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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-02

was attached to each of these rings
and was long enough to just reach
the center, and these were snapped
into the cows neck strap when she
entered the barn. Thus the cows
head was held in the middle, but she
was able to raise and lower her neck,
swing her head from side to side,
and when lying down she could easily
lay her head around on her shoulder
which is the natural position in which
a cow lies when at freedom
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-02
EVENING
-CHT-CHAT

| Are you ever guilty of following the
line of least resistance?
| I wonder if you sense just what I
! mean by that?
| Opposite my office is a lunch room.
! 1t is not a good lunch ROOM The
, meat is apt to be poor; the table
cloths are likely to be soiled, and the
service is sure to be bad
And yet 1 have gone to that lunch
room almost every noon this fall.
Why? Because it is the nearest
place.
/ know that 1 won't get wholesome
food there. 1 know that the distaste-
full conditions will keep me from
healthy enjoyment of my meal and
yet go there because it is the easiest
place for me to get to.
That is what I mean by following
the line of least resistance.
The line of least resistance leads
down the highway of mediocrity
Most people follow the line of least
resistance, and that's why most peo-
pie don't get anywhere in the world.
Every single step you take in it's
direction leads you farther from sue
cess.
1t isn't that any little thing, such as
my taking my lunch at the most con-
venient and least desirable place, does
anyone any great harm in itself.
1t is just that each little step you
take in following the lines of least re-
sistance weakens your ability to re-
fuse to take the next and larger step
Every time you do a little thing be-
cause it is the easiest thing to do, you
weaken your ability to firmly decide
in some larger matter to do the best
and wisest, though hardest thing.
81 guess I'll be a teacher" I heard
a college girl say once. mo, I don't
particularly care about teaching. I'd
much prefer private secretary work,
but that would mean that I'd have to
take up stenography. I'd have to put
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-02
Gunboat Disabled.

SOUTH BEND, Wash, Dec. 2.-The
gunboat Princeton, enrOute from the
Puget sound navy yards to Nicaraguan
waters to assist in protecting the
American interests, is lying at anchor
in the lower bay as a result of being
disabled off the coast Monday night
In Just what manner the Warshlp is
disabled cannot be learned.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-02

There are two kinds of hospitality.
the intention of giving the guests a
happy time This almost always at
tains its object And there is that
which is given in the spirit of self
glorifcation, when the idea Of the host
ess is to impress" her friends with
her own magnificence.
From such parties they go away
with the sense of an ill-spent evening.
They have not enjoyed themselves a
bit. for a successful hostess must
make her guests her first considera-
ton. If she gives them of the best she
has, she has done all that is necessary
But if she gets the idea of trying to
Guido her friends, her parties Will be
a failure.
Such lady is Mrs. Swagger. She
is just beginning to ''entertain," and
she imagines that she is really quite
smart" But there is no comfort at her
board, no enjoyment for her guests,
though she is delighted with herself as
n hostess.
Il should like to give little lunch
to my chief" saws the husband Of Mrs.
Swagger He is in an accountants
office and on friendly terms with the
head of the firm who lives in a smart
little house in the suburbs. He has
promised to motor out on Monday with
his wife, and we might ask the Colds
and Silvers to meet them,' he con-
tinued.
YES, and Wen do the thing in style.
Leave it to me-" said Mrs. Swagger
complacently Il flatter myself I know
how to give a lunch, what with read
ing the Womens magazines every week,
and the society columns every day"
So, the invitations being dispatched,
Mrs Swagger proceeds to rack her
brains to discover means by which her
guests may be impressed and the fact
of their hosts limited income con-
cealed
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-02
Must Get Out.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. Fired Bro
kaw. youth who secured various sums
of money from local dealers by posing
as the son of wealthy Tacoma gram
dealer, will be released from Jail to-
day and requested to leave town, &C.
cordine to Police Chief Dishman.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-02
viii Pay Penalty

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec
OF Sergeant George McMahoS
Louis Willis. young Chinese
taken TO San Quentin yesterday 70 No..
the extreme penalty for mrrdo.,
his stepmother, near San r,is ~,
August II. '
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-02
Inefficient Service.

Having exchanged the comfort of a
capable general servant for the SER
vices of two inaGcierts wearing caps
with very long streamers anS skirts
with a tendency to be of many lengths
round the ankles, Mrs. Swagger felt
that the problem of waiting at table
we had two maids she told her hus-
band. And the pair of them cost only
a few dollars a year more than De-
borah alone" A few dollars in actual
money perhaps, but what about break
ages, wastefulness, and general dis
comfort? She is too pleased with her
new acquisitions to ask herself the
question.
Mrs. Swagger showed her husband
the menu deliberately and very faulty
set forth in French) the evening be-
fore the great luncheon was to take
place.
Il wish you had consulted me, dear"
he said, looking at it rather obviously.
old jenkins would probably rather
have had a bit of roast beef and a rice
pudding. He gets enough of these
kick-shaws at homeland far better
than we can give him..
You have very old fashioned no.
TONS" replied his wife Beef and
rice pudding are excessively vulgar"
she went on emphatically, while my
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-02
Meet in Baltimore.

BALTIMORE, Md, Dec. 2.-The
twelfth annual meeting of the Mary
land state horticultural society opened
here today, addresses of welcome being
made by Governor Crothers and Mayor
Mahool.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-02
Illinois Centra's New Rates.

CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-The luiroi
tral railroad today made effective ro-
grain schedules, reducing nv -.
cent rates from Illinois Central noi..-
10 territory east of and including Pitts.
burg and Buffalo on the basi, -,
10 1-2c, 100 pounds from Hendr;o,.
Ind, and Thomas, ILL.,, to New yor,.
Thls will make the specific pgonortior
up to Chicago from these points 40,
instead of six cents, and the rata frou,
chicago to New York Is cents.
Ii you want to buy or sell, see Eox
Rooms g and d R,rre+% P,,uI:
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-02

Under the old football rules there
were less college players injured every
year than independents, and now there
are more college players hurt than in
dependents. This showed how mucn
danger there was to well trained men
under the old rules.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-02

A CLASSIFIED AID in The Union
Statesman will get the results for you
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-02

II you want to buy or sell. see coy
Rooms 8 and 4, Barrett Buildino.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-05

Southern League Score every even
ing at divers lcigar Store Smoke
oliver Specials.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-05
HoSPTTAeLE HATTIEsRURG.

On next Monday evening the Sher-
ifs Association of Mississippi will
meet in this city, the opening exer-
cises to be held in the Auditorium at
$3.50 and we wish to impress on our
readers that everybody is invited and
we hope to see the Auditorium filled.
We want Hattiesburg to have the rep
utation of being the most hospitable
city in the state. We can get this
enviable reputation without any ex-
pense and it will help to extend the
influence of our city all over the state
and be the means of bringing other
conventions. 1t costs nothing to make
strangers feel that they are welcome.
The stranger who finds this spirit in
a city, feels that it is a good place
to live in and he is always ready to
say a good word for such place. Let
us make the visitors next week fee
that they are truly welcome. Come
out to the Auditorium and give eX-
preston to the Hattiesburg spirit that
this is the best town in the state in
which to hold a convention.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-05
OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OF HAT.
rIEs5uRG AND COUNTY OF FOR.
REST.
FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVE:

Tne ;. 9. Beckwith Special Agency,
Trib1ne Bldg. New York. Tribune
Bldg. Chicago.
SOUTHERN REPRESENTATIVE
FOR Louisiana. Arkansas, Texas aud
oklahoma: The Crockett Agency.
New Orleans and Dallas.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-05
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1909.
Circulation Double That of Any
Other South Mississippi Paper
CIRCULATION TALK NO. a.

The news has been trying to i'm
press its readers with the fact that ii
costs money to produce a paper and
that it is just as necessary for the
News to collect from those who read
it as it is from those who advertise
in it. Another thing we wish to i'm
press on every one is that WE ARE
NOT GIVING ANY PAPERS FREE
TO ANYBODY. We pay for every SER
vice we receive in making the paper.
We pay taxes to support the county
and city government We have a large
pay roll and telegraph and postage
bill All of these things which we
pay for, in cash, helps to pay the sal
money of the News helps the general
business of the city and it is impera-
tive that we get paid for every copy
of the paper. If you have been getting
a paper without paying for it you have
been getting something for nothing
and the financial condition of the
News makes it imperative that everY-
body pay for their paper. Please re.
member that we are trying to make
the News paying proposition and that
it can only be done by getting paid for
everything we are entitled to.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-05

entitled because of her commercial
importance and geographical location
and that Hattiesburg knew to her sor-
row that the very men she was asking
justice for, had not rendered justice
to Hattiesburg, but that did not deter
the gentlemen who were there from
Hattiesburg from asking the Commits
sion to carefully consider this revi-
sion Of rates which it proposed, lest
it deprive those cities of rights to
which they were recognized as being
entitled to because of their location.
Hattiesburg knows that it is being
unjustly Disseminated against by the
very railways the Commercial Club
had asked justice for and was asking
it again, Hattiesburg also knows that
the justice of her cause was such that
this discrimination must be wiped out
Our business men have built a city
here in spite of that discrimination
and they are not going to cease in
their efforts to secure the same rates
that are given to other cities in the
state of like Importance, The fact
that the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion did not see fit to compel the
roads to grant to us tint which they
have given to others, does not mean
that we may not find and use other
means to compel justice but it would
be much easier if the railways were
to recognize the spirit in which Hat
tiesburg deals with them when they
ask for help, and in return give us
the rates which, though it might de-
prive them of little revenue, would
be more than made up by the develop
ment of the territory surrounding this
city. They should also remember that
if Hattiesburg has had any influence
in bringing the commission to a reali-
have deprived the railways of thou
sands of dollars in needed revenue,
then in the very nature of things t.-ey
can afford to make some concessions
to Hattiesburg.
To both the Railway Commission
and the railways we can say that we
have not quit contending for our
rights. We are going to keep up the
fight until we win. We may get
turned down one day but we will go
back the next. That is the spirit that
has made Hattiesburg one of the most
cities in the state. 1t is
that spirit that has built city where
the wise ones said nobody could pros
per. Out of the once despised piney
woods has risen a city which will in
i've years out-rank in Importance all
others in the state even though they
nave had the advantage of discrimin-
iting railray rates for years.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-05
TRACTION COMP ANY
IS GETTING READY
Two Car Loads of Machinery Were
Received This Morning, and Con-
ditions Are Shaping UP.

Two car loads of machinery were re-
ceived by the Traction Company this
morning, this being the last consign-
ment except the switchboard, which
has also been shipped and is expected
within a few days.
The boilers are now in position and
the fire boxes will be completed with
in a few days, after which the big
smokestack viii be set in position
and the boilers will be ready for the
fires.
The large 500 horse power engine
and dynamo are now being set in their
places and the smaller engine will be
placed in a few days. The contractors
are working day and night to complete
the work and all the machines will be
in position and ready to turn by the
twentieth of this month.
The car shed has been completed
and track laid to the Northeastern
crossing and it only remains for the
crossings to be put in au1 the wires
connected before cars aau he run.
These crossings are alr+.Gy on nand
and only few days work will be nee
esary to put them in place. Car sched-
ules are already being arranged and
allowing for all reasonable delays in
the placing of the crossings or in the
adjustment of the electrical machinery
there is no reason why the first Of
September should not see street cars
running, and the changing of their
gongs adding evidence to the fact
that Hattiesburg is now first class
city in all particulars and advancing
rapidly to the front.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-05

at very low price.
The timber section of South Missis-
sippi is having forced upon it an i'm
mediate and more imperative neces-
sity to settle its lands with small act
ual farmers. and while this necessity
is more immediate and more impera-
tive in South Mississippi, it is no less
an ultimate conclusion for satisfactory
solution of a social and economic prob
lem in the entire state.
Mississippi has no large cities, and
we hope she never will The prosper
ity of her small towns and cities de-
ponds upon the number and prosperity
of her producing farmers. The days
Of the great plantation and the large
farm is limited. They will dwindl,
away and be sectioned and sold off t.
the small white farmer, who vii
make his living at home and produc
prosperity unparelled in the histor
of our times. The large land owner
will sell their lands at good profits
and their money will drift into othe
channels of investment without injur
to themselves and to the greater benz
fit of our section.
In reference to this movement il
South Mississippi, the McComb Cit,
Journal says:
We notice a movement has beef
inaugurated in and about Hattiesbur4
for the land owners of that section t,
sell their lands to actual settlers at
very low price. This looks to us yer,
commendable on the part of the LIANT
owners of that section and one whicl
is bound to result in great good. Tn,
hope of the American Republic, il
our candid opinion is in the small
white farmer, the man who has JUS
enough land to cultivate himself, anC
at the same time raise everything a
home and not run to the merchant fol
everything to eat. We hope the exam
pie set by the land owners in ant
about Hattiesburg will be followed by
the large land owners of this county
If they should adopt these methods
odd Pike" would blossom like a new
rose in a few years. Who will start
the movement
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-05
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Bids yin be receiv% by the Board
of Mayol and Alderyen at the second
session y the AuEt G9oO meeting
of the Bdtr for he paving of Bouie
street and Rive/avenue.
Bidders EilKcall on ]. T. Putnam,
City Engin4 eFfor specifications cover
ing the work.
BY order of Street Paving Commit
tee.
S-3-5da M. J. McGrath, Chairman.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-05
A WONDERFUL
COTTON GIN
A Norfolk Man Has An Invention
Which it is Said May Revolution
ize the Industry.


1t will be of interest to the people
of Norfolk to know that a Norfolk man
J. ]. McNally, has invented and pat
ented a cotton gin that bids fair to
revolutionize the cotton industry of
the south. Mr.. McNally has been dill
igently applying himself to the con-
struction of this gin for the last two
years, in one of the largest machine
shops in New England, and now he
reports he has it perfected. Mr.. T.
H. Birdsong, a prominent ginner of
CORTLAND, Va, was in the city today,
en- route home from Boston, Mass,
where he had gone to inspect the
working of this gin. When seen by a
reporter of the Ledger-Dispatch he
seemed very enthusiastic and express
ed himself most emphatically as to its
merits. Mr.. Birdsong said:
THE gin Mr.. McNally has invented
will, in my opinion, prove to be a
complete success, and no doubt revo-
lutiOnize the cotton ginning inustry of
the south. I witnessed its successful
operation. saw it rapidlv null seed
without breaking a single strand aaG
leaving no linters on the seed, and.
what is more remarkable. without the
use of saws, knives or brushes. 1t is
a very simple affair, constructed en-
tirely of metal, and does not require
more than one-third the horsepower
required by the saw gin
Mr.. Birdsong showed the reporter
some cotton seed taken from the Nc
Nally gin, and stated: 4 have seen a
great amount of cotton ginned, but
have never seen the seed stripped of
lint so clean as that which passes
through this gin.
"Ihe invention is a process of gin
nlHS ON ehllie-Y new process from the
oid' and gins wet cotton as Well as
dry ana is me only &in nave ever
seen that would successfully DO this
WINE III Boston conferred win sew
erai capi'all7Is VINO are deSIous OF
king a financial interest in the
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-05
THAT COMMISSION MEETING.

The recent meeting of the Railway
Commission at which the representa-
tives of the Hattiesburg Commercial
Club entered p protest against hasty
action On the part Of the Commission,
in changing the cotton rates to a mile
age basis, gave those representatives
an opportunity to demonstrate to the
/ railway officisls the IIattiesburs spirit
and to show the members Of the Com
mission that Hattiesburg was actinS
in a consistent manner, in asking JUS
tice for. the railways. Commissioner
Scott angrily asked if Hattiesburg had
not recently been before the Interstate
Commerce Commission. asking for
lower freight rates and wanted TO
know why they were up there on this
occasion. The answer was simple and
logical 1t proved that Hattiesburg
business men could recognize the diff
ference between the injustice done to
Hattiesburg and the injustice that the
Commission might do by a revolution
AIRY change in rates. 1t also exempll-
fled the fact that the injustice on the |
part Of the railways in discriminat-
ing against Hattiesburg did not en-
gender a mean spirit on the part of
business men, and they
were willing to protest against what
they believed to be wrong.
Commissioner Scott was told that it
was pleasure to answer that ques.
lion in the presence of SO many rail
way men. who were representatives Of
ines which were depriying Hatties-
burg of the rights, to which she was I
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-05
PROGRESS IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI
Mississippi Union Advocate.

MISSISSIPPI Union Advocate.
We note the agitation by our es-
teemed contemporary, The Hatties
burg News. and other papers in
South Mississippi, of a movement to
diversity the crops i'm that section Of
the state, to reduce the price of cut
ever lands, and to settle these lands
with farmers who will be actual own
ers Of the land they till.
tt is n commendable movement and
It is proposed to force and secure a
sale Of these lands to actual settlers
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-05
Member Of the Associated Press

Entered as second-class matter on
Nay 20. 1907. at the postoffice at Hat
desburg, Miss. under the Act of Con-
gress Of March 2, 1879.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-05
THE pATrIEsBURG NEWS

ment upon the fourth one I saw OPP
crate last October when l was called |
to Boston by Mr.. McNally to consider
an offer for our gin patents, that was
made us by one of the leading firms
of that city. We decided not to con-
slider any proposition in advance of an
organization and not until we had ma
chimes in operation in ginneries, but
we did accept their offer for machines
to be sent to Egypt and Peru. Inc
McNally Pneumatic gin was recently
seen by a party from Mississippi, one
Of the largest and most expert gin
ners in the south. He was very much
, interested and is now negotiating witt
Z us for the purchase of a number o.
z them. 1t has been seen in operation
. by nearly all the prominent cottol
i men of Boston, and they state
e should make a saving of at least S
y per bale by the increased langth Q
$ the fiber, and this would mean a say
), ing of S65,000,000 year to the plan
r ers of the south alone"
y Mr.. Synon stated that he would ell
= deavor to have these gins manufactu
ed in Norfolk when the time comes.
D Besides the gin, Mr.. McNally has a
Y so invented and patented a contil
uous oil press now in successful operi
g South.-Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-05

Mr.. j. v. Miller, of Epley, MISS
was brought in to the HatuespurS
Hospital yesterday with a compound
fracture of the arm caused by falling
from a Shay engine which ran over
the arm.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-05

Southern League Score every even
Oliver SpecfNs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
NEWS OF HARTSELLE.
Morgan County High School Opens
September 6.

Hartselle August 4-(Spescia1 1.-THE
Morgan county high school will begin the
second nine months term in it's history
Monday, September g. 1t is the intention
of the faculty to have a big educational
rally on the day of the opening, and prom
inent educators from over the state will
be invited to attend. The term will be for
nine months. Prof. ]. L. Gibson, the
newly elected assistant principal of the
high school, has moved his family here
from Cullman, and will make this his fu-
ture home.
Prof j. L. Barnard, recently principal
of the Lawrence county high school, has
moved his family to Moulton. Professor
Barnard was the assistant principal of the
high school here last term.
M. r. Patterson, contractor on ten miles
of pixies east and west of Fa1kville,
has completed the contract on the east
side, and has moved the construction
camp on the west side. He hopes to COM
pie the five miles on the west of the rail-
road by October 1.
The Southern Bell Telephone company
is moving the exchange from the post
office building to the new brick on Main
street over the store of Hartsell & Day
The wires are being cut in today By
the end of the week the System will
be much better than in the past.
Mrs Everett of Montgomery is spending
some time with her sister, Mrs. l.. S.
Echols.
w. C. Harmon and family of Birming-
ham have moved here and are occupy
ing the ]. r. Prince residence on Main
street