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THE JOURNAL.
Published Weekly.
COCHRAN, GA.
Often the joy ride ends in a ceme
tery.
W’inter Is staying as long as an un
iwelcome guest.
I.a.te In March the largest battleship
Will be In commission. There is no
telling how soon it will be obsolete.
Simultaneously with the opening of
the postal banks a lot of old yarn
•ockg opened.
That American who photographed
cows inside Kngland's fortifications
l&ade somewhat of a bull.
Seventeen year locusts are due this
year, but nobody will care if they fail
to bear the alarm clock go off.
The aeroplane does not break down
pftener than an automobile, but. It
breaks down in more inconvenient lo
calities.
Some people are eternally fussy.
An Indiana man wants a divorce from
bis wife because she bathes the dog in
the dishpan.
Again it is reported that the hoop-
Ikirt is coining back. Not if the wear
ers have to pass the Flatiron building
tn New York.
Aviation seems to be like some other
methods of producing exhilarating ef
fects; there is difficulty in recognizing
khe right time to quit.
tip to date the submarines of the
World's navies have been chiefly re
markable for the many discouraging
Accidents which befall them.
It does not astonish us to learn that
bur sun is a "variable star.” Even on
this planet it has the reputation of be
ing a highly capricious luminary.
I
Aviators should let altitude tests
go unsought. Endurance and passen-
Cer tests are the ones needed at this
tage of the art.
The Chicago authorities nave voted
|o limit all buildings begun after Sep
Itember 1 to a height of 200 feet, and if
they mean Chicago Teet that is surely
nigh enough.
By way of giving the children of the
tity a chance to see all strange ani
mals that Inhabit the earth, the au
thorities of New York Central park
have bought a cow,
f Medicine Hat wants its name
changed. If Kalamazoo and' Oshkosh
pan be happy and prosperous, there
jßeems to bo no reason why Medicine
*lat should not bo comfortable.
Basket ball may be a perfectly love
ly game, hut when It becomes neces
.eary to call upon .he police to pry
•jplayers apart it would seem that a re
vised rule of some sort might well bo
inserted.
There is in California a fountain of
toil that gushes up to n height of
356 feet. Advocates of the conserva
tion of our natural resources might do
well to insist that a lid should be put
»n this fountain.
An Austrian girl, who has just been
'naturalized in New York, says she be
came a citizen of this nation because
Bhe loves the United States and the
jAmerican people. That is the kind of
citizen wo want.
Moisant and Hoxsey laughed at dan
ger “as long as the machine was all
right." When man becomes, perfect,
possibly he will invent a machine that
is perfect. Until then It Is safer to
(leave flying to the birds.
A man in a Philadelphia restaurant
discovered 15 pearls in one oyster
kstew. It is evident that the restau
rant-pearl fisheries expect to yield a
igood harvest this season, if this Is to
Ibe taken for n sample beginning.
One out of every four graduates of
Harvard earns all or a part of the
money needed to pay his expenses.
We can’t see why Harvard shouldn't
get as much glory out of this fact as
*he does out of her athletic exploits.
' The department of agriculture has
teen keeping tabs on the number of
deer shot in this country during the
year and has counted up to 57,500.
*still there are people who love deer
that have not been converted into
venison.
A New York doctor says that if
women continue to wear the quanti
ties of false puffs, rolls and switches
now in fashion the next generation
inay have little or no hair to start
“with. With rare exceptions the pres
ent generation had mighty little hair
to start with.
The chief forester says that 84 per
cent of the forest fires in 1909 were
due to the carelessness of railroads
and persons using the forests. This
3s about as bad as the percentage of
bouse fires caused by carelessness.
The government has again changed
Ahe name of the life-saving station at
the west end of Nantucket island,
Vhich used to be "Great Neck,” from
"Maddequet” to "Maddaket,” but we
'shall not learn to spell the new name
until we have some assurance that It
isn't going to be changed again.
DIABOLICAL PLOT TO
RUIN SOUTH’S COTTON
CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE THE
BOLL WEEVIL IN GEORGIA
AND SOUTH CAROLINA.
MAN WARNS HOKE SMITH
Governor-Elect Smith of Georgia Re
ceived Anonymous Letter Telling
of Scheme to Infect Fields.
Atlanta. —An alleged conspiracy by
crooked speculators to ruin the
South’s cotton crop by secretly dis
tributing thousands of live boll wee
vils in the fields under cover of night,
was brougiit light in Atlanta, when
Governor-Elect Hoke Smith made
public a letter of warning, sent him
anonymously by a New Orleans busi
ness man. Tuig man called at Mr.
Smith’s office, made known his iden
tity and good faith, and corroborated
all the statements in the letter.
Two mqn approached him in New
Orleans a short time ago, he declares
and solicited his help in a diabolical
scheme to curtail this year's crop by
inundating Georgia and South Caro
lina with the weevils, buying great
quantities of October cotton now, and
selling when the crop shortage sent
prices higher, making a fortune for
themselves, at the awful expense of
devastating one of the richest agri
cultural sections of the Union not
only for one year but for years to
come.
The author of the letter says he
swore to the two men that he would
not disclose their names, and insists
that his own be withheld from publi
cation. He came all the way from
Birmingham to assure Governor-Elect
Smith of his good faith. He convinc
-ed Mr. Smith that he was not a crank
and not a grafter, for he wanted noth
ing. He simply felt it his duty to
make the matter public, just as Mr.
Smith now feels it his duty to give
the contents of the letter to all the
farmers of the South, through the
newspapers. Both he and Mr. Smith
are inclined to believe that the wide
spread publication and exposure of
the scheme, putting the farmers on
notice, and arousing them to protect
their fields, with armed force if nec
essary, will force the conspirators to
abandon their plans. Here is the elt
ter;
"New Orleans.
"Hon. Hoke Smith, Governor of
Georgia—Dear Sir: In writing this
letter I do so because I feel it is my
duty and 1 know you well enough by
reputation to know you will appre
ciate it fully. 1 will he as brief as
possible and get right to the point.
"There are two men—one from
Texas and 1 am not just sure where
the other is from at this writing, but
I should say Chicago from his talk
are going to distribute boll weevils
in eve / cotton raising county in
Georgia and South Carolina in the
next ninety days. They claim to have
over one hundred thousand live in
sects now and they showed me a box
containing, I should say, five thou
sand of them.
"Their object in discussing it with
me was to get me to help them dis
tribute the weevil and share in the
profits. That is, 1 was to buy 1,000
bales of October cotton. I think front
the talk that one man has already
gone to Augusta with several thou
sand in small boxes.
“How I happen to be able to write
you this information came about in
this way: I met one of the men,
whom I have known for several years,
and we had two or three drinks to
gether and the conversation drifted
to cotton. I expressed a belief that
cotton wculd decline 100 points or
more. Finally he said if I would give
him my word as a man he would tell
me something out of which I could
make a fortune. I promised him and
this was the scheme he disclosed to
me. He gave me a mass of details,
etc., that for the present are worth
less. The second man seemed afraid
to trust me. or any one: in this case
the man whom 1 knew assured him
I was all O. K. Hence the confi
dence. I felt it was my duty to do
something, so I thought I would write
you and let you advise the officers
and farmers to be on the lookout for
suspicious people."
A Veteran’s Vow.
Baltimore. Md. —John Adams, a Con
federate veterans, SO years old, who
died at the Confederate hon e here,
served through the Civil war, enlist
ing at Alexandria, Va When Lee sur
lendered at Appomattox, Adams made
a vow that he would never again have
his hair cut and he neve.- ctd His
hair extended far down 'Vs back, as
he grew old. much of it fell out, and,
to preserve the remaining, he rolled
it into ringlets. It was put up in
curl papers every night before he re
tired.
Archbishop Ryan Dead.
Philadelphia, Pa. —Serene and pre
pared to meet his God whom he had
served so well, the Most Rev. Patrick
John Ryan, D. D., LL. D., archbishop
of Philadelphia and one of the great
archbishops on the American conti
nent, passed peacefully into eternity.
For weeks the distinguished pi elate,
who would have been. 80 years old
had he lived until the 20th of this
month, fought off death, but a weak
aeart, enfeebled by the arduous du
ties of his high office, could not stand
the strain.
(Copyright. 131 L)
TAFT URGES RECIPROCITY.
President Shows the Farmer He Has
Naught to Fear and Much
to Gain.
Columbus, Ohio.—Carrying forward
his campuign for Canadian reciproc
ity, President Taft made a direct ap
peal to the American farmer on that
issue. He asserted that the impres
sion which had gone abroad that rec
iprocity with the Dominion would in
jure the farmer was entirely without
foundation, and by statistics and ar
gument he sought to lend actual prool
to his assertions.
Mr. Taft said without reservation
that the reciprocity agreement with
Canada would be a benefit rather than
a detriment to the agricultural inter
ests of this coutnry. He said he stat
ed this in answer to criticism which
had been directed against the meas
ure presumably on the part of the
farmer.
Tlie president said the greatest
reason for the adoption of the agree
inent is the fact that it is going to
two countries with kindred peo
ple, and lying together across a wide
continent, in a commercial and social
union to the great advantage of both.
"Such a result," added the presi
dent, "does not need to be justified
by a nice balancing of a pecuniary
profit to each."
Mr. Tafts address was delivered
at the National Corn exposition In
the auditorium at the state fair
grounds.
BITTER btuiIUNAL DEBATE.
Diefranchisement Laws of South At
tacked by Senator Root.
Washington.—A bitter sectional de
bate occurred in the senate between
Senator Root of New York and. Sen
ator Bacon of Georgia, growing out of
the popular election of senators’ reso
lution, in which Mr. Hoot attacked
the South for its disfranchisement
laws anil crimes of lawlessness, peon
age and lynching that have occurred
within its borders and threatened
that should the time come when the
negro needed protection the Federal
government would intervene to en
force the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments.
Senator Bacon came to the defense
of the South in a spirit of passionate
loyalty.
Senators crowded into the chamber
and spectators in the gallery leaned
forward in tense expectancy.
Tlie charges of the senator from
New York were met with the counter
charge by the senator from Georgia
that more lawlessness and crime was
committed in New York’s east side
than in the entire South and that one
of the most horrible lynchings that
ever occurred was perpetrated in the
state of Now York.
The specific case which became the
casus belli between the two distin
guished representatives of New York
and Georgia was the Sutherland
amendment, which gives to,congress
control over the time, place and man
ner of choosing United States sena
tors.
To Rec. a consular Service.
Washington.—The senate bill pro
viding for the reorganization of the
consular service was passed by the
senate. The bill creates ten consular
offices and abolishes eighteen.
Womu. oouie Mayor.
Seattle, Wash —Hiram C. Gill, elect
ed mayor of Seattle a year ago, was
ousted from office by the voters par
ticipating in the recall election, and
George W. Billing, Public Welfare
league candidate, was chosen, by a
plurality of 6,000 votes, to serve as
mayor during the remainder of the
term of Mayor Gill. Eight months
after he was elected the women of
the state were enfranchised, and to
this fact is due the decisive victory.
Gill was charged with protecting im
morality.
Markham Heads Georgia Central.
Savannah, Ga. —Charles H. Mark
ham of Chicago, president of the Illi
nois Central railway, was elected
president of the Central of Georgia
and of the Ocean Steamship compa
ny, succeeding the late J. F. Han
son. The election was held at a
meeting of the directors of the two
railroad eompaneis, which are con
trolled by the same interests. The
executive offices* of the Central of
Georgia railway and the Ocean Steam
ship company of Savannah will be re
moved to Chicago.
PASSE
WAR CLAIMS BILL PASSED
CLAIMS FOR $10,000,000 FOR PROP
ERTY CAPTURED DURING THE
CIVIL WAR MAY BE PAID.
Cotton Tax of $68,000,000 Collected
During War May Be
Repaid.
Washington.—The house adopted an
amendment to the codification bill,
which, if ratified by the senate, and
approved by the president, will ex
tend the provisions of the captured
and abandoned property act of March
12, 1863, and permit claims to be
brought for some $10,000,000 collect
ed under that act which still re
mains in the Federal treasury.
Not only are the provisions of the
act bf 1863, formerly limited in its
operations to two years, made to ap
ply to suits which may hereafter be
brought in the court of claims, but
the former requirement that he claim
ant must prove ’’loyalty" is stricken.
Representative Bartlett in his state
ment to the house said that proceeds
from the sale of captured cotton,
amounting to $4,695,000 and from oth
er property to the value of $5,000,-
000 converted into the treasury un
der this act, remain on deposit He
argued that this money should be dis
bursed to the original claimants or
their descendants.
Under the act of 13G3, Known as the
captured and abandoned property acts
and other acts amendatory thereof,
the secretary of the treasury was au
thorized to appoint special agents to
collect captured and abandoned prop
erty in the Southern states. The pro
ceeds from the sale of this property,
amounting to some $30,000,000, was
turned into the treasury and treated
as a trust fund. Subsequently there
was paid into thd treasury under a
joint resolution of similar import ap
proved March 30, 1868, the sum of
$20,971.90. There have been paid out
of tills latter sum $10,943,439, leaving
ftill in the treasury and undisposed
of $10,028,351.
Congress has never authorized pay
ment for any property destroyed dur
ing the Civil war
During the consideration of this
gested that the Democrats of the
house might just as well bring in an
amendment, Mr. Mann of Illinois sug
gested that the Democrat sof the
l'ous emight just as well bring in an
amendment to the amendment provid
ing for the repayment of the cotton
tax, amounting to something like SGB,-
000,000. Mr. Clark of Florida declared
he proposed to offer such an amend
ment at the preper time.
Having succeeded last week in strik
ing the words, “war of the rebellion, ’
from one section of the Mann bill for
the codification of laws relating to the
judiciary and substituting the word,
“Civil war,” Southern members of the
house of representatives amplified
that work by striking out the objec
tionable word, “rebellion,’’ in several
other chapters, and changing the lan
guage either to “Civil war” or “to the
forces and government of the Confed
erate states,’’ as proper reading of the
measure required.
Reciprocity or Extra Session.
Washington.—President Taft has
decided to call an extra session in
the event action is not secured at
the present session on the adminis
tration measures which he is urging
upon congress, chiefly the bill for a
permanent tariff board and the Cana
dian reciprocity pact. The president
feels that he has struck a popular
chord in the Canadian agreement, and
since popular hits have been rare
during the present administration, he
proposes to make the most of it. Most
members or-nose an extra session.
Two l-rencn Aviators Killed.
Douai, France.—Two more names
were added to the death roll of the
aeroplane. The aviators Noel and
Deletorre were killed while conduct
icg a trial of a military aeroplane
before the experts from the war de
partment, previous to its delivery to
the army. Noel was the pilot and
Deletorre a passenger. The aviators
were planing down rrom a height of
about 250 feet when suddenly the
wings folded up and the machine fell
headlong to the earth. Two men
were taken out dead.
ALABAMA HOUSE PASSES
BILL EOR LOCAL OPTION
legislature turns from the
STATE WIDE LAW AND VOTES
TO RETURN THE SALOONS*
PROHIBITIONISTS DEFEATED
House Passes Parks Bill and Senate
and Governor are Strong
for Measure.
Montgomery, Ala. —The Parks local
option bill, which virtually end 3 pro
hibition in this state, passed the low
er house of the Alabama legislature
by a vote of 58 to 45. The fight on
the bill marked one of the most spec
tacular struggles that has ever been
witnessed at the state capitol, con
tinuing uninterruptedly for more than
five {Tours.
The bill provides that on applica
tion of 45 per cent, of the qualified
voters in any county in the state an
election may be held for the purpose
of determining whether or not liquor
may be sold and under what condi
tions.
The fight against the hill was led
by Speaker Almon, who introduced
his dispensary bill as a substitute to
the Parks measure, and H. P. Mer
ritt of Macon county, one of the lead
ers in the recent amendment fight to
incorporate the prohibition laws, in
the state constitution.
The bill, as passed, carries with it
no regulation. Bills providing for reg
ulation are in the hands of the tem
perance committee and will be report
ed within a few days.
HIGHER MAGAZINE POSTAGE.
Four Cents a Pound for Advertising
in Periodicals.
Washington.—Magazine publishers
will have to pay a rate of 4 cents
a pound on the advertising sections
of periodicals carried as second class
mail if an amendment to the postof
fice appropriation bill adopted by the
senate committee on postoffices and
post roads is accepted by both of the
branches of congress.
The action of the committee was
not accomplished without a spirited
contest, although the amendment was
adopted by a vote of 8 to 2.
The increase in the rate for carry
ing the advertising sections of maga
zines will apply only to the large pub
lications, as an exception is provided
for such periodicals of less than 4,000
pounds weight per issue. The privi
lege of carrying advertising matter
will be accorded by the amendment
to fraternal, patriotic, scientific and
educational publications, which privi
lege heretofore has been denied to
such publications when entered as
second class matter.
It is estimated by Postmaster Gen
eral Hitchcock, who framed the
amendment as it was adopted, that its
operation would reduce the annual
postoffice deficit $5,000,000 to $6,000,-
000.
433 CONGRESSMEN.
House Passes the Crumpacker Re-
Apportionment Bill.
Washington.—The Democrats of the
house combined with the Republican
representatives from those states
whose representatives in congress
would have been reduced by holding
the house to its present membership
and passed the Crumpacker reappor
tionment bill providing for a house
membership of 433.
If Arizona and New Mexico should
'te admitted to statehood they will be
given one representative each, bring
ing the total to 435.
This action of the house must be
ratified by the senate. The nouse
leaders believe the senate will follow
the wishes of the lower branch.
Under the new reapportionment
plan, no state loses a member. The
following states gain the number in
dicated:
Alabama 1, California 3, Colorado
3, Florida 1, Georgia 1, Idaho 1, Illi
nois 1, Louisiana 1, Massachusetts
2, Michigan 1, Minnesota 1, Montana
1, New Jersey 2, New York 6, North
Dakota 1, Ohio 1, Oklahoma 3, Oregon
1, Pennsylvania 4, Rhode Island 1,
South Dakota 1, Texas 2, Utah 1,
Washington 2, West Virginia 1.
Half Billion Cotton Exports.
Washington.—Cotton exports reach
ed high-water mark last year. While
the number of bales exported was not
so high as in some past years, the
returns were very much more satisfy
ing, $531,000,000 being the value of
the raw product sent to foreign lands.
This was $62,000,000 better than the
total price received in 1909. Our best
customer for cotton is the United
Kingdom, which took $243,000,000, and
next comes Germany whose purchases
aggregated $140,000,000; Japan took
$9,500,000.
Congress Protects Soldiers.
Washington.—The senate agrees
with the house that wearers of the
uniforms of soldiers or sailors of the
United States should be protected
from discrimination by managers of
places of entertainment. The bill as
it passed the house imposed a fine of
SI,OOO and a penalty of two years
imprisonment for such offense against
members of the army, navy or marine
corps. The senate passed the bill,
but so amended it as to make the
fine SSOO and to remove the imprison
ment feature.
DYSPEPSIA
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Tuition with partial set of tools. 130. If inter
ested in the Barber Trade, write Soothers
Barber College, 131 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga*
RUBBER STAMPS
Seals. Stencils and Supplies. Stock Cer-
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Bennett Rubber Stamp & Seal Co.
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Why Buy Carbon and Typewriter Ribbons
in the North and East when we make them right herein
Atlanta? Oirethe Southern Manufacturer & chance
every time. Why not? Samples and prices cheer
fully furnished upon application. ATLANTA
t’AKBON MFU. CO., Atlanta, Georgia.
Policy.
He —Darling I would die for you.
She—Dearest, do you carry much
insurance?
For COLDS and GRIP
Hicks’ Capcdisz is the best remedy—re
lieves the aehinjr ami feverishness—cures the
Cold and restores normal conditions. It’s
liquid —effects immediately. 10c., 26c., and 50c.
At urug stores.
The man in the church with the
roving eyes looking over the bulbous
nose is pretty sure to be strong on
the doctrines.
Many Children Are Sickly.
Mother (Tray's Sweet Powders for children
break up colds in 34 hours, relieve feverish
ness. headache, stomach troubles, teething
disorders, move and regulate the bowels, ana
destroy worms. They are so pleasant to take
children like them. Used by mothers for 23
years. At all druggists, 25c. Sample mailed
FREE. Address, A. S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y.
Cause Enough.
“What's the bearded lady so mail'
about?" inquired the armless won
der.
“Somebody sent her a catalogue of
a safety razor factory,” said the living
skeleton. —Chicago Tribune.
The Chief Need.
A pale, intellectual-looking chap,
wearing eyeglasses and unshorn hair,
visited Tom Volk, the athletic In- t
structor, not long ago and asked oues- .
lions until the diplomatic athlete fin- '
ally became weary.
“If I take boxing and wrestling les
sons from you, will It require any par
ticular application?” he asked.
“No,” answered Volk, “but a little
arnica will come in handy.”—Cleve
land Leader.
Granite of the South.
When one speaks of granite the
mind naturally reverts to Vermont. It
is difficult to associate granite with
any section of North America outside
New England, yet it must now be ac
knowledged to the credit of the South
that Georgia, North Carolina, Mary
land and Virginia are producing large
quantities of stone of good quality
which insures the South a place in
the market, at any rate.
The annual output is now worth
about $3,500,000 and the industry is
growing. It may be of comparative
interest to know that New England’s
output is about $9,000,000 worth of
stone annually.
HEREDITY
Can Be Overcome in Cases.
The influence of heredity cannot, of
course, be successfully disputed, but
it can be minimized or entirely over
come in some cases by correct food
and drink. A Conn, lady says:
“For years while I was a coffee
drinker I suffered from bilious at
tacks of great severity, from which I
used to emerge as white as a ghost
and very weak. Our family physi
cian gave me various prescriptions for
improving the digestion and stimulat
ing the liver, which I tried faithfully
but without perceptible result.
“He was acquainted with my fam
ily history for several generations
back, and once when I visited him he
said; ‘lf you have inherited one of
those torpid livers you may always
suffer more or less from its inaction.
We can’t dodge our inheritance, you
know.’
“I was not so strong a believer in
heredity as he was, however, and, be
ginning to think for myself, I conclud
ed to stop drinking coffee, and see
what effect that would have. I feared
it would be a severe trial to give it
up, but when I took Postum and had
it well made, It completely filled my
need for a hot beverage and I grew
very fond of It.
“I have used Postum for three years,
using no medicine. During all that
time I have had absolutely none of
the bilious attacks that I used to suf
fer from, and I have been entirely
free from the pain and debilitating ef
fects that used to result from them.
“The change is surely very great,
and I am compelled to give Poblum .
the exclusive credit for it.” Name i
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, 3
Mich. X
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Ever read tbe above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
Interest.