DAILY NEWS
Published Every Afternoon.
(Except Sunday.)
Hattiesburg Printing & Publishing Co.
Office, 112 Front Street.
H. A. CAMP, President.
M. J. EPLEY, Vice President
EDGAR G. HARRIS, Editor.
T. R. GORDON, Advertising Manager.
A- B. HOBBS, Circulation Manager.
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Cumberland, 90A
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Entered as second-class matter on
May 22, 1907, at the postoffice at
Hattiesburg, Miss., under the Act of
Congress of March 3, 1879.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE NEW
COUNTY OF FORREST.
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FOR CONGRESS.
We are authorized to announce
HON E. J. BOWERS
of Hancock county as a candidate in
the Democratic primary for re-nomi
nation to the 61st Congress from the
6th district of Mississippi.
Hattiesburg and
the Daily News.
Hattiesburg has passed through the
panic. And, since it is all over, and
the tide is turned—for the first time—
the Daily News admits that the town
was "hit hard." Few cities in the
country suffered more, and it is certain
that the citizens of none of them
showed more courage, made more sac
rifices and worked harder to weather
the storm.
Now the other side—
With our backs turned to the un
pleasant experiences of the past sev
eral months and our eyes fixed on the
ultimate goal of a great and growing
city, let us ask ourselves, "What we
can do for Hattiesburg?"
The coming of street c\rs. the re
building of the Newman mill—the re
vival of the lumber industry—all these
other
are assuied. But there
things of equal import to the future
of this metropolis easily within our
are
We need more factories, more
grasp.
railroads, more hbmes and more
i
- -^Throughout the territory tributary to
will come only
the cRy—and the
through concert of action such as that
which was evinced in the trying times
of the-past few months.
Those who stood together in times
of stress to preserve the integrity of
,minim and its com
merce, must work slum; Iff to sJiet»ltler
in the task of
~<jf grow Hi and due
brought to Hattiesburg the merited
title of "Mississippi's marvelous Magic
City."
the city, its n.
.1 i.lining the ratio
oinnen which has
City."
Since its first issue a stalwart cham
pion of all that has seemed best for
the future welfare of the city, the
Daily News emerges from the panic
even more consecrated to the interests
of those who have sustained it, and
with renewed zeal and unfaltering de
votion to the interests of Hattiesburg
antf Hattiesburgans.
To a new paper, scarcely started on
it^^dult career, the financial depres
sion was a severe blow, but the Daily
News comes up smiling and serene—a
better newspaper, with a better patron
age, than ever before in its history.
There is a radiant future for Hat
tiesburg and the Daily News.
The Country Press.
When the country press confirms
the death of a great man you may
know that he is dead Indeed.—Biloxi
Herald.
This delicate bit of sarcasm from
the pen of Editor Dave Holt is some
what surprising,
their training in the modest sanctum
of the country newspaper do not often
forget themselves In this manner.
But there is a world of truth in the
Herald's simple paragraph shorn ot
its sarcastic sting.
we see a thing in the average
Men who receive
ms'
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country newspaper, we know that It Is
true—and this Is much more than we
can say for most Mississippi dallies.
And the editorial columns of the
average Mississippi weekly are like
wise dependable. Country editors do
not write to fill space. Few of them
are pressed for time, and what they
say is consequently in the nature of
the sober, serious afterthought, so es
sential to fairness and impartiality.
The editor of the country weekly is
closer to his people, wields a greater
influence and is given more liberties
and latitudes than the editor of the
city daily. For this reason his paper
usually comes nearer to voicing the
sentiments of a majority of his neigh
j hors, making its editorial expressions
all the more valuable to those of us
who care to keep in touch with i
trend of public affairs.
The Dally News has many weekly
exchanges. In fact a majority of the
weekly newspapers published in the
state reach our sanctum with unfail
ing regularity. Some of them are
poorly printed and poorly patronized,
but these are largely in the minority.
In fact, we doubt if there Is a state
in the union that can boast of a bet
ter country press than our own Mis
sissippi. We know that no better and
truer and more loyal men live any
where than some of the editors who
preside over the destinies of modest
weeklies and preach through their
columns the progress and prosperity of
this commonwealth.
They may be a little late some
times in announcing the death of a
great man. Some of them make no
attempt to print the news of ''the
world. Hut they do reflect, honestly
and without unnecessary adornment,
the best sentiment of the best people
in the world.
The country press is all right. The
happiest, most profitable—perhaps
most useful—days of our own life were
stient in the sanctum of a modest
country weekly. And we shall not for
get our raising.
Where Relations Are Mixed.
A well known Washington newspa
per man married his brother's step
daughter, thus his brother becoming
his father-in-law and his sister-in-law,
his mother-in-law,
The girl's step
father became her brother-in-law.
There is much food for thought and
a chance for mental collapse in the
effort to figure out mixed family rela
tionships complicated by unusual
jjes. One man, WJlliam Harris,
ited suicide
man
of Titli
because I
that he was his own grandfather. The
man left the following autobiography
for the coroner:
KUs.
r so it is said,
!
'I married a widow who had a gr
daughter.
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My father visited us oft
fell ill love with my stepdaughter and j
married her.
my son-in-law, and my stepdaughter,
be't.g my father's wife, became my
step mother. Soon after this distress
Thus my father became
ing complication arose my wife pre
sented me with a son.
This son was
my father's brother-ii.vlaw and
own uncle, since he was a brother of
my stepmother. My father's wife also
became the mother of a boy. He was,
of course, my brother and also my
grandchild, for he was the son of my
daughter. Also my wife was a grand
mother. I was my wife's husband and
grandchild at once. At the same time,
as the husband of a person's grand
my
mother Is the person's grandfather, I
am my own grandfather."
That is a nice compliment which
Mayor-elect George M. Foote, of Gulf
port, pays to the l5aily News,
influence of this newspaper was really
instrumental in his election, as he
seems to think, we have no apologies
to offer to the good people of Gulf
Mr. Foote will make them a
If the
port,
good mayor.
It has just leaked out that Mr. Taft
walked under a step ladder during the
Chicago convention.
This, coupled
with the fact that Mr. Sherman was
nominated on Friday and that he has
23 letters in his name, puts, the hoodoo
to the Republican ticket good and
strong.
Those nascent geniuses who are
sighing for something profltable to
"Invent" should give heed to the pres
ent Insistent demand of publishers for
a substitute for wood pulp in making
white paper. That the supply of tim
ber suitable for this purpose is
diminishing at an alarming rate has
baen shown in the recent congressional
Investigations of the paper trust. As
the output of newspapers and other
printed matter is greater today than
ever before, so is the onslaught upon
our northern forests driving the wood
choppers further and further toward
that line where the forests end and
the ice begins.
Since business in most other lines
is picking up the lumbermen of this
district expect an early revival of
building operations, which will mean
an increased demand for the product
of the mills of this district.
The obese Ohioan—that's Taft—is
going to Muldoon's ranch to train down
to running weight.
It will require
more than that to squeeze him into
the White House.
Mr. Bryan's crops near Lincoln may
be good, but the most luxuriant crop
he has raised is that of delegates and
it will be on exhibition at Denver.
The Denver convention should do
enough to reasonably satisfy Mr.
Bryan, but it would be a great mis
take to tickle him to death.
Castro is proud of the fact that he
causes widespread annoyance. Yet he
must admit that in this respect he is
outclassed by the mosquito.
J. P. Morgan needn't be so stuck up
about becoming a doctor of laws. The
cheapest man ever elected to a legis
lature was just that.
There will be no bandwagon when
the prohibitionists meet in national
convention—but the waterwagon will
be on hand, as usual.
Some of the Republican papers are
printing pictures of candidate Sher
man minus his sidewhiskers. But we
don't blame them.
Senator Thomas P. Gore, of Oklahs
ma, will be returned without opposi
tion, a merited tribute to a deserving
man.
Mississippi Democrats and Vermont
Republicans only feel their oats when
attending a national party convention.
Those who have not registered for
the municipal primaries had best get
busy. There is no time to lose.
^Mr. Bryan wilP
a running mate
for Mr. Brvan in nmlt
to hunt for
The> .ire hunting
lines *
There's
scarcity
of vice presi
(lie Democratic
no
den,ml timber
! side.
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That other star goes on the flag
July 4—and it's Democratic.
Vice presidential candidates will be
plentiful at Denver.
THE MARKETS
CHICAGO GRAIN.
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Chicago, July 2.—Continued rains In
the winter wheat belt caused a firm
Wheat, July, 86 3-8®861-2;
corn, September, 70 7-8® 711-8; oats,
July, 471-2; pork, September, $14.95;
lard, September, $9.25;
$8.27.
market.
ribs, July,
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at a decline of 7 to 13 points.
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TEACHER OF VOICE
Cumberland Phone 385
107 McLeod St.
WANTED—-Ten hustling boys to
sell the Dally News every afternoon.
Ask for the Circulation Manager.
DELEGATES
ARE ENROITE
Mississippians Left This Afternoon
For Denver On Palatial
Special Train.
TO VISIT BRYAN
AT LINCOLN HOME
Ex-Govecnor Vardanian Did Not Leave
With Party, but Will Join Them at
Denver—Mre. Noel Could Not Ac
company the Governor.
Daily News Special.
Jackson, Miss., July 2.—The Missis
sippi delegates to the Denver Demo
cratic convention left at 2:30 this af
ternoon according to the original
schedule, in a. through sleeper over the
Illinois Central, attached to the reg
ular train.
Gov. Noel heads the delegation, but
was not accompanied by Mrs. Noel as
had been the original intention. Ex
Gov. Lowry was not in the party, hav
ing decided not to make the trip, and
Governor Vardanian will join them in
Denver. Most of the other delegates
were on the train, and a few others
were expected to join them along the
line. .
At ^1
t. Louis tomorrow the sleeper
will be attached to a special train,
which will reach Lincoln, Neb., on the
morning of July 4 over the Burlington
route and spend seven hours in the
home of Mr. Bryan, reaching Denver
on Sunday morning, where they will
be met by National Committeeman C.
H. Williams, who has been there sev
eral days and provided quarters for the
delegation.
delegation.
FAVORS REPEAL
OF AMENDMENTS
Daily News Special.
Magnolia, Miss., July 2.—Hon. Edgar
J. Simmons, of this city, candidate for
congress, has issued his platform. The
most notable plank is in regard to the
repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment of
the constitution of the United States
syid reads as follows:
"I favo.r the repeal of the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Federal Constitu
tion and such modifications of the
Fourteenth Amendment as is neces
sary to preserye to the white race
alone the determination of govern
mental policies and the preservation
of our free institutions as our heritage
to successive generations, guarantee
ing, of course, to all persons regard
less,of race or color the protection of
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi
ness."
TO VISIT NATCHEZ
IN SEPTEMBER
The remainder of the excursionists
to Natchez have returned and they say
the Natchez people covered themselves
with glory in showing courtesies to
the excursionists.
There was a big barbecue and as
stated yesterday everything was free,
the excursionists were given free rides
over the city, a river trip and an en
tertainment at the opera house.
It was not Intended by the Natchez
people that this excursion should be
for the business men of Hattiesburg,
except such as desired to make the
trip on account of the favorable rail
road rates. The Natchez people ex
pect the Hattiesburg business men to
return their visit some time in Septem
ber.
COPLON'S BIG SALE
ENDS FRIDAY NIGDT
Coplon's big Fourth of July Sale will
end tomorrow night at 11 o'clock. The
sale has been a success from the start
and has demonstrated conclusively
that the buying public is eager to take
advantage of bargain opportunities if
sufficiently urged to do so, and Mr.
Coplon has urged the buying public in
the best possible way—through the
newspapers. The speoial bargains ad
vertised for Saturday will be put on
sale tomorrow night from 6 to 11.
o'clock. Coplon's ad in today's News
gives a list of all the Friday specials.
HUMANITY NOW L«. wu** LIVED.
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Statistics Do Net Deal Cut Statement
That Man Is Dclirlbrafln;.
A German scientist, Dr. Emil Konlg,
has lately undertaken to prove that
In highly civilized countries man has
abused his constitutional strength,
and consequently is more susceptible
to disease than he was in earlier
times. There is obviously something
to be said for this averment, but, con
sidered as a whole, the facts do not
bear it out.
It is unquestionably true that aa
civilization advances human life be
comes more complex, and the pres
sure upon a man's physical resources
tends to become more Intense. It is
also true that certain forms of disease,
such, for instance, as cancer and heart
weakness, appear to be more preva
lent than they were a century ago—
we say "appear," because only in a
comparatively recent period have the
statistics of mortality and its causes
been trustworthy and - exhaustive.
The official records of Geneva, which
have been kept carefully for a long
period, prove that the average dura
tion of human life is materially great
er than It was 160 or 100 years ago.
Not only the average length of human
existence, but the retention of physical
and Intellectual vigor, or what is
called the prime of life, tends to be
prolonged. The ago limit of useful
ness has in practice been pushed for
ward.
The fruitful activity of men over 60,
and even 70, years of age is a phe
nomenon far more frequently observed
to-day than It was 100 years ago. Na
poleon's career was over at 46; Von
Moltke's can scarcely be said to have
begun, so far as great achievements
were concerned, till he was nearly 70.
What is true of war is true of diplo
macy, of law, of medicine, of every
field of work in which mental and
physical energy is indispensable.
When, in a word, we examine impar
tially all the data, weighing accurate
ly all the evidence pro and con, we
seem justified in taking an optimistic
rather than Dr. Konlg's pessimistic
view of the effect of civilization on the
bodily well-being and longevity of
man.
8ome Fast-Day Superstitions.
In Armenia, fasts, both of necessity
and of choice, are very general, and
strictly observed. The most common
length of time for abstinence from
food is seven days.
Throughout this long period the Ar
menians, imbued with religious fever,
partake of no food. Only in the case
of the young unmarried woman is
any concession allowed.
The young men, on the. seventh day
of their fast, are allowed, by old and
sacred custom, to eat a little cake, free
ly mixed with salt.
By. this means dreams of pure,
sparkling, fresh water will be certain
to visit the young man.
A strange superstition is connected
with these visions. The dreamer will
see a maiden approach the stream,
and she will carry him a jug, filled
to the brim with sparkling water.
The dream maiden will be the girl
shall
whom Fate has decreed he
marry.
This strange superstition is found In
Armenia wherever the habit of fast
ing is observed, and it is believed in
with the utmost faith by the unmar
ried men.
He Worked for It.
8ome years ago' there lived in Ar
kansas a man named Reynolds who
owned a narrow gauge railroad from
Malvern Junction to Hot Springs. It
partly due to the fact that he
was
had put by a neat little fortune, and
partly to his habit of wearing an enor
diamond shirt stud that
he
mous
had won the nickname of "Diamond
Joe."
It was Diamond Joe's boast that no
one had ever stolen a ride on his
little 25-mile road; and, not content
with telling this to his friends, he of
fered a reward of $100 and a suit
of clothes to the man who could do it.
One clear moonlight night a man
came into his office, dripping from
head to foot.
"Is this Mr. Reynolds?" he asked.
"Yes," replied the owner of the nar
row gauge, Involuntarily glancing out
to see if it was raining.
"Well, I've come for that suit of
clothes and the $100. I've beat my
way on your road, Mr. Reynolds, in
the boiler tank of the engine; it was
hard work keepln 'my head above wa
ter, but I did it—and—here I am!"
Willing to Chance Him.
The angular idow stood beside her
third prospective husband.
"Madam," said the old minister, "do
you take this man for better or for
worse?"
The angular widow smiled her
broadest.
"Wai, parson," she drawled, "he's
powahful better than my first hus
band and powahful wqrse than my sec
ond, but I reckon I'll chance him, any *
how. Let the ceremony go on."
Solace for the Many.
"What a misfortune it 1 b that the
public encourages so much trashy lit
erature!" remarked the man with
black-rimmed eye-glasses.
"It isn't a misfortune," answered
the practical person. "It is a bless
ing. 'it enables people whose books
won't pell to imagine they have writ
ten classics."
Rivals In Fam*.
"They are making a great stir a boat
the pianist."
"Yes. The advertisements make al
most as much fuss over him as they
do oVer the make of piano be play a."
J'.,,
Gas Connections Free!
For 100 Stoves
Our free connection offer which expired May 1 st, gave
us so many new customers and has placed a gas stove in so
many homes, we make the following offer. i
For the next 100 stove* purchased of us at
our regular cash schedule price, we will make
all necessary house connections free of charge
and connect the stove up ready for use.
Following is our schedule of pri e
Single Oven Stove .
Double Oven Stove
Triple Oven Stove .
.$ 12.00
, 16.0C
. 23.00
We also have a nice line of Hot Water Heaters for water
tank connections. For further information apply at the office
of the company.
This offer is made for connections along the line of our
mains as now ccnstrncted and does not contemplate any main
extention.
Hattiesburg Traction Co.
BICYCLE PICNIC
JULY 4
To Rawls' Springs All Day
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Dinne^, watermelons, cantaloupes, ice cream——all for 50
cents, including a wheel to ride on. If you have a wheel
pay 30 cents by Friday.
All join in this parade and picnic. Starts from S. Parker's
Bicycle Shop, on East Pine Street, about 8 o'clock Satur
day morning, July 4th.
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Winter Coal at Summer Prices
Buyers of coal should plac
their orders now and get the
benefit of the off-seasdn price
reduction. Complete stock of
all grades on hand.
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punctured fires for 15c each, or two /or
25c provid in g they are on sam e wheei
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