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The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09

more like that of Jesus the Worker
We must get our faith in immortality
by living the immortal life.
For faith is more than an opinion; it
is an experience. Faith in God is not
an opinion that God exists; it is the
habit of living with him. Faith in
Christ is not an opinion that He Is
divine: it is the habit of following
Him. Faith in immortality is not an
opinion that the soul lives after death;
it is the habit of looking, not at the
things which are seen, but at the
things which are not seen, and realiz-
ing that the things which are seen are
temporal, but the things which are
not seen are eternal. To practice the
habit of Immortality is to live in this
invisible world. 1t is to realize that
the things that are not seen are the
immortal things, the real things, the
important things. II is to see in their
true proportions the visible and the i'll
visible, the temporal and the eternal
It is to see that art is more than pic
lures, music is more than orchestras,
literature is more than libraries, the
school is more than the lecture-room.
religion is more than the ritual, the
the home is more than the house, the
person is more than the tabernacle he
inhabits.
He who maintains this habit, he who
lives this life, will not find his faith in
immortality fail him when that which
is visible proves also to be temporal.
If financial misfortune overtakes him
and sweeps away fortune which was
acquired by patient industry and might
have been saved by one act of dishon-
or which he scorned to commit, he
will look on the fallen house of cards
and say to himself, Thank God, |
have not failed. My character is not
bankrupt; my honor is intact" If
accident or the incendiary's torch sets
his house aflame, and books, pictures,
furniture, roof, walls, all are left at
his feet a heap of smoking ashes, he
will gather his children and his wife
about him, in a tent if need be, and
say, Thank God my home is unharm-
ed" And when the angel of death
knocks at his door, and his child or
his life companion slips out from his
OBTAINING arms, and the lips are silent,
and the eyes are soulless, and the
heart is still, he will rise from his
knees at the bedside, and while his
eyes are dimmed with tears of
strangely commingled joy and sor-
row, he will say, Thank God, she is
not dead"
Immortality is a present possession.
We are now immortal and living with
the immortals. And he who forms tho |
habit of looking on the invisible real |
tiles veiled behind the visible symbols /,
will not lose the vision when the veil |
is taken away"
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09
RIVER QUESTION
BOBS UP AGAIN
County Attorney Wants to Know How
to Go About Prosecuting Liquor
Sellers on the River.
Special to The Netos.

Special to The Netos.
Jackson, Miss, May 9.-Mr. Ray
Toombs, county attorney for Washing
tion, has put several questions to the
attorney general that are puzzling
and leave a wide scope for legal spec
ulation. There are two questions
that are especial puzzlers, and Assist
ant Attorney General Carl Fox, in
the absence of his chief, has been
cogitating over them.
Questions grow out of the act of
the Mississippi legislature conceding
to Arkansas co-jurisdiction over the
Mississippi river to the East bank.
Arkansas had a law giving similar
rights to Mississippi, which was
passed at the last session of the legis-
lature of that state, with view to
suppressing crime on the river, or
preventing persons violating the law
on one side of the river escaping to
the other
The questions Mr.. Toombs asks
are:
"Will it be a violation of the Mis-
sissippi prohibition law for persons
to sell liquor in the river?"
I'm the event a man violating the
Arkansas law in the river can he be
brought over to Mississippi, tried and
punished?"
There are other questions of like
nature, all of which open wide field
for speculation, but none of which
Mr.. Fox has endeavored to answer.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09
IN MEMORY OF MRS. HAMPER.

I'm the midst of life we are in the
midst of DEATH"
Another home is broken and made
desolate by the work of the Death
Angel.
In the beauty of young womanhood,
Mrs. G. c. Hamper has been called
home to meet her God and give an
account of her earthly life.
For weeks she had been a great
sufferer, but life was very dear to her
mother heart and she 'longed to live
for the children" She awaits in the
Glory Land, her husband, a son and
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09

| At the last session of congress,
Congressman Humphreys got bill
passed allowing the state of Louisi-
ana, Mississippi and Arkansas to ell
act laws to suppress crime on the
river. This law was aimed directly
at the saloon boats plying the river
between Arkansas and Mississippi.
but will also drive the saloons off the
islands in the Mississippi river, pro-
vided Louisiana, at a session of the
legislature, which convened today at
Baton Rouge, passes an act giving
Mississippi concurrent Jurisdiction
over the river to the West bank
Senator. now Supreme Court JUS
tice Anderson, introduced these bills
in the Mississippi senate. One gives
Arkansas and the other Louisiana
concurrent jurisdiction over the river
to the East bank, and Mr.. Toombs,
whose county-Wash ashington-fronts
the Arkansas, is the first officer to
place the question before the attor-
ney general.
There are liquor boats plying the
river between Mississippi and Arkan-
sas, and Mr.. Toombs probably wants
to know what action he is to take,
whether he can take action to sup
press this violation of the Mississippi
prohibition law. The attorney gen.
erals department will take the mat
ter up this week and hand down an
opinion in the matter
If Louisiana enacts a law giving
Mississippi concurrent jurisdiction
over the river to the West bank, it
probably means the saloons on De-
Soto Island, which were established
off Vicksburg when statewide
prohibition became effective, will
have to vacate.
This is primarily what the law was
enacted for, and when the attorney
general has handed down his opin-
ion on the points raised by Mr..
Toombs it is probable the first action
against the boat saloons will be ta-
ken and traffic in liquor on the river
will be suppressed
Then, too, when Louisiana passes a
similar law, if that state does, steps
will be taken to oust the saloons
from DeSoto Island, and other islands
in the river down to the Louisiana
state line.
These laws will bring out some diff
ficult legal problems, which the
courts will have to pass on, it is be-
lieved, before any progress is made
towards suppressing the sale of whis-
key on the boats or on the islands.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09

three daughters. Besides her dear
mother, Mrs. Robert Smith, she leaves
three brothers and two sisters to
mourn her loss.
She was the daughter-in-law of Mr..
John c. Hamper, of Meridian, and her
body was laid to rest in the Hamper
vault at Enterprise, Miss. Mrs. Kam-
per was so young to die! She was
born Feb. 18th, 1871 and died April %,
1910. She married Mr.. G. C. Hamper,
Oct. 21, 1891 and was a devoted and
happy wife and mother.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09
COSTS A GkrAT DEAF77 ID
BECOME A British PEER

made an earl. His stamp duties ana
other things ran up to exactly $500
charge to which he strongly oD'
iected at first till the cause was eX-
planned to him. The reason was
that. having no son to succeed him,
he wished to have what is called "a
special remainder to his daughters
and all extras of this sort have to
be paid for.
Then. in addition to all the fees and
other expenses already mentioned, uhe
new peer before he can take his seat
in the House of Lords has to pay the
license for the coronet on his carriage
and note paper, which runs into few
more dollars a year.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09

world. The material is ever subject
to decay, disintegration, death; the i'm
material lives on. Disease cannot in
feet it; decay cannot disintegrate it;
death cannot destroy it.
The material decays; the immaterial
Of which the material is the symbol
and the instrument does not decay.
1t dies not; it cannot die.
1t cannot be doubted that our old
time form of faith in immortality is
growing dim; in some of us it has
wholly disappeared.
Science has made the ancient i'm
ages unreal. We cannot picture to
ourselves beneath our feet an awful
pit in which
HWEg TS F*
"A dungeon horrible, on all sides
round,
As one great furnace, famed; vet
from those flames
No light but rather darkness visible. -
We know too well the interior Of
the earth beneath our feet to believe
the vision. We cannot picture to our
selves above the starry dome a celes-
tial city whose foundations are adorn-
ed with precious stones, whose gates
are pearl, and whose pavements are
gold. For we know there is no starry
dome, but only illimitable space.
The ancient images no longer ap-
peal even to our emotions. When man.
kind believed in the deterrent power
of fear and deemed it Just to fay
alive, and break upon the wheel the
common criminal, it was easy to
imagine a torture-chamber as the in.
strument of Gods justice. But now
that We have learned that the inspir-
ing power of hope and love are the
true remedial agents, and that justice
and mercy are handmaidens, we can
no longer attribute to a just God n
wrath which is unjust in man. He'll
fire has disappeared from the other
world as torture has disappeared from
this. Nor does the vision of singing
endless psalms in an eternal praise
service appeal to men who have learn
ed to find greater joy in service and
sacrifice than in ceaseless song.
Religious faith is taking on a new
direction. We are becoming more in
terested in banishing hell from earth
than in escaping from hell hereafter:
more interested in bringing the king.
dom of heaven on the earth than in
preparing on the earth for kingdom
in the future heaven.
We must frankly recognize the
change. We cannot recover the lost
vision, rebuild the celestial city. go
back to the medieval theology of the
medieval images. We must 20 for.
ward, not back. Our faith in a future
Immortality must grow out of our ex-
perience of present immortality. II
must be more Christian, less ap ,calyp-
&c; less like that Of John tn, Seer,
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09
1.-THE HABIT OF IMMORTALITY"

DIR. Lyman Abbott in a recent mum
Der of The Outlook, expresses himself
in the following very attractive man
ner:
Faith in immortality is not an
opinion founded on argument; it is q
habit of mind: the habit Of looking on
the things that are invisible, for the
things that are invisible are immortal
We live in two worlds: world that
We can see and hear and touch, and a
world that is invisible, inaudible, in
tangible. The invisible world is the
important world, the real world, the
enduring world.
The invisible makes the home. 1t is
made not by stone or brick or wood,
but by faith and hope and love bind
ing together husband and wife, par
ents and children. The cynic sneers
at love in a cottage. But love in a
cottage makes home. which hate
in palace can never make.
The invisible makes the school. Lab
oratories. libraries, dormitories, re-
fectories, do not make a school. A
millionaire can never make a school.
One of the greatest schools the world
has ever seen, one whose influence
outlasts the centuries, had neither lab
oratory, library, nor dormitory It
was the school which Plato taught in
the grove at Athens.
The invisible makes the nation. The
nation is not made great, it is not
made rich, it is not made at all, by
mines and forests and prairies and
water powers. These all existed in
America four centuries ago, and Amer
lea was not great nation Great men
make a nation great; and the quail
ties that make men great are invisible.
We see their effects; but the qualities
we do not see.
The invisible makes commercial
prosperity possible. For commercial
prosperity is built upon credit; and
credit is faith in the hon
esty of our fellowmen; and
honesty is invisible. It has
neither form, nor color, nor odor, nor
sound. We cannot see it, nor hear It,
nor smell it, nor touch it, There are
today men serving out their allotted
terms in states prison who a few
months ago owned railway or a bank
or factory, who had money invested,
employees at their beck and call, and
friends subservient to them, men of
energy and enterprise and financial
shrewdness, but who lacked honesty
And for lack of that invisible honesty
they are bankrupt alike in property,
In reputation. and in character.
We are apt to think that the real is
material and the immaterial is unreal.
But that is not true. The reverse is
true. The invisible is the real; the
visible is valuable only as It is either
NE symbol or the instrument of the in
visible.
The invisible world Is the enduring
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09

Barbara. aged four, had always been
allowed to make small cakes out oi
the scraps Of dough left from tbs
mornings baking. SO one morning
after being sent to gather eggs, she
came running in With very tiny one
ana exclaimed "Dh. mamma, see fhis
little egg, II m'ist be that's all the
dough the hen had left. --Delineator-
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09
ANNOUNCEMENTS
For Congress.

We are authorized to announce
JOHN R. TALLY, ESQ, as a candi-
didate for Congress from the Sixth
Congressional district, subject to the
action of the Democratic party.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09
For Mayor.

We are authorized to announce
CAPT. c. w. RICH as candidate for
Mayor of the City of Hattiesburg, sub
ject to the action of the Democratic
Primary in August, 1910.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09
CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to extend to the people
of Carnes, our appreciation for the
kindness shown us during the illness
and death of our little daughter
Thelma.
1t MR.. AND MRS. B. L. PARKER.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09

We are authorized to announce
ESQ. w. C. HARDEE as a candidate
for Commissioner of the City of Hat.
tiesburg, subject to the Democratic
primary in August, 1910.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09

We are authorized +, to announce
CAPTAIN ARCHIE FARLEY as a
candidate for Mayor of the city of Hat
tiesburg, subject to the action of the
Democratic primary in August, 1910.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09

We are authorized to announce N.
r. MCCULLOUGH as candidate for
Commissioner of the City of Hatties-
burg, subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic primary in August, 1910.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09

We are authorized to announce R.
C. MCKENZIE, as a candidate for
Commissioner of the city of Hatties-
burg, subject to the action of the Dem.
ocratic primary in August, 1910.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09

WANTED-To rent three nice unfur-
nished rooms; part some ones resi-
dence close in. References ex
changed. Answer quick. Address
Rooms" care Daily News. 7-2t {
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09
For Commissioner

We are authorized to announce NJ
L. WARD as candidate for Commits
sioner of the City of Hattiesburg, sub
ject to the action of the Democratic
Primary In August, 1910.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09

We are authorized to announce R
A. CAMERON, as a candidate fol
Commissioner of the City of Hatties
burg, subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic Primary in August, 1910.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-05-09

WANTED-Cheap. secondhand ice
box. Address P. o. Box 167. Hat
tiesburg. Tat
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READ THE DAILY NEWS.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1910-07-21
WELCOME ITEM.,
by VI" May Flowers.

. l!'Iip H. and all cor, OF the
tRhsslT here | come after few
No"k, absent
We hal" been having somewhat
rauF %oati,r for the two las,
week..
David Best, Lawrence and
Clarence Vaughn was seen in
NorWood ast Saturday.
Mr. WrSs. Joe, and Miles Long
was MI in Norwood Sat.
Mr.. james Clark taken dinner
with Tom McCraw and family
SUNDAY week.
Geo. Arnold called II, Mile,
Longs Saturday.
Oscar SiSco was in Norwood
Saturday.
DAVE Best and Law, nee Van
Hhn returned HON" from Spring
iicId last Saturday,
Mr.. james Mctraw called a,
Mr., James tlarks last SUNDAY.
Mrs. McCraw and two sons
James and Chelsea visited Mr..
Cal, Holt and vii" last Thursday
Tom MctruW and wife and lii
tic son was in Norwood last Sat.
James l'arincnter was seen out
mule hunting Saturday.
Mr.. W y. ZuycrS was seen
going East Saturday Mr.. Zuycrs
is one Of Wright Co. best men.
Mr.. Tom Met raw and two sons
james and Bonnie made ties last
week.
Well as news is but little this
Week ! will RUG of and come IN
some other time.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1910-07-21

rooms.
Aad this is typical Of every
manufacturing city in our land
And this is LIVING HE'LL.
And many Of you nave read of
rhe Sage Fund Commission
report of conditions in this same
city. l quote only u few words
from the nauseating mess of
facts: Not one child IN ten
comes to US from the river bot.
tom section THE section where
the laborers principally livc)
without a BLOOD OR SKIN
! DISEASE, usually OF long stand.
ing. NOT ONE OUT OF TEN
comes TO US physically UP to the
normal for his or her age.
WORSE THAN THAT, FEW
OF THEM ARE UP TO THE
MENTAL STANDARD. and an
INCREASING percent Of them
are IMBECILI.'
| But why do | show you these
terrible and heart rend,ng facts
To show you that after two thou.
sand years Of Christian ciyi!iza.
ton, unoer feudalism under
I slavery, and for more than u
century OF acute capitalism. with
preac hers OF the gospel Of the
Lowry Nazarene on every hilltop
and in every valley of oar land.
but under the BLACK FLAG Of
capiiaism-crine, and misery
and degradation and proverty,
and every evil which the human
race i, .ie!r To, are spreading their
terrible diseases everywhere, |
wanted TO show you that the
reason OF these fearful conditions
come, irnm the private owner.
ship OF pubic utilities, and that
though we had a thousand times
as mauy devOut. ernest untiring
preachers with ten times the
educational advantages we now
have under tie ltprosy Of cap
italism the bl elk death 0f wage
SLAYER conditions could never
sgct better.
But S0cialism-the young
giant %! political and Industrial
Democracy steps into the arena
Of social chaos and says il has a
remedy; a REMEDY, hear in
mind, not n pallia tive, for all
those evils, these crimes, this
misery, thi, degradation and
poverty and challenges the world
to stand forth defend the present
system Of pirate ownership and
competitive struggle
Socialism III its final aralysis
simply means condition of
society in winch every abb bod.
led nan will perform some useful
TABOR, and receive for suca
service, the full produce Of his
toll that h. will not lave 10
divide up with some master now,
who is master by virtue of the
fact tuat he owns the tools. or
land, with which. nr upon Which
The laborcr must work,
There are now not less than
100000 Idle parasites, living off
OF labor, doing nothing useful for
society such as BANKERS, agents,
drumlDers, saloon keepers,
gamblers. on the boards of trade
and in the exchanges, and unnec.
essary persons engaged IN the
distribution of products, such as
most all merchants in every
town ard city. Then there a,e
not less than o million of the
down and .outs, many If them |
called tramps. But these lower
tramps are OF no expense Dom.
pared to the ,ramps higher up
the upper ten, as they are called
who toll not. neither do they
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1910-07-21

wealth represents the surplus
OF labor, which they were com
pel,ed to divide up with the man
who owned the tools with which
he was employed.
1t has always heen the beast
OF our Nation that it was pecu.
larry, among the nations of the
world. homecoming, q home
loving people. And onr wisest
statemen did not even dream of
the evil day that was coming, Ike
a thief in the night, when We
would be a nation of tenants,
wac dering Ishmaelites.
The best information, If not
The latest, is TIE Twelfth u. S.
Census report; made in 1900. In
that report we find that, by a
comparison With former census
reports, running back 10 1870.
the homes are steadily drifting
away from the They
build, but do not inhabit"--cy.
ccpt As renters. This report
shows that in 1900 only 81 heads
OF families in one hundred, in all
our grand ana glorious country,
owned their homes free. And
in all the New England states
only eighteen hea dis Of families
owned their homes free. That
II Fail River, Mass, the greatest
textile manufacturing city in our
land, and a great labor center,
r.pstIy composed of women and
children, only "a il one hundred
had homes free.
That in N'w York city, the
creates, city in our country, the
Census report shows only 81
heads Of families in one hundred
who own their home. free; but
Lawson Purdy. in the New York
Zines, was quoted as SAYING in
Il speech ut the City Planning
Municipal Art Exhibition, that
the value ii the taxable property
in New York City isrow e,timat.
ed at s. 500, 0O0.0UU. Two thirds.
or % PER cen; of this property,
he added. is land, and ,hgt less
than loo npOpersons owned every
particle of i; and taking this
statement a. tru" il shows that
less than two and a hall persons
in hundred own any lands o!
any charactcri in the great city.
And II i stated further that in
THIS greatest of our cities where
labor laid every brick: erected
every church; built very street:
brought into being every beauti-
ini palace, and every grand
BUSINESS BLOCK. not Il single com
mon lihuriug man owns foot
Of real estate: and that 10000
persons i've, or rather exist, in
dark rooms to which the sunlight
OF God never pcne'rates. And
in these holes in masoury thou.
sand 1T beautiful babi are born
every year, 20 live a brief day,
and in mercy wink out their
miserable lives 20 escape a living
death Of crime and degradation.
Ida NJ. Tarbell, the great
author, writing in the American
last May. said of the
conditions in Pittshurr, Penn.
one OF The richest cities of the
world. and noted rs the city of
wrote: Evil condi.
tions were found to exist every.
where in the city Over the 0mni-
present vaults graceless privy
sheds ilonted ones sense of
decency, Eyre rookeries perch.
ed onthe hil.Sides were swarminc
with mon, women. and children
50 entire families living in ore
room accommodating boarders in ,
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