The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-09-08
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HOW ABOUT A SMILE. Every
Time you frown you drive a tack in
your coffin. -Yazoo Sentinel.
BUSINESS LIABLE TO BALK. -
Don't deceive yourself. A trolley car
wilt back down hill if the current is
cut off So will your business if the
advertising is cut off Advertiser S
Handbook.
NO, CONTRIBUTED GRATIS.
The magazine articles advising young
men how to become successful are
generally written at the rate of half a
cent word. philadelphia Record.
EVEN NUMBERS COUNT-Every
Mississippian, who is registered vot-
er ought to make it point to 60 out
and vote in the presidential election.
we ought to vote our whole strength
and give the democratic candidates
100, 900 majority. Ellisville New
South.
THE SOUTH'S MONEY. - The
southern banks have reached that po.
sition where they are able to furnish
the money for moving the vast cotton
crop OF this section. This is the first
year that such has been the case and
shows that the south is progressing
along all lines. jackson News.
WAGON SENSE. Let's have good
roads. The cost is not near SO great
as is the wear and tear on your wag-
ons and buggies. In buying new wag-
ons and buggies and having those re.
J paired that have only been in service
short while, you will spend twice
as much as taxes to make good roads
would amount to.-Magee Courier.
DON'T MISTAKE THE GOODS
We have been asked if marriage is q
failure. We have not found it so.
We don't know what our better half
thinks of it, Our opinion is that on
ly when a man marries a sealskin
woman on a coonskin income does he
find marriage a failure. -Hardaman
Free Press.
EVEN PUCK GETS SERIOUS. -
Puck jokes with solemn significance
when it prints this ticket at the head
of it's editorial columns. tFor en-
peror, Theodore Roosevelt, OF New
York. For prince imperial, Charles
Warren Fairbanks, of Indiana For
president, Alton Brooks Parker, of
New York. For vice. president, Hen.
ry Gassaway Davis, of West Virginia.
-Hazlehurst Courier.
AN EDITOR WITH A DOLLAR
There was good deal of fun in our
town one day last week, when our
creditors found out we had gotten
hold of dollar. Nearly every man
in town presented us with bill--not
the kind that bears Uncle Sam s
stamp upon it, but an itemized bill of
goods bought by us FROM them. We
kept the dollar and they kept the
experience. What grand thing it
is to have dollar McHenry Star.
"GOD, GIVE US MEN. 1.-The
New York Evening Post has this to
say about the south's habit of refus-
ing to send mere dollar marks to the
United States senate: Zone reason
why the south today is SO effective in
the affairs of the nation, exercising
an influence beyond her real strength,
is because it is still her custom to
send men to the highest legislative
body who are able to present forceful-
ly, vigorously, luminously, her point
of view. "-Hazlehurst Courier.
s'LEND US A GUN. THE editor
of Kansas paper states that he pick.
ed up Winchester rifle one day re.
Gently and started down the street te
deliver the weapon to its owner. The
delinquent subscribers got it into
their heads that he was out on the
war path, and every one he met in.