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The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-09-21

HiIIman and Mississippi Col
leges both of Clinton, opened with
most fiattering prospects. This
old college town has done more
for the State than any other COM
munity. The alumni Of the two
Institutions are to be found ID al
most every community of the
State. They are still doing a
great work at their old stand.
Winona Times.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-09-21

AS the result Of eighteen years
of experimenting with fertilizers,
the Agricultural Research society
of Scotland confirms The generally
accepted belief that che only min
.eral elements essentials to plant
growth are nitrogen, phosphorus
and potassium. The influence of
sulphur, calcium and magnesium
is very slight.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-09-21

The college people have been
making extensive Improvements
this summer. Besides the electric
light, steam heat and laundry
plant, which has already been
mentioned, the college building is
being enlarged By the addition Of
new recitation rooms. Blue
Mountain Standard.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-09-21

FOR SAtE: Tie town Of 1tn46l, seven miss
south d tfqckil1fen % tho 1ec. n Itele
is about % acres 81 land, with post olltE and
4 railroad sfztton on the pEQnert7 fUilI make
Ilne stock OF fruit farm Ok Il eon1d be sold ia
iQign lots al Dig Qg0iik. Thayegs
Yetl9 aurora 81
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-09-21

N. B. Turner, an aged Confed-
crate veteran, was gored to death.
By an OK at Helena, Ark.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-09-21
Mississippians Buy Their Own Land.

Columbia, Sept. is. One Of the
largest real estate transactions
ever recorded here was consum-
mated yesterday, in the sale Of
40, 1923 acres of land by the Tensas
Delta Land Company Of Chicago,
to d I. company Of capitalists from
HGreenvilIe, Miss. The considera-
ton being $S4;;447 cash.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-09-21
FIGURE III OUT FOR YOUR r

and you will soon find that BY putting
by part of your earnings In our savings
department at 4 per cent. interest
compounded semi.annually, you will
have decidedly snug sum in short
time. To keep your money IS harder
than making it, and the safe keeping is
what our savings department under
takes and does for you.
BANK OF BROOKHAVEN,
Brookhaven, Miss
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-09-21

Pierpont Morgan smokes rather
Ia good brand Of cigars. He has
them made expressly for himself
BY a firm in Cuba. They are very
large and strong and they cost
forty-fve cents apiece, even when
he buys them by the thousand.
One Of his business associates
pays eighty eight cents for each
of his smokes, but Mr., Morgan
regards this price as wasteful and
extraVagant.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-09-21

Avoid serious results of kidney or
bladder disorder BY taking Foley 5
Kidney Cure. Price Drug CO.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-09-21
Crusade in Mississippi Against Crime.

In Mississippi there is every
indication that there Is to be d
stiff crusade waged against crime.
The bench, the bar, the press and
the pulpit are speaking out. The
officers of the State are doing their
best to put a stop to it. AS long
as any people see their shortcom,
.ings and try in a manly way to
remedy them there is considerable
hope for this people. It is only
when people become besotted in
their sins and refuse to see where
ia there should be a mending Of
their ways that the danger lies.
The thoughtful men Of Mississip-
pi realize that there is far too
much crime il Mississippi, and
they are directing their attention
to a remedy for this state Of
affairs. jackson Evening News.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-09-21
TIMES ADVANCES.

may not be agree
able, vet each year
adds to our knowl-
edge while in
creasing our age.
We live and learn.
That Is why pic
| lures taken here
now are superior
to those taken a
| year ago.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-12-29
Writer Says Genius Is insanity.

According to Mrs. Kate Epson
Clark, the way to be happy, though
q genius, is never to marry. sThe
poets Wife,, said Mrs. Clark in q re.
cent address, adoes not care for poet
ry after the first week, any more than
the grocer's boy does for figs. She
never wishes to tell of the neighbor-
hoods gossip but she interrupts some
great thought Of her husbands; then
he imagines she is bereft Of sympathy
and looks for 1t in the wives and
daughters Of his nefghbors, and If he
lis handsome he usually finds 1t. The
genius should not marry. A. woman
wants her husband not his art. Cen
ius is insanity. In order to be gen
ius he lives most Of the time in d
world Of deep emotions. 1t is hard
for people Of artistic temperament to
conform to ordinary rules. Thus
divorce, suicide, drunkenness and i'm.
|pulsiye vices are found among people
of genius. The irrepressible tempera-
Ement seems to be absolutely neces.
|sary to art. si.s (
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-12-29
SWIMMING A GOOD EXERCISE.
Tests Show II Makes Greatest In.
crease in Red Blood corpuscles.

a series of experiments conducted
by DR.. Philip B. Hawk, demonstration
OF Physiological chemistry at the Uni
yersity of Pennsylvania. has proved
that swimming is the most beneficial
exercise.
AS described by the Worlds Work,
DR.. Hawk visited the dressing rooms
at the athletic field and Immediately
before each athlete left for his exer-
else drew blood from him by means
of the regularly prepared sterile
needle. Then when the athlete re-
turned to The dressing room after rum
ming, Jumping, pole-vaulting or engag-
Ing in water polo the needle would
again be brought into play and sec
.ond sample of blood drawn.
Analysis of the blood to discover
how far each exercise increased the
number of red corpuscles showed that
water polo and other forms OF swim
ming resulted in the largest increase
The swimming exercises were thus
shown to be the most beneficial, for
the greater the number Of red cor
puscles the richer is the blood Swim
ming resulted in an average increase
of "a per cent, as against II per cent
for the next best e:ercise-sh dis.
lance running.
After one of these examinations dur
Ing the athletic season, while the men
We're in the pink of condition and
exerting themselves to the utmost, DR..
Hawk found the following results, in
round numbers, from the count of the
blood corpuscles: Percentage of gain
after the 1oo-yard dash, %; 12O-yard
hurdles, 2l.5; half-mile run, IS; mile
run. IA; two-mile run, 8; broad jump,
six jumps, 10; three-minute water polo
game, 81.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-12-29
THE LAW VS.. KINDNESS.
Good Samaritan Suffers for Eccen-
tricities of Ohio Statutes.

tricities Of Ohio Statutes.
Got buzzard here?" inquired
Charles W. Heyl, deputy game war
den, of Mrs. Frank Edgerton Of South
Sixth street, according to the Column
bus, Ohio, correspondent of the New
York Herald.
Yes, sir" the woman replied.
want to sell it?" !.
sNo, sir; but you can have it If you
want it,"
.Can see it?"
Certainly; just come this way,
please"
And Mrs. Edgerton walked back to
the coal shed, where the bird was con
fined, opened the door and then walk
ed back to the house In moment or
two Heyl appeared with the buzzard
under his coat. He showed a badge
and said: Tell your husband that 1
am game warden and for him to APP
pear before Squire Lakin.'
A son Of Mr.. Edgerton, who is an
employe in the Panhandle shops, while
strolling through the fields, found a
buzzard with broken leg. The bird
was fed and kindly treated and be.
came a pet, running around the neigh
borhood as it pleased. When the fam
lily went away from the house the buzz
zard would be confined in the coal
shed.
An affidavit charges Edgerton with
having lin his possession a buzzard
not then and there being in captivity
prior to May s, 1902. and not then and
there having the permission to do the
aforesaid act.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-12-29
THE Man Who Mlaht.

My grandpa used to tell us boys
About a man he knew
Way out in northern Illinois,
In eighteen forty two;
This fellows brag of how he might
When first out west he come
Have easy bought Chicagos site
For one small jug of rum.
The felier did not trade, s
An. he'd say: Twas just a lie
The chap made up, I'm afraid:
But even though he'd looked ahead
And heard the busy hum "
VI future years. when all IS said.
1 He'd rather had the rum.
men grandpa,d laugh bit an say
AS we go down the years
No matter where extends the way.
Or how our fortune steers '3sti=
Wei surely meet the helpless wight,
At every turn, I yum - (.
Who might have bought CE:caeo's ST
For one small jug of rum. IS 80 s. e, =
--Pittsburg Post.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-12-29

tors were putting them together
measuring them very accurately;
painters were tenchipg the cheeks
with pink and lips with red. Careful
artists drassmakers shoenakers and
needlewomen7did the rest IA poet
even was engaged to teach the dolls
that could speak,
Out of q chimney as tall as the obe-
lisk came al great cloud OF smoke Il a
will order a suit of armor q cried
Walter, claiming his hands,
No, no. obody can give orders
here. Only Father Christmas has
right to give orders. Nobody obeys
any one but him. replied the angel.
Walter saw he had made mistake.
He went In quiteT grave and silent
He admired the forge, the bellows, the
red-hot iron. The smiths hammer
beat in steady time, and the loud
tones Of the anvil rang out like a song
of triumph amid the fireworks or
sparks. The Zimmerman sang to the
note Of the anvil, to help himself to
strike the iron in 9 regular beat
| Next they came to the place where
boats We're made. Such q pretty
scene!
Aswide rivulet OF blue water flowed
through a sunny meadow, and on It'll
the carpenters and engineers Of this
heavenly navy were trying the vessels
! they had just finished
There were sailing boats for fisher
men, and steamers and ironclads.
Now, come away his winged conn
panion whispered In his ear. Ut III
very late;I must be going down an
the chimneys. Make haste! NV
Together they went back to the
shining path. AS soon as they had
left the road they flew down on clouds
lsof snow which were falling. Soon
they saw steeples and roofs. WI
Here, Walter, is the town you live
in. In five minutes you viii be In bed.
I Il must take off your wings. for they
must never touch any thing earthly.
| q d 3Sss4$
Walter awoke. 3as ss
The door OF the bedroom was open
and his mother, who had Just come In,
Rugged him very tightly
The chimney place was full Of toys.
On the floor By his bed lay4a4
t page OF neat straight strokes. ~ Il: i
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-12-29

y GLOBE TROTTERS' NEW YEARS s
q Of Adventure Has Many in Positions s
IS of Discomfort


smoke on the sky line. 1t was New
raft. In couple OF hours her doctor
was giving us hearty dinner and
Stops and weak brandy and water.
This same man spent another New
Years day off Cape Horn. He sailed
from Valparaiso in a British wind
TANNER" expecting to reach his Scot
fish home in time to spend his first
Christmas there for many years. But
Gains delayed her for weeks in the
South Pacific ocean, and when she got
off Cape Horn she ran into a tearing
gale, s,llich brought her mizzen top-
mast down on deck and ripped out all
her sails. For days she drifted help
,essly, exposed to the full fury of the
western gale.
The crew labored industriously at
rigging up spare and bending new
sails 1t was task of tremendous
difficulty, for giant combers rolled
over the forecastle head continually
filing the vessel amidships with green
seas.
Suddenly in the midst Of this toll an
apprentice piped out:
Il say, fellers. this is New Years
day Have you all forgotten it?"
Delay your tongue reterted the
gr,if old mate There won't be any
New Year dinner to-day, except your
usual whack Of lobscouse.
{, -
work from the poop rail and heard the
conversation.
sCook! = he bawled out. aLay aft
here!"
The cook came out of his galley and
the captain asked what he could give
them for a fancy dinner.
IN cthin' but split peas, sir, an salt
horse and marma1ade. There amt no
turkeys in my store room. sir" he said
Lets catch one o. them birds. {,
suggested an old tar. porting to sew
eral abatrosses which were circiing
about the wake of the ship. Well
stretch a point this day and be for.
given for it. / guess,
S After several attempts an albatross
was captured with q big fshhook bait
ed with salt pork and dragged aboard
triumphantly Served up nice and
! brown and swimming Ia gravy, it
looked SO much like real turkey that
| It warmed up the mems hearts and
made them think Of the holidays they
had spent at home. But when they
tasted 1t the resemblance ceased. It
was fishy and tough. The meat was
like knotted rope yarn and the gravy
|8suggested tar. However. it was q
New Year dinner all the same, and it
was enjoyed ais keenly as the finest
feast ashore that day. Ssi1s
An American traveller, who Is well
known commercially in the West In
dies. was mixed up In one of the peren-
gnial reyoIutl Ions Of Hayti III his hot
and foolish youth. Unhaf pily, he al.
lied himself with the weaker side, and
one New Year u eve found himself one
OF a small band Of desperadoes de.
Tending the stockaded town Of Mira
goaie against 4 government army.
which outnumbefed them 81 mere
than 100 to
During the Al the GOV ,rnmens
ldiers forced their way into TIE town.
Only about thirty 81 the defend rs
were left alive
stand them up i1 u HE ana shoot
them amanded GEN 1anig Il
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-12-29

b =. Ia s
| as A grizzled, sun-tanned, hard-featured
imam, whose face bore the stamp OF
and adventure, was sitting
LIN the smoking room OF New OH
@hotel. He happened to glance at a
scalendar and saw that the day was
Dec. 81.
.By Jove!'' he exclaimed. so to-
morrow is New Years day. Unless
sSome thing happens before then, 1t Will
SSbe the quietest New Year I've spent IN
|ESBsstW enty three years.
SsSAs I'm all that time | have never been
"a near my old home in Scotland as
sSl ftn now. Often I've tried to get home.
~ &ut somehow or other New; Year has
sS iways found me in a tight corner IN
B bme out of-the-way part of the world.
asS This mans experience is typical OF
@xhat of many Of the globe-trotters in
age, when people are SO fond nd OF
sssgoing to and fro In the earth and
Walking UP and down in it, like GER
sstain parsonage in the Book OF Job.
Years day. 1897, found one
snglishman facing death From hunger
ana thirst on board life raft 300
miles southeast Of Madagascar.
Iss His ship foundered seven days be-
Tore in a hurricane. The. boats were
smashed by the fury of the waves and
some of the crew washed overheard.
ssstThe rest madea raft out of planks and
sssspars, but during the night high seas
swept over che frail structure and car
s,iIr2ed away most OF. the water and food.
syg "A IL we had left z said the man who
tent through this terrible experience,
few tins of potted meat, a
small barrel Of biscuit anrd the small
SISst OF the water casks. That was all
"A Is had to keep life in twenty-five hun
kry men. l3
M eve made it last as long as we
could, but IN four days everything was
None. Some OF the men fell into de-
$Aspair and talked about throwing them
&selves overheard Perhaps they would
have done SO, but during the night of
tine fourth day halfa dozen big sharks
swan around the raft in circles. The
sea was phospho rescent and we could
$see them plainly in the waves Of liyid
hire which they stirred up as they
swan around. Even the half-crazed
men who had talked about drowning
themselves shrank from death in 9
EShark,s NAV and stayed upon the raft.
Next morning I saw by pocket
sliary which I carried that the day was
Deo., go TO keep up the mems spirits
eI told them had dreamed we were
H9going to be rescued On New Years
day That appealed to the supersti-
Stfon inherent more or less in all sail
gors, so i kept on telling them g ship
| would come along and pick us up on
\ that day sure. until I began to believe
1T myself We even discussed grave
\ the sail ouid heaye in
sight In the morning or the afternoon,
\ and one man who said he guessed 1t
would be toward evening became quite
unpopular.
& New Years morning broke with a
! dead calm on the oily, blistering sssz
/ ana 8 blazing sky that mated our
thirst TEN fold There was not a II,
in sight all a0rning othing except
~, II N teI
cruel, cloudless sky above IS was
same In the afternoon. and onr
Ehnpes Tell a. the sun sank slowly to-
tie western horizon:
~ uBt Rs we were beginning 70 de-
sn one of the men screamed hyster.
sad pointed ~ 4 thin trail s ~
III Is
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-12-29
Thank God for Christ.

Fun nineteen hundred years
OF history
!. OF human joy and tears, gs$;g
( And mystery IA ss
Since Christ was born.
4 Men ponder DER the past. { III
# And what may be; y.
But shall until the last.
q Imperfect see
The path they tread.
Yet as they backward look I.
And strive to seize
= The meaning of the book
y OF centuries, 5. IA 81 fiji s
s Whose store is theirs ssi95 "
Their hearts oterfow with praise
4 While creed and cant
Stand silent, and they raise
The blessed chant, k VI
Thank God for Chris.
James Le Roy Stockton.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-12-29

81 III . ( & !
But they were too weak to stand.
All OF them were wounded, half-starved
and feyer-stricken. So the govern
ment troops propped them up in chairs
and shot them as they lolled there.
Only the white man was spared, in
order that his case might be inquired
into
When he protested to Gen. Manigat
esIlnst the cruelty of shooting help
less captives that triumphant warrior
merely blew cloud of cigarette smoke
and remarked calmly: "C'est la
guerre."
ate on New Years eve said the
American, they tried me by court
martial When / woke up on New
Years morning was in the calaboose.
sentenced to be shot at shutdown. II
wasn't very pleasant waiting. I was
quite glad when a gold-laced officer
entered the cell toward evening, with
paper informing me that his excel
lency, the citizen president had been
pleased to pardon me- in consideration
OF the request Of the American minis
ter and of the fact that it was New
Years day.
~ believe they had never intended
to shoot me. but only I'd brighten me.
for they hardly dared to touch a white.
man whose country owned navy that
might lombard their ports. Anyhow,
/ got out of Jail in time to eat my
dinner with some America and Eng
on = coHee plantation near
Mira goane. 5gsa
An American globe trotter tells how
he once spent a New Years day hunt
ing "a crocodile III Jamaica, West IN
dies.
! After a long hunt the crocodile was
found buried beneath the mud IN a
shallow bend of q river on the planta-
ton. The hunters only carried small
shotgnns, which were useless against
the beasts tough hide, covered as it
was several inches deep in mud
But the planter was man OF re-
source. He sent hurriedly for negroes
ard set them to work to construct two
strong walls of bamboo poles across
the bed Of the stream, thus inclosing
| the crocodile in a prison from which
he could find no escape.
After the walls were built every
body hid quietly in the tall grass on
the banks and waited. Hour after
hour they laid there. Their luncheon
consisted Of sandwiches and a flask Of
rum punch. Z
It was not until the end Of the att
ernoon that the crocodile, finding It
could not break through the bamboo
barriers, crept out of the water. BE.
fore it could drag the whole OF its
huge carcass out Of the mud it was
| Iassoed and fhatiiedi toward the bank BY
twenty willing hands.
81 Too surprised to offer resistance, the
beast at first suffered itself to be Ill
most dragged On the bank; hut II
taught on the edge with its forepaws
and made q desperate struggle. Twen-
lsty yelling negroes hung on TO the 9TH
ser end Of the rope, but could not drag
THAT crocodile they could only
prevent It from Hopping back into tho
water again Honors were even Id
Az last yoke Of eight oxen had to
be brought They BON Tia
beast to the bank, where Y Vas tied
around i tree and dispat
axss.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-19

Mr. J. =. Mcdowell left Sunday
ayc7ng with his four youngest chill
jrcn for Normal, ILL., whore he is
S ms 70 place them in the Soldiers
Orphans home
Miss Maymo McGHl, Of Grand
Chain is the guest Of Nisa iona Me
DOWull
Miss Dorothy Train gave a social
Monday evening in honor of Miss
iona Mcdowell and her guest Mise
Nayme McGill Cream was served
and good time reported
Mr.. W. II. Gibbons has moved into
the Mcbride property bought by Or.
Il. 0 Williams at the public sale the
9Th inst
Strawberries arc retailing three
boxes for twenty-five cents
The Ladies' Ala Society meets at
the residence Of Mrs. S. T. Williams
Wednesday afternoon
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-19
+%+++++++%++++++*
May Il, 1909.

May II, 1904.
Mr.. Charlie Vaught and best girl
attended the baptising at IndepenG.
cnce last Monday
Harry SettIemoia, the Big Four
agent at this place, went on the OK,
cursion to Terre iauto, Ind, Sunday
A large number from here attended
the baptlsing at Independence last
Monday The crowd there was equal
70 a day az tho Worlds far
Siegcl Ledforl and Aunt Jane Led
ford left Thursday for st. Louis 70
visit relatives and attend the fair
Mrs Green Gurley, of stcnerort,
visited her daughter, Mrs, Joe Potts,
Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. Henry Deyaur went to CarmI
Friday to have his eyes treated.
John Vaught is suffering from Sc,
we're attack Of illness at this writing
Quite a number attended the CRANE
Busby Bros show al Harrisburg Fri
day
L. d, Robinson, of Eldorado was
seen on our streets Monday.
Nearly everybody here viii witness
the laying Of the corner stone Of the
new court house at Harrisburg Wed
nesday and some here will attend the
commencement Thursday night at the
opera house in Harrisburg.
Misses Rosa Oliver Mary Rau, An
ME Bumgarncr and mother were tho
guests Of Eldcr John Odum and wiz
Sunday.
A large number of relatives gayc
Mr., John Baker a pleasant surpris,
birthday dinner, il being his G5rJ
birthday. All enjoyed themselves
hugely and wish him more such birtn
days.
Quite Il number of the boys VISITED
their homes in Burnsdes Sunday.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-19

NEWS FROM OUR NEIGHBORS


for the erection Of three cottages ron
the better class. When completed
they will be to let. Would that a
score others of our citizens would
so and do likewise.
The Mound City public schools
closed this afternoon with approprt
ate exercises, which were highly crec.
table to the pupils ana entertaining
TO the parents and patrons Each of
the twelve grades had exercises. rao
attendance of patrons was larger taau
for years. The term, upon the whole.
has been quite a successful one. We
are surprised and painel to note iaat
the graduating class erected to SEM
the printing for the commencement
exercises ont of town. ana even Oh;
Of the county The work could have
been as neatly executed in Noun
City or Mounds as it was done in
Anna. The commencement exercises
will transpire at the opera house en-
Friday evening, Goth inst The
names Of the graduates, eight in nun.
Der, follow: Misses Jean Sutherland.
Mayme Schiller, Minnie Boyd, Agnes
Westermann, and May Palmer, ana
Messrs, Joe Martin, Russell Taylor
and jerome Ulen
Mound City was hoDorcd in the lie.
publican state convention Geo
L. Martin was chosen assistant ser
scant at arms.
The Republican precinct primary
elections win be held on Saturday
list inst. for the selection of The soy
cral candidates for county officers &c
30 voted for in November. There ~
very little contest aud the campaign
Is tame one,
The strawberry season is fur
open and piCkers are in domanG.