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

Va, as he was trying to escape from his
pursuers. The man who shot him was
Sergeant Boston Corbett. Charles Jules
Guiteau, the assassin of Garfield, was hung
in Washington on June go, 1882. Louis
Czolgosz, who shot President Mckinley,
at the Buffalo exposition, was electrocuted
in the Auburn N. Y. state prison, Oct.
20, 1901.
William Henry Harrison, and his grand
son, Benjamin Harrison, were the eighth
and tenth in direct descent from Poca-
hontas and John Rolfe, who was the first
white man to marry an Indian.
There are also some remarkable coinci-
dences in the lives of Abraham Lincoln
and Jefferson Davis. They were both
born in Kentucky and both left the state
at an early age, Lincoln going to the north
west and Davis to the southwest. Both
took part in the Black-hawk war, Lincoln
as captain of volunteers and Davis as a
lieutenant in the regular army. They
began their political career in the same
year, 1874. In this year Davis was a
presidential elector for Polk and Lincoln
for Clay. Both entered congress at nearly
the same time, 1S45-46, and finally both
were called upon to rule over their re-
spective governments within month of each
other; Davis on February 9Th, 1861, and
Lincoln on March 4th the same year.
These are but few of the many COM
paratively unknown bits of history; yet
these unknown bits make interesting read
ing.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-05-05
OWL DISCOVERED IN KENTUCKY
BY WHOSE HOOTS WEATHER
is FORETOLD.
The Wiss Oracle Has System o.
HOOfs, The Significance of Which
is WysH Understood.

An enterprising southern Kentucky cor
respondent has discovered an owl on Gro
Gus Creek which for fifteen years has
made speciality of weather predictions,
says the Courier Journal. Persons who
formerly swore by the grounding now rely
on the wise owl of Crocus. One hoo,
means fair and warmer; also that the far
mer may compose his soul about his gard
en- truck Two boots indicate threatening
weather; three boots rain or snow, etc.
The more boots the more weather-and
worse. Any succession of signals means
that trouble is brewing and that the wise
farmer will do we'll to cover up his po-
tatoe slips, or take his garden indoors for
the night.
In periods of great owlish disturbance
there are much stress and clamor and &C
tivity on Crocus Greek. Three boots from
the prophet of Crocus cause the loafers
to hurry home from the crossroads store
and build fires under the peach trees and
put overcoats on the young tender tomato
vines. Every Irish pota opens its eyes
in alarm and every growing cabbage ducks
its head. The lettuce shivers in its bed
the radishes turn pale and the modest
and shrinking bean make unceremonious
and unconditional surrender to the cutworm
as less to be dressed than Jack Frost.
Even the bullfrogs ceases their merry
roundelay when they hear the solemn
warning from the wise old owl of Crocu:
and hunt the lower levels of the pono
and creeks The Lizards climb down from
! the fence rails and rush to cover. All thu
wild hogs in Barren county begin gather
ing brcomsedge to make themselves bigge
and warmer beds. The cows swallow thei
cuds in dismay. The hens count thei
chickens in an agony of fear and hurriedl,
gather them under their wigs. The pea
fowl folds up his gorgeous tail and silent,
steals away to the warmest corner of thu
barn. The turkey gobbler strokes his beart
in nervous trepidation and the big red roos
ter makes clamorous lamentation of the fac
that he is not built like 'possum anC
has no pocket wherein to stow away hi
comb in periods of neurological emergency
The pen falters in an attempt to describe
the connection that ensues when the wealth
er-wise owl of Crocus foresees squal
and shouts out his warning to the unsus
pecting denizens. It's no use trying to d.
! Justice 10 a remarkable situation like this
which has continued for fifteen years, dur
ing which the prophetic owl, like George
Washington, has never told lie. Ii
which respect the feathered prophet o.
Crocus differs materially from his dis
coverer.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-05-05
INSECTS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
FALLS OF BABYLON, NINE
VEH, TYRE, ETC.
Here's a Professor JYho Says Thai
Decline Of Nations IS Due to the
Singing Insects.

1t seems that there are no discoveries
like college professors. Prof. w. M.
Wheeler, of Harvard, has just announced
that the fall Of Greece and Rome was due
to the mosquito, which brought in ma
laria from Asia and Egypt, says the New
York World. Thus he simplihes great
questions on which many historical students
have spent their lives only to leave the
problems still in dispute.
Gibbon, who generally appears in six
monumental volumes, believed that the de-
cline and fall of the Roman empire was
due to the increase Of luxury, old age and
decay. He has a great deal to say about
the entrance of the Turks from Asia,
but he does not chronicle the coming CT
a single mosquito. In fact, it is doubtful
whether he mentions the mosquito in any
one of his volumes. Certainly he has no
distressing account Of its singing the Ro-
man people to death. The German
writers are famed for thoroughness and
accuracy of detail, and we cannot see how
the rayages Of such formidable invader,
if it really ravaged, escaped the attention
of the great Mommsen.
We fear that the professor will have
yet more trouble with his theories when
he goes back to Greece. Ovid tells how
10, changed into cow, was chased
about the world by an insect But it was
a gadfly, not a mosquito. If the mosquito
had existed actively in Greece, discern
ing goddess like Juno would certainly have
chosen it as the instrument of her jealousy
and vengeance.
The Greeks themselves were originally
an Asiatic people, and when they were
sending off into Europe the emigrating
streams that founded Athens, Sparta, Cor
nth and other famous cities, an energetic,
intelligent insect ike the mosquito wuld
never have stayed behind. And if the
professors logic is good, why did Egypt
herself, which he claims to have been
one Of the countries responsible fer the
mosquito, endure about 5000 years7
When you go over to Asia the same tale
is true. Babylon was the New York and
London Of its time for couple Of thous-
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-05-05
MANY INTERESTING BITS OF HIS
TORY RARELY FIND WAY IN
TO TEXT BOOKS.
Fezv Examples Cited-Incidents of
Interest in the Lives of Former
Presidents.

There are many interesting little facts
of history that rarely get into text books
or common historians. For instance, in the
lives of former Presidents of the United
States there have occurred many trivial
incidents that at the time were of interest
to the general public, but which in recent
years are overlooked:
Do you know that Andrew Jackson,
while president of the United States, came
nearer to being assassirated than any other
president and yet escaped? While in the
capitol at Washington one day, Jackson
was fred upon by deluded house painter
named Richard Lawrence, but escaped
because the pistol missed fire.
John Quincy Adams was the only
president who served his country in an
official way after the expiration Of his
term Of Office. After being defeated for
reelection as president he was sent to con-
gress and there. he stayed until the time of
his death. He died in service of his coun-
try.
Every president duly elected by the
people Of the United States has been in
augurated in Washington with the excep-
tons of Washington and John Adams.
Chester A. Arthur took the oath of Office
In New York City Immediately after the
death Of Garfield.
Garfeld's first act after being Inaugural
ted president was to kiss his mother, who
had been his greatest help throughout
- life, and who spurred him on until
he reached the goal Of his ambition-the
presidency Of the United States. Clcve-
lands first act was to kiss the Bible. His
lips touched Psalm CXII, verses 5-Io.
The assassins Of the different presi-
dents who met that fate came to their
death entirely different ways John
Wilkes Boothe, the murderer of Lincoln,
was shot and killed near Fredericksburg
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-05-05
MAN WHO is DEFERRED FROM
CERTAIN KINDS OF WORK
BY HIS HEIGHT.
This Man Mnsf Go Back to the Farm
--Six Feet Six Inches Of Manhood
too Much for Cities

Nest men who are tall are rather
proud of their height, but there are many
occasions when longitude is embarrassing
says the Courier Journal This has proved
to be the case with Frank M. Young
of Hopkinsville, who modestly acknowI-
edges to six feet six inches of altitude,
and finds that his unusual stature is a
serious handicap to his aspirations.
Mr. Young went to St. Louis and landed
a job as street car conductor, but he could
not get in or out of the door of a car with
out doubling himself up, and when he
was on the inside his head was unavoidably
getting tangled up with the electric light
bulbs and the other car furnishings. Face
tious passengers occasionally inquired "is
it cold up there?" Others insisted that
he throw down transfer slip" and made
similar unfeeling references to his height
Doubtless Mr.. Young would have made a
good conductor but for his embarrassment
of inches AS it was, he only showed to
advantage at such times as the trolley
wheel jumped off the wire. His efficiency
at replacing it did not compensate for the
other drawbacks of the job and he re-
signed.
Leaving St. Louis Mr.. Young went to
Evansville, but he found that the street
cars in Indiana were built on the same
ungenerous plan as those in Missouri,
and he determined to enlist in the United
States Army. He applied at the Evans
vile recruiting station, but the officials
told him that his extraordinary height was
bar to enlistment. He is now looking
for smething that will keep him employ
ed until the cherry gathering season be-
gins, at which time he believes, with ap-
parent good reason, that he can make him
self useful
| The number of vocations which may be
successfully followed by man of Mr..
Young inches is limited He is a little
| shy OF the required stature for circus
giant He is decidedly too tall to be avail
able for any of the ordinary forms of in
door employment. 1t is serious situation
in the face of which persons who are
constructed on the sawed-off- and hammer
ed-down bass may well congratulate them
selves
1t looks as if Mr.. Young will be an
early convert to the back-to-the-farm
movement. He is too much cramped for
elbow room in the cities and his head is
| toe CONSTANT a menace to swinging signs.
A man of his high standing is not built
for "ducking," and head that towers
sixfeet-six in the air can nowhere else
enjoy such absolute safety and freedom as
on a farm, where he may have the sky
as the limit for upward expansion.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-05-05
THE NATIONAL SUGAR BOWL


Sugar is one of the few articles of SUI
perior importance in domestic economy
showing little or no increase in price
of recent years. Certain temporary in
fluences have caused fluctuation by frac-
tons of cent pound in wholesale prices.
Short crops have moved prices up and
large crops has driven them down. Under
the Mckinley tariff bill of 1890 sugar was
on the free list, and while that law was
in force wholesale prices dropped to be-
low cents pound. Not since 1890 has
the yearly average reached cents a
pound. The general movement of whole
sale quotations has been from I3 cents a
pound in 1870 to 10 cents pound in 1880,
to 6 cents in 1890, to cents in 1900, and
to a ga cents in 1909. The figures are
approximate averages.
Within a generation the total consump-
ton of sugar in the United States has in
creased from less than 2,ooo,ooo,ooo pounds
year to approximately 7,ooo,ooo,o 900
pounds, and the per capita consumption
has doubled The average consumption
for every man, woman and child in the
country is now eighty pounds year, and
the average of a family of five is four
hundred pounds year. Ten years ago
the family average was only three hum
dred pounds. This fact has very direct
relation to the question of cost of living.
People want more sugar and they buy it;
they want more food products of which
sugar is an ingredient and they buy them.
The is incidental, but it is part of large
question about which there has been of
late a tendency to become hysterical. Much
has been said about the hundreds of the
tariff, the robberies CT trusts and the
rapacity of retailers and middlemen, but
less has been said about the multiplication
and the qualification of individual wants.
The larger individual consumption of sugar
may or may not be form of extravaganza,
but it is evidently fact.
Duty was paid to the government On
little more than half CT the sugar supply
of last year. The exact customs receipts
are not Immediately available, but they
may be given approximately as $55,ooo,ooo.
The duty increased the cost of the do
mestic product and the imports from Ha-
wall and Porto Rico by about S5o,ooo,ooo.
Because of the different forms in which
sugar is sold the total payment for the
commodity cannot be estimated. A part
is sold in the familiar form of gran
ulated sugar, part as confectionery sugar,
and part as an ingredient of various
commodities The granulated sugar is
its cheapest form Assuming the entire
quantity to have been sold at the prices
of the granulated article the national sugar
bill last year was considerably more than
S4oo,ooo,ooo. The actual amount was
probably not far from $$5o,ooo,ooo and the
tariff was probably for more than $780,
100000 in the price paid for consumers.
The total sugar consumption of the.
world is nearly 100000 tons year.
The records of the last FIVE years show
decrease in the cutting of beet sugar
and an increase in the output Of cane
sugar. The United States consumes about
one-ffth ofthe total suppIy.-New York
Sun.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-05-05
-TRE BRANDON NEWsl IHURsDAY, WAY 5, 1910

and years or SO and Ninevah fell before
the busy battleax, not the buzzing insect
May it not be that the malaria introduced
by the mosquito is fully offset by the
activity and energy produced by its sting1
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-05-05
Wonders Of Nature.

There is something marvellous in
the fact that tree will tower for dec
AIDES unscathed of storm and get
struck by lightning the first time any
one seeks shelter under it from the
rain.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-11-17

1t is Mr.. Roosevelt's first political
reverse. 1t falls upon him in the full
flush of riding on to new heights of
personal command and glory. 1t
punctures a prestige of uninterrupted
successes that had evidently turned
his own head and was making mil
lions Of people believe hin to be ,r-
restible. 1t ends that candidacy FOR
the presidency in 1912. He will no
doubt seek to rally his forces for re-
neWed effort, and will likely appeal to
theswest as against the east and the
"Wall street crowd" But the prestige
calculated to command much success
in, such desperate venture has been
mortally wounded. He can still serve
his country we'll, but to do SO he must
reverse his recent course and change
his methods. His fall has been far,
and how impressive should be the
lesson-if not to him, then to others.
Caesarism may some time fall on the
republic, but Theodore Roosevelt is
evidently not to be the first of that
line.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-11-17
CAUSE FOR THANkFULNEss

Thanksgiving day is the one day in
the year when the nation turns to
heaven in thanks for its preservation.
The life of the nation is the principal
considerations; not only it's life, but
its health, and it's preservation in
that condition in which it was esta-
blished by the fathers of the country.
Men can thank God for their own ac-
cumulations or supplicate him to
tighten their burdens, but that is not
the purpose of national thanksgiv-
ing. The nation itself, the political
structure which was framed and
honded down-it is the preservation
of this for which the people are SO
thankful.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-11-17
FARMING FOR HOME MARKETS

According to government figures,
exports of farm products have de-
creased during recent years; the
home demand is so urgent as to re-
quire large proportion. Farming
offers good opportunities as busi-
ness. The point is that there is good
home market. This fact is arousing
keen public interest. Ten years ago
agricultural lectures in cities were
almost unknown and poorly patron
lzed; today they are noteworthy and
we'll attended. These and many other
signs indicate the rising tide of in
terest. Whether there will ever be
an exodus from the cities to the farm
similar to the past and present re-
verse movement is doubtful; but it
is likely that larger proportion of
country bred people will stay upon
or return to the farm than during the
past quartor century because they
are awakening to country advanta-
ges.
Opportunities are abundant. There
is no lack of land. Besides the great
areas annually opened or reclaim ed
millions of acres are capable of bet
ter management. Well managed
farms are proving themselves remun-
erative; through the application of
rational methods, yields and profits
are increasing. Thanks to modern
conveniences, farm life has become
attractive and comfortable than for
merly. The great need is an annual
ly increasing number of men to prac-
tice such methods and to prove by
their fruits that business farming is
a vocation which not only earns it's
votaries good living, but enhances
the value of exery wholesale feature
of normal living.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-11-17
ABOUT MR.. HYDE

Dakotan, IL: We happened in the
Office of Charles L. Hyde recently and
noticed hung on his wall this grand
little poem of Rudyard Kiplinp.
"IF." Here are the lines, always
worth reproducing:
If you can keep your head, when all
about you
Are losing theirs, and blaming it on
you;
If you can trust yourself when all
men doubt you,
And make allowance for their doubt
ing too:
If you can wait and not be tired wait
ing,
Or being lied about, don't deal in
lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to
hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor
talk too wise;
If you can dream and not make
dreams your master;
II you can thlnk-and not make
thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with triumph and
disaster
And treat those two impostors just
the same,
Ii you can bear to hear the truth
you've spoken,
TWiSfp6 NV kna %o vooLo - :,
fools, q.
Or watch the things you gave your
life to, broken,
And stoop to build em up with worn &
out tools;
If you can talk with crowds, yet keep
your virtue,
Or walk with kings-nor lose the
common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can
hurt you,
If all men count with you. but mono
too much;
If you can fill each unforgiving
minute
With sixty seconds worth Of distance
run,
Yours is the Earth and everything
that's in it,
And-which is more-you'll be man
my son!
The man who will try to live up to
that philosophy is worth trusting and Z
we are inclined to think many good
people are misjudging Mr.. Hyde right
at this time. 1t would seem as though
his enemies now had ample cause to
rejoice, and it may be that even the
young man John w. Roberts, who
sS;it sent cut the circulars siforting MR..
Hyde might consider his cup now
running over, if he could know how
much mental anguish he has dealt
out, not only to Mr.. Hyde himself,
but also to his wife and children.
But we are glad to know that he is
still the optimist and hustler he has
always been and we believe the time
is near at hand when it will not be
considered crime or a mistake to
boom Pierre real estate or sell lots
mile away from the business district.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-11-17
EXPRESS AND PULLMAN RATES

The four largest express companies
have outstanding a hundred million
dollars in stocks and bonds which
mostly cost the holders nothing. One
company, in 1898, gave it's stockhold-
ers twelve millions, or hundred
per cent. in bonds; and, in 1907,
twenty-four millions, or two hundred
per cent, in other bonds. Another,
early this year, presented it's stock
holders with eight millions, or one
hundred per cent, in cash, and six
teen millions, or two hundred per
cent. in new stock. Besides which
substantial regular dividends have
been paid. The four companies re-
port the cost of their equipment
horses, wagons etc.-at slightly over
six million dollars. This equipment
represents the only capital that is
necessary to carry on an express
business.
Recently the Illinois Railroad and
Warehouse Commission ordered a
sweeping cut in express rates; and,
though the companies will doubtless
appeal to the courts, the action prom
ises to start rolling a ball that will
finally roll into the Interstate Com
merce Commission and bring a whole
sale investigation of express charges
Like the express companies. the
Pullman Company has given away
most of its capitalization of hund-
red and twenty millions. Since 1898
it has distributed sixty-four millions
OF new stock gratis among it's share
holders. In any broad consideration
of railroad charges this matter of ex-
press and Pullman rates NUT be taken
into account.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-11-17
THE DEAR LOST DAYS

Though we repent, can any God give back
The dear lest days we might have made SO fair
Turu false to true, and careessness to care,
And let us find again what now we lack?
Oh, once more to tread the old-time track.
The flowers we threw away once more to wear
Though we repent, can any God give back
The deat lost days we might have made so fair?
LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-11-17
CALIFORNIA
On Home Comfort Trains

which rival the best hotels and in
sure you every modern travel COM
fort. The San Francisco Overland
Limited, The Los Angeles Limited
andthe China and Japan Fast Mail are
all luxuriously equipped. Be sure
your tickets read Chicago & North
Western Ry. Apply to ticket agents
for particulars. 2t
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-11-17
CHRISTMAS PRESENT THA'
MEANT SOMETHING

There is one especially good thing
about a Christmas present of The
Youths Companion. 1t shows that
the giver thought enough of you to
give you something worth while.
1t is easy to choose something cost
ing great deal more which is abso-
Iutely useles, but to choose a present
costing only $1.75 that will provide
long years entertainment, and the
uplifting companionship of the wise
and great, is another matter. There
is one present, however, which does
just that-The Youths Companion.
Ii you want to know whether it is
appropriate or welcome, just visit
the home of some Companion subscri-
Der on Companion day.
Do not choose any Christmas pres-
ent until you have examined The
Companion. We will send you free
sample copies and the beautiful Pros
pectus for 1911, telling something of
how The Companion has recently
been enlarged and improved.
The one to whom you give the sub
soiai;ption viii receive free ali the
numbers of 1910 issued after the
money is received; also The Compan-
ions Art Calendar for 1911, litho-
glaphed in thirteen eolors and gold.
These will be sent to reach the sub
scriber Christmas morning, if desir-
ed.
You, too, as giver of the subscrip-s
tion, will receive 3 copy OF the calen-S
dar.
THE YOUTHS COMPANION,
IA Bergeley ST.. Boston. Mass.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-11-17

When you hear a man say that he
has been thinking things over and has
decided that he has been working too
hard, and that nobody else in the Of
fee works like he does and that he
gets no thanks for it anyhow, and
that he is going to take it easy from
now on. He is on the toboggan