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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1907
Page
2
John Williams Brotherton proclaims in Harper's Weekly that the Night comes soon and urges mankind to seize the hour. The poem contrasts sunlit hours with darker days and calls readers to wake, gird, and shape the instant, echoing a call to action across the wilderness.
Lady Borrodaile reports the loss of jewels worth thirty thousand pounds from a locked case. The Vigilant deduces an inside job, links the Makoda ruby to a Siamese prince attending a ball at Mrs Endover's, and notes the case was replaced with a near exact replica. The mystery deepens as the jewel thief may have planned the heist days before.
Lady Borrodaile learns of a staged scene by a thief and his Siamese accomplices to swap a ruby for a set of three unset diamonds. A warned pursuit would kill all involved. she hides with her jewels. Ten days later a note confirms the case returned intact with a gold duplicate key and three unset diamonds replacing the ruby.
Admiral Robly D Evans argues for smokeless fuels for naval ships citing smoke from coal stacks as a war signal and signaling interference. He favors exclusive control of coal deposits, estimates an $18 trillion cost, and contemplates coke as a possible smokeless alternative though uncertain heat output and cost. He rejects petroleum for war use but urges renewed government study.
The Polly parrot name came to the North with early flatboat men who floated grain to New Orleans. Parrots in French shop cages inspired Westerners to hear the French cry Pariez par lez meaning Speak speak, which the traders then carried home as Polly.
Arthur Staringer, returning to New York, relays capture and death of Jamaican out-law Joseph Gordon in Costa Rica on March 30 after he terrorized the eastern region, shot soldiers, and seized a United Fruit supply. Gordon died in Limon from wounds after ambush by Costa Rican forces. The account details a grim jail scene and Easter burial amid official ceremony.
A storyteller recalls Captain Zekiel describing sea-hoss sense as essential beyond education for navigating fog. He recounts guiding a frigate toward Portland by releasing phosphate fertilizer from the Polly Ann, creating a fog lane that led the captain to safety.
The article traces artificial eyes from early Egyptian artifacts of gold and silver to copper, ivory, and 16th century porcelain. It notes porcelain waned, glass became common, then enamel as the favored material. Makers stamped names on the eye white to advertise, a practice now unlikely to endear customers. The best samples appear strikingly real, sometimes masking actual vision and serving to avoid unsightly looks.
A reflective poem on temperance and social duty arguing that action matters more than prayer in aiding the hungry and needy. It decries licenses and taverns while urging readers to seek justice and charity as the true test at life’s end, credited to C. B. Besse in Home Herald.
The Churchman discusses Bishop McCormick on Pain and Sympathy. He links Weltschmerz to shared human sorrow and argues pain matures character. Pain, though stemming from sin, is reconciled with divine love. It becomes a means of purification and the guiding force toward Christlike sympathy.
A visitor who doubted Spurgeon’s preaching attends a Tabernacle sermon. After hearing the sermon, he can only praise the Savior presented by the preacher, saying he had no other praise but that spiritual focus. The tale ends with preaching praised through its central message, not the orator.
A sermon exhortation urges all Christians to be active as missionaries and to use talents wisely. It stresses accountability before God and warns against idleness, invoking the example of Jesus and the call to serve with diligence.
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