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The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-08-07
JAcQUE P|STAcHE'S
WEEKLY LETTER,
H'editor Sea Coast Echo:

H'editor Sea Coast Echo:
| Las week me I was want make
'sistance by das Bode TO git some kin
reel waggin TO roll das hose on top, OF
count wash de street in de mite time
mai watts de use, hien? Day doan wasl
dem street, no, non! Me hax one fells
TO wy day quit do dat, an him he tel
me dat dem fella day git mad too quick
"Yo see," dat fella tell me, "de oddel
mite wen day was try TO wash dem street
an was work mo hard like annyting, de
Lord He make de rane fall on dis place
so hard dat she wash all de work dem
fella was do away, yas!" Apresan,
das ting TO git mad, hien ?
Oh, vi, vi! mai mabbee Louise de la
Praline she was mad, doggon! Yo see
das dis way: Louise she go hout in das
wood TO git plentie das gombo, an she
bring das stoff by shes house an she put
das in de front yard TO make dry by das
sun; abien, jes Wen Louise she taut das
gombo she was allrite das beeg vache
wat blong Mees Queyas she git in das
yard an she eet all das fine gombo wat
Louise she nave SO moch pane TO fine.
Wen Louise she see wat das yache she
do by das gombo file, she git so mad
like yo neVaire see nobody git, yas, an
she want eet das vache hop rite now
Louise she say das she was have too
dollalre wort g0mbo-file in das vache an
she say dat de hoWner das cow want
give cinq-sous, watts de madder! Louise |
she meet Louie de Lettre an she tell
heem dat she doan goin haccept no five |
cent 10 hail das gombo, mai she goin
put de Voodoo scharm TO work an yo bet |
dat hall de milk das vache goin give |
goin be gombo-f file. Dat be good vache |
10 have roun de Kitchen, hien?
Das bad ting TO loss hall das gombo |
10 de raz0n Louise she was want das |
gombo 10 sen by New-rop; 70 deem |
neer bout Louise do beeznees wild New |
rop? !
Day got one fella 1aba in Scranton, |
he one jews wat name Jacobs, he Was |
Try 10 git de teIefone numoaire de odder |
day, an he was have hard time. Bime- |
by ne haX daS hoperaUor watts de mad
Ter; de gal she say, "Monseur, yo cut
lot1." "Abien, watts dat got DO wild
ma heer, hien? |
Dat man he doan kin keep one vache
coun heem, non, yo no wy?
Now, de mo CRATE hoficer, inspector |
he pass Wid hanfull tromp,
an all he kin do is TO look by dem fellas |
wat sit by das summerhous. No use,
70 can't git he'd das moonlite clob, non, |
day bid das Ill hous. Mo bedder SOM
ooddy git som grinestone an roll heem
on de snellrode; dis place she sho git |
dull, yas!s
Me doan blame das telefone peep fo
keek by som peep; das companie was
tell me dat de peep doan want call by |
dem nombalre. Wen day want call de
peep, day say somteen like dis: "Say
lare, yo gal, watts de madden dat me | |
can't git Mlstaire Joe Sonamafontaine
3to, hemp
Das companie she say das she got de
book wild dem name an uem nombalre in
leem, an de peep Wat Can't. reed hot git
'omDoddy TO sho dem how TO hact wen
Law hOut SkooI.
JACQUE PISTACHE.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-08-07
BIG SUIT Is FILED, In WHICH $4,000
STATUTORY PENALTY FOR CUTTING
TIMBER is CLAIMED.

DR.. Brown of Amory, Miss, has filed
suit for $4,000, the statutory pen atty
provided, against Messrs. Elder & Brad
ford, Of this city, for cutting the timber
from lot in the western pant of the
city. Elder C Bradford, it seems,
bought timber rights to a piece of pr op-
erty adjacent to the property of DR..
Brown, and the timber was cut by mis- =
take from the wrong lot. The statu tory
penalty is So per tree.-Biloxi Herald.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-08-07

ga Baltimore woman has put burg
lar to flight with BROOM" says the
News, of that city. Perhaps the burg
lar thought she intended making him
assist her in midsummer house cleaning g
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-08-07

Harriet Beecher Stoves granddaugh-
ter is going on the stage. What a
chance for the "original Eva" in "U-,-
cleiTom's Cabin"!.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-08-07

There is this view of it, however:
Suppose an S10 suit of clothes cost S23
under the new tariff bill; if you cannot
raise the S1S anyway, what differe nee
does it make ?
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-08-07

The Gulf of Mexico tried it on Calves
ton again and found the joke was on it
self.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-08-07
ABOUT ADVERTISING--No:$ s
The Dollar That Can't
Be Spent
BY Herbert Kaufman

Every dollar spent in advertising is not
only seed dollar which gros0s profit for the
merchant but is actually retained by him even
after he has paid it to the publisher.
Advertising creates a good wW worth the
cost of the publicity.
1t actually costs nothing. While it uses
funds it does not use them nb 1t helps the
founder of business to grow rich and at the
same time keeps his business from not dying
when he does.
1t eliminates the personal equation. Itper-
petuates confidence in the store and makes it
possible for a merchant to qvnhdra0U from bnsi-
ness without having the profits of the business
qOithdraaUn from him. 1t changes name to
an institution-an institution that will surUiUe
after the death Of its builder.
1t is really an insurance policy which costs
nothing a premium each year instead of
calling for one, and renders it possible to
change the entire personnel of a business
without disturbing its prosperity.
Advertising renders the business stronger
than the man-independent of his presence. 1t
permanentizes systems of merchandising, the
track of which is left for others to follow.
A business which is not advertised must
rely upon the personality of its proprietor, and
personality in business is decreasing factor.
The public does not aOant to knooO the man who
owns the store-it isn't interested in him, but
in his goods. When an unadvertised business
is sold it is only worth as much as its stock of
goods and fixtures. There is no good will to
be paid fort does not exist-it has not been
created The name over the door means moth
IMP except to the limited stream of people
from the immediate neighborhood, any of
whom could tell you more about some store
ten miles away which has regularly delivered
its shop news to their breakfast tables.
1t is as shortnghted for man to build
business which dies euith his death or ceases
with his inaction as it is unfair for him not
to provide for the continuance of its income to
his family.
Copyright sos by Tribunsc companys cLcago3
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-08-07

The Leather Trust is stretching its
hide.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-08-07

Ii you don't hurry up, you will not
have any summer vacation to spend.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-02

our own. Unfortunately, the Cuban
character is such that the outlook for
long continued maintenance of a sta
BILE and enlightened government is not
encouraging. The Cuban's idea of
patriotism is holding an office, and
when the outs are deprived for any
length of time from connection with
the government payroll they are very
prone to take to the woods and start
a revolution.
The newly-elected president of the
republic, General Gomez, undoubtedly
represents a majority of the people,
but 1t remains to be seen whether he
can long resist the revolutionists, al
ways active. The situation is compli-
Gated by the fact that most of the for
eigners, who control the sugar and
tobacco plantations, prefer annexation.
even to the extent, 1t is charged, of
encouraging effort to break down the
local governments as rapidly as they
are established. Under such circum-
stances our people will have more
hope than confidence in Cuban sue
cess.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-02

In one of the most important and
~far-reaching decisions growing out of
"a Philadelphia case, the Interstate
Commerce commission orders the big
railroads that center in New York to
cease showing favoritism to that city
as against Philadelphia in the matter
of shipments of sugar, cement and a
number Of other commodities. The
case is particularly interesting, as the
decision is aimed at a practice which
railroads in making concessions to one
city to the detriment of another.
The case was taken before the COM
mission by a commercial organization
Of Philadelphia and the showing made
that while Philadelphia had better
rates to many points, by reason of its
location and water connections, New
York received nearly all the sugar
shipments by virtue of an arrangement
between the railroads and the Sugar
trust by which t%wo-thirds of the re-
lning was to be lone around New
York, and the shipments were to be
divided among the railroads in equita-
BILE proportions. The railroads evened
the matter up by allowing lighterage,
carriage and other expenses, known as
"a"ccessorial allowances" running
from 2 to 8 cents per hundred, thus
offsetting Philadelphia's other advan-
tages.
After a full hearing the commission
made short shrift of the case by de-
claring that the "accessorial allow
ances" were simply rebates, in viola
ton of the law. ut is not a part of
the carriers duty reads the commits
sion's decision, ITO bear the expense
Of the transfer of goods from the ship
per to the carrier and for carriers to
compensate shippers for performing
duties which the shippers are legally
bound to do for themselves is for the
carriers to violate the law"
1t is encouraging to find the Inter
state Commerce commission SO prompt
in detecting and stopping the "ac-
c~essorial allowance" dodge. The re-
suit will be to spur shippers every
where to be on their guard and to
insist on the equal treatment which
the law provides for them.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-02
MILITARY TRAINING IN SCHOOLS

MILITARY TRAINING IN SCHOOLS.
The general staff of the army has
just received the final reports of in
spectors detailed in the last year to
examine the work of the students in
colleges and universities that receive
aid from the government to advance
the work Of military training among
the students. About 100 institutions
of learning have attached to them
army officers from either the active
or retired list and the government
makes appropriations for supplies and
ammunition for these cadet corps.
The reports of the inspectors will not
be made public for some time, If at
hall, but the statement is made that the
general staff is very much disap-
pointed at the lack of progress shown
in the military departments of the
schools receiving this federal aid.
According to the inspectors, the
faculties in many instances fail to
show any keen appreciation of the
work of the military branch and take
little or no pains to enforce the dis
cipline required for the creation of a
student body we'll drilled in primary
military tactics. In most of the
schools no provision is made for rife
range practice, on which the depart
ment is growing more insistent. AS a
result of the Investigations it is pre-
dicted that many institutions will have
difficulty in securing the assignment
of officers for their military depart
ments next year and may nave the fed
eral allowance cut of entirely.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-02
~BENEFACTIONs OF 1905.
Munihcent Gifts Running Well Into
the Millions.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune.
The figures of the years benefactions run
into the millions. More than ninety of these
millions, either by gift or bequest, have
been devoted to the betterment Of men
and women and children during 1908. In
round numbers the colleges and educational
institutions ave received $4O.OOO,OCO; char
table enterprises Of all kinds another $40,
100000; religious organizations Irregular con-
tributions not included), 100000; muse
ums, art galleries and municipal improve
ments, 5000, 600; and libraries about 81, 900,
900. In the latter direction the amount
shows a decided falling off over previous
years. This, Of course, is due to Mr.. Car
negies change in his library policy. He
has planted library buildings all over the
country and nut In conditional leases under
them until there is no further need of his
help. but in all other directions the stream
Of philanthropy runs bank full in all its old
channels.
In this connection Andrew Carnegie, JOIN
d. Rockefeller and Mrs. Russell Sage. as
usual, head the list Of the philanthrOpists.
Mr.. Carnegie has given away S, 429, $50, and
there is an implied promise on his part
also tina an additional ten millions will be
forthcoming ere long for the benefit of the
Carnegie Technical school endowment. Mr..
Rockefeller's gifts amount TO $2,9S4,OO. and
might have been much larger had 1t not
been a hard. uncertain year for the Stan
dard Oil benefactor and beneficiary. Mrs.
Russell Sage has given away $1,242, 700 OF
the Accommodations which her late husband
80 wisely left TO her philanthropic DISPOSE
ton.
So, thinking these things over, behold
how a good deed shines In a naughty
world" and reflect This worlds not half
so bad a world as some would like "a
make it,"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-02
PUTTING CUBA TO THE TEST.

The United States troops have be-
gun leaving Cuba, preparatory to the
final evacuation of the island and the
surrender of all Cuban affairs to the
newly-elected Cuban officials. 1t will
take several months to withdraw all
the troops. but after the formal trans
fer of control, on January %, the mil
itary occupation by the United States
will come to an end and the pledges
made when the troops were sent to
the island about two years ago will
have been kept.
When the United States withdrew
it's troops from Cuba, about two years
after the close of the war with Spain,
our conduct was approved throughout
the world. indicating, as 1t did, an I'M
selfish desire on our part to aid the
new republic without thought of col
onial extension in that direction. With
marked foresight, Senator Plat of
Connecticut succeeded, before the
withdrawal of our troops, in forcing
the Cubans to adopt an amendment to
their constitution giving the United
States the right, and making it its
duty, to intervene whenever the local
government might prove unable to
maintain order. Accordingly when the
Palma government collapsed some two
years ago owing to an i%nsurgent up
rising, it was under this authority that
the United States again took charge
of the AFFAIRS of the island.
There has been a sentiment in Cuba
for many years in favor OF. ~aHhexation
to the United States. Ere Annexation
advocates pressed their case when the
Palma government tailee but Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Secretary Taft re-
fused to listen to their overtures.
They made it plain, however. that IL
II should again become necessary for
us to intervene, Cuban independence
would become a memory and annexa-
ton would be inevitable. The with
drawal of the American troops, now
in progress, therefore puts Cuba to the
test, the result of which viii decide
the islands future.
II the Cubans have learned their
lesson and prove themselves capable
Of maintaining a stable self-goyern-
ment the United States will be well
out and everybody will be glad OF It.
as there is no strong sentiment in this
country for adding Cuban troubles to
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-02
wOMAN's SPHERE OVERTURNED

Lurana w. Sheldon, in New York Times.
In a few brief words or so
1 propose to fully show
That e~mancipated woman Is the hsndl-
work of man.
And / further rise to state
That her status at this date
Proves that she has been constructed on
an economic plan.
When man first observed her kind.
This one thought ran through his mind,
she's a mighty pretty creature, but she
.ought to have some clothesv
So he thumped her on the back,
Said, stay home and mind the shackl'
Then he started out and bought her kills
or boomers and some hose.
Now this poor chap did not guess
Woman's instincts turned toward dress,
So he couldn't gauge the outcome OF his
really tender care;
But she showed him right away
And she kept him on the hustle FOR still.
other things to wear.
Now. no primal man was built
Like a Gould or Vanderbilt.
He could earn his homespun jumpers
and her modest toys, perhaps.
But she hankered now for frills.
And she made him pay the bills,
Till she drove him to his corner with the
price of boots and caps.
Now of course you plainly see
Man was noble as could be,
But his foresight was myopic where a
woman was concerned;
And because have clothes they would
Wives got work where'er they could.
And right here the sphere for woman
was completely overturned.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-02
MISSOURI AS A BOUNCER.
Owm show Their NeiEhbOrs How
10 DO IL.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

Piusburg Dispatch.
MissourI's supreme court by unanimous
decision has ousted the Standard OIL Com
pany of Indiana and the Republic OIL Com
pany Of Ohio from doing business in that
state and given the Waters-Pierce company
until January Is to signify its consent to
operate Independently. This latter leniency
to a company so closely involved in Texas
litigation smirching the reputation Of a
United States senator was explicit. ly stated
to be evoked by the justice in preserving
the rights of minority stockholders, who
had voted against the affillation with the
Standard company, pere.
What the practical effect OF this ouste-
may be remains problematical, so devious
and numerous are the ways of evasion,
but the upholdiDg OF the states control by
this most effective method Of dealing with
monopoly is something & med in the strug-
gle to restrain illegal corporate practices.
However, G-overnor-eleet Hadley, who, as
attorney general, is entitled to the full
NEED OF praise for his success in ( gh ing
the suit to victory, in his public comment
seems to forget that Ohio dissolved The
parent organization several years ago and
the obtaining Of a New Jersey charter fol-
lowed. Perhaps his statement that his was
the first case aga nst the trust means only
that IL antedaled federal pros -eution.
The Standard Oil Company Of Indiana
thus ousted is the same subsidiary compa7 y
involved in the famous 100000 fine inn
posed by Judge Lands now pending before
the supreme court OF the United States
upon the governments application for a
writ OF certiorari to bring the whole record
before It. The Missouri proceeding did not
indulge in the scholastic debate owe
whether a series Of l.4CO rebate grants made
as many offenses, or cons itut d an entire
violation punishable only once, but wit the
accredited directness of the Missour!an the
whole institution was summarily elected
from the state.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-02
JAIL FEEDING IN IOWA.

In a report to the Iowa State Board
of Control the warden Of the Fort
Madison p~enitentiary has directed at
tention to the bad conditions generally
prevailing in county jails throughout
the state, and particularly the vicious
system of jail feeding under which the
sheriff collects a fat per diem for every
prisoner boarded. So long as the sherih
makes money out of every prisoner in
his custody the temptation to hold him
as long as possible and to underfeed
him is almost irresistible. Instead of
conducting the Jail for the benefit Of
the community and the reformation or
punishment of criminals, it becomes a
money-making industry for the benefit
of the sheriff.
The Objectionable features of the
Iowa system of county Jail feeding
have been removed here in Omaha and
Douglas county by the law enacted by
the last legislature. requiring the fur
nishing of meals to prisoners to be let
on contract with stipulated specilca-
lions as to quantity and quality of
food. This reform has worked not
only a saving in money, but also a sal
utary change in the practice Of with
holding prisoners after conviction
from delivery at the p~enitentiary.
The reform accomplished in Omaha
and Douglas county can be and should
be extended to other counties In Ne
braska, and likewise furnishes the
effective argument of a successful OBJ
ject lesson to REINFORCE what the
Iowa warden has recommended to the
Iowa State Board of Control. 1t is
gratifying to know that Nebraska has
made the start in this direction first,
but other states will have to follow
soon, because the old system is fast
becoming more and more discredited
and discreditable and cannot be de-
Tended.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-02
MEANING A nRuaLnss Aor.
A Future Possibility that would Make
Life "R Perfect Dream

$500
1t Is the plant Of the druggists OF Chi
cage and Boston that America Is rapidly
approaching the drugless age. Their evil
dence Is worth while, because It is based
upon the testimony OF the pocket nerve,
which tells them that their sales of drugs
have decreased from one-thiId to one-halt,
as compared with sales a decade ago. But
II will not do to jump TO the conclusion that
Americans are becoming p~reternltuta ly
healthy; they are simply cutting out the
dope and submitting their ills TO saner
and safer remedies. The glories OF the old
days Of jalap and ipecac, blue mass and
colocynth have departed. leaving few, II
any, mourners.
Naturally there are many claimants for
the honor Of this victory over drugs. The
various mlnd-cure schools. physical cul-
turists. and those who have warred on
patent medicine, alike strenuously protest
that the credit is theirs, but, as a matter
Of fact, the past decade particularly has
witnessed a great change in the practice
Of legitimate medicine, well Illustrated by
DR.. Osier's statement that he could get
along in his practice without any drugs
except occasionally nux vomica. This state
ment aroused a storm Of protest at the
time It was made, but II voiced in an cpl
gram the creed Of the new school OF drug
less treatment.
German and French physicians have made
the greatest progress in this direction of
giving nature an opportunity to effect its
own cures, but the effect OF their teachings
Is felt more and more every year in the
more advanced American hospitals. At the
Massachusetts General hospital, for in
stance, drugs have been eliminated in the
treatment of about one patient In seven. In
European centers of medical learning the
proportion Of drugless treatment is even
greater, it is said. In addition to this, a
certain amount of credit for the lessened
sales of drugs must be given to the more
healthful out-of-door life which increasing
numbers of Americans have been living for
a decade past. The love of free-air sport
Is making a stronger, healthier race at
the expense Of the druggist and the doctor.
Another significant factor in the situation
that hits the druggists bank account is the
greatly reduced sales of patent medicines.
They have suffered with the other drugs,
and the day seems past when even the
most militant and audacious advertising of
these wares can make m~illionaires, as has
been the case up to within a few years.
However, the spread of prohibition leaves
a wide and profitable field for stimulat-
ing elixirs.