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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-06-13
CITY BREvITIES.
News Items and Advertisements
Picked up About Town.

- 90 90
Prof. w. NJ, Richardson, principal of
the Epley consolidated school, is in
the city today. ~
For an enjoyable outing after the
days work take an auto ride on the
good roads. Meoresor's auto. Eth
er phone Al, or either phone 5S5. 1t
D.. Country boys and girls, Ben Hur
wants you to Join. Come investigate.
Ladies' free membership.--Mr. Wheel
or, Doctors Summers office. CIT
M. d. Broadfoot' and wife. of Purvis,
are at Hotel Hattiesburg.
New shipment straw hats just re
ceived.-Mclnnis G. Small. 11-3t
Fresh watermelons and cantaloupes.
-McNar's Grocery Home phone
$685. Cumb. ia. 1t
Ben Hur-Wants lady solicitor.
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Ben Hur best insurance. Social fea
lures unexcelled for men and women
equal. cit
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-06-13

]. A. Travis, a weliknown Forrest
county farmer, is in town today.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-06-13

Work on the Woman's College build
ing has been temporarily suspended
pending the arrival of some iron ma
terial
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-06-13

FOR SALE--Extra bargain house and
lot close in.-Thos. M. Ferguson.
21-tf
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-06-13

The way to keep cool is to wear
Athletic" underwear.-MeInnis &
Small. 11-3t
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-06-13

Just received shipment of Wilson
shirts, 81 to $2.-Meinnis 4 Small.
11-3t
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-06-13

WANTED-To rent Broom cottage,
with all modern conveniences, or
three or four unfinished rooms for
light housekeeping, close to bust
ness section. Address N. c., P. o.
Box 81, City. 13.tf
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MARRY-h you are lonely. The re-
liable Confidential Successful Club
has large number of wealthy eligible
members, both sexes, wishing early
marriage. Description free.-Mrs
WrubeI. Boy 26, Oakland, Calf.
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WANTED-You to ring Cumberland
SOB when you wish furniture packed
stored or moved. Speciality of haul
ing household soods.-H attesburc
Furniture Company, 12S Mobile
street.
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Main Street Methodist.
Sunday school $3.50 a. m. Chas. F.
Ames, superintendent.
Preaching p. m. by the pastor
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-06-13
FOR SALE-M;scellaneous

FAST Wilkes horse for sale
cheap. See Clyde Williams, Owl
Drug Store. 11-3t
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Catholic Church,

Catholic Church.
First Mass Z a. m.
Second Mass 10 a. m.
d.. Father o'Riley.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-06-13

Wheeler, Doctors Summers office.
CIT
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-06-13
SUNDAY SERVICES AT
HATTIESBURG CHURCHES I
First Baptist Church.

First Baptist Church.
Sunday school 9:45 a. m. A graded
Sunday school for all ages.
Preaching IL a. III. Nd p. m. by
Rev. w. E. Farr, pastor at Columbia.
All are cordially invited to attend.
Sunbeams at 8 p. m.
B. Y. p. U. 6:15 p, m.
The church invites all strangers and
those without church home to
worship with them.
John T. Christian, Pastor.
Bay Street Presbyterian Church.
Sunday school 9:45 a. m. R. c. Hau.
enstein superintendent. 1865
Preaching IL a. m. and s p. m.
The public is cordially invited to at
tend all services. m
r. L. Campbell, Pastor.
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FOR-Paintins and paper-hanging
call Cumberland phone 79S.--W. (
Combs. loft
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-06-13

New shipment straw hats just re
ceived.-Mclnnis &. Small. 11-3t
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FOR RENT-Rooms with board. 21e
Third street. 13-6t
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FOR RENT

FOR RENT-Three rooms unfur-
phone 3e9. 13-2t
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Ben Hur-Wants lady solicitor.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-06-13

M. d. Broadfoot, and wife, of Purvis,
are at Hotel Hattiesburg.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-11-13

was coined. Why named corn? or
plenty; and what other of all the horns
Of plenty is SO plethoric as that Of our
beloved Indian corn?
OF all the types Of grain producing
plants the Indian corn, so-called be-
cause Europeans found the aborigines
growing it when they invaded the vast
land that came to be called America,
Is the most stately and most prolific,
in its most regal estate. No other cul-
tivated food plant is so appealing to
the esthetic vision. 1t is without food
equivalent considered as to nutrition
and cheapness; yet when the United
States government a few years ago
sent commissioners to Europe to teach
benighted peoples the value of maize
and how to prepare from it dishes that
would appeal to the supreme epicure,
they were met with the sneer that 1t
was hardly good horse food.
Welded to custom and tradition the
good housewives across the Atlantic
could only do as their mothers had
done back at the beginning of the
generations when cultivated fields sue
ceeded the chase and when the cooked
flesh was carved with the crudest of
knives and generally eaten in the open
and from the fingers. Stoves taught
them little, imagination and invention
they had none and even the properly
revised cook book had not yet found a
venturesome publisher.
1t has long been a saying that
bread is the staff of life" What kind
Of bread? That which we Americans
call wheat and the benighted and be-
lighted near -easterners and far east
erners have called corn" long before
it was written that the OK treadeth out
the corn," and that "the OK knoweth
his owner and the ass his masters
crib" written Of the politicians of that
day, but no such delectable dishes
were ever made Of wheat flour such as
have been created by the intellectual
and eXuberant and inventive American
housewife from the snowy or the gold
en- corn-meal, and not the "parritch,"
or the oatcake Of huge diameter, all so
beautifully poetized by Bobby Burns,
who knows or who doesn't know that
statue Of him was unveiled in Pitts
burg recently, could vie with the corn
bread, corn pone, dodger, or fried mush
pudding with suet mixed in it and
boiled in a bag and eaten with real
cream, with many other splendors of
Americas king of crops.
Southern cotton growers are now
giving attention to a diversifcation of
crops Not being able to eat their cot
ton nor to sell it fast enough, they are
looking to corn, corn as a new solution
Of the problem of living. When Marie
Antoinette was told that the poor of
Paris had no bread she replied: Let
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PRODIGAL OF POWDER.
Germans Make No Stint Of Ammunl.
ton In Attacking Forts.

Part Of the story Of the lombard
ment and assaults upon the fortress of
Troyon, says an Associated Press dis
patch from Paris, has been told. The
story from the inside shows how prod
igal are the Germans with their pow
der. From the Sth to the 18th Of Sep
tember they fired more than 1000 shots
from 3-inch, S-inch and 10inch guns.
The casualties in the fortress were
four killed and forty wounded, while
the damage was inconsiderable except
ing from one shell fired evidently from
10-inch mortar which dismantled a
gun and dug hole through masonry
a yard and a half thick and penetrat-
ed two and half yards of earth.
The fort sustained two assaults,
which, as is already known, were re-
pulsed with great slaughter, 1000
bodies having been found around the
fort after one assault.
On two occasions an envoy was sent
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Williams at one time worked on the
Manhattan tube to Hoboken and lived
in Elizabeth.
Il had only a fortnight to serve"
said the soldier, when war was de-
clared, and l had to go to the Conti-
nent with the expeditionary force. l
have been in the army about sixteen
years, off and on. In the Boer war l
was near Lord Roberts son when he
was killed. In some ways, barring the
number of men engaged, that war
wasn't so far behind this one. OF course
they had no such artillery as the Ger
mans now have. I've seen bit Of SER
vice; that's why have distinguish
ed service medal-siX bars on the
queens medal and the kings medal.
I'VE retreated until we got down be-
low Paris, then we got at them and
pushed them back to scissors. Then
came the trouble. The Jack Johnson's
Field artillery. 1t was about three
fellows pretty well, because they can be
fired only about once in eight minutes.
The shrapnel, though were coming all
the time. was driver in the Royal
Field Artillery. 1t was about hree
weeks ago when l was wounded. We
were lodging around all right until
young officer moved us up too near one
of the batteries He ought to have
known better, for we all were told that
20 nd
measured off ranges before the war,
and they had US dead to right. There
were fifty-four of us and more than a
hundred horses back Of that battery.
"There Wasn't Any First Line"
Five minutes after we had moved
to the rear of the battery only four
men and one horse were alive. The
horse made me laugh as he stood there
trying to pick the leaves off a small
tree. Two shells had struck in the
middle of u.s. and when l came to |
couldn't find even a boot Of the man
who had been nearest to me. We were
smothered in blood. That is how the
German artillery was working.
About this time fellow came rlu-
ing along shouting: First line of wag-
ons to the rear But there wasn't any
first line, and before he realized it he
was cussin' all over the place. l got
my nip there-right in the arm. I'd
like to have another crack at them.
But we need bigger guns. We could
pound them out of their places if we
had guns equal to theirs, for we can
shoot with the best of them"
German lances Too Long.
Thomas Smith Of the Twelfth Ian
GERS who is in the same row with Will
liams, also was wounded near Sois-
sons.
I'VE waited for days to get at them"
Smith said, but they had their big
guns sweeping every road. Finally we
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by the German commander who sum-
moned the garrison to surrender in
these terms: IN the name Of His I'm
perial Majesty, I summon you to sur
render unconditionally." "Never!" was
the reply.
On the second visit Of the envoy he
complained severely Of having been
fired on by Fort Genicourt and de-
clared after receiving the commap-
dant's response, I'VE shall meet again,
governor"
After each visit Of the envoy, the
bombardment resumed more furiously
than ever, and at times as many as
236 shots were fired in half an hour.
An artilleryman who took part in tn,
defense Of Maubeuge, declares that the
amount Of powder burned there was
even greater than at Troyon. For nine
hours at a stretch, he states, during
one day Of the most furious lombard
ment, the Germans fired shells weigh
ing 1000 pounds each at the rate Of
four per minute, an aggregate Of 1850
tons Of powder and metal during the
nine hours were used upon one only Of
the forts around the city.
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them eat cake" AS the cotton nabobs
and their people cannot eat cotton, let
them eat corn and produce it them
selves
The coming Of the corn in the fall
in America, is one Of the most colas-
sal and vital of events, and along with
it comes the pumpkin, with it's visions
Of unparalleled pies. From the corn
blossom, which is the male protoplasm,
to the silking, which is the miracle Of
the female activity, the stately stalk
is a marvel that cannot be equalled by
any poesy Of the wheaton golden
grain" No jollifcation of harvesting
since the birth of Ceres is finer than
the "husking" in the field or the
"shucking bee" under cover, ending
with a banquet and dance.
Corn is one solution Of the problem
Of economic living if the housewife
will tackle it with intelligence, conf
dence, persistence and devout eXal-
tation in the presence Of bushels by
the billions, and trillions of ears that
appeal to the hearing and understand
ing of human ear-Pittsburg Dis
patch.
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A DISH OF SNAllS
They Have a Flavor Wholly Different
From Any Other Food.

They Have a Flavor Wholly Different
From Any Other Food.
1t is a mistake to think that snails
are eaten only by the French. They
have been known and used to a certain
extent by the English ever since the
days when snails boiled in milk were
esteemed a remedy for consumption
and it has been said that a certain
breed now found in Surrey. England
was imported by one Of the heirs OF
Arundel for use of his failing wife.
One of the recipes for cooking snails
says the Washington Star, is indicated
by the verse of Edmund Spenser
which runs:
With our sharp weapons we shal thee
fray,
And take the cas- till that thou liest in
We shall thee fay out Of thy foule skin
And in a dish, with onyons and peper,
We shall thee dresse withstrong vyne-
gare.
If you have never eaten snails, and
the majority of persons who read this
have not, it is difficult to comprehend
what the snail tastes like. 1t is diff
cult, if not impossible, to describe a
flavor or a scent without comparison
to something already known by the
person to whom one would transmit
the information, and it is said by an
authority on snails that they have an
original kind Of flavor, not in the least
like anything else. To be at his best
the snail should be young and in Wig
orous and robust health. If improper
ly cooked he will be tough; if proper
ly cooked he will be tender.
Snail culture in France is profitable
A single snail can produce sixty little
snails in season, but birds like them
frost kills them and some may run, or
crawl away. A French newspaper re-
Gently published the information that
half a million first quality" snails
the price of which averages about s1.4O
per thousand, can be produced on an
acre Of land. 1t is necessary to feed
them only once a day, but they have
good appetites, especially after a rain,
for cabbage and other green vege-
tables
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Through the courtesy of the Duchess
of Marlborough, chairman of the exc
cutive committee, and Lady Randolph
Churchill, chairman Of the hospital
committee of the American Womens
War Relief Fund, a representative OF
the New York World was permitted to
inspect the American hospital at Paign-
ton, a small town in South Devon. Six
ty-three wounded British soldiers had
Just arrived, and the Munsey ward
the largest in the hospital-was seen
under most trying conditions. Dr.
Howard w. Beal, head Of the American
Red Cross unit assigned to the hospi-
tai, is in charge of this ward, assisted
by Drs. V. n. Leonard and William 7.
Fitzsimons. There were upward OF
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seventy patients in the ward.
Nearly every ward was alive with
monographs or talking machines OF
some description, and around these
hovered dozens Of the less seriously
wounded. A ragtime melody WED with
that of an opera singer; cloud OF
smoke arose from pipes, cigars and
cigarettes.
A Grim Souvenir.
Pointing to a wounded man, the left
side Of whose face was black and
swollen, DR.. Beal said:
ASK him to show you the piece of
shrapnel that hit him; he kept it for
a souvenir"
The man was George Harper of the
Rifle Brigade He had been wounded
in a recent engagement near Bethune.
He took from a small cupboard beside
his cot the head Of German shrap-
mel shell.
Il never knew anything after that
hit me, SIR said Harper. 1T hit the
ground first and then took me in the
jaw. Yes, it hurts some now, for three
teeth were knocked out and part of the
iawbone was broken-so the doctors
say. These American doctors and
nurses are fine. The artillery fire OF
those Germans was terrific; shells
bursting everywhere. We lay in the
trenches and couldn't get at 'em. Then
came the shell that got me and the
other fellows. When l came to look
ed for a pal who had been next to me.
There wasn't much left Of him. lean
ed over and picked up this shrapnel
head for a souvenir. You can see where
some of the red is still on it. The doc
tors say I've got a piece Of shrapnel in
my throat and a bullet in my chest,
and that I'm lucky dog to be here.
DR.. Beal showed where the piece Of
shrapnel lay buried in the neck, and
remarked:
How he ever got out of it is mirac-
ulous. There goes chap down the
aisle who was shot behind the ear; an
eighth Of an inch and he would have
been done for; but when the bullet
struck the bone it glanced"
"You Have to Hand it to EN-"
Harper quoted some of the British
officers as saying that the Germans
had erected some concrete gun bases
near Paris long before the war.
DO you believe it," he appealed
Those devils bought up farms and
quarries around scissors and along
the Aisne long before the war. They
got hold of places fifteen miles from
Paris and put down concrete bases.
You won't wonder how they could do
so much damage with their Jack
Johnsons' around Namur and scissors
when you know they had the ranges
already figured out before the war.
You have to hand it TO EN-; they can
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-11-13
WOUNDED BRITISHERS
While in Hospital They Tell of the
Fighting.
FEARFUL CHARGE ON BATTLE LINES.
All Testify that German Artillery Fire is Terrbe But Some
Claim that Only the SharpShOoterS Know How to Handle
Rifle and All are Afraid of the BayOnet.

do the trick with the artillery, but
they are punk with the rifle"
OF the sixty who were asked about
their experiences not one begrudged
praise to the Germans for their Prov
ess with artillery. Nearly all agreed
that the infantry-firing was punk,
but they excepted the sharp-shooters,
who they said, had picked off the off,
GERS to such an appalling extent that
many of the officers discarded their
swords and carried guns to deceive
the marksmen.
Seth WiIliams's Story.
GO over and see Seth Williams" the
assemblage chorused when asked If
there were any veterans there who
might have good yarn.
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Miseellaneous &eaaing.
TREASURER WON'T PAY
Says General Funds are Not Available
for Warehouse Expenses.

Gays SeneT6l FuHoS dTo iNot NNa''oo'S
for Warehouse Expenses.
Columbia State, Wednesday.
Taking the position that the gen.
eral assembly did not make provision
for meeting the appropriation Of s15,-
900 contained in the cotton warehouse
bill, S. T. Carter, state treasurer, yes
terday refused to honor warrant pre-
sented by John L. McLaurin, state
warehouse commissioner. Mr.. Carter
ruled that there were not funds in the
treasury to meet the demand. He said
that the money would be paid out OF
the general state fund, if an opinion
authorizing the step should be given
by the attorney general. After the re-
fusal Of the treasurer to pay the war
rant, Mr.. McLaurin issued statement.
A. w. Jones, comptroller general,
took the position that there was $17,-
500 unexpended balance in the state
treasury. An opinion by the attorney
general held that the uneXpended bal
ance would be available for the opera
ton of the state warehouse system.
Mr.. Carter said that he knew Of no
such balance in the state treasury as
that referred to by the comptroller
general.
The attorney general will be asked
to decide whether the state treasurer
has the right to pay out for the main
tenance of the cotton warehouse sys-
tenn money borrowed for the general
expense Of the state government.
Warrant is Rejected.
Yesterday Commissioner McLaurin
gave out the following statement:
Il presented warrant to the comp
troller general this morning for $12.10,
with an itemized statement as required
by law, for expenses incurred in put
ting into operation the state ware
house system, and the comptroller gen.
eral drew his warrant upon the state
treasury. State Treasurer Carter re-
fused to pay the warrant upon the
ground that there was no money in the
state treasury. Comptroller General
Jones informed me that there was an
unexpended balance of s17,500 in the
state treasury, which could be used
for the payment Of expenses Of the
commission. Mr.. Carter denies that
this sum is in the treasury. The leg
islature which convened last January
authorized, under the act, the govern
or state treasurer and comptroller
general to borrow $780, 900 to meet the
amounts appropriated by the legisla-
ture Comptroller General Jones says
that this money can be used to pay the
expenses of the state warehouse sys-
tenn to the extent of $4,000, the amount
appropriated by the act.
The following is certificate from
the comptroller generals office:
NOV. 10, 1914.
This is to certify that the state
ment Of state treasurer made to this
office for the month ending October 81,
1914, shows the following balances:
General - account ..... ..$149, $3.50
special accounts .... go. 137,S49.92
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Yours very truly,
"Thos. H. Peoples,
A WHOLE LOT ABOUT CORN
Its Place in the History of the
World.

WoTIO.
When we say corn" in America we
speak the word in capital letters, and
we mean CORN. Over in those coun-
tries which are being swept as with
the bosom of destruction and the yet
effeter east, the word corn in all the
varied languages and dialects refers to
the cereals. and they know little Of
that which is really almost the grand
est of all the grains that spring from
the earth. BY them it is called maize,
which is the proper name. the Zea
Mays Of the scientists, which might
we'll be literally translated to mean
the goddess of corn. The natives of
the West Indies, one Of the original
tropical homes Of the grain, called it
"mahiz," and from this the word maize