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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-10-06

The Graphic is authorized to an- rounce PAT c. CHESNUTT as can- from the First Ward, subject to the action of the Democratic primaries.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
Collar Button Defended

The collar button has been hbelled
Since it first came into being it has
provided the writer's of jokes for the
comic papers with large share of
their material. That it possessed a
remarkable tendency toward losing it.
self has been accepted almost as an
axiom.
Facts have come to light which
show that the collar button has been
maligned. A man in the employ of
the Burlington Railroad has worn one
collar button for twenty-eight years.
1t has stuck by him without any IN
due precautions against loss and has
never shown a tendency to wander.
This man. says he has always treat
ed his collar button kindly, has never
sworn at it or blamed it for his own
faults. His idea is that if mankind
accords due respect to the collar but
ton it will reciprocate.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04

thoroughfares. 1t was Yuan Chih kai
who fostered a system of modern edu-
cation. Of all branches, and wha
opened public reading rooms and lee.
ture halls, thus irstilling the leaven
OF modern progress into the minds of
all young China
To-day Yuan Shin Kai's sun is I'M
der cloud. Re has been shorn of
The command CT the army, of all his
numerous posts except his vlceroyalty,
and OF what is all important in Chi
nese politics, his enormous revenues.
The Manchu reactionaries who COM
pose the palace clique are on top: but
no one expects them to attempt the
mad follies of seven years ago. Eait-
ed as a reformer by these, Yuan Shin
Kai is also hated by the extreme
wing Of reformers themselves, whom
he betrayed in 1900, thus making pos
sib,e the coup d'etat" whereby the
empress seized the reins of power
from the feeble hands of the emperor.
There is said to be a blood feud be-
tween the emperor and his most pow.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
eIasqow's Population Decreasing

The chief sanitary inspector Of
Glasgow says in his annual report
that there wcs a decrease of 1,132 in
the number of occupied houses in
1908 as compared with the total in
1907, representing a population of s.
551 persons. They had for the first
time in Glasgow's recent history TAX
en- a step backward with regard to
their total population. Since 1873
when the increase of population was
only twenty-three over the number of
persons residing. in the city in 1872
Glasgow had steadily forged ahead at
the average rate of $3.50 persons add
ed to the population annually until
this last year. No adequate answer
could be given as to whittier the peo-
pie had gone. The total actual loss
for the year 1908 seems to have been
over 1880 persons Westminster
Gazette
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
Hash,

Some people find fault when eating
hash because they don't know what
is in it. Such souls are simply trying
to dodge happiness. Would anybody
ever start upon a journey if they
knew the cars were going to leave
the track or that the bridge was sure
to collapse? No indeed. Would low
ers of hash ever order that most
toothsome Wand were it not for the
delightful uncertainty attached to it
the compelling mystery in which it is
wrapped?
Why be wise when perfect happi-
ness lies in ignorance? Hash has
stood the test of time, and, whatever
it is made of, history has yet to place
a calamity at it's door. Wine has
caused the head to rise above the
church steeples; pie has ruined the
digestive apparatus, and hot biscuits
have brought the price Of nightmares
down to surprisingly low figure; but
hash, plain, regular inoffensive hash,
has gone on down the ages and left
nothing in it's wake but a food mem
DRY and a sweet taste in the mouth.
Why worry?-Boston Herald.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
AND He ONLY HAD A COLD IN The HEAD
That's What the Doctor Says About
1t. but He Can't Cure 1t.

"Akerchoo," remarked Mr.. Bump
ton, as he came smiling down the
steps leading to the doctors office,
obese doctors bake be dired. Obey
dhig obey are dealing in an advanced
science and yet, by gracious, obey
can't cure a nasty liddle cold Id dhe
head.
Ids edough to bake addybuddy
cuss to hear diem go on. l said to
dhe doctor, l said, Doctor, rs sig
I said. 'I'b very sig l said. Id fact,
feel bum all over I said. 'WhatG
do?' l said.
"'Oh,' says he, 'do'd do addythig.
You've just got a fiddle cold Id dhe
head. Dhats all. Ids dothing
butch. Id'll wear off,
ard dhat sibly sickening? Here
go to a doctor who claims he can
cure dibtheria ad dhyphoid ad beS-
sizes ad all sort OBJ dhigs, ad, by graei-
Gus, he can't cure a fiddle cold ID
dhe head.
Id1l wear off, he says. l know
QlaC. But / 40 u WANT III ~ NC@NA
off. Akerchoo! / want to stop feel
ing sick, ad dhere's dothing makes
you feel sicker dhan fiddle cold i'd
dhe head.
"Dhe drouble is obey do'd dhink
it's addything-a idle cold. If you
had subthing derrible with a long
Latin dabe dhe doctors would bay
sub addention to you. SEEDS like
hey don't have addy sympathy with
a fiddle cold id dhe head.
"Ad, by gracious, what cad you do
or i'd? You cad do addything but
sneeze and snuff ad bake duisance
Of yourself Ad adother dining dhat
bakes be mad is die way everybody
laughs ad you when you got cold
i'd die head.
"Pd seems to be a fuddy joke. BY
gracious, ids no joke for dhe man
who's got id. Akerchoo!"-NeW
York Sun.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04

Picking. China.-Neither missions
nor politics in China is comprehensi-
Bile until the Boxer outbreak is I'm
derstood. All roads Of investigation
lead baoe to 1900 That was the
most eventful year in Chlnas hoary
history. Already its vast economic
and political significance looms so
large that the massacre of more than
200 missionaries is coming to be re-
garded as a mere phase of great
epoch.
The Boxer troubles we're the birth
throes Of a new China. In those ter
rible days the nation, all unwittjngly,
broke forever with her self-satis1ed,
self-secluded past. And the punish
ment meted out TO her, including all
the horrible and shameful excuses Of
the foreign troops. and everything
else that was comprehended within
that unprecedented orgy Of lust, loot
and lawlessness, has put the fear Of
civilization into the hearts of the Chi
nese. Whatever reaction may come
and ! write in the midst of one
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
Knew When He Was Happy

The soul of an editor who had died
of starvation was being conducted
to the EIysian fields. AS they passed
the portals Of the Internal regions
he asked his guide if he might not
go in and look around. The guide
consented, but warned him to stay
but a few minutes, as he could not
wait long.
A long time passed, and the ed1-
tor had not returned; so the guiding
angel went in search Of him. He
found him before a cage in which a
number of doomed #retrhes were
being toasted on red-hot griddles.
Over the cage was the sign "Delin-
quent Subscribers"
Come" said the guide; we must
be going"
Don't wait for me-" replied the
editor. Pm not coming. This is
Heaven enough for me-"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
Must Be Bonds or a Deficit.

A review of the legislative calendars
shsws that less Roadway than had beer
expected was made with the revenue a4e
appropriation bills during the past wee@
The Senate passed the Industrial Inst
tute and College appropriation bill, ca
rying about 100000, and the lower
house disposed of the general appropria-
ton bill for salaries of state officials an
contingent expenses, amounting /"
1898, 900.
Measures for the support Of the Uni
versity of Mississippi and the A q M
College, aggregating about 100000, are
still penang before the House approprla-
tions committee, and will probably b.
reported, after liberal pruning, on Tues
day or Wednesday OF the current week.
Tho, House appropriations committee
recommends concurrence in the SeDat"
amendment to the common school appro-
priation, reducing the amount from 81
100000 per annum to S1,424,os8 per ar
mum.
Appropriation bills for the two insan-
hospitals, the deaf and dumb institute.
the penitentiary, the blind institute, an"
several other state institutions, are still
pending in the lower house, and, in
majority of instances, have not been act
ed upon by Chairman Morrison's com
mittee.
The committee has fixed the pension
fund for the ensuing biennial period at
S35O,OO0 per annum. This bill was
passed in the Senate carrying 100000
per year, after an unsuccessful effort had
been made to secure the adoption of
committee amendment fixing the amount
at S35O,OOO.
The budget shows that if the several
state institutions are given the sums
they actually need, and other legitimate
expenses of state government are pro
vided for, there will be a deficit of be-
tween 100000 and 100000 during the
next two years. Therefore, it appears
that the lawmakers will either have to
adopt policy OF penuTiousness, which IS
always 10 be deplored, or authorize the
Governor to negotiate a bond issue.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
Asbestos Bio Industry in Canada.

During 300 years of asbestos pro-
duction Canada, which leads the world
in the output of this mineral, has pro-
duced S2O,OOO,000 worth, stated Geo
logist J. A. Dresser in an address be-
fore the Canadian Mining institute at
Windsor, March 5. In 1873 the out
put was so tons, while in 1908 it was
65,534 tons, worth S2,547 ,5O7. The
produce has been manufactured hith-
erto in the United States and Europe
but large works for the making of as
bestos articles are being installed in
Canada.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
Amend Pharmacy Law.

The Mississippi Pharmaceutical Asso-
citation, through its legislative commit
tee, is carrying on quiet but effective
campaign in the interest of the proposed
new law, or rather amendments to the
existing laws governing pharmacy prac-
tice in TIE state. The proposed law
would make it unlawful for any one to
operate drug store or dispensary ex-
cept. At registered pharmacist, unless the
proprietor place in charge such person.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04

When opera glasses first came
commonly into use young man es-
corted his aged maiden aunt from
the country to a playhouse" Dur
ing one of the acts she complained
that the light was too dim. He
borrowed an opera glass from the
friend sitting near, and. handing it
to her, said: Here, auntie, try
this glass" Covering the SUSPECT
ous-looking object with her hand
kerchief, she placed it to her lips
and took long pull, and then hand
ed it back to her nephew in great
disgust, saying disappointedly:
why, there isn't a drop in it,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
Not Co Much Needed

Like most minister's families, they
were not extensively blessed with
this worlds goods. She, however,
was the youngest Of ten children
until her father explained to her of
the baby sister who had come in the
night.
Well" she said, after due
thought, 81 pose it's all right, papa,
but there's many thing we needed
worse"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
Banks in Good Condition.

According to the recapitulation of the
statements of the 329 State banks IT
Mississippi, the aggregate resources on
the 31st of December were .S6o,7 00,-
1886. The loans and discounts amount
d to S41 1925, 4ss.97 The capital paid
IN was $12,765, 345.42; surplus, s2,77S.-
521.56; undivided profits. S1,431 ,274.69;
Individual deposits subject to check were
$40, 1s9, 7OO.53: time certificates of de-
rnsit $S,293.S5s.3l. The banks have
efficient cash to run the State unit
lrotner crop OF coton can be iIade ana
laced on the market.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
ANTS PROTECT PLANT.
How They Defend 1t Against Leaf De
stroyinu Insects.


A standing army of ants for defen-
sive purposes is kept and provided
with food by a sensitive plant Of
Nicaragua. In this acacia there are
two large thorns at the base of each
leaf inhabited by colonies of ants
which bore into the thorns and make
a home for themselves by eating out
the soft inner tissue. On the leaf
stalks there are honey glands, and
at the tip of each leaflet there is a
sausage shaped body, about as large
as a pins head, consisting of albumin
Gus food. The ants sip the nectar and
eat the food bodies, and being con-
tented with their lot, remain on the
plant without doing it any injury.
When the plant is threatened by an
invasion of leaf cutting ants which
would damage it the ants composing
the plants army or police force rush
out and repel the intruders. Many
similar arrangements exist in tropi-
cal plants.
In one of tbs most remarkable of
these ant plants the female ant bites
a hole in the stem and brings up her
brood inside it The stalk of each
leaf is swollen at its base and bears
food bodies which are eaten by the
ants when they emerge to ind for
themselves. AS the old food bodies
are eaten new ones are formed, thus
keeping the ants, which are of fierce
disposition, in the plants employ
ment. Plants of the same species
which do not happen to be inhabited
by ants fall an easy prey to leaf cut
ting kinds of ants, which are only too
plentiful in the tropics. In other cases
the defensive ants are provided only
with shelter in cavities of the stem,
and various naturalists have observed
that these ants pour out in troops
whenever leaf cutting enemies at
tempt to attack the foliage.
The ants which thus defend these
plants are small but sting with ex-
IRENE virulenGe, their small size max
ing them the more formidable. The
leaf cutting ants cut off the leaves
and, pile them up in heaps, forming a
sort of kitchen garden of leaf mould,
upon which they cultivate a fungus
belonging to the mushroom family.
They SOW the spores of the mushroom
and make a pure culture Of the fun
gus, nibbling at it to prevent the de-
yelopment of mushroom heads and
thus promote the growth Of spawn.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
TaIlahatchie Drainage District.

After a hearing of all parties to the
Tallahatchie drainage district contro-
versy by the senate committee on levees.
the respective sides agreed to withdraw
any further fight against the proposed
referendum. That means that the bill
passed by the house will 90 to the SEN
ate without opposition. 1t is believed
that it will do no harm to the conflicting
interest. but rather it will be best for
all sides to give the people all oppor-
tunity to vote on the bond issue.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
Cut University Appropriation.

The committee on appropriations re-
ported back with amendments the Uni.
yersity OF Mississippi appropriation bill,
with cut of 100000. The trustees had
asked for 1891 900, and the bill as re-
ported back provides for only $225,000.
This caused much comment and surprise
among the friends of the university, who
are hopeful the senate viii restore the
deficiency as shown in the house bill as
amended
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
CbivoIpy

A highwayman held up gasolene
runabout on the outskirts of Rome
with a shot in the air. Then he ran
forth from the tomb that had con-
cealed him-the holdup happened
on the Appian way-and fond, to
his surprise, only a woman il the
little car. Where. madam, is your
husband?" he demanded. sternly and
suspiciously. He's under the
seat" she answered. flushing.
Then" said the highwayman, Il
won't take nothing. It's bad enough
to have a husband like that, without
being robbed into the bargain"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
Pass Good Roads Bill.

After a breezy debate and the present
alton of number of cross amendment j,
the House finally passed tie LaGerso.,
good roads bill with only four negati !,
votes, Speaker Street leading the deDa =
on the floor.
BY a vote of II to the House CO.
Cured in the Senate amendments to =
Burkitt school bill, and the measure W i
soon be completed statute. 1t CARR ;
a total of $1,474, JSo year, an increas :
Of S174,0Ss over the last appropriate
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04

The Bible has the following to say
ABOUT the number of animals of each
KIND which Noah took on board the
ark; Genesis, seventh chapter, Sec
ond verse: ''Of each clean beast thou
shalt take to thee by sevens the
male and his female, and of beasts
that are not clean by two, the male
and his female" Genesis, seventh
chapter, third verse: "Of fawls also
or the air by sevens. the male and the
female, 70 keep seed alive upon the
f"ce of tbs earth
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
RVhbirr il in.

Let's see, didn't the court allow
Miss Love $4,000 for her broken
heart?
Yes.
And didn't she testify that she
could never love another?
Yes.
Now understand she is going to
marry Jones.
She is. You see, Jones and her
former sweetheart are enemies and
she thinks it will make him writhe
to see Jones spending his money.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04

Kitto, the master of oriental learn
ing, lost his hearing at II, and his
fathers circum ~tances became so
wre ched that young Kitto was sent to
the poorhouse, where he learned shoe
Il akins He piteously begged bis ia
Their TO take him out Of the poorhouse,
saying hat he would live on blacEler
ries and field turrips and be vi! lag tc
sig sp ca haYrick What Obstacles
could dampen be enthu:i IN c. gcn
ardor: What Impossible ifiss co.,l6
Withstand such a regollse VII.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04

An advertisement of a nursing
bottle printed in a Canadian news
paper concluded with the following:
When the baby is done drinking
it must be unscswed and laid in a
cool place under a tap. If the baby
does not thrive On fresh milk, it
should be boiled"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
Percy Formally Elected.

The two houses of the Mississippi
legislature met in joint session Wednes-
lay and unanimously elected Hon. Leroy
Percy, of Greenville, as United States
enator to fill the unexpired term of the
ale Senator \. J. McLaurin. The term
If the new senator expires on March
{, 1913.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
Ass:stant Acknowledgement.

The senate Tuesday passed a very i'm
portant bill, authorizing the appointment
of a second assistant encouragement,
at a salary Of $4,000 year. This mat
ter was urged on the legislature recently
by Governor Noel, who gave statistics
to show the vital, necessity for such an
officer Senator Mcdowell, of Kinds, is
author Of the bill, and he made the prin-
cipal speech in favor of its passage. The
final vote, "a to 5, indicates the view
point of the senate as to its necessity.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
Jackson Gets Hospital.

The house, by a practically unanimous
vote of 1O4 to 1, passed the bill provid-
ing for state charity hospital, to be
located at jackson; also passed the Al
corn college appropriation bill, which
carries $27, oOQ less than the last, with
some few amendments.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
Juvenile ReforuatOrY.

The Mcdowell juvenile reformatory
bill rassel the Senate almost unanimous
ly. 1t provides that the penitentiary
trustee shall arrange to keep convicts
under 81 separate from the older men,
and that trial judges have the discre-
ton of sending these under IS to the
penitentiary or the reformatory.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
Would Hear Harmon.

Accompanying the formal invitation
rom the legs atiNe joint committee ask
ng Gov Jud on Harmon of Ohio to
address the Mississippi law-making body
before the adjournment of tie present
session, will be a personal letter from
Governor Noel earnestly urging the Ohio
executive to accept the invitation. Gov
rnor Noel and Governor Harmon are
warm personal friends
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
Fishing the sir.

us this section prosperous"
You bet it is" answered the Kan
sas farmer. q kin spread a net any
time and snake a grand piano out
Of a cyclone"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
Shin Kali chlnas Greatest Man cut

|, cut Now Out Of Favor and Power.
erful subject, and all sorts of con.
lectures are made as to what will hap
pen when the empress dies.
But the reform spirit grows daily.
The revolutionary society is increas-
ingly formidable. Nobody here would
be surprised at a national political
confagration and revolution which
would be as different from the pres
ent sporadic outbreaks as a war is
from skirmish. But, at the same
time. nobody expects China to go
back to the old days. From what l
could CLEAN of the opinions of Sir Rob-
ert Hart and the oldest diplomats,
merchants and missionaries, a general
massacre of foreigners is not an i'm
possibility; but it will not be by gov,
eminent connivance as before. And
whatever comes, China is inevitably
destined to become one of the nations
controlled by the western ideals of
civilization.
Martyrs Have Not Made Converts.
This much OF the political cOnSe-
quences of the Boxer outbreak it has
been necessary to write in order to
make plain the religious conditions,
with which this article is primarily
concerned. On every hand l have
heard in America, that the blood of
the martyrs" had again proved to be
the seed Of the church" 1t is a
surprise to find to what a slight ex-
tent this is true. Undoubtedly extra
ordinary progress has been made in
mission work since 1900, but for
direct results oe the faithful testimony
Of the many who heroically sealed
their loyalty with their lives 1 have
locked IN vain | have talked with the
mis- sionaries in Picking, Paoting-fu,
Tn~g Chow and ether scenes OF the
7,o1-t ma ssacrcs. They sadly admit
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04

The soliciting committee from the
Meridian Board of Trade have raised the
81 900 which is to be given in pri. IS by
the Board of Trade to farmers OF J.aud-
erdaie and adjoining counties to promote
the raising of feedstuffs.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
F.r.: vi.,c Gus :, nc an.st.

~ l. arr - MAS ne first man to
ciCss The chaarel in Ia DON This
Nas accomplished in 1S5. and for this
feat Louis XVI. rewa. ded him with a
pension Of $3.50
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04

The Oktibbeha County Farmer Boys
Corn Club met i'll Starkyllle and were adj
dressed by Professor Morgan of the A.
and NJ. College and DR.. TAFT Butler, ed
itor of the Gazette. W. H. Miller distri D
uted to each member of the club suf-
fcient seed corn of the Mosby variety to
plant one-half an acre.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04

'6IEomb eJIA sql pSHd9l ..'op
len l.uop l sSuIql SuIoQ,, 'IoqqS
EoIIno eql peYsB ..5lu9Iu5st...
saIuo s.puBqsnq Inok ST lsqM.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-04
The Home as a Kingdom.

Think Of your house as a kingdom
ar.l set about to make it more livable
! lace OF Joy. The more thought
it. the more will be your In