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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03
MADE GREAT CROP
ON 3 ACRE PLOT
Details Given of a Banner Demonstra-
tion Crop Made at Purvis
This Year.

w. L. Magee, special agent of the
agricultural department in charge of
the Farmers Cooperative Demonstra-
ton work at Purvis, Miss, has fur
nished The News with copy of the
report of Dan Slade, one of the dem
constructors in that vicinity. The report
shows the method employed in culti-
waiting the land for this years crop,
under the direction of the govern
ments special agent. The report is
as follows:
Land broken February /, six inches
deep, and rebedded on April 16. Was
planted April 20, side-harrowed May
20 and chopped to stand by May
rs; dirted with an S-inch sweep May
81, middles plowed out with 6-inch
half shovel June /; beds narrowed
back to the middle June 4; chopped
second time June 16, and plowed with
a doublefooted cultivator June II.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03
Indigestion CURED EVERY DAY BY QUAKER
How Many People You Hear Say Oh if Did Not Have
This Indigestion would Feel Good, if Could Only Get
Something that would Cure me would be happy

who resides on North Mobile street.
She has been troubled with heartburn,
sour stomach, belching, bloating, indi-
gestion, was weak, all run down, had
female troubles. Commenced taking
Quaker Herb Extract and in five days
after she says feel better than have
in many years; | eat well, my nervous
ness has about all gone, l sleep well
and have no more of that misery, that
caused me so much suffering. This
is how Troy, the Quaker Health Teach
er. proves to the people of Hattiesburg
that the Quaker Remedies do sure.
He gives you the names and addresses
of people who use them, and report
the benefit they receive. Don't suffer
any longer-there is cure for you.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03
MONDAYS DOCKET
in SUPREME COURT

Jackson, Dec. 3.-The following
cases will be taken up next Monday
in the supreme court when the docket
for the Third (Northern) District is
hailed: st. Louis and San Francisco
Railroad Company ct al, VS.. Mrs. Sa-
die G. Corley; Henry Haines, ct al,
and Kansas City Railroad VS.. Strip
pling Cotton VS.. Caleb Haines, ct al;
d. s. Jones, executor, VS.. Mrs. M. V.
Jones; D. E. Mitchell VS.. Bank of In
dianola; Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
Railroad VS.. Ross Bruce ct al; Gulf
Compress Company VS.. Wooten Cotton
Co., ct al; Mobile, Jackson Company;
!. D. and J. r. Hodges VS.. Bank of
Bonneville ct al; Mrs. Anna Z. Irwin
ct al VS.. Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
Railroad Company.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03
governor may
RUN RAILROAD
Gsoraia's Executive Threatens to Take
over the State Road and Op-
crate it.

Atlanta, Dec. 3.-The Georgia Rail-
road Commission has decided that the
N. C. & st. l.. r. r. Co., leased of the
Western and Alabama or state road,
is not complying with the terms of the
lease.
Governor Brown has notified the
company to carry out the
lease or he will void it and take over
the road and operate it. Governor
Browns father, the late Joseph M.
Brown, Georgias war governor, built
the road and operated it for the state
for many years. Its rental of $1,000
900 per year goes to the public school
fund.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03

My kind friends there is cure for
your indigestion or your bloating
stomach, not something that you have
to take before or after you eat as long
rs you 1--we, but remedy that cleanses
and heals that murous lining and puts
the stomach and bowelss in good,
healthy condition, and builds up the
entire system, so you won't have to
keep on suffering that misery. The
Quaker Herb Extract is complete
cure fer indigestion, dyspepsia, bill
iousness, or any form of stomach trou
BILE; 1t will also cure catarrh, rheuma
tism, kidney, liver or blood troubles
Here is report of Mrs. A. Harris
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03
ALA. SUPREME COURT
UPH0LDS FULLER LAW

Montgomery, Ala, Dec 3.-In a di-
vided opinion, the Alabama Supreme
Court has upheld Section 80 of the
Fuller liquor bill which provides that
a defendant can be tried for prohibit
ton violation in a court having 70
jury and may appeal to court having
a jury.
The decision was reached in the
case from Mobile. wherein State of
ficials mandamused Judge j. e. Al
ford of the Interior Criminal Court to
compel him to reinstate IA prohibition
cases which had been dismissed on
motion of the defendants that they
were entitled to jury trial.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03

trous fire of Thursday which swept
away half the town is the second large
fire within two years, The total loss
will reach $15,OOO with insurance OF
$4,000.
The efforts put forward by the local
fire company made it possible to save
many buildings that were in imme-
diate danger of being burned.
Movements are already on foot at
this early date to rebuild the burned
section of the town which was COW
cred by frame buildings and destroyed
by last nights fire with modern con-
crete and brick buildings which will
be an ornament to the town.
WATCH FOR ANNOUNCEMENT
John Deere pillow day in HattiesbHX
To be given by -
HAWKINS HARDWARE CO.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03

The same as hundreds of others who
have been made well or improving
every day. Cali at the Owl Drug
Store, have talk with Troy-it costs
you nothing. If you cannot call write
or phone. The medicine will be sent
on receipt Of price. Troy pays ex-
press charges on orders of $500 or
over.
Quaker Herb Extract, $1.00 a bottle,
8 for $3.50 or for $500; Oil of Balm,
rs cents, or for $1.00; All Healing
Salve, rs cents or FIVE for $1.00; Qua
ker White Wonder, ten cents, for
| rs cents. Troy can be seen at the
Owl Drug Store from 8 a. m. to p.
| m.
FREQ show tonight 1880
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03
CALLS ANNUAL REPORTS.
Superintendent Of Education Wants
County Reports Filed in His
Office on Time.

Prof. ]. N. Powers, state superin-
tendent of education, has issued a cir
cular from his office at Jackson, to
county superintendent in number of
counties reminding them that their
annual reports for the fiscal year end
ing September 80, have not been re-
ceived, and calling their attention to
the fact that under the provisions Of
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03

session these reports must be filed
earlier than heretofore.
Prof. Powers also gives notice that
candidates for county superintendent
of education must stand examination
on "The Art of Teaching" and How
to Study and Teaching How to Study
and that text books on this subject
can be supplied by the central book
depository in Jackson
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03
PROPERTY TRANSFERS
FILED IN CHANCERY COURT

Filed in Chancery Court today, were
these transfers of realty:
S1,500-J. A. Johnson and M. E.
Johnson to ]. P. Edmonson; three lots
situated in Rawls' Springs.
S500-Jacob White to Mrs. Mary e
Cuevas; lot 10 in block of D. d. Nc
Innis addition to Hattiesburg.
s275-W. R. Thames to E. ]. Wilkes
lots "a and %, in block 5, Arlington
Heights addition to Hattiesburg.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03
eoLFPoRr IN SECOND GLASS.

Gulfport, Miss, Dec. 3.-According
to report that has been received
here from the Louisiana Fire Proven
ton Bureau, with headquarters at New
Orleans, Gulfport is in ship shape as
regards freedom from fire dangers and
facilities for fighting fires are consid-
cred good. Gulfport is given a sec
ond-class insurance rate. Her former
rating was fourth-class.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03
Fertilizer was placed in every sec

Fertilizer was placed in every Sec
ond row June IS; run hole shovel IN
every second row to cover
fertilizer and run around with
heel sweep on June 29. Har-
rowed with reversible cultiva-
tor July 8 and on July IS; on July
q run the middles out with a 20-inch
heel sweep and on July q topped the
entire crop.
The entire cost of making this three
acre crop, figuring time of one man
and mule at So per day, was 500.
From this land 1880 pounds of lint
cotton was picked.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03
COLD IN GEORGIA.

Augusta, Ca, Dec. 3.-All local tenn
perature records for this date were
broken here Friday, when the mercury
dropped to IS plus. All the hardy gar
den products hereabouts have been
destroyed. At Atlanta five public
schools were closed because of the
cold weather, the mercury register.
ing %.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03

3 o'clock, and the remains inferred in
the family burying ground at Petal
The bereaved family have the sym
patty of large circle of friends in
their double affection.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03
POPULATION FIGURES.

Washington, Dec. 3.-The census bu-
reau reports today: Population of
Colorado, 799,034; Idaho, 325,594; Ne
vada, 81,S75, and oregon, 672,765.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03

WATCH FOR ANNOUNCEMENT
John Deere pillow day in Hattiesburs.
To be given by
HAWKINS HARDWARE co.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE-Wbat.
ever the article. you will reach
prospective buyer through the col.
umns Of Tue News. n
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03

WATCH FOR ANNOUNCEMENT
John Deere pillow day-in Hattiesburg
To be given by
HAWKINS HARDWARE co.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03

Silver Creek, Dec 3,-The disas-
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-03

FIRE LOSS $4,000
SILVER CREEK WILL REBUILD.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-22
KILLS HIS CHILDREN
THEN ENDS OWN LIFE
Son of Prominent Birmingham
Mine Operator Runs Amuck
in His Home and Takes the
Lives of Three Children.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Feb. 1s.-George
stephens. aged IS years, engineer on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, evident
ly crazy at the time, at o'clock this
morning. shot and killed three of his
little children. shot and wounded his old
negro nurse and then blew out his brains.
He was the son OF Robert Stephens. a
prominent mine operator of this district.
He did not work yesterday, but laid off
and last night on returning to his home is
said to have taken home morphine for
some reason. He did not sleep any dur
ing the night
At O'Clock this morning he entered
the room where the old negro nurse had
the youngest child, Janis, IS months old.
on her lap. and pulling a pistol shot the
child to death. The bullet went through
the little baby's head and struck the
nurse in the head. infiicting a dangerous
wound.
The crazed father then shot his two
little daughters. Mary Elizabeth, aged Z
years. and Blanche, aged years, to death
and then shot himself
a lO-year-old son escaped from the
house. a note was left by the father,
saying: I'm to blame for IL ALL" About
Is months ago Stephens wife died. 1t is
believed the death affected him.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-22
Led bY the Nose

An analytical chemist was retained as
skilled witness some years ago. where
there were questions of analytical chem
istry. There was one case where a
farmer had bought some artificial ma
nure, and he was being sued for the
price of it, He resisted payment on The
ground that the material had none of
the qualities of manure at all. The ex-
pert chemist was one of the witnesses,
and had stated that, although the sub
stance had the smell, it had none of the
chemical qualities of manure. Under
cross-examination he was asked. il that
was so, how did he account for hum
dreds of the best farmers having taken
the manure for many years. They must
have been led by the nose" returned the
witness.-Dundee Advertiser.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-22
Back to the Soil

Every farming district in The country shares
in the benefit that comes with any strong
back TO the soil' moyeme MT. The man who
becomes interested by what is being done in
the west may decide to leave the city, but
he Is Just likely to decide Michigan or
Wisconsin Alabama Oregon. Washington.
California. The main thing Is TO stimulate
a heslthful interest in country life. After that
the individual will choose for himself where
he wishes to live. According TO information
recently received the demand for farms in Mich
igan is greater since the movement TO the ir-
rgated districts of Idaho than il was before the
reclaimed lands were thrown oren.
Irrigation has added TO tde cUltiyatable AREA
of the United States a vaSt empire and dry
farming will add as much more. One firm in
Louisiana, within the next two gears. will add
more than 1.00O.0 600 acres of the richest posi-
BILE soil to Uncle Sans doniein by taking wa
ter off that much land after it has been enrich
ed by overflow waters for centuries.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-22
: Deaths in Georgia

DALTON, Ga.-Frank Gaffney, son of
the late ]. NJ. Gaffney, died near War
ings yesterday as a result of a cold con-
tracted while attending the funeral Of
his father. Mr.. Gaffney was a resident
of Florida, and last week came to this
county to attend the funeral of his father.
He took severe cold, which later devel-
oped into pneumonia, resulting in his
death. He is survived by widow and
one child. .
JACKSON, Ga.-The death of Mrs. ].
T. Goodman. living just across the river
on the Jasper county side. occurred this
morning at 4 o'clock. She was 6S years
of age and one of the prominent women
of this section. Her husband and five
children, among whom is Mrs. w. j.
Waits, wife of DIR. w. j. Waits. of Flo
villa. survived her The funeral will be
held tomorrow at II O'Clock at New
Hope.
MARSHALLVILLE, Ga.-The body of
Mr.. l. o. Miles, who died at a private
sanitarium IN Atlanta, Tuesday morn
ing at 1 o'clock, was brought home and
the funeral held on Wednesday morning.
The funeral was conducted by the local
Masonic lodge.
COLLINS, Ga.-Mr. Frank P. Cowart,
one of the most prominent farmers of this
place, died yesterday evening about Z
o'clock Mr.. Cowart had been i'll for sew
eral weeks of typhoid fever.
MOBILE. ALA. Sidney Vail. who
would have been 100 years old had be
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-22
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-22
THE LOUISIANA LAW
BY Frederic ]. Haskin

Louisiana is the only state in the union
which has a system of law exclusively
its own. In all the other states
the Jurisprudence is based up
on the common law, which is
their equal heritage from the English
founders of the republic. The civil law,
which prevails in Louisiana, is based up
on the Code Napoleon, and that in turn
rests upon the old Roman civil law. AS
both the common and the civil law have
the same object-the safeguarding of in
diVidual right and liberty-there is not at
bottom so much difference between the
two systems as might seem at first
glance. The divergences are largely mat
tiers of procedure-of the methods by
which suits may be instituted and con-
Quoted. For example, in the United States
courts, and in the courts of practically
all the other states, there is a law side
and an equity side. and the two may not
be COMPOUNDED. In the Louisiana courts
there is no equity side, but the law and
the equity may be passed upon in the
same proceeding by the ~ame judge.
The Louisiana law DIVORCES most wide
ly from the common law in all that re-
lates to the family. In the common law
the emphasis falls upon the man as an
individual: in the Louisiana code, as in
the French law, he is viewed essenti-
ally as a member OF the family. Hence,
in Louisiana there exists the curious
statutes by which the right of a tesla
tor TO dispose Of his property is re-
stricted to certain fixed proportions. I'm
der these ordinances a man dying with
out children, but leaving a father or a
mother, or both, must leave one-quarter
of his estate to them. If at his death,
he leaves children. the parents are elm
mated as forced heirs and the children
take their place; in which case. IL the
testator have only one child, he must
devise to that child at least one-third of
his estate; II he have two children, he
must leave them at least one-half; while
II he have three or more, he cannot
give them in his will less than two-thirds
of his property.
Under the Louisiana law a minor mar
rying without the consent of his parents
may be disinherited. Chattel mortgage,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-22
MAN IS CRUSHED TO DEATH
TRYING TO SAVE OTHERS

FORT MOTTE. S. c.. Feb. S.-Sacrific-
ing his life to save the lives of others,
Thomas Jefferson. for 80 years night
Waterman for the Southern railway at
Congaree river bridge. met with a horri-
bic death at his post at an early hoTr
Thursday morning. being caught in the
machinery of the draw-bridge and
crushed TO death
The steamer City OF Columbia arrived
at the bridge at SD o'clock and the
Waterman opened the draw for IL to pass.
but as train No. - was due at 6 o'clock
he FASTENED up the track to place a sig
nal TO save the passenger train from
crashing into the waters of the Congaree.
Coming back to close the draw. the
Waterman fell into the aperture used
for oiling the machinery OF the bridge.
Shortly afterward the train crew closed
the draw and crushed the life out Of the
unconscious man.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-22
PRINCE DOMINO dudMuffle.
new JUVENILE STORY by SEYMOUR EATON Author of

And stand on guard there all alone
And when the kidnapers arrive
You take three prisoners alive
And march them here ahead of you
And watch them sharp the things they do.
Then Captain Dinkey suffered some
And looked at once both scared and glum
And viewed the clouds and every tree
And then to Domino said he.
Say d-dat again. Use 'fraid, Sir, shoe;
l m-misunderstan what you have me do.
Then Domino gave command once more
The very things he said before.
You m-must for shoo," said Dinkey Dadd
Make some m-mistake bout dis here lad
For jus tell you w-while ago
Bout dat big bear dat chase me so
And he, know, jus on my track
To eat NINE up when go back"
But the Prince was firm and said again
Please start at once to the mountain glen
And keep your nerve and hold your ground
And we II get Dutchy safe and sound
The Captain started up the hill
With trembling knees but iron will
While Domino said to the Jap,
Have Muffes wake the farmer chap.
Then get him lunch and let him go
And tell him, Jappy, that I know
Where Dutchy is for I've clew
IF the boys and girls of the u. s. A.
Gould have seen that colored boy that day
As at the mountain spring he sat
On big square stone for rug or mat
Looking each way and all around
And shivering bit at every sound
And watching close an opening wide
Just like a cave in the mountain side
Thinking each minute to see the bear
Come stealing softly out of there
They, too, would quake and wish that they
Were hundred thousand miles away;
For that's where Dinkey said that he
That afternoon would like to be.
A STRANGER called ct the school that day
As the boys and girls came in from play:
A little man in workman's clothes
With long gray beard and rudy nose
And foreign tongue and on his back
A good sized load, a tool-box pack
His walk was stopped and slow and lame,
And when the teacher asked his name,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-22

Customs of Paris, which were extended
to the province of Louisiana by Louis
XIV, in 1712. These Customs" of Paris
were compiled in 1910, in somewhat tardy
obedience to a decree of Charles VII. di-
recting that the then unwritten traditions
which had governed the Jurisprudence of
the various provinces of his kingdom.
should be reduced to writing, for the gui-
dance of his judges. When, some so years
after the publication of this edict, the
customs" Of Paris were committed to
paper, they formed a work Of some Is
titles and 362 articles.
In addition to the customs a num-
Der of ordinances which had been adopt
ed by the French government from time
to time, were applied to Louisiana. OF
these the most interesting was the
BLACK Code" first promulgated in 1856,
for the government of slaves. All of
these laws remained in force in Louisiana
down to 1869, when the province passed
into the hands of Spain. In that year
Don Alexandra O'Reilly, the new Spanish
governor made extensive changes not
only in the law, but in the entire ma
chinery of government. He abolished
the superior council, which had been the
legislative body of the province since
1712, and substituted the cabildo, a
rather more extensive judicial powers.
O'Reilly also caused a series of new
laws to be prepared. chiefly relating to
the institution of suits and the method of
procedure before the courts in civil and
criminal actions. These were taken from
the laws of Castillo and the laws of the
Indies which. in their turn, were based
upon the old Spanish fueros, dating back
to the seventh century, upon the partidas
of Alfonso the Wise, and upon the "re-
copulaciones" of the 18th century. O'Reil-
ly intended this compilation to serve for !
the instruction of his judges only until !
they had acquired some familiarity with |
the Spanish law, which was, of course, !
put into effect as soon as practicable. |
As the Spanish law was based, like the |
French, upon the old Roman civil code, |
they were similar. especially with regard \
to matrimonial rights, restaments, sue
cessions, etc, and the transition from /
one to the other worked comparatively
little hardship to the population of Lou F;
isiana.
Louisiana Is not free from freak legis-
lation. II has a law fixing the size of |
carts in which 1rewood may be vended |
in New Orleans. Another forbids any
one from rising from his seat during the
performance at a theatre. Still another /
makes it a serious offense TO entice away
from his employer any hired man or APP
prentice. There is an anti-high hat law
which is vigorously Enforced at all the
theatres. and the Jim-Crow street car is
much in evidence in New Orleans. This !
last cited statute provides that every car
shall have the rear portion screened off
for the use of colored passengers; but as
Snaoia1 n xroS |
for in the act, the railroads supply one
IS inches long by four or five inches high I
which, hooked on the back of one of the
seats, unquestionablyi complies with the
letter of the law, though plainly violating h
the spirit of it.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-22

why do you propose to me?"
II swore never to marry till / found
the right girl"
And am I the right girl?"
''You arer'
$50 sorry! You're the wrong man.
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