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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25
is THIS AMERIcANIsM?

The Louisville Times characterizes
President Roosevelt as "The man who
has never hesitated to call a man a
liar; who has been willing t. have a
helpless woman thrown out Oh the
White House; who las hurled billinrs-
gate right and left; who has insinuat-
ed that members of congress are cor
rupt; WHO has brought charges against
United States senator's; who has
abused the judiciary for all he was
worth; who has called various Ameri-
cans undesirable citizens;' who has
referred to others as 'malefactors;
who has made his administration one
long torrent of elimination and accuse
ton, of impulsive stigmatization and
suspicion, of censure and epithets, of
false witness and self-elevation."
And 1t is this same man who insti- |
gates a prosecution for libel against
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

With 100000 depot under con.
struction, a $15O,OOO lumber mill near.
ing completion, a $3.50 900 street rail.
way assured and a $4,000 government
building to be erected during the year,
Hattiesburg comes up smiling from
recent financial reverses, with a de-
termination to eclipse all former rec
ords of growth and achievement.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25
MONDAY, JANUARY rs, 1909.
Circulation Double That of Any
Other South Mississippi Paper
CHANGE THE LAW.

All Of the newspapers OF Nashville
printed detailed account of the assas-
sination of Senator Carmack. All news
papers everywhere gave liberal space
to the details Of the tragedy. And it
now transpires that men who read
these newspaper accounts of the kill
ing are disqualified from jury service
under the terms of the law, and that
only ignoramuses and illiterates can
qualify.
The same foolish law obtains in Mis-
sissippi-and it ought to be repealed.
In this day and generation the man
who doesn't read a newspaper of some
sort isn't fit to dispense justice, and
the presiding Judge had as well re-
tire to his room and throw dice for
verdict as to commit the life of
the accused to the hands of a Jury
composed OF such men.
Reading the story of murder
in the columns of a newspaper may
form the basis of conviction, but
that impression can be readily re-
moved by evidence of sworn wit
nesses.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25
COUPLE
MARRIED SATURDAY

Mr.. John E. May, of this city, and
Miss Mary Gressett, of Meridian, were
married Saturday evening at the home
of Rev. ]. N. McMillin, who performed
the ceremony.
Mr.. May is a splendid young bust
ness man, connected with the Mer-
idian Fertilizer Factory of this city,
while his bride belongs to one of the
best families of Meridian.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25
Carrie Nation
RoaSts England
to Queen's Taste

London, Eng, Jan. 25.-Carrie Ma
ton invaded London today. She says
that saloon conditions here are worse
than in the United States and that
more effective weapons than an axe
VIII be needed to exterminate them.
You rotten Englishment have no NOR
ais to begin with, and you have wal
lowed in filth until you have lost all
sense of moral restraint. I'll have to
teach you," she said.
She has been warned by the police
that her first effort at violence will
result in a Jail sentence.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25
Beware of ointments for catarrh That
Contain Mercury

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 il
through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except
on prescriptions from reputable ply
sicions, as the damage they will do is
ten fold to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. ]. Cheney
& Co., Toledo, O., contains no mer-
curry, and is taken internally, acting d.
rectly 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 +. J..
Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price, 75c per
bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25
A LlBERAL OFFER.
The Owl Drug Store Guarantee to
cureDyspepsia. II They Fail,
The Medicine Costs Nothing.


cureDyspepsia. II They Fail,
The Medicine Costs Nothing.
To unquestionably prove to the peo-
pie of Hattiesburg that indigestion and
dyspepsia is durable and that Rexall
Dyspepsia Tablets will effect the cure,
we will furnish the medicine abso-
lutely free If 1t fails to give complete
satisfaction to anyone giving it trial.
The remarkable success of Rexall
Dyspepsia Tablets is largely due to
the new and successful method of
manufacture, whereby the well-known
properties of Bismuth, Subnitrate and
Pepsin have been combined with car
minatives and their agents.
The Pepsin used in Rexall Dyspep-
STA Tablets is manufactured by a new
process which develops it's greatest
efficiency. Pepsin supplies to the d.
gestive apparatus one of the most i'm
portant elements of the digestive fluid,
and exerts tonic influence upon all
the glands which supply all the other
elements necessary to proper assimiIa-
ton and digestion.
The carminatives add properties
which promptly relieve the disturb
ances and pain caused by undigested
food.
The perfect combination of these in
gradients make remedy absolutely
Incompatible and invaluable for the
complete cure of Indigestion and dys-
pepsia.
We are so positively certain of this
that we sell Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets
on our own personal guarantee that
they win either cure you or cost you
nothing. Three sizes 25c, 45c and sec,
Owl Drug Store, 113 Front street, Hat
tiesburg. Miss.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

citizen of the United States for
criticising the Panama canal deal.
The presidential prerogative. appar-
emily, is to call everyone he chooses a
bad name and to humiliate publicly any
one he feels like humiliating, without
regard to facts or justice; to act as he
pleases toward an American, no re-
course being left the American SO
prosecuted in his defense against the
President of the United States. On
the other hand, apparently, according
to the Roosevelt doctrine no American
shall criticise a national proceeding,
question national policy or voice OBJ
lection to course taken by the presi-
dent without being hailed into a court
on a criminal libel proceeding. The
servant of the people, it seems, is
omnipotent, while the sovereign peo-
pie are subservient.
Is that Americanism? VIII that
sort of thing be tolerated by the people
themselves or by the courts as the
safeguards of popular rights? We do
not think so-not for an instant"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

Senator Foraker denies that he is
to become the paid attorney of the
negro soldiers discharged at Browns
vile. Maybe he is going to represent
them free of charge.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

The government is preparing to
double the capacity of its powder
plants, which adds some emphasis to
Congressman Hobsons recent predic-
ton of a scrap with Japan.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25
OBTAINING CHARACTER
Continued from Page one.)

time that rendered him absolutely ir-
responsible"
1t is a great compliment to Miss
Smith that in the face of her fathers
terrible accusation the vast majority
of the people refuse to believe her
guilty. There is not one man out of
ten but who believes that she is as
pure as the driven snow and that this
fact will ultimately be proven beyond
all cavil or doubt.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

One hundred young men and women
of Atlanta have pledged themselves to
live as Christ lived for one month.
The Nashville Tennessean calls atten-
ton to the fact that this movement
started in Cleveland, but skipped Mem
phis on the way South.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

The Rev. Billy Sunday says that
hell is no worse than Chicago, which
prompts the Memphis Commercially
peal to remark that the circulation of
such ISLANDERS about hell is apt to drive
ag reat many people to Chicago.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25
HOUSE INSURGENTS
TO MEET TONIGHT

Washington, D. c., Jan. 25.-The
house insurgents will meet tonight to
prepare amendments to be offered to
the rules. 1t is not believed that the
fight will be made at this session, but
plans are being prepared for a Wig
orous campaign at the opening of the
next congress.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25
IS
ROBBED OF $1,000

Upland, Mich, Jan. 25.-The post
office here has been robbed of 81, 500
in cash and stamps. The robbery oc-
Cured last night and the bandits made
their escape in a stolen rig.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

The street car matter is all settled
except the letting of the contract,
the erection of the power plant and
The purchase of the equipment.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

These are busy days at the site of
the ]. j. Newman Lumber Company's
new Hattiesburg mill.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

The Eupora Progress-Warden has
entered upon it's twenty-eighth year.
Editor NJ w. Sharp knows how to
make an interesting weekly newspaper
and we'll merits the splendid success
which he has achieved.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

The Mississippi saloonists who NOV
to Memphis January 1 are preparing
to move again during the summer.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25
WALTER zELLER
GOES TO Death

Bridgeton, N, j., Jan. 25.-For the
murder of William Reed in Vineland
on November Is, last, Walter Zeller
was today sentenced to the electric
chair He will die on March 8.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

Unselfishness is trait that few
people inherit, and that fewer still
acquire.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

Maybe the United States navy will
get together again after awhile.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

The Halth of Hattiesburg was never
better.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

These are busy days in Hattiesburg,
the future great city of Mississippi
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

Mr.. j. P. Edmonson, of Rawls
Springs, Sundayed in the city.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

ton of being the largest prohibition
city in the country.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

The trouble with the money children got from her
e people ior nary Is II brings Like
'nem right back for more and seldom
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

Memphis is soon to have the distinc-
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

The thing that makes every woman
believe In heridity is all the beauty
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25
Cumberland Telephone
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY

BY its courteous treatment and
close attention to all the wants Of
their subscribers, and the value
to it's subscribers Of the Long
Distance Connectionshas steadily
increased its subscription list.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

HEARST TELEGRAPH AND CA.
BILE SERVICE received daily, the ex-
elusive franchise for which is owned
by The Daily News.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-25

Entered as second-class matter on
May %, 1907, at the posteffice at Hat
tiesburg, Miss, under the Act OF Con-
gress Of March 2, 1879.
The National tribune., 1909-09-02
ST. CLOUD COLONY.

of the great of the enterprise and the fact that
the of the weahe and
anywhere the country of the subscribers their friends
and Others personal that the present list of sub
scrbe be orderto do this has been decided
accept subscriptions from 1000 upon the present basis
800 for lot and tract of land outside of the town.
This offer to hold good until September Is only after which time there
will be additional charge for each lot subscribed for
The condition of the colony would justify much greater in
at this time, but of the present subscribers
who took and two lots desire their holdings
they have personally and through their friends had opportunity to
investigate the property and location deemed for the best interest
of all concerned that the offering be made the above
stated
The improvement of the town has begun and contracts for
houses to be built the and the veacre tracts OF land
have already been let and confidently expected by the first OF the
ST. Cloud will of activity and
that will Justify the expenditure of large of the deve
opment of the city and the property surrounding it.
The fact that large number have purchased lots
and fveacre population of from four five
thousand people at this me and and desire will be to
this in order build town and settlement of less than
conditions realize the value of the offering making In
fact the lot alone will be worth times the
We consider this opportunity indeed for anyone desiring
home the localities of the South and in which
the of the citizens will towards making of the
valuable and attractive colonies the United States
heretofore stated the basis of the offering follows:
will warranty deed lot in the of
ST. Cloud and deed veace plot outside of the such
locality be selected under the plan of allotment which will be
adopted and which will be absolutely fair subscriber No
subscriber purchase than four lots and four
that those who wish avail themselves of this offering
must do S before September 10 Address
The National tribune., 1909-09-02
BUDDHA's ASHES.

A matter of intense interest to the
religious world is the discovery of a
portion of the ashes of Gautama. the
BudGha. Kanishka, one of the greatest
Emperors of Northern Hindustan. built
a pagoda at Peshawar over portion of
Gautama's ashes, which was one of the
wonders of the world IT was a miracle
of architecture and carving, and rose
400 feet high. This IVES destroyed when
the Mahometans overthrew the Govern
ment. but was rebuilt and again de-
|str6yed. Gautama Buddha, the Light
of ASIA" is believed to have died about
4S2 B. c. His body was burned and
the ashes divided among eight places.
count of his presence and works The
site of the pagoda has been for CEN
turies two mounds, and recently these
have been excavated. In one of them.
under the great stones which formed
the foundation of the pagoda, was found
a bronze casket, inclosing another of
transparent rock crystal. These caskets
were covered with ornamentation and
inscriptions of the greatest value to
archaeologists, and within the rock
crystal were three small pieces of
charred bones. The caskets are now
being carefully studied by Hindoo schol-
ars. and We may expect some develop
ments of much interest
The National tribune., 1909-09-02

If a war between Great Britain and
Germany does not follow the incassant
nagging by the papers and politicians
on both sides of the channel it will be
a wonder. Germany is pushing hard
into Great Britains foreign trade, ard
the rivalry is every day becoming more
intense. Germany has gotten to where
she must have foreign commerce 10 live
and she must get large portion of i,
from the trade now done by Great Brit
ain. She is decidedly restive under
British supremacy at sea. and the read
lest way to break that supremacy which
suggests itself to many German writers
is to land German army in England
and crush her as France was crushed
A war between those two great powers
would be a frightful calamity to hu
manity, but the drift is alarmingly in
that direction.
The National tribune., 1909-09-02
THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN
NEXT.

In reijnseI to many inquiries as to
the continuation of John McEiroy's ar
ticles on the war. The National Tribune
announces, that the Atlanta Campaign
properlyh ended with sherman's aban-
donment of the pursuit of Hood to the
North. leaving him to be attended to by
Gen. Thomas at Nashville. The inten-
ton of the writer of these articles is to
keep them coptemporaneous as far as
possible. and consequently the next Sc
ries will take up the war in the East
and The operations of the Army of the
Potomac and other forces simultaneous
with Sherman's advance upon Atlanta.
Therefore, John McElroy will shortly
begin an account of the Wilderness
Campaign from the crossing of the
Rappahannock until the Army of the
Potomac settled down to the siege of
Petersburg. This will make an attrac-
tive feature of Winter reading for the
comrades
The National tribune., 1909-09-02

Few. il any. comprehend how vastly
more important in many respects the
telephone business is than that OF the
telegraph. According to the Bureau of
the Census there are altogether 15,072,-
22O miles of single wire in the telegraph
and telephone service. OF this the tele-
phone systems control 12.999,369 miles.
or 13-15ths of the whole. Altogether
142,733 Wage-earners are employed by
the two systems, of whom 1851 be-
long to the telephone and receive $48.-
s5O,7O4, while the 2S,s62 telegraph
wage-earhers receive s15,O13,312. That
is, while, the telegraphers are only one
seventh of the entire number, they re-
ceive more than one-third as much
III
WAGES. "a,
The National tribune., 1909-09-02

The Census Bureau reports the unsus-
pected fact that the church member
ship in this country has increased fast
er than the population. In 1890 the
percentage of church members to popu-
lation was 1927. which increased in 1906
to 39.1, a gain of more than six per
cent. The Protestant denominations
gained f.S per cent, while the Roman
Catholic gain was "A per cent. The
lowest proportion of Protestants is in
Utah, with the membership at present
only 2.6 per cent of the population, and
is largest in South Carolina. where it
is As per cent. The Roman Catholics
are the fewest in North Carolina, where
there are only two in every thousand
population, and are most numerous
in New Mexico. where they form 56.2
per cent of the population. The Bap-
fists have the highest percentage in
Georgia, the Methodists in South Caro-
lima and the Lutherans in Minnesota.
The Mormons represent 47.9 per cent of
the population of Utah.
The National tribune., 1909-09-02

Eugene v. Debs is to run again for
President, and does not seem to be at
ali discouraged by the poor showing his
party made in the last election Social
lists had predicted that they would have
not less than 100000 votes in the
country in 1908. The total Socialist
vote in 1904 was 402.2sS and in 1908
it was 420.464, an increase of only 49,
900 in four years. The SociaIistic vote
fell off most astonishingly in California
and Illinois. with the only gain being in
Colorado, where it increased less than
5000. Chicago has been regarded as
the hottest Socialistic stronghold. but
the vote there fell off from 69.225 In
1904 to BATH in 1908.
The National tribune., 1909-09-02

A movement is on foot to erect
monument at Altoona, Pa, to commem-
crate the, meeting of Northern Cover
nors at the oLogan House, in that city,
Sept. 24-25, 1852, at the suggestion of
Gov. Curtin. to devise ways and means
to assist the fGOvernment in its darkest
hour. The suggestion for such a meet
ing was heartily Endorsed by Gov. Tod.
of Ohio. and Gov. Pierpont, of West
Virginia. and brought together 18 Gov
ernors. who. without any organization.
discussed with the utmost freedom and
exactness the situation in which the
Government found itself. and what had
to be done to help it. 1t is rightly con-
sidered that that meeting was an epi-
sode of the greatest Importance to the
country. and that it should be COM
memorated as much as any great bat
tie. II has been suggested that the
erection and unvailing of the monument
be made the occasion of a great cele-
bration which would revive the memo
ries of the war and teach the present
generation what that struggle cost the
people who waged it. The firm stand
made by the Governors and their reso-
luton to put all the resources of their
people at the service of the Govern
ment were of the highest Importance in
animating the cause of the Union and
discouraging the Secession. and we
heartily indorse the proposition of max
ing lasting commemoration of this
great meeting.
The National tribune., 1909-09-02

Edwin Markham. the California poet,
has tried living in the East for seven
years. but is now going back to the
Pacific Coast He said to a reporter:
New York is the commercial center OF
the country, and it is growing to be the
literary center, but 1 am going back to
California. Once the charm of that
golden climate gets into mans veins
he may roam all over the earth. but he
will always long TO return to the sunset
land Ny best inspirations came to me
there. 1t was there that / awoke one
day to find myself acclaimed as poet
and the call of the East. with its MS
lions and myriad industries, came to
me. and. like Bret Harte. l obeyed IL. I
have been happy: but. like the old
darkey in the North, hear the call Of
Dixie land and / must go.''
The National tribune., 1909-09-02

In her careful search for sources of
revenue, France has decided to tax
gamblers. A bill has been introduced.
which is likely to pass. compelling every
man who wants to gamble at cards or
otherwise to take out license costing
$40. Every game of hazard is made a
State monopoly, and no one will be ad
mitted to the room where such a game
is played unless of age and provided
with a license. From the proceeds from
this tax 10 per cent will be paid to the
Commune, 10 per cent for the general
improvement of the French health re
sorts, half of the remainder will be put
into the oid-age pension fund for work
men, and the other half applied to the
reduction of taxation on unimproved
lands.
The National tribune., 1909-09-02

of sensible regulation of the trusts
from the convention of Attorneys-Gen-
eral, representing IL great States. held
last week in Buffalo. than from thou
sands of blasty campaign speeches. The
trusts have come to stay. They are a
necessary feature of our great COM
mercial development. The main thing
is to recognize this. and do the next
best thing; that is. to carefully regulate
them so as to lop off their dangerous
and oppressive excrescences. We can
have confidence that the Attorneys-Gen-
eraI will find practical way to do this.
The National tribune., 1909-09-02
BRIDGES OR TUNNELS.

An interesting discussion is going on
in engineering circles as to the relative
advantages and disadvantages of
bridges and tunnels for crossing wide
rivers or inlets. The first disadvantage
of tunnel is that aItho it is constructed
at enormous cost. it is absolutely infiex-
ible and q double track is its limit. On
the other hand. great bridge may
have four. six or even eight tracks with
ou. serious additional cost above its first
construction. The next objection is that
il is far more difficult to provide ter
minal facilities for tunnels than for
bridges The St. Clair and Detroit tun-
nels have open-air terminals. which
they were fortunate enough to secure
at reasonable cost, but the New York
tunnels have their terminals under
>round. where they cost enormously and
are insufficient in capacity. The next
objection to tunnel Is that hump"
necessary at each end. and hump"
of 100 feet at the entrance of a tunnel
is quite as Objectionable as it would be
on any other part of the line. The cost
of maintenance of a tunnel is less than
that of bridge. but the cost of track
maintenance. light and ventilation is
much greater The place where tun-
lei is preferable is where the streams
IRE of great width and carry much nav
cation On channels of any moderate
width a bridge is far cheaper TO con-
struct and also to operate.