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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10

Chess Playing Led to Tax Exemption.
In connection with the bicentenary
Of Frederick the Great, Paris news
paper recalls an interesting circum-
stance in connection with a village
near Halberstadt known as Strasbeck,
which for a long time escaped pay
ment of fiscal dues, by playing chess.
The custom had its origin with the
residence of bishop Of the village
The bishop was a keen chess player,
and he found no one to play with
Then he taught the villagers, and
when the collector came round they
inveigled him to play for his dues.
The bishop died and the custom con-
tinued for long time, even up to the
days Of Frederick the Great, who
played with the villagers and lost. But
he bore his defeat with more mag
nanimity than he sometimes showed.
On his return to Berlin he sent the
commune an ivory chess board and
silver chessmen. These are now pre-
served in the archives and shown to
visitors, as reminder of the former
glory Of her township for the chess
board and the men are eli that re-
mains Of its once prescriptive right
obtained from the fact that the VII
lagens never lost
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
FIVE DOLLAR CIGARS

1t was not so long ago that dollar
cigars were a luxury. Now the demand
for cigars selling at five dollars each
Is so great that Havana manufacture
ers cannot fill it. Most of this demand
is to supply banquets of the ultra
rich A considerable part of it is from
Heidelberg university, Germany,
where the students never seem to get
enough to satisfy their appetite A
favorite method they have of smoking
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10

ii "a by the public
in the new nation
al museum build
in ! at Washing
ton, some of which
ar considered of
great educational
value. Of particu-
lar interest in con-
n e c t 10 n w / t b
American ethnol-
ogy and the In
dian in general
are two recently
completed groups
depicting scenes
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
WONDERFUL FUR COATS

Lady Ashburtan. the former New
York beauty. caused 5000 moles to
be trapped on her English estate and
their skins made into coats and muffs
for her three American sisters. The
coats contain 500 skins each and the
muffs each between 80 and 80 skins.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10

them is to put one in an Oriental wa
ter pipe. while five or six will each
take a tube and smoke It, This i've
dollar brand is known to the trade as
''promenties." 1t is about sixteen
inches long and looks more like yell
low Roman candle than a cigar.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
cATHEDRALS IN AFRICA

Christianity is slowly spreading over
Africa. There are Is Episcopal cathe-
drals and IL Roman Catholic on the
dark continent in addition to numer-
GUS churches of all denominations.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-10
LIFE OF ABORIGINES
NATIONAL MUSEUM EXHIBITS
WORK DONE BY THE INDIANS.
They Made Utensils Of Stone-Great
Quarries Were Situated in District
of Columbia Before the Com
ing Of the EngIishmen.

Many new chronological exhibits
have been receHtly opened for inspec-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23

PLims ), MARK On SHIPS
Peculiar Characters on Side OF British
Vessels Determine Weight Of
Her Cargo.

Perhaps you have often heard OF
mans making his mark in the world,
but what do you think Of q man that
left his mark on every British ship
that sails the seas? =
If you are observant you may have
noticed in passing some Of the freight
steamers a peculiar mark on the side,
close to the water, something like the
letters o. E.. & This mark is usually
about the middle, Of the boat, and is
white or yellow on dark background.
In the old days many merchant
ships were lost through overlooking
and British member of parliament.
Samusl Plimsoll, who; sympathized
with che poor sailors that had to risk
their lives on these ships while the
greedy owners stayed safely at home,
worked and worked until he got =
law passed that obliged every cargo
carrying vessel to carry mark on
its side. showing the depth to which
she might safely be loaded.
The five marks on the figure to
the right, which looks like letter E.,
indicate the loading depths for differ
ent places and seasons. The top line.
turned to the left, is for fresh water.
The top line to the right is for the
Indian ocean. The next below is for
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
FACE A. SIGHT WITH letter

Moberly, Monty trouble began
with a small pimple on the left side OF
my face and it spread all over my
face and to my neck. It would be scar
let red when I got warm. My face
was a sight. It looked very unpleas-
ant, and it felt uncomfortable. My
face was something awful; it just kept
me in agony all the time. Some said
It was letter, and some said it was
that awful eczema, but I rather think
1t was letter. I had been troubled
with it for about two years and tried
many remedies. but got no relief until
I used Cuticura Soap and Ointment.
when I would wash my face with
the Cuticura Soap and apply the Cuti-
cura Ointment it would cool my skin
and draw great big drops Of matter
out Of the skin. You would think I
was sweating; it would run down my
face just as though l had washed 1t.
It itched and smarted and I suffered
In the day time most. I used the Cuti-
cura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for
a month and I was cured Of it." (Sign-
ed) Mrs. J. Brooksher, April is, 1872
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cutccra, Dept. L. Boston"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23

ST0RKS ON DECREASE
Careful Supervision Of Birds Shown
They Are Rapidly Dying Out
T. Various Reasons Given. -

Every year the number Of storks ta
be seen in Alsace becomes less, thu
London Daily Globe states. OF th1
four nests perched on the big chin
neys of the old roofs of Strassburg
only one has been occupied this year
In many of the villages the great
migrators have ceased for long time
to relieve the landscape, and it seema
only question OF time when tho
stork in Alsace will be a memory
Various are the causes assigned fol
this desertion-the drainage of thu
marshes, the multiplication Of tele
phone and telegraph wires and thu
smoke from factory chimneys.
In Germany for the better study d
storks there has been created sort q
service In connection with the educa
ton department which tends to set VI
an "etat civil'' for each bird. or. IL
other words, to register them after thu
manner which obtains for citizens II
France.
Each bird Is captured where posi-
BILE and metallic disk affixed to 1t,
leg. and German ohicials, wherevet
the birds are believed to migrate
have instruction to send to the depart
ment any Information they can gatheI
concerning storks which are Germal
subjects. POSSIBLY this labelling mai
have something to do with the scar
city, BY this system Of registration
the authorities have learned some
thing Of the migratory habits Of thu
bird: for instance, one was found deaf
at the Cape Of Good Hope whose pleci
OF origin was eastern Prussia.
A point Of interest relative to thu
scarcity Of the stork has been brought
under tho notice Of the German au
thorfttes by a doctor at Port Eliza
beth, who suggests that they havl
been poisoned through eating grass
hoppers or locusts which have beer
killed by arsenic. A correspondent
however, of an Alsace-Lorraine jour
nal hints that the cause is to be found
nearer at home.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
TripoIi Women at Home,

There is a vivid picture Of home
life in Tripon in Mrs. Mabel LOOMS
Todd's recent volume: Another day
l went to a house of quite different so
cial order, whore poor woman with
a crooked spine had asked to see the
foreigner She was sewing al a little
machine low on the floor, turned by
hand. like those used by Malays, her
knees higher than her head-but that
was apparently favorite attitude Of
both sexes.
Flat on the floor lay an old woman
sound asleep, merely a neighbor in for
a while to take this surprising means
Of promoting social hilarity. But she
wore a good deal Of jewelry, was ar
tistically tattooed and, upon waking,
showed strong, short white teeth in a
friendly smile.
1.-The poor little deformed woman
seemed pathetically glad to zee US and
began to talk at once Of tho coming
eclipse, of her fear that it might in
lure her and that she should not dare
go to the roof to see it; also asking
me to use my influence to render 1t
as harmless as possible"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
What Are Cork Leosf

One often meet3 with a description,
especially in some Of the older novels,
Of men with cork legs, and upon read
ing the graphic accounts of some of
some of these old sea dogs, for most
Of them were sailors, one would natu-
rally think they had artificial legs
made of cork.
But artificial legs are never made
Of cork. They do not get their name
from the material Of which. but from
the place at which, they were made.
This was not the city Of Cork in Ire
land, but Cork street. of Piccadilly, In
London. which was the headquarters
for the artificial limb trade in the old
days, just as certain streets are known
az the locality for certain wholesale
businesses in our Zig cities today.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23

He. No. Just abouts exasperetsdsw with
the1telephone VAS Busiman 81
Ten times that morning he had
tried to get on to q number, and each
time something had prevented him
from speaking. L Either It was mum
Der engaged" or the person he want
ed to speak to was out. or else he
had been suddenly cut of, At last
he got through.
"Hallo!" said he. lis MIR. x. there?'',
YES" replied voice. do you
want to speak to him?" IT
; That was the last straw. Back
came the reply in icy tones: a.. "
"Oh, no! Nothing of the sort. I
merely rung up to hand him q cigar!"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
(CopyriRht by F. L. Nelson

Wiling 10 make the QuSt, Dut uau Uee0
trained so long on the honest line that
he could not become full-fedged thief
at Jump.
Pop went along in the regular way,
as it was arranged that we were not
going to make the strike until the
fall shipment of gold to Chicago. The
time was left to Pop to select. We
got the tip on Monday, that on the
following Wednesday night the Red
Star car would go out from the Erie
depot with the big load of shiny met
al. We fixed up everything to carry
out our trick. I had long talk with
Pop. He was SO inquisitive about all
the details of robbery, and insisted up
on knowing everything that we were
going to do before hand, that became
suspicious of him.
One Of the gang had been on his
track every day without his knowl-
edge, and had never seen or heard
anything wrong, so 1 thought maybe
l was not fair with Pop to doubt him.
After thinking it all over concluded
that the safest way to deal with Pop
would be to fool him by giving him q
ghost story about the details. l told
him the train would be tagged about
five miles west of Port Jervis and
the safes dumped from the car. A
wagon would be In readiness to take
the safes They would then be blown
open ON the road. The plan was to
bury the gold in safe place and
cart away only the greenbacks.
Wednesday night came. The car
pulled out of the depot with Pop on
the first watch and his partner in the
sleeper. The gang were all in tho
smoker. After we got in motion Pop
let us into the car. We started at
once on the big safe and had no trou-
BILE getting, into it. Pop, Of course,
did not know the combination. We
got out the small safes-there were
four Of them-and they were very
heavy. Pop said the cargo was near
ly all gold and the prospect was very
bright
A few miles this side OF Port Jer-
Wis. at place agreed upon, and about
ten miles from where Pop had been
given to understand that the robbery
would take place, I gave the signal.
We forced the door of the car and
dumped the safes while we were 60
ing at full speed. About a quarter
of mile beyond, red light was
waved in front Of the engine. The
train stopped. We jumped when the
train Stacked up, and the red light dis
appeared. We put Pop to sleep in
the car with tap on the head and
closed the door, so that nothing was
known Of the robbery until the train
reached Port Jervis. Then we had
hustle for fair"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
Bathing In Mexico.

Travellers through Mexico usually
are much interested in the queer old.
time bath tubs which are used in
many parts Of that country. When
the weather IL hot the pools and
streams absorb some Of the Eeneral
warmth. Therefore, bathers 90 to
the springs where the water ID sure
to be cool. At these springs one often
will ind a tub or small bathing pool,
followed out OF the rock. Some Of
the Weather Mexicans have these
great stone tubs brought into their
houses. They are kept cool With run
ming water.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
coiors One Cannot See.


Perhaps you know that there Is no
such thing as color in the objects you
look at. Some process in the brain
transforms the waves of light that
come from different things into what
are called colors. When there 10 no
no light you see no colors aud q red
rose Is the same shade az q Green
tree.
At present peopls can distinguish
seven colors in the rainbow, but scien-
lists say there are others beyond those
we SEQ which the human eye cannot
see yet. They have proved that some
insects, such - ants, can see rays OF
light beyond the violet, just az It has
been shown that there are au,male
that can hear sounds which 40 too
inc for human ears to detect.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
FAMILY RUNT
Kansas Man Says Coffee Made Him
That.

Coffee has been used In oT family
Of eleven-father, mother, fitA sons
and four daughters-for thirty Gears.
am the eldest Of the boys and have
always been considered the runt Of the
family and coffee topper.
II continued to drink it for years I'M
til I grew to be a man, and then I
found had stomach trouble, nervous
headaches, poor circulation, was I'M
able to do full days work, took medi-
cine for this, that and the other thing,
without the least benefit In fact I
only weighed ZIG when I was %.
Then I changed from coffee to Pos
tum, being the first one in our family
to do SO. noticed, as did the rest Of
the family, that was surely gaining
strength and flesh. Shortly after I
was visiting my cousin who said, You
look SO much better-you're getting
fat
AT breakfast his wife passed me
q cup Of coffee, as she knew I was al
ways such a coffee drinker, but I said,
NO, thank you
"@What!' said my cousin, you quit
soffee, What do you drink?'
POSTUM I said, or water, and I
am we'll They did not know what
Postum was, but my cousin had stom-
ach trouble and could not sleep at
night from drinking coffee three times
day. He was glad to learn about
Postum, but said he never knew cof-
fee would hurt anyone" (Tea IL Just
~ injurious as coffee because It con-
tains caffeine, the same drug found
In coffee.) s.~o,.1s' ~.~g *,s-=
r. AFTER understanding my condition
and how I got well he knew what to
do for himself. Hs discovered that
coffee was the cause Of his trouble 6
he never used tobacco or anything else
Of the kind. You should RS the chan9e
in him now. We both believe that II
persons who suffer from coffee drink.
Ing would stop and use Postum they
could build back to health and happi-
ness" Name given BY Postum Co,
Battle Greek, Mich. s=.==.... z. sls..s.
III There's Z reason" Read the little
book, The Road to MELVILLE" in pkxs.
Ever rsad tho above lsttsr. 4 nv
:sOo appsass from tins % tins. TI,ey
- eenslns, tue, and full d husnaa
)A1ogook sxz.5.z
i Ays 80 = 49, l.s4ssss 4
- 0sssIss ssDR - 81 .
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
bronson-There's something very
small about that man, Mason. ~
Woodson-What's the matter with
him? - (.
Bronson-Why, he loaned me . gar.
den hose that needed mena!nS:
AWFUL.

A West End woman called the atten-
ton of her husband to a little baby
which was trying to sleep on the porch
of its home on the opposite side Of
the street.
Its lying on the bare boards. isn't
it," he observed. ..
Eyes, they haven't even placed 4
rug for the little chap to rest his head
on"
The husband took another look.
And what do you think Of THAR"
he calculated. 'They haven't even
painted the boards" Youngstown
co., Telegram.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
MAKING Himself at Home.

Doris was radiant over recent ad-
dition to the family, and rushed out
of the house to tell the news to a pass
ing neighbor.
''Oh, you don't know what we've get
upstairs!"
What is it,"
tits a new baby brother!"-and she
settled back upon her heels and fold
ed her hands to watch the effect
you <cn't say so! Is he going to
stay?"
Il guess Sc''-very thoughtfully.
Hes got his things off,"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
POLE FOR 4 ROLLER SKATER
Amusement Found by Small Boy In
Riding Astraddle Of BroomstIck
10 improved On.

When the very small boy who likes
to play horse astraddle a broomsticb
becomes old enough to use roller
skates. he may carry out the idea in
a more practical way with a roller
pole Of the kind shown in the illus
tration. The device comprises pole
provided with roller at one end
for the hands at the other end, and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
Not HOl

An Irish builder was new to tho
huge skyscrapers. He had carried ma
tsrial up to the top floor, and could
not ind his way down. After q time
the boss missed him and called I'D to
him.
Pat, oh Pat! Why don't you come
down."
Il don't know the way" said Pat
We'll, come down the way you
went up"
Faith, an I won't said Pat, Tor I
came up head 1rSt."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
Congratulated.

Congratulated.
Prize Fighter (entering school with
his son)-You give this boy O. mine
q thrashin' yesterday, didn't you?
Schoolmaster livery nervous)
-1-er-perhaps-
Prize F1ghter-Well, give US your
and; you're champion. can't do
nothin' with I'm myself.-Punch.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
Her EnQanernente.

Miss Vivian 10 very much Of q dirt
and she has been engaged to z dozen
young men during the few seasons
she has been on the eligible list. A
few days ago she said to her father:
PA, you may congratulate me on
having acquired a new object of my
affection"
II am glad to hear it," he replied.
Il hope you are as happy with him as
you will be with the next one"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
Detective M'QUILLAN's STORY.

was sitting in my Office late one
afternoon when a messenger called
and said that detective was wanted
at the office of Wells, Fargo & Co. for
special business. When I got to the
express Office l was told what seemed
to me to be a very fishy story about
an attack that was going to be made
upon the Red Star money car
The tip that the robbery was going
to come off had been given to the
company by Ike Thompson, who went
by the name of Pop" one Of the
best agents in the express car service,
but thought that there must be a
mistake in it somewhere. His story
was that while he was in Chicago on
one OF the regular trips he went to the
house OF his sisterin-law, and when
he left he was accosted by a fellow
whom he had known in Jersey City
as Luke Sanderson, one of the work
men in the Erie Railroad shops.
In some way or other Sanderson had
got the idea that the woman Thomp-
son had called upon was his wife San
derson knew that Thompson was mar
ried and had a family in Lafayette,
N. Y. and he took pains to suggest
to Thompson that it would go very
hard with him If the company should
learn that he was not living on the
level, as he was earning hardly enough
money legitimately to run two homes
Thompson did not stumble to what
Sanderson was driving at until they
were on the way back to Jersey City.
going with an empty money car, when
Sanderson suggested that there was an
easier way to make fortune than
working for it.
Thompson is very foxy fellow, and
determined to lead Sanderson on with
the belief that he was ready to go into
anything that would pay big money,
and he managed his part of the affair
so we'll that Sanderson never dropped
to the fact that he was being jollied.
was not sent for until several
days or weeks afterward, as Thompson
and the officials were not any too
anxious to divide the honors in the
case, as success made big thing for
all the company's employees who ngur-
ed in the case. Thompson had several
interviews with Sanderson, and from
what he said had got him worked up
to a high pitch over the robbery and
the gang were anxious to spring the
trick
l listened to the tale, and was very
skeptical. I did not believe that any
top-notch crooks would have gone into
such scheme with Thompson without
first being assured that there was no
possible chance Of throw-down.
asked for a sight of the crook, to
see If knew him. A meeting was ar.
ranged, at which was present, and
when l got my peppers on the bold
Sanderson my old heart gave a
thump, for recognized him at a
glance as Bob Furey, a crook on both
sides of the ocean in some frst.class
jobs.
Thompson was to figure only as
second fiddle IN the transaction. and
was to get an even share in the swaR
with tho others when tho money was
divided It Wa not necessary for him
to have = knowledge of the details Of
the plans which Fursy had put up %
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
Day Of Marriage.

The fancy of the young people II
Austria turns to thoughts Of mstri-
mony at carnival time, and carnival
Sunday Sonntag-is usually
a busy day for those who tie the mat
rimonial knot. The records for thfs
year show that on February 1S upward
Of LOO couples were united in mar
riase in the various churches II VI.
enna - ~ r..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
Pole for Roller Skaters.

Pole for Roller Skaters.
second crosspieco between the first
mentioned crosspiece and the seat.
This second crosspiece is to brace his
knees against when he sits down on
the seat after getting a good start.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
Why Tsmsnx W. Glad.

Sinai, Tommy's father had been
elected commander Of tho g. A. r.
post, and the little fellow could not
conceal his Joy when he heard the
news. 7sE'**::S
''Oh, papa!" exclaimed: I'm 1ust
awful glad you. got elected"
Thank you, my 1oa, said the Il.
thor. but Why aro you % gla4r' y:
because. now youu hayo IN III
soldiers Ct your f1nssal." answsgol
Tommy. y 41=z.3:s # 4.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
ParadoxIoD.

Jim certainly acted in q contrary
way when he found out that Clar1ssa's
beauty he was 80 proud OF, was half
paint and powder"
What did he dor
"Why, declared he was put out when
he found he had been taken in"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-23
BY Experiment.

What was your little boy crying
about last EVENING"" "Over his lesson
in natural history" "A child Of that
age studying natural history? You
ast0nish mel" TITS SO, Just the same.
He was learning the difference BE-
tween q wasp and a fly"