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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-17
GOV. HARMON MAKES DENIAL
In Written Statement Declares That
Charge of William j. Bryan Made
at FindIay (O.) Is False.

Columbus, O.-Governor Harmon,
arriving from Cincinnati late in
the afternoon, issued signed state
ment in reply to the charge Of Will
liam j. Bryan, made at Findlay. The
governor said: Il emphatically deny
that any one authorized Ito act in my
behalf, or with my consent, offered to
purchase delegates in June, 1908. or
at any other time
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-17
Woman and Son Shot.

Columbus.-Mrs. Tom Dee and her son,
Tom Dee, Jr., were fred upon about
midnight as they were closing their
commissary on their plantation, located
about sixteen miles south of Columbus
in the Deerbrook neighborhood, just
across the Lowndes county line, in Nox-
ubee county. Mrs. Dee was shot in the
eye and on the side of her mouth. An
other shot struck young Dee, while he
was locking the door.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-17
AGoat1 Committee Appointed.

New Brunswick, N. IA goat"
committee consisting of Alderman Jo
seph F. Easter, George Collin and
Clifton Mott, has been appointed to
capture eleven goats that have been
devouring lawns in this township.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-17
Prison Population.

Jackson. The secretary OF the peni-
tentiary board of trustees has just COM
rleted bis report for April, ard 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 totas receipt Of 1,s9o- /
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-17
Woman, 100, Has Never Danced.

Wenham. Mass.-Mr Mary r.
Hodgson has just celebrated her one
birthday here. She says
she has neeyr attended dance, has
never ridden in an automobile and
does not believe in woman suffrage.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-17
"a Pardons This Year.

Jackson.-Thus far in the year there
have been "a pardons and meritorious
discharges from the state penitentiary,
and among the number have been some
OF the most celebrated prisoners ever
convicted in the state of Mississippi,
such for instance as Whit Owens, John
w. Walton, Dan Adair and j. B. Slade.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-17
Steamer Sinks Barge of Coal.

Pearl, Ill.-The steamer C. P. Mar
tn, with three barges of coal, ran into
a pier of the Chicago & Alton bridge.
sinking barge of coal and doing
slight damage to the other barges
and the pier.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-17
Troops Fire on Strikers.

Pottsville, Pam idle anthracits
miner was shot to death and two 9th
ers asd woman critically wounded
by state troops while juelling mob
violence at Minersville. All the vic
tins are foreigners.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-17
PROF. POWERS PLEASED.
Agricultural School Means Much fol
for Kinds.

Jackson.-Prof. j. N. Powers, state
superintendent of education, is muca
gratifed over the action of the Hines
county board of supervisors in declar-
ing its purpose to establish an agricuI-
tural high school.
The action of the board was by an
unanimous vote, no dissenting voice was
heard from any quarter, and at the
September meeting the county tax levy
will be so arranged that the Institution
can be built and in readiness for opera
tion during the ensuing scholastic year.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-17

Women Cause Unhappy Homes.
Yonkers, N Yin lecture here,
Mrs. Rufus R. Reeder, aunt of Miss
Violet Edmands, former fiancee of the
Rev. Mr.. Richeson, said that women
were responsible for most of the un.
happy homes.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-17
Farmers Rushing Work.

Jackson.-According to Prof. P. 2.
Garner, general agent of the United
States department of agriculture, in
charge of the cooperative and demonstra-
tion farm work in South Mississippi,
good progress with the work of crop
planting has been made in that section
of the state.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-17
Will Use Wireless.

vicksburg. Due to the abnormal flood
conditions the usual methods Of COM
munication have proved insufficient in
the flooded area, and acquisitions will
be made at once for the installation
at vicksburg and Monroe of field wire
less outfits.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-17
Boys Take Charbon.

Yazoo City.-The claim on the part Of
some that charbon or anthrax cannot
be transmitted to human has been
disproved in this county, when Joshua
Cakes, aged about 10 years, Henry
Oakes, aged about 12, developed case
OF charbon. The boys skinned cow
that had died OF charbon.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-17

Meridian.-In the warmest and most
hotly contested election ever held in Me-
ridian, the commission form of govern
ment won by IA majority Of eighty-fcu
out Of total vote of 1,722.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-21
BACK WARD.

The report Of the State Supcrintend-
cnt of Insurance. just issued. emphasizes
the lack Of progress made I'm this conn
try toward fire prevention and the rcduc-.
ton Of excessive fire losses. Mr.. Emmett
estimates the total fire loss in the United
States and Canada in 1911 at $23i,oo0,.
0OO and says:
This roughly speaking, based on popu-
lation, would make per capita loss or
between SO and 81. as against an csu-
mated per capita loss IN Europe Of less
than 40 cents 1t would seem from these
figures that the consideration Of the i'm
portant question Of fire prevention has
not yet shown any apprcciable general
results.
1t is hard to get Americans TO take
the problem OF fire prevention seriously.
They are optimistic and careless about
imperlling life and property through I'M
safe building methods They prefer TO
insure against individual misfortune and
then take chances, forgetting that that
method involves far greater expense than
warning directly against the ravageS Of
fire would involve. Climate undoubtedly
has much 10 do with our larger use of
iniammable material. But the great dis
proportion between our fire loss and that
of Europe Is due TO hurry and lack Of
interest One way 10 cut down the high
cost of living is 10 stop offering more
than 5000. 100000 annually to the flames.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-21
THE GRAFT SYSTEu.

Accusations. Investigations and trials
have famillarlzed the public with the
idea that II Is possible for the policeman
to be CRATER IT has remained for the
investigation Of Mr.. Fosdlck, the Com
missioner Of Accounts, TO reveal the po-
liceman as the victim OF grafterS, and
petty grafters at that. His inquiry into
the report that applicants for retirement
and pension had TO give up $500 to
some mysterious individual who was
known as Chris O'DOnnell," IA pseudo
nyme denOting Cash on Delivery" has
led him to believe that the blue coated,
brass buttOned persOnifications Of the
majesty Of the law are in practical fact
mere children. lie finds that there has
EXISTED an organized effort 10 graft
upon pension applicants upon the part
"of unknown persons who seem TO have
access TO the records Of the surgical
bureau" And he adds: at is our
opinion that the police are oftentlmes
"the easy victims Of few INSCRIPTIONS
individuals, who trade upon their Gre
"dulity."
Not many years ago an ambitious
scheme to bleed members of the Fire De-
partment for promised promotions was
disclosed and the syndicate of grafters
disorganized. 1t is probable that there
are more cases of payment for getting
places in various branches of the city's
service than the sporadic instances
which occasionally come TO light. or
course, nil these imply ignorance or Gre
dulity on the part Of the victim. Yet in
that very credulity lies a pointed criti-
cism of the city's government. The will
ingness Of the public servant, or the
would-be public servant. TO put up money
In such case means belief that he has
become n part of system OF graft. He
considers himself cog In a political
machine, whose purpose Is TO turn out
dollars for the benefit Of the insiders
rather than TO work for the benefit Of
the public The easiest and most natu-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-21
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
From The Tribune Bureau. J

From The Tribune Bureau
Washington. May 2O-The exodus OF So
cioty from the capital will begin June J.
Justice and Mrs Hughes being among the
first Of the Supreme Court circle to go
They have taken Abaneke Camp, on Lake
Placid. near White Face Inn, and VIII 90
there early in June.
Mrs. George White and the wives or the
Ohio members Of the House entertainer
several hundred women at tea th's
afternoon 10 meet Mrs. Judson Harmon
who came here for the Dolly Madison
breakfast.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. ~ Vandergrltt ana MISS
Alice Vandergrift closed their Washing
ton house to-day and started for Cantor-
MIA. where they will spend two months.
ON their return they will ~tther go abroad
for the summer or 10 Narragansett.
Major General and Mrs George L. GILES
nle will 90 to New York on Saturday TO
visit their son and daughter-in-law. 1hey
will sail for Europe May 20 to spend the
summer.
Mrq. Pierce Crosby announces the on
gagoment Of her daughter. Joan Audenreid
Crosby, 10 Charles Trowhridse Tittmanh'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-21
pEsIRAeILITY OF NEGRO WATERS
n the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR: Asra am daily confronted by the news
Of tho negro hotel waiter losing chance
for employment. desire 10 say a few
words IN his favor
There was once a time when tho dining
room service Of all the hotels Of this
country was carried on entirely by negro
hoIp Then the hotel proprietors grew rich
many Of them more so than they do now
And n f. n fact that tho negro waiter or to-
day is far superior to the negro waiter
then. when II was impossible to get an m
tclucont crew Of negro walters OF uniform
appearance. For now the negro waiter can
read and write. while there are many Il
them that speak some OF the foreign IAN
guagcs of usA IN the dining room; and ais"
Il f. easily possible 20 get a crow of negro
walters Of uniform and neat appearance.
Their having such desirable qualifications
make. ono anxious to ask what objections
some hotel proprctors have against negro
walters Tho answer To this would be that
these certain proprlotors imagine that their
guests would object to them. But such an
objection would not stand the test, for OK
animation would show that these same
guests ara satisfied by negro walters when
they arc served ly them I'm at least one OF
these pIaccs-tho Florida winter resorts
many az the steamers. summer resorts all
over the country. or the Pullman dining
cars iu nil Of which places there are
great many negro walters.
So We see that tho preference Of IN"
guests has no Influence In a proprietor
selection OF walters. And since the selec-
ton Of walters from races other than the
negro has caused propri"tors no end or
trouble. because OF help not only having NJ"
knowledge OF the service but some not
oven a spcaklng knowledge OF tho national
Language. We trust that the proprictors may
consider the negro walters men OF long 'A-
pericncc IN the business and well trained
IN both American and European service and
who are sure to satisfy both the proprie-
tor and tho guests All that the negro
waiter asks is to get chanc" and theh
l.. allowed to stand on his merits.
J. L. DICKERSON
Wow, Haven May 10, 1912.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-21
right to will his child to others than the

right to will his chlld to others imam wv
mother
In not one of the Southern states Is the
age of consent for girls as high as IL Is
in the states where women have the ballot
In these states it is eighteen, and In Wyom-
irg the fair minded men and women OF the
West have made the age at which young
girl can legally ALLEVIATE her virtue the same
as the age at which she can legally ALLEVIATE
her real estate-twenty-on years. In the
states OF Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi
the lawmakers have placed the age at when
a young girl can ALLEVIATE her virtue at ten
years and twelve years. respectively, while
the age at which she can legally ALLEVIATE
her real estate is twentyone years.
In the Southern states, when woman
marries, either the income Of her properly
or the property itself belongs to the hus-
band az soon as the ceremony of marriage
Is finished. There is not a single Southern
state in which the wife's wages earned out
side the home belong to her They belong
10 the husband, unless she has appealed 10
the courts for permission to be sole
trader" We can see no 'chivalry' nor
privileges" to women in the aforesaid con-
ditions.
There is not section of the Union that
seems to need the cooperation Of wide
awake, public spirited women and men more
than does the South in order that the child
labor problem and the iliteracy problem
there may be Justly solved
Anti-suffragsts have much overworked
the word chivalry, so that its elusive, CHI
merical quality Of meaning all but pals on
one. Is il not rather common humanity
that prompts n stronger human being TO
assist the weaker human being? Is 1t not
common humanity that prompts a young
woman to give up her seat in the car to an
old or scky man. or to a woman carrying
an infant, which one can see done often IN
the city Of New York? Is Il not common
humanity that prompts men TO give up
their seats to women, simply because they
know that 1t is harder for many women to
have 10 stand than It is for most men? IL
was this Inherent quality in our men that
prompted them 10 let most Of the women
on the Titanic take the seats In the boats,
and thcv oven let n woman voter from
California get into a lfeboat. According
to anti-sufrase ideals, the men should have
allowed women voters to drown. We hold
American men in higher esteem than does
Mrs. O'Neal when she says that common
humanity will cease 10 exist in their hearts
X women vote.
The only demonstration Of woman suf-
fraEe which she ever Witnessed was not
woman suffrage al all. II was the exercise
NJ the indirect influence which the 'antis'
50 greatly cxtol that she witnessed ~ the
polls We condemn this quite ne much As
she does HELEN NJ. BENT
resident If the Legislative League Of New
York.
New York. MAY Il. 1912
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-21
FAIR ENJOYS LEAVE BUDAPEST
Panama. acifc Commissioners en- Kou"
for Fiume and Venice.

Rudapest. May 2O.--The Panama-Pacino
rxposit,on Commission left here late TINS
evening for Fiume, and VIII proceen
steamer for Venice The visit OF tie oVl"
missioners has been successful IN arou ~,
great interest In the exposition t
morning the commission attended CONF
ence with the Hungarian committed wnI.n
has the matter of the exhibition IN IAN
The general sentiment strongly la'0.."
participation. the speakers expressins az
hone that the government would give 10
support. ory
Most of the Hungarian ministers man.
IDENTITIES and most prominent business me"
of Budapest attended the dinner sNen .,
evening I'm honor OF the commlss'o"'
which the Mayor presided.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-21
as REGARDS NEW THOUGHT

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir. often do We hear comments on tho
wonderful age in which We are living nut
tho commentators have in mind usually the
mechanical inventions OF tho last nun Ired
wears. the purely material civilization.
There is an ever growing nunher, now
..,cr who nrc filled with the spiritual prom
100 Of the last few years. out OF an era OF
uatcrialism. in which even religion was
GROSSLY material in It's conceptions, sprans
tho flower of true spirituality Bahaishl'
qhoosonhy New Thought, Mental Science
ALI born from the same seed all speaking
an old word. which comes TO US ~ new
the word Of unity, OF brotherhood, OF peace
between religions and men.
Abdul BAHIA is among us. Ills gentle
rresence is influencing us to brotherhood
his earnest words are urging us toward tho
great peace.
The RahaI movement stands for the new
revelation at the same time that society
known rs the order Of the star In the
Eost has I'm IA few months, drawn into It's
membership thousands who believe IN thelt
hearts that a great teacher will soon bless
the earth with his presence. To prepare
HE uav on earth is the one and only object
of the order.
Whether no has come or Is coming these
movements are sincere expressions OF the
secret belief and the heart hunger OF thou-
sands. tens OF thousands. AS sign OF the
times they are significant. When we look
G., or the strife world we cannot say
that there is no need Of them. 1t Is In the
study OF the social and economic problems
OF our day that the conviction comes 10
us that the times are bigger with fate than
men dream.
why should we hesitate to add our voice
10 that ever increasing chorus that calls
upon In. highest to manifest? The very
strength OF our expectation might draw to
rs the Lord OF Love. Why should we hesi-
tate TO unite our labor with those who seek
10 prepare Ills way in this troubled world?
New York, May II, 1912. A BROTHER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-21
THE REAL OTTOMAN MENACE.

THE REAL OI1OHAN MENACb.
A brief dispatch from st. Petersburg
blurts out with disquieting frankness a
suggestion which has long been under
consideration among the European pow
ers. but Of which, because of its serious
ness. nobody has hitherto ventured 10
speak aloud. That is that the Balkan
States may take advantage Of Turkeys
present embarrassment to settle finally
their long account with their historic
foe. and in doing so may plunge the
whole peninsula into war which
might ultimately involve much of the
European continent. SO long as the
Turko-Itallan war was confined TO the
Tripolitan littOral, or even to the Medi-
terranean and Red seas, it seemed re-
mote and inconsequential. But Italian
guns at Beirut and at the Dardanelles
awoke more ominOus echoes. and it be-
gan TO be realized that Turkey was at
war, and that Turkey was not only an
African and an Asian but also a Euro
pean state, and that therefore this was
a war between two European powers.
1t is true that official relations be-
tween Turkey on the one hand and
Greece. Bulgaria and the other Balkan
states are nominally friendly. 1t is
equally true that all FIVE of those pow
ers cherish an ancient resentment
against the tribe Of Gilman and that
the two named are particularly hostile
hno Thnxr ~ tyyn ~ biph haUa
suffered most from Turkish oppression
in the past and which are now terrific
rally and in all respects most in con-
tact with Turkey. They have for many
years been the chief claimants for
shares in the partitioning Of Macedonia,
and their hunger for those provinces
has not been abated but has rather been
increased by the result of the recent
general elections, in which the Greek
and Bulgarian candidates I'm Macedonia
were nearly all defeated by the Young
Turks by electoral methods similar 10
those by which other governments more
strenuous than scrupulous have been
known TO secure results corresponding
with their own desires.
1t may or it may not be true that,
as 1.-THE Voice OF Moscow" says, spe-
cial envoy from Bulgaria is endeavoring
TO secure the Russian Cars permission
for that country TO begin war against
Turkey; but 1t is intrlnsically neither
impossible nor improbable. The Rus
sian sovereign may not give the con.
sent which is asked but not every war
IN the Balkans has waited for such
sanction What Ia certain Is that feel
ing against Turkey Is running high In
both Bulgaria and Greece and that the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-21
THE LORIMER REPORT.

The report of the special committee Of
fhe Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections reaftirming Mr.. LOrimer's title
10 a seat in the Senate will be received
by the country with amazement Four
ipf the five Senators who signed the re-
lport-two of them Republicans and two
bemocrats-held that Mr.. LOrimer's title
was valid when the case came up for de-
icislon a little more than year ago. The
fifth signer-NIr Jones. Of Washington
voted against the Illinois Senator at that
time If il Is assumed that a sense Of
consistency influenced the four TO stand
by their former judgment and insist that
no new evidence worthy Of serious con-
sideration had been presented, it is diff
cult to understand the attitude of the
fifth Lorimer supporter, who agreed that
nothing had developed to affect the orlgi-
nal record, yet nevertheless shifted his
vote from the negative to the affirmative.
1t was the new evidence presented
which led the Senate Of Illinois to ask
that the case be reOpened at Washington.
The new evidence seemed TO bear out the
charges previously made that Mr.. Lori
mers election had occurred under cOndi-
lions of extreme Generalization in the
Illinois Legislature and that the support
given him by many Democratic members
had been due to their association with a
"iackpot" brotherhood organized TO levy
toll on legislation. The special commit
tee asserts that mo new and substantial
evidence" has been produced in the course
of the second investigation, and then
falls back on the contention that the
action of the Senate on the original
charges ought TO control the action Of
the Senate now. The committee even
enlarges Me defence OF Mr.. Lorimer
made in 1911, for it says: I'VE are con-
"vinced that no vote was secured for him
"by bribery" A year ago Mr.. LOrimers
chief champion, Mr.. Bailey, was arguing
that although certain Democrats might
have been cOrruptly Influenced to support
Lorimer, the deduction Of those votes
from his column OH the day on which he
was elected would not have changed the
result.
The special committee may have acted
according 10 its own sense Of duty In
declaring that last years affirmation of
Mr.. Lorimer's title ought to stand. But
the chief trouble with such finding is
that great majority Of the people be-
lieve the conclusion arrived at in March.
1911 20 have been erroneous The public
fully agrees with what President Taft
wrote to Colonel Roosevelt on January 6,
,zoll: 81 have read as much Of the owl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-21

END or THE BASEBALL SIRIhE'
The Detroit baseball players nave
shown sense in abandoning their Strlhc'
They could not expect much puDllc - i"
pathy in standing up for Drawing ."
the ball field. The public does not pay
TO see the umpire, the players OF the
rival teams or any of the spectators az
saulted. Bv winning their strike tue
Detroit players could only injure the
game which opens the way for theh W
larger earnings than most OF them coul"
ever hope to obtain at any other "oih
II is TO be hoped that this Is the euu
Of strikes against discipline, which mas
for its object keeping the sport decent
and free from offence.
The movement against the rowu!
nlaver triumphs in this virtual conles-
sion that IL is right. 1t should 90 lor-
ward to deal with the rowdy spectator
who occasionally infests bleachers near
which outfelders are compelled TO play
and shouts insults at them. Not one ian
in Thousand would he anything but
clad TO have these offensive persons sup
pressed. The authority of the umplres
should he extended if II is not already
sufficient TO protect players from verbal
abuse. The election Of one or two foul
mouthcd wits" would probably Ne
enough to put stop to the practice
which made cobb lose his head. An
umpire might possibly exercise the r1eht
TO declare games forfeited where the
management failed properly to police IT'S
grounds.