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The Brandon news., 1910-03-03
MUMM|H|ED IN
COAL MINES
BODIES OF II CHERRY VICTIMS
DRY AS EGYPTIAN MUMMIES.
Dry Air id Heated Pit ct Cherry Has
Startling Effeca in Corpses of Dis
..Gster Victims-Work is Nosv TO be
RCpi1-F0u,teen. Bodies Found

Fifteen bodies of miners were recovered
from the ST. Paul mine at Cherry, ILL.,,
lis the past week To the amazement of
veteran mine inspectors, eleven of the
bodies entombed since last Nov. IS, when
brought to surface, were found to be al
most perfectly mummifed.
This mummihed condition was brought
about by the bodies having been during
the three months in a part of the mine
which was dry and warm, so that they
went through slow process of drying
up.
"This is one cf the most remarkable
incidents Of a disaster which has been
full of wonders" declared an old mine in
spector 'The mummies are in such good
preservation that they might have been
taken out of the ancient tombs of Egypt"
The bodis of 173 men remain in the
mine, it is estimated
Fighting through fire and the deadly
black damp, which ever since the disaster
has stood between them and the bodies
still entombed in the mine, the rescuers
found the eleven bodies in what is known
as the second level. They were about 17s
feet from the main air shaft. The men
instead Of retreating to remoter parts of
the mine, evidently had made desperate
effort to escape when the fire broke out,
and they were among the first to die.
Thcy were round with their arms
stretched forward and face down, hav-
ing been sufocated,as they ran, probably
by gust of heat ard gas. Shut in an
air-tight chamber when the main was
finally sealed up, they remained in kind
of an oven, i'll which the temperature was
irrle over hlood-heat Their clothing
was so badly scortched and their features
so badly disfgured by falling rocks that
identification was difficult.
Fire i, still raging in the mine A new
tunnel or entry, $50 feet long, had to be
cut around FIRE area before the bodies
were reached. AS soon as this openeing
was made work was begun on barricad-
ing with concrete all the fire area. Four
other bodies were seen in the same place,
and these will soon be brought up.
As soon as the bodies were reached
they were hoisted to the surface and
hurried to the morgue, where, after a
long time, seven were identified Few
spectators stood about the mine when
the hoist came up. The only women pres
ent were group of eight who stood in
the wind with their anxious faces hud-
died in shawls. Seven of these were
widows and one was a mother who had
lost two sons.
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03
CORN is KING.
All tie SiEver and Gold tn Amer;ca Noi
Equal TO the Billion, Seven Hun
drcd Million Dollar Yearly
Corr Crop.
Corn Crop.

Nothing agriculturally is more fasci-
mating than to study the corn crop Of the
United States. Cotton used to be king,
but corn has dethroned cotton, and has
rolled up figures that simply take off your
feet, writes J. George Friedrich in The
Travel Magazine for March. Corn grows
in I2o days from its planting time. Out
in the Great corr belt, during 1909. the
corn farmers made the ground give up to
them $15,ooo,ooo every day of those I2o.
In other words, every day from the time
the corn farmers put the seed in the
ground, fifteen million of dollars were
poured into their laps until a total of
$1,72o, 100000 was rolled up! All the
gold and silver in the United States to-
day isn't equal to this corn crop of last
year; it was worth enough to buy entirely
new clothing jewelry and personal adorn-
ment for every man, woman and child
in the country.
And this is only corn! Wheat and
cotton are not far behind. Wheat never
fetched such a price for the farmer since
1881 as it did last year. And no cotton
planter has received such a high price
for his cotcn since 1871.
No wonder farmers are buying au-
tomobiles!
No wonder that the rural ard semi
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03
GROWTH OF POSTAL SERVICE.

In Washington's administration the
Postmaster General had but one clerk.
There were only seventy-hve postoffices
and 1875 miles of post roads in the United
States. The cost of the mail transporta-
ton was $37,935, the total expenditure
$s2,14o, leaving a surplus of $5s795. 1t
was not till 1898 that the idea of utilizing
the railroads in the mail service was
thought Of and the present railway mail
service was not inaugurated until 1864,
when it was begun by Colonel Armstrong.
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03
1T WAS A SURE SIGN.

Two little girls were playing en- the
street end a well-dressed lady passed
them with a swish and whirl. BY the
noise it was evident that she wore a silk
petticoat.
'What makes that noise?" whispered
one little girl, with wondering look.
"Sh" said the other child in low
voice, "don't you know she's got money
rich folks always rattle and smell good"
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03

gro driving an unpainted wagon drawn
by mule. He drew up with a loud
whoa in front of the store.
"Majorl" he called.
No response
Major Doar' wan'ter 'sturb yo', Ma
jor"
No response.
"Major."
The Major heard at last.
"Hello, uncle!" he said "What can
l do for your"
"Doan' wan ter 'sturb yo', Major,
but is dey any news in de paper?"
"No," said the Majcrs "no, there isn't
any news today. Yes there is, too. There's
a war between France and Morocco
''S dat sop said the negro '9S dat
Sc, an is dere really awah, with fighs-
in and blood killin'7"
"A real war;" repeated the Major
"Golly," said the negro, gathering up
his reins. "Whar did yo' say dat wah
was, Major?"
Morocco said the Major, turning
again to the sheet.
"Wellp" said the colorcd man, "dey
suttenly has got a fine day for it.
Giddap!" And he clattered down the
road.
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03
GOOD DAY FOR A WAR.
From the Youths Companicn.)

(F-om the Youths Companicn.)
There was nothing in sight down the
road. The major sat tilted against the
wall of the general store reading yes
terday's paper. 1t was clear, warm day.
Inside the store the postmaster could be
heard sorting the mall but without every
thing was still and peaceful AT last
there was clattcr and rattle, and
frcm somewhere there appeared a ne
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03
FARMING IN PALESTINE.

Counsel Wallace of Jerusalem, writes
as follows of agricultural methods OF
today in Palestine: "The land is rent
ed and fsrmed in primitive way,
which is improbable to landlord and
tenant alike. The lands are rented
for onc-third of the crop produced
After the harvest the grain is imme-
diately threshed The tithes, or gov
ernment tax, are the first taken, which
are one-tenth of the whole crop, and
then the remainder is divided, the
landlord receiving his one-third share
The farmer has generally pledged a
good portion of the expected crop, vir-
tually selling it at greatly reduced
price for the purpose of securing money
in advance for his necessities If grain
is 81 a bushel, on an advance to him of
$1oo he will agree to deliver to the party
who advances the money $50 or I4o
bushels of grain after the harvest. Should
the crop fail it is carried over to the next
year, but under new contract in which
40 per cent is added to the original amount
The farmer classes have no realizing sense
Of the injustice done them in matters
of business They are thus kept desti-
tute and poor, and can hardly provide
themselves with the common necessities OF
life. The tools and implements used
by them are little different from those
used by the partriarchs."
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03
HIS SCHEME.

Soiled Spooner (the tramp )-How's bus
iress, pard?
Slackputter (the village constable)-
Pretty blame slow, jest at present.
Soiled Spooner-You look like a good
sport. Tell you what I'll do: Lend me
quarter to get the necessary drinks,
and Pll com back here and raise such
a row that you can run me in and git
the usual fee. What dye say?
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03

rural districts of the country are posi-
lively the most interesting part of our
countr ytoday. Things are going on there
that travellers will find as interesting as
any sightseeing on the face of the globe.
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03
OUR FIRST MONEY.


The first United States money was made
in 1886, but instead of bearing the faces
of leading statesmen it bore only the face
of Liberty. Some few coins were stamp
ed with the face of Washington, and are
highly valued by collectors. The first
coins struck by the United States mint
were some half-dimes, in 1889. The first
United States dimes were struck in France
from cid silver family plate furnished
by Washington, and were known as "Mar-
tha Washington Dimes" from the fact
that the Liberty head was adapted to
that of the Presidents wife.
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03

Mrs Talbert, nee Miss Inez Pearson,
is a daughter of Mrs. J. R. Pearson, of
Pearson, and has large number of
friends here who will be panied to
know of the death of her husband
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03
A SAFE WAY.

"Tcll me-" said the lovelorn youth,
whats the best way to find out what a
woman thinks of you?"
"Marry her. replied Peckham promptly
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03
FOR SALE.

Full blood Plymouth Rock eggs, $1.oo
for IS. w. L. GRAIN.
Brandon, R. F. D. No. 2, box 81
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03
FOR SORE EYES.

Get bottle Of Dr.. Agnews Eye Water
For sale ut
WATSON'S JEWELRY STORE.
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03

The greatest cotton crop ever raised
in the United States was that of 1908.
Statistics, compiled, show thai its value be-
fore it left the hands of the farmers was
$72a, 100000.
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03

Wanted at once-Good timber grader
Apply at this Office.
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03

NOTICE TO TEACHERS AND TRUS-
TEES.
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03

There will be six months of free school
in Rankin county term Iooo-Io.
S. r. MYERS, Supt. Education.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-24
A DAY FOR DAD.

Fathers will at last get some we'll
merited consideration, if all goes we'll
with the plans of Mrs. ]. B. Dodd, a
society woman of the state of Wash
ington, who is bending every energy
toward making the third Sunday of
June a day on which the poor old
dad will be hoGored throughout the
country, if not the whole world. On
the next day set aside for father"
in Spokane, Wash, everybody in that
city will be seen wearing rose in
his buttonhole or on her breast in
token of good will for and remem-
Drance of the man with the hoe, !"
or whatever other implement he
chances to use in his daily struggle
for pot-boiling material. Believing
the cause to be a worthy one Mrs.
Dodd is hard at work to further a
general recognition of the day, per-
haps fearing that dad" will jump
the job unless he is accorded equal
recognition with mother" for whom
a day has already been set apart.
OF course dad" will not object,
Tor despite his brusque way at times
and his Unconditional appearance
deep down in the old mans heart
there is a due appreciation of and
a longing at least for some of the
gentler things in life that serve to
make him forget the hurts" in the
struggle He is a little sheepish
about these things, like the boy with
mis- first girl in tow, but down inside
mis- heart will glow at the sight OF
the roses worn in his honor
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-24
Leading Lady" and walking
Gentleman"

From the Conyers Times.
Somebody has said that there are
more young men in the penitentiary
in this country learning trades than
there are outside of them. The prin-
ciple cause of this is, we are educat-
ing our young men for gentlemen;
trying to make lawyers, doctors and
clerks out of the material nature
intended for blacksmiths, carpenters,
and other ''hewers of wood and draw
ers of water" 1t is mistake, and
a big one, to teach boys and girls
by insinuation or otherwise that to
labor is disgraceful, or if labor is
necessary for livelihood to follow
a genteel occupation, and that to do
nothing for living is more becoming
in the society in which they expect
to move and have respect. Hang such
society. 1t is rotten to the core, and
there are many mems sons and
daughters who are now being edu-
Gated to play the part of leading
LADY, and walking gentleman" in
the great drama of life who will
light out for the poor house or peni-
Tertiary before they have played
their parts and the curtain drops.
Go to work.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-24
TOO MUCH LAW.

Residents of Aurora, H., have
been ordered by the local health de-
partment to take two baths every
week. The order is one in list of
rules and regulations issued by the
health officer as to cleanliness of
body and is known as No. s, and,
according to that meddlesome func-
,tionary, anyone violating its provis-
ions will be vigorously prosecuted.
Perhaps the residents of Aurora
are used to such foolishness, and
won't mind it; but on the other hand
they may arise in their Indignation
and drown that officious crank in
his own tub. If it were the first
instance of freak laws one could
afford to laugh and go on as before,
but it is simply one OF burden of
fool measures that is being added
TO each year by municipalities and
states, and already so heavy that
it is beginning to gall the shoulders
of the people. If even half of the
laws relating to "nuisances" were
enforced one would hardly know
where he lis at" and would find
his liberty restricted in the most
surprising ways.
And conditions in respect to this
are growing steadily worse. Not
only are we riling up more statutes,
but we are piling them up more rap
idly than before. Each session of
each legislature seems anxious to
prove its industry by turning out
a larger volume of laws than the
preceding session.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-24
THE PURPOSE OF PARKS.

Prospective home hunters are more
| likely to locate in a town that has a
park than one without any, provided
the place is satisfactory in other re-
spects. Even a few acres tastefully
laid out with lawn, flower beds and
playground for the young folks
will be a pleasant spot where both
the poor and the rich can spend
many happy hours.
A small section of a large city park
is devoted to a rosary with beauti-
full rose walk. This idea can easily
be carried out in a small park at a
moderate expense, and in the genial
month of roses it would form a
charming beauty spot
Open spaces about a railroad sta
ton laid out like a park please the
passersby, and add greatly to the ap-
pearance of a town.
What parks are meant for and
their value to mankind is concisely
described by writer in the Los
Angeles Times, who says;
Parks are or at least should be
built for use, not merely to look at
A park is a piece of the country with
in the town or a piece of land within
the town where the people have all
the freedom and influences of rural
parts. For this reason as little re-
striction as possible should be placed
upon the use of parks, and every
reasonable provision made for the &C
commodation and convenience of the
public. No Keep on the Grass signs
should deter any one from taking a
roll Cor nap if he feels like it,
upon the lawns, and plenty of seats
should be provided for ali who care
to use them.
mot only should parks be used
wherever found, but they should be
found everywhere, for it has been
proved that purely city and town con-
ditions cannot produce what is best in
mankind, and therefore parks are a
prime necessity. The best that is in
human kind has been produced by
association with nature and her in
fluences. Mankind confined to cities
artificial would quickly de-
generate. Therefore, parks are a
vital necessity"
Dawson has 40 park. Will not
the Ladies Civic Improvement Club,
which has done and is doing so much
for the good of the city, inaugurate
a movement for one?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-24
LEE IN THE CAPITAL.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
1t is hard to understand the men
tai operations of those who would
exclude the figure of Robert E. Lee
from a gallery of eminent Americans
or would deny to Virginia the right
to commemorate him as one of her
citizens Industrious for their historic
renown." The argument of the at
torney-general with regard to Lee
statue in the National Statuary Hall
was not needed to sustain it's COM
pliance with the act of congress es-
minds it should be equally convinc-
Ing of its complete compliance with
Its broadcast patriotic purpose.
Those who would exclude Lee be-
cause of his part in the war against
the Union belittle the achievement
of that glorious struggle. War is
the final arbiter, but it is the arbiter
of the future, not of the past We
In the north believe Lee to have been
wrong in his allegiance to his state.
but the fact that he was defeated at
Gettysburg did not prove him wrong;
else his success, which was not in
conceivable, would have proved him
right. What was determined there
and at Appomattox was that the I'm
ion could not and should not be dis
solved. That Judgment Lee prompt
ly and fully accepted, and thence
forth devoted his every effort-like
Lincoln and Grant, whom he had
opposed-tO building up reunited
country.
At this distance we have learned
TO glory in the history of the civil
war as a war of abstract ideas fought
among Americans, as Americans
There is no more typically American
figure upon either side, except the
great president himself, than the
great Virginia soldier, who sacrificed
everything to his own conviction of
duty, who upheld an unequal strug-
gle with heroic genius, and, when
defeated, turned his face at once to
the new duties imposed by new con-
ditions.
Thus Lee has come to typify, as
MIR. Wickersham well says, mot only
all that was best in the cause to
which, at the behest of his native
state, he gave his service" but also
"the most loyal and unmurmuring
acceptance of the complete over
throw of that cause" If we really
believe that our own conception of
the nation was right, and that the
purpose and the browning result of
the great war was the establishment
of an honorable Union, wee can re-
gard no cOmmemoration of the ma
tional triumph as complete that does
not give this typical figure a distin-
guished place.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-24

The Hammond-Sully cotton ware
house scheme has not met with the
approval of the farmers. There is
no good reason why it should AS
the Savannah News suggests, il
might put the cotton crop in the
hands of a syndicate of capitalists,
and they might manipulate the cot
ton crop more effectually than the
bulls and bears of the New York Cot
ton Exchange have ever been able to
manipulate it. The Alabama Farm
ers' Union, in session in Montgomery
last week gave the scheme no en-
couragement, and national president
of the Union, c. S. Barrett, has taken
a strong stand against it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-24
The Mystery.

from the New York Times.
faint me-" says the farmer.
Who's getting the stuff"
faint me-" says the packer,
Il get just enough
TO pay a small profit,
AS far as can be-"
And all of them chorus
Together, 'Tain't me-"
" faint me-" says the tanner.
Who gets the high price
For high shoes and low ones.
For Slippers and ties.
'Tain't me- says the rancher,
I live and that's ALL"
faint me-" says the dealer.
My profits are small"
" 'Tain't me-" says the Gamer
My margins the same"
faint me-" says the huckster,
Who's bracing the game"
Tain't me-" says the gardener.
I'm poor all the time"
Tain't me-" says the grocer
Il amt seen a dime"
It's a surely a puzzle
To know where it goes:
No maker or seller
Or any of those
Partake Of high prices,
So they all agree;
And I'm a consumer.
I'm certain Tain't me"
j. w. Foley
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-24
DRIED FLIES.

While the people of the United
States are busy killing flies and dis
posing of the dead bodies as best
as they may some one has found
these insects of such value as to
warrant their importation.
On the steamer, Merido, recently
arrived in New York, there was a
consignment of thirty-eight bags OF
dried flies, each bag measuring five
feet in length. The best guess that
could be made as to the destination
of this strange shipment was that
some chicken farmer had importel
the flies for his chicks.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-24

Atlanta policemen have a nice job
ahead of them. They've got to turn
sleuths and spies to see that the
"chink" laundrymen do not squirt
water from their mouths on Atlanta
shirt-fronts during the process of
ironing. Imagine, says the Savannah
News, a 200-pound Atlanta police
man squatting on his launches up
dark alley at 10 p. M, squirting
through a crack in a shack. At
length he bounds up and pounds the
door with his club "Ah, hal" he
says, "at last I have got ye, We al
mond-eyed son of Confucius; spittin'
on me shirt be We, We hathen!
Well, take that and that (whack!
whackD and come along to the
guardhouse, and give $10.75 to the
judge in the mornin'."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-24
Not Printing For Pleasure.

From the Montezuma Record.
Political deadbeats are as thick as
fiddlers in hades these days. Every
day we receive something with the
request that we print it. The editor
of this paper is too old in the bust
ness to be caught. We publish the
Record to make living for our bet
ter three-thirds and the kids, and
not for the accommodation of office
seekers. The Montezuma man who
said the Record would not publish
anything except the news without pay
is eminently correct.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-24
Returned Without Coming Back.

From the Savannah News.
1t seems that the Waterloos that
are following the latest return from
Elba are sprinkled all alongy four
small Waterloos since the 18th of
June. First, the New York direct
primary law failed to be Matched;
then Ohio went against son-in-law
Longworth; then nephew Robinson
lost out, and now New York repub-
licans chose even James S. Sherman
for minor honor over the Returned
One. 1t seems that man can return
without coming back.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-24
Does This Include You?

From an Exchange.
Those who go out of the city to
do their trading.
Those who oppose improvements.
Those who prefer a quiet, listless
town to one of push and improve
ment.
Those who imagine they run the
town.
Those who think business can be
done slyly without advertising.
Those who kick at public spirited
men.
Those who oppose every movement
that does not originate with them
selves.
Those who put on a long face when
stranger talks of locating in the
city.
Those who oppose every public en-
terprise which does not appear of
personal benefit to them.
Those who seek to injure the cred
it of individuals.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-24
A RIDICULOUS ATTITUDE.

In this day and age there is prob
ably nothing quite so foolish and
tiresome as the woman who with
holds all facts relative to her age.
There was just cause for the sup
preston of the all-important point in
the dark ages, when the goal for
woman was marriage, and when
youth and beauty were regarded as
sco-existent. But things are not as
they used to be, says an exchange.
The wisdom of experience, which
is a potent contributory element in
good friendship, comes not to many
1S-year-old girls. Uncertain, self
conscious girlhood is charming in it's
Innocence, but as the years roll on
there must be added to the attrac-
ztion of youth that charm that results
from a broader, deeper and larger
view of life. Why, then, should a
woman conceal her age?
Whether in the late twenties, or
'fOrty-three, in the dusk, with the
light behind her." a woman is as
young as she wishes, and the fact
e2f the number of years has little to
t4E with love or friendship; the de-
Giberate distortion of the truth has.
IF you are "a why not say so? II
you dc not look it then all credit
will be given to you and the perpet-
ual youthfulness you possess. There
is no sensible reason for denying that
you were born that many years ago
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-24
Hurrah for the Women,

From the Savannah Press.
The blessed women of the city,
tired of waiting on the men to
do something for Terrell coun-
ty and Dawson, inaugurated
movement for a fair next fall,
and are going to make it a sue
Cess.-Dawson News
The women of Terrell county will
have to be put on the monument
along with the heroic women who
made the South great. But whats
the matter with the men in Terrell?
Why are they so slow?