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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
City Attractions.

The illustration of the sea bird
drawn to it's doom by the glare of the
beacon light finds no truer photo
type than in the case of the country
girl lured from her home by dreams
of fortune to be realized in the great
city. AS ignorant of the wiles of
evil as a mouse is of the mechanism
of a trap. unsophisticated in the
Establishments of sins; holding blank
ly to the belief that sheep and goats
never imingle she drops into the
maelstrom of a city existence as a
snowflake settles into the river, "One
moment white, then gone forever !"
There lie in wait for innocence, the
wide world over, legion of plotting
devils arrayed in livery of. light.
honest appearing advertisements
that are the tent hooks with which
the devil angles for souls; employers
who scarcely take the pains to hide
the fangs of wolves behind their
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16

Some merchants owing tO.very IA
voring environments, and by strict
attention to the other rules of good
business, have reaped limited har-
vest of success but not in that larger
measure within their reach had they
but applied t ,e rule of ell round adj
vertising-printed letterheads, neat
and attractive store signs, country
road sign boards, personal letters,
and occasional circular distribution
are all good in their way, but the
wiseacres, the captains of commerce,
all unanimously agree that newspa
per advertising is the capping-stone,
the queen of them all, and these 9th
ers bat auxillaries to it, the main
stake, So Mr.. Merchant if that's been
your plan ponder little over what
you could realize by adopting this
the finishing stroke to your success;
the plan that made those prince of
merchants, Marshal Fields. John
Wanamaker and others names a
household familiarity over the land
and their houses immensely rich.
Please don't attempt to throw off
the logic of this spiel by saying you
would but you don't know how.
Didn't you learn how to buy; to
mark up your new goods and do a
thousand other things in your COM
pick business. Even so with adver-
Using We are going to supply that
deficiency for you by running a Sc
ries of home merchants advertising
course in these columns that will
teach you the art quickly and easily,
and only ask you to read and study
it as you have day by day done the
other things, 1t viii pay you big,
make you rich quicker and easier.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
BOND IssU ANCE ORDINANCE,

An ordinance proposing to issue bonds for
the amount of seven thousand dollars for the
purpose of purchasing a School House and
school grounds for the town Of Leakesville,
1 Greene County, Mississippi.
Whereas it is manifest to the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen of the town of Leakes
Vile that there is necessity for the purchase
of a school house and grounds therefor for the
town of Leakesville
Section No, 1.
Therefore, be it ordained by the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen of the town of Leakesville,
That it is the purpose of the said Mayor and
Board of Aldermen OF said town to issue the
bends OF the town of Leakesville to the
amount of Seven Thousand Dollars, (S7OO0,0O)
or so much there of as may be necessary for
the purpose Of purchasing School House and
grounds for the same, for said town of Leakes
vile, That notice of the said Mayors and
Board of Aldermen intention to issue said
bonds be published in accordance with the pro
visions of Sections 34l5, 34:6. S4l9 and 1920 of
the annotated code OF Mississippi 1906, for the
purpose of notifying the tax payers of the
town of Leakesville of the proposed action of
said Mayor and Beard of Aldermen Of said
town, so that if there be any opposition to the
issuance VI SdlO JULIUS. IL may NC piOoCHbSA W
the Mayor and Board of Aldermen on or before
the first Tuesday,
The 3rd Day of August 1909
Section No, 2.
Ordered that the above be published in the
Greene County Herald, weekly newspaper
published in the town of Leakesville for three
weeks next preceding the First Tuesday the
the Bird, day of August 1909.
fha nd Of oaph and SaQtiOn
of the above ordinance and its adoption as
whole yea and nay vote was taken,
Those voting Yea, all present.
Those voting Nay -----
Adopted and approved this 7th day of July
1909. ~
DAN MCLEOD. Mayor.
A. M. MCLEOD, Town Clerk;
(Seal Town of Leakesville.l l7-3O.I
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16

Bible and followed the Scripture read
ing. The address was listened to with
all the intentness and responsiveness
that any speaker could desire. At its
close the leaders and many of the
other men crowded to the platform to
speak with their beloved 'Moksa,' or
pastor. 1t struck me that this Korean
missionary, and many of his associ-
ates, have work and an opportunity
which the ablest preacher in America
might covet
How American Doctors Fit the Orient.
One of the first facts about the mis-
sionary community here which strikes
a visitor is the harmony and coopera-
ton existing between the two mis-
stems. The missionaries are the only
white people in Pyeng Yang, except
one French tradesman and French
priest. Their social solidarity is as
marked as the unity of their labors.
The three hospitals are run as one,
although maintaining, in some re-
spects, their separate. identity. The
largest is the Presbyterian hospital.
conducted by DR.. J. H. Wells, and min
istering to about 10000 patients a
year. DR.. E. D. Follwell, at the Meth
odist hospital, treats about 5000, and
DR.. Hall, whose work is entirely for
women, about 5000 patients year.
Jointly, the two men doctors are train
ing % students, who not only pay for
their instruction, and for the privilege
of working in the hospital, but are
also required to do evangelistic work
among the patients. One notable char
acteristic of these hospitals. which are
almost entirely self-supporting, is he
adaptation to the Korean style of liv-
ing. While they have wards contain
ing beds, most of their patients sleep
on the floor, as in their own homes.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16

and are there treated Like Korean
houses these wards have heated floors.
DR.. Wells has been conspicuously sue
cessful in curing the morphine habit,
which the Japanese have introduced
among the Koreans.
Adaptation is one of the character
istics of mission work in Pyeng Yang.
Approaching the city, the visitor can
not at first distinguish the missionary
compounds from the native homes All
the residences and the school build
ings, and all except one of the
churches (the Methodist), are built in
native style. The interiors of the
homes are naturally adapted to the
use of Americans, and yet they are
small and simple dwellings.
Teaching the East to Hustle.
The schools are cooperative. Be it
understood that there is no public
school system throughout Korea. Be
fore the missionaries came, the higher
class boys were taught the Chinese
classics. The creation of the popular
taste for learning, as we'll as the pro-
duction of most of the literature in
the language of the plain people, may
be credited to the missionaries. 1t is
quite general for native churches to
maintain primary schools for secular
instruction. There are in this district
at least three higher academies and
the demand for education are by no
means met. 1t is probable that the
all direct teaching and become super
intendents of instruction. The strate-
gical Importance to Christianity of
thus having a controlling hand upon
the education of the nation is appar-
ent at a glance.
In Pyeng Yang proper are three
noteworthy schools. One is the col
lege, with 300 students, all of whom
are Christians and all of whom pass
a stiff entrance examination This is
taught by both Methodist and Presby-
terian missionaries and by native
teachers. 1t is expected shortly to
grow into Christian college with a
thousand students. There is also a
girls high school with half hundred
students. I was much struck with
the industrial school attached to the
college, where some students work
their way through an education. Here
they have a genuine blacksmith shop,
machine shop and carpenter shop, all
of which are producing marketable
wares. The machine shop, for in
stance, is unable to supply the de-
mand for certain braiding machine
which it turns out. The industry and
the skill shown by the student work.
men would seem to indicate unsus-
pected capabilities on the part of the
Kore an. This establishment more
nearly resembled a bona fide work.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16

About one of the most beautiful
and touching things we ever saw.
was when in the convention this
year of the Mississippi Press Asso-
citation, the subject of erecting a
Statue to the memory OF Bishop
Charles B. Galloway was preached,
the entire body was a unanimity and
bubbling with enthusiasm for the
movement. There was some differ
ence in opinion as to the scope and
manner the movement ought TO have
too much we thought at the time
but there was no split-opinion about
the fitness of thus honoring the
memory of this prominently great
man in whom all Mississippians ir-
respective of UNCONVENTIONAL affilia-
tion take a common pride. The object
of the press taking the movement up
was not to appropriate the glory as
we understand it for the rohle work.
but to serve as a ready means by
which the whole people of the state
may be aroused to the project and
invited to contribute Now that the
committee has the plan all formula
ted, we trust the shekels will begin
to flow in for this ost laudable pur-
pose and that Greene County will
roll up a commendable sum. The
Herald will publish the names and
amounts of all contributors. We
here and now pledge the sum of 50
so and regret that the pinch of times
won't permit more for our mite.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16

made the beginnings of an insane
asylum, both the first of their kind in
Korea.
More significant than any of these
offshoots of the church, is the public
bath house run by the Christians; for
badly as it needs religion, Korea needs
soap and water. | ask no further
proof of the genuineness Of the con-
version of these people than the fact
OF this bath house, with its four bath
tubs and two shower baths-the latter
made by up-tilted and perforated
Standard oil cans. The full meaning
of this institution can be appreciated
only by one who has travelled in
Korea.
The three pioneers of this Pyeng
Yang work are still here, and still
young men. They arrived 16 years
ago, Rev. DR.. S. A. Moffett, Rev. Ora
ham Lee and DR.. ]. Hunter Wells, Of
the northern Presbyterian board.
They CHANGED to be men of large Wis
ion and statesmanlike mold, and so
they laid broad foundations upon
which the present phenomenal enter
prise has been rising. Following them
at intervals came II other mission
aries of the same denomination. Prior
to the Presbyterian settlement, DIR.
and Mrs. w. j. Hall, medical mission
aries of the Northern Methodist
church, were already in Pyeng Yang,
but at the death of DR.. Hall in 1894
the Methodists withdrew for time,
but later they re-established and now
have missionaries in the field and two
thriving churches in the city proper,
as we'll as their country work. l
found Mrs. Noble, wife of a Methodist
missionary, teaching the bible one
week day morning to a class of more
than a hundred women and girls, who
had come in from the country for that
purpose. Mrs. Hall, who is physi-
clan, has since returned and conducts
a hospital for women, which, however,
burned down few weeks ago.
An Extraordinary Prayer Meeting.
What may safely be called the most
remarkable midweek prayer meeting
In the world is that which l attended
in the big church in Pyeng Yang. The
building is L-shaped and divided into
halves by wooden partitions at the
angle of the L. One side is reserved
for women and the other for men.
The church is utterly devoid of furni-
ture, except rough straw mats on the
floor. Into it were gathered on this.
Wednesday evening no less than 1,200
persons, men and boys, women and
children, all seated upon the floor.
The congregation was quiet, alert
and reverent. At prayer they all
bowed forward, with their heads to
the ground. Missionary Lee led the
music with a coronet, and the people
sang Justify. Everybody carried a
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
The Inheritance Tax.

N Y. Witness.
No man could acquire or hold great
wealth, or employ it to advantage,
without the opportunities for doing
So which are created by organized So
ciety And organized society has q
right to say to those who exploit it
most successfully for their own ben
eft. You must pay an extra share
of the common burdens because you
have obtained an extra share of good
things. You must lift some of the
load off the shoulders of those who
are pulling hard against the stream"
and from whom you have collected
your millions, A tax on large incomes
increasing considerably on very large
incomes, would be just measure if
there was any possibility of collect
ing it fairly, and tax on large in
heritance is still more evidently just,
ana 1t could DE much more 1alrly col
lected. A man who has worked hard
and with great ability has right
to leave his descendants and near
relatives in very comfortable circum-
stances, but when it comes to leav-
ing them more than they can ever
spend on themselves in any proper
way the community should step in
and say to them, You must hand O.
yer liberal percentage of these big
fortunes which you have inherited
without having earned them, to pay
fer the protection which your pre-
decessor received and which you ex-
pect.
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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
Nor1cErRUsrEE's FORECLOSURE SALE

Whereas on the End day of December, A, D..
1904 H. E. McInnis and j. j. McInnis made,
acknowledged and delivered to the undersign-
ed trustee for Hugh McInnis as beneficiary,
a certain deed of trust, which is recorded in
Book page 565 of the Land Mortgage Records
of Greene County Mississippi, to secure unto
the said Hugh McInnis certain Indebtedness
therein mentioned, and whereas default hav-
ing been made in the payment of said indebted
ness therein secured according to the terms of
said deed of trust.I Jesse Byrd as trustee, Their
iniby virtue of provisions of said deed of trust
will offer for sale at the East Front door of the
Court House in the town OF Leakesyilc, Greene
County. Mississippi, for cash. to the highet
bidder within legal hours on Monday the
End Day of August, A. D. 1909.
The following property lying and being stu
ated in Greene County Mississippi to wit: All
the merchantable pine timber, and all other
timbers standing growing or being on the
following described lands in Greene County
Mississippi to wit: Sc IA of Sc Ia and So of
ne Id of Sc IA Section II Township north,
Range 6 west and e 4 of NV IA and wh of ne
Ia Section 10. Townships north, range west
to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said
deed of trust and the cost of executing the same
Witness my hand. this the 7th day July A
D. 1909,
7-3O JESSE BYRD. Trustee.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16

Pyeng Yang, Korea.-To the trav-
eler in Korea, Pyeng, the second
city in the empire, is notable as
a boat-shaped city where the peo-
pie are afraid to dig wells lest they
should sink the city; and as the an
cient capital of the nation where Keja
who was Korea's Peter the Great, ruled
about the time King David was on the
throne of Israel and Keja's grave and
Keja's we'll are still preserved To the
religious world, Pyeng Yang is known
as the center of the most remarkable
missionary work now under way any
where on the earth.
Within 16 years a Christian con-
stituency of 5000 persons, that is
doubling itself annually, has been built
up and in the surrounding country the
number amounts to more than $4,000
AS an instance of the way in which
the church grows may be mentioned
the fact that the mother church of
Pyeng Yang has swarmed three times
within four years and yet retains a
membership OF ga communicates
and 334 catechumens. The church,
which seats 1,200 persons on it's floor
of course there are no pews or
chairs-is crowded every Sunday
The attendance at the mid-week pray
er meeting ranges from more than 700
to 1000 or 1900. The smallest of the
congregations which have gone out
from Central church numbers more
than ESQ members; the largest twice
that many.
Where Religion Has introduced Baths.
All of these congregations are en-
tirely self-supporting. and they MAIN
tain several religious enterprises. such
as day schools, colporteurs and book
store and library. They have estab-
lished school for the blind. and have
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
sunyan's Primitive Flute.

The most curious story told of John
Bunyan's life in Bedford Jail is this:
To pass away his gloomy hours he
took leg out of his stool and with
his knife fashioned it into a flute The
keepers repeatedly searched his cell
to find the cause of the music, but
when he heard them coming he would
always replace the leg in the stool,
and they never discovered how the
music had been produced.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS.

In accordance with Section 1921 of the Miss
lss1ppi Code of 1906. have completed return
ed and filed my assessments of Greene County
Doth Real and personal with the Clerk OF the
Board of Supervisors. All tax payers thereon
will please remember that the August meeting
of the Board OF Supervisors is the time set
apart by law for them to examine and equal
i've said assessments.
Any parties having any complaint or objec-
tons to same must file them with the clerk on
or before the first Monday in August.
Respectfully,
r. d. COCHRAN, Tax Assessor, Greene Co
7-6-I9J9 (4-3O)
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16

One reason why some men do not
get along better in this world is
because they have not the proper
stimulant in their homes. Their
homes lack those little touches of
refinement which bring the best out
of them. N4atness and taste are
possible in the poorest homes. Let
a woman make the atmosphere as
dainty as her means allow, and she
will raise her husband to the same
standard. And as she elevates him
the effect is felt upon herself, her
children, her home, and her future.
Some men respond more slowly to
the touch of a woman 5 hand dis
played in their homes and upon their
surroundings. The task may seem
hopeless to the wife at times. But
sooner or later the effect will show
itself. There is something in every
man which responds to higher and
gentler influence. Let his home be
rough and he will be rough. But in
fuse into that home a softening
touch, be it eyer so simple, and the
man feels it even though he may not
directly notice it. He imbibes un-
consciously and its effrct is sure
upon him.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16

smiling lips; boarding-houses infest-
ed with other and more hideous ver-
min than the rat or roach; com
panionship of more fatal effect to the
soul than hydrant water to the health;
counsellor who spin viewless webs
and plot ruin as the spider works
destruction to the stupid fly. All
these, and a great many more pit
falls lie in the way of the country
girl as she turns her light step from
the cowslip and the green to take her
place in the ranks of those who walk
the path of daily toll.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
EDITORIAL

We notice that our erstwhile bach
elor friend, ]. K Kelly, Manager of
the Vicksburg Newspaper Union,
recently entered the married estate,
capturing a Jackson girl. This is
good move but long delayed by Kelly
and our good wishes are herewith
waited over to him and his beauti-
full bride, for we are sure he wouldn t
have waited all this time and took
any other kind of locker.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
New Advertisements.
NOM RESIDENT NOTICE.

NON PRESIDENT NOTICE
State of Mississippi
To Charley woodward. the Defendant:
You are commanded to appear before the
Chancery Court of the County of Greene, in
said State, on the
Second Monday of September, 1909.
The same being rules of said Court.
to defend the suit in said Court of
Georgiana Woodward wherein you are the
defendant. This the 18th, day OF JuIy 1909.
(Chan Court Seal) S. X. MCKAY. Clerk.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
BRIDGE BUILDING CONTRACT NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that contract for
for building a bridge over Atkinson Creek
on Skull Fork Road. Link Number 81
District Number 3. near p. g. Hlnman' Sr;
according to plans and specific ations on file in
the Chancery Clerks Office will be let to the
lowest responsible bidder at public cutlery at
the East front door of the Court house in the
town of Leakesville, Miss on the
First Monday of August 1909.
Bond will be required according TO lew. The
Board reserves the right TO reject any and al
bids.
BY order of the Board of Supervisors of
Greene Co. Miss. This July eth 1909.
s R. MCKAY Clerk.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE.

L Hinkle P. Heidelberg. the duly and lega
~ substituted Trustee, as will more fully APP
pear by reference to page 473, Book No, l of
the records of Mortgages and deeds of trust on
lands of the records now on file in the Office of
the CLERK of the Chancery Court of Greene
County, Mississippi, under the pro ,iSionS of
and by virtue of the authority conferred upon
the Trustee or substituted Trustee in a GER
tain deed of trust made by H. A, Baria on the
18th day of January 1907 to secure a certain in
debtedness to j. E. Miller and j.. II. turner,
sureties. and which said deed of trusts of reck-
ord in Book No. | page % of the records of
mortgages and deeds of trusts on lands. in the
office of the Clerk of the Chancery Court of
Greene County, Mississippi, default having
been made in payment OF said Indebtedness in
7 will on
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
Legal Advertisements.
SCHOOL BOARD MEETING.

There will be regular meeting of the COun-
ty school Board of Greene County, Mississippi
July 10th, 1909.
All persons having any business to bring be-
lore the School Board will please take Lotice
and be on hand promptly at ten O'Clock on that
day
Respectfully,
GIG o. Backstrom, Supt.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
HOMESTEAD PUBLICATION NOTICE
Department of the Interior,
U. s. Land Office at JAG kson, Miss.
July | 1909.

Department of the Interior,
U. s. Land Office at JAG kson, Miss.
July |, 1909
Notice is hereby given that Silas D. Brewer,
of Betty, Mississippi who on January II,
1904, made Homestead Entry No. $1,000, Serial
No. Ol563, for the ne4 of nwA and nw4 of neA,
Sec. 30, and VIZ of Sc Ia, Section %, Township
3North Range West, St Stephens Meridian.
has fleq notice of intention to make Final
five year Proof to establish claim to the land
above described before the Clerk of the Circuit
Court OF Greene County, at Leakesville Miss
issippi. on the
18th Day of August 1909.
Claimant names as witnesses: Harvey Byrd
Alex Ball, John Brewer and Rufus Bradley, all
of Betty. Miss.
L. O. C. LAMAR, Register.