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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23

AT the Fulton street station Of the
subway the other day young woman
was leading boy scarce big enough
to be out of arms down the narrow
stairs in such way that her slow
progress held up score of people
who we're following her.
LET the people get by" suggested
the young woman's mother.
Let EN- wait" snapped back the
other.
but he can walk closer to you.
argued the older woman. timidly.
Hell walk where he chooses" was
the retort.
SO the inrushing tide OF fares was
delayed until the little boy reached
the bottom step. but his mother did
not look happy
IF the lad walks where he chooses
through life, regardless OF the rights
of Others" remarked an old man.
he may make that mother very un-
happy. and the state may have to
restrain his steps. New York Daily
Mail.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23

Joyce returned from the telephone
excitement. dismay. bubbling enthus-
iasm all struggling in her piquant
face.
The art editor of the Comet had
called up to tell her that her illus
trations for John Temples story must
be at the Office at ten o'clock the
next morning.
It was then that dismay cast all
other thoughts from Joyces mind.
She had no model and the work must
be commenced without a moment 8
delay; Joyce felt that her career as
an illustrator was hanging in the bal
ance. Artists who could not meet
the hasty requirements OF editors
We're not going to get a second chance
with the big magazines,
Joyce cast a glance about her
meager furniture and realized that
ambition was not her only inspira-
ton. If she forfeited the check from
the Comet she would also have to
forfeit lunches in the middle of the
day. Joyce was strong and healthy
and she sighed at the prospect Of
lunchless days.
A model must be found, Joyce
went to the window and stood gaz-
ing out at the passers by. Perhaps a
tramp or sandwich man might come
along. Either might prove her imme-
date salvation.
The tinkle of a bell counded in the
distance. Joyce craned her head far
out of the window.
"A sandwich mani" Joyce drew in
her head hastily and without stopping
to smooth her riotous hair or to re-
move her big apron she sped down
the stairs.
She stopped after her breathless
descent and watched the approach of
the sandwich man. Her heart quaked
in momentRry fear when she saw the
head above the sign board Fierce
whiskers seemed to bristle from the
entire face and the rakish SLOUGH hat
gave him all the appearance of a
cave dweller of old
Joyce braved herself She must
have male model be he an Apollo
or Cyclops. She gave herself a
moments respite while she read the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23
WORK or The TOMATO CLUBS
TWELVE COUNTIES ORGANIZED
AND READY FOR BUSINESS.
If the Girls Want to Make Money They
Should Also Raise a Fall Crop of
the Fruit.

The final work OF organizing the girls
tomato club work in the state has been
finished for the season, and twelve coun-
ties have perfected their organizations.
The state department of education and
the United States department OF agricut
ture only provided for ten counties, but
the enterprising citizens of two counties
go together and raised the necessary
funds for two additional ones, so there
are now twelve counties which will try
the work out this yaar, and the az.
dresses of the county superintendent Of
this tomato club work are:
Lincoln-Miss Matte FUR, WessoA
r. +. D. No. 2.
Capitalists Mabel Mcintosh, Crys
tai Springs, r. f. d. No. 3.
Lamar-Miss Connie Bonslagel, Pur-
Wis.
Jones-Miss Matte r. Wellborn, FL
lisville.
Coyington-Miss Fanme WEIGH, Col
Inns.
Forrest-Mrs. H. K Mclsmore, Petal.
Madison-Miss May Groom Brown,
MilNille.
Holmes-Mrs. Leila Edwards, Lexing-
ton.
Montgomery-Miss Mamie Buckley,
Winona.
Oktibbeha-Miss Lille Grove, Stark
vile.
Claiborne-Miss Florence Mason, ms
more.
Wilkinson2AIrs. L. O'Fallon, Lessly.
Seed is being obtained now and plant
ed, and preparations made for the crop
by each girl in each club. The mem
bership is constantly growing.
Miss Susie Powell, who has charge
of this work for the department of edu-
cation, is thinking of getting the girls
to raise fall crop of tomatoes also
as money-making proposition for each
girl interested, and cites the fact that
usually in the fall tomatoes are brought
South from Northern markets, and sell
about as high as the early ones the
South furnishes the North.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23
LOOKS LIKE BIG INVENTION.
Cliff Orr Invents Great Oil Mill Saving
Machine.

Yazoo City-Cliff Orr, of this city,
seems at last to have brought out ma
chine for handling the seed, pressing the
oil out of them and handling tho cake
that will prove saving of hundreds OF
thousands of dollars year to the cotton
seed oil mills of the country. To get
the oil now numerous presses and labor
ers have to be used, the expense of so
much labor and cost of expensive presses
being enormous.
Afr. Orr has machine which does
away with the presses and the laborers,
the only labor being those needed to put
the seed in conveyor which carries
them to the machine The contrivancs
works automatically, requiring no one
to look after it. AS the oil is pressed
from the seed it is conducted off in
pipes. The machine is so adjusted that
after the oil is taken from the seed the
cake is dumped IL square blocks from
the presses.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23
ALL COUNTIES TO PARTICIPATE.
Law Providing Premiums for Each of
Seventy-fve Counties.

Jackson.-All is joy among the Off
Gals and friends of the State Fair As
ISOLATION. A bill was passed in the SEN
ate that Will do more toward the pro-
motion and Improvement of the associa-
ton than has been done in any one
year in it's history.
It provides thae each of the seventy
nine counties shall receive premium
OF one hundred dollars from the state
for the best exhibit at the fair. This
does not pit one county against the
other, but allows an equal premium to
all IT means that seyenty-nine coun-
ties will be represented at the fair next
fall instead of few counties as here
tofore. Some of them may not have the
very largest kind of exhibit the first
year, but they viii have something, and
for that something, each of them will be
awarded one hundred dollars.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23
THROWS WOMAN INTO WELL.
Citizens Near Starkville Wreak Terrible
Vengeance.

Starkville Hamilton, a negro,
positively identified by Mrs. John Bells
as the black who attacked her, beating
her over the head with pair of tongs
and then throwing her into well waist
deep in water, was lynched by a mob
of citizens in the neighborhood eight
miles north of Starkville.
When Mrs. Bells little son returned
from school he could not find his mother
and began calling for her and finally To-
Gated her in a well near the house. Upon
uncovering and looking in the well he
saw his mother and gave the alarm.
The water was about waist deep and
Mrs Bells kept from drowning by brac-
ing herself against the walls of the
well.
She makes the plain statement that
a negro named Mann Hamilton came to
her door about o'clock and called her,
and she went to the door and he told
her he had a note from neighbor.
When she reached for it he grabbed her
and pushed and dragged her through
the kitchen, and as she was fighting des-
perately, he beat her with the tongs over
the face and head until she was insen-
sible. Doubtless thinking he had killed
her, he threw her in the well.
From the blood on the floor and the
general arrangement of the kitchen fur
niture, it is evident that Mrs. Bell made
hard fight.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23
SAYS COLO KILLED WEEvILS
DIR. HUNTER TELLS OF EFFECTS OF
FREEZE ON PEST.
Does Not Give the Assurance That There
Will Be No Weevils in Delta
During Year.

Jackson-Dr w. ID. Hunter, chief en-
tomoiogist of the United States depart
ment of agriculture, bureau of plant in
dustry, is strong in the conviction that
killed millions of boil weevils in Mis-
sissipp.
Dr. Hunter does not hold out the hope,
however, that the destruction of weevils
has been so widespread that it will JUS
tify farmers in planting their usual acre
age or that there will not be an infesta-
ton by this pest in any section OF the
state during the coming crop year.
Recently Mr.. R. t. Spann, a promi-
nent planter of the delta, addressed a
letter to DR.. Hunter asking for his
opinion as to what extent the weevils
have been destroyed by the unusually
severe winter Dr. Hunter has replied
as follows:
Recent cold weather in the upper
Mississippi delta has undoubtedly de-
stroyed many, if not all, of the weevils
which flew into previously infested ter
z1tory during last fall A temperature
of twelve degrees above zero is gener
ally destructive to the weevils, but much
depends upon the amount of protection
they may be under. With the very low
temperature recently experienced it is
hardly probable that any insects have
survived north of Greenvalle, Miss. I'm
doubtedly you understand that there
will be invasions of the delta, begin
ming in August of the present year, and
the weevil will regain the territory which
has been lost"
1t is APPARENT, therefore, that, even if
practically all of the weevils have been
killed in that section of the state north
OF Greenvilie, it viii afford very little
consolation to the planters since there
Is certain to be fresh invasion of the
pest from territory where the tempera-
ture was not so low as in the northern
counties.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23
ENFORCE TICK LAW.
Rankin Supervisors Urge Quarantine Be
Established

Brandon. Resolution dealing with
the cattle tick situation in Mississippi
were adopted at a meeting of the Ran
kin county board of supervisors. The
resolutions read:
BE it resolved by the board of super
yisors of Rankin county, Mississippi,
that the tick eradication law be en-
forced and quarantine rules and regula-
tions of the state be adopted as to dip
ping the cattle and eradicating the fever
ticks in the said county. The official
arsenical solution to be used, subject to
the approval of the inspector in charge.
Public watts to be built when deemed
necessary and medicine furnished for all
watts whenever they are for the public
USE"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23

advertisement on the sign board. She
took extra courage. The sign bore
the name of John Temple beneath the
name of his book. Somehow Joyce
felt certain friendliness toward the
man who was carrying about an ad-
vertisement for the man whose story
she was about to illustrate.
She felt still less fear when, upon
approaching the sandwich man she
found that his eyes were clear and
frank and that the whiskers were of
the Santa Claus variety.
Il will give you two dollars il you
will come and pose for me-" Joyce
told the man.
He looked up at her standing there
on the curbstone her long painting
apron blowing about in the wind and
her face eager and wistful. Even a
sandwich man had an eye for beauty.
Joyce attributed the doubt in the
mans eyes to hesitancy about steal
ing time from his employer.
"You will be doing John Temple
more good by posing for me than you
will by carrying that signboard
about" she said by way Of gaining
her point TT is one OF his short
stories that / have to illustrate"
The sandwich mans eyes were
curiously interested A moment later
he motioned her to lead the way.
Within the door of her studio Joyce
turned toward her model a trifle ex-
asperated at the mans silence.
Cant you speak"
The man shook his head and Joyce
regretted her tone.
VIII you please remove that aw-
full beard?" she spoke more softly.
Il seemed to Joyce that the man
followed her command reluctantly
When the gray beard and shock OF
struggling hair we're removed he
stood revealed, man of startling
physical beauty.
Joyce caught her breath
.You could make fortunes
model" she said in quick apprecia-
ton. She went swiftly to the slender
wardrobe that she kept for her mod
els and brought forth an evening
suit. She glanced hastily at the
mans well-knit and generous frame.
''You must try to get into these
She laughed with tinge Of Doubt
fitness.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23
BIG TOMATO CROP SURE.
Will Be Greater This Year Than AIy
Previous One.

The Crystal Springs tomato crop, the
product of that celebrated district about
twenty-six miles south of jackson, bids
fair to be the largest this year of any
previous one. The Crystal Springs to-
matoes are known the country over. The
growers there for the past sixteen years
have been specializing on tomatoes, and
have gotten the art of growing them
down to science. They get the crop in
right behind the Florida crop, and of
such large and uniform variety in the
tomatoes, that the Crystal Springs pro-
duct command higher price than that
of any other section.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23
HUMPHREYS GETS GAvELs.
Beauvoir Soldiers Present Them to Wash
ington U. D. c.

Washington. - Representative Hum.
phreys of Mississippi recently received
two cedar gavels from the Beauvoir Con-
federate Soldiers Home, which he will
present to the Dixie Chapter, Daughters
of the Confederacy, of Washington. The
gavels were made from wood cut out of
a cedar tree which grew in the front
yard of the old Jefferson Davis home at
Beauvoir One of the gavels is inscribed
made by II. M. Wilson, Company I,
Ninth Mississippi Infantry, G. S. A., vet
eran Beauvoir Soldiers Home, 1912,
The other is inscribed, "From a veteran
of Beauvoir Soldiers Home, 1912"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23
I. c. Surveying New Line.

Jackson.-A party of Is civil en-.
gineers of the Illinois Central railroad
began to make a survey from this point
extending about rs miles up Pearl river
valley on the east side of the river. 1t
is learned from a reliable source that
the company is making tentative sur
vey with the ultimate object of building
a road to Birmingham, Ala, by connect
ing with the Aberdeen line further north
The road penetrates the largest unde-
veloped section of the state, rich in tim
Der lands consisting principally Of yellow
pine.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23

Columbus sThere is no danger of
overproduction of alfalfa. ImyseH can
sell all the alfalfa that can be produced
in the state Of Mississippi" The fore
going is statement made by G. G.
Hamilton. Mr.. Hamilton is one OF the
largest hay dealers in the state, having
handled between 400 and 500 cars Of
this staple during the past season. In
Mr.. HamiIton's opinion, alfalfa is such a
choice stock feed that preference for it
over grain will prevent oyerproduction,
as well as the limited acreage on which
it may be grown.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23
Want Army Stock Farm.

Columbus. The United States govern
ment has under consideration a plan to
establish somewhere in this section a
demonstration stock farm for the pur
pose of raising horses for the army, and
Col. John P. Mayo, one of the most en-
terprising citizens of Columbus, is tax
ing steps to bring to the attention of
the proper authorities the advantages
which Lowndes county possesses for a
farm of this character.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23
Lyon Made Marshal.

Jackson.-United States Deputy Mar.
shall w. o. Lyon was appointed by
United States District Judge H c. Niles
to succeed the late Marshal Fred W.
Collins, who died suddenly at his home
at Summit. The appointment is tenn
porary and is made Under the civil SER
vice rules, until the president of the
United States makes permanent APP
pointment The selection of Mr.. Lyon
came az no surprisesto those who know
him and of his good service.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23
Raise Constitutional Point.

Meridian.-A demurrer raising a con.
stitutional point was argued in circuit
court in the case of State vs.. DR.. j. N.
Tucker, charged with practicing medicine
without license. The lawyers for the
defense claim that the statute containing
the provisions under which the charges
were made is unconstitutional, because it
allows women to practice midwifery, at
the same time prohibiting men, without
license
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23
Plan Monument dwelling.

Columbus-With view to holding
the unwilling ceremonies on the next
birthday of Jefferson Davis, the Con-
fedcracy's memorable president, the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
are bending every effort to complete a
fund of $4,000 to purchase the large
monument as a tribute to the citizens
of Lowndes county, who fought with
the army of the South, which the ladies
plan to erect at Market and MaiE
streets
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23
Magness Sentenced.

Grenada motion of counsel for
a new trial in the case of A P. Mag
ness, who was convicted of the murder
of G. w. Gillon, was overruled, and
Magness was sentenced to be hanged on
March %, 1912. His attorneys an
nounced an appeal to the supreme court.
When asked by the court if he had any
thing to say why the judgments of the
court should not be passed upon him,
he answered in clear voice and with no
visible show Of emotion, Nothing except
that / am innocent Of the crime"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23

Jackson. Governor Brewer issued a
pardon to Oliver Orange who was con-
vieted in the Circuit Court of Lafayette
county in March, 1909, of assault with
intent to kill, and sentenced to serve
eight years IN the penitentiary.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23
Many New High Schools.

Jackson According to Prof. w. H.
Smith, field director of school extension
work, there will be about thirty-fve
agricultural high schools in operation in
Mississippi at the opening Of the next
scholastic term.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-23
Football Item.

He stood on the bridge at twilight
as the game drew near its close.
Twas a pensive mood in which he
stood on the bridge OF the halfbacks
nose. -.Washingto Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-15
THE CLAlREvoyAN1 BUSINESS.

A Dee MoineS woman mortga ged
her home in order to give $1,000 to a
"clairvoyant'' who had assured her
that by occult practices the money
could be planted and made to grow
into a million. The woman believed
it. She believes Il Stii.., ana bewails
the arrest of the "clairvoyant" as
having broken the spell" and lost her
a fortune
Incredible credulity? Well. hardly.
The get rich quick promoter lacks only
opportunity. Without interference he
can make a million month adver-
Using twenty dollar gold pieces for
$3.50 each. He can sell solid gold
watches for s2.75 and first water three
carat diamonds in solid gold settings
for 90 cents. if the postal detectives
will give him time He simply keeps
on saying it over and over. He con-
tinues to play the bait. And there are
always fish TO whom a spoon hook
looks like a fat nlinnow
AISQulOuS We are Dorm C!SCL4ouS
We are as credulous in politics as in
some other directions.
The political quack promises 10 cure
all fractional ills the clairvoyant can
didate promises 20 plant our millions
and grow billions from the seed. Re
assures us that he can make an oak
of sapling in an hour, develop a
2-rear- old colt in a minute. turn 6
grindstone both ways al once and his
"cappers" proclaim that he can do it.
Some of US believe him.
We are just as prone 20 fall for
the juggler in politics as for the clair
voyant and the quack in other depart
ment OF the confidence game. We
want certain results and snap al gilt
tering promises TO accomplish the i'm
possible. The political hypnocist and
clairveyant moreover has the best Of
it over his contemporaries on the
other lay" The secret service can't
touch him
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-15
Topics of the Times

If DR.. Cook would come into Iowa
some of these fine mornings perhaps
ne could actually find it. The suspic-
ION IS that the blamed thing has moved
south about for-y-fve degrees.
\ little let up which would afford
to get the clinkers out OF
the furnace would he gladly welcomed.
Perhaps the day will come when an
airship witt, a string of coal barges in
tow will settle the coal famine CUES
ton: but at present let's insist that the
railroads move a few cars.
Wealth is matter CT environment
and comparison. Notice the man with
a ton Of coal, fresh egg and a pound
Of butter.
Woodrow Wilson, like many another
man. wishes he hadn't written it. In
love ard politics penmanship is a dan
gerous accomplishment.
Mr.. Carnegie is a very pleasant
spoken person on the WllNtSS stduo-
but he doesn't say much.
A report from Webster City to an
Omaha paper says the mercury stood
at AZ below. The paving controversy
must have cooled off.
A headline in the Minneapolis Jour-
nal advices: Real Cold Coming;
Cover Up the Plants; Thirty Below
TODAY" 1t will be time to take down
the hammocks and bring in the porch
chairs in Minneapolis pretty soon II
it keeps on growing colder.
A number of Professor Holdens ad
rlirers are 10th to sacrifice a good corn
expert on the altar of politics, but the
professor himself just seems to gloat
over the prospect Of martyrdom.
Not a word" said Roosevelt. Well
at dollar per, you wouldn't scatter
them around yourself. would you?
Senator Kenyon while not carrying
singer" seems to attract large anc
| appreciative audiences.
The steam passenger carrying yes
sells which are obliged 70 render report:
to the government carried 314,I6s,sS;
passengers last year. Of these %:
were lost in accident, collision or BY
/ laundering Of vessels. One life lost Il
! s02.9s0 carried safely amid the peril:
of navigation is a record to be proud
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-15

and sensational in the record Of ex-
pansion, the unified business Of the
leading producer reported in December
showing not only the largest gain In
any one month on record, but making
& total larger than any time in nearly
two years. That demand for iron and
steel have been heavier than generally
supposed is indicated by the gain of
over $4,000 tons in the untitled bust
ness OF the United States Steel Cor
pora ton during December, and the ag-
gregate OF orders is the largest since
the end OF March, 1910. Current buy
ume. and Pittsburgh reports inquiries
indicating a good volume of new bust
ness. With finished lines frmer and
likely to advance. The present activ-
ity Of the furnaces OF the United States
Steel Corporation is equal to SIS per
cent of capacity.
Buyers OF dry goods are now coming
10 the primary markets in large num-
bers, but move conse-vatively as yet.
Revisions in cottons. Of fine charac-
Ter, are being made on goods for spring
delivery. Notably heavy shipments is
the leading feature OF the New Eng
land wool market. the total, which ag-
gregated for the week over S,50o,oo0
pounds, being the largest since 1907.
New business is mostly in small lots
and amounted TO about 3,50o.o00
pounds. Demand covers all grades and
the market is very firm. Farm staples,
except cotton, showed tendency to
receda il value.
Liabilities OF comm ercial failures
thus far reported for January amount
10 se.553.60o, of which s2.o55,S31 were
in manufacturing. s412S.S.6 in trading
and s369..23 il other commercial lines.
Failures this week numbered 3sl in
the United States against So last year.
and twenty-five in Canada compared
with tnirty-tcur year ago.