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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-16
LAW ENFORCEMENT.

No officer who wants to do his
duty and who tries to enforce the law
will object, and any officer who does
not want to keep law and order needs
looking after and ought to be watch
ed.-Raymond Gazette.
To go a little farther: The officer
who knows his duty, and refuses to
perform it, is an impostor-a fraud
a humbug. He would resign, if he
possessed the courage 10 admit his in
capacity or culpability. 1t is the duty
of the community which he is suppos-
ed to serve to demand his resignation.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-16

Puglistically speaking, the Florida
Times-Union says: "Mistah Jonsing
is willing to fight any man on earth,
but no man on earth seems willing to
fight Mistah Johnsing."
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-16

President-elect William Howard
Taft is now duly elected member of
the Daily News family, his name hav-
ing been entered on our subscription
list for five full years-all paid in ad-
vance.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-16

There are 4,053,OO0 mules in this
country, not counting the obstinate
human beings.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-16

For HEADAHE-Hicks' cApuDINE
Whether& from Colds, Heat, Stomach
or NervouF Troubles, Capudine will re-
lieve yd3 It's liquid-pleasant to
take-acts Immediately Try it, 10c,
25c and SOC at drug stores.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-16
Not Ambitious,

After scorching days work Ben
Smith lighted his corncob pipe aud
sat down on the little wharf to rest.
Near him lay an alligator, the visible
result Of his labors. A tourist from
the north approached and loftily re
marked: "Ah, see you have an ALI.
gator"
No answer.
TT is amphibious, is 1t not?"
The tone nettled the old man.
"Amphibious, hi" he growled.
He'd bite yer arm off before we could
say Jack Robinsou!"-Everybody's
Magazine.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-16

See Naples and die" is an old pro-
verb. Come to Hattiesburg and live"
is a new and better injunction.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-16

There is a man in Hattiesburg who
hasn't broken a single new-year res
olution. He didn't make any.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-16

The Chicago man who was sent to
Jail for having fifty wives must have
felt relieved.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-16
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-16

This story of an abhortive effort
to dope a Lowdnes County jury with
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-16

Edmond Sostand, who has develop
ed the fdisoyncracy of posing ncogni-
to. He DISCUSSES himself with false
beard and motor goggles and calls
himself the DUO de Cambo.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-26
And She Has Been AlIlng Worse
Than Usual Here Lately.
SHE is HUMAN SEISMOGRAPH
California Woman Who Claims She
Has Foretold Many Big Disasters
Says There Is an ALFRED Big
One Not Far OFF. Let'r
Come, Mandy.

BOULDER CREEK, Cal.-Maud
Lord Drake, who has spiritualistic
tendencies and calls herself a human
se1smograph, predicts that a disas-
ter of dire proportions is imminent
somewhere on this continent. She
declares that she foretold the Gal
weston tidal wave and the San Fran
cisco earthquake, and warned the in
habitants of both these cities weeks
beforehand that destruction was up
on them. She also lays claim to a
foreWarning of the Slocum disaster,
the Collinwood Ohio, school fire, and
the recent series of earthquakes in
foreign lands. She said yesterday.
These disturbances confuse and
disturb me beforehand in proportion
to their destructiveness and nearness.
On January 23rd l was greatly af-
fected all day, could with difficulty
keep my feet, everything turning in
confusion; then came a hurrying Of
spirits, hither and thither, with all
kinds of clothing for men, women
and children. At that time l told
of great earthquakes to come, and
on that very day in the province of
Turkestan, il western Persia, sixty
villages and 5000 people were de-
storyed. Then came the eruption
of the Colima volcano in Mexico, and
month later the destruction of
Messina.
''But the worst is to come. For
many months, at various times,
have been, and | am now, in the
shadow of something even more ap-
palling and destructive to human
life. l cannot penetrate the gloom
as yet, but it seems that it must be
in this country, and that I must be
in it. In addition to the catacylsm
impending in this country there is
to be another merciless disaster in
Europe; not right soon, perhaps, but
still not very far distant.
But if, as in other cases, / should
get the light in time. to warn the
localities to be affected what good
would it 30? People will not heed
until too late. They paid no atten-
ton in Galveston or San Francisco,
nor was any heed given when, in
1883, I foretold from the platform
the coming disaster in the Island
of Krakaton, where $4,000 lives were
lost.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-26

There are 100000 tons of fertili-
zers used in the state each year.
This would be a saving of $2,400,-
600 year.
You also promised to save 5000
900 in school taxes.
This makes q saving of 100000
to the people of the state, and some
thing like $65, year to the peo-
pie of Terrell county.
The $1,070.67 it cost the people
in taxes to run the city court one
year is a mere drop in the bucket
compared to the above.
Would you mind telling the people
what bills you have drawn to carry
out these promises about guano and
schools, and how many people have
you asked to go to Atlanta to help
you with these two bills?
Now, when did you first become
opposed to the city court, and found
it to be a bad thing?
l have been informed that you
were the only applicant for the judge
ship of the city court about three
years ago. Is this true?
You had no opposition, but was
son and by the governor, and Judge
Edwards, who was not an applicant,
was appointed.
Now, honestly and frankly, il you
had been appointed judge would you
now be going around making per-
sonal appeals for help to abolish the
city court?
Were not the people being taxed
then to support the court like they
are now?
Have you not stated that the sala-
ries of the solicitor and Judge were
too high, and the people were being
robbed" to support them?
You did not want the people
robbed to support you, did you,
when you were an applicant for the
judgeship?
Now, has this doomed up to you
in the shape of a large bunch of
sour grapes?
Now, finally, Mr.. Irwin, speaking
of platforms, why have you aban-
doned and adopted Mr.. Thornton's?
Stay on your own: don't switch.
You may become a 'straddler," or a
'ringster," as you charged Mr..
Thornton with being. Very respect
fully, LOGAN THOMAS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-26
GREWSOME FEAST WAS THIS
DOCTORS HAD "GOOD TIME" EAT
ING OUT OF PLATES MADE
OF HUMAN SKULLS.

In Indianapolis a few nights ago
certain doctors and near-doctors had
what they said was a good time.
They sat down to a banquet served
in plates made of human skulls, and
instead of knives and forks they used
surgical instruments, says the New
Orleans States. We are told that
wine was drunk from skulls of ba-
bies which served as cups, and ev-
cry bone in the body figured in the
table decorations, while organs of hui
man bodies were reproduced in ice
cream, gelatine and candy. The in
teruban car on which the jewellers
rode to the greWsome feast was dec
GRATED with skulls and crossbones,
and the car itself was so draped as
to represent a coffin. The occasion
for the display of such peculiar hui
NOR was the initiation of two doctors
into the Phi Beta Pi fraternity, but
it appears that the character of the
feast did not appeal to the Indianapo-
lis News ideas of fun, but on the
contrary it quite properly took occa-
sion to express it's indignation and
disgust in the following language:
This vulgar and silly hobnobbing
with death and its insignia, this
trifling with human bones that were
once clothed with flesh, this eating
and drinking out of skulls, even the
skulls of infants, is unworthy even
Of boys, to say nothing Of the men
who are to participate in these 'fes-
tivities. 1t Is sometimes asked
whether doctors are not hardened by
their constant contact with human
suffering, and by their familiarity
with the great mysteries of life and
death. We do not believe they are,
as rule. And yet there is this mi
tiation. And we have seen physicians
amazed because any one should seri-
ously object to grave robbing, seen
them try to protect those caught at
it, or suspected of it."
The banqueters of course through
they were having great fun" but
| it was not fun at all, and there is
| little reason to doubt that the gen.
eral public of Indianapolis shared
the disgust which the News so freely
expressed, and could not we'll escape
the conclusion that the mission of the
medical profession is to destroy rath-
er than save human life, otherwise
there would not have been such
Haunting of the insignia and horrors
| of death.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-26
WHEN MAUDE HAS PAIN
AWFUL THINGS HAPPEN
HAVE NO RIGHT
TO DANISH CONVICTS
MONUMENTS TO POTATOES.
Several of Them Erected in Towns
of Germany.

A writer in the Boston Herald
says: When l was in Germany last
year." said man who travels, 81
saw some people who like potatoes
even better than l do. At any rate
they erect statues to them.
Gutenberg was the first city to
erect a monument of this kind. The
upper part consists of statue of Sir
Francis Drake, who introduced the
plant into Europe. This, as we'll as
the pedestal, is draped with garlands
OF the potato vine with full grown
tubers.
ON the pedestal on one side is
Sir Francis brakes name, the sec
ond side explains what blessing the
potato has been to mankind. the
third records that the statue is the
gift of certain Andrew Frederick
of Strasburg, the fourth contains the
names of the erectors. A statue sim
liar to this is placed in the town of
MUIR, and have been told that
there are other copies in many small
towns"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-26
SEABOARD IS FIGHTING
NEW :, HEADLIGHT LAW
DR.. LOGAN THOMAS ASKS
SOME QUESTIONS, TOO
'periOr Court
IN POTATO CROPS.
One Man Will Make $50, 900 ON 700
Acres Because of Shortage.

~~~AAN P~CSNOV OAA wv
Acres Because of Shortage.
Potato farmers along the Arkan-
sas and Verdigris river bottoms in
Oklahoma will reap a rich harvest on
their crop this year. There is a
shortage in the potato crop over the
country, while in this section the
crop is better than it has been for
years. One man, Otto Rogers of Fort
Gibson, has 100 acres planted in po-
tatoes. If the present price keeps
up he will make $4,000.
In the neighborhood of Fort Glib
son are many other potato growers
who will make small fortunes. Jack
Lawrence, the potato king of Mus
kogee, who has a farm a few miles
from the city, says his crop is the
best in years. The tubers are selling
at $3.50 a bushel. The farmers be-
lieve the price will hold up to $1.25.
In the potato belt the rich bottom
land yields from fifty to 200 bushels
to the acre. Two crops a year are
grown there.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-26
WIRz RESTS IN MT. OLIVET
AFTER YEARS IN UNHONORED
GRAVE NOW SLEEPS IN TEN
Derby GUARDED SPOT.

In an interview with Mrs. J. S.
Perrin, who visited in that city last
week, the Columbus Ledger learned
much of the history of her gallant
father, the martyred hero of Ander-
sonville, Capt. Henry Wirz, which
had not appeared in print, and it is
of especial interest at this time to
learn that the remains of her father.
which were inferred in the old prison
yard in Washington at the time Of
his death, have since been removed
to Mount Olivet cemetery in Wash
ingtOn, the Catholic burying ground
at that city. Capt. Wirz was a de-
vout Catholic, and was attended in
his last hours by faithful and de-
voted priest of the church.
His wife tried vainly for years to
secure his remains to have them in
TERED at his home, but the federal
authorities were obdurate, and would
not allow the removal to take place.
1t was said that Capt. Virus remains
were inferred in the prison yard in
which he was executed, and that they
We're placed by the side of Mrs. Sur
raft, the unfortunate lady who was
hung on a charge of completely in
the assassination of Abraham Lin
coin.
They laid there for many years I'M
til the ladies of Washington took the
matter up and secured permission to
remove them to the Catholic Gene
terry at Mount Olivet, where they now
rest.
How She Learned 1t.
This fact was unknown to Mrs.
Perrin until her recent visit to An
Jacksonville, where she learned it
through Captain Bryan, the superin-
tendent of the national cemetery at
that place.
Mrs. Perrin has lived in such close
retirement all these years, taking no
part in any public function, that she
was not even aware that her father
had been thus honored, and in her
retirement she was evidently lost
sight of by the good ladies of Wash
ingtOn who thus did so much for her
hOnored fathers remains.
Mrs. Perrin naturally felt that
while others more prominent perhaps
than her beloved father had been
vindicated of any wrong and their
names cleared of the aspersions
placed on them by the war his mem
DRY was neglected and allowed to re-
main under a cloud, but since the
women of Georgia have taken the
matter up and brought it to such
successful issue the burden has roll
ed away, and she glories in the de-
votion shown by the Georgia women
and the success of their efforts. She
is profuse in her praise of the man
ner in which this has been brought
about, and she feels that the birth
right of herself and her children have
been restored, and her fathers name
cleared of all the odium that has for
so many long years been like a cank-
er on her life.
She is deeply impressed with the
Importance of the service that has
been so lovingly performed by the
women of Georgia, and her very soul
goes out to them in gratitude and
love for what they have done.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-26
Attorney General Points Out a
Custom of Some judges.
A PRACTICE THAT IS ILLEGAL
custom of Suspending Sentence ON
Condition That the Party Leave
State, County or City Is Held
to Be Contrary to Consti.
ton of Georgia.

biOH o1 georgia.
It has been customary in certain
cases with courts of lower iurisdic-
ton, such as mayors or sometimes
county or city courts, and occasional
ly even with superior courts, to pass
sentence for petty offenses and mis-
demeanors and then suspend it ON
condition that the culprit will leave
the city, county or state.
This procedure is wholly illegal
and is, in fact, violation of the con-
stitutional provision which forbids
Punishment from the state as a pun-
ishment, according to Attorney-Gen-
eral John G. Hart, who has just given
the prison commission an opinion in
a case in which this point is in
volved.
Two women were convicted in Hab-
ersham superior court of misde-
meanor. They were fined and in adj
ditioned sentenced to twelve months
service on the changing. But the
judge agreed to suspend the sentence
provided they would leave the state
and they said they would do SO.
Ihey were given an opportunity tn
go, and as they did not they were
taken in custody by the sheriff. who
carried them to the state prison farm
at MllledgeVille, the law providing
that courts may, in their discretion.
send women misdemeanors there.
An attorney for the women en-
deaVored to secure their release from
the state prison farm on the ground
that the judges order suspending the
sentence if they would leave the
state vacated and invalidated the
chaingang sentence.
This left the prison commission in
doubt OF its right to retain the wo-
men at the prison farm, and they SUBJ
mltted the question to the attorney.
general.
Judge Hart replied that the courts
suspension of the sentence on the
condition that they would leave the
state was wholly illegal and void, be-
cause court has no right to impose
a sentence which is tantamount to
Punishment, a punishment specifically
prohibited by the constitution.
lie stated that the courts origi-
nal sentence of twelve months SER
vice was the only legal valid order
relative to punishment in the case,
and therefore the prison commission
had a clear legal right to retain them
as prisoners under such sentence.
Even if such a proceeding were
legal, Judge Hart pointed out, the
policy would be a doubtful one, be-
cause other states, finding out that
Georgia criminals were being I'M
loaded upon them, would retaliate by
sending their petty criminals to Geor-
gia Thus it would result in mere
ly swapping of criminals, and Geor-
gia might in the end get decidedly
the worst of it.
The question is one which has new
er been decided by the supreme court
OF the state. 1t is a growing prac-
tlce, however, which has been in
dulged in to some extent in the
courts in Dawson and Terrell county.
as well as other cities and counties
in the state.
But, under Judge Harris view of
the case, it is practically the same
thing as Punishment, and the state
constitution specifically and in terms
forblds this form of punishment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-26
The Eureka Tailor Shop

Cleaning Altering and Pressing. Prompt service
and satisfaction guaranteed. Skirt work special
ty. We have the best workmen in town Give us
a trial. One dollar per month or so cents suit.
Washing and scrubbing extra We dc frst-class
dyeing. Leave your Laundry there for the Dawson
Steam Laundry ]. L. M'CLUNG, Prop.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-26
THE WHITE HOUSE cow.
Mrs. Taft's Noodle Grazes COntented-
" OH Mansion Lawn.

Mrs. Taft's Cow continues to Craze
peacefully on the white house lawn,
the national aston
ishment and some sly ridicule. The
presidents wife has her convictions,
and one of them is that if you want
good milk and cream you must keep
your moolie. Thomas Jefferson kept
cows on the white house lawn be-
cause he could not abide any milk
except that which came from his
own stock. Lincoln kept several
COWS, but until Mrs. Taft purchased
a Jersey a COW had not been seen
near the white house in IS years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-26
CONGRESS MAY GO TO .H-L.v
Was the Hot Response of Army Engi-
neering Department,

neering Department.
Congress can go to hell. We
will report when we get ready
This, said Mr.. Clark of Missouri, in
the national house Of representatives,
was the alleged response given by the
engineering department of the army
when asked for information regard
ing the result of the examination
made by engineer officers into the
practicability and desirability of con-
structing and maintaining navigabIe
channel fourteen feet deep and of
suitable width from st. Louis to the
mouth of the Mississippi river.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-26
A DRINK ION THE HORSE"
Thought $500 a Gallon for Booze
for City Animals Too High.

Controller Metz of New York city
objects to a charge of "a a gallon
for whisky to be used in drenching
the city horses when they are sick.
He says the horses ought to be able
to get along on a grade of whisky
costing less. But can Mr.. Metz OBJ
ject to the ostlers and veterinaries
taking drink ION the horse" once
or twice in a while, and would he
have them swallow cheap stuff?
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1909-12-09

Uncle Tom BiDklev, of Pibckney.
vile, spent last week with his daugh-
ter, Mrs Harris Austin. aud family.
TO judge FROM The way the boys
are Staying the birds, there will not
be left enough tor seed.
Tobacco stripping Is progrcssing
inely aud delivering will soon begin.
The crop is an extra one.
Herman Ladd aud Fred Gilliland,
who left for NJ ssouri last fall have
returned.
]. W. Baker and family visited
Mrs. Bakers brother Fred Hardy,
at Smithland last week.
Mrs. Nancy White is sick.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1909-12-09
ALONE IN SAW MILL
AT MIDNIG HT

unmindful of dampness, drafts,
storms or cold, w. j. Atkins worked
as night Waterman, at Banner
Springs, Tenn. Such exposure gave
him a severe cold that settled on his
lungs At last he had to give up
work. He tried many remedies but
all failed till he used DR.. King ;
New Discovery. "After using Que
bottle" he writes, II went back to
work as well as ever" Severe Colds,
stubborn Coughs, infamed Threats
and sore lungs, FL mortgages, Group
and Whoopiug Cough get quick
relief and prompt cure from this
glorious machine. soc and 800.
Trial bottle free, guaranteed by JAS
n. Orme and HAYNES & Taylor.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1909-12-09
farm For Sale.

have 1925 acres of land in Law
ingston county, three miles from
Salem, on Dycusburg and Salem road,
Good seven room residence, all nee
essary out buildings, one nevcr-fa,l,
ing we'll, one good clsterp, two good
tenant houses with good cisterus.
one large tobacco barn, one ine stock
barn. This farm has plenty of stock
water, can be divided into two farms,
one tract 211 acres the other ia
acres. For terms, address
20 BINS W. It. MARTIN,
phone ~, Salem, Ky.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1909-12-09

q ii Wnudall, of Frcdonia, was
in town last week, calling to renew
for the cd RccoId-pres~.
v. II jackson, of Alva, Okla. e,
s,nt NJ dollar la, week for toe
Record Press.
John W. Winders, of Moreley.
Mo-, sent MS a dollar for the Record -
PEE, o,r daJ 'a-' aeck.
u r. Clark. of Lola, gave MS a
dollar for the E.cotd Press last week.
Mis- Sal:e barnett, of Salem, was
madea subscribe, to tie Record
Press las, wees.
j. r. Wolfe. Of Tolu, called last
week and handrd u dollar for the
J ccord-Ptr~s.
q i. Aleu- banded rs dollar
J i N,,A for the Record Press.
Il. VI. Vncrot. # Frcdonia,
while in lows last week haDded in
b;a dolIar ror th., REGARD Dress
We a. in receipt Of dollar from
II. p. j, oS,. of Wspato, Wash,
or tn" ',e-or'-Press.
Dan Vinson was added to our list
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1909-12-09
LOOKING ONES BEST.

LIS woman'S delight to look her
best but pimpios, skin eruplious,
sores aud bolts rob life of Joy.
Listenl Bucklen's Arnica Save
cures them; makes them suft and
velvety. Ii glorifes the face. Cures
PlmpIes, Sore Eyes, Cold Sores,
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Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1909-12-09
TIMOTHY OAKS.

Professor Hardin visited relatives
at. Tolu the last of the week.
Dennis Carlton died November "a,
and was buried ct Crayne cemetery.
The fiscal court made nicc alb
preparation for fixing the Crayue
hill and placed the work in change
OF Dick Cruce and Frank DorrUh,
who are having a lot Of the rocks
torn out ana extending the grade,
after which il wal be gravolcj -
something that ought To have been
done twenty five years ago.
Will Adams and wife visited Presley
Cruce, near LevIas, Saturday night
and Sunday.
Hugh Wilboru aud wife, Repton,
visited relatives here Sunday.
Mrs. Rankin and daughter, IF
Marion, visited relatives IN this
section Sunday.
Uncle Andy Woodall gave to his
children and grandchildren a Thanks
giving dinner Thursday
DR.. . S Young, Marion, was in
this section visiting his relatives and
friends Sunday.
Uncle James Agee has bee, laid
up for several days with a carbuncle
on his hand.
Isreal Paris, of Missouri, visited
his father last week.
Lawrence and Presley Woodall
returned from Washington few
DAYS ago.
Wyatt BrOokshlre has moved to
the place he recently bought south.
east of Marion
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1909-12-09
Letter From Texas.

Cleburn, Texas, Nov. 2Sth, 1909.
Editor Record Press, Marion, Ky
-Piea>e find enclosed one dollar fol
subscription TO my paper for anothei
year. }. W. FARIs,
40 Heath ST., Cleburn, Texas