period when their earnin
capacity was equal to the strain. Al
far the panic. some reduction occurred.
for the reason simply that the ma ses
could not pay the former prices; ana
the hold ers OF st ocks We're compelled 70
sell at lower figures. But It Is known
to9all. at least to all heads OF families
that the cost of living is yet !. on !. q. o.
pant 50 Nv system which shuts OUT
romnetition and privileges mon Top oiy.
Have the people not enough OF tne
Ren,iblican panic and the Republican
hiph prices ?-Buffalo8 Courlcr.
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THURSDAY. JULY 90, 1908.
THE MURDER AT THE CITY HOME.

THE MURDER AT THE CITY HOME.
The murder OF a nameiess infant at
the City Home on Monday last calls
for Instant and searching investiga.
ton. The Committee on Relief of the
Poor. which has general charge OF the
homo. will hold a special meeting to-
morrow night to probe this shocking
crime. 1t will certainly Insist upon
categorical answers to the following
questions:
Why are corrosive snblimates ana
other deadly poisons kept at the CITY
Home within easy reach Of anybody
who wants to Kill?
why was the first attempt to murder
this infant, on July 10Th last, kept
secret? Is 1t, or is 1t not. the duty OF
the city Home officials to notify the
police OF crimes attempted on persons
committed to their care?
Why was the second attempt to
( murder this infant suppressed until
after the childs death?
Why did George 3. Davis, superin-
4 tendent OF the City Home, and J. G.
A Trevilian, resident physician at the
city Home make no mention of the
death OF the murdered child at the
Poor Committee meeting on Monday
< night, at which meeting both of them
were present?
1T is an unfortunate coincidence that
both Superintendent Davis and Resi-
dent Physician Trevllian should have
elected this moment to absent them
selves. Superintendent Davis left the
city on Tuesday for ten-days abb
sence in the western part Of the State.
Resident Physician Trevilian left the
city yesterday for a holiday in Boston
+ and Nova Scotia. The Poor Committee
has decided to summon DR.. Trevilian
$as witness. Superintendent Davis
should not wait to be summoned. AS
the responsible head Of the City Home,
he should feel. more strongly than
any one else. that he could not prop
erly be absent during tho coming
scrutiny of It's regulations and meth
DDS.
The City Home has been under fire
before. A brutal and bungling murder
committed under its roof suggests {
present laxity OF administration there
not agreeable to contemplate. The
need is urgent for thorough ventila.
tlon OF the habits OF management
which have made such an outrage
possible.
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THE SENSATIONAL ItEPORTSv
ABOUT THE FREE BRIDGE,

In the course Of a statement TO The
4 Times Dispatch with reference to re-
pairs upon the Free Bridge, Mr.. James
Gordon, chairman OF the James
sElver Bridge Commission. said:
1, III s..chis repair work Is done chiefly for
EEfthe purpose OF allaying the widespread
E,alarm caused by sensational ne wspaper
reports that the bridge is unsafe, and
mot because observation-disclosures believe
Ii iSithat ii is,'' IS
AT u meeting Of tire James River
iBrtdge Commission on July ls,h the
u Eommlssioners read and considered a
y bsttsf from. the receivers Of tho YiFginla
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a1E l,I JoK1SG.

At the Fair.
Miss Passee has volunteered to sell
kisses" N.
shell do nne business. why. she
couldn't give 'em Observation-Disclosures Her
Cold Comfort.
II can't buy these Jokes" go
yet you admit, they're good"
yes: and ~ compromise with you. Get
some other editorato buy them and I'll clip
them. "--Houston Chronicle !
Deduction.
when does the next train leave for
Bunkhurst 2" AZ
at twelve minutes Of twelve"
furtea 90
was none other.
o "si +, how he. do you know that mine is a
would have said at 11:ls."-LoaisvilIe co u
rier-Journnl.
"A Familiar Sign
Don't sell that man another drink" or
dercd the boss.
IL "t ain't FL snl. right" argued the ea'keep
;m BIZ, he he's SssnslnE tel xhss
Getting 1t Back.
II wish had Biggwadd's money!
'why don't you wish you had d fortune
OF your own? III you had Biggwadd's
money he'd, worry you to death."-Kansas
City Journal.
Young Prodigy Of Finance.
Mamma said her boy, 81 just made a
bet" 5l1zs 80 4 4 7s5'flE =
what was it," she asked.
~ bet Billy my cap against two shoe
buttons that you'd give me a penny to get
some apples with. You don't want. me to
He got the penny.-Philadclphla Inquirer.
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Financial.
SOME NuprIAL STATISTICS.
What Wedding. Cost the Country
Ls.9.-rs.. a 49, ExerY1 Year.

Every Year.
A bulletin Issued yesterday by the
Federal government says that the PEG
ME OF the United States spent $S,765.-
s92 for wedding presents during inc
month OF June. The cost OF trous-
seaus reached $22.f65.o2l. and more
than $4,000. 900 was spent upon bridal
bouquets, wedding breakfasts and mack t,l.
hire. To the 346,675 clergymen VINO
affiliated Mt the 643.s9o weddings OF.
the month the bridegrooms paid $780,
365.sO or an average OF Slab Sd
head. Upon wedding journeys. music.
rice. liquors, souvenir postcards tips
and the hire of portable porte coch-
eres further sum OF 20 was ea-
pended, making approximately @50,-
900. 900 in all.
The fact that the cost Of wedding
presents worked out to no more than
s13.o6 wedding may surprise the
reader but several interesting foot
notes explain 1t in satisfactory man
ner. 1t Is pointed out. for instance.
that only 22 per cent. OF the wedding
presents displayed by the average
bride were actually bought for the oc-
ca sion by their real or ostensible don
ors. Fully 60 per cent. of all presents,
says the report. are made to do SER
vice a great many times. AT the start,
let US say, an opulent young bachelor
is asked to be best man at avoiding,
and, with hysterical generosity. PUSHES
out and buys the bride $40 clock.
Well. six months later when the
brides third cousin Is married, the
same clock serves as avoiding present
again, and later on. when the third
cousin herself Is hidden to some
other girls nuptials 1t changes
\ Il r,
same cloc1 my continue on Its
rounds for years, until Its gliding
wears off and its spring breaks. Often
indeed, 1t is received by the same bride
|twice-that&is to say, at.her first mar
|riage and at her second. But such
accidents are apt to sunder friendships
and cause Ill feeling.
48 The report proceeds to point out that,
while most brides display enormous
and costly collections Of clocks, water
pitchers, hand-painted pictures soup
ladies', oyster forks and other objects
Of vertu to their friends. It Is often
true that many of these things are not
actual presents. There has arisen, In
deed, a tendency to artifictally initiate y.
such exhibitions by borrowing articles
by hiring them from dealers Thus
the bride who displays sixty clocks
may have received. in point Of fact.
but thirty. The rest may go back the
day after. the wedding, to the dealer.
Often his Representative may be- obs
served standing In the corner Of the
Iexhibition chamber. disguised as "a q
walter or detective.
The report contains Fl many other
things Of interest, but the pressure OF
political articles makes IT impossible
for us to devote more space to It to-
day.-Baltimore Sun. ls5ig ,si
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OF Its honors, OF tho pension which
had been bestowed upon It BY Louis
imander Of the French troops at the
battle OF the Heights OF Abraham had
rendered to his country. and, further
In view OF the statement that 1T was
tho ~ oi lad Become one
entirely extinct with his death. It will
be well for the authorities at Quebec
to subject the pretenslons OF their
young visitor from River Street. Hack
5ensack, N. J.,a to n very searching scru-
tiny before receiving and welcoming
him asathe bona f1de, egitimate and
sole surviving descendant OF the great
Marquis OF Montcalm. rs.
Copyright, 1908, by the Brentwoo cd
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-23
REACTION IN GEORGIA.

The Times-D dispatch is indebted to
the Wall Street Summary for this ex-
scerpt from the recently adopted plat
form OF the Georgia Democrats:
We pledge not only to citizens OF
States. that all capital invested In
legitimate enterprises in Georgia,
whether foreign or domestic, cor
Sporate or private. shall have the equal
~ friendly consideration of those who
administer the laws.
Those who adniinister the laws are
the courts. !" Cohrts. are supposed to
recognize no friendship. Is it not q
singular thing that the dominant party
In great State should find 1t neces-
sary to affirm that its courts will
tlcular class OF citizens? What is there
sjntrinsically wicked about capital
which would lead some to regard it
as debarred from It's inherent privi-
8alege of equality before the law?
Georgia is eating in soberness the
fruits of passion and prejudice.
WhistIed away for time by leather
ilunged pipers who sung the reform
( OF 'smashery" and promised the mill
lennium through the instrument of the
h broad-axe. she is now engrossed with
the thought that money may not be
such a bad thing, after all. for State
to have, and that articles of incorpora-
ton do not necessarily constitute the
badge of outlawry. OF this awakening
the first visible blossom was the stun
ming rebuff recently administered to
"a Governor Hoke Smith. who had ridden
Il to office on the same reform" that
y was destined to turn again and rend
him
The platform quotation above fairly
.yamplies that there are people In Geor-
iigia to-day who would actually admit
Sf,nnder pressure. that a man might own
~ little block of railroad stock with
NJ out being either q bandit or mntri,
q eide. In fact. 1t is reasonably con.
I seryative to say that Georgia would al
this moment extend an all but fulsomc
hand to that very incorporated capita
which only last year she was SO happ.
ITO chase away with a club.
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AMERICAS LANDED MAN.
Mr.. George w. vanderbilts vast Ter
5tsass rttOry mt DiltnIOrc. 81

~ l. ( H. kl
B On the Blue Ridge Mountains In
North Carolina. near the famous win-
ter society colony at Asheville George
w. Vanderbilt has created one OF the
greatest estates in America lie has has
torn down, blasted and dug away
vast pyramid OF earth and rock. at a
cost OF q million dollars; then he told
his engineers to go y thousand miles
house on this CUTOFF mountain
house such as Ii seen in the valley OF
the Loire in. France.-.a Norman castle
They brought the limestone and oak
walls and doors. where marble was not
used. The home maker and his wife
went around the globe searching for
Tapestries: rugs and carpets to FUR
the famous collections Of the old world
We're hauled up tho hillside to adorn
the interior. But what was round
anont waS not forgotten The cha
Landscape gardens. with their walks
their fountains and their wealth OF
flowers, SO a model OF one OF these
miniature paradises was created out
Of part qfthH mountaih top t%, over:
hcen cutting e channel In tho rock
slope for recording centuries. Below
the garden that man made Is another
Of which dashes this watery ribbon. sc
there are two gardens where flower
and shrub vie with each other ir
charming the eye and the sense.
Such Is Biltmore House. You hea,
travellers speak Of 1t as the finest coun.
try seat In America. Blltmore House
ard the 100000, surrounding acres If
the Vanderbilt domain constitute til,
greatest estateSi In America, and prob.
ably one Of the greatest estates OF
modern creation.
That is big phrase. but only bis
phrases fit those hundred Thousand
Biltmore acres that rise and fall ovei
mountains. that are covered by ffteer
square miles OF virgin forest and two
square miles OF cultivated fold ant
pasture land, that boast thriving vii.
lage-Biltmore-of 200 souls, and thai
are crisscrossed by twenty miles OF
magnificent macadam roads. It repre-.
sents an lnves tment OF $20O0.O0O
Upon 1t are dozen farms, OF whicf
eight are leased to tenants on share.
and four are directly under Vanderbilt
cultivation. Over Its great pasture
ciearings Craze 275 cattle. lnostl,
FLOODED mich cows. besides the Berk.
shire hogs, poultry and pigeons, 10,
which Biltmore is celebrated.
Yet 1t would be hard to find a reefor
so devoid of agricultural promise. SO
dlscouraging as the site OF a grea,
country home. as this wilderness which
George w. Vanderbilt has made into {
veIitable Observation-Disclosures Mag
aZine . N'Asso
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Pronts at suex.

Suez Canal reports continue to give
the lie to the prediction OF failure or
of financial ,unprotita bleness which
made concerning that enterprise at its
Inception and. indeed. pretty persist
emily until it began practically to dis
prove them. The history OF the canal
an inspIringly monotonous record d
continuous progress. Each year has
seen its patronage and profits increase.
md at intervals Of a few years 1t has
been necessary to make successive and
considerable reductions OF tolls in or
der arbitrarily to decrease the receipts
and to prevent the profits from exceed
hg tae 3he con
[tInues.-NeW York Tribune.
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Change Of EnrIlsh =, =. I, !.

committee OF tho House OF Com.
mons has reported In favor OF chang
Ing the hours of the summer work.
day. Every spring all the business ana
household clocks In Great Britain IRE
to be set forward eighty minutes. so
they will point to 8 o'clock when by
Greenwich and solar time 1t Is 90 min
,utes to z. That will make everybody
begin work earlier in the day and get
through earlier In the afternoon. Civ
Ing several hours OF daylight leisure. y
In the fall when the days shorten,
the clock will be set back again at
solar time. Both changes will be made
iinatlie middle OF the night, when most.
people are asleep, 30 the only effect mt
the time OF the change Will be to cut
sluinber Short one hour and 20 minutes
one spring night and leng then the time
in bed an hour and 20 minutes In tho
fall.
The advantages sought to be secured
by this plan are obvious. During the
summer months 1t Is daylight several
hours before most workmen have to.
rise, and 1t becomes dark before their
bedtime. BY beginning the working
hours earlier. bedtime and darkness
Will come nearer together. both length
,ening the time on In the afternoons AMI
evenings and saving artificial light.
Starting work earlier In the morning
VIII enable a good part OF the daily
tasks to be done before the heat OF
the day.-New York World.
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r,yo President. as Authors.

The fact that the public and me =,
inewsnapers have short memories =! !.
,nroVed again by the discussion over
the nrospectiye royalties which Presl-
dant lRooseyelts will receive from the
honk he is to write forNthe Scrtbners
about his African hunting trip, ~,
whole discussion is being conductcu,
SO far. as sifgthe situate on was "lthou
nrecedent, and as II the INCOME, from
Tia nroposed VOL ume was to set a. new
mark in the financial history OF the
Yet hardly twenty years have pas Ass : Z
since the country was ringing WIN
the fame Of the book of another ex-
President. since tho hero1sm VIE =
which that book 8, was wa; written m a a,9h1
ject Of world wide admtratio1n. !. ! al ana I
Grant thus made forahis family set an
unheard OF mark for the rewards of
authorship. The amount which Mrs,
Grant received from the volume is
stated at 100000 in one Sencyclopedia,
while a later publication gives the sum
as $500, 900. The book is till sold,
but there Is no means Of kno owing
what receipts; may have come fromait
In the last eight or ten years. The
first check sent to Mrs. Grant Tor =
was $200,000,r and the nextt$ 5000:
sums which still make the rewards OF
authors 'of "b est sellers look meagre:
Before the book was prin ted General
Grant had received what We're then
regarded as very large payments for
| tho serial publication OF portions OF
the book In the Century Ma azine. -
Brooklyn tEagl # r.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

According to Chinese law. q wife who is
too talkative may be divorced.
continually eating apples and other
fruit" helped Mrs. Ann Hulsizer. OF Ohio
well along toward 107 before she died.
In severe electrical storm at Evan. n
j.. In which there was no thunder. a barn
was smashed and several trees were strucx
by lightning.
to be erected in New Orleans, will be
placed In Audubon Park, directly opposite
Tulane University.
"A horse at sharpsburg Pa, saved some
little children by engaglng in battle Tith
thought. will prove fatal.
OF. the forty-tour English county chief
constables, only three have risen from the
ranks. thlry-three being ex-army officers
and one an ex-navy officer. ts
Tho International committee Of diamond
merchants is said to be IN a. fair way to
restore harmony between the hostile inter-
ests; The De Beers and Premier mine com-
panies have resumed negotiations.
Mrs. Edith wharton, the brilliant novel;
LIST, has taken enthusiastically to the cul-
ture OF swans at her beautiful villa, The
House Of Mirth, Lsnox. Mass.
Or. Clara e. Cary one of Boston's most
throwing open Of the state reservations for
camping purposes during the warm weather.
Ex-Governor William Z. Douglass. OF
Massachusetts. has presented to the Brock
Mass. building together with an endow-
| ment of $4,000.
Mrs. Selma c. Carter. widow OF Levi Car
ter, of Omaha, has donated to the city 500, :
900 for tho purchase Of Lake Nakoma and
$50 acres OF land around 1t for a permanent
park. N5 EEK
The three great Industrial nations--Eng-
land, France and Germany-each consume
about so per cent. of the manufactured
goods produced at home. The United States
sells only S per cent. OF manufactured
goods abroad. 9 Il
While taking up the floor Of an empty
house at Patrocinia, Brazil. a poor woman
| found Embedded In the earth beneath q
| diamond OF tho first water and perfect
| shape, weighing 220 -karats. 1t iiB the SEQ
ond largest diamond ever found In America
On the personal Invitation Of John D
1 Rockefeller, the Rev. John e.. White. pastor
| OF the Second Baptist Church Of Atlanta
| Co, will preach during August In the Euclid
| Avenue Church In Cleveland, of which Mr.
Rockefeller is q member.
Mrs Humphry Ward has come out in The
| open against wonen's rights. and is one Of
the most prominent of the organizers OF the
National Anti Suffrage Association. A cir.
cular letter sent out recently, setting forth
i the aims OF that body, contained her owr
nanle. Other slgners were the Marchiones.
OF Tweeddale. tho Countess OF Jersey, Lore
J punraven and Lord Rothschild. z
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Z. HUNTER, LABOR AND TIL
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

Robert Hunter, occasionally known
as the pink Carnation of Socialism, OBJ
served in New York on Tuesday:
"The Democratic anti-injunction
plank Is a direct evasion and an In
have confidence enough in the intelli-
gence Of labor to believe 1t a vain at
tempt to betray labor.
On the same day John Mitchell re-
marked in Indianapolis:
"Those declarations on the Injunction
and the antitrust laws in the Demo-
cratic platform were written by the
American Federation Of Labor Execu-
tive Board. and were Incorporated into
the platform word for word.
What is the matter with this Execu-
tive Board? What is the matter with
these 1000, 900 American workingmen?
Why do they fatuously elect and re-
tain as their executive representatives
men determined to betray them with
IAN Infamous attempt to delude labor?
| Possibly close scrutiny might re-
veal the surprising fact that the de-
Illusion exists somewhere else than
among the hard-hoaded sons of top.
1--WE are satisfied" said Mr.. Mitchell.
ordinarily not esteemed facile man
| to delude in an infamous way. From
the standpoint OF labor" he remark
ed, "the Democratic platform is de-
cidedly the better Of the two Singu-
larly enough, the infamy Of the Demo-
cratic proposals to provide a Jury trial
in cases Of indirect contempt, an eight
hour day. general employers liza
bility and special Cabinet portfolio
OF labor appear not to have enraged
Mr.. Mitchell at ALL.
We dare say that young Mr.. Hunter
before he became addicted to parlor
socialism, habitually voted the Republi-
can ticket. He sounds here. at any
rate, the true party" note. Anybody
who will say something bitter about
the Democratic labor planks at this
| iuncture Is sure to- notice from har-
ried press which can do nothing but
wiring It's hands and moan over and
over Gompers cannot deliver the
vote" Tho fact that Gompers enter
tains, SO he emphatically says. no such
design or expectation, and that he
would be an unbelievable ass II he
did. cannot check those who must raise
that cry or mono at all
i Nobody whose time is worth any
thing would waste it In long-winde6
proof that one man cannot sign ane
Il hand over 100000 free American
votes. Truisms are tedious, an6
whipping mare's-nests is q pastime FOL
!, the light headed only. The point ane
gist Of this situation and OF the Demo
, cratic mastery OF it, is not that Comp
ers ! can deliver labor, but that labor
!, can deliver itself.
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America'a Magic city.

In | he gray dawn New York is a
magic city! It's towering examples OF
architecture, Its outstanding and splen-
did police on guard in the silence, Its
monuments; It's long vistas Of streets!
he In going TO his early labor. tho
common American man sees the glories
or New York, and his heart responds
tout the pride of being a citizen OF so
EreNt a. IttXl-~NeR ,XQElk kInayl Lea n A,