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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-06-06
country life. and how we spend our

country life, and how we spend our
time"
Quite SO. He found out what he
wanted, and waited his chance as
only an Oriental can walt. Finally.
despairing of getting glimpse OF
your jewel case. he or one of his de-
pendents arranged with the cyclist,
who was also Siamese, for that
little scene of the accident, which en-
abled them to duplicate the case.
but why-why not have broken it
open?"
IF only that one stone had been
taken they would inevitably narrow
the field of inquiry; by taking all,
not only did they make 1t seem a
commonplace robbery, but having
found that you rarely opened your
jewel case, they gained days, and but
| for your wanting a jewel reset would
have gained weeks in which to get
their Mairoda stone safely away.
1.-THE cyclist, entering the hospital
empty handed and helpless, would
naturally be beyond suspicion. Mean
while, the duplicate having been
made, the real thief, the prime
| mover, waited his chance and effected
| the substitution-it would take mos
/ ment or two at most, when his plans
were complete"
But what shall co? What can
| I do?" asked Lady Borrodaile.
"The only thing you must not do,
| if you value your life, and speak in
all seriousness, is to attempt to re-
cover that stone. 1t is undoubtedly
possible to do so, though difficult. 1t
! is probably by now we'll on the way
to Siam. Should you send any one
in pursuit they would inevitably lose
their life before they so much as got
glimpse of the stone, and you, as
the instigator OF the pursuit, would
probably share his fate. Take my
advice, go away somewhere, take
your dogs and your servants with
you, and leave the house unguarded.
II you do, you will get your other
| jewels back within the week. Mind
you, these men have not stolen any
thing for it's intrinsic value. They
have merely, in their idea, rescued a
precious and sacred relic from the
hands of an infidel and an unbe-
lever"
Ten days later the Vigilant re-
ceived note from Lady Borrodaile.
"You were right. returned to
Duncroft yesterday. The case has
been returned intact, with a dupli-
cate key in gold. I found it in the
lock. The ruby was gone, but in. its
place were three magnificent unset
diamonds. I send you one as a toker
Of my thanks and my admiration O,
your skill. London Answers.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-06-06
A BLOW ON THE HEAD.

What effect a blow on the head
may have upon the one who receives
1t, no man can predict. Stories have
been written, the turning-point of
which was the recovery of memory
lost by such blow. In more recent
times instances have come to light
through modern psychological treat
ment-in which personality was APP
parently quite changed by blow OH
the head. Many backward school
boy, even when apparently eager to
do criminal things, has been found
to be suffering from the effect of such
shock received years before, and to
be durable by surgery.
Seldom is such story more thrill
ing than the true one which changed
the life of a young writer who died
recently in Western city.
From his earliest boyhood he had
been incorrigible. He began running
away from home before he was three
years old, and as soon as he was of
school age became a terror to his
teacher. He stole from his mother,
led other boys astray, and by his mis-
adventures and his habit of going on
long Journeys with the toughest OF
tramps, kept his mother on the verge
OF nervous prostration.
Every imaginable plea was tried in
vain with him. He made promises
only to break them. He seemed un-
able to resist the mad impulse to
vagabondage which impelled him.
Several times his parents had him
examined for sanity, and the verdict
Of .the alienists was that there was
some cause of mental disturbance
which they could not determine. The
police OF many States came to know
him.
At last his behavior SO wore on bis
6other that she WAS driven to Europl
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-06-06
Holding Tn Christ.

A gentleman was visiting friend
who was an ardent admirer OF Mr..
Sturgeon, and was continually pTais-
ing him as a preacher.
Il have never heard him." said the
visitor, "but next Sunday I will so
and see whether he deserves the
praise you bestow upon him"
So he went to the Tabernacle, and
on his return from the morning SER
vice his host met him with the eager
question: well, what do you think
of hinl?''
Nothing" was the reply. Then,
seeing the look OF utter establishment
and sorrow on his friends face, he
said again: ''No, nothing
But his eyes filed with tears OF Joy
as he added: All can think OF is the
Savior he held up to US.
No finer praise than this could be
passed upon any man preacnin g.
ottager and Artisan.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-06-06
The Ethics of Pain.

Bishop Mccormick S study OF pain
and sympathy" though brief, is
thoughtful. We cannot contemplate
the spectacle of natures pain, he tells
US, without having it borne in upon
our consciousness that it is in some
sense our pain. That is what the
Germans mean when they speak of
Weltschmerz, that world-sorrow
which highest natures feel most often
and most deeply. Nature, says Bishop
Mccormick, but represents ourselves.
Her lesser children, the brute crea-
ton, are inexorably bound together
with the feeling and the faith of her
best and latest born. "The gospel of
redemption is sent not only to man
but to every creature" Yet pain per-
sists. Indeed, when we realize the
high degree of mental suffering that
comes to brains more finely organ
lied, and nervous systems more high
ly keyed, it seems as though the sense
of pain had never been so keen as it
is to-day. What does it all mean?
men are great" says Bishop Nc
Cormick, according to their sorrows
and the way they bear them. Pain
puts the finishing touches round
ing and completing of human nature
and experience forever wanting in an
unshadowed life. pain is catholic
and cosmopolitan" The painless life
is shallow. "Who does not know how
character is ripened by sorrow?" So
pain must not make the Christian
pessimist, but rather heroic, faithful,
enduring. 1t must be to us rem
edial, educative, divine" Pain has
it's origin in sin, and yet it is perfect
ly reconcilable with Gods love and
Gods law. There is nothing hostile
which He cannot make helpful. Pain,
interviewer as it is with sin, becomes
in Gods hands a means OF purifca-
ton and redemption. Pain is teach
ing us sympathy. To the old quest
ion, as it nothing to you, all We that
pass by?" We can answer: Thank
God, it is already something. BY and
by it will be everything The by
passer has become the by-stander and
the by-stander the sympathizer.
And so we are brought to pains
only panacea, the sympathy Of Christ.
IF we here touch religion at its most
mystical point" says Bishop McCor-
mick, "the experience of all Chris
tians testifes that we touch it at it's
most vital point" For pain is not
punitive only. but remedial also, not
OF anger, but of love-" This, says
Bishop Mccormick, is Gods f1nal les
son, His most intimate secret, Fiis
most uplifting revelation. The
Churchman.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-06-06
SMOKELESS FUEL FOR NAVY.
Admiral Evans Makes Startling
Proposition to Secure 1t.

1fOpOSItlOn TO Secure 1t.
In a recent issue of leading MAJ
azine. The North American Revie1,
Admiral Robley d. Evans points out
three of the great objections to he
use OF soft coal by naval vessels.
The smoke which it emits gives I'M
mistakable indications of the ap.
proach of ship while yet the hull is
out of sight. If the furnaces are
forced, to get up top speed, flame
will belch forth from the stacks. and
even at night might betray the move
ments of single vessel or feet. This
second cause, he says. nearly spoiled
Admiral Dewey's shrewd plan for the
invasion of Manila Bay. Finally, or
ders are issued to the vessels CON-
posing fleet by flag signals, and
sometimes smoke from the stack of
the flagship will conceal the sig
mails.
Though anthracite coal was used
in the Federal navy during the Civil
War. the Government now employs
bituminous coal, as does every other
naval power in the world. The
United States is the only country,
however, which at the present time
Is known to have hard coal. Admiral
Evans speaks of that material, there
fore, as a "matchless weapon" He
would like to see the Government OBJ
tain exclusive control Of the deposits
for military purposes, because of the
immense advantage they would give
us in war. In other words, he would
have the national authorities buy
the property and stop mining for
purely industrial purposes. To carry
out his idea something like $4,000
100000 would be required, even il
the owners of the anthracite deposits
were willing to part with them, which
is doubtful. The scheme does not
seem practicable, therefore.
Perhaps fresh discussion of the
subject, nevertheless, may lead to the
adoption Of some other fuel which
yields no smoke. Admiral Evans
does not like petroleum. He says
that it is all right fer a moderate
pace at sea, but it will not facilitate
forcing steamers engines, as is
often desirable in war. Still, oil is
not the only fuel which deserves con-
sideration. Coke, which is bitumin-
GUS coal deprived Of its more volatile
contents. is absolutely smokeless. It
would cost more than soft coal, and
probably would be more expensive
than anthracite. Possibly it would
be disappointing, too, in respect to
the heat I. would develop. and in
any case it would be resource that
any nation could utilize. But il the
matter were freshly investigated, the
Government might decide that coke
was the best thing to use.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-06-06
Artificial Ewes.

They appear to have originated in
Egypt: they were made of gold and
silver, then of copper and ivory. In
the sixteenth century porcelain was
the subtance used, and the makers
advertised themselves by stamping
their names and addresses on the
white of the eyea practice not like
~ to commend itself to their custom
ers. one would have thought. Porce-
lain was superseded by glass, which
again gave place to enamel; and this,
we believe, is the substance in favor
at the present day. The best speci-
mems look so wonderfully real that
It Is sometimes difficult to believe
that they have not the power of Wis
ion, and that their chief use Is to
prevent person from looking nm
siRhtly il the eyes Of his fellow n "a.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-06-06
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$50 TIE FOLKS SAY"


The curse otthe rulnshop no mortal can
tell,
1t RODS men Heaven and sends them to
hell
And yet therere many, O can it be, pray,
Who vote 1T tdlicense, SO the folks say.
What, license he grogshcp! do the iolks
say?
1t hghtens thei taxes, so some CT them
think,
To license this BUSINESS of selling strong
So, along with be barkecrer multitudes
stray,
Taking bread from the hungry, so the folks
say.
What, food from tie starving! do the folks
say?
IT'S fell institutiorthey each one confess,
Cruel wrong IN the tine-cup and sorry dis
tress;
And yet mid their raging for peace day
by day,
There are those whovote whisky, so the
folks say
What, vote with the ,rewerl do the folks
say!
To save men by static is wrong, some
declare,
Who'll vote to make legal the worl. Of
repair;
As though law to save men were worse
than to slay,
And yet they are good men, so the folks
say.
What. true-hearted, good men, can the
folks say?
There's a time in the future, and soon
twill be here,
When the voter and seller and victim of
beer
VIII have finished life's journey, have
spent its brief day,
And must stand up together, SO the folks
say,
Face to face with the Master! What will
He say?
@Inasmuch as We did it." whate'er it may
be,
ITO the least of My brethren, we did it to
Me-"
And by this will He reckon in that juig-
ment day,
And not by our praying, so the folks say;
BY doing aud prayingl so will all say
&C. B. Besse, in Home Herald.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-06-06
.SEA-HoSS SENSE. .

| Education is a great thing, :"
granted Captain Ezekiel, land that
| there war with Spain showed that the
| officers OF the navy have got it. But
it amt only education that is neces-
sary to run vessel. There is re-
| CURED for emergencies what I call
| 'sea-hOss sense that tells you where
you be and how to get anywhere
| when it's SO thick O. fog you can't see
| over the rail-
Come one season., back about
| 1870, we had master heavy fog
down the Maine coast. I come along
by Old Orchard right in the thick
| of it, and no way to tell where | was
| but just that same sea-hoss sense.
Whistles sound most any way in a
fog, and Portland whistle seemed
like it was right up in the middle of
Old Orchard beach, but / knew if
! tried to sail to where that whistle
come from by it's sound I'd lay the old
Polly Ann high and dry.
AS I was beating up, out of the
fog doomed up a big old frigate,
| headed straight in to where the iron
pier is now. | hailed 'em and asked
EN- If they was trying to go ashore.
well, we lay to and had quite a
| talk about it, and / explained to the
officer on deck about how that whistle
he was follering would lead him
straight on to the beach.
What shall / do, Them he asks.
I amt allowed to take a pilot, he
says.
'Foller your nose says I. Right
off at first he was inclined to get mad
at that, but as the Polly Ann went on
| into the fog see him come about and
| head up after her. went poking
| along into the thick blanket for an
hour or two, and then / fetched up
and let go anchor off the mouth of
Portland harbor.
I'm about five minutes along come
| that frigate, and as she run by me
and into harbor the captain leaned
come aboard, which of course done
/ so.
| Captain he says, I have to
thank you for new aid to naviga-
ton. But what on earth did you do
it within
Captain Ezekiel drew a long breath
! and sighed reminiscent smile, says
a writer in the New York Press, and
the crowd Of listeners impatiently
echoed the naval captains query.
/ WELL" said Captain Ezekiel, "I'll
| tell We. The Polly Ann was loaded
with old-fashioned phosphate fertil-
/ izer. I got out barrel of it and
opened it and set it on deck, and it
let out trail that hung there in the
| fog for an hour after we had passed.
1t was like lane right through the
| fog, straight to Portland. That frig-
ate captain smelled his way straight
along it, and when he missed it he
just turned at right angles and sailed
till he cut across it again. Then he
turned like he was at street corner
where he knew the lamp-post -
Youths Companion.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-06-06

In order that she might rest for =
time, out of hearing OF his adven.
lures. Even in Europe, however, she
was not free from him, for, tramping
through the Continent, he encoun-
tered her in public park. No one
could have been more disreputable
in appearance than the tramp who
thus confronted her, but the mothers
heart went out to him, and she per-
suaded him to remain little while.
AT least" she said, "if you must
do this way, let me provide you with
money. Let me hear from you once
in a while. Let me know you are
safe and WE'LL.
All this he promised to do, and
having a desire to see South America,
went with her consent to England to
embark on sailing vessel for a
tramp through that continent. He
sailed from port one foggy evening.
AS they lay at anchor in the harbor
mouth waiting for clearer weather, a
fellow passenger and he stood in the
bow, looking out into the fog.
Suddenly, without warning, huge
steamship crashed into them, and cut
far into the sailing ships wooden
hull. Spars fell from aloft and the
fellow passenger was Instantly killed.
The American was picked up uncon-
scious, where a Jagged wound in his
head where spar had struck him.
He lay unconscious in the hospital
for long time, tenderly nursed by
his mother, and then passed. through
siege of brain fever. But when
the illness was over and he was ra-
tional and conscious again, a change
had been wrought. Something had
been altered in his brain, and all the
passion for vagabondage had left him.
He cared for tramping no longer.
Il only want to go to work to turn
my knowledge of the tramp's world
to account" he said, $50 that ] may
prevent as many other boys as posi-
BILE from going the terrible road
went"
To that end he long devoted him
self. He wrote many stories of tramp
ing days, but through them all ran
the note of sorrow that so many years
of his life had been lost in disrepu-
table wanderings.-Yo Com
panion.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-06-06
Where Polly Got Her Name.

The name Polly applied to the par
rot is said to have been brought to
the North in an early day by fiatboat-
men who took grain and provisions
down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
to New Orleans. Parrots were IN
cages at the doors OF many French
shops. and the Westerners heard the
French say to the birds, "Parlez! par
lezl" pronounced parley. and mean
ing Speak! speak This word as
they brought it back came to be polly.
Kansas City Times
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-06-06
Every Christian a Missionary.

No consecrated Christian can be an
idler. As My Father has sent Me
even so send YOU" We are here as
missionaries, every one OF us with a
commission and trust as definite as
the one who is sent to the heather
lands. Let us find our work and.
whatsoever our hand findeth to do,
do it with our might" Our Lord will
soon return and each one of US must
render an account. How have we
used our talents? Can we say we
have done our best? RemeMbes we
cannot deceive God. G. Piymire.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-06-06
FOR THE NIGHT coMETH

Across the dial-plate, where sleeps
A lizard, drunken with the light,
An ever-shifting shadow creeps--
The outstretched finger Of the night.
Uncropped, unclipped, around the base
The high grass springs, the mullen
towers,
Hiding the legend on the face,
Il Cannot Count in Shade or Showers. !"
"a friend Of sunny times alone,
1t hath no love for darker days:
When clouds across the sun are blown,
1t hungers for the warming rays
1t basks gray-silent in the light,
Content beneath the suns full powers;
Above, the legend reads Alright,
Number but the Sunny Hours"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-06-06

But carved beneath, another line
Cries its short message to mankind,
Half hid beneath the rank woodbine
10 eyes that see and yet are blind,
Out of the wilderness, unheard,
1t calls through winter-time and June,
Shouting to all to wake and grid:
Man, Seize the Hour while yet It's
Noon"
Like bugles in the dead of night
The high call startles, and the heart
Leaps, as lark to. meet the light,
Eager to do its promised part.
Man, seize the hour, thy work to bless;
Mould thou and shape the instant boon;
Hear We across the wilderness,
use well the Time; the Night comes
e. soon."
Hams Brotherton, in Harper's Weekly.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-06-06

John Williams Brotherton in Harper's Weekly.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-10-14
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MAGAZINE REVIEW.

/ The October number Of The North
American Review contains an article, BY
/ the late Julia AIagruder. entitled. The
Child Labor Problem: Fact versus Sen.
timentality." Miss Magrauder admits
that it is unfortunate that children
should have TO labor in factories or 9th
erwise at an age intended by nature for
the mental and physical development Of
the young But she contends that the
whole question hinges on the point Of
the alternative. If these children were
not employed, in what condition would
they be This question is answered by
contrasting the children seen on the
farms Of North Carolina with the chill.
dgen seen in the factory towns; the lat.
ter being more eeanly. better dressed.
brighter, more intelligent. than the for
mer Miss AIagruder criticises severely
the sentimental articles and books which
have been published on this subject, and
which, she says, do not describe the
facts. Size says
mo objection seems to be made to the
father Of the family's working in the
mill, while the mother does the house
work and the children 60 to school. But,
to make this feasible, the family must
live near the mill: and, when ii Is re.
membered that the influences which have
made the father an indolent and unsuc-
cessfnl farmer have equally affected the
mother, it is too much to expect that
they viii provide healthy happy home
for their children. or comprehend the
value Of education for them. It is only
after a GREATER or lesser experience of |
the stimulating and enlightening effects |
of skilled labor and the rich fruit that |
comes from it, that the parents Of these /
poor children advance so far as to help /
and direct their offspring to better /
things Therefore, IL q typical southern /
poor white family moves from the coun.
try TO cotton mill, the best chance |
for their children is to go into the mills /
themselves. There they are compelled /
to learn, at least. the value Of order. /
system, punctuality, and the accurate
use of their bands and fingers. The /
work is of The lightest, as far as any
physical tax goes The boys are almost
employed as 'doifers that
is, each boy has d certain number Of
spools to watch, and he must take off /
the empty ones and replace them with
full ones, as often as it is necessary.
When his spools are are full, he not only
may, but actually does, play games, in.
side or outside the mill. with his fellow
ioffers, provided he is not too noisy and
loes not neglect his spools The girls.
Is rule. are employed to mend the
threads which break in the warp, and are
liven a certain number of looms to tend
Ne one can possibly pretend that the
work is hard. The lamentable fact is
hat children Of this age should have any
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-10-14
7be Times Daily Short Story.

amount AMI before the ink was dry
on the paper he told inc the stock was
boughten.
"Bloodsucker on went up and up
and up. and my profits went up with
IT, Then news come that the company
had been fined enough money to buy
must o the farms IN this yere state.
saw my profits wiped out. and then
most o. the money I'd give Dan for
that blamed margin was wiped out
too. An the fellers around the ticker
begun TO howl that the goy'ment was
ruinln' the business O the country.
And what dye thInkg When Dan told
me that II my stock went down a few
more per cent he'd have TO sell me out
an I'd lose all put In Jest riz up
and | cursed and ! swore.
"'Consarn n gov'ment thatn inter.
fere With what Il don't know nothin'
about! These attorney generals and
judges he'd better conhne 'emselyes to
pupishin' men for boss stealn'. The
Bloodsucker OIL company has been
eheapenin' kerrysene for years. an
now a corrupt set o. men who want to
turn the country into an empire like
Roosia air tryin' to stop 'em. It's a
conspiracy to rob the people and make
'em pay more.
THE men around the ticker didn't
any of 'em pay any attention to what
l was sayin They was all swearin' |
at the administration themselves ex-
cept one man. who says to me, he says:
but my friend, don't you want
some power able and ready to see
that the men who manage the compa-
ny whose stock you own don't wreck
1t and swindle YOU?
"'No,' says; 4 don't. What goods
the stock to me If my margin is all ct
np and git sold outT
when started for home, ruined
man, gratin' my teeth and cussln' the
goy'ment, Dan he handed me check.
smilin'. I didn't buy you any Blood
sucker OIL he says. but when / saw
the decision OF the court flnln' the
company sold some shares short for
you. Your profit is $500. Here 1t is
WAL, now l was out Of it could
feel the patriotism oozln' right back
INTO me, tlnglln' in my fingers, my toes
and my ears. X calls me a trust
buster, Dam says, an am. wish
they'd fine Bloodsucker Oh all its cap
ital, an you'd sell II all short for me-
But when ! got home and thort 1t
NIL over made up my mind that
couldn't conscentlously consider my.
self patriot any longer. You fellers
kin do the rotin' I'm goin to stay at
home" ARNOLD VAN HORN.