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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 [pus <8 >*ol 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." DISTEMPER 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 good druggist, or send to manufacturers. 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’* SanitaryLotion.Never fails. At druggists. No noble things, not dream them all day long.—Kingsley.