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THE JOURNAL
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
COCHRAN. GA.
Sunburn is free and practically un
limited.
Has anyone sighed lately for an old
fashioned hot summer?
There was a time when people had
no electric far.z to cool them off.
Argentine tobacco Is used to kill In
sects and make campaign cigars.
Philadelphia Is acting like a base
ball team that really wants to win the
pennant.
Heidelberg has seen a new comet,
but no one can revive a Halley sensa
tion and situation.
This is a tiny world, but somebody
has time to practice on the piano
every afternoon.
Pittsburg has discovered a comet,
though it would have preferred to dis
cover an Ice wagon.
No scientist has recently had the
temerity to assert publicly that the
sun is growing cooler.
Flies may be scarce this year, but
they won't be if you don’t swat the
few that have arrived.
At $25 per flight aeroplaning is still
a long way from being a cornmob and
popular outdoor sport.
A magistrate declares that soup is
not a weapon but an edible. In some
restaurants it Is an audible.
England’s new war balloon, the May
fly, is living up to its name. Some
day it may fly. Who knows?
Look on the bright side, dear chil
dren. The Saturday rain that spoils
your picnic may save a corn crop.
New York has decreed that cold
storage eggs must not be over ten
months old when offered to consum
ers.
Never too old to learn is the motto
of the New Yoris man who has com
menced to smoke at the age of ninety
five.
Evidently the Chicago bride who
claims she gets forty kisses a day is
not afraid of the microbe that lies
therein.
Boston’s official dog catchers ate
wealthy men, which is almost enough
to rub the scales off the codfish aris
tocracy.
We are thoroughly In accord with
the Philadelphia Physician who ad
vises us not to overwork. Likewise,
the physician is a thorough Philadel
phian.
English is no longer to be taugnt
In the Cuban public schools. The fear
seems to be that it means the substitu
tion of baseball Instead of bull
fights.
It makes a man peevtsh after he has
walked a block out of his way on a
hot day to look at an imposing ther
mometer if the mercury registers
only 93.
A Chicago man weighing 38 pounds
has married a girl four times his
weight. We suspect that he will have
a hard time posing as the head of the
household.
Mr. Coghlin of Boston predicts that
men's attire will shift toward femi
nine lines while women's will become
more masculine. What will be re
quired to develop® a new brand of
courage?
A St. Louis man "pleads for a more
religious daily press,” but the world’s
greatest need is a more religious daily
religion.
A New York beggar carrying a
sign "I Need Bread" was found to
have $64 in his clothes, but that was
only dough.
A woman who has inherited $2,000,-
000 resolves to stay upon her farm.
After awhile she will come to the city
for real seclusion.
Possibly the most astonishing thing
about the sale of a counterfeit pic
ture for $26,000 is the fact that the
purchaser was not an Amercan.
A New York Judge ruled that a man
is boss in his own household. Far be
it from us to pry Into domestic af
fairs, but we wonder what his wife
said to him when he got home.
A North Dakota man claims to have
been cured of paralysis by a stroke
of lightning. Paralytics will now join
the throng who never know where
lightning is going to strike next
A convert to simplified spelling
says its use will contribute to the
social uplift. It is difficult to see
where this applies unless It be that
the poor speller will be saved the
necessity of profanity under the
spell-ag-spell-can method.
Every aviation race now has Its
baptism of blood. Ambition and en
terpriae in the conquest of the air
have fcrown reckless, and Us trage
dies are beginning to shock the clvi
lized world into a protest against this
sacrifice of life.
ARKANSAS’ CHOICE
FOR PRESIDENCY
PRIMARY ELECTION WILL BE
HELD TO DETERMINE STATE’S
PRESIDENTIAL CHOICE.
LIVELY CAMPAIGN PROMISED
Unique Plan of Arkansas Democrats
Meeting With Approval of the
Candidates.
Little Rock, Ark. —In all probability
the Democrats of Arkansas will de
termine the state’s choice for the
presidential nomination at a primary
election. This unique plan, originat
ing with the Woodrow Wilson club,
has been tndorsed by the supporters
of others mentioned in connection
with the nomination, and members of
the state executive committee have
expressed themselves as favorable to
the proposal. If the plan works Out,
Arkansas will be the first state to
adopt the method. Heretofore, as in
other states, the state convention has
made the selection.
Although party primaries will not be
held until March 4 of next year, fac
tional leaders are organizing their
forces and a spirited campaign is in
prospect.
The Woodrow Wilson club has been
in existence for several wOeks, and
now those who espouse the cause of
Governor Harmon of Ohio announce
their organization ready to be launch
ed. From Governor Wilson a mes
sage has been received stating that
the endorsement of Arkansas would
he gratifying. ,
Guy B. Tucker, Democratic nation
al committeeman, however, does not
sanction the presidential primary
COL ROOSEVELT TESTIFIES
Former President Says He Permitted
Steel Trust Merger.
New York. —Theodore Roosevelt
stalked boldly before the house of rep
resentatives committee of inquiry into
the United States Steel corporation
here and voluntarily told how his ac
tion in consenting to the absorption
of the Tennessee Coal and Iron com
pany by the Steel corporation in 1907
averted a disastrous panic.
The former chief executive’s action
in submitting to a congressional re
view of acts of his own administra
tion was almost unprecedented in the
history of the United States and was
thoroughly Rooseveltian. He arrived
unheralded at the city hall, vigorous
ly shook hands with members of the
committee, declared himself delighted
to see everybody and got down to
business.
First and foremost he placed upon
himself responsibility for approving
the absorption to save a perilous finan
cial disaster in Wall street and con
demned any man who would be so
weak as not to act as he dl din that
crisis. Not to have done as he did,
he said, would have been criminal.
Probably nothing in the vigorous life
history of Theodore Roosevelt was
more dramatic than his public appear
ance at the crisis of the investigation
of the transaction which has been re
corded in a hundred pages of congres
sional inquiry.
The chapter he contributed not only
dealt with his part in the momentous
events of that threatening time, hut
he gave the corrimittee some interest
ing opinions on the trust question that
loomed up in their import even more
than his recital of facts in the Ten
nessee Coal and Iron transaction. Af
ter declaring that his object in ap
proving the sale of the Tennessee
company was to restore confidence,
the former president, in response to
inquiries by Representative Littleton,
relating to the case as presented to
him by Judge Gary and H. C. Frick
at the memorable white house confer
ence in November, 1907, said:
"The situation was so critical that
it was liable to break at any moment
until the action was taken and the in
stant it was taken an enormous im
provement occurred and as said in the
poem of Mr. Emerson, with which you
are all so well acquainted:
“ ‘if the red slayer thinks se slays,
Or If the slain think lie is slain it
matters not.’ ”
Peace Treaties Given Publicity.
Washington.—The senate adopted
the rather unusual, but not unprece
dented, course of making public the
text of four treaties which have not
yet received action at its hands These
were the Anglo-American and the
Franco-American general arbitration
treaties and the treaties providing for
the adjustment of the finances and
customs of Honduras and Nicaragua.
Publicity was given to these import
ant conventions at the request of the
administration.
Togo Visits Washington’s Tomb.
Washington.—Reverently and with a
brief invocation in Japanese, Admiral
Count Togo placed a wreath of roses
on the tomb of Washington at Mount
Vernon. A group of a dozen, among
whom were the Japanese ambassador,
acting Secretary of the Navy Win
throp and five rear admirals of the
United States navy, watched the di
minutive oriental enter the mausoleum
and stand silently at salute. He spoke
softly for a moment and. then set down
the wreath.
THE CITY COUSIN
(Copyright. 191 J. >
FREE LIST BILL PASSED
House Measure Beaten by Tie Vote,
and Compromise Is Put
Through.
Washington.—The farmers’ free
list bill as it came from the Demo
tratic house of representatives failed
of passage in the senate by a tie
vote of 39 to 39. Senator Bailey of
Texas was the only Democrat who
voted against it. Had another Dem
ocrat been present and voted the
house bill would have carried and
been sent to President Taft. It will
now go to conference.
In order to secure enough Insurg
ent Republican votes to pass the bill
the Democrats were forced to support
an' amendment which in effect strikes
from the house bill meats of all kinds,
lard, flour, cereals, breakfast foods
and sweet cakes. As thus amendad,
the measure was passed by a vote of
48 to 30. In addition to the solid In
surgent vote with the single excep
tion of Senator Bourne of Oregon,
the bill as amended was supported
by Senators Nelson of Minnesota and
McCumber of North Dakota.
VARDAMAN BEATS PERCY
James K. Vardaman Will Be Next
Senator From Mississippi.
Jackson, Miss.—That former Gov.
James K. Vardaman has been ehoSan
the Democratic nominee for United
States senator—equivalent to election
—is conceded by both of his oppon
ents in primary, United States Sena
tor Leroy Percy and C. H. Alexander.
In the race for lieutenant governor,
the returns indicate that State Sena
tor Theodore Bilbo has polled equal-
DEFEATED BY VARDAMAN.
LEROY PERCY
United States Senator From Missis
sippi.
ly as large vote as Mr. Vardaman and
his nomination without the necessity
of a second primary Is regarded as as
sured.
At Vardanian’s headquarters it fs
estimated that he will have in excess
of ten thousand votes over the com
bined vote of his two opponents. Mr.
Bilbo makes claim > to an even great
er majority. The returns revised give
Alexander a slight lead over Senator
Percy.
Dorothy Arnold Not Dead.
New York.—“ Dorothy Arnold is not
dead. She is abroad and her parents
have gone there to look for her. That
is all that can be said now.” Miss
Griffith, companion to Mrs. Rufus W.
Peckham, Dorothy’s aunt, is quoted to
this effect in a dispatch to the World
from Biddeford Pool, Maine. “Miss
Arnold w T as heard from some weeks
ago—yes, months ago—in an indirect,
I might say, in a very indirect man
ner, but she is safe and will return
to her parents.”
Revolution in Cuba.
Havana, Cuba—An uprising against
the government, apparently of a se
rious character, occurred at Regia, a
suburb of Havana, when General Ace
vado, a Revolutionary veteran with
eight or ten companies, armed and
mounted, took the field. Before leav
ing Regia Acevado issued a manifesto
denouncing the administration of
President Gomez as scandalous and
corrupt and calling on all patriotic
Cubans to rise .and overthrow It. Ace
vado has about 1,000 followers.
COTTON CONDITION 89.1
COMPARED WITH C 3.2 LAST
MONTH, 75.5 LAST YEAR AND
79.4 10-YEAR AVERAGE.
The Condition of Cotton Crop in July
Is the Best in
Years.
Washington.—Tie condition of the
growing cotton crop of the United
States on July 25 was 89.1 per cent,
of a normal, compared with 88.2 per
cent, on June 25, 1911; 75.5 per cent,
on July 25, last year; 71.9 per cent. In
1909 and 79.4 per cent., the average of
the past ten years on July 25, accord
ing to the reports Qf the United States
department of ajjricutlure’s agents to
the crop reporting board.
Comparison of conditions by states
follows:
Ten-
States. 1911 1910 Year. Av
Virginia . . , .102 80 81
North Carolina 9 87 71 79
South Carolina . 8G 70 78
Georgia. ... 95 70 80
Florida. ... 95 70 82
Alabama. ... 94 71 79
Mississippi . . . 86- 71 79
Louisiana ... 84 69 78
Texas 86 82 79
Arkansas. ... 94 73 79
Tennessee ... 92 76 82
Missouri .... 96 72 S 3
Oklahoma. ... 88 87 81
California ... 90 98
UNDERWOOD SCORES BRYAN
Democratic Leader Denounces Bryan
on Floor of House.
Washington.—Standing upon chairs,
waving handkerchiefs and yelling at
the tops of their voices, Democratic
representatives acclaimed Representa
tive Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama,
Democratic leader of the house, when
he fired a verbal broadside at Wil
liam Jennings Bryan for criticising his
position on extension of the tariff re
vision program. It was the most re
markable scene in the house since the
beginning of the extra session of con
gress.
Excoriating the three-times candi
date of the Democratic party for pres
idential honors, Leader Underwood de
nounced Mr. Bryan’s statements as
false, defended his (Underwood’s) at
titude as to revision of the iron and
steel tariff schedules and said Bryan
had placed upon every Democratic
member implications unfounded in
fact. He called on his Democratic
colleagues of the ways and means
committee for corroboration of his at
titude in committee and in caucus.
Chicago.—Voluntarily assuming full
responsibility for the editorial recent
ly published in his weekly paper,
which caused Congressman Under
wood of Alabamae to brand him as
"falsifier” on the floor of congress,
William Jennings Bryan replied to the
attack and declared that he intended
to give the Democratic leader of the
house a nearly opportunity to discuss
some other things.
Glidden Tour Coming South.
New York City.—The Glidden auto
mobile tour of 1911, originally planned
to be run from Washington to Mon
treal by the way of New England
points last June, will be run to the
South, instead, according to announce
ment. The tour will be run in Octo
ber over the route of the national
highway, extending from New- York to
Jacksonville, Fla., by the way of At
lanta. The Glidden tour is the great
est road event known to the automo
bile world.
Marine Band May Tour South.
Washington. Seven Southern
senators asked President Taft to send
the United States marine band on a
six weeks’ tour of the South, begin
ning September 5. The president was
so favorably Impressed with the re
quest of the senators that he wrote
Acting Secretary of the Na»y Win
thro'p, s'aying “I have no objection t(
this If you have not. It is not a bad
idea to familiarize the Southern peo
pie with so admirable a body as the
marine band.”
SPY IN U. II
PRIVATE GEORGE PETERS BE
TRAYED BY MISS CLARA A.
DYER, HIS SWEETHEART.
INVESTIGATING “DUNNITE”
Believed Austria Is Investigating
‘“Dunnite,” New Explosive of the
United States Army.
Washington.—For the first time in
many years the war department is
perturbed over the case of an alleged
spy in the army.
Capt. James Wilscn, the army re
curiting officer at Indianapolis, has ad
vised the department that he . holds
affidavits accusing Private George Pe
ters of being an Austrian secret agent,
and the department is working on
the charges to determine a course of
action.
This is the first ease coming under
the law passed at tne last session of
congress to prevent the disclosure of
national defense secrets. This act is
very broad in its provisions and ap
plicable to all attempts to secure mil
itary information improperly. Any
one who endeavors to procure such
data can be fined SI,OOO or imprisoned
for one year, or both. If an attempt
Is made to communicate any secrets of
defense to a foreign government the
manimum punishment is imprison
ment for ten years.
It Is not believed the charges, if
well founded, indicate that the Aus
trian government, even remotely, con
templates future hostilities with Amer
ica. The probable object of the al
leged spy was to discover for his gov
ernment the composition of the re
markable high explosive “dunnite,”
used in army and navy shells and
said to be far superior to any foreign
explosive.
One of the papers in possession of
Captain Watson is an affidavit of Miss
Clara A. Dyer, who had previously in
quired about obtaining Peters release
from the navy. She said Peters was
stationed at Fort Trotton, N. Y., in
the 135th company, coast artillery
corps, and that he was an Austrian
spy sent to the United States to ob
tain the secrets of manufacturing the
powerful explosive used by the Unit
ed States government.
Miss Dyer claims she met Peters on
an ocean liner en route from Europe
last September and later during a vis
it of Peterg to her home at Philpot,
Ky., had become engaged to him. The
girl turned over a number of letters
from Peters, in which he told of his
plans. Peters’ real name, she says, is
Count Windisch-Gractz, whose home
is at Prague, Bohemia.
Fort Totten, N. Y. —The command
ant at Fort Totten said that he had
received no information regarding Pri
vate George Peters of the 135th coast
artillery, whom Miss Clara Anita Dyer
of Indianapolis is said to have accus
ed of being a spy in the employ of
the Austrian government.
Peters has been stationed here a
year and a half. He is said to be one
of the best soldiers at Fort Totten.
Before coming here he served three
years in the cavalry, the greater part
of the time in the Philippines. The
commandant said he believed there
had been some mistake. In the ab
sence of official information, he added,
no action in Peters' case had been
taken.
TAFT TALKS FOR PEACE
President Asks People’s Support of
Arbitration Treaties.
Mountain Lake Park, Md. —Presi-
dent Taft traveled 400 miles through
Maryland # and West Virginia by spe
cial train to appeal to the people of
the United States to use their moral
influence to have the senate ratify the
British and French arbitration treaties
and the treaties with Nicaragua and
Honduras. His appeal ws made di
rect to the Mountain Lake Park Chau
tauqua of the Methodist Episcopal
church, but in it the president includ
ed the rest of the nation as well.
“I observe,” said the president, “that
there is some suggestion that by rati
fying this treaty, the senate may in
in some way abdicate its function of
treaty-making. I confess myself un
able to perceive the substance in such
a point.”
Tariff Questions Bring Deadlock.
Washington. Senator LaFollette,
leader of the Progressive Republicans,
and Chairman Underwood of the ways
and means committee of the bouse,
who have undertaken to reconcile the
differences between the senate and the
house on the wool and the farmers’
free list hills for the full conference
committee, are in an unquestioned
deadlock, with the possibility of re
maining so, and thus forcing an ad
journment of the session without final
action on either of these measures
Scheme to Settle Carolina Hills.
Chicago.—Prof. Henry J. Cox, the
weather forecaster here, returned from
a survey of the North Carolina fruit
belt. He brought word of a new
scheme promulgated by the weather
bureau to help settle the North Car
olina mountain slopes. The main pur
pose of the survey made by Profes
sor Cox was to designate sites for the
location of weather forecasting sta
tions to warn fruit growers of the
mountainous section of the periodic
frosts which occur there.
THE LONG BOW.
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Sharpe—Wilson says he stayed un
der water one day last summer for
fifteen minutes.
Wise —Why, he must be amphibi
ous.
Sharpe—No; he's a— well, I
wouldn’t like to say.
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
Infants and children, and see that it
a—
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry foT Fletcher’s Castoria
The Honest Man.
Diogenes was searching for an hon
est man.
“He will advertise that his summer
resort has mosquitoes,” explained the
sage.
The Ground of Their Love.
“Let us have peace," said the Eng
lish invader. “Can you not see that
the white strangers love the redmen?”
“Ah, yes,” replied the intelligent In
dian, "they love the very ground we
walk upon.”—Sacred Heart Review.
Leaving Him at Sea.
“Could you do something for a poor
old sailor?” asked the seedy-looking
wanderer at the gate.
“Poor old sailor,” echoed the lady
at work at the tub.
“Yes'm, I follered the wotter for 16
years."
“Well,” said the woman, after a
critical look, “you certainly don’t look
as if you ever caught up with it.”
Then she resumed her labors.
Merely a Temporary Disadvantage.
The widow had just announced her
engagement.
“But, my dear Maria," said her
friend, "you don’t mean to tell me
that you intend marrying a man
you've only known for two weeks?”
“Oh, yes,” said the happy widow. “I
can easily overcome that objection in
time. I hope to know him tolerably
well after we have been married a
couple of years.”—Harper’s Weekly.
Distressing.
“Here Is the account of a poor wo
man who lost both arms In a railroad
wreck.”
"It must be dreadful to go through
life without any arms."
“Yes, indeed. And much worse for
a woman than for a man.”
“How is that?”
‘‘Well, a woman without any arms
can’t'reach around to feel If the back
of her collar and the back of her belt
are all right.”
Baffling the Mosquito.
Last summer we were pestered with
the awful nuisance, mosquitoes, night
after night, and on one occasion
killed between thirty and forty in our
bedroom, at midnight. The following
day I took a woolen cloth, put a little
kerosene oil on it, and rubbed both
sides of the wire mesh of the screens
wdth it. That night one lonely mos
quito disturbed our rest. Two or
three times each week I rubbed the
screens in like manner, and we en
joyed peace the rest of the summer.
The odor from the oil remains only a
few minutes, and the oil itself pre
serves the screens and keeps away
flies. —Good Housekeeping Magazine.
“That’s
Good”
Is often said of
Post
Toasties
when eaten with cream or
rich milk and a sprinkle of
sugar if desired.
That’s the cue for house
keepers who want to please
the whole family.
Post Toasties are ready
to serve direct from the
package—
Convenient
Economical
Delicious
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