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The log cabin Democrat., 1909-05-21

Brannon.
 Mrs. F.. H. Allison and children are visiting relatives and friends at Clinton this week.
 Miss Ida Camp of Springfield is visiting he- sister, Mrs. w. H. Norwood in this city.
 Miss Kate Urshman will sing "Typra, and dance Dixie" at the Electric Theatre tonight.
 R. B. Hubbard returned from Russellville this morning, where he has been visiting his parents.
 ]. B. Potter is erecting resi- dence on the lots he recently pur- chased in the Harkrider addition.
 Mrs. F. s. H. Johnston and children left this morning for their home at Ft. Smith, after visit with friends in this city.
 MT. and Mrs. Euell F. Walthall and daughter of Checotah, Okla, arrived last night for a visit with MT. Walthall's parents i'll this city.
 We will sell you all So acre farm, about 25 acres of which is i'll cul- tivation, for only S2oO. co.
 DURHAM & HOLMAN.
 If you want to invest in some choice building lots which are cer- tain to double in value in only a short time, see Durham x Holman.
 Ascension Day was celebrated by the local Catholics at the church yesterday in this city. Appropriate services were held throughout the day.
 Robt. Hardin arrived last night from Louisville, Ky, and will re- main ill this city for several days visiting his mother, Mrs. Etta Hardin.
 President ]. J. Doyne left this morning for Hot Springs, where he will deliver the commencement address at the close of the high school tonight.
 We will sell you a substantial 4 room house located on good sized lot near Hendrix College for only S55o.
 DURHAM & HOLMAN.
 The proceeds above expenses at the Lyric last night were given to the baseball association of the Ark ansas State Normal School. A very interesting program of pic lures was rendered and the music was especially good.
 w. J. Snow was in the city from Vilonia today. He reports that the sale of territory for his new patent churn is progressing rapidly, and the friends of MT. Snow and his partner, Zeb D. Morgan, are pre- dieting that they will get rich on their invention.
 Among the numbers of the chautauqua this year will be The Tourists Concert Co.,, and Miss Elsie Brown in talking song" This was considered one of the best numbers of last years chautauqua and for this reason the company was secured again for this year.
 The appearance of Miss Katie Ursham, the young actress of Lit tie Rock, at the Electric Theatre last night, was greeted by one of the largest crowds present this sea son. Her singing was good and she was repeatedly encored. Miss Urham is only IA years old, yet is making quite mark inA. amateur theatricals. She sings and dances again tonight at the Electric.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-05-21
Mrc R E IoneS of MOrriltOn

Mrs. B. F. Jones of Morrilton is visiting Mir. and Mrs J. E. Little.
 Use Cremoline for barb wire cuts and old sores. Greeson Drug Co
 The ads in today's paper con- tain some very good bargains. You will lose If you fail to read them.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-05-21
Cumberlands in Session.

Bentonville, May 2o.-The sev- enty ninth general assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian church is in session in this city. Rev. J. T, Barbee of Dawson Springs, Ky, was chosen as moderator.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-05-21

Mrs. Nettie Hoss has recently had her residence in the western part of the city re-painted.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-05-21

Miss Eunice Ringgold returned to her home at Morrilton this morning.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-05-21
Real Estate Transfers.

Durham x Holman today re- port the sale of five lots in the An derson addition; two to F.. l.. Daw- son for SI35, and three to C. H. Houston for S2OO.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09
BLOW AT OPIUM TRADE.
Senate Passes Bill Which Forbfds I'm
portation Of Drug.

Every friend of social reform In the
United States rejoices at the news
that the national senate has passed
the opium bill. 1t forDids the importa-
ton of opium into this country except
for medicinal purposes. Opium may
only be brought in under strict regUfa-
lions to be prescribed by the secretary
of the treasury. Moreover, by this
bill, all other forms of opium. smoking
opium or any derivative of opium, are
absolutely shut out. Offenders may
be punished with two years imprison-
ment and a fine of $4,000, and 1t is
expressly stated that the possession
of the forbidden drug shall be deemed
sufficient evidence to convict. No
commercial consideration can be big
enough to Offset the curse which
opium lays upon its users, Victims
Of the vice lose body and soul and no
country can afford to sanction the
hideous traffic. In Japan man who
would dare use opium would be os-
tracized and punished. The importa-
ton, possession or use of the drug, ex-
cept as a medicine. is forbidden by
law. Australia and New Zealand have
driven It out. BY our treaties with
China in 1880 and 1903 no American
bottoms are allowed to carry opium In
Chinese waters. Great Britain ia the
worst civilized offender in the opium
trade, but many of her chickens are
coming home to roost and tn India the
British government has agreed to de,
crease expectation eight per cent. per
year during trial period Of three
years and watch results. The Chinese
government Is endeavorfng to abolish
the use of the dope" in the empire.
The United States, declares the Chris
tan Work, can better afford toilet Great
Britain stand alone in supporting the
opium iniquity than to encourage the
use of the drug by permitting unre-
stricted importation. Our national
honor is at stake on the decision by
congress.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09
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FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT.
Man Who Was Once an outoast Now
Pastor.


AS / sit on the porch of my par
sonage and look backward, l cannot
help feeling grateful to God, and to
the Bowery mission, that to-day, in
stead Of being in a drunkard's grave,
l am saved by grace and preacher OF
of the gospel, writes Frederic j. Bay
liss of Ellsworth, ILL.,, in Christian
Herald. In 1885 / came to the United
States with my bride of few days
and went to live in Baltimore. The
craving for strong dsink was begin
ming to get possession of me-a habit
I had learned while in the British
army during the Zulu and Boer wars
of 1879 and 1881. My wife, a noble
Christian woman, did all she could to
help reform me by her prayers and
Christian influence. She died, how
ever, before this was accomplished,
leaving me with a child six months
old. went squarely up against the
wall, and became an outcast.
tramped to New York, and began a
terrible experience among the fotsam
and jetsam of the under world, or
submerged tenth"
/ got work, but lost 1t through drink;
sold my shoes from my feet and nay
coat from my back. I made resolu-
tions and broke them; signed pledges
and dishonored them; saw myself go
ing downward to perditien, with no
one to deliver.
On one of these nights-cold. foot
sore, hungry, tired and weary of life
Il passed the door of the Bowery mis-
sion. The old song. I've Anchored
My Soul In the Haven of Rest" at
tracted me. 1 went in, and there
found refuge and power to overcome.
1 found 'the pearl of great price"
The superintendent, Mr.. John Wy
burn, became interested in me, and
later 1 became cashier of the mission
restaurant, where fed 1000 or 5000
hungry men daily. It was my delight,
after a days work, to go to the mis-
sion and tell the story Of my redemp-
ton. / stayed there about Is months,
and then went west with a band of
other converts of the mission. We
marched across the country, preaching
in the churches on the way, and often
sleeping outdoors.
next went with a companion into
the mining camps Of the Rockies,
preaching the gospel and telling the
"old, old story" From there l re-
ceived call to Methodist church m
Chase county, Nebraska. / had prac-
tically the whole county for my par
ish, and God wonderfully blessed me
in the salvation of souls and enabled
me to build a little church on these
western prairies. From there / en-
tered the evangehstic field, and have
been wonderfully blessed, preaching
the gospel ali over the country. I am
a member of the North Illinois con-
ference and pastor at Holder and Mls-
worth, where l have been for four
years. / have three churches, and the
past year has been the best of all,
showing about IS conversions and some
so additions to church membership. Last
year we built a new $4,000 church at
Holder.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09
Old Snub Costs Diplomat His Post

which was given some degree Of inter.
est by the fact that royalty would be
the center thereof Mrs. Newlyved
was just dying to see royalty; Mr..
Newlywed promised that his bride
should see all the royalty that was to
be visible on the afternoon in cues.
ton. He asked Secretary White to see
about securing admission cards. The
request might have been fulfilled by
the slightest hint from the legation
secretary to the proper official. But
Mr.. White was not in that mood.
On the morning of the day for the
function Secretary White sent the fol-
lowing little note to Mr. Newlywed:
Il am sorry to inform you that /
was unable to accomplish what you
asked. The affair is very exclusive.
The number of invitations is limited
and they have been ordered sent only
to persons Of importance and distinc-
ton. / inclose, however tickets to the
museum, and trust that Mrs. Taft and
yourself will spend a pleasant after
noon"
One of the first clouds had appeared
in the Taft honeymoon, and the new
wife's disappointment was deep. The
letter still remains in the Taft mem
DRY and archives, and it is the all-ir
portant document in the case OF Am.
bassador Henry White.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09

NTASHINGTON.-The leaders in the
w insurgent movement against the
rules of the house Of representatives
must have been desperately in need of
recruits when they tackled RepreseA-
tative Walter Brownlow of Tennessee
and tried to make him a convert to
their way of thinking
The committee explained it's mission,
Mr.. Brownlow listening courteously
the while. Finally, when the explana-
tons had all been made and the three
members of the committee were COM
pletely out of arguments and breath,
Mr.. Brownlow spoke for the first time.
You say" quoth he, that this is a
movement to reform and liberalize the
rules of the house of representa-
tives?"
1T is the committee agreed, with
unanimity and eagerness.
well, them" said Mr. Brownlow,
you can't expect me to take much in
terest in this fight, for l have never
read them. don't know what they are,
except that they're blamed good rules
and no mistake. If you know any mem
Der of congress who's got more for his
district since he's been in congress
than have why just you trot him
around. I'd like to look him over"
Whereupon the insurgent committee
returned to headquarters and reported
to their big chief that Mr.. Brownlow
was hopeless" Mr. Brownlow's state
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09
To Build on Noted Tennis Court Ground

White House proper. Congress, how
ever, added $4,000 to the cost of the
office building that its foundations and
walls might be made strong enough
to bear the weight of another story,
or several of them If necessary, in the
future. Now the congress has appro-
priated $4,000 to add to the capacity
Of the executive Offices.
Mr.. Taft, remembering the points
made by architects in the past, 81
though not of an esthetic nature him.
self, has sacrificed the tennis court
and ordered an extension on the
ground floor.
The "undesirables" are still return
ing to the White house. Rough Riders
have disappeared from the landscape,
negroes no longer have a chance to
hold office in the south, automobiles
have displaced horses and the tennis
court is to be obliterated
Residents of Washington are asking
what has become of the RoosaVe'.
policies.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09
Enormous Increase in Legislation

last decade the increase has been as
tonishing.
During the first and second ses-
sions of the Fifty-fifth congress 1913
bills were passed by the house and
senate and 'messaged' to the president.
In the third session of the same con-
gress 644 measures were enacted into
laws. In the Fifty-sixth congress, 1852
measures we're passed.; in the Fifty
seventh, 2,7S1; in the Fifty-eighth, A.
O41; in the Fffty-ninth, $40, and in
the Sixtieth, the congress which
ended on March 4, the number OF bills
enacted into law reached the great
total of Gill" o
Col. Palmer who prepared and car
ried to the White House all of these
bills, not one of which was ever lost
or mislaid, was appointed to the COM
mittee on enrolled bills OF the senate
13 years ago from New Jersey by the
late Senator Sewell. Col Palmer pre-
diets that the number of measures
passed by the present congress Will
exceed those of any preceding con-
gress.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09

A SNUB inflicted years ago upon an
"A American couple who were spend
ing their honeymoon abroad has been
paid for at last. Slight as the affair
seemed at the moment, it has devel-
oped enough Importance to lose Henry
White, ambassador at Paris, his post
in spite Of his long experience in vari-
Gus important capitals of Europe and
his other claims to notice. The resig-
nation of Ambassador White has been
received at the White House and it
was accepted in the usual stereotyped
fashion
1t was back in 1886 that William
Howard Taft and his bride, a pair of
comparatively unimportant but blissful
Newlyweds, were doing their honey
moon in Europe. In the course of their
rainbow rambles they came to Vienna,
where Diplomat White was then secre-
tary of legation. There was some af-
ternoOn function of the unimportant
sort coming off within a day or so,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09

I LEGISLATION by congress has in
Ia creased almost incredibly during
the last decade. Thousands Of meas
ures are introduced at every session,
but the number enacted into laws or
dinarily is comparatively insignificant
The development of the countrys re-
sources and the increased demands of
the people are indicated, however, by
the immense increase in the number of
laws Tassed.
This increase" said Col. w N. Pal
mer, in charge Of the enrolled bills of
the senate, has been particularly nota-
BILE during the last ten years. Prior to
that time there was little variation in
the number of measures enacted into
law by successive congresses. In the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09
JACKSON.
Lumber Market Improving.

Lumber Market Improving.
Although the market is still pervaded
with feeling of uncertainty, owing to
pending tariff legislation at Washington,
the lumber trade outlook has shown some
slight improvement in South Mississippi,
during the past week, according to re-
ports from the leading manufacturers.
Prices remain practically unchanged,
but there have been more inquiries from
prospective buyers, and goodly number
of mills have booked fair-sized orders for
delivery to domestic points.
Purchases of car stock and the heavier
grades have been more numerous than
for any weekly period within the past
two months, and the purely local de-
mand, orders from towns within the
State, have increased, owing to the ar
rival of the spring building boom.
The foreign market is still dull. Ex-
ports from Gulfport and Pascagoula for
the month drawing to a close will be
much lighter than for the same month
last year, and probably below the Febru-
airy record.
During the months of January and
February exports from Guifport amount
ed to 36,735,o 900 feet, valued at S76e,91s.
Exports for March from the same har-
Dor will probably be between 15,OOo,ooo
and 10000 900 feet.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09
Tackled the Wrong Man in Tennesseean

ment about having done more for his
district probably than any other mar
in the house is no joke and he wasnt
Dragging when he said it. His capacity
for making congress take care OF hi'
constituents is proverb in Tennessee
He isn't man who gets up on the
floor of the house every day or so and
tears Off about eight yards OF purple
| and gold oratory. Neither does he In
troduce bill minute and wander
round the capitol waving them In the
air and demanding that he be recog
nized at once for all of them.
No, he doesn't do these things, but
as committee worker he Is in a class
by himself. Why, it has come to be o
saying around the capitol that every
time Walter Brownlow discovers a neg.
lected graveyard in his district he Inn
mediately imbues 1t with historic In.
terest and proceeds to give it to a
grateful federal government. absolute
ly free, gentlemen, absolutely free"
The said grateful government wakes
up the following fiscal year to fnd
that it is saddled with the expenses OF
that particular graveyard for the rest
of time and while the face of the
earth shall endure
Until recently the members OF the
house appropriations committee were
very much worried about this grave
yard gift business and one Of them led
Mr. Brownlow aside and told him the
government didn't need any more Ten
nessee burying grounds in its bust
ness-had no use for them-couldn't
consider them even as present They
all felt better when they learned there
weren't any more. For he had made,
personally, a census of them all. Mr..
Brownlow told them so himself, and no
ought to know,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09
Digging the Liquor Saloons Grave
In Missouri.

One of the most novel and original
methods yet put into operation to rouse
public sentiment against the liquor
traffic is just now being used effective
ly in Sedalia, Mo. Every day for eight;
or ten weeks past the local papers
have had in some conspicuous position
pointed argument, illustration or
news story regarding the liquor bust
ness, its aims, results and crimes. The
item is displayed in an attractive
panel with the heading SALOON
THOUGHT NO. -" each days para
graph being numbered consecutive1y
from the first. So far more than fifty
Of these items have appeared. They
have been carefully prepared by DR.. ].
e. Carmady, an enthusiastic Prohibi-
ton worker in that community. Here
is one OF the best OF these saloon
Thoughts"
The Detroit Brewers v iho Closed 200
Liquor Saloons. Fl
'sThe Detroit brewers are willing to
decrease the number Of saloons In that
city by 200 in order TO head or the
Prohibition ware. which threatans tia
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09
WHAT PROHIBITION MEANS

Tho man who is quick to defend the
saloon Of his town on the ground that
the license money helps pay the local
expense fails to see the other side OF
the picture that the daily
tribute which the patrons Of the sa-
loon put In the dram sellers till is
from ten to twenty-five times the
amount which the Boosting liquor deal
or claims to put in the city treasury.
In one Indiana town there are +Wen-
ey saloons with estimated aaSage
daily receipts Of $50 each. On this
basis a prominent citizen makes
unique proposal to the patrons of the
saloons in his city, which is given as
follows by the Northwestern Patriot:
he proposed to the patrons OF these
saloons that If they would pay him
The money they spent in the saloons
IN one year ne would agree to do this:
win employ fifty needy men at
0~bO day.. ...e41sovW
WnnDioy twenty teams at 50 . team. $500
Give 100 poor families 81 q day each $500
distribute 100 barrels Of -four at g.. 400
wNsuash 100 poor families with two
NE08 each. Sfvg
any z1n sDaiFs of shnea AL - mar sss-AS $40
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09
C. W. Thigpen Announces.

One candidate for the State senate,
to succeed Hon. Sam Whitman, Jr., of
Bay Springs, who resigned in order to
accept the appointment as chancellor of
the Second District, vice the late Col.
McCaskill, is announced. The aspirant
is c. w. Thigpen of Bay Springs. Mr..
Thigpen announces, among other things,
that he stands for a firm conviction that
Mississippi should have a juvenile re
formatory prison system, on the high
plane as recommended and followed by
Judge Lindsay of Denver.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09

THE White House tennis court Is
4 doomed.
President Taft, who does not care
anything about tennis anyhow, has
told the men who are to add to the
executive building that he will not
stand for a two-story structure, but
that if more room is needed in the
building it can be spread out to the
south. To the south is the famous
s1ot where Mr.. Roosevelt battled with
his tennis cabinet.
The architect who designed the Of.
flee building, Mr.. McKim of New York,
made it as incoDspicuous as possible,
that it might not interfere with the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09
The Real National Issue,

The last time ] was at home my little
boy stood by me to say with laugh,
t'Rapa, I'm almost man." For mo-
9nent / was almost as happy as he in
the thought, and then this cloud came:
Every inch he grows taller, every day
be grows older, brings nearer the time
when he WIN 90 out on the streets Of
q city that opens more schools to make
him devil than 1t does to make him
n man.-John ID. Finch.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09
DR.. Alex Franz in Jackson.

Dr. Dunbar Rowland, director of the
department of archives, is officially en-
tertaining quite a distinguished visitor
in the person of DIR. Alex Franz, who is
professor of history in the University of
Frankfurt-on-the-Main, who is making a
special study of the archives pertaining
to Spanish activity and Spanish occupan-
cy of the territory comprised in the Mis-
sissippi valley. DR.. Franz is engaged in
the preparation of fve-volume work
on this branch of American history and
progress, having completed the frst and
is now at wsrk on the second.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09
Atrocious Double Murder.

Grand Rapids, Mich.-An atrocious
double murder was committed in An
FAINT child of George HOPPER, farm
er, were hacked to death with an axe.
Their decapitated bodies were found
in bed at the HOPPER home by neigh
bors. A posse found George HOPPER,
the husband and father, hiding in the
woods. He was placed under arrest.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09
Suffrage Leader Busy.

Berlin, March 30.-In an effort to
rouse the women of Germany to great
er interest in the worldwide move
ment for woman suffrage Mrs. Car
rie Chapman Gait, the president of
the International Woman Suffrage AL
lance, spoke to a great mass meeting
of women in this city.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09
Gov. Noel Impressed.

Gov. Noel returned from the child Ia
Dor conference at New Orleans thorough
ly impressed with the idea that the pTac-
teal results which may follow in con-
sequence of this general gathering will be
conservative and helpful, and tend to
the uplift generally of the people
through more thorough and systematic
care of the rising generation. He believes
that Mississippi was well represented
and that the representation of the en-
ployers of the labor which it is sought to
effect and the interests of the crusaders
in behalf of Juvenile labor laws was
about equally divided.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-09

CLARK COUNTY CLOSES NINETY
SEVEN SALOONS AND THREE
BREWERlES.

Springfield, Ohio, nar. so.-With the
heaviest vote in local history, Clark
county voted dry by IL majority in
the local option election. The total
vote cast In the ccunty was 1881
The election affects ninety-seven sa-
looms in the county, and thvee brew.
cries. The breweries are owned by
an English syndicate.
The result was in doubt until the
last precinct was heard from. The
city voted wet with a majority OF
1886.
Clark county is the largest county
in the state that the "drys" have at
tempted to carry, the county having
about $4,000 people.
Women guarded the front and rear
entrances of the saloons and the al
legs and adjoining buildings to the
saloons were under surveillance.