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The Hattiesburg news., 1916-08-11

vicksburg, Aug 10. Mayor J "
Hayes was reelected over Frank =.
Barber in the municipal primary Tues
day, by vote Of 944 TO 495. Commits
sioners w. II. Miller and W. > Hossley
we're also reelected BY practically the
same vote.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-08-11
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North Bound.
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Trains Nos. / and carry i..,, 'rior1 North.
pullman sleepers to and from Nof'n
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REGULAR SUNDAY EXCURSION,
Leave Jackson .,...',''''' cor o.SS n,
cave Hattiesburg .......' o 90 90 D. ~
Arrive Gulfport ......,..'ll'Vv p -
,etprntng, Leave Gulfport 1900 p. M
Fare Round Trip, st.25.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-08-11

MeCcmb City, Aug. 10.F B Bar
cIay, superintendent Of motive power
of the Illinois Central Southern Di-
vision, and Charles snallwood. master
aar nuilder, OF Chicago. inspected the
aompafy's plant here Tuesday.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-08-11
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MY HEALT
To Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.

Washington Park, III. sfI ara the
mother Of four children and have suf-
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-08-11
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
Where Do You Live?
(Renrinted by request.) )

We stronger or swer or er than he And bear his soul more Of the non of the the and the open sky The his The tne young ol eyes hned the story before ms lips spake.
 chanceoA fellow has his graft okn straight woman The men are moneyOh that's all right TOT the country eyeteeth after awhfe- tell an know what I'm tak1n 
 Isaid one: How'd trip?" He said: Ugh Sinking bfe hell dead and ceng groaning rolling pitching snip curses said to did like your tip?' He "Companionship-quet-a r-sky-sea-" was the ship hold the other on
 caught rat in my trap and to wod?" said his little narrowed and his filth We splash, earth it's dead things and we have And what of joy to sa in the dark and then What juicy bits sunken Ahh-h-h'
 world said his little shone The world little is near battles with the squirrels somemes-they thembu swift and their like wings And sometimes partdgesone family futtered as if lame pursued laughing face She
 
  grains like like it old, gnaw through the white, heart white But in the evening
 
 the when the birds are waking and what world best when sleeps under the silver sowing Of the moon"
 It the other the hills
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
THE SHARK
From the Youngstown Telegram.

From the OuuSSlOWu IelSSIdIl
 For many years there has been consid- erable skepticism relative to the man. eating proclivities of sharks and positive statements have been made by seafarers and others resident in shark infested ter ritory that there is no record of an actual attack on human being by a shark The stories of their extreme sav- agery has been branded as myths.
 There is a threadbare story among legal men of the lawyer who assured a client that he could be put in jail for the of fense he was charged with committing, an assurance that wasn't very assuring to the client since he was already in jail. The declaration that sharks do not at- tack human beings is about as comfort ing. Their depredations along the Atlantic coast leave no doubt of their willingness to eat human flesh. It is a sickenng thought and apparently unexplainable since such ravages have been unknown heretofore in northern waters. Probably the explanation that sharks indigenous to the north Atlantic actually are not dan gerous but that man-eating sharks from tropical waters have been driven north by multiplication of the species and con- seouent overcrowding, is the best yet of fered At any rate the plea that nc sharks are actually dangerous to man is disposed of
 And in the meantime sentiment will be divided between sympathy for Atlantic coast summer resort owners and gratifi- cation that the 75-foot sharks of a few thousand years ago are now extinct
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
SIums InGiscribable

'Yes, we had a swell time, all right said Ernest Matthews, of the clerk S office in the city court, who returned yesterday from an extensive trip, follow ing the Shriners' convention at Buffalo.
 "Of the many things I saw while on my trip to Buffalo, New York, Washington Atlantic City and other places, l was more impressed with the slums of New York and Chinatown than anything else The slums of the great metropolis are simply indescriba ble. I saw scores ot small children playing on the fire escapes of eight and ten-story buildings, for lack of other places. This was in tenement houses. The children seemed to be every where. Some looked very well, but most of them were the dirtiest and raggedest humans I ever looked upon.
 Chinatown, of course. was an interest ing sight and we took it in pretty thor oughly.
 The thing that went against my southern blood most was the equality with which the negro is treated. l felt bad when I saw a white man shining the boots of a big black, but my feelings almost reached the climax when 1 saw one of the most beautiful women l ever looked at walking the streets alongside of a very black negro man. Believe me, Dixie is my choice forever
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
Rensons for Good Roads

"The efficiency and indispensable utility of the motor car in rural life is proven by the amazing fact that one out of every two autos sold in the United States last year was bought by farmers or country people, said J. 5. Patterson of Kentucky. One manufac- turer who has advertised extensively states that 65 per cent of his sales were made to farmers. It is predicted freely that out of the 1,500.oo0 cars to be produced in America this current year, nearly two thirds will be sold in the rural districts. Like the stationary or movable engine. the auto has become very popular on the farm. Good roads must come, too, not only for the farm CT and for the public, but as practical preparedness for either peace Of war"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
NEW SING SING EXPERIMENTS

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
 Warden Thomas Mott Osborne, having been restored to power at Sing Sing, will not only resume the system under which convicts govern themselves, but he has the approval of the state authorities and private financial support for establish ment of a clinic of crime, on scale more elaborate than has ever been tried in any penal institution since John Howard stirred the conscience of the world to the pitiable condition of prisoners. All the convicts are to undergo thorough ex- animation under experts as to mental condition. The family and personal his tory of each is to be ascertained. The mental attitude of each is to be studied. There is also to be a physical eXamina- ton, for, in spite of all his extraVagances, there is an element of truth in Lombro- sos generalizations about the criminal type"
 These examinations would be of scien- tific value if they stopped there. But Mir Osborne is not a disinterested scient- ist, on the search for truth for truth s sake It is his purpose to segregate the cOnVlCtS III COnlOrIlllty Wllu tiO 1OSuAe' OA the examination. Convcts with a subnor- mal or an abnormal mentality will be treated in a manner different from crim- inals by accident of environment Already necessity for distinction has arisen under the self-governing system. All prisons have found it conducive to discipline to segregate the incorrigible. But the Sing Sing experiment will try to find Q scl- entific cause for incorrigibility and seek to remedy it. It is the purpose to con- tinue the examinations during the term of Imprisonment, to study the reaction of treatment" It is possible, and even probable, that some will cunningly de- ceive the investigators, but careful study of conduct and antecedents Will re- duce this danger to a minimum.
 It is not surprising that some of the most eminent scientists and philanthro- pists in New York are rendering their cordial cooperation in this long neglected work There has never been step in penology that promised greater tangible results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
STRAITS OF OTRANTO

that the valiant Pyrrhus, cousin of Alex ander the Great and professed descend- 'ant of Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, sailed in the third century before the Christian era. Espousing the cause of the people of Tarentum, he fought those desperate battles against Rome which gave rise to the familiar phrase, a pyrrhic victory, used today to describe conflict the suc- cessful issue of which is so costly to the victor as ultimately to prove disas- trous, It was after Heraclea, where for the first time In history Greeks and Ro- mans were the opposing forces, that Pyr- rhus, surveying the field where thou sands of his bravest troops lay dead. ex- claimed, Another such victory and must return to Epirus alone It was on the same occasion that observing the wounds of all the Romans killed in &C., ton to be in front, he unused, Had such soldiers I should soon be master of tha world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
---sos------------------ "DRINK FAIR, SAIREY"
Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Strive as we may to eradicate sectional feeling through intoxicating the spirit Of the broadest Amercanism, it persists. It existed before the republic was founded, and quite likely it will live in the face of the steady trend toward the annihila- tion of time and space by modern inven- tions. In the northern and middle west ern states it Is now the fashion to criti- cize governmental help to the southern states. Quite recently objection was voiced to the special deposit made with the federal reserve banks for the pur-, pose of assisting the cotton planters. It. was alleged that this action enabled the producers to hold their cotton for a higher. price, and thereby brought into the dis trict millions which would not have other wise been received. The critics asserted that these millions came from the ulti-l mate consumers pockets, and they argue that the intervention Of the treasury was unnecessary, 1t being no function of thei government to make commodities either cheap or dear.
 This Judgment came out of New York. where for decades the treasury was an nually COmpell0Q LO 0cpOSlL WiLA the banks in order to move the western crops. There, too, the government was forced to purchase from time to times great sums of gold for the reserve bys issuing bonds In the same section there exists league for the purpose of secur- ing the federal government to pay subj sidies to an American merchant marinGg in order that the cheap competition oil the old world may be met. Not far froms it is the headquarters of the NationalI Protective Tariff league. which proposed to fix prices and protect producersi through the lnsJrumentality of certaiut taxes upon imports. They are all in the
 same boat--cotton planter, ship owner ancf protected merchant and manufacturer AsI fellow passengers they should do noth-
 ing to sink the craft that is now carrying them all safely. If the north, the west
 and the east are enjoying the fruits of paternalisnl, why should there be carpins- because the south presents herself withr bowl and spoon? Tn a transaction of thisll kind where something is received fol' nothing, there should be but one set off balances
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
ALABAMA PRESS

Scottsboro Progressive Age: Not all the sharks along the New Jersey coast have fins.
 Guntersville Advertiser: The Dothan Eagle asks, why is it there is more typhoid fever now with everybody swat ting the fly and drinking more pure CD water than there was when flies were more numerous and everybody had a well?' Not knowing anything about the matter, we pass the question on.
 Carbon Hill Journal: Liberality never killed town Every public enterprise ought to receive encouragement. When you give a dollar towards improving the town you do not throw away your money, but simply make a good investment
 Ashland Progress: The papers who habitually cuss the Wilson administration put on the soft pedal when the $s5,O0O, QUO appropriation for good roads is men, toned.
 Pell City Progress: Boasted Birming- ham spirit could not stand the gaff. In the face of some tax raises many of it's leading citizens held a protest meet ing during which some strange state- ments were made One speaker said Bir- mingham was built on real estate spec- ulation through the medium of suckers. Another that the growth of the town in population came mainly through the an- 4iz so it went The business of blackguard- ing ones own town to save a bit of tax money Is not a commendable spectacle. especially when it is well known that the richest men bear relatively the smallest proportion of the tax burden. It is also known that Birmingham rents in propor- ton to realty values are higher than At lanta's.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
From Age-Herald Files

Friday, July 22, 189S.-Maj. Gen. Fred S. Ferguson is reelected head of the Alabama division, United Confederate Veterans at the reunion in Atlanta. The next meeting place of the reunion will be Charleston, which won over Louis ville after spirited contest.
 The Gate City trolley line is formal ly opened to the public with a trolley party" at which speeches were made by General Manager c. M. Williams of the Birmingham Traction company; General Manager J. B. McClary of the Consolidated Electic company; B. F. Mooore, J. B. Gibson, C. A. Northington, J. S. Kennedy, Solon Jacobs, J. H. Barr J. H. Heineke and many others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
Should Obey the Laws

According to Mrs M. H. Willis, the assistant food inspector, she is not find ing much cooperation on the part Of the restaurant operators in the enforce ment of the pure food laws of the city at the present time.
 T am almost discouraged sometimes, said Mrs Willis, "as the restaurant men pay absolutely no attention to the recom- mendation of the pure food department and continue to operate dirty places. The scores for the month of July as natural sequence of this almost criminal indif- ference will be much lower than in the June report.
 Tt also seems to me that the great crowds that eat in the restaurants are indifferent. They would rather not know that the place they eat In is not main- taned in a sanitary manner and there fore the work of pure food inspection gets very little sympathy from any par ticular quarter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
THE WORLDS EST NEWSPAPER

From the Louisville Courier-Joural.
 at large in the columns of the Chicago Tribune and would whoop often about the south, there would be much more gayety in the section about which he is 'het up," but uninformed.
 The latest emanation from the pen of this diverting person includes the follow ing:
 We are reluctant to believe that the privates of Battery c, who were told to get off the dance floor of the Travis club in San Antonio, were chased because they were privates. It is to be suspected, rather, that currency was given to ru- nor that some of them, in civil life were
 in trade. In parts of the south this would taint the whole outfit, and the fact that the artillerists were regarded in these parts as solvent and socially presentable would not help any.
 -"Aristocracy is a jealously guarded sanctuary in parts of the south, and a dollar has to have a pedigree. If Battery c had as much money per capita as le- gend ascribes to it, that section of our citizenry in arms would be sincerely glad, but these young heroes are parlor broke whether they are millionaires or not.
 We trust that they were told to get off the dance floor because some aristo- cratic nostril caught the scent of a tradesman; not because they were in uni form, but because they were in trade. We hope so, because of the two bits of medievalism the social snobbishness which hits the private soldier is the more damaging"
 That a tradesman cannot get into so- ciety in Texas, or elsewhere in the south,
 is figment of fancy which might have arisen 30 years ago in mind saturated with the yellow-backed novels of that period in which the south was depicted for readers who bought their literature in paper covers and read it after the kitchen work had been completed in a manner satisfactory to the employer. A few remarks from George Bailey, of the Houston Post, upon social require ments in Texas might at the moment be interesting to many Chicagoans. Nothing could inform the writer of occasional ar tices upon matters in the south which make the Chicago Tribune one of the most welcome of the comic journals south of the Ohio.
 As to the incident at the Travis club, it. may be said that there are many req sons not touching caste which might re- suit in young men being advised of the unsuitab bility of their presence in the cir cumstances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
SPORT SHIRT POET SQUELCHED

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Larry Wade Ryan. young poet, social worker, and woman suffrage advocate or New York, has been carpentering around the Chicago convention for several days, trying to get that womans plank into the moose and republican platforms.
 Yesterday he ran up to Miss Elsie Hill,
 who is heading the suffrage lobby here, and who was busy coaching couple of delegates along.
 70, good news, Miss Hill," he ex- claimed. Miss Hill took one look at him. He was wearing a sport shirt, the first of the season.
 Beat it, and don't let 'em see you talking to me-" Miss Hill mumbled, and covered the poetic retreat by spreading open paper and observing, T see that | Roosevelt"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
LOVES PHILOSOPHY

By Shelley. The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix forever
 With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single.
 All things by law divine In one another's being mingle-
 Why not I with thine?  See the mountains kiss high heaven,
 And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven
 If it disdain'd it's brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth,
 And the moonbeams kiss the sea- What are all these wissings worth.
 If thou kiss not me2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
THE THIRD DEGREE
From the sesser qll.) Herald.

From the Sesser Qll) Herald.
 On last Saturday evening as crowd sat in the depot waiting for the local to arrive some of the employers of the station had broken the typewriter and of course they all denied the breaking and at last they all begin accusing one individual, and almost made him believe he had broke it and knew nothing about it until someone of the others had named it to him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23

religion has done for humanity and all that Christianity has done for the advancement of civilization wars will still be waged as long as nations call ing themselves Christian forget the fundamental teachings of the Prince of Peace.
 Christianity as an institution is not to blame for the war now in progress two years; but it would be a great triumph for Christianity if Christian statesmen and the leaders in Christian thought could devise some way of re- storing peace before the belligerent powers enter far into a third year of carnage.
 Military observers are of the opin- ion that the war will continue until the summer of 1917 But one more year of it will make rehabilitation on both sides that much harder. Now is better time to mediate than next winter or next spring would be.
 Old Bill Sulzer says he was not a can didate for the presidential nomination of the prohibitionists, but he stayed in his hotel and waited for the news like a regular candidate, while his followers
 
 A sentimental story is told of an old woman who sold the family parrot be- cause it's voice reminded her of son killed on the battlefield. Not very com plimentary to the son. The suggestion that bank clerks be given vacations at regular intervals, so l their books can be checked up, was not due to an intense longing to spare the bank clerks.
 That refrain, All dressed up and no place to go," has been put out of date by the movies. With the movies in our midst, there is always some place to go. 1 Captain Koenig told some Baltimore l friends that he would see them again | within few weeks" However, the captains return is highly problematical. ss | The illuminated tower of the Woolworth building, more than 700 feet high, would make a fine target for some night-prowl- ing foe to blaze away at from the sea.
 
 If the Bremen slips into Chesapeake l bay and ties up at a Baltimore pier, that would simply be adding insult to injury, so far as the allies are concerned | Mexican secret service agent giving information to American officers is just about as trustworthy as former Villa soldier working" for carranza.
 "Pancho" Villa is so accustomed to having Mexican leaders take the "blood oath" to get" him that he no longer views the proceeding with alarm. 1 Nobody is shedding any tears because l songs-that is, nobody except the "song- smiths" and the publishers. Why should the average bathing beauty | stay away from a shark-infested shore ? l She doesn't even get her feet wet.
 Six days in seven the war news is monotonous and experts ask themselves, | When is drive not drive?'
 Spain is buying submarines, but wishes it distinctly understood that she isn't looking for trouble.
 The British will have to speed up con- siderably if they want to end the wal before snow flies
 Mlitiamen camped along the border don't have all the comforts of home, but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
HOTEL LOBBIES
A. T. A. Membership

The outlook for the membership of the Alabama Travellers association this year is bright, indeed" said E. P. Kirkpat- rick, who was yesterday elected presi- dent of that organization. At the pres ent time we have a membership in ex- cess of 300 and we are going after the new members strongly.
 The Alabama Travellers association expects to show a membership of not less than 2oOO at it's meeting next year in Montgomery"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
ALREADY PROVIDED

From the Atlanta Journal.
 The minister was shaking hands with new member of his congregation, girl fresh from Sweden, and said cordially: T would like to know your address. so l can call on you''
 "Oh," said the girl, innocently, T haf man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23

BEGINNING THE DAY-Guide me, o Lord, in all the changes and varieties of the world; that in all things that shall happen, l may have an eVepness and tranquility or spirit; that my soul may be wholly resigned to Thy diYinest will and pleasure, never murmurinG at Thy gentle chastisements and fatheriy correction. Amen.-Jeremy Taylor.