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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
RAN UP OLD GLORY.
How Paul Jones' Accepted the ChaI-
Ienoe of the Serapis.

lenCe OF the Scraps.
The Bon Homme Richard was still
bearing down on the large ship, which
was then protecting a large fleet of
merchant ships. In order to protect
that valuable convoy, as it was his
duty, he (the enemy hove to, hauled
up his canvas and prepared for ac-
ton. Side lanthorns, of course. were
up throughout the enemy's ship and
every man at quarters was plain to be
seen. We were then but very small
distance from them and you may be
sure that our ship was as well pre-
pared for action as it was in the pow
er OF man to have ship. While we
We're still bearing down upon the en-
envy, she hailed us in these words:
Hole! the ship a'hOie!" Our cap
tain, with large trumpet in his
hands, made no answer The enemy
again cried: "The ship a-hoie!" Jones
then in very loud voice said: 81 can't
tell what you say" The enemy again
replied: Tell me what ship that is
directly or l will sink you" Jones
then answered: Sink and be
damned" Both ships were within so
yards of each cher and at the words,
sink and be damned | fully believe
no man living could tell which ship
fred first, but so 1t was that each ship
fired broadside. | was at the time on
the lower deck commanding two of
the 18-pounders. Before the action
commenced, everything was so silent
that man could easily hear every
thing said. At the second broadside,
the guns that | had command of were
diSmOunted as were also all of our
lower deck guns, and of course. the
men were quartered elsewhere. At
this time. Jones ordered the helm to
be put hard up and to run the enemy
on board. It was done. In dom
~---., ..-UCo... ran between our
miZZen-shrouds and mizzen-mast. Her
jib-boom carried away our ensign
staff and colors At this, they gave
three cheers. We answered them
with one cheer. Jones at the same
time cried out: Look at my missen-
peak" at which place was run UP the
glory of America. / mean the most
handsome suit of colors that | ever
saw. They We're about SO feet in the
fy.-FrOm the Narrative Of John Kill
hy-Quarter-Gunner of the u S. Ship
Bon Homme Richard Under Paw
JONES' in Scribner's.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
Water Gardens.

A small outdoor water-garden is
Just the thing to make ones place
different from the general run of
commonplace gardens, says writer
in The Garden Magazine. Why not
try some hardy waterlilies this year!
| have two pools in my garden, and
both are source of great pleasure
to my n nily and myself, as we'll as
the stranger in my gates. One is
planted with water-lilies and the other
with lotus. In the former we have
flowers from early spring to late au-
tumn. The colors are white, yellow
and pink. The lotus blooms for Pc
Rod of about two months, and have
nothing in my garden to compare
with it's flowers in beauty. If you are
a lazy gardener try water-lilies. They
require no watering, when everything
else is drying up, and wedding at any
time. They multiply SO fast with me
that most of them have to be dug
up every spring, and the increase sells
at good prices. Do not grow geran-
iums, cannas, coleus, and the like,
when so many beautiful plants can be
grown SO different from your neigh
bors.-Indiana Farmer.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
A Good Barn Plan.

With your permission l will try to
give description of the barn l built
last year for the benefit of w. M,
OF Fulton county. My barn is for
horses only, but can be arranged for
any kind of stock. 1t is 36x50 feet
with basement 36x50 feet. The barn
is set in concrete walls IL feet high
Is inches thick at base and inches
at top. That is high enough to drive
a top buggy in. This gives room for
three rows of stalls 9 feet deep and
a drive way through the center 10
feet wide by so feet long. The first
floor space 36x50, feet high, IL foot
drive way the short side and 2 wheat
granaries one on either side of drive
way, so that the grain may be scooped
out of the wagon into them. The oat
bins are back of the wheat bins All
or these have chuteS running down
into the basement. The corn into the
feed way, the oats into the feed way
and the wheat into the wagon in
drive way. The hay NOW is 36x5Ox
s feet at the plates and Is feet in
center and not timber in it, the
roof being self-supporting To get the
hay down to basement we have four
hay chutes AKA feet square. Fill these
full and it will feed the 20 head of
horses several times. We have four
double stalls that we can run buggies
in, or anything we want to keep in
the basement. 1t is very handy to
drive in and unhitch in bad weather.
We keep a wagon in basement and
clean stalls into it. when loaded it
takes but short time to haul it to
the field The water tank is in one
of the double stalls and is much bet
ter in bad weather than going out to
water.--W. Barnes in Indiana Farm.
er.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
Watering Cows.

1t is usually conceded that the more
you can cause cow to consume, the
more milk she will give; perhaps I
should say, COW cannot give milk
without plenty of water. 1t may make
a difference in what way she gets it.
Perhaps it is better in the food than
from an ice box. The silage-fed cows
of water. and the granted COWS 600
lbs. Still the silage-fed COWS aver
aged to drink from the trough 453
lbs. of water, while granted COWS
drank IS lbs.
Silage has been objected to because
"cows would not drink as much when
eating ensilage." These COWS drank
less but consumed more, for, "al-
though they drank only 20 per cent. as
much water, the cows taking the silage
ration really consumed 1875 per cent.
of the water consumed by the cows
on the dry matter" This last state
ment is a blind one to the ordinary
man, and lis only noticed because
wish to commend this bulletin for its
clearness in contrast to some have
seen. They remind me of the story
of one of EmersOn's admirers who
took one of his books to him and said:
"Mr. Emerson, have read and re-
read this page, but I cannot catch
your meaning. I wish you would tell
me just what you meant" After read
ing it twice and scratching his head,
he replied: my friend, there is a
beautiful thought in that page, but
have forgotten, myself, what it was"
The object of this experiment was
to determine whether silage could not
be substituted for a considerable por-
ton of the grain usually fed to dairy
cows. The, two rations were carrying
practically the same amount of dry
matter. In one ration over so per
cent. of this dry matter was obtained
from silage and less than 18 per cent.
from grain. The facts reported seem
to justify the conclusion that cheap
er ration of the right kind may be used
at considerable profit. The present
condition of the grain market makes
the appearance Of this bulletin oppor-
tune and compels dairymen to "get
next" or "get out" of the business,
&c. e. Chapman In Ohio Farmer.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07

figures and q Lite simple. In the illus
tration the material is white serge
stitched with belding silk, but while it
is in every way to be desired for the
immediate season, the model will also
be found available for the autumn and
for every fashionable suiting as we'll
as for general wear.
The coat is made with fronts, backs
and under-arm cores, and is absolutely
plain. At the neck are regulation col
lar and lapels, and the closing is made
invisibly by means of a fly. The
sleeves are the accepted ones that are
full at the shoulders and narrow at the
wrists.
The quantity of material required for
the medium size is three and half
yards of material twenty-seven, two
and quarter yards forty-four or one
and three-quarter yards fifty-two
inches wide
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
$500 From An Acre

Last years little garden was the
most satisfactory we have ever had.
says a writer in The Golden Maga
zine. The area was little more than
one-third Of aa acre, which was
plowed by coloreG man for 1925. The
dead weeds and other trash were re-
moved for So, SO that when the gar
den was ready for planting the total
investment amounted to $5.25. The
ground slightly declines from the
north to south and faces the sun for a
good many hours each day.
We sold $40 worth of products,
which gave us $40 over the original
cost. A careful account of all the
products sold, used given away, or
put away for Winter showed our gar
den was worth $110 in cash.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07

The blouse waist continues. and will
continue, to be the favorite of the fash
lonable world, and seems to know no
limit to its variety. Illustrated is one
OF the newest that can be utilized both
fors wash materials and for silks and
woods, and which allows of many va
rlations in the trimming. In this in
stance white linen is combined with
handsome embroidery and the waist is
unlined, but the trimming can be lace
or banding of any sort that may be
preferred, while the fitted lining will
be found desirable for silk and wool
materials.
The waist consists of the fitted lin
ing, which is closed at the front, the
fronts and the back. The tucks are
so arranged as to give tapering lines to
the figure at the back and to provide
becoming fulness at the front while
the closing of the waist is made invisi-
bly, beneath the edge of the right front.
The sleeves are the favorite ones which
form generous puffs above smoothly
fitted lower portions. There is a regu-
lation stock which can be worn with
tie and turnover, as in this instance,
or be made to match the trimming as
preferred.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
GUST THE DEMON.
A Tussle With Ceffec.

There is something fairly demonia-
cal in the way coffee sometimes wreaks
its fiendish malice on those who use it.
A lady writing from Calf. says:
My husband and 1, both lovers Of
coffee, suffered for some time from a
very annoying form of nervousness,
accompanied by most frightful head
aches. In my own case there was
eventually developed some sort of af-
lection of the nerves leading from the
spine to the head
Il was unable to hold my head up
straight, the tension of the nerves
drew it to one side, causing me the
most intense pain. We got no relief
from medicine, and were puzzled as to
what caused the trouble, till friend
suggested that possibly the coffee we
drank had something to do with it, and
advised that we quit it and try Pos
tum Coffee.
1--WE followed his advice. and from
the day that we began to use Postum
we both began to improve, and in
very short time both of us were en-
tirely relieved. The nerves became
steady once more, the headaches
ceased, the muscles In the back of my
neck relaxed, my head Strengthened
up and the dreadful pain that had so
punished me while used the old kind
of coffee vanished
I'VE have never resumed the use Of
the old coffee, but relish our Postum
every day as we'll as we did the for
mer beverage. And we are delighted
to find that we can give it freely to
our children also, something we never
dared to do with the old kind of cof-
fee." Name given by Postum Co., Bat
tie Greek, Mich.
Postum Coffee contains absolutely no
drugs of any kind, but relieves the
coffee drinker from the cid drug poison.
There's a reason.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
Fertility of EGGS.

Good matches do not depend espe-
eially upon how closely the hen re-
mains upon the nest, but upon the vi
tally and fertility of the eggs. If the
eggs contain strong chicks, and all of
them are fertile, they will create a
large amount of animal heat in the
nest, inducing the hen to come off fire.
quently in order to cool herself and
the eggs, but if the eggs contain but
few chicks the hen will endeavor to
conserve the warmth and remain
closely on the nest 1t sometimes
appears strange that hen which sits
closely fails to bring off a good BROOD
while another by her side, which has
left her nest much oftener, was sue
cessful, but such results are often
due to the difference in the fertility
of the eggs.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
Tobacco Ashes as an Asset.

As everybody knows, the ash left
on burning tobacco is considerable.
A ton Of tobacco leaf would yield
four hundred weights of ASH, which
represents valuable mineral constitu-
ents withdrawn from the soil which
have to be replaced by abundant ma
nuring.
On the face of it there would seem
to be fortune in store for that in
dfvidual who could devise a success
full means for the collection of to-
bacco ash, and it is great pity that
so much valuable material should
forever be lost to the soil without
any attempt at direct restoration be
Ing made.-London Lancet.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
Good Plowinq Makes Good Crops.

1t is not always the best-looking
plow fallow that is the best broken
land. A plow constructed like a
gouge that slides under the turf and
inverts it without breaking it, looks
well, but for the production of crop
it prepares the land badly. Many of
the plows now On the market are
constructed SO as to bring the least
draught upon the team, and this by
many is considered the perfection of
the plow-the least draught for a Civ
en- depth. But may we not be labor
ing under mistake in this? The
object in blowing is to invert and
pulverize the soil and prepare it for
a crop. Flowing may be so performed
as to invert the soil without breaking
it, except in the line of the furrow
slice. 1t is evident that if a crop be
planted upon land SO turned, the roots
OF the plant will have to contend with
the large unbroken blocks of soil, so
hard, indeed, in many instances that
the roots cannot penetrate them.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
To Increase Height.
If you want to increase your height

If you want to increase your height
wear
Long perpendicular lines.
No horizontal effects.
No pronounced plaids.
Cuban heels.
For the street, skirts that just clear
the ground.
Trailing skirts for the house.
Plain fabrics or those with fine, in
conspicuous pattern.
Narrow shoulders and dropping
sleeves.
Long stoles Of fur or feathers.
Either a hip jacket or q full length
coat.
Toques rather. than high hats.
No deep founces, no three-quarter
coats, no broad shoulder-puffs, and no
deep-pointed girdle. Chicago News.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
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land. The preliminary step toward its
destruction is to pillow the ground
that is infested just before winter
begins. The burrows should not be
made over four inches thick, for then
the long roots will be turned up to the
surface where, if they do not dry and
die, they will receive a very severe
shock. Follow this treatment up in
the spring by thorough narrowing
with sharp spike tooth drag, or bet
ter with one whose teeth are curved
forwards, so as to gather the dead
roots and those still alive, that they
may be raked together and burned.
Whereupon, again plow the land as
shallow as before, leaving the roots
on the surface to dry. AS the sod
where quack exists is thick and dense,
there will be large quantity of dead
matter in the soil to make a good
crop of corn Or potatoes, and if this
crop is planted and we'll worked by a
light sharp-toothed harrow, the teeth
OF which slope forward, the majority
of what roots is left will be torn up
and thus may readily be removed from
the land. 1t should be plowed again
in late autumn, however, and the
next year the same process repeated
as before. If the work is thoroughly
enough performed, this will generally
use up the toughest piece of quack,
and the rotted sod that is obtained
therefrom be equivalent to a heavy
manuring.-Fred o. Sibley in the
Epitomist.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

If man could have half his wishes
ne would double his trouble.-Poor
Richard
How blunt are all the arrows Of adj
tversity in comparison with those of
guilt!-Blair.
A thankful heart is not only the
greatest virtue, but the parent of all
the other virtues.-Cicero.
Action may not always bring hap
piness, but there is no happiness
without action.-Disrael.
Facts are Gods arguments. we
should be careful never to misunder-
stand or pervert them.-Tryon Ed
wards.
Hold the mind prayerfully in con.
ference with God. We are certain of
success; go, nothing doubting-R. S
Storis.
The short sayings of wise and good
men are of great value, like the dust
of gold or the sparks of diamonds
Tillotson.
DO not attempt to pack a Great
Hope into small soul Let your
soul expand, SO that great hopes shall
have great ROOM
ignorance, when it is voluntary is
criminal, and he may properly be
Charged with evil who refuses to learn
how he might prevent it.-Johnson.
What man is there that. does not
laboriously, though all unconsciously,
himself fashion the sorrow that is to
he the pivot of his life? -MaeterliDck.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
Are Sheep Profitable?

On my fathers farm we kept
flock of twenty sheep for many years.
They were very profitable in several
ways. They kept the weeds down in
old fields, ate the sprouts and trimmed
the buck bushes in the pastures and
also brought good financial returns.
The expense of keeping sheep is very
light, for they can live in fields where
other stock would starve to death. In
winter good clover hay and a small
feed of oats or shelled corn twice a
day will keep them in good condition,
if they are sheltered from the storms.
On an average, the fleece Of wool will
lambs will be clear profit. Our flock
generally averaged lamb apiece ev-
cry year and these sold from three
to five dollars per head, making the
profit On the flock each year from six
ty to hundred dollars. The money
always came in at time when there
was no other stock ready for the
market, SO was always acceptable. An
old Scotchman with whom | was &C.
quainted and who had grown wealthy
raising sheep, said: "If a young man
will buy ten sheep and keep their in
crease for ten years he can buy a
good 160 acre farm" If this old
Scotchman was right and no doubt he
was, why do not more of our young
men go into the sheep raising bust
ness?-W. d. Neale. in the Epitomist.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
Temperature in Churning.

The temperature at which cream
may be churned to advantage depends
good deal on the sourness as we'll
as the richness of the cream. A 20
per cent. cream will churn quickly at
a higher temperature than 35 per
cent. or 40 per cent. cream. The rich
er the cream the lower the tempera-
ture at which it may be churned with
out an excessive loss of fat. Twenty
per cent. cream can hardly be churned
at temperature of so degrees as it
swells in the churn and will not
break. A good rich cream of say 35
per cent. or more may be churned at
80 degrees in a reasonable length of
time.-lndiana Farmer.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
Oyerskirts to Be Worn.

There is every prospect that we shall
be wearing overskirts within the COM
ing year. The tunic skirt is being
doomed by the dressmakers, and since
many women have taken kindly to the
innovation, it's success is fairly well
assured. The style svery becoming to
tall figures, but is not at all happy
one for short or stout women.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
Use Great Care ia Selecting.

Of almost every style Of dress, mis-
take often committed is that of hav-
ing every skirt in your wardrobe short,
instead Of having an occasional long
one for high days and holidays. And
another mistake even more encoun-
tered is the wearing of several tailored
skirts with exquisitelys embroidered
blouses, the excuse being that they are
both white, and so should be all right.
They are not all right. by great deal.
Short skirts belong, by the very nature
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
To Kill Quack Grass.

One of the most difficult plants to
get rid of is quack grass. Indeed, un-
less gone at in the proper way, it is
almost impossible to clear it out of
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
WhitA to Ra P0nuIar.

White, the trade journals say, viii,
be more popular next year than 1t
has been this or previous seasons. The
buyer will, therefore, take every ad-
vantage of white sales in the shops.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07

quarter yards twenty-seven or two
yards forty-four inches wide with one
yard Of all-over embroidery to trim as
illustrated.
~~~orO~~~~~~~~~~0~0~~o~~S ~~~~~~~-~~>~~~~~~~~~
OF things, to the less formal side OF
things; and embroidered blouses-
this, of course, refers to the more elab-
crate blouses, not the simple little
ones that belong, by rights, to morn
ing and walking suits-to rather
more formal side.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-15
ACADEMY
TESTED. last 4. Il! NIGHT HI
Hundreds ST People Were Turn Turn
q. ed Away for L-i Lack Of
Room. M

rho nnn,ber Of who 3, let ,s 7, th fo
Academy box ofIico yes una olG ~! -
secure Seats or tho peri nee i ts,sS
night, would have made q /. good , ,s1IIiI
nudence rho people turned away kW v,. w y
very early have filled tile lower O.
TIA house for at least five Rhundrea Up .E,
p biz for seats were disapp s5 e;
K Every seat in the gallery was sod Y y, ny
ton minutes past Is clock q Ll ~ =
the salle Of seats for that po rtlotl,z
house was stopped. Is 81 w y
usual for the boxes in the third Ter 4 %
he filled .flout every seat In Them was n e..
3c,,nied Ia ISeyenirg The audience was 'Dy
far the mos brilliant Of the season.,, =. ],
IN No play of the kind has ever reeeiSe'sa
notwithstanding from the ne Wsplpers !, =, q
E9iohmond as this Very few plays. !, IN.
Very few companies which come 70 i a.
smond ever getGn notice on the tlrst pa l
tfo the dailes When Miss Made Adams,
atleading star$of this country was mere =
III '"rho Little Minister the q. ellstG y
was broken to the extent. 81, giving I t,r
what a known as u 4 four-l me hetleli nut
she didn't get line OF. first page space.
The censorship Of tho Mayor and the pro 70
gduction OF the play under the prote,c-
lion ~ Of the police, together With TIE
real merit Of the opera forced the e, crit
sicismi to rare prominence IN the neWsIa-
iypers The result was NOTABLE &,
M l,he police force was bu little IN eVl-
dance Inst II ight.5 iii
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-15
IN Kinrl,g,. George.

s35 CONFORM, VA, Feb III. Yestcrday was
ono OF the hardest days of the winter, SO
far, and men and animals suffered In
{tensely. The binding snowstorm and tho
terrific gale reached the proportlo ns OF q
blizzard by 40 o clock, and for some
hours the conditions threatened5a repe-
3titionf Of that memora BILE blizzard on the
same day In February 1899. 8ls The mail
4 from Fredericksburg to this placc and
King George Courthouse was over three
hours behind time, and IL WIS with he
greatest difficulty that the carrier could
rcacl, hero aat all. With q big two-horse
wagon piled high with pouches Of mall
matter, the carrier encountered huge
snow drifts, hat stalled the strongest
teams. At some points the wagon had
to beEunloadcd efore the horses could
struggle through tho great drifts OF snow,
and the heavy mail pouches had TO pc
$"toted,,{ over these obstacles on tho car.
3rier's back. After battling with the block
AIDED roads and facing the raging storms
with tile mercury nearly down .to !. . zero.
tho faithful carrier was almost frozen
when no arrived here to in the AFT ernoon:
Not greach the s8 courthouse tlntil
O'clock, instead OF $50 or O. clock, twas
IMPOSSIBLE 10 make the return trip TO
fredericksburg, and returning 70 ms Is
Mace abolint sundown. the carrier nag g y
remain here last night. the Ia ppAnaIL--
mock stean1boa n mail had to be brought
down on this route in the absence OF nay
igaton, more than doubling the carriers rsie.s $, 8
load cYary day. }t5fy Etjt3 * 5a9t