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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-05
Gives Unhappy Girl Advice
Tilted by a Married Man. Young Girl
Feels That All JOY Has Left
Her Life.
by Beatrice Fairfax.
Dear Miss Fairfax:


Here is my letter of woe:
I am a young girl. I met q man
several years older than myself last
summer in the country, with whom L
fell in love. I loved him and still love
him so that the whole world to me mar
rows down to just him. I have never
loved before and don't think I can ever
again.
He was exceptionally fond Of me al
though he considered me somewhat Of
a child-last summer. He was suddenly
called away last summer and we lost
track of each other, but as he goes to
the same place every year, confident
" expected to see him again
Well, I have seen him, and have
learned that he is married! He mar
ried a girl he used to tell me about
although I know that he wasn't in love
with her
Wen now I feel as if something
within me has snapped died-the capa-
city to feel happy. 1 don't know what
to do with myself I simply can't
bring myself to feel happy or joyful
again. Can you please tell me what to
do to take the thought Of him out Of
my mind and life. I feel that some
thing must be done, or I'll surely be-
come melancholy. And I'm only lS-
A Young Girl
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28
Her Description.

OF all "aptitudes," the mechanical
is least likely to manifest itself in a
feminine brain. The young woman
whose visit to locomotive works is
described in YOung's Magazine was
doubtless interested in what she saw,
but her account of the processes OBJ
served leaves the reader to doubt her
entire understanding of them.
you pour" she told friend, "a lot
of sand into lot of boxes and you
throw .old stove lids and things into a
furnace and then you turn the red hot
steam into a hole in the sand and
everybody yells and shouts.
'sThen you pour it out, let 1t cool
and pound it, and then you put in it
a thing that bores holes in 1t. Then
you screw it together and paint it and
put steam in it and it goes splendidly
and they take it to drafting-room
and make blue print of it.
But one thing / forgot-they have
to make q boiler. One man gets in
side and one gets outside and they
pound frightfully and then they tie it
to the other thing and you ought to
see it gol"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28
NOVEL BANK ADVERTISING
Western Institution Tells Farmers
How to improve Conditions Instead
of Giving Financial Notes.

Out in the western part of Oklaho
homa bank changes its advertise
ment in the weekly. home paper each
time that the paper rolls from the
press.
In bank advertisements it has been
considered rather dignified to have a
standing card, emitting much of the
reading matter which Is pertinent to q
retail store or to the Introduction of
a new brand of breakfast food, or that
other necessity. popular brand of
smoking tobacco.
But the bank referred to knows
mighty little about standing display
ad. The officers of that bank have
messages for their customers, and
they deliver the messages through the
columns of the local newspapers.
One week the bank offered some
timely suggestions about the impor-
lance of raising feed crops to enable
farmers to fatten live stock. In an
other issue the bank officials urged
the farmers to increase their focks of
poultry, SO that fine revenue would
be derived.
The following week the advertising
space which the bank paid for con-
tanned much valuable information
about selecting pure seed. Another
advertisement pertained to the pur-
chase and installation of solos.
Not once have the bank advertise
ments referred to money matters;
that's the strange part of the publicity
methods which the bank has adopted
The reason is apparent. The officers
of that western Oklahoma bank are de-
termined that farmers shall prosper
When such condition is universal,
the bank management is aware of the
fact that all of the industries of the
community will be prosperous.
Other banks in the state are follow
ing similar lines and, while it is not
to be expected that banks shall aban-
don their customary methods of an
nouncing various matters connected
with finance, the advancement which
communities are making by the CO.
operation of farmers and bankers Is
quite certain to attract the attention
of other bankers, to the end that both
professions will obtain lasting bene.
fits.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28
ODD CHURCH ADVERTISEMENT
Minister Advertises for 400 Men tc
Take Up Paying Proposition"
and Gets Results.

A striking advertisement in a Laur-
ell. Md. newspaper for 100 men to
take up the best paying proposition
they ever entered upon" drew a gath
ering of fifty men, to the Southern
Methodist church recently. Rev Wat
son E. Holley, pastor, who signed him.
self to the advertisement as agent"
told the men that he wanted them for
his Bible class and induced them to
join it.
Here is the advertisement that drew
the men:
Wanted Sunday morning at
9:15 o'clock, 100 men to take up the
best paying proposition they ever have
entered upon. If you work hard dur
ing the week this proposition will not
be a bit tiresome, but rather it will
be helpful and greatly beneficial to
your welfare. We want you to appre-
ciate and understand this proposition,
because it contains everything need
full to be known or done and it will
bring you good results. Only those
who mean business need apply. Come
early to avoid the rush. Apply Sun
day at our local Office, Southern
Methodist church.
REV. WATSON HOLLEY.
agent"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28
1904, with the number for each loo, 900
of population. thus giving definite
basis for the consideration of the
basis of crime:

Not only in the United States, but
In several of the European countries
do the prison figures bear evidence
that the public is reaching a higher
plane.
In France, for instance, the prison
population has decreased steadily. In
the year 1897 it was 1890 and each
year has been smaller until 1906, the
latest for which figures are available,
it was AGO. A lessening in the rigid
tty of the laws has had something to
do with this favorable showing, but it
Is point worth noticing that the de-
crease is shown in the number of
long-term prisoners as well as in those
who are sentenced for .unimportant
breaches of the law.
The total number received into the
French prisons per year averaged
Zoe, 900 during the period 1S97-19O1,
and only 5000 during the period
1902-19O6. The aggregate number OF
days of confinement averaged 11,775..
900 in the former period, and only
100000 In the latter
Switzerland shows the same ten
dency. On December 81, 1900, the
prison population per 10000 was 131.
On the same day of 1903 it had de-
creased to 40, and three years later,
December 81, 1906, it was down to
ia. In Japan there has been an even
greater falling Off In the number Of
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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28
as&.ksAa~
.&'elR NOTES
1EE 49, 3
Conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.)
MANS RECKONING WITH RUM
Made Beast of Him Instead Of Gen
tleman-Acted Like Fool and
Talked Like an idiot.

A thick-set. ugly-looking fellow was
seated on bench in tbe public park
and seemed to be reading some writ
ing on sheet of paper which he held
In his hand.
You seem to be much interested in
your writing" / said.
yes; I've been figuring my ac-
counts with old Alcohol, to see how
we stand"
"And he comes out ahead, I sup
poser"
Every time
How did you come to have deal
ings with him in the first placer"
That's what I've been writing. You
see, he promised to make man of
me, but he made me beast Then
he said he would brace me up, but
he made me go staggering around and
then threw me in the ditch. He said
| must drink TO be social Then he
made me quarrel with my best friends
and be the laughing stock of my enc
mics. He gave me black eye and
broken nose. Then / drank for the
EO0A VA lily ACo1CAs 11C u1nCL LILO
little / had and left me sick as a
dog"
"Of course"
He said he would warm me up. and
was soon nearly frozen to death.
He said he would steady my nerves.
but instead he gave me delirium ire
mems. He said he would give me
great strength, and he made me help
less"
ITO be sure"
He promised me courage"
'Then what followed?"
'Then he made me a coward, for |
beat my sick wife and kicked my little
sick child. He said ne would brighten
my wits, but instead he made me act
like a fool and talk like an idiot He
promised to make a gentleman of me
but he made me a tramp"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

A man, haggard, wretched, with
handouts on his wrists, covering in
patrol wagon among degraded fell
prisoners, looked up as the wag-
on passed the famous hotel whose
luxurious bar was the resort of the
gilded youth of the town. That" he
said, in tone as if going back over
all his life to the time when his own
downfall began, that is where / took
my first drink"
A battered tramp beside him laugh
ed hoarsely. Il took mine in a speak
easy he said. We didn't start alike,
but when we get to our last drink it'll
be all the same-cheap whisky and
the gutter and the morgue for botE
OF us"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28
FUN IN ADVERTISEMENTS.

The following advertisements ap
peared in various papers some years
ago:
Bulldog for sale; will eat any.
thing: very fond Of children"
Wanted a boy to be partly out
side and partly inside the counter"
widow in comfortable circum.
stances wishes to marry two sons
Annual sale now on: don't go
elsewhere to be cheated; come here"
"a lady wants to sell her piano, as
she is going abroad In a strong, iron
frame"
Lost, near Highgate Archway, an
umbrella belonging to gentleman
with a bent rib and a bone handle"
"Mr. Jones, furrier, begs to an.
nounce that he will make up gowns,
capss etc., for ladies out Of their own
skins.
Wanted, an airy bedroom for a
gentleman % feet long and II feet
wide"
Recently this item appeared In q
daily paper:
Al carload Of bricks came In for
walk through the park"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28
ORDERS BAR LIQUOR DEALER
Organizations Keep Cut Man
Who Sells Whisky.

No liquor dealer is eligible to mem
bership in the following orders and
fraternities:
Ancient Order of United WoIkmen.
Knights of Maccabees, Tribe of Ben
Hur, American Legion of Honor, Fra
ternal Mystic Circle, Independent Or
der of Foresters, Supreme Council of
the Catholic Benevolent Legion, Sow
ereign Camp of Woodmen of the
World, Modern Woodmen of America,
Junior Order of United American Me-
chanics, Order of United American
Mechanics, Sovereign Grand Lodge OF
Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias.
Knights of Columbus, Catholic Fra
ternal Union of America, Fraternal
Brotherhood, National Union, Protect
ed Home Circle, Heptosoph's Improved
Order, Royal League, Yeomen of
America, Woodmen of the World,
Brotherhood of American Yeomen, Or
der of the Star of Bethlehem. Free
masons also generally exclude liquor
sellers. Various railway orders and
many other labor fraternities bar
liquor drinkers also
What about the man who becomes a
party to the liquor business by licens-
Ing the same-the man whose vote
sustains and perpetuates it? The traf-
Hc has government sanctions pro-
lected by the fag-is it consistent for
any fraternity to discriminate against
the liquor seller?
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

i00t IhG HdtubVt was ICduSSd ~
1929.
le7el. In Italy the movement toward
decrease begun but recently. In 1895
Italy convicted 1,151 persons for each
100000 of its population. This num-
Der increased until 1899, when the
highest point was 1,430. Since then
the course has been downward until.
in 1904, there were only 1850 convic-
tons for each 100000 people. Italy
has been some years behind France,
Germany and England in the advance
of education among its people, and,
naturally, the result begins to show
somewhat later than in other couE-
tries.
Great Britain shows rather complex
results. Murder has decreased;
swindling has increased Crimes of
personal violence in general have be-
come less numerous. Burglary has in.
creased, but larceny has decreased.
There is more fraud and less arson,
forgery, and counterfeiting. In gen.
eral it would appear that If the British
are not growing better they are grow
ing more intelligent.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

Here is a pretty model for an even
ing skirt. The garment is cut in three
cores and is one of the most delight
full styles Of the season, and despite
its elaboration of detail is quite easy
to carry out The tunic is fashion
able feature and the draped effect is
quite fetching.
The patterL (6169) is cut in sizes
% to 80 inches waist measure Me-
dunn size will require 2% yards OF So
inch goods. Width of lower edge is
8 yards.
To procure this pattern send 10 cents
70 Pattern Department" OF this paper
Write name and address plainly, and be
sure to give size and number OF pattern.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

Canon Horsley gives the following
facts about the great city:
In London each day "a are injured
by street traffic; "a babies die; 10
stray dogs taken by the police; los
marriage take place; 100 are sent to
prison; 100 die; S25 are born; $50
homeless go into casual wards; go
go into hospital; $4,000 are in the
warehouses;; 1900, 900 travel in Lon
don; $4,000 spent daily on work
houses; 100000 spent IN theaters,
music halls. ETC.; $4,000 given to
sharity.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

Miss Leftover-You are a woman
hater, hear.
Mr.. Slimpurse That Is mistake;
l merely cannot afford to marry.
Miss Leftover Cannot you support
a wife?
Mr.. Slimpurse-Oh, yes, could
support wife easy enough, but
have't enough to support the two or
three other women she would need
to wait on her.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

According to a return just issued
drunkenness continues to supply a
large proportion of the Irish prison
population, the number Of commit
ments during 1911, for drunkenness
or riotous or disorderly behavior
while drunk being 9.25S. or 40 per cent
Of the total number for convicted
prisoners committed to prison.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

The duchess of Lauraguais, WHIT
was somewhat given to making po-
etry. could not think of a word to
rhyme with coiffe. Turning to Tai.
lyrand, who CHANGED to be by her
side, she said: Prince, give me a
rhyme to coiffe." Impossible, Ouch
ess," replied Talleyrand, without a
moments delay; for that which per-
tains to the head of woman has
neither rhyme nor reason"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28
Materials the Mississippi Conveys

From large number of analyses OF
the waters of the Mississippi river 1t
is estimated that the great stream car
ries annually into the sea during the
average year 1876, 400. 900 tons Of dis
solved salts and $40 1000. 900 tons of
mud and other suspended matter. a
total of 76.4O0,000 tons Of material
extracted by the rocks and soils Of its
drainage basin. Scientific American.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

This is one OF the newest style
shirt waists. and may be used for
wear with separate skirts or as part
of complete costume. 1t closes at
the front and may be made with or
without the front drapery. The neck
is finished with or without collar.
and the long sleeves are perfectly
plain.
The pattern (6132) is cut in sizes
81 to AZ inches bust measure. Me-
dunn size will require rs yards of So
inch figured goods and 1as yards of S6
inch plain material. If one material
is used 21s yards of material S6 inches
wide is needed
To procure this pattern send 10 cents
TO Pattern Department" of this paper
Write name and address plainly, and be
sure to give size and number OF pattern.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

the number per 100000 OF population
of trials for assaults has decreased
from 1885 to 1881 in 1907. This de-
crease has been steady and consist
ent. The ratio tried for drunkenness
has decreased during the same period
from $3.50 to COLO.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

lyon cannot be married. mademoi-
selle. you do not exist" wrote the reg
istrar OF Lorient. France, to Mile. Ker
guel. who applied for civil marriage
license, and whose birth entry was
found to have been omitted from the
register.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

On 1890 crimes to the extent of 1929
bes 100000 population were committed
I'm the United States. In 1904 the
Haauber WAS reduced to sos per
100000.
ratio TO population. Parole systems
and various forms of correction rather
tean punishment have come into gem
egaI approval during the fourteen
years.
Turn From Force to Ingenuity.
They are giving up the crimes OF
brute force that bring little profit and
end I'm prison or on the gallows, and
are taking up the crimes of ingenuity
and profit AS intelligence Is a sure
step toward better manhood it would
seem to be plain that the crime rec
crds OF the British must soon show
noticeable Improvement.
Even as 1t is, the British figures are
helpful to the advocate of the af1irma-
tive fin Resolved, That the world is
growing better" The average annual
number committed for trial in Eng
Ian6. Ireland and Scotland for the pc
Rod 1S961S98 was 1900: for 1899
1891, il .49O; for 1eo2-1904, 16,400; for
1905-1907. 1880; for 1907. 1880.
When the growth In population is
considered this showing is not an ar
esmeut Tor the negative. Since 1883
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28
PROVE WORLD IS
ON UPWARD MOVE
Crime Records and Statistics
Show an UnmiStakabIe Les
sening of Wrongdoing in
All Countries of the
Earth.
ENLIGHTENMENT AND
EDUCATION THE CAUSE?

peneGorists Differ over This and Other
Questions That Bear on the Matter
Change in Prison Methods an Ar
auraent That the World Is Advanc-
fna-8enevoIent institutions Doing
Work That a Short Time Ago Was
saot Considered Necessary-How
Their Number Has Increased in a
Few Years.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

It Is lack Of standardization, q
twisting of the truth, the creating Of
spirit OF doubt that il hurting the
retailer and hurting advertising. The
retailer has little room to complain
1t is largely his own fault.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

Benevolent institutions care for the
victims of crime and vice. In old
times little provision was made for
these victims. The census figures
show here also the tendency toward
greater enlightenment, which means
more sympathy and practical help for
the unfortunate
The census report of 1904 points out
that of 4,207 benevolent institutions
enumerated in the United States only
2,166 were known to have existed in
1890. OF the number in existence in
1904 1904 were founded in the period
1890-1903. The number of hospitals
was increased S22; children's homes
and orphanages, 377; homes for adults,
356.-New York Press.
Such a change has occurred, of
course, but, granting all that any one
would claim for it in trying to account
for the decreased number of prisoners,
it does not detract from the force of
the argument that the world is grow
ing better. If the world were not
growing better such methods would
not have come into vogue.
Of fifty states and territories emu
merated by the census, thirty-six show
a decrease in number of prisoners per
100000 of their population. The table
below includes those states in which
the change for the better in general
is most noticeable. The figures show
the number of prisoners in the United
States and each state in 1890 and in
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28
British Criminal Figures.

The following table shows the aver
age annual number of crimes known
to the police in England and Wales
for four-year periods:
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

Mother (admonishing Don't let
the men come too near when counting.
Daughter Charles and / have q
chair between us.-Mdge.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

'June 30. 1904 sJune 1. 1890.
The German figures are not as IA
vorable as those of some other coun-
tries. The German court records show
that the number of convictions an
nually has kept at about the same
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28
Too Much Rolllno.

Patience This paper says the bilge
keels on battleships are being made
larger to prevent excessive rolling.
Patrice-Why don't they try that
scheme on the cigarette flends?
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

Some statesmen expect their line to
make success of them instead Of
them making success Of their line.--
+. G. Ball.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28
WW YASHINGTON.- the world
VMA growing better?
Nv The world is growing better,

WMA growing better!
W The world is growing better,
because the world is growing
more intelligent and, therefore, more
humane On the surface this may
not appear to be a fact. We read ev-
cry day of terrible things, of selfish
ness and brutality and wickedness.
But It is to be remembered that as the
world has progressed we have grown
a1ore thin skinned, more soft, more
Gpen to Impressions of suffering and
Of wrong.
Crime records and statistics of
GFfme. prison population and similar
data touch the pulse of the worlds
morality. We have nothing better on
which TO base our allegation of world
Improvement. The figures do not. on
their surface, always appear to bear
out the contention. Sometimes they
seem TO show the world standing still
But 1T is to be remembered that while
the worst of them no more than stand
still. a mass of other figures are
fore. they show the world improving.
The United States census bureau,
for instance, gives us some interesting
prison figures that show a change for
the better during a period of fourteen
years The earlier figures are for the
year 1890 and the later for 1904. At
sKst glance the table given below
would appear to show remarkable
decrease In the number of prisoners
per 100000 of population. But a large
portion OF the change is due to
difference in methods of enumeration.
In the census of 1890 prisoners not yet
sentenced were included. but In the
figures of 1904 these men are not in
eauded
Decrease Is Real.
Military prisons and few other
Small contributors to the earlier to-
tails were also dropped. These changes
must be considered, but even allowing
for them, the decrease in the number
OF prisoners per 100000 population in
many states is interesting and helpful
60 those who wish to feel that the
world moves forward.
1t may be suggested that change
fa prison methods may account for
fine decreased number of prisoners in
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

countries, thus affecting the polAce
records.
Figures Prove Pleasing Fact.
The following table shows, however.
a consistent decrease in the number
of persons accused Of crimes:
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

In 1888 London had 32Ss5 crimes
committed per 100000 population. in
1907 the number was reduced to
1929.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-03-28

In 1897 France had 1890 prisoners.
In 1906 there were only 23,490.