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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14
GOOD ROADS IN NORTHWEST
Washington State Alive to the I'm
Portarce OF l,aving Service
able r ghways.

The northwest Is alive to the value
Of good roads. II a recent issue of
the Seattle (Wash.) Intelligencer the
statement is made that before the
summer is over Seattle and Tacoma
viii be connected by a first-class ma
cadamized highway. In King county,
Of which Seattle is the seat, there
will be 100000 available, including
state aid, for roa l improvement this
year. Much of this viii be spent on
a trunk line destined to connect Seat
tie and Everett. From Everett to
Tacoma an improved road is a mat
ter of the near future. This road
work is part Of general plan to build
a trunk line from the northern to the
southern boundary of Washington,
which in turn win become part of a
highway from tie Great Lakes to the
ocean, through the northern tier of
state, and this will connect with an
other trunk line from British Columbia
down the coast to MeXico-a dream
of that wide-awake country that is
certain to be realized in the next few
years.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14
Where the Millionaire Failed

The Millionaire sighed as he looked
at the clouds obscuring the links, and
yet no such sigh ever was born of
missing a game. His trouble was deep
er
Despite all he could do the billion
aire knew that his stock of gold was
increasing at a rate little short of
scandalous. He had given it away in
bales and chunks, sometimes for a
good purpose, and occasionally for a
purpose beyond being concerned. He
had erected to himself string of ex.
pensive monuments, each one costing
him a pretty penny. Nevertheless,
money poured in upon him as fast as
an army of men could earn it, until
lie could have wept at impending dis
grace. for his ambition was to die
poor-Life.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14
Oid-F ashioned ltinerant Preacher
Seems 10 Have Vanished From
Present-Day Wsrld

What has become OF the old circuit
rider? He seems to have gene, to
have vanished entirely from the pres
ent-day world, although to the older
generations he figured in the LIES Of
the people TO whom he ministered.
In their day the circuit riders knew
little Of home or rest, for each had
from seven to fifteen parishes, miles
apart from each other. When night
overlook the circuit rider ana his
horse-this was the minister's usual
mode of travel-he stopped with some
member of one of his parishes. And
be It said it was great honor, indeed
to have the great fortune to entertain
the minister at a meal or over night
Probably the much overvorked
man would get to spend one night in
q week at home, perhaps not that. His
life was uncertain and wandering, but
his faith was that which "passeth I'M
derstanding." But his days were num-
bered and are gone, probably never to
be revived. He was a figure, however.
that is typical of the pioneers of Amer
ica--he knew his duty and was faith
full in the performance of it.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14
WASHING RIBBONS IS
NOT DIFFICULT WORK

Almost all ribbons can be washed,
for example, coming back to a state
of pristine freshness; only one must
know how to do the work.
Any wrinkles that are put in during
washing will not come out. Therefore
the ribbons should be laid fiat on the
wash stand or other hard surface and
wet with warm, not hot, water. Then
the silk is rubbed with any good white
soap, drawing the length along as re-
CURED, always keeping it fiat. Fresh
water is then patted on, rubbing gent
ly but thoroughly with the finger tips.
When this has been done till all spots
have been removed, the length is held
under the warm water faucet and per-
fectly rinsed
TO dry, it is to be patted down, alb
solutely without wrinkle, on a large
surface, such as a window glass or
the top of a marble wash stand. More
time is taken to dry, but the ribbon
will be better. When it is only slight
ly damp, not the least bit moist. it is
pulled off carefully and placed on the
ironing table to be rubbed over with a
warm, but not hot, hatiron.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14

up an education uader town conditions
they are getting the town microbe
along with the education. They form
friendships and become part of the SO.
cial life Of the school; they are not
willing TO 60 back upon the farm with
its dreariness and isolation. No one
ought to blame them for this, in fact
they are to be commended In many
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14
Silver-Eycd Eeefsteak,

The London cop calls his half-pen
ny herring his silved-eyed beefsteak
and there are hundreds cooking every
minute In London town where one is
eaten here. Any time Of the year 8
big part of this city would profit by
eating fish for q Sell instead of beef
With no open air exercise beef is q
heap harder than fish for the body to
get rid of, because there is good deal
more water In fish than in beef OF
pork. Fish are fat or lean. Eel, sal
mon, herring are more than five per
cent. grease. Halibut and mackerel
are two to five per cent. fat; cod
whiting, haddock, even less than two
per cent-New York Press.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14

Jhan it does over good ones; how with
good roads the farmer can market his
produce at any time he desires to do
so and take advantage Of market con
ditions and get the most for what he
has to sell.
Bad roads are a serious handicap
to social conditions, and sometimes for
weeks at time dwellers in The farm
hare are marooned by stretches Of
out to Ade r99dSu, They cannot get
get to see them The town that Is
FIVE miles away might as well be twice
that. We know that man is a sociablo
thing-it is part Of his nature-he can
only grow and develop by meeting his
fellow men-touching elbows-and by
social and business intercourse.
We know that bad roads have been
responsible in a very large degree for
driving the young people from the
farms to the cities, The census for
the last thirty years has shown an
ever increasing drift of the best brains
and blood Of the farm to the city. This
is true Notwithstanding that there is
no better business in the world than
farming, if it is done along up-to-date,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14

I UST as the government is sitting in
~ for the biggest legal game it ever
played the discovery is made that it
is bound to lose and the Southern Pa
cific railroad to win $500,000,000 if the
play goes on.
The stakes are a great area of Cali
fornia's richest oil lands. They wore
granted to the railroad with clause
in the grant expressly excepting all
mineral lands save those containing
coal and iron. Most of these lands
were patented to the grantee more
than six years ago.
The Joker in the situation is a spe-
cial statute of limitations, slipped
through congress in an act of March
8, 1891, and perfected by another act
of March 2, 1896
The effects of these acts, as con-
strued by the United G'ctcs Supreme
court, is absolutely to bar proceedings
by the government to annul a patent
of land to a Immigrant railroad after
six years from the issuance of the pat
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14

with it, but the senate in the aggre-
gate became just that much poorer
Then there was John Kean OF New
Jersey who while scarcely in the class
of Elkins, was worth $5000,O0O When
he left, another five-million iron man
bit the dust, SO far pc The senate was
concerned.
in the broad, sweet fields of private
life wandered Nathan B. Scott of West
Virginia, with his $4 100000. With him.
along the rose-bordered byway, went
James P. Taliaferro of Florida with
s3,000,000 Hughes of Colorado died,
removing another 100000.
There was S50000,000 right at ore
clip The men elected to replace these
millionaires are virtually poor men, or
at least, what the world considers poor
in these days of big fortunes.
Watson of West Virginia. who re-
placed Elkins. is about the only mil
lionaire in the batch of baby members
He is worth 100000.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14
TRY FERR0- CEMENT ROADS
Ex- .nents With This Substance in
France Have Reen Highly
Successful

"Ferro-cement' roads are being ex-
perimented with in France. The sub
stance is made Of cement mixed with
straw. To make a slab or block Of
ferro-cement, a mass of iron-straw is
placed in the mold, and there is poured
over it cement sufficiently fluid to
penetrate into all the interstices of the
iron and completely cover it. When
the whole has set, the core of iron
thus intimately incorporated gives to
the block a great resistance to break
age and 10 traction, at the same time
furnishing elasticity to compression
which enables it to stand superficial
shocks. A brick of ferro-cement 1 3-5
inches thick has supported during
crushing tests, a pressure Of about IS
tons to the square inch. In breakage
tests, the resistance was quadruple
that of ordinary cement. Resistance
TO wear was no less remarkable.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14

question whether we are not establish
ing here in the central west the con-
ditions that have been the curse Of
Ireland for three hundred years. The
result Of this condition is that the soil
is losing its fertility; the farm is be-
coming foul; noxious weeds are grow
ing; the landlord squeezes the tenant
for all the rent that is in sight and
the tenant takes it out Of the farm; he
cannot afford for the short lease of
one or two years to buy fertilizers;
he must simply rob the soil for all
he can get and turn it over to his sue
cessor in worse condition than he
found it. He cannot go into stock
farming on short land tenures. SO he
must be what is known as a grain
farmer, and this takes the life out of
to- soil. The greatest economic men
ace of the world today, bar nothing,
is the depletion Of soil fertility, and
this will go on as tenantry increases.
Thus we see few Of the very many
drawbacks that are directly and in
directly due to bad roads, and we may
add to the list as stated by the de-
partment Of agriculture, that the cost
of moving farm products to the market
and getting supplies back to the farm
over bad highways causes an extra
expense of at least $3.50 per person
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14
Ice Harhor in Ohio River.

In connection with The million
dollar dam that has been constructed
in the Ohio River twelve miles be-
low Cincinnati the United States
Government has built an ice harbor
in which the river craft may take
refuge in the winter and early spring
from the masses of floating ice that
has caused millions of dollars worth
Of damage in past years.
The harbor is solid concrete, re-
enforced with steel, and is the first
to be built in the Ohio. 1t is large
enough to afford ample protection
against ice runs to all the craft in
its vicinity. Popular Mechanics.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14
A Long Root.

The length to which the roots of
trees may grow is shown by frag-
ment of an elm root which was over
fourteen feet long. 1t was only
three-sixteenths of an inch in diane
ter at the large end. 1t was cut Off
by plough at some distance from
the tree, so that the size of the re-
mainder is unknown.
Inc tree grew at the edge of a
piece OF woods, and the soil of the
adjacent cultivated field is rather
poor and dry. The American elm
loves rich, moist soil, and this slen-
dor root may have grown to this ex-
IRENE length in an effort to find
more favorable feeding conditions
than those afforded by the poor soil
III which it grew.-St. Nicholas.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14
Caterpillars as Food.

The natives of the Upper Congo
are very fond of certain kinds of
caterpillars gathered from the trees
which these insects frequent during
the caterpillar season. They assert
that "mita," as they call these edible
caterpillars, are very palatable when
cooked in the proper way.
Several kinds are eaten, ranging
in size from small insects less than
two inches long, which form clusters
or nests in the branches Of the trees
and are therefore easily gathered,
to big, hairy monsters five or six
inches long and proportionately
thick.-Wide World Magazine.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14

well as muscle. In such a school the
boy and girl would be able to get a
high school education and live at home
upon the farm.
The school would be the social as
well as the educational center of the
township-the rallying point where the
citizens could go and hold meetings.;
it would develop the social life, would
be strong and helpful, and the young
people would find in the central school
and the associations that ge,.o -.1,' ~ ~
doT the school spirit. :, ,, 80 W
ueFe- nod y eot,.-.-s"S condition that
would ~ sIfife upon the farm at
tractive instead of otherwise.
Another handicap to progress and
menace to our whole country, that is
very larely traceable to bad roads,
is the fact that SO many thousands of
farms are passing from the hands of
owner into the hands of tenants. The
weaving of the children from farm
carries the patents away when adj
vancing years makes 1t necessary for
them to lay the burdens down. We
are building UP a pcasantry Cit sounds
hard to call it that) which promises
trouble in the future and raises the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14
AVIATION WIsDo3l.

The successful aviator looks down
on other folks.
The aerouaut would sooner &C.
quire broken records than broken
ribs.
When en- aeroplane takes drop
we do not think it is a bargain.
Can an airship manufacturer be
said to be doing something to uplift
the race?
General, the enemy flies will
have a new meaning when aero
planes are used in warfare.
"a little of this goes a long way,
said the aeronaut as he ficked thi
ash from his cigar.
Aviation has one advantage over
other modes of tIavel-you can al
ways be sure of making good time on
the return trip.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14

of his desire to complete a series of
reforms he had instituted, the place
was given to O. L. Telling, chief of
the national bank examiners. s. Ha-
zen Bond, who, appropriately enough,
had charge of the bonding of govern
ment employees in the department,
has left that position to go with one
of the great surety companies Ed
ward p. Currier, until within a month
private secretary to Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury James f. Curtis.
is now second secretary to Vice-Presi-
dent Frank A. Vanderlip of the Ma.
tional City bank of New York.
Assistant secretaries OF the treas
urs' appear to be always in demand in
mercantile life, especially if their
service has taught them familiarity
with fiscal matters.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14
WY ASHINGTON.-F made while

WY ASHINGTON.-Fakes made while
We wait! The government ought
to be ashamed of itself, but instead OF
that it retains a man especially to per-
petrate them. 1t is no near-faking
either, the government work Is exact
ing and when the duplicate specimens
are completed there is no telling
which is the original and which the
imitation. There are probably few
men of similar calling in the world,
and fewer still who are as clever in
that line
The National museum has dug up a
son of Wizard Jack Hendiey, who in
his day was the premier imitation
man of the United States, and they
now keep young VIII Hendley busy
all the time making something look
like something else. 1t seems TO be
a peculiar gift, and is Salsabie in a
museum.
He works chiefly in plaster, making
casts of anything and coloring them
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14
Cats Fifteen Day Fast.

On the sails of the Undine, the
flagship of Admiral Sir Charles
Drury, commander in chief at the
More, being unfIrled at Chatham the
ship's cat rolled out on the deck.
she had been elshrouded in the sails
fifteen days. She was very enact
ated.-London Standard.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14
Just hoping alone never built up
bank account
Repairs Free for Poor Scholars.

1t is proposed that the boots and
clothes of necessitous children in at
tendance at the London County Coun
ellis day and residential special
schools shall be repaired free of cost
to the parents in connection with
the boot making and tailoring classes
conducted at such schools. 1t is held
that the work would afford useful and
necessary practice for pupils in these
classes, and no expense beyond that
already authorized would be incurred
London Standard.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14

The main advantage of having a
small forge on a farm is not so much
the saving of money as the saving of
time. A little job of repairing can
be done in the time that it would take
to get to town and back, and the cost
of the work is saved besides A good
little portable forge can be bought for
&c
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14
BAD ROADS BURDEN
ONWARD MARCH OF PROGRESS is
RETARDED BY MISERABLE
HIGHWAYS.
BIG HANDICAP TO PEOPLE
Costs Much More TO Haul Produce
Over BAD Roads Than 1t Does over
Good Roads-Effect of Good Roads
on Social Life.
AZ noMARn n cnosa

When one makes a study OF this
great subject and sees in how many
ways the march of progress is re
tarded by miserable highways the
country over, and realizes what q
burden this handicap places upon the
PEOPLE, it is surprising that the whole
population does not rise as one man
and demand that the highway condi-
lions shah be improved to the standard
required for the twentieth century.
Road advocates have shown for
years and years how much more it
costs to haul produce over bad roads
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14
Asking TOO Mucn.

My DEAR" said MIR. Clarkson, 81
don't want you to think have any
desire to criticise you for the way
you manage, but, really, we must try
to live within our income" within
our income? Goodness! And lie re.
garded by everybody in our set as
ntric?"-Judge.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14

Goodwin-What was the watermel-
on social given at the church last
night for the benefit for?
PoplSins-For the benefit of the new
doctor, l Observation-Disclosures News.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14

The quickest way to convince a girl
that you have good taste is to tell her
she is good looking.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-14

If some men didn't boast of their
honesty the world would never know
they had any.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-03-17
Millage Tax for State Educational In
stitutions.

A measure placing all state education
al institutions on millage tax basis
was passed and should eliminate from
future legislatures much of the lobby
ing and trading that has ben resorted
to in the past by both the representa-
tives of these institutions and members
of the legislature.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-03-17
TAX BUGABOO UP AGAIN.

Everett is still struggling with her
deficit. Said deficit weighed lightly on
Mr.. Citizens mind for some time, but it
is past the joke period now. Cops, in
spectors, street cleaners, office help
have all felt the swish of the axe on
their necks, and are all trying to find
out what happened to them. Hewitt
avenue is rapidly assuming the aspect
of back street in Sleepy Hollow and
every time a motor cycle comes down
the street it raises cloud of dust that
would do credit to Barney Oldfield's
green dragon. The large heartedness
of the Snoquolmie Light Co. mixed with
slight tincture of visions of "S per
cent warrants" stands alone between the
city and Egyptian darkness. The SUI
preme court knocked the stuffin' out of
the special tax levy and added more
gray hairs to the heads of the city dads.
The council is wrestling now with a
brand new form of income tax and ex-
pect to have an ordinance drafted for
the next council meeting 1t is scarce
ly to be hoped that any ordinance can
be drafted that will not meet the ire of
some free born belligerent citizen who
will repeat the tactics used against the
special levy and carry it to the courts.
Past experience has taught us to expect
anything from that high brow assem-
blage on the supreme bench and he
who would do anything else than guess
on the probable outcome of suit is
wiser than his time and belongs not in
Everett. These be troublous times for
those who are looking for way out of
the dilemma. And the saloon man ?
Sitting tight and laughing with demon
lac glee.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-03-17
REALL0SSTO
WORKMEN
Closing Of Free Employ
ment Bureau Is A Blow
That Is Severely Felt By
Men Seeking Work

The rigid economy made necessary by
the lack of finances in the city's strong
box is felt severely by all classes of
people, but the man "out of a Job feels
the blow more keenly, perhaps, than
anyone else Few realize what long
felt want had been supplied by the city
employment office. The figures given out
each month by Clerk Norland ere graf
flying to read and we figuratively pat
ted ourselves on the back as we read
them for our public spiritedness in car
ing for the under dog" The closing of
that office is matter of passing regret
to us as we think of tiff perchance
we give it a thought at all. But the
man out of work views it as nothing
less than tragedy. The great majority
of men who go to an employment office
for job are men practically without
money, most of them have scarcely
enough funds to transport them to
place of employment. The giving up of
a dollar or two dollars to an employ
ment man for the privilege of going to
a job that may or may not exist (many
men have been stung by unscrupulous
employment agencies) is, to put it mild
ly, a hardship.
The city employment office as con-
ducted by Clerk Norland proved a real
civic blessing. 1t was run on the square.
Employers learned that it tried to fur
nsh them competent, reliable help. The
man out of work learned that the agent
had no interest in Fleeing him. If he
was sent out to a job the job was sure
to be there waiting FOR him. Each
party, employer and employe, had con-
fidence in the city's employment bu
reau and the man who ran it.
The man out of job is kicking about
it today and the Journal sympathizes
with him. We'd help him if We could.
And the first suggestion We have to
make when the city began to shove its
bark off the financial shoals is that the
free employment bureau be re-estab-
lished.
There are other things that the city
can spare better.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-03-17
Miners Legislation.

Bills providing for the appointment
of commission to revise the states
mining laws, for the safeguarding of
the storage of powder, and issuing by
mining companies of only such amounts
as would be used daily and for the ap-
pointment of an assistant mining in
spector were passed. Efforts to secure
an eight hour bank to bank law and the