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4 The Semi-Weekly Journal. Ksured M tbe AtUata FwtoTHe* aa Mall Mat , ter M tbe Be«ec4 Ctata. JAMEB R.GRAY. Editor and General Manager. SUBSCRIPTION PhICE. pwvtre 8 1 -** W saatba. •£ TV geoi Weekly J<mr»a> *• p “ bi ‘ t £* < L J? Taaaday aad Friday, and la maiVd by tbe ebort aat rwtM for rarly delivery. It contains nrwa from all over tbe r ßit a. (Metal Maae4 wire* tot* e«r eftlce. has " staff o< dutinaniabed contributor*. P Wtth Street Savarttaetits «C epeclsl valwe to tbs baas and tbs farm. Ageet* via ted at every post office Liberal aamml-1-T allowed. Oetflt free. Tbe only traveitßg representatives we bees are J. A. Bryan. B. F. Bolton C. C. CorJ* i. 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President Taft will show up for what be really is during the time hie wife is out of town. - J Free cotton bagging was too mucn to expect of the G. O. P. Still, let us pin our hope on fifteen cents next tall. Standard Oil prepares a butter which it warrants will not be rancid. Is this a fact, or a bid for public esteem? The Roosevelt party expects to capture a digdig antelope. This sounds like a fit subject for tbe big stick. Cotton is continuing to rise, and it if it will continue on until the new crop comes in, the result will be I a happy one. ._ __ The reduction of the corporation tax from two to one per cent will hardly make it just, even if it lightens the burden. . One thousand saloons have ceased operation In Texas. Still, they leave several others, and think of the ter ritory the remaining onea have to work in. . The man who deferred suicide until nfter he had eaten his fried Chicken. was a southerner of the old school, now fast passing away. It does begin to look like cotton would go to fifteen cents, consider ing weather conditions and the fact that we southerners need the money. An old woman, 109 years old. died In Columbus the other day. She had never seen George Washington, and, Stranger yet, left no recipe for longevity. I A minister says that money is the bane of the Methodist church. It Is the bane of everything else in theory, but the demand for ft continue* lively, even in hard times. E. . That ovation former Governor bmith got the other day down In Barnesville is another of those little Indications that he has not yet ceased to be a factor in Georgia's public life. • Because France and Germany, through jealousy of our manufac tures. have discriminated against j- the United States In their tariff rates, the United States will retali ate by allowing the president to in crease our rate on goods imported from those countries. And could it ever be that the word •’imported,” as applied to dry goods, could come I to be a term of reproach? A BLACKMAIL SCHEME. The Ingenuity of the blackmailer has discovered a new and remark able device which has set all Paris to talking. A few days ago one of the wealth iest tradesmen of that city received the following startling communtca- I tion: On Tueeday morning four carrier pigeons will be sent to you by ex press Each bird carries under its wing a small ease Tou will place money* tn these carriers to the total ot eight hundred dollars. Tou will then set ths pigeons free, and if they do not return by midday I shall ex pose what I know about you. Thera Innocent instruments of a wicked game came from four dif ferent cities, and by that time the tradesman called in the police. It Was thought that the birds were so weighted down, when ths hush money was placed under their wings that the police would have no diffi culty in following them on bicycles, but the airy messengers soared away with their burdens and were soon •ut of sight. There have been many novel blackmailing schemes In the past few years, in which the ingenuity of the mind has taken the place of the activity of honest work, but this thing of making the innocent dove a party to the crime is carrying im pudence to an extreme degree. The police have no recourse but to get a handful of salt and follow the next bunch of birds which are made parties to such a crime. COTTON PRICES ADVANCING. The recent advance in the price of cotton has sent a thrill of hopefulness and enthusiasm among the farmers of the south, and the indications now are that the present crop will bring a handsome return. No one who is familiar with the law of supply and demand can doubt for a moment that cotton is intrinsically worth more than thirteen cents, but for a long time it has been bringing much less than it is worth. The unfavorable conditions of the growing crop in Texas and in other states has sent the price soaring within the past few days, and the ataple is now worth twelve and a half cents in Atlanta, which is a great improvement on the prices which have prevailed for a long time. The efforts of the farmers in organising and holding their cotton have no doubt contributed to tbe present improved condition, and it is hoped that the better prices which cotton is now bringing will continue until it is selling in tbe open market at something like its true value. This increase in the price of cotton cannot fail to result in a better feeling and in an improvement in business all along the line. Much cotton which has been held for some time will be sold within the next few weeks, if good prices continue, and the money thus turned loose will find its way through all the channels of trade. We have been waiting long for these conditions, and it is hoped that they will be lasting. THE HAY AND GRAIN DECISION. We have received tbe full text of the epoch-making decision of the interstate commerce commission in the case of W. 8. Duncan & Co. st al. against the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louie Railway company et al., in the matter of the gross discriminations which have ao long prevailed in favor of Nashville, and against the Interior cities of Georgia in shipments of grain, grain products and hay. We shall take occasion to comment more' in detail upon the text of the decision at another time, but at present we wish to congratulate the Association of Grain Dealers, with W. 8. Duncan A Co. at the head, backed by the Atlanta freight bureau, on the excellent service they have rendered the state. Merchants of Rome, Macon and other Georgia cities joined in this petition, and they, as well as the Atlanta merchants, are entitled to their full share of the credit for the good work which results in lifting the burdens which have weighed upon merchant and consumer for so many years. The decision Is tn line with the contention which The Journal has been making so long, with all the energy at its command. So far as it goes it affords relief, but there is scarcely a commodity in general use which is not the subject of an unjust discrimination as against the interior cities of Georgia. These discriminations cannot be remedied entirely until there has been an adjustment of port rates In accordance With the demands of the people as expressed in the Macon platform, but we are duly thankful for the relief which has come to us through the Interstate commerce commission in the matter of those rates which come under their jurisdiction. The fact that Nashville merchants, by reason of the rebilling privileges and the elevator allowance for sacking, have been able to undersell us in our own territory has operated very disastrously against the merchants of the interior cities of Georgia. By the perseverance of the parties mentioned the matter has been presented to the interstate commerce commission in a clearer light than ever before. We are relieved from the oppressive burden of one great discrimination. But there are many others which operate against the Interior cities of Georgia quite as onerously and the fight will be kept up until the people are given the justice that is their due. THE TSETSE FLY ACQUITTED. It has seemed distinctly unfslr that the wide world should have banded itself against so small an enemy as the tsetse fly, which has been accused of one of the most appalling series of homicides ever recorded in history. The sleeping sickness has been devastating Africa, and has carried off two hundred thousand people in one province. There was no one else about who could be neld responsible, ao the scientific world jumped • to the conclusion that the tseue was gvtlty. An armed force waa instantly raised against him, and the campaign has now been going on for many years. When President Roosevelt started for his trip to Africa attention, was called to the tsetse fly. He was already not only famous but notorious on the other side of the water, and when his depredations were brought home to us by Mr. Roosevelt’s departure, he became ’known in this country. The Rockefeller institute for scientific research took up his case, and the result is that he has been acquitted. While it is true that he conveys the germs of the sleeping sickness, in the same way that the common house fly conveys the germs of typhoid fever, he is nothing but the distributing agent, after all. It Is found that the real germ stands unique in having the power of locomotion. It does not need to be carried to the prospective patient, who only has to sit still and watt, and the germ will come to him, even though all the tsetse flies in Africa should be imprisoned or exterminated. This is not so much ot a joke as may appear. The sleeping sickness is one of the greatest scourges of the world. Its very name provokes a smile, but its result is serious enough. If the Rockefeller institute has discovered the real nature of the germ and can find a means of eradicating it, it will have done mtich towards making the Africa of the future duly habitable. "MORE MEAN POLITICS." We reproduce elsewhere today a sound and impressive editorial from the Albany Herald entitled ‘‘More Mean Politics, which admin to ters a just rebuke to those petty partisans who have been seeking to create the impression that Governor Smith, on his retirement from office, left the state treasury in bad condition. The Herald points out that the only ’’deficiency” in the treasury, of which there has been so much ado in certain quartera, la in point of fact nothing more than "the difference between money now in the treas ury immediately available for general purposes, and the estimated ex penses of the state government, including the cost of the present session of the legislature for the current quarter;" that there was just such a deficiency when Governor Smith went into office, "but he met it without making any fuas by exercising his constitutional right to borrow a lim ited amount of money;" moreover, that it is a condition which has pre vailed every year, at this season, certainly since the legislature has been meeting In June instead of in the fall of the year. The Herald does not lose sight of the fact that when Governor Smith came into office he found that over forty thousand dollars was still due the Confederate veterans on their pensions, whereas he had paid them every cent due them when he went out of office. The simple truth of the matter is, as former Governor Smith pointed out on yesterday, that by exercising the constitutional power to borrow, the treasury will have over four hundred thousand dollars for gen eral purposes and the school teachers should be paid the money that Is due them. The entire effort to discredit the recent administration by pretend ing that an unusual condition prevailed in the treasury has only recoiled upon its would-be perpetrators, as the Herald points out, and places the discredit upon them. ♦ Taxes on Wealth * London Chronicle. An Interesting statement furnished by the chancellor of the exchequer appeared in yesterday's parliamentary papers. Mr. Lloyd George, replying to a question by Mr. Barhard, said: "An estate of 5.000,000 pounds, If passing to strangers in blood, would be liable, on a rough estimate, to death duties amount ing to 1,120,000 pounds under the existing English law, 1.165,000 pounds under the budget proposals and 1,000,000 pounds un der the French law. "If such an estate passed in the direct line the death duties might be roughly estimated at 700,000 pounds under the ex isting English law and 791.600 pounds un- | THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA,. FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1909. ■ -- ■ ~ ~ der the budget proposals and 246,000 pounds under the French law. ’’Supposing a person possessed of 5,000,- 000 pounds to be In receipt of an Income therefrom at a rate of 4 per cent, or 300,000 pounds per annum, he would pay in in cotqe tax (at the present rate of 1 Shilling in the pound). 10,000 pounds. Under the budget proposals he would pay 11,600 pounds income tax and about 4,000 pounds supertax—in all 16,500 pounds. “Under the French income tax propo sals, as I am informed, an income of 300,000 pounds would pay 4 per cent to be gin with—i. e., 8.000 pounds, together with a 6 per cent supertax, which would involve a further charge of 10,000 pounds or 18,000 pounds in all.’’ “Dad, what sort of a bureau is a mat trimonlal bureau?” “Oh, any bureau that has five drawers' full of women's fixings and one man's tie | in it.”—Houston Post. New Faces in State Legislature Mb- ' st 1 - • Rl Mr 1 oHMF JSIw ’ <■’ ar Hon. J. Frank Fender J. Frank Fender, the lumber and tur pentine man of Valdosta, is one of Lowndes county’s two representatives in the lower house of the general assembly. Representative Fender has never held a political office before. He has never held even a town or county office. This is his first appearance In politics. He made the appearance after a hot contest, winning out by a good majority. Mr. Fender was born and reared on a farm in Lowndes county. After attain ing his majority, he entered the turpen tine and lumber business, and has ever since continued in that business. He now owns four prospering plants, one in Lowndes county, a second in Turner county, and two over the line in Florida. In 1894 Mr. Fender married Miss Mittle Renfroes, » Representative Fender believes in com pulsory education to a certain extent. He believes also in good roads, and stands for a measure that will effect a state-wide and uniform improvement of the highways. He believes that the rail road commission should be reduced, and that county commissions should be re duced to as small number as are con sistent with effective work, for he does not believe in unwieldy commission bodies. ■ Hon. Thomas Parker / Thomas Parker, of Climax, Ga., is one of Decatur county’s two representatives in the 1909 legislature. In 1867 Mr. Parker was born in the county which he is now representing, and today he lives within half a mile of the spot where he made his first bow to the world. This in his first time in the leg islature of the state. Mr. Parker Is a farmer who believes in intensive farming—in raising his own supplies at home. He believes that the south Georgia lands are adapted to home farming. He believes also in education, and stands for improvements in the com mon school system of the state. Mr. Parker avers that he did not seek his present office, and that political as pirations have never stirred him. His friends wanted him to run, and he ac commodated them, and they reciprocated with a compliment of the highest vote cast in the county. S. Brinson, one of Dougherty county’s two representatives in the general as sembly, is either named after the town he lives in or the town Is named after him, for they are both railed Brinson. They fllfferentlate between the two, how- HIS ONE THOUGHT OF HOME HIMMI*. ■' JU"!' 11 ?. A. ' ; ’'* '■ % v - >r ** Bl«wta»l§3r x -*.?• > ••> -•.- o - W>' ; •’ ‘ '; ; k :**• '■ **• ? >e ' x / *■ "* ; ' '%t' TBy VJr &y £fiuT' " ; U ; 'r" ,' > ? & ; • *S<| fIL wssiiiiliilfe ... •«Wlw\ s iw ,4k &£ i ■ -iR®; f %< \®k \ v ™ t ■ '*:£ r?y»jirs ) ' * f .««'x\.WSpSafiPS pffflfj f&JI \ iT\< •s•?* *** -** 1 ' i****' f \jgßg% A * ** Wi Captain of Rescue Ship: if you refuse to be taken off this desert island, what are you hying a distress signal for? Castaway: Oh, I just wanted to ask who is leading in the Southern league. SEEING f Z \ H £W ROOSEVELT Ti a dizpct ■ DOES IT ON A „ I 4 COWCATCHER AFRICA I I I lit Wl I— ll " "'k ' I " 1 • » • t ’ Jr w -fl •• Fr 4 /J 4 4 IBM ' ' & fars 9 eSK IPhotoxranh by Warrington Dawson. Copyright, 1909, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.) This remarkable photograph has just been received from Correspondent Warrington Dawson, who is with Colonel Roosevelt’s hunting party in Africa. It shows how the former president viewed the country traveling by train to the hunting grounds at Kijabe. Colonel Roosevelt is on the left, the English hunter Cunningham sits next to him, Ind on the is Dr Means, the United States army surgeon who was retired last winter so that he could accom pany the hunting expedition. . . Hon. S. Brinson ever, by calling the legislator Colonel. So it’s Colonel Brinson of Brinson, rep resentative from Decatur. Colonel Brinson was born in Dougherty county In 1847. He moved from there to Bulloch county, and thence to Decatur county after the war. He is the father of Russell Brinson, who has represented Decatur county in the legislature .several times and who is editor of the Bainbridge Searchlight. Representative Brinson is a Confeder ate veteran and has always been a Demo crat. He has held several county offices. The Belled Buzzard I see that Mr. W. B. Jonea. of Ochlocknee. Oa., »ay» It’s In Thomna county. It was killed by Mr. H. C. Freeman, two mllea north of i»al laa. Oa.. in Paulding county in the year 1885 or #. Mr. Freeman now Urea near Rockmart, Ga., K. F. D. No. 1. As well as I can remember about it ther said it waa a small brass bell. If Mr. Jones will write to Mr. Freeman he wifi hear from him and learn all about it. R. H. O’NEAL. Braswell. Ga. His Opportunity Catholic Standard and Times. “I tell you what,” said the sad-looklng man, “it’s pretty hard for a man with a large family to live on a small income.” “Tee,” eagerly agreed the stranger, “but It's a great deal harder for his fam ily if he dies on one. Now, my line Is insurance. Let me interest you—Eh? What’s your hurry?” The World’s Flat, Sure It Is—l Can Prove It From the Bible, Though I Dont Believe It ♦ Rev. J. L. Crook Is the earth flat? Oh, no, the question isn’t settled. Two men down in West Asheville, N. C., held a public debate on the subject, and the man who said it was flat won,—won by vote of the audience. Os course the news reached the newspapers, and caused talk and discussion. Dr. Charles F. Aked, Rockefeller’s New York pastor, wrote a long article for a New York paper, consigning all "Flat Earthers,” as he called them, to new limbos of ignorance. Now comes Rev. J. L. Crook, the "West Asheville man who said the earth was flat, to write a special article for The Journal to expound his theory. In his last paragraph Rev. Mr. Crook admits that the world isn’t flat. He only wants to prove that he can prove it is.—Editor. BY REV. J. L. CROOK. I argued in my debate that the rota tion theory of the earth was incorrect, because it Is a contradiction to Reve lations. I asked my opponent to con sider the Bible infallible evidence. The Bible is not the opinion of men. The holy scriptures is the mind of God revealed unto men.—ll Timothy, ill, 16. Now theßible was meant for man's instruction. You can’t take part of the Bible and throw away the rest of it. Here’s what the Bible says about the sun: The sun also ariseth and goeth down and hasteth to his place from which he ariseth again.—Eccls., i, 5. The Bible also says in Psalms xix, 4-6: His (the sun's) going is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it. Webster says that a circuit means to move around. Then if the sun moves around, the rotation theory of the earth is not correct. If that theory is right, God’s word is yvrong, I argued. The Bible says, too, that the earth is established on a rock (Luke vi, 48), that it abideth forever (Eccls., 1,4). This means staying in one place, not jumping around. Look at the laws of nature, too, which God made. Why does water fly oft a fast-revolving grindstone, or the wheels of a buggy driven fast through MORE MEAN POLITICS I - % Albany Herald. What’s the use trying to make it ap pear that Governor Hoke Smith left the state treasury practically bankrupt when the truth is he left it in better condition than he found it? Some of the partisan newspapers of the state have been busying them selves for a week or more past with an alleged “deficit” in the treasury and a great “financial problem" with which the new administration is confronted, when the truth is there is more money in the treasury now subject to legisla tive direction than there was when Governor Smith was inaugurated. Treasurer Brown’s report to Gover nor Brown a few days ago shows >534,698.99 in the treasury. Os this amount it appears that only 141,726.35 is immediately available for “general purposes.” the balance representing special purposes for which it has been specifically set apart. but there is 1227.395.24. arising from the “near beer” tax, lying idle in the treasury which can be made available for gen eral purposes at once by direction of the legislature. The "deficiency” in the treasury of which there has been so much ado in certain quarters is nothing more than the difference between money now in the treasury immdiately available for general purposes and the estimated ex- Pointed Paragraphs, Chicago Dally News. A man will never acquire a fortune un less he is proof against the habit of buy ing useless things because they are cheap. After putting your best foot forward get there with both feet. In the bright lexicon of the hustler there is no such word as “enough.” An old bachelor says an optimist is a married man who is glad of it. Most of our time is spent in getting used to the things we didn’t expecb A wise physician sometimes flatters a man by telling him he has brain fag. Many a woman who can converse in five languages is unable to shut up in one. If wives would continue to be sweet- • hearts lots of husbands would cease to' pay their club dues. An honest miller separated the wheat from the chaff—and converts the latter Into breakfas* *«od. Ilk Ss > ’7 <*>■ - «!|l BEV. J. &. CBOOX. Worth Carolina minister wt.o wins debate on old subject and gets hot an swers from over the country, write* for The Atlant* Journal jnet what h« did mean. the mud? Centrifugal power. Why doesn’t the earth, if it Is moving round at the rate of 1,000 miles a minute, throw the oceans and moun tains flying? ’ An eagle on the top of a high moun tain starts flying east at the rate of a mile a minute. Where would he be at the end of an hour if the rotation the ory is correct? Poor bird, God only can find you. I throw a ball so high It takes a minute for it to come down. According to the geography, it would alight ...000 miles west of me. I have seen the air so still that not even the smallest leaves on the tree* trembled. How would this be possible with the earth whirling 1.000 miles a minute? Let the reading public decide. I have given my views. I will say that I have always believed the earth wm round. I have never believed it was flat. Our debate was only a test in logic. penses of the state government, in cluding the Cost of the present session of the legislature, for the current : quarter. There was just such a de ficiency when Governor Smith went into office, but he met it without any fuss by exercising his constitutional right to borrow a limited amount of money. He therefore borrowed >150,- 000 with which to tide over the inte rim until tax money began to find its way into the treasury in the fait Another thing that should be men- # tioned in Governor Smith’s favor is that he paid every dollar due the Con federate veterans for pensions, while Tie found unpaid pensions amounting to forty-odd thousand dollars when he entered upon the duties of his admin istration. The treasury deficit of which we have been hearing so much since Gov ernor Smith went out of office is noth ing more than a condition of affairs that has existed in the state treasury at this time of the year ever since the . legislature has been meeting in June instead of in the fall of the year as formerly, and the studied effort to dis credit Governor Smith’s administration with it is mean politics that will event ually recoil upon its would-be perpe trators; for the truth of the situation cannot long be hidden from the intel ligent people of the state. ■ Reflections of a Bachelor* New York Press. A joke is always a joke when it is on the other fellow. A man gets nervous over proposing to a girl over his not proposing. Automobiles are good things to teach men how to take long walks back home. Twenty years after a girl wouldn't mar- I ry a man he feels like apologising to hie grandmother about it. A woman begins her acquaintance with one of her own sex by being suspicious of what she will say about her. Planning Ahead Philadelphia Bulletin. “Theatre parties,” said the prospective | bride, “will cost about 1200 annually, flowers as much more, and bonbons say 8100. Certainly we can marry on 800 • a year.” Z “And have a snug surplus.” suggested he: dad, “for such incidents as grub f • and clot nes and house rent.”