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' yV- ■ ’ / • , ' , Hi nSewsI _ *• • • * • f *Sjf -— — -—-r —~— ■■ ■ —-■ ~r~:- —r~rr~: zzz^zzz-i^ zzizzzzzzzz: BRANDON, RANKIN COUNTY, MISS., THURSDAY, JUNE 5,1902. * ____ •* -• '« wHmmm ■ v. We are offering special bargains in our men’s,youths and boys’ clothing. To reduce our large stock of mens, ladies, and boys shoes, for the next ten days we will offer them at the closest prices ever known. Especially fine value in Ladies, Misses and Childrens’ Low Quarters. Fine value in Mens’ Straw Hats. Large and well assorted line of Gold and Silver Shirts, at close prices. An elegant line of Gentlemen’s Neckwear, including all of the latest knots. The largest and most complete line of Gents’ Fur Hats, in all of the latest shapes and styles to be found anywhere. ♦ Taylor..& Corny, Brandon, Miss. * . * * * ' * ABOUT MONEY. A Quaint Old Essay Written In The Year 1792. The following curious old essay, writ ten by M. G. Sapbier in Germany, in 1795, is worth reading now. when money seems to be the god of so many people: ^ The world is divided into two kinds pf human beings—those who have mon ey and those who have none, But the latter are notdiuman beings at all; they are either devils; namely, poor devils or angels of patience. Without money, without teeth and without a wife we come into this world. What then have we accomplished in this world? We have made money, cut teeth and taken unto ourselves wives. Glorious des tiny! There are fevers, pains and sut feriugs of all kinds attenant upon the getting of teeth and wives, and when one * -"have them they hurt the whole year round, and often the best one can do is to have them extracted. leein arid wives come to you without your doing, and, unless carefully treated, they are liable to decay. But money does not come without your doing, and f ( often a man leaves this world without having had money. It would interest ing to hear the reply of such a person when asked on the other side: “What ^ , did you do in the world?” Who has money? The rich people. That is a misfortuue! If poor people only had money, then we should see what poor devils them rich fellows are. It is no art to be rich, when one has much money, and it is no merit to be poor when one has none. .What is .money? Money is a goodly H lump which the Lord God attaches to insignficant people,so as not to lose Right E of them in bis creation—as a good house keeper puts a big label on a little key. What is money? Money is a figure which gains in importance as there is a }S| cipher attached to it. What is money? Money is a metal f||^el under the boots of little people to i*^them appear as tall as others. mt is money? Money is an indem* piich God gives to a certain num* persons on conditions that they Ey ill not make bold to acquire any such df as intellect or genius. ■ What is money? Money is the accent E-,4> upon the letter which would else ■L is money? Money is the mys Pous essence of a being which defines %Jpo in the following words: ‘‘If I ..JBKnot what I have I should not bavej Jiut wbat is no rponey? No raoney4s aj ,;u' thing of which all empty are fiiled or full. No money is the alibi of a being which should testify to our presence in this world. No money is a cisease ag gravated by the continuous obstruction of fortune. No money is a gentle invita tion of nature.to incur debts, and per mtorv command not to pay them. No 1 money is au irresistible inclination to melancholy on the part of our purse, caused by hopeless love to an unattain able object. No money the exposition of no money at all; a proposition in abstract philosophy; a lit position for a minister of finance and a happy disposi tion for platonic love. No money is a vulgar balled w hich common people sing aloud on the streets, but the more refined only bum between their lips within doors. No money is the wasch-word of extreme radicalism add the art of making oneself popular at a low price. Alas: \vnat is man without money: A twice-told anecdote, a song without a tuue, a lost poodle without an honest finder, a last year’s calendar, etc. With out money uojprince can reign, no min ister can minister, no general can make war, no painter can paint; no farmer can till the field, only the bards and poets sing and make verses without money—and the even mu3e—how to get some. NEW FANGLE COTTON GIN. J. M. Brosius of Jackson, Tenn., has invented a eotton gin which, if succes sful, will revolutionize the cotton grow ing industry. It has no saws. The cot ton is prepared for ginning in advance, the cost of this preparation being very slight. The gin removes the lint from the seed, leaving the hulls as bare al most as a shelled peanut. The stable is not cut by tbe saws and is therefore much longer than that ginned in the old way. A sample of ordinary cotton ginned by Mr. Brosius was mistaken for sea island by an experienced cotton man. It is estimated that cotton gin ned on the new machine will sell from one to two cents higher than from the ordinary gin. This will mean an in crease of nearly $50,000,000 a year in raw cotton. A Terrible Explosion “Of a'gasoline stove burned a lady here frightfully,” writes N. E. Palmer, of Kirkman, la. ‘‘The best doctors couldn’t heal the running sore that followed, but Bucklen’s Arnica Salve entirely; cured her.” Infallibleior Cuts, Corns, Sores, Boils, Bruises, Skin Diseases and Piles, i 25c at A. G. Thornton, A. L. D. Rhodes of Pelahatchie, A. C. Norman of dUo. | BOARD OF SUPERVIRORS. Board of supervisors of Bank in county met in regular monthly session in the chancery clerk’s office Monday morning, with all members and officers present. The following business was transacted to-wit: A. C. Long and W. H. Burn, who were appointed at the last meeting to view and lay out new public road, re ported favorably, and their report was received and approved by the board. Ordered that J. B. Byrd be appoin ted overseer of road No. 24, beat 1. Ordered that the^following accounts be allowed: Geo. D. Barnard and Oo., stationery for sheriff’s office, $13.45. Geo. D. Banrard and Co., stationery for superintendent’s office, $23.75. Geo. D. Barnard and Co., stationery for treasurer’s office, $17.50. Geo. D. Barnard and Co., stationery for chancery clerk, 65c. Geo. D. Barnard and Co. .stationery for chancery clerk, $15.25. Walker, Evans and Cogswell, laud assessment roll, $9.50. L. P. Burnham, lumber for bridge, $3.15. W. S. Crook, sheriff, cost in case of Ritchie, $18.45. W. S. Crook, sheriff, cost in case of Jack Lipscomb, $15.50. G. W. White, clerk, cost in case of Jack Lipscomb, $1.65. J. F. Ratliff, building bridge, $197.50. L. B. McKay, building bridge over Funnyguslia, $25. J. R. Jones, repairs to bridge, $15. L. A. Comfort, wages as manager county farm, $22.50. E. A. Comfort, wages laborer county farm, $12.50. Oliver Billingslea, lumber for bridge, $3.15. “x Dr. T. T. Robinson, 33 vaccina tions, $6.60. Roy Robinson, county tax refunded, $1.44. ! \V. H. Burn, constable costs statu tory, $18.50. P. H. Weimer, J. P., same $13.15. Dr. L. M. Clarke, six vaccinations, $1.20. W. S. Crook, sheriff, victualing prisoners, $1.80. Jt E. Singletary, state cost case C. J. Stubbs, $2. A. B. Stubblefield, one day inspect ing and receiving bridges, $2. J. F. Baker, three cfciys inspecting and receiving bridges, $6. A. B. Stubblefield, two milch cows for county farm, $50. Ordered that the appointment of J. T. Longmiro as deputy assessor for 1902, be approved, j Ordered that the petition of H. W. Kennedy et al for new public road, be dismissed. The appointment of P. B. Berry, W. B. Easterling, W. L. Manning, W. K. Easterling and S. D. Rhodes, by Rankin Camp, Confederate Veterans, as a board of inquiry of pension appli cants, was approved by the board. Following accounts were allowed: W. .S Crook, hand cuffs and leg irons, $1.15. Usual fees of members and officers were allowed. H. A. Busiek, supplies for Ed Max ley, $3. C. R. Cook, superintendent, salary for May, $50. ‘ Waddell and May, supplies for county farm, $28.55. Waddell and May, supplies for Sam Smith on county farm, $8.85. Same, supplies Jones on county farm, $18.30. Same, articles for lunatic, $1.35. Brandon News, stationery for sheriff, $2.50. Same, stationery for treasurer, $2.50. Same, stationery for chancery clerk, $4.50. Ordered that the application of trus tees township 7, range 5, to pay Min nie Lee Watts $30 for teaching Red Oak school one month be allowed and paid out of funds belonging to said township. Board adjourned to meet first Mon day in July. 1 "'■■■ .. t.. ALABAMA FARMER CRUCIFIED. A special from Huntsville, Ala., says that news reached Huntsville Monday night of a terrible outrage committed upon Tom Harless, a while farmer who lives {on the Esslinger place, .near Berkley. Harless had been plowing and was eating his din ner at a spring on the place when he was confronted by two strange men with pistols,'who demanded that he throw up his hands. The farmer’s pockets were then rifled of What money he had, $4, and the robbers then backed him up against a tree. The loose folds*of flesh on each side were pulled out and nailed to the tree with wire nails. His hands were stretched above his head and nailed to tlio tree and in this condi tion the naan remained until dark, when he was rescued by a farm hand. Nothing like this case has ever Jbecn heard of in Madison county before. Harless was literally cruoified and his sufferings wliile|nail ed to the tree were almost unendur able. His hands are ruined and he will probably not be able to work in several months., A WHOLESALE FRAUD. Martin, Miss., May 14.—Editor Revielle: I would advise the colored people throughout Claiborne county to look out for fakes again under the au spices of the National Industrial Council, which was held in the hall of representatives at Jackson, Miss., July 12, 1901. They claim a bill was introduced in the house of representa tives, in congress February 17th, 1902, to provide pensions for former slaves, etc. The same crowd who sold certi ficates to ignorant colored people two years ago, and were condemned by the authorities in Wasliintgon, are now go ing around asking for the old certifi cates to have a golden seal put on them, and that tile bill is passed and they must pay 10 cents and 25- cents a piece over again on the same old fraudulent certificates which are con demned by the government. E. E. CAGE. MRS. JULIA KENNON JAYNE. (From New Orleans Picayune.) Mrs. Julia Kennon Jayne, who died on the 22nd of May last, in Brandon, Miss., was, as a friend has just de scribed her, “a beautiful and charm ing lady of the olden days; a splen did example of a vanishing type, the ante-bellum gentlewoman. ’ ’ The dis tiCGMcn“aiid—charm of her manner gave unmistakabie^T08fjof_the nobil ity of her nature and the graclOHS^iS* fluence of her culture. She had been trained in that old school in which the traditions and intimate associa tions of a refined household counted for quite*as much as any course of for mal academic instruction. In the days of her youth there were few “blue stockings,’’ and the number of platform - orators was still smaller, among the. women of the sotith, but southern girls of the best families learned a pure and beautiful English from the lips of their mothers, and no pains were spared to inspire in them a general love for literature and art. The southern belle usually cultivated all the graces, but the sum of her ac complishments would have been ac counted fatally incomplete if it had not embraced a practical acquaintance with the fine art of cooking and all the ways and means of an abundant and delightful hospitality. Ah, how carefully they were protected against the ills of life, what sentiments of chivalry and romance were inspired by them, the young women of the old south. • These characteristic features of a by-gone era are recalled here because though other times have come with other maimers, and new ideals are in vogue, Mrs. Jayne’s career proves that the system of female education formerly prevalent here furnished no inadequate preparation for the trials and combats of a strenuous life. She was born on the first day of Januray, 1826, in the beautiful town of Tuscaloosa, Ala. Her father was the Rev. Dr. Robert Lewis Kennon, one of he most eloquent pulpit orators of his time. Her mother was Martha Bush, of Georgia, who, on the mater nal side, was a descendant of the il lustrious Fews family of ' that state. Dr. Kennon traced back to the Ken non and Lewises of Virginia. Mrs. Jayne enjoyed every educational ad vantage in her girlhood, and at an early age graduated at Tuscaloosa, from the academy known as the. Atlieneum. Shortly after he? fath er’s death, which occurred while he was still in his prime, the bereaved family removed to Mississipi. In Ran kin county of that state, at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Jos. McDowell, she was married to William M. Jayne, on Deb. 12, 1850. Mr. Jayne, who was then a planter, had graduated with the highest honors from Cent enary College, Louisiana. He was a very intellectual and scholarly man, epsecially remarkable for his genius for mathematics. Mrs. Jayne’s early married life was spent partly on her husband’s delta plantation, partly in Jackson and in a country home in the vicinity of that city. In 1858 Mr. Jayne purchased the bricky house in Brandon, which was Mrs. Jayne’s homd from that date until it was 4 burned last September. This house was probably the largest private , dwelling in Rankin county, and be came known to the Jayne family and their relatives and friends far and wide as the “Old Castle.” There the happy couple were living at the outbreak of the war of secession. Four of their children, Robert Ken non, Win. McAfee, Anselem Helm and Madison McAfee were born before the beginning of that struggle, and two, Julia Hamilton and Joseph Lee, were born in the midst of its conflicts and hardships. Mr. Jayne at an early date enlisted in the Mississippi regi ment, and served with the rank of captain. He was a brave and faith ful soldier, beloved and honored by all his comrades. At the close of the war, he returned to Brandon, and taught school there nearly two years. He had accepted a position which had been offered hm in a Texas institu ion, and had made every preparation for the removal of his family, when he was stricken with sudden and alto gether unexpected death. j Mrs. Jayne was thus lett a widow, with six young children to support, under circumstances of an apparently most unpropitiotis nature. Her oldest child was some 13 years of age, her youngest was 5. She had never in her life been compelled to enduro any se- , rious self-denial. In her beautiful and brilliant youth many Kuitors had 1 sought her hand, and she was one of tho recognized ornaments of an aristo- : cratic and cultured society. Before the war she lived in tho enjoyment : of abundant means, and at its com- i mencement found herself able to con- : tribute largely out of her own house- ; hold effects and possessions to the < comfort of the gallant men who had j gone to the front from her adopted ] state. And even after the war, with her strong, undaunted helpmeet at her { side, she might well have looked for- i ward to a future of comparative ease. ^ But now, her tower of strength fal len, and with no one left [to provide for here little brood but herself, Jliow 1 sadly changed was her outlook. She, , however, was not one of those to fait 1 * and faint when duty summons them < to travel a long and dreary road. In tho supreme crisis of her life her cour age rose equal to the occasion. Her children should not suffer. She would be their bread-winner and keep a home for them, weather-tight and free from debt. Nay, more— sho re eel gentlemen, as their father was, and her daughter should have all her mother’s accomplishments. And all of these things she did achieve. She secured a position in the Brandon Female Academy, and day after day, month after month, session after ses sion, she gave her strength to the teacher’s toilsome, often thankless, tasks. Then, when the school day’s work was over,, there remained house hold labors still to be discharged. One would fain dwell upon this his tory, treasuring up all details of the gentle woman’s unwavering heroism. There is on story of romance in which the steadfast endeavors of a brave heart appeals more irresistibly for sympathy and admiration. Her one great purpose achieved at Last, Mrs. Jayne was free to rest and mjoy the fruits of her labors, and it is pleasant to remember that for many Long years she lived once more a life Df repose, gathering her children and iear friends about her under her own roof, or visiting relatives and loved Dnes in distant states. She was fond 3f travels, but she was always glad to get back to the Old Castle. No 3iie can know how profoundly she felt the loss when that house was consrr»\4 3d last fall by fire. She only said:*^^ ‘ ‘I thank God that he has given me so M ?ood a home for forty-three ^years. ” I rhere was no repining—nothing but ] Christian resignation, accompanied * oj something of that invinciblo hop$*<i^M fulness which had distinguished^li^r in the greatest trial of her lpFe" It is lot necessary to add that she was not ifraid to die. Her faith probably had leve been shaken since she first gave ~' ler heart to God, and at the last it lid not forsake her. She had fought a ; ;ood fight, and henceforth there was aid up for her a crown of rejoicing. ■ For biliousness use Chamberlain’s stomach & Liver Tablets. They cleanse Ig he stomach and regulate the liver and jowels, eflscting a quick and permanent jure. For sale by A.*G. Thornton. M Great is Texas. Her vast cotton crops |J ind marvellous oil discoveries amaze the j