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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07
A Pretty FrOck For a Child
81 a Smart Girl

was terribly lonesome for Elinor
today, so l ran over to Mollie's to see
the kiddies. 1t was raining, so ] knew
they would be at homo. Mollie has a
big playroom on the fourth floor,
where all the children of the neighbor-
hood cong cgate wen the weather
will not allow them to go out.
After l had entertained them for a
while telling them stories, l went
down to Mollie's boudoir to have a
chat. She was sewing, as usual, and
the dress she was working on attract.
ed my attention right away. You see,
it was so plain and SO fashionable
Many mothers waste time and eye
sight trying to embroider children's
dresses when they may be made just
as prettily by using palmer trim
mings, such as crochet buttons, dainty
edgings, etc.
This little dress was for Mollies
oldest youngster. who will be 10 next
July. She is one of those frail, dainty
children, who require background,
so to speak, to show up their charms
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07
WEEDS BUSCH HEIRESS.

st. Louis. Mo-, April THE ro'
nance of dashing young athlete who
was given a chance to make good in
the engine factory of the Busch family,
and who not only won laurels and pro-
motion in the factory, but won the
love of the pretty Busch heiress, had
a happy elimination today, when
Drummond Jones took as his bride
Miss Marie Busch, granddaughter of
the famous brewer, Adolphus Busch.
The engagement was announced last
month at family dinner. The love
affair was known in st. Louis society,
which had watched with interest the
progress of the young athlete in his
effort to make good" Young Mr..
Jones was formerly tennis champion
of the Mississippi Valley During the
past six months he has worked in the
Busch engine factory.
The wedding was quiet affair, on
account of the illness of the brides
uncle, Carl Busch. It took place at
Grant Farm, the Busch country home,
Rev. John w. Day, pastor of the Uni
tartan Church, officiating.
Miss Busch is only % years old, the
second oldest of five children of Au-
gust A. Busch. She is one of the
beauties of ST. Louis, and will come
into a large fortune. Three years ago
she was presented to society at one
of the most elaborate balls ever given
in the middle west.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07
ZUDORA
In the TWenty Million Dollar Mystery
b. HAROLD McGRATH

They're making for the Jersey shore
a few points. guess she gees about
twenty-three. TIN take her an hour TO
lose us entirely.
Since we can't overhaul her, keep.
ing her in sight is the next best thing"
replied Hunt Think of filing q water
bottle with diamonds and accidentally
dropping it overheard into the hands Of
confederates. Some head that man
Radcliffe has got. And they'd have got
away with it completely but for tho
stumbling on TO that code message
That was luck on our part They GER
tainly are leaving us behind. | can just
see that man Bruce's face. And. hang
it, know there are diamonds In that
bag and yet | couldn't prove it in court
They'll probably take them all out be-
fore we can land on them. wish
you'd Kick me when we get ashore.
Why didn't | draw my revolver and
cor Lham while ! picked mn the bagT'
Search me-. said Baird, smiling.
Now. don't get n crouch before din
ner. At least we got Zudora out OF
their clutches. and that's worth a bag
Of diamonds any day In the week"
And poor Storm went to the same
hut and never smelled rat Well, If
they get her again I'll give the job to
you. I've warned those two enough
about keeping their eyes open. She
and Nine. Du Val were both made pris-
oners, but evidently madame escaped
days ago. Peculiar, huhY'
Gould you arrest herr
mot on this deal. Oh, they're slippery
citizens. They don't take the turnips
out Of the pot until they are cooked.
Still gaining on us. Well. well have
to take our chances on land. III do
the work. You stay by the boat /
don't propose to walk back to Jersey
City. We wouldn't get into New York
until midnight Ha! There they got
Jersey shore it is, engineer. II you go
cross lots you can cut down a bit OF
their gain"
In the other boat they seemed to be
enjoying the voyage.
Right from under Hunts nose
That's what pleases me-" said Bruce.
Ike, when we land you slip behind
he warehouse. Gyp and 1 will scoot
Tor the old house on the HILL II one
alone follows. let him be, but If the
two Of them start on the trail muss
EN- up bit We've got to get these
stones out Of the water bottle In a
hurry"
"Any gun playP' asked the man
,ailed Ike.
CONTINUED on Page Five.)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07
Lost Opportunities
BIZ FLORENCE E. YODER

past errors and past mistakes. Fol
their pessimism precludes effort and
hampers achievement
Another class of "might-have-beens'
have completely different outlook
For these are optimists, and with a
Micawber-like persistency, they are
forever hoping that something will
turn up" What this mysterious and
decidedly nebulous Something may
be is matter of conjecture! But all
the same the conjecturing is very de-
lightful and pleasing, and has in it so
much of the gambling element that
these might-have-beens are almost
reconciled to their lot. They have one
saving grace and that is the sporting
spirit. One can really forgive failures
to the optimist, no matter how absurd
his method of life may be. For, in
perpetually looking for the brighter
side, he has learned one lesson of ire
IucuQOuS Value MI MlCd wv OT QOuOC-
less was trying proposition to his
wife, to his family and to his immedi:
ate circle, but at the same time he
formed a character in fiction that
could not well be. dispensed with; for
he was delightfully."- refreshing and en-
He certainly wasted little
time on idle brooding over lost oppor-
tunities, although the later certainly
were legion. And that is. the curious
part of the Micawber character. For
the men and women who are life's
failures generally suffer from poignant
regrets and bitter memories of hap
pier days. Only too truly do they find:
1t is truth the poet sings
That sorrows. crown of sorrow
Is remembering happier things.
The man who is working in uncon-
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07

In spite of all the controversy and
contention which circle around that
time-worn topic, life is pretty well just
what we choose to make it, and most
of the game is very largely left in our
own hands. The pity of the affair is
that so many people can't or won't
understand this, and drift along aim
lessly and in such a depressed fashion
that one cannot wonder that they new
er get anywhere at all.
In the whole vocabulary of the Eng
lish language, there is no sadder term
than might have been" And yet
there is a large and ever-increasing
human throng who might be congre-
gated together and labeled as the mel
ancholy army of the Might-Have-
Beens. For, although the fact may not
always have been brought home to
them, they are failures, and sooner or
later they are going to find that out
tres of lost opportunities, the ghosts
of those hundred and one chances,
which, like the proverbial tide, if
taken at the flood, lead on to fortune,
but which if neglected never returns,
and somehow or other they have
missed that tide, and fortune has elud-
ed them altogether. Luck has been
always dead against us!" they say in /
an injured tone. 1--WE haven't had a !
fair chancel 1t is shame that things |
should be so unequally divided in this !
world! Some people are born fortu- !;
nate, while others seem specially !
chosen out for misfortune
Wrapped in the delusion that for
une or misfortune is entirely a mat
er of luck, they drift along without
making the slightest effort to retrieve
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07

Her dress served this purpose admir-
ably. 1t was made of old rose linen,
with an odd little coatee for a waist,
over a guimpe of plated white rice
cloth.
The guimpe, of course, is one which
Mollie had, as all three children use
them, and they save a great deal of
laundry for busy woman The coat
was straight and loose, being tied in
front with a narrow black velvet rib
bon bow. Irish crochet buttons were
attached to the front of the coat in
rows.
The little skirt had a panel down
the front, and was full at the bottom.
Mollie said it is awfully easy to make.
She had some of the rose linen left
over, and out of this she made ban
deau for Dorothy's hat, with a few
French flowers on the side. Mollie
certainly is clever enough to bring out
Dorothy's good points now, and it is
well to start early, as the habit of
looking smart is good thing to instill
in child.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07

quiet, very quiet indeed. He looked
at pussy out of his eye, but not move
did he make until Old Cubic and Mar
tina were in bed and fast asleep, and
then little wooden dog began to growl.
',G-r-r-rr!" he said, and opened his
mouth at poor little pussy in a way
that frightened her very much; so
much that she fell right off the shelf
onto the floor, and hit a mouse that
was nibbling something on the hearth
by the fireplace.
Little mouse, thinking that some
dreadful creature had fallen upon him,
squaked and ran into the first hole
he came to, and that happened to
be the trap Martha had set for him.
When little china pussy cat fell to
the floor, little wooden dog lost his
balance and over he went, too, landing
on the hearth beside pussy; but he
picked himself up and began growing
again, and then, thinking of some
ing to eat, he hoped to the closet, for
you know he could not run or trot with
only two thick legs.
He found some meat, and also some
bread, and when he had eaten he felt
much better natured; so he went back
to the china puss and told her he
would help her sit up before the fire,
which he did by poking her with his
nose until she sat up as she did on
the shelf. -
do you live here alf the timer" he
asked china pussy, but before she
could answer something terrible hap
pened. A spark few out from the fire
and landed right on poor little wooden
dogs nose, and being wood, it burned,
and little wooden dog ki-ed and hop
ped, making such noise that poor
Old Cubic and Martha thought some
thing dreadful had gotten into their
uOdoC, anu bhOy NONCAC GU up GICll uCduS
and trembled
1T is all the wicked elves and their
witches" said old Martha, and she
tried to get Cubic up, but Cubic had
not thought of getting into trouble, so
he kept his head under the clothes
until morning.
Next morning Cubic looked at little
wooden dog, and he was sure he saw
his little square tail move, but of
course he did not tell Martha, because
she did not like little dogs.
Every morning he took little wooden
dog to the woods with him and al
ways some of the dinner disappeared;
so Cubic knew that little wooden
dog must have been touched by fairy
Or an elf, and he laughs to himself
when Martha says it is queer how that
wooden dog falls OF the shelf so Of
ten and in the morning is found in
front Of the fire. -
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07

genial surroundings, or whose duty lies
in an uncongenial task, or whose ambi-
tions have been sadly unfulfilled is up
against a very hard situation For it
takes every bit of courage and every
scrap of strength to go through the
daily round and it is so desperately
hard to keep from bitterly rebelling
against ones lot Behind the dull,
apathetic faces of many of the worlds
toilers there lie grand possibilities,
wonderful aspirations-bu shut in,
hidden, almost crushed. And, oh, how
these poor souls are yearning for
wider spherel
Yet if we seize every opportunity
that life offers-and life does offer
wonderful chances, if only we have
eyes to see and hearts to understand
there ought to be a feeling of salts
faction, of accomplishment in our
lives. To the door of each, opportuni-
ty comes knocking. Decisive action
and strength of mind will accomplish
success. And faithfulness in small
things will bring the bigger oppor-
tunities in its train.
Then in our lives we. need have no
bitter regres, no profitless dwellings
on lost opportunities. For we have
seized opportunities and have devel-
oped them, we have made of ourselves |
and our lives something truly worth |
while. And to be able to say to one |
self at the end of long day that it |
all has been worth while" Is the only |
thing in the whole world that really
matters.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07
Bedtime Stories
For Little Folks
THE LITTLE WOODEN DOG.

Old Cubic was wood chopper, and
he had been working hard all the
morning; so, when it was time to eat
the dinner his wife Martha had put
into the tin kettle, he did not wait to
finish splitting the limb his Ratchet
was buried in; he left it on the ground,
his pail sat-
In the pail was a piece of mince pie
1t was the kind Cubic loved; but best
of all was his pipe, which he took from
his pocket when he had eaten all the
good things old Martha had given him.
And while he smoked, Old Cubic
picked up piece of wood and began
to white something. And what do
you think it was?
1t was a little wooden dog that Old
Cubic fashioned with his knife, for
Cubic dearly loved dog, but old Mar
tina would have none of them; so,
when Cubic was alone and saw bits
of wood and had his knife, he always
whitfield out a little dog and sat it up
where he could see it, pretending it
was alive
NOW, Bruno, boy" he said to the
little wooden dog, watch my pail, for
have left a piece of bread and meat.
See that no one takes it, for shall be
hungry before night"
After he put little wooden dog by
his pail, Cubic forgot all about him,
and began chopping wood, and it was
then that the change took place in the
wooden dog.
A sly wood elf happened to come
that way and when he saw the funny
square, wooden dog by the pail he be-
gan to laugh, and then he danced, for
he had thought of trick to play on
the wooden dog by Gubbo's pail.
Il will touch him. he said, land
make him alive; it will be a good joke
on Old Cubic"
So the sly elf did touch the little
wooden dog, and he wagged his tail /:
then he shifted the air and smelled the
meat, and then what do you think lit
tie wooden dog did next? He ate up
all of Gubbo's meat and bread
But the very worst thing happened
later When Cubic took up his pail
to go home, instead of throwing little
wooden dog away, as he usually did
with the dogs he Whitfield out, Cubic
put little wooden dog in his pocket and
carried him home.
He put little wooden dog on the
shelf over the fireplace. beside little
china pussy, for Cubic knew nothing
about the trick the wood elf had
played on him.
But little wooden dog was very
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07

Hominy and Eggs and Bacon
Rinse a mold in cold water and pack
it with two cupfuls of cooked hominy.
When formed, turn out on a dish and
cover with thin slices of bacon. Cook
in the oven until the bacon is crisp
and serve with poached eggs around
it,
Birds Nests.-On each dessert plate
or at each plate at the beginning of
dinner, place a small birds nest Of
candied orange peel in which there
are ssome candy eggs. The eggs can
be made of uncooked fondant, rolled in
ground pecan or walnut meats or
dipped in chocolate Make the fon-
dant by mixing the unbeaten white of
an egg, pinch of cream tartar, two
tablespoonful of cream and enough
confectioners sugar to make stiff
cream. Then mold into little eggs
and roll in the nuts or else chill for
wv AOuAo dlIST ulOIu1uS ana uID III
melted chocolate. To make the nests
make candied orange peel as follows:
Cut the thin outer peel of two or three
oranges into shreds and soak for "a
hours in cold salt water, with two
tablespoonfuls of salt to a quart of
water. Rinse. cover with fresh cold
water and boil until tender. Make
a syrup Of two cupfuls of sugar to a
cupful and a quarter of water and
when it boils add the peel and simmer
gently until the peel looks clear and
the syrup thickens. Take out little
at a time and roll in graduated sugar.
Let it dry and form into little nests.
Sponge Cake.-Beat the yolks of
five eggs until they are creamy, add
cupful of sugar gradually, beating all
the time Then add the juice and
rind Of half lemon and a pinch of
salt. Then fold in whites of the eggs
beaten dry, and fold in cupful of
pastry -four.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07
HOLD WEDDING; WIRE; SUES.

New York, April z. - Eugene R.
Rosen-Baum began suit to recover
$4,000 from the Postal Telegraph Com
pany.
Rosen-Baum sent a telegram Feb
ruary 1, last, to Gustave Herder, in
East Lynn, Mass. The message told
Herder that Rosen-Baum and Herder's
daughter would like to have him home
by their wedding day. The plaintiff
says his father-in-law did not get the
telegram until after the wedding, and
was so disappointed that he refused to
sign the ante-nuptial agreement.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07
WIDOWED FOR SIXTH TIME.

Shamokin, Pa, April Mrs. Joseph
Sobel, became a widow for the sixth
time when her husband died in the
state hospital He was burned by gas
in an explosion. The coal mines claim
ed all of Mrs. SobeIs husbands.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07
NOT TARDY IN IL YEARS.

Anna, H., April Miss Chloe D.
Bishop, seventeen, daughter of w. G.
Bishop, farmer living near here, has
just completed twelve years of school
work as a student in the Anna schools
and the Newton rural school without
being either tardy or absent at any of
the sessions.
She has made arrangements to enter
the state normal school to complete a
four years course
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07
VIII ENEvER YOU NEED A GENE.
RAJ TONIC TAKE GROVES :.

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Toxic is equally valuable as q
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUI-
NINE and IRON. 1t acts on the Liver,
Drives out Malaria. Enriches the
Blood and Builds up the Whole Sys-
tenn. so cents.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07
CHAPTER XIX.

The Prisoner In the PiIothouse.
AN we make them" asked
Baird of Hunt, as their mo
~ torboat sped up the river In
pursuit Of the smugglers.
Il can't tell just yet Think of them
yanking that water bottle out of my
hand! I'll bet it had hundred gems
inside. Well. well: that's what comes
by being overconfident. hey, engineer.
what speed are we makingY'
About eighteen miles,"
us that higher powered boat than
ours?"
Don't know nothing about her. sir"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07

home, so that he feared that one day
she might turn out equally selfish and
lazy if they shared one.
The love that lasts is not impossi-
BILE to gain, but it needs care and
kindness and unselfishness lavished
upon it from the very beginning.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07
TOMORROW'S MENU

Soon at Easter cometh Alleluja,
With butter, cheese and a tansey."
old Christmas Carol.
Breakfast.
Figs
Hominy and Eggs and Bacon
Raised Biscuits
Coffee
Dinner. tiet'",
Cream of Celery Soup
Roast Beefn2sN "
Boiled Onions Mashed Potatoes
Cranberry Jelly
Salad Vanilla Ice Cream
Birds Nests
Coffee
Supper.
Pork and Beans
Graham Bread
Preserves Sponge Cake
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07
WOn1Qn,s Part in
the NelUs TODAY

and ran away with my groom. That
was the last straw. Before that she
had been running around with other
people and worrying me so that / al
most got killed through my nervous.
ness"
Hill got his divorce.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07

She's pulling away from US slight
ly." growled Baird.
But you can take it from me, mis-
ter, that she wont pub so far away
that we can't tell where and when she's
going to land. got plenty of OIL" said
the engineer
We'll, keep her right where she is
and duck for shore when they do"
commanded Hunt.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07

The waste OF metal from the rub
bing Of coins together is said to
amount to over a ton of gold and IS
tons of silver annually in the United
States alone.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07

The largest sponge ever found came
from the Mediterranean. It was three
feet across and measured ten feet in
circumference.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07
"HiGH" FLYER, AVA.
TOR DIVORCED

Boston, April Tim an aviator,
judge, but that wife of mine flew high
er than I did," said William H. Hill
to Judge Walker. Zone time when
was giving an exhibition in Boston she
took about 800 and lot of property
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07

A normal person perspires twice as
much when asleep as when awake.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-07

The man who is working in uncon
The Monticellonian., 1915-11-04
Home blurl.
 ' ' Helps '
VALUE OF TREES IN STREETS
Matter Is Becoming Universally Rec osnized as Highly important Part
 of City Planning.

We occasionally find in tbs public print a news item that gives especial qualification because it marks some progressive step in one or another di- rection Such a note is that from Bridgewater. Mass. wherein the tree warden of that town. in support Of claims for the loss of trees by eseap- ing Illuminating gas makes the aeser- ton that the destruction Of good healthy shade trees on property de ereases its valuation at least % per cent. That Is good doctrine and we hope 1t will be affirmed in the court should court action De found reees- sary to collect compensation in this instance Gas and electric companies will not be so careless regarding in jury to trees. public or private. when the public eeme to full realization of their rights and a proper estimate of the intrinsic value of growing trees as property and as material assets in computing the worth of a town from a practical as well as an esthetic standpoint Massachusetts has good tree warden laws and as rule her towns have been blessed with good earnest officials who have performed the duties of their position in q most able, conscientious and public-sPiTited manner
The Monticellonian., 1915-11-04
Soft Answer.

A tramp approached certain Downs home the other morning rapped on the back door, and when the lady of the house appeared, he began to clear his throat, prepara tory to telling his hard-luck story.
 .Get away from here said the woman "l never feed professional buns
 But, madam, I am not a profes sional bum" said the tramp. T am a psychologist travelling in the in terest of science. read character at glance. In looking into the soulful depths of your beautiful eyes. I read there that you are by nature a kind-hearted. gentle, gen ereus woman. It is these notable i'm pulses and the contemplation of chari- table deeds that keep you looking so young and handsome.
 You poor. tired hungry man. said the woman. Come inside and I will give you some breakfast
 Moral.-Diplomacy is mightier than the sword-Downs (Kan.) Times.
The Monticellonian., 1915-11-04
After Twenty Years.

He was asking the old man for his daughter in marriage. He was talk ing tremblingly, hesitatingly, as the heroes do in story books. Now came the old mans turn to speak. and as he began his face was white with pas sion and his voice shook with excite ment.
 You want to marry my daughter? said the father. An, Twenty years ago your father crippled me in a stock deal, and l swore to be reyenged And now my time has come
 He paused for breath, and the as. pirant for the maiden's hand was about to beat a hasty retreat in the face of supposed defeat when the ia, ther broke forth again:
 Yes, sir, I swore to be revenged, and I'll strike the father through the son. Want my daughter-eh? We'll take her, and may she prove as ex' pensive to you as she has to mel
 The old man dropped into his chair, worn out with the excitement of his plot, and the young man tainted.