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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-06-21

line. The electric pot may safely be
used among shavings or other infiam-
mable material, without the slightest
danger Of fire.
Other advantages claimed for this
device are its portability, economy,
cleanliness and perfect heat regula-
ton.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-06-21
Electric Soldering irons.

The electric soldering iron has been
adopted, to the exclusion of all others,
in one of the largest canning factories
in this country.
The saving in labor, cleanliness and
efficiency are given as the reasons
for the adoption of the electric solder
ing iron.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-06-21
Industries Electrified

Many Of the great industries of the
country have been electrified. The
woodworking plants, cotton mills.
steel plants, machine shops and fac
tories of all kinds have adopted the
electric motor.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-06-21

When you desire to learn new pat
tern In crocheting, first try 1t with a
heavy yarn.
After you are familiar with the pat
tern 1t may be easily duplicated in
finer thread.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-06-21
SHe@
ELECTRICAL
@WRLDR
FOR CALLING A POLICEMAN
Signal Lights Installed in Many Cana
dian Cities for Communication
With Man on Beat.

This picture illustrates the way po-
lice signal lights are installed in To
ronto and several other Canadian CT
ties to enable the stations to get into
almost instant touch with patrOlmen
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-06-21
UNIQUE ELECTRIC DESK FAN
Two Sets of Blades Are Employed In
stead of One and in Addition Has
SeesaW Motion.

An electric desk fan with two sets
Of blades instead of one has recently
appeared on the market 1t revolves
in circle, and, in addition, the fans
tilt or seesaw while the head revolves
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-06-21

Religion and Politics
r. S. HOLMES IN CONTINENT

ELIGION and politics are
in Che same world, the rep
resentatives of the two
greatest ideas In that
world, and are yet as sep
orato and divaroanf oc -
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-22
Sufferer Makes a Protest

that will give you a purchase and strive to quit his range. You cannot. If you turn your head and glare at him he whistles in your face trtum- phantly and puts hourishes on his en- core. You can keep a woman,s hat pin out of your eyes by intercepting your evening paper between your eyes and 1t You can hold your neighbor's s willow plume out of your mouth. But you cannot protect your ears from the tootler, or your lungs from his baleful breath.
 If Doctor Lederle of the board of health would have signs put up in all public conveyances setting forth the menace of whistling; if the Society for Ethical Culture would put up pla- cards proclaiming whistling to be the recognized sign of the empty head, there might be some relief for the in- nocent victim of the whistling fool. But there are some persons who never can be cured.
 A man who had been tormented by a whistlefiend all the way home on an elevated train one night, met a friend to whom he mentioned his suf- ferings. The friend lent a sympa- thetic ear. He went further. He add ed his own plaint not only against the fool who whistles, but the knave who rests his filthy boots upon the op- posite seat, advertising his unfamiliar ity with the rudiments of courtesy, and making the space where his feet had been unfit for man or woman to rest upon. The two chatted under standingly.
 q don't know which is the worse" said the first man, "the biped who takes up three seats with himself. his extended arms and his muddy boots or the fellow who whistles. The whistler is harder to get away from. His tor ture is more definite and persistent. I guess he's the worst"
 Don't know but he is." replied the other-and then, utterly unconscious of what he was doing. he started to whistle.-New York Press.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-22
MEANEST MAN STEALS STOVE
Police Seek It In Vain and Harry John sons Home Is at
 Zero.

Canton.-This Is the story of the man who deserves the blue ribbon among "the meanest men"
 Harry Johnson, BIT George street, reported to the police that while he was at work some one entered his house and stole his stove while the thermometer was registering about zero.
 'Br-r-r-r," said Johnson, with shiv- CT over the telephone. by way of greeting when he called police head quarters. "S-s-s-s-s some one has stolen my stove"
 The police hastened to get detail ed description of the missing stove with It's Bertillon measurements, and then dispatched a sleuth to trail the stolen heater and put it back on the job of warming the Johnson home.
 Aside from learning that the fire had first been removed from the stove before the theft, police were un- able to obtain any clues.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-22

this part of Africa, especially from November to the end of February, the climate of the Northern Sudan Is very pleasant The constant sunshine is tempered by fresh breezes, the air, although warm Is wonderfully dry. and the heat is less felt than that of an English summer At this season, too, mosquitoes and flies are absent. the Nile is high, and the ancient and mysterious river displays itself to it's greatest advantage. By means of it's system of railways and steamers the Sudan government can now offer the traveller various tempting tours and expeditions, in which tho marvellous remains of the older civilization of Egypt may be visited, while further afield are to be viewed modern bat tlefields, such as Omdurman and At bara This, Korosko. Karnak, Behen, Thebes, Philoe, Memphis and Abydos can now be contrasted with the homes of Shilluks, Dinkas. Jurs and other wild races, and with such interesting
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-22
WhIstIIns FIend on Railroad Trains Especially Held Up to obIoquy as
 Worthy Of 5anIshment-

A student of the subject has come to the conclusion that 70 per cent of the male population of Brooklyn has the whistling mania In the early morning. in the evening rush hours, late at night, the puckered lips inflict their punishment upon the just and the unjust alike. It is apparently unknown to the whistling hend that the practice is, when indulged pub licly. a proof alike of his unmanner- Illness, his lack of education and of breeding
 All employees of the B. R. T whistle. They begin when they go on duty and keep it up almost continuously until their day's work is done Perhaps one ought not to blame a B. R. T. man for whistling. Possibly his mind is distracted from his unhappy lot Possibly. like the traveller by night through a graveyard, he whistles to keep his courage up. And there are lots of cemeteries in Brooklyn. But his remedy is worse than his disease.
 The whistling "L" guard may have his excuses. The errand boy may have his So has the brainless clerk in hectic sox who varies his whistling act with a gum-chewing act. He has to occupy the outside of his head with something. since there is nothing inside. But the well-dressed passen- ger who whistles has nothing to ex- tenuate his act Long and careful ob- servation shows that he rarely can carry a tune. He simply makes a noise. He is hopeless. He is lost to a sense of decency and self-respect. His whistling announces 1t to all. It is safe to say that no man who makes a practice of whistling in public ever has risen above mediocrity in busi- ness. Make a little study of 1t and see if this Is not true. You may get enough interest out of 1t to offset the torment you have endured. You will discover, too, that he who makes a weird, uncanny noise with his mouth does so because he has nothing else to do-no resource within himself to keep him from dwelling on his own miserable state.
 Thousands of persons in New York have murder in their hearts every day on account of the whistle fend. The Inquisition missed its choicest torture by not knowing of the sub way and B. R. T. whistler. He Is at his worst between and e:30 in the evening, when a hundred humans are mashed into a space that should hold ten On the platform of a subway car that could be packed no tighter without the assistance of a hydraulic jack, the whistle maniac gets in his most telling blows. He usually hap pens to be directly behind you. He blows in the back of your neck. He blows in your ear. He blows over your squirming shoulder and fans your cheek with his torturing breath. And his breath usually is vile. If you manage to get an inch out of the direct line he shifts sufficiently to keep you as his sounding-board. You madly wriggle. You pry and tear at him with pinioned elbows You brace your intellectual feet against anything
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-22

dan government The traveller. reach Ing Khartoum in comfort in eight or nine days from England, has now be fore him an enormous tract of Gen. tral Africa, within which, still travel ing in comfort, one may say even in luxury. he may take his pleasure and view at ease some of the utermost parts of the Nile regions. All this wonderful country was, until the con quest of the Khalifa in 1898. absolute ly sealed to the white man, as 1t had been for something like a generation.
 Little had been known of it previous ly save from the reports of such bold and intrepid explorers as Spoke and Grant, Sir Samuel Baker, Schevein- furth, Petherick, General Gordon and some few others. It seems wonder ful to realize that the secrets of the very heart of Africa, secrets for which these and other explorers suffered in- credible toll and privation, nay, even death itself, to reveal. are now laid bare to the casual traveller and tour ist, and are as readily accessible from Cairo or Port Sudan as are the Vic toria Falls on the Zambesi river from Cape Town All this has been accom- plished by the enterprise of the Su- dan government, which now conducts the traveller with the least possible fatigue and trouble not only to Khar- toum and Omdurman, with their histor- ic associations, but much further afeld into dim and wonderful regions, where strange native races live the life of thousand years since. These regions teem with wild life, and the big-game sportsman. the bird-collector and the fisherman find ample occupa- ton among varied and marvelously interesting fauna During winter in
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-22
A Rad Rox,s confessIon.

Johnny, what did you get fOe Christmas that you liked best?"
 T hate to tell you"
 "Oh. come on, what was itH won't tell anybody"
 Tt was a nckin' from pa"
 'Why should a whipping from yoUR father make you so happyT
 "'Cause, while he was giving it e me a piece of switch flew of and hl1 him in the eye and he suffered nearly all day"
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-22

of south, they knew not whither, ig search of a more fortunate country. Thousands of such refugees crowded the roads in this way at that time. But gradually as they travelled their possessions grew less and they were able to find no work in the dead win ter time, nor were they able to beg a living from the poor people through whose country they passed. Finally the wife and daughter of this thin creature were sold into slavery and two children died. When they turned to retrace their steps the mother sue cumbed and the man was now the only member of the family left.
 The plight of the returned refugee is a sad one. The government relief lists were made out while he was away. His home being empty. he has not been counted, and when the gov ernment money and the grain of the relief committee are distributed to his fellow villagers he receives noth- ing.
 It is heartrending but almost i'm possible to prevent such cases, for the leakage Is necessarily great and the lists must be adhered to strictly. New lists covering so great a num- Der of people would be exceedingly expensive and every cent must be made to count In the final distribu- tions, however, the committee will endeavor to reach this class.
 Where are the most pitiable peo- pie in the village?" we ask The Vil- lage elder and bright boy from the mission school lead the way. A mother goes into house and returns supporting a boy, piece of sackcloth about his shoulders and a red cloth bandage around his head. He is suf- fering from typhus and in his fam ished condition must surely die The mother asks us gently for medicine and we must needs explain that we have none. Typhus is all about this district of Hwai Yuen
 Across the road a man is also doomed from another form of famine disease. He has had only greens. weeds and dandelions to eat and his abdomen is fearfully swollen He is unable to eat such food any longer. we have no salt to put with them" he says.
 I saw a baby sitting before the ragged straw mat tent in the likes of which several hundred refugees were camping. The child sat beside its father. who had lain for two days stretched out in the same position. sick of typhus. The man had begged for his children and himself until he was no longer able, and the struggle was now passed. He did not even open his eyes as people passed. The baby sat mutely watching, with no food and no one to care for it.
 It is reported from one section of the famine district that the people had eaten human flesh, but I do noe think there has been much of this. The dead have been buried in most cases by relatives left behind.
 Plague at its height in Flu Chia Tien was awful, but the suffering vis- fble in Anhui struck me as even worse. In Manchuria the "black death" terrorized; for two days the sickness was upon a man, but his sui fering was for only this brief time. Here for weeks under a yearning, strained agony whole populations arc grooming. It is not a sudden terror, but lingering travail And the toll of deaths from the famine bid fair to number perhaps ten times as many as were claimed by the plague.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-22
Extravaaant. but Lucky.

'It's never safe to send your hus- band shopping" said the bride.
 ''Why not?"
 Men are so extravagant The oth- CT night, sent George out to buy a turkey. He was gone terribly long time and when he came back he had two pairs of chickens. a turkey, four cans of oysters, a ham and a live pig. We can't eat all that stun in a month"
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-22
Prayer Answered.

80 you actually went to church last Sunday?"
 q really did"
 Excuse me if seem skeptical What was the text?"
 "Aha, I have you there. The text was He giveth his beloved sleep"
 Good work. And who were there?" "All the beloved, 1t seemed to me"
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-22
The Smoky Way.

The Smoky Way. How about that airship?" ''It went up in smoke" Burned, eh?" "oh. no. Made an ascension at Pittsburg."
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-22

GYPT and the Low CT Nile have long been known to the tourist, but even among those who know their Egypt, few have completely realized what an inn mense amount of new and interesting coun- try has been recent ly opened up by the enterprise of the Su-
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-26
SCHOOL SUFFRAGE
BILL PASSES HOUSE
Vote of e2 to Is is Given to Meas
IRE Prvoiding Fer Suffrage For
Woren in School Elections.

Frankfort, KY, Jan. 26.-The bill
granting to women the right to vote
and to be voted for i'll school cleo
tons passed the House Thursday by
vote of 81 to %. When the bill
came up for passage in the House it
met some opposition and many
amendments were offered, but all
were voted down.
Mr.. Meyers. of Covington. attack
ed the bill III humorous way, de-
claring that "the bridge whist play
ers and women without children
were suffrage proposition He said
their purpose was not alone school
suffrage, that they want to secure
universal suffrage and vote III ''wet
and "dry" elections.
Mr.. Meyers was interrupted by
the appearance OF the Senate at INT
door of the House for a joint ses-
sion to elect a State Librarian
Every member of the Senate ant
ninety-two members of the House
attended the joint session.
The name of Frank Kavanaugh
/, Democratic nominee, was presented
( bv Senator Eaton. The nomination
was seconded by Representative
Mcclure, the Republican minorit.
leader, and Mr.. Kavanaugh wa!
elected.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-26
MOLLY BAWN FRIDAY NIGHT.

On Friday night at the Winchester
Opera House, the Harvey Stock
Company presents their feature
play of the week. "Molly Bawn," a
dramatization Of the celebrated
novel of the same name. The play
abounds with clean Irish wit and is
full of pretty dramatic climaxes.
Miss Carmine Carpenter. the pop
ular little leading lady. will be seer
in the title role and Maurice Waldor
will be seen i'll the opposite role OF
Ted Lutrell." Special secenry vii
be used and new spscialties will bs
introduced between acts.
This is the best play of the week
Seats should be secured early
There is to be no advance in prices
A matinee vii lbe given Saturda.
at 2:30, "Down East Folks
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-26
PASTOR IS TO
OPEN GROCERY
Campaign Against High Cost OF
Living to be Made.-lf Successful
Other Ventures will Be Made.

New York. Jan. 26.-The Rev.
Madison c. Peters. pastor of the big
Pilgrim Congregational church on
Madison avenue. will next Saturday
open a grocery store as part of
the church's work among the poor
1t is the beginning of campaign
against the high cost of living. 9th
er stores are to be opened later ii
this one proves successful.
Less than a week ago DIR. Peters
preached his plan at a meeting OF
enc of his church organizations. 81
like he said. ''to start a store
where the people could come ant
buy as they would if the farmers
wagons we're lined up for them In
market-where they could escape
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-26
AGED BOURBON
COUNTY MAN
Mr.. James N. Barlow Passes Away
at The Home of His Son, After
Illness of Five Months.

Paris, Ky, Jan. 26.-Mr. James
NJ. Barlow, a highly respected citi-
zen of Bourbon county. died We'd
nesday at the home of his son, Mr..
j. Allison Barlow on the Commits
sion and Hawkins pike. He was Il
years of age, and had been i'll about
five months.
Mr.. Ballow's father was Thomas
Barlow. and his mother before her
marriage. was a Miss Cantrill. He
married Miss Mollie Sudduth. who
has been dead many years, and is
survived by one daughter, Mrs. c. o.
Wortsell. of Dean. O.. and one son.
Mr.. ]. Allison Barlow, with whom he
made his home. Two brothers also
survive-Mr. Joseph B. Barlow. OF
Helena, Ark. and Mr.. Cliff Barlow.
of Barlow City, Ballard county,
Kentucky.
Mr.. Barlow swas magistrate OF
Bourbon county in the sos, and was
a man of sound judgment and strict
integrity. He was a member of the
Silas Baptist church work for many
years. The burial will take place al
the Jacksonville cemetery. Saturday
morning at IL o'clock. Services a!
the grave will be conducted by Rev
+. NJ. Lightfoot, of the Paris Bap-
fist church.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-26
WILD THREATS
MADE BY LEADER
Unless Mill Owners Meet Terms Of
Strikers, He Declares They win
Cripple The Entire City.

Lawrence, Mass, Jan. 26.-Wm.
ID. Haywood, former president of
the Western Federation of Miners,
who has assumed leadership of the
striking textile workers here, Thurs
day threw down the gauntlet to the
Lawrence mill owners.
''Unless the mill owners meet the
terms of the strikers We will cripple
the entire city," he declared. "The
time for arbitration is passed The
mill owners must concede all the
demands of the strikers or else we
shall paralyze all business in Law
renee. The railroads will be tied up
so that no freight can be brought
into the city. We will also prevent
any coal from reaching Lawrence
and the entire city will be plunged
into darkness
The executive committee of tine
strikers went into session Thursday
to outline plan of action now tina:
the State Board of Arbitration has
failed to bring about settlement of
the strike. Haywood issued an
ether appeal for funds to relieve
destitute strikers. and he prepared
to lead a monster parade of textile
workers Thursday afternoon.
More soup kitchens were opened
Thursday.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-26
AS COLLECTOR OF
INTERNAL REVENUE
For Covington District, Maurice
Calvin is to Continue.-ResigTla-
tion is Withdrawn.

Washington, Jan. 26.-Maurice
Calvin will continue as Collector of
internal Revenue for the Covington
district. His resignation. which
was rendered some time ago, was
withdrawn Wednesday night and
the red-hot contest over the Office
turns out to be fash in the pan.
Mr.. Calvin and Senator Bradley
had a prOtracted conference with
the President Wednesday night,
after which it was announced that
the Collector will continue i'll Office
and the fommality Of reappOint-
ment Is not necessary. 1t goes
without saying that Mr.. Calvin Is
for Taft and will help to secure a
Taft delegation from kentucky.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-26
BIG FIRE AT
NEWCASTLE
Flames Discovered by Young Night
Operator, Who Was Awakened by
Smell of Smoke.

Newcastle, KY, Jan. 26.-Fire
which broke out about 3 o'clock
Thursday morning in the pool-room
of Bats & Elstcn destroyed that
place and badly damaged the gro
Gerry of j. S. Blackberry, j. Ii. Val
cntine's hardware store, H. X.
Bourne's residence and the Home
telephone exchange.
The flames were discovered by
Miss Bessie HALEY, the night Oper-
ator of the exchange. She was
awakened from a nap by the smell
of smoke, and going to the room il
the rear Of the exchange found thai
portion of the building in a blaze,
She hurrieGly gave the alarm ar!
then ran to her hoiel barefooted ant
clad in her night gown, fainting a
| she reached her room.
The fire department responds
promptly and did efficient work, pre-
venting a large loss. The HON
exchange was crippled for abou
three hours.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-26
into
|NSENS|B|u|TY
And Thrown Into Cinder Pit, After
Being Robbed, is Terrible Expert
enCe of jackson Man.

Lexington, KY, Jan. 26.-Robbed,
beaten into helplessness, stabbed in
the back and abdomen and thrown
into IA cinder pit onto burning ccals
was the terrible experience of VIII
Flower, a negro of jackson, who
was attacked by highwaymen in that
town Wednesday night.
The unfortunate man was found
by railroad men ut daylight Thurs
day morning lying in csemi-cOn-
scious condition in the cinder pit
literally frying to death on the burn
ing Goals and was sent to Lexington
on the L. e. f. train, that reached
Lexington at $50 o'clock, Thursday
morning. being taken Immediately to
the Good Samaritan Hospital, where
he was later said to be in a critical
condition.
Nothing is known of Flowers rel
atives and he was so badly injured
that he was scarcely able to tell
anything about himself or how the
crime was committed.
When the trainmen rescued hin
small purse was Immediately made
up to get what aid he could be given
before reaching the hospital, tick
ct to Lexington was given him ant
he was placed in the baggage cal
on a cot and taken to Lexington.
Supt. l.. W. Mahn, of the Asso
GATED Charities, was appealed t.
for assistance when the man wa:
taken off the train at the Union Sta
ton and Flower was sent to thu
hospital.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-26
kUC1ONEER WATTS
REPORTS TABOR SALE
Fair Crowd Was in Attendance at
Place on Paris Pike And Stock
Brought Satisfactory Prices.

Auctioneer H. r. Watts reports
the sale of Mr.. Clas. Tabor. en- the
Paris pike Thursday afternoon, as
reported:
One wagon and team. 6-year-old
horse and 7-year-old mare mule,
1896.
Four year-old harness mare. $l49
Nicc--c3:-C,. Led nc, 80.
One pony and cart, $142.
One mich COW, 500.
One COW and calf, $50.
One Jersey calf, $40.
One goat, broken TO harness, 81.
Six hogs, weight 100 pounds, at
$3.50.
152 ewes at $3.50 to $6.1O per
head.
Three fat hogs. Sc per head.
Corn in field, $500 to 1910.
Fcder, IL cents per shock.
Chickens. p to 81 cents.
Five turkey hens and one goljbler
$40 each.