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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 ❖ I 'v j v ❖ •> j heavenward ten years ago, surrounded Here ■> j , . .« , , „ . soft pine ilnber, where the noise of v 1 •> •> •> 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. — 7 <T V HP" 2 J xvN 5*s 0 £ m 0^7 j# / ( v s N) ) g: % A ), ' / / t L 0ft , i V: } r to io& » el I ooX : r,,„ u I*, I M V 1 *' r rxm' .5 h' c] I>1 BY ! ■j o'lCHP ' 0 * 5 > T0N . ,r l NX. IWL*. /b. J Bai Tn j ANOTHER FLYING MACHINE THAT CAN FLY. .. —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. 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