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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-17
THE BlLBo-HENRY AFFAIR.

The States denounced at the time
the secret caucus in Mississippi and
the outrageous methods that it en-
ployed to defeat Major Vardaman for
the United States Senate. Our sym
pathy went out to him because he was
undoubtedly the choice of the people
of his state for the senatorship, and
also because powerful interests com
bined to deprive him of the honor and
to thwart the popular will. But the
case of Senator Bilbo, who was terri
bly, beaten on railroad train last
Thursday, is an entirely different mat
ter.
We do not wish to appear as med
ding in the political affairs of a sister
state, but we cannot help expressing
the opinion that the election of such
man as Bilbo to the Lieutenant Gov
ernor's office, with the probability
that the accident of death might ele-
vate him to the Governorship would
be a calamity to Mississippi
If Mr.. Bilbo made use of the Ian
guage attributed to him in his recent
Blue Mountain speech, and it seems
he did, he is not entitled to any sym
pathy for the awful thrashing he re-
ceived at the hands of the man whose
mothers honor and chastity was SO
horribly assailed. The language as
set forth in the reports is so unutter-
ably vile and insulting that the won.
der is that Bilbo was not shot to death
Nothing like it has ever been heard
before anywhere or in any political
campaign on earth, and it wrote down
the man guilty Of its use as an un
speakable wretch who should be
barred from all association with de
cent people.
The idea of honoring such a mar
with high public office is preposter
GUS, and the good people of Missis
sippi owe to themselves and their owl
self-respect to bury Bilbo in the OBJ
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finally made up into lard and other
cooking compounds, into salad-oil,
into oleomargarine, substitute for
butter, and into highgrade lubricating
oil. Moreover, much of it exported in
the raw comes back as olive oil. The
olive oil thus produced falls about as
far short of the genuine as oleomar-
garine does of butter, but it is cheap
er, and much of it is used.
Missouri is not usually numbered
with the cotton states, yet the staple
is raised in several of the lower coun-
ties, and the value of what might be
called for convenience the cotton
plant by-product of the state affords a
striking indication of what the value
of the cotton plant is to the country
in general. In few Missouri coun-
ties the proceeds in money of the pro-
ducts of the cotton seed alone amount
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-17
POSSIBILITIES OF THE COT
TON PLANT.
$50 49,: = :

The Indian corn grower has long
boosted, and with good excuse, of the
many uses to which his plant could
be put; the cotton plant beats it, how
ever. Not only clothing but food may
be obtained from it; not only does it
yield some of the greatest necessaries
of life, according to the ordinary
methods of estimating necessaries,
but many of the Injuries. Scarcely
any of it goes to waste; it might be
said, indeed, that not speck Of it is
thrown away. Fifty years ago, how
ever, the cotton seed, which is now
yielding commodities to the value of
many millions annually, was either
plowed into the ground or used as
fuel.
The cotton plant consists of four
parts-fiber, seed, stalk and root. Ev-
erybody is familiar with the value of
| the fiber. From the seed is produced
oil linters, cake and meal, and the
hulls which, according to report
made by Commissioner Austin w.
Biggs on the cotton-seed oil industry
of Missouri, has now a greater com
mercial value than the whole seed
possessed few years ago. The stalks
Of the plant are used for stock food,
coarse fiber paper and as fertilizer,
The roots are also used as fertilizer
and sometimes as fuel. The oil, of
course, is the most valuable of all the
products from the cotton seed. 1t is
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-17

of Statistics of Prussia, and which has
been accepted by students of economi-
cal and social conditions among wo-
men wage-earners is denied in every
instance but one by the present sur
vey. While the study shows only the
conditions of women wage-earners in
Boston, it is of the greatest interest
and affords valuable information for
other cities where a similar work
should be carried on most proftably
Why not serious study of the vast
army of women and girls earning less
than living wage?"
What of their ethical and economic
al conditions?
This vast group which is well-called
the submerged group, provides the
problem of the nation.
Should it not be solved by getting
first at the se?-Mack's National
| Monthly.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-17
ROASTING EARS
OF LONG AGO
Aborigines Eating Them When NaP'
John Smith Arrived.-Hls-
torical Facts.

We do not know what the Indians
called roasting. ears, but there Is no
question that this was one OF the prlh
cipal articles of diet of the aborlslheS
when Capt. John Smith and his fello"
colonists established themselves IN
this virgin country A man who was
born in Maine and has lived all about
said that the term was first used in
New England, but we doubt that, as
the records would appear to show that
We were making laws in Virginia be
fore the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth
Rock or thereabout, one writer saying
that the first legislative assembly that
ever convened in the country was held
| in Virginia seventeen months before
the eternally landed Pilgrims ever
landed upon Plymouth Rock and ten
years before the colony of Salem and
Boston increased their merger num-
bers beyond the hundred"
In Bruce's Economic History of Vir-
ginia in the Seventeenth Century page
173, volume l., we are told: THE Gus
tom which the Indians followed in eat
ing their meals was simple. A mat
was spread on the ground and on this
the dish was placed, the broiled frsh
and roasting ears being laid near at
hand Again, in the same book, page
175, there is this note: "In June. July
and August they fed on fish, the roots
of the tuckahoe, berries and roast
ing ears"
The chances are therefore that corn,
which was so important an article of
their diet, was called roasting ears
or the equivalent in the Indian
tongue, as it is reasonable to assume
that they did not eat it raw or I'M
cooked We are of the opinion that
roasting ears is a good Virginia ex-
preston" inasmuch as in Virginia the
white man first used corn, on the table
or mat after the manner of the In
dians, and as it was roasted before it
was eaten the presumption is that il
was called roasting ears" The term
appears to have been used in Virginia
since the Seventeenth century. and
doubtless before there were any Dutch
in Pennsylvania.-Ric Times
Dispatch,
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Citizens Bank

in a single year to over 100000. All
of these products are marketed
throughout this and other countries.
Taken as a whole, in these days the
cotton-seed industry has become one
of the most important of the country
= Americans have been severely criti-
cised at times by foreign observers of
their methods for their wasteful hab-
its. This criticism is not without JUS
LITIGATION. But as the years go by
there is less ground for it. The new
farming-the collegeeducated farm
ing-is changing things in this re-
spect. Not only is there an increas-
ing certainty as to crops, but there is
also increasing knowledge as to the
real value of crops. The most has
been made of corn and cereals for
some time; the most is now being
made of cotton.-Christian Science
Monitor.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-17
LAWLEss TONGUE AND LAWLEss
ATTACK.

Bilbos fate is the result of vile
tongue and a custom of men taking
the law into their own hands. In a
public speech Bilbo made remarks
about Henry that were horribly re-
pulsiye, disgusting, and shocking to
all sense of decency and refinement.
If Henry had been the worst man in
the world, Bilbo should not have in
flicted these remarks rpon an audi
ence
Bilbo violated all the canons of de-
cency in his attack on Henry, and
Henry violated the law in attacking
Bilbo with dubbed pistol.
It is not a custom among men in
Mississippi to sue for SANDER. They
usually make a personal issue of it.
A man having any regard for law
and order should be extremely careful
that he does not make remarks tend
ing toward a breach of the peace. Bill
DO invited the attack by his remarks.
Henry, in attacking him, violated the
law.
Bilbo violated the law when he ut
tered what he did, and, according to
what he says, he has carried pistol
all over the state, in violation of the
law. Bilbo had his say, Henry had
his answer, and the law should have
its day before the people.
Personal abuse weakens any public
man indulging in it. 1t may get him
votes, but it does not argue we'll fol
his character for peace and order
Commercial Appeal
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1054-Michael Cerularius, the Greek
patriach. accommodated at
Constantinople by the Pope's
legates.
1312-Battle of Tolosa, in Spain. This
day became an anniversary fes-
tival called 1.-THE Triumph of
the Cross"
1429-Joan of Arc took the town of
Rheims, France from the Eng
lish and on the following day
the Dauphin was crowned, an
exploit which Joan had sworn to
accomplish.
1439-Commence of a pestilence and
famine which secured England
and France for two years and
caused an intermission of hos
tilities between the countries.
1794-The Poles defeated the Russians
at the battle of Wigoya.
1S54-Chinese insurgents attacked
Canton.
1864-Terrific fighting between the
Federals and Confederates near
Tupelo, Miss.
1904-Strong Russian force under Gen
eral Keller attacked japanese
at Mo-Tien-Ling but was repulsed
with heavy loss.
1910-Trainmen of Grand Trunk Rail
| way system ordered to strike or
the following day.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-17
Forum of the People

passed in South Mississippi, in Har-
rison, Forrest, Covington and Simp-
son counties, all things being equal.
But, when the prices of the Texas
lands and their single crops on the
land were compared with the prices
of the South Mississippi cut-over
lands on which three to four crops had
been grown on same land in one year,
the advantages of the latter doomed up
too large for further comparison.
Texas, Florida and California. how
ever, have been freely, fully and eff
fectually advertised and have profited
thereby. South Mississippi, with
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-17
WILL VOTE ON SALOONS,
Liquor Election viii be Held in Mont
gomery Today.

Montgomery, Ala, July 17.-Aftet
the quietest campaign ever held in
this county, Montgomery is today vot-
ing on the question of saloons The
local optionists have thoroughly or
ganized their forces and are confident
of victory
In Russell county an election is be-
ing held on the same question.
This will be the third local option
election held in Alabama under the
Parks law.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-17
THE BEST COUNTRY FOR ALL
SOUTH MISSISSIPPI.
Editor Hattiesburg News:

Editor Hattiesburg News:
Los Angeles, Cal, July 15.-One
year ago we made the trip from Hat
tiesburg to Los Angeles via Shreve-
port and Greenville, Texas, thence
through San Antonio and Ell Paso,
which gave us an opportunity to OBJ
serve the lands and crop conditions
of East, Central and Southwestern
Texas. On that occasion we found but
few crops that would compare favor
ably with those through which we had
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Press Discussion

security and the disgrace he merits and
forget him for all time. 1t is idle for
his friends to claim that he was pro-
voked by the scurrilous circulars pub
lished by Henry, because no provoca-
ton could justify the filthy character
of the attack he made on the innocent
mother of the man who offended him.
N. o. Daily States.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-17
KILLS WIFE, THEN SELF.
Musician Was Out of Employment and
Was Despondent.

San Antonio, Tex, July 17.-Charlps
r. Campbell, aged 81, last night shot
his wife, aged IS, through the heart
and then sent another bullet through
his own heart.
Mr.. and Mrs. Campbell were married
here three months ago. Campbell a
musician, had been out of employment
for month and was Respondent
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-17
THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH. :.
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A most important study. has just
ben made which is the first of its
nd in this country and which opens
many suggestive lines for thinking
omen.
erk for a daily or weekly wage, will
surprised and possibly shocked at
e statistics shown. Those women
der the necessity of being in the
siness world will gain a knowledge
what their sister workers are striv-
for and the obstacles they must
ercome. The study is entitled "The
wing Wage of Women Workers"
e statistics are published by the
nerican Academy of Political and
cial Science and the investigation
IS made by Miss L. NJ. Bosworth I'M
+ the department of research of the
pman's Educational and Industrial
lion of Boston, and Professor F.
Z encer Baldwin of Boston University
edited the book and written a stir
lg Introduction.
Detailed records of the actual mini
Inn wage of $50 women wage-earners
wound to be $500 year. The meth.
of arriving at this record is too de
lied to be given in full.
You will find, however, that there
3 five groups of women wage-earn
). Those earning from three to five
liars a week; those earning from 81,
eight dollars; those earning from
be to eleven dollars, and those earn
from twelve to fourteen dollars
d few from fifteen dollars up
lrds.
The best conditions are found
hong the women earning from nine
eleven dollars and upwards. After
woman earns more than eight dol
RS she can afford to eat. Before that
ting is a matter of semi-starvation
b twelve dollars the girl can barrel!
ye in a respectable boarding place
It'll an insufficient diet and decen
othing.
= Il will be of vital interest to not
bat as the wage Increases, the ex
enditures for medicines decrease.
In the first two groups the girl find
b impossible to save for the future
living in the most economical way
he can, on twelve dollars week
Ave thirty dollars q year.
The law formulated by DIR. Ernesi
nigel, formerly Of the Royal Bureau
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-17
DEATH SEALS LIPS.
Illinois Representative Can't Testify
in Lorimer Case.

st. Louis, July 17.-Joseph s. Clarke
OF Vandalia, ILL.,, a representative of
the Illinois legislature died here yes.
terday in the Rebekah hospital, follow.
ing an operation Friday for cancer.
AS Democratic member of the leg.
islature he cast his vote for William
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-17
MONDAY, JULY H. i'i-

I .orimer for United States ,,a ssnIt TO the
was said when he was le.nr sum
Gre p he had been expecting .ans,s COM
mons to testify before the ,a ava
,, .'1,too in Washington inVe'''= '''"7
, senator Lorimer's election
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Today---The Present
Iomorrow---Th Future

The present shapes the future. What you do to-
day concerns the things of tomorrow. Money saved
and deosted today a surplus for tomorrow.
If you concerned about your financial future,
you should seize the opportunity to today 1t is
better to today than to be in want tomorrow.
We know of no better aid to saving than bank
account. Our Savings Department is organized for
the special purpose of caring for small sums deposited
by those who seeking financial independence
You can open account with one dollar or
Citizens Bank
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THE HATTl-SBURG NEWS

thrice the natural advantages of either
one and more than the three COM
bined, has not been advertised and has
not shared in the progress, develop
ment and prosperity of her more sa-
gacious neighbors. "Pity It's, tits
true"
Now, we have made another trip,
coming via Southern Pacific from New
Orleans to Houston, thence to San
Antonio through another high-priced
stretch of farming lands. AS on the
former trip the crop failures between
San Antonio and Ell Paso were so
complete as to eliminate that section
of the state from consideration as a
farming country. Nowhere in the
state of Texas did we find a single
solitary crop of corn that was half as
good as the crops along the line Of
the Gulf & Ship Island railroad be-
tween Hattiesburg and Gulfport, to
say nothing of the crops of clover,
peas and beans that are growing in
the rankest profusion among the corn.
Conditions In Texas.
Texas, with only one crop growing
on same land, with wood and water as
scarce as the hair growing on porce-
lain door knob, made us wonder as
we never did before, at the wonderful
efficacy of 1udicious use Of advertis-
ing mediums, for nothing could be
more manifest than that the adver-
tiser had surpassed the work Of the
Creator in that particular part of the
country.
Situation Summarized.
Our latest observations maybe sum-
married. thus: If a prospective pur-
chaser Of acreage property is DESTROYS
Of locating in a state that has the
world skinned in the matter Of super
fetal area, we unhesitatingly COM
mend the Lone Star State-the en-
pire of the West, to his or her careful
consideration.
If location Is desired in a state
whose undertakings are Of almost ap-
palling magnitude and accomplish
ments command the unstinted admira-
ton of all who behold them, Cali
fornia stands alone in that class, oc
cupying a position that can never be
exceeded nor even equaled anywhere
else in the entire sisterhood of states.
If one of moderate means desires a
home at a moderate price, where
genial climate, generous soil, the
greatest abundance of wood and water
and the greatest results are produced
by judicious husbandry all combined
to contribute to the rapid and easy de-
velopment of healthy, happy and pros
porous homes, we can, without the
slightest trace of mental reservation,
affirm and declare that South Missis-
sippi, with its practically untouched
or even dreamed of possibilities, sur
passes any other section lying be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific or the
East and West or between the Great
Lakes and the Gulf on the north and
south G. u. PORTER.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-17

If you have property for rent, list
with p. r. PERKINS,. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Phones 1869. Office, Cit.
itizens Bank Building.
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g.. vou have property for rent, IN
with p. R. PERKINS, S avs. vi
guaranteed. phones 'OS' 4
i.izens Bank Building
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If you have property for rent, list
with p. r. PERKINS. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Phones 1859. office, Cit
itizens Bank Building.
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WANTS

BE A DErECTNE-Earn sl"@ ans
over per month and not interfering a.n,
with your present occupation at . ilis,,
Mutual Det Assn, 10 E. l-0'n
St. New York City.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-17

DO You wish an exceptional dinner setI
better than any foreign make at
one third the price, write the Eos
ter Pottery Co., Lexington, N G.
3-S Mons
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RESULTS OF EDUCATION

hash
educational
subject,
nobler
youth Because perhaps learned his letters for himself by
Pickering ghwood his learning School
Hard Knocks does follow that there better training
culture there into the life boy girl the better will be his
manhood with Ebert Hubbard
believe that good for him have the privilege going
schoohouse bright cheerful without within
advancing that schooouse higher institutions
of his college
breadth thought"
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lift the
his fellows,
the foot the hill making an
overshadowed
nent predicts that Falls in
n
1t the policies that fulfill
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roR sAl.E-An excellent sadler bay
gelding. al a bargain write ~
care Of The News. NV
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IL you want to succeed take a course
OF bookkeeping, penmanship, short.
nano' typewritlng or telegraphy in tho
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-17

FOR RENr-10-room house on East
Pine street. suitable for boardefs'
Several nice cottages on 9Th street,
Hall avenue and West Pine street
P. r. Perkins. Il'u
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the principles that believe
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FOR RENTING nicely furnished
front rooms 5O4 Bay street. l2'2W.
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"ANTED-You to ring Home Phone
~ w. when you want your furni.
lure refnished or upholstered-a,,
'ep"i'Ing' 3O-tf.
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An eastern professor who prohibition
ment predicts that Falls dry years.
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of
so-but shining n Washington doubt
han that
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@, H. DELMAS. PASCAGOULA. MISS.
wholesale fish and oysters. Long
in business. Good facilities for get.
ting stock Orders solicited.
Nov. %.
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lift stepping
his fellows, sumbes
the foot the hill who is making
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY.

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The Dickinson press., 1911-07-01
STORE BuRel elARlzED
SMALL AMOUNT taken

Thursday night the Jessen store was
broken into and eight or ten dollars
taken from the cash register.
Entrance was effected though one of
the small windows on the west side.
Foot prints about the building indicate
that the robbers were small fellows
and the size of the window would not
permit large person to enter.
Things were badly upset in the desk
but so far as ascertained no goods were
taken.
The thieves were probably after the
$50 cash 4th of July prizes exhibited in
the window during the day and thought
to find it in the desk.
Three young fellows were hanging
around the store 1uring the evening and
were not in evidence next day and sus-
picion points their way.
The Dickinson press., 1911-07-01
AlRsnlP IS COMING

You have been reading for a year
about airships and aeroplanes. You
have read where Wilbur Wright has sold
the aeroplane rights to the armies of
France, Germany, and Russia. The air
ship now being a certainty and practic-
able. its up to some up to date circus
to carry one for this season and demon
strate ITO the public. Yankee Robinson
Shows, at an enormsous expense, has
secured the identical ship that made the
circle of the Eiffel Tower in Paris and
will exhibit this machine and its work.
ines before the people who congreeate in
this city on the day of exhibition. This
will be one of the greatest sights you
have ever witnessed in your life and it
may be many years before you see an
other equally as great. Prof. Foster, who
has rcharee Of the airship, made every
portion of the ship with the exception of
the engines which propel it through the
air. No condition of weather will deter
the Professor from making his demon
stration on day of exhibition.