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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-25
PLANTERS IN DESPERATE CON
DITION.

Clarion Ledger: Hon. A. @. May,
former state treasurer and also rail
road commissioner, has just returned
from stay of two long and weary
months on his Sunfower plantation.
Mr., May went up about planting
time, expecting to get in great big
crop Of cotton and corn, but it has
been raining on an average of seven
teen times per week ever since he got
there, and he finally left in disgust
and very much disposed to let crops go
to the dickens for this year. He says
that more than half crop of cotton
has already been planted and is up
and some worked over in spite of the
rains and the continued wet weather,
but there are thousands of acres of the
very finest lands in the delta that will
never be planted this year. The
| farmers are so far behind and the
season is SO late that they dare not
take advantage of the occasional dry
days to plant more cotton, but find il
necessary to work early and late in
that portion of their fields that have
already been planted, else the grass
and weeds will sooon have it and
gone: ION most FARMS says Mr..
May, the grass has already capped
over the burroughs above the young
cotton and corn, and millions OF frogs
can be heard oroaking under the greer
arbor from morning till night" Mr.
May just got sick and tired of tht
monotony of rain an frog songs ant
Came home.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-25
BRANDON RANKIN COUNTY, MISS, THURSDAY, ,MAY25 1906
with American grown

composition with American grown
cotton.
The annual membership dues are
only % cents per member. The Axed
income Of the association and Of the
various state and territorial, county
and parish organizations, is to be OBJ
tanned by an annual assessment of q
few cents on each bale Of cotton pro.
duced BY it's members in 1906, and q
small per cent. on the capital stock Of
its members engaged in other lines Of
business throughout the south. This
system will distribute the burden Of
maintaining the association equitably
on all lines Of business and enable the
association to safeguard and protect
the great staple crop Of the south from
the depressing influences Of foreign
domination. Last December, with
ont organized effort, the spot holders
of cotton in the south were forced to
submit to an actual loss Of $50 per
bale, and it was only after the great
convention at New Orleans on Janu-
ary oath and the creation of the
southern cotton association backed by
the united efforts Of the farmers and
other business interests in the south
that the tidal wave Of depression was
checked. Since that time fully
twenty-five million dollars in value
have been added to the spot cotton
held In the south, and this has been
accomplished in the face of intense
opposition on the Part Of the strongest
combination ever organized among the
bear element of the cotton interests
Of the world.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-25
THE SOUTH FURNISHED TIL
GRAVE.


Henry Grady once said: st once
attended funeral in Pickens county
in my state. A funeral is not usually
q cheerful object to me unless could
select the subject. think | could,
perhaps. without going hundred
miles from here, find the material for
one or two cheerful funerals. Still
this funeral was peculiarly sad. 1t
was a poor one sgallus' fellow, whose
breeches struck him under the arm
pits and hit him at the other end
about the knee-he didn't believe in
decollete clothes. They buried him
in the midst Of marble quarry they
cut through solid marble to make his
grave; and yet . Little tombstone
they put above him was from Ver-
mont. They buried him in leart
Of pine forest, and yet tho coffin
was imported from Cincinnati. They
buried him within reach Of an iron
mine, and yet the nails in bis coffin
and the iron in the shovel that dug
his grave were imported from Pitts
burg. They buried him BY the side
Of tho best sheep.grazing country on
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-25
CALF LOVE AND IT'S SENSA-
TIONS.


The following is told of Kansas
the commonwealth of social, moral,
political and commercial monstros-
tiles:
The Kansas paper, discussing rural
love, relate homely idyl, such as
Theocritus never sang, about a love
affair Oklahoma Dave Pyne once
had. Pyne lived on farm when a
boy, and his raiment consisted of a
linsey sack with holes for his head
and arms. He was deeply in love
with a neighbor farm girl. Cne
evening he went over and sparked
with the girl while she was milking
the cow. She sat on one side Of the
cow and he squatted on the other, so
he could look her in the eye while
she milked. Dave felt his love for
the girl growing rapidly. It affected
the boy in peculiar way; something
warm would chase itself up and down
his spinal oollum. It was a new
experience, and in his experience be
was sure it was love. Just when the
sensation was the greatest the girl
remarked, "Davie the calf is chewing
the back Of your sack.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-25
them by the de PENDANTS.

them by the defendants.
Centerville, with a population of
1000, is the lar rgest city in Iowa with
neither a sal DON nor drug store sell
ing liquor. The uptown drug stores
recently surrendered their permits to
sell Intoxicating liquors, agreeing not
to ask tor another for two years, and
paying fine of $500 and costs to Sc
cure the dismissal of cases against
them Immediately following the de.
cision of the supreme court that the
law makes it obligatory on permit
holders to have the street and number
Of applicants to whom sales are made,
on the blank.
In nearly all the district Baptist as
seciations of Alkanias a Temperance
rally hour has been observed. Paw
paw Times.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-25
Acreage Acreage Acreage
28,I7I,I3o 3I,73o, 900

Aoldio------ AosIl,I3O 3I,I3O,OOO
The total estimated decrease of cot
ton acreage in the United States for
1905 is II 1-5 per cent. or 1868, $40
acres less than last year, and the
average planting of the crop is about
two weeks later than normal.
Considerable cotton remains to be
planted the western portion of the cot
ton belt, on account Of unfavorable
rainy weather, and proper cultivation
has been retarded also on this account
in the same section.
Where conditions have been more
favorable and planting has been com
pleted the plant is healthy and the
stands excellent.
It is yet too early to predict with
any degree of certainty the probable
outcome of the crop. SO much depend
ing upon the elements from now until
harvest time. Yours truly.
LATHAM, ALEXANDER & GO.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-25

The Belgium public schools set
apart one day Of the year as Pledge
Day, when each scholar over the age
of 10 is invited to take the total alb
stinence pledge in the presence Of his
parents.
The appellate court at Springfield.
ILL.,, March is, decided that saloon
keepers are liable for the death OF
their patrons who meet death while
under the influence Of Liquor sold
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-25

earthand yet the wool In the coffin
bands and the coffin bands themselves
were brought from the north. The
south didn't furnish thing on earth
for the funeral but the corpse and the
hole in the ground. There they put
him away and the clods ratified down
on his coffin, and they buried him in
New York coat and q Boston pair of
shoes and q pair Of breeches from
Chicago and shirt from Cincinnati,
leaving him nothing to carry into
the next world with him to remind
him OF the country in which he lived,
and for which he fought for four
years, but the chill of blood in his
veins and the marrow in his bones. -
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-25
ESTIMATE OF COTTON ACREAGE
OF THE UNITED STATES, MAY
10Th, 1905.
LATHAM, ALEXANDER& & Co., BANKERS
AND COTTON COMMISSION MER-
CHANTS, I6 & I8 WALL STREET.

New York, May 20, '05. Editor
Brandon News: With the view Of
obtaining the most reliable informa-
tion possible concerning the cotton
acreage Of the United States for 1905,
we addressed 4,400 letters to banks,
bankers, cotton commission merchants
and responsible planters, embracing
every cotton growing county in the
south, asking acreage estimates.
Up to this date we have secured
3,298 replies, Of average date May 16,
and the following tabulation is the
result. In our opinion it is as ap-
proximately correct an estimate Of the
cotton acreage as could be secured by
direct communication with parties
competent to judge, residing in the
southern states:
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-25
QUESTIONS IN GEOGRAPHY.

Who knows which way did Montauk
Point.
How much did Sandy Hook.
How did the first Long Island Sound
And who did Point Outlook?
When did the Schuylkill any one
Of What was Delaware
How many points did Winnipeg
And how much had she to spare.
When were the Scilly Isles insane.
And who was Merrimac,
What made the Guadal culver SO?
How much did Fon Du Lac?
And what, Oh what, did BehriDg Sea,
What made the Dead Sea die
Who caused poor old Magellan's
Straits
And who was it knocked Shanghai?
What kind of man did Syracuse
How much did Buffalo
What hawingator made Cape Clear,
And where does old Glasgow.
Who stole the egg that Adelaide,
What golfer were Cahoes
What victories first got Bengal,
Has Marblehead nose.
And say to whom did Kennebeo
And who die. d..Amsterdams
Just how much cash was Leaven
worth?
Has Joli -et some Lamb?
Did Cedar Keys unlock door
How often did Chilkoot pass.
What legs has Table Bay
Who guaranteed Nantucket Sound,
Who slept in Penobscot,
How many hides did Yucatau,
What fire has Colon got.
Did Turkey over run to Greece,
Is Brazil every day.
Who did the game Of Tennessee,
J And who Rhode Island pray;
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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1905-08-24
MCCUMBER WILL BOOST
GRAIN INSPECTION BILL

St. Paul, Aug. Ex-senator P. J. Nc
Cumber of North Dakota, will intro
duce bill at the next session OF con-
gress, providing for federal grain in
spection system.
Il am convinced that federal inspec-
tion of grain will be boon to wheat
growers of the northwest" he said
There has been objection to state in
spections for many years. The fault
is in the system and cannot be reme-
died until the system is changed. There
are as many different systems today
as they are different states inspecting
grain. What is No. ! northern in one
state may be No. northern in one
adjoining"
Senator McCumber is much pleased
over the reduction Of rates on railroads
for shipping grain and says the reduc-
tion will mean a saving Of ST ,ooo, 900 to
North Dakota farmers alone this fall
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1905-08-24
DUAL TARIFF VOULD MAKE GERMANY SIT Up AND THINK

Washington, Aug. Al The isduaI
tariff plan which has been put forward
|by the Chicago reciprocity convention
is not q new scheme III congress. Al
bill has been introduced III the house
|by Representative JAS Tawney of
Minnesota, 4 member of the ways and
means committee, and by Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge 81 Massachusetts,
Eenbodying the idea of the maximum
and minimum tariff schedules of the
dual system. There are also some
Influential members Of the honse and
one of two senators who are openly III
iavor Of the plan,
The idea Is ID AK BY congressiona
eIlactraent two rates, one high and the
other low. aud to anthorize The pres
ideflt BIZ Tie seer retaf fy III the treasury,
iz11lief The president ! direction, ia ad-
jilsf tl1e duties against f0feign cosiil-
glk LlI1 tlle 1&s limits ceslf1s
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1905-08-24
I'D CHINESE
"a +. 1. I FOUGHT in ALASKA

ssa San Francisco, Aug. 24.-News of a
race. war that broke out in the salmon
packing company at Nshagak, Alaska,
between Chinese and Italian workmer
last Monday, was brought down by. a
salmon packer, the Salvador, which ar
rived here. today. A petty dispute be-
tween an Italian and Chinese brought
on general engagement and for days
100 Chinese were besieged in bunk
house by mob Of enraged Italians, who
swore they would, exterminate the last
Monaghan in camp. The riot was final
ly quelled by troops summoned by the
superintendent from the nearest mill
tary. post after several men had been
killed and injured on both sides. After
the riot was over a drum head court
martial was called to fix the blame for
the outbreak, but the blame was not fix
ed on anyone
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1905-08-24
RUSSIA WILL NOT, g. 49,
]. ! PAY AN INDEMNITY

r., St. Petersburg, Aug. 24.-The Asso-
,ciated Press has the best of authority
for decl laring again with increased en-
phass that Russia will never consent
to the payment of indemnity to Japan
Such payment would so gravely menace
the vital interests of the state as to make
This article in the Japanese terms utter
ly impossible of acceptance.
Furthermore, the Associated Press
has the same reasons and authority for
the declaration that if Japan withdrew
her indemnity demand peace would
practically be assured, as the Russian
attitude on the other three points, in
GLIDING the cession of Sakhalin does not
preclude the possibility of a satisfactory
settlement on these points. The indem-
nifty is the crux of the whole matter
If this question can be, arranged it is be-
heved here that all other questions on
which there has been divergence of
opinion will practically settle themselves
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1905-08-24

try which permits us favorable trading
relations would get our best terms, and
4 country which put aip the barriers
against US would have the barriers put
DIP to the nnaxiinum as fixed BY law Of
AS high as the president might think
necessary. \
The advantage of the system Hes iii
the fact that it would correct the hard
and fast hexibility Of the present tar
if. So long as mo rate can BE altered
without congressional enactment, or by
Ia treaty ratified BY the senate, there Is
no way to meet the changing attitudes
LOT foreign governments. For example,
Germany IS preparing to raise their
rates SO to I5o per cent on all the
principal articles bought from the Uni
ted States, and there appears to be
mo way ~ adjust our tariff 70 placate
HE fctaliate
Buk congress al i whole, and par
ticularly the senate, will be found 10
be opposed to the fnaxitaunl and mini
|inun, or dual tari f plan me rcas
s6ll II the same Nltlcl causes the
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1905-08-24
rates to the minimum By executive de,

rates to the minimum By executive de-
cree. II @s
aThat plan, the protectionists will
say, would Be all right ii We were
perfectly sure that we could always
control the president. But we are not.
We do not want any tariff rate rcduc-
ed. We now have control Of the ball
We control congress very satisfactor-
lily. What we do not own Of the house
we have In the senate. We can rely
on our friends III the senate to kill any
efforts at downward revision which
might etlianate in the house. We do
not care to take any chances and will
oppose any plan BY which the control
might be taken from the senate and
vested in the executive branch 81 the
government. z
That Is the position 81 the standpat
tariff people. And with the backing
of the strong coterie of New England
senators they viii come very near To
making their position good as against
the efforts of the western Interests 10
secure legislation of the SORT outlined.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1905-08-24

conference require, his reply to the Jap
anese compromise proposition. In real
ity the adjournment over two days was
to give each side an opportunity to con-
suit its government for the last time.
The outlook is black Many believe
it will never be so black as last night
The Japanese are not talking. Indeed
last night they appeared to be more taci-
turn and more resolute than ever. The
only possible line of further Japanese
concession is considered to lie in a dim-
mutton of the amount of purchase mon
ey demanded for the north half of SAX
halin. The decision rests, therefore, as
it has at first, with Russia. Unless the
emperor agrees to yield between now
and Saturday, the end is likely to come
on that day.
I The Associated Press information, an
authoritative Japanese source, says:
The proposition to divide the island
of Sakhaln came originally from the
Russian side.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1905-08-24
President Roosevelt
Is Still Persistent
He Positively Declines to Permit the Peace Negotia-
tons to Fail and Insists Conference of
# the Plenipotentiaries

Portsmouth, Aug 24.-President
Roosevelt stands between the warning
nations insisting that the peace confer
ellce shall not fail. Il e
He demands a conference on both
sides
1t was his compromise which Ko4nura
presented in slightly altered form at
yesterdays meeting. r. ...'F
Russia, while rejecting the compro,
mise because it contained remuneration
for the cost of the war under another
name, offered Sakhalin, restoring the
status quo existing before the treaty OF
1875 and renouncing the southern half
She. will pay we'll for the maintenance
of the Russian prisoners in Japan but
no indemnity. ~ - r.
In the final struggle the threats OF
the financiers can be brought to bear to
force the conbatants to cease the bloody
strife and these considerations will
prove powerful. .-s r. 20
1t is reported the president will send
some one to Magnolia to communicate
direct with Witte and Rosen. ~
President Roosevelts moves to the
peace conference are following each 9th
+er rapidly. He is now believed to be
taking new and perhaps a final step
in an appeal to both sides to leave the
purchase price of the northern half
OF Sakhalin TO arbitration.