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Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-05-23
VARDAMAN FOND OF DANCING.
Will Doubtless Take Advice of
Friends and Refrain From Dane
ing at Picnic in Future.

Special to the Daily Progress.
jackson, May 90. 23.-Apropos of the
campaign for governor, good storrp
is being told on Maj. James K. Var
daman, the courteous and Chester
ieldian candidate from Lefore around
whom so much interest has been Gen.
tered since the fight opened. Maj.
Vardaman is very fond of the dreamy
mazes of the waltz, the mistic ger
man, and other forms of Terpsichorean
pleasures. According to the story,
he was attending the picnic at Heidel-
berg few days since, and it required
no persuasion to induce him to hunt
up a bright-eyed partner and take his
position for the next number Of the
dance. He INDUCED quite hilarioulsy
in the pleasure for over an hour, and
was quite surprised to find a good
" section of the picnlcers who belong
ed to the staight-laced and orthodox
set were Mortified beyond expression
over such undignified conduct by a
candidate for governor. 1t is also
related that some of the young fellows
on the dancing floor who had been
deprived of their partners who fiocked
around the young LefiOre orator wait
ing for their chance to dance with
him, became afflicted with the green
eyed monster of jealousy. Altogether
Major Vardaman did not fare well al
Heidelberg, and he will doubtless take
the advice of his friends and refrair
from dancing at country picnics in the
future
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-05-23
A NEGRO BADLY BEATEN
BY Another Yesterday With the
Butt End of a
WhipStock.

In front of the residence of J. l..
Roberts in this city late yesterday
evening there came near being MUIR
der and would have been had it not
been for Mrs. Roberts going out and
interfering.
Some young negro whose name We
did not learn, driving a wagon for
Hawkins & Co., came up in the road
in front of the residence of J. L.
Roberts about O'Clock yesterday
evening with old man Pap Nichlos,
an old colored man about seventy or
seventy-five years old. AS old Uncle
Pap had stopped his wagon in the
middle of the road to fix something
about it this young negro drove up
and demanded Pap to move on. The
latter replied that he would as soon
as he got through with what he was
doing, remarking at the same time
that there was plenty of room tn go
around his wagon. The young nergo
became offended at this remark and
walking over to where the old man
was jerked his whip out of his hands
and knocking him down beat him un
til the old nergo was nearly dead.
About that time Mrs Roberts appeared
on the scene and prevented the young
| rascal from finishing the job. 1t is
stated that he then turned on Mrs.
Roberts and cursed her several times.
Mr.. Roberts heard of it and getting
his short-shooting gun went out nergo
hunting, but some how he did not
find him at the right time.
The nergo came to town with the
wagon and ran into the arms of the
chief Of police who was on the watch
for him. When about to be put under
arrest the negro showed fight and
Mr. Moffett had to feel his head with
a stick once or twice before he would
submit to arrest. He was then locked
up in the city Jail, and not too Soon
for Mr.. Roberst with h is gun was il
hot pursuit. His trial will take place
in day or two.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-05-23
WILL CONTAIN 1T ALL,

Up to the hour of going to press on
the 3rd of June, the day SIT aside for
the laying of the corner stone of the
new capitol building at Jackson, the
Progress will receive and publish all the
most important details of the occasion,
with cuts of the buildiHg, ETC.. such an
arrangement having heen completed
This will be the finest edition of the
Progress that was ever published and
several hundred extra copies will be
printed. Parties desiring extra copies
should put in their orders at once and
advertisers wanting space had better
speak in time, sending it In with the
spoke. may23-tf
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-05-23
DUB FIRE DEPARTMENT
Should Be More Literally and More
Materially Encouraged Than
Ii Has Been.

We do not know what encourage
ment the pepole of Hattiesburg give
the volunteer fire company, perhaps
occasionally a pleasant smile, but
really the company is entitled to more
than two smiles. 1t is entitled TO
substantial aid, to money considera-
tion, for it takes money to replace
clothes ruined at a fire and counten-
ances that are all battered up.
We hear of entertainments and ice
cream festivals being given for the
benefit of this church or that, to this
Sunday school or that, to this foreign
mission or that, but not one to the
benefit of the fire department and the
bows who direct the hose and throw
water all over the fire and all the
furniture in the neighbrohood. We
have never yet seen foreign mission
put out fire in Hattiesburg or else
where. The heathen Chinese would
run from Hattiesburg fire, and all
the other heathens we are supposed to
be trying to save would follow in his
wake. But the Hattiesburg boys are
always ready and willing to turn out
and ruin their clothes and skin up
their hands and run the risk of break
ing their necks, and often all they get
seemingly is ''thank yer; cum agin. !"
We do not object to the support of
the foreign mission. That is part
of our religious duty. But GER
tainly a certain amount of support
should be given to the fire company
to those who save our homes at any
time, day or night, and therefore they
too should be considered in the enter
tainments. at least they should be
given material support. Preachers
and churches and schools and foreign
missions must be soupported, but
charity begins at home and self pro-
lection is the first law of nature.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-05-23
TWO TAKE A COMPAN Y.
New Orleans PIcayune. }

New Orleans PIcayune.)
A prominent feature around Mis-
sIsslppi headquarters, which were
the liveliest in line, was Judge Har-
rls, of Memphis, Tenn, who was
Mississippian prior to his removal
to Tennessee Judge Harris told yes
terday afternoon of the capture of an
entire company of Yankees by one
man of his command, the Seventh
Mississippi, who was aided by me-
gro. The man was John Lake. The
negro who aided bim was known as
Sandy. Lake, who was in company
f, sighted the soldiers, who were in
camp. Instructing Sandy, and send
ing him to flank them, he boldly
walked up in front with drawn sword
and demanded their surrender. The
Yankee sprang for their arms, when
the negro yelled out: "Shall we
open fire, Captain?" Thinking thai
they were surrounded, the Yankees
laid down their arms and were
Emarched off to the main body of the
confederates.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-05-23

himself
There is nothing new under the sun
except the methods of expressing old
thoughts.
An old bachelor says that woman is
the only animal afflicted with the
bargain hunting habit.
Tell beggar to fill his basket and
he will set up a howl because be
didn't bring larger one.
1t is often as difficult for poor
man to find meat for his stomach al
it is for rich man to find stomach
for his meat. Chicago News
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-05-23
GALL0WS in PORTO RICO.
The First Legal Hanging viii Occur
Sixty Days Hence-Victim
is Pedro Diaz.

San Juan, P. r., May 22.-In the
Huamaco district court of first degree
today Pedro Diaz was convicted OF
murder during a political riot at Hua-
maco last August, in killing a boy
named Octavio Reyes. Diaz was SEN
fenced to be hanged sixty days later.
This is the first conviction under
the new code, and the hanging will
be the first to occur in Porto Rico.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-05-23
MARK HANNA
Will Oppose the Endorsement
RooSevelt'S Nomination in
Ohio.

Columbus, Ohio, May %. Senator
Hanna will oppose the Endorsement by
the republican state convention next
month of President Roosevelt's renom
ination. If necessary he will make
a speech on the floor of the convention
against Endorsement of the resolution
if it is introduced State Sentor Pat
terscn, one of Hanna's lieutenants, is
authority for this statement He
consented to be quoted, saying Senator
Hanna outlined the position to him.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-05-23
LOST OR STOLEN.

One red railroad pocket book, con
taiEing several railroad mileage slips
and two passes. All of these are en-
ii, ely worthless to any body but me. as
the tickets will not be honored if pre-
sented by any other person. If same
is returned TO me, or left at thes Pine
Cone Lumber Co.'S Office will paw $40
reward, and ask no questions. ID
Cline may23 ct
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-05-23

J. G. McRae of Mobile is in the
city for couple of days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01

a slight cough or has the slightest inti- nation that the tuberculosis bae;lli, or germs of consumption, exist in the respir- atory tract would take Dufiy's Pure Malt Whisky a tablespoonful four times day in half a glass of milk, within q short time the germs would be killed, the lungs would be healed and the entire system built up to a normal healthy condition, and deaths from consumption would be reduced to a minimum.
 It is neglect and the fear that exists in allowing oneself to thlnlI he or she has consumption that causes so many fatali- lies. If everyone would pay proper at- tention 10 their health and not let the disease germs turk in their system until the system becomes pregnated with them we would not req. reporcs that B l-3 per cent of all the deaths in Greater New York age caused by consumT ton.
 Hundreds of thousands have testified that they have been cured by Duffy s Pure Malt Whiskey in the past forty years. Dufys Pure Malt Whiskey is ah- solutely pure, free from fusel oil or any other dangerous ingredient and contains medicinal properties which make 1t the greatest cure in the world for eonsump- tion and wasting diseases of whatever kind If you are interested write the Duffy Malt Whislxey Company, Rochester. N. r., for treatise cn consumption and wasting diseases Their doctors will send you medical booklet and advice free Of charge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
WE DO IT RIGHT
 EMPIRE LAUNDRY.
"I. FAIR FACE MAY rkOVE A FOUL BAR GAlN." MARRY A PLAIN GIRL IF SHE USES
 SA|P POL 10

personal injuries while employed as a fire man by the defendant
 No cases were tried in either division of the City court yesterday.
 suit for $4O0O damages against the Alabama club has been filed in the Cir cult court by Hinds Peevy. The plaintiff seeks to recover the face amount and interest of bonds he held in the organi- zation. In April 1890 bonds were issued by the club and the authorized issue was $1O0OO, but 1t Is understood that not all of them were placed
 number of prisoners were sentenced in the first division of the Criminal court They are as follows:
 Amos Moss, assault with intent to mur- der two years.
 Albert McElroy, assault and battery with weapon, six months; carrying con- cealed weapon, twenty days.
 Henry Hugley, grand larceny, two years.
 Howard King larceny from dwelling, two years.
 Richard Thompson, grand larceny, one year
 William Pryor, false pretense. two years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01

New York February 2S.-At a meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine, which was held in West Forty-third street the other evening. the subject of tubercu lcsis engaged the sole attention of those present. A number of papers dealing with the dread malady were read by eminent physicians and the subject matter con tained therein was discussed by their con feres.
 The alarming spread of pulmonary tu- berculosis and the deplorable lack of fa- cilities for the care and treatment of it's victims have aroused the greatest interest among the five thousand doctors of Great CT New York
 Dr. II ?. Loomis, professor of th arapeu- tics and clinical medicine in Cornell Medi- cal college, has this to say in regard to consumption:
 If an epidemic would reach New York and you should read that 100 new cases were developing every day. and that thr- ty persons were dying every day from the disease, you would be alarmed and many persons would become so apprehensive that they would leave the city Yet this is what Is happening here every day in regard to consumption. The reports of the New York board of health tell us that 10000 die yearly in the city from consnmp tien. This Is one-se4 enth of tho total number of deaths and represents twenty seven deaths daily from this disease"
 This pad state of affairs could be greatly relieved if every one who is troubled with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL.
Few People Know How Useful 1t Is In
 Preserving Health and Beauty.

Nearly everybody knows that charcoal is the safest and most efficient dislnfect- ant and purifier in nature. but few real ize it's value when taken into the human system for the same cleansing purpose
 Charcoal is a remedy that the more you take of 1t the better; 1t Is not drug at all but simply absorhs the gases and impurities always present in the ston,> sch and intestines and carries them out of the system.
 Charcoal sweetens the breath after smoking, drinking or eating onions and other odorous vegetables.
 Charcoal effectnally clears and in- proves tho complexion. 1t whitens the teeth and further acts as a natural and em;nently safe cathartic.
 It absorbs the injurious gases which collect in the stomach and bowels: 1t disinfects the mouth and throat from the poison of catarrh.
 All druggists sell charcoal fin one form or another. but probably the best char coal and the most for the money Is in Stuarts Absorbent Lozenges: they are composed of the finest powdered Willow charcoal and other harmless antiseptics in tablet form or rather in the form of large. pleasant tastirz lozenges. the char coal being mixed with honey.
 The daily use of these lozenges will soon tell in a much improved condition of the general health, better complexion, sweeter breath and purer blood. and the beauty of 1t is, that no possible harm can result from their continued use. but on the contrary. great benefit. A Buffalo physician in speaking of the benefits of charcoal. says: 'I advise Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges to all pa- tients suffering from gas In the stomach and bowels. and to clear the complexion and purify the breath. mouth and throat; I also believe the liver is greatly bene- Hted by the daily use of them; they cost but twenty-five cents box at drug stores, and although in some sense pat- and better charcoal in stuart's Absorb ent Lozenges than any of the ordinary charcoal tablets"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
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purposes, for preserving, purifying and Identifying the skin, scalp, hair and hands, the facts would have been known long ago, and Cuticura would have gone to the grave-yards of medicinal failures.
 " As a matter of fact, Cuticura remedies are very much alive. ob course our salesmen do not ask qucs- tions of people who come to buy them, but from the ever growing de- mand l assume that the good work of Cutjcura has been spread through the community by word of mouth, and with all due respect to the news papers, that is the best advertising in the world.
 Time and competition are tho hardest tests, and Cuticura has with stood them both. Mothers use the
 Soap and Ointment to relieve their
 tormented babies, whose tender skins itch aud hurn with eraptions
 as unsigbtly AS they are agonizing,
 because it is not only effective In
 the highest degree. but it is pure,
 sweet and wholesome,
 Grown mp people who buy the remedies for their personal use, swear by them, l know. Cuticnra Soap is the most popular of skin soaps, and it's sale probably exceeds that of al other s<ia soaps epmbiaed, We have sold at retail oyer es.Oee worth of Ca,ticura Soap, Oipt- meut and Rssotsept this year, aad have as yet not heard ons word of eomplsink. enra than in ether ebsnss ws sell; but since you ask py opinion, l give 1t as freely on @his subject as I yopld on sny 9thss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01

If you have any business with MT. William c. Bolton, President of the Bolton Drug Co.,, Brooklyn, N. Y., you must elbow your way through a crowd of customers, and you will find him working at modest little desk in therear of the long counters.
 A man who has five large stores to look after must learn to do at least two things at once, and Mr. Bolton, whom a reporter fonnd at the store, 264 Futon Street, con tinued to work as he talked.
 "I have been in this business long enough to see many proprietary articles rise and fall he said. "1 have never stopped to anaiyze the reasons for the failures. AS for the successes, merit and good manage ment account for them merit chaef1y.
 "Talse Cuticura Soap, Ointment and ResolveDt, for example. In onr stores we have handled them for years. and the sales have gone on increasing right along despite lively and persistent competition.
 "There are thousands, yes, tens ot thousands of people in this good borough of Brooklyn, who consider them standard househoad articles, as thoroughly to be depended on as to-uorr0V's 's sunrise.
 "In my judgment, the bold of Cubzeura Remedies upon tho public confidence is explsinaioAe upon one ground only; that they really do all they are said te do.
 If they failed to cure eezetnas, rashes and otber tortnring, disfgur- ing skin, scalp and blood huinors, or if the Soap and Ointment did not possess delicate emolient properties especially ftti1g theu for tSileE
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01

day evening. Bishop Beckwith discussed Sunday school work. He has made life long study of this feature of the church, and all who heard him were impressed by his deep insight into the modern Sun day school methods.
 The selection of Bishop Beckwith, as the head of the diocese of Alabama has pleased it is said, net only all Epsco- palians but many members of other de- nominations, all recognizing in him a man of sterling worth and force He has not yet determined where in the diocese he will make his home and it is hoped that he will find that birmingham is the best location in the state from a bishops point of view
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
BISHOP BECK WITH
 CONFIRMED MANY
DURING HIS WEEKS soJoURN HERE HE MADE OFFICIAL VISIT ALTON TO ALL EPISCOPAL PAR lsHEs IN JEFFERSON COUNTY.

The Right Rev. C. M. Beekwith, bishop of Alabama left yesterday for Hunts vile, after spending q week in Jefferson, visiting parishes and looking into the churchs affairs in the states most popu- lous county. Bishop Beckwith made many friends during his stay this having hcen his first visit to the Birmingham dis diocese.
 While visiting here the largest class he confirmed was at Ensiey where he added thirty-seven members to the roll of the church. The other combinations were as follows; Church of the Advent, 25; St. Mary s-on-the- Highlands, 1T; St Marks, D; Grace church, Avondale, 9, and Bess- eIn6r 5, total of 92.
 At St. Mary 's-on-the- Highlands. on Fri
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
BANKRUPT SHOE SALE.

BANKRUPT SHOE SALE.
 We have bought the entire stock of the Magic Shoe Com panv. and will sell you their S3. 50 shoe in any style you desire, box calf, vici or pat ent leather for the next few days at S2.5O a pair. These are all high grade goods, and gre made for the finest trade. We also have the La France Shoes for ladies that were sold for s3. co, which we offer for $1.75. These goods came from the bankrupt court and are sold at a sacrifice.
 Phoenix Auction Go.
 1924 First Avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
RECORD OF COURTS.

Judge Coleman of the Circuit court left yesterday for Winston county to hold court for a week and from there he will go to Walker county. Circuit court here has adjourned until the spring term, which will begin on March 23 and con- tinue until the first of July.
 James Alexander has filed suit for 5000 damages against the Southern Rail- way company, alleging to have received
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

The following real estate transfers were recorded yesterday: lot l2 and part of lot Il, block 60, Avon- dale $l500.
 R. w. Hagood and wife to R. H. Ha- good, a lot in section 3, township IS. range west $2O00
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01

plished He secured the ratification of the Alaskan treaty after it had been re- ported that it might fail. Two bills of importance to the Philippines have also been reported by him and put through, one relating to currency. with scarcely any discussion.
 The President likes a man who secures results, and his confidence in the Massa- chusetts senator was shown in selecting him as one of the commissioners to settle the Alaskan boundary dispute. man untiring In his work, highly educated, skilled in politics and possessing thorough command of himself, who never talks in the senate simply for the purpose of fill ing the Record with words, he has achieved a place in less than two terms that is a credit to himself and the state he represents.
 The day the republican senators held the conference and decided to go ahead with the Colombian canal treaty, 1t was generally understood that the move was in the direction of side-tracking the state hood bill and bringing the fifteen repub- lican senators who had been supporting that measure into line with the majority of the party.
 What are they going to do with you?'' was asked of Senator EllSins, when they get all of the statehood men into confer- ence?'
 'I don't know" answered Elkins "Give us the water cure I guess"
 As the canal treaty was given right of way, the West Virginia senator was about right