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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
Game of SUGGESTIONS.

This game is great fun, not only for
boys and girls, but for the grown-up
folks also. You know how one thing
makes you think of another. For in
stance, suppose l say Picture" What
does that make you think Of? Paint
err" Yes, very likely And what does
painter" make you think Of? and so
on, and so on. You see how one
thing suggests another to your mind?
Well, make use of this idea for a
game.
Provide each player with a pencil
and paper. Give a certain time limit
say ten m:nutes-and announce a
certain word.
This wcrd the players must write at
the top of their sheets Ct paper, and
during the following ten minutes they
must set Gown in column a series OF
other words suggested by this word.
That is. the second word is suggested
by this first one, the third word is sug-
gested by the second, and SO on, and
so on.
At the end OF ten minutes gather up
the papers and read them aloud. Let
the players guess who composed the
various lists.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
cHINA's GUILDS OF THIEVES.
Rosuery Properly Organized in the
FIoWery Kinqdom.


China is the country of guilds, and
the guild of thieves in any district
might almost be described as a rec
ognized body. It. is treated with by
all householders, until it has become a
kind of insurance agency against theft.
All gatekeepers and night-watchmen
pay small monthly fee to this guild
in order that no thieving may take
place on the premises over which they
have control; then if anything does
go, it will be due to free lance, who
would be promptly murdered if cap
tured by the guild thieves themselves.
A recent writer on China states that
q friend of his who employs many
hundreds of coolies, pays a regular
monthly salary to the head of the
thieves in that district. The man
comes to the Office on pay-days like
other employees to draw his wages. If,
however, anything has been missed
from the factory during the month, the
value Of it is deducted from his salary
until the article is restored, which is
invariably done within short time,
and in full.-Montreal Herald.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
Fortune-TeIlinq Trick.

To prepare the fluid with which
you are to tell the fortunes OF your
friends you must put some quicklime
into quart bottle and then fill the
bottle with cold water. Shake it we'll
every now and them and at the end
of the day set it away where it will
not be touched during the night.
The next morning pour off the
water into another bottle, leaving the
sediment in the first one. And now,
having provided yourself with some
clean straws, such as are used in
drinking lemonade, you are ready to
begin your fortune telling.
AS fortune tellers should not be
exposed to the public gaze while they
are engaged with their Victims you
should take your seat at table be-
hind a screen, and invite them, one
at time, to consult you there. Be-
fore doing that, however, it might be
well to fill privately a wine glass with
clear lime water and hold it up to the
light for the company to see, telling
them that it is the Fluid of Fortune.
When your victim" seats himself
at the table with you, say something
like this:
1.-THE crystal water will tell you the
truth. Take this straw and blow
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
A Pretty Experiment.


Here is a little experiment that will
amuse you. Take piece of wood
thick enough to rest On table in an
upright position. Bore several holes
of different sizes in it, leaving some Of
them straight-that is Of the same
diameter all the way through. Others
you must make of a conical shape by
cutting away some of the wood on
table, supported, If necessary, and
suspend before it at little distance
on the side of the large end of the
conical openings piece of paper.
This may be hung from the chandelier
but it must be low enough to be op-
posite to the holes in the wood.
Ii you now blow through the
straight holes toward the paper it will
naturally be blown away from you;
but blow through the small end of
the conical opening and the paper will
remain stationary or may even be
drawn toward you. Try it with a
candle flame and similar result will
follow.
The explanation is that when you
blow through the straight hole the
air current is kept together in col
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
Peanut Dolls,

Very odd and funny and instructive
little dolls can be made from pea
nuts. You may have an Indian chief,
squaw and little papoose, John China
man, Japanese lady, Dutch woman
Norman peasant woman with high
white cap, witch in peaked hat and
red cloak, wizard arrayed in star
trimmed cloak and high hat, a Hindoo
yogi with white turbaned head, a
gypsy and many other characters in
this jolly company.
The peanuts are threaded whole
upon coarse white twine, this the
length OF the nuts. Very short nuts
are used for feet and hands and the
round single nuts for the heads. A
thick, long peanut forms the body, or,
If more bulk is required, use two
Long, slender nuts form the arms and
legs.
Now for the wigs. For the orientals
use horsehair or the hair filing of a
cushion; glue the locks in place and
then fasten on the head covering. New
rope, If combed out fine, will make a
splendid fiaxen wig; by coloring it you
can have an auburn or brown tint.
Fasten this wealth of hair with a
jaunty bow. Outline the features in
ink. The wigs of the wizard and the
yogi should be white; use cotton
picked out fluffy and glue in place so
it will fall long over the shoulders,
and make flowing boards.
Material for the dresses can be of
tissue or crepe paper in gay colors
or bits from the scrap bag. The garb
of the Chinaman will be silk; cut the
two garments from paper patterns,
the shoulders naturally are very mar
row.
Gilt paper will be very useful to
help decorate the gypsy and yogi
dresses.
1t is only half of the run to make
and dress these curious little figures
They can be made to act on NINA
ture stage, like little puppets.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04

umn and forces the objec. away from
It, When you blow through the small
end of the conical hoe the air cur
rent is spread, or dispersed, and goes
off around the object, leaving it un-
moved
In blowing very hard, for instance
if you should use bellows, or even
with the breath blow hard, the air
back of the wood around the hole is
sometimes blown through the hole too,
and return current of air is thus
made to fill the space Of that dis
placed, causing the paper or flame
to be drawn toward the hole instead
of away from it.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
London. Printed fos 7bsnss Cooke, 1854.

in England, being an "epistle contain
Ing salutation to the unfaithful and
a visitation to the inquiring, in sol
emn farewell to them all in the land
of my nativity" The last part is
signed, your well wishing Friend, w.
p" and is dated from the Downs, the
Goth of the Sixth Month, 1882"
From this date it would appear
that after Penn went on board the
ship Welcome, which was to bear him
to his beautiful province-Pe nnsylva-
nia-he felt that he might never see
his natal shores again, and so decided
to send a farewell message to the
world
To the unfaithful, Penn adds, as a
peroration, ''This l send you as fare
well to you, in the name and power of
the God of my salvation, and in SO
doing am | clear of you all"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
Golden Carriers for Men.

Men are going in for fancy garter
buckles now" said the jeweler. on
the holiday season we sold many eU
pensive pairs of mems garters.
In mans garter there is plenty OF
room for display, for there are three
separate metal parts to each garter.
In the expensive garters these meta!
parts are of silver or gold.
The ordinary man uses a pair OF
the common garters until the elastic
wears out. Then he discards them
and buys new pair. Those who wear
silver or gold attachments are really
not extravagant, for the attachments
last lifetime and when the elastic
wears out it can be replaced with
new."-New York Sun.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
North Pole Candy.

1t is not very pleasant to hear tai
low Or the marrow of the reindeer
called candy,Sy such they may be
considered, because they delight the
children of the cold as much as you
are delighted with box of chocolates
In Eskimo land there is a kind Of
water fowl called dovekie. They are
about the size of duck, are quite
black, with webbed feet Of brilliant
red color. When the men have killed
the dovekies the women cut of their
bright red feet and draw out the
bones; then by blowing into the skins
they distend them as much as pos
sible to form pouches. When these
are thoroughly dried they are filled
with reindeer tallow and the bright
red packages are regarded by the Es-
kimo children as their greatest treat.
Another kind Of candy is the mar
row from the shinbone of the reindeer
of which the Eskimo is very fond.
When the meat Is stripped from the
bones of the reindeer's legs, these
bones are placed on the floor and
cracked with hatchet until the mar
row is exposed. The bones are then
forced apart and the marrow dug out
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
FOX AS WILL o. THE wIsP.D
Curious Belief That Is PrevaIen;
Among the Japanese.

Among the many superstitions OF
the Japanese there is none more
strange or more universal than the
belief in the power of the fox to dc
them harm, and many are the stories
told OF those against whom this
power has been exercised. The jap.
anese fox is pretty creature about
two feet long and of tawny color,
and is found nearly everywhere in
Japan. The mischievous tricks which
foxes are said to play upon the I'm.
wary are many, and wonderful are
the tales told to awed groups of lis
teners by those who have been duped
by them. The designing fox usually
takes the form of fairy maiden in
order to play tricks upon some un.
suspecting wayfarer, and beckons him
on until he. falls into a ditch or is lost
in the mountains. It is almost al
ways at night that the fox goes out
to deceive, and those who have mel
with such adventures say that the
only way to know the difference be.
tween real maiden and fox LADY,
is that the latter is clearly disting.
uishable, even on the darkest night,
the stripes or patterns on her cloth.
ing being clearly visible even in the
darkness. 1t is usually to those who
are carrying some article of food
that the artful fox appears, with the
design of obtaining the dainty, and
those who have been through the ex.
perience say that a bewildered feel.
ing takes possession of them and
they are not able to exert their own
wills.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
Many Years Beqin on SUNDAY.

In the course of the present cen,
tury fourteen years will begin on
Sunday. A painstaking individual has
computed these occurrences, showing
that in this century Jan. will fall on
Sunday as follows: The common
years 1905, 1911, 1922, 1888, 1899,
1850, 1861, 1867, 1878, 1889 and 1895,
and the leap years 1928, 1856 and
1884. This is fraction less than the
usual number computed in point OF
averages, the first and last of the
Sunday beginnings falling five years
each from the close of the century.
1t is possible for Jan. 4 to occur on
Sunday fifteen times in a single cen
fury. as 8
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
Sewing With the TONGUE.

The Medizinische Wochenschrift re-
ports a curious case of a girl. When
6 years old she suffered from a Sc
we're brain disease, which left her
limbs paralyzed. Her tongue, however,
remained flexible, and this organ she
began to train. She gradually acquired
certain facility in writing and EN-.
broidering. She would take ends of
thread in her mouth and knot them.
With scissors fastened in her mouth
she cut out dolls dresses, and stick
ing needle into the table in front OF
her, could thread it. Her embroidery
was quite wonderful. Her tongue,
while retaining it's usual breadth, in
creased in length, so that she could
easily touch the tip of her nose with
it's point. She died recently.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
pou Went 800 Miles Alone.

The remarkable attachment for it's
home place is shown in the case OF
Carlo, fine water spaniel belonging
to James Dingman, who several week
ago left StOud, 0. T., for Idaho Carlo
was tied in one Of the cars with the
stock.
He stood the trip for 800 miles, but
the desire to get back to the old home
place evidently grew upon him. Mr..
Dingman thought it was safe to unite
the dog, but no sooner had the ami.
NAL been loosed than it jumped out OF
the car and made bee liner for
Stroud. 1t never stopped until it had
travelled the whole 800 miles, and
reached home almost starved.-Kan-
sas City Times.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
Errors Made by CeoloriSts.

The construction OF the great Sim
p;on tunnel has proved once more that
geology is largely a matter Of tEeo
ries which may or may not fit actual
conditions, even close to the surface
of the earth. The engineers have dis
covered that the biologists were en-
tirely at fault as to the temperature
which would be encountered, missing
the mark Is degrees at the point
Were lot water was found. The
water conditions in general were TN.
like those predicted, and the engin.
GERS found that the dips in the rock
strata. which had been declared on
theory to be mainly vertical. were,
in fact, horizontal.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
Growing Competitions.

The feature of an entertainment
held at Silverton, Devon, England, was
a cock-crowing competition. Owners
of birds had to bring them to the vii
lage schoolfooE and set them a-crow-
ing one against the other. For those
cockerels which crowed the lOuiest
and longest prizes were given. The
winner easily beat all corners, growing
fifty-one times in seventeen minutes.
The second and third birds crowed
forty-one and thirty-three times re-
spectively in the same time. Belgian
workmen are fond Of cock-crowing
competitions. The other day one
well-trained bird crowed no fewer than
463 times in the course Of an hour.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04

A little preparation is necessary be-
fore you perform this trick. Get two
pieces of Irvine four feet long and
three ordinary spools. Fold each piece
of twine double, as shown in Fig. l.
Pass about half an inch of the looped
end of A through the loop of B and
fold it back on the tape A, which will
thus be hooked into 3.
Pass the open ends of B through
spool and draw the spool over the in
terlocked loop, as in Fig. 2. This spool
must not be moved from it's position
at any time during the performance OF,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04

through it in the water, as if you
were blowing bubbles, for, after all,
fortune is but bubble. If you are to
be prosperous in life the water will
change to milk, proving that you will
live in land flowing milk and honey"
In the course of a minute or two,
the water will become apalescent, and
then as white as milk, to the wonder
of your subject. Caution to keep his
secret, and then you call for the next
subject.
Having poured out the fluid that
your first subject turned to milk, re-
fill the wineglass from the bottle
and have another glass by you filled
with pure water. This time let your
subject choose betwo en- the glasses.
II he chooses the plain water, turn
aside his suspicion by saying:
you must dip your fingers in this
glass before touching the magic
Straws."
Then give him the glass with the
lime water in it and let him blow into
1t through the straw, when the result
will be the same as at first. The eff
feet would be better if you perform
some sort of nocus-pocus over the
glass, such as waving your hands or
pronouncing strange words or even an
incarnation.
Ii you don't care to tell fortunes
with the lime water, you can use it
to perform little feat of magic Tell
the company that you will turn the
water into milk merely by blowing
into it, and not one of them will guess
how you do it.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
Cigarettes Struggled in Book.

A clever attempt to elude the GUS
toms has been frustrated by one of
the st. Paul inspectors.
A large book was received through
the mail, addressed to a citizen of St.
Paul. The postmark was that of a
city in Turkey. The book was wrapped
up in such way that the sides were
visible, in order to avoid suspicion.
The Inspector detected the fraud on
lifting the book, which was suspicious
~ light in weight.
An examination showed that the en-
tire inside of the book had been cut
out and in the space thus made were
some 5000 Turkish Mime
apolis Tribune.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
Big Bag of Jack Rahhi+e

SNS " VdCk hd0OlIS.
Inlrty-nine jack rabbits were killed
the other night at one shot by Mrs.
William Boyd Of Miller, S. d., who
poked the barrel of her shotgun
through the kitchen window. The rab-
DTS came to the farm in droves. nib
hled at the haystacks and played hav-
oc with fruit trees. Boyd had shot
many and his wife bet him a pair of
ear muffs against a barrel of apples
that she could kill more rabbits at
one shot than he could carry on his
back at one load. Mrs. Boyd sprink-
led bushel of oats in a path. The
rabbits gathered by scores until there
was long row of them eating oats
in the bright moonlight The woman
fired, and her aim was accurate. Boyd
loaded himself down with more than
100 pounds of dead rabbits, then sank
into the snow and his wife had to pull
him out.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
Made His Hen . Wooden Leo.

One OF the agricultural freaks to
be seen in Lancaster county is hen
with wooden leg. The fowl is the
property OF Daniel Brubaker, farmer
living near Rheems.
The chicken lost leg by an acct
dent, and humane member OF the
family fitted 1t with wooden append
age as near like the original as posi-
BILE. The hen is said to strut around
without any difficulty.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04

your right hand and instruct the as
sistants to be ready at the word
three" to pull the strings with sud-
den jerk. Then you count lone, two,
three" and the jerk is given. the
spools remaining in your hand, the
two strings remaining in the assist
ants hands and Joined in the middle
by the knot you tied.
Thus the spools are removed from
the tape without passing them over
the ends held by the assistants, and
your audience is greatly mystified
until you explain the. secret Of the
tWines.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
Strange Sight in sky.

According to a Woodford, VT, cor.
respondent woman in that place
happened to look out of her window at
2 o'clock in the morning recently and
saw in the cloudless sky something
that looked like canoe. emblazoned
with gold Other members OF the fam.
lily were summoned and also wit.
messed the strange spectacle. which
soon vanished.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
The Answer.

There's naught but toll" ! said, and
turned once more
To wreStle on with Fate;
And then heard little voice implore,
do not respond, but wait
There is no joy in life or love or art,
said in my despair;
And then / heard your laughter in my
heart,
And smiled to hear it there.
There is no peace" I sighed in hope
leSSneSS-
Held fast in gloom's embrace;
ana then / felt your tender hands caress,
Your lips upon my face.
There is no promise. How can I re-
joice?
To-morrow's lips art dumb!''
ana stlll l hear your tender, hopeIul
voice:
The summer days will comet"
j. S. M, in Chambers Journal
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
THE PUZZLE OF THE STRINGS.

inform the audience that you propose
to move the spools from the Irvine
without passing them over the ends
held by your assistants.
Next ask each of your assistants to
hand you one of the two ends held by
him-either one of them, as it is quite
immaterial which. You only wish to
make the matter doub.y sure; at the
same time tie the ends that you re-
ceived with double knot (see Fig. a.,
thus drawing the three spools togeth-
er and securing them perfectly.
This done, grasp the spool with
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04

the trick, as it conceals and holds the
looped ends of the twine. Next, take
the two remaining spools and pass one
on the Irvine B and the other on A, as
shown in Fig. 8. The whole contriv-
ance is now ready for use.
Ask two persons to assist you.
Give the ends of the twine A Gig. 10)
to one and the ends of to the other,
desiring both to hold the tape and
spools out level betwe en- them.
Now explain that the spools are
strung on to the twine, moving the
two outer spools (not the middle one)
to illustrate your explanation. Then
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
RELIC OF WILLIAM PENN.
Sermon and Farewell to His People
in ENGLAND.

William PENIS last farewell to
England" Is the title of a rare tract
which is to be offered with fine col
lection of Americana at Davis & Har-
vey's within few weeks, says the
New York Times. There are only eight
small quarto pages in the tract, which
bears the date 1852 on its title-page.
The work, while of great rarity, Is
rot unknown, although it is not men,
toned by Lownes, and Stan. v. Hen
kels, the veteran book auctioneer, has
never had copy pass through his
hands.
Divided into three parts, the tract
is simple sermon to PENIS people
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
A Big Egg.

A. D. Wilbur, of this village, had a
Cochin hen that for several days had
been laying double-yolk eggs. Finally
she laid one seven inches around by
nine inches lengthwise, and weighing
five ounces. Wilbur supposed it to
be another double-yolk, but found on
opening it that the outer she'll con
tanned only the white, while inside
was another perfectly~round egg with
hard shell, which contained the
yolk. Poultry papers say this Is the
largest egg ever known.-Catskill IN.
W Cor. New York World.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
Bells Made BY paul Revere.

The town of Plymouth is unusually
favored with bells made by Paul Re-
we're. There are many of these in ex-
istence, but not usually more than one
in town. Plymouth has three. The
one on the First Church was melted
in fire and recast, while those on the
Memorial and Universalist churches
are in the same form as cast at the
works Of the old hero.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
Found His Level.

Found His Level.
once there Was a bachelor who moved
from flat to fiat,
Every one had children, and he wouldn't
stand for that
round one where they weren't allowed
then. with rage was torn,
FOR IN the rooms above him, was baby
to stay,
When he noticed children in the house
across the way.
FINALLY ne died. and. as is everybody
round himself a-knocking at st. Peters
golden gate;
cant come in-why not? SAYS he,
says the saint, .Oh, dear!
IN AFRAID you couldn't stand the way
we run things here:
ehh a. en-. children, all about-no, it isn't
You go to the other place-vou,u find M
children there!' LIN. az
Cleveland Leader
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04

with long sharp spoon made from
the tusk OF the walrus. When this
tid-bit is frozen and cooked it is said
by people who have tasted it, to be
very Philadelphia Press.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04
WATCHES FOR SHIPS SAFETY.
important Duties of the Lookout O,
Ocean Vessels.

Ocean Vessels.
The lookout on an ocean liner occn
pies a very responsible position. He
must report any light or object in
stantly when it comes into view. and
his failure to do so is often a matter
Of life and death to all on board. Here
with is shown picture of the crows
nest. where the lookout keeps his lone
ly vigil. The place allotted to him is
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04

as the sequoia giganta, or big trees"
One of their characteristics is that
they spring only from seeds, never
from shoots.-Montreal Herald.