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The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-08-24
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Rev. Frank Hallam, member Of the
Jackson bar, announces himself as
candidate for Congress in the Eighth
district. as the successor of Hon. John
Sharp Williams. Mr.. Hallam publishes
his platform, the main plank of which
is that "this is white mans country"
He would abolish the Fifteenth amend
ment, amend the Fourteenth, Danish or
transport every negro convicted OF crime,
colonize all other negroes in foreign
lands or on islands belonging to the
United States, favors state and national
prohibition, would prohibit the shipment
of liquors from one state into prohibition
counties OF another, forbid the issuance
of internal revenue license to sell liquors
in "dry'' counties, an income tax to
force the rich to bear their fust proper
ton of the burdens of the government,
government control and supervision as
opposed to oWnership-of public utilities,
opposes trusts and corporations, and
fayors restriction of immigration. DIR.
Hallam was an Episcopal minister at
Jackson, ST. Louis and other places
until a few years ago, when he began
the practice Of law.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-08-24
HAVE YOU SEEN THE COMET?
Visible in Bay St. Louis Every Morning Be.
tween 3 and O'clock in the Eastern Skies.

For the past few weeks early risers in
Bay ST. Louis have been witnessing in
the eastern skies a comet, plain to the
naked eye and which, as it would appear
in the absence of information to the con-
trary, has come unheralded.
Sheriff Jos. E. Saucier is about the
first person in Bay St. Louis to see the
comet and since then has called the at
tention of his neighbors and friends to
the stranger in the heavens.
For several mornings past the new
comet, Daniels, as it has been called,
has been visible in the eastern skies
between ; and o'clock, but to most of
those who observed it, it looked like
patch of nebulae in the sky, near the
planet Orion, in the constellation OF
Taurus, very conspicuous object these
early mornings. No doubt very many
have seen it who have been out early,
but because the tail was not visible to
the unaided eye, few had any idea it
was the new celestial stranger, or an
old one that had returned,
The nucleus or head of it is about the
brightness of a fourth magnitude star,
and its tail extending opposite to the
sun, in straight line, about 10 degrees.
The head Of the comet is nearly on a
line drawn from Orion to the Twins and
is adjacent to the third magnitude star
Propus. While not a brilliant object
the comet is sufficiently distinct to at
tract attention. Viewed through an
ordinary field glass, 1T is much more
imposing; the nucleus, we'll defined and
bright as if made of mother of pearl;
and the tail amethystine in tint, and
we'll developed throughout, resembling
tail in shape. Astronomers say that
the comet is approaching the sun and is
growing brighter steadily.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-08-24
BEAUTIFUL STORY oE SLEEPING BEAUTY
As Told in Verse and Tableaux Last Night at
Entertainment for Benefit of Catholic Church.

Tonight will bring to close the two
night entertainment given for the bene-
fit of the "repair fund" of the Church
of Our Lady of the Gulf. Last nights
entertainment was largely attended and
the affair promises we'll for this evening.
The feature OF last nights programme
was "The Story of Sleeping Beauty, :"
told in verse and tableaux, as arranged
by Mrs. L. Augustin Fortier of the
chair of French at the New Orleans
Girls High School. The "story" was
told in three tableaux and as many reel
tations. The first speaker was Miss
Blanche Williams, second Miss Edna
Fernandez, third Miss Elsa VonGohren.
Between the first and second tableau
Miss Maggie Schmidt presented the
"Dixie Dance" and during the second
intermission Miss Irene Redmond gave
a recitation. The cast of characters for
"The Story of Sleeping Beauty was
as follows: King, Stephen Minor; queen,
May Sutton; Sleeping Beauty, Vivian
Ducatel; Prince charming, Emile La
peyre; fairy godmother, Irene Redmond; !;
wicked fairy, Edna Fernandez. Maids
of Honor-Susie Brigs, Ethel Murtagh,
Laura Spor, Elsa Won Gohren, Mabel
Stewes, Mary Grasser, Thelma Schmidt.
Guards of Honor Jean Lapeyre, Frank
Green, Clarence Ehrhardt, Earl Beck,
Gardebled, Andrew Lapeyre, Marion
Green, Leo. Murtagh, Patrick Riley,
Joe Beck, Joe Sutton, Andrew Sutton,
Herbert Sutton, Lloyd Guerra, Leo
Phahey, and page, Sam McGinn.
Fairies-Amelie Lucas, Marie Chauvet,
Margaret Green, Pauline Chauvet, Ger
tie Guerra, Wena Gex, Mildred Murtagh,
Thelma Eagan, Ruth Lefebvre, Lucy
McGinn, Olga Lapeyre, Mary Gerald,
Estelle Beck, Camille Eagan, Elsie
Mauffray, Maggie Hogan. The cos
tunes worn by the children, some fifty
in number were gorgeous and the final
procession of the king, queen and court
was spectacular and elected much ap-
plause.
The amount necessary for tho renova-
tion of the church of Our Lady of the
Gulf is oyer Sc, 900, according to esti-
mates made from plans and specifications
bv Theo. Brunne, architect, who has
designed and built so many churches
both in Louisiana and Mississippi, and
the proceeds of the entertainment lasl
night andth is evening will be appro-
nriated toward this fund. Among the
improvements wilt be the placing OF
larger windows, set in with stained mem
orial glasses; and the interior OF the al
ready handsome edifice will be recovered
with canvas and re-decorated with th'
paint and brush by an eminent artist.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-08-24
SPECIAL MEETING BOARD OF MAYOR AND
ALDERMEN HELD
Monday to Consider Matters Pertaining to Police
Foree-Officer Tomasich Tenders Resignation.

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
Hancock County,
City OF Bay ST. Louis.
Pursuant to call, a special meeting of
the Board of Mayor and Aldermen of
the City of Bay ST. Louis was held at
the city hall on the 10Th day of August,
1907, at 1880 p. m. There were present
Hon. J. K. Edwards, mayor; T. w.
Adam. J. l.. Favre, E. J. Gex and F. S.
Fabre, aldermen; A. J. Carver, mar
shall; Rich'd Mendes, secretary.
SPECIAL NOTICE,
August Is, 1907.
To the Aldermen of the City of Bay St.
Louis, Miss.
You are hereby requested to be pres
ent at special meeting of the Board OF
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Bay St. Louis, to be held at the city
hall on Monday, the 10Th day of August,
1907, at p. m, the object being to con-
slider the question of special police.
BY order of the mayor,
JOHN K. EDWARDS,
Mayor.
Attest:
RICH. MENDES, Sec'ty.
Executed on Alderman T. w. Adam,
| 10Th day of August, 1907, $50 a. m.
Executed on Alderman j. L. Fayre
10Th day of August, 1907, 9:30 a. m.
Executed on Alderman e. j. Geg 18th
day of August, 1907, 1880 a. m.
| Executed on F. S. Favre, absent from
home,
CYRIL LADNER,
Acting City Marshal.
The resignation of A. j. Tomasich as
| div seconded and carried, accepted and
/ ordered filed.
There being no other business appear
/ ing, the Board adjourned to meeting IN
1 course. -
Secretary
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-08-24

Mr.. McNair. candidate for railroad
commissioner, having ''come down.
from the race after the tickets were
printed, leaves Mr.. Lee without an op-
ponent, and, as natural result, he will
be the nominee. Mr.. Lee is at present
the sheriff of Pike county and fully de-
serving of the Office, which he will hold
with credit both to himself and the
public.
AT Logtown.
Logtown, Aug. 22.-The vote OF this
place today was: Governor-Brewer g.,
Noel 36; Lieutenant Governor-Man- =
ship 26; Nash ii; Railroad Commits
sioner-Lee 81.
At Nicholson.
Nicholson, Aug. 22.-The following
is the result of the election here today:
Governor F. Noel 35; Earl Brewer
IS; Lieutenant Governor-Luther Man
ship Al; Wiley N. Nash 43; Railroad
commissioners. M. Lee 81; S. D.
McNair q; Supervisor District No. 3
w. H. Slaydon Al; S.. G. Whitfield 60.
AT Picayune.
Picayune, Aug. 22.-The result of the
election here today was as follows: Gov
ernor-E. F. Noel 33; Earl Brewer 43;
Lieutenant Governor-Luther Manship
4s; Wiley N. Nash 20; Railroad Com
missioner-E. M. Lee 50; S. D. Nc
Nair4; County officers, Supervisor beat
No. Wv. H. Slaydon 80, S. G. Whit
field 80.
Late returns from the county it would
appears gives Hancock to Noel.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-08-24

The Jackson Clarion-Ledger is autho-
rity for the statement that Senator Me-
Laurin will retire at the end of his
term in favor of James K. Vardaman,
who will be nominated at the Democratic
primaries four years hence. 1t is not
stated whether or not the retirement of
Senator McLaurin will be voluntary
but the Daily News suspects that he
sees the handwriting on the wall.-Hat-
tiesburg Daily News.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-08-24

The shrine, sour Lady of the Woods" J"
at ST. Joseph's Academy Grounds, will
shortly be embellished with electric
lights, and the illumination will also be
extended along the avenue leading to
the place. This improvement will be
carried by number of devotees OF the
shrine, and the funds, by subscription,
will be realized in a short time.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-08-24
Prosperous Newspaper Man.

Mr.. r. H. Henry and wife left last
night for trip to Europe. They will
land at Liverpool, visit Scotland, Ire
land and England, and then cross the
English Channel for Continental Eu-
rope, where they will remain several
weeks, and expect to return home about
the last of October. Clarion Ledger.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-08-24
THE SECOND PRIMARY
MISSISSIPPI ELECTION
On Thursday Passed Off Quietly. S. Bour
geois Elected Supervisor. Noel Carries Bay
St. Louis, and Late Returns Gives Him Han
cock County by Fair-Sized Majority.

The second primary election held in
the State of Mississippi passed off
quietly in Bay ST. Louis, although not
without interest. Three hundred and
forty-nine votes were polled, against
five hundred and forty-one polled at the
first primary. All interest seemed CEN
tered in the race for supervisor between
Messrs. Ruhr and Bourgeois, two repre-
sentative citizens of Waveland, and gen.
tlemen with strong political friends and
popularity known among the people.
Outside of this race it is doubtful
whether or. alf of the number of votes
polled would lave been cast. Mr.. Bour-
geois' majority is 81 votes.
The following are the results:
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-08-24
MERGER AT HATTIESBURG,
Electric Interests Consolidate - Fowler Arrives
After Long Absence.

There was formed at Hattiesburg on
Wednesday a merger of the street rail-
way, electric lighting, gas and electric
power interests of the city with half
million dollars capitalization, the lmme-
diate purpose being to complete the un-
finished street railway system and to
put in an entirely new electric light and
power plant. The merger represents
a consolidation of the Hattiesburg Trac-
ton Company, the Hattiesburg Electric
Light and Power Company and the Hat
tiesburg Gas Company.
For thirty-four years mourned as dead,
G. Fl. Fowler has just returned to his
native heath to find himself the father
of one of the most popular matrons in
Hattiesburg and the grandfather of four
children, of whose existence he never
had an inkling.
He left here in the prime of young
manhood; he returns an aged and worn
man. The old Homestead which, in his
time, wasn't worth more than 30 cents
an acre, has come to be worth that many
dollars per acre, and ne finds himself in
the midst of comparative luxury.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-27

T.
do you use the expression He dont?"
They are the same. II you do not say
."She am not" why do you persist in
saying She ain't?'' Or why use
amt at all? Why do you utter such
mountaineering sentences as II
would have liked to have gone" when
1T would be so much easier to say
Il would have liked to co." or 81 would
like to have gone,' besides more
dramatically proper?
Or it may even be possible that you
say you was
And there are fifty similar little err
rors in our daily conversation.
If people judge you by your appear
ance, don't forget that they judge you
by your grammar as we'll, and that
all the high hats In Christendom will
not efface the impression left by un-
couth English.
Talk 1t over with your friends. You
might even organize society for the
improvement of our friends grammar
as well as our own. You will be sur
prised to find how much good 1t will
do you, and then you can laugh at the
reply of the illiterate street urchins
who, when told by passerby that
their mother was calling them, re-
piled, Her amt calling us; we don't
belong to she.''
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-27
NHARvEY's JUDeMENT.

Britt Tr1bune-Teter did not get his
bill through regulating the length Of
dress for the ballet girls. He was not
as successful as was Harvey Ingham
when he lived in Algona. They had an
attraction" there at the fair one fall
that was complained of by some of the
staid old ladies and the grandpas who
mad defective vision, aud committee
was appointed to investigate. Harve
was always available on any commit
tee that required expert testimony and
was accordingly put on the committee.
The question was as to whether or not.
the peculiar muscle dance that the
lady put on was or was not immoral.
The experts" disagreed. Some said
1t was from a scientific standpoint a
wonderful exposition. Others that
there was entirely too much tumultu-
osity to the gyrations to comfort with
the uniform steadfastness of Algona
society, which had never INDUCED in in.
novations or idiosyncrasies. Harvey
settled the question by declaring that
there was nothing wrong in the dance
itself, but 1t was the dress that was
immoral. They accordingly brought in
report that If dressed In a Mother
Hubbard DRESS with long sleeves and
the skirt weighted down with q dozen
rocks weighing two pounds apiece That
the dance could be introduced to the
most recherche society without any Ill
effects. This was accordingly done
and the public was invited In to see
a lady afflicted with st. Vitus' dance.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-27

city administration, which promises
war on the city's plague spots, and
that is something.
There seem to be diverse opinions
as to how Chicago may be made great.
Mr.. Hank" North, Mr.. Stead's local
sponsor, says that what is most need
ed Is an open town, with races aud
boxing matches and good deal Of
personal liberty. The Law and Order
League, on the other hand, says that
what is most needed is a screwing
down of the 'lid' and the SUPPRESSION
Of petty vice.
One thing is certain. Chicago's un-
der-world is better advertised by re-
formers and slum-workers than 1t de-
serves. The outside world catches the
impression that this underworld Is a
larger factor in Chicagos life than IL
really is. That is inseparable, how
ever, from a keen and really earnest
public spirit.
The war on petty vice in Chicago
Is perhaps better organized than SINH
lar crusades in any other OF the
worlds large cities. If Mr.. Stead does
not say that this is so when he again
makes his midnight rounds in Chicago
he will hardly be the discerning OBJ
server that we take him to be.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-27
MR.. BURBANK is THEORETICAL.

i / T g 4
Luther Burbank, the naturalist, fias
written a book on "The Training Of
the Human Plant" which deals with
the similarity between the organiza-
tion and development Of plant and
human life, He sees an opportunity of
developing the finest race the world
has ever known out of the vast ming
ling. Of races brought here by immi-
grafton.
But when he turns his attention to
the question Of child culture he ex-
presses views that will not meet with
general concurrence. 1t will be gen.
orally agreed that his views are sound
when he says:
Il wish to lay special stress upon
the absurdity, not to call it by a
harsher term, of running children
through the same mill in lot, with
absolutely no reference to their indi-
viduality. Not only would l have
children reared for the first ten years
In their lives in the open. in close
touch with nature, a barefoot boy with
ell that implies for physical stamina,
but should have him reared in love.
You can never bring child to its
best estate without love.
But when in the next breath he says
that no boy or girl should see the in
side Of a school room until at least 10
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-27
SHORTAGE OF CARS.

Chicago Tribune high officials
of the Pennsylvania road complain of
the CONTINUED and persistent piracy"
of freight cars. They say that its cars
have been allowed to go indiscrimin-
ately to other roads, which instead of
returning them promptly use them in
their local business. AS the penalty is
only rs cents day and as the earning
power of car is $1u a day, one can
understand why railroad which has
not enough cars of its own should be
slow to return those belonging to an
other road which 1t can keep for %
cents a day.
Railways are not the only or the
great car pirates. The secret of the
constantly increasing shortage Of
freight cars is that they are not used
as they formerly were, solely for pur-
poses of transportation, but largely as
warehouses; The demurrage charge is
SO low that the shipper can better af-
ford often to keep his merchandise in
a freight car until he is ready to make
a final disposition of it than in ware
house. That saves him expense in the
matter of loading and unloading, and
enables him to carry on business vita
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-27
TAXING WILL NOT MAKE HUs.
BANDS.

Chicago Examiner.-The taxation Of
bachelors, of which much is heard
these days, might be a success as a
revenue measure. But no one can pos
sibly imagine that it will result in any
one being forced into marriage. If a
man is amenable to considerations of
a pecuniary nature in such e matter,
he will unfortunately reflect that pay
ing the fine is not half as expensive as
supporting wife and family. The re-
suit will be that he will pay and re-
main rnwed.
1t might be very nice If some way
were found to force men and women
into marriage, and then again 1t might
not. At present in spite of occasional
outcries about the number of the I'M
married there does not seem to be
any particular reason why the nation
or any particular section of 1t should
be disturbed Enough people fitted for
marriage are marrying every year to
guarantee the continuance of the race
and reasonable increase of popula-
ton. AS for the men who do not
marry, the chances are that most of
them are temperamentally unfit for 1t.
and their union would be cause of
unhappiness to botn man and WIFE, AS
for the women who stay single, they
live in time and country where 1t
is not necessary for woman to wed
to secure an honorable support. The
failure to marry does not imply, as 1t
once seemed to do, a half failure in
her life and mission.
The most serious aspect Of the mar
riage problem today is not presented
by the. failure of many people to enter
into that relation 1t comes from the
failure of many who have entered into
it to realize it's seriousness and live up
to their obligations. When the prob
lem Of divorce is fairly well settled IT
will be time enough to consider the
other and lesser problem.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-27
A Fine Discrimination

From Lippincott's. A Chicago law
yer tells how the most popular lawyer
in Nevada town got into difficulty
with disreputable tough-for long
time the terror OF the place and pro-
ceeded to "do him up" In manner
entirely satisfactory to the commun-
ity at large. It becomming necessary
however, to vindicate the majesty Of
the law, the offender was brought up
for trial on the charge Of assault and
intent to kill. The case soon went
to the jury. When they had been out
about two minutes they returned.
well, gentlemen Of the Jury" ask
ed the Judge, in a familiar, off-hand
way, what have you to say?''
"If 1t pleases the court" responded
the foreman, I'VE, the jury, find that
the prisoner is not guilty OF strikin'
with intent to kill, but simply to par
alyze, an he done it."
So the prisoner was acquitted amid
applause.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-27
PENALTY FOR MARRYING A cLER.
GYMAN.

London Daily MALL desire and ex-
plicitly order and direct that at my
death, whether in England or else
where. my body shall be cremated and
that the ash residue-tne product of
such cremation-be ground to powder
and again Gf necessary with the addi-
ton of any chemicaD be burnt and
dissipated in the air.
This singular provision appears in
the will of the late Mr.. Thomas Bevan,
of Stone Park, Greenhithe, Kent, who
died on March l, aged 49, Mr.. Bevan,
who was a director of the Commercial
Gas company, Ltd, formerly sheriff of
London and Middlesex. and elected
Liberal M. P. for Gravesend in 1880,
but unseated on petition, left estate of
which the net personality has been
sworn at 9376,862 13s. I'd.
The testator also makes most re-
markable statement Of his attitude to.
wards religious belief. and withdraws
from his daughters and granddaugh-
tiers any power of appointment of their
settled legacies in favor of husband,
should he be a clergyman.
Convinced as am" runs the will,
that it is impossible in these present
times for man possessed of the COM
bination Of the quality of straightfor-
wardness with The ordinary intellectual
qualification to make the solemn de-
claration required at ordination, which
requires him to affirm, for example, his
BELIEF in the historical accuracy of the
Book of Genesis : and that the
writer's of Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John were more tnan feeble and fall
ible. who often did great injustice to
the greatest of men = should re-
gard with the gravest misgiving were
my daughters to marry clergyman,
believing as do that in the near fu-
ture there must be much distress, I'M
easiness and trouble In store for right
minded men of that calling"
Mr.. Bevan made generous requests
to nis servants, including $4,000 to
my most capable and esteemed valet,
Percy Hogben."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-27
THE DEAR LITTLE JAP AND THE
COMIC OPERA.

Chicago Inter-O cean.-A proposed
revival of Gilbert and Sullivans opera
"The Mikado" has been stopped in
London by the British authorities. The
step was taken because Of protest
from the Japanese embassy. 1t is
said that 1.-THE Mikado" is not likely
to be performed again in England.
The point of the Japanese protest
is that the leading character in tho
opera Is, a satire on the Emperor Of
Japan and that people laugh at it. This
hits the pride of the dear little Jap,
who is just now a very touchy indi-
vidual on any subject from San
Francisco school to comic opera.
This suppression of 1.-THE Mikado'
for such an absurd reason would be
humorous were 1t not for the fact that
this means distinct loss to the art
of comic opera. "The Mikado" has
stood, since its first performance, as
the best example of modern light
opera that exists today.
1t was originated by the most gift
ed satirist of the time and the music
was supplied by one OF the worlds
really great composers. It's clean,
wholesome humor has delighted
thousands and Its music has charmed
many more thousands. 1t has brought
entertainment and delight to people
all over the world. And in the food
of frivolous musical pieces that has
swept the stage for the past ten years
it still stands like rock.
The remarks of W. S. Gilbert on
this suppression would be interesting,
but probably the librettist will bow to
the official AngloJapanese will and
keep quiet for the good Of his country.
"Iolanthe" has not yet been ordered
stopped because 1t excoriates the Brit.
ish house Of peers, but, then, there
are no "Japs" in "Iolanthe."
But, seriously, what a ridiculous
spectacle a supposedly civilized nation
presents when 1t stoops to such a
stage censorship as this!