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The News Published Every Afternoon. (Except Sunday.) Office. 112 Front Street. .Editor .Manager _Circulation EDGAR G. HARRIS M. J. EPLEY. A. B HOBBS. Editorial and Counting Rooms, Both [ Telephones: 'Phones No. 36. Society Editor, Cumberland No. 429.; SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (By mall outside the city. One year . Six Months . Three Months ... .$4 •00 . 2.00 1.00 (By Carrier.) By the Week. By the Month. .16 cents .60 cents | I ! j ! j HEARST TELEGRAPH AND CA BLE SERVICE received daily, the ex clusive franchise for which is owned by the Daily News. Entered as second-class matter on May 22, 1907, at the poatoRlce at Hat tiesburg, MIbs., under the Act of Con gress of March 2, 1879. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE NEW COUNTY OF FORREST. j | UNION LABEL ! SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1908. The actual paid circula tion of 'The Neves is 2,586 Twit'" the circulation oj any South Mississippi paper j 4 4 •> 4 •> 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 •> 4 4 4 4 NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. 4 4 ❖ All advertisers wanting ads in 4 4 The News, and change of ads, on 4 ❖ day in which ad. is sent in, must 4 4 have same in the office by 10 ♦ ❖ o'clock a. m. In order to make 4 4 the malls, it is necessary to make 4 ❖ this rule, and The News hopes 4 ❖ that all advertisers will accept 4 ❖ this rule in the spirit in which it 4 ❖ is intended. ♦ 4 DAILY NEWS. 444444444444444444 Important Notice. Negotiations effecting the sale of a controlling interest in the Hatties burg News, which have been In prog ress for the past several days, will not be consummated, said stock hav ing been withdrawrf from the market. In deference to the wishes of many of the best people of Hattiesburg, by whose patronage the paper has been able to attain to its present command ing position in the journalism of the state, the publication will be contin ued along the same fines as before, and under the same editorial and bus iness management. In this connection I want to per sonally thank the people of Hatties burg for the liberal patronage they have given the paper, and to assure them that it is the purpose of every man connected with the publication to promote in every possible manner the moral and material Interests of the city and section, and to make a newspaper that will be alike credit able to publishers and patrons. M. J. EPLEY, Manager. The Vodoo Test. Over In the neighboring state of Arkansas the other day a man was being tried upon a charge of murder. One of the jurors was a negro with the usual superstitions of his race, and he demanded that the "vodoo test" be applied In the case on trial. He de clared that the suspected man's gun would "sweat blood at the muzzle" if It were discharged In the presence of the jury. The test was made and the suspected man watched the ceremony In an aigony of fear. After the gun was discharged the prisoner, mistak ing rust for the "sweat" on the gun, plunged a knife Into his neck and died. It Is almost unbelievable that In this day and age such a hideous farce could be enacted In the name of law. Were the American people to read that such an Incident had occurred in Rus sia or In some other benighted coun try, they would congratulate them selves that here In the New World we are "civilized" to a point where every man can have a fair hearing befo'e the law. near the heart of the continent. For the most part It is settled by Intelli gent people who believe in justice. Yet we find that a man is tried for his life with a "vodoo" test demanded The state of Arkansas is by an ignorant and superstitious ne gro juryman j and that when this "test - ' apparently confirmed his guilt he com mitted suicide rather than stand fur That the suspected man was probably guilty does not help mat. ters. The awful fact remains that in ther trial. the name of law an absurd supersti tion was invoked to influence a jury to pronounce sentence upon a prison er. 4 During the past several weeks the business office of The Hattiesburg News has turned down several hun dred dollars worth of advertising from Most daily Louisiana liquor houses. newspapers accept this class of adver Using and call it legitimate, true that there is no law against pub lishing such stufT, even if the statutes of the state do prevent the traffic. But there is a moral obligation which every decent newspaper owes to its subscribers, and The News is glad that it has not yet been compelled to barter its self-respect for money. We prefer to be poor. It is -4 The Hattiesburg Retail Merchant*' Association Is considering a proposi tion to 'guarantee the expense - ; of a local train on the MissisalH^ to bring holiday shoppers Into -catties them It Is pro posed to pay the railroad fare of Centre T burg each morning and- take home in the afternoons. those who make purchases to the amount of $25 or more from members of the association. The plan has worked well in other cities and there is no reason why it should not prove equally profitable here. - 4 - The Vicksburg American hands us this one: "One of the board of supervisors down in Forrest county recently balked on the payment of a hill from one of the court house offices which read: 'Ribbons for the typewriter.' 'It's all right," he said, 'she's a fine girl and all that, but I draw the line when it comes to paying for her wear ing apparel.' Such a thing never would have happened in Warren coun ty." 4 The Kansas City Journal says: "The bad nigger is too much in evi dence in Kansas City." The "bad nigger" is too much in evidence in Mississippi and in Hattiesburg, and he should be compelled to 'go to work, even if he has to be conscripted into the chain gang. J ■4 Hattiesburg is building for the ru ture as well as for the present. This is evidenced by the character of our buildings in the business district and by our handsome churches and school buildings. 4 Mr. Bryan thinks that he may run for president again. But he will prob ably think differently later on. You can't expect a man to abandon a con firmed habit all at once. -4 Editor Evans is making his Sumrall Signal an excellent weekly paper— one of the brightest and best that comes to our exchange table. 4 The circulation of The News is still climbing, which emphasizes the fact that HattieSburgans appreciate a clean, newsy paper. -4 The more you study the statutes of the country the more thoroughly you become convinced that the average legislator is an ass. The weather man has been mighty good to Happy f Hustling Hattiesburg for the past several weeks. -4 The kaiser may or may not have gone up In an airship, but he has come down all right, all right. -4 There Is always an element of timidity in unbelief. Only the faith ful can be fearless. - 4 - The average man's conceit saves him from Belt disgust. If yon believe that your stoxe Is a good one, don't allow your advertis ing to belilttle that belief. ( —t ♦ ♦♦♦**♦♦*♦ + ♦♦♦♦ DAILY NEWS ECHOES. *•»«><>❖.S.444444444444 The Mobile Register notes that J lynching has failed to protect South ern white women from the greatest | crime of the ages—that we have con -1 demned lynching and tried .the en -1 forcement of the law, even unto the death—that the unmentionable crime is no longer confined to the South and that men and women in New York devote their education, time and money to traffic In youthful virtue and presumptive innocence.—Hatties burg News. A false sympathy that pervades our legislative halls is in the main re sponsible for the assaulting of white women. For some reason the legis latures of the country are afraid to rise to their full power and enact the right kind of a law for the pro tection of the women of the land, from the fiends Incarnate who as sault them. Laws that will provide for the emasculation and branding off the brutes, be he white or black, who 1 are convicted of the crime of assault * or attempt to commit one, would, be yond doubt, go farther toward abol ishing the crime than any law that has ever been enacted by our law makers. They should be branded deep on the forehead. Of course, the crea tion of eunuchs is more than the average legislator can consent to pro vide for. Emasculate them, without regard to race or color.—Sumrall Slg- ; nal. 5 ♦ 4 _ T - - r 4444t(|,,44444444 4 WHERE HATTIESBURG A NS WORSHIP TOMORROW. <6 1 < * •> •> .> •> .> ❖ , NOTICE—Ministers are requested to furnish a notice of their church ser vices not later than 10:30 o'clock each Saturday morning. First Presbyterian Church. Sabbath school at 9:45 a. m. Preaching services at 11 a. m. and 7:15 p. m. All persons who desire to do so are cordially invited to attend all the services. , i Catholic Church. Mass at 7 o'clock and 10 o'clock a.m. j Court Street Methodist Church. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.; preach ing at 11 a. m., by Rev. M. L. Burton; Junion League, 3 p. m.; Senior League 4 p. m.; preaching at 7 p. m. Public cordially invited. Bay 8treet Presbyterian Church, Preaching tomorrow at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sabbath school at 9:45 a. m., R. C. Hauenstein, superintendent. Young People's meeting at 6:45 p. m. The public is cordially invited to attend all of these services. R. L. CAMPBELL, Pastor. Trinity Episcopal Church. Holy communion at 9 a. m. Sunday school, C. F. Larson superin tendent at 10 a. m. Morning prayer and sermon at 11 p. m. Evening prayer and sermon at 7:30 p. m. Persons who are disposed are cor dially Invited to attend the eervices. GEO. S. GIBBS. Main Street Methodist Church. Sunday school 9:45 a. m.; preaching 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., by pastor. Rev. T. B. Hol loman. Usual services. Columbia Street Baptist Church. Teachers' meeting at 9 a. m. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Preaching by the pastor at 11 a. m. and 7:15 p. m. Junior Union meets al 3 p. m. B. Y. P. U. at 4 p. m. First Baptist Church, Sunday sebool 9:45 a. m.; preach ing 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., subjects, "The People and Their Children," and "Indifference to Religion.' The First $1$$ REWARD, »100. The readers of this paper wyi be pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease that science has teen able to cure in all Its stages, and that la Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Ca tarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of 'he disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constltth tlon and assisting nature In doing Its work. The proprietors have so much filth In its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any rase that It fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY 4 CO., To ledo. O. Sold by all Druggists, 76c. Take Hall's Family PlHs for con stipatlea. J | 1 * PE-RU-NA RECEIVES PRAISE Por Relieving Such Symptoms as Debility, Backache and headache. Mrs. Tressle Nelson, 609 North 6 th Ave., Nashville, yft, Tenn.,writes: "AsPerunahasdonemeaworldofgood I feel In duty bound to tell of it, In hopes that it / may meet the eye of some who has suffered as I did. m "Por five years I really did not know what a perfectly well day was, and If I did not have /&S : :y s ■:'-T :■ & V 1 g* >>: I * ■ m. m ; : :y ; I iSi ; MRS. TRESS IE NELSON. headache, I had backache or a pain somewhere and really life was not worth the eRort I made to keep going. "A good friend advised me to use Pe run a and I was glad to try anything, and 1 Bade anew woman of me and I have no , 1 am very pleased to say that six bottles more pains and.life looks bright again.'' There are a great many phases of woman's ailments that require the as sistance of the surgeon. But by far the greatest number of such cases are amenable to correct medicinal treatment. A vast multitude of women have been relieved from the ailments peculiar to their sex through the use of Peruna as prescribed by Dr. H artman. He receives many letters from all parts of tbs country relating to subjects of Vital interest to womankind. Of the vast multitude of women Dr. Hartman treats annually, only a small per cent, of them consider it necessary to write to the Doctor at all. While it is not affirmed that Peruna i irill relieve every case of this kind, it is certainly the part of wisdom for every woman so afflicted to give Peruna a fair trial. Baptist Church is to unite with the First Presbyterian Church and the Main Street Methodist Church in a union Thanksgiving service at the Methodist church Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Baptismal service at niljht. First Church of Christ, Scientist. Services at 11 a. m. Subject for ' Sunday, "Soul and Body.'' Wednesday evening meeting 7:30 p. m. The public is Invited. Hartfleld building. Fifth Avenue Baptist. Regular services at Fifth Avenue Baptist Church by the pastor, Rev. L. E. Hall, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 10 o'clock a. m. Broad Street Methodist Church. Tonight at 7:15 the Fourth Quarterly Conference of Broad Street charge will he held. The presiding elder, Rev. M. L. Burton will be present. Sunday school 10 a. m.; preaching at 11 a. m. by the pastor, Rev. E. W. Lipscomb; class meeting at 12 m.; Epworth League 6:30 p. m.; preach ing at 7:15 p. m., by Rev. M. L. Bur ton, followed, by the celebration of the Lord's Supper. Immanuel Baptist Church. The usual services will be held to morrow. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. by the pastor. A cordial Invitation is extended to all. Christian Endeavor. The Christian Endeavor Society of Bay St. Presbyterian Church meets every Sunday evening at 6:45 at Bay Street churcl). Everybody cordially Invited, especially the young folks. i Thanksgiving Service. The three congregations of Main Street Presbyterian, the First Baptist and Main Street Methodist churches will hold a union Thanksgiving serv ice in the Main street Methollst Church next Thursday Novembe# 28, beginning promptly at 10 a. m. Rev. I. P. Trotter will preach the sermon; subject, "Say So." Offerings will be taken for the orphanages of the state at this service. Alarm clocks, "The America," war ranted one year, for $ 1 . 00 . Lilius Jewelry Store. H. S. tf. No store Is "competing" with yours unless Its advertising is competing with yours. Dr. W. A.' Charping, Scientific Op tician, formerly at Lilius Jewelry Store, has moved to the Carter*bulld lng. room 303. Call on him for yonr 11-18-tf optical work. i ^5 Mrs. Joseph Lacelle, 124 Bronson SL, Ottawa, East,Ontario, Canada, writes: "I suflered with backache and head ache for over nine months and nothing relieved me until I took Peruna. This medicine is by far better than any othap medicine for these troubles. A feyMlCt tles relieved me of my miserahUfnalf dead, half-alive condition, *7 am how In good MBalth, have neither ache nor pain, MRr have I had any for t® past every suffer ing wonan wouh^Rike Pernna, they wonld Mon knoj^lts value and never be wlthpnt It. Mrs Clevel KtMTer, 2648 E. 86 th St., S. E., pffliio, writes: joying good health since tak ing yonr medicine. I had suffered for a good many years previous to takiog Peruna, and ever since I can say that / do not know what headache or neuralgia Is. I can most assuredly say that any body afflicted with catarrh in any form can be cured by taking Peruna." 'I Alarm clocks, "The America," war ranted one year, for $1.00. H. S. Llllus Jewelry Store. tf. Llllus Jewelry Store. tf. Holiday Present Worth While W HAT would make a better or more acceptable holi day present for that absent relative or friend than a year's subscription to Hattiesburg's representative newspaper? Your letters are all right, but you can't attempt to give all of the interesting local happenings of a city like Hattiesburg in letters. You haven't the time. And your absent relative or friend doesn't exped it. .* .* .* .* .* .* Presentation Certficates, good for one year's subscription to the Hattiesburg News, are now ready. The price of the paper to subscribers outside of the city is $4.00 a year. But we will send the paper to any address you may desig nate until January 1, 1911, for only $3.50, provided you are already a subscriber and want the extra copy for pre-* sentation purposes. Think of it! A live daily paper for more than thirteen months for =$ 3.5 0 Send the Hattiesburg News to Absent Friends and Relatives. V WORK ^J ALL] 1 THE 1 SlTIME A r MAKE ' ALL yourJ lMOHCY A Ctaws\S(\wVv I! CAPITAL $100,000 SURPLUS $25,000 Credit To Whom Credit Is Due. This bank will extend credit to any man who deserves credit. •> ■ ■> man who gets credit from the hank is nine times out of ten a cusi.•:!'.<. of the bank. There are frequent occasions when a man can make money by the temporary use of other people's money. The customers of this bank are people who can command money that they do not own. Men who do business with a bank, and whom the banker knows are safe business men with resources, are the men who can go to the bank for a loan In times when they need it or when additional money will help them to make more money. If you are a customer of this bank, you have a reserve business help that you may draw upon when occasion demands. Besides this reserve,, our service is a constant benefit to your business interests. Yours very truly, J. C. BALLARD, Cashier. GOOD SHOW TONIGHT AT THE NEW GEM. One of the prettiest and most thrilling dramas ever produced in moving pictures will be presented this afternoon and night at the New Gem Theatre, next to the postoffice. The play possesses a human interest r ■> ,T A HOME Why pay rent and be at the mercy of your landlord when you can take your choice from fifty or more nice houses in Hat tiesburg and make a small down payment, the balance monthly more than rent and thereby soon be your own at just a litlle landlord? N 9 W is the time to invest in Hattiesburg and If you will around and talk the matter over I will convince you that it is to your interest to take one of my bargains. Hoping to see you soon at 610 Main St., I am, Yours truly, THOS. M. FERGUSON. come % J V from the beginning and the climax is reached when the hero rescues his sweetheart from a burning building. The New Gem considers this the best picture of the season. Alarm clocks, "The America," war ranted one year, for $ 1 . 00 . Llllus Jewelry Store. H. S. "t?.