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THE JOURNAL
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
UOHKKAN. GA
Like beauty, crowa/eet are only
■kin deep.
One aura way to get warm weather;
■tart your furnace fire now.
Why doesn’t Doe Wiley dertee a
way to bare all toadstools labeled?
Stealing pictures from French gal
leries seems to be easier than work
ing.
A doctor says that large hats are
Injurious. So are big heads, for that
matter.
Another war cloud looms! Uncle
Sam Is threatening to annihilate the
squirrels
One aviator landed on a barb wire
fence, but be didn’t do it as graoe
fuily as a bird.
How easy It Is to exaggerate. You
often bear people say that they were
"tickled to death.”
Burglars and robbers seem to be
cultivating artistic Ideals. They nev
er steal a poor picture.
A Kansas City judge baa decided
that a woman has the right to scold
her husband O wise judge!
Slxtytbree aviators have been kill
ed this year, and there are still a few
weeks of good flying weather loft
Thomas A. Edison says that Ameri
cans sleep too much. Perhaps that
is why he Invented the phonograph.
"Only actors and poets really live,"
says a noted Parlslenne. But why
overlook the coal dealer at this time
of year?
An eastern woman says that Ameri
can husbands are bores. Still they
make perfectly lovely waist hookers,
don’t they?
Professor Lowell has found a new
canal 1,000 miles long on Mars. Here’s
an opportunity for another canal jun
keting trip.
Germany Is Importing mules. This
would please Missouri, except that
Oermuny Is Importing Its mules from
South America.
When thought photography is per
fected It may be possible to discover
what a politician thinks. All we know
now Is what he says.
Yaqul Indians used bullets of gold
during the late Mexican war. In which
case we presume some of the war
riors died at a profit.
* Death has Just takon the man who
Invented Freuch heels for women’s
shoes. It Is to be hoped that he did
not die unrepentant
The University of Pennsylvania has
established a course In play writing.
The result can't be any worse than
what we are getting now.
to bog. It will make your
husband respect you," says a lady who
has been married fo. * short time. A
better way la to learu ui cook.
Newly manufactured lumber Is said
to he made of fifty-seven per cent
waste paper. Who can tell? Some
day your old love letters may appear
as’n board fence.
An eastern clergyman says that
wedding fees should be refused be
cause they are no more than a wait
er's tips Yes. they are. too. Eight
or nine dollars more.
One hundred Pennsylvania farmers
have gone to New York to ascertain
how the cost of living can be reduced.
They have gone to the wrong place.
In order to get even with Italy, Tur
key threatens to swoop down on
Greece Another case of the inno
cent bystander getting the worst of It.
A Californian claims to understand
the language of bears. His services
would be Invaluable In Wall street
during a sharp downward turn In the
market
"The New York police department
has been equipped with an up-to-date
burglar alarm." But why should any
burglar want to steal a New York po
liceman?
After he had made his first flight In
an aeroplane Postmaster General
Hitchcock said: “The time Is certain
ly coining when we must depend upon
the aeroplane for carrying the mall."
When that time comes will people
who are hit by the pouches that are
dropped from above be liable to get
Into trouble Tor obstructing the
malls?
A New Jersey magistrate arraigned
himself before himself for violation of
a town ordinance, pleaded guilty to
the charge and fined himself $5, which
sum he paid and was released by him
self. Some Spartan sense of duty Is
still left In this selfish world.
English school boys struck lately,
demanding, among other reforms, abo
lition of the cane. Tfie cane also
struck in turn, and the Incident has
become a closed but painful episode
In contemporary school history.
1,072 DELEGATES
FOR CONVENTIGN
INCREASE IN MEMBERSHIP OF
COMMITTEE THAT WILL NAME
G. O. P. CANDIDATE.
REAPPORTIONMENT IS CAUSE
There Were Only 980 Delegates In
the Last National Convention
Held in Chicago.
Washington.—The call for the Re
publican national convention, to be
isued by the national committee when
it meets in Washington, December 12,
will provide for 1,064 delegates, to be
Utcreased to 1,072 If Arizona and New
Mexico become states before the con
veation Is held.
The increase from 980 delegates,
which comprised the Chicago conven
tion of 1908, is the result of the re
apportlonment by congress which in
creases the size of the house of rep
resantatives from 391 to 433 members
or 435 with the two new states. A
table showing the apportionment of
tha delegates to the 1912 convention
has been prepared by Francis Curtis,
in charge here of the combined pub
licity headquarters of the Republican
national committee and the Republi
can congressional committee. This
arrangement is expected to be adopt
ed without change by the committee.
The distribution follows:
Alabama 24, Arkansas 18, Califor
nia 26, Colorado 12, Connecticut 14,
Delaware 6, Florida 12, Georgia 28,
Idaho 8, Illinois 58, Indiana 30, lowa
26, Kansas 20, Kentucky 26, Louisi
ana 20, Maine 12, Maryland 16, Mas
sachusetts 36, Michigan 30, Minnesota
24, Mississippi 20, Missouri 36, Mon
tana 8, Nebraska 16, Nevada 6, New
Hampshire 8, New Jersey 28, New
York 90, North Carolina 24, North
Dakota 10, Ohio 48, Oklahoma 20,
Oregon 10, Pennsylvania 76, Rhode
Island 10, South Carolina 18, South
Dakota 10, Tennessee 24, Texas 40,
Utah 8, Vermont 8, Virginia 24, Wash
ington 14, West Virginia 16, Wiscon
sin 26, Wyoming 6.
Territories (2 each)—-Alaska, Ari
zona, District of Columbia, Hawaii,
New Mexico, Philippines, Porto Rico.
The basis of delegates for the Re
publican convention is four at large in
each state and two for each congres
sional district.
JOSEPH PULITZER IS DEAD
Proprietor of New York World Passes
Away at Charleston, S. C,
Charleston, S. C. —Joseph Pulitzer,
proprietor of the New York World
and the St. Ix>uls Post-Dispatch, and
one of the most commanding figures
in modern journalism, died aboard
his yacht, the Liberty, in Charleston
harbor.
The Immediate cause of Mr. Pulit
zer’s death was heart failure. He had
been in ill health for several aays,
but until a few hours before the end,
uoue of th.osa around hip had any
suspicion of the gravity of .his condi
tion. * iifc,'. '' VV ■
For more than a ouartep of & ,G.a
tury Joseph. Pulitzer had been one of
the leading figures in American jour?
nallsmT Bornrn Hungary In 1847, and
educated there, he came to this coun
try in 1863, enlisted in the Union
army and served as a cavalryman un
til the end of the war, when he set
tled in St. Ixmls, which was for many
years the scene of his journalistic ac
tivities. His early newspaper train
ing was as a reporter and afterwards
city editor, managing editor and part
proprietor of the Westliche Post, ed
ited by Carl Schurz.
He bought the St. Ixniis Dispatch
in 1878 and united it with the Post
as the Post-Dispatch, which, under
the management, became in a few
yearß, one of the best-known and most
widely circulated journals of the sec
tion.
Mr. Pulitzer’s entry Into New York
jounjalism occurred in 18S3, when he
bought The World, then a paper of
small circulation. Its circulation and
prestige grew rapidly under his gener.
al direction.
Mr. Pulitzer’s sight began to fail In
in the late eighties, and after a time
he became blind. Ever since he had
been a partial Invalid,
Panic Among Manchus.
Pekin, China.—The situation In Pe
kin is becoming worse. A veritable
panic prevails among the Manchus
and the Manchu women are adopting
Chinese drees. Some of them are at
tempting to make their feet appear
small by peculiarly constructed shoes.
Most of the trains leaving the capital
are drawn by two engines, so heavily
are they loaded, the people sitting on
top of their household belongings. Of
ficials are seeking asylum for their
wives and children among the for
eigners.
Dared Niagara In Motor Boat.
Niagara Falls, N. Y.—CapL Klaus
Larsen of Detroit made his second
Niagara river trip in a motor boat
from the cataract to Lewiston. He
completed the six-mile trip through
the turbulent water in twenty-five
minutes, coming through without a
scratch. Larsen says he is through
with Niagara adventures, but. next
year will make a trip across the At
lantic In his boat the "Niagara.” The
rapids trip took hardly more than a
minute.
THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT BEFORE
(Coovrirht UH.»
REBELLIONS JIUWO LANDS
CHINESE AND MEXICAN REBELS
SUCCESSFUL IN DEFEATING
GOVERNMENT TROOPS.
Chinese Royal Family Is Preparing
to Flee From Pekin—Mexic Cap
ital Threatened.
Pekin, China.—Further defection to
the rebels, including Nan Chang, cap
ital of the province of Giang-Si, and
Kwei-Lin, capital of Kwang-Si, have
served to increase the tension here
of the revoluton.
It is commonly reported in Pekin
that the imperial family is ready for
flight. The road to Jehol, 115 miles
northeast of Pekin, is studded with
troops. Other rumors designate the
foreign settlements in Tien Tsin as
the possible refuge.
To add to the seriousness of the
situation, the Tsu-Cheng-Yuan, China’s
first national assembly, gave to the
Manchus what the legations consider
an ultimatum. The assembly im
peached Sheng-Hsuan-Hua, president
of the ministry of posts and commu
nications. and demanded his dismis
sal, with severe punishment.
Mexico City.—Shocked by the reali
zation that the forces of Emiliano
Zapatista had entered the Federal dis
trict, sacked a town and then stood
off a detachment of the Federal army,
the chamber of deputies demanded
that the acting minister of war and
the minister of the interior appear
before that body and render full re
ports regarding the insurrection and
the measures being taken for Its sup
pression. It was agreed to remain in
session until the ministers appeared,
and that should the head of the war
department fail to report before an
early time, to go to his in puo
lic protest.
TOBACCO TRU|T DISSOLVING
Plan is Opposed and Supported in the
, | : Heering.
New York.—Opponents and support
ers of the plan which the’ American
Tobacco company has mapped out for
disintegration both had their innings
in the United States circuit court
here. Counsel for the socalled inde
pendent tobacco manufacturers and
producers had filed their brief of ob
jections but a few hours, when a law
yer for a committee of the preferred
stockholders of the trust petitioned
the court to be heard in support of
the plan.
The attorney declared that he repre
sented owners of 458,000 shares of the
trusts’ preferred stock. The plan, he
said, not only would fairly and honest
ly dissolve the corporations, but would
safeguard the interests of stockhold
ers. Should the court grant his peti
tion, he will submit his conditions at
the public hearing October 30, or as
soon thereafter as practicable.
Counsel for the objectors in their
brief opposing the proposed dissolu
tion plan, after declaring that it does
not, in reality, dissolve the trust so
as to make competition among its
segments possible point out that the
plan contemplates leaving Intact the
United Cigar Stores company.
Cattle Ahead of Human Beings.
New York.—Cattle received more
attention than human beings in the
appropriations by the last NejjsflTork
state legislature according to a com
plaint of the state sanitary officers’
association embodied in a resolution
passed®at its annual convention here.
.The resolution deplores the action of
the legislature in appropriating lib
erally for the prevention of disease in
cattle while it cut to the bone appro
priations for the care of human beings
suffering from tuberculosis.
Glidden Tourist Killed.
Live Oak, Fla. —When less than 200
miles of road lay between them and
the end of a 1,400-mile tour from New
York to Jacksonville the first fatal
accident of the 1911 Glidden tour oc
curred three miles from Tifton, Ga.,
when S. M. Butler of New York, chair
man of the contest committee of the
American Automobile association, was
instantly killed, Driver Charles F. Kel
leman of Rochester, N. Y., was inter
nally injured, and Mr. and Mrs. P.
J. Walker of California received brok
en hones.
REBELS FIGHT WITH FIRE
Milpa Alta Completely Destroyed by
Zapatista's Followers —Thirty
Miles From Capital.
Mexico City.—The town of Milpa
Alta, in the federal district, and with
in thirty miles of the capital, was al
most totally destroyed by fire and dy
namite by Zapatistas, who fought
what appears to have been a drawn
battle with Federal troops lasting for
more than five hours on a mountain
road, a short distance from the ruined
town.
The insurrectos returned the fire of
the government troops shot for shot
and are said to be now occupying the
village of Nativas, only two miles
from Xochimllco. Fearing an attack,
the residents of the latter town, the
source of the capital’s water supply,
are in a state of terror.
The Zapatistas, who entered Milpa
Alta were a detachment of the insur
rectionary army which threatened to
attack Chalto, in the state of Mexico.
Finding this town better guarded than
it had been for some days, they made
a detour .wreaking their vengeance
upon the little town in the Federal
district, numbering some 7,000 inhabi
tants. Guarded by only eight police
men, absolutely no resistance was
made. Frightened by the attack, the
little municipal guard led the flight
which was joined in by a large num
ber of the residents.
A considerable portion of the peo
ple of Milpa Alta, however, as though
by previous agreement, took part in
the looting and burning. Throughout
the night the raides, whose number is
is estimated variously from 200 to 500,
continued their work of destruction,
applying the torch to the thatched
huts, hurling dynamite bombs into
the adobe buildings.
GRAIN CASES ARE DECIDED
Commerce Csurt Makes Ruling Fa
-1 vorable to Southern Cities.
Washington.—The commerce court
granted the petition of the railroads
in the Nashville grain cases by is
suing a temporary Injunction against
t?ie decision of the interstate com
merce commission, wherein it ordered
the roads not to grant reshipment
privileges on grain and hay at Nash
ville until similar privileges are grant
ed to Atlanta, Montgomery and other
Southern cities.
The commerce court’s injunction
was on the ground that the Nashville
commercial interests would sustain
greater injury by the sudden taking
away of the privilege of re-billing and
re-shipping of grain and hay than the
shippers at Atlanta, Columbus, Rome,
Athens, Macon, Albany and other
Georgia points would sustain by the
continuance of the Nashvile privi
lege. The commission had ordered
all railroads operating in the South
east to desist for two years beginning
November 1 from giving the Nashville
shippers these privileges not given
the- Georgia shippers. The case was
taken to the commerce court by the
Nashville grain exchange and board
of trade and by the Louisville and
Nashville and Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis railroads. The courts
will hear arguments before taking
final action.
\ Renounces Rank for Love.
Vienna. Archduke Ferdinand
Charles, nephew of Emperor Francis
Joseph, who recently renounced his
rank and all privileges as a member
of the imperial family, has married
in Switzerland the daughter of Hofrat
Czuber, a professor of engineering.
The archduke wished to renounce his
rank in 1903- to marry this young
woman, but the emperor refused per
mission. The marriage, however, is
now with his majesty’s consent and
he has granted his nephew an, annuity
of 40,000 crowns.
Savannah Receives 780,000 Bales.
Savannah, Ga. —The low price of
cotton does not seem to prevent the
rushing of the staple to port for ex
port, judging from the receipts of
cotton at Savannah this season. A
year ago Savannah celebrated the ar
rival of the first 500,000 bales of cot
ton at the port for the season of 1909
10. There had been recorded the ra
ceipt of 780,000 bales so far this sea
son, an increase compared to last
year of 280,000 hales. The outlqpk is
for very heavy exports.
REBELS VICTORIOUS
CHINESE THRONE GRANTS DE
MAND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL
GOVERNMENT.
EMPEROR ISSUES AN EDICT
Imperial Edict Says There Have -Been
Too Many Nobles in
Office.
Pekin, China. —The demand of the
national assembly for a complete con
stitutional government has been ac
ceded to by the throne. An Imperial
edict was issued apologizing for the
past neglect of the throne and grant
ing an immediate constitution with a
cabinet, from which nobles shall be ex
cluded. A second edict grants par
don to political offenders connected
with the revolution of 1898 and subse
quent revolutions and to those com
pelled to join in the present rebellion.
The throne promises to organize a
cabinet without nobles forthwith. The
Manchu prince, Shih Hau, president
of the assembly, is permitted to re
sign, the Chinese, Li Chia Chu, suc
ceeding him. The Manchu, Huai Chun,
minister of constabulary, has been re
moved and the Chinese, Chao Ping
Chun, supercedes him.
PLAN FOR HANDLING BILLS
English Newspaper Proposes to Les
sen Middlemen.
Atlanta.—Only one middleman be
tween the Southern cotton farmer
and the English spinner; a saving to
the South of millions annually upon
the cotton crop—these are the salient
points of the plan launched and in
dorsed by the Manchester Guardian,
leading voice of the cotton trade in
Great Britain, looking to direct deal
ing in the South’s staple between this
country and the spinners of the Man
chester district.
The plan is being pushed personally
in America by A. L. Hart, representa
tive of The Guardian, who is now in
Atlanta on a tour through the cotton
belt conferring with prominent cotton
merchants and the representatives of
farmers, in an effort to enlist their
co-operation.
Outlining his plan, Mr. Hart declar
ed that cotton is ‘‘sold six unneces
sary times” before it reaches the spin
ner. Much of the burden of this com
plicated process devolves on the farm
er. He would substitute for it the
establishment by American cotton
merchants of branches in Manchester
which should deal direct with the
spinner, thus eliminating the endless
round of handling and rehandling to
the disadvantage of both spinner and
farmer.
The Guardian’s campaign has the
hearty indorsement of Harvie Jordan
of Atlanta, former president of the
Southern Cotton association, and also
widely acquainted with conditions on
the producing side in this country*
and the spinning side In Great Brit-
May Aboiith Railroad CommUaion*.
Washington.—Complete control of
all the railroads of the country by
the interstate commerce commission
and virtual elimination of the state
commissions from such control, is
foreshadowed in an opinion handed
down ’ y the Supreme court of the
United States. The court held that
hereafter all locomotives, cars or oth
er equipment used on any railroad
which is a highway of interstate com
merce must comply with the Federal
safety appliance act.
In its opinion, the court held that
compliance with Federal law is com
pulsory on all railroads which are en
gaged in the transportation of persons
or freight from one state to another.
Elaborating this, however, it held that
the cars or equipment of such roads,
even if engaged in such transporta
tion within the confines of a state,
must be considered as part and par
cel of the road and therefore com
pletely under the jurisdiction of the
Federal commission.
Members of the interstate com
merce commission who have been em
barrassed on numerous occasions by
clashes of authority with state com
missions are jubilant at the ruling of
the Supreme court.
Taft Makes Pessimistic Address.
Chicago—President Taft surprised
a large audience at the dinner of the
Hamilton club by what most cf his
hearers construed as an admission of
the possibility of Republican defeat
in the coming national election. He
was speaking to what had promised
to he an unusually enthusiastic audi
ence of Republicans. Those present
hastened to ascribe the president’s
utterances to weariness after his long
tour of speechmaking and especially
after the three days' hard “campaign”
in Chicago.
Harem, Hobble and High Heels Barred
Milwaukee, Wis. —Every woman at
tending the national W. C. T. U. con
vention bowed her head when the
name of Carrie Nation was read at
the memorial service. Papers on med
ical and scientific temperance and kin
dred subjects followed in rapid suc
cession. “No harem, no hobble, nor
high heels,’ announced Dr. Louise C.
Puringtdfc of Boston, national superin
tendent of health and heredity de
partment, In laying down laws for
women
SOUTH RAILWAY
WORKS FOR SOUTH
BROAD CONCEPTION OF ITS MIS
SION SHOWN IN SOUTHERN’S
ANNUAL REPORT.
CONDITIONS ENCOURAGING
Management of Southern Railway I*
Making It Helpful Factor in
Southern Development.
Washington.—A most encouraging
view of conditions in the Southeast
is presented in the annual report of
the Southern Railway company, which
states that one of the most import
ant factors in the strength of the com
pany’s position is the industrial and.
agricultural development of the ter
ritory traversed by its lines. The
marked agricultural progress due to
the general adoption of approved
methods by the farmers of the South
east, particularly the increase of di
versified farming, and the diversifica
tion of industries are noted.
The management of the company,
with a broad conception of its rela
tions to the public, is making the rail
way not merely a carrier of the peo
ple and products of the South, but
also a helpful factor in Southern de
velopment. The report sets out the
efforts being put forward to increase
the prosperity of the people already
in the Southeast, and, to attract in
vestors and desirable settlers to the
territory served by the lines of the
Southern railway. A review is given
of the work being done by the cotton
culture department, which is teach
ing farms, in localities where it is
possible the boll weevil may spread,
to successfully combat the insect
should it ever appear in their fields,
and thus maintain their production
instead of having to learn how to
deal with it after it appears. Tha
work of this department will be ex
tended to cover all territory along
the company’s lines to which there
is even a remote danger that the
weevil may spread. The importance
to the South of maintaining its mon
opoly of cotton production is pointed
out in connection with the vigorous
efforts being made to raise cotton
in other parts of the world. The re
port shows that the company is alsa
encouraging live stock raising and
dairying in its territory. Recognition
is given the newspapers of the South
east for their valuable assistance and
also to commercial organizations, to
banks and individuals who have aid
ed the company in all its efforts U>
advance the agricultural prosperity of J
the Southeast.
The more important additions and
betterments completed and undertak
en during the year are shown, among
them the double track lines through
Lynchburg, Va., and into Chattanooga,
Tens,, miles of double track be
tween Atlanta and Gainesville, Ga.,
modern lap sidings on the line be
• o pon Sjlanta and Macon, Ga., Knox
ville and Chattanooga, Tenn., and
Morristown, Tenn., and Asheville, N.
new freight station and office
building at Atlanta, additional freight
station and yard facilities at Macon,
and additional wharf facilities at Mo
bile, Ala. To provide adequate facil
ities to take care of the increasing
traffic of the South, the report shows
that the company has in the last two
years purchased the following addi
tional equipment; 198 locomotives,
203 passenger train cars and 5,207
freight train cars.
In closing, the report emphasizes
the loyalt ywhich has characterized
the services of officers and employes
in all departments during the year,
and it is stated that the standard
of efficiency throughout the service
justifies the management in pursuing
a consistent policy of filling by pro
motion vacancies that may occur, thus
preserving a wide field of opportunity
for advancement of all loyal and ef
ficient employees.
BOOK REVIEW.
STORIES THAT END WELL,
Anything from the pen of Octave
Thanet is sure to possess interest and
charm. Much more than this must
be said fo rthe volume under consid
eration so happily named ‘Stories
That End Well.” What reader does
not like to have a story “end well?’’
If he be a discriminating reader he
likes also to have the end logical and
artistic. To achieve both these ef
fects, i. e., that of satisfying the read
er’s sense of reason and still leave
him in a cheerful frame of mind is a
task not easy of accomplishment, and,
indeed, is possible only to the writer
of both fortunate endowment and fac
ile pen. This fact gives to Octave
Thanet’s new book a unique and de
lightful quality. Eleven stories are
offered for the reader’s entertainment,
and each of the eleven plots works
out to a conclusion that is at once
“right” and inevitable and pleasant
Many Revolutions in Mexico.
Mexico City—Two bridges blown
out on the Inter-Oceanic railroad, one
station building burned and two small
battles with Federal troops. This is
the substance of the record the gov- 1
ernment will the latest cam
paign against the Zapatißtas in the
south. Though the country nominal
ly is at peace and he was chosen for
the presidency with no opposition it
is -a fact that there are five points
of insurrection in different parts of
the country.