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WEEKLY
COCHRAN. CA
No Chinese revolutionist wears st
any rate a pompadour.
What has become of the old-fash
ioned open-face applebutter pie?
The autumnal colors are much finer
than those of the gaudy billboards.
The Chinese revolution Beeras to
have got beyond the control of the
police.
The effort to render hazing safe
and sane continues at various edu
cational institutions.
China’s infant emperor writes mar
velous compositions for one who has
Just begun his schooling.
No true lover of nature ever goes
around declaring, in sepulchral tones,
that life is a vale of tears.
Japan’s population is increasing at
the ••ate of 500.000 a year, and the
surplus must go somewhere.
If goat’s milk is a cure for Inebriety,
as is asserted, one would never guess
it by studying bock beer signs.
Hoopskirts are announced as due
to return But fashion, like politics,
has its rumors that never come true.
The Kings county, New York, Jail
Is characterized as a ‘‘disgrace.” Most
Jails are open to the same criticism.
A baby has been killed by a hot
bag This comes from departing from
the established and recognized cold
bottle.
Football fatalitltes have been less
frequent this year than usual. The
game Is in danger of losing its popu
larity.
A New York Janitor laughed so hard
at a Joke which his daughter told that
he fell dead. As usual the Joke is sup
pressed
And the worst of It is, the war be
tween Turkey and Italy doesn’t seem
to be good even for klnematograph
purposes.
The man who killed himself after
six hours of married life apparently
was satisfied that a little often goes
a great way
Magazines that are shipped by
freight are at least congratulating
themselves on not being completely
sidetracked.
A young actor haR married a widow
worth $15,000,000 It was about time
that the male sex of stageland was
recognized.
Violinist Kubelik has fled from Chi
cago because it was too noisy here
for him Need It be said that- he has
gone to St. Louis?
Football is not all wasted effort.
Lots of the pale-browed ordinary stu
dents get excellent exercise in giving
the college yell.
It's our notion that everybody will
have to have his liver regulated and
In good working order before the mil
lennium can come.
A Seattle clergyman preached from
a coffin in the streets and was “pall
beared” home. Seattle must be a
hard town to wake up.
Statistics show that in nearly all
cases the college girl, when she mar
ries, stays married. Probably she
starts out by giving her husband a
•vivid description of the hazing stunts
she has participaated in.
A song writer has been ordered to
pay s’_' a week toward the support or
his child. Now we may expect an
Indefinite number of new “rag’’
spasms.
A Chicago paper suggests that only
light reading should be carried by the
aeroplane postmen. It is grimly ap
propriate, however, that a lot of it
goes to the dead letter office these
days.
A New York young man has enter
ed Harvard with six trunks. 20 suits
and 10 pairs of shoes. Nobody, how
ever, has gone to the trouble of pre
dicting a brilliant future for him.
Mary Anderson says that any work
Is preferable to a stage career. But
successful people usually speak in this
strain. Even our great financiers as
sure us that being a millionaire is
nothing like as easy as it looks.
An Asburv.Park cook is reported to
have had her $1,500 worth of diamonds
stolen. This looks like a deep scheme
to attract all the cooks in the country
to the Jersey resort next season.
“Swat the ants!” cries a scientist.
Say. savants—mayn’t we keep one lit
tle insect for a pet?
There are some women who nevet*
change their minds. Just as there are
some men whose automobiles never
break down —because they don’t own
automobiles
"Hoopskirts are inevitable,” says a
fashion expert. The only redeeming
feature of a hoopskirt Is that it can
be used as a parachute in case of aj>
aeroplane accident.
WOOD BALES
FOB COTTON CHOP
FINAL ESTIMATE FOR THIS YEAR
IS MADE BY NEW ORLEANS
TIMES-DEMOCRAT.
REPRESENTS ACTUAL CROP
Concensus of Correspondents’ Opin
ion Shows 1911 Cotton Crop to
Have Been Largest in Years.
New Orleans.- —The Times-Demo
crat presents its correspondents’ final
reports on the cotton crop of 1911.
The concensus of opinion indicates
the following results:
Alabama, 1,500,000.
Arkansas and Missouri, 950,000.
Georgia and Florida, 2,650,000.
Louisiana, 375,000.
Mississippi, 1,150,000.
Oklahoma, 960,000.
North Carolina and Virginia, 1,000,-
000.
South Carolina, 1,500,000.
Tennessee and Kentucky, 450,000.
Texas and California, 4,300,000.
Total, 14,835,000.
This forecast relates to actual
growth, exclusive of linters, repacks
and similar additions.
New Orleans. —Tlv*Je ought to be
development of ihterest in the cot
ton Market this week, with the com
ing in of December as a spot month.
The first notice days for that deliv
ery will be watched carefully, for the
trade wants to get a line on what
the big spot interests intend to do in
the matter of deliveries on contracts,
it has been the gossip of the market
for some time past that certain inter
ests have been selling futures heavily
with the intention of delivering low
grade cotton against them.
LIQUOR RECORDS BROKEN
Production of Alcoholic Liquors the
Greatest Ever Known.
Washington.—The annual report of
Koyal E. Cabell, commissioner of in
ternal revenue, given out here, makes
several startling declarations.
All records were broken In the
past fiscal year in the production ol
alcoholic liquors.
The smoking of opium is a wide
spread vice in this country, and
opium “joints” exist in every city
of considerable size,
The double system of taxing oleo
mragarino is corrupting grocers, and
gross frauds are being perpetrated on
the butter-buying public.
The internal revenue receipts last
year were 322,526,299, the greatest in
the history of the government.
Corporations making returns under
the new corporation tax law number
ed 270,202, with an aggregate capital
of $67,886,430, 519. The aggregate net
income to the stockholders was $3,-
360,250,642.
The year’s production of distilled
spirits amounted to 175,402,395 gal
lons, nearly 7,000,000 gallons more
than in the previous banner year,
1907. The production of beer, ale,
etc., amounted to 63,216,851 barrels,
The amount of liquor held in bond
ed warehouses for ripening now
reaches the enormous total of 249-
279,346 gallons.
BEHEADED WIFE AND LOVER
Wisconsin Italian Driven Mad by the
Unfaithfulness of Wife.
Kenosha, Wis. —Tortured by the
mental picture of his headless wife
and her paramour, whom he slew,
I’asquale Marchesi, 27 years old, a
merchant, went to a priest and con
fessed the double crime which had
theretofore not been discovered. The
young avenger of his honor was turn
ed over to the police, who are closely
guarding him for fear of possible
mob violence.
According to Marchesi, he went
home and found his wife, Roxsaria,
and his cousin and namesake occupy
ing Mrs. Marchesi's bedchamber. The
younger Marchesi, who was not of
age, had been a favorite of the hus
band, and the scene drove him mad,
he said. Without allowing his pres
ence to become known, Marchesi
went to a woodshed, procured a hand
ax, crept to the bedroom and cropped
off the heads of the two lovers.
Plumbing Trust Capitulates.
Washington. The plumbing
trust,” which government officials
say controls the sale ot plumbers’
supplies in most of the Rocky Moun
tain and Pacific Coast regions, has
capitulated to the department of jus
tice and is seeking to avoid court
proceedings. Representatives of the
"trust,” it became known here, will
present their ideas of dissolution and
compliance with the Sherman law at
a conference to be held at the de
partment. The evidence against the
combination, it was said, is strong.
Whitewash Coat for Stephenson.
Washington.—With the declaration
that no instances of vote buying were
discovered, but with words of censure
for the use of large sums of money
in his campaign, the senate commit
tee which investigated the election
of United States Senator Isaac Ste
phenson of Wisconsin is expected to
report shortly after the opening of
congress in December, Senator Ste
phenson, according to a report here,
will be declared fully entitled to his
seat in the senate.
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TO AID COTTON GROWERS
DEAL ARRANGED AT CONFER
ENCE OF FINANCIERS AND
GOVERNORS.
There Will Be No Interest Charge.
Fund Placed Through State
Committees.
New York. New York bankers
who have been conferring here for
the last few days with representa
tives of the governors' conference
and Southern cotton congress, an
nounced that they had raised a fund
of $50,000,000 to be placed immedi
ately in the cotton belt states for the
purpose of handling the cotton crop
of 1911 and enabling growers to par
ticipate in any rise in the market.
’/he negotiations were conducted
on behalf of the South by Gov. Em
mett O’Neal of Alabama, Senator Bai
ley of Texas, who has been advising
his colleagues as to the legal aspects
of the proposition; E. J. Watson, the
president of the permanent South
ern cotton congress and commission
er of agriculture of South Carolina,
and Clarence Ousley of fort Worth,
Texas, representing the governor of
his state.
The bankers who will furnish the
fund, according to the statement, are
headed by Col. Robert M. Thompson
of the brokerage firm of \S. H. P.
Pell & Co. of New York. The finan
cial support of several of the strong
est banks in New York has been
given to the plan, the statement con
tinues.
The plan proposes to advance the
grower $26 per bale upon his cotton,
based on the market'walue at the time
of tiie loan. No interest will be paid
upon the loan, the only charge being
$1 a bale, which is regarded as a le
gitimate minimum charge for expense
of. grading and handling. The cotton
is not held nor taken from the chan
nels of trade, but is placed at the
best advantage. The grower is given
tiie right to designate the day of sale
prior to January t, 1913,
Details of the plan are yet to be
worked out. It has been decided, how
ever, to place the fund through state
committees named by the governor
or commissioner of agriculture of a
state, and these committees shall be
empowered to sell when cotton has
reached 12 cents and compelled to
sell when it reaches 13 cents regard
less of advice from the growers. Pro
vision against any violation of the
Sherman anti-trust law is contained,
the promoters believe, in a clause
empowering each, committee to name
the day of sale in event the market
climbs to 12 or 13 cents.
$700,000,000 fcr $1,000,000.
Washington.—Alfred Merritt of
Duluth, Minn., first president or the
Duluth. Missabe and Northern rail
road, who styled himself a “lumber
jack,” unacquainted with the meth
ods of the “money trust,” told the
house steel trust investigating com
mittee that through loans of less
than $1,000,000 from Johp D. Rocke
feller, he had lost his holdings in
the Missable Iron mines, and the rail
road properties now owned by the
steel company estimated to be worth
$700,000,000.
Women Barred From Juries.
Sacramento, Cal.— Attorney General
U. S. Webb ruled that women can
not serve as jurors in this state, the
question having been raised aa a re
sult of success of the equal suffrage
constitutional amendment. ’’Under
the common law,” says Webb, “a
jury consisting of twelve free and
lawful men and under the same law
women were not eligible to jury duty.
I think our code did not change the
common law rule. Suffrage to woman
has not affected the question of eligi
bility for jury service.”
They Want Roosevelt
Youngston, Ohio. —A call for the
foremost citizen of the world, “Theo
dore Roosevelt,” to bear the standard
of the Republican party in the strug
gle for the presidency next year, was
voiced at the banquet of the Garfield
club of the nineteenth congressional
district of Ohio. John J. Sullivan, for
mer United States district attorney,
was the speaker who named Colonel
Roosevelt for the nomination of his
party. His speech met with almost
unanimous approval.
WILL PROBE EXPRESS RATES
Alleged That Express Companies
Make 3E Per Cent. Annually on
Plant Valuation.
New York.—Criticisms and reme
dial recommendations, ranging from
mild to radical, were presented to
the interstate commerce commission
at the opening here of a series of
hearings to be held throughout the
country in investigation of the ex
press business.
The magnitude of this business
was brought out by Attorney Frank
Lyon, counsel for the commission,
who said that the combination ex
press companies operate more than
two hundred and seventy thousand
miles of railway and do business
through 31,328 stations. He placed
the cost of operating the express
plants at $27,000,000, the operating
net income at $10,000,000, or a trac
tion over 38 per cent, on plant valu
ation.
Congressman David J. Lewis of
Cumberland, Md., one of the first wit
nesses, declared that government
ownership would ultimately prove to
be the only logical solution of the
express business. He had abandoned
the idea, he said, that a parcels post
would give the required releaf.
“Express rates are prohibitively
high,” he continued, “being sixteen
times the freight rate —$31.20 per ton
for express and $1.90 for freight. Par
cels post schemes, per se, impose a
rate of 8 and 12 cents a pound. At 8
cents the cost would be $l6O a ton or
five times the average express
charge, and eleven times the Euro
pean parcels post. Above three
pounds, the express companies now
give much lower rates than propos
ed by the parcels post, and below
three pounds they' give rates as
good.”
Contending that there should be a
more natural ratio of express to
freight charges, Mr. Lewis declared
that there was a margin of profits
made by the companies, he thought,
on which the interstate commerce
commission may operate to give re
lief to business interests without jeop
ardizing the investments and opera
tions of the express business.
To remedy some prevailing condi
tions, Representative Lewis sug
gested :
“Fast service is now provided by
the railways. But the main need is
an articulation of the country and
suburban points with the railways;
which may he accomplished by ru
ral delivery agency. Express railway
contracts should be secured by the
postal department to obtain low rail
road rates. Cheap capital and a pub
lic service motive, both of which the
nation can certainly provide, is nec
essary. Unification of express plants
with the postal system is needed to
secure simplification of methods and
fullest economically feasible exten
sion of collections and delivery.”
Rockefeller’s Methods.
Washington.—Further details of the
high finance methods of John D.
Rockefeller in the ore fields were giv
en before the Stanley steel investigat
ing committee, and, as a result,
expected that the oil king will be
summoned as a witness.
Doubt Feasibility of Cotton Plah.
Dallas, Texa%. —A lukewarm recep
tion of the announcement that New
York bankers are ready to advance
$50,000,000 to farmers on a cotton
holding plan, was accorded in inter
views by cotton men in several of
Texas’ leading citizens. While some
favored the object, nearly all express
ed doubts about the possibility of
making arrangements that would suit
any considerable part of the cotton
producers. Cotton middlemen gener
ally said the project would not be
accepted.
Alabama Cotton Crop Increases.
Montgomery, Ala. —Reports receiv
ed by Commissioner of Agriculture
Reuben F. Kolb from practically ev
ery county of the state and from va
rious sources in each county, show
that Alabama’s cotton yield this year
will exceed the yield of last year by
168,200 bales. The statistics include
the crop up to November 10 and are
to be included in a bulletin which
the department of agriculture expects
to publish within the next ten days,
showing the production of counties.
GEORGIA GIVERS
AND HARBORS
NO NEW PROJECTS OF ANY IM
PORTANCE ARE PROVIDED FOR
IN THE ESTIMATES.
ESTIMATES ARE SUBMITTED
Engineers Ask About $600,000 for the
Work During the Next
Fiscal Year.
—Atlanta.
Estimates for continuing the work
of river and harbor improvement
throughout the country made public
at the war department in Washing
ton and covering the fiscal end
ing June 30, 1913, show a strict ad
herence to the new adjninistration
policy of asking congress to appro
priate only for those improvements
which have received the approval of
the army corps of engineers after the
most thorough investigation.
No new projects of any great im
portance are provided for in the esti
mates and unless congress takes the
bit in its and disregards the
recommendation of Gen. W. H. Bixby,
chief of engineers, the “pork barrel’’
method of river and harbor work will
have been eliminated for a second
year.
The appropriations asked for aggre
gate $29,028,698, as against $30,099,-
69S for the current year. The esti
mates will be sent to congress by
the secretary of the treasury and
President Taft in his message will
urge that they be strictly adhered to.
Some of the estimates follow:
Goergia—Savannah harbor, $400,-
000; Savannah river below Augusta,
$100,000; above Augusta, $3,000; Alta
malia, Oconee and Ocmulgee rivers,
$30,000; Brunswick harbor, $33,250;
inside water route between Savannah
and Fernandina, $25,000; Flint river,
SIO,OOO.
Florida —Fernandina harbor, $15,-
000; St. Johns river, bar to Jackson
ville, $600,000; Jacksonville to Palat
ka, $15,000; Palatka to Lake Harney,
$25,000; Oklawaha river, $5,000; Key
West harbor and entrance, $15,000;
Caloosahatchee river, Puntarasa to
Fort Thompson, $5,000; Sarasota bay,
$13,000; Manatee fiver, $5,000; Tam
pa bay, $9,000; Hillsboro bay, $400,-
000; Withlacoochee river, $5,000; Ap
alachicola river, $12,000; Holmes riv
er, $2,000.
Alabama—Chattahoochee river, Co
lumbus to Apalachicola river, $50,-
000; channel from Apalachicola river
to St. Andrews, bay, $70,000; Choc
tawhatchee river, $8,000; Escambia
and Conecuh rivers, $5,000; Alabama
river, $75,000; Coosa river, Rome,
Ga., to Lock No. 4, Ala., $20,000; Lock
No. 4 and Dam No. 5, $124,000; Mo
bile harbor, $3,000; Mobile bar, $lO,-
000; Black Warrior, Warrior and
Tombigbee rivers, locks and dams,
$500,000; Tombigbee river, mouth to
Demopoiis, $10,000; Demopolis to Co
lumbos, Miss., $S,000; Tennessee riv
er below Riverton, SIO,OOO.
Southern Textile Association.
Arrangefents have been definitely
made for the holding of the semi-an
nual of the Southern Textile
Association December 2, in this city.
The committee in charge of enter
tainment is especially anxious to se
cure in advance the names of all
members and visitors who will be in
attendance. A postal card with this
information may be addressed to the
chairman, Mr. C. S. McMahon, lu2l
Grant building, Atlanta, Ga.
The program is as follows:
11 a. m„ meeting called to order
by C. S. McMahon, chairman of local
committee of arrangements, followed
by address of welcome.
Response by Mr. A. B. Carter of
Athens, Ga.
Address, by Supt. M. G. Stone of
Spartanburg, S. C., president of the
association.
Paper on “Weaving and Designing,”
by Mr. Henry W. Atkinson, formerly
editor of Cotton.
2 p. m„ “Waste Reduction in Cotton
manufacturing,” by Supt. D. D. Tow
ers, Canton, Ga.
"The Spinning Room,” by Charles
M. Stoy of Anniston, Ala.
"The Little Things in a Mill,” by
Supt. W. L. Lowry, Monroe, N. C.
-Reduction of Power by Align
ment,’ by Mr. George W. Loggie of
Boston, Mass.
After each paper opportunity will
be given for discussion of the points
presented; and some of the papers
may be deferred till the night session
for which the program has not yet
been definitely arranged.
Special railroad rates have been
arranged for those attending the as
sociation from all stations in North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama.
GEORGIA NEWS NOTES.
Rome. —An involuntary petition in
bankruptcy was filed here against the
Trion cotton mills, located at Trion,
Chattooga county. Lipscomb, Will
ingham & Wright of Rome represent
the petitioners’ creditors. A petition
for receiver has been filed and will
be acted on by Judge W. T. Newman.
The assets are estimated at $1,500,-
000: liabilities, unknown. This is one
of the largest cotton mills la Georgia
and has been in operation for many
years.
Hoke Smith Signs Credentials.
One of the last official acts of Hoke
Smith, late governor of Georgia, was
to issue himself credentials as United
States senator from this state.
Prior to taking this step Governor
Smith had Secretary Hitch write to
the secretary of the United States
senate, asking if there had been a
precedent for such an action. He was
informed that Gov. David B. Hill of
New York had commissioned
senator and that Gov.
Wisconsin had done the same OTnp
However, it was the first time that
such a thing had happened in
gia. In the ordinary course of evenl
Gov. J. M. Slaton would have issuetL
the credentials. A
Governor Smith issued his creden-"
tials the day prior to his resignation,
thus relieving Governor Slaton of this
duty. A copy which is on file in the
secretary of state’s office follows:
“To the Honorable the President
of the Senate of the United States:
This is to certify that on the 1-th
day of July, 1911, the Hon. Hoke
Smith was duly chosen by the legis
lature of the state of Georgia as sen
ator from said state to represent said
state in the senate of the United
States for the unexpired term of six
years, beginning on the 4th day of
March, 1969.
“Given under my hand and the
great seal of the state of Georgia
of the capitol in the city of Atlanta*
this, the fourteenth day of November,
in the year of our Lord, 1911:
“HOKE SMITH, Governor.”
Slaton Issues Election Call.
The special election to fill the va
cancy in the governor’s office created
by the resignation of Gov. Hoke
Smith with be held on January 10,
1912.
The call for the election on that
date was issued by Acting Governor
John M. Slaton, who, at the same
time, ordered a special session of the
general assembly for January 24 to
canvass the returns and declare the
winner. The inauguration exercises
will be held on January 25.
As the result of tie gubernatorial
race will be decided in the primary
election to be held on December 7,
the date fixed by the state executive
committee, the special election will
be little more than a formality.
At the time the election is being
held for governor the people will also
vote for the first commissioner of
commerce and labor, who is to bo
elected at that time.
County Game Laws Void.
According to a decision handed
down by the appellate court, the
new state game law supplants and
repeals all county game laws in Geor
gia.
The decision grew out of the case
of Ernest Hammond, convicted in
Early county of violating a county
law. At the trial he interposed the
plea that he had violated no state
law and moved to quash the»jj}dlct*
ment. This was overruled. The ap
pellate court reversed the lower four?.
The counties of Georgia _
have had county game laws
eta, Douglas, Early, Hall, Haralson
and Paulding.
Rawlins Boys Grateful.
Leonard and Jesse Rawlins called
at Gov. Hoke Smith’s office to thank
him for the pardon which he extend
ed them just before retiring from of
fice.
The two youngsters, who were con
victed and sentenced to life impris
onment at the time their father was
hanged for the murder of the Carter
children, seem to have thrived with
the hard work and rough fare of the
convict camps, and are a handsome
pair of boys. They parsed through
Atlanta on the way to their grand
father's south Georgia plantation,
where they are going to work.
STATE CAPITOL NOTES
Payment of $1,916.66 for November
maintenace of the Academy for the
Blind at Macon, was made by W. J.
Speer, state treasurer, on warrant of
Gov. John M. Slaton. This is the
first state institution to receive the .
funds since Slaton assumed office.
Thomas S. Felder, attorney general,
has received information from the
United States Supreme court that the
the appeal of Dr. W. J. McNaughton,
under death sentence for murder at
Swainsboro, Ga., will be advanced for
hearing early in January. Other cases
from Georgia before the highest court
will have to take their regular order.
Thus far Joel McCord, Fulton coun
ty game warden, with office at the
capitol, has issued 125 hunting li
censse. though the hunting season
does not really open until Decemner
1. Next week it is expected there
will be a rush for licenses, it is ex
pected there will be hundred of At
lanta sportsmen in the field Friday
and Saturday of next week.
Lee Howell, sent up from JasDer
county in February, 1911, for ten
years for wrecking a train, was par
doned by Gov. John M. Slaton. The
prison commission recommended this
pardon, after receiving a recommen
dation that it be done from the trial
judge and jury. Additional evidenc*
to prove Howell innocent was pro*
duced.
Augusta. —Unless some friends of
the two Browns and Russell fork
over the funds to defray expenses
of a primary election, there will be
none held for governor in this county.
Chairman F. B. Pope of the county
committee has called aspe cial meet
ing of that body to ascertain just
what disposition will be made of a
pending problem of S7OO expense with
no funds to meet it. Mr. Pope is of
the opinion that if no primary is held
•lie three candidates will go into the
regular election in January, when ne
groes would have the right to vote