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Tombstone epitaph., 1915-09-12
REASONS FOR THE SNEEZE
mon, but There Are Many Other Causes.

There Is more than one cause fol sneezing. and persons may differ ir their susceptibility to them. A bright light will cause some persons to sneeze the pollen of certain plants will affect others, and most people are likely to sneeze in the presence of dust. Such sneezing is due to superficial irritation
 The sneeze caused by the effect oi cold is different. It is an attempt oi nature to cure you. She makes you sneeze for the same reason that she makes you shiyer-to generate heat for warming the blood and preventing you from taking more cold-to helr to relieve the cold you have.
 The sneezing from cold is not an act of the nose alone, this being merely the part of the entire body. during which every muscle gives jump. The body is affected by a spasmodic effort to warm the entire system and throw off cold.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-09-12

sboot three o'clock now. Say s.z. thirty. Be at home them"
 Yes. Come to dinner"
 If 1 feel 1 can finish and turn over the right person without outside help, l will; otherwise I'll phone you. Good-by"
 Poe hung up the receiver and left the booth. stopping to buy half-dozen orangewood sticks at the counter. While the druggist was waiting on him, Poe asked if there was a mani cure shop in the neighborhood. Miss Moquin's. on the opposite cor, ner." the druggist nodded through his window. The news stand is right in front of it there.
 T see. Thanks. The name sounds French?" He raised his brows ques tioningly.
 T imagine she is. But don't know She doesn't come in here"
 His line of inquiry being promptly cut of, Christopher Poe slipped his purchase into a side pocket and l strolled out
 He sauntered across the street opening the package in his pocket as he went, and purposely jabbing him self in the cuticle Of the forefnger with one of the sharp sticks just be fore entering the manicure parlor which consisted of a single small room with a petite showcase of hair goods and toilet articles in front, and Jap anese screen across one corner. con cealing a nook in which Miss Mignor Moquin held and manicured hands gentlemen's preferred.
 She stood behind her showcase as Poe entered. a radiant little French woman. a coquette with a sprightly fascinating manner. What can I do for monsieur" she said prettily. tripping forward, and gag ing up into his face with ingenious concern.
 I'm needing a manicure badly, guess" he said, exhibiting his hand none too soft and well cared for.
 "Oh. monsieur" she gasped fetch ingly. you do not treat ze little nails with respect You have a hurt too"
 She gazed at the fnger-tips with in timate personal concern. bringing
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was looking placidly at a Japanese print on the wall.
 She gave him the bottle. and went to work again deftly on his nails. trip ping along with her gay little tongue from one subject to another, glibly. Poe, finding very little of vital inter- est in what she had to say. seemed i'm patient for the work to be finished. and when it was he paid generously, complifhented her. and stepped into the street. stopping before the news stand to light cigar, and buy a pa per from the boy proprietor. He slip ped a half-dollar into the youngsters grimy palm, and turning his back to the manicure window, said softly:
 Follow me around the corner, want to speak to you a minute, and you can keep the change"
 The boy. true soldier of fortune. took his chance unhesitatiugly and followed to the hallway into which Poe had quickly turned.
 There's a fat man comes most every day to the manicure shop. some times with an old woman who"
 "Yes. I know 'em," the boy inter. rupted. He pays a nickel for his pa per, and swears at the woman: some times she wheels him here in a chair He's got gout"
 That's it. Did you see him this morning when he entered the shop?"
 Yes. He was pretty mad. I guess, red in the face, and didn't seem to no tice me"
 And you saw him when he cams out?"
 Yes. he was worse then. Something seemed to have happened to him. He couldn't get his breath. and his eyes stared. I was waitin' to sell him the paper. an I didn't want to miss me nickel, so I kep' tabs on him through the window: fraid I'd miss him when he come out"
 Could you see the manicure table through the window from where you stood?"
 Yes"
 And did you see when" A man
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them instinctively toward her lips as though she would kiss the bruise; then letting them drop and starting back consciously, blushing in practiced alarm.
 'Ah, monsieur, too busy I suppose" she said, making her mouth into a pretty little questioning zero and lean ing toward him. Come, sit down. Ze nails shall soon be better; zey shall re- cover" She led him gently by the arm, and helped him sit down as though she were placing an egg-shell china teacup on a narrow plate rack in the dining roo<1. Now. monsieur" she said, taking his hand and giving 1t such a gentle. concerned pressure that Poe simulated having succumbed to her charm, and breathed softly.
 You have a nice. comfortable little place here"
 "Oh, sir. you are so kind" she said, forgetting her French for the moment in remembering to blush delicately. like a pink poppy petal.
 Gan you put these nails back in SudHt. Hs SSheN- tOu Fs alarmed me. I mustn't let them go so long again
 You shall see, monsieur. You must come often to have a manicure" She drew a pan full of water from a small coil heater in the corner, shaved some scented soap into it, tested its warmth with her little finger daintily. and then placed his left hand gently into it.
 We will leave zat hand cooking. monsieur. while I prepare zis one" She lisped just the least bit, looking up at him with a sprightly smile, and ex- tending lis fingers on her aproned knee
 There are little stains in the tiny cracks around your nail 1 must use my little orange stick and ongoiine to get them ont, mongieur. and then we will soak it, and pretty soon it shall act better. You will get a hang nail there if it is not fixed" She indicated the bruise Poe had inflicted on him self. T had a customer this morning
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with q bad one. but yours is Dot so serious. It was most difficult to get ze stain out for him. he cried with pain sometimes when the stick slipped. but monsieur will be more brave." she said glibly, busily pushing back the hard cuticle about the bruised finger-tip by means of her little yellow orange stick dipped in stain-remover
 "Ouch," cried Poe. stimulating dis tress as Miss Moquin slipped the stick carefully under the cuticle 'I won't be as brave as the fellow this morning if you keep that up
 Then put both hands over 10 cook, monsieur" she said, placing the pan more conveniently. T cannot see you suffer"
 If had a hsng-nail. too. Pm afraid
 I'd be like that fellow you had this morning. I'd holler,"
 "Oh, monsieur. like him." she cried. her eyes dropping toward him languishingly. He is fat and so fun ny. Monsieur is-dinerent The gen tleman this morning was so nervous.
 He jumped when l touched him. he
 was so excited he could hardly l breathe. and his attendant had to help
 him out of ze shop into his wheel chair like a baby" She put both hands on her knees and laughed. -Oh. he was so funny, gasping for breath like a | fish when he left and jumping like a scared rabbit. Men are funny when
 they have a little hurt, and did not stick him at all hard. And the ongo-
 line does not burn. Men cannot bear
 pain," dropping her eyes at him again. Yes. you're right" said Poe, inter
 rupting her breezy chatter. That re-
 minds me; I want to buy bottle of | ongoline." He nodded toward the show case on the other side of the | screen.
 Miss Moquin skipped to the front to | get the bottle. and Poe took advantage of the halfminute he had managed to
 be alone by substituting two of the or, | ange wood sticks he had bought for those Miss Moquin had left on the ia. ble before him. He also smelled hast. fly of her open bottle of ongoline. When the manicure returned, her customer had both hands soaking. and
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-09-12
Treatment of Oilcioth.

Oilcloth ought never to be wet. but merely rubbed with flannel and pol ished with brush of moderate hard ness exactly like a mahogany table. and by this means the fading of the colors and the rotting of the canvas are entirely avoided
 To remove iron stains from marble wet the spots with oil of vitriol or oxalic acid diluted in alcohol or with lemon juice. and after a quarter of an hour rub them dry with . soft linen cloth
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-09-12
Naturally IndiQnant.

Lige. an old darky. was suing his wife for a divorce. and stated in his al legations that his wife had run on with another negro and that she re- fused to return and live with him.
 A party meeting up with Lige re- marked:
 'Lige, I understand that you are suing your wife for divorce?"
 'Ya-as sir, boss; l done gone and sued her"
 Well. Lige, upon what grounds are you bringing your suit?"
 Boss. it's jist like dis: She bin run'd of wid 'nudder nigger bout fo years and I jist made up my mind to quit her"
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-09-12
SOME HINTS FOR BUILDERS
Great Care Should Be Taken in Seieo- tion Of the Most Substantial
 Roofing Material.

If you were without preparation or plan, rudely placed in a wilderness. your first thought would be of food supply and your next of shelter. for these are the two most vital necessi- ties of mankind. It is therefore natural that the best thought. and study are put upon these two essen tials.
 More forward steps have been taken in the building industry in the past fifteen years, as regards comfort. service and architectural beauty than in the fifty years previous.
 Only in recent years has the hand ling of cement in building work been understood properly, and progress ia still constantly being made with it. Modern hotels and office buildings are being equipped with sheet metal mouldings and steel veenered doors. Nearly every important change ie building construction is away from the fire hazard of wood.
 One of the most significant develop ments of recent years is the crushed slate surfaced asphalt shingle which is, on new construction and old. rapid ly supplanting the wooden article. There are many reasons for this. The slate surfaced shingles add beauty to any building-in fact, there is really no comparison from an architectural standpoint. Crushed slate of pleasing tints of red or green. is employed as a surfacing. The shingles are uniform ly eight inches wide and are exposed four inches to the weather. No paint ing is necessary as the red or green crushed slate is natural and therefore cannot fade.
 The purchaser, however. should guard himself against buying a slate surfaced shingle that is not guaran- teed by a reliable and responsible manufacturer. There are so many kinds of roofing and shingles on the market today each claiming to be the best that it becomes necessary for the buyer to get some satisfactory assur- ance that the roofing or shingles are represented honestly.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-09-12
Strictly All Right.

At a certain caucus in Hampden. Me. the only attendants were Hanni. bal Hamlin and a citizen of very large stature. Mir. Hamlin had some resolu. tions to pass which began by repre-. senting that they were presented to large and respectable" gathering of voters. Hold on." cried the other man, we can't pass that, for it ain't true! It ain't large and respectable caucus, There's only two of us." You keep still" commanded the willy Hannibal. its all right. for you are large and I am respectable. You just keep still"
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-09-12

health again. It is truly a great bless ing to women, and I cannot speak too highly of it. take pleasure in recom- mending it to others. "-Mrs. ANNIE CAMERON, RED, No. l, Swan Greek. Michigan.
 Another Sufferer Relieved.
 Hebron, Me.-"Before taking your remedies l was all run down, discour- aged and had female weakness. took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound and used the Sanative Wash, and find today that I am an entirely new woman, ready and willing to do my housework now, where before taking your medicine it was dread. try to impress upon the minds of all ailing women I meet the benefits they can derive from your medicines. Mn CHARLES ROWE, Kennebago. Maine.
 If you want special adyice write to Lydia E. Pinkham Med. icine Co.,, (confidential) Lynn. Mass. Your letter will be opened. read and answered by . woman end held in strict confidence.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-09-12
He Understood.

My husband has deserted me and want a warrant announced the large lady.
 What reason did he give for desert Ing you?" asked the prosecutor.
 T don't want any lip from you. I want a warrant l don't know what reason he had"
 "I think I understand his reason" said the official feebly, as he proceed ed to draw up a warrant.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-09-12

through neglect or overwork I get run down and my appe- tite is poor and I have that weak, lan- guid, always tired feeling, I get 0 bot tie of Lydia E. Pink hams Vege table Compound, and it builds me up, gives me strength, and re- stores me to perfect
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-09-12

What does it avail a woman to have troubles if she can't tell them?
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-09-12

Be happy. Use Red Cross Bag Blue; much better than liquid blue. Delights the laundress. All grocers. Adv.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-09-12

The old toper frequently gets away with more than he can carry.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-09-12
WOMEN WHO ARE
 ALWAYS TIRED
May Find Help in This
 Letter.

Swan Creek, Mich. cannot speak too highly of your medicine. When
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-09-12

cleyer polsoner, Mrs. Groves, and can't blame you for figuring that Miss Riggs might have had your legacy of half a million reduced to a thousand, after her success in making Boudinot change his beqaest to Miss Moquin. Your only mistake was in keeping this ongoline when you emptied the ori- ginal bottle to fill it with prussic acid"
 What do you mean?" cried Miss Riggs.
 Mrs. Groves, a hunted, insane gleam in her eyes, crouched down, and searched in her skirt pocket as though for a handkerchief. keeping her eyes gimleted on Poe
 As the banker turned to answer Miss Riggs. quick as a flash the old at tendant brought out her hand, and flung the contents of a phial straight at Poe's head; he tucked just in time; the sulphuric acid struck and began eating its way into a choice Japanese tapestry which adorned the wall be- hind.
 She shot out of the room and scur- ried up the stairs like a cat. Miss Riggs dashed to the door. screaming for William. the butler
 Come, Where is her room?" cried Poe, leaping up the stairs. She'll do herself damage" He turned the angle at the top in time to hear a crash be- hind door at the left Trying the knob. be found it locked, and bracing
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-22
CANDIDATES ATTEND
AGR|COLA PICNIC
TALLY AND LOVE, BOTH OF HAT.
TlESBURG, TO MAKE
SPEECHES.

A number of candidates for various
state offices in Mississippi are at
Agricola today attending the big pic
mic being given in George county, and
making speeches to the big throng
which this afternoon is reported to
be present. J. S. Love, state bank
examiner, of Hattiesburg, the only
man out for bank examiner who has
opposition, and John r. Tally, Forrest
county's candidate for governor are
among those attending.
Mr.. Love is in the second district
and is making an active canvass in
view of the fact that some one else
is after his job.
While attending the annual meeting
of the Mississippi Bankers Associa
ton some weeks ago, Mr.. Love is said
to have made himself solid with the
bankers of the state by an address
that showed the financiers that he
had ably filled the position to which
he had been chosen by the bank com
mission.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-22
LOCAL WOMEN GOING
TO NEW YORK MEET
WILL ATTEND MAccAREEs CON
VENTION THERE NEXT
WEEK.

Hattiesburg will be well represent
ed at the convention to be held in
New York next week of the Macca-
bees of the World, when delegates
from the entire United States and
Canada will be present. The conven-
ton will be held at the Warldorf
Astoria on May "a.
This convention is held in the inter-
ests of the first woman's Association
of the country, with local branches
throughout the United States and
Canada This district is represented
by Miss Maxine E. Biebeshiemer, of
Birmingham, as delegate and Mrs
Jennie Skinner of New Orleans, as
alternate.
At the convention the election OF
supreme officers will take place and
many important measures will be pre-
scented. Such a good record has been
made for the past term, extending
from 1911-1914 inclusive, that every
state convention has endorsed the
plans and administration. Miss Bina
NJ. West, the founder of the associa-
ton, has an excellent report to pre-
sent. The net gain from May 1, 1909,
to May I, 1915, has amounted to over
10000 benefit members, which indi-
Gates the prosperous condition of the
association, and the net gain for 1915
to date is 5000 benefit members.
During the last four years, the in
terest earnings on bond investments
amounted to S1,05S, 275.75, and the as.
sets on hand to protect contracts
reached nearly eight and a half mil
lion dollars. Over twelve million dol
lars was paid out in death and disabil.
ity benefits. Every draft for which
ives personally signed by Miss West
This order is not connected in any
way with the Ladies of the Modern
Maccabees.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-22

women in trouble have a right 10 the
sympathetic help of women officers;
and that men officers have Il right to
exemption from what may be a CON
slant temptation to the weak, and
from enforced and unnecessary assO-
citation with those who, if resentful,
may cast cloud upon the reputation
of the most exemplary. The best Off
GERS are the most reluctant to under
take alone the handling of girls, and
will sometimes resign in preference"
Mrs. Wells told how the pOlicewo-
mans work took her into the home to
talk to mother and daughter as no
man could hope to do, and of numer-
GUS other police activities in which
women engaged.
q would not give the impression, -
she said, that the pOlicewoman's
work is a silver lining or an Orna-
mental fringe to the very dark CLOUDS
of law enforcement for which pO-
liceman stands in the average mind.
She is an integral part of the depart
ment and stands for law enforcement,
but her largest and best work is to
prevent, for the securing Of ObCdi-
ence to law is the very best form Of
law enforcement
Does the policewoman make ar
rests? is a question asked. Indeed
she dOes-but as few as possible. and
those in keeping with the spirit of the
work. She does not try to do the
traditional work of the policeman on
the street, but when a girl is to be
brought in and held for any reason, it
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-22

Texas, $6,S6O,OOO,OOO; Massachusetts.
600; New Jersey, $5,743,O 900; Mime
sofa $5,547,0OO, 900; Michigan, $5,427,-
100000; and Indiana, $780, 100000. No
other state is credited with as much
as $5,000,000, 900.
When the comparisons are applied
on a per capita basis, however, a very
different showing is made. The high.
est per capita figure for wealth in the
hands of individuals and commercial
rganizations-tha is, exclusive Of
the nontaxable property owned by
governmental, educational, charitable,
and religious institutions-is given
for Nevada, $4,S65. Next in order
come Iowa, with $3,345; North Da-
kota, 1920; California, s3,113; Ne
braska, s2,954; Montana, $2.743; Colo
RADIO, $2,66S; Kansas, $685.; Oregon,
$2,523; and Illinois, $2,507 In no
other state was the figures as high as
$500. Only three states - Illinois,
California, and Iowa-for which the
total valuations were high also show.
ed high per capita figures.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-22
WOMEN COPS TO ARREST
KIDS Of THF FUTURE
(Bg Associated PrcSS.)

Baltimore, Nd, May pa police
woman, Mis-. Alice Stebbins Wells, of
Los Angeles, Cal, was given close at
tention by a special section of the Ma
tional Conference of Charities and
Correction here today when she told
of the policewomen's work.
For a long time past, she said, the
woman policeman has been a 1igment
of the Imagination, held up to ridicule
as the acme of the absurd and impOs-
sible, but though the last echo of de-
rision still reverberates, there has
grown a pOliceWOman movement as
great in strength and size as any re-
cent humanitarian movement has at
tanned in equal time
AS the latest list of cities which
have added regular policewomen as an
integral part of the police department
for outside work, she named, Chicago,
as leading with 20; Los Angeles, Bal
timore and Seattle with each; San
Francisco and St Paul three each; To
peka, Minneapolis, Dayton and Toron-
to. 2 each; Vancouver, Fargo, Grand
Forks, Rochester, n. Y, Ottawa, Au-
rora. San Antonio, Syracuse, Denver,
Muncie, Colorado Springs, Superior,
jamestown, n. Y, Fort Wayne, Ind,
Racine Wis, and Phoenix, Ariz., one
each. She also believed that Sioux
City, Ia, Beatrice and Omaha, Neb,
Boston and Salem, Mass, Bellingham,
Wash. and ithaca n Y we're to be in
Guided in the list, and she named
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, and Des Moines,
Ia, as places where policewoman was
paid from private funds, with approval
of the chief. In addition there were
numerous cities which employed police
matrons.
She had found upon INVESTIGATION
that the United States led in this de-
parture, for Notwithstanding reports
of the employment of policewomen in
| foreign countries she had been unable
| to learn that they were officially EN-
ploye6 abroad except in Norway; and
| in England in a voluntary way
| The need of women on the police
force had arisen, she said, from the
fact that industrial and social energy
no longer centered in the home, "but
has given us an age in which men,
women and children, eat, sleep, work
and play together as never before in
the worlds history
Mrs. Wells was the first policewo
man in Los Angeles, the post being
created upon her initiative. Il had
charge of this work." she said. "and
!! know two things: That girls and
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-22
THR|CE-A-WEEK EDITION
OF THE NEW YORK WORLD
Practically a Daily at The Price of a
Weekly-No Other Newspaper in
the World Gives so Much at
So Low a Price.

The year 1914 has been the most eX-
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times. 1t has witnessed the outbreak
of the great European war, a struggle
so titanic that it makes all others look
small.
You live in momentous times, and
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No other newspaper will inform you
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York World. Moreover, years sub
scription to it will take you far into
our next Presidential campaign.
The Thrice-a-Week Worlds regular
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offer this unequalled newspaper and
The Daily News for s565. The Thrice
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together for S1.35.
The regular subscription price Of
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tively.--Ady.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-22
TIE COMPANY IS
DECLARED A FRAUD
Officials Arrested For Misuse OF The
United States Mails.
Chg Associated PreS&.l

Pittsburg, May 22.-Dorothy Char
rington was arrested today in the of
flee of the United States Steel Tie Com
pany, charged by postal inspectors OF
the misuse of the mails. r. L. E
Maxey, president, was arrested here
last night, and Thomas Downey
fourth vice-president, was arrested in
Wilmington, Del, last night, on the
same charge. Authorities declare the
company is a paper concern.
Authorities allege that Downey or
ganized the Southern Loan and Real
Estate Company at Pensacola, with a
capital of a million dollars, but which
they said had but little money. This
company recently was taken over by
Maxey and was operated as tits loan
and contract" department. Downey
then left. the tie company.