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The leader., 1905-11-08
Deer Baeeed.

Edwards, Miss, Nov. 4.-Col.
w. A. Montgomery, the veteran
statesman, lawyer and soldier en-
gagged in his favorite pastlme OF
deer hunting with unusual success
today. With his trained pack Of
hounds he set out this morning
for his plantation in Madison par
ish, La. When within a half-mile
of the home place the dogs made
"a Jump" and the trained eye Of
the colonel showed him the largest
deer he had ever encountered.
One shot was fired and the ami.
NAL was seen to be badly wound
ed, but it escaped and chase .oi
ten miles followed. Finally the
dogs trailed to a lake and the deer
was seen to swim across. The
colonel was soon on the other side
and when it emerged the trusty
gun spoke again and the round
eyed, graceful fellow was dead.
All hunters who saw the deer
agree that it is the largest ever
killed in that section. The horns
will be sent to Chicago and
mounted by an expert, when they
will adorn the walls of the Bank
of Edwards.
The leader., 1905-11-08
Just Meanderine.

A city girl writes: 1T is a
fond hope Of mine to become a
farmers wife and meander with
him down life's pathway
All, yes. that is a nice thing.
but when your husband meanders
off and leaves you without wood
and you have to meander up and
down the lane pulling splinters off
the fence to cook dinner, and
when you meander along in the
wet grass in search Of the COWS till
your shoes are the color of raw
hide and your stockings soaked,
and when you meader out across
twenty acres Of ploughed ground
with club to drive the hogs out
|of the corn field, and tear your
dress on the barb wire fence;
when you meander back home to
the house to find that the billy
goat has butted the, stuffin' out Of
the baby, and find The old hen
with forty chickens in the parlor,
you'll put your hands on your
hips and realize that meahdering
lis not what it is cracked up to be-.
Swiped.
The leader., 1905-11-08
BrOOkhaven's Most Popular Young
Lady.

The box contest for Brookha-
ven's most popular young lady,
put on last week by Messrs. Har-
ris & Watson, publishers of the
advertising programs for Heuck's
Opera House this season, was
closed Monday night and the
votes counted.
Merchants advertising on the
program we're furnished coupons
and ballot boxes and their Gus
toners did the voting. Many
popular young ladies we're in the
race and the contest was very
interesting one.
Below is given the vote cast for
the leading favorite Miss Edith
Love securing the largest number
of votes and winning the box for
Friday night, when the Click
Stock Co. will present East
Lynne.
The vote cast was as follows:
Miss Edith Love, 10, al; Miss
Helen Sherman, 1892; Miss Sara
Storm, 8,613; Miss Bessie Hobbs,
4,509; Miss Eunice Wroten,
1922; Miss Ellen McClendon,
], 1,549.
Many other young ladies re-
ceived quite a number of votes
running the total up in the neigh
borhood of 10000. Messrs. Har-
ris & Watson expect to offer
another box at an early date.
The Click Stock Company are
holding the boards at the opera
house for the entire week and
putting on some nice plays. Mon
day nights performance Of "A
Doctors Crime, was played to
a packed house. Progressive
Photographer Layton, secured a
flash light picture Of the large
ai1dianna
The leader., 1905-11-08
The Pieluresqueness Of SIane.

The College Widow has been
pronounced a splendid comedy by
Che clientele Of the Tulane in New
Orleans during the week, which
makes it somewhat apropos just
now to publish the following
bright excerpt from The thought
full columns Of the Times Demo
crat of Wednesday:
George Ade, in an address in
Chicago, Thursday night, modest
lly said: Shakespeare and I both
use a great deal of slang. FaIstaff
and Pistol use little else, says the
Brooklyn Eagle. The Merry
Wives of Windsor present an al
most continuous stream Of colo
quial English. People do not
know what pressure is brought to
bear for slang. / have tried my
best to get away from it, Prof.
Rufus L. Sheldon, formerly Of the
State normal school, in Trenton,
N. j., and later of the Polytech-
mic Institute in Brooklyn, once
abruptly said: Slang is the
straightest avenue to the human
heart" ]" DIR. Sheldon is himself a
master of virile English, and is
not addicted to slang. He was
giving to its function or force ali
analytic consideration. He is too
well educated consciously to resort
to it, but he is not so blind that he
can not see its pertinency-as we'll
as it's impertineHcy. In the main,
slang is based on metaphor and
metaphor has distinct relation
to imagery. Slang forms a pic
ture on the mind. The man who
said concerning his fistic oppo-
nent: Il didn't do a thing to
him. signified that there was
hardly anything he didn't do to
him. The reporter who wrote of
a fight between two men and who
declared: Smith swept up the
floor with JONES'" had the idea OF
thoroughness and the picture Of a
broom before his mind. In the
same way, 1.-THE glad hand, y ''the
marble heart" p" ''the merry ha
ha,'' and the like raise pictures
which are self-defning. Mr.. AIDE
has been accused less Of real
slang than of forced slang. He
has apparently gone out of his
way to coin expressions which
sound like slang, but which are
not natural and which are not,
therefore, so effective as they
should be. Slang for the sake OF
slang, the form of slang without
the spirit of it, can be readily dis
criminated from the real slang one
hears on cars, boats and the street.
mot long ago a motorman, in q
talk with a companion said: 81
had right to bump him" ]" The
driver of a wagon had persisted in
keeping the track in front of the
car, instead of respecting the law
which required him to turn out.
The motorman reasoned that, as
the law was on his side and as the
driVer was violating the law, he,
the motorman, had the right un.
der the law to send his car with a
bump" against the vehicle. The
many words required to explain
this were dropped by the motor
man, who summed up the entire
situation in a very short sentence.
That enabled him to open up the
straight avenue to the feeling
or understanding which Prof
Sheldon remarked.
The leader., 1905-11-08
How Mark Twain Met Horace Greeley.

/ always recall that talk with
Hay with pleasure, not only for
It's own sake, but because it was
incidentally the occasion of my
getting acquainted with Horace
Greeley, a man who I greatly ad
mired and longed to see, and
whose memory | still revere. 1t
was difficult to get an interview
with him, for he was busy man,
he was irascible, and he had an
aversion to strangers; but / not
only had the good fortune TO meet
him, but also had the great privi-
Iege of hearing him talk. The
Tribune was in its early home at
that time, and Hay, a leader writ
er on it's staff. ] had an appoint
ment with him and went there to
look him up. | did not know my
way and entered Mr.. GreeIey's
room by mistake. | recognized
his back and stood mute and re-
joicing. After a little he swung
slowly around in his chair, with
his head slightly tilted backwards
and the great moons of his spec
tacles glaring with intercepted
light; after about a though
it may have been less, perhaps
he arranged his firm mouth with
care and said with virile interest:
WeIls What the hell do you
wantl'- Mark Twain S Letter to
Harper's Weekly.
The leader., 1905-11-08
FROM EDGAR.

Getting sorter rough down this
way, If it does rain and then the
sun shines.
Morris Reeves, OF Edgar, left
last week to take up his studies at
Mississippi College.
Mrs. Lydia O'Quin, of Wesson,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. K. Fl.
Finch, near Edgar.
Misses Mary and Lena Summers
visited Miss jamie Scarborough at
her boarding place in the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. NJ. Russell
last Friday night and enjoyed the
Tacky Party
We attended church at Union
Sunday and heard splendid SER
mon by Pastor Boone, and learned
that the school patrons there are
bringing their school building to
a nice finish and have fine school.
Constable B. A. Williams, ac-
companied by I. E. Summers,
carried one JEFF Sauls and VIM.
Davis to Jail last Saturday. They
are charged with the killing of
Sim StovaII near Edgar on the
night of the 29th of October.
Some threatening notices have
been passed round in this section
since the assassination of the me-
gro, Stovall, and the citizens of
that part of beat 3 are we'll arous-
ed and at their post for business.
Mr.. /. v. Brister, near New
STAR is erecting nice dwelling
and has engaged Mr.. B. b. Boyle
and his son-in- law, Mr.. NJ. L..
Tyson, as chief architects.
Mrs. H. M. Russell took in the
prize at the tacky party last Fri
day night, and Will and the chill
dren believe now it is her again.
Mr.. Willie McGufie has sold
out to Surveyor Russell and
bought the farm and residence of
our neighbor, Joseph w. Wooley.
And so they change about.
Mr.. Joe Wooley is going to
move to or near McComb City to
live. Joe is one of our resident
ers and a high standard citizen
and Mary his better half is his
equal largely.
T. E. Summers is still stirring
the long sweetenin' and Mr.. L. F.
Blackwell is operating his mill.
The cane crop is turning out ex-
ceeding well.
The j. P. down this way would
invite delinquents to come right
along when the bill is turned in
and avoid extra expenses.
BILLY.
The leader., 1905-11-08
''Frenzied Finance" in Hotel.

From gulf coast citizen who
was at the capital it was learned
that one of the principal promot-
ers of the new 10000 hotel to
be erected at Pass Christian is
Thomas w. Lawson, Of Boston, of
"Frenzied Finance fame. Mr..
Lawson has made only one visit
to the Mississippi coast, but it
was evidently enough to convince
him that the possibilities for in
vestment in that section are neith-
er watered or tainted. Mr.. Law
son is in reality at the head of the
syndicate, which proposes to
build the hostelry. Jackson
News.
The leader., 1905-11-08
RUTH NOTES,
Warm and rainy.

Miss Benneta Purser, our pop
ular music teacher, spent from
Friday afternoon until Sunday
with her cousin, Miss May Hig-
don, in the hospitable home of
Mr.. A. M. Summers.
Hons. P. 2. Jones and M. Nc
Cullough we're distinguished Wis
itors here Sunday.
Mr.. Chauncey Price sustained
slight injuries by the falling of a
bale on cotton on his foot at the
gin last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Fl. RawIs were
visitors to Brookhaven Friday.
Aunt Martha Greer has return
ed from an extended visit with
Mr.. Zeb Greer's family near Sum-
nit.
F. L. Clark was transacting
business in Brookhayen Friday
ana SATURDAY.
Pastor jenkins preached a very
helpful sermon to his hearers at
Shady Grove last Sunday.
Miss Ada Wooley went home
Friday afternoon, returning in
time for school duties Monday
morning.
The young people enjoyed a
singing Sunday afternoon in the
pleasant home of Mrs. Mary Eel
der.
Mr.. Lee Busby, one of our
brightest boarding pupils, spent
Saturday and Sunday at his home
at Quinn.
Miss Osie Rawls, who is so
skillfuIly managing the school at
Beaver Greek, spent Sunday here
with her mother.
We have So boys in our High
School, not one of whom is ad-
dicted to the use of tobacco or
profane language. Who can say
as much? We.
The leader., 1905-11-08
Death Of CIaud Maxwell.

Claud, the 14-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll w. Max
we'll, of the Fair River neighbor-
hood, died on Monday afternoon
at 4 O'Clock from acute rheuma-
tism. The lad had suffered beyond
the ken of most boys and when
the young spirit took its fight,
breaking hearts knew something
of a surcease of pain in the fact
that for the poor, Tacked body
peace had come at last.
The mortal part was laid away
in the Fair River cemetery on
yesterday afternoon, the funeral
services being conducted by Rev.
.R. Ell. Purser, Of this city.
There was a large concourse of
friends of the afflicted family
present and great sympathy went
out to the stricken household.
gIand was bright, obcdiept
boy and his going away from the
hearthstone Of bis beloved home,
shadows all Joy and brightness for
those who shared his Joung life
with all Of its e6ulgence and fu-
ture promise.
To the bereaved parents, whose
happy home circle was unbroken
before CIaud's going away, our
tenderest sympathy is extended.
There may be worse things in
life than Death; but there Is moth
ing like it, and only the hope be-
yond cheers the bereaved. His
little life is rounded with a
sleep, and JOY cometh in the
morning.
The leader., 1905-11-08
An Historic Cow Horn.

Mr.. R. g. Porter, of Lulu,
Miss, has recently presented his
son, B. A. Porter, with COW
horn of which he is very proud.
In 1886 Mr.. w. B. Porter, faith
er of R. g. Porter, made a mag
nificent blowing horn from the
horn of a fayorite steer, scraped
and fashioned it into attractive
form and made a horn that sound
ed all over the hills and hollows of
his country, and in the course of
time it fell to his son. The horn
will be handed on down to future
generations as a souvenir of days
when Mississippians indulged in
and heartily enjoyed the chase.
The leader., 1905-11-08
Before placing your order for any kind Of
JOB PRINTING visit the Leader for sam
pies and prices. Quality High, Prices Low
New England Supper.

The ladies of the Pearlhaven
Methodist church will give a New
England supper, Friday evening
from 5 to 8 p. IA. at the Z VI. g.
"A. Price of admission, 2s cents.
Every body invited. The weather
being agreeable, this will furnish
fine opportunity for our Brook
haven people to affiliate With their
good neighbors of PearlhaYen.
The leader., 1905-11-08

Health is absolutely impossible, il
constipation is present. Many serious
cases of liver and kidney complaint
have sprung from neglected constipa-
tion. Such deplorable condition is
unnecessary. There is cure for it
Herbine will speedily remedy matters.
C. a. Lindsay, p NJ Bronson, Ella.
writes, Feb. 12, 1902: Having used
Herbine, 1 find IL fine medicine for
constipation. 800 bottle at Price
The leader., 1905-11-08
News 10 Senator McLaurin.

Brandon, Miss, Nov. s. When
shown The interview in the Com
mercial- Appeal to the effect that
be would resign to take a position
on the Supreme Court bench,
Senator McLaurin said it was the
first he had ever heard of such a
thing. He called attention to the
fact, that, in the regular order OF
things, there will not be an APP
pointment for this Supreme Court
district until 1909.
The leader., 1905-11-08
Attention. Teachers /

All applicants for teachers Ii
cense il Lincoln county are here
by notified that because Of the
small number Of prospective ap-
plieants, only one more examina-
tion will be held in this county
for the present term. That exam
ination viii be Nov. 10 and 18th,
as previously advertised.
EDGAR GREEN,
Supt. Of Education.
The leader., 1905-11-08
Closing Notice.

WHEREAS, the President Of the United
states and the Goyernof of the State Of Allssls-
elppl haxe set aside Thursday, November sQth
1925, as Thank nkSgIying Day and q National Holi-
lday, We. the Nndefs signed mefchanfs and bust
ness men Of Brook haven, agree TO close our
places Of business IN order to allow our en-
plOyees TO celebrate the said day,
SIGNEDi
Jno. MlGFath & Sons, Abrams RFos.,
Louis COhn & Bros. Max Pfiebatsoh
Hartman MeF. Co. A. StfIiaer.
Commercial Bank. Price Drug Co.
O. r. Grafton Drug Co. r. A. Hamilton.
Bank OF BrookhaVen. Mills & East Co
A. @. Seavey & Sons, +. B. Noodle,
magee Bros q day. G. b. Perkins,
y. a. Wood J. W. Day, a dayl
9. k0hlman, Martin Drug Co.
". 4. HuDeft Newman & Lelane
Br00khaven Fur. Co. Geo BOwsirV
Chas. Heuck & Son. s. LeWenthaf x Son
z. Daniel j. j. Grant
ga. a. Menaie Moreton- w Fehtworth Co.
i,aIsons. May, Qherschmldt Co..
y. II. Perkins Furniture Co
Frank Martin Drug Co.
The leader., 1905-11-08
The Mississippi Central Ry.

Will let contracts for 4 large
number of cross ties in the neal
future. Anyone wishing til
pontract will apply for further in
formation to the Resident Engi.
neer's Office ID The Cassidy Build,
ing.
The leader., 1905-11-08
A. Mead spent Sunday ID New

A. Mead spent Sunday ID New
Orleans.
W. E. Price is spending the day
in jackson.
Cotton is selling for II cents in
Brookhaven today.
The public school holds daily
sessions a half hour later than for
merly.
Mrs. A. q. McNair and Mrs.
Willing spent Monday in New
Orleans.
Mrs. George Hubener, of New
Orleans, is with her good friepd,
Mrs. |. Cope.
John Smith left last Thursday
to re-enter the medical depart
ment of Tulane.
FOR SALE Four good mich
cows; price from twenty to thirty
five dollars. Call at Dir. Geo. a.
Loves barn and see them.
Little Miss Matte aud Dandy
bennett, who spent the quaran-
tine season here, left Friday last
for their home in New Orleans.
j. S. Laney, of Silver Creek, a
prominent real estate man of that
place has moved to Brookhaven
and will make this place his home.
What virtue is there that will
redeem the criticising, fault find
ing habit! Try and keep your
nose out of the mud and look at
the stars bit more.
Gov. Vardaman has offered a
reward of $3.50 for the party or
parties who burned the Riley
Mercantile Company's store house
at New Hebron, Lawrence coun-
ty, few nights ago.
Willie and Henry McGrath
have decided not to return to St.
StanisIaus College until after
Christmas, the term having been
SO interrupted by the invasoin OF
the quarantine season.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Price en-
tertained at a seven-course dinner
Yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Mabel
Trotter Bailey, Mrs. B. T. Hobbs
and Miss Mary, Messrs. NJ. Nc
Cullough and Vim. Davis.
Miss Pauline Underwood, a
beautiful little rosebud of Terry,
was a recent visitor here to hel
good grandmother, Mrs. F. A.
Decell. Miss Pauline is now at
tending Blue Mountain College.
Miss Brabston, of Whitworth
College, had the misfortune tc
lose a handsome gold watch on the
street Saturday evening and, So
far, no trace of it has been found.
1t bore her monogram and cir.
cIet of diamonds on the back.
Miss Annie May Seab, the
trained nurse, who helped the
people of Hamburg through their
late scourge of yellow fever, is in
Brookhaven and will locate here
for the practice of her profession.
Miss Seab is a graduate of the
Natchez Training School for
nurses and is one of the most com,
petent, experienced and faithful
in her high calling. We take
pleasure in commenting her to
the public.
Rev. Otto Bamber conducted
two very sad funerals here last
Saturday and Sunday. The first
was that of George Haynes, who
was killed at Kentwood, La, by a
train. The second was that OF
Lewis White, one of the old and
highly respected landmarks OF
this section. He was the father
of Albert and Luther White, oi
this city. Haynes was brother
of Mrs. SalIie HarrelI, of this
city, and G. P. Haynes, of Brook
| L ".
The leader., 1905-11-08
I Notice.

On account Of several of the
contestants for the $4,000 corn
prize not being able to gather
their corn BY Nov. 1st., the award
is postponed until Saturday, Nov.
18th. Send In your reports, as
there will be- no further postpone
ment. S. r. OLIVER.
The leader., 1905-11-08
For Sale.

Two cows with young calves
will be sold cheap to move quick.
Also two good mules and one
blind horse.
No reasonable offer rejected.
@. B. BROWN
PearlhaFen, Miss,
The leader., 1905-11-08

FOR SALE One mare pony.
Work anywhere. Weight 750.
Apply to R. Q. Germany.
The leader., 1905-11-08
Ill!l33Ik1i3Ss3i[ |
ROUTE

Shortest, Quickest and
Best line to
New Orleans, Vicksburg, Shreve-
port, and to all Texas, Mexico,
California and Arizona
Points
Either through Meridian and New
Orleans or Shreveport.
Through Pullman Sleepers
to New Orleans and Shreveport.
For detailed information ap-
ply to any representative of the
Queen & Crescent Route or the
undersigned.
Jno. w. Wood,
Trav. Pass. Agent,
Meridian, Miss.
GEO. H. SMITH,
Gen. Pass. Agt.
R. j. ANDERSON,
Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt.
The leader., 1905-11-08

The Delta cotton crop IS so per
cent. short.
The leader., 1905-11-08
Attention. Farmers !

Now is the time to get your stump out. am
agent for the HERCULES STUMP FULLER.
the best on the market Come and see me. or
write to VIM. MELVILLE,
Brookhaven, Miss.
~ Live agents wanted. St-noY %
The leader., 1905-11-08

Miss Pauline Underwood, a
beautiful little rosebud of Terry,
was a. recent visitor here to hel
good grandmother, Mrs. F. A.
Decell. Miss Pauline is now at
tending Blue Mountain College.
The leader., 1905-11-08

Miss Brabston, of Whitworth
College, had the misfortune to
lose a handsome gold watch on the
street Saturday evening and, so
far, no trace of it has been found.
1t bore her monogram and cir
clet of diamonds on the back.
The leader., 1905-11-08

Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Price en-
tertained at seven course dinner
yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Mabel
Trotter Bailey, Mrs. B. T. Hobbs
and Miss Mary, Messrs. NJ. Nc
Cullough and VIM. Davis.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-12-09
GOOD STUFF IF TRUE.

The farmers Of GainesvilIs claim 70
be growing a grade Of sweet potato
eqoal 10 gTsin and favor TO the leele-
brated jersey sWeets.-OrlandO Daily
Reporter
Having tasted both the connoisseur
Of The Sun is prepared TO back up the
statement. And this is point that all
farmers should sim at when rafting
crops The best seed planted IN good
soil viii produce the same results for a
number OF years at least. There is
plenty Of good soil in Alschua comfy
where good vegetables will grow and
yield we'll. But there are farmers 70
be found In many localities that do not
take the pains TO produce quality, but
aim for quantity. Even this can be no
excuse IN many instances, for these
same fine sweet potatoes mentioned In
the above quotation yielded 40 we'll as
the inferior varieties that are too often
seen on the market.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-12-09
INDUSTRIAL EDITION.

The Industrial Edition Of The Gaines
vile Son, recently iStued, 10 a mag
niHeent exposition Of AlachuN county's
achievements, resources and logical
prospects. II 10 just sUCh q paper 10
the public had reason 70 expect would
iSSOe from q live publication Office To-
Gated In q live town, and that Il will
bear fruit 20 the future glory of
Gainesville and The Gainesville san
ell who see II must believe. 10 has
been said that all good GeorgIanS when
they die hope TO 60 70 Atlanta. That
idea inRFained into the Georgia con.
science has made Atlanta This same
notion regarding Gainesville, with an
unWillingnssS 20 await death for .
realization Of hopet, 10 rapidly taking
hold on the people Of Alachua and
spreading to other couRtisS Of the
State, And 10 10 thiS notion, coupled
with the fact that che city 10 90 = unit
for Ice own advancement, that 10 rap.
idly making Gainesville the bsst
inland city Of Florida, Aud II IL there
that The Sun shines and does ice foil
part IN itS upbUIlding. -PalStka NsWS,
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-12-09
ONE OF TIE AANosoMEs1.

The Levy Tines emOeSst, pUb.
liShed BY Oliver j. Farmer Of Bron-
son, jS not anything II not truthful,
and when II publishes the following We
feel 6sEtain that our worthy brother
beIle0eS what he taySI
nThe IndbttElsl Edition OF The
Gainesville Sun 10 one Of the hand.
somest publications ever lSiusd Ia
Florida, and elbows up the FeSodrcSS Of
AlaohuS county 10 most attractive
style. We congratulate The Sun"
We have many other equally favor
able notices from our good brothers Of
che press, who know the labor such Q
work requires, and the edition has met
with pueh popular favor from every
quarter that We have decided 70 make
II an annual feature, and will nexs
year w 70 excel The present Issue.