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VOL. XXVIII.
A LOCK OR SEA LEVEL
CANAL, WHICH IS BEST?
Henry Granger Writes New York Tribune Favoring
Latter —A Strong Article.
Mr. Henry G. Grander, of this city,
but for some time abiding in South
America, where he has extensive in
terests, has written a strong letter to
the New York Tribune, in which he
advocates a sea level canal instead of
a “lock,'' and the article seemed of
sufficient importance to the editors
of the Tribune for them to make a
third of a column comment on it, and
that not unfavorable. We give the
article below:
To the Editor of the Tribune.
Sir: In the last few davs advocates
of the lock system for the Panama
canal have stated that those of us
who are urging the reconsideration
of the question and the construction
of a sea level canal are inspired by
one or more of the following motives:
1. Opposition to any canal, with the
foolish idea of friendliness to the
transcontinental railroads; 2, advo
cates of the Nicaragua route; 3, dis
gruntled faultfinders; 4, mercenary.
In viev. of the above, please allow
me to say that I believe the opening
of a successful Panama canal will be
the greatest possible step in advance
for the prosperity of the whole
Pacific coast and for the great com
mercial benefit of the entire United
States, irrespective of the stimulus
to European trade, with its inevitable
reflex action on us. I have never be
lieved the Nicaragua route worth
considering in comparison with Pan
ama.
Furthermore, I have never had the
slightest occasion to be disgruntled
since the canal construction was un
dertaken by our government. No
reasonable mortal can call me mer
cenary for suggesting methods and
machinery strongly indorsed by the
best engineering talent, and leaying
the government free to make its own
terms with any of the various man
ufacturers capable of building the
machines. If 1 must plead guilty to
mercenary motives in urging a sea
level canal, it is because, in common
with so many others, I have interests
on the Pacific coast whose value
would be enhanced through the
traffic facilities of the canal. I urge
my belief because I agree with Pro
fessor William H. Burr, that “when
a steamer passes through the Panama
canal it must gc through a sea level
canal.”
The question of type was decided
for a lock canal against the sea level
report of the majority of the board
of consulting engineers, on the re
commendation of the commission;
however, Admiral Endicott, the only
member of the commission with prac
tical experience of any value in the
matter of navigation, vigorously dis
sented. The lock type was recom
mended solely for two reasons: 1,
Because the commission believed it
would take twenty years to construct
a sea level canal, as a theoretical ex
cavation of 1,250,000 yards a month
was unattainable in actual practice;
2, because a cost of excavation a yard
of $2.50 was estimated for rock below
water level.
A greater blunder was never com
mitted than this recommendation.
Our splendid army organization is
now that the red tape of an absentee
commission no longer exists to slued
the patience of the executives, exca
vating a monthly average of more
than 3,000,000 cubic yards. That this
rate is susceptible of great increase,
even without night work, of which,
after fifteen years in the tropics, I
am a strong advocate, is shown by
the fact that the greatest day’s shovel
record was on December 18 last,
when 4,804 cars were loaded in the
central division by fifty shovels, a
total of 7u,057 cubic }ards for this
equipment alone.
This present average rate of exca
vation, without any increase, or
without night work, or without util
izing any xcept present methods and
machines, would permit the comple
tion of a sea level canal within six
years, with a minimum bottom
width sufficient to eliminate the last
theoretical obstacle on behalf of the
most ardent advocate of the lock
system, or in exactly the same time
that it i- hoped to finish the lock
canal.
According to the report of Section
2, Harbors, Docks and Canals, of the
1007 engineering conference of the
Institution of Civil Engineers, at
London, it was shown that subaque
ous rock can be excavated by the
present impact method for less than
50 cents a cubic yard, or less than
one-fifth the amount estimated by
the advocates of the Panama lock
type. Please note that at this con
ference much of the data was given
by Hunter, Quellennec and Bunau-
Varilla, all eminent advocates of a
Panama sea level canal. Very few
American engineers are familiar with
modern European impact methods of
submarine rock excavation, but
among the few who had personal ex
perience and made a study of costs
are Parsons, Wood and Gerrish, all
sea level men.
The engineers whose advice was
followed at Panama are among the
most eminent in the world in their
especial lines, but time and results
have proven them unqualified to pass
on the Panama situation. The change
is inevitable. Today it can be made
with no loss of time and but little
loss of work done and at no greater
cost. The voice of railroad and dam
engineers should not prevail against
the unanimous vote of the best
European canal engineers and the
cost records of their work; against
the unanimous vote of the Masters
and Pilots' Association; against the
unanimous voice of the shipping in
terests; against the opinion of a large
number of American engineers corn-
The Cartersville News
petent to pass judgment, and against
the indisputable logic of facts as de
velopei on the isthmus under the
able management of the United
States army. The Panama canal
must be at sen level.
UiuNRY Gf. Granger.
Mem. A. I. M. E.
New York, January 7, 1909.
MRS. LOVEJOY.
Her Death Causes .Sadness in a Number
of Places Where She Had Lived.
The death of Mrs. W, P. Lovejoy
was a blow not alone to her family
and friends in this city, but it was
a blow a’ike to those who knew her
at other places. Her high intellectu
ality, her deep piety and zeal made
her a prominent figure in church
work in Georgia. The following no
tices were clipped from papers where
Dr. and Mrs. Lovejoy were intimate
ly known:
Friends in this city of Rev. and
Mrs. W. P. Lovejoy were shocked by
the news of Mrs. Lovejoy’s sudden
death Saturday night, at their home
in Cartersville.
Mrs. Lovejoy was the mother of
Col. Hatton Lovejoy and Mrs.
Frank Harwell of this city. Two
other children, Mr. Paul Lovejoy, of
New York, and Mrs. Paul Akin, of
Cartersville, also survive her.
Mrs. Lovejoy was a lady of unusual
mental attainments, and as the wife
of one of Georgia’s well known min
ister’s she was well known through
out the state. Refined, gentle aud
tender in disposition, she was ever
ready to heed the voice of those in
distress, and her death casts a gloom
over the city where she made her
home.
The deceased was well known in
this city where she was a frequent
visitor, and the friends of her and
her family deplore her unexpected
death. To the bereaved ones intheir
deep sorrow is extended sincere sym
pathy.—LaGrange Graphic.
Tiie special to the Atlanta Consti
tution brought great sadness to
many people in LaGrange, who
knew and loved and admired tjhe
splendid woman suddenly called to
her reward on last Saturday night.
She had been a frequent visitor to
LaGrange, and had many friends
who deeply sympathize with her son
and daughter here in their great
grief —LaGrange Reporter*
Mrs. W. P. Lovejoy. wife of Dr. W.
P. Lovejoy, the presiding Elder of
the Methodist Episcopal church,
South, of the Daltou district, died at
her home in Cartersville last Satur
day evening at 7 o’clock. This death
comes as a very sad shock to the peo
ple of the Dalton district and es
pecially to the people’of Summerville
and Chattooga county. Dr. and
Mrs. W. P. Lovejoy were once sta
tioned at Summerville by the North
Geargia Conference in the year 1875
Mrs. Lovejoy was a most estimab e
lady and the church is a great loser
in her death. To Dr. Lovejoy and
family we extend our sincere and
heartfelt sympathies.—Summerville
News.
SPECIAL SERVICE.
Interesting Programme at Sam Jones
Memerial Next Sunday Night.
There will be a special service at
the Sam Jones Memorial church next
Sunday evening. Rev. Henry B.
Mays will preach a special sermon on
prayer at that time and the musical
program will be an unusual one.
The service will begin at 7 o'clock.
There will be a musical program of
thirty minutes before the sermon is
delivered. The following is the pro
gram :
Organ Voluntary—Miss Marian
Aubrev.
Song—The Glory Song—Choir and
congregation.
Male Quartette —Because He Loved
Me So.
Solo—Keep on Praying—Miss Bob
bie Verner.
Song—Sweet Hour of Prayer-
Choir and Congregation.
Prayer.
Sc ipture Lesson.
Offertory—Miss Marian Aubrey.
Sermon.
Prayer.
Song Heavenly Sunlight. Miss
Marian Aubrey, accompanist.
Everybody is invited to tins service,
especially strangers.
FITE IS KICSIIT.
A Local Admirer In Verse Supplements
Previous Expression.
.Judge A. W. Fite, a few days ago, re
ceived the following little quatrain from
an admirer in Dawson, (ja.:
Here’s to my unknown friend, Judge
Fite,
Who is always on the side of the right,
Fighting the devil with all his might
To rid our state of the liquor blight.
W. IJ.1 J . 11.
The above was published in our
last week s issue, whereupon a local
admirer indites the following for pub
lication this week:
Here's to my well known score of years
friend. Judge A. W. Fite,
Who “W. P. H.” thinks is ever on the
side of right.
Well “lined nr v with those who fight
day and night.
In the great battle to rid Georgia of the
liquor blight,
And here’s to the very same nnpurchas
able knight
Now on the superior bench with armor
bright,
(Shedding over our loved state a lumin
ous light,
And who should next be called to a su
preme court height.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1909.
“LITTLE JOE’S” VISIT
The Governor-Elect Visits
City Last Monday.
Addresses the l’eople at the Court House
—Dinner In His Honor at
the Dark Hotel.
Governor-elect Joseph M. Brown
was a visitor to to Cartersville last
Monday. Mr. Brown is making a
tour of the state to mix with the peo
ple and ascertain their needs and de
sires before he goes into office this
summer. Bartow county gave him
a majority in the primary and it is
natural that he should want to in
elude this city and county in his
itinerary. His visit, however, was
non-political, and his coming, it is
safe to say, has made him new friends
as well as renewing old friendships.
He made a good impression on our
people and was well received aud
duly honored during his visit.
The governor-elect was met at the
depot by a committee of citizens
headed by Mayor Moon and conduct
ed to the Park hotel, where he shook
the hands of a good many people be
fore going to the court house, where
it had been arranged that he should
address the people.
At 11:30 o’clock Judge Fite adjourn
ed the superior court in order that
the people might have an opportun
itv to hear Mr. Brown.
The court house was full of people.
There was not a vacant seat in The
auditorium. The governor-elect was
introduced by Mr. George H. Aubrey,
who referred to the strenuous cam
paign of last spring .and said Mr.
Brown was now mak ng a pilgrimage
of the state to'strengthen friendships
and form new friendships. “We
who supported him belieyed Li him,
and tiie time will come when our
faith in him will be the faitli of the
whole people,” said the speaker.
Mr. Brown began his speech by
saying he was just plain Joe Brown,
and that word plain sometime is in
terpreted to mean ugly. At this ex
pression there were smiles and laugh
ter. He had been called both ugly
and little, he said, and lie plead guilty
to both charges. He said that 110
days before the primary he had no
more idea of being a candidate for
governor than any one in the audi
ence had of being a candidate for
president of the United States.
The campaign cum. on and he ha.
been accused of being untrue to the
people because he had voted against
the port rates. He took up these port
rates items by item and showed that
if they had been put into effect they
would have bankrupted every factory
in Georgia. Letters came in greut
numbers from all over the state re
questing him to announce for gov
ernor. He then went into details re
garding the race. “1 don’t like the
word governor,” said he, - ‘a free peo
pie don’t have a governor, but a free
people themselves govern. 1 inteud
to be the ezecutive and that is all I
intend to be,” said he. “If you will
tell the people of Georgia the truth
they will do right. Now the people
want to know what is tiie truth, if
you pick out a man for a job you want
tq know that he knows what he is
doing. When you want information
on any -übject you must go to people
who understand the subject. He
read a strong article from some jour
nal on juries and the jury system and
made some applications of the same.
His visit, he said, was more to mingle
with the people than anything else.
He said he had heard of the predic
tion that Joe Brown was going to be
a tool—he was going to be the tool of
the sovereign people of Georgia. At
this declaration the audience gave
hearty applause. “You are to be
the hand and I will be the hammer,”
said the speaker, “and you are going
to be the hand and 1 will be the hoe,
but the hoe will not be used to des
troy the growing plants of prosperity
but to nurture them. 1 promise you
that 1 will so use whatever powers I
possess to the end that tiie people
shall be happy and prosperous.”
Mr. Brown referred to the corpora
tions and their interests and the mu
tual interests of corporations aud
others. When you strike a corpora
tion you strike at the employee of
that corporation and the farmers
also. He read a lot of figures from
the government textile bureau perti
nent to the question.
He closed his address by saying he
heartily appreciated the confidence
of the people of Georgia manifested
in his election as governor. He said
some had wondered why be didn’t
make an oratorical campaign: he said
lie didn't have time to go into the 140
counties of the state from the time
he became a candidate until the pri
mary. The people never heard Taft
or Bryan but they voted for them.
What if he had gone to Dalton, for
instance aud not have stopped at
Cartersville? The daily newspapers
reached 200,000 every day and he
used that medium to make known
his views to the people.
Mr. Brown is not an orator, but his
speech was well received aud heard
with respectful and careful attention.
His earnestness and sincerity im
pressed every one who heard him.
After the speaking a dinner was
given at the Park hotel in Governor
elect Brown's honor. It was a splen
did spread and well enjoyed by all
present. The dinner was informal
and no speeches were indulged in but
social interchange of thoughts and
ideas. The menu was as follows:
Consomme
Olives, selected Pickles, Almonds
Roast Turkey
Celery Mashed Potatoes Cranberry
Jelly Cakes Fruit Salad
Tutti Frutti Ice Cream
Lady Fingers and Nebasco Wafers
Demi Tasse
Cheese, Crackers,
Cigars.
At this dinner the following were
JOHNSON ENTERS RICE
Prominent and Successful
Farmer After Place.
The Fight of the Agricultural t'lasne* for
Recognition Makes Unite Inter
esting His Entry.
The name of Hon. M. L. Johnson
has frequently been mentioned in
connection with the congressional
race in this district. Mr. Johnson is
one of Bartow’s representatives-elect
to the lower house of the next gener
al assembly. He was highly compli
mented in the nominating primary,
having led the legislative race li
nearly 600 votes.
The News desiring to acquaint its
readers with Mr. Johnson’s intention
in rrgaid to the race for congress in
terrogated him concerning the mat
ter. Mr. Johnson replied:
“The nominating primay is quite
a period ahead yet. I confess to
laudable ambition to represent this
district in congress, It is an honor
in which one might well feel very
great pride. At the suggestion of
numerous friends in the district, I
have given the matter serious consid
eration, and can say that it is my in
tention at the proper time to formally
announce. Right here I will say
that the tw o gentlemen who have re
cently expressed the same intention
were fully aware of my purpose. I
think this w ill satisfy my friends for
the present.”
HARPER MUST HANG.
He Was Taken Greatly Aback at Decision
of Supreme Court.
John Harper, the Murray county
niountianeer, whose death sentence
for the murder of Sheriff Ben Keith,
of that county in August, 1907, was
confirmed by the supreme court Wed
nesday w T as sorely shaken at the news
ol the court’s decision. He had sev
eral times been condemned to die on
a certain day and as many times re
prieved. His case has been several
times reviewed by the supreme court.
Tarot gh it all he has borne are mark
able stoicism, butthe news that there
is no hope for him from the state
court lias shaken his iron nerve. He
was told of the court’s finding Wed
nesday night by his attorney, Sam
D. Uswlitt.
Wneu' wv n Thursday morning Tf;
a Georgian reporter, Harper was
deeply depresseo. When asked for a
statement, he said:
“I am too shock *d this morning to
give you much of a statement. 1 am
deeply disappointed at the court’s
decision. 1 confidently expected a
reversal of the case. I have told the
truth in this affair all the way though
and if 1 have to go to the scaffold, I
will tell there what I have always
told I have not had a fair trial.”
“Y r ou still have hope of a favorable
outcome?” was asked Harper.
“I may say,” he replied, “that
while there is life there is hope. If
it is the Lord’s will that I die by tl e
scaffold, 1 will go that way. If such
is not His will, then some way will
be found out of this.”
“Perhaps Governor Smith might
commute your sentence,” was sug
gested.
"I don’t know about that,” he said,
“All I can say is that Governor Smith
has been very just to me in the past.
My father will be here tomorrow
night and it will then be decided with
my attorneys what step next to take.”
Sam D. Hewlitt, of counsel for Har
per, when asked what further action
would be taken, said:
“The fight has just begun. Exactly
what proceedings will be taken I can
not say.”
it is thought, however, that an ap
peal to the supreme court of the
United States will follow. —Atlauta
Georgian.
It will be remembered that Harper
was brought to this city and placed
in jail after his conviction in Murray
court, and managed to effect an es
cape. He was rearrested and carried
to the Tower in Atlanta and escaped
there and was rearrested. His case
has been an interesting one.
Editor Coffee's Visit.
We spent a day in Cartersville this
week looking on the court.
Things seemed to be working quite
smoothe, with Judge Fite on the
bench and Solicitor Milner in the
harness.
Some damage suits were on the
grind while we were there, and of
course a verdict was rendered for
the plaintiff. You see it was a case for
damages against the railroad.—Cal
houn X-Ray ,
Sentenced for Higaiuy.
Henry A. Heitzman was last week
convicted of bigamy in the superior
court and was given a sentence of
two years in the penitentiary Heitz
man married a Mrs. Smith, a very
deserving widow lady, a few months
ago and it soon developed that he
had two other wives. He was a cigar
maker aud came here from Florida.
the guests: Joseph M. Brown, A.
W. Fite, T. W. Milner, Joe M. Moon,
John T. Norris, tieorge H. Aubrey,
J. H. Wikle, Rev. H. B. Mays, Rev.
Sam C. Dean, Price Turner, H. J.
Galt, John P. Adair, W. li. Howard,
D. B, Freeman, F. H. Enwright,
Henry Harvey, J. W. L. Brown.
In tiie afternoon Mr. Brown was
driven to the home of Mrs. Charles
H. Smith, where he paid his respects
to that lady. He then went to the
home of iir3. Sam Jones and made a
call to evidence his appreciation of
her influence in his campaign. Next
he called on Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Fel
ton. Late in the afternoon he went
out to the home of his cousin, Mr. J.
L. Brown, returning Tuesday morn
iug to the city, where he took the L.
& N. Train for Marietta.
CITY’S FIRE SERVICE
GREATLY IMPROVED
Horses and Hose Wagon, Paid Firemen and New
Fire House the Additions.
NEW STORY OF LEE.
Great General Advised Men Against Leav
ing Their State.
A hitherto unpublished story about
Gen. Robert E. Lee is given in the
Manufacturers’ Record of January 14
in an article entitled “Rounding Out
of the Nation’s Life Through South
ern Development,” in ttie course of
which it is said;
“At the close of the civil war sev
eral young men who had served in
the Southern army, so the Manufac
turers’ Record has recently been told
by one who was in the party, called
on Gen. Robert E Lee. In explain
i ig the object of ti.eir visit they said
t him:
“Y'our name has carried us into
many places where we did not want
to go. Now we want to take yo r
name with us where we are going,
and we have come to ask for your
autograph on these photographs.’
“General Lee, in reply, said:
“If my name has carried you, as you
say, into places into which you did
not want to go, 1 want you to be
careful not to cirry it into any place
where 1 would not want it to go.
Where are you going?
“One said that he was bound for
Mexico, another that he was looking
to the far Southwest, and the others
to distant sections because they felt
there was no opportunity for them
at home by reason of the destruction
caused by the war.
“General Lee said to them:
“As soldiers you served your State
faithfully; you did your duty, you
risked your lives in the service of
your country; but your State needs
you today more than it needed you
in war. It has hard problems to set
tle. Its business interests have been
destroyed, and for these very reasons
it seems to me your State has a right
to ask you to stand by it in these
days of trial and to help to rebuild
its fortunes. Consider whether you
do not owe your State, under these
conditions, the sametlevotion to it,
I the same self-sacrifice that you gave
to it at tiie call of war.’
“If it had been possible for this
thought of the great Confederate
soldier to have been carried out, and
if the hundreds of thousands of
yoqnsr, virile men who left this sec
tion within a few years after the war,
and the two and a half million people
who have left it during the past 40
years, had been able to find at home
scope for their energy, employment
for their talents, whether of brain or
muscle, what a mighty difference
there would have been, not only in
the South, but in other sections!
The South would have gained the
energy of these people and the ener
gv of the children born to them,
while other sections which have been
enriched by their work would to that
extent have made less relative pro
gress than they have made.
GCOD ROADS FOR GEORGIA.
Good Koails School Opens in Athens Next
.Monday, January 35.
The preparations for the Good
Roads School following the Farmer’s
Conference are now made and the
arrangements promise an occasion of
exceptional value at this juncture in
the movement for better roads. The
school opens Monday, January 25th,
and closes Saturday, January 30th.
The fifteen special lectures on specific
road topics will form a systematic
body of valuable srid attractive in
formation on road building, which
no wide awake road official in the
state can well afford to miss. The
work is planned on the system, and
without trying to spread itself over
the whole range of theoretic and
possible methods of road construc
tion focuses its effort on existing sit
uation in Georgia, and the best prac
tical methods of procedure- for the
various counties of the state.
Both the engineering and financial
side will be clearly brought out in
their relation to each otiier and the
instruction given will eudei.ver to
make plain how, even the counties
with small resources can make a wise
beginning in road betterment. The
notable features of the arrangements
are the provisions made for demon
stration trips over tlieroads in Clarke
county, and tiie actual construction
of the one-half mile of saud clay road
adjacent to the main building of the
Agricultural College. A force of fifty
convicts will be employed during the
whole week on this work, and those
who attend the school will have an
opportunity of seeing every detail of
the w ork on a large scale under work
ing conditions.
This is possible through the splen
did spirit of Clarke county’s officient
road commissioners aud their desire
to give the road officials who come a
thoroughly satisfactory idea of how
convicts are handled and how road
work can be done to advantage with
proper equipment. The road ma
chinery exhibit by manufacturers
will be another interesting feature.
The opportunity both for instruc
tion and for practical demonstrations
in road betterment is one which sel
dom offers and which the State Col
lege urges upon the acceptance of all
persons in the state interested or
concerned in road work. Write at
once to President Soule or Proffessor
Strahan if you waut a seat reserved
in the demonstration trips for which
free transportation will be provided.
Chas. M. Strahan,
Prof, of Civil Engineering.
Athens, Georgia, January 8, 1909.
Cartersville’s fire service is now
commensurate with the size and
needs of the city. A big fire now iss
not the possibility it was before the
latest additions to the equipment foi~
fire fighting were made. Many nra ; es
are due ou r city council for the much
needed improvements. If t. fire
bed sounds now it means that there
will be hose and men on the scene lie
fore many can realize that there a,
fire. The new span of bays and tht?
handsome hose wagon make a pretty
show and they will prove an availing
force ii case of a fire.
A fire department headquarters
has been fixed up in the best shape
at the Dr. Baker building, one door
south of the Anderson livery stable,
on Erwin street. Splendid stall.w
have been fixed for the hors * an <4
the place well equipped with electric
lights. A broad doorway gives room*
forquick and easy ingress and egress.
A une set of Hall’s patent sw aging:
harness lias been provided and con
stantly hang over the tongue of the
hose wagon ready at the instant they
are desired to to fall on to the horse**
ready for the mu to the five.
Two paid firemen have be-n en
gaged to look after and manage the
horses and hose wagon, These are-
Mr. Gideon Hendricks as hose man
and Mr. *V i IL Haney as driver. A,
room with bed and conveniences has
been built to the rear end of the fire
house and the hoseman aud driver
make their constant home in these
quarters.
The horses are not yet trained Led
the authorities were fortnnate ra
their choice of a man to dothis wo-rk.
Tney secured the services of Dr.
cord, of Atlanta, who has made quite*
a success of his previous efforts i
this line and who is devoting bier
best attention to the work in bwadk
here. He will not be long in having:
the horses understand their duties:
perfectly and on the instant, like hu
man beings. The horses are a pair
of beautiful dark bays purchased at
Indianapolis, lud, a little over a
month ago by Mr. Warren Tinsley,
who was engaged by the comm
frouithe council for this work. They
are stylish looking animals, well
built and weigh together 2,401 pounds*
They are what might be called deadl
fflatches.
The wagon is a handsome one aD<!
will carry 1,000 feet of hose to a fire.
The committee entrusted with ibe
work of procuring tiie horses muff
making the other improvements in
cident to their purchase is composed,
of the following aldermen: Jobr*
Stanford, Thomas Simpson, and E.
Matthews They have done theis
duties in the premises well so far.
A telephone system for alarms has
been Instituted and is expected to*
work well.
It is the intention of the city coacs
cil to bring the tire service up to the
best that it can be made It is ex
pected that reductions in insurance
rates wilt follow the improvement off
the fire system. Th city is now on
a footing in fire service equal to Dal
ton, Cedartown, Rome and Gaines
ville.
FiVery body is invited to go to the
fi. e house and seethe splendid news’
arrangements. The ladies especially
are invited.
O’FLANAGAN PROTESTS.
Thinks Hilly Goat and Not BJtfj 'Posstiu*
Simula Kepreneiit National Toy.
An Atlanta special says: Patrick-
O’Eianagan is red headed over Geor
gia's effort to supplant the national’
Teddy bear with a “Billy 'pos.'tiin.
He thinks that his own state, Texas,,
should be given the right of creating:
the next national toy and that they
should be in the likeness of a billy
goat.
Patrick O'Flanagan, it should be
explained, bails from a ranch in the
southwestern corner of Texas. He is>
in Atlanta now for the purpose of as
serting what lie considers the just
deserts of the Lone Star State. >oou
after arriving he learued that an At
lanta lady hud originated the ingen
ious idea of ciowuiug Mr Tail's visit
to the city by presenting him with a
'possum fashioned of wool,a 'possum
that will hereafter take the place of
the Teddy bear throughout the na
tion. Patrick brandished hiss'.elalah.
and delivered himself in this wise;
“Ain’t this awful on us oat fix
Texas! We went to all the tronble
of getting up a good warm pair ef.'
pants made out of goat hair fax'
President-elect Taft. That goat raw
all over a field of four acres and but
ted his brains aim >st out on a rusty
cannon while we were trying to -tat civ
him. He ought to be the nati-ox-aB
toy. Why, the 'possum hasn't got.
enough hair on his tail to make a
wig for Mr. Taft. At least you onght
to put a little Texas goat hair oix
your 'possum's tail.”
Fite Will Be Strong Camfitfa,’*.
It is now Judge Fite’s intention to
make the race for congress to succeed!
Hon. Gordon Lee who has suni&fdf
to his friends that it is his purpose
to retire at the end of the present
term of office.
The present outlook is for a lively
tussle by the time of the genera?
round up. There are a score or more*
prominent politicians in the district;
who feel that they belong to the
class of congressional timber anti it
would not surprise us if some 6 or st
of them get in the running.
Judge Fite with an equal chance will
be nard to beat in this district since
he has such a stroug following in hi
(the Cherokee) circuit.—Calhoua
Times.
NO, 9