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Published Weekly.
" COCHRAN’, GEORGIA
Are we due for another comet
ecare?
The story of an alligator in Paw
Paw lake gives us pause.
"The police mobilized their reserves
In autos.” Automobiltzed them, as It
were.
The son of a British peer Is wash
ing dishes In Texas. His job ought to
pan out.
This year's peach crop Is one of the
largest and prettiest that ever failed
In the spring.
Events in Latin America Indicate
that there is something revolutionary
In a banana diet.
A small prison sentence looks a
great deal worse than a big fine to the
confirmed joy rider.
The times seem prolific of accidents.
And the worst of it Is that the great
majority need never happen.
Now Is a good time for some Don’t
Worry club to offer an honorary mem
bership to King Alfonso.
Austrians are demanding cheap
meat. Here is one more chance for
the Belgian hare promoter.
A California family went crazy con
templating the comet. All that some
people are looking for Is an excuse.
Hailstones measuring two Inches in
diameter fell at Sault Ste. Marie, but
the local Icemen are not discouraged.
A Boston scientist says that sauer
kraut Is superior to beans as a diet.
This ought to be good news in Mil
waukee.
A Washington umpire will call
strikes and bnlls in Esperanto. Will
some kind friend tell us what they
usually talk?
Professor Watkins says old-fashion
ed dyes have disappeared. Old-fash
ioned death, however, continues busi
ness as usual.
There is a dispute as lo the owner
ship of the Spitsbergen islands. They
will make a cold collation for some
country or other.
One thing that marks the mikado
as a distinct and peculiar statesman
is his success in keeping his picture
out of the magazines.
The prince consort of Holland has
broken his collar bone by a fall from
a bicycle. The royal advisers should
make him keep to golf.
King Alfonso's boat was In collision
at Southampton the other day and
nearly sunk. That XIII. after his
name is certainly a hoodoo.
The washing of paper money is a
good thing, but it should not encourage
the gold manipulators to keep our
coinage bright by “sweating" it.
In getting a dog a muzzle It Is not
necessnry to irritate the animal by a
load of scrap-iron. Dog muzzling may
be humane as well as effective.
Some one has seen a flock of geese
flying southward. They were doubtless
hastening away from the terrible heat
which Medicine Hat occasionally re
ports.
Some fault-finding is being done on
(he score that the paper on wfiich the
new SI,OOO bills were printed is of in
ferior quality. Probably everybody
noticed it.
‘—. ■
A Chinese delegate to the deaf mute
convention of deaf mutes at Denver
is looking for an interpreter. Can
any one here make 6,000 letters with
their fingers?
An unlettered man with Dr. Eliot’s
five feet of hooks at his bedside might
feel no compunction about throwing
one of them at the neighbor's eat on
the back fence.
Prof. Wilczynskl of the University
of Chicago thinks mathematics and
poetry much alike. At least you fre
quently meet with examples of each
which you do not scan.
The new football rules are being
prepared. Let us hope there will be
nothing In them to alter the form of
the conventional magazine story about
Thanksgiving game.
An Ohio judge has decided that it
is not illegal for a woman to go
through her husband's pockets. It
wouldn't have made the slightest dif
ference if he had decided the other
way.
A European duke, visiting this coun
try, declares he wants to go in busi
ness here. His family may be shock
ed by this decision, but it is far more
manly than coming as a fortune
hunter in the hope of gaining another
man’s work to live on.
The fashionable hobbled woman may
belong to the class who rush in where
angels fear to tread, only she draws
the line —or the hobble—at rushing.
Lately she has been falling out of
boats when she tries to stand up in
them, but she doesn’t drown.
NO GLOUDSIN SIGHT
COLONEL GEORGE HARVEY SAYB
COUNTRY ALL RIGHT.
THE WRITER SEES NO CLOUD
Striking Article in North American
Review That is Attracting Wide
Attention.
The attention of business and pro
fessional men in all portions of the
country has been attracted to a strik
ingly strong article by Col. George
Harvey in the September issue of the
North American Review in which the
writer takes a view of the greatest
hopefulness for the future of America
and Americans. The article Is en
titled "A Plea for the Conservation of
Common Sense,” and it is meeting
with the cordial approval of business
men of all shades of political opinion
throughout the entire country. In
part, Colonel Harvey says:
‘‘Unquestionably a spirit of unrest
dominates the land. But, If it be
true that fundamentally the condition
of the country is sound, must we
necessarily succumb to despondency,
abandon effort looking to retrieval
and cringe like cravens before clouds
that only threaten? Rather ought
we not to analyze conditions, search
for causes, find the root of the dis
tress, which even now exists only in
men's minds, and then, after the
American fashion, apply such rem
edies as seems most likely to produce
beneficent results?
Capital and Labor Not Antagonistic.
"The Link that connects labor with
capital is not broken but we may not
deny that it is less cohesive than it
should be or than conditions war
rant. Financially, the country is
stronger than ever before in its his
tory. Recovery from a panic so
severe as that of three years ago was
never before so prompt ami compara
tively complete. The masses are
practically free from debt. Money Is
held by the banks in abundance and
rates are low.
“Why, then, does capital pause
upon the threshold of Investment?
The answer, we believe, to be plain.
It awaits adjustment of the relations
of government to business. • • • The
sole problem consists of determining
how government can maintain an
even balance between aggregations
of interests, on the one hand, and the
whole people, on the other, protect
ing the latter against extortion and
saving the former from mad assaults.
“The solution is not easy to find
for the simple reason that the situ
ation is without precedent. But is
not progress being made along sane
and cautious lines? • • •
Conserve Common Sense.
“Is not the present, as we have
seen, exceptionally secure? What,
then, of preparations for the future?
Patriotism is the basis of our insti
tutions. And patriotism in the minds
of our youth is no longer linked solely
with fireworks and deeds of daring. It
is taught in our schools. A new
course has been added —a course in
loyalty. Methodically, our children
learn how to vote, how to conduct
primaries, conventions and elections,
how to discriminate between qualifica
tions of candidates and, finally, how
to govern as well as serve. They are
taught to despise bribery and all
forms of corruption and fraud as
treason. Their creed, which they are
made to know by heart, is not com
plex. It is simple, but comprehen
sive, no less beautiful in diction than
lofty In aspiration. These are the
pledges which are graven upon their
memories:
"As it is cowardly for a soldier to
run away from battle, so It Is coward
ly for any citizen not to contribute
his share to the well-being of his
country. America is my own dear
land; she nourishes me, and I will
love her and do my duty to her,
whose child, servant aud civil soldier
I am.
“As the health and happiness of
my body depend upon each muscle
and nerve and drop of blood doing
Its work in its place, so the health
and happiness of my country depend
upon each citizen doing his work in
his place.
"These young citizens are our
hostages to fortune. Can we not
safely assume that the principles ani
mating their lives augur well for the
permanency of the Republic? When
before have the foundation stones
of continuance been laid w’ith such
care and promise of durability? ,
“The future, then, is bright. And
the present? But one thing is need
ful. No present movement Is more
laudable than that w'hich looks to
conservation of natural resources.
But let us never forget that the great
est Inherent resource of the Amer
ican people Is Common Sense. Let
that be conserved and applied with
out cessation, and soon it will be
found that all the Ills of which we
complain but know not of are only
such as attend upon the growing
pains of a great and blessed country.
He Knows the Game.
According to the Metropolitan Meg
azine, Fire Chief John Conway of Jer
sey City, ha solved the baseball ex
cuse question by the posting of the
following printed notice on his desk
at fire headquarters:
“All requests for leave of absence
owing to grandmothers’ funerals, lame
back, house cleaning, moving, sore
throat, headache, brainstorm, cousins’
wedding, general Indisposition, etc.,
must be handed to the chief not later
than ton o’clock oo the morning of the
wane."
$25,000 IS NEEDED
10 BOOM GEORGIA
Greater Georgia Association to
Raise That Amount.
STATE WIDE CANVAS FOR FUNDS
John Greer is Chosen to Take Active Charge of
Campaign to Raise Funds for Adver
tising Georgia’s Resources.
Atlanta.—Twenty-five thousand dol
lars in the next thirty days—this is
the task the Greater Georgia associa
tion set for itself, and a state-wide
canvass to raise this amount will be
begun immediately.
The actual work of raising this
this money has been i>ut in charge of
the ways and means committee of
the association, and this committee
has chosen John Greer, a wideawake
newspaper man of south Georgia, to
take active charge of the campaign.
A fund of SI,OOO to guarantee the ex
penses of Mr. Greer while doing the
work was raised at the association
meeting held in Atlanta
Acting under the instructiQns of
the ways and means committee, Mr.
Greer is to arrange for meetings in
towns of about 3,000 people and up
ward. All preliminary arrangements
for these meetings will be made by
Mr. Greer, who will call to his assis
tance when the meeting is held other
representatives of tne Greater Geor
gia association
It is thought that a tour of the
towns in the state of 3,000 and over
can be made in about thirty days’
time, and it is believed that little
trouble will be encountered in the ef
fort to raise the $25,000 in these
towns and counties alone.
It was decided at the meeting of
the Greater Georgia association that
it would be worse than useless to at
tempt any advertising campaign of
such proportions as the association
anticipates without at least $25,000
guaranteed, and it was on this deci
sion that the state-wide campaign for
funds was decided upon. Another
meeting of the association, at which
a decision as to exactly how this
money is to be spent, will be held
in the near future, it is thought
likely, however, that a special car,
bearing exhibits of Georgia's natural
resources of every kind, accompanied
by a lecturer supplied with stereop
tican views, will be sent through the
middle west, and at the same time a
newspaper and magazine advertising
campaign will be waged in that sec
tion.
CANDIDATES EXPENSES.
Gov.-Elect Hoke Smith Topped List
and B. M. Zettler Spent Least.
Atlanta. —It cost the 23 candidates
for statehouse offices the grand total
of $35,557.26 to make their races, suc
cessful and unsuccessful, in the cam
paign which closed on August 23.
Of this amount nearly half was ex
pended by Governor-Elect Hoke
Smith, who spent out of his own
funds and from contributions made
by his friends, the sum of $17,596.10.
The list of expenditures as shown
by the statements filed with Comp
troller Genehal Wright is as follows:
Hoke Smith, for g0vern0r.517,596.10
Joseph M. Brown, governor 3,950.75
Edward H. Walker, gover
nor. 350.75
W. J. Speer, treasurer .. .. 2,296.40
P. M. Hawes, treasurer .. 3,025.58
J. A. Perry, railroad com
..missioner 2,105.65
O. B. Stevens, railroad com
. missioner 1,662.25
Joseph F. Gray, railroad
commissioner 1,241.54
E. B. Hornady, railroad
commissioner 265.29
C. M. Candler, railroad
commissioner 83.00
T. S. Felder, attorney gen
eral.. 643.27
H. A. Hall, attorney general 291.68
J. W. Lindsey, pension com
missioner 158.00
R. E. Davison, prison com
missioner 625.00
M. L. Brittain, school com
missioner 230.00
B. M. Zettler, school com
missioner 201.00
W. H. Fish, supreme court 50.00
W. M. Beck, supreme court 50.00
A .G. Powell, court of ap
peals 50.00
Philip Cook, secretary of
state 50.00
T. G. Hudson, commission
er of agriculture 50.00
W. A. Wright, comptroller
general 50.00
G. H. Hutchens, prison com
missioner 431.00
Total $35,557.26
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At a meeting of the Winder board
of education it Vas decided not to
make any change in the school hours.
On the recommendation of Superin
tendent Huffaker the board created a
supplementary course in English for
the benefit of such pupils as do not
enter college from high school, thus
making the Latin course in the Win
der schools elective. This is in line
with the "Small Latin and Less
Greek” policy of other schooft
throughout the state.
RURAL HIGH SCHOOLS.
LefisUtare Removes Unjust Discrimination
Afaicst Country People.
Athens.—lt will be good news to
the rural schools to know that the
general assembly passed the amend
ment to the constitution giving a
county or a school district the right
to extend the school course beyond
the seven common school grades
through the high school where a local
tax is levied. Since the constitution
of 1877, cities and towns have enjoy
ed this right and there is scarcely a
town today without a good high
school. This amendment gives the
rural districts and counties the same
right previously enjoyed by the
towns. It means a richer and a hap
pier era for the rural communities of
Georgia.
The law does not require any
community to run a high school that
does not want to but makes it possi
ble for any community that does so
desire to have as good school as the
towns.
Over four hundred districts have
already voted a tax and this will now
enable them to have as high a school
as they desire, whereas previous to
this amendment they were restricted
to "the elements of an English educa
tion only.” It shows marked states
manship on the part of the general
assembly to 'so unanimously vote to
remove the unjust discrimination
against the country people.
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA.
The program of the Southern Con
servation congress to be held in At
lanta October 7 and 8 indicates that
this gathering will be one of the most
important held in the country', both
in point of attendance and the pres
ence of personages prominent in the
conservation movement now receiv
ing so much attention. Among those
most prominent on the program are
former President Theodore Roosevelt,
former Chief Forester Gifford Pin
chot, Governor Stubbs of Kansas, who
recently delivered a virtriolic attack
upon Secretary of the Interior Bal
linger at the opening of the conserva
tion congress at St Paul. Dr. C. W.
Hayes, chief of the government geo
logical department, will also be pres
ent. invitations to attend have been
extended to President Taft, Vice Pres
ident Sherman and representatives of
foreign governments.
Althoug.i the vice president of a
bank, the late Thomas Haskins of
Laurens county, left $30,000 in an
old flimsy desk when he died, after
keeping much of it there in prefer
ence to banking it. Of the sum sll,-
400 was in money, the rest in notes
and mortgages. The desk was opened
at the order of his widow and the for
tune was found.
Columbus is making great prepara
tions for the coming of the Confed
erate veterans of Georgia, who will
light their camp fires on the banks of
the Chattahoochee river on Octo
ber nineteen for the tdo days’ session.
Camp Benning, the Columbus Confed
erate organization, has the details of
the occasion well in hand, numbers of
committees having been appointed to
look after the various teatures. An
entertainment fund is being raised
and the city council aas contributed
S3OO to this fund. Columbus enter
tained the Georgia division a few
years ago and the people here have a
most plesant recollection of that oc
casion.
Comptroller General Wright said
that the returns from railroads and
other corporations this year would
probably show an increase of $3,000,-
000 over those of last year. Up to
date all the railroads have made tax
returns which have been accepted by
tlie comptroller general with the ex
ception of tjie Georgia, Florida and
Southern. Arbitration will probably
be required in that case.
The immense new plant of the Con
solidated Ice and Power company of
Valdosta is completed, and all of the
electrical connections have been
made; the light and power currents
were shut off at the old plant and
turned on from the new. With the
installing of the new plant Valdosta
is furnished an electrical service the
equal of any in the south of four
times its size, and one which will
amply meet the public needs for
many years. ,
Standing Master J. X. Talley, in the
Tift lumber rate case, filed reports
adverse to 28 lumber, producers in
which claims aggregating SIOO,OOO
w T ere refused and disallowed. These
were, most, of them, members of the
Georgia-Florida Saw Mill association.
The claims were filed under the f. o.
b. rulings, and nearly all of them
were similar to that of the Garbutt
Lumber company, whose case was
made a test case. The ruling that
threw out this large number of claim
ants under the decisions of the court
in the Tift case, was that the lumber
and material was sold at the mill by
the producer, and after it was loaded
on the cars at the price named, the
freight fight could no longer rest
upon the shoulders of the producer.
Tift county is to have a $54,000
courthouse, which will be built this
fall, and the money to pay for it will
be raised by direct taxation. Twice
under an ordinary and once under the
board of county commissioners the
people have been giveen an opportu
nity to vote a bond issue for this
purpose, but each time the constitu
tional requirement of two-thirds the
total registered vote was not polled.
The commissioners have despaired of
securing a bond issue, and they decid
ed to levy a direct tax for that pur
pose.
THROUGH NIAGARA RAPIDS
IN SMALL MOTOR POAT
Capt. Larsen Makes Trip Through
Whirlpool Rapids.
40,000 PEOPLE SAW THE TRIP
Water Hade Plaything of Han and His Boat.
At One Point Boat Shot 20 Feet
Out of the Water.
Niagara Falls, N. Y.—Capt. Klaus
Larsen, in his little motor boat, the
Ferro, made a successful trip from
the foot of the cataract through the
whirlpool rapids to within a mile of
Leiston, a distance of 4 1-2 miles. He
started from the Maid of the Mist
dock at 4:45 and ran on a rock near
the American shore at 5:30.
Despite the battering of the whirl
pool rapids, Larsen went through
safely, but his boat was leaking bad
ly at the finis.i and throuhg the trip.
The Ferro swung under the canti
lever bridge, the engine running at
top speed, and was caught in the
swift drift, where the river begins its
rush to the whirlpool rapids. Larsen
held to the middle of the channel and
in less than three minutes had made
the great pool. In the trip through
the rapids, the little boat was lost to
sight most o the time, but at Great
Wave it was shot 20 feet out of the
water. The boat landed right, and
continued to the pool.
Larsen kept to the outer edge ot
the pool and passed out and down
without accident. Just as he left the
pool, the engine stopped working, and
Larsen was at the mercy of the wa
ters hardly less violent than those
above. The little boat swung around
stern first, and then turned completely
over, Larsen coming up badly batter
ed. Here he injured his leg.
From then on Larsen was the play
thing of the mighty river, unable to
hold the course, the boat swinging
from one side to the other. After get
ting through the Devil’s Hole, the
Ferro swung towards the rock on the
American side of the river, rolled
over one boulder and went fast be
tween two others.
There Larsen stayed for five min
utes, forty feet from shore, working
desperately to release the craft. Get
ting free he was hit by a comber and
sent careening toward the middle. At
the bend, with the Lewiston bridge
in sight, the boat drifted toward the
American side again and was then
caught in the shore eddy. The Ferro
grounded again, this time near enough
to shore to be caught by Roy Rock
well of this city, who waded into the
water and caught a rope thrown by
Larsen.
Except the Old Maid of the Mist
sent through in 1864 to avoid seizure,
Larsen's is tile only engine-propelled
craft to have gone through the rapids.
Peter Nissen, Chicago, 1900, and C.
A. Percy, 1887 and 1901, went safely
through the rapids in barrels. No one
else has ever passed through the rap
ids and lived.
COTTON CONDITION.
Top Cotton Crop Depends Upon a Late
Frost.
-Memphis, Tenn. —The following
summary of cotton crop conditions Is
published by the Commercial-Appeal:
The cotton crop is coming to ma
turity in an irregular manner. In
all parts of the south save the most
southern cotton-growing sections there
are fields which are thrifty and grow
ing and need a late frost to permit
of the maturity of a full yield. lu
all sections also there are fields
which have apparently come to full
growth and will make no more cotton,
in such as these the bolls are opening
rapidly. It appears that on the whole
the past two weeks have brought the
crop toward maturity more rapidly
than the farmers had anticipated.
In general a larger yield than last
year is indicated. In all states save
Georgia, South Carolina and North
Carolina. In the two latter a late
frost would add considerably to the
yield.
“Farmers are generally marketing
cotton freely.”
Chicago’s Population.
Washington.—The population of
Chicago is 2,185,283, an increase of
486,708, or 28.7 per cent., as com
pared with 1,698,575 in 1900.
This announcement leaves Chicago
ranking in population as the second
city of the United States and the
fourth of the world.
Chicago has almost doubled its pop
ulation since 1890, when the figures
were 1,099,850. Its greatest growth
during that period was between 1890
and 1900, when there was an increase
of 54.4.
339,075 People in New Orleans.
Washington.—The population of
New Orleans is 339,075, an increase of
51.971, or 18.1 per cent., as compared
with 287,104 in 1900. The Crescent
City loses its position of twelfth in
the list of the country’s biggest cities
and now occupies fifteenth position.
Detroit, with a 63 per cent, increase;
Milwaukee with 31 per cent., and
Newark, X. J., wfith 41.2 per cent., all
have jumped ahead of New Orleans in
number of inhabitants, and now oc
cupy twelfth, thirteenth and four
teenth positions, respectively.
Bad Breath
‘ ‘For months I had great tremble with my
stomach and used all kinds of medicines.
My tongue has been actually as green as
grass, my breath having a bad odor. Two
weeksago a friend recommended Cascarets
and after using them I can willingly and
cheerfully say that they have entirely
cured me. I therefore let yon know that I
shall recommend them to any one suffer*
ing from such trembles.” — Chas. H. Hal.
pern, 114 E. 7th St, New York, N. Y.
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WARNING THAT WAS FAMILIAR
Grocer Man Used Formula That Mad*
Little Harry Long to Be
Far Away.
Mrs. Jones' favorite warning to her
j-oung progeny, when they were in mis-'
chief was that she would tend to them
in a minute. was accom
plished by applying her open hand
where it would do most good. When
Harry was four years old he was sent
for the first time round the corner to
the grocery. In a few minutes he cam&t
trotting soberly back with the nickel
still in his hand, but no bag of onions.j
"What's the matter?” asked his,
mother.
’’l'm 'fraid of the man,” he said, sol-!
emnly.
"Oh, he won’t hurt you,' r reassured
Mrs. Jones. "Run along and bring the;
onions. I'm in a hurry for them.”
A second time Harry disappeared;
round the corner, and a second time 1
returned without his purchase. m
"I'm 'fraid grocer man,”
explained, as before.
“Well, what makes you afraid «
him?” demanded his mother,
tiently. j
"Why," answered the little
"bofe times when I goed in, he
at me. an' said, i'll tend to you
minute.' '— Youth's Companion.
Someone Might Get Hurt.
Fietro had drifted to Florida
was working with a gang at
construction. He had been told
beware of rattlesnakes, but
that they would always give
warning rattle before striking. H
One hot day he was eating his
luncheon on a pine log when he saw
a big rattler coiled a few feet
of him. He eyed the serpent
gan to lift his legs over the
had barely got them out of the way
when the snake's fangs hit the bark
beneath him.
"Son of a guna!" yelled Pietro.
“Why you no ringa da bell?” —Every-
body’s Magazine.
Gambling in Insurance.
The Britisher’s favorite gambling Is
insurance gambling. He will take
out a policy against anything from the
death of the king to the loss of &t
horse race by a thoroughbred. Ma
rine insurance gambling by those who
have no direct Interest in the safety
of a ship or its cargo grew into such
abuses that parliament has been com
pelled to pass a drastic act to prevent
such gambling on marine accidents
and losses by those not otherwise con-i
cerned —New York Press.
World's Largest Cemetery.
At Rookwood, Australia, is the
largest cemetery in the world. It
covers 2,000 acres. Only a plot of 200
acres has been used thus far in
which 100,000 persons of all nationali
ties have been buried.
Nothing of the Sort.
"Have you any avuncular rela
tions?”
"Nary one. Ain’t no disease of any
kind in our family.”
Let Us
Cook Your
Breakfast!
Serve
Post
Toasties
with cream or milk
and notice the pleasure
the family finds in the
appetizing crispness and
flavour of this delightful
food.
“The Memory Lingers”
Poetnm Cereal Co., X-tZL
Battle Creek, Bisk.