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The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
ANOTHER SCARE
At WORLDS FAIR
Occupants Of New York and Ohio
PaviliOns Routed Out BY Fire.
DAMAGE WAS MERELY NOMINAL
Discovered Before It Had Gained
Much Roadway, and subdued By
Employees with the Aid OF
Chemical Engine.

St. Louis, Nov. 22.-Thirty persons,
many of them women, were rudely
reused from sleep in the New York
and Ohio state buildings on the Ter
race Of States at the Worlds fair at
2:30 O'Clock Monday morning when
small blaze was discovered in the base
ment of the New York building, and
made hasty preparations to save their
effects.
Several hundred other persons sleep
ing in other state buildings, and WV
idly remembering the fate of the Mis-
souri, building, were also aroused and
hurried to the streets as four fire en-
gines reached the scene.
The fire was discovered by J. s. Mil
bourne, Jefferson guard, and while
Hugh Baldwin, Waterman, ran to
turn in the alarm from the Ohio build
ing, Milbourne broke in the doors Of
the New York building and rushed in
to awaken the occupants.
Mrs. Dore Lyon and Mrs. Ruth APP
pleby, hostesses, and Mrs. Lyons
daughter, Miss Grace Lyon, were sleep
ing in the south end Of the building
on the second floor.
Mrs. Charles A. Ball and Mrs. Lewis
Nixon, wives of commissioners, were
also sleeping in the building.
Edward H. Hartman, president of
the commission; William Berri, vice.
president; Edward Lyman Bill, treas
urer; Charles A. Ball, secretary and
chief executive officer; Lewis Nixon
and Frederick r. Green occupied their
apartments.
Several guests of the commissioners
also occupied rooms on the second
floor. Besides, there were several maids
and number of servants.
When the members of the commits
sion were aroused, hasty gathering
of valuables began.
Meanwhile, with the arrival Of the
fire department, came the hundreds
from surrounding state buildings, who,
awakened by the cries of fire and the
gongs of the fire engines, at first
thought their own buildings were
burning,
IHey hurried 10 the new 1orh DulIu-
ing, and when they found that the
occupants were aroused, fingered until
they saw the flames in the basement
darkened and the firemen come out.
Then they returned to their beds.
Chemicals of the firemen completed
the work of the building employees.
The fire was caused from crossed cleo
trio wires. A few storage boxes were
burned out and the rafters were
scorched. The damage is estimated at
$50.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
THE NEGRO PORTER DID II
Mystery Of the Disappearance Of
$4,000 at chickasha, IT., Solved.
The Negro Porter Suddenly Haa
Money to Invest, Was Arrested
and Has Confessed.

Chickasha, /. T., Nov. 22.-Owens
Fitzpatrick. a negro, was arrested here
Sunday night for having robbed the
Citizens national bank of this place
Of $1,000. Fitzpatrick was porter of
the bank and was fully trusted. He
held the position for number of
years, and was an intelligent negro.
Over a month ago package Of cur
rency containing $1,000 was taken
from the bank, and the closest watch
and investigation failed to throw any
light on its disappearance. The bank
officials kept the matter quiet, hoping
that the guilty party might be discov-
cred or the money found.
Sunday Fitzpatrick, who is usually .
steady, sober negro, imbibed little
too freely, and going to Attorney Well
bourne, who has an Office in the bank,
and is also the banks attorney, asked
him If he knew where he could in
vest $4,000, as his mother in Fort
Worth had just died and left him that
amount.
Melbourne, who knew Of the missing
money, went at once to Cashier Ed F.
Johns, who took the $4,000 which Fitz-
patrick had with him, telling him he
could invest it, and asked him if he
had any more. Fitzpatrick told him
he had some, and gave Mr.. Johns an
order on his wife for the balance. Mrs.
Fitzpatrick. gave him what was left.
Mr.. John returned and at once had
Fitzpatrick arrested, and he confessed
to the theft. He was placed in Jail to
await further action. All the money
was recovered except $140.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
G. & S. ]. to Make an Exhibit.

The Gulf q Ship Island Railroad
Company has determined to make
an exhibit of all the various pro-
ducts in its territory at the State
Corn and Cotton Carnival to be held
in jackson, beginning the first week
in December. The company has ap-
pealed to the people of every station
along its line to use every effort to
have that particular station and it's
vicinity excel in it's exhibit. 1t also
appeals to the farmers, merchants,
manufacturers, lawyers, doctors,
fruit and truck growers to see that
the exhibits from that section Of the
State will at least equal that from
any other. All the people are urged
to organize and agree upon what can
be sent from each vicinity, and are
asked to communicate freely and
frequently with J. H. Bouslog, the
industrial and immigration agent of
the road, at Gulfport. The people
along the line should properly APP
preciate this action on the part Of
the railway people.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
PEOPLE IN PASSING.

Former President Steyn. who is now
in Paris, is still paralyzed in the hands,
and cannot keep his eyes open long with
out pain.
Henry M. Dellinger, of Washington,
D. c., aged S3, fitted up the expert
ment station at the national capitol
for Morse, inventor of the telegraph.
The United States senate will have
among its members at the next session
five former cabinet officers Senator's
Knox, Teller, Alger. Proctor and hi
kins.
Moses Myers, of Quinton, N. J., is the
Oldest glass blower in the United
States. He is 20 years old and still
active. He has Is children, and has
just taught his youngest-son the trade.
BY a special mandate Of the Shah
Of Persia David K. Francis, president
of the Louisiana Purchase exposition,
has been decorated with the order Of
the Lion and the Sun, the highest in
the kingdom Of Persia.
Henry Merwin Shrady has been in
trusted with the modelling Of the Grant
memorial to be erected in Washington
at a cost Of $250,00 Shrady's father
was the physician who attended Gen.
Grant in his last illness.
DR.. otsuka. director OF the Kiusiu
imperial agricultural experiment sta
ton Of Japan, is in New Orleans at the
request Of his government to study rice
culture and the methods employed Id
Louisiana in the raising and refining
OF sugar.
MRS. Jessie Broadfoot. maid for
many years in the home Of Thomas
Carlyle, died in Scotland the other
day, aged III She always denied the
allegations as to the unhappiness Of
Carlyle's married life and declared
that he was the easiest man in the
world to serve.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
About Weather Forecasts.

So many of our people being SO
little acquainted with the real SCI
ence of meteorology, or the art of
weather prediction, and as Uncle
Sam has established this branch Of
the government service particularly
in the interest of the farmers Of the
country, we give place below for the
following article on weather Fore
casting" from the pen of Mr.. w. s..
Belden, section director of the.
United States weather bureau sta
toned at Vicksburg. Considering
this subject, Mr.. Belden says:
Although much progress has re-
Gently been made in the development
Of the science of meteorology which is
today making for itself a place in our
leading high school and college cur
riculums, yet no meteorologist, noted
for his scientific attachments, will at
tempt to make weather forecasts for
more than two or three days in ad-
vance. Notwithstanding these facts,
there are within our broad domain a
few men who, for personal gain, seek
to prey upon the credulity of the public
by representing themselves as being
especially weather-wise, or@as having
within their possession some mysteri
Gus power whereby they are enabled
to forecast weather changes for
month or a year in advance. Some
times men of this class attempt to
represent that their forecasts are in
a large measure dependent upon infor-
nation obtained from a scientific
branch of the government, in order
that they may thus gain standing with
the press, which will enable them to
disseminate their nefarious forecasts
and secure remuneration for the same.
Those who will carefully investigate
for themselves by comparing those So
called long-range forecasts with the
daily weather, will soon become con-
WINGED that there is no reliance to be
placed in them. Almost any person
with average intelligence and an ele-
mentary knowledge of the movements
weather forecasts that will reach just
as high percentage of verification
as those made by men who have Sc
cured notoriety for their supposed
wisdom in forecasting weather
changes.
The most erudite meteorologists, in
both Europe and America, have
thoroughly investigated the subject of
long-range forecasting with view of
establishing, if possible, some rela-
ton between weather causation and
any one of the following named phe-
nomena: Planetary movements, vary
ing positions of the moon, increase
and decrease of sun spots and appar-
ent variation in solar intensity. In no
case has the desired relationship been
established. Prof. w. M. Davis, of
Harvard College SAYS in SneakinP of
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
Mississippi State News

the influence Of the moon upon the
weather: 1.-THE more closely the sub.
ject Is investigated, the less reason
there appears to be in the popular be-
lief that the moon exercises any sig.
nificant control over the weather"
In the light of present knowledge,
weather forecasting, although limited
to two or three days in advance, Is
nevertheless recognize as being OF
great value. and has, therefore, been
authorized by the leading govern,
ments of the world for the benefit OF
agriculture, commerce and navigation
Within the United States there are
about 100 weather bureau stations,
each equipped with standard meteoro
logical instruments and operated by
one or more trained observers. Twice
daily q am. to pm. Central time)
weather observations are made and
telegraphed from each of these sta
tons to the central office at Washing
ton, D. G. BY special arrangements
with telegraph companies large part
of these reports is also received at
nearly all the weather bureau stations
throughout the country. At each Of
these stations receiving the teie-
graphic reports elaborate charts are
Immediately prepared graphically rep
resenting the weather conditions that
prevailed at the moment observations
were made. Upon these charts as q
basis, trained and experienced fore
casters of the weather bureau make
definite weather forecasts for period
varying from thirty-six to forty-eight
hours in advance for all parts of the
United States, the States being sub
divided in case the kind of weather
indicated for one portion of a State
differs from that indicated for another
portion. The forecasts thus made arc
very rapidly disseminated by tele
graph, telephone and mail, at govern
ment expense, to more than 100000
addresses, and also printed in nearly
all the daily papers of the country.
While no efforts have been spared to
increase the accuracy of the fore
casts to the highest possible degree.
still there remains an element of
error amounting to about fifteen per
cent. In order to overcome some OF
the difficult problems that lie in the
path of further improvement in fore
casting the chief of the weather blu.
reau has built and equipped an obser-
vatory at Mount Gather, Virginia,
where meteorological research work
may be carried on under the super
vision of the most able scholars OBJ
tainable. This observatory is the
only one of it's kind in the world.
The solution Of problems such as re-
late tn solar nhvSics and tnrrpstria1
magnetism and the exploration of the
upper atmosphere by means of kites
and balloons will undoubtedly yield
fruitful results. Indeed, the time may
come when it will be possible to make
seasonal forecasts on a truly scien.
tific basis, w. S. BELDEN,
Section Director,
Vicksburg, Miss.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
Establishing Laundries.

During the past month nearly a
dozen laundry corporations have
been organized at various points in
Mississippi, and the charters for
warded to the governor for approval.
The activity in laundry organization
is attributed to the difficulty in get
ting negroes to do family washing,
and in many communities citizens
have become so disguised with this
kind of trouble that they have de-
termined to organize these laundry
companies and cater especially to
family work.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26

Investigation of the votes received
by reform candidates in different states
and cities conclusively implies that, in
local affairs, citizens are beginning to
have less respect for politics. No doubt
they are as sincerely devoted to their
parties as they ever were; but they
have reached an opinion that parties
are not representative unless tickets
and platforms stand for progress.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26

After all, Gen. Stoesel may not be
entitled to the credit of the splendid
defense Of Port Arthur. Late advices
are to the effect that Gen. Fock Is
the man who planned the works, and is
responsible for the conduct Of all OPP
erations in and around the port Fame
is coy Jade, and Is hard to hold. even
after having been achieved. Even
though Stoessel may not md his tomb
ct Port Arthur, 1t Is perhaps safe to-
say that he can trust to history to do
him justice.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
Municipal Elections.

In quite number of towns in the
State municipal elections were held
on the same date as the presidential
election, and Secretary of State
Power is now receiving the names Of
the new officials thus selected, and
will issue commissions within the
next few days. These elections
were held in towns not operating I'M
der the code chapter on municipali-
ties. Towns of the latter class hold
their regular elections in December.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26

Advices have not yet confirmed the
killing of Gen. Kuroki and the Rus
slams are not insistent The world is
hopeful that it will not be confirmed.
Such men deserve to live until nat
urally called for. The true soldier,
however, knows that no death is more
glorious than that which comes to him
upon the battlefield.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26

The struggle between the Free Kirk
and the Wee Kirk is not the only
trouble in Scotland at present. The
Scots have been celebrating Bannock-
burn and passing resolution. They
are irate because Edward VII. of Eng
land claims likewise to be the Seventh
Of Scotland. He is only the first Ed
ward to reign over Scotland, SO the
Scots conscience rebels at untruth and
monarchical presumption.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
Eggs and Poultry High.

Although Mississippi produces
more poultry and eggs than any
State in the South, proportionate to
population, the market prices Of
these products are unusually high
for this season Of the year. Fresh
eggs are selling from SOC to s5c 4
dozen on the Jackson market, and
chicken is 50 high as to be beyond
the reach Of the average family and
these prices have prevailed 50 long
that they are considered permanent
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26

Commandant Jan Louw, the Boer Of
f1cer who refused to lay down his arms
when his countrymen surrendered to
the British, and who fed to the Long
berg mountains on the borders of Ger
man West Africa with his band of
burgher fighters, has been successfully
resisting the combined English and
German forces in South Africa for
more than two years.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
SOUTHERNER's SUGGESTION
An Ex-COnfederate Soldier and
Southern Democrat Makes q
Radical Suggestion.

Atlanta, Ca, Nov. 22.-Julius L.
Brown, capitalist, son of Georgia's late
secession governor, afterward senator,
Joseph e. Brown, in a public letter,
urges that President Roosevelt's cleo
ton be made unanimous by giving him
the votes of the electors in the south
ern states.
In a series of propositions, Mr..
Brown says the south can not afford
to array itself against the north; that
the president has been unjustly at
tackled for entertaining Booker T.
Washington; that the negro is here to
stay because the south does not want
him to go; that the Philippines are
going to remain a part of the United
States, but the democratic party has
been upon all sides of many questions
since 1886. For these and other rea-
sons Mr.. Brown, who is a lifelong
democrat, a veteran of the civil war
on the southern side, concludes as fol-
lows:
GAS we can not fight the north with
arms as in 1876, for the south has
been broken, and no one wants solid
south against a solid north, l am ga
ing to make very radical sugges-
ton, which know will raise a storm,
and that is that since everybody con-
cedes President Roosevelt to be good
man, strong man, and man o.
good intentions that our candidate
and our democratic executive commit
tee request all of their democratic
electors to cast their ballots for Pres
ident Roosevelt.
'By this they will make his election
unanimous, and thereby show to the
north that the south is not fighting
them, and that it is not the purpose
of the south, broken, as it is, to make
a mere factional opposition, but that
we recognize the existing state of
affairs. Moreover, that this action
would make the south bloom, and
u
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26

The Chinese minister Souen Pao XII,
has come out as an advocate of apply
ing Secretary Hays open-door policy
to Manchuria. The minister belongs
to the liberal, progressive element, and
has recently addressed memorial to
the throne, urging the gravity of the
questions which will arise when the
present war ends, particularly the
maintenance of China's sovereignty
over Manchuria.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
His Heart Was Always Rioht.

Hon. Charles Scott, of Bolivar,
who was awarded the grand prize for
cotton at the st. Louis fair, has do.
mated the prize bale to the Soldiers
Home at Beauvoir. 1t will be raf-
fled, and the proceeds given to the
old soldiers.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
YeIIoyy Feyer IN Cuba,

washington, Nov. 22.-Yellow fever
has broken out in Cuba. Four cases
have recently been reported through
the Marine hospital service of the
United States. Two Of these have been
at Punta de Sal, across the bay from
Santiago de Cuba, and two at Havana.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
A Veteran Voter.

Attala county claims the honor Of
having one of the oldest voters in
the State. DR.. J. W. Scarborough
has voted the straight Democratic
ticket since 1910, a period of fifty
four years. His first ballot was cast
for William Henry Harrison in that
year, and he has not missed casting
his ballot in a presidential election
since that date. DR.. Scarborough
lives at Kosciusko, and is man
with many friends.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26

The national house of representa-
tives is to have another Mormon case
to settle. If any further evidence is
needed to show that the Mormon
church organization is determined to
continue its political activity it has
been given in the election of a bishop
of the church, Thomas H. Merrill, who
is an avowed polygamist.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26

At Port Arthur Gen. Stoessel has
INDICATED the German character. No
man could have made a more gallant
defense or more stubborn stand. He
has done all that could be done, and
in his present straits will have the
personal sympathy of all brave men,
and all will hope that, instead of find-
ing tomb at Port Arthur, he will yet
live many years to enjoy the honors he
has SO richly earned at that place.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
New Dairy Farm.

H. R. Ihrie, of Meridian, who is
establishing large dairy farm in
the western suburbs of jackson, ex-
poets to have the establishment in
partial operation within three OF
four weeks. The concern represents
an investment of over $4,000.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26

The Boston Herald thinks that when
the war correspondents tell us that the
condition of things within besieged
Port Arthur calls for the pen of a lola
or the brush of Verestchagin ade-
quately to describe the awfulness
therein, it is about time for the long
postponed surrender. Both the gentle
men referred to are dead,
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26

Twelve million six hundred thou
sand is the estimate of the number of
the famous Rocky Ford cantaloupes
shipped from the Rocky Ford district,
in Colorado. this season. Seven hun
dred cars we're sent out, as against 592
carloads the previous year.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26

With the handing of a check for
s191, S51.81 to the United States treas
ury authorities, November is, the gov
eminent lean Of $4,60O,0OO to the
Worlds fair was fully discharged. This
loan enabled the management Of the
fair to conduct 1t ON the largest posi-
BILE scale and to give the millions Of
visitors the most for their money In
its repayment, the bulk OF the money
from admissions and concessions has
been used.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
stafehouae Furniture.

The work Of installing the new
steel furniture at the Statehouse is
progressing steadily, and will be
completed within the next ten days.
Secretary Of State Power is now ex-
pecting the arrival Of the new desks
and chairs for the legislative halls,
which are being turned out at the
factory. Specimen desks have been
received BY Hon. n. 3. BlakesIee,
superintendent Of the capitol, and
the workmanship il frstrClass.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26

Sir Ernest Cassell, the Anglo-Ger-
man financier, is coming to America.
He is of German birth, but natural
lied Englishman, and is the man who
furnished the monetary backing for the
construction of the Nile dams at AS
Souan and Assiout,
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26

The imperial court at Pekin is con-
sidering certain measures for reform,
and it is quite possible that one of
the chief results will be an extension
of the open-door policy to Manchuria,
and certain other parts Of the empire,
which thus far have been outside the
range of the open door.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
Stock Law in Carroll.

Citizens of Carroll county arc
complaining of the non-enforce-
ment of the stock law. The county
has had stock law ordinance for
many years, but the measure has al
most lapsed into disuse, and some of
the citizens have started an agita-
ton for its rigid enforcement.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
Laborers strike For . Raise.

Easton, Pa, Nov 22.-About 400 la
borers, mostly Hungarians, employed
at the Vulcanite cement mills at Vul-
canite, N. j., three miles from here,
have struck for more pay, and Sheriff
Parker of Warren county, and the
Phillipsburg police force are guarding
the works.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
Silver Creek Growing.

The governor has received petit
ton from the citizens of Silver
Greek asking that the place be raised
from a village to town. The CEN
sus recently taken shows that Silver
Creek has a population of 619 peo-
pie. One year ago, when the con-
struction Of the new Mendenhall-
Columbia branch of the Gulf & Ship
Island road was commenced, the
place was not on the map. It is To-
Gated in very fertile agricultural
region, surrounded by fine virgin
pine forests, and bids fair to become
one of the most promising towns in
that section of the State.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-26
Misconstrned Motive.

Calvert, Jr.-I want to commend you
for your loyalty to friend.
Balty, Moore-Come again. What do
you refer to?
Il understand that when Ya5sley criti-
cised Blabsley's banquet speech you
promptly knocked Yabsley down.
YES, but that wasn't through loyalty
to Blabsley. 1t was because l had writ.
ten the speech. Baltimore American.