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PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF THE CHAR


TER OF THE CITY OF BAY ST. LOUIS
Pursuant to Section 3444 Mississippi Code of
1905, notice is hereby given of the following
Amendment to the Charter Of the City OF Bay
st Louis:
The Mayor and Board of Aldermen OF the City
Of Paxt S+-I~-i. ti.~~t'E ,occ oL amending
Section % of the Charter OF the City of Bay ST
Louis, in relation to the liabilities OF officers and
fixing their compensation, approved March Is,
1885, and the Amendment to said Section ap-
proved June 18th, 1904, hereby adopt the fol-
lowing:
Section l.. That Section % of the Charter Of
the City Of Bay st. Louis. approved March 10th,
1886 and the amendment thereto, approved
June 18th, 1904, be, and the same is, hereby
amended so as to read as follows:
That the said Board of Mayor and Aldermen
SHALL by ordinance, prescribe and define the
duties and liabilities, except fixed by this act,
of the Mayo, Assessor and Collector, Treasurer,
Secretary, and Marshal, and other subordinate
officers of the City, and shall enforce the due
performance thereof by appropriate fines pen
| alties and forfetures. Said subordinate officers
| shall hold their office for the time and on the
| conditions prescribed by ordinance. The said
| Board of Mayor and Aldermen shall, by ordi.
nance fix the compensation Of the Mayor and
other officers named in this charter and subor-
dnate officers and employees, payable monthly
out Of the revenues OF said City together with
perquisiies of Office allowed, and may change
the same as they see fit, provided that the City
Marshal shall not receive more than Nine Hun
dred Dollars per annum.
| Section 2 That this Amendment shall take
effect and be in force from and after its approva
and record as by law required.
Promulgated by order Of the Board Of Ma ol
and Aldermen of the City of Bay St. Louis
Miss, this the 6tn day Of February, A. D. 1909.
GASTON G. GARDEBLED
RICHARD MENDES. Mayor
Secretary.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
w. w. STOCkSTILL,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW

BAY ST. LOUIS, MISS.
Office-Opposite Courthouse.
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body can lie in hammock all day
long here without the slightest
twinge of conscience The very all
is narcotic 1t would be difficult to
imagine a more suitable place for a
rest cure, but atsthe same time a Wis
itor who wants something to occupy
way of sport and amusement
There is none of the elegance that
characterizes st. Augustine, Palm
Beach, Tampa, = and other of the
Florida resorts, and the visitors come
from different class of society
There is no display of dress or dia-
monds, there is no dissipation or
gambling; no balls CT brilliant after
noon teas-only<a quiet little dance
al the hotel parlors every Saturday
which is over before midnight, while
on ether evenings everybody goes to
bed at 10 O'Clock, and most of the
cottages are dark long before that
hour. The larger number of the pa
IRONS of the 5 hotels and boarding
houses in the winter are well-to-do
pepopIe from the Middle West, Chi
cago. Indiana polls, Milwaukee, St
and the smaller cities of Illinois
Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michi
gan-mostly plain people with more
good sense than money, who prefer
comfort to style, and come here for
that reason, to rest and loaf and fish
The hotel rates range from $3.50 a
day to Waldorf prices; the boarding
houses charge from 81 to $15 week
and a cottage can be rented from S25
to 500 per month, according to the
situation and dimensions.
There is a long pier stretching out
into the water in front of every
house. and if a man in a balloon
should float over this way, he would
imagine that this part of the coast
was an enormous centipede. The
piers are lightly and cheaply con
structed and extend from 100 to 1900
feet into the water, with a bathhause
boat landing and a place for stor
ing fishing tackle and bathing suits
at the end Some of the people are
building latticed balconies on theil
bathhouse so that they can sleep
out over the water for their health
It's new fad.
It is necessary to have these Ions
piers in order to reach the boats, be
cause all along the beach, from 10t
to 500 feet, the water is very shall
low-scarcely knee deep-and fre
quently sand bars come almost tc
the surface of the water when the
tide goes out. Hence everybody wht
has a sail boat or who wants tc
bathe in deep water is compelled tt
90 out to it. There isn't much bath
ing in the winter season, although
The atmosphere is warm enough; hn
in the summer, when the Southerf
people are here, that is the fashion
able amusement, and from 4 to G eac
afternoon everybody is in the water
| There is a gerat deal of mootlSnl
| bathing, too, and the greatest larf
! ia r~westSI- ir~s-'r--r- r,arty ON the f'i ("
Al midnight a-jer bathing in the ful
Of the moon.
These sports have been going OF
for 200 years Pass Christian, mex
tn Biloxi and St Augustine and San
| ia Fe. is the oldest town in tn
South. 1t was settled by the Frenc
| in the latter part of the seVenteent
century and derives its name iron
! a certain Spanish captain, Chrlstlane
who discovered a deep water chanhe
oDDosite the town from the Gull Q
! ,Iov;oo into MiSsiSSiDDi Sound.
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STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
Off1nn of Snnrnto ~, nf Gtata

Jackson.
I, Joseph w. Power Secretary of State, dc
certify that the amendment hereto attached
amending the Charter of Incorporation of the
City of Bay ST. Louis, was, pursuant to the
provisions of Chapter 90 of the Code of 1905, re.
corded in the Book Of Municipal interpretations
in this office; Book No. 2, Page III.
Given under my hand, and the Great
- Seal of the State Of Mississippi here
unto affixed, this 9th day of April, 1909.
JOS. w. POWER,
Secretary Of State
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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,


EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Jackson, Mississippi.
The foregoing proposed Amendment to the
Charter of Incorporation Of the City of Bay ST.
Louis is respectfully referred to the Honorable
Attorney General for his advice as to the
consttu tionality and legality Of the provisions
thereof.
Jackson, Miss, March g. 1900,
Z. F. NOEL, Governor.
The provisions of the foregoing proposed
Amendment are not violative of the Constitution
or laws of the United States or the Constitu ton
of this State.
Jackson, Miss, March Ord, 1909.
j. B. STIRLING.
Attorney General
GEO. BUTLER, Asst.
PROOF OF PUBLICATION.
| STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
| Hancock County. !
| Personally appeared before the undersigned
authority In and for the said County and State
Chas. G. Moreau, publisher and proprietor
| The Sea Coast Echo, public newspaper printed
and published in the City OF Bay st. Louis, sait
County, who, being duly sworn, deposes ant
says that publication of the notice hereunt
annexed has been made in said publication for
| weeks, towit:
In No. G. Vol IS, dated Feb. l3, 1900.
In No. I, VOL IS, dated Feb 90, 1909.
In No. 8, Vol. 18 dated Feb. u, 1902.
Said publication commencing on the 18th da
of February, 1909, and ending on the 9th day {
February, 1909.
CHAS. G. MOREAU,
| Publisher and PropIieto
Sworn to and subscribed before me this L
day OF March, 1909
RICHARD MENDES,
Notary Public.
There being no further business the Boa
adjourned to meeting in course.
Attest: RICHARD MENDES,
Secretary
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OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS.
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
uana0rtr Counfv


Hancock County !
City Of Bay st. Louis
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 sth day OF April at O'Clock
p. m. Present: Hon. Gas on G. Gardebled
mayor; Leon Capdepon, Jos. o. Msuffrsy, Pas
quail Lutzzi and r. w. Webb. aldermen; r. j
Murtagh, marshal; and Richard Mendes, secre-
tary.
The object of the meeting is stated in the fol-
lowing special notice:
Tothe Aldermen of the City OF Bay St. Louis,
Miss:
You are hereby notified to be present at spe-
cial meeting Of the B ,ard of MAYOR and Alder
men of said City. to be held at the City Hall on
May s. 1909, at 5 o'clock p. m.
The object being to readopt the Amendment
to the Charter of said City, approved by the
Governor; and to adopt ordinance raising
the Marshals salary to $500 per month.
By order of the Mayor,
Attest G. G. GARDEBLED.
RICHARD MENDES,
Secretary.
Executed on Alderman Capdepon April s, 1909,
10 a. m.
Executed on Alderman Mauffray April s, 1909,
lilo a. m.
Executed on Alderman Lutzzi April s, 1899, /
p.m
Executed on Alderman Webb Apri, s. 1909 .
p. m.
ROBT. J. MURTAGH, Marshal.
On motion, duly seconded and carried the fol-
lowing Amendment was re-adopted and ordere d
spread on the minutes:
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
Executive Once,
Jackson.
The within and foregoing Amendment to the
Charter OF Incorporation of the City of Bay ST.
Louis is hereby approved.
In testimony whereof l have here
I - unto set my hand and caused the
Great Seal Of the State of Mississippi to be af-
fixed this 8th day of March, 1909.
By the Governor,
JOS. w. POWER, E F. NOEL.
Secretary of State
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JAcouE PlsTAcHE's LETTER.
Saturday, April II, 1909.

SATURDAY, Apfii l ~ AooSe
Sonday mornin wen me was ies come
out l'eglise, one fella he come out by me
an he say: "Jacque, das good ting 20
put on de pep bout all mans work an
put up dem bell. Mai me l line out
dat Pere Jean he done give out das con-
+, trac TO put heem up!"
| Wat yo goin do wild dem kline peep,
hien? Yo no 81 dat contrac she was not
give out das fella he never wood come
close by me an say anything, non! Das
like de man wat heer bout one house
burn down; halter she burn he say,
"Doggon, 81 was dare bet save das
housed" Mai dem peep day always out
by Devil Swamp wen yo want hcem.
Me honderstan day got some fire.
mans wat want jomp on Pistache. Dog
gon, yo sho kin make henimees wen yo
go tell de trut! Mai me habstain from
de hole trut; lemmc tell yo everything
wat pass, an yo goin see plentie ting,
vas! One fella. he say. TO me, pleese
doan say dat, cause dem gal papa he
make ting hot TO me; an TO dat me
doan say nottin, cause das good man,
yas!
Mai, doggon, dis one sonamagon place,
hien? Day only got bout tree tousan
peep heer, an yo got TO pleese bout tir-
teen tousan peep wen yo in hoffice!
Some peep day goin kick cause de Mare,
CASTOR, he doan do de way to pleese
dem! Me / reed wat one fella rite on
de pep wat call hees name "Observer".
Doggon, he got good hye! Me doan
tink, non!
Monsieur "Ob5erver" he say dat das
Mare he humpire de game baseball.
Me ak CASTOR, an he say de man wat
say dat hees one Non es Combatibus
Swampo Rex! Me / doan no wat he
meen by dat; mai. wen he say dat hees
[ gill day git blue, yas! Yo no wen Cas-
ton git mad he say ting so fas dat Joe
Saucier hoss he kant keep up!
CASTOR say he goin put on de pep wat
he tink bout das "Observer," He tell
me das all de time he been Mare he
doan go by de ball game, an nodder
ting: dat religion he doan got no beez-
nees butt in de Mare hoffice!
| Das rite, doggon! De church he de
church. an de Mare hoffice he de Mare
hofice! Dem kline nocker wat kick
cause CASTOR doan rob de boy, he de
kline fella wat keep Bay ST. Louie in de
ashpan O. civiliZashion!
Cause day got lot fool peep wat make
de law das no razon dat all peep got
be fool, hien? Das law is das law, yas!
Me Pm goin respec das law only cause
hees name law. Mai me doan respec
das principel, cause day doan got no
prnicipei.
Dem fellas wat make all dem fool law
day like some observin' peep-all milk
an water, yas day got no back bone,
non, les figal!
Lemme tell 70, 81 day goin stop base
ball, TO why day doan stop de play
tennees, hien ? Das jes es bad es play
ball.
Hexcuse me, Mr.. Hobserver; mai how
come yo hobserve so much bout dc Dase.
ball wen yo no das gin das law! how
come yo leeve yo pray 10 see oas law
brake, hien? ;,
De mex time day have baseball mo
bedder Bobmurder he res all de peep;
day gilty les same like de man wat play,
cause day aid an abbet [das de way
Emile say dat) in brake das law, hien
ST yo no das law gOin be brake, yo got
, no beeznees TO go dare, an me tink yo
gilty jes like dem odder fellas, yas!
Den she put das lite rite in Charlee
nye! o,,, n,or, 1,t,r
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a plant at Laurel will soon be built
to make paper out of young pine
trees too small for saw logs, and al
SO out of stumps, knots and other
waste, from which the turpentlhe
and other by-products have been ex-
tracted. ~
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Den she put das lite rite in Charlee
nye! .<,,rr
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GASTON 6. GARDEBLED,
RESiDENcE-cor. Touime and state
cONTRAcTOR AND BUILDER.

Contracts taken for small and large
Jobs. Estimates made free, ana
plans and designs cheerfully furn-
ished. A liberal share OF patron
age solicited. Oreders left at Cor
debled's Drug Store will receive
prompt attention.
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DR.. J. A. EVANS
DENTIST,

Ofice:-In Hancock County Bank
Building. Hours from s A. M. to
| $50 P. M.
BAY ST. LOUIS, MISS.
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r. de MONTLUZIN
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.

Office: Front Street. Hours: II TO
2, from 4 to o'clock.
BAY ST. LOUIS, MISS.
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EMILE ]. GEx,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.

Ofice-Merchants Bank Bldg.
BAY 81. LOUIS, MISS.
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E. w. MANAR,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,

Ofice:-1n Hancock Co. Bank Bldg.
Residence:-Main near Toulme Sts'
BAY ST. LOUIS. MISS.
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Will practice in all the courts OF
the State. Special attention given to
collections, and the examination OF
land titles
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Another PaYsOn Annihilafes 11y.
Watson.
Watson.


This time it is Brother v P. Scov1le who
falls afou of the old man. and does him up
Parson Scoville's article appeared in The
Whigharn Journal, one of Our best exchanges.
The Christian spirit which breathes softly
throughout the parsons attack on Mr.. Watson
manifests itself admirably in the concluding
paragraphs:
Perhaps the main reason why Mr. Watson
IS SO severely crticising the missionary meth
DDS and work Of the church is because that
great trio of notables, Bryan, Roosevelt and
aft, have said so much lately in commenda-
ton Of the same
1t is to be hoped that Mr. Watsons follow
ing religiously will be in the same ratio as it
was politically in the last presidential election
More anon v. p Scovil1e"
There is rich vein of meekness, Christian
charity and ''soft-answer" in those two para
graphs, isn't there?
1t is certainly a very queer thing that the
ministers who have assaulted the Jeffersonian
on this question of foreign missions display
SO much bad temper They get mad and call
names, just as though it were not part of
their sacred character to set a good example.
Such behavior shocks the old man painfully
He sincerely hopes that his own composure
and good humof will have its effect and that
the parsons who hereafter enter the debate
will not shuck off their coats, roll up their
sleeves, and pop their fists in their palms, as
sanity preliminary to decorous discussion.
Brother v P Scoville says that he himself
has been Missionary to the Cubans Why
so! The Cubans not heathen They are
Christians. Almost to man, they are Catho-
lies. Are Roman Catholics heathen Brother
Scovllle? If SO, the sooner you get to work in
Savannah, Augusta, Macon and Atlanta, the
better. There isn't bit more sense in paying
for Protestant missions i'll Cuba than there
would be in establishing a mission charged
with the special duty of making apostates out
of the Catholics of Savannah
Referring to our statement that necessaries
OF life had been furnished to the heather, as
part OF the mission work, Scoville says, sit is
absurdly ridiculous and absolutely false"
So! What a reckless, INSCRIPTIONS editor
is Mr.. Watson! He publishes statements con-
corning China and other foreign nations which
even " P Scoville can blast with one breath
Of JUST indignation.
Did Mr.. Scovlle ever read Rev L. S. Eos
ter's book, entitled Fifty Years in China?"
Did he ever read Rev A. H. Smiths book
called "The Uplift in China?"
From the former we quote:
In mission boarding schools the girls, as
their education is not valued, had to be fur
nlshed with food, clothing AND MUCH
ELSE. Without such inducements it had not
been found possible to secure them"
This refers to the mission work of the Bap-
t1st minister, Rev. r. p Crawford
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Dbe 3efferson,an

years in the China field, we quote
Famine relief proves a golden key to I'M
lock many closed DOORS"
What does FAMINE RELIEF" mean,
Brother Scoville? Rev A. H. Smith mentions
the fact that the great famine of 1878 gave
the foreign missionaries magnificent oppor
tunity. How? Specifically, Rev Smith states
that seasons of famine furnish wonderful
opening to the Christian workers.
In what way7
Do we not know that the meaning Of these
sentences is, that the Chinese, reduced to star
walton by the famine, accept the food and
medicine offered by the missionaries, who thus
buy hearing of their message?
Corroboratng the evidence contained i'll
these two books, we could produce much adj
ditional testimony, but do not consider it nee
essary at present.
Brother Scovlle asked us to read Matthew,
10th chapter, 9Th verse. We have done SO.
This is the verse:
Heal the sick, cleanse the 1epers, raise the
dead, cast out devils"
Does Scovi1le mean to say that he has been
doing this in Cuba, or elsewhere? We would
like to see an inventory of the lepers he has
cleansed, the dead he has raised, and the devils
he has cast out.
If Scoville knows anything at all about
Scriptural Interpretation, he knows that the
whole of that verse and chapter must be con-
strued together, and that the whole thing re-
lated to the working of miracles. If Scoville
will read the first verse of the chapter, he will
begin to realize that the laugh is on him.
Besides, in verses and 10, the Master ex-
pressly forbade the disciples to take up any
missionary collection.
g. Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor
brass in your purses,
TO- "Nor scrip for your journey, neither two
coats, neither shoes, nor yet slaves for the
workman is worthy of his meat"
There you are, Brother Scoville. Now, let
the old man ask you gentle question:
When you went to Cuba, did you provide
any gold? or any silver? or scrip for your jour
ncy? Did you carry more than one coat? Did
you go barefooted?
If you failed to go just as the Master or
dered how dared you expect to do wonders
heal the Sick raise the dead, and cast out dew
lis? What right have you to take just one
clause of the divine instructions, and reject all
the others If one part of the verse and chap
ter binds you, how do you cut loose from all
the rest of it?
How dare you, and other foreign missionary
fanatics, ding dong at our people, Sunday after
Sunday, bringing every possible pressure to
bear upon them TO squeeze out of their lean
purses the last dollar they've got? How dare
you bully and badger your congregations, year
in and year out, to provide gold and silver and
scrip fof your use in foreign missions when
Jesus Christ in the plainest words, told you
not to do it?
1t is easy to abuse Mr. Watson. Indeed, in
some places, it is hard to do anything else
But abuse of Mr.. Watson can not obliterate
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the Son, and of the Holy Ghost;
B,t Brother Scoville ought not to ask us to
interpret the Lords command, III the midst OF
a sentence.
There is sen1i-colon at the end of verse 19,
and the sentence runs right on into verse 20
Teaching them to observe all things what
soever I have commanded YOU etc.
In other words, Christ told his disciples
what it was that they were commanded TO go
into all the world and teach. They were 20
teach others those things which He had taught
them The message which He had brought to
the world was to be carried to all nations by
his discip1es,-his chosen messengers
The idea that the word teach, as there used,
meant elaborate secular education,-~knderga
ten, school and colleges one OF the most as
tonishing msinterpretations that ever was
palmed off on gullible public.
Brother Scoville says that the Su-ChoW Hos
pital charges the heather such lively rates tor
healing them that the Christian missionaries
are running the Hospital at a profit.
This is confusing. The official report which
we read states that 2oooI patients were given
treatment" We construed the word give to
mean gratuitous If the patients were charged
for the treatment, the report should have been
more accurate in it's Use of words. But if the
at Chow and are earning profit on it, we
don't see how they can claim that is Biblical
enterprise. Brother Scoville had already re-
ferred us to the Scripture in which mission
aries are divinely commanded to heal the SICK
raise the dead and cast out devils
Surely, the Master did not mean that fees
should be charged for such services He him
self accepted no pay for healing the sick, rails
ing the dead and casting out devils. He COM
manded the disciples to initiate his example
They were not to accept any gold, or silver, or
scrip.
Yet Brother Scoville gloats the fact
that the missionaries who run the Su-Chow
Hospital do charge fees for healing the sick!
We thought it unnatural and unscriptural to
tax our home folks with missionary collections
in order that the heather might be healed free
of charge; but if the missionaries are running
their Hospital to make money out of it, and are
healing the heather at SO much per case, then
we rise to inquire
Is THAT what Christ meant?
Finally, Brother Scoville argues that a
greater number Of Chinese and Koreans, than
of Georgians, can be converted for the same
amount of money. Scoville says that it costs
$77oo to convert a Georgian, whereas a Ko-
rean can be redeemed for the small sum of
$500. Cinnamon come considerably higher.
Each of these pig-tailed rat eaters can be
saved for $500.
Isn't it thing to strike chill to the heart
to hear minister of the Gospel base an ar
gument upon sordid considerations like these?
And isn't there something disquieting in the
fact that Christianity spreads more readily
where least known and that converts here are
harder to get than among the lower orders of