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The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-12-19
HERE AND THERE.

I'm nearly all cases a hog that is
kept penned up in a close pen with a
board floor will get stiff or become
CRIPPLED in some way.
Recently carload of acorn fed
razor-back hogs from Arkansas were
SHIPPED to Kansas City and brought
the highest prices on the market.
The soil for Irish potatoes next
spring should be deeply and thorough
ly plowed now, or as soon as convent
ent, and the sooner it is convenient the
better.
Large Yorkshire pigs have been
bred in England for hundred years,
with the view to producing lean meat
instead of fat. Hence they are called
"the bacon breed"
There is no fertilizer that varies
so much in value as stable manure.
This variation is caused by the man
ner in which the stuff is kept and the
amount of litter it contains.
"A goose has been known to sit for
a month on stone, when her eggs
have been taken from her. Hens will
sit nearly as long on door knob.
Here is more fidelity than common
sense.
Cotton seed meal is an excellent
addition to the daily ration of fowls
of all sorts. If mixed with oats and
bran, put about one pint of the
meal to a gallon of mixture We have
used this with good results for sew
eral years.
Geese are grassers and will do
well on any green pasture. II they
have access to creek so much the
better, but they can be successfully
grown without water to swim in. But
in fattening they need some good,
sound grain every day.
The blaclxbirds are eating the boil
weevils. Mr.. v. J. Hutcherson, a Tex
as farmer, reports that his son killed
blackbird, in the craw of which were
81 boil weevils, some still alive. He
thinks 1t is a good idea to encourage
the blackbirds.
The only change between summer
and winter feeding for fowls should
be that which is unavoidable, except
that more corn may be given in win
ter than summer. Green feed and
meat scraps can be made to take the
place Of grass and insects which
abound Ia summer.
Farmers can, to a large extent,
offset the scarcity Of farm laborers ~
the use. Of Iabor-saving implements.
This can be done in every department
of farm labor, except cotton picking
and II may be that human ingenuity
will eventually invent machine that
will do the work OF a dozen men among
the open bolls,
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Tire Bee Busfncsa.

There are bee keepers and bee keep
ers, bee fanciers, and bee cranks,
practical bee keepers and imitation
bee keepers. The latter class are
those who have heard of some one
making big money out of bees, or
those who have neighbor that has Sc
cured a good crop of honey and sold
it at a fair price, and they imagine he
is getting rich fast, so they want some
of it, too. They imagine that all that
is necessary is to procure few colo
MES of bees and set them under the
shade of an old APPLE tree and after
that hive the swarms and take the
honey in the autumn. They think that
bees gather honey from the time the
first flowers bloom in the spring I'M
til frost has killed all vegetation in
the late autumn. Should any such
bee keeper read this article l would
advise him to do one of two things,
either sell his bees to some one who
understands caring for them or else
make thorough study of the business
and make a practical bee keeper of
himself And l might add right here
that he must not expect to do this in
six months or even within one year
Progressive Bee Keeper.
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ADMIRAL SCFILEY
ENDORSES PE-RU-NA.
Pe-ru-na Drug Co., Columbus Ohio:
Gentlemen: II can cheerfuI!y say that Mrs. SCIey
has taken Pe-ru-na and believe with good effect
W. S. SCHLEY-Washington, d.

A DMIRAL SCHLEY, one of the foremost
n notable heroes of the Nineteenth Century.
A name that starts terror in the heart of every
Spaniard. A man Of steady nerve, clear head,
undaunted courage and prompt decision.
Approached by a friend recently, his opinion
was asked as to the efficacy of Peruna, the
national catarrh remedy. Without the slight
est hesitation he gave this remedy his en-
dorsement:: 1t appeared on later converse
ton that Peruna has been used in his family,
where it is favorite remedy.
Such endorsements serve to indicate the
wonderful hold that Peruna has upon the
minds of the American people. 1t is out Of
the question that SO great and famous a man
as Admiral Schley could have any other
reason for giving his endorsement to Peruna
than his positive conviction that the remedy
is all that he says it IS.
The fact is that Peruna has overcome all
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-12-19
FARMER AND PL ANTER
THE MAN WHO KNOWS now.
The Farmers Success In 1904 De-
ponds Largely Upon Well
Matured Planning.

4 s
It is worth while to plan. All real
success is the result of plans. Plans
well laid and persistently carried out
do not often fail The success of next
| years plans will depend to a consid-
cradle degree upon the plans made
| now.
All who have observed closely this
1903 have seen year of extraordi-
nary weather conditions: Through all
of these many have come with good
crops. These planned we'll in 1902.
Deep soil, which was not stirred wet,
has produced good crops in spite bf
the peculiar weather conditions. These
soils have absorbed the excess of rain
and resisted the excess of heat and
drought. Thousands who grew rest
less and plowed wet lands, have seen
their mistakes emphasized by the fall
ure of the crops. We should all learn
from these extremes of weather the
wisdom of deep, fall blowing, and
shallow spring and summer cultiva-
ton.
We should learn to trust and CO.
operate with providence rather than
try to force providence to bend to our
plans and yield to our errors. Natures
laws are all good and change not at
our bidding. Obey them and you will
succeed. Violate them and you will
fail
There are many lessons we should
heed, but one very largely affecting all
OF our success deserves careful con-
sideration: We can not force success
no matter how much we try, when
we go contrary to natures laws. This
is true of each one of us, apd it is true
of all of us. 1t wifi be the same If
we all join together. We can not pre-
vent water from washing the land if
we pillow shallow. We can not make
soil productive if we pillow wet
For years past we have done all we
could to force very large yield of
cotton, but we plowed shallow and wet
and fertilized foolishly and we failed.
This year We greatly increased the
acreage in cotton and greatly in
creased the quantity of fertilizers.
But we have signally failed to produce
a large crop. Imperfect stands, fail
ure to come up promptly, growing off
slowly. rust, boil worm, caterpillar,
etc, have made light yield. And
now this is cut short by an early, kill
ing frost. The full extent of damage
from the frost will not be known until
the picking is ended Week after
week We will realize it more and more
We hear men argue that half stand
will make more than full stand. If
that be true why do we plant for a
stand and hoe for a stand and plow for
stand? Why not just change our
plans and half do the whole business?
This argument will not do. We have
never been able to pick any cotton
from the missing places in our fields
Our cotton has grown upon stalks
and not in the open air without any
stalk. The crop is short; the price is
nigh. If we sell slowly we will see
still higher prices.-Southern Guilt
vator.
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AN EXPERT.
Because He Could Be Very
CONFIDENTIAL.


Secretary Shaw says that shortly after he
assumed his duties as head of the treasury
department be was called upon by an old
gentleman from his own state of Iowa, who
wanted an appointment as confidential clerk
to one of the assistant secretaries of that de-
partment.
"In spite,of the fact that / was very busy
at the time" says Mr.. Shaw, Il gave the
Iowan the better part of an hour, for he was
as pleasant and entertaining an old chap az
one could et-bright, clipper and witty
On account of his age the secretary felt
that he could not comply with the request.
So, gently but firmly, he informed him that
he did not see his way clear to give him the
appointment. This did not dampen the old
gentleman's spirit in the least.
Now, sir" said he, as feel myself pecu
iarly well qualified to fill one of these con-
fidential clerkships, hope that you will con-
slider my application further
Then, wagging his head most impressively,
he added earnestly:
ooh, sir, could be SO CONFIDENTIAL"
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-12-19
THE TURPENTINE INDUSTRY.
Operators in the South Are Adopt
ing the New Method of Ex-
tracing Turpentine.

The discovery of new way of ex-
tracing turpentine, made two years
ago by DR.. Charles H. Herty, working
under the direction of the bureau of
/ forestry, is resulting in a complete
change of methods by turpentine op-
orators all over the south.
In bulletin published last spring
by the bureau of forestry the claim
was made that the. experiments with
the new cup and gutter system of
turpentining had resulted in an in
crease over the old boxing system of
% per cent. in the amount of the
product extracted. This figure has
now been raised to more than sc per
cent. In other words, DR.. Herty's sys-
tenn, when universally adopted in the
south, as it is bound to be sooner or
later, will have raised the turpentine
production of this country by more
than third, provided the same num-
Der of trees are used. Two years ago,
when DR.. Herty first made known his
discoveries, he put 10000 cups into
operation. Last year this figure was
increased to about 100000. This year
| a conservative estimate places the
number of cups to be used at 5000, 900.
The figures give some indication of
the rapidity with which turpentine
operators are adopting the new sys-
TEN. The change of methods has been
so rapid that the pottery company
which undertook to supply operators
with earthen cups has been unable to
! keep up with it's orders and has been
obliged to refuse contracts for over
two million cups. 1t is safe to say
that the majority of the large turpen-
tine operators in this country have
given up the boxing system and will
extract their turpentine by means of
cups and cutters.
The economic saving of this new
discovery is enormous. 1t not only
causes great increase in the amount
of turpentine produced, but it is a
most important factor in saving the
pine forests of the south. Every one
knows that trees from which turpen-
tine has been extracted by the old
method-"boxed'' timber it is called
soon die from the wounds inflicted on
them. The cup and gutter system,
on the other hand, is not fatal to the
life of the tree, and does very little
damage to the timber.
The bureau of forestry has arranged
to give the personal assistance of DR..
Herty to turpentine operators who de-
sire to install the new system--U. S..
Bureau of Forestry Bulletin
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derstood from this what it means to a
held or farm TO have a crop OF cow
peas growing every few years in poor
or soil. Another thing. which Prof.
voorhees, has shown is the fact that
the gain Of nitrogen to the soil is
greater when no nitrogen is used as a
manure. 1t seems to be settled that
the cow-pea is like a majority of hui
mans. 1t will not hustle for it's nitro
gen unless it has to do SO. On poor
soil and well supplied with potash and
phosphoric acid, the cow-pea will Sc
cure nitrogen from the air. In rich soil
or where nitrogen is-added as fertil-
izer, the plant will take that first of
all. Therefore the way to use peas Is
to plant them on the poorest soil and
use fair dressing of potash and acid
phosphate with them Southern Agri-
culturist.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-12-19
TWO PRAYERS.
Queer Requests Made in the Supplies
tiOns of Imaginative
Preachers.

Speaking of queer breaks occasionally
made by pastors in addressing their faithful
focks, here is one that think takes the
cake" observed New Yorker to some
friends as they were chatting at the club,
according to the Times.
THE case in question was that Of young
clergyman whose imagination sometimes
exceeded his common sense. At any rate,
on one occasion he began his prayer as fol.
lows:
ooh Lord, we thank Thee that there is
one small spark of grace remaining in our
hearts. Water. it, We beseech Thee, Oh
Lord, water it,
That reminds me of the favorite climax
of the minister of the one church in little
country place where l was staying one
summer, remarked one of the others when
the laugh had subsidized "He was of ex-
tremely pacific tendencies and rarely ended
his prayer by any other phrase than the
following:
q oh Lord, We pray Thee that the dove
OF peace and the eagle of freedom may soar
heavenward together, bearing between them
banner with the motto, e pluribus in
num-" A-a-men
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Did You Ever Think of 1t.

If man should habitually introduce
and disseminate injurious insects, he
would be denounced as public en-
envy and be severely punished. Sup
pose a man should gather a lot of cot
ton boil weevils and take them to Lou
isiana and turn them loose in cot
ton field If detected in the act, how
much of him would get away? And
yet we have men and boys throughout
the country who employ their idle time
in killing birds that destroy injurious
insects, and thus accomplish the same
purpose of protecting insects against
their natural xterminators.-Farm
and Ranch.
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well Renembered.

Valley City, n. Oak. Dee. 1.-Two years
age. Mrs. Matilda M. Boucher of this place
suffered great deal with dizziness in her
head, She was cured of this by remedy
called DOdd's Kidney Pills, and has not been
troubled since
Shortly afterwards she had bad bilious
attack aud for this she used Diamond Din
ner Pills and was completely cured in e
short time.
In January, 1908, she had an attack of
Sciatica of which she says:
Il was almost helpless with the Sciatica,
but remembering what Dodd's Kidney
Pills and Diamond Dinner Pills had done for
me before, l commenced treatment of
these medicines and in three weeks l was
completely restored to health. l have
great faith in these medicines for they have
been of so much benefit to me-"
Dodd's Kidney Pills are very popular in
Barnes County, having made great many
splendid cures of Sciatica, Rheumatism and
Kidney Troubles. Many families use no
other medicine.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-12-19
BRIEFLY DESCRIPTIVE.
Not Many Words. Required to Tell
How the whole Thing
Happened.

Private" John Allen, according to the
New York Times, is responsible for this
one:
Last year there were number Of
claims for damages brought against one
of the railroads in Mississippi by the farm
ers in a, certain county of that state.
These claims arose out Of the fact that
many hogs had been killed by the trains
of the railroads in question. A mixed
commission was formed of railroad men
and others to determine the equity of
these claims. Among others questioned
by this commission was an old darby who
claimed to have been an eyewitness of
the annihilation of one hog.
Said the chairman of the commission to
Zeph;.
"Tell us, in as few words as possible.
how this hog was killed
Old Ieph shifted huge cud of tobacco
from one check to the other, cleared his
throat. and then replied:
We'll, sab" said lie, las nearly as kin
make it out, it was dis way: De train
footed and den TUX him!''
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opposition and has won its way to the hearts
Of the people. The natural timidity which
SO many people have felt about giving en-
dorsements to any remedy is giving way.
Gratitude and desire to help others has
inspired thousands of people to give public
testimonials for Peruna who heretofore would
not have consented to such publicity.
Never before in the annals of medicine has
it happened that SO many men of national
and international reputation have been will
ing to give unqualified and public endorse
ments to proprietary remedy. No amount
of advertising could have accomplished such
result. Peruna has won on its own merits.
Peruna cures catarrh of whatever phase or
location in the human body. That is why it
receives SO many notable and unique en-
dorsements.
Address The Peruna Drug Mfg Co., Co.
lumbus, Ohio for free literature on catarrh.
~ mn
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Champion Liar Found.

The Manila American has discovered "the
champion circulation liar" He is acting as
editor Of the laundering Dawn, Buddhist
greeting to the public,
This paper has come from eternity. It
starts its circulation with millions and mil
lions of numbers. The rays of the sun, the
beams of the stars, the leaves of the trees,
the blades of grass, the grains of sand, the
hearts of tigers, elephants, lions, ants, men
and women are its subscribers. This journal
will henceforth flow in the universe as the
rivers flow and the oceans surge"
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Keep the Pig Gaining.

The pig should never be permitted
to spend a day without an average in
crease in weight. When pig becomes
settled in the habit of making daily
Tor rather constantly gains, he will
not cease if we'll fed; whereas if the
habit is interrupted by period OF
short rations, under the impression
that he will gain faster when well fed,
the feeder will find that he was mis-
taken, and that he will not fatten
nearly SO fast as if he had been we'll
fed all his life.-Farm and Ranch.
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the game
As and it with The latter
ryeca and the of poetry the former is brutal brutalz
ing Rowing develops metcay and this physical symmetry
marred when the opposing teams against each other.
But take football Twenty-Five will develop themselves by
hard training and right living until they Apoos physical
beauty Then they go into the field and spoil all their symmetry by great
pads of leather They destroy their beauty and dgre their
with great pieces of rubber that all semblance form
divine lost And then gods after the game behold the sfgured
countenances the manned and famed bodies the dsveed
the and dirt of the field rubbed through the skin and
quverng flesh laid bare by the game they
pile another and grind each into the unendy ground
meath Surely there is nothing eevang in the game football
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Grateful woman.

After expressing her gratitude to all who
administered to my dear husband in his
fatal sickness Leavenworth women adds,
in her card of thanks: And especially the
accident insurance agent, Mr.. Fairlock, who
assures me that congestion of the stomach
comes under the head of accidents. Kan
sas City Star.
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The Enect of sleeping i'm Cars.

Is the contracting of cold, which often
results seriously to the lungs. Never
neglect cold, but take in time Tayior's
Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and
Mullein-nature's great cough medicine.
At druggists, 25c., Soc, and $l.OO a
bottle,
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-12-19
Time to call a Hall
BY SAMUEL GOMPERS,
President American Federation of Labor.

realize that some strikes may be mis-
takes and hurtful, since the maintenance OF
industrial tranquility when reinforced by
thorough and intelligent organization of the
workers, may accomplish much greater sue
cess on the road to the wage earners' ma
terial improvement
1t is for these reasons as we'll as to main
tain industrial peace, agreement with our
employers for the establishment OF more
riehtful relations between u.s. that we advo-
cate and stand for Cancellation and arbitration
before a resort to the strike.
The attempt to force the trade unions
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jealous, Probably.

"Yes; he proposed Miss Passay con-
tinued, blushing, "and when papa came into
the room he found me in Mr.. Higgins
arms"
"Ah, now / see," excla imed Miss Speitz
II wondered what your, father meant to-day
when / heard him telling my father that
Mr. Higgins had an old head on young
houlders!-Stray Stories.
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FootbaH an OHense to Art
BY PROF. T. D. GOODELL,
or Yale University.

OOTBALL is all offense to every artistic instinct 1t
brutaizing, demoraizing, destructive and degrading
There is absolutely nothing in the game from lineup to
finish which is elevatng inspiring the best impulses or
ambitions
The popularity of football is the chief of the I'M
developed aesthetic of the modern public 1t acts as
deterrent to the realization of higher and better and more
noble type of civilization The finer artistic instincts of the
buned by the wild rough desperate conflict OF
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-12-19

termed industrial organization is of the
history the labor the best conceptions OF
and lead to the confusion which
prcede disruption. is time for the American Fed
Grafton Labor soemny call halt is time for fellow
unonists grave responsibilities help the
expansion lest either by their Indifference
agemen their organization will be drawn that will engu
them o their possible ACKNOWLEDGMENT and destruction
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-12-19

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infalli.
BILE medicine for coughs and colds.-N. w.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-12-19

Rescuer (who has hauled fisherman out
of the riIyerl-"'Ow did yer come to fall
in, mate?" Fisherman-"Phew! | didn't
come to fall in, you fool, came to fish"
Judy.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-12-19

Tess.."He was pleased to say | sing like
bird" Jess-'I heard him say that to
you, and just after that he began to talk 10
me about owls and their habits "-Philadel-
nnia Press
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consciously performed tor its sake.
My little Tommy has started his serious life At
he stretches raxe produces his voice. walks
twists balances bites and if he knew three times much
the various integral of practical and all around physical eduea
ton expounder system course among other excel
lent points he attends his play andf animals do feel pleasure
enjoys His play exercises the important muscles of his body and
also exercises all the mind he possesses
1t should be the first claim of good play whether of animal
child that good exercseta
the organs and their muscles before Serious has and power
to<pervert them.
The claim of the good play child
NAL that developsalso before serious life has time power
what for of better word shall call the paysp
But when Prof Groos the word play he aud ideas
which the of animals rarely distinguish but which
case of children and adults Most play
children and adults generally discriminate between they
have become differentiated in order that each may developed
completely because independently 1t time for them
bined alternated But first let them separated
Here child myself for instance, yet nearly cured) with
nostr much closed shoulder high the head pong
wards the spine abnoaly curved and the hands cenched
and The child games chiefly right handed and
jumps and general benefit from the pyspi the
the and and breathing But does follow that the
special defects remedied.
1t duty of first consider why provided
infancy and youth and if the be- Largely
play and prepare for all around life including all
health and happiness then provide that youth only appo-
pirate games and athletics and opportunities for hn
appropriate physical education play the broader sense trains
for fitness e government attend play to
survive and succeed.
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Nobility of character manifests itself at
loopholes when it is not provided with large
doors. Mary E. Wilkins