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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
Social and Personal
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Mrs. NJ. Rowan and daughter. Miss
Nell Rowan, expect to leave Tuesday
for points in Ohio, then to Pittsburg,
Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Canada.
Mrs. Rowan will return about the last
of September. Miss Nell Rowan will
not return until spring for she will be
a student at the University of Ohio.
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Frank and Percy Allen have return
ed from a visit to Centerville, Miss,
their sister, Mrs Lilly Womack, ac-
companied them home and is the guest
of her mother Mrs. A. Allen on Front
street. Mr.. and Mrs. Womack will
make Hattiesburg their future home.
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On Thursday August 18th. Mr..
James Hunt Cook will lecture at the
Auditorium. His subject will be as
This Your SOM" Everybody is in
vited.
Mrs. J. W. Howell and little daugh-
ter, Gladys, have returned from
three weeks visit to relatives and
friends at Meridian, Shubuta and Mo-
bile.
Miss Nell Jones, accompanied by
her two little brothers is the guest
of her cousins, Misses Mamie and
Phillis Doherety and Annie McGin-
ley.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. F. Mccormick of
Shubuta, are the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. John and DR.. Mccormick at Mrs.
NJ. Hemphill's on West Pine street.
Mrs. B. A. McClanahan and children
Bonnie and Julia May, of st. Angelo,
Texas are the guests of Mrs. w. A.
Bilbo, on Walnut street.
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Mrs. ]. f. Williams and children
and little Lucy Pettigrew have re-
turned home after a two weeks stay
at Stafford Springs.
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Miss Annie Doherety, of Jackson,
is the guest of her sister, Miss Annie
Doherty and cousins, Misses Mary
and Phillis Doherety.
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Miss Laurie Ward, Of Ellisville,
spent Wednesday and Thursday here
the guest Of Misses Marie and Ruth
Turner.
Miss Annie Cora Gillian is expect
ed home Saturday from Newton where
she has been the guest of the Misses
Seaman.
The Jackson Clarion-Ledger says:
r. II. Bostwick, of Hattiesburg, was
among last nights guests at the Lem
on.
Mr.. Alex T. McCurdie is expected
home Sunday from two weeks visit
to Durand, Mich, Chicago and Frank
fort, Ky.
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FLOYD Mccormick spent Wednesday
here with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
John Mccormick, enroute to Richton.
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Mrs. S. Ward and Miss Ella Ward
are pleasantly located in their pretty
little home on Katie avenue.
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Rev. NJ. L. Burton will occupy the
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
REAL SPoTLESS TOWN.

From the Washington Post.
Fancy a city of 100000 people where
the streets are scrubbed every nigh
and where servant girls employed by
the residents are fined when they fai
to sweep the sidewalks in front oi
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
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Hays Field, Hatusburg' MISS August i'O'
Hattesburg, Miss.
Dear sirs:-I pleasure telling that Tecura ONT
men Tran claim for it. have suffered ter
rtlv with eczema all limbs than eight
years usedYey ycaled kin % that could buy some OF
good Seeing your bus x Tecura and after the use OF
several boxes of Eczema which has resisted all Ell
forts for years have anyone write me IN per-
con regardng this REMEDY Respectfully,
Box 239 Hattesburg Miss d. H. ANii'i
OINTMENT every case OF ETC
zema letter all dealers or mailed
in plain wrapper o IN recipe of the price
HAYS &
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13

No burglar ever seizes a five-toot
shelf with an intention of putting it
on the market.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13

And Everything Else Needed in an
Off'na.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-03
sTARvE THE GARBAGE CAN.
That's One Thing The French Do Which
 Helps to Make Them Rich.

That's One Thing The French Do Which
 Helps to Make Them Rich.
 Washington Post.
 The French have more than s2Oo. 900. 900 invested in Japan, and it Is only another ev- idence cumulative of the thrift of the French people. But in France the garbage barrel holds nothing but garbage; in our blessed land two.thirds of its contents-is wasted foods and fl is possibly true that this branch of waste costs the American people sl. 900. .oo0,00o every year. and the thing Is constantly growing. That family that in sists on making lamb stew of lamb chops instead of lamb neck is candidate for the poorhouses unless it's head ia man of wealth It is at once foolish and criminal so to throw away money and 1t Is playing into the hands of the meat trust every time 1t Is
 It Is the only way in the world to fight the trusts--to waste nothing Put just enough on the table and none to spare. Keep food out of the garbage can. Buy nothing not needed These are doctrines that every woman fit to be a poor mans wife ought to cherish and practice. and if she be heed- less of them and a rich mans wife she will soon turn him Into a poor man.
 The American people have two vices. One is they are too eager in pursuit of a dollar too prone to regard its possession the chief if not the sole end Of life, and the other vice the practice of a frightful waste that would send to the poorhouse any other country in the world It Is computed that bad country roads entail an annual tax of $500, 900. 900 on the American people. That Is waste. Fires and floods cost other hundreds of millions all waste Improvident and stupid farming
 But 10 get back. If We would bring the meat trust and the other trusts to their se nsea stafYe the garbage can-feed tt on nothing bus airt and garbage
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-03
THANKS TO OUR COUNTRY COUs-

Not the least gratifying feature of Mondays election was the way in which the voters in the country pre- cincts voted with the city man and so rebuked the political leaders who sought to play upon prejudice and ar ray the country against the town. The vote against the amendment was larger In proportion In most of the country precincts than 1t was in the small towns and its proportion was nearly the same as that against the measure cast in the cities. Our coun- try cousins co-operated frankly and warmly with the city voters. in the face of patent efforts to array them against the Alabama cities.
 In the last Legislature, when a rep resentative from a city constituency plead that the pledges of the Demo- cratic party be kept. when he plead that the cities be considered a part of Alabama and treated fairly as any other part of the State, he got this retort from the acknowledged leader of the faction that dictated the leg islation of the last extra session.
 Tt may be a bitter pill. but your country cousins have come to town and they are going to regulate you. They are in the saddle and they are going to run things"
 In the light of the election this harsh remark appears foolish and in- tolerant. The country cousins were not lined up against the cities. the country cousins sense of fairness was greater than that of those who pro- fessed to speak as his representatives. And every man who sought to arouse prejudice between city and country people was soundly rebuked at the polls.
 Our country cousins came to town not to regulate us, but to see that we were treated fairly. Their help and cooperation was most gratifying and the cordiaHty and good will between city, town and country is a splendid augury of the peace and harmony in Alabama for the future.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-03
ROBERT E. STEINER AND THE CAMPAIGN.

Several Alabama papers have with justice, compiimented the ability and intelligence with which the campaign against the. amendment was manag- ed. and which led 1t from state of almost hopeIessness at the beginning to triumphant victory. The wisdom with which the campaign was plan ned, the energy with which 1t was pursued, and the tnct and ,determina- ton with which its obstacles were met and overcome. deserves the praise that have been paid them.
 much of this fell upon Major Robert E. Steiner. of Montgomery. who. for two months abandoned his law prac- tice to devote himself to the admin istration of the great task. A leader in planning and carrying forward the Montgomery conference. in which were forged the forces that destroyed the amendment and the political ring behind. Major steiner at the conclu- sion of the conference undertook the task of building from the ground up an organization to reach the voters and oppose the strongly entrenched machine, which had committed It's fu- ture confidently to carrying of the amendment. How well the work was done the magnificent majority of Monday is testimony. More could be said of the day and night tasks for two and a half months. the labor of carrying the fight effectively into every neishborhood in Alabama, the enlisting of forces that had held off, the stirring of apathy. but those in the campaign know of. the work, 4
 It Is but justice that word should be said to inform those who have praised the conduct of the campaign that the part played by Major Steiner was of the heaviest in re- sponsIbility and the most fruitful in results. The campaign was rnagnifi- gently conducted and the directing head Is entitled to his share of com mendation. ~. ,.. ts.~ -a|
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-03
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

There Is an old legend or tradition that long after the death of the great Homer. and when his wonderful gen jus had come to be admitted. seven cities claimed the honor of having been his birthplace. and that in these same cities the living Homer begged his bread" We are always reminded of this when we think of Edgar AL Ian Poe, in some respects the greatest literary genius this country ever pro- duced. The following, from The Man chester Union, illustrates our mean ing:
 The unprecedented price of S3,8O0 paid by J. Pierpont Morgan for a pamphlet containing two tales by Ed readers who are but slightly interest ed in first editions the pathetic pic- ture drawn by N. P. Willis of the poets devoted mother-in-l Jaw. as she went from office to office of news paper and magazine in an attempt to sell for a trifle some poem or poet story by her gifted son-in-law. while he and his consumptive wife were both Ill at home and wretchedly des- pdIAipHlcL WHICH 0dS now brought the highest price ever paid for book printed in America, is No. of The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe" issued by William Graham of Philadelphia in 1S43. It contains The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and The Man That Was Used Up" It is somewhat remarkable fact that the two books printed in America which have brought the next highest prices were also written by Poe; one being Cbapnhnriain aF Tamerlane and Minor Poems," presen- tation copy from his sister Rasalie which sold for $2.90O in February last; tine other the Maier copy of the same work, autograph inscription, For my Cousin Elizabeth, E. A. Poe" bought last Tuesday for s2.Soo. pre- sumably for stephen H. Wakeman. The next highest-priced American printed book. after these three by Poe, Is Eliot's Indian Bible. which brought 5S0 pounds at Lord Hardwickes sale In June. 1888.
 The pitiful story of Poe's life and struggles illustrates In a remarkable degree the fickleness of fortune. the uncertainty of fame and, above all the indifference of the people of past days to recognize great genius until death had removed its possessor, just as the old story of Homer shows how his own countrymen failed to appre- ciate his genius until long after he had gone from among them. John Milton and some of the other great poets of England experienced some thing of the same sort of neglect and indifference while they lived.
 The pathetic story of Poe is a not able instance of what might have been" When we think of his frail and delicate child wife. suffering from an incurable and insidious disease. az gravated and intensified by wretched poverty, and by actual lack of food. clothing and medical care; and when we think of the great poet wearing his life away in the production of those literary productions which have made his name famous throughout the civilized world. doing the work when he did not have sufficient food for himself and wife, and not enough fuel or clothing to save them from actual
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-03

suffering from cold: when we think of all these happenings of less than three- quarters of century ago. we can somewhat understand the cruel injustice of fate, as we'll as the frs- quent inequalities of human life.
 That Poe had his weaknesses, his faults and his faiiings none can de- ny. He was human. and humanity Is prone to weakness, but his faults can not detract from the greatness of his genius. nor should they be remem- bered against him. The prominent fact is that he was a great genius, and that he was not properly apprc- ciated In his lifetime. The half of what Mir. Morgan paid for that one little pamphlet would have seemed like untold wealth to Poe. It would have put him above want. given him an Opportunity to do his work at ease. and above all. 1t would have made the last days of poor Virginia comfortable. even if the money might not have saved life that was slow iy ebbing away in want and misery. Reflecting on all this we are reminds ed of the appropriate words of Poe's contemporary. Whittier:
 For of all sad words of tongue or
 pen,
 The saddest are these: Tt might have
 been."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-03
DoII.r n week for Food.

cleveland Paln Oedlci.
 "One can live on dollar week If he makes up his mind to do It.. de- clared Mrs. June Robeson. prominent in local efforts in behalf of working girls. yesterday. Mrs. Robeson has opened a home in Franklin avenue near West Forty-ninth street, which Is planned to accommodate twenty girls. Here she expects the girls to substantlate her claim.
 "It requires care in buying. close economy and perhaps some self-de- niaT.' she continued. but it can be done. l weigh 155 pounds yet find that 1 can sustain that weight, not be hungry, and yet live on dollar a week The trouble is. with most of us we eat too much. One-half of the amount consumed by the average per son would be sufficient If eaten pro- perly.
 of course one cannot have porter house steaks every day. but for that matter 1ne does not need them: Meat four or i've times a week Is sumelent And 1t isn't necessary yva 70 ma nave ", porter r- appetites too much. We like certain thing and will have It whether or not. I; We would only eat It half as often 1t would really be twice as good. ''The plan at the home oontemplates tes and providing the girls just what they
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-03
WILD TURKEYS AND PIONEERS. --@rr-- Former Helped the Other Blaze CivilizatiOn's

New York World
 The turkey Is so closely associated with Thanksgiving that you can not think of one without thinking of the other Hence, few realize how long the turkey was a necessity before he became luxury.
 This country was won with the rlLle anu the axe but to these two must be added the turkey. along with the deer and the DuIfalo. As tho pioneer shot his Indian foe ana cut down the forest he was compelled to stop as times to eat, and for gensrations the wild turkey was helpful In filling the void. The civilization of the Mississippi Valley was founded partly upon the wild turkey tne first and second generations or American statesmen were nourished by him. The Ht. tie Abraham Lincoln deyoured his share oI many such noble birds, shot insthe kentucSy hills.
 The wild turkey helped to carry our con quering arms still further Vest Custers nt- tie army in one of his campaigns against the Cheyennes was saved from Ta steTvaoan o, the far Southwest he Is still the most pre- cious game of Apache and Navajo.
 The wild turkey, the nobier ancestor or .he tame bird. yet fingers in many pfrts or ,ns .ns West and south and Is increasing in some states where the shooting of the tsmaie forbidden. He is a finer representative ot America than the eagle He uoes S ns ta. as high, but he Is much hanosomer anu i"' more worthy. Ao,.
 Nearly e.ery man who was once ooy west of the Alleghenies can testify 10 the dignity and magnlficence of the wild turkey in the dew of the early morning with the not vet lighting the east, he has stolen along proud of his fifteen years ana ms ..,. ...--, new Iive-uollar shot gun lie mas marked the groat gobbler in his trees as he called to his harem, his bronze feathers gleaminE in the first rays of the eastern sun and his red neck arched nobiy.
 What thrill when the goholer fell to his shotl Could T. R. feel It's like If he brought down the biggest elephant between Khar~ toum and the CapeY
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-03

want at cost. Tn fhis way 1t will not require an elaborate outlay for them at any time. Already the 1hye now at the home are clubbing together and finding the plan to work extremeIy wes.. Perhaps they wild not be able to reach the dollar-a-week limit at the start. but they can work to 1t if
 i've are endeavoring to instruct them, and will so instruct all who join In the movement later. in ways of Where one lives on .. dollar { week there cannot he much wasted. And there Is one of the great troubles with modern housekeeping. Too much goes Into the garbage can. One will not eat workedover foods without protest; that Is if one happens to know they've been worked over. Yet. when one goes to.a hotel he eats indiscrfnninateiy, and while he doesn't know what is worked over and what isn't he doesn't complain at anything.
 At the home will be all the con- veniences without the luxries. The furnishings will be ample and neat. There will be rooms on the upper ond floor at two dollars and two or. three more pretentious on eile ground floor at two and . half dollars. There will be plently of heat from a hard coal furnace and hot water all the time. The Kitchen equipment win be sufilcient for all the needs.
 T believe from what have seen of conditions in Cleveland that the home will prove a godsend to twenty young women, and that the home will be flll- ed soon I have little doubt"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-03
FRIDAY. DEcEnBEn 5. 1909.
A WILD HEADLINER.

As showing how misleading the newspaper headlines may sometimes be, we find in The Pittsburg Post of last Tuesday special sent out from Birmingham which The Posts head line writer thus exploited: "Prohibi- tion is Defeated: Alabama gives ma 5ority against proposition to make State dry" To begin with. Alabama did not vote on prohibition, and con- sequently prohibition was not de feated" In any way. In the second the law can make 1t. and the adop- tion or defeat of the proposed amend ment could make no change in exist ing laws.
 It is a little singular, to say the least of 1t. that so many people suf- fered themselves to be deceived. or deceived themselves, regarding the campaign just ended. Right here in Montgomery people were assured by those who ought to have known bet ter, and many of whom did know bet ter, that the defeat of the amendment would mean the immediate return of the open saloons to the city. Know ing that many good people were unai- terably opposed to saloons, there were those who did not hesitate to take ad- vantage of this feeling. and of the want of information of those who en- tertained 1t .and thus work on their feelings or prejudices by telling them that the amendment must be adopted or Alabama would have the old saloon system re-instated at once.
 It is to be regretted that such an impression should have been enter tained or promulgated by any one. While it is but fair to assume that many good people honestly believed this. and had no intention to mislead. it Is equally fair to say that in some cases the assertion was made with i'm lcnl IO uGCSlNeS ana IluS 10 gam votes for the amendment. But whether these unfounded statements were made through ignorance or design, 1t was unfortunate. for it helped to add to the bitterness of the campaign The vote and its results have not changed the status of prohibition in Alabama in the slightest degree. The State Is as "dry" as laws can make 1t and must remain so until the Legis- lature meets again. That body may endeavor to make the laws still more drastic and effective, or it may amend and modify the existing status. It may even repeal all prohibitory laws, but we do not anticipate anything of the kind, for our judgment is that prohibition Is to be given a fair trial fin Alabama, After that has been done. the people in their legislative capacity can act as they see fit on the subject. At any rate prohibition was not defeated at the polls. nor did the voters make the State "dry" by their action.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-03
Ii Might Have Been.

A hundred years ago Central New York a forest. and fine one. Enter prising pioneers came, settled 1t. built roads, schools. and churches, anu rear ed families. From thDse families have come many of the strong men of the nation. On one farm Gov. Seymour was brought up: on another was the home of Herman. The late Senator 'Evarts' place may he seen, and Ezra Cornelrs farm. The growth of New York city and other large towns call- ed of the intelligent young men. The soil is still the same soil. It's, treat ment has not been good of late years. but kindly treatment will still bring fine crops. If the state had begun, a hundred years ago. to educate her farm boys toward the farm. and hal kept It up, she would be today lead CT in agricultural progress. She had many small colleges. If the state would give an appropriation to each of them to hire two or three men to form the nucleus of an agricultural faculty. many hoys who are now turn ed away from the farm would be turn ed toward 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-03
ORIGIN OF SEA TERMS.
Almost Every Language Has Contrib
 uted to Nautical Dictionary.

uted to Nautical Dictionary. Harper's Weekly.
 There is hardly language which has not been called upon to provide at least one of the curious sea terms which are in constant use and whose origin is so obscure. For instance, the word admiral" is not of English ori- gin, but is from the Arabic emil el bagh, or lord of the sea- Captain comes from the Latin cxput, but mate is from Icelandic. and means a eom- panion, or equal Coxswain is a word whose derivation would never be guessed. The coxswain was originally the man who pulled the sfter-oar Tn the captains boat, which was known long ago as the cockboat. This, in turn. Is a corruption of. the word cora cle, a small round boat used on the Wye and Usk rivers. So coxswain. 1t Is plain, comes to us from the Welsh.
 Another curious case of term grad nally corrupted out of its original form Is the dog watch. This was originally the dodge watch" because it lasted only two hours instead of four. and thus makes 1t possible that the same men shall not be on duty every day during the same hours.
 Commodore, a term now discarded by our navy, is not SO difficult to trace to Its origin. It Is simply the Italian commentators, meaning commander. No such person as Davy Jones ever ex- isted, though We have all often heard Of him and his locker. To be correct. one should speak of Duffy Jonah's locker" for that was the original.
 Instead of the terms port" and "starboard." which are in use nowa- days. they used to talk of 'larboard" and "starboard." Starboard has noth- ing in common with stars, but Is real ly the Anglo-Saxon for "steerboard.' steer side" because in all galleys which were steered by an oar the oar was fixed somewhat to the right-hand side of the stern and the helmsman held the inboard portion in his right hand. "Larboard" Is a corruption of lower board. the larboard side beinE inferior to the other.
 The jury mast" has nothing in con'- mon with a jury except It's derivation from the same word, jour. the French for day The jury mast Is one which is put up temporarily-for day-tuSt as a jury in it's legal term means a tribunal summoned for short time only.
 Then there is the sheet anchor" the name given to the largest anchor car ried by a ship. This used to be "shote anchor" and was so called l'~Sause of its great weight, which makes 1t easv to shoot" out in case of an emergency.