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The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14
THE ?. 0. Appointments
Bonney Oustsd Harris Scalp /
Sought WIN There be peace
Offering" Here7

In an effort to compromise the
equabble over the Summit post
Office. q woman, Miss Rubie Barnes,
was made postmaster. Mr.. Varda-
man and Mr.. Quin favored EDITOR
Bonney, while Mr. Williams stren-
tously objected. and succeeded in
having his name withdrawn. It is
stated that Senator Williams will
also oppose Editor Edgar &. Har-
ris, of Laurel. whom Congressm an
Pat Harrison has endorsed. AL.
though it is stated that the Misslss-
ippi delegation is at war with Will
iiams, it is still apparent that he is
to be reckoned with, as the result
at Summit shows.
1t will be pleasing to Senator
Williams friends to note the fol-
lowing praise of him by the editor
of Golfers Weekly:
In long experience Of reading
the Congressional Record the pres.
ent writer has never seen an utter
ance in which Senator Williams
appeared merely as a partisan. He
never states merely his own case;
he always states the other side just
as fairly: he never takes a dialectic
advantage. He has the air Of put
ting everything from every side on
the table and then sitting about to
find the combination which is
truth. frequently he speaks with
deep conviction, but in his utter
ances there is always that which
indicates study Of all points Of view
and tolerance even for a point Of
view which he strongly disap-
proves. -
Brookhaven is alert and inter-
ested to know just which candidate
for the Federal pie here. may be
used as peace Offering.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14
MAYOR cHAs. HEUcK.

L. CONGRATULATIONS mischief.
Not tried.
Bud Scott Displaying deadly
weapon. Fined 500 and costs.
Bud Scott-Carrylng concealed
weapons. Discharged.
Bud Scott-Disturbing peace.
Discharged.
B. E. Ridgway-Affray. Dis
charged.
B. E. Ridgway-Giving a minor
whisky. $l00 and costs. Fine and
cost held in allegiance.
J. e. Cosnahan-Affray. $3.50.
State VS.. Llge Phillips-Gaming
SIS and costs.
State vs.. Henry Bowman, Lee
Bowman and Gene Bowman-Es-
cape from county farm. 20 days
each and costs.
State VS.. William Smith-Va-
grancy. Abandonment of wife.
Defendant discharged for want of
jurisdiction.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14
MRS. GEO. LEWENTHAL EN-
TERTAINS.

Mrs. George Lewenthal, whose
charmingly dispensed hospitality
has won her an enviable reputation
among Brookhaven hostesses, en-
tertained on Thursday afternoon at
one of the loveliest affairs ever
given in our city.
Invitations to the party were
written in Japanese-with transla-
tion appended-and Japan was in
spiration for the very lovely scheme
of decoration. In the four recep-
tion rooms the rich green of gar
lands Of southern smilax and other
feathery foliage mingled with the
bright but harmonious coloring of
scores of Japanese lanterns and
parasols, transformed the always
attractive apartments into verita-
BILE fairy land of the Orient.
The handsome hostess of the oc.
casion was gowned in an exquisite
frock of lace over blue charmeuse,
and the young ladies assisting her.
Misses Sadie May Lewenthal,
Laura Moreton and Maybelle Hen
derson wore attractive white lin
gerie frocks. Misses Marie Lew
enthal and Alice Moreton. who dis
tributed tally cards and assisted in
serving. we're also charmingly
gowned in white. Tiny Japanese
fans were charming coiffure orna-
ments.
The tally cards were small Japan
ese lanterns and the twenty tables
prepared for the games Of FIVE
hundred and rook had covers dec-
GRATED with cherry blossoms. Tiny
japanese fans were given the win
ming couples as counters.
During the games Misses Sadie
May LewenthaI and MabyeIle Hem
dersop gave attractive piano and
vocal selections.
At the close Of the six games,
Mrs. E. B. French and Mrs. Willie
Becker had won every game and
the prize, dainty blue kimona.
fell to Mrs. French. Miss Anna
Jones made the best rock score and
received q handsome gold hatpin.
The consolation prize fell to Mrs.
S. B. Moreton, who presented it to
Mrs. Charles Ryan, Miss Mary
Cassedy's guest. The prize for
lowest score. a Japanese" cosmet-
ic. was given Mrs. Grady Ford.
Refreshments which were the
last word in culinary art. brought
to close an affair perfect in every
detail.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14

Ackerman, Mss, June 10.-J.
j. Hannah, a prominent mill man
and planter at Reform, eight miles
from here, was assassinated this
morning at o'clock. He was shot
twice with a double-barrel shotgun,
while on his way from his home to
his mill.
Bloodhounds> were ordered from
Houston, but late reports say they
failed to follow a trail to any great
length.
The dead man was we'll connect
ed. He had served as mayor Of
Reform and was q son Of T. 4.
Hannah. former member of the
Legislature and member of the
Constitutional Convention Of 1890.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14

Washington. D. C.-Senator Till
man. who proposes to abolish
smoking in executive sessions of
the senate to protect his own
health, sent letter to the cabinet
asking them to prohibit smoking
In their respective departments.
Accompanying the letter was a
letter the senator had received
from a woman government empIoye
who protested against smoking in
government Offices and said:
Whenever protest is made By
any OF the women we are told to
get out or learn to smoke yourself
and then smoking will not trouble
you. I"
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14
Another Big Donation to MiIIsaps
College.

jackson. MISS, June 9.--Major
R. w. MilIsaps of this city, found
er of MiIlsaps College. has made
another gift to that institution.
This latest contribution consists Of
deeds to valuable real estate at
Capitol and Roach streets. estimate
ed at about $3.50 900. A handsome
six-story cement and steel building
occupies the corner. II is nearing
completion. and is an ornament to
the city. The other buildings are
one-story brick. The title remains
10 Major Millsaps' name SO long
as he lives, and then goes to the
college that bears his name, and to
which he has previously given
about $500. 900 il cash and lands.
The donation was announced to the
Board Of Trustees at Ito meeting
this morning,
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14
Summer Term Begins.

Hattiesburg. Miss, June 8. The
summer term of the Mississippi
Normal College began today.
About five hundred teachers reports
ed for work, and more are expect
ed. All the dormitories at the coll
lege have been filled and many are
seeking rooms in the city. While
the term is a part of the regular
session of the Normal College
special work is being offered and
additional instructors have been
secured. The term is six weeks.
Hattiesburg's summer school for
teachers will, doubtless, reduce the
number Of attendants at the State
Normals.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14

The Mississippi Chautauqua AS
sembly of Crystal Springs has just
issued its annual catalogue setting
forth the delights Of this delight
ful summer resort. Fine Fishing I
Delightful RowinRI Glorious
swimming! The Worlds Sunday
School Workers will be at the
Chautauqua July 21-26: Boy Scout
Lay. July rs; Ladies' Day and Ba-
zaar. July 28: with oFchestras. ora.
tors and singers OF uotes band con-
certs and contests Of various kinds.
Mis- Msyy ELLIS. q WhILWoEIh
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14


According to the records Of the
Mississippi State Charity Hospital
at Jackson the trustees, surgical
staff and others connected with the
institution have cause to be proud
of the results shown during their
first twelve months Of existence.
The hospital was opened on June !.
1912. since which time a total Of
| .699 patients have been admitted.
The most gratifying showing, how
ever, is in connection with the
operative mortality. which is re-
markably low, with a ratio Of as
per cent of the entire number
operated upon. which was $50.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14

Several weeks ago 40 officer of
the law determined to enforce
q self-created curfew law for
the night. He ran over twenty
five young boys of ages varying
from ten to fifteen years to their
homes. Wss your boy one Of
themg Do you think your boy IL
above temptationy Ii you do, dis
abuse your mind Of the idea. You
are not the first parent who regard
ed boy as 3 prosecuted little saint,
when that boy was headed for the
penitentiaFy and going at . break
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14

neck speed. If you really love
your boy il you would have him a
useful citizen rather than a convict
IA man rather than a depraved
wretch, drunken. besotted, beastly
keep him at home at night: know
with whom he associates in the
daytime. and add your influence
toward a little more watch-care
over the kids Of this town. II you
don't the crop will be all goats.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14

College. win compete on piano:
Mrs. ]. S. SturdivaDt Coleman, Of
Hillman College will sing: Editor
q. P. j. Mooney. Of the CONNER
cial Appeal. will lecture aud at
fractions generally are more numer-
GUS than ever before.
The Chautauqua session Viii
open July II and the opening ad-
dress will be made BY Judge A. r..
Whitfield, OF jackson.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14

The great majority Of people
don't attend church simply because
they don't want to Nv hats the use
OF beating around the bush about
Il.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14

The present style Of millinery
makes woman look as IL she had
lost her head.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14

Some womao trr n rxay their
husbands into heaven whsI nuxeinc
them to the other place,
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14

Some people must die In order
that the undeEta keys may live.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14

Marriage Licenses Issued the Past Week
White-Mr. A. G. Brewer and
Miss Lou Coker.
Colored- Robert Billings and
Maud Tucker.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14

4 good good roads.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-14

nH~0nMFll viii wrap your packages for Parcel
WHHshTR4 M Post, sell you Stamps, Envelopes,
UhV0uMl1u Money 0FdeEs--Regisfer your Letters,
ONE PRICE and will deliver mail TO all trains Use
US for your convenience
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-26
Effect of OIL Discovery

If oil is found in this state in large
quantities will it be beneficial or other
wise to this coal mining region"' asks
man interested in industrial affairs.
That question is causing some un-
easiness on the part of coal operators
and holders of large coal acreage. There
is belief among we'll informed min :
ing men here that Z. Nj. shannon and
his associates will find an oil lake
near Jasper. If that is found and the
oil Is offered for sale, what effect will
the new fuel have on coal?
1T was suggested that if railroads
in this territory should be offered oil
as fuel the companies would use 1t in
preference to coal. If many customers
using as much as railroads are lost
to the mining interests then coal mines
Will suffer. If a lake of oil is found the
fuel can be produced without any cost
to speak of and can be sold CORE
spondingly cheap. While operators here
are not worrying a great deal about
the probable discovery of oil in this
district yet they are not inclined to
rave over the prospects which are ad
mittedly good"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-26
Tips and Wages

When a man is being paid good
wages and is offered a substantial in
crease on the same provided he will
agree not to accept tips, and the man
refuses the offer upon the terms i'm
posed and quits his job, what is the
employer to do? This is the problem
that confronts the proprietors of some
of the biggest and busiest barber
shops in certain cities across the
water.
In an interview with newspaper
reporter one of the proprietors told
the story of the trouble. "We do a
very big business here" said he,
"many of our patrons at this time
of the year are Americans. Our
charges are considerably less than
Americans are accustomed to pay in
their own country, and they give the
difference as a tip to the barber who
attends them. This habit has put the
Englishmen at disadvantage, and
they complain of being neglected and
treated with scant courtesy unless
they come across as literally as the
Americans"
The proprietors tried to correct this
abuse by offering an increase in
wages to the employees, but the in
crease, it would seem, was not equal
to the tips, consequently they refused
to accept the increase and threw
down their razors and scissors. They
are now seeking public sympathy in
their action.
There is no more violent "kicker''
against the tipping practice than is
the American, but he is the victim of
monster of his own creation, es-
pecially in Europe. There is neither
sense nor reason in the custom which
requires a man to pay not only for
the service rendered but also to
placate the servant with gratuity.
The custom is becoming intolerable
and should be abolished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-26
Dust Explosions

BY disastrous explosion in Buffalo
Tuesday d number of people were
killed and so injured, and here is evil
dence tnat the mining industry is not
alone in its danger from allowing dust
accuclations.
The Buffalo explosion occurred in a
feed house where grain dust had been
allowed to accumulate until it was al
most as inflammable as powder. The
explosion was described as of frightful
force, tearing out one wall of the
modern structure and breaking Win
dows for quarter of mile around.
Dust explosions can be avoided in
coal mines by the liberal use of water
and the exercise of care not to allow
dust to accumulate in dangerous
quantities. No doubt similar steps
would have prevented the Buffalo ex-
plosion. 1t may not be practicable to
use water in a grain warehouse OF
feed store to allay dust but in these
days of suction fans there can be lit
tie excuse for allowing inflammable
particles to accumulate in such guam
titiec
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-26
SOME KISSING RECORDS


1t was the late Sir Henhy Irving
who once remarked to the writer, when
discussing the ethics of stage kissing,
The actors art is never perfect, and
the finest similitude of a kiss is al
ways unconvncing. A harmless salute,
when requisite to a play, should al
ways be conscientiously performed. not
acted" Then he joculary continued:
AN enthusiastic actor will take great
risks if he loves his art. An actress en-
dures much"
And certainly Miss Mona Desmond,
who at the present time plays the
soubret role in Gypsy Love-" the
Franz Lehar comic opera, in America
is enduring much," although it must
be confessed that she seems none the
worse for her experiences Some sta
tistical genius has been at work and
has estimated that Miss Desmond is
kissed no fewer than rs times during
single performance, or GA time in
| one week. By simple arithmetic 1t is
easy to discover that in the Is weeks
she has been on tour little Miss Des-
mond has held up her pretty face II ,232
times to Raymond Crane, who plays
the party of Kaspa, a bashful youth
and received on her "rosebuddy lips" a
minimum of 1882 kisses. And it is
pointed out that if the play goes on to
the end of the season this total will
reach 31,22O
Miss Desmond" says the critic "is
la demure, cuddling, soft hearted little
lady, with dimples and an adorable
smile, eminently kissable and tremend-
ously kissed She bears her honors
gracefully, as becomes any actress in
any kind of heart beating fascinating
osculaton.'
But they were ever enthusiastic
about stage kissing in America, and,
according to another New York critic
some time ago, that beautiful and pop
ular stage favorite, Miss Hilda Lowell,
has been electrifing Uncle Sam with an
amazing stage kiss. This is what they
say about her:
For five solid, incandescent minutes
Miss Lowell stands on the stage and
kisses the handsome hero after a fash
ion that makes Olga Nethersole's most
passionate effort seem like the modest
and unwilling salute rendered by a
small boy to a maiden aunt. 1t raises
the house thermometer to boiling point
No school can teach this duel of lips
1t is the slow walze, the polka, the
minute, the two-step, the regtime of
kissing, that RACES violently or fingers
sweetly like a bee cornering the honey
market in world-congress of flow
ers"
Compared with this the 45 seconds
kiss which is continued while 16 bars
of music are played in 1.-The Merry
Widow" seems very cold 1t is a fact
however, that when THE Merry
Widow" was being first rehearsed one
girl refused to take the part, ultimate
ly taken by Miss Gertie Millar, because
of the difficulties that kiss seemed to
present. Miss Millar, of course, re-
garded the kiss merely as part of the
acting, and critics agree that both she
and Mr.. Robert Evett gave a perfect
performance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-26

not necessarily in the interest of the
state, as compact phalanx imbued
with the idea that the other, at all
costs and all hazards, must be de-
stroyed.
There is wholesome lesson which
may be learned from the chaotic con-
dition of Tennessee affairs. In the
first place, the government, at the
head of which is a republican sup
ported by legislature divided into
parties composed Of bitter factionists,
traces its predicament back to the
moment when prohibition was injected
into politics as a state issue. In the
second place, Tennessee furnishes
adequate proof of the contention that
when lawmakers proceed for and
against one single idea,> business
finances-must of necessity be neg
lected.
The financial condition of Alabama
improves as a result of Governor
O'NeaPs care and watchfulness. But
the condition, despite that fact, is not
what it should be. Alabama should
always manage to educate its children
and attend to its internal affairs
without confronting the necessity of
running into foreign markets beg
ging loan. When Governor Jelks re-
tired, the treasury was replete. When
Governor Conner retired after a bois-
ferrous incumbency during which there
ragged the fights against the rail
roads, and the bitterest of all in
ternal struggles, that, the issue of
which was constitutional prohibition,
all the money of the state had become
exhausted, and debts, large and omin-
Gus of constant peril, stood looming,
dismal monument of mismanage-
ment on the part of some individual.
Inc lesson furnished by Tennessee
must be mastered by the people Of
Alabama. A state campaign impends.
We must put some man in charge who
despite whatever natural inclination
he might have to build himself "a
monument more lasting than brass,'
is imbued with sane business ideas
and principles. In other words, there
should be an end of the day of the
politician who has but himself to
serve, and the dawn of the morning
of the man ready to consecrate four
years of his life in sacred effort to
upbuild the state for the people of
the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-26
LUKE M'LUkE SAILS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
You will notice that when a man is good
and hungry the microbes do not seem
to worry him any.
If you don't like man, tell him, and
let other people alone.
Love laughs at locksmiths, but the
grocery man has no sense of hpmor.
What has become of the old fashioned
girl who wore fascinator?
The reason father is so anxious to spend
$1,000 on daughters musical educations
because she can get a job pounding a
piano in moving picture house for five
bucks per week.
| Tell a girl that she has a musical, rip
plng laugh, and she will put in all her
time giggling
| A man thinks it is a great compliment
when the barkeeper knows just which
bottle to set out without receiving any
instructions.
| 1t is all right to pin your faith to a
woman. But be sure you use a safety
pin
| You can't fool girl when she goes to
match a delicate shade of goods. But she
will wear a bunch of black store hair
| With her own mud colored, home grown
| locks and imagine no one can tell the diff
| ference.
| The old foggies will tell you that base
bah hasn't improved any in the last 30
years. They seem to forget that our mod
| err second basemen do no wear eide
wnslsers and our first basemen are un-
able to hide the ball in their flowing lam
| brequins.
| There is only one thing that looks worse
/ than a faded married woman who got the
wrong man. And that is the girl who has
been engaged three times and failed to
| land anything.
| Why is it that people who haven any
money get the most fun out of spending
what they get their hands on?
| The guy who squeals that he is being
kept down" is usually the last one up out
OF the hay in the morning.
At 16 a girl will believe anything you
tell her, but at 26 you have to show her
the blue prints.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-26
HER BREAKFAsT CAP
Chicago Record-Herald.

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
| How sweeuy domestic you look in
your pretty breakfast cap said Mr.. New
| lywed.
| I'm so glad you like it, replied his
happy bride. Il made it all with my own
hands,
Dear little hands, Let me kiss them.
| wait, till l pull down the curtains. We
mustn't let the neighbors see us
/ why not? Who cares for the neigh
bors? l have right to kiss your hands
! if | want to, no matter whether the
neighbors like it or not"
| Il know, dear, but we mustn't be rdicu-
lous, you know"
| Six months had elapsed. Mr.. and Mrs.
Newlywed were again sitting down to
bree kfast.
! Harold she complained you never
seem to say anything nice to me any
more
| What do you want me to say to your"
Il don't want you TO say anything if
you can't think of it yourself. You used
to tell me l looked so sweetly domestic
in my breakfast cap. and you wanted TO
kiss my hands because | had made ii
| myself"
| "Oh, all right. I'll kiss your hands if you
want me to, only pull down the curtains
| first"
| She covered her face with her napkin.
J why are you crying?" he asked.
| Because you never want to kiss me
any more when other people are likely to
| see u.s. she sobbed
| well, we mustn't be ridiculous, you
| know
| Feeling that it would be useless to con-
| her breakfast cap away and wore her
hair in little knot on top of her head
after that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-26
When He Regan to SnYe

There is no way to make money like
saving it, said a we'll known and pros
porous citizen yesterday in discussing the
trend of the times by which the average
man lives up to and sometimes beyond
his income. while not desiring to APP
pear esotistic. l can say that | am gem
orally regarded as rich man. I'm not
as rich as some people think, but what
l started to say was something about
how l got what | have
4 didn't make my money, in the COM
mon conception of the word / saved it,
When | was a young man l started out
on a very small salary. Gradually
advanced until | was drawing what
once thought was riches. Then | got
married. Things went along very we'll
we lived in moderate but good circnm-
stances and | managed to make liv-
ing. Often we talked about the money
We would save when | drew more salary
Time passed and my salary increased
Still We spent every cent we made We
reached a time when my salary was
double what it was when we were mar
ried, and We actually ended up that
year in debt and without anything to
show for it. Then one day a banker
friend of mine had friendly conversa-
ton with me. AS a result / started an
account and cut off a dozen and one
needless expenditures / missed them a;
first, but soon got used to it. The nest
egg grew. l got enough to invest: did
so, and turned it over and over, every
time making a little. From that on ii
was easy, and the turning point was
when l commenced to save and live with
in my income