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——■ The Semi-Weekly Leader. PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS. PAUL M. HOBBS, I ****** MKS. B. T. HOBBS, f E<I,tor»* Official Journal of Lincoln Count; and the City of Brookhaveu. Miss X.ONQ DISTANCE PHONE NO. 51 SUBSCRIPTION PRICES Per Year (In Advance). $2.80 Six Months (In Advance). 1.86 Three Months (In Advance).76 WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1, 1920 Crime comes no longer in waves—it’s a continuous tragedy. -.;.- Tile Democrat, by H. B. Leach, is t now paper at Newton. May it be true to its Jeffersonian standard. -*- If northern farmers are holding theii wheat for better prices, then why shouldn't southern farmers hold theii cotton? This is the cotton raisers question. -$- Thera is prospect of our Vice-Presi dent becoming Ad ,rice-President to Pres idont Harding who says he will give vuuuuge a iuu snare in me counsel: of government. -- Tarrant county, 'Tex., has erected a largo apartment house at a cost of $16,- 000. Apartments In this building will be rented to teachers at a nominal ren- tal of $5 a month to supplement their meager pay. -*- On Armistice day this year the Uni- ted States Army, which two years be- fore had numbered more than 4,000,000 men, was still 70,000 short of its pres- ent authorized strength of 280,000 offi- cers and men. -,;,- The Mississippi Baptist Hospital took in $45,000 for hospital work during the past year and a profit over operating ex- penses of $2,800. This is a good show- ing since there were 175 charity pa tients treated there during the year, -❖- A Kentucky man "got mad" at E judge when sentenced to jail, and be » came a candidate for the judgeship. He defeated the judge, although still in jail and the county is wondering what he will do if the judge ever is unfortu- nate enough to be brought before him. -<•- One reason people are not buying much at present may be because they bought so much when salaries were high and they bought goods of excellent quality, too. Wait until they use up their things! A good many clothes or just a few of fine grade will go a long way. -*- The Baptist State Convention will meet next year at Jackson. The re- cent sessions were harmonious and help- ful, and while all appreciate that the coming year, because of the depress- ed condition of the country, is to be the crucial year in the seventy-five million campaign, the leaders enter hopefully upon the work. -*- Football exacted a toll of eleven vic- tims during the 1020 season which clos- ed with Thanksgiving day's games, ac- cording to reports to the Associated ~,1 ^.. w V.„_ ,4! A 1 five greater than in 1919 and one above the list of two years ago. There were twelve lives lost during the 1917 sea- son, eighteen in 1916 and fifteen in 1915. That’s all bosh about keeping the women's votes separate with the idea that the 19 th amendment may be held invalid and the votes of the women thrown out changing the results. Crafty politicians have bulldog pertinacity. Wo- men have “riz” to be people and they’re not going to crawfish. They are the unbossed contingent the politicians fear. -*- Steel earnings for the last quarter showed an increase, and it is expected that prices for steel will take quite a tumble Jan. 1. The “dope” is that the Ford Co. will make another big cut in prices about that time. The big Willys- Overland auto plant at Toledo has just shut down and let out 15.000 employees. -*-■- That was a great victory for the drys up in Indiana. U. S. Senator Watson was elected over Tom Taggart by 163,- 000 votes—the former dry, the latter wet—and the dry candidate for Gover- nor won over the wet by a plurality of 105,000. Both branches of the Indiana legislature are overwhelmingly dry and all 13 of the Congressional delegation voted for the Volstead law. Not even a sprinkling in that bunch. -,;,- H. M. Cockrell of the Arkansas Pro- fitable Farming Bureau, is battling for diversified farming and better agricul- tural methods. This year Arkansas raised 100,000 more acres of corn than of cotton, and peanuts, sweet potatoes, hogs, rice and soy beans are now claim- ing the farmers' attention. When Ar- kansas feeds herself, cotton can be held or sold, at the owners’ will, is Cock- rell’s doctrine—and it’s winning thous- ands of converts. -- In a straw vote taken among la- bor men by the Literary Digest it ap- peared that a large majority thought that prohibition is a good thing for la- bor. The Methodist church board of temperance, prohibition and public mor- als pronounced Gomper’s statement as “not only unfortunate but deserving of reDUKe. ine board called attention to radacalism in European countries, where there are "floods of alcohol." The Kentucky Federation of Labor has just declared for a program of light wines _find beer. -*- T^ie citizen who helps to And the vio- lators of the law does not always get a bouquet for his trouble. A man In Chicago reported to the district attorney the fact that he had purchased liquor from a certain saloon-keeper. After the seller of the liquor was held for the grand jury the assistant district at- torney asked for the informer’s arrest on the ground he had purchased the whiskey in violation of the law. “The government doesn’t have to depend on a Judas to convict a violator of the law,” said the official. -4- Laws are being suggested to cover President’s illness of mind or body. The best suggestion so far made seems to be that the supreme court should be empowered to investigate and pass on the president’s condition if the ques- tion ever becomes critical. Presumably the court would not act until congress, by passing a resolution, brought the matter up. The proceeding would thus become similar to a case in court. Con- gress would start the inquiry, while the supreme court, which is supposed to be independent of political bias, would de- cide it. -*- The labor unions hitherto have held out for no reductions in wages and some are even striking for higher wages still. The Denver billposters’ union has set a pattern by withdrawing its demand for increased wages, on the ground that living costs are being low- ered. The textile workers of New Eng- land are volunteering to work at low- er wages in order that the mills may resume operations; there is no longer any markets for the products at war prices. Some are already doing this and I he result Is that labor is getting more plentiful and less tyrannical. This Is a healthy sign, for It indicates that things are going to be produced on a less costly basis, and this will allow lower prices all round. BISHOP GUNN TELLS OP IRELAND'S SUFFERING UNDER ENGLAND’S IRON HEEL. Bishop Gunn, who lately returned from across the sas is out in an interview describing scenes in Ireland attributed to the brutality of England. He says that English censors are protecting Eng- land and that “deliberate lies” are sent out by them to obviate the condemna- -ion which the people of America would visit upon them If they knew the truth. America should be glad it is not sharing esponsibility for the cruel treatment it Iroland as told by Bishop Gunn who says:- Thc only way to cure an evil situation is to- remove the cause, and the cause it the present turmoil in Ireland is the presence of the “black and tan” coercion nits of the British government. “It is idiotic for Lloyd George or any me else to state that the murderous re- irisals in Ireland are the acts of in- lividuals, when preparations covering wo or three days are made and armour- d cars, ammunition wagons and truck- oads of soldiers are taken in the dead 'f night to murder and burn. “There is a subsidized British press in his country which is being used to >olson the minds of the whole world, ■specially America, and which never mblishcs anything but censored Irish lews. “The 'United States has not carried >ut its program as stated before the •ar and when I visited the Argonne md saw hundreds of graves of our A- aerican boys, I knew that it was not ’or the present conditions that they lied, "I received my home papers, giving recounts of incidents and scenes with vhich I was perfectly familiar, being •ight on the ground and in no instance lid I find them correct. All were col- rred to suit the views of a British cen- sor. “Xo one who has not seen, as I have, he operations of the ‘shock units' of he British army in Ireland and the black and tans', can have any concep- ion of their brutality," the good bishop raid. "They are called "black and tans" be- 'ausc they wear a black policeman’s -ap, and a soldier’s khaki clothes, and hey arp neither one or the other. They ire similar to the ’Bashi-Baltouks’ sent >ut by the Turks to murder the Arme- nians. "These men, composed of released ■onvicts. the riff-raff of the army and ’he scum of the big cities, who would lot be allowed to engage in any other activity, are recruited especially for black and tan’ work. They use the rolice as spies, for you never see a po- ‘ieceman until after curfew rings about 10:00 o’clock at night. They spy around during the day and then you’ll hear the oil of an armored car and you know hat the police are taking the murderous crew to selected places that they have nicked out for reprisals during the day. "The young men of Ireland are will- ing to die and are doing it daily, mainly for the protection of the women and children who,are now suffering the most abject terror as a result of the awful deeds that they witness in the dead of night. “In Galway, while I was there, a re- spectable elderly woman kept a board- :ng house. For some reason, possibly, hrough the men of the house they had j ncurred the displeasure of the 'black md tans, who visited the place after midnight. "After killing what men that did not scape, they hauled all of the women mt of bed in their night clothes, -took ’he landlady and all the other women md locked them in an upper room. "They then gathered all of the furni- ture of the house, stacked it in the room below, sprinkled it with gasoline md touching a torch to it burned ev- ry iiiiiig aim cvci .vuuuy in me uwnimg. WV-n I visited the horrible scene the ^shes were still smouldering over the harrcd bodies. "The British Government is bambooz- ling America as to true conditions,” 'onti,nued the speaker, “and are circu- lating a propaganda of deception while they are at the same time picking the pockets of our people. “They will not let the American pub- lic know that nothing that happened in Belgium through the atrocities of the Huns ever exceeded British cruelty in Ireland. "The only way in which the young men can get arms is by taking them from the soldiery when they are in a drunken stupor from an all day indul- gence in a commandeered cask of whis- key. “We in this country should be very thankful, and as a ray of light in the darkness that envelops so much of the world. I was able to cast a ray of light by my report to the Holy Father. "This, I was happy to say related to the happy relations existing between all citizens of this section. I assured him that there was no bigotry and that .the relations between Catholic and Protes- tant, and the members of all classes of our citizenry are most happy. “I also express the hope that our gov- ernment will realize its duty in the matter of carrying out the program which it announced at the beginning of the war, to care for the interest of the weaker nations of the world and give of its power and wealth for a consum- mation of happy relations between all of the nations of the earth.” -*- Minister Thankful “I had stomach trouble for nearly 20 years, also consti- pation which filled my system with gas and fever. I could not do my work, and while I was down sick a lady from out of town sent me a bottle of Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy which proved truly wonderful. I believe it ia the best medicine on earth.” It is a simple, harmless pre- paration that removes the ca- tarrhal mucus from the intesti- nal tract and allays the inflam- mation which causes practically all stomach, fiver and intestinal ailments, including appendicitis. One dose will convince or money reiunded. —Sold by Peoples Drug Store and druggists ev- erywhere. —-*- ❖ ❖ <> <• >;• <• <• •> <. •> .3. .3, <. SO NT AO NEWS. * ❖ *> <5* ❖ ❖ <• <• <♦ <• <• <. <. <. Molasses making still going on. farm- ers all blue about low priced cotton. It’s tp be hoped they will make more “eats” and less cottp'n next season. Mrs. C. E, Selman had business in Monticello this week. Our school is progressing nicely. From the box supper given for the benefit of the school they realized over $60. Mrs. Hattie Smith Knott of Bude vis- ited her brother, Richard Smith, Thurs- day. Mrs. Maggie Strudivant of Monroe, N> C., is visiting her nieee, Mrs. S. M. Douglass. She will leave Tuesday the 23rd for Greenville. Miss., for the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. D. Coleman. Mr. and Mrs. W .J. Newton spent a pleasant Sunday with all their children —II. M. Newton, Mildred and Mrs. John Wilson of Monticello; W. J. and Dwight of Bude, and Mary and Isaac of Agri- cultural High School of Wesson. Mr. Newton had his sister, Mrs. Wal- den. and her two daughters, of Prentiss, for recent visitors. Mrs. S. M. Douglas accompanied her mother, Mrs. A. L. Jordan, as far as Jackson, Wednesday, on her way to Chandler, Tex.—"Weuna," in Monticello Prea, REAL ESTATE MAN IS ENTHUSIASTIC ■- i Feels Better Now Than in 28: Years “Nothing Beats Tanlac,” He Says. “Nothing in the world can beat Tanlac as a medicine,” said A. F. Barr, of 4615 Park Blvd., San Diego, Cal. Mr. Barr is one of the best known and most highly esteemed realestate," loan and in- surance men of San Diego. “I am feeling better and stronger than for twenty-eight years,” he said, “and I can’t make my endorsement of Tanlac too strong. “My troubles started with in- digestion and gas on my stom- ach, then my nerves went to pieces and at times was so bad I couldn’t bear people talking in my presence. Nothing I could do seemed to help me and I re- mained in this condition twenty- two year’s. I fell off in weight to a hundred and nine pounds and got so I couldn’t sleep at mgru; my siomacn swenea up with gas after nearly every meal an<} I became so Tveak I had to give up my business almost en- tirely. I tried everything I knew of but didn’t even get tem- porary relief. “One day my doctor said: ‘Why don’t you try Tanlac? I believe it will help you.’ I acted on his suggestion at once and be- fore I finished the first bottle I was astonished at the way I had improved. I kept on getting bet- ter right along until now I am a well maa after suffering more than a quarter of a century. I eat anything, my stomach and nerves are in excellent shrps and I have more strength and energy than for twenty-five years. My recovery is the talk of the neighbors, and if anyone doubts this tell them to see me or write me.” Tanlac is sold in Brookhaven by the Peoples Drug Store and in Bogue Chitte by the Bolian Mercantile Co. Leon White Breaks Jail—His Treedom Short-Lived—Recaptured. Leon White, who was in jail here charged with the crime of stealing a horse from Marshal Bourn, who lives near Arm, broke out sometime during Saturday night and made good his es- cape for the time being. However, his freedom was short lived, for Sheriff Bourn immediately got in touch with the authorities at Lucien—his home— to be on the lookout for him, with the result that he was captured there Sun- day by a constable and Sheriff Bourn went after him, returning here Monday morning with his prisoner, whom he put in the cage and took extra precau- tions to see that he had no chance to escape again. It seemed that the com- bination for the cage lock in the upper story had become lost in some way, and the jailer had fastened the catch on the outside with a wire. By means of a small stick that was in the cage. White managed to reach the wire from the inside of his cage and worked at it until it fell out. Once out of the cage it was then comparatively an easy matter to break through the brick wall and descend to the ground by means : of the iron sewer pipe against the west j wall. Since putting White back in jail Sheriff Bourn has made a thorough search of his office and succeeded In j locating the hitherto lost combination which of course he has applied sys- tematically to the lock behind which Mr. White languishes, Monticello Press. It will be remembered that White' was arrested here by sheriff Applewhite, | afterward-being turned over to the Law- rence county sheriff. _ _ Notice to Pensioners. All pensioners are hereby notified that pensions cannot be paid until January, as there is no money in the State Treas- ury now for this purpose. According to a ruling by the Attorney General under the new law', warrants cannot be issued unless there is money in the banks to pay same, therefore I cannot issue pension warrants at this time. Due notice will be given when to call for warrants. S. B. McNAIR, Clerk. __ Annual Xilbrary Meeting. The deferred annual meeting of the Brookhaven Public Library is announc- ed by the President to take place Fri- day afternoon at four o'clock in the Li- brary rooms. A new executive com- mittee is to be elected and other busi- ness of Importance transacted. All mem- bers of the Library are urged to at- tend the meeting. UNUSUALJONDITION Texas Lady Suffered With Pulling and Aching Pains in Her Back, Which Cardui Relieved. Houston, Texas.—Mrs. C. D. Cook, of 1912 Whitty Street, this city, recently said: “About four months after my marriage, I began suffering much pain, and knew that my condition was unusual, but couldn’t just decide what was wrong. I had to go to bed. ... I "All across my back and hips were pains, pulling and aching until I could hardly sit up. *1 stayed in bed a few days. My husband had heard of Car* dui so I told him he might get It. “After I had taken Cardul a few days, I was up. I took five bottles and haven’t been in bed since for this trouble, for if I have the least symp- j toms of this trouble I get Cardul and take it in time. “I have a number of friends who have used Cardul, and they recommend it very highly.” The experience of this Texas lady Is similar to that related by thousands of other women. Cardul is purely vegetable^ and mild and gentle in its action. Cardul may be the very medicine you need If suf- fering with wc manly troubles. Take Cardul. NC-134 URGES ATTENDANCE AT BIG COTTON MEET '»r Governor Lee M. Russell Issues Ap- peal to All Interests of Mississippi. Jackson, Miss., Nov. 24.—Appreciating the fact that the bread and meat of the people of Mississippi depends large- ly. even though unfortunately, on cot- ton, and that they have reached the point where cotton does not pay for the Cost of production, Governor Rus- sell has issued an address to the farm- ore, bankers, merchants and other busi- ness men of ttie state urging their at- tendance on the convention to be held in Memphis December 7th and 8th, at which time it is proposed to set in mo- tion a movement by which cotton ac- •cage will be largely reduced next year, and fanning done on the Intensive and Jiversifled systems hereafter. The gov- ernor says:- « fo The People of Mississippi— In view of the grave situation that onfronts the cotton growers of this section, owing to the low price of cot- ton, it is emperative that our people ake concerted action at once looking to ►he devising of methods to obtain at 'east the cost of production of the south’s chief agricultural product. I have heretofore issued a proclama- tion calling the people of Mississippi 'ogether on December the 18th in the various counties throughout the state, and I am sure they will respond to the call, but I am advised that a great cotton convention has been called to be held at Memphis, Tenn., December 7th and Sth. and I am sure that all bank- ers, merchants, farmers and leading bu- siness men of all lines will do well to attend this Memphis convention, at which place they will be able to aid in working out a plan that will be mos't helpful when we shall have our local meeting December 18th. Let me urge you, therefore, that as many of the citizens as can attend the convention at Memphis on the above date. Our people should give this mat- ter their serious consideration, and their hearty co-operation. Respectfully submitted, LEE M. RUSSELL, Governor. IOW ANYGIKL CAN~ HAVE PRETTY EYES No girl or woman is p etty if her oyes are red, strained or have dark inga. Simple witchhazel, camphor, tydrastis, etc., as mixed in Lavoptik -ye wash, will brighten the eyes and } week’s use will surprise you with its QUICK results. Regular use of Lavoptik keeps the eyes healthy, pnvkiing and vivacious. The quick :hange will please you. Dainty alu- ninum eye cup FREE.—F. S. Swalm druggist. 5 ——-♦**- Peace-Treaty Congress Dec. 6th. The treaty now rests somnolently at the White House and it is out of the hands of the senate. No one knows of course whether the president will sub- mit again to the senate, and neither senate nor house, nor both together, can act over the head of the president in this matter. The “short” session of the 66th con- gress will begin Dec. 6th and will last through till the end of this administra- tion March 3, 1921. The 67th congress just elected would normally not assume power until the December session of 1921, but Harding will undoubtedly call it into extra session soon after he is inaugurated, so it can get to work on the tremendous job of cleaning away the wreckage and laying the foundations for reconstruction. Business and everything else has been in a state of suspense for months, a- waiting the outcome of the election. Get New Pastor in Fernwood. Fernwood, Miss.—Rev. A. D., Muse pastor of the local Baptist Church has resigned, effective January 1. He has served this church for the past two years. Rev. Mr. Campbell of the Bap- tist Bible Institute of New Orleans has been called and has accepted the church work for the next year. Rev. A. M. Broadfoot, pastor of the Methodist Church, will leave on De- cember 1st for the annual conference at Brookhaven, Miss., having completed his third year as pastor of the Fern- wood, Kokomo and Knoxo churches. __ _ Montgomery Supper and Entertainment On Saturday night. December 11th, at (7:00 o'clock, a box supper will be given at Montgomery School House. Dr. J. L,. Johnson, president of the Missis- sippi Woman’s College at Hattiesburg, will lecture at the same time. Three of the teachers will also render a pro- gram in expression, vocal, instrumental and violin music. IT TAKES THE STARCH OUT OF A FELLOW Working Hard Every Day With- out Let-Up Wears You Out In Time SOMETIMES YOU NEED A TONIC Pepto-Mangan Makes Rich Red Blood and Lifts You Out of Bad Health Ruts. There are days when you feel downright sick. You think you couldn’t feel any worse. Yet, as far as you know, there’s nothing the matter with vnn Ttvrvrv. 4-V,^ time you get up in the morning1 till you go to bed at night you are tired. You feel as though you’d like to sit down and do nothing. You look tired and pale and haggard. You get careless about your dress. No wonder! Your blood is all clogged up with poison. Your power of resistance is at a low ebb. Your blood needs food. It needs the help that the vitalizing tonic, Pepto-Mangan, will give it. Instead of feeling exhausted and tired out for months, you will soon pick right up ancl feel well and strong again. And with good red blood you are able to fight off ailments. Pepto-Mangan is widely and heartily endorsed by physicians. It is effective and easy to take. It is prepared in both liquid and tablet form, and you can take tfne or the other and receive the 3ame benefits. Sold at any drug store. But be sure you get the genuine Pepto-Mangan—“Gude’s”. Ask for it by the full name and be sure the full name “Gude’s Fep- to-Mangan,” is on the package. ■fr DAUGHTER OF . AGUINALDO IN U. S. CAPITAL She Meets Many Wives of Amer- ican Statesmen and Makes a Hit. When General Emilio Agulnaldo was leading the Filipino army against the I American forces twenty years ago he probably little dreamed that some day a daughter of his would visit the city of Washington and would be given a great reception at the famous Con- gressional Club! And that the wives of 120 members of the American Con- gress and two wives of members of the President’s cabinet would call upon her to pay their respects! But all this actually happened when Miss Carmen Agulnaldo, his nlneteen- year-old daughter, visited Washington recently. And those wives of the Am- erican statesmen expressed themselves as both charmed and surprised at the refined, tactful, college educated young miss who greeted them. “Miss Agulnaldo was simply delight- ful," was the expression of one con- gressman’s wife. “She was very mod- est, yet she acted so natural and thor* MISS CARMEN AGUINALDO, Daughter of the Former Leader of the Filipino Army. oughly at home that sfie captivated ev- erybody.” On another occasion while in Wash- ington Miss Aguinaldo was given a real ovation hy a Filipino-American audi- ence when she recited “My Last Fare- well,” poem of Dr. Jose Rlzal, the Fil- ipino martyr. Miss Aguinaldo is a student at the University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. While in Washington she was the guest of Mrs. Jaime C. deVeyra, wife of one of the resident commissioners from the Philippines. The Capitol Building and the Congressional library appealed particularly to the young Filipina, while the beautiful sights from the V\ ashlngton monument thrill- ed her with delight When asked how she liked America, she smiled and an- swered : “It is a wonderful country. I didn’t like winter at first, but since I have learned how to skate I am having fine times. All the Americans whom I have met have been very good to me. My friends In Urbana and my classmates In the university are just lovely, but I cannot help feeling homesick at times because I am missing my father. My coming here was indeed a great sacri- fice for him, for we are very close. He is so good to me." Miss Aguinaldo is intensely patriotic. She does not conceal her resentment when she hears or reads of a misrepre- sentation of the Filipinos. “It Is un- fortunate,” she once exclaimed In a voice full of sadness, “that my country and my people are hardly known, much less understood, by the people of Am- erica." Politics is tabooed in any conversa- tion with this Filipino maid. She evades the topic by replying that she is too young to express opinions on things political. “All I can say,” she declares, “Is that I share with my father In the desire for Independence for my native land. There Is no ques- tion about our being able to govern ourselves.” Filipinos declare Miss Aguinaldo has a "genuine Filipina temperament”— that is, she does not believe In the oc- cidental custom of "dates” between young men and women. She does not see anything wrong in it. she says, but It is such a violent departure from the custom In the Philippines that she can- not adopt It. "You might laugh at me,” she said, “but I cannot go out with one single escort unchaperoned. I simply can’t. I will go back to my country with the soul of a Filipina.” A newspaper In one of the large Am- erican cities that Miss Agulnaldo visit- ed expressed the opinion that she would no doubt be greatly impressed by the sight of street cars and some of the fine residences she would see, but the truth is the young lady was raised in Manila, where she has seen an up- to-date street car system all her life. -<.- You are an exception if you are not taking The Leader. Your neigh- bor does. -1—I—I—I—I—I—1—I—I—I—I—I PROFESSIONAL CARDS i—I—1—1—I—hH—I—I—|—i—I—I DB. NOEL B. THOMPSON DENTAL SURGEON Up-Stairs, in the Larsen Building Phone No. 179 Brookhaven, Mississippi DB. V. D. FBIZELL DENTAL SURGEON Up-Stalrs over Furlow-Roas Co. Phone No. 419 Brookhaven, Mississippi F. H. HABTMAN (Personal Service UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMBR Day Phone SOI Night Phone 400 BrookhaTeA, Mississippi WHEN YOU BUILD I The Quality of the Lumber and Shingles Has y Much to Do With the Life of Your Building. WE SELL QUALITY LUMBER THAT LASTS. IT IS THE ONLY ECONOMICAL LUMBER. YOU are in the market for any kind of construction work we ask the privilege of submitting an estimate on furnishing the material. Lumber w.^ Suarantee the quality of the material we furnish, and we candidly Lath believe that we can save you a bunch Red Cedar of mone^ Shingles [t costs nothing to secure our estimate. Moulding It may save you more than you think. Lincoln County Lui ber Co. SZlSSTiF_FREE DELIVERY IN CITY MORE BILLIONS FOB WAB. The United States Is spending. Ini this year of peace, about $1,000,000,000 for maintenance of the army and navy, as much as she ever spent for all national purposes together before the war. And that is only about one-fourth of the whole war bill. It is estimated that for wars past, present and prospective the country will pay, this year, $3,800,- 000,000. This covers the army, navy, marine corps, pensions, war risk insur- ance and vocational training of veter- ans. _The total national expenditures will be about $4,800,000,000. 'Thus a- bout 80 cents out of every dollar raised so painfully to defray the cost of the federal government goes for war pur- poses. The United States has a navy far stronger than ever before, the sepond strongest in the world, almost a match for Great Britain’s, and yet is now build- ing eleven new battleships and six bat- tle cruisers. The battleships will cost about $30,000,000 apiece, and the battle- cruisers about $40,000,000 apiece. There will be the added expense of maintain- ing them after they are finished. And I then, in 10 or 20 years, if the naval competition continues, they will have to be replaced. This country is not alone in its war activity. Great Britain is paying a lit- tle more than we are for her army, and navy. Japan, which spent $48,000,000 on her navy in 1913, is spending $187,- 000,000 on it this year. All the big pow- ers are straining their resources to keep up the pace. Why? Not because they want to. cer- tainly. Britain and France, before the world war, wanted to limit armament. British statesmen proposed that if the powers could not agree on a systemat- ic permanent limitation, they should at least take a naval vacation, and stop building warships for a year or two, Ger many refused, and to match Ger- many they had to keep it up—Uncle Sam included. Now one of the main subjects that is going to the attention of the League of Nations is this same question of burdensome armament. 'The Assembly at Geneva will try to agree on some plan that will ease the strain on ev- erybody, without subjecting anybody to undue peril. Those favoring such re- duction of armaments, however, are embarrassed by the fact that the Uni- ted States is not in the League and is building warships faster than any of the nations that are in it. How can the others quit, they ask, unless they know that America will quit, too? Whether the United States joins the League or not, there ought not to re- main much longer any doubt on this point. The reduction of armies and na- vies is the most important subject now engaging the world's attention, the one that touches most surely the heart and the pocket of every citizen and most concerns the welfare of his children.— Hattiesburg American. -6- THAT SHIPPING BOARD. The most disheartening document that has come out of the aftermath of the war, says the Literary Digest, in the opinion of not a few editorial observ- ers, is the sordid story of greed, graft, and Incompetence, under cover of the United States Shipping Board and Em- ergency Fleet Corporation, as set forth in the Fisher-Richardson report to a Congressional investigating committee. It is a story of alleged mismanage- ment, waste, graft, bribery, padded pay- rolls. and systematic looting of the pub- lic treasury by minor officials and em- ployees of the Board, involving a loss of millions of dollars to the taxpayers. Here’s a sample of the profligate and prodigal expenditures: Such items as a bill for $623,000 paid twice over by the Board by "mistake’’; a bill for $161 for putting a hinge worth S3 cents on the door of a ship’s galley; fresh water worth 90 cents a'ton sold to shipping Board vessels for $25 a ton; asbestos cloth valued art $1.10 a pound sold to the Shipping Board tar .$1.60 a pound, causing a loss to^ the uvaiu vi »i»vvvivvw iu vuv jt cai vi payments running into tens of millions -on claims submitted by foreign ship- ping firms; and profits running as high as 750 per cent made by certain firms at the Shipping Board’s expense. The | report goes on:- The expenditure of millions of dollars was left in the hands of masters, chief engineers, and stew- ards. In many cases it was asserted, the supplies are purchased from bro- kers, who add a profit of from 25 to 40 per cent, give gratuities to masters and stewards in the form of free lunches, free automobiles, free liquor, free en- tertainment. etc., and charge them with the price of supplies. "And the climax comes when Mr. Richardson testifies that thpse condi- tions not only existed more than a year ago. but that ’they are becoming worse every day.’ " There were 397 ships built. There are 192 of them tied «p in the James River alone absolutely useless to Amer- ica, and costing ^100 a month apiece for caretaking. People are beginning to see what caused the hard times that are getting harder every day. Exposures have conie through the Congressional com- mittee now engaged in examining the Shipping Board. Patronize Our Advertisers They are all boosters and I deserve your business. CHEERFUL WORDS For Many a Brookhaven House- hold. To have the pains and aches of a bad back removed—to be entirely free from annoying, dangerous urinary disorders, is enough to make any kidney suf- ferer grateful. The following advice of one who has suffered will prove helpful to hundreds of Brookhaven readers. H. T. Morgan, prop, of meat market, Railroad Ave., Brook- haven, says:- “I am just as glad to recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills today as I have ever been, for I haven’t needed a kidney remedy since I last made a state- ment recommending Doan’s. I used to suffer considerably with backache and a disordered con- dition of my kidneys. I am glad! to say since I took Doan’s all these troubles have been a thing of the past.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy j—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Morgan had. Fos- ter-Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. GREATEST PHILANTHItOPHIST. j dumi nuvAcicwcr, luuugn general* | ly regarded as a grasping old skinflint, ! is without doubt the world’s greatest | philanthropist it being asserted that he has given away nearly half a billion dollars to charity and in scientific re- search for the benefit of mankind. John D. is probably not such a wick- j ed old cuss as many imagine. He has not only done what every other human being would do in the accumulation of the world’s goods if they had the chance, but what many of us would not do in the distribution of it. The scripture says it is more blessed to give than to receive, and John D. having extracted most liberally from the purse of the people, probably feels that it is his duty to return at least a por- tion of it, and the public ought to be thankful that his immense wealth has fallen into hands that knows the art of distribution as well as accumulation.— Clarion-Ledger. WAITING FOR US TO SET THE TABLE A table twenty-four miles long Is plQinly an extension table and tlint Is Just the length that would seat all of the orphans now being fed by the Near East Belief. This table is set in sec- tions all over the hills of Asia Minor, Syria, Armenia and in Northern Per- sia. It Is not in one piece. The Turks, who still keep the Armenians in a state of terror, do not allow it. But there the table Is, seated on both sides with orphans—Syrian and Tne Table la Now 24 Miles Long. Assyrian, Greek and Armenian, Jew and Christian—all rescued from the fear of the Turk and under the care of American men and women. Most of the children are cared for In 229 American supported orphanages. The first ceremony In receiving these starved, almost naked children, Is to clean them up. They are not only ema- ciated, but dirty with sores and ver- min—69 hospitals and over 6,000 beds are kept full of the little sufferers. But the children keep changing. Last year they were all thin aDd pitiful; now It is the newcomers who are thin. The orphans who have been from six months to a year In American care are well fed Hnd well clothed. Best of all for a new Near East which surely must come out of all this distress, every child old enough Is be- ing taught a trade which will make him self supporting. They are a thrifty lot, these little parentless exiles. From their scant store of bread they always carry a portion In a small bag about their necks—they-fear the day of another killing, another drive Into the desert. They horde the shoes sent from America until snow files—they remem- ber their barefoot pain In the snows last spring. They cling to their new fodnd friends. Every day other little waifs find a place In the orphanages and are told of the generous people of the United States. Soon the entrances will be crowded with children frozen out from their temporary summer quarters. Then the table of the Near East Be- lief must be extended—many, many new leaves will be needed, and Amer- ica Is asked to set tbs table. ~— r?^rw- Notice for Publication. To W. W. Draper & Company, Forrest City, Arkansas. You will please take notice that a writ of attachment and garnishment a- gainst your estate sued out at the In- stance of W. M. Turnbough trading and doing business under the name of W. M. Turnbough & Sons, of prookhaven. Lincoln County, Mississippi, for the sum of $303.21 has been executed, re- turned and filed in the Circuit Court of Lincoln County, Mississippi, where the attachment suit is now pending, and un- less you appear at the said Circuit Court of Lincoln County, at the Court House in the City of Brookhaven. Mis- sissippi, on the 3rd day of January, 1921, the first day of the January term, 1921, of the said Court, and defend the said attachment and garnishment. Judg- ment will be entered against you con- demning the estate attached and gar- nished to be applied to the above claim and demand of the said W. M. Turn- bough. Witness hand and seal of office this the 8th day of November, A. D.. 1920. R. LEE MOAK, Clerk. Notice for Publication. Department of the Interior. U. S. Land Office at Jackson, Miss,, Nov. 26. 1920. Notice is hereby given that George May, Whose postofflice address is Bo- gue Chitto, Miss., Route 1, did, on the 16th day of August. 192U, file in this office Sworn Statement and Application. No. 08507, to purchase the NE14 of NEV, Section 11. Township 5 N, Range 8 E, Washington Meridian, knd the timber thereon, under the provisions of the act or June 3, 1878, and acts amendatorv. Known as me limber and Stone Law" at such value as might be fixed by ap- praisement, and that, pursuant to such application, the land and timber there- on have been appraised, at $110.00 tho timber estimated 20,000 board feet at $3.00 per M, and the land $50.00; that Said applicant will offer final proof in support of his application and sworn statement on the 4th day of February, 1921, before the Register or Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Jackson, Miss. Any person Is at liberty to protest this purchase before entry, or initiate a contest at any ttme before patent is- sues, by filing a corroborated affidavit in the office, alleging facts which would defeat the entry. W. F. CUMMINS, Register. w-9t—1-26 The Snooper. It Is bad munnera, and almost' bad Morals, for one office employee to pry :nto the business of another. Be care- ful not to show curiosity or to examine without permission any paper left on top of a desk or pages left iu a type- writer or In the drawers of a desk. Each worker’s desk is his private sane* ium and should not be violated by the prying eyes or hands of others.—Biddy Bye. Send your news items to The Leader. Keep Cool! j It’s no trick at all to keep || cool these hot days. Eat a dish of our delicious [j ; ice cream and quit thinking * !! it is hot. Keep Well! It’s the easiest thing in the | world to keep well. When you feel “off your :i; feed,” try one of our simple | remedies. Quick results at slight expense. Keep Sweet! This advice is unnecessary i to ladies. They are invaria- bly sweet. But still they are very fond of our select line of candies j and other sweet things to i eat. Have you tried them ? Price Drug Co. Phone 102 Brookhaven, Mississippi [ttmmnmtmmmmt&ttnxmnttmttmt ~~ A ^ " w. iWE consld w each trust a sacred obligation^ We .fulfill our du- ties in an able, dignified manner. Our reoord for fair dealing Is well known. Fairness In everything is' the motto of this organization.

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The Semi-Weekly Leader. PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS.

PAUL M. HOBBS, I ****** MKS. B. T. HOBBS, f E<I,tor»*

Official Journal of Lincoln Count; and the City of Brookhaveu. Miss

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1, 1920

Crime comes no longer in waves—it’s a continuous tragedy.

-.;.- Tile Democrat, by H. B. Leach, is t

now paper at Newton. May it be true to its Jeffersonian standard. -*-

If northern farmers are holding theii wheat for better prices, then why shouldn't southern farmers hold theii cotton? This is the cotton raisers question. -$-

Thera is prospect of our Vice-Presi dent becoming Ad ,rice-President to Pres idont Harding who says he will give vuuuuge a iuu snare in me counsel:

of government. • --

Tarrant county, 'Tex., has erected a

largo apartment house at a cost of $16,- 000. Apartments In this building will be rented to teachers at a nominal ren- tal of $5 a month to supplement their meager pay. -*-

On Armistice day this year the Uni- ted States Army, which two years be- fore had numbered more than 4,000,000 men, was still 70,000 short of its pres- ent authorized strength of 280,000 offi- cers and men.

-,;,- The Mississippi Baptist Hospital took

in $45,000 for hospital work during the past year and a profit over operating ex-

penses of $2,800. This is a good show- ing since there were 175 charity pa tients treated there during the year,

-❖- A Kentucky man "got mad" at E

judge when sentenced to jail, and be » came a candidate for the judgeship. He

defeated the judge, although still in jail and the county is wondering what he will do if the judge ever is unfortu- nate enough to be brought before him.

-<•- One reason people are not buying

much at present may be because they bought so much when salaries were high and they bought goods of excellent quality, too. Wait until they use up their things! A good many clothes or

just a few of fine grade will go a long way. -*-

The Baptist State Convention will meet next year at Jackson. The re-

cent sessions were harmonious and help- ful, and while all appreciate that the coming year, because of the depress- ed condition of the country, is to be the crucial year in the seventy-five million campaign, the leaders enter hopefully upon the work. -*-

Football exacted a toll of eleven vic- tims during the 1020 season which clos- ed with Thanksgiving day's games, ac-

cording to reports to the Associated ~,1 ^.. w V.„_ ,4! A 1 —

five greater than in 1919 and one above the list of two years ago. There were twelve lives lost during the 1917 sea-

son, eighteen in 1916 and fifteen in 1915.

That’s all bosh about keeping the women's votes separate with the idea that the 19 th amendment may be held invalid and the votes of the women thrown out changing the results. Crafty politicians have bulldog pertinacity. Wo- men have “riz” to be people and they’re not going to crawfish. They are the unbossed contingent the politicians fear. -*-

Steel earnings for the last quarter showed an increase, and it is expected that prices for steel will take quite a

tumble Jan. 1. The “dope” is that the Ford Co. will make another big cut in prices about that time. The big Willys- Overland auto plant at Toledo has just shut down and let out 15.000 employees.

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up in Indiana. U. S. Senator Watson was elected over Tom Taggart by 163,- 000 votes—the former dry, the latter wet—and the dry candidate for Gover- nor won over the wet by a plurality of 105,000. Both branches of the Indiana legislature are overwhelmingly dry and all 13 of the Congressional delegation voted for the Volstead law. Not even a

sprinkling in that bunch. -,;,-

H. M. Cockrell of the Arkansas Pro- fitable Farming Bureau, is battling for diversified farming and better agricul- tural methods. This year Arkansas raised 100,000 more acres of corn than of cotton, and peanuts, sweet potatoes, hogs, rice and soy beans are now claim- ing the farmers' attention. When Ar- kansas feeds herself, cotton can be held or sold, at the owners’ will, is Cock- rell’s doctrine—and it’s winning thous- ands of converts. --

In a straw vote taken among la- bor men by the Literary Digest it ap- peared that a large majority thought that prohibition is a good thing for la- bor. The Methodist church board of temperance, prohibition and public mor- als pronounced Gomper’s statement as “not only unfortunate but deserving of reDUKe. ine board called attention to radacalism in European countries, where there are "floods of alcohol." The Kentucky Federation of Labor has just declared for a program of light wines

_find beer. -*-

T^ie citizen who helps to And the vio- lators of the law does not always get a bouquet for his trouble. A man In Chicago reported to the district attorney the fact that he had purchased liquor from a certain saloon-keeper. After the seller of the liquor was held for the grand jury the assistant district at- torney asked for the informer’s arrest on the ground he had purchased the whiskey in violation of the law. “The government doesn’t have to depend on a Judas to convict a violator of the law,” said the official. -4-

Laws are being suggested to cover President’s illness of mind or body. The best suggestion so far made seems to be that the supreme court should be empowered to investigate and pass on the president’s condition if the ques- tion ever becomes critical. Presumably the court would not act until congress, by passing a resolution, brought the matter up. The proceeding would thus become similar to a case in court. Con- gress would start the inquiry, while the supreme court, which is supposed to be independent of political bias, would de- cide it. -*-

The labor unions hitherto have held out for no reductions in wages and some are even striking for higher wages still. The Denver billposters’ union has set a pattern by withdrawing its demand for increased wages, on the ground that living costs are being low- ered. The textile workers of New Eng- land are volunteering to work at low- er wages in order that the mills may resume operations; there is no longer any markets for the products at war prices. Some are already doing this and I he result Is that labor is getting more plentiful and less tyrannical. This Is a healthy sign, for It indicates that things are going to be produced on a less costly basis, and this will allow lower prices all round.

BISHOP GUNN TELLS OP IRELAND'S

SUFFERING UNDER ENGLAND’S

IRON HEEL.

Bishop Gunn, who lately returned from across the sas is out in an interview describing scenes in Ireland attributed to the brutality of England. He says that English censors are protecting Eng- land and that “deliberate lies” are sent out by them to obviate the condemna- -ion which the people of America would visit upon them If they knew the truth. America should be glad it is not sharing esponsibility for the cruel treatment it Iroland as told by Bishop Gunn who says:-

Thc only way to cure an evil situation is to- remove the cause, and the cause it the present turmoil in Ireland is the presence of the “black and tan” coercion nits of the British government. “It is idiotic for Lloyd George or any

me else to state that the murderous re- irisals in Ireland are the acts of in- lividuals, when preparations covering wo or three days are made and armour- d cars, ammunition wagons and truck- oads of soldiers are taken in the dead 'f night to murder and burn.

“There is a subsidized British press in his country which is being used to >olson the minds of the whole world, ■specially America, and which never mblishcs anything but censored Irish lews.

“The 'United States has not carried >ut its program as stated before the •ar and when I visited the Argonne

md saw hundreds of graves of our A- aerican boys, I knew that it was not ’or the present conditions that they lied,

"I received my home papers, giving recounts of incidents and scenes with vhich I was perfectly familiar, being •ight on the ground and in no instance lid I find them correct. All were col- rred to suit the views of a British cen-

sor.

“Xo one who has not seen, as I have, he operations of the ‘shock units' of he British army in Ireland and the black and tans', can have any concep- ion of their brutality," the good bishop raid.

"They are called "black and tans" be- 'ausc they wear a black policeman’s -ap, and a soldier’s khaki clothes, and hey arp neither one or the other. They ire similar to the ’Bashi-Baltouks’ sent >ut by the Turks to murder the Arme- nians.

"These men, composed of released ■onvicts. the riff-raff of the army and ’he scum of the big cities, who would lot be allowed to engage in any other activity, are recruited especially for black and tan’ work. They use the rolice as spies, for you never see a po- ‘ieceman until after curfew rings about 10:00 o’clock at night. They spy around during the day and then you’ll hear the oil of an armored car and you know hat the police are taking the murderous

crew to selected places that they have nicked out for reprisals during the day.

"The young men of Ireland are will- ing to die and are doing it daily, mainly for the protection of the women and children who,are now suffering the most abject terror as a result of the awful deeds that they witness in the dead of night.

“In Galway, while I was there, a re- spectable elderly woman kept a board- :ng house. For some reason, possibly, hrough the men of the house they had j ncurred the displeasure of the 'black md tans, who visited the place after midnight.

"After killing what men that did not scape, they hauled all of the women mt of bed in their night clothes, -took ’he landlady and all the other women md locked them in an upper room.

"They then gathered all of the furni- ture of the house, stacked it in the room below, sprinkled it with gasoline md touching a torch to it burned ev-

ry iiiiiig aim cvci .vuuuy in me uwnimg.

WV-n I visited the horrible scene the ^shes were still smouldering over the harrcd bodies. "The British Government is bambooz-

ling America as to true conditions,” 'onti,nued the speaker, “and are circu- lating a propaganda of deception while they are at the same time picking the pockets of our people.

“They will not let the American pub- lic know that nothing that happened in Belgium through the atrocities of the Huns ever exceeded British cruelty in Ireland.

"The only way in which the young men can get arms is by taking them from the soldiery when they are in a drunken stupor from an all day indul- gence in a commandeered cask of whis- key.

“We in this country should be very thankful, and as a ray of light in the darkness that envelops so much of the world. I was able to cast a ray of light by my report to the Holy Father.

"This, I was happy to say related to the happy relations existing between all citizens of this section. I assured him that there was no bigotry and that .the relations between Catholic and Protes- tant, and the members of all classes of our citizenry are most happy.

“I also express the hope that our gov- ernment will realize its duty in the matter of carrying out the program which it announced at the beginning of the war, to care for the interest of the weaker nations of the world and give of its power and wealth for a consum- mation of happy relations between all of the nations of the earth.” -*-

Minister Thankful “I had stomach trouble for

nearly 20 years, also consti- pation which filled my system with gas and fever. I could not do my work, and while I was down sick a lady from out of town sent me a bottle of Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy which proved truly wonderful. I believe it ia the best medicine on earth.”

It is a simple, harmless pre- paration that removes the ca- tarrhal mucus from the intesti- nal tract and allays the inflam- mation which causes practically all stomach, fiver and intestinal ailments, including appendicitis. One dose will convince or money reiunded. —Sold by Peoples Drug Store and druggists ev- erywhere.

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Molasses making still going on. farm- ers all blue about low priced cotton. It’s tp be hoped they will make more “eats” and less cottp'n next season.

Mrs. C. E, Selman had business in Monticello this week.

Our school is progressing nicely. From the box supper given for the benefit of the school they realized over $60.

Mrs. Hattie Smith Knott of Bude vis- ited her brother, Richard Smith, Thurs- day.

Mrs. Maggie Strudivant of Monroe, N> C., is visiting her nieee, Mrs. S. M. Douglass. She will leave Tuesday the 23rd for Greenville. Miss., for the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. D. Coleman.

Mr. and Mrs. W .J. Newton spent a pleasant Sunday with all their children —II. M. Newton, Mildred and Mrs. John Wilson of Monticello; W. J. and Dwight of Bude, and Mary and Isaac of Agri- cultural High School of Wesson.

Mr. Newton had his sister, Mrs. Wal- den. and her two daughters, of Prentiss, for recent visitors.

Mrs. S. M. Douglas accompanied her mother, Mrs. A. L. Jordan, as far as Jackson, Wednesday, on her way to Chandler, Tex.—"Weuna," in Monticello Prea,

REAL ESTATE MAN

IS ENTHUSIASTIC ■- i

Feels Better Now Than in 28:

Years — “Nothing Beats

Tanlac,” He Says.

“Nothing in the world can beat Tanlac as a medicine,” said A. F. Barr, of 4615 Park Blvd., San Diego, Cal. Mr. Barr is one of the best known and most highly esteemed realestate," loan and in- surance men of San Diego.

“I am feeling better and stronger than for twenty-eight years,” he said, “and I can’t make my endorsement of Tanlac too strong.

“My troubles started with in- digestion and gas on my stom- ach, then my nerves went to pieces and at times was so bad I couldn’t bear people talking in my presence. Nothing I could do seemed to help me and I re-

mained in this condition twenty- two year’s. I fell off in weight to a hundred and nine pounds and got so I couldn’t sleep at mgru; my siomacn swenea up with gas after nearly every meal an<} I became so Tveak I had to give up my business almost en-

tirely. I tried everything I knew of but didn’t even get tem- porary relief.

“One day my doctor said: ‘Why don’t you try Tanlac? I believe it will help you.’ I acted on his suggestion at once and be- fore I finished the first bottle I was astonished at the way I had improved. I kept on getting bet- ter right along until now I am a well maa after suffering more than a quarter of a century. I eat anything, my stomach and nerves are in excellent shrps and I have more strength and energy than for twenty-five years. My recovery is the talk of the neighbors, and if anyone doubts this tell them to see me

or write me.” Tanlac is sold in Brookhaven

by the Peoples Drug Store and in Bogue Chitte by the Bolian Mercantile Co.

Leon White Breaks Jail—His Treedom

Short-Lived—Recaptured. Leon White, who was in jail here

charged with the crime of stealing a horse from Marshal Bourn, who lives near Arm, broke out sometime during Saturday night and made good his es-

cape for the time being. However, his freedom was short lived, for Sheriff Bourn immediately got in touch with the authorities at Lucien—his home— to be on the lookout for him, with the result that he was captured there Sun- day by a constable and Sheriff Bourn went after him, returning here Monday morning with his prisoner, whom he put in the cage and took extra precau- tions to see that he had no chance to escape again. It seemed that the com- bination for the cage lock in the upper story had become lost in some way, and the jailer had fastened the catch on the outside with a wire. By means of a small stick that was in the cage. White managed to reach the wire from the inside of his cage and worked at it until it fell out. Once out of the cage it was then comparatively an easy matter to break through the brick wall and descend to the ground by means :

of the iron sewer pipe against the west j wall. Since putting White back in jail Sheriff Bourn has made a thorough search of his office and succeeded In j locating the hitherto lost combination which of course he has applied sys- tematically to the lock behind which Mr. White languishes, — Monticello Press.

It will be remembered that White' was arrested here by sheriff Applewhite, | afterward-being turned over to the Law- rence county sheriff.

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Notice to Pensioners. All pensioners are hereby notified that

pensions cannot be paid until January, as there is no money in the State Treas- ury now for this purpose. According to a ruling by the Attorney General under the new law', warrants cannot be issued unless there is money in the banks to pay same, therefore I cannot issue pension warrants at this time. Due notice will be given when to call for warrants.

S. B. McNAIR, Clerk. __

Annual Xilbrary Meeting. The deferred annual meeting of the

Brookhaven Public Library is announc- ed by the President to take place Fri- day afternoon at four o'clock in the Li- brary rooms. A new executive com- mittee is to be elected and other busi- ness of Importance transacted. All mem- bers of the Library are urged to at- tend the meeting.

UNUSUALJONDITION Texas Lady Suffered With Pulling

and Aching Pains in Her Back, Which Cardui Relieved.

Houston, Texas.—Mrs. C. D. Cook, of 1912 Whitty Street, this city, recently said: “About four months after my marriage, I began suffering much

pain, and knew that my condition was

unusual, but couldn’t just decide what was wrong. I had to go to bed. ... I

"All across my back and hips were

pains, pulling and aching until I could hardly sit up. *1 stayed in bed a few days. My husband had heard of Car* dui so I told him he might get It.

“After I had taken Cardul a few

days, I was up. I took five bottles and haven’t been in bed since for this trouble, for if I have the least symp- j toms of this trouble I get Cardul and take it in time.

“I have a number of friends who have used Cardul, and they recommend it very highly.”

The experience of this Texas lady Is similar to that related by thousands of other women.

Cardul is purely vegetable^ and mild and gentle in its action. Cardul may be the very medicine you need If suf- fering with wc manly troubles.

Take Cardul. NC-134

URGES ATTENDANCE AT BIG COTTON MEET

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Governor Lee M. Russell Issues Ap- peal to All Interests of

Mississippi.

Jackson, Miss., Nov. 24.—Appreciating the fact that the bread and meat of the people of Mississippi depends large- ly. even though unfortunately, on cot- ton, and that they have reached the point where cotton does not pay for the Cost of production, Governor Rus- sell has issued an address to the farm- ore, bankers, merchants and other busi- ness men of ttie state urging their at- tendance on the convention to be held in Memphis December 7th and 8th, at which time it is proposed to set in mo- tion a movement by which cotton ac- •cage will be largely reduced next year, and fanning done on the Intensive and Jiversifled systems hereafter. The gov- ernor says:- «

fo The People of Mississippi— In view of the grave situation that

onfronts the cotton growers of this section, owing to the low price of cot- ton, it is emperative that our people ake concerted action at once looking to

►he devising of methods to obtain at 'east the cost of production of the south’s chief agricultural product.

I have heretofore issued a proclama- tion calling the people of Mississippi 'ogether on December the 18th in the various counties throughout the state, and I am sure they will respond to the call, but I am advised that a great cotton convention has been called to be held at Memphis, Tenn., December 7th and Sth. and I am sure that all bank- ers, merchants, farmers and leading bu- siness men of all lines will do well to attend this Memphis convention, at which place they will be able to aid in working out a plan that will be mos't helpful when we shall have our local meeting December 18th.

Let me urge you, therefore, that as many of the citizens as can attend the convention at Memphis on the above date. Our people should give this mat- ter their serious consideration, and their hearty co-operation.

Respectfully submitted, LEE M. RUSSELL,

Governor.

IOW ANYGIKL CAN~ HAVE PRETTY EYES

No girl or woman is p etty if her oyes are red, strained or have dark inga. Simple witchhazel, camphor, tydrastis, etc., as mixed in Lavoptik -ye wash, will brighten the eyes and } week’s use will surprise you with its QUICK results. Regular use of Lavoptik keeps the eyes healthy, pnvkiing and vivacious. The quick :hange will please you. Dainty alu- ninum eye cup FREE.—F. S. Swalm druggist. 5

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Peace-Treaty Congress Dec. 6th. The treaty now rests somnolently at

the White House and it is out of the hands of the senate. No one knows of course whether the president will sub- mit again to the senate, and neither senate nor house, nor both together, can act over the head of the president in this matter.

The “short” session of the 66th con- gress will begin Dec. 6th and will last through till the end of this administra- tion March 3, 1921. The 67th congress just elected would normally not assume power until the December session of 1921, but Harding will undoubtedly call it into extra session soon after he is inaugurated, so it can get to work on the tremendous job of cleaning away the wreckage and laying the foundations for reconstruction.

Business and everything else has been in a state of suspense for months, a- waiting the outcome of the election.

Get New Pastor in Fernwood. Fernwood, Miss.—Rev. A. D., Muse

pastor of the local Baptist Church has resigned, effective January 1. He has served this church for the past two years. Rev. Mr. Campbell of the Bap- tist Bible Institute of New Orleans has been called and has accepted the church work for the next year.

Rev. A. M. Broadfoot, pastor of the Methodist Church, will leave on De- cember 1st for the annual conference at Brookhaven, Miss., having completed his third year as pastor of the Fern- wood, Kokomo and Knoxo churches.

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Montgomery Supper and Entertainment On Saturday night. December 11th,

at (7:00 o'clock, a box supper will be given at Montgomery School House. Dr. J. L,. Johnson, president of the Missis- sippi Woman’s College at Hattiesburg, will lecture at the same time. Three of the teachers will also render a pro- gram in expression, vocal, instrumental and violin music.

IT TAKES THE STARCH OUT

OF A FELLOW

Working Hard Every Day With- out Let-Up Wears You Out

In Time

SOMETIMES YOU NEED A TONIC

Pepto-Mangan Makes Rich Red Blood and Lifts You Out of

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time you get up in the morning1 till you go to bed at night you are tired. You feel as though you’d like to sit down and do nothing. You look tired and pale and haggard. You get careless about your dress.

No wonder! Your blood is all clogged up with poison. Your power of resistance is at a low ebb. Your blood needs food. It needs the help that the vitalizing tonic, Pepto-Mangan, will give it. Instead of feeling exhausted and tired out for months, you will soon pick right up ancl feel well and strong again. And with good red blood you are able to fight off ailments.

Pepto-Mangan is widely and heartily endorsed by physicians. It is effective and easy to take. It is prepared in both liquid and tablet form, and you can take tfne or the other and receive the 3ame benefits.

Sold at any drug store. But be sure you get the genuine Pepto-Mangan—“Gude’s”. Ask for it by the full name and be sure the full name “Gude’s Fep- to-Mangan,” is on the package.

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DAUGHTER OF .

AGUINALDO IN U. S. CAPITAL

She Meets Many Wives of Amer- ican Statesmen and

Makes a Hit.

When General Emilio Agulnaldo was

leading the Filipino army against the

I American forces twenty years ago he probably little dreamed that some day a daughter of his would visit the city of Washington and would be given a

great reception at the famous Con- gressional Club! And that the wives of 120 members of the American Con- gress and two wives of members of the President’s cabinet would call upon her to pay their respects!

But all this actually happened when Miss Carmen Agulnaldo, his nlneteen- year-old daughter, visited Washington recently. And those wives of the Am- erican statesmen expressed themselves as both charmed and surprised at the refined, tactful, college educated young miss who greeted them.

“Miss Agulnaldo was simply delight- ful," was the expression of one con-

gressman’s wife. “She was very mod- est, yet she acted so natural and thor*

MISS CARMEN AGUINALDO, Daughter of the Former Leader of the

Filipino Army.

oughly at home that sfie captivated ev-

erybody.” On another occasion while in Wash-

ington Miss Aguinaldo was given a real ovation hy a Filipino-American audi- ence when she recited “My Last Fare- well,” poem of Dr. Jose Rlzal, the Fil- ipino martyr.

Miss Aguinaldo is a student at the University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. While in Washington she was the guest of Mrs. Jaime C. deVeyra, wife of one of the resident commissioners from the Philippines. The Capitol Building and the Congressional library appealed particularly to the young Filipina, while the beautiful sights from the V\ ashlngton monument thrill- ed her with delight When asked how she liked America, she smiled and an- swered :

“It is a wonderful country. I didn’t like winter at first, but since I have learned how to skate I am having fine times. All the Americans whom I have met have been very good to me. My friends In Urbana and my classmates In the university are just lovely, but I cannot help feeling homesick at times because I am missing my father. My coming here was indeed a great sacri- fice for him, for we are very close. He is so good to me."

Miss Aguinaldo is intensely patriotic. She does not conceal her resentment when she hears or reads of a misrepre- sentation of the Filipinos. “It Is un- fortunate,” she once exclaimed In a

voice full of sadness, “that my country and my people are hardly known, much less understood, by the people of Am- erica."

Politics is tabooed in any conversa- tion with this Filipino maid. She evades the topic by replying that she is too young to express opinions on

things political. “All I can say,” she declares, “Is that I share with my father In the desire for Independence for my native land. There Is no ques- tion about our being able to govern ourselves.”

Filipinos declare Miss Aguinaldo has a "genuine Filipina temperament”— that is, she does not believe In the oc- cidental custom of "dates” between young men and women. She does not see anything wrong in it. she says, but It is such a violent departure from the custom In the Philippines that she can-

not adopt It. "You might laugh at me,” she said,

“but I cannot go out with one single escort unchaperoned. I simply can’t. I will go back to my country with the soul of a Filipina.”

A newspaper In one of the large Am- erican cities that Miss Agulnaldo visit- ed expressed the opinion that she would no doubt be greatly impressed by the sight of street cars and some of the fine residences she would see, but the truth is the young lady was raised in Manila, where she has seen an up- to-date street car system all her life.

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MORE BILLIONS FOB WAB.

The United States Is spending. Ini this year of peace, about $1,000,000,000 for maintenance of the army and navy, as much as she ever spent for all national purposes together before the war. And that is only about one-fourth of the whole war bill. It is estimated that for wars past, present and prospective the country will pay, this year, $3,800,- 000,000. This covers the army, navy, marine corps, pensions, war risk insur- ance and vocational training of veter- ans. _The total national expenditures will be about $4,800,000,000. 'Thus a- bout 80 cents out of every dollar raised so painfully to defray the cost of the federal government goes for war pur- poses.

The United States has a navy far stronger than ever before, the sepond strongest in the world, almost a match for Great Britain’s, and yet is now build- ing eleven new battleships and six bat- tle cruisers. The battleships will cost about $30,000,000 apiece, and the battle- cruisers about $40,000,000 apiece. There will be the added expense of maintain- ing them after they are finished. And

I then, in 10 or 20 years, if the naval competition continues, they will have to be replaced.

This country is not alone in its war

activity. Great Britain is paying a lit- tle more than we are for her army, and navy. Japan, which spent $48,000,000 on her navy in 1913, is spending $187,- 000,000 on it this year. All the big pow- ers are straining their resources to keep up the pace.

Why? Not because they want to. cer- tainly. Britain and France, before the world war, wanted to limit armament. British statesmen proposed that if the powers could not agree on a systemat- ic permanent limitation, they should at least take a naval vacation, and stop building warships for a year or two, Ger many refused, and to match Ger- many they had to keep it up—Uncle Sam included.

Now one of the main subjects that is going to the attention of the League of Nations is this same question of burdensome armament. 'The Assembly at Geneva will try to agree on some plan that will ease the strain on ev- erybody, without subjecting anybody to undue peril. Those favoring such re- duction of armaments, however, are embarrassed by the fact that the Uni- ted States is not in the League and is building warships faster than any of the nations that are in it. How can the others quit, they ask, unless they know that America will quit, too?

Whether the United States joins the League or not, there ought not to re- main much longer any doubt on this point. The reduction of armies and na- vies is the most important subject now

engaging the world's attention, the one that touches most surely the heart and the pocket of every citizen and most concerns the welfare of his children.— Hattiesburg American.

-6- THAT SHIPPING BOARD.

The most disheartening document that has come out of the aftermath of the war, says the Literary Digest, in the opinion of not a few editorial observ- ers, is the sordid story of greed, graft, and Incompetence, under cover of the United States Shipping Board and Em- ergency Fleet Corporation, as set forth in the Fisher-Richardson report to a

Congressional investigating committee. It is a story of alleged mismanage- ment, waste, graft, bribery, padded pay- rolls. and systematic looting of the pub- lic treasury by minor officials and em-

ployees of the Board, involving a loss of millions of dollars to the taxpayers.

Here’s a sample of the profligate and prodigal expenditures:

Such items as a bill for $623,000 paid twice over by the Board by "mistake’’; a bill for $161 for putting a hinge worth S3 cents on the door of a ship’s galley; fresh water worth 90 cents a'ton sold to shipping Board vessels for $25 a

ton; asbestos cloth valued art $1.10 a

pound sold to the Shipping Board tar .$1.60 a pound, causing a loss to^ the uvaiu vi »i»vvvivvw iu vuv jt cai v» vi

payments running into tens of millions -on claims submitted by foreign ship- ping firms; and profits running as high as 750 per cent made by certain firms at the Shipping Board’s expense. The

| report goes on:- The expenditure of millions of dollars was left in the hands of masters, chief engineers, and stew- ards. In many cases it was asserted, the supplies are purchased from bro- kers, who add a profit of from 25 to 40

per cent, give gratuities to masters and stewards in the form of free lunches, free automobiles, free liquor, free en-

tertainment. etc., and charge them with the price of supplies.

"And the climax comes when Mr. Richardson testifies that thpse condi- tions not only existed more than a year ago. but that ’they are becoming worse

every day.’ "

There were 397 ships built. There are 192 of them tied «p in the James River alone absolutely useless to Amer- ica, and costing ^100 a month apiece for caretaking.

People are beginning to see what caused the hard times that are getting harder every day. Exposures have conie through the Congressional com-

mittee now engaged in examining the Shipping Board.

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GREATEST PHILANTHItOPHIST.

j dumi nuvAcicwcr, luuugn general*

| ly regarded as a grasping old skinflint, ! is without doubt the world’s greatest | philanthropist it being asserted that

he has given away nearly half a billion dollars to charity and in scientific re- search for the benefit of mankind.

John D. is probably not such a wick-

j ed old cuss as many imagine. He has not only done what every other human being would do in the accumulation of the world’s goods if they had the chance, but what many of us would not do in the distribution of it.

The scripture says it is more blessed to give than to receive, and John D. having extracted most liberally from the purse of the people, probably feels that it is his duty to return at least a por- tion of it, and the public ought to be thankful that his immense wealth has fallen into hands that knows the art of distribution as well as accumulation.— Clarion-Ledger.

WAITING FOR US TO SET THE TABLE

A table twenty-four miles long Is plQinly an extension table and tlint Is Just the length that would seat all of the orphans now being fed by the Near East Belief. This table is set in sec-

tions all over the hills of Asia Minor, Syria, Armenia and in Northern Per- sia. It Is not in one piece. The Turks, who still keep the Armenians in a state of terror, do not allow it.

But there the table Is, seated on both sides with orphans—Syrian and

Tne Table la Now 24 Miles Long.

Assyrian, Greek and Armenian, Jew and Christian—all rescued from the fear of the Turk and under the care of American men and women.

Most of the children are cared for In 229 American supported orphanages. The first ceremony In receiving these starved, almost naked children, Is to clean them up. They are not only ema- ciated, but dirty with sores and ver- min—69 hospitals and over 6,000 beds are kept full of the little sufferers.

But the children keep changing. Last year they were all thin aDd pitiful; now It is the newcomers who are thin. The orphans who have been from six months to a year In American care are well fed Hnd well clothed.

Best of all for a new Near East which surely must come out of all this distress, every child old enough Is be- ing taught a trade which will make him self supporting.

They are a thrifty lot, these little parentless exiles. From their scant store of bread they always carry a

portion In a small bag about their necks—they-fear the day of another killing, another drive Into the desert.

They horde the shoes sent from America until snow files—they remem- ber their barefoot pain In the snows last spring.

They cling to their new fodnd friends. Every day other little waifs find a place In the orphanages and are told of the generous people of the United States. Soon the entrances will be crowded with children frozen out from their temporary summer quarters.

Then the table of the Near East Be- lief must be extended—many, many new leaves will be needed, and Amer- ica Is asked to set tbs table. ~— r?^rw-

Notice for Publication. To W. W. Draper & Company,

Forrest City, Arkansas. You will please take notice that a

writ of attachment and garnishment a-

gainst your estate sued out at the In- stance of W. M. Turnbough trading and doing business under the name of W. M. Turnbough & Sons, of prookhaven. Lincoln County, Mississippi, for the sum of $303.21 has been executed, re- turned and filed in the Circuit Court of Lincoln County, Mississippi, where the attachment suit is now pending, and un- less you appear at the said Circuit Court of Lincoln County, at the Court House in the City of Brookhaven. Mis- sissippi, on the 3rd day of January, 1921, the first day of the January term, 1921, of the said Court, and defend the said attachment and garnishment. Judg- ment will be entered against you con- demning the estate attached and gar- nished to be applied to the above claim and demand of the said W. M. Turn- bough.

Witness hand and seal of office this the 8th day of November, A. D.. 1920.

R. LEE MOAK, Clerk.

Notice for Publication. Department of the Interior.

U. S. Land Office at Jackson, Miss,, Nov. 26. 1920. Notice is hereby given that George May, Whose postofflice address is Bo-

gue Chitto, Miss., Route 1, did, on the 16th day of August. 192U, file in this office Sworn Statement and Application. No. 08507, to purchase the NE14 of NEV, Section 11. Township 5 N, Range 8 E, Washington Meridian, knd the timber thereon, under the provisions of the act or June 3, 1878, and acts amendatorv. Known as me limber and Stone Law" at such value as might be fixed by ap- praisement, and that, pursuant to such application, the land and timber there- on have been appraised, at $110.00 tho timber estimated 20,000 board feet at $3.00 per M, and the land $50.00; that Said applicant will offer final proof in support of his application and sworn statement on the 4th day of February, 1921, before the Register or Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Jackson, Miss.

Any person Is at liberty to protest this purchase before entry, or initiate a contest at any ttme before patent is- sues, by filing a corroborated affidavit in the office, alleging facts which would defeat the entry.

W. F. CUMMINS, Register. w-9t—1-26

The Snooper. It Is bad munnera, and almost' bad

Morals, for one office employee to pry :nto the business of another. Be care-

ful not to show curiosity or to examine without permission any paper left on

top of a desk or pages left iu a type- writer or In the drawers of a desk. Each worker’s desk is his private sane*

ium and should not be violated by the

prying eyes or hands of others.—Biddy Bye.

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