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DAILY NEWS Published Every Afternoon. (Except Sunday.) Office, 112 Front Street. M. J. EPLEY. EDGAR G. HARRIS T R GORDON . A. B. HOBBS. ... Manager .Editor Advertising .Circulation Telephones: Home, 30. Cumberland, 904 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 nostoffiee at Hat tiesburg, Miss., under the Act of Con gress of March 2, 1879. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE NEW COUNTY OF FORREST. iwioVfcTLAar: TRURSDAL, SEPTEMBER 10, 1908. DEMOCRATIC TICKET For President WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN of Nebraska. For Vice President JOHN WORTH KERN of Indiana. * ♦ THE TICKET. ♦ > * ❖ •> 4 For Mayor—Dr. J. D. Donald. For Marshal—J. F. Williams. For Police Justice—J. E. Davis, For Treasurer—John Williams. For City Clerk—A. Fairley. For StreetCommissioner—Owen Reedy ALDERMEN. City-at-Large—M. J. McGrath. Ward 1—E. L. McGowan and Dr. E. J. Mitchell. Ward 2—R. A. Cameron Greer. Ward 3—A. T. Powe and C. F. Lassiter. Ward 4—R. C. McKinzie and N". R. Mc Cullough. H. C. and Hattiesburg' s Future. The rebuilding of the J. J. Newman Lumber Company's Hattiesburg mill, work on which will soon begin, means a great deal to Hattiesburg. The lo cation of still another enormous man ufacturing plant, mention of which was made in these columns yesterday, means even more. But these things are only a begin-! ning. If Hattiesburg is to continue the ratio of growth which it has estab lished during the past dozen years, other industries must be secured and the agricultural resources of the ter ritory must be developed as rapidly as the timber disappears. To get manufacturing industries, we must offer them inducements—and to get the right sort of manufactur ing industries, we must offer.them bet ter inducements than any other town or city in this section can afford to oiler. In the opinion of the News, the key to the situation is the development of the magnificent water power that now lies dormant at our very door. We must harness the Bouie and divert the placid waters that flow uninterrupted toward the Gulf to the uses of indus-! try and commerce. Eminent engineers have said that it can be done, and Hat tiesburgans should not be slow to take The News has no fight to make on any existing industry. On the contrary this newspaper wishes them well. But facts are facts—and we all know that manufacturing industries cannot pay the present rates for electric power and lights. We have no fuel supply sufficiently cheap for steam power pur poses, hence the development of an immense water power for the manu facture and sale of (heap electric cur rent seems to be the solution to the advantage of the opportunity thus afforded. problem. The Commercial Club has discussed this matter in an informal manner at several meetings, but no definite steps have been taken to promote a scheme of development. But it means so much to the future of Hattiesburg that the News Is con-1 fident the question will sleep little j ! ating in Louisiana and Mississippi I longer. New Crops on Cut-Over Pine Lands. Some of the lumber companies oper have begun to give thought to the fu -1 ture of the cut-over lands. The Long- ^ Bell Lumber Company is planting flg and pecan orchards on such lands at De Ridder, La. Other beginnings have been made in both states. A company that buys only the tint ber rights on pine lands has no finan cial interest in the lands after the timber is removed. But most of the companies buy the land with the tim ber. When they have removed the I timber the land remains, virtually j without value. It has been thus in | Michigan, in Wisconsin and in Minne | once had great pine forests, and it is | | thus today in most of the pine regions | i sota, among the Northern States that ■ of the South, i The , ■w plan contemplates the mak | ing upon the cut over lands of a sec ond crop that shall be even more val- j uable than the first one. It forecasts . a great growth in the flg industry. There is every probability that tens of thousands of acres of Cut-over pine crop, grown at little cost, once it is I j lands in the coast country on both sides of the Mississippi River will J within the next ten years be replanted | to fig orchards. The South's favorite | native fruit promises to become as J well known and widely throughout the nation, in its preserved form, as it has long been in the coast favored country. The pecan, too, flourishes on old It is, in ! the hands of experts, a very profitable pine lands not too far north. well started, and remarkably free from commercial hazards. There is no dan ger that the supply will overrun the J ! demand. Even the poorer grades of j wild pecans bring good prices in the I The traveler in South Mis- j comes on native ; markets. i sissippi frequently [ wild pecan trees, bet ring the small,. that produce an hard-shelled nuts, annual average revenue of $25 or j It takes twenty years to make j more. a wild tree big enough to do that. The | cultivated varieties can be brought into profitable bearing in six or seven j i years. One variety, it is reported, bears at four years. Forty ten-year-old i trees on an acre, of selected varieties, ] will produce more revenue than any common farm crop—more than an acre of average pine. And you have to de stroy the pine trees to get their crop, | whereas the pecan crop increases | ,llt! trees grow older, and they outlive | the oldest man. as Some of the New England states j * la ' e begun to reforest waste land. The states of Connecticut and Massa j c ^ UBetts ar ® buyIng small tracts at low j' ct s am * ale limiting white* pine I seedlings. State foresters protect these young forests from fire and from The passing of the great forests may stock. Vermont is selling white pine seedlings, grown at her agricultural college, at cost to farmers who wish to reforest rocky pastures or cut-over lands. Private investors in the New England states have in many in stances bought up large tracts of these useless lands and have planted peach and apple orchards, from which they derive each year more revenue than was got by cutting off the pine in the first instance. j not be an unmixed evil. The period of transition. like all pueh periods, raises many difficult problems— as of flood ed river valleys, loss of water power for mills and factories, the rising and almost prohibitive price of news print paper now made exclusively from spruce pulp, etc. All of these prob lems will be solved. The prophets of ultimate disaster will be disappointed, States and nation will find ways to control the spring floods, conserving the surplus water of that season to move mill wheels and to irrigate farms during the other seasons. Print paper will presently be matie of corn and cot ton stalks, as good and cheaper than it is now made, of spruce pulp; and when this drain upon the natural for ests is removed, nature will once more, with her age-old generosity, re pair the ravages made by man. The hopeful sign of the times is the growing practical wisdom of man in the mass, his lessening Inclination to waste time fighting over abstractions, whether political or theological, his growing determination to settle down upon and inhabit the earth in ease and comfort. America is due to produce a new breed of public men—men that can grapple with these practical problems skillfully, successfully. The occasion will produce the men, as it always has done. The little, noisy, contentious fellows, deafening the public ear with clamor over shallow schemes for limit ing the usefulness of natural leaders, will have to stand aside and make room for the new breed, the builders and the conservers. Here in Mississippi is a first rate op- | portunity for men with ambition for | public honors to show us a way in which we can harness our rivers, pre- j vent spring overflows that lay waste a t million acres of fertile farm land, and j | teach us to get rich in the use of our ! | water powers that now run idly to the i gulf. | ■ - ■ ■ = Publishing the News. j There are no petty jealousies in the hearts of the men who make this news paper, but there is a degree of profes sional pride that brooks no challenge. The extravagant claims of a local contemporary in regard to publishing the news regarding the rebuilding of the J. J. Newman Lumber Company's local plant is best answered by a re view of the files of this newspaper. Under the caption of "Big Newman Mill Will Be Rebuilt," the Daily New's on May 21 said: be fully as large as the old one and will be equipped with the latest ma chinery." On June 13, the Daily News stated: I "It is now au absolute fact that the "The new plant will Newman Lumber Company will rebuild on one condition." (This condition was J the exemption of the plant from mu j nicipal taxation.) I the News said: On the same date "The new building. j will be of steel construction and fire ; prodf throughout. There will be three band saws instead of two. This will, of course, greatly increase the capac j ity of the plant. Other improvements j will be made that will minimize the | danger of another fire." These statements have been reiter ated from time to time and Daily News subscribers have been given the authentic news regarding the pro posed rebuilding of the Newman mill without reserve. The Daily News has never for a mo ment doubted that the plant would be j rebuilt in Hattiesburg and there is now every assurance that work will shortly begin on the new plant, though no official announcement has been made to this effect. The muzzle has been taken oft of Candidate Taft and he is now jumping around tiie country making speeches just like Bryan did in 1900, when the Republican papers all said that it undignified for a presidential candi date to enter into an active personal campaign. But times change. was Bourke Cochran, who is more kinds of a Democrat than any other man, and who is at home as the champion of any cause that happens to come along, will make speeches for Bryan. Bourke Cochran is one of the world's greatest orators and the American peo ple will give him an audience. Congressman Tom Heflin, who cently shot an impudent negro in Washington, has been called to the West to deliver speeches for Bryan and Kern. It is safe to say that the negroes in that section will give mm all of the room that he needs. re Statistics compiled at Washington show that during the month of August more than 9,000 saloons closed their doors in the United States. The rum demon is on the run, not. only in the South, but throughout the country. Eleven big national conventions are to assemble in Atlanta during the next three months. Atlanta is the conven tion city of Georgia, just as Hatties burg should be the convention city of Mississippi. . , , , . . , would bring hundreds of farmers to Hattlesburg, and these farmers would spend hundreds ot dollars with local That Farmers' Union Warehouse , parison of the seven national political t been written by Mr. Cleveland advo merchants. We need the warehouse, and our enterprising citizens should also provide a camp house and conven ient hitching racks. The country tributary to Hattiesburg is being rapid ly developed and the trade of the farm ers is well worth the effort which it will require to secure it. There is a man in Hattiesburg who claims to have made a careful com platforms. His name has been sent to the Carnegie board for the distribution of hero medals. If the letter purporting to have eating Taft is a forgery, why in the | deuce didn't the author make the dead j __ - ' j | | j t j ! 'statesman say something worth while? The straw vote has appeared in the presidential campaign. One good thing about the straw vote is that you can keep trying it on different assem blages until you get what you want. The negro loafer should be scourged from the city, work now for everybody, and the man who is busy seldom gets into mischief. There is abundant The Houston Post says that every dollar contributed to the Bryan cam paign fund causes joy in heaven and makes the devil groan. • Mrs. Robert G. Ingersoll wants to get into communication with her hus band's spirit. But the devil is not very communicative. There will be no race question when the Fifteenth Amendment to the Con stitution of the United States has been repealed. How much do you want to see Bryan elected? Answer by the size of your contribution to the campaign fund. The best evidence of Democratic success is the evident feeling of fear in the ranks of the Republicans. North Mississippi is far ahead of South Mississippi in its contributions to the Bryan campaign fund. Maybe the engagement of young Bryan to a Milwaukee girl is a play for the Wisconsin vote. A fast automobile in charge of a slow intellect is a mighty dangerous affair. Don't expect your boy to be noise You don't want him dead. j less, OBITUARY. On the 31st day of July, 1908, the death Angel alarmed the door of Perry Lodge No. 366, A. F. & A. M., and called our beloved brother,B.F.Sim mons, from labor to refreshment. There's a world where all are equal and we are hurrying toward it fast. We shall meet upon the level there when the Gates of Death are passed. We will stand before the Orient, and our Master will be there, our work to try, our lives to prove, by the unerring square. Brother Simmons was sevetity-three years old, was a Confederate Soldier and had been a member of the Bap tist Church for twenty-five years, and a Mason for thirty-five years, a wife and five grown children, and twenty five grand children survive him. One grown son preceded him to the grave. Whereas the country has lost a noble citizen; the church a faithful member, and the Masonic Order a worthy brother. Resolved, That we extend our sym pathies to the bereaved family and a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the minute books and a copy sent to the county paper, and one to each member of the family. A. G. MARTIN, J. M M'lNNIS, E. L. YATES, BRIDGE NOTICE. The State of Mississippi, Forrest County. Board of Supervisors, September Term, 1908. Be it remembered, that at the above stated term of the Board ,of Super-1 visors of said county, an order was made by the said board, which was in the following words and figures, to wlt: The matter of the building of a bridge over the Double Branches on the Helena & Eureka public road com ing on to be considered, the plans and specifications therefor were adopted „„ . . _ Y _ as submitted by D. L. Gay and or | dered to be fn ed . It ls furthe r ordered I that the clerk advertise for the time 1 IT and in the manner provided by law in viting sealed bids for the construe -1 tion of sUtd bridge, said bids to be on! file with the clerk by noon of the first I day of the October'meeting, 1908, of this board, at which time the same will | be opened and the award made by the board to the lowest and best bidder, the board reserving the right to re ject any and all lids. I, T. E. Batson, Clerk of the Chan cery Court, and ex-ofTiclo Clerk of the Board of Supervisors in and for the county and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing transcript is a true and correct copy I of an order passed by the said Board of Supervisors, and entered at their September Term, A. D. 1908, on the 9th day of September, 1908, as fully and as completely as the same appears of record in my office, in Board of 8 u |)ervl80rs ' Mlnute Book \ ° n P a « e 219 - Given under my hand and the seal of said Board of Supervisors, at my office in Hattiesburg, Miss., this the 10th day of September, A. D. 1908. T. E. BATSON, Clerk. 9 19 3wks Thurs BANKRUPTCY NOTICE. In the District Court of the United Sttaes, for Southern Division of the Southern District of Mississippi. In the matter of Herbert D. Poole, bankrupt, in bankruptcy. To the creditors of Herbert D. Poole, of Hattiesburg, in the County of For rest, and district aforesaid, a'bank rupt. Notice is hereby given that on the day of September 9th, 1908, the said Herbert D. Poole was duly adjudged bankrupt; and that the first meeting of his creditors will be held at Hatties burg, Miss., at the office of J. E. Davis, attorney, on the day of September 21st, 1908, at 9 o'clock a. m., at which time the said creditors may attend, prove their claims, appoint a trustee, examine the bankrupt and transact such other business as may properly come before said meeting. F. M. WEST, Referee in Bankruptcy. BRYAN CAMPAIGN FUND. The Daily News acknowledges the I following contributions to the Mryan j and Kern campaign fund. Every good Democrat should contribute at least $1.00 to the Democratic cause: E. A. Sanford . R. E. Rawls . Dr. J. D. Donald ... J. E. j^rledge. James W. Howell .. Edgar G. Harris ... T. N. Clark . A. B. Hobbs . R. P. McLeod . R. L. Bennett . W. H. Gilliam . W. P. L. Love . Joe Shelby. R. A. Beall. W. P. Jones ........ O'Ferrall Bros. Cash . C. A. Russ . F. H. Powe. M. J. Epley . .$ 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 .... 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 LOO 1.00 1.00 Don't Pass By without stepping in here for a look at the beau tiful work we are do ing. It will be well for you to know the clean liness and sani tary conditions prevailing a t this laundry y// mX. V 1 V /. \\ II & LAUNDRY Why not have us send for your Laundry the next time? You cannot find a worthier place or one giving better service than ours. PHOENIX LAUNDRY — Try Our — CLEANING AND PRESSING DEPT. 200-206 Main street. Phenes 36. If It Is FURNITURE 1 You want to buy and save money, call at our store, 128 Front Street. M. S. Haisjteld. PABST MALT MEAD if Strictly Intoxicating Non A Sparkling, Healthful and Nutritious Beverage, made from the best barley, malt and hops, guaranteed and stamped under the Pure Food and Drugs Act and bottled under U. S. Gov't Inspection, containing less than 2 per cent alcohol Mead has an international reputation as a tonic, having been adopted by the leading hospitals and recommended by the most emi nent physicians. It stands today unap proached and unexcelled as the greatest tem perance beverage in America. The Mead brew is the result of years of diligent study and experimental work and the following analysis made by the Missis sippi State Chemist, W. F. Hand, also by the Analytical Chemist of Milwaukee, por tray the unexcelled medical qualities of Mead and should convince the most skeptical that as a tonic and beverage Mead has eclipsed all others. I j one Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, Department of Chemistry, Agricultural dollege, Miss., Aug. 25, 1908. I W. F. Hand, Ph. D., State Chemist. Mr. J. » Brown, Box 430, Hattiesburg, Miss. Deal •r—In accordance with your request of .some days ago, I beg you herewith a copy of our analysis 8601, Pabst Mead, and his will be of some interest and value to you. Yours truly. to enclo trust ths W. F. HAND, State Chemist. v Enclosure; 1601. Mississippi State Chemical Laboratory, Agricultural College, Mississippi, August 26, 1908. W. F. Hand, State Chemist. Analysis No. 8601. Analysis of Beverage, Pabst Mead. Received from W. N. Strauss, Address Jackson, Miss. RESULTS: Per. cent of alcohol by volume *. Per cent by weight. 1.55 1.52 W. F. HAND, State Chemist. MILWAUKEE, WIS., May 25, 1907. This Is to Certify, That, I, Dr. A. SCHEDLER, Analytical Chemist, at the City of Milwaukee, have made a complete analysis of the Pabst Brewing Co. s "Mead" the result of which is given in the follow ing figures: Specific Gravity . Extractive Substances. 5.03 per cent by weight Alcohol . 1.55 per cent by weight Sugars (maltos, etc.) . 1.05 per cent by weight Dextrin . . 3 a} per cent bjr weigbt Albuminoids . 0.144 per cent by weight Glycerol ...o,114 per cent by weight Ash (Mineral Substances- ..0.123 per cent by weight Lactic Acid . 0.040 per cent by weight Phosphoric Acid. 0.034 per cent hy weight Original Extract (calculated).8.10 per cent by weight .1,0172 The most remarkable features in this analysis are the low percent age of alcohol and the comparatively high percentage of extractive mat ter derived from malt and hops. The "Mead," therefore, constitutes a mild tonic on account of the little alcohol and the slightly stimulating properties of hop extract, at the same time possessing valuable nutri tive qualities, as it contains a considerable amount of malt extract in an easily digestible form. The "Mead" is undoubtedly to be consid ered as a wholesome beverage, being very similar to beer in character and good qualities, but on the other hand, strictly non-intoxicating. DR. A. SCHEDLER. t Leave orders for Mead with Jas. S. Brown, 1 At Old Metropolitan Cafe. Ferguson Building. E. Pine Street