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Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-21
BENTON AND BARNUM.
How the Snowman Got a Free Ad.
From the Statesman.

How the Snowman Got Free Ad.
From the Statesman.
James G.. Blaine said that after Ere
mont became famous as pathfinder
Benton, who had opposed his marriage
with his daughter Jessie, became recon
eiled with his son-in-law and took great
pride In his achievements as q western
explorer.
The square on the southern side Of
Pennsylvania avenue. now occupied by
Center market, was then used as a
show ground for circuses and other
peripatetic exhibitions. About this time
p. T. Barnum was beginning his Ca
reer as Snowman, and as Colonel Ben
ton was walking down Pennsylvania
avenue opposite this show ground he
was attracted by the words John c.
Fremont" uttered in loud voice by
Snowman standing at the door Of
small tent, in front Of which was a
garish carica ture Of a nondescript ami
NAL supposed to represent the "woolly
horse discovered by Fremont in the
recesses Of the Rocky mountains.
Benton staIked across the avenue and
listened with great disgust to the state
ment by Barnum, who was his own
doorkeeper and solicitor, that inside
the tent could be found the greatest
natural curiosity in the world, 'the
woolly horse captured by General Ere
mont and now on exhibition
Benton denounced Barnum as an Inn
poster and denied that his son-in-law
had discovered any such animal. Bar
mum, who did not know Benton, told
him fiippantly to pay his quarter and
60 into the show or make less noise,
whereupon the indignant statesman
called upon the police to arrest Bar
mum. and large crowd assembled to
witness the extraordinary scene. The
police refused to interfere. and Barnum
received a free advertisement, much to
hts qualification and profit.-George G.
Vest in Philadelphia Post.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-21
Dressy corkenians

Cork has the best dressed and most
Drosperous looking population in Ire
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WESTBOUND
Train No. leaves Hattiesburg 3:1s
., m. arrives at Sumrall AIS p. IN.
arrives at White Sand 600 p. m.
Train No. 3 leaves Hattiesburg 6:1C
a. m. I; arrives at Sumrall 7:30 q, 10.
arrives at Prentiss Il 80 p. m.
Train No, leaves Hattiesburg 10:1C
a IN. arrives at Sumnall 11:35 a. m.
EASTBOUND
Train No. leaves White Sand 6:45
a. M; arrives at Sumrall $50 a. m.
arrives at Hattiesburg $3.50 q. m.
Train No. 8 leaves Prentiss 1880 p.
m.; arrives at Sumrall 2:50 p. IA; ar
rives at Hattiesburg 5 80 p. m.
Train No. 10 leaves Sumrall y. m. |;
arrives at Hattiesburg 2:20 p. m.
Nos. and 2 daily. Others daily
except Sunday.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-21

In passing through the narrow. crook.
ed little streets of Leeuwarden |
CHANGED upon sign that held my at
tention and compelled thought. 1t read
IL. v. d. Zwaan, Morgen Wekker."
This is faultless Dutch for Morning
Walker. and 1t signifies that l.. v. d.
Zwaan will. for paltry sum. leave bis
bed in the frosty hours Of early morn
ing and. putting sweet sleep behind
Truly, worthy calling! Yet. tell me.
you who are versed In occult things,
who or what in this somnolent land
wakes the morgen wekker?-Edward
Penf1eld in Scribner's.
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His Advice.

You're neglecting your business"
the old man declared.
II admit It" the young man replied
frankly. ''The fact Is. I'm engaged. and
naturally the girl gets my time and
thoughts"
For heavens sake, marry her." ad-
vised the old man. 'Then you'll have
no trouble keeping away from her,
Chicago Post.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-21
One and One Third Fare for Round
Trip.

Account of the Christmas Holidays
the Queen & Crescent Route, on Dec
23rd, oath, 25th, Both and 31st, 1903
and January 1st, 1904. will sell round
trip tickets from and to all points on
its lines. and to all points east OF the
Mississippi. and south of the Ohio and
Potomac Rivers, at rate of one and one
third fares for the round trip, with
final limit January 4th, 1904.
Excursionists by using the Queen &
Crescent Route will have advantage OF
the very highest class of passenger train
service that the country affords, with
splendid Gay coaches, pullman Sleep
ing cars, and dining cars.
The public, for this occasion, Is Of
ferd splendid opportunity to visit
their old homes during the holidays at
email cost,
Full ana detailed information may
be obtained by writing to or calling on
any agent of this system.
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P. & L. R. R. R. CO.
TIME TABLE NO. 7.
WESTBOUND

Taking Effect Sunday, Oct. 4, 1903.
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BE QUICK.

Not q minute should be lost when q
child shows symptoms Of Group.
Chamberlain Cough Remedy given
as soon as the child becomes hoarse,
or even after the croupy cough appears
will prevent the attack. 1t never fails
and Is pleasant and safe to take. For
ale by Bufkin Il Cadenhead.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-21
Statistics,

what do statistics shown inquired
the man who was warming up to his
subject.
"As a rule" answered the man who
Is always doubtful, they don't show
much except patience and industry on
the part Of the man who collected
them" -Washington Star.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-21
w. 7. ROBERTS
Contractor and Builder.

Does all kinds of building and re-
pairing. Address me care General
Delivery or call at my home, SAT
West Fouth st. Will estimate on any
work on any railroad line leading in
to Hattiegburg. sep26-lm
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Even worse.

II cannot sing the old songs" war
bled the young woman at the piano.
But this was small relief, for the new
ones she sang were even worse-Chk
eago Tribune.
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EXCEPTED.

Fay-She always held the lines wher they went driving.
 May-Well, what of that?
 Fay-Oh, nothing; only they are en. gagged now.-Baltimore American. "He says he caught a mammoth cat fish the other day that seemed to bt just big head and no tail"
 'Tll bet if you were to investigate you'd find it was just big tale."-Phil- adelphia Press.
 II heard a fellow say dat he wasn'i happy unless he was workin',' said Plodding Peter.
 Well" responded Meandering Mike "dat show what terrible t'ng 1t is to git into habits. s."-Washington Star.
 You spoke very admiringly of that mans courage"
 "Yes."
 But he never was a soldier or fire man or policeman"
 "No. But he eats mushrooms that he has gathered himself. "-washington Star.
 The Pastor--Surely you do not mean to say, Mrs. Highmore, that the bad people in the community outnumber the good people in the ratio of two to one Parishioner-Certain doctor. Aren't ones next door neighbors on both sides of one always objectionable?- ?-Chicago Tribune
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she cackled in swift staccato. Stop till that COW goes by
 Never mind the cow!" growled the motorman. He shook off the detaining grasp of the white feminine hand upon his sleeve and sped on again. If he asked himself what kind of 9 motor- man woman would make, he asked it only of himself in the silence. On again, past dsndelion fiecked pastures and robin haunted trees. They entered the edge of Fayetteville. A child played alongside the track. Mrs. Flop per screamed.
 'Oh, look! Look where you're going! Don't you see that child?"
 The long suffering motOrman main tained silence as per his orders till the car stopped at the Bogglesville sta- tion. Then he entered the company's office and made report and relieved his mind.
 If them blamed wimrnin don't stop a-settin' on the front seat and a-pes- terin' me with their talk, I'll quit
 The next day appeared just back of the motOrman's head in a place where all who entered the car might read this notice:
 Ladies are requested not to occupy the front seat behind the motorman. .''- Topeka Journal.
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leaves, and luxuriousIy drank in the sweet moisture, for which they had So long been waiting. How quick their re- sponse, how grateful their reply, as they breathed long draughts Of content through the gentle movements of the air, and every tree of them was con- sciously thrilled with refreshment This is what one may see in any shower, when the lightning gleam and the thun- der crash or roll around the hills, but the emphasis was to the human sence more wonderful in the delicate quiet e that Sabbath.
 There is no time more satisfying for walk in the woods and fields than the time of summer rains, just to watch this response of the life of earth in the mul- titude of plants that are in their degree the opponents of the Divine Spirit. The gray day, as the artists call it, has charm that in some respects transcends the sunlight, for it makes values con- sonant, and blends clear vision into mystery. The far-off ranges of hills are yelled in the misty garments of the showers and melt across the broad countryside, and they seem almost im- palpable, like ideals ranged too far and too high for man to compass. but to which he must aspire. The meadows rest peacefully in near sight, and every grass blade or rye head bears its jewell ry of light globes of water, held so in a fashion as mysterious as the evolution of a pearl and yet so transient. Heavily nod the wild roses. their fragile petals loaded with the renewing drink of the ckies.-Springfield Republican. @
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sure in suits affecting its own interests. In England, he said, the police were un- der strict magisterial control. and not under the chiefs who govern them. as in France. The highest personages there were subject to the common law. He knew that the principle of the Brit ish Habeas Corpus act was laid down in the edict of 1791 against arbitrary ar rests. The formal text was there, but the spirit of civil liberty, he declared. was wanting. Under every regime the government attempted to concentrate absolute power in itself. The admins tration was above judicial authority, and magistrates interpreted the law ac- cording to their fancy. M. Morizot- Thibault especially criticised the arbi- trary power conferred upon the prefect of police, who practically was respon- sible to no one except the minister of the interior. There was permanent collision, he said. between the govern ment and the police, and brute force had taken the place of judicial author ity. It was time, he thought, that this tyranny was ended.
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NOT ENOUGH LIBERTY.

In a recent address before the Acad- emy of Moral and Political Science in Paris M. Morizot-Thibault, who enjoys a great reputation as legal authority, declared that the principle of individual liberty was more disregarded in the legal codes of France than in those of any other nation. What they wanted, he said, was the principle of the habeas corpus act as observed in English law. He then proceeded to denounce the subtle gradations by which French governmental authority controls the decisions of judges and magistrates, ? the Councils of Prefectures, Councils of State and all the tribunals which per- mitted the government to exert pres
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THE RULER oS THE wArE.

Britannia may think, say and sing that she rules the wave, but she is mis- taken. Yale has that dominion, and the honor and glory thereof. Last Tuesday at ''the Field' it didn't look as if Yale was any great shakes in the water. but yesterday she shook herself and showed that she is. The achievements at New London furnished glory enough for one day, because they furnished all the glory there was to be had. If there were more that would have been snatched too. But enough is as good as @ feast, especially when enough is a feast
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WHY NOT NEW HA VENq

The Baltimore Sun, which is always on the lookout for the good of its city, is forcibly arguing that the national po- litical conventions of 1904 will do well to come to Baltimore. And in the course of it's argument. it points out that more national presidential conventions have been held in Baltimore than in any other city of the Union; in fact, almost as many as in all the rest put together. The first national nominating conven- tions held in the United States took place there. For the election of 1882 the Democratic convention met in Bal timore and nominated Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren; the Wings nom- mated there Henry Clay and John Ser geant and the Antl-Masonic party nonl- mated William Wirt and Amos Ellmak- CT. Other nominations made by con- ventions held in that city are as fol- lows: Tn 1886 Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Johnson, by the Democrats; in 1S4O Martin Van Buren, by the Dem- ocrats: in 1844 James K. Polk and George M. Dallas by the Democrats, huysen, by the Whigs; in 1S48 Lewis Cass and William o. Butler. by the Democrats; in 1852 Franklin Pierce and William R. King, by the Democrats, and General Winfield Scott and William A. Graham, by the Whigs;' in 1856, Mill lard Fillmore and A. J. Donelson, in- dorsed by the Whigs; in 1860 Stephen A. Douglas and Herschel V. Johnson, and John c. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane, by the two Democratic conventions, and John Bell and Edward Everett, by the Constitutional Union party; in 1864 Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, by the Republicans; in 1872 Horace Greeley and B. Gratz Brown by the Democrats.
 This is an interesting record, but it may not be reason why the next conventions should be held in Baltimore. Some might think it 8 pretty good rea- son for giving other cities chance. New Haven is a great city for national conventions Of one kind or another. Why should't national political con- vention be held here?
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A Pr0tests

No more a bright and lovely damosel, EnWreathed with flowers fair. Whose advent would all gloomy clouds dis
 pei
 And fill the balmy air With warblings of the happy little birds, Will we depict thee soon. We'll have to find another set of words To fit thy season. June. A sour and gloomy visage hast thou shown To our supreme disgust. Such conduct all declare was never known As yours of late. We trust That you may see the error of your ways And, seeing it. may throw Us two or three well-warmed, sunshiny
 days
 Before you have to go. You've been a favorite. Your sunny smile We lOnged for all the spring, But you have frOwned more than little
 while
 A most unpleasant thing. We fain would have you dry your frequent
 tears.
 Pray grant this little boon And don't repeat the act in other years. Brace up, now, lovely June!
 Chicago News.
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ODDITIES OF EXPORTING.


 What We Send Abroad and What We Get-Reciprocity in Lamps. We send Dakota seed to Russia from which she raises wheat to compete with our own product in the markets of the world To plant, cultivate, reap and harvest her crops, we sent to Russia nearly one-half our total exports of agricultural machinery This year we have already shipped some SO,OOO tons of these implements to the land of the czar. In former years all this passed through the ports of New York and Philadelphia, but fractional increase in freight rates between the Lakes and the East has diverted the trade to Southern ports, while experiments are being made in direct shipments from Chicago by way of the Lakes, the St. Lawrence river and the Atlantic Ocean.
 The cotton plant first came to 9merica from Asia; now the greater part of the Central Asian crop is grown from American cotton seed. American cultivators till the soil, which is watered by an American irrigation system. Yankee gins clean the fibre, 9merican compounds press the cotton into bales wrapped with American bands, and finally the cotton finds its way to Mos cow over a railroad built with Ameri- n1 s. gr+A afa by secondhand machinery from an American cotton factory, to compete abroad with American prints.
 Another regular article of export to Central Asia is the Ohio grapevine cut ting. The vineyards of Central Asia are all offshoots from American vines, and the fruit is prized above all others in Russia pr6ber for its delicacy and flavor. Twenty to thirty tons of Amer ican grapes to the acre is a common yield in Central Asia, and as the Amer ican vine is free from parasites, it is being introduved everywhere the world over, from South Africa to Northern China and Japan. We still export to- bacco plants to Russian Asia, So that the Russian tobacco. grape, cotton and wheat crops are all American, once re- moved.
 No Oriental fable is stranger than the, accomplishments of the up-to-date Yankee drummer. In Bagdad, the home of Aladdin, he offers new American lamps that burn either Russian or Ohio oil, for the old battered bronze tallow- burners of the Bagdad housewife, and as these time-w worn Oriental lamps find a ready sale in New York, the enter prising drummer who introduced the American lamp to Bagdad was well re- paid for his trouble Now, however, American lamps are becoming a drug in the Bagdad market, and the supply of old lamps is rapidly giving out, as our lamp trade with Turkey increases.
 A Connecticut firm manufactures sacred scarabael for the Egyptian tour ist trade. The little charms are carved in bulk to stimulate age and shipped in casks to the Moslem dealers at Cairo. The Arabian guides are the chief buy CTS many of them being adopts at ''salting'' the stands at the base of the pyramids, or about the sacred temples, where they artfully discover these sacrabael before the very eyes of the Yankee tourist, and sell him for an American dollar an article manufac- tured at a cost of less than cent, per- haps within stones throw of his own home. For enterprise it beats wooden nutmegs.-Collier's Weekly.
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THE WOMAN ON THE TROLLEY.
Taking No Heed of the Sign Don't
 Talk to the Motornan.'

Taking No Heed of the Sign Don't Talk to the Motorman' It was the 1oveliest possible day balmy and summerlike. The buds were | budding and the shoots were shooting
 Mrs. Hopper decided that was an ideal l day for long trolley ride. Accordingly | she invited her friend and neighbor
 Mrs. Flipper, to accompany her to Bog | glesville, fifteen miles away. Mrs ] Ripper was agreeable to the proposi- tion, so the two friends started.
 They waited half an hour till they could secure an open car, that they
 might view all the beauties of budding ! nature. Then they took the front seat, just behind the motorn1an. A conspicuous sign was posted where their eyes could not miss it, and 1t read:
 Don't talk to the riotorman." Mrs. Hopper was in such haste to se- cure the front seat that she forgot her umbrella and had to staop the car mo- ment while she went back to get it. It being a country trolley, motorman and conductor had not yet learned that the chief part of their duty is to be grumpy and disobliging to passengers. As she stepped upon the car Mrs. Hopper was again in such haste that she dropped her handkerchief and gloves. The con- ductor although he was In the act of tapping his bell, gallantly jumped off and grabbed them and handed them to her just as the electric brush caught it's impetus, and the car shot out of the station.
 Mrs. Hopper was still and silent till she got fully one hundred yards from the starting point. Then she asked the motorman:
 How far is it to BogglesvilIe?'
 Fifteen miles," said the motorman, turning away from Mrs. Hopper and fixing his eyes steadfastly on the shin ing stretch of track ahead of him. Evi- dently he considered the conversation closed so far as he was in it. Not so Mrs. Hopper. No sooner had she heard the answer Fifteen miles" !" which she knew before she had asked the question, than she asked another, to wit:
 What time'll we get there?" The man at the lever did not answer this conversational essay, but glared at the placard forbidding passengers to talk to the motorman. He vented his feel ings, however, by letting the car out so that it went like the wind for a quarter of a mile. An automobile dashed across the track as though the fiend pursued it. Mrs. Hopper breath less, exclaimed:
 Ouch, ouch, ouch! Wow! Don't go so fast. I'm afraid!" And she reached forward and grabbed the lever
 The motorman slowed up a little. On again in peace for a whole mile. Then in the forward vista appeared a man leading a frisky COW along a sunny lane that crossed the trolley track. Mrs. Hopper plucked the n,otorman by the sleeve.
 Take care, take care, take care!"
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ADVERTISING RATES.

situations. Wants. Rents, and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each in- sertl0n. Five Cents Word for full Week lseven timesl.
 Display advertisements, per Inch, one h. eertion, S1.20: each subsealent insertion, 4o cents: one Heek, $3.20; one month, $10; one year. $40.
 obituary Notices. in prose or verse. ID cents per line. Notices of Births. Marri- ages, Deaths, and Funeral. 50 cents each- Local Notices. 15 cents per Ene.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to thesE own immediate business tail matter to pc un0Djetcionabie). and their contracts do not i1ci.de Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
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District of New Haven, $. Probate Court.

District of New Haven. ss. Probate Court.
 .... s.s A.. !. June 23 1903 ESTATE of JOSPH T. WHITTELSEY, late of New Haven, in said District, deceased
 The Cout of Probate for. the District of New Haven hath limited and appointed six months from the date hereof for the credit tors of said deceased to bring in. their claims against said estate Those who neg:eet to exhibit their claims within said time will be debarred. g&s:# 5$5a 36
 All persons indicted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to F SARAH SC0VILL WHITTELSEY,
 MARY ELIZABETH WHITTELSEY,
 j24 St %.fs Executrices.
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OUT OF DOORS IN THE RAIN.

The face of the earth is as lovely as June ever found it, or even has develop ed 1t sby the middle of the month. It was delightful to witness the welcome the trees, the shrubs, the flowers and pastures gave to the tentative showers of the breaking clouds, so long unknown
 to this region. In 8 few minutes the dust of weeks had been washed off the naples and oaks and birches, and they bowed their boughs and dropped their
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The New York Sun makes bold to say that the Presbyterian churches and the other churches which draw their sys- tenn of doctrine from the Westminster confession and similar standards of faith have practically abandoned the doctrine of he'll. At the bottom they are all Universalists, whatever their creeds may say"
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
City Engineers Office, No. IT City Hall,

M New Haven, COnn., June 1903.
 SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this office until II a. m., July 6, 1903, for constructing crushed stone pavement with Belgian block gutters in Lake Place, from Dixwell Avenue to Ashmun Street, and in Grant Street. from Kimberly Avenue to the N. T.. N. H. x H. R.. R. E;
 Blank forms of proposal, and any. inf0r- nation concerning plans, specifications, bonds, etc, will be furnished upon appli-) cation. E. s3siI No proposal will be received after the time specified, and all proposals not on the blanks furnished or not properly filled out, will be rejected.
 The right to reject any or all bids is re. served. sG. {. s3Ss55
 By order of the Commission on Permanent Pavements. {. X,
 i24 St City Engineer.