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Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-05-04
FINE SHOW

One of the best shows of the sea
sonis being put on at the Macdonald
The new showhouse opposite the
postoffice has been opened AMI last
nightg vas crowded. The movin
pictures are exceptionally fine and
the subjects are very good.
FOR SALE-A nice, large crib,
green enamcled. as good as w
with woven wire mattress; cost
$1,000, will sell for 5000 now. In
quire at this office.
FOR RENT
Five room house, completely fur
nished. Apply 210 Sd Street.
BARKLEY'S FOR THE GOODS
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-05-04
WANTED .-.Succcssful Gasoline

WANTED -~.Succcseful Gasoline
Light Statesmen, who are 10Y max
ing $500 to $500 per month to han
die only instantaneous Lighting
Systems. No alcohol, step ladders,
torches, matches or time wasted;
pull the chain, they light instantly;
home and commercial lighting;
small capital required. Gloria
Light Co., 1277 Washington, Chi
cagN.
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FINE DISPLAY
If Won want to see 4 fine display OF
ieWe ~. umbrellas, cut glass, etc, go
70 the Golden Jewelry cOmpany's store
opposite the rOst office.
A nice. cozy sitting DON at Bark
ley's I.se cold lays, and the very
choices If liquid eff refreshments.
Drink something good and get it
at Barkley's opposite the depot.
BARKLEY'S FOR THE GOODS
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21

honest, they are none the less fellow
mortals in need. The very village
that | have just mentioned was facing
imminent starvation; not a grain OF
rice, or wheat could be found in any
of the homes, and the family cooking
pots contained only sweet potato
leaves. Throughout the famine re-
gion the people are subsisting solely
on leaves, weeds. fungus, bark and
roots. The supply of these is now
giving out. Nobody but the Chinese
could have STAYED off death so long.
The peasants in the famine area
have sold their live stock, as we'll as
their other possessions, and now they
themselves are glad to eat the fod-
der. A priced food at present is the
refuse of bean oil and peanut oil.
which ordinarily is used for fertilizer
The few remaining pigs that are now
being butchered are SO thin that they
render no Hard, and lard has conse-
quently more than doubled in price
Having -scruples against taking life
(the Chinese Mohammadens are the
butchers of this country, the famine
sufferers are waiting for their dogs
and cats to die that they may eat
them. l saw dogs so nearly starved
that they could not bark. 1t will be
poor meal that any family will make
from its household pets, for the lat
ter are only skin and bones.
Starving-Yet Not Hungry.
Many curious sidelights on the fam
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
A Plea For The Housewife.

1t is extremely unpleasant for 4
sensitive woman who, before mar
riage, had been earning her own liv-
ing, and had been accustomed to
spending her income as she pleased,
TO ask a man for money to buy ever
ything she needs, such as cotton,
needles, pins, etc, etc. 1t seems TO
US no more than right that a man
should give his wife, for her own ne
cessities, at least half as much mon
ey as he would a servant. She keeps
his house, provides for the comfort
of himself and children, not for hire,
but because she loves them, and she
cares for her husbands interests as
no hired housekeeper, would and is
she not entitled to pay for her servi-
ces? Yet some men would think it a
hardship to pay Il wife 3, 90 week
the amount he would be obliged to
pay servant girl. There is many a
woman among the working classes
who would think herself mighty ia
vored if she were sure of fifty cents
per week of her husbands wages to
spend as she pleased. The above hints
are for the husbands who need them
and written in consideration OF their
good wives.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21

A happy home Is the brightest
spot on earth that the eye Of God
looks down upon. Love and peace in
his home sends sunshine around the
man wherever ne goes; disorder and
trouble there is misery everywhere.
There are few worries Of life which u
man cannot now aud then shake off.
but who can shake himself free from
the skeleton in the closet, from the
worry of the household, blister on
the heart. A day will tell how many
q man carried that with him without
wincing down to the grave. When
husband aud wife are helpmate to
each other in the best sense; when
order and love and goodness prevail
in tile house. Then The man who has
Il lard battle in life to fight can leave
his struggles behind him when he
enters there. With all our faults we
are the most home loving of people
and that is the reason why we are
the greatest of people. Whatever
helps home life is national blessing
what ever hurts home life is d ma
tional curse, and the greatest curse
that can touch these blessings is
what would tamper with the peace
and bIessednesS of our homes.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
Faithful Lab0rerS.

There is one class of iabOrerS who
never strike and seldom complain.
They get up at five O'Clock in the
morning and never get back to bed
until ten or eleven o'clock ut night;
they work without ceasing the whole
of that time, and receive no other
emolument than food ana he plain
est kind of clothing; they understand
something Of every branch of cconO
my and labor, from finance to cook
ing; though harassed by hundred
res possibilities, though driven and
worried, though reprOached and look
ing down upon they never revolt and
they cannot organize for their own
protection. Not even sickness re-
leases them from their posts No
sacrifice is deemel too great for them
to make, and no incompetency in any
branch of their work is excused. No
essays, books or poems are written
in tribute to their steddfdstness.
They die i'll the harness and are sup
planted as quickly as may be. These
are the housekeeping wives Of the
labOrlng men.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21

Shanghai, China. A famine at
close range is not a pretty sight
1t gets on ones nerves. Homesick-
ness, starvation, freezing, disease
these are not pleasant to contemplate
day and night, for months on end.
That some of the missionaries are be-
ginning to show signs of the strain is
not surprising, for they, and they
alone of all foreigners, are living eye
to eye with the famine at its worst.
Since they are cultivated, refined
men and women, with sensitive SYM
pathies, they are in many instances
doubtless suffering more than the
furnishing Chinese themselves.
1t rather interfered with my slum-
bers at Suchien to hear the wierd,
plaintive and prolonged wall of beg
gar at the gate, crying until far into
the night that he was starving, starv-
ing, starYin~, and would perish unless
the nobfe-hearted foreigners would
give him help. The numbers of
corpses to be seen on the streets of
mornings proves that his prediction is
no idle beggars' plea; the mortality
among mendicants, since the people
who ordinarily feed them have them
selves become beggars, is really ap-
palling. Thrice 1 passed through the
streets of Suchien at night, and at
every turn there was huddled some
shivering, homeless, hungry creature
Wailing his starvation cry
There is scarcely a missionary in
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21

the famine region who does not re-
tire at night with the nerve-racking
cry of a beggar at his gate resounding
in his ears. Yet it is impossible, as |
have seen, to give help at the gate;
such an action would bring down a
perpetual mob upon one; a mob, too,
in which the less worthy cannot be
distinguished from the absolutely per-
ishing. In these times, only the lat
ter can command attention.
tricks That Are Vain.
1t is not for gratitude and loyalty
that these suffering Chinese are being
helped. Three times out of four the
has been given, instead Of knocking
his head on the ground in gratitude,
after the Chinese custom, will only
importune for more. These poor are
like the horse leach's daughters, cry
ing, Give, Give!" and, like Sheol and
Abaddon, they are never satisfied. The
impression that these famine victims
are going about singing the praises
of those who have put bread into
their mouths is a mere fancy, the
Chinaman is an ungrateful customer
and unless he is closely watched he
will, by ways that are dark, secure
double portion of relief for himself.
The women missionaries at one sta
ton are giving their time to making
over clothes for the innumerable i'll
clad refugees; as a result some per
sons have presented themselves abso-
lutely naked at the dispensary. 1t
was found that some Chinese were
coming twice for clothes; now every
recipient of aid is marked between
the shoulder blades with a nitrate OF
silver pencil. In former famine the
expedient was adopted by the mission
aries of shaving off a portion of one
eyebrow as a means of Identification.
The authorities at some points require
each person who receives government
relief to dip his hand into a bowl of
dye, but the shrewd natives know how
to remove this, and the missionary
doctor has been applied to for some
chemical which cannot be washed off!
This is the sort of thing which
makes all missionary work in China
so discouraging. One day l went with
a missionary to take a census of a
destitute village. Further investiga-
ton showed that every family had
for this occasion increased the num-
Der of it's children two-fOld, while no
less than ten families outside of the
village had registered themselves as
residents. If there are any more con-
slant and unblushing liars in the
world than the Chinese, l hope it
may never be my lot to have dealings
with them.
Cattle Fodder for Human Beings.
An admirable trait of these mis-
sionaries is that they are impelled to
their labors by deeper motives than
the deserving of those whom they
seek to help. They realize that even
if the Chinese are unloyely and DIS
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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21

inc are seen by the missionaries. A
great number Of patients at the dis
pensaries complain that they are not
hungry, and cannot bear to eat food,
even when they can get it. They do
not realize that this is the last stage
OF Starvation. Even more pathetic is
the case of the little children. whose
mothers have discovered a certain
weed, which, without affording any
nutrition, nauseates them just enough
to keep them from crying for food.
OF course many persons are being
poiTned by eating the wrong kinds CT
weeds; in their desperation they fill
their stomachs with any green thing
they can fnd
Disease is yet to reap its worst har-
vest over the sIaitten area. Smallpox
is now ravag ihg the center of the
famine region, one house in three be-
ing affected. Medical attention is not
sought and vaccination is declined. In
one house found the family gathered
in the same room with a man whose
face was swollen, black and outbroken
in the worst imaginable case Of small
pox. The wife was calmly combing
her hair!
Famine fever is scarcely beginning
its ravages, although thousands will
perish from this cause before Spring.
When the worse plaques come the
missionaries will be in real danger.
One of the doctors at Tsin-Kiang has
not yet wholly recovered from an at
tack of famine fever some years ago.
The nervous exhaustion incident to
the extraordinary strain and work of
famine relief is telling on some mis-
sionaries. One of the most efficient
men is able to sleep only few hours
every night.
While on the subject of sickness it
is worthy of note that the only living
skeletons produced thus far by the
famine have been found in the hospit-
ais, and they were suffering from dis
ease as well as starvation. AS a mat
ter of record starvation here does not
produce the emaciation which is so
notable in the Indian famines. Those
in the last stages of hunger become
bloated and swollen, as with dropsy.
The one certain characteristic of the
tamishing, and 1 have noticed it In
the case of two out Of three persons
met in the rural parts of Kiangpeh, is
the peculiar famine pallor-a lividness,
business, and tenseness which
overspreads the features. This is the
signature of starvation
The Grim Reaper's Harvest.
AT the end of January, the famine
deaths are only beginning, although
from the corpses have seen, and the
poor, hasty grave mounds, and the lit
tie rag of white on women's heads, in
lieu of full mourning, should imagine
that the grim reaper had been having
a rare harvest.
With a calm certainty that is hor-
rible. the missionaries assure you that |
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
II Nav Be True.

A Pittsburger who was stopping at
a hotel in this city was having a much
more hilarious time than the manager
Of the house thought best for the com
fo-t of the other guests, and he was
invited to leave. The man was feel
ing about as happy when the invita-
ton was extended as at any other
time since his arrival in town. He had
his suitcase partly packed in the
chechroom of the hotel and sent a
bell boy up to his room after the rest
of his belongings. The boy came back
with a good-sized armful of shirts,
neckties and linen.
Standing in the lobby of the hotel
the Pittsburger dumped the whole
mess into the case and closed it. Then
he babe the manager adieu and start
ed out, with shirtsleeves, neckties,
and legs OF unmentionables dangling
from the case. The manager directed
the Pittsburger's gaze upon the array.
Boy" ordered the happy one, "a
pair of s-s-schissors' A few minutes
later he proceeded before an amused
crowd to trim the suitcase from stem
to stern. Then, leaving the trimmings
on the lobby floor, he tackled toward
the door-New York Sun.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
FRIDAY ...... January q,
EDITORIAL

The editorship of the New Orleans
Christian Advocate which is the ta,:
Grated conference organ for the
three conferences of Louisiana, Miss
issippi and North Mississippi of the
Southern Methodist Church, has I'M
dergone a change beginning with the
New Year, Rev. Jno w. Boswell re-
firing at his own request, and Rev.
Robt. A. Meek of Mississippi sue
ceeding him. Boswell had greatly
built that paper up during his adj
ministration and swung a vigorous
pen. being one of the stalwart lead
ers of the conservative wing of his
church. Meek enters onto the work
with great promise, having already
penned some striking things. He
graduated at the State University of
Mississippi.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
Good Morning,

\ CHEEKY Good Morning oftens
sends Il ray of sunshine streaming
through the innermost rece 5ses of ii
household, resting there all the live
long day, and again follows hasten
ing footsteps into the mart of bnsi-
ness, lighting up and frightening
" the way of the world as it goes. A
hearty good night often 500, hes
many troubled mind to resi-, and
heals the wounds which have either
came anew to struggling soul or
been re-opened by the harsh words
or deeds that are spoken or done in
serson or out of season, as the daily
battle of our life progresses.
Good morning" with heartfull
wish for blessings in the tone OF lis
ptterance, cheers the heart OF faint
and fearful ones, and softens many
a hard spot that has place by inherl-
tance or cultivation, in the breast,
of humanity. The love light, that
beams fron the eye when one is ore, t.
ed by such words as Good ni.ht
lights many a weary spirit to cham
Der of rest and peace and toa lane.
of pleasant dreams.
The home where Good morning
and good nigh" are carefully said
by one to another, are the homes of
the world where good thoughts are
generated, where good deeds have
place, and from whence go out good
lives.
Then don't forget to say Good
morning; say It to parents, to chill
dren, brothers, sisters, schoolmates.
teachers. friends and to ali you meet
and say it cheerfully and with a
smile. 1t will do you good aud do
your friends good. 1t will cheer the
discouraged, rest the tired ones, and
somehow makes the wheel of life
move more smoothly. A Good
morning heartily spoken makes
hope fresher and brighter aad seems
really to make the morning good
and to be prophesy OF good day
to come after Il.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21

Lots of fellows drift into the habit
of cussing in that period of their
youth when they should be acquiring
a good command of correct speech
through proper study, by reason of
the fact that they have lost interest
In books and hence not adding any
thing to their vocabulary By the
route of intellectual exercise they by
absorption pick up accommodating
adjecti7es ard terms from the street.
loafers and worse characters of the
community in the way of cuos- phra
seology. THESE words ard phrases
meet the. demand of the unhappily
drifting youth for expressive Ian
guage, and their use and acquire
ment causes almost total arrest
in them towards learning. Thus MAX
ing profanity not only perversely
wicked and indecent, but an impedi
ment to acquaintance with English
or whatever may be the mother
tongue. This writer speaks from
experience. Quite early in life he
started cussing through evil associa-
ton. but thanks be to God before it
had gotten too deep-seated hold ne
managed to throw it off and found
by familiarizing himself with strong
and correct adjectives, the desire to
explode with horrible profane terms
graduRlly ceased. OF course Divine
help iS needed too at thi; point. but
this paragraph is devoted to the nat
ural Hhguistical feature of the mat
ter. I
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21

Ond of the regrettable features a.
bout modern journalism. is the ire
mendious hurry under VII CD the copy
makers are in preparing matter.
The intensive age in which we live
neceSsitates the commitment TO the
printed page of the news, so that's
its dissemination is hot upon the
trail of the happening. This means q
constant rush in every department
of the newspaper Office of today,
whether daily, trI- weekly, semi week.
ly or:even weekly. The monthly mag
azines have more leisure to prepare
their matter than any other class of
present day periodicals though they
too on account of the ever increasing
size are coming to find time quite
factor. The consequence of all this
hurrying is the letting down in lam
guage employed. There is a con-
slant wearing process upon the chas
tity of the style of every writer who
is eegulfed in this journalistic mael-
strUm. The effects are now felt in
pretty well the whole of newspaper
dom. and but little attention is paid
to the niceties of grammatical ex-
preston and the behests of rhetoric.
We have: to write almost as it were
as we run. The public understand
this and read themselves in the same
frantic spirit, paying but little at
tention to the language employed;
just so the story is told in clear and
lucid style. The big city daiIies sui
fer apparently less from this than
the weekhes, because they fave so
many checks and counter checks in
way of various scrutiniznrs on their
editorial staff, whose business it is
to ferret out and eliminate the cru
dities of written expressions of one
another. In the country one man u
sually has to look out for his own
slips of pen, read his own proofs
and do thousand and one other
things, so that its mai
vel that his productions when finally
presented ia the printed pages have
as good .linguistical dress as they
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21

The deadlock is still on with refer
ence to the Senatorial Election in the
Legislature. The Gibbs resolution
keeps the Democratic caucus pract,-
cally intact on the voting, as they
vote at night on their real choice,
while in the day the legal voting is
done upon names othe" than in the
race heretofore. Tie ballot swerves
but little, Vardamen still showing
a heavy lead and having once or
twice gotten few more votes than
before the 18th With the actual vO-
ting done at night and some bust
ness being turned off in the day by
the Solons the deadlock is not so
exsensive to the State. We are hop
ing that the selection will be quickly
made, but the lawmakers should have
time enough to make what they
think is a wise choice as they will
be answerable for 1t.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
Saved at Deaths Door.

The door of death seemed ready to
open for Murray w. Ayers, of tran
sit Bridge N. Y, when his life was
wonderfully saved. II was in a
dreadful condition." he writes, my
skin was almost yellow; eyes sunGen !;
tongue coated; emaciated from losing
40 pounds, growing weaker daily
Virulent liver trouble pulling me
down to death in spite of doctor s.
Then that matches medicine, EIec-
trio Bitters, cured me. ] regained
the 40 pounds lost and now am well
and strong. +" For all stomach. liver
and kidney troubles they are Gu
preme. Soc at Peoples Drug Co.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
'Our"Pat's Popularity in Wayne UnWaning

Waynesboro News Beacon.
District Attorney B. p Harrison
with his usual vim and ability, was
promptly on hand and is leaving
nothing undone to uphold the digni-
ty of the law and to punish those
who dlsobev its mandates. Pat
has many friends in Wayne county
who are always glad to greet him
when he comes this way.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
New Advertisements
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.

Nun KLSIDENI NOTICE.
State of Miusissi ri
TO J. 0, Acree, Defendant.
You are commanded to APP II before the
Jhancery Court of the County of Greene, in
id State, on the
Secoud Monday Of Aprii, A. d. 1910,
1t Rules in the Clerks ONCE in the town Of
Aeakesville. SAID County and State. to defend
he suit in said Court of L. n. Dantzler Lun-
Der Company, u corporation wherein you ar
defendant said suit being Bill of Complaint
lied September S0th 1909 and an amendment to
aid Bill of complaint filed on the 10th day
If January, A. ID. 1919.
(CQan. CT SCaD s, r. MCKAY. Clerk
FORD WHITE q FORD, Soils for Com. [2-l1j
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
Inadvertet tly laid aside TIL now.
LITTLE DAISY ETHEL BEXLEY

Inadvertet tly laid aside till now.
LITTLE DAISY ETHEL BEXLEY
Daughter of J. J. and Ida Bexlee,
born April 30, 1902, died July 80, 1922
Daisy your earthly life is ended,
And your earthly mission done
You have crossed the river,
At the rising of the sun.
And in Gods celestial mansion,
Clothed in garments fair;
You have gone before US and
Now know the bliss of Heaven.
When shall we meet thee there?
Do not tell us that our loved on =
Lose THEN. memories quite.
When they sing among the angels
In heavenly mansions bright.
Oh | know that we shall know them
Though the angels robes they wear
When you BID us welcome over Daisy
We shall know you there
CORDES WSON
Pick Wick, Miss.
Sept. 6. 1909.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
ACQUISITION to Literature.

James Ford Rhodes, whose history
of the civil war has added so much
to the authentic annals of the United
States, was until recently an extern
sive iron and steel manufacturer Of
Cleveland, 0.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
LARGE Profits from Liquor.

Eight years ago Norway began to
put away a certain percentage of the
profits coming to the state from liquor
selling for an ol6-age pension fund.
This now amounts to $4,000, 900.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-21
|NEIOEIDORHOODi
IS NEW),,7z(

Mrs. j L. Mills and children are
home from a visit to relatives at
Leakesviile. -Fruitdale Herald.