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The Sandersville Herald. SEMI-WEEKLY. T* SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA, JANUARY 25, 1908. ESTABLISHED 1841 filNNERS’ REPORT BEARS OUT FACTS. Cotton Crop Shows That Ginners Knew What Was Coming. President J. A. Taylor of the National Ginners’ Association has given out the following letter: “Reports by telegraph from our larger correspondents in each state indicate that the heavy ginning during December has censed and indicates a crop not much, if any, over our estimate of 10,(502,000 hales. Our figures are a little too low on South Carolina, Georgia, and possibly Louisiana and too high on Texas and North Caroli na. and about right on the other states. Nearly 70 per cent of our correspondents have finished and closed down for the season, except in the Mississippi Delta, where there is yet some cotton to pick. “The last late crop wo had was the 19011-4 crop. We ginned from Dec. 18 to Jan. 10, 959,0(H) hales and compared to the size of the crop we will hardly gin that much this .year. After the Kith, wo ginned 844,000 halos. Notwith standing the heavy ginning during the last period, the market has advanced about eighty points, and there is a larger demand for spot cotton than ever before. 1 advise all who have cotton, espec ially the good grades, to hold tight as there is every indication of a good advance, if the planters do not put too much on the market at one time. The demand for good grades is especially heavy. “1 have just learned from good authority that the big bull leader, D. J. Sully, is in the market for better prioos. He is backed by a large syndicate of Wall street people and there is no telling how high the market will go, but if the planters will hold tight to their cotton they will got 15 cents a pound easily und may get much more. Cotton goods are 25 per cent higher than in 1908-4, when the market went to 17.00, and if prices on cotton advance cotton goods can advance considerably without cutting down the con sumption under the supply. The world is short at least 4,500.000 bales and the best authorities think the consumption will be larger in Europe tlran last year The consumption in this country will probably be a little less, Gut taken as a whole it will be as large the world over as last year, unless cotton goes to extremely high prices. “I want to call your attention to the boll weevil. So far the weather has been very favorable for them to come through the winter in as good shape as they did last year. If you will get the census report for Dec. 18, by counties, you will see that in Tex as, Louisiana and Oklahoma,where the real shortage exists is in the weevil districts. Red River Par ish, Louisiana, ginned 5,000 bales compared to 17,000 last year; Caddo Parish, 14,000 compared to 41,000 last year; De Soto Parish, 5,500 compared to 15.000 last year; while parishes in the east ern part of the state where the boll weevil has done little damage made nearly as much ns last year. I u Texas the only part not infested by the weevils is northwest of Fort Worth. The ginning in Hardeman, Wilbarger, Wichita and other counties not infested by the weevils is larger even than last year. The weevil has spread more the past season than ever >efore and has now crossed the Mississippi river and in two years will cover t he entire southern part )f the state. This means it will bn almost impossible to raise a bumper crop next season. “Financial conditions have im proved much faster than the most optimistic people thought and in dications are that in sixty or nine ty days every tiling will lie normal again. “According to a report from Mr. Hester, secretary of the New Orieans Cotton Exchange, the average weight of the bales is over 1 pounds lighter than last year. This means 850,000 bales of 500 pounds grosR weight; so that if the amount ginned up to the end of tho season is 10,750.000 bales, it would he really equal to 10,750,- 000 bales of last year’s weights.” ERRORS, INDISCRETIONS OF PRISON COMMISSION And the Pardoning Board. Williams is Expected to aid in Remedying. JUDGE J. F. BRANNEN WILL PRESIDE. In City Court Next Week In the Disqualified Cases. Judge.!. F. Brannen, Judge of the City Court of Statesboro will preside for Judge Jordan in the City Court of Sandorsville in cases in which he is disqualified next week. Judge Jordan will hold the court trying nil tho cases coming up in the court until Wednesday, by which time most of the cases will be disposed of. Judge Brannen will arrive Wed nesday. He is well known by members of the bar hero and pre sides over one of tho most im portant City Courts in tho State and is regarded as an able Judge and a good lawyer by his brethren throughout the circuit. Infant’s Illness Ends in Heath. REPAIRING We have the best equipped WATCH REPAIRING SHOP in Middle Georgia. SEND US YOUR WORK SCARBOROUGH & GARBUTT Sandersville, Ga. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Beach died at their home on North Harris street Thursday night after an illness extending from its birth. The child was only a few months old and had never been very strong and parents and friends feared that its life would not be long. The best and tenderest care was given the little one by the fa ther and mother and friends, but in spite of human help and love and devoted care, death came Thursday night and relieved its sufferings. Card of Thanks. To Our Friends: We thank each of our friends with all our hearts for help and kindness and unselfish attention during the recent illness of our little child. In the midst of sor row and suffering like this, it is comforting and cheering to know that we have such dear neighbors and friends. Gratefully yours, Mu, and Mus. W. R. Beach. WANTED. Competent and experi enced Stenographer desires position, Reference exchanged. Address!. M. Care Sandersville Herald. ^Highest Market price paid for Peas bv F. II Goodman or J. A. \\ ise at the Daylight Corner Grocery Store. (Atlanta Correspondence of Grif fin News and Sun.) Atlanta, January 18. (Special) The investigations of the work ings of the state prison commis sion being made by tho Georgia sonate committee on penitentia ries, headed by Senator Brock, which have already resulted in tho discharge of State Warden Jake C. Moore, who has been with the commission since the beginning, for receiving money from convict lessees, may or may not result in anything further or inculpate those higher up, as it has many who are lower down. But it has served a good purpose in showing just at this right time the neces sity of not, only putting new blood into this commission, which has succeeded in electing its own members each time, but putting in some man of another character —one who knows criminals and the lessees of convicts from actual contnrt and view of their work ings rather from camp reports and mere office knowledge. Also, one whose efficiency and probity have already been thoroughly tested. There are a number of candi dates to succeed Tom Eason, the member whose term expires this year; but while they are all good men, there is only one who comes up to the requirements mentioned, and that is Captain Wiley Wil liams, chief of police of Colum bus, who gave Tom Eason the race of his life six years ago. For this reason, and because ho is best known over the state, the state house officials here, while not car ing to be quoted since they will be candidates themselves, aro quietly talking that Wiley Wil liams is a pretty sure winner in this raco, and will welcome his advent in a corner of the capitol that, has been the cause of a great deal more suppressed scandal than has come to the public knowledge. It is not only in the manage ment of criminals that the Georgia prison commission has been criti cised, but in the fact that it has so magnified tho other and sub ordinate branch of its work that it is more often called the board of pardons than by its first name; for it is a dull week at the state house when it does not grind out about as many pardons ns there are convicts in two or three aver age criminal courts combined. Indeed, it is probably no great exaggeration to say that the state penitentiary and convict camps might soon become depleted but for the numerical advantage that the trial courts have over the board of pardons. Indeed, as one who has been keeping tab on the matter says, it has become “more difficult to keep a criminal in the penitentiary than to put him there.” Securing a pardon has come to be regarded as such an easy mat ter—a sort of matter of course, in fact—that an attorney who barely succeeds in Baving a murderer from the gallows does not hesitate after waiting a year or two, to ask the prison commission for a full pardon—usually with success. Or if he fails for the time being, he goes a second or third time, until at last, he gains his point. A prominent court official said not long ago, “the people of Geor gia don’t realize what a difficult thing it is to keep a criminal in the penitentiary after he has been convicted. Of course, the duty of the court officers ends with con vietion, whereas the criminal’s attorney is often paid to keep up his tight, with the result that the prison commission nearly always hears an ex-parte presentation of the case, and on that, together with such of the records as may be available, roaches a conclusion. Then, there is the natural sym pathy that must arise for the con victed man, perhaps he is not as robust as he once was (his victim may be dead) or his family are in distress, and all that sort of thing —result, a pardon.” Speaking of this matter, tho editor of the Augusta Chronicle said tho other day : “Tliero have been several aggra vated cases in point very recently, but tho evil is not a new one, and we draw attention to the matter without reference to an)' case in particular. The evil has been growing worse from year to year, until now even the court officers aro privately entering a protest. “What wh very greatly need in Georgia is a system that will ren der it extremely difficult to, in fact, well nigh impossible, to send an innocent man to the peniten tiary—and equally difficult to secure the release of a guilty one.” It is pointed out here that, Wi ley Williams, with his intimate knowledge of the criminal classes, is the very man not to bo so easily moved by this ex-parte presenta tion of a ease by a prisoner’s law yer, but would be a foil on the other two members of the hoard. But Captain Williams is not mere- ww The Event of the Season at Auditorium: SUNSHINE HAWKS Monday Evening Jan. 27; Admitted to be the most eloquent; as well as most humorous lecturer on the platform of today. Mr. Hawks usually appears in large cities only buti stops over to fill open date here. Popular Prices. wwwwww ww- ^444*4444444418*444444444^ a chief of police; he was a newspaper man for fourteen years before occupying that position, rising from printer’s devil to edi tor. This gave him a wide range of knowledge that he has cultivat ed and increased during the sub sequent fifteen years that he has been head of the police force of Columbus, one of Georgia’s prin cipal ci lies. - . By all means let us put, in a practical man on this important commission, now that we have another chance. Chairman Calls a Committee Meeting. Macon, Ga.—Judge A. L. Miller his issued the following call: ‘The members of the State Democratic Executive Committee are hereby requested to meet in Atlanta on Thursday, the sixth day of Feb., 1908, at 12 o’clock noon, at the assembly room of the Piedmont Hotel. I ask that all Democratic pa pers throughout the state publish this call. (Signed) “A. L. Miller, “Chairman. “Macon, Ga., Jan. 20, 1908.” m ib ib lb ib ib ib ib ib ib ib ib \F ib ib ib ib ib ib ib ib ib ib ib ib ib YG We are now ready with ©ur FALL & WINTER Lines of MENS’, WOMENS’ AND CHILDRENS’ Ready-to-Wear CLOTHING HATS AND FURNISHINGS Orders by Mail are given prompt and careful attention A complete catalog covering all our lines will be sent free upon request. B. H. LEVY, BRO., & CO. SAVANNAH. GA. ib ib s ib ib ib ib ib ib ib ib ib ib ib ib ib ib ib ib ib ib 5 ib ib ib -%44444444444448!********&<^ LUeKY or UNLUCKY? Card oi Thanks. We desire to thank our friends and the good people of this city for their many kindnesses and for their unselfish aid to us during the illness and death of our wife and mother, Mrs. E. Twiliey. We know no words to adequately ex press our thanks to those who as sisted and comforted us and our devoted wife and mother. Sincerely, E. Twilley. Willif, L. Twii.i.ky, Francis Twilley, Orlander Twilley. School Commission- Examination. er’s In compl iance with instructions from the State School Comm is sioner, all applicants for the office of County School Commissioner in this county will be examined in Sandersville February 4th, 1908 upon questions prepared by the State School Commissioner ac cording to law. Applicants take notice. George Gilmore President County Board of Ed ucatiou. H AS it over occurred to you who are superstitious about the number “18,” that almost daily you may be carrying around with you a piece of money that is just full of thirteens? Just take a look at a quarter of a dollar, and you will note thirteen letters in the words “quarter dollar,” thirteen arrow heads, thirteen feathers in the eagle’s wing, thirteen parallel bars on the ehield, thirteen letters in the scroll in the euglo’s beak, thirteen stars, thirteen horizontal stripes and thirteen leaves in tho olive branch. If this in formation happens to lie new to you, and you are supersti tious about keeping quarters, we would add that you may send from ono to a dozen of them to Hitt’s Market, San- dersville, Ga., and he will take them in exchange for the best meat to be found in this city, and you will then be relieved of coins of that denomination. “Chap-0” iff? ■*» ‘S ^5 ^5 ^ ^ ^ «■: ST & ^ ST ^ ^ S' Z Let Us Write You a Policy to Z Insure You Against $ ib ib ib ib ib LOSS BY FIRE, To cover your Fnrniture, Wearing Apparel and Household effects. Phone 123. We will be pleased to call and explain our policy to you. SANDERSVILLE INSURANCE AGENCY