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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
HAS HIGH REGARD FOR U. S.
Estrada Cables State Department
Telling of His Succession.

Washington. - The first confirma.
ton of the succession of Gen. Juan
]. Estrada to the presidency of Mic,
aragua, came to the state depart.
meLt in the form of cablegram from
General Estrada himself.
Estrada said that the first official
act of the new president was to as
sure the American people of the warm
regard for them by the victorious
party and the eagerness of Nicaragua
to make restitution for the killing of
Cannon and Groce, the two Americans
executed under Zelayan rules.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
Dies From Kick of Horse.

Moline. Ill.-John T. Browning, aged
ninety-two years, Moline's pioneer at
tor1ey and philanthropist, died here
of paralysis Tuesday resulting from a
kick of a horse. The deceased was
elected state senator from this dis
trict for two terms.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
Faults In American Character.

In an address on botanical educaI
ton in America, Prof. w. F. Ganong
remarks that disregard of particulars
and tendency to easy generalities
are fundamental faults in American
character" and he insists upon the
necessity of laboratory and expert,
mental work in all scientific study,
Books lease the WITS" but tndepend'
ent observation is the source of sound
knowledge in science.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
NOTE LOADED; GIRL HURT.
Brakeman Ties Torpedo to Letter; 1t
Exploded; Road Is Sued.

Des Moines, Ia = G. r. Alex
ander, a brakeman on the Chi.
cago, Rock Island and Pacific railway,
tied torpedo as weight to a note
he had written and thrown to Miss
Elma Johnson, who lived along the
right of way. The torpedo exploded
in her hands, put out one of her eyes
and may be the cause of her losing
the other She was also damaged
about the head and her face was dis
figured. She has commenced suit
against the railway company for
$4,000 damages, claiming the COM
pany is liable for the acts of its en-
ployes.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
A Fake Camera.

"Yonder is a beach camera fiend,"
said the first bathing girl. They are
disgusting, I think"
This one is particularly disgusting"
declared the second bathing girl.
After had posed all morning for his
benefit, he ate his lunch from that
box"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
Great Trotter Sire Dead.

Lexington, Ky.-Gambetta Wilkes,
one OF the great sires of harness speed
that ever lived and the last remain
ing son of the great George Wilkes,
died Wednesday from old age, he be.
ing in his twenty-ninth year.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
Texas Heat Is Fatal.

Dallas, Textile intense heat
caused six deaths in Dallas and Fort
Worth Wednesday. The hot wave
has continued undated since the be-
ginning of August. the mercury regis
tering every day 100 or more.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
UcHIDA EXPLAINS KOREAN PACT
Japan's Ambassador Tells State De-
partment of Annexation Terms.

PdFIfnSnS OF fAHOCAdItOU ] CTI1Ss
Washington. - Baron Uchida, the
Japanese ambassador, called at the
state department where he COM
municated the terms of the con-
vention by which Korea is annexed to
Japan. This was necessary because
the Japanese foreign Office had deter
mined to postpone the publication of
the text of the documents. The United
States is interested in the absorption
of Korea because 1t has had good
trade relations with the hermit king
dom.
Baron Uchida explained to the de-
partment how the new arrangement
will operate and this was satisfactory
to this government so far as the state
department was concerned.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
10 ARE HURT IN RAIL WRECK.
Accident Occurs on Omaha Road Near
Eau Claire, Wis.

Eau Claire, Wis. - The train
on the Madison branch of the
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha railway was wrecked between
Osseo and Strum. Thirteen injured
people were taken to Strum. Three
physicians were sent from Eau Claire
on a special car attached to the
wrecking outfit.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
FIND JUNK IN MANS STOMACH
Operation Proves Fatal When Nails
Keys and Pins Are Removed.

Cairo, Ill. - Frank w. Wilson,
thirty-seven years Of age, former
ly a newspaper worker in st.
Louis, Chicago and Cairo, died here
following a surgical operation for
removal of a junk pile from his
stomach. A long button hook. hat
pin, three keys, lead pencil, belt
buckle toy pistol, three large nails
and one large needle were removed
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
TAKES 2es WORDS A MINUTE
New Yorker Wins Shorthand Cham
ponship and Cup.

Denver, Col. = Clyde H. Mar
shall of Kingston, N. Y, with an
average of 268 words a minute, won
the national shorthand reporting
championship and cup. w. B. Bot
tome of New York, holder of the title
and ineligible for the cup again, broke
the worlds record with an average of
269 words.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
Sorority Opens Session

Bloomington, Ind.-The twenty-fifth
annual national convention of the Kap-
pa Kappa Gamma sorority opened
here Wednesday. President Edith
Stoner of Kansas City presided at
Tie first business session.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
Gotham Quits Horse Car

New York.-Within a few weeks
the antiquated horse car service on
several short crosstown lines in New
York city will be discontinued and re.
placed with storage battery cars OF
the latest type.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
Pussv,s Rival.

Fights singular how those old
writer's live on and ON. can under
stand il in Plutarch's case.
Fogg-Why Plutarch especially?
Fights lives outnumber those of
a cat.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
rry to Blow Up Street Cars.

Columbus, O.-Two unsuccessful at
tempts were made Wednesday to blow
up street cars. Practically 40 dam
age was done A policemen arrested
a man on the charge of putting explo-
sives on the rails.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
MAY REJECT PANAMA ELECTION
United States Considers Interference
on Constitutional Grounds.

on CONSTITUTIONAL Grounds.
Panama.-It was stated at the
American legation that the United
States government would consider I'M
constitutional the election by the ma
tional assembly of Acting President
Carlos Mendoza as president Of the re-
public OF Panama to fill out the unfin-
ished two years of the term Of the late
President Obaldia This statement,
coming so close upon the time for the
meeting of the assembly to choose a
president, has created great sensa-
ton In political circles.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
Pope pIsapproves Female Attire.

London.-A dispatch from Rome
Tuesday stated that Pope Plus X.
has requested all bishops to publish
pastoral letters disappearing the pre-
Vailing feminine fashions.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
Mhere II Is Needed.

Said Shelf is reported that an
Ohio genius has invented an apparatus
for piercing the ears without pain.
Said He-That's good. l hope con.
gress will enact a law compelling
avery amateur vocalist to use It
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
To Ask Bids for Printing Plant.

Washington.-Bids for constructing
the new building of the bureau of
printing and engraving will be invited
by the treasury department next
month. Congress has appropriated
$1,750, 600.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
DIVORCED WOMAN STILL WIDOW
California Court Makes Decision At.
fectine Many Estates.

San Francisco - That divorced
woman is the widow of her for
mer husband, although he may have
married subsequent to the divorce,
was a decision handed down by Judge
Graham.
This is the first time such decision
has been made in this state and it at
fects many estates held in trust.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
TALKING MOTION PICTURES SOON
Edison Announces He Is Near SoIu-
tion of PuzzIinq Problem.

New York. - With the announce
ment by Thomas A Edison that
he has almost reached the solution of
the problem of making moving pic
lures that talk, the future of the
moving picture promises revolution.
Mr.. Edison has obtained satisfactory
results with a device for recording
the words as well as the actions of
actors and actresses.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
CASTRO FAMILY is EXPELLED.
Forty-Six Relatives of Ex-President
Sent Away From Venezuela.

Washington. The entire Cas-
tro family apparently has been
ousted from Venezuela A dispatch to
the state department from the Ameri-
can legation at Caracas stated that 46
relatives of former President Castro
had been expelled from Venezuela
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
FIFTEEN CITIES SHOW GAINS.
Detroit Has Greatest Increase Among
Large Municipalities.

Washington. The following are
the population figures, according
to the thirteenth census, in the
largest Is cities thus far reported,
rhOUipp fha numerical gain.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-05
RELATIVE ADVERTISING VALUE
Newspaper Only Means That Gives
: the Chance for Thoughttul Ere
sentation of Business News.

The number of merchants who Will
sit down and seriously argue that it
does not pay to advertise. is not narr
so great today as it was five years
ago. The fortunes that have been ac-
cumulated by successful advertising
the direct response of the buying pub
lie to judicious publicity, are such APP
parent facts as to have convinced
large share of the former doubters.
But occasionally there is a merchant
who gets it into his head that there is
some method of getting at the public
through some means other than news
paper space There is some serious
objection to every such method, Bill
board advertising runs up against the
growing hostility to the disfiguring OF
nature and our public streets. Many
people have resolved not to patronlze
business houses guilty of this dis
figuring form of advertising. Further
more. there is nc chance to quote
prices and describe goods in this
method of advertising in any rational
way. There is no logic in the bill
board. The latter point applies to pro-
gram advertising 1t is not advertising.
merely a mental jolt. 1t does absolute
Iy nothing to convince the reader that
you have bargains. Handful adver-
Using, without newspaper space to
back It up, looks undeniably cheap.
Street car advertising is not read by
one tenth of the population of any city
in which it is used. Figure it out for
yourself. One-half of the people of
Charleston do not ride in the cars
more than once a week. The other
one-half haven't time to read the ad-
vertising that appears directly over
their heads. The newspaper goes into
90 per cent of the homes and bust
ness houses and offices in Charleston.
People who do not subscribe for the
paper and receive 1t regularly usually
send out and borrow it in order to
read the advertisements as well as
the news items appearing therein. 1t
is the newspaper only that gives the
chance for thoughtful presentation of
business news.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-05
Noel Breaks LeVee Tie-up.

Governor Noel took the first step
toward dissolving the tie-up in the
Mississippi levee board by appointing
Hon. J. H helms of Greenville to be
president of the levee board, vice
George M. Baggett. Under the gov
ernor's construction of the statutes
and the court deci ions, this preroga
tive of appointment was undoubted
as the period for which Mr.. Baggett
had been elected ~Tas only as far as
the term of his predecessor, DR.. R. P.
Crump, extended, end that was up to
and including the second Monday in
July, which ended his two-year term
Baggett having been chosen directly
after DR.. Crump's resignation When
the new board met on July II, an eff
fort was then made to undo the work
Of the outgoing board, but here was
where undiluted trouble developed, as
the six members were evenly divided
and so the organization as effected
by the outgoing alignment could moi
be dissolved.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-05
JACKSON.
FEAR APATHY IN ELECTION.
Amendments to Constitution to Be
Voted on in the Fall.

Amendments to Constitution to Be
Voted on in the Fall.
The suggestion has been made, in
view of the fact that the rank and file
of the voters of the state are apt to
lost sight of the Importance of the
three constitutional amendments upon
which they are to be asked to vote at
the regular state election for congress-
men next November, unless some pa
triotic and unselfish statesman volun-
tarily takes the field and electioneers
in the interest of the proposed change,
that some arrangement be made so
that the state press will cooperate in
keeping them before the people from
week to week. 1t is a well-known fact
that at the congressional elections, as
a rule, where the candidates have been
nominated in the primaries, the turn
out of voters is away below anything
like sc per cent. of the registered vote
of the state, and unless some way is
devised to arouse interest in the mat
ter they are apt to go by default. In
order to carry at the polls majority
of the qualified voters voting at the
election must record themselves in the
affirmative, but It is often the case at
elections where constitutional amend
ment propositions have been voted on
that the voter, either deliberately or
through oversight, has failed to vote
either way and thus virtually is vote
cast against it.
These proposed changes are very
important, the first being to provide
for an elective judiciary, such as ex-
listed prior to 1868, when the black
and tan ruling power changed the sys-
tenn, and it is believed that the peo-
pie of the state are ready for the
to alter the constitution that all
amendments and changes submitted
to the voters of the state at one ses-
sion of a legislature and carried at
the polls, shall be inserted at the
next succeeding legislative session.
Amendment No. 8, and most impor-
tant also, is one that proposes to
amend the organic law so as to pro-
vide that each session of the legisla-
ture shall be regular, and at which it
will be competent for the legislature
to originate subjects of legislation of
its own volition, without the necessity
for a special recommendation from the
governor, as now pertains to the spe-
cial or short sessions, such as that for
1910 would have been had not the aC-
cident of death ordered it otherwise.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-05
oW Man Has Achieved
YOyagiIlg by Air Route
Operation of the Heavier
Than Air Machine De-
Scribed In Detail - Some,
of the Startling Stunts of
Hamilton andsOther Avi-
ators Who Dare.

should they not patent. it? If any in
vention should be protected from petty
larceny. why should not this, which
may prove the greatest invention of
the ages?
As the aeroplane is now perfected
its resemblance to the bird is quite
startling. The elevation rudder in front
takes the place of the head. and the
planes are widespread like the wings.
the flexible tips answering to the slant
of the wings, the guiding rudder be-
hind acting as the tail There is one
fundamental difference, however. The
bird gets its motor power by tapping
its wings Now. man has never dis
covered how to flap his mechanical
wings. The only times he ever tried
it ended in disaster. But he has learn
ed 10 run six cylinder gasoline engines
and screw propellers. Thus it is that
the aeroplane blows peoples hats off.
smells like an automobile and buzZes
like a swarm of bees. There is one
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-05
WARNS AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS.
DR.. Leathers Issues Bulletin On Dis
eases Insidiousnesses.

DR.. w. S. feathers, hygienic field
agent Of the state board of health and
director of public health and santa
tion, in a health bulletin just issued,
tells the people of Mississippi few
things that they ought to know about
tuberculosis.
DR.. feathers points out, among 9TH
er things, that the disease most often
attacks one during the most produc-
tive and useful period of life, or be-
tween the ages of twenty and forty
FIVE, and continuing, states the follow
ing:
He points out that the old idea that
consumption or tuberculosis was in
herited must be set aside, in view Of
the discoveries of scientists like Koch,
which located the germ or the ''bacil-
lus of tuberculosis, which may get
into the glands of the neck, or else
attack the throat, bowels, kidney,
brain or bones and joints, though it
more often lodges in the air passages
of the lungs, and has no respect for
ages, sex, race or class.
Closing, DR.. feathers says: "Tuber
culosis is, then, not inherited, but
person owing to some inherent weak
ness may be predisposed to it. 1t is
not contagious, like measles, but it is
communicable. Remember that the
disease can and should be prevented
and that the successful treatment of
consumption depends upon an early
diagnosis by a competent physician.
it is, therefore, a communicable, pre-
ventable, and durable disease"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-05
POOR COTTON IN DELTA.

Only 20 Per Cent. Is Good-Riverside
Counties Show Worst Returns.
The cotton crop in the great Yazoo-
Mississippi delta may exceed that of
last year; that depends upon the fut
ure 1t will not equal a full yield,
and the present prospect when COM
pared with 1908 at this date is little
short of disastrous.
I travelled Sunday from Memphis TO
Greenville by the Riverside route, and
from Greenville to Greenwood and on
Monday from Greenwood to Memphis
by way of Glendora, Tutwiler and
Clarksdale Sunfower and Leflore
counties have cotton that looks well
and is in a fine state Of cultivation,
having never suffered from too much
rain or lack of cultivation. This cot
ton is normal and may be graded as
100 Elsewhere there is not per
cent which is normal, while some is in
such poor condition as to be almost
unspeakable. OF the cotton l saw,
20 per cent is good,20 per cent is very
poor, and the remaining 60 per cent
is mixed and irregular, running from
good to very bad in the same fields,
ard will average low. The entire
delta will grade less than 70, possibly
only 20 per cent of normal, assuming
that normal is above an average, and
just a little short of perfect, which is
my conception of the governments
somewhat theoretical basis of COM
parison. If these figures were based
upon the cotton in the riverside cOun-
ties, one would not get 20 per cent of
good cotton, and the percentage would
be lower than 70. 1t is the prospect
in the eastern counties, Tallahatchie
having a fair crop, that pulls up the
average.
The pant runs from six inches to
four feet high, and from state of ex-
cellent cultivation to abandonment, al
though CT the latter there is little.
There is one bright feature, and l
hasten to chronicle it. That is the
corn. 1t is green and big and excep-
ing the very late planting, which is a
small percentage of the whole, has al
ready formed fine line of ears which
will be matured moderately well with
out more rain. With one more rain
its excellence will be beyond question.
Until a few years ago a cornfeld of
any size was rare in the delta. Now
there are blocks that look like those
in Illinois or Oklahoma.
In Lefiore and Sunflower counties
saw many acres of field peas, patches
of alfalfa and soy beans and green
health corn waist high which has been
planted following the harvest of oats.
Every cornfeld had peas among the
corn. In the riverside counties there
is little of this, and perhaps herein lies
in some measure the explanation OF
the poorer crops.
At Stonevire is located the state ex-
pertinent fa~~1. The crops on it we're
better than those of the farms adj
joining Mr. Fox is leading his neigh
bors, at least, to better methods and
greater independence.-J. B. Turner in
Commercial Appeal.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-05

advantage in the propeller, however. II
gets speed. 1t would take a rather
husky bird to fly from Albany to New
York in one forenoon or TO go from
New York to Philadelphia and back in
one day. yet the aeroplane manages
both with seeming ease.
Abandonment of the Balloon.
For century or more the aeronaurs
confined their attentions TO the balloon.
finally perfecting the dirigible. which
reached its highest standard under
Santos Dumont in France and Count
Zeppelin in Germany. The aeroplane
is an American invention Since its
advent the balloon dirigihle or other
wise. has become back number The
gas bag. which rises on the same prin-
cipe as does "a bubble in water. may
be all right for county fairs. but for
real air travel it il out of it. pasSe and
a has been
The mechanical arrangement of the
aeroplane is simplicity itself. For eX-
ample take the machine used by Glenn
AuItlSS al MS IlIEllt HUH -AiOOLN w
New York. distance of $50 miles
Thp same principles are involved in
this as in the Wright biplane. as evil
denced by the suit of the Wright
brothers against Curtiss for infringe
ment OF patent The two sustaining
planes of the Curtiss machine are
thirty feet from tip TO tip and four
feet apart The seat of the operator
and the engine are situated between
these PLANES. the screw propeller being
just behind the engine; The steering
wheel is immediately in front of the
operator and controls both the eleva
ton planes. which are ahead. and the
steering rudder in the rear. The eleva-
ton planes are controlled by a back
ward and forward motion of the
wheel he steering rudder by a turn
of the wheel as on a ship or an auto
mobile. The equilibrium planes are at
the ends If the main sustaining planes
and are controlled by a movement OF
the operafor'S hudy which GlSo moves
the back of his seat which In turn Is
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-05
Where MANY Fail,

There are many people in business
today who can select goods needed by
the people and buy them at the right
price. They can also sell them when
they get customer before the coun-
ter. But they fail to do a paying bust
ness because they do not make them
selves or their store we'll known in
the community. They may be honest
and deal fair, but the people do net
know it. They fail because they are
too timid to blow their own horns"
No business was ever built up on the
floating trade from their sidewalk.
The shrewd business man makes his
name and business popular by keeping
them before the people and by fair
dealing with those he thus induces to
visit him.-Barberton (O.) Telegram.