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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-05-20
DR.. WHITES PAPER.
Read to the Class Of Spring Hill
Normal and Industrial coIered In
stitute.

/ thank your worthy principal, for
the invitation to be with you on
this very important occasion. How
ever, am constrained to say that his
Judgment, in one respect at least, is
not the best, in. that there are SO
many who are more eminently quail
fled to interest, and instruct the au-
dience on this occasion.
In looking around for theme, !
am decidedly of the opinion that
there is nothing of more vital inter
est, and concern, to the present gen
Grafton, and especially the negroes,
of the South, than to call attention
to the White plague" commonly
known as consumption, or tubercu-
losis, which every hour in "A claims
SO human beings in the United States
as its victims. This disease is par
Eicularly prevalent, and fatal among
the coIored race, for tho reason that
their houses are generally small and
poorly ventilated, and consequently
overcrowded.
The government at Washington has
xnaugurated a movement to establish
aeagues-which means, an organiza-
tion to prevent the spread of consum-
ption ON account of its prevalence
among your people. Realizing the
gravity of the situa ton, and the furth-
er fact, that unless some measures
are adopted to prevent it's spread,
and frightful ravages, that, in a few
years, it will amount almost to ex-
termination.
From scientific investigation it has
been clearly demonstrated that this
disease is not Transmitted directly
from one person to another; that is
by inhalng the breath of one Suff-
e1ing from the disease-but that the
expectoraticn is dropped upon the
floor or bedding and being allowed
to dry, is inhaled into the lungs from
the dust of either the floor or bed
ding. It is a disease, also contract
ed by drinking the milk of cows suf-
fering with the disease. Hence, the
Importance of having fat thrifty cows.
This is a disease which we do not
tract. OF course a weak or feeble
person is more liable to contract it.
The plan devised by the United
States Public Health Service, is to
establish in each State-having a
large colored populations State
anti tuberculosis league; with one vice
president in each county, and he is
expected to organize each church inI
the county into a church league, the
pastor being president
1t is proposed further that each
member Of the church pay small an
nual dues, and be given an ornamen-
tai certificate of membership. Onl
each certificate will be printed infor-
nation in regard to this disease;
measures necessary for preventing
its spread, and its cure if contracted. !
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-05-20

It will teach clearly and concisely the
principles Of sanitation The funds
derived from annual dues will be us
ed by the league of each church in
caring for its members, who have the
disease. You will see they are thus
contributing to their own care when
one Is stricken with the disease. II
is also proposed to have lessons In
sanitation taught in every school, a
matter which heretofore has been
woefully neglected.
This Is the first antiltuberculosis
league for the colored race that has
ever been formed; and it Is to be
hoped, will meet your hearty approx.
al and cooperation. Measures are
now being perfected by the Publios
Health and Marine Hospital Service
for the establishment of a national
league, all officers and members OF
which are to be negroes The sub
ject is of vital interest to the whites
as we'll, as they are drawn in intimat
contact.
This colored league was suggested
by conference of cofored farmers
at Savannah, Georgia, not many day
ago. 1t would be we'll for the people
of this community TO keep UP with
the procession" Get In communica.
ton with r. r. Wright, President
Georgia State Industrial College, or
DIR. s. p. Lloyd, of Savannah, Secre-
tary.
The white people will-(from a
Mlma unitarian aspect, and from
a sense OF Se9f-preServation,
ON account OF close contact referred
to elSewhere) lend their material aid
co any movement looking to an i'm
provement in health conditions of the
negroes.
The ministers of all denominations
in Georgia are actively at work en-
rolling members, and perfecting or
CARNATIONS. They hope to inculcate
the principles of sanitation in its
wider sense and in this way lead to
the physical and moral uplifting of
the race. In conclusion / want to-
congratulate you upon the work done
at this place and to assure you of
the hearty good will and cooperation
of the best citizens of the community
/ urge up on you the necessity of
perseverance and self-reliance. TIL
success of this institution will depend
largely upon your efforts. Above all
things make no mistake in the selec
ton of your teachers. Men and wom-
en- should be secured who by precept
and example will cultivate a spirit of
right living, virtue and a
sublime reverence for the Giver Of
all good gifts and graces.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-05-20

per cent of our officers and men
couldn't show certificates of birth in
to Neptune's domain Many Of these
mem had been ON the China station
and had been around the world three
or four times but had never crossed
the Equator.
So the King of the Raging Main
had a busy day if he ever had one in
his life. He visited each and every
ship at the same time, together with
his wife, his son and retinne OF
policemen, barberS and doctors-for
he is invested with exceptional pow
er to divide himself up and distribute
himself all along the Line from the
Galapagos Islands around the world
and back again
He sent a messenger abroad the
day before to look over the ships pa
pers and have a roll-call of his chill
dren-in fact, for a. week previous,
the fleet had been in wireless conf
munication with Neptune himself and
he said that he was anxiOuSly await
ing the day when he could cross his
boundary and he could claim his own,
much to the detection of the recruits.
So, when one of the men with a
sextant took shot at the sun and
read our latitude as zero. Neptune
was hauled over the side, followed by
his cabinet and the members of his
royal family, he strutted down the
deck in all the panoply and plumage
of his regal position. After he had
duly greeted the captain and those
of his subjects who were aboard, he
held court and initiated the new ar
rivals. Officers or orderly, newspa-
per correspondent or cOaIpasser-nO
favoritism was shown to any who had
never before crossed the Equator.
Each paid his footing; the particular
case Of each was diagnosed by DR..
Pills, the court physician, who pre-
scribed according to the ailment;
each was daubed with a lather of tai
low, black grease and other delight
fully soothing ingredients; each wa
shaved none too tenderly with two
foot wooden razor in the hands OF
the dear barber; and each was skid
ded or dropped, as the case presented
itself, into a pailful of water to be
mang1ed by pack of blOodthirsty
carnfvorous bears. When the unfor
tunate succeeded in disengaging him
self from the loving embraces of
these erstwhile animals and could
scramble out of the slippery sail upon
the deck. he was a fulLfledged, ~
karat Observation-Disclosures SON o
Father Neptune.
The Mascot Suicide.
| We had been in Sydney few days
revealing in liberties and the hospf-
! tality of the Britishers, when dele.
/ CATION came aboard the Kansas and
the spokesman said he wanted to pre-
sent the good ship mascot. It lookt
ed like the hybride OF rat and q
RABBIT, with the tail. ears and hide Of
/ the former and the hind legs of the
| latter. All hands piped for'ad to
have sight at it. Somebody asked
the man what It was. The man sale
|it was a walaby and he took 1t fol
granted that he was telling the truth
1 It was q dwarf kangaroo in every ne
spect but its appetite and it certain
" was great consumer. Anything
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-05-20
Gamblers, Superstition.

A long French nail would appear to
be popular as a mascot at Monte Carlo,
for among the trente and quarante
players it is much in evidence. Others
again place confidence In the posses
sion OF crooked coin. One man fixes
all his hopes on a mummy's finger, a
nasty looking bit Of brown stick
which he preserves with holy care an
If 1t were saints relic-Hearth and
Home.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-05-20
NOTICE.

My fine Tennessee Jack, "Ben
Hor," win make present season at
my stables 25 miles West of Bran
don, at $40 to insure. Money due
should mare be sold or traded All
possible care viii be taken to avoid
accident, but no responsibility should
any occur. Ben Hur Is 141k hands
high, Your patronage solicited.
]. G. WHITE.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-05-20
To Him That r1atn.

1t is one of the ironies of fat that
the man who has job needn't dr.
SO we'll as the man looking for on -
Newark Evening News.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-05-20

the Kansas didn't, want. tine men fed
to the wallaby. After it had eaten
a copy of the ships rules is commit
ted suicide onR day.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-05-20

My home. raised Jack, Is hands
high, 5 years. old, will make the sea-
son at my place for $40, To insure.
ROBERT CHAPMAN. Johns, Miss
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-05-20

Wiley" the well known Jack, for
merly owned by Ed Rhodes, will
make the season at Pelalatchie.
KERSH & JORDAN,
Pelahatchie, Miss
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-05-20
Alabama & Vicksburg
RAILWAY
Time Table.

EaSthOund.
To Cincinnati, Atlanta and N. Y.-----
Meridian and Birmingham 3:o5 pm.
Meridian and Cincinnati %: 30 a. IN.
Meridian, Local -z-6:15 pun.
WeStbOund.
To Shreveport and Beyond ------
Shreveport and Beyond --f:57 pm.
VicksbuFg Local zoo pm.
VicksbuTg Local-----o:5o a. m.
Fast train carries Pullman Sleeping Car
between Shreveport and Chattanooga
connecting with through Sleepers to New
York and Cincinnati. Also Dining Car
The Shreveport and B ham train carries
through coaches and Sleeping Car be-
tween Shreveport and Meridian and Din
ing Car.
For rates and detailed information, an.
ply to Ticket Agent or address
GEO. H. SMITH, Gen. Pass. Agent.
New Orleans. La
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-05-20

When the world began to exist rea-
son was its mother. He who knows
his mother knows that he is: her child,
and knowing it finds himself out of
danger When he closes his lips and
the gates of his feelings at the end Of
his life he will feel no uneasfness.-
Lao-Tse.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-05-20
Crossing the Line.

But the most fun we had among
ourselves was when we crossed the
Line into ATTITUDES south, for 80
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-13

Union square. New York, killing himself
and companion and injuring four po-
licemen.
May 5-Five bodies of persons sum
ness dug up at ruins of her home at
La Porte, Ind, where she and, her
two children were thought to have
died In burning home.
6-Four more bodies found on Guinness
farm at La Porte, Ind.
Jun. 13-Mrs. Daniel Cooper, Cadillac
Mich, killed husband, five children and
self. Gov. Wilson, Kentucky, par
doned Caleb Powers and James How
ard, convicted of completely in killing
OF william Goebel.
22-Nine negroes lynched and shot and
killed in Sabine county, Tenn, as re-
suit Of two murders.
Jul. 16-Guiseppe Ala, murderer of Fa-
ther Leo Heinrichs at Denver, was ex-
ecuted at Canon City, Col.
Aug. -Four negroes lynched at Russell
vile, KY, for praising killing of white
man.
14-SpringneId. Ill, mob burned negro
homes, killed two persons and ruled
the city us result of removal of ne
gro assaulter of Mrs. Richardson.
15-Troops rushed to Springfield, ILL.,; Will
liam Donegan lynched by mob, several
17-Mobs at Springfield. Ill, fred on
troops; white man slain.
Nov. 9-Former United States Sen. Ed
ward w. Carmack was shot and killed
by Robert Cooper, young attorney, at
Nashville. Tenn, in street duel.
A-Three negroes, arrested for murder
taken from Tiptonville, Tenn, Jail and
lynched in accordance with pre-ar-
ranged program.
26-Ray Lamphere, charged with murder
of Mrs. Belle Guinness was found guilty
of arson and sentenced to from to 81
years in state prison, by Laporte, Ind,
jury.
Dec. I0-Abe Ruef. former San Francisco
political boss, convicted of bribery
Charles E. Davis found not guilty of
murder of DR.. Frederick Rustin.
18Th. E. Agar, wanted at Princeton, Ind,
for $125,000 alleged forgeries, arrested at
Harlingen, Tex
17-Elmer Hill, alleged murderer, lynched
at Monticello, KY.
20-Robbers raided Ceresco Ia bank Sc
curing 5000.
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placed in receivers


Texas saving bank, placed in receivers
hands.
1S-John R. Walsh, president Chicago Ma
tional bank and several railroads con-
v1cted OF Incorporating institutions
funds.
21-Capital State Bank, Boise, Idaho. sus
pended
22-Traders and Mechanics Bank, Pitts
burg, Pa, closed doors.
25-National Bank of North America, New
York. closed for liquidation, by order
OF government.
29-New Amsterdam National bank. cap
ital s., ZOO, 900, and Mechanics and Ira
charge by comptroller of currency.
31-Oriental Bank of New York closed
doors, following run.
Feb. 13-W. B. Ridgely, comptroller of
organized National Bank of Commerce,
Kansas City, Mo.
8-International and Great Northern
ceivers' hands.
27-Financiers E. R. Thomas and o. F.
Thomas indicted on charge of misman-
agement of funds of Provident Savings
Life Assurance society
Mar. 1S-John r. Walsh denied new trial;
sentenced to five years in federal prison.
16-People's National bank, Aspin. Col.
closed.
Apr Pike County Bank and Trust Co..
Macomb City. Miss, placed in receivers
Blank of wauseon wauseon. O..
closed doors.
PAT. A. Mcintyre & Co.. with houses in
many cities. failed for s1,OOOOOO.
May S-Euclid Avenue Trust Co., Cleve-
land. o., assigned.
I+Reserve Trust Co., and American Saw
ings bank. Cleveland, O., closed their
sc. W. MacMinen & Co., Pittsburg.
Pa, stockholders. failed liabilities.
Jun. S-Kosciusko Company bank, War
saw. Ind, closed by state auditor;
2S-Citizens' bank. Dover. KY. closed
Jul. 14-National Deposit bank. Philadel-
phia, Pa. closed by comptroller of cur
rency.
17-Farmers and Merchants Banking Co.,
Cleveland, O., failed.
22-StRndard OIL S20.24O,OO0 fine deci-
sion unanimously reversed by Unit
ed States court of appeals at Chi
Aug 6-Ffrst National bank, Belle PLANE,
Mimi. closed by order comptroller of
dent ]. G. Lund committed suicide
ga. 0. Brown & Co., one of largest
New York brokerage firms. failed; liza
Sep. 1O-A. Booth & Co, largest fish
house in country. forced into receivers
Oct. 1s-Union National bank, sommer-
vile. Pa. closed by government
Nov. 5-Charles w. Morse and Alfred H.
Curtis. great financiers,. found guilty
of misapplication of funds and falsify
ing books of National Bank Of Amer
lea, New York.
&C. w. Morse sentenced to 10 years;
Curtis given liberty on suspended SEN
tence.
2s-Eidred bank of Eldred. Pa. suspend
ed capital stock. 100000.
Dec. National exchange bank at
caused by effort of w. o. Oldham
cashier of State Savings bank, to shoot
President H. B. Mcdaniel, of Union Ma
tional bank.
11-Springport Mich. State Savings bank
closed by bank examiner.
6-Somersworth. n. H, First National
bank closed, following discovery OF
shortage of SIS. 600.
23-Thomas F. Ryan announced retire
ment from finance
26-Henry w. Poor. New York broker. as
signed for creditors.
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e-At New Orleans; loss. 100000
s-Two Atlanta, Ga. business buildings
destroyed; loss. 81. 250, 000
u.Camp Cook, s. D.. destroyed: loss.
5-Omaha Packing Co., South Omaha.
Neb.. destroyed; loss. 100000.
JqR .,1 packing plant ant burned at
22-Business section of Three Rivers,
Que, destroyed; loss. $3.50 0Oo.. Block
of Port Chester y; Y. buildings de-
4Three oil ref1neries destroyed as re-
suit of lightning; in western and north
ern PennsyIvania; loss. $500 600.
duluth M MINI, ,o docks ScS and sheds de-
Jul. sBoston harbor front destroyed:
loss, 81, SOC. 600.
21..,Cottonwood. Idaho. destroyed: loss.
31-Philadedphia pier and merchandise
destroyed; loss $4O0. 900.
Aug. SArmour elevators and Burlington
raliroa &c Pr property at Chicago. destroyed:
H-In New York Central yards, East Buff
falo, N. Y. loss. s1,000.0O0.
So-New Orleans business section sus-
tanned s., coz, 900 damage. Darby, Mont
almost completely destroyed
loss, $3.50. O0O.
6-Armour wool house, Chicago stock
yards, destroyed; loss, $500, 600
stroyed; loss. 100000
Oct. 4-Pittsburg, Pa. plate glass COM
I7-Rock Island, ILL.,, loss. $500, 600.
A.Denver Col. mills destroyed; loss
Nov. Philadelphia, Pa. lumber yards
destroyed; $3.50. 600
l1,lndianola, Miss. cotton warehouses
destroyed; loss, 100000
1S.Bardstown, KY. distillery warehouses
Dec. Draws, Okla. business section
wiped out; loss, s35 900.
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ing down many houses.
Mar. AT Collinwood, o., 1z4 school
children Rerished N result Of Are
In primary school, and attendant
ss-At Hanna, Wyo., 70 killed by explo-
sions in Union Pacific railroad mine. !.
kentucky floods caused loss Of seven
lives and did 100000 damage to property.
Pat Chelsea, Mass. Il persons
loss Of s5.5OS,6oo: 100 families rendered
14-Three prairie fires in South Dakota
destroyed farm property valued at
2S-Tornadoes In Texas, South Dakota
and Nebraska caused six deaths and
2Nin Louisiana, Mississippi, and Ala
bama tornadoes. $50 lives lost; 46 towns
badly wrecked; property loss $12 900, OOe.
Madison, Wis, Oklahoma and Texas,
killed Is persons and caused great prop
erty loss.
12-Tornado which visited Belleyiew.
Fort Crook, killed II persons.
1S-Tornado wrecked Gillian, La, killing
eight.
25-Northern and Central Texas food
caused death of Il persons.
27-Alfalfa county, Okla, tornado killed
10 persons and hundreds of head of
Aug. 2-Furnie. Coal Creek and Michael,
Flood at Augusta. Ca. did damage of
$40, O0O. 600; PA persisted
26-At Haileyville, Okla. 80 miners per-
ished when fire destroyed hosting shaft
cattle
S1,000, Co., and caused IA deaths.
Sep l7-Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge killed
and Orville Wright seriously injured by
falling of aeroplane to ground during
flight at Fort Meyer.
24-Minnesota forest fire loss estimated at
S10,G 900.
Oct. linear Metz, Mich. Is forest fire
refugees killed in wreck of train, which
was caused by fire burning trestle work
19.On Pressure isle and in Alpena county,
Michigan, 45 killed in forest fires.
Nov 29-At Mariana, Pa, coal mine. 10
miners persisted as result of terrific ex-
ploSion.
Dec. 12-Premature explosion of dynamite
on Panama canal, killed 81
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, Mar. Goal operators in Pittsburg dis
trict commenced preparations for strike
u-S500 St. Louis brewery employees
struck for higher wages.
Apr. 1-Pending wage settlement $50 900
miners suspended work in American
mines....T. l.. Lewis took up duties as
miners president and invited operators
to wage scale conference.
Six hundred MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi, paper
hangers and painters struck for closed
shop.
lo-Importation of strike breakers from
st. Louis to work on Pensaloca! Fla,
street railways caused fierce rioting. Is
non-union men being injured
Ex-Governor of Florida sent entire militia
body to Pensacola
1T-Central competitive field of operat-
ors and miners reached wage agree
ment OF 80 cents a ton-old agreement;
100000 resumed work at once.
May flight hundred Kansas City, Mo-,
brewery workers struck.
N-Street car strike rioting in Cleveland.
NV. s. Stone, Cleveland, O.. elected
grand chief engineer OF International
Engineers Brotherhood.
Nov. 1o-Samuel Gompers reelected pres
ident OF the American Federation of La
Dor at Denver Col.
Dec. 22-William H. Newman resigned as
president Of New York Central lines.
A8-President Samuel GOmpers of
American Federation of Labor sem
fenced to one year In jail. Vice-Pres-
adent J. J. Mitchell to nine mOnthr
and Secretary Frank Morrison to six
months, In connection with alleged
Bucks Stove Company boycott by cir
cult court of District OF Columbia
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A([uANE|IB

Jan. e-En1ployers' liability law held un-
constitutional by supreme court of the
United States
Feb. 12-Sfx New York-to-Paris racing
autos started from Herald square, New
York.
Mar. 12-Atlantic pattieship fleet dropped
anchor In Magdalena bay.
23-Supreme court ruled Minnesota and
North Carolina had no right to hx
railroad rights.
Apr. Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt began
suit for separation from husband
1-Atlantic battleship fleet arrived %
2f-In Illinois town elections saloons won
in S. "drys" in A.
23-Illinois local option law held consti-
May s-Atlantic battleship fleet arrived q
San Francisco.
ai.M IN Mae ,,S G Wood lost lost alvoro.
c. Plat, case being dismissed and Miss
Wood jailed; Rev. DR.. Baxter P. Full
lerton, st: Louis. elected moderator OF
Presbyterian church of United Statea.
z-Harry K Thaw decided insane ana
jun. r1Hsne%-H hsrn an nylqa track
bills passed by New. York legislature.
| 2s-Presfdent Roosevelt ordered troops
out against bandits on Mexican border
I'm order to preserve neutrality law
| Jul 7-Atlantic battleship fleet sailed
from San Francisco on round-the-worlo
Sep Sol H NJ Nevius elected com.
| mander of the Grand Army of the Re-
public: Mrs. w. L. Gilman, Roxbury,
Mass. elected president Of women'S
sLOrville Wright at Fort Meyer broke
| worlds aeroplane record by remaining
In air over an hour.
l0-orville Wright again broke worlds
record, remaining in air 1:os;52
| remaining in air 1:l0:26.
| 21-Wilbur Wright broke brothers
/ worlds record at lie Mans, France, re-
naming in air 1:31:25
Nov. 10-Petition for rehearing of STAN
| dard OIL $2e,240,ooo case refused by
| United States circuit court of appeals
at Chicago.
| Dec s-Senor Don Juan Barrios minis
| ter OF foreign affairs of Guatemala, sus-
| tanned serious injuries in automobile 40
cident at Washington.
| I-Naional Rivers and Harbors con-
| gress passed resolution, asking $500, 00O,-
! 600 bond issue for improvements on rfv-
| ers and harbols of the country....
T. shooting several until run down
and shot by police an0~snob of citizens.
| l3-Kansas supreme court decided sep
! arste schools for colored children per-
MISSILE
| f5--American Tobacco Company declared
illegal combination by United States cir
cult court at, New York.
2I-Seven Pittsburg councilmen and two
bankers arrested on graft charges
| 23-Siandard, Republic and Waters Pierce
oil companies ousted from Missouri
/ 24-Seventy more Pittsburg councilmen
implicated In graft scandal.
z7-virginia City. Mont, shaken by &C.
we're earthquakes.