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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-04-08

FOR REA - Two partly furnished
looms, suitable for light housekeep.
Ag. Nei| desirable location. Al.
dress Fox lG7.
mon, wed, fri and saf
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-04-08

Fcli RENT 5-roem dwelling, close
III, all accommodations S17.5O Der
month. Apply at The News. 25.tf
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-04-08

|| NEWS w
I CENT A WORD AN lssUE.-No
EVERYBODY READS THEM EvEl
Il PEOPLE DAILY THROUGH THIS
R. l. Red Chicks for sale. Mrs. D.
McGilvray, Petal, Miss. ap LIT
FOR SALE Groom house on Third
St, near Main; all modern conven.
fences. Fine home. Only 100000
On easy terms. M. j. Epley. 12-tf
FOR SALE 5-room cottage on
Laurel near Bay street. Price
$4,000; $4,000 cash, balance
$500 per month. M. ]. Epley.
12-tf
MONEY TO LOAN > per cent
simple interest; $4,000 ready on
matured contracts. Particulars. W..
e. Whitehead, 112 Mobile street,
Hattiesburg, Miss. Both phones
377. 3O-1mo
WANTED TO UY-Three-burner
gasoline stove. Call at Parlor Res.
taurant 305 Newman street.
7-3t
WILL PAY $500 reward for the re.
turn of my pointer dog-about two
years of age, if returned within
three days. If not returned within
that time will pay $4,000 for the ar.
rest and conviction of anyone who
may be holding him. Phil Toomer.
7-3t
WANTED--3 unfinished rooms. close
in; suitable for light housekeeping
Audress +. y. BOX BOG. If
position as stenogra.
pher by lady with several years ev. |
perience. Can furnish references
Home phone 251. Address e
care News Office.
7-9t
FOR RENT on Elizabeth
avenue, on Bay street. | on Sixth |
street, | on Southern avenue, on
River avenue, 2 on Miller street
j. e. Mckay, with Lea & Duke.
- g. o. d. tt !
FOR REA - Two partly furnished
looms, suitable for light housekeep |
ing. VeiT desirable location. Al. |.
dress EYX 81.
mon, wed, fri and sat .
FOR SALE--ThYee now houses be;no
built by Mr.. i2ure on Second ave. .
nue., For prices "rd terms. sea /
HOS. M. FERGUSON. est
FOR RENT broom dwelling. close
III. all accommodations. S17,5O n,.r
month. Apply at The News. 25tf
IF YOU IiAVE-Fine fowls or eggs
fer sale for breeding purposes. ad.
vertise them. Interest in fine popl.
try Is increasing and many would.
be fanciers are anxious to learn
where good breeding stock or eggs
van oe secured. 12-tf
FOR RENT-Two nice large rooms
furnished or unfinished. Homo
phone 694, 700 E. Second street
G-3t
Let us supply your skilled HELM of all
kinds. Everyone's record is thor.
oughly investigated before sending
them out. Give US trial. South.
ern employment Co., 112 Mobile ST
); e. Maddux.s Proprietor. Both
phones Nh feb 20. emo
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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-16
WHERE LIFE IS
WORTH LIVING

Thsre IL good skating ~ belle IsIe.
MiS Demsy, first name not known, No.
" Cass-ave., fell downstairs at M.
40 Randolph-st.. Thursday after
non and her right log was frac.
tued. She is In -. Mary's hospital
Lewis johnson, a Negro, was foun,
guilty In Judge PheIan's court ot
Thursday, OF attacking Mamie La
vine. No. 20s Napoieon-st. lie wa,
rsnanded TO the Jail for sentence
LeroY Hall, nine years old. No. =:
beech-st., In again reported to the
poEce as missing from home. The
Dor has a good home, but his mother
ra's she simply cannot keep him
thfre.
Meds CsrdinelI, No. 29I CnnaeId-ave,
west, was struck by an automob Id lie
at Woodward and Canfield -aves., ori
Thursday night She sustained al
frtctured hip and a number OF mino
injuries. She was taken In an aur
Patrol 10 Harper hospital.
The revenue cutter morrill, has zoe
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-16

about 200, Of his friends OF botE
political parties. Justice John B
Teagan was made master, 81 cere-
monies. ana score % those present
told Thompson I.hnt a good fellow
he was. and tl.t he ought 70 hr
mayor city CLERK Charles a. Nichols
on behalf OF the "boYS" presented the
alderman handsome dining-room
suite.
While walking an the Michigan Cen
traI tracks near Ninew Ood-aye., ON
Thursday night Wade krueuch. No.
sGS Hubbard ave. was run down by
Michigan Central train ana IN
stantly Killed He and his brothgr
We're on their way home from th"
Detroit Steel Casting Co plant.
where they were employed. Corone'
burgess IL investigating
Constable Lohr. of Nsnkin township,
started for the Detroit Iiouse OF or
rcction. having I'm charge William
Dumphicr and George Harris botn
of whom had been given sentences
az 50 days for drunkenness. When
the constable reached the prison
harris was missing. Lohr start 81
out 10 And his man. but an hour or
two later Harris knocked at the
door OF the House Of Correction and
reported that he had been lost in
the shuttle" at the city hall
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-16
I OF commission for the winter.

% of commission for the winter.
pc officers viii be transferred 10
vsseis on the Atlantic coast for The
Inter Part OF the crew will be
ent TO South Baltimore, Md and
part 10 San Juan, Porto Rico
Il accordance with hts policy OF strict
enforcement Of the liquor laws, io-
lice Commissioner Croui has an
rouneed that there viii he no tilt
ing OF the I'D New Years eve Those
who wish TO greet 1911 with proper
enthusiasm Will have To order I'm adj
Vapce.
Rep. 4. Ward Copiey - working with
Corporation Counsel Iiniiy 0n re-
usion OF the home tu,c bill one of
fhe tudDents 10 be introduced
will confer on the city the power to
condemn street railway property a.
we'll as the property OF other public
service corporations
Aid. John a.. Thompson. of the sixth
ward, recently married. was n very
much surprised man when he az
rived at the hall AT No. 2S4 Michigan
ave, Thursday night. Ray Mahon.
assistant permit clerk In the II. r.
w. and a stsunch Thompson SUP
porter, had told him that there was
TO be business meeting of the Celtic
Football club. OF which tho alderman
IL vice president. Besides the offl-
GERS OF the club, Thompson found
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-12

I s'pose you had the doctor here today
when you got your headache. oh. sure
You did. / knew 1t. A woman never gets
the toeache that she doesn't ring up TO-
one of those hand-me-three- bucks fellow :,
and a lot those ginks know about what
aiS folks, the four fiushes.
II spose the medical dub cantered
around and felt your pulse and scrubbed a
prescription for a little nux vomica or
some other eighty-five-cents' worth of
dope that he gets rake-on on at the drug
store, and then looked wise just thre.
dollars worth. That's the old gag and
it's pretty soft for those ducks. I'm
Huh? Oh. OF course. There you 90
again. Certainly I had that pin-head OF
doctor around here three or four times
when I had that attack Of nervous dys-
pepsia, but that was because you didn't
give me any peace until did call him in.
and there's no similarity in the cases.
anyhow, because / was sure-enough SID.
I only took the medicines the fellow pre-
scribed because you were hollering at me
all the time. If had my own way about
things I wouldn't have one of those doc
toring boguses come within ninety miles
of me. Lots of good the doctors visit
today has done you. to judge from the
way you look and act
"Whatcha grooming about? Is IL so bad
as all that Gee that doctors hit. isn't
he? You'd think he'd prescribed a little
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-12
DIAMOND DRUMMERS; THE TRAILERS

To take the chance. when I'm hiking
around with my gems on me. of falling
down on the street under dizzy attack.
If that happened somebody might get
my stuff. Often there are trailers-Iil
tell you about those people in minute
waiting for Just such opportunities. The
chance of my actually falling down from
dizziness under the action of coffee is OF
course remote: but diamond drummers
have to provide against the remote
chances as we'll as the imminent kind.
Now about the trailerS of diamond
drummerS. They're distinct body of
thieves. There are not many of them,
hut there are enough of them to make
diamond drummers nervous all the time
they're travelling and to keep them on
the alert all the time
Il know the faces of most of these
diamond drummer trailers. | make pc
riodical visits to police headquarters to
restudv their mugs In the rogues' gal
lery and to fix in my mind the faces
of the new specimens that are added
from time to time
"One of these travellers will follow
stretch. waiting for the chance to lift
ures that, no matter how careful and
watehful the man with the gems
normally is. his moment of carelessness
is bound to come, and that single mo-
ment of careleSSneSS is the thief'S
sparkling opportunity.
Generally the trailer starts right off
from New York with the diamond drum
mer he has picked out for himself. and
in most cases he comes right back to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-12

ney is the author OF that epic of the
Roosevelt administration. written on the
eve Of the ex-President'S departure for
African wilds. which concluded. "A peev-
ish lion is the uoblest work OF God" Nor
did they remember that Mr.. Tawney has
been having his troubles lately. in some
quarters being held responsible for the
failure of Congress to step forward with
the $4,000 necessary TO make the pub
licity feature of the corporation tax law
effective.
After Mr.. Tawney had labored for an
hour or SO on this particular evening in
question. ne wiped his face, turned back
his limp cuffs, gathered his papers to-
gether and went to his room. A few min
letter found this on the desk where Mr..
Tawney had been writing:
Twas the case in politics. when something
turned out wrong.
With n discord in the chorus y. the grand old
partyS song.
That the singers sang the louder, opening Wide
their loyal throats
To drown with roaring basso the ragged. Oh key
notes.
Rut nv the situations changed. the party must
have votes.
The wise ones pass the word around. Cannon and
Tawney- goats.
In other and more gentle days insurgents We're
unknown:
A member might be stepped on, hut he never
made n moan
There riot on the rules there was no
fast and loose.
But the men who block the game. whenever
they need votes.
They pass the kindly word along. Cannon and
Tawney-goats,
If it's frosty at the White House, if it's gloomy
on the Hill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-12

there you are. with faraway look In
your eyes. and you're not hearing one
single, solitary word that I'm saying to
you
''G'way, I've heard every word you've
said You said you sewed some buttons
on the box couch in the spare room, and
that
Now. just listen to that. Listen to me,
sir-stop looking at those crazy skylark-
Ing dogs on their way to the baggage car,
but listen TO me- L said socks. Socks in
the work basket, in box couch Repeat
the words after me, sir. just like this:
Socks in work basket in box couch"
"Wocks in sork basket in cox boueh-
say, hun, 1 haven't time for any such
fool things as socks It's your going
away that's got my goat Doggone it,
can't 1 stand here and mutter my thinks
to You without your ringing in work
touches and socks and birds and cheese
buildings and such junk on me?'
Most husbands are pretty good fellows,
when it comes to all that. Dub along,
most of 'em. and do the best they can,
considering that they're ornery he-crea-
lures And most of EN-, despite the old
funnyistical gag, just nachully HATE, to
see their wives go away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-12

II the democrats yelling that the G. o. F.
IL Ill.,
Do get together nowadays. as once used
to do.
Put our shoulders TO the wheel and pull the
party through?
oh. no: tits the proper thing. when going
To pick single platform plank: Cannon and
Tawney-goats'
OF all the damned
At this point the effusion ended All
efforts since that night to get Mr.. Taw-
ney to admit the authorship of the above
or to induce him to say what he intended
awaiting.
1t is very evident. however, that he is
somewhat sore.
II HE Post Office Department, the
Treasury Department, the local
custom house federal court and an
humble private citizen Of Washington
have all been mixed up of late over Il
pair of corsets. The corsets, brand-new
and beauteouS. were sent to the citi-
Zen'S wife from abroad by parcels post.
The carrier who delivered them col
lected bunch of excess postage. but
forgot to get the customs duties When
he went back for the two dollars or
so the citizen in question. being some
what pigheaded, declined to pay.
Then came an official of the Post Of
flee Department. who tried to collect.
He failed. and a Treasury employee ap-
peared on the scene He was also un-
-winded conferences on the subject,
one of the officials secured a bench
warrant, which would have permitted
him 10 have searched the citizens
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-12

way. Seeing which, | felt fmpelled 10
nut the WHY SO blithe?" question to him.
.Oh, this is my time to feel chirpy."
the travelling diamond man explained.
I've Just shucked my trouble"
said to him. What am ! supposed TO
ask you now?''
1T isn't any CATCH, said the diamond
man. II mean that I've just turned in
my sample gems to the firm. Got In from
my semi-annual western trip this morn
ing, YOU know. Now, rid of my trouble.
I'm my way uptown TO have look
AT the home and family.
II won't he packing the trouble around
for a couple Of months now, and during
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-12
Practical Side of 1t.

CANINE was late to breakfast He
~ had worked late on his lessons the
night before; in fact, had them all neatly
prepared and ready for his Rotations
but his attitude plainly told that some
thing was the matter.
Father" said Sammie, as he jerked
his chair toward his bowl of rolled oats,
IT don't want to go to school today"
why, what's the trouble. lad?'
We'll. just don't want to co.
Now, look here, Sammie, you have
your lessons all prepared for today.
see you have been studying the history
of the Netherlands. the king and the
queen, and, in fact, all about the sys-
tenn of government. Now. what's the
trouble?"
law, shucks, dad. what good does that
do me? In all probabilities the Neither
lands will be a republic before / ever
get in a position to make use of the
knowledge"
But Sammie went to school just the
same.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-12

dation OF the fundamental principles or
the grand old party have been busy with
Tilt and strain, meter and hexameter. fee'.
stanza. verse. and other complex things
Intimately associated with the assembling
OF thought i'm rhythmetical lunches.
Twas Just the other night that folks
who passed through the writing room OF
The Shoreham Hotel. noted that Repre-
sentative Tawney or Minnesota. chairman
Of Tho House appropriations committee.
allied by his friends the honest black
smith" was wrestling with what APP
reared 10 be a governmental matter OF
great moment Mr. TawneSs brows
were contracted. his tongue was clinched
bet ween his teeth. a stub pen. clutched IN
his right hand. spilled ink over reams OF
paper. and great drops OF sweat beaded
his brow.
All" whispered casual observers. he
must be trying 10 figure how the govern
ments annual expenditures can be re-
duced."
They didn't stop to think that Mr. Taw-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-12
MRS. GRUMP HAS THE HEADACHE.

ster at a sitting. when it comes to that
without batting an eye, and that trif1ing
little attack of mine was due wholly to
the fact that I'd been tied up I'm my Of
flee for a wee X or so without any chance
to get air or exercise. And / didn't have
any headache that time, either. Be good
enough to remember that, please. Don't
try to switch the subject.
whats that? Do | think YOU like to
have headaches? Oh. now, look adhere
that tone of sarcasm is wholly unneces-
sary. Absolutely without excuse or rea-
son.
II never in my life knew a human being
that hated so much as you do to listen to
the most rrif1ing word of advice. You do
the craziest things In defiance of the
most elemental laws of health, and then
when you're bowled over. why. you set up
the big whimpering and expect folks to
sympathiZe with you and pet you, and
then when they try to tell you what ails
you and to hand You out little word of
advice about how to flag such sickness.
why, you flare up and get mad and make
things just as unpleasant as you can,
without stopping to think of how infer
naIly gloomy it is around the place al
ready
Next thing ] spose you'll be trying to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-12

A GENUINE hoodoo seems to hover
q around the diplomatic and consular
appropriation bill. The late Representa-
tive Hit answered his last roll call not
long after he had steered the measure
through a session of Congress. Repre-
sentative BERTHE Adams OF Pennsylvania
committed suicide by shooting the day
after the House had passed the measure
OF which he had charge as Mr.. Hits
successor. Representative Perkins OF New
York, who died Friday. was removed To
Garfield Hospital. fatally Ill. the evening
OF the day the House passed the diplo-
matte and consular bill.
1t is to be hoped that the hoodoo will
avoid the next chairman, whoever he may
be. Representative Foster OF Vermont IS
the ranking member OF the foreign affairs
committee. But he Is a New England in
surgent, and 1t would not be at all sur
prising IL Speaker Cannon did not pick
a regular for the job.
IRVING C. NORWOOD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-12

waved the final dada at him just be-
fore stepping on the train that stout
male party-substantial. square -jawed
regular man, too-mooched away, with
his shoulders slouched forward. as If
he'd lost his grandmother and $4,000
besides.
writ ar heard another little parting talk
bet~ cen a married couple of similar
import. 1t wasn't n case of eavesdrop-
ping. because the conversation was
right there to be necessarily overheard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-12

and not oftener than two nights
week."
Not that often, hun-gettin' kind o.
sick o poker"
And it's goin' to write some kind of
a letter-even II it's only a teeny-
weeny one-every single day."
Just as sure as shootin"
That's the way the writer hereof
heard couple passing it back and
forth only few afternoons ago. and
they were fat and wholesome couple
OF forty or 50 each. at that. When she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-12

tive Roberts of Massachusetts, the dealer
complains that the Treasury Department
has put itself in a most absurd position
by insisting that fish must be frozen
before caught. The whole row resulted
from a decision of the Treasury that all
must pay an increased duty. Yet, on top
of this, the department held that herring
taken out of the water and frozen soiid
In zero weather We're not naturally
frozen" So the beWildered fishermen are
wondering whether anybody ever caught
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Cur
tbs Is the official who wrote the nat
urally frozen" letter which has excited
so much amusement.
Il have to advise you" he says to
the collector of customs in Boston. that
that they are naturally frozen. are" etc.
Then he goes on to say that herring
'desgnedly frozen by being left out
in the cold must pay a higher rate of
duty than the others.
by the great horn SPOON" says one
this man Curtis thinks a herring is a
Bird
IF the Johnson Sunday closing bill is
recommended for passage by the
House committee on the District of CO.
lumbia 1t undoubtedly will go through
the lower branch OF Congresses 1t did
through the upper-with a rush. There
are many members Of the House per-
sonally opposed to the measure who would
vote for it in public. Some OF them
admit the fact saying that they could not
afford to take chance with the religious
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-12

those two months II gain ten pounds In
weight Actually. l mean. Ten pounds
I've watched il time and again.
When / come back from a long road
trip and turn in my trouble for a couple
Of months | always gain ten pounds III
weight. No, it's not because things are
better or more fattening in this town
than they are elsewhere. It's because L
have A respite from worrying.
Diamond men on the road call their
wallets of gems their trouble Good name.
too No travelling diamond man ever
has his mind entirely off the packets of
stones he carries-not, at any rate, Tor
more than thirty seconds at stretch
Just try and keep your mind on any
old subject. no matter how pleasant dur
Ing nearly all OF your waking moments
for months at stretch. and you'll find
out how il affects you. Diamond drum
mers often go 10 pieces under the strain.
Their incessant watchfulness over their
wallets of gems causes them to develop
acutely what is called fixed idea. and
then they're only step away from
nervous prUstration-
Vow. during the last four months I've
been carrying around with me- day and
night. nearly a quarter OF million dol
lars worth of my firms diamonds
Take the man who carries considera-
BILE sums of money 10 the bank for de-
post. Few men ever carry as much as
quarter OF a million to the bank. but
many carry large sums To the bank. for
the safety Of which. OF course, they feel
keenly responsible Probably such men
have to walk only few squares 10 reach
the bank but il is understood thing
that they feel decidedly nervous until
they reach the bank and get the money
cut Of their hands.
Wen. compare an experience of that
sort with the lob of packing around
quarter OF a million in diamonds-and dia-
money-not for a short trudge to the
bank. but for third of year. from
city TO city. on day coaches and i'm sleep
ing cars. on steamboats,. I'm hotel rooms.
where sometimes you may be one OF the
only two or three guests OH an immense
floor. hiking around from one jewelry es-
adjustment To another. often i'll sinister
neighborhoods OF cities notorious for the
number of their stick-up men-thats
OF money TO the bank over a short route
every foot OF which you know?
When / Zach my home In about TWEEN
" minutes from now my wife will have
a big pot of steaming coffee all ready for
me. and III enjoy a regular little coffee
souse for myself. My teeth are leaking
in anticipation of that, for do you know
I haven't had a mouthful of coffee since
j started on this last trip. four months
ago?
THE answer TO that is easy. Diamond
drummers not much inclined toward
coffee when they're travelling. Coffee
makes for dizziness, vertigo. i don't care