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THE JOURNAL. Published Weekly. COCHRAN, GEORGIA ’V" ” Airship records seem very fragile. What else can a person do but bob ble In a bobble skirt. A race of queeless Chinamen Is a .'possibility In the near future. Don’t anybody say a word about the breather. Might break the spell. , Aviating continues to be dangerous enough to make it very Interesting. Looks as though this fall was going 'to be one grand aeroplane automobile feast The woman who took an oath and swooned apparently realized Its re sponsibility. Fall football practise begins with a 'fresh supply of collar bones all ready to be broken. You are not compelled to weep when you read of an accident to the wearer of a hobble skirt. Esperanto has no cuss words. It’s necessary to explain this because it sounds so peculiar. The fact that the champagne vint age Is a failure will not affect the business of the rathskeller. Science has received a remarkable Impetus. An African professor has learned to talk the ape language. News that the alfalfa crop Is doing ( well may or may not please the man who eats prepared breakfast foods. Aviators are flying high, but the morning stars will continue to sing together without fear of interruption. The headline suggestion that "A ro mance ends nt altar" is hardly com plimentary, although many of them do. ’ A baby has been born on Fifth avenue, New York. The very latest jfashion In babies is understood to be (pink. ■ If it takes $6,000 to make a good dresser, many a would-be fashion plate may as well throw up his hands in failure. Wo Buspect that the pantaloon trust Is behind that movement urging young fxnen to get on their knees when pro posing. Somebody has found how to convert copper into iron. This may help to re duce the immense piles of copper that are scattered around. Another sad blow to the English. An American In a FYench machine achieved the world’s record for alti tude, and light on English soli, too. The crown prince of Germany has been made a rector niagniflcentlssi inus. If he doesn’t break under that ■weight he’s the prince of burden bear ers. f l It is reported that there Is a scarcity of chorus girls in New York. This be ing tho ease, there must also be a of Pittsburg millionaires In York. most powerful battleship, which has Just been can do everything except may lie foiled by some frail cannot do anytblng else. lias authorized its park to spank mashers. The fact are also empowered to tlrst ■b them Into a receptive mood makes Innovation all the more pleasing. you have noticed Hie sin habit a brass band has of flnlsh- Hs selection and stopping Its at the exact moment when interested and begin to y n Ha couple by a crowd H the York and were iceived at the city hall by »he actp' mayor, their claim to this distkfictSon and popular curiosity be tg that they had walked from Kansas Ity. But in these days of motor >atlng, automobillng. aviation and sneral trolley-riding the man or oman who walks from choice is a irlosity. Diplomats in Washington being im tine from arrest, the capital is now irn up over a question whether the >cal authorities can compel a foreign ttache to muzzle his dog. Fancy an iternattonal complication arising from he fact that a lowly poundmaster laid mholy hands on a poodle, not be ause of any brutality to the animal, .ut because the mutt belonged to the bird assistant secretary attached to the legation of the Kazoo of Kazazza. A man bathing on Long Island stepped on a S2OO diamond pin, lost by a Brooklyn woman who had been [bathing. Pearl divers may yet be suc ceeded by diamond divers. But it is not everybody who uses safety pins i that are so expensive. & A couple who were arrested in KvaAston, 111., for violating the speed Kws told the justice they were reloping, and the mean man put them [to the test by marrying them right Khen and there. Not many joyriders Aould dare to go as far as that. IMMIGRANTS ARE COMING TO THE SOUTHLAND Few Foreipers Have Located in the South So Far. STATES’ COOPERATION NEEDED industrial Experts Predict That the Movement o! Immigrants to the Southern States Will Begin About October. Washington.—The next act in the Drama of the nation s events will be a flood of immigration into the South not only from the North and Middle West, but from countries of Europe, especially those bordering on the Baltic and North seas, inquiry at the legations of Norway, Sweden and Denmark elicits the fact that the rep resentatives of these countries are making special efforts to head their immigrating citizens into the country south of the Ohio and Potomac ami east of the Mississippi. These for- j eign ministers have gotten busy on ; the matter and are seeking all infor- , mation regarding special advantages offered immigrants in the different lo calities of the South, especially in the states along the South Atlantic sea board. T he immigration into the South from Europe has of late years been most meager. While the foreign settlers for the ten months ending May, 19J0, were in N'ew Jersey 51,000, and near ly 25,000 in little Connecticut, there came into Georgia from tills source less than 500; North Carolina got a scant 300, and South Carolina but 156. Tennessee got just one ovei 500, while Virginia absorbed only 1,- 300. Maryland, with one-fifth the area of Virginia, got 5,000 of them. The small District of Columbia, a scant five by ten miles in area, re ceived as many immigrants practi cally as the combined states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee. Industrial experts predict that the movement into the South will begin about October 1. Large tracts of land are being figured on in Georgia and Florida by several promoting compa nies as homes for the expected immi- j gration, and in the Southern states farther north there are movements of like character taking place. RANK OF COUNTRY’S BIG CITIES. According to figures furnished by the census bureau for 1910, the eight leading cities of the country are shown below. 1. N'ew York 4,766,881 2. Chicago 2,185,283 3. Philadelphia 1,549,008 4. St, Louis 687.029 5. Boston 670,585 6. Cleveland 560,663 7. Baltimore .. •• * 558,485 8. Pittsburg .. 533,905 NO SOUDAN MISSIONS. Decided Stand Taken By the Baptist Foreign Mission Board. Boston, Mass. —A recommendation that no missions be established in the Sudan, but tnat the missionaries on ttie Congo be reinforced and the work extended, is made in the report of the American Baptist Foreign Mis- j sion society of the special commission ; sent by the society to investigate con- j ditions in those regions. It finds that owing to the policy of the Bitish gov- ! eminent the establishment of Chris-1 tian missions in the Mohammedan cen- ters of northern Nigeria is iniposiblc at the present time, bet that the op- • portunities of expansion in the Congo Free State are great. Newspapers Publishers Warned. Jackson, Miss.-—Vituperation must stop in the Mississippi campaign. Un cle Sam has just issued an order that newspapers containing articles that are liable to result in a conflict will be barred from the mails duing this campaign. This order was issued by the postoffice department at Washing ton and the newspaper managers were immediately notified by the postoffice inspector here to be more temperate In their language in future. Night Riders Busy. Kuttawa, Ky.—Night riders are again at work in the dark tobacco dis trict and about 25 letters have been received by tobacco growers warning the planters to pool their crops or suffer the consequences. The notices are printed on book paper and look as if the work had been done on a handpress. The notices are as fol lows: -By our blood, you are hereby noti lied not to dump your tobacco this year, as we intend to keep all inde pendent buyers out. U. B. N'. G.” Farmers Fight Duel. Pelham, Ga.—John L. Marchant of Colquitt county and Charles H. Tate of Mitchell county, prominent young farmers and brothers-in-law, are dead as the result of a pistol battle at close range. The double tragedy, took place in the public road, eight miles south east of this place. Mrs. Tate and Mrs. John Wilkes, a sister of March ant. witnessed the fatal shooting af fray. ' The tragedy, according to report, was the result of a family feud of long standing. ENGLISH BROKERS FIRM. English Cotton Men Insist That Cotton Bill: Be Guaranteed. London, England.—The European bankers interested in preventing fraudulent bills of lading in the ship ' ment of American cotton, decided not to recede from their position, and en dorsed the action of the recent gen eral banking conference in demanding guarantees from the American bank ing houses. The committee took this action af ter considering the reply of the Amer ican bankers to the European pro posal and the offer of validation cer tificates from the railroad. In accord ance with this action American banks will be expected to guarantee cotton bills of lading after October 31. THREE RAILWAY WRECKS. - 42 Killed in Indian Wreck; 16 Dead as Result of Kansas Washout. Fort Wayne, Ind.—Forty-two per sons were killed and seven were se riously injured in a head-on collision between two traction cars on the Fort Wayne-liluffton division of the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley line. The wreck occurred one and a half miles north of Kingsland, seven miles north of Blufftoii, at a sharp curve. The cars in collision were a north bound local car, crowded to the steps and a southbound ‘'extra" car from Fort Wayne. They met while both were running at high speed. The collision is said to have been caused by misunderstanding of or ders in regard to the southbound "ex tra" cars taking a switch near Kings land, so that the northbound car could pass it. Clayton, Kans. —Sixteen persons lost their lives and thirteen others suffer ■ed injuries in the wreck two miles | west of this town of westbound Hock Island passenger train No. 27, which was running to Denver from Kansas City. The wreck was the result of a cloudburst, which carried out a steel bridge over what is normally almost a dry bed, turning the latter into a torrent and washing out nearly a thousand feet of track. The train, running at full speed, plunged into the gap, the engine and mail car going down into 20 feet of water and tne chair car almost telescoped the smok er ahead of it. Many of the passen gers in these two cars were killed al most instantly. Lima, Ohio. —Chicago and Erie rail road fast train No. 4, eastbound, was wrecked near Conant, nine miles west of here, killing an aged woman and more or less injuring twenty-five per sons. SAVANNAH S POPULATION. Georgia's Second City Shows Popula tion of 65,084 for 1910, Washington.—Savannah, Ga., shows a population of 65,084 for 1910, aceod ing to figures given out by the census bureau. The 1900 census showed a population of 54,244, an increase of 19.9 per cent. Savannah's population for 1910 is 339 less than that of Atlanta 20 years ago. This is a decline within this ten venr period as against, the ten-year period from IS9O to 1900. Then the [city’s growth showed an increase of 15.6. Atlanta is far outstripping Sa vannah or any other Georgia city in growth. Atlanta's increase from 1900 to 1910 was 72.3 per cent. $200,000 Fire in New Iberia. New Orleans. —A fire which threat ened the town of New Iberia destroy ed a great section of the business dis trict, doing damage which may reach $200,000. Special police were sworn in by Mayor Powers to prevent loot ing, and orders were biven to shoot n | sight. Fire apparatus was taken to the scene by the Southern Pacific rail road. The water supply proved un equal to the occasion. Lafayette Postoffice Robbed. Chattanooga, Tens.—'The safe of the postoffice at Lafayette, Ga., was blown open with nitro-glycerine, and 50,000 two-cent stamps and SIOO stol en. Bloodhounds were sent from the city. Nation's Death Rate. Washington.—The death rate in the United States in 1909 was fifteen to each one according to a bul letin, issued' by the census bureau. This is the-fiokest average ever re corded for this country. Will Enterain Crooks. Chicago.—Henry Neil, secretary of the National Probation league, has | evolved a novel emthod of attempting : to convert crooks and thieves of all j kinds to right living and thinking. ! Neil announced that from sunset to j sunrise he will be pleased to receive | "dips," "bunco-steerers,” "panhand | lers," "thimble-riggers," "burglars,’’ j "porch climbers,” "strong-arm men,” i "second-story men,” and crooks in hia home. Sandwiches and coffee ! served and no policemen will i mitted. > 30,000 ODD FELLOWS MEET IN ATLANTA Grand Lodge Choses John C. Ccckrum for Grand Sire. PARADE WAS BRILLIANT PAGEANT Nearly 25,000 Men in Line in the Biggest Parade Atlanta Has Ever Seen. Rebekahs Entertained. To Indianapolis goes the next annual meeting of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The suc cess of the Indiana city in se curing fhe much coveted con vention came as quite a surprise to many of the members of the Sovereign Gand Lodge, who be lieved that either Toronto, Can ada, or Buffalo, X. Y., would be the successful city. Atlanta.—The Odd Fellows stormed the city, 25,000 strong; Atlanta gave them almost undivided attention in making them have the time of their lives. The monster parade, in which fully 25,000 marched, was a brilliant spec tacle, and all Atlanta, to say nothing of a good part of Georgia and neigh boring states, were on hand to view the pageant as it wound itself through the city s streets, the greatest specta cle of its kind the South has ever seen. There were close dn to 30,000 mem bers of the I. O. O. F. in the city when the grand street parade got in motion. The barbecue to the visiting Odd Fellows at the Cold Spring ’cue ground was one of tue distinctive fea tures of the convention. To a great majority of the guests the barbecue was a novelty, and as the dishes were served there were few wiio did not taste daintily before attempting to eat. But that taste cap tivated all appetites. Hundreds of Kebekahs gathered in the Odd Fellows' hall to take part in the meeting at which the Atlanta lodges and the state Itebekah assem bly gave welcome to the visiting del egates from lodges scattered through out the United States from Maine to California. John B. Cockrum of Indianapolis, formerly deputy grand sire of the In dependent Order of Odd Fellows, was chosen grand sire of the organization and is now at the head of the 2,000,- 000 Odd Fellows of the world. C. J. Keller of San Antonio, Texas, was at the same time elected deputy grand sire over Judge Robert C. Dan iel of Griffin, and Grand Representa tive Hill Montague of Virginia. Mr. Keller received more votes than both of his opponents combined. The office of deputy grand sire was the only one which was filled at the session of the sovereign grand ledge over which there was any contest. In electing Deputy Grand Sire Cockrum to the place of grand sire the grand lodge followed the precedent of ad vancement of many years standing. BRYAN BOLTS. Nebraskan Refuses to Support Demo cratic Nominee- for Governor. Lincoln, Neb.—ln a statement in which he declares that the crusade which he feels impelled to wage against the liquor interests of the state and nation overshadows a per sonal and political friendship of 20 years, William J. Bryan announced he had bolted the head of the Democratic state ticket in Nebraska and would not support James C. Dalilman lor governor. Mr. Bryan says he regrets that he is compelled to take the stand he does —his first departure from politi cal regularity—but says he feels it his duty to do so —because of the po sition taken by the Democratic nomi nee on the liquor question. The statement which, in a way, is apologetic in tone, does not indicate that Mr. Bryan will support tile candi date of any other parvv. Yellow Fever Signs. Beaumont, Texas. —That a sailor re moved from aboard the steamer By land, which arrived at Sabine, Texas, from Tampico, Mexico, 'lias shown the symptoms of yellow fever, is declared by State Health Officer Brumby, who returned to Beaumont after conduct ing an investigation at Sabine. Five days must elapse, Doctor Brumby ex plained, before a definite diagnosis would be possible, and in the mean time the vessel is being held in quar antine. No other illness is aboard the Byland. Charbon Stamped Out. Baton Rouge, La.—Charbon, which has caused the death of hundreds of cattle in southwestern Louisiana, has been stamped out, according to an an nouncement here by the sanitary life stock board. Robbed of $4,135. Nashville, Tenn.—At the state fair grounds here H. \V. Gardner, a rural route'earrier, had his pocket picked of ■Gish, nc%s and papers valued at $4,- Kt J No*elew to the chief has been G. A. R. CONVENTION. Action About Robert E. Lee Statue Indefinite ly Postponed by Veterans. Atlantic City, X. J —The hotels, tht piers and board walks were crowded with old soldiers and their families who came to attend the G. A. R. en campment. Commander Van Sant and Hilary A Herbert of Alabama, former Secretary of the Navy and a general in the Con federate army, were the principa. speakers at a large gathering of vet erans on the steeplechase pier. Aftei a short address by the commander-in caief, General Herbert eulogized the members of the grand army and theii commander. He told how the wearers of the blue and the wearers of the gray were being welded together for the cause of the Union, and he urged a join reunion of the Blue and Gray veterans. Commander-in-Chief Van Sant and Gen. Daniel E. Sickels both declared they would work for the proposition A remarkable scene occurred with the entrance of General Sickels into the auditorium. As he swung dowr the aisle with a pinned-up trouser leg giving mute evidence of his heroism the veterans arose as one man, and four of his command lifted him, chair and all, and placed him on the plat form, while the commander-in-chief’s band played "Dixie" and the crowd cheered. Perhaps the largest host from a distance to attend the encampment is the St. Cloud, Fla., veterans, whv came with their own band. The com mander is G. D. Degraw. John E. Gillman of Boston for com mander-in-chief, and Rochester, X'. Y., for the next place of meeting, was the winning combination in the national encampment of the G. A. R. After a warm debate of more than three hours, the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, at its final session, indefinitely post poned action of the whole matter in relation to the controversy over the placing of the statue of Robert E. Lee in statuary hall of the capitol at Washington. FUND TO FIGHT WEEVIL. Alabama Cotton Men Plan Campaign Against Cotton Pest. Mobile, Ala. —J. A. Waters, presi dent of the cotton exchange at Mo bile announced that a meeting of cot ton men would be called soon for the purpose of raising funds with which to carry on an educational campaign against the boll weevil, which has in vaded Mobile county. Every cotton grower in the southern counties of Alabama is to be mailed a copy ot an article to be prepared by Dr. VV. E. Hinds, entomologist to the experiment station of the Alabama Polytechnic in stitute at Auburn, explaining the ex act course farmers must pursue in order to be successful in the fight on the weevil. Mr. Waters stated the cotton exchange would spend any amount of money necessary to carry on the campaign. CRANK AT WHITE HOUSE. Venerable Hebrew Say* He Was Robbed of $40,000,00 and Wife. Washington.—The first crank of the season showed up at the white house. He was Benjamin Snyder, an aged Hebrew, who said his home was in Philadelphia. He told a rambling story to the white house attendants of having been robbed of $40,000,000 and his wife by a man named Ilennessy. He called at the white house, he said, to ask President Taft to get back his money, but he did not want Mr. Taft to bother himself about locating his wife.' Snyder was regarded as harmless by the secret service officers and turned over to the local police. He is being held until word is received from the Philadelphia authorities. DIAZ PICKS SUCCESSOR. Former Minister to United States To Be Next Mexican Ruler. Washington.—That Enrique Creel, former Mexican minister to the Unit ed States, will be the next president of Mexico, to succeed Porfirio Diaz, and that the honor will not go to Vice" President Corral, is the story in cir culation among diplomats in Wash ington. According to the story, Diaz has let it be known that Creel is to succed him, and the plans are in readiness for one of the military elections held in that country whenever it is neces sary to put a man in office over the protests of the enemies of Diaz. To Probe Milk Cost. Washington.—lt is believed that the investigation in progress by the De partment of Justice and United States attorney of the District of Columbia into conditions under which the price of milk is regulated in Washington, marks the opening of a national probe of a simultaneous increase in the cost of that staple in nearly every large city in the East. The Department of Justice, besides having a special agent at work in the District of Co lumbia, is gathering information re garding conditions in other cities. Baseball-Playing Preacher Fired. Louisville, Ky.—Because he played baseball and indulged in other ath letic sports which were distasteful to the members of his congregation, the Rev. Arthur Brooks, pastor of the Methodist church at Crestwood, was voted unfit to have charge of the par ish by a majority of his flock and he announced to his congregation that he was addressing them for the last time. The only thing against the preacher \*as that he was a member of the Crestwood baseball team and a first class player. DARING MAN-BIRD CROSSES THE ALPS George Chavez Wins Honor of the Greatest Flight. AVIATOR LOSES RICH PRIZE Plucky Hero Badly Injured After He Had Completed the Most Hazardous Portion of the Route. Domodossola, ftalv.—The great feat of crossing the snow-capped Alpine barrier between Switzerland and Italy in a heavier-than-air machine was ac complished by George Chavez, the young Peruvian aviator. The plucky hero of the exploit, however, lies in a local hospital badly injured as the result of an accident that occurred just as he had com pleted the most arduous and nerve racking portion of a task he had set out to accomplish—a flight from Brig, in Switzerland, across the Alps to Mi lan, in Italy, in all a distance of about 75 miles. Both his legs are broken, his left thigh is fractured and his body is badly contused, but the physicians in attendance are of the opinion that these hurts will not prove fatal and that unless unlooked for complications ensue Chavez will be about in tow months. The accident occurred as Chavez was endeavoring to make a landing here. Tile Alps liad been crossed suc cessfully and the aviator was de scending with the power of his ma chine cut off. When about 30 feet above the ground a sudden gust of wind seemed to catch the monoplane, which turned over and fell, when the crowds that had been watching the descent ran up they found Chavez lying bleeding and unconscious beneath the twisted wreckage Fifty miles away and over country that has none of the hazards of the Alps, lay Milan, the goal Chavez was seeking in an endeavor to win a prize of $20,000 offered by the Italian Avia tion Society, Chavez had lost the race. OLDEST EPISCOPALIAN DEAD Mrs. Frances Leonard Cleveland of Marietta, Ga., Passes Away. Marietta, Ga.—Mrs. Frances Leon ard Cleveland, Marietta’s oldest citi zen, died at the age of 94, at her home on Cleveland Place. In many respects Mrs. Cleveland was a most interesting personage. SheJ was one of the few "real daughters of the American Revolution, beiiflj both a daughter and granddaughter or Revolutionary soldiers, and she was a descendant of John and Priscilla Al den, whose love story is told in Long fellow's "Courtship of Miles Stan dish." She, also, had the distinction of be ing the oldest communicant of the Episcopal church in America. When 18 years of age she was confirmed in St. Andrew’s church, Philadelphia, by Bishop White of Pennsylvania, who was the second bishop in point of con secration in the American church. Mrs. Cleveland was born at Bristol, R. 1., September 17, 1816. COTTON SEED WAR. Georgia Mills Attempt to Drive Florida Mills Out of Market. Tifton, Ga.—Tifton is just now the center of a cotton seed war between the oil mill men of Florida and Geor gia. For some time the Florida mills have been coming into Georgia terri tory buying seed. This year the eGor gia mills decided they needed these seed themselves and fierce competi tive bidding is the result. Cotton seed on the local market are bringing nearly twice as much as, they did last year. A year ago they were selling readily at 90 cents per hun dred, while this year they are bring ing easily $1.65. Part of this advance is due to the advance in price of cot ton seed oil, but the larger portion is caused by competitive bidding. While it lasts the farmer is getting the benefit of the competition. Fued Law Broken. Albany, Ky.—The unwritten code of the Kentucky mountaineers was brok en when -Doc'' Moles, carrying his baby in his arms, was shot through the heart by a sharp shooting moun tain assassin. It has always been a point of chiv alry, even among feudists, not to fire upon a man when a woman or childi might be endangered. To carry al child in arms has heretofore been ail invariable means of protection. “Doc”l Moles had given information to the! government revenue officers. M Report on Raising Maine. Washington.—Col. William 31. -BlScfll United States amy, who heads the" commission of army engineers in charge of raising the battleship Maine, in Havana harbor, in a preliminary report made to the war department sys the keel lies at a depth of from eight to ten feet below the bottom of the harbor. Colonel Black adds that the Cuban government has turned over to the coirtmisison a convenient location on •the wate front for a storage reserva tion.