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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

Autumn Is Here

Every this busy greets with its full
goods purchased much market than today We
going to give you the benefit of our savings
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Payne, Of Me-
ridian, were welcome guests recent
ly in the delightful home of Mr.
and Mrs. T. H. Collier.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

Mrs. Enos Corley, of Route l.,
Brandon, was shopping in this city
Wednesday.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. White were
Jackson visitors Wednesday.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

w. T. East, of Forest, was calling
on friends in this city Sunday.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

Mrs. Barksdale, popular teacher in
the A. II. S., attended to business
here Monday.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

Robert Burns, who is attending
Mississippi College, Clinton, spent
the week end with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. r. Burns.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

w. G. Bott, well known resident
OF the Pickett vicinity, was in this
city Tuesday.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

Misses Dan Jackson, Robbie Aven,
Lila Lowe, and Professor G. A.
Lowe, teachers of the New Prospect
School, were visitors in. this city
Tuesday afternoon.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

Hon. J. W. Collier, of Vicksburg,
was business visitor in this city
Friday.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

Tom Rodgers, of Shiloh, was a
business visitor in this city re-
Gently.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

Charlie Ponder, popular young
man of the Pickett community,
passed through this city Tuesday en-
route to Jackson.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Traxler, of
Cato, were in this city Monday
morning. Mrs. Traxler was en- route
to Jackson where she is having her
eyes treated.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

c.. A De Wees, who recently
moved from this city to Jackson,
was attending to business in this
city Tuesday.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

citizen of this county, was in this
city Saturday attending to business.
Mesdames Luella Greenwood and
T. l.. Greenwood, popular ladies Of
the Shady Dell neighborhood, were
shopping visitors in the city Tues
day.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04


friends here. Greaves is a brilliant and capable
that he will p
Master Burns, make good
eral weeks with the
home of his Clinton, Mr. MRS j. beazae
this Saturday City.
spend few with his grand Mr. b. Breazeae OF New Or
Mr. Burns a
W. f. Owens \
of
Monday. While Mr.. Shivers
Church Friday Night, Oct H.
Mr. Fl Rice of Friday
aters date set for Social at the Meh
fathe
Marie Stam
$
Teaching in louisiana
Miss Augusta Donne
ThOmasvile
Haddon connected father Dnnel IN the johns
in sippi e
MI MrsD
Mrs B. L. :. . I
Miey who are visiting here left on Mission
this week for Pickett Rankin MIS- j. D. Mupmee recently re-
reativesNewton Coeene
which occurred September 18th
delightful in the at that place we extend heartie
of H. sympathy TO Mulhee III he
Shields, L. bereavement.
Bridges :.
home again Home v
r. Vicks- 0
and Mrs T. s Roberts
named va" III
Nell, of Mr. Mrs w. lof uays Vslt VIII lle
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

w. L. Runnels has been Ill at his
home in this city for the past few
days. We wish for him a speedy
recovery.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

Mrs. Percy Clifton, of Jackson,
spent several days recently as a
guest in the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Z. Gayden, during
the absence of Mr. Clifton who was
on a business trip to the delta.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

Misses Ruth and Margaret Shields
who are attending Belhaven College,
Jackson, spent the week end in the
home of their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. M. Shields.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

Hugh McCaskill returned to Can
ton Monday.
Mrs. Louis May was Jackson
visitor Monday.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-10-04

Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Wells, of
Clinton, are moving to Brandon, and
will be domiciled at the home of
Mrs Wells parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. +. Owens
Evening star., 1923-09-15
DAY OF C0MMUTER.
Larger Cities Lose Population as
Suburbs Grow.
From, the Louisville Courier-JournaI

From the LOpiHNlltS IOuElef-JOufHhi.
London, Paris and New York are
decreasing in population, literally and
by thousands. The greatest cities of
the world are becoming smaller in
point OF population, and the same
trend is expectedsin other cities. And,
strange as it may seem, the city Off
cials in each case are jubilant.
This is going on simultaneously
with a tremendous exodus from the
farms. In the United States negroes
are leaving the southern plantations
in droves. and going to the cities.
Farmers sons and daughters are
seeking theiE fortunes in the iiarger
centerss < And birth control lis far
from a success. -
Then why the contradiction? The
answer is not far to seek. This is the
of the suburbs. This is the day when
bungalows are usurping the place of
daisies and wildhowers in the fields.
Paris with its suburbs has shown
New York are larger than ever. Only
the city proper in each case has
shown decreases. In 1911 the popGla-
tion of Paris was 2,88S, 600; in 1921 1t
was around 2.50G.000. In 1921 the
population of London proper was A.
sci. .6S5, OF, 10000 fewer than in 1911,
though Greater London in the same
period jumped from 6,500,00O to T.
100000. New York proper declined
from 2,2S4.103 in 1920 to 2,2T1.S92 in
1929. while Greater New York's 1920
census showed a population of g.
OO0.Q09.
The development of swift transpor-
+ation facilities has accounted for this
movement to the country, that and the
Increase in value of the city property
and the call of the fields
Evening star., 1923-09-15
Easily Explained.

From the Baltimore News
A New Yorker visiting English
friends was lamenting leaving at
home two beautiful daughters who
were just budding into womanhood.
Turning to a man to whom he had
lust been introduced. he asked II he
had any family. -,
ayes, have a wife and six chill
dren in Australia. And I never saw
one of them" he added, quietly
The two sat In silence. Then the
Interrogation began. a.
Were you ever blind, may ask r.
said the American.
mo" was the reply.
"Did you marry a widow?',
fNo." Another silence.
"Did I understand you to say you
had a wife and six children living
in Australia and had never seen one
of them?" :
.'Yes, that is how stated It,"
Then, the American inquired: How
can that be? You say you never saw
one of them. / do not understand 1t
at ALL
because" was the reply. zone of
them was born after left"
Evening star., 1923-09-15
|. C.. C. TURNS DOWN
RATE RESTRICTIONS
Changes in Present Freight
Charges for Cotton Are Held
to Be UnjuStified.

Proposed restrictions in transit
privileges on cotton and cotton linters
at Atlanta, Athens, Elberton and
Winder. Ga, have been found justi-
fed by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. Announcement of the COM
missions decision, made today, added
that the schedules proposing to in
woke the restrictions had been or
dered cancelled.
Other Roads Supported Plea.
The proposed schedule restrictions
were filed by the Seaboari air line,
but, according to the commissions
record had the support of half
dozen other carriers handling cotton
shipments.
The Seaboard argued, in support of
its contentious, that the Louisville
and Nashville anu the other inter-
secting lines had threatened cancel
iation OF joint rates on the com
modities involved unless the privi-
lege permitting concentration at the
four cities named was abandoned.
The commission said, however, that
1t found no reason for cancellation
of the joint rates and ordered them
continued.
THE transit arrangement main
the other points are not exceptional
or unusual" the commissions opinion
said. Many other carriers in this
territory have similar arrangements,
and their connections participate in
the through rates.
Rates Held Reasonable.
1--WE are of the opinion that the
present joint rates on cotton from
points on the lines of the Louisville
and Nashville, Alabama and Vicks-
burg, Illinois Central, Yazoo and His
sissippi Valley and the Southern rail-
way to points in the southwestern,
Carolina and eastern territories, with
concentration in transit at Atlanta
Athens, Elberton and Winder, have
not been shown to be less than rea-
sonable rates or otherwise unlawful
"The carrier has not justified the
cancellation of the concentration in
transit of cotton at these four points,
and the Louisville and Nashville and
the other lines are not justified In re-
fusing to participate in such joint
rates when Shipments are stopped at
Atlanta, Athens, Elberton and Winder
for concentration"
Evening star., 1923-09-15
THACKERAY AND BUNYAN.
.ew York EvenInr Post.

From the New York Evening Post.
Apropos of ignorance in high places,
the president of Magdalen College,
Sir Herbert Warren, told an interest
ing story of Thackeray at the uni
yersity extension inaugural meeting
at oxford.
"Thackeray," said Sir Herbert, zap
peared in Oxford In various capaci--
ties, once as political candidate,eand
on another occasion as a lecturer on.
"The Four Georges" He. applied to-,
the then vice chancellor, DIR. Plump
tire, master of university, who figures
in ''Verdant Green as F. p, for per-
mission to lecture. and the following
conversation took place:
who are you? asked Plumptre..-
"Thackeray replied: I am an au-
thor think / am fairly well
known
O. viii you tell me the names of
some of your works?' said the Vice
chancellor.
We'll said. Thackeray, Il think on
the whole the work of mine which is
best known is Vanity Fair
7 "'Oh,' replied, DR.. Plumptre, j seem
somehow to connect that with the
name of .Bunyann " s-;
However, the vice chancellor was
sufficiently satisfied to allow Thack-
cray to deliver his lectures.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET.

CHICAGO, September Is Omitted
States Department of Agriculture).-
Hogs-Receipts, 5000 head; mostly
steady; best lights weak to 10 lower;
bulk good and choice, $50 to 230 lbs.
average, 9.05a9.25: practical top. 925;
short lead, $50; desirable 240 to $40
ID. butchers, 8.60a9.0O; packing sows.
7.50aI75; estimated holdover, 5000
head.
Cattle-Receipts, 1000 head compar-
ed week ago native beef steers, ex-
cept strictly choice weighty kind, so
cents higher; yearlings, 50a75 cents
higher; spots, more top matured
steers, 1895; best yearlings, 1875;
new top for year; best heifers, Ills;
fat she stock, 25a50 higher: Gamers
and cutters, 25 higher; bulls, SO
higher; vealers, 1.00a1.50 higher;
stockers and feeders, steady to
strong; bulk prices follow; Fat native
steers, 9.15a11.35; butcher cows and
heifers, 4.35a8.75; Gamers and cutters
2.75a3.40 vealers, 12.25a12.75;7 stockers
and feeders, 5.75a7.65
Sheep-Rceipts, 1000 head; today's
receipts mostly native lambs; market
generally steady; best. 1880 for week;
estern lambs, $40. doubles; compared
week ago, all classes unevenly higher;
fat lambs, mostly; 1.50; culls, 1.0Oa
]. so; feeding lambs, 40a5O fat year
lings, LOO; fat aged stock, 25a50;
feeders, 14.00; bulk prices follow !:
Natives. .13.00a14.25; Gull, natives, 9.5O
a1O.5O; yearlings, 10.00a11.50; fat
Wethers, 7.75aS.75 Tat ewes, s.. .50a6.75;
feeding lambs, 13.25a14.00.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
COTTON ADVANCES
At LIVELY RATE
Saturday Session Marked by
Further Gains in Near
Month. Quotations.
BY GEORGE DE WITT MouLsoN.


Special Dispatch to The star
NEW YORK. September 15.-Steadi-
ness in cotton continued as a direct
result of strength in Liverpool. where
near months advanced sharply again
today. ts 49,
So little cotton is stored in Liver
pool and foreign stocks have fallen
to such small proportions that mills
are obliged to pay extreme prices for
whatever raw material is needed.
This has reduced the floating supply
of contracts so that very little buy
ing is necessary to maintain prices.
The rise abroad caused another
opening advance here and in New
Orleans similar to that Of yesterday
January in New Orleans jumped 40
points, with December here back to
27.62, the high level made on Friday
This recovery again encountered cot
ton, large blocks of October being for
sale at 27s5 and quantity of De-
ceinber at 27.s0.
Today Cotton Quotations.
NEW YORK, September 15.-Cotton
futures opened steady October, 1880;
December. 27.55; January, 2f16:
March, 27.05; May, 27.05.
NEW ORLEANS, September 15.-
Cotton futures opened steady; Octo-
Der. 2712; December, 271O; January,
27.00 March, 1880; May, 1855. An ad-
vance of 38 to. 40 points was made by
cotton in the first half of the session
today, on buying encouraged by the
further rains in Oklahoma and Ar
kansas and fear that they would ex-
tend down into more southern por-
Ifons of the belt.
NEW YORK, September 15.-Cotton
Spot quiet; middling $3.50. Futures
closed firm: October. 27.90a2792;; De-
cember, 27.60a27.65; January, 2I20a
1928; March. 227.10; May, 270O.
NEW ORLEANS, September 49,
Cotton futures closed steady at net
gains. of % to 81 points October,
27.12a27.16; December, 2705a2712;
January, 26.s5a26.991: March, 26.SOa
1856; May. 1858. .26.677. -..--. .--z..--s-:
Spot cotton quiet and unchanged.
Sales on the spot, 6S; to arrive, so;
low middling, $3.50; middling, 27.5g;
good middling, $500.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
PRICES BREAK SHARPLY.
Industrials Get Worst of Vicious
Attacks by Bears.
ny STUART p. WEST.

Special BispAtch TO Thesstar.
NEW YORK. September 15.-Heavy
selling broke out again today on the
stock exchange, carrying prices down
sharply, in some instances close to
the August lows.
The pressure was confined almost
wholly to the industrials and was
largely the result of professional bear
attacks, directed against a umber> or
leaders. United States Steel drop
ped below 49, against its high above
90 a few days ago. Baldwin Loco
motive, getting down under 116, was
about points fram the Friday top.
Dupont fiuctuated rather freely and
as it got through 120 completed de-
cline of approximately 10 points from
its best price of the previous day.
MarIand OIL Especially Weak.
Corn Products, American Can. the
Pan Americans, Studebaker and United
States Industrial Alcohol all went well
below their bottom figures of Friday.
Marland Oil was actively dealt in at
its lowest prices for the year. Under
21, it was several points from its top
midway through the week.
Marland Oil fell to a new low in face
of the denial by the Marland president
of the report that his committee had
reduced the price of oil 10 to 20 cents
in the mid-continent territory. The
head of the company said that .Marland
has been buying crude oil from pro-
ducers at contract prices. which were
the average of market prices posted
by other companies, and that it has
been selling this crude under contract
on the same price basis.
Rather Quiet.
Little prominence was given the
shares of companies engaged in the
silk business-Mallinson. Kayser-but
further interest was shown in the ex-
pected opening of its fall unfinished
line by the former copcern. 1t is un-
derstood that on Monday Mallinson will
announce new prices. based upon con-
dtiOns which arose from the Japanese
disaster. and that these prices will be
especially favorable from the stand
point of profit and the ability of the
company to compete with other factors
in the trade. The silk TO be offered
was bought at prices considerably be-
low the present.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
HIS ART IS SIMPLICITY.
Marion Crawford's Fame as a Nov
elist Due to Reliability"
From the Kansas City Star.

rom Ihe hAnSdS 1lty star.
Marion Crawford, of course, looked
at his work from the very simplest
ground, writes Hugh -sWalpole in the
Yale Review He published once "a
treatise on the novel in which he
showed that this art. now elaborated
and sophisticated by the clever brains
of our day to its very furthest limits
was, for him, something that could
mot possibly be too simple. He was
a story-teller, first, last and all the
time, and he was a story teller, too, Of
the traveller kind, standing beside
Conrad. at least in this, that he had
no ambition but to make his readers
see, feel and hear the things that he
saw, felt and heard. And these same
things. unlike Conrad's, were often of
the very last ingenious naivete. 1t
was this same naivete that led the
critics to disregard so quickly any
thing that he had to say, and yet.
when he was not dealing with the
modern world, this simplicity had its
merits.
The Iliad and the Morse Sages are in
this fashion naive, and, although
Crawford could not of course, cap
ture anything of their magnificent
sweep of poetry and universal sym
bolism. he did succeed through the
very simplicity of his characters In
lending a certain heroic quality to
his tales. He had also in these stories
the great advantage of never at
tempting eruditioh. He never tried
to tell the story from the contern-
porary standpoint. He was rather as
a modern traveller sbout the world,
who, having seen with his own eyes
Rome and Sicily, the Arabian desert
and the haunted palaces of Madrid,
imagines for his own satisfaction and
pleasure some picture of moving
figures and swiftly passing event4
that it pleases him to tell to those
who, simple like himself, wish tS
listen He pretends to nothing, and
this very honesty, which has. been
found by so many clever readers too
childlike to be borne, is for others
something of a relief after the deep
erudition and sparkling brightness Of
mora brilliant writer's
Evening star., 1923-09-15
Cuban Bonds Rally.
SUGAR DUE FOR DROP,
BIG REFINER PREDICTS
Special Dispatch TO The Star,


NEW YORK, September 15.-It is
questionable whether the present
competitive demand for raw sugar
and the rising prices will continue
for the next thirty days, as many
believe. says the Federal Sugar Re-
fining Company in it's review of the
industry. which points out that it is
doubtful If refiners and the trade
will care to replenish supplies beyond
their ordinary Immediate needs. The
rapid advance, the review states, has
been due to keen competition among
reflners for supplies to arrive in
September and early October.
There were about $4,000 tons of
exportable sugar in Cuba on Septem-
ber 1, reports Federal, allowing for
normal homie consumption. This will
have to be shipped at the rate Of
about $4,000 tons a week in order to
dispose of the supply before. the COM
mencement of the next crop. This
average was exceeded last year dur
ing the same period and the stock on
this island was comparatively equal
to that of this year at this date.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
SUPERSTITION IN RUSSIA.
Peasants Employ Formulae of Dark
Ages in Treatment of Sick.

From the Kansas City Star.
In the Volga government of soviet
Russia the peasants lay people sick
with the fever In the snow naked, so
that "the cold wind can blow away
the heat" Prayers and pious formu-
lac are constantly resorted to- =
An exorcism is written upon a card
and hung around the patients neck
and he Is not permitted to eat or drink
anything for three days, in order that
he may experience the full healing
effect of this charm. If he does not
recover, then his family and relatives
beat him with clubs, brooms and any
thing they can lay their hands on, in
order to "chase out the DEVIL"
+ In many cases the sick man is
hitched to a plow, and. after he has
pIowed a while he is put in a Russian
vapor bath and later massaged with
petroleum and tar-usually until he
dies. Little children are rolled in
dough and put in hot vapor baths,
under the impression that this pre-
caution makes it easier for them to
of cholera is to bury alive in the
yard dogs, hogs or poultry.
Lynch law Is constantly practiced,
especially in the famine districts In
some cases a victim of village justice
is tied behind a wagon and dragged
through the streets for hours.
While the soviet government is en-
ergettcally combating such brutality
and superstitions, 1t simultaneously
encourages them by its hostility to
religion and studied contempt for the
church.
ff
Evening star., 1923-09-15
A Bit of Logic.
,hr,ob NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

pittsburgh Chronicie-Telegraph.
You know the tale of the social
ist who lectured in a village and
said the land ought to be divided up.
THE villagers adjourned to the
"pub" One man said he would have
this field, another that. One said
he would have a certain field of the
soufre's because it was 'fbest for
growinf{ 'taties in" Finally they
9otfced an old codger who had been
sitting in a corner taking no part
IN the talk. The man who had
chosen the potato field said, '"Why
don't you speak oop, Tom? Didn't
tha' goa to t lecturer"
"Ay." ~ "
AN dostna' believe in 't?'' Ft{
asOh, yes, a b'faeva in ~
'eThen why dost tha' not speak o6p
for thy share?"
Toh," said the old fellow "A'm
not goin' T. work ma socialism that
road"
aSDick, dldstna say that ha' that
field o. t. sduire's cos it growed t.
best 'taties?' 80 z
cay" &
-And didn't tha' say tha'd pay T.
squire nowt for it?"
@WelI, I'll come and gather t 'taties
and pay thee nowt forem.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
DAIRY MARKETS.

BALTIMORE. Md. September Is (Spe-
ciaD.-Live poultry-Spring chickens,
lb.. 25a30; Leghorns. 22a25; old hens,
20a2S; Leghorns, 20a22; old roosters,
16a17; ducks, 17a23; pigeons, pair, 25;
guinea fowl, each. 4ea60.
Eggs-Loss off, native and nearby
firsts, doz.. 3s; southern, 35.
Butter-Creamery, good to fancy,
h., 45a4S; prints, 4Sa50: nearby
creamery, isaac: ladies', 34a35; rolls,
S1a33; store packed, 81; dairy prints,
31a33; process butter, 3SaS9.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
81 the Associa Ted Press.

NEW. YORK, September 15.-For-
eign exchange irregular. Quotations
Tin United States dollars): Great Brit
tain, demand, 4.54; cables, 454A
sixty day bills on banks, 4.51A
France, demand, .o5s61k; cables, .0587.
Italy, demand, .04431s: cables, .0444.
Belgium, demand, .04S6h cables, .0487.
Germany, demand, .000000001; cables,
.000000001 y. Holland, demand, 1890;
cables, 1892. Norway, demand, 1905;
mand. 1872; Switzerland, demand,
177S; Spain, demand, .134B: Greece,
demand, .o18s; Poland, demand,
o00003A; Czechoslovakia, demand,
.030O;. Jugoslavia, demand, .0109; Aus
mand, ..0047A; Argentina, demand,
1890; Brazil, demand. .1012: Montreal,
demand, .97ss.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
CAR LOADINGS SLUMP.
Pennsy Traffic Drops on Account
of Labor Day.

PHILADELPHIA, September Is
Car loadings on the Pennsylvania
fell off considerably during the week
ended September s, according to
figures just issued by the company.
Loadings that week were 162,0S3,
against. 1S4,336 the week before
Officials of the road say that there is
no particular significance to the de-
cline. a large part of 1T being due to
the interruption in traffic movement
owing to Labor day. For the period
from january 1 to September load
ings on the Pennsylvania totaled
5,956,460, compared with 4,907,7O4 in
the corresponding period of 1922, an
increase of 21.36 per cent.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
Sc, 600, 900 [. & N. BOND
ISSUE GIVEN APPROVAL

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has approved an issue of s6,000,-
600 in equipment trust certificates by
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company. The issue will bear per
cent interest and will be sold at not
less than SO per cent of par. The
chase of equipment, costing $7,624, ,0O0
and including 1900 coal cars, 81 pas
senger coaches and Sc locomotives.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
WORLDS DEEPEST IRON
BEGUN IN MICHIGAN
speciaI Dispatch to The. Star.

Special Dispatch to The STAR
BESSEMER, Mich, September 15.--
Work now Is in progress on what will
be the deepest iron mine In the world.
Fifty men day are working on the
shaft of the Geneva mine Of the Oliver
Mining Company, United States Steel
subsidiary, which now is 400 feet deep
the next two and a half years Owing
to the hardness of the formation only
five feet day can be sunk.