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The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-24
AMICABLE ADJUSTMENT
Of the Amite County Labor Difficult
tieS-COmmittee Makes
Report.

Gloster, Dec. 19.-At a large
meeting of the citizens of Amite
county, held yesterday, the fol-
lowing was reported by the COM
mittee:
Whereas, in view of the present
condition of our county and rec
ognizing that there are existing
evils, which corrected would tend
towards the betterment, and as a
committee, have labored in the
spirit of fairness, to all concern
ed, in a conscientious and pa
triotic way, to avert pending dis
asters to every citizen, therefore
we earnestly appeal to everyone
to aid in the maintenance of the
following resolution, viz: Re-
solved, that,
First. We as farmers, bankers
and merchants, are opposed to in
terfering with any land contracts
heretofore made, and that all col
ored people be allowed to carry
out their contracts, even where
they have made partial payments
on lands, and that we bankers,
merchants and farmers do fully
realize our relation to each other
and that we are fully agreed as
to the future selling of lands, and
that it should be held for our pos
terity.
Second. That no farmer, mer-
chant or banker or agent for
same, in any way interfere or So
licit the trade of or business of
negro tenants, whether they be
renters or working on shares,
without the consent of their land
lord.
Third. That all persons, wheth-
er they be separate or corporate,
having large places or bodies of
land worked by negro labor, will
at all times keep some good and
reputable white person, at or near
by or adjoined, in charge of same
in order to secure the good order
and quiet of the place and the
welfare of the surrounding COM
munity.
Fourth. That we will do all in
our power to stop the negro exc
dus that is now on US, and do all
in our power to secure his safety
among US.
After the adoption of the above
resolutions, the persons who were
present signed the same.
Adopted at Liberty, Miss, De-
cember IS, 1902.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-24
VALUABLE PUBLICITY.
The Leader Will Soon Issue an IL
Illustrated Industrial Edition.

The Leader Will Soon Issue an IL
Illustrated Industrial Edition.
The Leader has for some time
contemplated issuing magazine
number, illustrated with half
tone engravings and containing all
the information about this city
and vicinity that would be of val
ue to capitalists seeking invest
ments or to desirable newcomers.
This paper is fully aware of the
need of some such publicity if the
city and county are to reap their
share of the immigration now en-
tering the State.
Only lack of time has prevent
ed the appearance of such an edi-
ton this fall, and The Leader now
takes pleasure in announcing that
the services of two trained news
paper men have been secured for
the work, and that with the COOP
GRAFTON we confidently predict on
the part of business men and citi-
zens generally, they will COM
pile for The Leader an edition
worthy of this wonderful section.
Messrs. H. L. and E. H. Lyons
will have charge of the edition.
They come we'll recommended.
Here is what the Yazoo Sentinel
says about them: "Messrs. II.
L. and E. H. Lyons, who were
specially engaged by the editor
of The Sentinel for this work are
qualified by years of varied news
paper experience, alive to their
finger tips to the needs of the
hour, genial and courteous al
ways, they have done their work
thoroughly and well, as perusal
of these pages will attest.'
The Sentine's edition, which
reached our desk this week, in
both merit and typographical ap-
pearance, equals anything we
have seen of the kind.
We bespeak for the Messrs.
Lyons a cordial reception from
all well-wishers of Brookhaven
and Lincoln county.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-24
The following from the Garth

The following from the Cartha-
genian will perhaps be an eye
opener to many people who have
been agitating change in the dis
tribution of the school fund
Perhaps those people of Leake
who have been misled into want
ing change in the present meth
cd of distributing the school funds
will change their minds when
they learn that this year our
county will draw from the State
for school purposes about So, 500
more than the county pays into
the State treasury for all pur-
poses. It will be the same way
in Neshoba and Winston"
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-24

The Mississippi Conference at
Natchez adopted the following, as
a part of its report on temper
ance: 'tAs Methodists, we affirm
our continued opposition to the Ii
censed liquor traffic in every
form. We pledge our prayers
and labors to any Christianlike
means to prevent its sale within
the borders of our entire State,
We re-afirm our opposition to
the army canteen system and ear
nestly ask our representatives at
the nations capital to use their
votes and influence against it. !"
This is in line with the policy
outlined in the call for Prohibi-
ton mass meeting at jackson
Feb. 18th.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-24

Work on the new laundry and
kitchen building at the Mississip-
pi Insane Hospital is nearing
completion, and the structure will
be ready for occupancy in few
days. This makes a total of near
ly $4,000 that has been spent by
the State on improvements and
new buildings at the insane hospi-
tai, and it is the largest structure
of any kind in the State, and one
of the finest from an architectural
standpoint.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-24
Hattiesburp

The Hattiesburg Progress,
which is edited by something of a
freak, boldly insinuates that Judge
Jas. H. Neville fines blind tigers
to the limit of the law while on
the bench and then slips around
the corner and patronizes them.
If Judge Neville is guilty of such
despicable conduct, he is not
only unfit for to be made Govern
or, as some of his friends are pro-
posing, but he is disgrace to the
circuit bench. If he isn't guilty,
the Progress man ought to be Civ
en- the limit of the law for libel
and reckless defamation of charac-
ter.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-24

The Greenwood Enterprise, in
referring to the fact that the
Methodist Conference of both
north and south Mississippi de-
clared for State Prohibition, ven
lures the prediction that the next
Legislature will have an over
whelming majority in favor of the
proposition" If it doesn't, the
Pprohibitionists intend to know
the reason why.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-24
PmI'ttxhrd Wc~kLy.
A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT.

The World looked on and saw
A man all stained with sin and crime
moral leper-enemy of his kind
"Ha! let him hang for very shame;
He'll more Of guilty partake If he goes free
And all to blame who loose the chains of Death;
Let Justice. even-handed, claim him her own
And let all like him beware!"
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-24

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The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-24

4 WomdR looked and saw
Upon her heaving breast in years gone by,
little babe; the only one vouched to her heart
And as she rocked, and sung, and liSped his
evening prayer,
She saw the gates of Heaven open for her child.
Like mothers all!-Not this, this grim despair!
The precious life forced out in ignomnious Death
With none to grieve but her.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-24

She had bespoke the p!audits of the nation for
her son
Shed seen him climb the heights attained by
fame
But in the blackneSs now engulfed, for shame
She buried deep his memory and his name:-
And went forth like one transformed, to rescue
And to save the weak and erring and the fallen
ones
That other hea! Is, like hers, might never know
her woe.
And when the angels met her at the gates of
gold
So tired and worn was She with toll and care
She knew not-grieved not for the earth-stains
past
Lo! one she loved belmed brightly on her there!
She clasped her hands with radiant glory
crowned,
For she, the blind now saw-Her lost was
found!
l.. NJ. H.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-24
MONEY TO LOAN

On Improved Lincoln County Farms at
per cent interest in sums of not less than
$500 90 and up. Terms easy. Apply to
r. Y. JONES, Brookhavcn, Miss.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-24

Bob Bobo, the renowned bear
hunter of the delta, who died re-
Gently in Chicago of cancer, was
treasurer of the county of Coaho-
ma, and his death created vacan-
CIV in that Office which will have
to be filled temporarily by guber-
Material appointment.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-24

question submitted to local de-
cision; yet Maj. Vardaman, we
are sure, would not argue that
therefore the whole State should
have local option on these matters,
because public sentiment in Vicks-
burg is not what it ought to be.
Moreover, Judge Anderson has
shown that little vigorous appli-
citation of State law will improve
even such places as Vicksburg.
This nation, for long time,
tried to exist, part slave and part
free, but it could not, notwith-
standing it was proposed for
while to have local option by
States on the slavery question;
and Mississippi ought not to at
tempt to continue part prohibit
ton and part license State. 1t
would be great deal easier to en-
force prohibition everywhere if
the laws of the State were right
on this question all along the line.
The influence of such a stand,
compared with the present policy,
would prove incalculable and it
would be much easier to enforce
prohibition laws if the State and
its courts occupied a consistent
and defensible position on the
question.
AS to the difficulty of enforcing
prohibition laws, where public
sentiment is not prepared for it,
it is conceded that this is more
serious than when the contrary
condition prevails; but expe-
rience in Mississippi has proven
over and over again that even in
places like Vicksburg, Greenville
and Natchez would be for awhile
under State prohibition law,
with judges like Powell, and An
derson and district attorneys like
Greaves, Brewer and others, the
blind tigers would sooner or. later
be sure to come to grief.
With such an electorate as we
have in Mississippi under our
new constitution no community or
public official can long treat with
contempt the States laws.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1902-11-13
An African Night.

From the bush rose the death
scream Of some animal in the grip Of
its pursuer. iackals yhelped in the
distance or the prolonged howl Of a
hyena broke out close at hand. A
wakeful boy initiated it derisive-
ly, the sDores gave place TO a renew
ed murmur Of talk. the askari flung
anoi her log on the smoldering fire.
Not always did the land lie silent.
| have known sleep made difficult
dy the antics Of hundreds of zebra,
who thudded hither and thitber on
the plain like diminutiye cavalry
cried in a succession Of little barks,
worried, perhaps, by finding the
camps between them and their accus-
toned catering place, In some dis
tricts when on wet nights rain had
swamped the fires, a geological gar
den of que sting beasts" was apt
10 foregather round the tents. Thus
hyena, jackals, three and brace OF
hippopoiami contributed intimately
10 one seance that I wot Of, and, as
the darkness was too thick for vision,
that night yielded but scanty peace.
Hippoare at all timesa awkward things
TO get. raveled up IL tent ropes.
Cornhill Magazine.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1902-11-13
One Mans Reasoning.

The reasons why a man should
mploy a matrimonial advertisement
in order to get married are often a
source of bewilderment.
A widower who has married the
second time through this agency and
sought divorce from her was asked
the question in court.
He replied that he advertised on
the theory of a man who advertised
for a lost dog. He did not get the
dog back, but he got better ones. So
he knew he could not get his lost
wife back; he thought he might get
offers of three better ones. He took
one of the three, and he was disap-
pointed.-London Express.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1902-11-13

Wardley Hall, six miles from
Bolton, England, dates from about
the time of Henry VI. In the stair
case was a recess containing a skill
supposed to belong to Roger
Downes, a roisterer in Charles IFS
time, and Wardley Hall became
known as the Skull House, as, ac-
eording to the legend, whenever the
skull was removed from its resting
place trouble would befall the in
mates of the dwelling. On one Oc-
:asion the relic was lost in the moat,
which had to be dragged for its re-
sosery.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-05
Dinner from the Bible.

spread a cloth of blue, and put
thereon the dishes and the spoons, and
the bowls. with the bread in the Oas-
ket.-Num. iv. Z and Lev. viii. 81.
Salt without prescribing how much,
and oil in cruse.-Ezra vii. p and l..
Kings xvii. 12.
The bright shining candle giveth
light-Luke XII. sc.
Tell them who are bidden | have
prepared my dinner.-Matt xxi. 4.
They are strong of appetite.-lsa.
vi. II.
Let us eat and be merry.-Luke XIV.
23.
Ye hear all kinds of musician. iii.
5.
Grace-Give us this day our daily
bread.-Matt. vi IL.
SOUP.
Pour out the broth.-Judg vi. 20.
Feed me with pottage.-Gen. XIV. 30.
Eat this roll.-Ezek. iii. /.
FISH.
We remember the fish we did eat
freely-Num. Xi. 8.
They gave him a piece of broiled
fsh.-Luke xiv. AZ.
ENTREMENTS.
Bring on the fish which ye have now
caught-John xxi. 10.
Hare.-Lev. XII. 6.
Chickens.-Matt xiii. 81
Beside harts and fatted FOWL.
Kings iv. 23.
Kidneys.-Lev. tx 10.
Olives.-Mic. vi. 15
Give a little water, for | am thirsty.
Judges iv. 19.
ROASTS.
All manner of baked meats.-Gen.
xl. II.
Roebuck.-Deut. xii. 10
wild goat and wild oX.-Deut. xiv.
%.
VEGETABLES.
Wheat, lentils and millet.-Ezek. iv.
Corn and beans-IT. Sam. xvii. 2S.
After that the full corn N the ear
Mark iv. 2S.
The leeks and the onions, and the
cucumbers and the Curriculum. Xi. 8.
Cortland Mum. xi Z.
GAME.
Partridge.-Jer xvii. Il.
Two young pigeons.-Lev. V. I.
Quails.-Psalms CIV. 40
Ten cheeses.-I. Sam. xvii. is.
DESSERT.
A basket of summer fruits.-Amos
viii. /.
Mrs. Miner In the Advance.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-05

Both factions in the National Base
ball League are now satisfied to let
the case pending in the New York
supreme court come to trial before any
further action is taken.
1t is certain that efforts are being
made to bring the case TO speedy trial
Both discordant elements now realize
that the National League will become
but a memory if something Is not done
at once to give the organization any
standing with the public. No more
!nopportune time could ever have come
for a factional dispute. as the Nation
al Leagues loss has been the Aneri-
can Leagues gain.
Meanwhile; belief grows stronger on
the part OF many important baseball
men that some movement is on foot
by which the Cincinnati and New
York clubs will become members of
the American League, anu that the
other two members Of the freedman
faction will be well taken care of ia
case the American League is expanded.
Undoubtedly John T. Brush of the
Cincinnati club has been in consulta-
ton with American League officials,
and he has been given full power TO
act for the organizations which he rep
resents.
II tie National League quarrel
should lie settled, presumably no ac-
tion of this kind would be taken, but
the Freedman clubs are laying the
ropes to protect themselves in case
the dispute is continued to point
where it means hopelessly bad sea-
son.
That the New York club could have
gained admission to the American
League last autumn is fact, but Nj.
| Freedman refused to desert the Ma
tional League.
He still declines to discuss in any
way the possibility of me New York
club joining the other organization,
and his refusal to commit himself in
the matter has led to the belief that
there is something more than mere
-umor to the story.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-05

Two hundred years ago John How
of Guildford. England, left property,
real or personal, upon curious terms.
It's income was to reward "the female
domestic who remained at least two
years in one situation within the bor-
ough, and who should throw the high
est number with two dice in competi-
tion with another aspirant for the
money''-that is to say, it was to en-
courage fidelity of service and it must
be feared, a spice of gambling. So the
other day Clara Howard and Florence
Ansell, both of whom had been in one
service over eight years, threw against
one another, and Clara, casting seven
to Florence's five received check for
twelve guineas $500
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-05

1t has been a source of much sur
prise to Prof Nordenskjold that dur
ing his expedition within the arctic
circle, in regions where animal life is
abundant, he has found very few re-
mains of animals which died a natural
death. No one has any idea of what
becomes or the bodies of such animals
and it is indeed very strange that on
Spitzbergen it is easier to find bones
OF a gigantic lizard of remote geologi-
cal time than those of a 'self-dead'
seal, walrus or bird. The same is also
true o. some places not so far north.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-05
Turnlp'. Wonderful Growth.

The seed of the globe turnip is about
the twentieth part of an inch in diane
ter, and yet in the course of a few
months this seed will be enlarged by
the soil and the air into 27 100000 times
its original bulk, and this in addition
to bunch of leaves. 1t has been
found by experiment that turnip seed
will, under fair conditions. increase its
own weight fifteen times in minute
Turnips growing in peat ground have
been found to increase more than 15.-
900 times the weight of their seeds in
a day.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-05
Notes OF the Diamond.

Catcher "Jiggs" Donohue of the new
st. Louis team is already at Hot
Springs getting in condition for the
coming season.
The New York Sun has revived the
story that the American league will
play under 50-cent prices this season
in its larger cities.
]. Harley O'Neil, the young pitcher
who was given a trial last year with
the Cleveland team. has signed with
Toledo for the coming season.
Pitcher Scott, the former star of the
Reds, is waiting anxiously for a CON
tract, according to rumor. The pro-
cession seems to have passed Ed.
Charley Dexter, if the present plans
of Manager Selee are carried out, will
be given a regular berth at third base
on the Chicago National league team
this season.
President Charley Power of the
Western association will have to do a
lot of hustling. He has but four clubs
organized-Fort Wayne, Marion, Day
ton and Wheeling.
ANNN AAoAAiOh ANNtllly UtGu QuOl-
ed as saying that If he had complete
control of the Brooklyn club he would
hold out for an eight-club circuit and
balk on the four-club plan.
Bert Cunningham, the former Or
phan pitcher. who served as an UNI
pire in the National league the last OF
last season, has just been appointed
to the umpire stan Of the Pacific
Northwest league.
New York. Feb. 26.-In a telegram to
the New York ball club Jack Doyle to-
day announced that he had accepted
the terms offered him to play hero by
the local management He will PROB
ably be made captain.
Some club could do worse than land
Tom Tucker. The veteran is itching
for another try in major league COM
pany, and is almost willing to stipu-
late that his salary shall be nominal
until he shows he can hold his own.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-05

Sixty degrees below zero is the
frightfully cold atmosphere in which
Alaskan gold hunters must often work
They make fireplaces of snow in that
desolate region. The snow is pressed
into blocks like bricks. and a fire.
place two feet or three feet square is
built with them When the fire is
lighted the snow, of course. melts on
the surface, but when the fire is out
this freezes so hard that the next fire
causes it to become only damp. A
snow fireplace used only for cooking
purposes will last for an entire winter.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-05

Very few kings indeed can have re-
ceived the three separate rites Of bap-
tlsm, coronation and marriage from
the same minister of God, and prob
ably the case of George III. is unique.
At the time he was born on June 4,
1888, at Norfolk House. st. James
square, London, the rector of the par
ish of st. James was DR.. Seeker, bish-
op of oxford, who first baptized the
prince privately and about a month
later publicly. In 1858 DIR. Seeker was
elevated to the archbishopric of Can
terbury, and only three years later
performed the ceremonies of marrying
and crowning the king and queen.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-05
say. preyfu.s Is UnEratefuI.

A statement made by Barney Drey-
fuss. president of the Pittsburg club,
is bitterly resented by. man not
connected with baseball, but who Ss n
friend OF John T. Brush.
"I see," he said, that Dreyfuss re-
Gently made the assertion that Brush
and Freedman had got to go. Dreyfuss
is an migrate. Had 1t not been for
John T. Brush Dreyfuss never would
have got into the Pittsburg club, and
/ know that correspondence is ON file
to prove my statement. 1t wac ar
ranged to have a young man of capi-
tai in Cincinnati arrange the deal that
helped Dreyfuss into the place where
he is now.
Had 1t not been for John T. Brush
who persuaded other league men who
were cognizant of the transaction that
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-05

Strange things are found among the
plants and vegetables. A well-known
student of nature once tried the grow
ing force of a squash. When it was
IS days old, and measured q inches In
circumference, he fixed a sort Of har-
ness around it. with a long lev1r at
Isched. The power of the squash was
measured by the weight it lifted, the
weight being fixed TO the lever. When
1t was 20 days old, two days after the
harness was fixed on it, it lifted 6C
pounds. On the nineteenth day it lifted
5000 pounds.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-05
He Thought lie Know II An.

He Thought lie Knew II Al.
I knew a man who thought he knew It
all
lie knew how earth became rolling ball.
lie knew the source ana secret of all
life.
lie also knew how Adam came TO fall.
lie knew the causes OF the glacial age,
And what 1t was that made the dcluge
rage.
lie knew, in fact. he knew most every
thing.
In his own mind he was earth's greatest
sage.
His knowledge was of such stupendous
girth
It took in everything upon the earth
And I'm the heavens; but most strange
of all,
lie didn't know thing Of real worth.
lie knew where people go when they are
dead.
lie knew all wonders ever sung or said
lie knew the past and future; but for
lie didn't know enough to earn his bread.
lie was q marvel Of omniscience.
lie knew the secret of the hence and
whence.
lie was bundle of great theories.
The only thing he lacked was common
sense.