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The sun., 1908-05-17

There were stout trees outside and strong
ropes convenient; and from the horrid
suggistious which few like wildfire among
the r,istics 1t seemed az II large and me
might speedily pass from wan stste Of
suspense into anudder. But jest ut this
vital OF rather mortooal crisis Susanns
opened her eyea and spoke.
you are al wrong. dear father she
persisted. :. my large was by my side. ne
hadn't nawthin' to do with the shooting
What an absurd ideei It was . tall man
this iet me out aii 81 80, ssh.s.. eide 5in-
der. seen him distinctly.'
And poor Andy was among the very fust
10 loose our throngs and apologize for what
might have been an irwrapable mistake.
But all fought Of us vanished In tho
growing anxiety for the girl. who after
apparently hfeiess. Tho physician TUX
her pulse and shook bis old poll.
sThere is nRwthin' science can do. he
mummured, -ehe won't live half hour
But abe b alive nowe' cried Mr.. Pagelow
wildly. $,
sMost assuredly. sir. n
Bear witness. neighbors and finds.'
The sun., 1908-05-17

yonder,' I said. pointin' TO where light
shone dim on the odder side Of the road.
oh, she guggled, and haven been able
to pour a drink since without a chill. Il
hers al the Mb THAT wsis s wSers the
aon hves-Mr. Blore You silly boy. do
you t'ink don't understand? Yis. and
consintl'
And thin, whin me heart was thumpin'
the Dead March to beat the band, a mussiful
the road below, which caused us to stand
intint behind a shilterin' tree, as Mr..
Pagelow and Poor Andy Maleen paused in
earnest conversashun.
The sun., 1908-05-17

the shed and passed in t'roo the front dure.
1t was large and Sueanne.
The lowered light In the front room grew
brignter, and under the half raised shade
Of the side winder looked t'roo to the
winder d'reckly opposhet. also half raised
Susanne was sitting by the ointre table,
her face. ardint, impassioned uplifted
toward large as ne stud facing me.
All, mel SO Aunt Jenny had looked up into
mo glims, yet my blood had friz.
'0ur life .togedder, darling" large was
a-ssying, -shall be wan grand. sweet song
A sintamint, 1 fear. which vud have
been thrun out from amy literary patent
office as base infringement.
And thin, as was refiictin' on the ekally
aged trut' that all men are liars. something
shiny In the opposhet winder. with a. shadow
behind it, cart my eyes. As l raised my
voice in a scream the report kem.
was writhing on the fiuge with large binding
agoniyed over her. The didfy revolver,
tassed into the room by the unknown aseas-
sin, lay at his very feet.
And thin from the rear Of the house in
rushed Poor Andy Maleen. 20 spring like
to hover distracted over his child Hike Grief
sOR. the pity Of it, groaned, -that
eeder Of US was iver born And thin, like
a very black sheep led by the mock, wlnt
to iine my companyun
At the same time inferred folks from the
houses near by, wan of whom was a ply
eician. and with thin was the wall eyed
domino.
Il have been maxim round Of parish
calls.' he said with the deep feeling which
goes with q successful alibi "Woe Is me,
that 90 dridful, 40 inexplicable q tragedy
-.Not inexpliosbie.. cried Mr.. Pagelew.
holding up the revolver. Eve cart this
villain here pointin' TO large. -in the
very mudderous act. And idintify this
weapon as wan h o ehowed me on his arrival
at my home
whereupon the passon rolled his wall
eye 70 high heavings, as we'll he might.
seein' as how In some way he must have
prigged the gun from Jarge's effeoks.
Here's his aocomplice,' was the frinzied
in a rush they had me down. but, alasl
not out.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07
President HiehtOwer Urges Big Attend.
2Ncp

President G. R. Hightower,. of
the State branch of the Farmers
Union, has issued an urgent call
with reference to the Forthcoming
meetings to be held stimuli taneously
at Memphis and New Orleans,
Nov. II and IL, by the farmers and
business men interested in the cot
ton situation. Mr.. Hightower says:
II urge that every county in the
State hold mass meetings in the
county seats on Saturday, Nov. Z,
for the purpose of sending dele
gates to these meetings. Both
should be represented by all class
es largely.
"All local unions and the execu-
tive committee of each county un-
ion are urged to send delegates to
New Orleans. We hope to have a
full attendance of business men at
New Orleans. The Grunewald Ho-
tel at New Orleans is headquarters
for the delegates and visitors.
Railroads give a rate of one fare
for the round trip" G
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07
Success Of the Ku Klux.

Comparing the members of the
Ku Klux Klan in the South in Re-
construction days to the American
colonists who attacked the British
at Concord and Lexington at the
beginning of the war to throw off
the Kings yoke, Colonel John G.
Reed, in the November number of
Uncle Remus- The Home Maga-
zine, contributes an interesting
article concerning elections in
South Carolina Immediately after
the Civil War.
Colonel Reed was a leader in the
Ku Klux Klan in Georgia, and of
the influence of the Klan he says:
"The Ku Klux revolution benefi-
Gently turned the Nation back to
its right course. Success justifies
revolution. Surely the success of
this revolution in such a high cause
settles forever that the Klan was,
in its motive and career, both NOR
ally and expedienuly right. The
gross exaggeration of the number
of homicides and so called outrages
by the Ku Klux can be disposed of
in one truth-telling sentence: No
other great revolution of force in
history was less bloody and cruel. ;"
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07
The Really Great.

The really great are always hon
est and admirable. The Man OF
Galilee" was the ideal-the perfect
man, and the quality of his charac-
ter which we admire and reverence
above all others was his infinite
love for humanity. The warrior
the maker Of widows and orphans
and the destroyer of States, chal-
lenges the admiration of the brute
Iside of human nature but the fame
of the soldier is ephemeral. Like
the devasting storm it holds our
admiration for a time but soon
passes away. Time effaces from
the pages of history ali records OF
cruel deeds and the dust Of oblivion
finally covers them. But the man OF
woman who lives and labors fo1
some one else whose lives add te
the sum Of human happiness, are
never forgotten. They are part
of the economy of love the agen-
cies of God working in harmony
with the divine purpose to reclaim
and save the world.
Deep this truth impressed my
mind
Thro' all His work abroad
The heart benevolent and kind
The most resembles God. - The
Issue.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07
Hint to Home Merchants.

Much has been written about the
subtle influence of the big four
pound catalogues sent broadcast
over the land by the houses located
in the big cities which, strange to
say, refuse to sell goods to the resi-
dents of the cities in which they
are located.
There is no mysterious element
in these bulky paper books, writes
D. M. Carr in the Dwight (Ill.)
Herald. From cover to cover they
are filled with pictures and with
prices and descriptions of goods.
The power of printers ink is the
only magnet: and this magnet can
be used by merchants everywhere.
The publishers of these great cata-
logues do business running we'll up
toward the fifty millions yearly.
All their success has been in the
ink they use and the way they use
it.
Because these concerns receive
patronage that should go to the
home merchant is the home mer-
chants fault, Mr.. Carr argues.
The home merchant neglects to do
just what the houses which publish
the big catalogues do. He may not
have the money to get out such a
great list, neither the means of
carrying great stocks of goods.
Yet he possesses all the means nee
essary to gain the trade that goes
to these great concerns. He can
buy goods just as low, has less ex-
pense. and, while the big catalogue
goes to customer once in a year
or two, through the medium of the
local newspaper the merchant can
go to all the people of the COM
munity once week and at the
lowest expense.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07
Lawrence County Game Law Amended.

Silver Creek, Nov. 4.-The Law
renee County Board of Supervisors,
at its meeting yesterday, repealed
the law passed last month which
declared the game season closed
for two years. Strong petitions
circulated throughout the county,
were presented by a delegation of
sportsmen from every section of
the county, requesting the board to
repeal this law. The object in
passing it at first was to assist in
the fight against the boil weevil,
but it was proven beyond a doubt
by statistics, reports, etc, that
the partridge does not eat the Vice.
vii, and as the supply of birds in
the county is still plentiful, the
law was repealed and then amended
to read as follows:
Tt shall be lawful to hunt from
Nov. Is to Feb. l, and no person
can kill over fifteen birds in any
one day."
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07
W. J. Bryan.

In the defeat of William Jen-
nings Bryan at the polls, one of the
greatest men of the country has
probably passed out of political
life, at least so far as he himself
is concerned.
He made a great fight and his
canvass was one that will go down
in history as remarkable for its
splendor and for the earnestness
and sincerity of the man.
There is little doubt that money
cut big figure in the election.
This will probably be shown later.
Mr. Bryan virtually had two op-
ponents-Mr. Taft and President
Roosevelt with all of his political
power and prestige.
Though defeated, Mr.. Bryan will
go down in history as one of the
greatest men of his times, and un-
less this government becomes
monarchy the principles for which
he fought will some day triumph
-Hattiesburg News.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07
100 Years Old.

jackson, Miss, Nov. Govern.
or Noel, after casting has ballot at
his home in Lexington yesterday,
did not remain for the funeral of
Mrs. F. L. Walton, who died there
Monday night, as he intended, hav-
ing been called back through tele-
phone message advising him of i'm.
portant official business which re-
quired his attention.
Mrs. Walton, who was in her
Tooth year and was believed to have
been the oldest white woman in the
State, was the grandmother of
Governor Noel's first wife, and has
a long line of direct descendants,
many of whom are among the most
prominent people in the State.
Her death followed closely upon
the burning of her home, from
which she was barely rescued in
time, and was the direct result of
the shock caused by that circum-
stance.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07
Yours truly,
WALTER PORTER.


Here is the sort of discipline
that will drive a man to distrac-
tion: Private Bernard Lesser of
Battery D. Third Field Artillery,
U. S. A., was dishonorably dis
charged from the service and sen.
fenced to forfeit all pay and allow
ances due him and to be confined at
hard labor for six months, all be-
cause he ate green apples after hav-
ing received lawful order from a
sergeant to throw them away.
Natchez Democrat.
Strange as it may seem, there is
no lack of men who subscribe to
and practice submission to such
rules and discipline as the above,
who at the same time pretend to
believe it is an awful infringement
on the personal liberty" of every
citizen, because other citizens
are not licensed to sell liquor and
produce all the Generalization,
misery and crime which inevitably
follow in the wake Of this evil
traffic.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07
Al recent decision of The Miss

A recent decision of the Missis-
sippi Supreme Court apparently
gives a black eye to the suicide
clause" in insurance contracts.
The case in point was Mrs. Hyde
against the Home Life Insurance
Co. Her son had taken out a poll
cy for two thousand dollars, paya-
Bile to his mother, and within one
year after the insurance was issued,
he took his life. The insurance Co.
held up payment of the policy on
account Of the suicide clause"
and Mrs Hyde sued for the
amount in the lower court and was
granted a verdict, which was sus-
tanned by the supreme court. This
now brings up the question Of how
companies can prevent fraud being
|practiced by would-be suicides.
Woodville Republican.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07
LINCOLN CONFEDERATE PENSIONERS.
Chancery Clerk McNair Has Received
$1,000 for Distribution Among Them.

Chancery Clerk McNair on
Thursday received the Auditors
warrant for So, ,300.55 to be divided
among the Confederate pensioners
Of Lincoln county, and he is now
paying off these claims pro rata ac-
cording to the several classes pre-
scribed in the State law.
Following is the list of the Lin
coin county pensioners, according
to the several classes:
Form 1.-W. C. Hammond,
Thomas Ward.
For 2.-John Ready, Willis
Smith, j. D. Wallace.
Form 4.-James A. Allen, John
D. Brown, W. J. Brown, Afford
Brewer, R. J. Boone, John Coker,
D. H. Currie, Alex Currie, James
M. Coleman, Levi Durr, Samuel
Dunn, A. S. Furr, Geo. w. Farmer
A. G. Glover, Thomas Herring, W.
L. Howard. J. H. Mammons, John
Ira James, VIM. H. Jackson, John
Jordan, D. J. Laird, Gwin Lotion,
R. P. Miers, Martin Mitchell. S.
L. Naples, Simeon Maxwell, Joe
Miller, John ]. McGallian, M. w.
Nevels, N. P. Norton, John Phil
lips, James G. Perkins, S. H. Pep
per, John A. Parker, d. D. Park
man, M. V. Richardson, C.. P.
Smith, Isaac L. Smith, j. A.
Smith, W. A. Smith, J. N. Sterl-
ing, Isham Smith, H. P. Segars,
Andrew j. Thompson, William F.
Thompson, ]. S. Williamson, j. J.
Williams, z. Wallace, Robt. Woot-
en-, D. H. Womack, E. W. Watts,
John Weems, L. L. White, W. H.
Williams, G. W. Warnock.
Form 5.-John Franklin, Morris
Thompson.
Form 6.-N. C. Applewhite,
Caroline Bolian, Melvina Case,
Rachael Crawford, Amelia Cobb,
Emily Covington, Elizabeth Dunn,
Rosa Lee Estuss, s. E. Falvey,
Matte Furlow, Sarah Gist, Sarah
Hammond, E. A. Holmes, Clorinda
Jordan, A. S. King, G. D. Little,
D. M. Marshall, S. P. Miller, Mary
E. Moore, Margaret j. Martin,
Julia Moak, Amanda Norton, Exer
Nations, Narcissie Noble, Lizzie
Nusom, Martha Ann Norton, Sarah
Cot. Mat Parnell, Lydia Price,
Mary Ratcliff, Rachael Roberts,
Catherine Smith, Nancy Tanner,
L.. C. White.
Grand total number of pension
ers, SO.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07

mately destroy the lives of the ami
mails. Horses and mules are often
in bad health, weak and dull and
yet are compelled to work when a
man, feeling as badly as they do.
would be in bed, taking medicine,
while the poor, dumb and patient
animals receive only lashe,s and
blows and are accused of being lazy.
If people are punished hereafter
for being ignorant, the brute crea-
tion will have a long account
against the human family. Taken
on an average the horses and mules
in Mississippi do not live out days
to which they are entitled when
given proper care and attention.
Think of the immense pecuniary
loss entailed upon the country by
such ignorance and carelessness and
cruelty. 1t is one of the principal
sources from which we derive our
poverty and "bad luck, (" as we call
it. Old Uncle Smith Kent was ac-
customed to say. there is no such
thing as bad luck; it is bad con
duct" and he was right. Some
men prosper dishonesty and many
prosper honestly by the exercise of
good judgment, while the balance
|of US remain poor for want of
judgment in all the small. practi-
cal details of business in the vari-
Gus vocations Of life. We lose a
horse, or mule worth two hundred
dollars because we do not know how
to preserve its health and life and
then persuade ourselves that some
person else is keeping us down in
the world. Dir. B. F, Ward in
WinOna Times.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07
Horse Sense.

1t is safe proposition that no
one should talk, or write on any
subject unless he knows something
about it.
In all the years that I have hand
led saddle and harness horses have
had only one to die on my hands
and that one died from carelessness
in feeding which could have been
avoided if / had attended to it my
self. It was year when a great
deal of corn had been damaged by
the winds and rains in the early
fall. had a fine horse for which
| had paid two hundred dollars.
| was doing very extensive horse
back practice and would frequently
intrust the feeding to careless ne
gro, and though / instructed him
fifty times, how to select sound
corn, he paid no attention to it and
my horse soon had blind staggers.
The horse had more sense than the
negro but did not have the privi-
lege OF selecting his food. If / had
left the crib door open the horse
would have eaten the sound corn.
Most of the diseases of horses
and mules in Mississippi originate
in the stomach and bowels and are
produced either by unsound food,
or improper feeding, watering and
sailing. Decaying or moulding
corn, oats, fodder and hay not only
produce staggers but generate in
the stomach and bowels, toxines or
poisons which are absorbed into the
blood and result in various diseases
that impair the health ana ulti-
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07
Testimony Concerning Boil NeeYiIs.

| MI' WolCCI OIUCI1 VA 4CIICll
Texas, in reply to an inquiry, ad-
dressed the following letter to Mr..
A. E. Cameron, of Memphis. Mr..
Porter recites his experience in
trying to raise cotton since 1904 on
land situated near timber. AS
nearly all Lincoln county cotton
fields are situated near timber, his
letter will prove highly interesting
to The Leaders readers:
Terrell, Tex. Sept. II, 1908.
Mr.. A. E. Cameron, Memphis,
Tenn:
Dear Sir-Your inquiry of our
experience raising cotton with the
weevil to hand.
| will, in brief way, give you
my opinion. The cultural method
means to thoroughly prepare the
land, plant good seed as early as
possible and cultivate often.
have two farms, one on the
prairie three miles from timber,
the other in bottom land on edge
of timber. In 1904 we had our
first good crop of weeviIs. That
year I planted my cotton on both
places on the last day of March.
| got good stand and worked it
steadily till the 10th of July. Af-
ter the goth Of July never saw a
bloom on my three hundred acres
of bottom cotton; on account of
weevil puncturing the squares.
The weevils did not appear on the
prairie farm till a month later than
the bottom, showing that they went
to the timber to hibernate and ate
all they could punch near the tim
Der before going to the prairie.
That year was a perfect cotton
year. l mean we could push it.
Never had single wet spell. It
was blooming two blooms to the
stalk on the 10th of June, and by
the time the weevils got thick, the
goth of July, | had two-thirds of
bale to the acre made. Cotton was
a good price. | sold the 200 bales
off my bottom farm at 10 3-4c, and
all my seed at SOC per bushel, so
you see / was getting rich. Next
year it was wet and we could not
force the cotton, and with the same
working expense l made a bale to
ten acres. A loss you see. In
1906 my prospect was excellent,
but week of wet weather about
1st of July cut my crop to 100 bales
on three hundred acres. I put
most of my bottom land in alfalfa,
but in 1907 planted fifteen acres
of cotton and worked it to perfec-
tion. 1t was wet season and /
never saw prettier cotton, but the
weevils took it all but one light
bale. This year | planted twelve
acres and the July drought held the
weevils in check and l will get a
ha If bale to acre.
Now, l had been cultivating the
farm for twelve years prior to 1904
and had averaged two thirds bale
to acre My prairie farm has
never made under one-half bale
since we had weevil. They COM
mence to breed on the timber place
about the 10th of June and usually
puncture all squares before flying
to prairie.
The cultural method is all right,
in fact it is the only way to farm,
but when it comes to raising cotton
with the boil weevil on bottom or
timber land, it is an uphill busi-
ness. If you use the cultural
and if the climate condi-
tions are favorable you can get a
good crop, but if you get it thrown
late in any way, it will be fail
ure.
Now sir, / have answered your
letter just as | would have had you
answer one of the same kind to
you. Have given you facts as l see
them.
Yours truly,
WALTER PORTER.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07
Roosevelt on Significance of Tuesday.
Election.

Washington, Nov, 4. President
Roosevelt today gave his interpre-
tation of the victory of the Repub-
lican Party at the polls yesterday
when he said to the newspaper men
whom he received in his office:
This demonstration has meant a
steady effort and progress which
should never be allowed to deviate
into an unwise radicalism on the
one hand nor an unWise conserva-
tism on the other The nomination
of Mr.. Taft was a triumph over
reactionary conservatism and his
election was a triumph over unwise
and improper radicalism. =
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07

Herbert S. Hadley, Republican,
was elected Governor of Missouri,
over Cowherd, Democrat. Hadley
won great popular favor by his
persistent and successful prosecu-
tion, as Attorney General, of the
Standard Oil Trust in Missouri.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07

The Democrats elected governors
in the following Western States
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Minneso-
ia, North Dakota, Nebraska and
Colorado.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07

The Democrats elected the gov
ernor and majority Of the Legis-
lature in Indiana and will likely
send John w. Kern to the United
States Senate from that State.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07

The Board of Supervisors of
Warren county has been petitioned
by a large number of tax payers to
establish demonstration farm, on
account Of the coming of the boil
weevil.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07

Hon. Luther W. Fielder, one Of
the Representatives in the Legisla-
ture from Pike, was married on
Oct. 28th to Miss May Walker,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. David
Walker
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07

George Quinn, a young white
farmer, was mortally wounded by
Clarence Dyers, negro tenant,
near Pachuta last Wednesday.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07

Consult j. M. Irby, on East
Monticello Street, for the best
brOOms and homemade mattresses.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-11-07

Thanksgiving Day Nov. 26.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-05-22
ORDERS ALL CORN CARS LOADED
WITHOUT DELAY.
WILL RUSH TO MARKET
Superintendent q Transportation
Says Order Was Issued Because Of
Condition Of Market and for Protec-
tion Of Railroad Company.

Chicago, May 21.-A sensation was
created on the board Of trade today
when it became known that the Chi.
cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
had issued instructions to its traflc
superintendents to see that the load
ing of corn cars was subjected to no
delay. This Is believed to be an et.
fort to rush as much cash corn as
possible to the local market with the
hope Of breaking the Corner held
by James A. Patten.
At the Offices of the Burlington
road, Superintendent Of Transports
tion Barnes said that the order to rush
the corn to market was issued "be-
cause Of the condition OF the market
and for our own protection"
One car of corn arrived here today
on the Illinois Central that was load
ed in Omaha on Tuesday.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-05-22

depot not needed for railway pur-
poses would be signed by nearly every
citizen to whom It would be presented,
and there Is no doubt that with the
new era Of good feeling between the
city and the company the latter would
refuse to allow private greed to OBJ
tain what is wanted for public beauty
It is such an emergency as would
justify the turning Of the next meet
ing Of the boosters club into an In
dignation meeting for the outpouring
Of the righteous wrath of an outraged
people," *
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-05-22
POLITICAL fEUD IS
BLAMED FOR MURDER
.EL PAsc NEWSPAPER MAN WILL
SEEK TO GAIN LIBERTY.

Ell Paso. Tex. May 21.-J. f..
Mitchim, proprietor of the Ell Paso
Evening News, was this afternoon
indicted by the grand jury in special
session for the murder Of N. NJ. Har.
rell, who was shot to death last night.
Mtchim waived preliminary hearing
in an effort to secure liberty under
bond. It 10 claimed freely that Har.
rell was killed as the result Of a
political feud.