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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-02-02
Sometimes

II frequently happens nowadays that
the prodiEsl son returns m bis hume
Tor the express purpose n inviting Ire
old man out 70 a first class square
meal-Puck.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-02-02

Some q TIE Mexican roaes planters
claim TO have iHcress-d the annual
Yield u trees frum leo fo fu-nty
pounds b. feriiizing fh- Ground
ksarily am ord.naIg stabls manure
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-02-02
His l. little Jest.

This" said the low comedian, in
the banquet scene, as the servant re-
moved the papier-mache charlotte
russo, is the only dinner in which the
supe comes after the dessert
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-02-02
Earnns or Starvation.

1t is now alleged that lettuce cab
bage and similar vegetables are germ
conveying. You can take your choice
between germs and starvation.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-02-02

Harduppe Go Richboy) DO you
know, really believe I'm losing my
nerve? I'm getting so | hate to ask
any one for loan As soon as ] saw
you ! began to traable.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-02-02
Which

a Chicago magistrate ordered
man not to speak TO his wife or per
NIT her to speak to him for two weeks.
Problem; Was the man convicted or
acquitted?
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-02-02
sun and Moon.

Sun will rise today. ..e.,N1:le a. M
Sun will set today. .... SIS p. m.
Moon will set tonight. 5.27 a. m.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-02-02

fNote: i The above sun and moon
record is for illinois and approx
mates the record at Cairo within a
few minutes.l
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
Who Is Father of the American Navy?

to their respective merits in the COM
petition for the honor of being the
father of the navy"
Some time ago it was proposed to
place these statues face to face on
single site, but that was opposed by
the adherents Of the heroes Many
sites have been suggested, but up to
the present time there has been no
action looking to a settlement of the
question. The statue of John Paul
Jones is now under way and a compe-
tition will soon be entered upon to de-
eide who will be the favored sculptor
for the making of the statue of Barry.
Work is now in progress for stat
lie of Gen. Grant to be erected west
of the capitol grounds, but this will
not be completed before two years.
Next spring statues of John With
erspoon, signer of the declaration of
independence, and OF Longfellow, the
poet, will be presented to the govern
ment by memorial associations, and
they will be erected in this city.
Other statues which have been pro-
vided for by congress and will be
erected here in the near future are
those of Won Steuben, Pulaski and
KOSciuSkO
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
Military Pomp to Attend Inauguration

Sheridan's marching hosts in the
spring of 1865.
The United States troops are to be-
gin the homeward sailing from Cuba
soon. The soldiers will return reg
iment by regiment, and 1t Is De-
lieved that several of the organiza-
lions will reach this country so close
to the time of the inaugural ceremon-
les that they probably may be ordered
to the capital
Some of the picturesqueness of the
Roosevelt inaugural will be missing.
1t is understood that there will be no
rough riders present. Four years ago
they not only added much to the
parade as parade, but they added a
great deal of joy to the inhabitants.
Some of them were new to the ways
of the capital city civilization and
broke the conventionalities in a whole
hearted and perfectly inoffensive way.
The Flying Ninth" the black troop
ers of Col. Guy Henry's old command,
the men who followed him on
the trail of the Sioux and rocked
nothing of hard riding, semi-starva-
ton and wounds and death, are not
to lend color and their personally
proper pride to the pageant. There
will be gallant cavalry regiments
present, however, regiments that have
fought in Cuba, in the Philippines and
on the western Dlains.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
What Whisky Money Will Buy.

The following card made into blot
ter, signed by dozen grocery firms
of Delaware, O., has proved very eff
fective in the no-license campaign:
"Any one who drinks three glasses of
whisky day for one year and pays
ten cents a drink for 1t can have in
exchange at any of the firms whose
names appear on this card: Three bar
rels of -four, 20 bushels of potatoes,
200 pounds graduated sugar, one bar
rel crackers, one pound pepper, two
pounds tea, so pounds salt, 20 pounds
rice, so pounds butter, ten pounds
cheese, 25 pounds coffee, ten pounds
candy, three dozen cans tomatoes, ten
dozen pickles, ten dozen oranges, ten
dozen bananas, two dozen cans corn.
10 boxes matches, one-half bushel
beans, 100 cakes soap, 10 packages
rolled oats for the same money and
get $3.50 premium for making the
change in his expenditures"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
Stories of Taft's Secretary of State

came attorney general. Mrs Roose-
welt was invited to ride behind them
and as Mr.. Knox was driving away
from the White House the group Of
newspaper men fell to specializing as
to why one of them had not had his
wits about him enough to ask the
names of the horses. One of the party
said their names were Highball and
Siphon. A serious minded chap there
upon wrote story about it and seat
it to his paper. When II Appeared
Knox was very angry and the upehcA
Of it was retraction by the news
paper.
Another story that angered Knox
was to the effect that he had told the
late Senator Hoar that of course he
had quit the employ of the Carnegie
Steel Company before accepting Presi-
dent McKinley's offer of the attorney
generalship He regarded it as an insult
to Mckinley to imply that he would
appoint man who would consider II
necessary to give assurance that he
had observed the ethics of the profess
sion.
Senator Knox bought his magnifi.
cent home in Washington from Mrs.
G. w. Childs. 1t is one Of the finest
houses in Washington and is we'll
adapted for receiving the diplomatic
corps on New Years day, according
to custom
Mrs. Knox is considered one of the
most charming women in official life.
Her entertainments are among the
most elaborate in Washington.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
YOUNGSTERS TAUGHT TO SMOKE.
Two Centuries Ago English Children
Carried Pipes to School.

The practice of juvenile smoking in
this country in the seventeenth CEN
fury was practically universal, says
the London Chronicle Jorevin de
Rochefort, a French traveller of that
period, in an account published in 1871
gives a description of an evening he
spent in Worcester. He was catechised
by one of the townsmen as to the hab-
its of the French people. while we
were talking about the town." he
writes, "he asked me if it was the
custom in France, as in England, that
when the children went to school they
carried in their satchels with their
books pipe of tobacco which their
mother took care to fill early in the
morning, it serving them instead of
breakfast, and that at the accustomed
hour every one laid aside his book
to light his pipe, the master smoking
with them and teaching them how to
hold their pipes and draw their to-
bacco, thus accustoming them to 1t
from their youths. believing 1t abso-
lutely necessary for a mans health"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15

G ENATOR PHILANDER CHASE
- KNOX, slated for secretary of
state, is one of the most delightful
men socially to be found anywhere.
Golf, automobiling and driving are his
outdoor recreations. Billiards and
reading furnish indoor amusement.
When Mr. Knox came to Washing
ton as attorney general his reputation
as corporation lawyer caused it to
be assumed that he was one of the
gruff, brusque kind. Instead of a
grumpy curmudgeon, he was revealed
as polite, dapper little man who Of
fered his callers fine cigars and start
ed conversation as if he intended tell
ing his Utmost thoughts and furnish
ing diagrams of all he contemplated
doing and how he would do each
thing.
"Of course" he said, when the con-
versation got around to the point
where real interesting things were
coming out, Il am talking to you gen
tlemen personally, not in your jour
nalistic capacity"
The standard Washington story
about Knox concerns the pair of road
sters he brought here after he be-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
Next Social Secretary of White House

One of her prominent pupils was.
Mrs. John r. Mclean, and 1t is under
stood that Mrs. Mclean was instru-
mental in obtaining for Mrs. Relyea
the position at the White House for
which hundred social secretaries in
Washington have yearned Mrs. Rel.
yea was appointed to the war depart.
ment from Connecticut on July 8, 1907.
She is woman of culture and has
wide acquaintance among the social
colony, not only in Washington. but
in New York and Newport. She is the
widow of Albert Relyea, formerly a
chief of division In the treasury de-
partment, who committed suicide sew
eral years ago.
Never before in the social history
had the position of social secretary at
the White House been so important.
The privileges of the office increased
and the only one which has not been
accorded Miss Hagner up to date, for
the reason that it has been against
all social and official precedent, is that
of assisting Mrs. Roosevelt in the blue
room in receiving her guests on for.
nal occasions.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15

WASHINGTON. = William Howard
w Taft is to have greater military
pomp and circumstance attending his
Inauguration than had Theodore Roose-
velt
The governor of every state in the
union has been asked by the inaug-
ural committee to send brigade Of
troops to take part in the great pro-
cession up the avenue, and it is inti-
mated that what Washington wants
in the way of state troops is quality
rather than quantity. Crack organ
izations only need apply.
An enthusiastic member of the in
augural promotion body says that
there will be present in Wash
ington on March 4 next, 10000 more
regular troops than appeared when
Mr.. Roosevelt rode to the capitol four
years ago. He insists that Wash
ington will be a great camp of regu-
lars and guardsmen in the early
spring, greater camp than it has
been since the residents entertained
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
A Fine Distinction.

Attorney General Stirling has just
docketed for argument in the Supreme
Court very interesting case coming up
from Adams county, involving fine dis
tinctiOn between a warehouse and .
wharfboat.
A citizen of Natchez owns three-story
warehouse, built on stills ON the Missis-
sippi river, where steamboats, land and
discharge freight, which is stored in the
identical manner as in a wharfboat. The
sheriff demanded of him the payment of
the statutory privilege license tax of
800 required of wharfboats, but he pro-
tested that he did not have wharfboat,
but warehouse. The privilege tax on
warehouses is only $50, but the sheriff
believed this to be intended for another
kind of warehouse, and not for one which
really took the place of wharfboat.
The sheriff won in the lower court, but
the owner appealed to the Supreme
Court, which will have to decide when
is. q warehouse not a warehouse" or
what is wharfboat ?"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
CUPID MUST FIGHT RED TAPz.
Ludicrous Mistake in French Law
Hard to Correct.

Curious difficulties occasionally be-
set young people who wish to marry
in France. A young Frenchman pro-
posed recently to a Mile Eugene,
and was accepted. The parents be-
gan collecting the mass of legal pa
pers required for French marriages.
Among the first to be obtained was
Mdlle. Eugenie's birth certificate, and
when they got it they found that she
was registered a boy. She is put
down in the big book as a male, and
a male she remains legally and admin
istratively.
Her parents pointed out first, that
she was obviously, de facto, a girl;
second, that the Christian name of Eu-
genie entered in the register was fem
mime; and third, that If she had been
boy she would already have been
called up for the CONSUMPTION, being of
age. The authorities replied that none
of these arguments were legally and
Enthusiastically valid, and that she
continued to be boy
Administrative reports, procedure,
and decision of the courts, all at
the parents expense, will be required
before the law acknowledges Mdlle.
Eugene to be of the feminine sex and
allows her to marry.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
How to Wash Silk Handkerchief

In washing silk handkerchief care
should be taken to prevent its turning
yellow. 1t should never be boiled nor
have any soap rubbed on it. Make a
lather of finely shredded white soap
and water, wash and squeeze the
handkerchief in it, press out all the
moisture possible and dry quickly in
the sun. Iron 1t while it IS still damp,
but not wet. White silk handkerchiefs
used as neckties are sometimes clean
ed very we'll with dried and powdered
starch In which little powdered blue
has been mixed. The handkerchief is
spread over a clean linen cloth. With
n pad of clean white linen powder is
rubbed over the silk, then busted out
Iron with a moderately hot iron Two
folds of slightly damped linen are laid
over the silk on the right side. This
brightens it considerably
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
Improve State Guards.

Should the plans discussed and tenta-
lively agreed upon by the officers of
the National Guard be carried to fulfill
ment, it will mean vast improvement
in the rank and file of the States citi-
zen-soldiery. 1t is intended to inaugur-
ate a system of physical examinations
of officers and enlisted men, and this
work will be under the direction of Col.
Chas LeBaron, surgeon-general. Com
mencing March Is, inspections will be
started. and it is hoped that Maj. Dan
forth, of the Seventeenth infantry, will
be detailed for this survice, as formal
request is te be made. Col. j. B. Nc
Farland and the regimental officers will
accompany the inspection officer in or
der that the former may be themselves
instructed and more thoroughly posted
thereby.
It was decided to accept the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College band
as part of the guard and to arrange for
the general State encampment, from
July IL to "a, and to ask that either
the whole or battalion of the Seven
teerth infantry be detailed for service
on that occasion.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
ACTED UPON BY SUGGESTION
That Thought May Produce Blister OF
Hand, Is Medical Fact.

1t is not generally known that
thought may produce blister on the
hand or an ulcer on the foot, as well
as many other actual physical
changes in ones organism which are
little short of miraculous. l have no
doubt that st. Francis Of Assist re-
ceived the stigmata of the crucifixion
on his hands and feet as historically
described. have no doubt, because
its possibility has been put to the
proof within. the past few years, and
by friend of mine whom will name.
Prof Kraft Ebing of Vienna told a
young woman he would place small
fly plaster upon her which would pro-
duce a blister in few hours. He
actually only put postage stamp
upon the skin, without her knowledge,
and covered 1t over SO securely with
bandages that she could not interfere
with it. The blister appeared as sus
gested.--Frederick Peterson, M. D.. In
Golfers.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
HOW BEETHOVEN BECAME DEAF
Injured in Excess. of Anger Caused by
lmportunate Tenor.

Beethoven gave the following &C
count of how he became deaf TO
Charles Neate:
II had to deal with a tiresome and
capricious tenor. / had already writ
ten two great arias to the same words,
neither of which pleased him, and also
a third, which he did not care for the
first time he tried 1t, but which he
took away with him. was thanking
heaven that / was rid of him and had
settled down to something else when
in less than an hour l recognized his
knock at the door.
81 sprang up from my table in such
a rage that as the man came in at the
door ] flung myself on the floor as
they do on the stage / fell on my
hands, and when got up / found l
was deaf. The doctor said / had In
jured the nerves"
Lovers of the great master can oc-
cupy themselves thinking OF things
they would like to do to the luckless
tenor.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
Distribution of School Fund.

After several weeks of working and
figuring, and delays occasioned by wait
ing on individual county reports in or
der to arrive at the true basis per capita,
State Superintendent Powers has finally
been able to figure out the approximate
basis for the January distribution of the
1909 common school fund. The calcula-
tions place the amount available at
$3.50 1894. These figures will be sub
mitted to the auditor of public accounts,
who will issue the warrants about JAN
uary 1s, which is the time specified by
law, SO that the tax collectors and the
State treasury will be enabled to get
in that much more cash in order to meet
the big draft.
The leading counties in this years
distribution, according to the official
figures, are: Yazoo, $1s,75S.2O; Monroe,
$17,792.6S; Lauderdale, $17,625.34;
Holmes, $17,545.46; Kinds, 6,531.O6;
Washington, $1s,212.72 Noxubee, $751;
559.6s; Lincoln, $14,346.O2. These fig
ures represent the distribution for the
county schools outside the separate dis
tricts, there being in some counties as
many as six or seven separate districts,
each of which receives its apportion-
ment,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
ADVICE FOR YOUNG GIRLS.
How TO Plan For Christmas Presents
For Men Friends.


No man likes to be under material
obligations to woman. II the couple
are engaged 1t is question of what
she can afford to give more than what
she should not give him. If the man
is not engaged to a girl, but Is very
attentive to her and has been In the
habit Of sending her books, candles or
flowers, then she should remember him
at Christmas by some slight gift.
She must be governed by his per-
sonal environment and his tastes, and
she must not make her gift too per-
sonal. She must remember that a
girls attitude to man to whom she Is
not engaged is q delicate one, and she
must make her gift to him with this
in mind. There are two things she
must never send him-fancy work and
her photograph. The former he does
not want; the latter he should not
have
The following list may help a girl to
make up her mind, says the Delineator
for December: An umbrella with
handle Of wood, it's only ornament; if
she wants to put the money in it, a
silver plate with his full name and ad-
dress engraved on it; pair of military
brushes in ebony, with initials in sill
yer; a half dozen linen handkerchiefs
with his initials in the corner; a sim
pie silver photo frame; leather card
case or bill book in plain color, with
his name and address printed in black
or gold across the inside; soft leath-
er bag, the top run through with a
silk cord, in which he can keep his
clean collars and which is admirable
for a travelling bag; portfolio of
leather with compartments for paper,
stamps, safety ink well and pens.
He may like something for his desk
"a reversible calendar in brass, a
small clock, carved ivory paper cut
ter. brass tipped blotting pad or a
hand blotter. Gloves, silk muller,
knitted cravats and other things he
can wear are permissible if you have
known him from childhood and re-
gard him much as you would a broth
er or cousin. If, however, the girl
is engaged to a man or there is COM
plete understanding between them,
then she is more at liberty in her
choice of articles.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15

THE location in this city of statues
of John Paul Jones and CommO-
dore John Barry, both heralded as the
father of the American navy" by their
respective admirers, will prove diff
ficult task for the special commission
charged with that duty. This commits
sion consists of the secretary of war,
the secretary of the navy and the
chairmen of the senate and house COM
mittees on the library.
For each statue congress appropri-
ated $4,000, but no action has been
taken to decide the controverted ques-
ton relating to the navy's pedigree.
1t is for this reason that the location
of the effigies is regarded as impor-
tant, as the prominence given each of
the heroes in the question of location
is expected to give some indication as
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
How to Prepare Hot Cloths.

If it is necessary to apply hot cloths
to sick person, and very often it is.
there is a good method of having them
hotter than they could be wrung by
hand If they are laid In wooden
bucket Of water and quickly passed
through a small wringer. A child's toy
wringer can be fastened to the bucket
for the purpose. The cloth can be lift
ed with fork and rapidly run through
the wringer. In cases of severe chills
the wet hot cloths bring relief much
more quickly than heat from hot wa
ter bags or bottles and are more sooth-
ing
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
Mississippi Banks Report.

Auditor Smith has just compiled the
figures as reported by all the banks in
the State but one small concern, and
including both State and national banks,
showing the condition of their business
at the close of business on Nov. 81.
The summary of national banks shows
that they have aggregate resources OF
sri 1921 1851, of which $40, 1O9, 406.95
was outstanding in loans and discounts
and $1,495, 932.65 in overdrafts on the
date named The stocks and bonds car
ried amounted to $4,572, 446.37, due from
other banks was $2,65S,e1O.69, while
cash on hand amounted to 81 ,574 ,215.26.
The thirty national banks are doing
business on capital stock of $3,3S0,O00
and surplus of SLIPS, 1929, while undi-
vided profits on the date named amount
ed to $536,7s7sO. The individual de-
posits subject to check were $1O,965,-
552.S3 and time certificates of deposit
ss66,72S.61.
The total resources of all banks, State
and national, was $S4,741, 1887, loans
and discounts carried amounted to $49,-
719,69s14, and due from other banks,
$12,01s,S 37.s9.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15

Attention has recently been directe
to the number of trees in Glasgo'
which are in dying state, their sic.s
y condition being attributed to smoke
A correspondent mentions singul~
coincidence in regard to five trees
which a John Pattison planted in the
center of his garden in Kelvingrove
on The birth of his five sons. Two of
his sons died early in the nineteenth
century, but three lived till after 1850.
when there were only three of the
trees standing. On the night that his
son Mathew died one of the trees
FELL and on the night of Frederick
and Johns death fsomc years be-
tween) one of the trees fell, certain
ly, as the writer remarks, singular
coincidence Herald.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
How to Keen the Stove BRIGHT

An easy way to keep the stove shin
ing Is to buy paint brush to keep the
hands from coming in contact with the
polish and have a polishing brush that
is made especially for stoves Apply
the polish with the paint brush while
the stove lukewarm. Allow it to dry
and then polish. A beautiful shine will
be the result without much time or
labor. Mix the polish to the consist
ency Of thick cream with soapsuds.