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The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

The British chancellor of the ex-
 chequer Is said to be working sixteen
 hours a day to contrive ways and
 means to meet an estimated deficit of
 sixty-five million dollars in his coming
 budget. Among the means under con sideration are increased license duties, income tax and land tax. Doubtless the new secretary of the American treasury has fellow feeling with Mir. Lloyd-George, though he has no re- sponsibility for raising revenue to meet the deficiency. That is the business of congress On both sides of the ocean there seems to be more thought of raising new revenue than of reducing expenditures. Over there they attrib- ute the deficit to old age pensions, which will require nearly forty-five million dollars, though the responsibili- ty might well be shared with increased army and navy requirements Here we might in the same spirit charge the coming deficit to Civil War pensions, which require more than the largest estimate made of 1t. We cannot pre- tend, two generations after the end of the war, that these are anything than a special form of old age pensions. Nevertheless we think that the Amert- can people would disband the army and hang up the navy before they would allow the pension list to be touched Whether we admit 1t or not, every form of public pensions or other care for the old or poor or helpless is a rcognition of the obligation of mod to take charge of the poor 1t makes Orphanages and homes for the aged and hospitals as well as aims houses express the sense of this obli- gatiOn on the part of private founders as well as the state. The industrial civilization by which alone increasing millions can be maintained on the earth's surface produces inevitably ex- tremes of riches and poverty. Priva- tion and suffering intolerant to mod ern humanity can be prevented only by some form of distribution of the excess among the deficient They who cry out most loudly against the heresies of Socialism recognize this necessity in other ways.
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18
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THE GIRI. AT THE DESK.

q think" declared Mrs. Brewster to her daughter, "that women are just about as mean to other women as they can possibly be. Men are bad enough, goodness knows, when they get to teas ing, as your father does every little while. Now up at the library this morning there was an example of what I mean" She pulled off her gloves and sat down to tell the story.
 ''What happened, mother?" inquired her daughter, quietly continuing her sewing.
 "Why, when I went to the desk to return my book, there was a woman there, planted right in front of it She Sas looking hard at the girl, juss as if she thought she was aboSt SsS wretch edest person in the world TSeA heard her say:
 "T didn't receive a cara. Bow was I to know that it was overdueT
 "'We don't send out cards till the book has been three days due,' the girl answered.
 "'Why don't youT heard the wom- an ask. T should think you might
 CT don't know. It's the rules They are pasted Tn the front of each book
 That made the woman pause a min. ute. Then siIe said that she didn't read the rules, and she thought she needn't pay the fine, because how could she be expected to know when the book was due if she didn't read the rules? I saw that the librarian was nearly going to say something, but she check ed herself just in time.
 'The woman said, Well, think yor are very unjust, and shall speak about 1t to a friend of my husbands who is one of the trustees-Mr. James c. Wilson. I shall leave my card here to-day and pay the fine tomorrow
 "I stepped up to the desk" continued Mrs. Brewster, "and laid down my book. I am so sorry began, think ing that the poor girl would be nearly crying with modification. She did look kind of red about the eyes. But just then she made a funny noise, and I saw she was laughingi
 "'Do excuse me- she said, but have such a sense of humor that I can't keep my face straight when a-a-persor like that talks like thatr
 'Now there.". concluded Mrs. Brew ster, as if she wanted to impart les son, twas what I should call a good Sensible girl. Shouldn't you, Margarerr'
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18
A Burdened Man.

A certain small boy in grade number six was rapidly assuming manly ways. Not long ago, says a writer in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, there was to be an entertainment at his school. Songs, recitations and a grab-bag were the principal features. The small boy waxed eloquent of the coming glories of this show, and more especially of the part he was to take
 On the morning of the entertainment his mother suggested that he should take his little sister, about four years old, with him. He hung his head
 Don't you want to take herr" his mother asked
 ''No, I don't" he answered.
 ''Why notg'
 "'Cause there ain't none of the other fellers has to bring their children" !" was the reply.
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

are going to try to live in the White House as they would if it were their private property, to relegate business to the executive office buildings, to di- minish the ceremonious trappings of high position, and make their friends feel "at home" There are difficulties in the way. A public official no mat ter where he lives, must resign himself to having his parlor turned into con- ference-roOm. One of the most retir- ing of distinguished American women recently complained that her house had become a public institution. More over, no American, shifting and rest less as we are, ever feels quite at home in a house hired, or borrowed, for a limited time. It lacks the extra bay window that we put on ourselves, and the 'ellum-tree in the front yard that father planted
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18
He Could Read.

Thomas Bailey hldrich, the poet, and author of the story of a Bad Boy" was noted for his wit and a very engaging sort of happy impudence." Tn his biography of Aldrich, Ferris Greenslet relates this story:
 He delighted to tell of his experience in getting his name reinstated in the voting list of Boston after an absence of year or two. Appearing before minor magistrate of the race that, as Lowell said, fought all our battles and got up all our draft riots,'' he was ask ed his name and occupation. and if he could read.
 Modestly admitting that he could "a little,' the Declaration of Independ- ence was handed to hiDl, and he was told to Read thot."
 "Begorra," said Aldrich. "I will 'WhiD in the coorse of human ivints-"
 He was allowed to register
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

Mother Shipton's alleged prophecy, so long regarded as the most wonder fui prediction ever uttered until 1t was proved to have been a flake, :" failed to provide for the automobile, although she did foretelI the steam To- comotive. But the automobilist's case was anticipated many centuries before. See Nahum, chapter 2. verse 4: 'The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways; they shall seem like torches; they shall run like the light uings."
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18
Use. far Mn.te Wood.

Uncle Sam is concerned about the wilIful waste of wood which seems predestined to create woeful want Millions of cords of wood are wasted every year in the forest and on the farm because this wood is not suitable for the various mechanical uses for which wood is employed There are, however, numerous means of dispos- ilg of this waste. Aside from tan ming and paper making, which are chemical industries that have been established for hundreds of years, there are other industrial uses of more re cent origin which are of agricultural importance.
 Important among these are destr1c tive distillation, recovery of turpen- tine, resin, paper pulp, preparation of alcohols and manufacture of acids. These are growing industries because of steadily increasing demand for wood alcohol, acetates, acetone, tur- pentine, charcoal, etc, which are util- ized in other industries.
 The crude products from distilla- tion are chiefly four-gases, tar and oils, charcoal and acids. Methyl alco- hol, acetates, acetone, charcoal, tuI pentine, wood oil and oXalic acid are directly or indirectly obtained on a commercial scale from woods, and the yield is gov arned largely by specific gravity, weight and kind of wood as well as by the way in which the maDQ t.turing process is carried on.
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18
urigin or u1d GIor,.

In the "reminiscences of Lord Ronald Gower is found a story of the origin of the stars and stripes.
 The star spangled banner" of the American republic had its origin from an old brass on the floor of an ancient church in Northamptonshire The brass covers the tomb of one Robert Wash ington and is dated 1922. On it ap- pears the Washington coat of arms, consisting of three stars, with bars or stripes beneath them. On the first day of the new year, 1776, the thirteen Inited colonies raised a standard al Washington's headquarters.
 This introduced the stripes of tho present, but retained the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew on blue ground in the corner. In TIT the crosses were replaced by stars, as the Declaration of Independence rendered the retention of the English element unnecessary and inconvenient. In thus adopting the arms of his ancestors as his own distinctive badge Washington no doubt intended the flag merely as a private signal for his own personal fol- lowing, but it was at once adopted as ( national emblem. Probably there is not another case in the worlds history fin which the private arms of an ob- scure family have attained such world, vide eminence and repute.
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

Passengers riding on the platforms do so at their own risk" according to the rule of almost all street railways, and the statement is by no means a mere form of words. Boston lad stepped from car in order that two women might alight. As he boarded 1t again the car started suddenly, and he was injured He sued the company and got a verdict. but the Supreme Court of Massachusetts has set 1t aside on the ground that "by volunta- rily becoming a passenger on a car so crowded that he could not get inside he took the risks incident to transpor- tation under these circumstances" It seems hard that an act of courtesy shOnld lead to misfortune, and that this in turn should be met with "served you right" but such warn- ings are meant to discourage not the practice Of courtesy, but the assump- ton of unnecessary risks.
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18
GIuttonous New Yorkers.

The food supply of New York Is SC enormous that though the rich and well to do gorged from morning to night they simply could not eat at all, says q writer in Success. There would still remain an abundance for every one if some way could be found of dis tributing the fragments. Just consider the figures which I have on careful authority: New York receives every week 1O0O0,O00 pounds of dressed beef, 100000 pounds of pork, ham and pigs meat, 100000 pounds of poultry, 100000 pounds of sansages. 100000 pounds of mutton and lamb, over 2,6O0.OO0 pounds of liver, heart, tripe, etc, over 100000 pounds of canned meat, 50O,0OO pounds of game and 100000 pounds of fish.
 The fragments of this food, tons and tons of it, are collected every day and carried off 10 fatten pigs in Jersey or load the fertilizer .scows that ply down the bay. Every day of the year from 800 to 900 cartloats of food, much of it perfectly good, are taken from the homes and hotels of New York and simply thrown away. A million people could live and live well on this waste If the problem of collecting and distrib- uting it could once be solved. And l suppose any kind-hearted individual could solve 1t in a small way himself with wagon and little brains!
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18
The Educated arocer

"say, mister" said the small boy, breathlessly, take down this order quick; l got to go to school. Two pounds of coffee at 45 cents; three and one-half of sugar at cents; six boxes of cocoa at 24; two dozen eggs at 32, and four pounds of butter at 40 cents. How much does it come to?
 -Four dollars and eighty-three cents, my little man." said the grocer. What address, please"
 Gee! Thanksl' said the schoolboy as he made his escape. That was the only one I couldn't do !"-Success Mag azine.
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18
Varying Impre.sions.

'NThe days are growing longer" said the man who keeps a lookout for the first robin.
 q don't notice any difference" said Sirius Barker; they seem, as usual, to be getting longer if you count from one pay day to the next, and shorter If you figure the time between rent days" Star
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

While he was on his way home from a bull fight recently King Alfonso of Spain stopped for the purpose of lay ing the corner stone of a free soup kitchen for the poor. He was prob ably actuated by a desire that there should be a fitting disposition of the remains of the bulls killed in the ring.
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

A well-to-do merchant of New Cas- tie, Pa, wrote scathing letter to his wife and she committed suicide. When he heard of 1t, he collapsed and was taken to hospital. How much nicer kindness and forbearing are,
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

A young woman in New York eloped with a gentleman and was greatly sur prised to find that she had become the stepmother Of nine children by that act Therefore sine deserted her nesy husband. Is there no romance pos sible for a widower with children?
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

What is heroism, after all, but doing in exceptional circumstances what would be plain duty in ordinary cir cumstances? It is the one who habitu ally does the second that fills thS bill when given a chance at the first
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

Prominent citizens who are figuring on taking luncheon with the new Presi- dent will learn with deep regret that MT. Taft takes only an apple for lunch, and does not leave any core.
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

A Missouri judge decides that when a man merely does the chores around the house he is not working. That will hold some men for a while who think they are models of Industry.
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

No matter how high prices of bricks may be boosted by combine of manu- facturers, it is not probable that the practice of throwing them will be rem dered less popular.
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

Save your old wastebaskets. A lit tie trimming will convert them into fashionable spring hats
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

Mir. Binns, the wireless hero, was dttingly given O ride in a horseless carriage when he reached home
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

Even classic Boston butts into the municipal corruption procession with a mIIlion-dollar graft case.
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

English women are in prison for at tempting to see Premier AsQuith. Judg- ing by his pictures he is not much of sight, either.
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

If you want to be of assistance to a friend in trouble, do not say, "I'm sorry That will not help him any, but it may bore him.
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

Princes George and Alexander of Servia have traded names, but the peo- pie of Servia are busy hoping each may have retained his own character.
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

President. Taft. according to the omniscient newspapers. is helping Mrs. Taft to make the White House a home The idea is that these good Americans
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

There Is a post office in Nebraska named Tonic, but 1t is not believed that the postmaster took the office fof bis health.
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

The Treasury Department is to change the pictures on the greenbacks. Most of us will continue to have the game designs on them, however.
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

The family with a 16-year-old boy in the house has no earthly use for q thirty-six volume encyclopedia
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18

Perhaps the only sure way to beat . tax on inheritances will be not tt die.
The Holbrook news., 1909-06-18
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Everything will be made of cement g. and by.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-03
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.

Prof. Massey, in the Southern Farm
Gazette, writing upon "Dlversl1leu
Farming" says:
at does not mean. rs many Of the
newspapers try to make the farmers
believe, the growing of some Of ovely-
thing that can be produced in the ca
mate. 1t means the growing. in sys-
tematic rotation, of the crops that Lave
the most commercial value in the sec
ton. It. means a rotation aimed TO
improve productiveness of The soil.
in the chief money crop cspeciA"y,
while growing increasing crops of all
the auxiliary crops. 1t m9ans getting
legumes on land often, TO feed stack
and increase the humuS, content II the
soil, for if you increase the humus, all
else will follow. 1t means Keeping
the land hard at WORK Ill The time,
growing something to hep it between
the sale crops. But it does not mean
merely a heterogeneous growing of
this, that and the other crop without
any settled plan of rotation"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-03

stream and under the most favorable
owing to the fact that the
river has been filling up for years
with logs, which, of course, has choked
the channel and would have ob-
structed a stream of less volume than
the Leaf river. The people of Hat
tiesburg are expecting much from this
trip for they have about come to the
conclusion that our only relief from
the unjust rates we are enduring, will
come with the improvement of Leaf
river and it is reasonable to suppose
that once we can show the railways
that we can bring freight up the rive
and take big cargoes of cotton down
They will give us the rates which hay
been withheld from us without an
justice. The handling of barges c
cotton to the ship side will no doubt
be practicable and it will make quit
difference to every road in Hattie
burg to lose this tonnage which wi
amount to thousands of bales ann
ally.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-03

The average returns upon invest
ment to the farmer for the whole
country is Ia per cent For the south
it is rs per cent. Mississippi leadi
all the states of the union with AZ per
cent. 1t is no uncommon thing in
this state to see man with so acres
of land valued at S. per acre, making
8 bales of cotton worth $500, 300 bush
els of corn, and an abundance of meat,
syrup, potatoes, peas, butter, eggs,
chickens, ETC., with no other than the
labor of himself and children. Many
a negro tenant earns and spends every
year, in Mississippi, more than the
western owner of a $4,000 farm; and
almost any one of them can obtain
advances equal to good labor wages fol
year.-Aberdeen Examiner.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-03
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!: IN THE OPEN COURT. Z:

Mr.. Editor:-During the past few
weeks our side walks have been very
much benefited by the radiance of
the obnoxious grasses and weeds grow
ing thereon. Some of our citizens
have even cleaned up the tall grasses
and weeds growing on the vacant lots
owned by them. Whether this was
done under the ordinance covering the
sidewalks l know not, but am inclin-
ed to believe it is. A few of these
such lots seem to be a good place for
COWS to Craze, and the COWS seem to
be of the same opinion from the way
in which they eat the grass, regard
less of pound lines" or anything else.
The city fathers have been liberal
In this boundary line and l don't think
anyone could want them closer in.
Now from the city standpoint the
enforcement of the boundary lines is
not monetary one alone. From the
standpoint of the sow-owner, ia some
respects It's q burden To keep a &c n
on the medium sized iots of our town
would enscDdev disease an1 siokneSs.
To keep it out means every time 1t sets
over the line means SEQ II caught, and
they generally get caught cnfortu-
natsly for tho evner. and might say
fortunately for the city. Just inside Of
the pound limits. especially IN 4th
Ward school yard. Q most luscious
patch of grass, large enough to tempt
the palate of any COW, lies just In
side the line. And there is no way on
the earth to keep the cows off save
one-that it Is to cut down the grass.
Now then is 1t fair and just to entice
a dumb brute over the line just to
get the chance to pull the COW? l do
not think the city fathers are such
men, but the grass is there and as
ong as it stays It's going to be a
hardship on the cow owners of this
me ward especially. And now gentle
nen of our city government will you
till place the hardships of making
he citizens pay for what they can't
elp or will you help them keep the
ows outside of the restricted lines
Y removing the temptation from the
wv.
A CITIZEN.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-03
AN IMPORTANT TRIP.

The arrival of the government boat
which is to take the engineers down
on their preliminary survey Of Leaf
river, is an event of more than OF
binary importance to Hattesburg. The
fact that the boat drawing thfrty
inches of water came ap 20 Hatties-
burg IRON Paseasosla. without mis-
hap 10 IN itself evidsaes Of the prs>
taeAbihty - savisaaH0 Ne xvss fer
commercial purposes r1e sost was
brought up By men Who had never
been On Tie Y1ver betorei VIE knew
nothing abeue tho psesi.Astty Of tao
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-03
TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1909.
Circulation Double That of Any
Other South Mississippi Paper
DO YOU PAY YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS

~ tOO E1I TWIN ~ 99S'ht XIV
The News has had much to say in
the past few days about paying sub
scriptiots. We have not meant to
take anybody to task who pays with
reasonable promptness and there are
many of our subscribers who do not
need any such notices; but there are
many people who seem to think that
it is not important to pay their sub
scription and that it is but a small
loss to the paper If they move away
and leave four or five months unpaid
subscription. Then there are those
who think it is all right to make
some kind of a deal with the carrier
so that they do not have to pay full
price for the paper and better yet get
it for nothing If they can. The
present management of the Hatties
burg News is trying to make the
paper pay. Both the News and the
Progress lost thousands of dollars and
much of 1t was due to the money lost
on subscriptions. PLEASE REMEM
BIER THAT THE PRICE CHARGED
FOR SUBSCRIPTION IS BASED ON
THE COST OF PRODUCTION. You
have no more right to expect a copy
of the News for nothing than you have
TO go to the grocery and get pound
of sugar for nothing. We must have
pay for the paper or We viii not send
1t to you This applies to everybody.
for the. News expects to pay for all It
gets and in addition to thai IL 10 do
ing enough free verh for churches.
Aharfv 80 bsossias Ne tsvn ana
e0xntry - that We expect to 60 paid
for thxf which W spend money -
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-03
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Lucas CouHty-ss.

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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-03

The most exquisite
cleanliness is necessary
in the care of bottles and
other utensils used in
the preparation Of a
baby's food.
For this purpose, there
is nothing quite so good
as Ivory Soap.
Dissolve a few shaw
ings of Ivory Soap in
a quart of hot water.
Rinse the bottles with
cold water, wash them
inside and out in the
Ivory Soap suds and
then scald with boiling
water.
Ivory Soap
994>1oe Per Cent. Pure.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-03

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