Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-07


ties are generally quoted in support
of this view. People engaged in the
electrical and other more modern in
dustries do not fear an early collapse
but the uncertain conditions in the
building trade and tremendous specu-
lation there had been in land, and the
price of land in Berlin and other large
towns. which has gone up enormously
make it quite natural that there may
be collapse in the land boom. for the
simple reason that with a great in
dustrial development excessive build
ing is quite possible. 1t is pointed out
in connection with this that such an
unfavorable development would most
likely lead to strikes. Past experience
has shown that the German workman,
ruled as he is by the Socialists, is
ready at shorter notice and smaller
provocation than the mechanic of any
other nation, to lay down his tools
and go on strike If this should prove
to be the result of the impending drop;
in land and building prices there is
little doubt that another strike move
ment, affecting nearly all other indus
tries, will sweep the country and has
ten the end of Germany's recent peri
cd of prosperity.
According to the advices from Rome
the Palestine excavations continue to
be most prolific of results, and consid-
ering that they only began on April
Fl, the legandry birthday of Rome, it
Is remarkable that so much should
/, have been discovered in so short a
| time. The great discovery is, of
course, the chieftain's tomb of $50 B.
| G., but the improyised museum in the
former refectory of the Villa Mills
| is daily being filled with fresh objects
| found In the course of excavations.
Among those are the beautiful and
very perfect Second Century terra
Gotta head of Bacchante--at least,
such it would appear to be from the
expression on the face; the terra-cotta
leg of a horse, fragment with two
Egyptian-looking figures upon it which.
came from some temple; two vases of
the Sixth Century B. c., found inside
the second cistern, and another ante
| fix.
Meanwhile Count Cozza, Prof. Vag-
lieri and their assistants have also
been digging at various points at the
base of the Palatine with the object
of ascertaining whether the rock was
cut away perpendicularly during the
reconstruction of the Notifications in the
Fourth Century B. c. This object has
already been attained 1t is further
apparent to the investigators that the
so-called fertilization of Romulus
could not have been on the edge of the
/ cliff, but much further back Traces
of another tomb have also been found
near the Church of s. Teodoro.
! The object of the early presenta-
tion of bill to the Italian Chamber
requesting its sanction to the expendi-
ture during the next twelve months of
the credit Of s2,25O,OOO, which Parlia-
ment has set aside for the extra naval
expenses of a later year, is thought
to be the desire to hasten the con.
struction of the vessels Of the vittorio
Emanuele and San Giorgio. If Parlia-
ment approves the proposal it is hoped
that no less than four each of these
| types of vessels will be available for
service two years hence. Should this
permission be granted, the total naval
budget for the ensuing twelve months
will be nearly $3O,0OO,O00.