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IHE BUTLER HERALD « "LET THERE BE LIGHT.* Volume XXXV BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA, MARCH 21 1911 Number 19 ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT*. AVegeiablePreparationforAs- sirailaiing ihcFoodanifRcgula ling (lie Stomachs andBowelsof Promotes Digestion,Cheerful ness and Rest.Containsneither Opium.Morphine nor Mineral. Not Narcotic. Afeja- oroidDrSiM'amma. j Pumpkin Seed• JbiSertaa + \ . Jkh'Ue Salts- j jtniseSetd + I ) Harm Seed- I Aperfed Remedy forConsfipa- tion, Sour* Stomach.Diarritoca Worms,Coiwulsiousleverish ness and Loss of Sleep. Facsimile Signatnrejif csstoma For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Exact Copy of Wrapper. For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY. Listen THE BUTLER FERTILIZER COMPANY BUTLER, - - GEORGIA. Will manufacture this season the same OLD RELIABLE BRANDS that gave the BEST results last season. Our Motto: "Your Money’s Worth.” BELAGUERED CITY FACED BY FAMINE Chihuahua, Mexico, Surrounded by Rebels. THE REVOLUTION SPREADING. For Three Weeks the City Has Been Besieged and Food Supplies Have About Been Exhausted—Women and Children Fled. Cut off from food supplies for the last three weeks, 25,000 Inhabitants of the beleaguered city of Chihauhau face famine. Insurreetors have surround ed the city. Attempts by the federal soldiers to dash outside to forage have failed. The insurreetors invaria bly drive back the foraging expedi tions before they have proceeded any distance from the city limits. Hundreds of women in Chihauhau, fearing starvatioa, "have taken their children from the bottled up town, and now bands of them are roaming the country. Direct word from the city of Chi huahua was received here this after noon through Jed Newkirk, an Ameri can merchant who traveled the 225 miles in an automobile, having left there two days ago. The entire city was in ignorance of the progress ofg the revolutionary movement, all telegraphic communi cation with the outside world having been cut off almost continuously for two weeks. The uprising in Mexico has spread to the states of Coahuilo and Morelos, according to advices received at Wash ington by the revolutionary agents. The uprising in Morelos is of formida ble proportions. SEARCH FOR BURIED GOLD Everybody admires beauty at all times, but Especially so just now. Every woman likes admiration and she cannot be blamed for making herself as beautiful as possible. You never saw so many helps as there are at our store and they are permanent helps too, for they contain no harmful ingredients which are sure to have an injurious effect sooner or later. As a few remedies we suggest: Talcum powder, toilet soap, toilet water, tooth powder, tooth paste, cold cream, rice powder, nail pol ish, shampoos and a host of other dainty accessories so appealing to the heart of every woman. HORTON’S DRUG STORE, BUTLER, - - GEORGIA. Excitement Rife Among Effingham County, Georgia, People. Effingham county, Georgia, has been digging gold in earnest. Some months ago a fortune teller in Savannah told a man who lives in the county that there was a jar, containing $45,000 in gold, which had been buried during the revolutionary war, just six feet from a certain walnut tree on the farm now owned by Jasper Newton, of that county. More recently the rumor that a jar of gold was buried in that vicin ity gained considerable credence in the section. The rumor finally developed into a gold-digging party. Consent to search in the vicinity of his walnut tree was secured from Mr. Newton. The searchers dug in alternate reliefs, continuing their investigations day and night. Mr. Newton says that he himself was not affected in the least by the gold rumor, except that he dreamed one night that he saw “a full cartload of gold,” but others in the community had a case of gold fever, and had it bad. As a consequence of the search, Mr. Newton is minus a very valuable wal nut tree, while several citizens of the Pine Grove community have wrought well and are wiser. CURRENCY REFORM. National Monetary Commission Will Have Busy Time. Plans for the reform of the curren cy laws will he prosecuted with a great deal of vigor by the members of the national monetary commission during the summer and fall, says a Washington dispatch. A campaign of education will he started within a few weeks, in the hope of creating senti ment in favor of a bill which proba bly will be introduced in both branches cf congress when the regular session is convened next December. Thus far the work of the monetary commission has not been regarded as political, and special care is to be taken to avoid the introduction of any partisan views in the campaign for the bill. A majority of the members of the commission who have been work ing on the proposed legislation are not now members of congress, and most of the members are regarded as out of politics. This is particularly true of the chairman, former Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, who expects to de vote a great deal of time to the work during the coming year. TRAGEDY AT COLUMBUS. Well-Known Churchman Victim of Fatal Runaway. Dr. Howard W. Key, formerly a prominent member of the Methodist ministry and well known throughout the state, was instantly killed at Co lumbus, Ga., and his wife perhaps fatally injured by being thrown from a buggy. They were driving a pony out Tenth street, when the horse, becoming frightened at a near-by train, swerved suddenly and ran away, both Mr. and Mrs. Key being thrown out. In falling, Dr. Key’s head struck a telephone pole that had been sawed off a foot or so above the ground, and he was killed instantly. An ugly gash was cut behind his ear and his face was badly bruised. Mrs. Key is in the hospital, with sev eral ribs broken and in a condition so serious that the physicians can not yet tell the outcome. Dr. Key was formerly president of Andrew college, at Cuthbert, Ga. He was a son of Bishop Joseph S. Key, of the Methodist ehureh, tenth. CHARLES D. HILLES. Nsw Yorker 8eieeted as 8eoretary to President. @ 1911, by American Press Association. CLAIMS SELF-DEFENSE. Killing of One Brother by Another Causes Sensation. Lofton Whitaker was shot dead at Leary, Ga., by his brother, Phil Whita ker, who filed in self-defense. A sen sation was created by the killing on account of the prominence of the Whitakers. Lofton Whitaker became involved In an altercation with some parties in Leary, and his brother, Phil Whitaker, a prominent merchant, was sent for to take him home. Phil Whitaker succeeded in getting his brother well on the way toward the latter’s home when Lofton, who, it Is alleged, had been drinking, became unmanageable. It is s;a‘ed that he attacked his brother with a pocket knife, and al though Phil letveated as long as he could, he was unable to get out of the other’s way. Finally, when cornered, and after warning I.o'tr.n not to advance further, Phil Whitaker drew a revolver and shot his brother dead. PERSONS CIVIL SERVICE Twenty-Seventh Report of the Commission, MERIT SYSTEM IS EFFECTIVE, It Has Strengthened the Public Con viction That It Is Indispensable to Economy and Efficiency in Govern mental Affairs. President Taft has made public the twenty-seventh annual report of the civil service commission. The report states that the increasing effective ness of the merit system has strength ened the public conviction that it is indispensable to economy and efficien cy in governmental affairs. It is shown that the examination system tends to lessen the number of em ployes required under similar, condi tions by raising the standard of effi ciency and at the same time facili tates the extension of governmental activities to new fields by furnishing the best practicable means of testing qualifications for scientific, technical and professional work. The report shows 384,088 persons In the executive civil service, 222,278 of whom are in the competitive classified service. The number of competitive classified positions, which does not in clude mechanics and laborers at navy yards, is shown to have increased by 5,488. 12 MEN KILLED. Caught by Falling Wall at Nashville, Tennessee. By the collapse of the side walls of the Fall Hardware building, which was burned ten days ago, at Nash ville, Tenn., about thirty men were buried under tons of brick, mortar and timber. Most of those caught under the walls were negro laborers, who were clearing away the debris and tearing down the walls, but there were a few white men, connected with in surance companies, in the building at the time. These latter were looking after the salvagp. The dead number twelve, while the injured number seventeen. A heavy wind is supposed to have caused the walls, weakened by the fire, to fall. BUFFALO BILL A SENATOR. Great Western Pathfinder May Round Out Career in National Legislative Halls. It is semi-offlcially stated at Tucson that Colonel William F. Cody—"Buf falo Bill”—plans to round out bis career as one of the great pathfinders of the west by becoming the first United States senator from Arizona. He does not deny the rumor. . He has established not only a home at Tucson, but a permanent camp in the mountains. REBELS WILL WAGE WAR TCTTHE DEATH That is the intimation ol Mex ican Insurrectos, AS TO TERMS OF PEACE. Garza' Says There Will Be No Cessa tion of Hostilities Since Diaz Has Decreed That All Rebels Must Suffer the Death Penalty. The Mexican rebels will continue Iheir war against the government of President Diaz despite assurances that Senor Llmantour, minister of finance, has started plans for the ter mination of the revolution, the revolu tionary leaders declared at El Paso, Texas. "There will be no pause in hostili ties,” said Senor Gonzales Carza, in surrecto secretary of state. “With the threat of the Mexican government hanging over us that we will be shot Without 'a trial, our fight for liberty and for the setting up permanently of the Madero government will continue. No overture for peace will be consid ered officially by us until it has come from Mexico City. It must come with a promise that Diaz will retire on the ground that his election was not regu lar.” Notwithstanding this assertion, the report of Limantour’s exertion in be half of peace has created a profound Impression In the insurrecto ranks. It Is known that a courtier has been dis patched to the field to inform Fran cisco I. Madero, the revolutionary president, of the latest phase of the situation. Madero has already been made ac quainted with the preliminaries. It. is said no negotiations will be un dertaken without his approval of the tsrms for armistice. The terms must he such that if peace plans fail the Insurrectos will not have lost any strength by the effort. Asked If Madero would be willing to make any concessions in the demands of the Insurrectos that President Diaz must declare, null his election as a first consideration for peace, Senor Gonzales Garza, the insurrecto secre tary of state, replied: "Absolutely none. It is folly for Diaz to talk about peace and at the same time say he intends to remain in power.” v RACE RIOT AT GALVESTON Stabbing of Soldier Resulted in Clash of Races. A race riot was precipitated by the •tabbing of Winfield Joel, a soldier from the camp at Fort Crockett, by an unknown negro In the red light dis trict of Galveston. One Mexican and four negroes were severely beaten and the house In front of which the stabbing occurred was set on fire and burned to the (round. The entire police, force of the city was called out to quell the disturbance. Joel, who Is a member of the 144th company, coast artillery, stationed at Fart Moultrie, Charleston, S. C., lies In Sealy hospital seriously wounded, with a deep knife wound in the chest Just above the heart. He probably will recover. The policeman patrolling the beat was stabbed In the back by another •oldler during the melee immediately following the wounding of joel. He Was not seriously hurt. KINGSTON, GA., BURNED. Business Section Almost Wiped Out By Flames. With a strong north wind fanning the flames to fury, a fire which broke Ottt In the Victor house, at Kingston, Ga., gained such headway that the en tire business portion, with $65,000 ttorth of property, was reduced to (moklng ruins. There are only two Itores left standing from which the people of Kingston may draw supplies uatii relief comes for them. It Is not known how the fire origi nated. The Do Soto hotel, built by a com pany, had Just been occupied one month. The proprietors, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Haynes, had invested $1,600 in the furnishings of the building. A number of residences caught from flying embers. CHILD LABOR. Birmingham Meeting Closes—Active Campaign Proposed. The seventh annual session of the National Child Labor Conference was ended at Birmingham with a meeting R which the principal speakers were . Felix Adler, of New York, and Miss Jane Adams, of Chicago. This session of the conference was voted the greatest In the history of the movement. The work of the conference, in which Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and other men and women of national promi nence assisted, was directed mainly towards securing uniform child labor laws. A vigorous pi in was proposed I lso for prohlbtlng child labor on the tage. The sessions of the conference have attracted vast numbers of the people *f Alabama, among whom the nation al child labor movement originated, and a widespread Interest has been re lived. Facts About Mexico Political, Topographical and Racial. Since our own government has by its President, who is under the federal Con stitution comrr ander-in-chi, f of the Army and Navy, called out and mobil ized 20,000 troops on the border between United States territory and Mexico, on account of the revolution now going on in the latter country it may be of inter est to some of our people to know some thing in detail of this country, over whose Capitol the stars and stripes float ed in 1847 announcing to the world the victory of onr army over Santa Anna. The government of Mexico is a pres idential federal Republic, planned and fashioned somewhat aftercur own model. Its legislative power is vested in a Con gress and a Senate; its executive author ity is vested in a president, who is elect ed for a tf rtn of four years and who may succeed himself as often as he may be elected* He is vested with almost unlimited power over the army and navy and in the matter of internal affairs holds and wields supreme power- The judicial power of the Republic is vested in a Supreme Court and Circuit and District Courts, the supreme court consisting of 15 judges. There are 27 states and 2 territories composing the Mexican Republic. The states have governors and legislatures, consisting of a house of representatives and a Senate, as our own States have. Not many of us are aware of the im mense territory of Mexico . It is almost cornucopia in shape, being curved sharply at its southern extremity from northwest to southeast. Its western tides bordering on the Pacific is 4.574 miles long. This coast is for the most part low and Hat with a coarse sandy covering next to the ocean, except where sharp spurs of the Cordilleras (Sierra Madre- Occidental) extend into the sea. There are some splendid harbors on this coast among them Acapulco, which is the fin est natural harbor in the world. The length of the eastern coast, bordering on the Gulf of Mexico and the Carribbean Sea, is about 1700 miles, being less than one third that of the western coast. The eastern coast is low, flat and sandy, ex tending back from the sea for many miles, with sandy bars and for this reason especially, there no natural harbors on the eastern side. Several centuries ago Mexico was in habited by a superior race of Indians, called the Aztecs and who were ruled by the Montezumas. These and their depen- cies were conquered by the Spaniards and from these s'oeks, mainly have evolved the Mexican nation as it exists today. The population of Mexico by the census of 1900 was 13,607,259. The racial pro portions among them are as follow: 19 per cent whites; 38 per cent pure ludians and 43 per cent mixed breeds. There are five million Indians, at least, forming this population. The narrowest part of Mexico, measuring across from ihe Gulf to the Pacific Ocean is 100 miles; the This Particular Brand For Particular Dressers While it is true that fine clothes do not make fine men, the well-dressed man will always command atten tion. When you buy “Shield Brand” Clothing you are certain to get a cor rect fit, and plenty quality in every garment. Prices are within reach ol all. $10.00 THE LOWEST $20.00 THE HIGHEST Give us a trial and be convinced. F. R. PURVIS, Howard, Ga This Mark of Quality is ea every coat collar, Central of Georgia takes Ac tive Interest. A better corn yield and improv ed methods of cultivation general ly along the line of the Central of Georgia Railway are very much desired by its management. Mr. W. A. Winburn, Vice-Presi- dent, in an interview, states that: “The Central of Georgia Railway is deeply interested in the adop tion of improved farming methods along its line and wishes to display its interest in some substantial way. We believe that splendid re sults can be obtained thru the or ganization of Boys’ Corn Clubs in the various counties in Georgia and Alabama by the United StateB De- parmenl of Agriculture, through the Extention Department of the State Agricultural Collages, and, in order to incourage this work, we have decided to offer a oash prize of $25.00 to the boy in each of the counties traversed by our line who 8‘cures the best results from the cultivation of an acre of coru uu- der the rules of competition fixed by the organizations fixed above. “The Central runs through fifty- seven couutica in Georgia and twenty one counties in Alabama, which will have the (fleet of enab ling- a large number of boys to benefit bv the competition and should arouse very general inlefeBi in this very Important education al work. ‘‘In addition io these county pri zes, the Central of Georgia Rail way also offers two state prizes one in Georgia and one in Alaba ma, to be awarded to the boy com peting in the Corn Clubs of the counties traveised by its line of road, who obtains the beet results under the rules prescribed for the couuty prizes. We have decided to offer as State prizes the best mule that can be bought for $250 ‘While every boy winning a casli couuty prize is at liberty to use the mouey according to bis own best judgement, we believe that no better use could be made of i* than by taking advantage of the educational advantages that are offered by the State College of Agriculture. This amouut, gen erally speaking., will more than pay the expenses that will be in. currc-d in taking the farmer’ short course either at Athens Georgia, or Auburn, Alabama, and we hope lhat the winners will make this use of it.” ‘‘It is not our expectation in of fering the prizes that the increrso in ihe production of corn in these States will make that an impor tant item of freight tonage in the near future, but we do believe that more home grown corn means more live stock, and more live stock will serve to enrich the soil, which must inevitably benefit the farmer and everybody else, includ ing the railroads” broadest part which i3 the extreme nor thern part and next to the United .States is 1833, nearly 2,000 miles. Our states lying next to Mexico ar?: Texas, New Mexico and California, the Rio Grand River being the div’dieg line between Texas and Mexico, while there is no natural dividing line between the states of California, Arizona snl New Mexico and Mexico. The line between our borders ad Mexico for nearly a thousand miles where these three states touch is still unsettled and has caused no little trouble and confusion as to juris dictional power. I may write more of this country later. —Walter E. Steed. This March 17,1911. Oil Stove Explodes Burning Bue na Vista Residence. BUENA VISTA, Ga-. March, 17 —The handsome re'idence of W M Williams was completely destroy ed by fire at an early hour this morning, entailing a loss of some thing over $5,000, which is only partially covered by insurance. The cook was staitiug to pre pare breakfast and was using an oil stove. I some manner the oil ignited and an explosion followed. The burning oil epread over the entir9 room 4 and in a moment the building was afire in a half dozen places. The fire spread so ly that it was impossible to but a small portion of the h hold effects. Children Cry C 0R FLETCHER S q g y