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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26
WlPING OUT STATE LINES.
Philadelphia Now Claimed as Only a
 Suburb of Now York.

From the New York Press.
 The process of making Philadelphia almost a suburb of New York, of plac- ing New Jerseys huge area of homes for our workers within still easier reach, and possibly of making Mon tauk Point our port for transatlantic traffic Is now nearly worked out by the engineering genius of our age of wonders. Actual running of a train through the Pennsylvania tunnel under Long Island, the East river, Manhat- tan island, and the Hudson river brings this great community to a fur ther realization that state lines here- about are of no consequence in any thing but the governmental scheme.
 This burrowing of railroads under the city and its waters will increase from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands the number of our people who will come here to do their work, but have their voting residence in an- other state. Perhaps it was because the widest part of the Hudson river was a barrier to easy communication between its banks that 1t became state line. Progress has made that boundary negligible. Yet masses of men. including large numbers of those most influential in the big business that Is done on Manhattan island, are forced to divide their allegiance to state sovereignty between New Jersey and New York. They are, in all but the fact of voting, citizens of two states.
 If state lines were to be redrawn to- day a more natural and practical dis position of the territory within 50 miles of the city hall would put a large section of New Jersey in the same state as Manhattan island. There used to be proposition to carve new state out of New York, with New York city as the capital Indeed, the interests of Newark and the Oranges are far nearer to those of Now York city than the concerns of Rochester, Plattsburg and Buffalo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26
EDITOR ESCAPES
 SUDDEN DEATH

Cairo. H., December 25-(specisl.) )-E W. Thielecke. editor of the Cairo Bull letin. was fired upon about midnight last night by an unknown party. The shot was fired at him through the window while he was at work at his desk and the ball lodged in the wall few inches from his face.
 Glass was thrown over him and sew eral pieces cut the telegraph editor.
 Thielecke has been very bitter in the columns of the Bulletin with charges of graft against the city police depart ment as we'll as a number of others and the shooting while still a mystery has stirred up considerable excitement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26

to act in conjunction with the prison committee of three, making a total of ten or more than one-third of councils membership, to investigate the matter clear to the bottom and find out what and where the responsibility Is. Coun- oil has already appropriated money to make the quarters more sanitary, but that was only beginning.
 Commissioner Collier has answered in part by publishing a letter he wrote to council nearly year ago in which he pointed out that conditions at the stock ade were practically as charged by the grand jury, and stating that they could not be remedied without additional funds were given for the purpose. The funds were not forthcoming and nothing was done.
 Commissioner Collier will not resign. There Is a recommendation now pending before council that his office be consol- dated with that of city engineer and one official appointed for both at sal ary of 5000 a year. It is not likely. however, that this matter will be de- cided before the new council comes in next year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26
Nashville Noisy and Wet.

Nashville. Tenn, December 25.-Noisy celebration of Christmas in Nashville to- day and tonight resulted in a dozen or more casualties. more or less serious. One negro, Jim Milan, was killed. Mi- lam was shot through the heart by George Roberts. another negro, who claims the shooting was an accident. Incidentally 1t was Nsshville's first dry Christmas. but despite tue official exis- tence of the drouth the police blotter gave evidence of goodly number hav- ing been out in the wet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26
Miners Burned to Death,

Cumberland, Md, December 25.-Michael Malone, Michael McGraw and Fred Ma lone. miners were burned to death early this morning near Harrif on. Va, about 50 miles southwest of here. Patrick Ma lone and Frederick Dugan, who boarded at the same house. are missing. Officers are working on a clew indicating that the fire was started after a Christmas celebration by a man who had been elected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26
Echo of RrokaW Case.

Hampstead, N. Y, December 2b-(spe- cial .)-Mr Blair, father of Mrs. w. Gould Brokaw, who is suing her husband for divorce, emphadcally denied for his daughter that she is contemplating a reconciliation with her husband. The ouestion will be fought to an issue again on Monday. MT. Blair intimated and MT. Baldwin, who Is Mrs. Brokaw's lawyer, spoke in a similar vein.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26
Pushing tho Goods.

A number of drummers were sitting in . hotel lobby when one of them began to boast that his firm had the most num- Der of people pushing its line of goods.
 There was a little argument. and then a drummer who had not had much to say before suddenly rose and said: "rn bet any man in the house that my firm has the most number of people pushing its line of goods!
 "Done" exclaimed the boastful ono. The money was accordingly put up with a stakeholder. and then the boosting drummer asked: Nov, what is your firms line of goods?"
 Baby carriage" murmured the quiet man, as he took the money and made for the side door.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26
Crushed In lnterurban Wreck

Pittsburg, December 25-Nine persons were crushed and mangled late today when an interurban electric car, bound for Mt Pleasant, struck the rear end of another car on the same line. Of the injured seven were foreigners. Four of the persons hurt will probably die.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26
Merchant shot and Killed.

Sowell merchant, was shot and killed by A. C. Carnes here this afternoon. The difficulty it Is alleged. grew out of a scuffle begun in a friendly spirit. Carnes was lodged in Jail. He claims Sowell was choking him when he fired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26
JudQe Lurton Reslans.

Cincinnati. December 25.-Judge Horace Fl. Lurton has rendered to President Taft his formal resignation as judge of the United states circuit court. This step is preliminary to assuming his place as asso- ciate justice of the supreme court of the limited States in succession to the late Justice Rufus w. Peckham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN.
A Myth That Is Almost Forgotten by
 Sailors.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 Sailors have now forgotten the Flying Dutchman. It was pirate ship whose crew had been so much worse than other pirates that they are condemned to sail the seas until the day of judgment Sail ors used to come into port with dreadful stories of seeing this great ship sailing into the worst reefs. With all sails spread 1t would pass through roaring breakers on an even keel. Then if an island were in the way 1t would sail on across it.
 By telling such things as these sailors got their reputation for yarns" A sail or's yarn is like a fish story. No one is expected to account for 1t. II is now known, however. that the yarn of the Flying Dutchman'' had something in it' The ship which sailed through the breakers on an even keel and passed over the island was a real ship. many miles away. What the sailors saw was mi rage" or reflection in the air.
 Polar explorers are now telling remark able stories of such mirages in the air over the vast fields of northern ice. A still more curious story is told by Thomas Bedding in an English magazine. Some one from this country rent to London the photograph of what was supposed to be city in the Alaska clouds. It showed towers, steeples and splendid buildings. This was several years ago. Bedding h. vestigated it. He found that everything in 1t belonged to photographs of the Eng fish city of Bristol.
 An attempt was made to explain that the light which makes 1t easy to see Bristol from a mile away after sunrise, might have passed around the earth to Alaska. There, 1t was said, the image of Bristol, carried by light. might have been thrown on the clouds as a result of the way the arctic air acts on light. If this were the real explanation. 1t might help to show how we may finally "see around the earth" as we now send messages without wires across the ocean, The ex- planation Bedding found for the alaska "cloud city, was simpler. It was that the photograph had been "faked."
 In the Arctic. however. ships far out of sight around the curve of the earth have been often seen as if sailing near at hand. Sometimes they seem turned up side down." Sometimes there is a double image. One image is seen bottom up- wards, with another below 1t of the ship moving in the usual way. Often coasts are seen when far out of sight in reality. We do not know how far such mrages can be seen away from the objects whose images they are. Very little is known exactly of their history. It may be very important. When fully known it may show how we can invent ways of seeing hundreds of miles If not actually around the earth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26
Burned to Death in Jail.

Wadley Ga, December 25.-John Mur- phy. who was arrested on minor charge at stillmore few miles from here, this afternoon. was burned to death in the jail there tonight. apparently while try ing to burn his way to freedom
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26
Out of the Mouths of Babes.

From the Chicago News.
 What causes the saltiness of the sea?' asked the teacher.
 ''The salt fish in it." answered the boy at the foot of the class.
 Tommy" said the storekeeper to lit- tie fellow who had been sent for some groceries, what would you do If l was to give you an orange?"
 "I'd wish you'd give me another one," replied Tommy.
 "Now, Clarence said the Sunday school teacher to small boy in the juvenile class, "ean you name the three principal feasts of the ,Jews?'
 "Yes, ma ann replied Clarence. They are breakfast, dinner and supper"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26
Bank PresIdent suIeldea

Winterset. Ia., December D-J. H.
 Winterside. president of the cftissns Na- tional bank, committed suicide shortly after noon today byt shooting himself fhroush the hsad. Ill health is said to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26
PonuIist Leader Stricken.

vincennes, Ind, December 25.-Samuel w. Williams, candidate for vice presi- dent on the populist ticket in 1898. was stricken with heart failure today. To- night his condition is serious.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26
sEABOARD ANNOUNCES
 LOW XMAS FARES

Full information at City Ticket onics. woodward Bldg. Phone 23oA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26


 Atlanta is in the midst of a pretty row over conditions prevailing at the city stockade which have more or less involved the commissioner of public works, H. L. Collier. and in which some sensational and interesting revelations are promised. Whether they will be forthcoming or not, Is another ques- ton.
 In addition to the findings of the grand jury in which 1t was declared the place was wosse than a pig pen being insanitary to the point of filthi- ness, and that unreasonable and unnec- essary cruelties were practiced upon the prisoners held there. an Atlanta paper has published and hinted at some additional chargss of 2 sensational na- turs involving the official in charge of the department. Misapropriation O. labor belonging to the city Is one of these charges and there are others.
 Al . result of all the discussion and charges Mayor Maddox has appointed | committee of seven msmbsrs Of councn
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-23

timent of the people with regard to
inviting the proposed Mississippi
Western railroad to pass through
Hazlehurst, with an implied obliga-
ton on the city of issuing its bonds
to provide a right of way and depot
facilities in the city. The committee
referred a favorable report on the
proposition back to the meeting, which
was then taken up and discussed free
ly by the business men present. At
ter considerable discussion the prop
osition to invite the road and ask for
an issue of bonds was voted down.
The citizens of Hazlehurst want the
road and desire to give it every en-
enlargement possible, but it was
thought that the enterprise had not
assumed definite enough shape yet
to warrant the city in taking this step.
The proposed route extends from Me.
ridian to Natchez and opens up n
large area of pine timber heretofore
untouched.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-23
BATON ROUGE
LOST HEAVILY
In the Recent Storm, the Property
Loss Being Estimated At Over
Half Million Dollars.

BATON ROUGE, La, September %.
Traces of the Monday night hurri.
cane are fast being removed in the
capital city of Louisiana.
Large forces of carpenters and la
borers are repairing the damage to
store houses and dwellings and re-
moving trees, wires, poles and rub
bish from the streets.
was large. One woman, negro,
lost her life, and the damage to prop
erty is conservatively estimated at
over half a million dollars.
Gangs of workmen are hurrying the
repairs on the statehouse. The dome
and other portions of the capitol were
damaged to the extent of $250,000.
The general property loss will amount
to $150,000 and the barges of coal,
owned by the Monongahela Coal Com.
pany, which were sunk, were valuedat
100000.
The damage along the river front
and to shipping of all kinds is esti-
mated at $4,000.
One item of damage in the capitol
building which has not been includ-
ed in the estimate is the damage
done to the records, all of which were
more or less damaged, some practical
ly destroyed. They represent years Of
labor and those destroyed can hardly
be replaced.
Wire communication has been re-
established with New Orleans and
other points and trains are now run
ming out of the city on schedule time
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-23
Base Ball Game,

200 p. m. Baseball game between
Hattiesburg and picked team from
Jackson, Laurel and Ellisville at Hardy
street grounds.
400 p. m Grand spectacular bal
loon ascension by Prof. Chas
Schwartz, with his celebrated Cannon
Act in mid-air, at Hardy street
grounds.
1900 p. m. The browning feature Of
the celebration will be a dazzling dis
play of fireworks at the N. o. G. n
E. Park, which will last two hours
This display will be handled by an ex.
pert in Pyrotechny from Chicago, sent
here by the company which has pre-.
pared the exhibition. He will be here
four days in advance arranging his de.
vices and mechanism for the most
magnificent and expensive display
ever witnessed in Mississippi. Please
do not judge this feature by anything
you have ever seen or heard Of The
Commercial Club of Hattiesburg
wishes TO go on record as saying that
any man, woman or child who UNI
derrates this display or allows any or
binary cause to keep them from seeing
this magnificent exhibition will be
doing themselves an injustice they will
regret for wears IN oopoa
There are forty numbers on the fire.
works program, which has been here.
tofore published in The News.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-23
MAYORS CLEANUP
PROCLAMATION
Continued from page one.)

CONTINUED from page one.)
of this city, especially those who re-
side near the business sections will
heed this timely proclamation and
give their premises a thorough clean
ing up on the date named by Mayor
Donald. Such as can not complete the
work that day could do so on the
next, as the celebration day is Fri
day.
Following is the order of the Off
cial program to be carried out on Gel
ebration Day:
1O:45 a. m. Introductory by Judge
hotel escorted by reception committee,
members OF the Mississippi National
Guard and the Hattiesburg Brass Bard
to the court house square.
HOO a. m. Address by Senator A.
voices from the Hattiesburg Public
Schools, singing America" Dixie"
and THE Good Old U. s A." led by
Hattiesburg Band.
1O:45 a. m. Introductory by Judge
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-23
Old SWAMP HAS
been Drained
Continued from page one.)

ed dry and sanitary.
A large canal has been dug through
the entire length of the pond, and the
water from the artesian well at the
fertilizer factory has been turned into
this so that there is no possibility of
any of the water standing in the ditch,
while at the same time all the water
from the surrounding neighborhood
naturally drains into the ditch.
1t is also stated that the acid phos-
phate which escapes from the factory
into the canal is a natural disinfect-
ant, destroying all insects and mala-
rial germs.
When this work shall be completed
large and very desirable section of
the city will be opened up and made
habitabie, and the good resulting from
a sanitary standpoint will be inesti-
mable.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-23

Read the mayors proclamation and
act accordingly. From beauty
standpoint, from a patriotic stand
point, from a personal, self-respect-
ing standpoint everybody ought to
commence cleaning up next Wednes-
day and stick to their job until from
front yard to back gate everything
is clean. In London as soon as the
snow stops falling, the occupant of
every house is required by law to
sweep in front of his own store or
residence. And in that way London,
the largest and greatest city of the
world, has it's pavements swept clean
in a few hours. 1t is easy to clean
a city if everybody will do his part
For that matter it is easy to build a
city if every man viii do his part.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-23

w. H. Hardy, Pioneer and Evangel of
South Mississippi Prosperity
Ito a. m. Address by Senator A.
]. McLaurin.
11:45 a. m. Song by faculty and
students of South Mississippi College
led by College Band.
1900 m. Address by Hon. James
X. Vardaman.
100 p. m. Fancy Military Drill
direction Capt. ]. A. Beaumont.
1:30 p. m The marshals of the day
will clear Main street for Fire De
partment run.
1:4O p. m. Fire Department Race
and Fire Fighting Contest between
three divisions Of the Hattiesburg Fire
Fighters.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-23

When France refused to loan money
its prohibitory laws, it is now stated
that the loan was secured from Eng
land without any difficulty whatever.
All the newspapers of any influence
in the Finnish language are refusing
to accept advertising of alcoholic
drinks. In no house or club of Fin
nish workingmen is the serving of al
coholic drinks allowed
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-23
OPTICAL TALK NO. q
You Are a Parent?

Your child in school a certain rum
Der of hours each day, using the eyes
constantly.
Each year the lessons become hard
er, books are taken home, studies are
continued in the evening, the eyes
are being overtaxed, the delicate mus
cles are strained. Nature has not
provided for the excessive use of the
eyes in childhood; yet perhaps no
thought is given to helping the eyes.
Great injury results from this neg
lect.
We must realize that, If there is
a cause for eye strain there must
be remedy; the remedy most nat
urally would be rest for the eyes
this rest can lie obtained by wearing
resting glasses. Come and get my
advice. Come and let me explain to
you scientifically why resting glasses
should be worn.
F W. QUEEN, Oph. D.
Optical Specialist
roiK building. ITO East Pine 1t
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-23

the more there be who will wear them
If subscriptions are liberal, and the
committee can afford it, it would not
be a bad idea to give them away.
Every visitor that comes to town on
the big celebration day ought to be
tagged with on. If he has a dozen or
so of his and other peoples children
with him, tag every one of them, and
send them back on the trains and
scattered all over the country tagged
with a booster button. Some Of the
real game boosters will wear them
for weeks and months, and some of the
ladies' and children will take them
home and keep them as souvenirs.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-23

The Gadsden Times-News. (Ala)
says: THE Brooks Lawrence forces
raised $4,000 at birmingham to grease
the wheels of the amendment car
riage. Ii the Montgomery convention
had raised that amount great cry
would have gone up in certain quar-
tiers that it was a corruption fund.-
Sure, and it would have been. The
public knows the difference between
a hawk and hand-saw."
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-23
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER %. 1909.
Circulation Double That of Any
Other South Mississippi Paper
ALABAMA POLITICS.

The Birmingham AgeHerald dis
cusses the proposed prohibition con-
stitutional amendment from a polit-
ical standpoint. THE radical and
unreasoning forces on the one
side, and the liberty-loving people on
the other" is the way the Age-Herald
puts it. And these radical and I'M
reasoning forces" have some "polit-
ical graft" up their sleeves, the Age
Herald seems to think. Not only is it
seen that senatorial politics and
gubernatorial politics is involved" it
says, but every grade of office seek
ing will be in evidence
Well, why not? And of course.
Alabama is a democratic state, and
the democrats are all "grafters," are
they, because they insist upon oc-
cupying all the offices elective by
the people. Anything wrong in that?
II the people of a democratic state
want to choose a man to administer
for them because he is a democrat,
is that graft" And if the people,
'the damn fool people," as old man
Vanderbilt was wont to call them;
or the dear people," as the Age
Herald will soon be calling them-
If the plain, common people of a
Prohibition Democratic state, want to
fill all their offices with Prohibition
Democrats, what right have the rum
soaked "grafters" to say them nay?
OF course! The prohibition people
are just beginning to learn to mix
politics with their laws. 1t is just
beginning to dawn upon them that
written laws are not worth the paper
they are written on, unless men who
are in sympathy with these laws are
put in power to enforce them. The
dear "liberty-loving' people did not
make much of a howl about temper
ance planks in the platforms. Time
servers and trimmers that they are,
: they did not realize these platform
declarations as shadows forecast
ing coming events. And when these
radical and unreasoning forces" went
a trifle further and began to write
some laws upon the statute books,
still that did not worry them to any
considerable extent But, when these
radicals become so unreasonably rad
icar that they actually want to fill
the offices with men who will do their
sworn duty in the enforcement of
these laws, then the thing becomes
serious, and this sort of graft
must be stopped, or the "liberty-lov-
ing people, will have to migrate, or
else learn the difference between the
meaning of the words ''liberty'' and
license"
OF course there is politics in it to
the extent that the Prohibition Dem
acrats want the offices all filled with
men who are in sympathy with the
laws. And the best way to judge
Of that; the safest way to be sure of
that, is to select men who helped pass
these laws. Certainly they do not
want rum-soaked whisky heads to en-
force the laws they solemnly affirm
are undemocratic, unconstitutional,
and fundamentally wrong. Just as
well ask Aldrich to revise the tariff
downward.
Alabama is Prohibition-Democratic
state. OF course the offices will all
be filled by Prohibition Democrats.
Why not? They ought to be. And
the same may be said of Mississippi.