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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
ChiIdren's SAVINGS.

Wordsworth lines of the child at
play, "as if his whole vocation were
endless imitation" were recently re-
called by a conversation overheard in
the childrens ward at the John Hop
kins Hospital.
A little girl Of mine, whose role was
that Of nurse, rang an imaginary tele-
phone on the wall to talk to her CON-
panion at the farther end of the room,
who played the part of doctor.
''Hello!" said the nurse. rs this
the doctor?"
yes" answered a deep voice; ''this
is the DOCTOR
''This lady is very SICK" he was in
formed
well, what seems to be the trou-
ble?" bit gruff1y.
"She has swallowed a whole bottle
of :nk!" said the nurse.
The doctor, not Hurried, inquired
what had been done for the patient;
but the nurse, too, was ready in emer-
gencies. She answered.
81 gave her two large pads of blot
ting paper!"
Ben, aged 5, was inclined last au-
tumn to dispute the fact, as taught
him by his father, that God gave him
all he had. After an incredulous Even
those peanuts from the store?" he
yielded to an older mind, and, screw
ing his eyes tight shut, continued his
evening prayer.
After asking a blessing for each
member of the family, he said,-
Thank God for the peanuts and my
express wagon" adding after a slight
pause, "but, oh, Lord, you certainly
did send baby some wormy chestnuts."
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
They Worked on Benches,

The dignifed dame was not really
English, but she had mastered the dia-
lect to some extent.
my nevvew 'Erbert," she said,
wants to marry a school teacher!
Fawncy! A person who works for a
living! To be sure, now that l think
of it, that is not always a disgrace.
You, my dear, write for the press now
and then, am told, but you don't ave
to, you know That is different"
Yes" replied the young person to
whom she was speaking, but / may
be said to have inherited a tendency
to work. My father and grandfather
both worked for living, and they
were not allowed even the luxury of
chair to sit on. They worked on
benches"
Dear mel" exclaimed the dignified
dame, greatly shocked. What did
they-ah-work at?'
well, my father was a judge of the
superior court, and my grandfather
was one of the justices of the United
States supreme court"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
wind and Waves Dashed snip onto
Treacherous Bar.

Marshfield, Ore.-Coos bays shores
are patrolled by searchers for bodies
from the Southern Pacific steamship
Czarina. Twenty-eight lives were lost
when the vessel was dashed by a
heavy sea onto the north spit of the
Coos bar. Only three of the 81 souls
aboard were saved.
The Czarina was bound for Can
francisco from here She lcft port in
the teeth Of a sale but bafo~e she ha |
reached open sea was caught on TIE
troachc-oi,e fo---Ono Of tho --nrr+
-=Jsrfc coasJ-and was =Gf..u,
helpless, broadside to the sea. The
sailors took to the rigging and were
swept to their death, one by one. The
first assistant engineer. K. H. Kensell.
was driven ashore when. a mighty
wave tore him from the rigging. AS he
was tossed toward the land, life
savers pulled him to safety. Captain
J. Dugan and one of his men swan
ashore.
A long and futile fight was waged
to aid the doomed passengers and
crew. bat when morning dawned they
nad Gli been swept from the rigging
and the vessel was breaking up.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
The White Death.

One of the most curious of the nat
ural phenomena peculiar to the Rocky
mountains is the mysterious storm
known to the Indians as "the white
death"
Not many years ESQ party of three
women and two men were crossing a
part of Colorado in a wagon during
the month of February. 1t was de-
lightful morning, very frosty. but with
brilliant sunshine, and the atm osphere
as clear as crystal.
Suddenly one of the women put her
hand to her face and said that she had
been stung; then other members OF
the party did the same thing, but no
insect could possibly live in that tenn
perature.
A moment later they noticed that
the distant mountains were disappear
usual thing for that time of year. They
drove on and in a few minutes a gen.
tie wind began to blow and the air
became filed with fine particles of
something that scintillated like dia-
mond dust in the sunshine.
Still they drove on until they came
to a cabin, where a man signalled
them to stop. With his head all muf-
fed up he rushed out and handed the
driver a piece of paper on which was
written:
Come into the house quickly or the
storm will kill all of you. Don't talk
outside here"
No time was lost in getting inside
and putting the horses under cover,
but in less than an hour the whole
party was seized with violent coughs
and fever, and before the next morn
ing one of the women had died with
all the symptoms of pneumonia. The
others managed to Pal through after
long Illnesses.
Scientists call this phenomena froz-
en- fog, but whence it comes has not
at present been traced.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
mn EMBERS Of the United States SEN
Hk ate showed mnre than ordinary

mn EMBERS Of the United States sem
AVA ate showed more than ordinary
interest in the report from Chicago
that newspaper in that city had re-
ceived letter from a man signing
himself &C. Hodges" declaring he in
tends to blow up the upper branch of
congress with notro-glycerin
Some OF the insurgents are hoping
that &C. Hodges" will put off the pain
full operation until they have had an
opportunity of ''surging." Senator
Tillman says he hopes to be in South
Carolina when the blow off comes
&C. hodges" wrote that physicians
had given him but six months to live,
and that at first he had intended TAX
ing morphine to end his existence
quickly. He changed his plans, he
said, when he read an article charg-
ing that corruption existed in the SEN
ate, and he determined to blow up the
body with nitro-glycerin and kill him
self at the same time.
The letter follows:
ITO the Editor in Chief: | am going
to blow up the congress with nitro
glychein.
My only reason for giving you this
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
Raise Some and Cut Some.

Conspicuous among the events of the
legislative session was the opening of the
way for salary legislation, which has
been under consideration as a leading
topic of discuss for some two years.
The special committee having filed re-
port and under authority from the gov
ernor, a bill was introduced in the house
by StocEett of Wilkinson county, pro-
viding for the specified changes in sal-
aries. and referred to the committee on
fees and salaries. The bill increases the
salary of the governor from $4,000 to
$4,000; the secretary of state from g.
5000 to $4,000; decreases the salaries
of the railroad commissioners from 81
coo to 81 ,500 decreases the salary of
The insurance commissioner from $500
to $4,000, and that of the penitentiary
trustees from 81, OO0 to $1,5G0. The bill
is drafted along the lines of the special
committees report, and it is likely will
develop much opposition, both in COM
mittee and on the floor, since it is
claimed that 1t "equaIizes left-handed."
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
Cost of Railroad Ties.

The railroads of this country are
each year calling for more crossties,
and they are rapidly shrinking in
number and increasing in cost. The
total number of ties purchased in
1907 was 153,699,62O, an increase of
50,865,578 over 1906 The total cost
of the crossties purchased in 1907 was
$78,958, 1896, an average Of 81 cents a
tie. The increase in total cost was,
therefore, $50, ,571, or GIT per cent.
For 1907 the highest average cost, SO
cents, was reported for redwood ties.
Many experiments have been made
with metal ties, with a view of finding
a substitute for wood, but nothing
satisfactory has yet been produced.
Several of the leading roads have
large tracts of trees growing, and man
in dozen years or more may be able
TO supply their own wants. Growing
trees on railroad lands seems to be
the most practical way to provide for
the future.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
GUINNESS FARM MYSTERY.
Confession Of Dying Man Has Throw
Lioht on Laoorte Traoedies.

NOIHCSSIOH " lying wan F1dS nrOWl
Light on Laporte Tragedies.
st. Louis-The Post-Dispatch prints
story to the effect that Ray Lamp
here, who died few days ago in the
Indiana penitentiary at Michigan
City, while serving a term fer setting
fire to the home Of Mrs. Bell Guinness,
near Laporte, Ind, cd not carry the
secret of the Guinness charnel farm to
the tomb with him, but confessed to
Rev. E. A. Schell, formerly pastor Of
the Methodist church at Laporte, Ind,
now president of the Iowa Wesleyan
university at Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
The confession as published shows:
That Mrs. Guinness is dead.
That she and her three children
were chloroformed by Lamphere. who
was robbing the house, and the four
were burned to death.
That Jennie Olsen was not murder
ed by Mrs. Guinness several months
before the fire, but was chlorofCrmed
and burned to death like the rest
That Lamphere had a woman &C.
complete in the robbery venture.
That the chloroform used was part
Of quantities that had been bought by
Lamphere for Mrs. Guinness to kill
three men.
That Lamphere saw one Of these
men killed and assisted in burying all
three. That one Of these men was
the third husband of Mrs. Guinness.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
JACKSON.
CAUCUS PLAYS WAITING GAME.
Nomination Will Be Thrown Into Open
Session.

Session.
Another couple of ballots in the sena-
torial nominating caucus, without result
other than to indicate the hopeless
ness of the tangle in which the body is
involved in this famous political game,
was the program of Thursday after
moons session of the democratic caucus.
In fact, it begins to look very much
as if the members engaged in caucus
ing as party adherents will continue to
play the waiting game until the legls-
lature itself, in joint session, takes up
the work 1t is now believed that this
is part of the game that is being played
by some of the managers, with view
to throwing the contest into the Off
cial body, and so reach the coveted
"open ballot" after all.
1t is quite significant that, notwith-
standing all the dark horse talk and
speculation, the animal has not showed
his nose as yet, the several men who
have received scattering votes in caucus
having failed to develop any following
or support as actual contenders.
Without incident or preliminaries of
any kind, after the double roll call,
Chairman Street gave the terse order
"The tellers will prepare for the bal
lot" and the game was on. There was
the same absence of enthusiasm noted
in the assembly, and, in fact, there was
q spirit of restlessness and nervous
languor prevalent, as though the major-
ity were tired of their job and devoutly
wished that the thing was settled and
out of the way Even the motion to adj
journ, which was fought with some de-
gree of force and spirit yesterday, was
adopted today with scarcely any opposi-
tion.
Fifteenth ballot-Vardaman SO; Per
cy, %; Anderson, 90; Alexander, 20;
Byrd, IA; Kyle, 10; Longino, s; Critz,
4; scattering, 4.
Sixteenth ballot-Vardaman, 60; Per-
cy, &c; Alexander, 20; Anderson, 20;
Byrd, IS; Kyle, IA; Critz, 2; scatter
ing, 8.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
THE POWER or WATER.
A Stream from q FIreman's Hose VIII
Knock a Man Down.

When q man gees In swimming at
the seashore ard slaps the water for
cihly with his hand. or takes back
dive from q pier and lands sQuarely
ON his back. he realizes that the I'M
stable liquid offers not a little resist
Ance. Yet says writer in the New
York Tribune. It would surprise almost
anybody to see what water will do I'M
der certain conditions.
A stream from a hreman's hose will
knock a man down. The jet from q
nozzle used in placer-mining in the
West eats away large piece Of land
In a day, toys with great boulders as
II they were pebbles, and would shoot
q man over the country as though he
were a projectile from cannon.
There Is story of an Eastern
blacksmith who went West and made
a bet that he could knock a hole
through the jet Of one of these noz-
zles with a sledge-hammer. He lifted
his arms, swung the sledge, and came
down on the ten-inch stream with a
force that would have denied an anvil.
But the Jet, never penetrated, whisked
the massive hammer out Of the black
smiths hands, and tossed 1t several
hundred feet away into the debris OF
gold-bearing gravel beneath crum-
bling cliff After this the blacksmith
left out iron when he spoke of hard
substances.
4C oil
Durango. Colorado. where a United
States cavalryman one day thought he
had an easy job in cutting two-inch
stream with his sword. He made
valiant attack. The result was that
his sword was shivered in two and
his wrist broken.
A little thinner jet of water descend
ing sixteen hundred feet to a manu-
factory at Grenoble, Spain, and travel
ing at the moderate speed of one hun
dred yards a second, fractures the best
blades of Toledo.
OF course some people will not be-
lieve such stories without having seen
the thing, and one may think it a
proof of the scientific imagination to
say that an inch-thick sheet of water,
provided it had sufficient velocity,
would ward of bombshells as we'll as
steel plate.
Nevertheless, many persons, while
travelling, have seen a brakeman put
a small hydraulic jack under one end
of a Pullman car and lift twenty tons
or so by few leisurely strokes of the
pump handle; and the experience of
riding every day in hydraulic eleva-
tor tends to remove doubts of the
magic power possessed by water hitch
ed to a machine
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21

VIZ - Commander Rob-
w ert E. Peary, U. A N. who sledded
to the north pole and back about q
year after DR.. Cook Of Brooklyn made
the trip on the Imagination Limited,
had an arctic experience few nights
ago within seven miles of Washing
ton that was almost as bad in some
respects as anything he experienced
in latitude 80 or whereabouts.
As q result Of the unique adventure
the explorer was Inconvenience for
several days
81 alb nod sure" he told a friend,
bud I thig l toog gold. By doze Id
all dubbed ub. Aid Id siddy?"
Bound for Dinner Party.
Commander PeaTy. Mrs. Peary and
Mrs. Pearys sister were on their
way to keep an eight o'clock dinner
engagement at the country home OF
Ralph P. Barnard, son of Justice Job
Barnard of the supreme court Of the
District of Columbia. The taxicab
in which they were riding skidded.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
Memorial for McLaurin.

The evening of Thursday was set
apart for a joint session for the holding
of suitable memorial services to COM
memorate the life and character of the
late United States senator and former
governor, Anselm Joseph McLaurin.
Services and character, private and
public, of Anselm ]. McLaurin were tes-
titled to by men who had known him
well. These included Senator's Gibbs
of Yazoo, Mcdowell and Pitter of Kinds,
Rowan of Copiah, Engle of Adams, San
ders of Alfalfa and East of Tippah, while
Representatives Norrell of Rankin,
Browles of Monroe, Perkins of Yazoo,
Love of Tippah and Bennett OF Winston
bore eloquent and feeling testimony.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
THE SENATORIAL CONTEST.
Practically No Change Since the Ballot
ing Began.

When the legislative caucus adjourned
Monday night, after the ninth ballot in
the series to decide the choice of the
body for senatorial candidate, out OF
the bona fde field of seven regularly
entered the deadlock was as decided and
apparently indeterminate as at the be-
ginning. The proceedings closed with
ardaman in the lead.
The bafoting showed a larger number
of men present and voting than on
either of the other occasions, the highest
number hitherto being ITO, leaving II
not voting, while on one ballot Monday
night, there were IT'S, or within six of
the total voting strength, which is 49,
The best that Gov Tardaman has done
so far was on the ninth ballot, when he
came within twelve votes of decision
They are all still in, and though they
regret the prolongation of the deadlock,
the fight is going to be conducted to a
finish. Nothing is said of dark horse,
and the determination is apparently to
fight it out, though something may yet
be rua by way of a surprise.
The three ballots in detail were as fol-
lows:
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21

VIZ HERE is Count Pablo Mysky Ire
w skaya, also known as Capt. Kar-
dofr? He is supposed by his friends
in Washington to be in Chicago in the
interest of the Karageorgeovitch fami-
ly, which now sits on the Servian
throne, and is planning to marry into
money. A rich Chicago bride for
future queen Of Servia would be just
about what King Peter would like.
Both sons of King Peter are prepar-
ing to travel early in the new year,
and the itinerary includes a two
months stay in the United States.
unless the agents report makes it in
advisable One of them will succeed
to the throne. Count Treskaya is a
mysterious stranger. about whom
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21

TE lSHINGTON d. C.-Former Sem
W ator John l.. Wilson of the state
OF Washington was one Of the most
peppery members OF congress that
ever sat in either house. Mr.. Wilson's
reputation extends over both sides of
the capitol, he having served in the
F1fty-frst congress IN the house as the
first representative from the then
new state of Washington, and in 1895
he was elected to the senate, where he
served one term. Mr.. Wilson Is now
the owner of the Seattle Post-Intelli-
gencer. and at the same time is heav-
lily interested In Washington state In
dustries and real estate
While in Washington recently. Mr..
Wilson delivered himself of some
astounding facts with respect to the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
SECRET eERVIcEsEcRETlvENEss
No One Ever Heard of a Detective
BEING Killed.

Funny thing. but can you remer-
Der ever having heard or read OF
Secret Service operator having been
murdered?" 1t was an old New York
detective speaking. "Of course you
haven't, and yet they are in a line or
work in which men are killed now and
then, in spite of the fine way in which
all the Secret Service men stand
by each other. The fact is that
the Secret Service keeps the
murder of one Of its agents
lust as secret as some important mat
ter of State it has discovered. The
Secret Service man when he joins
knows that If he dies in the discharge
of his duty he simply disappears and
becomes as one VINO never lived. His
relatives never know.
They are told he has gone on
some far distant mission. in which he
finally disappears and they begin to
receive his pension. Yet, while the
murderer of a Secret Service man is
never arrested or punished for the
crime, never even accused, Ae ls pun
ished just the same.
81 remember the case of a Secret
Service man who was stabbed to death
after midnight by an Infatuated Italian
counterfeiter in Mulberry street, not
half a mile from Police Headquarters.
A Secret Service man drove up swift
ly in a cab intended for the captured
counterfeiter. The dying man was put
in before he had left much blood on
the pavement to tell of the murder.
He died next day. No one ever heard
of it nor of any punishment for this
murderer. But the counterfeiter was
shortly after brought up for counter
feiting and got a sentence long enough
to keep him in State prison for the
rest of his life"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
Conservation.

The resources of the earth are the
basis of our national wealth. BY
means Of them alone, in material
things, comes leadership among the
nations. The conservation movement
now fully under way embraces the for
est movement as one of it's sources
and great divisions. Thus the cause
Of forest conservation throughout the
country has won a powerful ally and
/ more effective support for the work
that lies Just before us.-Gifford Pin
chot in New England Magazine.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
Making Soil Surveys.
The bureau of soils, v

The bureau of soils, which is branch
of the United States Department of Agri-
culture, is now working in cooperation
with the Mississippi geological survey,
and during this winter soil surveys will
lie completed in Noxubee and Adams
counties. For this work the bureau of
soils furnishes two men and the State
two. The object of this work is to make
q thorough study of the soil and agri-
cultural conditions. Behring'S are made
TO depth of three feet and the soil is
classified into different types, according
TO its texture, origin, topography and
crop adaptability. Samples are taken of
all the types found and sent to Wash
ington, D. c., to be analysed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
Cotton Grader and Chaser.

Mr.. Adair introduced a bill to be en-
titled an act to employ cotton grader
and classer for the state and to provide
for the sale of said cotton. The bill
authorizes the trustees of the peniten-
tiary to select a competent man for the
duties, who shall receive a salary not
exceeding $500 year, and who shall
class and grade all cotton raised by
convict labor. 1t also provides that cot
ton so classed and graded shall be put
on the market in not less than 1o0-bale
lots
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
Directions for Amateurs.

A writer IN the Munich Jugend has
published five signs which should be
helpful to all VINO have to criticise
pictures.
1. If the artist paints the sky gray
and the grass black, he belongs to the
good old classical school.
2. If he paints the sky blue and
the grass green, he is a realist.
8. If he paints the sky green, and
the grass blue, he is an impressionist.
4. If he paints the sky yellow and
the grass purple, he is colorist.
5. If he paints the sky black and
the grass red, he shows possession of
great decorative talent.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
Subjects for Legislation.

The governor Monday sent message
TO the Legislature. in which he submitted
to their consideration, without comment
or argument, certain subjects which he
thought might be considered at this ses-
sion. Among these are the equalization
of salaries of State officers, jud res of
the Supreme Court, circuit judges and
chancellors; the transportation CT pu-
pills in the rural districts to and from
schools where two or more have been
consolidated; the establishment OF
State charity hospital; to grant author
ity to courts to suspend sentences in
criminal cases and during good behavior
Ct the convicted persons; giving express
authority to the governor to grant con-
ditional pardons, based on good behavior
and subject to revocation for cause.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
Agricultural High Schools.

Mississippi is a great agricultural
State. In recent years it has forged
steadily to the front among Southern
States in this field. 1t has adopted
scientific methods. It has endowed
schools for disseminating new and suit
able ideas, and now the governor is d.
recting his efforts toward securing agri-
cultural high schools, so that the adj
vanced agricultural principles may be
given to generations to some.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
Want Law Amended.

A big delegation is here endeavoring
to persuade Governor Noel to recon-
mend the amendment of the corporate
holdings law of 1906 to the present
session of the legislature. The delega-
tion came all the way from Hattiesburg
and is made up of the most representa-
tive men of that great and growing
community, who declare that the act of
1906 has been exceedingly detrimental
to every interest in that section.