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THE BRANDON NEWS.
VOL. 16, NO. 5.
BRANDON. RANKIN COUNTY, MISS., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7,1907.
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CARD PROM LOGAN. .
Gives His Side of the Charge
Preferred Against Him.
To the Editor Brandon News—The
writer noticed an article in a reoent is
sue of the “News” with the head
lines “Three Living Wives” aDd
knowing that yon believe in fair play
and no favor, the writer begs to make
the following comment on this artiole
in whioh I seem to alternately figure
as the hero or stage villain according
to the whim of the talented reporter
who wrote it. In the beginning the ar
tiole contains more literary merit than
troth, in fact it reads more like a
page from Laura Jean Libby than a
plain statement of fact.
In the first place it is true I was
married to Eliza Pearson who bore
me four obildren all living. It is al
so true I deserted her, Who would not
desert an adulterous wife ? She sued
for divorce on grounds of desertion and
as she made no contention for the
costody of the children, I, of course
made no defense I allowed her to
retain the youngest boy not because
I thought it right but on account of
his tender years. The other three
boys Jesse, George and Oleve are with
me at this writing. It is entirely
on account of the boys having reached
an age of usefulness that my former
wife has endeavored, first to obtain
possession of them and failing in that,
perjured herselt to have me arrested
and failing in that brings a former
housekeeper and half-breed nigger as
sociate (please note the social charac
ter of this trio) and brings a second
charge against me equally as false
as the first and tnrew me into
jail and while in this helpless state
tried to steal my children, but fortu
natly the kindly interference of my
neighbors prevented this until my em
ployers and a responsible merchant of
Pelahatchie went on my bond, and
again restored me to my home and
children.
I hold no bitterness against these
individuals in Pelahatchie who enter
tained this trinity of conspirators,
they have no doubt been softened and
prejudiced by a woman’s tears and
statements of alleged wrongs, but I
feel it my duty to my present wife,
my ohildren, my neighbors and friends
to present my side of the case and to
that end I would kindly ask for space
in your valuable paper.
Yours very truly
T. H. Logan. •
GET THE CAIN IDEA.
How to Build or Not Build Up a
Town.
When Cain had killed off one-foarth
of the people on the earth—leaving
only three, then went into the land of
Nod and bnilded a city, it is evident
that be did not sit around like a bump
[ on a log, and growl about the Nod
' real estate and people. He was not
himself, perhaps, the most exemplary
of men, and if he had some reason to
emigrate from the land of his birth,
he did not mope and whine, but got
hold of a piece of ground and went to
work to do something. The man who
could build up a oity under Buch aus
pices is the kind of material we want
in this town; and we will not inquire
too minutely into his antecedents, so
that he takes hold like a man and De
good at last.
But wbat is more, Gain did not ad*
vise bis son to “go west, and get ont
of the old dead town ’ ’ He named the
city after him, believee in it worked
for it, bought his goods there and
kept his money at home. Does any
body suppose that when strangers
came to Enoch, (name of the etty)
with any notion of going into busi
ness thnre, Gain told them it was a
“dead old town," that it was estab
lished by a murderer, that the water
was bad; its merchants all sharks,
and its mechanics botches—that the
town was not healthy and would
rer amount to anything no how."
anybody suppose that when he
planted to invest a few dollars in dry
goods he hustled off to the city, or
that he only went to the merchants of
“Enoch" when he wanted a favor—
wanted “a little time?"
Do you think he ever went away
from home to get lumber that could
be bad at better rates in “Enoch"
than elsewhere, or Cincinnati for
cheap buggies when the “home manu
ifacturer" could meet every demand
(with more stylish and substantial
tigs?
Do you suppose he went moping
around about taxes being too high in
Enoch and no one there knowing any
thing about business? No sir. He
evidently wasn’t built that way. If
taxes were high, he got up and hus
sd to increase the value of property,
that there would be greater values
tax. He built houses and encour
;ed others to do so. If city lots got
too low he bought a dozen or two,
scattered here and there, for the
double purpose of personal profit and
strengthening values, On these he
put up'plenty of houses at reasonable
figures, good ones, too,so that when
any one oame to Enoch he did not
have to move into an old tumble-down
shanty or move on. He improved and
beautified every lot, kept the weeds
down and set out trees on the lots and
in front of them, even where he did
not build, thus adding to the value of
each lot and adjoining property as
well. He found that it did not take
so much money to run a comley, well
kept town as it did a dilapidated,
God-forsaken cne, and there were fonr
times the values on which to raise the
required money. That's the way he
lowered taxation not by sitting on a
stump and howling about it. If a
man wanted to run a faotory, or some
other enterprise, he was not afraid
the fellow wanted to make some mon
ey, but told him to “sail in and I’ll
help you all I can. ’ ’ A business that
does not make money is no good. We
want every legitimate business in
Enoch to make money, and piles of it.
Judge Truly's Speech.
Since the holiday season very little
has been heard of the candidates for
governor. In fact the early entbnsiasm
for this or that candidate seems to
have been killed by the first frost in
the fall. Even the country newspa
pers have had so little to say of late
abont the several distinguished aspi
rants that their readers over the state
would not know that a campaign was
going on in Mississippi.
The first account of a oondidate’s
speech of any importance appeared
last week in the Greenwood Enter
prise It pays the distinguished can
didate a magnifioent compliment and
is as follows:
“Judge Jeff Truly, one of the lead
ing candidates for governor, made a
two hour’s speech to the voters of Le
flore county at the oourt house last
Thursday afternoon. For real and
genuine eloquence his speech was far
superior to anything beard before in
the present campaign. It is generally
conceded that the judge is mentally
one of the ablest men of the state.
“The key note of bis matchless
speech was even and exact justice to
every section of the state. He showed
the great injustice done the school
children of certain localities by the
present system of distribution of the
school funds, and earnestly insisted
that a change in the same should be
made He showed the appalling ine
qualities in tax assessments and how
both the spirit and le of the law
demanding equality of taxation is
violated under the present system.
Everybody who heard him was con
vinced of the faot that some legal
remedies should be found that would
cure this injustice. The judge also
insisted most earnestly that the great
railroad systems of the state were not
paying their just share of taxation
and that if they should be assessed as
individuals are assessed that the tax
on land would be reduced by one-half.
He also devoted considerable time to
showing up the rebate system of rob
bery practiced by the railroads of this
state and pointed out a simple but
effective remedy therefor.
“The judge’s appeal for the south,
for our native southerner, was one of
the greatest oratorical efforts ever
heard in Greenwood. It is needless
to say that it went straight home with
every hearer.
The Judge’8 speech was a broad
statesmanlike one, and it is believed
that he made a very favorable im
pression. * ’
Office Hints.
Never send articles fox publication
without giving thy name, for tby
name often secures publication of a
worthless article.
Thou shouldst not rap at the door of
a printing office, for he that heareth
thee rap eneereth in his sleeves and
looseth time.
Thou shouldst never read the oopy
on the printer’s case or sharp and
hooked container thereof, or he may
knock you down.
Never inquire of the editor the
news, for behold it is his business to
give it to thee at the . appointed time
without asking for it*,
It is not right that thou should ask
him who is the author of an artiole,
for it is his duty to keep snob things
to himself.
When thou dost enter his offioe,
take heed of thyself that thou dost not
look at what may concern thee not,
that is not meet in the sight of
grod breeding.
Prefer thine own town paper to any
other, and if thou hast not already
done so, subscribe forjt immediately.
Pay for it in advance, and it will be
well with thee and thine.
PRY AT GREENWOOD.
Snowed Under in the Governor’s
Home Town.
The Hon. Henry P. Fry, hailing
from the classic city of Chattanooga,
Tenn., was booked to deliver a lec
ture at the opera honse in this city
last Monday night on “The Repeal of
the Fifteenth Amendment. ’ *
The coming of this famous lecturer
was advertised in the press of the oity
last week, and by hand-bills distri •
buted on the streets Monday, and it
was also announced in the newspaper
advertisements that Governor Varda
man would introduce the noted ‘‘mis
sionary* ’ on this oooasion!
Governor Vardaman oame up from
Jackson on the evening train to oarry
out his part of the program.
At the appointed hour Governor
Vardaman and Mr. Fry appeared at
the opra house, but the great audi
ende expected was not in evidence!
The reports vary as to the number
of people who actually wandered
around to the play-house to see what
was “doing ’’ One report has it that
one gentleman and his wife were the
only ones who entered the house and
took theii seats. Another is that,
the city marshal and opera house force
composed the audience! Still another
yeraion is that there were really from
five to seven people who meandered
aronnd, took a peep in and dnoked out
again and went away!
The * ‘frost’ ’ was so oomplete that
the Governor and his distinguished
lecturer friend forthwith oalled off
the lecture by returning to the hotel,
and the Chief Executive took the
early train next morning for Jackson
to look after his pressing official
duties and to meditate over the un
concern with which his home people
look upon the agitation of his new
hobby—the repeal of the Fifteenth
Amendment!
We understand that this was the
first of some fifteen or twenty lec
tures Mr. Fry had been booked to de
liver in Mississippi on the repeal of
the Fifteenth Amendment(now an im>
portant issue in the Senatorial raoe),
and that he was rather oauBtic in his
oritioism of our people for not mani
festing any interest in his effort to
lecture here on that subject, but The
Commonwealth feels confident he will
find the people elswhere in Mississippi
are taking about the same interest in
this question that was evidenced by
the oomplete “frost” he and the Gov
ernor run up against in Greenwood
—Greenwood Commonwealth,
An Editors Appeal.
My friend, help the editor in his
wild-eyed search for news. When your
friends come to see you, if you are
not ashamed of it, tell him; when
your wife gives a tea party if you have
recovered from the effects of the gos
sip drop in with the news, when a baby
arrives fill your pockets with oigars
and call; if you go to a party steal
some of the good times, and leave ’em
with the item in our sanctum If your
wife licks you come in and let us see
your soars and tender sympathy
through the paper; if your mother-in
law has died don’t be bashful about
it; give in all the commonplace news.
In short whatever makes you feel
proud, sad, lonesome or glad submit it
to our 24 karat wisdom aud see our
matted locks part and stand on end
with gratitude, which will pour from
every pore like moisture from the dew
be-sprinkled earth.
Appreciation.
Appreciation is one of the Christ
like emotions of the human heart. To
look at motives and not at results is
the right thing to do. How often the
best laid plans lead to failure. A
word of appreciation has led many a
discouraged heart to piok up the brok
en threads and weave them into a new
web after they had lain among tat
tered ideals for months or years. Kind
words bring memories that echo
through the years long after tne lips
that uttered them have crumbled to
dust. Children carry the memory of
words of appreciation 'with them
through childhood and often recall
them in old age when enveloped in
the shadows of life. They are like
the perfume of the violet that lifts its
head above the spring snows and
whispers to them of the sunshine.
Money cannot buy, intellect cannot
create so rare a gem as true kindness.
It is a heart product and needs the
tettderest oulture. It is killed by in
difference and enfeebled by negleot.
Business Houses at §tar Burn* <
A special from Florence to tne Pica
yune says: A fire ooouredat Star
Monday night at 1 o’oloojk. This is
tfef first station below here on the
Gulf and fillip Island Railroad, and a
prosperous town of some 800 or 400 in
habitants. Two business houses, with
their contents, were totally destroyed,
the stores of J. L Singletary & Oo. and
of E M. Odom, the fire originating in
the house of the former. Both parties
carried insurance . The estimated loss
of property is approximate $4,000.
The first quarterly conference of
the Methodist Ohuroh here was held
Saturday . Rev. Dr. Watkins, of Jack
son, the Presideing Elder and Secre
tary of the Mississippi Oonferenoe, was
present to preside, and filled the pulpit
Sunday at 11 o’clook.
Call for Representative.
Florenoe, Miss, Feb. 2—To the
Editor of The News: la your last
week’s issue we see that no one has
offered for representative from this
county. We, the undersigned, here
by solicit the Hon. A. G. Norrell, of
Florenoe, to submit his name to the
people, believing that it will redound
to the oredit of this oounty to have
suoh an able representative in the
state legislature. MANY VOTERS.
A Beautiful Tribute.
While Robert G. Ingersol made for
himself a legion of enemies by his at*
tacks npon Christianity, all mnst ad
mire his eloquence. No man in Ameii*
oa could more beautifully frame a
sentence, and his eloquent remarks at
the grave of his brother lead one to
doubt if the great infidel was half so
bad as his own words, at times, pictur
ed him to be. A man who uttered so
many beautiful things had but little
room in his heart for atheism with its
cold, revolting, heathenish teachings.
In a symposium on women, Col. Rob
ert Ingersol was asked to contribute
his views. He replied as follows:
“It takes a hundred men $o make an
enoampment, but one woman can
make a home. I not only admire
women as the most beautiful object
ever oreated, but I reverence her as
the redeemed glory of humanity, the
sanctuary of all virtues, the pledge of
all perfect qualities of heart and head.
It is because women are so much bet
ter than men that their faults are con
sidered greater. The one thing in this
world that is oonstant, the only peak
Hhat'rises above the clouds, the one
window iu which the light burns for
ever, the oue star that darkness cannot
quench, is woman’s love. It rises to
the greatest heights, it sinkB to the
lowest depths, it forgives the most
cruel injuries. A woman’s love is the
perfume of the earth. This is the
real love that subdues the earth; the
love that has wrought all miracles of
art; that gives us music all the way
from the cradle song to the grand
closing symphony that bears the soul
away on wings of fire. A love that is
greater than power, sweeter than life
and stronger than death.”
Only Five Months of Free Shool.
As is well known to the citizens of the
county, the tax levied for the maintain
ance of the public schools is insufficient to
to operate [the schools for the contem
plated six months. By comparison, we
find from the tax collector’s books that we
are realizing less from the one mill levy
than we did from the two mills of last
scholastic year.
By the first of February, in the year
1905*6, there had accrued to the school
fund from the levy that we then had
$5,535.60; this year, for an equal length
of time, we have only $4,711.21—a dif
ference of $824.39, and this difference will
probably be increased to $1,000 or more
by the close of the tax collecting season.
In addition to this shortage, we get
$709.10 less from the state than in former
distributions, to ^ay nothing of a falling
off of one hundred polls, which amounts
to about $200.
Summing it all up, our receipts are
$1,909.10 less this year than last year.
Owing to this shortage and the in
creased expenses of maintaining the
schools, we are forced to close the free
term of all the schools when five months
shall have been taught.
I hereby order the schools closed as per
above statement.
S. R. MYERS,
Superintendent of Education.
Declines to Run.
Brandon, Miss., Feb. 6.—Editor of
The News: 1 noticed in yonr last
issue a few lines oonceripng the en
couragement I was receiving to enter
the raoe for superintendent of educa
tion. I will say, that under the
oiroumstanoes, it will be impossible
for me to enter the raoe, though I have
received encouragement to that efleot.
I wish to thank The News for its com
plimentary remarks, and my friends
for their enoouragement. Thanking
you for this space, I am,
Tour friend,
THOMPSON WEBB.
Notice to Teachers.
1 am glad to announce the arrival
of the January distribution of the
•ohool fund. B. a MYERS.
A New
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DEPARTMENT.
In a few days we will have a
complete line of Optical Goods.
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COMPLETE LINE
We Mean What
We SAY...
We mean as complete a line of
Spectacles as you will find any
where, and we mean to handle
these Glasses on a close mar
gin. It is a well known fact that
jewelry stores make an enor
mous profit. We intend to
carry the same quality Glasses
and the same quality Frames
as you can find in the jewelry
stores, but we intend to sell
them right. We are going to
put in a line of Solid Gold
Jewelry, as well as filed and
plated goods, and we want you
to come around and see how
our new department looks.
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Blue Front Store.
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m Cut Prices
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All Stasonabli Gaods.
We offer our immense stock of this
season’s merchandise at a great sac
rifice. Any one holding tickets on
Phonographs may secure one by
February 1,1907 .. . .
Beginning January 19th and continuing through the
next few weeks we will offer our entire stock of the pres
ent season’s goods, such as Dress Goods, Mens’ and
Boys Clothing, Shoes, Ladies’ wraps, Mens’ and Ladies’
Hats at SPECIAL SACRIFICE PRICES.
This will give you an opportunity to secure some of the
best bargains that have ever been offered in the town of
Brandon. We expect, Within the next few days, to put
on display as much of our stock as possible, and have it
marked in plain figures, but we havn’t room in our store
to place everything out where it can be seen. So be
sure to bring a nice memorandum with you so that you
may be benefited by the bargains we will offer.
Now, while it is not our purpose to continue our
Phonograph deal^we have decided to give those who
hold coupons at present, an opportunity to secure a ma
chine provided they trade the required amount by Feb
ruary 1st. So if you have any coupons in your posses
sion and desire one of these Phonographs, we offer you
this opportunity to be benefitted in two ways.
Your friends,
Brandon Mratile Go.
Brandon, Mississipni.