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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09
CARE FOR YOUR SKIN
And Keep 1t Clear by Daily Use OF
Cuticura-Trial Free.

A hot bath with Cuticura Soap fol-
lowed by gentle amounting with Cuti-
cura Ointment clears the skin or scalp
in most cases of eczemas, rashes and
itching of children and adults. Make
Cuticura your everyday toilet prepare
tons and prevent such troubles.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L.
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09
Naturally Grave.

Il have here" said the party with
the unbarbered hair who had elected
his person into the editorial sanctum
when the office boy wasn't looking, e
little poem entitled, "A Pauper's
Gravel"
"Huh y growled the editor. Nothing
remarkable about that. Who has bet
ter right to grave than pauper?
You certainly wouldn't expect his mirth
to slop over. would your"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09
An APOLOGY.

care you not ashamed to use poi
soned arrowsY
"Tm doing the best / can in my lin
tied way" whimpersd the savage. "Of
course, poisoned arrows only get 'em
one at time. But we lack the me-
chanical facilities for wholesale opera
tons with U-boats."
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09
Safe.

Madge was three years older than
her baby brother, and felt herself equal
to assuming the responsibilities of big
sisterhoOd. When, therefore, her moth
er asked her to keep an eye" on the
baby and see that he didn't fall out of
bed. Madge answered:
''Yes mamma, I'll mind him; an II
he falls I'll call you the minute he hits
the f1Oor."-Pearson's Weekly.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09
The Ambitious Bride.

Bill-Hellol Home from your hon.
eymoon trip already?
Gill-Oh, yes.
Rather short, wasn't .t?'
"Oh, yes. My new wife seemed rath-
err anxious to get home and try her
cooking on me-"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09
Wise Caddie.

Green Golfer Ito caddie)-What are
you looking there for? I must have
driven it 80 yards farther than that.
Diplomatic Caddie-Yes, sir; but
sometimes they hit stone and bounce
back terrible distance, sir.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09
Naturally.

Mrs. Kawler-Your daughter, / un-
derstand has spent great deal Of her
tine IN Italy.
Mrs Blunderby-Oh, yes. indeed;
she's quite ItaliciHed.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09

Dlsagreeable and Dangerous Trouble
is diarrhea, but speedy and certain
cure Is found in Mississippi Diarrhea
Cordial. Price Csc and 5Oc.-Adv.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09
Exactly.

''The amateur fishermen up our way
have formed club"
"a sort of co-whopperative society,
eh?'
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09
Near 4 Storm Center.
sorry / built right here"

m sorry / bulIt Fight here.
"Whyw
Because they do say that sound car
ries best southeast of storm GEN.
ter"
"What has that got to do with it?'
"Well, I've just discovered by hear
ing your wife's voice every night when
yoa arrive home late that I live in
southeast direction from your house" "
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09
At the Rindside.

The Novice-Why does that pug
crouch so?
The Old SpOrt-He stOops to con-
quer
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09

IMITATION IS siNcEREsT FLATTERy
but like counterfeit money the imita-
ton has not the worth Of the original.
Insist on LA Creole" Hair Dressing
it's the original. Darkens your hair In
the natural way, but contains no dye.
Price $1.00.-Adv.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09

Indigestion produces disagreeable ana
sometimes alarming symptoms. WrightS
Indian Vegetable Pills stimulate the diges-
tive processes to function naturally. Adv.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09

You never can know how superior to 9TH
er preparations in promptness and eficien-
cy is DR.. Peery's dead Shot until you
have tried it once. A single dose cleans
out Worms or Tapeworm. Adv.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09

Falsehood is like a nettle, because
1t actually stings those who venture
to NEEDLE with 1t.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09

The worlds normal yield of the six
great cereals ranges from 10000, 600, 900
to 19,OOO,O00,OO0 bushels.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09
ON FIRST SYMPTOMS

use "Renovine" and be cured. Do not
wait until the heart organ is beyond
repair. "Renovine" is the heart and
nerve tonic. Price Soc and $1.00.-Adv.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09
The Only Way.

"Senor, can you handle any villa
money!"
''That depends. Is it baled T'-LOuis-
vile COurier-JOurnal.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09
Capable Housewives.

Plenty of modern girls know how
to clean and mend"
"Just as their grandmothers did ,eh?"
well, they know how to mend a
tire and clean a spark plug"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09

Instructors in elocution teach man
low to talk, but, unfortunately, not
what to think.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09
Good Fortune.

Bess-Lucky girl! She thought he
out to be a movie actor
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09
a HINT TO WISE WOMEN. !

Don't suffer torture when all female
troubles will vanish in thin air after using
"Femenina." Price soc and .oo-Adv.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09

GRADUATED Eyelids. sites. Inhamed Eyes
relieved over night by Roman Eye Balsam.
One trial proves its merit Adv
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09

California this year shipped out 49,
400 cars of citrus fruits.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09
A Ioss-up.

Mrs.-Are you going to plant tur-
nips or cabbage In the yard?
Mr.-Heads win.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09

California products will this year
bring $2O0,0O0,0O0 to the state.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09

Don't talk too much; stiff upper
jaw is as useful as a stiff upper liz.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09

Southern states yearly produce
/ ,45O, 900 pounds of cottonseed oil.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09

California 1917 olive crop will ex
coed $4,000 tons.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09
INTERNATIONAL
SUND6YS0lO0L
LESSON

(By REV. p. B. FITZWATER, ID. D..
Teacher of English Bible In the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago)
Copyright. 1917. Western Newspaper Union.)
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-09

LESSON TEXT-II Chronicles 34:1-13.
GOLDEN TEXT-Remember now thy
Creator in the days of thy youth.-Eccles
R:1.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26
SAN FRANCIsCo,s EXPERIMENT.

San Francisco has been operating a
municipal street railway system three
years and seems to like it.
Up to July of last year it had set
aside a depreciation fund of $722,OOO,
and had retired 100000 of bonds.
1t is estimated that in eight years
San Francisco's municipal railway will
be free from debt, judging by the
showing already made. And all this
will be from surplus earnings, without
a dollar from taxes.
The policy which permits the public
to carry on its own business in service
of general necessity is growing in ia
vor slowly but surely. 1t is not neces-
sary to go away from home to find
an illustration of it's advantages. We
have it in the waterworks.
Glasgow, Scotland. has set the pace
for the cities of the world in matters
of this kind. Twenty-Five years ago,
for about 100000, Glasgow ac-
quired her street railways, and their
net earnings have amounted to more
than that sum, after large deductions
for depreciation and repairs.
Her whole tramway system is free
of debt and has a surplus of $3.50. 1000.
with a net revenue of s2,2e3,000 in the
last fiscal year.
She has applied the same principle
to water, gas, electricity, 1aundries and
housing of the poor. Not only have
her public utilities been well and ca
pably operated but they also have
given her people the best possible SER
vice at the lowest charges consistent
Herewith.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26

The effort of a lot of politicians,
townspeople and college professors to
advise the farmers of Kansas has re-
suited as might have been expected
Reports to the Kansas Defense
council indicate that the men who
produce the wheat, corn, potatoes and
alfalfa are pursuing their regular bust
ness in the customary way, unmindful
of the solicitude or suggestions of their
city brothers. The farmer can be
trusted to cultivate all the land pos
sible as long as prices remain at their
present level without being spurred
on by an incentive of patriotism. AS
has been pointed out before in this
paper, the only thing that can stop
him is a lack of help in the pinches.
From the reports made to the coun-
Gil. it seems that he has that matter
we'll in hand in most parts of the
state. The Kansas agriculturists
work They don't hold conventions
and spend their time in talk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26

boys of from II to 10 years had led
the school in whipping and driving
away four teachers. The first day of
the new term, my friend invited the
four boys to test skill and strength on
the playground at noon, he to meet
the four in rough and tumble wrestle.
catch as catch can. When the four
quit, exhausted, with the teacher still
on his feet and smiling, he made a
casual remark to the effect that he felt
sure there would never be- any trouble
of a physical nature in that school.
He walked to the school house door
with his arms over the shoulders of
the two who had given him the most
to do ana that school led all others
in the county in department that
winter.
He was prepared. Would it have
been better for him not take that
course of instruction in wrestling and
get his whipping like his predecessors?
are we afraid to be strong? Or
what is the matter with us?
e. E. HARTMAN
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26
GLOBE SIGHTS
From the Atchison Globe.l

IFrom the Atchison Globe.J
A man who does things is worth a
hundred who talks things.
Sometimes the majority rules, and
sometimes it only thinks it does.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned family which used to eat cheap
food?
Sometimes the bride is congratulate
ed when sympathy should be express
ed.
A man doesn't have to marry for
money in order for his wife to think
she owns him.
This is ant to be a great season for
the girls who so easily fall in love
with a uniform.
Women who are battling for equal
rights should remember that very few
men receive alimony
When he first sells a bunch of junk,
the small boy thinks he has found an
easy road to sudden wealth.
Sometimes it seems there is more
artistic temperament than there is art
in this complicated cosmos.
While women are taking the place
of men in many lines of endeavor, no
woman has a vocabulary suitable for
driving mules.
There is no place like home during
the house cleaning season, and man
can find other causes for gratitude if
he looks around.
Probably you complain of the in
gratitude of humanity. but are you as
grateful as you should be when the
occasion demands it?
A woman never gets so tired of her
husband, and some them become
painfully weary, that she wants hin,
to neglect her for other women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26

A close study of volunteering reveals
not merely it's disadvantages, but still
more emphatically its decisions. The
absence of a Consumption law, says the
New Republic, merely let's loose a
crowd of other compelling forces,
which lash with scorpions where the
law uses but rods. Scorpions, that is,
for the sensitive, while the tCughened
go scot free. The first call for volun-
teers in a great national emergency
brings out the adventurous and de-
voted who really want to fight. They
amount to about one per cent of the
population. Many of them ought not
TO go. Generous of themselves. they
sacrifice families and positions where
many of them would be more useful
than at the front They contain
mong them a large proportion of the
spiritual and intellectual cream of the
nation. The choicest are plunged into
those holocausts which lack of expert
enee provides at the beginning of each
war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26

The primary duty in this country
today. says the Chicago Herald, is for
every state. municipality, corporation
and individual to go about business
calmly diligently and with the opti4
mism which the situation fully justi-
ffes. If there are roads and other pub
lie works to be built, why go ahead and
build them, just as would be done in
normal times. If a man has a certain
standard of life there is certainly no
reason for any heroic effort to live in a
fashion fundamentally different. Rea-
sonable economy, of course. there
should be-always should be. But
that's all the situation calls for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26
Is YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the columns Of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

April 26, 1892.
For the year ending April 1. 1892, there
were $50 arrests made In Topeka.
The gilt paint is being put on Sells &
RenfrOw's bandwagon.
There are now % patients in the North
Topeka Kelley Institute. This makes it the
banner institute of the state.
Roy Baker, one of the players on the
Washburn baseball team does not attend
Washburn college at all.
Will Carleton, the poet. can write poetry.
but unfortunately he cannot read it About
300 people were present at his lecture at
the Grand last night.
Kansas City Star: lis there any whisky
in Salina?" was asked a returning Re-
publican delegate. Not now" he replied.
There was small attendance at yes
terday's ball game. There were twenty
seven people in the grand stand. as fol-
lows: Six Washburn college girls, two
Washburn college boys, five Baker Uni
versity boys. five newspaper men. one
newspaper woman, four local sports one
strangers and one boy, unclassified
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26

Don't you fret, dearie. He's fine
lad, and BenIl look out for him for
you
But Ben-stayed over in the slip
long, until the first amber light
showed in the east and the street
lamps went out. When he did come,
the strange captain was with him.
and he was hatless, with a bandage
around his head. Peggie went down
to meet them, pale and eager-eyed,
and Ben slipped up to the kitchen to
brew some coffee, he said, leaving the
two together down in the dimly lighted
sail room.
Il thought it was river pirates" he
told her Two of them got me in my
berth, and when 1 shot they hit me
with blackjack. The Portuguese
woke up, and we found two more in
the cabin. It's all right now. They
didn't believe L was after new sails"
He grinned happily. Two went over
board, and two got away with the
marks of the Portuguese on Them
there?" asked Peggie, anxiously.
Rifles and shells, filibustering for
the Gulf. 1 don't deal in contra band,
told them-nothing more risky than
pearls" He drew out a little leather
sack from his inner pocket and opened
1t flat on his palm. Inside lay three
unset pearls, tender and beautiful as
the dawn that was breaking.
I've carried those Tor three years.
he said They've waited for the bride.
Like them, Peggie?'
Peggie nodded, drawing back from
him. There came the Whit of fresh
coffee from upstairs.
II knew as soon as 1 looked at you,
why I'd had to put in here for sails.
And I've wanted you, Peg, but there
the Lou and the sea, and I've thought
and weighed long, wondering could L
give them up for shore life. But the
pearls are yours for the say So"
Then Peggie spoke, simply and brave
~ as the captain would have had her,
when her life's happiness faced her.
'Captain-'
My names Jack" he prompted.
Ben knows all about the business
here, and-and Mrs. MacGowan keeps
house for us. I'd love to go to sea.
You don't know what it is to have it
all in you. the love of it, l mean. and
the longing. and sending out sails and
sails to go everywhere like wings, and
you just sit your stool wishing.
Maybe that's why you were sent in for
SailS-because I was wishing So.
And she liked him more than ever
because his first kiss was on her hair.
on the little curls that lay close to her
| forehead, as her arm stole around his
neck. and Ben called down the stairs
that the coffee was ready.-(Copyright
! 1917 by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
| dicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26


calling,
Time. strikes the hour for the brave and
the true;
Now. while the foremost are fighting and
falling,
FIJI up the ranks that have opened for
you'll
Tended.
Stain not the scroll that emblazons their
You whose fair heritage spotless descended,
Leave not your children a birthright Of
shame!
Stay not for questions while Freedom
stands gasping,
Wait not till Honor lies wrapped in his
Brief the lips meeting be, swift the hands
clasping-
,"Off to the wars is enough for them
ALL
Break from the arms that would fondly
Hark! it's the bugle's blastI sabres are
drawni
Mothers shall pray for you, fathers shall
bless you,
Maidens shall weep for you when you
are gone.
Never or now! cries the blood of a nation
Poured on the turf where the red rose
should bloom;
Now is the day and the hour of salvation !;
Never or now, peals the trumpet of doom
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
The Worst Yet.
By Roy x. MoULTON.

The Worst Yet.
Tho we view with frOwning feature every
young and callow creature
Who will step along the avenue IN spats,
While so heated is our feeling that we
often hit the ceiling
When we meet whoever wear brown
derby hats;
Still Won might as well be knowing We
could pardon the foregoing,
We'd forgive EN- tho they shock our
simple taste.
But in greatest rage we're swearing at
the youths who now are wearing
These new trench coats tightly belted
round the waist!
He who cultivates a passion for the very
latest fashion,
Very often is offensive to the eye.
When we see lad affecting fopplsh
That he'll languish in the bug house
by and by;
Just the same and none the less he thinks
he's really very dressy
And we're sorry that we spoke OF him
Still we're glad to wish curse on that
absurd and youthful person
With the trench-coat tightly belted
round the wait,
Tho one shivers as he passes every pair
of horn trimmed glasses,
Tho we write to see wrist-watch on
male
Tho we reckon as demented him whose
handkerchief is scented
Or who loves lovely polish on his nail ;
Very queer are these. However, we would
scruple to assever
That they're either lost to reason or
disgraced,
But how grieved and how unhappy are
the parents of the chapnie
With the trench-coat tightly belted
round the waist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26

The federal trade commission has
discovered that the Standard Oil COM
pany is responsible for the high price
of gasoline. Everybody else has
known it for years but it took an ex-
pensive investigation for the govern
.Ipent to ascertain a fact of otherwise
common knowledge. Now that the Sc
cret is out what will the commission
do about it? What will anybody do
about it2 Shall the Standard be fined
another $29.OOO,O0O?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26
SIDE T ALM S
Why Don't Answer.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Truly 1 do not mean to be rude or
unappreciative or unsympathetic.
That explanation is meant for a
certain class among my readers, the
people who write me anonymous let
tiers, expecting an answer in the col
umn, and do not receive it.
These letters are of various types
One is the letter which asks me to
write on some subject dear to the
terest.
For instance, one woman wants me
to give advice in regard to how ten
ants and landlords should treat each
others children, whether you think
it best to mix with them if you have
none of your own. 1 will look for
your answer in my paper"
Now suppose that among the rest
of my readers five per cent live near
their landlords, and one in ten of
these has had trouble on the children
question. That means that such an
article would find a response in the
lives of one-half of one per cent of my
readers. Surely 1 ought to do better
than that.
Again. L am asked to give advice
in situations, where advice is useless.
For instance, what to do to put things
right between a girl friend who is gen.
orally regarded as engaged to young
man who has recently started going
about also with another young lady.
The girl knows about her rival. IF
you knew how l feel" urges the letter
friend, you would do what l ask out
of sheer sympathy"
Bless your heart, so I would, but it
doesn't seem to me to be a situation
where advice would do the slightest
good.
Again there is the letter friend who
asks me to write on some subject I
have already written on, or that has
ben done to death by other people.
Will l write on what would happen
if everyone told the truth, or will 1
have the article on Calm repeated?
Gladly, but alas, there are the nine
hundred and ninety-five to consider as
well as the five who might be inter
eSted.
And lastly there are the people who
write me wonderful little notes of ap-
probation and then wonder 'if you
will ever receive this and how / shall
know"
You won't know individually. but
collectively please know that / thank
you from the bottom of my heart and
that I hope someone else will be as
good to YOU as you have been to me.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26

Everybody knows that one purpose
of our five billion dollar bond issue
is to enable us to loan three billions
to our Allies, but everybody does not
know the particular reason why we
are doing it instead of letting them
borrow as they have in the past. This
reason was explained by Senator
Smoot of Utah during the debate on
the bond bill. He said that the Allies
could raise the money by selling bonds
as they have in the past. but that the
rate of Interest. commissions. etc.
would be excessive. Said he. There
is no question that if England should
undertake today to place a bond issue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26

at the rate of interest of 3 II per cent,
she would not get more than 81 to 80
cents on the dollar for the bonds. Her
credit is not so good as that of the
United States, and now our country is
undertaking to loan to England our
credit, which is worth 100 cents on
the dollar, at a rate of az per cent;
and England, or whatever country
borrows the money, will get the ad-
vantage of the credit of the United
States"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26
They We're Prepared.

I saw a mob. one day long ago. in
tent on lynching man. They gather
ed in front of his house and ripped
the air to shreds with threats and
blasphemy. The man they were
looking for came out on a little bal
cony, carrying a Winchester. He
leaned over the railing and spoke
softly in a clear. level tone.
Did anybody in particular wish to
see me tonight?"
The muzzle of the Winchester SEEM
ed to grin sardonicaliy at the mob. as
he spoke. and the mob melted away.
fessed, clearing this man. Ask him
about preparedness
1 saw a bully on a car mistake
quiet good-breeding for cowardice.
He answered a well-chosen rebuke
with contumely and swung for an
eye. The gentleman sidestepped and
countered on the jaw. Then the bully
left the car. ably assisted all the way.
Did the lady whom the bully had
annoyed decry preparedness? Hardly.
/ recall that Little Crow, the war
lord of the Sioux nation, SHE'D away
from our settlement in Minnesota
when the settlers under my father
leadership had built a stockade and
tablished a patrol While men, wom-
en- and children were killed brutally
all about us, our stockade received no
attack. Scouts were seen more than
once inspecting the stocKade from a
distance and two were shot. but a bit
of preparedness discouraged the muir
dering band
A friend undertook to gentle a
bronco school in our forest. Four big