The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-09-22

lion Wall be In CampDeli DrotneIS SHOW
in Jackson on October sth.
The Jackson News tells of four run
away boys-all two pairs of twin brothers
having been found in Millsaps dormi-
tory lately while the building was being
made ready for the college opening. The
eldest is II years old. They were from
some place down the G. and S. |. rail-
road, and had been making their home in
the building for some time when the matter
was reported to the mayor of Jackson they
their mother who has pellegra, and they
decided to leave home They appeared
to be honest, and had worked and made
enough to support themselves in the time
they were in the dormitory. 1t is not
| told what has since become of them. At
ter they told the mayor their pitiful story,
he did not try to send them back home
at once if he has done so at all after
wards. If the boys told the truth the faith
er should be given severe lecture for
his cruelties
A blind tigerite will resort to various
tricks to prevent policemen from finding
their whistles when they make raids.
In Jackson the other day, the policemen
found bottles of whisky hid away in a
garden among the vegetables. They took
them and carried them to the city jail
to be destroyed if the owner does not come
up and claim them, which they don't do.
This Rockefeller foundation business has
done one good thing. 1t has caused the
discovery of the hook worm all over the
southern half OF Mississippi. The doctors
sent out on investigating tours are tell
ing the very unwelcome tale that large
per cent of the people, white and black,
are badly affected with the unpleasant
disease
DR.. Whitfield lbs discovered Is cases
in two families, leaving only two un.
affected And more still: there is school
of thirty-four pupils in Rankin county
where every one of the pupils were
troubled with the hook worm! The patrons
of that school are stirred up and show
a gread deal of interest in the matter
And well they should Every child that
is victim to the nasty hook worm grows
stunted and cannot possibly reach stout
healthy body in such case. When the
district doctors finds cases in his travels
over his territory he turns them over to
! the local physician. In short he trees
the hook worm and puts the family doctor
on to destroying it. ~
The district doctors use a powerful mi.
croscope in their investigations of the hook
worm, typhoid, consumption and other
durable diseases that come under sani-
tation measures. in order to detect to a
certainty the ailment.
DIR. Whitfield handed to us one of his
! circulars-a sample of such as he will
scatter broadcast over his territory which
comprises FIVE counties and the south half
/ of Rankin. In these circulars the interes-
ted reader will learn what are some of
the main signs of hook worm infection in
| person. The most common signs are:
Ground itch past or present, pale or yell
low skin, lack of energy, dull, listless
countenance and undersize of body" There
| are some others; but those just mentioned
are the most common in their respective
order. "Nine times cut of ten the ground
itch is due to the hook worm"
The circular referred to details the treat
ment to rid the patient of the disease. We
know that every parent of living children
will be glad to receive one of these val
liable informing circulars The circulars
will be to hand not long off.
Dr.. Whitfield states that he will send
out notices to be posted in advance of the
dates and places when and where he will
be Glad to meet the different communities
in a body and deliver lectures on Gen
/ eral Sanitation and the hook worm dis
ease"
A correct solution of the riddle we of
fered a quarter for last week was given
by Master Berry White in few hours
after the Brandon News was received ar
i Florence. 1t was this (omitting namesl /:
A father was seen rolling in wheelbar-
row some bundles and his son on the top
of them His wheelbarrow was the one
wheel wagon, and the father wassthe
two-legged horse. The bundles were the
freight and his son the passenger.
Berry being the first to solve the riddle,
| received the quarter as prize.
We regret that we did not know of the
/ following sooner 50 we could have exploit
| ed it before now, as we look upon the mat
! fer as of much Importance connected with