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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
BOLD HORSE THIEVES
THOSE OF AFGHANISTAN ARE
MOST DARING IN WORLD.
How They Saw the Mud Walls of the
Stable to Reach Their Booty
Stealing a Soldiers Mount
From Under His Nose.

The Khyber pass is the chief gate.
way into Afghanistan. Sixteen miles
south of it Is the city of Peshawur.
The adjoining valley and hills have
always been the haunts OF profession
al thieves The objects which they
most covet are arms, money and
horses. In securing these they evince
great skill and daring.
Their most popular mode of horse
stealing requires at least three men to
carry 1t out comfortably and success
fully. One of them quietly steals his
way into the stable and lays hold of a
cord which has been pushed through
one OF the holes in the wall by an ac-
complete outside.
The two use this string as saw,
while the third man pours upon it a
plentiful supply of water. The cord
silently and speedily cuts its way
down the mud wall.
In a wonderfully short time the
three craftsmen manage to saw round
portion of the wall, which, when
pushed outward, leaves space sufi-
cient to allow horse to pass out.
This done, the remaining work pre-
sents no difficulty. The ropes which
bind the horse are cut. and in short
time he is cantering to the hills with
generally two or three of his new mas
tiers on his back.
A somewhat bold and impudent ex-
plot in the horse stealing line was
once the amusement and the talk Of
the English military station for some
days. The cantonment was surround
ed at shutdown by chain OF sentries.
This demanded great number OF
men, and all regiments, cavalry and
infantry, European and natives, night
ly gave their proportions.
A native trooper on this occasion
fastened his horse to the peg fixed
about the middle of his beat" and to
keep his courage and himself warm
the night was dark and bitterly cold
walked smartly backward and for
ward.
The extent of this walk was not
more than thirty yards, and thus at
no time could he have been more tnan
fifteen yards from his charger. He
was armed with short rifle and a
tulwar or sword.
While he was thus doing duty a
hillman managed to crawl quite close
to him, without exciting notice, and,
waiting quietly until the sentry was
near the end of his walk, and, OF
course, with his back to the horse, the
robber cut the chargers rope, mount
ed him and in moment was of.
The sentry fired his rifle in the di-
rection in which his mount had gone,
the guards turned out and a great
noise was raised, but the outwitted
soldier never saw his horse. again.
Harper's Weekly.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10

of farmers who do not know the bcse
way to surface drain, terrace or tile
drain. II the south had all its land
drained that needs draining. we would
be the richest part of this country.
Farm Machinery-Are you using the
best up-to-date farm machinery? Have
you riding plow, or cultivator on
your farm? Do you know why you
should have them? Can you judge q
farm machine-tell its strong and
weak points? These are the things
and many other problems just like
them that the farmers engineer is
talking and studying.
Engines-Can you run a gasoline
engine? When 1t stops can you start
it? Do you know which is best for
the farm, steam or gasoline enginef
Do you know how much 1t would save
you in labor to get one?
Road Construction-Get the split
log drag and help US have the best
roads In the country. Mr. King in
vented it and 1t Is king Of good roads.
Marin Buildings Mississippi alone
is spending over 100000 every year
on farm buildings-yet how many Of
them are planned to the best advan-
tage? Money in their construction
and labor in their hardness can be
saved by proper planning.
Water Supply - How many open
wells are there in the south? They
are a curse to the country. There
Is way to fix them SO they will be
sanitary. How many farmers have
waterworks in their homes?
Farm Sanitation-r there Is one
thing that we need to be stressed
more than another here in the south.
1t Is the sanitation We should use
up-to-date methods.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
LUMBER INDUSTRY
BEING NEGLECTED
MISSISSIPPI NOT UTILIZING HER
VAST TIMBER RESOURCES.
YEARLY CUT $500, 600, OOOFT
Selling Lumber in Rough Instead of Con-
verted Into Merchantable Products
Within the Borders of the
State.

Jacksonville Lumber Trade Journal
0f New Orleans has recently issued a
bulletin ON the Wood Using Industries
of Mississippi" which contains a great
deal of valuable data. 1t is chiefly val
liable, however, in the neglected oppor-
tunities shown to exist in the state of
Mississippi. Although that state ranks
third among the lumber producing states
of the Union it is along at the bottom
lumber, despite the fact that any saw
mill which runs a planer attachment Is
ranked as turning out manufactured"
lumber-that is, all which has passed
through the planer is SO rated in the
statistics.
The year 1909 has been taken as a
basis to figure upon. In that year the
enormous total of two and one-half bill
lion feet of lumber was cut in Missis-
sippi Of this some was used in the
state, and two billion feet was shipped
outside. In the state the total of 1884,
645,O 900 feet was manufactured into
dressed lumber, small in comparison with
the total output. Not quite 100000
feet went into the form of boxes, crates,
etc. Ten million feet were used in the
furniture factories, and less quantity
I'm manufacturing vehicles and parts of
warts of vehicles. Surprisingly small
was the amount consumed in manufac-
turing sash, doors and blinds, the total
being 100000 feet. In manufacturing
agricultural implements the amount was
100000 feet, and the factory cost" of
the output of Mississippi's woodworking
concerns is the comparatively insignifi-
can't sum of 81 ,253,O75.
1t is more than strange that in state
so abundantly blessed with raw material
the total of manufactured product Is so
small 1t is in the manufacturing that
the main benefit to the community lies
the paying of wages, the influx of money
to be distributed in a thousand different
channels. Before the resources of Mis-
sissippi in timber have dwindled too
greatly, it is to be hoped this question
of manufacturing it at home will re-
ceive more attention.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
STATE IN SUPREME COURT
INVOLVES CONSTITUTIONALITY OF
ANTI-REMOVAL LAW.
Case Grew Out of Refusal of L. & N. Il
Stop Trains as Ordered by the
State Railroad Commission.

Jackson.-Assistant Attorney General
Claude Clayton returned from Washing
ton, d. c., where he has been in COM
pany with Judge w. ID. Anderson look
ing after the interests of the state before
the United States supreme court in the
case of the Mississippi Railroad Commits
sion VS.. the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company, which has been APP
pealed to that tribunal by the state.
This is one of the most important lit
igations that has occurred in Mississippi
for years and has been watched with
deep interest by business men and law
yers over the state ever since its incep-
ton.
The suit began with the issuance of
an order by the railroad commission of
this state to the L. & N. requiring them
not only to stop their trains at the
regular depot in Bay st. Louis, but at
the Front street crossing in that city
as well. This the railroad company re-
fused to do, whereupon the railroad COM
mission filed bill in the chancery court
of Hancock county to enjoin the railroad
company from further disobedience of
the orders of the railroad commission.
The railroad company, by petition, had
this suit transferred to the circuit court
of the United States for the Southern
District of Mississippi. Attorney Gen.
eral S. S. Hudson then filed in the chan
Gerry court of Harrison county a bill
against the railroad company to GUST it
from the state of Mississippi and claim
ing the statutory penalties, claiming
that the railroad had violated the anti
removal statutes of the state, which is
as follows:
Chapter 1872, Laws of 1908.
Section l. Be it enacted by the leg
islature of the State of Mississippi, that
any foreign railroad, sleeping car, cleo
trio railway, telegraph or telephone cor
poration or any other public service cor
poration whatsoever now engaged IN bus
mess in this state or which may come
into the state hereafter and engage In
business here which shall, when sued in
any court of this state, remove such
cause to a federal court of this state, or
which shall institute any suit in a fed
eral court of this state which it could
not maintain if it were domestic COM
pany, incorporated and organized under
the laws of this state, shall:
(a) Forfeit its rights to and be pro-
hibited from engaging in interstate COM
merce within this state, forfeit its right
of eminent domain and be prohibited
from further exercising the same in this
state.
And any such corporation so remov-
ing cause to the federal court or in
stituting suit therein and which shall
thereafter continue to engage in intra-
state commerce within this state shall
forfeit not less than 5000 or more than
$4,000 for every such offense and each
day such corporation shall continue to
so engage in such commerce shall be a
separate offense. The penalty in each
to be recovered by an action in the
name of the state at the relation of the
attorney general or any district attorney
in whose district such offense may occur
and when so recovered to be paid into
the state treasury.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
AID SOUTHERN FARMER
Agricultural Engineer Must Solve
Many Problems.
Muek Determine Just What Drainage
10 Needed, Judge Farm Mschin-
cry, Gasoline and Steam En-
qInes and Road Building.
By DANIEL sCOATEs. Agricultural
Eneiraer Mississinni q NJ CnlleRa.

By DANIEL SCOATES, Agricultural
Engineer. Mississippi A. & NJ. College.
What does agricultural engineering
mean? That is the first question that
comes when you see or hear that name.
1t means that the day Of the special
LIST is at hand. and the civil, mechan-
ical, electrical and textile engineers
are so busy with their work that they
are unable to give the farmer the at
tention due him. SO another engi-
neering profession was born and call
ed agricultural engineering. 1t is the
business of the agricultural engineer
to take care OF the engineering prob
lems that confront thu farmer-he is
the farmers engineer. Now. you
know that the engineering problems
that bother the farmer are drainage,
farm machinery, engines, road build
ing, farm buildings, water supply,
sanitation, etc. Quite few things
when you get them all together. and
you wonder that the farmer hasn't had
an engineer before.
Drainage is the vital question to the
south, and yet there are thousands
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
Once again: Salt the stock!

Once again: Salt the stock!
Water the horses three times day
and sometimes between.
Trees check the hot winds, and
thereby temper the climate.
Feeding sheep on the ground is an
expensive thing. They viii tread Q
good deal under foot and waste 1t.
Hens mean prof1ts-if you let EN-.
Better fence In the garden, and let
the hens have the range of the fields.
The hardest grape OF all is the
Concord There may be some Of bet
ter quality. but none can stand SO
much grief.
Clean tillage from early spring un-
til late fall is the only approved
method of strawberry culture unless
heavy mulches are used.
Curing lemons In the sweat houses
by exhaust from gasoline engines In
stead Of by coal oil stoves is being
tried In California.
Use the wood ashes and poultry
droppings around the grape vines
and on the plat where onions and
cabbage are to grow.
Between hay and grass is q hard
time for the stock. A little grain VIII
help very materially to carry them
over without shrinkaGa.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
Explains Near-Beer Joint Law.

Jackson.-Owing to the steady flow OF
inquiries for Information as to the prac-
tical end of the now somewhat cele.
brated "near-beer joint" act of the legis
lature of 1912, Auditor Thompson has
drafted letter which in general answer
all these inquiries.
In this note Mr.. Thompson says:
"The tax collector is authorized to is
sue a license to run near-beer joint un
der section of the revenue act of 1912.
This license will not authorize the sale
of any drink forbidden by law. Any mu
nicipality of 600 or more inhabitants can
collect a private tax of $3.50 on each
near-beer joint.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
Live Stock at Fair.

Jackson.-That the Mississippi State
Fair is considered the greatest place in
the state to exhibit live stock is shown
by the bookings already made by Sec
rotary Mcdonald. Thus far in the sea-
son the bookings run ahead of what they
were for similar period last var, and
indications are that additional buildings
will have to be constructed for the ac-
commodation of the cattle and swine.
The fair has become great market
place for fancy stock and blooded swine.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
ALFALFA FOR HOG PASTURES
Crop Will Give Better Results for
Grazing Purposes Than Any
Other Forage Known.

Alfalfa will give better results for
hog grazing purposes than any other
forage known. 1t Is heterogeneous
forage, rich In protein and calcium,
and therefore furnishes the necessary
protein and mineral matter for the
highest development Of bone and mus
Gle. 1t Is very excellent early for
age, since it begins growth early in
the spring. When supplemented with
corn to the extent of one-half of full
ration or to the extent of two per cent
Of the weight of the hogs,
the best results are obtained.
When alfalfa is fed alone It
is about equal to maintenance ra-
ton; so when corn Is fed with it ev-
cry pound will be used for the pro-
duction OF gain. Alfalfa and corn, we
believe, will produce a greater net
profit to the farmer than any other
combination known.
Under ordinary conditions alfalfa
will forage from 10 to 20 shoats per
acre. A new seeding should be pas
tured very lightly the first season.
No larger number than 10 shoats per
acre or one sow and her litter should
be used. After the first season as
high as 90 head per acre or two sows
and their filters may be pastured on
it throughout the season. In any
event, it should not be pastured so
closely that no woody growth will
take place. A very good rule to go by
is not to pasture 1t SO closely but that
one cutting of hay may be taken on
In the fore part of the season.
One years experiment with alfalfa
has been completed, and very salts
factory results have been obtained.
In July of 1909 the ground intended
for alfalfa in plot number A, was
plowed and worked until a firm bot
tom with a fine seed bed on top was
obtained. This was then worked once
each week thereafter until August
18th, when two bushels of soil, taken
from a field growing successfully a
crop Of alfalfa, and dix barrels of lime
were sown, and then the plot seeded
to alfalfa, at the rate of 80 pounds
per acre. A very thick. heavy stand
was obtained, which was pastured for
the first season in 1910. The expert
ment was begun with the number OF
hogs at the rate of IL per acre: but
on May "a 1t was thought best for
the sake of the alfalfa to reduce the
number to 10 per acre, at which rate
it was pastured throughout the re-
mainder of the season. The hogs
used were purchased of q local farmer
and were crossbred Poland China
Tamworths. They were farrowed in
early winter, and were in thin to
medium condition of flesh at the be-
ginning OF the experiment. The av-
erage initial weight was 5S.5 lbs, and
the average final weight was 1901
lbs. The forage was supplemented
with corn meal in sufficient quantity
to produce the standard gain OF three
fourths Of pound per hundred
weight per day. The alfalfa was 6
inches high at the beginning OF the
experiment.
The average amount of grain re-
CURED to produce pound gain was
3.O7 pounds. The amount OF pork
that could be accredited to the alfalfa
forage was 596.S pounds per acre.
with pork at cents the return per
acre was SS5.71; with pork at 7 cents
s41.68; and with pork at cents,
SAT .64.-Missouri Experiment Station
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
Gnats Annoy Cattle.

Poplarville.-Neyer before in this aec-
ton have the cattle and other animals
suffered so much as they are now suf-
fering from a small, persistent gnat,
called by some of the farmers and stock
men Buffalo gnat.
Cattle in the woods are actually los
fng flesh and stopping eating on account
of the pests, and are seen in great
herds standing in ponds of water to bet
ter fight them.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
DR.. Lowe Finds Ore.

Jackson. State Geologist E. n. Lowe
has returned from week or ten days
spent in Marshall and Benton counties
in the northern part of the state, in
vestigating the deposits of carbonate
iron ore there. DR.. Lowe admits the
remarkable richness of the ore, assaying
over Sc per cent pure metallic iron with
a low percentage of silica and phos-
phorous, the main question being wheth-
er the ore is present in sufficient guam.
titles to make it merchantable proro
sition.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
TO CHECK cHARBoN SPREAD.
Government Is Sending Veterinarians to
This State.

Jackson.-Responding to appeals from
prominent planters of the delta, the
United States department of AGRICULTURE
has a corps of veterinary experts hurry
ing to Mississippi to assist in checking
the threatened epidemic of Charlton
among live stock in that section of the
state The disease has made its ap-
pearance in a number of counties, and,
in view of the costly experience of for.
mer years, lis expected to increase IL
virulence as the high waters recede.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
OUTFIT FOR CONCRETE WORK
Apparatus for Use In Pouring Liquid
Material Into Forms for Con-
struction Of Silos.

An interesting elevator outfit for
pouring liquid concrete into the forms
used in silo construction, is shown in
the accompanying illustration, says
the Popular Mechanics. A receptacle
containing the concrete Is drawn up
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
Preparing Mississippi Exhibit.

B. T. Howard, Of Gulfport, is now en-
gagged in preparing a permanent Missis-
sippi exhibition to be placed in the home
of the Southern Commercial Congress
at Washington, D. c., where this state
has an exhibition space of IL by IL feet.
Mr.. Howard is enthusiastic about his
work and declares that the Mississippi
exhibit will be second to that of no stat
in the Union.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
Prison Population.

Jackson.-The secretary of the peni-
Tertiary board of trustees has just COM
pleted his report for April, and it shows
that during the month, at the beginning,
there were 1,S43 convicts. There were
forty-six new ones received and one re-
capture, making total receipt of 1890.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
A PLAN FOR IMMIGRATION.
Illinois Central Wants to Help Move
ment to South.

Jackson.-Mr. G. "a. Bower, general
passenger agent of the Southern lines
of the Illinois Central, is formulating
a movement to attract to the South a
highly desirable class of foreign inmi-
grafton, and, as soon as the plans are
matured, he desires to take the matter
mp with the Board of Trade Of jackson
and other commercial organizations in
the state.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10

"Speaking generally, disease Is more
satisfactorily treated without stimu-
lants. In the case OF teetotal-
ers the action of medicines is more
certain, and the issue Of the case
is usually more hopeful. DIR. A. d.
T. Longhurst-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
VIII Not Hold Fair.

Natchez.- Natchez and Adams county
viii not hold fair this year on account
of the floods in the nearby Louisians
parishes.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
Turn Cows to Pasture.

Turn the cows to pasture after milk
ing In the summer. shey viii enjoy the
evening lunch.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
INTERNATIONAL
SUNMS0lOOL
LESSON
(By II. 0. SELLERS. Director Of Even
Ing Department. The Moody Bible In
gtitute of Chicago.)
LESSON FOR MAY IL.
THE LAW or LOVE.

LESSON TExT-Luke e:27-ss: Rom. 1ssl
B-10.
GOLDEN TEXT-'"Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thy self."-Rom. 1912
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-03-21
Planning for Mother.

Mrs. Shepherd looked bewildered
when her sons announced that six of
the boys" were coming up on the
noon train. They want to see our
camp" said Ted.
Why didn't you tell me this morn
ing" Mrs. Shepherd walled. when the
butcher was on the hill?"
"0h. they won't expect to be regu-
larly entertained" Hal said. comforta-
bly, Wen just picnic"
Good" said Ted. approvingly.
They aren't hard to please. Just put
some stuff in basket, and it will be
all right. mumsey. Fried chickend be
great, and Just few ham sandwiches,
some of that chocolate layer cake you
make. and few doughnuts OF apple
puffs, and maybe seed-cakes, II there
are any"
There you are, mumsey," said Hal,
encouragingly, everything all planned
for you!"-Youth's Companion.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-03-21
MAY CORNER COCOA CROP
Brazil Is Much Pleased With Its Suo-
cess In Raising Price of
Coffee.

Encouraged by the success 1t has
achieved in controlling the coffee crop
of the republic and forcing Americans
to pay high price the Brazilian gov
eminent is now planning to enter into
a combination with Portugal and
Ecuador to corner the cocoa crop and
and manipulate prices at will.
These three countries produce more
than half of the worlds output of
cocoa, and Jose Marcellino, Brazilian
who formerly served in the senate Of
that country is the father Of the plan
to whoop up the prices Of cocoa the
world over
A large London banking house is
reported to have offered $10,000,000
to the promoters of the valorization
plan in case the three governments
interested will enter into a satisfac-
tory agreement. Valorization of cot
fee by the government of Brazil has
has financed the crops and by lending
money to growers has been able to
prevent the sale OF coffee, except at
prices which were satisfactory to the
growers.
A few years ago, when the United
States took the duty of five cents
pound off coffee, Brazil repaid this
country by placing an export duty of
the same amount on coffee. In repay
ment for this greedy act 1t has fire.
quently been argued that the United
States should again tax Brazilian cot
fee and many economists insist that
the imposition of a duty on coffee
would upset the Brazilian valorization
plan without increasing the price Of
coffee to the American consumer.
Cocoa is a much more difficult crop
than coffee to control, because of the
perishable nature Of the cocoa beans.
When kept for any length of time they
become wormy and are worthless.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-03-21
CHAPTER XVII.

NURSING HEARTAcHE.
q I'LEAN rode down to the Lin
mi berlost and, stopping In the
shade. sat waiting for
Frpck les