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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-02

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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-02

EGGS FOR HATCHING-Barred Ply
mouth Rocks and White Wyan-
dottes, $1.00 per sitting of Is eggs
MRS. M. E. KEETON, Petal, Miss.
26-6t.
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TELL HER so.

Amid the cares of married life,
In spite of toll and business strife,
If you value your sweet wife,
Tell her so!
Prove to her you don't forget
The bond to which the seal is set;
She's of lifes sweets the sweetest
yet
Tell her so!
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-02

EGGS FOR HATCHING-I keep only
one breed, Single Comb Brown Leg
horn. Bright strain; "The hen that
lays is the breed that pays" Eggs,
$1.00 for 15.-MRS. J. F. BENNETT.
Home phone No. $50. 23-6t
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ton that have sunk to such an insignificant
salt water to-day?
The colonies let loose their seamen upon the COM
merce of their naughty enemy Their merchant ships
had long carried cannon and gunners. Fighting was
part Of commercial seamanship in those piratca days
In 1871 the thirty cruisers of the continental had
dwindled down nine while the American privateers
amounted to 44s. with 6735 guns all manned by mer-
chant sailors and directed by private owners.
These armed merchant ships not only secured the
in all directions, sweeping British commerce away,
but they hung the British coast and captured
the linen vessels The linen fleet passing between
Ireland and England had be- for the first tme
voyed by men-of-war.
So galantly did the American privateers outwit
ourun the kings cruisers and prey the kings
that before the Of the they had captured
destroyed something like $12000000 worth OF British
property to nothing Of the terrific loss occasioned
by the general interruption Of British And
things that the merchant ships built American trees
in American shipyards and by American sailors
made the pursesensitve British all the to
abandon the struggle with America.
What could the United States do to-day, under SINH
lar circumstances with practically deep merchant
unusual effort foreign ships and foreign
to secure adequate coal supply?
1t Is not fact that the American members of The
Hague international conference continue to plead with
other great nations to goods carried in neutral
ships during war! And why? because only 10 per
OF American international commerce under the
American nag and We must depend upon the hags Of
other nations to protect the other 80 per cent
In 1894 the tariff weapon to protect Ameri
can ships. when congress abandoned the 10 cent
reduction in duties carried in ships
and instead. added 10 cent. to the duties
chandss imported in foreign ships.
American shiDbuilding and ocean commerce grew b.
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waters Great Britain IN 1SUo
declared blockade of the European coast between 6r
and the river Elbe Napoleon answered by oe2es
blockading the coasts of England Ireland. Scotland
wales Later on he ordered the ieonfscaton. of all T.
trail ships accepting British protection ora1ayng
duties.
These were paralyzing blows to American shipping
President Jefferson wholesale seizure OF our
ships sailors by persuadng CONGRESS to forbid Amer
can vessels engage in foreign trade.
1872 when the United States at last responded TO
British outrages shipping by declaring war the
policy Of Jefferson had allowed the American navy TO
shrink carrying 556 guns. This small force
captured ships valued with their at
$6,600.O00. .sssS
the debt which America to her merchant ma
rne in that second for independence be partly
estimated by the fact that the armed American prvateers
517 with 2ss3 guns captured 1900 of the
enemy's ships and cargoes, valued at $3900000O.
In spite of the vexatous of Great Britain to In
jure maritime interests American shipping contin-
ued to increase. only the magnificent packet
ships Of the North Atlantic and the wonderful clipper
ships Of later day that gave American
shipyard aid sailor but the swiftness of Amexcan ships
and the and initiative OF their merchant
impetus to American enterprise that in
shipping tonnage almost exactly eQualed whole ton
OF Great Britain.
To-day our entire tonnage. including coastwse
trade, from which all foreign ships excluded only
onethrd of the British tonnage although foreign
trade has Increased from $508864375 1861 $685.
272503 in 1907 Our foreign increased
eign trade have shrunk 24s6 tons to s4ooSs
tons. 2fr-s. tsmS .5f.f
American shipowners to-day frankly acknowledge that
1t Is the high price labor both construc
ton and operation of ships that and u still
driving our Dag from foreign trade -
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aud by sheer force Of It's weight swept mile and
q half the gray fog against the combined power OF
four tugboats sent to stop It
Magnificent! glorious! Yet the week that saw
largest costiest bateshp in the world launched
under the American hag American shipyard wit
messed the humiliatng spectacle Of two American mer
chant steamships Finland and Kroonand transferred to
the Belgian flag they could not be operated with
out loss American hag thus leaving only six
American steamships in the whole transatlantic trade.
where once America supreme
The American navy has become the second naval
power while the American flag is being rapidly driven
from the foreign OF world at time when inter-
national commerce assumed imperial proportions
does IT thrill the American imagination and stir the
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seamanship; but what once continuous Vic
tories OF merchantmen throughout the world the
pride OF American ships that could outsa all rivals
lead In all sea trade and when turned into Of
war. make the American flag terror in all waters?
1t was armed American merchant ships that para
lyzed British commerce in the struggle indie
pendence
1t was armed American merchant ships that humbled
the pride Of England in the Of 1872
In the beginning 1t only natural that civilized
Americans should become ship builders and sailors The
colonsts set the shores of the Atlantic with
trackless continent behind before them
the great beyond which the civilization
markets of Europe. were out of the very nature of
things drawn to the
They had forests of the finest timber growing down
to the edge of the salt water and they an ener
getc and practical people. year after the Puritan
ship Blessing Of the Bay. the first deep Of
Massachusetts, built Medford.
In 1740 New England had at least thousand sail in
the fishing trade. Commerce with Europe grew. In
1869 the coonsts built 389 vessels with tonnage
aggregating 10000 tons. And there shipyards
cut. New York. New Jersey. Pennsylvania. Maryland
Virginia. North Carolina. South Carolina Georgia
The British shipyards could not compete with Amer
ca The British forests largely depleted while the
Americans had glorious supply of white live oak
white pine yellow pine and all the materials, metal
fastenngs for the construction of ships grow
ing right at the margin Of the ocean.
English shipwrghts swarmed across to the colonies
1924 shipbulders of the Thames public
outcry against the departure Of their work
to America
The mother country steadily worked to break the
American shipbuilding industry. But all in vain.
At the time Of the revolution the tonnage of Ameri
can ships 39a 900 TONS almost third entire
British and American trade with the British
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shipping in the foreign trade tons to
576733 tons. the discriminating tarin tor tne
protection ships adopted only u per cent %
American imports carried under the American
Within i've years foreign ships had been almost sA
PEELED from American, internatopPl, fenmerce.
b,n and the American merchant was spread The Amer
lean nag was carried remotest parts of the earth
In those days American statesmen knew the nationaA
value Of a merchant marine. -. -
Alas the armed struggle between France and Greas
britain which opened the nineteenth century brought
temporary to American shipping Just as american
nenof.war under Preble Decatur and Rogers smashed
l1,> nraafr,D DoGver Of
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emperor of Morocco and the bey of
Tunis, leaving the waters. of the Med
iterranean safe for American ships.
At first the conflict between Napo-
leon and Great Britain compelled the
transfer r. of European ships to the
American flag. The carrying trade OF
Europe was in American hands.
Then the American sugar trade was
killed by British blockade of the
French and DutrhIN;est Indies. The
British also searched our ships at sea
and impressed our sailors into their
navy under the cfafmi that natural
'ized citizen of British birth was still .
Briton. In 1906 and 1907 there were
5000 Americans serving unwillingly
In the British navy American mer.
chant ships. were confiscated on all
sorts of pretexts. They were stopped
and searched by British naval COM
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The YHLE CS.S. 11RIs) CAPTURING
THE .S1H/JLSH SIS. .R/7H

enormously increased freight charges
There is brave. prosperous and
glorious past that makes the present
seem all the more weak and shame
full.
Nothing in the history Of the Amer
ican people has more of the thrill Of
romantic adventure. steady courage.
keen enterprise and shrewd, substan-
tial accomplishment than the story of
the once matchless ships and seamen
of the American merchant marine
1t makes of blood run faster to-day
to know that no foreign yacht can
wrest the queens cup from American
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. gay ribbon and smashed It against
the bow of the greatest fighting ship
In existence.
A roar of 10000 voices greeted the
mighty steel hull A II struck the salt
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e7hp Shame Of our IHf17

8 THE 22,000-ton
battleship Utah slid
down the ways .
few weeks ago .
smiling girl swung
. bottle Of cham
paRne at the end Of
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Indispensable"
We have set our government 1000 miles from the
American continent have developed interna
tional commerce amounting to three and q half bill
lion dollars. and insist on being recognized one
Of the great world powers: yet swiftly are Amer
ships vanishing from the common highway OF
nations that have to trust malls to alien ships
and armed fleet must depend foreign flags for
coal.
Meanwhile our British and German rivals are
launching and swifter merchant ships and the
people OF the United States face face with
plain fact that already ninetenths Of their foreign
trade is In foreign ships dependent upon foreign gov
ernments for protection
between England and foreign nation. Ger
many. for example, would almost paralyze the ocean
transportation facilities Of the United States and the
s:Is s. 5;.r!'. .s:. .ssssssess sss:s y s. s
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national pride to
read of the Ameri-
can m e r C h a n t
ships and seamen
that once made
tn e s t ars a n d
stripes emblems OF
ura 6 e. enter
prise and success
on all the seas and
oceans? Then con-
slider these plain
facts:
In the past year
not one keel of an
American ship for
the foreign trade
was laid.
In the same pc
riod not a mer-
chant ship carry
ing the American
ag p a s S e d
through the Suez
canal.
The American
tramp steamship
has practically dis
appeared from for
eign trade.
Our ship tom
mage in the for
eign trade has
The Republican journal., 1910-07-14
SHoEMAKINC IN MAINE.
Gov. Fernald Contributes Article to the
Boot and Shoe Recorder.

The Boot and Shoe Recorder of Boston,
in large fall trade number issued under
date of June 18th, gives considerable
space to the shoe industry in Maine.
The article on Maine was prepared by
Gov. Fernald and is as follows:
Two great resources of the State of
Maine stand pre-eminent. First, its
water powers. which are unrlvalled in
the United States; and, second, its for
ests, which still cover vast areas.
Not only do our r. vers give us abundant
water supply. but what is Of more i'm
portance is the constant, uniform flow.
With working population OF very high
average intelligence; equable climate,
good railroad facilities, excellent har-
bors, low cost of power and the products
OF the forest easily available, Maine IS
already great manufacturing State.
Maine, having these very essential fac
tors, is growing and must continue to
grow in manufactures. Emerson says,
"A shoemaker makes good shoe be-
cause he makes nothing else" Maine
makes other things than shoes, but there
are certain locations in Maine which are
at present, and have long been, success
full shoe manufacturing cities and towns,
where employee ard employer, storekeep-
er and merchant, talk, think and dream
of shoes. In other words, these COM
munities have, and have had for many
years, shoe atmosphere.
There are locations in Maine, there
fore, not only adapted to general manu-
featuring; but there are locations pecu-
liarly adapted to shoe manufacturing,
because in these places are found not
only the conditions favorable to general
manufacturing, but that great essential
to successful shoe manufacturing, "shoe
which can only be had in
places where shoes have been made for a
long time and are being made successful
ly.
In many of these locations shoes were
made long before the invention of shoe
Maine manufacturers and
workmen have invented and improved
many Of the machines for making shoes
more economically and for making better
shoes. The business has grown continu-
ally and in certain places the output of
shoes has doubled within the past five
years. Conditions for shoe manufacture
ing in Maine are not only good for shoe
already here, but offer an
inviting field for other shoe manufac
turers to locate and to establish new
shoe enterprises.
The Republican journal., 1910-07-14
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.
Bankers and Postmasters Show Little
Interest

WASHINGTON, July 6. Since the pass
age of the new postal savings bank law,
bankers and postmasters throughout the
country have been slow to demons trate
interest in it. So far only fifty banks
have made application for designation as
repositories of postal funds and only fifty
postmasters have asked that they be au-
thorlzed to accept postal savings.
The indications are that the board of
trustees, consisting of the postmaster
general, the attorney general and the
secretary of the treasury, will be unable
for many months to come to designate
the post offices that are to receive postal
savings.
1t is known to be the purpose of the
trustees to limit designations at the be-
ginning to offices of the first class, such
as New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chi
cago, St. Louis, St. Paul, Indianapolis
and few other cities in the inter-moun-
tain region and on the Pacific coast.
1t is predicted that when postmasters
and clerks in offices to be designated as
postal savings Offices learn that they will
get no additional compensation for the
additional work incident to handling pos
tai savings there will be considerable
complaint.
The Republican journal., 1910-07-14
MY OLD HOUSE.

BIRTHDAY MUSINGS AT EIGHTY-FlvE.
hail once more my natal day,
Still in my tenement of clay,
With many favors blest;
And He who placed the structure here
Can prop it up another year,
If He shall think it best.
Long time it's stood through SHOWS and rains,
And braved life's fearful hurricanes,
While stronger ones have fell;
The reason why, we cannot see,
But what to US seems mystery
The Builder knows full we'll
But now It's weatherworn and old,
The summers heat and winters cold
Pierce through the walls and roof;
'Tis like garment SO worn out
To mend there seems no whereabout.
So gone is warp and wool.
The tottering pillars all are weak,
The poor old rusty hinges creak,
The windows too, are dim;
Those slight discomforts we will pass,
For looking darkly through glass,
We catch hopeful CLEAN.
Nature and reason tell us all
This shattered frame ere long mustfall
Where, when or how, unknown:
Well leave that to the Architect.
And trust His wisdom to direct
The taking of it down.
And when you see it PROSTATE lie
Let not tear bedim the eye,
The tenant is not here;
But just beyond times little space
She finds some quiet resting place,
No more to date her year.
And though you see her here no more,
The world will move just as before;
'Tis meet it should be so.
Let each his house in order set,
That he may leave without regret
Whenever called to go.
Mrs. Daniel Ormsby (aged eighty five years,
in Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The Republican journal., 1910-07-14
BLEAcHEp FLOUR.
The Government Wins its Cases Against
the Mil1ers.


The Government Wins its Cases Against
the Millers.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July 6. The YER
diets in the bleached flour cases were
returned in the Federal court after seven
hours deliberation by the jury that for
more>than five weeks had listened to
testimony for and against the charge of
the government that 625 sacks of flour,
bleached and sold by the Lexington Mill
& Elevator Co. of Lexington, Neb., and
seized by the government while in the
possession of the purchaser, a. grocer at
Castle, Mo-, were adulterated and mis-
branded.
The verdicts of adu1terating and mis-
branding were complete victory for the
government, which prosecuted the suit
under the pure food and drug act The
government charged that the flour was
adulterated in that it was bleached by
the Alsop process, which makes use of
nitrogen peroxide in bleaching flour. Mis-
branding was, charged in that the flour
was labeled a fancy patent, whereas it
was not made of first grade, hard winter
wheaH
Millers say that the bleached flour de-
cision will handicap farmers of the South
west SIG, 900, 600 year. They are con-
sidering the establishment of bleaching
stations in States where the use Of
bleached -four is not prohibited. Thus
they say they may avoid the interstate
commerce law.
The Republican journal., 1910-07-14
THE RURAL DELIVERY MAN.

THAT he is public benefactor is I'M
doubtedly true" says Bertha Poole Weyl
in Woman's Home Companion for july
''But his usefulness would be immeasur-
ably increased if he were allowed to eX-
tend his business. People who live on
the country routes would joyfully well
come a chance to send and receive pack
ages by the rural carriers if the Post
Office Department would charge only
reasonable rate for the service. Under
the present postal laws it costs eighty
cents to send five pounds of rice by a
carrier from the village post-office and
general store to a customer living on a
rural route, though for sixty cents the
same package can be sent to England or
any Of Twenty-Five foreign countries. Is
it strange that fifteen million people
carry their own parcels back and forth
to town and that the Rural Free Delivery
has an annual deficit?
''This deficit is not small. There are
SO, 215 routes which average annually $3.50
in receipts and $3.50 in expenses. This
means a net loss of $720 per route or
a total loss of, $27, 514, 800. Quite a
big price for failure to adopt ordinary
business methods.
''Several plans have been suggested to
obviate this. annual deficit. A special
rate might be made for the rural service,
five cents for the first pound and two
cents for each additional pound up to
eleven. Provision may be made for
carrying, at special rates, packages orig
mating on the line of the special route,
as on an average trip a carrier handles
but twenty pounds of mail with facilities
for handling five hundred pounds. All
this could be done without any increase
in expenditure, and it is estimated that
the increased grocery trade alone would
cover the dreaded $27, 514, 800 deficit.
Consider what this increase in trade
would mean to the country store. 1t
would bring to its doors customers from
radius of twenty and thirty miles, it
would reach the needs and purses of, on
an average, four hundred and fifty people
to single delivery route, and, if you
count all the routes, fifteen million men,
omen and children, the number that the
Parcels Post of the Rural Free delivery
would benefit. Does it not seem as
though they should be considered?''
The Republican journal., 1910-07-14
A Sustaining Diet.

These enervating days, when, as some
body has said, men drop by the sunstroke as if
the Day of Fire had dawned. They are fraught
with danger to people whose systems are poorly
sustained;and this leads to say, in the interest
of the less robust of our readers. that the full
effect of Hoods Sarsaparilla is such as to sug-
something besides blood purifier and tonic,
say, sustaining diet. 1t make it much
easier to bear the heat, assures refreshing
sleep, and will without any doubt avert much
sickness at this time of year.
The Republican journal., 1910-07-14

Jeanette Marks, author of "a Holi-
day with the Birds and other books.
sailed last week for long-desired Euro
pean vacation. When the day Of depar-
ture came, however, she told group of
friends: 81 have just come from Maine
where it is delightfully."- cool and where
the smell of ferns and pine and the song
of the hermit-thrush make me homesick
every time realize that in twelve days
| shall be in England"
The Republican journal., 1910-07-14
fOLEY,S ORIN0LAXAIIYE
Foa STOMACH TROUBLE and CONSTIPATION
A Record Coal Cargo.

PORTLAND, July 8. Another huge cargo of
coal is now being discharged by the six-masted
steel schooner Governor William L. Douglas at
the Maine Central pockets. 1t is the largest
ever brought in sailing craft to the port of
Portland and weighs exactly 1919 tons. When
the Douglas was here on her last trip she had
e375 TONS so that it will be seen her latest
cargo is just four tons better than the previous
one. The best cargo up to those brought by
the Douglas was that of 5s25 brought here by
the Wyoming last winter.
The Republican journal., 1910-07-14
Humphreys Specifics Everywhere.

f1ui1Ph1eyS oPeer11eS EFer HHere'
When you go on your vacation, it is not nee
essary to take Humphreys Specifics with you or
Humphreys Witch Hazel Oil Compound either
They are sale at every store where medi-
take along Copy of DIR. Humphreys Manual
tits pocket sze.)
Tells all about the treatment and care of sick
just plain medical talk Mailed free on applica-
ton.
Humphrey Homeo. Medicine Co., 156 William
Street. New York.
The Republican journal., 1910-07-14
WALDO STATION.


The warm dry weather of the past week
helped the late planting very much. -. The
schools in town closed June oath. The mem
bers of the Station school, taught by Miss
Sadie Cummings, anticipating picnic in the
grove by, were somewhat disappointed
when the shower occurred about l o'clock, but
The goody number of parents and visitors
present enjoyed very MUCH the dialogues,
recitations and singing by the school, and by
their presence added much to the interest of
the occasion. 49,. Road Commissioner Harding
and crew of men have been at work on the
roads the past week.. Mrs. Cora Smith and
her little granddaughter are visiting at Mr. E.
c. Cummings Mr. and Mrs. Henry Chase
arrived last Saturday for a visit with Mr..
James Chase and family. Last Sunday Mr..
". johnson received visit from his niece,
Mrs. Maud Cooper and husband, from Sears
mont MIR Clifford of Brewer, Maine, was in
town last week in the interest of Sunday
school work 80. Misses Hattie and Sadie Part
ridge visited at Mr. J. C. Littlefelds last Sat
urday and Sunday.