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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01
Peruvian President Is English

Senior Guillermo Billinghurst, ex-
mayor of Lima, just elected presi-
dent Of Peru, was born of English
parents. who settled in Peru over six
ty years ago. He is native Of africa,
and received his education in Val
paraiso and Buenos Ayres. In 1868,
when his family was practically
ruined by the earthquake. he went to
[uuique and devoted himself with
much success to scientific research
work. His political debute dates back
10 1874, when he was elected secretary
Of IquiQue province. In that year he
published his book on Municipal Leg
islation in Peru" which has become
the standard book on the subject in
that country.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01

WASHINGTON. - Behind a wire
w screened cage employees of the
United States government have now
gone into the laundry business. They
are washing United States bank
notes and ironing them It 10 not
generally understood that when any
body gets old greenbacks, it does not
make any difference whether a dollar
or a thousand, If he sent it to the
treasury department and requested a.
new bill he would. have to have it.
All the bankers in the country have
always had the right to turn in all old
money and get new for it. The old
money was assorted. counted and tied
In packages in the treasury depart
ment and then taken to big eyelet
machine, where great holes were cut
through the bundles of money, and
from there it was sent to macerator,
where it was chewed up into fine pulp,
and then nodded to make trinkets for
sale. They are not bit pretty. be-
ing nasty greenish-gray, and are
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01
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Uncle Sam Can Wash Your Money While You Wait

nearly always warped out OF shape;
but they sell them for souvenirs. as
there Is a kind of fascination In know
ing that the tiny imitation of the
Washington monument which you
hold in your hand represents $3.50. 900.
The washing machine is still In an
experimental stage, it Is said, and
seems 70 be doing pretty good work.
1t is estimated that this will save
vast sum for the treasury. It costs
1880 to make 1000 bank notes. 1t
cost but about so cents to rejuven-
ate the same number.
The machine is Is feet long and
five feet wide, and looks something
like a newspaper printing press. It
has dozens of rolls. many gears and
operates with the same clash and
clang. The money is placed between
two canvas belts at one end of the
machine. II runs through a solution
of laundry soap and boiling hot water.
where it Is thoroughly cfeansed. 1t
then enters another vat in which
there Is a solution Of stiffening mate
rial and germ4killing solution. From
this vat it is drawn between a gas
heated mangie, where it is ironed.
1t energies from the machine two
minutes and Is seconds after it has
started on its 64-foot trip, and Is to-
all intents and purposes a perfect bill
When running at full speed the wash
ing machine can clean about 1000
bills an hour.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01
Where Rest Is.

There is no rest to be found in any
escape from the will Of God. We may
elude plain duty; we may recoil from
that which we know we ought to do.
and yet which seems too hard for US,
and refuse to undertake the task. But
there is no rest In this course. Gods
will, IL 1t requires work for us, Is pro-
viding rest In and through that work
SUFFICIENT for our needs. for his will
is not in conflict with his love If we
feel the need Of rest. let us not be too
sure that we shall find 1t in freedom
from work.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01

Under this title Sir Thomas Whit.
taker, a noted English expert on the
alcohol question, contributes to pop
ular magazine most interesting arti-
Gle, which is q valuable contribution
to temperance literature. Sir Thorn
as Whitaker sums up in these words:
THE system must be judged as a
whole. Evil is inseparable from the
common sale and general use Of in
toxicants-not In every individual
case, but in every community. There
is no nation in the world today-and
there never has been one-of which
this is not true. 1t is in the very ma
ture of alcohol that it should and mus
be So"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01
-DRINkER IS ALWAYS THIRSTY
Like Feverish and Consuming Pas
sion and ParboIied Stomach.

It is the change<ess law OF alcohol.
sues, that, though. by the liquid quail
ity of the beverages in which 1t Is
mixed tt seems to appease, 1t really
creates thirst. 1t does this by absorb
ing the fluids of the body, notably of
the brain, because in the brain, as
has been shown, there is much fluid
to absorb. Hence, the more brain a
man has, the less liquor he can stand
up under, and the less brain the more
fmpervious he Is to the assaults OF
alcohol, which helps to explain why
the epoch of our revolutionary ances-
tors may have been less darkened by
DRUNKENNESS than our own. The al
cohol in drinks acts in exact proper
ton to the quantity imbibed upon the
albuminous matter of the brain pre-
cisely as fire acts upon water, tapping
1t up with fierce and Unsuitable
thirst, which still, like the horse
leech's daughter, keeps crying
Give" until its hot lips hive sucked
out the last particle with which they
come in contact. For 1t cannot be too.
strongly stated that the affinity of
alcohol for moisture is like a feverish
and consuming passion, and the Bills
tered nose, burnt brain, and parboiled
stomach of the man who makes BUSH
ness of drinking are natures perpet-
ual object-lessons to illustrate that
alcohol Is the redoubtable enemy Of
an organism made up as the human
body is. of seven in every eight parts
water.-Frances E. Willard
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01

less lain upon; they have rather
peevish nature, as It were, and al
apt to start something. Those in IL
bag were no exception. They SCI
out a creamy protest that starts
somewhere up around the woman
neck and continued all the way dow
her dress front. Vesuvius in it's fno.
hilarious moments never. poured Out
greater flow. In comparison to its si3
than that paper bag. The woman VI
helped to her feet by sympathetic
lockers. who promptly retired wi.
she gave her dress a shake and Sd
flecks Of cream in ninety-sevan din
ent directions.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01
.HO;S}8[zI( 40 A(.&z[6lVNHY
KING NICHOLAS PICKED TO START WAR

Declaration of war against Turkey
by King Nicholas of Montenegro, fol-
lowed quickly by several severe en-
gagements between Montenegro and
Turkish forces, are regarded merely
as the beginning of a general con-
Migration in the Balkan states.
1t is believed that the other units
in the Balkan coalition will follow
suit as soon as the mobilization OF
the armies is complete.
There is only a faint hope now
that the representations of the pow
ers will avert general hostilities.
Montenegros move is considered
by many to be part Of a prearranged
plan. 1t is asserted that Greece was
first selected by the Balkan confed-
Grafton to force the issue and inau-
gurate the war.
This could easily have been done
by Greece seating in the Greek par
lament the deputies from Crete,
which was certain to prove casus
belli to Turkey. Greece. however.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01
None Too Honest.

Chauncey Depew was discussing in
Washington the methods of certain
corporation.
such methods" said Senator De
pew. may not be considered dishon
est by some people, but they remind
me of the reply OF q debutante OF
1900.
Does your fiance know your age?
q girl friend rather cruelty asked this
debutante, as they sat on the beach
mending their bathing suits.
sWell,-partly,' was the reply"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01
Industrial World and Drink.

Employers do not hire men who
drink. They cannot afford to do so.
The man who drinks is Disseminated
against throughout the business world
With 80 per cent Of the railroads, rs
per cent of the manufacturers. IS per
cent. of the merchants and 70 per
cent. of the farmers refusing to em<
ploy men who drink, there Is no more
excuse for the saloons In the world
of economics than in the world Of
morals.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01

Mrs. Gigthorn- Do you mean to say
you smoke the Rasty little things in
your own house!
Mrs Leeder-Only when we are do.
ing amateur theatricals. You cant
present a society drama, you know,
without them.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01
SENATOR T. P. GORE BLINDED IN YOUTH

United States Senator Thomas
Pryor Gore of Oklahoma is known as
'"The man that never sleeps" and
"The man that never forgets any
thing" He is one of the remarkable
men in American history. because
from poor little boy in Mississippi,
blind from the time he was eleven
years old, he has arisen by his own
effort and indomitable will and corr
age to become statesman. scholar
and a foremost citizen.
''The blind senator from Okla
homa" is known ali over the country
and the people like him because of
his amiability. his intelligence, his
high character. his oratory and his
success as a statesman.
Many persons wonder how he be-
came blind His sight is totally
destroyed. When he was about eight
years old he was struck in the left
eye by stick which a young COM
panion threw on the ground and
which bounded back. The eve was
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01
LE GAGNEUx BREAKS ALTITUDE RECORD

M. G. LIE Gagneux. the. aviator.
who the other day at Paris reached
the tremendous height of 1867 yards,
more than four miles, when he broke
the man-flying record for altitude,
has given graphic description of
his feat and sensations.
That his achievement was even
greater than it at first seemed was
proven by the official and corrected
calculations made from the self-regis-
tering instruments which he carried
on his marine monoplane
LIE Gagneux has gone farther from
the earth In flying machine than
any other.
LIE Gagneux says: I'm two and a
half minutes l was 1900 yards in the
air. In seven and a half minutes /
was $500 yards up, and little higher
/ few into a dead calm. At an alti-
tude of 1926 yards / found myself in
a fog so thick that I could see moth.
ing.
ct grew very cold. was warmly
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01
NEW FIELD OPEN TO E. T. FAIRCHILD

E. T. Fairchild, president of the
National Educational association, and
superintendent of education of the
state of Kansas, has been rendered
the presidency of New Hampshire
Agricultural college.
The practical benefits of educa-
ton have been emphasized by Mr..
Feirchild in his work in Kansas.
The conventional treatment of the
sciences in the secondary schools was
objected 60 by Mr.. Fairchild as un-
suited to the pupil and to his actual
needs when he got out of school. It
Is his idea that all text books, espe-
cially in high schools, should follow
the plan demanded by teachers of
arithmetic-tha all the problems
presented be of things that concern
the active life OF the child.
"The present text books are for
advanced work and are not practi-
CAL" Mr.. Fairchild said recently.
while the books are written for boys
and girls of high school age, still they
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01

technical
to children after they through school
believe there real demand textbooks shall
ABANDON at least
rs illustrative material the plant life
proht the the flowers
truths the
There practical knowledge
propositions which
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01

capital punish
ment in the Dis
trict is to be SO
strongly urged
upon congress
next session that
legislation 20 es-
tablish the mod
ern and less SEN
sational method
will be enacted is
expected by peo-
pie in the District
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01
Too Late.

The host was nervous and inexperi-
enced. and he rose hurriedly at the
conclusion of the song.
Ladies' and-er, gentlemen he be-
gan, before Mr.. M. started to-er-
sing. he asked me to apologize for
his-er-voice, but | omitted to do so
-er-so-I-er apologize now" =
LONDON Opinion
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01

destroyed And when he old he the Mss
brother and at the hotel where he several children
barrel
totally blind
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-01
FAVOR ELECTRIC CHAIR
FIGHT ON HANGING is PLANNED
AT CAPITAL.
Substitution of Modern Means Of Exc
cutIon for GaiIows Is Urged In
the District-Present Capital
Punishment ls Condemn
ed as Barbarous.

Substitution of electrocution for
hanging as the means of inficting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06

Bluefield, w Va. September 5.-Wai- ter Johnston, negro. accused of assault ing a 14-year- old white girl at Prince ton, w Va, yesterday, was lynched late tonight.
 Johnston was first hanged to teie- graph pole and then his body was rid died with bullets. It was the first lynching in Mercer county in years.
 Johnston iss said to have attacked Nita White, daughter of well known man. After entering the White home, where the child was alone. the negro choked and chloroformed her. He was captured later and partially identified by his victim To protect the negro, officers secretly took him out of town and had reached Lashmoot, when over taken by the mob. The negro was taken away from the authorities and the return journey to Princeton be- gun.
 Upon arrival at Princeton the mob
 listened to speeches by criminal court judge and district attorney. It was decided to postpone the lynching until tomorrow, pending a certain identifica- tion of the negro by the girl. But later this decision was reconsidered. Fear ing the arrival of state troops John ston was killed The body was filled with thousands of shots and badly mal- treated After the .lynohing, the crowd, it is said, became unruly and the au
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06

Greenville, September 5.-(SpeciaL)- Greenyille is the best cotton market in south Alabama. Many thousand bales of cotton are annually sold in Green vile and the price paid is the high est. For the last two years the Green vile cotton buyers paid on an average of 1-16 of a cent per pound more than other places In the surrounding terri tory and even the larger places like
 Montgomery. Greenville this season will be a better market and the farm CTS will be benefited financially by bringing their cotton here.
 Aside from all the merchants who do advancing business there are the fol lowing cotton buyers here: W. w Lodge- of A. T. Lodge x Co.,, w. K Driver of Well Brothers, H. c. Par lxer of Robbins & McGowan, E. D. Thames of Prople Cotton company Leslie Stewart of Georgia Cotton com pany, Jack Powell of McFadden Broth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06

Athens.-It is semi-offieially announced
 that an engagement has occurred at
 Harmanli, Albania between the insur-
 gents, of whom one of the leaders was
 the governor of Djakova, and Turkish
 troops The latter was forced to retire
 to Berana, near the Montenegrian from
 tier
 Panama.-The American minister to
 Panama, Percival H. Dodge, left here
 today for the United States, accompanied
 by Mrs. Dodge The minister had de-
 layed his projected trip north until his
 demands for the dismissal of several
 police officials, responsible for the mal-
 treatment of several Americans recently,
 had been complied with.
 ferlin.-The German naval Zeppelin
 dirigible is to break all records, accord ing to a marine news agency here. The specifications call for power to carry out a sustained flight of at least sixty hours. The speed required by the con tract is well over fifty miles an hour. Hong Kong-A powerful band of Chi nese pirates today carried off the mas- ter and chief engineer of river tug and are holding them for ransom. They de-
 mand S20.OO0. | Salt Lake City.-Oscar F. Nelson of Chicago was reelected president and h. dianapolis selected as the next meeting place by the National Federation of Post office Clerks, in session here today. | Mexico Cfty.-A rear-end collision at l Calera, near fCuguas Calientes, on the Mexican Central railroad today, resulted | in the death of 12 passengers on north bound train and the injury of four others among the dead are Division Superin- | tendent Chrietzberg an American, his wife and five children.
 Osage City.-A masked man boarded a | Missouri Pacific passenger train here | early today and robbed the conductor | the ticket auditor and six men In the smoker Obtaining only $20.
 | Norfolk, Va-The United States Rail-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
THREE'KILLED BY
 POWDER EXPLOSION

Norrlstown, Pa, September 1.-Two men and boy were killed tonight and five men were badly injured by the pre- mature explosion of powder in the stone quarry of F. R. kibblehouse near here. The dead.
 Ralph Kibbehouse. aged IA, son of the owner of the quarry: William Whistler, 8s, and Frank Mantelli, 32,
 The charge of powder had just been placed in rock when stone rolled into the hole, causing the explosion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
The. Troubles of Kansas

From the Chicago Journal
 Kansas is the commonwealth that never let's things get dull.
 She entered the union with an accom- paniment of whoops and pistol shots from long-drawn terrors of the civil war with the crowning horror of Lawrence When war had passed by she produced the grasshoppers. and when the grasshoppers retired for a seventeen-year rest, Kansas was ready with prohibition, and Senatos Ingalls, and the populists.
 But the perennial stunt" of Kansas is her call for harvest hands.
 High wages. short hours, fried chick en, the family automobile and, fire. matrimonial agency are some of the in ducements which Kansas offers each year to get recruits for the harvest field
 She gets recruits. Never as many as she wants, to be sure, but enough to get her crops in somehow, some time. And then she disrnisses her ninety-day soldiers of industry for good, long rest.
 That is the trouble, you see Wha, Kansas really wants is a creature who can work in the harvest and thrashine field for two or three months, and hi- ternate the rest of the year. Evolution had cess to it!-has not yet produced this ideal type of harvest hand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
WANTS MILLION TO
 IMPROVE FORTS

San Francisco. Cal, September 5.-7en- ry L. Stimson. secretary of war. who re- viewed the troops at Presidio and Fort Winfield Scott Wednesday, said he had recommended to Congress an appropria- ton of sl.oOO,000 for the improvement of the Presidio to provide accommodations for larger garrison which it is the inten- tion of the department to locate here. The secretary favors the installation of brisades here as a part of the general policy of the department to mobilize the army in eight or nine large detachnaents on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and in tho middle west and to abolish many of the smaller posts which have become of little use
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
FEW POSTAL CLERKS
 FORFEIT BONDS

Atlantic City, N. J., September 5:-Post- masters attending the annual convention of the National Association of First Class Postmasters here were interested today in the address of J. NJ. Morgan of Lynchburg, Va, who recommended that the federal government take the place of surety companies to insure the honesty of postal employees. He outlined plan for the establishment of a grad uated assessment system which would create fund of $170.000 from which the postmaster-g general could draw to reim- purse the government and others for losses.
 MT. Morgan declared that bonding com panies collected s350000 from the service last year but paid out less thar 20,0O0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
LITTLE HEEDPA|D | RECOMMENDATIONS
Montgomery Commissioners Declare Leagues Police
 Probe Disappointing

Montgomery, September 5.-(Special) That the city commissioners pay no att tention whatever to the recommendations made by the Business Mems league in re- gard to the police situation in Montgom- cry was the belief expressed by President w. A. Gunter, Jr., president of the com- mission, in a statement made public yesterday. Commissioner Gunter says that the probe of the seven directors has been sadly disappointing, that politics has been made of the affair. that they have not kept their promise of co-opera- ton. and that the recommendations are palpably partisan and biased.
 The investigation of the police depart ment by the Business Mems league fol- lowed wholesale charges of graft and cor ruption in connection with gambling houses and blind tigers. Commissioner C. P Mcintyre. branded the report as false and said that it was nothing but political scheme concerted for the pur- pose of paving the way for the political preferment of some of the members of the committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
PRESS ATTACKS ON
 GIBSON CEASE

Havana, September 5.-Secretary of State sanguily conferred today with the editors of most of the Havana papers and communicated to them the desire of the foreign diplomats to know what action the Cuban government intends to take against insulting the American rep resentative considered as an infringe ment on their diplomatic immunity
 The editors responded in effect that they had not intended any offense against the American representative and gave assurances of their earnest desire to give no cause for further complaint. The question of the punishment of the editors who have been daily attacking Hugh $. Gibson, the American charge, and Arthur M. Beaupre, the American minister, were not considered at the conference. All attacks by the papers have now ceased.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
GOVERNMENT TO SUE
 RAILROAD AGAIN

Los Angeles, September. b.-Another government suit against the southern Pacific railroad company for the recov- cry of 2o00 acres of mineral land in Kern county will be- begun here soon. The land is valued at approximately S5.000, 900.
 Willis N. Mills, special attorney In charge of other actions pending against the company has returned from Wash ington with authorization by Attorney General Wickersham to bring suit.
 It is undestood patent to the land was issued more than six years ago and that tho government will contend the alleged fraud was discovered only recently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
WEST VIRGINIA MOB LYNCHED
 NEGRO AFTER A LONG CHASE

thorities were powerless to preserve order.
 When the mob learned that Johnston had been taken out of town by the au- thorities, a request was made for a special train to go in pursuit. Refused the special, the mob appropriated an engine and two flat cars. It Is said many of the members of the mob were railroaders, friends of MT. White, the victims father. A fast run was made to Rock, from which point the mob spread out over the country and caught up with the fleeing officers and ne gro.
 The arrival of the mob and negro was greeted by thousands of specta- tors at Princeton. Judge J. F. May nard and District Attorney Pendleton pleaded with the mob to wait until the negro was absolutely identified, Judge Maynard proposing to convene a spe- cial term of the criminal court to give a pssedy trial. The mob seemed inn pressed but about this time MT. White appeared and positively identified Johnston as the assaulter. The crowd broke into an uproar. The negro was taken under an arc light on the main thoroughfare and put to death.
 special train bearing a company of militia had been started from Charles ton but turned back at Deepwater when 1t was learned the negro had been lynched. The militia company at once proceeded to the Kanawha strike field.