The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-10-06

The latest speed record on the type
writer has been made by young wo-
man in the Washington, d. c., patent
office, who copied twenty-five thou
sand words in seven hours. The rec
ord puts to blush even the most pro,
life Of our modern novelists.
A threatening feature of the recent
spread of the gypsy moth is the dis
covery of the insects eggs on freight
cars. The sudden conveyance of the
pest entirely across the continent
might come about from such causes,
says the Massachusetts Ploughman.
More men are dying today because
they eat beyond all reason than from
famine. Count all the starving mil
lions of India and we have not counted
the sacrifices made to appetite in the
presence of opportunities for it's graf
lfication that material prosperity has
put in our way, says Green's Fruit
Grower.
We have been accustomed to accept
the statement that riches bring refine
ment; but it is a question whether or
not the first families-and by these
we mean those families whose for
tunes are the greatest and whose
members the most conspicuous of our
people-are not degenerating. Does
great wealth actually elevate or does
it degrade? asks the Era Magazine.
Loud complaints fill the air in ex-
tensive districts of Long Island that
the mosquitoes this summer have been
more numerous and troublesome than
ever. Even the ablest scientific men
have not yet succeeded in exterminat-
ing these pests or in achieving over
WACllliIhG I11uIAPhO III CAO w al lol Z
against them. The day of the mos
quito is by no means past, the New
York Tribune remarks.
The country school is more and more
adopting the ideals of the city instead
Of adapting them to rural commune
ties. 1t is training our boys and girls
for failure in the city rather than for
success on the farm, the American
Cultivator declares
1t is not necessary to force every
boy to lead farmers life, but the ma
ton would be more prosperous, hap
pier and better if every boy had some
elementary but definite knowledge Of
the processes of nature; if he appre-
ciated the dignity and beauty of a life
spent in close contact with the soil,
and if he realized the Importance of
that calling and the superior oppor-
tunities it offers for final and perma,
nent success.
There is no doubt that, whatever
may be the outcome of the war so far
as the interests of Japan and Russia
are concerned, international law will
| have to be revised in more than one
particular, and new provision de-
fining the conditions under which
wireless telegraphy may be used will
| have to be inserted. 1t appears, too,
! that the war correspondent is destined
to become a species as extinct as the
dodo, continues the New York Sun.
The bright young men who have been
sent at great expense to Toxic, and
have been since maintained in comfort
in that capital, seem able to learn
much less about the war than we know
in New York; and their soured en-
ployers, who receive drafts for ex.
penses with regularity, are by this
pretty we'll convinced that there is
little or nothing in the war correspon.
dent business.
| Since the inmates of New York s
three State prisons have been freed
from the lockstep and the cropped
head it is said the number of punish.
ments for infraction of discipline has
decreased nearly one-half.
Encouraged by the moral effect thus
produced in the spirit and conduct Of
the prisoners, further concession is
now planned. It is intended that the
better behaved men serving a first
sentence shall be clothed in uniform
without the familiar stripes.
| While law must be enforced ani
stern discipline maintained, it is de
/ sirable to avoid measures that degrade