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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25
A Curious Catch.

One day." said an old fisherman
Il was out fishing under the trees, on
the banks of Lake Kessawanganga-
nolloechee, and had been rather I'M
successful, having landed only few
small fry.
81 was about making up my mind
to pack up my traps and start for
camp, when l fel' strong pull on
the line that nearly took me off nay
feet. Here's a good one, thought L,
and / played out the line and reelcd
in for half an hour or more till finally
l could see the beauty through the
clear, limpid water a few feet away
Then I lifted the pole with excite
ment over my catch. But 1 was rath-
err too strenuous. He rose in the
air, but somehow the line parted
about foot from the hook and the
momentum carried the fish high
among the branches.
Just at that moment he gave L
gasp, and when his jaws came to-
gether they gripped a small branch
like a wise and there he hung by his
teeth 20 feet above me, suspended in
the air and glistening in the sunlight.
What a beauty, l declared, and de
termined he should still be mine, so
l began climbing the tree and work
ed my way out on the branch, inch
by inch.
when about TO reach out to grasp
hp 7 Id f11rt NJ
wings ard an enormous hawk darted
down, seized the prey and was eff in
an instant. To say that I was disap-
pointed would be putting it mildly,
but there was nothing 10 do but DIES.
cend to the ground and l did so with
a sad heart and saw my prize disap-
pearing in the distance.
81 went slowly toward the camp dis
couraged over the days work. My
partner Sam, who was getting the din
ner ready, said he had a surprise fer
me, and when the time came he
brought on about the finest specimen
of trout that | had ever seen, eS
cepting mine, Of course.
"1e asked me how I liked his isl
and l told him l was charmed with
it. Then he said, I hooked that faf
low in rather a curious way ! was
sitting there on the rock, smolin
my cigar, when a. big hawk flew .oTe
my head, and, grabbing my gun
brought him down and what d. yoo
think? You will never believe it, bu'
that hawk had, wound around his lo.
a piece Of fish line and on the eo
was the speckled beauty you JIG
just eaten, fresh out of the we'c
and without'a scratch on him. De
ton Journal.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25
Exhibition of NIarrinrc.

About the fact that polyandry. or
the marriage of one woman TO sew.
eral men, was once Il widely estah-
lished usage there is no room for
doubt. Caesar found it in Britei1
and Tacitus is authority for the
statement that it was pracice3
among the Germans of the early
times. 1t is impossible to be exact
about the chronological order Of the
various forms of marriage. in az
probability the primitive state o.!
man was one in which marriage did
not exist, except in its plural ch~"ac-
ter, when all the men and women az
the community were regarded as
equally married to one another. Then
probably came polyandry, followed
by polygamy, which was finally re-
placed by the present FORM sys-
TEN which may we'll be called re
cent" in comparison with the length
of time that human society has eX-
listed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25

Play is work that you don't have
to do.
Never hide travelling man whose
waistcoat is more insistent than his
personality.
Don't rise so high in your calling
that you see only one side of your
fellows.
It's true that marble statue has
no faults, - but then it has no
friends, either
There are plenty Of doors labelled
Pull but the majority, after all
bear the legend Push"
There are self-made men in this
world who ought to be suffering
from Warwick James
Price in Lippincott's.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25

The Houston (Tex) Business league
has adopted some novel ideas as re.
CARDS its letterheads. The envelopes
and letterheads used for correspond.
ence within the city are replete with
number OF quotations estimated to
enthuse the people OF Houston with
pride in their city. Among these
quotations are the following: Build
and Boost" use the Ship Channel"
mot for Self, But for ALL What
Helps Our City Helps YOU Greater
Prosperity Through a Greater Hous.
ton" Build More Factories and In.
crease the Tin Bucket Brigade" The
letterhead used for out-of-town work
is altogether different 1t talks Of
and not to, Houston. Where seven.
teen railroads meet the sea-" is the
burden of the tale it carries. 1t tells
in statistics of Houston-now and fu.
ture. Down at the bottom it all ends
"a City of Unlimited Manufacturing
Opportunities. Come and Blow Your
Whistle With U.s."
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25
NEW ERA IN ADVERTISING
Following System in Getting Pub.
LEFTY Now the Generally
Accepted Method.

The Topeka Ad. club was addressed
recently by A. G. Samuel of st. 10
seph, Mo. Mr. Samuel took for his
subject 1.-THE New Era in Advertising, "
and said in part:
"The new era in advertising, which
is just commencing, is one of educa'
ton for the public. Formerly adver'
Using was carried on by advertisers
and publishers for immediate results.
Now the field is developing into one
of education for the public, and the
people are being taught to buy more
and better goods. Special brands and
special lines of all kinds of mer.
chandise are being put on the market
and the public is being instructed In
their qualities and various uses.
advertising is being reduced to a
system and the best systems are
showing the best returns for the
money invested. When a man decides
to advertise he now adopts a system
and follows it to the whole extent OF
his appropriation for publicity, at the
same time keeping a record of the re-
turns. A mans appropriation should
never be less than ten per cent. of his
income. Such money invested is now
looked upon as being reinvested in
business. In former years it was
looked upon as money spent outside
the business
THE farmer is the biggest field fol-
advertisers and too much attention
cannot be paid to the literature that is
sent to him in working up trade
Farmers have become critics of bust
ness methods and the future literature
used by firms doing business with
them will be written by men of genius
and will be real literature, not the
hodge podge that has been used in
the past
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25
I; "
AE2:Es''lIZpRE
= @GNA
ALCOHOL AND RACE SUICIDE
Views OF Strong Drink
and Its Effects.

In an address at Philadelphia, DR..
7. A. MacNicholl, surgeon at the Red
Cross hospital, New York, presented
this striking comparison in the study
of two separate groups OF families;
Through a long line OF successive
generations l have made a study OF
two separate groups of families. One
group, children of drinking parents;
one group Of children OF abstaining
parents.
IN ten families Of drinking habits
there were So children. Thirty died
in infancy, three Of heart disease,
four were insane, seven were anaemic,
eight were tuberculous, one had dia-
betes, three had very poor teeth, three
had adenoids. Only four of the num-
Der were normal. OF the total, tive
were excellent, six were fair, and sew
en- were deficient In their studies.
In ten families of abstaining par.
ents there were 70 children. Two died
in infancy, two were neurotic ana
anaemic, one had rheumatism, one
was tuberculous, and GA were normal
In study, So were excellent, 10 we're
fair, only two were deficient.
"Of the children of total abstaining
families, 80 per cent were normal; OF
the total Of children of drinking par.
ents, SO per cent were abnormal.
eighty per cent Of the children Of
regular drinkers have commissions
while teething. Of children dying
from such diseases as measles, whoop-
ing cough, scarlet fever, and other in.
fantile disorders, a large percentage
are children of drinking ancestry"
DR.. T. j. Mays, specialist in con.
sumption, Philadelphia, in his address
before the semi-annual conference Of
the American Society for the Study OF
Alcohol and Other Drug Narcotics, de.
clared that inebriety was very closely
associated with consumption. The
former destroyed the vitality of the
body and permitted disease germs to
gather and grow in the lungs. In.
ebriety and consumption are twin dis,
eases, the one following the other.
The disease germs Of the latter would
not flourish in the lungs if the brain
and nervous system were strong
enough to throw them off. Alcohol
not only frequently causes tubercu.
losis, but there are many cases where
the children Of drinkers develop the
white plague. A consumptive patient
frequently presents himself, in whom
the most diligent search fails to re.
veal the slightest trace Of family con-
sumption. The condition is frequent
ly found in the young, especially in
girls, who, after careful inquiry, are
found to have a father or mother, OF
sometimes both, who had been tip,
piers Of alcohol.
Children of alcohol parents are
from 200 to 26O per cent more liable
to consumption, and from 900 to COO
per cent more prone to nervous dis
eases than are children of abstemious
parents.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25

Although one of the rlin charac-
teristics Of the famous Dr. Alternately
was the readiness with which he
could administer sharp and witty
retOrt when occasion arose, he was
once considerably nonpl ged by the
lemark of medical stu e2t
What would you do" the d 'ccor
asked the student at an examination
'if man was placed il your hands
with a broken leg?'
"set it, SIR" was the reply.
Good, very good you are witty
young man; and doubtless you can
tell me what muscles of the body ]
would move if | were tc lick you. as
you deserve, for yoIr impertinence"
"You would put into notion" re-
piled the student, not in the least
abashed, 1.-The fexors and extensors
of my right arm, for | would forth
with knock you down. "-Tit-Bits.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25

An unprecedented state of affairs
prevails in the Scottish distilling in.
'stry.
1t L.. lust been announced that the
North British d. 'illery is to be closed
down. This makes the fourth large
grain distillery which has ceased Cd.
erations in Scotland during the past
month or two.
At the annual meeting of the Distill
ers' company, limited, the predominant
producing concern, it was reported by
the chairman that their stocks had in.
creased by more than $250000. He
foreshadowed the possibility of having
to close down one or more distilleries
permanently, and stated that such a
contingency had already been provided
for by writing down their value.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25

sending many industrial missionaries
men and women trained In the indus
trial colleges They are training the
heather In the arts of agriculture and
industry and are making better Chris
tians Of them than has ever been done
before. If men of this type could be
placed in the country churches of this
nation the moral life of the land
would be revolutioniZed.
| do not mean that agriculture need
be preached from the pulpit. although
that may be admissible on occasion.
In the spring of 1910 Iowa faced a
seed corn famine. An early freeze the
fall before destroyed the vitality of a
large share of the seed corn while it
was still In the fields. AS planting time
approached 1t became evident that I'M
less something unusual were done the
greater share of the cornfields of the
state would be planted to corn that
would not produce more than frac-
ton Of a stand. Twenty per cent of
the best corn in the state, which was
shown at corn show at the agricul-
tural college in January. was abso-
lutely dead. Tests of ordinary seed
over the state showed that not more
than 25 per cent of the average seed
was capable of producing strong stalks.
In this crisis the extension department
of the college. among other things.
sent out letters to nearly all the coun-
try preachers in the state asking that
they preach sermons on the Importance
of testing seed corn and throwing out
the bad ears. A few of the preachers
were insulted by the suggestion, con-
sidering that such a course would be
a proclamation of the church. But more
than 400 preachers prepared sermons
in accordance with the suggestions
and delivered them. A better text
could not have been desired The anal
ogy between seed corn and men was
easily drawn, and from the idea of
testing seed corn 1t was an easy step
to the thought of how men must be
tested The most powerful sermons
given in many of the country churches
in Iowa that winter were those with
seed corn for theme In addition. the
preachers had the satisfaction Of know
ing that they had q part in adding to
the material as well as to the spiritual
welfare Of their communities.
This case is an exception but it illus.
trates the point. Mere often the pas
tors agricultural knowledge will stand
him In good stead outside the church
door. 1t will give him an understand
ing of nature that will be reelected in
his sermons and will reach the hearts
OF his people IN a way that a sermon
laden with the spirit of the paved
streets never could do. The pastor
who calls on one of the farmers In
his community and talks with him in
diligently regarding his work. perhaps
giving him some helDful suggestions
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25
THE DRUMMER's HAzAaps.
Some of the Chances Against Which
He Is Insured.

There is an insurance company
which does business with commercial
travellers. In its literature appears
list of the risks on which the com
pany paid.
"A commercial traveller as a usual
thing is very lucky indy dual, but
they do meet with accidents and they
cannot stop them," says the an
nouncement.
Then are appended the following:
Divorced wife requested him to
call. He did and as a result had
acid thrown in his face, causing
severe burns. Disabled twenty7six
weeks, $3.50.
While putting on new shirt pricked
and scratched by pin. Infected
wound. Disabled three weeks, SIS.
Acting as peacemaker in a quar-
rel, was assaulted. Disabled one
week, four days, $39.2S.
Sealing envelope, corner struck
him in the eye. Disabled one week,
six days, s4G.42.
1NuH luNo LIS WlLSi WIN was carry
ing roast chicken, burned foot with
gravy. Disabled two weeks, $50.
While asleep dreamed he was being
attacked, struck wall, fractured bone
in hand. Disabled six weeks, $3.50.
Extracting pin from mouth Of mon
key, monkey bit him. Disabled one
week, $3.50.
Getting out of bed fell against
sideboard, fractured rib Disabled
four weeks, five days, $11785.
At masquerade ball attempted to
take off mask, ran finger into eye.
Disabled three weeks, SIS.
Shaking hands with muscular
friend. Disabled one week, three
days, S35.71
Wife rubbing head with alcohol
dropped some in eye. Disabled one
week, $25.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25

IhorWaldsen was Dane, born in
Copenhagen, Denmark. 1t is hard
10 answer your question about his
greatest work. He worked along
various lines-that of the classic
mythology, that of religion and that
OF history, and the question you raise
would be answered differently by diff
ferent people. One might saw that
MS chief work" was the Mars. :"
another "The Twelve Apostles" and
stlll another the Lion of Lucerne "
Pretty nearly everything that Thor
waldsen did was great,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25
Memory of Animals

"The elephants memory is pro-
verbal" said F. Martin Duncan, T..
q. s., at the New Gallery Photo
graphic Exhibition, "but that of 9TH
er beasts of the jungle is hardly less
noteworthy"
Tigers in captivity always remem-
Der kindness and recognize friend
even after the lapse of months. Lions
which have been in geological gar
den for years have also been known
to show signs of abject fear when
visited by native hunters from the
country where they had their early
home.-London Daily Mail.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25

THE ORWARDNESS OF AD-
VERTISING.
Rv Riohard Wiqhtman.

In advertising, as In life itself,
the best is yet to be. Some adj
vertising succeeds because 1t is
pretty good, and some in spite
of the fact that 1t is pretty bad.
An effective advertisement has
occasionally been written, a per-
feet advertisement never. And 1t
can't be done. This isn't
against the craft, but In ia
vor of it. 1t is no fun
trying to beat something that
can't be beaten. When cham
pion is unlickable, pugilism
halts. The greatest possible foe
of progress would be perfection.
The lure to better things In ad-
vertising is the fact that better
things can be done, and that
better things need to be done.
Publicity is an on-and-on propo-
sition. Yesterdays standards
are obsolete. Today is fair, but
tomorrow will be fine and the
day after finer. In no depart
ment of human endeavor Is the
scent for achievement keener
than in advertising. There the
vital striver gets something
more than victuals; he gets vic
tory over Indifference and preju-
dice-also the verve and vim
which go with the victory. These
help his manhood and add to
the sum of human power. 1t Is
a hard game and good one
with millions of eyes on the
score-board.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25
Not By Snirits Alone.

A red nose is by no means q sign
of drunkenness, and is as common
among teetotalers as tipplers. Indi-
gestion is responsible almost more
than anything else for red noses,
while excessive tea drinking is apt
to play havoc with the complexion
in general and with the nose in par
ticular Sometimes the congested
nose is a sign of some serious disor-
der of the heart, or it may point to
a sluggish circulation. The habit of
inhaling cigarette smoke and putting
it through the nostrils may contrib
ute to the external wealth of color.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25
PASSION FOR GIN DRINKING
Historian Lacky Says Liquor Never
Ceased to BE counteracting In
fluence on Morals.

In his england in the 18th Cen
tuTy," Lacly, the historian, says that
about 1924 the passion for gin drink
ing afected the masses and It spread
with the rapidity and violence of an
epidemic. Small as is the place which
this fact occupies in English history,
it was probably, If we consider all
the consequences which have flowed
from it, the most momentous in the
eighteenth century - incomparably
more so than any event in the purely
political or military annals of the
country. The fatal passion for drink
was at once and irrevocably planted
in the nation. Physicians declared
that in excessive gin drinking a new
and terrible source of mortality had
been opened for the poor Retailers
Of gin hung out signs that their Gus
toners could be made drunk for a pen
ny and dead drunk for two pence, and
that straw was provided free" The
latter referred to the custom Of hav-
ing straw in the cellars on which
those who had grown too drunk to get
home could sleep off their potations.
He goes on to say that, from the
early years of the 18th century gin
drinking has never ceased to be the
main counteracting influence to the
moral, intellectual and physical bene-
FITS that might be expected from in.
crease commercial prosperity"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25
Microbes,

Speaking of the ark" he said, 81
saw a little boy at play with his
Noah's ark the other day. | watched
him put aboard all the people, all
the painted animals, and then ! saw
him place carefully in a sheltered
spot two tiny splinters of wood
What are they, my son?' l
asked.
Them's microbes said he.
1T had never occurred to me be-
fore, but there must, of course, have
been pair of microbes in the ark -"
-Harpers Weekly.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25

COUNTRY PASTOR READY TO DELIVER A
SEED CORN" SERMON.
[From snapshot taken before audience
was admitted
will not need to complain that the men
do not go to church. His visits to
the various families in the neighbor-
hood will be welcomed. and he will
speedily gain an influence that will
make him and the church he repre-
sents powerful factors for progress.
BY cooperating with the teachers
the preacher can do much to help
along the educational work in the
community. By cooperating with the
grange or club he can do much to
promote the social life. Indeed. he
can make the church the social cen
ter of the community. The time thus
spent will not be lost, for he will be
repaid by the cooperation Of the other
leaders in the community in making
the church the moral leIder of the
people.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25

The University Of Missouri has de-
cided to include course in ADVERT.
sing as part of the curriculum of its
school of journalism. The course will
be under the direction of Charles G
Ross, a former st. Louis newspaper
man and assistant professor in the
school of Journalism. Herbert Kauf
man of Chicago will deliver special
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25
Roosevelt Ho,n+ Done rbis

Colonel Roosevelt has perhaps de-
livered greater number of addresses
on greater number of subjects than
any other man who is prominent in
American life today. But he has not
made a speech on one subject with
which he is especially and fortunately
faniliar-the value Of Advertising
Rome IN. Y.) Sentinel.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25
An Echo. Not a Noioa

lie who floats with the current
who does not guide himself accord.
ing to higher principles, who has nc
idea, no convictions-such a man /,
mere article Of the worlds furni.
ture-an echo, not a voice.-Henrt
Frederick Amiel.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25
State Only the Truth.

There are some advertisers who
speak so highly of their wares as to
be almost certain to disappoint those
VINO buy 1t would be impossible to
furnish goods that are equal to some
descriptions we read.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25
A GoIfng Hint.

"Now, what shall I do?" inquired
the beginner, having run through
the gamut of his clubs. "rry kick
ing it," advised his caddie, who had
been an interested spectator of the
orgy.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25

The man who really knows more
than the boss usually gets to be
boss. If he only thinks he knows
more he usually gets fired.-Rich-
ards Poor Almanac. in Salt Lake
Herald
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25

The use of alcohol for propelling
power in automobiles is being dis
cussed. In some cases of speed
mania the suspicion is that there has
been an OYeruse of it.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25

The first thing the eye seizes
upon in an advertisement should
be something of sufficient force
to hold it without effort. 1t
should be short and comprehen-
sive.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25

Some men who turn over a new
leaf find it's just the same on the
other side. boston Post.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25
Deeds Alone COunt.

A good intention will no moro
make truth than a fair mark will
make good shot.-Spurstowe
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25
Confidence.

The surest way to destroy peo-
Pies confidence in you is to contlnu-
ally question the motives of Others
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25

Any advertising is good which
permanently influences business
to the firm promoting the pub
1city. No advertising is good
which compromises the standing
of the firm for the future.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25

GgHE DIRECTORS Of Company concluded that renting
pianos outside where have stores has proved un
profitable and ordered discontinued The result that nearly