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Darrow Pronounced Not Guilty Must Face Second Indictment Jurors Embrdce Acduitted Man and With Tears Stream ing, Declared It Happiest Day of Their Lives--- Judge and Other Officials Join in Demonstration Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 17. Clarence S, Darrow, the Chicago, lawyer, who was found not guilty today on tbe charge of having bribed a prospective juror in the dypamiting trial of James B. Mec- Namara, must stand trial on a second indictment, according to an announcement by District At torney Fredericks immediately af ter the acquittal. Darrow apparently was uxncon cerned over the stutement of che prosecutor. He was deluged with telegrams from all parts of the country which began pouring in within an hour after the verdict bad been given. SCENE IN COURT ROOM. - The court room scene following the reading of the verdict, thirty four minutes after the jury had retired, was one that has had no parallei in this city. Jurors em braced the acquitted man and with tears streaming down their cheeks declared it was the happiest day of their lives. Court officials includ ing Judge Hutton and the half dozen bailiffs, joined in the con gratulations and Mrs. Darrow, to whom the trial was a continuous nervous strain, stood speechlessly happy with one hand in her hus band’s and the other wringing those of the jurors. For two hours the court room scene was practically unchanged except for the grouping about the erstwhile defendant and his wife, A half dozen of the jurors, forget ting their long weeks away from Pianola Discovered ‘ Internals of Rat Paris, Aug. 17.—The wonders of science will never cease. Paris has been givena delicate jolt by the exhibition of a rat which car ries around a pianola in its inter nal organism. A touch of its tail produces airs from the opera. M. Bertrand Lebaudy, the French Zoological expert and sa vant, discovered that the ribs of the rat give out rythmic tones when properly tickeled. Making experiments, he found that these tones could beregulated by nerve pressure. The nerves of the rat, like roads to Rome, all lead to its sensitive tail, which does many duties besides acting as whiskbroom in ratland. He tam ed a fine specimen of the regular Barisian rodent, got it so that it would answer to his least eommand; fed it on a spec ial diet and then charged its nerves from an electric battery. ) 'The rat became exceedingly sen sitive and the notes from its body when tweaked by the tail, quite audible. By degrees M. Lebaudy accustomed it to a set repretoire of selected classical pieces. Now when he pinches its tail it starts an indicated tune and the music keeps going until the pieceis fin ished. Pianissimo and fortissi g Mo are regu]ated by pressure. # “Ratiphon’ is the name of this new animated instrument. ‘ 3 b Royston Prohibits Sun day Sale of Gasoline Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 19.—When Tyrus Cobb, the world’s greatest baseball player, comes home 10 Royston this winter and briugs his automobile, he will be confronted with the proposition that gasoline LAnnot be sold on Sunday. The city council of the little town made famous by the ‘“‘Geor gia Peach” recently enacted an MRrdinance to this effect, and the Royston Record, being a progres sive newspaper of liberal views, redicules it unmercifully. ~ «[Jpless we repesal this little saet,” declared the Record, “‘And " do it befors it gets out on us, we'll become & laughing stook all over the country. | home, remained throughout to participate in the impromptu re ception. Stopped at every step by pe destrians who wsnied to shake hands with him, it required near ly 2 half hour for Mr. Darrow to make his way two blocks to a cafe where he and a small group of friends went for luncheon. ONLY ONE BALLOT TAKEN. The jury was virtually unani mous when it left the box.” Chief Counsel Earl Rogers, for the de fense, said, ‘“The jurors themselves say that only one vital ballot was taken, although it was preceded by two others cast as ‘feelers.” Mr. Darrow’s attorneys express ed incredu'ity when informed that there would be another trial on the Juror Bain indictment, [hey asserted that all of the evidence in the Bain case had been submitted in the trial just ended. Two o’clock next Monday bas been fixed as the time for the trial on the second indictmer t. District Attorney Fredericks spoke bitterly lite today of the verdiet of acquittal. ““We simply could not overcome the damnable atmosphere that counsel on the other side created in the court room,” he said, **As long as the court allowed them to do it we were helpless.” The jury that acquitted Darrow was eomposed chicefly of ranchers, a third of its members being orange growers and a majority of the twelve independently wealthy, The New Dog Tax. Atlanta, Aug. 19.—1 f you own a dog worth $lOO you are due the state $1 per year taxes; or if your dog is onlv worth $5O you are due the state only 50 cents. DBy the same token a $25 dog is liable for 25 cents per year taxes. Such are the provisions of the new ad valorum dog law tax law which the legislature enacted and which the governor has signed. The effect of the law will be to abolish the dog tax of $1 per year, which was so objectionable to dog owners throughout the state that it became a political issue in a great many counties. Also the effect of the new law will be to deprive the state of about $150,- 000 per year. Governor Brown was opposed to repealing the dog tax and would probably have vetoed the bill, had not a number of legisla tors who voted for it gone to him afterwards and asked him not to veto it. The governor considered this one of the nerviest proposi tions he has encountered while chief executive. It reacted on him and he approved the bill. A. 8.& A. Road Will Use Heavier R ails " Brunswick, Ga., August 17. ‘A number of improvements are to be made along the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad between Brunswick and Atlanta, chief among which will be the placing of new steel rails along the road between Cordele and Fitzger ald. This stretch is now the only portion of the road which is not equipped with 80-pound rails, The old 60-pound rails are to be replac ed at once with the heavier ones. With this completed, the line will have heavy rails in use over the entire system. It isalso announced considerable other work is to be done all along the line. The road has just placed an or der for several new freight engines, which will be the largest and most powerful in use in the south. These engines will be used for the uphill pulls in the mountainous sections and will be delivered in {Wu ‘ 7‘———_——_——_——__‘_——‘——- The Army Worm and its Control The Department of Agriculture is using all the means at its dis posal to meet the emergency caused by the very great destruc. tion of crops in the South by the fall army worm. The insect is present in unprecedented num bers from Louisiana and Arkan sas eastward to the Atlantic Ocean, and is destroying corn, cotton, sugar cane, rice and other crops to such an extent as to cause great anxiety on the part of planters and others. By means of an emergency appropriation by Congress it is possible for the Department to render quick as sistance. Plans for this work, in co-op eration with the States concern ed, are being rapidly perfected. The insect will undoubtedly con tinue its ravages for some time unless checked. In all probabii ity another brood will appear after the present one transforms in the ground. For these rea sons immediate action toward de stroying the worm is strongly advised. The Department recommends the use of arsenicals. Among these are arsenate the lead, Paris green and London purple. In most cases it will be best to ap ply these poisons in dry forms instead of with water. Dry ap plications can be made by sifting the poisons upon the plants through light cloth sacks, by means of blowers or dusting ma chines. Liquid applications must be made with spraying apparatus to be effective. For this reason the dry applications meet the present emergency better than liquid ones. Arsenate of lead in powered form is recommended above ali other arsenicals because it will not injure the foliage of any of the field crops of the South. It may be applied without the addi tion of any carriers, Paris green is next in effectiveness, but should be mixed with its weight of air slacked lime or flour to pre vent burning of the foliage, which is likely to occur if it is applied undiluted. London purple may be used, but should be applied with air slacked lime or flour, as recommended in the case of Paris green, Wherever it is feasible to use liquid sprays, arsenate of lead in powered form should be used at the rate of three pounds per barrel of water. Parisgreen should be used at the rate of about 10 ounces per barrel. It is best in case Paris green is used in this way to add 2 pounds of freshly slacked lime to prevent burning. Whether dry or liquid prepara tions are used it-is extremelv important that the applications be made with thorvughness. In the case of corn, some of the poison should be placed in the heart of the plant, where the greatest damage is donme. A small amount is all that is requir ed to kill insects. In the case of cotton, powered arsenate of lead should be applied at the rate of about 5 pounds per acre, The usual method of utilizing cloth sacks carried through the field on horseback is perfectly adapted to this crop. } On forage crops and others in the case of which unfortunate ’results might follow the use of arsenicals, other expedients must be adopted. In pastures and in some instances alfalfa many of the worms can be destroy’d by the use of rollers or drags. In alfal fa that would be injured by roll ing or dragging, the plants should be cut for hay. When the worms are forced from the fields by this means, many can be_ killed byi means of drags or by plowing them under when they make their } way to other fields. Immediately after cutting, alfalfa fields should be thoroughly disked. This will kill many of the worms before they ean leave and will break up pupation. ’ ' The method of destroying the insects when they are in the quiet stage in the ground, to which ref ence has just been made, is of importance next to the use of arsenicals in checking the pests. In fact, in many cases it is by far the most effective means that can be followed. For fields threatened with in vasion but not actually attacked, a deep furrow should be plowed out around the entire circum ference of the field; into this the catapillars will fall, when they may be crushed by dragging a heavy log through the furrow, If the soil is such as to be some what impervious to water, this furrow may be kept partly filled with water; on the surface of which a small quantity of kero sene may be poured. which will kill the worms almost immediate ly when they come in contact with it. Since the worms seem invaria bly to consume the grass and other vegetation growing in fields before attacking either corn or cotton, it should prove an impor tant methed of protection to spray or dust grass or weeds in corn fields threatened with attack with arsenate of lead according to the methods advised above. Throughout the greater part of the South there is lkely to be another destructive brood of.the army worm which will come from the transformation of the pres ent generation in thesoil. There fore every effort should be made to break up the papal cells, so that the next brood will not appear. This can be accomplished by the use of plows, cultivators and har rows. Wherever any crop which can be tilled has been injured by the fall army worm it is advised that further injury be prevented by the use of cultivatorsand har rows. Much good can also beac complished by plowing fields or portions of fields where all of the crop has been destroyed. The treatment of bare places about cultivated fields in this way will be of assistance. To summarize thesituation, the Department recommends the speedy application of arsenical poisons and the working of the ground wherever practicable, in order to prevent further damage. WARNING.—Great care should be taken that cattle and other stock are kept from pasturing in the field where the grass or other crops have been poisoned with arsenicals; also, that poisoned plants are not fed to stock. . JAMES WILSON, Secretary of Agriculture. Washington, D. C., July 29, 1912. Alderman Arrested for Cruelty to Animals Atlanta, Aug. 19.—A promi nent society woman living on Peachtree street had an alderman arrested a few days ago on the charge of cruelty to animals, and he was fined in the recorder’s court, the society woman appear ing against him, and on the heels of this incident another member of the general council of the city will introduce today an ordinance prohibiting the use of heavy whips on draft animals. The ordinance was drawn at the direction of the county hu mane officer, and is supported by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It prohibits the use of a wbip of more than 18inches in length; prohibits any material except 'eather with rounded edges, and prohibits any material for the “cracker’”” of a whip except leather or rope fiber. The pen alty is a fine of $25 or imprison ment for 30 days. | \ The City Pressing Club Phone 459. Work guarranteed. Cleaning ladies skirts and men and women hats a specialty. 598 t. B. B. Watkins Mgr. - Mrs, Malae*Craddock is spend ing this week in Cordele. . ~ Advertisement, . j PSR A HIMSELF ON GEORGIA b S RAILROAD COMMISSION & ottt i A SR N > SAVANNAH MAN WILL BE WIN- - ;‘»;;Zi',-,' iLT bR NER IN NEXT WEEK'S ook IR DR R ELECTION. T A R - o RNI SKETCH OF GRAY'S LIFE B B e Mr. Gray, Being an Expert Transpor- ' j S tation Man, is of Great Assistance [‘,.fl D fiug‘ ¥LR S e to His Colleagues on the ! g ; &’,é’ i i b §l7l Railrcad Commission, 00l g:, TR S ; JOSEPH F. GRAY, of Savnnah, JOSEP HF. GRAY candidate to suceed himselt as Rail- . . road Commissioner of Georgia, Candidate for Rmh“d Com is a native Georgian, born in . missioner Atlanta. He started his ocareer in the railroad business in-1888, and wp to 1909 served various railroad lines, all in Georgia, with signal ability and success, and with rapid promotion from clerical tc executive posi tions. In 1909 at the invitation of the business men of Savannah, whe desired a highclass man, with recognized executive ability, to take the heim of its Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Gray gave @p his railroad career for . pukjic life. The position which he occuples in Savannah is the highest evidence of his standing in his own community as to character and citizenship. In the sam mer of 1909 a vacancy occurred on the railroad commission, The Gow ernor in looking over the State for a man thoroughly qualified to fill the vacancy tenderéd the office to Mr, Gray. Mr. Gray, therefore, is not a professional office seeker. In his case the office sought the man and not the man the office. In the primary of 1910 Mr. Gray was elect ed by the people to fill the unexpired term which up to that time h® had been filling under appointment. Mr, Gray now seeks a full term at the hands of the people. Naturally, as a matter cf perscnal pride, Mr. Gray asks for an endorsement by the people of his record durimg the past three years, to which he poirts with pride. It is conceded withouwt cavil or question throughout the State that Mr. Gray is one of the ablest men on the Ccmmission. His long transportation experience gives him an Irsight into the practical side of the problems that con front the Commissio4 As a transportation expert Mr. Gray has be=m of tremendous help to his golleagues on the Commission, who have timme and again expressed their recognition and appreciaticn of his ‘assist. ance in the solution of problems requiring practical transportation knowi edge. Not a single, solitary one of Mr. Gray's opponents has his ©=- pert transportation knowledge, and he is the equal of any of %hem. in all of the qualities that make for high character and exaited citizew ship. The railroad commission represents the State at large and nod any particular section thereof, and Mr. Gray’s past record oo the Cam mission is in entire accord with this principle. It is fitting, howeven, that in the selection of Railroad Commissioners a proper regard should be had for geographical considerations. South Georgia, because of her rapidly increasing commercial importance, and Savannah, Georgia’s aoeam gateway, the greatest seaport onthe South Atlantic—are certainly en titled under every principle of political equity, to representation om the Railroad Commission, Mr. Gray enjoys the unique distinction of heimg the first Savannahian to serve on the Railroad Commission during its entire existence of thirty.three years. Ignoring the efforts of his oppon ents to raise purely political or “vote.catching” issues in this campaiges, Mr. Gray recognizes but one issue “fitness for the job,” and on that issue Mr. Gray has all his cpponents “skinned a mile.” qln seeking re-elec tion at the hands of the people, Mr. Gray announces a very brief and sig nificant platform: Fitness, the Oath of Office and Record on the Commission during the Past Three Years.” ™ EN % g GEORGIA SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY, Attanta, 6a S g The South’s great oy b $ v 1S o Sl <l i K\—, oo -Z? e S R . Fechnical and =~ A Engineering gv '1 | ~| BY School ‘, 2 I \.\ e| BY Ga. Tech Spells *“Oppon. 3 ey~ < LSB tunity’’ for the joumg YA I\ *rao 227 "= men of (;qorgia. and the VAN i, South. ’ ~ .- - Offers full four-year courses in KA! g ¢ \ Mechanical, Textile, Chemical, Civil PNORARER Vo) and Electrical Engineering, ~hly and Architecture. The graduates of “Georfiia Tech’’ are in great demand, owing to the splendid trainin%?ofi‘ered at this institution. gourses of study practical and thorough. For Catalog address, Improvements in past year: New Bt sy, ' K. G. MATHESON, LL. D., P-esident $75,000; Dormilaries, reasonable cost. Another Whole Week : 0f Good Stows ' The Maddocks-Field Players, much to the delight of their many friends and admirers in Fitzger ald, have arranged with Msssrs. Miller & Ricker to stay this en tire week in the city, rendering their excellent plays at the Grand Opera House. |, The company played here the last three nights of last week, and the fact that they will be here this week, will prove a source of rhuch pleasure to thea tre-going element of the city, which practically includes every body. They are introducing this time an entirely new repretoire of plays and specialties, and you can go out with the assurance of not seeing some old play rehash- ‘ ed and dished out again—but something new and novel. The array of lovely costumes at last night’s performance, ‘‘The Moths of Society,”’ is the talk of the ladies of the city, and the play itself was splendid. For this week the managers have agreed to make bargain prices of 10 and 20c to everybody with reser veqd seats free. - How a Cigar Costs Raiiroads Some Money . Atlanta, Aug. 13.—Senator W. J. Harris ‘‘put one over’’ on Sgn ator Morris, of Bugusta. in seod shape today. It wason a Senate bill to require all railroads to put cinder deflectors on all passenger coaches which the House passed but changed the date. It was necessary for the Senate to com ruc (in the amendment. When ‘Senator Harris got the bill up, Senator Morris objected to its consideration as he is opposed to 'the measure. - Then Senator Harris quietly &Went over and invited Senator 'Morris out to a committee meet ing. Senator Morris wanted to smoke anyhow and he went. Just as he got outside, Senator Felker moved that the same measure be taken up and the amendment agreed to. ; This was done without objee tion and the bill now only needs the Governor’s signature to be come a law. e : Miss Allie Mayes bas returped from a lengthy visit with relatives st different points of Middie Georgis. b 2