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How Could He, Indeed!

1t was the day Of the big brothers clubs
picnic. Five year-old Samuel had never
been TO a picnic but his visits to the
settlement which was the meeting place
Of big brothers club. had been product
i've of sundry pats of encoura cement, to
say nothing Of occasional posies and red
apples, and he knew that the picnic for
which his mother had prepared an enor-
nous luncheon. must he altogether de-
sirabe, and he then and there made MP
his small mind that it was high time he
formed the acquaintance Of q picnic.
Therefore. when the club assembled big
brother, with much disgust. produced
Samuel and told his fellow members
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Profitable Mussc. Gathering.

Owing to low water the mussel gather.
ing industry an the Indiana side nf the
Wabash river west Of owensville has
ut any period in the past Those en-
gagged III the business assert thar $40
OVo worth Of pearls have been taker
from the led Of the river this season
This includes 4 territory only thirt,
miles long on the Indiana side. NInsse'
holls are now selling for SIS ton. AM
here Is ready demand for them iron
he manufacturers Of pearl buttons
ne hundred and sixty tons wer,
shipped from GRANVILLE to nm Iowa fac.
tory this week. indianapolis News.
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that Samuel must be their guest or he
too. must forego the picnic.
On the ride to the ferry Samuel, finger
in mouth. declined all invitations to be
seated with the rest of the party. and
eagerly absorbed his picnic experiences
standing up. ON the ferryboat and all
the way to the beach he also trusted
only to his legs to convey him safely,
and by the time luncheon was served it
was very weary bnt still valiant and
interested Samuel wis leaned against
lis big brothers knee The club leader
who had been wondering how much long
er Samuels chubby legs would hold out
tried to coax him to sit beside her. bn,
resolute shake Of the head was all the
reply she get Then big brother patted
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-11-12
FORKS ARE OF RECENT DATE.
No English King Before Henry VII
tho Owner of One.

Knives and forks are luxury Of
comparatively recent date. Some 300
years ago each man had his own knife
and at dinner seized the joint and cut
from 1t such portion as he wished and
passed it on to his neighbor, who did
into smaller bits, which were put into
the mouth with The unoccupied hand.
None of the sovereigns of England
had forks till the reign OF Henry VII.
All, high and low used their fingers.
Hence in the royal households there
was a digntary called the ever, who,
with set Of subordinates, attended as
the meals with basins. water and
towels. The survival of every was ey.
dent after forks had come into fash.
ion. When James |. entertained the
Spanish ambassador at a dinner their
majesties washed their hands with
water from the same ever, the towels
being presented to the king by the lord
treasurer and to the queen by the lord
high admiral" The Prince Of Wales
had ever to himself, which was after.
ward used by the ambassador.
The first royal parsonage in England
who was known to have a fork was
Queen Elizabeth, but 1t IS doubtful
whether she ever used it. Forks came
so slowly into use that they were en-
ployed only by the higher classes at the
middle
About the period Of the revolution. 1858,
few English nobemen had more than
a dozen forks OF silver, along with a
few of iron and steel. At length the
steel fork came In for general use and
was manufactured in Sheffield At first
they had two prongs, but afterward an.
other prong was added.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-11-12
REVOKE DIVORCE LAW.
South Dakota Returns Indicate That
Rapid Separations Will Soon Be
Impossible

SIOI Y FALLS. 5 D., Nov Until
the official count is tuade, the result Of
the vote On the proposed law To- stop
rapid divorce in South Dakota will be in
doubt. Partial returns. however, indi-
cate that the measure has been approved
by large majority The returns from
the various counties of the state have
All been gathered. but are not expected
To be canvassed for several weeks
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-11-12
BIG FACTORY RESUMES.
American Cigar Company Opens Stem
merry in Norfolk, Va, Giving Work
to 700 Men.

NORFOLK, Va, Nov. o.-Thc Amer
lean Cigar company's large stcmmery
factory in this city was shut down some
three months ago, resumed operations to-
day with a force Of 100 employees. Gen
cral Manager Long announced that the
force would be increased to coo and pos
sibly 700, The American Cigar com
pany is n branch of the American To
haccO company.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-11-12
A SONG OF FAR TRAVEL.

Many time some dr0wsy oar
From the nearer bank invited,
CROSSED a narrow stream, ana bore
In among the reeds moon lighted.
There to leave me on n shore
NJ fcrryman hath sighted
Many n time mountain stiIc.
Dark and bright with sudden weitinG
Lured my yagrant foot the while
'GwiNt uplifting and down settling
Whittier Thousand mile ON mile
Beyond the last forgetting
Still by hidden ways | wcud.
N'aSt occasion grown "a ranger:
still euchautmeut. like a friend
Takes from death The tang of danger.
Hardly river or road can end
Where | need step ii stranger,
.ouiSc Imogcn Quincy. in tile Atlantic
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-11-12
FIRE WATER FOR SURE,
Nine Thousand Barrels Burn in Ken
lucky Blaze-Government Loses
$45O,oO0 in Taxes.

LOUISVILLE Ky. Nov . Whis-
ky valued nj $4,000 and buildings
worth $4,000 were destroyed by fire ut
Deatsvile in Nelson county last night.
The government loses 100000 in taxes
on whisky. Nine thousand barrels
were destroyed.
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they grow gray before they discover that with certain
women fit of tears than fit of pro-
family for They surely patient In their
way But neither can it be denied that In their
choice of friends they sometimes stupid to a heart
rending degree. In the main, Anglo Saxon mans
friends little of his choosing the shape of his
nose One the list in the dark. His fam
lily friends, his wes friends, the wives Of his friends
Then come the inconsderable residuum Gin sze) the
friends whom he has chosen for himself Here will be
where blunders will show but the worst like to be
birds Of passage. Perhaps he made them during his col
ege days when the haze every pretty girl
he met 1t is too much to expect lad to pick the girl
of really fine nature and sweetness. Nor does he; he
admres the girl all the other fellows admlre-a pretty
hppant little creature who isn't afraid talk CASUALLY
is y and dance like dream. But will men con-
tinue to admire missy? l trow ot.-Iarper's Bazaar.
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A Plea for Extravaganza.

Beautiful dressing is an art The world
would lose something Of its grace and
charm without It. Men have left off
wearing picturesque and lovely clothes:
really somebody must do il. i extraya-
eance n Woman's dress 50 very wicked.
then LADY.
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the sand by his side inyitinely. and said
Come along, Sammie, and sit down by
me-"
"Aw," said Samuel reproachfully,
how kin | sit down when I've got on
me best pants New York Times.
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Boston Brokers Fail

BOSTON. Mass Nov. 9-The assign
ment Of Burnham, Bennett Il Co. mem.
bers Of the Boston Stock exchange. was
announced at the opening Of the board
today.
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MEN AND WOMEN FRIENDS.
By Octave Tharef.

Chiyalry is an Old-fashioned word; but the
thing itself, though less in evidence was never
so much in action as in our very own time
Men show it in their whole attitude toward
their women friends. They handle our feel
inss with their lightest touch they walk among
our prejudices on tiptoe; they take off their
hats to our bigotry if we call it religion; they
accept our squeamishness for refinement; and
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-11-12
SENDING A SON TO COLLEGE.
e

"Why did you send your boy to College, |
asked the president Of a great railroad. BE
cause he will have hard problems to solve
The college training will fit him to solve these
problems The problems which American life
is to solve In the future are Of tremendous
perplexity and eomprehensiveness.
They are social financial, governmental, indus
trial. The masSing Of the great forces of life
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-11-12

occurring in the United States. The continuance of
the process of combination and consolidation to be
limited only by the finding of men who can guide and
control these great movements
The who give most promise for such guiding and
controlling the college men, for they trained
They trained to think. They able weigh
evidence They values, assets They reduce
q multitude of discordant phenomena to the one truth
which unes all into harmonious whole. They are
able detect the irrelevant and to point the essen
tal and necessary. They discriminate motives and
show how motives become movements
1t is of course superficial and l think it is almost
superluous say that college graduates have mo-
nopoly of such conditions and forces, Greater who
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ships by electric power There will be coal smoke
sckish odor Of stale steam blazing caverns in the
hold, where human beings with staring eyes and black
ened faces sweat their lives that the pulse o, the
engines may not stop The storage battery will take the
place coal Instead Of coaling, the
great ship will quietly and clearly its batteries
at its journeys end and If coal is used it will be far
from the linen and noses of men.
In time coal will to be our only source Of en-
ergy. In every land of science patiently study
Ing the problem of utilizing the energy of the sunstor
ing It, In fact that the generation of electric force
may be cheapened by its to point where the storage
battery large scale will be economic well
academic possibility The wasted energy In coal
used may in the interval be brought to do its work
and bring about the monster storage battery
than expect. But sooner or later shall en-
slave the suns rays uses as we have the other
products Of his being.
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WHEN WE ENSLAVE THE SUMS RAYS.
Bv Gugielmo Marconi, Wireless Telegraph Inventor

In all ways science is more and more study
ing to perfect the practical comfort and we'll
being of the world. OF course there will al
ways be ships upon the sea. The mysterious
primeval voice of the ocean will continue its
spell over the human imag ination.
But there will not always be steamships,
They will pass the way Of their predecessors,
and before long we shall cross the ocean in
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-04-15
Lost Commitment.

An eminent singer of foreign birth
whose appetite is such that it almost
rivals the fame Of his voice dined at a
table where all the women were rea-
sonably mature, with the exception of
the nineteen-year-old daughter of his
host, who sat at the great mans left.
The artist paid avid attention to his
plate until the latter stages of the re-
past, when the dishes began to come
slowly enough for him to engage in
conversation with the young person, to
whom in the Latin manner he paid a
Latin compliment, assuring her in her
private ear that to him she seemed
like flower among vegetables"
"Then can scarcely hope to occupy
first place in your thoughts at dinner.
she responded demurely.
And the eminent singer could moi
think Of an answer.-Harper's Weekly
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-04-15
A Bad Shot.

A hot headed Irishman accidentally
insulted an equally hot headed French
man. who insisted on fighting a duel
with the HiDernian to wipe out the
slight The Irishman suggested that
the two of them should each draw a
card from pack. and the one who
drew the lowest was to go into an ad-
joining room and blow his brains out
The Frenchman demurred at first, but
finally fell in with the idea, and the
two opponents drew out the cards, one
OF which was bound to carry death in
its wake. The Irishman drew the low
est card, and, with a smile. he charged
his revolver and betook himself off to
a small anteroom to complete the .trag-
edy. Presently a loud report rang out,
and the white faced people ran wildly
to the little anteroom, fully expecting
to see the Irishman CORY corpse. In
stead he came coolly along the passage
to meet them. and as they stared won
deringly at him he cried:
"Begorra, Oh missed meself!"
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-04-15

newspaper published in Forrest
county, inviting sealed bids for the
construction of new jail for said
county, according to the plans and
specifications therefor prepared by
VIM. s. Hull, architest, Jackson. Mis-
sissippf, and now ON file with the
clerk of this board.
The bids are to be on file with the
clerk of this board at six o'clock p. m.
on the first Monday in May. 1908;
after which time the bids will be
opened, and the awards made to the
lowest and best bidder, the board re-
serving the right to reject any and
all bids.
A certified check on some reputable
bank for the sum of five hundred
dollars, payable to J. p. Pace. the
president of this board, must accom-
pany each bid. The certified checks
of all unsuccessful bidders will be re-
turned as soon as the award shall be
made.
The successful bidder, within ten
days after the award is made, will
be required to give a good bond with
sufficient sureties, to be approved by
the clerk of this board, in the amount
of his bid, conditioned for the faith
full performance of his contract.
When said bond shall be executed,
approved and filed, the certified check
of the successful bidder will be re-
turned; but in case he shall fail to
make and file said bond within said
time said check shall be thereby for
feited, and become the property of
said county.
During the construction of said Jail,
monthly payments will be made to
the contractor to the extent of
eighty-five per cent. of the work COM
pleted, on the estimates of said archi-
tect or any other who may hereafter
succeed him.
I, T. E. Batson, CLERK OF the chan
Gerry court, and ex-offico clerk of the
Board of Supervisors in and for the
County and State aforesaid, do here
by certify that the above and fore
going transcript is a true and correct
copy of an order passed by the said
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the notes described in said deed, at
maturity thereof, on account of said
default, and being by the provisions
of said deed authorized thereunto, |
have declared all debts, demands and
charges secured by the terms of said
deed due and payabie; demand hav-
ing been made for the payment there
of, and payment having been refused,
to pay and satisfy the same, /, D. M.
Eastland, will, within legal hours, at
the front door of the court house in
Forrest county and state of Missis-
sippi, on the second Monday in May.
A. d. 1908, after first advertising the
same by publication for three consec-
tutive weeks in the Daily News, a
newspaper published in Forrest
county and state of Mississippi, and
by posting a copy of the advertise
ment at front door in said county and
state for said period, offer for sale
and sell at public cutlery to the high
est bidder for cash, the land describ-
ed as follows:
Lot One () in block one hundred
and fifty-one (15D of the Jno.
Hamper & Hamper G Whinnery sur
vey and addition to the city of Hat
tiesburg, according to the map of
said survey now on file IN the chan
Gerry clerks office in the city of Hat
tiesburg, Forrest county and state of
Mississippi.
This notice published and posted
this the 14th day of April A. D. 1908.
D. NJ. EASTLAND.
A15-wed-3w.
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No Use For a Pessimist.

Freddie and his mother were having
a thoroughly satisfactory romp when
a visitor was announced. As one top
&c Of conversation after another came
up it developed that the caller was in
an extraordinarily pessimistic frame OF
mind and expressed her disapproval in
no measured terms of everything and
everybody under discussion.
This impartial knocking" disturbed
Freddie's amiable soul nightly. and
he slowly drew nearer and nearer I'M
til he finally stood before the lady,
with his small face puckered and the
corners of his mouth drawn down.
She stopped in the midst Of an "Oh,
a dreadful bore, my dearw to say:
.sWhy, Freddie. please do unscrew
your face. don't like to see little
boys look like that"
Freddie surveyed her for moment
and then said trenchantly, but with
an obviously sincere wish for informa-
ton:
, ~ guess you don't like most any
thing, do youT-New York Times.
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NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND.

BY virtue of the provisions of
certain deed executed by me to Mrs.
]. Frank Smith on May the 18th A.
ID. 1907, conveying to her the land
described as follows: Lot One Cd in
Block One Hundred and Fifty-one
Q5D of the Jno. Hamper and Ramp
er & Whinnery survey and addition
to the City of Hattiesburg, according
to the map of said survey on file in
the Chancery Clerks office in For
rest county and State of Mississippi,
for the consideration and upon the
terms and conditions therein men,
toned, which deed is of record in
Book at pages III and ITS of the
record of land deeds in Forrest
county and State of Mississippi.
Default having been made in the
payment Of the first and second of
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-04-15
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE.

/, G. F. Reddoch substituted trustee.
under the provisions of and by virtue
of the authority conferred upon me in
a deed of trust, made by V. B. Brown
and Annie e. Brown his wife to E. L.
Anderson and e. A. Anderson on the
4th day of December, A. D. 1907 to Sc
cure certain indebtness to said e. l.
Anderson and e. A. Anderson and
which said deed of trust is recorded
in Deed Trust Record Book No. 1, Page
$50 in the Chancery Clerks office OF
Forrest county, Mississippi. And the
said E. L. Anderson and E. A. Ander-
son having transferred, setover and
assigned said deed of trust to the Hat-
tiesburg Trust and Banking Co., cor
poration under the laws of the State
of Mississippi, domicled and doing
business in the city of Hattiesburg,
Forrest county, Mississippi, and the
said V. B. Brown and Annie E. Brown
having failedto pay said indebtness
at maturity I will on the 9th day Of
April, A. D. 19O0S, offer for sale at
public auction for cash to the highest
bidder, at the front door of the court
house in the city of Hattiesburg, dur
ing legal hours the following descirb-
ed property: E1s, NeA andNeA Sell,
Section 81, and NwA SwA of Section
80, all in township N. R. 10, West,
Forrest county Mississippi, and one
mare mule about ten years old named
Molly.
This 31st day of March 1908.
c. F. REDDOCH,
| Apr1 wed 3w Substituted Trustee.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-04-15

Cardinal Richelieu once. listened to
an earnest sermon by shoemaker.
The man was simple and unaffected
and apparently not at all dismayed by
the presence Of the cardinal.
How could you preach to me with
SO much confidence?" Richelieu asked
him in evident surprise.
"Monsigneur," replied the shoemaker,
II learned my sermon by reciting it to
field of cabbage heads in the midst
of which was one red one, and this
practice enabled me to preach to you"
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SEVEN.

Board of Supervisors, and entered at
their April term, A, d.. 1908, on the
7th day Of April, 1908, as fully and as
completely as the same appears q
record in my office in Board of Sup
ervisors' Minute Book I, on page Ill.
Given under my hand and the seal
of said Board of Supervisors, at my
office in Hattiesburg, Miss, this the
7th day of April, A. D., 1908.
T. E. BATsoN. Clerk.
A8-w3t
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'NorAnyOther
Creature.
By Ina WRIGHT Hanson.


CA>->~-~~cO~~>~~~
Looking up from long drawn reverie
before the unfinished picture on my
easel, | saw Iolanthe beaming at me
from the doorway.
Come onr' she cried. ''Put up your
work and come with me into the coun-
try. believe you don't even know 1t
Is May day. Don't you remember the
month Of May. when the air is SO full
of sweetness and love that even one
shaving begins to feel an affection for
another shavingY Come. let us May
ing CO."
II can't" answered. I'm up
against it. I'm crowded to the wall.
I'm broke"
Iolanthe laughed-the sweetest sound
in this wise old world
II had an intuition so. but that
doesn't matter. This is my treat. You
see, Isabel .Dory took me to dinner yes
terday. so have enough to take us pic
nicking today. Come. brave knight.
put on thy helmet and hasten
i FASTENED. No one could resist To-
lanthe. took her little covered bas-
ket, and we went along the hall and
down the stairs. with mock-doleful
messages following us from our fellow
workers. who were not going out into
the blosoming May day world.
what car are we going to takeY
asked as we reached the street.
Iolanthe blushed deliciously.
I'VE are not going to take car. You
see. got so interested in buying a
'scrumptious' lunch that forgot about
the car. and
II see," / said gravely. "And you
don't know how glad am that we are
to walk. 1t is so much healthier.
Then we won't have to mingle with
the plebeians on a common car. When
rich aristocrats like u.s.
Iolanthe glanced up at me rather
, sharply. thought. 1t couldn't be that
she knew-of course she couldn't know.
No one knew but my uncle's lawyer
and myself, and maybe my uncle.
wondered II my uncle did know IN
that unknown country he had lately
entered. BY and by should tell Iolan-
the that, when the preliminaries were
over, ] should have enough money to
buy her everything she wanted, even
II on this blithe day had not pen