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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18
An Astonishing Eqq.

Take raw egg and empty 1t by
means of pin holes. AS soon as the
Inside of it is dry fill it quarter full
Of fine sand. and then, with a little
wax, seal up the holes. 1t now looks
like an ordinary egg.
The next time you have boiled eggs
for breakfast take your prepared egg
and substitute it for the one that is
given YOU.
Then you may safely announce that
your egg is ready to obey your COM
nands.
You can place it at will in any posi-
ton you desire. 1t will stand on the
edge of knife or on the rim of a
glass, no matter whether you put it
endways or sideways.
In the last case you will cause more
establishment. because it will seen to
trespass against the laws of gravity.
The only precaution you need observe
is to tap the egg gently, SO as to cause
the sand it contains to settle each
time at the bottom, and thus it will as
sumo any position you wish.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18
Burglar Neatly Tanned.

When the assistants at Bristol
(Eng) pawnbroker's entered the prem
lses the other morning they saw q
man crouching in a corner behind 8
box. He tried to rush past a file Of
customers waiting to be served, but
was secured. He proved to be Rich
ard Halstead, mason, and in his
possession was jewelry worth over
tl0O. Investigation showed that be
mad been curiously trapped. He had
evidently gained access to the prem
lses by cutting a hole in the roof
he was, however, unable to get to the
shop below on account of an iror
door on the staircase. AS a last re
sort, and being a small man. he got
into the shop by sliding down a rope
In small wooden lift. The rope
however, broke, and he came down
with run. His position was not
fully realized till, having secured the
jewelry, he was about to take his de
parture Then he found all the doors
safely locked and the rope in the lift
broken. With no possible means OF
egress he had to wait till the shoy
was opened.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18

leave the end of the pin and bend the
hairpin around the dowel two or three
times. Put three screw eyes in the
top OF the elevator and with a stout
linen thread string it up as shown in
the picture.
A derrick may be made out of a
few pieces Of wood in comparatively
short time. The best kind to make is
one about foot high, made of dow.
els. The base Of the derrick NAV be
made of one or two pieces of wood.
so that it will be solid and strong.
Half inch wood, like that found on the
side Of soap boxes, make the best.
Make the base about six by eight
inches.
At one end bore hole, and in it
stick dowel about foot long. Cut
another dowel about nine inches long.
to be used as boom. To fasten this
to the mast is easy if directions are
followed. Secure ring and screw
such as are used to fasten the strings
on roller shades. With a hairpin burn
hole in one end of the dowel and
screw in the ring and screw. If this
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18
A Life of self.Abneeation.

The Rev. DR.. Josiah Stro1g draws
this picture Of the 5lessedness of self
sacrifice. He says: 1.-The life of self
abnegation does not attract you. A
cathedral window seen from without
is dull and meaningless. But enter.
and the light of Heaven, streaming
through it, giorifies it with every
beauty of form and color. Consecra-
ton to God for service may seem dub
enough when seen from without: but
enter into that experience, and the
light of the divine love, streaming
through it, shall glorify your life with
beauty and blessedness which are
Heavens own"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18
Dog Lives After Beino Buried.


After being buried under the ruins
OF a seven-story building twenty-one
days, in which time she was almost
starved to death. Chief, a beautifui
water spaniel, has been rescued and
is well on the road to recovery. She
came out of her prison resembling s
mad animal, but careful nursing has
brought her back to her former gentle
ways
Chief was in the basement of a cot
tage in West Van Buren, street at the
time Of the fire in the home of the
Cash Buyers Union, and when the
walls of the building fell they crushed
the frail structure and made the dog 6
prisoner. She had lain there many
days when the wreckers found her
They fed her through small opening
some time before they were able tt
release her.
Medical men, say a man could moi
live longer than six days under like
Observation-Disclosures Record Her.
aid.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18
FiIiaI Obedience.

A sixty-year-old son who asked his
mothers permission to marry is the
proud distinction of Western NORTH
Carolina. This splendid example Of
flial obedience and devotion is ]. M
Thrash of Davidson River, who has
just been married to Miss Molly Max
we'll of Brevard. The aged mother, 81
years old yesterday, the day of the
wedding, had birthday gift in this
request of her son.-Columbia State
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18
Footed Thousands Of Miles.

It is astonishing what distances car
be covered by men who are by nc
means pedestrians in the ordinary ex.
ercise of their callings. The organist
of church in rural England who died
a few years ago lad walked twenty
miles to play his organ every Sunday
For fifty-one years he had done his
Sabbath tramp, failing only once tt
put in an appearance, and never once
being late.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18
Deepest Mine In the World.

magine if you can a gigantic honey.
comb forty miles long by fifteen miles
broad, surrounded by water and pen
etrated by hundreds Of miles of tun
rels arranged in tiers one below anoth
er to the depth of mile, and you will
have some idea, writes Mr.. Theodore
Waters, in Everybody's Magazine, OF
the country in which the deepest mine
in the world, the Calumet and Hecla
is located. This copper mine extends
down four thousand feet below the
bottom of Lake Superior, which Itself
is one thousand feet deep.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18
Giants in Greenland.

Christian Jensen, who has just re
turned from years voyage in the
Arctic seas. reports that while his yes.
sci was trading on the southwest coast
Of Greenland there arrived from the in.
terror a party of giants, the shortest
Of whom was seven feet in height and
the tallest nine feet. They had the
copper-colored compilations and the
features of North American Indians
London Tit-Rits.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18
The Way We Do Things.

Rev. +. B. Meyer says: KNITTING
needles are cheap and common enough.
but on them may be wrought the fair
est designs in the richest woods. So
the incidents Of daily life may be CON-
monplace in the extreme. but on them
as the material foundation we may
build the unseen but everlasting fab
ric of noble and beautiful character.
1t does not so much matter what we
do, but the way in which we do il
matters greatly"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18
Hard Task to Find Water.

The work Of driving well for a
brewery at South Manchester, N. H.,
still goes on. The well after two
months of labor shows q depth Of 760
feet, almost the entire distance being
through solid granite ledge. No salts
factory supply Of water has vet been
obtained, the dust now being brought
to the surface being as dry Is pow.
der.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18
An Old Game.

An Old Game.
We sat and watched the shooting stars
Across the azure skies;
4 You get to kiss the girl, you know.
:, Beiore the quick flash diesl.
But meteorS We're few, or else
Too slow our mortal eyes
ana SO We cheated, she and T.
we counted firefiies!
That was in summertime-hut NOW
We cannot sit outside:
nv. stars are there, but lightning bugs
mis- cold cannot abide.
DIl Wnen longed for spring to come
NY goodness! do we really need
Excuses now?" she cried.
Cleveland Leader
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18

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 a col
umn and forces the object away from
It. When you blow through the small
end of the conical hole the air cur
rent is spread, or dispersed, and goes
OFF around the object, leaving it un-
moved.
In blowing very hard, as, for in
stance, if you should use bellows,
or even with the breath blown 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
displaced, causing the paper or fame
to be drawn toward the hole instead
Of away from 1t.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18
Housewives Little Slip.

A certain West Falmouth, Me-, won.
an, who prides herself on the precise
ness with which she does her work.
got jar that may mean nervous pros
tration last Saturday. She had cooked
her Saturday brown bread in lard
pail for years, but never until last
Saturday has she steamed covered
pail half full of lard, and tried to serve
1t with beans.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18

General Gordon, the hero OF China
and likewise of Khartum, based his
life upon four rules: Forgetfulness of
self, absolute sincerity, Indifference to
the worlds judgments. absorption id
the will Of God. These four rules anide
as guide-posts on the path to great.
ness, but the greatest of these IS sur
render to the will of God Pacific
Baptist.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18
Good Game for the Evening.

/ Good Game for the Evening.
Here is a jolly game. 1t consists
of answering questions which are puns
on the abbreviation of our various
state names.
Pass around sheets of paper for the
different players to write them on, an
nounce one and one-half minutes for
each answer, and then begin reading
out the questions:
(which is the most religious
state?
(Which is the most egotistical
state?
(Which is the state where untidy
folk ought to live?
(which is the father Of states?
(Which is the maiden state?
(Which is the state for pupils
having lessons to study?
(which is the best state for min
ers?
S-Which is the most unhealthy
state?
(Which is the state best fitted to
heal the sick?
10--Which is the decimal state?
(which is the best state in case
of q flood?
(Which is the state of surprise
or exclamation
The answers are:
1-Massachusetts maine. 81
Washington. 4-Pennsylvania. g.
Mississippi. 6-Connecticut. Tore
gon. S-Illinois. 9-Maryland. 10
Tennessee. 11-Arkansas. 12-Ohio.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18
JOY Enough.

There's JOY enough, good people. when
the burrows feel the FROST
An the lily's lookin lonesome, an the
violet'S feelin' lost
When the blue smokes curtin upward
from the cabin on the hill,
An the heart is maxim music though tn
mockin' birds are still!
There's Joy enough, good people, for the
winters sweets are sown
As thickly as the flowers In the gardens
love has known!
The stars still light the darkness-the
sunshine crowns the day,
An we sing the nights to morning, an
we're happy as the May!
Frank l.. Stanton in Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18
A Window Puzzle,

Try your wits on this: How can a
window having a height equal to it's
width be made twice as large without
increasing its height or width? I'm
possible? No, indeed. In fact, it's
very simple. In the first instance. the
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18
Trick With Dominoes.

The performer asks the audience to
match the blocks of set of dominoes
so that the numbers laid together cor
respond. While this is being done
he leaves the room. Returning he an
nounces the number of spots on the
two last blocks.
Solution-The performer secretly
removes a block bearing no double
number OF spots. The number OF
spots on this block must be the end
numbers on the set. To avoid detec-
ton 1t is advisable to change the
block when the trick is to be repeated.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18
"Robbing Peter to Pay Paul."

Many people have asked how we
came to have the familiar phrase,
'Robbing Peter to pay Paul."
This is the story: Westminster Alb
hey was once for ten years a cathe-
dral and was then called st. Peters.
When the bishop and estates were
transferred to ST. Paups, the saying
arose of 'Robbing Peter to pay Paul."
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18

Reverent attitudes are necessary in
worship, but it is tie reverence and
not the attitude in which the virtue
resides. Our hearts must be right
Sunday School Times.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-18

Delicate Wild Animals.
wild animals?" said an animal i'm
rorter. III ~ are far more delicate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
AS the Place for Opening
Peace Negotiations.
READY FOR CONDITIONS
IF JAPAN INSISTS UPON ELSE
WHERE WILL LIKELY AGREE.
Extraordinary Council Held Recently
at Cars Palace to Consider Pro-
posals to End War.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 11.-12.35 "a III.
PARIS Is Russia s choice as the place for
opening peace negotiations. If Japan in
sists upon Manchur!a Washington Rus
sia doubtless will agree but Paris is pre-
ferred, and the emperor already is prepared
to issue instructions to NJ. Neldof the
ambassador to France. to act as plenipo-
tentiary to receive the japanese condi-
tions.
The Russian government has commune
Gated to the administration at Washington
its consent to the publication of Russia's
reply to President Roosevelts appeal. at
the same time thanking the President
warmly for the friendly and lofty spirit in
which it was conceived.
The Associated Press is now able to give
some additional interesting details of the
extraordinary council presided over by the
emperor which met recently at Tsarskoe-
Selo, and at which the practical. although
not the final, decision was taken to termf-
nate the war if the conditions were not too
onerous.
Besides the older male members of the
imperial family all the ministers We're
present except NJ Manukhin minister Of
justice Gen. Fredercks master of cere-
monies; Prince Dolgoruki. Count Solslv,
Baron HeSSe and members of the fmperial
entourage and Gen. Dragomiroff and Vice
Admiral Doubaseoff were there as stra-
tegic experts of the army and navy.
Peace Sentiment Almost Unanimous.
With Grand Dukes Vladimir and Alexan-
der Michaelovitch as leaders. all the mem
bers of the imperial family. except Mich
olas Nicholaevitch, favored an attempt to
conclude peace Only Cen Sahharor the
minister of war, and Gen. Lobko. from
among the ministers. hold out for the pros
ecution of the war.
The former displayed a telegram from
Gen. Linevich reporting the strategic po-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
RAILWAY COMPANIES ANSWER.
Injunction Filed Against Them by In
terstate Commerce Commission.

CHICAGO, June 10.-Five railroad COM
panies out of eighteen named in bill for
Injunction filed some time ago by the in
terstate commerce commission today nied
answers in the United States circuit court
The bill for an injunction was based on q
decision Of the commissioner rendered some
time previous
The Chicago Live Stock Exchange COM
planned that eighteen railroads were dis
eliminating in prices between the cost OF
shipping live stock and live stock produce
from Missouri river points to Chicago. The
commission decided that the rate was dis
eliminating and ordered 1t changed. No at
tention was paid by the railroads to the
order, and enforcement is now sought by
law under injunction .,roceedings. II the
Injunction is granted II will restrain the
railroad companies from refusing co COM
ply with the decision of the commission.
The railroad companies which filed their
answers today are:
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis and Oma-
ha. Chicago and Alton, the Wabash the
Chicago Great Western and the Chicago
and Northwestern The last mentioned
company in it's answers declared that the
evidence presented before the interstate
commerce commission was not OF enough
importance for the decision rendered; that
the railroad cannot lower the rate on i've
stock from It's present position that be-
cause of competition the rates must DC
maintained, and that no shipper In mis-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
MAYOR WEAVER wIELDs AK.
| Two Magistrates Deposed-other Ar
rests to Follow Acker's.

H4ADELPHIA, Pa, June IONA gis-
trates Robert J. Moore and Leslie Yates.
who were a few months ago appointed COM
hitting magistrates at the central station
by Mayor Weaver, to succeed Magistrates
Cunningham and Kochersperger, were to-
day removed from those positions by the
mayor. Magistrate William Eisenbrown
succeeds Moore, and Magistrate Yates
place was filled by Magistrate Kochersper-
ger, formerly committing magistrate
Magistrates Moore and Yates were strong
organization men To the influence of Sen
ator McNichol Yates owes his appointment
at the central station, and Insurance Com
missioner Durham is said to have induced
the mayor to appoint Moore who was the
reputed leader of the fourth ward. Magis-
trates sitting at the central station draw
ice.
II is reported that other arrests are to
follow that of John a. Acker, the deposed
storekeeper of the water bureau, who is
charged with defraudng the city, and 1t is
said to be the mayors idea to have the
cases heard before magistrates not in SYM
pathy with the Durham organization.
A city hall watchman was discharged to-
day by Director Potter because of his Grim
inal record. A fireman was also dismissed
for characterization and intoxicat ton. In
addition number of firemen and police
men were fired and in some cases suspend
ed for various offenseS.
Mayor Weaver and his corps of advisers
have decided to place in nomination an In
dependent ticket for county officers at the
coming fall election and plans are also in
coctempla ton for the launching of COM
plete independent state ticket. which is to
justice Judge John Stewart of Chambers
burg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
ROMANCE OF THE STAGE.
Marriage Announcement Cleared Up
Young Woman's Whereabouts.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE, Md, June l0-A romance
of the stage had a happy elimination in
Wilmington today, when Frank Hayden of
New York and Miss Dolly Price of Phila-
delphia were married.
The announcement of the marriage also
clears up the mystery of the whereabouts
of Miss Price. who, It was thought, had
drowned herself through unrequited love-
She has been searched for by the police
departments In all the eastern cities for
week. but all this time she had been at
the Hotel Shirley. from which place, as the
bride of Mr.. Hayden, she will go to Phil
adelphia tomorrow to receive the blessings
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs Charles ].
Callahan.
When the season of the Woodland" COM
pany closed Mr.. Hayden and Miss Price
agreed to be married, but found that they
had not sufficient funds to start houSekeep-
ing, so they parted, Mr.. Hayden going 10
New York and Miss Price to Philadelphia
where she secured a position in the Sim
pie Simon company, playing at the Park
Theater
Failure to hear from her lover as often
as she thought she should made Miss Price
respondent. Last night a week ago, ac-
cording to Mr.. Hayden she left the the
ater before the performance had ended and
went to Declair, n. j., near Wilmington
determined to end her life. She removed
her coat and hat, and, placing her hand
bag on the banks of the Delaware river
was about to throw herself into the river
when she changed her mind and fed from
the place She, however, left her things
where she had dropped them.
Sunday morning last some people of Del
air found the things belonging to Miss
Price on the river bank, and at once con-
ciuded that there had been a suicide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
HELD FOR WoMAN'S MURDER.
Druggist Hermann and DR.. Tompkins
Charged With Crime.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md, June 10.-F. Will
liam Hermann, druggist, who, with DIR.
John II. Tompkins, colored. was held by
the coroner's jury for the murder of Miss
Jean Maxwell, Herrmann's fiancee, her
death resulting from a criminal operation,
was released on $4,000 bail this afternoon.
His bondsmen were ex-senator George l..
Wellington. former City Councilman Ed
ward II. Welsh and ]. George Hermann,
brother of the accused.
Tompl<ins is still In Jail, but II Is thought
proceedings will be taken at an early day
to secure his release. The state will not
ask for heavy bail for him as in the
case of Hermann.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
Difficulties Confronting Russia.

peal was received officials commented upon
the difficulties confronting Russia In con-
sidering 1t. One ambassador said: 1.-The
dread OF a revolution influences all decisions
at the Russian court. The emperor's sister,
who wields unusual influence, Is among
those holding that the return of the army
without a single victory will precipitate an
internal crisis. This view widely prevails
among the encourage of the emperor, which
engagement vital in order to retain the
thrones military support.
ION the other hand, one of the foremost
statesmen in Russia told me that revolu-
ton in Russia was impossible, for the real
son that the Russian population is chiefly
agricultural, and therefore does not live in
towns. Careful estimates show that the
urban classes, which would sustain reyo-
luton, would not exceed 100000, which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
STATE WON FIRST POINT.
Case Of Kansas Versus Standard Oil
Company.

TOPEKA Kans., June 10.-In the case of
the state of Kansas against the Standard
Oil Company, the state won the first point
in the supreme court today. This is the
case in which the state is trying to oust
the Standard from doing business in Kan
sas, on the ground that 1t is a trust.
The charges are of a general nature,
while the Standard asked that they be made
more definite and the names and dates
where the Standard had conspired' be
given.
The answer of the state was that the in
formation the Standard desires is the pc
culiar possession Of the defendant company,
and the state does not have to set it forth
in detail. The court overruled the Stand
ards contention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
Personal Mention.

Mr. A. May, a prominent merchant of
Grand Rapids Mich, has left for home
after a pleasant visit to his sister. Mrs.
H. l.. Strausburger, 1446 Rhode Island ave-
nue..
Mr. Edward V. Rice of Capitol Hill. who
has been confined to his home on account
of illness. left last week for Atlantic City,
accompanied by his wife.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
MR.. GARFIELD'S DENIAL.
Has No Ambition to Run for Con-
PreSS

Reports have come from Ohio to the eff
feet that James r. Garfield. commissioner
of corporations, intends TO run for Cong
gress against Representative Beidler of one
of the Cleveland. Ohio, districts. Mr. Gar
field, who has come back to town from
his western trip, was interrogated upon
this point last night
He declared that he had no intention OF
running for Congress, that he was pretty
well satisfied with his present Job and
that anyhow Col. Jake Beidler was his
very good friend and it was far from his
intention TO trespass upon his political pre-
serves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
An Assistant Bureau Chief

Owing to the fact that Rear Admiral NJ.
I. Endicott chief Of the naval bureau of
yards and docks, will have to devote some
of his time TO the business of the isthmian n
canal commission, of which ne is a member.
1t has been found necessary TO detail an
officer to duty as assistant to the chief
of the naval bureau to look after its busi-
ness during the temporary absence of Ad-
miral Endcott on his visit to Panama The
officer selected for this duty is Civil Engi-
neer Andrew c. Cunningham, recently in
charge of construction work al the Naval
Academy