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The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24
DOWIE DISPLAYS TEMPER.
Faces His First New York Audience
But Fails to Hold Them After
Curiosity is Satisfied.

New York, Oct. 19.-John Alexander
Dowie, who calls himself Elijah the
Restorer," faced his first New York
audience Sunday, and although Madi-
son Square garden was thronged at the
afternoon and evening meetings and
thousands were turned away from the
doors, he found himself confronted
with what he called new experience,
whep thousands, having evidently sat
isfied their curiosity, threw the meet
ings into confusion by their sudden
exodus before the ceremonies had more
than fairly begun. Commands to close
the doors and prevent exit were I'M
availing, and the prophet gave vent to
displays of considerable petulance on
finding that it was one thing to gather
great New York crowd, but quite an
other affair to command it's interest
after the first demands of curiosity had
been satisfied.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24
POSTAL JURY FAILS TO AGREE
Charged With Alleged Conspiracy to
Extort Bride In Postal Deals.
Two Dozen Indictments Against
Post once OHcials.

Cincinnati, O., Oct. 1S.-The jury in
the case of Daniel Voorhees, Miller and
Joseph M. Johns, on trial in the federal
court on the charge of alleged con-
spiracy to extort a bride, reported
shortly before Saturday midnight that
1t was unable to agree and was dis
charged by Judge Thompson. The trial
attracted unusual attention, as it was
the first one under the many recent
indictments for alleged frauds in the
post office department. The defend
ants were Daniel Voorhees, Miller, of
Terre Haute, Ind, formerly assistant
encouragement for the post Office de-
partment, and his friend, Joseph M.
Johns, an attorney at Rockville, Ind,
accused of conspiring to obtain bride
from John ]. Ryan and J. J. Ryan &
Co., turf commissioners, of St. Louis.
Four days were devoted to the taking
of evidence and the fifth day to the
very vigorous arguments of District
Attorney Sherman Mcpherson and As.
sistant Thomas H. Darby, for the gov
CtAuCuLS anu I1lTdIu IL. TLullSOu anu
Charles w. Baker, for the defendants.
At 11:35 p. m. the jury came in, and,
in writing, reported as follows:
eve find that we are unable to agree
upon matter of fact"
Judge Thompson then questioned the
jury as to the probability of reaching
an agreement, and on being advised
that there was no such probability
without additional instructions, he dis
charged the jury from further consid-
Grafton of the case.
While there were unconfirmed re-
ports that the jury stood seven to five
for conviction, it was generally un-
derstood in the court room that the
jury was unable to agree on the matter
of fact as to whether Miller had any
connection with the dealings between
Ryan and Johns, or as to whether
there was any conspiracy between the
defendants.
The court told the jury that there
could be no verdict, finding one of the
defendants guilty and the other inno-
cent, that both must be convicted or
both acquitted.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24
THE EAST.

In Brooklyn, N. Y, Johnson Chase
Hull, the oldest letter carrier in the
country, fell dead while standing be-
side the coffin containing the body of
his brother.
Water in the flooded districts of Pat
erson and Passaic, N. J., was receding
and no apprehension Of further damage
was felt.
In Boston the Boston baseball team,
the worlds championship by defeating
Pittsburg, leader in the National league
The New York court of appeals in
faith healing case declared that failure
to provide physician in case of sick
ness was criminal neglect.
In an address to the Methodist Episco-
pal convention at Philadelphia, Pa,
Bishop Fowler said that the encroach-
ment of Russia in the east threatened
the whole world.
Former Congressman Morgan B. Will
liams died at his home in Wilkesbarre,
Pa, aged Y years.
In Philadelphia Bob Fitzsimmons
failed to knock out Joe Grim in the sched-
illed six rounds.
DR.. Francis L. Patton has been inaug-
urated president of Princeton IN. J.)
college.
In New York interview Miss Mae C.
Wood denied that she would sue Sem
ator Platt for breach of promise.
The Dowie army of invasion, nearly
1000 in number, left Zion City for New
York, where two weeks will be spent in
an effort to convert the metropolis
Dowie and his invading hosts from
Zion City arrived in New York city.
An automobile endurance run to Pitts
burg from New York came to a close
with 81 machines in at the finish.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24
WEST AND SOUTH,

On Antietam battlefield ten monu-
ments erected by the state of Ohio, in
Guiding one to the memory of President
Mckinley, were dedicated.
In Menasha, Wis, Frederick Craw-
ford, of Oshkosh, shot and killed his
wife and wounded man named L. ].
Jourdain, and blew out his own brains.
At the age of e. years Archbishop
Kahn, of st. Louis, Mo-, died at Balti-
more. Md, of heart disease and appen-
dicitis.
In Chicago nine of the largest whole
sale bakery firms have combined, it is
said, to control the bread market.
At Kensal, N. D., the Office of the
Journal was wrecked by a gang COM
posed of the lawless element which Ed
itor Allen attacked.
John Wilson and John Kenahan were
convicted of murder at Chenille, Mont,
and sentenced to so years in prison.
Chicago business houses have begun a
crusade against gambling by clerks and
bookkeepers.
Fire destroyed the Hetzlor summer
resort hotel at Cedar Lake, Ind, and
William Potter and his wife persisted in
the flames. The couple had jusc been
married.
William Rice and Esau Jeffries, SOL
diers at Fort Morgan, Ala, were
drowned by the overturning of a yacht
The former was from Illinois and the
latter from Tennessee.
Eliza Stewart, aged 81 years, one of
the prominent temperance advocates of
the last generation, and known interna-
tionally as Mother Stewart" died at
her home in Auburn Park, Chicago
suburb.
w. ]. Bryan is said to have declared
in Sioux City, Ia, that free silver will
not be considered by the democratic con-
vention of 1904, and that substitution of
the double standard is impossible.
At Berwick, ILL.,, four men robbed the
Farmers State bank Of $4,000.
At Hamilton, Mont, Walter Jackson,
the convicted murderer of Fonnie Buck,
six-year-old boy, was taken from the
Jail by mob and lynched
In storm in Lafayette, Ind, light
ming killed Mrs. James Van Meter and
five other persons were seriously injured.
Former President Cleveland, speaking
before the Commercial club Of Chicago.
called for a new crusade which shall
rescue the political holy land from the
infide1 Of corrupt methods, and urged
all good men of every party to join in
the movement.
Complete returns give Hoffman, dem
ocratic candidate for mayor of Indian
apolis, plurality of 93S.
At the Worth track in Chicago a new
record for five and one-half fur1ongs was
set by Golden Rule, in 1:06 1-5.
At the age of 70 years Henry L. Mitch
ell, governor of Florida from 1893 to 1897,
died in Tampa.
Right of unions to demand CLOSED
shops" was upheld by President John
Mitchell of the United Mine Workers in
an address before the National Civic
Federation convention in Chicago.
In st. Louis the dairymen and bakers
are forming combine with capital
stock of $5,500,000 to purchase the
smaller concerns.
Indiana Baptist churches IN conven-
tion at Bloomington passed resolutions
denouneing senator smoot. of Utah.
Former President Cleveland was
greeted by 1000 people at public r..
ception at the Art institute IN Chicssc
Ex-Lieut. Gov. ]. H. Tillman was
quilted at Lexington, S. G., Of nude
Ing Editor n, G, Gonzales,
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24

Of the western portion Of United States
territory were placed at q most krievs
Gus disadvantage III having their COM
merce on the river at the mercy Of a
foreign country. President Jefferson
must have been extremely anxious to
secure for his countrymen right to
the free use of the Mississippi river
from its source to the sea.
"Of all national questions besetting
the statesmen of that day the control
of the mouth Of the Mississippi was the
most pressing. At first 1t was sought
20 secure by treaty the right to navi-
gate the puth Of the river, but finally
it was seen that the desired result
could only be consummated by the
purchase of territory, and it was first
proposed to secure only limited area
around the mouth Of the river.
"The negotiations, however, which
were started on that basis were en-
larged until when the Treaty Of cessioL.
was concluded 1t embraced the whole
of the French possessions Id North
America. This accession to the do
main of the United States was In Inn
portance beyond all computation, AMI
as factor in the development OF the
great republic, it is beyond all limita-
ton, and 1t passes the bounds Of the
conception of the most brilliant and
far-reaching Imagination.
But if the Mississippi river forced
the American people to seek and Sc
! cure control of it throughout its entire
extent, it also enabled the United
States III the civil war to prevent the
secession of the Southern states and
thereby save the Union. If the great
river had flowed from west to east, fol-
lowing the course of the Missouri, the
Ohio and the Potomac, it is easily seen
that 1t would furnish a most formi,!-
able obstacle to the Northern invaders,
while it would have left the Southern
people united country from the
Rocky mountains to the Atlantic ocean.
But unfortunately for the Confederates,
it cut their country in half and en-
abled the Federal gunboats to come
down from the North, and the Federal
naval l.eets to come up from the sea,
and so sever the Confederacy into two
sections that were so completely dis
connected that communication between
/ the two was rendered extremely diff
cult.
1.-THE Mississippi river is an inland
sea that perpetually guarantees the
solidarity of the Union as far as the
northern and southern sections of the
country are concerned, although it
would facilitate a division into east
and west sections.
Enough has been said to show that
from every point of view, whether prac-
teal or sentimental, the Mississippi
river is great national interest, from
which no part of the country can sepa-
rate itself. Its foods, as well as it's
navigability as great highway of
commerce, profoundly concern the en-
tire population of the United States,
and therefore the New Orleans conven-
ton merits the fullest consideration
from the people of every State in the
Union"
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24
Sample Ballot Sent Out.

Secretary of State Power last
week sent out the official ballot to
the county commissioners Of cleo
ton. This is the sample ballot
which the law requires the State
board of election commissioners to
prepare and furnish to the commits
sioners in order to instruct them as
to the proper names to go on the
ticket and the proper form in which
the ballot should be printed. The
ballot prepared by Secretary Power
will contain the names of all the
State officials nominated in the re-
cent Democratic primary, except the
clerk of the Supreme Court. For
this Office Secretary Power leaves
the name blank and instructs the
election commissioners to put in the
names of the candidates who have
been requested to be placed on the
ticket by petition.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Most of the fireproof buildings are
insured.
He laughs best who sees the point of
the joke first.
The dealer in umbrellas makes hay
while it rains.
Truth is mighty and will prevail-it
it isn't suppressed.
Apple sauce isn't good unless the
hostess made it sass"
Decollete bathing costumes are all
right as far as they go.
Some people refuse to grow because
the town doesn't grow.
The greatest test of friendship is
to tell man his faults.
The man who robs Peter to pay Paul
sometimes stands Pat.
1t looks as though Turkey would be
somebody's dark meat.
Self-important men seldom get out
of the wage-worker class.
He who would reform the world
should practice on himself.
Lots of married men think they
would make ideal widowers.
The pessimist rejoices every time he
u1earths new hypocrite.
Even the summer girl doesn't trifle
with the heart of a millionaire.
II a girl wants to shatter her idol all
she has to do is to marry him.
The people who have no opinions Of
their own are always agreeable.
An old bachelor says the weather is
almost as uncertain as a woman
II it wasn't for the small fry, there
would be no captains of industry.
An overdose of the good things Of
life is apt to make men pessimistic.
The reason some people get religion
is because it doesn't cost anything.
Many man who wouldn't make a
wife of his cook makes a cook of his
wife.
The average girl is so superstitious
she would consider It unlucky to de-
cline proposal Of marriage on Fri.
day.
No, Cordelia. it isn't The proper
caper to eat prunes with pruning
knife.
Fortunate is the man who can elm.
mate the word revenge from his vo-
cabulary.
Some marriages force one to the
conclusion that love should consult an
oculist.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24
RECEIVING WARM SUPPORT.
Press of Country Trying to Make 1t the
Largest Convention Ever Held.


Largest Convention Ever Held.
The coming levee convention, to be
held in New Orleans October q, is
receiving the warmest support from
the press of the country, and if the
press can do so, it will make the con-
vention one of the largest ever held.
The Baltimore Manufacturers Rec
ord, which has given so much atten-
ton to Southen matters, calls for an
earnest support to the convention, and
quoting from Gov. Heards address
recognizes and acknowledges the re-
sponsibility- of the Federal govern
ment in the matter.
1.-The Mississippi river" it notes, "is
above al lother rivers in the country
a national highway to the sea and to
the worlds markets, with it's impor-
lance in this respect to be increased
by the construction of an isthmian
canal" and it sees that the advance
made in the protection of the alluvial
lands of the Mississippi valley by
means of levees has been accompanied
by increased crops, increased railroad
facilities, increased population and in
creased business and industries. In
habitants of these alluvial sections
have for ten years or more been tax
ing themselves heavily for the con-
struction and maintenance of a strong
line of levees on both sides of the
river, and the work has reached a
point where those best acquainted
with all conditions are thoroughly con-
yinecd that even with appropriations
made from time to time by congress
the proper work is beyond the menas
of the people, communities and the
States Immediately affected. They
therefore rightly take the ground that
the national government is best quail
fled to assume charge of the construc-
ton and maintenance of the levees.
After reviewing the many arguments
in favor of the construction of levees
by the Federal government, the Rec
ord remarks:
upon such facts as these will be
predicated the action of the October
convention intended to emphasize the
propriety and necessity of a handling
of the POLLEN under national auspices.
The convention should have the sup
port of the people of the whole Missis-
sippi drainage basin, as we'll as those
of the whole country, so as to impress
congress and the executive with the
Importance of the project to the coun-
try and the necessity for prompt &C
ton"
Support and encouragement of this
kind will prove of material assistance
in the work of preparing for the COM
ing -Times-Democrat.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24
GEN. CHAsE's TRIAL TO-DAY.
General Court-Martia1 to Try Him
For Failure to Obey Orders of
Governor and For Perjury.

Denver, Col, Oct. 19.-Everything is
in readiness for the general court-mar-
tial that is expected to probe the ma
tionaI guard scandal. Gov. Peabody
declares that the investigation will be
vigorously pushed. The court will be
convened to-day in the senate cham
Der, and unless some change is made
in the present plan. it will be open to
the public. The case of Gen. John
Chase will be taken up first. So far
Gen. Chase is the only officer against
whom charges have been officially filed
with the court He is charged with
failure to obey orders of the governor,
conduct uni ecoming an officer and per-
Jury
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24
Epidemic Among the Children.

A matrimonial epidemic has
broken out among the children in
the Bogue Chitto neighborhood.
Last week in the Helm Memorial
church, Stephen Applewhite was
married to Miss Ionic Magee. Both
bride and groom were mere chill
dren. A few days before Jess Dunn
and Dora Burke were made man
and wife. Interest centers in the
fact that the groom was upward of
Is and his bride was turning Is.
Two other children were recently
married there, Rupert MCGEE and
Lille Perry, aged II and IA.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24
ANNUAL LIVE STOCK SHOW.
Largest Number of Pure-Bred Cattle
Ever Exhibited in Single Show
Entered at Kansas City, Mo.

Kansas City, Mo-, Oct. 19.-The fifth
annual American Royal live stock show
will open here to-day with 700 head
of pure-bred cattle entered, 200 more
than were in last years show and the
largest number ever entered in single
show. In addition to the cattle there
are $50 head of imported draft and
coach horses, 300 swine, 200 sheep and
1000 Angora goats. A feature of the
show is an exhibit of carload lots of
native and range-bred feeding cattle,
of which upwards of 100 cars are en-
tered Cash prizes aggregating $4,000
will be awarded on the carload lot ex-
hibit. The prizes to be awarded in
the show aggregate $4,000.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24
YOUTH AND AGE.
There IL q Material Difference THAT
II Not Always APP
parent.

Maitre Labor, the noted French advo.
cate who defended the Humberts, is not
remarkable in Paris so much for. the elo-
duence as for the neatness and the polish
Of his speeches.
in court one day. He says the advocates
address was full Of grace, wit, tenderness.
He quotes passage relating to old age
wherein Labor, with smile said:
"Old age--we shall none of us quite UNI
derstand that until we have attained to it
other day l visited my uncle, very aged
man.
"'What is it like, uncle said, to be
old? De-,
"And my uncle answered:
at is like this: When one Is youngS
ones polite attentions towomen are taken
for declarations of love; but when one is
old, ones declarations Of love are taken
for polite attentions"
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24

The superintendent of the Illinois re-
formatory says, in public address,
that lack of home life is responsible
for most Juvenile criminals, and that
education is the keynote of reforma-
tory training" The statement regard
ing the lack of home life is undoubt-
edly true, but that relative to educa-
ton needs qualifying. There is moth
ing particularly reformatory in mere
scholastic education. There must be
education Of the hands, the heart and
the conscience as we'll.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24
Drafting Bills for fame.

Even at this early date members
Of the legislature are beginning to
lovingly draft the bills that will
give them fame and Immortality
when they come to jackson next
year. Nearly every State officer
who has. made suggestion to the
legislature has received communica-
tions from future members, who eV-
idently want to inform themselves
for the purpose Of fathering a bill
OF that tenor.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24

Chief Justice Lore, of Delaware, who
has taken such decided stand against
lynching, is opposed to capital punish
ment. 81 would not take life for the
commission of crime" he says, "but
would put the criminal under such
restraint as would protect the people
and give him the full measure of his
day to work out such penitence and
reformation as all good influences
might produce. Life is too sacred and
too holy thing to be taken. l would
grant life so long as God spared each
one of His creatures"
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24

The case of an Indiana citizen who APP
piled for an injunction restraining his
neighbor from swearing profaneiy In the
presence of the compliments children
draws attention to the state of affairs
which exists in every city. There is too
much sscugsing" in public vehicles and
in public places. AS matter of morals
probably man has a right to swear ii
he wants to do So It is a foolish habit,
however, and though man may have
the right to swear to relieve his feelings
he has no right to infiict his profanity
upon people who do not like swearing.
There Il 20 good n II
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24

Who now has any fears as to what
next winter will bring forth? The buck
wheat crop is an immense one, and there
is enough Vermont maple strip on
hand to assure the proper trimmings for
all the flapjacks that can be turned out.
Let joy be unconfined. Another great
American institution retains it's grip un-
relaxed on the heart, mind and stomach
of the country,
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24
Everything VIII Be New.

The many bids for furnishing the
halls of the two branches of the leg
islature which have been recently re-
ceived by the Capitol Commission
seem to indicate that the commits
sion will be relieved of the dilemma
of having to leave the rooms unfur-
nished and have the Legislature meet
in the new halls with the old desks
and chairs.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24

The annals of crime scarcely furnish
a more insoluble mystery than the
double suicide which occurred at In
dianapolis. Two young men in good
health, close friends, of good habits,
both with paying positions and enjoying
the confidence of their employers, com
mitted suicide within few hours of
each other without leaving the slightest
clew to the cause. Whatever it was they
took their secret with them.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24

Alaska is constantly treating us to
surprises. Now it is reported that de-
posits of tin ore have ben found in the
Nome district. and that the ore promises
to pan OUT as richly as any in the
world heretofore known If this prove
TO be the case it will add another to the
great natural resources of the United
States and help to make it still more
independent of other regions. Tin is pro-
duced in small quantities in various
places in this country, but the principal
supply for America and for other locali-
ties comes from the Straits Settlements
of Asia.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24

The Boston Herald reports that at a
recent dinner an Englihsman asked a
Harvard graduate how many states
there were in the union and he replied
48. A graduate of Yale confirmed the
Harvard mans statement. OF course,
the graduates of other colleges know
without looking whether 4S is the num-
her
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-24

Permit us to indulge in a few cheers
for the American hen. AS a student of
the census figures has shown, the poul-
try and eggs produced and consumed
in the United States last year were
worth more than all the silver and gold
mined in the world during the year.
The eggs and poultry product exceeds
in value the wheat crop of % of the
most productive states of the union.
Let us honor the hen. She is an i'm
portant member of American industrial
society.