The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-01-17

not offer to exchange their goods for the
i farmers eggs, poultry, butter or other pro-
duce. They don't trust penny's worth,
but make you pay cash before you get the
goods and the freight besides. They pay
no taYes into your city or county treasury,
with which our schools are maintained,
bridges and sidewalks built
j Its an old saying tina, the American
reminded of this by seeing agents can
dry goods. These packages are sold for
various prices. People forget how ex-
tremely low all classes of goods are at
the present time and fall easy victims to
the travelling humbugs. They could buy
a much better class of goods Of our hon.
est home merchants for less money.
These city sharks travel through the
country and make fortune out of shoddy
goods. A word to the wise should be
sufficient. The goods they sell are dear
at any price.
/ Marshal Cottrell's report to the retiring
board of mayor and aldermen shows the
revenues turnedinto the city treasury from
| fines, ETC., for the year 1906, to be $658.8o.
This IS a fine showing, and demonstrates
| the fact that Mr.. Cottrell has at all times
cared we'll for the towns finances. The
amounts collected from different sources
are as follows: Street tax, 5000; street
work,sS3I; fines, $224; cattle impounded,
$40 90; thing sold, $I7I5; II interments
in Brandon cemetery, $40. so; cemetery lots
sold at IS each, $50; privilege licenses,
$6.25.
The good housewife gets the meal
dresses the children, sweeps, bakes,
mends, does the washing, and when the
shades OF evening gather she finds that
human possibilities and endurance have
reached the limit. The banker, after the
morning meal, goes to the counting room,
delves In facts and figures all day, and
kwhen he goes home 1t Is often with a
feeling akin to nervous prostration. The
doctor, dentist, dry goods man, grocer,
newspaper man, implement dealer, drug
gist-all these, after displaying a liberal
amount of Roosevelt strenuosity all day
and many times until long after the bats
have had their frolic and gone to roose-
well, they feel as though life, at the very
best, is made up of toll.
The local paper should be found In
every home. No children should grow
up ignorant who can be taught to appre-
ciate the home paper. 1t Is said to be the
stepping stone of intelligence in all those
matters not to be found In books. Give
your children a foreign paper which con.
tains not word about any person, place
or thing, which they saw or perhaps ever
heard of, and how could you expect them
to be interested. But let them have the
home paper and read of people whom they
meet and of places of which they are
familiar and soon an interest is awakened
which increases with every arrival of the
local paper. Thus habit of reading is
formed and those children will read the
papers all their lives and become intelligent
men and women.
Merchants and bankers should bear
in mind just now the changes made by
the Code of 1896 with reference to sales
of land under mortgages and trust
deeds and see to it that their printed
forms of these instruments are made
to conform to law. This Is important,
because the old forms, which have been
In use, cannot be so altered that they
may be available. For instance: Sec
ton .2772 requires that notice of sales
of lands under trust deeds must be given
by publication in some newspaper, pub
llshed In the county wherein the lands are
situated for three weeks, and also by
posting notices, one of which must be at
the court house door. There are num-.
Der of other changes in the form which
makes 1t imperative that merchants and
bankers see to 1t that their forms are cor
rect.
| The present spell of weather is the most
remarkable that Mississippi has expert
enced in many years, and the official
records show that there has never been
such lengthy period of high temperature
during the months of December and jan
uary. Citizens are no longer able to wear
their winter garments, heavy clothing be-
ing discarded for spring raiment, while
coal dealers have been almost put out of
business. Horticulturists state that if a
change of weather takes place before the
end of the present week fruit trees will
have second bloom period when the
genuine spring season arrives, but if they
enter the fruition stage there will be no
prospects whatever for a crop. Straw
berry growers who find their plants in full
bloom are beginning to hope that the
warm weather will last long enough to
mature crop, but this hope is not likely
to be realized.
The rural routes were established for
the benefit of rural homes, or in other
words the farmers. They have proven
greater benefit and blessing to the farmers
than was anticipated by the most SAN
gulne. A farmer who has once enjoyed
the advantages of the rural mail service
would hardly know how to live without
1t. 1t did not come to the farmer, how
ever, until he had many times earned it.
The farmers are our heaviest taxpayers.
What property they. have Is in plain sight
and Is taxed, while the city gent, at least
many of them, who deals in notes and
bonds is enabled to hide his wealth from
the assessor. For quarter of century
the mail has been carried to the city home,