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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-07-06
W.C.T.U. and Mission Column
Sow a thought, reap an act;
Sow an act, reap a habit;
Sow a habit, reap a character
THE GREAT MASTER.

I am my own master!' cried q
young man proudly, when friend
tried to persuade him from an enter
prise which he had on hand; II am
my own master!'
''Did you ever consider what a
responsible post that is?" asked his
friend.
Responsibilities it?"
"a master must lay out the work
which he wants done, and see that it
is done right. He should try to Sc
cure the best ends by the best means :.
He must keep on the lookout against
obstacles and accidents, and watch
that everything goes straight. or else
he must fail.
"Well. /"
'To be master of yourself, you
have your conscience to keep clear,
your heart to cultivate, your temper
to govern, your will to direct. and
your Judgment to instruct You are
master over a hard lot; and il you
don't master them they will master
you
''That is So, said the young man :.
Nov I could undertake no such
thing" said his friend. 81 should
fail sure, if did. Saul wanted to
be his own master, and failed.
Herod did, Judas did. No man is fit
for it. Zone is my Master, even
Christ Iwork under his direction.
He is regular, and where he is Mas
ter all goes right Exchange.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-07-06

crop I ever saw, but it is a saying
that Texas can lift man higher and
set him down lower, than any place
in the world, and I almost believe it.
Land is advancing here in price fast.
I have many friends and relatives in
old Rankin, and if any of them want
to know anything about this part of
Texas, and will write, will give
them all tne information l can.
With best wishes for The News and
all my old friends l.. A. TILL.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-07-06

, explain yourself. We all have con-
f1dence in your judgment; SO if you
can show us any harm in playing
without Stakes" let's hear it at
once,'' said Harry Lane, the expert
player.
Such were the replies to John s
expression of disapproval when he
found several of his college chums in
their room one evening engaged in a
game of poker.
eyes, we want to hear it, Well
all listen to you, "Ready to be
converted came chorus of voices.
1T costs me great effort to relate
this chapter of my life,' John began,
land | do so hoping and trusting that
new life may be thrown upon this
subject for you all. A few years ago
we were living in Baltimore, where
my father practiced law and was re-
garded as not only one of the most
eminent members Of the bar, but
christian whose influence was wide
spread. He was very liberal in his
views, and did not think that a
church could justly make rules in
regard to amusements, but that each
member should be guided by his own
conscience. He said that if home
were made attractive for boys they
would not seek doubtful pleasures
elsewhere. So he had US taught all
the games that he considered inno-
cent. He said there was no difference
in dealing bits of paper stamped with
hearts or spades and those bearing the
names of authors-that any game
could be made sinful by being carried
to excess, and we must learn self
control in all things y
Eyes, l stand with him there He
was right A man of sound judg-
ment, were the expressions of ap-
p1oval which greeted this portion of
the narrative.
John Newson proceeded gravely:
'But listen. Cards soon became
the most popular diversion, and my
father taught us to play scientifically.
Among the number of visitors at our
card parties was Ernest Walton, a
brilliant young man of enthusiastic
temperament. He became fascinated
with the game and in a short time
we called him our champion player.
He never lost chance, and l often
laughed. at his excitement when 8
game was almost lost or won.''
The speaker paused, and the ex-
preston on his face deepened, ex-
citing the sympathy Of his listeners,
who were now thoroughly interested
and far from laughing mood
'sOnce Ernest proposed playing for
money, continued John; ''but my
father sternly prohibited this, telling
how sinful and dangerous was the
habit Of gambling. Then saw his
imminent peril, and begged him to
abandon cards. He laughed soorn-
fully, and replied I thought you
were at least consistent, John. You
who taught me how to enjoy the
game should rot now give this adj
vice. -
''But / can't understand, said
Harry Woods, who possessed great
self control and took life-easily, "why
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-07-06
A SOCIAL GAME.
An Incident from Life.

"Why, John Newsom Who
would have thought you were SO
straight laced, you who are alway s
trying to make others enjoy them
selves?''
''And one would think he were
committing mulder from the look of
horror on your face spoke another.
"You cannot say there is any sin
in social game of cards. Come,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-07-06
TIE 10th CENTURY LIVER PILL

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They are the best you can take, and the best your
money can buy. One trial will convince you.
Price 25 cents per box of 80 pills. Sent postpaid
upon receipt of the price. Get box. Hyour drug
gist can not supply you, send to US at once.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-07-06
DELICIOUS AND NUTRITIOUS

Inactive Liver Dyspepsia Busne
to times is the best because
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-07-06

We give you our absolute guarantee that each
10c. plug Of Red Meat is made of better to-
inp quality than any other 1Oc. plug Of any
weight offered or sold by any factory.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-08
NEW GRAIN RATES OCTOBER 4.
Are Considerably Higher Than Ones
at Present in Force.

New rates on grain shipments will
become effective on October l, in ac-
cordance with an agreement recently
made by the western and southern
roads at q conference held in Chi
cago. 1t was the desire of nearly all
the roads represented at this meeting
that the new rates should apply at
once, but as a few roads had entered
into definite contracts it could not be
realized. The understanding is that
all contracts shall be fulfilled, but
that otherwise the compromise rates
shall be adhered to strictly.
The rates to become effective on
october 1 are: Missouri river to Chi
cago, roportional-wheat IL cents
and corn 10; Missouri river to st.
Louis, proportional-wheat and
corn Z: Kansas City to Minneapolis,
opoftional-wheat IL u and corn
10 15; Omaha to Minneapolis, propor-
tional-wheat 10 and corn 8; to New
Orleans for export from Omaha
wheat 16s4 and corn Is y to New
Orleans for export from Kansas City
wheat Is II and corn ID n; Kansas
City to Memphis, proportiona1-wheat
111a and corn 10 Il, and Omaha to
Memphis. proportional-whe 13 and
corn II. 1t is agreed, moreover, that
only one elevator allowance of n
cents a hundred pounds may be made
by any road.
The Missouri river and Chicago
rates are an increase of half a cent
over the present rates and a decrease
of l cent on the former rates; the
Missouri river and ST Louis rates, an
increase of a half cent and a decrease
of 1 cent; the Kansas City and Min
neapolis rates, an increase of 1 cent
and decrease of a half cent; the
Omaha and Minneapolis rates. an in
crease of a half cent and decrease
of 1 cent; the Omaha and New Or
leans export rates, an increase of
three-fourths of a cent and a decrease
of pa; the Kansas City and New
orleans rates. an increase of / Il and
a decrease of 2 y the Kansas City
and Memphis rates, q decrease from
the former rates of 21a, and the
Omaha and Memphis rates, decrease
from the former rates of 1 cent.
1t is manifest that, while the new
rates will be somewhat higher than
the present, they will be much lower
than the former rates. The railroads
have lost considerable revenue under
the present rates. which they claim
are unreasonably low.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-08

der j. Bethuren, manager of the Santa
Fe local telegraph office; business
English and advanced arithmetic" un-
der w. H. Wright, principal of Lin
coin public school,; "pennlanship,
spelling and elementary arithmetic, y
under George H. Hayes, ex-principal
of the Lowman Hill school; Latin, "
under ]. M. Greene; mechanical
drawing. elementary and advanced" !"
under George Maths, of the Santa Fe
engineering department.; mandolin
and guitar" under Prof. Albert
Schutt. The air brake class will be
taught by w. H. Ward, who has been
in charge of an air brake instruction
car for two years and who was also
connected with the Scranton Corre-
spondent school.
During the winter lectures and prac-
teal talks will be given by prominent
railroad men each week and COM
mencing October 30 there will be an
entertainment on Friday of each week.
literary club will be organized also
by Mr.. Greene. There are at present
1881 members connected with the as
sociation and a great many of them in
tend to take advantage of these edu-
cationaI classes. which will be open to
them on the payment of a nominal
fee in addition to their membership
fee in the association.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-08
A GOOD RESOLVE.
Topeka Lawyer Sets Example That
Other Smokers Would Do Well
tn EnIIOxy.

One of our most prominent lawyers
has made a resolution that he recon-
mends to other smokers. without ask
ing any fee.
For years he has been smoking ten
cent and fifteen cent cigars and often
without getting one that was satisfac-
tory. When in Stansfeld's drug store
a month ago. they recommended a. Sc
cigar, Wadsworth Bros Chicos, and
the result is that he has resolved to
buy no other cigar, for he knows that
he is getting a better cigar than he
has heretofore bought.
Other smokers should follow this
example. The Wadsworth Bros Chi
cos is made from the best Havana to-
bacco. not favored or doctored in any
way, and is better than cigars that are
usually retailed for double the money.
Drop in at Stansfield's drug store, 80
Kansas avenue, today and get Chicos.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-08
RAILROAD NOTES.

All of the operators and dispatchers
on the Great Northern road, who re-
mained at their posts during the recent
strike, are to receive double pay for
their work in August. The order is-
eludes- operators and train dispatchers
of the entire system.
The Union Pacific's hospital fund,
which was abandoned during the re-
ceivership, is to be re-established Mo-
vember 1. This announcement has been
made by Vice President Mohler. Each
employe will be required to contribute
so cents a month and will be provided
with free hospital treatment when ill.
1t has been announced, semi officially,
that the Tennessee Central railroad has
been leased for 80 years to the Southern
railway and the Illinois Central and that
these roads will enter Nashville, Teun.s
by that route within three months.
M. E. ingalls,, chairman of the Big
Four board of directors who is now so
journing at Hot Springs, Va, ceIeba-
ted his Sixty-third birthday yesterday.
with a clambake at the top of the
mountain not far from the Hot Springs
hotel. There was numerous party
present.
c. F. Carter, former Sunday editor of
the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, is on q trip
through the west gathering material
for series of articles on the crusade
which the west is waging against dis
examinations in rates to the south in fa-
vor of the east.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-08
SHE GOT HER BABY.
Little Child in Police Charge When
Mother Appeared.

Kansas City, Kan, Sept. S-"4ave
you a baby here that you are going TO
give away?" excitedly asked a woman
as she burst into the office of the DO
lice matron yesterday morning.
Yes" responded the matron quietly
but 1 have about completed arrange
ments to send it to the Children's Friend
society, at Topeka, and am expecting
a representative of the society here at
any moment" You must not do it,
walled the woman. TT is my baby and
1 want it" The child in question was
beautiful baby boy, with a pinched
and eager look on it's face, that was
turned over to the police matron last
Thursday morning. after Ellen Bleyins
had been convicted of being drunk and
fined 50 in the police court
During the trial the little fellow tod
died around over the platform and look
ed with wonder at the strange things
that were transpiring in the room. Mrs.
BleVins refused to tell whose child it
was, and would only say that the child
had been left with her while the mother
was at work. The mother who gave
her name as Mrs. Marsh, said that she
had been employed in Kansas City, Mo-,
and that being unable to take her baby
with her, she had hired Mrs. Bleyins
to care for it, and supposed that she
was doing so until she came over Sun
day night to see the little fellow and
learned that Mrs, Bleyins had been III
prison and that the child was in charge
of the police department
When given the child she hugged him
close to her breast and offering profuse
thanks left the city hall.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-08
THEFTS TO STOP.
State Will Take Action in Cases
Of Short Fuel.
Often Lost From One to Ten
Tons on Each Car.
NOT COUNTED WRONG.
Word Passed Out, estate Coal
Coming Down the Line"
Railways Must Give Weight
Certificates Hereafter.
NOT COUNTED WRONG.

Leavenworth, Sept s.-Heretofore it
has been the custom for some fam
lilies residing along the right of way of
railways running from Lansing to
towns where state institutions are, to
help themselves to coal shipped from
the state prison mine to the institu-
tions. Whenever a car of coal would
leave the prison word would be passed
along, estate coal coming down the
line and perhaps by the time the coal
car arrived at its destination it had
lost anywhere from one to ten tons of
the fuel and sometimes, it is said,
would be pulled into the town half
empty. It has not been infrequent that
cars of coal belonging to the state
have been gobbled up en- route and
never more heard of.
But this will be changed. The state
prison directors, at their meeting yes
terday authorized the placing In, at
the coal shaft, of big set of scales
filled with coal. and will demand that
the Santa Fe railway station a man at
the mine to take the weight of every
car sent out This certificate will be
delivered by the Santa Fe to the rail-
way it turns the car over to in ship
ment to such places as Hutchinson,
Topeka, etc, and the slip will accom-
pany the car to its destination. If the
sllp weight ana tne weight OF the car
do not correspond then the railways
which have had it in charge will have
to make uD the difference. Railways
last winter shifted the responsibility
of cars and would report: "Car all
right when it left our hands," etc, but
the state legislature at its recent ses-
sion. passed the following bearing on
this:
IAN act relating to the confiscation
by a railroad or a railway company of
coal or other merchandise and the
payment therefor: an act regulating
the weighing of, in car lots by rail-
roads: an act relating to weight in the
purchase and sale of coal"
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-08
SANTA FE vIADUCr PLANS.
Those Demanded by Kansas City Will
Be Presented Soon.

Kansas City, Mo-, Sept. S.-W. B.
Storey, jr., of Topeka, chief engineer
is in this city looking up some of the
details in connection with the plans
for building Hiaducts here as required
in TIE ordinance recently passed for
the benefit of the Kansas City Belt
Railway company.
1--WE understood that we had sixty
days from the time that the Belt line
ordinance was accepted by the COM
pany to file the plans and specifications
with the Kansas City board of public
works. said Mr.. Storey. I'VE are
rushing the work on the plans and
will have them ready to file before the
time expires"
The city officials contend that the
-ordinance required that the plans and
specifications be filed sixty days after
the passage of the ordinance. This
time was up August 81. The Belt line
filed it's acceptance of the ordinance
August 3,
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-08
PLANTTNG PINE TREEs.
Scheme to GLADDEN. Territory Around
Garden City.

Scheme to GLADDEN. Territory Around
Garden City.
G. A. Scott, son of Adam Scott, was
IN Westmoreiand yesterday. He was
on MS way from Finney county to the
Black Hills. He is experimenting the
governments experiments in planting
pine trees in the seIni-arid districts of
the west. The government will next
spring put out a large number OF the
western yellow pines near Garden City.
Mr. Scott is going now to the Black
Hills to superintend the gathering of
the seed from the pine in that section of
the country which has the finest forest
of western pines in the country. Mr..
scott says that trees in this forest are
all used for the timbers connected with
the mining industry and that fears are
entertained that the supply will be ex-
hausted long before the mines cease te
be profitable. The state of South Da.-
kota has law prohibiting any of this
pine from being shipped out of the state
The government last year replanted a
large area of the pine country that had
been burned over. The trees planted in
western Nebraska are doing well. 1t is
estimated that it will take fifty years
to grow pine tree twelve, inches in
diameter. The government is doing this
work therefore wholly for future gen.
erations.-Westmore Recorder.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-08
SWEET POTATO YIELD.
Arkansas City Grower Has 26 Acres
Doing Fine.

Arkansas City, Kan, Sept. Sc Orn-
dorff, the sweet potato and watermelon
grower, who lives north of town, says
that his sweet potato crop is this year
better than last, and the yield is bet
te1.
Mr.. Orndoff profted by a little ex-
perience he had last year with the
worms, when he learned that if the
space between the potato rows was kept
clean of crab grass the moths that lay
the eggs that hatch out web-worms did
not have a place to propagate the pests.
This year he kept down the grass and
as a result has a fine crop of potatoes
when other growers have only half a
crop.
Mr.. Orndorff has 2s acres in sweet
potatoes this year, and is already mar
keting his crop at good prices. He says
as sure crop every year in this locality.
If titled well dry weather does not af-
feet them.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-08
FINE EDUCATIONAL CLASSES.
Railroad Y. Nj. C. A. Men Will Enjoy
Opportunities for Study.

Plans have been perfected by the
directors of the Railroad Y. M. C. A
for sixteen educational classes for the
coming winter which will provide a
comprehensive course of elementary
instruction as we'll as special instruc-
ton on matters of interest to railroad
men. ]. M. Greene is the director of
the educational classes and it is due
to his untiring efforts as we'll as those
of Mr.. J. D. Prout, the secretary of the
| association, that the organization has
been able to offer its members such
fine opportunities in the way of edu-
cation.
The educational season will open on
Tuesday night of next week with a big
rally at which Governor E. w. Hoch
Wi!I deliver an address on the Value
other speakers of prominence and
music by male quartette. Diplomas
will be presented at that time to H.
Repp. G. Parker, A. Allen, H. Bergen,
R. Stevenson and r. t. Wilson.
These diplomas were won in COM
petitive examination last spring which
was held under the auspices of the
International Y. M. C. "A. educational
committee.
One of the most interesting of the
classes to be established this year will
be the air brake class. The Westing-
house Air Brake company, through
the cooperation of John Purcell. su-
perintendent of the Santa Fe shops,
citation building complete air brake
outfit, comprising one az inch air
pump; one 9 Il inch pump top steam
head action: one engineers brake
valve; one / inch pump governor: one
duplex air gauge; one triple valve for
tenders; one 8x12 tender brake cylin-
der; one 10x12 auxiliary reservoir;
five standard inch freight car brake
cylinders and auxiliary reservoirs with
triple valves; one high speed brake au-
tomato reducing valve; one straight
air apparatus for locomotives; one air
signal apparatus for locomotives and a
complete set of colored photographic
charts concerning air brakes.
Other classes provided for are "the
designation of parts of locomotives and
cars" under the direction of Martin
Gunther. Santa Fe machine shop
foreman. and William Amos of the
coach department; 'sireman's exami-
nation and break down." under the di-
rection of w. H. Ward; locomotive
and car design under the direction
of Frank Adams, the Santa Fe shop
extension engineer; ''telegraphy," un-
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-08
B. & O. ENJOYS PROSPERITY.
Gross Earnings Never so Large and
Millions for improvements.

During the fiscal year ending June
1 the gross earnings of the Baltimore
seven and one-half million dollars,
the greatest by two and one-half mill
lions in the history of the company.
The net earnings for the year were
twenty three million dollars. At a re-
cent meeting of the board of directors
it was decided to increase the dividend
rate from four to five per cent and
authorization was also given for the
expenditure of seven million dollars
for the improvement of the system.
With authorizations of like nature
ordered at previous meetings, and
completion of work pending, the total
work on improvements in progress
stands for combined expenditures,
reaching almost, if not quite, thirty
million dollars. The large order given
a couple of months ago for new loco
motives and cars, amounting to four
teen million dollars, is not included in
the foregoing figures.