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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-02-24
coURTING BY CONQUEST.


In the days when Duke William
was still clustering and registering
young blade in Normandy it was the
fashion to court damsels by conquest.
The duke himself did this very thing
with such JUNCTION that it has been
recorded in history William loved
the daughter of a great lord. The
girl repeatedly repulsed his suit.
Finally he went to the frowning cas-
tie of his inamorata, bowled over a
brace of her kinsnan, entered the
lady's private chamber and dragged
her, over the floor by the hair of her
beautiful head until she vowed such
touching devotion made her love
him madly. William knew a thing or
two about conqueriaG even then.
The enervating amenities Of ciyiiiza-
ton have softened this rigorous Gus
tom. AS rule tho ardent swain OF
the present day prsstrates himself
before the dimpleA sArine of his am
orous devotions and humbly implores
the emily one to wipe her feel on
him. 1t is good to note, therefore, a
slight. tendency to revive the brave
and belicose usage OF the long ago.
The almost atrophisd taste for ro-
nance and rodemeatads responds to
tales of the languishing maiden capitu-
lating to the bold knight in gold spurs
and elanking mail who fearlsssly
storms the citadel, punctures most of
her male relatives with his trusty
lance and exuftantly carries her Ell
ueen his champiRg charger. The
clash Of arms, the Wild adarn echoing
from turret and bsvtfemsnt, the groans
Of the fallen and the general disorder
that accompanied sush manifestations
of matrimonial intentions appeal to
the faded fancy. Brave Lochinvar
stirs the blood while the timid Alden
depresses. Rsnting James K. Haekett
I'm ballet skirt wits III sword .||cnr.
ish, raving all orr ~ 1to6e ~ <>c1
ing up the paiG1
|tains the whi5e3 -
|gors. starts us I
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-02-24

vision of block one ~, R. M. Mixon's
addition to the city of Hattiesburg,
Miss.
Witness my Signature this the list
day of February, 1911.
ga Fri. r. S. HALL, Trustee.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23

that such player would be very uselu ,l
The directors will meet Saturday to con,
slider this and several other subjects S shen
some some decision viii be made. Manager enea
Is Ieepinp in condition and practice, play "
Il N frst base for the Hill, n H. team, So
that he will be on edge for r the P Peeopt hers
P Inne 18th The week will be given up to
Dut co' and tryout for several young
Who have asked sdd for =, S sn' players 70 al
ready signed know this, it VIII pc up ~
them TO make good if they want to STAY lSHow
Local fans are much pleased H to bi at1s
ana s,la' general airound playing pleased every
oe last year and rs happy Apply dl H. pny
ing with Cambridge Latin school i M Y an
ed with considerable interest, ana = !. ro %p
pears he has his eye on the ball as tIe O Street
Mr. Sandford superintendent q The sd board Of
hawoy TO 90 out TO the park and suggest
anv 3 change or improvements desired. '''s'
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23

race Sam Nins OF this city, pitcher for
Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Eddie
Warner, twirler on the Brown University
string, and Maurice Appleton Of Augusta,
Me, will be the big chief box artists elf.
ford. who caught for Butte. Montana, last
year, and who has worked in the New
England league, viii I've baokstop Capt
Tommy" Leonard arrived in town this
week, and will be seen on the initial sack.
Tommy" will be- relief catcher also, Illus
ter Qnalters who has been playing thlrd
for Tufta college. will he third sacker and
Charles. McCarthy Of Manchester will be
short stop MEX Taylor OF Boston
Mass, and Lawrence Cassidy Of 81. An
selms college, will be in the garden posi-.
tions. and one Of the pitchers viii do relief
work in the untitled place IN the field. The
second base position has not yet been filled,
but something definite IN regard 10 who
will play there will be known during the
coming week.
The fans in this city have responded
and are pleased with the work
lone up 10 date. Many favorable com.
nents have been heard on the selection OF
he Jumps" Tom Foley of Amherst Mass,
md Frank Hardy OF Ashburnham, Mass
Under the direction of Herman G. Rice,
md Major T. NJ Keyes, numerous improve.
nents have been made on the baseball
rounds at Island street The first base
,leachers have been painted, covered with
roof. and moved back II feet, \ three
DOT wooden railing on the ground in front
4 them, has been put up, TO keep speeta'
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23
Life Insurance Popular.

The number of persons in this country
who make use of life insurance as a means
Of saving exceeds the total number who
avail themselves OF all the other recognized
modes OF thrift.
If we add together the nine millions Of
savings bank depositors, the seven nnl-
lions of persons who own their own homes,
the two million building and loan society
stockholders and the million and three
quarters of corporation stockholders we
shall have, not reckoning dupiicai ions, not
more than 20.000,O00 of investors,
Whereas, the number Of persons VINO
hold policies, ordinary and industrial, N
life insurance companies exceeds 2S,09o,
900. not including the number OF certiii-
cate holders in fraternal and assessment.
associations, old line or legal ieserse HE
insurance being the only kind Of insurance,
that is worth the serions. attentca, N hl,s'
If The total lie :sssilifsanet carried il the
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23

how 10 improve the grounds with a reason.
able outlay OF money Is hard 10 do. The
soil is very sandy and if the turf should be
removed aud am effort made to secure
skinned diamond It might result in spoil
ing the field, Great care must be taken
especially 70 near the time Ia begin hOstili
ties By filling in around the bases with
clay and rolling il well fairly decent
ground can be had. One feature viii he
rule that no one will be allowed TO watch
a game from the field All spectators will
be asked to occupy the grand stand, as in
no other way can fair show be given Il
visiting team or an unohstructed view had
by all patrons of the game. The days are
slowly dragging along toward the first clash
with the enemy and as the plans develop
and the lineup Of the team j. studied the
Bellows Falls fans are feeling pretty good
over the outlook Bellows Falls CORES.
pondence in keeue On H. Free Press.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23

tors off the field at this point At third
base 60 foot bleachers, with six rows OF
seats have been erected, and a score board
placed on the fence above them. The fence
behind the catcher's position, has been ad.
ded to, and the fence surrounding the field
has been repaired and painted where it
needed attention. A ticket office, II feet
by five feet has been placed near the gate.
Sixty loads of loan have wiped out what
holes there were back OF second base and
in center field The diamond has received
its share of attention. 1t has been top
dressed with a mixture of hard pan and
rotten stone which is hardening rapidly.
Water is applied to it daily, and the ground
is rolled after each application.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23
BELLOWS FALLS TRY-OUT.
Practice to Begin Next Week When
Manager Shea Gets Bunch Together.

\ Manager Shea has written that he viii
Arrive ii town June - and iamiiarlze
himself With the local situation. He strong
III urged the signing OF another catcher
who has been working with Earl Miller for
two seasons, and whom Miller ia anxious to
bring with HIM He claims to be strone
man at the bat and able to play the out
field when not catching. As the present
list comes within the limit and the addition
of one more player will still keep within the
mark. the directors may decide to accede
TO Mr. Shea's wishes in this matter, Well
wishers of the team are in favor OF having
the man signed. arguing that IN case some
of those already signed do not measure up
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23
Keene Robs Fitchburg.

Listen 10 the vail from The Fitchbmg
Sentinel III the Biiou management let's
Taylor go to Keene after his showing Of
Saturday, the fans will he apt TO mob the
Managers II viii be hard work to hold
him as hecne plays all the week and can
offer much more money than team play.
ing Saturday only"
4 glance at the summary Of the game at
Saturday shows that "Nick' is
the real thing when il comes to snappy
work and il is cineh that the Fitchburg
fans will have the provocation to mob the
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23

Bijou management. for Taylor is coming to
Keene We need him in our business and
anything else we need to assist in landing
Keene at the head OF the league in the com
ing struggle, we must and shall have, We
early declare our intention to start the
trouble at such hot pace that every
Keene fan will know that the baseball
reputation of the city is to be maintained.
-keene On. H. Free Press
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23

Tinted States today is about $50 -, head e q
greater 4 ,ror 5d' The companies REPORTING to
the , WoriG xori Insurance Department had
the IT,, New Ne" 81 SlN 1910, $14,eso, 26s,S 80 in
on Dec; n force They had a total preml-
suran ;neo IN iV Of s533 ,060,996 and assets
u lo, ,,f1n TO s3.6G5 63o,535, which rep
resents approximately as large ahs sum hnrt y
n nfo tbe country.-Moody's Magazine
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23

# is reported that caps and gowns WINS
ora 10 be worn more than ever TINS
spring by girl graduates eS az schools SooI and
ment exercises at nlen +be country.
a.; academies me often charmingly inapproPfflt,
They en ade hin IN so far as they signify ~
the e0lieg sirls O they are c0nssiifd e
s scadss Substitute for the normal "H''
dresses.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23
;ebaH Nelus.
BELLOWS FALLS SAYS.

Idget o. Information from the
Town Outlining Prospects.
the PLAYERS are 10 report for
Below Fails fans win be ON
Re bow IIr men shape up. The
aill have a chance to timber an
Is, and several local men who
. place on the team viii be in.
show their paees Ia company
|ay OF them can demonstrate
Fnoritv they will be given n
he ieWL There is some doubt
will how up ms he is now in
! ~ may not like the idea of
ca DO Vermont under the pres.
lions There is n rumor about
ic had aspirations to captain
y, team and was not over and
SIZED with the prospect of hay.
~ man in command. Should
2 IN an appearance Manager
mother catcher ready TO come.
on can be played behind the
slant Superintendent Custer
of men at work improving |
the park and il will be in ex-
pc for the first game, July |
; was no little interest mani
nc town this week about the
( the stores closing Thursday
There is no doubt that the !
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23
EASONS WHY
3 Capture the Bunting
Estate League.

hre in a merry mood.
ing for the gong, which
the race for the prize
ling what players were
Fschool games will not
BIS must have the real
hes B. Duffy who will
n, has promised that
Herial together, there
tomorrow. However,
before the one SEIZED
Vice which will begin
EEK, will provide dope
Ito chew over. Below
Fhy this city should
Twin-State league
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23

Ian, decent way. and the
that the rules are OBJ
bet of a pleasant season
revival of baseball is
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23

arrangement that prevailed last
,jll be continued. The North Wal
cores have already posted notices
hey will close.
official of the Bellows Falls team
"a glance at the makeup OF the
~ Falls team will convince any
Aiiia.hc team that beats us for
3yiH have to 90 some. Mayo, for
Al Is well known as a live one.
"a be fail us we have young CARR
Somerville ready to join. This
fellow has had try out with
nd is said to be good one. In
~ riu be Brignolia, last year s
and Earl Miller, the husky six-
M South Boston. For first, the
Hank Shea, famous for years
Inv hitter. Second base will be
iy youngster, but his work at
.,m college this year stamps
"a anod man. For third, the
samson may be depended upon
gls. and Wally V0lk At SNORT !
: introducti0n. In the heid
south Boston boy. has AZ,
u N elass pIaying with the local
s.m Jarvis Of Laconia, now
f@ IN the Mayo team of that
5oVp "a be Il clever man, and
commended as a fast, hard
ne Manager Shea. No one
What may 1ppen in baseball,
reputation eOnhes for anything
perlenee is a factor in rIsl.--.-ilg
then We may well feel that our
s for the pen1ant are as bright
ID be desired If each team in the
hte league will eudeayor to play
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23
Linens Underprice
TABLE DAMAsKs-N NAPKINS

IAbLL DfaNufloAAo %'%AA $1,000
CRASHES.
s6-inch Bleached Fable Damasis,
stwo,kinds, lipen sgpd mexeeyizedL
Regular SOC quality.
ONLY 30E I'd.
Lot Mill End Remnants Bleached
Table Damasks, all new goods
pure linen. Regular value 69c
ward. SALE PRICE SOC I'd.
Lot $3.50 Quality All Linen 22-inch
Napkins at S1.97 doz.
Lot $500 Quality All Linen 20-inch
Napkins at S1.45 doz.
Lot Sample Napkins at Is less Than
Regular Price. SALE PRICES will
be from 75c to S1.9G doz.
Large Lot 15c Pure Linen Heavy
Bleached Crash at 12c yd.
Large Lot 1212c Pure Linen Heavy
Bleached Crash at 9 SIC yd.
Remnants of Heavy Bleached l5c
Crash at lie yd.
Lot Unbleached Linen Crash Rem
nants hemmed. Regular Toe quail
ity of crash. SALE PRICE Sc ydD
A wide range of prices here;--from
&c to 10c.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23
Toilet Articles
IN THE SAIL

in THE SALE
tInderpriced offerings II Il Sce{ tl I'D
for warm weather yaeafion m WI
Keopclean Hair Hruoh6o nDu
advertised as The fbrush Win wit
clean face Three qualities offer
at retail at wholesale prices.
LOT |. Regular 25c Keepcleand
Brushes for 1Qc
LOT 2, Regular SOC Keepclean
Brushes for 29c
Above subject to slight imperfec
ton.
LOT 3. Regular SOC Keepclean
Brushes for 39c
backs.
SOC Oval Hand Mirrors, redwood
backs, bevel glass, for 100
19c Wood Hand or Nail Brushes, two
styles. CHOICE 1Oc
15c Hard Rubber Dressing Combs,
heavy backs, long teeth, both
coarse and fine and all coarse.
CHOICE Toe
25c Celluloid Soap Boxes, all white.
ONLY 17c
Soc Red Rubber Bath Sponges for
SOC
One Lot Over 800 Tooth Brushes, in
cludes French and japanese
makes in all sizes and styles, cellu-
loid handles, unbleached bristles,
etc. Regular l5c, zoe and Zoe
brushes, and Your Choice of the
Lot beginning Saturday
AT ONLY 1Oc each
Babcock's "Corylopsis of Japan
Talcum Powder. Regular price 15c.
FOR ONE WEEK ONLY 1Oc
Trial Size Packages of Colgate's
Talcum Powders will be given free
with the first hundred purchases
of the above toilet articles.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23
2 OF OUR ANNUAL SPECIAL
VALUES in
Long Cloths

by the piece only
36-inch Long Cloth. Regular price,
$l.50 for II yds.
SALE PRICE S1.29 pc.
4O-inch Long Cloth. Regular price,
$500 for - yds.
SALE PRICE S1.59 pc.
4O-inch Long Cloth. Regular price,
1926 for 12 yds.
SALE PRICE $3.50 pc.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23
Towels

AT REMARKABLE SAVINGS
An unusually large lot Of towels
are offered in this sale. Don't nliss
the opportunities offered here.
GREAT LOT SAMPLE TOWELS
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23

made with
ter length
nburg and
with high
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
BILL CHANDLER, DEMOCRAT-By Savoyard

and it is the mere whm of casualty that he did not become q democrat, and the same may be said of Thco- dorc Roosevelt, who was cruelty, though not fatally, bitten by the tar antula of mugwumpery in 1SS4. There is a story and a prosperous anecdote it is, that it was the admonition of the late William c. P. Breckinridge that saved both Roosevelt and Lodge to the G. o. P, but it Is a little too strange to command full credence.
 Bill Chandler is a Harvard man, and therefore he is of the blue blood, by training, at least At the age of 20 he was admitted to the bar and ap- pointed reporter Of the state supreme court. He was repeatedly a member of the state legislature and once speak CT of it's house of representatives. Lin coin appointed him judge advocate gen eral of the navy department and John son made him assistant Secretary of Treasury, an office he resigned in 1867 when the quarrel between the President and Congress became intensely bitter. He helped make the present consti- tuition of Nv Hampshire in 1876. That winter he went down to Florida and reversed the vote of that state by talk ing it out of the Tilden column, where the people had put it. and throwing it into the column of Hayes where it was absolutely necessary 10 "elect." Garfield appointed him solicitor gen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
Alphabetical Divorce Germ
'cm the New York Herald.

ftfcin lne NeW ofE Herald.
 Reverend members of the clergy hava poudered, students have searched. con- ventions of governors have argued and debated and even presidents have vrjn]S led their brows to find the source of the divorce germ. Clerks who file and index the legal papers in the office of the county clerk, Mir. Schneider, are the discovers.
 According to the clerks. the cause of the germ cannot be laid at the door of hard times or the suffrage movement or the lacl: of proper consideration before entering the welded state, or in fact any of the usually accepted theories. It is much smpler-the germ is alphtbetical
 The clerks announce that in seventy- five per cent of divorce actions the first names of husband and wife begin with the same letter. Thus a man named Charles is sued by man named Cecilia or q woman named Nantippe is charged with misconduct by a man named Keno phon. The solution ts obvious, the men point out When choosing wife they advise manklnd never mind her looks, her disposition. her possession, or lack of domestic traits or her habits. But do be careful if yoar name. say, chances to be Robert. that you do not lavish your affection upon Rostmund. And SO for the woman also. If this rule be followed the discovers of the alphabetical germs will then guarantee that future welded lives wl! he one long incarnation of su. pernal bliss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
SPIRITUAL SECULARISM-By George

the best of my belief, insist on the reader going through philosophy of Quinquesea- tion @ before he should be competent to find a word concerning the spiritual ni- terests of the race.
 Now Dr. March is a parable, with his elaborate classification and his herding of monstrous polysyllables in Gargan- tuan museum. He is, of course, a very learned man. So also has the past cen tury found many very learned men. with portentous gravity appointing their places to all and sundry things, attaching res- quipedalian tickets, like those you see in a geological or botanical treatise. and thinking with pride, Now have l con quered knowledge for mankind. Behold my new pigeonholes for Encyclopaedia
 But when you want your little slice Of knowledge you must hew your way through much manufactured dogmatism and much hereditary tradition, till you can locate your quarry hiding there among dead leaves, branches and chips, shoot it. skin it, cook it. and cut your slice Indeed it may be said, [ suppose, that the art of education is not the art of imparting knowledge, but the art Of in- spring youth to go a-hunting for 1t.
 Now for the particular application of these remarks: "Secularism'' is the tra- ditional foe of religion" But is .here no stupidity in that classification? I re- member how Bradlaugh and his assoc- ates used to smite our childish imagina- ton years ago by the very sound of his name. He and they were known as "sec- ularists." Dr. March asserts, when I have got to his pigeonhole, that secularsm is "the practice (sc) of rejecting every form of religious faith and accepting only ,he facts and influences of the present life" And l suppose that this describes the source of the ambition which inspired those wonderfully able and dreadfully lm- orthodox persons, the secularists Mrs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22

fort and from the Great White Throne 10 conflict with bacteria and graft. are re-
 terating the appeal to get back to the worship of God Are the traditionalists profoundly in the right of it?
 l suppose the rediscovery of the mes sage of John. which has quite eclipsed Pauline categorles in the modern church. the one outstanding phenomenon of the past 60 years in Christian theology-in- wolves as real an orthodoxy as that which
 it surpassed He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen cannot love God whom he hath not seen." is a far reaching dogma. for instance, ethical in every tone With all it's risks of shall lowness, of superficialness. of prayerless- ness and devotional decay. the practicaf service of mems whole life has become the paramount duty of the churchnan. But the duty begins in the shack and the forces that imprison women and children there. There in the dirt, in the shiftiess- ness and sickness and poverty is the so- cial evil that first challenges the social physician. Instead of driving the Brad laughs of the future to "atheistic" sco-n and the creation of secularist societies to study and heal the Hearts and lives broken on the wheels of civilization, we are bound to alleviate their anger by ie- pentance and to aid them in doing, in the name of Christ, the work 10 which they are mpelled Secularism is being made spiritual And l, for one, am willing 10 prognosticate thereby 6 far mightier tide of prayer, far more splendid churchill ness. more real unity than has ever been known, a far more apostolic mastery of the demon-forces of despotic and inl- perious greed than the churchmen and the saints have dared to imagine. Incl dentally our sense of sin will be moro real. our repentance more practical and more humble. and our worship propor- tiona tely more acceptable to the God we too often mock with wicked lips
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22

WY WASHINGTON, october 21.-
 A/ Special )-Some time in the
 w late fifties of the last cen tury, after the death of the whig party and the overthrow of the know nothing party, many thousands of old whigs of the south were practically without a party, though most of them, like Archi- bald Dixon of Kentucky, followed Henry A. Wise into the democratic party. One Jordan Clarke, the John Temple Graves of that day, made an nouncement in a Memphis paper that the famous Parson Brownlow of Ten nessee had concluded to become q dem Gcrat, wnereupon Brownlow made em- Ihatic and indignant denial in a re- markable pronunciamento that con tained things like these: q may con sent to be a member of your party when democrats cease to lie, steal and drink mean whisky. 1 perhaps will consider the thing when Napoleon III, Emperor of France. and Alexander IT, Car of Russia, shall voluntarily ab- dicate their crowns to become mem- bers of the United States Senate from the territory of New Mexico. I will advise about it when Queen Victoria
 shall apply to some justice of the peace in Kansas for d divorce vinculo matrimoni from Albert, Prince Con
 sort" And there were other ensan- guined stipulations to the same effect.
 And now there are rumors deep laden