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The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19
PIKE CRIMINAL TERM ENDS
---GETS 10 YEARS FOR INCEST

Magnolia. Miss. March a.
Having disposed of all criminal
cases set for trial this week. Judge
Miller finally discharged the petit
jurors for the week. The most
important case tried during the
week was that of the State against
Jesse Ryals. white man, charged
with incest. This case resulted in
mistrial at the last term of court.
one juror holding out for a verdict
of not guilty. The case was tried
behind closed doors. and when the
jury returned verdict of guilty
Judge Miller gave the accused the
maximum penalty of ten years in
the penitentiary, and expressed re-
grets that that was the maximum
penalty for the crime.
Other cases disposed of not mem
toned in former reports were:
Lille Smith. retailing pleaded
guilty, fined $1OO and thirty days
in jail. Will Irwin, assault and
battery. pleaded guilty. sentenced
to one year on the county farm and
fined $lOO. The farm sentence was
suspended during good behavior.
Clyde Harrington. petit larceny.
guilty, 500 and thirty days. OF
lie w. Regan, pointing gun. guilty.
500 and thirty DAYS.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19
WHITE DERELICTS OR BLACK.
BOTH SHOULD PAY PENALTY

The Leader hopes that every
effort will be made by our officers
to capture the white brute in
human form who attacked the
negro girl on Sunday evening as
noted elsewhere. When you take
into consideration the imputed
higher intelligence and moral char
acter of the average white man as
against the uncontrolled instincts
OF the common negro, the crime of
which white man is guilty ex-
ceeds the negro derelict in every
particular.
For the humiliation decency must
suffer under such a Circumstance,
to say nothing of the outrageous
insult and assault offered the help
less girl with its attendant infu-
ence for both races toward degrada-
tion and impurity, restitution
should be made by the ravisher.
And the only way it can be de-
manded is through the law. Every
man, who honors his high estate,
and who wishes to exalt manhood
and womanhood wherever found,
should cry aloud for the enforce
ment of the law in such cases.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19
ASSESSORS ARE HAVING TROUBLE
MAKING THEIR ROLL CORRECTLY

Jackson, Miss, March 18. -Coun-
ty assessors in Mississippi are
encountering much trouble in the
compilation of the realty rolls for
1918 because Of the new statute re-
quiring that timber must be assess
ed separately from the soil, and
improvements on town and city lots
from the realty itself.
Property owners. in a large
majority of cases. are not familiar
with the provisions of the new law,
and, unless specially instructed,
turn in their assessment lists on
the old basis. Others seemingly
do not know how to estimate tim
Der apart from land. or houses
apart from the site on which locat-
ed.
Incidentally. the new statute~is
serving to show the ridicuIously
low values placed by many prop
erty-owners on their holdings, for
when compelled to divorce build
ing from the ground on which it
stands they are frequently compell-
ed to admit that the building alone
is worth more than the original
assessment for both building and
realty.
1t is believed at the state audi
tors Office that the new law will
result in a considerable increase of
the grand total of the state assess
ment this year.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19
JUDGE CASSIDY IS CERTAIN TO
GET P. 0. APPOINTMENT HERE

Judge w. P. Cassidy will be
Brookhaven's next postmaster from
all authentic and authoritative ad-
vices received from Washington,
unless he refuses to accept the ap-
pointment.
Judging by spoken word and
written communication from Con-
gressman P. E. Quin, Judge Casse-
dy will be pushed for the place by
that gentleman. 1t is also equally
as positive news from the nation S
capitol that neither Senators Will
liams nor Vardaman have anything
to do with this part of the pie
counter, the matter being practi-
eally left in its entirety in Mr..
GUMS hands.
When Hon. E. F. Brennan. the
present incumbent. is 'ousted"
from the job which. so many have
been fishing for under the new
Democratic rule, the worst that can
be said Of him will be that his
politics were wrong" The genial
Judge has always beena consistent,
dyed-in-the-wool Republican and
has kept the faith through
thick and thin in this section, where
real Republicans are not very much
more numerous than the proyerb;aI
hens teeth.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19
A STORY FROM REAL LIFE.
couldn't RESIST Temptation

San Francisco. March 49,
Charles A. Baker, former assistant
cashier of the Crocker National
Bank, admitted today that he was
guilty as charged of embezzlements
from the bank that are estimated
at $500, 900.
Two guards from the United
States marshaI's Office sat at his
bedside while Baker, who is criti-
cally i'll at his home, whispered the
story of his downfall.
Every bit of it is true. he
said. 81 fell because of the
temptation / was constantly sub
jected to. The bank paid me
$4,000 a year for my services.
Every day stock dabblers and finan-
ciers called at the bank and daily
they told me of the(thousands they
had won the ddy before with
scarcely an effort.
g These conversations gradually
became more and more impressive.
/ began to think | should be taking
advantage Of the opportunities put
before me. One day a man came
to me and gave me tip on stock
to buy. | took it. won. | got
a second tip few days later. !
took that tip and lost. After that
] won occasionally and lost fire.
quently. / tried to recoup my
losses and make good with the
bank. / intended to stop gambling
as soon as / could even up
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19
LAND, LIBERTY AND PATRIOTISM.

In recent dellverance on Land,
Liberty and Patriotism" DR.. B.
F. Ward said:
1--WE hear no little shallow and
bombastic talk about it being
sound and progressive policy to
encourage the coming of great land
corporations because they would
develop the country Develop
the devil; they would develop a
cormorant and despotic -lurd-
ism by destroying the opportunI-
ties and strangling the aspirations
of our boys. There are more than
six and a quarter million farms IN
the United States, and already,
one-third OF them are worked by
renters. The percentage of renters
is increasing while the percentage
of small, unmortgaged landowner
ship is diminishing. The price of
the best lands, in the whole coun-
try, is now practically beyond the
reach of the poor man and steadily
going higher. Not only should
corporations be restrained from
devourin0 the lands, but there
should be a positive Limitation up
on individual ownership. as there
was in Greece and Rome in the
days Of their greatest statesman
ship and of their most exalted and
self-sacrificing patriotism. If the
people do not indorse and support
the efforts of Attorney General Col
Inns to preserve and protect the
lands for the sons and daughters Of
Mississippi they will be careless
and unappreciative if not ungrate-
full"
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19
SLAVERY MAY Be CHARGE
Geo. Schwartz, Millionaire, and 70,
Found in Room at Jackson With
PeIahatchie Girl.

/ Jackson, Miss, March 18. Past
records OF, George Schwartz, of Mon
roe, La, supposed to be million
aire, and who was arrested Satur-
day while in a room in a hotel
with Miss Willie B. Cawthorne, of
Pelahatchie. will be closely investi-
! gated, according to statement
made by Chief of Police Barr. who
is now looking up certain matters
to substantiate, the truthfulness of
various reports regarding Schwartz.
with special reference to his ac-
quaintance with young girls.
Schwartz, who put up a ST 900
cash bond when he was arrested,
will be arraigned in police court
tomorrow afternoon on a charge
growing out of his having been
found with the young woman, who
is II years of age. By that time
Chief Barr. says he probably will
know whether there will be suffi-
cient evidence to hold him on
charge of violating the Mann white
slave act.
1t has come to the ears of the
chief that Schwartz went to Mem
phis few weeks ago with young
girl of Pelahatchie. ana that he
also took trip to Florida with an
other girl friend. Schwartz is 70
years of age, and stoutIy maintains
that he gave pretty clothes to girls
and took them on trips because he
liked to give them little innocent
pleasure, ana that there have been
no wrong intentions on his part.
Miss Cawthorne still says she
met Schwartz here for innocent
purposes, merely to have a good
time in seeing the sights of the
city. She is at the home of a cous-
in here. Her father, K. S. Caw-
thorne. also of Pelahatchie, is still
in Jackson, having come here Sat-
urday afternoon when Chief Barr
telegraphed him his daughter had
been found in hotel with
Schwartz. The father says he does
not believe the aged man had any
wrong intentions, and refused to
prosecute him. This was at con-
ference between Chief of Police
Barr, District Attorney Lee, of the
United States court, and Caw-
thorne, yesterday morning, when
the officials discussed the questions
of preferring white slave charges.
Cawthorne didn't seem at all
anxious to prosecute, and Chief
Barr became somewhat ruffied, say
ing. that Cawthorne had asked him
to hold the girl and Schwartz until
he got here, and when he came he
backed down." The chief then
arrested Cawthorne as witness,
and required him to make cash
bond of $25, which he did, to ap-
pear when he was wanted.
1t is said here that Schwartz
often went to st. Louis. and that
he is well known there. His home
is at Monroe. La. The man is reti-
cent about talking. except to say
he is innocent of the charges and
contemplated charges.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19

of going to McComb as he at
first thought she did, after renting
a team from K. l.. Brent at Bugue
Chitto.
The missive he has received does
not tend to alleviate his anxiety
and suffering at all, due to the
statements it contains. Among
other things it carries the informa-
tion from his former wife that she
never intends to give the children
up again; that she had married
again and had more money in her
ha2dssthan his {Hart,s) entire place
was worth and that she intended to
90 with her husband, who was
going to adopt the children, to a
foreign country. The children, j.
E., Jr.. aged z. and Teresa. aged 8,
would there be taught a new Ian
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19
MILITARY INSPECTION OF co. H
BY U. S, ARMY OFFICER

Official inspector, Lieutenant W.
L. Mcclellan. U. S. A., 18th In
fantry, was in our city on Monday.
Also Col. E. B. Baker and Mai.
Geo. G. Hoskins, of the Third Reg
iment, Mississippi National Guard,
and Rev. B. F. Lewis, of Crystal
Springs. Chaplain of the Third
Regiment.
The Leader takes pride in record
ing the fact that Company H, of
Brookhaven, made the best showing
on drill, and in condition Of uni
forms, of any company in the State
and was also found to own more
Government property than any
other company.
Capt. j. L. Storm deserves un-
stinted praise for his perseverance
in we'll doing and his patriotic
pride in Company H. He has
steadfastly maintained the organi-
zation through years of vicissi-
tudes, ready always to serve his
country and his fellows.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19
'KIDNAPPER HEARD FROM
Mary Bullock Notifies julius Hart
That She win Take Children
to Foreign Country.

With only one exception no news
as to their whereabouts has been
received by Julius Hart. the father
of the two little children. who
we're kidnapped last week from
their home near Bogue Chitto.
The exception came direct from
the woman who took the children
off Mary Bullock. their own
mother, who had been separated
from Hart by divorce proceedings.
A 81 900 cash settlement was also
part of the final proceedings. The
Bullock woman has made her home
in and about Houston. Texas. for
the past year, until the date of
the kidnapping.
Mr.. Hart has also learned that
the woman came here instead
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19
WHITE ASSAULTS NEGRO
Unknown Man WayIays 14-Year-OId
Negro GirI---Suspect Arrested
and Then Released.

Cora Lee Caisson, a fourteen
year-old girl, was outraged by a
white man in the northwestern part
of the city Sunday night. After
the crime the girl, frightened and
crying, made her way to the home
of her parents and told the story
of being waylaid on the Mississippi
Central railroad track. Officers
we're summoned and small posses
searched the woods and neighbor-
hood nearby, but without result.
A white man named Ludlow, of
Monroe. Miss, was arrested Mon
day afternoon, but was soon releas-
ed on the girls stating that he was
not the man who assaulted her.
Sunday afternoon the girl and her
cousin, boy Of nine years, accom-
panied the mother of the girl to
the union depot, where the elder
Caisson boarded a train. After the
departure of the train. the two
little negroes followed the railroad
track on their return home, in
what is known as the Hartman
quarters. Several hundred yards
from the Union street railroad
crossing "a white man accosted the
pair. Telling the boy that he
would give him nickel to make a
purchase at store nearby. the girl
was left with the man, who shortly
afterward dragged her down the
embankment of the track and into
the woods adjoining.
Negro residents of the locality
recalled having noticed two strange
white men lingering in the neigh
borhood during the day, but the
officers have failed to apprehend
them.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19
Spend Your Dollars 50 They win
Come Back.

Never send a dollar away from
home when the article that the
dollar will purchase can be obtain
ed at home. Money is our finan-
ciaI blood. Its circulation keeps
the business body alive. Bleed
that body by sending money away
end business will soon put on look
Of Iethargy. Always trade 1t
home. Watch the bargains offered
By enterprising advertisers in this
paper and you will learn the best
places 10 spend those home dollars.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19
What Spring Brings.

There's a smudge in the garden,
a smoke iD the air; a smell combin-
ed of burnt leather and hair.
There's girl on the lawn with a
rake in her hand: there's woe and
distress all over the land. There s
carpets to beat and rugs to shake;
enough of such work to make q
man quake. There's stoves to be
moved and carpets to put down,
no wonder man wants to get out
Of town.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19
Always Give the 4cIad Hand

When anyone comes to our town
grasp him by the hand and tell him
what bright prospects the town has.
Don't stand around like a lot of
dressed up dummies before cloth
ing store and wear long faces with
gloomy looks that see only the dark
side Of things. Above all. don't
90 whining around and make d
shadow on the bluest sky. If you
really have not the heart to speak
q CHEEKY word or lend your infu-
ence ia behalf Of your town. for
mercy's sake hide yourself when
strangers come to visit US.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19

guage and even their first names
would be changed.
Numbers of descriptive motto es
have been sent out to detective
agencies and sheriffs offering $50
cash reward, but no one has been
able to trace the fleeing trio.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19

The reduction of the tariff will
be probably the main issue of the
short session. The congressman
who have products of their pafticu-
lar sections on which their constit-
uents wish the tariff retained are
going to lay awake nights trying
to solve their duty between the
many and the few. Each law.
makers portion of country will
look larger to him than all the rest
Of the world and in this he will
have plenty Of sympathy at home
where be was raised y
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19

Theodore G. BiIbo. Lieutenant
Governor, and President Of the
Senate, is an avowed candidate for
Governor, says jackson corre-
spondent. He has already started
his campaign. In this connection
i is stated that DR.. j. N. Powers.
State Superintendent 0f Education,
may shy bis castor into the arena.
A number Of other names are also
mentioned.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19

God probably never Intended man
to be satisfied because If he was
he would have nothing to pray Tor.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19

The woman who despises matri-
mony usually does not speak from
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19
SERIOUS QUESTIONS.

The Leader would like to wish
the county teachers a pleasant va
cation from school duties; but since
their days and months off duty ex-
ceed the time spent in training the
young idea this school year, we
doubt if any words can compensate
in any degree for the financial loss
under which they must labor
during the holidays, +" or add to
the pleasure that should attend a
needed rest from "a long term.
The question of how the teachers
are to sustain themselves under the
circumstances is a serious one. And
another is how can we afford to
permit the short term another year
or for years to come. The outlook
lis that the teachers are going to
starve for material sustenance and
the children for mental pabulum.
Good teachers will. doubtless. seek
employment where the salaries are
DeNteF ana WneEo Jney last longer.
Ihe three students Of the Uni
versity Of North Carolina who we're
the cause Of the death of fellow
student through the abominabIe
hazipg practice last fall. we're
tried and sentenced at HilIsboro.
Each will serve four months In Jail.
It isIstated that hazing has been
practiced at the university d hundred
years and that this is the first case
tried In court. Too bad! We
presume all the other dead boys
keptI quiet. The practice should
be condemned and the heads Of
institutions made to bear the re-
spo1sibility Of 50 barbarous GUS
toms
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-03-19

II is the "drys, not the vets
that open the AOodgatez of 0ratory.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-23
Breaks a Cold
 in a Few Hours
First Dose of Pape's Cold Compound Relieves all
 Grippe Misery.

After the very first dose of Tapes Cold Compound' you distinctly feel the cold breaking and all the disagree able grippe symptoms leaving.
 It is a positive fact that a dose of Pape's Cold Compound taken every two hours until three consecutive doses are taken will cure Grippe or break up the most severe cold either in the head. chest. back, stomach or limbs.
 It promptly ends the most miserable headache, dullness, head and nose stuffed up, feverishness, sneezing, sore throat, running of the nose, mucous catarrhal discharges, soreness, stiff ness and rheumatic stwinges.
 Take this wonderful Compound with the knowledge that there is nothing else in the world which will cure your cold or end Grippe misery as promptly and without any other assistance or bad after effects as a 25-cent pack age of Pape's Cold Compound, which any druggist can supply-it contains no quinine-be sure you get what you ask for-accept no substitute-belongs in every home. Tastes nice-acts gently.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-23
BASS CLIFF CONCERT.

The Bass C1ef club is making every possible effort to give the people the very best work they have yet done Few realize the care and labor which are spent upon such a concert as the club will present at Slater hall on the 31st- The utmost care in the selection of music, together with several months study and drill must represent the eff forts of the director. The regular at tedance for forty men at all rehears- als must represent the work of the members. Organized efforts of this kind certainly deserve the best and most enthusiastic support which the town can give. The success which the Bass CIef has met with from the very first concert they gave has been very pleasing. The appreciation of the peo- pie has been gratifying and the ad- %ancement of the standard which the club has maintained has been continu- Ous.
 more varied and interesting pro- gramme has never been presented than will be that of Friday. the 31st The Battle Hymn, from Wagner's Rienzi; The Sailors Chorus, from wagnTs s Flying aDutchr1an, and variety of smaller part songs of different style and content will make up the club numbers.
 Miss Barno1l, the contra1to will ap- selection; second in a group of Ger man Ifsdre, and third in a group of songs by American composers. Miss Rarstow's repertoire embraces all ths QIasxiea Of Yfclin HsexatsEab and her se-
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-23
HUMOR OF THE DAY

This piece of lace on my dress is over 90 years old. Its beautiful. Did you make 1t yourself ?''-NeW Or leans Times Dem Ocrat.
 Woodehopper--I seen a lot O bear ones, too! Hunter-Good! Which way is south ?-Chtcago Daily News.
 Willie-Pa, what are ancestors? Fa- ther-Weu, I'm one of yours. Your grandpa, is another. Willie-Oh! then why is 1t that folks brag about themP London Opinion.
 Modern Girl-If you really loved me all the time, why didn't you let me know? Modern Youth couldn't find q postcard with the right words on it. Judge.
 Pat (to traveller staying at Irish inn who has rung at a. m. for hot water) Sure, 'tis a thrif1e early for the hot watfer, yer honor, but I have 1t here, an the lemons an sugar, teo.-Punch.
 T understand you went over to Crimson Gulch and lynched the wrong man." No replied Three Finger Sam You can't lynch the wrong man in Crimson Gulch We jest got Ptute Pete a little bit ahead of his turn - Washington Star.
 comedy; 1t is too long, The Playwright But it is as broad as 1t is long. The Manage-That's different. Come into my private office and we'll talk bssSi- neSE.-Ltfe. "a.
 This dog of mine is some dog, let me tell you. He has a wonderful ped1- gree T suppose you trace him away back to the dog Noah took into the ark?'' Say, this dogs ancestor didnt go into the ark; he had bark of his own."-Boston Transcript.
 Two chance aequaintances from Ire land were talking together. Am so yer name is Riley?'' saad one. Are yez amy relation to Tim Riley .FVery dishtantIy," said the other. "Oi wus me mothers first child, an Tim wus the twelfth. h."-Ladies' Home Jour nal
 M:stress-Oh, and Ehza-that gen tleman that called this afternoon was il about one of my charities Eliza-No, m'm- From that second and headers, where you sent those old clothes of masters, to say will you fetch 'en away or shall they burn 'em cause they aren't doing anythin' in patchwork qutlts!-London Opinion
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-23
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