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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17
Integrity of Women.

Of all the evils prevailing among
young men we know of none more
blighting in its moral effects than
the tendency to speak slighingly
of the virtue of women. Nor is
there anything in which young
men are so thoroughly mistaken
as the low estimate they form of
the integrity of women-not of
their own mothers and sisters,
thank God, but of others, who,
they forget. are somebody else S
mothers and sisters.
AS rule, no person who sur
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17
What Money Won't Do.

Money is powerful factor
nowadays
1t. will buy a position in the
world but it can't buy the breed
ing necessary to the upholding of
that position.
1t will buy the good things of
life--but it can't buy the ap-
petite to enjoy them.
1t will buy superb clothes-but
it can't negotiate for the proper
knack in wearing Them
1t will buy wife-but it can't
buy woman's love.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17
Will Interest Wives.

A Brooklyn wife has found a new
way to make her recreant husbaad dis
gorge portion of his earnings. He
was $15 shy on his feed bill and re
fused to come to the center. Thea
she got strangle hold on his wind
pipe and extracted his store teeth
These she kept for ransom until the
half-starved man was forced to pro.
duce the amount.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17
The Real Thlnu.

How do know that you love meY
81 walked all the way down Main
81 oct this evening to propose.
rats that got to do with it?"
y assed a solid mile of millinery
Try gods stores with windows full
ice tags and | never faltered."-
l.UnstoD Post
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17
The Word Post.

Many persons wonder how we got
the word post" as applied to the
mails. 1t comes from the Latin
positus, which means placed; there
fore it is a fixed station From this
it came to mean an established con-
veyaace of letters from one station to
another, and the place from which
the letters were sent out came to be
called the postoffice. "Post-haste," a
word used by Shakespeare, means
speed in travelling. like that of post
or a courier.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17
Beware of the Glass.

There's danger in the glass beware les
it enslaves. They who have drained 1t
find. alas too often early graves. 1t
sparkles to allure with its rich ruby
light: there is no antidote or
or cure. only it's course to fight
1t changes men TO brutes:
makes women bow their heads:
fills homes with anguish,
wants, disputes and takes
from children bread. Then
dash the glass away
and from the serpent
fiee drink pure
cold water
day by
day
and walk
Gods footstool free
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17
SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH MONEY
One Pupil In New York Acted as the
Family Bank.

Where do school children get all
the money they take to SCHOOL," was
asked New York teacher who was
worrying over the frequent theftS
from the pupils in her room.
Il don't know" she said. The stu
alton is puzzling. 1t is a fact that
Almost every child brings money to
cent to buy a doughnut or stick of
candy, but others carry surprisingly
large sums. Not long ago the charges
of theft were so frequent in my room
that l tried to stop this universal
carrying Of money. l asked the moth
ers not to give their children money
during school hours, except in cases
where it was really needed to buy
luncheon. Many of them promised to
cut off the allowance, but the small
coins continued to circulate just the
same. A few mothers declared that
they gave the children money for safe
keeping. l learned that one girl in
my class came to school day after day
with from $40 to $50 pinned in her
clothes. The father spent everything
he could lay his hands on, and as the
little girls garments were the only
place where he could never find the
money she was converted into NE
family bank"
The plan seemed to work, so far as
the spendthrift father was concerned,
but it worried the teacher.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17

Il Is reported that growers of carna-
tions are. giving particular attention to
four leading varieties, which will be
put to the front, with others of diverg-
ing tint In second place. The colors
most In demand are clear, vivid scar
LEI. pure white, deep rose, pink and
pale salmon pink.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17

First AasaziEe Editor believe my
youngster is cut Oct for an editor.
Second Editcr-Why 10?
First Editor-Everything 10 gets his
hands on he runs and throws inte the
ENTHUSIASTICALLY
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17
Old Gloves

They have about so or so kid gloves
at the ticket Office down at Union sta
tion, gray suedes, undressed kids
every old kind. But the trouble is
that among them all there is not one
rair. They are all odd gloves, mostly
'lefts." You see most men carry their
money in their left-hand pockets, and
when they're buying railroad tickets,
they take off the left glove Then
when they go away and leave the
glove the boys in the ticket office are
no better off than if they had left moth
ing behind but an air of mystery.
Its surprising, too," they say at the
ticket Office, how many men have
one or two fingers missing. Out of
the lot of old gloves now there, a
dozen or more have at least one finger
gone. The ticket sellers watch for
men who have fingers missing and
try to match them up with gloves that
correspond. With that exception,
most of the gloves go to waste
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17
Goodbye Mother.

1t is recorded that when the
plague broke out in a little viii
lage of Italy, the children of one
house was taken first. The parents
watched over them but only caught
the disease they could not cure.
The whole family died. Then across
the stree, in the home of a poor
laborer, who was absent all he
week, returning only on Saturday
to bring his scanty earnings. the
disease next began. The wife felt
herself attacked in the night by the
fever. When morning dawned
she was worse, and before
night the plagued spot sho wed
itself. She remembered the ter
rible fate of her neighbors. She
knew she must die, but as she
looked at her dear boys, she re-
solved not to communicate death
to them. She therefore locked
the children in the room, and
snatched the bedclothes, fearing
they were already impregnated
with the dreadful germs, and with
them left the house. She even
denied herself the pleasure of a
last embrace. OH think of the
heroism which enabled her to con-
quer her feelings and leave home
with all she loved-to die! Her
oldest child saw her from the win
dow. Goodbye, mother" said
he, with a tender voice, wonder
ing why she left so strangely.
Goodbye" mother, repeated
the youngest child, stretching his
little hands out of the window.
The mother paused. Her heart
wa drawn towards those little
ones and she was on the point of
rushing back. She struggled
hard, while the tears rolled down
her cheeks, at the sight of her
helpless babes. At length she
turned from them. The children
continued to cry. Goodbye,
mother" until their voices died
away, and the mother with an an
guished heart, entered the house
of those who were to bury her.
In short time she died, and with
her dying breath commended
her husband and children to the
care of Heaven. Was ever other
love like that? Only once, when
for the plague smitten race it hung
in bleeding mercy on the cross.
Exhibitions of a mothers love,
though not so striking as this, are
by no means rare. Live where
she may, and how she will, "a
mother is mother still, the
hottest thing alive"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17

Where is my boy tonight? You
are his father or mother, and if
you desire to lay your hands on
your boy within five minutes any
night, you wouldn't know where
to find him. He is on the street
somewhere, or at the railroad depot
jumping on the freight trains, but
just where, with whom, in what
engaged, what plotting or executing
for the shrewder ones who plot for
him, you could not tell for the life
of you. He has a good home and
ought to be there at night. He de-
sires to be somewhere with the boys,
and you lack the moral courage tt
insist that he shall be where he
should. You hope that he will
escape the pitfall, but you know
the Oh anco5 are agains him. Why
don't you do the boy the kindness
to keep him at home nights?
The time will come when he will
thank you for it or reproach you
for not doing it.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17

In nine cases out of ten, man S
life will not be a success if he
does not bear burdens in his child
hood. If the fondness or vanity
of father or mother has kept him
from hard work; if another al
ways helped him out at the end
of his row; if instead of taking
his turn at putting off he slowed
away all the time-in short, if
what was light always fell to him,
and what was heavy about the
same to some one one else, if he
has been permitted to shirk, until
Sinking has become habit, un-
less a miracle has been wrought
his life will be a failure, and the
blame will not be half 50 much
his as that of his weak and fool
ish parents. On the other hand,
if boy has been brought up to
do his part, never to shirk his
responsibility, or to dodge his
work whether or not it made his
head ache, or soiled his hands
until bearing burdens has become
a mater of pride, the heavy end
of the log his choice, parents as
they bid him goodbye may dis
miss their fear. The elements
of success are his, and some time
and in some way the world will
recognize his capacity
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17

Oily as you surrender yourself to
~ w.lk can you lift yourself and
O.r work to the level of larger life.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17
FOR GREATER
MISSISSIPPI

Devoted TO the Agricultural. Commercial
and Industrial Development OF the States
incompatible Resources -Onacial Orgsa Of
Department OF Agriculture and Commerce.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17

The meeting of presidents of the
county unions at Jackson was both
pleasant and profitable. Many subjects
of vital importance to the farmers were
discussed and much work of beneficial
nature accomplished. 1t was an educa-
tional feature that should be perma-
nent. 1t does good to get the official
heads of the organization together once
a year for the discussion of plans and
suggestions for the Llnetit of the farm
ers, to exchange experiences and learn
what the other fellow knows.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17

Contracts have been awarded at
Natchez for $4,000 worth of supplies
to be distributed by the national gov
eminent to food sufferers in Adams,
Jefferson and Wilkinson counties. The
contracts call for $4,000 pounds of flour,
100000 pounds of meal, $500 pounds of
green coffee, 5000 pounds of sugar,
100000 pounds of meat.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17

Grand Chancellor w. A. Sessions of
the Mississippi grand lodge Knights of
Pythias, expects several hundred mem
bers of the fraternity to gather in
Jackson July %, when state temple of
the Dramatic Order of Knights of
Khorassan will be installed. The oc-
casion promises to be notable one in
MANY respects
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17

PeermRin is the most prominent men,
Der.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17

The board of supervisors of Warren
county adopted a resolution making it
illegal after July 10 to capture and
cage any hooking bird or other native
songbirds, or to destroy or rob their
nests. 1t shall also be unlawful for
persons to have in their possession, In
cages or otherwise, such birds.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17

mer except In cases where the dockets
are so heavy with accumulated litiga-
ton that it is absolutely necessary to
dispose of the work.
Prof. Archibald Smith, of the faculty
of the Agricultural and Mechanical
college, an expert In animal industry,
Is greatly encouraged at the way in
which the people are cooperating in
the effort to eradicate the cattle tick.
renders to this debasing habit is
safe to be trusted with any en-
terprise requiring integrity of
characer. Plain words should
be spoken on this point, for the
evil is a general one and deep
rooted. If young men are some
times thrown inc the society of the
thoughtless, they have no more
right to measure other women by
what they see of these than they
would have to estimate the char
acter of honest and respectable
citizens by the developments OF
crime in our police courts.
Let young men remember that
their chief happiness in life de-
ponds upon their utter faith in
women. No worldly wisdom, nc
misanthropic philosophy, no gener-
alization, can cover or weaken this
fundamental truth. 1t stands like
the record of God himself-for il
is nothing less than this and SC
should put seal upon lips that
are wont to speak slightingly OF
women.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17

Syrup and sweet potatoes offer an in
viting field for diversifcation of Mis-
sissippi crops. With these two as
money crops in their respective seasons,
together with what we already have,
Mississippi can, and should, by all
means, have an all-the-year-round
money crop to offer.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-17

Chairman Lomax of the Democratic
state executive committee of Missis-
sippi has received a letter from Chair
man James J. Lloyd of the Democratic
national congressional campaign COM
mittee, asking that assistance be given
in raising funds to be used in defraying
the expenses of the national campaign.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-06-05

that the vote Of Mr.. Speaker is re-
corded against the motion TO indef-
niteiy postpone the resolution. A
vote against indefinite postp0nemsnC
is equivalent 10 a vote for the res0-
luton.
The above being true it does ssem
TO us that it is an awful thing to de-
Ili6erately and wilfully place man
in position where he does not be
long and which is really rep&gnant
u MIN.
Why should politics be 50 debauch-
ed and degraded? Why should not a
mans private and public record stand
out against what are apparently pre-
varicatiOns?
The Starke Telegraph says:
We have prepared this article, not
with the expectation that it viii
change a single pie hunter or Stock
ton henchman, but with the hope
that it will disabuse the minds of the
good men who have been misled by
the misrepresentation that have beer
heaped on Mr.. Gilchrist, and that they
Twill no longer suffer themselves to BIZ
fused to circulate these misrepresen
itatiOns.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-06-05
HILsoN Hits BACK

l. B. Hilson, former state printer,
who accused Governor Broward of not
paying his debts seems to rather have
the best of the argument. The gov.
ernor evaded a direct reply to the ac-
cusation, but said he was worth
eighty thousand dollars, and that a
man worth that amount of money
could not get around paying what he
owed. Hilson reiterated his charges,
and said that if the governor was
worth eighty thousand dollars he was
the greatest tax dodger on earth, for
his name does not appear on the tax
books of Duval county. At last &C.
counts the governor had not come to
the scratch with a reply to this fea.
ture Of the controversy, and no one
has heard of him telling about his
wealth any more.-Starke Telegraph.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-06-05
For Supervisor of Registration

For Supervisor of Registration
To the Democratic Voters of Marion
County:
| have been urged by many friends
to become a candidate for supervisor
of registration, and have decided to
enter the race.
My record is well known. My Off
cial acts while sheriff of the county
and my character as a citizen and
a democrat are probably known to
most of you.
| wish to emphasize the fact that if
you elect me to the office, the bust
ness will be attended to by myself, in
person. Furthermore, nothing shall
be done in the office to favor any par
ticular individual party or faction,
but all shall receive absolutely just
and impartial treatment.
While the salary of this office IS
very small, yet, under the law the SUI
pervisor has great power. and it is Of
the utmost Importance to every citi-
zen that this power shall be admin
istered with justice and with care for
the rights of all.
The people of this county have been
kind to me in times past, and this
greatly appreciate. If elected l will
do what is right to all concerned.
E. T. WILLIAMS.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-06-05
REGRETS TIE DEFEAT OF LA
MAR-LOOKS TO THE ELEc-
TON OF FLETCHER
MAGNOLIA.

This is no time for weeping and
wailing. We lost our candidate for
the senate. AS long as w. B. Lamar
was in the race we were for him. We
are genuinely sorry he was defeated
in the first primary. Had he succeed
ed in getting into the second primary
we would still have been for him to
the extent of our loyal support. But
he failed. 1t is up to us to select an
other man to whom we can give SUP
port, and we have no hesitancy in
pledging our best efforts in the cleo
ton of Duncan L. Fletcher as senator
from Florida. We know the man
professionally, officially and as a citi-
zen. We have known him for many
years. We knew him when he was
the champion and ready friend of
those who are loudest now in their
condemnation of him, and in all our
relations with him we have found him
to be a man of the highest ideals,
clean morally, professionally and po-
litically. Our best efforts will be put
forth in aid of Fletcher's candidacy
for the senate.-Madison New Enter
prise.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-06-05
COST OF THE PRIMARY

Talking of the cost TO candidates
of holding a primary election it might
occur upon a little reflection that f
this is fault it does not necessarily
belong to the method as such. A
great many people are said to waste
money in the courts, but nobody sug-
gests il is a reason for repeating the
laws and abOlishing the courts. Men
may act foOlishly in connection with
the primaries, but that may be the
fault of the men only. 1t strikes the
Times that the evil is one that will
cure itself, and it would help mat
tiers along if the compensations of
Office were placed on a reasonable ba-
sis.-Tampa Times.
The courts are maintained by the
state. In the primaries the candi-
dates are compelled to foot their own
bills unless by hook or crook they can
saddle it off on some other shoulders
and then the cry of corporations IS
raised.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-06-05

A moth destroyer ana disinfectant
Placed under carpets. or In the folds
OF furs and clothing, It drives ava
moth and worry. Twelve sheets in :
packet carriage prepaid, 10 cent?.
SIX PACKETS 90 cents. II druggist doe
Madisan Powder Works, Selection sos
ClarksViIla. Iowa. eV'
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-06-05

POINDEXTER, JR., will make the
season at my farm, three and one-haIf
miles north Of Ocala, on the Anthony
hard road. Terms: SIS to insure foal;
$3.50 when mare Is bred; balance
when mare Is known to be with foal.
J. c. HOWELL, Anthony, Fla.
Phone, 2 rings on Anthony Line.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-06-05
For the Legislature.

l respectfully submit my name to
the voters of Marion county as a cam
didate for the legislature, subject to
the democratic primary of May 18th.
l have no platform to formulate or
pledges to make, but submit my claim
on citizenship of 25 years in Marion
county. If elected, will perform my
duty to the bes: of my ability and for
the best interests of the county of
Marion, and state of Florida.
G. L. BITTINGER.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-06-05

To the Democratic Voters Of Marion
County:
Having confidence in the purity Of
life, and rectitude of character of Hon.
H. w. Long of MaItel, Fla, and being
satisfied that he is eminently qualified
ministration of the duties of the coun-
ty commissioners office has met with
the approval and will receive the in
dOrsement of the electors of Marion
county, | therefore announce that my
name will appear on the ticket used
in the primary to be held May 10,
1908, as a candidate for a second
term. In the event of my nomination
and election I promise a faithful dis
charge of all duties attending said of
fee. Respectfully,
7 M MATHEWS
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-06-05
BRowARD IN HILLsBoRoUeH.

Governor BrOward, by his peculiar
methods of vOte-getting, led the race
for United States senator in the first
primary. This was a surprise cOnsid-
ering the sorry spectacle the governor
made of himself during the campaign
and the badly mutiIated record which
he has left behind him as governor
This is one aspect of the recent pri-
mary, however, that should not es-
cape notice. In this county and vicin-
ity there are several notable in
stances of the opinion of the people
in regard to the governor and his po-
litical favorites.
Take the case of the sheriff of Hills
borough. for instance. The governor
removed Robert A. Jackson from this
office; and Jackson led all cOmpeti-
tors in his race for reelection. The
governor, removing Jackson. appoint
ed E. d. Hobbs as his successor; and
Mr.. Hobbs was next TO the low man in
the race before the people. Mr..
Hobbs is a good man and an honest
man and there is no reason why he
should not have received a much
larger vote than he did. except the
one fact that he was a Broward ap-
pOintee. This destroyed Mr.. Hobbs
chances of being elected sheriff of
Hillsborough, and while it carries no
reflection upon Mr.. Hobbs himself, ne
having repeatedly and emphatically
stated that the appointment came to
him unsOught, it is an indication of
how the people of Hillsborouugh re-
CORD Broward.
Another instance is in the case of
the tax. collectorship. John L. Branch
was an applicant for the appointment
upon the death OF Charles E. Worth.
The governor appointed John F. Nc
Fall. In the primary contest both
these gentlemen were candidates be-
fore the people. There is no gainsay-
ing the fact that Mr.. McFall was by
far the most competent man in the
race, but he had been appointed by
Broward and he suffered from the dis
pleasure of the people at anything
emenating from the present governor
of Florida. Mr.. Branch was over
whelmingly nominated.
Another striking example, is fur
nished in the election returns from
the neighbOring county of Manatee.
J. J. Stewart is county Judge of Man
atee, and, this year he was called up
on TO make a race for reelection.
Judge Stewart, it will be remembered,
was the subject of the most violent
unjust, and, in fact, malicious as
SaultS on the part of the governor
/ personal organ, the Tallahassee Sun,
only last year, when he was charac-
! terized as q "rubber-stamp' official
! and repeatedly held up as unfit to
hold public office. These attacks on
the Judge were industriOusly circu-
lated among the voters of Manatee for
effect on the judges official standing
and, naturally. on his prospects for
J reelection. The election returns
from Manatee tell us that Judge Stew
art was renOminated in the recent
primary by a majority of 449 over his
opponent, who is himself a deserving
and popular young attorney. More OF
the 'Broward blight"
The Evening News cannot speak
for the remainder of the state of Flor
ida. but it knows that SO far as Hills
borough and adjoining counties are
concerned it is generally fatal to be
connected with Broward and the "ma-
] chine. Tampa Evening News.