The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-06-23

will fail when tested. Christ is the only
foundation. Would to God that we all
build on this only foundation, for the
greatest Of all failures is an eternal fail
ure
We see here in this lesson: 1st two
builders. and, two foundations.
There are two ways to live, the one
fails, the other succeeds. (Which is my
way?' is the question that should be asked
by every one.
Jno. c. Williams, of Monterey, has a
sample of wheat head on exhibition in
WI !. Buffers drug store. 1t certainly
does good to see that it is possible for
cur farmers to raise at home their own
wheat bread-their good rich biscuits
mother used to make" without sending
off for the flour. s
five inches long, and gathered from an
acre a-half patch of good wheat on
his place near Monterey. There is no
rust in this wheat. Let every cotton
raiser make the experiment this fall SOW
! ing one acre at least, to wheat. Several
years ago wheat was raised in Mississippi,
and in Rankin county too. The venture
is worth making. 1t is estimated that
Mr.. Williams will realize forty bushels
of wheat to the acre. Five bushels will
make barrel of good white flour. What
do you think of this, Mr.. Farmer?
Interest in aeroplane flights seems on
the increase. Something regarding the
utility of heavier-than-a air machine is
learned On every occasion of an expert
ment One man building his own machine
got a live sparrow in his room and
watched it using its wings and tail, and
then was enabled to improve the wings
and tail' of his machine so that they
operate as near like a birds as can be-
One of the remarkable feats of the
aeroplane is its ability to ascend to great
heights. On Monday, the 18th, Walter
Brookirs, in Indiana somewhere, scared
aloft to the height of 1884 IL feet with
a Wright bi-plane. On Friday, the 18TH,
he made another ascent at Indianapolis,
and went up 4,5o3 feet. This lacked
descending, his motor stopped working;
but he managed his dangerous machine
so that it glided for two miles, gradually
coming down, and landed nicely and
safely in wheat field near the city. If
we wish to enjoy the beauty of scene and
the charms of so great a height from
terra frma, let our soaring be in an air
ship,-or, in the basket of an old fashioned
balloon. The nervousness and the strain
from watching the bird-apparatus to keep
it up and flying, demolishes all tendency
to enjoy the beauties of nature, or any
thing else as one flies. But the air ship
or balloon keeps itself aloft, and one has
ease and comfort of observation. Never
theless, this old youth does not propose
to make any such delightfully."- dangerous
venture.
Mr.. Ed Singletary returned last Sat-
urday from several days visit to his
brother Dan, at Rosedale, who was pretty
sick. But he left him somewhat better.
How's this? A negro named George
Fields was to be hung at West Palm
Beach, Florida, last Friday. The scaffold
was ready, the rope was tested, and the
witnesses invited; but the negro was lack
ing. He was being kept in Jail at ST..
Augustine up to the moment for execu
tion; but during a religious service con-
Quoted in preparation for his death, he
knocked the deputy down and escaped!
Says a New York doctor: "The birth
of hy NAV mean the death of baby"
Do many people understand what that
doctor meant?
Ex.-'If you want to know if Gig
aretts are injurious, ask the poor detected
victim One cigarette smoker always de-
spises the same pernicious habit in an
ether"
Three men down near Biloxi, while
seining south east of Dear Island last
Wednesday, caught a saw-hsh 22 feet
long, with saw feet long. The head
of the fish measured 6 feet through head
and body.
J. A. Joaes, son of Capt. ]. t. Jones,
of G. & S. l., and @. B. Dantzler, both
of Gulfport, were to start last Tuesday,
with their families, in two automobiles
from Gulfport for Buffalo, N. Y. They
were to go through Hattiesburg and Me-
ridian On into and through Alabama,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and on to
destination. A long ride. But it is get
ting to be the style now.
The G. & S. l. railroad company has
been trying lately to do away with agents
at few of their depots, Gandsi, Lux
and $3.50, for some of them. But the
people cut up so vigorously over the move,
that the agent was put back at Gandsi
and perhaps the others were let alone
The r. R. Commission will have to be
consulted before radical changes are made.
We are much pleased to note in last
weeks News the fact that "the Rankin
County Fair will be held on Friday and
Saturday, Oct 21st and 22nd,' but moth
ing twas said of the locality of the fair.
From the reading one would contend that
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