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Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

The Natchez Bulletin thinks that
Steve McNair will be the lucky man
for railroad commissioner in the
southern district, Judging from the
trend of things in that county, and
The Progress, just as strongly, feels
that DR.. F. M. Sheppard will be the
man, from the good reports it sees
and hears that are going the rounds
up here.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

The Italy News, of Italy, Ellis
county, Texas. finds Its way to this
office, with the name of T. S. Hamil-
ton, a native of this state, having
been reared at Shuqualak, as editor.
Toms father, DR.. P. H. Hamilton,
was a regimental surgeon in the Con-
federate army, enlisting at Shuqua-
lax, in 1861, and serving with dis
tinction through to the close Of the
war.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26
HATTIESRURG.

Nesting, like precious pearl, in
the very heart of the richest pine
belt in the whole south, is Hatries-
burg.
No city was ever blessed with such
diversified surroundings, all of them
conducive to her welfare, for there is
timber enough to keep the saws of all
the mills around going for a quarter
of a century or more, and lands after
all the timber is gone that are more
wonderfully adapted for the raising
of all crops indigenous to the south
than those OF any other section, thus
making certain n commerce for the
merchants here gfander in volume
than any ever enjoy ed by the city be-
FORE
In the matter of early gardening
for market will our lands startle the
world in their productive qualities
when the scientific experiments have
all been applied and the best develop
ed method from them adopted in the
cultivation of such crops.
Let those who have figm ed to
what will become of the country
when the timber is all gone, take a
more hopeful view. Tor the day is
coming, and sure, when the '.cld.
poor piney woods lands Along the
New Orleans and Northeastern rail-
road will be pointed to With pride as
the garden spot Of the nation for
early marketable vegetables.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

Columbus, the county seat OF
Lowndes county, though the site OF
the states female industrial college.
one of the largest cities in the state,
is without long distance telephone
facilities. The Old city should arise
from her lethargy and get in line
with the onward, progressive spirit,
which now rules the hour every
where.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

Wells & Wells, the Chicago con-
tractors who have just completed the
state capitol building, in taking their
leave the other day, wrote out a check
for 500, and left it as their donation
to the Beauvoir fund. This firm,
residing in the north, where the SEN
timent is against anything Confeder-
are, deserves commentator max
ing this gift.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

Hon. Wallace McLaurin was il
Jackson yesterday, and while there
informed a Clarion Ledger represent
alive that he had received from
Chairman Jones, of the National
Democratic Executive committee a
certificate of appointment as national
committeeman for Mississippi to sue
coed the late A. J. Russell.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26
breaks all records, as l-S inches
was the largest heretofore named.

Fl. G. Chandler, of Kemper county,
was the first man of that county to
carry bale Of this years cotton TO
market, selling it yesterday at Laud-
erdale, and Clarke county shows up
the same day at Shubuta, in the per-
son Of James Thompson, who market
ed a bale there, Billie Weems being
the buyer, at II 1-2 cents per pound.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26
One Man Strike at Trenton. ". J.

A one man strike has been started at
the Keystone pottery, says a Trenton
On. j. dispatch, and unless the concern
comes to time the Dippers' union, No.
fl, says that the plant will have 10
shut down. as all other workmen will
be ordered out to keep the one man
company. The president of the union
declines to discuss the strike and the
lone striker also is noncommunicative,
The conditions at this plant, however,
evidently did not suit this man. so he
went out, sure of the backing of the
union.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

The Meridian Press makes this
pretty little reference to Hattiesburg
Hattiesburg has formally opened
her cotton exchange, which means a
teRstrike for that little city"
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

Inc battle of battles comes tomor-
row. The contest will be great and
surely the result ought to be import
anu SO let good judgment and deliber
a'ion govern You in casting your
vote for governor.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

Go into the contest tomorrow cool
and deliberate, allowing nothing to
change your determination on this
score, and thank The Progress for the
advice when the war is over
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

Today will be a field day with the
railroads of the state in the grand
total of receipts, arising from the
sale of tickets to persons WHO are 60
ing home to vote.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

The Woodmen Of the World fratern-
al order is growing to be a power in
Mlssl Sslppi, this proves and prestige
Delng gained largely through its
prompt way of meeting its death pay
ments.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

Frank Burkitt, of Chickasaw coun-
~ and living right under the
shadow of Steinberger. denounces the
man as liar, and no resentment
comes. Sure enough, Steinberger
must be liar.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

When prejudice and reason meet,
says an exhoange. the latter is sure
to win. Make the application
yourself. at the polls tomorrow.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

A deal was made at Vlcksburg the
other day i'll which $4,000 ceres of
timber lands in the delta changed
hands, a northern firm being buyer
and citizen of Vicksburg. seller.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

The Dawn Of Light, is the
name of a neat little paper coming to
us from Walnut Grove, Leake coun-
ty, flying the name of G. s. Ellis
as editor
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

The Brandon News, which until
its last issue was satisfied to remain
neutral, is now out openly for Critz,
which means that old Rankin will
60 that way tomorrow.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

Lee county watts greetings, saying
all's well with her; that the crop
condition is the best for years. and
that Critz will carry the county to-
morrow by majority of so per cent
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

The Brookhaven merchants made
'iie nrst bale of new cotton received
'nefe this season bring its owner
80 There is nothing that speaks so
eloquently of city as enterprising.
spirited merchants, who vie with
other to help the town.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

An exchange says that Critz was
one Of the men who made the white
line possible in Mississippi, and that
Vardaman had nothing to do with it.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

The Clarion-Ledger says that one
of the mysteries of the day is how
any old Confederate soldier can vote
against Judge Critz.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

A strong Critz club has been organ
lied in old Noxubee, and that county
can be put down more solidly than
ever for Critz tomorrow.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26
Brains For Two,

Mr.. Noodle-Clever? Why, she has
brains enough for two, Miss Cutting
Miss Cutting-Has she? Then she is
Noodle.-London Tit-Bits
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

Victory already seems perched upon
the banner of Judge Critz. 1t looks
nightly" that way.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

Great interest is manifested by the
alter goers in the coming presentation
in dramatic form of the popular books
Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage Patch"
and "Lovey Mary" both of which were
written by Mrs Alice Hogan Rice
Both books have been nodded into a
single play, which will be produced by
Liebler & Co.
The cast decided on gives promise
that the characters in the play will re-
ceive an Interpretation that cannot
help but appeal to audiences, and it is
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

An exchange says that it is evident
now that the Vardamap following is
just whistling to keep their courage
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

.Ihe Natchez Deomcrat saws that
aman and Mark Hanna have
the same idea about the consti-
they regard it as an ancient
less enactment. In their es-
1t should be thrown over
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

Hon. f. n. Miller, of Meridian,
has openly declared for Critz, which
portends much for the cause.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

highly probable that THE Cabbage
Patch" will forge into the list of COM
ing successes.
Mrs. Anne Crawford Flexner is the
dramatist Of the books. She it was
who dramatized Miranda of the Bal
cony" for Mrs. Fiske.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-26

the heading of "a Blighted
3D." the Meridian Press, in
today, tells of the death
lady by the name of Lizzie
who. together with her
babe. died at the Critten-
that city yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-15
The Coca Cola Habit.

'The prevalence of the coca cola habit is far greater than most people sup pose" said a gentleman yesterday. Tn addition to the host of chappes about town who have nothing better to do there are many business men who feel that they cannot get along without a dope to wind up a day of worry over stocks and bonds. Yesterday a friend and I were standing at popular fountain, and I will confess that both of us were drink ing dope In the brief space of time necessary to drain our glasses there were five customers at the counter and every one called for the refreshing brown fluid.
 ''It cannot be denied that excessive coco cola drinking will prove very injurious but the beverage is so refreshing that the temptation to indulge is hard to resist. have heard of shallow brained young fell lows about town getting on what is termed a coco cola drunk They drink the stuff until every nerve is fairly ting ling from the stimuiant. and the brain is supplied. The after effects of a coco cola drunk are so frightful that very few persons care to make the experiment."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-15
cANADA,s DEVELOPMENT.

From the New York Sun.
 Canada Is getting to be a big boy now" says Sir Thomas shaughnessy, the president of the Canadian Pacific railway. The facts justify this statement. Canada Is no longer an infant. It has T. i'd aside its swaddling clothes and has donned the toga of virile young manhood. to as- sert It's claims to d place in the world of affairs: to remain under the parental rooftree, if that be deemed most suit able and satisfactory; to go into political of commercial partnership with it's gi- gantic neighbor on the south; or to go into business solely upon it's own account if it sees fit to do so. England no longer assumes a right of dictation in Canadian affairs. She now regards the dominion as self-sufficient youngster quite able and willing to take care of himself. and whom it would be unwise to offend, rather than as a ward in cbancery. A generation has witnessed a political transformation and an industrial revolu- ton.
 Most of us to the southward of the bor- der have been so occupied with our own individual and national affairs that we have failed to note what has been done by our Canadian neighbors. In energy the Canadians are now our rivals; in achievement they have perhaps out stripped us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-15
IIIluItImate Capitalization.

The Bankers Association of Mime sota has declared against stock water ing, involving as 1t does exorbitant prices for transportation and manu- factured goods in order to earn divi- dends on securities in excess of real values. The Minnesota bankers de- sire to have all interstate corporations placed under the control of the new bureau of corporations, requiring it to certify to all stocks and bonds not in excess of the value they represent.
 Corporations are not individuals. They have no inalienable rights. They are creations of the people, and they were not devised for the purpose of getting the best of the people. The stock watering scheme has come in to afford a plausible pretext for robbing the people on the score that the earn ing capacity has risen or will rise. But the earning capacity has nothing to do with the case. Stocks and bonds of legitimate nature represent the cost of a given property, the investment or actual property. This was the original and just plan, but but promoters and underwriting syndicates have changed this plan until stocks and bonds repre- sent about one-sixth in real value and five-sixths in water. It is the i've sixths that is now indigestible and street and want of confidence through out the country.
 The bureau of corporations is pointed out by the Minnesota bankers as the best agent to distinguish between value and water, but better means Is Q public sentiment that frowns down all such plundering of the consumers. A reform of sweeping nature is needed. It is water, water everywhere, and the promotion craze of the last five years has filled the land with lot of stocks and bonds that are as illegitimate in every proper sense as they are un- substantial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-15
Fights in the Army.

T saw in the papers an account of fight between the members of different companies of one of our cavalry regiments out in Arizona" said a retired army off cer yesterday.
 While differences leading to bloodshed or even to blows. are uncommon. there Is nearly always a rivalry between different companies in a regiment that leads to practical jokes and petty quarreling and bickerings. This Is particularly true of regiments that are doing post garrison duty for any length of time. and so it is the policy of the department to have com panies from different regiments and the various arms of the service gathered at the different posts. Of course in large posts like Fort Riley Kansas, there are necessarily some regiments that are near ly full.
 But let common enemy appear and all Is forgotten in the eagerness that every man feels to carry the flag to victory. I remember an incident that occurred when l was servingiwith the Old Sixteenth out in Kansas in the seventies. Some of the men from Company were out on a hunt and were cut off by band of northern Cheyennes. C. Company was ordered out and I was one of the officers who went along to endeavor to rescue them. When we came up with the hunting party 1t was only to find them all lying dead in an arroyo where they had made their last stand There had been garrison feud' between the men of Companies F and c for some time but when the soldiers of Company c came upon the dead and mutilated bodies of their old foes, the tears came unbidden to many eyes, and had they met the Indians in their frame of mind I fear that the Boston society of lovers of the Red Men would have had something tangible to howl about After that. for time, the two companies were better friends, but a few weeks of garri- son life served to bring the old. grudge once more into existence"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-15
FLOOD LOSSES IN KANSAS.

From the Review of Reviews.
 The daily papers greatly exaggerated the losses to farmers. It was assumed that something like a third of Kansas and as large a portion of Iowa and Missouri were devasted. In the first-named state was the greatest loss. For 200 miles. over strip of valley land two to five miles wide. the water rushed for five days. In the currents the crops are gone Not more than one-half of this was titled land, on which the crops were wiped out. If the crop loss amounts to 5000, 900 the prob able maximum. 1t will be but a trifie in a state which markets s22O,0O0.00O of farm products annually. A dozen towns lost from $95,OO to $100.00O each. To- pekas loss-by far the largest, propor- tionately, of any of the afflicted communi- ties-probably was s1.00o.oOO or more. Here was the greatest loss of life-sev- enty-one. In Kansas City the property loss is greatest on the railroads, and will reach to s7.0OO.oo0 or more. The losses farther down the streams are lighter. pro- portionately. because of the preparation time given. The governor of Kansas is- sued an appeal for aid for the thousands who lost homes and property. The gem erosity of the nation has been manifest in the abundant donations pouring in for the sufferers. who are especially in dis tress. and there is no insurance to assist them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-15
BRIGHT REPORTERS.

From the New York Evening Post.
 Some of the readers of this column will recall the story which Jesse Lynch Will stories, of the young reporter who was sent out to "cover" a peace conference of women, and who told his city editor afterward that there wasn't any "story" In 1t because the conference had broken up in a fight.
 The following anecdote belongs in the same category. The proprietor of news paper in large city not far from New York called at the office of one of the New York evening. newspapers with his son. a young man just out of college, and made the request that the editors take him on the staff and make a good news paper man of him. The young man wore a corduroy vest. and appeared hopeful. He was sent off one morning to a nearby New Jersey town to investigate a report that promising citizen was missing from his home The day wore on and noth- ing was heard from the young man. The newspaper went to press without mention or the prohifieie SieiNei' N'i'i'' sA AA- or more later, the young man stroiled in, looking cool and contented, as though he had done good days work.
 .'Well. what about it? Where lave you been?' asked the city editor.
 'I found that the man wasn't missing after all" replied the young man.
 "Why didn't you send anything?"
 ''The report that he was missing was untrue I went to the door, and a ser- want answered the bell, and told me that he had committed suicide.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-15
Fall of inc Stand Patters.

"The stand-patters." says the inde- pendent Springfield Republican, "are missing connections with the markets. While the politicians are standing pat the markets are not, and 1t is of course essential to the stand-pat policy that the markets should stand pat. For it is upon the theory that the markets will not stand pat unless the politicians do, that the stand-pat policy rests. If that theory does not hold good then the whole stand-pat policy is shown to be delusion and a snare"
 Here is the entire philosophy of the next Presidential campaign. The re- publicans have rested all along on a false prosperity-a prosperity based on privilege and artificial conditions, and it is slipping from under them. The Wall street or speculative side of busi- ness has for many years been cheek by-jowl with republicanism, and Mark Hanna has been their prophet. This side of the business world has been sadly overworked and is now going to the dogs, and the prospect is it will take the republican party with it.
 The real substantial business of the country has no sympathy with the promoters and boom infiaters and will have no dealings with them, and it is to this side of the business world that the democrats and conservatives will appeal to. AS the speculative inter- ests sink the real business interests will rise, but the latter will not aid tho trusts and the tariff benefciaries and tho promoters and the underwriting syndicates that havo filled the country with distrust and smashed the pro- fessional spectators.
 The false boom which has mis1ed the people is passing away, and the con sumers and plain, old-fashioned people are to have a chance and they will back the party of correct principles and time-honored methods. It is a mistake to say that MT. Roosevelt will surely be elected. There is nothing sure in such changing times. and the lomocrats have golden opportunity before them If they will get together.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-15

Baltimore to be gone about ten days. B. G. Chambers of cameguly, Cuba. Is registered at the Metropolitan. R, J. Raley of Chicago Is at the Hill man. J. D. M. billiard of Richmond is regis tered at the Morris.
  P. R. Rahm of Philadelphia is at the Metropolitan
  c. II. casebolt of Indianapolis Is stops ping at the Hillman. Judge Thomas R. Roulhac of Sheffield is registered at the Morris. J. R. White of columbiana is stopping at the Metropolitan. Fred Beckett of Cincinnati is at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-15
FROM ENDYMIoN.

By John Keats. A thing of beauty is joy forever; It's loveliness increases; 1t will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and
 quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow. are we
 wreathing A flower band to bind us to the earth. Spite of despondence. of the inhuman
 dearth Of noble natures, of the gloomy days. Of all the unhealthy and o'erdarkened
 ways Made for our searching; yes. in spite of
 all. Some shape of beauty moves away the From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the
 moon, Trees old and young sprouting a shady
 boon For simple sheep; and such are danodils With the green world they live in: and
 clear rills That for themselves cooling covert make 'Gainst the hot season; the mild forest
 brake Rich with sprinkling of fair musk rose
 blooms; And such, too. is the grandeur of the
 dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead: All lovely tales that we have heard or
 read: An endless fountain of immortal Drink. Pouring into us from the heavens nFink
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-15
TRUE CIRCULATION AND
 FALSE IN COMPARISON

him is the work of the crculator. backed, as he ought to be. by the news depart ment. The circu1ator may work ever SO hard. may offer the most inviting pre- miums. yet if the news features do not appeal to the reader-for. after all. 1t is the presentation of the worlds work that appeals to the reader-then the labor of the circulator is thrown away.
 Once you get a man satisfied with the news presented. it becomes almost an im- possibility to wean him from his favorite paper. The news department being sat- isfactory, it remains then for the cir culator to call it to the notice of the reader To do this right, and do it well. is the ambition and constant thought of every circulator worthy the name. Tire less endeavor and sleepless energy are mild terms to express the extent of his labor. He knows no such word as rest. and 1t is part of his duty to infuse por- ton of his wide awakeness'' Into his as- sistants, his mailers, and his canvassers. If the people have been educated to ex- pect a premium, then he must pick out one, two or half a dozen premiums to suit the varied tastes of the reader, and this of itself is no small job.
 It is not the purpose of this little talk on the crculator to mention the thou- sand and one plans for securing the at tention of the reader-the list of premiums ranges from house and lot to pie tnre-but simply to emphasize the point that a circulator's work never ends, and that circulation means money and is the life blood of the paper.