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GENERAL RIAckSmiTHING.

AND LCkE-WAGON
and carriage repairing. horse shoe
ing and all kinds nj iron work n src-
cialty. North end County Bridge.
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FOR SALE-SEVEN WORK HORSES
Inquire John J. Norman. Bandmann
ranch camp.
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GOOD TIMBER CLAIM FOR SALE
Address Timber" Missoulian office
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TEAM. 2.6Oo: NEW WAGON AM
harness. cheap if sold at once. Cor
ncr Monroe and Locust.
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MISSGELIAN WANT ADS
BRING QUICK RESULTS.
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issOulian Class Ads Always Reach the People
FOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

SECONDHAND BUGGIES FOR
sale. Inquire Cannon & Mcleod.
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FOR SALE-FOUR MILLION FEET
timber near new railroad. For par
ticula~s address II. NJ. Stringham,
Cyr, Mont.
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MISS0tiIAN WANT ADS
BRING QUICK RESULTS.
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my driving horse. buggy and har-
ness. George l.. Stcinbrenner.
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TEAM. ABOUT 2.700. S1-4 WAGON
and harness. Inquire at tent, south
Of Van Buren, street bridge
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BARGAIN-One 80 HORSE POWER
Case traction engine; been in use
six months; first class condition
At Blackfnot yard. Missoula.
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SITUATIONS WANTED FEMALE

YOUNG WOMAN WISHES POSITION
as stenographer Address v Mis-
snuIian.
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FURNITURE. NEW AND SECOND
hand: also pay the highest price for
secondhand household goods. Hans
Jensen. Lesser block. 1876 W. Main st.
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PRESSING SHOP.

RED APPLE TAILORING Il PRESS
ing shop: better work for less: 5li
Woody, phone ass red.
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FOR SALE GENTLEMEN'S CLOTH
ing. all sizes and kinds; first-class
clothing at a very low price. Ad-
dress 1903 South Fourth street
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HELP WANTED.

WANTED TO WORK IN LAUNDRY
Male and female help. Call or
address Post Laundry, Fort Mis-
Souia.
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HOMES.

WE CAN SELL YOU IMPROVED
"r uninpruyed farms. Carey rclin-
quishncnts or Carey entries ranging
in price frnm sf556 tn $50 per acre:
come and see Thorn or write for list,
Idaho Irrigated Lands Co. Blackfoot.
Idaho.
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STORAGE.

STORAGE WAREHOUSE. T3i WEST
Cedar; phone 49, black. J. W Rely
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FOR SAI.E-THREE MILLION FEET
pine and fir timber within two miles
at Bearmouth. For particulars ad-
dress Box l02 Dsummrnd, Mcnt.
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WANTED LABORERS, $3.50 PER
day; 10 laborers, S2.25 per day;
cook. $50. board and room; Two din
ing room girls. city, $40; girl, gen.
eral housework, $50. Western EN-
ploymcnt Agency. 122 Higgins av-
enuc. phone 140 red.
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o. X EMPLOYMENT AGENCY. 327
Higgins avenue, phone 69i-2o
teamsters, 80 labo"ers, $2.25 per day,
board s5.25 per week, west, free fare:
20 men for section, sl.s5 per day:
50 foreigners west, Il foreigners
east; extra gang. sl.15 per day; 20
men for government work. S hours.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-23
Miscellaneous Account of the Senate

Last, but not least, is that elastic
account headed as miscellaneous
items"
The senate's pin money pays for all
the kilograms senators send and the
replies. 1t supplies ice without stint;
one months bill, that for December,
having been $2485S 1t provides APP
polinaris, White Rock and other spe-
cial waters, Poland Spring being ia
Vored because Senator Hale of Maine
introduced it years ago. This water
has come to possess traditional
standing as the proper thing-of it's
kind-to slack the senatorial thirst.
The miscellany fund buys type
writer's and bicycles, horses, wagons.
and, maybe. an auto or two, although
none are found listed in the classified
accounts. No senator was ever seen
upon a bicycle. There are bicycle
messengers, however, and the senate,
being a big-hearted institution, gives
the necessary machine.
From January l to 81, 1908, Ida
BamiIey received $122.10 for washing
and ironing 407 dozen towels for the
senate. In the same month A. l..
Ford got $3.50 for washing and iron
ing 266 dozen towels. During the
same 81 days Edith A. Washington
profted to the sum of $1,000 for wash
ing and ironing 222 dozen towels.
Problem: How would you like to
be the washerwoman?
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-23
[ z,y%Zas's;'
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EHASHINGTON.-If you want to
w read an official fairy tale in fig
ures of the nations commercial prog
ress get copy of the latest bunch of
postoffice statistics. just issued by A.
L. Lawshe, the third assistant post
master general
How he got all the figures on one
page is still mystery, but he GER
tainly succeeded in piling up enough
millions and billions to make any
ones head swim.
Counting postage stamps must be
a lot like counting the grains of sand
ut the sea. At any rate, these careful
counters of Uncle Sans postoffice de-
partment have found out that last
year the department issued 1861 AGO.
405 of the little sticky things. An
oyerheated figurer, who doesn't work
for the postoffice department, figured
out that if these little squares of
paper were placed end to end they
would run a couple of thousand feet
over 120,760 miles
A foOtnote to the statistics shows
that Uncle Sam didn't begin printing
postage stamps until July 1, 1S47. The
first year he succeeded in putting
S00,380 on the market. Last year he
issued $500 times that many-a fair
ly decent increase in the postoffice
business in fifty-two years.
The biggest figure on the page is the
one that designates the number of pieces
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-23

r HE United States senate-pay,
/ maintenance, odds and ends
costs about $2,O00,000 a year. To be
exact, the amount was $1,S59, 1877,
according to the last report rendered
By Charles G.. Bennett, secretary of
the senate The latter sum figures to
S19,500 each per each of 80 senators.
The money goes for thousand and
one things that classify between sal
aries and snuff Compensation and
mileage of senators, notably the mile
age, requires tidy sum. Pages, mes
sengers, special police, clerks, private
secretaries, minor senate officers, the
senatorial army of retainers use up
another large lump. Repairs, new
furniture, the senate library, the SEN
ate stable, stationery and newspapers,
the expense accounts of senate ennis
saries, the cost of the upkeep and eX-
pense of special committees, report
ing senate debates and committee
meetings, all form just a few of the
other varieties through which the
spare change of the senate flows in a
steady stream.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-23
'seeeesossSsoeOssOsses
THE TRADE" NOT WANTED.

Leading Manufacturers of Central
Tennessee City Delighted With DRY
Environment.
Columbia, Tenn, under Prohibition
for the past two years. IS planning
civic improvements never before
known.
1--WE would not have the saloon
again under any consideration" writes
the Columbia Mill and Lumber COM
pany, one of the best known concerns
of this character in central Tennessee,
in correspondence to the Associated
Prohibition Press. There has been
an increase in the attendance in our
public schools" continues this CORE
spondent. land, as compared with the
period under saloon conditions, our
business is better in every way local
ly.'.
In answer to the inquiry of the AS
ISOLATED Prohibition Press. ''Is there a
saving of the peoples money formerly
spent for drink" the company's man.
ager writes. Most decidedly"
Strong confederation Of this teSti-
mony was also given by w. II. ENTRY,
secretary and treasurer of the Colum-
bia Cotton Mill company. another large
manufacturing firm of that city.
FThe costs of the criminal court
cases have been reduced to one-half
of what they were before our town
went dry" writes Mr.. ENTRY.
"There is a large saving Of the peo-
pies money. also of lost time with the
after headache and the appearance be-
fore the city court. to say nothing of
the fines which formerly came out Of
the families bread and meat Bust
ness among local dealers is bettered
by at least the amount of whisky for
merly sold and more than this through
the increased work being done by la
borers formerly incapacitated by
drink
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-23
Drinking habit Formed in Youth.

If there is one subject more than
another within the entire scope of the
liquor problem upon which all observ-
ers are in gratifying accord, it is in
regard to the dangers of allowing alco-
hol in any quantity to children and
adolescents. During youth the habits
of the body are formed, and the grow.
ing organism has peculiar susceptible
ity to narcotic poisons, says McClure's
Magazine. DR.. Alexander Lambert
made a study of a certain number of
alcohol cases in Bellevue hospital
with reference to the age at which the
use of the drug began. Here are the
rather startling and highly suggestive
facts:
"Of 259 instances where the age of
beginning to drink was known, four
began before six years of age; 10 be-
tween six and twelve years; so be-
tween twelve and sixteen; 102 be-
tween sixteen and twenty-one; II be-
tween six and twelve; go between
twenty-one and thirty, and eight only
after thirty years of age. Thus, near
ly seven per cent. began before twelve
years of age, or the seventh school
year; 80 per cent. began before the
age of sixteen, and over two-thirds-
that is, 6S per cent.-began before
twenty-one years Of age"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-23
OHIO STRIKES BLOW.
Temperance Forces Win Greatest Vic.
tory Yet Gained, BY Carrying
Ohio County BY Largest
Vote Ever Cast.

Ohio temperance forces signalized
greatest victory which has yet been
gained under the new county option
law. Clark county, containing the city
of Springfield, was voted dry" in a
fight which called forth every ounce
of energy on both sides and brought
out 457 votes more than were cast in
the presidential contest. Ninety-three
saloons and three breweries are put
out of business by the result, which
was in doubt up to the very last mo-
ment and was in favor of the temper
ance forces by only 81 votes 1t is an
nounced already that the saloon forces
will contest the verdict of the people
in the courts, and the announcement
was to have been expected To a
greater degree than is true in any 9TH
er trade, the liquor men seem to fall
easy victims to the wiles of the shy
ster lawyer. They are always eager
to contest, and in almost every case
the final decision brings no gain ex-
cept to the lawyers in the case. 1t
will prove so in this instance.
All the records of recent victories
are agreed in one thing-that the larg-
est credit in every case is due to the
women. Without their faithful serv-
ice in preparing the community for
the contest and in marshaling the
vote on election day, it is not too
much to say that no one of the coun-
ties which are now recorded in the
"dry" column would have its place
there. The temperance victory is in
a real sense the victory Of good
women.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-23
Belrnonts to Dazzle National Capital

a remarkable turn in the case of the
Belmonts, and Mr.. Roosevelt it is said
asked his cabinet officers and others
high in the official scale to stay away
from the Belmonts' functions.
The first entertainment was a fail.
ure because of this taboo. The men
came in large numbers and their
wives with few exceptions absented
themselves. But the Belmonts had
already made plans for their new
home. They had brought their archi-
tect from Paris and incurred much ex-
pense.
Mrs. Belmont was not daunted. Be-
fore long she was entertaining Col.
Bromwell, the official major domo of
the White House under the Roosevelt
regime, and his wife at theater par
ties, and her field of social conquest
was gradually extended until now she
is perfectly at home as an entertainer.
Next winter on her return from
abroad she will throw open her new
palace for entertainments that are
likely to make her critics sit up.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-23
New Successful White House Hostess

became i'll she abandoned her own
social programme in Cincinnati and
remained in Washington. This made
it possible for Mrs. Taft to carry out
the remainder of the entertainments
which had already been scheduled,
and Mrs. More took her place as
hostess at several official dinner par
ties which Mrs. Taft had planned
earlier in the season. Mrs. More won
admiration by the grace with which
she fitted into the position of White
House hostess.
Mrs Taft's first social season as
mistress of the White House was a
brilliant success in spite of the ner-
vous trouble which necessitated her
withdrawal. Never in the history of
generations has there been so much
social activity at the White House, and
never has society been more diplo-
matically and pleasantly brought to-
gether Persons who had not been in
the White House for many months,
and some for several years, were
again welcomed and hobnobbed with
each other to an extent hard to be-
lieye.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-23
Rice Growing in the Delta.

H. T. Savely, assistant to DIR. S. &.
Knapp of the agricultural department,
was a visitor in Rosedale, to call on the
Hon. Charles Scott relative to the rice
experiment on the latter's Triumph
plantation, in the lower part of Bolivar
county Mr. Savely states that he is
Just from the rice fields adjacent to
Lake Providence, La, which he found i'll
very promising condition, and on Il
close inspection of the Bolivar county
rice he is prepared to say that it equals
in all respects any rice that he has seen
in Louisiana; lie is fully convinced that
rice culture in the delta will prove a
financial success. Mr.. Savely states
that he has just observed with pleasure
that the lands Immediately adjacent to
the river, which are practically useless
some years because of sipe water, are
especially adapted to rice culture, and
the probability is that a large area Of
said lands will be devoted i'll the future
to this industry, thus making profitable
lands which have heretofore brought
their owners little or no revenue.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-23
Business Men Pleased.

The Jackson business men who re-
turned Saturday from trip over the
New Orleans & Great Northern road
speak in glowing terms of the country
through which this new road passes.
There is no fairer or more fertile section
of the Magnolia State than that stretch
along the meanderings of Pearl river,
which, while not as rich as some sec
tions of the Yazoo delta, taken alto
gether, is more thoroughly adapted to
general agricultural and industrial pur-
suits, and is settled by as fine type OF
American citizens as will be found in
any corner of the great commonwealth.
Along the line of the new road, through
Copiah, Lawrence, Kinds and Marion
counties, it was noted that while from
every part of the State has come the
universal story of very much shortened
crops, and superabundance of grass and
abandoned cultivation there really
seemed less along this Pearl river valley
than elsewhere. True, considerable cotton
acreage has been abandoned, but much
less than it was expected to find, and
wherever it has been worked out, and
there has been any drainage at all, such
cotton and corn as had any chance at all
is looking healthy, with fine color,
many of the fields being dotted with
blooms, while many large areas in corn
are in tassel, with an apparently prolific
fruitage, as observed on cursory exam
nation, from the car window.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-23
IN NORTH CAROLINA'S
DRY CAPITAL CITY.


1 Business Men Delighted and Public
Spirit Grows After Year of Prohibi.
ton.
Raleigh, N. c.. closed up the saloons
under local Prohibition Dec. &c, 1907,
and a state wide Prohibition law went
into effect Jan. 1. 1909. Raleigh has
a population of $4,000 people and is
the capital city of North Carolina.
1--WE are satisfied with dry terri
tory" writes the manager of the
Rosengarten company, well known
mems furnishings and clothing MGR
chants of Raleigh, in an enthusiastic
response to an inquiry of the Associat-
ed Prohibition Press.
Our men are more steady, are pay
ing their debts and can be depended
on in every way. So markedly has
this been true that we are now paying
them increased salaries from colorcd
porter up.
Our business is better and much
more satisfactory. We have collected
lots of accounts, formerly rated as
dead which we would never have re-
ceived in the days of the open saloon
A number of men who were formerly
drunkards now have bank accounts,
with families happy over the trans
formation.
Eyes, sir; there is a decided saving
of the peoples money heretofore spent
for drink. There has been an increase
in expenditures for public improve
ments. and the people are willingly
putting out their money in every way.
There has been a marked increase in
attendance in the public schools as
well as interest generally in their well
fare"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-23
ssRyElZIa2||I2Il5IaIa[Sea
Al1NIzz.IZp7E9
THE DRINK TRAFFIC.
ton of Intemperance Problem; All
Countries Discuss Question.

The continent is regarded by many
as providing the solution of the prob
lem OF intemperance. The vigorous
campaign against the evil in several
of the European countries, however,
shows that England is not the only
country which has to grapple with in
temperance. The government of Hun
gary is taking action against drunk
enness. Press reports from Budapest
state that Count Andrassy, the min
lister of the interior, is now devoting
his serious attention to the drinking
problem, which has recently con-
fronted Hungary. A national council
for dealing with the evil, whose work
is to discover the best and most eff
fectual means of eliminating drunk
enness, has been called into being
Primarily there is to be reform Of
all the drinking shops. Budapest is
full of "palinka" shops, where vile
and destructive spirits are sold to
workmen. Educational methods are
also to be made use of, and the evil
of liquor drinking is to be demon
strated in schools and other places. A
large institution is also to be built
for dealing with drunkards and pro-
viding a cure treatment The govern
ment have determined to scientifically
attack the question of drink with
steady earnestness of purpose and
satisfactory results may be expected.
In both Vienna and Budapest a
great and increasing interest in the
temperance movement has been
aroused At a recent series of con-
ferences conducted by the Interna-
tional League of Good Templars. DR..
Forel, editor of L'Abstinence, address
ing audiences of 5000 and more per-
sons, said that despite the hostility of
officials of these cities, all classes
were becoming enthusiastic.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-23
Veterans Increasing.

Auditor Smith has received the first
half dozen of the enumerations made by
the tax assessors on the number of Con-
federate soldiers and widows of such sol
diers in their respective counties.
The oddity about the report is that
there are ten more of these soldiers and
widows now than there were two years
ago. Since it is hardly possible that
these counties have actually gained ten
of the old guard during this time, in
view of the large number of them that
are dying all over the country every
year, the only reasonable explanation is
that some were overlooked two years ago.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-23
Gov. Noel Counts the Cash.

Pursuant to the requirements of Sec
ton 137 of the State constitution, Gov.
Noel Saturday made count of the
cash and condition of the State treasury,
the following certificate telling the story:
Il, George Edwards, Jr., treasurer of
the State of Mississippi, hereby certify
that the condition of the treasury of the
State of Mississippi, on this the 9th day
of July, A. D. 1909, is as shown in the
following statement, and the balance on
hand is the sum of S346,O3O.O2, consist
ing of cash on hand in drawer, $16.65;
balance on hand in State repositories,
$345, 2O1.48; balance on hand, county
tax on land redemption fund, $S11.89.
Total, $346, O30.O2"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-23

NERS. PERRY BELMONT has not
lv1 abandoned her plan of invading
Washington society. The new home
of the Belmonts, just completed, which
stands in fashionable section of
New Hampshire avenue, will be dedi-
Gated to the objects for which it was
built and will become the center of
social and political interests in the
national capital.
There was story that the Bel
monts had decided to give up their
Washington venture on account of
the obstacles which President Roose-
velt put in the way of their social
plans. This disposition of President
Roosevelt to regulate everything took
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-23
Postal Statistics a Mass of Figures

of mail matter that were mailed in the
United States last year. These to-
tailed 13,173,34O,329. A large proper
ton of these consisted of newspapers,
for which no stamps are used. But
in addition to the stamps which were
sold a tiny rife of 1,266,6O2, 559
stamped envelopes and wrappers was
sold by the department. These Uncle
Sam began to sell in 1852, when he
placed round 100000 on the mar
ket.
The figures for the mail handled
were begun in 1886, when Uncle Sam
carried 3,474,OOOOOO pieces of mail.
The figures have quadrupled in a lit
tie more than twenty years.
In 1879, when Uncle Sans postoffice
started business with Benjamin Frank
lin as postmaster general, there were
seventy-fve postoffices, and in the
first year of their operation they did
s37 1886 worth of business, at an ex-
pense of $32,140. Since then the
balance has moved to the other side
of the ledger, and for the last year
the revenues of the department were
the pretty little sum of $191,47S,633,
while the expenditures were $2O3, 3D.
$3.50.
The number of postoffices jumped
from 70 to 61,15S; the extent of the
post routes from / ,S75 to 450,73S; the
miles of mail service performed from
little over 100000 to 53S, 43S,722, and
the compensation of the postmasters
from sSS, 1913 Sto $25,5 1897.
The most astounding growth was
marked by the rural free delivery
service. 1t was begun in 1897, with
SO routes, covering 1,S43 miles, at an
expense of $14,840. Last year it had
grown to 39,143 routes, with S91,432
n,iIoc oDd cOctipo S21 500 000
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-23

ID RESIDENT TAFT took his family
Il to Beverly recently and left his
wife and children there while he re-
turned to Washington to stay out the
tariff bill with congress.
Mrs. Louise More of Cincinnati, sis
ter of Mrs. Taft, accompanied the
family to Beverly and will remain
there some time, so as to relieve Mrs.
Taft, who has been i'll, of as much
care as possible. Mrs. More is the
wife of Prof Louis More of the Uni
versity of Cincinnati. She acted as
hostess of the White house since Mrs
Taft suffered nervous breakdown
several weeks ago. She came to Wash
ington with Judge Heron, her father,
for short visit, but when Mrs. Taft