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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14
Hitchcock Is Sartorial Masterpiece

Mr.. Hitchcock is plainly the original
man for whom the tall, shimmery silk
en- tile was invented. 1t has long been
contended by scientifically inclined
persons that there must have been an
original excuse for inventing that
awful production of headgear. There
must have been man on whom II
looked good, comfortable and home
like. That man has been discovered
He is now postmaster general.
The F street tailors are said 70
study Mr.. Hitchcock with great care.
in order to know just what Is correct
recherche, they call it. The man
who makes the Hitchcock clothes
would be assured a fortune II he we're
allowed to advertise the fact. There
are sacks, frocks, getaways, long and
short; tweeds, plaids, broadcloths,
worsteds; but all are In up-to-the
minute fashions, with just touch Of
the distinguished, sometimes even OF
the daring, to force attention which
must always be tinctured with ad.
miration. Shoes always are selected
to match the rest of the outfit.
George Won L. Meyer, secretary OF
the navy, has his clothes made in Eng
land, while 1t is avouched that Mr..
Hitchcock's are all of domestic produc.
ton. The secretary of the navy is O
splendidly tailored person; but In the
competition between him and the post
Office department the American tailora
win in walk.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14
Twelve Articles That Pay Most Tariff

reau of statistics show that the share
which customs duties have borne in
producing the revenues of the country
has varied with varying conditions
principally depending on changes from
time to time in internal revenue laws
1T must not be supposed, however"
says the report, that because a doz
en- articles or groups of articles pay
three-fourths Of the tariff duties col
lected the making Of a tariff and
the determination of rates of duty and
the amount Of revenue likely to re
suit therefrom is by any means a sim
pie matter.
Under the title of cotton cloth, for
instance, the rates of duty on cloths
not exceeding so threads to the square
inch, counting warp and filing, are
one cent per yard if the material IL
not bleached, dyed or colored, but u
cents per yard II bleached, and two
cents per yard if dyed, colored or
printed. If the number OF threads per
square inch exceeds so and does not
exceed 100 the rates are still higher
liz cents per square yard on that
which is not bleached, dyed or colored.
and does not exceed six square yards
to the pound, but IL cents per square
yard on that exceeding six square
yards to the pound"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14
Alfalfa and the Soil.

When a plant furnishes an abundant
crop, such as alfalfa, with three OF
four cuttings during a single season.
it is but natural to think that 1t will
greatly exhaust the SOIL Nothing Is
more erroneous. Instead of taking
strength away from the soil it puts
more into it; instead of exhausting IL,
the fertility is increased. The pene-
trating powers of alfalfa roots are
we'll known. The roots are constantly
growing and decaying, thus adding to
the ''humus" of the soil. The strong.
est point in favor of alfalfa as a soil
improver is its remarkable nitrogen
gathering ability The roots of alfalfa
are full of the small nitrogen tuber-
Giles which represent bottled up vital
ity to plant life and it has been made
on ground infested with nitrogen bac-
terra. W
Under these circumstances the
spread of alfalfa fever is no wonder
With splendid crops of highest priced
hay on top of the ground. with the
roots working as perfectly natural fer.
tilizers under the ground. farmers can
do nothing better than to plant alfalfa.
The truth of this statement may be
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14
Wanted-Mant to Run Senate Restaurant

well as light, heat, power and fuel.
But still it seems that everybody
who has been asked about Il looks
askance at the palatial quarters and
then at the busy restaurant over IN
the capitol building, thinks OF the live.
ly little automobiles that take. people
away from the ONCE building through;
the intervening space by the subway.
wishes the palatial quarters were on
Broadway, or even Pennsylvania ave
nue., and sadly shakes his head.
NO money in it," say they all.
Now, the question is, will the sen
ate decide to go into the luncheon
business itself? 1t looks as II II viii
come either to that or allowing the
fine dining rooms and kitchens to 60
to waste entirely. A new committee
might have to be created to run them.
or else they could be handed over 10
the committee on public health and
national quarantine, on irrigation OF
some other similar committee that
stands around and looks pleasant 30
the folks out home, but never does q,
stroke of work Of any kind Whatever
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14
remnerance in Eating.

The next great reform OF the world,
after the liquor and tobacco business
Is disposed of, will be the debauchery
of eating. According to some Of the
best physicians of the present time,
more than three-fourths of all diseases
are caused by over-eating or by I'M
proper preparation of food. The
world has gone on for hundreds of
years paying very little real scientific
attention to what 1t puts into its stom-
ach. II 1t were not for the wonder
full apparatus which nature has fur
nished and the ability to throw off poi
sons from the system, 1t seems as II
the whole race would have been ex-
terminated long before this through
it's carelessness in the matter of its
daily means Probably the one great
sin of all unhealthy human beings
is the sin of gluttony. According to
Mr.. Fletcher and others of his school,
the haste with which food is taken into
the body without chewing and assim-
Hating is criminal in the extreme.
The world seems unable to consider
more than one great reforming process
at time. but there is no doubt when
the evils from drink and tobacco are
eliminated from civilization the whole
world will turn its attention to the
right kind of food, Its right prepare
ton, and then finally It's proper assim-
llation by the eater.
1t is. perhaps, perfectly safe to say
that more than half of the diseases
known to mankind would disappear II
the race would learn and obey some of
the commonest rules that belong to the
use OF food.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14
Senator, Unknown, Defends a Negro

When the senator and negro ap
peared together in court Judge Kim.
ball demanded:
''Is this defendant represented
Il am here to represent him." said
Senator Smith, modestly, rising.
Neither the court nor anybody else
in particular knew him.
Name, please?" demanded the
court.
wv. A. Smith," replied the cenator,
Admitted to the bar, are your"
Yes, your honor"
The court grumbled and finally
started the trial. Smith took charge
calling up his witnesses, Of whom he
had a number.
Lawyer w. A. Smith, when the case
was all in, made a little speech. and
the court acquitted the man. Smith
and the client left, and just then q
newspaper man who had wandered in,
conveyed to the court the information
that the lawyer was Senator Smith.
The court recovered in time to take
the next case, but there was some
slight excitement over the discov
cry.
Senator Smith, meanwhile. Is In
teresting himself in the methods OF
the Washington police, and some even
more interesting developments ara
promised.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14

VIZ ASHINGTON.-Frank H. Hitch.
w cock, postmaster general, is the
sartorial masterpiece of this admins
tration. No statistics have been COM
piled on the number of clothes Mr..
Hitchcock owns Lost in admiring
contemplation of their refined yet
fetching splendor, few have been able
to recall themselves to the mere
mathematical aspects of the splendid
procession of variegated vestments.
Mr.. Hitchcock is one of those men
who wear their clothes WE'LL He is
particular that they be newly pressed
and carefully busted. He will stop in
the midst of the most serious confer
ence to draw up the port compartment
OF his trousers in avoidance of a
menacing bag at the knee, adjusting
II in the exact position to obviate the
bag at the knee, and yet to prevent
any unseemly wrinkling at the thigh.
Thus elevated, the Hitchcock trouser
invariably displays a modest segment
of hosiery never known to depart from
the rule that correctly tailored
mans hose must match his necktie
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14

THREE-FOURTHS of the tariff du-
i ties collected by the United
States government annually are paid
by ~ articles or classes of articles.
These are sugar, which in 1907 paid
$4,000, 900 duty; cotton manufactures,
which paid 500 1000. 900; leaf tobacco,
$22 900 900; manufactures of fibers,
$22 100000; manufactures of silk, $780,
100000; manufactures. OF WOOL $780,
100000; raw wool, SIG, 100000; spirits,
wines and malt liquors, $4,000, 90;
manufactures of iron and steel, s12,-
100000; earthen and china ware, $S,-
100000; chemicals, drugs and dyes,
$7,500.000, and fruits and nuts, ST.
100000.
The total amount paid by these y
classes of artic es in 1901 was $3.50.
100000, which was three-fourths of
the 1928, 100000, of tariff duties col
lected in that year,
Further figures prepared by the bu-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14
The Mortgage Litter.

The hog has been rightly called the
mortgage litter, for certainly he has
lifted many mortgages from American
farms. He is in this country a rent
payer, he pays the interest on the
debt and on the mortgage. There Is
no doubt that many a farmer has In.
creased his herd of hogs for the pur.
pose OF paying OF the mortgage when
1t should come due.
The hog Is the most ready animal
to be used as means Of raising
money. His omnivorous appetite
makes IL possible to keep him with
little expense If he cannot be supplied
with expensive food. II he. cannot
have grain he turns to grass and
clover. II they fail, he has a large
assortment of pig weeds and other
weeds on which he can exc out IN
existence. When all things above
ground fail he begins his hunt In the
ground and will work hard roofing up
potatoes, artichokes and other rooes
Turn the hog loose in the woods, as
many men do in the south. and he still
finds means TO satisfy his hunger. He
tnows MANY a root that is succuien<
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14

rnat man does not know mucn ABOUT.
He watches the oak trees and seizes
all the acorns that fall. In fact, this
kind of food Is just the thing for him,
and the hog so fed is considered a
prize as producing meat, and especial:
~ ham on high quality,
an some parts OF the country the
hog Is made to shift for himself, and
he does It successfully. He becomes
q fas0r back and can outrun almost
amything that 10 likely to get after
him. He does not produce as much
meat as he does when he is kept in a
psn and highly fed from birth to ma
tnrsty, bat what he does produce is
Of good favor and costs the owner
practically nothing. The southern
bag has done his share towards the
lifting of the mortgage and also to-
wards clothing the family.
Uuaries Lee, a negro OF Houston,
Tex. has perfected machine which
he claims will destroy boil weeyils.
The machine is simple box consist.
ing primarily of a round box made OF
metal and having four protruding
tubes. Within the outer receptacle is
another which contains chemicals ca,
pabie Of igniting and giving of deadly
fumes.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14
ehibitisnists Issue Year
Doek Packed With Meta.
Bile Facts mud Figures
of CafreGt Interest.
what the Drink Trade Costs Lii.
rsis"--A Typical Exsmpls
Of peiatM Data.

The American Prohibition Year Book
For 1909 In thu meet complete digest Of
facts, figures and important current
history concerning the Prohibition
movement which has ever been pub
lished.
within the limits Of its 1eo pages,
edited Jointly By Alfonso e. Wilson
and A. b. Heath. are contained enough
truth and moral dynamite to sAatter
the toughest prejudice and the most
hostile tradition.
AnY man who wants TO know tne
latest facts about the liquor business
or who wants 10 show them to his
neighbcr should send for O copy OF
the Year Book without n moments
delay.
Any man who, heretofore Indifferent
70 and unmoved by the logic OF the
Prohibition InessaTe, desires TO main
tain his indifference should be careful
net to get In touch with copy OF this
magazine OF moral ammunition.
The Year Book "a divided into six
teen sections as follows:
/ Almanac
II. Total Abstiasnes-
III Consumpsicn and cOet q Drink.
~. Economics.
v. The Haosf Trade
vi. CriminoioGy.
VII. Legislation.
VIII. Results Of Le9iSia&isn-
II. Courts ana Decss.oua.
x. Church ana psOAtbteler.
XII a Eatsonai Problem.
XII. Party Records.
XII. Political Action.
XIV. Election RseugnR.
XIV. Organizations and Periodicals..
XVI YnAmw
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14
DRINK AND TUBERCULOSIS.
The Excessive Use Of Alcohol Makes
Man Prone to Infectious
QiReaaeR.

A new light on the relation between
drink and tuberculosis appears in
recent study of the reduction in the
mortality from tuberculosis now dis
cernible in the mortality figures OF
New York. An article by the registrar
of records, department of health OF the
city of New York, in the New York
Medical Record of November, Is, 1908,
says: At every age group in both
males and females the proportion OF de-
crease is considerable, with the excep'
ton of the age group 1856 in the
males in which the reduction Is only
one per cent. The decrease is greater
In all age groups among females than
among males, with the exception OF
the ages under five and between III
and IA: the reduction per cent. OF the
female mortality at all ages is So, and
that of the males only 20, slightly
more than one-half that of the fe'
males. This is the more remarkable
when we consider that of late years
the female has taken up occupations
classed as dangerous from an infec'
tious standpoint, such as typewriting
saleswoman, flower-making, feather
working, etc. Why should the rate
from this cause of death be almost sc
per cent. lower in the female sex than
in the male? Exposure to the elements
on the part of the latter has been Of
fered as an explanation, and is true to
some extent, as the death rate from
pulmonary tuberculosis up to the
twenty-f1fth year Is almost the same In
both sexes, and In all ages above 25
the rate among males Is greatly In ex
cess. The abuse of alcohol is undoubt
eddy one of the potent factors in rem
dering the male more prone to infec
ton and less amenable to recovery
than the female; even the use OF al
cohol in the treatment of tuberculosis
Is being gradually discarded by the
careful physician of to-day.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14
Temperanes in the British Navy

An interesting article has recently
been contributed to one Of the cur.
rent British reviews under the title,
The Blessings of Naval AFmaments."
AS one OF the blessings the writer
points out the influence of the navy
as a social and ameliOrative institu-
ton. The feet, he states, Is one Of
the most powerful temperance organi-
cations of the day. 1t is calculated
that about rs per cent. of the men of
the fleet abstain altogether from al
coholic liquors, and all the remainder
are compelled to be strictly temper
ate. No officer or man with ambi-
ton to rise in the profession can af-
ford to indulge to excess. The daily
life at sea in these days of mechanical
complication in the control of his
majesty's ships is too Onerous and
exacting for any man who is not of
distinctly abstemiOus habits. Drunk
enness, which is not crime ashore, is
crime in the navy, because temper
ance Is required by the articles of war
In the interest, not of the individual,
but of the nation
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14

WY LILLIAN ALDEN SMITH of
w Michigan appeared in the police
court the other day in Washington as
police lawyer, defended a colored
man accused of disorderly conduct,
got him acquitted after an hours trial
and went away with his client before
the court or any of the attendants
learned that the unknown young law
yer was a United States senator.
Then Judge Kimball, who had been
short and sharp in his treatment of the
strange lawyer, almost fell off the
bench.
The case which Senator Smith tried
was that of Robert A. Pelham, former
ly active in Detroit politics, now a
clerk In the census Office here, who
got into trouble. Senator Smith
thought he had arranged with District
Commissioner West to have the case
against Pelham nOlle pressed, but some
thing went wrong with the works and
Pelham had to stand trial.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14

THE senate has got itself into a
i most embarrassing fix. 1t has
constructed in its handsome new $4,-
100000 office building at Washington,
the finest and most complete kitchen,
or series of kitchens. anywhere to
be found 1t has also furnished beau
tiful marble dining rooms. And now
not soul can be found who will think
for a minute of running them and fur
rishing grub to the hungry senators
ard their clerks even at nice high
ices.
T>is is passing strange, too, for all
kitchens and dining rooms, with
,,rure so complete and so convent
rtaf cook and waiter scarcely
~ co anything, are all free, as
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14
President Cannot Attend.

Gov. Noel has received letters from
Fred n. Carpenter, private secretary to
President Taft, Secretary of the Navy
G. Won L. Meyer and Admiral George
Dewey, all acknowledging the invitations
sent them to be present at the time OF
the presentation of the silver service
to the Mississippi as the guests of hon
or of the occasion. Unfortunately for
the fuller success of the occasion, which
would have been the case had either one
of the distinguished officers been able
to accept the invitation and be at Horn
Island on June /, neither OF the trio
will be able to make the journey.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14
Privilege Taxes Due.

Tax collectors throughout the sta,e
arr serving formal notices tlI.-t a.. priv
ilcge taA,a Tor the c!!sd.ng year are due
ana payable during the present mont.
1t is objected tina. within the hcXt 81
we KS The state VII receive from 500,
600 to $4,000 i'll revenue fro:A IT,
so:r,e. Privilege license OIL all toiiua
Of Business are due and payable On tn.
first day of May, and n.u.t be srttird
within the h. Collectors have III
tho1;tt to collect do..,.e the amoClt 0.
the privilege TAX from Ielinqueats, dut
the enforcement o. ti.::a per,,lty is Jp
tional with the collector.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14

and IL ounces. The average total per
cent termination for this group was
IS, and the per cent. strong germina-
ton was only 33 as compared with SIS
f,.- +l>-~ Io-90
Second, 80 ears of Hembree corn, a
local variety, were tested The stan
dard size ear for this variety Is about
IA ounces. The 80 ears were divided
into two groups. The first group con-
sisted of 40 ears weighing from Is to
rs ounces The average total per ce-:..
termination for these ears was 1915,
while the per cent. stronge germina-
ton was 1872. The second group con-
sisted of 40 ears, weighing from to
IL ounces. The average total per cent.
termination for these ears was 66.4.
while the per cent. strong termination
was only 1915 as compared with 1872
for the standard sized ears
These results show that seed corn
is not in good condition in many cases
and should be tested for termination
before planting. The difference in
termination between the different
sized ears of corn in this test CORE
spends to previous experiments made
by the writer, and should be guide
In selecting corn In the ear for seed
as weak termination Is at least partly
responsible for low Yields.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14

reanzed ana verlned, If one Dur takes
time to look up statistics and reads
about the marvellous increase in the
acreage of alfalfa. In Kansas alone
the acres Ssown to alfalfa increased
from approximately $4,000 acres in
1891 to more than $4,000 in 1907. 1t
is safe to say that since then
the acreage has increased in proper
ton, and other states are falling in
line.-A. Kruhm in Farm Home
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14

A pointed illustration Of the mate.
rial contained In the Year Book Cor
$500 10 tho following digest Of the
drink bill in Illinois:
The drink bill IN Illinois in 1908 was
9167 SOC, 600. This would have pur
chased 23,0o0 farms Of 80 acres each
nc 800 per acre, which would have
brought prosperity 30 10000 people
who do not know prosperity now.
Illinois spent for booze last year
about as much al was spent for labor
In all the factories and mills Of the
state.
Il put over the saloon bars -four
dAes the value Of agricultural i'm
piements made In 1908. and Illinois
leads the country In this manufacture
I1liAois spent % for rum for every
dollar spent for bread and bakery
products.
Iltnoas drank up more than twice "a
nOch in beer and whisky MS Il spent
fer clothing last year.
The indirect cost Of the drink trSfRc
In Illinois was @6.60Oo00. including
half Of the cost OF crime, cne-fourth o.
the cost Of protection FOR life and prop
SxEy, one-fourth the cost OF health and
conservation, one-ha9 the cost OF pub
lie charities. one-thfrd the cost Of the
insane and two-thirds the cost Of nj
penal institutions.
The total direct and indirect cost Of
the MQuer traGac In 1903 in Illinois wal
therefore 10000 per day and 1900
GO per month.
IN return for all this the liquor mer
turned over to the people a. license
naoney last year approximately $500.
COO
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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14
The Real White Slave,

1.-The real white slave is the wife OF
the poor drunkard," declared Judge
Mckenzie Cleland before the Evanston
Mems club in a recent address. THE
blacklist page in American history will
be the page telling of our treatment
of the drunkard, that unfortunate who
is not a criminal, but whom We make
one by locking him up The criminal
courts ars az least 1Oo0 wears behinG
ti,1 f;inRS
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14
Distribution of Peabody Fund.

Professor j. N. Powers, state super
intendent of education, and Professor
A. A. Kincannon, chancellor of the Uni
versity of Mississippi, will leave during
the latter part of the week for New
York to attend the meeting OF the execu-
tive committee of the Peabody Educa-
tional Fund commission, called for the
purpose of arranging for the distribu-
ton of the $2,5OO,oOO fund appropriated
for the cause of education in the South.
1t is expected that Mississippi will re-
ceive about $150,OOo of the sum, which
the department can use to an exceP
tionally good advantage at this time.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14
Keep the Coops Clean.

Do not put your newly Matched
chicks into filthy old breeders or
brood coops. See that everything of
this kind is thoroughly scrubbed out
with hot soap suds and sprinkled with
little carbolic acid and set in the
sun to dry. See that all this is at
tended to long enough before using to
get thoroughly dried out before the
chicks are to be put into them. A
filthy old brooder or brood coop for
hen and chickens will breed disease
and then you will wonder what Ia the
cause.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14
Assessing Railroad Property.

In q decision rc:.dered by the SUI
preme court in the case of thc '. ( u.
V. Railroad VS.. the City OF TicLsbu- .
IL was held that the railroad comlIisaio
has sole exclusive right to assess ra.
road property, and that a municipality
cannot exercise the right of assc SSH. -;
or s4ualizations, despite the fact that
the municipality is operating under spe'
clal charter