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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
HOW TO LIVE LONG.
Statistics Show That Longevity Is
Hereditary, But Many Shorten
Lives by Hard Drinking.

In speaking on the subject of How
to Live to be a Hundred" DR.. C. w.
Saleeby, an eminent Scotch physician.
says that all but the very poorest of
people shorten their lives by gross
ly over-eating, and very many of us
Over-drink as we'll
The evidence about alcohol is con-
elusive" he says. If you seek i'm
partial witnesses, go not to the teeto-
talers, but to the actuaries, and the
men who have to determine risks for
insurance companies. If, however,
you are to use some alcohol. let your
moderate use of it be as little immOd-
crate as possible; take it only with
or after meals; shun spirits alto
gether; and if you find this advice
profitable write to me, as scores and
scores of people have done, saying so,
during the past six years. And when
the makers of absinthe, who are be-
ing turned out of Switzerland and Bel
GUM, and who will, ! hope, ere long
be turned out of France, try to find
a new market in England as they now
intend to do, look upon them as high
waymen who demand your money and
your life"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
Doors Of Famous Old Hotel Are Closed

The present structure was built in
the sos Just why and how the hotel
became so great a favorite with the
Southerners has never been explained.
but for the last seventy years it has
been the meeting place for politicians
of the southland. 1t has catered to
that trade almost exclusively and
enjoyed the patronage of practically
half the southern congressional dele
cation.
Its broad, low ceiled lobby filled
with broad hated frock coated men
was far more suggestive of Memphis
or New Orleans than of the northern
cities. The bar was always famous
for its juleps, toddies and sherry cob
blers.
Bob" Callahan, the retiring proprie-
tor, found recently among the ar
chives of the house a bill made out
for one of the guests of the early
days-one Dougherty. Mr.. Callahan
called attention to the fact that in
1915 the jumping of board bill was
as popular a pastime with a certain
class of customers as it is in the
twentieth century. Mr.. Dougherty
had run up bill of $49775, mostly
for toddies and juleps. 1t shows a
single credit of $780, The proprietor
of the Indian Queen had the unsettled
bill framed. The price of a today
in 1915 was two for quarter.
Charles Dickens stopped at the In
dian Queen on his first American tour
and mentions the hotel in Martiu
On1zzlesSlEr s.s.., i al
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
"What Is Your Tote1n?" Society's Latest

paint the totem on the sides of the
swaggerest runabouts in town, and
the idea is so terribly swell that
everybody feels a thrilling sense of
pride and citation when asked, whats
your bug?"
Mrs. Perry Belmonts delicately per-
fumed notes from Paris are surmount-
ed by great, big, buzzing bee of gold,
his quivering wings poised for flight.
Miss Mathilde TOwnsend's totem looks
like a giant mosquito, while Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh have for their
totem bird built on hieroglyphic
lines The bird, which looks much
like a young robin with bill tightly
closed and neck considerably longer
than the usual, perched on >the Walsh
note paper, and also on the Walsh
cards Of invitation, is sometimes dull
blue, sometimes gray on gray papers,
and again it comes in glowing gold,
and yet again in cleaning silver
Just outside the entrance to the
Walsh mansion the bird shows up in
the form of a clipped tree of dwarf
box. The Walsh totem has addi-
tional significance when it is remem-
bered that the Walsh millions were
dug out of the famous Camp Bird
mine, near Array, Col
Mrs. Taft on her stationery uses the
crest of the United States-the spread
eagle, surrounded by a galaxy of thir-
teen stars-and a similar die is used
by the secretary of state on stationery
used for official occasions.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16

n HE Metropolitan hotel, for more
than a century southern headquar-
ters at the national capital, with a
history almost as long as that of the
city itself, has closed it's doors for
want of a new tenant The last pro-
prietors did not ask for a renewal OF
their lease because of the loss in
traffic caused by the demolition of the
old Pennsylvania railroad station
and the diversion of transients to
points nearer the new Union terminal
AS the Indian Queen Tavern, the
traffic center of the old stage-coach
days, the hotel began it's career at the
time of the administration of Thomas
Jefferson. From the courtyard in
front of the old building the Baltimore
and Philadelphia coaches started each
morning, and thrice week a coach
left for the old National road line to
Frederick, Cumberland and Pittsburg
In ante-bellum days the servants
were all slaves and one of the pecu-
liar customs was the method of sum-
moning guests to dinner. A negro
boy was sent forth at mealtimes with
huge gong which he pounded for
ten minutes as he parsded.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
Nav Reduce Cotton Rates.

The most important and striking ae-
ton of the Mississippi railroad commits
sion at the meeting this week was the
adoption of a resolution to the effect
that as the rates which are in effect on
cotton hauled in the state seem unfair
and unreasonable the carriers should be
called on to show cause why revision
and equalization rate should not be put
in effect. The resolution suggests that
the railroads be cited to appear, by their
duly authorized representatives, at the
meeting of the commission to be held
July 81, and show cause, if any they
can, why rAo present rates on cotto"
should not be equalized and reduction
effected Accordingly, the citations have
been sent out, and the result will be a
general attendance of freight traffic Off
Gals, lawyers and others.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
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HAGGARD ON DRINKS.
The Noted Author Is Down on the
Hard Drinker and Offers Radi
cal Cures.

Rider Haggard is at present taking
a deep personal interest in the cure
of drunkenness He is chairman of
one bench of magistrates and senior
member of another; and. in the course
of his career, has dealt with some
thousands of drunk and disorderlies."
He has recently given his view on in
temperance in a British government
report. Some of his suggestions are
quiet radical For instance, among
other things, he says:
Il submit that the best way to pro.
mote sobriety is to make it exceed
ingly uncomfortable for the individual
who gets drunk. | am quite certain
that if public intOXication ceased to
be treated as a kind of troublesome
and malodorous joke, and if its repeti-
tons were punished with sentences of
confinement increasing in length in
proportion to the frequency of the Of
fence. instead of being condoned by
a small fine, we should hear and see
a great deal less of it than we do at
present"
The famous author then goes on to
recommend the following drastic
measures for Graduating this vice:
First Offense, dismissal, with a eau
ton; second offenSe, the ordinary fine ::
third Offense, cOmmittal, without the
option of a fine. COmmittal should
not be to an ordinary prison" he says
in his report, but to a special depart
ment, where inebriates could be suit
ably treated with view to their refor-
nation" His views on the drunk
that goes in for making a row" are
very strong. "If the drunkenness
should be complicated with violence, -
he says, cor with the use of that
language in which DRINKS are wont to
foam out their own shame in public,
or if the intoxicated person should be
in charge of a vehicle or of children,
commit upon the second, if not upon
the first offense, and to the common
Jail"
With habitual drU lizards he would
resort to incarcarati m whether or not
their own consent or that of their
family were obtained In England
babitual drunkards cannot be put
away without their own consent for
any length of time. but Rider Haggard
would alter this, and treat a habitual
just as if he were a iunatic. If the
government carries Rider Haggard S
IL.
sad time coming for the man who
loves the flowing bowl not wisely but
too well.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16

SEEET HAT is your totem?" is the lat
w est question in Washington
swaggerdom, and if you cannot answer
Offhand the inference is you have been
dead to the world of fashion for at
least two weeks.
Nowadays, in lieu OF the familiar
monogram and the banal crest and
the erstwhile much coveted coat-of-
arms, society DANES and damsels, TAX
ing the cue from the aboriginal ma
tives of the country, go out to the
fields and, selecting whatever bug or
bird or beast strikes their fancy,
promptly pre-empt it as their totem"
The pendulum has swung the other
way, and society with a golden halo
has elected to become America of
the Americans. If, for instance, but
terfly is chosen as the totem then
milady proceeds to have it embossed
on her note paper and = have it
embroidered on her dainty lace
trimmed lingerie. Delicately cut out
of silver, the emblem is affixed to her
handbag, and to her card case, while
a whir of wings flashes across the gilt
tering surface of her toilet silver.
Artists of renoWn are employed to
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
$4,000 for Mississippi College.

State Treasurer Edwards has received
the following letter from the United
States Treasury Departments You are
informed that have this day certified
to the secretary of the treasury that
the sum of $4,000 is due from the Unit
ed States to the State of Mississippi,
under the acts of Congress approved Au-
gust 80. 1890, and March 4, 1907 (26
Stats. All, and "a Stats. 1881, making
provisions for the more complete en-
dowment and maintenance of colleges OF
agriculture and the mechanic arts Tor
which sam draft will be duly issued
in your favor and forwarded to you"
This money makes a very nice annual
addition to the State appropriation for
the agricultural and mechanical colleges,
and can be used for no other purpose.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
Capital Deserted by Society for Summer

Moons and always collect a crowd for
tea after tennis Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth will remain with Representa-
tive Longworth until congress adj
journs and then will join her sister-in-
law, Countess de Chambrun, at Hamil-
ton, Mass
Brig. Gen. Clarence r. Edwards,
q, S. A., and Lieutenant Commander
Cleland Davis, U. S. n, are keeping
bachelor hall in the generals home,
while Mrs. Edwards and her young
daughter will remain in Niagara Falls
WIN Mrs. Porter until it is time for
them to go to LenoX.
All the embassies are closed and
their occupants are scattered far and
wide, only an occasional belated Sec
rotary being seen attending to his last
duties bsS~Te fastening to join his
chief Mr. De Thai of the Russian en-
bassy has returned from his leave Of
absence and will join the charge
d'affaires, Prince Nicholas KOvdacheff,
at Manchesterby-the-Se The am
bassador,- Baron Rosen is in Europe,
and Dame Rumor has it that he will
be transferred to another post Bar
Oness ROsen and their daughter, Bar
oness Elizabeth Rosen, are with him.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
Twenty-Eight Life-Termers.

OF the 1,64O c6nvicts serving terms
in the Mississippi state penitentiary, the
records show that 145 of these are white
males, there being no white females, or
a fraction over II negroes to one white
convict. OF the 145 white men on the
books of the penitentiary, fifty-siX found
their way to stripes and confinement by
reason of homicidal acts, for which they
were convicted and sentenced, and OF
that number twenty-eight are serving
life terms for murder, five for criminal
assault and one for arson. In addition,
there are several serving sentences OF
from fifteen to thirty-fve years for man
slaughter, with quite number up for
shorter terms, from ten years down.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
Reunion and Dedication.

A movement is on foot among the
United Confederate Veterans for the fix
ing of the date for the State reunion OF
that organization in Vicksburg this fall,
to correspond with the date for the dedi-
cation of the monument to the MISSISSIPPI
pi soldiers now being constructed at the
expense of $4,000 to the State in the
Vicksburg national military park, so that
the latter event will fall within the re-
union dates and become virtually feat
ure of the former. A conference between
Adiutant General John A Webb, of the
Mississippi division, and Col. w. A.
Montgomery, of the First Brigade, re-
suited in tentative agreement that the
dates should be between tile 10th and
18th of September, although there has
been disposition in some quarters to
have tire event in October.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
JACKSON.
New Move to Save Smith.

C. Z. Smith, the wealthy Lowndes
county planter, whose sentence for the
murder of E. A. Laurent, a prominent
Nashville travelling man, was affirmed
by the supreme court, will not imme-
dIately don prison stripes. Attorneys
for the appellant have served notice
that suggestion of error will be filed,
and this will delay the issuance of a
mandate by the clerk of the supreme
court until the process is disposed of.
The supreme court had adjourned for
the summer, and it will, therefore, be
impossible to get hearing on the sug-
gestion of error until the October term.
The supreme court will probably have
to deal with Smiths financial affairs at
its next sitting, the appellant having
conveyed all of his property to his
daughter, and it is alleged that this
transfer was made for the express pur-
pose of rendering it impossible for the
family of Laurent to successfully re-
cover in the $4,000 damage suit they
have filed against him on account of the
tragedy.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
Drink and Unemployment in England

DFlnk ana OnSnplOJ N1GHL IN England
Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, NJ. P, made
a telling contribution in London re-
Gently to the discussions organized by
the National Temperance league of
Great Britain, his subject being alco-
holism and employment. If in slack
ness of trade, an employer, he said
had the choice of discharging a GER
tain number of men, he would nat
urally retain the soberer, so that the
question resolved itself into one of
fficiency.
The sober nation was always the
more efficient, and in all the neutral
markets of the world, the drunken
nations were handicapped. 1t could
not produce so cheaply, so quickly, or
so ably. Any crisis of unemployment
would strike the drunken nation first.
1t was also stated in the same CON
nection that not single individual
case had come before the royal COM
mission which had just issued it's re-
port in which drink was not men
toned The remedies were education
on better lines and the teaching of
character, which meant the teaching
of temperance as part of character
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16

SS7 Observation-Disclosures is so
w cially a deserted village" these
days. Drawn shades and boarded
front doors are the features of all the
uptown streets and are so general
that they make an open door or hab-
liable looking house appear like an
oasis in a desert; and the modish
looking women whom one meets in F
street in the shopping hours of the
morning seem like visitors from some
planet where the rule all play and
no work applies, at least to the fen1i-
nine part of it's population
Quite a colony has established itself
at Chevy Chase proper, with the
Chevy Chase club within easy dis
lance.
Miss Eleanor Terry, Miss Louise
Foraker and Miss Anna Cockrell are
much in evidence these summer after
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
THE WAY THE SALOON FIGHTS
Typical Incidents In the Nation Wide
Conflict With the Drink Curse.

Conflict With the DrIhk curse.
The liquor traffic is still adding to its
reputation as criminal and the in
spirer of criminals. DR.. Dickie in his
debate with Mayor Rose read from the
platform of the Milwaukee Hippodrome
the other day letters which showed the
beermakers of that city to be abettors
of lawbreaking and defers of law in
Prohibition communities.
Another illustration of the same thing
comes to light in the editorial CORE
spondence of Bonfort's Wine and Spirit
Circular April %, page 754, where, at
tempting to prove Prohibition a failure
in Atlanta, the liquor scribe says: "a
gentleman who recently visited Allan
ia said he went into q near-beer sa'
loon and asked the barkeeper if he
could give him glass of near-beer.
The barkeeper suggested that he could
furnish such beers as Anheuser-B Busch,
Lent, Cook and the like" The Pro-
hibition law of Georgia may be defied
by bCotleggers and keepers of speak
easies. but these men, for the most
part, are nothing more or less than
agents of the big brewers, who seem
to care nothing for the law or the peo-
pies will.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
BUSINESS MEN VOTE "AYE."
Merchants and Professional Men In
Thirty-one Cities For Prohibition.


Thirty-one Cities For Prohibition.
A novel poll Of business men in
thirty-one leading cities of eleven
states just concluded by the Associat-
ed Prohibition Press has brought to-
gether some remarkable testimony as
to the business as well as the moral
benefit of local and state Prohibition.
The business men who were asked
for their views were entirely unknown
to the editors of the Associated Pro
hibition Press, the only basis upon
which their names were. chosen being
their general standing as reported by
Bradstreet's. Out Of Ill business men
replying to the series of questions
asked by the Associated Prohibition
Press more than So per cent wrote in
their Endorsement of Prohibition as
shown in its results in their commu-
nifty, and less than 20 per cent de-
clared themselves unfavorably i'm
pressed with the dry regime The re-
naming % per cent reported little eff
fects yet noticeable on business, which
in most cases was due to the short
time Prohibition had been in operation.
Enthusiastic Endorsement of Prohi-
bition from business and moral points
of view alike was received from Ashe-
vile, n. c.; Athens, Tenn; Birming-
ham, Ala. Columbia. TENN; Cham
paign, Ill; Decatur, Ill; Jackson,
Tenn; Knoxville, Tenn; Macomb, ILL.,;
Moscow, Ida; Mount Vernon. Ill;
Rockford. H.; WaXahachie, Tex;
Winchester Va, and Winters Cal.
Strong approval of the Prohibition
policy was registered with four ex-
ceptions from all the rest.
Details of this testimony will gladly
be sent to any one desiring them from
the Associated Prohibition Press Head
quarters, 90 La Sale street, Chicago.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
Lieut.. u. S. Grant to Be Busy "Janitor"

Lieut.. Grant married not long ago
the daughter of Senator Root of New
York. Since that time he has been
stationed in Boston in the engineer
department Under the law member
of the engineer corps must superin-
tend the state, war and navy building.
This is, without exaggeration, the
largest Office building in the world. 1t
extends from Pennsylvania avenue to
the Oval and from Executive avenue
almost all over town. Branches of
the enormous building can be found
on almost any street within a mile
The state, war and navy building
in itself is enough care for an or
binary man, but there are also the an
neXes, which are arranged without
any consideration for the convenience
Of the superintendent.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
MAY Get Part of Peabody Fund.

Hon. J.. n. Powers, state superintend-
ent of education, is hopeful that the Mis-
sissippi State University may secure a
share of the Peabody fund of $780,
600 which is to be distributed during
the next year or SO among the ten
Southern state universities, as directed
by the executive board. Superintendent
Powers paid special visit to New York
with that end in view, and, while there
was nothing announced definitely, the in
dications seem to be favorable.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
SUCCEEDING IN POLITICS.
A Short "Inside" Study of Why the
Prohibition Reform Is Winning.

A Short "lnside" Study of Why the
Prohibition Reform Is Winning.
"About twenty years ago we were
met upon the streets of the town where
we resided by the editor of local po-
litical paper" says the Wesleyan
Methodist, Syracuse, n. Y. This edi-
tor was ordinarily q very fine man
and always courteous. but he evidently
was not in his normal condition when
we met him. for he began at once an
incourteous assault upon the Prohibi-
tionists. His three points were-the
Prohibition party had never elected
single candidate; at that rate no can
6idate of that party would be elected
very soon, if ever; by persisting in vot-
ing the Prohibition ticket the election
turned against the better party, and
q party Of lower moral rank won.
after we had listened to this irate
man as long as it seemed virtuous to
do so we sought the privilege of ask
ing three questions: Was the cause of
temperance declining or ascending?
He replied most positively, in the as
tendency What were the evidences?
To which he replied at length. We
then asked what had brought about an
increased agitation of this subject.
With half smile and the other half
frown, this man replied: oh, you Pro
hibitionists, of course. You would not
keep still You would not be put
down. You have kept it up until al
most every one is thinking and talk
ing about it
"Au we care to say here is that If
one-half the credit that man gave to
the Prohibitionists is due them they
are among the greatest benefactors of
the country. The only way. to pro-
woke the people Of the country to even
think along the line of temperance re-
form is for ProhibitiOnists to hold
tenaciously to their one point-the ut
ter and eternal destruction of the legal
lied LIQUOR traffic"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
State Hospital Suggested.

What to do with Mississippi's histori-
cal old state house, that has stood at the
head of Capitol street since the early
'4O's, is an ever-recurrent question that
hobs up serenely at each legislative SEES
sion, and is now a topic of considerable
discussion throughout the State. i. S.
Rogers, member of the lower house from
Holmes county, and chairman OF the
committee on public health and quaran-
tine in that body, is emphatically in
favor of converting the old capitol build
ing into State hospital, and it is stated
that he will introduce bill with this end
in view at the next session.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
Mississippi Did Not Celebrate.

The observance OF the nations birth
day throughout Mississippi was very
quiet and uneventful affair. There was
a general suspension of business, but the
public exercises of jubilation were few
and far between, and the events of this
character Fer which plans had been made
were rather poorly attended, owing to
the intense heat. In the agricultural dis
tricts of the State the farmers forgot"
the nations birthday, being too busy
getting their crops cut of the grass to in
dulge in public celebrations.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-16
Would Enforce Burning.

Hon. Isaac n. Moses, representative
in the state legislative from Adams
county, and the Natehez section there
of, is heartily in favor of the enactment
of law that will compel all farmers,
tenants and others to burn their cotton
stalks Just as soon as the cotton is all
gathered, and would urge on all officers
of the law to see to its rigid enforce
ment. The white farmers have shown
disposition to burn their stalks, but
very large number of the negro ten
arts nave been Indifferent.