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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02
SOUTHERN ITEMS OF INTEREST

Montgomery, Ala.-Thomas Harper
whose body was recovered from the
Alabama river, was a son of Mrs. R
w. King, of Atlanta, who has watched
the stream constantly for the body
since the tragedy March 10.
Locke Cotton Mills Co., Concord. N.
c., awarded contract to rebuild Odell
Mill No. and ordered 10000 spin
dies with 1900 more to follow and
the ultimate capacity to be $4,000
spindles representing an investment
Of 100000.
The st. Charles Land Co., offices in
Chicago, Incorporated with $4OO. O.OOo
capital Tor the purpose of reclaimins
1S.500 acres Of land in St. Charles
Parish, La
Mman Mills, Inman, S. c., have de.
cided 10 install 1850 spindles and
so leoms and has awarded the con.
tra@& % represent an investment OF
about 100000.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02

they had found naked savages. For in
1863 the American board formally
withdrew from the Hawaiian islands,
which it had entered in 1920.
Are the Missionaries Grafters?
There, broadly stated, is one side of
the situation. On the other hand, it
has been charged, by innumeraDle per-
sons and publications, that while the
missionaries to Hawaii pointed the be-
nighted native to mansions in the
skies they at the same time quietly
took possession of the natives earthly
real estate. That the whole island,
even since it has become a territory,
is the private graft of the mission
aries and their sons is an accusation
familiar to almost everybody.
Hawailans Still Worshping Devils.
Even more serious, to my mind, was
the charge made by Prof. William T.
Brigham, director of the famous Bish-
op Museum of Polynesian objects, in
Honolulu. Prof. Brigham has spent a
lifetime in the study of South Sea Is
land history, manners and customs.
He declared to me that the work of
the Christianization and civilization of
the Hawaiian people has been alto
gether superficial, and that, if the
whites were to move out tomorrow
the native would be found restoring
his old affairs and worship the very
next day.
AS proof of this he said that he had
recently found a native judge in one
of the Honolulu courts-I think he
said a United States court-worship-
ing at an old native altar in one Of
the remote parts of the Island of Oahu.
Within a stones throw of the Bishop
museum, where we were talking, was
a broken down altar, which, at the
time of the political overthrow in 1898,
was reestablished, along with some
what general recrudescence of idola-
try throughout the islands. Within
three months, he further said, in the
city of Honolulu itself, native priest
had fallen dead while conducting
heather rites before the altar. The
would catch them also, quickly
bundled up the appliances of idol wor-
ship and carried them to Prof.
Brigham, for they said, he would know
what to do with the devil better than
any other man of their acquaintance.
obookiah and the Haystack.
Before setting down the conclusions
of a hrst-hand investigation of re-
ligious and social conditions on these
islands (Which investigation has in
cluded interviews with thoroughly-in-
formed representatives of all parties,
and a study of great mass of docu-
mentary evidence, available only here)
it is necessary to tell the story of
Obookiah, and of the islands as the
missionaries found them.
The Sandwich islands, as the Ha-
waiian group were named by their dis
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02
vanderIlp Raced Against n...A


Chlcago.-FTank L. VandsrRp. pres
1dent OF the National City Bank @
New York, broke all American raA
road records, according to statements
made by New York Central ofSaiaIs
in an effort to reach the bedside q
his dying mother here, but he los,
the race with death by exactly &
minutes.
Mr.. Vanderlip, in a special train
covered the distance from New YozS
to Englewood, suburb Of tMts city.
in Is hours and minutes, and whsn
ne leaped madly from the TRAIN he
was met with the announcement thaa
s mother, Mrs. Charlotte L. FaadeH
lip, had died.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02
CRISP NEWS ITEMS.

London.-Great Britain loses the
services of its most picturesque ad-
miral, and British private life gains a
figure that has been much in the pub
lie eye In recent years. The sailor
who retires is Admiral Lord Charles
Beresford, who has been in the naval
service half a century.
Albany, Ga.-At a meeting held in
the Offices of the Albany Business
League. the Albany Cotton Mills Com
pany was organized with a paid-up
capital stock Of $25o.O0e, every. dol
lar Of which has been subscribed.
Harrisburg, Pa.-Frederick H. Rich
ardson, wanted in Elmira and New
York for the alleged obtaining of
100000 on false pretense and who
has been fighting extradition in Chi
cago, committed suicide when caught
by the police IN Harrisburg.
Chicago.-"Out OF He'll! Back to
Eden!" That is the exhortation Civ
en- young men of the Chicago Hebrew
institute by Rabbi Isaac I1andman, of
Philadelphia, who declares that He'll
is the city and Eden the farm.
New Orleans.-Edward S Whitaker,
former police inspector of New Or
leans, was lodged in the parish pris-
on to begin serving term of three
months for an assault, which he made
while at the head of tbs police de-
partment. upon the editor of local
newspaper.
Neutrality-suspicious. Francis P. Ere
mont, Fifth United States infantry, is
to be dismissed from the army, as a
result OF his conviction by court-mar-
tiai In Cuba, on the charge of insub-
ordination.
Savannah, Ga.-Former Mayor Her
mann Myers, president of the National
Bank, and connected with many i'm
portant businesses, died in his apart
ments at the DeSoto hotel.
Keatchie, lathe number of nv-
ing children of Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas
Barnes, of this place, was made nine
teen with the birth of son to them.
Washington senators and
representatives were in large majority
among the congressional, callers at
che White House. -
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02
Miners Ask Taft to Arhltrate.

Scranton. Pa.-Reaffirming the de-
mands already presented to the oper-
ators, the anthracite miners voted to
remain at work after April 1, allow
Ing the district executive boards of
the hard coal fields of Pennsylvania
to continue their efforts to get an
agreement satisfactory to the men.
The resolution was introduced by
district officer, and in substance ask
ed President Taft to create a COM
mission similar to the one appointed
by President Roosevelt in 1902.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02
Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)

Honolulu, tt. H. AS "a para
disc of natural beauty, Hawaii IS
of interest to the tourists; but
to the student of religious, social
and political questions it's greatest i'm
portance lies in the swiftness of its
transition from a savage community,
bound by the practice of human sacri7
fee and the allied and. greater curse Of
the taboo, into self-goVerning, order
ly and prosperous community admit
ted into the sisterhood of the Amer
lean union within rs years after the
time it began to emerge from rank
barbarism.
A Complete Product of Missions.
AS widely-heralded completed
product of missions Hawaii has long
been advertised by missionary work
ers. 1t has been said, times without
number, that this is one of the few
places on the globe where the mis-
sionaries. finished their task; leaving
to support and direct themselves as
Christian nation, the people whom,
little more than a generation before,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02

coverer, Capt. Cook, were populated
by race of remote Aryan origin, who
in the sixth century before had been
driven north from the Samoan islands,
over thousands of miles of sea, in
canoes of their own making. AS late
as the thirteenth century they main
tanned relations, mostly warlike, with
the people of the southern Polynesian
archipelago. They never practiced
cannibalism, though human sacrifice
was one of their religious rites. They
were race of unusual vigor, longevity
and comeliness. Their skill, in handi.
craft is attested by the marvellous
feather cloaks once worn by Hawaiian
royalty, and now the almost priceless
possession of a few museums
Such was the stock from which
came the 14-year-old boy, bearing the
eupkonious name of Obookiah, who,
in 1909, was found weeping on the
doorsteps of Yale college. He had
fled from Hawaii, having seen his
parents slain before his, eyes in a
civil war, and had made his way to
America in one of the New England
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02
To Discuss cuba's Future.

Philadelphia.-At a special session
OF the American Academy of Political
and Social Science, held in this city
the subject of discussion was "The
Future of Cuba"
The opening address delivered by
Charles E. Magoon, until recently pro.
viss1onal governor of Cuba General
Leonard Wood, who was governor OF
Cuba during the first intervention pe-
riod, presided at the meeting. Among
the other speakers Alfredo Zayas.
vice president Of Cuba, who is spend
ing short time In the United States.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02

the Armstrong committee such luck
In its investigation of insurance mat
ters. The boards open wide up, and
then deluge one with information upon
his approach. In fact, the considera.
tion which, more than any other, tends
to predispose me, as an investigator
toward the missionary people is the
heartiness and frankness with which
they seem to welcome an investiga-
tion. Without hesitation they have
AFFORDED me every facility for looking
into their work at home and in for
eign lands. They say: Find out the
worst and tell the public, including us.
We want to see the thing with the
eyes of a disinterested observer"
A New Side of College Life.
Picked up in the forest of facts amid
which found myself, is the news that
Yale university has established mis-
sionary lectureship. with Prof. Harlan
P. Beach, an ex-missionary, as incum-
bent; and that Yale, Harvard, Prince
ton and the University of Pennsyl-
vania all now have foreign mission en-
terprises Of their own, manned by
graduates and supported by alumni
and students
On the foreign feld-to make a big
jump-there are now 400 translations
of the Bible. OF native converts the
American missionaries claim half
million, while the total native Chris
tian population of so-called heather"
lands is million and half.
Hard Knocks for the Missionaries.
Quite different are the stories
hear in other quarters. One of the
higher officers of the Pacific Mail
Steamship company assured me, as
one who knows, that "the mission
aries are a lot of grafters. But" he
added, with the characteristic com
mercial spirit of the day, Il do not
want to see their graft stopped, for it
pays us to carry them"
A Hong-Kong merchant aboard ship
declared that "the missionaries are a
pack of scoundrels. They are over
bearing, lazy, pestiferous fellows, re-
cruited only from the very lowest
ranks of society in America and Great
Britain" That last was a little more
than l could swallow, for it went con-
trary to my personal knowledge in
numerous instances. The missionary
may prove to be a bad egg when he
reaches foreign shores; but every col
lege man in the land knows the stock
from which he springs. 1 recalled
while leaning over the rail conversing
with Mr.. Hong-Kong merchant,
that few weeks before had read an
enthusiastic autograph letter from
President Roosevelt to Rev. DR.. Ar
thur H. Smith Gather of the project
of bringing Chinese students to Amer
fcan universitiesl concerning the lat
ter's books on China. A few days
DR.. Smith had been the
presidents guest at luncheon. !
AS matter of candor I may say
that thus far I am having some difi-
Guilty in running down to particulars
the countless charges against the mis-
sionaries. I hope to have better for
tune in foreign lands. AS an illustra-
tion Of my troubles, there is the In
stance Of fellow passenger on the
Trans-Pacific steamer. the wife Of q
Philippine official. She had learned
the nature Of my quest. Il am glad
you are going to get after the mis-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02
Georgia Travellers Association Meet

Athens, Ga.-The Georgia Travel
ers' Protective Association adjourned
after a pleasant annual session. The
officers for the coming year are Jer
ONE P. Eckstein, of Savannah, pres.
ident; James H. Andrews, of Atlanta,
secretary.
Atlanta keeps general headquarters
and Savannah is the place for the
next meeting.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02
centraI Tax casa Settled.

Atlanta.-Tho long litigation which
has been pending about seven years
Avolving the states claim for taxes
On 16.oo0 shares Of the capital stock
sf the Western Railway of Alabama,
ewned BY the Central OF Georgia Rail-
way Company. was settled by the pay
@ent BY the latter company Of $685.
600 in satisfaction of all claims for
taxss against this stock to date.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02

ships which then piled all waters. His
thirst for knowledge and religion at
tracted widespread attention. Samuel
]. Mills, young man who had come
to New Haven from Williams college,
was especially interested in this, lat
est man from Macedonia" and he
took Obool1iah to his own home, at
Torringford.
Mills was a missionary enthusiast.
He was the prime mover in che little
band of Williams students who had
devoted themselves to the cause of
foreign missions, and whose historic
prayer meeting in 1906, under a Will
Jamestown haystack, is regarded as
the beginning of the American foreign
mission enterprise which to-day en-
braces practically all Christian
churches in the land and has made
the American missionary a conspicu.
GUS figure on all the continents and
islands of the earth. Out of that hay
stack meeting-the site is now marked
by a mOnument-grew the American
board, then representing both Congre-
grationalists and Presbyterians.
Obookiah's pleadings pointed to
Hawaii as the first stronghold of
heathenism to be attacked by the new
movement and the young zealots who
were its real leaders. In 1919 a party
of % persons, seven of whom were
wives and five children, set sail for
the long journey around the horn,
their departure being made the occa-
sion for solemn celebrations in New
England. They arrived at the end of
March, to learn that, by a dramatic
coincidence, unparalleled in religious
history, the idols had been burned, the
affairs and the deadly taboo had been
abolished, and that conditions were
most extraordinarily ripe for mission
airy effort
The Romance of the South Seas.
Things had been in a bad way in
the Hawaiian islands. Civil war had
for centuries been the rule, until
Kamehameha the Great, a sort of
dusky Napoleon, had consolidated the
islands under one rule. Vice at its
worst was common and open. Two
thirds of all the children born, it is
estimated, were killed in infancy and
aged parents were often buried alive.
Human sacrifice was an essential part
of the religious system. Stealing was
a fine art; even kings and chiefs kept
servants for the express purpose of
committing theft. Gambling went on
by wholesale. When food was plenti-
full, the native would gorge himself
six or seven times day, even rising
in the night to eat At other times he
would eat but once day, or go hun
cry altogether. Science they had
none; no written language, nor the
least conception of any mode of COM
municating thought but by oral
speech"
Government was oppressive; lands.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02
Suit to Dissolve Oil Trust.

ST. Loufs.-In the circuit court of
the United States for the Eighth ju-
dicial circuit the suit of the federal
government under the Sherman anti
trust law to dissolve the Standard Oil
Company Of New Jersey was called.
The judges who are hearing the argu-
ments are Willis Van Devanter, Will
liam c. Hook, Walter H. Sanborn and
Elmer B. Adams.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02
Kidnapers Restore Willie WhitIa.

Cleveland, Ohio, Mar. 23.-Little
Willie Whitla, who has caused the po-
lice Of the entire country endless wor-
ry since he was kidnapped from school
in Sharon, Pa, last Thursday, was re-
turned to his father at the Hollenden
hotel here last night at $3.50 O'clock
Mr. Whitla admitted that he had
paid $4,000 to the woman in a candy
store, who acted for the kidnapers
Mr.. Whitla believes the woman was
an Italian, but refuses to disclose her
identity.
In compliance with an arrangement
entered into between the kidnapped
boys father and an agent Of the kid
napers here today, the boy was placed
on a street car on the outskirts of the
city and started to the hotel shortly
after o'clock.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02
Negro Hero's Memory Honor.s

Montgomery, Ala-Rsmarkable h~m.
ors were paid to the memory OF Bsb
Goodwin, negro hero, who waa
drowned in the Alabama river MaYoh
IL, while trying to rescue two wtH4s
men. The white men drowned WITH
him. Hundreds of white persons,
men, women and children, took past
In the funeral services, and eight On.
diets of a fashionable military hish
school served as pallbsarex.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02

kOndon--ThS polar regions are
gradually yielding up their secrets to
huaAn perseverance and determine.
tSon, Lieutenant Ernest H. Shackle.
Ton, Of the British navy, who left his
permanent quarters last autumn for q
Sesh to the pole. having succeeded
after an arduous sledge Journey OF
17os miles. which occupied 126 days.
b forging to within Ill miles Of the
soatA pole, or 354 miles nearer than
any former explorer.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02
Liquor and Jealousy Caused Ira.

Liquor and Jealousy Caused Tragedy.
Pittsburg, Pa.-After firing two hu1.
lets at his wife, pointing a revolver
at his mother-in-law, whom she 1T
tempted to help her daughter, ana
trying vainly to get his little dausAtw
out of neighboring house that hs
hight kill her, Harry Smith, aged M
years, sent a bullet through the brain
OF his 6-year-old son Russell, killing
the boy instantly, and then shot him,
self through the head, dying in a few
moments.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02
On the Trail Of the Missionary.

sionaries, and hope you will rip them
up the back" she began, breezily.
1--WE who travel and live out here
know that they are a bad lot" Yet
she could not, when urged, become
more definite, and, although long a
resident of Manila, and an EpiSco-
palian, she confessed that she had
never heard or met Bishop Brent, the
brilliant head of the Philippine mis-
sions of her church.
Good Morals But Bad Manners.
Already I have dim suspicion that
one reason for the antipathy which
many travellers have to missionaries
is to be found in the latter's attitude
toward life aboard ship and in port
cities. The missionary is, infer, often
narrow and intolerant, and desirous of
imposing his standards upon every
body. He is prone to make unman-
nerly remarks about the amount OF
drinking that goes on, seven days a
week, aboard ship. The incessant
gambling, also, of the smoking room
and ship saloons gets on his puritan
ical nerves. He cannot see-and he is
entirely too blunt and inconsiderate,
believe, in expressing this opinion
why practices should be counted good
form aboard ship that are contrary to
the law of the land when ashore. That
is the way he justifies his tactlessly-
aired opinions.
Tourists do not like to have the
narrow standards of the missionaries
thus flung at their heads censoriously;
and they are not likely to form an en-
tirely favorable estimate of their crit
les. ''Too many young missionaries,
said a famous veteran missionary to
me few minutes ago, think that
they must start out by trying to con.
vert the whole ship. They do not try
to mingle socially and congenially
with their fellow passengers. They
acquire an identity rs missionaries,
rather than as men and women"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02

Greenville, s. C.-The weedside
Cotton Mills awarded contracts ksr
buildings and machinery for an add.
tional plant of $4,000 spindles ana
$50 looms, to cost about s5ee, zee.
New Orleans.-Ths Hylss Mineral
Co. was organized at New Orleans.
with a capital stock of $500, zee, Avr
the purpose of developing gaa and on
lands.
Columbus, Ga.-Dr. N. Ashby Joaos,
pastor OF the First Baptist Chursk,
announced that he had desided 10 ae-
cept the call to the First Rapeat
Church Of Augusta. Ga.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Wilmington, n. Gerry Bigford,
q young white farmer and storekeep-
on, was murdered last night by an
assassin. who fred upon him through
o window of his home. Cleveland
Russ and Stillmore Russ, brothers,
were arrested, one of them, it is al
legged, being rival of young Bigford
for the hand of Miss Squires, whom
the dead man was to marry.
Lebanon, Mo-The Rev. M. D.
Johnson shot and killed the Rev. Sol
C1non O'Dell, following q quarrel.
The Rev. Mr.. Johnson is pastor of
the Free Will Baptist church, and
the man he killed was pastor of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church.
WAshington.-There is further in
dication at the white house that Pres
Ment Taft. in making federal appoint
msnts In the south, intends to con-
cult as far as possible the wishes OF
senators from states in which the OF.
Gees are to be filled.
Chicago. - Commission merchants
are up in arms against increases in
freight rates on fruits and vegetables
shipped from the south to Chicago,
made by the Illinois Central railroad,
March /.
Indianapolis.-Th counties, Mont
somery. Greene and Benton, voted
dry in county option elections today.
This makes 81 Of the 80 counties Of
The state dry, S5 by county option
elections, and 20 by remonstrance.
Mobile, Ala, March 2S.-Mrs. Ku-
genia Dodge, wife Of 8. c. Dodge, re-
siding In the suburbs OF Oakdale, was
fatally burned. While In the toilet
Asr clothing ignited from candle and
bsfore the blaze could be extinguish-
Cd she wzB burned black
jackson, Miss.-In several towns of
ahs state movements are being quietly
organized to get rid of the negro post
matters now In ONCE at the close OF
THAR present terms
Americus. Ga.-Tom Adams, the des
Rerado who escaped from Sumter. Jail
Saturday after assaulting Deputy
Sheriff Fuller. was re-captured today
by a posse at the muzxles of several
shotguna.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02
Canned Ham Kills Children

Deals Island, Md-Two children of
Hosea Webster, a merchant of this
town, are dead as a result, 1t is
thought, Of ptemaine poisoning, caused
by eating canned ham, and other
members of the family are in a crit
ical condition, among whom are Mr..
and Mrs. Webster and two daughters,
Dorothy and Esther.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02
One More Confederate Called HON.

One More Confederate Called Homo.
Norfolk, va.-Colonel William B.
lamb. aged 73. soldier, lawyer, editor,
Eaeschant and politician, died. He
was best known as the Hero Of Fort
F9sheT." In the confederate war, when
10 n siege Of three days he held the
tort near Wilmington. N. c.. with 1900
men against the attack of 10000 fed
sral troops on land and 600 guns on
water.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02
Florida Beach Auto Races.

Daytona, Fla, Mar. 23.-With the
firing of the pistol starting the FloFi-
da stock car price class race this
morning the seventh annual interna-
tional automobile races on Daytona
beach began. The opening race will
be followed by twenty-one events,
contested on four days, the last event
of the speed carnival being a bicycle
race on Friday.
1t is expected that all sorts of au-
tomobile, motor cycle, aeroplane and
bicycle records will be broken during
the four day tournament.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02
Acid Eorced Down Her Throat

Vincennes, Ind.-Mrs. Jessie Over
ton Culbertson is dying, as the result
Of having carbelc acid forced down
her threat and her jaws afterwards
securely bound. She was found in
G shed back of her home Revived
for few seconds, she said:
"A man and a W. ~ me
into the woedshsd
thing 4 my IL