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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29
ROADS ON HILLS.
How They May Be Protected From
Being Deeply Quilted.

How They May Be Protected From
Being Deeply Quilted.
Where road is built ON a steep
grade some provision should be made
to prevent the washing of the cutters
into deep gullies. This can be done
by paving the bottoms and sides of
the cutters with brick or field stones.
In order to make the flow as small as
possible in side bitches it is often ad-
visable to construct frequent outlets
into the adjacent fields or streams or,
If possible, to lay underground pipes
or blind drains with screened open
ings into side bitches at frequent in
tervals, says a bulletin from the de-
partment of agriculture. The size of
side bitches should depend upon the
amount of water they are expected to
carry. If possible they should be To-
Gated at least three feet from the
edge of the Travelled roadway.
All side bitches should have a grad
ual fall of at least half a foot in
every hundred feet Their sides, partic-
ularly those sloping toward the road
way, should be broad and 1aring, so
as to prevent accidents as well as the
caving in Of their banks Their bot
toms should be wide enough to carry
the largest amount of water that is
likely to flow through them at any
one time. Sometimes the only bitches
necessary to carry off the surface wa
ter are those made with the road ma
chine The blade of the machine
may be set at any desired angle and
when drawn along by horses or by
traction engine cuts into the surface
and spreads the earth uniformly over
the Travelled way.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29
Alone With Mother.

Do not we all remember with pleas
ure the days when the others were
out, or we, perhaps, not perfectly
well, and mother had us in her draw
ing room, or work room, or took US
out for little walk alone? Not that
we did not love to romp and play.
Not that we did not appreciate to
the full the picnics and other family
expeditions which took place from
time to time; but there was enjoy
ment of a very different, deeper sort
in those quiet times with mother, the
remembrance Of which has lasted
half lifetime. There is a very real
danger that the mother of large
family may never fully come to know
her children, and gain that influence
over them for good individually
which is so desirable that every good
mother should have. We do not hes
itate to say that it is absolutely i'm
possible for a woman to become the
confident and friend of her children
unless she weekly-nay, daily-spend
some short time alone with each.
Only in this way can each child fe Ell
the security of his or her ownership
Of that precious mother. The stern
realities of life permit only short sea-
sons of recreation, and it is only bv
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29
49,. january 20, 1909.
EDITORIAL

The potential time for training the
heart to respond to those charities
and benevolences that make all the
world kin; that foist into our breasts
that priceless feeling of having done
good to our, fellowman,-is in the
heyday of youth. Before the reason
ing faculties have settled into those
staid economical processes that are
necessary to accumulate savings for
the rainy day and hardships of old
age. While a person is young,
they yield to the teachings that are
prompted by appeals to the heart,
and once the sweets that accrue to
the practice of charity, have been
tasted by an individual, they are
quite likely to go through life with
out settling into that fiinty DISPOSE
ton that resists every appeal that
touches the pocketbook. We are not
deriding economy, but are simply
offering suggestion against the en-
sroachments of stingy oldiparsimony.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29
FINE ROADS.
How a Sand Highway Was I'm
proved With Clay.
ECONOMY OF DIRT ROADS.

why a Council BIuffs Man Advocates
Them In Place of the Macadam.
The Building and Improvement of
Hill Roads.
Iowa has 102,448 miles Of highway.
Of these 1,453 miles are gravel roads
and 241 miles are stone roads. AS evil
dence of the fact that the citizens of
this great state are becoming aroused
to the Importance Of highway i'm
provement the state legislature of 1904
passed law making the state college
a highway commission. They realized
that such an act would increase the
value Of the farm lands Of the state,
would improve the condition of the
merchants as well as the farmers and
would thus work for the benefit of all
classes of society. There is probably
no influence which is more potent in
the development of the state than that
of the good roads. 1t brings the farm
err nearer to town, it increases the
prosperity of the merchant and i'm
proves the social condition among ru-
raj classes.
Since the enactment of this law four
good roads conventions and schools
have been held. The first two met at
Ames, the third at Council Bluffs and
the fourth at Waterloo Aug. 10 to Is
inclusive. At each session 1t was the
purpose to supplement the program
with practical demonstration work in
road building, says III. E. Colby in
Farm and Fireside. At Waterloo
about half a mile of sand road was
improved. This work was done by
cutting down a hill in the vicinity of
the stretch that was being improved
and carrying soil which contained a
portion of clay to the sand road. Here
it was thoroughly mixed with the
sand, thus combining the good effects
of both and eliminating, so far as pos
sible, the bad qualities of both.
w. L. Spoon Of the good roads de-
partment of Washington was in charge
of the work. He was also upon the
program, and in his address he spoke
of the sand road as being the Only one
which runs uphill both ways. Sand
heads the list of bad roads. Wher-
ever thoroughly good dirt road is ex-
amined it will be found to contain at
least a portion of sand and portion of
clay. No matter how closely the sand
may be packed, there are spaces be-
tween the grains that cannot be filed
The proper substance with which to
fill these voids is clay. If the two
elements are not naturally mixed the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29
Wet Weather Wanted.
Biloxi Herald.

1lAOAl 1LCI clNA'
A dispatch from Jackson says tha
one cause Of the cry of hard times"
in South Mississippi is the fact that
water is scarce everywhere and that
there is no way for the timber men
to get their logs and rats down the
streams leading to the coast and the
big saw mills. There has been little
rain in Mississippi since last summer
Pearl River is lower than it was ever
known at this season of the year and
the boats that have been plying it's
waters for years back are tied up at
the bank unable to go up or down.
The same is true of Leaf River. If
the heavy rains of the past few days
should continue, however, this con-
dition would soon be relieved.
4 great many people of that sec
ton, says the dispatch, are depend
ing on the saw-log business for their
living, and the land owners have put
out. all they can rake and scrape on
timber. The capital invested varies.
Of course according to the number of
logs owned anywhere from few
hundred to several thousands of dol
Iars. One Mr.. Stillman has $12,-
300 invested in squared timber, but
ike the balance of them, he is power
ess to move stick Of it for want of
water.
Mr.. Stillman states that the Dant-
.lers have So, 600, 600 worthsof timber
lied up in this way along the EeaJ
Ind Chickasawhay Rivers and their
tributaries, most Of it. being in the
counties of Jackson and Greene, but |
some as hig up the State as Perry
county.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29

only thing to do is TO Drlng them To-
gether and mix them mechanically by
blowing and narrowing. This should
be done while the. sand and clay are
wet. In fact, they can hardly be too
wet to be thoroughly worked together.
If the road is sandy the clay should
be drawn on. If 1t is clay the sand
should be mixed with the mud. Fol
lowing up the building Of such q good
road with persistent dragging will
make almost an ideal highway.
Between Council Bluffs and Omaha
long. Over this 10 wagons on the av-
erage pass every day. Each carries
load Of five tons or more. This is a
dirt road and is kept in fine condition
at thoroughly economical figure. Its
builder, Colonel w. Il. Baker of Coun-
ell Bluffs, spoke upon the building and
maintenance of dirt road. He would
advocate this in place of macadam, be-
cause the dirt road can be built for q
great deal less than macadam, and it
can be maintained at from 1 to ~ per
cent of the expense necessary for
maintaining macadam road By the
use of the road drag Mr.. Baker showed
that it would be possible to reduce the
road tax at least so per cent within six
years.
The building and Improvement of
hill roads were discussed by Mr.. Dye.
ua choxuod how, NV tho- ,,ca of fbo ,1I0xr,
and split log drag the processes of ma
ture might be used to improve the hill
road. His idea was to pillow furrow
at each side of the hill and carry the
soil toward the middle of the road.
He would not have a crown on hill
road, but he would simply have it so
drained that the water would not wash
in the middle. Each rain would have
a tendency to cut down the surface of
the road, carrying the soil from the
top of the hill to the bottom. By dis
tributing this by the use of the drag it
is possible to materially reduce the
grade in the billy country each year.
AS an evidence of the practical work
in Mr.. Dyes system he maintained
thirty-six miles of road in billy sec
tion of the state with an appropriation
Of $3.50 year. 1t was necessary to
ask for little donated labor, but that
was decidedly minor matter.
Curtis Hill, the state highway engi-
neer of Missouri, spoke upon the
building Of stone roads. He said that
1t was necessary to consider the hard
ness, the toughness and the cementing
value of stone in selecting it for the
purpose Of road building. The gravel
which is commonly dug from the
gravel bank contains enough lime to
provide the cementing qualities. If a
roller cannot be afforded it is advisa-
BILE to spread this gravel as evenly as
possible and let the traffic pack it. He
would not recommend dumping the
gravel load at time, because in so
doing certain spots of the road become
packed and the surface of the road
has q wavy contour.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE.

!, Jesse Byrd. Trustee under the provision
of and by virtue OF the authority conferred
upon me in certa deed of trust made by H.
E. McInnis and j. J. McIEnis, on the End day of
December 1904 to secure unto r. O.. McInnis
the prompt payment of eight certain prommis-
sorry noles bearing date of December 2ud.. 1894,
and one note for the sum of $4,000 due July LIST
1905 one note for the sum of $4,000 due January
1st 1896 and one note for the sum of $4,000 and
due July LIST. 1906 and one note for the sum of
$4,000 and due on the LIST day of January 1907
and one note for the sum of $4,000 due on the
lst day of July 1897 and one note for the sum of
$4,000 and due on the 1st day Of January
1908 and one note for the sum of S500.OO and due
on the Ist dey of July 1903 and one note for the
sum of S39t2s and due on lst day of January
1909, all of said notes bearing interest at the
rate of per cent per annum from the date
thereof. and payable at the Bank OF Leakes-
VILE said county and state, which said Deed of
trnst is recorded at pages 494-95-9 in Book No.
of the Land mortgage records on file in the
office of the Clerk of the Chancery Court of
Greene County. Mississippi. Default having
been made in the payment of the last above
mentioned note with all accrued Interest
thereon. will on
Monday the 10Th day of Feby. 1909
puring legal hours. offer for sale and sell in
front of the East front door of the Court House
in the Town of Leakesville, Greene County,
Mississ ppi, for cash to the highest bidder the
following described property, or as much
thereof as may be Necessary to wit:
All the merchantable pine timber and other
timber be they merchantable or unmerchant-
able on the following described lands in Greene
county, Mississippi to wit e I-2 of sw ID of
Section 7t2 row W IA of w IA and S
Ia of sw IA, Section 1. NeI-4 of of n e Ia of
Sec. 8. t2nr6w. Swift of n "A, e1-2 of IA
Section 81 and l-2 of S e IA of Section 81. w
IL of n W IA of Section 36t3n6 W, Greene
County, Mississippi. Said above described
property being all the property described
said trust deed mentioned above,
Witness my hand on this the 10th day OF
January 1909.
(2-l2l JESSE BYRD. Trustee.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29

There is vast difference between
a house and home. The house is bat
a building and furniture, the out
ward shelter and the gathering place
of the household. The home indicates
the kindly family affection, the
thoughtful care. ready sympathy,
mutual confidence, and trust of the
members. A true home breathes the
atmosphere of love. A child should
be made to feel that his home is in
deed home, the happiest place in
the world, not merely an outward
shelter and a resting place, but a
center of enjoyment, sanctified and
purified by love, the. thought and re-
membrance of which should be the
safeguard of his life as he goes forth
to the world, giving strength and
proportion to his character.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29
Ripley Sentinel.


Some weeks ago Hon Chas. Scott
late candidate for Governor said in
an interview at Jackson that he would
be candidate for Governor in 1911.
Soon after his announcement Hon.
Earl Brewer who came so near defeat
ing Smiling Ed in the second run
off, made it known to his friends
that he, too, would be in the run
ming. Now the rumor IS afoat that
Hon. G. R. Hightower, President of
the Farmers Union, will likely make
the race for gubernatorial honors.
But the latest gossip is that Con-
gresham Zeke Gambler of Corinth
has his eyes on the big armed chair
in the state capitol. A number of
other prominent men have also he rd
the buzzing Of the bee and long be-
fore active campaign work there may
be several new stars in the political
sky. Let us hope however that it will
be at least two years yet before the
opens.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29

A recent acquisition to our ex-
change list, is the Newton Union, a
weekly published at Union, Ala,
with L. II. Read and Mrs c. r.
Read, as editors, The sheet not
only closes it advertising columns to
whiskey ads, but as it states amy
humbug advertising of any kind at
any price The sheet is an outspo-
ken, unblushing white rlbboner jour
nal, opposing the liquor traffic all
along the line, and championing the
great cause of Temperance. Our
sister state will be helped from having
q number of such papers sprinkled
over its territory. Mrs. Read has
signal ability as a writer, and will be
remembered, here, as the lady who
conducted the w. G. I. U. Gold and
Silver Medal Contests. She made
talk on her first trip here, explaining
the history and purposes of the med
nj contests, that revealed her ability
on the platform. They are putting
some ginger into the editorials of the
Union; sparkling paragraphs that
should stimulate the moral conscience
of their readers. The Union has our
good wishes, though we think they
are going it little too rash, when
reject all Patent Medicines advertise
ments. There is lots of buncomb in
in the patent medicine business, but
five years experience in the drug
business convinces us that they are
not all bad In fact some of the
package goods are both handy and
meritorious for simple ailments, and
where such is known personally by
the publisher, should not be put I'M
der the ban because they happen to
be in bad company. The trouble
with such preparations though gen
orally to newspaper man, is that
the ad-writers who are employed by |
the manufacturers, are prone to use
extravagant phraseology in their
copy; claims for the curative or allie
Waiting properties of their remedies,
that are out of, keeping with the
known thereauputic values of its in
gradients. This and for the further
fact, that they want the best posi-
tions we have for sale, at prices ri
diculously out of keeping with what
they viii bring, accounts for the
HERALD not carrying any at all
now. We have not closed the door
to all of them, but they fail to lift
the latch. They can stay out SO long
as they do, and we will not be sorry.
A sheet can be made neater in the
typographical makeup, we must adj
NIT without their appearance in it at
all. The designs of their display ad
vertising, and the cxaction of their
reading notices are rather blotchy on
the complexion of a well made up
paper --sa.~~s -.ss
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29


A girl who is brought UP to earn
her own living never will Just set
tie down to nothing" She will I'M
derstand the value of money, having
earned it, and can give her husband
wise counsel and sympathy in his
business difficulties. She can take
entire charge of the money expended
for the house and do it in such q bus
iness-like way that it will give her
husband infinite satisfaction She
can earn a little something for her
self perhaps, and at least she will
have the comfort of knowing that
whatever happens, she will fall on
her feet. If her husband dies, she will
be be able to do something toward
the support of herself and children.
And we think wsman who has sense
and intelligence enough to be self
supporting is always more respected
by her husband and everyone.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29

He was soon heard churning the wa
ter at the ford, and then he brought
up the rear to tree which when cut
did not have bee about it, or any
honey. The bees had heard, and
smelt the fumes of this old fellows
profanity and decamped taking their
honey with them.
Yours truly,
BENZ. F. WULFfH
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29
Midnight Cry.
THOS. II. NELSON.


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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29
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Candy Cure for Inter- aerance.

Candy Cure for Inter- 2erance.
Scientists have long known that the
taste for sweets and the appetite for
alcohol almost never exist in the same
person. 1t does not follow that a man
who does not like candy is a topper, but
if he does like candy it is extremely
improbable that he likes alcohol, too
Confectioners' Union.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29
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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29

Could He who promised our bur-
dens should be light if we trusted in
Him, and in the matchless sermon Oil
the mount, warned his disciples to
take 70 thought of what they should
eat, and rebuked Martha because she
WIS fretful and cross and all out OF
sorts in trying to get up feast for
lsfm, have any approva. of the much
serving, the relays of china and
silver, and the ceremonies attend
ance of the present day, or a word of
commentator for the checrless, wor-
rying Marthas, who bake and brew
and fry and stew, and wear them
selves out with self imposed catering
for morbid appetites.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29

The great event in every young
man S life is his awakening. There
comes time when he's aroused from
the dreamy carelessness of boyhood
by the opening possibilities of life.
If he then drops into Indifference and
begins life in an easy, shiftless way,
he iritters away his chance. If he
comes to deep, earnest purpose to
be his best and do his best, he ar
riyes early at tie highest rank among
equals in business. profession or
trade. Enthusiasm leads him to at.
tempt the seemingly impossible. En-
ergy will achieve the marvellous. Eff
fort will seize transctndrnt leader
ship in the chosen sphere. These for
ces in youth look forward, while age
looks backward. They make youth
radically venturesome, while age be-
comes conservatively cautious. Youth
may make mistakes, but is doing
something. Age less active, may be
less mistaken. 1t is we'll for enthu
siasm and energy to be guarded by
experience but not to be paralyzed
by fear.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29

When economy becomes TIE chief
end aud aim of existence, a sort of
domestic god, before which all must
bow down, the happiness of the home
is likely to be sacrificed. Every ex-
penditure that would give pleasure
Is held in allegiance until such time
as the family feel that they can af-
ford it, and as rule, this time new
er comes, and the pleasure is relin-
pushed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29
VERMONT SNOW ROLLER.

Simple Device For Packing Down
Roads After a Snowstorm.
r. G.. Brock, a Vermont man, tells
in the Rural New Yorker how to use
and make a snow roller.
"Snow rollers" he says, care used
for rolling the highways after snow
storm to pack the snow down. which
wide The diagram shows that they
are made with two drums four and a
half feet long and five feet in d.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29
the 10Th day of February 1909
HOMESTEAD CONTEST NOTICE.
Department of the Interior,
United States Land Office.
n q rs-Arn NJ -. d.. anaLL

y nlUed states Land Office.
jackson, Miss, Dec. 81, 1903.
sufficiept contest afidavit having been
filed in this Office by Charles w. Bearry, Esca-
tawpa Ala, contestant against homestead
entry No 1851. made March %, 1903 for Sc IL
Section 80, Township IN, Range ) W. by Kate
0. Deal. Contestee, in which it is alleged that
he knows the present condition of. the same:
also that said Kate o. Deal has never settled
on cultivated or improved said tract in any
manner. Said parties are hereby notified to
appear respond and offer evidence touching
allegation at 10 oclock A. NJ. on
February / 1909
before s. r. Mckay, Circuit Clerk Greene
County, at his office in Leakesville, Miss. land
that final hearing will be yield at 10 clock A NJ
on February Il, 1909 before) the Register and
Receiver at the United States Land ONCE in
Jackson, Miss. Rules 9-l0-15 Rules of practice
The said contestant having, in proper affi-
davit filed Dec. 80 1905. set forth facts which
show taat after due diligence personal service
of this notice can not be made, it is hereby or
dered and directed that such notice be given due
and proper publication.
THoMEs V. MCALLIsTER. Receiver.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-29
A CONFEDERATE SHIN-PLASTER.

As nmated last week. reproduce will
comodo Confederate plaster Mcintosh
nal No doubt
like the editor havn't the good fortune to