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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25
Head of Broken Banks at Ma
con, Gay Kills Himself
TO SAVE HIS CREDITORS
Carried over Million Dollars OF Lire
Insurance and Went to Death
Brooding over His over
wheIminq Financial Loss.

Breeding over his utter financial
ruin. and facing debts aggregatng
over $500. 600, Robert H. Plant, at Ma
con. Ga, Saturday afternoon sent q
bullet through his brain in order that
$3.50 coo of these debts might be paid.
It was simply a case Of man CIV
ing his life in order that those VINO
had trusted him might not suffer
Mr.. Plant carried paid-up insurance
for over a million dollars. or this
sum. $75OOOO was payable to his estate
that is. to his creditors.
He killed himself at $40 O'Clock
by shooting himself in the right tenn
pie with a thirty-eight caliber Smith
G. Wesson pistol, expiring immedi-
ately.
Mr. Plant was in his bedroom at
tended only by his nurse, whom he
dismissed from his presence on the
pretext that he was thirsty and want
er glass of milk. AS she left him
TO secure the milk from the ref"iger-
ator, he arose and went to his dresser,
where he kept his revolver secreted.
Securing possession of it, he recross-
ed the room, stepped to an outside
porch, placed the revolver to his right
temple, pulled the trigger and blew
his brains out.
No one was in the room at the time
the act was committed, but the report
of the pistol brought his family quick
" to his side. When he was reached
life was extinct.
That his sole object in taking his
own life was the protection OF his
creditors, which could have been &C
complished. apparently, by no other
means, there is, no doubt in the mind
of any one who knew him. Nor does
any one believe that Mr.. Plant took
a dollar of insurance with view to
converting it to account by self-de-
struction but that, the circumstance
presenting themselves Unexpectedly,
and there being no other way, he pre-
ferred to take this step for the ben
eft of his creditors to living and see
ing them suffer.
There is no policy in the entire list
that is not more than year old, so
that all Of them are now incOntesta-
Bile, and the entire $1,115,888 will be,
come available either for the protec-
ton of his creditors or for the ben
eft of his wife and children, accord
ing to the benefciaries named in the
policies.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25
PAPER SUED FOR 100000.
New Orleans Man Wants P'cayune to
Paw That Amount in Damages.

The New Orleans Picayune, which
has been making a vigorous fight
against gambling and police corrup-
ton has been made defendant in a
100000 damage libel suit brought by
Jacob Nfenaber, one of the police COM
missioners. Some weeks ago Police
Commissioner Woodville, a new mem
Der of the board, exposed the alleged
shortcomings of the police board
and gave an interview to The Plea
yune. in which the competency and
honesty of the board we're attacked.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25
DIR. Kings Royal Germetuer

Kills the germs of disease and thus pre-
vents and cures all diseases of the blood,
stomach, bowels, kidneys and nerves.
il. Scruggs, Sidon, Miss, says; "Our
little girl, months old, was in very low
state from summer complaint and Germetuer
made her as fat as pig"
Booklet free Write Germetuer Medical
Co, Dept. c., GAINESVILLE, Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25

S yeut, itch blister? ROYAL FooT WASH
cures them. Removes odors of feet, armpits,
etc. stops chatting. If not at druggists send
Csc to EATON DRUG Co., Atlanta, Ga. for
full size, postpaid sample for &c stamp.
One application proves its merit. Money
back if not satisfied.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25

Patent medicines are never sold in
the apothecary shops of Sweden. The
Government limits the number OF
these shops, and there are only $50 in
the whole country Stockholm, with
a population of 100000, having only
twenty two. &c.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25

A powder. 1t rests the feet. Cures Corns,
Bunions. Swollen, Sore, Hot, Cal lous, Aching
Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails Allen )
Foot Ease makes new orttght shoes easy. Al
all Druggists and Shoe stores, % cents. Ac-
cent no substitute. Sample mailed FREE,
Address Allen S. Olmsted Leroy, n. \.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25

If you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use OF Peruna,
write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case, and he will be
pleased to give you his valuable advice
gratis
Address DR.. Hartman, President Of The
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, o.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25

Employees in Japanese cotton fac
tories get only eight to eighteen cents
for days work of eleven or twelve
hours. This work, however, is much
less strenuous than in this country
and much time is wasted in loahng,
talking, laughing and drinking tea.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25
CoLoRED EDITOR SELECTED.
African M. {. Conference Names New
Head for Christian Recorder.

After a lively contest in the Afri
can Methodist Episcopal Conference
at Chicago, Tuesday, Rev. G. W. Al
len, D. D.. of Girard, Ala, was elected
editor of the Southern Christian Re
corder.
The position was formerly held By
he Rev. DR.. G. E. Taylor of Dal
las, Tex.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25

FITS permanently cured. No fits orneryous-
ness after first days use of DIR. Kline's Great
NerveRestorer $2trial bottleand treatisefree
DR.. R. II. KLINE Ltd. 93l Arch St., Phila., Pa
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25

When a girl is in love she is Aungry only
between meals.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup forchildren
teethtng, soften the gums, reduces inf1amma"
lion alIavs pain .cureswind collie 25c. abottle
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25

| do not believe Pisos Cure for Consump-
ton has unequal for coughs and colds.--JoHN
+. BOYER, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. Is, 1900.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25
Plants Life Insurance.

Following is list Of the insurance
carried by Mr. Plant, the figures be.
ing furnished by the representative of
a company in which one of his larg-
est nOlicies was carried:
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25

A girl with a dimple viii laugh at any
fool thing a man says.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25
TIRED, SUFFERING WOMEN.

Women run down and endure daily
fortunes through neglecting the kid
neys. Kidney backache makes house
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25
nrer1,aard am the Pike.

A woman cares nothing about man 5
first love if she is sure Of being his last.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25

Rather than become spinster the aver.
age girl viii marry the wrong man.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25

Many a man who starts at the foot OF
the ladder is down at the heel at the finish.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25
BOUND AND GAGGED HER.

Then, According to Mrs. Levy, the
Robbers Took Her Jewels.
The police department is working
on a So .OGO robbery case at Memphis.
E. S. Levy, a we'll known citizen, went
to market early Tuesday morning. Dur
ing his absence. according to Mrs.
Levy two white men entered the
house, bound and gagged her and ram
sacked her room, securing rings and
brooches valued at $4,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-05-25

LOG North Pryor Street, AIIahIa, VH''
for his book on these diseases, which he Will
send free and confidential.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17
"BOB WHITE" A BENEFACTOR.
Quail the Most Useful of All Game
Birds.

Quail the Most Useful of All Game
Birds.
Emerson Hough, Edito. of Field and
Stream, calls attention to the fact that the
Bob White quail is the most useful of all
our game birds, since it Is scavenger
among injurious in sects. ~ "The United
States has spent considerable money in
studying Bob White. Thus we may
know that although sportsmen commonly
believe that Bob White eats but little
grain. he really uses grain as only about
one-fourth of the total amount of his food.
Corn makes about lo.4f per cent, and
captive will eat corn and wheat almost in
differently. Of the other cereals, sorghum
millet, barley, oats, rye and kaffir corn
make 1876 per cent of the grain consumed
yet the latter never pulls up grain Of
planted corn, wheat or cereal.
He eats wheat which has fallen upon
the ground Six Bob Whites have been
found with as much as I8I kernels of corn
in their crops, but they did not steal it.
1t was already wasted. One Virginia
quail mad SOB grains of wheat in its crop,
but it was wasted grain. The seed of the
Sumac plant make some portion of its food
1t eats deWberres, wax myrtle berries, bay
berries. wild strawberries and wild grapes,
up to percent of 1853 of its total food but
it is no robber to vineyards or cultivated
patches. 1t will eat sheep sorrel, red or
white clover, grass, lettuce or ohickWeed,
but it does not steal vegetables.
There are sixty different kinds of weed
seeds which the Bob White destroys, and
these make up 1913 per cent of its food.
To show how valuable he is as weed ex-
terminator, it may be stated that one
bird has been found with its crop loaded
with thirty buttonweed seeds. Others
have been found to have eaten 200 or 900
smart weed seeds, or 500 sheep sorrel, or
700 of three sided mercury seeds, or 1000
seeds of the ragweed! One Bob White
was found with 5000 different seeds in its
crop. Another bird was killed on Christ
mas Day, 1901 at Kindale, Va, was found
to have eaten 10000 seeds of the pigWeed.
besides this, the Bob White is sea-
venger among injurious insects. 1t eats
the potato bugs, the cucumber beetle, the
bean beetle, the ladybird, the wire worm,
the May beetle, the weevil, the caterpillar
the army worm, the cotton worm, the cut
worm, the Rocky Mountain locust and
chinch bug. In the spring and summer
the number of these insects eaten by the
Bob White quail figures into the many
millions. How useful that game bird may
be is to be seen by the fact that cotton
crops has at times been damaged to the
extent of sI5,ooo,ooo by the boil weevil.
The potato beetle sometimes cost the
farmer $4,000, 900 year. The cotton
worm may cost 100000 year, and
there have been years in which the chinch
bug and the Rocky Mountain locust have
cost this country $Ioo, 900, 90 in twelve
months"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17


One barrier to the success Of many
peoI lie is that OF self-piety, says the
Newton Record. People will pity
themselves for their hardships or adj
versities, and make excuses for their
short oomings, and Try to console
themselves with the thought, "Oh,
we'll. I.can't expect to do much with
the advantages have, and I know no
one else expects it of me, and
won't try People should expect
more of themselves than anyone does,
and use every effort to utilize all the
advantages they have and overcome
the obstacles that confront them
in life. We should not make allow
ances for ourselves, but determine to
accomplish something. in spite OF
difficulties and lack Of advantages.
It is the person Of this character
who deserves more credit for doing
things than the one who has every
thing favorable.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17
THE IMPRESSION OF CHILDHOOD.

Childhood! happiest stage of life,
Free from care and free from strife. !"
When little child we remember hav-
ing two hands, kind hands, placed upon
our head and hearing the above lines
repeated to US in a sad, regretful tone,
by gentleman who seemed to be very
unhappy-We half started in surprise,
for we had looked forward to maturity,
assthe period when our various trials
would be ended, when we could do as
we pleased without reproof. Such were
our thoughts at the time, but after a
romp, when we went into the parlor
where mother and company, the idea of
being obliged to sit up straight in a
chair fand do nothing but talk the
whole afternoon, made manhood seem a
very unfortunate state. And too we re-.
member how our father was a slave to
the sunCeasing duties of his business.
When we leave childhood in the dis
lance and become absorbed in the busy
game of life with its pleasures and
cares, we are apt to look back upon our
earliest impressions, with a laugh at
their simplicity. In remembering how
we were generally treated by those UNI
der whose care we fell at different per-
iods, some knowledge of the world is
open to US The only use such know
ledge can be is to put away faults that
cause us unhappiness, and in our inter-
course with children never to excite the
evil feelings which were carelessly tam
pered with in our own case. The cir
oumstances which occur in childhood
exert a powerful influence. Through
| life. the dreams of early daVS linger UNI
consciously around us-well would it
be if they always chung to us, with soft
ening power; if to turn back were only
to remember the mild, yet steadfast
eyes, that lit us forward in our needless
path. There is little fear of loving a
child to much for manifesting too much
affection. Who that in childhood has
had the fearful eye of a loving mother
bend for moment reproachfully upon
him, then silently averted can forget it?
In manhood he enters into the chamber
of his own soul and stirs up its by-gone
memories.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17
COLORED TEACHERS ASSOClA-
TON


The Colord Teachers Association viii
meet the fourth Saturday Inst. at the
Masonic Hall when the following pro
gram will be rendered.
What should be the aim Of the Teacher
Miss Rosel N. Hobson.
The Requisites of a Teacher, &C. W.
Webb.
How to keep the large boys in school
General discussion.
Debate-Should Teachers be exempt
from Examinations affirmative, A. H.
Kersh, B. S. Jack; negative, A. Griffin,
Will Hobbs.
The Power of an Education that is
Real" Geo. Griffin.
Election of officers and other business.
T. J. HARRIS, President.
MRS. B. M. JOHNSON, Secretary.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17
GREATER MISSISSIPPI.

The increase of land values in Mis-
sissippi, especially during the last
year or two, is significant of the fact
that we have before us an era of de-
velopment in our agricultural re-
sources, such as we have never before
seen.
There is no state which he's the ad-
vantages of Mississippi as an agricul-
tural state. '%
The entire state lies in the most
favored part of the richest productive
river valley in the world
The climatic conditions for the pro-
duction of all kinds of crops are unsur-
passed by any country in the world.
The long droaghts, the excessive
floods, the destructive cyclones, the
great billiards of the west and
northwest are unknown here.
We have an even temperature with
plenty of moisture, and favorable
weather for growing and harvesting
crops
The great hot waves, as we'll as the
dreaded cold waves Of the north and
northwest, are unknown here. We
have pleasant summers, with tenn
perature scarcely ever going over 80
degrees and never reaching hundred
scarcely any year that comes Our
winters ara SO mild the flowers al
ways bloom and the days are bright
and sunny.
Live stock find pastulage all the
winter and do not have to be housed
and fed most Of the year as in the
north.
Therefore, stock raising is very
profitable.
AS hay producing state Mis.issip-
nj exceeds in natural advantages any
state IN the north. She is eqnal to
any of them as producer of any KIND
of grass and can produce greater hay
crop than any of them in her cow
peas, which at the same time enrich
the land
She has bigger ears of corn at the
st. Louis worlds fair than the great
corn state of Missouri
She is more peculiarly adapted to
the raising of vegetables and small
fruits than almost any other state,
and she has the advantage of being
able to put them on the earliest mar
kets and getting the best prices.
She is fast becoming the rival of
Georgia in her peaches and her apple;
are of the best quality and car be
grown in great abundance.
In cotton she outranks any other
state.
1t is no wonder that her lands are
increasing in value.
She would have been long ago the
richest and most prosperous agricul.
tural state had it been generally
known that her resources and advan
tages are SO much superior to those
of the west.
Great is Mississippi
Greater she is to be in the future
Meridian Star.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17
CATO.

Listen! we can almost hear the chimes
of wedding bells.
Farmers are about through gathering,
'lasses making is now the order of the
day.
A very strange incident occurred in our
village last week: one of our Young men
went to we'll and looking his hat fell
into the we'll aed in few moments he
was seen rise and go down into the well,
wonder what they will do next?
Frank Little has been a sufferer with
eryslpelas for for seve:.al days.
Squire Clark is slowly improving
from very severe attack of flux.
Several from this place will attend the
circus" Thursday.
I. G. Ross and wife and Mrs. F. M.
Martin made trip to Brandon Tuesday.
Charlie Odem from near Harrisville
visited his brother Saturday.
Lee Morgan, who has been very sick
Tor several days, is better at this writing.
@. B. Harris made a business trip to
Brandon Tuesday.
Mrs. j. D. Chapman and Miss Minnie
Clark of Johns visited at the home of j..
B. Tucker last Sunday.
T. R. Brinson and family are now In
their new home, having purchased the
property of Mrs. Clark.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17
We are as liberal with our
mers as safe banking business
!. justify Brandon Ban
FOR SALE.

Mabry place, 305 acres OF
land miles north of Brandon, OF
Fannin road. Fair improvem
about 300 acres cleared, balan
woods; we'll watered and good p
Title good terms reasonable.
40 acres of land in section 8,
we'll timbered. Apply to
HENRY g MAY
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

Brandon Mercantile Co., will sell
you furniture, cook stoves and coal
and wood heaters cheaper than any one
try them. For Heinz sweet pickles
and all kinds Of fresh groceries buy
from Brandon Mercantile Go.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17
STRAYED.

From w. T. Knight's, near Fannin
one light bay mare, star in face
branded with figure with bar above
Any information leading to her recoy
cry will be rewarded.
W. T. KNIGHT.
Pelahatchie, Miss.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17
ARRESTIT-S5O REWARD

A bottle of Ec-zne will be sent free to
every reader Of this paper who is suffering
with any kind of skin disease or erup-
tons, any form of Eczema, Blind or
Bleeding Piles, Scrofula, Itch, letter,
BARRIERS Itch, Ringworm, Bols, Blood
Poison, Fever Sores or any other Germ
disease or sores of any name or nature.
50 reward will be paid for any case of
Eczema that is not promptly cured with
Ec-zlne. Ec-zine will heal any sore or
cure the worst skin and make it look
ike velvit. Heretofore there has been
no Specific discovered that would cure
Eczema and kindred diseases until Ec-
zine was discovered and now thousands
are cured daily. NEVER MIND
WHAT YOU HAVE TRIED; for
get the failures made by other remedies
and send for FREE SAMPLE of Ec-
zine, which always gives relief and a
permanent cure.
Ec-zine Skin Soap is the best an
tisceptic soap made. It will cleanse any,
thing will destroy microbes of dandruff,
falling hair. sore head, hands and feet,
pimples and blackheads on face and
make the skin smooth. The only antisep-
tic shaving SOAP made, guaranteed to cure
germ diseases-5o if it don't. Is cents
cake. Write to-day to.
BOYD CHEMICAL CO.,
III Rand McNaIiy Bldg.
CbicoSo. III.
The publisher Of this paper knows of the
reliability OF Ec- zine and Of the Boyd Chemi-
cal Co.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

Gall on Brandon's real q
agents, for what you want in he
truck farms or cotton farms,
HENRY AND MA
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

The much needed rain has come at
last, and I have prepared for, in
clement weather by laying in pro-
fuse line of shoes, slickers, coats,
boots, heavy coats and umbrellas.
H. A. BUSICK,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17
THE MONUMENT FUND /.

Following is list of those who
have subscribed and paid the amount
opposite their names for the erection
of a monument on the Public square
III memory Of Rankin's brave sons
who lost their lives in the war between
%ha ctaf.,c
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

Look ont next week for some as
founding announcements Of cuts in
shoes, dress goods mems hats and
groceries. Very respectfully,
81. A. BUSICK.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

Lebanon Belle Flour at Gayden &
Go, which is as good as any made.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

1t you have any idea Of buying furni-
ture, call at Busick's first, for he has
the best assortment in Brandon, and
besides he can give you close prices
as he buys in large quantities.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17
FOR SALE.

Cochran Hotel, of Morton, N
for sale. For particulars writ
call on s. e. Cochran, Morton.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

Looking for q new car of ''Pansy'
Flonr. They all say it is the best
sold in Rankin county.
Yours for the best,
Fl. A. BUSIOK.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

Gayden g Co. handle Selz's Shoes,
which are the best on the market for
the price
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

Our second line of skirts, waists an,
jackets just received.
Yours for fine wearing,
Fl. A BUSTCK.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

I have just received my Genuine
Texas Rust Proof seed Oats.
II you want good yield bay Of me.
II. A. BUSICK.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

Mackerel, sausage, cheese, dry salt
meat, bacon and hams, Wholesale and
retail at Busick's.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

One more cane mill for sale by
Gayden & Go. at q reduced price
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

Gayden & Go. are now receiving
new goods every day, and are selling
them very cheap
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

Cloaks from one dollar and twenty
five cents to So at Gayden & Co.'S.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17
FOR SALE

One Hereford bull. four years
registered. One graded short
Hereford bull, five years old, Must $
keep from inbreeding. Inspection 5
ted. J. Z. Whitez
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

1t you want good wagon guaran
teed, buy the Weber from the Bran
don Mercantile Go.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

Another carload Red Rose Flonr
received. First carload sold and not
a kick.
IA. Spann Go.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

Now is the time to list your
if you desire to sell, with
HENRY AND MA
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

l don't call myself the "Old Relia-
BILE" but will say nv prices and
quality of goods are reliable. Get in
line, follow the push, and go to
H. A, BUSICK'S.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

The White Front will treat you
white.
Brandon Mercantile Go.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

The Brandon Bank is rea.dy to
business with You on business b
w. Fl. Barnes, Cashid
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

am up against hot political COM
petition, and will always "make
things. interesting prices will be cut
In two, and raises on bids added to.
Yours for inspection,
FL. A. BUSICK.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

A 5000 invoice of up-to date and
seIvlceable shoes just received !
got in my fall line and the supply ex-
hausted quickly. They must be good.
Yours for shoes,
Fl A. BUSICK.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-17

Merchants at other towns, complain
OF dull business. I am busy all the
time. Prices and quality, and fais
dealing will tell. Come ana BE- con-
WINGED.
Yours for business,
Fl. A. BUSICK.