The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-05-26

dians,. the mountaineers, the negroes and
the frontiers. Our board received from
the churches last year $32o475. There
were s2I,9Io additions to the churches
through the efforts of tn missionaries
27,426 of these were by baptism. Many
other matters came before the meeting to
which | haven't time to mention.
We had two distinguished Baptist Wis
itors at the convention, ]. Fl. Shakespeare,
and F. B. Meyer, both from England. DR..
Shakespeare is the nearest living descen-
dent of the immortal Bard of Avon. F.
b. Meyer is known to the whole Christian
world as one of the greatest preachers and
writers of this age.
One of the greatest events of the con-
vention was on Thursday morning when
we had an opportunity to sec German
liner land, with ship load of immigrants.
We were permitted to see the way these
immigrants are received in this country.
There were 500 or 1000 delegates gatA-
cred. There in the harbor lay the great
ship. Soon the doors were opened and
these people of the lands beyond the sea
began to pour into the room where their
baggage is inspected. The delegates were
singing Nearer My God to Thee" "Res-
cue the Perishing," "My Country 'Tis of
Thee" and other great hymns. The
foreigners stood and looked on bewildered,
appreciative, smiling and cheering back
their appreciation. Many of US turned
away from this scene with picture before
our minds which can never be erased.
One of the greatest problems that ever
confronted any people confronts US in these
incoming multtudes of foreigners. 1t is
problem compared to which tie negro
problem is nothing. Every day in the
convention reached high water mark. Nev
er before has So much been given to the
saving of the world, never before have
the results been SO great
On my way back to the sunny south
| stopped off in Washington. 1t was my
great privilege to look in on congress
while in session. | got a good lock at
"Uncle" Joe Cannon. 1t is easy to see
that he is still IN the saddle and has things
going pretty much his way. | was amused
on going into the House. Some dis
tinguished gentleman was making great
speech, so he seemed to think, but not
one man was paying the least bit of at
tention to him. Most Of the work in Con
gress is doneN in the committee rooms and
there is little room for speech-making. l
greatly enjoyed my stay in our great cap
itol. l came away profoundly impressed
that ours is indeed great nation and
great people.
am glad to be back home in Missis-
sippi. There is no place in the world
like Mississippi. | love her people, l
it always "The land of the free, and the
homo of the brave"
We earnestly invite the attention of cur
friends to The Bulletin, monthly issued
by Hon. H. E. Blakslee, Commissioner
of Agriculture, Jackson, Miss. The Bul-
letin is an S-page paper treating of matter
relating to farming operations, offering
valuable and timely hints for the farmers
benefit. And with all this, the paper is
sent free of subscription to any farmer, or
others, asking for it by merely sending
post card and request for it, giving name,
and postofiice address Of sender Although
the April number is late being out, it con-
tains the following interesting subject:
"The Growing and Handling of Broom
Corn" House bill number 66, in relation
to counties offering premiums for excel
lence in production Of crops and live
stock; Tick eradication work; southern
farm notes valuable hints); new
read law recently passed; regulations of
the live stock sanitary board of Missis-
sippi-vaIuable to all stock men, and a
host of other matters of good. Send your
name to Mr.. Blakslee and get the April
issue as a starter.
We learn that Mr.. Wayne Traylor, who
formerly lived in the Mountain Creek
neighborhood, and later was clerk in
Eyrich's Book Store, in Jackson for sew
aral years, died on the 2Srd at Forest.
Particulars are not to hand at this writing.
We have at last been blessed with the
needed showers from the blue fcent clouds
over head. There have been several fine
freshments deep into tie thirsty earth.
And the tillers of the soil-both just and
the unjust-rejoice thereat. Now will
come the tug Of fight between the farm
muscle with tools and General Green
in dead earnest and vigor.
At 10 o'clock Monday night we tried,
but in vain, to get a glimpse of the
moons eclipse and Halley's disappearing
pet The clouds above were slow of mo-
ton and hid the two objects from our view
At IL o'clock we awaked and found the
skies clear of clouds, went out into the
open and beheld the moon in her last stage
of eclipse nearly total, and was about
to emerge from the shroud that enveloped
her face But nothing was seen of hide,
hair or tail Of Mr.. Comet Over head
and surrounding the moon appeared the
most beautiful, fanciful and fascinating
sight that the eyes of the lover of the
beautiful can behold. The heavens were
bedecked with the brightest of stars, and
such stars as the early to bed folks seldom
see. They all look large, lustrous, clear
and happy-the man SO, as Nthe moons
face was darkened by the shadow of our
earth. This reminds us to say that it is
possible to see the bright side of things
in our dark hours-take fresh courage and
in possession of the right spirit, can even
rejoice.
We saw some nice ripe peaches in one
of our stores on Tuesday. They came from