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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1908)
A Happy Family When you fix upon having a good Insurance policy, your mind is at rrest, your wife is touched by your thought, and even the baby sees there’s something of importance going on and joins in the general good feeling. That’s the best thing about a policy--it’s the one settled, •-afe investment in this world of trade changes. See me. GEO. CARMICHAEL JACKSON, GEORGIA Tybee by the Sea GEORGIA'S GREATEST SEASIDE RESORT Offers the greatest attractions for a Summer Outing, Fishing, Boating Dancing, Surf Bathing, Skating Bowling, and many other forms of amusements HOTEL TYBEE Under new management, has been thoroughly over hauled and refurnished and is new throughout Splendid orchestra, Fine Artesian Water Fresh Fish and other Sea Food. STUBBS & KEEN, Proprietors Also The New Pulaski, savannah Take an Outing VIA Southern ; Railway THE RESORTS OF “The Beautiful Sapphire Country” and “The Land of the Sky” are coo! and inviting UNUSUALLY ATTRACTIVE LIST OF Summer Resorts --- . . - For complete information in regard to rates, schedules, etc., address G. R. PETIT, T. P. A., Macon, Georgia. GO TO Middle Georgia Lumber and Man’g Cos. H. F. GILMORE, Manager For All Kinds of Building Materials FOR GOOD WORK AND LOW PRICES Hard brick, 85 cents; Soft brick, 75 cents; Lime 90 cents. Fine stock of flooring. We make all kinds of Sash, Doors. Blinds. Screens, all kinds of mouldings, brackets, baluster, etc. All kinds of turned and sawed work. See us when you want any building material. Advertise in Your Home Paper 5*3-3 -s-T or Very Best Results. COTTON SINNERS MEET Hope to Profit by the Ousting of Gulf Compres’ Company. FARMERS liMIUN COMMITTEE Plan to Ship Direct to Foreign Mil is Et.d jrsed—Will Save $4,250,000 in Miisisiippi Alone. Jackson, Miss. —A meeting of the compress gipners of the southern states was held here for the purpose of perfecting an organization and ma king plans 10 substitute the compress gin for the large compress plants now in operation in the cotton belt. Tne several manufacturing concerns supplying round and square bale com press gins are fully represented at the gathering, which is of more than usual significance in view of the fact that a special meeting of the federal court was held here at which Judge Miles heard the petition of Attorney Gen eral Fletcher, asking that the receiv ership of the Gulf Compress company not be allowed to interfere .with tne decree of the state court declaring that the Gulf Compress Company is an unlawful combine and ordering it ousted from the state. The compress ginners frankly ac knowledge that they hope to profit by the ousting of the Gulf Compress company, and that they will make an effort to secure control of the ginning and compressing in this state. One strong argument they advance is that the gin compress saves the farmer $3.50 per bale on his cotton, which in Mississippi alone means an aggregate saving of $4,250,000 per annum. The Lowry round bale interests, the Farmers’ Gin and Compress company, the Southern Compress company and the Munger Gin company are the largest concerns represented. Memphis, Tenn. —Measures which bid fair to almost revolutionize the present methods of exporting the cot ton crop to the foreign mills and spin ners were recommended and heartily endorsed by the Farmers’ Union na tional convention committee, compos ed of one man from each cotton state, which met here. To every member of the union was sent an agreement for him to sign and forward to the local secretary of the union pledging his in dividual support in a direct market ing of the present cotton crop. The committee strongly advocated shipping direct to the foreign mills and spinners, which they claimed could easily be accomplished by fur nishing the same business advantages as the heavy exporter now gives to the mills. The growers have been ask ed to pledge their cotton to them, and the sales will be apportioned among the states according to the amount pledged. This co-operation, which has practically been pledged by every member of the union, means that the market will not be overfed and the market prices will no longer be controlled by the speculators, and competition among sellers will be done away with. ESPERANTO IS RECOGNIZED. United States Appoints Representa tive to the Congress. Washington, D. C.—Esperanto has been recognized officially by the Uni ed States government in the recent appointment of Mayor Paul F. Straub, ot the army medical corps, to repre sent this country in the fourth inter national esperanto congress to be held at Dresden, Germany, August 16-22, 1908. Belgium was the first nation to give its official recognition to this re markable language. The war department library was the first institution in Washington to recognize the value of esperanto as an auxiliary language, and it began the accumulation of esperanto litera ture in January, 1906. • The total number of esperanto schools and societies throughout the world is practically 1.000. DEATH TO BOLL WEEVIL. Powdered Arsenate of Lead Will Kill the Pest. Baton Rouge, La.—That powdered arsenate of lead may prove the solu tion of the boll weevil problem, is the suggestion made in a bulletin is sued by the state crop pest commit tee. The bulletin gives the results of some experiments made this year with the arsenate of lead, and mentions that in one instance it killed 70 per cent of the boll weevils in the local ity where it was tried. State Ento mologist Newell says that two applica tions of the preparation will clear a field entirely of the weevils. This is the first poison that the Lou isiana state crop pest commission has endorsed for killing boll weevils. WOMAN AERONAUT HURT Parachute Fails to Open—Falls in Lake and Has Narrow Escape. Dallas. Texas.— Dropping from a height of nearly two hundred feet in to thirty feet ot water, her body buck led to the parachute which had failed to open promptly. Mile Pearl Lavon had a narrow escape from drowning In the lake at a local pleasure resort. Mile Lavon had entered into a bal loon race with another aeronaut. Her balloon had not been properly Inflated and she cut loose the parachute when over the center of the lake. She was rescued after having been under wa ter three and one-half minutes. She waa revived within half 'hour, but is suffering from the shock. OF POLITICAL INTEREST. Both Mr. Bryan and Mr. Taft are much pleased at the results obtained from the use of the phonograph for the dissemination of their political speeches. Missouri has come to the front with a rush in the Taft baby naming con test. VV. F. Heavner of Lebanon, Mo., announces himself the proud father of twins. Asa good republican he has undertaken to perpetuate the whole tional ticket and the state ticket by naming one boy Howard Taft Heav ner in honor of Judge Taft and the other Hadley Sherman Heavner, to honor the second place on the ticket, as well as Hadley, Missouri’s republi can candidate for governor. W. J. Bryan is considering the sug gestion of Harvey Garber, national ebairman of Virginia, to place a per sonal letter in the hands of every voter in every doubtful state. Ldgar B. Schmidt of Dayton, Ohio, went to Lincol uto especially place the idea Defore the candidate. • Just call me Mr.Taft and if you drop into colloquialism, call me Bill.” This was Judge Taft’s laughing reply when granting an audience to a number of newspaper men, who had severally ad dressed him as “Mr. Secretary, ’ ’ Gov ernor’’ and “Mr. Taft.” Richard V. Oulahan, for many years a leading writer with the New York Sun, will have general charge of the literary work for the republican na tional committee. Senator Taylor of Tennessee ha3 charge of the plan by which a straw vote will be taken in every state in the union. Mr. Bryan has consented to speak at the Minnesota state fair, provided no admission to the grounds is to be cnarged. The campaign for the election of state officers of South Carolina has stiired up a hot fight between the ministers and politicians of that state. The ministers have taken the stump an dare bitterly opposing what they term “ring rule.” Mr. Taft’s fatal gift of beauty has led an Indiana burglar to steal ten thousand of his campaign buttons. Mr. Bryan has issued an appeal to the “common people,” asking for cam paign contributions. John Temple Graves, candidate of the independence party for vice pres ident, underwent a slight operation in a private hospital in New York City. The democrats of New England in tend to make a fight to keep their section out of the republican column. Henry Watterson nas written sev eral thousand letters to democratic editors waking them up to the im portance of getting in behind Bryan. Mr. Taft has received from a Phil j adelphia admirer the left hind foot of a rabbit, gold mounted. The gift was accompanied by a note expressing the hope that the rabbit foot would offset the luck given to Mr. Bryan when he was presented with a horseshoe. It is announced that William Ran dolph Hearst will start a daily paper in Atlanta, Ga., in the interests of the independence party. Alton B. Parker, democratic candi date for president in 1904, delivered his first speech of the present cam paign in behalf of Mr. Bryan and Mr. Kern before an audience of 2,000 per | sons at Temple Auditorium in Los : Angeles, Cal. i Lincoln, Nebraska, Typographical ; Union voted to make William Jen nings Bryan an honorary member. The action of the union was nearly unanimous, such opposition as there was being on the ground that the ac tion might be construed as bringing politics into the union. To offset this Governor Sheldon, who is a republi can, also was made an honorary meru | ber. The headquarters of the democratic ! national committee have been formal ly opened in the Auditorium Annex, at Chicago. Thomas E. Watson, the populist candidate for president, is busy mak ing speeches in his home state, Geor gia. Mr. Watson is fighting for the electoral vote of Georgia. • In order to relieve Taft of criticism on account of the Brownsville sol i diers, General Corbin has given out a hitherto unpublished dispatch from Roosevelt, showing that the order | came directly from the president. Mr. Bryan has an engagement to I meet all the leading labor leaders of the country for a conference at Chi : cabo August 22. Mr. Bryan is availing himself of the cool weather by utilizing every spare moment of his time in preparing the several sections of the speeches he will make. The one on tariff Is ex pected to be an exhaustive treatment I of the subject and will be one of the most important of his utterances dur ing the campaign. The speech will be ! delivered at Indianapolis. Norman E. Mack, democratic cam ! paign manager, is in almost daily con | ference with Mr. Bryan over the long distance telephone. The action of the Western Tariff Association in refusing to make spe cial rates to Lincoln, Neb., upon the occasion of the notification of Mr. Bry an has caused much disappointment among democrats who were prepar ing to take a monster crowd from the east. A horseshoe bearing the inscription ‘‘traveling across the continent to bring good luck to Billy B. and the democratic party,” has arrived at New Orleans tied to the rear-end of a pas senger train. It was transferred to another road and started on its jour ney to Sau Francisco. THE PASSING 0“ THE FRENCH. Cmall Rate of Increase in One of the Greatest Nations. , The (population of France, whose 30,000,000 formed the most numerous national monolingual group in Europe at the opening of the last century, has increased only 20 per cent, dur ing the past 100 years, as against England’s 350 per cent, and America's 1,000 per cent. The total population cf France is now 38,350,788. The female sex ex ceeds the male in number, the figures being, respectively, 19,533,899 and IS.- 81G.589. On the other hand, an ex cess in the number of the unmarried is shown on the masculine side, the respective figures being 9,917,178 and 9,114,350. There are 2,384,879 widows and divorced women, as against 1,- 005.884 widowers and divorced men. The number of French families is 9,781,117, of which 1,314,773 aro with out children; 2,249,337 have but one child; 2,018,605 have two; 1,246,264 have three; 748,841 have four; 429,- 799 havo five; 248,159 have six; 138,- 769 have seven; 71,841 have eight, and 33,917 have nine children. These fig ures continue to represent, in a rap idly decreasing proportion, the num ber of families having a larger num ber. Upon comparing these groups of figures, It will be perceived that for about two-thirds of the families of France the average number of children does not exceed three; while for about 1 1-2 per cent, of them the average number is seven, and for less than 1 per cent, of the same, eight children. Twenty-four families are recorded, however, as possessing sev enteen, and thirty-four as possessing eighteen i-ou.—Farner’s., Striking an Average. The children were not allowed in the kitchen, but nobody had ever forbidden their sniffling outside the door to catch the delicious odors which could be obtained by a close application of a small nose to a crack. “Why, Ethel,” said 'Mrs. Harwood, who discovered them in the entry just outside the kitchen door one Sat urday morning, “why are you twitch ing 'Tommy’ and slapping him?” “ ’Cause he isn’t playing fair, moth er,” said Ethel. “He’s had five smells and I’ve only had four, and it’s my turn.” “I am, too, playing fair,” asserted “Tommy,” ihis utterance smothered Be he again applied his nose to the crack. ‘Tve got an awful cold, and I can’t smell half as much as she can!” —Youth’s Companion. THE COME SIGN W- t <^ W&&fjM ■r h^Mm t. ’ .'; S;-£i This sign is permanently attached to the front of the main building of the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, Lynn, Mass. What Does This Sign Mean ? It means that public inspection of the Laboratory and methods of doing business is honestly desired. Itmeans that there is nothing about the bus iness which is not “open and above board.” It means that a permanent invita tion is extended to anyone to come and verify any and all statements made in the advertisements of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Is it a purely vegetable compound made from roots and herbs with out drugs ? Come and See. Do the women of America continu ally use as much of it as we are told ? Come and See. Was there ever such a person as Lydia E. Pinkham, and is there any Airs. Pinkham now to whom sick w oman are asked to write ? Come and See. Is the vast private correspondence with sick women conducted by women only, and are the letters kept strictly confidential ? Come and See. Have they really got letters from over one million, one hundred thousand "women correspondents ? Come and See. Have they proof that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has cured thousands of these women ? Come and See. This advertisement is only for doubters. The great army of women who know from their own personal experience that no medicine in the world equals Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female ills will still £o on using and being ben efited by it; but the poor doubting, suffering woman must, for her own sake,be taught confidence Jorshealso might just as well regain her health-
