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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19
TIE COTTON CHOP.

''The opinion is now becoming gern-
eral that the cotton Gro, ROW raid
ly reaching the harvest eRiDd, CAM
not under the most favorable condik
tions PROVE better than a moderate
crop, but whether lit will bea IL, 000s--
600 bales or onlyi II, 500, O0a, bales or
less will depend largely om tlaH
weather ffDm now ON and the Late
advent Of frost, combined with a fas-
vorable picking season." says the
New Or5sans Picayune.
''The boil weevil has figured less
prominently this season than was
expected owing to the long dry, spell
but this. very drought, while it de-
stroyed the weevil, also cut down
the Texass crop, it is ba}ieved fully
a mi11on bales. The present prices,
in the nejghborhood of liz cents and
more, are predicated ON. a Short crop
but the problem lis, will they dis
count the situation when spfl1mers,
realizing the shortage in supplies, be
gin to buy actively.
The trouble i'm seasons of short
yiBld is the fact that the crop moves
quickly and during the months OF Oc-
aDher,, November aud December the
movement assumes such proportions
as to deceive the trade as to the
true conditions OF supply and prices
decline without actual warrant. The
farmers are to blame for this by fol
loving the policy of rushing cottor
to market during the early months
causing the immediate supply to ez
ceed the demand. In that way
good proportion of the crop sells fo'
less than 1t should bring.
mo matter how convincing The es
timatea Of the various authorities y
| to the size OF the crop may be. thert
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

late courts shall arbitrate causes re-
feIred to them, not by the crossing
of ST. or the odtting of an i" or
any other purely mechanical flaw In
the Indictment or process; but sim-
ply and solely upon the naked issue
as to whether or not the verdict of
the trial court is Justified by the ev-
idence and whether there be any rad
ically disquahfying flaws in the lat
ter.
Until we arrive at this stage, the
country will continuously be afflict-
ed by am increasing contempt for the
way the law is administered i'm this
country.--Atlanta Constitutions
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19
THE GEORGIA MULE

'Haye you got any Georgia patent
Guilty. combs?" asked Farmer Fish
back of Billeville merchant the 9TH
er day.
81 don't know" replied the store
keeper. 'I've got several kinds.
what sort is the Georgia patent?
Its made with scallOps so it will
fit inn between mules ribs this
time of Year"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

Man is like cork afloat on the
ocean If life. He must keep on top
OF the waves at all times. The strug-
-,:e is lard. the competition is fierce,
sd it ID only the strong man who
mains on top; the weaklngs. the
fault finders become water-sogged
and sink: but those who fight on
ultimately run across opportunity
which helps them into the port OF
success"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

A 6-year old pickaninny at Nc
Comb, after several fruitless efforts,
at last succeeded in blowing off the
head of Agar old descendant of
Ham with an ancient blunderbluss
that had not been fired since recon
str-uction days. McComb seems a
school for infantile criminals of color.
They branch out as bank thieves,
forgers, and murderers with alarm
ing frequency.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19
That is some corn to be produced en-
single plantation. -Grecnville Dem
ocrat.
THREE CROPS EACH YEAR-5oLL
WEEvIL BLESSING IN DIS
culsE.


been blessing i'm disguise, for 1t has
demonstrated that there are other
crops more profitable than cotton,
although the weevil lis no longer ter
ror to farmers, for they have made
two fairly good crops of cotton dur
ing the three years the weeyil has
been here, and the one failure was
more to be- attributed to bad seasons
than the weevil Some farmers are
now making three crops per year on
the same land, all paying better than
a cotton crop would have done. As
an illustrate lis noted tine result on
the farm of Mr.. T. Rascoe, one mile
from Mansfield, La, this year. In
February he planted crop of Irish
potatoes and gathered sixty-five BUSH
els per acre, which he sold for $1.05
per bushel. He them planted the
land inn peas, and has gathered four
tons of pea hay per acre, worth SIS
per ton. adding another $50 per acre
to the proceeds of the same ground,
and he has planted it again In Irish
potatoes for fall crop, with a reas-
enable certainty that this third crop
will produce as good results as did
the two first crops. He has already
produced crops worth $120 per acre
and if the fall crop of potatoes does
as we'll he will add another $50 per
acre to the value of the produce of
the same ground in one year. All of
this is ON land assessed at 81 per
acre. With such results it is evident
that the boil weevil can do no dam
age to him, although he has little
cotton as a side issue that experts
say will yield him two-thirds of a
bale 10 the acre. That farm has been
i'm cultivation for sixty years, and lis
about as poor land as can be found
in De Soto parish, but it shows what
Investigation and intensive farm
ing can do. AS further proof that
dfversification is a settled feature
i'm this parish, thanks to the boil wee
vii, number of farmers and land
owners are devoting special atten-
tion to stock raising, and it is fire.
quent occurrence to see carloads of
fat cattle sslGpped from this point to
the city markets, and only few
days since Mr.. Fred Harrison, a
land owner near town, brought a num-
Der of fine graded mares from Fort
Worth, Texas, for his stock farm.
These mares were of the Norman
stock, and their weight are about
/ 200 pounds each, and he will de-
vote his attention to raising fine
mules. In addition 20 this the lead
ing stock dealer has booked a MUM
Der OF orders for brood mares, and
he has ordered his first shipment of
a carEBad, and all of them are high
grade animals. S
De Soto parish now claims to- lead
every parrish in Louisiana as to pub
lie scliaoIs, good roads, diversified
farmineg and dairying, and it laBks
like it win take at once the front
rank i'm raising horses and mules as
it already hass done iIa regard to,
cattle.-Special from Mansfield, L..
to the New Orleans Picayune.
The same thing can be done inn;
Rankin. De Soto parish Is i'm tResl
center of. the boil weevil district sf
louisiana and the soil and conditions]
are the same rs in this county.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

The ministers, stewards, deacons
and 1aymen OF the churches OF Wes-
SON are reported in hearty cooper
alton with Rev. w. M. Pfnson, state
organizer of the Law Enforcement
League, for better government, high
er morals, a more sincere religion
and a city free from vice of the nu-
nervous members OF the Great
Church." who stay at home and read
fhe papers ON Sundays, have not
BEEN made known. We presume tIheg
favor a ROTTEN graftrddden govern
ment, no morals, hypocrite relig-
DON, "a city full OF vice with a due as
sortment OF alluring snares.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

G. A. EransiOIf, a leading Jackson
merchant, and a former preSide nt
of the board of trade of that city,
is endeavering to- have the pr1soEl
trustees work the road from the state
prison farm to Jackson, with con-
vict labor. Besides benefTtting the
travelling public, dit would be also of
great value to- the state farm, as it
hauls a great deaf of freight over
it and it could be also made an Oh
iect lesson in good road malEng-
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

The postnasters are in session this
week at delightful old Biloxi, where
fish and oysters and shrimp are
plentiful, where the breezes from the
gulf Will blow away the memories
of the worries they have every day
from people who know their letter
is i'm the office and is being with
held for Spite" Biloxians know how
to entertain and nature has given
them much to assist in doing dit we'll
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

A reverend preaching att tine Bap-
tist Tabernacle i'm TylertGMn spent
some time telling of a NreERl hell
and its teraDrs, 'tand proved his po-
sitiom by scriptural and scientific re
Searches says a New Orleans paper
1t dis obscuEad from our optical Wis
ION, he declares, by the absence of
lIminiferOHs ether. Persons seeing
shings unassisted by luantniferous
ether are usually reported as'tsee
ing some"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

John w. Day, one of the large cab
bage growers, recently hauled wag-
ON load of cabbage that filled an en-
tire car into Crystal Springs, over
a country road, which proves that Co
pah county highways are long ways
ahead of Rankin's, for few crates
will be a load here the summer
and some times the wagon is all that
can be drawn across the creek bot
toms DIM the winter.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19
SUMMER WISHES

Oh, would that i'm this weather warm
Man might an iceberg bes
And float beneath sunless sky
Upon Polar sea!
But them perchance, some. Archie bear
From heights man never knew,
Would ask the question-va varied there
lis it cold enough fon Yon2's
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

With heat burning up the west and
the east shfvering with cold, this
town is enjoying ideal weather for
cotton growing, with the people sit
Ting on cool galleries planning what
they VIII do with profits ON lucent
cotton next winter.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

Miss Elizabeth Preston, daughter
OF T.. w. Preston, died Sunday after
noon in Vicksburg at the family res
idence Elsewhere in to-day's issue
will be found "a notice of her moth
err, Mrs. Mary Shelby Preston's, death
only day or two previous, and there
are other members of that strfcken
family quite iH with tine same dis
ease, typhoid fever.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

Chief Groome declared the Vicks-
burg Social Club nothing more or
less than blind tiger" and raided
ut. What use is there i'm having "Pri-
vate' on the door if police chief
ecan butt in at any minute?
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

s'Most of us follow our leaders be-
cause we are afraid that if we do
have original ideas and carry them
out, we will be considered queer;
all mem who have accomplished great
things were considered queer Even
Columbus, prior to his first voyage,
was considered 'nutty.'"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19
THE GOOD TIMES ARE COMING.

%
o the good times are comm; no mat
ter what they say;
You kin hear 'em hummin', hummtn'
for hundred miles away;
They're a sailin through the sum-
mer, an a-fightin' through the
trees;
A-ridin down the rivers an asblowinT
in the breeze!
Comm
Albumin I
Like regiment a-drummin''
Lane has got a-turnin',
Buttermilks a-churnini
So keep your lamps a-burnin'
Till the good times come!
O the good times are comm; you
kim see 'em ON the rum
shinin' in the sun!
A-dumpin' over the daisies, am bab-
lin i'm the brook,
An' 1ookin' at a fellow like his
sweetheart use to look!
COMM
A-hummin'-
Like a regiment a-drUmmin'
Lane has got a-turnin',
Buttermilk's a-churnin',
So keep your lamps a-burnin'
Till the good times GOMEZ
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

The Vicksburg Democrat says that
I'm the census of 1880 the record for
the second heaviest yield of corn
per acre, in the Uuited States. was
given to Issaquena county, Miss.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

Walter Phillips, druggist of Jack
son, was fined 500 and given 80
days on a charge OF selling cocaine
in that city. He hmm ediately took
an appeal, asserting the charge was
made by woman who owed HMM
rent and had a grievance.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

Shelby county, Tennessee, i'm which
Memphis is situated. has just com
pleted a court house that cost ST.
100000. That is a half million more
than Mississippi's new state capitol
cost.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

Hattiesburg hopes to have water
communication with the gulf ere long
as with very little clearing out of
snags and sandbars Leaf river cam
be made nayigable. Jackson will
continue to grow if Pearl river lis
opened up for small vessels, and it
can be done if the proper pull is
kent 11n
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

Hartman has bought the. Erie
railroad. 1t is just as well that the
Brandon and Laurel road was not
built ais lit mo doubt also would have
been gobbled up by that wizzard of
the railroad world, and been used to
crush our people.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

Chairman Knapp, of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, predicts a
very heavy business for railroads this
year. Heavy crops north and west
are the cause.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19
IN DoueT.

ct hearn TELL said the colored dea-
con, ttdat las night Br'er Johnson
Ief' DIS worP for de mex one. But
sence he didn'tsen' fer me ter wait
ON him 'fo' he lef', l can't say fer
sartin des whar en- he landed
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

Advertising does not jerk; it
pulls. 1t begins very gently at first,
but the pull is steady. It increases
day by day and year by year until
it exerts an irresistible power
John Wanamaker.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

An OH woman was profuse In her
gratitude to q magistrate who had
dismissed charge brought against
her. Il thought you wouldn't be ard
on me, your worship" she remarked,
as she left the dock; 81 know 'ow
often a kind art beats BEND ugly
face"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

Fort William, in Ontario. Canada,
is under martial law as the result
Of an uprising among 1000 dock la
borers that didn't end until a score
Of police and strikers had been shot
and killed
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19
BUBBLES THAT BURLESQUE
LAW AND JUSTICE.

Undoing the work of trial courts
twice i'm rapid Succession first be-
cause of a missing ''the'' I'M the i'm
dictment, and again because of a SUI
perfMous s'e' in tide presemtment, rs
the contribution of the supreme court
of Missouri to the practice OF gov
egnment- by-technicsdity that often de
feats Justice and n1Heks the law m
the United States.
AS reported by tffH Kansas City
Star, Judge CAN'T, OF the supreme
court, first reversed a. case because
sThe" was missing before State OF
Missouri i'm the indictment. The sec
ond case, even more exaBpBrat ting,
lis described as follows:
Judge CAN'T filled in, division
No 2 of the supreme, court June
-, an opinion reversing and re-
manding two years sentence of
Leo Judd, of ST. Louis, for ffaudu-
lent registration mn September, 1904
The case is reversed ON thee ground
of a defective informa ton of the
prosecuting attorney. The ififorma-
tom charged Judd with, register
ing under the name of Charles
Cohn, but charged that he signed
the registration book by the name
of Charles Cohen. The different
spelling Of the name, the court
finds, makes it am entirely differ
emit name and makes the two parts
OF Thine infor1nRtion repugnant TO
each other and the indictment de
fective. The case is remandeh that
thh circuit attorney may fiiR an
other information, if he SO desires.
We boast of our Incompatible SUI
peaiority over the legal institutions
and practices 0f the old worM, and
of our more progressive and equita-
BILE ideals of liberty
Upon how farcical a basis the
claim is founded is indicated i'm this
instance from Missouri, i'm itself only
specimen of myriad similar out
groupings inn the courts of practically
all fine othaF states, as we& as with
in federal jurisdiction.
The fas1k does not liza with the
vast majority of able and conscient
ious lawyers in America The Amer
ican Ban Association tina Bar Assoc
citations of the various states, indi
viduaa lawyers at emfnence i'm Thu
country, Presfda emit Taft himseh, haV'
upon occasions innnHaerable desie
matted the archaic and unjust inter
venti0n Of the tecAmicality and tn
Quahhle in American Jurisprudence
and pleaded for q remedy.
| Failure in relief comes from the n
ertia or the outright antagondsm con
ne. in many Of our legislative bod
les, from lawyers Of minor attain
ments, who perhaps see fees hi j.
dicial qsaihhles.
| The way ont is simply intensdffet
1t only remains for legislatures to 9
amend legal procedure that appe
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

A North Carolinian killed himself
because his wife left him. Mean
while thousands of husbands are
bowling with delight because their
wives have gone off visiting.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

Robert Womack, who discovered
gold at Cripple Greek, Colorado, and
got on spree, selling his bananza
for $500, ded last week of paralysis.
Two hundred and eighty millions of
gold has been taken from the vein.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

The owner of a hotel at Coving
tom, La, prides himself ON the pos
session OF the cook who served ON
President McKinley's special train. If
the late presidents complexion was
due to the viands the cook concocted,
no such person should be allowed a.
round health resort.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

Upon trial recently to regain his
liberty Harry Thaw was declared to
be still insane and remanded to
Matteawan asylum for criminally in
sane to spend the remainder OF his
days, but OF course his family will
continue to fight for his release
from a place where he belongs.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

The Swedish strike has crumbled,
evidently for all time At one pc
Rod in the Swedish crisis an Amer
lean dock striker could have led the
Swedish working mem to complete
victory
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

A negro at Greenyille committed
suicide by tying his hands behind
his back and hanging himself to a
tree. A white man has been arrest
ed for acting as 1.-The would have pro
NOTED such suicide IL he had had
the chance.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

A boy swimming i'm Niagara river
Monday got too far out and was
caught by the resistless current
and swept over the falls to certain
death.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

j. B. Yellowly, of Ridgeland, has
been appointed census supervisor for
this congressional district, and appl-
cations are pouring in from those
who wish to be enumerators.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

Cuba's postmaster general shot am
editor after the official had been
properly showed up" Looks as if
good old times were resuming in the
island republic.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

The county convict gang of road
workers. having completed the PEI
engaged on Richland creek bottom
lahatchie swamp stretch, are now
three indies south Of town.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19
SEASIDE JINGLE.

Roll on, old ocean-deep profOundn
Your waves unfettered still;
While you are covering the ground,
The hotel fills the billi
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19
SOME GEORGIA NUGGETS.

The man that sings the loudest in
church throws his head back so far
that he can't see the collection bas-
ket whem it comes along.
The road to heaven is 50 marrow
that some people have decided that
there Is not ROOM for two at a time.
Some folks are so fond OF trouble
that they can't enjoy honey for think
ing OF what might have hapepned Il
the bee had aAung EN-.
When you hear a man saying that
this world : hard one. ten to one
he's broken his leg trying to fly when
he should lave been walking.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

Entered at the Brandon, Miss, post
office as second class mail.

Georgia taxes her dogs, old '.Tige"
$1.O0 and Sweetheart" $500. Miss
issippi charges the food consumers
and sheep destroyers nothing.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-19

That Louisville. negro woman who
died after eating five watermelons,
at least had happy ending.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13
Error Wins First For Montgomery. HESS SUPERB IN SECOND
 WHILE GUEESE IS WILD Eut One Hit Yielded by Pelican
 Pitcher. Over Seven Thousand People Saw Last Game Of Season In New Or- Ieans--Both Teams Here
 Today.

New Orleans. La. Sept. 12.-(Spe- cial.)-The Climbers care pretty near cinching third rlace this afternoon by taking the first game of the double- header here. If they can win two out of three from the Pelicans in the next three days they finish next to Nash Vile with bit to spare. and they nay turn the trick by winning only one of the next three. The scores loday were 2 to 1 and 3 to o, Mont Somery winning the first and losing The first game wasshard fought all the way, but the second was . walk getting but one lonesome hit of Hess. The Climbers scored one of their runs with hits and the other without hits. The winning run was made by Pope. who went aII the way home from sec juggling. the ball between them down at first base.
 :. With two down in the sixth. Pope hit one in first base territory. Matty started after it. hesitated. Paige mak- ing for first to cover the bag. Matty then made q second dash for the ball tie wild to Paige, who crossed the get the bail. By the time he recov-
 Montgomery's first run was made in the third on hit and stolen base by Daley and pippin of a single by Ker- ouyth S1y run astea Rsfts as nfsa landed on inger's error, and Matthews walked: nas Ass tns ss, nafnS of SSsya4 Rs. insr rsnk ing from Q charleyhorse. was taken out. Dexter going to second, Matty to first and Shriver behind the bat.
 The Pelicans got to Quese quickly tn the second game. Lindsay. whose bat ting was easily the feature of both games. led with double and later scored On Weimer's sacrihce fly. In this inning Kerwin made one of the most spectacular catches ever wit messed hers.> He caught drive from Rohe's bat with his gioved hand: reaching for 1t below his knee and on a dead run. Daley made another of this order in the fourth. Both of these hits would have been two seekers;
 Sn ths third inning the Pelicana scored on a combination of errors af. ter Lindsay had beaten out his third bunt. In the fourth doubles by Lino. say and Hill gave the locals the third and last run of the season on New Orleans grounds.
 The turnstiies registered nearly T.- 900 and Bill Stickney. the most pos u: iai secretary who comes here. carried smiles on his Roman beacon and shek- els In his knapsack. when the Climber and Pelicans boarded the same traii for Montgomery tonight. Scores: