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The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-03
PASSPORTS In Turkey,

Before visiting Turkey one gets an
exaggerated impression of the strict
ness of the passport regulations, but
in reality they are nothing more than
another device for raising revenue.
To explain this Just mention that
before travelling in Turkey one must
get license (tezkereh), costing about
five shillings and sixpence. which has
to be vised at various places en- route,
and for each visa fee Is demanded.
II one proceeds without visa fine
is sooner or later extracted from one.
In order to stop people travelling with
out license a police official examines
and enters in book the particulars
of all passengers by train, if anyone
is found without tezkereh he is re-
moved from the train and fined, but it
is only on the trains that any super
vision is exercised. On the caravan
roads one is never asked, so that II
one wanted to travel unknown to the
government it would only be neces.
sary to go by road.-Wide World
Magazine.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-03
OLD CURE FOR COLDS.

A library could be made of the var
Gus cures that have been recommend
ed for colds. The old English cure
discovered more than one hundred
years ago by one DR.. ]. B. Williams,
called the dry" cure, has lately been
revived after decades of disuse. 1t
consists simply in abstaining from
all liquids for forty-eight hous or so.
starting with the very first moment
the cold declares itself.
Bread, fish, vegetables, white
meat and pudding may be eaten, but
no soup. If there is a great thirst a
spoonful of tea or coffee may be TAX.
en- in the morning and small glass
of wine and water during the day
Some modern authorities consider this
cure very efficient.-New York Tri
bune.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-03
MUMMY THAT OF ROYAL COOK
Importation That Has Interested
EgyptoIo0ists Evidently Was
Wrongly Labeled.

It develops that the mummy, the
importation Of which has aroused pub
lie interest, is not that of Rameses H..
but of his cook.
The discovery need not occasion dis
appointment. Cook or conqueror. they
are now alike. and. indeed, the desic-
Gated remains of the chef Of the
monarch who from all accounts was
the Louis XIV. of Egypt are in many
respects a more valuable antiquarian
possession than the mummified body
of Pharaoh. Antiquity has bequeathed
us a surplus of memorials Of kings.
but only too few of cooks. We could
well spare bust of Caesar or ex-
change any amount of dry-as-dust
chronology for an efflgy of Lucullus'
cook or Of that Vatel of his day for
whose supplies Apicius found $4OO, 900
too little.
The interest Of the modern world
In history is concerned less with the
great conQuerors than with the lesser
lights. the artists and craftsmen who
planned aQueducts and built cathed-
rails, even those who were charged
with the preparation Of Caesars cut
let's. The world is tired Of kings, but
what would 1t not give for a cuneiform
tile containing the menu of Belshaz.
ears feast? Meantime a cook Of the
Rameses dynasty Is something.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-03
Praise for American HubbIes,

Princess Duleep Singh. at a dinner
in New York. said that she found the
American woman a marvel Of beauty
and the American man a model of
good looks and kindness.
The American man." said the
charming princess. "is rightly held up
to the world as the pattern husband
in Europe they have a saying about
Eve and the apple which shows how
wretched failure the European hus-
band is This saying is unknown in
America, | am sure. 1t would have no
point no application. here in the land
OF pattern husbands"
She paused impressively. Then with
a smile she ended:
THE saying is this:
The evil one didn't give the apple
to the man. but to the woman, be-
cause the evil ono knew weN that the
man would eat 1t all himself, but the
woman would go halves
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-03
CONSTANTLY SOUGHT TO KILL
Popularity Of Knife Owned by Rud-
yard kipling, as Described by
Robert Barr.

My mind has flown back down the
years to London, and into the large
corner room on the second floor, Viii
liers street, Embankment Gardens,
writes Robert Barr in London World.
On the wall fronting the Thames
hangs the most vicious looking knife
l have ever seen. 1t is serpentine
in shape, and its downward point il
sharp as needle.
What villainous weapon?" said.
YES" replied Kipling, and forgot
the name he gave it; also the section
of India from which it came; that
knife has tried to kill me several
times. It's always on the watch.
When l got it there was affixed to it,
like button on foil, one joint of a
mans backbone. The knife had been
run into the vertebrae, given a savage
twist, and brought away with it q
piece of human framework"
AS he spoke he approached the gilt.
tering, snake-like knife.
Don't touch it," / cried. "You
ought to keep it in a locked box"
He didn't touch 1t, so far as l saw
but as he raised his hand the knife
dropped like a plummet, and stood
quivering in the floor within an inch
Of his boot.
Look at that" he said, and stood
there without moving muscle, until
saw how nearly the sinister blade
had come to impaling his foot.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-03
A Virginia Casabianca.

THE boy who stood on the burning
deck" often is found in different sec.
tions of the country, and the famous
Casabianca is emulated by men who
are told to do certain things and
never vary their instructions. Presi-
dent Taft had that experience at Rich
mond, Va, on the last day of his trip,
when the gate-keeper at the famous
Hollywood cemetery refused to admit
the president and his automobile par
ty, though he was accompanied by
Gov. Swanson of Virginia. by Mayor
Richardson of Richmnod, and the chief
Of police of the city. 1T is against
the rules" said this gate-keeper dog
gedly. and 1t was only after the trus-
tees had given him orders to admit
the presidential party that he relented
Probably for the first and last time in
his life he got little notoriety by
strictly obeying orders.-Washingto
Correspondence St. Louis Star.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-03
TRULY A REMARKABLE BIRD
Wonderful MaspIs Described BY oliver
Goldsmith In Work on Nat
ural History.

Brander Matthews, the brilliant crit
ic. said at q dinner in Brooklyn Of a
dramatist:
His success IL due to his knowl-
edge of melodrama, not to his knowl.
edge of the human heart. His knowl-
edge Of the human heart, in fact. is no
profounder than oliver Goldsmith's
knowledge Of natural history was.
"Goldsmith's ignorance didn't pre-
vent him writing a very popular natu-
raj history. In one part Of it-a part
will give you an idea Of the whole
Goldsmith described an intelligent
magpie belonging to a publican named
Whiteingstall.
"One day while Whiteingstalls
kitchen floor was being cleaned the
magpie was considered in the, way.
and was ordered into his cage. which
hung against the wall. He retired obe-
diently.
But he had no sooner been shut
up than cock from the neighboring
farmyard entered the kitchen and
strutted proudly about. This SO an.
gered the magpie that be vocif.
Grated:
Let me out. Mr.. Whiteingstall
let me out; I'll do for him presently!
Mr.. Whiteingstall let him out and
combat Immediately ensued. After
a few goes the magpie was complete
ly worsted. He lay helpless on his
back. one leg broken. Then, cooking
his eye at his master, he said, calmly:
Take me up, Mr.. Whiteingstall
take me up, for he has broken my
Leg"
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-03
Mine life-SavinQ Corps.

1t is hardly less important that the
mine operators should bear the small
cost of expert direction in accidents
than that the government should main
tain its elaborate marine life-saving
service. Along the seacoast and the
great lakes. in addition to the warn
ing lighthouses, we have system pro-
vided with costly boats, cables. NOR
tars. rockets. marine glasses and
horses. which saves many lives each
year. On stormy days and nights
guards patrol dangerous coasts. There
are stated salaries. and for exceptional
heroism there are medals.
To employ in every mining district
a few men who are especially fitted
to organise and drill in life saving q
corps Of the more intelligent miners.
as we'll as to provide suitable equip
ment for them, would be small ex-
pense, to which most operators could
hardly object.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-03
The Slaughter of the lnnocents.

From 100000 to 100000 children in
the United States die every year from
preventable causes. The chief statis-
tician of the federal census bureau is
the authority for that statement
Nearly a fifth are infants under one
year of age, and more than fourth
are children under five years of age
1t is the conclusion of an eminent
medical authority that the deaths of
AZ per cent. of the children may be
prevented and that 67 per cent. of the
deaths Of children between two and
eight years are also preventable.
There is. therefore. veritable
slaughter Of the innocents by ignor
ance, inattention. neglect and poverty.
Society is not as well organized as 1t
should be when its infants are thus
condemned to death by the whole
sale.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-03
Limit Too Low.

when you are angry" said the man
If gentle instincts, stop and count a
hundred"
"A hundred" echoed Mr.. Sirius
Barker. IF l could stop at a hundred
a counting up my wifes miliinerin
hills 1 W ,lldn,f be angrYn
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-03
KNEW NOTHING OF DICKENS
EnpiIshman's Strange Ignorance That
Resulted In soenswhat Humorous
Incident.

II the average person we're told that
there exists in England to-day man
Of good ordinary education who has
never heard Of Sam Weller he would
probably be politely incredulous. says
the Dickensian. Yet, such is the fact.
and, marvellous to relate, the mans
own name IL Pickwick! In a fairly
large town, less than a thousand miles
from Bristol, a certain pastime Is very
popular and handicap tournament is
held every year. The secretary Of that
tournament bears the mighty name of
Pickwick, and, curiously enough. one
OF the competitors who were taking
part this year is named Weller.
Some time ago Mr.. Pickwick was
draw, and was addressing post cards
to the dictation of an assistant.
Mr.. Weller's name was reached.
How do you spell it," inquired Mr..
Pickwick.
Several people we're in the room and
there was shout of laughter when
some one exclaimed: Put 1t down a
we. my lord; put it down wei" But.
SO far from seeing the joke, Mr.. Pick
wick looked surprised and hurt that
his ignorance as to how to spell a
name which he had not heard before
should produce such hilarity. In
deed. he looked for all the world as
If he were about to emulate Mr.. JUS
tice Stareleigh and to exclaim indig
nantly. who is it that dares to ad
dress the court?"
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-03
LOTS OF MONEY
FOR STATE COTTON
Nearly Two Hundred and Fifty Thous-
and Dollars Will Be Realized
From One Transaction.
Special to The NeDs.

Special to The Netos.
jackson, Miss, Jan. 3.-The exact
amount which the state will get, after
paying all expenses Of insurance, ETC.,
for the 5000 bales Of cotton sold a
month ago at the Parchment convict
farm to Boyce & Co., of New Orleans
at Is cents per pound, win be $224.-
913.77. The original estimate made
through these columns Of $225,000 was
therefore only $S6.23 off.
The final settlement has not yet been
made, but all the cotton has been
weighed and shipped and the value
figured out and charged against the
account of the purchasers. Secretary
Yerger now has drafts out for collec.
tion for $S3,484.90, covering 1,119
bales, and there are yet SS bales which
have not yet been RENTED frr. amo mt
ing to $6,765. BY Monday it is ex-
rocted that the whole matte: will
have been settled up six separate pay.
ments having been required to close
up the account in just month.
When this is completed there will
be balance in the state treasury OF
between $4,000 and $4,000, and this
will be the first balance shown by the
books in about two months, or since
the pension warrants began to arrive
early in November.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-03
WORKED fLln-FLA3
GAME IN JACKSON.
shrewd Operator in Forged Paper
Played jackson Citizens to q
Dead StandstiIl.

jackson, Miss, Jan. "a fim-fam
game of a superior order has just
been successfully worked in this city
on a number of business men, and it
worked SO smooth that the perpetrator
was enabled to get entirely out of
the way before the scheme was dis
covered.
Several days ago a middle-aged man
OF good appearance and pleasing ad-
dress, calling himself D. Finney and
representing that he was the agent
Of large st. Louis lumber concern,
came to Jackson and announced his in.
tention of making his future head
quarters here.
He rented cottage from Mr.. R. H.
Pate, modest, three-room affair, and
another from another party in anoth-
er section of the city. He then went
to the Taylor Furniture house and
purchase 5000 worth of furniture, hav-
ing it sent to one of the rented houses,
proposing to pay one-half down and
presenting what purported to be a
salary check for 5000, receiving 500
in change.
He then went to the Wilson Furni.
ture store and had another lot Of
furniture sent to the other house
using another salary check" in set.
tlement of portion of the price and
getting the change in a similar man
ner. Several grocery stores were
worked in the same manner.
Three or four days ago Finney dis
appeared, leaving the furniture in the
houses, and yesterday the checks be
gan to come back to the banks which
had originally handled them, stamped
forged. Others have come in today
and it is apparent that Finney secures
at least $500 or $40O from well know
business firms.
Nobody here has any idea wher
the man went, and he has been ou
of the city long enough to have gon
almost anywhere he happened to wan
to go.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-03
To HELD Needy Inventors.

The Royal Wurtemberg Chamber OF
Commerce is organizing state exhibi-
ton of inventors models, to be held
next year at Stuttgart. Its chief pur
pose, says the Scientific American, is
to help poor inventors who have little
opportunity Of bringing their inven-
tions under the notice of likely pur-
chasers. The directors Of the affair
promise that strict impartiality will be
shown in the selection of exhibits, and
hat none will be accepted which is
not worthy of serious consideration.
There will be no expenses of any kind
for the very poor inventor. and low
fees for the others. It is not said
whether the exhibition is expected to
be self-supporting. but perhaps not,
as the enterprise is being backed by
the state.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-03
The Worlds $4,000 Plays.

Mr.. Reginald Clarence. the we'll
known photographer of dramatic data.
has been working for 20 years on a
stage cyclopedia which win contain a
photography of plays. OF which 1t has
been possible to find any record. from
B. C. 500 to A. d. 1909. In order to
bring his remarkable work to compile
tion Mr.. Clarence has deived among
ancient records and musty manu-
scripts in the British museum. he has
studied the numerous works in the
Guildhali library until HE book con-
tains particulars Of nearly fifty thou
sand plays. covering the whole range
Of stage productions--drama, comedy.
farce. opera and comic opera.--Lon
ASssn NYourS Il y
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-03
THAT LOST PUPPY
THE STORY OF A sEARcH, WITH
PROPER RESULT.
Household Pet Had Left Train Of
Devastation a. He Went on His
joyful Way-ciaim Of Owner.
ship Postponed.

Inc puppy was mlSSln6-OuE owh
little Kiddo, and none knew where he
might be. In fact we felt 1t would be
easier to tell where he might not be,
with choice limited to the stable
cupola and the bell tower on the en-
gine house.
Search of his favored spots revealed
him not. Under the house we found
the feathers of a chicken we had be-
lieved long since safely inferred. Frag-
ments of a napkin that had blown
from the clothesline showed that he
had been there, but our dear little
puppy was nowhere in sight.
Out in the alley we found where In
his innocent play he had carried the
cooks best apron and made strings OF
it. Poor little dog! He had to have
something to amuse himself with.
Our neighbor, Mr.. Burns, came to
the back fence and rested his coatless
arms upon it.
''Have you seen our dog?" we asked
him. Mr.. Burns considered.
What sort of dog was he?" he
asked. "A little, fea-bit mongrel with
stub tail?"
We Indignantly replied that he was
a fox terrier with a pedigree as long
as the laws Of the Medes and the
Persians.
II seen him." said Mr.. Burns. He
chased two of my settin' hens of tn
nest and busted half the eggs. II ever
l ketch-"
(which way did he go?" we asked.
Mr.. Burns smiled grimly.
Last l see of him." he said, "he
was travelin' due west an half brick
was follerin' him pooty clost." Then
we left him considering which way
was west.
They had seen him at the drug
store. He had managed to get his
head caught in a jar and had fright
ened an old woman so badly that the
doctor had to be called just because
he approached her without removing
the jar.
Have you seen our little dog?" we
asked the grocer down the street.
IF he was you'n, said the grocer
you owe me for a whole cheese
Some darn little snub-tailed beast ate
the wood of new cheese and got intt
1t before we saw him."
That wasn't our dog" we assured
him. Our dog hates cheese-won'
stay in the house with 1t, in fact. Blu
which way did that dog go?"
Following his directions and fol
lowed by his suspicious glances w
went down the street again. Fa
down the street we beheld a small
and hilarious crowd.
Approaching. We saw the cause. !
little stump-tailed fox terrier, pain
fully like our own lost pet. hat
paused at a secondhand store and hal
pulled down a string of shoes tina
were on exhibit outside.
These we was doing his utmost t.
destroy. manifesting the liveliest sat
isfaction at any progress made.
At our approach he fed and W
knew whose dog he was. But as W
had to pass the druggists and tn
grocer's and our neighbor's home W
were not sorry, for there are time
when one does not like to claim evel
a pedigreed dog, and this was one O
characterization News
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-03
2AIl2OAD TINE TABLES

...... O:zV B. IA. O.Ao =. N.
s...... 10:30 a. m. ...... 11:20 .. n.
y ...... 4:6S p. m. ...... sos p. m.
s...... 9:08 p. m. ...... l:0e .. =.
Effective May 9th.
GULF 4 SHIP ISLAND RAILROAD
COMPANY.
General Passenger Department..
Passenger Service.
MAIN LINE.
No. s. No. 3.
Lv. jackson. $500 a. m. S:36 p. m.
Nv. Hattlesburg 9:43 a. m. 1913 pm
Ar. Gulfport. 1880 p. m. 10000 pm
No. 4. No. 6.
Nv. Gulfpurt 7:40 a. m. 4:25 p. m
". Hattiesburg 1880 a. m. 7:43 p. m
Ar. Jackson 1856 m. 11:00 p. "a.
Columbia Division (vIa. silver Creek
and Columbia.
No. 10l. No. 102.
1880. m. Lv Mendenhall Ar 9:25 p. m.
LAO p. m Ar Gulfport Lv 2:46 p. m.
No. 1O9. No. ITO.
$3.50 p. m. w Jackson Ar 10:15 a. m.
s:20 p. m. Ar Columbia LIZ 6:10:a. m.
Connections at Jackson, Hattiesburg
and Gulfport with all lines.
For fu,, er information. apply to,
THOs. P. HALO,
Secono Vice-Pres., Gulfport, Miss
Effective Aug. 20, 1903.
Mobilt, Jackson & Kansas City
NoRTheoUND.
No. IA 81 r:ves 1853 a. m.
No. l6 arrives 1928 p. N.
souTHsouNo.
no. ! ieaves 6:15 q. m.
No. 10 leaves j:48 >. -
aiseIssiPPI CENTRAL RAiLRoAo
Passenger, F-rvles.
Effect We June 20. 1.
Mol rS
Nv Ha .tiesburg.. 6:15 q. m. 1880 y. =
L, Sil.er Creek. 1927 a. m. 4.3S
Lv. v Vanilla. ...S:4'"
Ar. b ook laven. u:f6 p. N
". Brookh asa a. m. $3.50 p. m
Lv. Ruxie IL: 81 a. m. 1888 2.
Ar Natchez. .12: IL p. m. $3.50 p. N
No.x No. 4
Lv. Natchez $3.50 .. m. 1:60 p. n
Lv. Roxie. ...... 7:24 .. 10. z:44 p. u
Ar. Brookhaven. 9:OS =. m. 4:3O p.
Ly Brookhaven. Oil .. m. 4:50 p. n
Lv Vanilla, 1851 .. N. $3.50 p. n
Ly Silver Creek. .10:17 q. m. 6:e9 p. n
Ar. Hattiesburg. .12:3 30 p. m. S:10 p.
Trains run daily.
ID. REEVES.
General Passenger As>nt
Hattiesburg. Mise.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-21
NINETEEN HAVE BECOME
CAT0DIC PRIESTS
AS Result of Adoption of Canon 10 By
Episcopal Church.

Boston, Mass, Dec. 20.-Rev. Father
Henry A Sargent, for Is years a
member of the Order OF the Holy
Cross, Episcopal. which has its head
quarters at West Park. n Y, has been
ordained as a sub-deacon of the Rom
an Catholic Church by Bishop Joseph
.G. Anderson in st. Paul's Catholic
Church, Roxbury. He viii be ordain-
ed to the Roman Catholic priesthood
next week. Father Sargent was de-
posed from the priesthood of the Epis-
copal Church, following his renuncia-
ton of his office in that denomination.
He is one of the score or more former
clergy of the Episcopal Church now in
the Roman body who We're dissatisfied
with Canon 10, law which was inter-
pretated by many as permitting clergy
of other denominations to occupy Epis-
copal pulpits on special occasions.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-21
TO GIVE 10000 TOY HOUSES
TO POOR CHILDREN
Mrs. Mirabeau L. Towns Places Order
In New York.

New York, Dec. 20-Mrs Mirabeau
L. Towns, wife of a Brooklyn lawyer,
gave an order at the Cement Show, 1t
Madison Square Garden, today for the
making of 10000 cement toy houses,
which she intends to distribute among
poor children throughout the city. The
molds used for the toy houses are
miniatures of the molds invented by
Thomas A. Edison for full-size cement
structures.
There are to be doll houses for the
girls, and factories, garages. engine
houses. stables and the like for the
boys. Each house for the girls has
little windows ready for curtains and
shades. There is a bathroom. drawing
room, kitchen and dining room in each
house for the girls, as well as a We
randa and rear stoop Paneled doors
on hinges, window sashes with cords
and weights. a basement and chin,
.ney are other appointments Mrs.
Towns intends to distribute her gifts
to the poorest children in every Dor
ough in the city on Christmas.
Mrs. Towns was recently appointed
"a member of the Board of Education.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-21
SOME WORTHY PROGRESS.

Within the brief space of a year the
farming lands of Sumter county have
appreciated in value to such an extent
that it is now difficult for the incoming
immigrants from South Carolina, so
many of whom have contributed to
the upbuilding of the county recently,
TO obtain farm lands of large acreage
at other than prohibitive prices.
This is an indication of the fact that
Sumter county has passed through
that period of county's progress
where a large part of the land is held
in extensive plantations by few own
.ers. The division of the large planta-
lions of the county into smaller farms
has been accomplished in the county
in thorough and effective manner. It
is a movement that is synonymous
with progress, because it has been
shown conclusively by years of care
full observation that the small farm
with white farmers makes for the gem
eral Improvement of agricultural con-
ditions, as opposed to the chaotic con-
ditions of land cultivation under negro
tenants that existed formerly on the
large. unwieldy estates.
In this particular Sumter county
has advanced much farther along the
path of progress than many adjoining
counties. which are still struggling
with excessively large plantations
poorly cultivated. These other coun-
ties are now reaping the benefit from
the widespread and effective publicity
which has been given to Sumter
county over the entire nation through
the agency of the Board of Trade and
other public organizations. Sumter
county has been the Mecca of CAROLYN
ians in search of new homes and
farms. When they come here now for
farms, they are almost invariably COM
PEELED to pass on to other nearby and
less thickly settled counties to obtain
land at a low price. While our prog
ress in this particular has been ex-
emplary, there are other fields still 20
be developed. The new year will bring
greater opportunities for the city and
county