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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11
A BUNCH OF MICROBES.


The Manner of Their determination
and Their Increase.
10 little microbes on a trolley line;
One got thousand volts, and then
there were 9.
little microbes feeding on plate;
One took some breakfast food, and
then there were 8.
D little microbes never heard OF
heaven;
One got on Dowie's tongue, and then
there were z.
Z little microbes on some garden
sticks;
One took paris green, and then there
were 6.
6 little microbes sitting on hive:
One argued with bee and then there
were 5.
S little microbes on the kitchen floor;
One tasted bugine, and then there
were q.
little microbes on a barroom spree;
One got in the fusel oil. and then
there were 3.
8 little microbes on an auto flew;
One smelled the gasoline, and then
there were 2.
2 little microbes looking for some
fun;
One was tickled quite to death, and
then there was 1.
I little microbe on a baby's jaw;
Mamma kissed where microbe was,
and made 100 more.
-Yonkers Statesman.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11
Friendly to Japanese.

johannesburg. Lord Miner has
privately stated that while the impor.
tation OF Chinese will be conducted
with rigid limitations, japanese. i'm.
migrants to tns Transvaal will be sub.
jected only t9such restrictions as the
Mikado's goNrnment may assent to
By this 1t IS htended to demonstrate
the friendly feelings which Great
Britain deslrs to show towards hel
rrs-~ :, eco al.J
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11
CHnDREN'S DEPARTMENT.
pie, the man who was asked by a

pie, the man who was asked by
stranger why he was moving:
Wall, We see," he said, 1--WE struck
this place last spring an there wasn't
nobody here but the Riggses over at
the fiat. But now there's new family
six miles over by the mountain, and
smother ten miles down the creek, and
the country's getting too thickly pop
ulated, and guess We'll move on
New York Press.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11
ARE LIABLE TO
!, PROSECUTION
EXPRESS COMPANIES THAT
HANDLE G. o. D. LIQOUR.
MUST PAY REVENUE TAX
That Sale was Made in Prohibition
State Said to Have No Direct Bear
Ing on the Case as Same Law Ap-
plies in All Localities.

Westinghouse COMMISSIONS Yerkes,
of the Internal Revenue Bureau, when
shown the dispatch from Kansas CITY
stating that large number Of express
agents In Kansas and in the prohibi-
tlon counies Of Texas would be ar
rested for shipping liquor into prohi-
bitlon states, said that his Office had
not yet been informed as to actions
brought against express agents either
an Kansas or Texas; that if arrests
had been made or prosecutions begun
it was probably due to the fact that
the local internal revenue officials had
learned that express agents and others
are having goods shipped to them by
wholesale liquor dealers, and they are
selling and delivering them to parties
without having taken out the the spe-
cial tax stamp required by internal
revenue laws. No sale of liquor can
be made legally by a person who has
not paid the government s special tax,
and ii these agents have sold pack
ages OF spirits to parties in their re-
spective places of business without
having taken out these special tax
stamps, then they are liable to prose
cution. That the sale was made in a
prohibition state has no direct bear
ing on the question, because the same
law applies in all localities.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11
Sugar Trust Fixes Loan.

Havana is reported in palace
circles that the American sugar trust
has secured an option on the Cuban
loan at so, despite the fact that the
Rothschilds offered to underwrite thu
loan at par.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

Senator Mallory and Hepburn have
made speeches supporting the Panama
Treaty. Senator Patterson announces
that he is not in favor of another pro-
nouncement for silver by the Demo
cratic party.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

The City Council of Gulfport,
Miss, decided to issue $4,000 worth
of bonds for the beginning of a sew
erage system, and will order an cleo
ton on $4,000 bond issue for school
purposes.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

The president has fired the Mar
shall of the Indian Territory, and
warned the new appointee not to re-
appoint several Of the deputies.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

Senator German is now trying in
vain to rally his democratic colleagues
with a new shibboleth- cut down
Army and Navy expenses.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children,
used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's
Home, New York. cure CONSTIPATION Fever
ishness, Teething Disorders, Stomach Trou-
bles and Destroy Worms; 80 COO testimonials
of cures. All druggists, c5c. Sample FREE.
Address Allen s. Olmsted LIE Roy, N Y
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11
SEND THIS NOTICE TODAY

to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse,
Wis, with &c. stamps for mailing and get
their big catalog, fully describing this great
Hay Press, so also hundreds OF tools and
thousands of varieties of Farm and Vege'
table Seeds. TACL.1
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

The provision appropriating $4,-
100000 in the way Of loan to the
st. Louis Exposition was left in the
urgent deficiency bill by the United
States Senate.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

Representative Hearst Of Np@
York has introduced bill "to }em-
power United States attorneys with
ont the direction Of the Attorney Gen
eral to enforce the act to prstect trade
and commerce against unlawful re-
straints and monopoliesi" The bill
amends the Sherman antitrust law.
Rayner's election i'm Maryland is
regarded as the DEATH blow to Cor
szla.t's presidential aspirations!
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

Washington sets it's face against the
docking of horses tails. All locked
Z horses In town are to be registered
and anybody who brings in another
will be liable to punishment. At
least that is the idea in the bill that
has passed the house. The act Of
docking horses tail means that the
owner thinks he knows better than
the Creator how the animal should
have been formed and is really BIAS
phemy in praetica. shape. That is
not punishable under the law; but, the
cruelty involved in the painful oper-
alton and what the horse suffers in
fly time" through the loss Of his
chief means of defense, ought to be
recognized everywhere, as it is in some
states as crime for which the perpe-
traitor deserves both fine and impris-.
onment.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

The following bulletin has been
posted at the war department !:
"Captain Robert G. Paxton, Tenth
Cavalry, now on leave Of absence at
Mobile, Ala, will proceed to New Or
leans, La, and assume charge tenn
porarily of the recruiting stations at
that place, and at Mobile, Ala, dur
ing the absence, on account Of sick
ness Of Capt. James w. Watson,
Tenth Cavalry recruiting officer, and
he is appointed an acting quartermas-
tel. for the time he may remain ON re-
eruiting duty.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous.
ness after first days use of DR.. Kline's Great
NerveRestorer. 81 trialbottle and treatisefree
DR.. r. II. KLINE, Ltd, 931 Arch St., PhiIa., Pa
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

Secretary Shaw has issued his call
on the national banks for 20 per cent
Of the government deposits. It sur
prised Wall Street.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

1t is easy to put on bold front if you
have good backing
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

What a pity it is that people who wor-
~ over trihes haven't something worth
while to trouble them.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teetbing, soften the gums, reduces iDfamma-
ton ,allays pain cures wind collie. 25c bottle
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton has unequal for coughs and colds.--JoHN
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

A short sighted man always expects his
neighbor to look through his glasses.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11
This VIII Interest Mothers.

When it comes to drawing conclusions
all women are natural born artists.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11
For 91.65 MONEY Order.

The trouble about people who borrow
trouble Is they always pay it back.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11
Engineering in montana.

Henry I. Mcdaniel, ex-City Engineer
of AEanta,. now in charge of Govern,
ment engineering in Montana, says thai
physician could relieve, but was cured
by Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet
Gum and Mullen.
At druggists, 25c., SOC. and 81 90 a bottle |
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

When the Iowa reaches Brooklyn
Navy yard all her guns will be tested
and an investigation made of the
causes of so many explosions.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

The John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse,
Wis, mail postpaid Is trees, consisting OF
Apricots, Apples, Crabs, Cherries, Plums,
Peaches and Pears, just the thing for a city
or country garden, including the great Bis.
mari. Apple, all hardy Wisconsin stock,
are sent you free upon receipt OF $l65.
AND FOR Ice. AND THIS NOTICE
you get sufficient seed of Celery. Carrot,
Cabbage. Onion, Lettuce, Radish and
Flower Seeds to furnish bushels of choice
flowers and lots of vegetables for a big
family, together with our great plant and
seed catalo0. [A.CL.]
No matter how good you are, somebody
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11
Hand Power Hay Press sas 90.

Some men make enemies instead Of
friends because it is less trouble.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

PUTNAM FADELEss DYES color more
goods, per package, than others.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11
ORNITHoLoGICAL OBSERVATION.

IA Nonsense Rhyme from the French.)
When three hens go a-walking, they
Observe this order and array:
The first men walks in 'front.' and then
Behind her walks the second hen,
While, move they slow or move they fast
on find the third hen walking last.
Henry tombstone, in st. Nicholas.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

Greatest, simplest, best invention OF the
age. A boy can make regular sized l4xlSx
48 in. bales like fun, and two boys can
ha 10 three tons ,ner dau ely.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

A girl has II In her power to make am
number of men happy for life-by declh,
ing to marry them.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

Colonel Cecil Lyon has been desigA
mated as the republican referee in Tex
as in succession to Ex-Congressman
Hawley.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

Response to the call of the comp
troller of the currency for the condi-
ton of the national banks of the
country at the close Of business Jan.
% shows for the twenty-seven banks
of Louisiana, exclusive of New Or
leans, the following: Loans and dis
counts, $S,162,259.76; for the same
time 1908, $S,125,O4S. Overdrafts
1898, 932.01, for the time 1908, ST.
566,815.27. Total specie $61S,062. SO.
Of liabilities: Capital stock paid in
81 1856, 800; for same time 1903, ST.
$4,000. Surplus fund, $10,96S.42;
for the same time 1903, 1904, 27O.58.
Individual deposits, $9,750, 731, .63 !;
for the same time last year, $685.
414.3O. Percentage of deposits to cash
on hand, redemption fund, and due
from reserve agents Bio; last year,
$3.50. Percentage of legal reserve to
deposits 17.42; last year 17.43. For
twenty-one National Banks of Missis-
sippi. Resources, loans, and dis
counts, $6,591, 6O7.34; last year, $4,-
535,067.O7. Overdrafts, $2,O62,S91,-
OF; last year, 1892, 324.34. Total
specie, $5OO,OO360; last year, $311,-
244.40. Of liabilities. Capital stock,
$2,29O,OO0; last year, 81, $4,000. Sur
plus, $795,OOO; last year, $615,OOO.
Individual deposits, $8,827, 571; last
year, $7,O91, 1918. Percentage of
deposits of cash on hand, redemption
fund and due from reserve agents
25.45; last year 1910. Percentage Of
legal reserve to deposits 1904; last
x,aar On ~
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

The senate adopted Tillman's res
olution calling for an investigation Of
DIR. Crum's fitness to serve as collec4
tor at Charleston.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

No matter how good you are, somebody
else is better-and is willing to ackA ow1.
edge the fact.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

L. S. Boyd, clerk in the Congress.
sional Library, has filed his applica.
ton to be appointed Postmaster of
New Orleans.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

After three days debate the Sen.
ate has passed the provision for the
loan to the Louisiana Purchase Expo.
sition.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

A hearing was given citizens Of
coast towns on harbor% improvements
at Pascagoula and Horn Island.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

Secretary Shaw has issued his call
on the national banks for 20 per cent
of the government deposits. It sur
prised Wall Street.
When the Iowa reaches Brooklyn
Navy yard all her guns will be tested
and an investigation made Of the
causes of so many explosions.
The senate adopted Tillman's res
olution calling for an investigation Of
DIR. Crum's fitness to serve as collec4
tor at Charleston.
L. S. Boyd, clerk in the Congress.
sional Library, has filed his applica.
ton to be appointed Postmaster of
New Orleans.
After three days debate the Sen.
ate has passed the provision for the
loan to the Louisiana Purchase EXPO.
sition.
A hearing was given citizens Of
coast towns on harborN improvements
at Pascagoula and Horn Island.
An order has been given the Blu.
reau of Engraving and Printing for
Exposition stamps.
The Secretary of the Navy has or.
dered the Texas to New Orleans fol
Mardi Gras.>
Thirty-four midshipmen failed tt
pass their final examinations.
The Smoot investigation will begin
publicly on March l.
A custom-house will be established
at Port Eads.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

An order has been given the Blu.
reau of Engraving and Printing fo1
Exposition stamps.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

The Secretary Of the Navy has or.
dered the Texas to New Orleans fol-
Mardi Gras.>
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-11

Thirty-four midshipmen failed t.
pass their final examinations.
The Greeley tribune., 1904-07-21
The Mania For Money.

A man whose cardinal goal in life is
to make money will steal. To such a
man stealing is a fine art, upon the
possession o! which talent he congratu-
lates himself. Getting more than be-
longs to him he considers thrift: caus-
ing one man to fail that he may rise he
considers self preservation. He is not
exactly a highwayman-no he lacks
the criminal chivalry and physical dar-
ing of that class of robber He prefers
to be a genteel scoundrel and SO works
the wax of his esotism into being
whom he esteems to be exempt from
the Ten Commandments and immune
from criticism. He is encouraged in
this hallucination by his fellow towns
men, and as his wealth expands he
rises to Il oftier plane in society, in
commerce. in politics and in religion
Schoolmaster.
The Greeley tribune., 1904-07-21

1t is needless to say that when Mr..
Londoners store opened in the morn
ing an ever increasing cloud of dussy
humanity. with teeth that SliStened
with the juice of anticipation, gathered
about the entrance. Business in tie
store was ut a standstill and travel or
the street was blocked No eNplana-
ton could appease the rising anger OF
that dark multitude. 1t was melons or
a riot-melcns or that unheard of tL.nS
a colored landslide to the Democracy.
Mr.. Londouer was at his wits ends
There were no melons in the market
and none expected Just as Lundluer
was preparing 10 abandon his store 10
the wrath of the justly incensed melon
maniacs car load of magnificent mel
ons dropped into one of the freight
sidings. and Londoner and the Rerub
lican party We're saved. Nobody ever
knew how or whence that pink heart
ed mamma came The price was eX-
orbitant, but that did not matter. Lon
doner paid ii with the air of man
who had ordered melons and was in
digant that tie railway company had
disappointed him in not delivering them
the day before. There was not a crack
in the solid black Republican column
on election day.
But Field was not through with Lon
doner. The cOlored brethren had to
hold their ratification meeting to in
dorse the Republican nominations and
more especially to render thanks for
the creation of watermelons and to the
man who had paid for them out of sea-
son. OF course Mr.. Londoner was in
vited to attend. and when it came his
turn to address the meeting the chair
man, colored deacon of the church
where "Possum Jim" worshiped by the
name Of Williams, introduced him as
follows:
II now take great pleasure in intro
ducing to you our friend and brother.
the Hon. Mistah Wolfe Londoner, who
has always been our true friend and
brother. who always advises us to do
the right thing. and stands ready at
all times to help us in the good fight.
Although he has white skin. his heart
Is as black as any of ours. Brothers.
the Hon. Wolfe Londoner."
There was no mistaking the author
ship of this felicitous Introduction.
The Greeley tribune., 1904-07-21
Funny Old Sixua.

One of the most notable of old Lon
don signs. The Dogs Head In the
Iron Pot had its beginning in the
early years of the reign of that same
bluff King Hal, says st. Nicholas 1t
stands ont, Il lonely figure on Black
friars road at the corner of Charlotte
street, the sign of a wholesale iron
mongers establishment The dog is
in the act Of eating out of three
legged iron pot which it has overturn-
ed. There were also THE Black Dog
and The Dog and Duck" The White
Greyhound was the sign of John Har-
rison in St Paul's churchyard, a book
seller who published some of Shake
speare's early works.
The Greeley tribune., 1904-07-21
Catching n Tartar.

The trite phrase catching Tartar"
is thus traced to its origin in an old
cyclopedia:
In some battle between the Rus
slams and the Tartars, who are a wild
sort of people in the north of Asia, a
private soldier called out: Captain. hal
loo. there. I've caught Tartar.
Fetch him along. then said the cap
tain. Aye. but he won't let me!' re-
piled the man. The fact was that the
Tartar had caught him"
Grose gives practically the same sto-
ry in his Classical Dictionary of the
Vulgar Tongue 1IS5, but credits the
misadventure TO an Irish soldier of the
imperial Austrian service in battle
against the Turks. The closing scene
he varies thus:
Bring him along" said his com
rade. He won't come,' said Paddy.
Then come along yourself" replied
the other. "Arrah," said he, but he
won't let me-
The Greeley tribune., 1904-07-21

to furnish such lights to the city as 1t
NAV agree to take at a price not to ex-
ceed Seventy eight dollars per year for
each arc light so furnished from sun
down OF each day until twelve o'clock
midnight, and to furnish and keep IN
repair at its own expense all lights so
taken by said city.
tg) During the term OF this fran
cblse said Spear and his assigns agrees
to furnish to the said city four arc
lights from sun down to twelve o'clock
midnight as compensation for the
rights and privileges herein granted.
To be distributed as the city designates.
III Said Spear or his assigns agree to
commence work upon the said electric
light. power and heat plant within eight
months from the date of the final pas
sage OF this ordinance, and have tho
same completed within two years there
after. Failure TO do so shall work for
feiture of the rights and privileges and
franchises herein granted.
III |, is further agreed that the said
city at any time after ten years may pur,
chase the said electric light, power and
heating plant at any time by giving one
years notice in writing Of its intentions
So TO do. and the price to be paid shall
be the principal added TO what is repre-
sented by five per cent OF Its net earn
ings for the past six months.
Passed, adopted, signed and approved
this 1th day Of July. A. ID. l9O4.
d. STROLL,
Attest: Mayor. Pro Tenn.
NJ. P. Henderson,
City Clerk.
The Greeley tribune., 1904-07-21
A Sleep Destroyer.

nia-sleeplessness?'
II should say | am. Some nights !
don't sleep three hours
That so. I've got it awfuily bad.
I've been afflicted now about two years.
The doctor calls it neuris insomnis
paralaXitis.'
Eve had it about eighteen months.
and we call it Ethel. Schoolmaster.
The Greeley tribune., 1904-07-21
struggle and strength.

Strength comes only through struS-
gle-through struggle and earnest work
never through frantic beating
against the bars nor through self pity.
III health is a prison of your own
building, prison wherein you are
locked by your own thoughtlessness
and lack of self control. Circum-
stances have something to do with it,
and you may have inherited a tenden-
cy toward disease. In that case circum-
stances must be altered and inherited
weakness outgrown. Both can be done.
Earnest thinking and thoughtful work
will move ountains.-Maxwells Tai
isman.
The Greeley tribune., 1904-07-21
What Fashion Means.

The chief end Of fashion is not adorn-
ment or the cultivation of beauty or
anything of that sort. 1t Is the promo
tion of trade. The design Is to make
all women who can possibly afford it
throw aside. at least once a year, all
the clothes they own and buy new ones
1t is realized. when this seasons fash
ions make last seasons raimcnt look
so conspicuously out of date, that no
sensitive woman can wear her last
years gown without grief. - Golfers
Weekly
The Greeley tribune., 1904-07-21
ANTHONY WAYNE.
The Revolutionary Hero Was = SOL
der Even az a boy.

Wayne was one of the leading spirits
of the American Revolution. He served
throughout the war. most of the time
with the rank of general. What he
was as a boy will interest readers, and
this they may learn from his bloSra-
ply. written by Mr.. John Il. Spear.
When he was about fifteen years old
WAYNE was attending school taught
by his uncle. Gilbert Tor GahrleD
Wayne, and this uncle. eXasperated at
the boys conduct. wrote the following
letter 10 Anthony's father. Isaac Wayne:
u really expect that parental afec-
ton blinds you and that you have mis-
taken your sons capacity. What he
may be best qualified for l know not
one thing | am certain of-he will new
er make scholar. He may perhaps
make soldier. He has already dis
,racted the brains of two-thirds of the
boys under my charge by rehearsaIs or
battles. sieCes etc.
They exhibit more the appearance
of Indians and harlequins than of stu
dents-this one decorated with cap
of many colors. others habited In coats
as variegated, like Joseph's of old'
some laid up with broken heads and
black eyes During noon. in place OF
the usual games of amusement. he has
the boys employed in throwing up re
doubts, skirmishing. etc.
~ must be candid with you, Brother
Isaac Unless Anthony pays more at
tention to his books | shall be under
the painful necessity of dismissinG him
from the school"