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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-17
THE REARING OF CHILDREN.

The very heaviest responsibility
resting upon the adults of nation is
the rearing and training Of the sue
ceeding generation that is Of their
children and grandchildren. In this
twentieth century does this response
bility affect us as it should do?
We send the children to school, but
how many parents interest themselves
concerning the studies pursued there,
or how the child masters them? There
is continual stir about teachers, ex-
aminations, text books, ETC., but how
few girls and boys fourteen and fifteen
years of age, can parse the sentence
Life is Short in grammer, or write
correct note of half dozen lines. AS
to geography, the fewest number can
draw map of the United States.
Which one can sustain sensible con-
versation for ten minutes? l have
visited many points in the soath
during the past year-'tis the same
every where. When study hour comes
in the evening, the girl has been in
vited to party or skating rink;
the boy to club or a ten pin alley,
and after contention of half an hour,
the mother, after weary with house
hold cares and a genearl disinclina-
tion fol her share of the argument,
gives in, and away go children and
lessons. This discourages the
teacher, and destroys the ambition
for learning in the child. The stub
born refusal Of youth to take advant-
age Of opportunities afforded, will
bring down many families now of good
standing. lis not like it was in the
days of slavery, when hereditary
wealth was transmitted for genera
lions, from parents to children
men, in this age being the architect
Of their own fortunes. No youth need
think that he can depend for success
on what his father or grandfather was,
or is. Accidentally he may become a
canvassing necessity to some politici-
an, as his father may be, and obtain
thereby an appointment enabling him
to lead life of idleness, but as rule
he must depend on his own exertions,
and how will he direct them without
! education or habits Of application?
At the north children are generally
subjected to far more discipline than
they are here, though there is so
much more wealth. After school
hours each child has some duty to
perform, That is the custom, and
the child goes to it willingly. Many
parents seem to believe family prestage
can be transmitted-th belief is
erroneous. Observation convinces me
that most people belong to one Of two
classes described by Sancho Panza's
grandmother" 1.-THE HAYES and the
have nots.' Yet we see men spring
ing from the ranks of the people, who
by their transcendent talents carve
out brilliant destinies.
Such was Mississippi s adopted son,
Sargent s. Prentiss. A few of the
aged remember his wonderful magnet
ism, his flute like voice, and his grace
full GESTURES, which held spell
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-17
ORATORICAL CONTEST

The Oratorical Contest will meet
at Johnson Hall at 10 O'Clock August
26th.
We are expecting large attendance
and take this method of asking the
cooperation of the good people of
Brandon in making this educational
agent a success by furnishing a good
dinner, suitable music etc.
S. R. MYERS,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-17
INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE
FOREST REGISTER.

FOREST REGISTER.
Sprinkle few drops of oil of penny
royal about your bedroom daily and
you will not be bothered with mos.
quitoes.
The mosquito is different from a
doctor. 1t comes without being called
and presents its bill before it does any
damage.
The total valuation of personal
property in Scott county has been
filed by the assessor. The valuation
for 1904 was $671, 1855; for 1905 $773,
314, an increase of $102, 159, which is
very creditable showing for the
county and speaks we'll for Assessor
Ponder's work.
A Kansas physician has discovered
that high collars worn by women pro-
duce cancer of the throat, and that low
necked dresses produce pneumonia,
corsets cause heart disease and short
ness of breath, and long skirts gather
up germs of all infectious diseases,
thin souls produce consumption, and
tight shoes cause the toes to grow to-
gether; and looking at bright MILL
merry causes sore eyes. Women should
be very careful about these things.
A Missouri young lady played a
cruel joke on her mother the other
day. She accidentally found love
letter that her father had written her
mother in their halcyon days of court
ship. She read the letter to her
mother, substituting her own name
and that of her lover. The mother
ragged with anger and stamped her
foot in disgust, and forbade her
daughter having anything to do with
man who could write such sicken-
ing, nonsensical stuff to girl. The
girl then gave the letter to her mother
to read, and suddenly the house be.
came so quiet she could hear the grass
grow in the back yard.
Did you ever count the words in a
column of newspaper print? says the
Richmond Democrat. There are about
1000 words in a column. Suppose
you sit down and write /, 200 words on
some subject, and then another 1, 900,
and another until you had written
5000 or 10000. Try it and see if il
is right easy. Keep that gait up for
a month. Then chase local item all
over town, and after you have gotten
the facts all right, condense them in a
few lines-an hours work that can
be read in few seconds. Do this fol-
dozen items that seem insignificant
after they are printed, but which you
know are important; then have the
items kcriticised and inaccuracies
pointed out to you when it is too late
to correct them. Oh, yes, it's easy,
dead easy, to conduct newspaper.
Few people know that there is a
Mississippi statute against starting OF
circulating false rumors to the effect
that epidemics exist in any place.
Here is what Sec.l5, Chap. 70, Acts OF
1898 says: ANY person or persons
who shall disseminate or spread ru-
mors or reports concerning the exist
ence Of yellow fever, dengue, cholera,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-17

Don't neglect the warnings of ma
ture. If your appetite is poor, breath
bad, tongue coated, you will be sick
unless you take steps to put your
system in good condition. Prickly
Ash Bitters is the remedy you need.
It clenses the entire system. A. G..
Thornton, Special agent.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-17
DR.. r. r. tOaMer.
Denfirf,
Local and Personal
Mention.
Denfif,

P. FL. Weimer, Esq, of King, was
Brandon visitor Monday.
Mrs. 8. M. Hunter, of Jackson, has
been visiting her sister, Miss Eunice
Washburn.
Mrs. W. G. Barnes and children
spent Friday visiting Mr.. and Mrs. W.
Waddell, at Pisgah.
Judge Enochs and District Attorney
McLaurin are holding court at Forest,
Scott county, this week.
Miss Eunice Washburn's many
friends are pleased to see her out
again after several days illness.
The annual revival is in progress
at Mt. Carmel this week, the pastor,
Rev. Mr.. Pursell, doing the preach
ing.
Mrs. L. S. May and children are
spending the week.at Pisgah, guests of
Mrs. Mays parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W.
Waddell.
John Cooper is building an addition
al room to L. o. Gayden's residence,
which will be occupied by Col. Sol
Dobson.
superintendent s. r. Myers gives
out the information that the county
oratorical contest will be held on Sat-
urday, August 26, at Brandon.
"Angel Singer Rankin reports
that he has been quite busy picking
cotton this week. His field is located
on hill, and his cotton began open
ing in July.
There are now probably more eggs
in Brandon than ever before at any
one time. Ragland and Sprague
have on hand 10000 dozen for which
they paid $1,000.
The News learns with regret of the
serious illness of Jas. T. Webb, son of
Mrs. Fannie Webb, of Monterey. He
is suffering from a ruptured blood
vessel on the brain.
Misses Nell and Nita Smith and
Bessie Bradley, who have been the
charming guests of Mr.. and Mrs. W.
W. Robson for several days, left
Monday for their home at Ellisville.
Miss Edith Lofin, former Bran
don girl, and Mr.. Fly, telegraph
operator at Jackson, were married last
week. The News joins their many
friends in extending congratulations
and best wishes.
Matthew Burns, who has had a
mild case of yellow fever in New
Orleans, has passed the crisis and is
now on the road to recovery. Mr..
Burns is a brother of our Postmaster
Burns.
Mrs. J. H. Sedgwick has been suf-
ferlng great deal lately with a
chronic case of appendicitis. AS soon
as the guarantees are raised she will
be carried to Memphis for an opera
tion to be performed.
On account of the inability of the
speakers to get there, the barbecue at
Pelahatchie has seen postponed until
Thursday, August "a. At that time
the people will be addressed by Supt.
Whitfield and other able and noted
speakers and educators. Everybody
is cordially invited to attend.
The News job department. has re-
Gently completed catalogues for the
schools at Braxton, Pulaski, Florence.
and Harperville, and is printing the
catalogues for the Star High School
this week. The principals Of all
these schools are successful and dis.
eliminating, and our work gives them
satisfaction.
DR.. Will H. Woods, secretary Of
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-17

Fortify the body to resist malarial
germs by putting the system in per.
feet order. Prickly Ash Bitters is a
wonderful system regulator. A. G..
Thornton, Special Agent.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-17

If you need wagon don't fail to
see Barnes & Ragland. They have
just received solid Car load of
Greensboro wagons, which are the
best made for the money.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-17

You are always welcomed, and we
are always pleased to show you our
line Of furniture. The best and
cheapest in the county.
BARNES s. RAGLAND.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-17

Don't forget that we sell Charter
Oak stoves. They are absolutely the
best your money can buy.
BARNES 81 RAGLAND.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-01-13
BECKLEY QUITS
A COMMISSION
HE DOES NOT WISH TO HAMPER
THE WORK OF THE COUNTY ACT
BOARD AND RESIGNS,

F. w. Beckley has resigned from the
County Act Commission to which he
was appointed by Governor Carter. His
resignation came as considerable of a
surprise as it is so long since he has
been heard of in connection with the
commission that scarcely anyone re-
membered that he ever had anything
to do with it at all. His letter of
resignation runs thus:
PukoO, h.olokai Dec. 2S, 1904
Governor Geo. r. Carter.
Sir:-The shortness of timeremaining
and present circumstances preventing
my giving my whole attention to the
important work now before the Com
mission and rather than be a hindrance
to the high trust reposed in us by you
and the people who are waiting the
final result of our deliberations by my
continued absence from Honolulu do
l take this step with regret and tender
you herewith my resignation as q
member of The Commission to Draft
a County Law"
With best wishes for the actual re-
alization of the peoples desire and the
continued success of your adminstra-
tion | am your obedient servant,
CSigned) f. w. BECKLEY.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-01-13
SOME THEORIES
ABOUT THE sun
NO IMMEDIATE DANGER THAT IT
WILL BURN ITSELF OUT so WE
WON'T WORRY.

The current theories concerning the
sun and the planets are that the sun
was once vastly hotter than it is now.
and that for long period it has been
slowly but steadily cooling. This doc
trine is built on the notion that the sun
is a mass of fire in progress of intense
and fierce combustion. and that, like
any other fire, unless it's fuel is re-
plenished, it must burn out and become
extinguished. Some astronomers teach
that the sun is supplied with fuel by
vast quantities of comets and meteors
that are shoveled into it by some proc
cess of nature but other astronomers
like Sir Robert Ball reject the posslbil-
ity of any such systematic supply of
fuel and they believe that the sun as
1t burns out shrinks in size at the rate
of 220 feet of its diameter in year. AS
the mass of the sun is something like
$4,000 miles in diameter, it is calcu-
lated still to last for a good long time.
but there is something extremely me-
lancholy and saddening in the idea
that our grand luminary will one day
burn out with a spasmodic CLEAN and
a whiff Of ill-smelling smoke like the
snuff of a candle
1t is with great satisfaction that we
are allowed to believe i'm the possibility
that the sun is made of radium, and
that it can continue to give off heat
and light for an inconceivable lapse of
ages without being i'm the least dimin-
ished either i'm size or capacity to warm
and illuminate us. The idea that it
is not losing 22O feet Of its diameter
yearly is particularly consolng.
There is another suggestion which
would enable our solar system to con-
tinue its operations without either suf-
fering an instantaneous conaagration
or being consumed by slow combus-
ton, and this is that the sun and the
various bodies which revolve around it
constitute an electric dynamo and an
incandescent lamp on such a scale as
could be designed and created by COM
bined omniscience and omnipotence, to
go on its beneficent course forever.
Such a notion meets only the contempt
of science, which insists upon the ex-
istence of actual fire in the sun, that
must sooner or later burn itself out to
complete eXtinguishment. Until, how
ever, astronomers like Prof. Langley
shall make flying machine without
balloon attachment that will enable
human beings to fly, their vagaries
concerning the playing-out of the sun
may well be neglected by all except
full-hedged scientists.-Ne Orleans
Picayune
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-01-13
HAS MORGAN
PLACED M'BRYOE2
a RUMOR THAT HE HAD sue
CEEDED IN SELLING THE EN-
TIRE ISSUE.

The stock market continues strong
and active. The rise i'm the quotation
for SO degree centrifugal sugar, of
course had a bull influence on stocks.
one Of the most important trans
actions reported on the exchange this
morning was the sale of $4,000 of Haiku
bonds and $4,000 of Paia bonds, all at
1O2. These are six per cent bonds, and
their sale at this figure is said to be
indicative of the trend of the money
market There is and will be from
now on an immense amount of money
seeking investment, and as a natural
result there is a growing feeling that
interest rates where security is good
will go down. Six per cent bonds at
102 reduces the interest return to less
than six per cent
The money that is now going into
sugar securities is all island money.
There are no new bond issues, and
hence the search for gilt edge invest
ment, it is figured by some, viii tend
to raise the price of all of the re-
cognized first class bonds now on the
market
There were several advances i'm the
line of sugar stocks, Hawaiian Sugar
went up a dollarand a quarter a share
since yesterdays quotation. Oahu went
up five dollars since the last sale re-
ported. There was an active inquiry
for Waialua which is firm at 65. Eva
is strong at $3.50, and McBryde holds
its place firmly at $3.50.
In connection with McBryde, there
was a report current today that James
f. Morgan is on his way back from
San Francisco, and there is an under
current of wonder whether he succeed
ed in placing the McBryde bonds which
he was credited with going up there to
place. If he has placed these bonds,
there is practically unanimous opinion
that the stock will go very much high
err than it is now
With the news that sugar had passed
the five cent mark there was a general
discussion of former sugar quotations
and a search among old records for
the time when it was five cents a pound
before. The result of this searching is
presented i'm another place in this is
sue
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-01-13
.LAOYBIROS TO
ATTACK HOPPER
ENTOMOLOGIST PERKINS RE-
TURNS FROM AUSTRALIA WITH
A LOT OF INSECTS.

"Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home"
is invariably the childish injunction
given to a captured ladybird ard the
terrible conditions described as exist
ing in the ladyDrd's domicile is never
known to fail i'm making her wing her
way at once to whatever place her al
legged children may be. 1t will be a
cruel child though who fools any of
the new ladybirds with any such Wild
eyed story, for r. c. L. Perkins the
government entomologist has brought
them all the way from Australia and
that will be long journey home for a
ladybird.
The scientist arrived last night on
the Miowera having been i'm Australia
for several months in company with
Prof. koebele i'm search of ladybirds
which destroy the leaf hopper
They examined the Australian cane
fields thoroughly and discovered the
little insect which is the pet aversion
of the leaf hopper. They secured a
large number of specimens and brought
these on win them In the refrigerator.
The insects will be liberated in a few
days and the entomologists are san
guine that I'm a short time they will
effectually check the ravages of the
insect which has proved so dangerous
to the sugar cane here.
Professor Koebele will remain in
Australia for some little time. En-
tomologist Perkins will have long re-
port to submit on his Investigations.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-01-13
ARROYO TRIAL
GOES SLOW
JURY WAS TAKEN LAST NIGHT TO
VISIT THE SCENE OF THE
SHOOTING IN IwILEI.

The trial of Eugenio Arroyo for the
murder Of Adolpho Riveiro was con-
tinued before Judge Robinson this
morning at 500.
Yesterday afternoon the fury with
the judge, officers of the court, coun-
sci and prisoner went down to Iwilei
where the witness Juan Colon pointed
out the spot that the fight between the
accused and the deceased took place
and where th&RBhooting subsequently
occurred. The spot looked very much
like any other vacant lot with a ditch
in it but Attorney Strauss for the de-
fence seemed to think that it was ne
cessary to take the jury there. The
jury spent last night at che Young
hotel.
The cross examination of Colon not
having been concluded yesterday At
torney Strauss proceeded with it today
He went over the ground of the story
as told by Colon in his evidence in chief
but failed to shake the witness i'm any
particular.
Julian Rondon was the second wit
ness put on by Attorney General An
drews. Rondon is another of the four
Porto Ricans who accompanied Arroyo
and Riviera to the vacant lot near the
prison where Riviera was shot. In al
most the same words as those used by
the first witness he detailed the meet
ling of the accused and the deceased at
the corner of Hotel and River streets,
of their quarrel over some women of
the town who had transferred their
somewhat tickle affections from one to
the other, and of Arroyo's challenge to
fight which Riviera accepted. He
agreed that Arroyo's challenger had
knocked the other man down without
warning and that the shooting had
been done deliberately by the accused
after struggle in which Riviera had
allowed him to rise from the ground.
The examination of Attorney
Strauss was again of a wearisome and
long drawn out. 1t wandered into the
movements of the witness hours befors
the commission of the deed by Arroyo
and the Attorney General finally OBJ
jected to the line that it was taking
Judge Robinson sustained the obiec-
ton.
/ The trial continues this afternoon and
if it is not finished before evening a
night session will be held
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-01-13
WHY ANDREWS
WAS BOUNCED
Continued from page ~

1t was at Kailua yesterday that the
High Sheriff announced to Andrews
the removal.
when 1 felt Honolulu" said High
Sheriff Henry ut had been practically
decided to remove Sheriff Andrews.
There had been a number of charges
and complaints made against him., but
desired to give the situation some
personal investigation. While my stay
was brief in Hilo I inquired into some
of the charges against Andrews, and
after leaving Hilo also inquired care
fully into the conduct of police mat
ters on the island.
Il will say that the reason for the
removal of Andrews was partially due
to his having engaged i'm the garbage
enterprise and especially for the lax
enforcement of the laws by certain of
his deputies. 1 discovered that there
was a slackness and inefficiency on the
part of the deputies at South Kona,
North Kona and North Kohala to en-
force the laws as on the statute books.
There were violations of the liquor and
gambling laws and a general looseness
of administration in those districts.
Sheriff Andrews admitted such to be
the fact, but said that the difficulty
was in securing efficient men as officers.
The general sentiment of the leading
residents in those districts seemed to be
that the police were inefficient and
were not properly enforcing the laws.
Il did not make any investigation of
the charges against Andrews Of having
collected license money through his
|
been investigated by another depart
| ment of the government. 1 will say,
however, that Andrews removal was
not due to any dishonesty on his part
in his conduct of police affairs. 1t was
because of the inefficient work of GER
tain of the men under him and his hav-
ing engaged in the garbage enterprise
outside of his police department BUSH
ness That garbage belongs properly to
the Board of Health and should be taxi
EN- over by that department. The police
change will not go into effect until Feb
ruary l, as }. c. Searle, who was APP
/ pointed to succeed Andrews, could not
| get ready to take charge before that
| time.
! Whether there will be any changes
! of the deputies in the two of the three
districts mentioned 1 can not state at
this time, for that is a matter that will
| be left with the new sheriff. There
/ Will however have to be a successor APP
/ pointed to Deputy Sheri, c. K. Still
man of North Kohala for, from my in
vestigatiOn, 1 found matters to be. in a
much worse condition there than in the
! Kona districts. 1t may be possible that
| the deputies of the Kona districts can
| be prodded up into doing some efficient
work. In such an event they may not
! be removed, although the new sheriff
/ will finally settle about that matter.
L. NJ. Baldwin is not TO finally succeed
Andrews. I did not investigate the
matter of Andrews petitions where he
was said to lave paid Is cents for every
name. l was told that Andrews had
offered to pay a man named Brown for
having circulated such petition, but I
was given to understand that the Offer
had been gratuitous proposition on
the part of Andrews"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-01-13
ROBINSON WILL
NOT TRY CASE
BEING AN ELK HE WILL Nc"
PASS JUDGMENT ON THE PACI-
FIG CLUBS APPEAL.

Judge Robinson this morning refused
to take the appeal case of the Pacific
Club against the decision of Judge
Whitney finding the club guilty of SELL
ing liquor without a license. The Judge
took this pOsitionu because he is a
member of the Elks and that organiza-
ton is in the same boat with the Pa
cific Club in the matter Of supplying
liquor to members. He transferred the
case to Judge De Bolt.
The Attorney General for the govern
ment and Attorney Breckons for the
club, appeared before Judge De Bolt
this morning and arranged to submit
the case on briefs forthwith. The judge
promised a decision at as early a date
as possible. In any event 1t Is certain
that the case will go to the Supreme
Court.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-01-13
AN ENJOYABLE OUTING

The most attractive days outing is
that afforded by the excursion down
the railroad line The HALEIWA
LIMITED, a first-class train, leaves
Honolulu every Sunday morning at 8:22
o'clock making the run in two hours,
the rate for round trip being only $500.
From 1922 a. m. until $40 D. m. is
spent at the beautiful HOTEL HALE
IVA, with fresh and salt water bath
ing, tennis, golf drives and walks,
shooting or fishing and you are back
in town at 1910 o'clock in the evening.