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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-07

fornis, may result from today's meet.
II ing of the stockholders Of the Ameri.
can Druggists Syndicate. 1t is ex.
Ipected that the trust" will issue ad-
ditional capital stock, so that the syn
dictate may acquire control of the re-
tail drug stores of the country, either
by purchase or by cooperating with
those who do not wish to dispose of
their holdings. In either event it is
the desire of the syndicate to fight the
chain drug stores by giving it's men,
bers the support of the organization
in the matter of credit and cheap buy
ing, without losing the identity of the
individual druggist.
Such a plan will call for more cap
ital-fighting capital" said President
Goddard.
1T is necessary for retail druggists
the country over, especially in the
larger cities of both the East and the
West, to organize themselves" he re-
marked, land to fight the chain sys-
tenn of drug stores or go out of bust
ness. If We organize it will be impos-
sible for this chain system to crush
competition and drive the established
drug stores out of existence. Mem
bers of the syndicate will have the
full power of the other syndicate
members behind them in such fight
and one battle won will make the
chain system wary of putting its COM
prehensive plan into effect
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-07
TRAINER OF Commission
Law SAYS IT'S ALL right

The following letter from DR.. W. o.
Talbot, Trainer of the law for the COM
mission form of government, to the
Biloxi Herald, will be of interest to
Hattiesburg citizens:
Biloxi, Miss, Feb 20, 1910.
Editor of the Daily Herald:
Dear Sir: In your issue of Satur-
day, Feb. 6, I note an article from
Hattiesburg claiming that Secretary
of State Power has discovered a flaw
in the commission form of law, where
in the granting of charter to the
city authorizing it to elect commission
ers under that law would put the city
under two governments. Your cores
pondent quotes section and part of
section as proof of the claim. These
sections are not the whole law, but
contain a part only of the process of
getting municipality under the COM
mission government, as is clearly in
dictated in section 2. ANY city or
town desiring to adopt a commission
form of government shall proceed as
follows"
Then the remainder of the section
tells how the petition shall be circu-
lated, what it shall contain and what
per cent of qualified voters must sign
it. Section 8 covers the filing of the
petition, ordering of election, adver-
Using the petition and holding the
election, etc. Then comes the Sec
tions quoted.
Section 4. ''If the election is car
ried the clerk shall at once forward a
certified copy of the resolution and
the election returns. to the secretary
of state, who shall issue a charter to
the municipality which shall be signed
by the governor.
Section and paragraph 1. 1.-THE
charter shall set forth the facts of
the original petition and shall author.
lie the municipality to elect the off,
GERS therein named at the regular
elections held for municipal officers.
Section 6, first paragraph, reads:
All powers and duties, rights and
privileges of the mayor and alder
menic bodies, and of all elective munic-
ipal officers set forth in the laws Of
the state Of Mississippi are hereby con-
ferred and imposed upon the mayor
upon the commissioners and upon the
subordinate officers. respectively, of
the municipality that may adopt the
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-07
An italian Superstition.

There is an Italian superstition that
whenever a king belonging tc the
house Of Savoy dies huge eagle is to
be seen crossing the Alps over the val
ley Of Aosta in the direction of Savoy,
and the conviction prevails among the
inhabitants Of Aosta that this eagle
guides the soul Of the dead sovereign
to join those of his ancestors in Savoy.
When King Charles Albert died at
Lisbon, King Victor EmmanSel died
at Rome and King Humbert was as
sasinated at Mona in 1900 the eagle
was seen winging its way across the
Alps. All other eagles crossing the
Alps don't seem to count for much.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-07
SOCIALISTS MAY
NOT TAKE A Walk
Chief of Police of Berlin Has Been
Put Ban on All Open Air Meet
ings Of That Party.

Berlin, March president Jagow
of the Berlin police, having forbidden
the socialists to held an open air meet
ing that had been planned for Sunday,
the managing committee of the So
cialist party today publicly invited
all who believed in an equal, secret,
direct and universal ballot to take a
walk on Sunday toward Treptow park,
a suburban assembly place, as pro-
test against the existing three-class
property voting system and the pro-
posed amendments to the franchise
law
President Jagow subsequently an
nounced that such a walk would be
contrary to the spirit of the law,
which requires that open air assem-
blages shall take place only with the
permission of the police and that the
persons taking such walks or attempt
ing so to do would be prevented by
the police.
All the socialist, liberal and radical
journals, as we'll as some of the mod
crate conservative newspapers, disap-
prove of the Prussian governments
decision to prevent a public assembly
making peaceful expression of a de-
sire to have greater ballot privileges.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-07
Circulation Double That Of Any
Other South Mississippi Paper
WILL WONDERS NEVER CEASE?

The State Register" of Springfield,
Illinois, the old home place of Abra-
ham Lincoln, strange as you may
think it, comes to the defense of the
alleged radical" and said-to-be mig
ger hater," and expresses the opinion
that Ex-Governor Vardaman is neither
an insane or unsafe man, and, being
the choice Of the people," should have
been elected to fill the vacancy in the
Senate caused by the death of Sena-
tor McLaurine. The square deal
idea appeals to the Register. Indeed,
it is very appealing idea.
The Register, in its issue of Feb
ruary 81, says:
THE st. Louis Globe Democrat
expresses it's satisfaction if not
delight over the defeat of former
Governor Vardaman of Mississis-
sippi for United States senator,
for which position he was the
leading candidate. 1t says: He
belongs to the low element of the
south. And again, his wild out
bursts, especial when the negro
is the subject, show him to be an
unfit person to represent a COM
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munity making any pretenses to
civilization, in any serious, digni-
nified body like the senate
I" The State Register has no
brief to defend Ex-Governor Var
daman from the misrepresenta-
tons of partisan, nor to extol
him in any way. But the above
assaults of the Globe-Democrat
are so glaringly unjust that we
cannot allow them to pass unno-
ticed. Governor Vardaman doubt
less has his faults as probably
every man has, not excepting the
writer of the Globe-Democrat's
editorial. But that he is 'uncouth'
and raw is not true, nor is he
an unfit person on account of
wild outbursts. especially when
the negro is the subject to repre-
sent a community making any
pretenses to civilization in the
federal senate.
Governor Vardaman's official
treatment of the negro, when he
was Mississippi's chief executive.
will compare favorably with that
of any other governor, north or
south. In fact, he was conspicu-
GUS among state executive off
Gals for the determined stand he
took against the lynching of ne
groes and the success with which
he used the powers of his office to
prevent such outrages against the
law.
Governor Vardaman visited
Springfield a few months ago and
delivered lecture, at which time
he met socially a number of citi-
zens of both great parties. Els
genial manner and dignified bear
ing could not fail to impress all
who met him that he was a man
among men, and one who would
be recognized as a courteous gen.
tleman in any position.
'The writer of the Globe-Demo-
crat editorial must be either woe
fully ignorant of Governor Varda-
mans official record, or so warped
by prejudice as to be unable to
be just in dealing with it. The
State Register knows nothing
about the genuine causes Of the
bitter fight in the legislature
against him, nor does it know
anything detrimental to the char
acter and ability of Leroy Percy,
who won the prize. But we are
confident that had Governor Var
daman been successful he would
have given neither his state nor
his county any cause to feel hui
inflated on account of his lack of
ability, honesty or heightened gen.
tlemanly character"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-07
form of government.

commission form of government.
Section 2435, code of 1906, reads:
"A general municipal election shall
be held in each city, town and village
on the second Tuesday in December,
A. D., 1906, and every two years there
after for the election of all municipal
officers to be elected by the people,
The officers elect shall qualify and
enter upon the discharge of their du-
ties on the first Monday of January
after such general election, and shall
hold their offices for two years and
until their successors are duly elected
and qualified.
The charter provided for in section
. does not put the commission govern
ment in operation, but authorizes the
election of the officers for that pur-
pose and those officers are to be elect
ed at the regular election held for
municipal officers.
Section 3435 of the code tells when
the election shall be held. The COM
n'issioners will be municipal officers
and therefore subject to this section,
as shown in section of the commits
sion law, because they have the same
power and duties, rights and privileges
Of the mayor and aldermanic bodies,
ana must therefore assume the duties
OF their offices at the time specified
for such bodies, namely, the first Mon
day of January, after such general
election. It is not the purpose of the
commission law to cause any conflict
in the term of office of any set of
commissioners and the aldarmanic
body preceding them, nor Of any that
may succeed them, and a careful read
ing of the law, together WITH tie chap
ter on municipalities will snow that it
does not
Respectfully,
w. o. TALBOT.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-07
Ancient Ropes,

Ropes made of various kinds of fiber
and leather are of very ancient date.
Ropes of palm have been found in
Egypt in the tombs of Benz Hassan
about 5000 B. c., and on the walls of
these tombs is also shown the process
of preparing hemp. In a tomb at
Thebes Of the time of Thothmes III
about 1000 B. c. is group repre-
senting the process of twisting thongs
of leather and the metaod Of cutting
leather into thongs.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-07
DRUG Store TRUST
MAY BE LAUNCHED
in New York Today With This
End in View.

(By Union Associated Press.)
New York, March IA national
drug store trust, embracing the larger
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NONRESIDENT NOTICE.
HE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

HE > Ale Of MlooloolIIl II.
To ]. M. FOLEY, of Robertson, La.
You are commanded to appear before
the Chancery Court of Forrest Coun-
ty, State of Mississippi, at regular
term thereof to be held on the First
Monday of June, A. D., 1910, then and
there to plead, answer or demur to
the Bill of Complaint exhibited
against you in said Court by A. B.
Chappell, wherein you are defendant
Given under my hand and the
seal of said Court, this, March 5th
A. D., 1910.
T. E. BATSON, Chancery Court.
By A. M. FOOTE, D. C.
7-3mons
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TRANSPORTATION
phone 141; Cumberland phone 319.
Rates $500 per hour, or 25c to any
part of the city. Special prices on
long trips. We guarantee fast time
for all runaway marriages. l.. Nc
Elroy, Mgr. 1S-1mo
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w. o. TALBOT

An Austrian aeroplanist has sue
ceeded In propelling a sleigh at a
rapid rate with the same engine and
aerial propeller that he used on one
of his flying machines.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-07

From tile Queen Margherita OBJ
servatory on Mount Rosa in the Alps,
the highest point but one in all Eu-
rope, it is possible to see 1875 miles
practically in all directions.
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PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER- 8
Hattiesburg Trust & Bank Building
1-2wks.

WANTED-Good salesman for North
Miss. staple line. Liberal PROPOSE
ton. Must have ability. Address
p. o. Box 1877. 3-3t
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If you want job If you need clerical
assistance or workmen for any pur-
pose, we can assist you. List your
wants with us. Southern Employ
ment Co. 112 Mobile street. ]. E.
Maddux, proprietor. Cumberland
1877; Home 377. Feb 22-6mo
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B E SSIE r II o OVER

"I csn't sec anything but other folkss
backs, and I'd drop if there was any place
todrop in, Ma complained TO Opal
The Music Of the bund burst shrilly on
them playing a patriotic air. Tie car
stopped, and there was general exodus Of
people,
Were here, Ma informed Pa. Come
on" For She could catch glinlpses Of great
oaks large buildings, and crowded grounds.
But he Only dropped into the nearest
vacated scat, remarking curtly. It's Zion
Ma had just sat down and was preparing
to enjoythclseenery when the car stopped.
" Mosey yott," " ordered Pa glulnly.
This looks jest like Zion Park back
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toned Opal, whose pale face should have
reproached Mrs. Flickinger for wishing to
drag her daughter off il the heat and'dust
after q phantom pleasure.
Il don't git myself and my two twinses
and Milo into their Sunday duds all for
nothin',n broke in julie decidedly. Sim
goin',' and, grabbing a twin in each hand,
she. bolted ont Of the house.
The day was hot, and il had not rained in
so, long that dust covered everything and
rose. in binding clouds along the unpaved
streets. TIE whole earth seemed to pant
for moisture, as the Flickingers waited for
the street car beside the hot, glistening
tracks in the suburbs.
"'I'he worst drawback to a picnic ia'nt is
totin the yictuals, grumbled Pa, mopping
his face with a murky handkerchief.
'ilm tired enough to drop" admitted
Ma. But onct onto the car | can set
down, and a-lookin outer the wind I'll take
my mind Off how tpekcred be-"
II you'd a chose a,leetle cooler day, !
wouldn't have objected remarked Pa.
IT'D been the weather man | suppose
.,oallci, returned Ma in anything but a
.'ias2nt voice.
I'd II bcca thankful for weather like
al il Klondike,p 7 observed Panner. DI'd
Q sight rlther bile ii freeze, 7 \ u
'sT, lay I'd ruther czc-if you asst
de, ID Milo.
II tcn't know shy Ma always expects
Mill 10 tote evcryttin-,' fretted julie, re-
ducel opeeyish eomplIat by the condition
OF the weather.
Give me a-holt Of Miles bastic, cried
Panrcr heartily.
@'Taia't a-hetchelin' me none,' denied
lilo politely.
Mcbbe Z amt struck in julie, "but
you're putin like walrus."
= LII tote the bestic fer Z spell, !" promised
narpcT, forcibly wrec,ing it from Milo.
TIE car, which soon came. was so crowded
LAT even, Ma had to stand. And Panner
and Pa Flickinger, laden with their heavy
llnch baskets, looked the very antithcsis Of
aappy picnickcrs.
Pa, remember the transfers" " yelled Ma,
hanging from strap far down the aisle, and
as the conductor wcave1 among the people
collecting fares she never cnce lost sight Of
him.
" He never in the livin' world would a.
give YOU them transfers, " she told Pa, after
they had LEFT the car at the main corners
dlown-toQlwn, q If / hadn't. Kept my eye on
him"
HRmher ajoltin ride, laughed William
Panner. Still Eve rid on worse things up
William, where's your victuals2" cried
Ma aghast.
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PAL needs . outin,' Pa

. !. D ! q q ] j. j !. i i i. ! !
lDHnk4T@-> S>rEEf "a - neenS q Quinn, ia,
H@<rS8SsH iuiarred Ma Flickinger
E9L{kTS&ANNH cas ylas her husband
ElIIM @TIIa WI. sing the flowers.
IA\vlks ksE&zF/ha She's a-lookin' alto
lNSRM[feNs gethcr too droopy. Ever
S2sSss..ss since Settle Woods give
her the go-by, she's been
1 a-lcttin' her mind run on him and it's
4 gotta be broke up
4 Poor kid lamented Pa Flickinger, as
he dclicately showered crowd OF pansies
till they duckei their glad faces under the
cool drops I'D ruthsr Opa'd be a-puttin
Us through our geptesl sprouts about uain
dictionsFy words AMI a eatin stylish than
10 bcso cutsup as this! 4 don't half 50 much
mini q disagreea5le, big-ha1ded girl like
Ooa' vas after she graduates from high
sshosl Jas / do dolcful, unhappy one. And
\ ~ lo.le as Settle, Woods asst Opal to. 90 to
fhaEOld Folks 4 picnic at Berrien Springs he
onghter a-took' her up there. The burned
hand-painted chronrol'
But she'll get over It if she has some
4 shin new to feed her mind on, y declared his
I wife; as she needs a change"
Sure" assented Pa "A rollin' stone
don't git much time for the blu-s
And we've gotta do some.h'.. .'eliyt d
fouse her up, and giveshc- s0'e-'din' t
think about besides Settle Ao5u
.Llhs 1, ssyI cried Pa suddr,l, why
not AL pf US go over to Zion f..rS 7
Igain'tagot no use fo- Zion T .lls,N dis
scntcd. Ma; & it's jammcd iuii cf folks and
cheap dpin's. And like enough Settle
Woajs;d he usnoopin round there. But
ia Kinder like to go to Weston Springs"
Shucks, scofed Pa in disgusted voice;
WITS there
dunno Just what is. there, cause 7
reves was 10 Weston Springs NOR Zion,
1e;sher. But It'll be somstLi,' new o-
Onsl And always had a hai k 81 y -
70 Weston Springs myself
That evening when Ma and Pi. ii,iciingcr
ani thsi5 daughter Opal and her brother .,c.
vrrcs sitting on the back porch, Nj aroachca
the subjtct Of the proposed outing 70 Opal
" How'd you like to 90 over to Weston
Si.yings for 4 little outin', Opal2 asked her
niothrr pleasantly
don't know, answered Opal listlessly
When Sunday afternoon came, Opal
dreaded the picnic, but her mother Vas
determiDNd to 60
kin. u wish t had cotton dress-to
wear,n sighed Ma when ahe was eacased in
her faded black alpaca as in a rusty arrnor
" This here wcrsted Is d leetle raspy on a
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II like it better here" began Opal, but
her quiet voice was lost in the shrill babble
Of the others holding forth on the attrac-
tions OF Zion.
"This is onct when ! am completely fab
bergasted" Ma confessed to Pa.
@Nothin' queer in that, Ma, scein' you
didn't know the facts, soothed Pa. "And
it won't take US five minutes to go over to
Zion"
And somcthin' dom all the time, Mrs.
Flickinger, " urged Panner.
"Twict as swell, puffed fat Mandy.
"And lions got springs, too supple
nlented Milo
During this conversation they had been
moving almost unconsciously towards the
entrance gate. And now they filed dumbly
out with the exception Of Pa, who remarked
perfunctorily to the gatekeepcr: "a fine
place on bilin' day.
Come again, invited the man with sal
aried hospitality.
"We certainly SHALL" promised Pa
readily. aAsrs rs.
II dunno, Pa, as you ought to hod out
false hopes like that" admonished Ma. Il
certainly sha'n't take in the springs ag'in. I"
"Oh, had to say somethin'," )" answered
Pa easily.
PA couldn't "a said less declared julie,
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"The bastic -durn it all where's that
bastic1" doomed Panner frantically.
Shut up, William, or folks II think you
want the police" ordered his wife. Here
il is. You left it in the car, and ! brung it
along"
"Let jest one more car go by marked
Howe Avenue, and back we pike victuals
and all, vowed Ma Grossly, as they waited
for the Weston Springs car.
When at last the right car came. the
Flickingers hurried nwth a crowdpf other
pleasure seekers And julie, remembering
how she had been obliged to stand on the
way down, dived ahead, boring her great
hat aggressively through the struggling
humanity, her intrepid nerve LANDING her in
seat, though the rest Of the family all
clung to straps.
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there, only not so much SO" exclaimed Ma,
surprised, as they left the car and started
for Weston Springs gate.
As Ma had gotten up the picnic. Pa gem
erously paid the entrance fee for them all.
julie leading, they trailed down narrow,
rooty path into the bottom Of the ravine,
where the walks were laid out on spongy
ground that was drained BY shallow
stream but few feet wide AT intervals
there were springs spouting out Of pipes and
overhowing small tanks. And the proper
ties of the waters we're labelled in white
letters on red boards that stood up behind
the tanks like tombstones The little valley
was shaded by trees, and should have been
very acceptable place for weary picnickers
on sultry day.
"Is these the springs1" Ma wanted to
know in an awful voice, after they had
drunk out of one spring whose warm, min
eralladen water was unpleasant to her taste
These 'er thum, returned Panner con-
cisely.
Heavens to Betsy" exclaimed Ma vio-
lently. Pa, you was right. Applewhites
COW pasture has this thing beat mile.
What'd we come here for? you knew about
it,
! did say what could ag'in comin',"
reminded Pa meekly.
81 kinder like it here it's so COOL re-
marked Milo politely; but his mother-in-
law froze him with look
And the trees are so beautiful" said
Opal, showing the first signs Of approval
that day.
"Forty-'levensprings, quotcdh her mother
gloomily, coming to another.
IL like it here, declared Opal heartily.
Lets find a seat and rest. y
Rest snorted Ma. "But there amt
nothin or nobody to see!"
! said it was a leete lackin' in excite
ment, . Pa could not help but add
"Why can't we COUP on the bluff on the
farther side and see those big oaks2" asked
Opal. "We could eat our supper there
No, sir!n vetoed Ma. "I've saw
enough Of this place. Only half dozen
folks here besides our crowd, And at five
cents head; might better "a throwed it
in WE'LL"
"Zion'd a been the place" affirmed Julie
boldly. PA said SO all the time. And now
we'll jest have to mosey over there; but
that won't bring back Pas thirty-fve
cents"
That's right, JULIE" admitted Ma Bit
terly, that thlrty-6ve cents is went for
good.
"There amt no earthly reason why we
can't 60 to Zion yit," insisted julie.
Gould we?" Ma asked doubtfully.
LAND | dunno what to do. ] suppose
the sensible thing would be totake the first
car home. What say, Par"
+" Zion is free began Pa persuasively.
Absolutely free" echoed julie
SO say let's all hands pike that way.
Never too late 70 pike, announced Pa
authoritatiyrly, growing more lively every
minute. (" But lcmme 81 one more good
drink afore we vamoose.'
And give the twinscs swaller Of some
thin that AMT too bilious lookin' Pa,
said j,ie. Nh be iiiee FOR en- 10 re
member when they're old that tAe,'
drinked out'n Weston Springs
81 @s !, !.
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"It'llbe Somethin' for me to forgit, said
Ma grizzly " Where's that bandf'
Zion, informed Milo, with considerable
animation for him.
"Lets stay here" begged Opal; therell
be SO many people over there. Z
" You don't want to hang around
here any longer, Opal" declared her
father.
f Aoa'll like Zion Park a million times
better'n this here" cheerfully exaggerated
julie.
= betche it'll be cooler there" prophe-
sled Milo.
And the bearsH tickle you to death, ("
encouraged Panner. M