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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15
USE SALT ON ROADS

AS general rule the roads In and
around French towns are tarred at
the commencement of the summer in
order to abate the dust nuisance. 1t
has, however, been found that tar.
although excellent in the case of
macadamized roads, is of little or no
value where car lines exist and paved
street crossings intersect the roads
In every direction, as tarring cannot
be carried out on stones.
The authorities, basing their action
on the well-known hygrometrical
properties of common salt. have made
a test of it's value in laying the dust
Twenty yards of roadway have been
sprinkled literally with salt and then
watered freely If the results are
satisfactory salt will be used through
out the town of Havre. 1t being i'm
possible to tar the majority of the
streets, as they are paved with rough
stone blocks.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15
CATS LONG TRIP

The story of a notable journey OF
cat from Kingston, Surrey, England,
to its former home at Glastonbury. in
Somersetshire, a distance of about 1873
miles, is now told. In April last a
cat, notified gray and described as
half Persian in breed, was sent from
Glastonbury, where 1t had been rear
ed, to the matron of the Kingston
Nursing home 1t was sent in a pack
ing case drilled with air holes and OBJ
viously the animal had no opportunity
of marking the points of its journey.
Soon after arrival at Kingston the cat
was lost and despite the most diligent
searching no trace of it could be
found.
The matron of the nursing home
has received a letter from Glaston-
bury stating that the cat has found its
way back to its old home. 1t ar
rived emaciated and footsore and ap-
parently had walked the whole of the
1873 miles. The letter describes the
cat on its arrival as "a mere shadow
of its former self" and expresses the
belief that although terribly weak
through its wanderings, 1t can be
nursed back to a healthy condition.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15
Great Actor and His Temper

and each time there was no response.
Then the actor who had aroused For
rests temper to do its worst ventured
to say to Forrest: Don't you think
I'd better get a new model? McCul-
Tough doesn't answer his cue
Just at that moment I appeared.
Forrest rolled his great, dark eyes
upon me with a ferocity of expression
that l had never seen equalled by him
when he was acting. He seemed al
most to be foaming at the mouth He
roared and used most vituperative
language. And through it all he man.
aged to tell me that he had set me up
as model for promptness and then |
had instantly repudiated that praise
by my hardness. l shall never forget
the way he roared. 1t was magnif.
cent, but 1t was awful
After time the rehearsal proceed
ed. My one thought was 10 sneak
away from the theater after the per-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15
EFFECT OF SMALL QUANTITY
Backbone of Contention I nat Moder
ate Drinking Is Harmless Has Been
Thoroughly Broken.

The backbone of the convention that
moderate drinking is harmless has
been now so thoroughly broken that
physicians do not hesitate to express
unequivocal convictions upon the sub
ject. Thus DR.. A. w. Ives. in the
Detroit Medical Journal, says:
ut is not pretended that there are
in these cases moderate users) path
ologic changes due to alcohol, but
even where there is as yet no such
demonstrable change, there is a dis
turbance in the cranial circulation and
a drug effect causing defective GER
ebration, loss of will power:
loss of the power to think
and judge up to ones normal; there is
a reduction Of intellect. There gen
orally is, however, increased gullibil-
ity, loquacity, and a well-recognized
inability to judge of just the impress
sion one is creating, of the kind of an
exhibition one is making of himself.
A drug that can bring a brains func-
ton to the point of coma cannot. even
in mild doses, add anything to the
power of that brain.
1T is the most subtle and far-reach-
ing of all poisons. 1t tends to
shorten life. Its Influences are
strongly hereditary"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15
/ New News OF Yesterday

Torrance was over without Forrest
seeing me. But | was not able to do
so. He sent for me to come to his
dressing room, and | went with my
knees in a quake. | opened the door
and stood before him, expecting this
time to receive the Forrest temper in
its fullest fury. But he turned gen
tie face upon me.
John. he said, in the mildest,
sweetest tones, I want you to go out
and have supper with me- And 1
went. And l never saw Edwin For
rest more charming than he was at
that midnight feast.
YES" continued Mccullough, For
rest had great temper; but learn
ed that, Notwithstanding his inability
to control it, he was, like most quick
tempered persons. of very sensitive
and generous disposition. He could
not knowingly do mean thing. al
though he might give vent to his tenn
per and then forget the explosion
few minutes later"
Copyright. 1911. by E. ]. Edwards. Al
Rights Reserved.)
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15
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ATTITUDE OF MEDICAL MEN
Use Of Alcohol for Medicinal Purposes
Rapidly Diminishng-Does Not
Stimulate Heart.

DR.. Richard C. Cabot contributes the
following explanation as to the pres
ent day attitude of physicians towards
alcohol
The use of alcohol as a medicine
is steadily and rapidly diminishing.
1t is true that the use of all drugs
has also fallen off considerably, but
this change is more striking as re-
CARDS alcohol. There are three main
purposes for which alcohol has been
used as medicine:
Cd As quick stimulant-for faint
ing, exhaustion, and extreme cold.
Ihls service doctors now generally
agree is better performed by hot cof-
fee, hot tea or hot soup. The heat
IS the main thing.
(2) AS support to the heart in
heart disease and in fevers. Here the
use OF alcohol still continues, but it is
constantly and steadily diminishing,
because research has shown that it
does not stimulate a bad or good heart
action, as was formerly supposed.
Some physicians believe that alcohol
helps the patient in his fight against
the germs. but the weight of opinion
is against this. BY most physicians
alcohol is still occasionally used in
levers and in diabetes for purpose
still to be mentioned.
CD AS food. Though alcohol is
undoubtedly a poison to the nervous
system this harmful effect is neutral
lied in some cases of illness by the
fact that it does supply fuel and en-
ergy to the body. When other foods
are rejected (wholly or in part) by
the stomach or when, as in diabetes,
certain common foods cease to bene-
Mt the body, alcohol may be valuable,
but this is comparatively rare"
In recent article in the Boston
Medical and Surgical Journal DR. Ca
Dot contributed some interesting fig
ures showing the diminished use of
alcohol in the Massachusetts General
hospital. The figures, showing also
diminished use of other drugs as well,
nave been arranged in both tabular
and chart form and used as an ex-
hibit at the Boston 1915" exposi-
ton.
In 1898 the hospital expended a
total for alcohol drinks of 1892, or
46 cents per patient. These figures
were increased the following year to
S3,oo2, or 81 cents per patient. Since
that time there has been a steady de-
crease, and in 1907 the total cost of
alcoholic stimulants used was but
1913, or 10 cents per patient Dur
ing the same period the cost of other
medicines administered also de.
creased, not because of lessened
prices for drugs, but because fewer
medicines of any sort are now admin.
istered.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15
Charles lngersolI Long Ago Devised
SeIf-PropelIed Vehicle and Was
Arrested by the Constables
of Stamford.

year or two ago. while upon an
allels the northern boundary of New
York state and Connecticut-in fact,
being exactly upon the verge of that
line-I was shown little, old-fashion-
ed stone house which stood apart from
the other farmhouses in that vicinity
"a house almost concealed by grove
of elms and naples. In it was born
the first American to discover a means
by which vehicles could be self-pro-
PEELED, and he actually put his discov-
cry into practice.
This man was one of the great cap
tains of industry of the United States.
and like many of them he died in the
nineties, if not in real poverty, at least
without any considerable possessions.
His name was Charles Ingersoll. and
1t has been estimated that by means
of one of his inventions not only has
the wealth of the civilized world been
increased by hundreds of millions OF
dollars, but, in addition, much of the
development which has been so mar
velous within the past fifteen or twen-
ty years would have been greatly de-
layed but for the steam rock drill
which his genius gave to the world.
One of Ingersoll's boyhood play
mates was DR.. Beverly E. Mead of
Greenwich, Conn. now man nearly
ninety years of age.
when l was a lad of fifteen or six
teen years of age" said DR.. Mead re-
Gently, Il often saw Ingersoll at work
upon an improvised boiler which he
had made himself. One day, as l
stood watching him, he said to me:
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15
Wife's Right Recognized.

Roman law recognized the inalien.
able right of a wife to certain pro-
portion of her husbands property after
his death. and this right is enforced
in Scotland and almost every country
in the civilized world. including those
countries where the Mohammedan re-
ligion is practiced. New Zealand at
first followed the bad custom Of the
mother country of leaving the wife de-
pendent on her husbands caprice.
but since women obtained the vote the
law has been altered so that a man
cannot leave all his property away
from his wife nor parent from his
or her children.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15
TOPERS IN LONDON SCHOOL,
Investigator Reports Habit of Drink.
Ing Alcohol Among Children
Widespread in English City.
do children drink alcoholic"

do children drink alcoholic"
The question was put to F. G. Mack
ereth of London, who has been maxi
ing inquiry into the matter, and he
made answer at meeting of the
Women's Temperance league which
greatly Mortified the good women
there. In one school alone, he said. he
found that 40 per cent. of the chill
dren were regular alcohol drinkers.
In fact. from the Investigations he
had made he had come to the conclu-
sion that there must be something
like 100000 child drinkers in London.
and probably 100000 in the large
towns and districts. Parents. in sheer
ignorance. often gave their children
strong drink because they thought il
was good for them, and a woman pres
ent at the meeting volunteered the
information that she knew for fact
in some public schools beer was al.
most compulsory.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15
Yankee Ahead of His Time

am going to make An engine and
boiler and l am going to fix it to ia
theirs carriage and you will see me
driving that carriage without any
horse
But it was not until some twenty
five years later that Ingersoll, who
had gained in the meantime some
thing of reputation as an inventor
of valuable apparatus, found time to
work out his old plan of building a
self-propelling vehicle. Then, to a
wagon somewhat like a market wag-
on, although not quite SO long, he at
tached a boiler and an engine, hav-
ing in the wagon a little coal bin
from which he fed the furnace In
this wagon, after some preliminary ex~
perimentation upon country roads. he
rode into the city of Stamford, Conn,
one day. and great was the amaze
ment to behold a man riding about the
streets with his wagon under perfect
controller he had steering appar-
atus-but not having it pulled by
horse.
In a little while the constables of
the city apprehended him. They had
pity on him, thinking that he was a
demented man, so that instead of pros
ecuting him for a breach of the peace.
as was first proposed, they dismissed
him with caution and upon his prom
Use not again to appear upon the pub
lie streets driving his mysterious We
hicle.
Well, will do as you say lnger-
soil told them. I myself think it is
best now not to make use of this high
way car'-that is what he called it.
For the horses see it, and they won
der what makes ii move, and as they
can't reason the thing out they get
frightened Then, just as he was go
ing away with his car in tow, he add
ed:
Gentlemen, want to make a pre-
diction. l want to say to you that
some of you will live long enough to
see the self-propelled wagon practical
ly supplanting the horse. l hope I
myself shall live long enough to wit
AtSS Tue COHIuB Vi ludl Qay. l see II
now. in my mind. as clearly as see
any of you. What have done is only
crude. l could make it much better.
Perhaps something better than steam
power may be found to drive the en-
CINE; but as sure as | am here the
prophecy, Wagons without horses
shall co. is going to be fulfilled"
Having made this prediction, Mr..
Ingersoll turned his attention to 9TH
er inventions which he had in mind.
and at last gave the world the steam
rock drill with which his name is now
associated permanently and which has
proved one of the most valuable aids
in developing progress, not only in the
United States, but throughout the
world. of all those invented since the
steam locomotive. the electric tele-
graph and the cotton gin.
Copyright. 1911, by e. ]. Edwards All
Rights Reserved.)
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15
BOY AND EAGLE IN BATTLE

Elmer Peterson, fifteen years old,
living four miles west of Little Falls,
Mimi, had hard battle with an eagle
and was saved from serious injury
only by the arrival of a brother. The
boy had shot the bird, which was in
a tree. The eagle fell to the ground
and Immediately went at the boy with
It's talons. The birds claws became
fastened in the boys clothing and the
lad was unable to free himself FL
mer was badly frightened and his
strength was giving out when his
brother arrived and killed the eagle
with a club. The bird measured five
feet across the wings.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15
John McCuIlough's Description Of the
Magnificent, Awful Rage of
Edwin Forrest When His
Anger Was Stirred.

In the late spring of 1888 met John
Mccullough. one of the great Amer
lean tragedians of the sixties and the
seventies of the last century, at re-
ception in Washington, given at the
house of Colonel Bob" Ingersoll Nc
Cullough at that time was beginning
to show the effects of the insidious
disease which two years later caused
his death. There was certain slow
ness of step, as though the strength
that once was in his powerful limbs
had gone. But there was no trace of
the hesitating speech which later
compelled his retirement from the
stage.
| knew that Mccullough had trav-
eled with Edwin Forrest from 1856 to
1868 and that the latter had hoped
to make Mccullough his dramatic sue
cessor The two men had been very
close to each other, and so | made
bold to ask Mccullough if he had ever
seen during the years that he was
with Forrest Americas greatest
tragedian until Booth came, any of
those violent ebullitions of temper in
which, as | had heard, Forrest fire.
quently INDUCED, raving sometimes
like maniac.
Forrest was quick-tempered
man." replied Mccullough, land he
did burst out sometimes like man.
lac, but l personally never beheld him
In any of his most violent moments.
Still l once experienced one of his
milder outbreaks. and that was suffi-
cient for me. Whewl How that man
did rage!
1T seems that one of the actors OF
the company had arrived little late
at a rehearsal in which ! also was to
take part. Forrest turned upon the
luckless man and let himself loose to
the fullest extent possible. He ragged
and roared like Iona stranger to
Forests way would have sworn that
he was a raving maniac. The actor
himself was thoroughly frightened
and edged backward so that he might
flee to a place of safety in case For
rest attacked him.
Among OlHeT tHluSS FORREST Salu
to the poor man were some words o.
praise of me. He told the shivering
man that he ought to study John Nc
Cullough for q model. He declared in
his rage that | was never tardy, that
| was always upon the stage at the
appointed time, that he knew I always
awaited my cue. And again and
again he shouted at the object of his
wrath that he must take John Nc
Cullough as his model for promptness.
well, 1t so happened that while the
rehearsal was in progress it was de-
layed because | was not on hand to
respond to my cue. I don't remem-
Der what it was that delayed me; but
the cue was given two or three times,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15
Grant Wanted Chauncey !. Filley
Made First Assistant Postmaster
General, but Garfield Had
Promised Place to Another.

$50 far as | know, General Grant
made only one personal application to
President Garfield for the appointment
of friend to political Office" said a
surviving member of Garfelds cabi-
net to me, land the entire incident is
one which well illustrates certain
phases of General Grants character.
"One morning, few days after Cen
eral Garfield's Inauguration as presi-
dent. an official messenger of the post
Office department, carried to the post
master general, Thomas L. James, a
card which caused that official to jump
from his seat. 1t was General Grants
card; and a moment or two later the
postmaster general. having hurried
into the outer room, was showing the
ex-president into the postmaster gen.
erals private Office. There followed a
little conversation of general nature,
and then the general told his mission
In practically these words:
"T don't want to embarrass you in
any way, Mr. Postmaster General
don't want to make any requests which
are going to interfere with any OF your
plans. so far as appointments under
you are concerned. But have come
simply to say to you that If you can
see your way clear to accepting Chaun-
cey |. Filley as first assistant post
master general it would be very graft
flying to me. Filley is perfectly COM
petent for the post. You know, ! APP
pointed him postmaster of St Louis.
and he was one of the best postmas-
tiers the government has ever had. He
is a good politician and a strong Re
publican. and perfectly honest man
"ln this modest way the man who
for eight years possessed the great
patronage of president, and who was
all that time the foremost American,
asked for the appointment of friend
as first assistant postmaster general.
And when he had finished he was as
sured most sincerely by the postmas-
ter general that. so far as he was con-
cerned. 1t would give him great pleas
ure were Mr.. Filley made his first
ascsA,saat. But It was matter for the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15
Ex-President's Sole Request

president to decide, and the postmaster
general said that he would call his
carriage and 60 Immediately to the
White House and lay the matter be-
fore the president Then he accom-
panied General Grant to the door OF
the department, saying, as they part
ed, that he would send the general i'm
mediate word to his hotel Of the out
come of the call on the president.
Half and hour later, when the mat
ter was laid before Garfield, he was
visibly greatly embarrassed and
panied.
Why he said. you know, Mr..
Postmaster General, that | would do
anything for General Grant that DOS
sibly could do. You know, with the
other members Of my cabinet. that |
feel especially grateful to General
Grant for the services he rendered me
in the presidential campaign; you
know that | have all along regarded
his speech at Warren, O., as on the
whole one of the most effective in
fluences favorable to the Republican
party In that entire campaign. | wish
from the bottom of my heart that |
could act favorably upon the recon-
mendation that General Grant has
made: and | wish that all the more so
because it has been made with such
simple, modest dignity. But 1t cannot
be done. have already promised that
office to another man, and the prom
Use cannot be broken. Will you say
this much for me to General Grant 4?
And. Furthermore, ask him In my name
If there is any other appointment that
he would like to have me make
When the postmaster general saw
General Grant an hour later and told
him what the president had said. the
general replied-and there was not
the slightest trace OF disappointment
in his voice or his face:
Dismiss the matter at once. II the
president has promised to appoint
some one else to that office he Is
bound to keep his promise
"If you have any other appoint
ment that you would like to have the
president make suggested the post
master general.
No. said the ex-president, thought
fully. no. can think of none.'"
Copyright 1911. by e. ]. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved>
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15

The stone roof of the Bankers Trust
Company building, at the northwest
corner of Nassau and Wall streets,
New York City, shown in the picture
to be nearing completion, is said by
the architects to be something of an
experiment in design and construc-
ton. There is no other of the kind In
existence. The pyramid contains
twenty-three steps, each 8 feet 91s
inches high by l foot inches wide.
Total height Of pyramid, "a feet 8
inches. The dimensions of its base
are 70 by 60 feet The reservations of
the Mausoleum Of Halicarnassus gen
orally show this type of superstruc-
ture.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15
| OUTOFI hEORpINARI I
@l Tf

tered, rather than fell into the abyss
below. His legs began to work like
those OF swimming poodle dog, hut
faster and faster, while his tail, slight
ly elevated, spread out like feather
fan.
He landed on ledge of limestone,
where he could be seen squatting on
his hind legs and smoothing his ruff
led fur. after which he made for the
creek with flourish of his tail, took a
drink and scampered away.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15
PAINT MADE FROM CACTUS

When travelling through the rural
districts of Uruguay ones attention is
attracted to the fine white color of
the farm buildings, even during the
wet season. To obtain this neat eff
feet a whitewash is used which is
made with the sliced leaves of the
common cactus, macerated in water
for "a hours, producing a solution of
creamy consistence; to this lime is
added and we'll mixed. When applied
to any surface, be 1t of wood, brick,
iron or other material. a beautiful
pearly white appearance is produced,
which will endure through storms and
frosts for many years.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15
Jack johnson in ENGLAND

Jack Johnson, who was heavily fined
in the north of England for fast mo-
tor car driving, passed through Traf-
algar square the other afternoon in
a big-nosed dreadnaught machine.
with himself at the wheel. Every
time the traffic slowed up he made his
cutout cough terrifically. Two strik-
ing taxi drivers stood on the side
walk
Lord" said enc. Listen to that
man Johnson's cutout."
THAT is not the cutout." said the
other. sit is merely johnson getting
his breath. London Letter to New
York Tribune
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-15
MADE THE MOUSE WORK

The average mouse runs 10000 met
ers day, and certain energetic sub
jects have been known to run $4,000
meters in period of "a hours. With
a view to the utilization of the power
of mice, an inventor constructed
wire drum revolving on an axle. The
power rendered by the mice ran a lit
tie fax spinning machine. The pro-
duction of linen thread was four
pounds for five days Of mouse labor.
The inventor of the machine died be-
fore peffectinY his invention.