The leader., 1900-08-22

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B. T. HOBBS, Editor and Proprietor.
J. A. SCARBOROUGH. Field Editor.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For City Treasurer.
We are authorized to announce
CHARLES HEUCK
as a candidate for reelection to the office OF CITY
Treasurer Of Brookhaven, Miss. at the ensuing
December election.
We are authorized to announce
JOHN /. MARSHALL
candidate for the Office Of Treasurer of the city
OF BrookhaVen, Miss. at the ensuing Deem
Der election.
200 people persisted in the Japan
floods last week.
Ex-senator Ingalls, died in Atchison
kar. August 10Th.
Hon - inf re 1io1 Of tho haaf ~
st. Louis last Friday. The temper
ature was 80.
The first bale of cotton at Camden,
Ark, brought 1914 cents and was do
mated to tho Bryan campaign fund.
There are 5l29 American soldiers
sick in the Philippines, or S.37 per cent
of the entire force.
The Huntington special train made
the run between New Orleans and Mo
bile (14l niles in two hours and forty
minutes.
More steel is used in the making OF
writing pens than in all the sword and
gun factories of the world. Truly
the pen is mightier than the sword.
Judge Snodgrass has withdrawn
from the Senatorial race in Tennessee
leaving Hon. L. W Carmack the only
candidate. The brilliant Carmack de.
serves the victory he has won.
One by one the leading goldbugs who
opposed Bryan in 1896 are now rally
ing to his support, the last being Per
ry Belmont, who is now enthusiastic
ally supporting his old enemy.
p. Huntington, the railroad mag
nate who died last week, began hi
for the first year earned his board anC
clothes and SS4, every cent Of which h
saved
Behold republic standing erect
with the empires all around her bowed
beneath the weight of their own arma
ments "a republic whose flag is loved
while other flags are only feared VII
liam j. Bryan.
In Washington last week an egg wa.
fried on the asphalt pavement, in ten
minutes; and in Dawson, Ga, an ear OF
popcorn, whose kernels were snowy
white, was on exhibition as the result
of old Soils intense heat
The American Rice Mill, at Gueydan
age to handle the coming crop. The
capacity of the mill is 400 sacks day
The rice acreage is little short this
year. At Eunice, the first rice of the
season brought So per barrel.
Mark Twain said recently that his
wife has played an important part in
his literary life. Everything he writes
passes under her severe censorship,
and when his efforts do not meet with
her entire approval she puts them in
the waste basket or demands a revis-
ion.
Samuel Johnson, who for years led a
miserable existence on dollar a week,
hanged himself recently in cheap
lodging house in Baltimore. In his
trunk were found bank books showing
that he had $4,000 on deposit in savings
banks and twelve shares of Pennsyl
vania Railroad stock.
Mrs. Hetty Green, who is worth &c.,
100000, says young man must do more
than he is paid to do, to make himself
valuable to his employer. In other
he must think for himself and
not be mere tool. The scarcest thing in
the world today is a thoroughly re-
liable man, the rich lady states.
The successful advertiser always
says what he means and means what
he says. The eXpressionless advertise
ment is frequently as meaningless to
the average reader as the German stu
dents translation of the quotation
1.-THE spirit is willing, but the flesh is
weak" which he picturesqnely render
ed as "The ghost is ready, but the
meat is poor"