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The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-28
JusTrcE R. 5. BurLER.

State vs.. Oscar Vagran-
cy. Abandonment Of wife. Com
promised.
State VS.. Red Brinson, j. D.
Brinson. EImure Sykes and Jesse
Fairchild -Trespass. j. D. Brin-
son discharged on account of his
tender age; other defendants pie ad
guilty. 20 days and costs. SEN
tenee suspended till August 1st.
or pending good behavior.
State VS.. Joe Byrd Gaming. S.
and costs. rs
State VS.. Bennie Smith-Gam-
ing. $5 and costs.
State VS.. Will Porter-Assault
and battery. Plead guilty; 81 and
costs.
State VS.. Gladys Moore-Petit
larceny. $40 and costs.
State VS.. George Cochran -Drunk
in public place. 81 and costs.
Plea Of guilty.
State VS.. George Cochran-Car-
rying concealed weapon; plead
guilty. $25 and costs.
State VS.. George Cochran Shoot.
ing op public highway. Plead
guilty; $3.50 and costs.
State VS.. Bessie Bennett-As:
sauIt with deadly weapon. Plead
guilty. go days in Jail.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-28
NEW LIBRARY BOOKS.

The Mating of Lydia, Mrs.
Humphrey Ward: My Little Sister.
Elizabeth Robins; The Silent Bat
tie, George Gibbs; The Fetters Of
Freedom. Cyrus Townsend Brady
The Inside Of the Cup. Winston
Churchill: v. VS. Eyes, Henry
Harrison: The Scarlet Rider.
Bertha Runkle; 10 Michael! r.
Grace Livingston Hill Lutz; The
Southerner. Harris Dixon; The Air
Pilot, Randall Parish: The Opening
Door. Justus Miles Forman: Little
Thank You. Mrs. G. p. Conner;
The Little Fiddler Of the Ozarks,
John B. Ellis; The Crystal Stopper.
Maurice lie Blanc; Sylvia. Upton
Sinclair.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-28

Natchez, Miss. June rs. Kate
Harris an aged negress. living in
Liberty Road. few miles beyond
the city limits, was shot and killed
this evening and Sheriff MuIvihill
and his deputies are looking for
her son-in-law, Jimmy Warfield,
who is supposed to have committed
the deed.
The woman kept a grocery store
and was closing up at 9 o'clock
after having waited on a few GUS
toners. The woman left the store
and she went to the rear to close
the back door. They heard a shot.
and hurried back, arriving in time
to see her stageer and fall to the
floor. She could not speak and
died in a few moments.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-28
SUPERVISOR AND TRAIN DIS
PATCHER HURT IN MOTOR SMASH

Mr.. Thos. A. Winborn, Super
visor Of the Illinois Central Rail-
road, and j. Sneider. Train
Dispatcher OF the same road, were
injured Thursday morning about
$3.50 o'clock about four miles east
of this city, on the Brookhaven and
Pearl River railway, They were
riding a motor car and were en-
route to Monticello on tour of
inspection when the car hit dog
and the accident followed. The /.
C. surgeons, Drs. Parsons and Coll
Inns, were notified at once and
Messrs. Winborn and Sneider were
removed to the Brookhayen Sani-
tarium for medical attention.
Later they were carried to their
homes in McComb.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-28
WHAT INDUSTRY CAN Do
A Model Farm and Busy Place IS
That Of c. v. Rains at
Soegaard.

At this season q trip to e. ".
Rains farm at Soegaard would
more firmly convince those already
aware Of Lincoln's possibilities
and resources and would put ginger
in some of the faint-hearted who
are satisfied to 60 on in the old
order of things.
Rain is Dane by nationality
and by his hard work, energy and
thrift has one of the best paying
places in the county. having started
only few years ago with very
meager capital. He now owns his
own place which was "built from
the ground up" by him.
His residence and flower garden
in front would do credit to any resi-
dence section in town. Besides
this, there is a we'll built packing
shed for preparing for market
peaches raised on the Rain place this
fruit being one of its best crops, is
also another thing which adds to the
substantialness of the place. The
half dozen hands employed show
that something's doin' " on this
farm. Rain has a reputation in
both northern and southern markets
for his peaches, which are careful
ly assorted and Grated, the price
now being $1.00 to 40 per crate.
His orchard is now so laden that as
many as ten or twelve props are
used on some of the trees to keep
them from breaking down. A
small canning plant is also located
In the same building.
AS another proof of this farmers
success, Mr.. Rain enjoys the dis
tinction of owning an auto, in
which he and his family come to
town by days and occasionally at
night, to enjoy the picture shows
or other entertainment. the dis
tance by road being ten miles.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-28
TRUSTEE SMITH INDICTED
Head Of Prison Board, Charged With
EmbezzIement and Misfeasance,
Surrenders to Sheriff.

4 jackson. Miss, June 26.-C. G.
Smith. president of the Board of
Trustees of the penitentiary, who
was indicted by the Hinds county
grand jury yesterday on charges
of embezzlement, misfeasance, etc.,
arrived in Jackson this afternoon
and repaired at once to the court
house, where he surrendered to the
sheriff. He was accompanied by
his attorney. Senator Clayton Pot
ter. and several other friends, and
his bond for SIS. 900 was signed by
ex-senator John Hebron. Charles
Thompson, Dabney Parish and
Bob Rachford.
1.-The only reason others did not
sign," said Mr.. Smith. lis that
there was not room on the paper. Z"
Mr.. Smith insisted that he was
ready for trial. but other matters
were pending and no date has yet
been fixed. Mr.. Smith made the
following statement:
II am here ready for trial; was
ready for trial when | reached Jack
son.
II defy any man or set of men
to show that / have ever been a
party to shady transaction or ever
received. directly or Indirectly,
farthing from the State, except my
salary as trustee. Political schemes
will fade when the cold facts are
brought out, and have the facts. {"
Mr.. Smith was at the Parchman
farm, making his monthly inspec-
tion, when he was informed that
the grand jury had indicted him
because of his connection with the
sale of the automobile to the trus-
tees, and came at once to surrender
himself and demand trial.
Col. w. A. Montgomery, the only
other trustee who joined Mr.. Smith
in the $500, 900 damage suit against
Gov. Brewer because of his stric-
lures against the penitentiary man
agement, also was in the court
bouse most of the day. Col. Mont
gomery declined to make any
formal statement, further than to
declare that his life has been like
an open book, and that he has never
done anything dishonest. He says
the charges against him and other
trustees are outrageously false, and
that he does not fear any Investi-
cation that may be had.
Col. Montgomery defends Boyee
& Co. against the charge of de-
frauding the State, declaring they
always have gotten the cotton rails
ed on the convict farms for the
simple reason that they paid more
money for it than other cotton men
offered when bids were invited, as
they often were. He explains the
apparent disappearance of the seed
from the fifty odd bales of cotton
raised on the Rankin farm and GIN
ned by the Central Oil Mill. of
which r. d. Peets is manager, by
saying the seed were sent right
back to the same farm and used
the next spring as fertilizer.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-28
PREMIUM ON CHILDREN.

The Senate committee has dis
covered a way by which the income
tax can be escaped. At a meeting
Tuesday last it adopted an amend
ment providing an additional ex-
emption of $500 for each child in
the family. The committee is now
seriously contemplating reducing
the limit at which incomes may be
taxed to $1,000. instead of $4,000
AS the bill now provides.
This would mean that a man
with an income of $500 would
escape taxation if he had one
child; with an income of $4 900 if
he had two children, and soon to
the end of the chapter, the idea
being to encourage big families
while taxing large incomes.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-28
GOOD FIGHT AGAINST
WEEVIL.

AS a rule, however, the people
have made the best fight against
the pest that has ever been made in
Mississippi. With few exceptions,
in the infested district the people
have actually hand-picked old vice.
wills from the young cotton. Busi-
ness men in the larger towns have
taken commendable interest in the
work and have paid liberal prizes
to those picking and destroying the
largest number of weevils.
"The systematic and persistent
fight that the people have made
will have the effect of greatly re-
duclng the second generation Of
weevils IN the work by catching
and destroying as many of the wee-
wills as long as practicable. and fol-
low this up by destroying the pune
tured squares. in addition. of
course, to intensive and late culti-
vation. stand a good chance to
make a profitable crop of cotton.
But TO those who ignore these pre-
cautions. very little hope can be
held out for a paying CROP"
A map recently issued by the
United States agricultural depart
ment shows the alarming march
the weevil made last year. Begin
ming at the point were Fort Smith.
ARK, is located and drawing a line
almost due east to Memphis, Tenn. !,
then drawing another line south
east from Memphis. Tenn. to
Flovala, Ala. which is located on
the Alabama Florida line, about
equal distance between east and
west boundaries of Alabama state,
one will see instantly the territory
which was infested last year by the
destructive pest.
But Mr.. Wilson calls attention
to the fact that people have success
fully coped with and finally whip
ped the weevil. and if other people
who. very probably before many
weeks, will have to make their first
fight on the weeyil, follow the
rules given by these government
agents all over the cotton belt; Mr..
Wilson is authority for the state
ment. THE farmer is bound to
win. Y
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-28
CROP OUTLOOK IS SUPERB
Condition Fully 20 Per Cent Better
in Opinion Of Expert After Tour
Through the State.

Columbus, Miss, June 26. .-R.
). Wilson, state agent for MissIss-
ippi, representing the United
States department of agriculture's
branch of farmers cooperative
demonstration work, with head
quarters in this city, reached
Columbus after a whirlwind tour
of this State, which was made to
view crop conditions of all varieties
and formulate report on present
growth of the crop, with special
reference to cotton and corn.
Mr.. Wilson is very conservative
gentleman and is unusually loathe
to be either optimistic or pessimis-
tic. 1t is hard matter to obtain
any statement to be recorded either
for or against him, for he believes
that weather vicissitudes are so un-
accountable that within as short a
space as a week all his statements
could be blasted and those who had
listened to his words might live to
learn he could not forecast what
the cotton anG corn crops would ac-
complish.
Cotton all over Mississippi,
with the exception of that small
portion which had to be replanted
meaning the Mississippi delta
country which was badly overflow
eds fully two weeks or more
ahead of last years growth. Com
pared with last years condition,
cotton is fully 20 per cent better.
In other words, if the cotton crop
this time last year was reckoned at
65 per cent of normal or perfect
stand right now. Rain would not
do any. damage. In fact, it is
needed all over the State. Corn
nee6s rain. All crops are clean
worked. hear no farmers COM
planning"
In the above statement this
prominent agronomist automatically
tells of splendid prospects for
great harvest, but just after MAX
ing that statement he follows it up
with one of his characteristic ut
terances, which is practically the
same as telling the people mot to
count chickens before they hatch"
Mr.. Wilson says: ''In all terri
tory south of and including all the
counties along the Alabama &
Vicksburg railroad, which runs
from Meridian to Jackson, thence
to Vicksburg. the boil weevil has
appeared in larger numbers than
ever before at this season of the
year, due to the unusually mild
winter of 1912 and 1913, which
permitted the old weevils in winter
quarters to survive the weather
and be fresh and ready for more
destruction this year even before
they were ever known to show
themselves.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-28
HICKORY GROVE ITEMS.

There will be a picnic at the
Stewart ball ground the 4th. We
cordially invite everybody to come
and bring wsll-tilIed baskets.
Miss Alice Hughes spent Sunday
with Miss Edna Leggett.
Quite crowd enjoyed being at
the home of Miss Bessie Boone
Sunday last,
The band meeting given at the
home Of Miss Naomi Stewart Sat
uroay night. was greatly enjoyed.
X. z.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-28

Magnolia. Mss. June 22. The
boil weevil picking contest inaug-
urated BY the business men OF Mag
nolia closed today. and resulted Id
Al. .528 adult boil weeviIs being
brought before the committee by
the several contestants. The SIS
prizes we're awarded to f. r.
Brumiield. who brought Ia $500:
B. F. Knippers, 800: hiram Lee,
1000, and E. W. Allen, 5000.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-28

DTDTunNV D..ra:.. NJ.
DhNl HUHIs Dbl SdIII Ddy, IUUs
Those Two Important July Days

As ADVERTISED WEDNESDAY Will lMcCrath is
going to celebrate his 10Th Birthday July h by giving
the glad hand and few presents his old time country
friends. Every gentleman and lady Of 90 and above is his
friend and he asks them all be with him Friday the lth
We going give away few presents also. (See list
belowaso Wednesdays paper) There will be lots doing
at our store these two days. Watch this space
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-28

White ShelIie j. Gaddy and
Miss Ivy Elise Cato: G. H. Lindsey
and Miss Zeppie Williams; H. D..
Erwin and Miss Marguerite Butter
field.
CoIored None.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-28
NOTICE TO TREsPASsERs.

All parties are hereby notified to
keep off my land, otherwise they
will be prosecuted according to law.
A, z. MQRETON.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-28

Envy and jealousy take from You
the vitality that would enable you
to get that which you envy.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-28

tuberculosis Is now said to be q
universal Infection. DO not delay
consulting your physician.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-28

Some awfully forward men are
mighty bashful when It comes to
paying theIr bills.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-06-28
NOTICE TO TREsPAssERs.

No trespassers are allowed on my
plantation under penalty Of the
Law. PAUL BUESCHER,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31


The Big Chief was down and out cou-
pie of days during the week, and put in a
sick call. Did not learn just what the
trouble was, unless it was caused by drink
ing creek water.
Grandpa will sure astonish the natives
when the lightning express puts in its ap-
pearance Monday morning. The motive
power will be covered with brand new
fly blanket. He worked hard all day Sun
day getting it in shape, and it will keep a
fly busy guessing just what it is and how
to get under it.
Cutting wheat on the O'Neil farm was
commenced Friday. The Big Chief, hav-
ing recovered from his illness enough so as
to be around, was detailed as head shocker,
and all one needs to do now in order to get
him going, is to mention the fact that any
ordinary farmer would consider it snap to
shock wheat alone after one binder. The
Chief says it can't be done.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31
HIGH HOLLER BIDS US FAREWELL

We are publishing this exactly as it came
to us. Decipher it if you can
From Hibbing, MINI. stol kow and
the Judge man he say to me two year for
you. When | kome here the wardens he
say be good mans l go out when my
times up. That time he don't 60 fas but
he is soon gone now an so | want to ex-
pres myself on your newspaper and the new
editormans. | reed the war cri but think
the mirror is bestest because the prisoners
that writ on it are smart and guess that's
why they are here.
| don't know mucher about that Teller
that rites with an indun name Gus | never
saw him arond Hibbing MINI but l ges
hes al rite Gus Teller tole me he wus
irish. A Teller toe me that the new edi-
tormans wus a Teller that didn't think he
knowd everything but wus wiling to lern
so ges when the wardens lets him out he
will stay out. you kan publich this letter
Gus want the publick to know that | earnd
enuf money here and ! guess I'll go back
to Hibbing and by the kow that sent me
here.
your friend
High Holler.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31

When master workmen build a house it is
generally first class piece of workman
ship. 1t often occurs that master work
men are called in to repair and rebuild
what has been erected by poor and incom-
petent laborers. The task is then doubly
hard, but can be accomplished You are
your own master workman, building a
house which you must live in the rest of
your life. If the mortar and brick are not
of the right kind and mixture, destroy it,
and start over. Watch the other fellow
and profit by the mistakes he is making in
the construction of his house. If you fol-
low out as closely the details of the build
ing of your mental and physical house as
you would the construction of a building,
for which you have hired mechanics.
when you have reached that time when
people view your work, to pattern likewise,
you will reap great reward in knowing
that your house has not been built by a
poor and incompetent workman; besides
the benefits you yourself derive from hav-
ing first class dwelling.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31
New Prison Farm Notes
BY One of the Farmers.

We are beg inning to think that the farm
is hoodooed, for the old cat died the past
week; too much rat.
Hoeing potatoes may be all right, but
the farmers who have been doing that work
the week past say it is mighty hard graft
Our long Sioux tried to milk the old
favorte COW, Betty, during Supt. Mullin' S
absence Sunday evening, but gave it up as
bad Job.
The crop of rye which was harvested a
week ago was put in the stack during the
week. Stacking was new kind of work
for most of the farm crew.
A new ten foot Minnesota Hay Rake
was taken out to the O Neil farm last Mon
day. Haying was busy work for the next
few days for most of the farmers.
About twenty-four tons of hay was put
in the barns; all but five tons in the barn
on the O'Neil farm; the five tons being
hauled over to the Prison farm barn.
Saturday was one of those nice, warm
summer days that make you wish you
could lay in the shade and enjoy life, in
stead of working in the fields under scorch-
ing hot sun.
Don't think our Indian farmers will ever
take to farming of their own free will, when
they get through with this institution, they
have had such a close acquaintanceship
with the hoe that they won't ever want to
see another one.
The milkmaids sure enjoy milking time
these days, for with the heas and mosquitoes,
tail switching, and the kicking, it no won
der the air in the barn is blue and smells
of sulphur at times, and the maids get
cross and crabby.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31
lore.

"THE time, the place and the girl.
You have all heard the above, but did you
every try to apply it to your own case, at
least part of it? The time and the place.
Is not this a time, and a mighty good place
to call in review your past mistakes; be they
many or few? But do not dwell on the
past long; just long enough to see how you
can build the future so as to keep clear of
the same pitfalls next time. No man ever
got rich trying to beat the game of ''being
on the square. Now is the best time you
will ever have to reconstruct yourself and
be man. Not man in name; but big,
true, honest hearted, whole souled human
being.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31
SOMEONE has to be the captain

SOMEONE has to be the captain. Most
assuredly. 1t may just as well be you as
anyone else. You are, perhaps, learning a
trade or studying profession at present.
private in the ranks. Do you intend al
ways to be private? A captains COM
mission pays much better. Of course it
will be impossible for you to bring your
self above the ranks of private if you do
not start out with the intention of doing So.
Slow, slouchy and inattention to details
will never get you any place except "fred'
-dishonorably discharged. All the teach
ers and master tradesmen in the world can
not raise you out of the private rank with
out your cooperation.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31

reformation. A hospital for one of our
prevailing diseases -criminality. A per-
son who is sick enough to be committed to
hospital is treated as a sick man; not
beaten, abused and given treatment that is
built and managed on the same lines. The
arrangements believe that to cure man he
must have medicine that will discourage
and route the disease. Abuse, beatings,
etc., would only be food for the disease,
making person doubly dangerous on
their release. Then again they believe in
the brotherhood of man. Without these
beliefs the death penalty would be bless
ing to any man sentenced to prison.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31

GREAT has been the advance in prisons
and prison management in the past few
wears. Those who were unfortunate
enough to do time, before people took to
the humane method, sure had rough
time of it. And still, at that, in this en-
lightened age, there are many people who
seem to think that the old method was the
best, who believe in living up to that say
ing, "an eye for an eye." What they
base their reasoning on is hard to figure
out. Prisons today are not meant SO
much for place of punishment, but for
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31

Do YOU think the wheels of the world
would stop running if you should lay
down and quit? Lots of people do, and
when they step out of the races things
move along just the same. Don't get it
into your head you are the whole show be-
cause you play the bass drum. There is
another man who can make just as much
noise as you do, and, perhaps, wee bit
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31

WHEN it is impossible for you to tell the
truth, keep quiet. A lie has ruined more
characters, lost more fortunes and been at
the back of more crimes than any other one
thing on the face of the EARTH A lie may
save you, but how about the other fellow?
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31

calls headline
led him
she n vampire Isn't
make
knowing singled out and paid the highest
a
maket
of bringing
dheauto fol repairs
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31

'To THINE own self be true A nigh
ty good quotation, but one that is lived up
to in very few instances.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31

On Friday night of each week, night
guards will call for Mirror at your cell
door. Same must be kept clean and proper
ly folded and placed in cell doors. Do
not put in exchange box or have in cell
after Friday night.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31
NOTICE.!

All inmates who are receiving extra
socks on Tuesdays, must place soiled ones
at foot of stairs the following morning.
Failure to obey the above will be sufficient
cause to be taken off the extra list. Leave
no soiled wearing apparel in your cell.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31
Kpatnpnt OffirialH

WHEN the shoe fits put it on and wear it,,
even though it may sometimes pinch.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31

The library slips are taken up on all gal
leries by the night guards on Thursday and
Sunday nights of each week. The following
morning place your library book on the
foot of your bed so as to avoid delay in
gathering them up.