The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-12
C.. w. TAYLOR.

The Aberdeen Examiner strongly
advocates, the planting of tobacco
One advantage of raising your own
tobacco lis that if lit tastes like am
infusion of cabbage and mule hair,
| lit lis your own fault
The disposal of the old capitol is
still hotly discussed. The Meridian
Dispatch tells the jackson News that
the venerable pile will doubtless
stand several generations mere if
unmolested. In that event, the dis
cussion will last several generations
more, which lis into!erable. Better
do something with it at once.
Mr.. J. w. Day, "the Tomato King
of Copiah County, tells the Jackson
papers that there is more corn in
Copiah than ever before. Aunt Bet
ty, who will be the chief architect
of the Taft dinner, should get next
to the King at once. GA La Gre
OLE" freely translated, means ''full
of tomatoes" Corn a. la Creole
would go fine.
The fine Italian hand and the black
hand having had their share of at
tenaion, Mr. Amos Ponder, attorney
fer the defense i'm the case of Louis
lama Farmers VS.. Game Commission,
Administration, ct ais, Saturday night
mentioned the ''blighting hand of the
Dago" We are familiar with the fine
and the black, but we would Like to
see some samples of the bhghtirg.
The American Telephone and Tel
egraph Co., owned i'm New York, but
domiciled in Piss Christian, operates
153 miles of toll lines but has I'D ex-
change in Mississippi The ccmpa-
NY raports a dead loss for tne last
fiscal year Yet the Cumberland al
ways claims that the exchange is
what cuts all the joy cut of ttae he'll
10 business. There is evidently an
Ethiopian lurking in the fuel stack.
A special from Columbus says that
Chass. R. Smiths friends will quietly
pass tie word around next. state
election TO nominate a candidate fer
governor, to vote for a certain man
who wild pardcn the rich slayer CT
the drummer, Laurent, who got a
LIE sentence in the pen. The ru-
Nor is a pipe dream OF some sem
setloEalist; and If not, then. the
friends, as we'll, as Smith, ought to
he confined
I Several of the state papers are
urging that the s'convicts raise
came" The growing of ribbon cane
profitably in south Mississippi has
BEEN demonstrated annually for 40
years, and while convict labor can
raise cotton, cane, and corn at a
profit, there would be much greater
benefit in dollars and cents to work
the fellows who raised cane" and
set in the pen, ON the public high
ways and net compete with honest
farmers in raising staple crops.
Judges J. A. p Campbell, of Jack
son, and Jehu Orr, of Columbus. are
dae only two living members from
federate Congress and Judge Orr is
the only living member from this
state in the regular congress.
The conditions In Cuba are fast
getting to the point where interfer-
ence by the United States govern.
ment will take place and annexation
will be the result.
And now cometh into court arain
ONE G. B. Waller. jr., who saws Mr.
Hightower drew no money when thav
wouldn't let him have it and did
draw money when he should not
have and has been generally naugh-
tty and that am election was fa'ka5
and the Advocates bought BY divers
subterfuges and the minutes alterad
and still some more to the Same ~
rect and worse, Lord, when viii n
end? We would rather be = hrnd
tiger in Canton and fight with ~
MfAlhster than be farm chief and
quarrel with the farmers.