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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07

Copyright. by Joseph b. Bowles0
Sendai. Japan-AlthOugh made fam
Gus by a famine, Sendai is now the
center of a record rice crop. From a
condition of hunger and distress that
called forth more than 100000 from
warm-hearted Americans, this region
has now passed into period of rare
prosperity The rice crops are 20 per
cent. above the average.
A Famine and international Relations.
Only memories and a few hundred
orphans remain as reminders of the
dreadful famine of a year or so ago.
Among the memories is an enhanced
appreciation of Americans and their
religion. The aid so promptly and
generously given during the famine
has affected all of Japan. In amount
it exceeded the gifts of Japan and all
the rest of the world combined, reach
ing a total of 100000. In this region
especially the feeling towards "the
rice country" which, curiously
enough, has always been the way the
Japanese write the word America
is warm beyond expression. The gov
ernor of the province, the mayor Of
the city, the general in command of
the military forces here, the presiding
judge of the courts, the editor of the
leading newspaper, and many private
citizens assured me in most cordial
terms of the city's gratitude for the
assistance rendered to the famine suf-
ferers.
1t took American enterprise to ava
ken even the Japanese to the serious
ness of the famine situation. At their
Thanksgiving day service in Sendai
in 1905 the American missionaries
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07
Stop Burning Off the Old Fields.

Southern Farm Gazette.
How long, oh how long, will our
farmers burn up every spring the
little fertility that Mother Nature
has laboriously spent the previous
twelve months trying so develop?
Turn odt an old field, sick, furnishing
naked, and Mother Nature clothes it
With coat of grass to heal its scars,
to stop the wounding of it with
gullies. and to feed it with rotting
vegetable matter (humus) as the only
way on earth to bring it back to life
and strength. And yet nine farmers
but of ten will go ahead and in
twenty four hours time burn off all
the potential humus that Nature has
spent year in growing for the sal
walton of the land.
For the lands sake indeed we
must stop burning off our old fields.
1t may make the grass seem greener
this season, but in the end it means
that the land will become too barren
to grow any grass at all.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07
Dangerous Gift.

Beauty is dangerous gift. 1t is
even so. Like wealth, it has rnin-
ed it's thousands. Thousands of the
most beautiful women are destitute
of common sense and common human
ity. No gift from heaven is so gen
eral as the gift of beauty, In about
nine cases in ten it makes her silly,
senseless, thoughtless, glddy vain,
proud, frivolous, selfish, low and
mean. We think we have seen more
girls spoiled by beauty than any
other one thing. "She is beautiful
and she knows it. " is as much as to
say she is spoiled. A beautiful girl
is very likely to believe she is made
10 be looked at; and she sets herself
up for show at every window, in
every door, on every corner of the
street, in every company in which
opportunity offers for an exhibition
of herself. And believing and act
ing thus, she soon becomes good for
nothing else, and when she comes
to be middle aged woman she is
that weakest, and most Sickening of
all human things-a faded beauty.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07
The Bows.

Mothers train your boys to be
neat in the house. They should be
taught to look after themselves, and
to keep their hats and coats in their
proper places. Teach them this
habit, and you will save many annoy
ances, and you will also do a kind
nets to the boys by teaching them
neatness and self-respect. Boys, as
well as girls, should be taught to
help in the house. How often we
have been disguised to see that the
girls are made to help with the house
work while the boys are allowed to
play checkers, or sit at the fire toast
ing their toes.
A boy can help clear away after a
meal, sweep the floor, polish the
stove or wash the dishes, just as
effectively as girl. He, as rule is
stronger.
He will love his home more. and
when he becomes a man, and has a
home of his own; he viii respect his
wife all the more for having been
taught to respect his mother and
sisters.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07

and caves hundreds of years o,a
carved by the Ainu, where lived tbs
Buddhist priests from the beginning
of Sendai's glory The city is noted
for it's progressiveness and hospitality
to foreigners, and yet for its thorough.
ly Japanese character. For instance,
there is only one vehicle in the city
to which a horse is driven, and thai
is the prison van. OF course there are
draught horses, led, or as the Japa-
nese term truly has it, pulled by o
rope.
When Mr.. Lloyd Griscom, the for
mer United States minister to Japan.
visited Sendai, the city feted him in
the lavish fashion which only the
orient knows. Other Americans have
had similar experiences. The Ameri-
can Young Mems Christian associa-
ton secretaries met last summer at
little seashore village near Sendai.
and literally the entire community
turned out to welcome them, lining up
along the road, and the school chill
dren singing songs. The village Off
Gals had met the visitors a mile or so
from town. An evergreen arch was
erected over the main street, bearing
the English word welcome" and the
entire convention was one day taken
on an excursion to Matsushima
How the Missionaries Stand.
All this is noteworthy in the light
of the fact that Sendai knows few for
eigneTs save missionaries. With the
exception CT two teachers in the gov
2rnment schools, the entire foreign
community in Sendai is made up of
Christian preachers and teachers.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07
Profanity of Boys.
Savannah (Ga.) News.

Savannah Ca News.
1t is a regrettable fact that pro-
family has become common among
the boys. 1t is not in the least out
of the ordinary, where a group of
boys of ten to fifteen years are to-
gether upon the streets or in an open
space to play a game of ball, to hear
them using oaths that might suit the
tongues of the proverbial fishwife or
costermonger, but which are shock
ing falling from the tongues of
children of tender years. OF all
stupid and silly vices, profanity is
one of the worst and most abomina-
BILE. A simple statement Of fact is
much stronger than any statement
embeliished with swear words, and
no lie is made any more believeable
by being framed in profanity. In
fact both truth and falsehood are
weakened by swearing and taking
the Lord S name in vain. Foul cpl
thets and comparison are not con-
vincing. but are almost Invariably
disgusting, except to those making
use of them. Profanity among men
seems to be growing less and less,
at least in public places among those
who may lay claim to decency and
some education. But the habit
seems to have fixed itself upon a
great many of the boys, who may
imagine it mannish to use profanity
and smoke cigarettes.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07
Poor GirIe.

The poorest girls in the ~orld are
those not taught to work. There
are thousands of them. Rich par
ents have petted them, md they
have been taught to deSpise labor
and to depend upon others for a
living, and are perfectly helpless.
The most fOrlOrn women belong to
this class. 1t is the duty of parents
to protect their daughters from
this deplorabie condition They do
them d great wrong if they neglect
it. Every daughter should be taught
to earn her own living. The rich
as well as the poor require this
training. The wheel OF fortune rolls
swiftly around; the rich are likely to
become Door, and the poor rlch.
Skill added to labor is no disadvan-
lage to the rich, and is indispensa-
BILE to the poor. Well-to do parents
must educate their daughters to
work. No reform is more imperative
than this.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07
THE PEOPLES FORUM.
COMMENDED,

1t is with satisfaction 1 note the
courtesy of the Leakesville High
School towards the recent Baptist
meeting, in suspending an hour for
the morning services. This was as it
should have been. The mans cement
of the school is to be commended
for it and l hope that there will be
no step backward from this distinct
advance of the school in this regard,
and that when Meetings are held by
any of the fodr organized churches
in our midst, Il like Difference will be
shown them. al of them are more
or less represented in the school
work, and educational and church
work should go hand in hand with
out partiality or hypocrisy.
CITIZEN & PATRON of SCHOOL.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07

formed the first committee of relief,
for their work throughout the three
affected provinces had made them IA
miliar with the dreadful conditions.
Of the 100000 inhabitants of these
provinces, 100000 were poverty
stricken. When it set out upon its
task Of creating international sympa-
thy for the sufferers Zone curious and
unprecedented consequence of which
was the gift of $4,000 by the dowa-
ger empress of China from her private
purse) this committee added an Eng
fish teacher and French priest to its
number 1t was this small body of
seven men which not only touched the
heart Of Christendom with Japan's
plea, but even stirred the Japanese
themselves, as the latter avow.
The recognized fact that these lead
ers in famine relief-a work which, I
learn, was. carried on in most bust
nesslike fashion, and in closest CO.
operation with the Japanese officials
were Christian missionaries, that az
American religious newspaper, The
Christian Herald, was in the forefront
of the contributing agencies, and that
great quantities of rice, especially
that given by the German Reformed
churches, came in Christian sympa-
thy bags, could not fail to make
decided impression. If anything was
needed to strengthen the respect of
the japanese hereabouts for the Amer
ican religion the famine relief work
did it.
Where Americans Are Welcome.
This city is a strategic point in
Japan. With a hundred thousand in
habitants, it is considered the metro
polls of the north. 1t has 1900 sol
diers in garrison, and some 5000 stu
dents in it's schools. On it's bay is
Matsushima, one of the three beau
tiful places" in Japan, series of
lovely islands, pine-covered and water
worn with a famous temple on one,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07

will close at length, and we shall,
perchance, be left at dosolGte hearth
stones, We shall need to be remem-
bered then.
Let US stop to think of the stran-
ger. We, too have been alone, and
have needed the touch of kindly
hand upon our lives, and many life
has gone out in the blackness of
darkness for the lack of such touch
as anyone of us might have given.
Let US stop to think of God and
the future At best the time is
short, and the end is near. And
when it shall come, blessed will be
he to whom the entrance upon
another life will be will be but the
realization of dear and familiar
dreams the consummation of a life
time of longings. Let us stop to
think. If there be any virtue, If
there be ano praise, let us stop to
think upon these things.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07
CITATION NOTICE.

State of Mississippi,
To he unknown heirs of r. II Gilmer de-
ceased the unknown heirs of James Magotfin
deceased, the unknown heirs of Amos j. Reed
deceased. the unknown heirs of Martha cody
deceased and all unknown parties having OF
claiming any legal or equitable interest in the
lands described as lots /, ? ana of the North
Division Section e East Fractional Section %
and lot3 n Section 49, all in Township , North
Range West Greene County. Mississippi
you are commanded to appear before the
CPancery Court of the County of Greene, in
said State on a Rule day of said Court, TO be
held at the Office OF the clerk of said Court, on
the
Second Monday of June, A. d. 1909.
in the town of Leakesvllle Mississippi to de-
fend the suit in said Court OF r. 1. Backstrom,
the nature of which is bin in Chancery by
said R. 1, BackStrOm, the complainant therein
praying the Court to grant decree confirm
ing and Quieting title of Complainant in and to
the above described land, wherein you are de
PENDANTS.
This April It'll, A. d. 1909.
s. r. MCKAY, Clerk.
J. W. BACKSTRONI, Sol. for Pitt.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07

We have an Indictment to make a
gainst the bed-bug To our mind
there is enough evidence against that
pesty and sly gentleman OF flesh nip
ping propensities, to put him on tri-
al in the Court of scientific investi-
cation by the y. S. Medical Corps,
as guilty Of aiding and abetting the
mosquito and sometimes in the dead
of Winter when his mosquitoship is
hors de combat, of singly communi-
eating malaria to suffering and IN
suspecting humanity. One of the
strongest points upon which this
true bill is found against his bedbug-
ship is that as suggested above, ma
laria is sometimes known to break
out on patients in the dead of Win
ter when it was absolutely too cold
for a single mosquito to have been
around, OverzealOus mosquito theO-
ISL vi luOCuldJlOu W OO1U ol hOG-
withstanding,-and too on patients
whose system and blood had been
subjected to sufficient medicinal
treatment since the last contamina-
ting mosquito froze to death to have
killed down the spoons beyond that
recovery that unexpectedly develop
ed. Hence some fresh incubation.
It's a well-known fact that the bed
bug lives at a colder degree than the
skeeter and why couldn't he slip out
if he escaped the vigilance of the
murderous housewife, and deliver a
bite that would transmit the mala-
rial poison with which he became
previously inoculated from biting
the patient in warm weather, when
said patients blood was full of the
malarial poison from mosquito moe
ulation or other manner of transmits
sion. This is not meant to rob Mrs.
Mosquito of any of her honor or dis
honor but is to arraign whom we be-
lieve to be a cold weather confederate
of hers in the high crime Of malarial
transmission. Neither is it meant
to overturn the credit or discredit
due miasmic pools and currents as
breeders and scatterers of the fell
disease, but to put on trial what we
are persuaded is an accomplice of
theirs. This idea is original but not
copyrighted and the experts are Civ
ell free permission to investigate and
appropriate it if found worthy.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07

tried the common ownership plan
and found it abortive and unhealthy
for political happiness. President
Roosevelt said truth that has stir
red these political cranks to the bot
tom, when he recently gave out a
press letter, stamping the doctrines
which they propagate as the great
est present peril to our government
tai institutions. They can whimper
and howl. but its true. For the poor
deluded, blind followers of these de
signing socialistic doctrinaires, we
have great pity, but very small
hope.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07
EDITORIAL

In order to really enforce the Child
Labor Laws, being under the recent
movement to that end written on
the Statute books of many of the
states, it will be necessary in those
states where such provisions are not
already in force, to provide for an
official regis tration of the birth OF
infants and also a record of death
within age limit to which the Child
Labor Law is confined No other
method will insure honesty as to
statement of chlldrens ages about
public works. False certificates can
thus be cut out. The interstate fea-
ture can be reached on courtesly
plan between officials of states just
as acquisitions and other legal docu-
ments are obtained. There are many
otherbeneits to be derived from max
ing births and deaths registrations q
part of our official county records.
This has been required in some of
the European Countries for centu-
ries and is often of excellent use in
family and legal research. The eX-
pense would be small and could be
Offset by certificate fees from record
transcripts if not far exceeded, The
birth reports could be insured by
fines for failure and bounty per cap
ito of say $100 per head; the bounty
to go to parents or nearest OF kin ii
within say thirty days, otherwise to
anyone making the report on affada-
Wit. Several of the frontier states in
days past gave a bounty for wolves
heads and other pcsty animals. sure
Y race suicide could be discouraged
by this birth report bounty plan, and
some Teddy Roosevelts and others
could be induced to endow the
bounty fund and Obviats any decided
drain on the public exchequer. Birth
report blanks could be made a de
tachable part of the marriage license
in multiples so eacn family would
readily have from the start handy
bland reports as the little ones ar
rived.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07

/ From them the city has obtained It's
favorable Impressions of foreigners 1t
is said that any white mans W0Iu IS
perfectly good in the stores C -
city. The attitude of the cffic.a.3 is
certainly more than kind; it IS c.
dial and sympathetic to the l-5t O.
gree. On the occasion of the return
of Rev. DR.. d. B. SCHNEIDER from
America he was met at the station By
all the prominent officials of the city
and province, as we'll as by multi
| tude of other persons. 1t is said that
DR.. Schneider, who is the Oldest mis-
sionary Of the Reformed church here,
and Rev. DR.. John H. DeForest, of the
American board are the leading citi-
zens of Sendai. Certainly they are
high in the friendship and honor of
the official classes.
Going the Japanese One Better.
First in Importance and magnitude
Of the numerous Christian enterprises
in this place are the two great schools
Of the German Reformed church, the
Tohoku Gakuin, for young men, and
the Miyagi 10 Gakko for young wom-
en-; these schools, like practically all
others in Japan, are known by other
names in America, which are practi-
cally never heard here. These two
schools are more modern and better
equipped than even the government
schools. 1t was really a surprise to
find, out here in remote part of ia
pan, American schools, supported and
controlled by Americans, which COM
pare favorably with similar institu-
lions in the home land. The buildings
are modern and imposing, far surpas-
sing in appliances and arrangement
any Of the several government schools
which I have inspected. The wisdom
of this is most appreciated by those
who best understand the Japanese
character; here in the east face" or
front" as the American slang has it,
must always be considered.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07

When man in this the most glo-
rious nation under the sun, gets to
reading socialistic literature, he i'm
mediately gets warps in his political
makeup that are almost impossible
to ever get Slaughtered out. That
is if he is reading to be reading and
not to familiarize himself with the
weak points of that system of polit-
ical falaeies. Such papers as the
Appeal to-Reason and Ripsaw with
adroit cunning calculate and usually
succeed in imbittering their readers
against the freest and purest form
of government Gods sun has ever
shone on. Search the annals of his
CONCLUDED IN TTH COL.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07
CITATION NOTICE
State of Mississippi,

State of Mississippi.
To Henry Bertram. William A Williams. a
minor. and to any and all Unknown persons or
parties having or claiming any legal or equit-
able interest in and to the following described
land sold for taxes on the Sth day of May, A.
D. 1906 viz: nw14 of SW44. sec An 5W Greene
County, MissiSsiOpl. You are commanded to
appear before tn eChaucery Court of the Coun-
ty of Greene, in said State. on rule day Of
said Court, to be held nc the ONCE of the clerk
of said Court. on the
Second Monday of June, A. D. 1909.
in the town of lie ikeSYIlle Mississippi, to de-
fend the suit in said Court of \, @. Ferguson
the nature of which is u bill in Chancery by
said a @. Ferguson. the complainant therein.
praying the Court to grant a decree confirm
ing and quieting the tax title of SAID Com
plainant to said land, derived from the State Of
Mississippi. wherein YOU are defendants. This
March 18th. A. ID. 1909
(Chan. CT Seal) s. r. MCKAY, Clerk
II, p. HEIDELBERG. Sol. for Plft.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07
HOMESTEAD PUBLICATION NOTICE
Department of the Interior. J
U. s. Land Once at jackson, Miss.
Mnrnh u 1000 \

Department of the Interior J
U. S Land Once at Jackson, Miss.
March 81 1909.
Notice is hereby given that Henry D,
McMillon Of Leakesville, Miss, who on June D.
1852 made Homestead Entry No. 1869 Serial
No. 0ll53 for nw1-4 w1-4, Section g. Township
N, Range CIV. St. Stephens Meridian has filed
notice OF intention to make final five year
proof, to establish claim to the land above de-
saribed, before Circuit Clerk of Greene County
at Leazesville. Miss, on the
10Th day of May 1909
Claimant names as witnesses: w, p. VIII
ljams. Fred Amsler w. p Rhinehart and Syl
Turner all OF LeakesviIe Miss.
L. O. c.. LAMAR. Reg ster.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07
Legal Advertisements.
HOMESTEAD PUBLICATION NOTICE.

Department Of the Interior
U. ). L3nd Office at Jackson Miss
April. End 1909
Notice is hereby given that Alb Sylvester. OF
McLain, Mississippi who on March 18th 1904
made Homestead entry No. 1882. Serial. No.
0l65l, for VIE nw4. and nwA sw4, Section 30
Township II, Range W, St Stephens Merid-
ian has tiled notice of his intention to make
final five year proof to establish claim to the
land above described before Circuit Clerk OF
Greene County at Leakesville. Miss on the
18th Day of May 1909,
Claimant names as witnesses: Henly Prime
Jasper Crouch. Henry Prime, nd CNarley
Breland all OF McLain Miss
L. @. c. LAMAR. Register.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07
Marriage Licenses.

Issued in Greene County during
week ending May Z:
$4,000. e. T. Ransier to Miss Anna
Belle LangIy.
5-1-09. H. S. Daniels to L. Y,
Johnson, col.
5-5-07. Walt er Boiler to Willie
Nc Bride, col.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07
The CaImness Of DESPAIR.

Soubrette = Good heavens We
can't stay over night in this hotel!
Comedian-What is the matter with
it?
Soubrette-The bellboy says it's
haunted.
Conedian-That settles it. We
stay. 1t is our only chance this sea
son of ever seeing the ghost walk
Baltimore American.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07
CITATION NOTICE
State of Mississippi

State of Mississippi,
To the unknown heirs of Joseph II. Beardly
deceased, and to w. p, Jones and all unknown
persons or parties having or claiming any
legal or equitable interest in and to the follow
ing described land sold for taxes on the 9Th day
of May. A. ID. 1876 viz: Se14 OF Sc i sec. II 3 z
re W. Greene COuaJy Mississippi. You are
commanded 10 appear before the Chancery
Court OF the County of Greene, in said State. on
a rule day OF said Court. to be held at the office
of the clerk of said Court. on the second Mon
day of June. A d. 1863. in the town of Leakes
vile. Mississippi. to defend the suit in said
COur5 of A. q. Ferguson, the ma ure of which
is bill in Chancery by said A. G. Ferguson,
the complainant therin. praying the Court to
grant decree confirming and quoting the
tax title of said mDanant to said lands
derived rom ia ~tlte o. MlsSiSSlppl WhersiI
you are defendants. This Marcn - \. d. 1909.
(Chan. Court SeaD :. r. MCKAY, Clerk.
Il I. HEIDELBERG. Sol for Commit
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07
Let Us Stop and Think:

Let us stop to think of good by
kiss. Better miss car than leave a
heartache.
Let us stop to think OF the aged.
For us, too, the evening shadows