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Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

day planning for their nightly raids
But the law falls heaviest on travel
ing colored exhoIters, as will be seen
by the following which is clipped
from a Georgia exchange:
Although he produced papers to
prove that he wa presiding elder of
the African Methodist Episcopal
church, with jurisdiction over twenty
two churches, the Rev. G. Wesley
Hendrix was bound over TO the Irwin
superior court at Ocilla, Ga. with
four other negroes, by County Judge
Henderson on charge of vagrancy
under the new Calvin law. Hendrix
contended that his calling should give
immunity, but the testimony of the
arresting officers WAS that he was
without means of support, did no
work and lived off such hardworking
nergoes as would allow him to impose
on them This will be a grieyous
blow to the negroes who wear the
long black and shiny coat of clerical
ism, the brown straw hat, carry the
imitation leather hand grip, and 60
about 'zorting" for livelihood. .
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22


An exchange argues, anent the good
roads question, that 1.-THE road tax is
nothing compared with the return if
it is economically Invested. One lit
tie ditch or stump will do more CAM
age TO wagon or buggy in cost to
repair than road tax would amount
to in five years. Where roads are
good So buggy will last twenty
years. yet it would take good buggy
90 last five years over many roads of
the state. Thousands of dollars are
going to the wagon and buggy fac
tories annually which money ought to
be put on the roads for their better
ment. :,
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

Down in the neighborhood of Sill
yer Greek. there is gentleman liv-
ing by the name of @. S. Webb, who
writes to the Worlds Fair Commits
sioner R. H. Henry, that there are
two trees in the forests near him, one
a pine which will measure feet OF
more in diameter, and that at a
height of 100 feet from the ground
would square lSx1S. The other is q
white oak, which is little out OF
shape near the place where it would
be sawed o" cut If going to be felled,
which is feet one way and 10 the other
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22
PERSONAL ASSESSMENT ROLLS.
Reports Of the Different Counties
Coming in to the Auditor Show
ing Varied Results.
Special to the Daily Progress.

Il
Jackson, Sept 22.-The personal
assessment rolls Of the various coun-
ties continue to show up ut the audi
tors office with varying results IA TO
increase or decrease in values. Holmes
county reports valuation of 81. 49,
s43, being an increase of S87, 545 The
numb II of polls reported are 7,40l, a
decrease of 10. Harrison county's to-
tai valuation is 81, $50. 1922. an increase
of STAB, $50. Number of polls reported
are 6, 400, an increase OF 1.707. The
total valuation of Noxubee's personal
Ity is 81, $50, 226. decrease of $7l, 5G6.
Number of polls, 4, 1870, decrease Of
504. The latter is the third county
in the state to show a decrease.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

A Justice of the peace in the little
town of Belzoni, Miss, fined merge
preacher SIG for refusing to allow his
mules to be used in work on the pub
lie road. The preacher refused to
pay unfil he could consult a lawyer,
which he did, this costing him $40.
The lawyer advised him to pay the
GIG as there was no other way out of
it, going to prove more forcibly than
ever that the way of the trNnsgressor
is hard.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

Lincoln county's tax levy, as made
at a recent meeting of her board Ct
supervisors, is as follows: General
county fund, 81 mills; interest on
bonds and sinking fund for same.
mill school purposes l 3-4 mills
roads, l mill, making a total of z 1-2
mills, which is an increase of one
mill. This levy is on a property
val latien of 81, 101 $40.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

The clock tower at the Industrial
Institute and College at Columbus
was found the other day, when the
Waterman went up to see about the
clock, 70 be in the possession of bses
They had filled an entire upper cor
ner with rich honey, securely conbed
up, and when taken down and weigh
ed there were $50 pounds of it.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

Speaking Of teachers institutes and
the one to be held in that county Oc-
tober II. the Kinds County Gazette
says that the progressive teachers
will be present because they are pro-
gressiye, and the progressive ones
should be, in order to be progressive. +"
These words forcibly cover the case.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22
Diamond Doings.
Youngsters and the Nationnl
Game :. President Hart's
Disappointment

As the baseball season progresses
more chances are offering themselves
for amateurs to break into fast COM
pany. Some OF the big league teams
are discovering that they lack strength
In certain departments and are on
the lookout for good youngsters.
A number have already been picked
up, and more will be secured within
the present season. Some or the boys
playing ball with small amateur or
semiprofessional teams have in them
as much ability as plenty of the men
In the big leagues. and lack only the
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

The Jackson News, commenting on
the case in Pike county, where, at
rhe recent term of circuit court in
that county white manwas sentenced
to the penitentiary for five
years for robbing alittle negro boy of
eight dollars, says among other things
that this man was tried by white jury
and in what is knownas white coun-
ty, and it ought to be an act for the
south -haters of the north to remember
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22
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GEORGIA'S vAGRANT LAW.

The Calvin" vagrant law of Geor-
gia is making it hard for those who
have heretofore found it easy to
bask in the hospitality of others with
ont molestation and for those of a
lower class who make their living by
providing at night and hanging about
the low dives d towns and cities by.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

Robert Adams, the young man whp
is charged with the killing of man
by the name of Sullivan in Smith
county some time ago, and who has
been in Jail at Belzoni, ever since he
was caught by the authorities there,
was carried back to Smith county by
Sheriff Martin, the other day, where
he will be brought to trial.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

In Boston, the other day, some Irish
laborers threw up their jobs because
Italian laborers were put ON with
them, and their places being supplied
by negro labor, the Italians quit, re-
fusing to work alongside of them.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

Lieutenant Edward Perry is asking
the United States government to back
him up with 5000, 600 with which to
properly equip himself for his voyage
to find the north pole.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

The Memphis police arrested a
couple of negro counterfeiters in that
city a few days ago. They had been
operating all the way from Chicago
to Memphis, successfully showing
the queer until they reached Mem
phis, where they were overhauled.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

The Frisco railroad which runs
from Birmingham, via Tupelo to
Memphis, filed a mortgage with the
secretary of state at Jackson, Miss,
last week, the same to be recorded,
the amount of which was So, IA. 074
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

The Crystal Springs Meteor says it
is foregone conclusion that Missis-
sippi will be forced TO float 500. DOC
or more, in bonds to meet its current
obligations. a legacy of debt bcqueath
I'd by the outgoing to the incoming
administration.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

Senator Morgan of Alabama says,
speaking of the national election next
year: 1--WE should win with any sort
of prudent management-the signs are
all propitious for it. -
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

The Kings Daughters of Mississip-
pi will have introduced ct the next
sitting of the legislature bill pro-
viding for the regulation of child la
Dor in factories and mills.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

George G. Meyers, Of Holly Springs
is being strongly urged by his friends
for the supreme court clerkship made
vacant by the death of Captain Ed
Prnuun
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

Mr.. Wallace B. Shaw Who has
stood at the helm of the Maben Me-
cor since it, beginning. retired in 8
neat valedictory with the last issue,
and its affairs will be handled in 70
ture by Mr.. J. T. Parks, who has
bought the paper and assumed all liza
hi1itin-
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

1t is said that the national associa-
tion of manufacturers will start a
movement at once to organize all en-
ployers of labor into body to fight
the unions.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

The Marion county tax levy is 3
mills, as follows: General county
fund, 5 I-2 mills; special school fund,
? mills; special road fund, l mill.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

The members of the board Of trus-
tees of the department of archives of
the state of Mississippi will meet at
Jackson. October 3.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

S. B. Dobbs of Alderman, has
sent in credentials to Governor Lon
gino asking to be appointed supreme
court clerk for the place made vacant
by the death of Captain Brown
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

The papers now have it that Miss
Ruth Bryan will marry an artist of
Lincoln, Nebraska. Two weeks ago
these same papers had her engaged to
Lieutenant Hobson, the Merrimac
hero
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

The northern brethren are turning
the tables on the southern darkey.
The other day white man was ar
rested in an Ohio town for stealing
chickens the night before from a ne
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

Mrs. Halla Butt, who has hereto
fore been editor and proprietor of the
Olarksdale Challenge, of Clarksdale,
Miss. has sold that paper to Messrs.
Godfrey & Palmer, of that city.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

The Biloxi Review says that for
the first time south Mississippi got a
fair share of the state offices in tie
recent primary.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

The ladies of McComb City, pro-
verbal for Gu 'ture as a whole, are
going to hold Chrysanthemum show
IN that city on the 18th and 18th of
NnNpfnhar
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

The Neshoba Democrat says that
there are now stationed at Decatur,
Neshoba county, 3 large number Of
hands Who win go TO work 1t oncs on
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

Mr. Dan Farley. who has been
confined to his bed with typhoid fever
for the past sixty days, is now conva-
lescent, we are pleased to say.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

the grading work of the NJ, ]. & K.
G. road between Decatur and that
tnrrn
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

Crude oil at Sour Lake, near Bear
mont. is selling at 80 cents barrel
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

The cost to the United States of tie
war with Spain was $40, 900, 900. 0G0
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

"Jounston's Sarsapari,la is the most powerful
blood parlher known. Use It and Keep yn'si
flood pure: Quart r. 1.les-"
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

Ifyou making money as you would
suggest that you bring of your idle cash
and take few of the unexceled bargains have TO
offer The owners of the property have instructed
to sell it and my method is to orders if
breaks the owner, SO let it 90:
First will call your attention to Mr. w. A. Steven
sons handsome residence situated
extra large and romy lot with Northeast 1roz
shade and fruit trees and flowers yard
rooms plastered and papered with all modern
such city water, Cjlnections electric
lights, etc. II fact it is Of the desirable
homes in the satisfactory price if bought
before the first Of October.
house and lot Walnut street which ought to
readily sell for $1,000 be had a for $3.50.
Some vacant lots the
AhandsOme house and lot the street
occupied by Mr.. Derrickson goes 81 $50 Would be
bargain $4,000.
lots on Southern avenue ranging IN price from
$500 to $1,000.
house and lot on Pine stree for $3.50
Twep ty- three lots :gnborh0od ranging IN
price from 500 to $500
Three beautiful lots Gordon street for 5000
Two Bouie street As l2x19O feet for $500
handsome house. front back gallery
house with front and neatly painted, with
splendid conven1ences, near the Pearl
and Leaf Rivers depot S2ooo $780, $50 per month
until paid for, house renting for SID per
Two nice houses Second street $1,000 and $1,000
respectively.
somshs Yellow Pine and Nynower
j. f local
poultry convenient school,
u will sci cry hap nj on reasnah ehrm.
L htrOnho
can be h 500 bhmgtth eek
ntnmrM j. edgeddenef for 10000
emny other spend bargains oonumerust mention
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YOURS TRULY
Th0s. N. Ferguson,
Hattiesburg Miss.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-22

recent primary
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-04
NEW CURE FOR SNAKE BITE.
Com m on Salt Ia Said to he an Anti
dote for Poison of Reptiles.

"Salt Is a good cure for snake bite"
said a man who has been In the hills
of Alabama, but | did not know 1t un-
til recently. | spent several weeks in
Alabama with a friend of mine, and
while up there learned something
about snakes that | never knew be-
fore, and, more than that, | saw prac-
teal demonstrations Of the efficacy of
salt as a cure for snake bite
by the way, the crop of rattle
snakes In Alabama is larger this year
than ever before in the history of the
State and that Is saying good deal,
for 1t has been a long time since there
was anything but big crop Of rattlers
I'D In that section of the world. Dur
ing one day spent in the cane which
grows In abundance at the foot of the
hills l personally killed twenty five
rattlesnakes of various sizes and ages.
| never saw as many snakes in my
life, and | would be ashamed to tell
you the vast number | saw but did not
kill. But | was speaking of salt as a
cure for bite of a snake. Most every
one In that part of the country when
they go into the woods will carry a
small bag of salt along in order to pro
tect themselves against snake bite.
Snakes are so plentiful that they never
know when they will be attacked by
one of these members, and SO they go
prepared for an emergency.
1T seems that the salt is a good alb
sorbent, and In very short while
after its application 1t viii draw the
poison out of the body. | knew that
salt was frequently used to draw
stains out of solled linen and things
OF that sort, but the fact that it Is
good for snake bite is a new thing to
me.-New Orleans Times Democrat.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-04

the fine new barn filled with harvested
grain. Farmer Carter did not look up
and claim the sky but thar. TOO. was
part of his domain. Me and mine"
was the burden of his thoughts.
At that moment something came
around the corner of the house that
he did not recognize as in any way be
longing TO him. This something was
tramp-or. In the modern slang OF
the day. hobo. The name is synony-
nous with degradation. and this one
did not belle his name He shivered
In the warm sunlight as II he had an
ague. His rags stood out like splnteis,
telling of long friction with time His
limbs had the flaccid, relaxed move
ment typical of the drunken yagabond
and his eyes were bloodshot.
Sir" he said, touching the brlm of
a despoiled hat will you be SO kind
as to give me bite to eat? am very
hungry"
1t would only be natural to suppose
that Jonathan, sitting there In the sun.
light of his own happiness, would have
given generous meal to this offscour-
ing of humanity-but he did nothing of
the kind.
BE on" he said, "or I'll set the dog
on YOU
Il will work." began the tramp.
"Oh. you viii? | don't need your
help. l employ men to work for me
not such cattle as you"
His words cut TO the quick, as he
intended they should. The tramp made
savage spring forward, and a look
of vindictive hate crossed his distorted
features then he stopped - swung
round and slouched away ;
"Cattle?" He flung the words out
with bitterness. You're right friend.
oniy-cattle that are made in Gods inn
age. and human"
"So The fellows had schooling"
was all the comment that the farmer
made. He did not see humanitarian
transaction at his back door when his
good wife handed out repast OF bread
anG neat TO the hungry tramp.
20. S0aathan Carter saw nothing of
that. He was watching speck far
down in the valley, that was whole
world TO him. his only son galloping
from farmhouse to farmhouse. where
his playmates lived, showing them his
new possession. the pony his father
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-04
FRANCES FIRST HUNTRESS.
The Duchess Dues In 1902 Was at
Her Eleven Hundredth Stag.

Her Eleven Hundredth Stag.
The Cars uncles, Vladimir and
Alexis, cynically enough shoot partrid-
ges and rabbits with the President
year after year; but when they follow
the French stag over the same presi-
Dental grounds of Rambouillet, it is
with the hounds of great landowner
and very rich lady, whose personal
life is so surrounded by safeguards
against the modern and the common
place that, except when she wishes 1t,
she scarcely knows that the old regime
is ended This is the first huntess OF
France" the dowager Duchesse 'Uzes,
who In Christmas week OF 1902 was
at her eleven-hundredth stag.
The duchess rents from the republic
more than sixty thousand acres Of this
old Rambouillet forest, between Presi-
dent Loubet's fayorite chateau and her
own hunting chateau of Bonnelles,
The President has the right TO shoot
the partridge and the rabbit ON his
lands at Rambouillet; but should he
wish to chase the deer, he, too, must
be invited by the duchess. She does
not invite the President often. In re-
turn the President forbids the military
uniform to appear at the hallali of the
Understanding all the more griey-
Gus to the great lady. In that the bur-
den Of 1t falls, not on her. but on the
young officers of the neighboring garri-
son. forced thereby to the considerable
expense of maintaining hunting cos
tunes. The Presdent-that Is to say,
the Minister of War-has even forbid
den them to use their chargers at the
hunts; but that is difficulty more
easily overcome since the duchess can
lend them horses.
Beginning in September of each year,
the Duchesse dues installs herself In
her favorite residence of Bonnelles
modern chateau of vast proportions,
lying in park of one hundred ana
eighty acres, about ten miles from
Rambouillet. Her two daughters, the
Duchesses de Luynes and de Brlssac,
aid her and her daughter-in-law the
young Duchesse d'Uzes, to do the hon
ors Of the country house. When the
hunting season opens, first old friends
and serious hunters are invited
then come the royal visits and the
Partisan series. The clarion Is heard
in the depths of the woods; and the
equlpage. in its colors of red and blue
with gold and silver lace, holds its as
sizes at an old stone cross i'll circular
opening In the forest. two or three
miles from the chateau-Century.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-04

the cook pours into the clear stock
some brown thickening fluid. Is II
maearon? A pot of boiling water Is
near at hand and he forks few
strings into the bowl. Is It oxtallf A
big tin OF condensed oxtail soup
stands on a handy shelf, and spoon
full lends its flavor to the stock. Is 1t
chicken? He thrusts u pair OF tongs
into the boiler and brings up morsels
from the depths until enough scraps
of chicken are found to pass muster.
Is 1t tomato? A squirt of weak but
thick tomato catsup does the bust
ness.
of his which looks so much like a
carving knife. Roast lamb and roast
mutton come from the same joint at
his touch; and by the aid of little
sauce and some jelly so will roast
venison at pinch. Roast rib or roast
loin from the same piece of beef de
ponds altogether on his carving. Veal
ls veal. or 1t is chicken for salad, or
1t is turkey for fricassee, or 1t IL rab-
bit for stew, or it Is lamb for pie. just
as he desires.
The plain old Goldfish, too, IL boiled.
is turned into boiled halibut, or had
dock, or bluefsh, and IL baked be-
comes baked halibut. or bluefsh, or
haddock At his mere touch, with the
aid of few biting sauces, they be-
come almost anything one can name
in the way of fish.
When 1t comes to desserts, the dis
tinction between fruit cake and plum
pudding Is with him only the differ
ence between hot and cold, and van
ishes before the blast from his oven.
Boiled rice-frequently called upon
for curry-with milk, sugar and a
little nutmeg, is stralghtway rice pud-
ding Tapioca and sago come out of
the same dish. 1t Is wonder how
he remembers all the names he calls
his cottage pudding
You may talk about the French or
Italian chef, but the Yankee knows a
few tricks of the trade, too.-New
York Sun
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-04
Phil Nays Bargain.

An amusing story Is told of Phil May
and an English conjurer at the fair
at Standardization. Phil was in the
very clever gentleman who was wrap
ping up soyereigns and half crowns in
pieces of paper and selling them for
two shllllngs. The sharp" had II
beautiful face-such a face as Phil
May loved to draw. So he sketched
him furtlvely. But the gentleman saw
him and made a speech forthwith:
IF that there eelebrited portrait
painter with the tight brooches on will
and up the pleter the equally cele-
brlted benefactor to 'oomanity wot Is
glvln' away guilds for coppers Will re-
ward i'm accordingly" he shouted.
Phil, with twinkle in his eye, hand
ed up the drawing. The conjurer was
delighted with the sketch and pinned
1t to the Iallboard of his cart. With
another preliminary speech he threw
three sovereigns and several half
crowns into a piece of paper screwed
it up and handed 1t to the artist
You'll be president of the bloomin
R'yal Academy some dye, young man.
said he Here. catch"'
"A bargains bargain said Phil,
walking off with the packet OF gold
and silver.
He confessed afterward, when he
opened the packet and found two pen
MES and halfpenny in it, that it was
the most entertaining commission he
had aVar baen Maid for