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in the midst OF them, taking the April
wind with daring color, was our flag
dipping low until il passed US one must
grow old and cold indeed before such
things arc forgotten.
< <
few DAYS later on coming out OF
church-it is a curious fact that most of
our exciting news spread over Richmond
Sundays. and just al that hour we heard
OF the crushing blow OF the fall of New
Orleans and the destruction OF our iron
clads april "a, 1862. My brother had
just reported aboard one of those SPLEEN
did ships as yet unfinished. AS the news
came directly from our kinsman, Gen.
Randolph. the secretary of war, there
was no doubling IT. and while the rest
Of US broke into lamentation Mr.. Jules
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18
The Patient Waiter.

PROFESSOR W. LAWSON TALL
I apropos of the new serum cure lol
bav fever, said at a medical banquet III
Denver:
..This cure is the result of patience, the
result of much patient toll. Indeed, wnen
think of the patient waiting involved
in the perfecting of this cure. am
reminded of DR.. Bob Sawyer's anteroom.
"Dr. Bob Sawyer stepped proudly into
his anteroom one day. There were quite
aigbt ar nine persons there. And DR..
Rob looking from one face to ano'her
with complaisance, said: ~. -,
We'll who comes first? Who been
waiting the longest? ~
Here, Doc-that's me- said Snip. the
tailor. rising and fiourishing his unpaid
bill. I've been waiting over eighteen
monthsr"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18

carts. every vehicle that the city could
produce. went and came with a CHASTITY
burden: those who could walk limped
painfully home. in some cases so black
with gunpowder they passed unrecog-
nized. Women with paid faces fitted
bareheaded through the streets search
ing for the dead or wounded.
The churches we're thrown open, many
people visiting them for sad commun-
ion service or brief time of prayer: the
lecture rooms of various places of wor-
ship were crowded with ladies volunteer
ing to sew, as fast as fingers could fly.
the rough beds called for by the surgeons.
Men too old or infirm to fight went on
horseback or afoot to meet the returning
ambulances. and in some cases served as
escort to their own dying sons.
BY the afternoon of the day following the
battle the streets were one vast hospital.
To find shelter for the sufferers a num-
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C had pulled back again alone,
against the Mississippi current. under
fire for "A mile and a half of the way
passing an astonished alligator which had
been hit on the head by piece of shell
and was dying under protest. Thus ended
a trip alluded TO by c. twenty years
later as an example of juvenile fool
hardness.
Aboard the steamship Star of the West
next day he and other midshipmen in
charge OF gold and silver coin from the
mint and banks of New Orleans. and
millions more of paper money. over which
they were ordered to keep guard with
drawn swords, hurried away from the
doomed city, where the enemya arrival
was momentarily expected, and where the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18
MatChIeSS.

<<yV1HEN Edwin Gould took up the
w manufacture OF matches seven
years ago" said New York banker.
Ibis friends were a good deal amused,
and many a joke was cracked at MI.
Gould's expense.
II remember one June day. al an open
air luncheon at Tuxedo. superb four
finland dashed round a turn oI tne
road and we all looked up from our
stra wberries to admire IT,
~Ihat is Mr.. Gould's team, said
some one. Who Is driving?
Mr. Gould, himself, lady answer
Cd Doesn't he look striking On the
boxr"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18

az he turned. a man killed
Immediately before him by a shot from
a gun which at that moment got range
OF the road
The presidents own staff ~ officers fol
lowed him, did various others. but Ia
presently drew rein I'm stream. where
the high bank and the bushes concealed
him from Gen. Lees repelline observa-
tion. and there remained while the battle
ragged The secretary of war had also
made a show Of Withdrawing hut inn
proved the opportunity afforded by rather
deep ditch on the roadside io ATTEMPT
10 conceal himself and his horse there
for time from Gen. Lee. who At that
moment was more To be dreaded than the
enemy's guns.
When June -. the seven DAYS strife
began dhe battles of Oak Grove. Me
Gainesville Gaines Mil Savages Sta
ton. Fraziers farm and Malvern HILL as
a result of McC'lelan's change of base To
the James river after the battle of Seven
the excitement that had attended the hat
tie Of Seven Pines People had shaken
themselves down. as IL were. 10 the grim
reality OF a fight that must he fought
Let the bleed. and let the mighty
fall. was the spirit of their cry. Ii IL
not my purpose to deal with the history
of those awful seven days. Mine only 20
speak Of tho other side Of that canvas In
which heroes of two armies We're pass
ing and repassinE as on some huge Ho-
merle frieze. in the maneuvers OF a strife
that hung our land in mourning
-
What | have said OF Richmond before
these battles will suffice for picture or
the summers experience. When the tide
OF battle receded. what wrecked hopes Il
left TO tell the tale OF the Battle Sum
mer, Victory was ours, but in how many
homes was heard the voice or lamenta-
ton 10 drown the shouts OF triumph
Many families, rich and poor alike. were
bereaved of their dearest. and for many
OF the dead there was mourning by al
the town.
No incident of tho war. for instance.
made deeper impression than the fall
in battle of Col. Munfords beautiful and
brave young son. Ellis whose body. laid
across his own caisson. was carried that
summer 10 his fathers house at nightfall.
where the members OF the family, uncon-
scious of their loss, were sitting in cheer
full talk around the portal. Another son
Of Richmond. whose death was keenly
felt by everybody. received his mortal
wound at the front of the first charge to
break the enemys line at Gaines Mill.
This was Lieut.. Col. Bradfute Warwick.
young hero who had Won his spurs in
service with Garibadi
Losses like these are irreparable in any
community and so. with lamentations in
along the lines continued undated IL
was chastened Thank Cod that went
up among Us when We knew the siege of
Richmond was over
Copyright. 1911. by the Century Company
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Horses for Coronation

probably is that such a request would be
too elaring an admission of lack OF horse
manship. The authorities, however are
making private inquiries and a consider
able number of very quiers" will he pro-
NOTED into the quiet class for the &C.
casion. In fact, some of the worthy colo
nels. while officially asking for ''quiets.''
have added a verbal postscript to a friend
with very quiets.
The troopers are the ordinary horses
used by the cavalry soldiers. They are
well trained horses. but they do know the
taste of oats and they are apt to be
come little fidgety and restless in case
of long wait in a big crowd. The
''quiets" and the very quiets" are most
ly London bus horses and can be de-
pended on not TO alarm the most timid
riders. humorist of the Blues. one
of the crack cavalry regiments. has sug-
gested that each rider be furnished with
bell. and instructed to sound il twice
every time he wants his charger to start
and once for every stop.
*
There are likely to be lot of supremely
Disguised Canadians at the coronation.
They are the Dominion troopers. who ara
coming over to take part in the process
sion They are not bringing their own
horses and a few days ago they wrote to
the Blues asking for sixty-five mounts.
Just as il were a livery stable" said
a young subaltern who told the story.
But even if the Blues had been willing
they couldn't have accommodated the
Canadians. They have not enough horses
of their own and the visitors will have To
fall back on the mild and gentle bus
horses. which. after all. are not so bad.
for they carried a good many thousand
British troopers in the South African war.
Anything on four legs is a horse in Lon
don now.
Lord Kitchener. who has supreme COM
mand of the coronation troops, VIII roe
a former Derby winner. which now is be-
ing put through its PAGES daily at the
Blues, riding school.
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THE COMING or THE WOUNDED.

negro men IN black clothes. wearing
white cotton gloves aud walking solemn
IL, two on either side of the equipage,
She asked the coachman wha; such a
spectacle could mean, and was answered.
We'll. ma am, YOU tole me to arrange
everything a. IL should be. and this is
the way We do in Richmon' at funerals
and sich-like." Mrs. Davis promptly or
dered the out walkers away. and with
them departed all the pomp and circum-
stance the occasion admitted of.
About March l Gust before the en-
barkation OF the Army Of the Potomac
for the peninsula and the siege OF Rich
mond was begun martial law was
proclaimed in Richmond. and fresh
infiux of refugees from Norfolk claim
- shelter there. When the spring
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BATTLES and LEADERS q the CYL WAR|Mll
When Mcclellan Was Close to the Gates of Richmond

hour Of the night or of the next day
they should get back to bed or TO
meal.
The stories we were told OF his ad-
ventures on such excursions were many
and sometimes amusing For instance,
when Gen. Lee had crossed the Chicka
homny President Davis. with several
staff officers. overlook the column and.
with the secretary of war and few
other noncomhatants. forded the river
just as the battle Of Mechanicsvile be
gan tJune 30. Gen. Lee. surrounded ny
members of his own staff and other Of
ficers. was found few hundred yards
north of the bridge in the middle of the
broad road, mounted aud busily engaged
in directing the attack then about 10 I've
made by a brigade sweeping in line over
the fields to the east of the road and
toward Ellersons MILL where In few
minutes a hot engagement commenced.
Shot from the enemys guns. out of sight.
went whZZng overhead in quick success
sion. striking every moment nearer the
group of horaemen in the road AS the
gunners improved their range.
Gen Lee observed the presidents APP
proach. and was evidently annoyed at
what he considered a foolhardy expedi-
ton of needless exposure of the head Of
the government. whose duties were else
where He turned his back for mo-
ment. until Col. Chiffon had been dis
patched at gallon with the last direc-
tion 10 the commander OF the attacking
DfiRdUe. tnen. facing the CdNaitdue anu
looking like the god of war indignant.
he exchanged with the president a salute.
with the most frigid reserve of anything
like welcome or cordiality. In an in
slant. and without allowance of opportu-
nifty for word from the president, the
general looking not at him but at the
assembiage at large, asked in a tone OF
irritation:
Who are all this army of people, and
what are they doing hereo'
No one moved spoke. but all eyes
were upon the president: everybody per-
fectly understood that this was only an
order for him 10 retire to place of
safety and the roar of the guns, the
rafting fire of musketry. and the hustle
of a battle in progress, with troops con-
tinually arriving across the bridge to 90
into action, went on The president
twisted in his saddle. quite taken aback
at such a greeting-the general regarding
him now with glances of growing sever
ity. After a painful pause the president
said deprecatingly: 1T Is not my army
general 1T Ger; ainly is not my army,
Mr. President was the prompt reply,
land this is no place for it-in an ac-
cent of command.
Such a rebuff was a sumner to Mr.
Davis who. however. soon regained his
serenity and answered:
We'll general. if | withdraw, perhaps
they will follow" and, raising his hat
in another cold salute. he turned his
horses head to ride slowly toward the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18

HE first winter OF
the war was spent
BY our family in
Richmond. where
we found lodgings
in a dismal rock
cry familiarly dub
bed by it's new oc-
cupants The Cas-
tie of Otranto." 1t
was the old-time
eli fton Hotel.
honeycombed by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18

A GRAPHIC Picture of
"A Scenes and Events in
the Confederate Capital Dur
ing the Spring and Early
Summer of 1862, When Nc
Clellan and the Confederate
Commanders Johnston and
Lee Were Fighting the Great
Battles of the Union Leaders
Famed Peninsula Campaign.
Which Took the Army of the
Potomac Within Sight of the
Steeples of Richmond.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18
Bv Mrs. Burton Harrison, Novelist

~ a girl she spent the civil war in Richmond.
h"lped to nurse the Confederate wounded and
two years after the close of the war became the
wife IF jefferson Davis private secretary when
Davis president Of the Confederacy.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-05
THE HATTIESBURG NEWS

found several pieces of gravel and a
nugget of pure gold as large as a
pea in the crop. Dombrosky had re
Gently covered his poultry yard where
the duck had been feeding with gray
ell from the bed of the San Carlos
Creek.
The gravel was taken from where
the creek passes through the country
estate of Colonel N. J. Britain, the
San Francisco capitalist. During the
summer months the stream is dry,
and many loads are extracted, but the
presence of gold was never suspect
ed.
Following the sensational find of
the duck, who now almost ranks with
the goose that laid the golden eggs,
the sluice will be applied to the sands
of many San Mantea creeks which
wind through the foothills on their
way to the bay, and the lawns and
gardens of the country homes on the
peninsula may be laid out as placer
claims. San Francisco Chronicle
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-05
Ills TROUBLE
NOT OF HEART
Real Facts IN Regard To F. z,
huffmaD's Illness. Relief CD.
tained By Curing Ills
Stomach Ailments.

Waynesvil!e, N. Chr FIR. Huffman,
of this city, says; 81 suffered dreadtuly
with what | thought was heart trouble
and tried various medicines in vain.
After other remedies had failed, Tied
ford's Black-Draught restored me TO
health. | would not feel safe without
Black -DTaught in the house. I<ousidef
it worth its weight in sold.
1t cured my indigestion, and by this
means | was restored to health. | can
not express my gratitude FORTS benefits. "
Good health depends on the condition
of your digestion. Poor digestion and
good health do not 60 together,
Thedford's Black-Draught will
thoroughly cleanse and set in order you
digestive system.
1t has done this for others, during the
past 70 years, and is today the most
popular vegetable liver remedy on the
market. Try it.
Insist on Thedford's. Price 25c
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-05
$4,000 FAKE COROTS.

civilian NJ. Chase. the artist, says
there are fifty thousand fake Corots
in this country" writes Walter Prich-
ard Eaton in The Nunsey for Decem-
Der "But they are not in the homes
of newspaper reporters, dry-goods
clerks, schoolmasters, magazine edi-
tors. bookkeepers. farmers, and mot
ormen. They are in the homes of the
rich-of merchant princes and the
like.
"The manufacture of old masters
and antiques goes merrily on in Eu-
rope. and rich Americans supply the
chief market. Many a fifteen-hun-
bred dollar masterpiece which hangs
in the galltry of an American million
aire is worth about as many cents. eY-
elusive of the frame. Even the late
T. II. Hartman was 'stung' on pic
ture deal, and T. p. Morgan has
bought imitation"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-05
OF A MANIAC IN OLIVET,

&" A raving maniac in the pudpil,
shrouded in a black veil and driving
a whole congregation like sheep at
the muzzle of a revolver"-so begins
the Republicans account of the siege
of Olivet church by Charles Mason
Fmmons. a religious monomaniac, on
Sunday. Oct. %, 1892. At 3 o'clock
in the morning the crack Of revoly-
er startled the dwellers on State
street. and the bold ones who peeped
in at the church windows fed at the
sight of a pale face porting over an
open bible, by the light of a lamp at
each side of the pulpit, and of re-
volver laid ready to hand. At o.
clock the janitor, after tending the
furnace, went upstairs to find an eerie
figure, yelled in black, making strange
gestures and crying, 81 am Alpha and
Omega, the beginning and the end! ~
At sight of the janitor the man whip
ped up his revolver and fired it three
times at the ceiling. The janitor dis
creetly left.
A delegation of church officers be-
ing summoned, attempted to wheedle
the man away but his explosive meth
Cd of argument was too much for
them. Draw not nigh hither this is
an holy place" he would cry, calling
attention to his remarks by shooting
chips out Of the columns above their
heads, whereupon they drew nigh
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-05
md am tndication Of the BEGINNING Of

and an indication Of the beginning Of
the great south polar snowcap which,
few months later. will bury the
whole antarctic circle OF that planet
Ii rs assumption is correct the
uuo ad i.habuanta of Mars must
..w bee uuvy.rg TO gather their han
vests, in preparation .a. be long, dry
.ut.r when ura''y au the Wtor of
De sou0he. hemisphere off their
planet win be locked m. for more than
,uo Of our years, in the polar ice
a.lds.
ID is tine first time that an occurrence
sd This kind has actually been wit
messed on Mars although similar
scenes must have been enacted there
for untold thousands of generations.
Tho position of the bright white
bands that have been photographed
is such as to accord with the probable
location Of the first SHOWS, since it is
within belt included between GO and
60 degrees Of south latitude. which
would embrace the polar circle OF the
planet
! Near the center of that circle the
sun stll remains perpotually above
Ita horizon. so that the deposit of
SNOW probably begins in ring about
J HHa
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-05
HARVEST TIME ON MARS.

The news, tclophored from the Flag
staff Observatory that frost" has be
gym to appear around the antarctic
circle of the planet Mars is a hit of
extra terrestrial weather reporting
which may be as correct as some that
is done at home.
On Mars it is now the latter half of
what We on the earth would call An
gust; the summer is fast breaking
up, and autumn is at hand. There is
such a remarkable similarity between
the succession of the seasons on Mars
and on the earth that it seems per-
fectly reasonable to assume, as the
Flagstaff observers do, that the whit
ish deposit, which their instruments
revealed during the last two days,
lowering like a morning midst along
the dividing line between day and
night on Mars, is real hoar frost, a
+oken of the coming chill of winter
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-05
"OH. HOW ! ITCHED"

What long nerve-racking DAYS of
constant toriure-what sleepless
nights of terrible agony-itch-itc
itch, constant itch, until it seemed
that ! must tear off my very skin
then
Instant relief-my skin cooled
soothed and healed!
The very first drops of D. D. D.
stopped that awful itch instantly; yes,
the very moment D. d. d. touched the
skin the torture ceased.
d, d. d. has been known for years
as the only absolutely reliable Ec-
zema cure. Just mild, soothing,
pleasant wash made of Oil of Winter
green, Thymol and other ingredients.
We know what d. d. has done
we vouch for it, and if the very first
regular size bottle of D. D. d. fails to
do exactly as is claimed, the remedy
will not cost you one cent.-THE OWL
DRUG STORE, F. E. Williams e. Sons,
Proprietors, Front and Main Streets,
Hattiesburg.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-05
A NUGGET IN A DUCKS CROP.

Pure glittering gold, in nuggets as
big as peas, lies in the beds of the
streams of the San Mateo foothills.
After man has tramped over these
hills for years, and their wooded
slopes have become the estates of the
wealthy, poor, simple duck detected
the presence of the yellow metal, and
had to die to give the secret to the
world.
While preparing duck which she
had purchased from Alexander Dom
brosky, a poultry man of San Carlos,
Mrs. John Tibbet, of Redwood City
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-05
OLD-TIME REMEDY
DARKENS The HAIR
Gives color, Lustre To Faded And
Gray Hair-Dandrutf Quickly
Removed.

From time immemorial, sage and
sulphur have been used for the hair
and scalp. Almost everyone knows
of the value of such a combination
for darkening the hair, for curing dan
druff and falling hair, and for making
the hair grow
IN olden times the only way to get a
hair tonic Of this sort was to brew it
in the home fireplace, a method which
was troublesome and not always sat
isfactory. Nowadays almost every
up-to-date druggist can supply his
patrons with a ready-to-use product
sllillfully compounded in perfectly
equipped laboratories. The Wyeth
Chemical Company of New York put
up an ideal remedy of this sort, called
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Rem
edy. and authorize druggists to sell it
under guarantee that the money will
be refunded if it fails to do exactly as
represented.
If you have dandruff, or if your hair
is turning gray or coming out, don't
delay, but get bottle of this remedy
today, and see what few days treat
ment will do for you. I'm
This preparation is offered q the
public at fifty cents a bottle. and is
recommended and sold by THE owl
DRUG STORE.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-05
women CAST FIRST VOTES
With SOCIALISM AS issue

hands and the text: "Workingmen
of the world, unite; you have nothing
to lose but you chains, you have
world to gain"
Whereat the bystanders remarked
to each other:
Count another one for Hartman"
The same scenes were enacted to-
day at voting places all over the city
In the fashionable districts the wo-
man in the automobile was in ma
jority, and the Good Government
forces We're iubilant. In the section
inhabited largely by the working PEG.
pie. the woman with the baby carri-
age predominated and the Hartman
forces waNed glad.
A Class Struggle.
ToGay's municipal election in los
Aueelas a city of nearly 27oooo pee.
rI.. is a class struggle and tneol
with the bitterness engendcred by
long years of strife between the en-
poEers and The employed. MARSHALL
ed by that cunning stratogi5t, Gen
Harrison Grey Otis. proprietor of the
Times the employers have long held
the ascendancy. The explosion which
wrecked the Times building and kill
ed many of the non-union workmen
employed in its plant, followed by the
arrest Of the McNamaras and their
trlai, added to the bitterness OF the
Slrlie.