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DESTROYED BY FIRE.
Furniture Plant at Thomasville, N.
c.. Burned; Loss, $4,000.

THOMASvILLE. N. c.. March 25.-Ths
Lambert Furniture Company plant here
was destroyed this evening. The flames
had gained such headway when dtscov-
cred that nothing could be saved. Tha
loss Is estimated at $4,000 Insurance.
5000. Nearly one hundred people are
thrown out Of employment. The origin
of the fire IL unknown.
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Will Contest Hughes Election

CHARLESTON, w. Va. March H.
Rankin wyley, q democrat. wtn contese
the seat of Representative James A.
Hurhes Of the nth West Virginia dis.
trict. the only republican. according to the
raturns. who was elected to Congress at
~. last election. The record In the con-
'fest has BEEN prepared and Will be died
Ill washington next week, according to
Wiley's counsel tonight. Wiley asserta
that Hughes is not q citizen OF the
United States.
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IMPRISONED IN ICE.
Fishing Tugs Rescued From Peril By
Erie Harbor Boat.

ERIE, Pa, March 1.-TWO fishing tugs
OF this port. the Valiant and the Saturn.
on their way to Ashtabula, were rescued
late tonight while three miles OF shore
where they had become frozen fast in the
ice. The ice had already begun to crush
the hulls. and the whistle signals Of dis
tress summoned the harbor tug Commo-
dore Perry and the freboat Erie.
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Fearful Chapter in City's History.

"The building adequately equipped with FIRE
escapes and this likely be repeated
row or any other day in the big Office and loft buildings in
this city, The lives of the employees of these big buildings
are not properly safeguarded and if the law does pro-
vide their protection the law should be changed This
the hghtul experience in my fireman. It
is fearful chapter the ciys hstoy"-Fre Chief Croker.
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Twenty Y-S|X ARE LOST
WHEN SHIP GOEsD)IVN
Strong Gale OFF Vancouver Is
land Too Much for Little
Wooden Steamer.

VICTORIA, B. c., March 25.-The Brit
ish Columbia Shipping Company's little
wooden steamer Sechelt, built for passen-
ger service on an inland lake, turned tur-
tie in a furious gale off Beecher Head.
Vancouver Island, late yesterday after.
noon, and went down with all on board
twenty-five passengers and a crew OF
four. Thirteen passengers had landed al
Williams Head just before the steamer
went out to destruction. Most Of the
passengers were railroad laborers bound
for q Canadian Northern construction
camp, but few were residents Of Sooke
Among the known dead are Capt. H. "
James, master and part owner; Rev. Mr.
Burns, minister Of Sooke, and his wife.
and John Newton. land surveyor.
Indian Secs Disaster.
An Indian on Beecher. bay was the only
eyewitness OF the disaster. Through him
news was sent to Victoria, and the tug
William Joline went to the rescue. After
cruising abou, me scene of the wreck for
hours the tug returned to Victoria and
reported that no trace Of the Sechelt
could be found
Henry Charles, an Indian Of Rocky
Point. was gathering wood on BeecheI
bay at $50 pm. yesterday and saw the
Sechelt go down. A heavy gale was
blowing. When the Sechelt was three
miles of Beecher Head the gale struck
her and she leaned over and swung
around as though she intended to- run
across the strait at Port Crescent, on
the American side. The craft had hardly
turned broadside to the wind, when she
righted. then went over and lay on her
side.
The Indian watched the steamer ten
minutes and at the end Of that time the
vessel was swallowed up by the sea. The
Indian ran to Rocky Point and notified
r. Parker, stage driver. who tele-
phoned the news to Williams Head quar-
antine station. whence a launch was dis
na tched IN Victoria
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Fall From Window Ends in Death.

BERKELEY. CAL. March 25.-Thomas
Rickard. former mayor Of Berkeley. fell
from a second-story window In his resi-
dence today and was killed. It Is sup
posed that Rickard, who had. suffered
from heart trouble, stepped to the win
dow for air and lost his balance.
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Welcome Awaits Southerners.

NEW YORK. March 25.-Every resident
Of the sunny south who visits New
York In the future will ind tho latch
string out and welcoming hand extend
ed to him In the quarters Of the Southern
Club Of New York In the Hotel Schuyler,
which were opened tonight
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dent Diaz might confer the honor Of pre-
but that If the post were offered to him
he would feel 1t a duty to accept.
Notified Last Night.
I A message reached the ambassador at
z o'clock last night from Senior Creel, who
resigned Friday as minister Of foreign
relations. in which the latter announced
to Senor de Ia Barra that 1t was Presi-
dent Diaz's wish that he accept the post
Of minister of foreign relations to which
he had been named.
The ambassador wired his acceptance
at once and Immediately called on Presi-
dent Taft
''My meeting with President Taft and
later with Secretary Knox" said Senor
de la Barra, was most cordial. They
expressed the hope that Mexico would en-
ter upon an era Of peace, and said good
bye with the keenest appreciation Of the
GAS for the position in the cabinet,
felt it my duty to accept, because I
thought conditions in Mexico made it ur-
gent. I feel deeply the honor that has
been bestowed upon me. I will start for
Mexico City tomorrow"
The ambassador declared he had not the
slightest idea who would succeed him In
thought that Senior Creel, who once was
the Mexican ambassador here, might re-
turn. he answered that he had absolutely
no information upon the subject.
Acceptable to All Factions.
Senior de la Barra has not been identi-
fed with any particular political party in
Mexico and the significance Of his ap-
pontment is that it is confidently expect
ed to meet with the hearty approval OF
all factions In that country. He has de-
voted himself chiefly to the foreign rela-
tions Of Mexico, having been ambassador
to various countries
When 1t became known that Senior
Creel would resign the ministry of
foreign relations those conversant
| with Mexican affairs without hesita-
| tion picked Senior de la Barra as the
most likely successor because of his
familiarity with the country's foreign at
| fairs. He always has taken a deep in
terest in arbitration and universal peace
and has taken a. prominent part in fur
thering the cause Of arbitration among
Washington diplomats.
Versed in International Law.
| He has made a special study Of inter-
national law and was for many years a
professor in Jurisprudence and logic at
i (Continued on Third ParAl
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In Strait Of Fuca,

Beecher Head is west Of Beecher bay,
in the Strait Of Fuca, twenty-five miles
from Victoria.
The Sechelt was built at Bothell, on an
arm Of Lake Washington, near Seattle
for passenger service on Lake Washing
ton. which usually is as smooth as q
pond. Subsequently she was sold to the
British Columbia Shipping Company and
transferred to British register. Capt. II.
" James, managing owner Of the COM
pany, commanded the Sechelt when she
went down.
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Fire on Top Floors of New York Building
Occupied as Factory Also Results in
Injury to Hundred Others.
EMPL DYES JUMP FROM WINDOWS
TO STREET AND CERTAIN DEATH

Iron Door, Opening lnwardly, Placed at Head OF
Ninth Floor Stairway, Believed to Have Added :.
Score to the Number of Dead-Negligence
Given as Cause of Calamity.
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versed in International Law.

He has made special study Of inter-
national law and was for many years a
professor In Jurisprudence and logic st
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Continued on Third Pagal
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Increasing cloudiness and
warmer Sunday, probably show
era Monday showers.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
The Jolly Girl.

The jolly girls is born, not made;
no training or endeavor can counter
felt her. There are those, to be sure,
who affect jolity, but it is only skin
deep, says writer in Harper's Ba-
zaar. The jolly girl is Jolly under
adverse clrcums tauces--in bad wealth
err; when she hasn't a cent to her
name; when she has the toOthache;
when she has lost her situation when
she breaks her needle; when her back
hair tumbies down in public; when
she IS shopping; when her masculine
neigh Dor at the the theater goes out
and when he returns; when her bills
are due. She lever seems to indulge
in that feminine luxury the blue"
audit is mistake to suppose that
she is noisy; there is j0llity of the la
dy like, aristocratlc sort, as well as
the fish wife order
The girl who makes up her mind
that jollity is the proper cue, and
that she viii! be lively or die usually
overdoes the business she thinks that
it chiefly consists in laughing and in
chattering nonsense, that it is man
ner of speech merely, rather than
quality of the mind which disposes
one to make the best o. everything,
to see the rainbow on the cloud and
the silver Inning behind it, to make
the wrinkle in the rose leaf cause of
mirth. Some believe that jolity is
an affair of embonpoint; but who has
not been disappointed in finding the
stout woman melancholy and the
thin one vivacious, the bilious person
full of good-humor and the person
whose digestion never gave her q
moments uneasiness quite the re-
verse! The jolly girl can not sup
press herself, and assumes sadness
Or pensiveless; anguish airs do not
sit well upon her, but show at q
glance that are borrowed plumes.
One is never dull with her. She has
that infinite variety which all the
world covets and loyes. 1t may be a
desirable thing that those who have
not this natural grace should culti-
vate it in themselves and others,
since it brightens and strengthens
life, makes rough places smoother
and pleasant places pleasanter. Pos
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

sibly it is no special virtue in the jol-
ly girl any more than blue eyes IN
the blonde maiden or red hair in the
Titianesque Joility flows from her
presence Just as the nightingales
flutine bubbles from his throat and
enchants the world; just as the poet
pours forth his song lin profuse
strains of unprecedented art, Just
as the tree blossoms the grasses
spout. the stars shine, without effort,
without design, with sincerity and
constaucy and spontanety. Let her
be shipwrecked, or al invalid strand
ed on bed of pain yet she does not
lose or abate thai peculiar trait
which makes sunshine for those a.
bout her and sweeps the cobwebs out
Of their sky.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
WILL SMITH WRITES ABOUT OLD MEXICO.
Yours tru
Uranium Alberta, Canada.

Harrington, Texas. Oct. /, 1911. =
To the Greene County Herald and
to my friends in Misslssippl:-l have
been living on the border of Mexico
For four years. Have been in the
Republic several times but have just
returned from an extensive visit in
the republic going as far South
as Tampeca. This ci ~ S on
the Gulf of Mexico about 100
miles south OF the Tropic of Cancer.
My purpose was to investigate the
possibilities of farming 10 Mexico
found in the vicinity of Tampeco
some very fine land; this land is max
ing 30 to 40 bushels OF corn per acre
ard from ! bale to II bales OF cotton
per acre. Here they have an album
dance of rain fall. All kinds OF Trop-
ical fruits is found growing here. A
great many of them growing wild.
You also find coffee growing here,
cocoanuts etc about 100 miles North
of Tampeco.
| got horse, lett the railroad and
rode across the Tamoulepos Noun
tains. Here | saw the finest stock
country | ever saw. | was on one
ranch of rs, 900 acres. This tract has
fine grass II months ia the year,
This IS oak land and the oaks are full
OF acorns, making an ideal hog coun-
try as well as cattle horses and sheep,
In this district is regular seasons
Chat is in the mountains) with all
kinds of wild game.
/ spent the night with a native
who told me they were progressive.
He said he had just bought two iron
plows and he was well pleased with
them. He SAID his iron piows would
plow right through grass and would
stay in the ground where his wooden
/ plows failed to work. This man has
428 acres OF land with about 500
head of stock. He put me in The
best bed he had, this was a very thin
single mattress put up on scalfolo
in one corner of his dolby without
even sheet to cover with. / sat ii
this man s door and saw wild tur
keys feeding IN his field
Land in the mountains is wortl
81. so per acreA merican money in the
vicinity of Victoria the capital Of the
state of Tamoulepas. This city has
a population of $4,000. Victoria is
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

situated in a valley between two
mountain ranges, this valley is semi
arid, but fine well water with usual
ly rain enough in the spring TO make
one crop. They have two seasons
here. They always catch crop Oh
one of them.
In this district Fiber is being plan
ted. This | think is the best bust.
ness in the Republic. Here land can
be bought Tor from SO to 81 per acre
American money. This is on the
railroad with timber for domestic
purposes. The fiber plants can lie
bought for $40 per thousand or you
can grow the plants yourself Tor "a
bout So per thousand. This takes
one year. After setting these plants
in the field its two years until YOU
get a crop. This crop will be about
1000 lbs OF Fiber per acre the price
per 10 is 4c at this time, it fuctuates
as cotton experts say the price will
go higher as they are finding new
uses for it all the time. You find
tue latest Iads in ties are made OF
this fiber. The latest dress goods
are made of this Fiber. Many other
new things are being made from it.
After setting out this Fiber your
expense eads until its ready to cut.
You can pasture any kind Of stock
on the land Nothing will eat it.
This valley is also in the fruit belt
the mountains on the west side are
very rich in minerals, lots OF mining
in them.
| failed to find town without q
lot of Americans there. Every town
has American hotels. There is one
American colony that has 500 Amer
leans.
viii gladly answer any questions.
Respectfully,
w. G.. SMITH.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
HO0GTERP IN WESTERN CANADA.

AS the wheat crop in South Dako
ia was a failure and no more work
going on, thought | would take q
look at the wonderful crop in Cana
da.
l am at present working with one
Of my uncles.
We have just finished harvesting
a big field of wheat and oats.
was to send you picture OF a
big grain field but they are not read
y yet, but will send you one as soon
as | can.
| have been in perfect health since
[ left Old Greene, gained about eigh-
teen pounds in flesh.
This is very healthy country here
| believe.
We are about thirty miles away
from the snowtops Of the Rocky
Mountains; they are making beau
tiful picture from here,
bow long [ will be here, [ could
not tell you this time.
There is lots of work going ON at
present and good pay.
In the mornings you can count III
or II threshing machines here and
wheat shipping is the daily go.
With hearty greetings from,
Yours truly,
VIM. T. HOOGTERP.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
Return Of the prodigai Son Of 1911.

No, it isn't that the world has
grown hard hearted; it isn't that we
aren't just as glad today to see the
prodigal come back and just as 10y
ingly anxious to welcome him home
as eyer was anybody in the 18th
chapter of Luke. 1t is the manner
in which the prodlgal son of 1911
frequently returns that throws a
wet blanket over the festivities Of
the welcome. When he comes down
the road with his hat hanging on his
ear and his hands in his pockets;
when he kicks the faithful old house
dog as he lounges in at the gate;when
he calls his father Gov nor" and
the hired man Gull, when be wants
to know, what S for dinner?" before
he has been IN the house fifteen min
utes; when he gives his elder brother
two fingers to shake, and advises
hlm to comb the hayseed out of his
hair; when he throws himself into
the easiest chair in the house perches
his feet on the window sill and an
nounces that he II take q tub before
dinner" when he comes back with u
generally forgiving air OF good fell
lowship about HIM, and tries to make
all the rest of the family feel vry
easy and reaSsured-th it is my
son that your father longs to run and
meet you while you are great way
off and fall ulon your neck with a
plow line and welt you into state
of becoming humility and penitence
by the time you are able to take off
your hat to the bound boy, and crawl
up to the front steps to ask your
brother to shake hands with you.
Good people are jdst as glad today as
ever they were, to see a prodigal
come home, but it does rattle them a
little to see him come home in hack
and ask them to pay the driver and
send for his baggage.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
JOE RUNNELs CAPTURED & BROUGHT IN.

Joe Runnels, whom our readers
will remember, we gave an account
of walking off from Thomson's Court
at Leaf some time back, while his
TRIAL was under way and leaving his
bondsmen in the hole, was recently
unprecedented at Dumas, Desha Coun-
ty, Arkansas. Deputy Jake Green
was sent up there after him by
Sheriff Dan after proper arrange
ments had been made with the AR
kansas authorities for his requisition.
Dumas is across the Mississippi riv-
er a short pieco from Bolivar County,
Miss. His wife and two children
accompanied them back to Leakes
vile as they would have been in des-
titute circumstances If left up there.
The case on which he became bond
jumper was for Disturbing Peace of
Family. This in justice court. Be
SUES un'S tnefe are TWO charges
against him in Circuit Court for c
W. c., all though are misdemeanors.
They lived at Washington, G. c..
before he ran off, and it was through
his wife going to join him that he
was traced, the bondsmen coopera-
ting with the Sheriff to have him
picked up.
There is also suspended sentence
on good behavior for a residue fine
OF $425 in the A & B on A, Wade
tried at Feby. 1909 term, hanging
oyer the head of Runnels which he
will have TO face Ind0n RncLilev with
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
The Newly Elacted Bank Officers.

AT their meeting held here last
week, the stockholders of the Bank
OF Leakesyiile elected the following
directors for the ensueing year,
namely: Nat Owen, ]. e. Miller, J..
E. Alderman, Hugh Mclnnis, l.. V.
RounsaviiIe. ]. G. Dorsett and DR..
W. w. Eley of Merrill Branch.
The new board elected the following
officers: Nat Owen, Prest.; ]. E. Al
derman, " F., B. w. Mcleod Cash
Ter; G. r. Stringer, Manager Merrill
Branch.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
SCHOOL
v1I.'1sNDoT,ESS
e= -Al-zSss- G.lEs,--ae 80
KIT 5,.5s--s-==z==z.
SMART STUDENTS LIST.

HONOR Roll of Leakesvile Graded
High School.
Furnished by the Principal, Mr. &c. Ferguson. |
1st. Grade. Lula May Breland,
Alma Williams, G win Alderman, Joe
Fountain, Joe McInnis, Bliss Rob
erts, Stance Byrd,
2nd. Grade Louise McInnis, Ida
VALLEY.
Bird. Grade. Melbourne Williams,
Dewey Roberts.
9th. Grade. Mildred Townsville.
7th. Grade. Vadie Ball, Rachel
Breland
9th. Grade May Belle Mckay,
Laurie Rounsavll.e, Scott Mckay.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
Maternal Love.

The love Of father may be as deer
and sincere as that of mother 5, YET
it is calmer, and, perhaps more cal
culatng and more fully directed in
the great periods and ends OF life; il
cannot descend to those minutialy oil
Of affection, those watchful cares foi
the minor comforts and qualifications
OF existence, which a mother, from
from the finer sensibilities of her ma
ture can more readily appreciate.
The pages of history abound with
the records of maternal love in every
cline, and every rank of life; but it
is lesson of never-ending presence,
which the heart can feel and acknowl-
edge, and needs not example to teach
how to venerlte.
Can there be a being so vile and
odious, so dead to nature S lmpalse,
who in return for constant care such
unvarying kindness, can willingly or
heedlessly wound tie heart that cher
ished him and forsake the now lonely
one who nursed and sheltered him,
who can madly sever the sweet bonds
Of human union, and bring down the
gray hairs of bis parents with sorrow
to the grave; who can leave them in
the.r OLD age to solitude and poverty,
while he wantons in the pride Of un-
deserved prosperity.
If there be, why let him abiure the
man and herd with the beasts that
perish, or let hin. feel to distraction
that worst of human miserles.
How sharper than a serpent S
tooth is to have thankless child. F."
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES.

U. S. Senator, Jas. X. Vardaman.
Governor, Earl Brewer
Lieut. Governor, Theo. G Bilbo
Secretary of State, Jos. w. Power.
Acknowledgement, Ross Collins
State Auditor, D. L. Thompson.
" Insurance Cmsr. T. M. Henry.
" Revenue, Agent Writ Adams.
Cmsr, Agriculture, H.. Blakeslet
State Supt. Eductn. j. N. Powers.
Clerk Sup. Court, Geo. G. Myers.
Land Commissioner, M. A. Brown.
State Treasurer, p. S. Stovall.
Railroad Commissioners,
Middle district, Geo. K. Edwards.
Southern district, f. M. Sheppard.
Prison Trustees,
Middle district, w. a. Montgomery.
Northern district, Leroy 7. Taylor.
Southern district, c.. C. Smith.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

Jodle j. Perry was over from Es-
catawpa, Ala. vicinage Saturday
He tells Us that he will have gather
ed his crop from off the Bearry place
which he is occupying this year, with
in two or three more weeks when he
will move back TO his old place on
River above here which now belongs
to his brother-in-la law, Afford Smith.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

Kim Daughdrili was out Wcdnes-
day seeing about the Joe Runnels
homestead which he bought in the
First Monday under Trustees sale
to secure the bondsmen of whom he
was one in the j. p, Court case VS.
Runnels from which the latter fed
justice Tom Avera and Charley Dun,
nam are the bondsmen in the two
circuit court cases and they are re-
leased by RunneIs capture, but Kim
and Nicely are held, as judgment final
for $500 had been taken against them
on forfeited bond of said Runnels.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
And oblige,
A. NJ. FREEM AN.

Editor Herald Enclosed find p.
0. Order for 81, which please pass to
the credit of the Herald. Change
address from Wilmer to Grand Bay,
Ala.
Your friend,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
BEAT OFFICES.
-
Justices Of the Peace.

r. G.. Briscoe for Beat |
e r Platt & B. f. Woulard =" 2.
W. Il. Pope & W. |. Smith " 3.
S Fl. Dunn. Justice 4
w. w. Thomson q B. +. Yonno" )
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
90 - PEOPLE j..
You Know

Editor Herald ask YOU TO send
my paper (Herald) to Waynesbo' O,
Route i.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

The Town Council Of Leakesyille
were 10 session last Tuesday and
"Wednesday and fixed the Levy for
Town Taxes at I mills, which is /
mil raise over last years levy. The
assessment from the town has been
copied and equalized by them and
soon Town Tax Collector p. j. Nc
l.eod will be making out taxreceipts
for the owners OF T-eakesvile prop
eftV
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

Mr.. K |. BaciIstrom drove in from
Washington Monday, bringing a.ong
his daughter Miss Lola, land his young
son in knickerbockers Ernest, who
is entering the High school here
for current term. Mss Lola left on
afternoon train for Meridian, where
she Will enter Blossoms Female Co.
lege Tor this term. lie informs us
that his health is still holding up
and only in his feet d es he feel any
effect from the late nervous trouble.