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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21
DUST IS A DECIDED NUISANCE
In Many Cases Windows Have to Be
Kept Closed Tight-Use Split
Log Drag After Rains.

(By w. C. PALMER, Agricultural Editor.
North Dakota Agricultural College)
When dry weather comes the dust
from the road becomes a great nuf-
sance to the housewife who lives near
the road. In many cases windows
have to be kept closed tight to lessen
the amount Of dust that seeps in. The
most effective way of reducing the
dust nuisance is the use of split-log
drag on the road after every rain.
The road dust comes largely from the
grinding up of the turned-up edges Of
ruts made by wheels and horses hoofs.
These cannot form unless water can
stand on the roadbed and water cam
not stand on the roadbed If it is kept
well crowned and well packed as IL
will be If the road drag is used regu-
larly. Dragging the roads will mean
good deal to the housewife, as well
as to travellers and those who have to
haul to and from the market.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21
Making Movie Films.

An unlimited number of positive films
of moving pictures can be made from
a single Photographic negative, says
the Indianapolis News. After positives
Of sufficient number to supply the ex-
changes throughout the country have
been made, the negative is usually
kept by the producing company. Adj
ditional positives can be made at any
time. The pictures that appear in a
scratched condition are films that have
been exhibited considerably. These
second run" films usually cost the ex-
hibitor less than the films when they
are first released. The life of the
film is usually sufficient to supply the
demand of the theaters without print
ing additional positives.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21

mewed itself into the sympathies of
the children one bitter, cold winter
night and purred itself into their affec-
tons later.
There was but one solution of the
difficulty and that was to take off her
pretty collar, turn her loose and for
get about her. The woman who takes
this course must have heart in her
bosom that is barren of pity. 1t is
only cat that is left behind, but it is
one of Gods creatures and one of the
most helpless. 1t cannot understand
why the door that has always opened
to its mewing should be closed and
the little one so eager to caress It is
not there.
Animals feel hunger and thirst quite
as soon, If not sooner, than do humans.
Its incessant pitiful cries wiring the
hearts of those who cannot help hear
ing them. The poor, agonized ami
NAL eludes the dogs that are set upon
it, policemen's clubs and the kicks of
cruel boys, only to return again, when
the coast appears to be clear, to the
| one and only home it has known. He
who has said cat has nine lives does
not realize the frail hold upon the
breath of life the starving cat has.
| Those of its own kind have as little
mercy upon 1t as the heartless human
who thrust it out to starve, fight or die
according to its fast failing strength
The few crumbs from the fashionable
| hotel where she is dining would keep
| life in the little frail body. A few
cents from the price of the bouquet
she buys daily would board the chill
dren's luckless pet.
Her little ones ask her repeatedly
| If the kitty will be there when they
return. She answers evasively, II
suppose So" but down deep in her
heart she realizes that the frail life
she could so easily have provided for
| and saved will have gone out long be
fore their season of pleasure ends.
If all that is left of poor kitty is
found curled up in far corner of the
yard when they return, 1t is tragedy
| in the lives of the children which they
| are never able to forget. The truth
is driven home to the hearts of the
children that their mother is hard of
heart-possesses wanton cruelty in her
nature to let an animal die that she
might have saved. Many good homes
could be found for poor cats during
the summer while the family is away
for trifiing outlay of cash. If kitty
is good enough to be one Of the house
hold pets in winter, her welfare dur
ing the summer should be safeguarded.
Guilty indeed must be the conscience
of one who could go off pleasuring af-
ter turning out poor puss to starve.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21

Mindanao has a larger colony OF
American planters, engaged mostly In
hemp cultivation, than any other spot
in the islands, notwithstanding that
the people there have always been
hostile to trespassers. Many of these
have been wantonly murdered, but the
fatality list is growing less right
along, an evidence that the people are
being converted to a new order OF
things. Many of these brave Ameri-
cans started business on what they
saved from q soldiers wage, and to-
day not q few of them are Oriental
nabobs.
Responding to Education.
For centuries the Moro thought the
only kind of effective government was
that having force behind it. To be
kind to him, in his opinion, meant that
you feared him. But to be kind, with
means of making kindness accepta-
Bile through a standing military force,
has completely wrought change in
the warlike people. Under good lead
ers the Moros are good people; under
bad ones they, too, are bad.
The Mohammedan religion teaches
that to slay white man, or Chris
tan, is q sure way to get to heaven
Therefore, in Spanish times, and dur
ing our early occupation, fanatieai
Moros used to run amuck, ehopping
down as many foreigners as they
could with their wicked knives. Often
| it has taken a dozen bullets, we'll
aimed from a high-power army rifle,
| to kill the crazed followers of the
Koran. All Moros hate pork as bull
| does a red flag, and the military OIL
Ger who placed the dead body of
| fanatic inside a pork carcas and
strung the two up in the plaza for
| the inspection of others effectuafly
kept running amuck" within bounds
| in his territory.
| But today the Moros are laying
aside their war krises and spears, are
| discarding their tight-fitting, gaily
colored costumes for modern dress,
similar to the Filipinos, and are send
| ing their children for the first time to
public schools. A decade hence there
may be Moro professional men, such
as lawyers, doctors and scientists.
A committee of Moro chiefthins who
went to Manila recently to meet Resi-
| dent Commissioner Manuel Quezos OF
Washington, himself Filipino, told
| the commissioner that schools were
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21

+" HERE was one rich and IN
ruly realm the Spaniards we're
glad to rid themselves of fol-
lowing the battle of Manila
bay. The huge Island Of Mindanao,
pronounced as though spelled Mind-a-
now, known in the Philippines as
Moroland, had the reputation of being
largely unconquered, as much by the
military as by the missionaries. The
Moros chung to their religious beliefs
as tenaciously as they opposed Span
fish domination In government, writes
Monroe Woolley in the Utica Satur-
day Globe.
But the Moro archipelago today is
not what it was when we first took
up stewardship there. This means
that it is not the unconquerable en-
pire it was when the Spanish essayed
to rule and run 1t. For long time
we sought to make the Moros obedi-
ent by whipping them-by killing
them off. Hundreds, thousands of
them, were slain in periodic cam
paigns, yet the fiery Mohammedans
lost no opportunity to treacherously
murder our troops and officials at
times when pacification seemed ap-
parent.
Military operations failing to con-
siderable degree, and mindful of the
hopeless task of the Spaniards, an
other method was devised to win the
people to new government and to new
ways of living. At first the Philippine
government smoked peace pipe with
the sultans and dattos, chiefs of COM
munity factions, seeking in this man
ner to make itself popular with the
masses. AS much good will as pos
sibie was thus literally bought. Cost
~ gifts and junketing trips were be-
slowed on the tribal chiefs. and they
were fawned upon as loyal subjects
are wont to do with royalty. Later,
brute force was wholly abolished.
Kindness and diplomacy were finally
substituted therefor, and with this en-
lightened new system we are gradual
ly and thoroughly remaking Moham-
medan Mindanao.
Known to and thoroughly explored
by white men for centuries past Min
danao is today just beginning to be
lifted from savage past into the
limelight of civilization. The rich
realm has never been exploited be-
cause the inhabitants were always hos
tile TO any outside interference. Min
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21

danao, with the Sulu archipelago
the Mohammedan empire-is well
worth reconstruction, and it is per-
haps this fact which has made us so
persistent.
Largest Of Philippine Islands.
Mindanao itself is the largest island
by far In the entire Philippine archi-
pelago. 1t is about the size of our
own state of Mississippi, and is big
ger than Indiana or Ohio. 1t would
make seven states like New Jersey,
and is by far much larger than sew
eral of our Atlantic coast states COM
bined. To be precise, 1t has an area
of 1921 square miles.
In ancient times the Moros had lit
tie, IL any, business sense. They had
a woeful lack of the appreciation of
money. To overcome their Anticipated
ideas of trade we have established
markets for them in the leading towns
where they meet to buy and sell.
Some day Mindanao will be one Of
the leading countries of the world for
the production of rubber. The rubber
tree grows wild there in great pro-
fusion. Although the industry is as
yet undomesticated. exports from a
single locality have reached nearly
100000 pounds In a year. The island
also produces much hemp, as well as
tapioca, cocoanuts and other tropical
fruits.
We have been successful in giving
railroads to that part Of the Philip
pine archipelago occupied by the FIJI
ipino, even though foreign capital had
to furnish the money. but we have
yet to lay the first steel rail In Min
danao, the greatest and richest Of the
islands Of our insular frontier. Bor-
neo, distant only stones throw from
Zamboanga, Mindanao's metropolis, is
far ahead of Moroland In everything
save natural wealth.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21

intensely popular, and asked him to
say to congress that as long as that
body was disposed to furnish school
books that the Moros themselves
would furnish the schools and the
scholars. Datto Piang, one of the
powerful chieftains, has himself erect
ed two costly schoolhouses in Min
danao solely at his own expense. A
Moro doing anything of this sort in
olden times would have been hanged
by his own people.
Baseball Has Helped.
Baseball has helped wonderfully
with the Moros, as 1t did with the
Filipinos, to cement affections for the
Americans. 1t is claimed by a learned
Filipino who recently toured Min
danao that in two decades the Wis
itor in Moroland will not be able, so
far as dress and manners are con-
cerned. to distinguish Moro from a
Filipino. No American baseball fan
really knows what fun is until he is
privileged to see holly contested
game of ball between Filipinos and
Moros and gives an attentive ear to
the game vernacular as it is spoken
by our wards In the excitement of the
sport.
With the awakening to civilization
the Moro is acquiring some chivalry-
One of the sultans thought he had
reached the acme of politeness when
he asked the popular daughter of one
OF our ex-presidents, at the time Wis
iting his palace, to become No. In
his harem. OF course, there was q
blushing declination, at which the
dusky ruler was probably chagrined-
But the incident goes to illustrate that
the American, as well as the Christian
Filipino, is for the first time making
himself and his institutions acceptn-
BILE to the remade Mohammedans 81
our farthest-fiung frontier.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21

country or at n fashionable resort:
whether father shall be allowed a new
suit or not and mother likewise. She
accepts invitations out to dance. pic
MICS or to the homes of girl friends as
her fancy dictates, not as mother wills.
The after life of the girl Of this
sort can easily be pictured. She falls
in love with the type of man she
should not, weds him and lives unhap-
PLY ever after. 1t remains for parents
of self-willed daughter to use kind
ly, but firm, measures in bringing her
up. She should not have the sugar
plums she cries historically for when
the parents know she is best off with
out them. During her early youth they
should exert their authority, declaring
father or mother the head of the home,
whose word is law.
No girl should be permitted to do
exactly as she pleases. Sweet, dam
gerous, foolish sixteen is not the age
of judgment. Mother should be tho
one to decide what young men may
call and when. Even her dressing
should be in accordance with mothers
approval. In the selection of a beau
father and mother should have equal
say-so and be fully agreed.
1t is q kindness to the self-willed
girl to hold her well in hand, to gain
her respect and love. Every girl has
loving heart. 1t is for parents to
cultivate and cherish it. No girl
should do just as she pleases.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21
GIRLS DO AS THEY PLEASED

Evils change not on a sudden,
But many days must pass and many
sorrows
Conscious remorse and anguish must be
felt
To curb desiresto break the stubborn
will
And work a second nature in the soul
Ere wisdom can resume the place she
lost.
Where there Is a daughter in the
family, who can be said to be the
head of the house-providing of
course, father and mother are of the
meek and mild type and the girl self
willed?
BY the time the dresses of the young
miss have heightened to her shoe tops
father has discovered that it is use
less to raise a protest against her will.
If she decides that 1t is the high time
to begin to entertain boys who have
asked to call father hastily quits the
house and, after vain attempt en-
deavoring to argue the point, mother
subsidies.
Every mother is very apt to think,
after all is said and done, that her
girl is just little short Of perfection.
OF course she wasn't allowed to re-
ceive young men callers until after
she was twenty, but customs. she con-
cludes, are different now from what
they were then, at least so her daugh-
ter assures her.
It is the girl who decides whether
they shall spend the summer In the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21

only DOIilerS, out
vexes, many a
woman who is
getting ready to
close the house
and start off with
her family for the
summer vacation.
The family across
the street, who
stay at home, will
take the canaries,
the parrot goes
to the bird store,
the dog, Rover, is
placed in charge
of the furnace
man, but there's
that cat = the
homely, speckled,
homeless cat that
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21

bodybuilding is by no means the big
and expensive job 1t was once thought.
In n great deal of the sandy Coastal
Plain country, from Virginia to Texas,
nature has often mixed sand and clay
in about the right proportions to make
a good hard road. and all that is nee
essary is to keep the road well graded
by means of scrapes and drags.-The
Progressive Farmer.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21

And my heart is torn wi anguish
Lest my jewel they should tine.
Have you ever turned from your
door a woman with child clinging to
her skirts, who was pleading for
days work, declaring the child would
be nuisance, and that you could con-
slider only an unencumbered worker?
If you have, it is such as you who have
forced working mothers to place their
little ones in charitable institutions,
that they might gain employment to
fight for daily bread.
The woman may 60 through her task
swiftly, mechanically, but blame her
not if the iron is trifle too hot for
your lace-befrilled petticoat or en-
broidered doilies; for the moment her
thoughts might have fitted from her
work to the charitable Institution in
which she had been forced to leave
her baby.
No one will ever know how many
despairing tears are ironed in with
the laces she is doing up for little ones
so much more fortunately the
chance of being born to the rich-than
her own baby. Her mother heart is
constantly torn by conflicting fears.
Is there some kind hand near to lift
a cup of water to its parched lips or
move it gently from the boiling sun
into the cooling shade or soothe its
cries? viii there be anyone to notice
if it has been sitting in one position
long hours until it is convulsed with
pain and sobs, its little back nearly
sprained, or wipe away the cruel dust
that has lodged in its redeemed, blink
ing eyes? The nurses are few, and the
children huddled together in the small
| grounds are many; only momentary
attention can be given to anyone. The
working mothers paltry two or three
dollars per week being so little, she
must not expect more than ordinary
| care for her child.
The cry of such mothers heart is,
"Oh, God! if could but get work at
which / could keep my little one by
my sidei'' No hand like q mothers
can soothe pain. No one can or would
stand between baby and harm like
the mother who loves it better than
her own life. These working moth
ers-widows-have heard of the eff
| forts of humane sympathizers who are
endeayoring to have a bill passed
whereby such women would be paid
the small stipend they are obliged to
pay the day nurseries for caring for
their children to enable them to care
| for their little ones themselves at
home. They pray to heaven that the
dear privilege of caring for their little
ones themselves may become reality
instead of only fanciful dream.
Only those who have watched chill
dren brought up In charitable institu-
lions can realize the deadening effects
of such a life upon the child. All
courage, heart and independence that
his nature under other Influences
might have shown are crushed into
an apathetic state. Timid children
are overruled by the will of the
stronger, be the cause right or wrong.
As the tree is bent so will 1t grow.
The mother plodding away to earn it's
support has no voice in influencing
the nature of her child. Those with
whom the child is surrounded are the
compelling forces that bear weight
with him for veal or for woe. Give
the widowed, working mother the
| wherewithal to care for her child at
home.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21
GOOD CURE FOR scALY LEGS
Good Plan to Anoint Legs Of Young
Chicks Even II They Do Not
Show Signs Of Disease.

Lard and kerosene is an excellent
cure for scaly leg and it is good
plan to anofnt the legs of the early
youngsters at this time even II they
do not show any signs of the disease.
IAN ounce of prevention Is worth .
pound Of cure"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21
GOOD-R0ADS FEVER IN SOUTH
Taking Hold Everywhere and Differ
ent Counties BusiIy Engaged In
Making improvements.

1t Is gratifying thing to note how
the good-roads fever is taking hold
nearly everywhere in the South. Hard
ly a county there that is not busily
engaged in improving its highways.
Many sections are finding, too, that
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21
L5llrdleaIHIbey,,
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HAVE A HEART.

oh, how I love my Kitty!
I'm sorry when she cries.
Now isn't it pity
To part with such a prize?
Soon we're off to the country, a.
But Kitty cannot go.
Will she be turned out of the house
When have loved her SO?
Therell be no one to give her milk
And she Will, surely die.
oh, mother, have a heart and board
My kitten somewhere nigh.
The question of what to do with tn
pets is q problem which no
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21

janet have so many callers they
just bother the life out of me.
Kate-Why, didn't know you had
become a telephone operator.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21
BABIES OF THE POOR.

Wishfully look and anguish
In that bonnie face O. thine,
And my heart is torn wi anguish
Lest my jewel they should tine.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1916-08-25
Good Bunch of Beans

Sam Callison brought a bunch of
beans to the Gazette, which were
raised by Ben Callison on American
ridge. The single stalk contained
eighty-one pods and if they all ma
ture the stalk will produce nearly
500 beans. There are many fields
this season that give promise of
producing from 1000 to 1900 pounds
to the acre. There is probably
more clear money in beans than
any other crop that can lie raised
here. Ben Callison raised forty
acres of beans this year, along
with his other farm work, without
hiring any help, but he did most of
his cultivating before the beans
were planted. If the land is prop
erly handled, one man can take
care of a big field of beans and dc
it easily and the crop is mostly
profit.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1916-08-25
Clem's Machine Burned

George Clem's separator was
completely destroyed by smut ex-
plosion and fire Wednesday after
noon, while threshing on Bob Gains S
place. The explosion threw Dad
Hall, who was standing on top of
the machine, about two feet into
the air. He was considerably
bruised and one arm and his face
quite badly burned.
The separator was equipped with
fire extinguishers and hose, but
almost instantly after the explosion
took place, the machine was on fire
from one end to the other and the
fire was so intense that the crew
could do nothing to stop it. The
straw stack was burned but the
grain was saved. Mr.. Clem pur.
chased a second hand separator,
formerly owned by Chris Maier.
The cloud of smut which hangs
around machine while threshine
smutty grain, looks like black
smoke from a fire. Some of the
neighbors saw the fire from a dis.
tance but thonght it was only the
smut cloud hanging over the ma.
chine.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1916-08-25

"My least boy, Bearcat, is a
years old, and the fightin'est little
cuss!" triumphantly stated Mr..
Gap johnson of Rumpus Ridge,
Ark. "He never gets whipped, no
matter how big the odds are against
him. Why. luther day he started a
holocaust with some of the rest Of
the children, and a smattering of
six or eight of 'em piled onto him
and rid him all over the place like
a blind horse, a-beating of him in
tones of thunder as they went. But,
sir, they never whipped him! He
just simply riddled ont from be-
meath the pile and retired in good
order to a previously prepared po.
sition under the house and begun
to tell 'em who they was and whur
they could go OK. c. Star.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1916-08-25

Miss Constance Van Gu antin,
who is given to the free use of ad-
jectives, received calls last week
from five young men, each of whom
is "just the dearest boy in all the
world" has "simply died" from
the heat four times, has been "tick-
led to pieces" six times by movie
comedians, has been "driven crazy"
eleven times by telephone pests,
and has been frozen just stiff
five times by the cool evening
breeze while out riding in the car.
All Of which made up rather a
strenuous week for a delicate young
lady.-K. c. Star
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1916-08-25
Bucking Cow

Burl Emmett has a shorthorn
COW that has furnished a lot of
amusement on Little Bear ridge.
She can buck harder than any
broncho in this part of the country
and it is said that up-to-date, Wade
Gambler is the only one who has
ridden her straight up" Wade
has. ridden bucking horses all his
life but he says that the old COW
put him next to some new ideas in
bucking that he never saw before.
1t is likely that the cow will be on
exhibition at the fair this fall and
a prize will be given for anyone
who can ride her without pulling
leather"