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The leader., 1905-06-24
Fourth d July al HOdeman's Grove.

i As previously stated, the Brook
haven Cornet Band and the Stone
lwall Guards will unite in d cele
Ibration on the glorious Fourth al
lHodgman's Grove. The follow
ling prizes have been offered by
our business men:
Best looking lady on The
grounds Lady's hat, by Johr
| McGrath q Sons.
Best lady dancer $5 gold piece,
by Commercial Bank.
| Best lady singer pair lady's
81 Oxfords by E. Cohn & Bros.
Best Fourth of July Grafton
Fine hat by Hartman Mercantile
Co.
One hundred yard foot race fol
men of 200 pounds or over
pair fine shoes, by A. G. Seavey
& Sons.
Prettiest girl baby. to 2 years
II dozen So photos by w. J.
Layton.
Best drilled man, National
Guard only $3.50 hat by Max
|Priebatsch.
Second best drilled man $3.50
IN merchandise by S. LewenthaI
& Son.
Boys race, geo yards, - years
and under - | boys suit by
Abrams Bros.
Heaviest baby under year
gold neck chain by A. Staffler.
Homeliest man SIS in gold by
Bank of Brookhaven.
Mems race, 200 yards $2.5
merchandise by r. H. Hamilton.
Tallest mani pair fine shoes
by Parsons, May, Oberschmidt
Co.
Best marksman, members Ma
tional Guard only-$5 razor with
combination strop case by f. B.
Noodle.
Best man dancer, country style
~ barrel flour by Moreton,
Wentworth Co.
Boys race, 200 yards, 13 years
and under 1871 pair fine pants
by G. BoWsky.
SWEETEST dressed lady on the
grounds / bottle Hudnut's fine
perfume by G. E. Grafton Drug
Co.
Drinker Of most pop in / hour
II case pop by Brookhayen Ice
Co.
Drinker most pop all day 2
cases pop by Brookhaven Ice Co.
Girls 100 yard race, - to Is
years So. so soda tickets by Price
Drug Co.; 2nd-2 pounds Nun
nally's candy by j. NJ. Wood, the
Grocer.
For three legged race mems
fine belts by G. Heuck Z Son.
IIs44..s.-st h.sss h4Lss 4 krs q = q !. 50
old-1 dozen $5 photos by I. A.
Fosby.
The leader., 1905-06-24
Table Linen.

IOr for SIS in. bleached, all
1O linen damask special val
ues for the price.
Toe for y in. bleached. all
~ linen damask, worth S1.oo
per yard.
The leader., 1905-06-24
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!

State Superintendent Whitfield
has called a conference of the
State institute conductors to be
held at the Mississippi A. and M.
College beginning July 3rd and
continuing through the last two
weeks of the summer school. AT
this conference the authors of the
text books recently adopted for
use in our public schools and 9TH
er textbook specialists, will be
present to explain these books and
to give helpful suggestions in ref
erence to methods Of presenting
the subject matter of their respec-
tive books in the schools. The
best available lecturers in the va
rious lines of agriculture will be
here to address these men, and an
attractive course of open lectures
is being planned.
These are vital features of our
work and will provide a source OF
inspiration and life that will mean
much to the progress of our rural
schools. Those teachers who may
be unable to attend the entire term
of the Summer School here ale
urged to be present during these
last two weeks and to get the ben
eft Of these most interesting and
helpful phases of our work.
The railroads have offered a
rate Of one fare plus 25 cents fol
the round trip. Board and Iodg-
ing are only $3.50 per week as
already announced.
Very sincerely,
D. g. HULL, Director.
The leader., 1905-06-24
Welded to a Habit.

Robert Z. Taylor, the much
married ex-governor of Tennes-
see, is never averse to joke even
when it is on bis genial self. just
now he is telling this one:
Upon the occasion Of his most
recent marriage, late in the fall Of
1904, he was, he says, somewhat
puzzled as to the fee be should be-
stow upon the East Tennessee
parson who tied the nuptial knot.
Whispering bis dilemma con6den-
tally to a friend, Gov. Bob with
difficulty suppressed bis laughter
at the following advice, Why mol
give him just what you are accus.
toned to paying = Woman's
Home Companion for June.
The leader., 1905-06-24
McGrath's Bic Store Struck by Light
mind.

During a thunderstorm Wed.
nesday, lightning struck a Chin
ney of the big McGrath store and
bad a somewhat stunning effect.
Two men standing on the corner,
one with his hand on an iron post,
were badly shocked, and the um-
brella of one of them knocked out
into the street. The only damage
done to the building was the
knocking of a few bricks of the
corner Of the chimney. The spe-
cially fine June bargains on the
inside suffered only brief inter
ruption.
Nearly everybody in town was
startled by the sudden, terrific
clap of thunder which proclaimed
the lightning stroke.
The leader., 1905-06-24
Yours truly,
CHAS. P. NEFF.

Mr.. D. g. McLsurin. general
secretary Of the Illinois Central
Railroad Department Of the
Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion at Canton, was visiting
BrookhaVen relatives this week.
The Leader is indebted to hlm for
an appreciated call on yesterday.
The leader., 1905-06-24
Marriage Licenses Issued During the
Past Week.

j. Fl. Beavers and Mrs. Maggie
Mcmillan; J. Fl. Jones and Miss
Willie Sutton; Vim. A. Alfred and
Mrs. Manda Boggs; Thos. w.
Chisholm and Mrs. Ada Davis
Smith; E. g. Hayman and Miss
w. 0. McCaffrey; Louis Thomp-
son and Miss Florence Kirkfeld.
Colored -Silas Miller and Char
lotte Rollins; Henry Lewis and
Vance Brown; Giles May and
Georgia Bruce; Hollis Williams
and Eva Anderson; Ivory Hodge
and Detha A. Pickins; Jim Rob-
erson and Katie Gorden.
The leader., 1905-06-24
The fourth al Boeue ChittO.

The Fourth Of July will Be cele-
brated IN the usual grand style at
Bogue Chitto. Attention IS di.
rected to the special announce
Inent of the managers in today 4
paper. An attractive list Of pre-
miums is offered by business firms
of Brookhayen and Bogue Chitto,
and the best Of order Is promised
BY the management and q good
time assured 60 all who attend.
The leader., 1905-06-24
Words Of Praise for the Osyka Tan
merry Co.

The Oskya Tannery Co, Brook
haven, Miss.
Gentlemen: The set of buggy
harness made for me about 3 years
ago are still good as new, The cart
harness. etc., made for us has
seen hard service and are still ia
first class condition; ii fact, all
the work done for as is the best
we have ever had done.
Yours truly,
CHAS. p. NEFF.
The leader., 1905-06-24

d. Z. Sauls. 4 trainman Oh q To-
|cal freight, fell between two cars
near Kentwood at Kent's Mill and
was seriously injured. He was
taken To New Orleans.
The leader., 1905-06-24
Cases Before the Mayor During the
Past Week.

City VS.. w. G. Penn Disturb
ing the peace. Fined $3.50 and
costs.
City VS.. Roht. ChancelIor-As-
sault and battery. Fined $5 and
costs.
City VS.. Luther Baker Assault
and battery. Fined S. and costs.
City VS.. |. L. Scherck-A Assault
and battery. Fined $3.50 and
costs.
City VS.. John Aylward Dis
turbing the peace. Case not tried.
Nineteen persons were killed in
a wreck on the Lake Shore Rail-
road, at Mentor, Ohio. Most all
Of them we're prominent people of
New York and other cities. A
misplaced switch caused the acci-
dent.
The leader., 1905-06-24

The ]. G. Freight Office will
close at 1o q. M, Juiy 4th and re-
main closed the rest Of the day
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27
Oriental CoIors.

An oriental living in New York freed
his mind about our taste in colors with
a candor which was refreshing if not
agreeable. ''The favorite colors here
are pink, sky blue and corn yellow" he
said. "All three are hideous. They
have no character, no history. In the
east we love strong colors, especially
after they have faded into soft, remi-
niscent tones. Our pinks and light
blues and yellows are exquisite, having
originally been strong, rich hues. Look
at this magenta scarf embroidered in
gold which was bought in Damascus.
Is it not delightful? Yet compare it
with the magenta silk handkerchief the
Italian woman wears ON Sunday. There
is that much difference between your
pinks and blues and ours. The trouble
with you people here is that you can
not stand strong colors. We love them.
You try to manufacture the tones we
wait for time and the warm sun to
make for US. New York Post.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27


In Japan thousands are born and Gle
on boats without ever living on shore.
One Of the most interesting features of
Japanese life is the manner Of living in
boats and junks, thousands Of which
frequent every bay along the coast.
The awkward junks always belong to
the members of one family, and usually
every member Of the family, old and
young, lives On board. The smaller
sailboats are very narrow, and the sail
they never have but one) is placed
very near the stern and extends from
the mast about the same distance in
either direction.
In these boats men and women are
born and die without ever having an
abiding place on shore. They wear but
few clothes except when it rains, when
they put on layers of fringy straw
mats, which give them the appearance
of being matched. At night, if in har-
Dor, they bend poles over the boat from
side to side in the shape of a bow,
cover them with this straw and go to
sleep altogether like lot of pigs
London Tit-Bits.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27
HE COULD NOT DO 1T.

An aged man had come to the point
where he was compelled to sell the
farm upon which he had lived the best
part of his life. On this farm was a
fine grove Of trees which had been nur-
tured and cared for by him and which
were his special pride. The purchaser
desired to cut off this grove and use
the land for other purposes and hired
the old man, who remained on the
farm for a time after selling it, to cut
this timber during the winter. Along
toward spring the new owner came to
the farm to see how the timber cutting
was progressing and found to his great
surprise that not tree had been cut.
Asking the old man what the reason
was, he said that he had ground up
his ak good and sharp, had gone to the
grove and trimmed out some of the IN
derbrush, but when it came to the cut
ting down of these trees which had so
long been his friends and hearts de-
light he simply could not do it. And so
another man had to be found to do the
work. All those who love trees can
easily sympathize with this old man.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

This Lincoln story was originally
told by Frederick Douglass in his lee
ture on John Brown. Just after his
first Inauguration President Lincoln
was one day backing bis boots in dem
ocratic fashion when several foreign
diplomats called and caught him in the
act. One of them remarked sneeringly,
"Mr. President, in our countries the
chief executives do not black their own
boots" Indeed" said Mr.. Lincoln,
with evident curiosity. "Whose boots
do they black?'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27
Twenty Lashes for Wife Beating.

Portland, Ore, May 19.-The whip
ping post law passed at the session of
the legislature last January for the
punishment Of wife beaters has gone
into effect in this state. The new law
provides that man convicted of wife
beating may be punished with whip
ping, not exceeding twenty lashes, but
this is only an additional punishment
and not the exclusive penalty for the
crime, the old punishment of fine OIL
Imprisonment still being in effect
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

The extreme cold of the past winter
"a temperature Of 20 below zero
which hit a large belt of the peach
growing territory in Missouri, Kansas
and Oklahoma has probably finished up
the peach crop for this season, if it has
not destroyed the trees root and
branch. Where one has peach orchard
SO hit a careful examination should be
made Of each tree to see if the injury
extends to the trunk and root system.
If it does the tree may as we'll be sent
to the brush pile, but if the injury is
simply confined to the last seasons
growth of wood and the fruit buds the
tree may be saved by vigorous prun-
ing, cutting all of the injured wood in
May, when a new growth will be
thrown out and the tree become all
right in two or three years.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

The past winter was a very hard one
on the poor little quails. All through
the north central section of the United
States the snowdrifts were big and
deep, and the weather bitter and in
tensely cold. AS the drifts melted away
these birds would be found starved
and frozen, whole coveys in a bunch.
This is to be greatly regretted, as no
more useful or attractive birds are to
be found on the American continent.
If it were not for these serious win
ter losses the quail would soon become
one of the most common of our birds,
as it takes very kindly to the semido-
mesticated conditions of American
farm life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

The agricultural department at Wash
ington is now working on a curious
experiment A machine has been in
vented which does very successful work
in the picking of cotton where the bolls
stand erect, but cannot gather the lint
where the bolls are low down near the
ground. The present type of cotton
plant has marked tendency to grow
its bolls near the ground, and the de-
partment is now trying to develop a
type of plant which will grow more
erect-a case where the plant is to be
made to suit the machine instead of the
machine the plant.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

A friend owning a piece of poor soil
with a gravelly subsoil wishes to know
what would be the best crop for him to
plant thereon this season. He might
fertilize it thoroughly and plant it to
corn, but if it should happen to be very
hot and dry in August his crop would
fire and spoil. Probably beans would
be his best crop. The navy bean can
do more with a poor soil than any 9th
or crop we KNOWN fact, does better
on poor than on a rich soil. We had
q half acre in beans last season on a
piece of newly cleared and rich timber
soil. The vines were a foot thick all
over the field and hardly a good bean
in the lot. Melons and cucumbers
could be grown successfully on such
thin land by taking care to fertilize in
the hill
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

We know Of two acre patch Of
swamp land, the begetter and harborer
of a forest Of useless and harmful
weed growth, lying on a farm valued at
500 per acre which could be reclaimed
with twenty-five rods of thing and thus
made to produce seventy-five bushels
of corn to the acre. The question is,
Why doesn't the owner do this needed
work? Don't know. He is probably
figuring on getting more acres up in
Dakota or else does not know what he
might do.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

The use of the new harrow carts
whereon the driver can ride is com
mendable. Following a fast walking
team all day long, walking on the
yielding soil, is leg wearing business.
We believe we have been as tired
when night came at this work as any
work we ever did unless it was on a
forced march after the foe during the
war. The time has come when a man
is no longer laughed at for saving both
his legs and his arms in the doing of
his farm work.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

Through carelessness and oversight a
nuisance of no small dimensions has
been permitted to be placed on many
Of the highways Of the west in the
extension Of the telephone lines in the
matter of the setting Of the poles out
into the highway as much as four to
eight feet when they should have been
set exactly on the fence line AS it
is. they form an obstruction to the use
Of the moving machine in keeping the
highway properly cut and trimmed.
The telephone companies should be
made to reset these poles where they
properly belong.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

If the corn crop is reduced in yield %
per cent as result of using poor seed
and another loss Of % per cent occurs
by failing to save the fodder it is no
wonder the corn growers of the coun-
try don't get rich very fast.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

North and South Dakota farmers are
gradually discovering the important
fact that through much Of both states
alfalfa can be very successfully grown.
a fact which will add to the produc-
tive value of each acre whereon it can
be grown not less than $50, for wher-
ever alfalfa can be successfully grown
it will produce year after year net
return which will easily pay 10 per
cent on valuation of $100 per acre.
Every Dakota farmer should try al
falfa
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

1t is not at all an unusual thing for
the grower to put $500 worth Of com
mercial fertilizer on each acre of to-
bacco land in the Connecticut valley
This fact may seem queer to the west
ern farmer who has 500 loads Of ma
nure in his barnyard which he has not
enterprise enough to put on his fields
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

If your boy on the farm is willing to
work you want to watch out that you
do not overwork him. There are a
good many poor little stunts all over
the country because their fathers had
no sense in this matter
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

When SO very few ears Of corn are
required to plant an acre Of ground it
is sheer carele 3sness not to absolutely
know that each ear gives corn of a
perfect terminating power.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

Dodder has a seed closely resembling
that of the clover plant and is quite
frequently sown with it ignorantly.
This plant terminates in the ground
and later attaches itself to the clover
stalk, it's own root system rotting off,
after which it becomes parasite, liv-
ing off the juices of the clover, to it's
great injury. In it's peculiar methods
it reminds one a good deal of many Of
our politicians.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

One hundred and seventy-fve thou
sand people are now making COM
Portable living under most pleasant
conditions in a western state on $780,
600 acres of irrigated land which only
q few years ago was a worthless sage
brush desert-about eighty souls to the
quarter section.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

We know of one farm where this
spring 1913 healthy young pigs have
been produced from twenty-one sows
and forty-three lambs from twenty-five
ewes. On the other hand, we know Of
another farm where only thirty three
pigs were produced from twenty-six
sows, and this marked difference was
directly traceable to care and feed and
not to breed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

The building proposition is today a
very serious one where a man has to
deal with the trusts in the purchase of
building material and the labor unions
in the labor employed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

The winter SHOWS are always a pro-
tecting blanket to the soil and to all
vegetation, while the late spring SHOWS
are in a sense fertilizers in that they
carry a larger per cent of ammonia
than does the snow Of the winter sea
son.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

Macaroni wheat, because of it's rust
proof qualities, is being taken up by
farmers in the north central states, ex-
cellent reports being made on it by
Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin farm
ers who have tried it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27
GeneraI Come Improying.

Santiago, Cuba, May 19.-General
Maxine Gomez, who underwent a seri-
Gus operation recently, is improving
and it is now believed that he will re-
lONpr
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

We know Of man who, after letting
bis stock run to his haystack all win
ter, has had to buy hay of his neighbor
to carry his stock through. There is
not much that can be done for this sort
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

Out of several hundred samples Of
seed corn gathered from the farmers
all over a western state a year ago
and planted under uniform conditions
of soil and culture the ten highest yield
ed 77.46 bushels per acre and the ten
poorest 27.S9 bushels, this difference in
yield being largely owing to defective
seed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

Northern pine lumber is each year
becoming more and more knotty, and
the grade is now based upon the num-
lv-r of knots to the board.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

1t is said that great many cats are
starved to death every winter. While
this is hard OH the cats, it is mighty
good thing for the birds.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

The jackknife test for seed corn is
about as reliable as the tooth and horn
test for determining the age of the
horse and the cow There is better
and surer method. Keep the jackknife
in your pocket when it comes to test
ing seed corn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

1t was found that a man in Califor-
MIA who for twenty-four years had
cared for just one acre Of land had
not only lived well, but the probate
court when he died disclosed the fact
that he had saved up over $4,000, ana
yet lots of men are not satisfied with
100 acres. 1t is a great thing to know
how to use the land right.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27
Four Ages.

The woolly dog in babyhood
Delights our infant mind
And then in boyhoods joyful days
The yaller purp we find
Next from her fathers bulldog fierce
We haste with speed increased;
Then later, settled and sedate,
We own just such a beast.
.-McLandburgh Wilson In st. Louis tie
public.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

When cotton brings 8 cents pound
it is about the same as when corn
brings so cents a bushel
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

We feel safe in asserting that any
land in any state where alfalfa can be
grown successfully is worth easily $500
per acre, and we care not whether it
be located in the sand hills of Nebras-
ka, on the prairies Of Montana and Da-
kota or whether it be abandoned farms
in New York or Virginia Alfalfa
means meat-beef, pork, mutton and
WOOL milk and butter-and these mean
money. No man can make a mistake
when he buys cheap land which will
grow alfalfa, even though the soil may
seem to be poor and the rainfall scant.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-27

When clover hay is worth as much
as 81 per ton it will pay any man to
get cloth hay caps and cure his hay
in large cocks before stacking. At
least one-half the nutritive value of
clover hay all through the country is
wasted under the present wasteful
methods of securing the crop. We
must have clover to keep up the fertil-
ity of the soil, and we must have the
hay to help balance up the stock ra-
tons. All that is needed is some meth
cd whereby the hay crop can be cured
and secured in proper shape and with
out loss. The hay cap will do it, and
do it right.