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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-28

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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-29
Cranks Offer Forest Fire Remedies

forest fire with front of ten miles
Another "crank's' plan was to con-
struct huge screens OF asbestos.
which could be placed around trees
near fire and thus prevent them ig.
hitting. or course this way did not at.
tempt to explain how the problem OF
transporting these screens through
rough mountainous country could be
solved.
third plan was to locate a num-
Der ct huge sprinkling carts in each
forest ano drive them to a fire, turn
on the water and, presto! your fire
would be out-the inventor said. He
was told to go to. unless he could pro
vide a sprinkling cart big enough to
tack'e fire such as ragged last fall in
Idaho, the flames of which mounted
over 200 feet in the air and burned
the ties Off a railroad bridge. and at
another point jumped clear across
valley half mile wide. converting
streams In its path into steam and
cooking the fish therein.
The forest fire fighters do not re-
Ject all novel suggestiJns in TACT.
they have adopted a chemical equip
ment for use in putting out small
ground fires in the Arkansas National
forest. Some OF the rangers are
equipped with rubber muzzles contain.
ing sponges to be wet and put over the
nose
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-29
Uncle Sanl Gives Facts About Fleas

r. HERE may be these who imagine
i 1t Is an easy thgg to kill a flea
But If they will read certain facts re-
ported by the United States public
health and marine service their minds
will be disabused OF the notion. The
information is given IN a pamphlet Ell.
titled Notes on Agents for Flea De-
struction." Fleas. it appears from
these notes, survive all the usual
means of insect assassination and
others less common
But how to kill the flea is not the
only problem before the Investigators
1t is quite as much Of puzzle to know
when he is dead.
1t was found that when it comes to
death by drowning a flea has more
lives than a cat. That is to say when
the medium is water. But fleas left
swimming over night in mixture OF
gycerin and water are dead the fol-
lowing morning
Obviously the flea is a hobo among
insects, for one of his dead lest enc
mics is green soap A flea dipped en-
tirely In tincture OF green soap sue
cumbed beyond resuscitation in two
minutes; another ceased his move
ments in forty seconds and was dead
In ten minutes; no feas of any OF the
species examined survived the soap
In humane attempt to suit the
tastes OF the flea in the manner OF
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-29
Low Slums Near the Nations Capitol

Tree alley because 1t was the only one
bearing a name that COMFORTS well
with state document. The other four
are Pigtail alley, lineup alley. Louise
alley and Hel's Half Acre alley. These
names. with the exception of Willow
Tree alley, have the virtue of making
any other description unnecessary.
Why Willow Tree alley was so named
nobody remembers. There may have
been a willow tree there once.
The district is hard to find 1t is
within the outer crust of block which
has rather fair exterior. stranger.
after fruitless search, appealed to
policeman The officer pointed to Q
narrow opening between two build
ings. 60 on in there. and you'll see
all you want OF it," he said Its a
pest hole. it is. I'd go with you. but
it's off my beat"
The officer was lucky. What the Wis
itor found after he passed the portal
of the slums would not be pleasant adj
juncts to any beat. The buildings ap-
peared to be ages old. Stables adj
joined homes Piles of stable refuse
gave forth offensive odors and drew
clouds of flies. Negroes and whites
were mixed in one inextricable con-
fusion. Puny, sickly children rolled
about on the ground Slatternly, dis
couraged women sat on the steps or
in rooms which spoke eloquently OF
the most abject poverty
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-29

dying the investigators tried oil OF
pennyroyal, oil OF peppermint, kero
senc miscible oil, the refuse from the
Pintsch gas tanks and many other
chemicals. A flea left to swim In for
malta powerful germicide and in
secticide, was apparently dead in II
hours" but revived" another kept
for 20 minutes in mixture OF creo-
sote, soap and water was still alive
after fifteen minutes. but died five
minutes after that.
1t took 100 per cent. carbolic acid
more than one minute to kill a flea;
OF two tieas that were made to swim
in one -thousandth mercury chlor
ide solution, a powerful germicide, one
was alive after ten hours, the other
after eighteen hours powdered sui
phur was practically inert and useless
for killing tieas Hydrocyanic acid is
among the most powerful poisons, yet
five fleas exposed for As minutes to
hydrocyanic gas were alive at the end
OF the test.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-29

M HILE the field Off GERS of the u. 8.
w Forestry service are taking pre-.
cautions against fire in the great ma
tional forests OF the vest the forestry
bureau Is besieged constantly by
"cranks" and real inventors, chiefly
the former, who propose all sorts of
ridiculous plans for coping with the
flames. One OF the most novel of
these recently came from an eastern
man who proposed that an artillery
organization be formed in the forest
service and equipped with huge NOR.
tar batteries, which would shoot
grenaGes filled with chemicals.
This mans plan was to have a bat.
terry OF these mortars hauled to suit.
able ELL near forest fire, from which
the grenades would be discharged ran.
idly into the fire and bursting, would
smother the flames. Admitting that
chemicals will extinguish a small
blaze. the forestry people told this in
ventor to move on, as all the chemicals
IN the world would hardly exting,ish
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-29

Each company forwarded the
pieces to the manufacturing company
and more Or less politely asked that
corresponding number of dimes or
a check for AN equivalent amount be
sent back in exchange.
A council was held at the Office
of the manufacturing company. The
cost of correcting the boxes was COM
pared with fairly trustworthy infor-
nation of the number of three cent
pieces in circulation. 1t was found
that balance was in favor of the
three cents and it was decided to ac-
cept the pieces as dimes.
Gradually the impour Of three cent
pieces narrowed down to an intermit-
tent current. The company seemed
to have about all the pieces.
1t is said that if ever the premium
on three cent pieces goes high
enough the coins will be offered to
collectors at prices based upon the
original cost to the company, plus
6 per cent year, plus cost of stor-
age, plus cost of guarding, plus cost
CT carrying the fund upon the books.
Long ago the slot machines that col
lected them were RELOCATED to the
scrap heap.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-29

VIZ ASHINGTON-W ashington is not
W one grand succession of marble
structures and beautiful parks, There
are Sums under the shadow OF the
capitol that compare in squaIor with
the East side In New York The CAPT.
tai slums have the advantage over
those In New York III being less ex-
tensive and in being composed OF
small houses instead Of lofty tene-
ments.
The Washington refuge of the very
poor Is suffi GENTLY bad 10 have at
tracted the attention OF socioogists
and philanthropsts and to have
caused President Taft TO demand their
improvement in message to con-
gress.
This district is within ten minutes
walk of the United States capitol and
has for one of it's boundaries the bo-
tanscal gardens with their wealth of
exotics. President Taft. in his mes.
sage, made particular mention of Will
low Tree alley, but il is no better and
no worse than the others Possibly
the president mentioned only Willow
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-29

total strength OF the army at present
is 10000 SO there will be plenty OF
work for the surgeons of the army to
perform before each one has under.
gone treatment.
The typhoid prophylatic," as It is
called, has been prepared by Major
Russell OF the medical corps. stationed
at the army medical school in this
city. and will be distributed to the
various forts and posts throughout the
country. 1t Is estimated that in about
months time every officer and man
in the army will have been inoculated
Very little II any Inconvenience as
result OF the incubation is felt by the
natient
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-29
lnoculate Soldiers Against Typhoid

r. HE entire army OF the United
i States Is to be inoculated against
typhoid fever, officers and privates
alike. An order has been issued by
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, chief OF
staff. making it compulsory for every
officer and enlisted man in the army
under forty-tive years Of age to sub
ject himself to the typhoid fever vac
cine. This order applies to all those
who have not heretofore had typhoid
fever or who have not ben inoculated
with the germ. Heretofore it has been
voluntary on the part of an officer or
private in the army whether he should
subject himself to the experiment. but
from this tiile every one serving in
Uncle Sans fighting force must un.
dergo the experience
Estimates compiled at the war de-
partment show that up to the present
time about 1900 NEGOTIATIONS for ty-
phoiG have been made Or the troops
who were sent to the Mexican border
nearly $4,000 had been inocuIated. The
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-29
Young and Old

l went up town in the Subway the
'thcr day. The day was very warm
Ind the car was crowded Opposite
ne sat three young men. In font OF
hem stood an old white-haired man
He chung to The stray, swaying
back and forth with the motion Of the
rain.
The young men, whose ages aver
'g'd nineteen years, were well
iieS-ed and prosperous looking.
The man was old enough to be the
grandfather of any of them.
Isn't it a reflection on the courtesy
and kindness of the young men Of
this country, that such a lack of de-
ference to age should exist?
] canot believe that any of my girl
friends would sit while an old woman
stood.
men of the day to reach that pinnacle
of bad manners.
Had it been pretty girl, every
young man would have been on his
feet in an instant.
The lack of politeness to Old peo-
pie is no new subject of discussion
but 1t is one which must not be OIL
lowed to drop There is absolutely
no excuse for the young man or wom-
an who displays lack of respect to
old people.
The person may be one of your
own parents, Or an entire stranger.
Their age and feebleness need your
protection and consideration from
your youth and strength.
Those young men in the sub
way We're not worthy to be called
men.
There is no more pleasing sight
than that of a big, strong man tax
ing care of an aged person.
The young man who is tender and
thoughtful toward his mother will
treat his wife in the same way.
Never mind if he makes a few mis-
takes in grammar and wears shah
by coat.
It's the strength and tenderness of
his heart and his strong right arm
that count-not his style of diction
nor of dress.
But if he forgets to be polite to
old people he'll forget to be so to
his wife.
think those three young men in
the subway were what they call "Wil.
lie boys" Their thoughts did not
get far from their slouched Panama
hats and low-cut coats.
Their little heads are not big
enough to think of much but clothes
and having a good time"
That's the kind of man that's not
worth wasting your time and affec.
ton on, girls. Choose a man who is
nice to all women, because he re-
spects them. That's the kind of man
who VIII make good husband.
The old man who stood in the sub
way train had sweet, kindly face.
am sure he Is good and kind to old
and young.
And not one OF the three boorish
young men knew enough to offer
him seat. Pretty state Of affairs.
wasn't 1T
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-29
AEROPLANE MAIL SERVICE.


Already the aeroplane has gone from
Fhe range of highly exciting sport
INTO the realm Of commercial utility.
When the postoffice department gives
ormal permission for the carrying of
Atlantic mails from steamship APP
preaching port to New York the earn
ing capacity of flying machines has
been acquired. The aviator will take
wing from the ship so miles or more
off shore and beat the mail-tender
maybe hours ito the delivery of let
ters. If you write by acceptance
across the face of your letter. thus
relieving the government of RESPONSE
bility for loss, you can have the first
direct and palpable benefit of the con-
quest of the air. Railroads which
have been enjoying mail subsidies from
the government can also begin to fig
ure on new sources of revenue. The
aeroplane threatens to cut into their
mail receipts before many years.
New York Press.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-29
NapOleOn's Idea of Women,

Napoleon was as cranky about wo-
men as George Bernard Shaw, the
caustic unbeliever who says man pro-
poses but woman disposes. A new
book on the Little Corporal makes
1t plain it cost him no pang to cast
Off Josephine. We read that Napo-
leon said: women are at the bot
tom of every intrigue. They ought
to be kept to their household du-
ties; they should be forbidden to ap-
pear in public unless they wear wells
and black attire +" Evidently if Ma
poleon were alive today he would
have no patience with the belligerent
suffragettes. But that is not the
worst. eve don't understand women
at all, we Western peoples" said Ma
poloon. eve have ruined everything
by treating women too well, and we
have committed the great mistake of
placing them almost on a level with
The Eastern races dis
play far more wisdom and sense of
the fitness of things. They have de-
clared women to be strictly mans
property, and, as a matter of fact,
nature has created them to be our
slaves. 1t is only by reason of our
perverted view of things that they
dare to lay claim to any superiority
over us. They abuse certain advan-
tages they possess to seduce us and
then to tyrannize over US. For one
woman who inspires us with worthy
IDEAS there are a hundred who cause
Us to make fools of ourselves" 1t
seems that experience cut pretty deep
n this great mans case-New York
PgeGR
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-29
BALLOON RACES
DARING AERONAUTS WILL BE
SEEN DAILY AT ALABAMA
STATE EXPOSITION IN
MONTGOMERY THIS
FALL.
In Making the Descensions Each Ae-
ronaut VIII Make Three Separate
and Distinct Parachute Leaps
. Before Touching Ground.

Montgomery, Ala-Daring aero
nauts will thrill thousands of Wis
itors at the Alabama State EXPOSE
ton in Montgomery the week of Oc-
tober 1922, as Secretary George T.
Barnes has arranged for daily balloon
races between three balloons to be
pulled off each afternoon in front of
the grand stand. At the signal of the
start, each of the three balloons will
be let loose at the same time, and the
excitement will begin The race will
last for fifteen or twenty minutes, and
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-29
CORNER IN 8 CENT PIECES.
The involuntary Work of Dino
Slot Machine Company.

The disappearance of the three
cent piece las for many years been
matter of mild speculate IN. Few
pe"scns are aware that large pro-
portion CT the coins OF this denomina-
tlcn which remained in circulation
when the Government stopped issu-
ing them a-e peacefully slumbering
III sundry large fat canvas bags in
the vaults of a certain electrical
manufacturing company of Chicago.
Tney are not for sale just yet.
Each of the Coins is an evidence of
petty larceny.
Years ago the company equipped
many TELEPHONE pay stations with
dime slot machines. 1t was supposed
that they could be worked only with
dimes. The three cent pieces were
becoming rare and no thought was
taken of them.
Hardly six months passed before
one of the telephone companies dis
covered that the coiiectors were
yielding a harvest Of three cent
pieces. Then from all over the
countrv cama simiiar complaints.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-29
Effects of Civic Betterment Work.

EHeCtS or CIVIC Betterment Work.
Discussing the general movement
Tor civic Improvement as conducted
by the American Civic Association
and affiliated organizations, the Pub
lie Library Quarterly, published by
the Kansas City Free Library by au-
thority of the board of education
contained an editorial recently from
the pen of Carrie Westlake Whitney,
editor.
She wrote, in part:
In municipal or civic betterment,
not alone the comforts and pleasures
Of thc people are considered but the
ethical side is developed by beautiful
surroundings and refining influences.
This awakening indicates that sell
ishness and sordidness are to be
aradicated from the American soil
and that every citizen will imbibe the
noble sentiment of helpfulness and
cultivate it for the general welfare
Of all
The problem of city Improvement
Is the most pressing question of the
day and the new conditions are stud
led with great attention. Cities are
vieing with each other in ornament
ing, in lighting and in making pleas
ing and commodious accommodate
lions for the people. Slums, or poor
tenement districts, are no longer
permitted; parks, Fairgrounds, pub
dc baths are now necessary furnish
ngs for well-organized cities.
Political parties can not be de-
pended upon for communistic ideas.
Radical improvements are preferably
taken out of politics and placed I'M
Ter the supervision of the citizens in
the formation of leagues, associations,
commissions or boards. The ideal
city of our century must have civi
beauty as well as civic safety, and the
responsibility rests ON every indi-
vidual, as a part of unit, to accom-
nliSh this end
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-29
TUBERCULOSIS IN HisroK :

\
The New York state department O
health estimates million and hal
new consumptive graves dug each
year throughout the world That
means annually as many deaths from
consumption as there are inhabitants
in Munich, plus Copenhagen, plus
Marseilles. The brain reels to think
of it.
What is the cause of this most
devastating of all diseases?
The ancient Greeks wondered, five
centuries before Christ, when Hip
pocrates wrote that 'phthisis is the
greatest and most cruel diseases. and
the one that kills the greatest num-
her Of people" The Bible tells of
its rayages. In Deuteronomy xvii,
q, % it is written The Lord shall
make the pestilence cleave unto
thee, until He shall have consumed
thee from off the land. The Lord
shall smite thee with consumption
and with fever and with an innam-
nation and with an extreme burning"
If one is asked where the first case
came from, one can reply, Where
did the first man come from?" If one
believes in our siman ancestry. it
may seem to him significant that
monkeys are especially susceptible
to tuberculosis.
Today phrase echoes in the larg-
err cities from the Atlantic to the Pa
cilic: Tuberculosis is communicable,
durable, preventable."
Fifty years ago that phrase was not
known. Then the phrase, like
death sentence, rang: Consumption
is deadly. There is no known cure!"
Today, this new phrase, this TWEEN
tieth-century phrase, Tuberculosis
is communicable, durable, prevent
able disease" is the text for three
articles in the Metropolitan Maya
zine. In far wider significance
that sentence means this: "Tubercu-
losis is a disease, the extent and cost
of whose ravages make the brain reel
TO comprehend. tuberculosis is
disease that is being cured now at
great expense, and will demand mil
lions of dollars for more far-reach-
ing, adequate treatment and cure.
Tuberculosis is disease that can be
prevented, but only by all the people
guarding reasonably against the dis
ease all the time"
tuberculosis is communicable
disease. One person may catch it
from another-but only in limited
ways. Scarlet fever we catch from
scales, typhoid we catch from bad
sewage disposal and polluted water
Measles are communicated through
the air. Malaria by the bites of dis
ease-bearing mosquitoes. Tubercu-
losis is communicated by the germ
from the consumptive's spit
How communicable is consumption?
Ask a man of the last generation of
what disease he was most afraid. He
will say: Smallpox, diphtheria, ty-
plus, cholera, scarlet fever We
stood in fear of epidemics." Yet what
10 the figures of the New York state
board of health for 1907 show, the
figures of a single state? That tuber-
aulosis, with 1906 deaths charged
against it in the state of New York,
claimed in 1907 more than twice as
many victims as diphtheria (2,372
leathsb, typhoid Q,60S deaths), scar
let fever G,029 deaths), measles
1895 deaths), and smallpox 90
deaths), combined.
How far would the line of consump-
ton victims in the United States in
stretched out one after the other
with no intervening space? From
New York CITY paar'- = Eca;on--
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-29
NEGRO EXHIBITS
EXCLUSIVE BUILDING FOR COL
ORED PEOPLE AT THE ALA
BAMA STATE EXPOSITION
IN MONTGOMERY WEEK
OF OCT, 1922,
Over One Thousand Dollars in Pre-
n,iums Offered for Negro Exhib-
its--Negro Farmers From
Twenty Counties in the
State viii Have Agri-
cultural Displays.

Montgomery, Ala-The negro de-
partment OF the Alabama State
Exposition at Montgomery this year
promises to be the largest and
hest ever seen anywhere.
Montgomery's exposition is the only
one in the entire South having a
building exclusively for negroes, and
the exposition is well patronized by
members of the negro race. Booker
T. Washington, president of the Tus-
kegee Institute, is director of the ne
gro department, and he has an able
corps of assistants who are working to
make this years exhibits exceed all
others in the past.
Over one thousand dollars in cash
prizes will be awarded negroes for
their exhibits this fall in Montgomery.
There will be exhibits of livestock,
farm machinery, manufactured arti-
cles, art and education. The object of
this department at the exposition is to
give the colored people of the state
of Alabama a good opportunity to
show the progress made in the course
of year.
Negro farmers from over twenty
counties of Alabama will have agricul-
tural exhibits. All of the negro
schools, colleges and universities in
the state will have educational exhib-
its, and in all it will be a great expo
Bition for the negro race.
During exposition week the Ala
bama negro school track meet will be
held near the negro building on the
grounds, and no extra admission will
be charged.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-29
DAILY DIET AND
HEALTH HINTS
BY DIR. r. J. ALLEN
Food Specialist
DIET IN CESSATION.


The diet during CESSATION
should be simple but nourish-
Ing. Not more than three diff
ferent articles should be eaten
at a meal. Il Is important that
the food should be satisfying
and that excessive hunger and
abnormal craving be avoided.
A woman who lived through
two periods on wheat only OBJ
serves marked difference be-
tween the children and the 9TH
ers, their appetItes being more
normal, with marked freedom
from IrrItablIlty. Much de-
ponds upon tho attitude Of the
mind a. well a. the diet.