The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-05-12


to keep and guide us all till me meet
again. Your friend and brother,
A. G. NORRELL.
We trust that the storm of several days
ago and the cold later, will not cut
out the purpose of any one to be Tepres-
ented in the beat one fair this fall Nor
that the season will dampen the ardor
and enthusiasm of any one who had taken
hold on the matter of having the fair.
1t is true our farming friends are put TO
it now to get their crops Strengthened out
after the late hurt from the cold; but
in short while the cultivation period
will run smoothly without knots and
tangles in the way; and then the mind
can revert to the coming fair. Let every
man and his wife be determined to have
some things they raised in the field or gar
den, superior to the other man and wom-
an. Pay good attention to fat porker,
a fine laying fowl, a three and four gal
Ion milker,a mule that you raised yourself
and would sell for no money. In fact,
look after all kinds of stock a man who
calls himself a farmer, and ought, as
a farmer, to raise on his own territory.
What about the big white cabbage head
What of the finely rounded turnips?
What of the ground "busting" sweet
potatoes? What will be done about that
40 bushels per acre fine corn your boy
will try for this year? How much per
acre of oats did you show up in June to
come? Will there be any u7o pound
watermelons raised by your own labor?
Send in pumpkin that cur little a-year
old kinds have to climb on a ladder to
get over it. Have the dogs run your
sheep down their throats, or out of the
country? If not, let's have a good bale
of your nice wool to show what can be
done without dogs. And when you come
to our fair, bring some unchanging senti-
ments with you on the County Dog Law
question. We can have a county dog law
if there be sheep sentiment enough to en-
courage our county Legislators to vote
accordingly. If we prefer dogs to hogs
or sheep, it is not worth while to bother
the board of Supervisors with the subject.
At fair is the very place for stock
men and corn men and every progressive
home and beat-builder-up, man and worn-
an to have stoutly bundle of nerves
enough to express their real sentiments
on the dog and sheep question, the NUT
ton and the wool question. Come with
a good package of sentiment in you in ia
vor of dog or, in favor of warm winter.
wear for your kids, and express your senti-
merits like man without your thumb
sticking in your mouth.
We have not heard this subject of sheep
and dogs discussed yet; but it is time
now to take the matter up. Cattle tick
eradication and dog law should be dis
cussed now.
There is millionaire in Illinois, Dr.
Pearson, now go years old, who saw Hal
ley's comet three quarters of a century
ago, and says he will view it the second
time on its present appearance. This old
man has no children, his wire still by his
side, but he has helped thousands of other
children and thereby made them and him
self happy; and he said: every rich
man should aid in educating or raising as
many poor children as he can. 1t makes
better man of him. He begins to love
the world, and pretty soon he gets hap
Ply and helthy." This is as true as Cos
pei; and yet so-called Christians act as
though it were throwing away good to
help the other fellow. 1t is not my mus
mess to question the act Of doing good TO
the other fellow, but it is my business as
a Christian to go ahead and help, but
in the proper spirit and with the proper
aim, and leave the consequences with the
Master who said: Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as myself" / must perform my
duty as a Christian, and net pass upon
of he <l-
courteous spirit whine out that it takes
9s per cent to get 5 cents to the missionary
fields, thereby accusing Gods servants of
stealing the money My business is to
give the dollar as a Christian duty, and
shut my mouth and keep down my cring- |
ing, stingy, selfish spirit, and trust the
matter with the Head of the Church. |
will get credit for the dollar given, no |
matter if 95 per cent Of it is lest. To
answer this caviling kicking spirit, we
will say that it has been demonstrated that
it takes barely ten cents of the dollar |
to get it to the mission field. Help the
other fellow who needs-your neighbor,
your neighbours child, the poor human |
that is human being whose soul you
must love and benefit, that you may be
iIStt With Tie NlGStcI. NcdU, yC QulD- /
blers, the 13th chapter Of 1st Corinthians
in the New Testament, for the next 3
months, and we will "learn what that
neaEeth' to you.
Speaking of old Dr.. Pearson, we will
state that his diet includes no meat what
ever. 1t is cereal, milk, fruit and veg
citation, this last is used only at dinner,
The others at breakfast and supper. And
the doctor says he takes daily exercise
regularly, by walking in good weather,
or using dumb bells in his library before
breakfast and for IS minutes before get
ting into bed at night. This reminds US
to tell that the papers of other days men
toned the fact than an Indian died in
Lower California about fifteen or twenty |
years ago at the age of $50 years. He
was an active body up to few days be-
fore his death. 1t was said that his hab-
it was to wash his body all over every
day. But if be happened to be where
he could not obtain sufficient water handi-
ly, he would scrape his skin all over with
his old hunting knife. In either case he
kept the pores Of his entire skin open.