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The leader., 1902-02-19
What Happened Over a Pris-
Oner Who Ought to Have
Been in Jail.

New Orleans, Feb. 12.-Willis Cooper,
of Amite City, La, was brought here
hurriedly and lodged in the parish
prison to escape being lynched by an
Infatuated mob. While carnival pro-
cession was in progress at Amite City,
Cooper and VIM. Perry revived pre-
vious difficulty. Perry being the ag-
gressor, Cooper getting the worst of it
drew his pistol and fired four shots
not only killing Perry but also Mrs.
Faraba Russell, an aged lady, who sur
rounded by her children and grand
children was witnessing the parade.
The deplorable killing of Mrs. Russell
created intense Indignation and the
sheriff and his deputies had great
difficulty in spiriting Cooper away
from the excited populace. Perry was
serving a Jail term, but was out by
special permission of the jailer to see
the procession.
The leader., 1902-02-19

From the Observer, Hoboken, N. j.,
TIE LEADER notes with pleasure that
Edwin Dreyfus, formerly of Brook
haven, is announced with five others
for membership in the Tau Beta Pi
Fraternity, of Stevens Institute, from
the junior class of 1903. All of the
appointees except young Dreyfus. are
from North Of Mason 4 Dixon's line.
The fraternity selects one-eighth Of
the members Of the junior class for
membership who receive the highest
averages in their studies and again
selects another one-eighth Of the mem
bers when they enter the senior class.
As there are forty five in the present
junior class. only six members could
be selected for membership into the
fratsrnity at this time. The students
selected are entitled to all the rights
and privileges Of other fraternity
meapbsro.
The leader., 1902-02-19

A clause in the will of Morris Rel
man, very wealthy Jew, who was
formerly prominent merchant of
Yazoo City, reads: "To the Boston In
vestment Company, of Boston. Mass,
for the purpose of distributing Robert
G. Ingersolrs lectures among Chris
tians, in order to civilize them, give
and bequeath the sum of $1,000" To
the Touro Infirmary. of New Orleans,
he left plantation of l,760 acres in
Yazoo County. Mr. Reiman died in
California and his remains were Gre
mated.
The leader., 1902-02-19
NOT STATE PROHIBITION, BUT
A GOoD-SIZED CRUMB.

The Dunn dramshop bill, forbidding
the issuance of licenses for the sale of
intoxicating liquors in towns of less
than 800 inhabitants and ia the coun-
try, passed the House on Thursday by
vote of % to Is. 1t had previously
passed the Senate by big majority
aud is sure to receive the approval of
the Governor.
The Times Democrats Jackson cor
respondent says this bill will have a
farther-reaching effect than is gen
orally realized. For instance, it will
close up eighteen saloons in the county
of Tunica, and leave only two open for
business, located ia the town of
Tunica. 1t will come near putting
Quitman and Issaquena in the dry list
without their consent, and even in
Washington, Warren and other strong
whisky counties it will close more than
one-half of the saloons now in exist
ence. 1t is generally thought that the
bill is a step in the direction of pro-
hibition victories at future elections in
certain counties. There will be an
election in Tunica county within the
next ninety days, and the Prohibition
lists are confident that, arrayed as the
country will be against the town by
the operation of the Dunn bill, the
election will result in a victory for
them.
The above will prove considerable
gain to the Prohibition cause, but the
Legislature would far better have
passed the State Prohibition bill in
stead of this amendment mincing
over the matter So far as the
timeliness of such legislation is con-
cerned, what better reason was
there for tinkering with the dram
shop chapter in this way at the present
session, than there was for passing a
Statewide prohibition bill?
The Governor has signed the bill and
it is now law.
The leader., 1902-02-19

Mrs. Roosevelt, in the midst of her
manifold duties as the first lady of the
land and the mother of future citizens
of her country, has found time to sit
for the painting of her portrait. This
work of art is being done by an Amer
lean woman-Cecilia Beaux, of Phila-
delphia. Miss Beaux received gold
medal for some of her work exhibited
at the Paris Salon and gets thousands
for each picture that she paints. Miss
Beaux' success is a refu.ation of the
old idea that women could not be
great portrait painters.
The leader., 1902-02-19

Tha largest number of cadet appoint
ments to West Point ever falling to a
President in one year, will be at Mr.
Roosevelts disposal next June, when
he will have nine vacancies, for which
there will be at least 900 applicants
Sons of army and navy officers are
given preference, with decided def
erence shown the fatherless ones
whose sires lost their lives in the
country's service. The appointments
will he made in June, but do not
become effective for one year in order
that the candidates may prepare for the
entrance examiuations.-Erchange
The leader., 1902-02-19
VIII the PHILIPPINES PAY?

Senator Bacon, of Georgia, who has
just returned from tour of study in
the Philippines, has written for THE
SATURDAY EVENING PosT, of Phila,
delphia, a valuable paper on the bust
ness aspect of our insular affairs. He
comes to the conclusion that our &C
count with the Philippines must, for
an indefinite time, be on the wrong
side of the ledger. This article will
appear in the issue for February %.
The leader., 1902-02-19

1t begins to look like it would be
well to enact and enforce a form of
prohibition in Mississippi that will
prohibit the use of pistols in the State.
Mr.. Redmond's murderer was a negro
boy of not more than Is or II years
of age. Somebody beside the negro
ought to suffer for putting pistol in
his hands. When we prohibit whisky
from entering the State it would be
good thing for all of US if pistols,
ETC., were added to the list Then, in
deed, we might live in peace and quiet.
Kate Markham Poacer.
The leader., 1902-02-19

The Vicksburg American comments
upon the beautiful white stone being
used in the construction of the City
Hall of that city. We regret that such
material is not being used on the new
State Capitol building at Jackson. The
stone there has muddy, cloudy ap-
pearance as though it had been wet
and run" like piece of calico that
fades in the washing.
The leader., 1902-02-19

Mr.. Duncan F. Young, who in 1898
conducted the Signal at Hazlehurst,
and who is now cashier of the Bank of
Amite City, has during his leisure
moments found time to write book
of poems entitled Thoughts in Verse;"
and also one in prose, called Behind
the Grill" Both works are highly
spoken of by the press.
The leader., 1902-02-19

A woman in Kentucky ate two
pounds of starch per day, which finally
caused her death. She would have
become as stiff from any other cause
of death.
The leader., 1902-02-19

DIR. J. r. Vinson, of Mt. Olive, is a
dentist and also mechanical genius
He has just completed violin, (which
would do credit to violin manufac-
turer," says the Tribune. This also
smacks something of melody in the
doctors mechanism.
The leader., 1902-02-19

The Ellisville New South says: 1t
gives character and reputation to any
town or city to have the home paper
filed with home advertisements. You
may not believe it, but it is neverthe-
less true.
The leader., 1902-02-19
Road Notice.

The Board of Supervisors In ;tructed me to
proceed at once to collect by law the Commu-
taton Tax from all those that. have not paid
All parties that have not paid will saw. trouble
and expense by calling ON me AID getting their
receipt. The law does not req9irr me to call
on each hand. and from now parties that
notice. G. 7. MON &c lME"Y.
Road Inspector anil commissioner
The leader., 1902-02-19

Some of our exchanges are calling
names in summing up the prohibition
matter and the penitentiary scandal
before the Legislature. That's right
Let every tub stand on it's own bot
tom,
The leader., 1902-02-19

A Detroit woman who is a spirit
ualist, has just married spook of a
man who died 500 years ago, it is re-
ported. He is just entering on future
punishment, we presume.
The leader., 1902-02-19

If it's not penitentiary steal, it's
legislative extravaganza. There's no
escape-the dear peoples money must
go.
The leader., 1902-02-19
Blue Bird Steel
PlOWS

are the real thing to farm whcheap as wood beam and
YOU can't break them Perkins is agent for Blue Bird Steel
Beamone and horse pows, and carries them in stock
also the Captain Kidd Disc Cuvaors which you can see
in front of his hardware store. These goods the latest
improved farm implements and the best on record.
The leader., 1902-02-19

Geo. R. Vending, one of the fore
most lecturers on the American plat
form, lectured on "Stonewall jackson
at New Orleans last Friday.
The leader., 1902-02-19

Joe Blackburn, jr., son of United
States Senator Blackburn, died in
Frankfort, KY, at the age of 30 last
Wednesday.
The leader., 1902-02-19

The Democrat Star has begun its
5Sth year of existence. Still longer
life to you and yours, Bro. Mayors.
The leader., 1902-02-19
SALT RHEUM CURED BY
.JOhnStOn'S SarSapariIla
QUART BOTTLES.
JUST SEEN IN TIME.


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blood life and keep strong posvev
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full bottles
COMPANY.
The leader., 1902-02-19
:. ANNOUNCEMENTS ;.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL R. R.
FOR CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLI
DAYS.

FOR CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLI
DAYS.
The Illinois Central will sell round trip tickets
to any point on the southern lines TO all points
on the St Louis Division between Paducah and
st, Louis, Cairo and Ashley inclusive, and to al
points on Y. 4 NJ. V. Railroad, at rate Of one and
one-third fare. Tickets on sale Dec. %. "a, %
30. and 81, 1901, Jan. lst 1902. Limited to Jan.
WM ALFRED KELLOND. Agra.
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NNRA Illinois Central Excursion to Cuba will
UUDh leave Chicago. st. Louis, Cincinnati
and Louisville January 30, 1902, reaching same
points on the return February II. A delightful
voyage across the Gulf of Mexico. a six days
stay on the Island of Cuba, including visit tC
Havana, MatanZas, the Valley of lumuri, the
Caves of Bella Mar and other interesting points
under the escort of the American Tourist Asso
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$50 for the round trip, which amount will in
clude all expenses everywhere. Itineraries. Civ
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ticket agent.
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For it. excursion rates will be in effect to New
Orleans on specific dates which your local tickle
agent will be able to advise you.
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leave Chicago January %, 1902. Tickets include
all expenses, railway, sleeping and dining cal
fares, hotels, carriages, etc.
CALIFORNIA excursion cars through t
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The leader., 1902-02-19

Why should this American Republic
glorify the coronation of a British
king? Wen none Of il.
The leader., 1902-02-19

What is the longest sentence you
ever read? Imprisonment for life.
The leader., 1902-02-19

George WashiDgton's birthday next
Saturday.
The leader., 1902-02-19

Of Something sou.
Inc only sasaParls
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-06-16

strange quiet of the racked earth.
Thomas r. Prentiss, United States
consul at st. Pierre, was sitting on
the veranda a. his home in the early
hours of the following morning. A
friend came driving by in a buggy.
You had better get out of this"
he called to the consul Il am getting
out, and getting out as fast as | can"
"Oh, you are Just merely a little
scared" Mr.. Prentiss replied There
is no need of anyone going away"
ut IS better to be safe than sorry"
retorted the citizen as he whipped up
his team and hastened on.
1t is from this man, who witnessed
the disaster a short time later from
a neighboring elevation, with a few
who survived the wreckage in the Of
fng, and the few who looked on the
cataclysm from distant points, that
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ST. PIERRE,S DAY OF DOOM.
the Last the Light Hearted Population Refused to Believe There
Danger Though the Warming Was Ample.

to say whether there was danger there
or not. Thcn, too, the governor was
coming, and. moreover. his family was
coming. with him. Could there possi-
bly, be any danger where 50 eminent
and 50 important personages as these
were? Also a company of soldiers
from Fort de France were coming,
and while the st. Pierrans were talk.
ing of their arrival the company ap.
peared.
1t seems singular that the presence
Of this small band of soldiery should
have inspired a misplaced confidence,
but it was so, though none seems to
have asked what good the soldiers
could have done, or even the might
est army have effected against vol
canic Pelee.
The governor came, and with him
his family arrived from Fort de France
on the little steamboat Topaz. With
the governor came the geologists, the
wise men who were to sit in judg-
ment and to SO fatuoUsly misjudgc.
They pondered long, and then gave
fatal assurance that all was well The
people read the assurances which the
papers printed, drew a long breath of
relief ard then turned thoir attention
to other things, to affairs of business
and pleasure and all that goes to
make up the indolent, happy life OF
the pleasure loving natives of tAis
isle. And that night-the night of
May THE wise men hastened back
to Fort de france.
The governor and his family were
to have followed the next day, the
French cruiser Suchet having been di-
rected to leave her anchorage at Fort
de France at o'clock for the purpose
of bringing home the governor and his
party.
That plan, if carried out, would
have brought the cruiser to her doom,
and her crew will never cease to
thank their saints and bless the blum
dering mechanic who broke something
in the engine-room as the vessel was
about getting under way, which acci-
dent delayed her departure and proba-
bly, saved the lives of all on board.
Wednesday night-eve of horrorl
There are none left alive to tell
what the city was like that night, but
just around a little promontory at
its southern edge nestles the little viii
lage Of Carbet, a pretty town of some
six or seven hundred people. And
not one of them was hurt, the town
having been screened by the high
'iif"e which lay between it and st.
tlerre and runs sheer to the sea.
Its northern wall was precipitous
and built close up to it was the south
ern section of st. Pierre, thicllly
populated district whose houses left
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martinique Official Whom Scientists
Hold Was Responsible for the Great
Loss of Life . rom the Eruption of
Mont Pelee.)
the only eyewitness versions can be
had.
The hour of the disaster is placed
at about 8 o'clock. A clerk in Fort
de France called up another in st.
Pierre and was talking with him at
1855 by Fort de France time. when
he heard sudden, awful shrek, and
then could hear no more.
The little that actually happened
then can be briefly, very briefly told.
1t is known that at one minute there
lay city smiling in the summer
morning; that in another it was a
mass of swirling flames, with every
soul of it's 10000 writhing in the
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rolor-red tiled roofs cutting sharp
lines on walls of creamy white, yellow
and orange and bird s-eye blue, min
gled with the green of tropic vordure.
Built en- a long undulaton, which slop-
cd to the sea. where it clustered in n
riot of color near the shore, its sub
urban spots could be picked out here
and there along the flanking spurs
and foothills which roll from Pelee's
base, that great volcanic bulk whose
crest is ever shrouded in veil of
clouds.
over the doomed city the morning
OF May broke in miracle splendor,
skies bright and blue. and foliage
washed to a tresher green by hard
rain which had swept over the island
the preceding night But it was the
last fair day that st. Pierre was to
know.
The market place, the first section
of the city to show life when West
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analysis; they were too simple, too
West Indian for that. Sufficient that
the rumble had gone
st. Pierre was gay that night of May
l. The municipal band played music
in the plaza, as was is wont Thurs
day evening. This band night was
the one when youths and maidens
might miDgle in public, and the young
galant3 and mademoiseles, promo
nading around the square under tie
watchful eyes OF fathers and mothers
and duennas. talked lightly of Pelee
and that whitening fall.
Up near Morne Rouge, abode of st.
Pierre's well-to-do, there was a
lawn party that evening, which car
ricd its gayety far into the night
zit2as tinkling in the tropic air, and
mantila-draped girls dancing in the
moonlight to the click OF castanets.
Friday, day of the evil omen, dawn
ed over st. Pierre. 1t was made
sombre by a thunderstorm, which
brooded over the mountains and from
whose dark clouds came Intermittent
flashes of lightning. The nervous
started at every thunderClap and anX-
iously asked one another if that was
not Mont Pelee, while others sought
to trace the binding flashes to their
source, to see If they were really the
mere play of lightning or volcanic
blaZes from the timc-worn crater,
which many believed, and all hoped,
was long ago extinct Then a heavy
mist settled over the city and it's sur.
roundings, and under its depressing
influence the day wore itself to a
close.
Saturday, May 3! Just FIVE days
to the obliteration. to death, utterly.
wholesale, sudden and tragicl And
yet st. Pierre went forth that day to
carnival doings, local celebration in
honor of something or somebody.
Facts a~e meager as to that one day
and those following, for II must be
remembered that nobody survived the
horror that was so soon TO come. But
there were some who had spent days
in the city just previous to the trag.
cdy-some who had left it only a
.cant half-hour before the holocaust.
Grieving for their own lost dead and
with nerves unstrung by the narrow
moss of their own escape, It may be
that their oyerwrought minds are
coming visions now. but these tell ear
ncsty Of a column of smoke which
arose. black as a pail, from Pelee's
white shroud to rear its billows OF
rape into the form or great up
,uded coffin, However that may ne,
here is evidence that all festival gay
Wy went when showers Of pebbles be.
gan to rattle over the city, with now
md then a shower of sand, of grains
not to the touch, despite their lons
light through the air,
St Pierre, it is now said, was in n
nore sober humor that evening than
has been within the memory of those
sho tell disjointodly the tale of the
,ays that ushered in its doom. And
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throes of death. One moment and
church bells were ringing Joyous
chimes in the ears of st. Pierre's 30,-
O00-the next the flame-clogged bells
were sobbing a requiem for 10000
dead. One watt of morning breeze
flowed over cathedral spires and
domes, over facades and arches and
roofs and angles of a populous and
light-hearted city-the next swept a
,Nlne mass of white-hot ruins. The
sun glistened one moment on spark
ling fountains, green parks and frond.
cd ponds-its next ray shone on fusing
metal, blistered flame-wrecked squares
and charred stumps of trees. One
day and the city was all light and
color, all gayety and grace-the next
its ruins looked as though they had
been crusted over with twenty cen
turtles of solitude and silence.
Prof. Robert T. Hill, United States
government geologist and head OF the
expedition sent out by the National
| Geographical society, has Just come
in from a daring and prolonged in.
vestigation of the volcanic activity in
Martinique.
Prof Hin chartered steamer and
carefully examined the coast as far
north as Port de Macouba, at the ex.
treme edge of the island, making fire.
/ quent landings. After landing at Ls
| Precheur, five miles north OF St
/ Pierre, he walked through an area of
active yolcanism to the latter place
and made n mi lute examination @.
the various phen omena disclosed.
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barely enough room for streets, the
buildings budding close to the steep
ard wooded acclivity, as if seeking to
escape on the other side of the ridge.
The intervening distance was short.
By the broad, finely graded, bridge
and tunneled highway which connect
ed city with village, one would judge
that a five minutes brisk walk would
be amply sufficient to reach the one
from tne other,
But none sought safety by that
road-at least none escaped by it.
The heart-breaking pity of IL all is that
safety was so ..ear-at the end of
ones fingers almost. For just over
the ridge the grass and palms are
everywhere as green as any in the
tropics to-day, while up to the very
crest of its northern slope are the in
efaceable marks of ruin and disaster,
as if some sea of flame had brimmed
to the very crest of the ridge, to suck
beck again before oyerhowing on the
other side.
So it is the the village folks of Car
bet that one must turn for the last
act in this horrible tragedy.
Night fell, the villagers say, with
an unnatural, unearthly quiet, Not a
breath of air to stir the palms firing
ing on the shores; not ripple to
break the mirror-like clearness OF
still waters. 1t was as ii the hush OF
death lay everywhere, True earth
quake weather. more than one of the
villagers observed as they noted the
oppressive stiffness of the air and the
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fall. tell Of how shortlived the fright
was and how quickly the mcrcurial
population regained its buoyant spir-
it's. Some there were who looked
grave when ashes, white and fine as
powdered magrcsia. began TO sift
from the great cloud which hung over
Polcc'5 crest, but it seems that none
thought TO connect these myriads Of
ncaa.g PARTICLES vita the deep, muf-
fed rumble which had Just been
heard. none TO trace the one TO the
other-thc effect TO the cause. Their
minds were not grooyed to such
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The special correspondent OF the
New York Herald, writing from ST.
Pierre, Martinique, says:
It is not SO very long ago that ! viz.
tied this poor St Pierre-this now
city Of the dead. It had | am told,
undergone but fcw changes until the
coming of that frightful day which
charged It so utterly
Where all is now aching dosolation
a chaos OF ruined walls, hlackoned
stumps of trees and sickeninE stencil.
there baskCd I'm summer sunshine q
little city splashed through with vivid
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III ISL man W NlANAl tANN " Ah' AttNNl
OF Mont Pelce and Report on the
Eruptiun.}
indian town awakos, was filing with
renders and purchasers. when the
frst murmur of Pelee, the sleeping
giant, was heard-a deep-toned, Jared
growl. which instantly blanched the
aces of all who heard, for those bred
the shadow of the volcano had long
since learned TO dread its wrath, and.
rrowing up, these in turn had taught
other generations of the malevolen~
that giant bulk. Startled eyes wor,
urned TO the gloomy mountain.
md were rcassurcd TO see it still quiet
10 far as vision went for its top was
hidden in white mist and there wa
10 sign Of boiling lava and no fail
" hurting rocks.
Those who by chance were in IN,
ity that nC,nmg, and who by far
uckier hazard were out Of it before its