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THE JOURNAL. /Published Weekly. . COCHRAN. GA. ' / It is not difficult for a cold ware tq ■wear out its welcome. There Is nothing childlike about thg malevolence of infantile paralysis. Luckily this country raised a largo crop, for there is a shortage in French wheat. Do not despise the humble spudj (The crop in one county in Pennsyl vania is worth $1,000,000. Missouri authorities are going to import Mexican stingless bees. That* will be good news for honey boy. ■ Chicago is to have a new theater Idesigned to attract women. Matinee (idols will be its specialty, we infer. This aviation business is all right, 'but we do wish that, the coal people would quit trying for altitude records. ( The toll of death continues. It is a lease of nip and tuck between the 'speeding autos and the dashing bird men. A Colorado professor says that peo ple get disease germs by shaking hands. I.a Grippe from the grip, aa it were. , A Pittsburger has invented a fluid iby the use cf which each man can be- Icome his own embalmer. Teil the -dead ones about it. , However, speaking of extravagance, it does look foolish for a man to mortgage a useful home in order to buy an ornamental automobile. Dr. Woods Hutchinson wants to *tear down and rebuild New York iclty . For a long time we have (thought it might be improved in that way. According to a Parisian fashion Journal, the old-style hoop skirt will return in twenty years, but even so, we're too busy to worry about that now. Even If woman is becoming more masculine, as the Harvard man says, very few husbands will care to ex patiate upon the theme by their happy 'firesides. A Velasquez portrait that has been (missing Hit) years "has come to light at the country place of the duke of Parma.” The duke must live at Lonesomehurst. Berlin declares war on the deadly hatpin, Kansas City has put the kibosh on fireworks, and Chicago is begin ning to round up its crooks. Let the jgood work go on. j Another expedition has Just started from New Zealand for the south pole, proving that there are hardy people who on a cold day do not especially jeare to sit by a hot radiator. A pipe that was once used by Sir Walter Raleigh is offered for sale in (London. In this connection we should like to know whether Sir Walter ever learned to roll his own cigarettes. Japan has decided to let the em gieror of Korea have a pension. This (is generous. It would have been too bad if the emperor had been com pelled to open a laundry at his time iof life. That dirigible balloon line from Bos ton to Washington will doubtless be used at first by people who have no (pressing engagements to dine at the White House, as it is impolite to keep the president waiting. Wise in their day and generation are Paris modistes who announce that their latest gowns are made to button in front. Now there will be less kicking on the part of the hus bands who have to pay the bills. Prince Henry of Prussia has been flying along in military aeroplanes. This is a field where right of birth does not count. A prince is on the same level as any other man, and must prove the courage and ability to do work for which no amount of high' titles will avail in doing. Prince Henry 3s to be congratulated on thus doing the work also of a man. The western states as a rule make, ji creditable showing in the new fed-' £ral census. But the figures show the fallacy of the idea that they are grow ( Hng much faster than the eastern com .monwealths. Illinois, for instance, (gained 51T,041, or 16.9 per cent., in population during the last ten years. But New York state increased 1,544,- (383. or 25.4 per cent., in the same itime. The east is not taking a back iseat, and is still progressing in health ful fashion. A bulletin from the department of Agriculture at Washington reports this ;as a “bumper year” in farm products,, (the aggregate output being 7.6 per (cent, greater than the big one of 1909 land 9.1 per cent, larger than the av erage. Owners of a new apartment build fing in New York advertise a skating trink, a model dairy and a hospital among other “conveniences." Noth ing is said as to whether the janitor', is capable of taking a hand at bridge' in an emergency. GENERAL ASSEMBLIES Cf MANY STALES MEET SOLONS OF TENNESSEE WILL NAME A SENATOR AT THIS SESSION. FIGHT MADE ON NEAR BEER More Stringent Prohibition Legisla tion, Is the Program in State of North Carolina. Nashville, Tenn.—The general as sembly of Tennessee began its fifty seventh biennial session, which, under the Constitution, will last for seventy five days. The session promises to be a mo mentous one, inasmuch as a United States senator will be elected, provis ion made for refunding the state debt (some ten millions of dolars), redis tricting the state for assemblymen un der the new census, and repealing, modifying or strengthening the elec tion laws. The regular Democrats control the senate, with nineteen out of thirty three members, while the house will probably be in control of the fusion forces, composed of about equal num bers of Independent Democrats and Republicans. The United States senatorship is very much in doubt. Neither ex-Gov ernor McMillin nor Senator J. B. Fra zier have yet shown that they could secure a majority. Gen. Luke E. Wright, ex-secretary of war, has not yet said whether ne would or would not enter the race. Charlotte, N. C. —The only matters of importance slated for the biennial session of the North Carolina general assembly, which convened at Raleigh, are the propositions to amend the state antitrust law and to render more stringent, if possible, the prohi bition laws, violations of which have become so flagrant as to demand legis lative action. Democrats control both branches by large majorities. Columbus, Ohio. —Chief interest in the session of the seventy-ninth Ohio general assembly rests in the election of a United States senator to succeed Charles Dick, who was elected upon the death of Senator Marcus A. Han na. The new senator will be a Demo crat, there being 19 Democrats and 15 Republicans in the senate, and 6o Democrats and 49 Republicans and one Independent Democrat St. Paul, Minn. —Indications are that the Minnesota legislature will re-elect Moses Clapp to the United States sen ute. Wheeling, W. Va.—The contest among Democrats for the scat now held in the United States senate by Nathan B. Scott (Rep.) of Wheeling, is now considered as five-cornered. The contest apears chiefly to he be tween Clarence W. Watson, a Fair mont coal operator, and John T. Alc- Graw of Grafton, for many years the Democratic national committeeman. TWO AVIATORS KILLED. John B. Moissant and Arch Hoxsey Fall to Death. Los Angeles, Cal.—Arch Hoxsey, a Wright aeroplanist, was Killed while returning from Catalina island in his flight lor the Michelin cup. He fell 400 feet and was instantly killed. Mr. Hoxsey was one of the famous “Wright twins" of aviators, Ralph Johnstone being the other. Johnstone was killed a short time ago while giving one of his daring exhibitions of spiral flights. Johnstone's death occurred November 17 at Denver, Col. New Orleans. —John B. Moissant, the most famous of American aviators and heralded as the most daring bird man of the world, because of his feat in being the first to cross the English channel with a passenger, was killed when his aeroplane was dashed to the ground from a height of 300 feet at Harahan ten miles from this city. 1 The accident was caused by the ma chine’s becoming unmanageable, it struck a treacherous bank of air which whirled it out of the aviator's control before he knew what had hap pened. As the aeroplane tilted it shot downward with Moissant underneath clinging to it. He struck the earth first and the heavy machine crashed down upon him. 393 New Banks in the South. Atlanta. —During the past year 393 new banks were organized and be gan business in the South, with ag gregate capital of $7,420,000. New York to Atlanta Flight. Roanoke, Va. —Plans are being made by the promoters of the New York-to-Atlanat National Automobile Highway for aeroplane flights over the course between the two cities. The idea is to have night controls, dinner stops, etc., for the airmen, just as is the case for automobilists. Government Moves Against Trusts. Washington.—Prosecutions by the government, designed to accomplish the dissolution of Standard Oil and of the American Tobacco organizations, embodying the greatest anti trust fignt of the generation, will be taken, up for the second time by the Supreme court of the United States. Continu ing its consideration of affairs of gov ernment, the court will immediately afterwards give its attention to the constiutionality of the corporation tax provision of the Pavne-Aldrich tariff ; act. . .- -. JOSEPH RUCKER LAMAR Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Washington.—Judge Joseph Ruck r Lamar of Georgia and Judge Willis Van DeVanter of Wyoming were sworn in as associate justices of the Supreme court of the United States. They subscribed to the oath before the new chief justice, Edward Douglas White, and upon an historic Bible which has been in use by the court daily for one hundred years. Fol lowing their admission, the Supreme court proceeded to the consideration of some of the most important cases which have come before its since reconstruction days. PLAN TARIFF COMMISSION PRESIDENT TAFT WANTS EX PERT BOARD TO STUDY TARIFF PROBLEM. Creation of Permanent Tariff Commis sion of Five Members Is Favored. Washington.—lmpetus to tile move ment for a tariff commission was giv en by conferences at the white house and at the capitol, the return of Rep resentative Longworth of Ohio to Washington with a full draft of a hill creating a commission, and an nouncement of Chairman Payne of the liuuse committee on ways and means,-that he expected such legisla tion before March 4 next. Mr. Longworth, who is a member of the ways and means committee, has drawn a bill which he expects to in troduce. It creates a commission of live members, salaried at $7,500 each, not more than three of the same po litical party, with offices at Washing ton, hut empowered to meet any where. It is given wide powers of collec tion and collation of facts without authority to make recommendations, and instead of making fixed reports, it can only report on special call of congress or of the president. WRONG MAN BURNED. Rodriguez, Supposed to Have Been Cremated, Safe in Mexico. Guadlajara, Mexico.—Antonio Ro driguez, supposed to have been burn ed at the stake at Rock Springs, Tex as!, is in Guadlajara, hale and hearty. Dispatches from Rock Springs at the time of the lynching made reasonably certain the identity of the man as the resident of this city, and as an after math to the killing anti-American demonstrations in Mexico were start ed. Rodriguez worked in the United States until recently as a railroad la borer. Rock Springs, Texas.—The man lynched here on November 5 for the murder of a cattleman’s wife, was known as Antonio Rodriguez, and it was stated that he came to the Unit ed States from Guadlajara, Mexico. Maxim Is Rebuked. Washington.—Statements relating to the kind of smokeless po-wder used by this country made jjy Sir Hiram Maxim, who wrote President Taft, on October 25 last, that gun explosions in the United States army and navy were due to the torm of powder grain in use, were characterized as “unworthy of serious consideration,” in a lette to President Taft from Secretary < i the Navy Meyer. Secretary Aley« ; says Sir Hiram Maxim is “ignorant cf the type of smokeless powder used ..by. .this government _ 5 Mississippi Negroes Shot. Clarkdale, Miss. Two negroes were killed and three others wound ed during an exchange of shots be tween a sheriff’s posse searching for the three farm hands who shot and killed W. W. Kirk and L. D. Kesee and a band of eleven negroes, believ ed to include the men sought. Addi tional posses are joining in the pur suit, and with racial lines closely drawn, further bloodshed is probable. The posse fired on were headed by several officers from a convict farm, and were following bloodhounds. MOTHER EDDY TO RISE. Remarkable Interview Given Out by Deposed Leader of Christian Scientists. New York.—-Mrs. Augusta E. Stet son, the excommunicated leader of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in New York, said that the hour had come when she must stand before the whole world of Christian Science and proclaim her belief in the imminent resurrection in the semblance of hu man form of Alary Baker G. Eddy, the discoverer of Christian Science, who, as the world believes, died at her home in Newton, Miss., on December 3. “Mrs. Eddy is not dead,” said Mrs. Stetson. "As Jesus Christ revealed himsilf on the third day after his cru cifixion and later was seen of a com pany of 500, so Airs. Eddy will be raised from the tomb and will mani fest herself to all the world in proof of her teachings that there is no death. With this demonstration of herself in a form that will be visible to all the world the end of the Gospel age will be signalized. With Mrs. Eddy will come Christ, the Truth and the Millennium, seen by John on Pat inos will be with us. Then with all of faith find that there is no death, and those who see and believe will never die.” MORE btA lb LAND COTTON. Planters Who Experimented With This Product Met With Success. New Orleans.—A number of plant ers on the lower const of Louisiana; this year experimented with sea cotton, with the result tha'. it has been found that the product can be, raised here and next year will see the planting of that grade of the staple. On 'he Jurgins plantation and other big tracts as well as along the Mis sissippi sea island seed produced immense stalks, some of vhich bore as many as one hundred and fifty bolls to the stalk. These, experts declared to be worth at the rate of $l5O a hale. Next year sev eral hundred acres will be devoted to sea island cotton. Trainmen Get Salary Increase. Chicago.—Conductors and trainmen on fifty railroads running north, south; and west of Chicago received an in crease of wages of ten per cent. The increase was granted after a month of negotiation and affects 75,000 men. Cotton Crop Short in India. Bombay, India. —The cotton situa tion is causing some disquiet. The re-! ceipts to date are 300,000 bales be hind last season. A total crop of* only 2,500,000 hales is expected against, 3,200,000 last year. Poor Spelling by Pupils. Springfield, Alass. —In 83,000 at tempts to spell words given out in a recent spelling match between the; grammar school grades of the Lee public school, 14,000 errors were made. Spinach was missed 86 times. 35 Federal Prisoners Released. Washington.—R. V. Ladow, superin-, tendent of prisons of the United States department of justice, announc ed, on his return to Washington from a visit to Atlanta and Fort Leaven worth, taht thirty-five Federal prison ers have been released on parole, and that the application of almost five hundred are now being considered. The department has decided not to signal cut any individual by name. The released convict is entitled to forget and have others forget his past mis- if he becomes a useful citizen. 54-40 OR FIGHT ▼ WE are starting some thing* next week that you can’t afford to miss. It is the best thing that ever appeared in this community-something that will interest and en trance. . It is a beautiful romantic. story treating upon a historical fact — the annexation of the great scope of country stretching from Texas to Oregon. “There is scarcely any cause in which a woman is not engaged in some way fomenting the suit.” And this is the interest ing fact with which Em erson Hough has featur ed his great story of 54-40 OR FIGHT There is not a dull mo ment in this story. Tbqse who like romance are more than paid for their time in reading it. Those who like adventure will find pleasurable pursuit these wintry evenings in reading this great story. Those who stud> and ad mire the great qualities that have made our men of history will immensely enjoy the shrewdness, tact and diplomacy of John C. Calhoun as he carries to successful com - pletion a great political achievement through his handling of women. Watch For It Read It Enjoy It first chapter of this story appears in this paper next week and will continue weekly until complet ed. 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