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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18
ALBERT FARLEY FIRE.
Assault Charge Against Negro /
Flat In Police Court.
The Biggest and Best Sc Sh,

Albert Farley, negro, was tried i
the police court this morning ON fu|
charges, one cor carrying "a gun and
the other for assauIting Matte p-aks
ford On both charges he came clear
the prosecuting witness paying the
costs in the actions. Matte couit
not substantiate her charges, and she
was given an object lesson of the
old adage, BE sure you are right and
then go ahead"
A. e. Tut, a white man, did not fare
SO well on the charge of carrying q
pistol. The charge was proved to the
satisfaction of the justice, and Tut
was touched to the tune of $35 and
the costs, which he paid.
vinson Ferris. Prince Morgan and
Tome Lovelace. three negroes, were
tried on the charge of not paying their
street taxes. and were let OF with
the payment of the officers costs and
the payment of the tax.
Jim Frazier. white. was fined for
falling from the paths of rectitude by
getting drunk. and the net cost OF his
booze was increased $3.50.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18
MONDAY. JANUARY 1s, 1909.
Circulation Double That of Any
Other South Mississippi Paper
STORE ADVERTISING. !

The Indiana Retail Merchants
Journal says:
"The man who does not advertise
because his grandfather did not,
ought to wear knee breeches and a
queue.
The man who does not advertise
because it costs money, should quit
paying rent for the same reason.
The man who does not advertise
because he tried it and failed, should
throw away his cigar because the
light went out
The man who don't advertise be-
cause he doesn't know how himself,
ought to stop eating because he can't
cook.
The man who does not advertise
because someone said it did not nay
ought not believe the world is round
because the ancoents said it was fiat"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18
Service Fund is
Now Growi7g Rapidly;
Hattiesbugans Donate

Mrs. E. NJ. Lockwood of Crystal
Springs, has been in Hattiesburg for
the past several days, soliciting con
tributions for the purchase of the sill.
yer service for the new battleship Mis-.
sissippi, and has met with splendid
success.
The amounts contributed by Hatties.
burg citizens are as follows:
w. L. Pack 81, w. ]. Stevens 81,
DR.. James E. Hulett 81. c. H. Arm
brecht $3.50, cash 81, G. G. Woodward
81, r. L. Bennett 81, e. G. OFerrall
81, DR.. Robert Field 81. C. C. Hamper
81, Eearl B. King 81, T. e. Batson 81,
j. B. Sanford 81, ]. e. Davidson 81,
Hawkins Hardware Company 81,
Moore Bros. Grocery Co. 81, DIR. G. A.
Brumfeld 81, Hattiesburg Grocery Co.
81, DR. Robert Donald 81, DIR. ]. d. DON
aid $3.50, H. o. White 81, F. ]. Duke
81, R. A. Beall 81, E. B. Lackey 81,
]. F. Bennett 81, A. Farley 81, ]. F.
Williams 81, E. B. George 81, ]. M.
Carter 81, Southern Grocery Co. 81,
L. L. Powell 81, s. L. Heidelberg 81.
j. S. Albritten 81, Owl Drug Store 81,
H. Katz 81, Abney Furniture Co 81. w.
M. Duke 81, ]. S. Semmes 81, ]. E.
Herman 81, w. NJ. Conner IS. G. M.
McWilliams ST. F. F. Phillips So, w.
c. Bennett 81, William H. Cook 81,
Luther James 81, W. G. Sellers 81, A.
X. Ramsey 81, B. c. Goodwin 81. T. C.
Hannah 81, ]. B. Guyton 81, e. M.
Wilson 81, DIR. r. B. Stapleton 81,
Cater & Howarth 81, cash 50, DR.. Lii
lian Mccormick 81, DIR, s. Lewis
Knight 81, E. Wood 81, A. J. Mitchell
81, G. c. & s. B. Robertson 81, DR.. L.
w. Baine 81. H. c. Hull So, r. C.
Hauenstein 81. B. McYannahn 81, F.
S. Senton 81, /. L. Major 81, M. B.
Blount 81. RI. Burndige 81, DR.. T. q.
Ross 81, Mr.. Oakley 81, H. Y. Bryan
81, R. H. Bostwick 81, Al. Lindsey 81,
P. L. Castor 81, B. R. Mcdonald 81, e.
J. Allen 81, Moore Haggerty Lumber
Co. 81. G. d. Benedict q Co 81, D. L.
81, w B. Follansbee, Jr..
81, E. H. Thomasson 81, /. S, Harrison
81, J. z. Chandler 81. P. 3. Edminston
81, R. W. Patrick 81, e. N. Brown 81,
R. G. Hall w u II,,-st ,r~-r-,~
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

for men to drink. That is cold, hard
fact, and everybody knows it. No
body knows it better than the men
who control the liquor business. That
business did NEEDLE with the city
government of nearly every city in the
United States. That is equally known
and undisputed.
THE liquor business is driving it.
self out of business. Even in the face
of all this, the business is not reform
ing itself in any particular, nor does
it learn one thing from the rapid ex-
tension of the prohibition idea. Not
one method is changed anywhere. 1t
is going to allow itself to be driven
out of the United States rather than
reform at all, either in the making,
the sale, or the politics of the stuff"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

Mail-order houses take no part in
the developments or advancement of
the interests of Hattiesburg. They
pay no taxes here; extend no credit
to our worthy citizens; do nothing
toward assisting the sick and dis
tressed-and the goods they sell, all
things considered, are no cheaper
than in the shops and stores of Hat
tiesburg.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

Frank L. Bellenger, for sixteen
years editor OF the Jackson News, and
who went West about a year ago for
his health, is on visit to Mississippi,
and the Jackson papers say that he is
enjoying excellent health. Mr.. Bell
enger is now publisher of the Abeline
(Tex) Daily News, which he is ma
ing a splendid success.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

The Greenwood Commonwealth
says: Seven deaths in Greenwood
during December-one white person
and six negroes. Seven births the
same month-one negro and six
whites. At this ratio it will not take
a great many years for the race prob
lem to solve itself"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

Editor Mosgrove of the Gulfport
Journal has started an agricultural
publication called the mississippi
Planter" A publication of this char
acter ought to do well in Mississippi,
but The News must confess to the
idea that Gulfport is a queer place
to start it.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18
Beware of ointments for catarrh Tina,
Contain Mercury

SHhdbu MERCURY
as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering il
through the mucous surfaces. Sucb
articles should never be used excent
on prescriptions from reputable pbv.
sicions, as the damage they will do is
ten fold to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Halls Catarrb
cure, manufactured by F. ]. Cheney
q Co. Toledo, o, contains no mer.
curry and is taken internally. acting dl.
rectly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. In buvine
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure Won GET
the genuine. 1t is taken internally
and made in Toledo, Ohio. by F. j
Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price, 75c per
bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

Messrs. Woodie and Argyle Lassiter
left this week for Hattiesburg, where
the former enters the Hattiesburg
Business College and the latter South
Mississippi College. The Free Press
wishes them a successful years train
ing.-Poplarville Free Press.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

The new mayor of Roanoke, Va,
says that he is going to enforce ev-
cry law on the statute books, but
there are great many people who
know that he'll not do anything of the
sort.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

More than s1,5OO,OOO has been sent
to Italy by generous-hearted Ameri-
cans to relieve the earthquake suf-
ferers. Perhaps this is more than
Americas share, but America always
does more than her share in such
cases.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

Mrs. M. E. Morehead and little ones
have returned from a round of visits
including Hattiesburg since the holt
days.-Lumberton Headblock.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

This is the day when the New Or
leans and Northeastern Railroad is
supposed to award a contract for the
erection of new passenger station
in Hattiesburg.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

The State Mutual Life Insurance
Company of Rome, Ca, has establish,
ed an agency in Hattiesburg with Mr.
E. L. Rosenquist as manager The
State Mutual is one of the oldest com
panies in the South, and is well man.
aged and conservative.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

An Oklahoma legislator has intro
duced bill to make the water wagon
a common carrier.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

A Washington lawyer confesses that
he has made more than $4,000 out
of gas. There are lawyers in Missis.
sippi who have made more than that
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

And now a shrewd Atlanta manu-.
facturer proposes to supplant the
Teddy Bear with Taft Possums.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

If TillElan is a CRATER because he
tried to buy good timber lands, then
there are lots of grafters here in the
yellow pine belt of South Mississippi
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

w. q. Jones, J. ]. Hibbett, T. w.
Reeves, and J. S. Ellis so cents each;
cash $3.50 and P. H. Waggoner SOC.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

Tillman has been indicated by the
press and exhonerated by congress.
but Roosevelt still persists in fixing
his guilt
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

Mr.. George Calhoun OF Hattiesbure
was visitor here last Saturday,
Poplarville Free Press.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

w. j. Peters of Gordo, Ala, is ;
business visitor to the city today.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

The McComb City Enterprise ad.
dresses this editorial talk to the retail
merchants of that progressive city:
"Mr. Merchant: Did you ever stop
to consider hoy many of your possible
customers buy of mail order houses
because you don't have Just exactly
what they want, and the mail order
house does-or at least they think II
does?
Did you ever stop to consider that
II you made your store absolutely
up-to-date and complete in its stock
there would be a good many more
buying in your store, and a good many
less buying of the catalogue houses?
Did you ever stop to consider that
by frequently sizing up your stock and
placing orders as you need, sending
them by mail to your jobber instead of
buying once a season from a sales
man. that you'd gain customers and
trade?
DO you now see how your mail ord.
ers for your customers will kill off
mail orders by your customers"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

You have often heard speak Of good bargains
and Of my friends have taken the advice and pro6ted
by it. but have something to offer you which re-
gard as Of the biggest bargains Of its kind in fact the
only piece Of property with the same advantages now in
the city to be had at any price.
1t is an ideal location for bonded warehouse, being
reached by all the railroads the city, and worth your
investigation Price and terms extraordinarily oood
Yours for big profits,
TF1OS. NJ Fl
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18
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This is the way the Clarksdale Daily
Register goes after delinquents: "Par-
ties who owe the Daily Register for
their December subscriptions, should
come in and pay it. We need the
money and can't run around hunting
delinquent to the amount of As cents"
The Bay Springs News believes in
Sunday closing and discusses the Hat
tiesburg situation in this vein: THE
Hattiesburg drug stores have all
agreed to close up hard and fast on
Sundays and sell nothing. They will
fill prescriptions, but the clerk will
have to be called up and told to come
to the store. I have never seen any
reason why drug store should be al
lowed to sell tobacco, candy, cold
drinks and things like that on Sunday.
1t is a violation of the spirit of the
law, If not the letter, and 1 believe
it violates both. 1 believe the grand
juries ought to look into this drug
store selling on Sundays. So far as 1
can see, the drug stores do the same
line of business on Sunday as they do
on Monday. The boards of aldermen
in all the towns ought to limit the
druggists to selling medicine on Sun
day. AS long as the drug stores are
allowed to sell anything on Sunday,
there will always be crowd arond to
buy. There is more necessity for SELL
ing meat on Sunday than there is to-
bacco. We ought to keep one day."
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-01-18

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, 1909-01-18

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 Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-10-02
Medium Loses II Pounds in 20
Seconds.

In an article in the October
McClure's on Eusapia Palladino,
the famous medium whom he calls
the despair of science, Hereward
Darlington says:
In Milan it was found that the
medium lost weight in a manner
that could in no way be account
ed for. The medium and chair in
which she was sitting we're plac-
ed upon the scales, and their com
bined weight was carefully meas
ured. She was then watched care
fully, to see that she threw moth
ing away, and also to see that
she derived no support from the
etc. Nevertheless, in the course of
from twelve to twenty seconds
Eusapia lost about seventeen and
a half pounds in weight. AT the
fifth sitting a similar reduction
which the Investigating commit
ee considered perfect.
"NO one who has seen the eff
fects of a seance upon Eusapia
Palladino could doubt its genuine
character, as far as the medium
is concerned. At the conclusion
of a seance she is faint, dizzy,
%nauseated, extremely weak, occa-
sionally vomits, and remembers
little that has occurred during the
seance; while her face becomes
deeply lined, greenish yellow in
color, and appears to be shrunk
almost to half its natural size.
Moreover, many abnormal occur
ances take place, quite apart from.
the phenomena themselves. Thus,
during one seance, Professor
Morselli, of Genoa, normally
right-handed, became left-handed.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-10-02

Now, it's high time that you
poor, misguided, misunderstood
ing, mistaken, disolyal Democrat
ic newspapers should begin max
ing apologies to Senator "Wee
Willie" Warner for some of the
unkind things you have said re-
gording his action on the tariff
bill in the Senate. He may be one
of Boss Aldrich's puppets, but he
was a good performer; he may
have been a weakling as far as
carrying out the Missouri idea
was concerned, but he was a
regular y he may be a tool of
the interests and a traiterous
renegade to his state, but he vot-
ed right every time and is one
of our real patriots. We poor mis-
guided Missourians that we are.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-10-02

Sometimes we hear the ex-
preston that "the American peo-
pie are the biggest fools in the
world, and sometimes we think
it is about true. If the people
themselves are not the biggest
fools on earth their representa-
tives sometimes act for them as if
they were. Take for instance the
last congress in voting $4,000 a
year travelling expensas for the
President. He is now swinging
around the circle" in a fine
special car at the peoples ex-
pense, dined and wined and max
ing political speeches. Courtesy
and fairness, if nothing else,
should forbid the President from
discussing political questions,
since his expenses are being paid
out of the public treasury. "What
fools we mortals be" for standing
for such legislation. Any Demo
crat who voted for that bill
should be informed that his ser
vices were no longer needed in
"congress.-Huntsville Herald.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-10-02

we benighted Westerners in the
land of 'Show-Me," are insen-
sible and unsusceptible to the
Senator's brand of heroism and
have been making remarks that
might reflect ON his valOr as a
soldier, on his ability as a states
man and upon his character as "A
MAN. What awful ingrates we
are! The Senator is a hero. All
of the reactionaries were. For
WHY Because the Rhode Island
head of the government says so
and his work is confirmed by the
President himself in a 7,000-word
speech. It's rather disgusting to
see as high a dignitary as the
President making himself the
laughing stock of the West. but
selfishly considered, we do not
care if he will pass that speech
out a few times more. 1t will e.
lect a Democratic Congress in
1910 as sure as little fish SWIM
Cass County Democrat.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-10-02

A big assignment Of high class
post cards just received for sale
at The Picture Shop. Head
quarters for post cards. The
latest hits. Fresh supply every
week from New York, Chicago
and Boston. The largest and
most up-to-date line in Lexing-
ton.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-10-02
while Eusapia herself, normally
LETT handed, became r~ight-hand-
ed.
Man of the Hour

phatic success than George Broad
bursts greatest of all American
which will be the offering at the
plays, THE Man of the Hour, /"
Willis Wood Theatre, Kansas
City, carnival week starting Mon
day, October 3.
THE Man of the Hour" is A
merican to the core, and one of
its marked characteristics is the
fact that every character in it
is a distinctive individuality, and
so impresses an audience. 1t is
hardly conceivable that one can
get anything but good from wit
Messing this play. 1t appeals to
the noblest and most generous at
tributes, and eXcOriates meamness,
hardness and dishonesty to the
last degree. Mr.. Broadhurst has
gone straight to the heart of ma
ture for his story, but he has glo-
rified it and idealized it with his
art, and such is the office of art
ITO assist nature. The story is
a powerful one of love, devotion
to principle and self-sacrifice as
opposed to hypocracy and dis
honesty, and its scene may be
laid in any large American city
of today.
The attitude of the press to-
ward "The Man of the Hour
has been most interesting because
wholly unusual. On the day fol-
lowing the New York production,
there was a p%erfective unanimity
among all the newspapers as to
the success and worth of this
great play. This was echoed in
the weekly papers and re-ochoed
the weekly papers and quarterly
magazines. Educational bodies un
qualifiedly endorsed the play
men in all departments of aetiv-
ity-in business and in art, in ed
ucation, in professional life and
in the chureh-found in the play
an inspiration for praise. In Chi
cago and Boston, where the play
has had long runs, the press was
also singularly unanimous in
praise of "The Man of the Hour"
and the general verdict was that
it is the best American play yet
written. Mr.. William Winter,
dean of American critics. sue
cinct and forceful tribute, "Here
Is a play that means something, Z"
was repeated by the entire Chi
! cago press. The most distinguish
ed English critics, Mr.. William
Archer, who witnessed the play
when on his tour of the United
States, in an article in ''the Lon
don Tribune" stated 80. that
England had an author who coult
write such a play as The Man
of the Hour and had managers
with the courage to produce it,
Messrs. William A. Brady and
Joseph R. Grismer, the managers
thus complimented, have left moth
ing undone to place before the
public in first class manner what
is critically regarded as the
greatest play of the day" It's
destinies IRE carefully watched
over by this managerial firm, al
ways the best of everything is
their watchword, which accounts
for the beautiful new scenic pro
duction shown this season and the
special cast of players, including
Arthur Maitland, Felix Haney,
John Moore, William CuIlington,
t. S Guise, NJ. J.. MacQuarrie,
Paul Byron, William Lloyd, H.. j.
Hewitt, Madeline Winthrop and
Florence Mack.
A hirr nafD,r... e I'LL. 49,
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9 Thoughts Worth Repeating s
From the Pens of Missouri Editors 6


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If there was ever any doubt
as to where the real sympathies
of VIM, Howard Taft lay it has
been diSSipated by his action in
upholding Secretary of the Inte-
rior Ballinger in the latter's long
drawn out contention with Chief
Forester Pinchot. Among the
most important moves made by
Roosevelt administration was for
the conservation and protection
of the nation S natural resources
from reckless waste and exploit
tatiOn. Next to forests, if not
more important, was the coal sup
ply, which had been monOpolized
by private individuals and corpor
atoms. BY a system of fraudu-
lent land grants the new fields
were grabbed as fast as they
were discovered, and federal stat
utes were enacted looking toward
keeping all future discoveries in
the public domain for the use of
the public and to guard against
final depletion. Mr.. Roosevelt
chief reliance and support in the
far-reaching work he had under
taken was Forester Pinchot, a
man of courage and entirely I'M
trammeled. With the incoming
of the Taft administration, the
grabbers, as if by understanding
made an immediate effort to seize
the newly discovered coal fields
in Alaska. Pinchot protested Wig
orously and the grabbers appeal
ed to Secretary Ballinger. Ball
niger sided with the grabbers, of
course, it being limited from the
beginning that he was "all right
and Pinchot, relying on candi-
date Taft's frequent reiteration
Of his loyalty to "the Roosevelt
policies went direct to the Pres
ident with the story of the
gigantic steal contemplated, cen
surfing Ballinger for calmly allow
ing it to proceed. The President,
adopted the Judicial pose char
acteristic of him, maintained for
IA time the %ponderous reserve he
affects when compelled to take
sides, and after a weighty inter
val came out in support of Ball
niger. The proposed steal will
proceed without further interrupt
ion and the rich fields to have
been saved for the public will
pass into the hands of private ex-
ploiters. Business must be let
alone 1t would be interesting
ut this point to know just what
eX-President Roosevelt thinks of
the man he touted so vigorously
as being in thorough sympathy
with my policies" and to Sc
cure whose nomination and elect
ion he used the whole power and
prestige of his high official posi-
ton. Mr.. Taft is a class man with
no sympathy in common with
Roosevelt and one by one is chic
reforming and smothering the re-
forms which his predecessor in
augurated. To be plain, he is the
friend and ally of the interests
that elected him.-Paris Mercury.