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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22

were drying your red table cloth in the
window,-oh, tried not to come fast
enough!"
But you're lere,-you're here =
sobbed Delight. Desire, withstand
right still minute, where you are. ]
want to say some, Happy New Year
Desire"
Happy New Year, Delight.
1t was all there in those three little,
words. What need for explanations, pro-
testations, promises? The last RED
CLEAN from the west fell across botE
their glad old faces, like kiss Of peace.
Afterward Roxy scratched her way in
with plump dead mouse, presenting ii
first to one of them and then to the other
in gentle uncertainty And they all three
sat in the twilight together.
"It was trouble" Delight said
That's why / chose the red signal. ]
said to myself this morning, when /
woke up. It's New Years, Delight Weth-
erill,' said, are you going to do what
you've been trying to do so long? Or ere
you going to wait another four years
And then all of sudden |. decided
you're going to, Delight Wetherill!' But
couldn't move an inch to do it. There
| was stiff with the rheumatism. Iguess
the feminine kinds the worst, Desire!"
Desire nodded. II guess SO, Delight.
Go on" she said.
I couldn't go on! There was. 1
didn't crawl out o. bed till noon, end ]
didn't timber up any till saw you and
Roxy coming acrost In the sunshine.
forgot had the rheumatism then!
I don't feels If should ever have II
again"
go you put up the red signal Trouble
Come over?' Desired musrd thought
fully.
Eyes, oh, / had to! It was New Years
day, Desire, and you and ME had been
divided long enough. said to myself !;
couldn't bear another year. said the
time to make it up was the first day 3,
the new year. And there was! j
couldn't stir. "
And the beginning and the endine
were the first day Delight mnfmurcd.
softly. Under the cover Of the darkness
the two old hands stole together and
chung, as long ago two little childish ones
had chung together. Roxy purrnd f-am
skirt to skirt impartially. There ars
times when It's better not to say any-
thing, but little gentle purring doesne
harm. Country Gentleman.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22

the implanted house set diagonally
across the road Though for four years
Desire DrumEcond had rot willingly
looked at the small old house. yet for
four years she had always seen it, when
she looked out of her window 1t was
hight there, an uncomely blot on her
"view"-how could she help it? The
splash of red color was in one of it's tiny
PANIED front windows, and for the mo-
ment Desires heart beat little faster
than usual. When had she seen that red
signal flag before?-but it wasn't sig
nal flag Of course. Delight was drying
something red in the sun; probably she'd
washed out spot in that old red table
koyer.
Suddenly as if of its own accord quite
uninfiuenced by the slender old fingers,
the pen began to write again. There's
q red flag in Delights window" it wrote
rather faster than usual, with not so
much painstaking attention to i-dottings
and t-crossings. "But It's probably q
spot drying in her red table spread. 1t
isn't likely to be anything else after four
years"
The little book creaked shut, as if re-
lieyed at the chance, and Desire Drum
mond gazed out of her window again, not
looking at the little old house across the
road, but seeing it and its red signal fia..
and nothing else. Roxy leaped heavily
to the window sill and looked out, too.
The big gray head rubbed lovingly
against the little gray one.
I'm not looking, Roxy, but it's there.
II see it," Desire .murmured wistfully.
"You see it, too, you know you do. You're
looking down the road at the meeting
house, but you see Delights red flag!
You think It's spot in her table-spread
drying in the sun, but you don't know It
is. You're thinking maybe it isn't. lust
as | am
Roxy's soft purr pleaded guilty. to the
charge. It was four years-but Roxy
only knew it was a long time, a very long
time, since she had been allowed to
catch plump mice in the little old brown
shed across the road.
'If it should be anything else, Roxy
not spot drying IF it should mean
what it used to-" She lifted the biz cat
down suddenly and opened one Of her
table drawers, where rows Of black
bound diaries were neatly packed away,
and selected one that bore date i've Of
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
New Year Don IS
For Young Man and Maiden
BY Flo Field.
For the Young Man.


Don't sit around on the easy chair
your father made.
Don't gossip.
Don't misjudge 9 woman by your
own evil thought.
Don't make women the subject of
conversation in public places with
other men. You'd fight If you heard
your sisters name spoken of at bar.
Don't imagine that extravagantly
--latest clothes make a man CT you,
so often it is an ass.
Don't forget that your friends are
at home at other than meal times.
Don't pose as society leader on $50
and $50 month
Don't go out every night when you
have to be at the Office at sevea. Your
employer doesn't want a befogged,
half-awake intelligence.
Don't expect to make success In
life going to dances.
Don't spend money on society girls
when you can't afford 1t, and your
mother and sister would appreciate a
Few necessities much more.
Don't affect the blase, it's so foolish.
Don't be a slave in society and
Turk at home.
Don't make friends for what you
can get out of them.
Don't show dlsrespect to any wom-
an, 1t only proves you are not real,
manly man.
Don't borrow.
Don't talk to hear yourself.
Don't fritter yourself in insincerities,
puny ambitions, unwholesome mental
atmospheres, fiirtations, footless whirls
1t didn't make a success of you last
year, and it won't next.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
For the Girl.

Don't be unnatural.
Don't think only of clothes and men.
Don't think you are stunning be-
cause you exaggerate.
Don't mistake the telling of white
lies to mean social tact, it is really a
reflection on your mother.
Don't get cynical because you're not
popular.
Don't imagine you are allowed spe-
cial dispensation in bad manners be-
cause you are.
Don't stare icily at the unknown
girl. Be kind. Help her along. In
troduce the men to her. Otherwise, il
shows lack of sweetness in your char
acter, lack of heart, an abundance OF
selfishness, and the fact that you your
self aren't quite sure, after all.
Don't repeat unkind things; it isn't
womanly
Don't tack your ambitions, your
hopes, to something whose entire
prowess is exhibited at a cotillon.
Don't allow man or a woman to
speak evil of another woman in your
presence.
Don't encourage man unless you
mean 1t. He may have given his faith
to your mercies.
Don't affect anything that is not an
expression of yourself. 1t will marry
you to the wrong beliefs, the wrong
views, the wrong dreams, the wrong
emotions, and the wrong man. If it
didn't last year it will influence you
TO wrong conception of your place
and purpose during the next.-N. o.
Times Democrat.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
In tire New Year.

Let Us not be unjust, ungentle. self
ish, pushing, gfasping, vain. hard, pes
simistic. Let US get the best out ci
friends and workers, not by pinchins
them down. but encouraging them up
Let US be true and without fear. Ar.
swer our letters, keep gratitude az the
foremost impulse, pay our bills. and
say our prayers.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22

| The Daup Of tbe Year,
Beside tie sals d opening gsas
DR,is looslug Of ia prospects lait.
J pisR you spstg Glessng, dsat
5Ohoss beauty Raunis me fOsryD6su;
| aay heart goes out pltR tRro6. d pain
i3essseaing deep tie ReaDsns aBops
Chat you may sosry gladnsss gain.
lOiR pnssst peace and smile d losi
|! Ill spsd as rose lhat sissls tie aua.:
| is your hearts lops,5 surely Gnop,
bud llss tie spriuslids's tRylRnIe Gun,
Gle pords tRat from your presence goD'
All deeper than tie deepest ssa-
All RlgRsr than lie sly aBoys-.
| is lops my darling ioids for me,
miRin TIE ainsdom Of Rer lopsi
Beside tie porIals d lie ysa;
3 DisR you plsniluds d sras
|. aas ali Tie Dorld bs|r'end YOU dsas,
Bud Glcss Tie Beauty d your face;
9oe Pise a song Of socniids.
1iRs Ieulsr tones q cooiug aoos
ars you my souls delight and pride.
Gle qurn Of all my Ssart can lopsl
G1op 1,oilSSHEk-nlxH
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
Equine Hardships
BY S. E. Kiser.

l.
Across the dreary scene worn-out horss
is passing, with his weary head bent low;
His ears droop sadly forward and with
slow,
Unsteady steps he takes his toilsome
course;
The driver. knowing nothing of remorse,
Applies the cruel scourge; meath many
a blow
The old frame tumbles down, at last, and
Returns to nothing. where it had its source.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22

Thus do we start with hope. alert, irciined
To rear and plunge In wild extravaganza,
We press upon the reins until we fsrd.
An oldEess in the scenes at which We
glance.
hind.
We stumble on across the dull exparse.
-Chicaa7 Record-HeraiG.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
Explicit Directions.

Small Boy-Do you see that bin
drum in the window?
Storekeeper Yes. my LAD.
Small Boy Well. you keep It under
the counter for few Gays santa
Claus will be around here II gel It fox
me.~Puck.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
As Usual.

What kind of Christmas pres
ent shall buy you while am cut
dear?
He oh, any cheap & lie, Maria. Re
member. cant afford to spend much
this year Woman's HONS CGmpau,
lon.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22

So passes the old year with lower lip
Down dropping and with ears that flap In
space;
The suriy driver Time applies the whip,
And finally, to close the sorry case,
The poor old knees give way, the old feet
slip,
And all is ended at the starting place.
Behold steed with head erect, with ears
That culver and are. pricked at every
sound;
His limbs are trim and strong and with
bound
He starts ahead the instant that he hears
The starting word; he plunges and he rears
And wastes his precious strength ere he
has found
Dull sameness in the wearing, dreary
round,
Before his high-bred spirit disappears
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-10
MONUMENT Is UNIQUE
NEW YORK TOWN BOASTS OF
MEMORIAL TO ElEPHANTI
Was the First Animal Of Its Kind
Brought to America-Owner Made
Much Money Before the Brute Had
20 Be Killed.

One of the oldest and yet the most
interesting monuments erected stands
on the public square in the town of
Somers, in the northern part of West
chester county, says the New York
Telegram.
1t is a memorial to the first elephant
brought to the United States and to
the spot on which the first circus this
country ever saw was erected.
Somers is a quiet little township,
with its fertile farms and dreamy val
leys, and yet you ask any villager
about the o%dd-looking monument, with
an elephant surrounding the high col
umn, and his bosom will swell with
pride as he tells you the history of
the first elephant that ever walked
the streets of that place.
The monument, which Is near a
country inn called the Elephant hotel,
was erected sixty years ago to "Old
Bet" which vas the elephants name.
Her owner was Hackaliah Bailey. His
brother was a sea captain, and one
day while taking on a cargo on the
Asiatic coast he bought the elephant
at a bargain and reached New York
with her on his sailing vessel in 1921.
II o the vessel many months to
sail to New York, and "Old Bet" had
no keeper to look after her like the
circus beasts do nowadays, but she
TODD the trip well. She was very fat,
as she devoured everything she could
put her trunk on. Hackaliah Bailey
Immediately purchased the elephant
on the arrival of his brother and start
ed out to exhibit her. He made "Old
Bet" walk all the way to Somerstown,
travelling only at night and giving ex-
hibitions in barns during the day,
charging ten cents admission ito see
the greatest show elephant on earth"
odd Bet proved to be the greatest
attraction ever Crowds followed
her at night and those who didn't have
ten cents ran ahead to the next show
place and hid in hay mows until the
beast arrived.
On reaching Somers, and where the
monument now is, Mr.. Bailey put up a
tent, and started a circus with the
elephant as the main and only attrac-
ton and her owner made a barrel of
money.
The primitive circus lasted in Som
ers for months before Mr.. Bailey sent
old Bet on a tour Of the United
States.
Keepers overfed and spoiled the ele-
plant and one day she broke her
chains and killed one of them. It was
shown he had angered her and so she
was forgiven and given another
chance to live.
While in South Carolina in 1927 she
crushed another keeper to death. then
escaped and started on a run across
country. The circus hands chased her
for twenty miles before they got o
fatal bullet in her brain.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-10
Sent Omcer from Washington,

Commissioner Richards of the gen.
eral land office has been designated by
the secretary Of the interior to super
intend the opening Of the various In
dian reservations provided for by the
last session of congress beginning with
chippewa opening in Minnesota, June
10, and including the Red Lake, Rose
bud and Devils Lake reservations. He
has left Washington on this mission
and expects the work to continue until
September. A force OF clerks from the
land office will assist him.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-10
When Shall We Win?

When shall we win? why. when we fire
to the mark and never tire:
When we hold fast. as we've begun,
And still work on. till all is done.
When shall we win? When, filled with
zeal,
We face the foe OF common veal,
And hinging to the wind each fear.
Gods trumpet call alone we heart!
When shall we win? When we're con-
tent
To die, nor to retreat consent;
Resolved to hun tho ~recreant's shame:
And rather choose a martyrs name.
When shall we win? IT'S best to say
What can We do from day to day?'
With truth, and faith in truth, we dare
Not faint. or falter. or despair.
The cause of right is charged to win
Omnipotence is not with sin
Since God Is King, His cause will see
The light and crown of victory.
BE this our cause: that we endure;
lis this VIII keep our conscience pure,
And when the righteous cause has won,
We, too. shall hear the words. well
done"
Rev. Dawson Burns. d. D..
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-10
A Little Girls Loves.

Bessie (aged fve) was accustomed
to come to her mothers room before
the family was up. One Sunday morn
ing. while making the customary visit,
the odors of breakfast in preparation
managed to reach the sleeping quar-
ters. Bessie, with her arms around
her mothers neck. gave one or two
vigorous shifts, then with an air of
anticipation announced, Mamma,
there's two fings | dess love mos of
enyfing in der world"
What are they, Bessie?" asked her
mamma.
God and baked beans" Bessie re-
piled, smacking her lips.-Lippincott's.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-10
To Reclaim Land wor tn Millions.

IdUU OWnerS IN RlChardSOn county
propose 10 reclaim farm lands to the
value of two million dollars lying along
the Nemaha river bottoms in that
county by Strengthening the channel
OF the stream and reducing its length
along the north and south forks from
Table Rock to Salem, 1871 miles. The
Nemaha Is an extremely crooked
stream, and during the last few years
many valuable farms in the bottoms
have been made useless by the annual
spring overflow. An act was passed at
n recent session Of the legislature. pro-
viding for the creation Of drainage
districts in sections of this nature, and
The people of Richardson are the first
to take advantage Of 1t.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-10
Business or Cooperative Plan.

A Russian traveller, who recently
made a tour through Manchuria in the
interest of a scientific association,
gives a very interesting account Of
the business usages in hat province.
He says there are in a Chinese bust
ness house neither proprietors nor en-
ployes. All persons employed share
in the profits of the undertaking. Dur
ing the year each member receives, at
certain intervals. a kind of salary,
which, however, is meted out so spar
ingly as to be hardly sufficient to sup
ply the necessities of life. At the
close Of the year the accumulated
prOitS are divided.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-10
AND THIS IS WAR
Description Of the Great Battle
Of Chin Fou
FORTY THOUSAND CHARGE
Japanese Moved Down by Russian Fire
Like Grain Before the sickle. bat
Rout the Enemy.
FORTY THOUSAND CHARGE

A London Times correspondent,
writes:
witnesses OF the battle Of Kin-Chou
describe It as an unprecedented mill
tary spectacle. Forty thousand Japan
csc were massed behind the western
spur OF Mount Sampson, under such
small cover as was afforded by the
twin peaks. The troops were within
two thousand yards Of the Russian
works. There was so little room to de-
ploy for attack that b~attalions of Jap
anese troops we're Obliged to stand in
the sea, waiting for the moment Of at
tack, exposed to a veritable inferno of
fire from the Russian batteries. The
shells plowed burrows in their serried
masses.
Meantime battery after battery Of
Japanese guns went into action upon
the Chi Ii Chwang and the Kauchia-
yam fats. and a sustained gunboat
fire played up the Russian works. Their
lines we're fringed with bursting pro-
jectiles. About midday the energy OF
the Russian defenders in the works
in front of M%auchiaying village seemed
exhausted by the gunboat fire.
1.-TWO Japanese battalions appeared
over the saddle between the twin peaks
and made a desperate effort to carry
the nearest Russian works. At first
the struggling walls Of M~auchiaying
gave them some cover and a moments
breathing space. Then the gallant lit
tie infantry men crept on again up
the slopes toward the Russian posi-
ton. 1t was an impossible task. AS
yet the defenders had not been suf-
ficiently shaken. An avalanche Of con
centrated fire from infantry in the
trenches, and machine guns in the Rus
sian works and the quick-fring field ar
tillery in the supporting defenses
struck the japanese, and they melted
away from the glacis like solder be-
fore the flame of a blowpipe. A few
who seemed to have charmed lives
struggled on until they reach the wire
entanglements.
1T was in vain. Heroic effort vas
wasted. Within fifteen minutes these
two battalions ceased to exist except
as a trail OF mutilated bodies at ths
foot Of the Russian glacis.
Seeing the failure of this attack.
the %gunboats and supporting artillery
concentrated the whole Of their fire
on the pit where General Oku had de-
termined to drive home his wedge, and
by evening the works were practicable
for al assault by a general who had
such infantry as the japanese and who
was prepared to take the responsibility
of such fearful losses. 1t would seem
as IL the actual carrying OF the works
had been another Alma. The word
was given for n bayonet attack. Then
the whole japanese front surged for
ward and the moral balance went ovei
to the side Of the Japanese. the Rus
Nans retreating before them"
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-10
American Cigarettes In Turkey.

The smoking Of cigarettes is almost
universal in Turkey among the adults
of both x The supply of cigarette
paper therefore is an important item
of trade The tobacco used is of k1cat
growth. The paper employed nithist o
has been almost entirely OF Austrian
origin. This year American cigarette
paper has been introduced, and meets
with evident favor. 1t Is supplied
through Constantinople dealers.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-10
Flood at Council Huns.

A torrent OF rain which almost
reached the proportions of a cloud
burst forced Indian creek, at Council
Bluffs, out OF its banks and flooded a
considerable portion Of the business
and residence districts Of that city.
The storm extended over a consider
able portion of southwestern Iowa. At
Woodbine, a small tornado destroyed a
number of small buildings and did
other damage.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-10

The result of the annual physical
examinations of the midshipmen Of
the three classes at the naval academy
at Annapolis, Md, shows that seven
teen midshipmen are disqualified to
continue in the service and their resig-
nations will be handed in. Among
the number is o. w. Howard of Oma-
ha. Neb., a member Of the fourth
class.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-10
AT TEKAMAH
Blows Down Opera House While High
School Pupils Rehea rsed.


A tornado struck Tekamah. Neb., de-
stroying the opera house and badly
wrecking several other buildings. Pro-
fessor Barnes and the graduating class
of the Tekamah high school were re-
hearsing for the commencement exer-
cises in the opera house when 1t coll
lapsed, and all were injured, but none
seriously. Professor Barnes told the
pupils to lie down on the floor, which
they did, and the seats protected them
from the debris. Kip Hamblin, a tele-
graph operator, who Vas in the build
ing, sustained a broken collar bone.
Trees were uprooted, buildings un-
rooted and porches torn off. There was
little damage outside the town.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-10
Central America; the Ne8r0'S E|d0rddo
A Country where the Black rlan Knows No Sorrow and Free
dom Reigns.
BY Frank A. Harrison, Special Staff Correspondent.

the United States. The rush there now
Is constant because of the banana. cof-
Zee n rubber plantations, and of the
mineral possibilities in the mountain
Gus interior. already tapped by several
paper railroads.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-10

One swallow OF book beers doesn't
make a summer, but a SUFFICIENT num-
Der of them has been known to make
@ fen,
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-10

It's absolute proof to a woman that
she is a good mother to her children
when their uncles and aunts tell her
that she is spelling them.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-10

How did they get into society,""
"Oh, they were arrested three times
one morning for running their automo-
biles too fast"
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-10

Occasionally a man is so anxious to
see his name in prin that he gets on
the delinquent tax list.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-10

A man occasionally takes his pen in
hand. but the umbrella he takes In
hand usually belongs to another.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-10

Mrs. Newwed-What would you be
today II It wasn't for my money?
Mr.. Newwed-A bachelor.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-05-20

ReDublican State Convention in Wisconsin Re.
suits in Split---StalWartS Name Candidate.

Madison, Wis, May 20-Lafollette
and anti-Lafollette factions of the Re-
publican party In this state met in sep.
arate conventions during the day with
the avowed purpose of placing state
tickets in the field
The Lafollette delegates were called
to order in the university gymnasium
at $40 a. m. Some delay was occa-
stoned owing to the fact that the COM
mittee on resolutions was not ready
to report. Finally Chairman Chynoweth
was recognized and reported that
three members Of the resolutions COM
mittee, Messrs. Reynolds, Bennett and
Riordan, failed TO meet with the COM
mittee, but that as prepared the report
was signed by eight members Of the
committee. The platform strongly en-
dorses the national administration and
the state administration of Governor
Lafollette.t
The platform. as read. was adopted
unanimously The roll call showed
that 5S5h delegates We're present.
State Senator John NJ Freal Of the
Eleventh district placed in nomination
for governor Robert NJ. lafolleue. His
speech was highly laudatory OF the
governor and an endorsement of his
official acts throughout two admins
trations. Several seconding speeches
were made The roll call showed
5851la votes. the complete strength of
the convention. and Governor l.afnl-