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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-06-28
AMBERGRIS FLOAT.
Worth $4,000 Picked up by Men on
Fishing Schooner.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, June
27.-The fishing schooner Mary now
in port, made the rich find of about
$4,000 worth Of ambergris outside.
Cape Flattery. While cruising out
side the cape the ship came within
three miles of the whaler Orion,
which had recently captured three
whales. In a distance Of about one
fourth mile the lookout sighted a
flock of coonies, which were leisure
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-06-28
RUMOR KILLED.
Loeb Will Not be Chairman Of Re
publican National Committee.

OYSTER BAY, June 27.-One re-
suit in today conference between
the president, Secretary Taft and
National Committeeman Kellogg and
Ward, according to one who was
present, was to set at rest the rumor
that Loeb will be chairman of the
national committee Loeb made il
clear that he intended to enter a priv
ate business next March and would
not take the place under any circum-
stances.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-06-28
PosTMISTREss CLEAR.

CHICAGO, June H.-Annabel
Whitmore has been reinstated as
post-mistress of Grays Lake, Ill. ac-
cording to information received yes
terday from Washington, and will re-
sumo here duties July |.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-06-28
FAIR PLAY" WINS.
"Hessian" Second and killing James
Ran Third.

SHEEPSHEAD BAY, June IT.
before crowd Of l1,000 persons
August Belmont's Fair Play carry
ing l26 pounds won the $25,0O0 Coney
Island Jockey Clubs stakes today.
Hessian, second; Killing James third.
Time, 2:3l5; distance, II miles.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-06-28

'ly devouring substance. The ship
swung by and after crew had killed
eight Of the birds investigated and
found float Of ambergris, which
they brought into port
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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20
FEEDING PHEASANTS, YOUNG
AND OLD

More pheasantS are fed to death
than raised After twenty-fOur hours
feed three times daily and contrary to
superstition that birds get most of
their drink from dewdrOps. keep pure
water before them and grit First four
days feed cUstard made of twelve beat
en- eggs stirred into pint of milk at
boiling point. then boil thick. After
fourth day serve as part of ration for
eight weeks.
On fifth day add little chopped let
tuce and pinhead oatmeal On eighth
day Introduce kiln dried cracked wheat
split oats and occasionally a little hemp
or millet After three weeks serve
minced boiled meat. using broth to wet
up crumbly barley mash. At six
weeks throw in wheat and barley for
supper and they are now ready for
adult ration.
Feed them green's regularly, but keep
off the wet grass to avoid gapes.
Old birds in woods are only fed in
winter unless food is scarce.
In confinement they are fed like
chickens They relish the following:
Acorns, chestnuts. hazelnuts, beech
mast, grains, seeds, roots, heritage,
small fruits, cress. cabbage, lettuce,
turnips, mangolds, potatoes, insects,
worms, ant eggs and fine cut bone.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20
Society Preparing for Winter Campaign

the members Of the cabinet call on
each other and on those of the sena-
tors and members of the house. The
senator's wives make their calls on
the wives of the justices and members
Of the cabinet and finally reach one
another. But the wife of a senator
who has been in Office six years can
not call first on the wife of one who
has served his country only three
years. The records of the senate and
the house are called into requisition
and lists are made out according to
the length of time men have held Of
fee. A little more liberty is per
mitted to the wives of representatives
but still there is a great amount of
form necessary to steer clear of the
breakers of socio-political life.
Diplomats are exempt, to a certain
extent, as after presenting their Gre
dentials to the president they quietly
await the onslaught of visitors 1t re-
quires a discriminating foreigner, or
one who has employed a secretary
from the very innermost circle of So
ciety, to tell whom to receive and
whom not to receive, and to sift the
shower of cards that descends upon
him,
Washington is an especially easy
place for those from the outside, as
they must call first on all those who
hold an official position. These visits
are returned, and thus the thin edge
of the wedge that leads to social dis
tinction is inserted
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20
Big Projects VIII Overshadow Congress

Of southern business men is expected
to develop into as much of a water
way discussion as the gathering of the
River and HarbOr congress, of which
Representative Ransdell, of Louisiana,
is president.
But before it comes the. Country
Life commission That will be on De-
cember 8, and it will be an adjunct of
the Conservation congress from which
it sprang That is what has been
facetiously referred to as the Uplift
commission which, at the behest of
President Roosevelt, is to take the
American farmer by the scuff of the
neck and hoist him to a higher level.
The River and Harbor congress is
the body that will produce the most in
teresting situation. The advocates of
the lakes-to-the"ulf deep waterway
think the congress should make def
mite Endorsement of that project.
Hitherto the congress has held that its
object should be merely to create a
sentiment throughout the country
which would warrant congress in pass
ing an annual river and harbor appro-
priation bill of $50,000,000.
There are other projects that
look just as good to their propon
ents as the lakes-to-the-gulf plan,
wherefore it seems probable that that
proposal will provoke debate.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20

G OClALLY there is an air of ex-
~ pectancy in the capital, and
enough persons are in the city, with
more returning every day, to keep up
the interest. The last season of every
administration is likely to be a quiet
one, so it will be difficult until after
the election to predict what the gods
have in store.
Certain things, however, are indie
pendent of government changes or of
houses and visiting lists, both of
which are being overhauled. Visiting
is the joy as well as the bette noire
of the woman in Washington, and has
to be attacked scientifically as we'll as
automatically to accomplish all that
is required by an eXacting public
There is a regular etiquette in re-
gard to visits, and woe betide the IN
lucky stranger who unconsciously sins
against the cast iron rules laid down
in this supposedly most democratic of
cities. The wives of the justices of
the supreme court must be called on
first by those of members of the
cabinet and those of the senators and
representatives Then the wives of
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20
Health Campaign Planned.

The campaign of education which the
Mississippi State Board OF Health has
decided to undertake in order to promote
interest and impart instruction among
the people along the lines of practical
hygiene has been opened, and will CON
tinue for some time to come. The first
step was to secure the services of man
thoroughly competent and qualified to
fill the role of lecturer and field represen-
tative, and the choice fell upon DR.. Fred
J. Mayer of New Orleans, graduate of
the medical department of the Louisiana
State University, and the author of the
Louisiana system of hygienic education,
which had its inception after the expert
ences of 1878, and who has been actively
employed in the same field for years,
when not acting as health officer and
quarantine inspector. The contemplated
lecture tour does not mean that yellow
fever hygiene is to be the only subject
handled, as it is intended to educate
the people by this means up to the well
defined and considered rules of sanitary
law, and the prevention of other commu-
nicable diseases, and before the tour is
completed it is intended to cover every
county in the State.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20
Gossip of Washing
What Is Going On at the
National Capital.
Plans for Presidents Hunting Trip

trip to Lake Victoria Nyanza by rail,
stopping off at various points along
the route to make hunting excursions
into the interior.
The real work of the expedition will
not begin until the party reaches the
plateau of Uganda, after crossing
Lake Victoria Nyanza, where abounds
game to be found nowhere else in the
world.
1t is not known exactly how long
the president will remain in this re-
gion. When the homeward trip begins
the party will strike out along the
head waters of the White Nile river,
following the stream down to Khar-
toum and thence to Cairo.
The presidents party is to consist
Of his son, Kermit, who is to be the
official photographer Of the expedi-
tion, and two naturalists from the Ma
tional museum. No other persons
will be taken from this country. When
he reaches Africa he will employ the
services of natives and guides. A
caravan will be organized for the trip
from the railway terminus in Uganda
to the Nile.
The president promised Bishop
Hartzell that during his coming trip
to Africa in 1909 he would visit as
many of the mission stations as pos
sible and would use his influence in
the interest of the work.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20
WANTED = NATIONAL PHEASAN-
TRIES.

TRIES.
Time for Uncle Sam to hatch pleas
ants He raises fish TO restock streams
ana talp0leS for bully rum farms, and
why not beautiful pheasants for wood
ana field. SO that once more we may
sit ut breakfast and shoot fat pleas
ants Of the back fence for dinner?
Not such Il big contract. Why, in
1881 Oregon turned loose thirtysix
birds. and only sixteen years later her
sportsmen ba%ged 100000. What hunt
ing, Makes your trigger finger jerk to
think of it. Makes your mouth water
to think of all that juicy breast meat
Oregon. Colorado. Kansas. Illinois
and other western states are being
stocked mostly by individuals and gun
clubs But it's national matter, and
Uncle Sam can still run in another iron
ana not burn his fingers. Does 1t pay?
Well. they are ornamental. ne plus
ultra table birds and sell for big money.
Sportsmen will gladly pay landowners
for permits to engage in such magnifi-
cent sport Brain storms will thus
cease. and the festive green worm
that dropped down your neck while
me litntirg on the sublimities Of ma
ture will be g0bb,ei. for the pheasant
will do the pests and thus add millions
to the farmers riches
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20

IT HE reassembling of congress in De-
cember will bring thousands of
men to Washington from all parts of
the country, and from December l to
December IA there will be flood of
speechmaking. Governors of states
will be as numerous as last May, when
President Roosevelt called the heads
of the state governments together for
a discussion of the conservatism of
natural resources.
The first of the forthcoming meet
ings, on December l, will be that of
the National Conservation commission,
organized as a result of the conference
called by President Roosevelt last
spring Addresses by President Roose-
welt and the president-elect are ex-
pected.
The Southern Commercial congress
is expected to bring from 1000 to 1,500
business men from the south to this
city. The south has need of river and
harbor improvements, and the meeting
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20
MAeeoTs FOR PHEAsANTs.

Where do our English kozens get
those. big maggots they feed their
pretty pheasants? Well, they just
skin a dead horse, give the blowfies a
good chance at it, and when the ami
NAL begins 10 get lively they bury
him just deep enough for the shippers
to come through to daylight when they
are fat and ready.
The birds stand round and pick them
off as they wiggle through.
They eat the dead horse germs too.
You'll cut pheasant in London cafes
after this? Can't blame you a bit.
Owners of insectiyorous birds should
use our meal worm plan.
Mix equal parts bran and chop, add
several handfuls of leather scraps for
ventilation, drop in a handful of meal
worms and watch them multiply.
If wiggling worms, they are Clean
yellow and fat as butter.
Our birds fly six feet high for these
Juicy sweetmcats, perch on our shoul-
ders and pull our ear for more.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20
A TEMPERANCE CAREER.
Bishop of London Tells How He Came
to Join the Crusade.

At a breakfast given by the Church
of England Temperance society to
bishops attending the recent Pan-An-
glican congress, the bishop of Lon
don stated that he became a temper
ance worker % years ago, through
having brick thrown at his head in
a temperance meeting. He thought a
cause that was prosecuted was the
cause for him, and that where there
was so much opposition the cause
must be a good one.
The bishop Of London has lived to
see a sweeping change come over the
country in regard to the general at
titude toward the temperance cause,
and has himself conducted vigorous
campaign against the drink evil in
connection with his ecclesiastical work
among the poor of London. The force
of his example, as well as the results
of his work in this direction, has in
no small measure aided in strengthen
ing the general movement in England
toward temperance reform.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20
TAFT WANTS TO WIN SOUTH
Southern Democrats to Be Consulted
About Appointments.

Southern Democrats to Be Consulted
About Appointments.
Washington.-That nothing within the
bounds Of party prudence will be too
much for Mr.. Taft to do for the South
is being discussed here as one of the sure
things of the incoming administration.
1t is said that Mr.. Taft is well pleased
with the idea of fair and frank eonsulta-
ton with Southern members of congress,
whenever it is necessary for him to make
an appointment to a federal office in the
South.
Mr.. Taft is credited with too much sa-
gacity to entertain the idea for a mo-
ment that any Southern State may be
swayed from its political mooring of
nearly half a century by 6estowing the
favor of federal patronage upon few of
the men who have proved their allegiance
to the Democratic party, but he is i'm
pressed with the idea that by looking
more to character and fitness and less
to political affiliation in the selection of
federal officeholders in the South, the
Republican party may be elevated if not
redeemed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20

cent. of the population of Paris-male
and female-was degenerating. owing
to an excessive use of alcohol Like
Kraepelin, DR.. Fernet will not hear
of alcohol except as a narcotic. He
strongly reproves the custom of many
physicians of recommending patients
to take an occasional nip as likely to
be beneficial, This, he says, is prac-
tically sanctioning the abuse of alco-
hol, and to the topper who receives the
advice that a little is good for him, it
Is much the same as the assertion by
minister to a sinner that hell had
been proven an impossibility.
Fernet argues out his theory against
alcohol in an interesting. manner.
Here is what he says in effect: Life,
whether natural or human, is the re-
suit of vibratory energy always in &C
ton. Heat, cold, anger, love, hatred
and any other mental physical or
moral phenomena are the result of
vihratory energy. According as an
individual is mentally, morally or
physically strong, so Is he capable nf
eXerting more or less vibrato"y
force. If he does not possess this vi
bratory force he can stimulate it in
various ways. He must, however, pay
the price of stimulating his Migratory
energy if he has recourse to alcohol
or drugs.
Each potion he INDUCES in creates
a false vibratory action, which is ex-
pended to the detriment of the norm
of his vibratory power At each raac-
ton the norm is sensibly lessened, and
can only be stimulated by recurrence
to the drug or drink originally used
At a certain stage of the use Tor
abuse) of alcohol the vibratory sys
tenn is so entirely upset as either to
bring on insanity or to cause the yic'
tim to become confirmedly alcoholic
| action or life being almost impossible
without the spirit. The vibratory pow
er, says Fernet, is our best asset. 1t
constitutes the first power that man
possesses, and accordingly as he re
spects or abuses it he is sound or de
! generate.
The stronger the individual the
greater is his power of exerting vi
bratory action, and this is what makes
men successful or unsuccessful, what
makes the stronger spirit suppress OF
control the weaker, there being less
energy in the latter when opposed tt
the former. Alcohol, creating, as il
does, even when taken in infnitesima
nips a vibratory energy in excess o.
| the norm, is always detrimental to the
| body and the mind, and can only be
| justified when it is employed as {
| SleeDing drau9ht
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20
QUESTION HARD TO ANSWER
Interrogation of Little Son Was En-.
barrassing to His Over
Confident Mother.

Gustaye Eberlein, the famous Ger
man sculptor, said the other day in
New York that in beauty Of face and
figure the American woman excelled
all others that the American type
of beauty approached almost abso-
lutte perfection
'In intelligence as WE'LL the
sculptor resumed, 'the American
woman excels. But now and then
she has the defect of the intelligent
she is overpositive, she is overcon-
fident. In that case | like to see her
taken down
81 once met a beautiful and bril-
liant American woman on shipboard.
She talked splendidly, but she was
very positive positive, indeed.
/" 4 am good reader Of faces, she
said one day at luncheon. EOn first
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20

II IMPORTANT suggestions for minimiz-
l ing loss of life in the coal mines
of the United States are contained in
a report submitted to President Roose-
welt through Secretary Garfield by the
three foreign mining experts who have
Investigated conditions in American
mines.
These experts are Capt. Arthur Des-
borough of England, Victor Watteyne
of Belgium and Carl Meissner of Ger
many.
They came to this country six weeks
ago at the invita- ion of the United
States government to assist in the
movement looking toward reduction
of disasters.
The recommends ions of the experts
will lie printed as bulletin by the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20

VIZ ASHINGTON. = While President
w Rocsevelt's plans for his African
hunting trip will not be completely de-
termined upon for several months,
some general idea Of his expedition,
was gained from Bishop ]. C. Hartzell,
for II years in charge of the Metho-
dist church in Africa, who spent some
time with the president the other day
and talked over the trip, in addition to
discussing the work of the mission
aries in that country.
The g-n eral route to be taken by
the president when he reaches Africa
will be from Alexandria by steamer,
probably of the German East African
line, through tee Suez canal, across
the Red sea and down the east coast
Of Africa to the coast of Mombassa,
tae capital of British East Africa. At
Mombassa the outfit of the expedition,
which has been purchased in London,
will be assembled and shipped by
rail to Lake Victoria Nyanza The
president and his party will make the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20
MEMORIAL FOR JEFF DAVIS
Mrs. Goodlett Insists Building OF
School Is More Important.

Atlanta, Ga.-An interesting feature
of the second days session of the annual
convention of the United Daughters OF
the Confederacy was the report of Mrs
L. II. Raines of Savannah, custodian OF
the crosses of honor. A message from
Mrs. Carolyn Douglas Meriwether Good
let of Nashville, founder of the U. D.
c., was read, in which she insisted upon
the Importance of educational work. The
establishment of schools, she declared,
was of far more value than the erecting
of a monument.
In commemoration of the one hun
dredth anniversary of the birth of JEFF
ferson Davis, memorial was presented
to the organization by Mrs. Mollie Mac
Gill Rosenberg of Texas.
The annual report of the president
general, Mrs. CorneHa Branch Stone,
summarized the remarkable activity that
has marked the work of the association
for the past year in the building of mon
uments, the establishment of memorials
and the great impetus that has been
given educational work.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20
Aim to Save Lives of Coal Miners

geological survey and distributed
among coal mine operators and min
ers. They refer to conditions to which
more than half a million miners are
subjected each day.
The examination of explosives by
the government with a view to elm
mating the more dangerous kinds and
to improving and standardizing the
most suitable for mining purposes, is
recommended.
That greater care should be exer-
cised where gas or dust is known to
occur in the mine and that watering
should be more effective are also sug-
gested in the report
The experts attach much Importance
to the use of electricity for mining OPP
eraticns, and for shot firing as of value
in safeguarding the lives of miners.
1t is the opinion of the visitors tina,
safety and efficiency in coal mining
would be greatly aided through the
establishment and maintenance in the
different coal regions of special schools
for training fire bosses, mine foremeu
superintendent. and inspectors.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20
LET THE TEIcoLoR FLY.

The authorities of Alsace-Lorraine
have given proof of a tolerance on
which they can only be congratu-
lated. Thus, the Hotel de PUnion
at Strasburg has just hoisted a
brand new flag in the French colors
on the occasion Of the arrival Of the
syndicate Of French grocers. Last
year the use Of the French flag had
been authorized in conjunction with
the flags Of Belgium, Italy and
Switzerland, on the occasion Of the
international regattas, but the APP
pearance Of the French flag alone to
celebrate the arrival Of French So
ciety is a new fact in Alsace-Lor-
raine.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20
"MAY ] USE YOUR TELEPHoNEav

We have received the following
sample of Canadian telephone
humor. The telephone borrowing
nuisance, unfair alike to the SUBJ
scriber and the company, does not
seem to have attained similar pro-
portions here:
''This telephone is yours; we only
pay the rent for it. 1t is more
blessed to give than to receive.
SSPlease scribble on the walls as
they need decorating.
"Iong-distance calls our speciality;
kindly do not offer to SETTLE
"Our family are prohibited from
using the phone except between six
and seven a. m. Sundays London
National Telephone Journal.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-11-20
FAMILY SUICIDE THWARTED
"Billy" Williams, Wife and Chill
dren Saved From Starvation.

Sterling, Ill.-Rev. Chilly" Williams,
evangelist, his wife and two children,
driven to dependency in being unable
to secure work at what he believed to be
his chosen profession in preaching the
gospel and saving sinners, entered into
compact to die together. While they
were celebrating on the best method, J..
a. Ahrens, local merchant, arrived and
his call saved them from carrying out
the agreement.
Mr.. Williams at one time was one of
the leading blackface men of the country,
travelling with a number of leading min
strel shows of this country. Several
years ago he was converted and has since
been preaching the gospel