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Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-27
NATIONAL RIFLE SHOOT
Will BEGIN TOMORROW

Port Clinton, Ohio, August 26.--
Teams representing the infantry and
cavalry Of the United States army, the
navy, marine corps, military academy.
naval academy and the national
guards Of nearly every state of the
Union are practicing at Camp Perry
today, preliminary to the team match
of the national rifle tournament, which
begins Wednesday.
The team which will represent the
United States in the international
contest for the Palma trophy at OF
tawa, Ont. next month. also com
menced practice today. The training
viii continue through the week, wher
the team yill leave for Canada. arriv
| ing in time to allow Of four days pre-
liminary practice there.
Our forty teams will take part IL
the great match for the national tro
4 ply, to be shot Wednesday. The rival
Try for the cup which was donated b,
congress, is exceedingly keen and
lis expected that some of the bes
scores on record will be made.
Each team Of twelve men is accom-
\nied by many substitutes, officer
ches and supernumeraries, and a
i are also number of mraksme
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-27
CELEBRATION OF
ABOLITION OF The
SLAVE TRADE

Boston. August pa celebration
Of the Tooth anniversary u the aboli-
tion Of the slave trade is being held
here today in connection with the
opening Of the third annual meeting
Of the Niagara movement. The con
vention viii last three days, The pro
gram includes public demonstration
and pilgrimages to the homes Of Bos
ton ablitionists.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-27
WOMEHs GOLF
ASSOCIATION PLAY
FOR TROPHIES

Chicago, August 2e.-on the Mid
lothian links today the Western Wo-
mems Golf association opened its an
nual championship tournament with a
qualifying round at eighteen holes
medal MAY. Players making the best
- ncles will compete for the
championship title. The second six
teen will try for the association tro-
phy. the third sixteen for the Midloth-
ian cup, and the fourth sixteen for the
solace cup. The finals for all trophies
will be played Friday.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-27
600 Residence Lots
In THAT BEAUTIFUL SUBDIVISION
Hattiesburg Heights

| will sell these lots at prices ranging rom
$4,000 each. Several hundred of thl
already been sold to desireable home-build
lots are directly on the new car line and
desirable building lots in Or near Hatties||
terms Of payment are 50 easy that you can
without missing the money.
TERMS--Each lot sold on thirty equal q
ments no interest and no taxes. IN case
payments not due at that time will be ca
fot decided free.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-27

Portland, Me-, August 26.-Portland
will this week play the part Of host
to the most distinguished asselnblage
Of lawyers. jurists and publicists Of
all nations ever gathered in America
Following the thirteenth annual
meeting Of the American Bar associa-
ton, which commenced this morning
in the city hall. the International Law
association will hold its twenty-fourth
conference at the same place. begin
ming Thursday
Many famous men from Europe have
already arrived to take part in the
deliberations of the latter body. This
win be The second time that the Inter.
national Law association has met on
American soil the eighteenth conven-
{ ton having been held in Buffalo in
1899.
The meeting of the American Bar
association was called to order at IL
I o'clock this morning by Judge Alton
b. Parker of New York. who delivered
the annual presidents message. Re
ports were presented by Secretary
John Hinkley of Baltimore, and Treas
urer Frederick Wadhams of Albany
= The program for this evening in
cludes notable paper by Hon. Chas
A. Prouty, of the United States inter
state commerce commission, on "Th
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-27

= New York, August 26.-Scores
distinguished scientists from many
European nations, delegates to the in
ternational Congress Of Zoology in
Boston last week. arrived in New York
this morning and will spend the entire
week here as the guests of local in
situations of science and learning. Up
on their arrival the visitors We're net
by representatives of the city govern
ment, the presidents Of Columbia and
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-27
EUROPEAN u AGISTS ATTEND
THE 4 1oNAL CONGRESS

hrk universities and other men
ing the scientific institutions
u to Columbia university,
WI were provided in Hartley
hail. kzoologists we're guests
at a >pvided by President
Nicholas Rutler. Tomorrow
the guests the hospitality
Of the Musl Mural History
and later in IA visit Other
museums and POI Fest in the
city and vicinity.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-27
JUDGE ALTON B. PARKER
TALKS TO MAINE LAWYERS

extravaganza, manipulation Of invest
ments. excessive commissions for
riotous desire for 'bigness" which was
developed out Of the failure to APP
portion frequently and account for the
immense surplus accumulated through
the deferred payment policy. These
Immense sums of money in sight have
been regarded as spoils by insurance
managers, whose consciences have
commercialized according to modern
standards by the state insurance de-
partments and their hangers-on, and,
worst of all. by a number of state
legislatures which, with little know
ledge and less scruple, nave treated as
Legitimate loot these moneys raised
by voluntary taxation to provide
against disaster and calamity.
ut is Just as dishonest to steal I'M
der the protection Of the law as with
i out it; it is just as dishonest for
the state to lay unholy hands on trust
4 funds as for an individual and the
states commit monstrous injustice
when they seek even TO partially main
tain themselves by legislative raids
on trust funds; moreover, it is the
climax Of cowardice TO commit ex-
Itortions in the, name of police power,
but most Of them are doing it, and
! thus commit the identical offense they
t condemn and punish in the individu-
/ lal."
II Among the resolutions by the com
5 |mirtee are the following:
Resolved, That this association dis
/ approves and condemns the prevalent
& custom which makes state insurance
e commissioners political prizes to be
r distributed without regard to fitness
) or knowledge of the insurance bus
e ness; ~
THAT all companies created ur
W the laws of foreign countries be ~
e quired to make deposit in at lea1
II one of the states before trans
III business anywhere in the
Is States; S
Ill To create in each s. q
Fire Marshall
or corporations conductin
Kind Of insurance business /
~ 1.-THE United States who are not license
b to transact such business by tn
~ states where such persons are dom
on ciled or under whose laws and sue
of Corporations are created.
"The apportionment and contingel
lie distribution of the deferred divider
ur- surplus on existing life policies of a
companies as condition precedel
on to the transaction of such businel
it'll outside of the home states of the Sc
he eral companies
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-27
Nov IS the | irne

To buy suburban property. while you can purchase it
al groundfoor prices We are position to state pos
lively that electric will be IN operation u Hiattss-
car line IS open for travel prices on suburban property
along the car line are sure 10 advance rapidly have
yet unsold
The Washington times., 1907-04-22
An Alternative.

1t seems the railroad managers
and financiers are coming to look at
this matter OF valuation of the rail
roads through the Presidents spec
tacles. Intimation is heard that
some OF them, preferring a single
uniform. scientific valuation of all
the railroads in the country to q
hit-or-miss valuation by the several
States, each made on a different
basis, are getting ready to insist on
Federal valuation.
The railroad men are perfectly
right y dozen States or there
abouts are on the way to appraising
the railroad property within their
borders, and there viii be more of
them next winter, when the Legis-
latures get busy, unless in the mean
time the President sets Congress
about the job. The best thing for
the railroads is to help the Presi-
dent get his way about it, and get
1t as soon as possible.
The Washington times., 1907-04-22
OPERA HOUSE BURNED
IN OYSTER BAY FIRE

OYSTER BAY, Long Island, April 22.-
Longs Opera House, the pride of Oyster
Bay. burned to the ground and a con-
siderable part of the business section
went with the opera house. The total
loss probably will reach $4,000. The
entire business section was threatened
but the flames were checked by the
work of the Oyster Bay and Glen Cove
fire departments.
The opera house, in which the fire
started, stood near the corner of Main
street, and short way from the build
ing used for President RoOsevelt's eX-
eCutive offices IN the months in which
Oyster Bay IS the summer capital
The opera house was a rcTnOdeled barn
two stories high. In the upper stories
were offices, which, it had been rumored.
might be occupied by Secretary Loeb
and his assistants this coming summer.
There had been no fires in the furnaces
of the building for several days, and the
origin Of the fire is a mystery. Possibly
a lighted cigarette or cigar, thrown
away by one of the actors last night,
started the blaze. 1t was said here to-
day that Mr.. Long had received threat
ening letters lately, and il is suspected
that Oyster Bay in its progress has ac-
quired a BLACK Hand association.
The Washington times., 1907-04-22
SWANSON WILL APPOINT
JUDGE WILLIAM F. RHEA

RICHMOND. Va. April Ex-Governor
Swanson has announced positively that
he viii appoint Judge William F. Rhea,
of Bristol. to succeed Judge Beverly T.
Crump, resigned, as chairman and mem
Der Of the State Corporation Commits
sion.
Il have known Judge Rhea for a long
time" said the governor. and have the
utmost confidence in his ability, integ-
rity, and thorough fitness for the posi-
ton. 1 served with him for four years
in the National Congress. His record
there was clean, beyond criticism, and
his votes were ever in the interest Of
the people. He has force, nerve and in
dustry.
Judge Crump has wisely determined
to remain with the commission until the
railroad cases are decided. This en-
braces the freight and passenger cases
The appointment Of Judge Rhea win be
made in a reasonable time after the
commission has passed on the railroad
cases.,
The Washington times., 1907-04-22
Preserving a Parity.

\ Chicago mans wife secured a
divorce because her husband had re-
peatedly assured her of his convic-
ton that women ought not to live
beyond twenty-five years of age.
He delicately refrained from indi-
eating how they ought to discon-
tinue their existence, but he was
definite in the conclusion that
twenty-five ought to be the limit.
This Chicago man is accused of
some harshness toward the other
sex. Yet "a fair consideration of the
premises warrants the conclusion
that he was only applying TO the
women the rule that DR.. Osler either
did or didn't apply to men. 1t is
necessary to fix the age limit at
twenty-five for women in order TO
maintain anything like a parity with
men at forty. The chance Of a man
getting 10 be forty is fully as good
as that of a woman to pass twenty
five. The man who formulated this
theory ought to receive Endorsement
from all Oslerites, and recognition
as a person of peculiar astutcness
and insight.
The Washington times., 1907-04-22
For Younger Officers.

Youthful officers in the United
States army who often look ahead
with despair on the gloomy vista of
years that must elapse before they
can obtain what they regard as re
spectacle rank, viii be cheered to
learn that the President in filling
the vacancies in the grade of briga-
der general this year viii confne
his selection TO the colonies, or at
least TO officers OF that grade and
those who are old in the Grade of
lieutenant colonel. That plan will,
by the workings of the retirement
system, tend 10 use up a larger
number of colonies in a given num-
Der of years, leaving their places to
be filed by young subordinates.
Thus is Mr. RoOsevelt's liking for
young blood in all places of action
consistently carried out. Commands
of regiments nowadays carry with
them greater need for activity,
since mobility is much more a fac
tor in the regular army than form
erly. The older men viii still be
available for counsel, the younger
for war.
The Washington times., 1907-04-22
The Immigrant.

The immigration commission, pro-
vided by Congress last session, will
be busy this week formulating its
plans, organizing. and getting ready
for its study Of the large problem
submitted TO it. The commission is
probably as satisfactory a body as
could have been obtained under the
method by which il was named,
though its nine members make it
large and unwieldy, and viii limit
its conclusions to a smaller area
than might have been covered by a
more compact body. Perhaps, how
ever, conclusions are not so import
ant as facts. The public, given
these. viii be able to draw its own
conclusions.
The commission viii be able to do
a most useful work if il works in
stead of iunkets. 1t win perhaps be
able to develop something like a so
luton of the problem Of distributing
immigration after it gets TO this
country; for the problem OF distri-
button, in immigration as in all
economies. seems to be the gravest
one nowadays.
There is much prejudice in this
country against large proportion
of the immigration which is now
coming to this country; prejudice
that seems largely unjustified. The
truth is that Italian farmers make
splendid citizens if they are allowed
to farm. New York is not the best
place in the world for them, and
New York does not need them. The
South needs and cannot get them;
the Northern cities get but do not
need them. The problem of moving
these people to the soil is the one
which ought &c engage, in very large
part. the consideration Of the COM
mission.
The year 1907 viii probably break
all records for immigration. But
that is not a matter of great con-
Germ. The country received vastly
greater numbers of immigrants, in
proportion TO its problem, in a good
many different years of the past,
and successfully assimilated them,
than il is being called upon TO take
in now. The immigrant is in truth
needed as never before. His work
is needed, if be is Willing to work,
and if he can be put into communi-
cation with the job that needs him.
If he viii not work he is not want
ed, and if he cannot be associated
with the job he is worse than use
less, no matter how anxious he may
be TO make himself useful. There is
the real task before the commission.
The Washington times., 1907-04-22
Hope for the Democrats.

With the Philadelphia Press
espousing independent and honest
government for the corrupt and
contented, the Milwaukee Sentinel
out for revision of the tariff by it's
friends, and the Louisville Courier
Journal satisfied to contemplate the
election of Governor Hughes of New
York to the Presidency as a Repub-
lican, it would seem party regularity
had been abandoned in the house Of
its friends. But the St. Louis Globe
Democrat comes manfUlIy TO the
rescue, as the following viii signify:
Nobody has been authorized to say
who will head the Republican ticket
The Democrats have only one availa-
biliJy. The Republicans have a dozen
banks. Foraker, Shaw. Root, Cummins,
and several others have been men
toned in connection with the Repub-
lican nomination for 1903. Until the del
egatns are elected a year hence nobody
can tell which one Of these will be
nominated Any one of them who IS
nominated will be elected. It Is also
reasonab bly, safe to say that the Repub-
llCan who chances 10 be nominated next
year will make so satisfactory a Presi-
dent that the people will be glad to re-
new the Republicans commission in 1893
to control the Governments affairs.
Probably the Globe-Democrat viii
find company mighty scarce when it
comes to confidence in the candidacy
of Messrs. Cannon, Fairbanks, For
aker, or Shaw. These names have
not been cOnspicuously linked with
the supreme policies of the past six
years. Not railroad, regulation, or
corporation control, or the holding
of Government-owned coal lands to
break the monopoly in the nations
fuel, or the punishment of thieves
OF the public lands, or any other
cause to which the American people
have bent their determination has
been much advanced by any of them
or all together. And the party
which wins-except in the event of
utter idiocy on the part of the OPP
do so on those
issues.
The President knows and appre-
ciates this. The nation is deter
mined upon it. Wherefore the
in that one utter
ance has done more to encourage a
and disrupted Democ-
raey than anything its own leaders
have done for ten years past or are
likely to do before the campaign
opens in earnest.
The Washington times., 1907-04-22
A Beautiful City-and More.

Three answers appeared in yes
terday's Sunday Times TO the broad
question;
What's the matter with Washing
ton?
They presented the following
opinions;
By Myron NJ. Parker-that a COM
prehensive program of civic i'm
provements he fulfilled as soon as
practicable.
BY Philip King-that the pay of
the Government clerks be advanced
and local trade be upbuiIt by en-
couraging manufactures.
BY Representative J. Adam Bede-
that Congress cooperate to advance
the nations administrative center
by making generous allowances for
civic improvements and the citizens
cooperate by removing shanties
now standing in the main streets
and eliminating the alley sIums.
SO speaks an ex-Commissioner, an
active young business man, and one
of the leaders Of the larger House.
Two of them have their minds fixed
on a Capital which shall surpass
every other city of the, world in
loneliness. The third would do this
and more-he would widen the op-
portunities open to the wage-earn-
ers of that beautiful city and make
the whole municipality a place of
normal, remunerative, healthful in
dustry, as well as a flower garden.
Mr. Parker and Mr.. Bede voice an
The Washington times., 1907-04-22
KILTIES DELIGHT
LARGE AUDIENCES

Washington music lovers reveled T.,
band music yesterday. when the Kiltics
band, under the able direction Of Albert
Cook gave two concerts in the Colu-n-
hia Theater, one at O'Clock. the other
AT $40. The Kiltles" are a very pic
ruresque group and please the eve.
While their music tickles the ear
They appear in the historic Highland
scotch costume, which is scarcely
graceful, bat is delight TO the eve as
20 color. Their program for the matt
nee included a march by Reeves. Ros-
sinIs overture TO William Tell" with
bagpipe solo by Maj Angus Fraser;
eUphOnium solo. The Lost Chord. % Sui
Ivan, Charles SangIear: sword dance,
Angus Fraser; Songs Of the PIanta-
ton Chamber: National Fantasia"
Kappey; sailors hoTnpipe; Grieg's first
Peer Gynt" suite; scenes from Mann
selle Modiste," Herbert. and march.
The Klties." Norris.
An interesting diversion was the
sailors hornpipe and sword dance.
danced by Z skiBfuI dancer. which
proved a popular feature with the audi
ence. The program was a good one.
with the exception of the Grieg suite
which is entirely unsuited TO hand and
Ineffective.
The evening program was even better
than the afternoon. and was as follows:
March, Revelation" Chambers, over
tUTe, '-Zanetta," Auber with bagpipe
solo by Mai Argus Fraser: trombone
solo, Air Varie," Pryor, Charles Ran
dali; sword dance, by Angus Fraser.
"reminiscences of Meyerbeer." Cod
frey, Songs Of Scotland" Godfrey.
sailors hOrnpipe: Scenes from The
Society Circus" Klein; xyiophone solo
II. Miller: Echoes from the MetropoIi-
tan Opera House Tobani, and march.
''NyeOlioni' Sanglear.
The Washington times., 1907-04-22
AUDITING CLERKS
OPPOSING TYLER.
SWALLOW PRIDE
Rather Work for Negro
Chiefs Than Be Out
of a Job.

There will be no strike in the Office
OF the Auditor for the Navy Depart
ment because a coIored man has been
appointed 10 that position, nor viii ap-
plicatlons by dissatisfied clerks for
transfers TO jobs in other Government
bureaus be favorably considered by the
Administration The word has been
passed down The line that II the clerks
in that Office do not Ike the complexion
Of Ralph Tyler. Of Columbus, Ohio when
he comes on TO Wash ington June I, 10
succeed Col. w. W. Brown. Of Penn
sylvania. as chief OF this important
bureau, their. designations VIII be ac-
cepted.
When the appointment of Tyler was
first announced, there was a great furry
among the contingent Of clerks who hail
from south OF the Mason and Dixon
line. Many Of them declared that they
would not work under a negro. Secre-
tary Cortelyou, Of the Treasury Depart
meut, who Is the head OF the auditors
FOR the various divisions of the Govern
ment, was not at all disturbed over the
muttegings, and merely let IL be known
that il any one wished 10 separate him
self from the service he could do so.
Since then there has been lot of
thinking. Finally. some one remembered
that during President HarrisOn's admin
istratOn, the head OF the bureau was
negro. former Congressman Lynch Of
Mississippi. His administration is said
TO nave been in every way satisfactory.
On account OF this precedent, and the
firm attitude the Administration has
taken. * is doubtful II there win be
any serious trouble when the negro as
sumes his position.
Colonel Brown said today that, so far
as be knew, none Of the clerks in the
bureau had asked for transfers. About
a fourth Of them come from the South.
and nearly all are women
The Washington times., 1907-04-22
CHARITY WORKERS
MEET THIS WEEK

Washingtonians interested in charit-
able work are invited to attend dle
Maryland State Conference Of Charities
and Correction. 10 be held In Johns Hop
klns University. Baltimore, Thursday
and Friday. April % and 26. It is through
the Associated Charities Of Washington
that the invitation comes from John NJ
Glenn. president of the Maryland Con-
ference.
Secretary Charles F. Weller, Of the
Washington society. states that he
plans 20 spend Thursday afternoon and
evening al the Baltimore conference.
and hopes that other persons interested
In charitable work may accompany him
from Washington. he invites anyone
who may be Interested 20 write or geIe-
phone him at Sll q street
Commissioner il IL. +. mcfarland
viii address the conference Friday upon
The States Control OF It's Charitable
Expenditure
state Care Of the Insane and Feeble
Minded viii also be discussed at ID.
m. on Friday. including an address by
Dr. William A. White. OF the Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane