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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-28
Want Political Tariff.

In this last fiscal year our pur
chases of foreign goods were smaller
by $200,000,000 than in the year be-
fore, and at the end of the period COM
modify prices in the United States, as
reflected by Bradstreet's index num-
Der, were the highest ever known.
But in spite of that the country, our
protectionist friends tell us, is being
mysteriOusly ruined by the pauper
labor of Europe
The aforesaid labor is getting killed
and manned to an extent that appalls
the world. Factories in which 1T was
employed are increasingly disorgan-
lied by war The capital behind 1t is
being shot away at the rate OF tens OF
millions of dollars day. But those
things were mere broken reeds to
lean upon, unless we are further for
titled against European competition
by very high tariff.
You might sink Europe in the sea
tomorrow. and your true high protec-
ZIONIST would still go about pale and
trembling unless he had in his pocket
the rabbits foot of high duties to fend
off the specter of pauper labor. A Eu-
rope with both arms in sling and not
leg to stand on would still brighten
him into gooseflesh unless he had the
tariff horseshoe over his door.
So the tariff will no doubt be one
of the issues of the next presidential
election, and if the Republicans win
we shall have another revision of it..
The loudest champions of high pro-
lection do not want an intelligent
tariff: they want a political one, with
the usual g-rolling.-Saturday Eve
ming Post
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-28
KEEPING SUGAR TAX
Wise Course Is That Taken by
the Administration.
European War, That Has DisIocated
Commerce and Industry, Makes
the Step in the Highest De-
gree Advisable.

Worldwide war, dislocating COM
merce and industry, reduced finance
and credit to chaos and made a jest
of economics. The new tariff has
failed as revenue producer solely
for the reason that the conditions to
which 1t was adjusted have been shot
away by dozen nations in conflict.
1t was the expectation of the Will
son administration and congress that
under more liberal customs rates the
total receipts, while more evenly dis
tributed, would not be greatly di-
minished, and that the loss of revenue
in providing for free sugar and mo-
lasses, effective May l next, would be
more than Offset by the income tax.
That this hope would not be realized
was plainly seen last year when the
emergency war taxes were levied.
In their conclusion to ask congress
for renewal of the war taxes and the
repeal of the free-sugar and molasses
clause of the tariff, the president and
secretary Of the treasury are fully JUS
titled by facts. The situation that con-
fronts them is abnormal. While hos
tilities last there Is no possibility OF
a customs revenue, no matter what
the rates may be, that will equal the
requirements of the treasury. Not
until peace shall have been restored
will it be advisable for the United
States to enter upon experimental re-
forms in taxation or relinquish any
of its imposts that, like the sugar
tariff. are highly productive of reye-
nue..
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-28
HAS MADE 100000 BUNS
Brother WilIiamford Is Baker for
University Of Notre Dame for
Fifteen Years.

South Bend, nd.-Brother William
ford, who estimates that he has baked
approximately 100000 breakfast
buns, has just completed his fifteenth
year as the head of the bakery of the
University of Notre Dame. He has
kept careful count of the various eat
ables he has prepared since he began.
The brothers family is about $500
while school Is in session.
BY Brother Williamford's calcula-
tions he has mixed 32,850 barrels of
flour and made 642,500 five-pound
loaves of bread, 16.425,000 cookies
and almost 100000 buns for break
fast. Pies for the school are made
by the sisters at st. Mary's college.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-28
Tells SEA ROMANCE
Sole Survivor Recalls Wre y OIL
Bark Egypt.
Went Down In Gale in Bahama Sixty
Six Years Ago-clings to Rigging
for Five Days and
NIGHTS.

Blackwell, Okla.-The only survivor
of the wreck OF the bark Egypt Sc
years ago is visiting relatives in Kay
county, and celebrated the anniver-
sary OF what was known to him as
the most terrible week he has spent
in his eighty-nine years on this earth.
Sheridan is yet a hale and hearty
old sea dog and his tale OF the adj
venture many years ago in which prac-
tically the whole crew of the bark
were drowned and the remaining Ii
come near meeting much worse
death was told by him in this fashion:
1T was sixty-six years ago this sum-
mer that the old bark Egypt put out
from Portland, Me-, with a cargo OF
lumber and few weeks later struck
a real Northwestern while in the gulf
stream near the Banks Of Bahama.
A happy outfit we were, all full of life.
ION the evening OF September s q
storm struck us and for six hours we
battled that gale in terrific fight.
Finally, however, the bark turned
over. The masts and rigging were left
afloat, and to these those OF us that
were left made. When we counted up
the next day, there were thirteen OF
u.s.
Without food, without drop OF
fresh water, suffering intensely from
the semitropical midsummer sun by
day and from the cold at night. half
famished and nearly crazed from
thirst, we chung to the rigging OF that
half-submerged vessel for five days
and nights.
Time after time was in the no.
ton of letting go and ending the tor
ture in the cool deep of the sea, but
each time the love Of life was too
great, and held on in the hope that
some time before my mind left me,
which is the usual ending of those
cast out in that way, we might be
rescued by passing boat.
ION the evening of the fifth day q
sailing vessel bound for New York
sighted us an hour after we had seen
it. That was the longest hour Of my
life, for l was afraid that they would
go right on by without seeing us. We
quickly revived, but the memory or
those times will be vivid always"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-28
TESLA SEES VISION
Predicts "WorId System" OF
Wireless in Future.
FiunGreds Will BE Able to Talk at
Same Time Through the Earth
Static Disturbance Eliminated
by invention.

New York.-Nikola Tesla announced
that he had received a patent on an in
vention which would not only elimi-
nate static interference, the present
bugaboo of wireless telephony, but
would enable thousands Of persons to
talk at once between wireless stations
and make it possible for those talking
to see one another by wireless, regard
less Of the distance separating them.
He said also that with his wireless
station now in the process of construc-
tion on Long Island he hoped to make
New York one of the central exchanges
an a world system of wireless tele-
phony.
Mr. Tesla has been working on wire
less problems for many years. Recent
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-28

dishes. add one-half teaspoonful OF
all recipes in which the pulp is heat
ed. This removes whatever astrin-
gency there may be in the fruit and
does away with all risk of puckered
mouth. A number of practical recipes
calling for the use of persimmon pulp
are contained in the bulletin.
In the propagation of the persimr
mon. certain precautions that are nee
essary in the case of the other fruits
should be observed Seeds gathered
for propagating purposes should be
stratified at once. If they are allowed
to dry out it is often necessary to
soak them for two or three days before
they are planted, boiling water being
used for the purpose. The seed bed
in which the seedlings are grown
should be well drained with rather
light soil and good supply of humus.
The ground should be deep plowed in
order to permit the penetration of the
long taproots which are characteristic
of the tree.
The roots of persimmon trees sprout
readily when the top is removed and
this accounts for the persistence at
times Of clumps of sprouts in fields
where they are not wanted. 1t also
enables small pieces of roots six or
eight inches long to be used for propa-
eating. The ends of the roots should
be sealed with grating wax or pitch in
order to prevent decay, and the pieces
buried in sand through the winter. II
the moisture supply is plentiful they
will then grow readily the following
spring. Cuttings of branches may be
used in the same way as the root cut
tings.
In cases where is is desirable to
graft, the operation is usually most
successful if 1t is put off until the trees
have definitely started into new
growth. 1t is also Of the utmost i'm
portance that the cut surface of both
bark and wood be protected with as
little delay as possible from exposure
to the air. Grating wax, waxed cloth
or similar devices are used to afford
the necessary protection. The various
methods of grating are discussed in
some detail in the new bulletin.
In addition to the value of the fruit
for household purposes, persimmon
wood is used to large extent by
manufacturers Of cotton mill supplies.
who make bobbins from it. 1t is also
used for shoe lasts. The live trees
are in considerable demand for shade
and ornamental purposes and one au-
thority states that as shade tree on
private grounds the persimmon COM
pares favorably with any Of the other
species in this country.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-28
Turn to New Campaign Cry.

Attacks on the administration con-
tanned in the Massachusetts Repub-
lican platform show that the hard
times" cry has died out. Not even in
calling the tariff failure is there an
appeal to the voters on the ground
that President Wilson has Frustrated
the nations industries. At the BAN
duet of the Home Market club of
Boston Senator Sherman Of Illinois
denounced the ''indefensible cruelty
of the Wilsoa tariff" and was sec
onded by John Hays Hammond. but
neither OF them limited that relief
from erstwhile depression is a mere
accident of war Protection may be
espoused, but 1t will be with an eye
to post-bellum conditions. In his re-
cent speeches in the West. Senator
Weeks has been telling the Repub-
licans that the Democrats would be
defeated next year-if defeated at all
upon the question OF the success or
failure of Wilson's foreign policies.
The Massachusetts, platform bears
this theory out. but it must be plain
to the Republicans that the issue is
hazardous. If the goals reached in
our relations with Mexico and Europe
nlease the people, they are not going
to look askance at mistakes in detail.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-28

Miss Helen Namur, popular lead
or and one of the prettiest girls in
her set, longs for an opportunity to
aid the people of King Albert's war
torn country Since the outbreak OF
the war she has worked INCREASINGLY
I'm the interests Of Belgium. being en-
rolled in practically all the movements
for the aid of the tiny kingdom where
back in the fourteenth century her
ancestors played a leading part in
some of the most important and ro-
mantle historical events of the little
country. They lived in the vicinity of
Namur. where the greatest forts in
the world were shattered by the AZ
centimeter guns of the German army,
and many of their descendants resid-
ed there until the outbreak of the
war. Miss Namur's parents came to
the United States 49 years ago and
settled in New York, where size was
born. Realizing the great need Of
workers in the stricken country where
many of her relatives are fighting in
the trenches, she offers to go as a
war narse or as relief worker to aid
the helpless women and children left
mt home to fight battles at even great
er odds than those encountered by
the men who held the Germans back
srtil the French were modified.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-28

prepared by the United States Depart
mont of Agriculture)
Despite the fact that the only fruit
which equals the persimmon In 1000
value is the date. many persons VINO
have persimmon trees on their land
are making no use Of them. and there
has been comparatively little e1ort
made to develop the trees commercial
ly. In a new bulletin, Farmers bulle-
tin No. 6S5 Of the United States de-
partment of agriculture, some OF the
many uses to which the fruit can De
put are described and methods OF
propagating the trees discussed.
The persimmon is found in large
numbers over the southeastern quar-
ter of the United States and in some
places as far west as Iowa and east
ern Nebraska, and as far north as
Rhode Island, New York and Mlchl-
gan. The real persimmon belt, now
ever, may be said to extend from
Maryland, Virginia and the Carollnas
westward through Missouri and Ar
kansas Where the tree is most aDun-
dant there is considerable prejudice
against it because of the persistency
with which the young sprouts come up
in cultivated fields, and also because
of the pickering astringent effect OF
the unripe fruit There is a saying
that persimmons are good for dogs.
hogs and 'possums," but this is unjust
to a product which can be made very
useful to man.
At the present time few growers
in the persimmon belt who have easy
access to markets in large cities have
built UP quite a considerable demand
for persimmons, and the wild fruit can
also be sometimes purchased during
the autumn and early winter. A mum.
Der of nurserymen also sell Seeding
trees for ornamental planting, for
which they are very effective, and a
few have special varieties developed
for the production of the fruit.
One obstacle to the more general
use of persimmons is the mistaken
idea that they are not fit to eat until
they have been touched by frost. In
consequence many persimmons which
ripen and fall to the ground before
frost comes are allowed to go to waste.
AS a matter of fact, it may be said
in general that the best varieties are
those which ripen just before the trees
shed their leaves. If a persimmon is
not edible before frost, it is simply
because the variety happens to be a
late one and the fruit is not ripe. In
order to be on the safe side, however.
1t is recommended in the bulletin al
ready mentioned that housewives who
are using persimmon pulp in the prep
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-28

'Many Of my Republican friends
predicted that the Democrats in the
sixty fourth congress would not be
al31e fo keep together, and furthermore
that President Wilson would not be
ab3e 70 get through his legislative pro-
HfaIn this winter. but from all | can
sse harmony will prevail said D. q.
Clinton of Washington, d. C. The
Democratic majority is considerably
diminished. but that very fact should
result in all the greater cohesion in
the party. / think congress will have
an exceptionally harmonious session.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-28
CATS FOR FOOD IN HUNGARY
Demand Causes Jump in Price Until
Maximum Is Set by Au-
thorities.

Paris.-The Figaro quotes the Buda-
pest correspondent of the Frankfurter
Zeitung as follows:
THE official organ of the central
Hungarian slaughter houses states
that in the Biharkenszteser district,
where all the Italian residents of Hun
gary are informed, great number of
cats are killed and dressed daily. The
demand has been such that the price
of cats rose to prohibitive figure,
hence the local authorities stepped in
and fixed the maximum price at three
crowns the kilo." (About % cents q
.pound.)
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-28


ly he exhibited an article published
in the Electrical World eleven years
ago, in which he predicted not only
wireless telephony on a commercial
basis but that it would be possible to
identify the voice of an acquaintance
over any distance. That its operator in
Hawaii was able to distinguish the
voice of an engineer friend at Airing
ton, Va, was announced by the Amer
lean Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany as the most marked triumph OF
it's communication by wireless tele-
phone from the naval radio station at
Arlington to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, a
distance of 1000 miles.
The inventor, who has won fame by
his electrical inventions, dictated this
statement:
THE experts carrying out this brill
liant experiment are naturally de-
serving of great credit for the skill
they have shown in perfecting the de-
vices. These are Of two kinds: First,
those serving to control transmission,
and, second, those magnifying the re-
ceived impulse. That the control of
transmission is perfect is plain to ex-
perts from the fact that the Arlington,
Mare Island, and Pearl Harbor plants
are all inefficient and that the dis
lance of telephone communication is
equal to that of Geographic transmits
sion. 1t is also perfectly apparent that
the chief merit of the application lies
in the magnification of the micro
phonic impulse. 1t must not be mag
ined that we deal here with new dis
coveries. The improvement simply
concerns the control of the transmit
ted and the magnification of the re-
ceived impulse, but the wireless sys-
tenn is the same. This can never be
changed.
THAT it is practicable to project the
human voice not only to distance of
5000 miles, but clear across the globe,
I demonstrated by experiments in
Colorado in 1889 1t is claimed that
static disturbance will fatally inter-
fere with the transmission, while, as a
matter of fact, there is no static dis
turbance possible in properly designed
transmission and receiving circuits.
Quite recently l have described, in a
patent, circuits which are absolutely
immune to static and other interior
ences-so much so that when tele-
phone is attached, there is absolute
;ohf in, n or
ate vicinity not producing click Of
the diaphragm, while in the ordinary
telephone conversation there are all
kinds of noises. Transmission with
out static interference has many won
derful properties besides, first of which
is that unlimited amounts OF power
can be transmitted with very small
loss.
Another contention is that there
can be no secrecy in wireless tele-
phone conversation. / say it is absurd
to raise this contention, when 1t Is
positively demonstrated by expert
ments that the earth is more suitable
for transmission than any wire could
ever be. A wireless telephone CONVEX
sation can be made as secret as a
thought.
Its all wonderful thing. Wireless
is coming to mankind in its full mean
ing like a hurricane some Of these
days. Some day there will be, say. six
great wireless telephone stations in a
world system connecting all the in
habitants of this earth to one another
not only by voice but by sight. It's
surely coming"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-28
FINDS HUSBAND TOO PloUs
Wife of Washington Man Says After
Conversion He Kept Her as
Hired Girl.

Everett, Wash. Too much religion
on the part of Roy Pattison has ~:
suited in his wife filing q suit for sl1s
vorce
In her complaint Mrs. TaftiEn1l
charges that in January, 1913 her bus.
band .joined religious sociefs afld
announced he had been cor serAtess
to God, which completes hin II gEva
up his Wife, She SAYS her husband
hired her to do the work about the
house and told her IL lad ~ further
use for her as his wife because Of his
conservation.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-28
safe Statement.

In announcing that the president ap-
proves Secretary McAdoo's plan to re-
tain the duty on sugar and re-enact
the law providing for the special war
tax. the correspondents are taking no
chances. 1T Is Just as safe to say that
the two measures will receive large
ma iority vote in congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-11

Mistaking their poor, little hickering For that for which hearts have been
 yearning;
 And thus in our ignorance, wandering on I'll the lights have grown dim, though
 we're far from the dawn
 With never a chance of returning But happiness. lasting, has never been
 found
 Where selfshness reigns in it's glory; For sehshness rules where the vices
 abound
 Its subjects they. ancient and hoary;: And happiness lies in the Kingdom of Where hearts of the aged beat glad as in
 youth
 And life's like tender love story. And would you discover that domain of
 bliss
 Ere self all your brighter hopes
 smothers; ,ta.
 That. domain where life's like lovers
 first kiss ?--
 Then search for the pathway, my
 brothers: It rens through the city of Brotherly .F Love. nsS5a2sf s In the Valley of Faith-in-t the Fathsr-
 Above, By the River Of Eaving-for- o Others.
 h n. Martin Cox is a southern boy now piay- ing small part in ''chfh. Chin" wsici is having successful run on Broadway. Martin tells me that he recently received letter from friend in Nashville who has decided that he possesses vocal abil- ity and is scheduled for New York suc- cess. However" says Martin, The is very considerate of mc.faHd all tlast lie asks me to do is to assemble all the New York managers on the day of his arrival so that he can sing for them and then accept the best proposition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-11

ever did in any feature of the war in Europe. Also. more newspapers were sold. and these showed a slight improve ment in accuracy
 MUSIC. When twilight falls. and weary labor
 rests
 And night. fair queen, hath donned her
 jewelled gown. While lights gleam wonder in the rest
 less town,
 Where pleasures waves hear sin upon their crests- How sweet. when safely hidden from the
 throng.
 Is music then. unto csre-worn heart; Soft notes of some fair melody part. Or strains sof some Remembered, well
 loved song. < They hint of bliss we mortals may not As if the gods thus whispered in our Fair secrets of the farzosf, future years, Where winds of joy through wales Elysian
 < blow. Oh. mystery of music. Would that Might grasp the joys, thou seemest to suggest Far better than the worlds poor. tran sient best Yet fathomless as Gods eternal sky. ; Mrs. Hawkins of London came to New York as result of the war. leaving Hawkins fighting for his scountre. | don't know Mrs. Hawkins merely chanced to see her at the Metropolitan Museum, Ql Art. in Central park one day ffilfs week. k. < She Is visiting relatives here and they were showing her about the city. Paus- ing in front of a staNtue of Apollo she was told that this god wal Buppoaod to be the most perfect Gteelmen q physical
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-11

Many do not know this fact, and believe they have the plea sure of touching shoul- ders with the cream of New York society. as they stroll along Fifth avenue Easter Sunday. And where ignorance is bliss etc. So no one is the loser after all. It is the old story of how New York is fooled by dress. When one first arrives here he or she is greatly impressed by the styles worn but it does not take very long to discover that the lily-of the-f field effect is not representative of the real New Yorker
 What onr old pal W, Shakespeare said about dress is just as good. a rule to fol- low on Fifth avenue today. as it in the days when he thrived in the hamlet of Stratford- -on-Avon
 Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy But not expressed in fancy; rich, not
 gaudy. .tsiI For the apparel oft proclaims the mani. , The trouble with many of the Fifth avenue moderns is that they seem to think this means the louder the apparel the louder the proclamation, overlooking en- tirely the character of the proclaiming.
 SECRET OF HAPPINESS Oh, I know the secret of happiness now Though long did struggle to learn it. It lies not in much that we long for
 somehow,
 / And many can never discern it. For often, as out OCT the highway'we go. We pass the fair ,byway of happiness
 though 9s4
 Unknowins, we glance at and spurn it. How fooishly, often, we search for it
 where
 Through darkness the false lights are
 burning.