The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
NEWS NOTES.

of her servants. Under influences
such as those described at Castle
Gould, who is going to protect the
destiny and morals of the servants
Governor Hughes commission de.
clares a substantial part of transac.
lions ON the part Of New York Stock
Exchange lis virtually gambling. Yet
no line can be drawn, as the same
mechanism is employed fer both le-
gitimate and gambling deals. Ills
true that the same mechanism is en-
ployed, but it happens that what is
sheared when applied to the lamb
turns out to be a lotion that makes
the wool grow when used On the
few who are 'in right.
The editorial Photographer who men,
tons a Japanese cold wave while
former Vice President Fairbanks
i'm the Flowery Kingdom, is lacking in
professional ethics, and hereby
barred from the 1910 Mardi Gras.
Buy this weeks Lookout, good
people, and read old Dr. Roosevelt's
prescription for making a nation hap
Ply, though rich. Dose comes in
platitudes, every one sugar-coated
and about as sophomore as the sweet
girl graduates wheeze that bored
you to death while you sweltered
last evening.
4 New York bank clerk began steal
ing in 1903, and got away with only
SIS, 000He deserves to be in jail
Montgomery is adding to her one
claim to eminence by the possession
of a gang of rough-necks and thugs
who beat UP Law and Order League
detectives whenever Dexter awenu
gets so dead it threatens to run into
the cemetery.
Taft can afford to be beaten at
out messages like the one he shot
into Congress last week.
A Cleveland fight promoter was
sentenced to fourteen years i'm pri-
son for pulling off a fake wrestling
match. If this promoter of manly
sport is clever at bridging, he's got
a mighty good chance to try his skill
with the Times as his opponent.
A New Yorker shipped shaving
and sawdust toNicaragua after he had
been paid for rifles and powder. He
now ON trial, charged with grand
larceny, and as a defense he asserts
he prevented a war nCentralAmerica
The mans foolish. In Contra
America they hang men for prevent
ing war.
A Texas boy quit the Naval Acad
envy and passed an examination aG-
hitting him to the army, SO he could
escape the Introduction against the
marriage of a midshipman. The cir
had pretty eyes and all that sort
thing, you know, but-this is JUNE.
Wesson is now in the throes of two
revivals. Rev. R. M. Cook, of Arkan-
sas, is on the grounds with his tent
for ten days meet, and the Rev.
Remington, of Amite City, is busy at
the Baptist church This is GER
tainly working to beat the devil
Bishop Sessums, of Louisiana, ar
rived at East Beach, Biloxi, for the
summer.
John Ducas, a county farm prisoner
at Moss Point, has written the Gov
ernor for relief, probably calling in
the ''cruel and unusual punishment
clause of the United States Constitu
ton. John was sent UP for ninety
days and given a $500 fine for ,unlaw-
full retailing, with the blessed privi-
Iege of working off the fine at 40c
per day for each full day of real work
rainy days, holidays, sick days and
short days not to count 1t would
take him 1850 days to do it. Poor
john. No more blind tiger business
for him.
The second trial of Sheriff J.
f. Greer, at Brookhaven, is in prog
ress The State was long ON wit
nesses and law at the last trial, but
Mr.. Greer got a mistrial. Now the
State has subpoenaed twenty more to
tell what they know, doubtless think
ing such an overwhelming majority
over MIR. Greer's lonely one witness
will win the day.
The crop ON the Belmont convict
farm, Washington county, will be a
failure for the first time since the
State owned the place. Throughout
the Delta a great part of which es-