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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.