The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-10-14

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has BEEN laid before him, Mr.. Nagel
said; Permit me to say that l re
| gard the questions to be considered
by this Congress as of the kreatest
Importance, not only to the South,
but to the entire country"
Long Beach, Miss, DIS opposed to
permitting the Cumberland Telephone
Co. to place its poles ON the beach,
Perhaps the company Wishes its
poles to be i'm the most precarious
position, ais that corporation gave
destruction by the recent storm as
am excuse for big raise im long dis
lance rates.
Some person has unearthed the fac
that Mississippi owns a big lot of
territory i'm Liberia and has the right
to colonize negroes there. Keep dt
quiet or Ford Chiles will be going
over there to see if the natives owe
amy back taxes and he lis needed
here.
An so year old paper manufacturer
who had sold out his inteest dn Penn
sylvania, could not resist the allure
ments that the huge stacks of rice
straw i'm Louisiana fields offered, and
will engage again i'm the business i'm
The Land of EvangeIine Many good
Things are i'm store for the southland.
trade day on October the 9Th. Bran,
dom wants 5000 that day.
The Meridian Dispatch having nom
mated Mr.. W. E. Baskin for governor
now has 1.-THE job of making him ad-
mit he has been nominated. Mr.. BaS-
kin may run, but he does not seem
inclined to let the Meridian Dispatch
rHAn hlm.
York state poliitics, Herbert Parsons,
I'm a stirring pronuncdamentO, declares
that Manhattan Democrats and Uncle
Joe Cannon plotted together for their
mutual benefits during the last con-
gressionaI session over the matter of
the change OF rules. Herbert might
have told the plot at the time of its
hatching with some effect. But now
who cares for conspiracy that't only
diluted HISTORY.
If the real reason is ever known
for the suicide of Albert Pulitzer, 1T
will simmer down ito about this: Al
bert did away with himself because
his brother, Joseph, was the greater
of the two.
Somebody has sent cut the story
from Spain that there is to be- for
mail declaration of war between Spain
and Morocco forthcoming If Spain
ever learn to fight harder and pay
less attention ito the matters Of
amenities, the miserable, lttle, brok-
en-dowm principality may have a
chance to- recover some of it's past
glory.
The Independence League annonnr-
ces it will put third ticket DIM the
field dun the New York mayoralty CON-
test. At the same thine Mr.. Hearst
declares he will NOT be candidate.
Hearst has learned that there's more
satisfaction i'm paying for political all
tar sacrifices than being ones own
goat Of course there are plenty of
mem i'm New York willing to be the
Hearst goat-itpays.
The Story lis sent out from San An
tonic that President Taft dis going to
hunt wild cat ON his brothers ranch
inn Texas. That corpulent person
lis going to do something out of the
ordinary just ais sure as he keeps ON
livimg. And maybe it dis not out of
place to mention that the president
may acquire some information DIM
his wildcat hunt that will be valuable
to him if he ever really attempts to
cut off the thralldom of that Wash
ington bunch.
A widow of Newton has sued the
Northeastern for $4,000 for the death
of her husband. We understand the
Valley recently compromised suit
by giving the farmer a better COW
than the one they killed.
We do not quite understand the
way persons charged with capital