davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-12-14
THE HILL PINES.

High on the rocky hill they stand alone
Like monks who in the even meet to
pray;
- hear them chanting at the close of
day
Their service vesperal with solemn
tone.
The sunset light from western noun
tains thrown
Makes bright with gold their sober
vestments gray
AS if benedicite to lay
Upon them. ere it sink to deeps UNI
known.
When twilight darkens all the vale
between
And nights wide wings droop down
to shelter earth,
Still in communion long they can
be seen,
Until the evening star finds silver
birth
Then slow their chanting mounts to
song serene
Above the rolic breeze's hooking
mirth.
Arthur Wallace Peach,
X i. 4
Messrs. Walker and Simmons, of
Mt. Olive, were business visitors here
( today.
1 Mrs. D. NJ. Gatlin returned today
from a few days visit to her mother,
Mrs. E. K. Taylor in Heidelberg, Miss
X 81
Mrs. E. W. Mcclure, of Laurel, has
returned home, after brief visit to
her brother-in-law and sister, Rev. and
Mrs. NJ. B. SCARBOROUGH
i. i.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. c. RUSSELL who have
been with Mrs. Rousseau, on Laurel
avenue, are located with Mr.. and Mrs
A. w. Miner, on River avenue.
!. 5. IL
Mr.. and Mrs. M. p. l.. Love have as
their guests for the holidays, the lat
ter's mother, Mrs. A. w. Moore ant
sister, Miss Lucia Moore, of Clinton
Miss.
X i. +
Bert E. Komp, the young son OF MI
and Mrs Geo. Komp, is expected hom
Next Friday from Port Gibson, wher
Y he is attending school, to spend tn
holidays with his parents.
K + +
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Gray VIII CIV
reception Tuesday evening at Hote
Hattiesburg, from to 1890, VINE
both the married and unmarried set
will be among the guests
.s.'t
Miss Margaret Lackey, OF Clinton
Miss. is visiting her brother-ln-la
and sister, DR.. and Mrs. R. B, StapI
ton. Miss Lackey will teach u
pbilatbea Glass at the First Bapti
church tomorrow morning, in the
sence of Mrs. Stapleton who has pee
i'll for several days.
i. !. 4
This evening at 1880, the Music
partment of the Woman's College W
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-12-14

Don't forget to use a little PrlckIy
Ash Bitters whenever the stomach or
bowels are disordered. 1t quickly cor
reefs such troubles and makes you feel
bright and cheerful
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-12-14

RAMSEY e. CoMPHN>-.
LEADING UNDERTAKES
PROMPT AMBULANCE SERVICE
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-12-14
OPENS TUESDAY

It's never too late to save. Wait
for the opening of the new jeweIry
stock in the Corner Drug Store
II. H. GRAHAM, Manager 1926
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-12-14

Douglas Fairbanks has a hit in
Hawthorne, U. S. A."
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-12-14
An6 Personals


give a recital and all are cordially in
vited to attend. The recital will take
place in the college auditorium and the
expression class will furnish one or
two numbers. Miss Stephens is the
head of the Music department.
i + + e1r o'i .s
Great Southern Dining Room
To Be Opened.
An event of interest to visitors to
Gulfport and the travelling public in
general, is the opening of the dining
room of the Great Southern Hotel,
which will occur on the 18th of this
month Sunday. Manager w. N. Driv-
er always does things right and so
this important feature of the hotel
promises to be successful
!. i. +
Mr. J. d. Caperton returned today
from Noxupata, Miss, where/he was
called by the death of his father, Mr..
/ S. II. Caperton. He is an old gentle
man of eighty-one years and will be
remembered by many Hattiesburgers
as the request guest of Messrs. J. D..
and E. b. Caperton, his sons, at their
homes here, The sympathy of large
] hon. ,,f r,in fe tor
Messrs. Caperton in their bereave-
ment.
Mrs. T. H. Rousseau will leave Mon
day for Meridian, to join her little
daughter, Miss Geraldine Rousseau,
who has been there the past week with
her aunt, Mrs. j. w. Goodwin. Mr.
Rousseau, who has been made agent
OF the Southern Express Company al
Meridian, will join his wife and daugh
ter there on the first of January, and
they will reside in Meridian. Mrs
Norman Mcleod, of Starkville, Miss.
who has been her sisters guest fol
the past month, will accompany her tt
Meridian for a visit before returning
to Starkville.
J, !. ).
Miss Scanlan's Dinner
For Mrs. Fisher.
Mrs. r. NJ Fisher, of Chicora, Miss
was prettily complimented by Mis-
Ella Seaman, who entertained at
dinner of six courses in her honor, a
Miss Scanlan's home on Walnut stree
, The table decorations were in tn
Christmas flower, poinsettia and fern
and covers were laid for IL, the hol
or guest, Mrs. R. M. Fisher, of Chit
ora: Mr. and Mrs. F. c. Hathorn, M
, and Mrs. H. S. Beuscher, Miss Sail
i Keith and Mr.. W. G. Gillespie, Mr..
, f. Gillespie, Mrs. Seaman, Mrs. ].
6 Kearney, Miss Sara Louise Fisher,
Chicora, and Miss Ella Seaman.
4 e.
|, Forrest Club Dance.
v The Forrest Club entertained Fl
.. dav evening at a dance, in honor
% the visitors, with the members al
# their wives and lady friends as Il
b. guests.
N The dancing hall of the club W
brightly illuminated with electrics al
Ian lanterns. From within two c
O. cles OF lights, centered streamers
III red and white crepe paper which we
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-20

While the shrewd buyer and care
ful feeder of beef cattle may secure
profit from feeding cattle good bad
or Indifferent that he. may be able to
pick up about the country, it is not
likely that he will succeed In even
turning of load of market topping
beeves from such stock. Cattle that
can be bought up about the country
seldom return a profit to their pro-
ducers, though, as stated before, the
man who buys them and finishes them
for the market may secure a profit
from them. says writer in the Wis
consin Agriculturist. The man who
desires to turn off market topping
cattle or those coming close to the
top prices must breed and grow such
cattle himself.
Frank 3. Beath of Corning, Iowa, is
one of the men in the beef business
who breeds and grows his cattle and
turns them off in the open market at
high figures. Every year for the past
five years he has fed out bunch of
Hereford calves of his own raising.
In recent interview with Rex Beres-
IOru, peeI Specialist OF tne loWh beeI
Producers association, Mr.. Beath
said: I'VE used to feed older cattle
and depended on buying them any
place we could pick them up. Five
years ago we got disgusted with the
quality of the stuff we were able to
buy. Occasionally we got good load,
but the stuff we could pick up here
and there was mostly tag end. scrubby
stuff that did poorly for us and never
looked good even when it made us
money We made up our minds we
would have good feeders. even II we
had to raise them"
list. the Beath farm consists of 26s
acres. One hundred and twenty acres
of this is bottom land, partly wooded
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-20

Christian customs adhered to by the Austrian
German peasant be traced back to heathen-
ish Germanen rites, some dispute the use of
tree at the Jul festivities; nevertheless 1t is
tain that in Sweden needle pines and frs
set up at this time before the houses" Teutzel
OF Saxony. an antiquarian authority on these
subjects says: The ancient heather sat before
.aeir houses between two crossed pine trees and
-te and drank at the turn of the year for nine
,aen days"
The Christmas tree introduced into Aus
tria some eighty years ago by Duchess of
Wurtemberg and spread throughout Germany.
About 1910 1t is supposed to have taken fresh
root in. England and became highly popular
Both Thackeray and Dickens seized hold of the
idea of happiness hegot of Christmas gatherings
and the Christmas tree. and Charles Dickens in
1850 used THE Christmas Tree" as a title for
one of his annual stories
Although Christmas was not celebrated in the
first centuries of the Christian era, there are
indications in the records of early Roman his
tory of the setting up of decorated tree at
Christmas time and the presentation OF gifts of
fruit and toys. The Romans are supposed to
have taken the idea from the early Egyptians.
Centuries old. the customs of Christmas OBJ
servance have taken myriad forms in the various
countries of the world. In many they per
dates the advent OF Christianity. Such the
customs which have grown up around the mis-
tletoe. worshiped by the ancient Druids of Brit
ain as sacred and magical plant. An old Eng
the winter solstice Christmas says:
This was the most respectable festival of
Druids called Yuletide; when the mistletoe
which they called all-heal carried in their
hands and laid their affairs as an emblem OF
the salutiferous advent of Messiah This mistle.
toe they cut off the trees with their upright
hatchets of brass, called celts put upon ends of
their staffs, which they carried in their hands
lnnumerabe are these instruments found all
over the British isles The custom is still pre-
served. and lately York on the eve of Christ
mas day they carry mistletoe to the high altar
of the cathedral and proclaim public and uni
versal liberty, pardon and freedom to all sorts
Of inferior and even wicked people, at the gates
OF the city towards their four quarters of
heaven"
The lore of the strange plant is prominently
In evidence in the Voluspa and other Scandina-
Wan Sagas. 1t with mistletoe branch-or
an arrow prepared therefrom-that the blind
and heavy-headed deity Holder aimer his deadly
blow at Balder the god of light or benevolent
principle of northern mythology The inspira
ton of the use of the mistletoe was of course due
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-20

find that 1t pays very well. 1t has
been found both experimentally and
by practical tests that sweet milk.
sour milk, buttermilk-in fact, milk in
any form-contains all the elements
found in other forms of animal mat
ter.
Milk contains all that beef scraps
and green cut bone does, but in a
more diluted form. and 1t is highly d.
gestible, and no digestive troubles
arise from either old or young chick
ems consuming large quantities of it.
Everyone who keeps cows and
poultry on the same farm will find 1t
profitable to preserve all the milk for
Needing the flock and dispose only of
butter fat 1t is the best animal
food that can be given to them. Give
all the chickens all the milk they will
drink. 1t will do them no harm.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-20

and traversed by a creek-land Of
little use save for pasture. but most
excellent for that purpose. On eighty
acres Of this blue grass the breeding
herd is maintained during the pasture
season. The rest of the year they
spend cleaning up the stalk fields.
straw, corn fodder and other rough
feed of the farm. together with some
corn silage. They get little or no
grain, but convert the coarse feeds of
the farm into beef and valuable ma
nure.
During the last FIVE years the calf
crop from the breeding herd has av-
eraged nearly 80 per cent The calves
are dropped from April to June on
pasture. They are fed on grain dur
Ing the summer, but run with their
dams on the blue grass. where they
grow messy coated, thick and baby
tat" They are weaned in October,
after first being taught what grain Is.
After weaning they have pasture
that has been allowed to grow since
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-20

Ditchfield in his "Old English Customs" says
that the Christmas tree first imported into
England by some German merchants who lived
at Manchester in the first years of the nineteenth
century.
In 1900 writer folklore said Although
we are accustomed to consider Germany the
home of the Christmas tree. it has not been gen
eral there for than couple of centuries
Old people still living whose parents never
In Germany. The decoration of houses
with olive leaves and green branches. as in Eng
land at Christmas is far more ancient custom
and be noticed in Botticelli's picture of '"The
Alteration of the Shepherds" in the National Gal
lery In London. 1t is Fritz Ortwein observes
a distinct remnant of an ancient heather custom
as at the turn Of the year during the twelve
days of the Jul festival In honor of Wooden, green
cry could be fetched by all from the woods
without punishment and every hall was deco
rated with green leaves and branches.
Again. in old works on English customs we
find many references to the decorating of the
interior of the dwellings. well as the pious
adornment of the churches with greenery, and
the introduction of fir tree symbolical OF
the palm In the halls of the barons and the
squires and In the gigantic kitchens of the
farmers fir tree ever held prominent place,
but whether ordinarily decorated not Is not
specifically recorded Here we are in doubt
In all probability the remaining fruits of the
orchards of the year were hung upon the
branches as propitiation to the gods of the
fruits of the earth to insure good harvests.
Going abroad we get fuller knowledge of these
things. The custom of carrying away branches
and trees from the woods at Christmas time in
various parts of Austria became extensive on
account OF the superstitions of the peasantry
that at Salzburg. in 1755, and at Nuremberg, In
1868, severe bylaws were issued against persons
purloining from the forests In some regions of
Hungary solemn procession with a decorated
tree takes place through each village before the
shepheld play begins. gt is adorned with rib
bons and fruit and is supposed to symbolic
the tree of knowledge. Although most of the
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-20
EXCELLENT FEED
FOR ALL POULTRY
Packing Firms Manufacture and
Sell Large Quantities of Pre-
pared Scraps.
tBy NJ. BERNARDO

The most successful poultrymen
Iced some kind of animal food to
their chickens of all ages and condi-
dons. In the wild state birds secure
both vegetable and animal foods. Bugs
ind worms supply the animal food,
md seeds and other vegetable growth
he vegetable food. The animal por-
ion of the food is always necessity
or normal maturity and good egg
ayfng.
So essential is animal matter in the
poultry feeds that the packing firms
manufacture and sell large quantities
,f prepared beef scraps and ground
,one, which are sold very widely over
the country. Those who use them
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-20

not given definite promise to Freya to prove
harmless II used against the person OF her son
Balder. Thus Scandinavian mythical lore ac-
counts for the death of the latter. And accord
ingly, a traditional idea of the poisonous proper
ties of the mistletoe is found to persist in re-
mote regions of the north and west of Europe,
even to the present day. In Great Britain Tin
the Forest of Dean) 1t has been used down to
recent date popular remedy in the treatment
of cardiac troubles. Like the strophanthus of
African arrow poison fame, It proved reliable
substitute for dgitalis
Kissing under the mistletoe is all that now re-
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-20

their predecessors were sold In June,
all to themselves. Here they get corn
and cob meal enough to keep the calf
fat in place and add to 1t little each
day. At this stage Mr.. Beath has
added each year to his bunch of "home
growns'' what calves of quality he
could pick up in the neighborbood.
All are fed well and kept coming until
cold weather commences and pasture
is gone.
For the first two years corn and cob
meal, clover hay, corn fodder, and cot
ton seed meal were depended upon
to continue the process of making the
calves into beef. Money was made
on that basis. but for the last three
years corn silage has been an impore
tant factor in producing this result
About December 1 the silo is opened
and from then on until grass comes
again the calves get about all the ST.
lage they will eat. Indeed they eat
some even after grass comes. The
daily silage ration is' from twelve to
fifteen and sometimes as high as
eighteen pounds. With the silage they
eat from five to six pounds day of
corn and cob meal. until along in
March when the corn is gradually in
creased to as high as eleven pounds
a day. Some cotton seed meal is also
fed toward the close of the feeding
period, beginning at half pound of
the meal per head and gradually in
creasing to a pound and ahalf day.
Usually at marketing time, which
comes in June, there are two loads of
calves to ship. They weigh around
800 pounds at from eleven to thirteen
months of age. During the past FIVE
mark but once (191D They have
averaged better than $50 head for
the FIVE years. Every year they have
made a profit.
Many of the breeding cows are
still young, growing as well as pro-
ducing. The older cows are fatted
and turned off as their usefulness de-
clines or they fail to produce calf
1t is a safe estimate that the average
yearly cash income for each COW in
the herd is better than $50.
While there is nothing startling in
this method of beef production. there
dpPaiOheiy 10 buiO Pioul III IL. L nc
COWS are cheaply kept, the pasture
land is well employed and the ele-
ment of speculation involved in buy
ing high priced feeders is avoided
The rough feed and coarse folders are
all utilized and converted into market
able beef and valuable farm manure
Little corn and no roughage Is bought.
All the crops are raised on the farm
and fed there SO that little fertility
is lost from the farm and the cost of
marketing of the farm products is
reduced to the minimum. Little hired
labor is necessary. Hogs follow the
cattle and consume the waste of the
cattle feeding and make extra profit
and the farm is growing more pro-
ductive. When the methods and re-
suits of scme of the most successful
beef producers are studied it looks as
If there is money after all in produc-
ing beef on high priced land and those
of our Wisconsin farmers who do not
want to go into dairying, who have
farms adapted to beef production.
need not let the high priced land ar
gument disturb them in the least
about getting into beef raising at
once.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-20

Hm To tell the truth, II want to be
sistently Christian in Christmas green's and
the purposes to which they should be put, there
isn't anything about 1t. at least of any records
which such careful investigators as Alfred e. P.
Raymond Bowling have dug up while studying
the general subject. None will deny that the
most consistent Christians have taken to the
mistletoe kiss with abundant enthusiasm and a
faith In its excellent results that has been
surpassed But that doesn't make the mstletoe
kiss any more Christian than 1t ever
Isn't the excellent story of foolish Mother Eve
and the original mistletoe apple enough for any
reasonable Christmas decorator who wants to
Justify it's employment? And if it isn't, haven't
the legend of the Rod of Jesse to make 1t
distinctly of the Christmas green's? As for
the kisses that are supposed to go with it-well,
II you insist knowing about them, you'll
| simply have to take the consequences. same
| Eve did when she insisted on tasting of
| that confounded tree of knowledge.
The mistletoe kiss seems not to be Chris
tian at all Druidica probably, and therefore
heathenish, and therefore very very wrong
So all young who encounter it. artfully
suspended where pair of ripe red lips must
| pass. do you piously refrain or piously,
| tear down the hoary old temptation and flee
the accursed roof, If 1t were the house of
| ARIA Marcela and you were not Gautier's
| young Frenchman. And you. maidens give
| leave to no pagan rites; remember the fate of
your poor Grandmother Eve and beware lest
the fruit of the mstletoe accursed tree of
knowledge. prove now more bitter in the mouth
than 1t did in Eden
But II you have ivy, wreathe it generously, for
the French know 1t the herb of st. John the
disciple whom the Savior loved the emblem OF
pure friendship. the vine that heeds not decay
and death of its beloved. but clngs ever more
closely the fall impends and bears up its fall
ing ally against all adversely. Learned students
of these legends have surmised, too, that 1t may
be the herb of ST John the Baptist, who is usual
ly pictured the boy In his camel'shair coat
gazing at his cousin. the infant Jesus
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-20

fruition still carry with them
the tenderest of Christian
faiths. as they carry. too. the
story of humanity's most far
reaching disaster. 1t Is one
of the Christmas green's
which has the warrant of re-
ligious associations dating
back to the very beginnings
of mans creation. even as 1t
Is accorded the sublime
honor of typifying the ances-
trail origins of the Redeemer
OF Man himself.
But what about the mistle-
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-20

all over Germany. Three
trees in great pots were put
on a long table covered with
linen; each tree was illumi-
mated with three circular
tiers of colored wax candles
blue. green, red and white.
Before each was displayed a
quantity Of toys, gloves,
handkerchiefs. workboxes,
books and various articles.
presents made to the owner
OF the tree" This princess
was a Russian. and In her
later days lived mostly in
Pa v-fa Than oUatn prrf
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-20

Christian lore. II it still hedged about
with vestige Of the glory that arrayed 1t in
Paradise.
Time was. and time is now. when epilepsy is
one of the scourges of mankind; only
look for its cure, as we look for its cause. in
quite natural means and conditions. The notion
that poor devil with the falling sickness
has been cursed from high is held scarcely
compatible, In popular science. with the princi-
pies of eternal justice or with cold observation
of cause and effect
But In times that were. in Wales, when an
epileptic developed the symptoms characteristic
of the disorder, it commonly believed that
he was being scourged with the rod of Christ"
and that was the by which the disease
went. although 1t had another designation as
well-St Valentines sickness. The for 1t
was believed to lie in the Rod of Jesse The use
of the mistletoe as the Rod of Jesse in epilepsy
was general and If faith work wonders per
haps the miracle of did sometimes attend
its employment.
Perhaps 1t didn't II hard-headed science
choose to take shy at that gracious addition to
the list of mracle-working agents. But whether
1t did or didn't the mstletoes birth and
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-20

10 the oppos-
ing principle
of darkness
or evil. The
p i a n t which
furnished the
deadly d a r t
grew on the
slope of AS
gard. and was
the sole agent
k n o W n to
gods or men,
a m o n 6 pol
sonous plants
which n q a
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-20

mains of once horrible Druid rite.
The ceremonies which the mistle-
toe figured In among the ancient
Druids always accorded 1t place
of honor. The myths that clung
around 1t in their wondering, puz-
zling minds were many more than
the few that have come to US in
these later years. But. old as they
are, those hoary, heathen myths
lack the true flavor of antiquity
when 1t comes to measuring tradi-
tions by the centuries.
Oh, we do not by any means owe
our mistletoe to the Druids. We
can go back so much further for the
first adventures of the mistletoe
that the Druids become merely
modern innovators. 1t was one of
the noblest of the trees in Paradise,
the lordly tree of good and evil:
and on it's twig hung the apple
which Mother Eve plucked with
such disastrous consequences. Alas
for Mother Eve and Father Adam!
And alas for us. their punished
heirs-at-law divine! But alas, too,
for the wicked, handsome, tempting
tree of knowledge which put human
lty In such graceless plight Upon
its lofty crown. its massive trunk,
its delicious fruit. descended the
universal curse. 1t shriveled away
from the Mortified earth; it dwin-
died to. the meanest smallness; It
was cast out into the bitter cold;
1t became a parasite and beggar,
existing by the bounty of vulgar
neighbors. Only In the pearly
translucence of its shrunken fruit,
the most trivial of berries. did 1t
preserve some semblance of its
once radiant splendor.
And it has preserved some of its
pristine virtues. too, in traditional
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-20

40 invented tho
Christmas tree?
Whence does It
come? It is .
c u r ] o US fact
that most OF the
o d chroniclers
have thrown q
veil OF mystery
a r o u n d t h 9
Christmas tree
and make no at
tempt to ex-
plain It's origin.
1t has been
stated that the
tree came to us