We are authorized to annoui
B. SYLVESTER HOWELL
Caadldate for Justice of the Peace,
Beat 1, Forrest County, subject to the
action of the Democratic voters at a
special election to be held June 9,
1*08.
>
We are authorized to announce
•_ ' J. E. RAWLS
Candidate for Justice of the Peace,
Beat 1, Forrest County, subject to the
action of the Democratic voters at a
special election to be held June 9,
1908.
We are authorized to announce
LEONARD L. WARD,
Candidate for Justice of the Peace,
Boat 3, Forrest County, subject to the
action of the Democratic voters at a
special election to be held June 9,
1908.
We are authorized to announce
W. C. HARDEE
Candidate for Justice of the Peace,
Beat 1, Forrest County, subject to the
action of the Democratic voters at a
special election to be held June 9,
1908.
MUNICIPAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Daily News Is authorized to an
nounce the following candidates sub
ject to the action of the Democratic
voters of the city of Hattiesburg;
FOR MAYOR.
T: J. JACKSON.
DR. E. DILL.
DR. J. D. DONALD.
C. W. RICH.
I*'
FOR POLICE JUSTICE.
J. E. DAVIS.
B. A. ANDERSON.
C. F. REDDOCH.
FOR CITY CLERK.
A. FAIRLEY.
J. H. SELBY.
FOR ALDERMEN.
(Ward One.)
DR. E. J. MITCHELL.
F. H. CLIN'E.
M. J. EPLEY.
J. A. FRAZIER
(Ward Two.)
R. A. CAMERON
H. C. GREER.
J. W. GAY
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(Ward Three.
JOHN F ANDERSON.
M. DUNN.
' A T. POWE.
J S. DEES
' C. 1 L ASSITER.
(Ward Four.)
R. c. McKenzie.
T. 0. WATKINS.
T. A HIGHTOWER.
ALDER t AN-AT-LARGE.
J. W.: J NT AGUE
M. j. McGrath.
FOR CITY TREASURER.
L. D. SMITH.
E. B. GEORGE.
JOHN WILLIAMS.
CITY MARSHAL.
o. e^6ufkin.
<JHftkLE3 POOLE.
-"" J. F. WILLIAMS.
BTREET COMMISSIONER.
A. C. DUCKWORTH
JEROME PEACHER.
B. J. BRADLEY.
M. W. CLARK.
A. H. INNERARITY.
ABNER SUMRALL.
CITY TAX COLLECTOR.
J. F. BENNETT.
THE fEET
GARRY
THE BURDEN
Shoes Hand
Sewed
Half
Soled. _
75c
BUT IT CAN BE
MADE LIGHTER
By haying good, solid com
fort SHOES. I have opened
up an exclusive shoe store
at my old stand on East Pine
Street, and will be glad to
have yon call anVl look at my
nice assortment of Regent
Shoes., None better made.
H. NATHAN
EAST PINE STREET
We Still Do
All Kinds
of Shoe
Repairing
THE REGENT
$ 3.50
SHOE
AGRARIAN
AGITATION
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Right to Hold Land At Property
is Question of the Moment
With Italians.
I
i
SERIOUS CONFLICT
IS NOT IMPROBABLE
At Least 40,000 Men Are Said to Be
on Strike and the .Movement .Is
Being Extended to Other Important
Districts.
Hearst News Service.
Rome, May 27.—The agrarian agi
tation at Parma .Italy, is likely to re
sult In a conflict of a serious char
acter. The question is not one of
wages, but of the right to hold land
as property; at least so it Is under
stood by the proprietors, who declare
that they dare not make any conces
sions in a fight which involves their
very existence. The movement has
already reached formidable dimen
sions; the number of strikers is said
to be 40,000, with the possibility of ex
tension to other districts, while the
towns people of Parma, manufactur
ers and others, who are making com
mon cause with the landed proprietors
threaten a lockout should their em
ployes proclaim a general strike in
sympathize with the other party. Both
sides have been preparing for a strug
gle for some time past, so that it is
likely to be obstinate.
CLUB HOUSE
PLANS MADE
Los Angeles to Have the Finest
Building of Its Kind in
the World.
Hearst News Service.
Los Angeles, Cal., May 27.—The Los
i
Angelos Athletic Club proposes to j
build what It claims will be the finest '
ciub house in the world. The sti nc-1
' ture will be of reinforced concrete
throughout. The cost of building and
I the site will be $1,150,000..
ALL PARTIES
ARE INVITED
Hearst News Service.
Washington, May 27.—Leaders of
the Republican, Democrat, Prohibition,
Socialist and Populist parties have
been invited to address the National
Progressive convention of Colored Peo
ple of Dayton, O., next month.
TO MEET
Hearst News Service.
Washington, May 27.—Plans for a
practical application of the Zionist
movement, it was announced today,
will be made at the coming national
convention in Atlantic City next July.
8TOUFFER'S
Hand Painted China.
Represents the supreme efforts of
many of the most expert artists In
America and includes conventional,
natural and figure decorations.
In originality of design, detail of ex
ecution, richness and harmony In col
oring It caimot be surpassed.
H. H. GRAHAM JEWELRY CO.
Hill Building, Front Street.
The big clock Is the place.
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you
the
but
ble
as
motherless and perforce self support
M/hither the
Fates Call.
By MARTHA COBB SANFORD.
Copyrighted, 1908, by Associated
Literary Preis.
Elsie Reynolds bad Just finished her
first year of teaching. She had not en
joyed the experience particularly, and
now that the train was carrying her
back to the east, which she loved, she
wondered how she could have even
half pledged herself to return In the
fall. But she had, and at length she
admitted to herself tbe reason for It
It was not the work. Work she must
have somewhere, to be sure, but it was
not necessary to seek It at so great a
distance from home. No, It was not
the work, but the friends she had
made, or, rather, to be strictly truthful
and spare herself no blushes, It was
one friend. Gilbert Chandler.
The admission came as a revelation.
For six months she and Gilbert bad
been good comrades, and they bad part
ed as comrades, exchanging promises
to write to each other during the long
summer vacation If it were not too hot
and if they were not too busy, etc.
But Elsie had made tbe Identical prom
ise to balf a dozen other men, more or
less, wbo bad come to tbe train to see
her off, for Elsie was pretty and pop
ular and Gilbert Chandler had by no
means a clear field.
Had the truth been told him (by any
one save Elsie) be woufd have dismiss
ed It with a smile of Incredulity.
But Elsie had no Intention of telling
him—Indeed, having discovered the
state of her feelings, she bad no Inten
tion of favoring him with Information
of any kind. Gilbert must write first.
On that point she was Inflexible, even
after a mouth of anxious waiting.
Other men wrote, but the seals of
their letters she broke listlessly and
answered them only In the hope that
through them she might bear some
thing of Gilbert At length they serv
ed her purpose.
Over and over again Elsie rend the
unbelievable words. "You've doubtless
heard about Chandler's illness," the
letter ran. "Pneumonia has uow set
In, and that, with the typhoid compli
cations, knocks his chances for recov
ery about out, and just as he was be
ginning to be looked-upon as a young
lawyer who must be reckoned with.
Tough luck!"
Elsie crumpled up the letter and
sobbed her heart out There was no
one to comfort her, no one who would
even understand.
The summer was nearly gone before
Elsie received further news. Gllbet
had lived through the awful crisis, L*ft
not to receive his full health. In fact,
the doctors had ordered an entire
change of climate and occupation, and
In consequence he had given up all his
youthful ambitions, said goodby to the
I world of friends aud activities tpftj"
taken up life wUl> ila.filster-Bini'Tmall
ranch iQ-fesas." -
Then to all who knew her Elsie
Reynolds did a surprising and unac
countable thing. She resigned her po
sition In the western boarding school
aud accepted tbe thankless tasl^ of
i teacher In a district school in Texas.
i Her alleged reason—that she was
j tired of civilization and hungdred for
' primitive experience—was termed sheer
madness. Yet there was no one to hold
her back. She was fatherless and
lug.
For the next two years there were
two very small Institutions In the Lone
Star State that prospered amazingly.
One was a forlorn, one room school
house, the other a pocket handkerchief
ranch which surrounded a brave but
unpretentious little bungalow. In both
dally miracles were happenlug. Tbe
schoolhouse knew all about tbe bunga-.
low. but the latter had never guessed
tbe existence of Its wide awake neigh
bor to t he west.
And when a letter arrived there one
summer morning announcing that El
sie Reynolds was passing through Tex
as on her way east and If convenient
would like to stop off for a few days to
visit old friends the bungalow opened
wide its doors and windows with as
tonishment and let the sun In like some
unexpected guest come to warm aud
cheer Its lonely heart.
During the days that must pass be
fore she should come all was one busy
whirl of anticipation. To -Gilbert
Chandler and bis sister the actual pres
ence of a friend from their old aban
doned world would seem nothing short
of a glimpse of heaven.
Arrayed In Its sudden acquisition of
muslin rufiles and cblntz flowers and
quite consciously proud of Its honey
suckle perfume, tbe little house flut
tered and beamed with expectation.
At last the great day arrived. Gil
bert rose early, bis browned face ra
diant with happiness, saddled tbe two
horses and went to meet ber.
The ride back over the rolling prairie,
which for each of them held Its special
meaning, was tremulous with things
anspoken. From full hearts little save
commonplaces reached the lips.
"You have been traveling, Elsie?"
"I traveling?" She laughed back at
hltn merrily. "No; same old story, Gil
bert-teaching."
"Bat you're brown as a Mexican, and
you don't look tbe least bit fagged,
though that's damning you with faint
praise," be added, looking at her with
very frank admiration. "Where have
you been teaching?"
"Ob, let's skip sordid details," Elsie
answered evasively. "Don't you love
this canntry?"
Gilbert followed her gaze out over
the luxuriant wealth of grassy mead
ows and beyond to tbe high, grim
mountains.
a
"Yes," he answered loyally; "I do
love It It baa riven me back my life."
To Elsie It seemed as If her heart
must cry out and demand the whole
truth.
"Do you mean that you are really
well and strong again or merely that
you are grateful just to be alive?" was
the question that begged to be asked,
but she forced It back relentlessly.
Gilbert himself broke tbe tense si
lence between them.
"Bee, there's the shack," be said Joy
ously, Indicating the little gray bunga
low set cozlly In Its frame of orchard
green.
Elsie gave a cry of delight, put her
horse to the gallop and rode straight
and fast toward the open door.
Tbe rest of that light hearted, sun
filled day passed like a flash. At the
end of It, however, came tbe Inevita
ble moment when confidence and the
exchange of mutual experiences and
future hopes would no longer be denied
.expression.
Gilbert watched Elsie's dark bead
resting against the vine covered post
as she sat on the low steps of tbe
porch, and his heart bounded toward
her In a mighty yearning.
"It is time now to tell me where yon
have been these two long years, Elsie.
Don't you think so?"
Elsie continued looking out on tbe
endless stretch of prairie lawn before
thfm, ■ —>* •
"Bight here," she said at last sigh
ing happily.
"Here?" questioned Gilbert iu amaze
ment.
"Well, In Texas," Elsie amended
teaslngly.
"Please be serious, Elsie."
"I am, perfectly. For two years I've
been teaching In a district school down
"In the name of heaven, why?" de
manded Gilbert.
But Elsie would not let her band be
forced. She must know first bow the
game was to end.
"It Is my turn to ask a question,"
she said. "You have succeeded here
wonderfully, haven't you, Gilbert?"
As he looked down at her his smile
had so much pride and pathos In it
that Elsie longed to throw her arms
about him and to tell him that she
knew—she understood.
"Pretty well,"_he admitted, "for a
perverted young lawyer."
"Don't," begged Elsie. "I can't bear
to bear you speak like that."
"Why, bless your sympathetic little
heart!" exclaimed Gilbert, noticing the
tears In her eyes. "I've no kick com
ing over the law business. Am I net a
healthy brute again? What else counts
beside that?"
The joy that leaped In Elsie's heart
ns Gilbert spoke these words sent the
color flying to ber cheeks. That Gil
bert might not observe ber agitation
she Jumped up and preteuded to be
training a vagrant honeysuckle vine.
"But If you are really well again
you'll go back to law, won't youj".
"Perhaps, some time," ailstt'ered GU .
bert thoughtfully. ^Je~was pacing up
aud down Ifes porch now. "You see,
I've been out of It- now for over two
years, and It would take some time to
get Into the running again. Down
here I'm making my way far better
than -I hoped,
chance for success,
here—gloriously well." He stopped
speaking a moment, then added, look
ing wistfully luto the little home and
lowering his voice: "The hardest thing
is having my sister go back. She's to
be married this fall, you know. She's
been a brick."
Emotion checked his further speech.
The next moment, with a little bro
ken sob, Elsie was In his arms, aud
the lovers gave themselves up to the
ecstasy of their emotions.
Suddenly Gilbert held her at arm's
length from him, nearly crushing her
slender bauds In the agony of his re
nunciation.
, "No, Elsie," be said hoarsely, "I can
not, I will not let you. I have no
right It would be asking you to sac
rifice too much for me. You would
die of ennui down here."
But Elsie's eyes were shining; her
face was radlaut with happiness.
"You forget, dear," she said gently,
"that I've made it my country, too—
that I have no sacrifice to make. You
are my all. Besides," - she added
rQgulsbly, "It's leap year, and you've
no right to refuse me, Gilbert"
here."
I think there's a big
And I'm well
He Began IL
The man whose wife often said that
"he never would learn #.ot to talk to
people" looked at his seat companion
and at tbe first opportunity broke tha
silence. "Traveling man, like myself?"
he Inquired.
''Yes," said the other. "Travel for a
wool house."
"Mine's boots and shoes," said the
talkative one, "but I've got a fad for
golf—you see my sticks? I carry them
everywhere on the chance of getting a
game.
"Every man ought to have some sort
of fad, seems to me. It rests him,
changes the current of his thoughts.
Don't you agree with me? Now, golf"—
Bnt tbe other had pulled a small
round box from bis pocket and waa
ready to talk.
"Here's my fad," he broke In. "As I
said, I travel for a wool firm, bat this
little ointment made by an annt of my
wife Is my fad.
"I always carry a couple of dozen
boxes with me. and. as you say. It
rests me and changes the current of
my thoughts. And when I find a man
like you that can talk about something
l>esldes business and evidently likes to
I tell him the story of one of these lit
tle boxes of ointment and what It.did,
and If 1 don't convince him in half an
hour that It's exactly what he needs—
why, I can do It In an hour sure."
"Stung again!" muttered the golf en
thusiast as be looked at the -firm Jaw
of his seat mate.
Celeridge's Cloudiness.
There la in Mr. Ellis Yarnoll'a remi
niscences. "Wordsworth and the Colo
ridges." a very amusing story of 8am
nel Taylor Coleridge, whose thoughts
were sometimes too profound even for
poets to follow. Wordsworth and Sam
uel Rogers bad spent the evening with
Coleridge, end as the two poets walked
away together Rogers remarked cau
tiously;
"I did not altogether understand the
latter part of what Coleridge said."
"I didn't understand any of It,"
Wordsworth hastily replied.
"No more did IP' exclaimed Rogers,
with a sigh of relief.
A Formidable Army.
Tbe battle was going against him.
The commander In chief, himself ruler
of tbe South American republic, sent
an aid to tbe rear, ordering General
Blanco to bring up bis. regiment at
once. Ten minutes passed, but it didn't
come. Twenty, thirty, an hour—still
no regiment Tbe aid came tearing
back batless, breutbless. "My regi
ment! My regiment! Where Is It?
Where Is It?" shrieked tbe commander.
"General," uuswered the excited aid,
•Blanco started It all light but there
are a couple of drunken Americans
down tbe road and they won't let It
go by."—Argonaut
IN FRATERNAL CIRCLES
Boule Tribe No. 49, Red Men—
Council fire kindled every Wednes
day night at 8 o'clock at Odd Fellows
hall. Albert Henley prophet; L. M
Williams sachem; A. F. James senior
sagamore; L. Caplan, junior saga
more; F. C. Hall, chief of records;
Burke Jones, keeper of wampnm.
ODD FELLOWS.
Hattiesburg Lodge No. 127, 1, O. O.
F.—A. F. James, noble grand; Wm.
Busby, vice grand; R. P. Anderson, re
cording secretary; H. Katz, financial
secretary; H. H. Orr, treasurer. Meets
Monday nights In I. O: O. F. hall at
8 o'clock.
Petal Camp, No. 823, W. O. W_J.
B. Clack, eja;
J. A. Pace banker,
third Saturday nights in each month
at Its hall in Petal.
; W. E. Ward, clerk;
Meets first and
Grove, Circle No. 36.—W. O. W.—
Mrs. T. B. Boucher, guardian; Mrs.
J. W. Brookshire, clerk.
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD.
Leaf River Camp, No. 28.—W. O. W.
—B. F. Miller, C. C., W. J. Fowler,
clerk; J. A. Shannon, banker. i'stfrH?*'
Tuesday nlahta In nrtrt trail-""" v .
luesaay n gbts In Odd F"',uwf hs .
at 8 Q'cktefcr
I
Sunday Excursions
To Gulfport
I
€|[The usual Summer Excursions from
Hattiesburg to Gulfport have been re
sumed over the Gulf & Ship Island
Railroad and low fares are in effedt from
all stations.
CJThe pavilion at the sea-end of the
great pier has been arranged for the
accommodation of excursionists.
*.lr
S. D. BOYLSTON
General Passenger Agent
Carpenters and Joiners of America—;
Local Union No. 213. A. A. Eathridge,
president; Wm. G. Jones recording
secretary, Meets Thursday nights at
7:30 o'clock In the commissioners'
room at die county court house.
-
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks.—
Local No. 83.
dent; A. T. Ambrosy, secretary.
Meets second and fourth Monday
nights in Odd Fellows' ball at 7:30
o'cl6ck.
S. Hammock, preel
Petal Grove Circle, No. 107—Meets
first and third Wednesday nights at
the W. O. W. hall. lone L. Baker,
Guardian; J. F. Hearst, Clerk.
LADIE8' AID SOCIETIES.
Catholio Ladies' Aid Society.—Mre.
John M. Cassll, president; Mrs J. L.
Kearney, secretary; Miss Josephine
Dolphus, treasure. Meets every first
Friday In each month at the convent
for business session; every sdcond
Thursday In each month at the home
of some member for social session.
Heur of meeting Is always 3 o'clock
in the afternoon.
Hattiesburg Encampment, No. 40, I.
O. O. F.—J. U. Allen, chief patriarch;
A. F. James, high priest; Wm.
Busby, senior warden; George Maur
er, junior warden; J. A. Shannon,
acribe; W. J. Force, treasurer. Meets
Wednesday nighta in I. O. O. F. hall
at 8 o'clock.
Hattleeburg Typographical Union,
No. 647.—Wiley Bullard, president; A.
J. Seeley, secretary-treasurer,
at Martin Printing company first Sun
day In each month. ,
Meets
Harmon Grove, Circle No. 73, ft
O. W.—Mrs. R. W. Thames, guardif :
Mrs. O. W. Coker, clerk; Dr. S. L.
Knight, banker. Meets second and
fourth Wednesday nights In each
month In Odd Fellows' hall at 7:30
o'clock.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS."
Knights of Pythias, Crescent En
campment No. 47.—A. Foote, C.'C.; J.
B. Burkett, .V. G.; George Hartfleld,
K. R. S. Meets Monday nights over
Citizens' bank at 8 o'clock.
J'JNIOR ORDER UNITED AMERI
CAN MECHANICS.
Junior Order United American Me
James E. Hewlett, council
chanlc
lor; William Busby, secretary. Meets
second and fourth Thursday nights in
Odd Fellows' hall at 8 o'clock.
ORDER OF EAGLES.
, E f, rat * rl1 * 1 Order of Eagles, Aerie No.
i'stfrH?*' T f^ t ^ /T? nT, T hB
Meets Thursday nights In hall In the
. PIttB building on Railroad Btreet, at 8
o'clock.
MASONIC.
I Royal Arch Chapter No.
- - • - • -arton, H. P„ Q. A 8. I.
freight office; J, D. Bennett, Secre
tary. Meets. Thursday nights in tba
Masonic Temple at 8 o'clock.
Hattlesb
Hattiesburg Lodge No. 897, A. F. A
A. M—G. W. Batson. W. M„ 608 Main
street; J. D. Bennett, Secretary.
-Meets Monday nights In Masonic
Temple at 8 p.. m.
Liberty Council No. 7.—W. M. Con
ner, T. I. M., 617 Main street; J. D.
Bennett, Secretary. Meets Friday
nights in the Masonic Temple at 8
o'clock.
Order of the Eastern Star.—Mrs. S.
C. Eaton, W. M.; Mrs. M. Dunn, Secre
tary. Meets Friday nighta In the Ma
sonic Temple at 8 o'clock.
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Brotherhood of Railroad Tralnmei
Local Union No. — P. M. Graham,
master; H. E. McGregor, financier;
W. A. Smith, secretary. Meets sec
ond and . fourth Sunday nights In each
month.
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CON
FEDERACY.
United Daughters of the Confeder
acy, Hattiesburg Chapter, No. 422.—
Mrs. D. B. Holmes, president; Miss
M. Anna Allen, secretary; Mrs. E. Mc
Gregor, treasurer. Meets first Tues
day afternoon of each month at the
Hotel Hattiesburg at 3*30. The His
torical Club, Miss Florence Deason,
historian, meets second Saturday tn
each month at homes of members of
U. D. C. Visiting Daughters are re
quested to attend these meetings.
ORDER OF ELKS.
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks,
No. 699.—M. J. McGrath, B. R.; W. A.
McLeod, secretary and treasurer.
Meets Tuesday nights In their rooms
on West Front street at 8 o'clock.
Hattiesburg Camp, No. 449.—W O.
W-—A. J. Morrison, C. C.; J. W.
Brookshire, clerk; J. A. Welsh, txr ti
er. Meets Thursday nights in Odd
Fellows' hall at 8 o'clock.
United Commercial Travelers—Regu
lar meetings will be held on the first
Saturday nights of each month
Hattiesburg Commandery No. 21,
Knights Templar—A. A. Montague, E.
C., office In Hattiesburg Trust and
Banking company's building; J. W.
Montague, Recorder. Meets Tuesday
nights in the Masonic Temple at
o'clock.
Hattiesburg Camp No, 21 U. C. V.
Meets at court hofise at 10:30 a. m. on
the first Saturday of each month. J
P. Carter commander, W. P. Chamber
adjutant.. —'
Rebekah Lodge No. 17 I. O. O. F.—
Mrs. L. S. Trombley, noble grand;
Miss Ida Cowart, vice grand; Mrs. 8.
Meets Thursday
Ramsey, treasurer,
nights in I. O. O. F. hall at 8 o'clock.