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Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-09-17
No Attempt Will Be Made to Revise
the Tariff.
WILL MAINTAIN HIS POSITION
On Trusts Will Insist on Recipro-
city With Cuba.

Oyster Bay, n. Y, Sept. le -
Senators Hanna, Spooner, Allison,
and Lodge and Postmaster General
Payne spent several hours with
President Roosevelt today, and dis
cussed with him the entire political
situation, having special reference to
the conditions in the western states,
which the president is to visit on his
approaching trip. The parties to the
conference were very reticent after
they returned from Sycamore Hill,
but it can be stated on reliable au-
thority that it was decided to make
no attempt to revise the tariff at the
coming session of congress; that the
president is to maintain his position
as to the trusts, and further that he
is to insist in his demand fer re-
ciprocity with Cuba. It is under
stood that he will fully outline his
policy regarding this latter question
| in some of the speeches he is to make
on his western trip.
1t also can be stated on excellent
authority that the coal strike was
not discussed.
The presidents purpose in having
this conference is to ascertain if
there had been any marked political
changes in the different sections of
the country during the past year.
The conference today, it is said,
showed there had been none.
'eThe conference was entirely har-
monIous," said one of the gentlemen
who participated in it, but who de-
cllned to have his name published.
"No differences of opinions develop
ed and the presidents position on
the different questions discussed was
indorsed. We talked over the entire
political situation, especially that in
the states through which the presi-
dent is to pass. The coal strike was
not talked about"
The senatorial delegation arrived
here at 1920 p. m. coming from
Long Island City in the private car
of President Baldwin, of the Long
| Island railroad. The senators refus-
ed to see number of newsprpermen
who were on the arain. On their ar
rival here they were driven at once
to Sycamore Hill in President Roose-
velt's traps. They left in the private
car at 1910 p. m. for Long Island
City.
II Postmaster General Payne came
over early in the day from Center Is
land. He left at 6:95 p. m. for New
York.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-09-17
National Baptist Convention, Color
ed, Birmingham, Ala, Septem-
Der 1924, 1902.

For above occasion, Queen & Cres
cent Route will sell round trip tickets
to Birmingham at rate of one fare for
the round trip. Dates of sale Sept. 14th,
18th and 10th. final limit - ept. q. 1902.
This rate open to all. Quickest and
most direct route to Birmingham is via
Meridian, Miss.
For particulars, call upon or address
nearest @. & G.. Ticket Agent, or,
r. W. BONDS, T. P. A.
Meridian, Miss.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-09-17

You never IAN ten what oman win a
aext."
can"
'sweli, what7s
Talk"
That's it--A woman will talk and tell hei
riends of the wonderful cures made by John.
stou's SarsapariIla. and the proprietors have to
thank thousands of good noble women in this
country for having made Johnstou's SARSAPAt
RIL,L,A Quart botfiesl famous"
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-09-17
NOTICE, fIREMEN.

There will be called meeting of the
fireman at the city hall at O'Clock to-
night. G.. P. SMITH, Secretary.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-09-17

~Johuston's sarsaparilla never fails, mas
stood the test for % years; Quart Bottles.n
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-09-17

So far so good do not try to please the eye be-
yond this point shoe of this character must be first
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-19

expressed for the dead mans wife and
family No suspicious were aroused.
although some surprise was expressed
at the news that Mr.. Hall would be
buried on the following Saturday at
Bristol, instead of in Oborne church.
yard, where a son. TN years Of age,
who died in 1901. and son 16 days
old, who died in 1902. lie buried.
On Wednesday the Bristol nawespa-
pers announced the sudden death of
heart disease on the previous Monday
at a small village near Templecombe
of one of the most distinguished. best
known and respected inhabitants OF
Bristol Col. Edmund Carter Plant, c.
B., who would be buried on Satur-
day in Bristol with full military hon.
ors. Some residents Of Sherbourne,
where Hall was we'll known, on seeing
this, noticed the strange coincidence
of the date and the manner and cause
of the two mems deaths. But the edi-
tor of the Sherbourne paper suspected
something more. He made inquiries
which convinced him as to the iden-
tity of Hall and Plant, but he was
unable to prove his case. However,
he did not lose sight of the body,
which, on Friday evening, was taken to
Der Of Borrowing villagers, and was
placed in the guards van. The coffin
plate was seen to be inscribed Ed
mund Hall. Died Sept. 8, 1902, aged
co."
The Bristol undertaken entered the
van with the coffin, but at the juno
ton where the van was detached and
coupled to another train this man
changed to an ordinary carriage and
when the train had arrived at Bristol
the coffin plate was seen to be in
scribed:
Edmund Carter Plant, C. B., Colonel
Bristol Engineers; died Sept. 8, 1902,
aged co."
English as She Was Spoke.
"Of course went through the ba-
zaars of Constantinople when 1 got
around to that city," said the tourist.
land almost at the first one I came to
I found a scimitar / very much want
ed. 1t was a blade formerly owned by
a noted rebel, and very handsome
arm, indeed, but when l asked the
price the old man behind the counter
named sum equal to about 800 in our
money, and laid his hand on his heart
and exclaimed:
I swear to you by the eyes of my
grandmother that it cost me exactly
this sum, and that I am not making
a coin by the transaction. 1t is be-
cause l love you that I do it."
81 had an interpreter along to do the
talking, and when he had repeated
after the old skinfiint 1 said in Eng
lish:
Tell old stick-in-the-mud to take
his love and his scimitar and go to the
devil with them"
81 meant to have that blade, though"
continued the tourist, land l sent my
man to the shop time and again to
make an offer for it. Under my in
structions he offered him up to $50, but
came back to shake his head and re-
ply:
TT is with grief in my heart that
I tell you the relic is not for you
&" But will s65 buy it?'
Alas! no.
will SOP
" Not even the 800 he asked a week
ago. He says you shall not have It at
any pries.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-19

BURBANK, CAL-Mrs. Susannah
McHenry, now of this place, was at
tackled with kidney complaint while
living at Billings, Mo-, and was ad-
vised to come to California in the hope
that a change of climate might help
her. but this 1t failed to do, as she
was confined to her bed and the doc
tors in attendance had finally told her
they could do nothing for her.
1t was then she began to use Peruna
and had improved so much within
few months that on April s, last, she
rode seven miles to Los Angles, spent
the forenoon on shopping tour, and
at noon tripped UP a long flight of
stairs to have her photograph taken.
Her letter reads as follows:
II think / owe my life to the use OF
Peruna. have tried innumerable doc
tors and medicines, but of no avail.
The doctors gave me up saying they
could do nothing for me, as my death
was only a matter of a short time.
Then 1 began the use of Peruna and
am glad to say that instead Of being
confined to my bed with the dread kid
ney complaint, am up and about.
IT am 81 years Of age, yet 1 rode
seven miles to Los Angeles, spent the
forenoon shopping, and climbed long
flight of stairs to have my photo taken
to send to the Peruna manufacturers
as a sample of what their valuable
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-19
BLUE BOOK ISSUED.
English Re-mOunt Department
CHARGES Irregularities to officers.

Charges Irregularities to officers.
London. Oct 1s-A blue book has
been issued containing a detailed re-
port of the officers appointed by the
commandments of the army to in
quire into the working of the remount
department.
Dealing with the case of Capt. Smith,
who was attached to the purchasing
commission at New Orleans, the report
finds that Capt. Smith received COM
mission on every animal he purchased,
that many of the mules bought by him
were absolutely unfit and useless, and
that he was guilty of malpractice ana
brought the greatest discredit upon the
department.
The report also finds that Capt. z.
r. Mandslay and Veterinary Surgeon
Halves behaved with extreme impro-
priety in purchasing for their own use
and shipping to England horses
brought up for inspection as remounts
and which actually had been branded.
The report says regarding American
mules: -
I'm our opinion nothing approaches
them except the gun mules of the
mountain batteries in India. We do not
see a fault TO find with them as
class"
OF the horses. the officers say:
Judging them as a class, we think
them the very type for mounted infan-
try horses. With time and training the
American horse would turn out to be
the ideal horse for mounted infantry
or to carry light cavalry, without equip
rnent"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-19
LIVED DOUBLE LIFE 10 YEARS.
Col. Plants Sudden Death Reveals
Strange story.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
London, Oct. 11.-From the west of
England there comes a strange story
of the double life lived by a man with
out suspicion for more than nineteen
years, his neighbors, and even his own
son, being ignorant of 1t till his sud-
den death revealed the truth.
Ninetee:t years ago there came to
live in a house called the Old Grange,
in the small Dorsetshire village of
Oborne, Edmund Hall, an accountant
by profession. He lived at Oborne
with his wife and family for nineteen
years, during which period they gained
the respect of the whole neighborhood.
Mr.. Hall was great bee fancier. On
Monday, Sept. l, he drove with his lit
tie son to a ncighboring farm in the
village of Templecombe, where he took
some hives of bees. Afterward he
went to farmhouse, and while taking
tea with the wife OF the farmer he
suddenly fell dead of heart disease.
An inquest was held on the following
day. 1t was attended by his eldest son.
who testified that he had knowledge
that his father was suffering from that
ailment. The sympathy of the neigh
bors about the country was widely
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-19

edies have failed, Peruna brings
pIU.. pt 1r4cl.
Catarrh of the kidneys in OctoG-r
has become so established in this eli
mate that it is stupendous folly to
neglect any precautiCn. There is no use
to take diuretics. There is no use to
take remedies that simply stimulate
the kidneys. What is needed is rem
edy that operates to cleanse the kid
neys of all catarrhal faint.
This is what Peruna will do. Peruna
is absolutely unique as a remedy for
this class of diseases.
Take No Substitute.
Substitutions for Peruna are without
exception, frauds. Peruna is in class
all by itself. Nothing is just as good.
Nothing can be substituted with any
success whatever. Insist upon having
Peruna. Beware of substitutes. Be sure
that you are using Peruna. Never al
low any one to persuade you that he
has a remedy that will do the same
thing that Peruna does.
If you do not derive prompt and sat-
isfactory results from the use of Pc
runa write at once to DIR. Hartman,
giving a full statement of your case,
and he will be pleased to give you his
valuable advice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,O.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-19
JUST COMMON SENSE.


81 used coffee all my life until two
years ago, when I was forced to dis
continue it," writes a lady from Mem
phis, Tenn. My health became so
wretched that life was almost a bur-
den.
II suffered almost continuously with
nervous headache, dyspepsia and ex-
cruciating pains in my back. My heart
action was very feeble, and 1 suffered
intensely from feeling of suffocation
or oppression. Was extremely enact
ated and debilitated and so nervous
that the slightest exertion or excite
ment would produce very distressing
symptoms. My physician pronounced
my trouble nervous prostration, and
could give very slight relief.
"A friend urged me to stop drinking
coffee and try Postum Food Coffee and
note the result. My first trial was
not satisfactory, owing to the indif-
ference of the cook, but the next time
she followed directions carefully,
and found it decidedly good. After
using Ii about two months I awole to
the fact that my bad symptoms had
almost totally disappeared. and that
my health was better than it had been
for six years. l had no headache; my
heart troubled me only at rare inter-
Gals; could eat with perfect impunity;
gained flesh and was generally much
stronger than formerly.
Il had discontinued medical treat
ment when / began to use Postum, and
common sense supports me in the con-
viction that Postum alone was the
curative agent in my case. My chill
dren are quite fond of it, and I take
comfort in the thought that in Postum
they obtain both food and drink and
run no risk Of injury to their digestive
organs. No one has healthier children
than /, and that alone is sufficient to
prove its value" Name given by Pos
tum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-19
From the Independent.

Hundreds of seals made Nelson ISL
and, in the South Shetland group, look
black as night, as we approached. They
disported themselves in the water and
played upon the shore. In wonder, not
alarm, they stared at us as we drew
near in a small boat We leaped on
shore among them. Still they looked at
us in dumb curiosity. I was as much
impressed as were the seals. and star
ed as hard at them in an answering
wonder.
Come, old fellow" said young So
bral, approaching one of the large
seals with outserteched hand.
IT edged away few feet.
Move on, then" ne said, smacking
it on the back with his open hand.
1t edged a little farther away, look
ing over its shoulder with an injured
air. But 1t made no attempt to seek
safety. mere plunge into the water
would have brought freedom from any
danger. Several leopard seals We're shot
by our party, and their fellows gath
cred around them, wondering why they
lay so motionless and staring at US
with wide, pathetic eyes.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-19
PRES. BAER CLOSELY GUARDED.
Even a Love-smitten Negro Was I'm
able to See His Sweetheart,
From the Philadelphia Ledger.


From the Philadelphia Ledger.
The same man who accompanied Mr.
Baer to New York Tuesday as a. body
guard, described as Pinkerton detec-
tive. answered the ben last night at
Mr.. Baer's residence.
The stalwart, alert detective, in an
swer to a ring. opened the door eau
tiously few inches.
Without asking the reporters name
or his errand the door man said, cool
ly. "Mr. Baer will see no one"
Standing, displeased, on Mr.. Baer's
stoop shortly after o'clock, when the
Public Ledger reporter visited the Baer
residence, was a well dressed, athletic
negro.
Does Mistah Baer live heah?" he
asked as the reporter rang.
Yes"
II just wasn't suah If he did or not.
cause Use been ringin' and rinRin' ana
thata white man in der won't come to
the do.
'I'd like to get in there mighty bad
~, for my gals in the kitchen. Use
done pounded back an front but AZ
amt no use. nohow. How do you reck-
on I kin get to see herr"
It was suggested that he natghs reach
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-19

"'Oh, he does? And what's the mat
ter with the old Jebediah"
livery little, sir. He simply under
stands the English language, and when
you called him old mut-with-a- stick-in-
it he got mad and swore by Allah that
your money could buy nothing from
him."
On Saturday the streets of Bristol
were thronged with thousands of peo-
pie anxious to see the funeral, which
was the finest military spectacle the
populace had seen since the late Queen
Victoria visited the place in 1897. Eight
colonies acted as pallbearers. They
were followed by a brilliant cortege
of officers and troops half mile long
and also by the Lord Mayors state
coach, high sheriffs in carriages, etc.
Thus this distinguished resident OF
Bristol was laid in the cemetery of the
town beside his wife, who died in 1900,
and to whom he was married in 1865.
Plants career, from his boyhood,
with the exception of the nineteen
years he lived at Osborne as Hall, is
wellknown. He had lived at Bristol
since 1861. According to Who's Who,
he was lieutenant colonel and colonel
commanding of the Second Gloster
Volunteers, r. E. (the Bristol Engi-
neers). He pasesd through all the
grades from sapper to colonel COM
handing. He was decorated for serv-
ices in connection with the battalion,
and raised the Clifton College Cadet
Corps, which won the Ashburton Shield
on three occasions and the Cadet tro-
ply twice.
Not until his death was the identity
Of their father revealed to their chill
dren at Osborne. Mrs. Hall' knew,
and but for the clumsy work of his
legal advisers when they notified the
Bristol newspapers of the coloners
death, the secret would never have
been releaved. The mention of Tenn
plecombe gave the clue, however, and
resulted in the exposure. The colonePs
absences at Bristol or Osborne, ION
business" never aroused the slightest
suspicion.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-19
BIRDS DRINK SEA WATER.
Strange Habits of Feathered Tribe
IA South Pacific.

IA Sogt!; Pacific.
From Chambers Journal.
I'm 1881, while resident of Gazelle
peninsula, the northern portion of the
magnificent island of New Britain, in
the South Pacific, / had many oppor-
tunities of witnessing both bockatoos
and wild pigeons drinking salt water.
| was stationed at place called Ka-
baira, the then farthest out trading
station on the whole island, and as l
had but little work to do, found plen-
ty of time to study bird life in the
vicinity. Parrots of several varieties,
all of beautiful plumage, were plenti-
full, and great fiocks of white cokatoos
frequented the rolling, grassy downs
which lay between my home and the
German head station in Blanche Bay,
twenty miles distant, while the heavy
frost of the littoral was the haunt Of
thousands of pigeons. These pigeons,
though not so large as the Samoan or
Eastern Polynesian bird, formed an
agreeable change of diet for us white
traders, and by walking about fifty
yards from ones door half a dozen or
more could be shot in as many min
utes.
My nearest neighbor was a German.
and one day when we were walking
along the beach toward his station l
noticed some hundreds of pigeons fly
down from the forest, settle on the
margin of the water and drink with
apparent enjoyment The harbor at
this spot being almost land-locked and
the water as smooth as glass and with
out the faintest ripple, the birds were
enabled to drink without wetting their
plumage. My neighbor, who had lived
many years in New britain told ME
that the drinking of sea water was
common to both cockatoos and pigeons
alike, and that on some occasions the
beaches would be lined with them, the
cockatoos not only drinking, but bath
ing, apparently enjoying themselves
greatly During the next six months,
especially when the weather was calm
and rainy, frequently noticed pigeons
and cockatoos come to the salt water
to drink.
AT first I thought that. as fresh
water in many places bubbled up
through the sand at low tide, the birds
were not really drinking the sea wat
er, but by watching closely I distinct
ly saw them walk across these tiny
runnels without making any attempt
to drink. Then, too the whole of the
Gazelle peninsula is cut up by count
less streams of water. and rain falls
throughout the year as a rule. what
causes this unusual habit of drinking
sea waters? Another popularity or
the New Britain and New Ireland pig
con is it's fondness for the chilli pepper
berry. During three months of the
year, when these berries are ripe, the
birds crops are full of them, and often
their flesh is so pungent and smells so
strongly of the chilli as to be quite UNI
eatable.'
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-19
SOUFRIERE'S ERUPTION
Has Plunged the Stricken Colony
Into Even Deeper Distress.

lnNO Even OcCptE
Kingstown, St. Vincent, Oct. 1s.-The
eruption of the Soufriere volcano on
Oct. Is and 1.-the fourth terrific out
burst since the catastrophe of May 7
has plunged the colony into deeper dis
tress than before existed, Gripping its
agricultural resources by further de-
vastating the arrow root fields and
completely destroying wide areas of
growing crops on lands which had been
considered outside the volcanic zone.
On these lands thousands of young
cacao, coffee and other econ
omic plants We're buried under
the almost impenetrable mass Of sand
which while hot, fell in the Windward
district on the morning of oct. 10.
Large numbers of refugees and other
persons left Georgetown for Kings
town, a distance of twenty miles, Oct.
16, and many of them tainted on the
way from hunger and thirst and the
fatigue engendered by trudging through
the hot sand. Hundreds of poor per-
sons were driven from their homes by
falling cinders, stones, etc. No lives
were lost.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-19
MANIA OF STRANGE SECT.
The "DOukhObOrsti" Turn Their An
ima1s Out to Goods HILL"


Yorktown, Manitoba, Aug. 81
Strange fancies sometimes take pos
session of religious sects, but the
strangest Of all is probably the dis
tressing mania that has enthralled 5000
Russian Doukhoborsti who have To-
Gated in Western Manitoba. In the
Swan river district the government is
apprehensiVe for the remarkable craze
that has taken possession of those col
onists. A visit to the community
showed that the sights, scenes and the
horror depicted were almost beyond
conception.
1t is we'll known that the Doukho-
borsti are adverse to shedding blood.
This is the reason they emigrated from
Russia, and it is also the reason why
the Canadian government exempted
them from military duty as induce
ment for their location on the prairie
lands of the West. AS to what they
should eat, this was purely a personal
matter, but, as it appears, it was one
of the features that was overlooked by
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-19
COL DS
NINE PETRIFIED BODIES.

This Was the Find Made by Work
men in Orphan Asylum Cemetery
New York, Oct. 1S.-Nine petrlf1ed
bodies have been found in the ceme-
terry attached to the New York Infant
Asylum at Mount Vernon. The asylum
was closed recently, and il became
necessary to remove the bodies in the
cemetery. While the work was going
on to-day the workmen exhumed nine
bodies that have the appearance of
white marble and are as solid as rock.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-19
g ~
COLD FEET.

Cold feet and hands Indicate poor cir
culation Of the blood and a nervous
predisposition to take cold.
Most colds start with checked circu-
lation, known by a chill or shiver. cold
feet and hands.
The use of ~ starts the blood
coursing through the veins. the extrem-
tiles warm up, and the cold is broken.
DR.. Humphreys ~" consists of a
small vial of pleasant pellets-fits the
vest pocket.
At all Druggists, 25 cents, or mailed.
on receipt of price. Doctors book mail
ed free.
Humphreys Homeopathic Medicine
Co, corner William and John streets.
New York.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-19
ROW ENDED FATALLY.
Emmett Mitchell Died Last Night
without Regaining Consciousness.

Atlanta, Oct 1S.-Emmett Mitchell,
who was struck in the head with a
stick Tuesday night by William F..
johnson, died tonight without regain
ing consciousness. Johnson, who is I'M
der arrest, says his action in striking
Mitchell was justifiable, as the latter,
while intoxicated, attacked him with
a pistol. Mitchell was butcher. john
son works on a farm.
The two men were out in a buggy
together and returned to Folsom's res
taurant, where the difficulty occurred.
After being struck Mitchell walked
away and was later found at the bot
tom of some steps leading from the
street. A post-mortem examination of
Mitchell's brain failed to disclose that
there was any confusion such as might
have been made by blow from a stick.
The coroner will hold an inquest to-
morrow.