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SNYDER MADE FORTUNE IN GAS.
Learned That Late kan>as City Pro- moter's Profit in Two Years
 Vas $1.00O.0OO.

Kansas City. Mo. Nov. l.-one mil lion dollars in two vears-that is said to have been the money making achievement of the late F. NJ Snyder. Most of the money was made in natuI'- al gas
 MT. Snvdel.a estate is estjmated by those who know most about his af- fairs at about sl,25o,0oo There was q time not very long ago when his property Was not greatly in excess of his liabilities. Gas had been known 10 underlie southeastern Kan sas for years but nobody had al tempted to bring it to the cities any distance from the gas fields. Peo- pie who wanted 70 use natural gas for manHfacturine purposes went 10 the gas, and nobody seemed 10 have the enterprise to bring it 10 them,
 Snyder concluded hat if he could control enough of the producing wells there would be money in bringing the gas 10 the cities. He went 10 ft, A. Long with his project and Long put $2O0 000 in cash at his disposal. 1 Snyder bought leases, interested capitalists, hustled traded and eX elimented, and in two years, it is said, he had made enough so that he and 1 .0ng were each 5 GOO 000 ahead on the deal
 Together they owned bet tween 20 and 21 per cent of the stocks and bonds of the Kansas Natural Gas company. with leases and other as sets that gave them virtual control of the company.
 Mr Snyder loft q will but fl will not be opened until Thursday The disposition oi the estate is unknown except to the Witnoascs to the sigma ture, but il is said that the property contains comparatively little real es- tate except in" home in Kansas City and tIahatonka park in central Nis- SoHri
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WILL HOLD TO OLD sPELLING.
Supreme Court of the [. .. Will Hare None of Tpddy'S and arnegies
 Reform.

Wash ingfon. Nov. l.-The question of the Dropriety of using the modified spelling. in accordance with he order of the president was incidentally raised today in tn esuperne court of the United States The case under consideration vas that Of Daleou' against the United States aaa solici- tor General Hoyt was engaged in pre- senring the governments side.
 In the course of his argument he had occasion to refer to long quota rion in his brief from q decision Of the eoarr. rendered some years ago by Justice Bradley. ill which he word through was spelled thru. Chief Justice Fuller held 9 copy of the brief in his hand and when the word was reached, interrupted Mr. FToyt with q question as asha6aei the extract vas intended TO be quo- tation from Justice Bradley official opinion.
 In all except the spelling fepli- ad MT. ffoyt.
 Ah, significantly responded rhe chief justice. aith an interrogattva in hexion that caused general smile through the courtroom. The solicitor general explained that the depaetn1e ent of justice like all other departments of the government, had attempted 10 follow tfe lev order Of s.)a 5s!Izs anz. he added e7a ' nile he con.idere tt proper to pursue this course in the original text of the departments briefs. he did not feel that the depart ment was justified in changing the orthoeraphy of judicial opinions.
 He said that in the future such changes would be guarded against. The court has not adopted tha simpli- fled spelling system
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PAVING DISTRICT NO. Special Assessment

The tax book for the eo.3'- the special assessmen; upon ' property in Paving Dlstr!c: } East 9th, 5th 2ad avenues; H9 street and State street from A to 9th ave.) for the purpose 0,: curbing and paving has been in my hands. All owners or Ee- erty lying in the district are Y to pay their assessments 10 M'' thirty days from ths date.
 If such payment is not nlaa3 will be commenced at the eAa time, for the collection of sad ment and for legal penaiu7 costs. :, Given under my hand th's ' day of October, 1906.
 J. P. ALEXAS7 Office corner Fourth aVe'' Pine srteet.
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NOVEL ATTRACTION.

Library on skates at the Bluff Citv rink Two handsome prizes will fe given to the best costume representing the title Of books There will also be an exhibition Of fancy and trick sHat- ing. All lovers of books will be there a novel masquerade.
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My child was burned terribly about the face. neck and chest. ap- piled Dr. Thomas EcIectric Oil. The pain ceased and the child sank snto q restfuI s,ee9. Mrs. Nancy NJ Han son, Hamburg. N. Y.
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Groker# began suit against q London paper for libel not long ago, and now Murphy threatens to sue New York papers if they don't quir printing car toons in which he is shown wearing prison stripes What are We coming tco
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Yesterday vas the anniversary of the birth of John Keats Ii would De unfair, however, to blame people be- cause so few Of them remembered it. Why, most of us have even forgotten when John l.. Sullivan Was born.
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Brooks Eclcctric Oil is drug stor" within itself Antiseptic. paih-killer and colie cure
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Brooks White Cream Eye Save cures sore eyes a1d g-a1u-ated lids. Guaranteed.
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Boss" Ruef of San Francisco is afraid that anti boodIers may lynch him. at last accounts he VAS not so badly scared, however as 10 be wiling to relinquish his hold on any of the poodle
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New York farmer has q mamma pig thai has brought thirty-one pigs into the world within the past six months Uncle Joe" Cannon will in- ssf that tais could have happened ouly under standpat policy
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-Deceac4 and politics have beeu di- Yogced says Dr. hhurt, but We observe that the New York preacher has not divorced himself from par ticjpatoa fa tAe dir. Of Empire poli-
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' political upheayal ia threatened in Pennsylvania because the @rafters who looked after the furnishing Of the new capitol at Harrisburg stole & 000 .add. Some members Of the old Ouaq crowd Nil be likely to suspect, if the people of PennsFlvania don't
 quit eompiainn& right away fha1 they are becoming blamed foacllE.
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T \. Dsummond for goaIr watch, lock and iewelry repairing 22l Mai
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TdT a aa-a 'a1l, a.a folks z@. ch.-t-.- -oo. Brooks vor12 s.l.7r brtHrs m
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The Commercial Appeal reports the Can anybody exactly locate the spot
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Memphis is in the throes of a hot political campaign hut is there any body in these parts who can remem-
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Baron Roseu says Chicago is q grand old town. Will our envious rivals no~ kindly cease to make slur- lin@ remarks about our @neVness? ?'
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\ Kansas City paper refers to Post master General Cortelyon as a man Of destiny The Kansas City paper is probably wrong The man of destiny :oueralIY fails somehow to connect.
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George Bernard Shaw has attacked the Ten Commandments, but is there anHthin2 vel renainins that this bualptious British socialist has not attaCked2
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Secretary. Shaw says ehe day of fae professional spellbindeI is past. but then the secretary is Hot acquainted with our Jeff
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Thele is lady in New Jersey who has just celebrated her one hundredth birthday Remarkable as it may seem she is not in poorhouse and she de- cIares that she has never used whis- ky nor tobacco
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The chemist of the department Of agriculture who proposes 10 test the action Of alcohol on the human stom- ach ought 10 be able to set some palu- able information from the habitual booze fighters without further effort.
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\ eesdn fobbep Was captured out west few days ago while he was aaieeH Ii probably surprised the detectives to find that train robber eEeI found il necessary 10 20 10 sleep
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The tobacco trust reports decrease in the consumption of c garettes, b@t there is nevertheless, no decrease in the consumption in the cigarette
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Au EHgishman says the American face is ioyless Perhaps he has been making q study of the faces of Amer ican girls who have married titled t,nglishmen
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Notice to Property 0s to Make Sewer Conne;,

Property owaers B.b.1 Se7. trict No. , seventh a9enue l" jeth avenue, aad Laur4. $. Tenuessee) are hreb. 1Q.: make the proper sewer com: with any building or iwal.i1! said district on 1T before NJ l5, 1906, as pr6EsEzd bg sec..,: Coleman dfgest et th4 c..? ances. Failure ". subject g. CT. or the tenant Of such b-... dwelling 10 ares, and fine
 J. s. CURRIE, Salia FRED FOX, Actiag Mayor
 Oct. n. 190G.
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Yesterday vas the anniversary of the birth Of John Keats II would De unfair, however, to blame people be- cause so few Of them remembered it. Why, most of us have even forgotten when John L. Sullivan Was born.
 Boss Ruef of San Francisco is afraid that anti-boodlers may lynch him. st last accounts he VAS not so badly scared however as to be willing to feIinquish his hold on any of the poodle.
 -DeceacE and politics have been di- goecea. says Dr. PaG.hurt. but We observe that the New York preacher has not divorced himself from par ticjpatioa in he dir. of Empire poli- tics
 Secretary Shaw says he dag of -1e professional spellbindeI is past, but then the secretary is pot acquainted with our Jeff
 The chemist of inc department Of agriculture who proposes 10 test the action of alcohol on the human stom- ach ought 70 be able to get some valu- able information from the habitual booze-fshters without further effort. Do
 The tobacco trust reports q decrease in fhe consumption of c garettes, bat there is. nevertheless, no decrease in the consumption in the cigarette.
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 \ New York farmer has q mamma pig that has brought thirty.one pigs into the world within the past six months @tncle Joe" Cannon will in sisf that tbis could have happened only undel 2 standpat policy.
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 Baron Roseu says Chicago is q grand old town" Will our envions rivals HON kindly cease to make slur- rn& remarks about our @neWnass ?'' aain aobbol WAS captured out west few days ago while he was aaleep Ii probably surprised the detectives 10 find that train robber e.aT found il nec"ssary to go 10 sleep. TheIe is lady in New Jersey who has just celebrated her one hundredth birthday Remarkable as it may seem she ia not in a poOrhouse, and she de clates that she has never used whis- ky nor tobacco
 \ Kansas City paper refers To Post master General Cortelyou as a man of destiny The Kansas City paper is probably wrong The man of destiny rally fails somehow to connect
 \u EHsIishman says the America, face is ioyless Perhaps he has beer making q study of the faces of Amer ican girls who have married titled tnglishmen-
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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-15

swear with clear conscience that he
never took so much as nickle in his
life that did not belong to him. But
he has taken time that did not belong
to him. He has had to be sent for.
He hasn't been faithful. He has lied
as to why he was late, and as to where
he was last night. He has gone upon
the theory that it was nobody q
business how he occupied his time
outside business hours. Yet the
growth of q bad character, If you are
at all close to it. is about as obvious
as the growth Of corn field. The
prudent business man does not always
wait until he has case in court. He
prefers to settle the little things with
his employees before they have gone
that far. Business is becoming more
and more exacting on the point of in
dividual character. 1t is looking out
for integrity, and it is saying that
whatever the head of the house is the
salary list must be clean. This de-
mand opens q wide door to the girls,
and there is only one way in which it
can be closed against them, and that
is to meet the competition, and by the
removal of it through consolidation.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-15
THE CONVCT-nlS FAMllY-LAW.

1t is urged that convicts must not
be kept idle, that they must earn their
living, that the people should not be
taxed to feed and clothe an army Of
criminals, and SO forth, and so forth. !.
Let as see how this works. The
state arrests young fellow, who, let
Us say, in a drunken quarrel has
stabbed companion. He is hurried
away to prison. He is brought into
court, tried and convicted. He is
sent to prison for five years or for ten
years, or for life. All the while a
wife and a half dozen little children
are left without their natural protector
and support. They huddle in q
corner of the court room. They hear
the lawyers yawp. They listen to
the verdict. The case is closed. The
young father is bundled off in one d.
rection in chains. The young family
is turned off in another in tears. The
state takes the time, the earnings Of
one to itself, leaving the other to
starve, the mother Ldies in despair.
The boys grow up thieves. The girls.
grow up harlots. The law is vindi6
Gated. The taxpayer is protected.
The criminal classes ale replenished.
Is 1t not damnable? Does not the
society which tolerates such mon.
strosities deserve all the evils in en-
tails upon itself? The state has no
right to take that mans labor from
his wife.and children and give them
no equivalent. 1t should punish the
guilty, not the innocent. Every dol
lar that is diverted in this way from
the natural needs of the helpless to
the uses Of the public, is base blood
money that should and does carry
with it the curse of God.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-15

ture Of motor battery that will be
as common factor in che business
life Of the world as the telephone is
now.
The great, inventor has moments Of
exceeding amiability, and he rarely
has time to make contradictions, SO
that when it was announced last year
that vehicle could be driven from
New York to Philadelphia and back at
speed Of thirty three miles an hour
without recharging the storage bat
teries. he did not deny it till long
after the public mind was satisfied
that it was true Then he quietly
told some one that light vehicle
might, under favorable circumstances,
be made to run at twenty miles an
hour, on one charge for $50 miles.
At that time vehicles Of the Adams
Express Company were using the
storage batteries. and they have been
doing so ever since. Any other IN
ventor than Edison would have been
quite satisfied with this solution. and
would have put these batteries on she
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-15
THOS. A. EDlSON'S GREATEST INvEN.
TON.

Thomas A. Edison has accomplished
q surprise for the world. He has
worked ont SUCCESSFULLY the problem Of
cheap power. He promises to put on
the market within six months new
storage battery which will enable
every man to travel in his OVID pri-
vate carriage at about the. cost Of car
fare.
Without danger, without break
downs, without cost almost. carriage,
once supplied with the new power, for
5000, will travel without repairs for
fifteen years. for hundred thousand
miles, If necessary, says the wizard.
He reiterates the declaration that he
has invented = storage battery which
will solve the problem Of congested
traffic in the big cities Of the world 80
soon as he can manufacture enough Of
them. He Is erecting two large fac
tory buildings, now nearly completed,
and is installing in them new ma
chinery especially Tor tho manufao-
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-15

market, but his commercial genius Is
no less remarkable than his scientific
intuition, for he has refused many ap-
plications to make these batteries for
public use.
"A practical theory says Edison.
lis good lead, but it is not q sure
thing.
Last year you were sure that you
bad solved this problem ?" he was re.
minded by Times reporter.
Yes, last year | was sure, re-
piled Mr. Edison, but now am daed
sure. There is . difference between
the two. It's one thing, for instance.
to be sure. and another thing to be-
Wall street surel''
There is gayety about The Wizard
these days that is Enthusiastically indi.
cative of new discovery. for when
he is in 3 'sblind mood when nature
refuses to reveal her secret, he is as
tragic aud client as the Sphinx.
He says that he will be able to sell
st she cost Of SO cell storage bat.
terry that il almost indeatruotible. Il
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-15
THE DEFINITION or SUCCESS.

Success is commonly understood to
mean the getting of money.
No matter how it is gotten; whether
it is wrung from the hands of toiling
and suffering men and women; no
matter if every penny represents an
orphans tear; no matter if every
gilded coin is the cost of helpless suf-
fering.
Get money; get more money, and
the more you get the greater the
measure of your success.
This is the commonly accepted def
milton of success. But it isn't SO. It
is "a foul and fimsy falsehood 1t is a
sordid pollution of sentiment Gold is
not success. You may pile it as high
as the steeple of st. Peters. and bury
it deep within the earth-it is not
success. He who has only money for
his success is poor, weak, worthless,
pitiful pauper; he's a rank, rotten
failure more than failure. He who
has only gold is pauper more help.
less and ragged and wretched than
Lazarus ever was-and doesn't know
it.
Recently some of the magazines Of
fered prize of $3.50 for the best def.
milton of success. Thousands replied.
Many definitions were given, and
nearly all of them mentioned money"
as at least one Of the elements of sue
cess. The answer which won the
prize was written by Miss Bessie A.
Stanley, of Lincoln, Kansas. It was as
follows:
He has achieved success who has
lived we'll, laughed often and loved
much; who has gained the trust of
pure women and the love of little
children; who has filed his niche and
accomplished his task; who has left
the world better than he found il.
whether by an approved poppy, per.
feet poem or rescued soul; who has
never lacked appreciation of earth
beauty or failed to express it; who has
always looked for the best in others
and given the best he had; whose life
was an inspiration; whose memory a
benediction.
Not word about money. The love
OF little child; the making of a bet.
ter flower; the singing of one sweeter
song; the production of a perfect
pom; the salvation of one human
soul; the ability to see earth's beauty.
the trust Of pure women; to laugh and
love often and much. These-one or
all-are success, and the nearer all
the better the success.
"He who has caused one tear the less
Down sorrows cheek to flow:
He. who has caused one smile the mora
On some sad face to glow
Has won success far greater, grander
and nobler than the man who leaves
millions to q world he never loved
and that never loved him; to a world
that he never appreciated or benefited
-Yazoo Sentinel.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-15

A janitor in neighboring school
threw up his job the other day.
when asked what was the trouble, he
said. sI'm honest and I won tstand
being slurred. If I find pencil or a
handkerchief bout the school I hang
il up. Every little while the teach.
er or some one that is too oowardly to
face me, gives me slur. I'm
what way?" asked the officer. "Why,
8 little while ago I saw written on
the board, find the common multi.
ple.' Well, ! looked from cellar "a
garrett, and wouldn't know the thing
If met it on the street. What made
me quit my job? Last night in big
writin' on the blackboard, It said,
find the greatest common divisor.
Well, says to myself, both Of them
darn things are lost now, and I'll be
blamed for swipin' 'em, 50 I'll quit. 8
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-15
$500

will travel hundred thousand miles
before it is worn out. Twenty cells
will be all that is needed for runa-
bout or brougham, and sixty cells will
be enough for the largest and heaviest
truck used. For 5000 one will be
equipped with motive power that will
need no renewal for fifteen years.
Now, it lies with rubber tire
manufacturers to meet this CONNER
cial reduction of motive power, /" said
Mr.. Edison gayly.
Gan they do it:'
They have been getting ready far
1t quite while. A lot of them are
working for it quietly. That will
come, of course. -
For three years %. 900 storage bat
teries have been constantly at work
in the test shops of the Edison plant
at Orange, N. New York World.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-15
The GIRL IN BUSINESS.

The truth is that the girls are get.
ting the better of the boys in many
lines lof genteel employment. The
boys may complain of this as they
will, but the fact stands. The youna
women in this, and many towns, after
a certain hour. are quite as |: much in
the evidence on their way to work az
the young men; and the man at the
window can see that they look trim
and neat, that they hold up their
heads as if they were ready to meet
tne world and their employers. They
nave none of the appearance of having
deprived themselves of the necessary
amount of sleep, or of carrying q
headache along with them. Indeed,
On frosty morning it is pleasant to
see how their eyes sparkle and how
their cheeks glow. They are getting
tne better of the boys because they
can be trusted to come to their work
In good form. They may not be 81
strong as the boys, but they take care
OF their strength. They don't smoke,
they don't chew. they don't drink,
tney don't gamble. they don't loaf.
Society puts up arbitrary rules 70,
the gl1ls, and they must abide By
them or lose caste. The boys arc
suffered. to make their own rules and
take the consequences. Many 8 boy
enlnks ne can be gay and deceive
everybody. and he runs along until hs
loses his job. By that time he il APT
70 think that somebody has under
mined him, and to look quite pas'
himself in an attempt to locate tht
guilty. party. Business is all thu
l'me putting up bars against the gay
young man. Positions Of RESPONSE
Diiify, positions of trust. positions d
responsibility, and regularity arr
Delng closed against him. He maj
nos see that be is bounced because b
'an'1 honest, Tor DO may b able X