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THE JOURNAL. Published Weekly. COCHRAN, GA. NEWS Of THE WEEK LATE NEWS OF THE WORLD TERSELY TOLD. SOUTH, EAST, NOATH AND WEST Notes From Foreign Lands Through out the Nation and Particularly the Great South. Southern. Theodore Roosevelt made a quick trip through the Southern states, de livering speeches at Hristol and Knox ville, in Tennessee, and at Rome and Atlanta, in Georgia. While in Rome Colonel Roosevelt addressed the pu pils of Martha Kerry's school for mountain girls and hoys, arid in At lanta the ex-president delivered three speeches—one to the Southern Con servation Congress, which was in ses sion there; f one before an audience of *,OOO people, who had gathered to raise funds to purchase a memorial for Joel Chandler Harris (Unde Re mus), a personal friend of Colonel Roosevelt. In this address the ex preSident. repudiated the tariff plank in New York Republican platforfji said that it was not of his making or belief. Colonel Roosevelt later ad dressed a negro audience of about 700 members of that race. Jap Skein of Corpus Christi, Texas, who 30 years ago made a wager that he would not have his hair cut until the state of Maine again went Demo cratic and kept the wager, has at last had the pleasure of squaring the bet. Gifford Pinchot, deposed chief for ester of the United States, made a speech before the Southern Conserva tion Congress at its meeting in At lanta and advised Southerners to save the water power and forests of the South for posterity. With delegates from sixteen South ern states in attendance the Southern Commercial Congress, which met in Atlanta, adopted a constitution and made arrangements for the spring meeting of the body in Atlatna in March, 1911. The second annual meeting of the Fourth Appalachian Good Roads as sociation met in Knoxville, Tenn., and adopted a number of resolutions advocating bettor roads. Population statistics as enumerated in the thirteenth census give Jack sonville, Fla., 57,099, an increase of 29,270, or 102 per cent, over 28,429 In 1900. General advances in freight rates between New Orleans and points north, west and east, which were to have become effective on November I, havo been suspended by the inter state commerce commission, ponding an inquiry into the reasonableness and propriety of the increases. Of a score or more of insect prob lems being worked out by the United States bureau of entomology, the de struction of the boil weevil in the South and of the gypsy and browntail moth in New England have proved most difflllcult, according to Dr. 1., O. Howard, chief of this division. United States Senator Robert 1.. Taylor was nominated for governor of Tennessee by tile regular Demo cratic convention held in Nashville. Indictments were formally an nounced in the Untietl States circuit court at Aberdeen, Miss., charging J. 11. Miller, L. C. Steele and 11. G. Linde, members of the bankrupt cot ton flrmj'f Steele, Miller & Co., of with having misused in the furtherance of an alleged plan to defraud through the Issuance of forged hills of lading. A wage increase of approximately $500,000 per month for railroad em ployees south of the Mississippi and east of the Ohio was brought to light by the announcement that the Nash ville, Chattanooga aud St. Louis sys tem, at a meeting held in Nashville, decided upon a wage scale, which add ed to an increase, effective July 1, will add $300,000 to the salaries of all its employees. Practically all other systems operating in ..this section have decided upon similar advances. , General. President W. G. Lee of the Brother hood of Railroad Trainmen made public a list of the queetions which has been nailed to all lodges of his organization, the Brotherhood of Lo comotive Engineers, and the Order of Railway Conductors, to be submitted to all the candidates, asking their stand on legislation affecting the three organizations. The house of deputies of the Prot estant Episcopal Church of America, in convention at Cincinnati, passed an amendment to the constitution pro viding for suffragan bishops through out the dioceses of the church.. ■ Frank M. Lepton,' president F. M. Lupton company, incorporated, pub lishers of the People’s Home Journal, and a millionaire, committed suicide by cutting his threat in the tatthroom of.his iipme in Brooklyn, X. -Y. The publisher had been suffering from mel ancholia following a ‘Ae'ries of opera tions. The Standard Oil company through Us official publicity representative, J. I. Clarke, has annnounced that the company "has inaugurated a cam paign to increase the world’s con sumption of refined oil,” and is low ering prices of kerosene in Europe and the far east. This action follows that of August last, when the Stan fined oil in tanks from 6 1-2 to 6 1-2 in barrels 1 cent a gallon from 9 3-4 to 8 3-4 cents at the refinery, and re fined oil in tanks from G 1-2 to 51-2 cents a gallon. In part the state ment reads; "The Standard Oil com pany has inaugurated a campaign to increase the world’s consumption of refined oil. The level of prices for refined oil today in the United States is lower than at any time during re cent years, and as a direct result of these prices the consumption of refin ed oil in this country is increasing. The same policy is now being actively pursued abroad.” Beaudette, Spooner, Pitt and Grace ton, Minn., were wiped off the map by a forest ’fire. The bodies of 75 settlers have been located, and it is thought the death roll among the set tlers will be upwards of 300. Wagon loads of human bodies are being brought into the railway station at Beaudette. it is reported that many settlers, crazed with grief at the loss of families and property, are roaming the woods and searching parties are constantly going out looking for the injured, the dead and the demented. A ease of cholera developed in the steerage of the Hamburg-American liner Moltke, which lias been lying at Quarantine, in New York City, as a possible cholera carrier for over a week. Dr. A. H. Doty, health officer of the port, reported the case, with additional information that another cholera patient, front tl)e> Moltke is under treatment at Swinburne island. This (snakes three cases of cholera whicif have reached New York. Entombed by an explosion in a mine of the Coleroda Fuel and Iron com pany at Starkvllle, Colo., at least 52 men are the objects of heroic efforts of rescuers, who worked trying to penetrate the black depths of the mine in the hope some, or probably all, of the imprisoned miners might he rescued a iove. W. R. Hearst of New York City of fers $50,000 for a flight In a heavler tlian-air machine from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Frederick W. Mansfield of Boston was nominated for governor of Mas sachusetts by the delegates to the Democratic state convention, which met in Boston. Governor Hughes of New York has retired to assume his new duties next week as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Lieu tenant Governor White was sworn in as governor. As a direct result of the critisms of the Vanderbilt cup race, which cost the lives of four persons and the injury of more than a score of others, the Grand Prize race, sched uled to he run over the same course on October 15, was officially called off by VV. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., the ref eree. The race will probably be held in Savannah, Ga. There was an active demand in the New York cotton market with prices making new high records for the sea son on the strong showing of the English market following the settle ment of the Lancashire labor trouble and reports that many Southern planters were holding cotton for 15 cents. The October contracts here sold SI.SOO a hale above the closing price. Deluged by the heaviest continuous rainfall in some places in forty years, a wide strip of country, extending from eastern Texas northeastward across the northern portions of Lou isiana and Mississippi and over sec aons of Arkansas, Tennesee. Ken tucky, southernn Indiana aud Ohio, almost to Pittsburg, Pa., was a verita ble inland sea. Only two lives are known to have been lost, Mrs. A. J. Burchfield and her grandson being | drowned in arapidly rising stream near Dyersburg, Tenn. Washington. Associate Justice William H. Moody of the United States Supreme Court tendered his resignation to President Taft, to take effect November 20. A tabulation of automobile statistics compiled for the American Automio bile association shows that the out put of automobiles in the United States for the season of 1910 reached' a total of SO,OOO cars, valued at about $240,000,000.' Portugal has proclaimed a repub lic. According to the latest Lisbon advices, Theophile Braga, republican leader, is the new president. King Manuel, the queen mother and the queen dowager are reported to have taken refuge under the British , flag at gebraltar. The United States armored cruiser Des Moines at Gibraltar has been or dered to proceed to Lisbon, Portugal, immediatley. National banks which are shaky and give no promise of improvement are being steadily forced out of busi ness. During the twelve months end ing on October 1, 113 national bank ing institution went into liquidation. public institutions for inebriates; that prisoners be allowed payment for tehir work, and a complete investiga tion into the subject of caring for mentally defective children with ran gerous tendencies were provided for in resolu)JonS*"<Wopted.' fo" the ‘prison congress in session at Washington, D. C. , DIXIE WELCOMES THEODORE ROOSEVELT. FORMER PRESIDENT DELIVERS THREE ADDRESSES IN THE CITY OF ATLANTA. MAKES CONSERVATION TALK Ex-President Makes Speech at Cele bration to Raise Funds for Uncle Remus Memorial. Atlanta.—Theodore Roosevelt came into Georgia and found awaiting him a welcome which was as warm as that which he has received in any section of the country during his re cent travels. On his arrival in At lanta he was greeted by crowds which blocked the streets, heedless of the pelting raiD, and cheered him as he rode at the head of a parade through the business streets of the city. Earlier in the day he spent several hours at Rome, Ga., inspecting the Martha Berry school, for poor mount ain hoys and girls, and in speaking to another throng of cheering Geor gians. Colonel Roosevelt made three speeches in Atlanta. His first was at the southern conservation congress, lie urged the people of the south to take care of their natural wealth, and said if the country's resources should fall into the hands of a mo nopoly the people would revolt. Af ter taking dinner with Mayor Maddox he spoke at the Uncle Remus Day cel ebration, which is being held to raise a-fund to purchase the home of the late Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus stories, and pre serve it as a memorial to his work. After speaking of the achievements of Harris, Colonel Roosevelt talked on new nationalism. Then he talked to the’ negroes of Atlanta, in a negro church. Colonel Roosevelt began his ad dress to the conservation congress with a reiteration of his faith in the conservation movement. “I believe in conservation with all my heart,” he said. ‘I believe that the time has passed in this country when it Was possible for reasonable men longer to permit the waste of natural resources. I believe that na tion and state can co-operate in this great movement, and there are one or two impressions which 1 think we should endeavor to remove from the public mind. “While it is our duty to give every proper reward to the proper exercise of individual initiative, it is also our duty to see that the men of excep tional ability display that ability in our interest and not against our in terest. I want to give him all the reward to which he is honestly enti tled, hut want that reward to go to him because he serves, and not be cause he swindles us. "Certain of the papers which are edited in the shadow of Wall street regard the doctrine which 1 have enunciated as smacking of anarchy. 1 think it is -really the height of con servatism. I think it will help the honest men of influence and wealth when we discriminate in the sharpest manner between them and their dis honest brothers. Now it is peculiarly necessary to do that in connection with natural resources, the ownership of which, if allowed to go into one hand or the hand of ope great cor poration, may establish a peculiarly oppressive monopoly. Let us then make it the business of the govern ment, national or state, as the case may be, to see that the mineral re sources so far as we still have power over them, that all similar powers are ssed under such governmental regulation as will allow ample profifit to the users and at the same time guarantee the public at large in its rights. ■[ think that is an essential posi tion for the government to take. 1 do not believe that we can afford longer to allow of shrewdness and sometimes with a lack ot scrupulous ness to get possession of the natural resources of the country and then treat them as purely their own to do with them as they choose, if such a system of monopoly is permitted to grow up in extent sooner or later the people will revolt against it, and when they revolt against it under such conditions that revolt will he very apt to have mixed along with righteousness of attitude, and the then holders of the privileges would run great risks ot suffering the ef fects of an improper severity because their predecessors had been treated with an improper leniency.” Colonel Roosevelt then spoke of the necessity of preservation of the for ests, and continued: “I hope that congress will pass the bill for the creation of the great Ap palachian forest reserve. The waters which rise in them often go through more than one state and it should Triplet Calves Born. Jesup, Ga. —F. L. Carter, the owner of a fine brindle Jersey cow, has in creased his stock in number to the unjieard of amount of three fine red heifer calves, which are now better than 24 hours old, all in perfect health, and from one' mother, being the first and. only set of triplet calves to have been horn in the state of Georgia. Mr. Carter shall put forth every effort to raise these calves and will exhibit them at the Wayne County fair to'be held October-18,-19 and 20. HON. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. peculiarly be the work of the sational government to see to their preserva tion. I hope therefore that your rep resentatives in congress will bestir themselves in this matter. "No portion of our country is go ing to show a greater rate of devel opment than the south will show in the course of the next 30 or 40 years. I ask you to see that this marvelous development of the south takes place in such fashion that it will represent not a mere feverish growth in wealth and luxury, or a honey combed foun dation of morality and good judg ment, but that it will represent a solid and abiding and enduring pros perity.” ROOSEVELT DISOWNS N. Y. TARIFF PLANK EX-PRESIDENT IS NOW SQUARELY IN LINE WITH THE IN SURGENTS. NATIONALISM IS HONESTY Colonel Roosevelt Asks to Be Judged By His Speeches, Not By New York Platform. Ailanta. —Theodore Roosevelt dis claimed all responsibility for the tar iff plank in the New York state re publican platform, in doing so he re plied to criticisms which have been directed against him, particularly by some of the so-called "insurgent ’ re publicans in the west to the’effect that he talked one kind of politics in the west and another in the 'east. This criticism was based largely upon the fact that, while he did not indorse the Payne tariff law in any of his western speeches, the tariff plank of the New York republican platform commended the bill. Colonel Roose velt made it clear in his speech that he had not indorsed the Payne law, and that he did not agree with the New York tariff plank. He said that he would stand on his speech as tem porary chairman of the New York re publican convention in which he commended parts of the Payne law, hut did not indorse it as a whole. Colonel Roosevelt’s speech was de livered at the Uncle Remus Day cele bration here. He began his address with an appreciation of the life and works of Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus Tales. Then he turned to his recently enunciated doc trine of the new nationalism. "In speaking to you of the new na tionalism,” he said. “I want at the outset to answer publicly a question put to me this evening by a couple of your journalists as to one feature as to what I had spoken of as the new nationalsim, concerning w T hich they thought i had spoken differently at different times. These gentlemen asked me just how I reconciled what 1 had said in the west with the tariff plank in the New York state republi can platform. I answered them that I did not reconcile it; that on that particular platform I must refuse to he judged by what the platform said, but what I myself said. Fought Militia; Then Killed Self. Ocala, Fla. —After fatally wounding Deputy Sheriff Hudson and ex-Sheriff Gordon at his home near Ocala, Wil liam Summerlin placed the muzzle of a rifle in his mouth and blew his 1 head off. For three hours Summerlin was barricaded in his house, where he successfully resisted the efforts of members of the police department and the local company of militia to ar rest him on a warrant charging a mi nor offense. The condition, of the wounded officers is said to be criti cal. “You probably know we had quite a lively time at Saratoga. I was elected temporary chairm.an and serv ed as such with reasonable efficiency before the platform was adopted. There were a number of men who voted for me for temporary chair man who were in harmony with me on all of the most vital points at is sue, who yet disagreed with me on certain points, on one or two that 1 regarded as of great importance. And so my speech as temporary chairman HON. GIFFORD PINCHOT. put my position as accurately used language could put it, and on any point where what I said in my ad dress differs from what what was said in the platform it must be under stood that I personally must be judged by what I myself said in this matter of tariff plank, ’That fight, as I regarded it, was primarily a fight for the great fun damentals of citizenship. It was a fight against corruption, against what is the absolute negation of democ racy, and that is against bossism and a fight for genuine popular rule. We carrnied the issue to a triumphant conclusion and in our platform em bodied all three planks and on that platform, sa a crandidate, we put a man of unflinching coufage and high and stainless character. "To achieve that great good I work ed with many men, who on one or more other points did not agree with me. We laid no emphasis on our condi tions as regards the points that m that particular district were minor because it was absolutely essential to good citizenship that we should win on the vital issues.” Unwritten Law Saves Girl. Pittsburg, Pa. —Katherine Betti, a girl of 12 years, who slew her godfa ther with an axe and red-hot poker in avenging his theft of her honor, was cleared of criminal charges on the ground that the homicide was jus tifiable. - Judge John M. Swearingen, in charging the jurors, after a two days’ recital of testimony,-upheld the unwritten law.. The girl had -faced the trial with confidence that her act was warranted, and sue went to her home free, but tojtacg motherhood soon. HON. GIFFORD PINCHOT TALKS OFCONSERVATION ! he SAYS THE SOUTH IS VITALLY CONCERNED IN CONSERV ING RESOURCES. FARMERS ARE CONSERVERS President Barrett of the National' Farmers' Union Addressed the Conservation Congress. Atlanta. —Gifford Pinchot, at the; i meeting of the southern conservation 1 congress held in this city declared that the south is as vitally con-, j eerned with the movement for the. | conservation of the nation's natural resources as is any section of the country and he warned the southern- I ers that the big corporations alreadyi were actively working to secure a : | monopoly of the resources of this section. "Your water power resources here; | in the south are so completely in the; i hands of the Duke interests and of the General Electric interests,” he j said, “that it will be almost impossi j ble for independents to break into the water power market.” i Mr. Pinchot said in part: ! "Conservation ought to appeal more j vigorously to the south than to any . other part of the country. Some places in the west have a larger field | for conservation, but altogether there | is no place where questions of con servation are more pressing th.»n in ; the south. You have natural re sources in the south in superabund | ance. You have a body of southern | men determined to carry conservation principles into practical effect and their numbers, character and deter mination makes the outlook for re sults most hopeful. ’Practical problems facing conser vation,” Pinchot enumerated, ’is wa ter power, forestry and erosim of soils.” Of water power he remarked: Your water power resources here in the south are so completely in the hands of the Duke interests and of the General Electric interests that it will be almost impossible for inde pendents to break into the wateE power market.” Mr. Pinchot predicted, however, that ultimately water power rights will be distributed for the benefit of the entire population. As the representative of more than 2,000,000 farmers, Charles S. Barrett, president of the Farmers’ union, be fore the southern Conservation cos gress, stressed the necessity of con serving men first .rather than the re sources of the soil. "If you conserve the nation's raw resources and neg lect the nation’s men, you will meet disaster and ultimate defeat in youi undertaking,” he said. He said the government should spend fifty million to one hundred million dollars annually to check the trend from the farm to the city by providing commos school and scien tific agricultural facilities in every county, in easy reach of the farmer’s children. He would provide against 'the contamination of the corrupt alien strains that sow seeds of unrest and disruption that may ripen into a ruinous harvest” Extravagant Living. San Francisco. —A tale of extrava gant living was told to the police by Caesari’o Munez, who, with Alfonso Garcia, is under arrest in this city, charged with robbing J. M. Summaga, a millionaire mine owner eff the City of Mexico, of $50,000 in jewels and nearly $2,000 in cash. Munez says then G arcia proposed that they set about spending the money without'de lay They did so. Munez estimates that during their waking hours they lived at the rate of more than $75 an hour.