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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
Letter to Governor.

Dallas, Tex. S. Peters and N.
c. Murray, president of the Texas
Farmers Union, held lengthy con-
ference concerning the plans for f.
nancing the cotton which is being
held and preventing it being thrown
on the market. Neither Of them
would make any statement as to
what was done if anything.
Col. Peters gave out the following
letter which he had mailed Governor
Lanham, and which he believes can
easily be put into operation.
"In view of the fact that there will
be large reduction Of acreage plant
ed in cotton and the necessity Of hav-
ing accurate and efficient information
of the amount planted, l would sug-
gest that you call the legislatures at
tention to the fact and have sufficient
appropriation made at once SO that the
assessors may take up, while they are
their assessments, the amount
of cotton planted in 1904 and the
amount the farmers intend to plant
in 1905. This information will be
worth millions to the cotton growers
of Texas
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
Accmulates Too Fast.

Methuen, Mass. Edward F. Searles
once poor carpenter, now the widow
er of Mrs Mark Hopkins, says he has
at least $90,000,000 and has embar-
raised this little town with a gift Of
a $3,000,000 high school building, the
finest in the country, although there
are only eighty-fve pupils.
Alphabetically, the building is a
delight, and, its purposes caused much
speculation while it was being built.
Mr.. Searles explained the mystery by
giving it to the town, and at his own
expense equipping it with costly APP
planes. The town had to accept it.,
as Searles, who is childless and with
out an heir, has several times init
mated that he will leave his entire es-
tate to this municipality. AS each
new building he gives to the town re-
quires support, taxation is high, and
the illages have to scratch to raise
money. But they don't care to affront
Searles, so they take his expensive and
expense entailing gifts without an
audible murmur. $3.50 #eE
Searles cannot spend his money, as
it accumulates too fast.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
DOWN AN ENHANCEMENT.
One is Killed and Thirteen Injured in
Train Wreck.

Wichita, Kan. One man was killed
and thirteen injured in a wreck of the
Santa Fe passenger train, northbound
near Deroy.
The dead: L. L. West, express mes
senger, Newton, Kan.
Among the injured are: Charles
Schaeffer, express messenger, Okla
homa City, chest crushed, will proba-
bly, die.
w. w. Morgan, Fort Worth, Texas,
side injured. Nine other passengers
mostly from Kansas, were slightly
hurt. Same m ks
In the express car were West and
Schaeffer. Both jumped and West was
killed. Schaeffer tried to jump but a
boxed corpse in the express fell on him
crushing his breast.
The train was running thirty miles
an hour when at curve the tender
left the track followed by the entire
train of four cars, which fell down the
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
Felt an Earthquake.

: Carrollton, distinguished on the map
as being the home of United States
Senator Money, is claiming the hon
or OF having experienced an earth
quake few nights since.
Shortly after a violent thunder
storm, accompanied by heavy fall of
rain, large assure was discovered
In the ground in the southern part
of town. The fssure traverses clay
alll that was very hard and dry be-
fore the storm. The thunder was
very violent while the rain was in
progress, and the following morning
crack in the earth varying from two
to eight inches in width and several
feet in depth was discovered. The
Carrollton citizens are quite confident
that it was due to a seismis disturb
ance.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
Extensive Strike.

Chicago. The strike Of union ma
chinists, which went into effect May
"a last, has been expensive to that
organization, according to statement
given out by Secretary Lee S. Fisher.
His report shows that out of total
expenditure Of $161 900 during 1904,
$4,000 had been used in supporting
strikers. When the strike was called
eight hundred members of the union
quit work, but number Of them have
since obtained employment, and strike
benefits are now being paid to only
five hundred men.
The strike was called at over thirty
shops owned by members of the Chica-
90 Metal Traders Association, ard
was caused by the refusal of the en-
ployers to increase the minimum scale
wage from % and 80 to 80 IL and
35 cents an hour.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
Hearst Before Committee.

Washington. = Government rate
making for the railroads was further
considered by the house committee
On interstate and foreign commerce.
Representative Hearst of New York,
was heard. He has introduced a bill
which he said was to correct some of
the delays and difficulties that he had
experienced as a business man with
proceedings before the interstate COM
merce commission. Notably, he said
his complaint against the anthracite
.eoal carrying roads was instituted in
1902 and is still pending before that
body.
Nr. Hearst said that his bill s main
features was to clothe the committee
with authority to fix rates and for the
establishment of an interstate COM
MERGE court to which all appeals shall
be made. This feature, he said, was
FOR the sole purpose of expediting
controversies before the commission.
Mr.. Hearst will resume his testimony
tomorrow.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19

lands. If he can break one or tT
inches of clay with one mule drawiI
a diamond point tongue pillow that is /
he wants on land with light top sol
Following that with small grain al
peas he Incorporates humus into ii
soil and is ready then to break up tw
inches more of the clay. Thus by al
grees in three years he will secure
ten-inch soil we'll charged with hum
and capable of resisting heavy raid
or long drouGhts. Land should new
be subsoiled when the clay is wet nd
sticky. We saw field prepared Il
wheat this fall. In places the soil wd
shallow. A two-horse turn-plow wd
used. The wet clay was brought to I'd
top. where it remains in cIod, and
will be there next spring. Break onl
so much of the hardpan or clay as ca
be Incorporated with the top soil. Tia
work should be done before the fri
of March. Any subsoiing that leaYI
the broken clay in mass is WORTHLESS
as the first heavy rain will caI:
it to become soil acknowledgement
Farmer.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
LATE MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
New Corporations.

The following charters Of new cor
porations domicileda in Mississippi
have been fled for record with the
secretary of state:
Clarksdale Ice and Bottling Co.,
domiciled at Clarksdale, Coahoma
county, with capital stock Of $685.
700. A. c. Finkler, w. w. Stanton,
J. E. Meyers, ct al, incorporators.
Il. q. McCants Cotton Company,
domiciled at Meridian, Lauderdale
county, with capital stock of $15,-
BOO. R. G.. McCants, George w.
Neville and R. G. Cairns, ct al.,l in
corporators. ie 4ss
Moses Mercantile Company, domi-
,iled at Mossille, Jasper county, with
capital stock of $4,000. B. F.
Moss, George Parker and J. w. Rob-
oins, incorporators.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
Fierce Fighting.

Washington. = Lieut.-Gen. Chaffee,
chief Of staff, received cable message
from Gen. Corbin, commanding the
Philippines division at Manilli, saying
that he received the following dispatch
from Brighten. Carter, commanding
The department Of Visayas, dated Ia
rloban, January IA:
"Lieut. Aery, one of the Philippine
scouts, and two native employees were
wounded in action at Dolores river,
January IA. Private Austin, hospital
corps, was wounded and nine Of the
constabulary were Killed in an action
near Maslog, Samar, January s.
Lieut.. Avery and Private Austin ar
rived here today"
The officer referred to in the above
dispatch is First Lieut.. Morton I.
Avery of the Philippine Scouts.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
Ribbon Cane Industry.

Emmett McInnis, proprietor of the
Ribbon cane syrup and canning fac
tory recently opened in Hattiesburg
has been in Memphis, where he con-
ferred with jobbers who are proposing
to take from him the entire output
Of syrup Of the factory for this sea-
son. This proposition, coming on
the heels of an order from st. Louis
for ten carloads Of this season 5
goods, assures the success Of the enter
prise and makes it certain that a new
and most valuable source of profit for
the farmers of South Mississippi has
been opened up.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
ALABAMA BANK
BURGLARIZED
CRACKSMEN GET AWAY WITH
{. tN hah ABOUT $4,000.
THE BANK WAS DYNAMITED
Examination Shows That Crooks
Were Professionals. = Residents
Felt the Shock, But Let Them
Escape.

Macon, Ga.-News reached here
over the long distance telephone of a
oanK burglar at Lafayette, Ala,
which it the reports so far are true.
IS the greatest in magnitude commit
ted for many years past in that sec
ton OF the country. The information
came from Opelka, Ala, and is to
The effect that the bank at LAFAYETTE
was dynamited between l and 2
o'clock in the morning. 1t is said
that the robbers did not secure less
than $4,000. Officers with posses
are now securing the country in the
region OF the crime and the authori-
ties OF the state have been asked to
keep close watch for the fueitives.
s The report says that at an early
hour the residents of the little town
were startled by loud explosion and
an investigation soon developed the
TACT that the bank had been entered
by burglars and that nitroglycerin
dynamite had been used with terrific
effect.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
explosion made great noise the bur
glars managed to make their escape
1t Is reported that an examination of
the vaults disclosed the fact that $4O.-
DUO had been stolen. Lafayette is Is
miles from Opelika and large amount
OF business is done in the town. es-
peclally cotton business. An exami-
nation made of the havoc wrought by
the burglars shows that the crooks were
professionals and every effort is be-
ing made by not only the police au-
thorities of the town but the citizens
rs well to capture them.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
A WoMAN's LOVE.
70 Be With "Him" She Suffered In
a Silence


Silence.
Once, away out upon the great
Mojave Desert. there was a man and
woman among those sad, strange
folk who had wandered away from,
the great human world to seek for
tune among the wild western plains.
They were cultured, these two, and
TO the woman the Punishment was a
living torture, endured only to be near
the man she loved; to share with him
the solitude and deaolation, the hot,
bare sand ocean; the treeless, birdless,
cloudless desert, among strange,
coarse men, and stranger and coars-
er women. Some of them, she knew.
held bloody hearts in their sun-brown-
ed bosoms. Some of them were still
ready for bloodier crimes if need be,
so only they got their grasp upon the
gold in the strange earth's bosom.
And that woman! hungry, body and
soul! starving, as she watched the
changeful sky blush to scarlet and
pale to OPAL and again darken to
purple. Hungry for something more
human than the coyotes cry among
the mesquite brakes of the mesa at
night.
And yet, hungrier sadder still, for
gentle word, loving look from the
husband whose only thought was for
the gold at the bottom of the rift.
They would go home some day, yes;
when he struck it rich
And one day after a little earth
quake's shock, she grew uneasy, and
went down to the bottom of the shaft
in the miners cage to search for him.
He came up from the black earth's
bosom safe; but another shock had
fastened her down among the granite
gloOms forever, and then, ali! how he
Dved her; wept upon the still clay
they brought up three days later;
kissed the eyes that had wept to
kindness for SO much as one gentle
look from him; fondled the dead
hands that had found their happiest
palm; held upon his heart the head
that had ached for that poor resting
place, and felt, like thirsty fiend for
a beat of the heart that had died
many times, many deaths, for one
poor caress. Yet, he loved her. Oh,
yes; only some men have queer meth
DDS of showing their love; some are
too busy to tell it; and soue too hap
py in other things to thinh of wOm-
ans silent waiting
It is a strange love that can play
laggard while the woman who trusts
it, looks to it, lives upon 81, is starv-
ing. Yet such things happen all about
us.-Nashville Banner.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
Subsoiling.

"A few years ago we saw some red
clay land, containing little humus,
SUBSIDIZED eight to ten inches. The
work was done with an excellent two
horse subsoiler drawn by two mules.
That work was thrown away. Heavy
spring rains solidified the clay. The
zeal of the farmer doing the work was
hot according to knowledge. He knows
better now. He will not repeat his err
ror. But he is fully convinced of the
great value of subsoiling our clay
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
Second Tragedy in Resort.

Birmingham, Ala. Another TRACE
dy took place in Madame Barfeld s re-
sort, in Twenty-third street, and Geo.
Bishop, stationary engineer, now lies
in a dangerous condition at the Hill
man Hospital, with bullet wound
through his chest and in his lungs.
Bishop was raising disturbance in
the house when officer Paul Cole and
Walter Bennett were called. Bishop
Jumped on Officer Bennett and threat
ened him bodily harm. The officer
drew his revolver and struck Bishop
The weapon discharged and Bishop
fell to the floor mortally wounded.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
Tragedy at Tuskegee.

Montgomery, Ala While attempt
ing to arrest Robert and James Nc
Bryde on Main street, at Tuskegee,
Sheriff T. F. Connor> was perhaps IA
tally stabbed, Robert and James Nc
Bryde were both shot to death, Deputy
Sheriff George lamar was dangerous
ly stabbed about the body and legs
and City Marshal S. Y. Taylor was cut
about the arms.
The cause Of the tragedy was an at
tempt on the part of the sheriff and
city marshal to arrest the McBryde
brothers, who, it is alleged were drink
Ing and acting in a disorderly manner
in their boarding house. They resisted
arrest and used their knives freely
which caused the officers to bring their
pistols into play.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
In the Political Menaqerie.

The elephant looked with some Gu
riosity at the animal on the other side
of the partition.
"What are they trying to do to you.
my friend?' asked the elephant.
The other animal was forlorn
looking creature whose long ears had
been folded back and tied down. Its
body, had been painted white, q yellow
name fastened to its neck, and some
body seemed to be engaged in making
long, flowing addition to it's tail.
It gave one wild, swift kick with
both feet, and somebody went flying
out through the rear window, carrying
the sash along.
"The blamed fools are trying to re-
organize me.' brayed the enrSgec
animal Chicago Tribune.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19

The golden days were ours of old.
IF we but did as we were told:
And when night came. we knew next
day"
would come in time for as to play.
f1nr world. wherever we might be.
Down stairs, or in the nursery,
we changed at will-all things became
Quite different. or were just the same.
Then I could make chair horse.
or steam car, as thing of course:
The lounge ship, or mule train,
Maybe to Chile-if it showed,
Or up the rocky Yonkers road.
Or OK to midas corai strands,
And I'll tie bad. but lovely lands. -
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
Business League a Success.

The Young Mems Business League
of Crystal Springs seems to be fulfill
ing its highest destiny. The League
has been instrumental in organizing
the South Mississippi Fair Associa-
ton, and a considerable amount has
been subscribed towards the capital
stock. The capital stock of the As
ISOLATION has been placed at $4,000,
with shares at $40 each.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19

I sometimes crossed the Delaware.
And always found Columbus there.
And as to cables-what you think7
We laid one in the kitchen sink!
We learned q little now and then,
But soon forgot. and learntJd again:
They laughed at our mistakes, and so.
They didn't scold us. don't you know ii
We once got Pocahontas npixef
With William Penn. till they & ere fixed
And Queen Bess was a Hottentot,
And Eve said. Shoot him on the spot!
No wonder golden days are past.
For they were far too good to lasG
And so climb. to crest the hill.
For gold is in the su-set still.
john Harrison in Few York Tim
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
Will Increase Acreage.

Quite a number of farmers in the
Gipson neighborhood, near Mcneil,
being interested in the growing Of
truck for Northern markets, held a
meeting and were addressed by E. b.
Ferris, director in charge Of the Ex-
pertinent station. The truck to be
grown in this section the coming sea-
son promises to be greatly increased
over former years.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
subsoiling with One Horse.

A farmer came 10 us few DAYS q Z
saying that you are always telling d
to break the hard pan and subsoil on
land. You are no doubt correct, bI
what is a poor man with only on
horse to do? This is our advice to hil
and all such farmers: Take pea STUD
bic that is intended for cotton neY
year. The leaves and remnants
vines are now on the ground. The
should be saved. Use siX-incl
shovel and lay off the rows cottOI
width as early as possible. Whe
this is done, take a tongue OF diamOnl
point pillow and run in the same full
row. That will break the hard pan
Then do the same thing for the mid
die, leaving the freezes to pulveriz
the soil. If land is intended for corr
make the rows proper width and rul
the burrows in the middle. That I'd
quires little time, but it will pay AM
farmer cultivating lands. Anothe
plan for one-horse farmers is to swa
labor. Buy two-horse-plows and hal
rows in common and take it tim
about using them. They will soon b
able to buy another horse. Two farm
ers could thus unite-Charles Petty, i
Progressive Farmer. ~
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
He Talked About Another's Sister.

Arcola, N. JIG. C. Folger, night
operator at the Hudson River Trac-
ton station here died as the result of
fractured skull. Fo1ger. and Dol
linger had a fight and the latter is
now III Jail. Before Dollinger knew
the fatal termination Of the encoun-
ter he stated that he had given Folger
what he needed, and just what any
other real man would have given him
for telling lies on his sister.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
Big Lot Of Timber for Export.

Five 100-foot RATS Of timber were
started from Terry down Pearl River
for the Gulf of Mexico, where they
will be loaded for shipment to Europe.
This is the first timber for export
that has been shipped from this place,
and is in the charge of Messrs.
Draughin & Gail, of Hattiesburg,
Miss.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
Engine Cut Off Both Legs.

L. R. Connor, one of the proprietors
of the Southern Machine and Foun-
dry Company at Columbus, met with
a painful accident here which resulted
in the loss of both his lower limbs.
Mr.. Connor was riding along the
track Of the Southen Railway on a
railway tricycle., when he was struck
by switch engine and both legs cut
off just above the knees.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
Coal Field to Coast.

Washington.-A corps Of Southern
Railway engineers will take the field
for the purpose of surveying rail
road line between Marion, N. c., and
Johnson City, Tenn. The proposed
road will make possible short line
between the Virginia coal fields and
the seacoast at Charleston, and will
also give the Southern Railway ac-
cess to coal fields in North Carolina
South Carolina and Georgia. =
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
MilIet Seed Poultry Food.

The following is from the Farm and
Fireside: The commercial millet seed
is about as cheap as wheat, and it il
possible that in the future it will be-
come special food for all kinds OF
poultry. Millet seed contains more OF
than corn, but less starch, and is alsA
more heterogeneous. The advantage in
it's use is that as the seeds are verX
small each hen is compelled to eai
slowly, and must also perform con-
siderable work before she can securE
full meal. Such method of feedin
the fowls brings them nearer the ma
ural conditions required, as portid#
Of the food will be digested slowly and
entirely before all the food is eatenl
A quart of millet seed scattered in lit
ter-such as cut straw, leaves or earth
lin the morning should amply supply
fifteen hens until night, when a full
meal of grain and other foods may bd
given for the finish of the day. Hend
so kept will give better results than id
fed twice day or oftener.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
Death List Small.

There were only twelve deaths
among Mississippi convicts during the
year 1904. The average number OF
convicts in the penitentiary was 1907,
This is death rate of SO per cent.
which is remarkably low death rate.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
Good Roads.

The subject of good roads is just
now receiving a deal of attention at
the hands of the people. In those
counties where roads are still worked
in the old way, an effort is being made
to interest the supervisors in the con-
tract system. Many more roads will
be worked by contract this year thar
was the case last year.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19

Bishop C. B. Galloway has rendered
his resignation as member Of the
Board Of Trustees Of the Alcorn Agri.
cultural and Mechanical College to
Governor Vardaman. His successor
has not yet been appointed.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19

A pound of cotton-seed meal is wor
a pound and three-quarters of corn II
feeding cattle. but when cotton-sed
meal is fed and the manure saved wi
reasonable care, three-fourths of II
fertilizer value may be regained in I'd
droppings. Can we continue to vast
three-fourths Of the value of our co
ton-seed meal because we have nd
learned, and apparently do not want I
learn, to raise and care for live stocN
At present the price of cotton-seed med
is based on it's fertilizer value alonI
but as its food value becomes bette
appreciated, the price will be deteI
mined by its combined fertilizer an
feeding valves. During the last I'd
years the price of meal has risen froE
$15 to S25 per ton, and 1 predict thu
during the next ten years it will az
vance to $50, because it is worth thk
amount in comparison with the usut
price OF other food stuffs. Can we a
ford to continue to use it as fertliiz1
alone, at that price, and ignore al
waste its feeding value?
We certainly need live stock to cor
sumo this cotton-seed meal. for only II
feeding it can we obtain its full valuI
The same principles are involved whe
we consider the disposition that shout
be made of leguminous forage crops.
is universally admitted that it pa
to grow cowpeas as means OF sd
Improvement, for, even when the crdl
is cut for hay, there is still left to til
soil, in the roots and stubbIe, froi
$3.50 to So worth of nitrogen for ever
ton of hay produced. But when thk
crop is grown, what shall we do wiS
it? Every ton of this cowpea hay
worth at least SO for fertilizer, at til
price we pay for plant food in CONNIE
cial acknowledgements Farmer
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19

Insurance Commissioner Cole col.
lected $1O0,111 in insurance fees and
licenses during 1904. This is a re.
markedly good showing for the In.
surance Department..
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19

Fifty women students at Gottingen
recently held a "Commers," feast Of
song and lager beer. at which several
professors were present.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
SOUTHERN : fARM >Iro7Es.
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