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Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15

other cities on islands and in
three continents.
PhOenicia became the seat of
the worlds commerce and the
worlds civilization through the
accident Of its location down by
the sea where the natural courses
Of trade led out to the great, rich
irrigated regions of Mesopota-
mia, Palestine and Egypt.
If it be a fact that in our
modern world we have in Salt
River. Yuma, Coachella and I'M
perial valleys the conditions Of
productivity that prevailed in
the ancient world plus the spirit
and the civilization of the tWen-
tieth century, and if it be a fact
that the natural courses of trade
from this New Mesopotamia,
this New Palestine and this New
Egypt converge by the sea at
San Diego and thence run on to
the civilized modern world, then
is our contention worthy of the
widest possible consideration.
What were the products Of the
ancient world that set it aside in
tradition and history as symbols
of riches and prosperity?
Grains, pasturage, live stock,
fruits, dairy products, cotton,
wool, garden vegetables, precious
stones, precious metals, indus
trial ores.
The things that marked the
riches Of the ancient world were !:
What man eats, what he wears,
what he decorates himself with,
what he uses for OrnamentatlOn,
what he protects himself from
the elements with, what he feeds
to his domestic animals, what he
uses as the standard of measure,
what he makes his utensils of la
Dor from.
/ And in each of these lines I'm
perial valley and vicinity, type
of all the valleys referred to
above, not only can produce ev-
erything required, but produces
the identical things that made
famous the nations of old.
A few days since a fruit fail
was held in Ell Centre, and the
fruits exhibited included dates
apricots, peaches, oranges, lem
ons, grape fruit, figs, pomegran-
ates, cantaloupes, watermelons
Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15

and Egypt plus the institutions
built by American genius in har-
mony with modern civilization.
Let us first familiarize our
selves with a few facts from
the ancient world. Before his
tory opened descendants of Ham
settled in Egypt, and the over
flowing Of the waters Of the Nile
suggested irrigation, and irriga-
tion led to the use Of the mind,
and hence civilization was born.
Somewhere near the same
time the children of Shem came
down from Armenia to the banks
of the Euphrates and the Tigres
and there began the practice Of
irrigation and civilization found
a new seat.
Abraham led his flock to the
westward from this region, and
the Hebrews camped on the
grounds Of the Canaanites, were
then taken captive in Egypt, re-
turned to Canaan, overthrow the
occupants and established the
historic Palestine with irrigation
of the soil as the foundation of
industry.
Sons Of Japheth found their
way to India, began the practice
Of irrigation, and civilization
sprang up inevitably, for irriga-
ton alone produces the first
germs Of civilization.
Other sons of Japheth had
gone to the west and peopled
Europe, Greece, Rome, Spain,
France, Germany and Britain,
but they lived the wild life be-
cause they die not practice irri-
cation.
A little group OF Canaanites
was settled down by the sea,
close to Palestine, and they early
learned to sail the deeps, touch
ing at Egyptian ports, then run
ming on to Greece and Italy
passing the Pillars Of Hercules,
going up the coast as far as the
British Isles, while at the same
time they sent their caravans
across the deserts to the Eastern
seats Of wealth and started new
courses across the Indian ocean
to India. And from their city
of Phoenicia they sent out col
onists and founded Carthage in
Northern Africa and countless
Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15

olives, prunes, plums, pears, ap-
Piles, ounces, grapes, berries,
etc, an array of matchless prod
ucts, and these were from four
to six weeks earlier than prod
ucts of any other section of the
continent.
There was a side exhibit Of
vegetables that included practi-
cally everything known to the
American table.
The valley ships more than
enough wool to clothe all it's peo-
pie, a hundred times as much cot
ton as its people use, including
the long staple Egyptian cotton.
1t ships four million pounds of
butter year. 1t produces honey
to ship by the carload to the
most distant markets. 1t pro-
duces more than a million sacks
of barley a year and thousands
of tons of Egyptian corn. It
feeds or ships more than hall
million tons of alfalfa. 1t fat
tens two hundred thousand head
of beef, swine and sheep in a
year. 1t sends out tens of thou
sands of fat turkeys. Gold mines
known as big producers are in
Imperial county: The only big
gem mines in the country are
near the San Diego-Imperial
county line. Some of the great
est of iron deposits are near the
iverside-Imperial county line
The county is rich in fine marble
and granite for building.
But eleven years from entire
desert, Imperial valley now has
fifty millions in property and an.
nually exports more than ter
millions Of dollars worth OF
products, raised on a quarter
million acres of irrigated land.
The irrigated area is spread
ing rapidly, and the time is neal
at hand when this valley alone
will have half as great an area
of irrigated land as had all an
cient Lower Egypt when the
fame of it's riches encompasseC
the earth.
i We have now reached thu
point of development of tht
southwest where we can approx
innate a measurement of it's pos
sibilities, and without fear Of
contradiction the statement i:
Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15
Diego of Necessity Must Be the Commercial Gateway
Output of the Newest Southwest, Now RiValing
the Empires of Old

ing of time will be the determin-
ing factor for eastbound freight.
There must be some point on
the coast for distribution of the
products of this new land, and
that saving of from 100 to 200
miles in transit must prove the
determining factor in the selec-
ton of such distributing point.
The same factor must in time
make of San Diego the point of
sea departure for such commod-
tiles as 60 to the Orient.
Being made the point for the
annual distribution of hundreds
Of millions Of dollars worth of
/ produce from this new land in
itself is sufficient to make of San
Diego a city Of vast commercial
Importance, but that is not the
whole story. 4
The two millions of people
who will reside in this new land
will become heavy purchasers of
many commodities, and the same
forces that mark San Diego as
the natural city of export set it
aside as the city of import.
But still further, these mil
lions of people in the interior,
prosperous tillers of the soil, pro-
ducers of high type commodities,
will seek an outlet for recreation
/ during the hot months of sum-
mer, and they will seek the in
vigorating air of the city and
Hook down as with proprietorship
from the picturesque heights,
upon the busy city and its chain
of docks, the placid waves of the
matchless bay and the eternity of
waters that stretch out to en-
I brace the universe.
And we and they will be kin.
There will be no conflicts of re-
ligion as in the ancient times,
there will be no patriarch nor
king nor pharaoh to draw the
lines of nationality or conflicting
languages to arouse race antag-
onisms. Their ambitions and
purposes will be our ambitions
and purposes, and together we
of the interior and they of the
coast will set our hands to the
tasks made ours in the destiny
decreed by a power that is
greater than ours.
j EDGAR F. HOWE.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15

and Imperial valleys, in climate,
in productive soil, in cultural
practices. typify and duplicate
the riches Of the farm lands that
made Phoenicia a possibility and
a necessity, and they today are
in as great need Of intimate re-
Ionshlp with a city of COM
merce as were those first great
husbandmen.
The opening Of the paths of
commerce which will make of
San Diego the Phoenicia Of the
Southwest is Of tomorrow, and
it is anticipation of the opening
of those paths that these words
are written, with the avowed
purpose Of introducing Imperial
valley to San Diego and San
Diego to Imperial valley, that
each can know the resources and
the purposes Of the other.
1t is with no poetic license" "
but in the belief that like causes
always must produce like effects,
that reference here is made for
our own guidance to the garden
spots and the commerce of the
ancient world.
There are other regions than
Imperial valley which have
called themselves New Egypt" "
but nowhere else on earth is
there so complete a duplication
as here. There are other cities
than San Diego that have COM
pared themselves with Phoeni-
cia, but it is for US now to learn
that San Diego alone is entitled
to the claim.
It is well for US seriously to
weigh these facts, for when we
know the lines on which nature
has marked the course of our
destiny the easier will it be to
follow that course.
Let us speak specifically of the
lands that constitute the new
Mesopotamia, the new Palestine
and the new Egypt, that we may
point to the potential factors
that must make of San Diego
the new Phoenicia, realizing all
the time that our united destiny
implies Mesopotamia, Palestine
Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15

made that the time is in sight,
but few years removed, when
Salt River valley, Yuma valley,
the Colorado River valley above
Yuma, Coachella valley, and,
greatest of all, Imperial valley,
including the land on both sides
Of the international line, and
other sections near by yet to be
developed, will have as great a
productive power as had Egypt,
Mesopotamia and Palestine COM
bined when those lands support
ed empire, constituted the entire
civilized world and made OF
Phoenicia the greatest CONNER
cial city on the globe.
When that time shall have ar
rived the irrigated area III Lnt
valleys named will be exporting
annually not less than five hun
dred million dollars worth OF
commodities.
And where will these products
of the newborn empire go? Viii
they go to the eastern states, t(
the coast, or to the Orient?
Strangest feature of all
Whatever their destination, Sar
Diego is an inevitable gateway
It is set aside by the accident o.
nature as the new Phoenici;
through which must pass The
products Of the new Mesopota
mia, the new Palestine and tn,
new Egypt.
Were it not for the building O.
the Panama canal, the product!
of this wonderful new lan(
might move to the East in grea
part by rail, and thus avoid tina
city: But to so great an exten
must the canal revolutioniz'
transportation that the railroads
must retire in great part from
transcontinental business, ant
the great bulk of products mus
move by sea.
Because time of transit will
be an element of Importance, tn,
products of this new land will
be rushed under refrigeration t.
the nearest seaport, thence un
der refrigeration by steame.
through the canal to the Atlantic
coast, and San Diego will saw
from 100 to 200 miles of transi
over any other port for ever,
acre of this new land. That say
Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15

If we turn to the chronicles of
three thousand years ago we may
read Of the amazing riches of
the promised land, whence the
Canaanites were banished to
make place for the chosen peo-
pie, newly come from Egyptian
bondage; we may read, too, OF
Babylon and Nineveh and of all
the other famous cities of MesO-
potamia, Palestine and Egypt,
and in all we read there will be
impressed upon our minds the
one thought Of the amazing pro-
ductivity of those lands where
there was the proper blending
of sunshine, of soil and of Wa
ter.
But we cannot learn Of these
famed first gardens of man, but
at the same time we hear of that
marvellous city of the Phoeni-
clans, whence, more than thou
sand years before the birth OF
Christ. there went forth cara
vans to assemble and centralize
the riches of the worlds great
garden lands, while great ships
were sent to plow the deeps and
lay upon the seas the first
courses that led to Spain, to
Africa and even to India and
Britain, bringing tin and cop
per, precious stones, precious
spices and precious pieces OF
mans handiwork, and what was
of even greater Importance
gathering into their city the pre-
cious gems Of human thought
the science of numbers, the sci
ence of letters, and the science
of the starry heavens.
Great was Mesopotamia, great
was Palestine, great was Egypt
but greater than all was that
famed city of Phoenicia, the frs
seat of commerce, of science ant
of progressive civilization.
Salt River, Yuma, Coachell;
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-09-03
STACKING PEA Hay GREEN

1t is so very difficult to cure cow
pea hay in the shock or windrow.
and when cured it is so difficult to
Keep in a stack that very little of 1t
is put up out of doors. Barn room
is not always at hand, and conse-
quently much of this valuable forage
crop is lost or indifferently cared for.
BY following very simple plan. how
ever, this hay can be cured and kept
IN stacks without loosing any scatter
ed leaves or having 1t mold accord.
ing to Fl. F. Grinstead in Farm and
Home.
Set a pole in the ground where you
want stack. Throw little brush
around the pole to begin stacking.
then stack the pea vines as soon as
wilted around the pole, making the
stack not more than eight feet in
diameter. When you have reached a
height of four feet nail two strips six
feet long to the pole at right angles
then began stacking on these, and
when you have piled on another four
'eet nail another pair of strips Don't
get on the stack, as your weight
would break through.
When you reach the top cover with
stack cover or grass hay. In a day
II two the hay will settle, leaving an
ir space under each of the supports
o that air can circulate freely. The
ay will not mold and can be fed
rom the stack. This plan is practic
d successfully in the South where
ca hay is staple forage crop.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-09-03
MANUAL TRAINING;
DOMESTIC SCIENCE
Will be Added to Curriculum of Mer-
ldian and jackson Public
Schools.

Jackson, Sept. Emanuel training
and domestic science will be added co
the public school curriculum in sew
eral of the larger cities and towns
OF the state, notably Jackson and
Meridian, at the beginning of the ap-
preaching scholastic term.
Mississippi has been decidedly be-
hind many others states in public
institutions of this character, and the
educational leaders are just awaken
ing to its Importance. Yazoo City
and McComb City were the pioneers
in establishing manuel training and
domestic science departments in their
schools, and both have accomplished
splendid work.
The new departments in the Jack
son schools will be domiciled in the
new high school building on West
street, and competent instructors
have been employed. The school
term will begin on Sept. 18th.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-09-03

demeaned themselves in most order
ly manner and reflected much credit
upon themselves and their race by
their general good department.
The presiding officer was made SUI
preme ruler of all the Gideons and in
this regard the order did the proper
thing, for indeed. there is no better
leader of the colored people in all the
state than is this man, Chas. @. Will
liams. He is still the head of the
order and has full control of it's finan-
cial affairs, which he has conducted so
well and admirably. Too much praise
cannot be placed upon this worthy
man and leader of his race. On ad.
Journing he said to all present:
Now my brethren, all of you, who
have claims against the order that
have been adjusted, if you will bring
them to the office before you leave
the city, they will be paid on the spot"
S. A. BeadIe.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-09-03
IF YOUR CHILD
NEEDS A PHYSIC
II cross, FeVerish, Tongue Coated
Give syrup of Figs" to Clean the
stomach, Liver and Bowels.

Look at the tongue, Mother! If
coated 1t Is sure sign that your little
ones lnsldes, the stomach, liver and
81 feet Of bowels are clogged up with
purifying waste matter and need q
gentle, thorough cleansing at once.
"hen your child is listless, droop-
ing, pale, doesn't sleep soundly or eat
heartily or is cross, irritable, feverish.
stomach sour, breath bad; has stom-
ach-ache, diarrhoea, sore throat. or is
full of cold, give teaspoonful of Syrup
OF Figs, and in few hours all the
foul, constipated waste. undigested
food and sour bile will gently move
on and out of it's little bowels without
nausea, gripping or weakness, and you
surely will have well, happy and
smiling child again shortly.
With Syrup of Figs you are not
drugging your children, being com
posed entirely of luscious figs. SIENNA
and aromatic it cannot be harmful, be-
sides they dearly love it's delicious
taste.
Mothers should always keep Syrup
Of Figs handy. 1t is the only stomach,
Iiver and bowel cleanser and regulator
needed A little given today will save
sick child tomorrow.
Full directions for children of all
ages and for grown-ups plainly printed
On the package.
ASK your druggist for the full name,
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna,"
prepared by the California Fig Syrup
%. This is the delicious tasting, gen.
Ilne Old reliable. Refuse anything
lse offered
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-09-03
NUMBER DAMAGE
SUITS ARE FILED
$25, 900 Asked For The Death OF
Eugene Young blood, Killed BY
j. w. Rourke.

Tally & Mayson, attorneys, have filed
suits in the Circuit Court, as follows:
G. d. Wilson against Forrest County,
claiming damage of $1,000; G. d. Will
son and Viola Wilson against Forrest
County, claiming $1,000 damages. bas-
ing their claims upon the work done
by the county in changing the grade
OF the Morriston road so as to put it
feet below street entering the
property of defendants, in Petal: w.
n. Moore aagiust the City of Hatties.
burg for $3.50, damages caused by
drainage methods used by the city to
the detriment of defendant; viii Ma.
gee against the Mississippi Central
Railroad Company for $4,000 for the
loss of two fingers on the right hand
sustained while the defendant was
serving as a gravel train brakeman
near BrookhaHen, in December 1906.
The same attorneys have brought
suit in the Chancery Court, for 81 900
IN favor of Birdie Gates, the sister
of Herbert NJ. Wilson, deceased,
against the Modern Order of Pro
torians.
Currie & Smith, attorneys, have filed
suit in Chancery, wherein they claim
$500 for Maria Turner, from The Uni
ted Reformers of America, Europe
Asia and Africa and Rachel Killian
The same attorneys have today filed
suit in Chancery in behalf of Jesse
w. Youngblood against w. C. Rourke.
administrator, claiming $4,000 for the
Heath of Eugene Young blood, who
was killed on the streets of Hatties.
burg several months ago by J. w.
Rourke, who was also slain in the
fqsilade which resulted from the eff
forts Of the police to arrest Rourke.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-09-03
SESSION OF SUNS
and DAUGHTERS
OF GIDEON
ANNUAL MEETING OF coLoRED
ORDER WAS REcENTLYHELD
IN HATTIESBURG,

The Sons and Daughters of Gideon
nave Just completed its annual SEES,
sion at Hattiesburg, Chas. @. Williams
presiding. Williams is the Supreme
Ruler of this order, and he is a most
excellent presiding officer, managing
his big and prosperous society with
perfect ease and general satisfaction
of all the delegates. There were
about 25O lodges represented and in
the whole session there was not a
cross word heard in the convention
nor on the grounds in and about the
lodge room, everywhere perfect har.
mony prevailed. The discord, wrang-
ing and graft common to MANY of
the other orders of the state at their
annual sessions were nowhere to he
seen nor heard of. II there was any
friction, it was settled in the commit.
tee rooms to the perfect satisfaction
OF all; in fact,t grievance committee
mad to adjourn for want of business.
10 stranger attending the session
of the Grand Lodge, and looking on.
the whole affair seemed like a Sunday
school picnic. The election OF officers
passed off without a murmur ana to
the satisfaction Of everyone.
The officers elected are as follows.
James A. Allen, of Hattiesburg Miss
grand ruler; J. H. Moore, Of Holly
Springs, grand vice-ruler; R. H. Cob.
bins, of Lexington, Miss, grand coun.
sellor; A. Buckley of Enterorise
Miss, grand secretary; w M. S. Mott
Hattiesburg Miss, grand treasurer: F.
H. Woods, of Flora, Miss. and Ella
Black, OF Greenwood Miss, pages;
T. Reed and Irene Washington.
laurel, Miss, sentinels; S. e. McCor.
nick, inter sentinel; j. M. Robinson.
II Virgins, outer sentinel; Rev. H. Fl.
buckingham, of Shuqualak. grand
PRIEST, and seven trustees.
After the session had been conclud.
ID the whole lodge went for a trolly
lde about the city and enjoyed them.
elves immensely, closing the session
Nth a grand entertainment at The
lagnolia Ice Cream parlor.
The whole membership delegation
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-09-03

two of his life, owing to the effects
of continued bad health, his mind be-
came clouded, and he was unable to
do any mental or physical work.
During his long illness he re-
ceived the close attention of the Odd
Fellows lodge of which he was a
prominent member, and of other fra.
ternal orders with which he was affil.
lated. He was for several years con-
nected with the Herald of Biloxi lat.
er. with the Hattiesburg press and
still later with newspaper work in
Meridian. He was a brilliant writer,
somewhat inclined, however, to
strenuousity, but a man who welded
the pen with power.
Mr.. Evans came to this state a mum.
Der of years ago from Indiana. When
he became i'll a few years ago he
went to an old soldiers home in some
northern state, having been a union
soldier, but he did not like it and re-.
turned to the South to spend the re.
naming days.
The funeral services were held yes.
terday morning in the parlors of the
Horace c. Smith Undertaking com
pany and the interment was made in
Magnolia cemetery.
No one in Meridian knows exactly
the age of the deceased, but it is be.
lieved he was close to 70.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-09-03
RESULTS TELL
There Can Be No Doubt About the
Results in Hattiesburg.

Results tell the tale,
All doubt is removed.
The testimony of a Hattiesburg cit.
izen
Can be easily investigated.
What better proof can be had?
Mrs. M. w. Clark, 511 Newman sSt.,
Hattiesburg, Miss, says: 'T took
Doan's Kidney Pills two or three years
ago when having trouble from my
kidneys and | was cured so complete
ly that l have had no need of a kid
ney medicine since. At that time
suffered intensely from a weak back
and sharp pains in my loins when |
stopped. I had to be very careful
when doing my work, as the least ex.
ertion made my condition worse.
heard so many people praise Doan's
Kidney Pills that l finally used them
and 1t did not take them long to cure
me. Two months ago another mem.
Der of my family took Doan's kidney
Fills, getting them at Hays G. Fields
Drug Store, and the results were sat.
Isfactory in this case. cannot re-
commend Doan's Kidney Pills too
highly"
For sale by all dealers. Price 80
tents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
AXE no other.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-09-03
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
in REGULAR SESSION

The Board of Supervisors convened
Yesterday morning in regular session.
The allowance of accounts and the
consideration of bids for furnishing
supplies for the county have thus far
consumed most of the time of the.
board; No bids have thus far been
passed on, for the reason that there
was no competition in the bidding.
While there was a bid filed on every
item, there was only one on each.
Petitions made up both in the coun-
ty and city were PRESENTED asking
the board not to issue the proposed
$4,000 of county bonds for road
A petition largely signed,
asking that bonds be issued to the
amount of 100000 for beats 1 and
was presented. The board has
not yet acted on either of these
petitions.