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The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13

Mrs. Sarah L. Ungerman, who
has filed suit against the Ham
burg-Amcrican Steamship Com
pany for damages for Seasickness,
is from Missouri. She says she
paid for a comfortable trip on the
steamer across the ocean, but she
didn't get it. She estimated the
damage to her health, comfort
and dignity at $4,000. Mrs. Un-
german is specific in her charges.
She says she was guaranteed four
good meals day aboard the steam
er going to Europe, but on &C
count of the peculiar antics of the
ship in trying to find the bottom
with her nose and stand on her
Stern, she was unable to eat, and
the display Of fare was tantalizing.
Insult was added to injury, she
says, when, in the midst of her
suffering, the captain prescribed
salt pork as remedy. Steamship
managers are SAID to be worrying
over the suit, as an adverse de-
cision would establish very dan
gerous precedent.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13

of the dirty sneaks, who have been
practicing this buck-shot dcserv-
ing business in our midst for some
time and escaped uuinjured and
proceeded to the residence OF
Mrs. MinlaW hitfeId, a very poor
and hardworking woman, whom
they deprived Of seven or eight
dollars OF hard-carned cash, and
then stcered themselves to the
home of Mr.. Sam Ellis, where
they secured some small change,
a pair Of gold earrings, valued at
five dollars, and other articles
that they could easily locate. After
leaving the some Of Mr.ElI.a they
evidently decided their thicyish
hunger not fully satisfied and paid
the Jim Macarthur home a visit,
where they found nothing to ,piC
their taste and brought thcu hell
ish game to n close. The scoun-
drels are still enjoying freedom,
bat our officers have gathered
some very good evidence and ere
long we hope to see the va.gEDts
behind the Bay 81. Louis uar7.
there to await the next grand jU-
r. aud court, when We sincerely
hope they will be treated to q full
dose Of chain and balls
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13
Mississlppfs Enterprises.

The biennial report of the Sec
retary of State to the present ses'
sion Of the Legislature shows thai
the last four years 565 charters oil
incorporation have been recorded
Since the date of the last biennial
report 285 enterprises have been
chartered. Practically all the
charters for cotton mills have
been granted within the past two
years and the following towns have
secured articles OF incorporation
for cotton mills:
West Point, Okolona. Koscius-
ko, Laurel, Moorehead, McComb
CITY and jackson, In this con-
neciion it should be mentioned
that several towns are now pub
fishing their charters for cotton
factories, as required by law, and
they will be granted at an early
date. The following towns are al
most ready to commence work on
mills: Tupclo, Aberdeen, Vino
Ms, Yazoo City, Enterprise, Can
ton. Vicksburg and others.
During the past two years the
following banks have been char
tered: Commercial Bank, Gloster
Citizens Bank, of McComb City;
Bank Of Commerce, Bay St.Louis ;
Security State Bank, Of Starkville;
Jamestown Bank; Southern Bank
ing Company, of Meridian; Valley
Bank, of Rosedale; Bank of New
ton; Choctaw Bank, of Alderman:
State Banking and Trust Com
pany, of Hattiesburg; Bank of
Gulfport, Bank of Laurel, Col
umbia Bank. Brooksville Bank,
Poplarville Bank, Tunica Bank,
Hancock County Bank, Bank of
Leland, Bank of Goodman, Bank
of Como.
The list of charters granted fur
ther shows that five railroads, six
steamboats, and packet companies
and thirteen oil mills have been
chartered since the last biennial
report Of the Secretary of State.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13
A Young Sout herner Becomes Mill
ionaire.

Wall street is dazzled by a new
! star. If stories current in the
street are true, he has pocketed 4
cool 100000 in the past ten
DAYS, and his nerve and luck have
rarely been exceeded in the his
tory of the street.
The lucky man is j. Overton
Paine, a broker, with offices at 62
Broadway. He also has offices in
the Consolidated Exchange and
at Broadway and Thlrtieth street.
He was little known in the street
up to few weeks ago. His dar-
ing operations as bear brought
him first into notice. HIS first
heavy winning, 1t is said, was on
Brooklyn Rapid Transit, in which
he dealt heavily. During the
recent bear movement he was one
of the most active and successful
men engaged in it.
It was said last night by one
of Paina'S closest friends that he
W dS O,OCpsOVo W tnt SpoIA olISI
be first appeared on the street
three years ago. At the close Of
yesterdays business Paine receiv-
ed a check through the New York
clearinghouse Association for
$50, ,01, representing his days
profits. A week ago he received a
similar check for 50,321,91. His
luck has come to be regarded as
phenomenal, and nearly every
move he has made has returends
him, handsome profits.
Paine sis less than thirty year
old, and three years ago he came
to this city from Atlanta, Ga.
He had a capital of $1,000 and a
letter Of introduction to James
Swami, the cotton merchant. His
success began at once.
"If | had not gone to Europe
for a vacation last summer, said
young Paine at the Waldorf
Astoria last night, "I would be
81, 100000 better off than / am
New York World.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13

The will of the late Perry Ma
son, whose real name was Daniel
Sharp Ford, publisher of the
Youths Companion, disposes of
an estate of about $2,500,000.
The will gives $4,000 direct to
public charitable and religious in
stitutiOns, mostly in Massachu-
setts, and provides annuities for
others. The will also 1equeaths
$350.000 to the Baptist Social
Union, subject to conditions,
among them that 1t shall become
a corporation within two Yeas
after the testator's death. This
sum is to be used for the erection
of building for the use OF
the Union. The entire Youth :
Companion plant, with certain
real estate, is left to the execu-
tors, to be administered for The
benefit of the Baptist social uuion.
Of the residue, one-sixth goes to
the American Baptist Home Mis-
sion Union and one ninth each to
several other New England c1ali-
ties. The Baptists come in for a
2oodly portion, truly.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13

Senator Bevelidge, from Indie
ma, is his maiden speech Tuesday
on the Philippine and.tne inability
OF the Fjlipinos at self-govern-
ment, SAID in part this gem aud
truth:
Let men beware how they en-
plov the term ''self-government, !"
it is a sacred term. It is The
watch word at the door Of the
inner temple 'of liberty; for
liberty does not always mean self
government. Self-gogernment is
q method of liberty-the highest,
simplest, best-ano is acquired
only after centuries of study and
Struggle and experiment aud in
struction, and all the elements Of
the progress OF man. Seif-govetn-
ment is no base and common thing,
to be bestowed on The merely au-
daoious. It is the degree which
crowns The graduate of liberty,
not the name Of liberty's infant
class, who have not yet mastered
the alphabet of freedom. Savage
blood: oriental blood; Malay blood;
Spanish example-are these the
elements of self government
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13
The Man and the Dog.

It seems to be a mai ural infirmi-
ty Of man to lie about his dog, to
resent any aspersions on the char
acter of his dog, but to look with
the eve Of dark suspicion on every
other mans dog and to whisper
doubts of his integrity. 1t is par
ticuIarly so with hound dogs. 1t
is an article of faith with every
well-regulated boy that his dog
is the champ on squirrel detective
Of the world; every negro carries
II; his soul the conviction that his
dog, whatever the breed, is ter
ror to raco ons, and il is hard to
shake any white mans belief IN
bis pointer or setter, But the
confidence in hounds has touch
of the sublime. We have been
out in the woods and nine pos
sum hunters on dark night and
had each of them to tell us con-
fidentalIy that he could identify
the voice of his own dog far III the
lead, and that all of the others
were simply following him or
back-tracklng, or engaged in the
degrading and frivolous vice of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. News.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13

! us with quilt and pillow. VI {
retired and made every possible
effort to realize that our gallery
bed was down-linoi couch. We
slept soundly, however. and at an
early hour the next day We were
upon the streets Of the county
seat" mingling with old friends,
and after the launching Of the dry
dock we participated in one of
those barbecues of which We now
hear sometimes. but the realiza-
ton of which belonged only to
that past from which the mind
now and then will draw some
| pleasant thoughts.
Capt. W. j. Poitevent was Of
French origin and one Of Gaines
yille's pioneer settlers who came
from a long lineage of gentIewo-
men and gentlemen, with those
marks of physical distinction and
that straight forwardneSs and at-
liability of the man well born and
which he has transmitted TO his
numerous children 10 such mark
ed degree that of the young men
of his race gentlemen of the old
school " is the best title by which
they can be designated.
1t is not strange therefore that
Captain Poitevent was the
life and happiness Of the people
of Hancock county, for he pro
vided hundred hundreds of it,
toilers with employment that they
not only earned for themselves
the commodities of life, but he
helped them always in that pecu-
liar way born of his manhood $
nobility. and cheercd the sad
hearts of the unfortunate ones of
his people and often added sun
shine into their homes.
In stature as well as in intellect
he was the "tallest pine of the
old hill county; man who could
retire at night with his fortunes
broken and rise at the dawn of
the next day again rich man
his powers of financial recupcra-
ton were wonderful and he was
really n wonderful man.
His soul was full of poetry. He
left as a legacy to the world, Eli
"a Jane, his daughter, late pro
prietress of the New Orleans Pic
ayune, and known by the nom de
plume of Pearl Rivers, and assO-
ciated with that dead poets name
we find those Frank Leslie, Ella
Bentley, senior and junior, and
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, distinguish
ed women whose mclodious songs
will be carried from generation to
generation as gem, Of poetry and
prose. From the pen of Pearl
Rivers, the sweet song-bird Of
those streams from which she
drew her name, we find:
"OnIy dog, you ask me why
| grleve SO much to see him he?'
closing that poem with the words,
"If dogs have no souls, then !
dlsbelioye the creed1 the preach
ers preach" and in the magnitude
of the lofty flights of her imagj-
nation was her precious Inherit
ance from an intellectual father
and mother, "scions of race
whose sircs from the records Of
old France can trace.
A. q. PIERI.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13
You Cant
Dodge Them

Did you ever try TO dodge the
rain-drops =? Did rot succeed
very well, did yOu2 It's just
as useless TO try 10 escape frera
the germs of consumption. You
can't do 1t. They are about us
on every hand and we arc Con~
stantly taking them into our
lungs.
Then why don't We ali have
this disease ? Simply because
these germs caarot gain q soot~
hold In q strong throat and
lungs. It's when these are
weak that the germs master.
The body must be wess supplied
with fat. The danger con7eG
when the blood is poor and tie
body ts thin. Il your cough does
not yield, and your throat ond
lungs feel raw and sore, you
should not delay another day.
Take
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13

The schooner Minnie Otis was
towed home Sunday last ty the
tug Asa. The Otis was ashore at
the west end of the RigoIets for
several days during the low tides.
Mr.. II. F. Mueller desires to
call your attention to the fact that
his being in the brick business
cuts no ice with his insurance bus
mess and that he is writing more
policies than ever.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Weston, ac-
companiod by their bright little
boy John, after enjoying the holi-
day season here, guests of Mrs.
Wesfons S parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. +. Baxter. left Saturday for
their home in the Crescent City.
The Favre Brick Coz whistle
can be heard six days in the week,
along with the balance, Mr. 81
mon Favre, the president and
general manager, is hustler and
keeps things. on the move.
The sheriff of St. Tammany pa
rish served an injunction on the
men cutting right of way through
Pear River swamps last week.
| This work was being conducted
by the II. Weston Lumber Com
panv and was intended to open
nm a ditch from Morgan Bayou &c
East Pearl River in older to Sc
cure a passage for their logs.
Hon. A. j. McLaurin spoke
our sentiments when he said; -
recommend that the keeping OF
what Is known rs a blind tiger be
made felony. One who dehber-
ately sets up and operates a bAsl-
ness we'll known to him to be a
violation-and defiance of the law
cannot complain that the penalty
of the law thus violated and sde-
fed is severe. "
4 certain young gentleman
friend Of ours, who visits LOgtOWn
nine nights in tie week and -four
times on Sunday, says he would
get married but ne has so many
kin folks he is afraid he would
not be able to furnish them all
with notices and pay for his IL
cense. The HERALD hereby Of
fers this friend of ours all the no.
tees he requires if he will, call at
THE HERALD's Office and take the
pauper's oath.
Monday night burglars attempt
ed to rob The residence of our viii
lage blacksmith, Mr.. E. Ilchner,
but failed to accomplish their
purpose owing to Mr.. Ilchner be-
| Ing up at the time in an adjoin-
| ing room to gain entrance. Un-
fortunately Mr.. Ilchner had moth
| ing save his voice with which to
protect himself and personal pro-
perty from the villanous clutches
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13
Official journal of the City of Bay St, Louis
.7CAPr PoITEvENT, sR., AND GAINESVILLE

| Donaldsonville, La, Jan, 1900
Ed. Pennington Herald:
/ Closely connected were the two
and IN that past" the former
was the life of the latter and con
sistently we may add, the foster
father of Hancock county.
In those days many sawmills
puffed their surplus steam from
dawn till dark; white-winge {
! lschooners could be seen daily load
ing at the Gainesville docks; the
cracks of the ox-whips were hearc
upon every Hill and in the valleys
around the old town the mule
drivers rustic songs were repeat
ed by hundred echoes.
Yes, Gainesville of the sixties
was vcritable bee hive. and up
on its streets the old-timers, Hol-
lermans and D. c. Stanley, DR..
Leonard and the Martins, and DR..
Harrison; and during the long
term of the Circuit court the long,
lank figure of D. c. Glenn, the
distinguished Mississippian and
iurist, could be seen at the coun-
ty seat, mingling with the many
who admired him both for his
personal quality aud intellectual
height.
These days of that far past ap-
pear to me now like dream and
every time it does come it adds
one more good reason why life at
middle age is worth its living for
its every hour of sorrow is follow
ed by a thousand joys.
The links that held the old
Captain and his town together in
life held them close in death, for
as soon as the former had closed
his eyes, bidding farewell to the
many be had loved and made hap
py and better for his having Gv-
ing among them, the steam v-his-
ties were hushed, all industries
vanished; the town was gradually
evacuated, leaving here and there
today marks and relics of its for
mer self.
In that light beyond the dark
ness of the grave, that hope that
lingers in every human breast, I'm
sure the old Captain will be there
te welcome again the poor who
were his constant thought on
earth and whose sobs and tears
he had so often changed into JOY
and laughter.
This account Of those old times
bring to me the recollection of the
launching of a big dry dock, built
for service on The Mississippi in
August, 1867. On that occasion
the old town was crowded by the
inflow of visitors from various
parts of the county and so much
so that sleeping room was an az
ticle of luxury.
In company with two friends |
left Bay St. Louis at sundown OF
certain day and reached our des~
tination at a late hour that night
and secured sleeping space on the
gallery Of Bill kicaise's boarding
house, and who provided each of
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13
News from PearlingtOn.

From Today's Herald.I
Shipping along the T1ver front
last week was very brisk.
Mr.. Thos. NJ. Favre visited his
family at Gulfport last week.
Mr.. II. S. Weston was q busi-
ness visitor to New Orleans Tues
day.
Messrs, Simon Favre and A. H.
Russ we're visitors to New Orleans
Saturday.
Mr.. W.. Poltevent spent three
or four days at Pensacola, Fla,
this week.
Brother ;. K. Mayors was here
Tuesday, shaking hands with his
many friends.
The mills along the river have
given their employees an increase
of 10 per cent.
Messrs. J. A Favre and j. j.
Favre paid their usual visit to New
Orleans this week.
| The schooner Gala is out on
Madison's shipyard, undergoing
some minor repairs.
Mr.. E. NJ. VaIette was among
us Tuesday, looking up orders
from our merchants.
Messr5. j. A. Favre & Co. de-
sire to call your attention to the
| low prices at the cash store.
Three additional ships arrived
al Ship Island last week TO load
lumber from Pennington.
The new schooner Robert Hood
will be launched from the ship
yard at Log own next week.
Mr.. and Mrs, Ernest Russ and
Mr.. and Mrs. D. B. Favre were
visitors at "Gray's Oaks" Sunday
The Poiteyent & Favre Lumber
| Company were the successful
! bidders for the new mail contract
Mr.. Henry Toomer, from Lake
Charles, La, is enjoying a few
days here, visiting relatives anc
friends.
Messrs. Chas. Breaux aud G. n
Cudderbac treated US to a few
hours stay in our midst one day
this week.
The Hon, T. R. Stocker, witt
| Miss Cora Snow and Miss Laurf
. Stocker, were visitors to Turtle
Skin Sunday.
The mammoth dry k!lns al
Pearlington are nearing compile
ton. and when finished will be OF
the finest in the State.
/ DR.. J. O. Fountain left fol
/ Gulfp0rt Monday, where the the
Doctor went on a business ven.
ture and remained a few days.
After spending the holiday:
with bis family, Mr. June Poite-
vent has returned to New Orleans
. last week to resume his studies.
! The many friends of Mr.. Wiley
I Fayre at Gainesville and LogtoWn
were exceedingly glad to see hin
= few days this week. Ha hal
/ AIr. ]. Mahn, master of steam,
er Wappaus, now at Ship Island
taking a cargo of lumber, was Che
guest of 3it W. J. Poitevent one
! day this week.
! Mrs. Fl. NJ. Graham of Bay ST
Louis, who has been the guest OF
her daugbeer, Mrs. r. S. Board
man, for the past week, left fol-
her home Tuesday.
! Mr.. Fred Dummet, boiler maker
| from New Orleans, with his whole
force Of men, have been doing
! considerable work here and al
Logtown the past two weeks.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13
A New Capitol Wanted.

Senator Kiger, of Warren, has
introduced a bill providing for
the erection of a new capitol,
costing $3.50, 900, and to be locat-
ed on the penitentiary site, State
convicts to perform much of the
labor, and the Governor, Secrera-
ry of State, Auditor, Treasurer
and Atterney-Genoral to super
wise its construction without sal
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13

A life insurance company in
some of its advertising literature:
You will be gone long time
when you go for good, and your
family will require three meals a
day, and a roof to cover them,
Just the same Us now"
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13

1t is announced that the histor-
ic battle House, the principal ho-
tel in Mobile. Ala, which was
opened in 1852, is to pass to An
thony Wizard and others. of New
Orleans, by purchase from the
Battle House Co. Price is not
given, but it is in the neighbor-
hood of $150,000.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13

The French post-office has just
issued an order forbidding the
sending of mourning envelopes
through the post for the reason
that envelopes with black edges
are easily tampered with, and if
the gummed edge is torn or fray
ed in opening it the injury is east
ly disguised by rubbing a little
ink over the surface.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13

The proposed change in the law
as regards to the collection of the
poll tax, enforcing its collection
ty distraint if needs be, is finding
favor in the State. We sympa-
thize with the intent by which
the present law was adopted but
believe an error was was made
in the compulsory educational
clause. If that Il to remain we
believe the payment Of the poll tax
should be compulsory. AS ii
stands no sort OF good is re-
resulting. The mystif.ying prima-
" election law serves to<SplIify it.
practical features. 1t isan un,
disputed fact, that the eleeNon OF
0fice1s is settled in the prAnarv,
the regular election amo1 biting
only to a formal rati6cat;h OF
tbe result of the primar In
these primary elections evef one
Is allowed to vote whether OF pot
he is disfranchised from not haE-
ing paid his tax. thus placing me
man who discharges his Obligation
Of citizenship in line with he Who
disregards it. We favor the a0o-
lishment of the co4ipulsonaI
clause and the primary law made
as mandatory in its Requirements
as govern the regular election anu
with penalties for It's violatian, g
an enforced poll tax collectiod:
IF the ills are to be born let us
at least get minimizing resuits
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13

Appended will DC found the
article referred in above:
There are now three steam oys-
ter dredges gathering oysters in
the Mississippi sound for the Bi-
loxi factories. 1t is stated by sew
eral parties of unquestioned vera
city that those steam dredges are
DESTROYING the natural oyster
reefs. If this be true, immediate
steps should be taken to stop the
boats. According to authentic
reports the dredges rake the reefs
clean, taking all oysters, large anu
small, and dump them on a barge
located at some central place. The
small oysters are then thrown in
great heaps over the sides Of the
barge and are thereby destroyed.
Their barges do not contiue their
operations to water having depth
of fourteen feet, but they 60
wherever the wateris deep enough
for them to operate. This ques-
ton is one of vital interest to the
people of the coast and they should
see to it that the reefs be DOT des-
troyed. Ii those dredge boats be
permitted to violate the law by
catching oysters in four or five
feet Of water, it is a question of q
very short time till the oyster in
dustry in the Mississippi sound is
rurned.-Scranton Chronicle.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-13
OUR OYSTER REEFS.

Our reference to the "well de-
fined rumor" anent the oyster
dredging law seems to have stirred
up a hornets nest. The Review
does not know of the correctness
of the lumor but does know that
sufficient credence is put in it by
those interested to provide against
the scheme carrying. Such un-
dertakings are not usually pro-
claimed from the housetops, and
if no such movement is contem-
plated, there is no occasion for Of
tense; if there is, the public is
warned against it. AS stated last
week we yield to the opinions of
those whose interests have led 20
the study Of the matter, that the
present law is reasonable and
equitable and that no change is
desirable. We submit, however,
that it should be enforced. That
the provisions of the law are Who'll
ly ignored and has been repeated
ly charged and never categorical-
Nv denied. 1t is noticeable that
the "only persons on this coast
who have ever used a dredge in the
oyster business" in the interview
published in their organ do not
deny the violation of the law. In
this connection we refer to 'a
voice" from jackson county upon
the subject appearing in this is
sue.-BiIoXi RevieW.