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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
Celrarnins Seeks Rigid Merit Systena

time and to do as much work on il
as possible IN committee during the
summer.
Hearings may be held and as an IN
dication Of Senator Cummins' inten-
ton TO keep his committee busy, the
first thing ne did after reaching Wash
ington the other day was to move his
quarters in the senate Office building
from the northwest corner to the
southeast corner, Immediately adjoln-
ing the room allotted to the commit
tee on civil service and retrenchment
For years, until Mr. Cummins be-
came chairman, this committee had
been one Of The "do-nothing" commit
tees of the senate. In the last con-
gress 1t held hearings on the propo-
ton to provide for the retirement
and pensioning Of superannuated en-
ployees Of the various government do
partments.
It now is proposed to embrace the
civil service classification and the
promotion and retirement features in
one comprehensive measure.
There is no intention, it is under
stood, Of aseailing the executive
branch Of the government through the
proposition to designate by law the
positions that shall be filled under
the civil service rules. 1t is designed,
however, to make the rules more
rigid and to prevent in the future the
excepting of certain places from the
application of the rules by executive
order.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28

Observation-Disclosures Cummins
w Of Iowa, as chairman of the COM
mittee on civil service and retrench-
ment, proposes to push the considera-
ton Of a comprehensive civil service
measure-one that win provide for
the designation by law of all places
under civil service classification, in
stead of leaving them to executive or
der, and which will regulate promo
tons and retirements.
As member of the committee on
interstate commerce he already has
done some work on a bill to reorgan-
lie the interstate commission, in
creasing its membership and dividing
1t into five parts, these parts to have
jurisdiction respectively over sections
Of the country corresponding to the
traffic divisions as designated by the
railroads.
1t is not certain that the scheme
for reorganization of the interstate
commerce commission will be ad-
vanced beyond the preliminary stage
at this extra session.
With respect to the subject first
mentioned, however, it is the inten-
ton to introduce bill within short
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
Sherman Hard to Keep in Line

VYICE-PRESIDENT SHERMAN S
v fondness for mixing with the
crowd talking politics with his old
cronies in the house and a general
dislike for formality, especially when
the formality is prolonged affair,
almost disarranged the White House
plans for the New Year reception.
Mr.. Sherman was the first man re-
ceived by the president. The vice
president then became a member of
the presidents receiving party. The
presiding officer Of the senate contin-
ued to bow sweetly as long as pos
sible, and then quietly stepped into
the line Of guests which had already
passed the president and walked out
to the east room, where there were
hundreds Of politicians Of various
brands. The vice-president was hav-
ing e fine time when he was inter-
rupted by Capt Archibald Butt, the
presidents military aid.
"Mr. Vice-President, said Captain
Butt, "you have been missed from the
receiving line. Permit me to escort
you back in time to receive the diplo-
mats"
$50 long, boys" said the vice-presi-
dent, waving his hand to his old. Gro.
MICS IN the house. See you later"
Diplomat after diplomat passed the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28

[SVOU can take two friendly boys
and bump their heads together
until one Of them will lose his temper
and then you will have a fight" said
a high-up official of the United States.
THE same rule applies to nations.
This talk about a prospective war be-
tween the United States and Japan if
kept UP for few years will inevitably
produce war between the two coun-
tries. 1t ought to be stopped, and
stopped now.
"There ought to be some way of in
ficting punishment on persons who in
dulgo in this war talk when there is
not the slightest foundation for it.
The newspapers are not primarily re-
sponsible for this talk. l do think
however, that they ought to quit CIV
ing 1t publicity"
Some persons have recently made
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
Naturalists Busy on Canal Zone

ENCOURAGING reports are being re-
Ia ceived by the Smithsonian institu
ton from the naturalists who are tax
ing part in the biological survey of
the Panama canal zone, which was or
ganized by the institution last winter
The principal branches Of natural his
tory are represented in the party,
which includes seven experienced field
naturalists, nearly all of them from
the scientific bureaus of the govern
ment
Naturalists throughout the world are
greatly interested in this biological
survey, because when the canal is
opened sweeping changes probably viii
take place in the distribution of the
animals and plants. A part of the
fresh water streams of the isthmus
now empty into the Atlantic ocean and
others into the Pacific.
1t is known that q certain number
of animals and plants in the streams
on the Atlantic side differ from those
of the Pacific side, but as no biological
survey has ever been undertaken the
extent and magnitude of these differ
ences have yet to be learned.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
Jap War Talk Is Called Criminal

the suggestion that it might not be
improper for congress to start an in
vestigation with view to ascertainlng
why this talk Of hostilities between
the United States and Japan con-
tinues. 1t is pointed out that such an
investigation ought to reveal whether
SIS matter of cold fact there is any
basis for the stories that are constant
ly put in circulation. For nearly four
years this talk has gone on here at the
capital, and naturally has spread to
other sections OF the country.
President Taft has recently found It
necessary to invite the ambassador Of
the Japanese empire to the White
House and assure him personally that
the administration is in no way re-
sponsible for the war talk that has re-
Gently been INDUCED in, and to reiter-
ate to him that the United States has
only the kindliest feelings for Japan.
During the last month many stories,
circumstantial in character have been
passed around here tending to show
that Japan is preparing to fight this
country Every one of them on in
vestigation has been found to be baso-
less.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28

president, and behind them the vice
president saw an endless line Of gold
braid adjoining the breasts of count
less officers Of the army and navy sta
toned in Washington.
Those fellows don't want to see me
for anything" said the vice-president,
as he slipped back into the east room.
Half an hour later, while the vice
president was exchanging the compli-
ments Of the season and telling and
hearing stories, he was again accosted
by Captain Butt
a have been looking ell over the
White House for you." said the mill
tary aid.
Wen, here am remarked Sun
ny JIM" Shaping Butt on the back.
What do you want this timer"
president Taft's party ia ready to
go to luncheon" said the captain,
and we are waiting for you to escort
Mrs. Taft"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28

ODD weaves, exquisite embroideries
and, beautifully contrasting colors all
combine to make the new ecarfs
things of great beauty. Last year,
with the opening of the theater and
opera season, there came many lovely
shoulder coverings, some of which it
seemed impossible to surpass in
beauty.
~ But in the new display of these
accessories one sees wonderful color
shades in scarfs, the beauty of which
T. is enhanced by the application of ex-
quisite embroideries.
One sumptuous scarf of turquoise
blue chiffon cloth was edged with a
three-stripe border of glowing pink.
At each end, in the center was en-
broidered floral design in exquisitely
shaded gray.
The effect was rich and could not
be improved upon, for the pink, blue
and gray formed a whole, which, while
not elaborate, was artistic without a
doubt.
Another scarf Of pale blue chiffon
was embroidered In conventional
pattern with small white porcelain
beads. These separate designs were
Joined with tendrils of pale green
silk. The effect was simple, but beau
flIuL i &. s.ssas.s..sa.al
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
TRY TO SAVE, EVEN
If IT'S Only A LITTLE
Sickness or Lack Of Work
Bring That Rainy Day
Sooner Than Expected

iTAkE care Of the pence, and the
pounds will take care of them
selves" once said d famous English
statesman, and one WHO has learned
he art OF saving will at once see the
truth Of this
If we save the pennies and nickles
and dimes and quarters which might
have been otherwise spent foolishly,
soon the dollars will appear, and,
once we get the saving habit, scon
we VIII have a tidy little bank account.
Every working girl who can posi-
bly, spare O. dollar or two week
4 ide f.om her necessary expenses
would do well to save these and put
them aside for rainy day"
Girls viii say, But / only make
enough to keep myself alive now. Wait
until set larger salary, and then
I'll start TO save"
But when they do get the larger
salary, that bank account seems just
rs far away as when they were max
ing less in week.
Another mucl worked excuse is
But I am young now; wait until
am older and then III begin to save
You're only young once"
Quite true, of course, you're only
Young once, but every day you're get
ting older, and unless you have pros
poets Of inheriting a fortune or
marrying one, every dollar spent fool
ishly will be taking SO much comfott
from these future days when you're
too old to work.
Perhaps one OF the commonest
ways in which young people save
their money is in building and loan
association. Here they have tie III
centive of knowing that in a certain
number Of years their money will
have gained large amount Of inter-
est, which added to the principal.
! will make a nice little sum to tuck
i away for future use,
A bank account, no matter how
small, always makes one feel more
| independent than when one lives
| from week to week and has no more
money in the world than will come in
next weeks pay envelope.
| And it isn't such a hardship as one
| would think to put tiny sum aside
each week. Even 30 cents will
amount to SIC by the end Of the year.
But to get rhe true spirit of saving,
one must save regularly and not by
| fits and starts.
Another secret of the successful
saver is to make rule never to draw
on the amount for small amounts I'M
less absolutely driven to it, for il
you once get into the habit of draw
ing $40 to help pay for new suit, or
S. for hew hat that you positively
must have" soon the dollars coming
out will eat up those going in and
the bank account will be nil.
Like a great many other things in
life, the start is the hardest part OF
tie process, and once you have made
good start and resolve to put aside
certain amount, and maybe a little
more each week, soon the habit will
take firm hold and then you will
find a pleasure in this setting aside
small part of the weekly wage for
| future use
And, again, we are all liable to
sickness and the loss of position,
and in such time of trouble nothing
is Of more solid and satisfying COM
fort than the knowledge that we need
not scrimp to pay the doctors bill, Or
to starve while hunting for new po-
sition.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
DAINTY KITCHEN IS
HELP TO HOUSEWIFE
Clean and Pretty Sur
roundings NAL Cook
ing Less of a Task.

TT MAY sound foolish to talk of a
l color scheme" for the kitchen, but
if pots and pans and utensils OF all
kinds match, and the walls are in the
same shade with linoleum of the color
on the floor, you will be astonished
to find how clean and dainty it all
looks, and how much easier it is to
coDeoct dainties for the home menu
in the pleasant room.
Blue is always good color for the
kitchen especially, as it Is easy to Sc
cure the blue enameled cooking uten-
sils, which are not only easy to keep
clean but eliminate to a great extent
all danger of burning
Blue and white china or the quaint
and solid brown and white ware are
pretty in blue and white Kitchen,
while blue and white dish towels may
be bought just as easily as rcd and
white ones and will look far daintier
in the kitchen.
Usefulness, however, must come be-
fore an artistic effect. and care must
be exercised in the selection OF the
pots and pans If you have small
family, don't buy great big stew pans
and enormous slillets.
If you have a big family, get big
utensils and don't buy a lot of mod
ern inventions that you never use and
which clutter UP drawers and closets
unnecessarily.
Have hooks screwed into the wall
near the table and the range to hang
spoons, pans and covers ON, that they
may be within reach and save many
steps, which is matter of more i'm
portance than the average housewife
realizes For unnecessary steps mean
a tired woman when night comes.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28

1t also is Of great Importance to
science to determine the geographical
distribution of the various organisms
inhabiting these waters, as the 18TH
mus is one of the routes by which the
animals and plants of South America
have entered North America and vice
versa
When the canal is completed the
natural distinctions now existing will
be obliterated, while by the construc-
ton of the Gatun dam vast fresh wa
ter lake will be formed, which win
drive away or drown the majority Of
the animals and plants now inhabiting
the locality and might exterminate
some of the species before the scien-
tiic experts had q chance to study
them.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
Yelled Effects EDen
For WOnlen'S JeUeIS

Yelled effects seem to have been
one of the most popular fads of the
season. and this is now extended to
the yelling of jewels. 1t is now the
fad in London to wear all the pend
ants and brooches of precious stones
that one can muster and then to hide
their glitter under the veil of chif-
fon. SO that they appear as a glow
ing part Of the underdress.
The oriental embroideries and gar
nitures, so profusely used during the
winter, were very beautiful when
their eastern vividness was softened
by somber yelling, and this new fad
OF yelling jewels promises to mount
high in the public favor.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
Trouser Skirt

Truth to tell, trouser skirts are not
the new style which the average wo-
man believes them, for it was half a
century ago that DR.. Mary walker
first astounded and then angered the
general public by adopting mans
fashions for her own dress.
DR.. Walker, who lives at Bunker
Hill, N. Y, declares that the present
trend of fashion toward trousers for
women is real vindication of her
own attitude and makes up for all
the years that she stood the taunts
and jeers of neighbors.
DR.. Walker carries her idea to ex-
tremes, however for she wears a full
mans suit, eliminating all suggestion
of skirt except that left by the tails
of her frocl1 coat.
Miss Elizabeth Fowler is another
who many years ago adopted trousers,
and she declares them an ideal COS
tune for the woman who lives on a
farm and who must be busy in the
fields and barn during the day. Miss
Fowler has farm herself near Vine
land, n. j., and for many years has
been a familiar figure in and about
the little town.
But the modern trouser skirt has
more style than the ones adopted by
these two advanced women whose
youth is now passed.
Besides all these the trouser skirt
K is also seen in the "harem costumes
which a few daring Partisan modistes
have put upon the market. But
whether any woman will wear ore re-
mains to be seen.
e.N For outdoor exercise or perhaps for
horseback riding, trouser skirts may
be considered practical, but for street
wear or at home-what is a woman
without her frilly skirts and her
dainty blouses?
No possible stretch of imagination
can draw mind picture Of woman
in a decollete evening blouse with
satin trousers!
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28

H. Chandler Egan, the golf cham
pion said on the Wheaton links Of &
poor player;
''The other day he had a rather dis
able sneering sort Of a caddie. He
approached the third hole fairly well,
but couldn't hole the ball. After a
half dozen wretched and unsuccessful
puts, he turned to his sneering cad
die, and said:
"'Well, what am l to do, anyway
"'Oh, said the caddie, get down
on yer knees and blow it in"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
Uncle Ezra Saws.

"Big thoughts may come to you
while you are lynn in bed in the
mornin', but big results won't come
unless you jump out an hustle for
en-"
EFF you are between the evil one
and the deep sea, you'd better climb
he nearest tcllygraft pole an send for
he minister"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28

While we are young and the rich
life-blood courses freely through our
veins-before the fires of ambition
burn down-there is in all of us a
love Of poetry. When we grow older
it appears to be a national tendency
to renounce the gay for the severe;
gray hairs have little use for dreams
London T. P.'s Weekly.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
First and Second chiIdhocd.

You say that | am q mere lnIant!7
remarked the young senator.
Il have SO characterized you," re-
marked his aged confere.
"All right" was the pleasant re-
ieinder. Perhaps you are wiser than
+. This is my first experience CT
S-ildhcod, you know"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
The Pert Child.

The little girl was acting naughty
before company. Her mother warned
ler sharply.
"If you do that again I'll smack
rou." she said.
mo you WON'T" replied the pert
laughter. I'm sit down on myself
nd then you can't"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
Very Unusual.

81 don't know what to think of my
youngest daughter"
whats the matter with herr"
"She wants to marry a young man
who shows signs Of being able to sup
port her."
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
Test Case,

Knieker-I would give women the
suffrage when all women want it.
Mrs. Knicker-Eiuh! Do you give
me a Persian lamb coat when all wo.
men want it?-New York Sun.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
The Elevated Drama.

''T mover their heads complaine,
Hamlet Fatt. "They don't care for
Shakespeare"
~ mover their heads too," remark
ed the other member of the profess
sion, but so far I'm doing very well
with my trapeze speciality
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
Home JOYS.

why do you want sixteenth
wife?" inquired the traveller.
Anything for quiet life," explain
cd the nabob of Afghanistan. Then
my harem can make up four tables
at progressive euchre."
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
A Lena Wait.

"T'H be ready in minute she said
10 her husband.
'You- needn't hurry now" he called
UP some time later, Il find that shall
have to shave again. Detroit Free
Press.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
Matrimonial FISHING,

"I have a smallsalaried clerk on
the string" remarked the first girl.
"Well?"
"Shall l throw him overboard?"
by no MEANS" advised the second
girl. "Use him for bait"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
Common Wealth,

what do the socialists want?"
"They think that all property should
DO held in common"
ct wouldn't work"
ooh, l don't know. Seems to work
all right in the case of umbrellas"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
..s4sA.s e & Z ]. }. < Z a. IA
POWER HOUSE
SUPERINTENDENT

A line of practical engineer
Ing TO begin In which your boy
does not need any preparation
besides being able to read and
wrlte-tIls fret Job Will pay
about $3.50 dsy-The various
position and responsibilities
that Will be his on his way up
to superintendent OF power
houses and aubstations that
supply motive power to = great
street railway systen,--A line
Of work In which there Ia
always good living for good
man.
BY c. w. JENNlNos.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
Natural Inference,

He (reading)-The audience rose as
a single man
She-Dear me! 1t must have been
a bachelors convention.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
The Difference.

Boy (owner Of poodle)-My dog
ticks people with his tongue.
Boy (owner of fighting bull pup
My dog ticks everything with his
teeth.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
Value of Expressing It.
By DR.. SIMON rLEXNER.

BY DIR. SIMON FLEXNER.
When il is recalled that tuber-
culosis causes about one-third of
the deaths that occur between
The ages of twenty and FIFTY
years it becomes at once appar-
ent what an enormous Influence
the suppression of this one dis
case must exercise upon the de-
velormcnt and progress of socie-
ty The eradication Of tlibercu-
losis il among the chief ends to
be accomplished by al the agen-
Giles which are striving to uplift
human society and 10 make its
individual units more efficient
and self sustaining Hence the
coagUps; Of tuberculosis becomes
the proper iipid of endenyor for
the statesman. legislator, physi-
clan and Ayman.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28

Did you ever hear a coal dealer
complaining about the weather being
too cold?
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28

No one has much sympathy for the
mule, but no one has much on the
mule in this particular.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
Trouse,' Skirts

Ugly,
Graceless,
Worst style yet;
Only worn
By
Suffragette.
Voted
Down
In accents curt;
Oh you
Modern
Trouser Skirt
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-28
THE END OF TUBERCULOSIS

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