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THE LAGRANGE REPORTER*..
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FRIDAY MORNING SEPT. 18
WOUNDED BELGIAN SOLDIERS
C 1914, by Amerfcoa.n Proas Association.
Picture made In Bt Jean'a hospital, Brussels, after the fighting at Liege.
SAFEGUARDING
MEDICINE CHEST
During the past year the newspa
pers have cited hundreds of cases
where people have taken poison by
| mistake as a result of nocturnal visits
to the medicine closet. There can be
no more dangerous practice than that
of getting up in the night and grop
ing in the dark for medicines.
“All medicine chests should be
equipped with a light which will
automatically come on with the
opening of the door,” says Dr. Woods
Hutchinson, in discussing the many
secious accidents which occur from
carelessly selecting the wrong medi
cine from a dark medicine chest.
This principle of the automatic
electric light is very extensively used
for the sake of convenience in closet,
refrigerators, china closets, dark
stairways and the like. Both safety
and convenience is provided for when
the medicine chest is thus equipped.
It would be a comparatively simple
matter to equip any chest in the man
ner suggested, using a regular 10-
watt, Mazda lamp. This lamp can
be connected through a small switch
on the door to the lighting circuit.
When the door is opened the switch
automatically turns on' the light.—
Electric News Service.
UNDERGROUND CABLES.
While the limit of commercial over
head , talking had increased from
Jwtrictly local to over 1,000 miles as
early as 1893, it was not until 1905
that conversation could be had over
long-distance circuits of which as
much as 20 miles was in underground
cnbles. By 1906 underground talking
distance had increased to 90 miles.
By I9i2 it was possible to talk un
derground from New York to Wash
ington. Underground conversation is
now possible between Boston and
Washington, four times the length
o’ the longest European underground
line, Telephone communication is
established between New York and
Denver; is potentially possible be
tween all points in the United States,
and by 1916 will be an accomplished
fact between New York and San
Francisco.—Electric News Service.
MAN OF BELGIUM
NOW PROMINENT
Washington, Sept. 17. (Special).—
It was Tolstoi who promised the
Armageddon, but in 1913 instead of
1914, and that out of it would come
a man from the north, little known,
who as a newspaper man, journalist
and statesman would be the great
central, dominating figure until 1925
when conditions would sweep him off
the world’s stage, and in the place
of monarchies, principalities and
powers would rise republics to wel
come the birth of the twenty-first
century. And who is this man that
Tolstoi forcast in the now famous
prophecy which thel great teacher
wrote for Czar Nicholas more than
five years ago?
Albert of Belgium seems at this
moment to fit into the prophecy like
a glove upon a lady’s hand, for Albert
was not born to the expectation of
kingship, he just “growed” jnto his
present plans of the King of the
Belgians and a mighty good king he
is too.
Albert was born in 1876 and was
well educated. He is a good engineer,
an efficient amateur aviator, writes
excellently and ha* been a corking
good newspaper reporter in both
Brussels and Antwerp. He worked
at the business just as seriously as
young men who don’t happen to be
princes, did police and “ship news”
and, after a time, got the idea that
he wanted to see the world a bit be
fore settling down. And so he came
to America, visiting New York, Wash
ington and Chicage, and for a num
ber of months lived in St. Paul. When
he went home he wrote a “bully good”
book about America, making it eleer
that our democratic sort of govern
ment was just about what the people
needed,
Then he came to rule over the Bel
gians, and now he qualifies as Tolstoi’s
striking figure in this awful war of
the nations. Perhaps others may out
shine him later, but up to now he is
easily the first in the world’s thought.
THE PEN AND THE SWORD.
To every man there openeth
A way, and ways, and a way,
And the high soul climbs the high
way
And the low soul gropes the low;
And in between, on the misty flats
| The rest drift to and fro.
But to every man there openeth
A high way and a low,
And very man decideth
The way his soul shall go.
—John Oxenham.
WHEN LOVE EN
TERS THE DOOR
In a song of happier times, seen
dimly through the haze of strife,
Folger McKinsey sings:
"The happier time, we’ll make it
Through life set free to sing
The beauty of the blossoms,
The music of the spring;
And while the war-guns rattle,
We’ll put an end to war,
And hate goes out the window
And love comes in the door.’’
(From The New York Herald.)
Some journalistic wireacres, noting
the worthlessness of the written trea
ty when the minds of men are turned
to war, have been indulging in merry
jests at the expense of the late
lamented Cardinal Richelieu’s asser
tion that “the pen is mightier than
the sword.”
Evidently they have lost sight of
the might that lies in the pen in the
hand of the censor.
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE REPORTER
EUROPEAN GOODS
AMOUNT TO MUCH
So many inquiries have been made
since the commencement of the Eu
ropean war as to the character of
goods imported from Europe that
the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce has prepared a summary
showing the principal manufactures
and manufacturing materials receiv
ed by the United States from its
European neighbors.
Imports from England last year
included nearly twenty million dol
lars worth of cotton goods; nine mil
lion dollars worth of laces and nine
million dollars worth of chemicals;
two million dollars worth of coal tar
products; forty-eight million pounds
of crude rubber; forty eight million
pounds of hides and -skins; fifty-
three million pounds of block tin;
seventy-five million pounds of wool;
fourteen million pounds of tea; and
a host of miscellaneous articles.
Germany is our chief source for
imported chemicals, its contributions
last year exceeding twenty million
dollars worth. Other important ar
ticles received from Germany last
year were; thirteen million dollars
worth of cotton goods; one hundred
and fifty million pounds of .wood
pulp; thirty-five million pounds of
palm and palm kernel oil; eight mil
lion dollars worth of toys. Certain
food products were also imported
from Germany, the leading items be
ing sixty-five million pounds of rice
flour; seven million pounds of crude
cocoa; and two million dollars worth
of spirits, wines and mault liquors.
France is the largest source of
our imported silk goods, nrt works,
butomobiles and wines. Last year
we got from “La Belle France”
twenty-two million dollars worth of
art works; five million dollars worth
of chemicals; eighteen and a half
million dollars worth of silk goods,
to say nothing of what we paid for
cotton laces, embroideries, perfumc-
Italy supplies large quantities of
macaroni, fruits and nuts, olive oil,
prepared vegetables, cheese and still
wines. Netherlands is a leading
source for diamonds and wrapper to
bacco, and also sends us hides, fish,
spices and tin. Belgium is our great
est source for diamonds and sends
us much rubber, hides and furs and
linens. Switzerland leads as our
source of imported cotton laces and
watches and is important in the mat
ter of cheese, silk goods and coal-tar
colors. Ireland is first in its supply
of linens.
COTTON THAT
BRINGS 14C LB
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 12th, (Special)
“Cotton is being sold in Georgia to
day at 14c per pound,” is the inter
esting statement made by Dr. E. L.
Wiorsham, State Entomologist, in
the course of an interview at the
State Capitol on Friday.
Dr. Worsham explains that the cot
ton which is bringing this wonder
ful price is the breed known as
Dixafifi Long Staple, which has been
developed by the state department of
Entomology.
In speaking of this attractive grade
of cotton Dr. Worsham said:
“Dixafifi is the name which we have
given to the Long Staple cotton which
we have developed, and which is
being grown with success in Pulas
ki, Qrady, Sumpter, Stewart and
other Middle Georgia counties. This
cotton has a lint which measures
from one and one-fourth to one and
EDUCATION TAX
NOT BURDENSOME
Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic
Rail Road
Schedule effective May ,3rd, 1914.
EASTBOUND
For Manchester, Atlanta, Brunswick, Waycross
ThomasviHe and intermediate Stations 6:66 A. M.
For Manchester, Atlanta, and intermediate Stations ....2:20 P. M.
WESTBOUND
For Birmingham and intermediate Stations 11:81 A. M.
For Roanoke and intermediate Stations 7:05 P. M.
Phone No. 220,
W. W. CROXTON, W. W. BREEDLOVE,
General Passenger Agent, Agent,
Atlanta, Georgia. LaGrange, Ga.
It’s not a few pennies we pay for|
the education of little boys and girls
that make the burden of tax the poor
must carry. Indirect taxation rather
has been our curse; for as a great
English statesman once said:
“To level a direct tax of 7 per cent
is a dangerous experiment in a free
country, and may incite revolt; but
there is a method by which you can
t-ax tbe last rag from the back and
the last bite from the mouth, without
causing a murmur against high taxes
and that is to tax a great many art
icles of daily use and necessity, so
indirectly that the people will pay
them and not know it.”—The Pro
gressive Farmer.
Judgment In Public Affairs.
Judgment Is a possession of an
enormous value to a nation, and in
proportion as It contains men of lodg
ment, in direct proportion will that na
tion prosper. What is it that I mean
by judgment in public affairs? I
mean tbe capacity for taking a large,
calm, and unbiased view.—Lord Rose
bery
The Southern Mutual
Insurance Company
INSURES AGAINST LIGHTNING
WITHOUT ADVANCE IN RATES
By special legislative enactment approved by the governor on
July 18th, 1914, the Southern Mutual Insurance Company, of Athens,
Ga., is now empowered to include the “Lightning Clause” in all
of its policies without advance in rate.
The addition of this feature, coupled with the large dividends
returned to policyholders makes Southern Mutual insurance
"The Best at Lowest Cost”
Phone! 28 L H. Adams Agent
In cam of vacancy or alteration notify Agent.
one-half inches long, whereas the
short staple cotton, which is so com
monly grown, measures only three-
fourths to seven-eights of an inch.
“This Long Staple cotton can be
grown anywhere in the cotton belt
and is certainly the coming variety
to be grown in this state. There is
not enough of it grown in the United
States to supply the demand and
thousands of bales are imported from
Egypt, and with that grown in this
country, is used to make the finer
grades of dress goods.
“Too, this Long Staple cotton has
a wonderful cotton seed and produces
from ten to fifteen gallons more of
cotton seed oil per ton than the av
erage cotton seed. The hnppiest
man in Georgia today is a friend of
mine in middle Georgia who has
ready for the market 360 bales of
this Long Staple cotton.
“I am informed that the price is
14c per pound, and due to conditions
will soon increase. This cotton iis
also of the resistent variety, hardy
and most prolific. I consider it one of
the most wonderful breed the de
partment has ever been instrumental
in developing and will prove the
salvation in years to come of the cot
ton growing states.”
I represent the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Co., of New
York, the largest in the world.
E. T. POYTHRESS.
Before Buying That Auto
mobile consider the good
points of the
STUDEBAKER
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Six cylinder seven passenger 1676
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Will Exchange
new or used Studebaker cars for
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REUBEN KYLE
Agent Troup County Roanoke, Ala.
U NDER the provisions of the new FEDERAL RESERVE ACT your
money is SAFER THAN EVER in this bank. The government
stands guardian. Periodical examinations by government experts
are made for the benefit of depositors. A large sum in absolute reserve
against its liabitities is kept with the government. In addition, there is
the PERSONAL INTEGRITY of the offioers and directors baok of this
institution.
NEW ACCOUNTS WELCOMED.
The LaGrange National Bank
A Designated Depository of the United States, State of Georgia, Troup County and the City
of LaGrange.
, FULLER E. CALLAWAY, President
C. V. TRUITT, First Vice-President F. M. LONGLEY, Second Vice-President.
H. D. GLANTON, Cashier. ROBERT HUTCHINSON, Assistant Cashier.
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