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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-12-16

SLIP IT 10 TsE LApnlEs AT FIRE
HEAoouAR9ERs; THEY
WANT A MASCOT.

Anybody got an extra Billy goat,
trained flee, fox terrier, gold fish. or
canary bird hanging around wanting a
home? Ii so. take said animal, fish,
or fowl to Fire Headquarters, and the
laddies over there will be both father
and brother TO it.
Since Buster, the fox terrier mascot
got in front of the big automobile en-
gine down on East Pine street
the other day, and was crushed to
death. the headquarters laddies have
been perfectly lost. Buster came to
them when he was mere puppy He
was raised in the firefighting business,
and there hasn't been an alarm an
swered by the Headquarters crew for
a year, that Buster didn't precede the
engines to the blaze.
The firemen have had bad luck with
their canine mascots, and they are try
ing to get some other kind of an ami
NAL to keep them company this time.
1t may be necessary for them to get
another fox terrier, but it is possible
that they will select Billy goat.
We're going to keep it tied up all
the time, too, said rip" Fail I'VE
&.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-12-16

Discussing this state. DR.. Whitfield
says:
This decrease has been due to
treatments, more care about the prem
ises, and better information concern
ing hookworm disease promulgated
through thousands of printed pamph-
let's scattered through the county.
"A glance at the figures above will
show that almost one-third of the total
area of the county has been worked
lover during this year in an intensive
campaign for better living conditions.
Many homes have been visited a dozen
times before any response has been
obtained The communities mapped
out were those containing the larger
Continued ON Page Eight
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-12-16
CITY HALL OFFICES
ARE BEING REPAIRED
ROOMS OF COMMISSIONERS AND
POLICE CHIEF GET WINTER
CLEANING.

The rooms of the City Commission
ers and the other officials of the mu-
nicipality, on the second floor OF the
City Hall, are undergoing a course OF
repairs today and when the painters
and paper-hangers and decorators get
through with them, they wont be rec
ognzabie.
For a couple of days things have
been torn up in two of the rooms,
while a small army of painters and
decorators have been at work.
Whether the big assembly room will
be overhauled has not yet been deter
mined
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-12-16

the anger of the said Styrone Laler
in the same year the said Styrone
made the charge of Bastardy against
the said Otho Shows, his daughter
Lola, reputed to be at the time IS
years old, becoming pregnant and sub
sequently giving birth to child.
This cause was never brought to trial,
but in 1914 Otho was indicted by the
grand jury of Forrest county for Sc
duction. On or about the 23rd of
November, officers came for him in
an automobile, rushed him to Hatties-
burg and forced him into trial without
: an attorney with the results as above
stated. Ohio is barely out of his
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-12-16
TRAIN ROBBER
TO Be BROUGHT
TO HATT|ESBURG
Harry Lester, Convicted Of Muir
der, VIII Be Lodged In
County Jail
NO CHANCE FOR HIS
ESCAPE FROM HERE

Found Guilty Of Trying to Rob L. &. NJ
Baggage and Express Car Near Bay
ST. Louis Several Months Age, and
Given a Life Term in the Peniten-
tiary-Has Appealed His Case to the
Mississippi Supreme Court.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-12-16

teens, an unlearned country boy, and
has and still proclaims his innocence
of the crime. In view of the fact that
he went to the penitentiary although
being pressed to marry the girl. in
which event his freedom was assur-
ed, together with the fact that he has
always enjoyed the respect of all VINO
knew him. we believe him innocent
and pray his pardon.
Respectfully submitted.
L. M. Petway,
T. w. Parker,
Walter Renolds
and others.
Hattiesburg, Miss, Dec. Z. 1915.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-12-16
(By associated PreSS.l

London, Dec 16.-The government
of Austria-Hungary would argue with
the United States over the sinking OF
the American-bound italian STEAMSHIP.
the AncOna, which was sent to the
bottom of the Mediterranean Sea by
an Austrian torpedo boat some DAYS
ago, costing the lives of several ciii-
sens OF the United States
Austria's reply to the note Ii tif
Unied states regarding the sinking II
the ship, was handed to Ambassadar
Penfield at Vienna Tuesday. according
to a news dispatch from Amsterdam
From the sharpness with which the
United States believed the foreign
government ought TO censure the sub
marine commander, and the firmness
which the United States demands. the
Austrian government intmates that it
expected the United States TO clearly
give actual circumstances concerning
its side of the case
The representation of circumstances
of the United States, the answer says.
allows numerous doubts, and does not
give sufficient reasons for blaming the
submarine commander and Austria.
| Austria. in principle, it continues. is
prepared to enter into an exchange
of opinion with the United States. and
says that the United States should
specify what legal maxms the sub
marine commander violated.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-12-16

= = = q q = . q q q q q = = Q Z
TABLE OF CONTENTS.

. Page "a Christmas of Pres Z
perity-an editorial.
. Page 10-Lumber is King.
Timber Bearing Areas.
= Plenty of Playthings. Z
= Page 11-Gifts and How 10 Make
q Them.
= Page 14-Handling Citrus Fruits 4
= Page 16-Pecan Industry in the Z
= South.
= Section 8. .
= Page 17-Homeseekers Invited.
Advertising Time =
= Dixies Roads I'M
= proved
. Page 1S-South Diversified .
. Crops
The School Marin. .
. Page 21-Home-made Presents q
= Page 22-Gifts made at home. =
= Section q. 4
= Page 25-What Mississippi Has =
= Done. 4
Tick Mar Pushed.
. State Benefited. 4
= Page 26-Highway Associations
. Work. 4
= Page 27-Christmas Cheer Song. .
= Page 28-Growing Strawberries
= in South .
. Page 30-Buying Food in Bulk. =
State Road Bureau. =
= Schools for Citizens. =
= Page '2-How Long is a Road? =
= Stragetic Highway Now =
= Section 5. =
. Page 33-A Christmas Message =
. from John Sharp Will =
q liams
= Page 33-Letters to Santa Claus Z
Z Page 40--Paper Shell Pecans. Z
= Section 6. q
= Pee - agricultural cnimon :
. Sense. =
q Page 42--Oldest Cotton Bale. 4
q Would Save Cotton.
q Disease Carrying Ca =
. mines.
= Page 44-Christmas in the Navy =
= Christmas Articles. =
. Page 45-Making Own Toys =
= Page46-Original White Wings .
. Winter Care of Roads. =
. Apples for Soldiers. =
= Page 47-Christmas Gifts =
e Holiday Ailments. =
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-12-16
HEALTH EXPERT
FORREST
MODEL COUNTY
Has Done More To Reduce
Hookworm Than Any Other
County In Stale
DISEASE HAS DECREASED
so PERCENT In 3 YEARS

DR.. Whitfield, On Completing His
Work Here, Pays High Compliment
To This Section-Has Covered 1872
Miles Area During the Year Just
Ending-One More Year, he Says,
Would Practically Free County of
Disease.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-12-16
WOULD ARGUE
ISH|P SINKING
WITH THE j. S.
Wants To Exchange Opinions
Concerning Destruction
OF The Ancona
REPLY GIVEN TO PENFIELD
IN VIENNA ON TUESDAY

The Note Says That The Representa-
tions of the United States Allows
Numerous Doubts, and Does Not
Give Sufficient Reasons for Blaming
the Submarine Commander-Wants
This Country to Specify the Laws
Broken. =
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-12-16

Charlie Murphy was fined $3.50 in
Police Court this morning on the
charge of drunkenness.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-05

raphsr II using instruments of the same
size and construction, and. after the
thousands Of photographs have been taken
many years will be required to measure
them and prepare the results for publ
cation. q,
But merely making catalogs and maps
does not satisfy the ambitious asfrono
mers. They not only want to know how
many stars there are. but they also want
to know how far away they are, what
their dimensions are, of what substances
they are composed. how they change ap
pearance, how they move. the relation
they bear to our sun, and what Their origin
and destiny may be. =
No astronomer has yet been able to
measure the diameter Of any star. because
they are all SO frightfully far away. For,
instance: the sun has Q diameter OF $50,
600 miles. yet to q person on the dxed star
Sirius II would look 40 small as marble
5000 miles away
Rough estimates Of the probable jsises
Of stars are the best that astronomers
can make. These estimates are com
puted from the amount Of light It ernits
and the distance It ID away. The stars
Capella and vega. are thought to be much
larger than the sun. Some Astronomer
are bold enough to say that Arcturus =
l.0e0. 900 times larger than the SUN.
AiSar.- which is at the bend Of the,
handle In the Great Dipper. 10 calculated
70 be 1t least forty times as massive 10
tho san The star Alsol is periodically
ec1ipeed by dark body revolving shout
q 80. computing By the length OF the
enllpee and other data. : diameter a.
4eeA1oe niiee tas been 0etained tor Il
The Washington herald., 1915-09-05

No star sends to earth any measurable
stars gives 1-60th as much light IS the
full moon. Seven billion stars like Sirius
would be required to make night as bright
n day now is.
There are single stars and double stars.
about 10000 Of the latter sort being cata-
logged. Many more have been seen, but
astronomers so far have neglected them
to pay more attention to their brighter
brethren. The eye alone cannot see .
double star. but . telescope easily sepa-
rates them.
!. In pairs Of stars. each of them revoives
about its common center of gravity.
For all that astronomers on earth can say,
these stars may be surrounded by groups
of planets just rs our sun is, for the
planets, II there are any, would not be
visible.
II IL considered very likely that the
motion OF double stars is controlled by
the force Of gravity. Inasmuch as the
spectroscope shows that the stars are
composed Of elements found In the earth.
the sun, the planets. the comets and the
ing that the same materials when found
N the stars observe the sams law of
rravitation as the materials on earth and
other planets.
The care with which astronomers pro
ceed IN investigations cf the heavens is
Fascinating. In the hrst half OF the nine
steenth century thousaads Of obssrvations
~ Sirius were made. and the more OBJ
sasnsstly accuracy vas sought the more
=
The Washington herald., 1915-09-05

similar to certain prominences Of the
sun Some are bright and some are dark.
Certain astronomers think that they are
the result Of stupendous uprushes into
resisting medium. The dark forms may
be caused by an entire absence of matter
OF any sort or by the presence Of great
masses Of opaque material which obscure
the stars behind them.
Considerable uniformity marks the dis
tribution of naked eye stars through the
whole sky. On the other hand those that
cannot be seen without telescope aid are
arranged very differently. They are most
thickly crowded in the Milky Way. and on
either side of 1t the number in a given
area is less. The farther one goes away,
from the Milky Way the fewer are the
stars that can be seen by the telescope.
In the Milky Way. for instance. there u
an average Of thirty times rs many stars
as can be found In an equal area outside
Of IL
At the present time astronomers the
world over are engaged In an Interesting
occupation. They are cataloging all the
stars in the heavens. and when they get
through they win have book at least -
large as the stupendous catalogs Of mail
order houses.
Many times have astronomers attempted
to make a star catalog. but never have
they been able to make . complste md
satisfactory one. This time the work b
being done by Photographic plates A
number of observers scattered all over tha
world have united to photograph The eot
tire heavsna 0Ach astsoacnsrIote
So
The Washington herald., 1915-09-05

impossible It was to make the observa-
tions agree.
Fifty years ago a famous German as
tronomer attacked the problem of Sirius
and found that she was moving in tiny
curve and that this motion was probably
caused by q companion star. A few years
later two other German astronomers made
q more thorough investigation and reached
the conclusion that the companion star
made q complete revolution of Sirius In
fifty years. pointed out the direction in
which the companion lay from Sirius and
the direction In which II was moving.
Eight years later another astronomer veri
fed their predictions by finding the COM
panion star itself. In numerous cases
have astronomers by their observations Of
the beha vior Of stars and by calculations
predicted that new stars would be found
at such and such place at a certain time
and invariably their predictions have come
true.
The most interesting class of double
stars are those In which the two com
panions are SO close together that they
can never be seen separately. Spica in
Virgo is double star that completes its
revolution in four days. The components.
provided they are OF equal size. are but
heavier than the sun
Sometimes . solar system contains
three or more revolving suns. Epsilon
IA a system Of four suns. Theta Orionis
r. composed Of SIX suns There are any
number Of instances Of multiple stars.
that Is. where several are grouped rela-
lively Close together. zsta Canort ~
J. :
The Washington herald., 1915-09-05

are able to see? Thousands
and thousands of them!" is the
usual answer. Some star gazers go even
further. There are millions of stars out
tonight" is a familiar exclamation. And
as it happens, both answers and exclama-
tions are wrong.
The number of stars that are visible to
An average eye on clear night are sur
prisingly few. They can be definitely
counted and, in most cases. surprising as 1t
seems, amount to no more than 1000. The
faint stars near the horizon are blotted
see all the stars near the horizon as we'll
as We can see those directly above. 5000
would be visible to the naked eye.
But those who have thought they could
see millions of stars in the sky can take
comfort in this astounding fact: F. A.
Lindemann, distinguished astronomer. has
recently made the calculation that not
vithstanding the fact that there are hun
dreds of millions of stars that can be seen
by telescope and that leave their impress
on Photographic plate. there are at least
1000 times as many dark stars as there
are visible stars in the heavens. So there
is small comfort left to the eye that Is
able to see but 1000 of the countless hosts
Of heaven.
Thousands Of stars that otherwise would
be unseen are brought out by an or
dinary spyglass. But the largest tele-
scopes bring out millions that the human
eye of its own accord would never see.
The Photographic plate. however, holds
the record for seeing the largest number
OF stars Hundreds of millions Of stars
are sufficiently bright to leave their i'm
press on a plate when it is used in con-
junction with telescope.
The Photographic plate when 1t has been
exposed for several hours also brings out
an astonishing complexity of structure in
stars. Curious curved lines OF stars, great
cloud-like forms. long narrow paths and
large dark spots Of q great variety Of
shapes have all ben revealed by its search.
ing eve.
Very often the photograph records
nnmerous tree-like forms which are much
The Washington herald., 1915-09-05

rye quenehIess stars! SO eIoquentiy bright,
untroubIed sentries of the shadowy night,
While half the world 10 Tapped in downy
dreams,
beams,
How sweet to gaze upon your placid eyes,
In Iambent beauty looking from the skies"
MONTGOMERY.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-07-01
Mrs. Joseph Garrlgan Dies

Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Joseph Gar
rigan died at the North Wheeling
hospital. Her illness extended over
several weeks. but was not of a SER
-ious. nature until Friday of last week
when uranic poisoning set in, neces-
stating her removal to. the hospital.
Mrs. Garirgan was the wife of
Joseph Garrigan, the popular Molder,
and the saddest feature connected
with her demise was the fact that
three small children remain to mourn
her loss. The remains were taken to
Pittsburgh, Tuesday for interment.
To Mr.. Garrigan and the children
go the sympathy Of the entire com
munity..
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-07-01

intruder. might mean harm to-
their dear kiddies- So they made a
furious assault upon me with their
tongues. More than that. They tried
to summon enough courage to assault
me with their beaks and wings and.
claws.
One of them, two dozen feet or so
directly above my head, with claws
in battle array, let herself descend
rapidly right toward me. Maybe it.
was only bluff to try to brighten me
away. Or, maybe she really intended
TO attack me- If SO, her courage fail
ed when she was within a few inches
of my hand-protected face, and she
flew away upbraiding me fercely in
her own language.
If they had only known it, I would
not have harmed their wee ones for
the world. On the contrary, if | could
have done anything to help to bring
them up in the way little blackbirds
should go, / would have done it with
delight in my heart,
But, no, they could not know this.
They could only Judge me by other
human beings. Their forefathers ana
foremothers had peen despoiled and
murdered and maltreaIed by the fore
bears of the human race. They had
found many of the present generation
of humans to be their enemies. For
the sins of my kind, and for my own
early sins, had to endure the dis
trust and dislike of these glossy little
mothers bent on protecting their
young.
There was no help for it. They
would not trust me. saw that was
only a nuisance TOT them. 1t is not
agreeable to feel that one is NUS
ance. So I backed my boat out and
pulled off into theb listering sun.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-07-01
the moment it does pay. That is the
usual capitalistic idea
ORIGINAL SIN
fBy John M. Work.

It was warm morning. had been
pulling the cars vigorously. l had
stripped as much as civilized human
ityAwith its funny mental CROCHET to
the effect that the muhan body is dis
graceful permit. Yet was still
overwarm. Casting about for shade,
l spied tiny island with trees over
hanging the water. I bent to the oars
and quickly pulled up under the CRATE
full refreshing boughs.
AS sat enjoying the GOODNESS I be
came conscious of noisy chattering
in the branches above me. Looking
up i found that had attracted the
angry attention of score Of mother
blackbirds. Evidently. their nests and
little ones were hard by. was an
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-07-01
The President S Mistake

In his message to congress on De-
comber 9. 1914, President Wilson
said in speaking of the shipping bill:
The government must open these
gates of trade, and open them wide;
omen them before it is altogether pro-
trable to open them, or altogether
reasonable to ask private capital. and
engage it in abundance, the govern
ment ought to withdraw.
In other words, the government
should put itssmoney into this ship
ming business until it is brought up
TO a paying basis, and then, when it
p;vs. the business should forthwith
he turned back again to the private
capitalists.
The Presidents idea seems to be
that we, the people of this nation.
should work and slave and save up
our money, put it in the hands OF our
authorities and let them invest it in
developing a shipping industry to
point where it pays big dividends, and
then turn it over to the capitalists. 7
This is boosting capitalism with
vengeance. And yet this is just what
has happened all along. Practically
afl Of our great railway systems were
given these companies during all the
years they were getting started. Over
226,OOO,O0O acres of land, and nobody
knows how many millions of dollars
OF the public wealth, have been sunk
in these enterprises during the last
seventy-five years. And yet today. af-
ter building up this mighty empire,
we, the people,, do not own it. 1t
owns u.s.
So now the President wants us to
build up another gigantic trust, and
as soon as it is built we are to turn
it over to the money power.
We protest. Let us have govern
ment ships-yes. Let us have whole
system of aforementioned steam
ship lines, great and efficient mer-
chant marine Let us open these
gates of trade" and as the President
says, "and open them wide" Let us
build up the shipping trade. Let US
develop it as we have developed the
railroads. Let us bring it up to Z pay
ing basis. But then let US keep it
and make it serve thes people.
This is strange philosophy, that
the government should undertake
only that which loses money and must
not undertake that which, makes
money; fine public policy. That the
government should own and operate a
public utility when it doesn't pay, and
turn it over to the private capitalists
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-07-01

Commissioners
state If west Virginia, County Of Ohio, to-wit:
for the above named
county and certify that Messrs Raa5 T. Mcans
the above
he January by me being duly
ala depose true to the
thcr knoW1e and belief
pess and February 1915
Supscl T. CARTER,
Notary Public and for Ohio County. West Virginia.
Nv oommission expires October ri 1911
Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-23
Shipping Trust
Is Out Of Funds;
May Be Receiver

NEW YORK. March 22--E. e. Parvin.
secretary of the International Mercantile
Marine company, which operates the
White Star. Red Star Atlantic Trans
port and other transatlantic steamship
lines, issued today a statement concern
ing reports that receiver might be ap-
piled for in the courts to take charge
of the company's affairs;
The International Mercantile Marine
company. not being in funds OF October
4. last, the date upon which the interest
became due on its ~ per cent bonds,
took advantage of the provision, OF the
mortgage which allowed six months
grace on payment OF The coupons before
the company could be declared IN de-
fault. This time will not be up till April
!. Any action as 10 receivership will
not be taken, II at all till April !.
IL a receiver is asked for Il would not
mean bankruptcy. for despite the war the
International Mercantile Marine COM
pany has been doing a good business"
The bond issue upon which the pay
ment OF interest was deferred last oc-
tober Is for s62.Ooo.OoO.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-23
Rock Island Minority
Not Allowed Access
To Company's Books

NEW YORK, March 22.--John J. ouin-
Ian, vice president Of the Chicago, Rock
Island g. Pacific Railway company. and
Robert u Forbes, it's transfer agen1
wete discharged when they appeared be-
ore police magistrate today on sum
mons charging that they refused to per-
NIT stockholders 20 inspect the company s
stock transfer books. The defendants
were summoned on January % upon COM
plant on Warren G. Crane. a member OF
the so-called Amster committee, repre-
senting tho minority stockholders.
The magistrate declared that in his
opinion II did not constitute a violation
OF the law for an officer OF foreign
corporation In charge OF stock books
within this state to refuse to allow stock
soldiers 10 see the share book.
The demands OF the minority stockhold-
ers were prompted by a desire to secure
proxies 10 vote ct the coming annual
meeting in Chicago.