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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15

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A NATIONAL PERIL.
Consumption of Liquor In America
Is Appalling.


The wine product of the world is
now four billion gallons annually, of
which the United States produces So
100000 gallons. In addition to this
we produce more than 15O000,0O0 gal
Ions of fermented liquor and distilled
spirits and import 100000 gallons
more. We consume two billion gal
Ions of spit 'tuous and malt liquors and
wine annually. In New York city alone
more than a million dollars a month
Is paid for license to sell liquor by the
: 10000 hotels saloons and clubs which
dispense it. The acreage of grapes for
wine produc ion in the United States
is steadily growing and is now $4,000.
In these vineyards, with their incident
wine cellars. plants, warehouses, stock,
ETC., $100,000,006 capital is invested.
Remember, this is for wine alone Last
year-the federal governments revenue
from liquor taxes was about $270,000,-
000. These are staggering figures and
they indicate that the consumption of
liquor is not decreasing in our coun-
try. None can estimate the influence
of this gigantic traffic upon our nation
al, state and municipal politics and our
homes and social life. Yet there is an
awakening and protest in nearly every
tate of the union, in which men are
joining irrespective of political aff1lia-
tions. Those who are financially in
terested in the liquor business are
viewing the movement with alarm and
evidences of a great battle in the near
future seem abundant.
The lips of nation are defiled by
streams which flow from any fountains
of uncleanness; and surely the
streams of strong drink in our own
country, carrying on their surface
hundreds of thousands of men to the
1epths Of human degradation and the
sewers of death, are communicating
wherever they are running. The moral
ity of nation starves when that ma
ton feeds its finances upon any bane-
full sin. The innocent suffer with the
guilty and are forced to pay tribute
HlOHCy WITCH NlCS COlupClS Tic SuppOII
of institutions created through vice
and crime.
Isaiah knew that the ruinous root of
the goddess spirit of his age was drunk
enness, and hence he Numbered
against it, He knew the effect of in
temperance and it's kindred sins upon
the tone of the matchmaking the
heart fat, the ears heavy and the
eyes blind to truth and beauty. Amer
lea has not yet, thank God, become as
unsound as was the Israel condemned
by Isaiah; but eternal vigilance
against the Entertainments of the
forces of rum is the price of our liber
ty. The Ephraimites gave hooking
answer to Isaiah and refused to listen
to Jehovahs word through the prophet
The nature of strong drink has not
changed and the warning is as much
needed to-day as it was when the
drunkards of Ephraim erred in vision
and stumbled in judgment"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
BOUND THEY SHOULD HEAR 1T
Minister'S Humorous Rebuke to mat
tentive Congregation.

DR.. Smith Jelliffe, the alienist, was
once talking about campaign oratory
Blank" he said of certain sena-
tor, lis such a thorough-going, pains
taking, and withal tedious, campaign
orator that, whenever I hear him,
am reminded of an old-fashioned min
lister of my boyhood.
This minister, one Sunday morn.
ing, spread before him on the reading
desk a very thick packet of notes,
and launched into a long, dry, heavy
sermon.
THE reading of the sermon alb
sorbed him. He did not once lift his
eyes. On toward the end, however,
happening to glance up, he perceived
almost the entire congregation to be
sound asleep.
''The minister frowned and paused.
He struck the desk resounding blow
that awakened his parishioners. Then
he said:
Ny good friends, this sermon cost
me great deal of labor, and / do not
think you have given it the attention
1t deserves. l shall, therefore, repeat
it from the beginning"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
Men Do Not mag"

Men as husbands are not so faithful
90 women; they are not SO tender;
they do not forgive, as women do, con-
duct which disgraces them publicly;
they are not so patient with physical
pain; but they have shining virtue
they do not nag!
It. Is not like a man to thresh out
an old injury after every grain of cir
cumstance has been extracted and the
fail raises nothing but dust. Nor is 1t
like "a man to tumble into the traps
Of his ownziogic and rescue himself by
a burst of temper or q flood of tears.
Men s6y into passions over tribes just
about as much az women, and often
more Violently. Their language, for in
stance, IN regard to overdone beef
steak frequently Is not ut for lady's
ears And 1t seems irrational to be
upset as men are, by the misbehavior
Of collar buttons Still, 1t may be adj
mltted that while they fly into pas
sions they do not ny into the same
passions again and again. And when
they forgive they forgive; they do not
simply take the offense away and put
A. if cold storage.-Octave Thanet In
HARPER Razar. ssss
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
Supplies for Conyicts.

The penitentiary sergeants on the four
big State farms are preparing their an
nual. acquisitions for supplies for the
year 1909, which are to be filed with
the Board of Trustees in time for par-
chases to be made at the February
meeting. acquisitions for many of the
articles necessary to be bought for the
farms come in at convenient intervals
during the year, and only a few things
are received on standing orders. For
instance, a full car load of bacon is
shipped to the Sunfower farm alone
every month. 81
4 Many hogs and cattle are butchered
on the farms every month, and it takes
quite q number of them to go around
among the more than / 800 prisoners.
Secretary Yerger states that the 40
couhtE already allowed by the Board,
together with those still pending for
December purchases, will just about con-
sumo the $25O,OOO appropriation made
by the legislature for the 1908 support
fund, and that there will be very little
money to revert to the treasury. &
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
JACKSON.


0VluA0AS OuOJCCL " AVaO 4AAs
Col. w. Calvin Wells, judge-adyocate-
general of the Mississippi National
Guard, has addressed communication
to Attorney General Stirling, in which
he asks for official information on the
oft-recurring question whether. or. not
the members of the guard living outside
municipalities are liable to road tax
and road duty. BY way of reply, At
torney-General Stirling quotes an opin-
ion rendered to the late former adjutant-
general, William Henry, by the then at
torney general, the late William Will
Jams, which holds substantially that the
laws of the State must prevail where
there is conflict between them and the
laws and rules of the National Guard,
and that undoubtedly the members are
subject to the communication road tax,
street tax or road duty.
81 must concur in the opinion rem
dered, that members OF the National
Guard are not exempt from road duty
or the payment of a communication tax
under Section AGO, where the roads are
being worked under the contract sys-
tenn"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15

AERS. ELEANOR RELYEA, a $1,000
M clerk in the signal Office of the
war department, will be the next So
cial secretary of the White House, and
Miss Isabelle Hagner, who now die.
tates the social lists of the president
wife, will step from that coveted po-
sition back into the ranks of govern
ment clerks by executive order, and
will be given a minor position.
Mrs. Relyea is prominently identified
with the social set In Washington,
though in a semi-ofhcial sense. She
has gained a certain amount of dis
tinction through her ability as bridge
player, and has taught many promi-
nent society women of this city the
game.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
To Cure Love Madness.

DR.. Berillon of Paris says that love
Is simply a fixed affective idea,' and
the symptoms are an increased sem
sitiveness of the left side. hand, wrist
and left temple. To cure it all one
has to do is to set up counter irrita-
ton, give the boy or girl physical ex>
ercises that win bring into play the
muscles of the right side. and. behold.
the madness Is cured.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
How to Make Chestnut DRESSING.

To make fine dressing for the
Christmas turkey use the large chest
nuts called the French chestnuts.
Cook one and half pints in boiling
water until tender Shell and press
through a vegetable strainer. Season
with two rounding tablespoonfuls Of
butter, saltspoonful of pepper, level
teaspoonful of salt and four table
spoonfuls of cream. Now add a cup
full of fine cracker crumbs and a quar-
ter of cupful of melted butter. New
er put poultry seasoning or sweet herbs
into a chestnut dressing.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
The Amateur Gunner.

MA" asked the little rabbit, lis il
true that pa was shot by an amateur
gunner?" Not at ALL" snorted the
mother rabbit, scornfully; the gunner
was shooting at something else, while
your poor father sat behind him and
laughed. Unfortunately the gun
kicked. and the man sat down on
your father and killed k:.z.-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
How TO Omen Lara.

Every housewife knows what it is tc
have a glass jar TO which the cover is
screwed so tightly that 1t seems i'm
possible to remove it. One way out OF
this annoying difficulty is to light a
piece of paper and hold the top of the
Jar over it. The top may then be
easily unscrewed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
May Test Prohibition Law.

While no plan has been made to insti-
tute test of Mississippi's new statutory
prohibition law, it is expected that the
constitutionality of section 17oS of the
code of 1906 will be brought before the
Supreme Court before the adjournment
of the present term, as one of the re-
suits of the enforcement of the state
wide statute.
The section in question provides that
the possession of more than q half gal
lon Of intoxicating liquors shall be con-
strued as prima fAcie evidence of intent
to engage in Illicit retailing.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
Wine Drinking on Decrease in England

WING 6SSi%oSC Iu
AS a slight indication of the grad
ual revolution which has been taking
place in the drinking customs in Eng
land since the early wine-drinking
days, may be cited the fact stated by
the earl of Bessborough, in presiding
at the annual meeting of the Gordons
hotels at the Hotel Metropole, in Lon
don. recently. There was no doubt, he
said, that the wine bill of the average
hotel visitor had decreased for some
time past, and was continuing to de-
crease. Compared with ten years ago
the company's receipts from the sale
of wines had fallen so per cent in
value, the greater part of the decrease
having occurred in the last two or
three years.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
Home ksIp.

Small Daughter-It's most school
time and I've mislaid my geography.
Cultured Mother-Well, tell me
what the lesson is about and I'll write
out the answer for you to learn.
Small Daughter-The lakes of Africa
Cultured Mother-Um-er- you've
mislaid your geography, you careless
child. you can just hunt till you find
New York Weekly.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
Boil weevil Hard to Cope With.

Discouraging reports concerning the
efforts to stamp out the boil weevil in
the cotton growing regions of the Mis-
sissippi delta were made by DR.. E. o.
L. Howard, chief of the bureau of ento-
niology in the department of agricul-
ture. He said that owing to the climatic
conditions there the insect multiplies
with such rapidity that the methods of
eradication which had proven a success
in Texas had not been such benefit in
the delta
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15

The words of
great men are
treasures. w e
read books to find
out what they
said. We look to
the papers and
m a g a Yin e S t o
learn the last ut
terances of the
great leaders of
science, politics
or religion. How
much more i'm
portant a word of
God. Suppose 1t
could be proven
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
THE LIVING
WORD
By REV. A. c. DIXON, D. D.,
Pastor Of the Chicago Ave. (Moody'sl
Church. Chicago.

For the word of God is quick
talive). and powerful and sharper than
any two-edged sword, piercing even
to the dividing asunder of soul and
spirit, and the joints and marrow, and
is a discerner of the thoughts and in
tents OF the heart"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
How to Cream Sugar Quickly

Instead of trying to cream sugar
md butter for a cake with a tiresome
spoon or knife blade try using wire
potato masher. This chops the butter
finely and blends the two with little
trouble in a comparatively short time.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
Out Of Their Element.

The admission of women to the pro
fession of medicine and the bar has
SO far caused them nothing but dis
appointment, and has increased the
number of women out of their element.
Revue de Monde Catholique, Paris.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
How to Make Hazelnut custard.

This is favorite at one of the New
York hotels To a custard add one
half cupful of finely ground hazelnuts
The nuts will rise to the top and form
a tender crust to the custard. Wal
nuts, pecans or almonds may be used
In place of the hazelnuts.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
Lumber Trade Inactive.

LUMBER TRADE inactive.
The lumber and timber men report
matters in that line of activity to be
still in a doubtful or waiting state, and
there is not likely to be very heavy
transactions for some months to come.
There has been some repairs and
strengthening here and there, but with .
fairly well stocked market at present
and the uncertainty of the demand from
the North for some time yet, the mills
will not resume heavy saving before
the spring. The same is said of the
wssawogking and manufacturing plants,
WhiSA are running On shss$ slne.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
The Surgical Word.

And yet there is a sense in which
''the word of God" is surgical, sharp
er than a two-edged sword, piercing to
the dividing asunder of soul and spir-
it and joints and marrow" The word
of God is not only living, but it is
sharp-sharper than two-edged
sword. The business of the sword is
to pierce, and it can pierce between
soul and spirit, the joints and marrow,
cut right into the innermost being.
The soul here represents the natural
man; the spirit represents the spiritual
man. ut is sown natural body; it is
raised a spiritual body" "The natural
man discerneth not the things of the
Spirit" exactly the same words, the
soul of man discerneth not the things
of the Spirit" and it takes the word
of God to discriminate between the
natural and spiritual. 1t is the word
of God" that tells you whether you
are living simply natural life or
spiritual life.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
Warrants Will Be Paid.

Gov. Noel states that, according to the
estimate received by him from the au-
ditor's office, after this month all the
State warrants would probably be paid
throughout the year on presentation. To
promote that result it will be his policy
to approve no accounts for any State in
stitution except those to be paid the
very month they are allowed. Besides,
this will carry out the purposes of the
Legislature in establishing State depos-
tories, putting all funds not needed for
the current month at interest, and he
desires authorities. of the various State
institutions to bear this policy in mind.
To convert an Understanding fund into
Notwithstanding fund sooner than
is necessary is wrong to the State and
its repositories. Z,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15

that God, who created the heaven and
earth, had spoken just one sentence
1t would be diamond sentence. We
would treasure it above all the wealth
OF earth, The Word of God, Yet that
Is what we have. "For the word of
God The word written, the word
spoken, the, word lived. The word
written as we have 1t in the Bible; the
word spoken as we speak it and trans
NIT to others; the word lived as we
translate 1t into character and deed.
The Living Word.
"All Scripture is God-breathed." AS
God made man and breathed into him
the breath of life and he became liv-
ing soul, so he inspired men to write
the Scriptures, breathing into them
the breath of his life, and so their
words became his living words. So
living thing. We ought to have the
reverence for it that we have for life.
We have more reverence even for
vegetable life than for death. We GER
tainly respect living, growing flower
more than an artificial thing. Where
there is life it is elevated to higher
realm, and life makes all the differ
ence between respect and disrespect,
reverence and Dissertation.
When this word gets into our hearts
and lives it becomes active; it shows
life. No Christian is respected who
does not show life. He may have the
constituent parts of the Christian in
different receptacles under the glass
case, and people can look at him with
a curious, grewsome sort of interest
if he is dead, but unless they see him
move, and move along the line of
Gods life, they have little respect for
him or his claims.
Some of us have smiled at the fool
ish fellow who stood here on a Chi
cago street, and, looking through the
the window of the taxidermists shop,
saw an owl in the midst of the anil
mails and birds he was stuffing for ex-
hibition, and began to criticise the
owl. The feathers were not arranged
right, the head was not on right, the
body was not poised right, and when
he got through his criticising the owl
turned around and winked at him.
The man walked off, feeling that he
was a fool, and SO he was. The mo-
ment that owl turned around and
winked he was beyond that fellows
criticism, and everything he said up
to that moment was true. If we have
a stuffed sort of Christianity in the
window for exhibition the world will
pass by and criticise us and every
thing about us, but when we show
life, the life of God. we get beyond
the scalpels of all the critics in the
world.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
Sorsby's Friends May Be Prosecuted.

Sorsoy's FRIENDS May Be Prosecuted.
The criminal liability of the friends
and relatives of Sorsby, who aided and
abetted the slayer of Postoffice Inspector
Fitzgerald in lodging the authorities for
period of more than three months, is
now a subject of much comment, and
their cases will doubtless be brought be-
fore the grand jury for consideration at
the March term of Circuit Court.
That Sorsby was concealed for nearly
a month in the home of Robert johnson,
his schoolmate and personal friend, is
an undisputed fact. 1t was in Johnson's
house he was captured, and it was in
Johnson's home that very cunning pre-
cautions for his safety had been taken.
Under the provisions of section 1927
of the annotated code of 1906 this is
made criminal offense. Any person
who aids or abets criminal in eluding
the law is classed as an accessory after
the fact
1t is currently reported here that
United States Senator A. J. McLaurin
declined to act as attorney for Sorsby;
that the relatives of the prisoner endeav-
ored to retain Senator McIaurin for the
defense, but, for personal reasons, he de-
clined the case. Senator McLaurin was
an intimate personal friend of Sorsby's
victim.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15

It Is a pretty well assured fact now
that Newton is to have State normal
this summer. The buildings of Clarke
Memorial College had already been ten
dered for the purpose of holding this
normal. This means that some $50 OF
900 teachers will sojourn in Newton for
several weeks this year.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15

The Bank Of Blue Mountain made a
showing of 211a per cent. net profits
Eleven and one-half per cent. dividend
was declared, and the ether 10 per cent
~eA added to the banks surplus fund.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15

Following quarrel over lawsuit, in
which IL is said "threats to shoot it
out" at next meeting were made, E. B.
Fitzgerald, prominent planter, shot
and instantly. killed o. g. Mcclure, a
wsll.known lawyer of Rosedale. Nc
CURE had represented q client I'M
friendly to fitzgerald in lawsuit, and
bitter feeling had grown out of this.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15

With the beginning Of the new year
lumber manufacturers In Mississippi
are expecting marked improvement in
trade conditions. The market has been
In fairly good shape during the past
thirty days, with steadily increasing
volume of orders. A noteworthy feat
ars~of the market is the fact that the
demand il equally good for nearly all
grades, and some of the mills have or
ders booked from 80 to 100 days ahead,
sufficient to keep them fully occupied.
The movement Of the cotton crop sim
ultanecusly with the revival Of the lum-
Der industry has enlivsned tho demand
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15

Adit. Gen. Fridge reports that the
third regiment, Mississippi national
guard, 10 again twelve companies strong,
including Battery E at Vicksburg, since
the muster in of the new company at
RaYette.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15

That, there has been q considerable
strengthening of the tone of the lumber
market In South Mississippi is evi-
denosd by the unusual activity of the
buyers, who ara focking from mill to
mill in fsrerish haste to place orders
before the prices advance.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15

Ia his charge to the Federal grand
fury at vicksburg, Judge Niles paid hi,
respects, to night riders. He said he
had received number Of letters com
planning of the sending through the
mails Of anonymous letters, the whip
pings of persons and ordering of 9th
srs to leave. He declared this was the
work Of irresponsible towards, and in
structed the grand jury to make q
Thorough investigation.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15

The. movement which for some time
Fast has been on foot to drain Magowah
swamp took definite shape when sew
eral of the principal owners of the land
in question presented to the board of
supervisors of Lowndes county a petit
ton requesting that the land be placed
in q drainage district, and speciad tax
levied to provide for its. reclamation.
There are thousands of acres of fertile
land in this swamp. wa
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15

Black Hand No. 3 Society" sent q
letter to. Mrs. sallie Walters, grocery
woman in Natchez. The letter was
printed with lead pencil without
punctuation marks, and demanded 81
500, and further declares that demand
for money was made on Robert r. Reed,
who was murdered at his home in Nat
chez recently The Black Hand threat
ems! TO kill Mrs. Walters and child il
che money Is not paid.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15

u The presence in Laurel this week of a
party of gentlemen interested in the
electric light business in South Missis-
sippi has caused revival of the talk
Of an interurban line to run southwark
from Laurel, such as was projected a
year or two ago, The interurban pro-
isct eontemplatss the employment OF
water power, to be obtained from the
Bouis river, either at Hattissburg or at
Seminary.