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PROHIBITION BILL PASSED
In the Georgia House of Representatives By
a Vote of Ninety-three to Sixty=five.
MEASURE GOES TO SENATE
Should the Bill Become a Law the
Whisky Traffic Will Be Driven
Totally From the State.
The Willingham prohibition bill was
passed by the Georgia house of repre
sentatives Tuesday afternoon by a vote
of 93 to 65.
It was with only a margin of five
votes that the bill passed, bnt it had
been expected that the contest would
be a close one, and the friends of the
measure were rejoiced at its success.
Eighty-fight votes were required for
the constitutional majority.
When the result was announced by
Speaker Little, the galleries went
wild, women clapped their hands in
approval, while the men threw aloft
their hats and shouted for joy.
On the floor of the house the advo
cates of the measure were hardly more
restrained than their visiting friends
in the galleries. They gave their
desk tops snch a rattle as had not
been heard for years, and then in
largo numbers gathered around Mr.
Willingham, who had led the success
ful fight for his bill, to congratulate
him at the outcome.
And in the midst of this rejoicing
the opponents of the measure were at
tempting to derive a grain of comfort
from the fact that the bill had yet to
go to the senate, where they hoped
and believed it would meet its death.
The bill as it passed was exactly 1
ns Mr. Willingham and hiu friends
wanted it. Every amendment that
was offered from other sources was de
feated.
TEXT OF Til K HILL AS 4KEN1IEII
AND I’ASSKII.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the gen
eral assembly of the state of Georgia,
and it is hereby enacted by authority
of the same, That the manufacture,
the sale, the keeping for sale, the giv
ing away to induce trade, or for any
valuable consideration, or the furnish
ing at any public place, of intoxicat
ing liquors, fermented or distilled, are
hereby prohibited or declared unlaw
ful, except as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That any person
convistod of violating any of the pro
visions of this not shall bo guilty Of »
misdemeanor and he punished as pre
scribed iu section 1039 of the code.
See. 3. Bo it further enacted by the
authority aforesnid, That this act
shall apply both to individuals and cor
porations and to all clubs or organi
zations in which intoxicating liquors
are furnished, at any place by such
club or organization or any connx it
tee or agents thereof in consideration
of membership, initiation or standing
fee in such organization.
Sec. 4. Bo it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That any placo
at which liquors are kept for sale,
given away, furnished or sold in viola
tion of the provisions of this net is
hereby declared a nuisance; and any
citizen may apply to the judge of the
superior court for an injunction to re
strain tho eame.
Soo. 5. Be it further enacted, That
iu any proceedings under this act,
whether prosecutions or for injunction,
the payment by the defendant of the
United States revenue tax as a dealer
in intoxicating liquors, whether fer
mented or distilled, or tho holding of
a receipt for such tax, shall he primn
facie evidenoe that such person is
guilty of violation of the provisions of
this act; and the original books or a
certified copy from tho entry in tho
books of the United States revenue
collector showing the payment or pa
rol evidence as to the contents of said
books or the evidence as to the con
tents of any receipt given therefor
shall be 1 rinia facie evidence in any
prosecution or proceeding.
Section 6 . Be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That all mu
nicipal corporations in this state and are
hereby vested with jurisdiction
authority to arrest aud prosecute and
punish all persons violating the pro
SPENCER MAKES DENIAL.
S»y» Southern Kailway Does Not Own
Central's Stock.
President Samuel Spencer, of the
Southeru railroad was the star witness
Wednesday in the hearing of the
junction suit of certain Macon mer
chants against the Southern at Macon,
Georgia. and surprising
The most important
statement made by Mr. Spencer was
that his road did not own a dollar’s
worth of stock in the Central Railway
of Georgia, and never had; that his
holding consisted of one share of stock,
which was necessary to qualify him as
a director.
RICHMOND DECIDED UPON
As Ihe Next Meetlnc n»c« ofthe Ilrother
hood of St. Andrew.
At the recent convention of the
Brotherhood of St. Andrew, held in
Columbus, O., the time and place of
the next meeting was referred to the
executive committee, aud that body
has just decided on Richmond, Vn.,
October 10th to 14th, 1900. General
Secretary John YY. \Y ood presented
bis resignation at the same meeting of
the committee.
visions of this act as to keeping liquor
for sale. This statute being in the ex
ercise of the police power of this state
and intended to secure public order,
it is hereby declared that the keeping
of liquor for sale within the limits of
any municipal corporation shall be a
municipal offense; and any prosecution
of conviction under aoy city ordinance
paused for the purpose of punishing
violations of this act, shall not consti
tute a bar to the prosecution in the
courts of record of this state for the
same offense.
Section 7. Be it farther enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That the pro
visions of this act shall not apply to
repeal nor affect existing laws regu
lating the manufacture and sale of do
mestic wines iu the state.
Sec. 8 . Be it further enacted by the
authority afoiesaid, That the provis
ions of this act, ns to prohibiting the
manufacture oi intoxicating liquors,
shall not apply to those counties where
such manufacture is now prohibited
by law, and the provisions of this act
as to prohibiting the sale of intoxicat
ing liquors shall not apply to those
counties whore such sale is now pro
hibited by law, but if for any reason
the law now controlling the manufac
ture or sale should be repealed or be
come inoperative in any county, then
the provisions of this act as to the pro
hibition of such manufacture or sale
shall immediately become operative in
such eouuty.
Provided, That nothing herein con
tained shall prevent licensed druggists
from selling or furnishing pure nice*
hoi for medicinal, art, scientific and
mechanical purposes.
Provided, further, That the provis
ions of this act shall not become oper
ative until Juno 1, 1900.
Sec. 9 . Be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That all laws and
parts of laws in conflict with this act
are hereby repealed.
TYOWIN' ORGANIZE.
Tho Wlieeler-Aee Movement If Given a
G reat Impetus.
A meeting of the women who wish
to honor Mnjor General Joseph
Wheeler and Mnjor General Fitzhugh
was held in Chicago Tuesday.
Those interested in the project have
themselves into an associa
called the Lee and Wheeler move
and have elected officers as fol
lows:
President.—Miss Anna Maria de
Secretary—Miss Louise Abbot.
At this meeting the “Wheeler and
Movement” gained a great impe
tus. Letters were sent outdaring the
day to the members of congress asking
to use their influence in getting
for Wheeler and Lee as
major generals of the regular army.
During tbe session also there were
read a number of letters from women
and men in other states and cities aud
the letters were invariably accompa
nied with contributions of material
amount.
SENATOR llAYWARl) WORSE.
Pftrt*l.v*i* Is Kxtendinsj nncl His Condi
dltinn Becomes More Alarming;.
A special from Nebraska City, Neb.,
says: Senator Hayward gradually
grows worse. He hud a bad night last
night aud his condition during the
duy has shown no improvement.
The paralysis is again extending
and there are evidences that it has
affected the bladder. What is still
more discouraging, the brniu lesion is
becoming more pronounced.
The patient’s mind is cloudy and
the attending physician is very much
discouraged.
DIST 1 LIT. R Y 1 .X 1 ’LOSIO X.
Kngln«ieir , » Head Blown From Body—Other
Persons Injured.
By tha explosion of a boiler in a
whisky distillery at Traveler’s Rest,
S. O., one man was killed, another
severely injured, and the building
wrecked. Nick Williams was tho col
ored engineer. His head was blown
clean off and his body otherwise muti
lated, while Mathew Keeler, one of
the proprietors, was perhaps fatally
scalded.
Want Connection With Gulf.
The finance committee of the Illi
nois River Valley Association met iu
Chicago Wednesday to discuss plans
for raising $ 10,000 for use iu advauc
: iug the project of a deep waterway
connection between Lake Michigan
aud the gulf of Mexico before congress
this winter.
Schooner Was Wrecked.
A letter from Porto Rico gives tid
ings of the missing Nova Scotia
schooner Grace Rice, which sailed
from Halifax for Porto Rico last July
and was never heard from. The ves
sel was wrecked and drifted ashore
1 bottom up.
YYnEELER FAVORS ANNEXATION.
| (j enfr »I Write. Another Inlrrnitlne Let
t*r to an Alabama Friend.
I A special from Huntsville, Ala.,
says:
“In a letter from Santa Rita, Luzon,
Philippine Islands, to an admirer in
this city. General Joseph Wheeler
■ discusses at length the conditions as
they exist at present in the islands and
advocates their annexation bvthis gov
eminent.
IMPROVISED BIRD HOUSES.
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One of the most delightful and suggestive of the teachers’ leaflets issued
by the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, for use in the public
schools, is one entitled “The Birds and I," by L, H. Bailey. This is illus
trated by a number of suggestions for bird houses, which may be copied by
all the boys and girls -who are always wanting to use hammer and nails and
«c make something useful.” Some oi the many forms which can be used are
shown in the picture. Any ingenious boy can suggest a dozen other patterns.
The floor space in each compartment should not be less than 5x6 inches, ancl
Gx 6 inches or 6 x 8 inches may be better. By cutting the boards in multiples
of these numbers, one can easily make a house with several compartments?
for there are some birds, as martins, tree swallows and pigeons, that like to
live in families or colonies. The size of the doorway is important. It should
be just large enough to admit the bird. A larger opening not only looks
bad, but it exposes the inhabitants to clangers of cats and other enemies.
Birds which build in houses, aside from doves and pigeons, are bluebirds,
wrens, tree swallows, martins, and sometimes the chickadee. For the wren
and chickadee the opening should be an inch and a half augur hole, and for
the others it should be two inches.
The Mil’s “All's Well.”
By R. H. EDMONDS.
Ten years ago the South fought its
first skirmish iu the eudless battle
that ever rages for the world’s com
mercial supremacy. Its pig-iron en
tered the markets R" long dominated
by Pennsylvania furnaces, and. to the
dismay of those who had affected to
despise its rivalry, won a substantial
victory. Alabama iron became a fac
tor in every iron-consuming centre,
and from this position it could not be
dislodged. About the same time
Southern cotton mills were firciag
their product into successful competi
tion with the output of New England
mills. But as Pennsylvania iron and
steel people took refuge in the claim
that the South would never advance
beyond the iron-making stage, that it
could never become a factor in the
higher forms of finished goods and in
steel-making, so the New England
mills lulled themselves into a sense of
security on the claim that though
Southern mills might make coarse
goods, they could never acquire the
skill and the capital needed for the
finer goods. In the light of what has
been accomplished within ten years,
it seems very strange that such argu
ments as these should have done duty
iu so many newspapers and in so
many gatherings.
A Propliecx*
Judge Kelley—“Pig-Iron Kelley,”
as lie was familiarly kuowu—had been
wiser than his peoplo. Nearly twenty
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WAGES PAID TO T ACTOSY HANDS.
1880. 1899.
$75,900,000. $350,000,000.
years ago he proclaimed the coming
power of the South iu all industrial
pursuits, and heralded it not as a dis
aster to Pennsylvania and to Now
England, but as an added strength to
the industrial power of the country.
“The development of the South,” said
ho, “means the enrichment of the na
tion.” In this light the progress of
the South should be watched, for
while its industrial upbuilding may
mean the changing of some ferms of
industry in other sections, there is
versatility enough in our people and
in our country to find a new avenue
for the employment of brains aud
energy and capital for every one that
may be closed by changing business
conditions. New Englaud may yield
the sceptre of cotton-manufacturing
to the South, to the vast enrichment
of the South, but New England will
find new openings for its tireless
energy and its accumulated capital.
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GRAIN PRODUCED—BUSHELS.
1880. 1898-99.
431,000,000. 736,600,000.
The South will become enormously
wealthy through the change, but New'
England will not be made the poorer.
The First Skirmishes. «*
Just about the time when the South
wa 9 winning these first skirmishes,
and when its people were dazzled by
the new opportunities of employment
and wealth creation which were open-
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RAILROAD MILEAGE.
1880. 1899.
20,600. 60,000.
ing before them after the darkness of
thirty years of war and reconstruction
trials, there came the world-wide
financial panic following the Baring
failure. The South, suddenly brought
down from its dizzy speculative
height, had to face new conditions.
The business world recognized that
the supreme test of the South’s in
herent advantages and possibilities
had come. It faced the situation—its
iron-masters steadily reduced the cost
of iron-making until furnaces which
had been turning out $8 and $9 iron
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COTTON CONSUMPTION IN SOUTHERN
MILLS—BALES.
1880. 1898-99.
233,886. 1,399,000,
were able to produce §6 iron; its cot
ton-mill owners wisely abandoned old
machinery, and, equipping their mills
with every modern improvement, drove
them to their utmost capacity night
and day, in order to double the output
on their invested capital and propor
tionately reduce the cost of goods; its
cotton-planters, who had kept their
corn-cribs and smoke-houses in the
West, buying in the aggregate about
$100,000,000 worth a year of Western
corn and bacon, commenced to raise
their own food supplies, and in this
way, returning to the old ante-bellum
system, reduced the cost of raising
cotton. While these changes, all
revolutionary in their character, were
in progress, the small bankrupt rail
road lines were brought into compact
system:',, new and heavier rails laid,
rolling-stock increased aud necessary
extensions made.
Iron mid Co»l.
Thus the South passed through the
loug period of depression, standing
the great test, which came so unex
pectedly, iu a way that strengthened
the world’s confidence. It not only
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SPINDLES IN COTTON-MILLS.
1880. ’899
667.000. 5,000,000.
held its own during this period, but
its iron-makers entered foreign mar
kets, and demonstrated that the South
could dictate the price of iron for the
world. Alabama iron set the price in
England and on the Continent, as well
as in Japan, and even from Jerusalem
came an order for it. This marked a
revolution in the world’s iron and
steel interests. Henceforth the world
was the market for Southern iron.
When this point had been reached,
the next step was to build steel-works
commensurate with what has been ac
complished in iron-making; and to-day
two gigantio plants—one to make steel
billets, and the other to make finished
steel products—are Birmingham. nearing They com- have
pletion at
cost about $2,500,000. They have
PHOSPHATE MINED—TONS.
1880. 1899.
750,000. 2 , 000 , 000 .
already booked heavy orders for steel
billets for shipment to Pittsburg. A
number of furnaces built during the
boom of 1889-90, and which have been
idle ever since, have lately been
bought by strong companies, and are
now being put into blast. With every
furnace crowded to its utmost capac-
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CAPITAL INVESTED IN MANUPACTUBING.
1880. 1890.
$257,000,900. $ 1 , 000 , 000 , 000 .
ity, which will soon be the case, the
output of Southern iron in 1900 prom
ises to be nearly fifty per cent, larger
than ever before. The demand for
coal exceeds the production, though
that is now at the rate of 40,000,000
tons a year, There is almost feverish
activity in enlarging the output of
oid mines, in opening new ones, and
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CAPITAL IN COTTON-SEED-OIL MANUFAC
TURE.
1880. 1899.
$3,500,000. $40,000,000.
in building coke-ovens; for a ready
demand meets every ton produced,
with a profit that makes glad the
stockholders.
The Phosphate Industry.
Turning from iron and coal, with
the almost fabulous profits which
they are yielding, to other industries,
phosphate-mining looms into promi
nence. Up to ten years ago South
Carolina was the only American sonree
of phosphate rock, and our fertilizer
factories, as well as those of Enrope,
had to depend upon the few hundred
thousand tons which that State an
nually produced. Then it was dis
covered that Florida had vast phos
phate beds, and soon that State sur
passed South Carolina in this indus
try. Two or three years later similar
discoveries were made in Tennessee,
and the mining activity which has fol
lowed reminds one of the tales of de-
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COAL MINED—TONS.
1880. 1899.
6,000,009. 40,000,000.
velopment in new gold regions. Ten
years ago the South’s output of phos
phate rock was not more than 750,000
tons; this year it will be 2 , 000,000
tons. What this means in the diver
sification and improvement of agricul
tural conditions is too broad a subject
for treatment here.
Thu F«rnt«.
Possessing one-half of the standing
timber of the United States, the South
is building up immense lumber and
wood-working interests, and through
out the entire lumber region business
is as prosperous as in the iron dis
tricts.
Cotton is 8till King:.
Though the value of the grain now
raised in that section exceeds on the
farm the value of the cotton crop, cot
ton is still the dominant power in the
business life of the South. No other
country has such a monoply of any
agricultural staple of such world-wide
influence as the South has of cotton.
Cotton, and cotton-seed bring to South
ern farmers an average of $300,000,
000 a year. The comparatively new
industry of oottou-seed oil making
now employs over $40,000,000 of
capital, and yields au annual product
of upwards of $50,000,000. From
■Galveston alone the foreign exports
of cotton oil and cotton-seed meal are
averaging nearly 1000 tons a day. Of
this industry the South has almost as
much of a monopoly as it has of cot
ton-gi'owing, but in the manufacture
of cotton goods this section, though
making marvelous progress, is still
only getting well started. There are
about 100 , 000,000 cotton-spindles in
the world. The South furnishes the
cotton for about three-fourths of these,
or 75,000,000 spindles, but has only
5,000,000 spindles. To consume iu
its own mills its crop of 10 , 000,000 to
11 , 000,000 bales would require the
investment of over $1,500,000 in new
mills, and long before that point could
be reached, even at the present rapid
growth, the world will annually re
guire of this section from 25,000,000
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COTTON CROP—BALES.
188 o- 1898-99.
5,750, 000 11,274,810.
to 30,000,000 bales. Iu 1880 tha
South started on its cotton-mill de
velopment with a basis of
spindles, representing a capital
$21,000,000. By 1890 it had $61,
000,000 capital in this industry aud
1,700,000 spindles. ‘ To-day it has
5 , 000,000 spindles and about $125,
000,000 of capital invested in cotton
mills, while mills under construction
represent about $25,000,000 more.
The most significant sign of the times
in this industiy is that New England
mill-owners, recog' izing tbat the
South is bound to win, are transfer
ring large capital to Southern mills. A
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VALUE OF MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS.
1880. 1899.
$457,400,000. $1,500,000,000.
number of the leading mill companies
of tho former section have, during the
last few years, built branch mills,
costing from $500,000 to $1,000,000
each, iu the South; aud now one of
New England’s greatest corporations
is spending $2,500,000 in building
in Alabama what will be the largest
cotton-mill ever constructed as a sin
gle enterprise. The recent advance
in the price of cotton is bringing pros
perity to the farmers, and if it holds
for the balance of the season, will
PIG-IRON PRODUCED—TONS.
1880. 1899.
397,00(h 2,500,000.
mean $75,000,000 more to them than
they received for last year’s crop.
In diversified interests the same
story of progress and prosperity runs.
The Newport News Ship Yard, with
over $ 10 , 000,000 of work under con
tract, including two steamers of about
12,000 tons each for the Pacific trade,
the largest ever built in America, is
said to be employing more hands than
even the Cramps; the Richmond Lo
comotive Works are competing with
the Baldwins in exporting locomo
tives;-; the Maryland Steel Company
has been furnishing steel rails for
Russia’s Siberian Railroad, for Aus
tralia and other distant regions; Ala-
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CAPITAL INVESTED IN COTTON MILLS.
1880. 1899
$21,900,000. $125,000,000.
bama coke has gone to Japan, and tbe
export of both coke aud iron is only
limited by the fact that the home de
mand now exceeds the supply.
The South’s Story in Statistics,
Statistics are often uninteresting,
but the story of the South’s progress
cannot be told more clearly than in
the comparative illustrations scattered
through this article, in which reliable
estimates are given where exact fig
ures are not obtainable.
Surveying the whole Southern situ
ation, what has been done and what is
under way, it can be truly said that —
“all’s well.”—Harper’s Weekly.
Cassava, the Hew Crop.
The Spanish war seems to have
given promise of benefit in a direction
entirely unexpected in stimulating the
study of tropical products. A plant
has been “discovered” that promises
to become to the Gulf states what
wheat is to the North. For years this
plant, which resembles a gigantic
beet, has been a staple product of
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SEVEN CASSAVA-BOOTS._
Brazil and other South American
countries, aud has recently been
grown in Jamaica with remarkable re
sults. In Eastern tropical countries
it is known as “manioc,” in Brazil it
is called “mandioca,” in Colombia it
is known as “yucca,” and iu the West
Indies the name “ca'ssava” or “cas
sada” prevails. The gigantic roots
produce a flour that rivals the best of
wheat. They give a juice that makes
an excellent table preserve. They
yield an abundance of starch of a su
perior quality. They also make a re
markable showing iu fattening cattle.
If one-half of what is claimed by the
United States Department of Agricul
ture and the Jamaica Agriculture So
ciety be realized, the problem of what
to do with the vast areas of almost
arid lands of the Gulf states is to be
solved by “cassava.”
Had It in Various Assortments.
It was in one of the big department
stores.
“What do you wish to-day,
madam?” asked the courteous floor
walker.
“Nothing. I--”
“Sixteenth floor. Take the ele
vator. We have nothing there in
large and varied assortments. James,
ring the bell for the lady.”—Harper's
Bazar.
Remains of an Old-Timer.
The skeleton of a prehistoric sea
monster resembling a shark was un
earthed recently at the quarry of J.
H. Davis, who lives ten miles south of
Bonham, Texas. Its jaws were about
foqr feqt in length, and, though buried
several feet in solid limestone, were in
good state of preservation, the
enamel being plainly visible on the
teeth.