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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-24

fall behind the procession. To ac-
complish this learn one new fact
every day. The mind that is salts
fed to live upon the lessons it learned
in its youth grows old and musty.
To keep young it must be fresh and
active-that is, abreast with the
times. The old methods of thought
and the old facts may have been cor
rect enough once upon a time, but
that time has passed. Today they are
obsolete and only amusing as relics
of antiquity. To remain young,
therefore, one must keep the store
house Of the memory clear of all such
rubbish. Throw away one of the
mildewed relics every day and replace
it with some newer, fresher and more
uptodate fact.
Here, then, is this New York ply
sician's secret of perennial youth in
a nutshell:
Be temperate! Don't be afraid to
go to sleep! And-keep up with the
times! 1t is not difficult rule OF
life to follow. 1t is ever so mnch
easier than wandering about strange
lands in search of hidden springs.
It is somewhat pleasanter than stew.
ing over i'll smelling cruclbles.
Moreover, it has the advantage of
being thoroughly practicable, which
makes it we'll worth trying.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-24
A BOYS ESSAY ON GIRLS.

! Girls are sisters of boys and has
long hare, wares dresses an powder.
The first girl was called Christmas
Eve, though never could tell why.
Most every family has one girl and
some Of 'em that is in hard luck has
two or three. We have girl in
ourn who is my sister. Girls can
grow older and get younger. My sis
ter has been twenty-five for three
years and some day we may be twins.
Girls play the pianner and talk about
each other. Fat girls want to be
thin and thin girls want to be fat and
all of 'em want to marry doods.
Why the Lord made girls nobody nos,
but think it were to go to church
and eat ice cream. There is three
kinds of girls, brunet girls, blond
girls and them that has money. Girls
is afraid of mice and bugs, which
make it fun to put 'em down their
baks.-Ex.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-24
s'FOCI .,

1t seems that there are some who
W no do not understand the meaning
OF the word foci,' as used in the
reports of the spread of fever in New
Orleans.
The word is Latin and is plural of
OF focus meaning center" there
fore foci' means ''centers >,
Therefore case appearing in a new
place, some distance from the original
center OF Infection is put down as
new foci" or new center. The
word should be pronounced (fosi) in
stead of (foki. A negro who did not
understand the meaning of the word
said that he did not fear yellow fever
but he was "sho skeered of dem foci. -
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-24
GOV. VARDAMAN SEES TROUBLE
AS OUTCOME OF INCIDENT.

Ar OOIOOME OF lNOlDENI.
When asked his opinion of the
Booker T. Washington Wanamaker
social equality incident, Governor
Vardaman said:
My views about this matter,
think are pretty we'll known: I will
say, however, that think the whole
affair is discreditable to the nigger.
The saddle .colored citizen from Tus-
Kegee is the one party to this affair
who has suffered socially. 1t also re-
veals Booker's real purposes, and
gives the lie to his former utterances.
1t does another good thing, it places
in their true light and locates in the
line of march certain brand of
theogolical politicians and Ogendite
niger coddling white men Of the
south, who must now take Booker to
their swelling bosoms as he really is,
and al he represents, or repudiate
him altogether. This affair IS the
| AAPOAihS iAuAu, OuO UOAdtCu Uu1 0htuldl
outgrowth, of the fifteenth amend
ment, and the logical sequence of
this rank rot about the higher educa-
tion, social elevation and political
equality of the niger as race. It
is the forerunner Of serious trouble.
This apparently unimportant affair
will inspire hopes and aspirations in
the the breasts O. the niger which
will cause him to do things for which
the white man will hang him. It
is horrible to contemplate, but it
l must come. 1t is but incidental to
this particular stage of the cruel
process through which we must pass
for the solution of the race problem !.
It cannot be evaded, but in the end
will be settled and settled according
to the white mans idea of right In
the meantime, it would se well for
Alabama for her people to induce
Booker to go north, where things
would personally be more congenial to
his fastidious TASTE
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-24
WANAMAKER DIMES BOOKER.

Booker 7. Washington S appearance
at dinner in the great dining room of
the United States Hotel at Saratoga,
New York, Sunday caused mild SEN
sation among the diners. Booker
Washington was the guest Of John
Wanamaker. former postmaster gen.
eral, and acted as an escort for Mrs.
Barclay Warburton. Mr.. Wanamaker's q
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-24

A hotel keeper at Laurel was fined
$25 and cost fol- circulating false re-
ports about yellow fever. A lady
passing through on train asked him
if there was any yellow fever in
Laurel. He replied that there were
four cases at his house. In court lie
admitted making the statement, but
said he did it as joke, but the Judge
didn't see the point. Such jokes are
damaging and the jokers should all be
severely dealt with Gloster Record.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-24

O'Clock train for their future home =
Clari on Ledger.
Miss Afford was raised in Rankin
county and is sister of Mrs. r. r.
Brown, of this place. She has manv
friends here who join The News in
wishing for her life's sweetest bless
ings.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-24

daughter. while Mr.. Wanamaker
walled to the table with J. r. E.
Roberts. Washington preached there
three times Sunday, first at the
Presbyterian church, then in the Bar-
tist church and late in the evening at
the African Methodist church.
CITIZENS OF TEXAS SEND WANA-
MAKEB A TELEGRAM.
Apropos of the recent Wanamaker.
Booker Washington incident num-
Der of Temple, Tex, citizens have sent
the following telegram:
John Wanamaker, Postmaster
General, Saratoga, N. Yin the
public press we noticed you dined
Booker L. Washington at the United
States Hotel last Sunday as escort
to your daughter. We of the south
appreciate Booker Washington's abil-
ity, but deny his right to social
equality with any American, however
humble. Such action on the part of
leading northern citizens has caused
the south much trouble. We as
people regret your action, and ask
would You accept a negro of whatever
rank as son in law or in social equality
with your family as you have indica-
ted? We take no 'nigger' in ours
south of Mason and Dixon S line and
request your reply and explanation.
(Signed)
"JNO. H. STEPHENS,
W. G. HALBERT,
and fifty others
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-03

Justice Melville W. Fuller, Marquis Ito Mark
Twain and the late Secretary of State John
Hay, and 1 then had the privilege of making
the personal acquaintance of President Roose-
Yelt.
Everywhere the most exquisite hospitality
was extended to me, and OF the most
distinguished American citizens arranged in
my honor large and fine dinner at the Met
ropoiitsn Club in New York. l was the guest
Of President Eliot of Harvard University. L
received the best impression of all classes of
american citizens, and l especially in
debted to Chief Justice Fuller, who my
colleague at Paris during the great arbtra-
ton OF 1899 between Venezuela and England
Jean Korostovetz, who is one of NJ.
de Whites secretaries, went through
the United States twice in 1894, going
from Japan to the Russian legation at
Rio Janeiro, and in 1901 going to Rus
sia from Port Arthur, where he was
the chief of Admiral AleXieff's civil
staff.
General Yermoteff, the leading mill
tary member of the Russian delega-
tion, said:
retain a very good remembrance of my
former soJourn in America, where I was in
the American troops during the Spanish Amer
ican War. At Tampa 1 had the honor of
being presented to Mr.. Roosevelt. l remained
IN Cuba until the fall OF Santiago During all
that time l received the best impression of
the American army, of which I admired the
heroism as well the spirit and discipline
and the exceptional snartness. I shall, there
fore, have great pleasure in meeting again
the many military friends whom have in
America
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-03
MAY
YET PROSECUTE
New York's District AttOr-
ney in Supreme Court Dis
cusses Equitable Affairs
SPECIAL GRAND JURY
Extraordinary Conditions Re-
yealed May Compel TAX
ING of Criminal Action

NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-District At
torney Jerome told Justice Davy in the
criminal branch of the New York State
Supreme Court to-day that he might
need a special Grand Jury to .nyesti-
gate the Equitable Life Assurance So
cietys affairs before the legislative
committee has finished its investiga-
ton of its conditions, which is soon
to begin. The court has been kept sit
ting to await possible action by
Jerome. He Informed it to-day that he
was not certain whether he would
want the special jury or not and would
not ask for 1t now, but requested the
court to adjourn to September IL,
which it did
In the meantime, he said, any Jus
tice of the court could grant the order
for special jury.
In making the request for an ad-
journment, Jerome said:
AS a result of the investigation by
the State Superintendent of Insurance,
which called attention to the condi-
tions Of the Equitable company, have
discovered in the investigation an ex-
traordinary condition of affairs which
affects not only this country but all
parts of the world. Transactions have
been of such a character that they re-
quire investigation by the District At
torney of this county. The State
superintendent of Insurance is not a
prosecuting officer and the investiga-
ton he conducted was not with a view
of finding whether the company had
conducted its business in a criminal
manner"
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-03

that would implicate Crowhurst, but
without much success.
The Sheriff said this evening:
OF course, without a statement from
Cook am badly handicapped. He told
the doctors that Schn neider and Blaker
were two of the men, but 1 don't know
whether this can be used in evidence
and 1t leaves me simply with a cir
cumstantial case against the boys. We
nave Schneider's cap, which was found
near the scene of the robbery, and alto
gether a fair circumstantial case
against them, besides which we have
their record of numerous attempts at
robbery which, believe, will convince
almost any jury that they are not fit
to be at large.
I have had several persons tell me
to-day that the lives of these boys
would not be worth a cent If 1 turned
them loose, and two friends have come
to me to-day with the information that
there was an attempt going to be made
TO take them out of the Jail and lynch
them. do not take any stock in such
rumors, but it just shows you what
the people in that community think
of them. And it is not so much on
account of the murder of Cook as it is
for the many other offenses they have
committed, and which makes them one
that were ever banded together. They
called themselves the Jim Crows
James Crowhurst was the ringleader
and was developing into a dangerous
highwayman."
District Attorney Allen and Sheriff
Barnet were closeted with the boys for
several hours this afternoon, and Allen
was placed in possession of the evil
dence against them, besides hearing
what aaPh had hfroSaIf
BLOWS WE'RE TERRIBLE.
Cooks body was moved to the under
taking parlors of Smiley & Gallagher
in Alameda, where an autopsy was per-
formed by DR.. J. NJ Shannon of this
city, assisted by DR.. j. H. Callen and
DR.. P. S. Crosby of Fruitvale. Other
physicians who witnessed the post
mortem examination were DIR. C. G.
Bull. DR.. w. T. Lum and DR.. A. s.
Kelly.
When the autopsy was finished DIR.
Shannon said that the immediate cause
of death was meningitis and cerebritis
resulting from fracture of the skull
and injury to the brain. In relating
what the autopsy disclosed, DR.. Shan
non said: "At the point of commence
ment of the fracture, and where the
weapon came in contact with the head,
there was a diamond-shaped hole in
the skull about three inches long and
an inch and a half wide, from which
the fragments of crushed bone had
been removed before death. We
also found evidence. on the top
of the head near the back, of a
blow that did not fracture the
skull It is probable that 1t was
there where the first blow landed, and,
not telling the victim, he was struck
again over the left ear. Cook may have
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-03
VAST SUM SPENT IN POLITICS.
Light Being Thrown Upon Mysterious
$6S5,OOO Loan to Equitable.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-Although the leg
islative committee appointed to investi-
gate insurance methods has hardly yet
got to work, light is beginning to break
through the mystery which has yelled the
$6S5,00 loan carried by the Mercantile
Trust Company for years in the names
of James w. Alexander and Thomas D..
Jordan, trustees. From an authoritative
source it was learned to-day not only
that portions of the funds carried under
that f1uctuating account were used for
the payment of political contributions to
both great parties for defraying cam
paign expenses and that other sums were
deducted from it for lobbying expenses
and for settlement out of court of annoy
ing litigation, but also that a consider
able share of the total was used for the
purchase of eighty-nine shares of stock
of the Equitable Life Assurance Society
at the then market rates, whdich varied
from $4,000 to $4,000 a share.
1t is explained that the purpose of this
purchase was to prevent these outStand-
ing shares from falling into undesirable
hands, and 1t is believed the officers OF
the society, or persons active in their in
terest, took this course to prevent any
considerable portion of stock Of the
Equitable from becoming the property of
persons who might, as stockholders,
bring troublesome suits for an account
ing or for a partition of the surplus in
the interest of policy-holders.
If, as Henry C. Deming, president of
the Mercantile Trust Company. under
stood and so testified before Commission
er Hendricks. this was really a loan
made to the Equitable, then the use of
any portion of it for such purpose was
improper and illegal. as the Attorney
General has averred in the suit brought
against the old board Of directors in be-
half of the State.
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-03
ENVOY DE WHITES ENToUaAGE.
Number of Russian NotabIes Accompany
the Plenipotentiary.

NEW YORK. Aug. 2.-Eight officials
OF the Russian Peace Commission ar
rived here to-day on the steamship Kali
ser Wilhelm der Crosse. Besides the
senior plenipotentiary, Sergius de
Witte, there were: ]. Shipoff, Director
of the Treasury Department; Major
General Yernoleff. military attache at
London; Mr.. Naboukoff of the Foreign
Office; Jean Korotovitz, formerly secre
tary of the Russian legation at Peking;
Georges Plancon, formerly Russian
Charge at Peking; General w. K. Sa-
moiloff of the Russian Foreign ONCE.
and Professor de Martens. professor of
international law at st. Petersburg.
A tug bearing twenty-five members
OF the committee of the Slavonic League
went TO Quarantine to meet the fncom-
ing steamship and three members of
this committee boarded the Kaiser Will
helm der Crosse
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-03
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
GOES TO THE WORKHOUSE
Charles E. RouxeI, Recently From Hon
duras, Arrested In New York
for Vagrancy.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-Charles E.
RouxeI who said he had been a pro-
fessor of bellies lettres in a South Am
erican university, and evidently man
of refinement and culture, was sent to
the workhouse for a month yesterday
Rouxel was picked up as a vagrant by
a policeman in Madison Square Park
Stranded in Honduras after touring
the world subsequent to completing his
education in Paris, the prisoner told
Magistrate Cornell that he became
third keeper of the treasury in the
South American State. Later he was
appointed to be chief of mathematics
of the university. A change in the ad-
ministration caused him to fee the
country and since that time he had
been able to gain only a precarious
livelihood.
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-03
GREAT BRITAIN GETS
CONTROL IN MOROCCO
Madrid Has RumOr That
Conference May Not
Be Held.
Special Cable to The Call and New York Her
AID Copyright 1905. by the New York
Herald Publishing Company

MADRID, Aug. 2.-In diplomatic circles
here the report is circulated that the in
teinational conference between the sig
natory powers on the affairs Of Morocco
may be considered to be prorogued in
definitely. 1t is said that England has re-
gained all her former influence with the
Sultan of Morocco and that France lost
her influence with him as soon as it was
learned that she had entered into an
agreement with Germany
PARIS, Aug. Premier Rouvier, at
a reception to the diplomatic corps to-
day. handed to Prince Won Radolin, the
German ambassador. a further note
expressing the French point of view
regarding the programme for the Mo-
roccan conference. The note is designed
TO clear up MISUNDERSTANDING concern
ing the scope of the conference and to
aIlay the renewed agitation resulting
from the delay in the negotiations.
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-03
COMES TO AID CzAR,s ENJOYS.
NJ. PokotilOf, Russian Minister 10
China, Reaches the Coast.

China, Reaches the Coast.
VICTORIA. B. c., Aug. 2.-Dmitri D.
Pokotiloff, a member of the Russian
peace delegation, arrived by the steam
ship Empress of Japan to-day en- route
to Washington, d. c., where he will as
sist De Witte and Baron Rosen in the
Forthcoming peace negotiations. NJ.
Pokotiloff declined to discuss the peace
question, stating he did not know any
thing about it himself, having received
no instructions from his Go yernmert
as to his position. He had gone to
Peking to succeed the late Paul Lessar
as Russian Minister and had been the, e
a week when he received a telegram
from s.. petersburg ordering him to
proceed to Washington to attend The
p ,acc com 1crence. He says he does net
know what his position at the inquiry
IS 70 he.
When asked if his appointment had
anything to do with the proposal of
any arrangements at the peace con-
ference in regard to the Chinese East
ern Railway, he having been formerly
adviser to the administration of that
railway, Pokotiloff said he did not
know what would be done. AS to the
statements made in Japan that he was
sent by Russia in order to make some
arrangement to save the railway for
Russia or to secure Chinese control he
said such statements had presumably
arisen because of his former connec-
tion with the administration of the
railway
NJ. Pokotiloff does not regard the
chinese boycott as likely to prove a
serious movement. 1t has not Govern
ment sanction, he said, and he was
or the opinion that more prominence
was given to the movement in America
than in China
NJ Pokotiloff, who is 40 years of age
is an expert on Chinese Mongolian and
Manchurian affairs and has had much
experience in connection with Russian
work in the Far East
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-03
EXPLAINS WHY UNCLE
SAM PAID EXPENSES
Secretary Wilson Says His
Sons Visit to Alaska Was
Strictly Official.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 2.-secretary WI
son to-day issued a staternent relating
to a charge that his son and private
secretary, Jasper Wilson. made trip to
Alaska about year ago at the expense
Of the department: Secretary Wilson says
the trip was made at his instance and
was for the purpose of ascertaining the
condition Of the game there. delegations
from Alaska having protested against
sending anybody in there with permis-
sion TO shoot and bring out'~trophies- The
miners claimed that they lived. there in
the winter, that the game was a source
which often stood between them and
starvation
1T wanted to know the real facts" said
the Secretary, "and sent MY. private
secretary. uo there He was a salaried
officer here. The department paid his
actual travelling expenses, OF course. I
send men all over the world for infor-
nation.
Upon receipt OF my private secretary's
report I shut down on the granting. OF
permits to everybody excepting persons
representing museums and other educa-
tional Institutions"
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-03
AMERICA GIVES HEARTY
WELCOME TO DE WITTE
as Chief Peace Plenpotentiary Comes With Plenary
Powers Equal to Those of Baron Komura.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-Mem-
bers of De Whites party were
each approached to-day for
their views as to the peace ne
gOtiatiOns. Naturally ON n sub
ject Of such deIicacy they were
reticcnt, but this much was
asccrtained beyond a doubt;
In scope, the powers of Mr.
dc Witte, who comes as pIeni-
pOtentisiry of Russia to discuss
with the japanese plenipOtcn-
tiarIes means of ending the
war Crowded n basis accept
able to Russia il obtalned), to
sign the treaty of Washington,
are equal in every way to the
pow ers handed TO Baron Ko-
mura by the japanese Emperor.
At the headquarters of the
Japanese peace commissioners
tonight no comment was made
upon the published interview
with De Eitte.
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-03
Home for Sons of Leper,.

HONOLULU, Aug. 2.-The Board of
Health has plans under way for the
building of a home for non-leprous
boys who are at the leper settlement
children of lepers. The home is to be
near Honolulu. 1t has been found that
children of leprous parents who are
raised in homes away from the settle
ment do not develop the disease, and al
ready there is a home for girls born at
the settlement
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-03
NEW YORK,S ANTIQUATED
HORSE CAR LINE NO MORE
After Fifty Years of Service, Old-Fash-
foned System Is Replaced by
Rauid Transit.

NEW YORK Aug. 2.-Horse cars of
the most antiquated pattern, which
have been running on Grand street for
a half century, went out of commission
at midnight They will be superseded
by the underground trolley.
The old car line, which passed
through what was not many years ago
New York's principal retail district,
connected the Des brosses-street ferry
North River, with the Grand street
ferry, East River, and for years have
been packed to overf1owing in rush
hours. Many drivers on the Grand
street cars have grown gray in the SER
vice. All will be taught to handle the
motors before the new cars are in
stalled.
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-03
FAILURES IN FRANCE
DISOHGANIZE MARKET
Disastrous Speculation in Sugar Causes
Decentralization, and Minister of
Finance Is AnnenIed To

PARIS. Aug. 2.-Further serious fail
ures in the sugar trade owing to recent
gigantic speculation are disorganizing
the market. A syndicate of brokers to-
day requested the Minister of Finance
and Commerce to intervene with view
to arranging measures to avoid an ex-
tension Of the crisis. in which the lead
ing firms are involved. The Ministers
promised to consult experts, with whose
assistance 1T is considered probable that
the shortage will be overcome.
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-03
western states to Investigate.

CHICAGO, Aug. 2.-Three large In
surance companies of New York are to
be investigated by the Insurance Com
missions of Tennessee, Kentucky, Wis
consin and Minnesota, as a result of a
meeting of eight State Insurance Com
missioners held here to-day, Another
result of the conference is tofbe the in
terstate investigation of all large in
surance companies, SO that alleged mis-
application of funds and mismanage-
ment may become a thing of the past
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-03
COOK DIES FROM BLOWS
BY HEAVY BLUDGEON.
Autopsy Shoes Deep Fractures Of His Skull

Thomas w. Cook, the young
grocer who was brutally
beaten and robbed at Fruit
vale on the night Of July y,
died at the Alameda SAM
tarium early yesterday morn
ing. The autopsy showed
that the bludgeon used by the
murderers had fractured the
entire front Of the head. John
Schneider and George w.
Blaker, the young suspects in
Jail, will be charged with
murder. James Crowhurst
and Percy Pembroke will
also be held pending develop
ments, as they have already
confessed to other highway
robberiies.