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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-05-06

A citizens meeting at Columbus,
which was largely attended, resulted in
the appointment of committee to can
vass the manufacturing plant managers
or owners and ascertain approximately
what amount of natural gas they will
contract for annually. 1t is estimated
that ali annual amount of $45, 1000 will
be consumed by the plants, and if this
amount is secured the remaining $4,000,
necessary to obtain the pipe line from
Fayette, Ala, will be a certainty
Ed Keaton, 40 years old, who lives
near Natchez, declares that he is de-
termined to. die a natural death. Last
week he was bitten by "a rattlesnake,
but the doctors say he will get well.
The Illinois Central and Southern
Railways have issued notices of a pas.
senger rate into GrecnYiIle May II, IL
and 10, good to return 18th. from all
points in Mississippi, of one fare for
round trim, plus twenty-five cents, On
account of the aviation meet in that
ClIy Nd L.. lHt OIdlOIlCSl COuJeSI anu
track meet May 10, and the final game
between the University and A. & NJ.
College tears Nay IA.
The Hattiesburg lodge of Elks is
working on plan to send an exhibit
of the resources of that section to the
grand lodge meeting in Detroit in July.
At least $4,000 will be necessary to
make a creditable showing, and this it
is proposed to raise by popular subscrip-
ton.
Natchez lodge of B. p. o. Elks have
announced the completion of the pro-
gramme To- the entertainment of dele
gates to the state convention, which
n.eets in that city on May 1919. A
steamboat excursion, ball and ban
quet are among the pleasures that will
be provided the guests.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-05-06

From graduating class in Lehigh Uni,
versity to the job of chairman in an Hi
nois Central surveying party, thence
to the office of chief engineer of right
of way with jurisdiction over 5000
miles of railway, is the remarkable his
tory of L. W. Baldwin, who for little
more than year has been division SUI
perintendent of the Yazoo and Missis-
sip2i Valley, with headquarters in
Greenville.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-05-06

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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-05-06

Members of the Natchez LODGE of Els
are greatly incensed on account of the
declaration of Judge Wilkinson, in hi.
charge to the grant jury that the Elks
Club keeps intoxicf ti.s tues Tor IL
legal purposes. Judge WiiSi- son yr~as
the grand jury to rake a thorough in,
vestigation of the mat er.
The board of trustees of Grenada Col
lege elected Rev. John r. Countiss presi-
dent, to succeed Rev. w. F. Clifton. who
resigned several weeks ago. Mr.. Coun-
tiss is a graduate OF Alil!saps College.
and is regarded as one of the brightest
men in the North Mississippi conference.
The Hiwannee Lumber Company of
Shubuta and Hiwannee has been placed in
the hands of a receiver. The two plants.
including the light plant at Shubuta, and
the railroads, with the timber, is valued
at 100000, and the liabilities are about
one-third of their assets.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-05-06

Money and icweIry to the value of
more than $1,000, and deeds of trust,
notes and other papers worth approxim-
ately $4,000, were stolsn from leather
suitcase in the home of negro woman
at Friars Point, and thus far all Efforts
to locate the stolen property or appre-
bend the thief have failed. The stolen
property belonged to florence Johnson.
well-to-do nero woman.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-16
AS To Moral Questions


decide the liquor
Ia the of good
dividing the
into hostile factions purely MORAL QUESTIONS -
All that stealing gambling
selling involve moral questions economic and social conditions drive
to boh moral questions
What shall call of society which and dwas the
through injustice
sweatshop methods
The less han the Grimm pocketg
questions Unsanitay tenement
police state national legislation
the execution equality be obtainedhat rich and
weak shall have immunity all moral
their existence.
should divided
ohostle camps because labeled differently.
rather the Then
the will Start
candidate stands the things
that
If the candidates declared themselves call them to do
candidate candid and honest with before election
afford o after election
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Ar a bi a n AND. AND ...,.s.
N i g h t s '''' ... e, s'. Boys
THE FISHERMAN AND THE
CENT?

Once upon a time there was a
fisherman so poor that he could
scarcely provide his family with
even the poorest food and cloth
ing. One day he had been fish
ing many hours. and his net had
been filled only with mud and
shells. Once more he cast his net
and drew it up again. This time
in IL lay queer bottle, the neck
of which was tightly sealed. The
fisherman took out his knife and
pried II open. A thick black
smoke came pouring out. Gradu-
ally this smoke formed itself into
a very terrible giant, who de-
manded in a terrible tone, ''In
what manenr would you prefer to
die?"
The fisherman threw himself
down before this being and asked,
when / have just rescued you
from q prison, why do you wish
to put me to death?" That"
said tho monster, 81 will explain:
Long ago | was shut up by the
magic power of a man whom / re-
fused to obey. At first, I swore
that would make the person who
rescued me rich and famous, but
no one came. Finally, after an
Imprisonment of many weary
years, l vowed to put to death the
man who set me free, only per-
hitting him to choose the manner
of his death. So prepare for
yours"
Now the fisherman was in a
great quandary and he was
obliged to think very hard. Sud-
denly a brilliant idea came to him.
Answer me Just one question be-
fore you kill me-" he begged.
Were you really in that little
bottle; l can scarcely believe it."
Nevertheless" answered the
genie, sit is true" '"Then prove
it to. me-" said the fisherman
scornfully, "by getting back into
the bottle"
That" said the genie, will be
a very simple matter" and
straightway he began dissolving
himself in smoke. Little by little
the smoke began to enter the
bottle, until it was all inside
Then, quick as fash, the fish,
erman put the cork in again, and
breathed a sigh of relief at his
lucky escape. "Now," he cried,
Il will throw you back into the
sea and be well rid of you"
The genie, re-imprisoned in his
narrow bottle, begged the fisher
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man to free him again, promising
him SO many riches and SO much
happiness that at length the fish
erman was persuaded, and I'M
corked the bottle again. The
mist rose from it, and finally the
genie re-appeared. He kicked his
former prison into the sea; then
he told the fisherman to pick up
his nets and follow him. They
walked a long distance till they
reached the shore of lake, and
here the genie babe his companion
sink his nets. The latter did so,
and drew up great number OF
fish of most surprising colors-
white, red, yellow and blue. One
of each color the fisherman was
allowed to keep. Take them
said the genie, ito the sultan, for
he will pay you well. But you
must never fish here more than
once day or something terrible
will happen to YOU" and with
these words he disappeared.
The sultan was rery much
pleased with the fish and paid
literally for them. We will hear
more of this fisherman later.
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eking out the barest subsistence
with a few weekly ounces of dust.
All around them men were maxi
ing rich strikes. Fools" they
called the two, and perhaps just
ly. Bred in the east, neither had
had experience in gold washing
nor knew where to look for the
dust, in the heaped-up detritus of
the river beds.
Two days previously they had
abandoned everything = huts,
picks, spades-and started down
the road to winter quarters, now
crossing the Yukon, now travers-
ing the icy bed of the majestic
river.
Then, toward nightfall, by the
merest chance, they had come on
the boulder. 1t was one of those
rare alluvial deposits of solid
metal that are sometimes washed
Que of the, bowels of the noun
tains by underground streams.
The largest nugget known, the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-16

Editor Times: AS to what
Roosevelt will do. we understand
he will speak for Lodge in Mas
sachusetts, the tool and ally of
Aldrich, Morgan, Guggenheim
and Standard Oil, and for Bever-
idge in Indiana, who stands with
LaFollette, Dolliver, Bristow and
Others for tariff reform and
some other things in the interest
of the people. In Massachusetts
he will speak for Lodge and high
protection and the big interests;
in Indiana he will answer himself
in this joint debate with himself,
and turning himself inside out, he
will with the same theatrical in
tensity and vaudeville heroics
snsst for Beverfdge. tariff reform
and the common people as against
.'malefactors of great wealth"
/ 1t appears Roosevelt is for any
body or anything that will further
Roosevelt personal ends. This
surely is a new order of states
manship.
Lincoln and several other of
our great statesmen had convie-
lions and also had the courage of
their convictions, but Roosevelt
"Is twisting in and twisting out,
And keeping the people still in
doubt
Whether the snake that made the
track
Is going south or coming back. -
w. p. BROWN.
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S0IE1Yes

brides father win perform the
ceremony.
In honor of Mrs. William Dick
son, who leaves for the Orient this
week, Mrs. A. C. Young enter
tanned at tea yesterday at her
home on North C street.
Mrs. A. l.. Fisher and Mrs. G.. Il.
Robinson will be hostesses today
and tomorrow at cards at the
home of Mrs. Fisher ON Prospect
Hill.
Col. A. j. Baker of San Angelo,
Texas, is a guest of his daughter,
Mrs. Alexander Wingfield. Mrs.
Wingfield is also hostess for her
sister, Mrs. James e. Henderson,
and son. also of Texas.
Mrs. Hnel'y Blakeiy and her
daughter, Mrs. Allan Gibbs Carey
of st. Paul, left for Moclips to-
day. From there they will go to
Portland for a few days.
Mrs. Bruce Honeyman, who has
been visiting with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Blakely, has
returned to her home in Portland.
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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE TACOMA TIMES

save themselves. Suddenly Bill
Crawford saw Waits eyes fix in
horror upon the opposite edga.
The gold boulder. freed BY "a
sudden caving in of the bank,
rolled down the declivity, STRUCK
the ice, SKINNED the surface one
instant, and plunged With 8
mighty splash into the open water.
Drenched to the skin, helplessly
clinging to a floe, the men hae
no further heart for fight. Will
the disappearance of the gold the
enmity seemed to shrivel up with
in their hearts. They looked at
one another silently. Then Bill
stretched out his hand. The 9TH
er grasped it silently.
Fools luck!" he said.
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Under the direction of Mrs. j..
s. Thomas, the president of the
Ladies' Musical club, arrange
are being made for the
concert which will include
John Spargur, the new concert
meister of the Seattle symphony
orchestra.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Foster
and Mr.. and Mrs. James Gillison
are at Lake Cushman for the
week.
Miss Margaret Coenen leaves i'm
a few days for a two years tour
of Europe. Miss Coenen is an
accomplished violiniste and will
continue her studies abroad.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Rhodes and
their daughter. Vera, leave for
New York on Thursday. From
there they will sail August 80,
via the Holland-Amerioan line, to
Europe, to remain for several
months.
With the fall terms soon COM
mencing in the California and
Eastern colleges, many Tacoma
young men and women are leay-
ing the city every day. Miss
Catherine Hill and Miss Ruth
Pratt leave for Mills college in
California today and Harry Nc
Cormack and Edwill Darmer are
off to Berkeley.
Miss Helen Lane, daughter OF
DR.. and Mrs. Thomas Lane, will
wed Earl M. Giesey of Wheeling
West Virginia, this evening at the
First Methodist church. The
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-16
Editor Times: l was very glad

Editor Times: ] was very glad
to read the communication from
"a Subscriber and Steady Read
er" in regard to the crooked
merchants In Tacoma. 1t is
surely high time that something
was being done to prevent mer-
chants from stealing from the
public. Inspectors of weights and
measures would be all right, but
1t might take some time before
such inspectors will be installed.
In the meantime / would suggest
that people closely watch If they
get 16 ounces to the pound. If
they do not get it, then make
public the name of the crooked
dealer.
A short time ago ! had the fol-
lowing experience: ordered a
pound of cheese in a store. The
dealer had some kind of automat-
ic cheese cutter and he cut q
piece off, wrapped 1t without
weighing it. After paying him
for one pound, laid the cheese on
the scale and found there was
only about II ounces. / exposed
him to about half-dozen Gus
toners who were present in the
store. expecting that they surely
would take the hint and buy else
where. Whether they did or not,
! do not know. as none of them
had anything to say.
Before ] left got 16 ounces OF
heese-that is, If his scale is not
false perhaps it is.
VIII someone else please relate
their experience along these lines
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-16
HE WRENCHED KNIFE FROM
HIS PARTNERS GRIP.

Australian, weighs So pounds.
This must have weighed close
upon fifty. 1t was a fortune.
And it weighed them-in their
weakened state-down like poor
horses under a load.
They had tried to break it,
but had no tools. 1t seemed to
have cast enmity upon them
formerly inseparable companions
they loked at one another
askance.
This meant a fortune, even II
shared. But each hated the
other and coveted his portion.
That night, lying awake, staring
at the metallic mass, which scin-
tillated in the pure moonbeams,
Bill Crawford schemed to possess
it. I'll was his He had first
sighted it.
Quietly he arose and looked
down at his sleeping companion.
Then, from its sheath he drew his
hunting knife. And he crept to-
ward him, softly. He drew the
knife through his fingers, poised
K for moment--
Suddenly he realized that Walt
was no longer in his sleeping
bag. He looked around in bewil-
derment. A shadow seemed to
move among the dark pines by
the river bank. Then a bullet
whizzed past his head, and he
saw his comrade standing amid a
cloud of acrid revolver smoke.
With a bound he was upon
him. Walt fired again. He miss
| ed; and now the elder man was
upon him, the knife appraised, and
Walt was gripping him by the
arm and throat.
The revolver lay, still smok-
ing, upon the ground. Now II
was a fight for the knife. They
rolled upon the ground like saw
age beasts, their fingers bleeding
from the keen edge of the blade,
but Needless of the pain. At last
upon the verge of the bank, Wall
Igot the upper hand. He wrenehet
1.-THE knife from his partners grip
and reaching backward for his
aim, stumbled over a root, ant
the two rolled, locked in eacl
other's embrace. upon the half
melted ice of the Yukon, bringine
down their tent and its equip
ment with them.
| Even as they struggled under
the weight of the canvas they
heard the Ice give. A pool Of
dark water opened in teh midst;
they released each other and
caught desperately at the floes Il
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-16
ANNOUNCEMENT!

On account of the increased
cost of living, the Daily Thing is
forced to increase its price to
three and a half beans, instead of
three beans, as heretofore. (FoI
sale by all newsdealers.) The
Thing offers a beautifully auto
graphed photograph of Mr.. Rich
ard Achilles Ballinger to the
reader who most skillfully splits
the fourth bean.
The annual subscription rate
remains at two carrots and eight
sweet potatoes-payable in adj
vance.
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T. r. & P. Wants Peace

The street railway Cliff avenue on the
making bluff at trying
determined yield to the
people Tacoma, as a matter of fact it
losing fight The federal court thus
found there intima-
a may off.
getting thunder for the
battle expects Commissioner the Cliff avenue
will be something doing
elsewhere,
surprise the offers terms
settlement
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DailJyborfS1orY

stake-and doing two-mile an
hour." the elder growled. Cant
you do better, Walt?"
How did you do when YOU
toted 1t, BILL" returned his part
ner.
Open 1t and let's see the
darned thing" cried the elder
The other opened his bundle,
and reaching in with both arms,
exposed to view boulder Of pure
gold.
For six months they had
toiled in the Alaskan gold fields,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-16
E4pES0]B1ai'

Angel Rolls.-Bake an angel
food cake In a pan about IL by
six by three inches. Let cool, cut
in slices as thin as possible, thin
off brown edges. Spread ehch
slice with icing, sprinkle With
chopped nuts; roll 1t up. stick
through with toothpick and
stand on end. When all are done
in this way, begin with the first
ones and ice outside, rolling in
chopped nuts. A drop of icing
and half a nut make a nice fin
ish for the top of the roll. When
icing has set, take out picks. A
half pound of shelled almonds are
needed for the recipe.
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OBSERVATIONS

dropped with tremendous noise at Council
the whole looking
Maybe twas only "Uncle joe"
adopting the style of
painted cheaper than mllners
BIRTHPLACE of Rutherford B. Hayes has burned at Della
who Rutherford B. Hayes?
NEWLY constable raided Island and
tables
trouble getting 40 subscriptions
to Who"
supported the party
would longer him. decided kill much of it
could. That's politics.
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BY Perciyal Blink.

Hotchy Kotchy Valley, Maui
Igest 16.-I am probing.
The result of the probe is
astonishing!
l never imagined before where
all the water went to. I don't
yet.
One thing is certain: the wa
ter trust, controlled by ]. Pierp
Guggenbilt, has the people of this
country in its grasp. I will tell
you how found this out. / went
to see Mr.. Guggenbilt.
1T is all lie," said Mr.. Gug-
genbilt. Its dastardly, Had
vised rapscallion, contemplate,
scoundrelly lie, cooked up by my
dastardly and contemplate enc
mics for political capital!!.!!!"
Knowing Mr.. Guggenbilt as
do, l am able to state authorita-
lively that he is in absolute con-
troll of the water.
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I I

In framing up our stay-at-home
vacation we had been real foxy,
my friend Goldie Gumdrop and
me, by stocking up with eats for
the week we would be at our
own fireside, alias the Thousand
Islands. We figured on loafing
round the house In our kimonos
and not cooking except when we
felt hungry and eating cold vittles
when we didn't feel like cooking
but we did expect to drink a
whole lot of milk. We got up
late and peeped out---but there
was no milk. One of us was just
going to risk slipping out and
getting some milk, when we saw
Mrs. Meddleheimer chase the milk
man from our door with the re-
mark that we'd gone away for the
summer. Lady Meddleheimer,
next door, had butted in.
Here was a howdy-dol We're
dead sore on Lady Meddleheimer,
and she on us. We hadn't thought
of her, and now here she was to
spy on US and give US dead away
to every body as fourfiushing
about going on trip. 1t nearly
made us sick. There wasn't moth.
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FOOLS LUCK
BY Harold Carter.

BY Harold Carter.
Two men, limping painfully
along the icy river bed. paused
before q board mailed to a tree
on which was screwled: FORTY
fpilc to Broken Canoe" They set
their bundles down and looked at
oach other. The younger's bur
aen seemed OF etrrific weight. FOR
he could hardly raise it from his
SHOULDER.
Forty mile to the next Cub
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your heart, chloroform him and
call the family pastor. Times
almost up.
Q.-Should man propose to a
girl on his knees?
Aft he does not she ought
to get off.
Q.-Please tell me how to pre-
serve peaches.-Bride Elect.
A.-Marry 'em.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-16

Orr esteemed contemporary
Theo. Roosevelt has been CLEAN
ing items for his paper in Scran-
ton recently.
Joe Plodder's bay mare is re-
covering from an attack of the
spavins. She was attended by DIR.
Tompkins.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-16

Few of the sleeves seen in the
afternoon gowns reach further
than the elbow. When they ex-
tend to the wrist they are finish
ed with an undersleeve of chiffon.
In shirtwaists of the tailored
variety the wide Gibson plat
continues to give the broad shout
dered effect which is always in
demand.
Buttons are used once more to
trim coats and suits. The horn
buttons are considered a great
deal more fashionable than those
made of cloth.
The wide silk rubber girdles,
studded with jet or steel, and az
companied by wide, long sashes,
worked with the jet or steel, lAre
popular where a two-piece los
tune admits of the separate
girdle.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-16

Ye scribe has seen some purity
big pumpkins this year, but few
finer than the one with which
Josh Squires paid up his sub
scription today. Come again,
Josh.
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Peter Newcomb's wife died last
week. Pete is the genial proprie-
tor of our town emporium. His
advertisement will be found on
page s..
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TODAY IN HISTORY
The cat had kittens. (She
hasn't them now.)
GUGGENBILT UNMAsKED!

dong recognized as the star
mucker of the world, we have
Pereival Blink to
probe the great water problem.
Writing from Hotchy-Kotchy val
ley he today opens the first heart
gripping chapter of Where the
Water Goes To. Eddy Torr.)
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CLYNTHIA BRAY'S TIPS.

Q.-I am thirty
seven and have
been going with a
gentleman friend
10 years, What
maidenly means
can / take to bring
him to my feet?-
Migionette.
A.-Forget the
feet. Grab him to
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-16

Oscar Peterson. the popular
southpaw slab artist on our town
team, has been drafted into the
Ak league. We predict a bril-
liant future for Oscar.
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JOSH WISE SAYS:

"They call a man 'financerly
embarrassed when no word kin
describe tn emotions o. his credi-
tors"
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Plume work. Old pIumes made
new for little money For the negt
10 days We will allow a special
work Old hats reblooked and
cleaned 50 per cent discount on All
trimmed hats.
MODEL MILLINERY pARLoHs
Itzz Provident Bldg. Pac. ava
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IN THE PUBLIC EYE
WATCH AND WAIT!


Our art staff is either taking
a vacation or on strike. We won't
know just which until he gets
back. Just the same we are COM
ing through with that Everett
True thing If we have to draw it
myself. And it's going to be some
pic, too, believe us. Watch, wait
and trust. DON'T MISS THE
NEXT NUMBER. Grasp your
three and half beans tightly be-
tween thumb and forefinger. Pay
as you enter.
Let 'er go, professor!
SIGN LANGUAGE
She was the in the ID play,
Rugged out in :ial buds.
A ing, cal, but Fable Jay
Quite oft made .ical calls.
He was 3e-uries old, ;tal in taste,
But he ne'er spent on the
So she saved all her $s, not
would she waste,
And drank at the N bar.
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BY FRED sCHAEFER.

ing to do but stick 1t out and not
even make a noise that would get
her to nosing in. Even IL we'd
pretend to come back right away
she'd have something ON us to
talk about for a year.
Thank goodness, the house is
cool and we've got plenty of
canned goods.
(Continued.)