The Hattiesburg News (Hattiesburg, Miss.)
June 29, 1908

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r r"' FETE HATTIESBURG NEWS r Every Inch ..A NEWSPAPER.. leiral ..NEWS SERVICE.. PRICE FIVE CENTS HATTIESBURG. MISSISSIPPI. MONO AY AFTERNOON, JUNE 29, 1908 VOL II. NO 36 MB MAKE Auditor Smith Gives Out State* meats From 316 Missis sippi Banks. 28 NATIONAL BANKS SUBMITTED REPOSTS A Comparison With Last Report Shows That the State Is in a Healthy Fi nancial Condition, Despite the Re cent Panic. Dally News Special. Jackson, Miss., June 29.—State Anal E. J. Smith, after much delay, i due largely to the tardiness of some of the bankers in sending in their state ments, has at last ,been able to sum inarize the results and Information submitted by the banking house offi cials. Auditor Smith Includes In the general summary the figures showing the business represented not only by the stale banks but also the national banks, which makes the report still more useful and comprehensive. Re ports were received from 316 state banks and trust companies, and In ad dition from twenty-six national banks in the state, there be»g only two or three remaining to be heard from. Af ter holding up his report and resting the tabulations compiled, for what seemed a reasonable tim, v dc SECRETARY ELIHU ROOT VISITING BILLY MULDOON White Plains, N. Y.. June 29.—Sec rotary Elihu Root today took quarters Billy Muldoon Hearst News Service. in a sanitarium here. ROBERT SHAW OLIVER FAVORS LARGE ARMY Hearst News Service. Washington, June 29.—Acting Secre tary of War Robert Shaw Oliver has made public a plan credited to Presi dent Roosevelt for a standing army of 250,000 men, divided Into eight iODD FELLOW PUBLICATION Daily News Special. Columbus, Miss., June 29.—Hon. P. \y. Maer, grand master of the Missis sippi Odd Fellows, has begun the puh work to do on the hooks and records, and in addition to this there is a con stanf filing of cases during the vaca tion period, so tLat time wlll^iot hang heavily on his hands. The session Just closed has been the heaviest in point of volume of business handled within the history of the colirt. Following the adjournment of court a meeting of the bar In the court room presided over by Chief Justice Whit field, unanimously adopted resolutions honoring the memory of the late C. C. Miller, for many years a member of the Meridian bar, and one of the The leading attorneys In the state, resolutions were presented by Hon. chairman ofata uqml- shr vcm shr cm S. A. Witherspoon, of Meridian, chair man of a committee appointed a week ago at a similar bar meeting for that purpose. says he is in better condition than when he left the same sanitarium last I September. It is not known how long the secretary will remain. army corps, which is to be ready in two years or le^s for any emergency. The scheme has been worked out,so thoroughly that any changes in the personnel of the war department will not effect the success of the under taking. lication of a paper called th* Missis sippi Odd Fellow, the first number of which has just been issued. Mr. Maer, who is publisher of the Columbus Dis patch, owns a well-equipped job of fice, from which the now paper will be issued.

Just a Plain Statement of a Plain Newspaper. than any The Daily News reaches more homes in Hattiesburg other newspaper. district than any other two newspapers. live news and less objectionable matter than its It reaches more homes in the Hattiesburg It is better printed, contains more competitors. And advertising in the Daily News costs more than you are now paying for less circulation. no Circulation Books open to Advertisers Every Bay in the Week. Twdi Races Equally Free Cannot Live Together Under the Same Flag ii v t Daily News Spet

Jacksou, Miss.,une 29—That "two °f tl. races equally free! cannot live together I under the same government," is the new plank in the^ political platform of! Colonel Oscar F. Bledsoe, one of the candidates for congress in the Fourth Mississippi district, who has begun a hard light on the issue of deporting the negro to the West Indies, begin ning with the criminal element and Al I BFAnV /ILL IlLftiJ FOR DENVER Ample Quarters Have Been Pro vided For the Mississippi Delegation. I

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I Daily News Special Jarkson, Miss., June 29.—A tele. gram received from Hon. C. I!. WU-1 Hams, Democratic National Committee man for Mississippi who 1ms been in Denver several da} s, adiises that all the necessary arrangements have been made for the entertainment of the Mississippi delegates. ample j quarters having bfccn secured and re served. The delegation tjill leave Thursday afternoon at 2:31), over the Illinois Central In a special sleeper, and will join the delegations from other states at St. Louis, where they will he; hitched on to thel special train ovej; if which Is sched io urs' stop-over in and the Burlington roi uled for a seven Lincoln, \eb., whe e Governor Mrs. Noel and ^eHmps «on«* of other delegates will be personnl guests of Mr. and Mrs. Brian Neither Senator McLautin nor ex Governor Lowry will be in the party, but both have designated their alter-! Hon. Earl Brewer, of Clarks McLaurin, nates. dale, will represent Mr. while Col. R. H. Henry, of this c!t>\ is scheduled to take the place of Gen. Lowry. Hon. John Sharp Williams, lr= THE DAILY NEWS PROGNOSTICATOR Ii

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of of be O Washington, Juno 29.—For Missis Showers tonight and Tuesday slightly cooler in interior. ippi: Hon. Frank Hallam, candidate for congress from this, the Eighth district, has a somewhat similar plank in his I platform, except that he lias not yet settled upon the location of the place j where he will colonize them. He may not agree with Colonel Rledsoe in the I selection of the West Indian Islands, because he may have taken the trouble winding up with sending them all out °f the United States by degrees as rapid as conditions will permit. i

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j i I Hearst News Service. Washington. June 29.—General Luke E. Wright, of Memphis, Tenn., who will on Wednesday assume (he duties of Secretary of War. will visit the 1 who has been engaged in lecture work since the adjournment of congress, j will probably not return home before, the convention, hut will likely go di- j rect from his last engagement to Den- j ver. Ex-Governor Vardanian will not he in the party which leaves here Thursday, but will join them in Den ver a little late, owing to a lecture en gagement which intervenes. these exceptions the Mississippi party is expected to be complete. With TWO FIREMEN FATALLY HURT Hearst News Service.

City,, N. J„ June 29.—John Uramiogau aud Mic haqj Bnvlaq, fire e probably fatally Injured at The Jel men w er a lire in h's city this morning. northern portion of j section of tho.ooo. sU The Socialist stale convention having a 'meeting this afternoon the court house. The main is at j i i mrk of the state conven tion is to select electors for the state at large and for the different congres sional districts. The national convention of the So cialist party has already been held It came off in May and the following ticket was named: For President—Eugene V. Debbs, of Indiana. For Vice President—Ben Hanford, of Brooklyn, N. Y. The attendance upon the convention While there are today is not large. Socialists in this county and a few southern counties of the slate, the some to figure out that the territory is too small for all the American negroes, and further, he may prefer to wait and get the consent of the people where the negroes ate to he sent, Neither of these gentlemen have yet been able to arouse any great opposi tiou to this plank on the part of their opponents, who appear perfectly willing that they should colonize as many of the negroes as they can cor t all. i Isthmus of Panama before August 1 in order to familiarize himself with the j conditions there and become better I acquainted with the actual relations j between the United Slates and the Re- j I public of Panama. -j.^ Nqw Ab)e to JOE BAILEE j

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Walk About His Apartments in New York Hoiel. Hearst News Service. New York. June 29. United States Senator Joseph VV. Bailey, of Texas, walk be dressed and to is able b

about his apartments in the Waldorf Axigiia^-Hotei. No one is gllowed Lee hint, however, and he Is attended only by his wife and one trained nurse, j It is said hat the Senator will short-1 ly leave for some summer resort.

M '-b;ou Toomer, of New Orleans, spending tire day in the city. i is is practically unknown in the party middle and northern part of the state and very few counties are represented in the convention being held this af

The attendance is I jternoon. Tonight S, W. Rose, of Biloxi, chair man of the state committee, will make 1 •hich speech at the court house to the public is invited. a EXPECT MORE DELEGATES. The Socialist state convention is in session in one of the jury rooms at the court house, small, but Chairman Rose expects more delegates by tomorrow when the main work will be done. WORK TO BEGIN AS AS FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE The Daily News has it from a relia ble source that President D. D. Cur ran will take up the matter of build ing a new passenger station in Hatties burg just as soon as the financial affairs of the road will permit, but Captain Curran, in a letter to a well known citizen does not undertake to fix a date. It is known that the receipts of tbe railroad company have not been as large for the last five or six months as they were last year. But for this, the passenger station would now be a reality. The Northeastern stopped all Improvements when the panic came last fall, and so far it has not resumed its work of Improvement. President Curran writes, however, that Just as soon as the funds are available the New Orleans and North eastern will at once proceed with the PATTERSON ELECTED Has Safe Majority Over His Op ponent, Hon. Edward W. Carmack. Hears! News Service. Memphis. Tenn.. June 29.—Complete returns from Saturday's primary elec tion in this state indicate the certain nomination of Governor M. H. Patter son over former United States Sena Reliable re tor Edward W. Carmack. turns received by the Commercial Ap peal give Patterson 734 delegates and Carmack 584 delegates. Carmack fol j lowers, it is said, will probably contest I ,i, t election In two small Interior coun j g ps charging fraud. The loss of the j delegates involved would not affect the result. Governor Patterson's ma jority is about 9,500. I The election was held on the county Senator Carmack favoring

j unit plan. state wide prohibition and Governor Patterson announcing for local option j The Governor said, however, on the I stump .hut if the Democrat platform j called for state-wide prohlhll-on he would sign such a bill if passed hv the legislature.

M'LEAN UPSETS POLITICAL POT 1)ai ^v News Special. Jackson, Miss.. June 29.—The sud den and unexpected withdrawal of Hon. Frank A. McLain from the con gressional race in the Seventh District ynUrely i up m ii „i I hi that territory, find In addition to the subsequent entry into the race of Hon. .1 Simmons, of Magnolia, more than a half dozen men. who, having been urged lor ously considering the' matter, i still a triangular race between Hon. Jesse Webb, of McComb, Hon. T M. Shelton, of Brookhaven, and Hon, E. J. un, are reported to be seri It is Simmons, of Magnolia. MILITARY OEFICri NARROWLY ESCAPED

Daily News Special. Vicksburg, Miss., June 29,—Lieuten ant F. B. Upham. of the war depart ment, visited, in a launch, the over-^ flowed districts of Issaquena and War ren counties, and will-send in state ments of how many need food. Tomor row he goes to Big Black River. Or ders were received by Lieutenant Up ham here to furnish six weeks' pro visions for about 4,000 sufferers in the counties of Wilkinson, Jefferson and Adams. Yesterday Lieutenant Upham had is just left a bank at Brunswick Landing, where he and A. L. Dorsey, a planter, ate*breakfast, when it caved Into the I Mississippi River. 1 in at the work and carry it to completion, as agreed with the city council. Knowing ones are of the opinion that the work on the new depot will not be it is believed much lnger delayed, that the company will certainly begin work either this summer or earl}' this fall. MINISTER DRAGGED TO DEATH. Hearst News Service. Moultrie Ga., June 29.—After balng thrown from a mule which he wss rid- Jj Ing home from the field late Saturday afternoon, Rev. J. M. King, a Baptist Xjj minister, became entang'ed In the hat- M nesi and waa dragged to death ROSE TO SPEAK. Chairman S. W. Rose, of the So cialist party, will sl>eak at the court house tonight. •v

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SECRETARY WALKER IS RATHER OPTIMISTIC Is Confident That Lumber Prices Will Advance Steadily For Next Several Months. on LUMBER JOURNAL URGES EARLY BUYING Building Materials and Labor Are Cheaper New Than They Will Ever Be Again—Good Time to Build New Homes. The editor of the Daily News is in receipt of the following interesting Wetter from Mr. Ewing A. Walker, C; Icretary of the Mississippi Pine As ■iatlon: Edgar G. Harris. Editor, The Hattiesburg News," Hattiesburg. Miss, ar Sir:— attached herewith I hand you edi ial which appeared recently in the merioan Lumberman" of Chicago, in at i it feel assured that even a cusory mination of this article will con e you of its wisdom and will be vhich med by you material of Ul be of interest to your many read legarding ihis editorial I would te that the American Lumberman Unquestionably correct in their in ence that n Ar Pl r MY COUNTY and CH 3 2S, 3 J 0 /r AL 'C(/S

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SCREENS! SCREENS!! We are prepared to take your orders. Phone us and we will send a man to take measures and put them in for you. Prices Reasonable i Hattiesburg Hardware Co. wm

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Capital $150,000.00 Undivided Profits $12,000.00 General banking business transacted. Authorized by law to act as Administrator of Estates, Executor un der Wills, Guardian of Minors, Trustee. Assignee or Receiver. CAREFUL ATTENTION To All SUCH MATTERS ENTRUSTED TO US i We pay 4 per cent interest on Savings Deposits. Compounded Semi-Annually. Time Deposits. I 4 per cent on JL. OFFICERS H. A. Camp, President R. L. Bennett, Joe Shelby, Vice Pres. Cashier John Karoper Vice R. B. McLeod, Asst.

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J T Mississippi Press Echoes Yazoo City Should Have Cara. ^TOo town can ever reach the propor tions of a city until it has an electric car line. Yazoo City witl have to pul in one sooner or later, so, "why not now?"—Yazoo Sentinel. That Full Dinner Pail. That full dinner pail racket the G. O. P. has used in so many campaigns to fool the people, cannot be dragged in this year. There are too many empty pails now and too many hunt ing work.—Yazoo City Herald. The Same Old 8tory. The board of supervisors at Its meet ing on Monday annulled tl(e contract of Stone Co., road contractors, for failure to keep roads in order, and orders the clerk to proceed against the bondsmen for damages.—Holly Springs South. Don't Knock or Pick Others. Apon't knock, or pick others to pieces. are all pots and skillets—some bad, others worse and non* good enough to make a moral code for man kind, or outline duty for a fellow man. —Yazoo Sentinel. The Dramshop Contingents. The dramshop contingent of the country is trying very hard to figure out that the defeat of Hoke Smith spells a reaction of prohibition senti ment in Georgia. With two-thirds of Dot h houses of the new legislature real sure for Btate prohibition and Gov. Some Short Stories

y The Coolest Man Present. A Massachusetts congressman, who was on board the train which was wrecked at Hyde Park, Mass., «ays that >uJ»n the shock came one of the pas rswas pitched over several seats just la] the flme to receive the contents of| ter cooler, which tipped over iked his clothing. A highly ex ted passenger rushed up to him and aut told him to keep cool. t "Go away," said the wet man. "I am the coolest man in the car. I hare just had two buckets pf ice water emptied down my back." Training Everything. Police Commissioner Bingham, of *3j elect Brown pledged to veto any bill repealing the state prohibition law, it is hard to see anything cheerful in the Georgia election for the antis.— Brookhaven Leader. Republicans Claiming Everytthing. As usual the Republicans are claim ing everything—except responsibility for the season of adversity, and they apologize for this speck on the pros perity horizon by alleging it would have been much worse if it had hap pened in a Democratic administration. Artful dodgers, the g. o. p.—Gulfport Record. Threats to Injure a Man's Business. Threats to injure a man's business is about the poorest policy ever adopt ed to make a man come to your way of thinking, says the Waynesboro Star. It only makes matters worse by creat ing a desire on the part of the other fellow to even up with you, and instead of ameliorating matters only t£nds to destroy the harmony that should ex ist.—Scott County Register. Decision Conform to Facts. The board of trustees of the A. A M. College have completed their in vestigation of the charges preferred against President Hardy and ad journed. Their decision will not be made public for a couple of weeks. It is evident that thte school needs either a new faculty or a new president, and we hope that the trustees will make th6fr decision conform to the facts In the case.—-Tupelo Journal. Nek' York, was praising the police work of the ten Belgiau watchdogs that, recently imported at a cost of $10 apiece, have reduced the burglaries in the neighborhoods they patrol from ten to one a month, says the New York World. "They work well," said the commis sioner, "because they are well^rained. Training, you know, is everything. Two physicians were discussing a certain pretty nurse. 'Was she a trained nurse?' said tbe'flrst physician. 'She must have been,' replied the other, 'She hadn't been in the hospital a week before she was engaged to the richest patient.'" T Stimulating Business. "One day during my usual morning walk along a prominent street of the lower section of Manhattan," said the "I noticed a banana skin lying on the sidewalk almost directly in front of a drugstore. I picked It up, deposited it in a waste can provided for that pur pose by the department of street clean ing, and continued my walk.' "About half an hour later returning through the same street I was consid erably surprised to find another ba nana peel in the same place, and on looking at it closer I observed it was the same one that 1 had removed but half an hour ago. Again I picked It up and deposited it in the waste can. "Passing the same corner the next day my attention was attracted to a crowd of people squeezing their way into the drug Btore. I elbowed my way through and got in just in time to wit ness the following scene: A badly bruised man was sitting on a chair while a pharmacist was dressing the wounds, saying atbud as he prepared to administer some salve: "Gentlemen, this man here slipped on a banana peel in front of my store. The sa)ve I am dressing him with is my own invention, and is patented in Washington. It is certain to heal wounds, mosquito bites, and remove freckles from the face. It's only 10 cents a bottle.' "Many people patronized him and I continued my walk. Returning a little later I found the drug store.empty and quiet, but on the sidewalk there again lay a banana peel. I again stooped to remove It, when suddenly I was ac costed by the druggist, who yelled: What the deuce do you care if this peel lays here! Go about your own business.' No Need of Suffering from Rheuma tism. It is a mistake to allow anyone to suffer from rheumatism, as the pain can always be relieved, and in most cases a cure effected by applying Chamberlain's Liniment. The relief from pain which it affords is alone worth many times- its cost. It makes sleep and rest possible. Even in cases of long standing this liniment should be used on account of thq relief whic.i. it affords. Do not be discouraged Until you have given it a trial. For Sale by Hays Field and Yellow Pine Pharmancy. An Explanation. "Fat men are Invariably honest said the deep thinker, "and I believe It's because they about their fat." "I don't see what ou mean?" "Well, if they should be dishonest, and get caught at it they might have to wear convict suits with the stripes running In the most coming becoming way." are so sensitive un STATISTICS REVEAL Steeped in Criminal Propensities togith- i er with the frequent communication i with the Old World, has brought in I their train hordes of id'-*, vicious, rev-j olutionary, and shiftless people who do not come to the United States to make permanent homes but to engage j in the labor necessary to the carrying 1 out of some great enterprise, front! which the^deriye high wages On the completion of the work they retlffn tto the Old World tionists in their own lands as they have been in the United States. Many of them have not taken any beert dissatisfied, ripe for every con extended to all men through the gen erosity of the government or the lib erality of their employes, but have been dissatisfied, ripe for every con spiracy and active in the most unlaw ful proceedings against capital and the government. To expect to reform these people is almost a hopeless task, and yet, a ma jority of the citizens of this republic believe that in the future they will be brought to respect law and order and conform to the manners and customs of the republic. While the country is making mar velous progress ir. its extension of civilization and Christiaiiity, It* Mrs. John A Logan Believes That Foreign Immigration is the Sole Cause. SHIFTLESS PEOPLE RESIST RESTRAINT Foreigners Turn Deaf Ear to Religious and Moral Teachings and Are Soon Beyond Cure. By Mrs. John A. Logan, Washington, June 20. -The census proves that criminality has steadily in creased in the United States since 1880 and that a large per cent, of this increase may be attributed to the as tonishing Increase in immigration. In the old days when the immigra tion to the United States was from the industrial and simple peasantry of the Old World, no such unfavorable con ditions was the result of (he multipli cation of our population, probably be cause the majority of them, were seek ing hinds upon which to establish homes for their families. advantage of the privileges that are to the cultivation of the soil, the abundant returns rewarding them for their faithfulness. They were satis fied, thrifty, and useful citizens of the New World. But with the development of the great resources of the country and the rapid multiplicity of railroads and other means of transport at i

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i v Tco.'-TLi-st-iT r -tkt***<i*' v.e- wjr-4 EDNA GOODRICH, STAGE BEAUTY. Miss Edna Goodrich, who has for several seasons been leading- woman in Nat Goodwin's company, has dually announced that she rt-ally Is to wed J. Harry McMillan, the California mining man. The Paris, Ixmdon and New ,-r name with that of Mr. Goodwin when they were jSMfc said that Mr Goodwin had followed Miss Good JjKce her to cbauge^ier mind about marryitV rad to u^wr year in his company. Miss Goodrich ^^Bthat she also will remain on tbe stage. York both rich jS.tvs fulfill she v much yet to do to change the con ditions of the ignorant and Indigent, Perhaps'one of the most effective measures to accomplish this would be to organize and carry out some plans by which the idle, vicious class could be induced to adopt agricultural em ployment. If the millionaires of the country would put as much money into a colonization scheme that would enable these people to establish homes on the land as they do for homes for the homeless, hospitals, asylums, poor houses, and places that house paupers and criminals, we should find that much more could be accomplished and these creatures could be saved for use fulness and good citizenship. In a way, the Salvation Army and some enterprisi'^j individuals have done much, but the necessity for money with which to carry this out has prevented this remedy from being adopted to as large an extent as it should be. The aggregating of great numbers of persons in the cities who speak foreign languages and expecting them to live together in peace and harmony is a great mistake. They are con stantly misunderstanding rules and regulations of municipal, state, and United States authority. They become jealous of each other and are so addicted to dissipation that they are constantly engaging in con flicts that terminate in tragedies. Any attempt to force them to obey the laws is resented and consequently they bring upon themselves the se verest penalties of the law. Revenge seizes them as being their only res|it for securing what they deem their rights or being satisfied for the wrongs which they think have been inflicted upon them. Isolation from temptation, fresh air, healthful occupations, proper food, and a conservative government would do more fo1 the ignorant emigrants and nati\<'s than anything else that could 1,osslb,y be done Uttle can ever l,p accomplished in the great cities where vicp ,s a!, avs 1,pro, e ,hem and berp immoraHty aH<i dissipation run riot ln 1,erson8 11 may bp a km g time be fore anything of this kind is done, hut if we examinine closely the cause of our greatness, we will find that it or iginated with the tillers of the soil. Effeminate. Is the tjianly type of burglar dying out in this effeminate age? We trust not, but we note that some house breakers who entered a well known confectionery establishment in the Stra 1 the other night spent some of I their time in consuming a quantity of j chocolate, cream buns cakes.—Punch. and assorted Reward of the Industrious. Be thankful every morning that you j have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or j not. Being forced to work, and forced to do our best, will breed in you j temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a han dled virtues which thq idle never kr.ov Charles Kingsley. FOR REAL ES TA TE II

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DAILY NEWS not Published Every Afternoon. (Except Sunday.) Hattiesburg Printing Publishing Co. Office, 112 Front Street. H. A. CAMP, President. M. J. EPLEY, Vice President. BJDGAR G. HARRIS, Editor. T. R. GORDON, Advertising Manager. A. B. HOBBS, 'Circulation Manager. but the the In so I i an

to a Telephones: Home, 30 Cumberland, 904 Subscription: One Month, by carrier One Year by mail or carrier.. .$6.00 50c HEARST TELEGRAPH AND CA BLE SERVICE received dally, the ex clusive franchise for which Is owned by the Daily News. Entered as second-class matter on May 22, 1907, at the postoffice at Hattiesburg, Miss., under the Act of Congress pf March J879. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE NEW COUNTY OF FORREST. FOR CONGRESS. We are authorized to announce HON E. J. BOWERS of Hancock county as a candidate in the Democratic primary for re-nomi-1 nation to the 61st Congress from the 6th district of Mississippi. I

In modern journalism editors must be alert evidence in support of their con- v Newspapers are the

vith substantial I tentlons. ever watchfu^t^^^^^^^^^^J 'v j public weal. They are detectives, v prosecutors and public account- ants. Criminals hate newspapers, j scheming politiibans bitterly as sail them, incompetent public of- j H _ ficials treat them with affected v 1 seorn. Only the honest man with his life free from possible entan- glerfients looks upon the newspa- pers as his friend.

Good News. From Chicago conies the good news that officials of tile Illinois Central -have issued notice that, on July 1. work at full time will be resumed ill the shops at Burnside, III., Waterloo, la., j Memphis, Tenn., Vicksburg ami Water Valley, Miss. The order means that 5.000 additional men will be put to work and an additional $250,000 per month paid out in wages in these five communities from this one source. From Atlanta comes the story that "-the Southern Railway will restore the salaries of its office men to the old basis, and that no reduction will he made in the wages of any employe. The mimber of men affected by these orders is not large in itself, al though the assurance of work at full pay means much to them and their families. The good feature of ilie news lies in the fact that it shows a returning con fidence. If conditions warrant me Ill inois Central and the Southern in their action, it will not be long before their example is followed by other railroads and, with the resumption of full work by the railways, business and indus trial enterprises are sure to follow suit. Lack of confidence brought on the papfc. A return of confidence will re Kew it as suddenly and effectively as it r was begun. There Is every condition to justify a return of confidence, not the least of which is the wei) assured promise of the greatest crop in the country's history. When men like Harriman, who con trols the Illinois Central, and Morgan, who controls the Southern, blaze the way back to prosperity, there is good reason to believe that the path will not long be left untraveled. The Vice Presidency. As the National Democratic conven tion draws nearer, and as the issues to enter Into the presidental campaign become more clearly drawn, interest Increases in tile mailer of selecting a desirable running mate for Mr. Bryan. Numerous candidates have boon sug f gested for the place, including several of the most prominent Democrats In the country, but the two now most prominently mentioned are John Mitch ell and John A. Johnson. Mr. Mitchell has said that he will Some of his not accept the place, friends still insist on his nomination, but it is believed that he will refuse the honor. Governor Johnson is a candidate for the presidential nomination, but would probably accept the nomination for second place if pressed into service In that capacity. He is a strong man; so strong that a great many Demo I crats believe that he would have de i feated Bryan for the nomination had J entered the race in time. With Bryan and Mitchell or Bryan and Johnson, a strong platform and an intelligent, vigorous campaign, the Daily News believes that there is at least a fighting chance for success. There may be other men equally available for the vice presidential nom ination, but the country is not so fa miliar with them, and the Democratic party has made serious mistakes in the past by selecting for second" place on the ticket men who are compafa lively UilKpown and who have nothing to recommend them to the country. 'KJie man who is nominated for vice president should be qualified to fill the office of president in the event of a vacancy in that office. The Repub

lican nominee for second place Is not i tt man of presidential caliber, but this is all the more reason why the Denver convention should exercise its best judgment. Push and Progress.

Belter than age-encrusted conserva tism is the push and progress that I builds a city in ten years where only Ihe pine stumps were before. Better than great wealth is health and vigor, and better still is wealth, health and vigor. Hattiesburg has them. 'here virgin pines towered v

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of tireless energy within th»u space of a decade. still be primeval forests of the finest the saw mill may be heard in the streets, is a city built by the magic Here where no man ould have thought twenty years ago of finding an excuse for building a village, man has caused to spring up a magnificent j monument to his foresight and energy in the shape of stately buildings and broad paved streets, handsome homes, splendid churches and substar Here has been made to grow as if by Arabian magic a commercial and manufacturing point second to no oth and commodious! tial school bouses. er city in the state, a community of skj'-scrhpers. paved streets, public buildings, homes, schools, churches and twentvfive thousand hustling peo pie. And yet Hattiesburg is only be ginning its .career of greatness. What has been done here is velous, but it is merely a start, for* the Hattiesburg of ten years hence will be the fulfillment of a promise which the past has made possible and the future assures. With timber in abundance, sufficient to supply an increasing demand for many years, with manufacturing plants furnish employment to the skilled labor of a great city, with the wealth that must come from the development of a country so rich in natural re ma: ti sources and with the continued push ing if Hattiesburg by the men of Hattiesburg, there can be no limit to the growth and the Industrial and commercial development of this city. A Bigger, Busier and Better. Hat tiesburg is being made every day, yea *j and it will not stop within the that are to come. Carmack's Defeat. Former United States Senator Ed ward W. Carmack was defeated for Governor of Tennessee in the Demo cratic primaries held in that state last Saturday by Governor M. R. Patterson. Senator Carmack made the race on a platform favoring state-wide prohibi tion, while Governor Patterson is an advocate of local option. The verdict of the people at the polls is, therefore, of more than local signifi cance. Carmack is admittedly the most brilliant man of the two. best speaker and carries the largest personal following. But Tennessee Democrats could not get away from the basic principles of local self-government, hence they tal In He is the to of (1 1n to I lied to the support of' Patterson. The state-wide prohibition wave swept Georgia, Alabama and Missis sippi like a whirlwind—and the slogan, "The South is Going Dry" began to look like a reality. But the reaction came. Louisiana and Florida failed to fol low, and Tennessee has remained true to the principles of local option. Georgia receded slightly from its po sition in the election of Joseph M. Brown as Governor, while a strong un dercurrent in Alabama pressages the return of that state to the local op tion system. State wide prohibition will probably obtain In Mississippi for several years, but the Daily News doubts its per manency, and believes that the tem perance people of the state made a se rious mistake In forcing on the few wet counties a law that will never bit enforced. When the state does return to local option, as the Daily News believes it will do sooner or later, the fight must be made over, and it will be many years before the sale of liquors is re stricted to seven or eight counties as was the case when the statutory pro hibition law was enacted.

never printed a liquor advertisement. j The Daily News is a prohibition i so much so that it has i newspaper, But the Dail News believes in the I Democratic principle of local self-gov-, ernment. In communities where public sen timent is strong enough to vote out I the saloon the law can be enforced, ly trampled under foot In the few communities where a majority of the but we believe that future experience I will justify the prediction that the state prohibition law will be ruthless citizens prefer the open saloon. Editor P. K. Mayers, the veteran editor of the Scranton Democrat Star, says: "The Hattiesburg city council did the right thing a few days since in exempting the J. J. Newman Lumber Company from taxation for a period of The council went a step further and exempted all other man ten years. ufacluring establishments locating in Their their city during that period, action is to be commended." The Poplarville Free Press is re pongJble for this bit of humor: ilors Noble and Ragsdale and a man by the name of Bush are running for mayor in the hustling city of Laurel. It certainly will be amusing to see the rival editors shaking the ('bush') trying to reach the mayoralty persim mon." "Ed in a Those who are inclined to grieve over Senator Carmack's defeat for Governor of Tennessee may console themselves in the fact that John Wes ley Gaines also met his Waterloo. J. Pierpont Morgan has officially de clared that the panic Is over. The man who complains of hard times now is a crank and doesn't know what he is talking about. A Missouri man has just wooed and won a vNlinan from whom he was di vorced six years ago. It seems that some Mlssouritms have to be shown twice. Judging from the size of tjje de linquent land tax sale published in the Gulfport Journal, something like nine-tenths of that town is to be placed on the market at auction. The man who died the otheT day and left half of his fortune to a bar tender did not live In Gulfport. Gulf port men give their fortunes to the bartender while they are living. *j a an not of tal The poor man has Ihe satisfaction of knowing that his honesty is seldom questioned. Selfish m*n seldom denies himself anything. OPEN COURT.

1 prepartd a full reply to the publi cations recently appearing in the Hat tiesburg papers with reference to the taking over of Gulfport Harbor by the Government, which it was my origi nal intention Jo have tmblis^ed as a card, but being reminded that I would speak at Soso today where I would the probably have an opportunity to de liver It as af speech, I determined to ourse. In accordance With the cupfotn of speakers i gave advance take -r copies to the press with permission I to publish this afternoon, expecting of course, to be able to deliver It In full. The very short tim^ limit fixed, (1 hour) of which I was advised too late to stop publication, prevented my covering other matters and delivering this part of the speech as published 1n full, but I went Into the matter as fully as the time allowed. As the published speech was not delivered In full I will ask the public to treat fit as a card until I get an opportunity to deliver It from the stump, which I will do as soon as possible. I desire to be perfectly fair and therefore give the facts to the public. I have also stated them to Mr. Barber and advised him that I would publish this card and have exhibited same to Very respectfully E. .1. DOWERS. him. June 27, 1908. REFLECTIONS OF A

BACHELOR GIRL. By Helen Rowland.

Matrimony is a life job with long hours, small pay, hard work, no holi days and no chance to "give nptlce" If you get tired of it. A pretty wife In a soiled kimono af fects a man like a pate de fol gras Served on an old tin plate; it takes away his appetite—for love. It always surprises a woman when j the son w j, 0 j, aa been tied to her apron i I strings suddenly gets tangled up some chorus girls shoe stiings. Marrying a widow is like inherit in Ing an heirloom; marrying a grass widower is like geeting second-hand I g00( s that somebody else has been anxious to get rid of it. A man always feels deeply Injured when his wife refuses to believe the story that he has worked all the way up in the cab Jo make sound Interest-1 jng an(J perfectly plausible, _ I

CHARGE WAS NOT SUSTAINED Richard Payne, a peg-leg negro, was before thas-police court this morning charged with having stolen $20 from Anderson Klmbrought, a negro who lives on Williams street. It was claimed that the negro broke into the house.and stole a little bank that contained $20. The evidence was insufficient, and Justice Johnson discharged the a* cused. FINED FOR GAMBLING. Five negroes were fined $5 each in the police court this morning on a charge of gaining. The New South Answers the Old. "Do they love us still in Dixie7"—Closing sentence of the unspoken address of the late Oommander-in-Chief, Stephen D. Lee, to the United Confederate Veterans in Reunion at Birmingham. Do they love you still in Dixie? Ah, how they love you still! The ^eathless courage of your lives Makes every true heart thrill And beat with loving warmth and pride At deeds so nObly done— So shall it be throughout the years, Till quick and dead are one. T2!

Do they love you still in Dixie? Ah, could you have a doubt That Dixie sons of Dixie sires Would ever turn about And worship at a lesser shrine Than that you raise so high?— Its matchless glory cannot wane, Its stars yet pierce the sky. Do they love you still, in Dixie? Ah, let your own hearts speak, HAs blood of heroes yet begot A nice of cowards weak— Whose callous hearts no deed can thrill, No patriot cause* inflame? The New South answers to the Old, In spirit we're the same!" Do they love you still, in Dixie? Ah, can they e'er forget How nobly strove those ranks of gray, When'Hope's fair hun had set:— And bleeding, died, their cause to save, s Nor dying, won the day; Though cause more Just man ne'er has known, Or deadlier yet the fray. l Yes, we love you still, in Dixie! You and your sweethearts, too, For your sweethearts are our mothers—■ Can you doubt that we are true? Though your ranks now fast are melting, And the Stars and Bars are furled, Yet the South will live forever In the glary of your world. EHHET RODWELL CALHOUN, Birmingham, Ala., June 9, 1908. OUT OF RANGE.

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—Thoi-rHvW' Baltimore Amtricen CHANCERY SUMMONS. State of Mississippi To L. R. Prlester, defendant; You are commanded to appear be fore the Chancery Court of tit* County bf Forrest, in said state, on the 2nd Monday of July, A. D. 1908,.to defend the suit in said court of A. V. Hayes, and others, wherein you are a defend ant. This 12th day of June, A. D. 1908. T. E. BATSON, Clerk.

GOOD ADVICE. A drop of printer's Ink Will make a thousand think, And likewise buy, And kpep, say I, Your biz from geilng on the blink

A drop of ink, egad, May reasonably be had, Do not delay; Insert today, That business help, a little ad. *1

WANTED—Ten nustl-ing boys .to sell the Daily News every afternoon. 'Ask for the Circulation Manager. 1 Gas Connections Free! For 100 Stoves Gur (ice conrcclicn offer which expired May 1st, gave custcir.eis and has placed a gas stove in so us so many new many hemes, we make the following offer. For the next 1G0 stove* purchased of us at our regular cash schedule price, we will make pH necessary house connections free of charge and connect the stove up ready for use. Following is our schedule of pri ei Single Oven Stove Double Oven Stove Triple Oven Stove 12.00 16.0C 23.00

We also have a nice line of Hot Water Heaters for water tank connectiors. For further information apply at the office of the company. This ofer is made for connections along the line of our mains as now ccnslrrcted and does not contentf late any main extention. i

Hattiesburg Traction Co J Winter Coal at Summer Prices Buyers of coal should place their orders now and get the benefit of the off-season price reduction. Complete stock of all grades on hand. <33

J TELEPHONE 144, BOTH PHONES HATTIESBURG ICE COAL CO,'

SAVE YOUR HORSES Pain and real Injury by having us at tend to their shoeing. Same youraett money, besides. However sound or weak their hoofs, we can please them and please you. Do they interfere or over-reach? Bring them here. you after a certain gait? Again, bring them here! Lame? Bring 'em here. In Any case where skillful horseshoe ing at fair cost is needed, here's the place to bring your animals. OTIS SMITH, v 320 East Pine Street. Home Phone 72S. Rubber Tire* A Speciality. EX S' JV 3 Are id i Hi s

A. J. HARRIS INSURANCE V t FIRE Room 205 Fim National Bank _ Building HOME PHONE 2T4

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P oplons Great Fourth of July Sale Will End Friday Night at 11 o'clock FOUR DAYS AND A HALF OF FAST, V I Coplon's Great Coplon's Great FURIOUS SELLING miss some of the wonderful Bargains offering in this marvelous sale. Nothing like it has ever been known our store daily. Don't put off your now. Come while the bargain bloom is on. M [I Come early. Do not delay or you will we are in Hattiesburg. Eager buyers throng buying. Every hour is valuable to you j 4th 4th 1 of of I As our store will be closed on Saturday, we will keep open next Friday night '"until 1 1 o'clock, and the special values announced for Satur day will be put on sale Friday nigh t. July July 1 ■fi Sale Sale i 10 per Cut this Coupon out and present it for the 10 per cent discount at the Great 4 th oj per^ cent Cut ihis Coupon out and present it for the 10 per cent discount at the Great 4th of July Sale. 10 cent This Coupon is worth 1 Oc on every Dollar purchase at S. H. COPLON, the Dry Goodsman's Big 4th of July Sale. Present one with each Dollar purchase. per 10 per cent cent This Coupon is worth 1 Oc on every Dollar purchase S. H. COPLON, the Dry Goodsman's Big 4th with each Dollar purchase at t. of July Sale. Present one Vj 10 per 10 per July Sale 10 cent per cent 10 per THE DRY GOODS MAN cent cent J THE MARKETS CHICAGO GRAIN. Hearst News Service. Chicago, June 29.—Heavy rains in winter wheat belt offset lower cables and advances were shown at opening. Wheat, July, 85 l-4@85 5-8c; corn, July, 67 3-4c; oats, July, 44 l-2c; pork, July, $14.72; ribs, September, $8.52. NE% YORK COTTON. Hearst News Service. New York, June 29—Cotton futures opened steady. July, 9.76®9.80c; Au gust, 9.70 bid; September, 9.44@9.48; October, 9.20@9.21; December, 9.06® 9.06; January. 9.02@9.03; May, 9.08 of fered. Defects trf Vision

0 Although slight, may cause MUCH DISCOMFORT. If you are suffering from a strained vision, our scien tific examination of the eyes will reveal the cause, and a pair of our rightly made and fitted lenses will give relief. F. W. Queen, Oph.D. OPTICAL SPECIALIST. Carter building. Second Boor. A Mrs. Delbert H. Cleland TEACHER OF VOICE Cumberland Phone 385 107 McLeod St. Tl RAMSEY KlO. UlEKTAKEKi

WHO IS ONLY 14 TEARS OLD Yesterday afternoon, Hammon, Herring and Miss Bessie Lewis Dee nan, surprised their friends by quietly getting married. The old saying that "love laughs ai locksmiths" was again verified. For more than six months the young peo pie had been desperately in love with each other, but objection was made on account of the youth of the couple. The young man is Just 18 and the bride is three months past 14. Mr. Deenan, the father of the bride, told the young couple that if they would wait for a couple of years- they could marry with the parental blessing. But the young man and young lady both Relieved they had found their "afftni and the AMUSEMENTS Attraction,! Tonight. New Gem—Illustrated picture: "The Legend of a Ghost." Illustrated Song: Come Home lif the Dark." Auditorium—Moving pictures: Gallant Knight." and "The Magnetic Eye," Illustrated song. "I'm Afraid to "A 4 DAVIS' BOND IS HIES AT $1,000 Forrest Davis, the young white lad who was arrested Saturday morning, charged with robbing Herman's store I Friday night of about $87 worth of merchandise, was arraigned before Justice Bolton this morning and en tered a plea of guilty. He was bound over to the grand jury tn the sum of $1,000 and efforts are be ing made to secure bondsmen for him. Davis is about 16 years old and the goods were about all recovered. WANTED—Ten hustling boys to sell the Daily -News every afternoon. Ask for the Circulation Manager. ties" and they felt that they could not wait so long as two years appeared to Accordingly a license was procured yesterday and the couple repaired to r. one. They left last night to visit relatives and friends in Meridian and other places. The groom Is an employe of the Hattiesburg Bakery, where the father of the bride is also employed. Mr. Deenan,-the father of the young lady, takes a philosophical view of the matter and will probably say "bless you, my children," when they return home. PROMINENT LADY VISITED THE CITY I One of the most distinguished ladies of the state spent the latter part of last- week in this city. The lady was Mrs. Sudie Spinks, of Meridian, the daughtegn& Winston Cot the late Judge Hunt, of nty, and the widow of J. 4 L. SphikB, who, tn his life time was state grand lecturer of the Masonic fraternity. Mrs. Spinks was the guest of Miss Maggie Montague, East Fifth street, while in the city. Mrs. Spinks left Saturday for her home in Me ridian. If a woman could pick out the spots to be fat there would be very few com plaints about it. IMPORTANT JTTThe Davidson .Co. will be closed Wed., TjJ July 1, all day, taking semi-annual inven tory. Make purchases tonaNg||ttHHfey) i j I 1

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Counsel Employed By Mississippi Grand Lodge r J to Start Legal Proceedings. Dally News Special. Jackson, Miss., June 29. ment started some time ago by the Odd Fellows' Grand Lodge of Missis sippi having for its purpose the ellm lnation of the negro through injunction proceedings in the poults, is expected to taker definite shape within the next few days in ti n actual filing <1' the proceedings. -The move Odd. Fellow The special committee appointed b.v the Grand Lodge to handle the pro ceedings report that they have thc malter 4n shape, and although It is jiot stated wher£ the bill will be filed, it is likely it will be In this county account of its accessibility, both to the interested parties and to the supreme court, where the case must infevitably go before it will be settled, on CUMBERLAND HAS ONLY 682 PAID PHONES IN CITY Last week the DaHy News stated that the Cumberland Telephone Com I I I the negroes will hardly give up without a hard legal struggle. The proceedings will ask that the as negroes be restrained from using the name, regalia and all other parapher nalia of the Odd Fellows, and in view D f t y, e favorable decisions by the] courts of other states on the question, the Odd Fellows feel very hopeful of success, although the negro lodge has been an undisturbed element for several years, and is one of the strongest colored organizations in the state, j lodges. same In the event of the success of this movement, it is expected that the Ma sonic, Pythian and other lodges which have negro counterparts, will follow suit, in an effort to keep the negro coufliy'd to lodges with names distinct and not easily confused with the white pany only had 749 telephones in use in this city. This statement was incorrect. As an actual fact the Cumberland company has only 632 paid phones in side the city. The figures first gtv^n included all phones In and out of the city that were served by the Hattiesburg local exchange. Mr. T. D. Webb, the treasurer of the company, with headquarters at Nash- i viile, gives the number as 632 tele phones and Mr. Webb ought to know, ■phe Cumberland's statement rela* live to Its taxable property within the city of Hattiesburg, is as follows: (132 telephones at $5 each.$3,160 1 switchboard at 17 miles main line at $100 each. 1.700 I 201 miles of side lino at $10 each 2,910 1 3 horses at *50 each. 3 1.200 vagons 1 ai $10 each tu1ll bout the If there is anything wrong if phones given it is the fault I mini her of Mr. Webb—not the Dally News. Now, if tile Cumberland is collect

ing on a basis of 800 paid subscribers, it is not doing the fair thing by the people, or if it is discriminating in j my way, it is not living up to its con

tract. The Daily News submits the facts I —it is for the city to take action. The Cumberland pays taxes, or gives I in its taxable property at $9,195 I The Home Company, it is said, has s j vpn j ts property valuation at over j^o.oort. RAILROAD MAKES i SOME iii

To the Members of the Commercial] Club: 1 have been authorized to say that Natchez on the ex persons going b cursion tomorrow need not return on the excursion train same day, but can remain over night, coming out on regular train Wednesday morning on which train the excursion tickets will be honored. It is hoped that a good representa tion of Hattiesburg's business men will attend the big celebration at Natchez. C. F. LARSON, Secretary. the i A. A. OERUM DIED i near Boute bridge, at 10 o'clhck to morrow morning and will be conducted by Rev. R. L. Campbell. Mr. Oerum had been employed at the Mclnnls concrete factory. Mr. A. A. Oerum, aged 56 years, died at tils home at 2:30 o'clock this morn ing from typhoid fever. The funeral services will be held at the residence, WANT FOR SALE. FOR SALE--Good grate coal In any quantity, I,. Hodges. Horae 'phone 864 and stove Telephone. FOR SALE—One of the 1 "st homes •gain. 0 u th Main street at good terms. M. J. Epl 'no 666. FOR SALE—20,000 yards finest screened gravel, second floor. Carter building G. C. Robertson. *?4tt FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished front room, with bath, close in, $10. Ad dress, room, box 452. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished front all conveniences. room, close in, Both phones 300, or Home phone jun29 3t i 517 blue. LOOT AND FOUND. Hotel Hattiesburg LOST—Between and First National Bank, fob an* locket with engraving on locket. Return to thin "Grace to Beatrice." office and receive reward.

MISCELLANEOUS. i $2,500 to loan on improved city prop erty in sums of $500 or more. Tboa. ,Time3 af M. Ferguson. WANTED—To crate your furniture on short notice. Ring Cumb phone No. 254. Jun24 5t WANTED—To buy or rent Cnderwood typewriter in good condition. Cumberland 904 or Home 30. i'all to at WANTED—Italian lumber stackers to Apply at contract 25 M per day. Richburg, Miss. WANTED—Everybody to know that S. Parker has moved his Bicycle Re pair Shop to Stevens Building, next door to Merchants Grocery Company. Wheels for rent. Wheels for sale. Phone us for wheels. Home Phone 771. WANTED—All bicycle riders to know that we dl-e going to run a bicycle picnic to Rawls Springs all' day July 4. S. Parker, East Pine street

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