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The Hattiesburg news., 1909-10-06
ent Of waterworks. Referred.

ent of waterworks. Referred.
The finance committee, consisting
Of c. S. Lassiter chairman; H. c.
Greer and ]. +. Williams, reported that
the committee had checked up the ac-
counts of all officers and found them
all right. The following cash was re.
ported ON hand September 1, 1903:
General fund, s5,214.27; street, $S,-
631.37; water, $1,191.33; park i'm
provement, $1,O66.03; school, $2,-
472.52; cemetery, $99.97; interest on
bonds, $10,79o.55; bond fund, ST.
961.09.
Annual report of the city tax col
lector for year ending September 30
Total amount charged 96,233.15; less
erroneous and double assessment,
realty, $1,121.40, and insolvent assess
ment, personal property, s536.S6. Total
amount collected, $94,574S9.
Privilege tax report for July, 1909.
Amount collected, $4O9.97; collectors
commission, $2O.5O; net amount due
city, $3S9.47.
The report of the city marshal for
July, 1909, showed total fines col
lected amounted to $1,4G2.
Street tax, July, 1909, total amount
collected, 5000.
Water works, amount collected for
quarter, $2,47O.59; to be collected ST.
240.6O.
Collected by poundkeeper for Au-
gust, $6S.S5.
The claim of the West Construction
Company was referred to the city
attorney and city engineer.
The Hattiesburg news., 1909-10-06
Cow Ordinance Amended,


Section 6 of the ordinance prohibit.
ing animals from running at large in
the corporate limits was so amended
as to require all fees coming from
the impounding of animals and the
caring for them to be turned into the
city treasury. Hereafter the fee for
cows or horses taken up between sun
set and sunrise will be 81 and tor
those taken up between sunrise and
sunset so cents. Feeding each horse
or COW, per day 80 cents; for notice
and advertisement thereof 25 cents
and for making each sale % cents.
Another ordinance drawn up last
night, but not yet passed, regulates
the stopping of vehicles for transpor-
tation at or near hotels or restaurants,
or On paved streets in the city. 1t
provides that such vehicles shall not
stop at such places longer than is nee
essary to receive or depot passen-
gers.
The city engineer reported that the
cost of material for building a san
itary sewer for the outlet to septic
tank at South Mississippi College
would be $22096.
Petition from B. F. Travis for re-
moval of obstruction from and the
opening up of Third or Hamper street
between lot 8, in block 10, and lot 2,
in block 20. Referred to committee.
The Hattiesburg news., 1909-10-06
And the Judge Dreamed On.

While tryicg an old woman on a
charge OF stealing faggots a Judge who
had acquired the habit of thinking
aloud unconscious,y exclaimed: Why.
one faggot is as like another faggot
as one egg is like another egg"
The counsel defending the case
heard the observation and repeated it
to the jury, whereupon the Judge
cried:
Stop: it is an Intervention of
Providence. This was the very
thought that passed through my mind.
Gentlemen addressing the jury, &C.
quit the prisoner. London News.
The Hattiesburg news., 1909-10-06
ARRESTED ON A
FORGERY Charge
Continued from page one.)
wife from whom he has been separat-
eed for some time.
May Make Bond.

He is now in Jail, the arrangements
for preliminary hearing not having
yet been made. 1t is altogether prob
able that the cases against him will be
carried to the circuit court, in which
event they will in all likelihood be
heard at the next term of the circuit
court, which convenes in this city in
November.
1t is thought that if a preliminary
hearing is had and he is admitted to
bail, Huddleston will not experience
great deal of difficulty in making
bond.
The Hattiesburg news., 1909-10-06
PEOPLES LAUNDRY
IS ELECTED over
CHIEFS PROTEST
Continued from page one.)

after they have been approved by the
mayor and board of aldermen, and to
Keep the original rolls on file in his
office as a public record.
An ordinance was also passed reg.
ulating the construction and mainten
ance of electric wires for telephone
telegraph, electric light and street car
purposes. 1t is specified how and
where poles shall be set and wires
strung, and prohibits any advertise
ments on poles or wires. This ordi
nance supercedes a similar one
passed some months ago.
The Hattiesburg news., 1909-10-06
To Lay Own Piping.

Petition Was received from twenty
seven citizens asking that the ordi
nance governing the water works de-
partment be amended so that owners
of residences can do their own piping
and fitting for water connection from
where the city water works leave off
at curb stone, said work to be done
to the satisfaction of the superintend-
The Hattiesburg news., 1909-10-06
Praises American Woman.

Alfred East says that American
women. like American machines, need
but little man power. The American
woman, he says, is the most chum
mable woman in the world, therefore
she is the most charming. Our excel
lent educational system. he thinks. is
responsible for the fact that American
women are such good fellows"
The Hattiesburg news., 1909-10-06

Hicks Capudine Cures Sick Headache
Also Nervous Headache. Travellers
Headache and aches from Grip, Stom
ach Troubles or Female Troubles. Try
Capudine-it's liquid-effects immedj
Ately. Sold by druggists
The Hattiesburg news., 1909-10-06
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury.

as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except
on prescriptions from reputable ply
sicians, as the damage they will do is
ten fold to the good you can possibly
derice from them. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney
& Co., Toledo, o., contains no mer-
curry, and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get
the genuine. 1t is taken internally
and made in Toledo, Ohio, by r. ].
Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price 75c per
bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
The Hattiesburg news., 1909-10-06
Little Thelma Hillard's
Birthday Party.

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Birthday Party.
Little Miss Thelma Hillard enter
tanned a number of her little friends
Tuesday afternoon, in honor of her
twelfth birthday.
Numerous games were INDUCED in.
among them a peanut hunt, Master
William Sutherland winning the prize,
a post card album.
The popcorn guess also proved very
enjoyable, Little Jennie Ray Hemp
hill guessing the nearest number Oh
grains in the jar, the prize, a pretty
story book, was given to her
The mother of the young hostess,
Mrs. j. M. Hillard, assisted by Mrs N.
b. Rocket, served the little people re.
freshments in the DINING room.
Those present were: Little Misses
Ruby Cole, Jennie Ray Hemphill,
Mamie Buice, Ebert Cooper, Myrtle
Wood, Mildred Hillard, Irma York.
Fannie Myer, Louise Rocket; Will
liam Sutherland Laurence Mullen,
Joseph Bennett, Jeffries Sutherland,
Edward, Cecil and Willie Hillard and
Pierpont Camp.
U. D. c. Meeting at Hotel Hattiesburg.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
met Tuesday afternoon at Hotel Hat
| tiesburg.
Mesdames John Powe, A. McGregor,
| l.. d. Woodruff and Annie Gay were
appointed as delegates to the general
convention which meets in few
weeks at Houston, Texas. The Daugh-
ters were glad to have with them a
former president, Miss Ella Scanla1.
A number of the members were
present and two guests, Mrs. Sullivan
and Mr.. McGrath.
The plans for the county reunion
on October Goth were further discuss
ed and the ladies desire that each vet.
eran meet with them on that day.
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The friends of Mr.. and Mrs. w. c.
Rodgers will regret to learn of the
illness of Mr. Rodgers mother, Mrs.
R. c. Rodgers at their home on Main
street. Mrs. Rodgers is from Chat
tanooga, but has been visiting her
son and daughter-in-law for the past
| three weeks.
Misses Ligon G. Smith and Mary
Rodgers returned this morning via
Meridian to their home in Birming-
ham, after a few days visit to the
formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Smith on West Pine street.
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Miss Lillian Shaughnessy returned
Tuesday afternoon to her home in
New Orleans after spending the past
three months with her uncle and aunt,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Heisler on Bay
street.
Miss Ella Scanlan left this morning
for Meridian, where she will be the
guest for a few days of her sister,
Mrs. Semmes.
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Mrs. A. McGregor on River avenue
has as her guest, her neice, Miss
Clara Croft, of Moss Point
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Mrs. James McGregor, of Virgins,
River avenue.
The Hattiesburg news., 1909-10-06
Perennial Youth.

To be 10 years young is sometimes
Tar more cheerful and hopeful than to
20 40 years old.-O. w. Holmes.
The Hattiesburg news., 1909-10-06
\0cza/ and Personal |
BOTH pHON IS
WHEN you WERE HERE.
Frank Hamilton Cono,sv

wv WERE HERE
Frank Hamilton conoley.
When you We're here
Inc world was full of gladness,
- There were no sorrows and no shad.
ows, dear
mo memories to fill my heart with
sadness,
NO bitter thoughts to drive me nea,
to madness;
No regrets, no sighs nor tears nm.
bidden
Came to my heart, by Sorrow over
ridden
To crush its very life
When you were here
When you were here
My life was full of brightness
Ihere could be naught but sunshine
with you near
My heart was full of songs of Joyous
lightness;
The darkest corners of my soul in
brightness
Cleaned, radiant in Love. Just for
your presence;
And you were all in all--the very
essence
OF all that's good in life
When you were here'
When you were here
But now the charm is broken
There is no happiness without you
dear.
Ny heart o'erflows with sorrow deep,
unspoken.
SO deep my sorrow and so dense, un-
"a broken
Y My night of Grief that it can know
no morrow!
My soul is stricken stark-its
shroud is Sorrow
But remember still
WHtH you were mere.
Engagement Announced.
Mr.. and Mrs. David P. Davis an
nounce the engagement of their daugh-
ter. Mamie Long, to Mr. Ira La Fay
ette CASTOR. The marriage to take
place early in November.
The above clipping from the Colum-
bus Commercial will be read with
much interest in Hattiesburg as Mr..
CASTOR formerly lived here and has
many friends here. He is brothre
of Mr.. P. Lee CASTOR and nephew of
Mrs. George L. Hawkins of this city.
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A Correction.
Through mistake, the time and
dav of the meeting of the Sowania
nClub was announced in yesterdays
&paper as Friday, at four o'clock, when
it should have been Saturday at three
thirty. Please note the change. The
meeting will be with the Misses Con-
ner on Sixth avenue.
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Historical Club Meets.
The Historical Club of the Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy will meet Sat
urday afternoon at three-thirty with
Mrs. A. Polk on River avenue. All
members are earnestly requested to
be present.
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On Friday evening, Mrs. p E. Phil
lin will entertain at her home on
Elizabeth avenue the members of the
r. Y. p. U. of the Fifth Avenue Bap-
{ tist church
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Mrs. w. A. Roper and Miss Flossie
Brannon have returned rom Ellisville,
where they went to attend the funeral
of Mrs. Roper's nephew. little Paul
Anderson.
Miss Antoinette Dodgson, OF Merld-
ian, is the guest for the week of Mrs.
Dave Farley at her home on Main
street.
Mrs. Story, on Bouie street has as
hon, guest. her sister, Mrs. Eloner Stin-
son, and her little son, Wilmer Earl
of Meridian
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Mr.. and Mrs Gilmore and Mrs.
SHEPPARD of Meridian, were weekend
guests of Mrs. Dave Farley on Lain
street.
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The Hattiesburg news., 1909-10-06

Mrs. James McGregor, of Virgins,
is the guest of Mrs. A. McGregor on
River avenue.
The Hattiesburg news., 1909-10-06

Mrs. A. McGregor on River avenue
has as her guest, her neice, Miss
Clara Croft, of Moss Point.
The Hattiesburg news., 1909-10-06

Misses Lyon G. Smith and Mary
Rodgers returned this morning via
Meridian to their home in Birming-
ham, after a few days visit to the
formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs Frank
Smith on West Pine street
The Hattiesburg news., 1909-10-06

Miss Lillian Shaughnessy returned
Tuesday afternoon to her home in
New Orleans after spending the past
three months with her uncle and aunt,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F.. Heisler on Bay
street.
The Hattiesburg news., 1909-10-06

Miss Ella Scanlan left this morning
for Meridian, where she will be the
guest for few days of her sister
Mrs. Semmes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-16
HE WAS MYsTIFIED.

This is from The Norfolk virginian- Pilot:
 statement is going the round of the the press to the eftsct that miner miner ing to civilization, saw woman for the first time and did not know what to make of her. In this he differs see women every day. Woman has been a puzzle from the dawn of crea- tion and bids fair so to continue to the end of recorded time No man knows what to make of her. no man has known and no man over will.
 Just listen to the mean old thing! What will the women think of him? Of course woman Is a mystery; that's just why they are so charming, and why the. men cant do without them. EyAn Old Adam was lost till F . came, and would have been no b,:ter than a lonely terrapin if no woman had come to cheer him. As to that matter, we have good authority for saying that she landed him in pretty bad hole. but that Is only an added proof that she was @ mystery. What he would have done if there had been no wo- man is left to conjecture. Probably he would soon have been no better than the other beasts of the field.
 As to that story of human being growing up to manhood on the Ameri- can continent without ever having seen a woman, well, we are not ex- actly believing 1t. unless we had more details We should be glad to know how he came to be up in far North of Canada" what sort of region is 1t that a woman has never been seen in. and how he came to be raised with out a woman. Was he born in a mine. deserted at birth and left to grow up in ignorance of the best part of Gods creation. or is there really a region where a lifetime may be passed with out sight of woman? That Is not at all reasonable, though 1t may be pos sible.
 If that was his first sight 6f a wo- man. and he a grown man. we are not surprised that he didn't know what tc make of her." Most men arc in tkot condition after being with women all their lives. If this first specimen was wearing a Mary Jane skirt and g peach basket hat. his surprise and puzzlement were natural. She was plainly a new feature of earth to him We naturally suppose that he had never had access to the magazines and fashion plates, and this airy creature was something he had never even dreamed of. but a man doesn't have to be brought up in a mine without ever having seen a woman to find that she is a mystery. Sometimes one Is g whole lot of mysteries in a bunch.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-16
AN ARousEp proPr.E.

The voice of an aroused people found expression in that remarkable conference of yesterday. It was the most forceful protest that has ever been made in Alabama against State administration or Legislature. It was an impressive arraignment of reckless ieadership-an uprising of the people I in the face of danger.
 From ever county in Alabama there came representative men to voice their resentment and to pledge their ser vice. Out of their retirement there came to join hands with the younger men. honored leaders who had helped to make Alabams's history. The pres ence there of three former Governors Rufus W. Cobb, William c. Oates. and William D. Jelks, was in Itself evil dence of a danger which threatens the people of Alabama. and of the need of patriotic men to protect Alabama's welfare and Its future. A fourth for mer Governor, Hon. Thomas G. Jones. was not present because of his judi eial office, but it is known that he privately holds the same views that the amendment is e menace to the liberties of the people, even as those who had served as he has as the States Chief Executive. There were men like R. B. Kyle of Etowah, W, s. wyman. F. S. Moody and J. T. Murfee of Tuscaloosa. N IT. Frazer of Bullock, John B. Knox and J. J. willett of Calhoun and hun dreds of others. who stand for the highest character and cleanest man hood of the State. It is worse than folly to accuse such men of being in fiuenced by whiskey or brewery inter- ests: 1t is reendacity and an insult to intelligence.
 The most eloquent protest against intemperance In speech and intemper- ance in legislation was recorded in the fierce enthusiasm of that great gath. ering. As Chairman Moody we'll said. intemperance in speech and in legis- lation is as reprehensible as intemper- ance in action. If that conference stood for any one thing, it stood for moderation, which Is true temperance.
 An aroused people have made them selves heard. They will resist the brazen effort to deprive themselves of constitutional liberties. A measure fathered by fanaticism and brought forth in politics. will fail.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-16
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1s. 1909.
VALUABLE MINES .

Among the mineral researches or Clay County which are now being de- yeloped not the least in importance are the graphite mines. situated few miles above Ashland. Of this indus trS,, Tne Ashland Progress says:
 The regularity with which the wag- ons of both the Allen Graphic & Som- Dany and the Ashland Graphite com, pany make their trips to the Ashland deuot Indicate that they are now run hing on regular time and turning out . lot of that product: +,o an6 work have been expended in developln9 anu operating these industries, and we are always glad to see conditions vn, Iavor which they are continually turning loose in our county has been s1s benefit to our people Espeeiaty iS ,r,,nS , tbse oldest and largest. Their monthly nav roll runs up into the thousands' and the expense of loading the psott to uct on the cars at Ashiamu SreIght Srovn hera to Chicago on the same amount.
 rhese Clay County graphite mines are among the most important In the whole country, and from what we nave haard and read about them their value and importance arc only at the beginning of their, possibilities. The existence of that valuable mineral In Clay has been known for quite a while, but owing to the absence or railroad facilities. not much was done towards its development until within recent years. When the railroad was constructed and 1t became compara> lively easy matter to ship the ore II was soon seen that valuable access sion had been made to the mineral wealth and importance of the section and the extract from The Progress Is evidence that the value of the mines is both understood and appreciated.
 This is but one of the many in- stances of the value of railroads as de- yelopers and promoters. In other sec tions of Alabama are to be found val uable mineral deposits which have re- mained undeveloped because of the lack of transportation. As general thing. ores of any kind are too heavy and cumbersome to be transported on wagons; hence they remain unused and practically unknown till a railway penetrates them and then their value is at once made available. Notwith- standing all the war that is made on railroads. they are the greatest devel- opers that can be found. The Clay graphite mines furnish a good exam pie.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-16
MR. EDWARDS IS
 STRONG AGAINST IT
1vash,n~.on Coun4v Nawa

Washington County News.
 have just returned from tne capl- tai where I have spent q month llsten- ing to the oratory of the many ponu- cal aspirants and candidates for omce' who failed to vote their convictions pe- cause of the temptation Of the pie counter" and I think the representa- tives extraordinary session Of the Leg islature should have been awarded a of the most drastic. un Democratic. rn- American, unwise and incorporate bills of any State in the Union. which were run through the mills un- der the guise of tsmperance. Prohibt. ton has the smell of monarchy and Is forefathers from their mother country and caused the revolutionary war. It Is a repeal of the divine law and has the people to serve God according to takes eway mans free agency and de- prives him of serving God according to the dictates of his own conscience.
 were brought about by fanatics. who have been able to organize the church into a political party and who have that would not have existed. New. why all this? Is 1t because our people are growing worse? think not. When read of the first temppersnce 0rsTnifss ,I 1',s year 1517 in which the members signed a pledge not to take more than seven goblets of liquor at meal. provided. however, that this measurement was not sufficient, they were allowed te nave little more. Now II appears to me that our people have become more temperate within the last 400 years.
 And now the fanatics are trying to legislate Christianity into the people instead of trying to have them do right by a sense of duty. The churches Are trying to take charge of the affairs of the State. - infect a prohibition amendment in the constitution of the State The consti- tuition should be handled with care; ton laws that we ought to try before making 1t a constitutional law. Now I hope and believe that the conservn- tive element of our county and State will get their thinking facilities to- gether, go to the election and vote NO.
 Perry Edwards,
 Renresentatiye Washington County.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-16
A MEAN JOKE.

writer in The North American Re- view declares that Mark Twain Is ac- tuaIly dead. He ayers that Mark died in an obscure Swiss village three years ago, and that he has been dead ever since. This will doubtless come as 8 surprise to the noted humorist, whom the reading public of the coun- try believes to be living and going about and saying funny things In his old style He will probably declare that the report of his death is greatly exaggerated. or else they have buried the wrong man.
 The writer of the story ayers. as we find stated in The Pittsburg Post, that to avert suspicion, the bogus Twain is sometimes paradsd before audiences of college girls. that he does not fol- low the well-known characteristics of dress and manner of the real Twain. But, could any living person imper- senate Mark Twain? Is there another