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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
TIMES MUST HAVE BEEN HARD.
Limit Of Financial Embarrassn. mt
i7umorously Described.

Limit Of Financial Embarrassme emit
Humorousiy Described.
Two society women were talking to-
gether a few days ago, each having
run up to town on some important
business matter. They were sitting
In the station waiting for the special
Long Island train ON which each was
to make her return home,
The first to speak was a large, flor
Id, handsome blonde, who, hurrying
into the waiting room, was accom-
panied by her maid laden up to the
skies with bundles of every kind. sort
and description. Noting her friend
already seated and absolutely bundle
less. she at once began her discourse.
volubly extolling the charms and
amazing cheapness of some Of the
midsummer bargains Of which, as the
maid bore ample evidence, she had so
plentifully availed herself.
The bundleless one listened in rath-
ct pathetic silence until the first full
period. Taking advantage Of it with
a deep, pathetic sigh. she turned and
gazcd covetously at her friends spoils
OF war.
MY dear" she said, eff macaroni
was cent a mile I couldn't afford
enough this season to lace my shoes
With New York Times.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22

,. MIS-: Henrietta A. S. Marsh. 100 w.
Ioth Of; Los Angeles, Cal, President Wo-
mans Benevolent Assn. writes:
"a Suffered suath la grippe for seven
sceeh 8, daad nothingI could do or take
Netped me asastiL L ta'ied PerMna.
L felt at once that l had at last Sc
cured the right medicine and kept stead
ny improving Within three weeks | was
fully restored, and | am glad that / gave
that truly great remedy a trial l will
never be without it again.
In a letter dated August 81, 1904, Mrs.
Marsh says: Il have never vet heard
the efficacy of Peruna questioned. We
still use it. [ travelled through Ken
lucky and Tennessee three years ago,
where | found Peruna doing its good
work. Much of it is being used here
also. Henrietta A S. Marsh
Address DR.. Hartman, President of The
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio.
Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruna
Almanac for 1905.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
Cow Assists at a Wedding.

A strange wedding celebration took
place at Shohola, Pa, recently. Her
man Hipsman married Miss Christina
Kuhn. After the ceremony the couple
went to the bridegroom's home, a
stock farm, where all the neighborhood
had congregated.
The stock of beverages gave out and
Hlpsman brought one of his best Jer-
sey cows into the kitchen.
Each person who desired a drink had
Only to go to the COW. She was q
good representative of her stock and
did not go dry, although one man was
kept busy doing the milking.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
Queensland Opal.

Opal, little opal, with the red fire glanc-
ing,
Set my blood a-spinning, set my pulse
astir,
Strike the harp of memory, set my dull
heart dancing
Southwark to the sunny land and the
love of Her!
Opal, shining opal. let them call you luck
less jewel,
Let them curse or let them covet, you
are still my hearts desire
You that robbed the sun and moon and
green earth for fuel
To gather to your milky breast and fill
your veins with fire!
Green Of fluttering gum-leaves above dim
WatercourSeS,
Red of rolling dust-clouds, blue Of
summer skies.
Flash of f1ints a-fire beneath the hoofs
of racing horses,
Sunlight and moonlight and light OF
lovers eyes,
Pink clasping hards amid a Southern
summer cleaning,
Green of August grasses, white of dew
strung pearls,
Cray of winging. wild geese through a
sunset hon1irg,
Twined with all the kisses Of a queen
Of Queensland girls!
w. H. ogilvie.i
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
BABY SAVED FROM DEATH.
Engineer Reached From CowcatchAr
and Caught Child.

Engineer Reached From CowcatchAr
and Caught Child.
The two-year-old child Of Torrance
Cummings, of Carbonate, Pa, was
saved from death the other day by
the bravery and quick action of En-.
gineer Cal Kimble. who runs the
passenger express between Carbonate
and Honesdale. The train was late
getting into Carbonate, and as ll
swept around curve at high speed
Klmble saw not far away a baby sit
ting in the middle Of the track with
it's back to the train. It paid no heed
to the whistle, and seeing that death
was inevitable unless the child was
rescued Kimble put on the air brakes.
1t was down grade, and he realized
that the train could not stop before
it struck the child. He shouted to his
fireman to look after the engine and
sprang out on the running board. II
took him but moment to reach the
head of the engine and jump down
on the pilot. Stretching down on the
cOwcatcher, he just managed to reach
the child in time. He swung the
ycungster up to safety and the train
stopped fifteen feet further on.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
UNKNOWN SOURCE or SOUND.
Curious Phenomenon on the Borders
Of the Red Sea.

=
Of the Fed Sea.
A singular phenomenon occurs on
the borders OF tho Red sea at place
called Nakous, where intermittent un-
foreground sounds have been heard for
an unknown number CT centuries. It
is situated at about half a mile dis
tant from the shore, whence long
reach Of sand ascends rapidly to a
height of 300 feet. This reach is
about 500 feet wide, and resembles an
amphitheater, being walled by low
rocks. The sounds coming up from
the ground at this place recur at In
tervals Of about an hour. They at
first resemble low murmur, but ere
long there is heard loud knocking
somewhat like the strokes Of bell,
and which at the end Of about five
minutes becomes SO strong as to agi-
tate the sand. The explanation of this
curious phenomenon given by the
Arabs is that there is convent un-
der the ground here, and that these
monks ring for prayers. SO they call
it Nakous, which means a bell. The
Arabs affirm that the noise so fright
ems their camels when they hear it as
to render them furious. Philosophers
attribute the sound to suppressed
volcanic probably to the bub-
ling of gas or vapor underground.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
LUNCH ON THE FLY.
Shrewd Scheme by Which Time May
BE Economical.

The army OF American dyspeptics
who patronize quick lunch counters
should be highly interested in the plan
fol ''rapid-fre" lunch counter that
has been evolved in the brain of a
man in this city. Utilizing the princi-
pal of the merry-go-round and moving
pavement, he has conceived the idea
OF moving lunch counter, of which
he has constructed model. The coun-
ter is elliptical in form and construct
ed on a platform of the same shape,
which is to be kept constantly swing
ing around like a carrousel. At in
tervals on the platform around the
counter are stools. Just outside the
moving platform and alongside of the
ellipse is a stationary counter on
which are arranged pies, cakes, sand
witches and other hurry-up dishes.
Customers mount the movable plat
form and take their places on the
stools. They swing round the ellipse
and as they pass the stationary count
er help themselves to pie, cake or
wEat-not At the end of the ellipse is
a cashier, who can see what they have
taken IN passing. From the time a
customer passes the cashier with
fresh supply Of lunch until he swings
round back to the cashier five min
utes will have elapsed, and in that
time he is supposed to have devoured
his lunch. II he is too slow he may
make another urn-pLilaGelnflia Ran-
ord.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
L.cnq Lease.

Probably one OF the longest leases
known was granted for small piece
Of meadow land. some sixteen acres
in extent, in Surrey, England It is
for the term of $500 years, and was
granted on ST. Michael's day in 1861.
at the singular rental Of a red rose
when demanded" 1t is not stipulat-
cd that the rose shall be the product
of this land, which is fortunate, for
no such rose grows anywhere on the
sixteen acres.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
Catarr', C,nnot re Cured

reach the seat OF tho disease. Cafa-rh is !
blood or constitutional disease, and il order
TO cure 1t you must take Internal remedies.
liail's Catarra euro Is taken internally and
acts directly on the b!od and mucous surfac,
Halls Catarrh Cure is not q quacS medicine.
1t was prescribed by ono Of the best physi-
clans in this country for years, and is q re.-
ular prescription. 1t is conposed Of til z
best tones LnoWn, combined with tho be .
blood purifiers, aeiing directly on tho nv,
couS surfaces. Tho perfect combination
the two Ingredients Is Naas produces SUI !
wonderful results in curing catarrn. send
Tor testimonials. frea
I. J. CHENEY Il Co., prop5., Toledo, O
Sold by druggists, plica, 75c.
lake HALLS Family Pitts Tor constipation
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22

A bachc.o- one day set the table in
his lonely ABODE With plates for him
self and all imaginary wife and fly,
children. lie then sat down to dine
and as he hclpel Himself to food Ii
put the same quantity on each OF ths
other Plates and surveyed the PROS
rect, at the same time computing tht
cost. lie is Still q bachelor.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
RISKS LIFE IN DARING FEAT.
Wcman's Sensational Act Excites Pa
risians 70 wonder

WVIIdFI StHSasIUHaI NCr EXCIIeS Pa
risians to Wonder.
Novel sensational feats on autoxcars
md bicycles, in looping and circ-
ling circles and jumping gaps in tracks
upside down or right side up, are still
forthcoming, and there is always some.
one ready to invent new and special
ly thrilling flight. The latest recruit to
the daring band of performers, prepar-
ed, for consideration to run the risk
OF breaking their necks, is Madame
Mauricia de Tiers, who is known as
the Auto-Bolide-the Auto-Meteor-
of the Folies-Bergere, in Paris. The
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22

B@.ana Grown in New Hampshire.
Six years ago ]. Laselle Of Manches-
ter, N. H., obtained a banana bulb,
which he planted in tub. The plant
now stands Is feet high. Last fall
it began to show evidence OF bearing
fruit. The other day Mr.. Laselle gath
cred the harvest and distributed il
among his friends.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22

You cannot buy whip in the city
Of Moscow since a local law prohibits
the use of whips on horses. The re
suit Of this humane law is seen IN
the beauty, good condition and good
behavior of the horses.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
&C S
FOR SICK WOME N
TO CONSlD1r.

FTRsT.--The medicine that holds the
record for the largest number Of abso-
lutte cures of female Ills is Lydia X.
Pinkhams Vegetable Compound. 1t
regulates and cures diseases of the
female organism as nothing else can.
SECoND.-The great volume of un-.
Nsolicited and grateful testimonials on
file at the Pinkham laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, many of which are from time to
time published by permi sion, give abb
soiute evidence Of the value of Lydia
Fl. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
Mrs. Pink hams advice.
THIRD. Every ailing woman in the
United States is asked to accept the
following Invitation. 1t is free, will
bring you health, and may save your
life.
Mrs. Pinkham's Standing invitation.
Women suffering from any form of
female weakness are invited to promptly
communicate with Mrs. Pinkhan, at
Lynn, Mass. All letters are received
opened, read and answered by women
only. From symptoms given, your
trouble ma. be located and the quick
est and surest way of recovery advised.
Out of the vast volume OF experience
Mrs. Pinkham probably has the very
knowledge that will help your case.
Surely any woman, rich or poor, il very
louAAsa. Il sstle doe, not l..sse advantage
Of this generous offer Of assistaucs.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
Taught by Experienc !,

My experience with signs says
Farmer Singletree. ''is that in gem
raj they're either mislcadin' er super-
tiu's. When I was 10 the exposition |
see signs readin', 'Lcok out for pick
pockets After few days truck with
'em l came to the conclusion that they
was fully able to look out for them
selves" --Cloyelap1 T.oa7rr.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22

When the Kaiser drove through IIamc.
lin recently hundreds Of children stood
along the route, dressed either as rats OF
IN the picturesque costume OF the famous
led liper's" period.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
School for Parrots.

A school for parrots has been
opened in Philadelphia. It is DANES
school, the professor being a lady,
and the birds are taught to speak by
n monograph repeating the same
words and Phrases fer hours TIL they
pick them up.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22

do not believe piso's euro for Consumn-
lion has ancIual TO- coughs and coids.--JoHN
b.LoYAE, lilnlti 50 lnxs ind Feb. Is, 1909.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22

! EIFjparmanen ycu- sG. No nts or ne~yaus.
neaSattsr l.rs- days uss o. Dr X -ne's trraa.
Eervcasstorac, Sztrial bost.oa treafiyo FRA,
Dr. x. IL. ALI ~, It'd I'll Aces, p,,ia %
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
To

-" Say
Iakc Laxative Promo Cuiaine Tablets. A I
drucglsts refund money if it fails 70 cure
=. w. Groves signature is on box. o5c.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22

Slecpcrs Of mahogany are used on the
Mexican Central Railway.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22

Itch cured in 80 minutes by ,vool(ord'e
Sanitary Lotion. Never fails, Sold bv ali
druggists, ST. Mail orders promptly fiIed
by DR.. L. Deschon, Crawfordsville Ind
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22

The c,'ectric motor is fast dispacing The
leather belt in fact ,r,es.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22

Proves Value o. Rubber Suit.
With his rubber preserving suit,
Joseph Probst of Geneva has remained
In TIC water ncnth at time. sub
sisting on food carried IN the suit.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22

itching, Bird, Bleeding or Protrudinr
.. Druggists viii refund money if razo
Lament fails to cure in 6 to ID days. 5Dc
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
Eco .Iuc,l or Trim.

Only the very rich have fences around
.se.r farms in Japan.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
a Guaranteed Cnre Eor Pile..

Wa.cs wants capita but has none.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-10

became the heir apparent when he got
 the office of Secretary of State under Monroe But the old order changed. and Jackson not only succeeded Adams in l82S
 when Adams was an aspirant for re-elec- t.cn. but he defeated Clay in 1892, when Clay had the support of practically an of the opposition to Jackson except the anti-Masons. Fate beat Clay in 1S40
 when his party nominated Harrison in- stead. in a year in which almost any
 whig could have been elected and in which Harrison swept the country. It defeated him at the polls in 1S44 when he had the unanimous nomination of his party. It overthrow him finally in the convention of 1s4S when the nomination went to Taylor the hero of Buena Vista.
 Calhoun and Cass, in their respective period of prominence, appeared to be men of destiny. At the time of Jackson's election in 1928 Calhoun was, by most persons, thought to be in the direct line of succession to the Presidency By get ting out of the race for the higher office in 1924 he won the friendship of the other four aspirants. As the occupant of the second post at the time that Jackson en- tered the first office, and for several years before and after, he seemed to be in a position to command the favors of that potent parsonage and to be the log ical recipient of his partys highest hon ors. The feud with Jackson, however, which began shortly after the latter en- tored office and his connection with tho notification mischief turned fate against hlm. and eventually dwarfed him to mere sectional figure. Cass for many years seemed to be an inevitability. His aspirations did much to defeat Van Buren in the convention of 1s44. He led all the other candidates for many ballots, but he had aroused so much hostility on the part of Van Burens friends that he was shut out of the nomination, and the con vention was compelled to call fin a. new man. Polk. He obtained the nomination four years later, but he was defeated at the polls by the same man who defeated Clay in the convention in that year. Old Rough and Ready Zachary Taylor.
 We. strike Cass again in the conyen- tions of 1852 and 1856, in the former of which he led for many ballots. but Pierce
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-10

or imagined they would be, by the slings
 and arrows of outrageous fortune Ever since that year the bar sinister against
 the letter of the alphabet has all its po-
 liticai disabilities abolished.
 It would seem that very nearly the last of the political superstitions that are left
 to us will be exterminated in 1904 when
 Roosevelt vanquishes fate and. carries off the nomination in the Chicago conven- ton. The next thing which we will ex- pect to see will be somebody stepping out of the Senate directly into the Presiden-
 cy. This feat has not been performed yet
 by anybody. Many ex-Senators have been elected President, but nobody who was member of the Senate at the time has lever gone to the higher office by election. One person came very near this. Garfield, who had been elected to tho Senate just before his nomination for President, but he had not qualified in that branch of Congress when the Pres idential election took place. A good many very able men have been Speakers of the House and many of these-Clay. Hunter, Banks, Bell. Colfax. Blaine. Randall, Carlisle and Reed-have tried t0 get politics supreme prize, but none Of them obtained 1t. In the entire list of persons who held the important post of presiding officer of the popular branch O. Congress. only one man, Polk, and he very far from being the largest of them, ever secured the Presidency. When Roosevelt and Cleveland have finished abolishIng all the fatalities attending on previous conditions of servitude in public station. the ban may be removed against Senators and Speakers.
 It will not be entirely safe to say that CIeveland's idol breaking career has yet ended The third term tradition may sud denly find itself assailed as successfully in St. Louis as the accidental President superstition is bound to be in the Chi cago assemblage when Roosevelt carries off the prize in that body. It is known that Cleveland is not seeking the can dldacy. but very many persons are be- ginning to believe that he would accept 1t if it were offered with any close ap- proach to unanimity, or even by a bare two-thirds vote. Jefferson and Jackson received electoral votes in three elections,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-10

out neither had to run the gauntlet Of a
 ,a'iOnal delegate convention three tinles' Jackson did this twice, Jefrerson old not do 1t at all, TOT National conven- tions had not been invented in his daya.
 moreover, Cleveland encountered an ob. struction such as neither of his great predecessors met. He had his party in
 nlS state against him for the nomination.
 rourth nomination, whether 1t would
 bring election or not, would be a dis
 tinction so far beyond all that had been conferred on former President that it
 would give Mir. Cleveland an unique place
 Tn the history of the country. If he
 should chance to carry the election thls year he would be even more completelv
 shut out of all chance for further worlds
 to conquer than Alexander imagined him.
 self to be after his Asiatic campaign.
 Fortune has been so lavish of her fa-
 vors to Roosevelt in the past few yeara that when he extirpates the tradition that bars the death=promoted Vice Press ident from all chances for getting the of4 flee by election, the achievements win hardly command the attention which iE would receive if the feat were performed by less favored child of destiny. Hs was nominated for Vice President agaihsf his own desire. frequently and vehement< ly proclaimed. and against the wishes of the politicians of his party. When death placed him in the Presidency he auicklv conquered whatever dlstrust that had sur. vived to that time; he put all the other aspirants. out of the. raca and he had & practically clear track from the beain@ ming. Nobody else has been mentioned with any seriousness for the RepubIican His success In the ChiearN has been 50 long looked for~ ward to as q certainty that it will nok surprise anybody when It comes. Never theless, 1t will destroy tradition which has had a long and picturesque career. If any superstitions are left intact after Cleveland and Roosevelt and their politis cal activity. they are some which are noe portentous enough to command atten. tioa.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-10
Some Political Precedents
 Which Have Been Smashed

We are living in an age in which polit- teal precedent and traditions have no rights which either National conventions or National elections feel bound to re- spect, writes Charles M. Harvey in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat Many exam-' ples which have had large backgrounds of history behind them have been smash ed within the past score of years. An other will be broken in a few weeks. the one which says that a Vice President who goes to the Presidency by the death of the incumbent of that office can never get the post by nomination. This exam pie will be shattered at Chicago in the latter days of June by the nomination of President Roosevelt. The nomination was denied to Tyler, to Fillmore, to Johnson and to Arthur. all of whom went to the White House through the death of their immediate predecessors. The prece- dent which was assumed to doom such men to extinction after they had filled out the term to which the head of their ticket had been elected. was so firmly fixed at the time the Republican conven- tior of 1884 met that Arthur's candidacy was deemed beforehand, by many per sons, to be useless. After the ocnven- ton in Chicago a few weeks hence that alleged feud which fate has had with the ambition of the so-called accidental President will be as dead as the prece- dents which Grover Cleveland abolished
 Along until the evening of November {. 1884. there was a politiacl superstition which doomed to defeat every Presiden- tial aspirant whose surname began with a c. Some of the greatest men of the country had been beaten who carried that fatal third character of the alpha bet. George Clinton was one of the men who received votes for Vice President in i7Ss. 1792 and 17S6. In those years the electors were not called upon to desig- nate which of the two persons they voted for was wanted for President and which for Vice President The candidate who received the largest number of electoral votes. if a majority, was decclared Presi- dent, and the one who stood second in the voting became Vice President. This remained the practice until the adoption of the twelfth amendment to, the Constl- tuition in 1904 which was due to the tie vote between Jefferson and Burr in 1890. Under this amendment the electors have been required to vote for each of two