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Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-03-25
CASTOR, FIRE INSURANCE.
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MAY NOT SURVIVE.

9Hazlehurst, March 24.-Moses J.
Iansk, prominent citizen of this city,
il dangerously sick at his fathers
honse in Beauregard where he and his
wife went Friday evening. A week
ago he suffered a partial stroke of pa
ralysis, but had sufficiently recovered
to be up, and he decided to visit his
parents, where he suffered another
stroke. A message just received says
that the attending physicians hold
out but little hope for him.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-03-25
SHE HAD HER WISH.

A little girl who had noticed on
various houses about the city the cards
by which the board Of health an.
nouunces the presence of contagiuos
Diseases asked her mother what they
meant, says the Youths Companion.
Her mother explained, and the child
said, regretfully: I'VE never have
anything like that on our house."
You wouldn't want it, would
your" said the mother.
''Yes, ] wouldp' replied the little
girl, decidedly.
Some weeks afterward the girl
was taken sick with chicken-pox, but
was not confined to her bed. On Sum-
day morning the mother noticed that
people passing on their way to church
turned to gaze at the house and always
went away laughing. Her curiosity
was aroused, and she went to the par
Tor to investigate. In each of the
front windows was large placard
made. evidently, by the little daughter
from the side of pasteboard box.
On the card she had printed:
II have got chicken-pox bad"
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-03-25

Mrs. r. W., Roberts and her
cousin, Mrs. Travis, are visiting r
w Roberts, General Road Master in
his private car at Merrill. From
there they go to Mobile where they
will be the guests of Supt. t. w.
Greer and wife.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-03-25

The Hattiesburg Fire Company,
which is voluntary one deserves
much encouragement, at least it should
have bouquets thrown at it every day,
for it never fails to respond when
the FIRE alarm is sounded and it does
noble work when it reaches the place.
We have good fire comapny and good
men connected with it.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-03-25

P. Nv. Mulvihill. a director in the
First Natchez Bank, is in the city to-
day attending the bedside of his bro
Their who was shot q few days ago by
Mr.. Morris.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-03-25

Hammer on the establishment of
more factories in Hattiesburg
Factories are the life of any city and
no one ever yet had too many. At
least Hattiesburg has not enough yet.
And if it had few more railroads no
harm would be done.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-03-25

The First National Bank people
are still looking wishfully across the
street to their new handsome building,
but it is not. so far completed yet for
them to move into it, But they will
be there in the sweet bye and bye
very likely the early part of next
month.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-03-25

And Hattiesbure will have free
mail delivery BY the first of June.
That will be splendid thing for the
city and doubtless will we highly ap-
preciated by all our business men and
others.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-03-25
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THE MILLINERY EMPORIUM.

On account of being rushed with
orders have postponed their opening
until Thursday, April 2. We will have
on display the most beautiful and Up TO-
date line of pattern and ready to wear
hats ever shown in Hattiesburg. Every
one cordially Invited to attend this
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Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-03-25

= DIR. J. R. s. Pitts of Waynesboro,
father of our efficient postmaster, A.
s. Pitts, is visiting in the city.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-03-25

A two-story nergo boarding. house
and three negro cabins in Newman
quarters were burned this morning
just back of the mill.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-03-25

taking his Imprisonment with ease
and feels satisfied that he was .justi-
fable in doing the shooting. ,-easssss
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-03-25

Hear Booth Lowry ct court house
April 9-subject ''Black Sunshine"
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Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-03-25

Wanted-Position as stenographer or
office work. Apply to A B 9, this Office.
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Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-03-25

The streets of Haittiesburg are
just now as dry as podwer house
and as good as any body's streets.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-03-25

We have complete line of screen
doors and windows, at living prices.
Hawkins & Co., Hardware Department.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-20
HOUSE PASSES NAVAL BILL.
Great Many Amendments Were Offered
 Concerning Personnel.

Washington, February 1s.-At the end Of a protracted session the house today passed the naval appropriation bill. A great many amendments were offered to the provisions relating to the increase of the personnel and the authorization of new ships to be built.
 The most important amendment adopted was one to authorize the secretary of the navy, in his discretion, to purchase or contract for submarine torpedo boats af ter investigation of their merits, and appropriates $500, GOO for that purpose. The amendment was in the language of bill introduced by Mir. Hill of Connecticut, and it was stated on the floor that it had the support of all the members of the naval commission It was adopted prac- tlcally without debate.
 The words authorizing the construction of the new ships by contract were stricken out. As passed the bill provides for three new batteships and an armored cruiser. two steel training ships and one wooden brig for training purposes, in ad- dtion to the submarine boats discretion ally authorized. The increase in the per- sonnel of the navy went through as re- ported by the committee an effort to limit the increase to two midshipmen for each senator and representative to the period between now an, 1911, having been voted down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-20
Fancy Balls.

''I notice that there is a masked ball in progress in Birmingham tonight" said citizen on the streets at a late hour last night. "The remark was occasioned by young couple passing by, their gay cos tunes being such as to show that they had been to a fancy ball. The young lady wore glitterng stars of gold colored paper on a dress of white, fluffy material The young man was not so gaudily at tired but his makeup was distinctly out of the ordinary" Continuing the citizen said:
 Masked balls do not seem to meet with such popular favor as they did years ago. In these days the young folks seem to prefer a german, and to dress in the conventional way. Now during Mardi Gras festivities of course entertainments of the character to which l refer are de- cidedly fitting but there was a time when it did not take extraordinary or unusual occasions for the dancers and lovers of the dance to have balls of this kind.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-20
Justin Hatcher.

'The recital of Justin Thatcher, the popular tenor and W. c. b. seeboeck, the Austrian pianist at the Jesse French Music hall on March will be a treat to all music lovers" said a musician yester- day. MT Thatcher is well known here, and there are many who consider his voice the richest and sweetest in all the south He has and always will sing to large and enthusiastic audiences here
 "Seeboeck, who is a foreigner, has had training under some of the best masters in Europe. His mother was singer and ono of Marchesis most accomplished pu- pills. He began his training under Leo Grill very early in life and continued them under Epstein and Hermann Graed- ener and Brahms. While persuing his musical studies he took a course at the Theresianum, on of Vienna's most exclu- sive institutions, after which he studied under Anton Rubinstein in St. Peters burg"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-20

PRINGFIELD. Mass, February NN 18.-A former owner of the fa- V nous slave. Dred Scott, died here last week. She was Mrs. Irene sandford Chaffee, widow of pr. C. c. Chaffee. She was ss years old and of leading Virginia family.
 Her first husband, pr. John Emerson, a surgeon of the regular army, bought Dred Scott at the negros earnest solicit tation, because his former master had whipped him for gambling. Dr. Emerson owned no other slaves. but used to employ Scott about his office in St Louis. When pr. Emerson died, Mrs. Chaffee, who was about to move to this city, told Scott that he was practically free. Scott worked about St. Louis at odd jobs and found employment among other places with a young lawyer, who thought he saw the opportunity of making some money out of the man.
 The suit for Seotts freedom was brought in 1S4S on the ground that he had become free when he went to free territory north of the Missouri line. The lawyer hoped to secure the wages of Scott for fourteen years, during which time he said he had really been free. These would amount to some s1700 and Scott had between $20O and $SOo saved.
 The case went against the estate in the local court at St. Louis previous decisions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-20

may overturn the control of big states. Thousands of voters feel that the trusts spring from the Dingley tariff, or at least that their control over prices is due to that tariff, and they will vote for a democrat next year, when under ordinary cireum- stances they would not so vote. This renders the election of a democratic president possible. and even probable. The discontent over Dingleyism is in- creasing every day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-20
Our Illinois Colony.

'"rhe Illinois men in Birmingham ought to get together and organize an Illinois club said man from the Sucker state.
 T have met about dozen men from my native state in the last few days, and they are all such clever fellows and have such warm spot in their hearts for ''Old Illinois" that l think they ought to have an opportunity to get together once in while and exchange "reminiscences about the state which is second in importance only to New York.
 Some of the Virginians in Birmingham talked at one time of forming a Virginia sort of banquet and invite the co-oper- l would like to see the Illinois men do better than that Some one of us ought to take the liberty of arranging for some sort of a banquet and invite the co-oper- alton of the Illinois men he knows and at the banquet some sort Of organization could ae effected
 ''Tlo Ssfaos men here would be only
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-20
The Third Term Idea.

In the case of most ring-ridden cities the political machines could be smashed if all the honest citizens would wake up and think for them selves and exercise their privileges at the ballot box. Apathy on the part of business men absorbed in pressing cares accounts often for corruption in municipal government Many men fail to vote and many more vote listlessly or without having given the principles or issues involved thoughtful consid- eration.
 Here in Birmingham we have a mayoralty contest that involves a ques- tion of far-reaching import, entirely aside from the personality of the two candidates in the race. Mayor W. M. Bremen is serving out his second ter m. Neither he nor any other mayor should ever be elected here a third time. It may not perhaps matter so much in small towns about the num- per of terms a mayor serves, although a democratic principle is violated if the executive officer is elected term after term in any city, be it never so small. But Birmingham has grown to the point where machine politics is markedly in evidence, and third term fer Mayor Drennen would, beyond the shadow of doubt, increase the power of the machine and make it all the harder to smash two years hence. To say nothing, then, of the reasons why a change in Birmingham municipal is demanded Mayor prennen should be retired on July 1 next, at tie end of his second term.
 MT. Drennen's opponent for the in the democratic primary is a progressive, fearless, resourceful and honest man. George B. Ward, who seeks the mayoralty is not machine politician in any sense of the phrase. He has no axe to grind and if chosen to administer the business of this growing city. he will do it faithfully aid we'll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-20
Wisconsin Winter.

Our climate is jumper this winter" said Wisconsin man at the Morris. When the mercury runs from 45 above to below zero in the course of a -ew hours, 1t means that no one can tell what day may bring forth. The nncertain- ties of the present winter are very hard upon invalids, and 1t Is, therefore. i,o surprise that so many of our residents have run away to the Gulf of Mexico. All do not get health there, for many die in their new homes, but the invalids think they gain.
 "A softer cline does not always improve health. Frequently people are worse. A Milwaukee gentleman recently from Pecos valley New Mexico, says it is sum- mer there now, but from the time he got there and for two weeks thereafter, his nose was running with a cold This goes to show that warm winters do not always improve the health"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-20
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
The Great Metropolis.

Jobbers of New York were complaining of a backward spring trade and the job bers of Boston were complaining still more when I was in the east last week. said Oliver Challfoux. ''The Boston mer. chants said they could not recall many seasons when trade was as dull in Feb ruary as it had been this month. Their trade. however. will be brisk later on.
 New York business. wholesale and re- tail Is getting the benefit of the vast amount of money that is being expended on public and semi-public improvements City and corporation work mapped out there calls for an outlay of nearly s2OO,- OOO.O0O
 T visit New York frequently, but on my recent trip I was more impressed than ever before with the rapid growth of the metropolis. Chicago, once my home, is phenomenal city and will never cease to grow. perhaps, but New York will always far outclass it. All the hotels in New York are crowded and the new hotels that are being erected by the dozen will likewise be taxed to their fullest ca pacity as soon as they are completed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-20
Birminqham Not Exceptional.


 The members of the board of edu- cation who voted against the inclu- sion of Birmingham in the state uni formity bill should consult their con- stituents-for they have constituents as other public servants have. Mayor Drennen and MT. Steiner voiced the sentiments of every parent who sends children to the public schools when they voted for cheaper books and uni formity Public sentiment on that subject is not merely one-sided-it is solid and unanimous, barring, of course the handful of teachers who have set themselves up as sole judges of this question in this city barring, too, the teachers of private schools.
 The delegation from Jefferson should hesitate long and consider deeply before they accept the views of the three members of the board of education and of perhaps a score of teachers as the public sentiment of this city on the problem of text books. A brief inquiry will disclose the fact that public sentiment in this town does not vary from public sentiment in the rest of the county, or in the surrounding counties. All parents that send children to the public schools want cheaper school books, and they do not desire to be longer feeced by the book trust.
 When the surrounding townships and counties can buy school books at Tennessee prices or lower still, the parents of this city will become rest i've, and they will be heard from, and the manner of their complaints will not be pleasant or polite. Let the delegation from Jefferson ascertain what public sentiment in this town really is. The majority Of one in the board of education did not voice it. That majority never touched it, What is good for Blount or Bibb Is good for Birmingham. There arc barefoot boys and girls in all three, and 1t is utter nonsense to say that Birmingham does not desire cheap school books, or that it needs books of a higher class than Blount or Bibh. Birmingham not only desires cheap books, but it demands them. It wants state uni formity and it wants its share of the benefits of that plan, and no one dis patched by majority of one in the board of education is authorized to speak otherwise for this city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-20
ROOSEVELT'S
 LAVISH ENTERTAINMENTS

tions, but the viands are or the best in the market
 The President and Mrs. Roosevelt sel- dom accept invitations to dinner, but they have found time amid this whirl of hospitality to dine with each of the cabinet families and with Senators Lodge and Hanna, and to be present at the pub lie banquet to Judge Harlan and on the occasion of the Y M. c. A. jubilee.
 On an average the President enter tains house party of at least three or four people every day; five times a week he gives an elaborate dinner party to nearly score of guests: three times a week he entertains at luncheon, and. Of course, his house party is present at all meals. The President even invites friends passing through the city to take break fast with him and his family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-20
ift ONLY DAILY REWsPapzl A.a9t9A
Common Sense from Iuskeuee.

There would be no race or color line problem if all both black and white, in the White House and out of 1t, had the hard sense and clear in sight of Principal Booker T. Washing ton. In his address before the negro conference now sitting at Tuskegee, he expressed concisely the duty of the day on the part of the leaders of his race, and there is sc, much sound sense in what he said the Age-Herald takes occasie1 to reproduce two of his paragraphsf He said:
 From tKe first it has been the main work of/this conference to confns itself t5a simple and informal consid- erssfon of the methods and means of securing homes, the freeing of our selves from debts, the saving of money, the encouragement of intelli- gent producers, the payment of taxes, the cultivation of habits of thrift, hon. esty and virtue, the building of schools and churches and the securing of education and high Christian char acter, and friendship between the races While not forgetting other i'm portant interests of the race we be- lieve that these constitute the primary foundation upon which all races began their career of freedom s'hd useful ness.
 "Throughout the entire race we must keep alive feeling of hope and encouragement. We have seen darker days than those through which we now seem to be passing. No race that is patient, long suffering, industrious, economical, virtuous and persistent in efforts that make for progress and that cultivates a spirit of good will toward all mankind, is ever left with out reward We shall get more out of struggle than out of contentment."
 This covers the ground and a better platform than this for all concerned for whites as well as backs-cannot be laid down. It is ample, compre- hensive, sensible, just and eminently practicable. There is no politics, no race war, no discord, no friction, no trouble in it. The wisdom of the founder of Tuskegee shines in it and through it, and fortunate will it be for all if this advice is frankly and fully accepted and acted upon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-20
DRIED SCOTT'S OWNER
 RECENTLY PASSED AWAY

in the Missouri courts having been that slave was freed upon being taken into free state. It was then taken to the Supreme court, where, in 1852, the decision of the lower court was reversed. The importance of the point in dispute was then understood, and it was fought through the United States Circuit court and in the Supreme court at Washington, in both of which the decision of the State Supreme court was upheld
 The decision of the United States su- preme court, given just before the inau- guration of President Buchanan in 1851. startled the north by asserting that a me- gro, free or slave, had no rights before the law, and by practically annuling the Missouri compromise by the assertion that slave owner could take his slaves into any part of the United States he pleased. pr. Chaffee was at that time standing against slavery in congress, and the fact that his wife owned Scott caused no end of bitter comment on his position
 Mrs. Chaffee, however, although not an abolitionist, was always in sympathy with the cause of the negro Her own ership of Scott was pure accident, and immediately after the decision in the courts had been announced she freed the man.
 John F. A. Sandford, Mrs Chnffee's brother, was executor of the estate and acted In this capacity as defendant in Seott's suit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-20
For Greater Alabama.

Georgia, or more accurately speak
 ing, Atlanta, has held a convention
 for the purpose of creating a Greater Georgia. At first view the sugges- tion of Greater Georgia is alarming. Can it be that they propose to annex Red Mountain, and our own Warrior, which is nearly ready to begin an all the-year business to depth of six feet? Can such things be, and over come us like northwestern blizzard, without our special wonder? But a careful reading of President Samuel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-20

Speneer's admirable address, and of the other addresses delivered at the Greater Georgia banquet discloses no such intention, and it seems to be, after all, but a prosaic movement to gather in some immigrants from other states and other countries-a few Yankees or a few Poles and the like. To this programme no one can have any objection,
 Georgia wants more people, more capital, more mills, and she proposes to get them through organization and publicity. Other states in the cotton states have like wants, and the only way those wants can be satisfied is by the plan adopted in Georgia-organi- zation and publicity. The state that does not do campaign work and does not advertise will get few or no i'm migrants, and Georgia does not pro- pose to remain listless in this emerg- ency. No given set of resources will advertise themselves, not even those of Alabama, and the Georgia plan is the only feasible one.
 The legislature of Alabama should heed the Georgia effort. The rail- roads of the south are up and doing. They will do their part, and more. They will offer low excursion rates. They will advertise. Will the state of Alabama meet them half way, ready to do her part? If so, Alabama will be benefited by the new movement now springing up, and many of our waste places will be made to blossom, be- coming both fair to the eye and pros porous to the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-20
A Visitor Charmed.

'I took trip to Red mountain today, and don't know when I have enjoyed anything so mueh,' said Earle H. Buck, superintendent of the gas works at Vim cennes, Ind who is visiting w. J. Lewis.
 Tt is the first time I ever saw iron in it's native state, and it actually looks to me as though that mountain were a solid mass of iron. They seem to be digging it right off the surface, and the supply gives no evidence that it will ever be exhausted.
 And then there Is such magnificent view of the city, too, from the top of the mountain. It was a little hazy and we couldn't see all the way across the val ley, but we could see enough to appre- ciate the grandeur of the view.
 : Birmingham is a wonderful city and is entirely different from what it was upon my former visit two years ago."