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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19
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Minnesota, which took action in 1876. Thereafter
there followed steady procession of other states.
the legislatures of which became converts to the
popular idea. In 1887 the movement took root
in Canada, the Educational Department of On
tario setting apart day which the trustees of
every rural school and incorporated village were
desired to plant shade trees rs make fewer
beds. oddly enough. the SKIS - New Yor rid
not fall into line IN this movement until TIE year
1883, but when the state legislature did take up
the matter it enacted very explicit legislation,
prescribing for exercises in the public schools
tending to encourage the planting, protection and
preservation of trees and shrubs.
Thus far only one foreign country has adopted
the American holiday known Arbor Day. The
nation that has paid this compliment of imi-
tation is Spain, but in the land of the Dons the
festival is known fiesta del Arbol. meaning
the Fete of the Tree. The Spanish holiday was
naugurated in 1896 and is celebrated earlier than
in this country-namely, on March 20. On the
first Tree Day in Spain the young King Alfonso
with the queen regent and the ladies of the court
proceeded to grounds situated near the village or
Hortazela some two miles distant from Madrid
Here the king planted pine sapling and two
thousand children selected from the schools of
Madrid, Immediately followed his example. Then
gold medals commemorative OF the event and
duly inscribed with the date were distributed
among the youthful tree planters. Although only
Spain has actually copied the Yankee customs Of
Arbor Day, several other countries notably
France Great Britain, Japan and New Zealand.
have holidays that are very similar to our tree
planting festival.
1t is probable that very few of the children who
plant trees or assist in planting trees on Arbor
Day realize that the United States government
maintains big institution the primary purpose
of which is not merely to encourage but actually
to carry on tree planting. This establishment
for the employees of which every day in the year
is Arbor Day. is known as the Division of Silvf
culture and is a branch of the u. S. Forest Serv-
ice. In the average year Uncle Sans official
tree planters set out upwards of half million
trees, most of them located in the national for
ests Moreover, not only does Uncle Sam main
tain his own nurseries as source of supply for
his perpetual tree planting campaign. but he also
aids private owners who desire to set out trees
on their property. Finally Uncle Sam is con-
Quoting valuable experiments in nursery opera
tions and planting work in cooperation with nine
different universities and state agricultural ex
pertinent stations. The object OF these expert
ments is to ascertain what species are best adapt
ed to different regions and to improve methods
of planting and cultivation.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19
NEW YORK is PoLYGLOT CITY
Less Than Fifth of People Born of
American Parents-Yiddlsh Is
Mother Tongue of 1,265,ooo.

New York.-That New York, In ad-
dition to being the largest city in the
country and the second largest in the
world, is now the second largest 1tal-
ian city, the largest Yiddish-speaking
city. and that less than one-tifth OF its
population is accounted for by persons
born of American parents, are some
of the interesting facts made public by
the completion of a census OF races
and languages.
The figures give the city an Italian
population of $4,000. an increase of
3O2, III in the last ten years, thus max
ing it larger than Rome or Genoa, and
second only to Naples.
The largest single group is that
from the Russian Empire, with a total
of 724,112, an increase of 416,429 in
the last decade. These figures make
New York the third largest Russian
city in the country, with population
larger than that of Odessa and equal
to about half that of ST. Petersburg.
Yiddish was given as the mother
tongue by f.265.000 persons and less
than 20 per cent. of the total popuIa-
ton is made up of native whites and
of native parents.
Ireland is represented by 5O2, 1908
persons, a decrease of $4,000 in the
last decade. The figures Throughout
show marked falling off in immigra-
ton from the countries Of northwest
ern Europe and a much greater in
crease from southeastern Europe.
In terms of percentage New York's
population In 1910 was 1872 per cent
British, 1919 per cent Russian birth
or parentage, 1874 per cent German,
11.16 per cent. Italian, 8.35 per cent
Austro-Hungarian, 1.97 per cent. Scan
dinavian, 13.49 per cent. of mixed for
eign or mixed native parentage. 1888
per cent. native whites of native par
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19

the importance of trees to us as a nation. The
American people have suddenly awakened to the
fact that not only is the lumber supply of the
country being exhausted at a dangerously rapid
rate, with no prospect OF repenishng, but worse
yet, the wanton waste Of our forests has sequel
In climatic changes that may hardship for
many citizens of the republic. Indeed some ex-
perts go so far to attribute to this cause the
terrific heat of last summer and the approx
mately exceptional cold of the past winter.
Tree Day. would be quite appropriate
name Arbor Day for the spring holiday and a
community consists in the planting of trees and
shrubs along roadsides and in other suitable
places In some instances the work devolves by
decree of time-honored custom, upon magistrates,
local officials or pubIic-spirted citizens, but for
the most part it is in the hands of the teachers
and pupils of public and private schools. 1t is
not too much to say that Arbor Day, like sew
eral other of the spring festivals, is primarily a
young peoples holiday.
For all that most communities observe Arbor
Day in April, the fact remains that it is
able festival and there are some sections of the
country where, owing to the climate, it is desir-
able to have the tree planting exercises at some
other time of year. In a majority of our states
the date for Arbor Day is either selected by the
state legislature or by the governor of the state
acting under legislative authority. Usually,
perintendents of schools supplement the guberna-
torial proclamations on the subject of Arbor Day
by the issuance of open letters bearing upon the
aim and object of the holiday and with due ref
erence to the lessons it teaches.
The state of Nebraska gets credit for original
ing Arbor Day, for it was the pioneer in what
has become national movement. The indvid-
ual who was the original author of the scheme
was none other than Mr. j. Sterling Morton, who
afterward became Secretary of Agriculture in the
Cabinet of President Cleveland during the lat
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19
FAMILY HAS RECORD
KiIby's Have Run Postoffice in
Maine Town 112 Years.
William, the First One, Held Post for
Twenty-Five Years, Then in
Straight Succession, Came
His Son and Grandson.

Bangor, Me.-Horace p. kiiby, act
Ing postmaster at Dennysville, Wash
ington county, will take a civil service
examination, and if he passes he will
succeed II. Howard Kilby, who had
been postmaster since June 80, 1897.
The Office has been in the Kilby fam
lily for liz years, with the exception
of two brief intervals.
If there is another such, Representa-
tive Frank Guernsey of the Fourth
district, who has just recommended
Horace P. Kilby for the place, would
like to know it.
The Dennysville postoffice was es-
tablished February "a, 1900, with VIII
liam Kilby as postmaster. He held
on for twenty-five years, according to
the records in the postoffice depart
ment, and then, on December 6, 1925,
presumably about the time William
Kilby was gathered to his fathers,
John Kilby, presumably his son, quail
fed and remained postmaster for
twenty-seven years.
August 20, 1852. Cyrus H. kilby be-
came postmaster. Whether he was a
grandson of the first postmaster and
the son of the second is not clear He
held on for less than two years, and
then, April IS, 1854, Benjamin kiIby
became postmaster and held the office
for twenty-five years. December II,
1876, Howard H. Kilby became post
master at Dennysville and held the
place until February 81, 1886, when
Herbert Hallowell, a member of the
kllby family, became postmaster He
remained postmaster until the Demo
Gratis elected president. It required
a few months for the pleas of some
OF the good Democrats of DennysviIle
to move Washington, but on June IL.
1887, Edwin H. Smith was appointed
to the place. Presumably he was
Democrat.
June l, 1889, Howard II. Kilby came
back into his own and served through
the remainder of the Harrison admin
1stratlon and until July l, 1893, when
William p Henderson got the office
during the second Cleveland admin
istration
Again, however, Kilby was recog-
nized, and June 80, 1897. H. Howard
Eflby was commissioned as postmas-
ter and he served until early in Feb
ruary last.
The office is a small one, and the
emoluments have been small. But it
now pays about 500 year in salary.
Once Horace P. gets well seated in
the office, under the present civil serv-
ice rules, it will not be easy to oust
him. So no one can say when the
Kflby regime will end.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19
Has Violin 200 Years Old.

Pottsville, Pa--Since a violin 100
years old was sold recently for $4,000
at Lancaster, friends of Mrs. James
E. Steel, daughter of Thomas Will
Jams, a retired Reading Railway pas
senger conductor Of this place, have
endeavored to persuade her to dis
pose of an instrument owned by her
late husband. which is claimed to
have even more value.
This instrument is 200 years old,
twice the age of that which brought
so fabulous a price, and it was pur-
chased In South America. The in
scription, plainly legible on the inte-
rior of the instrument, bears out the
age of the violin, which has a re-.
markable tone: "Joannors Baptista
Guaraguini Placentinus Fecit Medic
lani, 1872"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19
MAY TURN COAL TO POWER
New Electric Laboratory at Harvard
Expected to Prove That Great Sum
Can BE Saved by Process.

Cambridge, Mass.-The claims re-
Gently made by certain English scient-
lists as to the possibility OF saving
coal mining expense by turning the
energy of the coal into electricity at
the mines has the approval and sup
port OF Professor Comfort A. Adams
of Harvard
In statement regarding the work
of the proposed new electrical labora-
tory here, Professor Adams says that
he believes that some day Boston, New
York and other cities will receive their
electricity for heating, lighting and
power by wire from the coal fields.
The installation of million-volt
transformer in the Harvard laboratory
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19
FINDS A JOB FOR OLD MEN
kanses City Pastor Says Aged Can
Make Good Living Grow
ing Mushrooms.

Kansas City, Mo.-"You men and
women of the city who have been
pushed backward because of age or
for other reasons should learn to
grow mushrooms. Do this as | have
done and the question of the high cost
of living for you will disappear"
This was the declaration made here
from the pulpit by Rev. A. t. Osbron,
pastor of the Twentieth Centary
church
Recently Rev. Mr.. Osbron announced
that he had proved his theory that
any man can make a good livelihood
if he will. AS the result of long ex-
perimenting he produces from beds
planted In an abandoned tunnel crop
of mushrooms that nets him $35 day
six months in the year.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19
New Napoleon" Is ReveaIed-Ed-
mund Davis, Back of Present
Manipulation, Likes the Title
and Dresses the Part.

London The records of quick
profits made In the rubber boom have
been beaten by those established dur
ing the rise in tin shares. which has
been going on quietly the past year.
Only now is the public, outside of the
stock exchange, beginning to take no
tice of the tin boom, which is still far
from attracting as much general at
tention asIiid it's predecessor, the rub
Der boom, in which all London seemed
to have taken a hand.
Last year Anglo-C ontinentals were
despised and rejected, and stood at z
shillings ($1.75). Only few days
ago they were bid for greedily up to
s35. Thus the lucky person who had
a thousand shares at Z shillings, cost
ing him $1,750, If he held them, would
have been able to sell for $4,000.
This is a stupendous profit and beats
anything the rubber boom gave US, at
any rate as far as the speed of max
ing is concerned.
Edmund Davis, the man at the back
of the tin boom, is one of the most
picturesque figures in the city. He has
been associated with West African
properties for many years. likes to be
called a Napoleon of Finance and
rather dresses the part. He also likes
to be thought a great connoisseur OF
art. At one time he rented the Piazzo
Desdemona In VenicS and perhaps
still retains it. He is almost as well
known on the continent as in London.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19
Hurt Her Womanly Dignity


ing his heels for another ten minutes
while the seal-bedecked doorkeeper
without and the Black Rod within
debate the genuineness of his creden-
tials. After an interval which strain
ed the Americans patience to the
breaking point they were ushered in
to the august chamber, where the
woman was given a seat in a little
back pew on the main floor, while the
man was accorded the privilege of
standing behind her. Once inside the
hall, the mans political instinct as
serted itself. and he became deeply
interested in the debate. but, to his
dismay, his wife got up after about
FIVE minutes and said:
Come on. ! cant stand this
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19

San Diego. Cal.-The first sign of
spring was evident on San Diego bay
when flock of looms. estimated to
have numbered 10000. modified on
the surface of the water and maneu-
yered to the weird calls of the leaders
until their formation was perfect.
Then at signal the feathered visi-
tors from the north. which have been
about San Diego all the winter, rose.
and IN wedge-shaped body headed for
their northern summer home.
Many persons lined the bag shore
and witnessed the strange mobiliza-
ton, which lasted for more than an
hour
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19

"Wonderingly he followed her in
to the lobby. What on earth is the
natter he asked.
Matter? she said. Just look at
those men, They've got their hats
on. You don't suppose am going to
stay any place where men keep their
hats on in my presence. do you? I've
never been used to it at home, and I
shant get used to it here
with one regretful look backward
at the noble earl who then held the
floor, the man said, Very WE'LL and
humbly accompanied her home"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19
BOOM IN TIN STOCK

and he is supposed to be the smartest
market manipulation the city has ever
seen.
He was the creator of the present
boom, and he is now careering round
the continent carrying the glad news
that Anglo-Contfnenta 10 shilling
shares are cheap at $S5 to all the
greedy people in Paris, Berlin and
Holland.
When he Is in Berlin he wears the
Order of the Red Eagle, which he re-
ceiyed from the Kaiser, according to
the London Evening News, from
which these details are taken, says
the correspondent, "ostensibly because
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19

he disagrees with the anti-German
feeling in England, but the probability
Is that he put Emperor William into
some good things at the bottom, for
even the emperor is not averse to buy
ing shares at shillings and selling
them at $35. We hope this remark
will not be taken to mean that the
German emperor is at the back of the
Nigerian tin boom
Numberless small people have fol-
lowed Davis into tin, but the curious
thing is that although they were will
ing enough to sell their shares when
the market first rose they all now are
buying back the holdings which they
disposed of some months ago. There
fore, at the moment no large fortunes
have been actually made out of the
tin boom. They are all paper profits"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19
GIRL WILL DRIVE A STAGE
Signs Contract to Carry Mail and Pas
sengers Over Dangerous Route in
Colorado for Year.

Meeker, Colo.-Miss May Robertson,
81 years old, said to be the first wom-
an stage driver in the United States,
recently began her daily run between
Meeker and Buford. distance of 80
miles.
Miss Robertson has been familiar
with horses since her childhood. and
of late years broke bronchos on her
ather's ranch near here.
She has signed years contract TO
operate the stage line, which will take
her over an extremely dangerous and
onesome mountain road The stage
will carry passengers and mail.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19
Fair American Would Not "Stand for
Tlme-Honored Custom of House
of Lords.

AT his wife's behest, travel-stain-
ed American whom / met in London
wrote innumerable letters and made
six different trips to the American
embassy to secure a ticket admitting
them to the House of Lords" said the
traveller. Even when backed up by
an embassy, gaining admission to the
House Of Lords is no trivial perform
ance. Through historic halls and lob
bies and up staircases guarded by
policemen the applicant makes his
hating progress until the door of the
lords is reached. where he sits cool
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19

gush, were remarkable even in his
boyhood here In Peoria.
"As boy I was rather gusher
myself. once went to matinee with
Hibben. The play was one OF Days
"a sentimental piece-and in the Sec
ond act began to biubber. Miss Re-
han spoke beautifully her silly, SEN
timental lines, and big tears flowed.
one after another, from my eyes.
Why. you're crying" whispered
Hibben.
Well said I, in play as sad as
this l amt ashamed to show a lit
tie feeling
Feeling?' Hibben looked at my
wet and teary cheeks. oh, he said.
feeling is all right, but you don't need
to wash your face in it.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19
mr. M0NzzREY Ar SN<4TOW

entage, 1872 per cent. negro and .13
per cent colored
Altogether New York may we'll lay
claim to outranking all other cities SO
far as polyglot population is con-
cerned
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19

OF John Grier Hibben, the new pres
ident of Princeton, Peoria man said
the other day: "Hibben had a keen
intellect. Hence I'm not surprised at
his success. Why, his fine. strong
mind, his hatred of sentimentality and
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19

will, 1t is believed. prove that such
scheme is feasible. The Harvard ex-
perts hope to show that by using a
current of 100000 volts electricity
may be economically carried distances
of 1000 miles or more.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19

Make it easieF for your fat friends
by calling thef1N portly.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19

nation to the school children urging them to de-
vote the day not only to special exercises but
also to actual tree planting
Nor is it difficult to discover the main cause
of this growing attention to the observance of
Arbor Day. 1t lies in deepening realization of
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19

T is but natural that the people of
the United States should take an
especial interest in Arbor Day, be-
cause Arbor Day has been from the
outset distinctly American holt
day. Year by year it has come to
have more and more general OBJ
servance. All over this country
and in parts of Canada this inter-
esting annual occasion receives,
each successive year, an increasing
amount of attention from the pub
lie. 1t has also become the custom
in later years for the president of
tho TTnitod States RI icC,,a rroo1o
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-05
NERVOUSNESSON
 COTTON MARKET Exchange Rather Less. Ac- tiye-Opening Steady
 at Advance

New York, January 4.-The cotton mar lxet was rather less active today and showed a great deal of nervousness but an carly decline was followed by rather a sharp rally and the close was steady at net advance of to points.
 The opening was steady at an advance of 3 to 3 points in response to better cables than expected and the continued large spot business in Liverpool Offerings were heavy around the initial figures with the character of the selling, suggest ing further hedging by the south, and right after the call the market turned easier, with the trade evidently influenced by talk of freer spot offerings in the in- terior and the expectation of large gm- ming returns from the census bureau newt week
 Prices cased off or points from the best during the middle of the day or to a net decline of about points, but large trade interests were persistent buyers on a scale down, and after receipt of rumors that the Lancashire labor troubles had been settled, the market developed a de- cidedly firmer tone on spot from this source, and covering Of shorts. Active positions sold up to a net advance of about to 10 points, with some of the late denveries making new high records for the movement, but realizing by early buyers checked the advance, and reces- sions of 5 or 6 points occurred from the best just before the close. Early reports from Liverpool attributed the relatively firm tone of futures there to continental buying of new crops. The south traded both ways here during the day but was believed to be sellers by balance. par ticularly on the afternoon advance.
 Receipts today. 42,236 against 4s,209 last week, and %, 491 last year. Recepits al New Orleans, 11,612 against, 13,976 last year; at Galveston, 1S,293 against 66l2 last year and at Houston, 120i4 against 7ii2 last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-05
FURRY YESTERDAY
 IN WHEAT MARKET.
Close Was Nervous Though a Trifle Higher Than
 Wednesday

Chicago. January 4.-Storms in the har- vest section of Argentina, with railway strike threatening to paralyze the move- ment of the crop in that country, caused Hurry Iere today in wheat. The mar ket closed nervous and 1lsc to 1iac high CT than yesterday. Corn finished 5sc up. oats ssc to sse advance, and provisions moro expensive by 21sc to 15c.
 At the top prices wheat showed a bulge of Pc over yeeterday's low point. Between the opening and the close May ranged frem $1 to sf.uR@1 .oi7s, with last sales at Sl o1, and advance of 11ae net.
 Most of the strength that developed in corn came from wheat.
 Export bids were said to be within Ac of working limits. May fluctuated from 62ssc to 6SMc, closing firm at e3sac. a gain of ssa1sc, compared with yesterday.
 Cash grades were strong for low asort- ments and steady for higher assortments. No. yellow was not quoted.
 Trade in cats was centralized largely. Urper and lower ranges reached for May turned out to be 4Sssc and 477sc. respec- lively, with the close ssd1ac net higher at 4sA44Sssc
 Provisions climbed higher. Final prices were more costly all around, pork 10c 10 l5c up, and the rest of the list 2ihc to 5skc to 10c higher.
 Future quotations were as follows: