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8AXCKDAT, OCTOBER 30, ' 1000.
THtf TELEGRAPH HAS IT8
CREMATION OF THE DEAD, | rlod 187M890. The furnace grows
Th* Idea of baring <he dead I• constantly In favor, especially fa the
owl, Increasing 2favor, tot It will cities Acinous creed, there are,
, i jL™ , h . I nereTtSieleee, and prejudice* founded
" • ton « wM1 ® brfbr * *” c "* tom !ta gentlment, which remain against
■aomea a popular one. Or befar* there idea of cremation, and theeeacrip
an effort to make It compolsonr.lt pies of believer, and mourner* must!
ill probably never become so. There of right be treated with regard,
something utterly abho/rent In tbs To attempt brtnfftWraSOjit mrivro-
. . ... . v,- , ■ Ml cremation by force of taw. there,
e. of consigning the bodiss of opr ^ ^ ^ , n falIarB >t prCT .
red one* to s ffery, furnace—an ah’ enL Tbs gen"ro - -iitim<nti, against
urrenee backed by a oenturtsecld it. Proper presentation of the truth,
aliment. that the change from hntial to la-
When we read of the member, of dneratton la advocated not through
. „ . , ... sny lawenlng of tenderness for ttio
family haring their deed cremat- " ,
dead, but through a strong vense of
I. we unconsciously think of thorn ^ ^ ( , |e )|v(ng „ , h0 on]jr mcth .
»plo a* “Btrmnfe” or apart from <>d that will produce results.
THE VALDOSTA TMfcS
m. L. TURNER, Brnmeae Manager.
.’SNAKE.
Hie. Macon Telegraph, that loyal,
champion of tbs homed snake, after
printing celnmns of enake literature
and teatimony—after able arguments
aa to why the reptile did and should
exist—and after an . industrious
search through Ota highways, byways
V .LtAAVi'A. (jA„ OCT, to. leUt
has ach lured its object It has a real,
snroenongh homed snake to show
tub Missourians. Jo If yon are a
homed anaka doubter, drop,in at The
Telegraph office when pou go up to
the State Fair, and see the reptile
for yourself. Below, The Telegraph
bsBn where It got thb snakb:
.. . "The Telegraph ha* .In Its edi
torial rooms a specimen of the
g&RR|B ' aaake, in spite of the
scientists who deny It* cxtetcncc.
Any on» -wishing to see It can
do *o by calling.
"Tbls snake wa® killed by H.
jgtatorgan, near Vienna, In Dooly
P'oounty, on October 24th Inst
Judge D. L. Henderson, The Tel
egraph's TepreaentatiTO at Vlen-
STATE TIt KAS tilt Kit'S RKI*OBT.
State Treasurer Pope Brown tnrn-
cd loose hi, long-lookrd-for state
mem; of the condition of tbgwmte
Ederfieimc,, Stein
MAKEKS
A warm light for woman suffrage
Is expected to take - place In the
Btate ot Washington at the election
next year, when a constitutional
amendment granting the ballot to
woman will be submitted to the
voters tor occeptanee or rejection.
The pram dispatches tor the put
tew days Intimate that the whole ot
Central America may be soon In
volved In a general war. Thou
Central Americane are perpetual
scrappers, and ore never happy un
less they era in a light
*?+ r-"*
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&*£?<% Jrv*n
WILL THERE BE A COTTON
WAMlNEi
With every report that oomee hi
stow the apparent shortage of , this
season's cotton crop grows larger.
The last gtnners' report which. doW
not deal in estimate, but in actual j body of Mrs. nayos, daughter of Jsf-
facte and figures, is the most pessl- terton Davis, who died In Colorado
Bristle ot all so far as the stse ot the
crop Is concerned.
It Includes the operation of all the
gins In the cotton states np. to 0»
tober 18, and Shows that op to that
date tbars had bean ginned 6,310,000,
or vary nearly a million bales leu
tfeak for the corresponding period
last year.
But It shows more then that It
•bows that the activity of the gins
had been continued through the first
week of October, and that the short
age bad been piled up' principally
Since that date. Tbls Is explained by
the fact that, though the crop Is
■hort, this shortage naturally will
••bow Itself in the later pickings.
There will be no top crop this year,
anywhere In the cotton belt, nnd but
very little Into picking. At this date
the crop Is 70.7 per cent picked,
against 64.6 per cent at tbls time
last year.
If 26 per' cent, moro of tbe crop
picked yielded one million leu bales,
it does not require an expert ac
countant to figure out tbat the re
maining 10.3 per oent to be picked
will, not yield enough to bring tbe
entire crop to ten million bale*. Un
til now all estimates hhv* pointed
to an 11,000,000 bale orop, but If tbe
glnnera' report la at all reliable
another million bales mot be shav
ed off this.
In the meantime the world’s trade
will require 18,066,000 bales Ameri
can cotton. Industrial condition's hav
ing Improved nearly ull over the
world since last year, tbe dim and
for toltrn goods will bo Increased.
And boro wo bare n domand for up
wards of 13,000,000 balea and to moot
It n supply of lou than 11,000,000
balsa, nnd, according to tbls last,
glnnera' report, of only 10,4)00,000
balea. ,
Doea tbls Indicate a cotton famine
next summer? If not, what doea It
Indicate!—Augusta Herald.
President Taft'a speech at the
Oolllaeum In 8L I-oulh on Monday la
interpreted In certain quarters as a
dlrcef alap at Speaker Joe Cannon,
and a, a notice that the Prealdet
would use his Influence to have tbe
.man from Illinois relegated to the
.scrap heap In the next congresalonal
election. Uncle Joe la the original
“tough customer." He la a stand
patter of the bland pata, and a pro
fane old sinner If half tbe things
told ot him an true; but with all
this he la a hard man to beat
If we are to bellove tbo newspa
per reports of the "carrylng-ona" la
Now York City's mayoralty race,
we an forced to conclude that all ot
the balance of tbs country la a back*
number whan It cornea to working
up a hot campaign. In our piOTta-
elultsm wo have believed that Geor
gians could get as excited and do
some >e foolish things aa anybody
also, but w# an ready to taka It
back now. We don't know any
thing about hot politics.
Congressman Champ Clark ot
Missouri believes tbat tbo Demo
crats will have control of the next
House of Represent a tire,. If hla
prediction la fulfilled It la likely that
Mr. Clark will be the next 8peaker,
aa ha la now the reconciled leader
on the Democrntle side. ’
bodies to the purifying and
log fiery agent, we believe Is aolaly
a sentiment, but It Is a strong one
In the crowded center* of population
this sentiment Is living away, how
ever, to sanitary and commercial
reasona. A New Tork writer discuss
ing tbe subject, say*:
•Will there be compulaory crema
tion of the dead? At a recent na
tional convention of cemetery super
tntendents held I” New York city
this question wns jbrought up for dis
cussion and the opinion wt* express
ed that In the near future there
would be a law to this end. it le a
subject of the deepest concern to all.
for the living muat over dispose of
tbe dead In some unobjectloriabls
way. There sro natural sentiment*
and prejudices to be considered, ns
well as objections founded In relig
ious thought, though these latter
scruples have grown much less with
the practical disappearance of the
belief In an aotual bodily resurrec
tion. But It Is urged by those favor
Ing cremation tbat the well-being of
tho living Is to be taken Into ac
count as something In which fntor-
eat must persist after grief has had
It* kaenest day. , >
"In conversation recently n man
prominently Identified with tbs de
velopment of the enrburbon districts
tit New York city declared that cre
mation was bound soon to bocome
n pressing Issue In all large centers
of popnlatloff. Inquiries In other
quarters revealed that snob an opln
Ion la by no means confined to th*
Interested circle* of real estate op
erators. A feeling was found widely
prevalent that the force of land econ
omy was soon to be added to consld
crstlon of neighborhood sanitation,
already atrongly urged, In favor of
substituting lndnoratlon for tbe bur
lal of the dead.
"Of course this feeling la largely
confined to the cities yet, slcee tbe
villages 'are not so crowded for room
In wblob to expand. But there Is an
other oonaideration , which affects
ihe smaller places as well As Inti
mated above, tbe great cities arc the
Brat localities, naturally enough, to
feel the approach of a crisis on the
Issue of land for cemeteries. Th*
problem baa reached many rural
neighborhoods, nevertheless, whtr*
the years have been busy in filling
with graves the acre* selected of oM.
Very recently, at Blmont, on Dong
Island, spirited opposition arose to a
new cemetery project, the argument
adverse to the plan being that, the
160 acres ot land choaen should not
be removed from the list of taxable
property to the further hardening ot
ptaaent taxpayer*. In tbs cities th*
trouble la that burial pljwes, oven
though they have seemed to be care
fully located, ar* frequently found
In tbe and to stand In th* path ot
natural and healthful axpantton.
"Th* graVsyard ot th* Boroughs of
Brooklyn and Queens, marked out In
miles of tombstone*, excited tho
amaientent of a recant English visit
or, and are regarded with oomsthlng
ot apprshsnalon by many resident*
of tho metropolis. It ws* estimated
a tew years ago that In n osytaln
district ot Queens containing 1,800
etmetary acres—onedenth ot th* dis
trict—there war* a million dead to a
population ot 88.000 Uring.
“Cremation has long been urged on
■unitary grounds, which la not tho
beat of raaaoaa for removing thp
prejudices ot many persons. Tbe re
moval from tax lists of land devoted
to cambrics, and the Increasing ns*
of many other valuable acre* tor
like mhff mental rather than com
mercial rutpo***,' hits tho purse,
man's meat sensitive spot Perhaps
through this he may ba broatf it to
V»w cremation with greater faror.
a few months ago, culled forth re
mark. of tbi. character. v - j [rcalur/ |M[ 0Tcrl)ng| j £
Just why wo should prefer to Iny | the raornlng pap*,
our dead In the ground to bo food ,tatem, nt la a Untie
for worms, rather than consign their 'ban wa, contained in
tervlew and It carries oul
advanced by The Time, «eVi
ago to tbe effect that bl, figures are
based upon the proposition that
the state will go out of business
next year. Of course, Treasurer
Drown does not oxpoot the stat 0 to
retire from business. He expects
it to go right on. meeting Its obliga
tions as long as tho money on hand
will permit. According to his las*
statement, tho money left in tho
treasury on January tho first will
run tho slate until some tlmo
tho summer." Just what Is going to
be dono tho othor six iltonths
next year Is not mado clear.'
Mr. Drown says that after all tbls
year’s obligations have been met,
tho state will have 32.0C5.000 to
"begin tbo now year on." Of this
amount, ho says that 3050,000 will
go to pay pensions in February and
about 3400,000 will go 4o tho sink
ing fund, leaving about 3050.000 In
the treasury to meet other obllga-
lilons that will como up during the
coming year. . '
If the Stato Is going to have only
six hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars on hand In February, tho de
ficit next year Is going to bo a great
deal moro than tho 3728,000 esti
mated by the expert accountants,
Alonzo Richardson & Co., 1 recently.
Tho school fund alono for next year
Is fixed nt 32,225,000, bo this 3050,-
000 would Icavo tho stalto still ow
ing tho teachers a mlllli*4^ < 'J *
half dollars, to say nothing of tho
other Institutions of;tho mate,.
I.et ys eeo what stimo ot tho other
obligations of the stalto aro; The
state Ineano asylum gets next year
$12-1,000 'for maintenance. Tho
Stnto University nnd Its branches
will gut about $400,000, tho Acad
emy for tho DUnd, tho Deaf and
Dumb School and tho Soldiers’
Homo will get 3100,000. Then tho
Agricultural Department, Doard ot
Health, salaries for state officials,
Judges, solicitors, dtc„ will call for
about 3300,000 moro, whllo tho ap
propriation to keep up tho public
buildings and grounds, tho expenses
of the legislature next summer, tho
experiment Station, railroad com
mission and contingent fund -will
add another 3100,000. Thcso fig
ures added to tho amount duo tho
teachers will loavo about two and a
half to two nnd threo-quarterg ot a
million dollars to bo spent next year
nbovo tlio amount which tho Stato
Treasurer says will bo on hand tho
first of January.
Whllo efforts liavo boon mado to
show that tho state’s Unsocial con
dition 13 good and that there would
bo no doflclt next year, tha Stato
Treasurer’s latest statement shows
that tho Btate Is likely »o “run
nground” On finances along In tho
"summer tlmo," leaving all ot the
various departments to "root hog or
dlo” during tho balance of the year.
until taxes are
about the first of I
One of tbe troubles t'
to have been that the
1908, Jubilant over the enormons
Increase in values the last year of
Governor Terrell'a administration,
made appropriations expooting the
Increase to show np equally aa largo
under Governor Smith. That la
where one mistake was made. In
stead of a large Increase, there was
hardly any Increase at all. The next
yea r was not very much better.
Th!» year promises to go bock to
tho Itremendoiis Increase of 1907,
so If tho next leglslatnro will ho «
little moro cautious l n Its expendi
tures the treasury deficit may soon
bo covered. '5^' . \
In the meantime Governor Brown
Is trying to get some plan for tho
prompt payment of the teachers ln
tho public schools. Ho Is not
making much noise, but ho Is go
ing about It In a systematic business
manner. Just as he la dealing with
all of tho affairs of the state.
Treasurer Brown’s statement Is
Illuminating, especially when the
, d of the legislature approprla-.
tlons for tho year aro considered. ' )
\
na, secured th*
Mat ft to Tbo Telegraph by Col.
J. Gordon Jones, 0 f the law.firm
' of Cram it Jones, of Cordele,
and ba delivered It" to Tho Telo-
graph yesterday morning.
"This reptile answers exactly
to the description bf those tbat
our correspondent* hare given
in the** columns tt^n time to
time. |
"It will bo rsnrapbered that
several months ego The Tele
graph started a search for tbi*
reptile upon' tbe statement hav
ing been made In a Philadelphia
paper that certain scientists de
nted 'lbs existence. We succeeded
In' getting reporte ot a number
from responsible poisons At last
we have one on exhibition ln onr
offloo. It will be exhibited at the
Fair.
"Tbe negro who killed It beat
It np pretty badly, believing at the
time that It was a small rattler.
"The horn, which Is about two
and a half inches long, was near-
ly wavered from the body, be-
The high price of cotton don’t
amount to much where you hav* to
pay two prices for your gooda/Ton
ought to come to Brown’s lfet Store.
NOTICE!
In answer to many Inquiries t wJB
state that the big Ian* tale ot town
lots at NevLClyattvllle, and farm
tracts Of 40 to 75 acres on the WaF
burg place vrill come off on Novem
ber 10th or 17th. Full notice later.
J. B. MARTIN.
October 25th, 1909.
10-25 dly m & * sw. t ft *. ✓
R or o doses “868” will cor* any
case, of Chill* and Fever. Price Ha
10-lG-lm.
Men Laugh
When they see the other fellow with trous
ers hiked-up out of shape and with coat
badly shrunk or badly fitting, too tight in
one place, too loose in another. It f s no
laughiug matter for that other fellow though.
But he could have saved himself that sort
of misfortune just as sure as you can, if you
choose your Suit from 'DAVIS BROS
“High Art” Clothing
They are cut right in the beginning, thus
they are made right in every detail and. from V
fabrics^TS&rohghly shrunk. (
Our High Art style is a commingling of character and dash and
good taste—-it does not “wear off” but remains an indefinable
and permanent part of each suit. “High Art” Clothing is
acceptable security to good dressers thetoorld over for authentic -
styles, dependable materials and satisfactory wear.- Reasonable
in price, $10.00 to $40.00. Overcoats $7.50 to $35.00.
It’s a very simple matter for you to. -
. r -S
obtain real service from t
Boys’ Clothing
if you will be careful to come to
to our store. We display a wide
assortment of all the late effects in
weaves and patterns.
Prices from ‘
$2.50»$10.00
Davis Bros. & G
THE HOUSE OF QUALITY. ,
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