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HERALD AND GEORGIAN, SANDERSVILLE, GA. LOCK TYPE CANAL ,JETT lJNB0S0MS H|MSELF Is Voted by House In Com mittee of the Whole, SEVENTY-SIX MAJORITY When the Momentous Question Came Up, the Houae Presented the Ap- pearance of the Class Room of Some Great University. In committee of tho whole, Friday, the house, by a vote of 110 to 34, voted In favor of a lock canal across the Isthmus of Panama, tho amend ment to this effect being presented by Representative Ltttauer of New York. With members of congress sitting on the short steps In the aisles of tho house, around the space In front of the speaker’s desk, with a largo mem bership of the lower branch of con gress, with the galleries filled and with Mr. Burton, of Ohio, pointer in hand, Indicating by charts the differ ence between sea level and lock ca nal, the house presented every ap pearance of the class room of a great university. Mr. Burton, on Thursday, gave no tice that when the item In tho sun dry civil bill was reachod appropri ating upward of $25,000,000 he would ask for an hour In which to present his views on the lock level type of Panama canal. He prefaced his remarks by stat ing that In the so-called Spooner law, authorizing the expenditure of $135,- 000,000 for the Panama canal, and giving the president the right to In augurate this movement and carry It to a successful conclusion, the type was left with the president with cer tain specifications and limitations. He said that lately there had been a strong agitation for a sea level ca nal, and he believed that the time bad come when the question of type should be settled and the matter re moved from the domain of controver sy. Continuing, he said: “It is net fair to the president and to the executive officers of the gov ernment who have this great enter prise in charge to say to them, “Pro ceed with the canal with all the speed you may,’ and with another breath to •ay that ‘we have not yet made up our minds what kind of a canal you •hall build.’ It 1b unjust to the subor dinates who have gone to tho Isthmus •to give the best years of their lives • and their best efforts to hamper and - embarrass them by falling to decide ' this question.” Taking up his position in front • of the maps, he called attention to the vital difference between the two ’ types and remarked that when the ' topography is considered it would be ’the very strongest argument for the Hock level canal. H**> said thirty-four of the ablest engineers of the world favored the lock level type and he believed this Judgment schould be accepted. , Mr. Bartlett of Georgia made a ■point against the amendment of Mr. Llttauer. He Insisted that the amend ment was clearly new legislation and argued the question from that prem ise. ■ The chair, Mr. Watson, of Indiana, held the amendment was In order and cries of “vote, vote,” were heard. Without further discussion the LIV tauer amendment was adopted. STRIKE IN SOUTHWEST ENDS. Miners and Operators Reach Agree ment and Work Will Be Resumed. The appointed tellers completed the count at Kansas City, Friday, of the referendum agreement reached last week between the soft coal miners and operators of the southwest. The agreements affecting Arkansas, Kan- eas and Indian Territory were car ried by 1,400, and ends the strike in the southwest and the miners will return to work. Miany mines have al ready cleaned up preparatory to start ing up. PRESIDENT 19 DISPLEASED. With New Amendment by House of Meat Scandal Meaeure. Secretary Loab Friday gave out a summary of the letter President Roosevelt wrdte Chairman Wadsworth of the house committee on agricul ture, disapproving of that committee’s substitute for the Beveridge amend ment to the agricultural bill regard ing the Inspection of meat products. In the letter to Mr. Wadsworth the president stated that almost every change in the proposed house amend ment was a change for the worse, as compared with the senate amend ment. MURDERED BY FILIPINOS. I Confessicn of Convicted Kentucky Feudist Gives Details of Assassi nation of Marcum and Others. A special from Cynthlana, Ky., says; The confession of ^Curtis Jett gives the details of the assassination of James B. Marcum and James Cock- rill, and also throws new light, on the murder of Dr. J. B. Cox, tho three crimes having been committed dur ing the reign of feudlsm in Breat hitt county. The confession is authorized by Jett’s attorneys. Jett says ho, John Smith and John Abner killed James Cockrill; that Robert Deaton went aftor Abner and Smith to aid In the murder, and that Elbert Hargis, Jas. Hargis, Ed Callahan, Jesse Spicer and BUI Britton are tho men who formed the conspiracy. Starting out with these statements, he enters extensively Into details of tho murder, and lays bare every fea ture of the conspiracy and the event! before and after the murder. He then confessed to the murder of James B. Mlarcum, who, he says, was killed at the instance of James Har gis, and Ed Callahan, declaring that the pistol with which he did the shoot ing was furnished him by Callahan for the purpose. He says B. J. Erwin told the truth about tho killing. Jett’s statement In regard to tho assassination of Dr. Cox Is little less sensational than his assertions In re gard to the other murders. Ho says he was at tho jail and heard three shots, after which the telephone rang. He went to Alex Hargis’ house and Hargis asked what tho shooting was, Jett telling the story in these words: “I said I did not know, and Uncle Alex said, ‘Let’s go down and see if Jim or any of them are hurt.’ "Uncle Alex stopped at Jim’s gar den fence, I guess he was afraid to run In, but I was fearless and did not care, you know, and I went Into the yard, and In the shadow of the smoke house—the moon was bright as day— I shall never forget It—stood Ed Cal lahan, Jim Hargis, Bill Britton, Jesse Spicer and Elbert Hargis, with two shotguns; I saw no plstolB.” Jett closes his confession by say ing that he has told tho “plain truth, nothing more and nothing less.” He relieves Alex Hargis of any com plicity in the Cockrill and Marcum murders, saying he Is “Innocent.” KENTUCKY’S “HOME-COMING.” Thousands of Wanderers Return Again to Land of Nativity. A I/Ou!svllle s dlspafch says: While rain Wednesday caused a postpone ment of the outdoor features of the i home-coming week, it was unable to affect the fervor of the greeting ex tended by Kentucky to her long ab sent sons and daughters, and the ex ercises of welcome day, which were conducted In the armory on Walnut street, were carried through In a man ner both brilliant and gratifying. Despite the fact that tho rain fell heavily just prior to the hour at which the day’B program was to com mence, fully 10,000 people were pres ent. Tho visitors could not but be charmed by the warmth of the wel come that was extended to tnmu. Mayor Bath greeted .them in behalf of the people of Louisville, and Gov ernor Beckham expressed In an elo quent manner the pleasure felt by the people of the state at large in having them back once more. The address of Henry Watterson was, howevev, the formal note of wel come, and it struck a responsive chord. No audience could ask for more graceful welcome, no speaker could desire a warmer appreciation than was rendered' by the listeners to Mr. Watterson. Two Arraats Mads. Former Sheriff Ed Callahan and El bert Hargis were arested at Jackson Wednesday on the charge of murder- Ing Dr. B. D. Cox several years ago. The warant was issued by Judge Taulbee, on an affidavit oy Tom Cock rill. Callahan and Hargis were men tioned In tho confession of Curtis Jett, which has just been made pub lic. ANOTHER FAKE EXPLODED. Woman Clairvoyant Cannot Locate Money Which She Lost 'Mrs. M. C. Thomas of Kirkwood, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, an alleged clairvoyant, who predicts Atlanta will be destroyed by an earthquake, went to the bank Thursday and drew out six $100 bills. iSoon afterwards she lost them, she claims, in the toilet room of the union passenger station. She was not willing to entrust the recovery of the money to the spirits and reported the matter to the po lice. 8UNDAY SCHOOL CONGRESS SCARCITY OF LABOR Leads Farmers of Georgia to Seek Convict Help. FINES OF PRISONERS PAID So Great is Demand That Misdemean or Prisoners Show Ten Per Cent Decrease—State Prison Com- mission's Report. Another Indication of the great scarcity of labor in Georgia, and this applies especially to the agricultural districts, Is found in the annual re port of the state prison commission, which Is now being prepared by Sec retary Goodloe Yancey, and part of which has already been placed in the hands of the public printer. This report, which is based on Juno 1, shows that there has been a de crease of fully 10 per cent In the number of misdemeanor convicts ou the county cholugangs In Georgia, not withstanding the fact that there has been an Increase among the felony convicts. Tho explanation of this is that ow ing to the scarcity of labor, farmers where they are able to do it are pay ing the fines of able-bodied prisoners and putting them on their plantations to work It out. It Is true they take their chance on getting tho equiva lent of the fine In labor, but In so great need of .labor do they stand that they ore willing to do this and sometimes even more. In 1903 the prison commission’3 re port showed 2,283 misdemeanor con victs, of whom 152 were white men, and five white women. The report this year for June 1 shows a total of 2,043 misdemeanor convicts In the state, of whom eighty-eight are white men, and only one white woman. Had It not been for the fact that many far mers have paid the fines of the men convicted in order to get their labor, there Is no doubt about the fact that there would have been an increase In the number shown on the misde meanor gangs. The commission’s report shows this voar a totil of 2,344 felony convicts, ns against 2,280 In 1905, an increase of C4. Notwithstanding an Increase in the total number of felony convicts, the number of white felons shows a considerable decrease as compared with last year. In 190i5 there were 284 white men and 7 white women In the penitentiary, while this year there are only 207 white men and C white women. The counties which use fel ony convicts on their public roads in lieu of receiving proceeds from con vict hire for public schools, have at this time 571 short-term convicts, as against 537 at the same time last year, the variation being very slight. It Is expected the commission’s re port will be completed, printed and ready for distribution by the time the legislature meets on June 27. ONE CENT RATE REFUSED. Roads Will Charge Two Cents for Transporting Georgia Troops. Georgia’s military officials are just now agitated over whether they will be able to send two or three regi ments to the coming encampment of troops at Chlckamauga. It all de pends on the railroad rate. The'state has asked for a rate of 1 cent a mile for the troops from their stations to Chlckamauga Park. The Southeastern Passenger Associa tion has, so far, declined to give this rate, and has Informed them that the rate would be 2 cents a mile. Vernon Succeeds Lyons, A Washington, D. C., special says: William T. Vernon of Kansas, the negro appointed some time ago by President Roosevelt to succeed Judson W. Lyons as register of the treasury, has taken the oath of office. LITTLE BILL ON BIG BILL. W. J. Bryan, Jr., Says Orientals Knew That Hit Father “Had Run.” William Jennings Bryan, Jr., arriv ed In New York Wednesday from Bremen, after having accompanied his father In hia travels. “I was surprised,” said young Bry an, “to find how well my father was known wherever we traveled. They knew about him even in the wilds cf India and In China. They knew, too, that he had never been president, but that he had run.” 'RAH FOR EIGHT HOUR LAW! lieutenant Bolton, Governor of Davao Province, Assassinated. A Manila dispatch says: First Lieu tenant Edward C- Boltin of the seven teenth infantry, governor of the prov ince of Davao, In the Island of Min danao, and Benjamin Christian have been murdered cn the beach of the ■west coast of Davao by a Mungallayan pud his two brother*. --*■*•* Of Negro Baptiste of United States Meets in Nashville. The Sunday school congress of the negro Baptists of the United States convened In Nashville, Tenn., Wed nesday morning for a session of five days. This meeting Is held under the auspices of the National Baptist Pub lishing board and the National Board of the Baptist Young People’s Union! Chicago Printers Report Increase in Babies Since Its Inauguration. Officers of the Typographical Union No. 16. in Chicago, according to a dispatch from that city, report that in a period of ten months following the Inauguration of the eight-hour law, the birth rate has increased 15 per cent, while the death rate has de clined several hundred per cent. ' American* Are Taint ITnem. Tt has been remarked that the Amor- | lean people consume more paint, both j In the aggregate and per capita, than any other people in the world. In a recently published article on the sub ject it was figured that our yearly consumption is over KiO.OOO.OOO gallons of paints of nil kinds, of which over onc-balf is used iu the paintings of houses. The reason for this great consump tion is twofold: a large proportion of our buildings, especially In small towns and rural districts, are con structed of wood, and we. ns a people, are given to neatness and ciennliness. For, take it nil in all, there Is nothing so cleanly or so sanitary as paint. Travel where we will throughout the country, everywhere we find the neat, cheerful pninted dwelling, proclaiming at once the prosperity and the self- respect of our population. Fifty years ngo tills was not so; painted dwelliugs, while common in the larger cities and towns, were the exception in the rural districts; be cause, on the one hand, n large pro portion of those buildings were tem porary makeshifts, and, on the other hand, because paint was thei^a luxury, expensive and difficult to obtain In the out-of-the-way places, and requiring special knowledge and much prepara tion to fit It for use. The Introduction of ready mixed or prepared paints, about 1860, changed the entire aspect of affairs. As the .Tack-of-all-trades told the Walking Delegate In one of Octave Tbanet's stories “Any one can slather paint.” The Insurmountable difficulty with our predecessors was to get the paint ready for “slathering.” That the coun try was ready for paiut in a convenient, popular form is shown by the Imme diate success of the industry and its phenomenal growth in fifty years from nothing to 60,000,000 gallons—(he esti mated output for 1900. Some pretty severe things have been written about and sakl against tills class of paints, especially by painters and manufacturers of certain kinds of paste paints. Doub-lcss in mnny in stances these strict ires have been Jus tified and some fenrfully and wonder fully constructed mixtures have In the past been worked off on the guileless consumer in the shape of prepared paint. But such products have had their short day and quickly disap peared, and the too enterprising man ufacturers that produced them have come to grief In the bankruptcy courts or have learne’. by costly ex perience that honesty Is the best pol icy and Lave reformed their ways. The chief exceptions to this rule are some mall order bouses who sell direct to the country trade, at a very low price—frequently below the wholesale price of linseed oil. The buyer of such goods, like the buyer of a “gold brick,” has only himself to blame If he fin. -> his purchase worthless With gold selling at any bank or mint at a fixed price owners of gold do not sell it at a discount; and with linseed oil quoted everywhere at fifty to seventy cents n gallon, manufacturers do not sell a pure linseed oil paint at thirty or forty cents a gallon. The composition of prepared paints differs because paint experts Lave not yet agreed as to tb> best pigments and because the tiall" results of tests on a large scale aro constantly Im proving t-e formulas of manufactur ers; but all have come to the conclu sion that the essentials of good paint •re pure linseed oil, fine grinding and thorough incorporation, and In these particulars all the products of repu table manufacturers correspond; all first class prepared paints are thor oughly mixed and ground and the liq uid base Is almost exclusively pure linseed oil, the necessary volatile “thlnners” and Japan dryers. The painter's opposition to such pro ducts is based largely on self-interest. He want, to mix the paint himself and to be paid for doing it; r.nd to a certain class of painters it Is no rec ommendation for a paint to say that it will last five or tan years. The longer a paint lasts the longer he will have to wait for the Job of repainting. The latter consideration has no weight with the consumer, and the former is a false Idea of economy. Hand labor can never be as cheap or as efficient as machine work, and every time the painter mixes paint, did he but know it, be is losing money, because he can buy a better paint than he can mix at less than it costs him to mix It. Prepared paints have won, not only on their actual merits, but on their convenience and economy. They are comparatively cheap, and they are in comparably bandy. But when all is said, the experienced painter Is the proper person to apply even a ready mixed paint. He knows better than any one else the “when” and "how” and the difference between painting and “slathering” Is much greater than It appears to a novice. Every one to his trade-, and after all painting Is the painter's trade and not the household- •r’s. Pie Crust. Two tablesponfuls sifted flour, one tablespoon cold lard, two tablespoons cold water and a pinch of salt. Chop the lard In the flour until it is fine, then mix with the water, using all the flour. Turn out upon a well-floured board, divide equally and roll out one-half. Cover the pie pan, patting the crust to get out the air. Fill with whatever fruit you have, roll out the upper crust, fold in half and cut three short silts hear the center of the fold, place over the pie and pat down the edges. Trim off the rough edges and mark around the edge with the tines of a fork. Bake until a nice brown. Gather up the qpraps and roll them out again, and cut out with a can cover about the size of a silver dollar. Prick each piece with a fork and bake a delicate brown. Place a bit of jelly in the center of each piece and you have a plate of dainty tarts. UP AGAINST IT. Her—“I’m sorry, dear, but the roses you sent me don’t at all match my party gown.” Him—“Then I’ll buy you another gown. Those roses cut $10 a doadh.' —Cleveland Leader. The Shape on Hie Travels. The Shape left Calcutta a few days ago very quietly for Durjeellng en route to Lhasa.—Lahore Tribune. BUTCHERY OF JEWS By Angry Christians in Rus sian Town of Bialvstok, HEBREW THREW A BOMB To Resent Action Mcb Soon Formed, Massacreing Jewish Population, and Burning Their Stores and shop*—Anarchy Rife. A Jewish anarchist threw a bomb among the Corpus Christl procession, which was in progress at Bialvstok, Russia, Thursday,and killed or wound ed many persons. In consequence, the Christians attacked and massa cred the Jews and demolished their shops. Hundreds of persons were killed or wounded. Anarchy prevails in the city. The bomb was thrown from the bal cony of a house in Alexandrov street. Immediately after the explosion, Jews began to fire with revolvers from the windows of the house Into the crowd. Soldiers surrounded tho house and fired two volleys Into the windows. Mieunwhlle the enraged Christians attacked the Jewish stores In Alexandrov and guraz streets, de molishing the fixtures and wiudowB and throwing the goods Into the gut ters and beating and murdering the Jews. A crowd of Jows fled to the railroad station, pursued by the mob, which killed many of them there. Three Jews wore thrown from the second story windows of the rail road station building. The Jews are fleeing from Bialvs tok to the neighboring forests and tho mobs are pursuing them. Detach ments of dragoons have been sent out to protect the Jews. The latest dispatches from Bialvs tok, which were received iu St. Pe tersburg about midnight, Thursday, report a situation of the utmost grav ity. Tue antl-Jewish outbreak thero was still raging, fighting was In prog ress In the streets, the firing was continuous, the best stores In the city had been sacked and many were dead or wounded. Figures, however, were not given, and probably the casualties are not known in Bialvstok, owing bo the continuance of disorders. The Jews, who number three-fourths of the population of the city, offered tho best resistance possible, many of them being armed, but were unable to prevent the pillaging of their homes and places of business. Final ly the military interfered, but ac cording to advices received, with out being able to restore order. Re inforcements have been rushed to Bialvstok from Grodno. 'Several members of parliament on Wednesday night redelved messages from Jewish correspondents at Bialvs tok, declaring that the police appar ently had given over the Hebrew pop ulation to slaughter and pillage. These correspondents urged that tho only hope was in an appeal to the minis ter of the interior to interfere In their behalf. A delegation of deputies Im mediately called at the headquarters of the police department, where they were informed that all measures pos sible had been taken to stop excesses and rostore order. BENSON TAKES THE OOATH. New Kansas Senator, Successor to Burton, Duty Installed. A. W. Benson, appointed by Gov ernor Hoch to succeed J. R. Burton as senator from Kansas, was induct- e dinto office Thursday. His creden tials were presented by hls colleague, Senator Long, by whom he was es corted to the vice president’s desk, where the oath of office was adminis tered. 'Before the administration of the oath, Senator Burrows, chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, called attention to an irreg ularity in the governor’s certificate. He pointed out that according to the certificate the appointment Is made, not only to fill the vacancy, but “un til the legislature shall elect.” VERDICT AGAINST PACKERS. Jury at Kansas City Finds Them Guilty of Accepting Rebates. Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Cuda hy & Co. and the Nelson, Morris Pack ing company were found guilty in the United States district court at Kan sas City Tuesday of accepting con cessions from the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railway on export ship ments on packing house products. Judge McPherson stated that sen tence would not be assessed until the case against the Burlington railway, which is charged with granting t.he concessions to the packers, is coif eluded. POPULIST CONVENTION. Will Be Held at Georgia Capital, on July 4, to Rut Out Ticket. Georgia’s populists will put out a full state ticket at a convention to be held in Atlanta on July 4. This course was definitely decided on by a vote of 7 to 3 at the meeting of the state populist executive com mittee held at the Kimball House In Atlanta •Thursday. INTERESTING LETTER WRITTEN BY A NOTABLE WOMAN Mr*. Sarah Kellogg of Denver, Coin, Bearer of the Woman's Relief Cor*. Banda Thanks to Mrs. Pink ham 1 * tt t, rwa « written by Mrs. KelWff Ave 16 D «ve M Denver Col.,to Mrs. Pit,],! i^ m vV- vnn Mass - troubkd 3 ^? i Mrs^arohfallen jSw&gS3 B j2| mat mental depmskm. I w«» unable to »t fand tomy house work, and life became a bur! den to me. I was confined for days to mv Ui loet my appetite, my courage and all how ’ “ I could not bear to think of an onvattm and in roy distress I tried every reniej v w hw! I thought would be of any LT ni, reading of the value of Lydia E. I'inkhsjn. Vegetable Compound to sick women deHrtJ to give It a trial I felt so discoursed Mint t had little hope of recovery, and when? to feel better, after the second week, thousht it only meant temporary relief; but torn, great surprise I found that I kept rsinln/ “'bile the tumor lessened in site. C ng| “ The Compound continued to build ud mv general health and the tumor seemed to )>• absorbed, until, In seven months, tho tumor was entirely gone and I a well woman l Ml so thankful for my recovery that I ask you to publish my letter in newspapers, so other women may know of tho wonderful curative E awers of Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable ompound.” When women aro troubled with irreg ular or puinful periods, weakness, dis placement or ulceration of the female organs, that bearing-down feeling, in flammation, backache, flatulence, gen. oral debility, Indigestion or nervous prostration, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy, Lydia E. Pinkhnm's Vegetable Com pound at once removes such troubles No other medicine in the world has received sueh widespread und unquali fied endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of fewalo ills. Mrs. Plnkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She isdaughter- ln-law of Lydia E. Plnkham und for twenty-fis'e years under her direction and since her decease has been advising sick women free of charge. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. Remember that it la Lydia E. Pink- ham's Vegetable Compound that U cur ing women, and don't allow any druggist to sell you anything else in its place. City of Refuge for Debtors. The Isle of Man, headquarters ol Scandinavian pirates in ancient days, was, la modern times, the happy City of Refuge for the debtors of England and the bold, bad smuggler. The debt or, especially, gave the Island an evil name. A sorrowful historian declares that for nearly a century the Isle was a "sanctuary for the unfortunate and profligate cf the surrounding nations, who flocked thither In such numbers as to make It a common receptacle for the basest of their kind.” Hap pier days have come to the Island, for It is now only the fortunate “who flock thither Ip such numbers.”—Lo» don Chronicle. Water at Meals. Water taken with meals should be lipped as well as taken sparingly. Ice water should be taken as seldom as possible; never would be a better rule. And the habit of putting chipped ice In the drinking water le to bo avoided, as one never knows what may be taken Into the stomach through this medium. The better way Is to fill bottles with water and allow them to stand beside ice to chill Hew He Saw It. Wife—This book says that in India It Is the custom to bury the living wife with her dead husband. Isn't It terrible? Husband—Indeed It Is! The poor arm- band—even death brings him no re lease.—Translated from Tales frou Strekoza. THE DOCTOR’S WAY. “Who Is that JovlaJ-looking over In the corner?” "Why. that’s Dr. Pills, a very nice chap; takes life so cheerfully, d° n you know.” “The life of others, no doubt.”-L« Rive. KNOWS NOW Doctor Was Fooled liy Hls Own Cine Fo» a Time, It’s easy to understand how ordinary people get fooled by coffee when d° c ’ tors themselves sometimes forget the facts. A physiclnn speaks of hls own experi ence: . “I hod used coffee for years aj 1 really did not exactly believe it was ID’ jurlng me, although I had palpitation of tho heart every day. “Finally one day a severe and nlnios fatal attack of heart trouble fright' 1 * me and I gave up both tea and conf using Fostuni instead, and since time I have had absolutely no he palpitation except on one or two off slons when I tried a small quantity coffee which caused severe irritn i and proved to me I must let It »> ol,e ' “When we began using Fostuiu seemed weak—that was because did not make it according to diref —but now we put a little bit of >' * In the pot when boiling and n |ioW ^ Fostum to boll full 15 minutes, w gives It the proper rich flavor ou ep brown color. . ‘I have advised a great many 0 lends and patients to leave off 1 id drink Postum, In fact. I da ^ is advice.” Name given by )., Battle Creek, Mich. ,, Many thousands of pbysloinn jn Mtum In place of ten and co elr own homes and prescribe itient*. “There’s a ronB ° n ’” Bo a<l A remarkable little book, * WellTllle.” can be found In P***