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The Hattiesburg news., 1910-09-27

the banks of New York would do their
part Our banks are in position to
handle all the cotton produced in
Mississippi, and if we were to get to-
gether on a plan to finance the entire
crop, allowing Europe to come here
and buy cotton, not only would we
get better price for it, but we would
then safeguard our own interests as
well as those of the foreign bankers"
The banks of Mississippi, accord
ing to the last statement, just issued
| by State Auditor E. J. Smith, have
over $65,000,000 on deposit, which is
about $3,0o0,000 more than three
months ago, and the bankers feel they
are able to carry their part of the
financial load of marketing the cotton
crop, which should be done without
difficulty, provided the banks of New
York would give such aid as would
expedite the transactions. Whether
New York can do this, is, another
matter, but certain it Is that there
will be no unnecessary delay in mar
keting the Mississippi cotton crop, let
the result of the conference in London
be what it may.
European bankers, following the
heavy frauds perpetrated on them last
season. have made a demand on the
banks of the United States that they
guarantee bills of lading for cotton
shipments. This the bankers of this
country refuse to do, chiefly because
they do not regard it necessary un
"A der the new system of validating al
\ cotton bills of lading, and another
reason is, that the laws of this coun
/ try prohibit such practice.
But there is growing feeling
among bankers of the South that th'
:. crop could be handled more advan
: tageously, both to the producer AM
cotton man, if the South should f
nance it's own crop and let Europ
l. send over buyers. This plan wa
S suggested several years ago by Co
p Hill of Memphis, but he was regarde
e as visionary and a dreamer. He COZ
o ferred with New Orleans bankers o
9, several occasions along this line, PR
IS posing to establish an internationf
T. warehouse at several points in tn
South, but the project never got
good start. But there are those, eve
r in Mississippi and Louisiana, whel
rs Col. Hill received least encourag
+. ment, who have come to believe h
a plan was not only practical, but
Ii becoming a necessity.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-09-27
VALUABLE find OF
NATURAL WEALTH
Valuable India Rubber Forest Discov-
cred on American Property in
British Guiana.

New York, Sept. 27.-One of the
largest and richest finds of natural
wealth discovered in many a day is
reported from British Guiana, on the
estate of the Bartica Company, an
American corporation engaged in de-
yeloping agricultural properties in
that colony.
In the midst OF a recently explored
tropical forest, into which the foot OF
even the Aborigine is believed to
have never ventured and which was
valued only for it's timber land, an
immense tract of wild rubber has been
found in fourishing growth.
Investigation to-date shows an aver
age of 20 rubber trees to the acre, in
dicating an estimated total of 100000
trees to the whole area. The trees
range from 90 to 80 inches in circum-
ference and are ready for immediate
tapping. They should yield an aver
age of at least five pounds each in the
first year of their tapping or a total
of 1 100000 pounds, although matured
trees often yield from ten to twenty
pounds of the latter each.
No attempt has yet been made to
appraise the commercial value of this
tremendous deposit of natural rubber
but at the prevailing price of that
staple it should represent a substan
tial sum. Among the trees found IN
greatest profusion on the estate are
the Hevea and Sapium, from whicf
high grade rubber is produced, Dur
ing the past twelve months the bes
grades of rubber reached as high as
s3.12 a pound and is now around sl.S'
pound. Even on the assumption tha
the analysis of the samples OF th'
partially cured rubber extracted from
trees on the estate and forwarded t.
New York for examination, will shov
, an inferior grade, the enormous in
} dicated output of the property shoul'
} insure an income of considerable pre-
portions.
Strangely enough the great fores
: which concealed this discovered treas
5 ure had been marked for destruction
| to make way for an immense plants
: tion of cultivated rubber, which tn
4 company contemplated developing o.
its site.
e The property on which the disco'
|, cry was made is known as "The Hills,
4 and was acquired last spring by tn
al Bartica Company. organized under tn
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-09-27
BANKS should TAKE
The COTTON CROP
And Make Europe Come Here to Buy
is the Opinion of President OF
Jackson Bank.

Jackson. Miss, Sept 27.-"The
banks Of this country should take
over the cotton crop and let Europe
some here to buy" is the way Presi'
dent ]. B. Sterling of the First Ma
tional Bank, Jackson, and former at
torn9y general of Mississippi views
the presept controversy over the bill
of lading guarantee, which the bank
ers of Europe are demanding from
the bankers of America.
mississippi could handle her share
of the crop" continued Mr.. Sterling
while the banks of the South could
handle the entire pr1 r1auct, provided
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-09-27
BOTH PHONES. 35=
Social and Personal
L. /. ALLEN=

Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan L. Keithley and
baby, Dorothy, of Crystal Springs, are
guests of their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
T. S. Jackson, of North Main street.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. N. Ruffin, of New
Augusta, came Monday for the we'd
ding of their niece, Miss Evelyn Ste
vens Cook and Rev. o. S. Lewis to-
night.
Dr. and Mrs. J. j. Stevens, of Col
lege street, have as guests, their
cousin, Miss Clara Pardu, of New Or
leans and her niece, Miss Elizabeth
Pardu, who came to attend the Cook
Lewis wedding.
| Mrs. Ratliff and her daughter, Miss
Mary Ratliff, of Raymond, Miss, are
the guests of the formers daughter
Mrs. J. G. Ballard, having come to be
with Mrs. Ballard during her husband:
illness. a,
This evening at s o'clock at thu
Court Street Methodist church will
occur the principal social event o
the day, the wedding of Miss Evelyi
Stevens Cook and Rev. Osmond Sum
mers Lewis. A reception will follow
at the residence of Dr. and Mrs. I. H
Cook, for the family and few int
mate friends of the young couple.
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w. j. jenkins, who has been spenC
ing several weeks at Allison's Well
and at his old home in Centervill,
Ala, was taken ill at the latter plac
and after a weeks delay was able
return home Monday. This morning
: however, Mr.. Jenkins is very i'll at h
home in Second avenue, and threa
ened with pneumonia.
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y Hon. G. w. Ellis of Lucedale, but fo
merly city attorney of this city, W;
visitor here today on business. NJ
= Ellis bad health had come to be
' matter of deepest concern to his fan
ly and friends, but he is now wonde
fully improved. Lucedale is most a
II vantageously situated on hill wi
le pretty view of surrounding count
n and Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis are delightful
located, while already they are pror
nent In the social and business VOL
" of the town.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-09-27
NAPLES is IN GRIP OF
THE CHOLERA PLAGUE.
(By Associated Press.)

Rome, Sept. 27.-With the removal
of the censorship, startling details of
the cholera epidemic at Naples are
being discovered. Several persons
have died in the streets and the popu-
lar excitement is such that the police
have great difficulty in maintaining
order. 1t is reported that 100000 per-
sons of the better classes have already
fed from Naples.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-09-27

After expressing her appreciation
for the acquittal Of her husband to
Justice ]. R. Kelly yesterday evening,
Mrs. Albert Kissinger tainted away
in the court and many restorstives
had to be used before she gained
consciousness. Her husband had
been arraigned for feloniously enter
ing the furniture store Of w. A. John
ply.
"a tally Shot.
tie accident hap
pei = Ao'clock Sunday
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-09-27

had gone to their homes, save one OF
two engineers. Withal the Genisee
Lumber Company employs from 800 to
900 men, and operate six other mills
aside from the one just destroyed. An
attache of the company said that about
three hundred men would be thrown
out of employment by the confiagra-
ton, although it is expected that the
mill will be rebuilt. To do this, how
ever, would require ninety days, as
practically an entirely new plant
would have to be installed. None of
the machinery can be saved. The
planning mill was untouched by the
flames, and of course, the six mills
now operating on the company's prop
erty, East of Genesee, can supply the
planer with plenty of material in or
I der that work can be carried forward
in that department.
The president of the concern, Mr..
Arthur Loranger, is away on his an
nual vacation, therefore it could not
be definitely ascertained whether the
mill would be rebuilt or not. Super
intendent H. r. Loranger, was on the
scene of the fire shortly following the
first alarm sent out, and remained un-
til the fire had been subdued. The
company has been operating continu-
ously for several months. Since the
destructive storm of one year ago, an
effort has been made by the company
to save as much Of the down" timber
as possible, hence the mill was on a
double shift and was running full
time.
The company has the distinction OF
being one of the best organized cor
porations in this section. Labor trou
BILE is an unknown with them, anc
e their applications for men being an
l swered by more people than can b'
: accommodated. They give employ
e ment. however, to as many as can b.
S comfortably taken care of, and as
s matter of fact, are very popular wit
n all classes of people. Some of thei
n present employees have been on tn
payroll for twelve years.
The insurance carried on the mi
could not be ascertained, although Nj
, Loranger said that it was PRACTICAL
:" covered, but that it was not in pos
- ton to give out the figures until h
brother returned to Genesee.
The fact that the night was calr
after a rainfall of several hours pr
ceding the fire, is responsible for OF
er buildings not burning.
Some time ago the lumber conce
:. put down a splendid well on its pre-
4 erty, which has proved great bona
"a in fire fighting. The well has
forty-five pound pressure, and W
II largely instrumental in the efticie
work done by the fire brigade. T
company feel jubilant over the IL
a that the we'll has met with such stro
endorsement at practically the fl
test given it since its completion. I
men handling the hose did &C
work and through their efforts mu
was saved. Several people from Hf
mond spent Sunday at the scene OF
~, big fire.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-09-27

\ feature of the program at the
Lomo Theatre today will be ~Just To
Remind" which Mr.. Laverne will sing
bv request. Another song will be
Carrie. Marry Harry" An ever pop
ular biograph and an Indian drama
will complete the program.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-09-27

DR.. w. H. Rowan of Virgins, santa
~ inspector for eight counties undel
the direction of the state board OF
health, was in Hattiesburg today en-
route to Purvis, to begin work in La
mar county. DIR. Rowan will begin
active operation in Forrest county Oc-
tober 3rd.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-09-27
RAMSEY G. COMPANY,
LEADING UNDERTAkERS.
PROMPT AMBULANCE SERVICE.
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CHURCH SOCIETIES
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Aid With Mrs. Griffin.

Westminster Aid With Mrs. Griffin.
Monday afternoon the Westminster
Aid met at the residence of Mrs. w.
E. Griffin, with the president, Miss
Annie Gay, in the chair. Rev. R. l..
Campbell led the devotional exercises
and definite arrangements were made
for serving luncheon on Oct. 18th, the
last day of the reunion and Prosperity
Day.
An unusually large number of men,
bers were present. The next meet
ing will be with Miss Annie Gay.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-09-27

Mr.. }. s. Turner was summoned
by telegram to Thomasyille, Ala, yes
terdav evening 10 the bedside of his
brother. MI J. P. Turner, who is crit
icallv i'll. He was accompanied by
Mr.. NJ. II. Turner, of Vossburg.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-09-27

Chancellor Wood got mis- court well
organized yesterday and is down to
business today. He set apart tomor-
row to hear negro divorce cases and
will hear white cases Thursday.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-09-27
SU AN Err SHADOW.

What did yonder squirrel say?
And never shall return.
Not, like bud or building bird,
Come when April comes again;
Scarcely have learned a word
OF the language of the rain.
Swift the summer glides away,
No one lesson learned Alright:
Soon comes round the longest day
All! how soon the longest night!
Richard LIE Gallienne,
e. B. King is away on a business trip
to Chicago and Pittsburg.
Ellis Hickman returned Friday from
q fortnights stay at Allison's Wells.
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Miss Clara Miner left Saturday for
West Columbia to visit her brother,
Mr.. Leland Miner.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Hawkins left
toda.- for a stay of Sc, 9ral weeks at
Battle Creek, Mich.
Mrs. Ellis B. Cooper returned to
Newton Saturday, after visit to her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Hawkins
Miss Sallie Keith returned Satur-
day from a visit to Newton and Me
ridian.
MP. L. Love returned Monday from
a business trip of two weeks to Louis
Vile, Ky.
Miss Alta Rowan, of Laurel, arrived
today for a weeks visit to her uncle
Mr.. ]. r. Haney and family
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Misses Mary and Nell Rowan ar
expected home the latter part of tn
week from Athens, Ohio.
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Miss Ella Scanlan has returned frol
Laurel, and is now located in her HON
corner of Walnut street and Souther
avenue.
A. D. Draughn returned Monda
from a three-week's business trip
Appalachicola and other Florid
points.
Joe Nancy, of Warnerton, La, lie
this morning after a few days Wis
to his parents, Mr.. ara Mrs. J.
Haney.
The Daughters of the Confedera
will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3:
at Hotel Hattiesburg and all membe
are expected to attend
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Miss Kate Smith, who is teachl
in Gulfport, spent the weekend WI
her father, Mr.. L. D. Smith, returni
toANQties Monday evening
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry D. Foote,
of Greenburg, La, are spending It
davs with Mr.. and Mrs. S. V. Robe
son. on Bay street.
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DIR. and Mrs. Harvey 7. Moung
Of Main street, have as their que
the latter's aunt, Mrs. NJ. D. Doty,
Panther Burn, Miss.
DR.. Taylor Stapleton, VINO mas pr
ticed medicine at Deason, .BoF'
county, during vacation, is nome
a few days, after which he Will
sumo his studies at college
Among those registered at the Gr
Southern Hotel, Gulfport, are Mrs
M. Sellers, VIM. H. Cook and JaI
E. Cameron, of Hattiesburg.
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Miss Marie Oakley returned '
dav from several weeks visit
cleveland, Terra Haute and McCla
boro Ohio. While away Miss Oal
took a special course in music.
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Little Margaret McInnis, daug
osDr and Mrs. John McInnis of Br
lyn, is visiting her uncle and a
Mr. and Mrs. NJ L. Ward, In With
street.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-09-27
ON THE SICK LIST.

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Mrs. e. J. Mitchell is ill this week
at her home on Main street.
HuLETT UNDERTAKING COMPANY
DAVID FARLEY
Funeral Director And Embalmer.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-09-27
CITY BREVlTIEs.

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The San Francisco call., 1910-03-27

len his honor, Judge Cabaniss,
piled in the other day with
more valor than discretion and
grabbed a husky athlete by the
throat the impulse did credit to
his humanity, but involved him
in a sad violation of judicial
precedent. How did the court
know that a fist fight was in
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-27

fatness of policemen, lays down
the rule on the authority of the
life insurance companies that
policeman should not weigh more
than thirty pounds per longitu-
dinal foot and adds, "twenty-six
pounds are standard" What,
each and all of them? This queer
way of putting it recalls Senator
Bibb's celebrated plural of the
days before the fire. 1t was
matter of just pride with the SEN
ator that he had his meals at Mar
chand's and he lost no opportun-
ity to tell his friends that MAR
chand's are the only place to get
meal in San Francisco"
''Twenty-six pounds are stand
ard" One seems to recollect that
Shylock had some trouble about
standardizing even one pound OF
flesh.
ART CRITICISM A LA MODE
In the same asylum for sloppy
writing I find the art critic. dis
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-27
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progress? He should have waited until the facts
presented to him in orderly practice by
affidavit, should he have so hastily concluded
that what Cab knows the judge knows. The court
should always distrust the evidence OF his senses
unless that evidence is duly to and made
subject to cross examination. Even if he had
acquired caulihower car in the argument with
Charles Wesley Reed he should pay no attention
to it until it is properly marked for identification
as an exhibit in the case.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-27
ART CRITICISM A LA MODE

coursing on the pictures of Eugen Neulaus
exhibition here in this wise:
The familiar lands Alameda, Marin and Mon
terey have been reharvested by Neuhaus with sat
isfaction to himself and assrredy others will feel
with him in his depictions gone into
prolific and somewhat unearthed country in the
surroundings of Benica.
"a prolific and somewhat unearthed country is
nice arrangement of epithets that might appall
the guilty and make mad the free depictionary, but
the plain man would conclude that this strange
land would be the less prolific in proportion it
was unearthed. But perhaps he meant some
thing else. Somewhat unearthed' Help
ITS LAUNDERING WAY
Pursuing our researches in this welter of blunder-
ing language we find this in recent Chronicle
editorial:
The aphasa which SO strangely afHicts witnesses
testifyng in cases in which they arc interested
strikngy shown in the fish inquiry in this
city. 81 don't remember was the most frequent
form of respopse to many questions, the truthful
answering which might embarrassing.
How on earth could man afflicted with aphasia
say II don't remember" or say anything at all?
Can not the Chronicle afford to buy dictionary,
or ask the office boy?
COLOR BLIND
The Chronicle on the same day printed the
picture of BLACK Hayes of San Jose in conjunc-
ton with that of Speaker Cannon with the descrip-
tion 81. O. Hayes of California, insurgent,' no
doubt under the impression that he is representa-
tive in congress and one of the rebellous crew that
unhorsed Uncle Joe Cannon. OF course, it was
Red Hayes who had been behaving so obstrep-
erously. Apparently the Chronicle is color blind.
J. O. Hayes is nsurgent or otherwise according
to circumstances Not very long ago his paper,
the San Jose Mercury came out with an article
profl1sely laudatory of Mr.. Herrin In few days,
or ere the type was cold, the paper printed hot
roast for Herrin. Something had dropped.
POLITICAL ECONOMY
"Red" Hayes is, indeed, an insurgent-of sorts
AS Sam Blythe writes. "He is sort of Epicurean
fighter. He does not want to gulp down his COM
bat and have. none left. His argument is that you
can not fight your fight and have it, too So, when
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The San Francisco call., 1910-03-27
By Edward F. Cahill

the other day after he had voted
to put Joe Cannon off the commit
tee on rules, he reflected that he
would not further indulge in the
wasteful and ridiculous excess OF
voting the speaker out OF his
chair. His philosophy, again
quoting Sam Blythe, is to string
the ructions out.
Hold" cried Everis. Let
us be prudent He was
resting then, you see Thus
he was prudent, and he
shooed most of those insur-
gents into the caucus pro-
vided by the regulars, patched
the thing up with the presi-
dent, and all was peace and
quietness in our fair city.
Representative Hayes is the
best living exemplar of political
economy and the conservation of
fights.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-27
THE DIVERSIONS OF A
STATESMAN

Marius Kast, having taken to
the brush by way of precaution.
sends me from the backwoods this
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-27

injurious reflection on the conJugal condition:
THE honeymoon is over when and his wife
cease to be lovers and become candid friends
On the back of the printed slip conveying this
malignant suggestion | find the following verse:
She tigress orbed, whose sin was blight magn
To youths high thought; she, regnan through
Her lips red luxury; and she who drew
My her with song a shrine.
II this is the kind of literature on which Mr.
Kast battens in the brush one is surprised that
Milton Schrtty beat him to it. for Schmitty is a
model of the domestic virtues and even thinks
himself full size to be speaker of the assembly
Funny Schnitty.y
McGoWAN's INSURGENCY"
George Squires writes me in relation to my
conception OF Frank MCGOWAN as hardy pro-
grammer
MCGOWAN, you should know, began politics
kicker" and has been anything else. He
broke the legislature twenty-three years ago
from Del Humboldt the head of the
machine and in both senate and assembly ''bucked"
the lobby from start to finish He voted every time
in for Estee for senator; he opposed the
railroad reassessment bills and all other corpora
ton measures and when Stanford in the federal
senate voted to confirm Lamar, Joined in censuring
him. His assaults the lobbies and their bills
were notorious at Sacramento. You ought to
remember all this.
He candidate twice for district attorney
before machine conventions in this city. Those
eminent reformers, Arthur G. Fisk and General
Salonlon, were respectively nominated him.
He was candidate for congress in the fifth dis
trict and was disposed of by Phil Crimnns. He
"bucked" the Burns machine in 1898 for lieu
tenant governor and was defeated Three years
ago he was not the nominee for district attorney
of the republican machine, able writer of
politics has said, but was the nominee of the
time got before the public for elective Office. If
this does entitle him to the designation of
"insurgent' should be pleased to know what
of a record man make to show himself free
boss control.
speak by the card in these matters having been
part and parcel of them l have known MCGOWAN
since boy and am as familiar with the motives
that move him as he is himself. Not being a
demagogue and blatherskite he does not pretend
to be "reformera in politics; then why should he
be misrepresented?
SOMEWHAT MUSTY
The record of Mr.. McGowans insurgency is, on
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The San Francisco call., 1910-03-27
AN INVITATION TO A FREE FIGHT

Apart from the orderly course OF judicial pro-
cedure there are certain objections to accepting a
promscuous invitation to a free fight. One recalls,
by way of warning, what happened to the gentle
man from Kentucky in the old Mississippi steam
boat days. He voyaging down river when the
boat tied up at Vicksburg and he wandered uptown
10 pass the time Presently he ran across a tre-
mendous row.
Mister" he inquired OF bystander, "air this
a free fight"
Eyes, mister, it is a free fight"
Then count me in said the Kentuckan. In
fifteen minutes or thereabouts he emerged from
the hurly burly minus eye and otherwise
damaged.
Mister" he inquired OF the same bystander, "air
this still free fght?"
1T is. mister, it is, the reply.
''Then count me out"
He had acquired all the information he had any
,,oa for and bic curiosity xU,e satisfied
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-12-22
me treasury department he's 4,

The treasnry department hrs adj
sised Congressnian Iseali that Il viii
edvertise Tor bids on the waxahachie
0stQfficc building In the next two
kfeks M much for our insistence
t1t s1mething be done. As soon as
m 1aterpriee Il we'll under way the
I<hf wlll turn I'M attention 70 the
&llSslion NJ pavlnE thc public square
6a6 sSo<Il oSefs down ~ the post
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-12-22

wa2ahaehie Texas. bee. -. 1910.
Dear Santa Clans; ! have been q
good girl All year. 50 please bring
ne a big doll. a doll hammock. set
1T dishes. table, q little punch bowl
and siX little cups aud lots af candy
nuts and oranges Your little friend
ELIZABETH HINES.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-12-22

Better lie the cNild enjoy the be-
lief that there IL 4 real. sure enough
SANTA Claus, who comes down the
chimney and fills his stocking than
tn hare Aiim absorb tna idea 'nsi HE
proper way TO celebrate the occasion
III for one to put himself on the out
side OF quart OF booze