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The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17
Attention, Company IL!

All members of Company II are
hereby ordered to report at the Ar
mory in Brookhaven on Saturday, July
20, not later than 10 a. m, to give an
exhibition drill at the Confederate
reunion picnic. Dinner will be served
to the Company.
By order of Capt. W. G. Penn, com
handing.
CHAs. H. MoLLEGAN, LIST Serg't.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17
Has Cured Thousands, VIII cure Yo,

Has Cured Thousands, VIII cure You.
If you are troubled with kidney or
bladder troubles, such as dropsy,
bright's disease, catarrh, gravel of the
bladder, albumen in urine and I'M
healthy deposits, or too frequent dis
charge of urine, pain in the back and
bladder, dropsical swelling of the feet
and legs, etc, etc, we guarantee that
by using Smiths Sure Kidney Cure, a
complete cure will be effected
Price 30 cents. For sale by Grafton
Drug Co.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17

The Educator emphatically declares
that 1.-The colored people of Brookha
ven have no public school or private,
and admonishes the race to build an
Independent institution and to "edu.
cate their own children in their own
way" We commend the spirit of the
article and hope our colored citizens
will take the matter in hand. Colored
people can do no better or higher
thing than to ameliorate the condition
of their own race.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17
County Institute for Whites.

The county institute for white teach
ers will be held at Adams Camp
Ground, beginning on Monday, Aug
26. Prof. Il. l.. Trawiek, of Crystal
Springs, will be the conductor. A
competent conductor and a pleasant
location assure profitable term,
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17

Miss Made Lewis, of Hin1,s comfy,
and Lucius Lamar bennington. Esq
were marrle%. today Miss Lewis is a
graduate of Whitworth of the class OF
81 and is well known in this city
where her friends, admirers and for.
mer sweethearts wish her all joy and
sunshine.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17
.Epworth League Program.

Roll call.
Quotations from Henry W. Longfel
low.
Music Miss Bessie Crosby.
Biographical Sketch of Longfellow-
Lewis Wood.
Song Miss Maude Forsythe.
Reading from Longfellow Miss Vir
gle Marshall.
Duet-Misses Powell and Marshall
Critical Paper-Miss Agnes Chris
man.
Discussion of the Author.
The meeting will be held next Mon
day evening with Miss Pauline Milton
at Mrs. Lou Whites residence.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17

Mrs. Maddox, a good Christian wo-
man who has been living for some
time at Montgomery, is now making
her home at W. T. East's and caring
| for his three little children.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17

Pass Christian has bored an arte-
sian well 700 feet deep with an output
of l35 gallons per minute. Another is
in progress. Sprinkling carts will
soon be on the ground and the water
utilized to lay the dust.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17
One Fare Rate to the Crystal Springs
Chautauqua.

The |. c. will sell round trip ticket
to the Mississippi Chautauqua Assem-
bly, at Crystal Springs for one fare
Tickets will be on sale from July II t,
3lst, good to return until August |.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17

Mrs. Leila III. Bolls, an elderly lady,
formerly of Vicksburg, died at Wash
ington on Saturday last. She occu-
pied a Federal position in the Treasury
Department. The remains were sent
to Xicksburg.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17

DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve should
be promptly applied to cuts, burns
and scalds. 1t soothes and quickly
heals the injured part. There are
worthless counterfeits. Be sure to get
DeWitt's. c. f. Grafton Drug Co.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17

If the stomach, liver and bowels fail
to perform their functions regularly
and naturally, the blood becomes con-
taminated with impurities, and the
whole system is in consequence debili-
tated. HERBINE is remarkable for its
efficacy in curing the ailments of sum-
mer, and the disorders prevalent dur
ing hot weather. Price, so cents.
Price Il Watson.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17
To Cure Chills and Fever.
Take Rodgers Blue Chill Cure

The first dose breaks the chills, anC
three doses will cure, Prepared il
tablets and tasteless syrup. Price
Tablets, % cents box; Tasteless Syrup
so cents bottle. No cure, no pay
Sold by Price d Watson.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17
Farmers Institute.

Prof. w. G. Welborne, of the A. & NJ.
College, will conduct a Farmers Insti-
tute at the Court House in Brookha-
ven, Wednesday, July 31st.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17
Special Examination,

a special examination for teachers
will be held at the court house il
Brookhaven, July 10Th and Goth.
EDGAR GREEN,
Supt. of Education.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17

A crowd of young folks enjoyed a
picnic at Old Brook last Thursday.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17

Cassidy, jr., and NJ. Rsgsdale are at
tending the meeting of the State Chess
Association at Meridian. We shall ex-
pect the Cherokee Club rooms to be
again adorned by the silver cup.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17

81 am indebted to One Minute Cough
Cure for my present good health and
my life. was treated in vain by doc
tors for lung trouble following lagrippe.
| took One Minute Cough Cure and
recovered my health" Mr.. Z. III. Wise,
Madison, Ga. C. L. Grafton Drug Co.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17

Miss Olive Watkins is spending
some time in Jackson.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17
DING NORTH (DAILY.)

go, fr.ight trains Nos. o. and % between Nc
L. oo%nG ity and Brookhaven arrive and leave at
.Sn ttoiowing hours: No. "a arrives at Brook
i nprao At II 20 a. m. No 30 leaves Brookhaven
Ia Ia frcights Nos. % and % between Brook
In and Canton arrive and leave at the fol-
nav, nav, hours No. ~ leaves BrOOkhayen at 8: IS
q" M for canton. No. 90 arrives at .Brookhayen
Srom canton at 5i5 p. IN.
lfo Hns and do not stop at flag stations. Nos.
=, and "a stop at all stations. Trains
2os q" and with vestibule cars stop only at
in,ooSmmond, McComb City, BroOkhaven, Wesson,
niaaIahurSt CRYSTAL Springs, Jackson and Can
inn and ali stations between Canton and Water
'ssw!Irans both ways make close connection
nth All of the L. c. branch roads.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-09
What the steel Strike is About.

The issue in the great strike of the
employees of the United States Steel
company Is primarily as to whether
the non-union mills shall be unionized.
The steel trust is composed of several
subsidiary corporations and combina-
tions. OF these the Carnegie con-
Germ is the largest and is non-union.
1t had it's fight over the question in
1892 and won. Of the remaining con-
Germs forming the trust, some are un-
der the union and some are non-union.
The original demand of the Amalga.
mated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers was that for the year begin
ming July 1, the scale as to wages and
hours and other union regulations for
the union mills be signed also for the
non-union mills. The officials of the
steel company refused to do this, say
ing that it was in effect a demand to
compel employees in the non-union con-
Germs to join the union. Since the
strike began the labor men have re-
ceded from their original position to
the extent of demanding only that the
scale be signed only for such non
union mills as have been partially or
wholly brought into their organization
since the strike began. The other
non-union mills they are willing to let
go. Up to last Saturday there was
would be amicably adjusted, but a con-
ference held on that day developed
angry feeling on both sides, and it
was given out by the leaders of both
that it would be a fight to the finish.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-09
Curious Procedure.

contemporary, referring to the pro-
posed use of the $S,OOO,OO0 cruiser Colum-
bia as receiving ship in place of the old
Vermont, which has been marked for the
junk shop, sagely remarks that if the
United States government were a busi-
ness man it would go into bankruptcy
in a month. About the time preparations
were on foot to convert the expensive
but i'll adapted Columbia into a receiving
ship the navy department sold two trans
of these the Mcpherson, for which the
government had paid about 100000, was
sold for S1S7O0. The use of a $S000,OO0
cruiser for receiving ship purposes when
the department had in its possession two
troop ships which would have sufficiently
served such purposes, but which were
sold for a song, is such absurdlY bad
management as to call for Congressional
inquiry. In the sudden emergency con-
fronting the government at the begin
ming of the Spanish American war the
government was obliged to pay roundly
for some of it's troop ships, but there is
no justification for the sacrifice of these
high priced vessels while there is need
for any of them in the government SER
vice. A business man who would conduct
his affairs in this way would very soon be
on the high road to the bankruptcy court.
The order for the destruction of the old
receiving ship Vermont, for which the
Columbia is to be substituted, may be
reconsidered. The old ship is a relic
which should be preserved, at least as
a receptacle for naval relies.-[Philadel-
phia Ledger.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-09
The Hot Month of July.

Prior to this year the hottest month
ever experienced in Chicago since the
record began to be kept was August
of last year. But the average temper
ature for July, 1901, was rs degrees,
against 1853 for August, 1900. The
nearest July approach to last months
record since 1871 was made in 1879,
when the months temperature aver
aged 76 degrees. Throughout the
northern United States east of the
Rocky mountains the month has gone
into history as the hottest ever known.
at is unprecedented in the annals of
the country" says the weather official
at Chicago.
There are all sorts of theories to
account for the intensity of the hot
wave. An Omaha astronomer thinks
it is due to the fact that for the first
time in the last hundred years Mer.
curry and Venus then came to the point
in their orbits where they have the
greatest influence over the earth, hold
ing our planet in the same relative
position to the sun during the month
of July that it was on the 21st of June
The government weather man al
Chicago thinks it was sun spots that
did 1t.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-09
A Vermont War Controversy.

The Vermont war controversy did
not reach the vitriolic stage of the
Sampson-Schley disputation. In fact,
it ended in it's incipiency The Rut-
land News, evidently with the inten-
tion of "jollying," inadvertently let
fall words which might easily be con-
strued as insinuations and innuendos
directed particularly against the boys
of company Of st. Adams who vol
unteered for service in the Spanish
Greene, editor Of the ST. Adams Mes
senger who was captain of the St..
Adams company at Chickamauga, to
correct an impression which had been
formed enormously in Rutland and
also to say a few pertinent words re-
garding the credit due the Vermont
regiment.
Capt. Greene shows that the Yer
monters did not vote and did not petit
tion to be sent to Porto Rico. That
is not the soldiers way. A soldier
waits for orders and goes where he is
sent. Capt. Greene tells why, per-
sonally, he was opposed to the task of
going to Porto Rico hunting for glory
after the war was practically over,
with a band of "worn-out, ill-clad, ill
fed, sick, dispirited, neglected soldier
boys" In speaking of the inner his
tory of Chickamauga Capt. Greene
says: THE half of the melancholy
story of the Chickamauga days has
never been told. 1t involves too many
personal regulations ever to be told"
This is undoubtedly true. But there
were some young Vermont officers who
added to their regulations at Chicka-
mauga, and The Phoenix is glad to
state that Capt. Greene was one.
When he came home the men of his
company swore by him, rot at him, as
was the case frequently with the men
toward their officers in other volunteer
companies. The statement has proba-
bly, never appeared in print, but it
should be recorded that the company
in the Vermont regiment which ex-
celled in discipline and morale was
company B of st. Albans. This was
due in large measure to the esteem
and affection which the men in the
ranks had for their captain. Company
B was the only company from Yer
mont, and probably the only one in the
thousands of companies at Chicka-
mauga, that never had a man in the
guard house. This is record to be
pointed to with pride.
Concerning the credit due our vol
unteers the Messenger says: "The Yer
mont boys of '9S had no opportunity
to prove themselves great heroes on
battlefields. Theirs was but the mod
est faithfulness of enduring great hard
ships while merely proving that they
also serve who only stand and wait.
If they have won no lasting glory they
should at least be left undisturbed
in the consciousness of simple duty
faithfully performed. The man or
newspaper who will undertake to
blacken the war record of these boys
makes it very clear to The Messenger
that. if some towards went to the war
there were other towards who did
not"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-09

Real estate around the shores of
Caspian lake is becoming more valua-
BILE each succeeding year. People in
that town are just beginning to realize
what a mine of wealth the lake is.
AS a popular summer resort Caspian
lake has an assured future.-[ Hard
wick Gazette.
But the fishing more than the nat
ural beauty of the lake attracted peo-
pie to Greensboro. "The mine, is be-
meath the waters rather than in rest
full scene spread before the eyes, and
"the mine" has been developed
through the efforts of the fish and
game commissioners. Stocking Cas-
plan lake with trout, lake trout and
landlocked salmon has been a good in
vestment, and has probably increased
the value of property aound the lake
more in five years than the entire
amount appropriated for fish and game
purposes for the entire state in that
time, to say nothing of the cold cash
deposited in the pockets of Greensboro
citizens by outsiders who have been
attracted to the lake in quest of
gamey fish.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-09
Wonderful Stone Found In orange.

Eugene S. Whitcomb, of Montpelier,
has in his possession a wonderful stone
1t weighs 600 pounds and is shaped like
the body of a large bird with a long
neck, and a head that looks as though
at one time it had been fashioned to take
on the face of a man. This wonderful
stone was dug up from the farm of Heze-
kiah Whitcomb in Orange about two
weeks ago. The stone was evidently a
monument placed to some Indian chief
in olden times as it rested on a slab
roughly hewed. Underneath the stone
were found several pieces of flint, a stone
tomahawk and a half dozen different
things that looked as though they might
have belonged to the dead chief, The
stone is gray marble, and was in among
granite boulders, but was the only piece
of marble in this particular field. One
side is worn rounding, while the other
side appears to have wing protruding.
The stone was very nearly buried and
all that could be seen was the head stick
ing out of the ground. Mr.. Whitcomb
had plowed around it for years until he
finally got tired of going arornd and de-
cided to dig 1t up. AS he .iovelled the
stone appeared to gain In size. His
amazement grew in proportion Relic
hunters believe that 1t may be the monu-
ment of a people which was here before
the Indians
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-09
NO. 81.
Ohio's Knockout" for Bryan.
[From Leslie's Weekly.]

That Ohio is not only mother Of
Presidents but the originator of new
political policies or departures has
been illustrated more than once in the
last 25 or 80 years. The action of it's
great political conventions, made up
and controlled, as they are, by some
of the ablest, most astute, and in
fluential representatives of the respec-
tive parties, has repeatedly set the
pace and determined the lines of ac-
ton for subsequent conventions in
other states. And history will prob
ably repeat itself here in the conclu-
sions reached in the recent Democratic
state convention at Columbus. In its
distinct reputation of Bryan and his
works that body undoubtedly voiced
the hope and expectation of all the
thoughtful and conservative members
of the Democratic party throughout
the country.
In other words, the meeting of the
Ohio convention furnished the first
good opportunity to give tie rational
Democrats of the country that po-
sition of fright about face" from the
wild and suicidal course marked out
by the populist faction which they
have been anxious and eager to as
sumo ever since the last Presidential
defeat. The convention sounded the
new marching orders which the JEFF
fersonian Democracy had been waiting
to hear How true this is may be
judged from the prompt and hearty
Endorsement which the Ohio platform
has received by representative Demo-
Gratis and party organs in all sections
of the Union.
Meanwhile Bryan himself has been
endeavoring to extract some sunshine
from the Ohio cucumber, but the re-
suits have been weak. 1t is obvious
that the only thing now left for him to
do is to form little party by himself
on the tailors of Tooley street
plan, run for President third time on
an independent or Populist ticket, and
thus finally taper off into that deep
and dark obscurity for which he is
inevitably and speedily destined. The
fall of Bryan has been as sudden as
his rise was meteoric. Contemplating
the situation and realizing the full inn
port of the dismissal which the Ohio
Democracy has so brusquely and eff
fectively given, he may exclaim, in
the language of the discarded suitor:
at was all very we'll to dissemble
your love,
But why did you kick me down stairs?"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-09

Chicago's biggest-in-the-world' mania
has not yet run its course. All the rail-
roads, with four exceptions, centering
in that city, have accepted the proposed
terms of a movement to build a 100000
900 union railroad station. 1t is to COM
bine both passenger and freight facili-
ties, and will be equipped to make it the
finest structure of its kind in the world.
There has always been great desire
among railroad men of Chicago to bring
the eastern and western roads together
in the same structure, and this union
station will accomplish the object.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-09

Congressman Babcock thinks that
the only sound argument against his
antitrust tariff proposition lies in the
statement that to undertake to amend
the tariff law disturbs trade and un-
settles business to a greater or less ex-
tent" He meets it by saying: This
argument would have conclusive force
if the democrats were in control; but
there is nothing to fear from a repub-
lican Congress. When tariff changes
are made, the friends of protection
should make them
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-09

Vice President Roosevelt is on an
other Western journey. He spoke last
Saturday at the quarto-centennial cele-
bration of Colorado at Colorado
Springs, and went from there on a
hunting trip. The New York politi.
clans, Gov. Odells friends especially
are said to be watching developments
and wondering whether the journey
will result in a second winning of the
West" which will swing the vice
president into the White House at the
end of President McKinley's term OF
office.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-09
MINOR NOTES.

Senator Cullom says, after a visit to
President Mckinley at Canton, that
there is not likely to be any general
tariff legislation next winter, but that
some of the pending commercial
treaties ought to pass the Senate.
1t seems that the recent losses by
storm and food at Galveston were
grealy overestimated when they were
officially stated as exceeding $25,000,-
900, and the assessors of that city are
trying to explain how the current
years assessment is only about $2,500,-
600 less than that of last year. Most
plausible of the several explanations
offered is that 1--WE are not so near
dead as we have imagined ourselves
to be-"
Former Superintendent of Education
Mason S. Stone writes in a letter to
the Morrisville Messenger from Baco-
lod, Negros, in the Philippines, that
he has so schools under his charge.
His work is somewhat different from
that which he was accustomed to do in
Vermont, for he says; Last week
made a tour into the interior and
across the island. My official attire
consisted of blue flannel shirt, khaki
trousers, soldiers sombrero, a belt and
Colts revolver and cartridges"
Holders of large punches of Stand
ard oil stock are not complaining of
cold feet. The directors have just
declared a quarterly dividend of $S a
share, payable Sept. 16, on the capital
of $100000,O00. The dividend the last
quarter was 12 per cent. From 1891
to 1895 the company distributed IL per
cent annually. In 1896 it paid 81 per
cent, in 1897 93 per cent, and for the
following three years 80, 33 and 4S
per cent, respectively. Thus far this
year the dividends, including the last
amount to 40 per cent. The total
amount paid out in dividends last year
was $4S,OOO,0OO, lacking only $2,O00,'
900 of one-half of the capitalization
The dividends to date this year
amount to $4,000, 900.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-09

Notwithstanding the repeal of cer-
tain war taxes which were levied at
the beginning of the war with Spain,
the expected reduction in the govern.
ment's income did not take place in
July. The total internal receipts for
the month were $2S, 33S,19O against
$27, 100000 in July, 1900, and SIS, 8,322,-
900 in July, 1899. The receipts from
customs during the month were larger
by 100000 than in July, 1900, and
larger by nearly $5OOO,OOO than in
July, 1899. The United States treas
ury is evidently doing a big business.
In spite of the fact that July is not a
surplus producing month, and notwith-
standing the repeal of the war taxes,
the receipts of the month paid all the
expenditures and left a balance to ap-
ply toward the great surplus which the
year will show.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-09

Has there anything happened in
Vermont comparable with the recent
affair in a crowded community" in
Massachusetts, for supposed compiled
ty in which Blondin is wanted?-
Montpelier Journal.
Chelmsford, Mass, a crowded com
munity"? Crowded in comparison
with Somerset and Glastonbury, per-
haps, but very much like many rural
sections of Vermont, where farming
and numbering are the chief occupa-
tions. The Journal argues that the
worst crimes are committed where the
population is dense. This may be true,
but rural communities in Massachu-
setts in the Blondin, Bergen, Mueller
and Naramore murders have made a
shocking record within a short time.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-09

The Ludlow Tribune remarks pertl-
nently, anent certain recent newspaper
discussion, that "the fault with such
men . is not that they think they
are right, but they think everyone who
disagrees with them is in league with
the devil" And the Hardwick Ga
zette says along the same lines: The
newspaper that assails with ridicule
or abuse an honest mans opinion be-
Titles itself and does it's adversary no
injury"