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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19
LAND IMPROVEMENT
TRAIN We'll RECEIVED

Jackson, Miss, July 19.-According
to advices from the delta, the special
train under the auspices Of the Delta
Land and Improvement Association,
with several agricultural experts
aboard, is being greeted by large aud
fences, and farmers in that section are
manifesting much interest in the ad-
dresses delivered
The party is headed by Bradford G.
Knapp, general agent of the United
States department of agriculture, CO.
operative and demonstration farm
work, and G. o. Raine, of the depart
ment of public roads. Several repre-
sentatives of the Mississippi agricul
tural experiment stations are also
aboard the train.
The party left Greenville on Mon
day, and will wind up the week al
Sardis and Como, in Pamela county
on Saturday. Stop was made today
at Lexington, and on Thursday the
party will visit Yazoo City.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19

the manager in with a neat one to left.
Jackson got three more in the
eighth, on a base on balls to Robert
son, and hits by Swan, Sorrells and
Smith.
Hattiesburg added a couple in the
ninth. Tutwiler hit, c. Smith walked,
Blanchfield hit safe, filling the bases.
Bagby hit to short, who retired
Blanchfield at second, Tutwiler scor-
ing on the play and Smith going to
third. Dodson likewise tapped one to
Smith,. who again attempted to dou-
BILE, and succeeded in putting Bagby
out at second, but our Smith scored.
The same teams play again this af-
ternoon, weather permitting, and Bag
by and King will probably be the op-
posing slabmen. This ought to mean
another game for the locals.
official Score.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19
MARKET
Still ACTIVE
rrrther Sensational Break In Prices
On The Old Crop Months-BuIIs
Said To Have Lost.
lRn Associated Press.l

New York, July 19.-There was a
eontinuation of yesterdays activity
and excitement in the cotton market
md further sensational break in
prices, particularly in the old crop
months, which were evidently de-
pressed by the renewal of liquidation
by the bulls. Inside of the first half
-Four August contracts sold off to thir-
teen cents, or thirty-four points un-
der last night, while July broke forty
two points. The old crop positions at
this level showed the tremendous loss
of from 81 to $3.50 per bale from Sat
urday's closing prices and from $12.75
to SLABS from the high records of the
season. The new crop position snf-
fered less severely, but October and
December sold off to IL and 10 cents
net decline of nine to twelve points
and $3.50 per bale below Saturdays
closing. Reports are current that the
successful buils Of the past two
Seasons have experienced severe
io'sos--
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19
CHRISTMAS NOT
SCHOOL HOLIDAY
State Superintendent of Education
Powers viii Ask Legislature
For Assistant.

Jackson, Miss, July 19.-While
practically all the civilized world recg-
nizes Christmas day is holiday for
all the people, it is declared by State
Superintendent of Education Powers,
in his narrative report to the incom-
ing legislature, that it is not written
in the law, either organic or statute,
as a school holiday. However, by gen
eral and common consent and usage,
from time immemorial, yuletide has
been taken as a legal holiday and both
teachers and pupils take the day off.
But there is no legal provision for
this, Mr.. Powers says in his report.
Mr.. Powers recommends that
thanksgiving day, Christmas day, and
Washington's birthday, all of which
fall during the school term in Missis-
sippi, be declared school holidays, or
at any rate. that the legislature in
vestigate the subject closely.
Mr.. Powers has prepared his stats
teal and narrative report, which has
been sent to the state printer at Nash,
vile, the following being summary
of the recommendations:
A law creating an educational com
mission.
A law creating amendments to the
Mississippi normal college act.
A law giving to counties and super
visors' districts the right and authori
ty to issue bonds for building and
equipment of rural school houses.
An appropriation for rural school
improvement work.
An amendment to the law governing
examination and licensing or certif
Gates of teachers.
An increase in appropriations fol
summer schools.
Providing for holidays in the public
schools.
To allow the state board of educa
ton to provide for health and santa
ton in the public schools.
A law providing for an assistant
state superintendent of education.
This last recommendation is of it
self significant of the growth ant
broadening of the public school sys
tenn in Mississippi, as it has long since
reached the point where it is almos
impossible for the state superintendent
with only secretary, to look after thu
vast mass of field and office work in
cumbent on the state superintendent
The manner of selection and detail
therefor are left entirely to the solon
to work out, the state superintendent
merely throwing out the suggestion
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19

Blanchfield played ripping good
game and made big place for him.
self in the heart of the fans. The
very first time he stepped up to the
plate he was greeted by a round OF
applause, and on each successive ap-
pearance the applause was more vo'
ciferous. Who said his wing was bad
Did you notice that peg he shot from
the corner of the right field fence and
the foul line to second base? It WIS
absolutely perfect.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19
rough ON HORSE
THIEVES OF WEST
Kansas Farmers and stockmen Con
tinue Their Organization Against
The Rogues.

Arkansas City, Kan, July 10
While the methods involving a rope
and a convenient tree is no longer in
vogue in dealing with horse thieves
in this section, the defenders of the
sanctity of property rights in "hoss
flesh" are still well organized. Sever
al hundreds of farmers and stockmen
met here today in the annual conven-
ton of the Anti Horse Thief Associa-
ton of Kansas and Oklahoma, which
represents, it is said, membership of
nearly $4,000. The organization has
been SO active in dealing with rogues
who steal horses that most of them
are in prison and the remainder are
plum discouraged and have been fore
ed out Of the business" Now and
then, however, some horse disappears,
and the association never let's up un-
til the animal is found and the thief
placed behind the bars. Aside from
the main object of fthe association, it
is prominent in the social activities of
the farmers and stockmen of the
Southwest. The annual conventions
are always big affairs, with entertain
ments galore and in nearly every COM
munity where the association has
members there are annual picnics and
county gatherings held under its
auspicies. President Taft was invited
to attend the convention here today,
but was forced to decline.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19
TRADE MARK SUIT.

Louisville, KY, July ia suit
aimed to collect alleged damages of
$4,000 was filed yesterday in federal
court by the Magic-Keller Soap Com
pany of New Orleans against the
Magic Soap Company of Kentucky.
The New Orleans firm claims the
Kentucky company is infringing upon
its trade mark A preliminary in
junction is asked for by the New Or
leans concern.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19
Summary.

Summary.
Two base hits-Smith, Thornton, c.
Smith, Kortum. Sacrifice hits-Bag-
by, Poehler Stolen bases Gondolfi,
Smith q Stovall, Carlson q Sorrels.
Double play-Eaton to Madden to Tut
wiler. Passed ball-Harb. Base on
balls-Off Eaton 2; off Redding 4; off
Sorrels 3. Struck out-By Eaton 1 !;
by Redding /; by Sorrels 5. Hit by
pitcher-Madden. Time-1:45. I'm
pire-Norcum.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19

Henry McCardle, who escaped jail af-
ter conviction for burglary, and sur
rendered a few days ago.
The County Democratic Executive
Committee was in session yesterday
and fixed the ballot list for the pri-
mary on the first of August The
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19

Wickenhoffer sustained a pretty
severe injury to his right fore6nger in
the first inning that will probably
keep him out of the game for some
time, Eaton had tossed swift one
which the batter tapped just enough to
catch the local backstop's talon right
on the end. If you don't think it hurt
you never played one-eyed cat when
you were kid.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19
U. S. ENGINEER OFFICE, MOBILE

Q. ,. ENOINEEH OF ICEJ WObTLE7
ALA.-A public hearing will be held
in rooms of Commercial Club at Pas
cagoula, Miss, at 8 p M, July rs,
1911, in matter of proposed i'm.
>provement of Leaf and Pascagoula
Rivers. Information is desired from
interested parties as to their will
lingness to alter bridges and aban
don log driving on these streams as
a precedent to their Improvement
c. A. F. Flagler, Major, Engrs.
19-20-21-22.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Results Yesterday.

Results Yesterday
Philadelphia 4 Pittsburg 2. First
game.)
Philadelphia q; Pittsburg 1. (Sec-
ond game.)
st. Louis s; Brooklyn 3.
Cincinnati 8; New York 2.
Chicago IA; Boston 6.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19

The stories of the sudden drop in
the temperature now we with the
stories of the rise, Long Branch
seems to head the, Nst at present wifi
% degrees in firty-eight mfnutss.1
Providence Joue pail.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19

Every team blows up once in q
vhi'e. It's part of the game. But its
p to them to pull together and win a
few nov to make up for that one yes
terday.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19

Free demonstration Borden's Peer
less Eyaporoted Cream at Moore Bros
Grocery Friday Saturday Monday and
s.te day. All ladies cordially invited
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19
STATES LEAGUE.

Results Yesterday.
Jackson 8; Hattiesburg 8.
Meridian 8; Greenwood 2.
Yazoo City 3; Vicksburg 2. az in
nings.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19

Manager Smith didn't get but one
hit yesterday, but he batted a thou
sand. He faced Bill four times, but
drew three passes.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19

In addition to pitching a great game.
Bill Sorrell slammed out three hits
out of four times at bat.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19
Games Today.

Games Today.
Mobile at Atlanta.
New Orleans at Nashville.
Montgomery at Memphis.
Birmingham at Chattanooga.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Results Yesterday.
Cleveland s. New York 6.
Philadelphia 10; st. Louis 8.
Detroit 16; Boston 7.
Washington z; Chicago /.
Games Today.
Boston at Cleveland.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19
Games Today.

Jackson at Hattiesburg.
Vicksburg at Yazoo City.
Meridian at Greenwood.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Results Yesterday.

Nashville 6; New Orleans 5.
Chattanooga 4; Birmingham 3.
Montgomery 6; Memphis 0.
Mobile s; Atlanta O.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19
Games Today.

Games Today.
Chicago at Boston.
st. Louis at Brooklyn.
Cincinnati at New York.
Pittsburg at Philadelphia.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19
BIRDS GIVEN DRUDBlNG
BY SORREL'S DRUMMERS

AcksoN WON EASILY THE LOCALS
EATON KNOCKED OUT OF THE BOX, ALLOWING TWELVE HITS
In FOUR lNNlNos-soRRgLs PITCHED WELL AND USED
BAT FREELy-TEAMs MEET AGAIN AFTERNOON
WEATHER PERMITTING
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-19

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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-03-10
Ancient Water Thieves.

Water thieves are not unique.
Their prototypes existed at least as
long ago as 1879. At that time a
Londoner wrote: s'This yere wax
chandler in Flete strete had bi craft
perced pipe Of the condit withinne
the grounde, and so convicted the
water into his selar; wherefor he
was jugid to ride thrugh the Citee
with condit upon his hedde."
There were other difficulties too. A
century later (1574) it is recorded
that owing to sudden shower Of
rain the water in the Dowgate chan
mel chad such swift course that a
lad, minding to have leapt over it,
was taken by the feet and borne
down with the violence Of that mar
row stream till he came against a
cart wheel that stood in the water
gate, before which time he was
drowned and stark dead"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-03-10
How Sea Birds Get Fresh Water

when | was cabin boy", said
an elderly sailor, II often used to
wonder, seeing birds thousands of
miles out to sea, what they did for
fresh water when they were thirsty
One day a squall answered that
question for me. It was hot and
glittering day in the tropics, and in
the clear sky overhead black rain
cloud appeared all of sudden. Then
out empty space hundreds of
sea birds came darling from every
dire ction. They got under the rain
cloud and waited there for about
ten minutes. circling round and
round, and when the rain began to
fall they drank their fill. In the
tropics, where the great sea birds
sail thousands of miles away from
shore. they get their drinking water
in that way. They smell out a storm
long way off; they travel a nun
dred miles maybe to get under it.
and they swallow enough raindrops
to keep them going. Young
Folks Catholic Weekly.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-03-10
The Versatile Farmer.

As matter of fact, the farmer is
one of the very few men who are
qualified to be called call round
men," His roofess workshop is at
a distance from communities of any
considerable size; hence he natural
ly and almost insensibly becomes a
master, in part at least, of prac-
tically all the trades and profes-
sions, not because he is miserly or
lacking in funds, but because he
must grapple with things at first
hand.
He becomes perforce a bricklay-
er, carpenter, plumber, butcher,
sheep herder, swineherd, hunter,
veterinary surgeon, dentist, well
driller, Psychologist, entomologist,
meteorologist, horticulturist, agri-
culturist, pomologist and at times
minister, tinsmith, matchmaker,
harnessmaker, banker, doctor, law
yer and even on occasion an under
taker.- Craftsman.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-03-10

farming. Not every farmer can
afford to own an extensive agricul-
tural library, nor has he time to
tudy it if he owned it. there is
no reason why every farming COM
munity should not own an extensive
agricultural library and employ
some one to search through its pages
for any knowledge which may be
applicable to that farming district.
Organization means social privi-
,leges, and the lack Of social priv
leges is driving farmers and their
families into the towns. Organiza-
ton means information Of the most
valuable kind. 1t means that out
siders will be Put in the way of
knowing what the district has for
sale, and how much. This invites
buyers and whatever can be sold f. o.
b. adds very materially to the profit
of farm products.
''The community spirit is the one
important thing, and everywhere
Individual farmers must sacrifice
more or less Of their individuality
if they are to reap great community
benefits"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-03-10
The future of BeIIingham

In spite of all the knocking
some of the citizens of Bellingham
have done since that city was voted
dry" last fall its prospects are
brighter today than ever before in
its history. With one interurban
line already under course of con
struction and another practically
assumed. these, when completed
will penetrate large territoy di.
rectly tributary to that city and
open up an avenue of trade that
rlghtfully belongs to Bellingham
merchants. The line to the south.
through the famous Skagit valley.
and the one to the north into the
valley OF the Nooksack, will open to
Bellingham merchants two sections
OF well known wealth and richness,
much OF whose trade has heretofore
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-03-10
The Laborer and His Hire

Much criticism is being directed
upon Billy Sunday for the liberal
income which he has extracted out
of his campaign against vice. 1t is
calculated that he has made more
than $125, 900 in four years by his
admonitions. Good advice is usual
ly cheap. Possibly Billy's isn't, and
that is why he charges for it. He
is said to have got $4,000 out of
his Spokane campaign and has just
lifted $84O0for a campaign conclud-
ed at Waterloo, Iowa. His topnotch
figure seems to have been SIS, 900.
which he cleared up at Newcastle,
Pa, while his most unsuccessful
effort, from the monetary stand
point, was $4,000, at Galesburg, Ill.
However, that was way back in 1907.
But. after all Billy Sunday has
undoubtedly got results. He has
not been forgotten in Spokane
though he has disappeared from its
ken for two years. Just why. a
secular worker is entitled to obtain
every cent which he may command
for his labor while ministerial la
borer is expected to take as little as
possible for his work, is not at all
apparent. On the contrary, that
such is not always the rule ought
to be a consolation to some Of the
half starved preachers in American
communities. 1t shows that laymen
are gradually waking up to the sense
of the truth of the old saying that
a laborer is worthy of his hire. But
he doesn't always get it.
One defender Of Billy Sunday
caustically remarks that the ethics
of Billy Sundays money depends
largely upon the use to which it is
put. Why not apply the rule to
some of the millionaires, to whom
$50, 900 year would be merely CT
gar money! Spokane Inland Her.
aid.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-03-10
. How II Happened.

He stumbled on a piano and ever
after lived in the belief that he had
the key to the musical situation.
He had a row with the town fd-
der, who struck him on the head
with a banjo, and then he hired a
hall and put up sign, Dancing
Lessons Taught Here"
Passing temple of justice, a
lawbook. fell out Of a window and
crushed his beaver in, whereupon ne
believed that he had law on the
brain, and he fitted up an office and
lived and died in the belief. Uncle
Remus' Magazine.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-03-10
CASTE IN ! INDIA.
Curious Social Distinctions Il I'M
poses Upon the Natives.

poses Upon the Natives.
Caste in India is a really curious
institution, and it is as infexlble as
Il is curious. There is no real bond
Of unity between the heterogeneous
races that inhabit the vast PENN.
sula. Differences of race and Ian
guage, of religion and tradition. ar
rest the growth Of unity. Separatlst
tendencies are encouraged by the
system. In his book, 'sStudies OF
Indian Life and Sentiment, Sir
Bampfylde Fuller writes: :.
sEvery walk Of life is occupied
bv a caste or castles of its own.
which may not marry with nor even
eat with other castles. No one can,
for instance, be a weaver, carpen-
ter. barber or even a scavenger
unless he is born one, unless his
parents belong to a caste that has
appropriated this or the other
means of livelihood, nor is each
caste Of occupation general through
out the country. Each province has
separate graduation OF its own
To the carpenters Of Calcutta, for
instance, the carpenters Of Madras
are strangers, between whom inter
marriage would be an unthlnkable
impossibility. TheN one caste that
pervades the whole Of India is the
Brahman, and this is subdivided into
numberless sections, between whom
there can be no marriage alliance.
GA case came to official notice IN
Madras where the village postmas-
ter, being a Hindu, would not allow
pariahs to come to his postoffice.
They had to throw their letters
down at the end of the street and
leave then to be collected there. On
the west coast coolie meeting a
Brahman on the road has to step
aside some distance into the field
lest the air passing him should Of
fend the others nobility.
addressing a superior, low
caste man will hold his hand across
his mouth to prevent any contami-
nation by his breath. Even indi-
rect contact is polluting, and | have
known Brahman clerk charged
with the distribution of leases to
low caste tenants to throw the pa
pers on the ground for the latter to
pick up as best they could"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-03-10
The Get-Together Spirit

'If there is one subject more than
another which will bear repetition
365 days in the year it is that of
fostering the get-together spirit in
rural communities. says the Spokane
Spokesman Review.
BY himself alone, the average in
iividual farmer is losing ground
every year. He can not hold his
own in the struggle with ofganiza-
lions which surround him. Some
OF these organizations Cypress him
and his only hope is in meeting or
ganization with organization.
In another sense, and one Of wide
application, he needs to unite with
others in his own community in
the interest of more profitable
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-03-10
Remedy For
Corporation Evils
Is In Hands of
Investing Public.
By judge PETER $. cRosscUP of Chicago.

HE why neither the enactment OF legislation
nor its enforcement has been successful In exterml-
mating the SO called trusts to affect wages IS
because as an effective industrial agency to WELD the
energies of mankind the corporate FORM beyond any
other form, is the MOST EFFECTIVE YET DIS
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-03-10
Reciprocity

President Taft has called special
session of Congress to convene April
4 in order that some action may be
taken upon the Canadian recipro-
city treaty. 1t is to be hoped that
the matter will be favorably consid-
cred and that the necessary legisla-
ton will DE enacted to make effec-
tive this measure that to the editor
of the Islander seems one of the
most important with which Con-
gress has had to deal for many
years. The amicable settlement of
this matter would doubtless do
more than any other one thing that
could happen to clear the political
atmosphere of the nation and in ad
dition to this would remove a bar
rier and open up a great market
long sought by the Canadian border
states of the Uuion and by the
Canadian provinces. Vancouver and
the country tributary thereto is fast
becoming one of the best markets
in the northwest for products such
as this county raises, but this mar
ket has not been open to us on &C.
count of the tariff regulations.
Such treaty as proposed by Presi-
dent Taft would operate to the
great benefit of this county and its
people. Let us hope that the mat
ter will be satisfactorily adjusted
that the masses may receive the
great benefits that are sure to &C.
crue, instead of having it remain as
it is. The Elumber interests are d.
vided on the measure, but these are
by no means the only ones to be
considered. 1t is question of the
greatest good to the greatest mum.
Der and no longer should be consid.
cred as matter of protection to
select few.