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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13


err. All work guaranteed. (Pay mtr.)
L. w. James, who is administrator
for the estate of Pat James, his faith
er, spent several days in town last
week closing up the deal with DANTE,
Ter through Tom Steede whereby all
the timbered lands in said estate
were transferred to the Moss Point
company for consideration running
near $50, 600, in fact all OF that il the
James heirs win out on a suit in
Chaucery involving few fortles tc
which just now they could not make
title. Ed James was also down dur
ing the Aegotiations as wed as his
mother.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
Billy Neal Stays Huge Rather.


Billy Neel was in town Monday
and tells us that few days ago his
wife discovered a large rattlesnake
near their place and summoned him
to kill him which he did with a stick.
The old reptile made no fight at him
while the killing was proceeding.
Billy says he had II rattles and some
torn off. He measured 5 feet long
by the rule and 81 inches across
white place ON bottom.
You know the Royal Pressing
Club cleans and presses clothes for
50c a suit; Club Rates $l,25 per
month, at Perkins JeweIry Store,
LeakesyiIle, Miss. (Pay-mtr)
W. N. Henderson, who is the sec
ond oldest brother to Rich and Dock
Henderson OF this county, lies critic
ally i'll at his tome across the line in
wayne. lie was operated upon IN
Mobile several weeks back for tumor
of the brain, having 4 round piece OF
the skull larger than dollar remov-
ed and through this aperture the
grey matter has been slowly oozing
for sometime despite all efforts OF the
physicians to stop It. He is sinking
day by day He has a son grown by
his first wife, who was Margaret Kit
trel. OF the seven girls by his sec
cond wife one is about grown. Our
heart goes out in sympathy to this
sorely afflicted man and his distress
ed kinspeople,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

Watches cleaned and repaired by
Perkins the Leakesville Watch max
err. All work guaranteed Pay mtr.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

1aIius Hllman was in town Wed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26
A SQUARE DEAL FOR TURKEY-By George Eaves, D. D.

It has been also said that American troops were guilty of the water cure" cruelties in the Filipino pacihcation work. But what was the effect of those cruel ties in America? Did they not raise @ storm of indignant protest, from the last democrat to the war department itself?
 I am very far from supposing that the Italian government or people would will ingly represent Christian civilization in the manner apparently chosen by General Caneva. But under the dire imputation of responsible and reputable men, accredited as correspondents of the foremost news papers of the world, General Caneva can- not be exonerated by reflections such as those fndulged in by the New Orleans Pycayune and the New York Herald, with ever so many more. It Is simply impossible to believe that these corre- spondents have thrown up their commits sions in support of statements which the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph can truly describe as "palpably false and mali cious." Such men as McCullagh and Gott- berg are not liars.
 Certainly we must admit that if Italy had any sort of claim against Tripoli or Turkey which could in the least degree remove the present war from the world s too long catalogue of robberies with vio- lence, her armies should not be expected to suppress rebellious natives of the Arab
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thing? They wouldn't have hanged you for that
 BLANCO-Perhaps | rather be hanged for stealing a horse than let off for dsmned piece of sentimentality.
 Elder Daniels, who is at heart hyp- ccrite and a bad sort in spite of his responsibility in the community, IS warned by the scapegrace Blanco: Take care, Boozy. He hasn't finished with you yet He always has trick up hls sleeve"
 ELDER DANIELS-Oh, is that the way to speak of the ruler of the uni verse, the great and Almighty God?
 BLANCO-He's a sly one. He's mean one He lies low for you. He plays cat and mouse with you He lets you loose till you think you're shut of him. and then when you least expect it he's got you.
 ELDER DANIELS-Speak more re- spectful Blanco-more reyerent.
 BLANCO-Reverent Who taught you your reverent cant? Not your Bible. It says He cometh like a thief in the night ave- like thief-a horse thief.
 ELDER DANIELS tshoclsedD-Oh!
 BLANCO-And it's true. That's how he caught me and put my neck in the halter. To spite me because l had no use for Him-because l lived my own
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to- us unthought of melodies. I can see how words may be remembered after years, because words form pie lures; but tune has no such aids It Is simply confederation of tones, that can neither be seen. handled nor described. As to. this latter: One may say the note is B flat or D natural. or he may say, "It was the high c 0. Mascagnias masterpiece with which the Cavaleria closed that brought men and women to their feet screaming with delight" but none of these words describe the soul of the music. The words "beautifu1," Superb" may be ap- piled rightly, but critically and tech nically the music belongs to the sphere of things beyond description. Yet mem- ory recalls the rise and fall of tho melody, it's major and minor tones, it's diminuendo and crescendo, its sus- tained notes and it's intervals of rest with perfection. This is marvellous be- yond words to describe.
 I am here reminded of the wonderful memory of Mozart. When that great in Rome and while there he heard AL legris 'Miserre." His memory was of such tenacious quality that upon his return to his lodging he noted down the score from the beginning to the end. He afterward came to possess copy of the score as 1t had been written for the stage and as he had heard it rendered. Upon comparison he found that he had not made a single mistake, either in the melody or in the intricate harmony.
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taken i'll and you must take his place tonight The part required the mem origing of 72 pages, In six hours. He told me of 1t, and added, When the cur tain went up that night was letter per feet" He went on," and not a word slipped him. have heard however, ac- tors who only got through their parts by fits of halting.
 Sometimes memory placs actors false. They forget without any apparent reason for it. Does the reader remember Harry Langdon. who for a long time was Ada Gray's leading man? He was noble fel- minded, and had lofty ideals The first time I saw him he came to get me to play part in Lucretia Borgia, but de- nied him. He was a romantic actor, that is, played the lover" Long after he mad won his laurels on the stage, we were sitting in my rectory talking of the old times and of those of our friends who had passed out into the mystery of the un- seen world, where he is now. Presently asked, Did you ever forget your lines on the stage?" well let me tell you Memory is curious thing. A trained memoyr will do whatever you give it to understand you want it to do. now refer to the memory that is not befogged with drink or drugs, for nothing so positively destroys memory as these things. Do you remember what Lady Macbeth says of the chamberlains? When Duncan is asleep his two chamberlains will I with wine and wassail so convince, that mem-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26
MEMORY-By Dr. w. E. Evans

We forget rothing," affirmed Thacke- ray, adding, "The memory sleeps but wakens again. I often think how 1t shall be, when. after the last sleep of death, the reveille shall arouse us forever, and the past in one flash of sef-consciousnes rush back, like the soul revivified." Many writers say we forget nothing. That what has once entered into memory re- mains there forever. It may be so. do not know But one thing is certain with me, the irregular Greek verbs that could once conjugate as a boy, seem gone entirely from memory. Thackeray was right. however, in limiting that mem- ory abides after death, "Son, remember" was said to one who had passed through the article of death and was in the eter- nal world. Emerson says, Everything is prospective and man is to live hereafter" He adds that the future life must be up to the style of our present factulties-- of memory, of hope. of imagination, of reason"
 marvellous things. Lord Macaulay could recite the whole of Milton's Paradise Lost without making a mistake of & word. When he was child of he memorized Marmion, the long poem of Sir Walter Scott. The writer of Marmon had an ex- traordinary memory. In speaking of his early days, Sir Walter said: ''The num- Der of Spenser's stanzas that I could re- peat was really marvellous" It is pathetic, however, to observe how his memory weakened towards the last Someone read a poem to him with which he was
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greatly pleased. He asked the name of the author. Alas, 1t was one of his own santos from the Pirate.
 Sir William Hamilton tells us that Gro- tius and Pascal never forgot anything they had once read; and that Leibnitz and Euler could repeat the Aenied from the beginning to the end. Ben Jonson left on record the statement that he could repeat from memory everything that he had ever written, and whole books of other authors that he had read. Lip sius made a curious proposition to a Ger man prince. He said: "Sit here with a dagger, and if in repeating Tactus I miss single word, stab me to the heart" |" l referred to Pepys diary last eweek, a book, which all grown people should read In that book the curiosity fiend tells of an Indian who could repeat a long pas sage from Hebrew or Greek after 1t had been read to him only once, though he was ignorant of the languages. Old Pepy or Pepys himself seems never to have forgotten anything; certain it is, he never forgot a court scandal. Montaigne de- says, yet he never seems to forget a Latin quotation.
 Actors illustrate to an astonishing de- gree what the memory may accomplish. Philip Kemble's memory was famous the world over. He could read a newspaper once or twice and then recite the printed matter in order, even news items and advertisements. I know an actor well, who at o'clock in the afternoon, was told that the leading man was suddenly
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infinite variety of cares devolVed on democratically minded statesmanship, on a. sudden sounds the shock of foreign at tack. Turkish officials are astounded. They see no reason why they should be whipped for the sins of the fatuous im- beetle whom they had banished from the throne They thought that Abdurs sins had already cost the empire dear enough But behold, the sense of justice burns brightly enough in the Italian cabinet 10 enable them also, like another MT. Moss, to shoot several of the wrong men. They intended those bullets for Abdul?
 But why do not the powers intervene? Apparently because there is no way to oo it without infinite danger of firing the whole powder magazine, which is the map of Europe. They may wisely con clude that Italy is least of all nations likely to bring peace with honor out of an African adventure. They may be far from believing that Mohammedan unity is so dead as to fail In the simple task of making Victor Emmanuel very tired monarch Even Austria and Germany see that their partner needs a lesson. They may look on with much equanimity while the mlitarism which is used as an appeal against socialism in Italy rather fosters and rouses that fell monster of the neither fires. They hardly can be supposed excessive in friendship for the Turk,
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breed with rose water and pink teas. &c., verity would then be merciful. for it might easily be the shortest and sanest road to order and peace. But even then ruthless murder of non-combatants, tor ture of the sick and defective, and all needless cruelty would deserve the execra- ton of right minded men.
 How much more If the whole war Is un- justifiable! And what proof of justifica- ton has appeared? Vague and general ac- cusations of the Turkish governments de- lay in settling certain irritating business have indeed been published from Rome; a sudden explosion of popular enthusiasm, and rapid leap across the Mediterranean sea with troops and guns. and that is war But the Italian Is much more like ly 1t seems, to burn his fingers, both at home and abroad, than to obtain anything more popular than an increase of the public debt and the necessity of increased taxation
 My purpose fin writing these lines is to raise the question whether the worlds s attitude to the Young Turks In this pa- thetic business is quite generous The Turk, of course, is endeavoring to hold together an empire of vast extent and of diverse races and religions. Since Abdul the Damned" was damned indeed and put behind the bars for the rest of his un- natural life. an Albanian revolt has been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26

"HE Turkish empire is still suffering
 from the sins of Abdul Hamid
 x Italian chivalry has succumbed to the temptation of land-lust and to the African fever; but nice little batch or American journalists are fiourishing their pens, by way of trumpets. to assure the world that King Victor Emmanuel and his government are exceedingly nice peo- ple. What could be nicer than killing Turks and Arabs?
 Now comes the news however, that an- other batch of journalists, newspaper correspondents holding passports under the Italian war department, have very largely taken their leave of Tripoli be- cause they cannot look with tacit consent upon the wanton murder of many hun dreds of innocent Arabs, particularly Of the women and children. It would seem, however, that the Italian government Is alive to the possible consequences of the indictment published by men like MT. Francis Nc Cullagh, correspondent for the Westminster Gazette and the New York World, and Herr Gottberg, the well known German notary, critic and war correspondent" If what these men have said is fairly accurate, and if every Brit Ish correspondent but one also handed in his papers and left Tripoli by way of pro- test it is not unlikely that Africa will be
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zy western females of the commoner sort, gossip of lynch-law against the time for the trial.
 LOTT1E-I wish we could get moro civilized I don't like all this llynching and shooting. I don't believe any of us like it, if the truth were known
 BABSY-Our Sheriff Is a real strong man. You want a strong man for 8 rough lot like our people here. He ain't afraid to shoot and he ain't afraid to hang. Lucky for us quiet ones, too.
 JESSIE-Oh, don't talk to me. I know what men are. Of course he ain't afraid to shoot and he ain't afraid to hang. Where's the risk in that with the law on his side and the whole crowd at his back longing for the lynching as If 1t was a spree? Would one of them own to 1t or let him own to it if he lynched the wrong man? Not them. What they call justice in this place Is nothing but a breaking out of the devil that's in all of us. What want to see Is a Sheriff that aint afraid not to shoot and not to hang.
 Presently Blanco is brought Into the improvised court room by Strapper Kemp and a cross-eyed man called Squinty. The prisoner is evidently blackguard. It would be necessary to clean him to make a close guess at his age; but he Is under 40, and an upturned, red moustache, and
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But what if the traditional picture of the Turk should prove a distorted and ex- aggerated libel? What if the real Turk is as much a gentleman as the real Italian! What if it should be proved within these coming Christmas weeks that the Chris tian is showing himself less decent and less humane than the Moslem? These for
 eign aggression wars with a religious seasoning are really quite out of date. That particular form of cant has ceased to be palatable even in Europe.
 The truth seems to be that as long ago as 1878 Italy expected to get the Tripoll country so soon as the moribund Ottoman empire went to pieces. Instead Of going to pieces 1t first went mad and now later has renewed its youth and sanity and shed the semblance of dissolution Like a hunter about to skin an apparently dead catamount, Italy is wonderfully alarmed and scratched by catamount dead only in a certain sense. There is and there is a vast fund Of re- ligious passion still available for righteous national resentment, even In Turkey Ana there is a deep and wonderful brother hood among those who turn their faces toward Mecca three times a day. May we not therefore say that the fatal element in 1talys sorely needed Justification Is that she is more than likely to fall? It Is a cynical confession. of course, but some times even the cynic Is among tho prophets.
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long since have trod the way to dusty death," live again. old songs whose echoes died away long ago are heard once more for. as Shelley says. Music, when soft voices die. vibrates in the memory" brance of past years. Truly has Tenny- son said,
 This Is truth the poet sings That a sorrows crown of sorrow Is remembering happier things
 I have read in an old, old book. that many people regard as the most sacred book in the world that At eventime there shall be light" I suppose that one element of that light that shines softly in the eventime is remembrance. To have reached old age after busy life of selfishness, of immortality. and thoughtlessness of our high duties to humanity and to God must be to be haunted by memories that shut out from the mind all light and that weigh like lead upon the heart, exciting ono to ask with Macbeth, "Canst thou not minister to a mind dis
 eased;
 Pluck from the memory rooted sor-
 row;
 Rage out the written troubles of ths
 brain:
 And, with some sweet oblivious anti-
 dote,
 Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilouss
 stuff,
 Which weighs upon the heart?"
 But to have lived an upright life. one of charity goodness and truth 10 to have the sweet radiance of happy memories to light up the soul in tho eventide, that is certainly, though solw. ly creeping on.
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fearfully suppressed and Greek sympa- thies with the revolutionists have been sharply discouraged. But in such mat ters the Turk did precisely as England did in India in the fifties. And surely we should not expect of modern Turkey any higher ideals of mercy than England held 60 years ago.
 So the question for Italy comes back to the right she had in Tripoli. As much right as France had in Morocco? By no means. The right of France had been allowed in council of nations. All the support that Italy could find was the mere absence of armed protest from the powers and the absence of Turkish fleet from the sea. Turkish statesmen were caught mapping. They did not realize that the freebooter was abroad. They had been spending their intelligence and resources not in warships, but on i'm provement of national conditions. A new era had dawned in Turkey. Christians and Mohammedans had begun to live to- gether without hate and without fear A few more years of peace might have re- suited In immense increase of popular in- telligence and popular control throughout the empire. The amazing spectacle was seen of a political Mohammedanism hon. estly trying to be civilized, trying to be modern!
 Amid that critical strain and amid the
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once more the deep. dark, pitiless grave of Italian military regulations and am- bitions. According to these great and trustworthy observers, 400 women and children were shot and 1000 men, of whom not 100 were guilty. Cripples and blind beggars were shot merclessly, and sick people whose houses were burned were left on the ground and refused even drop of water. Crazy soldiers overran the Arab quarters and shot every Arab man and woman they met. The officers were as bad or worse than the men, and the whole army was demoralzed. The scenes were worse than any Russian pogrom or Armenian massacre"
 Now that is far from pleasant reading. It is even less pleasant to find American papers helping to remove the legitimate impression of horror that should be on the readers mind. A good deal of water has run under the bridge since British troops blew Sepoy mutineers from the mouths of cannon. Moreover there had been horrors enough in 1857 to set the British soldiers in the light of an aveng- ing fury But 1t is certain that even those horrors would not be held today as justification for the terrible reprisals ex- acted in those dark and lurid days Sf terror. Such scenes would even justify the united protest of Christendom, in these days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26

Africa, and remained in retirement as Cleveland did, he would be as certain of third term in 1912 as Cleveland was of a second in 1892.
 Then. if not Roosevelt, who is going to get the nomination from Taft next year? 1t is the common belief that LaFoletye is running for 1916. as Douglas in 1856 was running for 1860. In the convention Taft will have the solid south against any com petitor, and he will have Ohio and every thing east of Ohio against LaFole.te, though Garfield might reduce the Taft strength in Ohio by dozen delegates
 Taft may do the unexpected. He may decline to be a canidate for reelection and that would precipitate the bitterost fight in the national convention in the history of the G. O. P. It would be stall wart against progressive. That might re- suit in the nomination of Roosevelt if Boss Barnes of New York and Jim Sher- man, the Vice President, could be induced to assent to 1t.
 The politicians may make the nomina- tions of both parties in 1912. but never again after 1912. Thereafter the people will do the work in primaries.