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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07

A good way to catch the ants IN
hives is to soak a sponge in honey
dilute the honey with water, as
then it will better enter the pores OF
the sponge) and put it where they can
get at it. When the sponge is full Of
ants throw it into boiling water, and
repeat
The best way to keep ants from
troubling is to find and destroy them
in their nests. This work must be
done at dusk in the evening, to &C.
all C the inmates Of nest. Pouring
Loiling water over the nest will kill
a seat many, but it hardly will set
them all. The most effective way is
by Using the drug bisulphide Of car.
bon. Make three or four holes in the
nest with a thin stick, then pour in
the liquid. The holes must be quickly
closed with earth, TO prevent the drug
from evaporating and reducing its ef
fectiveness. About an ounce viii be
enough for nest. The carbon changes
to a gas that pc1etrates all parts OF
the nest, AID is dead to all animal
life
Be very careful when using the
drug not to have fire of any kind near
The carbon is volatile, and the re-
sulting gas will explode with great
violence, the same as does gasolsne.
Don't let any one with a lighted pipe
Or cigar approach when using it. AS
there is no. much call for it, the bisul
phide of carbon is not always carried
by druggists. Then kerosene or gaso
lene can be used in the same way
but about four o. Eve times as much
must be used for q nest.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07
A Lazy Boys Invention.

The long-handled shovel has made
over three hundred thousand dollars
for its inventor, and the inventor was
q lazy, shiftless boy Of seventeen.
named Reuben Davis, whose father
lived In Vermont at the time. He set
Reuben to digging dirt and loading 1t
on a wagon, and the short-handled
shovel made the boys back ache. One
afternoon when his father was away,
he took out the short handle and SUBJ
stituted a long one, and found the
work much easier.
When Mr.. Davis reached home Reu-
ben got whipping; bat after the old
gentleman had used the shovel him
SELF, he saw that 1t was good thing,
and had 1t patented. They are now
manufactured almost by the million.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07

IN the democracy CT TIE dead. q:
men at last are equal. There is neitn
er rank ET standing nor preroga,
tive in the republic of .he grave A.
this fatal threshold tbs philosophe,
ceases to be wise, and the song of tns
poet is silent. Dives relinquishes Ms
millions AND Lazarus Bis rags. The
poor man is as rich as tho richest, and
the rich nan is as poor ~ the paurer
The creditor loses his usury. and the
debtor Is acquitted of his obligation
There the proud man surrenders his
dignitles, the politician his hcnors, the
wording his pleasures; the invalid
needs no physician, and the labores
rests from .uDreQuited toll.
Here at last is natures final dec~ee
in equity. The wrongs of time Gre re
dressed, injustice is expiated. the
irony of fate is refuted, the unequal
distribution of wealth, honor. caracl-3
pleasure and opportunity which makes
life SO cruel and inexplicable ceases
in the realm of death. The st.Ols
est there has no supremacy. and -i.s
weakest needs no defense. The might
lest captain succumbs to that inyinci
BILE adversary, who disarms alike the
victor and the vanquished.--Johl,
Ingalls,.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07
Really Is q Jag in a Georgia Melon

the discovery of a criminal tendency
in the watermelon heretofore unsus-
pected.
"We have been experimenting with
every sort of fruit and vegetable that
contains sugar" said Mr. Wilson, "the
watermelon, pears, apples, peaches,
plums, pumpkins, muskmelors, Irish
potatoes, sweet potatoes, beets and
other vegetables. The watermelon sur
prised us. We never expected it Of
1t. The purpose is to develop the
cheapest kind of denatured alcohol for
use as fuel.
THE experiments have been made
under the directions of DR.. Harvey
W. Wiley, chief of the bureal Of
chemistry. Of course it is impossible
to extract this alcohol in paying guam
titles from melons, but we hope to do
so from sweet potatoes.
1.-THE experiments have been made
to benefit the seacoast portion of the
south, from Virginia down the Allan
tic around Florida and along the gulf
Sweet potatoes can be grown cheaply
in the sand of these sections. One
bushel of sweet potatoes will make a
gallon of alcohol. The product is
better and cheaper fuel than benzine."
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07

- OSeTUl appliance TOR the Bee Yard
But we have used the cage to very
good advantage in catching swarms
just coming out One or two of then
ere kept handy in the yard and if {
swarm is seen coming out, one O.
these cages is clapped Immediately
over the hive from which it is com
! ing. Even if some Of the bees have
gone out they will soon come bach
and cluster around outside while the
rest of their companions are cluster
ed inside.
In the drawing here shown 1t vii
be observed that the swarm is cluster
ed on top of the cage. AS soon as they
are all out, the cage and all is picked
up at the intersection of the cross
pieces at the top, set over the hive
ready to receive them, when the cage
is given jounce on the ground A
little later on it is given another
bump until the bees have entered
their new home.
Of course, this method of catching
swarm just as it is coming out is
not new; but sometimes old things
need to be resurrected until prospec
tive users begin to see their value
This cage is one of the new old de
vices that should be made up for next
seasons USE
1t may not be necessary to have
such cage where comb and extracted
honey are produced; but if one is
rearing queens he must not harbor in
the yard any bees that have acquired
the robbing habit. as they will be q
continual annoyance to the apiarist
and to the working colonies through
out the entire season.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07

VIZ ASHINGTON.-For 20 years James
W Wilson, secretary of agriculture,
has teen sounding the praises of the
Ar lean hen. He has shown by sta
titles, pictures, reports, omelets, soft
bcf.od eggs and spring chickens that
the American hen beats the world.
She IS not the possessor of great per-
sonal beauty, she does not aspire to
De butterfly of fashion, kut is a very
fne representative Of the housewife
type Of chicken. If fine feathers made
fine birds she would not be in it. For
the peacock is a dazzler and the roos-
ter struts with IN air that cannot be
initiated by his more modest compan-
ion who does the homework and
scratches around for the children. But
the hen, by keeping steadily at work
and doing the best she can, has been
enabled to enrich this country by more
good dollars than all the silver mines
of the west and all the gold Of the
Klcndike. Statistics show that in a
single generation the American hen
lays eggs enough to make the Allan
tic ocean one vast omelet and fill the
Pacific with scrambled eggs. Placed
on top Of one another they would
make a stack 10000 times as tall as
the Washington monument and almost
as high as the price of beef.
All this has been done by the one
egg day hen. But along with the
airships and the 26,00O-ton battleships
the two-egg hen has arrived No, she
was not produced by Luther Burbank
by grating a Leghorn chicken onto a
roe herring. She is just plain, ordi
nary hen, who resolved to do her best
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07
: How the Government Loses Millions

by goods are brought into this country
in trunks with false bottoms to de-
ceive the inspectors, stretch to many
parts of the United States, though
passing only through the port of New
York in the cases about to be prose
cuted
Beyond the generalization Of mil
lions of dollars nobody officially can
estimate the amount of taxes thus
evaded Most of the violators of law
in this respect are dressmakers. The
government has a good deal of evil
dence along this line, and the prose
cutions for this form of wholesale dis
honesty promises to be of a sensation
al character.
Collector Loeb expressed the opin-
ion that the sleeper trunk" frauds
could no longer be carried on sue
cessfully under the rules he has
adopted These provide for a new
stamp arrangement for trunks and a
limitation of the hours a trunk may
remain on the docks.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07
The Gods Of India.

India is a land Of idols. 1t is esti-
mated that there are three hundred
and thirty-three million gods in Hin
dustan. The three great and special
ly venerated deities are Brahma, Wish
nu, and Siva-the Hindu Trimurti or
trinity. Brahma stands first, unap-
proachable. There are only three
temples in all India erected in his
honor; he is merely invoked as the
chief of the Trimurti, but is not made
the object of actual worship, as he
is not supposed to take any interest
In mundane affairs. He is the Gre
stor, the giver of all gifts and Of all
blessings and controls the destines OF
men, yet at the same time is COM
.p@etely Indifferent to them.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07

To Keep the Skirt Bottom Even.
fitting. If any change is made in the
bottom of the skirt corresponding
change must be made in the position
of the tucks. For instance, suppose
one hip is much larger than the other.
The skirt would have to be heightened
over that hip and the tucks lowered
in that one place to keep the line
even.
After you have pinned up the bot
tom of the skirt, put on the dress and
have it carefully fastened, especially
at the girdle. The best way to have
the skirt hung is to stand on table
and let some one measure one, two or
three inches from the table up on the
skirt, as shown in the illustration.
Use a piece of cardboard with the
desired distance from the floor nicked
in it. The person who is hanging the
skirt should move around it, marking
every few inches with pins. When
the dress is taken off, turn it inside
out and haste an even line through
these marks on the skirt only-not
through the turred up-portion.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07
Roncy sells on It's Looks

. A very few broken combs, if cased
will make & dauby mass, as the honey
will cover much of the case bottom
and drip through, thus disgusting ali
who may in any way handle the
honey. Bear in mind that comb honey
sells from its loo 5 more than any
thing else and the nicer the appear.
ance the better price it will bring.
The honey shogld be piled a few
inches Of the flosr, and a little out
from the wall. Otherwise that near
the bottom and side of the room will
eccur ulata Toistr~e from want Of cir.
culation O. a;- Honey that is sealed
will stand ~,~ch r7ore dampness and
non-circric ion than will that which is
unsealed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07
NOEL NAMES NEW SENATOR.
Col. James Gordon Surprised at His
Appointment.

Col. James Gordon Surprised at His
Appointment
Governor Noel Monday did the unex
pected in appointing as temporary SEN
ator, until the legislature elects man
to fill the unexpired term of the late
Senator MeLaurin, Colonel James Cor
don of Chickasaw county The appointee
is an honorable, high-toned Christian
gentleman, Confederate soldier and
officer without stain and without re-
preach, and one who was, or is, in no
sense of the word an aspirant for the
office by election. In taking this step,
Governor Noel has upset the prevalent
opinion that he would make no appoint
ment, which he himself expressed, but
would leave the duty to the legislature
The most surprised man in the state
was the venerable ard accomplished APP
pointee, Colonel Gordon, who reached
the city Monday morning in response to
telegram from Governor Noel, stating
that the latter was DESTROYS of confer
ring with him. Ee went at once to the
capitol, sought out Governor Noel and
was surprised when the executive handed
him a duly executed commission as
United States senator pro tempore.
The grand old man of Chickasaw was
deeply impressed with the appointment,
and when he left in the afternoon, stated
that he would leave for Washington
within the next few days-probably be-
fore the opening of the session of the
legislature
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07
IL, ,,lA;. BEES $: =.
AND
+. BEE KEEPING
MAKE ONE FOR YOURSELF.
Tho Value of Swarm-Catchng Gage
In L@nnN

Tho Value of Swarm-Catchnq Cage
In a Honcy-Yard.
AS it is getting toward the season
Of the year when the bee-keepers will
seek to make certain appliances for
next seasons use, | take pleasure in
showing useful device which almost
any one can make, says E. r. Root, in
Bee Culture. 1t is neither more nor
less than a wire-cloth cage of suffi-
cient size to slip over the largest hive
IN the yard. Wire cloth or mosquito
netting is nailed onto a light frame
work OF the construction shown.
1t sometimes happens that a colony
is suddenly attacked by robbers. A
cage like this can be set down over
the hive, trap all the robbers, and
prevent any more from getting in at
the entrance. The inmates of the hive
will, if outside, cluster around the
outside Of the cage. 1t may be left
over the colony until night, when the
robbers may be destroyed or taken
to an outyard; for to let these bees
loose back into the same yard will
only invite trouble for the next day.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07
Useful for Meat, Too.

it vegetables or meat can be ground
into fine particles by the expenditure
of very little energy. This machine
Is made on the principle of a mill. and
is clamped to the edge Of table. A
hopper leads to a casing, in which a
cylinder revolyes, and below which
is turned by means of a handle. is
nearly as large as the casing and is
fitted with two sets Of teeth, inclined
in opposite directions. One set is
cIoser than the other, and when the
the cylinder is turned the other way.
The vegetables or meat to be ground
are placed in the hopper, and as they
fall into the receptacle below the cy-
Under brushes them, the small pieces
falling into dish placed below
Philadelphia Record.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07

THE department Of agriculture has
come alOngwith some good news for
those citizens in southern Indiana who,
when arrested last fall for conducting
blind tigers" set up as a defense
that they had become intoxicated from
eating watermelons The department
has not yet analysed the Indiana
brand OF Melons, but it asserts that
there is Jag" in the Georgia mel
ons
OF course il IS carefully concealed,
and II ,ch care and labor is required
to extract it, but it is there just the
same. The department has proved this
beyond doubt Out of 100 pounds of
watermelcns experts in chemistry
made one-tenth of a gallon of alcohol
They also have convicted the humble
sweet potato of possessing another
spree. Secretary Wilson announced
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07
American Llmburqer.

It Is now claimed that the United
States makes just as good Limburger
cheese as does the province in Bel.
GUM. where it originated. The Amer
lean method is to take a piece Of a
calls stomach and set it away in a
warm place in can Of whole milk.
In about forty minutes the curdling
mess is pounded and then the whey
pressed out Afterward forms are
filed and further drainage permitted.
Salt is rubbed on the outside until it
becomes slippery; then the cheese is
set away in the cellar, where it is left
to ripen for a month or two, and the
germs do the rest.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07
The Mississippi Orphans Home.

At the Mississippi conference, held in
Brookhayen, the pastors pledged them
selves to present the cause of the or
phans' home to their people on the first
Sunday in February They determined
to make a vigorous and united effort to
raise, within the next six weeks, the
money necessary to meet the conditions
of DR.. Sections donation of $4,000 to
the home l take this opportunity of re-
questing the pastors of the North Mis-
sissippi conference and the Sabbath
school superintendent of both confer
ences, and all friends of the orphans, to
join in with us in making the first Sun
day in February a great day for the or
plans We ned SIS, 1000. A more worthy
cause was never presented to the people,
and l believe that if the matter were
properly brought to their attention.
thereby giving a chance, they would
cheerfully meet the requirements.
This institution is located at Jackson,
and belongs to the Methodist church, yet
it is a home for all white, destitute
children of Mississippi, regardless of the
religious belief of their parents. The
home is now caring for one hundred and
seventy-four children, and there are
many others who are applying for ad-
mittance, and have to be turned away On
account of lack of room. Make remit
lance to Rev. w. NJ. Williams, Jackson,
Miss. JOHN H. SHERARD.
Sherard, Miss,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07
He Calls Mrs. SNOWFALL a Model Hen

and c!uckS 70 ma nerSen famous.
This hen has appeared in Wilmington
and is the property Of 14-year-old
boy Lilbourne Martin. But she is not
a native of Delaawre. No, she thanks
her feathers she was born at Bynum,
Md, and thus good old Hartford coun-
ty adds another gem to the diadem of
the state that made good eating ia
nous. Though black as a colored poll
tician, she rejoices in the name of
SnowbaA, and as such will go down In
history
For generations Maryland has been
famous for her chickens, and whether
they were fried a la Maryland or were
laid to rest in the old-fashioned pie,
they have served their country well
and have left pleasant memories be-
hind them. 1t is all the more crafty
ing to record that out of the heart Of
the fried-chicken belt has come this
phenomenal hen.
According to the records, she not
only lays two eggs day, but some
times varies it by contributing three.
for family use. If she can keep up
her record for a year this will mean
730 eggs, with few extra for Christ
mas and the Fourth of July. If all the
eggs grow up into chickens Mrs.
Snowfall would soon have enough de-
scendants to cluck around the world.
She deserve a medal from Secretary
Wilson and a eablegram from Col.
Roosevelt for her efforts to prevent
race suicide.
Mrs. SNOWFALL is a model hen. She
never worries about the fashions in
feathers; she is not forever running
off to some barnyard by the sea or
chicken house in the mountains; she
does not try to shine at bridge or out
scratch her neighbors. She stays at
home, looks after Mr. Snowfall and
the children and attends strictly to
business. Wherefore will she be re-
membered wherever the egg is held in
honor and the chicken in esteem.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07

A HEAVILY yelled woman, well
"A dressed and with an aristocratic
bearing, rushed into a Washington
bank and up to the window of the re-
ceiNing teller A number of people
were standing in line waiting to de-
post money. The man nearest the
window held in his hands a large roll
of bills and before him on the marble
counter lay leather bag in which he
carried his gold coin to the bank
With a swift glance at the teller
and no word of explanation to the
man waiting she made a quick grab
at the bag and turned hurriedly to
leave the building The man at the
window cried, "Stop!" a policeman
came running to his assistance one
hand clutched at his pistol pocket,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07
Mustard.

Mustard is the oldest of condiments.
the Egyptians regarding it as an aid
to digestion. The ancients ate 1t
freely, and it was sold by peddlers in
Solomon's time. The Normans and
Anglo-Saxons in the earliest times
never went to war without an ample
supply Of prepared mustard, they con-
sidered it both food and medicine.
The plant seems to thrive in all parts
Of the world, and is eaten by every
civilized nation and many heather
tribes, either as a spring salad, for
which the young leaves are delicious,
as a seasoning prepared from the
ground seed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07
JACKSON.
THE SENATORIAL CONTEST.
Battle Over Place of A. ]. McLaurin Will
Complicate Legislation.

Complicate Legislation.
All forms of legislation will be COM
plicated and hampered by the pending
senatorial contest, and little or no head
way can be made with revenue or APP
preparation bills until the fight has been
disposed Of according to the general
opinion among lawmakers, who have as
sembled in jackson for the biennial SEES
sion. In many quarters the opinion pre-
walls that deadlock is inevitable.
The several aspirants are maintaining
strict reticence concerning the number Of
votes they expect to muster, and from no
quarter can authentic statements on this
subject be secured. Legislators are being
deluged with letters and kilograms ask
ing for their support, but it can be stated
with absolute assurance that, up to this
time, majority of the members have
not been positively pledged.
Should deadlock develop and remain
unbroken at the expiration Of the 3O-day
limit fixed by the constitution for the
session, Gov Noel could refuse to grant
an extension.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07
Woman Causes a Big Scare in Bank

several women in the long line of
waiting patrons showed signs Of faint
ing and the widest excitement pre-
vailed. Had bank robber descended
in the guise of fashionable woman?
Put back that money!" demanded
as with one voice the banker, the pO-
liceman and all the men standing in
line at the window
Why, certainly I WILL" said the
woman who had caused all the excite
ment and who, by this time thorough
iy alarmed at the cries of everyone
about her, ventured an explanation.
81 owe you all an apology, l believe. l
was here a moment ago and forgot
pair of gloves. l left in a great hurry
and must have left them here at the
window. l had only few minutes to
catch my train to Baltimore and mis-
took that gentlemans money bag for
them They are just exactly that color,
you know"
Her explanation was sufficient and
smiles spread over the alarmed faces.
Good joke" voted the huge guar
dian of the peace, who breathed freely
again and sauntered away.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07
INSTITUTION of criminal prosecu

INSTITUTION of criminal prosecu.
I tons against perpetrators of sleep
er trunk" customs frauds with ramif-
cations in all parts of the country;
the pressing of existing indictments
to avoid lapses under the statute of
limitations and the customs investiga-
ton generally were discussed at a con-
ference at the treasury department re-
Gently. Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh, Attorney General Wicker
sham, Collector Loeb of the port of
New York, and United States Dis trict
Attorney Henry A. Wise of the south
ern district of New York, participated.
The sleeper trunk frauds, whore,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07
cI,rblno Stairs is Good Exercise.

Climbing stairs is avoided by most
women as an unsafe exercise. Yet It
is detrimental because of the bad
way in which it is done. The body
works to it's best advantage in lifting
it's own weight, as in hill-climbing.
In mounting stairs, let the chest lead,
the body remaining normally erect;
use the stair as a base upon which
the spring in the ball of the foot lifts
its weight. With a full breath lift
the body az though by the elevation
of the chest. There is a buoyance at
tending this exercise which removes
from 1t much Of its bad effects.