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The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1907-03-06
Binders.

How would you like to wear blind.
ers when going into strange place?
Colts don't like It, either. Give them
a fair show. Strip of the binders!
Let the little fellows see; that is only
fair. And you would be mad If we
said you were not fair. Now wouldn't
YOU
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1907-03-06
Good for the Hair

Where the hair is dry and brittle
with tendency to fall out. an English
restorative is the simple one OF a free
application of pure cocoanut oil. This
treatment, continued for a few weeks
six. perhaps-will accomplish ex,
cellent results.
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1907-03-06

II isn't likely that Homer knew the
difference between heroic pentameter
and a milk wagon; Rafael probably
never guessed that there was sucn
word as genre" and the langtl age OF
the average musical critic would
doubtless have been too technical for
the understanding OF Wagner.
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1907-03-06
The joys Of a Brldeuroom.

Mr.. Troomer-"Where on earth is
my new silk hat? I've looked every.
where for IT," His Bride (sweetly)-
You said you wanted It ironed dear.
80 sent II out TO the laundry"
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1907-03-06
Long in Service Of Firm.

A London Arm of electro.plate
makers has in It's service ls men and
women who have been working for
II from Sc to GO years.
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1907-03-06
Femlnln. Remons,rano.s-

Men are strange creatures. They
grumble II we are extravagant and
frivolous; they do not like us to be
too simple in our habits.-Ladys Pic.
torial.
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1907-03-06
Danish Proverb.

A bad wife wishes her husbands
heel turned homeward. and not his
toe.-Danish.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16
Not as Bad as Reported.

Night Policeman Mccormick
shook hands with himself last
Sunday when he read in the
Clarion Ledger of that morning
that he had been killed the night
before by Yves Holloway, and
discovered that the CHS story
wasn't so. AS a matter of fact,
Policeman Mccormick was in an
other part of the city when Ex
Policeman Hardy Magee was shot
while trying to arrest the negro
murderer, Wes Holloway.
We suppose the origin of the c.
L. report was the fact that Police
man Mccormick, while on a night
train, looking for the negro after
Hardy Magee was shot, jumped
off at the Cherokee street crossing
while the train was in motion and
was severely stunned and bruised.
By this fall he was so disabled
that he has been unable to resume
his duties since and Jesse M.
Smith is serving in his place.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16
THE POWER OF PUBLICITY.
It is Protection to the innocent and
a Deterrent to Evil Doors.

At the twenty first annual ban
quet of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association, given last
week at the Waldorf Astoria, the
bit of the evening was made by
the Rev. DR.. Frank d. Hall, of
Boston, in responding to the toast,
EFT to Print. y
Without much preliminary. he
plunged into the heart of his sub
iect and brought the assembly OF
between 400 and 500 men 10 their
feet, amidst the applause of the
ladies' looking on, by the bold and
vigorous stand he took on the sub
ieet of publicity. Just at that
time much was said throughout
the country about the wisdom and
propriety of printing all the de-
tails of the Thaw trial, some OF
which was manifestly unfit to
print; but that the sentiment oil
those who were present, both men
and women, was overwhelmingly
in favor of printing the news, .
50 far as it was compatible with
public morals, there could not be
the slightest doubt.
Let US know what is going on
about u.s. said Dr.. Hall, emphat
ically, "and let US know all tbs
facts. The newspapers are 8
great deterrent of crime. Mer
fear publicity more than they dc
the courts. They fear copy more
than they fear cops. So far from
having printed to much, we have
printed too little, if some things
are true. If it is true that tht
city contains a class of men that
delight to push little girls to tht
brink of ruin, and then, with !
grin, push them in, give US tht
facts. Then, if the police cannot
suppress that sort Of vice, give III
the facts; then, If the courts can
not stop it, give US the facts; then
If the societies for the suppression
of vice cannot prevent it, give VI
the facts, so that, if the next littl,
Iglrl your little girl, my littlt
girl should be pushed over tht
brink, we will have the facts.
There is a story they tell of
party of men out West, riding
along through that part of th,
country where they do differently
than we do here in the East
lThey came to a tree from which
Swung the body of man. Oh
| the mans breast was a piece o
paper on which was printed, Thi
man had some bad qualities and
i'd sight worse We cannot d,
as they do out West. But Civ
us the facts SO, at least, we ma.
know whom to tag. =
AS Dir. Hall was speaking b
was interrupted BY cries Of ap
jproval. In conclusion. be sal
THAT there had been q time whel
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16
". A. Browns Shortage $2SSO4.

The case of w. A. Brown, who
was arrested on an affidavit for
embezzIement and his trial set
for last Tuesday before Justice
Hoffman was continued till next
Tuesday, the 10Th inst.
The reason for this was that the
Moreton Wentworth Company,
who made the affidavit, had not
fully audited their books and
wanted time to check them over
carefully. They have now finish
ed the checking up and find that
Browns shortage in round num-
bers is 50, $50. IL.
When Browns shortage was
first detected it was supposed to
be only 81, 700 and the company
gave him few days to get up the
cash and make it good. Later on
it was run up to $4,000 and they
then made an affidavit against
Brown, and after haying had Their
books carefully checked UP. it has
run up to the above sum o.
50, ,830.14.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16
The Boy Who vii! be in Demand.

One Of the finest qualities in a
workman is a disposition to do
things that need to be done with
out being told. Young men work
ing their way through college are
invaluable if they have this quail
ty. A tool is left out on the lawn;
there is rail off the fence; there
is window pane gone some
where. The boy who tends to
these things because they need at
tending to without specific direc-
tions is the boy who, other things
being equal, is going to be in de-
mand when he gets out into the
great world. 1t is the attention
to little things and the habit of
observation, which sees what
needs to be done and then does it
which makes exceedingly useful
men and women. There will al
ways be a call to come up higher.
1t is in one sense a small thing to
do these little things without or
ders, but it is the doing of them
that makes great captains, great
engineers, great artists, great
architects, great workers in any
department, and it is the absence
of this quality that makes COM
lmonplace men and women, who
will always have to live under the
dominion of petty orders, men
and women who do nothing unless
they are told to do it. II is this
quality which makes volunteers in
church work, and the invaluable
men and women of every day life.
Home Herald.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16
What CONGRESS Did.

1t ratified the Santo Domingo
treaty.
Passed a billion dollars worth
of appropriation bills.
Ordered an investigation of the
lumber trust; of the international
harvester trust aud cotton ex-
changes.
Passed an immigration act,
coupled with exclusion of Japan
ese coolies.
Knocked out the canteen at sol
diers' homes.
Gave the railway employees a
sixteen-hour law.
Established an agricultural
bank in the Philippines.
Passed a rather tame currency
reform measure.
Provided for new battleships.
Passed a modified act prohibit
ing making the campaign assess
ments.
Ratified the Algeciras treaty.
Adopted resolution providing
for an investigation of the
Brownsville riot.
Decided that Senator Smoot, of
Utah, was entitled to bis seat.
Passed general service pension
act.
Passed rivers and harbors bill.
It raised the salaries of vice
president, speaker, cabinet mem
bers, members of congress and
postal employees, and provided an
appropriation for pneumatic pos
tai tubes in several large cities.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16
Loss BENJAMIN to be Tried Tuesday.

The preliminary trial Of Loss
Benjamin before Justice Daugh
try for the murder Of Richard
Campbell Saturday night, which
was set for Thursday morning
was postponed until next Tuesday
morning at 8 o'clock. Hon. Thos
Brady has been employed to rep
resent the State and Messrs. A. G
and j. w. McNair will appear fol
the defense.
Wes Holloway, Beniamin's as
sociate in crime, is still at large
and his whereabouts unknown.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16
A Life Romance.

Shreveport, La, March 13. At
about midnight last night in the
court room, where he had five
minutes before been declared not
guilty Of murder, Lee Brock was
married to Mrs. Hattie Kelley,
the woman in defense Of whose
reputation he did the killing,
which caused the trial. The jury
men who had acquitted him were
witnesses and the trial Judge per-
formed the ceremony. The jury
donated the license. Brock shot
Fl. A. Byckham last summer, al
leging that he cursed Mrs. Kelley.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16
SETTING A HIGH STANDARD.
Preamble to the Constitution Of the
Christian Citizens Union.

i NhA tSttuu NttlLCnS OubUus
The first public meeting under
the auspices of the Christian Citi-
zens' Union of Lincoln County,
was held at the Methodist church
in this city last Sunday night,
when Rev. j. 2. Hemby preached
the yeTy able sermon already mem
toned in these columns on '"fhe
Need of the Indignation of the
Public Conscience. +"
On that occasion DR.. I.e w.
Cooper, president of Whitworth
College, who presided during the
meeting, announced that it was the
intention of the Union to have ad-
dresses made in various parts of
the county by able speakers dur
ing the pending political cam
paign-speakers who are not can
didates or aspiring to any public
ofice-on civic duty and the I'M
portance of elevating the public
service and the securing of the
faithful enforcement of law by
those who are chosen for that
duty.
Rev. Geo. II. Thompson, secre-
tarv of the Union, was requested
to read the declaration of pur-
poses, or preamble to the Consti-
tuition of the organization, for the
information of those present who
were not members. At the re-
quest of The Leader, Mr.. Thomp-
son has furnished US copy OF
this declaration for publication,
which we are sure will prove OF
interest to our readers generally.
1t follows below:
The purpose of this Union shall
be to quicken the public con
science, and to tone up public
morals to the Bible standard, and
thus to secure to ourselves and tc
our posterity condition of civil
and social righteousness worthy
of and becoming Christian Com
monwealth.
To aid and assist in every right.
full and legal way our officers and
the courts of our county in ferret
ing out crimes and bringing Grim.
inals to justice. And, that we
may secure to ourselves the bless
ings of public peace and domestic
happiness and thrift and purge
our community from every vice
that imperils the manhood and
womanhood of the land or cor.
rupts and degrades the citizen.
ship of the county, we urge the
qualified voters of the county tC
lend their influence and exteno
their suffrage to no one who offers
himself for place in the public
service, high or low, who is him
self profane swearer, Sabbath
breaker, q gambler, one who
drinks to excess. or who is il
sympathy with the sale of intoxi
eating liquors in any form, or one
who is untrue to his family.
This Union forever disavows
any purpose of nominating any
candidate for any office in tht
municipality, county or State; OF
to pledge itself to espouse the
cause of any candidate for Office
in county or State. But we re
serve the right to enquire into tht
moral character of all persons wht
offer themselves for Office, and t.
govern our votes according to The
results of our enquiry.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16

1t looks as though there will be
no sponsors and maids to attend
the Confederate reunion at Rich
mond in Junes Gen. Lee, COM
mander-i in-chief of the Confeder-
ate veterans, announces that he
will not appoint them, and Maj
Gen. Lowry, commander of the
Mississippi division, says that he
will pursue similar course.
This determination is in accord
ance with the wish OF the United
Daughters of the Confederacy as
expressed in resolutions adopted
at the general convention in Gulf
port last year.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16
Marriage Licenses Issued During tht
Past Week.

Whites Clifton Martin and
Miss Mabel Th0rnhiIl.
Colored- Walter Monroe and
Lille Robertson; Cleavland Rober-
son and Ora Coniey; Will Baggett
and Lena Robertson; Wills Gamer
on and Josephine Bullock; Frank
Baggett and Parale Martin.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16

Gov. Vardaman has ordered a
court martial to be held in Jack
son next Tuesday. The charge is
preferred against Major General
is. r. Keesler, Of Greenwood,
commander Of the Mississippi Ma
tional Guard, Of having cursed,
abused and assaulted a private,
Robert Montgomery, of the Port
Gibson Company, during the
Gulfport Encampment. Col. G.
NJ. Williamson Of Jackson, viii
conduct the prosecution.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16
Justice Dau6htry's Court.

Robert AIlen-False pretense.
Discharged.
Matte McMillan-D Disturbing
the peace. Fined $3.50 and costs.
Baker Owens-FaIse pretense.
Thirty days. Imprisonment.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16
IN THE LOCAL COURTS.
Cases Disposed of During the Last
Week.
Mayors Court.

City VS.. Observation-Disclosures
riding. Fined S. and costs.
City VS.. Willie Bolton, Henry
Terry. Eli Terry, Wesley Evans,
Cam Bolton, Percy Terry-Gam
ing. Fined $3.50 each and costs.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16
the pulpit nodded public opinion

the pulpit nodded public opinion,
but that the pulpit was giving
ground to the press. 1t still had
a great work to do, but in charac-
ter building and in forming pub
lie opinion, the press is now in
the lead. If the newspapers live
up to their high calling they must
not suppress the facts.
Ii is worthy of more than pass
ing attention that these represen-
tative publishers from all over the
United States and Canada men Of
prominence and influence in their
respective communities should
have taken this stand. and there
can be no doubt that their attitude
is correct,
The speaker in the evening an
nounced a truism when he said
that the newspapers are a great
deterrent of crime, and that men
fear publicity more than they do
the courts. There are invasions
of the sancfity of private life
which have undoubtedly been car
ried too far, and there have been
published salacious stories under
the guise of news which disgrace
the pame of journalism. But as a
broad, general proposition, the
weight Of wisdom and common
sense IS on the side of publicity.
EviI-doers fear the light. They
know how to escape the penalties
of the law, or else they laugh at
the punishment, when it is in the
nature of a fine, as trifing.
But when it is known that all
these things are to become an
open book which the world at
large may read when it is known
that the sins against society shall
be known Of all men, through the
medium of the press, unawed by
influence and unbribed by gain, =
they reflect twice before they
stake their good name and their
standing in the community against
the selfish desires Of the hour.
Public morals must be upheld,
but one way to insure this is to
let it be known that vice and cor
ruption cannot claim immunity
from the searching inquisition of
the press, and that one of the
punishments of crime will be ex-
posure.
Ii the members at that banquet
board rose as one man to applaud
the utterances of Dr.. Hall, there
are editors, publishers and read
Iers throughout the whole country
who equally realize that what the
distinguished speaker said was
true. Atlanta Journal.
Encourage individuality. These
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16
Immense Exports of Timber.

Moss Point, March 12. = Export
shipments of timber and lumber
are the heaviest ever Known in
this market, and will continue
unprecedentedly large, especially
to Cuba and Jamaica. The Brit
ish steamship, Peerless, 2011 tons,
Capt. Henry Cook, commenced
loading a cargo of 100000 feet
of square timber and lumber this
morning from the L. N. Dantzler
Lumber Company, on Escatawpa
river. This vessel is 335 feet in
length and draws % feet loaded,
and is the largest to ever ascend
the Pascagoula river, which now
has depth of eighteen feet. Two
other large steamers have been
chartered by this company to load
direct from its mills the Dutch
steamship Slicdrecht, 1851 tons,
and the British steamship, Thera-
pin, 2017 tons.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16

A good many prominent citizens
of Nicksburg who have always
opposed prohibition are,just now
beginning to realize that saloon
keepers will never be good and
obey license laws. That IS I'M
portant light gained.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16

Deputy Marshal VI. M. Lott
shot and killed Simon Pearson at
Columbia.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16

Exports Of timber and lumber
are the heaviest in years at Moss
Point.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16

The man who trots around to
the postofiice and sends money to
mail order houses and then trots
around to his next door neighbor,
and cusses the town, is neither a
philosopher nor i patriot Iaxoo
Sentinel.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16

Miss Lucy Mallett, long time
resident Of Jackson, died Satur-
day.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16
Modern Luxurious Living.

The fact is the laborer Of today
has Injuries that neither Queen
Elizabeth nor King George of our
great -grandfathers' time ever
dreamed of daily mail, telephone,
street cars, electricity for domes-
tic purposes, homes we'll lighted,
we'll plumbed and we'll heated, to
say nothing of the thousand and
one articles that we daily use and
do not regard as luxuries for ex-
ample, matches. Nowadays con-
cagious diseases do not devastate
our cities, because State and mu-
nicipaI laws unite to enforce pro-
tective sanitation. Never were
homes so clean and we'll cared for
as by the housekeeper of today. -
Exchange.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16

John d. Rockefeller declares
most emphatically that he is not
worth a billion dollars as is charg-
ed against him, but that he is
worth less than three hundred
millions and enjoys only a very
limited income If less than twenty
millions a year. No wonder he
can't afford to eat oysters, If this
is all he gels, and it is wrong that
Jokes should have been made
about him because he has seen fit
to deny himself this luxury.
Meridian News,
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16

Vicksburg has passed through a
remarkable experience this week
for VIckshurg. It has seen a
dramshop keeper sent to jail for
attempting to run bis saloon in
defiance of'a writ Of supersedeas
granted by the Justice Of the Sn-
preme Court. The Vicksburg sa-
Icon keepers have hitherto regard
led themselves as above all law, II
lit didn't suit them TO obey it.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16

"Our experience as newspaper
writer" says Western journal
ist, is this: Only one person in
100 viii. express appreciation of
the pleasant things said about
them, while ninety-nine out of
every 100 will make a fuss about
the things that don't suit them. /"
That is about the experience of
every newspaper worker the land
over. From one years end to an
other he seldom hears a word Of
commendation, but lie gets as
much criticism as six mules could
haul down a bill. Western Pub
Usher.
There are some fixed principles
that no environment, no influence,
no earthly power can change.
They are fixed. The little girl
whu says she fixes her hairv is
mistaken. She simply arranees
| it to suit the time and circum-
stance or personal convenience.
Fixed principles, like race preju-
dice, love of virtue, social purity,
ETC., conform not to accidents OF
incidents of time.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16

Register before II is too late.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-03-16

Encourage individuality. These
folks that are always trying to
ape somebody else and afraid Of
expressing independent ideas or
opinions are downright tlres0rne,.
to say the least. 70 thine own
self be true and be proud Of
yourself, II you can.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-11-03
EXPOSITION GIVEN
THE ICE PITCHER

NORFOLK, VA, Nov. 2.--(SpeciaD
The report is current here that
President Roosevelt is disinclined to
again visit the Exposition, because he
is displeased at the lack of respect
which the Exposition board of direc-
tors treated Secretary of the Treas
ury Cortelyou in the matter of the
selection of a successor to James M.
Burr as director general.
The President was recently asked
to make another visit here. The an
nouncement created surprise, for in
the light of previous information
coming from Washington and indicat-
ing the displeasure of the Admins
tration with the management of
jamestown, it required an optimistic
spirit to think that the President
would make a third visit.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-11-03
Come and see us.
CHAS. |. ANSLEY.
THEATRICAL TRUST
WILL HAVE RIVAL.

NEW YORK, Nov. (SpeciaD-
When Klaw & Erlanger and the Shu-
berts invaded the vaudeville field
this season, it was predicted that the
Williamson-Hamme and Keith
& Proctor vaudeville combinations
would retaliate by competition with
their rivals in the legitimate field.
Such move has been announced
Plans for reprisal against the trust
have been in contemplation since
last August, but it was only yester-
day that they were consummated. The
new combination will control thirty
theatres in many of the principal cit
les of the United States and Canada,
and enough contracts have been sign
ed to provide bookings for these,
each company having weeks en-
gagement at each house.