The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-09
BRIEF AND TOTHE POINT
SHORT, CRISP ITEMS OF CURRENT AND
GENERAL INTEREST.

T" - SSAh y PtADH AHnu Cu-
lamored ofreform.
The embrace of Senator Smoot
leaves black marks on the back of
the Republican party.
Congress will Ieaye a deficit
hole almost large enough for
Bryan to crawl through.
Ohio draws the color line when
itcomes to a negro's holding an
Office that white man wants.
Another blessing of poverty is
that it doesn't expose one to the
suspicion Of being an insurance
man.
As the Storers have gone to
France to live, France might send
Maria as special envoy to Wash
ington.
San Franciscans are now pom
derlng over the perplexing ques-
tion as to why Schmitz Left
Home. y
We hope that Mr.. Roosevelt
observedsson his return from Har-
ward, that all the State lines were
on the map.
San Francisco druggists are
now putting Japs heads on poison
bottles instead of the skull and
cross bones.
The great debate between Bryan
land Beveridge has begun; but if
the debaters are given free play,
it will never end.
And now the insurance compa-
nies have cut out the blotteIs and
calendars, which was all the graft
the common people got.
tx Governor Black says that
politician can be killed quick by
calling him cold. Then Fairbanks
must be dead already yet.
ambassador Bryce receives the
same salary as the President; but
he enjoys no such guaranteed au-
dience for his literary output.
A newspaper headline says the
Douma is to be Democratic. We
suppose it will pass a tariff bill
and then it will be Republican.
Senator Wm. Alden Smith be
gaa.ifs BY selling papers, but
that is great deal better than
ending it as peanut politician.
Keep your eyes on Hughes, of
New York. A good governor is
apt to make a good President, and
executive ability is a rare thing.
With Senator TilIman, Jeffries
Davis and Bob Taylor in the next
Congress, the tickets to,the CALLER
les have already been exhausted.
If it is to be Roosevelt against
Bryan, next campaign, the trusts
will have to take to the tall timber
but even that will hardly do any
good.
There is still hope. There
seem to be almost as many Repub-
licans opposed to the ship subsidy
as there are in favor of tariff re-
vision.
Congress has approved law
providing for increased air space
in vessels. Thank God, its pro-
visions don't extend to Congress
itself.
The Fifty Ninth Congress seems
determined not to leave much of
a surplus in the treasury for the
Democratic party to view with
ALARM =
The Greek word for martyr and
witness are the same, but Senator
Foraker made a big mistake in
turning his negro martyrs into
witnesses.
The ladies will attend Senator
Knox S case at their next meeting.
|If they don't vote him nasty,
mean old thing unanimously, it.
will be funny.
Missouri proposes to tax bach
Eelors, and also raise the price of
marriage licenses. That certain
Iiy looks like playing both ends
against the middle.
Toledo, Ohio, is also vigorously
lobJecting to the appointment Of a
negro collector. After all, South
Carolina did not make SO much
fuss about it as Ohio is doing.
The healthiest man is simply a
I.mess of microbes claims one
cneeFful germ expert. That ex-
plains why some men continually
act as if something is biting them.
a Chicago University professor
proposes that gate receipts be
abolished and college athletics
iendoWed. Here is a chance for
Mr.. Carnegie I'd even up with
Mr.. Rockefeller.
Senator Foraker is still at
tempting to prove that the white
people of Brownsville shot up
ltheir own town, and killed and
| wounded their own citizens just
| 10 spite the negroes.
| Richard Watson Glider SAYS he
Il No.