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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
FIexibiIity of English.

English is not only, as Richard JEFF
ferries asserted, the most expressive
and flexible of tongues. but also. in
Swinburne's opinion, the most musi-
cal. He proclaimed the lines
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies
Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes
to be unmatched for melody in any
language. And few would venture to
contradict such master of music and
tongues. But surely French ranks
next on the roll of languages. For
clearness of diction 1t is unriyaled.
and, thanks to its abundance of VOW
els (close on one for every consonant,
1t 1owes rhythmically from the tongue.
Against Westley's dictum. that French
Is to German as a bagpipe to an or
gan, may be cited saying of another
famous divine, DR.. Dollinger. "L'Alle-
mand nest pas une langue, mails ceux
qui parlent ce jargon Sc comprennent
entire eaux" German Is not Ian.
guage. but those who speak this jar
gon understand one another).-London
Chronicle.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
BURGLAR IS CAUGHT
in THE FARRAR HOME

Bay st. Louis, Miss, Aug. 81
John Clark, a white man, was caught
yesterday morning just before day.
light, in the home of l.. o. Farrar, on
Eastbrook street, and he was placed
in Jail. He was tried in the after
noon and handed over to the grand
jury under bond of $1,000.
Clark is middle-aged man, who
came here Sunday night from Mobile.
He claims to be a dock laborer. He
pleaded guilty to the charge of enter
ing with felonious intent.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
THE ~ ATNTIECnIInn
Forum OF the People

/ anxious dad who is paying the price.
Any school ad that appeals to the
boy, and not to the father, is farce
of the lowest type, and should excite
the distrust of sensible parents every
where.
recognize the need of wholesome
exercise, and the schools of half
century ago afforded full means for
such rest and change as were required
to restore wasted or exhausted energy
Character is an asset so valuable,
so eternal, and yet so elusive that few
people attain a laudable and fixed
possession thereof And any educa-
tional system which promises culture
by emitting the drudgerX of cheerful
and continued toll, is a delusion and
a snare, designed to get the dollars
of fond parents, at the expense of the
boys highest interests. Any theory
of school which appeals to the raw
and and puerile taste of the boy, to
the exclusion of the parents notion,
! is SO mercenary and catch-penny as
! to suggest downright rascality.
! Elective courses are offered in order
that an indolent boy may take only
such as will not interfere with his
sports. To assume and accomplish
difficult and disagreeable tasks is the
| very greatest lesson to be learned at
| school; and every boy should be COM
PEELED to take very full course in
the very studies he hates, for the
reason that he will, without much urg-
ing acquire a knowledge of such
studies as attract his taste.
Education, too, which appeals to the
money-making instinct is an error so
fatal as to be showing up very luridly
on the criminal docket of the courts.
Education is for character and not
for bread; for the simple and unan-
swerable reason that the bread-and-
butter feature will never fail where
wholesome character is present.
Bowling alleys, boat races, ball
fields, tennis courts. Now don't this
list look weirdly odd, not to say fool
ish to some of us old fellows who got
our mite of learning by digging, just
as God and nature say we must get
it, or not at all. GAX.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
CRINOLIWE rs COMING

have its inning and there
indication America will
fashion writer continuing
this always
subject:
behind the hoopskirt
move ~
studying the fashion plates and there is
can
In the
of
that they look better tight skirts
and styles
America it will
inverted but fashion DEGREES the
and the dwl
hoopskrts have failed
hcoth crnone skirts beed hoop
yhavege hoopskis
pushing the hoopskrt it will probably
he starts to
with mankind has been what
with the
do with his feet when the hoop
skirt sight"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
Facts About Giants.

That very few Of the giants who
have ever lived have been healthy or
well formed recent researches prove
beyond a doubt. All we know about
Goliath Is that he was very tall, but n
the second book of Kings we re id
about another giant. who had m IRE
fingers than an ordinary human be ng,
and, according to modern scientists,
this is invariably a token of degen-
eracy. Marcel Donnal saw at Milan a
giant who was so tall that his body
filed two beds at night, but whose
legs were so weak that he could hard
ly stand upright. William Evans. the
gigantic porter of Charles l., had little
strength, and Cromwnlfs porter. an
other giant, esd,0 nI~ lays in luna
tic asylum. FiuAIy. y Drlen, the Irish
giant, has been described as ian enor-
nous sick child who grew up too
fast"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
Charged With WHITE
Gaping The NEGROES

Poplarville, Miss. Aug. 3L-For sew
eral months there has been constant
terror among the negroes At Durham
Brothers turpentine still, about 8
miles south of here, caused by white
cappers. u a
The cause of the trouble, it is
thought was reached last night when
Sheriff Rouse arrested two white men,
William MrLemore and Frank Parker,
on a charge of white-capping, sworn
to by V. D. Durham, member of the
above firm.
Mr.. Durham says he has positive.
proof that these men marched one of
his negro hands away from his place
in the night time at the point of shot
guns, and would not even give him
time to get his clothing and see Mr..
Durham.
It is hoped that these arrests will
end this trouble as scarcity Of labor
in the turpentine business at this
time, when the harvest of the crop is
in full blast, causes the loss of thou
Sands of dollars in a very short time.
The parties under arrest will be given
a preliminary trial the last of this
week. ,-..
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
FAILS AS A TEACHER
WRITES own EPITAH

San Francisco, CAL, Aug. 81
"Warning-Here lies the body of
Theo. Kearney, visionary, who
thought he could teach the average
farmer, and particularly raisin grow
ers, some of the rudiments of sound
business management. For eight
years he worked strenuously at his
task and at the end of that time he
was no further ahead than at the be-
ginning The effort killed him"
NJ. Theodore Kearney wrote this
epitaph for himself. 1t was found on
a scrap of paper among the documents
that have come into the hands of the
faculty of the University of Califor-
mia. Kearney bequeathed an estate
at Fresno, worth about half a million
dollars, to the university.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
SOME STRANGE THEORIES ON
EDUCATION.

Editor News:
Only yesterday examined closely
100 advertisements of schools, and l
found some features which to my mind
are truly startling.
Moral culture was mentioned in five
of the ads; while claim of chris
tian culture was suggested in only
five of them. But the part so strange,
startling, and to my mind so fatally
erroneous, was the supreme promi-
hence given to sports" One hun
bred and twenty of these schools
showed fascinating illustrations of the
grounds including tennis courts, bowl
ing alleys, boating lakes, ball fields
and swimming pools.
The advertisements as was evident
from the tenor of the offers, expected
to win patronage by saying to the boys
and girls, Come to our school and
you shall have a constant round Of
exciting sports"
At a crucial point in national life,
at the time in which the people as a
nation are run stark mad On the sub
ect of recreations, sports, pleasures,
it is a serious menace to the well be-
ing of society, and to the nation at
large when schools boldly set forth
sports as a merit in educational meth
DDS. To one like myself, of the re-
gime of generation ago, when it was
expected Of a boy that he should dig
and dig and dig in order to acquire
an education, this method which offers
pleasure as a means of learning, reads
passing strange.
When the Egyptian prince called on
Euclid, the great philosopher and in
formed the great thinker that he, the
prince, was of royal blood and desired
a quick plan whereby to attain great
learning, the aged teacher replied,
"Royal Sire, there is no royal road to
learning; and he who would mount
her craggy sleeps must achieve it by
constant and long-continued toll"
These school ads appeal directly to
the boy who wants to go off on
typical frolic, but not to the old and
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
STARKV!LLE HAVING
MARKED PROSPERITY

Starkville, Miss, Aug. 31.-While
this town has not undergone any boom
or prodigious growth, yet it is stead
lily improving all the time. The Board
Of Aldermen has passed an ordinance
floating bonds to the amount of $14,-
900 for school improvement, the pres
ent quarters having become entirely
inadequate for the enrolment of the
school. Work on the new addition to
the building will be commenced just
as soon as these bonds are sold and
the contract let, though it Is hardly
probable that it will be ready for &C.
cupancy at this term.
Another improvement of this NUM-
cipality is the placing of the names
of all streets on every corner within
the corporation, which has just been
completed.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31

Y Il B ~ 81 + .
yesterday over into this county near
Emelina, to the home OF D. Smith who
owns a mad stone and the application
made to the wound. 1t is said the
stone adhered, drawing out the poison
in very satisfactory manner
A young girl was also brought to
the place, having been bitten, and the
stone applied in her case with good
results.
Postoffice in New Quarters.
Postmaster Powers has moved his
working force and all the office para
phernalia into the new and handsome
quarters which was recently complet-
ed in Lampkin street. The govern
ment has a ten year lease ON the build
ing. 1t is better situated, so far as
pleasantness and convenience are con-
cerned, than ever before. New fur
niture and fixtures are to be added,
which will facilitate the handling of
the mails, which have undergone a
wonderful growth within the past few
years.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
Neu-s From the Tripod
THE MORAL is PLAIN.

political uanpngs Tuesday the
democratic committees
candidacy of the present Tnnes
meeting
author only
submitted democratic
month
carried AS this city and
esewhere will fail
that
and is fighting for not only for the states best
will Mr. Patterson much toll
the ACCESSIBILITY Of retirement
for reelection from politics atoghe-Memphis
Newsscimiar1
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
-AFeEsT CIRCULATION or ANY SOUTH MssIssIppI PAPER

ne most sensational
ose OF the Civil Monday
anons OF dollars made gambling
Was devoted to what
Wno LED the aggressive
somewhere between $20OO00
IONS put as dispatches
wetDui courteous mouach and
his
the most strenuous the exchange
emerged from the without And while
this high finance
and rounding
out late
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS

The New York World both confident prophecies
of
Republicans
putting
Democracy
conings not from merits of the
says:3ssS
to
particular condemnation
of a
people justice economy peace!
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
Another Fake.

"Did you see the lightning calcu-
lator' in the sideshow?" asked the old
farmer in the wide straw hat
by heck, yes" drawled the other
ruralite, land he was the biggest fake
In the show"
"How was thatT
"Why, thar was thunderstorm go.
ing on while l was In the tent and
when / asked him If he could calculate
where the lightning was going to strike
he Just gave me the laugh. "-Chicago
News.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.
. :: :. :: :. :. :. :. :. :. :: :. :. :. ::
Mrs. Chas. Jourdin.

Mrs. Chas. Jourdin died shortly
after twelve o'clock last night at her
home in East Pine street, after an
illness of some time. Deceased leaves
a husband and family. The funeral
will take place tomorrow morning at
9 o'clock from her late residence, and
interment will be made in the city
cemetery.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31

We are authorized to announce
HON. B. P. HARRISON, of Gulfport,
as a candidate for Congress from the
Sixth Congressional District of Missis-
sippi second primary, September 18th.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
ANNOUNCEMENTS

We are authorized to announce
HON. J. r. TALLY, of Hattiesburg,
as candidate for Congress from the
Sixth Congressional District of Misss-
sippi, second primary, September 18TH
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
SQUARE DEAL FOR CORPORATIONS

me following
mississippi
of the Farmers in his state
"A good pillar help So a
corporation There to corporations
capital If potent helps
men OF business that without
fifty and
mississippi
hope that
at in time wherein feeling
often rese
state and
The
are glad to it is
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31

KNIGHTS AND LADIES OF HONOR
meet every Friday night at odd Eel
lows Hall. All members are request
ed to be present.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31

Ladies'! have you ever noticed
there's quite difference In flavoring
extracts? AS your grocer for
SAURS. You'll like them. sept6
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
The obliuinp Proprietor.

"wou't you please give me an or
0ser' pleaded the persistent drummer.
Certainly" replied the crusty pro-
prietor. "Get outT-Lippincotts.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31

FOR sALE-scholarship in 'ne nl'
tiesburg Business College A ne
NJ, care The News
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31

PApER-HANGING AND PAIN Inv
Home phone 224 Blue. ''-'--D'
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
Used a Mad Stone.

J. F. Session, a young man from
Webster county, who was a few days
ago bitten by rabid dog, was taken
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31
SS5
For a Business Course

Your entire expenses OF tuition
books, stationery, board, fuel lights
and laundry, during three months at
the Commercial Department Of South
ern Christian College. Thorough IN
struction in Arithmetic, Bookkeeping
Banking, Correspondence, commer3iaf
Law, Economics Finance, Govern
ment, Geography and History OF Com
merce, Penmanship, stenography'
Typewrlting, English and Modern Lam
quages. Students enter at any time
For catalogue address,
MAJOR R. A. BURTON, ~
President,
West Point, Miss.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31

Heaven often smites in mercy. even
when the blow Is severest.-Baillie.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31

pair of gold. rimless eye
glasses. Owner can have same by
applying to J. F. WILLIAMS, at
City Hall and paying for this ad-
vertisement. 31-3t
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31

WANTED-Experie hat trimmer
at once. Address HAT Trimmer"
care News. 30-6t
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31

want to lease, for three or five years.
with privilege of longer, impro'eA
farm near Hattiesburg, for trucA
farming and dairy. Call CumDei'
land Phone S17, or address, D. D.
Harris, City. oV--'
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31

sTRAYED OR STOLBN1One Ensilsn
setter dog; white with small oia0%
snots one black ear. Return TO D.
j. HIBBETT at Love Drug 20, anu
receive good reward. i
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31

WANTED wish to purchase Id III
within five or six miles of Hattles-
burg. See C. w. Vuncannon at
court house. Z9-oI
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-03
STICK TO THE OLD WORD
Pertinent Remarks ON Designation %
Wage Farmers rs "LaAI
Employee"

The controversy which has arisen over
the proposed designation OF young women
wage-earners as young lady employees is
further enlivened by the statement Of a
prominent club woman" that she is mot
a lady and is only angered when called
so. THE definition of lady" as she under
stands 1t. rs a female who has neither
the brains to think with nor hands to work
with"
Every woman to her taste, m the
New York World. But It is to be said that
The indiscriminate application OF the term
lady" to all OF the sex, whether or not
they come within the category of women
OF refined or gentle manners, sentiments,
etc." Is iladvised. Curiously enough. the
use OF the word has been much more re-
stricted I'm this country, where no rank
exists, than in England, where lady is a
title Of nobility, but where lady detec-
tives" and lady bigamists'' exist along
with lady mayoresses," and where young
ladies" advertise in the newspapers fos
positions as waitress or milliner. with IA
on the contrary, the employment OF the
word becomes more and more limited. It
has even been erased from ferry boat
cabins, and no doubt in time It will go
from hotel parlors,
When ADAM uolVe ana Eve span, who
was then the gentleman" And who is
the lady when both sexes labor side by
side in the office or factory The main
thing is the development OF self-respectlng
~womanhood. 1t is only necessary to alter
Wordsworth's-
A perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort and command,
to "a perfect lady etc. 10 realize the
sbsurdity Of the argument for lady en-
ployes."
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-03

sions. You hear a man say, II certainly
can get them on that No. 5 alley" A week
later q farmer beats him five games
straight on the same alley. He pays 81 and
changes his mind.
There Is some talk Of getting up a two
men handicap tournament based on league
averages. This talk Is waste of oxygen.
There are thirty or forty bowlers In this
town, leaders Of the big leagues, not one
OF whom has any license to concede a
single pin to the other. Some Of them have
exceptionally good league averages. and In
any kind Of contest are liable to be we'll
to the front, SOM OF whom are particularly
good in a fast game, like an individual or
two-men svent.
In a two-men contest held right now on
even terms as likely as not the high league
average men would be among the also rams
This f. the Game u Chance.
This is the tenpin game wherein a man
plays with tickle fortune and fancies all
the time. II Is the game that no man can
say with reasonable certainty what he can
do or who he can beat. The man who con-
cedes a few pins to an pponent invariably
pays for the privilege, The glorious un-
certainty Of tho game is what makes 1t an
open affair all the time and the man who
Is sure OF his spare has the measure and
is himself OF the best.
Before tho season closes It would be
interesting to see a contest. not between
organized teams, leading the respective
leagues, but between teams composed of the
five high average bowlers of each league
in the city. Give the Boosters q chance,
also the Cellar leaguers and the Mercan-
tiles. Make a city league championship.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-03
Cotner's Team
State Champion
BY the Defeat Of the Kearney Team
Cotner Claims the Pennant
for the Year.

LINCOLN. Neb.. April a-tspeclal )-when
C0tner university won the final basket
ball game over the Koarney state Normal
by a score OF 06-i7 the team became state
champions for the season OF 1909 1910. The
game was played at Lincoln on Cotners
floor ana was the twelfth successive college
victory for the Cotnerites. This game
ended the Cotner schedule and gives them
a percentage OF 1000. since they n won
every college game.
With the completion OF the gymnasium
and the making OF a new quarter-mile run
ming track interest in athletics At COtner uni
versity takes renewed life. The institution
has had an enviable reputation In base ball
for a long time and other forms OF athletics
are now being worked with decided success.
This years basket ball toam won the state
college Championship. taking twelve sue
cesslve victories, losing none. The closing
season Is the third for basket bali there.
Last years was the first regular team that
ever worked on a Cotner floor. tho per-
sonnet OF the pennant winning team being
largely the same Rs last year Cotner's
floor Is t0x7O feet, with double side lines
and a gallery, giving ample room for both
team and spectators, thus being commodi-
GUS enough to encourage indoor sports.
Large classes In regular gymnasium work
meet regularly. indoor base ball being
tried for the first time. The girls basket
ball team won over half OF their games,
winning twice during the season over the
Peru state Normal girls, once at Peru and
once AZ lincoln. Base ball practice Ia being
pushed hard during fine weather. Most OF
the players OF last year, beside a number
Of very desirable new men are trying out
for places on this years team, The diamond
Is put IN shape for one OF the early prao-
tiee games with the Western league team
OF Lincoln. The schedule OF games for the
year Is not yet completed, but Manager II.
u. Neibling announces a game with High
land Park college Of Des Moines at Cotner.
also a anne will the Kearney State Nor
NAL, beside seven other games practically
scheduled TO be played at IAncoln. A trip
to some OF the schools OF South Dakota and
probably into Kansas or Colorado will be
the spring itinerary OF the Cotner nine.
The recent completion OF the quarter
mile running track has aroused interest in
track work. To one side OF the circular
track, and leaving it as a tangent. Is a zoo
yard straishtaway, the longest Of any in
the state, afrording q good place for
hurdles. A number OF the men who have
been doing indoor work during the winter
are At work upon the various events, in
Guiding distance running, hurdiing. pole
vaulting, running, high and broad jumping
and the weights, II is hoped by the ath.
letio management that a lively interest may
DO maintained in track work as all the
men OF the school are thereby enabled "a
partake In some form Of athletics.