The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-25
THE SOUR ORACLE'S
VARIED VIEWS
The Dollar Mark Not Mark Mainly,
But the Round Silver Dollar Dis.
cussed Pro and Con.

cussed Pro and Con.
Remember Crab Apple and the
IOTphans.
On Thursday, the Both, no thanks
will really be given: but thanks
will be exchanged for blessings re-
ceived.
i Kindly deeds are present need.
It's the only way to make cold
world ashamed and infuse into it
a warm feeling for all mankind.
When the majority of humanity
relax their ferocious greed for
money, and turn their attention to
real life, then the Lord will smile
on all concerned.
i What wonderful strides progress
has made within the past 35 years
Progress has slew the beautiful
forests-it has made desolate and
bare this once lovely country.
Progress usually kills the goose to
| get the golden egg" Progress
has impoverished millions of acres
of southern soil and placed the pro-
/ ceeds in cities and towns Progress
! Progress!! Keep on!
/ Will some genius invent some
way to regulate the temperature?
About noon we put on a garment of
gauze, in order to keep cool. We
hardly get it buttoned up before
the temperature drops about three
feet; then we make a dash for an
overcoat; but it is hardly worth
while, for we're soon perspiring in
La very extravagant way. What
latitude is Lincoln county inland,
how old was Ann?
i The most humane way to ex-
terminate certain kind of people
is to colonIze them in a fertile
country, then equip them with all
the necessary farming implements
and other necessities for the MAX
ing of a bounteous living :>cut them
off from outside help, and within
two years they would all be dead
starved to death . Now, don't
get the idea that we are talking
altogether about the negro.
l, Some folks are always buying
and selling. They will haul their
fall crop of corn to town and sell il
for nominal sum. Next spring
they II buy corn and pay-or prom
i Use to pay 40 or 81 per cent more
than they sold their fall crop for.
| Will you ever learn how tp sell,
wacnrte sEl ais WIsn Il seli 50
will you ever learn how to buy,
when to buy and above all, 10 quit
buying too much
4 We've figured on the negro and
inferior white labor and the result
| is invariably the same old thing. =
No farm will improve under the
sloppy .go-careless labor of the
average renter or wage hand. In
teIligent and honest farm labor is
scarce, and the safest method is &c
dispense with the niger and his
total ignorance of how to make
both edges cut." Roll up your
sleeves and do your own work and
save the enormous leakage that il
caused by the i'll training which
many receive from incompetent
white men. Skilled labor is the only
kind that pays, but you are not
likely to get it until it is trained
Through an agricultural school.
4 A few years ago the net income
of John D. Rockefeller was about
81 per minute. Great guns! What
would the average reader of The
Leader do with steady income Of
ten thousand and eighty dollars
every "a hours? Suppose that size
stream of an income were turned
toward you, dear editor? WoulC
lyou keep on pushing the paper bus.
mess, or would you retire and fal
desperately in love with the world.
While we have the money subject
going, we'll intimate. but with MOI
the slightest hint to any of oul
"kinery. that $50. 1000 is enough
for anybody to retire upon. VIZ
haven't much time for the individ
nal who tries to scoop" the whoIe
earth and offers God pinch" Of
it for half interest in heaven.
But descending from the ridicu,
lous into the deepest depth of in.
fanny. we will lay a hand .on the
head of some of those Limitation
young men who are hired BY tbs
merchant to sell goods. but who
will sometimes run the risk Of
oyercharging customer five OF
ten cents on an article and shove
the stolen lucfe into his owr