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held , i | in The News Published Every Afternoon. (Except Sunday.) Office, 112 Front Street. .Editor .Manager EDGAR G. HARRIS M. J. EPLEY. T R GORDON.Advertising A. B. HOBBS.Circulation | ory | ! Telephones: Editorial and Counting Rooms, Both 'Phones No. 35. Society Editor, Cumberland No. 429. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (By mail outside the city. .$4.00 . 2.00 | . 1.00 ; i to 1 One year . Six Months . Three Months. (By Carrier.) tii 15 cents ! to By the Week. By the Month. .50 cents ^ ! HEARST TELEGRAPH AND CA BLE SERVICE received daily, the ex clusive franchise for which is owned by the Daily News. I ' in Entered as second-class matter on May 22, 1907, at the postoffice at Hat tiesburg, Miss., under the Act of Con gress of March 2, 1879. ! OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE NEW COUNTY OF FORREST. [the lEaSeE> TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1908. _; DEMOCRATIC TICKET j try For President WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN of Nebraska. i ! [are j For Vice President JOHN WORTH KERN of Indiana. j ❖ « •: , ^ THE TICKET. <• ■>|that •> ! I [ ♦ * >•> •Dr. J. D. Donald. For Mayor For Marshal—J. F. Williams. a For Police Justice—.!. E. Davis. For Treasurer—John Williams. For City Clerk—A. Fairley. For Street Commissioner—Owen Reedy ; j i ■ ALDERMEN. City-at-Large—M. .T. McGrath. | Ward 1—E. L. McGowan and Dr. E. J. ^ pi i Mitchell. Ward 2—R A. Cameron and H. C. Greer. Ward 3—A. T. Powe and C. F. Lassiter. Ward 4—R. C. McKinzie and N. R. Me- j Cullough. [ i r a Sworn Circulation On October 1st. | I, A. B. Hobbs, circulation man- j ager of the Hattiesburg News, I certify that the daily circulation j of said paper, as shown by the books and records of the office I and the press counter, is I | i ; 1,818 I further certify that the in crease for the month of Septem ber was more than 300 subscrib ers. A. B. HOBBS, Circulation Manager. Subscribed and sworn to be fore me, a notary public in and for the City of Hattiesburg, this October 1, 1908. | j I I J. E. DAVIS, Notary Public^/ v. 3 ! I The Solid South. Mr. Taft's Southern lour is made, according to that aspiring statesman, to show our people "that they are a part of the Union." Considering the role played by Virginia and other southern states in the formation of the Union, it is rather late in the day to tell us this. If Mr. Taft believes that the south cherishes any hard feel ings because of the result of the late civil war, he is entirely mistaken. The face of the New South is turned to the future, not the past. That is the rea son that it is the Solid South. This is the trouble with Mr. Taft. He can not realie that the south is solid for reasons of patriotism. He thinks—and many northern men and papers think likewise—that the un broken democracy of the south is dis loyalty, a continuing protest against the results of the war; that the south is anti-Republican because it is anti negro. There is no doubt that many wav make the has ernor ering southern democrats have been held in line by the race have not forgotten , worse than the war, the horror of i modern history, in which a white civ | ilization was threatened with eclipse in the night of Africanization. forgotten the reiterated We issue, reconstruction. We have not threat of reduction of southern rep And we are perfectly resentation. aware of the pro-ne^ro plank in the | latest national platform of the Repub lican party, past, present or future, or the mem ory of red war or black reconstruc | tion. or unsisterly meanness to the ! south, the Cinderella of the nation, as that keeps the The true explana But it is not the negro. in tion, log large. | ; i to representation, 1 south democratic. of the solid south is that we be j j ! j tii lieve Democracy is Americanism. ■ The Democratic party is the oldest It dates back ! party in this country. to Thomas Jefferson, our third pres •ho wrote the j Before | ! ident, the Jefferson Declaration of Independence. :ar the Democratic party not the civil governed this country most of the It successfully fought the sec var with Great Britain and the The Democratic party late. I time. ' ond Mexican war. in the south has been the party of our ja fathers. It is the party of the sons, south is more English than the ; The ! rest of the country, sard to tradition. We pay more re We are more An > good | his While there are sections, natlve glo-Saxon. Americans in all horn and of foreign birth, because of the [the small European immigration we have more of the old stock and the and ideals in the south. of "equal do old ideas Democracy is the party all, special privileges to • At the south we believe this -d the purest Americanism, and convince the rest of the eottn rights t none. rre< his j hope t< try in the present and in future na is i tional campaigns. Hattiesburg Millionaires. At least sixteen Hattiesburg citizens who recently invested in the develop ! rnent of a Mexican mining property [are walking with an elastic step today, j and the smiles which they vear re j mind us very much of the days when in this town and , money came easy ^ real estate rose in value so rapidly a into toric had of got done ers hills do 12 is der. ■>|that the man who traded a mustang ! pony for a vacant lot and got "some I thing to boot" sold his holdings before [ the end of the year for enough to buy train load of Kentucky saddle horses a ; and to pay the freight besides. As stated in the News yesterday, this Mexican mine which promised to gold and silver in paying quantities, and with which the before mentioned sixteen or more Hatties citizons were already well j produce ■ | burg ^ pi ease fl has developed into a verita i hie bonanza, beside which the great mines of the west pale into Cadmium copper pitiful fwhatevpr that is) has b een discov j erp( j a ] onK w jth the gold and silver— insignificance. land a telegram from the president of [ the mining company brings informa i tion that there is more than $700 vorth of it in every ton of ore. can us the in' by ns If of Just how many tons of ore there is in the mine is a matter of speenia hut a billion tons would probably | he a conservative estimate, as there vhole mountain of it with the ex tii j I j I I is a | reption of the small hole where the company has been digging. But laying all jokes aside, and i speaking of the matter in all serious ness, it appears that the Hattiesburg shareholders in this mine have fallen into a good thing, and the News eon [ gratulates them most heartily on their good foreune. Let us hope that they may still re main citizens of Hattiesburg and 1 lint they may see fit to invest, the profits of their holdings in the development ; of this splendid city. | Editor Joe Norwood, of the Magno lia Gazette, j mayor of his town by a majority of ten I votes, takes his defeat philosophically. I He thinks that most of his constitu ho was defeated for (ents thought that he could do the 3 ! town more good by devoting all of his I time to the Gazette, and they were conclusion. this probably right in 'though Joe Norwood would make a are the of day feel late The the rea is He and un dis anti mighty good mayor. Walter Wellman puts Ohio and In diana in the Democratic column, and Wellman Is the trusted political prog nosticator of the Chicago Record-Her ald. a Taft paper, diana on his side, it is by no means improbable that Mr. Bryan may be elected without New York—and New York isn't hopeless, not yet. With Ohio and In ■A Some of the Democratic newspapers are giving serious consideration to the prediction that Tom Watson will get the electoral vote of Georgia. They forget that the people of Georgia know Tom Watson, better than do the people at large—and that nobody, anywhere, takes him seriously. Some good friend of the Democratic party ought to gag Governor Haskell. wav- j Personally, he has a perfect right to make an ass of himself seven days in the week; but the Democratic party has enough deadwood to carry in this election without the discredited gov ernor of Oklahoma. I There is no limit to the power of thought except our own mental re serictions. Take away the pall of pes simism and any of us can smile at the sunshine of promise that may dawn tomorrow. * They tell us that Hughes is defeated in New York, which is some consola tion, even if Bryan doesn't log of Judge Taft in the country-at large. valk the The man who writes the long edi torials usually, looks over the para j graphs to get his cue. A man in ! Louisville says that he has even j caught Hen^v Watterson at it. j Sumrall is in the headlines again. | || 10 grood citizens of that town do not appreciate the sort of advertising which the place has been getting of late. ja landslide to Bryan as if it had a sneaking suspicion that such a thing ; might happen about November 3. The New York Herald talks about vho dares to do with all The man | his might what his own good judg ment dictates seldom falls short of the high mark of success. The opportunities of tomorrow will do you no more good than the oppor tunities of yesterday—unless you take advantage of them. The man who speaks only good of his neighbors will do to tie to. Brooding over a lost opportunity is a waste of tears—and time. No man can prosper without an in terest in his work. MR. AUTWINE ON THE ELECTION "My Fr'en's." said the Ozark philos opher from the porch of the Bald Knob store, "twelve years ago or such a matter the Republican party passed into power. Upon that great an' his toric occasion. I believe, most of us had on about what we're wearin' now. Pants has purty gen'rullly been re seated, one gallus has taken the place of two, an' big patches has replaced little ones. Them that was poor has got poorer, an' them that was rich has done consid'ruhly better than hel' their own. Republican stump speech ers used to come down here in the hills an' howl about what they would do fer us when their party was re stored to power hut T notice that after 12 years of their kin' of gover'mint about the same people as had automo biles has still got 'em. an' about the same people as had mules an' bowses is mostly walkin'." A few more squirrel hunters merged with the mutltltude, and the philoso pher rinsed his throat with sweet ci der. "The fact is." he resumed, ''Republi can giver'mint is for an' by an' of the trusts. After 12 years of it we not only haven't got what they promised us we would have, but we're wearin' whiskers fer shirts. They tell us that the Clevelan' panic was wuss' Rosyfelt panic. I know a dern sight better.. I don' know how they com pare in dollars an' cents, but know that whereas pants patches dur in' the Cleveland panic av'raged only about one by two inches, today they're runnin' purty uniform at about four by six." The Republicans blushed and hacked against the store, and the phil osopher fell on the cider jug again. "Now', fr'en's." he said, "all of us knows there ain't no form of gover ns int under which we're goin' starve. Corn's goin' to come up, per* taters is goin' to hill, punkin vines is goin' to pie, an' the fruits of the earth is goin' to triumph over the Hes sian fly, the army worm, an' the doo dlebug, no matter which party's in. If it wasn't so, w r e'd all be livin' on roots an' red haws after 12 years o Republican rule. I've seed a good many kinds of gover'mint in my time, but the bran' turned out by the Repub lican party is the only kind that ever induced me to make underclothes out of flour sacks an' use coffee gmun's seven times. Now', folks, frankly T don' know what the Demmvcrats is got. They may have sumpia' h3tter an* the present seat in pants may he alie last fer this issue of pants in n.se Mr, Bryan only gits a crack at ihe ball: one think sure'n thunder is th*y ain't got nuthin' wuss. They're entitled to the benefit of the doubt. Tha's all, fr'en's. I w'ould ask you to step up an' give yer dollar to the Bryan campaign fun* but I know that after 12 years of Republican rule you ain't got no dollar, so you can jes' st ow what T tol' wer in yo' heads an' ran along home."—St. Louis Post-Dt* pnt ch. the I do [ to a THE BILLS to Some people are talking Bill Taft, others Bill Bryan. The most interest ing Bill to all is the Dollar Bill, and it pays for a month's protection in the General. Ask for regular policy. ACCIDENT L. LINDSLEY, 106 W. Pine St. to Phone 645. I i S: ■ j. m j\. L / . £ ■ ■ ^ < S, . ' *■ . gs ■ ■ m§Sg& Picture of Mme. Jeanne Peltier, the first woman to make an ascent in an aeroplane, as she was climbing into the Delagrange machine previ ous to its flight recently on the outskirts of Paris. Mme. Pettier went up with M. Delagrange and assisted him in running the aeroplane. She is a pupil of Delagrange and expects shortly to make an ascent unac companied.. Delagrange has a number of pupils.. Mme. Peitler is a sculptor by profession, like her instructor in aerial navigation. ASKED TO NAME DELEGATES TO WATERWAYS CONVENTION Mayor J. D. Donald has received a letter from Hon. Joseph E. Randell, president of the National Rivers and Harbors Cohgress. asking him to name a delegation from this city to attend the meeting in Washington, December 9-11. This meeting, while favoring the Lakos-to-the-Gulf scheme, will also pay attention to smaller streams, such, for instance, as Leaf river, and Dr. Donald will be glad to hear from any one who can and.will attend. them on the delegation, ing letter more fully explains the mat ter; He will he glad to appoint The follow Cincinnati, O., Oct. 15, 1908. Hon. J. D. Donald, Mayor, Hattiesburg, Miss. Dear Sir—The fifth convention of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, the formal call for and invi tation to which will be mailed to you on the 24th, is to meet in Washinton, D. C., December 9-11-12, 1908. We' desire, in advance, to extend to you a special and personal invita tion to honor the convention by your presence. Also, to ask at your hands the appointment of a strong delega- I tion to represent your municipality. This national convention, meeting j at. the capital, composed as it will be of representative citizens, cannot fail to impress upon the members of the J United States congress the fact that | waterway policy, permanent and j effective, is desired and demanded j by the commercial interests of the | entire country. This organization has | enrolled among its members some of j the prominent commercial associa tions of your city and some of your j most prominent citizens, who have re- | alized that the establishment, by the j federal government, of a waterway t policy, will benofit, not only their di rect interests, but every interest of a the city. The events of the past year have furnished conclusive evidence the sentiment in favor of impro>'p> is rapidly spreading This state that waterways throughout the country, ment can best be illustrated by the fact that, for the first time in our his tory both of the great political parties have included in their platforms a strong waterway plank, which com mits the president to be elected in November to equally as emphatic in dorsement af the platform of this or ganiation as has been given by Presi dent Roosevelt. It also commits every federal legis lator who may be elected this fall to the establishment of a waterway pol icy, which, put Into effect will rapidly and systematically improve the de serving waterways of the country. We bespeak your careful attentiou to the call which will be mailed on HOW'S THIS? We offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. P. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by bis firm. Walding, Klnnan & Martin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Intern ally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents in per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti pation. the date indicated and sincerely trust that you will not only honor the meet ing by your attendance, hut by the appointment of a strong delegation to represent the mercantile and manu facturing interests of your city. Very truly yours, JOS. E. RANSDELL, President J. F. ELLISON, Secretary. A Simple Remedy. "Sly cocoa's cold," sternly announced the gruff old gentleman to his fair waitress. "Put your hat on," she sweetly sug gested.—Harper's Weekly. 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The experience and position of the banker enables him to judge a man's problems accurately and give him practical advice on financial matters. The banker welcomes new business, he appreciates the from his patrons and seeks the opportunity to help those who come to him for advice. He can diagnose a financial case and administer relief veil as the doctor in his line. He is in touch with business conditions, he knows the causes and remedies for business ailments* he can tell you how to regulate your business pulse and bring it up to normal. The banker's remedies and methods are not experiments, they have been administered to others and proven successful. Bring your business case to this bank for relief. business Yours very truly , J. C. BALLARD, Cashier. CROSSES OF HONOK PRESENTED TO CONFEDERATE VETERANS A beautiful incident took place at the court house this morning, when the local chapter of the United Daugh ters of the Confederacy bestowed some crosses of honor on a number of the heroes of the Lost Cause. The exercises were opened by sing ing, after which there was prayer. Mrs. D. B. Holmes then recited the 23d Psalm, following which, Rev. L. E. Hall made a short, hut very appropri ate talk. Mrs. Holmes next recited "The Lit tle Branze Cross" and at the conclu sion, presented crosses of honor to the following veterans: A. G. Anthony, T. C. Boucher, J. T. T. Brown, W. E. Fail, Wm. Jinkins, W. J. Pack, J. G. Rainer, J. P. Sanders, D. O. Summer and B. F. Tingle. After the presentation of the crosses of honor, a concluding prayer was made by Rev. W. E. Fail. This makes 108 badges that have been presented by the local U. D. C. MR. CURRY LEAVES. Mr. R. C. Curry, former agent of the Gulf and Ship Island at this place, left last night for Amarillo, Tex., where he expects to engage in busi ness. The American Box Ball Alley OPPOSITE HOTEL HATTIESBURG 112 MOBILE STREET E. D. CAMPBELL, Prop. The most beautiful and interest ing game in America, developing muscle and quicKness of bund and eye. s : t s : s 30 Balls for 5c See This Great Game. r A GOOD FARM ONE YEAR FREE OF RENT I have five miles West of Hattiesburg about 100 acres under fence, about 75 acres of splendid farm land that hasn't been cultivat now for three years. I will give to the right man the use of this entire farm Includ ing several other advantages one year free of rent and will agree on a nominal sum for several years following. The man must have at least one good pair of horses or mules with sufficient labor to cultivate at least 30 acres the first year and must he able to "fur nish himself" for the first year. No one need apply who can't give a good record for sobriety and industry. ■ V, tj , H,;. ■>** Respectfully, ■i k 610 Main Street. THOS. M. FBRGJUSON. RAISES LEVY AND PAVS ALL BILLS The city council met again yester day afternoon and did some more fig uring on the needs of the city for the fiscal year and decided to raise the general fund assessment to 5 mills, making a total of 12 mills for the city. This, with the levy of 16 mills by the county, will make the to tal taxes 28 mills. The money for the bond issue Was received Saturday and yesterday the council paid back the money borrowed from the city and paid all other bills. MEETING FOR PRAYER. At the Columbia Street Baptist Church this evening at 7:15 o'clock there will be a meeting for prayer. All who can attend will be cordially welcome. J. N. M'MILLIN, Pastor.