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Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

They won't tell what Roosevelt said
to Taft at New Haven, but we sus-
pect it was something like this: do
you need to have forty-six states fall
on you before you catch onto what is
going on2"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

We are not so much interested in
what Professor James spook is trying
to say TO the friends on earth as we are
to know what the shades Of James G.
Blaine and Thomas B. Reed think OF
the party in Maine.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

In England the word ~circus" means
a locality of circular shape. In Los
Angeles it means perspiration, lame
backs and indigestion from wormy
peanuts
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

James S. Sherman lost his own cleo
have been sorry indeed if his rela-
tives and the coachman and gardener
hadn't voted for him.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

The Southern Pacific has raised rates
on rough lumber despite the interstate
commerce commission. But what is a
mere government commission to a rail-
road that wants the money?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

The senatorial inquiry into Lori
mers election has begun, and it is
feared that the increased demand for
whitewash will cause the price of lime
to advance sharply.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

Arctic party is back with har-
rowing tale Of having had to eat
leather and shoestrings, which is lit
tie worse experience in some ways
than that of noted arctic explorer last
year who had to eat his words
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

1t is said the Democracy of Maine is
so swelled up over the national atten-
tion they have aroused that the party
is about 30 per cent larger than it was
a fortnight ago.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

The old world doesn't preserve a
good balance in some respects. Portions
of the west are complaining of the
scarcity of marriageable women and
Turkey is puzzled to know what to do
with 700 grass widows cast adrift by
the former sultan.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

The delegates to the mining con-
gress will not have to digtvery hard or
bore very deep to find bigeleads of Los
Angeles hospitality.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

Not having seen any mention in the
news dispatches of his ernergence, we
take it that Senator Hale is still in
the cyclone cellar.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

Another whose resignation would be
welcome is the footpad who has been
assaulting women. His highway COM
missions are not popular
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
She will not wear
:. hobble skirt; she
saws the style is much too

She will not wear
:: hobble skirt she
says the style is much too
pert and that no woman OF good taste
would so deharmonize her waist; besides
she says she thinks the style Will last
for but a little WHILE because to any one
il seems the fad is going to extremes.
Whene'er her hobbed sisters pass she only
sig-s, and says 'Alasl How can a lady
of good sense inoase herself in that pre-
tensel Just see her trip and wobble by!
Would I appear in that? Not 4! And
how the horrid men-folks stare at her
as she goes here and there! oh, II
she knew just what they said l
know she'd blush rosy red. Be
sides the style is awkward, too,
/ don't care II they claim It's
new" And so she careful
ly explains her preference
for fuller trains, and for
pettlcoat that's wide, and
will not be with giggles
eyed when she is trip
ping down the street
Besides you
see she has
LARGE FEET
w. d. Nesbit. in Life.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

And while we are talking of all
these successful flights, what was the
matter with the one made a year ago
by Doc Cook?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

It was unkind of the M5nnesotans
to remind Mr. Taft of that much re-
gretted Winona break, and then rub
1t in.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

Incidentally, the visitors to the bank
ers' convention will find a lot of things
in Southern California worth tanl1ing
on.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

Perhaps that mysterious shot from
above into the open air theater was
fired by the man from Mars.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
PUBLIC LETTER BOX


o
r
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

An eastern convention adopted a res
olution in favor of holding up Presi-
dent Taft's hands. 1t Is suspected the
Job of holding up the rest Of his am
pie anatomy would be too big for the
ordinary resolutions committee.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

What are your suggestions as to
the disposal of the surplus aqueduct
water?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
Merely in Jest
OF COURSE HE COULDN'T

OF COURSE HE COULDN'T
Little Paul had been accustomed to sleeping
with the light in his ROOM
One night he was put to bed and the light
blown out In a few minutes sobs were heard
coming from the direction of PauFs ped'
whats the matter, SOM? SAID ms para; PAPA,
the little fellow. The Delineator.
IN WASHINGTON
eft is said that there are 900 more men
than women in Washington"
HYet IL is a curious fact that more mean
ingless talking is done in Washington than In
any other city in America. Chicago Rec
ord Herald.
HAPPY MEDIUM
Jack-Trackleigh divides his time between
work and play
Tom-He does eh2
.Jack-Yes works his friends in the fore
noon and plays the races in the afternoon
Chicago News.
WASN'T IT TOO BAD
Madge-she said I put rouge on my face to
deceive people. Wasn't that mean?
Mariorie-It was indeed, dear. The way
YOU put 1t on doesn't deceive anyoody-Aliy
soper.
CHEER
Bele-oh, If the Lord had only made me
Neile-Perhaps he has dear. but you haven't
found him yet.-Cleveland Leader.
Patience-Mrs. styles gave strawberry
lunch yesterday
-Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
HAPPY MEDIUM
WASN'T IT TOO BAD
CHEER

Belle-oh. If the Lord had only made me
Nelle-Perhaps lie has. dear, but you haven't
found him yet.-Cleveland Leader
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

On all matters pertaining to advertising
address Charles r. Gates, advertising man
ager.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
WHY SHE WON'T WEAR IT

Los Angeles. September 20.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

LARGE FEET
w. d. Nesbit. in Life.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08
Mews From the TRIPOD

he found it safe to return home.
During one of the campaings in
Virginia, Colonel Gordon had crossed
swords with the colonel of a New
York Cavalry regiment. Both were
wounded in the conflict, but they af-
terward became fast friends
Colonel Gordon wrote a letter to
this New Yorker, denying that he had
any part in the Lincoln conspiracy,
and stating that he desired to return
home. The former took the matter
up with General Dick, then in COM
mand of the army forces in New York,
and surrender, which he did. He af-
terward satisfied General Dick that he
knew nothing of the Lincoln conspir.
acy.
He took the oath of allegiance and
returned to his home in Chickasaw
county. where he has since resided
Meridian Dispatch.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08
SENATOR GORDON ALLEGED
MEMBER OF CONSPIRACY

Bought at one time by the federal
authorities under a $4,000 reward for
his capture, dead or alive, for alleged
conspiracy in the murder of a presi-
dent of the United States, and now
appointed as member of the legis-
lative body of that country, is the
strange experience of Col. James Cor
don of Okolona, who has been named
by Governor Noel as successor to the
late A. j. McLaurin.
Colonel Gordon was one of the sew.
cal Confederate leaders suspected of
being in a conspiracy with Capt. J.
Wilkes Booth to kill President Abra-
ham Lincoln. He escaped arrest and
probable death only through the in
PREVENTION, it is stated, Of a Yankee
colonel, with whom he had crossed
swords in fight in Virginia. b.
During the earlier years of the war
Colonel Gordon had formed an init.
mate friendship with Booth, and after
the assassination af President Lincoln
the reward of $4,000 was offered for
his capture. Colonel Gordon went to
Canada and it was several months
after the close of hostilities before
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08
THE JUVENILE COURT.

The working of the Juvenile Court
in Atlanta has been productive of good
results. The Atlanta Journal SAYS:
Probation Officer James M. Gloer
reports that of lightweight boys whom
he dismissed from surveillance the
past year only two have been rear.
rested and those two for only nomi
nal ofenses. In the first instance
they were arrested for various in.
roads upon the law-cursing, fighting,
stealing and other outbursts of nm
trained human nature which are
sometimes described as original sin.
Ihose were everyday boys; many of
them, indeed, had not had even every-
day opportunities. The question aris-
es, what per cent of the eighty and
eight would have escaped re-arrest
had the probation system and the Ju-
venile Court Officer not been in ex-
istence? Probably not one per cent
Inc Boys Club is Atlanta's greatest
influence for good upon the city's half
homed urchins. But work, such as
that being directed by Probation Off
Ger Gloer surely comes next in i'm
portance and in numbers of cases it
Is OF supreme importance. The svs.
TEN deserves stronger support than it
has received in the past. The Juve-
nile Court should be enlarged in its
scope and perfected still further in
its details. 1t is vastly more needful
not to send young boys to prison than
1t is to punish hardened malefactors
These boys require more careful and
intelligent watching than fully de-
veloped law-breakers do, for the bows
can be turned into useful, productive
citizens seven cases out of ten"
Hattiesburg has neither a bovs,
club nor a juvenile court. The men
are SO busy chasing the almighty dol.
lar that they have no time to think
and plan how to care for the boys.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08

ducah, went into the hands of re-
ceiver, and the property was sold at
public auction at twenty per cent of
the face value of the authorized CAPT.
tai. The Barber interests bought it
In and renamed the company the Pa
ducah Home Telephone Company.
The Peoples Telephone Company
had the enormous authorized bond
and stock issue of 100000 and the
recognized company was similarly
capitalized.
The Barber interests also organized
the Central Home Telephone Compa
ny with capital in stocks and bonds
of more than 100000, not to speak
of the tremendous capital of the subsi-
diary companies. 1t was about the
failure of the Central Home Telephone
Company that we wrote of in one of
our previous bulletins, the company
together with its allies, the Independ-
ent Long Distance Telephone and
Telegraph Company and the Long Dis
lance Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany with a combined au-
thorized stock and bond is.
sue aggregating 100000. addition
al to the 37.oOO,o0O and more of Sc
curities Of the Central Home Compa-
ny,-being now In the hands Of re-
ceivers. The distress and sorrow of
those innocent investors whose saw
ings are wiped out by these failures
cause one to marvel that there is no
legal way to reach and punish those
who fasten such reprehensible
schemes upon the public.
Some people in both Paducah and
GAINESVILLE believed that we had
wronged them by charging higher
rates than these new companies. Our
statements that the companies were
organized by promoters as mere
stock and bond jobbing scheme were
considered as biased, and were scout
ed by many, but these places, as in
many others, time has told the story
with greater, though with rather more
sorrowful eloquence, not only to those
who invested in the securities, but
also those who had to pay double tele-
phone bills while time was decavinr
and bringing the property to the
TELEPHONE AND |
TELEGRAPH CO., 0NCD
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08
Collapse OF Independent Tele.
phone Cos. Means Millions
Lost to Innocent Investors.
Bulletin No. A.

The utter collapse of the Clarks-
vile. Home Telephone Company of
GAINESVILLE, Tennessee, after career
of only a few years with resultant
losses to those local people who have
invested in the companies securities,
is fitting illustration of the fall
lacy of relying upon the glowing prom
ises made by the promoters of such
concerns.
Many years ago Clarksville had two
telephone systems. The people were
glad when the independent plant
closed down, and for several years
the city enjoyed the services of one
company at one price. A few years
ago the city authorities were induced
to grant another franchise. Promot-
ers from Ohio built an up-to-date,
fiash-light central energy plant, put
ting the wires underground in the
downtown district.
The promoters, after completing the
plant, turned it over to a locally or.
ganized company, and after bonding
the company, for $4,000, and issuing
a like amount of stock, people who
owned small systems in adjoining
counties of Stewart and Houston were
induced to merge their interests with
those of the GAINESVILLE Home Com
pany. Flattering promises of better
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08
INDEPENDENT COMPANY
GOES OUT OF BUSINESS

service at lower rates, and large
profits caused good deal of specula-
ton as to the outcome, and almost
Immediately the telephone users re-
allied that the telephone duplication
meant either half service or almost
double rates,-for the new company's
rates of $3.50 per month was added
to the old company's rate of $3.50
per monthsfor business service, max.
ing the rate of $500 per month in.
stead of $3.50.
After about five years operation,
the GAINESVILLE Home Telephone Com
pany was thrown into the hands of a
receiver. A few weeks ago the prop
erty of the company was offered for
sale under court proceedings at an
upset price Of $4,000 with no bid Of
fered. The property is now re-adver-
tised to be sold in the next few weeks
at an upset price of $4,000. Whether
there will be any bidders, or whether
the property will be dismantled and
sold as. junk, we cannot foretell, but
even if it brings $4,000 the bond hold.
ers will receive only 20 per cent Of
the face value of the bonds. The
creditors, if any, and the stock hold
ers will lose everyfhinp
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08


how they have been buI.-oed. the1i
viii lie so sorry" But the very nea
time. they win divide up. split into
factions and give the dsvil chance
to do them again.
The hardest people in the world to
reform are the reformers. And in the
great American National game of pol
tiles, they seem destined forever to
remain at the foot of the class.
The News has no more doubt that
the Liquor Dealers National Protect
i've Association has agents in Jack
son. with pockets stuffed with bride
money and rooms full of booze, to
contribute in every way possible to
the defeat of Gov vardaman, than it
has that to-morrow's sun will light
another day. They have been at it
Tor years: hut as the waves of prohi-
bition rise, they are more watchful
than ever, more desperate than ever,
more open-handed with their money
more profiigate with their Doodle. And
the strangest thing in the world is
that good people, the very best people,
Will be so blind, or so soon forget.
There are other good prohibitionists
IN this race for the Senate. But
mark you, the whiskey men will never
settle upon one of them. They will
play these men as favorites for
awhile; they will say all manner of
nice things about them; they will
curry favor with them, and they will
help them damn Vardaman loud and
long. And when they have gotten all
the factioRs good and mad at varda-
man: when they have pledged their
troth and taken an oath each with the
other that they never will support
Vardaman; when they have tried
out" all the good men and had them
outchered to their hearts content:
when everybody is tired out and mad
and sore and ready to do almost any
desperate fool thing just to spite the
man who has committed the unpar.
donable offense of standing in the
way of their particular favorite son:
then the whiskey men will uncover
their man and railroad him through
to a finish.
And good men, in the legislature and
out of 1t, who unconsciously PLAYED a
part in this game to protect the LIQUOR
interests, will be 80 sorry"
Mr.. Vardaman has strong personal
and political enemies in this state
who are honorable men, and will fight
MIN fair fight, and who would not
scruple to do mean or dirty act.
either to punish an enemy or to re-
ward friend. They, of course, are
as conscientious in their opposition
to Mr.. Vardaman as Mr.. vardaman's
friends are conscientious in their
support of him. For this opposition
The News has no word of criticism or
thought of censure. But behind all
this, and independent of all this, the
nefarious whiskey traffic has its min
ions at work, for purely business rea.
sons. to encompass the defeat of
James X. Vardaman. Because they
know, once he takes his seat in the
Senate he will be a power there. and
thorn in their flesh which will dig
deeper and deeper into their very
vitals.
That is just one of many good rea.
sons why The News gives it's support
to Gov. Vardaman.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08
Wart-AdS are Best
Market Finders

Classified ads search out the people to whom-among
all ct those who NIGHT BUY-the particular thing is
worth most.
hat property you want to sell Is WORTH MOST
to someone who reads the ads in this newspaper and
would never hear Of your property unless it was advertised
here
Others, who read and answer ads in this newspaper
want land are anxious pay cash o books used machn
cry and furniture, articles Of usefulness Of any and mu
steal instruments
all possible sorts Of things they have come to be the finders
Of the best markets.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08
Good But Unpopular Habits.

We arc sure that the Bishop of Chi.
chester was very right in his remark
that 1T is the man who sings over his
work and the boy who whistles who
work best" But it makes us extreme
iy unpopular with the rest of the
staff; and the boy Las heen violently
dealt with at the second line of 81
used to sigh for the silvery NOON
London Globe.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08

LADlES-F. M. Thayer, manufactures
or hair goods, has opened his shon
mere and will make switches, plats
braids, puffs of all late STYLES. cur,s
WIGS anything you want, of your
own hair. Bring your hair and zee
my samples. Old and faded switches
puHs, etc., dyed to match the hair
again, nice as new. Shop on South
6-eod-13t
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08

WANTED-Young men to learn auto
mobile business by mail and pre-
pare for positions as chaffeurs and
repair men. We make you expert
In ten weeks; assist you to secure
position. Pay big; work pleasant;
demand for men great; reasonable;
write for particulars and sample les
son. Empire Automobile Institute,
Rochester, N. Y. SGT
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08

WANTED-To sell frst,class sew
ing machine to every home In Hat
tiesburg, and fifty miles around or
to repair and put in good condition
the one already there. The HAN
Music Store, Hatfield Bldge., East
Pine street, Hattiesburg. Miss.
Cumberland phone rs. a1.st
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08
One Of MANY,

The failure of this company is but
one of the hundreds like it and it
brings to mind the failure of the Peo-
Piles Telephone Company of Paducah,
Kentucky, of which N. D. Smith, the
promoter who is trying to organize a
company at Jackson, was manager.
After only few years operation the
Peoples Telephone Company of Pa
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08
THE PRICE OF LIBERTY.

TIE PUtOe VI IIO6NiSs
Away back yonder in the days be-
fore statewide prohibition was
dreamed of, James K. Vardaman was
q prohibitionist. All down the line,
all down the years, James X. Yard
aman has been prohibitionist. Now
some of the strongest prohibitionists
in the state are for anybody to beat
vardaman." That is nothing new.
That is the fashion in which prohibi
tionfsts and other reformers often
reward their most faithful friends
Edward Ward Carmack was crucified
IN that same manner by thousands Of
good people in Tennessee; and after
they had done the irreparable wrong.
they were 80 sorry; 1T was the
mistake of their lives"
The cohorts Of evil never make
such mistakes; they stick to their
friends through thick and thin. and
they never allow one OF their friends
to run against another one of their
friends. They are never 80 sorry"
because they always play the game
with purpose aforethought.
: Gov. Vardaman Is a prohibitionist
without the shadow of turning; he is
radical upon that subject. He has
made some very radical enemies be-
cause he is radical upon that subject.
That subject, William Jennings
Bryan has promised to make a ma
tional issue In 1912. Mr. Bryan has
thrown down the gauntlet of war to
= the Liquor Dealers National Protec-
tive Association, and they have taken
it up, and with the ordinary prudence
Of far seeing men, are leaving no va
cant seat in the Senate of the United
States to escape their notice. It i'll
behooves them to have such men as
Vardaman In the Senate, to voice to
the nation the radical ideas of Will
liam Jennings Bryan upon the liquor
traffic.
It is not the least surprising. there
fore, the information that comes from
the state capital, that liquor is flow.
ing like water there, and that well
known lobbyists of the liquor inter-
ests are there, with polluted hands
ready to corrupt by purchase any who
will sell; and it goes without saying
that they are to a, man lined up with
anybody to beat vardaman."
Inerein lies their power their dan
ger and their influence. II thew were
to line up strong behind any one man
ana ne were decent, self-respecting
man, he would quit the race rather
than accept the doubtful honor at
their hands. If they were to line nm
behind one of their own kind, an in.
dignant public sentiment would drive
MIN from the running. But so long as
they can line up with the field" and
keep themselves in decent company
I and cloak their real purpose beneath
reasons they at heart care nothing for.
they can bide their time and at the
psychological moment rush their
forces and stampede others to the
support q the candidate who will be
their friend at court; and after it Is
~ oyer, and the smoke Of prejudice
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08
WANTED TO RENT-Seven or eight
room house; must be close in. SOI
Rebecca avenue. SIT

BICYCLES AT COST have decided
to close out my bicycle business,
and commencing Monday will sell
all new and secondhand bicycles at
cost. Bargains in all sizes of bicy-
cles. s. Parker & Co.. Front st.
SGT
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08

. . 90 . . = = = = = 80 . = 4
8 THE WEATHER.

= Washington, Jan. S.-Partly =
. cloudy and warmer tonight. Sun =
= day unsettled. =
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08

SALESMAN--To sell staple line to
all dealers, attractive contract,
commissions advanced for expenses.
Hustler with clean record wanted.
f. L. Rice G Company, Detroit,
Mlch. SIT
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08
WANTS

CLASSIFIED ADS are one cent
word an issue, and no ads are taken
for less than total Of twenty-five
cents. All classified ads are cash
with order and no ads will be &C.
cepted over telephone.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08
No MISUNDERSTANDING.

i hear you have had a misunder.
standing with your old political
friends" NO." said Senator Sorghum.
the worst of 1t is the impossibility Of
Misunderstanding. We nave ex.
pressed outr opinions of each other in
terms SO explicit as to be unmistak.
able"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08

SALESMAN WANTED-to look after
our interest in Perry and adjacent
counties. Salary or commission.
Address The Harvey Oil Co., Cleve-
land, o. Silt
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08

FOR SALE-Three, three-room houses
just built; rent for six dollars per
month each. Will sell the three for
$65O.OO if sold at once. H. D. Poole.
Set
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08

FOR SALE-One upright Kranlch and
Bach piano. very cheap. Apply 2O2
MCLEOD street. 3-1wk
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-08

FOR SALE piano and pianola, dark
mahogany, Apply 100 Manning ave.
7-3t