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SUICIDE OR ACCIDENT I?

Yesterday morning at about nine
O'Clock j. |. Johnson, a prominent
lumberman and mill owner of Epley,
Miss was found on the streets of
this city in a semi-conscions condi-
tion, the result of an overdose of
morphine, but whether taken with
suicidal intent or by accident is hot
known. Some two weeks ago his
hand was badly crushed by some
logs, and 1t is known that he had
been taking morphine to ease the
pain, and the more plausible theory
is that he accidentally took an over
dose. On the other hand, he had re :
Gently suffered some severe financial
reverses, and had lost the greater
part of his property, besides being
indebted to business men of the city
His wife arrived in the city yester-
day, and willaccompany the body to
Hickory Grove, where it VIII be in
TERED.
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PERRY COUNTY NORMAL.

This morning at $50 O'Clock the
Perry county norma was organized.
The meeting of teachers was called
to order by Superintendent Woodley
who, in a we'll chosen speech, intro
duced Prof. w. V. FAINT and Miss
Tapley, the conductors. Mr.. FAINT is
a graduate of the University of
Mississippi. He has been for sew
real years superintendent of the
public schools of Newton. Though
young in years he is old in expe-
rience. He comes from family OF
teachers, being a brother of Superin-
tendent J. G. FAINT of Meridian.
Miss Tapley is primary instruc-
tor of more than local reputation.
She has written much in her line
and is now connected with the Jack
son schools.
After brief remarks by Mr.. FAINT
and Miss Tapley, Y. Otis Robert
son, assistant in English at the Uni
versity of Mississippi, was infro-
duced and made an instructive tall
on the importance of teaching Eng
lish composition in practical way
His talk provoked commendable com
ment in the remarks made by thos
following. including Messrs, Gillis
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THAT STREET RAILWAY.
Tonight Set Apart by Board to
Consider the Street Rail-
way Franchise.

Tonight at an adjourned meeting
Of the mayor and board of aldermen
the granting of the street railway
franchise, which was presented at
the last regular meeting, will come
up for consideration Opinions are
conflicting as to the propriety CT
granting this franchise, but all unite
in saying that there are some con-
siderations contained in it which
wtu'd not be for the best interest of
the city. Some of our best citizens are
promoting the enterprise, and we
have great confidence in their we'll
meaning, and we make the follow
ing suggestions to the board with all
due respect to the petitioners for the
franchise, believing that they have
the interests Ct the city and the people
at heart. In the first place the time
asked for in which to begin active
operations is too long, as it should be
about sixty days instead of twelve
months. The reason of this being q
serious defect is obvious, as for that
time it would shut out all like enter
prises, and give any one so inclined
an opportunity to speculate on the
franchise at the city's expense. The
other serious defect is that no time
for the completion of a stated
amount of work is specified, thereby
making it so that small amount of
work-a little grading, a few ties
put down-w0uld suffice to comply
with the condition that active opera
tion be begun" and in this way it
would be possible for the city for the
next twenty-five years to have no
street railway.
These things are noted as possi-
bilities, not probabilities, for we do
not believe the promoters would at
tempt aything that would rebound to
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SUICIDE PREVENTED.

The startling announcement that a
preventative of suicide had been dis
covered will interest many. A run
down system, or dispondency invariably
precede suicide and something has been
found that will prevent that condition
which makes suicide likely. At the first
thought of self destruction take Elec-
trio Bitters. 1t being great tonic and
nerviue will strengthen the nerve and
build up the system. It's also a great
Stomach, Liver and Kidney regulator
Only Soc. Satisfaction guaranteed by
Bufkin 4 Cadenbead, Druggist item
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Phillips, Jones, Hainston and Rich
ardson.
Just here Supt. Currie came in
from the 1000 train and inspired the
meeting with a most eloquent and
forceful address, full of energy and
suggestions. This normal will meet
esch forenoon and afternoon TOR four
weeks in the eastside school build
ing. Tt has the distinction of being
the only institute in the state to run
four weeks. All the others will be
continued two weeks. This distinc-
tion i due TO the ceasefess efforts OF
the County Superintendent of Edu-
cation Currie.
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TIE DEATH PENALTY

A little thing sometimes results in
DEATH Thus mere scratch, insight
icant cuts or puny boils have paid the
death penalty. 1t swise to have Buck
lens Arnica Salve ever handy. It's the
best Salve on earth and will prevent
fatality, when Burns, Sores, Ulcers and
Piles threaten. Only 25c, at Bufkin &
Cadenhead's Drug Store. tfom
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WANTED.

Board in nice private family, with
In four or five blocks of court house.
for self, wife and two little girls-one
large room with two beds Will do.
No other boarders. Monthly advance
cash payments. References given
and required. Address
J. J. HAYN1E, I
Progress Office, City
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FOR SALE FOR CASH.

One second hand Densmore type
writer for $1,000 OF one new smith
Premier (shlpped from New orleans
for 5000 less than list. Apply at
Citizens Bank. july3ltf
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1t is not what school claims
but what it does, that should De
recognized by the public. The Y T.
Business College. of Meridian, Miss;
matriculated eight new students and
successfully placed two of its compe-
tent students in positions during the
past week. june l.
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Notice to Stockholders.

In their banking rooms, the stock
holders OF the Citizens Bank will hold
their ANIMAL meeting Monday. Sept. z,
8 r. N. F. f. PHILLIPS, Cashier.
aug10 til sept1
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the detriment of the best lntreests of
the municipality. However, We
know them to be conservative, open
to suggestions. and the Progress
wishing to see the franchise granted,
believes that it will be so amended
as TO be readily acceptable to the
board.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-10
rno enc paw c,ld curs.

Fcr colds and sCfe throat use kernlotf I
a. .olates Laxative Quinipe- Easily -akep o
eandy and quickly care
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-10

Miss Ruby Dupont, a charming
young lady of Gulfport, is visiting
her friend, Miss Loise Brown, in this
city
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fore sprouting It's native place is in the
Nest Indies

fore sproutfng. Its native place is in the
West Indies.
In addition there is the lawyer PALM,
so called because its trunk and leaf stems
are covered with sharp, needle-like points,
typical, it is claimed, of the acuteness of
good lawyer. The leaves of this variety are
small and without many serrations. This
also is native of the West Indian Islands.
or the fan palms there are many speci-
mems, of various varieties. These as a
class are probably the largest plants on the
avenue, their big fan-shaped leaves fur
nfshing most of the shade. One of these,
the superintendent said. brought over
from London seventy years ago 1t is now
In good health. Mr.. Smith stated, and occa-
sionally bears few seeds. 'One just like
it, continued Mr.. Smith, was presented
to Madame Pompadour over $50 years ago.
and it is still to be found in the Botanic
Gardens at Paris
This particular tree has smaller leaves
than have the others of the fan palms.
Besides all these mentioned, and many
more not mentioned. there are number
of European palms. They mostly
natives of France, and are of several diff
terent kinds. Some of these, which are
found in the northern portion of that coun-
try, can stand a few degrees of frost.
After walking the length OF the avenue
ana remark1ng upon the palms, the Stars
informant called attention to the general
aspect of the Botanic Gardens. This is
not recognizable the same place that
L took charge of fifty years back" he
said reminiscently at that time it could
not he called a garden, for it was a swamp
pure and simple. l can remember yet how
used to chase the little boys away from
the old TiEer creek every time l showed
any visitors over the grounds. The fell
lows used to be fond of breaking the rules
and going swimming under the old bridge
near the northeast corner of the land"
The Memorial Tree idea.
Mr. Smith is the author of the memorial
tree idea, and he has superintended the
planting Of many trees in and around
washington by famous men. Until a few
years ago the Presidents planted their trees
in the Botanic Gardens instead of in the
White House grounds. There are several
old elms and plane trees in the gardens
which We're planted by noted senator's
Near the eastern enI of the palm avenue
Is large, stately tree which was planted
many years ago by Governor Alexander
Shepherd of the District of Columbia
While speaking of tree planting, Mr.
Smith remarked that President Roosevelt
recently planted a graft of the Washing
ton elm. which stands on Boston Common
at Warwick Neck, r. l. He also said
that Senators Allison and Aldrich have arr
ranged to accompany him Smith to Mount
Vernon soon for the purpose of planting
TWO other gratis of the same historic tree
The gratis are now in the possession of the
superintendent of the National Botanic
Gardens.
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CHAPTER XVI.
The Debt of Nature.

Although the daughter of the constable
received every attention commensurate
with the cheer of the camp the day passed
but slowly. With more or less interest she
viewed the diversified group of soldiers.
drawn ty Charles from the various coun-
tries over which he ruled: the brawny
troops from Flanders: the. alert-looking
guards. recruited from the mountains of
Spain: the men of Friedwald. with muscles
tough as fbres of the fir In their native
forests Even the Orient-suggestive of
many campaigns,-had been drawn upon,
and the bright-garbed olive-skinned at
PENDANTS. moving among the tents of pur-
pie or crimson. blended pisturesquely with
the more solid masses of color
For the Flemish soldiery, who had
brought the fool and herself to the camp,
the young girl had a nod and a word but
1t was the men of Friedwald who especially
attracted her attention. and unconsciously
she found herself picturing the land that
had fostered this stalwart and rough SOL
diery- rocky. rugged region. surely; with
vast forests. unbroken brush, Yonder ar
morer. polishing Joint OF steel. seemed
like survivor of that primeval epoch when
the trees were roofs and the ground the
universal bed. Once or twice she passed
him. curiously noting his great beard and
giant-lke limbs But he minded her not,
and this, perhaps, gave her courage to
pause.
What sort of country is Friedwald? %
she said. abruptly.
Wild" he answered
is the duke liked?' she went on
Yes"
DO you know his-iester?
mo"
For all the information he would volun-
teer, the man might have been Doctor Ra-
belais' model for laconicism and n mo-
ment she stood there with a slight frown
Then she gazed at him meditatively; tap!
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EGYPTIAN LANGUAGES
Forthcoming Dictionary Compiled by
Berlin Academy of Sciences.
the New York Mail and Express.

From the New York Mail and Express
A brief dispatch from Berlin CONVEYS in
telligence which will thrill the heart of
every scholar. 1t announces the near COM
pletion of Prof. Ernans monumental Die
tionary of the Ancient Egyptian Languages,
a work endowed by the kaiser, compiled by
the Berlin Academy of Sciences and aided
in no small degree by the best American
erudition. Prof. Erman. the editor, is cas-
lily the foremost Psychologist of the world
though he has toiled in a field wherein
there has been friendly contention for many
years among the scholars of France Eng
land Germany, Italy and America. The
field has been so fertile that the forthcom-
ing dictionary is credited with containing
2So.GO words or subjects" We shrewdly
suspect that the cablegram has confused
the Egyptian word with the ideOgram
which is only picture a pictorial sym
boil.
The oldest records of the Egyptian Ian
guage date back to about B. G. 1900, and
/, did not die out a tongue until about
three centuries ago. Prof. Erman's great
book Will. of course. embrace it's long his
tory and the many changes it underwent.
In one of his own published monographs
on the subject he shows how the language
of the old Egyptian empire was no more
ineligible to an Egyptian of the nineteenth
dynasty. for example, than Latin would
be to the average Italian of the present
tongue of the old empire. had ceased to be
spoken. 1T led an artificial life as a learned
language, playing much the same part as
Latin played in medieval Europe, and was
regularly employed for religious and mon
umental purposes down to the Roman
period Then followed the middle Egyptian
representing an intermediate stage between
the language of the old and the new en-
pires
In it most of the old forms and infections
are retained. but some of the peculiar rites of
the later speech make their appearance
this being the Neo-Egyptian or popular
language about BE. 1500-100O. 1t is repre-
sented by a number of papyri containing
tales poems letters and legal documents
From about b. G. 100 to the Christian era the
language of the Egyptian people was the
demotic, about which comparatively little
! is known: and it was succeeded by the Ian
guage of Christian Egypt, or Coptic
written in a modification of the Greek al
phabet with the addition of characters de-
rived from the demotic. AS a spoken Ian
guage it persisted about three hundred
years ago, but is still employed in the ritual
of the Coptic Church.
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, tap! went the tiny hammer in the mighty
hand. and, laughing softly. she turned.
These men of Freidwald We're not unpleaS-
ing in her eyes.
Twice had she approached the tent
wherein lay the fool. only to learn that the
emperor was with the dukes PLEASANT "A
slight relapse of fever" had said the Ital-
! ian leech. as he blocked the entrance and
stared at her with wicked twinking eyes
She need be under no apprehension, he had
added; but to her quick fancy his glance
said: "A maid wandering with fool!'
Apprehension? No: it could not be that
| she felt but new sense of loneliness; of
| that isolation which contact with strange
| faces emphasized. What had come over
so self-sufhcient: whose nature now seemed
filled with sudden warnings and restless
ness. impatience-she knew not what. She
VINO thought she had rnrtaken so abund-
| antly of Efe's cup abruptly discovered re-
| newed sources for disouietude. With well
| ing heart she watched the sun go down.
the glory of the widely radiating hues give
| way TO the pail OF night Upon her young
| shoulders the mantle of darkness seemed to
| rest so heavily she bowed her head in her
| hands.
| "A maid and a fool! All foolish maid,"
| WHISPERED the wanton breeze
| The pale light of the stars PLAYED upon
| her. and the dews fell. until invountarily
! shivering with the cold. she arose. AS she
| walked by the emperor's quarters she no.
| ticed a figure silhouetted on the canvas
walls. to and fro the shadow moved, shape
less, grotesque, yet eloquent of lifes Vexa-
| ton of spirit. Turning into her own tent
| the 1estress lighted the wick of a silver
| lamp. faint aroma of perfume swept
| through the air. 1t seemed to soothe her
| or was 1t but weariness-and shortly she
| threw herself on the silken couch and sank
| to dreamless slumber
When she awoke. the bright-hued dome of
| the tent was aglow in the morning sun; the
| renected radiance bathed her face and
| form: her heaviness of heart had taken
| wings. The little lamp was still burning
| out the fresh fragrance of dawn had re-
| placed the subtle odor of the oriental es-
| sence. Upon the rug a single streak of
| sunshine was creeping toward her. In the
| brazer. which had warmed her tent the
| glowing bark and cinnamon had turned to
| cold. white ash.
| Through the girls veins the blood coursed
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foot South American tree of the cocoanut
family. with immense leaves and trunk of
unusual thickness-he said:
do you see that palm-over eighteen feet
high and growing in q pot? That was
bought thirty years ago in Client, for one
shilling and six pence 1t was only nine
inches high at that time
How much longer will it last?" he was
asked.
Probably for q hundred years"
And it will grow in a pot all that tme?"
Yes; that is the interesting thing
about it. Fifty years ago, when l first came
over from Scotland. there We're only eight
known palms being grown successfully in
POTS. Now there are millions"
He went on to say that the National b.
tanic Gardens in this country had distrib-
uted over 5000 small palms to, florists
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which. he said. was forty years OLD, the
date containing the seed from which it
sprang having been eaten by him and the
seed itself planted by Father Curley, then
of Georgetown College. There is the honey
palm of South America which has the pc
cular quality of not yielding its honey
like sap unless the stock is held with the
base slanting upward MIR. Smith states
that the liquid absolutely refuses to flow
downward
One of the smaller palms, which has
leaves of q more fancy shape. was
brought over from Japan by Commodore
Perry. who purchased it for a piece of
cloth shortly after the east was opened up
to commerce. 1t bears the scientific appel
lation of ChamarOps fortunei. The Acroco-
mia scerocarpa is also interesting when 1t
is known that its seeds lie seven years be-
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| COIL the soldiers of Friedwald broke upon
| his doomed baud with force manifold
augmented; broke and carried the Hanks
with it, for the assaulting parties to the
right and left were disnayed by the
! strength unexpectedly hurled against the
center The bulky Flemish, the 1.-the Span
lard the lofty trooper of Friedwald, over
flowed the shattered line of the marauders
Duke Robert and Friedwald!' shouted
the Austrian band.
"Cowards! Would you give way?' cried
the free baron, striking among them.
| Fools! Better the sword than the rope
Gomez
But in his frienzied efforts to rally his
men the master of Hochfels found himself
face to face with the leader of the already
victorious troops. At the sight of him the
bastard paused; his breast rose and fell
with his labored breathing; his sword was
dyed red, also his arms his clothes; from
his forehead the blood ran down over his
beard. His eyes rolled like those of an
animal; he seemed something inhuman; an
incarnation of baffled purpose.
IF it is reprisal you want, Sir Duke you
Shall have it, he painted.
"RepriSaln' exclaimed Robert of Fried
valid, scornfully. The best you can offer
is your life
And with that they closed. Evading the
strokes of his more bulky antagonist. the
younger mans sword repeatedly sought the
vulnerable part of the others armor. The
free baron's strength became exhausted;
his blows rang harmlessly or struck the
empty ar.
A sensat ton of pain admonished him of
his own disability. About him his band had
melted away. Doggedly had they given up
their lives beneath sword, mace and pom
lard. The ground was strewn with the
slain. kiderless horses were galloping up
the road. The free baron breathed yet
harder Before his eyes he seemed to see
only blood.
OF what avail had been his efforts? He
had won the princess, but how brief had
been his triumphs. With a belief that was
almost superstition he had imagined his
destiny lay throneward. But the curse of
his birth had been ban to his efforts; the
| he was falling; his nerveless hand loosened
his blade.
Il am Sped" he cried. sped" and re-
leased his hold, while the tide of conflict
appeared abruptly to sweep away.
AS he struck the earth an ornament that
he had worn about his neck became unfast-
ened and dropped to the ground. But once
he moved-to raise himself on his elbow
THE hazard of the der he muttered,
striving to see with eyes that were growing
blind. A rush of blood interrupted him.
he fell back, Strengthened out and stirred
no more.
Now had the din of strife ceased alto
gether, when descending the slope appeared
a cavalcade, at the head of which rode
lady on white palfrey, followed by several
maids and guarded ~ an escort of soldiers,
who wore the kings own colors. A stricken
procession it seemed as it drew near. the
faces of the women white with fear; the
gay attire and gorgeous trappings-a mock
cry on that enSanguined arena.
Proudly proceeded the lady on the white
horse. although in her eyes shone look
OF dread. 1t was an age when women were
accustomed to scenes of bloodshed, Injured
to conflicts in the lists; yet she shUedaro3
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Specimens From Many Lands
in the Botanic Gardens.
SOME OLD AND RARE
A SEED THAT REQUIRED SEVEN
YEARS TO GERMINATE.
The Palm Representing the Acuteness
of a Lawyer-Something About
the Memorial Trees.

In answer to an inquiry from Star re-
porter several days ago in regard to the
avenue lined with palms interspersed with
other tropical plants. that runs through the
grounds of the National Botanic Gardens
In this city. Mr.. William r. Smith, for
fifty years the superintendent of the gar
dens. made the following significant remark
If YOU walk down that avenue, you can
Interview several hundred aristocrats of
the vegetable kingdom. over sixty of them
fine, old nCbes of the palm family"
He volunteered to accompany his visitor
under the big overhanging leaves of the
tropical and semi-tropical plants and relate
something of the history of the walk. Turn
Ing first to a large palm standing just east
of the large greenhouse and little distance
from the palm avenue-it was an eighteen