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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21
The Snakes Mere Real

was judge, jury and attorney for all
sides, being frequently appealed to.
Then they discovered snakes, dozens
of them, scooting around on the floor.
They were not the imaginary D. T.
kind, but the forgotten rattlers. which
had thawed out in the warmth of the
cabin. In the performance which i'm
mediately followed there were forty
separate and distinct attempts to nut
on specialties that would outclass the
other thirty-nine in rapidity. of execu-
ton, principal among which was a
flying high dive through a window.
One of the doctors, busily employed
in picking out fragments of glass.
afterward, let slip the remark that in
his opinion it was foolish for anyone
to try enameling the face in that man
ner; but it was before he had been
informed that it was the result of an
amateur circus performance. The four
least active among the acrobatlc forty
drew BOBBY prizes in the form of so.
we're snake bites. and In consequence
all engagements have been declared
Of.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21

The Largest Photograph in the World.
At the recent Dresden Exhibition of
German Civic Life there was exhibited
a photograph which is said to be the
largest ever taken. This gigantic pic
ture measures thirty nine feet eight
inches by four feet eleven inches. 1t
the Bay of Naples, and was
taken from Castel San Marino, the
highest point behind Naples, from
which the eye commands the whole
city and bay as far as Mount Vesuvius
and Capri. In order to secure as eX
tensive panorama as possible, six
different views on as many plates,
measuring eight and one-tenth inches
by ten and one-half inches were first
taken. From these six plates, which
were designed with view to being
connected to one another in a contin-
uous series, six engagements, four feet
eleven inches by six feet seven inches
in size, were prepared BE- means of an
apparatus with lens one foot in diam
eter. The enlargements were made
directly on silver bromide paper. The
inherent difficulty of connecting the
single plates SO as to avoid any break
was overcome SO successfully that it is
practically impossible to detect the
boundary line of any two plates.-Sci-
entific American.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21
A New Lake suddenly Created.

A remarkable phenomenon is re-
ported from the Russian rural CON-
mune Of Schava, in the Government of
Tzareff Koksaka. Inexplicable Sounds
were heard, for several days issuing
from the earth. The sounds varied
from something like the booming of a
cannon to the screeching of steam
whistles. and seemed to come from a
forest skirting the commune. In this
forest where the terrified peasantry
gathered in expectation of some ca
lamity, the earth was seen to heave
necessarily. Gradually huge cracks
appeared. water was seen, at last the
earth seemed gradually to sink. water
rose, and there appeared new lake
Of considerable extent, which is now
being examined by BIOLOGISTS Phila-
delphia Telegraph.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21
Cloth Is Bullet Proof

but reformation as well, and in this
reformation the force Of the ball is
converted. While there should be a
high degree Of temperature at the
point touched by the ball, it seems
that the ball alone feels the effects,
for the protector does not seem to be
burnt in the slightest.
These results are not limited to bal.
listic effects, for in the recent expert
ments it was sought to pierce the ar
NOR with a dagger driven with all pos.
s:ble force. The point of the arm,
however, could not penetrate the felt
and was bent into shapeless mass.
It is natural to suppose that the
force Of the ball would be commune
Gated to the armor and that this would
be driven violently backward, result.
ing in disagreeable shock and one
which at.times would be dangerous to
the wearer. TO demonstrate the incor.
rectness Of this view Signor Benedict
attached the protector to a horse and
fred upon the animal six feet away
with an ordnance revolver, the ball
falling at the feet of the horse while
he, freed from his halter, walked
away as if nothing had happened. 1t
is to be noted that with the same re-
volver a piece Oh steel had been pre-
viously pierced. The same expert.
ment was made with a chicken GOV.
cred with breast piece of the felt
the cock, after being rid Of his new
shell, quietly pursuing the even tenor
of his way
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21
Liked Peach and Honey

This was poor comfort for the I'M
fortunate fellow who was waiting to
take his turn and now came forward
with fear and trembling. AS he passed
along by his lawyer thoughtful gen
tleman whispered in his ear When
the judge asks you what you got
drunk On tell him on peach and
honey He took the stand
"'You, too, are up here for an af-
fray growled the old judge, gnash-
ing his teeth.
eyes, your honor.
Drunk, too, I suppose?'
eyes, your honor, drunk-Very
drunk, am sorry to say
Drunk on rye whisky, too, sup
poser
"'Oh, no, your honor. 1 never drink
whisky. l got drunk on peach and
honey
THE judges features relaxed in
an instant Leaning forward and rails
ing his spectacles he contemplated
the offender with interest and then.
with something like tenderness, he
said:
"'Ah, sir, peach and honey, Ell?
That's a gentlema1's drink, sir. The
court sympathizes with you, sir, and
does not wish to regard your offense
as very serious. MI. Clerk he con-
tinued in softening tone, enter
fine of ST against this gentleman and
discharge him on payment OF costs.'"
st Louis Republic.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21

cold Judge Cole was one of the
best-known men in Texas in his day.
said Representative Cooper of Wis
consin. "He was partial to that Sc
ductive beverage called peach and
honey and had a hatred of whisky
and whisky drinkers. While holding
a court at Austin two men were
brought I'D on a charge Of a drunken
ARRAY.
1T was plain case; the row had
occurred in public street, in open
day, and there were fifty witnesses to
the whole transaction. So the fellows
pleaded guilty by the advice of their
counsel and threw themselves on the
mercy OF the court.
"'You are guilty of an ARRAY,
growled the judge.
eyes, your HONOR whined one Of
the men.
Drunk, | suppose grunted the
judge. Yes, your honor, murmured
the prisoner with some faint hope
that having been drunk would miti-
gate the punishment
Drunk on rye whisky, too I'll war
rant roared the judge in voice of
thunder Yes, your honor, drunk on
rye whisky
Mr.. Clerk, record fine of $50 on
this man. cried the judge, and send
him to jail for sixty days. shall fine
the next man who is guilty under such
apgrayating circumstances 800 and
send him to Jail for six months
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21

among whom were tErec Americans
and two Englishmen, had been MUIR
dered. Minister Burlingame at once
demanded redress from China, but
the Government at Pekin disclaimed
all responsibility for Korea, SO on
January 10, 1867, Commander Schu-
feldt was dispatched to the scene of
the outrage with the warship Wach-
usett.
Commander Schufeldt was unable
to reach the Pingyang River on &C
count Of ice, but he anchored at
point fifty miles to the south and es-
tablished communication with the dis
trict authorities, who denied all knowl-
edge of the General Sherman and
begged the Wachusett to leave. After
sending a letter to the King the COM
mander was compelled to return to
Chefoo, having accomplished nothing.
A report reached Chefoo a year later
that two survivors of the General
Sherman were in confinement in
Korea. and Commander Febiger, Of
the Shenandoah, was sent to inves-
tigate He met with no more success
than his predecessor, and after having
sailed up the Pingyang River for some
distance, returned to Chefoo and re-
ported that to the best of his belief
all the crew of the missing vessel
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21

The world is at present intensely in
terested in new Italian bulletproof
cloth, and since the Italian govern
ment is negotiating for its use it is Of
Importance that we see just what the
results are, although it is necessary to
state that the invention remains a Sc
cret, and this Notwithstanding at
tempts to discover it's details. Thus
we shall have to deal with a general
description and with the results Of ex-
periments.
The armor is a sort of felt, the stuff
being capable of adaptation to any
form whatever; for example, a breast
plate with a collar or a sort of coat
which completely envelops the wearer
and absolutely guarantees him from
gunshot wounds. The thickness of the
protector varies from one-sixteenth to
seven-sixteenths of an inch, according
to the arm the effects of which it is
designed to destroy. Against the
armor of seven-sixteenths Of an inch
the regular ordnance revolver with
steel covered ball is powerless, and
also the gun of the 1891 model charged
with smokeless powder. In the numer.
GUS experiments which have been
made-in firing at distance Of sew
eral yards-the ball. whether it be of
lead or steel, when it strikes the pro-
tector is arrested and deformed, in
some cases rebounding and in others
being almost reduced to pulp. Thus
there is not only an arrest of the ball,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21

tration clearly explains the operation
Of this continuance. Ordinarily the
flour is poured into the sitter, which is
held in one hand, while a crank is
turned with the other hand, rotating
a ring within the sitter that loosens
and breaks up the flour and precipi-
tates it to the sitting screen. With
the new sitter the Incorporating me-
chanism is-attached to the handle, and
the whole operation is performed with
one hand of the breaamaker.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21

lean vesso,s that traded in those
waters
Americans have an electric street
railway in seoul and gold mine in
the north, wLich employs fifty or sixty
foreigners and 1900 Koreans, and pays
into the imperial treasury an annual
royalty of $12,500. Americans should
have special interest in Korea, as one
Of our four small Asiatic wars was
With Korea q generation ago For
years an American was foreign adviser
to the Emperor, and | once heard an
earnest Korean arguing in favor of
Americas assuming protectorate
over his land. But our chief con-
tribution to Korea is neither CONNER
cial nor political, but moral and re-
ligious. There are about 100 American
missionaries in the land, with 10000
adherents
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21

An article in the Outlook on Theo.
dore Roosevelt, by Jacob Riis, is ac-
companied by this picture Of the Presi-
dents birthplace, in East Twentieth
street New York. In the course of the
article Mr.. Riis relates some of Roose-
yelts boyhood experiences. Says Mr..
Riis: He has told that as a little fell
low he was timid, and that when big
ger boys came along and bullied him
he did not know what to do about it.
| have notion that he quickly found
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21
had not taken care of Theodore. he
would have been killed long ago."
The Housewives Friend.

A busy housewife appreciates every
little contrivance that helps her to do
her work quicker while it does not de-
tract from the thoroughness with
which it would have been done had
the ordinary means of performing the
task been employed.
This fact makes even such a simple
thing as a flour sitter an object of in
terest when it presents features which
add to the efficiency of the user in the
performance of one of the most i'm
portant little duties of the kitchen
the making of the bread The illus
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21

command Of the Asiatic squadron,
stormed and destroyed four Korean
forts near the mouth of the river
which leads to Seoul.
Word reached Chefoo in October,
1866, that the General Sherman, an
American trading vessel which had
been loaded at Chefoo that summer,
had been fred upon while proceeding
up the Pingyang River and that her
entire crew of twenty-seven men,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21

out and that they did not come back
often. A woman who lived next door
to the Roosevelts in East Twentieth
street told me Of how, passing in the
street, she saw young Theodore hang
ing out of secondstory window and
ran in to tell his mother eff the Lord y
said she, as she made off to catch him.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21

were dead. No further steps were
taken by the United States until three
years later, when Admiral John Rodgers
sailed for Korea with a fleet consist
Ing of the Colorado Benicia, Mono
caey and Palos, and on May 90, 1877,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21

Northern Japan has Siberian eli
mate. The snow in many places lies
ten feet deep. Yet in summer there
are lotos. ponds everywhere.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21

WeHI once mad trouble
with Korean troops over the burning
OF an American ship near Pingyang
and the massacre of its crew. In
1871 Admiral John Rodgers. then in
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21

and landed GA men and seven guns.
By a combined attack from land and
water all four forts were captured and
destroyed. The American loss was
three killed and seven wounded. The
Koreans were wretchedly armed with
old firelocks and cutlasses Of soft iron.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21
|. ONCE WE )
Tsp ANKED KOREA ;
C~~ 80 - 80 g.
D Some Details of That A
Little Incident of 1871

ARLIKE developments in
Korea make it particular
~ interesting at this juno
ture to remember that
the United States Govern
y,oan4 ooao ia A,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21

was impervious to anything but bull
let.
Several prisoners were captured, but
We're later released, and Admiral Rod
gers, having found that it was impos-
slble to enter into communication with
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21

the King, weighed anchor and set sail
for Chefoo Korea had learned her
lesson, however, and no further trouble
was experienced by captains of Amer
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-02-25
TIMELY CALLING.
How the Pastor saved n Life.

now the faStOr Sayed a Life.
A man near Fort Gay, W. Va, made
an entire failure in getting strength
from the kind Of food he ate, and not
knowing that the trouble was with the
food kept on losing health until the
doctors gave him up to die.
1t was supposed to be consumption
because he was wasting away stead
lily and slowly dying. His minister
called from time to time and one day
brought along a package of Grape
Nuts, thinking from what he knew OF
the famous food that perhaps it might
help him The sick man took to it at
once, and from that day began to get
well. In writing he says:
Il walked to town to-day 8 miles.
Have gained over 40 pounds i'm about
two months and my neighbors don't
know what to say. I frequently am
told it was as if am raised from the
dead. Everybody here knows of my
case; you can tell people to write to
the Postmaster or Rev. L. D. Bryan.
will make sworn statement that
Grape-Nuts saved my life Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Greek,
Mich.
This Is another Illustration that
where all other food fails one can be
brought back to health and strength
on Grape-Nuts. There's reason"
Look In each pkg for the famous
little book. The Road to Wellville."
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Seven Good Reasons.

Labor troubles in the ministry ars
not unknown. and If accounts of them
seldom find their way into print II
may be for the reason that the walking
delegate has not arisen in the clerical
working world. Bishop Mallalieu OF
the Methodist Church, says the New
York Tribune, is always condemnins
the small salaries that congregations
able to do better sometimes pay thelr
pastors.
Il once knew a capital young man."
said Bishop Mallalieu, lately. HE was
in the church. His salary was small
but he was hopeful and happy. for he
was just married, and believed, as he
had right to do, In his ability.
''Some twelve or fifteen years went
by. had lost sight of this young min.
ister-forgotten him, as we Co forget
sometimes-when suddenly l met him
In Boston. He was dressed well. but
not at all clerically. We shook hands
He said he was doing excellently.
"What churchT said /.
'Oh,-said he, no church-tha
wholesale hat business
"'But why did you leave the
church, 1 asked.
"'For several reasons said he.
"'What were they? asked.
ga wife, he answered, and si1
children"
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Indian schools in open session, and all
tribes of the red man will be represented
ethnologically and otherwise. The Alas
,;a exhibit will astonish the world, in
showing the marvellous agricultural re-
sources of Uncle Sans ''farthest north"
territory. The government also has ex-
tensive exhibits of the life-saving SER
vice, the army and navy armament and
vessels, the Bureau of Plant Industry.
tie Agricultural College, forestry and
other branches of industry and enter
prise. A ground map of the United
States, covering several acres and show
ing each State growing its most distinc-
tive crops. is one special feature.
Forty-seven States and territories of
the United States are participating in
the fair. All but three or four of these
have separate buildings. Some of the
State buildings are as large and elegant
tion. More than S6,000,000 is the aggre-
gate of appropriation for State and terri
tory participation.
Fifty foreign governments are taking
pant in this Worlds Fair. Most of them
will have buildings of their own. Many
of these foreign buildings are completed
and others are going up rapidly. Ger
many. Great Britain, France. Japan,
Russia. Brazil, Belgium and other ma
tions have erected buildings larger and
more ornate than any foreign govern
nant structures ever seen at an exposi-
tion
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As5gN01h8LES

Ambassador Choate has moved into
his new house in Carlton garden, LON
don.
There are three duchesses of Yelling
ton-the widows of the second and third
dukes and the reigning duchess.
President Cobrera of Guatemala has
appointed Lieut.. l.. A. De Clairmont Of
Denver as member of his staff.
President Loubet of France attributes
his good health to taking long walks ev-
cry morning between g and s o'clock.
Many people will be surprised to learn
that Rudyard Kipling lacks more than
eleven months of being 80 years of age.
Minister Bunau-Varilla has appointed
as his first secretary Carlos Arosemena,
n prominent lawyer of the city of Pan
ANA.
King Alfonso has hired Il German pro-
fesso-. SO he can talk TO the Emperor
William in the language of the father
land.
Lord Lamington, the new governor OF
Bombay. has been made knight grand
commander of the order of the Indian
Empire.
\ complete collection of Indian army
medals, from 1879 to 1900. has been pre-
sented to the French government BIZ
Lord Curzon.
The most amazing part of Gen. Wey-
ler's book is that relating to his dedUc-
tions as to the result of his contemplated
invasion of the United States in 1898.
His idea was that about 100000 or so
men of the South would rush to his
standard.
Emperor William has conferred the
imperial order of the red eagle upon
Prof. Kuno Francke, curator of the Har-
ward Germanic museum.
Sir Oliver Lodge is a man talked about
in London. He has conceived device
for fighting fog by electricity, the current
TO be shot from tall masts.
King Alfonso and his mother will
visit Vienna during the summer. stop
ping at Paris on the way. He will be ac
corded magnificent receptions.
Nine. Zola, widow of the novelist, is
spending the winter at Rome. Some of
her friends have made up purse for
her. as her husband left little.
The late Italian premier, Zanardelli,
was great lawyer and author of the
penal code of Italy, which is regarded as
well nigh perfect work of its kind.
Former Queen Liliuokalani intends to
press Congress for the payment of the
$3.50, 900 she says is due her on crown
lands seized by the Dole government.
Lord Crewe's $4,000 acres or so of
property in England are q burden on his
hands. He proposes to sell 1000 acres
in Yorkshire and the North Midlands.
Queen Carmen Sylvia has a printing
plant in her palace, where her works will
be printed in the alphabet for the blind
and then distributed throughout the
world.
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Got the Right Kind.

Gainesville, Texas, Feb. 22nd.-Mrs.
l.. E. Burton, of 5O7 Glad street, this
city, writes the following letter.
Il have been awfully troubled with
my Kidneys; was in a bad fix and
had been doctoring with the Doctors,
but was getting no better. 1 tried a
remedy called Dodd's Kidney Pills and
found they did me lots of good. i had
a slight return of my trouble and
went to the Drug Store and called for
Dodd's Kidney Pills. They said there
was no such pills. 1 told them there
was. They said they had the best pills
that were made and persuaded me TO
try box of another kind, not Dodd's.
AS / needed some medicine, l bought a
box, but they did me no good. so 1
went elsewhere and got the real Dodd's
Kidney Pills, and very soon was COM
pletely cured. 1 took box up to the
Drug Store and showed them that
there was such pills and asked them
to order some, but as l haven't needed
any more l haven't called to see wheth-
er or not they got them"
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ustrades and landings support statues
by the worlds most famous sculptors;
and down the slopes rush and roar the
waters from splendid fountains, leaping
and splashing over artificial cascade con-
Strlctions.
Government Well Represented.
The United States government is rep
resented as never before. There is a
main Government building in which all
the administrative and executive depart
Dients of the government will show ex-
hibits, and the Smithsonian Institution
and other governmental enterprises of
general interest will have space. There
is separate building devoted to fisheries,
i'll which the United States Fish Com
mission is to make an exhibit of living
fishes and other water foods and COM
mercial products, from the minnow to
the whale. There is an Indian exhibit
with a separate building, wherein will be
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CAR INvADes KOREA.
Russian Troops Cross the Yalu Riv,
and Hold Win.

Russian Troops Cross the Yalu River
and Hold Win.
The report that 5000 Russian troops
had arrived at Chin-tien-chong, opposite
Wiju, on the Yalu river, is confirmed, as
is the report that the Russians have oc-
cupied Wiju itself. They have 1000
troops at Wiju.
The Korean minister at St. Petersburg
announces that although $4,000 Korean
troops are stationed about Seoul, his gov.
ernment preferred not to take up arms
against Japan, because Korea is neutral
and felt sure Russia would soon drive
out the japanese.
Emperor William has notified the Car
and the Mikado that the German hos.
pitfalls at Kiaochau and Yokohama are
available for the care Of men wounded
during the war.
The Russian general staff announces
that the war Office is willing to accept
volunteers for service in the far East.
They must be under 40 years old and
have had military training. The vol,
unteers will be enrolled in the reserve
battalions under Viceroy Alexieff.