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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-24
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Hattiesbms, Miss. Aug. %, 1909.
Editor Hatties5Tg News
If entirely consistent We would like
to be more fully informed through
the columns of your paper, as to whoth
er or not there is an ordinance in ei
feet, governing the disposition Of gar
bage within the corporate limits.
1t has been our understanding tlat|
the primary idea of putting the city
.crematory was for the purpose of
burning all garbage, dead animals, etc.
more particularly the garbage, for the
reason that in city of this size the
.creamtory would not be kept in con
slant operation in the disposing Of
dead animals alone. However in call.
ing up the sanitary officer Mr.. Woods
and asking that he give us some in.
formation as to the disposition of gar.
bage he surprised us by stating that
there was no provision of any de
scription made for same. although o
few days previous he had called at ON
residences and advised us that unless
we discontinued placing garbage in
ia private alley, he would be forced
to prosecute us. 1t is on account Of
this, that we are DESTROYS of findine
some way to comply with the laws of
the city. We had not seen fit to keen
it in our front yard or in our back.
yard, either from a moral or sanitary
standpoint. Mr.. Woods suggested that
we might burn it." Possibly. but il
any of your readers have ever tried
this, and have been successful in max.
ing an ordinary stove burn a mass of
this description, we should indeed be
grateful to know how it is done. If
it can be done of course we will be
willing to disconnect our gas stoves
and use wood the balance of the sum.
mer. However. if this has not proven
ouCCSSSlul, tueH we are Stlll in the
dark as to whether or not to keep It
in our yards as an ornament, or to
place 1t in the alley as we have been
doing and donate to the needs of the
city to the extent of paying fine
for such offense, rather than a doctor
bill for the entire family.
In this connection, we would like to
inquire if it is the sense of our CITY
fathers that a very small amount Of
table garbage is more Objectionable
froma sanitary standpoint, deposited in
said alley. than a number Of open
closets directly AUDITING on the same
alley.
Understand that it is not the sense
or intention of this article to convey
the idea that we condemn either of the
above evils, both of which we con
slider unsanitary and unsightly, but is
it not as essential that some arrange
ments be made for the taking up of
the garbage, as we'll as the cleaning of
closets.
If not, what are we going to do with
it? Very respectfully.
--' CITIZENS.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-24

The prosperity which comes from
the timber interest of a country IS
generally short lived. That is to
saw it can't last very long because
it necessarily goes. But the prosper
itv that is brought about by agrlcul'
ture is generally durable. The agr'
cultural interest of a country is its
backbone anyway and brings a klno
of prosperity that is durable.-Perry
County Review.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST "a, 1909.
Circulation Double That Of Any
Other South Mississippi Paper
FoNTAINE WROTE 1T.

The Houston (Tex.) Post is going
to some trouble to locate the author of
the famous poem, "All Quiet Along
the Potomac Tonight" and has had
many letters from people residing in
different parts of the United States
who Claim to know who wrote the
verses.
This question has been discussed
from tine to time by the newspapers
of the country, and especially by south
ern publications, and there have been
many who laid claim to the author
ship of this famous poem, but it ap.
pears that the question has not yet
been satisfactorily settled. So far as
the civil war vetrans of Mississippi
are concerned, no doubt exists as to
who is entitled to the credit
Major Lamar Fontaine wrote the
lines. and the writer remembers very
distinctly when the Confederate re-
union was held in Hattiesburg in the
year 1902, that old war horse adj
dressed a large gathering of Confed
crate soldiers at the court house, and
during the course of his remarks he
was asked to recite the famous poem
Fontaine appeared to be extremely
pleased at the request, and before re,
peating the lines which were so ia
miliar to those who had fought with
him for the lost cause, stated that in
order for the younger generation to
thoroughly appreciate and more in
telligentlyunderstand the motives and
sentiments which prompted him to
reduce his reverie to writing, he ex-
planned his position at the time the
thought occurred to him and the mar
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PETITION FOR PARDON.
State of Mississippi,


Forrest County.
To His Excellency, E. F. Noel,
Governor of the State of Mississippi
Your petitioner, Joe Lewellen, re-
specially shows unto your excellency
that he was on the 18th day of No
vember, 1908, charged, convicted
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
a term of one year for burglary, and
was tried before the Hon. w. H. Cook,
Circuit Judge in and for the Twelfth
Judicial Districf, and was thereby
sentencsd and is now serving in the
peniteftiary. And your petitioner,
shows Nthe following reasons why he
should We pardoned;
l. Your, petitioner is a young man
in his teens OF the age of II and of a
good family of this state.
2. That your petitioner has al
ready been in prison about nine
months; and that his punishment has
already been sufficient for one of his
I
tender years.
8. That your petitioner feels that
a pardon before the one year imprison
ment has been served out, that the said
pardon would restore the young man
his citizenship with the rest of the re-
spectable citizens of this state.
4. We, the undersigned feel assured
that he will be a better boy; and we
ask for such clemencies as your ex
cellency may mete out to the young
man.
Signed by your petitioners, Joe
Lewellen and others.
E. A. ANDERSON.
S-11-4t-thur S. A LEWELLEN.
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-@-,Se +a+r,s=Ss:7> ~ 1S>=s .4y
that elf all the farmers went to rails
ing corn the price would go so low
there would be no profit in it, There
is little danger of a large surplus Of
home raised corn in this territory for
some time to come, but if there should
be a surplus the most profitable way
to dispose of it would be to feed it
to hogs. At the present price of pork,
and the prospect is for a continuance
of high prices, corn thus disposed of
would bring a big per centage of
profit. Then, too. the farmer might
grind his own meal, which would be
another money saver-Sunflower Toe
sin.
The farmer who raises his own
corn, raises his own meat, and his
small canning factory in the back yard
is one who can be independent. A man
farming on a small scale should use
and not overdo any
one thing. 1t takes system to sue
coed in anything, and the farmer who
owes for his land and tries to pay out
by raising just one thing will lose. If
you manage to make your living, the
rest will come after a while.-Tupelo
Journal.
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rative was so realistic and accurate
that one could almost imagine himself
being with Fontaine on the banks OF
the Potomac at nieht, with his mu5keJ
across his shoulder and his comrades
lying upon the ground and anticpat-
ing the desperate struggle which was
shortly to take place between them and
the enemy who were bivouaced just
across the river.
No matter who claims to have writ
ten the poem, Fontaine was the lurhol
of the original version. 1t may hav-
been changed and published over an
other authors signature, or there ma,
have been two of the same poem b!
different authors. However this ma!
be. Lamar Fontaine, perhaps the hes
known civil war veteran in Missis
sippi, is entitled to the credit, and /
is an honor of which any one coulC
well afford to feel proud. No matte
who claims it, Mississippians will nev
err admit that the inimitable Fontain'
was guilty of an untruth when he &C
llnowledged in the presence of severa
hundred of his companions in arm
at the court house in Hattiesburg tina
he was the author of "All Quiet Alon:
the Potomac Tonight"
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MAY CAUSE MAYORS ARREST
Reformers at Atlantic City Want sa
looms Closed.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., August "a.
Interest in the reform movement in
this city was intensified today when
Mayor Stoy officially refused to re-
ceive a notice from Attorney General
Wilson ordering him to close Atlantic
CITY saloons on Sunday. The mayor
said he knew the contents of the no
tice. which gave the names and adj
dresses of thirty-eight saloons and no.
tel proprietors who are alleged to
have sold liquor on three Sundays OF
the present month, and he refused to
accept service even after the contents
of the paper and the signature of the
Attorney General had been read to
him. Under the state law the refusal
to act within ten days on an order Is
sued by the attorney general makes
a city official liable to indictment for
a msdemeanor.
The heads of the reform movement
declare they will cause the arrest of
the mayor if he refuses to acknowl-
edge the notice.
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CRUELTY CHARGES
ARE CONFIRMED
Trivial offences Brought Drastic Pun
ishment to Children.

NEW YORK, August 24.-Charges
that bows in the Randalps Island house
of refuge were treated cruelty are
confirmed in the report of the state
board of charities appointed at the re-
quest of Governor Hughes. The COM
mission asserts that the inmates were
assigned to disciplinary divisions for
trivial offenses common to boys of
their age; that those under discipline
were deprived of religious instruction
and exercise in the open air; that the
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Officers slapped the faces of boys and
struck them with their fists
The commission condemned the
practice of having an inmate who re-
sisted discipline stand with his back
to cell door with his hands thrust
| through the door and his. wrists hand
icufled on the other side Inmates were
So handculfed for - consecutive days
, tie report says
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE.

BY virtue of the authority vested in
me in a certain deed of trust executed
by ]. X. Ports, B. G. Ports and Sam
Powell trustees of the colored Meth
odist Episcopal church of Hattiesburg,
Mississippi to. Mrs. Matte A. Williams
beneficiary, am to me as trustee, on
the 1st/ day Oh October, 1906, and
which faid deedN f trust is of record
in Book X page IN of the Records of
Mortgages and Del ds of Trust on
LandsSf the Second District of Per.
ry county,alississipIf default having
been made in 'ths-pakment of said in
debtedness and having been requested
thereunto By the said beneficiary in
said deed of trust 1 will offer for sale
and will sell at public auction for
cash TO the highest bidder in front of
the Main street, or front door of the
Forrest county court house in the city
of Hattiesburg, during legal hours on
Monday. September 9th, 1901, that be-
ing the first Monday Of September,
1909. the following described real es-
tate, together with all improvements
thereon and appurtenances thereto
belonging, lying and being situate In
the City of Hattiesburg in the county
of Forrest and State of Mississippi,
towit:
Lot number nine (9) in block num-
Der seven Cd according to the Yellow
Pine Park survey of the city of Hat
tiesburg as shown by the plat of said
survey on file in the chancery clerks
office of Forrest county, said land be-
ing a part of the N. e. Il of the s. w.
Y of Sec. 8, T. 4, N. r. 10 ".
Witness my signature this August
.4th, A. D. 1909.
s. ". ROBERTSON,
Trustee.
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TRUSTEES SALE.

I, A. E. Keys, Trustee, under the
provisions of and by virtue of the au'
thority conferred upon me in certain
deed of trust executed by D. H. Nc
Innis and Addie B, McInnis on the
4th day of August, \. D. 1905, to Sc
cure a certain >1ndebt edness therein
mentioned tIw. E. Babcock and
which said/deed of tra st is recorded
in book n" of the Red prds of Deeds
of Forrest formerly Terry) County,
Missisf ppl, at pagSe3SO and SS1, and
having besaEesdested by the said w.
e. Babcock, the beneficiary in said
deed of trust to foreclose same, I will
on the first Monday in September, said
first Monday being on the sixth day
of the month of September, in the year
A. D. 1909, offer for sale, and will
sell at public auction for cash to the
highest and best bidder at the front or
Main street door of the court house
in the city of Hattiesburg, Forrest
county, Mississippi, within and during
legal hours the following described
lands situate in the city of Hatties
burg, Forrest county, Mississippi, to
Wit:
Lots 1, 2 and in block 1, lots 2 and
, in block 2 Of the D. H. McInnis sec
nd survey of the city of Hatiesbury,
ind fractional lots a, and 6, and lots
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE.

I, R. S. Hall, substituted trustee,
under the provisions of and by virtue
of authority conferred upon me as
substitute trustee, in a deed OF trust
made by R. D. Wentworth to G. ,,
McInnis o9/the 8OtN day of October
1907 to SECURE observation-disclosures to
C. D. TcInnis' and VI ich said deed
of tryst is recorded in Book "X", page
1922, fin the Record of mortgages and
Deeds of Trust on land in the chan
Gerry CLERKS office of the Second Dis
trict or-rerry-c6unty, now Forrest
county, Mississippi, will on Wednes-
day, September list, 1909, offer for
sale and sell at public auction to the
highest and best bidder, for cash, at
the front door of the Forrest county
court house, during legal hours the
described property, towit:
Lots 10, II and IL, block 2, Of the
Hattiesburg Heights Proper Addition
of Hattiesburg. Mississippi, as per
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z and s in block "a of the Hardy &
Scott and Hardy & Whinery's sur
veys of the said city of Hattiesburg
together with the improvements and
appurtenances thereto belonging.
Witness my signature, this the lat!
day of August, A. D. 1902
A. E. KEYS, Trustee.
S-14-3t-Sat
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That we are returning to the Gus
toms and practices Of our daddies is
evidenced by the fact that we heal
of grist mills being erected in all por
lions of the county. For many years
past our farmers have scorned the
home ground meal, preferriDg the bolt
ed stuff that comes to us from the
city mill at city prices, but a change
has come a,1d we can hear the hum OF
the grist mill once again. This means
a return of prosperity as the farmers
will give more attention to living at
home and not put all the work on the
cotton crop thus leaving the corn and
forage crops to the tender mercy OF
the elements and the poor lands on
which they are planted.-WoodvillN
Republican.
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HEAVY RATES.

Guest-Waiter, there is one item
omitted
Waiter-What item, sir?
Guest-The manager said Good
morning" to me yesterday and has
forgotten to charge for it.-St. Louis
Times.
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State of Ohio, City of Toledo,
lucas County-ss.

Lucas COunty-ss.
Frank ]. Cheney mates oath tina
he is senior partner of the firm 0
F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business Il
the City of Toledo, County md STATE
aforesaid, and that sa firmAwill nay
the sum of ONE HfNDREb DOL
LARS for each and Fl ferry SS of ca
tarrh that cannot be drSSby the use
of Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK ]. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and sub
scribed in my presence, this 9Th day
of December, A. D. 1856.
A. W. GLEASON,
(Seal) Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally. and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system.
Send for testimonials free.
F. ]. CHENEY & Co.,
Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
tipation.
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Member Of the Associated Press

Entered as second-class matter on
DAY 20, 1907. at the postoffice at Hat
leeburg. Miss. under the Act OF Con-
Gress of March 2, 1879.
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Chief of Police Williams left this
morning for Meridian, carrying with
him the negro John Poe, who is
wanted there for car breaking.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-24

map and plat in the office of the
chancery clerk of said county.
Witness my signature this the 2Sth
day Of July, 1909.
r. s. HALL,
7-29-4t-thurs Substitute Trustee
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'sesburg News and is authorized to col
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OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OF HAT.
r,EsBURG AND COUNTY OF FOR.
REST.
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S-14-3t-Sat
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-01-14

have the guilty run down and pun
ished if it takes a thousand years. !
have nothing farther to say to you"
Halliday, the agitator, glared dam
gerously at Majors during the inter-
view, and as he sulkily skunk out Of
the room | overheard him breathing
threats against my friend to one of his
companions.
The climax of the strike came the
following day when one of the trains
vas derailed and the fireman and en-
gineer, who were strike-breakers, were
killed. Majors went in person to the
scene of the wreck to investigate. 1t
didn't take a prolonged examination
to determine that the wreck was the
result of direct and premeditated de-
sign. This aroused every drop Of
fighting blood in my friend, and he set
about tracking down the guilty per-
sons with the utmost vigor. He en-
ployed the best detective talent OBJ
tainable, and it was not many days be-
fore two Of the strikers tools of Halli-
day, had been arrested and there was
every chance that both of them would
hang for the job. Suspicion pointed
strongly towards Halliday as the insti-
gator Of the plot, but we were salts
! fed that he had not had any direct
part in carrying it out. He was too
wise for that, but Majors gathered evil
dence against him that promised to
put him in the same boat with his con-
federates.
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that he had assumed lately. 1t was
Saturday night and, as the road did
not operate a Sunday train, Majors
could afford to take the night off and
enjoy the rest he needed so badly. /
think he appreciated this, for he ac-
cepted my invitation with alacrity.
He came in late, and | saw at once
that something was preying upon his
mind. | was far from guessing the
real nature of his trouble for | at
tributed it to the strike. We made a
sorry endeavor to renew our old col
lege gayety, but it wouldn't work.
Majors was distracted and let me do
most of the talking. I told him what
| knew of the old boys, and recalled
many amusing incidents of our school
life, but | could not rouse him from
the fit of dependence into which he
was sunk. And through it all, Majors
sat with a far-away look on his face,
and | saw that he was not following
my rambling talk, for once or twice
when | paused for him to answer some
question, he was SO deeply involved in
his own gloomy thoughts that he didn't
know | had stopped speaking.
Nevertheless, I am convinced that
he enjoyed the evening, poor fellow,
for towards the end of 1T he rallied a
bit, and we had a lively half hour Of
it before he had to take his departure,
LIZ - L -. 80, r. M , =.
wanted to walk with him to his
rooms, which were over his Office, but
he would not permit me to accompany
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road. 1t was a silver mine, and that
metal was quoted at a good figure just
then. Consequently, he chafed at the
forced inactivity of his mine and ia
vored granting the concessions asked
by the men. But Majors was as firm
as a rock, his position one taken, and
he fought the president himself with
the same logged determination he had
displayed towards the men.
Majors was the key to the situation,
the stumbling-block to both interests,
and ugly threats were made against
him by the strikers. He had succeed
ed in operating the line after a
fashion, although schedules were dis
arranged and the service was general
ly d~emoralized. 1t was only his force
full personality that had accomplished
even this, and as o as | made even
a cursory examination of conditions |
saw that my friend held a dangerous
as well as a difficult position.
The day after my arrival l was pres
ent when he received a delegation of
the strikers, and was more than ever
impressed with his indomitable will by
this interview. There were four Of the
strikers, headed by a man named Hal
liday, the walking delegate to whom ]
have referred. He was pompous, over.
bearing, pudgy, INSCRIPTIONS, and a
man Of most malignant c~ountenance
He was the speaker for the strikers
and | thought that | detected some
thing more dangerous than ardor fol
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his cause in the insolent manner he
displayed during the interview.
Majors heard the impassioned ad-
dress of the delegate without inter
rupting him and, when he had finished,
turned to the others, whom he called
by name, and whom he addressed as
follows:
Boys, l have looked into your case
as carefully as if it were my own. You
are in the wrong; there is no virtue in
your contentious and l cannot consider
them further. You have been receiv-
ing better wages and better and fairer
treatment than the employees Of any
other road in this state. You haven't
a legitimate cause of complaint and
you are wasting your own time and
mine as we'll to seek a further confer
ence with me until you come to your
senses and are willing to return to
work on the old terms. Any of you
who wish to return to the service may
do so without prejudice. You are be-
ing deluded by a selfish agitator who
is profiting by the misfortunes which
his counsel has brought upon you. If
you prefer to follow him rather than
me, | have nothing farther to say to
you. | am going to run the P. & o.
in spite Of you or anything that you
do. II you resort to violence l will
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He told me about this one afternoon
when l visited him at his Office. One
of the office boys hung about as we
talked, in a way that l did not like,
and | cautioned Majors lest he be over
heard and Halliday warned, but he
scoffed at my fears and said he trusted
the boy. Nevertheless, l didn't like
the CLEAN that came into the boys
eyes when he heard what Majors had
to say about Halliday. Things looked
threatening for the delegate. l knew
that he vas a dangerous character
and l feared that he might try to es-
cape from the net that Majors was
weaving about him by trying to silence
Majors in the only way that was pos
sible.
That night Majors had promised to
call on me at my hotel to sample a
bottle of 30-year-old liquor that a
friend in the revenue service had sent
me from Kentucky. l had invited
Majors more to get him away from his
work than with any idea that he would
care especially for the liquor, as I
knew that he was temperate in all his
tastes and habits. | knew that he
needed the rest, that he was overtax-
ing himself with the var he was wag-
ing with the strikers, and l had not
liked the haunted, worried expression