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m bime T ) I I | ] Grizzled Heroes of the Lost Cause Are Gathered Once More v. in Annual Reunion. FAMOUS REBEL YELL / IS GROWING WEAKER | 1 1 San Antonio and Atlanta Are Bidding j for the Next Annual Reunion—Big Parade Today Through the Streets of Birmingham. Hearst News Service. Birmingham, Ala.. dune "Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching!" Again the United Con federate Veterans, grizzled heroes who fought on many bloody battlefields for a losing cause, are assembled in an nual reunion. But the "boys" gath ered In Birmingham today are old and bent, and their "tramp, tramp, tramp." lacks Its old time military precision and vigor, while the fearsome "rebel yell/' which once rang out so defiantly, is become, quavering and weak. Death has thinned the ranks visibly since the general reunion in Richmond last year and a hush of sadness has fallen upon the remnants of the vanishing hosts of the Confederacy because of the re-1 cent death in Vicksburg of General ! Stephen D. Lee, commander-ln-chief I of the United - Confederate Veterans, The conclave commenced today in tlie Magic City will be a time for recount ing past victories and defeats, from I 9.— ^ n $1,000,000 TO LOAN ON TIMBER LANDS 1 ; ! I am in the market to lend money on timber lands, either hardwood or pine, for Northern clients. The land must be owned in fee simple, and the amount of the loans must be from AGO,000.00 up. Also $250,000,000 to loan on improved farm lands | A. L LINDSLEY B First National Bank Bldg. Hattiesburg, Mis y K1 A. J. HARRIS FIRE INSURANCE Room 205 First National Bank Building HOME PHONE 244 fTHE first national bank Of HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI. —s 'x'W •w, . i IT'S LIKE FINDING MONEY. to figure up your balance after you have had a bank account a few months. You note that your small or unnecessary spendings have been much less than when you had the too ready cash in your pocket AN ACCOUNT AT THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Induces saving. The act of drawing a cneck makes you think whether the spending Is wise or 1 ecessary. Many and many a time your think ing will result in your tearing up the check and keeping the money. J You Hit the Nail on the Head Ifyou buy your lumber from us. ' Inferior lumber may appear good at first, bnt the test of time will prove It more "expen sive. Good quality alwayB pays. Let us figure on your require ments for anything that you may need for building purposes. Both 'phones 33. 1 Lumber Manufacturing Co. I which all the old sectional bitterness I has departed, and for last greetings | and partings between many of the aged veterans who realize that on this occasion they may answer to their last roll call on earth. Many federal veterans are here and are fraternizing with the boys in gray, the enmity be-| tween "Yanks" and "rebs" forgotten. Despite the solemnity of the oc ] casion, the war time enthusiasm--of the old Confederates will find expres | sicn in a big parade and in many spec vhich will mark the Thousands of Sons and tacular features 1 1 ncampment. j Daughters of the Confederacy ate here and will play a prominent part in the Birmingham cit three days' program, izens, with the true hospitality of the South have thrown their doors wide open to the visitors and there will be entertainments on a lavish sca'e. man Thousands of dollars have been spent in decorating the city and all the prin cipal streets are swathed in bunting and lined with flags. re-1 ! New York, .Time 9.—Carl Ficher I Hansen, the prominent lawyer, will be placed on trial on the charge of ex tortion before Judge Goff criminal branch of the supreme court I tomorrow. San Antonio, Tex., and Atlanta, Ga., are the principal contenders for next year's encampment and delegations from the two cities will make a hard fight to secure the 1909 reunion. At- i lanta is in the field for the 1909 con ventions of both the United Confed erate Veterans and the Grand Army of the Republic, with the object of hav ing them meet simultaneously in that city. Objection is made to this plan account of the fact that no city the size of Atlanta could possibly furnish adequate entertainment for such a gathering as would be attracted by a joint re on ilon of lhe blue and the gray. FISCHER-HANSEN TRIAL. In the j im Wil;;' :■ : HI il; . 1 BBfl ,, '■ 'is : ■ - ; ■V'' ■"ip i ''"'JrZJ i H * : . ■; §», 1 | fgsaaa a ■ 7v „ 1" ,y, • ■ A ;!u c s V i :< " -■ I 8 Wmm V/ j 1* $ k- ' ' , H S' |Hi * ■ ", mm mm MABEL TALIAFERRO, WHO IS TO QUIT THE STAGE. If Mabel Taliaferro retires from the stage this year, as she says she will, the theater will lose one of its most charming leading women. Miss Taliaferro has been acting since she was three years old. and, although she is only twenty one, she probably has appeared In more roles than many actresses who have i been before the public a lifetime. Her first great success was In the part of Lovey Mary In "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" and her most recent one In private life she Is Mrs. Frederick Thompson, wife In "Polly of the Circus." of the originator of New York's famous Hippodrome. IN TORPEDO TEST Norfolk, Ya., June 9.—Another im u taut naval test will take place to ns in Hampton Roads, when the hose turret was on morn monitor Florida, May "7 the target of the Arkansas, will be torpedoed with a Whitehead Since the former test the torpedo. Florida has been at the Norfolk Navy yard fitting out for tomorrow's test. The torpedo will he Sent against a BALTIMORE CONFERENCE a 9.—Balti- [ Alexandria, Va., June ntort conference, Methodist Episcopal I till hold its forty-sec Church, South, (Hid annual Sunday school convention I MR. WU TO SPEAK Hearst News Service. Champaign, HI., June 9.—Hia ex cellency, Wit Ting-Fang, Chinese min inter to the United States, will be the orator of the dqv at the University of Illinois commencement day exercis entomorrow. A man can take a pretty girl to a baseball game and spend two hours trying to show her the difference be tween a foul strike and a base hit, but if she's Ills wife and can't :ee the first time how much better his currency idea is than congress' lie goes wild. i There's nothing that proves how careless a ntan Is about figures like the way he can get old enough to be his elder sister's grandfather if they live long enough. JUNE AGAIN, at:d June means a busy jewelry mark et, June wedrflngs, June commence ments and June social events. These glorious opportunities are into succesful sales with the. aid of SUPERIOR DIAMOND STOCK our and new goods in every branch of our business. Let us cinch the sales -by you seeing our unapproachable stock. H. H. GRAHAM JEWELRY CO. Front Strlset. >k tor the bij Inside the spot on~the side of the vessel about ♦eight feet tinder water, vessel, just back of th^ppot that is to be hit by the torpedo, a bulkhead of a now form has been built; it probably will be filled with water, pected the lci.edo will sink the Flor ida, but as the experiment will take place in water not over 25 feet deep, it will be easy to refloat the vessel. It is ex SOUGHT AND FOUND THEM NOT. --— One came from another world. He went down Fleet street and saw the weary, witless men who wrote dally of Nature and her beauties. He went to a theater and heard those who sang of her cl.arm. He went Into the coun try, and heard peasants grumbling of their lot and sighing for the town. He watched "sportsmen," who rent the magnificent silences with the harsh crack of rifles, and destroyed wanlon beasts. Then veek, opening this evening and here this Many distinguished clergymen Sunday school specialisjs are here for the conference. Few, Indeed, Th#re Seem to Be Who Really Love Nature. ly the blithest birds and he met a philosopher. "I have seen those who live with Nature, those who ravish her splen dors, those who write and sing or her. Now, where are those v h o love her?" And. like all men with a reputation, the philosopher was sitent.—Westmin ster Gazette. Embarrassing. The little tots of the Infant depart i ment in a Sunday School are working a new scheme to raise money for a new piano. They have learned near ly everyone's birthday, and collect a cent for each year they are old. One" lady who was averse to telling her age even for a good cause gave one little girl a dollar, saying: "Keep It all." The little collector- looked the giver over carefully and asked: "Are you really 100 years old?" For a Sprained Ankle. As usually treated, a sprained ankle w ill disable the Injured person for a month or more, but by-applying Cham berlain's Liniment and observpg the drectlous with each bottle faithfully, a cure may be effected in many cases in less than one week's time. This liniment is a moat remarkable prepara ration. Try it for a sprain or bruise, or when laid up with chronic or mus cular rheumatism, and you are certain to be delighted w^th the prompt re lief which It affords. For sale by Hgys ft JFleld and Yellow Pino Pharmacy. — r j A Decision ...Of Fate _ [Original.! "It la uaelesa for you to press me. Kenneth; I cannot be your wife." "Why not?" "Mother. I cannot leave her alone. Old age Is coming upon her; she would suffer untold misery." . "She can live with us." "Kenneth, do you know what would be In store for us—for you—under such circumstances?" "What?" "You don't know women. Mother has been head of her bouse all her life. She would regulate ours." "1 don't mind who keeps house." "1 do—that Isj If 1 have oue of my own. I prefer to keep it myself. But there are other considerations., Moth er requires a very high temperature. You, 1 know, like a cool house, you came home to a hot one you would throw open all the doors and wludows. Mother would retire to her room and tay tlyprc all the evening. She would wish to have me with her. 1 would remain with you. She would call me. X would say; 'No, mother; you have had me with you all day. My husband needs me now,' To which she would reply; 'I shall not live the night through. Goodby. I die of cruelty.' Then you would say; 'Go to her. morrow we shall be free.' 1 would go, but we would not be free tomorrow or the next day or the next." "You mean that In time she would be free; we would do the dying." "No; we would drag out a miserable existence." "The picture Interests me. Go on." "Then occasionally we would have a little misunderstanding." "JJeyer." "Yes, we would. All married people 11 do. Mother would be aware of it. She I would take my part and would treat | you like a criminal. That would make I you furious, and we would be forever I making up. Then she would be con- I tinuously discovering that you had no respect for the hardships I was endur ing. She would consider you a model of selfishness and treat as such," "Any more of It?" "Yes; you would Boon lose your equa- | nimit.v and treat her harshly. That w'ould stab me to the quick and would only irritate her the more against you." "Go on." "Occasionally we would wish to go out to a theater or to visit our friends. Mother would make such u fuss about being left alone that we would have the to give up such pleasures. Then- you might wish to go on a journey and take me with you. 1 couldn't lenve | mother. Then you would begin to | curse and to swear a fid wish her at | the bottom of a bottomless pit or in the hottest of a fiery furnace. It would he terrible." There was a long pause. Presently ! he said, but with a faint heart: "I love you so well, sweetheart, that I would rather stand nil this than give .voii up." When 1* To to a ex She wavered and at last said: "I.ct fate decide for us. Do you see those two volumes iu the library In ' red morocco? Well, tomorrow morn ing when you come downstairs there] will be a 'Y'es' in one volume and a 'No'l 111 the other. Choose one. We will abide by the result of your choice." I-'or the rest of the day he thought hard. That night when all were in bed he slipped downstairs In his stock- ing feet and went to the library. He opened volume one and found a "Yes," then volume two and found also a "Yes." Rubbing out both, he wrote a "No" for each, put them in and stole upstairs to bed. The next morning when he heard her leave her room he left his, and they went downstairs together. He went to the library, hesitated long between the two volumes, lifted his eyes as If In silent prayer, then took out volume two, opened It, read the word "No" and sank limp In a ehnlr. Then, with a moan, he rushed from the house. There were complications for a few Then he wrote "Mother" on a slip of paper and "Kenneth" on another, placing one in each of the red moroc co volumes. The next morning she, was to draw as he had drawn! He did not slip downstairs that night to make both "Kenneth." Indeed, he feared that If "Kenneth" were drawn It would mean both "lienneth" and "Mother," a combination he especially wished to avoid. But as the clock struck the mldnlgfit hour there was a silken trend on the stairs. A white figure de scended and-, going to the library, took out the'slip on which "Mother" was written and wrote ".Kenneth" In Its stead. "Fate has decided In your favor, Kenneth," she said after drawing, and he held her In his arms. "But If all does not turn out as well as you ex pect you mustn't blame me." There was an Interval of ten years. "Will the old fiend live forever?" 'plow, Kenneth, I will not hear you call poor mother an old fiend. I told you when you persisted Just what you had to expect. Y'ou were willing to leave it to fate." _ "But 1 wanted-to steal a march on I fate." "Not ob fate—ou me." - "But 1 didn't in the end." " ,t-- ■ "No.- * When n man practices such miserable devices on a woman- he'usu ally gets the Worst of it" "Just so. had the game In my oflrn hands, but I was too stupid to play It." "How?" "I should have made both slips to teSd 'Mother.' " "It wouldn't have done any good. Busan had instructions to see in the morning that they* were both 'Ken = . FOR REAL ESTATE * Fire and \ Tornado INSURANCE Headquarters for the Best Bargains in the • • * ' .V ■ ' - Phone 666 v