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D Li Heddevton JI VOL XXII NO 48 VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY, JULY 14 1904 $1 A YEAR IN ADVANCE PARKER AND DAVIS At the national democratic con dition in St. Louis last week, Alton Brooks Parker, of New York, was nominated for president, and Ex Senator Henry G Davis of West Virginia for.vice president. Parker was nominated on the •iirsl ballot amid wild enthusiasm, lie was swimming in the Hudson river, New York, when the nows of his nomination was broken to him. Near the close of the convention Saturday night, Davis was selected •fur Vice prisldcnt. Davis .'s 81 years old and Parker is 51. Bryan of Nebraska was there and shot off liis lip from one end of the convention to the other without accomplishing much. David B. Hill of Now York was there to cope with Byran and the two leaders had clash alter clash in arguments over the construction of the democratic platform for the coming campaign. Finally they agreed on the main points and the moiiey question was left.entirely out. As soon as Parker was notified of his nomination, he wired the conven tion tbatil he is clcctod president he will maintain'the gold standard, and if that did not suit the convention they might nominate someone else.. His views suited the convention and the nomination is now on him. 'i he coming together of Hill, the gold bug, and Bryan tho free silver hug, practically means the coming together of the extreme factions that have divided the democratic ' ho use against itself for eight years. With this division, suocess of the party could not be expected, but with all hands pulling together, - there is a fighting chance for the election of Parker and Davis in the November election. DISPLAY OF MAIL SERVICE St. Louis. Jnly 12. Tho Post Office Department's exhibit in the United States Government building at the World's Fair contains some curious things. The collection taken from the Dead Letter office in Washington is'the most curious of all. It contains almost evorytning I the gulf 90 little hags filled with.the FROM WASHINGTON The Department of Agriculture is about to muster ants into its ser vice in the war that is being upon the boll weev’l in Texas. Dr. O. F. Cook of that department arrived in New Orleans from Guatemala on Thursday bringing with him across from an alligator to a pocket-knife. There are several young alligators, rattle snakes, scorpions, dolls, pistois, knives, brass knueks, cards, shoes, hats and all kinds of curious, which were sent through the mails, hut were never called for. or else were hold for postage and finally were earned to tho Dead Letter office. Another feature of this exhibit is CAMPMEETING NE$T. The next big gathering in Dooly county will he the eampmeoting. It starts Saturday night, will run four days aud break up Thursday morn- ing. If the weather is good, there will he a good time. The rains this week have settled the dust and the atmos phere is expected to be cool and pleasant. Several big proaohors arc expected, and the campmdntings are generally managed by tho presiding older. Yesterday was work day at the put the place in good A collection of relics of the famous Preller murder case is on exhibition in the St Louis Police Department’s exhibit in the Palace of Education at the World's Fair. .It includes photographs of murderer Maxwell before aud alter more pathetic than amusing. It is a large collection of wartimo pnoto- graplis of Union and Confederate officers and private soldiers that were sent from the field to loved ones at home, hut never reached their destination. Theso old photo graphs could tell many a talc of love, hope, sorrow and separation, but are only mute relics of by-gone clays, and their pathetic talos remain untold. Another featuro of the- Post office Department’s exhibis show tho methods of carrying the mails. Hero are paintings of the various kinds of mail carriers in Uncle Sam’s service. The plainsman of tho West on his trusty broncho is galloumg across the trackless plains, with his mail bag across his saddle,, The! mail carrier of the frozen wilds of Alaska is seen on snow shoes, with his pack on his back and a dog sledgo, with seven dogs from Ala«ka standing as if ready to start across the suow-clad plains. Tho mail carrier of the .northern woods of Maine on his snow shoes and the Porto flican mail oarrior on his little mule'are other features of this interesting exhibit. An old stage coach, which saw service in the Rockey Mountains curious Silts which are supposed Ao he tho deadly* foe qf the boll weevil. Before this reaches the reader’s eye they will have arrived at Victoria, Texas, wi.erc a tli vision of the AgricultureDepartment is stationed, ready to find out what these in.Jeotn i grounds t. ary, worth as exterminators. I'lfe j opliditiom he'll weevil is a very dainty feeder Tho tenters will mbvo in .Saturday, and he dies in a day or two if ho is j and the boarding tent will he Open kept whore he cannot get aiiy cotton to the public Boll. Ho is a strict, vegetarian, and I Let everybody go and have a good above all tilings he is fond of the time. hlossoniot tno cotton plant, lliej a long time ago there was a eggs is laid,in the hud where tro! enmnmeeting to lie at the Flint larva and pupa enlarge to the mature River campground in tho 14th weevil. In this process the nectar | district of this county. • Tho week arc not onlv disappointed hut on-1 before the oampmeoting was had raged. They thereupon set their weather. One of the gcod sisters, to police on the track and hunt the weevil trf his lair and destroy him, by stinging him to death. They sting nothing else, Dut very fond of the sweet liquid found in the nectarines of tho cotton plant. I called yesterday at tho Depart ment of Agriculture and obtained tho above mentioned facts and others. Dr. Webber of the Labor atory or Plant Breeding said “Cook found cotton and the boll weevil growing in Guatemala together. At first he thought he nad discovered a new kind of cotton that tho weevil would not attack, but further invest igation showed that there was an ant present whoso activity and voraoity kept down its natural enemy, the weevil. Whether this red ant will aot in Texas and Louisi ana as he acts in Guatmala, is the question. Can he survive tne Gulf State winters? Will he be compelled there to mako the weevil his prey m order to get his breakfast, as ho is in Central America? We do not know, but we shall eooperate strong whom tho writer of this was very close, wont about her work with a cheerful smile and told us all that it would fair off in time tor tho meeting. The rain did not cause her to cease tho preparation for the meeting, and when the time come to pack up and move to the campground she was ready, and just at that time the clouds rolled .away and the weather was very fine for the meet’ ing. Lot us go at the preparation for tho oampmeoting next Sunday with the spirit of the goo.t woman above mentioned who has long since gone to her reward. There is expeoted to he good behavior at the campground Sunday and the committee has overlooked the building of a floored pen in which to shut up the little dwarfs who go there to drink liquor and use curse words among human beings. for many years, carrying United his | States mail aud passengers, is an execution, a photograph uf Preller’s i interesting sight, showing the old ’ ]y an d actively with Dr. Cook, body taken in the morgue months j method of carrying the mail, with The ants will not be given their after his deatn, letters, forgeries, \ an up-to-date electric mail car shows etc., which Maxwell wrote during j the new methods, his long flight from justi.ee, and a| Country mail delivery is shown small piece of the rope with wuich I in moving pictures, illustrating the Maxwell was hanged Hulling of rice by the lgorrote women is a feature of the village oil the Philippine reservation at the World's Fair. Rice in tiie hull is a necessary adjunct to their wedding feasts and other ceremonies and a large quantity was secured for them. They beat it in wooden mortars with heavy pestles reaching severe! teet above their heads. A perfume factory in the Palace of Liberal Arts at the World’s Fair is daily in operation and the curious processes necessary to the production of the odorous liquids are very attractive to yisitors. Every part of the process is carried on in the display which is located in the south-east corner of the building. The limb of a trie tied in a perfect knot is one of the interesting exhibits in the Alaskan Building at the World’s Fair. The supposi tion is that some native in. passing though the forest tied the knot when the tree was a tiny saplihg. The knot was accidental j discovered by lumbermen. •; arrival of the rural mail hack, the delivery of mail to the rural popula tion anu the gathering of the mail through the country. A postal car interior is exhibited with its mass of mail sacks, showing how the mail is haudled on the railroads. These features form' instructive object lessons to the public and give potter ideas of the magnitude of Uncle Sam’s domains and its varied climates and conditions. CHANGE OF POLITICS There lias been a wonderful uhango in politics since eight years ago. In 1890 Cleveland was hissed ami Bryan cheered. In 1004 Byran was hissed and Cleveland cheered. In 1800 free silver was tho issue. In 1904 it is not the issue and the country is for the gold standard. Eight years ago tnoro than half the newspapers of Georgia were tor free silver. Now you seldom hear it mentioned. Free silver stampeiicd tho country like a hoard of Texas cattle would scare at a mouse and stampede tho pl'ario. The slide of Georgia was for free silver. Dooly county, with all of her newspapers, was for free silver. The only gold standard paper between Macon and Valdosta was the Ashhurn AdAiinee, thou operated by tho one who now runs this paper. Wo felt a hit lonely, being sur rounded entirely by free silver papers, hut we struck to it and lmvo never had any crow to eat from that dish. We sometimes find more pleasure in being right tliav being popular. Smeo the scarcity of gold alarmod the free swer people, there has beou. tons of it dumped on tho country from Alaska and other mining regions. Siuee tho demand for more silver dollars was made by the free silver people, the business world is uciug annoyed with tho weighty volume of silver coin and is demanding paper dollars to take the placo of silver dollars for traffic. Realizing this demand, the United States has set its bureau of printing and engraving to i mining out paper dollars in great numbers. different from what the free silveo people predicted! liberty at present, of course. In company with an invested cotton plant a few of them will be confined in a coop covered with mosquito netting, so that neither ant nor weevil can get out, and thoy will he fit to secure the survival of the fitlesti If it works well, more will bo brought. The sjul fact is that some drastic remedy must be found. If this little ant fails to protect us, and wc arc unable to find a kind of cotton jvhich the weevil rejects as unpalatable, there is great danger that the weevil plague, which in ten years has extended all over Texas, will in fifteen years more extend over the entire Gulf region and desolate vast communities. By the late Congress $30,000 was A photo-engraving plant for the ] pi ace d a.t the disposal qf the Div- manuiactiire of zinc etchings and I i slon 0 f Entomology. Since then, Thirty-six Belgian draught horses will compete in the live stock contests at the World Fair. They are now on their way from Antwerp. Quick service lunch rooms are a featuro of the World!!) Fair. Checks arc fought before one enters ] predecessors, n >t even excepting A LESSON LEARNED. The merchant who dose not advertise his wares and yet who wonders what ails his business, should take a leaf out of tne note book of the management of St. Louis world,s exposition. The exposition is not a failure by any means. On the contffli'y,it is tho unanimous testimony of those returning from the world's fair city that the present exhibition eclipeses half-tone plates is in operation' in the Graphic Arts section of the Palace of Liberal Arts . at the World’s Fair. Printing plates made by both of these processes are turned out daily. Photo-engraving is one of the crafts, allied with printing, about which little is known by the general public and the exhibit is of especial interest to seven experimental farms, aggre gating 558 acres, have been estab lished in Texas. It is said that since the pest appeared in Texas the loss to the state has been not less than $50,00C ,000. A new kind of wall paper, which can be washed without injuring the coloring, is being produced in a visitors on that account as every .I*'’ 6 exhibit »> the German section part of the process is shown and ,°f the Palace of Liberal Arts at the explained’ {World’s Fair. and then one helps one’s self to what one wants. Thirty Chinese hats illustrating the head covering tnat are worn in China to distinguish the rank of the wearers, are exhibited in tne palace of Liberal Arts at the Worlds Fair- The Illinois exhibit in the Palace of Horticulture at the'World’s Fair covers 5,000 square feet. The fruit is exhibited on pyramid tableB with mirror backs, and also inboxes and in barrels to show now thoy are commercially packed. The following method of getting rid of stumps is recommended by the Sciertific American: In the autumn bore a hole one or two inches in diameter, according to the size of the stump, vertically in the center of the latter, and about eigh teen inches deep. Put iuto it one or two ounces of saltpeter; fill the hole with water and plug up close. In the ensuing spring take out the plug and pour in about one-half gallon of kerosone oil, and ignite it. The stump will smouldei away, without blazing, to tho very ex tremities of the roots, leaving j nothing but ashes. tho Chicago Fair which was certainly the most ambitious show that had been given in any part of the world up that time. But sumptuous as the display at St Louis is—unprecedented as the scope ot the building and contents is generally conceded to be—the patronage has not justified expecta tions, and the secretary of tho treasury at Washington, Mr. Shaw, asserts without fear of favor that the fault is that the fair managers have not scoured sufficient publicity for the fair througn the. newspaper. Mr. Shaw desires the fair to be a success, lor qlie reason that Uncle % m is one of the largest creditors of the enterprise. Not even a world,s fair can be made to go without advertising. Its managers are naturally prone to take the contrary for granted,and to argue that there is not a man woman or child in the country who dose not know that a fair is going on. But the knowledge is not suffi cient. There must be constant reminders- Tnere must be a steady excitation of interest. No one must be premittod to forget. And whether you are running a world’s fair or a shop, you must use the newspapers in order not to be overlooked in the countless mul titudes of other distraciious.— Pitts burgh Press.