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THE JOURNAL.
Published Weekly.
COCHRAN', GA.
We expect most of the various rec
ords to be broken th.s year.
In the present stage of aviation s
development you never can tell.
We gain a minute of daylight every
day but the gas bills go on just the
same.
Is there no way to save the bird
men from death except by clipping
their wings?
If Hayti and San Domingo go to
war why not let them emulate the
Kilkenny cats?
Some men give up as readily lo
masked bandits as they do to fake
■gold mine promoters.
Hut is shooting ducks from an aero
plane true sportsmanship? Why not
give the ducks a chance?
Maybe some people prefer ragtime
and organized cheering because it
drowns the other kind of music.
If those who indulge in organized
cheering do not enjoy it tl.ey think
they do, which is much the same
Orville Wright says that aviation is
safer than automobiling. Undoubted
ly so —for the innocent bystanders.
If the south pole does not receive
visitors it will not be because nobody
is knocking at the refrigerator door.
An insane woman lias won a prize :
for a magazine poer\ That throws j
light on a hitherto unanswered ques
t ion.
That New York proposition to add !
gongs to automobile horns is caleu j
'luted to increase the jumping record 1
‘on Broadway.
A Pittsburg man is raising a family
on $1.35 a day. Still we believe that I
the family is entitled to the most |
credit for this.
That New York woman who thinks j
Hat the anti-kissing crusade lias
lessened the practice should ask the
small boy under the sofa.
Wonder if the young man who
thinks there is only one girl in the
world for him realizes that the pop-*
ulation of the country is 93,402,151.
It lias been discovered that an es
tate which has been in litigation for
42 years has doubled in value. Prob
ably tlie lawyers’ fees have not been
paid yet.
* The lowa pedagogue who assorts
that loud clothes make noisy persons
has got the cart before the horse
Noisy persons are responsible for
loud clothes.
Portland, Ore., expects to have a
million inhabitants in 25 years. All
right, but Portland should take it to
heart that she cannot get them by
padding the census.
What’s the sense in kicking because
you have to take the ashes from un
der the furnace? A man in lowa has
sued for divorce because his wife
made him sleep with the cows.
§
Still there is this much to be said
for those attempts to break the alti
tude record: In case of accident a
few thousand feet more or less makes
no difference, even to the underta
ker.
I 1 A machine that measures thought
• lias been invented, it will not have
to go very fast in measuring the
1 bought of the young man who pro
poses to reform by first going on a
spree-
In view of the published assertion
that about 30 per cent, of the people
of New York state are insane, it is
net surprising that insanity is so fre
ouently pleaded there as an excuse
tor crime.
American mules are preferred to
all other kinds in South Africa. Prob
ably the native dialects there are the
nearest possible approach in sound
to the language on which the mules
are brought up.
The census bureau reports that
3.739,000 telegraph and telephone
poles were used in 1909. Sixty-five
per cent, of them were of cedar. Here
is one item to explain why timber
is growing scarce.
Every now and then vo’ hear some
one discussing the weather, say: "The
paper said" so and so. Now. the pa
pers have enough to answer for with
out being charged with the mistakes
of the weather bureau.
Somebody whose name we have not
taken the trouble to find out is en
deltvorlng to gain notoriety by an
nouncing his intention of plunging
over the falls of Niagara in a safety
lifeboat, if he will wait awhile he
may be able to slide over on an icicle.
A I-os Angeles newspaper is plan
ning to have copies delivered by aero
plane to its subscribers. It is hoped
the subscribers will not complain if
the aviators did not at first get off
and slip the papers under the door
mats.
DEPOSITS IN BANKS
DECREASE $191,566,488
REPORTS OF 7,2C0 NATIONAL
BANKS OF THE COUNTRY
SHOW UNUSUAL LOSS.
THE SOUTHERN BANKS GAIN
Greatest Decrease in Deposits Is Now
Shewn in New York City, Where
$158,000,000 Was Withdrawn.
Washington.—Deposits of individu
als in the 7,200 national banks of tne
United States decreased $191,500,488
between November 10 and January 7,
a situation prqbably unprecedented in |
the reports made to the comptroller
of the currency.
Of that sum, more than $158,000,000
was withdrawn from the thirty-nine |
national banks of New York City. No |
two officials of the treasury agree as
to where the money went. Some areot
the opinion that part of it might nave
gone to strengthen the New Voir
state hanks and trust companies dur
ing the flurry caused by the so-called 1
Robin failure early in the month. All J
of the treasury officials, however, ex
pressed great interest in what expla
nations tlie New York bankers might
give.
A comparison with the national
banks of Cilicago snows that the drop
was confined almost entirely to New
York City. The eleven Chicago banks
reported a loss of $9,000,000 on indi
vidual deposits. The reserve b#iks ot
tlie Western and Pacific states and
the New England stales all show
losses, but comparatively small ones. !
One peculiar aspect of the drop was
that the Now York banks alone lost
as much as the combined banks ot
the country hail gained in November.
Another feature of the situation
which greatly puzzles tlie treasury
experts in that in spile of the enor
mous slump in deposits the banks
are still holding a higher percentage
of reserve than they were in Novem
ber, and the total loss in loans aim
discounts of tlie whole country has I
been only $48,000,090, while there lias
been a gain in cash of more than $20,-
000,000.
The banks of the South are about j
the only ones showing gains of de- I
posits. That is said to bo because I
they are now being paid for cotton. |
Reductions of loans is tlie rule, how- ,
ever, all over the country, and this ;
is said necessarily to follow such a I
sharp reduction of deposits.
Still, with all the reductions the
banks are now holding $(17,000,000
more in their reserves than is re
quired by law. On the whole,- the
showing is pronounced good, but the j
disappearance of $158,000,000 from the
banks of New York is a great, puzzle
to the treasury officials. None of them
cared to express an opinion for publi
cation.
OVER SEA FLIGHT FAILS.
McCurdy Dropped Into Sea on Key
West-Havana Flight.
Havana, Cuba.—J. A. 1). McCurdy,
a Canadian by birth, but now affiliat
ed with American aviators, set a new
record in over-the-water flights, cov
ering a distance of close to a hundred
miles from Key West, to within ten
miles of Havana, when, irom a slight
accident, lie was compelled to drop
into tlie sea. There he remained, tns
biplane floated by pontoons, until the
lifeboat of the torpedo boat destroyer
Terry picked him up.
Tlia flight was for SB,OOO, of which
$5,000 was ottered by the Havana
Host and $3,000 by the Havana city
council.
With victory within his grasp, his
goal in plain view, an accident, triv
ial in itself, for which no provision
was possible, robbed McCurdy of his
almost won title conqueror of the
Florida straits. With Mono Castle
scarce a dozen miles away, his aero
plane rushing at the rate of 50 miles
an hour at an altitude of 1,000 feet,
a break in *a small part of Hie engine,
a ruptured crank case, permitting of
the escape of all the lubricating oil,
necessitated McCurdy s immediate de
scent. Havana was then in plain
view, and Camp Columbia, where the
landing was to be made, was only a
short distance beyond.
All Ship Subsidy Graft.
Washington.—John W. Dodsworth,
editor of the New York Journal of
Commerce; Charles A. Conant of New
York, formerly correspondent of that
publication, and F. C. Donald of Chi
cago, commissioner of the Central
Passenger association, were witnesses
before the house committee on inves
tigation of ship subsidy charges. Mr.
Dodsworth said he regarded all ship
subsidy as graft, but finally conceded
that there were men honestly support
ing that cause. The committee ad
journed for two weeks.
Tariff Board BiH Passes.
Washington.—After considering the
matter for more than seven hours un
der a special rule the house of repre
sentatives by a vote of IS6 to 93 pass
ed the bill providing for a permanent
tariff board of five members. This is
the first of the legislation recommend
ed by President Taft to be adopted m
the house. The Democrats split on
the passage of the bill, and, although
Champ Clark, the minority leader,
voted for the measure, ninety of his
followers voted against it. Tne other
tnree were Progressive Republicans.
WOMEN SWEAR THEY ARE MEN
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j PIACt J
(Copyright, 1911.)
Over 4,C00 Seattle Women Now on the Registration Books Have Signed
the Printed Oath Which Declares Them to Be Male Persons.
RECIPROCITY AGREEMENT
UNITED STATES AND NORTHERN
NEIGHBOR PLAN A FREE
TRADE TREATY.
Strong Opposition Develops in Con
gress Against Adopting the
Schedule,
+ + + + + + + 4-+++ + +' + +
+ +
+ Washington. Strong opposi- ♦
+ tion developed among senators ♦
+ and representatives from the +
+ grain-growing states to the Can- +
adian reciprocity treaty submit- +
+ ted by President Taft, and it is +
+ now thought that the treaty can- ♦
+ not be rati tied. +
+ <*
++++++♦+ + +♦ + + ♦ +
Washington.—Within less than ten
months after the initiation by Presi
dent Taft of negotiations with the
Canadian government, there was laid
simultaneously before the American
congress at Washington and the Can
adian parliament at Ottawa a reci
procity arrangement which, if approv
ed by the legislative branches of tne
two governments, will surely do much,
in tlie opinion of the negotiators, to
enlarge and liberalize tho trade be
tween the United States and Canada.
Usually such arrangements take the
form of a treaty, but in the present
instance this was not done, with the
result that considerable time will be
saved in the consummation of the
agreement, which can .be made ef
fective by a simple majority vote in
eacli of the two legislatures. In the
case of a treaty it would be necessary
in the United States, at least, to have
the approval of a full two-thirds of
the senate, hut now the way is clear
for the ways and means committee ot
the house and the finance committee
ot the senate to proceed as it would
with any tariff bill.
It is a notable fact that no less
than 91 per cent, of the Canadian
goods imported into the United States
will benefit by considerable reductions
of duty and only 9 per cent, of our
Canadian imports will remain unaf
fected.
The intention of the commissioners
to remove all the duties on printin,-
paper and pulp wood was affected, so
far as the Dominion government could
j do it, outside the limitations existing,
the law's of the Canadian province
government's imposing export duty on
1 wood cut on crown lands in Canada,
| but it would appear that the American
duty will lie only upon the compara
! tively small proportion of Canadian
' pulp or wood cut on such crown
lands.
Washington.—Urging the prompt
passage of a reciprocity treaty be
tween the United States and Canada,
President Taft sent to congress a
special message, accompanied by the
agreement looking to such treaty,
reached by representatives of the
Canadian government and of the state
department at a recent conference in
this city.
Famous Boycott Case Ends.
Washington.—Reaching the conclu
sion that the Buck’s Stove and Range
company and the American Federa
tion of Labor had settled their dis
putes out of court, the Supreme court
of the United States stopped the ar
gument of the so-called "'boycott
case of the former against the latter,
on the theory that no issue in it re
mained for the court to pass on. Fol
lowing that action the court listened
to oral argument on the "contempt
case" against officers of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor.
Leaves Navy; Ends Scandal.
Washington.—Rear Admiral Barry
has resigned from the navy. The res
ignation has been accepted by Secre
tary Meyer. The resignation of Ad
miral Barry ends the scandal connect
ed w'ith his forced retirement, as tar
as the navy department is concern
ed. The officer is understood to have
been given the alternative of resigna
tion or facing a eourtmartial. Beyond
the announcement that he had resign
ed and the resignation had been ac
cepted, navy department officials re
fused Jto discuss the matter.
DEPLORES POLITICAL STRIFE
Plea for Political Peace Made by Mr
Hooper in His Inaugural Ad
dress at Nashville.
Nashville, Tenn.—Benjamin W.
Hooper, who headed the Republican
ticket in this state last November,
but drew the support of thousands of
voters of various political affiliations,
was inaugurated governor of Tennes
see.
Governor Hooper's inaugural ad
dress opened with a plea for the ces
sation of political strife in Tennessee.
“I do not seek a political Arcadia—
a civic millennium," he declared, "but
I do beg of the people of tne state
and their legislative representatives
that we advocate and practice the
settlement of our political differences
within legal and constitutional limita
tions.’’
A short farewell address was made
by the retiring governor, M. R. Pat
terson, when the oath of office was
administered to Governor Hooper by
Chief Justice J. K. Shields
Referring to the lax enforcement of
the prohibition law in nis inaugural
address Governor Hooper said:
"The isolated offense of an occa
sional bootlegger is a small matter,
but the open public and unhindered
sale of whiskey in the saioons of our
cities in violation of law, is organized
anarchy, and cannot be tolerated by
the self-respecting citizenship of a
sovereign state.
“The question that is belore us now
does not so much involve the wisdom
of the prohibition law as it does the
advisability of permitting a commun
ity to decide to what law it will obey
and what statutes it will ignore and
nullify. The doctrine of state nulli
fication was crushed by Andrew Jack
son many years ago, and the doctrine
of city nullification deserves no bet
ter fate.’’
Governor Hooper is a native of
Cocke county. He was born October
13, 1870.
PAPER IS OFFERED A BRIBE.
Ship Subsidy Advocates Tried to In
fluence Journal of Commerce.
Washington.—Revelation of several
attempts to buy the editorial support
of the New York Journal of Com
merce in favor of ship subsidy legis
lation, which that paper had consist
ently opposed, was made to the house
ship subsidy investigating committee
by Alfred W. Dodswortn, business
manager of the Journal of Commerce
and Commercial Bulletin.
Alfred W. Dodsworth said that hii
paper never had been subsidized bj
any interests whatever, and its busi
ness and editorial columns had no re
lation. But, he testified, about six
years ago an unknown man came into
his office and offered to pay the Jour
nal of Commerce SIOO,OOO. taking a
million copies of his pape r for the in
sertion of an article in one issue, sup
porting the ship subsidy legislation
This man refused to disclose his iaen
tity unless his proposition was to be
accepted. His proposition was re
fused.
About two years ago, Dodsworth
§aid, another man tried to buy the
support of the paper for $40,000 and
during the Spanish-American war the
Spanish government tried to buy the
paper's influence.
Shaft to Confederate Women.
Little Rock Ark.—A monument to
the women of the Confederacy w-iu
be erected by the state of Arkansas,
if a bill passed by the lower branen
of the general assembly becomes a
law. An appropriation of SIO,OOO is
provided.
Corset Coat for Men.
St. Louis. —The corset coat is the
fashionable spring and summer gar
ment for men this year. The smart
mans trousers will fit his legs so
snugly it will be necessary for him
to remove his shoes to change them
Aeroplane Rose From Water.
San Diego, Cal. —For the first time
in the history of aviation an aero
plane rose from the surface of the
water, sailed about and returned to
the starting point, where it landed on
the water as easily as a gull. This
feat was achieved by Glenn H. Curtiss
on Santiago bay. The machine cover
ed about two miles, and the flight
was made after almost two weeks oi
experimenting to devise special appli
ances to float the machine and allow
it to attain sufficient speed on the
surface of the water before lifting.
GIRL SONG-WRITER GOT RICH
Miss Anita Owen Who Won Fame and
Fortune When Only 16
Years Old.
New York. —Have you ever wonder
ed whence come all the songs that de
light the public ear —those whose mu
sic or words, or both, ring through
your mind constantly and are carried
over the country on a wave of popu
larity, or, perhaps, those other thou
sands which please for the moment
only and then suffer oblivion? Do you
imagine that they are originated in
a machine just as they are later
ground out from the street pianos?
If that is your idea you certainly are
wrong, Every song that comes before
the public is the individual effort of
some music lover and as a rule bears
the stamp of that individuality which
sent it forth. Naturally, it is only the
occasional song that reaches the
height of popularity, but it is just as
often the unknown writer who sends
forth this song as it is the seasoned
rhymster and musician.
Perhaps Miss Anita Owen could ex
plain best what it means to be carried
from the background into the notice of
the public at one bound by a popular
song; what it means to lay down an
empty purse to receive a fair-sized
fortune and be recognized as a suc
cessful song writer by music lovers
tlie world over. Miss Owen's success
came with her first song and that
first song was written when she was
a girl of only 16, studying within con
vent class rooms. To know that you
have composed a song worth publish
ing is one thing; to awake to the fact
that your effort has greatly pleased
the fancy of the public is another. A
popular song brings handsome cheeky
to its writer, far ahead of the cost of
placing it on the market.
It was about 15 years ago that Miss
Owen, then a convent girl living in
Chicago, wrote the words and music
which filled her mind, published the
song herself and discovered she had
achieved success at one step.
Miss Owen confesses that her unex
pected success and sudden wealth at
the early age of 16 somewhat upset
her. An income of from ten to fif
teen thousand a year bestowed upon
a hitherto penniless maiden would be
Miss Anita Owen.
apt to upset the most staid. She im
mediately made stable her air cas
tles, satisfied her natural longing for
handsome clothes by ordering any
number of French gowns, secured a
maid and carriages and traveled
wherever she pleased. Surfeited with
pleasures finally she settled down to
song writing as a splendid way for the
right person to make money.
MONUMENT TO A HORSE
*
How a Maine Man of Means Has
Marked Grave of a Faithful
Animal.
Portland, Me. —It is not unusual for
a dog. the pet of a family, to be given
burial on the estate of his owner, and
it often happens that a tablet of one
kind or another is erected to his mem
ory. But it is seldom that these
things fall to the lot of a horse, al
though in his living hours he may
have been none the less faithful to
his master’s interests.
“Prince” Carroll’s life was unusual
ly happy—if horses can be happy—-and
ItiTT-Y
Monument Over a Horse.
now his grave is marked by a fine
monument.
His home was at Gorham, Me., a
village a few miles out of Portland.
His master, John Carroll, a man of
means, loved him.
Prince had a playground all his
own, where he daily romped, forget
ting his advancing years. And when
he died not long ago John Carroll saw
to it that he had more than a decent
burial within plain sight of the Car
roll homestead. The grave is marked
by a monument which bears tfle in
scription: “A Loving and Faithful
Friend, Prince."
THE POTASH CONTROVERSY
German Claims Presented at Wash*
ington Are Contradicted by
American Interests.
Washington, D. C., Jan. —The cotton
growing states are particularly Inter
ested in the potash controversy be
tween the State Department and Ber
lin, since the future price of fertilizer
is directly affected by the outeome.
German interests have just made rep
resentation to Secretary Knox similar
In effect to those assertions made by
circular letter to the miners through
out the South claiming that the Ger
man potash law, which places a pen
alty on mines selling heavily to Amer
icans at a lower price than has for
merly ruled, is merely a part of the.
general conservation policy of Ger
many.
According to Ochsimus, a leading
German geologist, there are about
39,000 square miles of potash in one
section of Germany, each of these
containing some 50,000,000 tons of
pure potash. This same authority
states that the annual output from
these mines is about 600,000 tons each,
and he figures that if the annual out
put should jump to 5,000,000 tons an
nually, it would still require 621,600
years to exhaust the supply.
Another of Germany's assertions ia
that the law does not discriminate
against Americans. The brief of the
American potash buyers committee
submitted to congress points out that,
under the law as recently passed by
Germany, the mines of the potash
trust in that country were allowed a
proportion of output sufficient to sup
ply the world, while the independent
mines that had made contracts to sup
ply the United States at a reduced
price were limited to one-fourth of
their actual sales already made to us.
In addition a penalty of $22 per ton
was imposed for overproduction. Thus
the penalty falls exclusively upon
shipments to this country and indi
rectly upon the consumer.
An effort Is apparently being made
to create the impression that this con
troversy Is really a contest between
the piollcy of the German government
and an American trust. The fact Is
that there is no such complete and
powerful trust in the United States
as this German potash syndicate.
This syndicate actually monopolizes
the entire potash supply of the world,
save for the two mines that broke
away from the trust and sold to Amer
ican buyers. In this country there
are about 70 different fertilizer manu
facturers using potash, and of these
about 75 per cent are independent of
any trust affiliation.
Another claim made by the German
committee at the White House was to
the effect that the American buyers
knew that a law would be passed pro
viding for government taxes and pe~-
alties to be assessed, and that t' /
made these contracts with this k|> ,'l
- in mind. The American coAuftiit
tee states positively that this informa
tion was brought to them after the
contracts were made, and used as a
club in an attempt to force them to
give up the contracts already entered
into, which would have reduced the
price of fertilizer materially in this
country.
An official high In the government
here is authority for the statement
that the cost of this controversy must
necessarily fall upon the consumer,
and that it should, therefore, be set
tled quickly. While the American
companies paying a penalty have met
the prices made by the German trust
that pays no penalty, this has been
done at a loss, and should they with
draw from the field because of this,
the price of fertilizer in this country
would be dictated by the German
monopoly untrammelled in Berlin.
The Walkers.
James M. Beck, the famous corpora
tion lawyer of New Y'ork, is a native
of Philadelphia, and to Philadelphia
he often returns to see his old
friends.
Mr. Beck, at a recent banquet in
Philadelphia, defended corporations
with an epigram.
“The trust buster and the Socialist
may do w'hat they please,” he said,
"but mankind will still be divided into
two great classes —those who walk to
get an appetite for their dinner, and
those who walk to get a dinner for
their appetite."
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In all its forms among all ages of horses,
as well as dogs, cured and others in same
stable prevented from having the disease
with SPOHN’S DISTEMPER CURE.
Every bottle guaranteed. Over 600.000
bottles sold last year $.50 and SI.OO. Any
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Agents wanted. Spohn Medical Co., Spec.
Contagious Diseases, Goshen, Ind.
Inherited.
Knicker —Jones has a bad memory.
Bocker—His mother never knew
what were trumps, and his father
couldn't remember anything on the
witness stand.
TO DRIVE OUT MAM RIA
AM) BUILD UP THE SYSTEM
Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS
CHILL TONIC. You know what yon are taking.
The formula is plainly printed on every bottle*
showing it is simply Qninlne andiron in a taste
less form. The Quinine drives out tho malaria
and the Iron builds up the system. Sold by ail
dealers for years. Price 50 cents.
Any New Methods?
“Ain’t it strange, th’ way Kelly beats
his wife?”
“I dunno. How does he do it?”
PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS
Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINT
MENT fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind,
Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6to 14 days. 50c.
There are many kinds of pleasures,
and some of them aren’t so pleasant.
Itch Cured In 30 Minute* by Woolford’*
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No noble things, not dream them all
day long.—Kingsley.