The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-05-19

The educational system of the free
schools of Mississippi below the colleges
and the university, seems to be complete,
each system having a head or inspector,
to-wit: Supt. w. H. Smith, of Holmes
county, is now Inspector of elementary
schools; Prof. ]. w. Bell, of the Uni
versity, is inspector of the high schools;
Professor P P. Garner of the A. and
M, looks after farm demonstration work
and inspccts the agricultural high schools ;;
and Miss Sue V. Powers has charge of the
school Improvement work throughout the
state.
Prof Smith is, or was, County Superin-
tendent of Education for Holmes county,
and resigns to look after the elementary
free school. He will have desk in the
State Superintendent's Office at Jackson.
He is the originator of the now wide
spread corn club movement, commencing
the grand work in Holems county several
years ago. And now he is entitled to the
everlasting gratitude of the people for
letting them see that $50 bushels of corn,
the bread of the people, can be raised
where only twelve or fifteen bushels
were raised before under the rut
system of so-called farming; and
all this was accomplished through the
study and work of mere boys and not by
men who conceitedly claim to know how
to raise corn.
Now comes the news that Prof. Ales-
sandrini, of the University of Rome, Italy,
says he has discovered the bacillus of Pei
legra in water! He says he did not
find it in mouldy corn, as is contended in
this country. Well, if so, let us know now
to find it in our drinking water. And
if SO, can a Pellegrated hand in drawing
the water cortaminate the we'll? Some
of us have been drinking water many de-
cades from we'll buckets that have been
handled by hands from the cleanest to the
ilthiest known; and yet no Pellegra caught
any one yet. Guess the Pellegra germs
must pre-exist in the water at frst-if
the professor is correct. But what sort of
water do you refer to, professor?
How are the mighty fallen? A former
governor of proud New Hampshire state,
and at present, banker, was charged
last Friday with conspiracy, with his
wife and son, to smuggle wearing apparel
and jewelry into this country without
paying duties due thereon. He and his
family had just landed from the great
ship Lusitania lat New Orleans, and at
the customs office all three attempted to
conceal the fact that they had dutiable ar
ticles in their 9 big trunks. The trunks
and their persons were examined by the
Inspector and the fraud was thus detected.
They were bailed for $4,000 to be tried
before federal court or commission.
1t may not be known to very many
people living in the country sections that
once in while car load of babies is
rolled down the l. c. railroad to New
Orleans and beyond. Their ages range
from three months to one year. They
are gathered up in fondling home in
New York or Chicago during sixty or
ninety days, and then shipped south to
people who are eager to adopt children.
Only few days ago twenty infants were
to be given cut at Union Station in New
Orleans, and 100 women appeared to get
each little one to adopt. There was a
terrible scramble battle royal--in the
mad rush for the tiny bits of cherry red
humanity. Many lost their hats, and fin
cry generally was missed. But only twenty
cf the women got the twenty tinnies-and
that only by number cards drawing them
A man in Indiana has made him and his
family a burrow in the ground in his
backyard to put themselves in on the 18th
when Mr.. Comets tail sweeps the earth.
This reminds US of a plantation negro in
North Carolina some years ago, when told
that a comet then appearing, will strike
the earth saying: "Hey! Mas Robert,
when l see dat thing coming I'll take my
horse cut de plow and run off out 'en de
way, shore"
A three-year-old pitted son Of an Epis-
copal minister was naughty one day at
the dinner table. To punish him the
father decided that he shall have a sep
arate table to himself, and eat alone.
At the first trial the little fellow COM
menced in a hurry to eat. STOP" said
father, "You must say grace first" The
little fellow locked at his father a second,
then turned his little fact down over the
plate, and in solemn tones, said: 81 tank
thee, Lord, thou has spread for me table
in the presence Of my enemies"
Hearts were made to mourn and friends
to weep in symp athy during the last sixty
DAYS because of the death of two infants,
one mother and grandmother, in our quiet
little community. The sweet little infant,
named Mildred, of Mr.. Lamb, our depot
agent and his wife, departed this life last
Wednesday afternoon, the nth of May,
at the tender age of Is months. Its
little body was encased in a beautiful
white casket and conveyed to the Florence
cemetery on Thursday morning, and there
in the presence of many sorrowing and
sympathizing friends, with tender hands,
was laid to rest Bro. J. S. Purcell, the
pastor of the Methodist church spoke the
comforting words of the burial service.
In the afternoon of Thursday the body of
Mrs Will Burk, of the Plain community,
was brought to the same cemetery, and with
tender hands deposited in the last resting
place, surrounded by a large number of
sympathizing friends and loving neigh
bors Pastor Purcell officiating. Mrs. Burk
was thirty-two years of age and was. a
member of the Baptist church at Plain.
She had been afflicted with consumption
forseveral months past, and death came
to her relief on Wednesday, May nth. She
- b,,Shapd md four 1iftlA