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~ W.~S. MAY, Editor.
Entered at Brandon, Miss., postoffice as
second class mail matter.
Chas. Garner, a negro, was tried
before Justice Corley Tuesday on £
charge of bigamy and was bound ovei
to Circuit court under a bond of $500
Two oilier cases were put off unti
Saturday.
Col. J. R. Binford, a gallant old cor
federate soldier, Duck Hill, Miss., w£5
the author of the separate coach la\\
for whites and blacks, which is nov
the law in every southern states
Mississippi has always led in meas
urcs dealing with race question®.
There are now serious indication?
I that the projected railroad from Me
t ridian to Natchez will be built. And
the News predicts that it will not be
many years until a line will be con
strutted from Jackson up Pearl River
valley, North Eastwardly.
Senator A. J. McLaurin has asked
thatthe government appropriation for
fighting the boll weevil pest be in
creased to $400,000, and while trying
to benefit cotton raisers in that way,
he is also doing missionary work for
Mississippi cane syrup, by telling of
its merits to Northern friends. He
was reared on the farm and is the
farmers friend.
By direction of President Roose
velt the name of Ex-President Jeffer
son Davis is to be restored upon the
tablet of “Cabin John Bridge,” six
miles West of Washington; it hav
ing been chiseled off duringLineoln’s
administration, although the bridge
was begun during Davis’ term of Sec
retary of War.
The trial of the Coopers, and Ex
Sheriff John D. Sharp, for the killing
of Senator Carmack is now on at
Nashville and tlie dailies are filled
with the testimony of witnesses, but
fl’iere is no telling what that jury will
do. With all the defects of Missis
sippi’s law in regard to juries, the
members must be able to read and
write and to be qualified electors.
TARIFF ON LUMBER.
The lumber manufacturers of Mis
sissippiare working strenously against
the repeal of that section of the tariff
which protects lumber with a duty of
$2 per thousand feet. It is doubt
ful whether they would makee money
milling if the duty was taken off, and
they have same right to protection
that other commodities enjoy. The
Texan is against free wool and hides,
the Alabama mining towns want
protection on the output of their
mines and blast furnaces, and Louis
iana demands that the tariff on sug
ar to be let alone. It is the same old
cry all along the line, the producers
and manufacturers wanting tariff du
ties in their own lines of business
and people not directly interested de
siring free trade competition. Gen
eral Hancock said, “the tariff was lar
gely a local question,” and it seems
to the writer that until there is free
trade that one industry is as much
entitled to the benefits of protection
as another.
NEGRO APPOINTMENTS.
If President-Elect Taft does what
is alleged he stated he would do
when he became the chief ruler of
this nation, “that he would not ap
point negroes to office where objec
tions weremade/’then he will do more
lasting good to the race than any
thing that has been done so far by
any man.
The mistake was made in giving
them the ballot as soon as they were
freed, instead of having them prove
th ‘y were fitted to exercise 'the right
of taktUg a citizens part in the gov
ernment 6f this country.* It is not
the belief of the writer, that even
with the best of training that over
ten per cent, today, 44 years after
the war, would be entitled to vote,
and now, after running wild, as
they have, not one in 500 measures
up to the requirements that should
be the standard of measurements for
a man who should have that right.
The people of the North have never
treated the negro with justice. Be
ginning with the trading of beads
and whiskey to African Kings for
black slaves which they sold to the
Southern planter for gold; the free
ing of them before they served long
enough for their own good, not be
cause of any qualms of conscience
and that the Puritan should free
the man he himself had sold into
bondage, but because he was envious
of the Southern mans’ prosperity; but
the crowning act of the yankees hate
«of the South, and his greatest crime
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to the black - man, was when he ves
ted in him the right to full Ameri
can citizenship.
The negro, a cannibal savage, in
his native land, is now here as a
spoiled child, vicious by nature, made
worse by the wrong sort of education,
whpse short comings have been too
long excused “because he was a
nigger," must be made to understand
that he shall be law abiidng, Indus
• trious, self supporting, and that the
■ white man will rule this country with
out any assistance from him. Taft
I will do the right thing if he gives it
out from the commencement of his
term that the negro will not hold fed
eral office, and it would be doing th; t
L’ which some Northener should take de
light in as his people are to blame
for the conditions of today.
’ 'The Bilcxi Creole don’t want to
pay street taxes, or work the streets
of that pretty little city, and at a
mass meeting some days ago 157
i signed all agreements that they
would go to jail before they would
pay $3.00 tax, or work the six days,
something that every town in the
State exacts of each male citizen
between certain ages, but then Bi
loxi’s population is “deeferant” from
any other town in the State, with
many foreign ideas in their heads.
At a public meeting at the court
house in Scranton, Miss., on Tues
day, of the contributors to the Mis
sissippi Battle ship fund from the
towns of Scranton, Pasagoula and
j Moss Point it was ascertained that
the three towns had given $894.00 to
wards the purchase of the Silver Ser
vice and that about $350 of that sum
had been forwarded to Ex-Governor
J. K. Vardaman before the creation
of the Battleship Commission by
the legislature;it was “resolved that
if that $350.00 had not been turned
over to the Commission that he be
requested to at once pay the same
j over to Mrs. Eunice Lockwood, or
return 4t to the contributors, to
the end that it might be used, as
intended, in the immediate purchase
of a battle ship service.”
MORE BLACKS THAN WHITES.
A compilation of the polls assessed
in 1908, which are now entered on th«
books of the auditor’s department,
shows some interesting and sugges
tive figures. The figures show that
there are forty-three counties in
which the white polls are in excess,
to thirty-five of those in which the
blacks predominate, though rthe pre
ponderance of blacks is all of the
delta and Western part of the State
and in the counties in which the
larger municipialties andthe industrial
plants are located is rather greater in
ratio tihan that of the whites in
the white sections.
In the total number of polls assess
ed Hinds leads, with 14,304, while
Pearl River brings up the taP-end,
with a total of 1,260, and although
small as the number is, the whites
just doubling the blacks with three
with three to spare.
The same coincidence of juxtaposi
tion in figures occurs in regard to
the poll figures for the counties of
Issaquena and Itawamba as is found
in the table of educable children, re-j
cently published, the white polls in j
i the little delta county numbering 172,
while the blacks numbering 2,331, the
proportion of excess being 13:5 per
cent. Itawamba on tne other hand
has a white poll assessment of 2,266,
to 164 of the blacks, or a ratio of
13.08 per cent.
The county having the highest num
ber of black polls is Washington,
with its excess of 9,458, while Pren
tiss has the largest white excess, or
4.022,the ratio of blacks to the whites
in Washington is 5.12 per cent, while
that of whites to blacks in Prentiss
is 5.36 per cent, in excess.
The racial division is more nearly
equal in Chicasaw, which has a
white assessment numbering 1,834 to
1,883 of the blacks, the black majority;
, being 49The only other country show
ing an excess under 100 is Jefferson
Davis, the black majority being 91.
Tishomingo has the highest per c^ht
of racial difference, with its 2,158
whites to 130 blacks, or 16.6 per cent.
BANK STATEMENTS.
The News desires to call attention
to the statement®, published ,in this
issue of Brandon’s two splendid
banks.
The Brandon Bank, now with three
j times it’s original capital and a good,
healthy surplus, the increase being
made out of it’s earnings after pay
ing 95 per cent dividends to its’
stock holders in 8 years of most suc
cessful banking, makes a splendid
showing.
The Rankin County Bank, organiz
ed just before the stringency in mon
ey matters occured a few years ago,
by careful, yet as liberal:treatment to
customers as sound banking woujd
warrant, 'has built up a magnificent
I Patronage and a careful examination
1 of it’s statement will show it to be
! solid, with an increase in deposits,
as well as in its volume of business.
1 Brandon is proud of it’s banking In
1 stitutions.
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NEWS NOTES.
Steamer Egypte was sunk by the
Andres off Grecian coast.
Dowager Queen Maria Pia, of
Portugal, is dangerously ill.
Anti-American agitation continues
in the newspapers of Spain.
One hundred lives were lost in a
blizzard in Southwest Russia.
Cuban colonels made a rough house
in a newspaper office In Havana.
Senator Marston addressed a boll
1 weevil convention at Gonzales.
* The funeral of Captain James A.
Wolf took place at Amite City.
The Ouachita Parish Sunday school
convention adjourned at Monroe.
Mexico will celebrate the cen
tenary of her independence in 1910.
The Senate spent mdst of the day
debating the Indian appropriation
bill.
Much opposition has developed to
creating an “under” Secretary of
State.
Earthquakes caused much excite
ment in the Department of Elche,
Spain.
Burglars at Shreveport secured
$1,000 concealed in a box in an Ital
ian’s store.
Washington is said to hold the key
to the success or failure of the Naval
Conference in London.
A movement was launched at
Amite City for the erection of a
modern school building.
The (house held a memorial session
oii Senators Allison and Latimer and
Congressman Wiley.
The German view is that the situ
ation in the Balkans is improving
rather than growing worse.
King Alfonso of Spain witnessed
the airship fligMts of the Wright
brothers at Pau, France.
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President Hardy, of the Mississippi
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
has recovered from a long illness.
President Roosevelt will make no
more important appointments during
the remainder of his administration.
Funeral services over remains of
Admiral Cotton were held in France.
Remains will be cremated and sent
home.
The diplomatic and consular, the
Military Academy and the rivers and
harbors appropriation bills were
passed by the House.
The Argentine steamer Presidente
Roeo was wrecked off the coast of
South America and over 200
lives lest.
The Senate Judiciary Committee
has censured President Roosevelt for
his action in the Steel Trust merger
case.
President Roosevelt prevented My
ron T. Herrick, of Ohio, and Senator
Iiemenway, of Indiana, from securing
appointments in Taft’s Cabinet.
The Czar of Russia attended the
funeral exercises over the body of
tJ3ie Grand Duke Vladimir at St Pe
tersburg.
French exporters are grmtly
alarmed over the prospects of a
tariff war between France and the
United States.
.
Coming week in Congress will be
marked by both houses putting on
final spurt, and appropriations bills
will be given right of way.
There was an uprising against ne
groes at Ottumwa, Iowa, following
series of crimes, and mobstthreatened
to break the jail. Principal suspect
was spirited away.
President Roosevelt has added an
other chapter to the secret service
squabble in a long letter to Senator
Hemenway, correcting mi statements
in bis report. He hits Congress an
other hard rap.
Czar Ferdinand in St. Petersburg
has forced recognition of his im
perial pretensions. Turkey address
! ed a note to the Powers last night,
! and all replied that they awaited the
j settlement of the negotiations before
- extetnding recognition. 5
Omaha experienced a day of mob
! rule, as result of murder of a police
man by a Greek. A score of build
ings occupied by Greeks werewrecked
and two boys were filled with bird
shot. One building was burned, but
but it is believed that all occupants
escaped.
FOR SALE.
At the depot next week—one ear
choice corn. Put in your order early
as this will be the last car and over
half spoken for. W. G. RUNGE.
PI am opening up an advance shipment of New White Goods this week consisting
of New Madras Piques, Linens, Mercerize Waistings, India and Persian Lawns,
Dimities, Laces, Embroideries, Ladies Neckwear, Suitings Percals, Ginghams,
Calicoes, Blaech and Brown Domestic, Sea Islands, Hickorys and other Dry Goods.
Our Plow Goods Department is also complete—Brindley, Avery, Blount, Daisy
and Middle Burster Plows, Traces, Hames, Single-Trees, Wagon Harness and
other like goods.
A car of Waterloo Milling Co's, Celebrated Monarch Flour came in this week.
We are selling it lower than we could buy another car for today.
Remember we are still swapping a Ton of Guano for a Ton of Cotton Seed. But
you will have to hurry.
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FANNIW,
Dr. Berry has maidle Several visits
out here to see Lute Lawrence, who
is very sick, although he is reported
some better at this writing.
Miss Matt Mchsurin, of Jackson, is
visiting in our neighborhood to the
delight of her many friends.
“Aunt” Jennie Williams, a faith
ful servant of H. T. Ellis, died after
one week’s injiense suffering.
Mrs, Dora McLaurin spent several
days in our midst last week transact
ing business.
Mr. Seymour is now occupying the
McLaurin home qn the farm.
Mrs. Louise Lee is now assisting
Hemby White in the-etore.
There is an effort being made for
the erection of a good substantial
fence around the Baptist grave yard,
and all who have dead ones buried
there should feel it their duty and
privilege to assist in the work.
Hugh Washburn, of Brandon, came
out Monday evening with his dogs,
12 in number, and took a hunt with
Hemby White.
Miss Flora Granberry, of Goshen
Springs, visited her sister Miss Bes
sie, last week.
Messrs Hemby White and Henry
Ellis with Misses Bessie and Flora
Granberry, spent Sunday at Pisgah,
visiting at the home of J. C. Rob
inson.
The youngest child of Joe Stever
son was called upon to pay the debt
of death last Sunday,and £hey have
the sympathy of the entire communit
A few of the young people “’storm
ed” the home of H. T. Ellis last
Friday night and were entertained
with music and the usual games of
amusements until 11 o’clock.
The entertainment given by Hemby
White was a delight to all present.
PEARSON..
Hail Sunday evening.
Spring-like weather. Plum trees
are in bloom.
Richland Creek could not be* cross
ed a few days last week.
Improvements are still going on
in our little town. The school house
came in for its share last week
getting some very badly needed re
pairs.
Mrs. Bettie Saunders is visiting rel
atives in Jackson.
Mr. and Mrs. Kicks, of Jackson,
spent several days in our town last
week.
D. J. Puckett has sold his place
to D. P. Cameron, of Bclzona, Miss.
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Ludlow and
children were the &uest of Chas. Far
ish and family Sunday.
Will Findlay, of Byram, is visiting
his grandfather, Wm. Puckett.
Miss Florence Saunders visited in
Jackson Monday.
Messrs. W. C. Allen and D. H.
Holder, of Jackson, visited Chas. Par
ish Monday.
John and Henry Russell are back
at Pearson after a week’s stay. at
home in Jackson.
Rev. Brame, of the State* farm,
preached a fine sermon here Sunday
morning.
Sunday school was well attended
Sunday afternoon. %
Mrs Richey and daughter Helene,
of Jackson, spent several days with
Mrs. B. F. Stacy this past week.
PUCKETT.
We are having some spring weath
er now.
Hulon Burnham has had some real
sick children for the past week, but
glad to say that ’they are better now.
W. HL McLain has been a little in
disposed for the past week but Is bett
ter now.
R. L. Gates made a business trip
to Jackson a few days since.
Miss Aura Bott, who is attending
school here, visted her homefolks Sat
urday and Sunday.
Daniel Harvey and wife visited rel
atives at Joe last Saturday and Sun
day.
Joe Donnell and Miss Pokie Don
nell, of Johns, visited relatives here
Sunday.
Collie Polk has his new house
near completion and will soon move
in.
Tallie Mize and Miss Eva Purvis
visited Magee last Saturday and Sun
day.
Eddie Warren made a business trip
to D’Lo last Saturday.
I. P. Russell, of Dobson, was here
last week surveying land for the I
Puckett people.
Hugh Polk and Miss Alma Robin
son made a flying (trip to Magee last
Saturday.
The Puckett high school is ped
paring for a concert some time soon.
P. P. Polk made a business trip to
D’Lo a few days ago.
Some of the Joe people attended!
church here last Sunday.
There was preaching at the Bap
tist church last Sunday and quite a
crowd was present.
There will be preaching ait the Meth
odist church next Sunday. Let every
body come out to hear Bro. McClelan !
for he is a good preacher.O j
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
J. A. Spann Jr., to W. P. Ragan,
30 acres in section 29, township 6,
range 5 East.$3000.00
A. & V. railroad, to J. H. Collier,
40 acres, section 18, township: 4 North
range 5 East.$180.00
A. & V. railroad to G. W. Collier,'
80 acres, section 18, township 4,,
North, range 5 East.$360.00"
Martha Walker to Walter Taylor,*
30 acres, section 33, township 3,1
range 2 East. $92.!
J. L. Taylor and Maggie Taylor, to
Walter Taylor, 45 acres, section 33, |
township 3, range 2 East.. ..$317.22
• J. H. Collier and wife, to G. M. j
Collier and wife, 20 acres somewhere
in Rankin county.$100.00,
R. E. Greenwood and wife, to L. S.;
May, 120 acres in section 27,and 28.
township 5, range 3 East.. ..$1,309.0'
Thos. J. and Alma Morris, to S.
S. Butler, lots and lands in and near
Star.$1,200:00.
J. H and Stella Langhlin to John1
Carr, 77 acres, section 13 and 24, j
township 6, range 2 East.. .. $300.00
J. W. Payne and Nell Emanuel, ^oj
Jas. Ascher, 20 acres in section 13, j
township 5, range 1 East.. .. $2S3T.75j
A. EF. McLain and wife to W. W. j
Hodges and wife, land in section j
33, township 5, range 4 East.., $2000. j
F. A. Hobson to W. B. Collier, 1120,
acres in township 4, range 3
East. $4,650.00
W: C, Ellis to Miss Mattie Walker,
40f acres in section 28, township 3,
rangce 2 East.$400.00
W. H. Myers and wife to L. P.
Burnham, 80 acres, section 34, town
ship 4, range 4 East.$S00.00
Phi! Did lake to Edmon Beray, 40
acres in section 35, township 3, range
2 ISast.$"415.00
Andrew and Ella Harper ta Philj
DiidBake, 40 acres, section 35, town-i
ship 3, range 2 East.$331.50
Albert and Ardella Berry te E. F.
Muse, 32 acres in section 11, township
3,. range 2 East...$750.0
D. J. and W. C. Puckett to D. P.
Chmeron, land and lots in and near
Pearson.$1,100.00
S. S. and Josie Butler to Thos. J.
Morris, 79 acres, section 10;, township
2, range 2 East. »* ..$1,200.
COCKLE BUJRS.
Experiments recently made show
that the despised cockle bur yields
largely of oil and may become a
cultivated crop that will pay big re-i
turns.
The News is not advised as to the I
particular use, or uses such oil!
could be put to, and being optimistic, j
hopes the pessimistic brother is',
wrong who offer® to bet $10 against
a gallon of buttermilk, that if the de-|
mand is great enough in raising the;
mane and tall tangling bur, that in
less than5 year® the weed will have
the rust, the blight, the scab, the
wilts and be infested with 37 kinds
of bugs and weevils; and instead of
growing in fence corners, the middle
of the road and everywhere else not
wanted, that it will require splendid
soil, well prepared, and grown a la
approved plans worked out by gov
ernment demonstration farms.
LET THE TIMBER GO.
Suggestion is made that logged-off
lands unfit for agriculturture should
be taken possession of by the State,
or acquired by theState onsome equa
table principle, and used for the pur
pose of reforestation. There is a good
idea in this suggestion, but it may be
doubted whether it can be put into
execution and practice under our po
litical system. The politicians and
the officials, during the time neces
sary for the growth of the timber,
would cost the state many times more
than the timber would bee worth. It
is impossible under the systeem to
establish^ and maintain the rules of
forestation and reforestation per6ued
in various countries in Europe. With
us the main object would not be pro
tected and restoration of the forests,
but maintenance of a horde of official
at the gentral expense, and “pledges"
would be exacted for the purpose as
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mc.y uttvt: ueeu eiaaeu irom great
numbers of the legislature of Oregon,
by persons who want salaries raised
and number of offices increase. Are
not “the people” entitled —inquiry is
—to get what they want? And who
are the people save or expect those
who can force members of the legis
lature, as a condition of their elec
tion, to take pledges and to make
promises? The remainder of the peo
ple, the great body of them—are “not
in it”—whether it is one statement
or another. Logged-off lands unfit
for agriculture could be made of
value for growth of timber—as great
in value as eever. But our political
and official system will never permit
it, except at a cost to the general
body of taxpayers for support of polb
ticians and officials of far greater
aggregate sums that the timberwould
be worth. These results, however,
would be but some addition to the
price we gay for submission to “the
will of the pee-pul.” Yet it would
be better to let the timber go.—Port
land Oregonian.
In the Farmers’ Cooperative Demon
stration Work great stress is laid up
on a more thorough preparation of
the soil autumn, because in our
southern climate the frosts do not
penetrate the soils sufficiently to
open them and admit air. We must
therefore do by plowing in the fall
and by some winter cultivation w,hat
nature does in the colder North.
In the richest soils there is but lit
tle food ready prepared for the plant,
and nature’s plan is that this food
skall bes prepared more or less daily
by the section of the air, the moisture
in the soil, and the sun.
These three active forces causes
the food to he prepared so that, the
plant can be properly nourished. This
can not be done without plowing and
cultivating to admit the air, and tbe
earlier this work is commenced in the
fall the greater the effect it will have
upon the crop of the following sea
son.
The effect of using good seed is
not sufficiently appreciated, nor per
haps it is understood just what makes
good seed. It must be the best va
riety, carefully selected early in the'
fall and stored in a dry place.
Young plants require excellent cul
tivation, just as young animals re
quire the best food and care.
The judicious use of' commercial
fertilizer is one of the most important
matters in modern agriculture, for
it furnishes plant food directly and
indirectly to the young plants.
The most important factor relating
to the permanent fertility of the soil
is the abundant and judicious use
of all the animal and vegetable mat
ter that may be found on every farm,
such as barnyard manure, leaf mold,
and green crops. For soil building
we must largely depend upon barn
yard manure, the compost heap, and
leguminous plants, such as cow peas.
Tewanina, the Charllsle Indian run
ner, won the 20 mile Marathon foot
race in New Orleans,covering the dis
tance in 2 hours, 10 minutes and 54
seconds.