The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-06-09

| have been away from Florence since
Friday afternoon on a jaunt for recre-
| alton and health. Showers have fallen
over this part of the state lately and crop
prospects are good SO far. We find the
industrious world very busy, and every
man that had anything to do was astir
and had to be astr because the meat
| and bread and the Something to wear"
question hinged upon his stirring.
On last Sunday the children of Florehce
had Children's Day of it in the Meth
odist church. We are sorry we have
not a program to have printed in the
Brandon News.
1t is quite a refreshing treat to the
boy or girl, to the man or woman who
keeps himself or herself aloof from the
busy scenes of city's industrial and grow
ing life, to take street car ride over
Jackson. Every citizen of Mississippi
ought to visit the capital city of his state
once in his life. jackson so far, has grown
to be beautiful city. There are beauti-
full residences and flowers yards, immense
public buildings, some >sky-scraping estab-
lishments, clean paved streets, long runs
of street rails over many streets, and
one can get on a street car at its west
end, nearly two miles from the union
depot, and ride for nearly miles without
change of car for only nickel And in
this ride the road forms the letter "U'',
| terminating at the Royal &C" brand fer
| tilizer factory on the |. c. r. r. And be-
sides you have the beauties of both the
business and residential portion of the
| growing city to view. The whole scenery,
right and left is enchanting to the eye
1 of the approaching and long debarred
country man, woman, boy or girl. BY all
means let the country boy or girl have
the extreme qualification of passing
through the scenes referred to, to see
what a growing world of industries they
live in, and have ambition fired to do
something themselves to keep up with
the procession.
In riding the Ncar on West Capitol
street, Jackson, we passed in sight of
a rough built 2-story house, probably II
by 20 feet, located about $50 yards from
Capitol street, that is the temporary home
of man occupying the upper story, and
his favorite cow occupying the lower
story. 1t is told that the man is laboring
to build him a nice residence on the spot
and this is his home till he is able to
build. Further on we pass the gateway
into Cedar Lawn Cemetery, where was
a nice roof IN shelter from rain and sun,
and close by medium sized oak. a
few days ago an aged negro took shelter
under that roof from a shower. The light
ming struck the tree and bolt hit one
corner of the shelter and knocked the
poor negro lifeless, splitting one corner
of the shed badly.
We heard two excellent sermons by
DR.. Borum in the First Baptist church
Sunday In one of them he plainly gave
fathers and mothers to understand that
their children will pursue in life what
they See their parents do rather than
what they hear them say. This is a truth
worth bordering.
Two little boys of and 6 years OF
age, sons Of United States Marshal, Aber-
nathy, of Oklahoma, rode horse back all
i the way from Oklahoma to Washington
alone, and are on their way to New York.
to meet Col. Roosevelt when he lands
from his ship.
| We attended the Sophmore class ora
torical contest at Millsaps College on last
Saturday, the 4th, and heard the speeches
of three of the four young men contesting
These young men | heard were Messrs
Estus Steen of Florence, D. w. Bufkin,
of BarlowA and D. d. Cameron, of Hat
tiesburg The prize was awarded to Mr.
Cameron. But we will say here that all
three of these excellent young gentlemen
performed their parts superbly well. II
was hard for an outsider to guess who OF
the four who spoke would win. How
ever we felt degree of pride in the way
our Estus deported himself. The fourth
man was @. c. Clarke, of Eucutta. We
4 left on account of an engagement, before
Il he spoke.
! An insane Polish Jew lately threw Z
zinc can full of beans at Crown Prince
Frederick Williams, as he rode at the
head of the grenadier guards, think
ing it would explode and probably kill
4 him. He was violently insane when the
police caught him.
Il Thirty thousand dollars is offered by
the New York World for an aeroplans
Light between New York and Chicago
and $4,000 is offered by New YorI
| and Chicago paper for q fight from
New York to ST. Louis, or vice versa