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The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-23
BOY ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.

Cleveland, Miss, Sept. .23.-A seri-
Gus though not fatal accident occurred
here this morning about Z o'clock,
when Dugas. the nine-year-old son of
A. W. Stands of this CITY,. was shot in
the arm and side with .16-gauge shot
gun. The boy was out hunting in the
rear of his home and was standing on
log when the gun slipped off the log,
striking the hammer and emptying a
load of birdshot into his arm and side.
Dr. Frank Smythe Of Memphis was
Immediately wired for to take charge
of the case this afternoon.
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-23
FRESH AT NIGHT

II One Uses the Right Kind Of Food.
If by proper selection of food one
can feel strong and fresh at the end of
days work, it is worth while to know
the kind of food that will produce this
result.
A school teacher out in Kans. says
in this connection
"At the time ! commenced the use
of Grape-Nuts my health was so poor
that thought would have to give up
my work altogether. was rapidly los
ing in weight, had little appetite, was
nervous and sleepless, and expert
enced, almost constantly. feeling Of
exhaustion.
i tried various remedies without
good results; then ] determined to give
parcitular attention to my food, and
have learned something of the proper
ties of Grape-Nuts for rebuilding body,
brain, and nerves.
Since using Grape-Nuts have made
constant and rapid improvement in
health, in spite of the fact that all
this time ! have been engaged in siren
uous and exacting work.
4 have gained twelve pounds in
weight and have a good appetite, my
nerves are steady and sleep sound. /
have such strength and reserve force
that feel almost as strong and fresh
at the close Of q days work as at the
beginning
Before using Grape-Nuts was trou-
bled much with weak eyes but as my
vitality increased the eyes became
stronger.
Il never heard OF another food as
nutritious and economical as Grape
Nuts"
There's a Reason"
Name given By Postum Co, Battle
Creek, Mich I
Ever read the above letter. a pew
ene appssrs from tins 70 time. They
~ osaslns, trus, ard nm
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-23

Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
at Issaquena, Sharkey county. Miss.
about "a miles north of vicksburg.
and whose capital stock was originally
100000, with w. e. Heyser and
Weaver Haas the only stockholder\
has reorganized. with $275,OO0 capital
stock. all paid up.
The old company was simply an
operating company, having timber
contract with the old Issaquena Lany
Company for their logging supplies,
but the new company has absorbed
both the operating and the holding
companies, having acquired all the
timber holdings of the Issaquena Land
Company ,as well as other additional
timbered lands, also quite number
of timber rights.
G. d, Mitchell will be president; w.
EHeyser, vice president; Howard
Mitchell secretary and treasurer;
Weaver Haas. general manager, and
]. F. Weigant, sales manager Both
of the Mr.. Mitchells were recently
large stockholders of the Chattanooga
Plow Company, but sold their interest
in the pillow company to enter the tim
Der and lumber field. Howard Nit
schell is also president of the CONNER
'cial Bank & Trust Company of Chat
Htanooga, Tenn. The other stockhold-
iers of the company are understood
to be Messrs. Bloomfield of Jackson,
Mich. who are capitalists and bank
'ers. The new Issaquena Lumber Com
'pany has as strong, If not stronger,
backing, financially, than any other
hardwood concern operating in the
South, and with an unlimited working
capital expects to run steadily until
the last of their timber is cut.
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-23
; HICKORY GROVE NorEs.
- <% ~>~~>><

Miss Ruby Sharp returned from
Bellville Tuesday night. after spend.
ing several days with her sister,, Mrs.
Emory Hammett. e
Mr.. Nathan Fairchilds has returned
home from a several weeks visit in
Gadsden, Ala.
Mrs. R. l.. Sharp was called to the
Inflrmary Monday, on account of the
death of her grandson, Jerome Ham
NETT.
Miss Martha Fairchilds is improv-
ing, after severe attack of malaria.
Mr.. and Mrs Edd Dossett and Mrs
A. R. Fairchilds chaperoned a crowd
of twenty young people on a trip to
Mammoth Springs, Sunday.
Mr.. Luther Burkett, of Brooklyn, is
visiting here this week.
Lottie, the little daughter Of Mr..
fand Mrs. w. Brown, has severe case
of diphtheria.
Mr.. Robert Baucum is on the sick
list this week.
Mr.. Preston Beesley, OF Shelton, , is
the guest of Harm Travis, this week.
Mrs. Chas. Wainwright and children,
ofaHattiesburg, were the guests of Mrs.
Wainwright's parents, Mr. and Mrs. j.
A. Quick, Sunday.
Mrs. T. d. Quick and children have
returned to their home in Picayune,
after spending several weeks with
elatives here.
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-23
MISSISSIPPI NEWS

ern tuberculosis Conference at Co
lumbus. s. C.
The Order Of the Colored Crusaders
has become very popular in Mississip-
pi, and there is little doubt but what
a like organization will soon be an es-
tablished fact in other Southern
States, where the same fight against
consumption is being waged. This
work deserves the support of every
thinking citizen. s
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-23
AGREE ON WHEAT ACREAGE.

( Houston. Miss, Sept. 23.-A mass
meeting was held of the farmers OF
Houston vicinity in the court house
yesterday afternoon to discuss diver.
sification of crops and reach an agree
ment as to the number of acres Of
wheat'to be planted. About 20 of the
most progressive farmers agreed to
plant from one to five acres of wheat
each.
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-23
A Th|CE-TOLD TALE
One Of interest to Our Readers.

one OF interest to our Readers.
Good news bears repeating, and
when it is confirmed after long lapse
of time, even if we hesitated to be.
lieve it at first hearing, we feel secure
in accepting its truth now. The fol-
lowing experience of a Hattiesburg
woman is confirmed after two years,
Mrs. c. H. Langford, Sr., 72S River
Ave. ,Hattiesburg, says: "One of the
family who suffered for long time
from kidney trouble, weak back and
disorders of the kidney secretions. took
Doan's Kidney Pills and they brought
fine relief. We got this medicine at
Fields Drug Store and don't hesitate
to recommend it," Statement given
May II, 1911.)
No More Kidney Trouble.
After lapse of over two years, Mrs.
Langford added: "My former endorse.
ment of Doan's Kidney Pills holds
-ood The one in my family who took
this MsC'cine never complains of kid
ney trouble now
Price. soc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills--the same that
Mrs. Langfo-'d has twice publicly rec.
ommended. Foster-Milburn Co., Props,
Buffalo. N. Y.-Adv.
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-23
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed bids will be received until o
o'clock a. m. Oct. 7th, 1915. for con.
struction of frame school house for
Rock Hill Consolidated School Dis
trict,l as per plans and specifications
on file in my office. Contract will be
let to the lowest bidder, Certified
check Of $4,000 required with bid.
Supervisors reserve right to reject all
bids. 80 3
sept 16-4thurs u Clerk.
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-23

n - - n q
jackson. izIss.. sept. ss.-The Mis-
sissippl Anti.tuberculosis Campaign
Committee today issued the following
statement:
Ine greatest work yet accomplished
by the Mississippi Anti-tuberculosis
Campaign Committee proposing to
stop the spread Of consumption, has
been done this summer.
It is an acknowledged fact that the
startling death rate from consumption
In this state. is due, largely, to the ex-
istence Of the disease among the col
ored people. and its spread by them
among the white population.
The unsanitary. or rather lack of
any sanitary conditions. in the home
Of the negro is. deplorable. He is not
SO much Indifferent to, as entirely ig-
gorant of any preventative measures
that viii save him from this contage-
GUS disease.
To meet this condition the Missis-
sippi Anti-tuberculosis Campaign Com
mittee has inaugurated a plan of work
which not only provides the desper-
ately needed aid to the negro, bpt at
the same time proves great protec-
tion to the white people, against the
spread Of consumption.
The plan is very simple. There
has been organized, under the au-
spices of the Anti-tuberculois Commit
tee, an order of Colored Crusaders of
the Double Red Cross in Mississippi.
Every preacher of every church in
the state to act as Grand Master of a
chapted composed for the most part,
of the members of his congregation.
The meeting of the order to be held
after the regular church services.
The negro preacher is the natural
teacher of his race. His people obey
him. ta
The Anti-tuberculosis Committee
furnishes the preacher with short lec-
lures explaining the nature of con-
sumption; how contracted; how to
tell when one is suffering from the
disease; what to do when one has al
ready contracted It in order to prevent
giving it to others; and telling certain
simple things to do in order to prevent
the contracting of the disease Sheets
bearing cut illustrating the point Of
the lecture is distributed among the
people by the grand master.
1t has been the care of the commit
tee to present this study of the cause
and the prevention of consumption,
in SO simple a manner that 1t can be
understood by the more ignorant Of
the colored people. A means of i'm
pressing facts concerning consump-
tion upon the mind, is used which is
as old, almost, as the mind of man
the use of the fable.
All literature is paid for out of the
funds received from the sale of the
Red Cross Christmas Seals.
This work of the Mississippi Anti
tuberculosis Committee has been
complimented by the secretary of the
National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis, who
will give the work nation wide public.
ity. A report of this work was also
read before the Second Annual South
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-23
HUMPHREYS SPEAKS
AT LIvINeToN

Lexington, Miss, Sept. 23.-Benja-
min G. Humphreys spoke to large
crowd at the court house here yester-
day. He was introduced by Gov. E.
f. Noel, and give an outline of the
measures put in force by the present
administration and the number of i'm
'provements made.
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-23

No. l. on November O.. 10 and H..
Beth Mr.. stamm and Sovereign Grand
inspector-General M R. Grant expect
large class from all parts Of the
state.
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-23
SCOTTISH RI1E.M MAsoNs.

Meridian, Miss, Sept. 23.-Director
Leo r. Stamm, of the Scottish Rite
bodies is busy preparing for the fall
reunion of the Mississippi Consissory
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-11

given q tremendous impetus to the
movement for a larger navy. The
presence here of the North Atlantic
Meet for review by the President
brought home to the public as moth
ing else could hat the navy is the
n reliance on which the country
must depend for upholding its rights.
1t is doubtful if the plea of made
quate revenues will again be allowed
to stand in the way of the adoption
or a more extensive program of naval
construction 1t is pointed out here
that the wealth and of the
United States are sufficient to make
1t easy to provide a navy equal to the
best in the world. One suggestion
put forward is that instead of remov-
ing the revenue tariff on sugar which
is scheduled to be dropped next May.
the present rate of duty be retained
and the proceeds applied to providing
an adequate fleet. The figures of the
Treasury Department, Just published,
show that the sugar duty brings in
S50,000.0 600 a year and in twenty years
has yielded over 81, 900, 900, 900. The
advocates of this plan show that the
$780, 600, 600 a year now drawn from
sugar would provide half a dozen
battleships annually. or four of the
latest type of superdreadnaughts and
twenty submarines. Whatever the
method to be adopted, a vast num-
Der of Americans have come to the
conclusion within recent DAYS that
the United States must be better pro-
tected. particularly I the naval
branch.
-LONGACRE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-11
AMERICANS SAVE $780, 10000
CUTTING OFF EUROPEAN TRIPS
Immense Sum Usually Spent Abroad to Be Saved or Dis
tributed at Home.

New York. June lit is timated
than as a result of the European war
from 500, 900, 900 to $150,OO,O0o
which heretofore was spent abroad
by American tourists will remain IN
the United States. Statistics show
that approximately 10000 Americans
have been in the habit of going abroad
during the summe months each year..
1t is estimated each one spends on an
average from $500 to 81 1000 on the
trip. OF the total amount expended
by Americans abroad fully two-thirds
goes to pay hotel bills and t%ranspor-
tation. 1t is estimated that no less
than $4,000, 900 is given away in the
form of tips. The balance of the vast
expenditure goes for amusements and
various incidentals. The payments
for steamship fares alone amounted
to something like 500, 900, 90. At least
90 per cent of those who went abroad
in former years will remain at home.
A large proportion of them will de-
vote their time and their money to
seeing America. Not only will this
result in adding to the prosperity of
the United States through the fact
that a hundred million dollars or
dinarily transferred abroad will be
kept at home, but it is predicted also
that it will give permanent impetus
to the See America first movement
and will develop among the people of
this country a better appreciation of
the scenic and other attractions of
their own land.
Events of the past two weeks have
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-11
THE PRESIDENTS REPLY

TIME reply of President Wilson to
the German note relating to the
Lusitania incident is all that the
public could have wished it to be. Firm
and unyielding in behalf of those high,
humanitarian principles for which the
United States has been contending, it
is nevertheless reasonable and so
friendly in tone that Germany may
easily find a way to satisfy its demands
without humiliation before the ma
tions. For the second time the gov
eminent of the United States has put
the question of a or war squarely
up to" Germany.
The reply is couched in strong and
unmistakable language. There can be
posals of the note are to be fairly met.
BY further attempts in that direction
Germany would be only stamping her
self as insincere and desirous of delay.
She has opportunity to justify herself
and insure conduct in compliance with
the rules of warfare as generally rec
ognized, or she must mark herself as
the black-hearted, murderous pirate
OF the world that she has been paint
ed by her enemies. The issue lies
clearly in Berlin. The United States
has done no more than place herself
on>the side of humanity. If Germany
chooses to oppose, so much the worse
for Germany. Our skirts are clean be-
fore the world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-11
RAILS AND WAGES

CORRESPONDENCE between the
" big Four" Company and the
Illinois Central Railroad Com
pany brings out in a public way a very
close relationship between the pros
perity of American workingmen and
the tariff on steel rails. These letters
show the desirability of purchasing
supplies of rails in this country from
the steel concerns which give the rail-
roads the bulk of their They
also serve to rivet the attention of
businessmen upon the failure of the
Democratic tariff law to raise revenue
from importation of steel rails. The
letters bring home likewise to every
workingman in Pennsylvania, which
is the country's greatest center of coal.
coke, iron and steel. the failure of the
Democratic Congress and the Demo-
cratic administration to protect the in
terests of labor from competition of
foreign business and foreign labor.
Purchasing rails in Canada with
half of the rail mills of the United
States standing idle is not good BUSH
ness for any American railroad. The
railroads live largely off the steel
mills. II these mills are idle, railroad
business is slack. 1t is apparent that
the mi is largely dependent upon ths
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-11
WHY GERMANY HAS FOOD

LFrom the Kansas City Start
Germany's system of food ~produc-
ton is a very different thing from
Americas lack of system of food pro-
duction. Germany's whole system OF
wealth production is on a different
basis from Americas wealth produc-
ton.
Those who predicted the German
Empires quick starvation marvel at
the stores of food she possesses. 1t is
a marvel; but the marvel is a part of
the German thorough organization of
its resources.
1t is a common thing throughout
the world to say, or assume, that our
problems are no longer problems of
productions; that they are problems of
distribution. But only a few countries,
notably Germany and Belgium (before
the war;, have come anywhere near
solving their production problems. 1t
is true that potentially, through the
vaster areas of soil opened to settle
ment, through invention, chemical dis
coveries, transportation development,
etc, we could produce wealth beyond
the dreams of avarice." But we don't.
Germany m nearer to 1t than most
countries because Germany has recog-
nized the fundamental interest of every
one in her natural
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-11
WHY BUSINESS is BETTER

TTTAR orders from Europe con-
wv tinue to stimulate business con-
ditions in the United States.
Though industry has not yet reached
the degree of activity enjoyed two
years ago, it is noticeably better than
last year after it had suffered the
effects OF one year of Democratic ad-
ministration.
One of the disclosures of the past
week was the effect of the European
war on the market for copper. The
price of copper had rapidly advanced
and copper mining and smelling COM
panies began doing a profitable bust
ness in the last two or three months:
yet there vas no noticeable demand
for copper from Europe. Investi-
cations as to the cause for renewed
prosperity in the copper. industry
brought the information that the use
of copper in the manufacture of brass.
in making cartridges, shells and other
war equipment had created a new and
enlarged demand. Exports of brass
for the first three months in 1915
amounted to nearly 10, 900, 900 pounds,
as compared with 1.7S1, 900 pounds for
the same period a year ago.
The entry of Italy as a party to the
European war has called attention to
the fact that for the last few months
hat country has been an enormous
buyer of American products. either in
preparation for her own needs during
the war or as an intermediary in sup
plying material to other European ma
tons. For nine months ending in March
exports to Italy amounted to $751;
700, 900, as compared with SIS, 500, 900
for the corresponding period of 1914.
Shipments of wheat alone during this
period amounted to Al. $40, 900 bushels,
as compared with 1.400, 900 bushels
for the same period in 1914. This
shows. in a large measure. the reason
why farmers have been getting a high
price for wheat.
Dispatches from Chicago give the
Information that British and Belgian
buyers have been taking American
horses freely and paying as high as
5000 each. Market reports from Kan
sas City contain the Information that
the European war has added enor-
mously to the value and demand for
grain and has provided a market for
thousands of horses for which the
farmer had little need.
It is apparent that although Ger
many is cut off from direct communi-
cation with the United States, it is
securing American products in large
quantities from other sources. For
example. in March of his year our
exports to Denmark were more than
81. 500. 900, while for the same month
a year g they were only s1,s5o.000.
Other countries bordering on or ada
cent to Germany show corresponding
increases in purchases from this coun-
uy. leaving no room for doubt that
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-11

nRYAN has been out of office about
ID three days and he has had two
statements published and a third
in preparation before the ink was fair
" dry on the second 1t is about time
Mr.. Bryan learned hat the country
is tired of his explanations. Possibly
there may leak out in his messages TO
the public some of the secret inner
workings of the Wilson administra-
ton. in which case they will prove in
structive, this is no time for any
body to be -antagonizing the President
of the United States with relation to
the policies of the government as they
pertain to international problems.
II the ex-Secretary is afraid he may
be forgotten In the excitement OF the
moment and to prevent sue an awful
personal catastrophe must keep him
self constantly before the public, let
him disabuse his mind of the idea.
Nobody is going to forget Mr.. Bryan
in a hurry. He has been a disturb
ing element In American public life
too long for tina There is in his
every action indication of an attempt
to place himself in a better light be-
fore the people than that in which the
President stands. He is heading di-
rect toward an open break with the ad-
m~inistration. There are distinct signs
that he means to oppose the President
for denomination. OF course, 1t is not
the part of Republicans to dissuade
him from a course hat will make
their task easier at the next national
election, but all good Republicans will
regret most sincerely h injection of
party politics into a situation in which
the honor and the peace of the whole
country are involved. Mr.. Bryan dis
plays In his all too frequent statements
not only very bad taste but a very poor
quality of hat ardent patriotism of
which he is ~endeavoring to pose as the
nations foremost exponent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-11
WHO Is CIVILIZED?

louisville Courier-Journal.)
II anyone should write a book called
Who's Who In Civilization" would
not the Mexican chieftains. ~brigands
though they are. be better placed than
certain "bone-headed" persons with
high p~retensions to culture who have
asitated in America in behalf of Ger
many, and who have declined to con-
slider n action neutral that is not de-
signed to aid and comfort the
Kaiser?
How much more "savoir faire" is
shown by the Mexicans. C~arranza.
Huerta, Villa n the rest. in their
observations upon President Wilson's
latest declaration than has been shown
by the Riders, the Won Bernstorffs.
he Won Reventlows, the Dernbergs, of
the propaganda staff of His Imperial
Highness Wilhelm II.
Note the restraint with which Vic
toriano Huerta speaks:
AS a foreigner. enjoying the hos
pttaltty of a foreign country, 1 should
not criticise nor even discuss state
ments of the government or officers of
the foreign country I live in, but 1 may
say this:
ANY foreign country that is sin
cere and honest In its endeavor to help
our nation would commit the biggest
blunder by giving its moral support or
assistance 10 any person or FACTIONS.
such actions, instead of bringing
the results desired, would result in the
opposite direction.
The Mexican nation, as a whole,
will never accept any such party, even
If 1t would only be suspected that that
party received any help from a foreign
country.
Our people will never stand for
any government inspired by foreigners,
no matter how humanitarian or no.
Bile the motives of such foreign ma
tons appear to be-"
Huerta, a man with a grievance, a
deposed Dictator, an Indian, speaks
with grace and calmness utterly i'm
possible to such natures as that of the
self-appointed and the Kaiser-ap-
pointed assailants of American neu-
trality who have caterwauled unceas-
ingly since the beginning of the war.
If the Kaiser would impress the
world with an idea of Teutonic "kul-
tur" he should C as his Ambassa-
doris, official and unofficial, persons
with powers of self-restraint and Gull
tivated sufficiently to make 1t possible
for them to discuss an issue of world
politics without ungentlemanly We
hemence and ignorant malignancy.