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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-04
COAST COUNTIES
Want PROTECTION
Citizens Will Petition the Governor to
Recommend Appropriation for
Maintenance of Shoreline.
Special 10 The Mems.

Special 10 The Mems
JACKSON, Miss, October Gov
ernor Noel will be petitioned by tha
business organizations of the towns
along the Mississippi coast TO submit
recommendation to the legislature
that a state appropriation be made for
the maintenance of the shore line and
shell roads of that section, which were
recently ravaged by the tropical hurri'
cane.
The three coast counties, Harrison,
Hancock and jackson, suffered heavy
damage during the recent storm. and
it has become evident that at many
places breallwaters are necessary to
protect shore property from these hur-
ricanes, which seem to be growing
more frequent with the passing years.
The sea has gradually encrOached Oh
the land until at a number of points
valuable property is being endangered.
At no point on the Mississippi coast
is there a breakwater or sea wall
worthy of the name, and during the
recent hurricane the costly shell roads
were washed away at many places
causing a damage that will take sew
eral months and an expenditure Of
many thousands Of dollars to restore
to former condition.
In event the legislature is unwilling
to make direct appropriation for
work of this character, it is suggested
that the three coast counties be al
lowed to retain for the work all state
taxes collected save their pro rata
share of the common school and pen.
sion funds. These three counties, by
the way, annually pay into the treas
ury more than 100000 in excess OF
what they receive in school appropria
tlOn ana pension 1unuS.
| Governor Noel has not intimated
what position he will take in the mat
| ter, but the memorials from the bust
ness organizations Of the gulf coast
towns will be given careful hearing
+ before his message to the legislature
is framed.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-04
SHERIFF'S SALE
The State of Mississippi,
Forrest County.-sct.

ne cldle VI MlSSlSSippl,
Forrest County-sct
No. 333.
r. S. Hall VS.. ID. II. Mc1nnis.
BY virtue of an execution which is
sued from the officeof T, j. Nixon,
Circuit Clerk of the county of Forrest
and in favor of R. H. Hall and against
d. II. Mclnnis for the sum OF S379.50
besides the interest thereon and cost
Of suit, | have this day levied upon
the following described real estate as
the interest of the said defendant may
appear in the county of Forrest and
State of Mississippi, to-wit
Fractional lots 4, 5, 6, and entire lots
rs 3, in block "a of the Hardy &
Scott, or Hardy and Whinnery sur
vey of the City of Hattiesburg, Miss.
also lots l, 2, 3, block l, d. H. McIn-
mis-, second survey of the City of Hat
tiesburg, Miss, and lots and 3, block
=. ID. Fl. McInnis, second survey of
the City of Hattiesburg, Miss. Said
property to be sold subject to a GER
tain deed of trust from d. H. and Ad-
die Is. McInnis to o. w. Conner, re-
corded in Book 4, Page 274 and 275,
of Deed of Trusts Record of Forrest
County, Miss, all of which | will of
fer for sale at the front door of the
/ Court House on Monday, the 25th day
of October, A. ID. 1909, to satisfy said
judgment and all costs. Sale within
legal hours.
This 18th day of October, A. d. 1909.
j. C. MAGRUDER,
43-mons Sheriff
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-04
HERE IS NEW OBESITY CURE.
Woman Frequents Shooting Gallery
In Order That the Fright May
Reduce Her Weight.

you didn't know | was running a
kind of anti-fat establishment, did
you?" said the manager of the shoot.
whom he had not seen for several
months. well. / am, in connection,
of course, with my regular business.
| have a good many women patrons
nowadays. Most OF them give fear of
burglars as their reason for wishing
to learn to shoot, but one woman who
yearned for target practice scorned
the suggestion of burglars.
"'The doctor tells me- she said,
that the only way | can ever train
down to normal weight is to get
scared half to death three or four
times a week. what" said he, ARE
you more afraid of than anything else
in the world?" l didn't have to study
one minute for an answer. The
explosion of firearms" said |. "Then,"
said the doctor, "go to some place regu-
larly. where you can hear a whole
arsenal fired off at one clip. If you
can fire the things off yourself you
will experience better results. You
will get scared worse and will tone
down more rapidly" And So said
she, here I am
81 thought that the craziest idea
ever heard of, but | humored the wom-
ans within and helped her to get
scared to the limit l hadn't much
faith in that doctors prescription, but
she did soon begin to develop a waist
line, and within three months that
woman was a regular sylph. Unfor-
tunately, the constant excitement was
hard on her nerves. By the time she
began to assume willowy proportions
they were in pretty bad fix and she
had to lay up for repairs, but she
didn't seem to mind that. The point
of her case was that as an anti-fat
treatment daily exercise with the rife
had proved itself unequaled, and
now have a notion to advertise it as
a warranted obesity cure
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-04
TAFT'S suite
HAS Been ENGAGED
Entire Half of One Floor of the Ed.
wards House Viii Be Reserved
For President Taft.
Special 10 The Mems.

Special TO The Mems.
JACKSON, Miss, October A
suite of rooms consisting of the en-
tire half of one floor has been engag-
cd at The Edwards for the accommo-
dation of President Taft and men,
bers of his party when they visit
Jackson on November list to spend
the day here as guests of honor at
the State Fair.
The Presidential suite is in the
new annex to the hostelry, and will
be used by the party from the hour of
their arrival Monday morning at S:45
a. m. until departure on the midnight
train. The special cars occupied by
the Presidents party will be parked
just adjoining the hotel.
The committee has not been off
cially advised whether SECRETARY of
State Knox will accSmis.y the Pres
dent to Jackson, but it is presumed
that he will do so, the original plan
l6 Mr.. Knox being to join the Presi-
dent at Ell Paso and journey with him
to Washington.
Some apprehension is felt by mem
bers of the committee over the SER
ious illness of the son of Secretary of
War Dickinson at Nashville, which
may cause him to abandon his plan to
join the President in New Orleans.
The promised visit of Secretary Dick
inson to Jackson has aroused almost
as much interest as that of the Pres
ident because Of the fact that he is a
native Mississippian, and was es-
pecially invited by the local commit
tee to accompany Mr.. Taft to jackson.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-04
Cenerous Praise.

Clyde Fitch praised, at literary
dinner in New York, the plays of his
young rival, Eugene Walter.
Mr.. Walters plays" said Mr..
Fitch generously, ARE remarkable in
their directness. There is nothing
superfuous in them. They require no
pruning.
Indeed" said Mr.. Fitch, with a
smile, IF Mr.. Walter were called on
to curtail one of his strong dramas, |
could almost imagine him saying truly
what, under those circumstances, an
other dramatist said in jest.
This dramatist, when requested to
cut out half of third act, demurred.
"'Who am /, he said plaintively,
with wave of his Egyptian cigarette
in its long tube of amber and gold
who am l that l should mutilate O
masterpiece?
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-04
KA'SFIEED TO
Close UUj

An announcement OF ,lmportan
in local mercantile circles was mad
toda, by NJ. s. Haisfield, furniture
man. who states that he has decide1
to retire from The furniture busiE asa
and-ss soon as he can close out his
large stock of furniture and house
furnishings, together with horses, de-
livery wagons and equipment. will en-
bark in an entirely different line OF
business.
Mr. Haisfield has large, bright
new stock of furniture and house fur
nishings. bought before the advance
in prices, and proposes to close this
out at factory prices. This will fur
nish an excellent opportunity for
housekeepsrs to get additional furni-
ture for every room in the house al
small expense, while those just pre-
pairing to begin housekeeping car
make big saving.
Watch for the Haisfield ad in
Thursdays News, when announce
ment will be made of the opening OF
the sale and some of the good things
to be turned loose will be enumerated
In the meantime Mr.. Haisfeld has Sc
cured additional salespeople and is
arranging his stock and marking
down the prices preparatory to wait
ing on the trade to advantage. An
noencement will be made later as to
the nature of the new business Mr.
Haisfield will open in Hattiesburg.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-04

TwoJap Kozos
Copyright. by ]. B. Lipplncott CO..

The Buddhist priest in Japan often
takes the place of the droll Irishfhan
with us, and is made the butt of
many witticisms and practical jokes.
Wherever one travels in Japan he
hears any number of such tales from
the less religious among the people.
The priests do not generally live to-
gether in monasteries. like the monks
of the Middle Ages. but they live with
their families in the temples or else
alone with servant or pupil usually
known by the name of Kozo.
An old priest who was called (be-
hind his back, of course) Yokubukai
Bozu, or the Greedy Priest" on &C.
count of his well-known taste for the
good things of this world, lived alone
with small boy who waited on him,
expecting incidentally to learn some
thing of priestcraft himself, and be-
come priest too some day. But this
particular kozo was far from having
priestly qualifications, as this tale will
show. Like all boys, Kozo had fail
ing for sweets, but as his master was
similarly disposed, the boy had very
little chance of indulging his tastes in
this direction.
One day. however, as luck would
have it, boxful of very delicious
cakes was sent to the old priest dur
ing his absence by the inmates of a
neighboring temple. AS it was a
Buddhist festival, a great deal of
pains had been expended to make the
cakes as attractive as possible, and
as Kozo raised the box lid and looked
at the tempting dainty with its invit-
ing covering of powdered sugar, he
felt the temptation was too strong for
him, and as no one was near to pre-
vent him, he ate all without stopping
to think of the consequences. After
the deed was done, however, he began
to anticipate the displeasure of his
master, to whom cake was so dear.
Kozo, therefore (sly fellow, took the
empty box to the shrine of Buddha,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-04

What. Buddha tell lies! Wen cure
him of It IL he does! Well see!" and
the priest strobe out into the temple
garden, where stood great iron pot
used for heating large quantities of
water, and building a fire under it.
soon had the water in it boiling Into
this he popped poor Buddha, who in
stantly began to boil. making sound
like "Kuta-kuta" (word for have
eaten").
"There!" cried the boy triumphant
ly, " he confesses under torture! He
says he has eaten the cake"
This priest seems to have been UNI.
fortunate in his pupils. for, discharg-
ing the former kozo as too clever for
an old man like himself, he obtained
likely lad, but who, alas, was a vic.
tim to the same love of sweets as his
predecessor. Finding that his master
was not disposed to give him any Of
the coveted sweets, he set his brains
to work to get some by fair means
or foul.
One day a kind neighbor sent in
some choice cakes, which the old
priest, profiting by former experience.
Immediately took charge of and put in
locked closet. 81 lock these cakes
up" he explained to his observant
young neophyte. that you may not
get them by mistake, for they are poi
son and it would kill you to eat them"
That night, though, when the priest
was asleep. Kozo found the key and
placed it where he could easily find 1t
in the morning The priest went out
early next day and Kozo ran joyfully
to the closet, which he unlocked and
ate up the cakes with great relish.
Then he took a fine cup, of which the
priest was very fond, and broke it on
the doorstep. When the priest re-
turned he found the boy weeping bit.
terly over the fragments.
what has happened, Kozo?" asked
the astonished priest.
ooh, SIR" replied the boy through
his sobs, 81 broke your treasured cup.
and-I did not want to live any
longer--so-so l remembered the poi
sonous cakes you told me about yes
terday, and so | ate them-but-boo-
hoo-here Pm alive yeti"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-04
"Sassed BY the Corpse"

Ii was in a midnight interview wiz
an inportunate newspaper reporter
that Chauncey Depew first told his Ia
nous story Of the sassy corpse, which
he applied to the reporters own case.
"A Spiritualist had died" said he.
and his friepds came to clergyman
and asked him to preach funeral
sermors eVen though that was in con.
fict W 49, tenets. And he did SO.
as beaf I'D. And when he got
th'oua tidow arose, announced
that Ia communication from
tee and proceeded to tear
/e his sermon and his
sentt ribbons. Tn mighty
sorrJ the Spiritualist leader.
TIM ID the clergyman. I've
pre- ny . funeral sermon. but
thi1 Fst tins I was ever sassed
- s.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-04
\ g., ME!I!!II
@ &NZS<N4SNN\ |
What Did You Do with This Cake ?" De-
ri1anded the Prelate, Ssernly.

and laying it respectfully before him,
took a little of the sugar that was left
in the bottom of the box and smeared
it over the IDOLS mouth, retiring with
a pleased expression
Soon afterwards the Yukubulxai
Bozu returned, and after Kozo had
helped him or with his clogs and had
fetched him his pipe and a cup of tea
he inquired whether anyone had
called?
"No-o-oh, yes, sir" said Kozo, "the
priests of the neighboring temple have
sent your honor some cakes in honor
OF the day"
"Ah." said the priest with interest,
"and where is the cake?"
81 put it before the shrine of Bud
dha, sir" and the priest trotted off,
thinking of the treat in store for him.
What was his surprise, however, to
find the box empty and the divility's
mouth all smeared over with sugar.
"Kozo!" he shouted, and from the
depths of his own room came family
the reply, Yes, sir"
What did you do with this cake?"
demanded the prelate sternly when
the boy presented himself with an air
Of perfect innocence.
81 laid the box in front of my lord
Buddha's shrine. sir. as it is our Gus
tom always to do first"
well, 1t is not here now" replied
the priest.
"Oh, yes, sir. IT. must be there" and
lifting the box lid, Kozo started bac',
with an exclamation, and, looking W
to the image, cried with awe-struck
eyes, "He has eaten it, sir. His
mouths all sugary."
You've eaten IT. you little rascal
said the priest in rage.
81? No, sir. / never ate it,"
"You did" said the priest anFrily
and, raising his hand to strike his pu.
pil, be accidentally struck the arm OF
the bronze image. which rang ou.
"Kwan" (word for mot eaten").
"There!" exclaimed the priest. "a
knew you were telling lies! He say;
he has not eaten the cake" I.
Iz1Ez<Ef he forSets.S sir! He Is mt
The sugar on his mosth shos.
ehocd.~ :.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-04

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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-04

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25c and soc at drug stores.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-04

We have engaged an expert UNI
brella repairer and are prepared to
do recovering and first class repair
work. 209 West Pine street. Home
Supply Co. 49, 4-eod-3t
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-04
4-3-noIl

Or Wouldn't Like To.
Even man who Keeps a cash &C.
count can't tell whore all his money
goes ro.-Somervilie Journal
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-04
Why Have an Office?

Have you ever noticed that about
90 out of every 100 of the people who
call at your Office want YOU to dc
something for them?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-04-01

NASHVILLE, Tenn, April L.
Not an artist with paint and
brush, but with tube and icing
but one who has made her ability
to cook a rare art, whose cakes
have entered the homes of kings,
of presidents, of noted men over
all the worlds Mrs. Berry Lyle
Wilson of Nashville.
This remarkable woman has
earned by right of conquest the en-
yiable title of champion Cake
Maker of the World" For the
past three years Mrs. Wilson has
furnished the official white house
cake for President Roosevelt
big fruit cakes they were, with
wonderful icing and figure erea-
ton In sweets. The last one re-
eembied an immense wreath OF
buttercups and yiolets.
President Taft, when secretary
of war, had a Wilson cake. They
haye found their way to the table
OF Gov. Higgins of New York, Gov
Polk of Missouri, to the tables Of
cabinet officers, to the royal side
board of King Edward of England
to the far away countries of Aus
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tralia, to Cuba, to countries wher-
ever civilized man has learned OF
cooks and cakes.
Mrs. Wilson took up the art OF
cake making purely by accident.
The Tennessee centennial came on
IL years ago. Prizes were offered
in the woman's building for cake
making. Mrs. Wilson, to her own
great surprise, won them all.
From that time on Mrs. Will
sons cakes began to grow famous.
They found their way into the
white house by accident. A mu-
tual friend in Washington one
day gave Secretary Loeb a taste of
one of Mrs. Wilson's cakes. Loeb
said he just had to have one OF
those cakes. Then Loeb told Taft
and gave Taft a bite. Taft said
he had to have a Wilson cake
and he did. Taft told Roosevelt
and Roosevelt began to get the
Wilson cakes. Four of them have
found their way to the white
house during the last three years
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factories, or the mills to earn @
pittance. When it leaves the baby
crying and dying in its cradle
dying because the rest of tho
family must live-and because
steel must be made.
There are q half thousand
tragedies in this newly compiled
Pittsburg report. There are as
many sermons.
The investigators learned many
things that startled them. One was
that the loss of life was not paid
for. That when the wage-earner
died the rest of the family must
become wage earners, regardless
of age or sex, or the next gen.
Grafton.
In more than half of all the
deaths not a dollar went to the
family--unless perhaps a pittance
for the funeral. In not more than
5 per cent of the cases was there
as much as the dead
mans wages for year.
The census of the dead Just
completed was not easy to get.
Perhaps that is one reason why it
has never been secured before.
The investigators had to meet
many obstacles. They had to
work through interpreters of 20
nationalities, through electrical
engineers, labor leaders. They
had to gather their material from
a score of sources.
Mill sv,f rp fe 10
courage publicity for their CORY
death roll. The big mills have
their own hospital wards, with
their material from a score of
sources.
Mill superintendents do not en-
courage publicity for their CORY
death roll. The big mills have
their own hospital wards, with
their own physicians, AMBULANCE
men, undertakers. These men
must keep their own counsel, or
leave the pay roll.
In towns where the steel mills
dominate, the coroner and the
cemetery trustees are under the
thumb of the mill owners
The Pittsburg report is full OF
startling figures. Only a part OF
the mare given here.
Less than half the men killed
earned more than SIS a week.
Less than half of the families
involved got cent.
4 Less than 1 per cent got bis
damages, by big" meaning al
much as $500.
/ Only>5 per cent got as much a!
1.-THE wage workers would hav,
] made in a year.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-04-01
IN CHICAGO


fny Waited Press Leased wIre.)
CHICAGO. April 1.--ThA begin
nInH * what may be q DISASTROUS
nb6f struggle In the Windy City
01mS today when 1.50o steamfitters
walked out and were Joined, very
Tomptly by tho electricians. At
~ time the grocery clerks and
79S1 agents Of the Clerks union de-
&(ed for strike throughout the
The trouble started several days
nwO whom the steamfitters'. 1000
ukroug, struck after disagreement
With their employees on the old ques-.
11on OF shorter hours and Increased
wages. Today 500 Junior steamfit-
tors struck out Of sympathy, maxi
ing 1900 in all who have dropped
work together.
This afternoon the grocery clerks
and their employers failed to reach
An agreement after a conference on
wages and hours. Thereupon the
b0GLness agents were ordered to call
cut every union clerk In the city.
The business will affect seriously 20
e< tho biggest grocery houses in
Chicago.
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PUDDLERs DRAWING A BALL

PUDDLERS DRAWING A BALL
. PITTSBURG, April They
talking a lot down in Washingto
about the cost of steel. Talkin
about duties (not moral ones)
about cost of iron ore, and coal, O
freight rates, of the cost of ma
chinery, and labor, and buildings
and equipment.
They forget-these well-dressed
congressman who sit over their
cigaors and tables-about the two
most important items.
Death and misery-these are
the most important parts of the
cost of steel.
Figures have just been comput-
ed for the first time of the cost
of steel in blood. Its cost in hui
man tears and desolation and
agony is beyond computation.
The cost In human life-526
men every year. This is just for
the one town of Pittsburg. In
Youngstown, Chicago, Sharon,
Cleveland. Gary, other cities,
would show no smaller proper
tions-hte cost in dangerous and
all-but-fatal accidents is fully as
great. or minor accidents an
army Of men.
Every year 526 men blotted
out-within space of second
transformed from strong, healthy,
happy men to shapeless, crushed,
or burned masses of flesh and
hnnnC fo hn 80
You don't read this in the annual
reports or In the Industrial poets
Songs of Steel"
Now they're reducing the wages
of steel workers all along the
line, from 10 to Is per cent. The
most hazardous occupation in the
world-except coal mining-it is
to be paid less and less.
Every day the steel worker goes
to work he knows may be his last. |
In the progress of a great indus
try everything has been provided
for except his safety. In that pom
derous machinery, those great fur
naces, those cog wheels, death
turks. At any minute the call may
come for one, two, a dozen men.
There are lots of places where
you can count the cost of steel.
Be down in the steel section when
the news comes home that John or
Mike or Stanislav is never coming
back-when they break the news
to the hollow-eyed, broken-hearted
woman that that still, covered
form on the shutter is the brave
husband or son she kissed goodby
in the morning.
| They know the cost of STEEL
these people who stay at home in
dread every day.
They know that cost, too, when
: famine and hunger raps at the
( door on the day after the funeral
When 1t enters and drives the
I woman In black out to wash
clothes-or worse. When it takes
the 5-year-old boy and the 7-year.
| old girl-who cares for child labor
} laws in the steel district?-to the