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The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-04-17
SERIOUS ACCIDENT
AT POWER HOUSE
BIG FLY WHEEL OF CORLIsS ENGINE
GOES TO PIECES.
The Building is Also DAMAGED by Fly
ins Pieces.
The City Will be in Darkness Until
Repairs are Made.

During the terrific thunder
storm last night about 1890, the
big 13-foot fly wheel of the Corliss
engine at the Power House which
runs the principal machinery.
suddenly broke into pieces, and
these pieces, some large, some
smaller, were hurled with terrific
force through the roof and against
the brick wall of the building i'm
mediately opposite. One piece
over two feet long and several
inches thick was thrown about 500
feet and knocked a hole in a wood
en- bridge upon which it fell.
Another large piece went up and
then fell back through the roof.
smashing a part of one of the
pumping machines. Several feet
of the brick wall on the north side
of the building, where the main
force seemed to strike, was COM
/ pletely demolished. The damage
to building and machinery is esti-
mated at from $500 to $1,000. Un-
til a new wheel can be secured,
which will require 5 or 10 days,
and possibly longer, the big Cor
liss engine will be absolutely use
less. The small engine will carry
a part of the electric light load,
but that cannot be put in running
order before tomorrow or next
day, and hence the city will be
entirely without electric light SER
vice until then.
The theory of machinists as to
/ the cause of the accident is that
the wheel was running at higher
rate of speed than it was made to
run, in order to generate the re-
]quired amount of electricity, and
that while under this strain or
tension, lightning struck some of
the wires, causing a sudden shock
or vibration, causing the big
wheel to suddenly go to pieces.
Burrel Spencer was in charge as
engineer last night in place of
Engineer Newsom, who was off
duty on account of bis father be-
ing Killed by lightning yesterday
afternoon. That Burrel was not
instantly killed by parts of the
broken wheel or flying brick bats,
and succeeded in cutting off the
steam without a scratch, seems lit
tie short of a miracle,
If the theory that the accident
was Immediately due to a stroke
lof lightning be correct, that fact
and the fact that Engineer New
som was of regular duty at the
time because lightning killed his
father only a few hours before,
forms astriking coincidence for the
contemplation of fsuperstitious peo-
pie,
The City Council held a special
meeting this morning and ord cred
a new fly wheel by wire from the
manufacturers in Milwaukee, Wis.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-04-17
FIELD DAY EXERCISES
WILL Be CELEBRATED NEXT FRIDAY
LIST OF PRIZES.

Next Friday will be celebrated
las Field Day in Brookhaven BY all
lof the schools of the county and
Epromises, as formerly, to be full
lof fun and interest. The literary.
musical and athletic features will
Jail be we'll represented by talent
lselected in the various prelinina-
Try contests and the competition
promises to be very spirited. The
Leader has hitherto published The
names of these various content
iants. Following is list of the
prizes to be awarded:
loo Yard Dash 1st prize, $12. 5
SO suit of clothes; End prize, S4. 90
hat John McGrath & Sons.
Running Broad Jump 1st.
prize, $500 Stetson hat More
ton Wentworth Co.; End prize,
Fine pocket knife The Leader.
| Shot Put IL pounds) 1st
prize, $500 pair Duchess trousers
Max Priebatsch; End prize,
So. so umbreIIa-G. LewentbaI &
Son.
Running High jun p- lst prize.
Sc. 90 pair Stacy Adam shoes
lC. Seayey & Sons. 2nd nrize tn
| be given.
Mile Race-lst prize S12 so.
suit.clothes- Louis Gohn & Bros.
End prize, So. so pair sboes-Lol1ls
Cohn & Bros.
| 200 Yard Dash.-1st prize. S3 90
pair shoes Lincoln County
Times; End prize. To be given
Hammer Throw 10 lbs1-1st
prize, $500 trunk-Brookhayen
Furniture Co. 2nd nrize SO so
pair Crossett shoes Parsons
MAY. Oberschmidt Go.
Pole VauIt-Ist prize. $500
shaving outfit Noodles Hard
ware Company; End prize, No
Name Stetson hat Geo. Bowsky.
Special Features:
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-04-17

An earthquake wiped onl two
Mexican towns On the l4ttl. 500
reported dead and numbers inJur-
cd -Four years ago q similar cat
astrophe visited Chilpancingo, one
|0f the two cities destroyed, A
terrible panic prevails and all
communication with The west Is cul
|oH. Chilpanoingo is 335 kiIome.
|tera south of the City 0f Mexico.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-04-17
HOME DEMOCRACY AND GRAFT.
It BehoOves the People TO be on Their
Guard In Selecting Officials.
Magnolia News.l

| pudkh0Hd 4NpRS.l 81
Since the overthrow of carpet
bag government in Mississippi,
some thirty odd years ago, the
State has been controlled by Dem
ocrats. 1t would be an anomaly,
and one not matched in history, If
during all these years no taint of
corruption could be charged up to
the party in power. Human ma
lture is much the same the world
oyer, and Mississippi Democrats,
incorruptible as the rank and file
of the party may be, are still
lquite human.
A Democratic State Treasurer
of Mississippi was convicted of
embezzlement a few years ago and
sentenced to the penitentiary.
lOther officials have been convict
ed of like offenses and numbers of
suits have been instituted on the
bonds of defaultlng tax collectors
in different counties of the State.
Charges of corruption against
thigh officials, while infrequent,
have not been entirely wanting.
Such a thing as an immaculate
Legislature in Its entirety is still
probable with us. But how about
certain individual membersg is
it not common thing for the at
torneys of railroads in our legisla-
ture to be placed upon committees
who deal with questions of legis-
lation affecting the vital interests
of their clientss
Because graft does not stalk
abroad or faunt itself in the pub
lie eye is no reason why it is not
here. Jackson, Miss, Is not Har-
risburg, Pa, TO be sure. But
powerful corporation lobbies are
beginning to lay siege to our leg
islature. What of the bill merg-
| ing the Mobile ard Ohio and
Southern Railway company in
this Statea Hon. Earl Brewer.
one OF the candidates now running
for governor, has declared on the
stump over and over again that
the lobby representing these cor
porations was thoroughly organ
ized and came from every county
| of the State and dispensed
liquors by the hundred gallons to
corrupt and debauch the Legisla-
ture Of Mississippi. = Who has
denied this chargeg II only IL
quor was dispensed it was ugly
enough. Do we know that it stop
ped there.
Bringing this matter nearer
home, can we assure ourselves
that nothing crooked in Office has
happened in our own county since
carpetbag defeats
The people of Mississippi the
people Of Pike counEy-irl a few
Ishort months will be called upon
to select their officials, from the
highest to the lowest. Does it
not behoove them meanwhile to
pat all candidates through kind
of sitting process. Their cllarae-
ters and records should be narrow
lly scanned. Will this man or that
do to tie tog What You want to
know is, who is who. IF you
Ihaye any reason to doubt a man s
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-04-17
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS OF A GENERAL
INTEREST TO THE PEOPLE.

|
The Medical Association vii
meet at Natchez IN 1908.
Hon. John II. Arlington has
announced for representative from
Lawrence county.
All of the candidates for Gov,
ernor are hustling in various
parts of the State.
-Four white men were convicted
of manslaughter in the Circuit
Court at Indianola.
Summit has voted 60 issue
$25, 900 bonds for the erection o1
a new school building.
At Collinston farmers are plow.
ing up and replanting cotton and
corn injured by the cold.
The cows gained d victory in
Summit. There we're 80 votes
for a stock law and 66 against.
- y
Jno. B. Brumfield lost his hand.
some home by fire, near Summit.
Loss, $4,000 and no insurance.
Fred Jordan, deputy postmas.
ter, and Samuel Mcdowell are in
the race for postmaster at Natchez.
An aged negro woman began &c
shout at Port Gibson last Sunday
after taking sacrament and drop
ped dead.
The city council of jackson has
given notice of tie issuance oil
$50, 900 in bonds for municipal
improvement purposes.
As a result of the prevalence oi
scarlet fever, public schools oil
Natchez have been ordered closed
for two weeks. There are 2s
cases.
The six gubernatorial candi.
dates are now putting on extra
steam and are making two
speeches a day, with the primary
election still nearly five months
away.
DR.. w. b. Murrah, president OF
Millsaps College, will preach the
dedicatory sermon for the new
Methodist church at Florence next
Sunday.
On April 80, the S8th anniver-
sary of the organization of Odd
Fellowship in the United States
will be celebrated by Summit
Lodge, At Summit.
The Synodicai Sunday School
Institute of the Presbyterian
church will be held in jackson
May 10, II and Is. About 200
delegates are expected.
A negro blind tiger was discov-
cred at Crystal Springs with
twelve gallons. of whisky on his
premises and fined $500 and sent
to jail by Mayor Moody for six
months.
The Old Ladies Home Associa-
tion will build q Sic, 900 struc.
ture. The main structure will be
substantial brick building which
will be added to from time to time
as necessity requires.
The mother of the president of
Campbell College. a negro institu-
tion, was burned to death at Jack
son. She was 10 years Of age and
was burned in an attempt TO ex.
tinguish manteI draperies which
had caught fire.
Walter S. ,Iohnsbn won in bis
right-of- way suit at Magnolia
against the N. %. and q. N. rail.
road. The jury gave him dam
ages at $704. l6, which is about
what Mr. johnson would have
taken for the right of way before
the suit.
The attorneys for Abraham
Goldstein. who was convicted oil
uxorcide and sentenced to death,
which sentence was reversed Dy
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-04-17
Race Troubles.

An alteration between w. FL.
Bates, Jr., son Of Sheriff Bates,
of Amite county, and a negro
named Will Harris, precipitated a
general clash between negroes and
white men at Liberty. Scores of
shots were exchanged and several
men wounded. Bates was shot
eight times and was taken to New
Orleans for treatment.
Harris was the driver and por-
ter for the Liberty Mercantile
Co., and took oifense at Bates in.
timating that he was not giving
full measure on load of feed.
The negro cursed the white man
and matters seemed to quiet down
until Sunday when Bates went to
the home of prominent negro,
Monroe Anderson BY name, who
was with Harris the day the dis
pute arose, The negroes are said
to have opened fire, with the re-
suit named. Monroe Anderson
was shot through the lungs and
was vomiting blood when found
after the melee. Bates was found
behind a bed 10 the small bedroom
into which be had followed the
negroes.
Before Its final adjournment the
grand jury Of Kinds county.
which had been In session for sev.
/ leral weeks, brought an indict-
lments against Arthur Harvey and
lR. w Downing, charging then
with perjury. The defendants
were witnesses in the case Of tils
State against Julius Yeraer, ane
leach of them swore that they saw
q pistol taken from the pocket o.
his victim as he was being carried
Into the hotel barber shop. Ths
indictments are based on the festi
Imony Of witnesses who swear tia
1tEe defendants made statements
latter the killing to the effact tha
they knew nothing about It.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
BOY ENDS WORLD TOUR.
Tells of Remarkable Adventures In All
 Parts of the Globe.

From the New York American.
 On capital of 35 cents and an ire pressible wanderlust James Erskine, IS years old, has just completed tour ore and one-half times around the globe. He arrived in New York re- gently as full of tales of strange ad- venture as a Marco Polo, and with more money and better clothes than he possessed at the inception of his romantic journey.
 My people were drowned in the Galveston flood" he said, "and that's what made me leave home. But I'm going to get off the road now. Travel ing Is not funny like it used to be. It is easy when you are young, but not now. I'm getting too old"
 That is the way the adventurous youth sums it all up.
 When he left Galveston five years ago he was a barefooted boy of 13 years He crossed the great state of Texas on freight train, but changed to the top of a passenger coach at El Paso, and journeyed through to Los Angeles on the Southern Pacific's fast est express. By working at odd jobs and boarding the blind baggage, the bumpers, or the trucks, he made San Francisco just as the United States transport Thomas was about to sail for the Philippines.
 Late one night he united row boat hidden under one of the docks, and rowed himself out to where the big vessel was moored He climbed up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
WHAT DEATH IS.
Merely a Change of Energy and No'
 Humiliation.

From the North American Review.
 What we call death is not annihila- tion; it is only a change of enrgy. De- cay is simply the breaking up life into new and more multiplied forms of life.
 The latest science recognizes at least nine different forms of energy into which a single force may pass and re- pass without dmnution or loss. That, of course, is the great discovery of modern science, that energy may be tranformed from one form into an other, may be transferred from one body to another, but cannot be de- stroyed.
 Not immediately was the bearing of this scientific law on the doctrine of immortality recognized. And yet, as the mind adjusted itself to the almost protean forms of energy, it became ap- parent that life itself, which is the highest form of energy we know, must inevitably become subject to this law.
 Death, when it touches human life, Is not destruction of energy; it is sim ply change through which life passes into some new form of activity.
 Your candle, for instance, burns down to the socket and after a flicker or two goes out. To the eye of sense that is the end of your candle, and it has been used over and over again as the image of death. But according to the law of the conservation of energy the light and heat of that candle are not lost They have passed into other forms of energy more subtle, but, not less real.
 A log is slowly consumed upon the hearth until nothing remains but a heap of filmy ashes, but the light and energies of that log are not lost. The life which was in the tree deposited in that log certain forces, and the fire has liberated these forces in other modes of activity The whole universe Is a vast area of ceaseless, indestructible energy, of which life is the highest type.
 Within the last half dozen years science has emphasized still another fact-namely. that the more powerful a force is the less visible it is to hu- man sight the less susceptible of rec ognition The energy of radium, for example. is so tremendous that the hundredth part of grain of radium dropped into it's own weight of water will change the temperature of that water from the freezing point to the boiling point in a single hour.
 It is, of course. admitted that this does not prove the immortality of the individual soul by any means, but it does prove the indestructibility of life. Religion has surely gained a magnifi- cent trophy from science when science tells her that life is an indestructible element in the universe.
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the hawser chain into the ship, and concealed himself within a canvas covered lifeboat. Here he found hard tack, provided in advance for the ship wrecked, and he subsisted on it until discovered a thousand miles from shore
 He was permitted to go ashore on the Island of Guam, but failed to get back on the boat, and was left, one among a few hundred white people, in midocean. A government supply boat picked him up, and he worked for the mess until he got to Manila. He at tached himself to the commissary of a military company, and toured the islands.
 The transport which took him from San Francisco brought him back, but he hid himself as a stowaway on the Sherman, and crossed the Pacific again to Nagasaki. Despite the vigil ance of the crew, he slipped off the ship, and bribed a Chinaman to row him ashore He saw Kobe and Yoka- hama, and crossed the Japan sea to Shanghai, and thence up the Yellow sea.
 The youth tells of meeting with a Chinaman who owned sailing poultry craft, on which he raised ducks, and sold them in convenient ports. The Mongolian gave him job, and landed him in Hongkong, where he caught packet from Calcutta. Working at everything from cleaning potatoes to mending rigging" he journed from h. dia to Lisbon, Gibraltar and Alexan- dria. A party of tourists picked him I'D there, and he was carried on camel back to Cairo "to see the pyramids and graveS"
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to Constantinople,

Crossing to Constantinople, he boarded a sailing vessel for Capetown. and spent several weeks in South Af- rica, washing dishes in a Kimberley restaurant for $2 week. A fishing schooner transported him to Sydney and Melbourne As a part of cargo of wool, he made the long journey back to San Francisco. His itinerary from the coast here included the cities of Salt Lake, St. Paul, Kansas City, Galveston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Nor folk and Washington.
 I'm going to get job and settle down now" he says.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
If l Were President.

From Broadway Magazine.
 If l were President of the United States" said the politician as he button- holed the idiot on Broadway, and tried to involve him in q discussion of the af- fairs of the nation. "do you know what I would do?'
 .'No, l don't" returned the idiot. But for the good of the country I hope you'd resign"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
Godden's Evergreen Mixed Lawn
 Grass Seed

Sown now will produce beautiful green velvety lawn during the winter and spring. This mixture of grass seed can be sown over your Bermuda sod, without having to tear up your sod, and give you a green surface during the winter Full direction for planting on each pack age or sack. One pound will plant a space 10xS0, or 300 square feet; price, 70 cents per pound: pounds for s1; per hushel of 1J pounds.
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The Original.

From the Baltimore American.
 Darling you are the only woman ever loved. the manly young fellow avowed in accents of soul-reachng ardor. The fair young girl looked into his face with her big childlke eyes overbrimming with trust and confidence.
 'I guess" she murmured. dreamily, that is the way Ananias began when he was courting Sapphira."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
A Cynical Definition.
From Brooklyn Life.

From BrOOkIyn Llfe.
 And they have separated?'
 Yes: but I don't think they were ever really in love-
 "Oh. I don't know. Love is what keeps people from discovering incompatibility before marriage"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
GOdden's Lawn Fer tiIizer and Top
 Dressing

Is the correct kind of fertilizer to use on a lawn: contains the right kind of plant foods for grass in the right proportion; price. pounds for 9 cents 10 pounds, Q cents; 25 pounds( enough for a space 1000 square feeD for 90 cents; 50 pounds for $1 25; 100 pounds for S2.25.
 LAWN RAKES that will clean your lawn and not tear the young roots, price, 50 cents each
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
WANTED - Experienced wrappers. Apply Superintend- ent Drennen Co.,, early Monday.

The contributors to the purses for the Horse Show to be held in Birmingham during the second week in October will meet Monday, the 23d, at 4::3O p. m., at the Hillman Hotel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
Oseet ah the Bird.

the hermit of Discovery mountain lost to the world.
 Oseetah the Bird
 There is very pretty little Indian Tel gend associated with the lower Saranac Lake, which is known as the Birth of the Water Lily According to this little story, Blazing Sun the young and hand some chief of the Wayotahs, having just returned from successful wars against the Tahawl, sought to make love to the most beautiful maiden of his tribe, Osee tah the Bird. Knowing his love to be impure. the maiden fled from him. He pursued, and, at last, driven to the brink of a high precipice, the maiden, rather than submit herself to his embraces, plunged over the edge and disappeared inthe waters of the Lower Saranac, near ly 100 feet below. Her body never came up, but the next morning there appeared on the surface where she had taken tEc fatal plunge some wonderful flowers of purest white, and the medicine men of the tribe declared they were sprung from the soul of the dead maiden. There is little lake near the Lower Saranac now named Oseetah. in honor of this Indian maiden
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Easy terms; modern home, ready Oct. 1. Woodlawn Real ty Co.,, 1919 1st National Bank Building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
Fall Planting
 Bulbs

Early Roman Hyaeinths, 40 cents per dozen.
 Paper White Narcissus. 25 cents per dog. Freesias Qor pot plants), 15 cents per dozen.
 Chinese Sacred Lilies Go be planted in bowl of water). 10 cents each, for 25c. Gala Lily Bulbs, 15 cents each, for 25c. Lilium Cardidun (annunciation lily), 10 cents.
 Easter Lily, large bulbs, 25 cents each. Circular giving direction for planting bulbs furnished each customer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
Eorsaken Village.

Tho la,end of the forsaken village Is another interesting story or the LaNe Placid country which MT Van HoeVeh- hure has made the subject or mucn ih- ouiry. AS far as the fact go, the TOT. sal<en village was the little village oi Adirondack" some miles irohh Laos plac,dy which was years ago the scene or ,ua,, ora mining operations conducted by n marty of capitalists on the strength or ,ha discovery of some rich iron ore mauc Inv an Indian in the locality. It IS now III inc nreserve of the Tahawus club. Whet'' after A great amount of money had been spent in the mining undertakihs tue ptiN9 of iron fell the project was apahooi,eu with such speed that the people or 'iio H'- tie hamlet did not stop to remove iroi'' their homes their few househoio soous' Another reason for this course on t'e', mari was that few if any of them couio hsar the cost of transporting them. When the work stopped the people sihpiy ual,sed away and left the little village to its fate. so,a
 The story on which the legend is founo- cd runs that New York business man in the Adirondacks for rest anu rec,ea- ,ion when wandering afield one uay' chanced across the moss-coVereo reiiaihs of the little village abandoned years pc fore. Entering one house better ,iian 'Nc rest he found IL perieois M ,s
 it's occupants had left It years peioio' "A ,,..,o further down the street he came
 aroas the office of the company oy ,,,ho,n the mines had been operated
 Even the ledgers had been left in the .a,e the doors of which were open. Tn sais vav he occupied himself until he .aaI;zsd .,,a that the night was upon him. Daa;d,no to make the best of the situa. ton. he returned to the house he haa first entered, and, taking possession or one of the silent bed rooms, threw back
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dian. In this manner was the secret of the hermit of Discovery mountain lost to the world.
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WHITE & HEFLIN.