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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
Resignation of Officers Army Menace

number of reasons which disqualify
an officer, one especial disqualification
being susceptibility to seasickness,
which necessitates resignation of
many young men.
During the last year, it is said at
the war department., very few cadets
or second lieutenants have presented
their designations. Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood. chief of staff of the army, has
refused to permit lieutenant of the
cavalry to get out of the army to en-
gage in civil pursuits because he was
about to be married. He, however,
granted the young man a three months
leave of absence for his honeymoon
The lottery is a profitable scheme in
Cuba and the returns to the war de-
partment show that last year the Gu
ban government received from this
source $3,300,000 profit, which repre-
sents ten per cent. of the entire an
nual receipts from all sources.
But despite the revenue the Cuban
government is seriously contemplating
gradual abolition of the lottery in view
of the enormous weight IF c--'dcrco
to show that it is impoversning the
laboring classes and creating great
distress generally.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
HISTORY OF OLD FORT LEE
Consisted Merely of Earthworke and
Was Abandoned by Order of
General Washington.

The Fort Lee of revolutionary days
was on top of the Palisades, about
two miles up the river from the viii
lage of Edgewater, where the Fort
Lee ferry has its New Jersey landing.
In the strict sense of the word, it was
hardly worthy of being called fort,
since it consisted merely of earth
works, of which not vestige is to be
seen today.
Tradition says that the fort was
laid out by Gen. Israel Putnam, and
some of the historians thus account
for the fact that the defenses were
rather expansive for their purpose.
At first it was called Fort Constitu-
ton, but was soon renamed Fort Lee.
This temporary stronghold was
really constructed to cooperate with
Fort Washington, on the New York
side of the Hudson, in the defense of
the river. In the beginning it was be-
lieved that the two 6efenses would be
able to turn the British war fleet back
and prevent it from getting up the
river to West Point.
But from the first Washington is
known to have questioned its useful
ness and it was on his orders that it
was finally evacuated. In November,
1776, all that was left of the American
army in New Jersey abandoned the
fort and set out on its historic retreat
to Philadelphia
Tradition says that there was a fort
under the cliff of the river front at
some point not far from Edgewater
earlier in the revolution, but there is
no authentic record of it's existence
and it therefore cannot be credited.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
ODD ARRANGEMENT OF ALTAR
staten Island Pastor Creates Sensa-
zion Among Congregation by Strange
Collection in Pulpit.

The pastor of fashionable Staten
Island N. Y, church recently created
something of sensation. When the
congregation arrived there were gem
eral exclamations of shock over the
appearance of the pulpit. Instead of
floral decorations, there were the fol-
lowing objects grouped about the
speakers stand:
A whisky barrel, several cigar and
cigarette boxes, a dice box, a small
automobile, some beer bottles. a ham.
q pair of shoes, and strewn over this
motley collection, some school books.
mission envelope, and a Bible.
The pastor said the objects illus
trated his text: How Dollar Is Spent
IN the United States" In his SER
mon he said:
"One-seventeenth of every dollar
spent in this country every year goes
for drink, the amount being $1,675,-
100000; one-eighteenth of every dol
lar goes for tobacco, one-seventeenth
for boots and shoes, one-fifteenth for
meat, one-twenty-fifth for education.
and one-fftieth for churches"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

gond. Then the number is driven To
the waiting cars to be shipped east.
This sort of ranch having so many
miles Of barb wire fence, necessitates
the employment of a number of fence
riders. These men repair all broken
places. They also report any steers
found dead from over feeding or other
causes. If the dead steer is found
in tlms it is not an entire loss, for
there is a special plant for skinning
them and obtaining the tallow. The
branding, excepting in cases OF calves,
is mostly done in chutes A bunch of
cattle are run into a corral from
which narrow chute leads to a point
in tbs pen where the steer is pinned
to Tile sides. The branding is not
as painful as it seems. Only the
hair is intendtd to be thoroughly
slnged off. No pain Is suffered.
while the cowboy on such fatten-
ing ranch as the one hsTe described
often gets the hardest sort of work
and many long wearisome hours in
the saddle, his lot on the whole is
easier and pleasanter than the plains
cowboy. The food is wholesome and
generally this active fellow has
much more time to himself than his
brother in like work on the great
expanses of plain lands of the west.
His work is always strenuously cut
out for him, but he is a hardy fellow,
filled with natural vigor, and gen';r-
ally in excellent health. The fa.ten-
ing farm is an important factor in
the beef business of the United States.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
Watch Smugglers in the Philippines

r HE manner in which the Moros car
/ ry on smuggling in the southern
seas is systematic, according to infor-
nation given to Washington CORE
spondent by Captain Geddes of the
customs cutter, Skua. He states that
the Moros have an unusually high tree
on the Tawi Tawi group, from which
they can see the coast of Borneo and
also see the smoke of his cutter when
miles away from the spot.
when everything is clear the Snug
glers make dive for the little group
of islands that dot the sea between
there and Zamboanga, and almost al
ways escape me even when can sight
them" says the captain, "as they
know that my boat in the best of
weather can only make seven knots,
and with the tide against me in fine
weather only two knots.
There is at least 100000 worth of
textiles being struggled from Borneo
into the southern islands every year
that with a good, fast boat / am sure
could be almost all stopped. If it were
not for my one-pounder on the fore
deck I'd never land anything. AS it
Is. when we make haul it is most al
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
NO NUTRITION IN ALCOHOL
Problem of Food Value Is Condensed
Into Nutshell by the Medical
Times Of New York.

The Medical Times of New York
condenses the alcohol questions into
this nutshell:
The problem of the food value of al
cc-oi does not seem. after all. to have
been finally resolved by Professor At
water A German psychologist of high
standing. Professor Kassowitz, has
lately published the details of an ex-
perimental investigation which has
LED him to precisely the opposite con-
clusion. A certain number of dogs
were given definite amounts of food
some with and without alcohol, and
required to take stated amount of
exercise each day in a running ma
chine. These trials and several 9TH
ers of like nature were repeatedly
carried out, and it was found that the
recorded results were uniformly
against the alcohol-fed dogs, both as
to the amount of work accomplished
and changes in weight. The author is
OF the opinion that no food material
can be used in the body without be-
ing first concerted into protoplasm.
Since alcohol, being a stimulating and
poisonous substance, destroys the
highly complex and unstable proto-
plasmic molecule, it cannot at the
same time be assimilated by it, con-
sequently it cannot act as a food and
a. poison simultaneously. After a COM
paratiyely short period, alcohol para
Yves the center of innovation of the
muscles and therefore, by diminishing
the amount Of muscular action, the Sc
erection OF carbonic acid is lessened.
The diminished secretion, consequent
ly, means no saving of the tissues of
the body, but is a direct result of the
poisonous action of alcohol Kasso-
WIZ Is convinced that under no cir
cumstances can alcohol act in a nutri-
i've manner. Such is the latest au-
thoritative procurement on this sub
lect from the worlds scientific cen
ter What do we learn from the facts
OF human experience? Daily observa-
ton shows that all men who drink do
not become drunkards Those who
are thus unfortunate are not so be-
~--N'NS ivy are NOdh III VIII OF morals,
for men Of the highest character
nave become inebriates. A man is
drunkard because he has nervous
system that is peculiarly susceptible
to the poisonous qualities of alcohol.
NO young man, when he begins the
moderate use Of alcoholic beverages,
knows whether or not he belongs to
the class that can drink without dan
ger. He can find this out only by
experiment, and after the experiment
1t IS likely to be too late to avert the
disastrous results, against which
strength of character and will is no
safeguard, any more than it would
be against smallpox. Therefore, strict
avoidance of alcoholic beverages is
the logical conclusion, if the gravest
perils are to be avoided.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
UNCLE HIRAM TO HIS NEPHEW
His Dissertation on the One Priceless
Treasure Which All Men
Share Alike.

''Steven, my boy" said Uncle Hiram,
zone man may have more talent than
another or more courage or more
money, but there is one thing that no
man on earth can have any more Of
than you have, and that is time.
Did you ever stop to think of that?
Or maybe you haven't come to it yet,
that of the most precious thing of all,
the same being, ] repeat, time, no.
body, no matter who he is, can have
any more than you have. There can't
be any favoritism or special privilege
or gouging or monopoly in time. You
get what's coming to you anyway, and
10 nan on earth can take it away
from you.
"And isn't this something to be
cheerful over? Why, Stevey, it's the
grandest thing going to think that of
the most valuable thing of all we've
got as much as the man that rides by
us in a $4,000 automobile But, and
now I'm getting down to the sermon,
Stevey, this most precious thing of
all is the thing of which we are most
wasteful.
eve get our full share of it sure,
but we waste it ourselves shockingly.
Don't waste time, Stevey, please
don't. AS you feel now you've got
million years ahead of you, more or
less, plenty of time; but time is one
of those things that once lost can
never be recovered. Don't waste a
minute of it. When you play, play;
sink the shop; forget it utterly; but
when you work utilize all your time.
Don't dawdle it away"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

of farm property. Farm land, exclu-
sive of buildings, which was valued at
$13.05S, 00S, 900 in 1900, had more than
doubled before 1910, being then re-
turned as having a value of $685.
100000. The enormous increase here
recorded of 1928, 1852, 900 represents
an advance of 117.4 per cent. in the
value of all land in farms.
OF the factors contributing to this
increase in the average value of land
the most important is doubtless that
of advancing farm prices of agricultu-
raj products. This has increased the
income-producing power of the farm
and correspondingly influenced the
selling price or value of farm land 1t
is probable also that in calculating
the value of farm lands it has become
customary to capitalize the income
producing power at lower rate of in
terest than formerly. This might be
true, despite the fact that interest
rates in general have probably not
fallen. because of the reduction in the
risk of the farming business.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

WASHINGTON.-L of adven-
w ture and makers of romance have
overlooked one of the richest of mines
OF imagination and fact that is strang-
er than fiction-the federal pigeon
holes and dossiers in which the pa
thetic appeals of the eternal claimant
are embalmed in red tc pc and buried
for the curiosity of the future. Mark
Twain's story of the interior of John
Wilson McKinzie's claim for so bar
rels of beef contracted to be furnished
to Sherman's army, which provisions
decayed while the contractor was try
ing to catch up with Sherman on his
famous march to the sea-" is no ex-
aggeration of the stuff of which humor
or romance are made to be found in
the archives of Uncle Sam at Wash
ington.
Thousands Of claims are on file in
the archives of the United States gov
eminent The famous French spolia-
ton claims, growing out of the de-
struction or capture of American mer-
chant craft plying between the Ameri-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

Writing on German social life in
the English press recently, Sir Henry
Johnston says: 81 am told by so
many thoughtful Germans that the
abuse of alcohol still strangles the
mental and physical efficiency Of a
large proportion of German men in
the upper and lower classes. that
am compelled to believe in an evil
which is only Just lessening its hold
over our own people. and which is be-
ing fiercely chased out of the United
States. Yet | am pleased to state
that | never encountered drunken
person in Germany throughout my re-
cent tour, though | was aware from
the newspapers and reviews that
growing Indignation was making It.
self felt among the bourgeosie and
professional classes against the
.senseless ighteenth-century trRdi-
tons of German studenthood."
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

r HE navy department recently has
l been particularly unfortunate in the
designations of young officers who
have just finished their education at
West Point or Annapolis at govern
ment expense. In the last few weeks
eight or ten midshipmen and ensigns
have presented their designations with
reasons sufficient to cause the depart
ment to accept them. Both the war
and navy departments are periodically
confronted with this question.
The withdrawal of young officers
from the service before they have Civ
en- the government some return for
their education is discouraged by both
departments. A resignation is accept
ed only when it is believed there ex-
lists an impeachment to the profitable
retention of the young man. The navy
suffers more than the army as to the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

George c. Boldt, the hotel man, was
talking in New York about wines.
"The average American is now a good
judge of Wine" said Mr.. Boldt. HE
is no longer fooled by elaborate and
imposing labels. He has learned to
appreciate vines bouquet favor and
body.
81 heard the other day mild-lool.
ing chap in a restaurant who said: L
understand they've been having wine
riots in France, waiter
eyes, sir; I believe SO, sir the
waiter answered.
Well said the mild-looking chap,
the wine you've served me here would
be enough to start a riot anywhere :"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
Drunkenness Not Found Alone.

Drunkenness is never to be found
alone, never unaccompanied by some
horrid crime If not by wicked
crowd of them. Go to the house of
the drunkard, consider his family,
look on his affairs, listen to the sound
that proceeds from the house of
drunkenness as you pass, survey the
insecurity of the public ways and of
the night streets. Go to the hospital,
to the house of charity and the bed of
wretchedness. Enter the courts of
justice the prison and the condemned
cell. Look at the haggard features
Of the ironed criminal. Ask all these
why they exist to distress you, and
you will everywhere be answered by
tales and recitals of drunkenness.
And the miseries and the vices and
the sorrow, and scenes of suffering
that have narrowed up your soul
were, almost without exception, eth
er prepared by drinking or were I'M
dergone for procuring the means for
satisfying this vice which sprang
from it.--Archbishop Ullathrope.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

ways Chinese, as they can dump all
their merchandise and drugs into the
ocean before we can each them. Chi
nese? Oh, yes, lots of them. On an
average at leaest 800 are captured and
deported every year."
Captain Geddus has been skipper of
the cutter Skua for the last eight
years, three of which have been at
Jolo and two at Palawan During all
this service he has often made as high
as $500 miles a month cruising and
has assisted in several good captures
He recommends fast cutter and two
motor boats as great Improvements
over the present equipment, and states
that with these the Borneo coast could
be patroled so thoroughly that snug
Cling would almost become thing of
the past
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
NEVER DREW hN INFERENCE
coachmau, However, Thought the
Horses Gould Drew One If the
Traces Held.

A young clergyman who had deliv-
cred a discourse in the place of an
aged brother minister requested the
opinion Of the latter respecting it.
"Oh,7 said he, plainly, many of the
words you used we're beyond the com
urehension Of your hearers. Thus, for
instance. the word Inference'-per-
haps not half Of my pensioners IN
dsrstand its meaning"
Inference, inferencet" exclaimed
the other. "Why, everropq must IN
dcrstand that"
Il think you VIII find it not SO.
There's my clerk. now lie prides him
self upon his learning, and in truth,
is very intelligent. We will try him.
Zachariah, come hither. Zachariah, my
brother here wishes you to draw an
inference; can you do it?"
why am pretty strong. but John,
the coachman, is stronger than I. I'll
ask him"
Zachariah went out for few mo-
ments to look after the coaehman, and
returned.
John SAYS he never tried to draw
an inference, sir; but he reckons his
horses can draw anything that the
traces viii holdl"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
A FRESH CALAMITY.

AS though we had not already
enough worriment. lodging automo.
biles and taking orders from the
cook, we are now told that a hundred
and fifty years hence there will be
no more children. Viewed from
either pole of the situation, this is
indeed woeful prophecy If you
are a lover of children, it makes your
blood run cold to realize that they
are so soon to be added to the sched-
ule of extinct animals, along with
the dodo and the sabre-toothed tiger;
while if you belong to the opposite
class, it is equally distressing to know
that this promised millennium is SO
far remote that you will not be here
to enjoy the day when Algora c. e
and lll p. - sal .-o,d dndisputt d
place as household pets.
However, It's useless to bewail the
oracle of statistics. A learned col
lege professor has computed the rate
at which human births are declining,
and when he announces that they
will come TO an end during the next
century and half we have no al
tentative but to accept his dctum
1t is not a guesG; it is a mathemati-
cal certainty. To be sure, he might
nave kept this dismal prediction to
himself, but it's one of the moral
duties of statistician to temper the
present joys of life with melancholy
auguries. The horrors of the future
are calculated with the same preci-
sion as eclipses of the moon. Every
twelfth marriage results in a divorce;
and yours may be the twelfth. Once
some one is murdered in New York.
and every 10 hours somebody is at
tackled, and every 4S minutes build
ing catches fire, every seven minutes
there is a funeral, and every three
minutes somebody is arrested; SO
that if you can remain in New York
for month without getting into trou-
bic you are to be congratulated. But
even in your own village home you
are not out of danger. Every two
minutes somebody in the United
States is killed by tuberculosis and
If that fails to daunt you, then you
must know that every minute of the
day four and a half persons are tag
ged by the undertaken; and if you
are not one of the four you may be
the hall.
No prophet who conjures with sta
tistics has ever yet predicted any
thing pleasant. TITS just as well,
perhaps, that this is so; for, as Fa-
Their Gregory once remarked per
adventure this world here is made
troublesome unto us, lest we be de-
lighted by the way and forget with
err we are going" At all events, we
may not plan ahead for a picnic
without remembering that the day is
coming when there will be no water
on the earth, and our Yule-tide levity
is checked by the knowledge that a
hundred years from now there will
he no more Christmas trees; also.
no more coal. Indeed, whichever
way We turn, the future is black
with calamity. There will be no more
lumber no more fuel, no more teeth
and now, latest on the list, no more
children. And il our descendants
manage to survive these subtractions
it will be merely to look forward to
the time when a slowly cooling sun
Will put the iceman and all his cou-
sins out of usiness.-Lippincot
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
The Doom of Rautime,

Ragtime is dead, says the obsery-
ant Sousa and he is a man whose
opinion will go far with the masses.
though not quite so far as it did
when the Washington Post" was
played from Frisco to Vienna, from
London to RangOon. "Ragtime had
the dyspepsia or the govt long be-
fore it died" Mr.. Sousa saws. He
himself has not played a single piece
of ragtime for some years past. for
the simple reason that the people do
not want it. The same report is
made by the manager of the Wal
dorf-AstOria. The hotel orchestra
dispenses music and endeavors to
please the public. But people ask
Tor ragtime no longer; consequently
the bandmaster does not give it. Ma
han Franko, who, besides being a
well recognized dispenser of classic
music, is also music-purveyor to the
Plaza, says the people who listen to
mis- men do not like ragtime. They
are asking more and more for the
good things Of music They like
Wagner, List and Beethoven. Of
course, they cannot always be up in
the clouds and when he thinks he
dlscerns a yearning for the spright-
lier, lighter aspects of music, he
gives them Victor Herbert and Sou
sa. The manager at Sherry's says
his patrons prefer French and Wen
nese music. They like the Tilt and
languor of Strauss; they have not
yet wearied of Franz Lehar; the
cooling measures of Delibes are an
unceasing source of pleasure to them
Delmonico's have flung coon songs
and the cake walk to the wind. In
fact, ragtime seems relegated to the
musical Observation-Disclosures Post
Express.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

The city missionary was growing
because he found it difficult to remem-
Der the mission telephone number.
Il would like to change it to 1885,"
he said Il could remember that, for
793 is the number of my favorite
hymn. Five hundred and sixty-eight,
the present number, was the favorite
hymn Of the superintendent in
charge when The telephone was in
stalled. The telephone company is
very courteous In its dealings with
churches and missions. Whenever pos
sible they alloy The pastor to select
his own numbeA AS an aid to men,
Dry most of them choose the number
Of popular hymn That is the rea-
son most churches and missions have
low telephone numbers"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
No Liquor to EMPLOYEES.

The Northampton Traction COM
pany has issued a notice to all H.
censed hotels and saloons along its
entire line from Easton to Nazareth
and Bangor that no intoxicating
drinks shall be sold or furnished to
any OF its motormen, conductors or
linemen who are in uniform. The
transit company in its notice states
that such employee who is given
drinks will be discharged, which will
bring damage suit on the license by
the families of the employees.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

What science teaches of the deadly
e1ect OF all intoxicants gives force to
the following story: After some
search among boxes and trunks. the
baggage master dragged out a demi-
John OF whisky. Anything more ?"
asked the man. YES" said the bag
gage man, here's gravestone.
There's no name on it, but it ought
to go with that liquor,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
1t Needed a Diaoran,.

Dealer-Yes, quite good, only I
can't quite see what it's all about.
Artist-Why, it's clear as mud. The
farmyard at sunrise.
Dealer-Of course, of course. But.
say, would you have any obiec.
ton to making an affidavit to 60 with
it2