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The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12
RANDOM SHOTS
(By Capt. S. N. Boone)

c.dSc MOTION Is uHe Oiu Sculle
man, and upon one occasion while
caEvassing in the mountains of Ken
lucky late one Saturday evening, he
came upon a band Of honest noun
taineers engaged in shooting
match. John Cai..oon was the an
narciator whose duty it was to APP
proach the target after each man
had fred and to announce the result
of the shot, which he did in most
eases in the following manner: "Just
a little to the right; Fright square
under the bulls eye"; An eye lash
clinker and pigeon heel winker'
"Center by God"; "Just above the
bulls eye, and little to the right, a
mighty good shot for beef Here
the Judge called on a by-stander for
his rifle remarking, "Boys, I'll show
Won how to shoot" He took long
and deliberate aim and the sharp
crack Of the rife rang out clear and
loud. Calhoon with great gravity
and dignity approached the target.
and, after a most critical examina-
ton of the board exclaimed in a
voice that could have been easily
heard five miles: Tan bark away off
to the left" Morrow had missed
the board and sculped as John said
a small oak which stood some dis
tance left Of the target.
This incident recalls another and
in which both Judge and good honest
John Calhoon are the leading char
acters. John, in order to enlarge his
bank roll quite number of years
ago, gave barbecue, and posted
(then) Col. Morrow, as the orator
Of the day. Morrow was a fine
speaker and cultured gentleman.
being a graduate of Old Center. Be
fore the speaking began John took
the Colonel aside and advised him
that there were ,tafbles designated as
the % and 50 cent table, and that he
John was very anxious the Colonel
should REACH the latter table before
the crowd made the grand rush
which always occurs at barbecue.
Morrow was in fine fettle that day.
and while soaring high above the
miasmas of this sin ,cursed world
plucking stars here and there and
breathing out the most beautiful SEM
fences of high class irhetOric-JOhn
squared himself directly in front Of
the speaker (whO was holding the
audience spell bound) and in voice
that was louder than thunder said ::
"Col. Morrow, do not wish to con-
sturb you, but the 80 cent table
are now ready" OF course the Col
Onel descended from his high alti-
tude and leisurely wendell his way
to the 35 cent table.
Who can or would forget if he
could, these by gone days "when the
heart was young and the years were
few" / do not know whether good
honest John still lives or not-per-
maps he has crossed the bari
has, and l had power, at the final
Of all things, would
say-"John, come up higher" At
last accounts the Judge was still
alive and well, and although the
frosts of IS winters rest upon his
brow. his minds is as clear as
and his laugh like the rip
Die of pure water over pearls be-
heath.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12

Get tickets for LiGdsey's lecture
from canvaSSers or ut StrOdc's Drug
Store. Prices so cents for general
admission; 80 cents for students.
and % cents for children, If ticket
are bought in advance. f1-12L2t
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12

"The Random Shooter" in shoot
ing around as might have been ex-
pected, has finally shot himself, not
with suicidal intent, however, as he
prefers larger game.
Coed women, God bless them; we
have them here below by the score.
But if you'll look round there's more.
Shall / say they are good? These
last-God forbid. For if / did
/ should lie.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12

Get tickets for Lindsey's lecture
from canvassers or at Strode's Drug
Store. Prices 80 cents for general
admission; 50 cents for students.
and % cents for children, if tickets
are bought in advance. 1-12-2t
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12
NOTICE

The fine Jersey bull, Billy Goodloa,
will serve cows at $500, money due
at time of service.
l-5-1mo r. A. OGDEN.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12
FURS! FURS!! FURS!!!

Will pay you the Highest Cash
Prices for your Furs..
J. W. HISEL
Bridge Junk Shop,
No. % North Maple st.
East Tennessee Phone 215, Home
Phone 500. 11-18-4mo
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12

Who was the biggest Far that ever
lived here upon the Fl &c OF this
earth? | shall not ans ger the quer-
nv now, but will relate an incident
that may throw a little light on the
subject. Some years ago there lived
in this city man who for kindness
of heart was without peer. He was
out in his backyard one morning and
to his horror discovered his next
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12
SEE

You. can get your photo taken at
Earp's Studio this week at greatly
reduced prices. 1-2-l2t
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12
OLD BAPTIST CHURCH

Ed. ]. ]. Gilbert will preach at
the Old Baptist church Saturday and
Sunday mornings. ~ -
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12

Six $500 Skate Books will be Civ
ell away TO the ladies at the Audi
forum Skating Rink tonight 12-1t
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12

Six $500 Skate Books will be Civ
en- away to the ladies at the Audi
forum Skating Rink tonight 12-1t
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12

door neighbours house ON fi.e. He
did not heller for the best of rca-
sons, but ran in and said: "Wife run
out in the street ard squall fire long
and ldad-as' you well know the
people won't believe me-"
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12

The weather still continues to
continue, and if it does not turn
warmer by and by, the chances are
that it will remain moderately cool
until it gets warmer. ] submit that
the above prognostication is abso-
lutely correct, my good friend Asa
Martin to the contrary notwith-
standing.
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The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12
ADMITS THAT HE
49,. RECOMMENDED KNOX
Pressed by Steel Probers Ironmaster
Says He Urged PhiIander on Nc
Kinley.-No Tariff is Needed.

~ . -
Washington, Jan. 1f.-Andrew
Carnegie, pressed hard Thursday by
members of the House Committee of
Inquiry into the United States Steel
Corporation, admitted that he recon-
mended the appointment Of Philan-
der c. Knox, the present Secretary
of State, as Acknowledgement in
President Mckinley's Cabinet in
1901, Mr.. Knox having been one of
the chief counselors of the Carnegie
Steel Company since 1890, when the
Sherman antitrust law was passed.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12
FURs! FURs!! rURs'!!

Will pay you the Hgnest Cash
Prices for your Furs.
]. W. HISEL
Bridge Junk Shop.
No. % North Maple st.
4 East Tennessee Phone 215, Home
Phone 696. .aN 11-18-4mo
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12
Says No Tariff Needed

Mr.. Carnegie also told the commit
Tee that he believed no protective
tariff was necessary on steel rails OF
steel products. He asserted that
Congress need have no fear that for
eign rails would food the United
States if the tariff was removed.
The ironmaster will be recalled
Friday. though he urged that he be
permitted to conclude his testimony
Thursday.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12
Didn't Know Pools ILLEGAL

Mr.. Carnegie repeatedly had de-
clared before the committee that he
never knew that the participation of
his company in the steel plate pool
and other like pools was unlawful,
and Representative McGillicudy, of
Maine, sought to show that he had
recommended to President Mckinley
the appointment Of Knox. after the
latter, as counsel for his company.
had left him In ignorance of the GOV
arnnoanf ctatufa- -o ,aanx- ,-onr-
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12

A man who thinks
That he's high-jinks
Has corns on his toes
And a wart on his nose.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-12

s-vta SING Il
usaAn'tia','.a ,e.44asa .! 90 $4,000 .5 l5lA1s:a.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-10-09

And if the ru1nor should prove
true, then WAYMAN will leave
the states attorneys Office under
the BLACKLIST cloud that ever dis
gusted the people with a public
official.
He will stand suspected of hav-
ing organized a reform crusade
in order to beat down the values
of property in the tenderloin and
force the present owners to give
up that property to the railroads.
He will stand before the people
as crirnsoned hypocrite who
mouthed reform for the profit Of
the railroads.
WAYMAN must go through
now and go all the way through'if
he wish a man, woman or child in
Chicago to believe in his honor.
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crusade amounts to nothing, for,
of course, the property owners
will sell rather than face ex-
posture.
What the people of Chicago
want is not that the wealthy and
prominent" men who own
houses in the tenderloin should
be given a chance to dispose of
that property.
What Chicago wants and de-
mands of WAYMAN is that he
give the people the names ofthose
sleek and well-fed hypocrites who
have been posing as honorable
business men and civic reforners
while drawing money from the
houses of shame.
What Chicago wants and de-
mands of WAYMAN is not that
unfortunate women be bounded,
but that those men who, from po-
sitions of honor and respect, fat
tened on those women and gave
an artificial impetus to their hor-
rible business be shown up.
1t is up to Waymlan to go
through now or admit either that
he is afraid or that there is some
dark and secret purpose behind
his spectacular raids of the ten
derloin and his big talk about
going after the owners.
And the gravest and most seri-
Gus suspicion will direct itself |
against Wayman if he quits now
haco,,ea Of n r11r1or f6oA c0raad- /
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-10-09
NEW YORK LETTER.
By Norman.


New York, Oct. Tone of the.
most remarkable runs" ever re-
corded in New York terminated
when Bought and Paid For" left
the Playhouse. s"
This play had 462 consecutive ;
performances. Except during
the summer months, three matt
nees a week were given. The
royalties of Geo. Broadhurst, the
author, seldom dropped below
ST 900 a week, and the profits of
Vim. A. Brady, the producer, are
estimated at about $150,0O0. I
Nearly half a million people have
seen the play. -i
Just to show how little man
ayers or actors can tell in adj
vance about the reception a play
is going to meet with, when Of
fered to the public, there may be
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-10
HON. F. v. COLLINS
dies SUDDENLY
Was Father. of Hattiesburgs Postmas'
ter and Leading Republican Of
Mississippi.

Jackson, Miss, Feb. 1O.-A long dis
lance telephone message was received
early this morning from Summit an
nouncing the sudden death of United
States Marshal Fred w. Collins, at his
home at that place, at 1920 this morn
ing, caused from acute indigestion.
The attack was unexpected, as Mr..
Collins had retired without complain
ing of any illness.
The news will be received as a Sc
we're shock to the friends and &C.
quaintances of this popular Federal
officer, who has been of late promi-
nently mentioned in connection with
the Illinois Central railway strike and
as chairman of the executive commit
| tee of the Republican State organiza-
| ton.
! The deceased was a native of Mis-
sissippi and was SO years of age. He
| leaves four sons, Fred w. Collins, Jr.,
Deputy United States Marshal of
Jackson; Walter Collins, who is post
master at Hattiesburg; ]. T. Collins,
who is connected with a dry goods
! firm in Birmingham, and Seth Collins,
the youngest son, who lives at Sum-
nit. Besides are four daughters, Mrs.
w. w. Bradshaw, of Louisville; Mrs.
J. 7. Lilly, Mrs. ]. L. Jackson and Mrs.
J. M. Atkinson, all of Summit.
Fred w. Collins, Jr., was in Nc
Comb City at the time of his fathers
death, and left hurriedly for the home
at Summit.
Marshal Collins had apparently
been in the best of health of late, and
there was nothing to indicate the pos
sibility of an attack of the kind that
took him away.
Mr.. w. A. Collins was appraised of
his fathers sudden death at the fami-
ly home in Summit, by telephone last
night and left this morning for that
place.
Hon. Fred w. Collins, was we'll
known to many of Hattiesburg's citi-
zens, and was held in the highest es-
TEEN by all who knew him as high
toned gentleman and conscientious Of
fetal His sudden death is shock
to his hundreds of warm friends, who
deeply sympathize with the family in
their loss.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-10
GODBOLD Wells
CREDITORS P4CIFlED

jackson, Miss, Feb. 10.-A petition
was filed in the Federal court, in this
city, to have the Godbold Wells Com
pany declared insolvent under the
Bankruptcy laws, and Hon. Fred M.
West, referee, was directed to hear
the application of the creditors. The
referee held court at Summit Thurs
day, and after hearing all the testi-
mony and arguments by the attorneys
on both sides, rendered a decision to
the effect that the company is not
insoNent, and denied the application.
1t is understood that the creditors who
sought to embarass the company re-
ceived a satisfactory settlement.
Referee West returned to Jackson
yesterday. He declared that the case
was amicably settled. 1t is understood
that arrangements have been perfect
ed by which the hotel at the wells
will be opened in the proper season
Referee West said that he had moi
been informed of the plans.
Green and Green, of Jackson; Judge
]. H. Price, of Magnolia, and w. A
Pearsons, of Summit, represented the
company, and L. Hooker McGhee, Of
Summit, represented the creditors.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-10
EXPECT NEW RECORDS.

Boston, Feb. 10.-Undoubtedly one
OF the biggest events of the indoor
athletic season will be the meet held
under the auspices Of the Boston
Athletic Association today The en-
trants include some Of the very best
men in their respective specialties and
with such an array, it is expected that
many records will be broken. Unus-
ual interest is centered in the contest
because nearly all Of the contestants
will be seriously considered when the
American Olympic Committees finally
select those who will compose the
teams which will represent this coun-
try in the Olympiad at Stockholm
next summer. One of the best contests
of the meet should be the Hunter
Mile In which Abel Kiviat, last years
winner, will be matched against Os-
car Hedlund, the Bostonian, whom
Kiviat beat for the honors a year
ago. George Bonhag will measure
strides with TON" Collins and "Bil-
ly" Kramer in the special three mile
run. Melvin Sheppard is entered for
the middle distance races. In all Hof
the other events athletes of similar
ability will start.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-10

made available to the pillow if the
country would avoid further high cost
of living troubles.
"The question of flood prevention
is fast reaching stage where levees
will no longer answer, and the adopt
ion by Congress of a proper river reg
ulation policy has become necessi-
ty.
I'VE are going to make the Ma.
tional Drainage Congress so big a sue
cess that it will attract the attention
of the entire country, and with the
entire country behind us we will go
to Congress and ask for what we need
ard what we must have in order to
make the 75.OOO,0O0 acres of wet lands
north, south, east and west produce
the food the people must have and
the commerce that the country will re-
quire to maintain it's trade suprem-
acy."
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-10

inadequate banking system which
puts premium on credit whenever
there is a general demand for it.
mo section of the country will be
more benefited by the adoption of a
better banking system than the south,
foi no section suffers more from the
inadequacy of our present system. 1t
is nothing less than startling to find
that in the autumn when bountiful
nature is forcing the products of the
fields into your gins and warehouses,
when the horn of plenty is overflow
ing, that just in those months of all
times money is tight" and credit
hard to obtain. The abundance of
cotton, the best basis in the world for
commercial paper, ought to be the very
reason why credit and prompt means
Of payment should be equally abund-
ant. The fact that it is not shows
that our system is out of joint, and
suggests that it is high time for the
business men of the South and all
good citizens to join together in wiping
out this antiquated and archaic bank
ing system"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-10
WET LANDS IN
Continued From Page one.)

pie of the West stand ready
and willing to aid the people of the
south and of all of the wet land states
of the country to secure the assist
ance of Congress in taking-the surplus
water off their lands. The manufac-
turers of the east, in working for the
drainage of the wet lands will be do
ing nothing less than opening up new
and prosperous markets for their
manufactures.
Irrigation has proved SO highly
beneficial, that the people of the Uni
ted States will look with favor on
the big drainage policy that The Ma
tional Drainage Congress will launch
here April 1913.
Agricultural lands have become
scarce. and the 100000 acres of
highly fertile wet lands must soon be
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-10
BANK REFORMS
CONTINUED From Page One)

to say that the business men of the
South are giving this movement their
hearty support and are helping to
bring about a business-like settlement
of this question which means so much
to the future development and pros
perity of the South"
Our present monetary system, in
it's actual working, is a crime against
business prosperity. At hint of fl
nancial stress, at the very time when
business men are most in need of
credit facilities the banks call loans,
refuse credit and pile up their re-
serves by every possible device. This
course vastly increases the business
tension, accentuates panic. To re-
lieve the situation exactly the oppo-
site course should be followed Re.
serves should be paid out and loans
increased as we have seen it happen
over and over again in those European
countries that have modern banking
systems. Our banks are not to be
blamed for following their present
course. They are forced to do 1t by
our rigid reserve requirements that
compel them to keep certain pro
portion of their funds on hand in
cash. No matter how legitimate OF
how urgent the requirements of their
customers, the banks must sacrifice
hem or be sacrificed themselves. IT
8 the banking system and not the
banks that is at fault.
Similarly, the very times when
actual wealth is present in the great
est quantities and the most useful
forms, when our vast crops are being
harvested and moved to market, when
prosperity should be most abundant
and most widely diffused, are the very
times when money rates are highest
and money, or its equivalent, credit
is most difficult to obtain. The blame
for this rests not with the local bank
er nor with any bank. II lies with oul
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-10

ing the contents of ten grain quin-
inc capsule dropped therein, awoke
and, yelling for help, informed the
conductor that "his gall was busted"
the crowd awoke to the fact that they
were to hear something out of the
usual militant style.
Nowhere outside of America, per-
haps, could you hear anything like
Senator Taylor's speech, because no
where else, probably, would a digni-
fed, elderly gentleman get up and
emit such a curious and altogether en-
tertaining tumble of sense and abb
surdity, serious argument and vaude-
Vile. Senator Taylor belongs to the
old dithyrambic school, the conscious
ly flowery, and he does it
SO well and in such a mellifluous,
caressing Southern accent that he
gets away with it.
In this sweet Lydian strain he sung
the beauties of his native state which
lay, he sometimes thought, between
tile happiest lines of latitude and long
itude that girdle the globe" He touch
/ ed on the birth of Uncle Sam-"when
he blew his nose in his handkerchief
Kings trembled on their thrones
/ and so on down through Old Hickory
to chanting the power of steam. He
wished that Robert Fulton might
come back again and stand on the
deck at New Yoke and to see the
Kaisereen come in with an ex-Presi-
dent standin' on huh deck, with one
foot on a hippopotamus and the ohio
( foot on a rhinoceros, a hyena unda
each arm and Demonstration in his
trousers pocket,
Leaving the lion, still nursing his
fears,
The widowed wart-hog roofing in heI
tears"
From steam, Senator Taylor meand
cred to electricity and aeroplanes
and
when ships ali in the ocean.
And ships ah in the sky,
When the West is irrigatin'
And the South is goin' dry"
wished that Ben Franklin might come
back to take up the telephone ant
"call up Thomas Jefferson in HEAVIER
and tell him that this fall there was
goin' to be a Democratic victory"
The tariff and the still infant indus
tries reminded him of the story of 6
ho'seman in his own mountains o
Eastern Tennessee. The horsemar
was riding along and he met a wo
man; and then little later big six
foot boy bawling: "Ma-a-aw! Ma-a-aw
want my Maw!" The horsemal
stopped and said: boy, what yol
want of your Maw?" Said the boy
"She's tryin' to wean me, an doggon'
1t, L" and the rest was lost in al
uproar.-Collier's
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-10
NO SUFFRAGE IN ITALY.

Rome, Feb. 10--Advocates of votes
for women who have been working
here in the interest of their cause. it
was learned today,haye received quite
setback in the semi-official an
nouncement that the Pope is decided
~ against woman suffrage. His Holt
ness has taken pains to let 1t be un-
derstood, however. that although he
opposes votes for women, he by no
means thinks that woman is inferior
to man.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-10
TWO oVETT STORES
DESTROYED BY FIRE

Ovett, Miss, Feb. 10.-The Ovett
Mercantile Company's store and the
Ovett pharmacy, both occupying the
same building, were destroyed by fire
here Thursday morning between six
and seven o'clock. The origin of the
fire is unknown. The total loss is
estimated at $4,000, covered by s10,-
Gee insurance.
The management is already plan
ming to replace the structure with a
modern two-story brick building
work TO begin as soon as plans are
completed.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-10
FAMOUS CASE RECALLED.

Paterson, N. j., Feb. 10.-One of the
murder cases which have helped to
make this city famous, if not notori-
Gus, was recalled today when George
Kerr, one Of the four men serving SEN
fences for the death of Jennie Bos-
sichiter, was released from prison
Kerr has served eleven years and
eight days of the fifteen years allotted
him for his part in the affair, 1,452
days having been RENTED for good
conduct.