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Nairobi. British East Africa.

NairObi. British East Africa.
I AVE you ever heard of Nairobi? 1t
is the metropolis of this far-awag
A L colony. and .ae place which the
English think is To be one of the greatest
cities of Africa They are already speak
ing of it as Chicago in embryo, and are
prophesying that it will have a vast white
population The town is not half dozen
years old Three years ago it had hardly
q house Today streets have been laid
out over an area about ten miles in cir
Cumference: hundreds of buildings of TIN,
wood and stone have been erected ana
the place has almost 5000 inhabitants.
Nairobi lies in the very heart OF British
East Africa IT is little more than half
way inland from the coast on the road II
Lake Victoria, and, as the crow mes,
about 100 miles from Mount kenia, which
kisses the clouds at an altitude OF le'W1
or 1900 feet off to the northWard. / can
see Mount Kenia from here on bright
day, and some distance down the railroad
when the sun is just right, one can get i
glimpse of the two peaks Of kilmanJaro'
which lies to the southeast. in the ter
man possessions, a distance of 100 miles
or more Nairobi itself is Just about as
high as Denver and, like it, is situated at
the western end OF great plains Whlch rise
to an altitude of 50oo or more feet above
the sea. I0eA are 50 HlSll that Nil1 6Atie'
torlal sun is conquered by the altitude,
and white men can live and work upon
them the year round The country is. in
fact. a white mans country and with
care people of our race can thrive upon
thousands of square miles Of it,
struck these plains after a 20 hours
ride from the Indian ocean by railroad.
rChey make me think of our west as 1t
was 80 years ago. and l doubt not in time
they will be settled by ranchers and farm.
ers lust as is the western part of the
United States today. This country is an
empire in its undeveloped possibilities,
and the English do right in putting high
value upon it. But | shall write more Of
that in the future.
A City Built of Tin.
This letter is to be devoted to the tin
town of Nairobi. 1 should say galvanized
iron for that is the chief building mate
rial There are no saw mills or planning
mills here worthy of mentioning, the for
ests have not been exploited, and about
the only lumber available is that which
is brought from our country and Norway
and landed at Mombasa. The ocean
freight rates are heavy, and in addition
there is the cost of bringing the lumber
here by railroad. As a result the most
of the buildings are of galvanized iron,
which comes here in sheets from Eng
land and Belgium. Almost all the build
ings are of iron, which is put up just as
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The Nations Inventory.
From American Industries.
National assets. 81 SOC. 600. 900 900.

From American Industries.
National assets. 81 5OO, 600, 100000.
Farm wealth, $7.42,OOO.O00.
Mineral production, annually. $4,000, O00,-
co.,
Export domestic merchandise, annually,
81, S53, $4,000.
Manufacturing products annually, $14-
so, 147, 900.
Live stock, total value, $4.S75,00000 600.
Seven cereal crops, 1907. $2,37S 10000
Wheat crop, 1907 $500 100000
Cotton crop, 1907. $675. 100000.
Corn, 1907, 81, $50 0O0, 900.
Hay, 1907, $500, 100000.
Dairy products, 1907. s17S765,OO0.
Poultry and eggs. 1907 $600,0O0000.
oMney in circulation, $3.50, 100000.
Money in federal treasury $345,2465o0.
Lumber production, 1907, $550000,00O.
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cleancut animals with great humps on
their backs They are fine looking and
are apparently well-bred. Some OF
these beasts are hitehed to American
wagons brought out here from Wiscoh-
sin. l saw such a team hauling Ken
lucky pillow through the streets OF
Nairop. yesterday. Indeed, I find that
z merican goods are slowly making
their way into these wilds. American
axes, sewing mach ines, and American
sewers and planters are sold by the
East Indians. The drug stores carry
our patent medicines, and every marker
has more or less American cottons. The
wood cutters are using American axes,
hut they complain of the fat or oval
holes made for the handles. They say
that a round holes would be better, as
the natives who do the wood cutting
are clumsy and the handles snap of
at the axe. If round holes were used
heavier handles could be put in and
the natives could make them them
selves.
A Railroad and Telegraph Center.
Nairobi promises to become one of the
railroad centers of this part of the world.
It is the chief station between the IN
dian ocean and Lake Victoria, and road
is now proposed from here 10 Mount
Kenia. BY and by that may connect with
the German road from Tauga to Kilman-
jars. -. a..
IIganda railway goes is among the poor
est in the colony and the Mount henia
road will open up a rich agricultural re-
gion which is thickly populated by tribes
more than ordinarily industrious. Inc
railroad shops are here, and the employees
have a large collection of tin cottages Tor
their homes The headquarters OF the
railroad where all the chief officers STOP
are one-story tin buildings, and the tele-
graDhic offices are connected with them.
Both, railroads and telegraphs, are run
by the government. The Geographic rates
are comparatively low. Away out mere
in the wilds of Africa one can send mes
sages far more cheaply than In the
United States. ] can send eight words
from here to Uganda for 81 cents, and
can telegraph to London about as cheap
" as you can telegraph from New York
to San Francisco. This is so notwlth-
standing the difficulty which the linemen
have to keep the wires in shape. 1 have
already told you how the natives steal
the wires from the poles and make brace
lets. anklets and earrings Of 1t. They
can use 1t for trading, and in some dis
tricts 1t will pass as money. During the
Nandi rebellion, forty-odd miles Of wire
were carried away and never recovered
and in one of the provinces adjoining
Uganda, above Lake Victoria. the natives
are so crazy after the copper wire there
used that it is almost impossible to keep
the lines up.
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carriages, and upon very low salaries
manage to make a good show. Allied
to them are the sportsmen and the
noble visitors from abroad. We have d
scattering element of dukes. lords ana
second sons of noble families who have
come out here to invest or to hunt big
game. They are usually men Of
means for the prices of large tracts
of land are high and it also costs con-
siderable money to fit out a game
shooting expedition. In addition there
are land spectators, who are chiefly
young men from England or South
Africa They dress in riding clothes,
big helmet hats and top boots. They
dash about the country on ponies, and
are especially in evidence around the
bars of the hotels. There are but few
white women here. Several of the
government officials have their wives
with them, and now and then titled
lady comes out to hunt with her
friends. l have met three women who
have themselves shot lions.
.airobl has English doctors, dentists
and lawyers 1t has one photographers
and two firms which advertise them
selves as Safari autfitters. These men
supply you with tents, provisions an
other things for shooting trips, a-'d
they win give you poftefS WHO VII
carry your stuff and chase the Nous
cut of the jungles so that you may get
a shot at them.
Nairobi Newspapers.
1t seems strange to have newspapers
away out here under the shadow of Mount
Kenia within a half days ride on horse
back of lion and rhinocerous hunting.
Nevertheless, Nairobi has three weeklies.
They are all banking on the future of the
town and all claim TO be prosperous. They
are good sized journals selling for from
two to three annas, or from to cents
each They have regular kilograms from
the Reuter- agency. which gives them the
big news of the world, and they furnish
full reports of the local cricket, polo,
tennis and golf matches This week 5
Star reports the meeting of the East Afri-
can Turf club and in the Globe Trotter
see the story of a cricket match which
was held last Saturday between the gov
eminent clerks and the toWnspeople. AS
to the advertisements. the most of them
come from the local merchants and some
are odd to an extreme One in the Globe
Trotter of today is signed by a we'll
known American circus company. and
states that II wants to buy white rhi-
noceros, a giant hog. some wild dogs and
white tailed mongoose and bongo. An
other advertisement is that of the Home
stead Dairy, showing the improvements
made along farming lines and others
state that certain merchants will outfit
hunters for shooting. There are many
land seals advertised, and also machinery,
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By Frank G. Carpenter

SSNlNznr--u

Another serious danger to the tele-
graph is the big game The CRATES reach
up and play with the brackets and pull
the wire this way and that. At Naivasha,
the hippopotami have once or twice but
ted down the poles, and I understand
they have been doing considerable dam
age to the lines along the coast near the
Tana river In the heart of Uganda the
monkeys have a way of swinging on the
wires and twisting them together which
stops the transmission of many messages,
so that, indeed the way of the lineman Is
hard. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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their shoulders and let them fall down
on each side, so that they flap this
way and that IN the breeze. Some wear
breech cloths and some do not, and
not few are bare TO the waist. In the
early morning when the air is still
sharp many of these people are clad IN
red flannel blankets and they go stalk
ing along with their LEGS bare TO the
thigh. 1 have already spoken Of the
ear plugs. Some have the holes in the
lobes of their ears so stretched that
can put my fist through them. The
loops are so long that when man
takes out his ear plug lie hangs the
loop of skin Over the top of his ear
La prevent it CATCHING onto something
and tearing. Tire loop looks just like
a leather strap about as wide al ones
lftt}e finger nail. have handled many
of fhem. twisting them this way and
- 70 10 s,,ro -, arc Genuine
see a soufb IN the Globe Trotter
newspaper of Nairobt which fits the
native costume mere 1t 49, = loiluon
tallor says una. any sga. ~ ~, :
clad for 10 tslz9l the naase en-
tleman of Nairobl can he IullE eiau LOT
annas tabout eents}' lheiaalhs TIE
smell
This African smell Is everywhere II
loads the market places, ana Nefiiy
think 1t might be chopped up INTO
blocks and sold as a new kind of phos-
pilates The natives cover themselves
with hair oil and body grease. and the
combination of this when il turns ran
cid and of the natural efnuvia which
evhales from their persons is indie
seribabfe. Others of the natives smear
tbeir faces with a mixture of grease
ana red elav. they cover tn cir hair with
80 so,,a material so that they look
- H. co,nar Indians than Arr
-
~, .s.ioo,,s 4, OH the hard u,orl, Of
-, ~ - I,.,,-.ars of wood and
$500. -. 7 SEQ scores of them
49,, az -, - and brass ieuelrv of
ios.aeu - -, ,.,.ir,o bas1,ete of dir
va ~ NM - - 81 u,ood on their
- - "a ,,,sbtng and milling carts and
~ t4.,,et, no streets Tho most Of
- So ,a ,,Iece 10 another are
~ - -, +,,,o-Ii,heaIad carts hauIed bv ma
. .t'9sn -, Ia
Ji. rd,.
ava tho rotail business of Nairobi
A., ~, t-ast I,diare rbis was also the
case NJ NTomhasa. and I am told it is so
In avar,. settlement on this part of the
continent The Hindoos have made their
wav along every Travelled route and their
lttle stores may be found in every large
African village. They have trading sta
lions upon Lakes Victoria and Tangan-
vika. They are very enterprising, and as
they live upon almost nothing they can
undersell the whites. They handle cotton
of bright colors and of the most gorgeous
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-09-03
stance, and the false happiness,

stance, and the false happiness, its
shadow.
The one lures us upward, through
noble endeavors. The other is a
mocking will o'the wisp that leads
us into morasses of disappointment.
Are you getting the genuine article,
or a spurious imitation?
There is this to be remembered:
Genuine happiness does not cost any
where near as much as the false vari-
ETY..
Perhaps the only one really to be en-
We'd, and yet the one least envied, is
the one whose ideals are humblest and
best fit into the heart.
For true happiness consists not in
the multiplication of material wants,
but in the simplification of them.
IHeTe is likely W De luOIe Vi IL III q
simple wayside flower than in a con-
servatory filled with exotics; more of
it in the song of a wild bird than in
the braying of brass bands; more of it
in the workingman's bowl of bread and
milk than in the sumptuous spread de-
sighed for the perverted palate of the
; rich; more of it in the tremulous 81
like you" of modest youth or maid
en- than in the dramatic 81 adore
thee!" of assembling world.
True happiness lies not in what the
eyes may see, the ears hear, the palate
taste and the hands hold, but in the
soul that senses these things.
And he who thinks he must foot the
big brass horn or beat the bass drum
in order to be happy will find the
whole show OF life a delusion and a
disappointment.
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Happiness and the Shadows.

The great purpose of life is happi.
ness-at least the nearest approach to
it that is possible.
1t is for happiness that we toll
aspire, cultivate ourselves, love, marry
accumulate property and perform all
the wholesome duties of life.
Yes, it is for happiness that we loaf
cheat, lie, steal and commit all sins
and crimes.
There is no other ultimate aim
known to the human mind than happi.
ness.
Our conception of happiness de,
termines our lives.
There is the true happiness, the sub
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-09-03
MAYOR ISSUES
PROCLAMATION

Mayor ]. d. Donald today issued the
following proclamation in reference to
the observation of Labor Day:
Proclamation.
To the People of Hattiesburg: :.
The 7th day of September having
been proclaimed a legal holiday in
honor of the toiling masses, it is emf
nently fitting that each and every one
of us embrace the opportunity of hon
oring ourselves by paying just tribute
to the source of all our wealth and
progress. Few are we who are not Ia
borers and none can endure without
its benefits; therefore let us step aside
from our usual avocations for one day
and offer up our devotions at her al
tars and pour our libations at her
shrine.
]. D. DONALD, Mayor.
September 3, 1908.
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MAGIC LANTERN
For the Boy or Girl

Any boy or girl who Will secure
Eight New Subscribers for the Kansas
City Weekly Journal, at 25 cents a
year, making a total of Two Dollars,
and send the full amount, together
with the names to us, We will mail to
his or her address a beautiful Magic
Lantern with so Views.
Any boy or girl can use it. Just
stretch a white sheet on the wall and
you can have all kinds of fun. Full
directions for use is sent with the Ian
tern.
Any boy or girl can secure eight
new subscribers in a short time and
get this Beautiful Magic Lantern.
Send for samples for canvassing.
Send all money by postoffice money
order or draft.
Address
, THE KANSAS CITY JOURNAL,
Kansas City, Mo-
People are looking every day for a
good boarding house. If you want
boarders say so in little want ad in
the Daily News. The cost is but one
cent word.
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increase in the strength of the inte-
rior banks, and they have depended
less and less on New York. All of
them keep money in New York, but
they do not have to borrow from New
York as formerly. Thousands of the
interior banks have grown to be as
solid as banks can be, and money cen
tiers are many times more numerous
than ever before.
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The Negro a Menace
EUen in Slavery.

A Mount Carmel, Ind, correspond
ent unearths an old letter written thir-
ty-five years before the civil war,
which throws additional light upon the
negro question: question ever pres
ent with us, even now, forty years af-
ter slavery has been abolished. The
letter recalls a historical fact almost
forgotten by many of us, that nearly
half century before the war there was,
in order to rid the country of men
ace. a scheme for deporting the ne
groes to Liberia, and they were actu-
ally being deported to Canada by the
letter was written by Nathan Menden-
hall to Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, dated
jamestown, Clifford County, North Car
DINA, 10th, 9th month, 1880. The writ
er, in speaking of slavery, says:
Il am one that took an active part in
removing people of color under
Friends, and we have removed more
than $50 and expended $4,000. They
are mostly gone from all quarters ex-
cept the eastern, where there are 300
(Tha raD,ovi,g rafarrod 70 u,oa douo
by the Quakers and they were remov,
ing the colored people to Canada }
"Since the fight of last year, when
fifty people we're killed in Southamp.
ton, the people believe there is a
league that reaches to Charleston. The
city of Raleigh fully expects an insur.
rection at any time, and the whites
have agreed to the ringing of the
great state bell as a token for women
and children to repair to the churches
the men to place strong guards about
them"
The question of removing all slaves
to Liberia was being agitated, and the
writer, in speaking of this, says:
"Three thousand miles across the At
lantic ocean to Liberia seems a great
barrier to emigration, and the people
of the United States are so incensed
against the blacks that there is moi
now place in this boosted land Of
liberty where a negro can lay his
head. If your land was prosperous ant
fiourishing without frost-bitten corn
Friends would have felt this land oil
slavery, seeing the legislature has act
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ed unfairly toward all classes of men
by elacing a tax on religious denom-
nations, and then we are now under
military law. The Yearly Meeting pro-
poses building a boarding school, but
it is not likely to go into operation
for want of money"
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NOTICE.

September 7 being Labor Day, a
national holiday, set apart in honor
of and as a tribute to the laboring
men of our country, and being DESTROYS
ourselves of doing them honor, we will
on the said date, September 7, close
our respective places of business, of
which fact please take due notice.
Fifst-National Bank of Commerce.
Citizens Bank.
Hattiesburg Trust & Banking Co.
924 Al
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The Bay st. Louis Echo will shortly
install a typssetting machine. 1t is al.
ready an excellent weekly newspaper
and will no doubt be materially i'm
proved.
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Intricate Problem.

Whatever may be the result of the
approaching presidential election,
there are some very intricate prob
lens which congress must solve. Some
of these are of vital interest to the
South and to this section of Mississip-
pi. and a broad consideration of these
subjects is in order
First of ALL there will be tariff re-
beneficiaries of the present schedules |
that the Dingley bill favors the man
ufacturegs, that is the few, as against
the consumers, that is the masses. |
The mere fact that American manu-
features can be bought abroad and i'm
ported and when delivered cost the
purchaser less than if he had bought
than in his home city, shows the in
| iquity of the Dingley law. The demand
for a revision is so general that it
can no longer be denied.
But when shall the revision begin ?
With the manufactured products? If
so, it will raise an cutlery from the
claim that the higher wages paid for
labor demand a CORRESPONDENCE high
er price for the article produced. The
during the campaign of 1892. The
protectionists at that time cited the
instance of an expert papermaker,
ara Falls, N. Y. His daily pay was
So, whereas in Sweden, working more
hours, he could make only 50 per
day. Investigation showed that with
the machinery used here, the output of
this mans labor was several times that
which he produced in his native land,
whereas his wages amounted to but
two and half times what he received
formerly. In Europe manufacturers as
a rule cannot afford to install the ex-
pensive labor-saving machinery we use
and until they are able to do so, COM
petition is next to impossible.
But if tariff revision begins with
will, in all probability, hurt the South
badly. In all probability,-for even
that is not sure, and this shows the
intricacy of the problem.
Take this section of Mississippi and
, what concerns it most, the lumber
trade, 1t is feared that, if the tariff on
lumber is removed, the northern mar.
D kets will be flooded with that from the
= extensive forests of neighboring Can
, ada, and our mills will be idle for the
ensuing four years. Is this fear well
:. founded? Northern lumber kings and
= the paper trust have bought extensive
!. tracts of timber land with that very
o object in view. But now comes the
q press of Canada and demands that. il
!. the United States remove the tariff
Il preservation of Canadian forests re
p. quires that a corresponding export duty
+ shall be enacted upon lumber anC
pulp, and this demand has found voice
- in the colonial parliament. This at
,r tack is aimed evidently at the Ameri
% can investors and is not unnatural
y because the Canadians will oppose tn,
., enrichment of aliens from their owl
- natural resources. If that sentimen
10 should prevail, the outlook for Sout
y. Mississippi is less dark than for Wey
! erhauser, the paper trust and others.
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What has become of the moribund
local contemporary which declared edi-
torially few days ago that no mills
had resumed or were going to resume
soon in the Hattiesburg territory.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-09-03

If Mayor Donald is correct in his
statement that one deputy sheriff has
made more arrests than all of the
city's fourteen policemen, it seems to
us that it would be good business to
dismiss the police force and hire the
deputy.
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NOTICE.

To Whom 1t May Concern:
I, W. D. Dyal, have severed my con-
nection with the w. D. Dyall Lumber
Company, at Hattiesburg, Miss, on
July g. 1908, by mutual consent of said
partners and will not be responsible
for any accounts or debts made by said
firm.
Signed. w. D. OVAL.
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SOLICITORS WANTED.

Six good solicitors, ladies or gentle
men, can earn big money working for
the Ha.tiesburg News. Most attrac-
tive premium proposition ever offered
by Mississippi newspaper. Call for
the circulation manager at the Daily
News Office
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-09-03

A Jackson special says that "a ne
gro was shot beyond recognition five
miles east of Brandon" We have
been to Brandon, but somehow we
have no recollection of Recognition.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-09-03

The Birmingham Ledger says that
the negro miners behaved beautifully
during the recent coal miners strike.
Whatever else may be said to the dis
credit of Sambo, he has never figured
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-09-03
ALDER EN-.

City-at-Large-M. ]. McGrath.
Ward 1-E. L. MCGOWAN and DR.. E. j.
Mitchell.
Ward Pr. A. Cameron and H. G..
Greer.
Ward "a. T. Powe and c. F. Lassiter
Ward Ar. C. Mckenzie and n. R. Nc
Cullough
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-09-03

We don't believe that story to the
effect that a new railroad is to be con-
structed from Meridian to Natchez.
No sensible man would build a rail
road across the state without bringing
it through Hattiesburg.