The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-30
NOT AFRAID TO DIE.

Junius Henri Browns, says: Having
represented a large medical constit-
uency (the University Of Edinburgh
Tor seventeen years as Member Of
Parliament, / naturally came in con-
tact with the most eminent medical
men in England. I have put the
question to most of them, did you
In your extensive practice ever know
q patient who was afraid to die?"
With two exceptions they answered
No" One Of these exceptions was
Sir BENJAMIN Brodie, who said he
had seen one case. The other was Sir
Robert Christison, who also had seen
one case, that of a young girl of bad
character who had sudden accident.
have known three friends who were
partially devoured by wild beasts un-
der apparently hopeless circumstances
of escape. The first was Livingstone,
the great African traveller, who was
, knocked on his back by lion, which
began to MUNICH his arm. He assured
me that he felt no fear or pain, and
that his only feeling was one of in
his body the lion would take next.
The next was Rustem Pasha, now
Turkish Ambassador in London. A
bear attacked him and tore off part
OF his hand and part of his arm and
shoulder. He also assured me that
he had neither sense of pain nor of
fear, but that he felt excessively an
CRY because the bear grunted with so
much satisfaction in munching him.
The third case is that of Sir Edward
Bradford, an Indian officer now oc-
cupying high position in the Indian
Office. He was seized in solitary
place by tiger, which held him firm
~ behind his shoulders with one paw
and then deliberately devoured the
whole of his arm, beginning at the
end and ending at the shoulder. He
was positive that he had no sensation
OF fear, and thinks that he felt a lit
tile pain when the fangs went through
ms hand, but is certain that he felt
none during the munching of his arm.
Our Dumb Animals
WHEN TOLSTOI WAS A COWARD.
Tolstoi feels very keenly the seem
ing inconsistency of his life, the fact
that he cannot make his altruistic
notions harmonic with his daily life.
His chagrin has on one or two coca
sions nearly made a coward of him.
At night when no one was looking
he has skunk away toward Moscow,
like tramp, to be himself some
where. But always before he has got
far voice has said to him: "Lyoff
Nicholayevitch, you are afraid. You
dread the remarks of the crowd. You
shrink on hearing that you preach
what you don't practise. You are
trying to run away from it all, to be
comfortable yourself. whether others
are or not.
Think of your wife and children,
of the home you have made. Is it
your right to sneak away from all
this just to make yourself look and
sound consistent? Have you not
duties toward your wife and chill
dren to observe? Do you think that
you can throw over all that you were
to them and they to you merely to
satisfy your vanity-vanity, Lyoff,
and nothing more? You are vain in
your very sneaking. You insist upon
appearing all that you think you are.
Back, back, back! Remember
your wife and children. Remember
that you have no right to make them
think and live the way you would.
Remember that to sneak away is
cowardly. Back, Lyoff Nicholaye-
vitch!" And back the old man has
trudged to take up his burden as
citizen.-Josiah Flynt, in Success.
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
On Friday, the 18th inst, Arley
Fields, young farmer living near
Silverville, Lawrence County, rescued
his wife and mother from fifteen feet
of water at Salt Creek ford. In at
tempting to ford the stream he drove
his horse in at the wrong crossing.
The buggy was overturned and the
party was thrown into the icy water.
Unable to swim the women sank,
and it was only by heroic efforts he
succeeded in getting one of the wom-