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1 JOURNAL.
j I Weekly.
pie'’HRAX, '.iJiRGIA
jfej. at present that sectarian fnsur
i. Spain looks like a fizzer.
It seems that the tussock moth
I scorns to put i.B eggs In cold storage.
For an agreeable summer Job how
would you like to demonstrate ham
-1 mocks?
The Germans are using heavy artil
lery to shoot at airships. Why not
try air guns?
/ No matter how the weather tod
to temperature change, the humidity
I never falls to come back.
rßot oven old Rome before It fell
never lad to contend with cold-stor
age egf.s all the year round.
>, Are you giving proper appreciation
to the class of summer weather the
man In charge Is handing out?
L France wants an Inspiring song for
r Its soldiers to sing as they march.
I They are welcome to sing "Kelly."
JK And still the patient hen goes on
asking whether she Is work
png for an Incubator or a cold storage
iplant.
"Apple crop outlook good.” Seems
fco us that we heard something about
its certain failure just after those
(April frosts.
Plymouth has the rock, Province
town the tall tower, and the country
generally the rest of the monument
in men and women.
The rubber acreage In India Is said
to be increasing, but then it is to be
expected that such a prod
■ Act would stretch out.
At some of the eastern hotels, we
told, they serve reed birds that
English sparrows.
songs while fishing will
tho fish bite, a dispatch says,
Hto'l. in most Instances, small blame
attached to the fish.
HPistnimont which Is being used
hospitals enables a doctor
the interior of a patient's stom
ach. Being a London doctor must be
disagreeable.
i
It Is estimated that Americans have
jbeen swindled out of $9,000,000 in
(Mexican rubber schemes. Think of
Ithe automobiles or duck trousers that
hnonoy would have bought.
I In Newport a fashionable woman
' wearing a hobble skirt was tripped
Sn alighting from her runabout and
fell upon her face, cutting it. She
should now cut the hobble.
Scientists announce that people can
fcecomo energetic by eating raisins.
The trouble Is that most of the ener
gy produced by eating raisins has to
be expended In removing the seeds.
I -A Missouri convict mathematically
inclined hopes for pardon because he
has discovered how to reduce equa
tions of the tenth degree. A study of
English might show him how to short
en his sentence.
Fears for the leaning tower of Pisa
ere shared only by admirers o{ the
antique. If the worst should happen,
n modern skyscraper would undertake
to fit Pisa out with an even more re
markable structure.
A minister In New England has the
audacity to suggest thatthpre will be
(baseball in heaven, rfobably thinks
•that are gold the fields
Hut what will they
■gpßFuiupires? They have all beef
"told t° g° to the other olace.
A rich California lawyer has hired
a $2,000 private car to transport his
pet dog across the continent. And
probably the dog, gazing from his
luxurious quarters, envies the freedom
and privileges of the street cur he
Bees exercising his muscles in a free
for-all fight or luxuriously lunching
on a ragged bone picked out of a
casual garbage can. For dogs are
jnuch like humans in the way of non
appreciation of luxuries forced upon
them or procured without a struggle.
The census returns now coming in
steadily leave no doubt that the coun
try is growing in population at a
rapid rate. The gains in some of the
cities are very notable, several of the
little places having made remarkable
advancement in the last ten years.
This growth is really more significant
in various ways than the increases in
(the larger cities, for it shows local
thrift and prosperity. Study of the
latest census returns hiust help to
dissipate any pessimistic ideas as to
the condition of the country.
An English lad was sentenced to jail
Tor picking a flower from a railroad
right of way, that he might decorate
his father's grave. 'And comparing
conditions in America and England—
Rhode Island is “little, but Oh. my!”
She is the first to come to the front
with a complete census showing this
year, and she reports the very sub
stantial gain of 2G.6 per cent, in pop
ulation since 1900. That is setting a
swift pace, and if the rest of the coun
try\does as well there is no doubt that
.the 80,000,000 mark will be reached.
RACE SUICIDE EVIDENT
BY CENSUS RETURNS
Natural Increase for Decade Only
Six Per Cent.
IMMIGRANTS LOCATE IN CITIES
Census Figures Show Alarmirg Condition to
Exist, Although Immigration is Still
Heavy.
Washington.—Startling conclusions
spring from an examination of the
returns of the census of 1910, as far
as the returns have come in, wnen
compared with statistics of national
growth in former decades. The com
ing race suicide casts its shadow be
fore, for the natural increase of the
native-born American is falling off to
an alarming extent and another dec
ade would put us in the class with
France whose decreasing population
has been the burning question of the
government. With all our national
resources and all state and national
aid to encourage an increase keeping
step with former years, the signs
point to a dropping away of 50 per
cent, in internal increase of popula
tion from tne records of former dec
ades. ,
The increase of our whole popula
tion, including immigrants, from 1820
to 1900, was an average of 28 per
cent, for each decade, varying from
35 per cent, in 1850-1860 to 23 per
cent, in 1890-1900. The average in
crease, exclusive of immigrants, dur
ing that period was about 21 per cent.
In the decade of 1890-1900 this in
crease was a trifle over 20 per cent.,
there being about 58,000,000 other than
immigrants in the former and about
72,000,000 in the latter census. This
was an internal increase of about 14,-
000,00 inhabitants.
Now the best experts, including
those in the census bureau, place the
total, as will be shown by the census
of 1910, at 90,000,000. llut from this
must be deducted the extraordinary
influx of immigrants in the past ten
years which, according to the returns
of the bureau of immigration up to
last month show that within a few
thousand of 9,000,000 have come in
since 1900. As the total gross popula
tion of 1900 was 76,000,000, this means
that the estimate places the total in
crease at 14,000,000. Deducting from
this the 9,000,000 immigrants, there
remains only 5,000,000 natural in
crease for 1900-1910 as against 14,-
000,000 for 1890-1900, which is about
6 per cent, natural increase as against
the former decade average of 21 per
cent.
In addition to this is to be consid
ered the marvelous growth of the cit
ies so far reported. Not to mention
the smaller ones, a score of those of
more than 50,000 show an increase
running well over 50 per cent. Atlan
ta has 72 per cent., East St. Louis 97
per cent., Akron 62 per cent., while
Detroit forges up with 63 per cent.
The other smaller cities will average
well up to 50 per cent.
The ouly conclusions to be reached
from these figures are: First, that our
home increase in population is rapid
ly falling away. Second: That the
cities are absorbing not only the im
migrant population, but drawing very
heavily from the rural districts.
That at the present rapid decline
in Internal increase, it will be but
another decade before, except with
the aid of immigration, we will show
a positive decrease in population.
COTTON ULTIMATUM.
British Action May Seriously Curtail
Shipments This Fall.
Washington.—With the prospect
that American cotton shipments to
England may be curtailed seriously
this year because of the hitch with
English bankers over guarantees of
American bills of lading, a committee
of New York bankers will go to Lon
don for conferences with the English
financiers.
The British banks have issued an
ultimatum that, after November 1,
they will not receive cotton bills of
lading from this country unless they
are guaranteed by American banks.
20-Cent Cotton Pleased Savannah.
Savannah, Ga. —When cotton went
to 20 cents a pound there were scenes
of wild hilarity on the floor of the
Savannah Cotton exchange. This was
the highest price most of the mem
bers of the exchange had ever seen
the staple reach, and they proceeded
to celebrate the event by throwing
up their hats and cheering to their
hearts' content. It was the highest
price reached in Savannah since IS6B.
The only trouble with the 20-cent cot
ton is that there is so little of the
staple here to be delivered.
New Militia Equipment.
Washington.—Following the action
of a board of army officials appointed
to improve the outfit of the men in
the infantry branch of the army, new
equipment is being manufactured at
the Rock Island arsenal which will
prove of a greater comfort to the
soldier and better his efficiency on
the field. The board’s action, approv
ed by Secretary Dickinson, seeks to
improve everything the soldier uses
except clothing, ammunition and rifle.
Comfort and light weight are the
chief desiderata.
BILL OF LADING POLICY
Southern Kailway Asnouncat Method of Hand
ling Cotton Bills.
Washington.—President Finley of
the Southern Railway company, being
asked about the policy of that com
pany relative to the validation of or
der notify bills of lading for export
cotton, said:
"The management of the Southern
Railway company recognizes the great
commercial Importance of this subject
and will do all that it properly can
to promote confidence in the markets
of the world in its bills of lading. It
is believed that the effective enforce
ment of certain business precautions
will go far to satisfy any doubt which
now exists as a result of certain al
leged manipulation by shippers of or
der notify bills of lading for export
cotton last season, for which the rail*
ways were in no way responsible.
“The system of issuing such bills
of lading was the subject tf a spe
cial conference between the carriers
and bankers. As a result of this con
ference, the Southern Railway com
pany will arrange, beginning on Sep
tember 1, 1910, to make effective the
safeguards surrounding the issue of
order notify bills of lading which
were then agreed upon. Among other
things agreed upon tending to improve
the system of issuing order notify bills
of lading for export cotton, these
regulations provide for a bill of lad
ing signature certificate which will
be signed and attached, on behalf of
the railway company by a validation
officer, to each order notify bills of
lading for export cotton issued by
agents of the company authorized to
issue such bills of lading. Each val
idation certificate will set forth that
the agent who has signed the bill of
lading is the regularly appointed agent
of the company, and, as such, is au
thorized to sign bills of lading in ac
cordance with the regulations §f tho
company, and that the signature on
the attached order notify bill of lad
ing is his signature. The -certificate
will be irremovably attached to the
bill of lading covered by it, and, as
an additional safeguard, the bill of
lading, in addition to its own num
ber, will bear the number of the cer
tificate issued in connection with it.
Agents will be instructed not to sign
bills of lading until the cotton is in
the possession of the railway com
pany.
SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTION.
Neither Side Won In Carolina
Election.
Columbia, S. C.—With about 40,000
votes from thirty-one counties heard
from it is evident that O. C. Feather
stone and Cole L. Illease will be in
the second race for governor. Thom
as G. McLeod is running a fair third.
Mr. Featherstone is a prohibitionist,
while Messrs. Hlease and McLeod are
advocates of local option.
For lieutenant governor, C. A.
Smith, prohibitionist, has a good lead
over E. W. Duvall, local optlonist.
.1. Fraser Lyon, attorney general,
candidate for re-election, is leading
his opponent, B. B. Evans, by a ma
jority of 17,000 out of 38,000 votes.
His re-election is assured.
In the race for governor and lieu
tenant governor the prohibitionists
and local optionists so far are prac
tically at a stand-off. The local op
tion candidates—Messrs. Blease and
McLeod —polled a majority of the
vote, while that cast for the prohibi
tion candidates —Featherstone, Hyatt
and Richards—was lighter than ex
pected. Mr. Featherstone's vote was
good, but the other two fell off badly
from estimates. On the other hand,
the prohibition candidate for lieuten
ant governor has made a great race
and is almost certain of election.
While a majority of the members
of the house of representatives chosen
in the election is conceded to the pro
hibitionists, the complexion of the
state senate is in doubt. In that body
in the next session of the legislature
the vote on a state-wide prohibition
bill undoubtedly will be close, neither
side at present claiming a majority
of more than 3 or 4 votes.
Whisky Advances.
Cincinnati. Announcement was
made at the chamber of commerce
that the price of spirits has been ad
vanced 3 cents on the gallon, making
the basis price for the future $1.33.
The new price will affect other whis
key markets where distillers’ finished
goods are handled.
Naval Stores Trade Prosperous.
Savannah, Ga. —The year just end
ed has been the most prosperous in
the recent history of the naval stores
trade. This prosperity is in the face
of a steady decrease in supply, not
only in the year just ended, but in the
preceding year, and is due to the
high price of turpentine and rosin.
For these higher prices there are
two causes—the small production and
the general apprehension that the ten
dency of naval stores production
henceforth will be to decrease. Sur
plus stocks have been much depleted.
U. S. Treasury Report.
Washington.—With an increase of
$3,273,325 in the public debt and a
total deficit of $17,371,468.08, the Unit
ed States treasury closed the second
month of the fiscal year, keeping on
an even keel, all things considered,
with a working balance of $30,826,-
057.23 on hand and the general fund
down to $59,522,207.59. The increase
in public debt, which is a complete
turnover of four millions, in round
numbers, from the month of July, is
due largely to an excess of national
bank deposits over redemption.
THE COTTON CROP
IS BELOW AVERAGE
Outlook Is Brighter Than This
Time Last Tear.
AVERAGE CONDITION IS 70.7
Journal of Commerce Reports Show Much
Better Condition of the Crop This Tear
Than a Tear Ago.
New York City.—The Journal of
Commerce says:
Replies from 1,800 special corre
spenednts of the Journal of Com
merce and Commercial Bulletin, of an
average date August 24, make the
condition of cotton 70.7 per cent.,
again 74.9 last month, a deteriora
tion of 4.2 points. This compares with
a condition of 66 per cent, a year ago,
78.1 in 1908, 73.9 in 1907, 77.6 in 1906
and 72.4 in 1905. According to the
reports of this paper, the ten-year av
erage is 74.7 per cent., with a condi
tion of 4.7 points better than a year
ago, and an estimated increase of 2.8
per cent, in acreage. The present
outlook is considerably brighter than
last year. The situation in Texas is
serious, where a decline of 16.9 points
occurred, owing almost entirely to
severe drouth and high temperatures.
Louisiana descended from the al
ready low condition of 66.3 per cent,
last month to 57.6 per cent, a decline
of 8.7 points. Alabama lost only 2
per cent. All other important states
showed advances from 2 to nearly 5
per cent. The condition by states
compared with last month follows:
Sept. Aug.
North Carolina . . . .79.0 74.3
South Carolina . . . .74.0 71.2
Georgia 71.0 68.4
Florida 68.6 66.2
Alabama 72.2 72.4
Mississippi 71.0 69.2
Louisiana 57.6 66.3
Texas 64.0 80,9
Arkansas. . . .* 78.3 74.5
Tennessee .75.9 73.7
Missouri 72.9 78.2,
Oklahoma 87.7 87.7
Average 70.7 74.9
Favorable weather was general in
practically all states except Texas,
where drought and high temperatures
have caused heavy deterioration. Pre
mature opening will soon be univer
sal unless the much-needed rain ap
pears. Growth has progressed satis-'
factoril.v in other states, the plan,
though small, being fruited. Fields
are well cultivated, complaints of
scarcity of labor are comparatively
rare and the crop is unusually Tree
from insect, except for the boll wee
vil in Louisiana and Texas, in the
former state they have swept nearly
everything before them in many sec
tions, so that little more than half a
crop is expected. In Texas the drought
and heat have prevented the spread
of the weevil and damage is slight;
shedding has been general, but not
more than usual for this time of year.
The great danger to the crop lies
in an early frost, since the season is
fully two to three weeks backward,
except in Texas and Oklahoma. On
the other hand, a late frost would ma
terially»improve prospects and prob
ably insure an average crop. Oklaho
ma promises a better crop than for
years past.
ASHEVILLE FLOODED.
North Carolina City Visited by a De
strictive Flood.
Asheville, N. Q. —Asheville was vis
ited by a destructive flood. The
French Broad was higer than during
the flood of 1901.
The Transylvania - Murphy and
Asheville-Spartanburg lines of the
Southern railway are out of commis
sion. The Southern worked to keep
the line from Knoxville to Salisbury
open, but trains on this line were
operated under difficulties.
The flood backed water into the
auxiliary plant of the Asheville Elec
tric company, cutting off all power.
There were no lights and no street
car service.
The newspaper plants were with
out power and they issued handbills
by the old method.
Cloakmakers Strike Settled.
New York City.—The cloakmakers’
strike, one of the most stupendous in
dustrial disturbances in the history of
American labor, has just been settled.
The industrial loss to employers and
employees has run high into the mil
lions. In loss of wages alone the to
tal has been estimated at more than
SIO,OOO, while the loss to manufac
turers, jobbers and retailers the coun
try over has been computed at ten
times that amount. Seventy thousand
employees returned to work when the
new agreement was signed.
Tennessee Central Not Sold.
Nashville, Tenn. —Regarding the
persistent rumors that have been in
circulation here for some time that
the Tennessee Central railroad w r ould
be taken over by the Illinois Central,
on September 15. President. A. B. New
ell of the former road said:
“I have heard the report, but there
is absolutely nothing in it. We are do
ing excellently as an independent line.
Our relations with the Illinois Central
are entirely friendly and on a basis
that is mutually satisfactory.”
LEPROSY CURE DISCOVERED.
S or geo as of the 0. & Hospital Corps, Who Are
Lon Leper Island, Flash Hews of Achievement
- Washington.—Lepro&, the uncon
quered scourge of'.irtejages, is making
what is believed to he its last stand
against science. From Molokai, the
Coral island prison for the plague
striciten, in the Hawaiian group, a
few words nave been flashed half-way
around the world to Washington tell
ing of an achievement accounted sec
ond only to the discovery of the leper
bacilli by Hansen in 1879.
Three surgeons of the United States
public health and" marine hospital ser
vice have grown leper bacilli in pure
culture outside the human body, and
in tiny thin glass tubes in the labo
ratory the loathsome germs are now
growing in their third generation.
Four times the scientists have taken
the infection of the body of a leper
and artificially propagated the bacillus
on beef broth, egg or the amoeba of
the intestines of a guinea pig. The
work of Dr. Moses T. Clegg, who de
clared less than a year ago at Ma
nila, that he had found that the bac
illus could be cultivated outside the
human body, is verified and extend
ed. Dr. Clegg has been rushed from
Manila scientific station to Molokai
to assist in the experiments.
This achievement of the scientists
at the government's leprosy investiga
tion station is the first step in the pro
duction of a vaccine or a serum for
the cure or prevention of leprosy. Pre
cisely the same ground has been cov
ered by the men who evolved the diph
theria antitoxin and the serum for te
tanus.
In each of these cases the growing
of the germ in pure culture has
the stepping stone to the cure. Dr.
Donald H. Currie, director of the .sta
tion; Dr. Walter R. Brinkerhoff, and
Dr. H. T. Hollman, are the men who
have grown the cultures.
After four months’ careful work in
which they had labored to grow the
lepra bacillus in the amoeba of pond
water, guinea pig intestines and other
low forms of animal life, they were
about to give up, defeated. Some of
the tubes containing the specimens
were about to be destroyed when one
of the men determined to make a last
inspection of the culture In a forlorn
hope. To his astonishment he found
the germ living. The discovery spur
red the investigators to new efforts
and back over the blazed trail they
had covered so often, they worked
again with ultimate success.
Aside from the hopes of evolving a
serum or a vaccine for a prevention
or a cure for the scourge, scientists
hope the investigators may find a lep
rosine, which, like tuberculine, would
detect the disease in its first stages.
EMERGENCY MONEY RULING.
In Case of Financial Stringency Banks
May Issue $500,000,000.
Washington.—Secretary MacVeagrh's
ruling on the term "commercial pa
per," in the Treasury Department’s
interpretation of the emergency cur
rency law, became known in its full
import here. Business men and banks
throughout the country have been
anxiously waiting for it. The Chica
go banks, which raised the question,
and banks all through tire west felt
that if it were adverse they would be
unable to form effective currency as
sociations. The way now is made
clear for the banks of the United
States to put into circulation $500,000,-
000 in emergency money at the first
sign of a financial stringency.
The law provides that commercial
paper upon which emergency curren
cy may be issued shall include only
notes representing actual commercial
transactions, which shall bear the
names of at least two responsible per
sons and have not more than four
months to run.
A large proportion of the banks hold
the notes of reputable individuals and
corporations which they have bought
from note-brokers. These notes bear
only the hame of the maker. Secre
tary MacVeagh has decided that the
endorsement of the holding bank upon
such notes will constitute the second
endorsement which the law calls for.
Mr. MacVeagh also holds that notes
issued by reputable persons for the
carrying on of bona fide business and
which they discounted at banks rep
resent actual commercial transactions
and are distinct from what is known
as accommodation paper. The latter
is strictly barred from being used as
the basis of an issue of emergency
currency.
10,609,668 Bales of Cotton Sold.
Atlanta.—Secretary Hester of the
New Orleans cotton exchange an
nounced that the commercial crop for
the year ending August 31, 1910,
amounted to 10,609,668 bales, a de
crease under last year of 3,215,789,
a decrease under year before last of
986,298 and a decrease under 1907-0*
of 2,901,324. The consumption of the
Southern mills is 218,570 bales behind
last year. Last year the consumption
of cotton was the largest ever record
ed, while in 1907-08 the business of
the mills was restricted by the panic.
Edistn Urged to Fight Mosquito.
Orange, N. J. —Several residents of
New Jersey have sent Thomas A. Ed
ison a petition urging him to turn
his inventive genius against the Jer
sey mosquito, whose ravages this
years have been very serious.
“I am never bothered by the mos
quitoes,” Mr. Edison told some of his
neighbors when the subject was
brought up. “You see, I am just deaf
enough so that I can’t hear them com
ing. I think their hum must be worse
than their bite, for everybody growls
whenever a mosquito hums.”
■rMunyon’s.
> Witch Hazel
gpg>,Soap -
■ is more soothing than Cold
Cream ; more healing than
•to any lotion, liniment or salve;
more beantifying than any
cosmetic.
Cures dandruff and stops hair from
ftllinf out
Got Stung, All Right.
Bill—This paper says that bees
were unknown to the Indians.
Jill—Yes, I believe It was the trad
ers wha used to sting them. —Yonkers
Statesman.
Last Here.
The Minister—ln the next world,
Tommy, the last shall be first
Tommy—Say, won’t I shine when
the minister comes to supper at our
house up there!—Puck.
Then It Happened.
"What made you think he would
propose to me?”
"Why, when I refused him he said
he didn't care what became of him;
but perhaps he wasn’t serious.”—
Houston Post
AWFUL.
Stranger—l suppose you people in
this town think you have the grandest
climate in the country?
Man With a Cold —No; but we claim
the greatest variety.
FISHING TIME IN THE PASIG
Swimming In Myriads Near Surface
They Are Snared and Speared
by Filipinos.
Friday morning Filipinos snariiy;
eels and other fish in the Pasig
the old captain of the port building bH
the aid of fish snares caught
largest eel ever seen on the
front. It was fully ten feet in lengtlH
Both banks of the Pasig and all the*!
ships and lighters moored in the 1
stream were thronged with hundreds
of Filipinos with snares and spears
trying to catch the fish that in myri
ads were swimming near the surface
of the stream.
Natives when asked In regard to
the phenomenon were almost unani
mously in their statement to the ef
fect that at this time of the year the
bottom of the river gets hot and that
the fish have to leave the depths of
the stream and flash back and forth
on or near the surface.
Another theory that seemed to have
a great many adherents was to the ef
fect that at this time every year
there was a change in the character
of the water, this change acting on
the fish as a stimulant.
This theory was advanced by an old
pilot who has witnessed the phenome
non for many years.—Manila Times.
“NO' FRILLS”
Just Sensible Food Cured Him.
Sometimes a good, healthy
cial traveler suffers from Pdrfrly
lected food and is lucky if hellearns
that Grape-Nuts food will puR him
right
A Cincinnati traveler says: “About
a year ago my stomach got in a bad
way. I had a headache most of the i
time and suffered misery. For several
months I ran down until I lost about
(0 pounds in weight and finally had to
give up a good position and go home.
Any food that I might use seemed to
nauseate me.
“My wife, hardly knowing what to
do, one day brought home a package
of Grape-Nuts food and coaxed me to
try it. I told her it was no use but
finally to humor her I tried a little,
and they just struck my taste. It
was the first food I had eaten in near
ly a year that did not cause any suffer
ing.
“Well, to make a long story short. I .
began to Improve and stuck to
Nuts. I went up from 135 pounil#
December to 194 pounds the
October. JU
"My brain Is clear, blood
right and appetite too much for any
man’s pocketbook. In fact, lam thor
oughly made over, and owe It all to
Grape-Nuts. I talk so much about what
Grape-Nuts will do that some of the
men on the road have nicknamed me
’Grape-Nuts,’ but I stand today a
healthy, rosy-cheeked man —a pretty
good example of what the right kind
of food will do.
“You can publish this if you want to.
It is a true statement without any
frills.”
Read the little book, ‘The Road to
Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s a Reason.”
Ever read the above letterf A »ew
oae appears from time to time. They
are genuine. true, and full of human
Interest.