The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-06-09

IN by New York nrn. Another effec-
i've step toward the permanent peace
If the western hemisphere.
panion, according to sworn testimony
was that of acting as chief engineer
to a music box that played rag-time
IN the tomb of the lady's deceased hus-
band. IL the tunes had to be played
The place was appropriate.
| 1t begins to look as If the recon
quest of the North Atlantic by the Brit
lsh we're substantially complete. Per-
haps after all, the time was not ripe
| for Yankee adventuring to seek the
ocean once more, our rewards still lie
in the realms Of high finance rather
than on the high seas.
The cry, "the times are degenerate,
which resounds in the literature OF
every generation back to the earliest
times when books were written, is one
Of the notes of human progress. OBJ
serves the Christian Register. New
| light comes. revealing the defects OF
| all things that are established: and
the exposure Of them is evidence not
so much of the existence of the defect
as the shining of the revealing light
Racing in motor boats is new anc
enticing fad with spice of accompany
ing danger which adds to it's attractive
ness. Should racing on water lead tC
the partial abandonment Of racing on
land the public highways would be
made safer to the use for which they
were designed The ''mobes" are a
great convenience, but their owners
must be made to respect the more i'm
perative convenience Of the public be-
fore their own.
Jean De Reszke will doubtless be
about as successful as teacher as the
late Mr.. Whistler was. He starts of
wrong by announcing: "They cannot
ali have voices, and l intend to dis
courage pitilessly those who are un-
der the delusion on this subject" Such
sentiment if lived up to, will bring
the landlord about jeans ears for over
due rent within the twelvemonth. The
private teachers livelihood in all lands
depends upon his keeping up the bluff
that the bird which never could sing
may yet be made to sing.
Two factors at least are essential
to correct moral life-principles and
habits. The man of principle may
give way under a temptation which
well-formed habits would have en-
abled him to resist, while man OF
fixed habits in a particular line OF
activity may been straight, even
though he thinks little about princi
pies, declares a writer in the Sunday
School Times. Ticket agents, conduc
tors, treasurers and others, trained tc
handle moneys belonging to other per
sons, can sometimes be trusted when
their general moral standards are not
high Or pronounced. But the only
really safe man to put into position
of trust is the man Of positive princi
pie and of habits firmly formed upon
that principle. Hence the necessity
of giving children practice to form
their habits, as we'll as precept tc
form their principles. And we never
grow too old to love sound principles
and to practice good habits.
King Edward has opened parlia
ment in person every time 1t has
been convened since he came to the
throne; and in the last three years
he has made more state appearances
than the late queen did in any ten
years Of her reign after the death OF
Prince Consort. In another direction
the king is already distinguishing his
reign. Last year was an ordinary
kind of a twelve months; for the cor
onation and the end of the South Afri
can war came in 1902. All the same
the court statisicians have just fig
ured it out that in 1903 the king Great
ed four peerages: II baronetcfes, and
17S knighthoods: besides distributing
47O companionships of various or
ders. People in England are now
realizing that they have a sovereign
who dearly loves state regentry, and