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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-20

looked out. Not breath Of air
stirred. In the east, saffron and
scarlet, broke the Christmas morn
Ing, and blue on the white surface
OF the world lay the imprints of Sa-
cobie's round snow-shoes.
For long time the trapper stood
In the doorway in silence, looking
out at the stiffness and beauty.
Poor Sacobie!" he said, after q
while. well, he's welcome to the
bacon. even II it is all I had"
He turned to light the fire and pre-
pare breakfast. Something at the
foot OF his bunk caught his eye.
He went over and took it up. It
was a cured skin-a beautiful speci-
men of fox. He turned it over, and
on the white hide an uncultured hand
had written, with a charred stick,
Archer"
Well, bless that old redskin!" ex-
claimed the trapper, huskily. BLESS
his puckered eyes!s Who'd have
thought that I should get a Christ
mas resent?"-Youth's Companion.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-20
Daft, but Cannv.

Frederick Ireland, a stenographe,
OF the House of Representatives. al
the convention at Atlantic City. Oh
the National Association of Stenoe
raphers, said, apropos of a rash
course:
can't approve of this action. be
cause l am a foe to rashness. In
handling the affairs of a great body
OF men I believe in prudence and care
fulness. I am almost as prudent and
careful as the weakIninded Scot n
PEBBLES.
This Scot, a silly look on his face
was skating near the famous fror
bridge Of PEBBLES on a winter day.
Some young ladies wished to skate
under the bridge, but they did not
know whether the ice was safe O,
not. So, approaching the Scot, the
youngest and prettiest Of them said:
Sanders, would you mind just
gliding under the bridge and back. 50
as to test the ice?'
The half-witted Sanders took on
his cap and with a bow and a smile
he replied:
Ma, ma! If am daft l ken man
ners. Leddies first "-Philadelphis
Bulletin.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-20

Keeling with hunger and
weakness, but he held brave
ly on.
A white man, no matter
how courageous and sinewy,
wOu1d have hoon mono IN tho
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-20

WOulQ nave Doen prone In the
snow by that time.
But Sacobie, with his head down
and his round snowshoes padding!
padding! like the feet of frightened
duck, raced with death toward the
haven Of Archer's cabin.
Archer was dreaming of a Christ
mastime in great, far-away city
when he was startled by rattle on
his door, like weak blows from NIT
tened hands. He sprang across the
cabin and pulled open the door.
A short, STOPPING figure shuf1ed in
and reeled against him. A rifle in a
wooden case clattered at his feet.
"Mer' Christmas! How-do?" said
a weary voice
Merry Christmas, brother!" re-
piled Archer. Then, "Bless me, but
it's Sacobie Bear! Why, what's the
matter, Sacobie?"
Heap tired! Heap hungry" re-
piled the Micmac, sinking to the
floor.
Archer lifted the Indian and car
ried him over to the bunk at the far
Their end of the room. He filled his
iron pot-spoon with brandy, and in
serted the point of 1t between Sa-
cobie's unresisting jaws. Then he
loosened the Micmac's coat and shirt
and belt. He removed his mocassins
and stockings and rubbed the
straight, thin feet with brandy.
xr,1s Il O.
his eyes and gazed up at Archer.
Good" he said. John Archer.
he heap fine man, anyhow. Mighty
good to poor Injun Sacobie, too.
Plenty tobac, s'pose. Plenty Of
rum, too"
No more rum, my son." replied
Archer, tossing what was left in the
mug against the log wall, and cork
ing the bottle. "And no smoke until
you have feed. What do you say
to bacon and tea?, Or would timed
beef suit you better?"
"Bacum," replied Sacobie.
He hoisted himself to his elbow
and wistfully shifted the fumes of
brandy that came from the direction
of his bare feet. Heap waste OF
good rum, me t'ink,'' he said.
"You ungrateful little beggar!"
laughed Archer, as he pulled fry
ing-pan from under the bunk.
BY the time the bacon was fried
and the tea stepped. Sacobie was suf-
ficiently revived to leave the bunk
and take seat by the fire.
He ate as all hungry Indians do;
and Archer looked on in wonder and
whimsical regret, remembering the
miles and miles he had tramped with
that bacon on his back.
'sSacobie, you will kill yourselfl''
he protested.
'Sacobie no kill himself now" re-
piled the Micmac. as he bolted
brown slice and a mouthful Of hard
bread. 'Sacobie more like to kill
himself when he empty. Want to
live when he chock-full. Good fun.
Tank you fer more tea"
Archer filed the extended mug
and poured in the molasses- long
sweet'nin" they call It in that region.
What brings you SO far from Fox
Harbor this time Of Year," inquired
Archer.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-20
TRYING ExPrnrnNm.
Spent Over 900 IN . Vain Search For
Health.

Miss Frances Gardner. OF 800 Jack.
son Boulevard. Chicago. Ills, writes:
"deuEemen: heartily endorse
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-20

Archer sat by the rude hearth
Of his Big Rattle camp, brood M
Ing in a sort of tired content iEsSS|
ment over the splitting fagots lYSs
of var and glowing Goals of iEszzggs
birch
It was Christmas eve. He had been
out on his snowshoes all that day,
and all the day before, springing his
traps along the streams and putting
his deadfalls out of commission
rather queer work for a trapper to be
about.
But Archer, despite all his gloomy
manner, was really sentimentalist,
who practiced what he felt
Christmas is a season OF peace on
EARTH" he had told himself, while de-
molishing the logs Of sinister dead
fall with his ak; and now the remem-
lbrance of his quixotic deed added a
brightness to the fire and to the
rough, undecorated walls of the
camp.
Outside the wind ran high in the
forest, breaking and sweeping tide
like over the reefs of treetops.
The air was bitterly cold. Another
voice, almost as fitful as the sough of
the wind, sounded across the night.
It was the waters of Stone Arrow
Falls, above Big Rattle.
The frosts had drawn their bonds
OF ice and blankets of silencing snow
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-20

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- -
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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-20

Doan's Kidney Pills cured me in .
few short weeks. am now enjoying
the best OF health. have q fine appe-
lite, the best Of digestion, and restful
sleep, all due 10 your splendid pills. I"
Sold by all dealers. 80 cents box.
C0ster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. 7.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-20

Doan's Kidn ey
Pills, as / have
found by personal
experience that
they are an ideal
kidney remedy. I
suffered with COM
plications of kid
ney complaint for
nearly i've years,
spent over 500 on
useless remedies,
wh}lA flvo hoYaa of
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-20
Out of the Hurly-Burly.

janet never had such a miser-
able Christmas month in all my life.n
Martha-"What's the matter?"
Jane-"Why, got silly fit, and
did all my Christmas shopping two
months ago."
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-20
Sketch.

Two Stockings.
In her little stocking
Betty Baby found,
First, q tiny golden ring
Set with rubies round,
Then lovely dolly,
Beautiful to see,
Bonbons, cakes and sugar toyS,
Happy Baby she!
In her little stocking
Polly Baby found,
First, a stick of candy,
Then an apple round,
Then q pair Of mittens,
Fitting perfectly;
That was all, but none the leGs,
Happy Baby she! e
Youths Compamd
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11
EAT, OR NO DRINK.

Under what is known as the Raines law in New York any person ordering "a drink on Sunday must order a meal with it., Unfortunately for the cause of Sunday observance there is nothing in the law to regulate the size or char acter of the meal. and nothing Ic- quirihg 1t to be eaten: consequently the man who wants to ease h!s thirst on Sunday could sit down at a table, order drink and sandwich, then swallow the liquid at his leisure and leave the sandwich untouched. It was a good thing all around. The man got his drink easily and promptly and the uneaten "mear' was laid by for the next customer. The saloon man would get full pay for his liquids ard one sandwich might serve for a score of customers, unless some greedy fellow should come along and eat <.
 The City Council of London has adop- ted an ordinance which upsets all such side-stepping as is possible under the Raines law. It provides that a meal must not only be served with each urllks put lL must pe eaten. 1T the meal is not served with the drink the landlord or saloon keeper can be pun ished. If the meal Is not absorbed the customer is liable to punishment. In the words of the immortal Mlrc An tony. this was the most unkindost cut of all" To force a man tD eat when he doesn't want to eat is worse than cruelty to animals. There are times when a man-some man-must have Q drink or perish. There are times when he had almost as lief be electrocuted as to eat.
 But here comes along the great municipality of London and tells the thirsty citizen that he can have his choice: he can die of thirst or com init suicide by trying to eat when he doesn't want to eat. It may be wise and good ordinance. Far be it from us to impugn the laws of tho greatest city in the world, but--well, if that one is strictly enforced, we'll wager that there are more cases of unmitiga- ted disgust in London than in all the rest of the earth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11
INDICTING THE MOusE.

From time immemorial mice and rats, and such small deer" as Poor Tom fin King Lear calls them, have been under a ban. Especially is this true of mice, probably because thelr small size enables them to enter where their larger brethren would be shut out. The little pests gnaw things where they shouldn't, get into the milk and commit suicide in the soup. and generally make nuisances of them selves, besides soaring women into fits at times. We are of the opinion that the bravest woman who ever drew breath would shudder and dodge when a mouse came towards her. They arc built that way, most women, and mice seem to know it. At any rate the lit tie rascal seems to take great delight in the antics and shrieks of the timid female when he heads in her direc- ton.
 But these pecadilloes of mice are nothing when compared to the charge brought against them by a New York physician writing in the Medical Re cord. He makes the direct charge that they are largely responsible for pneumonia He tells his readers that the pneumonia bacillus produces dis case after passage through the body of a susceptible animal, and that --.ls animal is generally the common house mouse" Here is an indictment of the little rodent that should at once put him on trial and if found guilty the War against his species should be con- tinuous and merciless.
 It must be admitted that the doctor makes out d strong case in his paper. He explains the experiments and inves- legations made by him, and it cannot be denied that the conclusions arrived at appear to have solid foundation. Pneumonia appears 10 be d germ dis ease and probably no better medium
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11
AN. ExrERr NANrEp.

Knoweth any. man aught about mules? The colored portion of hunan- ity have some small knowledge of the nature. habits and dispositions Of the long -eared descendant of Balaam's saddle animal. but the white man who pretends to understand them is play ing on the credulity of his fellows. The city of Indianapolis has gained some mule education by paying good price for it. About year ago the purchas- ing agent for the city was instructed to buy a lot of mules, for street work. He went at 1t in sort of wholesale way, and laid in 10s of them at an average price Of $14s each. aggregat. ing the nice little sum of aobut s1e,o ,oo0. and great things were expected of them.
 Well, the result has been to testab- fish the firm conviction on the part of the city officials that their mule edu- cation had been sadly neglected. AL ready eight of them have died, though it is common belief that mules never die. Three others are so badly dis- eased that they are offered at five dol- lars each. and no bidders, while the remainder of the bunch has been ap- praised at an average price of just under SSo each. All this leads The In 'dianapo1is Star to the conclusion that the city's costly experience makes it apparent that an official mule buyer Is needed, man entitled to wear a uniform and a badge, 6f just so it doesn't conform too closely to the badge worn by Inspector of Weights and Measures Wilson This man should study up on mules, should be able to tell them from the cut of their jlb something of their past, present and future. A mule Is g strange animal almost uncanny at times in the mys- tery that turks round about him. Thus a man who would meet the reauire- ments of the office need not in the least feel ashamed of his calling. There are fewer successful students of mules | than there are teachers of Greek For mule is harder than Greek The man who bought tlfe 10s for Indianap- olis can witness the truth of this state ment."
 We don't know that it is even pos- sibie that any man can be found who can fill the requirements. If it is au- thoritatively announced that such an official will be employed there will be plenty of applicants, we have no doubt. Likewise there will be much disap- pointment on the part Of the city. and possibly some more gold bricks sad died on the officials. There may some- where be man who knows all about mules, but he isn't known.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11

crowded by the ships of commerce and her efforts to develop trade, home and foreign, meet all anticfpations. The story of the commercial unlifting of the South of late years is one of the most Interesting, gratifying and important pages in the national history.-Ne'w York Herald
 We'll! well! well! What will Co., mer say? Only the other day he told Mobile that. comparatively, the rail- roads had robbed and pauperized that town. And as for the South-wen. it's ruined by railroads, and has been since the war. This thing of the South and the farmers being in their most prosperous condition since that period is all a fake. The country and the farmer may not realize It but they are broke, and there is calamity every where. The railroads must have paid The Herald as much as twenty cents to make it's plutocratic statement. Be- riously, though, this prosperity. Of ours is Jim Dandy, and the brand is real means what it says; no fictitious la bel See?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11
SUNDAY, MARCH II, 1908.
THE STEEL SQUARE.

If the average intelligent carpenter should be asked how long the steel square has been-in use. he probably would be unable to tell whether they were first used by Noah, Oliver Evans or some later architect. And yet the inventor of this useful article was an humble Vermont blacksmith named Howes. and the first ones were made less than century ago. An article in The New York Sun gives some partic4 ulars as foIlows;.
 One dull, rainy day q peddler of tin ware called at his shop to have the These peddlers travelled up and down the country calling at every farmhouse buying everything. in the way of bar ter. This one had number Of worn out steel saws that he had picked up in various places. Howes bargained for. them shoeing the peddler's horse and each thought he had an excellent trade.
 His idea was to polish and weld two saws together, at right angles, and thus make a rule or measure superior to anything then in use. After a few attempts he succeeded in making a square, marked it off into inches and fractions of inches and found that 1t ed 1t for.
 In the course of a few weeks he made quite a number during his spare hours. These he sent cut by the peddlers. who found every carpenter eager to buy one. Soon he found orders coming in faster than he. could supply, the de; 1nand One of his steel Squares" would sell for $5 or $6 which was five times as much as it cost him.
 Finding that his invention was vaI- uable. and his squares popular, Mr. Howes obtained patent just after the war of 1872, and set to work to supply the growing demand. It was an humble beginning and for time he did all the work, himself but as the industry and the demand grew he was able to hire assistants and set up shop for the purpose of enlarg- ing the business. From that small be- ginning there grew one of the largest industries of the country, for hardly any one tool is more indispensable than this and few require greater accuracy. Of course equares of some kind have long been used. but the almost perfect steel tools now so common are of modern origin. It may not be amiss to add that MT. Howes amassed a large fortune from his invention. and it's manufacture. Not all inventors are so fortunate.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11

are much to blame for the ruin of the negro as a laborer and every reflecting person, who reads these lines. knows down deep in his heart that this is
 We may try other labor successfully; but 1t is far cheaper and better in eV-' cry way to save the negro. We under stand him and when he Is thoroughly at himself. he loves hfs Southern boss and will lay down his life for him.
 The remedy is easy: Let men who have him employed on the plantations see that he is protected from lawless men; let those who would enrich them selves by furnishing him with liquor and cocaine to his ruin, cease the prac- tice and join hands with those who would put the tempter out of his reach. If this were done. in a little while the negro would be contented, happy and peaceable on our farms. and there would be no need to bring in the un- tried foreigner.
 W. B. Crumpton.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11

1ne Eteat G0t0 Sfau0axu t'MEtys
 Riohmond Times Dispatch.
 The Washington Post, whose present owner was q warm supporter of the bute to the Palmer and Buckner Demo- cratss declaring that they were the only gold standard party in America, and that had they been entrusted with power we would have had perfect and not an Incomplete gold standard"
 In that campaign the regular Demo cratic convention declared unequivocai- ly for the free and unlimited ooinage of silver at the rate of .16 to l.
 The Republicans declared that they were opposed to the free coinage, ex- cept by International agreement with the leading nations of the worldi which
 l such agreement can be obtained we pledge ourselves to promote the existing gold standard must be pre-
 But the National Democratic Party" which assembled in convention at In- dianapolis on September 2d, said: we insist upon the maintenance Of the gold standard and the party herewith or every dollar issued by the government, and are firmly opposed to the free ana unlimited coinage of silver and to the compulsory purchase of silver bullion, one gold standard party in, 1896. The regular Democratic party came out braveiy for the silver and gold stand ard. The Palmer and Buckner came out bravely for the single gold stand ard Tho Republican party tried to dodge between the two. Yet that party is very bold now to declare that It is the only and original gold standard party. The record speaks for itself.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11
Letters to The Editor
Rev. w. H. Crumpton On the Ruin of
 Negro Labor.

Rev. w. H. CrumptOn On the Ruin of
 Negro Labor.
 Editor Advertisers:
 It is conceded on every hand that one o9 the most serious problems confront ing the South is the labor problem. The negroes are becoming less reliable ev- cry day, and the best of them are fast deserting the country and drifting to the towns and cities.
 Not many years ago it was the univer- sal verdict that we had the best labor on earth for the cotton fields. Now the sentiment is rapidly changing and we are casting about for other labor Al ready, in some sections. the change Is being effected and foreigners are being introduced. There must be cause for this change of sentiment, with refer ence to the negro. What is it? l be- lieve know and l venture to suggest
 The old story of the man that killed the goose that laid the golden egg IS being re-enacted. "The best labor in the world for the South" is being ruin cd by the white mans liquor. Years ago, largely to protect our lapoTi pre- pro hibition laws were enacted In all the counties of the black-belt. For few years the people were loud Tn Lhelf praise of the law seeing the good effects nn inc negro But the greed of the white man led to the violation of the law and blind tigers are everywehere. A negro drunk is the biggest fool in the world. While in that condition, he Is liable to say or do anything. He Is often shot while drunk. many times by the man who sold him the liquor.
 The white mans greed Is selling him cocaine also, which utterly infits him for any service. The negro needs to be protected from his own weakness. The temptation to drink should be removed far from him. He needs protection destroy him soul and body, in order to ''i As iS's sure as you live, we white people