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THE SANDERSVILLE HERALD.
STILL A DOV.
“Still n hoy” we hoard ono say
To another, halt in Jest.
Then fun-wrinkles joined In play
With a laugh of merry zest;
And the jolly frame of him
Shook with hursts of sheerest joy
As In- answered baek witli vim,
“Well, I'm glad I'm still a boy!”
Still a boy—a>e, true enough.—
Glad, yet gentle; pure and kind;
Molded sure of manly stuff—
Kind of boy it s hard to find.
Kind of boy It's good to see—
Man-boy, wholesome; simple; true—
Kind of boy you’d like to lie
If Nip ehoiee were left to you.
Still a boy—how many now
Have forgot the solemn eye—
Have forgot the wrinkled brow
Is the* boy's that onee enme by?
Call him back—It is his due;
Let him come with youth and Joy
Bat-k Into the heart of you,
Laughingly, and still a boy.
Still a boy—nh. well-a-day,
I’oys are scarce enough it best.
With the rippling roundelay
Let the boy still be your guest;
Let him cleave unto your heart
In Iroy-eonfidenee and hold—
Still a hoy—the man apart.
Long long after lie Is old.
— Prank Hates Planner, in The Reader.
One of the minor "caltie kings” of
California bears the title of “Clover
Ix>af" Johnson. The neat mark of his
brand, the conventionalized clover
leaf, is Indelibly seared on the Hanks
of two thousand cattle that range over
the mountains and deserts of three
large counties.
It is my good fortune to have met
Johnson and to have heard from hint
the following story of the days when
the clover-leaf brand was young:
"The proudest hour of my life was
when 1 sat on a horseshoe keg and
watched a blacksmith as, with deft
manipulation of fire and hammer and
anvil, he fashioned the original clover-
leaf brand. I told the smith to spare
neither time nor expense In Its mak
ing, and the figure came out with thin,
even edges, and ns true as a die In
outline. Then, by indiscernible weld
ing, it was made the end of a three-
foot rod, the other extremity of which
was bent to form a handhold. The
finished product was suited for long,
hard service, and, what is also of Im
portance, was one that would brand
entile without mutilation and with a
minimum of burning.
“The next day 1 started for the high
mountains with five hundred cattle,
which I was running on shares. Every
fourth calf was to be my own, anil be
fore the season was over a number of
the small fry were wearing the clover
leaf.
‘'Duplicating the graceful imprint of
my iron gave me such pleasurable
.thfjUs that In the long waits between
calves, I sometimes fell to decorating
the lightnlng-3carrfd trees and fallen
logs about my camp.
"The other cow-inm called my at
tention to this weakness liy roughshod
and well-taken jests, and have ever
since called me Clover I^eaf Johnson.
As this name was also given to dis
tinguish me from my nearest neigh
bor, whom they called Cattle Thief
Johnson, i did not in the least object
to tho title.
“Some of my jocular friends de
clared 1 put several brands on each
calf, although this I denied emphati
cally. Before returning to the foot
hills that fall, however, I did go to
just such an extreme of ‘art for art’s
sake’ under conditions that were
somewhat unusual.
"The cattle I was running were al
lowed to roam at will over the moun
tains, and my principal business, after
getting them ‘haunted/ was to keep
the salt-licks filled and to look out for 1
animals that were sick or crippled.
Late one evening l found a cow and a
steer that seemed to have been torn
by some wild animal, and with the in
tention of treating their wounds the
next day, I ran them into a corral
that had been built near the huge lone
oak under which I camped.
"Before dawn the following morn
ing 1 was busy cooking breakfast
when a pitiful bawling arose from the
corral. Thinkim; that one of the cow
brutes was goring the other, I seized
my branding-iron, which happened to
be the only weapon near at hand, and
rushed to the rescue.
"I could not see what was happen
ing inside tho enclosure, as the stock
ade was of logs piled five feet high;
but without hesitation I vaulted, clear
ing the top log neatly—under the cir
cumstances far too neatly, for as my
legs swung downward I caught sight
of the unoffending steer cowering in
the farther corner, and not fifteen feet
from tlie spot, where I must alight the
cow lay prostrate and bleeding, with
a big grizzly walking round her.
“Ordinarily I am not a scatterwit,
hut on this occasion 1 certainly at
tempted a backward leap from a foun
dation of light mountain air, and in
consequence, landed flat on my back,
with arms and legs sprawling.
"My plight demanded action swift
and strong, for the moment I bit the
ground the grizzly made for me with
just such an up-and-over hop as a
spider executes when jumping a fly.
Just how I evaded his charge I could
never say. I know only that I got out
of the corral very quickly, and with
tine bear close behind, raced for my
lone oak.
“The lower limits of this old giant
branched some five or six feet above
my head, and the great girth of the
trunk offered little hope of ascent by
the ‘shinning’ process. I should cer
tainly have become meat for the grizz
ly had it not been for the branding-
iron, which I had forgotten to drop,
and the thought that I might hook the
handle end over a stub which pro
ject ed at the base of the lowest
branch.
“The claws and teeth in the Im
mediate rear heartened me for the
leap of my life. I was fortunate
enough to hook the snag with a sin
gle carefully timed sweep of the Iron,
and with no noticeable pause in my
upward flight, 1 ascended to a foothold
in the crown of the tree.
“The grizzly, although falling back
into an awkward heap from his first
spring at my receding legs, seemed
unwilling to admit that he was .not a
tree-climber; and spreading himself
out like a flying squirrel against the
broad trunk, he dug his huge claws
Into the rough bark and begun inching
his way upward.
“Tlie tree leaned from the direction
of the prevailing winds, and this, with
the bear’s great zeal and strenuous
application, gave some promise of his
attaining his ambition in spite of
natural disadvantages. He became
quite encouraged over his prospects;
but when lie had climbed a couple of
feel, 1 reached down and hit him a
clout over the head with the hand
hold of my iron. The stout rod re
bounded from the blow as if tlie old
fellow’s hide were made of india-rub
ber, hut it affected ills temper violent
ly, ami with a guttural snarl, lie
dropped all holds, and promptly slid
to the ground.
"Wo played this game until high
noon. The grizzly could not resist tho
impulse to return buffet for clout, and
upon every withdrawal of his fore
hooks he dropped back to mother
earth, always lundtng In u sitting
posture, with a bump so harsh that
his teeth would rattle.
“Finally he took a recess, and after
stirring about my camp for a while,
ate dinner for us both. Everything
lie did not cut lie tore to pieces or
overturned. Flour, bacon, bedding,
beans, stock salt, dried fruit and sugar
ho "pied’ with grave satisfaction,
Ignoring completely the wild whoops
and the lively war-dance with which
I strove to divert him.
“Then, ns if with the thought of
sellling his dinner, he reclined on his
bulging side, and watched me with
languid interest while 1 took up my
belt a couple of holes and wondered
how long It would be before 1 got an
other square meal myself.
“For me nothing clears the brain
like lasting, and after an hour of si
lent contemplation, I began to work
out a scheme which promised a neat
combination of business and pleasure.
First 1 procured some dry branches
and built a lively fire in the saddle-
shaped crotch of two gigantic limbs.
Then I climbed out to where a storm-
twlsied branch threw out a luxuriant
growth of new shoots, and cut a
couple of stout staves six feet in
length. One of these I whittled to a
sharp point at tlie tapering end; the
other I lashed to the handle of the
branding-iron by means of my leather
hell and some hijekskjn strings which
K found in my pocl.et.
"By this lime the fire Jiad a good
foundation of coaln, In which I bedded
the clover leaf. While I waited for
the iron to heat, I offended the ledln-
ing grizzly by pelting him with
chunks of ouk bark, and when ho
ear/iC protesting to the base, of the
oak, by some vigorous digs with the
pointed staff. Upon this, he took up
the cares of the world again, aspiring,
as before dinner, to become a tree-
climber.
really mean It, however, for he wav
ered as he neared me, and upon my
leaping forward and extending the
glowing clover leaf, reversed ends
with astonishing alacrity, and wonder
fully tore up the earth between me
and the nearest clump of timber.
“That was the last I ever saw of
my grizzly in the flesh, hut ten years
later, when looking for cuttle that
had drifted a hundred miles off their
range, I had an opportunity of closely
examining my handiwork on his hide.
It came about through a settler’s
noticing the brand on my horse.
"'Is that your Iron?” he inquired.
"On my answering affirmatively, he
invited me into his cabin, saying that
he had something to show me. There,
covering half the floor, spread the pelt
of a grizzly bear which bote the dou
ble sign of the clover leaf. Thinking
to have some fun at my host's ex
pense, 1 shook him warmly by the
hand, saying:
“‘That’s my iron, all right. You’re
an honest man, and I'm right glad to
know you. I will take the hide, of
course, and in the clr'umstanceB w*’l
agree to say nothing at all ubout the
meat.’
‘‘The settler scratched his head
some time before answering.
“ 'That was a good word you said
about my being an honest man. I sup
pose 1 can say the same for you?’
“ ‘Yes, sir!’ I replied.
“ 'All right, then, here Is your hide.
You will owe me something for dam
ages, though. Your bear pulled down
six of my cow brutes, killed fifteen
hogs, and busted open thirteen bee
hives.’
“ ’Prove your losses and I'll stand
them,’ said I, somewhat faintly.
“'That’s a. go,’ agreed the stealer,
promptly, and then proceeded with
great gravity to enumerate the losses
of his neighbors. Finally, noting the
length my face was assuming, he
hurst out laughing.
Georgia Callings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
To Rebuild Car Plant.
At a joint meeting of the creditors
anil directors of the South Atlantic
Car and Manufacturing company, held
in Waycro8s, arrangements were per
fected whereby the plant which wns
partly consumed by fire recently, will
be rebuilt at once.
* * *
Postmasters Get Leave of Absence.
A Washington dispatch says: Post
masters of Georgia, of the first, sec-
ond and third classes, have been grant
ed n leave of absence, not exceeding
five days, to attend a meeting of post
masters of the presidential class of
Georgia to be held at Macon, Novem
ber 25 and 26, 1907. At that meet
ing a Georgia State Association of
Postmasters will be organized.
* * *
Pomeroy Succeeds Anderson.
Major E. E. Pomeroy, commanding
one of the battalions of the fifth in
fantry, Georgia state troops, is select
ed to head that regiment as the re
sult of votes polled at the armory
In Atlanta. Major Pomeroy's promo
tion will serve to fill the vacancy de
nted by the promotion of Colonel Clif
ford Anderson, who was recently com
missioned brigadier general of the
state militia.
Peonage Case Falls Through.
The federal grand jury adjoilrned
at Athens without taking up the eiiurgo
of peonage against James M. Smith,
‘How about it? Hadn’t we better j the big Oglethorpe county farmer. The
say that the bear was wild and the government did not submit tho case
hhle is mine?’
“ ‘Yes.’ I replied. ‘You keep
hide.’ ”—Youth’s Companion.
the
ADDS SPLEEN TO LIST OF FOODS.
to the grand jury.
Colonel Smith was hound over a few
weeks since on this charge, and it Is
believed that the failure of the gov
ernment to put the case to tho grand
jury for investigation means an aban
donment of the prosecution.
No License in Locker Tax.
In a letter written to Tax Collector
Boston Physician Declares Hitherto
Discarded Organ Is Edible.
Declaring that red blood corpuscles
come from the spleen and also an
nouncing that spleens arc edible, Dr.
Edward T. Williams, a graduate of j T. F. Thompson of Chatham county.
Harvard Medical School, believes ho | Comptroller General Wright declares
has found the moans of adding 50,000,- | that the $500 tax imposed upon clubs
000 pounds to the nation's annual | having lockers in no sense of the word
meat supply, which should mean a ! | s to he construed as a license to sell
saving of $5,000,000 a year. His dis- j liquor, but simply as an occupation
covery, lie believes, makes It possi- ' tHX
"But I caused him to defer the pre
liminary trunk-grappling effort by
vigorous prods with the sharp stick.
Thun, as he reared in a great rage to
threaten and parry, I let him chew
and claw the staff for a moment,
while I thrust the branding-iron un
der his guard, slapped the glowing
clover leaf on his breast, a-nd held it
firmly an instant, while the over
heated metal settled through Ills
shaggy coat.
"It was a very much discomfited
and outraged grizzly that withdrew
from the dense little cloud of singed-
liair smoke. As he hacked about,
angrily spitting out bits of the splin
tered staff and examining his fore
quarters in grave amazement, I ob
served with keen delight that the
clover leaf had taken splendidly. The
imprint centered his broad, tawny
breast, and was as true and as trim
as a die. Never to my eyes had it
looked half so imposing.
" ‘One more before yon leave me!
One more to match it from below!” I
shouted, and proceeded to rekindle
my fire and the grizzly’s tree-climbing
ardor.
“In this latter I found considerable
difilcully, as the branding incident
seemed to have imbued the old fellow
with deep-rooted diffidence. A full
half-hour of pelting with sticks and
bark was required to draw him within
reach of my prod, although once this
was accomplished, he speedily became
lost in a ferocious craving for revenge.
So overwrought was he with this base
passion that he shortly found himself
hacking out from the fumes of burnt
hair again.
"Now he bore on his breast two of
my symbols of ownership, placed per
pendicularly and stem to stem. So
high did my enthusiasm run that I de
termined to add one at each side,
thinking thus to complete a design in
which four clover leaves radiated from
a common center. The grizzly, how
ever, would have none of It. A long
season of futile effort, attended by a
painful gnawing in the region where
my breakfast, and dinner should have
been, made me decide to send him
hack to his haunts without further
decoration.
“When I descended to put this plan
into execution, the big brute scared
nearly to death by throwing him-
-!i’ into a tremendous bristle and
uuKing a furious charge. He did not
hie for the poor to obtain meat at a
cost not exceeding ten cents a pound.
Dr. Williams was graduated from the
Harvard Medical school in 1863, and
several years ago gave up a profita
ble practice to engage in original re
search. In humble rooms, in Dudley
street, he has lived as a recluse, de-
voting big time to study and experi
menting.
Spegkilig of his work to one of the
few persons who ever gained admit
tance to his quarters, he said: —
"In the work I have been carrying
on I have made is in regard to the
spleen, for I have found that it is this
organ which makeB the red blood cor
puscles.
“While this may be a matter of con
siderable interest to physicians and
specialists, still what is of far greater
importance to the average man or wo
man is that I have discovered spleens
are good to eat, and extremely palata
hie when fresh. The average spleen
contains 3-4 of a grain of iron and
1 1-2 grains of phosphorus per ounce,
which makes it the richest possible
food and particularly valuable in cas
es of impoverished bloods or nervous
debility.
"The spleen is really the iron gland
of the body, and contains more phos
phorus than any other organ with the
exception of the brain. I ate iny first
spleen about five years ago and found
It quite palatable.
"The reason spleens have never be
come an article of commercial value
in the beef industry is because they
spoil so quickly. There is little use
in placing them on Ice, for after a
few hours they seem to disintegrate
and fall apart, and consequently are
not marketable.”
Dr. Williams has found, however,
that spleens can he kept like other
meat if the albumen In them is first
coagulated by cooking. He says lie is
negotiating with a sausage manufac
turer to put spleen on the market put
up like (sausages.—Boston correspon
dence of the New York Herald.
He writes: “You will therefore re
ceipt for thi3 tux as an occupation
tax, and designate the same in your
returns. This In nowise has even the
semblance of a license by the state for
the conduct of the business.”
* » *
College Appropriation Held Up.
The commissioners of roads and
reveneus of Pike county, at their No
vember meeting, were served with an
order signed by Judge E. J. Reagan on
the petition of a number of citizens
Georgia state fair, which will probably
he again held in Atlanta next year,
will be divided among the three sec
tions of the state, north, south and
middle Georgia.
There is the keenest rivalry betweert
these three sections and plan would
decide the competition. It would also
do away with the contest among the
different counties and the awarding of
nine premiums among as many coun
ties.
If the fair is held In Atlanta next
year, as In all probability it will be,
eyerv effort will be made to make a
still greater success as an agricultural
exposition. The fair this season was
the biggest agricultural display ever
given In the state’s history.
* * *
Government Experts at Work.
Quietly and successfully government
experts, assigned to Georgia by the
United States agricultural department,
are mingling with the farmers of the
state, giving them instructions in for
estry, dairy work, seed selection, cul
ture methods, crop rotation, road build
ing and soil survey.
There has bepu so little said of this
work in the newspapers that Georgians
living in the cities of the state have
hardly been aware of the movement,
but the farmers in many sections have
already felt the good effects, for the
number of experts placed in the state
by the government has increased so
rapidly that there are now in the
neighborhood of forty men engaged in
this work.
* * *
Plans for Cotton School Complete.
No movement has been started along
educational lines in Georgia during
the past decade that has attracted
more attention than the proposed cot
ton school that is to be held in Athens
for ten days, beginning January 6,
1908, and under tho auspices of the
SUite College of Agriculture and Me
chanic Arts at Athens.
The object of this school is to help
all the farmers get much useful in
formation at a minimum cost.
There will be no entrance examina
tions, and any person over sixteen
years of age can enter tho school. The
registration fee will he $1.00 and the
Incidental expenses necessitated by the
sciiool work need not be more than
$1.00. The cost of taking the work
will therefore be confined to railroad
fare and board and lodging, which
means that the school is virtually free
to every student of Georgia.
The course of instruction provided In
tho cotton school is as follows:
Ten lectures on the soil.
Ten lectures on fertilizers.
Five lectures on the cotton plant.
Five lectures on seed selection.
Five lectures on cotton insects.
Five lectures on feeding cotton by
products.
Five lectures on cotton machinery.
Ten demonstrations on cotton grad
ing.
The cotton grading feature of tho
Advice to a Lawyer.
A young man from the South who,
a few years ago, was so fortunate ns
to he enabled to enter the law offices
of a well known New York firm was
first intrusted with a very simple case.
He was asked by the late James C.
Carter, then a member of the firm, to
give an opinion In writing.
When this was submitted, it was
noticed by Mr. Carter that, with the
touching confidence of a neophyte, the
young Southerner had begun with the
expression, "I am clearly of the opin
ion.”
When thi3 caught his eye, he smiled
and said:
“My dear young friend, never state
that you are clearly of opinion on a
law point. The most you can hope tc
discover is the preponderance of th
doubt.”—Success.
of the county restraining them from | Bch#ol wlll be emphasized above.every
paying to the sixth district agricultural
college, located in Barnesvllle, the $3,-
000 which the Pike county grand jury
recently recommended should he paid.
The treasurer of the county was also
served with a copy of the order. Judge
Reagan set a hearing for the matter at
McDonough for November 18, at which
time it will be fought out. The col
lege Is scheduled to open on January S.
ELECTIONJCHOES
Result of the Battle of Ballots
in Thirteen States.
Didn't Know.
Hostess: Let’s have a game oi
bridge. You Dlay, don’t you, Miss
Greenley?”
Miss Greenley: “Well, really, j
lon’t know. You see, I’ve never tried.’
-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
“Dog Fall” in Land Dispute.
Secretary of State Phil Cook has
announced Ills decision in regard to
the disputed county line between
Johnson and Laurens counties, giving
the lund in dispute, some 500 acres, to
Johnson county. This land was sup
posed by many to belong to Laurens
county, but the decision of the secre
tary of the state meiely sustains the
survey recently made by Captain L. M.
Roberts.
By running the lino out, however,
Laurens county is given some 900
acres, which, before this time, was
supposed to belong to Johnson county,
so the matter is about equalized at tho
finish.
Tlie dispute was brought up by rea
son of a homicide, which took place
on the contested territory. Both coun
ties claimed the prisoner, ana con
tended that each had the right to try
the case.
* * *
Memorial Shaft Broken.
A granite shaft, which was being
erected at Decatur, in memory of the
confederate dead, was broken by a fall
while workmen were engaged in hoist
ing it into place. The slipping of a
rope caused the shaft to topple over,
and the fall broke it in half.
The shaft, which cost $2,500, was
bought by the DeKalb County Confed
erate Memorial Association, and the
unveiling exercises were to have taken
place on November 9. A new shaft will
be secured, and the date for the. un
veiling, exercises will he postponed un
til some day, probably in April. The
shaft was being erected by the But
ler Marble company of Marietta, and
that company will make a new one
free of cost.
* * *
Agricultural Exposition Planned.
If the plan of a number of prominent
agriculturalists is carried out by the
Georgia State Agricultural Society, the
agricultural premiums for the annual
other. Two hours or more each after
noon will be devoted to the work.
Moreover, every farmer who becomes
thoroughly acquainted with the grading
of cotton puts himself in a strong, de
fensive position, a position which will
not only enable him to improve the
grade of cotton raised on his farm be
cause of his knowledge of the subject,
but to obtain a fair price for his crop
as well.
TO CURB PAPER TRUST
President Will Recommend Removal of
Tariff on Wood Pulp.
A recommendation to congress by
President Roosevelt in his next mes
sage that tlie tariff on press paper,
wood pulp and the wood that is used
in the manufacture of this paper be
abolished, was indicated by the presi
dent Friday, when the paper commit
tee of tlie American Newspaper Pub
lishers’ Association called at the white
house.
The call was made in pursuance to
a resolution adopted by the Newspapei
Publishers’ Association last September
The revolutions asked for the aboli
tion of tlie tariff in view of the man
opoly that had grown so as to abso
lutely control the sale of this prod
uct.
SURPRISES DEVELOPED
Tammany Victorious in Now York
Johnson Downs Roosevelt’s Candi
date for Mayor of Cleveland
and Kentucky Republican.
Elections were held in . thirteen
•tales Tuesday, and passed off compar-
•lively quiet. Following a 8Umni
of results:
In Massaehusets, Governor Guild, ro-
publican, has ail estimated plurality of
about 100,000. Ills plurality in jun*
was 30,233.
In New Jersey the returns show that
Katzenbach, democratic candidate for
governor, may have a plurality 0 f in
000.
In Pennsylvania, Sheatz, who led th*
republican ticket for state treasurer
Is elected by a iarge majority estimated
at 175,000. In 1906 the plurality of
Stuart, republican candidate for gov-
ernor, was 48,235.
In New York state, Ward Bartlett
and Willard Bartlett, who run Jointly
on the republican and democratic tlcli-
et, are elected as judges of the court
of appeals over candidates of the In
dependence league.
In New York city the,Tammany can
didates led those of the Independence
league by a large majority.
In Rhode Island, Higgins, democratic
candidate for governor, Is supposed
a winner, hut the race Is close, in
1906 Higgins had a plurality of 1,31$.
In Maryland, returns show that, ex-
Governor Smith wins in the democratic
senatorial primaries. Conservative es
timates Indicate that Crothers, demo
cratic candidate for governor, will car
ry tho state by from 6,000 to 8,000.
In Kentucky Augustus E. Wilson,
republican candidate for governor, niift
the entire republican state ticket have
been elected by majorities ranging
from 5,000 to 10,000, and the republi
cans have carried the city of Louis
ville for both state and city tickets,
James F. Grinstead, republican, tt
elected mayor of Louisville by 3,000
majority.
The next Kentucky legislature will
have a democratic majority on Joint
ballot, and presumably for Governor
Beckham for United States senator, al
though there Is already some talk of a
bolt of some of the democrats to da-
feat him.
In Nebraska, M. D. Ree3e, republi
can candidate for tho supreme court,
the most important state office voted
on, Is undoubtedly elected.
Cincinnati elected Colonel Leopold
Murkbreit, the republican candidate for
mayor.
Meager returns from San Francisco
show Taylor, democratic nnd good gov
ernment candidate for mayor, leading,
with the union labor candidate show
ing unexpected strength.
At Cleveland, Ohio, Tom L. Johnson
was re-elected for the fourth time as
mayor In a hard fought battle, In
which the republican ticket was Load
ed by Congressman Thoodore E. bur
ton, chairman of the house committee
on rivers and linrhors, backed by The
odore Roosevelt.
At Salt Lake City municipal candi
dates of the American (anti-Mormon)
party will have the largest plurality
ever given In the city. Bransforn, for
mayor, will have from 7,000 to 10,000
plurality over Plummer, republican,and
Morris, democrat. The Americans will
control the council. They have been
In power for the past two years.
The Mississippi democratic state-
ticket, headed by E. F. Noel for govern
or, was elected. Only a small vote
was cast. The other officers include
Luther Manship, lieutenant governor;
E. J. Smith.audltorG. R. Edward*,
treasurer; J. W. Power, secretary of
state; T. M. Henry, insurance com
missioner; R. V. Fletcher, attorney
general, and H. E. Blakeslee, commit
slon of agriculture.
TO KEEP FAILURES SECRET,
Nothing Will Be Said of Collapse of
National Banks.
The treasury department has decid
ed thut it will no longer make public
announcerdent of the failure of nation
al banks, nor give out any information
concerning such banks after they have
failed. Neither will any announcement
be made of the name of the receiver
appolntd or any other official action
that may be taken.
POSSE SEARCHING FOR NEGRO.
Will Avenge Crime of Criminal Assault
on Woman and Daughter.
A posse of enraged citizens are
scouring the country in 'th© vicinity of
Millington, Tenn., about fifteon miles
from Memphis, for a negro whose at
tack upon and attempted criminal as-
cault of Mrs. J. N. Tucker and her
17-year-old daughter was one of the
most brutally daring that has ever
been recorded.
FREE SEEDS ARE BURNED.
Fire Destroys Distribution Division of
Agricultural Department.
Fire, early Wednesday morning,
which gutted the five story brick build
ing tn Washington, occupied by 1 e
seed distribution division of the a
partment of agriculture, caused
age amounting to $75,000. The I 0b ®’
which is nearly covered by insurance
includes damages to building, mat 1 '
ery, equipment and destruction of ^
seeds, which will delay for Bevcr .
weeks the free distribution of
through the goverittuietit sources-
FOR DISCOUNTING CERTIFICATE
Montgomery Merchants Stand Cba
•f Being Prosecuted.
Mayor Teague of Montgomery, ^
has directed the police to an ,s ^
prosecute business men who ^
to be discounting clearing boost ^
tifleates issued by the banks. 1 ", fg
or denounces the practice as 0
and points out that it Is a rfcjj’
the law regulating money bre