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THE GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS, CAIRO, GEORGIA.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
LATE NEWS OF THE WOULD
TERSELY TOLD.
SOUTH, EAST, NORTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
out the Nation and Particularly
the Great South.
Southern.
Sentar Bacon ot Georgia is dead.
The end came at Garfield hospital at
Washington with a suddenness that
astounded Ills physicians. Intimate
friends and the world of official Wash
ington. At noon lrlB condition was
not thought alarming. Shortly after
wards he had a sinking spell and at
ten minutes after two he was gone.
An Infected clot of blood, which
reached the heart, caused his sudden
death. Unusual honors were paid by
the nation’s representatives. His fun
eral exercises took place In the sen
ate chamber in the presence of Pres
ident Wilson and his cabinet.
Battling blindly against the fury of
a northeast gale, in n blinding snow
storm! two steamers went ashore a
few miles from the Virginia capes.
One of them is the British Bteamer
Katherine Park and the other is an
unknown tramp. The Katherine Park
stranded off Smith Island, a few miles
from Cape Charles. The unknown ves
sel struck the beach near the Cape
Henry Life Saving Station, almost in
the same spot, where the naval collidr
Sterling went ashore several years
ago.
One hundred nnd fifty feet of Su
wannee river trestle was destroyed
and thirteen freight cars plunged in
to the river near WaycroBS, Ga., when
a northbound extra freight on the At
lantic Coast Line was wrecked at the
river.
The Mexican federal gunboat Zara-
gossa crossed the bar at the mouth of
the Mississippi river and proceeded
up the river toward New Orleans.
Although tile destination of the vessel
was announced from Vera Cruz when
It left there several days ago, the
purpose of the visit to New Orleans
has not been definitely determined,
John J. Kennedy, slate treasurer of
the state of New York, committed sui
cide at the Mnrkeen hotel, Buffalo, N.
Y„ ■ where he lived with his family.
He was found In a small lavatory with
Ills throat cut and un open razor on
the floor beside him. His Jugular-vein
hud been severed. Temporary Insan
ity, Induced by the worry over his
Impending appearance before a New
York grand jury wliero District At
torney Charles S. Whitman has been
conducting a John Doe graft Inquiry,
Is said to be the only reason that can
be assigned for Ills act. Ho had Just
returned from church.
A small legation guard ot marines
and machine guns from a British crui
ser at Vera Cruz to the legation in
Mexico City was ordered only after
the state department had been advis
ed of the plnn through the American
embassy In London. Threats that the
British legation would be made a par
ticular object of attack In the event
of a public uprising led to the precau
tionary measure and it was Intimated
at the state department that Mexican
authorities not only were willing but
anxious that other diplomatic repre
sentatives in Mexico take similar
measures.
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria Is plan
ning to visit the United States at an
early date. He will be accompanied
by the queen. King Ferdinand Is con
vinced that Bulgaria could learn more
from the United States than from any
other country on the best methods to
develop her industries, and hence the
visit is planned.
General.
A snowstorm,, said to rival In se
verity the famous blizzard of 1888,
raged to the accompaniment of zero
weather in the upper Hudson valley,
the Mohawk valley and the northern
and western parts of New York state,
tying up smaller railroad trolley lines
and paralyzing communication goner
ally. All mails were delayed. Four
deatliB were caused in New York City
by the storm, and the total fatalities
due to the cold spell and stormy con
ditions numbered seventeen.
Harry Weiss, Internal revenue col
lector for northern Ohio, has mailed
to John D. Rockefeller at Tarrytown,
Ky., tax blanks for the listing of the
oil king's Income for federal taxa
tion under the income tax law. Mr.
Weiss said he would proceed to col
lect about $2,250,000 income tax from
Mr. Rockefeller unless he pays the
money to the revenue collector. “It
hasn’t been decided whether Rockefel
ler’s home is Ohio or New York, so
I’ve sent lilm blanks to be on the safe
side.”
The first translation of the Bible
from the original Hebrew, the com
pletion of which was celebrated in
New York City, marks the beginning
of other translations into English,
which speakers declare was the inten
tion of the committee in charge of the
work. The completion of the work
marks an epoch In the history of the
Jewish people. -
At Zion City, 111., an ordinance for
the “promotion of public morals and
the regulation of the conduct of citi
zens” was enacted by city council. The
first section of the ordinance makes it
unlawful to do any act, suggest any
conduct or say any word that is pro
fane, vulgar or immoral, or that has
a tendency to offend public decency.
The second section is directed chief
ly at flirting and makes it unlawful
for any person in a loud or boisterous
tone to ask any other to accompany
him or her in a buggy, carriage, auto
mobile or other vehicle or for a walk.
New York’s oldest pickpocket, 70
years old age, scarcely able to walk,
but still active in petty crime, added
another arrest to his long record. His
name is John Hanley; the police call
him “The Ghost of the Past." He was
caught stealing a purse from a girl
in a crowd boarding a trolley car.
‘Tve been in the business for forty
years and in jail most of the time. My
father tried to make a stone cutter
of me, but I was too delicate to work,”
he said.
The bandit held responsible for the
Oumbre tunnel horror and the remain
der .of his baud have been captured.
The capture was made at Gabalin
ranch, a few miles east of Pearson
The reports states that the prisoner
will be taken to Casas Grandes, Mex
ico, and executed.
Hundreds of Chicago’s unemployed
were given temporary work in the
ice fields of Wisconsin and Michigan.
The zero weather has produced a big
turned away from the lodging hoi
and were given quarters in police sta
tions. More than one thousand men
were In a bread line maintained by a
Washington.
Appointment of a committee of bust
ness men from the country at large
to provide means for preventing floods
will be urged upon President Wilson
at a hearing February 26. Immediate
action to further the flood prevention
movement lias been urged by Ernest
P. Blackneli, national director of the
American Red Cross, in a letter to Ed
mund T. Perkins, president of the Na
tional Drainage congress, replying to
notification that lack ot finances had
halted the educational work of the
drainage congress.
For the purpose of finding work for
the unemployed thousands, now walk
ing the streets of the country's large
cities and industrial centers, the fed
eral commission of industrial relations
inaugurated an investigation to .extend
from Boston to Kansas City. Atten
tion first will be given to public and
private employment agencies, to bring
out to what extent the trouble is due
to their lack of organization and in
efficiency and four investigators have
been assigned to undertake this task
with orders to report within six weeks.
Despite a general understanding
that, in defense to the administration,
Asiatic exclusion legislation would not
be agitated in congress pending diplo
matic negotiations with Japan, Com
missioner General Caminetti of the
immigration bureau addressed a house
committee urging early action “to
check the menace of Asiatic immigra
tion.” The Chinese have become so
acclimated to the United States, the
commissioner asserts, that Asiatic im
migration is a Berious menace to the
entire country. The danger is great
est, in his opinion, on the Pacific coast,
but it is general as well.
Six vice admirals for the American
navy would be authorized under a bill
passed by the senate, after an ex
tended debate, in which senators told
of how the commander of the battle
ship fleet in Mexican waters might
have to take orders from a ranking
foreigner. The navy has been appeal
ing for years for a revival of a higher
grade than rear admiral. Secretary
Daniels was highly pleased by the sen
ate’s action and expressed confidence
that the measure would certainly pass
the house promptly and be signed by
the present. Under the senate bill,
four vice admirals would be promoted
Secretary Redfleld of the department
of commerce has advised Representa
tive Howard of Georgia that ho has
decided to establish one of four
branches of the foreign nnd domestic
commerce bureau at Atlanta. Other
branches are to be established at Se
attle, St. Louis and Detroit. The
sundry civil service bill carries $80,000
for the establishment and maintenance
of this service, approximately $20,000
to be devoted to each of the four bu
reaus.
Nearly five million dollars has been
added to the total of the postoffice ap
proprlation bill as it passed the house
when the senate committee completed
its work on the measure. It carries
$31,000,000, the largest amount ever
appropriated for postal purposes. The
maximum salaries for .rural mail car
riers under the bill will be increased
to $1,200, the total increase for this
purpose amounting to $4,360,000. An
increase of $1,000,000 was added to
the house appropriation for railway
mail service to meet the demands of
the parcel post.
While senators of the interstate
commerce committee were conferring
with President Wilson on the anti
trust legislative program, Progressive
party leaders in and out of congress
were explaining their views on the
handling of the trust problem to house
committees.
An earthquake lasting from fifteen
to thirty seconds and disturbing par
ticularly what are geologically known
as the Devonian and Silurian sections
of the northeastern parts ot the Unit
ed States, took place. It was
tally sewre in the central and north
ern parts cA-New York state. Virtually
all of New York state, including New
York City, felt the shock, an
England generally, lower eastern Can
ada and parts of New Jersey and
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Passing of Georgian *
Lamented by Wilson. +
+
Washington.—When President +
+ Wilson heard of Senator Bacon's +
+ death, he wrote the following +
+ statement: +
+ “All who knew Senator Bacon +
+ will sincerely deplore his death. +
+ It deprives the senate of one of +
+ its oldest and most experienced +
+ member; a man who held, with +
+ something like reverence, to the +
+ traditions of the great body of +
+ which ho was so long a part, and +
+ who Bought, in all that he did, +
+ to maintain its standards of +
+ statesmanship nnd service. The +
+ great state of Georgia will miss +
+ her distinguished son and Berv- +
+ ant. My own association with +
+ him had been of the most cor- +
< dial, and, to me, helpful sort. I +
t particularly profited by his expe- +
+ rience in foreign affairs.” +
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PASSES TO BEYOND
STATE AND NATION IN DEEP.
MOURNING FOR SENATOR
BACON OF GEORGIA.
GEORGIA PAYS HIM HONORS
Passing of ^Senator Causes President
Wilson to Lament and Moves
Colleagues Almost to Tears.
Washington.—Senator Bacon is dead.
While Washington was wrapped in
the white mantle of the first snow
storm of tlie Benson, the soul of this
great statesman nnd modest soldier,
who had defended Georgia on the bat-
AUGUSTUS 0. BACON
STATE RIVERS A!
E
LIBERAL PROVISIONS FOR GEOR
GIA RIVERS PROVIDED BY
HOU8E COMMITTEE.
SAVANNAH TO GET $250,000
State Waterways and Harbors Fare
Well in Bill Which Has Just
Been) Completed.
HAIR ORNAMENTS
OF RICH DESIGN
IN FAVOR TODAY
T HERE is no abatement In the lik
ing for ornaments for the hair.
tlefleld and in the halls of congress,
passed away.
The end came at Garfield hospital
with a suddenness that astounded his
physicians, his intimate friends and
the world of official Washington. At
noon his condition was not thought
alarming. Shortly afterwards he had
a sinking spell, and at ten minutes
after two he was gone. An infected
clot of blood, which reached the
heart, caused his sudden death.
President Wilson issued a statement
expressing his deep regret. Vice Pres
ident Marshall, members of the Geor
gia delegation and Intimate friends in
the senate, hastened to the hospital
to show their respect and to urge that
all the marks of a great nation’s
honor be accepted by the bereaved rel
atives.
Following the official funeral, the
body was taken to Georgia, accompa
nied by an honorary escort of sena
tors and representatives; The funeral
was in Macon Thursday.
Northeast In Grip of a- Blizzard.
New York.—A snowstorm, said to
rival in severity the famous blizzard
of 1888, raged to the accompaniment
of zero weather in the upper Hudson
valley, the Mohawk valley and the
northern and western parts of New
York state, tying up smaller railroad
trolley lines and paralyzing communi
cation generally. All mails were de
layed. Four deaths were caused in
New York- City by the storm, and
the total fatalities due to the cold
spell and stormy conditions numbered
seventeen.
British Marines In Mexico. .
'Washington—A Bmall legation guard
of marines and machine guns from a
British cruiser at Vera Cruz to the le
gation in Mexico City was ordered
only after the state department had
been advised of the plan through the
American embassy in London. Threats
that the British legation would be
made a particular object of attack in
the event of a public uprising led
to the precautionary measure and It
was intimated at the state department
not only
for it
—Atlanta.
A dispatch from Washington says;
Rivers and harbors are liberally pro
vided for, and many new projects au
thorized in the bill agreed upon by
the house rivers and harbors com
mittee.
The measuro carries $445,000,000.
The biggest item for Georgia is $250,-
000 for the maintenance of the Savan
nah harbor. Representative Edwards,
of the first district, secured a survey
for a thirty-live foot channel. He
also secured $154,000 for a turning
basin at Savannah.
Brunswick harbor Is given $33,250
for maintenance. Owing to the de
layed report of the engineers on a
new project for the harbor, Represen
tative Walker was unable to get an
additional appropriation in this bill.
For Back river, near Brunswick, a
new project, supported by Represen
tative Walker, $5,000 is provided for'
improvement. Representatives Ed
wards and Walker landed $10,000 for
Generals cut, near Darien.
The Altamaha system, which op’ens
navigation from Brunswick and Sa
vannah to Macon, on the Ocmttjgee,
and Milledgeville, on the Oconee,
with a navigable mileage of 494
miles, and which is touched by twen
ty-four Georgia counties, was taken
on under a new four-foot project
depth, and $75,000 is carried in this
bill to start the work, looking to its
completion in five years. Several
Georgia members, Messrs. Walker,
Edwards, Hughes, Crisp, Bartlett and
Harwick, have been active in urging
the new project.
Savannah river, between Augusta
and Savannah, gets an appropriation
of $25,000 with which to complete the
project depth provided several years
ago. Congressman Edwards got a
survey in the last river and harbor
act for the Savannah river and har
bor between Savannah and Augusta,
if a favorable report is made, an ap
propriation will be provided next' De
cember.
The-Flint river gets $25,000; the
Chattahoochee is given $120,000,
while the Coosa gets $25,000 with
which to prosecute the improvements
that are being made on those impor
tant streams.
Bacon Drafted Law. .
But comparatively few people
know that Georgia was one of the first
states to bridge by legislative enact
ment any possible chasm In the Unit
ed States senate from death or other
cause, and that Senator Bacon himself
practically drafted the meashre passed
by the general assembly last summer.
Under the change in the constitution
making, senators elective, Senator Ba
con was tlie first to fall within its pro
visions. Realizing the possibility of
vacancies and that the amendment to
the constitution stipulated that state
legislatures should provide by special
acts for filling such possible vacancies,
Senator Bacon took the matter up with
Governor Slaton just after the legisla
ture met last summer. He sent the
governor a draft of a bill authorizing
the governor to make appointment, and
Governor Slaton suggested one or two
small amendments and sent it back to
the senator. Senator Bacon approved
the amendments, and the bill thus
drafted was passed. It was offered in
the house by Representative Harde
man of Jefferson, who explained its
purposes, and was passed without dis-
sent^ig voice;
Case Strong for Federal Bank.
Atlanta’s fight for a regional bank,
in so far as formal arguments before
the organization committee are con
cerned, is over. The committee left
Atlanta in their special car for Cin
cinnati, where they will hold hear
ings.
It now rests with the organization
committee to consider the arguments
presented before it in Atlanta and in
the briefs submitted, and make up its
decision. The decision will probably
not be made for some months to
come, since the committee proposes
to return to Washington and go over
all the evidence submitted to it from
all parts of the country before at
tempting to divide 1 the country into
districts and appoint the reserve
cities.
Without assuming an attitude of-
over-confidence, the Atlanta joint
committee, which presented Atlanta’s
plea to the organization committee,
feel that at least their case is as
strong as that of any other city
Ducktown Fumes in Courts.
Attorney General Thomas S. Felder
will appear before the United States
Supreme court February 27 and ask
an injunction against the Ducktown
Sulphur, Copper and Iron company of
Ducktown, Tenn., preventing that com
pany from allowing the sulphur fumes
from its plant entering Georgia and
damaging crops and forests.
This action follows the failure of the
copper company to enter into the con
tract proposed by the general assembly
at tlie last session for the protection
of Georgia farmers along the Toaoos-
see line.
There is a good deal of talk about the
return of the high coiffure, but the last
few years have shown women the beau
ty of well-chosen, and well-designed
hair ornaments, and no coiffure can
put them In the background without a
good deal of a struggle.
The famous French dressmakers,
realizing the Bcope their genius might
have in hair ornaments, have turned
their attention to designing some of
much beauty.
One ornament that makes use ot the
butterfly la made of tiny black Jet
disks mounted bn black wire. The
butterfly measures about four Inches
from tip to tip of his half-opened
wings. He is perched on a bandeau
made of the little jet disks strung to
gether solidly—a bandeau about two
inches wide. The butterfly is perched
at the base of a full back aigrette
made up of half a dozen tall, slender
spikes.
Another butterfly is made if irides
cent pink sequins. This butterfly is
bigger than the black one described.
Each wing measures a couple of
inches. But it is so graceful in color
and form that it is in no way too
heavy for the hair it adorns. It is
fastened to a twisted ribbon bandeau
studded with the pink' sequins.
Above the butterfly riBe three tiny
pink plumes, deeper at the tips than
at the base—shading from pale bluish
pink' to deep rose. Whether plumes
as hat trimming gain great favor or
not this season—and Paris has been
trying to reintroduce their use on hats
—they doubtless will be much used
for hair ornaments.
The American shops show their hair
ornaments of good design and little
coBt their appeal to the average wom
an’s sense of economy, as well aS to
her sense of beauty. The most ef
fective of these ornaments are doubt-
lesB either black, white or black and
white combined—rhinestones for the
ornaments. Nowhere in women’s
dress does it look so graceful and
suitable as on her hair. Its lightness
and delicacy make- it a fitting crown
to a dainty coiffure.
Jet and rhinestoneB combined are
brilliant in effect. One especially
good ornament shows good-sized
rhinestones arranged alternately with
cut jet beads of the same size. They
are set in a platinum band, In three
tiers, and the band is made to extend
all around the head. Where it fastens
on the left side there Is a soft, fluffy
group of white feathers of almost
downy appearance and texture.
A dainty ornament for a young girl
is made of silk apple blossoms and
pink aigrettes. The ornament is
thrust into the hair at a smart angle
by means of a tortoise Bhell hairpin.
The apple blosSoms, In natural colors
—Borne dozen of them—are grouped
about the base Of some soft pink,
waving feathers. The contrast be
tween the somewhat stiff blossoms
and the soft, waving feathers is good.
TAKE CARE OF THE GLOVES
Length of Service and General Pre-
eentablllty Depend on Why They
Are Handled.
Too much cannot be said about the
necessity for proper care in removing
gloves from the hands, for upon this
more than anything else depends the
length of time a pair of gloves will
wear. After unfastening the glove it
should be turned back over the hand
as far as the fingers, and then should
be pushed off without pulling on the
fingers of the glove at all, as when
this is done the threads of the sewing
are broken, and in a short time begin
to rip. i
After the glove Is off the hands tho
fingers should be gently straightened
out, the gloves smoothed Into shape,
and put Into a box to keep them from
the air as much as possible, as it lsi
the air and the moisture In it that rot
the fine thread with which a glove i»
sewn.
Elaborate Ffchus.
Fichus are Worn either inside or out
side the dress. They .are made of
shadow lace or plain white net. One,
in black net, is trimmed with a black
satin bow run through a pearl buckle-
at the bottom. Another has a plain
white Medici collar and jabot trimmed'
with white ball bultons. A more elab
orate fichu is made of silk shadow
lace with standing collar.
The newest ruff 1b worn either
standing or flat. There are three rows,
of plaited net on a ribbon band, the
ends of which are tied in four-in-hand.
A chic looking ruff is made of black
net and white maline; the black is
edged with picot and the ribbon ends
are plain. The more extreme styles
are very full and stand high. One is-
of white maline with black picot edge,
a moire bow in black and long moire
ends in front.
Fur Chin Straps.
The mode for wearing chin straps
of silk or velvet with the small hats
of the present day has been in vogue-
for some time, but among the latest
arrivals in the millinery world are>
wide brimmed velvet hats trimmed
with bands of fur, other narrow bands
of fur being brought down from the
sides to fasten beneath the chin. One
model, for instance, was of brick red
velvet trimmed with skunk, with a
Bkunk chin strap attached to the brim
beneath a knot of brick red velvet rib
bon. Ermine is also being used for
the purpose, but its peculiar yellow
white color is not particularly becom
ing to even the most perfect of com
plexions.
I F ever there was a season in which
millinery modes were more becom
ing than those recently designed (for
present wear), the memory of it lin
gers not in the mind of the oldest in
habitant. These lovely "between sea
sons” hats promise well for the later
designs jipd are so captivating and so
inexpensive that almost anyone may
indulge in them for the sake of
variety 'in headwear if for nothing
else. •
“Variety is the spice of life” more
truly, in the matter of headwear than
in any other apparel. - The hat is the
keynote of the toilette. It is the most
important finishing touch, and finish
ing touches are to be relied upon to,
give character and distinction in the
matters of dress. The between-sea-
sons hat lends an inspiration to its
wearer, who has grown tired of her
winter millinery and finds it too early
to buy a strictly spring hat.
. The demi-season hats (as milliners
call them) are made of silk, satin,
moire, maline and fancy braida most
ly. There is never any telling what
will be evolved next by the clever
people who think out our headwear.
Just now they are exploiting the fab
rics just mentioned, with jet and
small flowers and smart feathers for
trimming. Beads and the metal laces,
little bunches of small fruits, and
many jet ornaments, such as are in
the shops in profusion, come in for
much consideratioji also.
The three hats shown here are fine
examples of the newest modes. They
are rather small, but are not worn as
low on the head as our winter hats.
They fit snugly, and may be kept In
place without a pin.
Among the new models are shapes
that are worn at quite a tilt to the
right. Others Bet almost Bquarely on
the head, but drooping, close-fitting
brims at tho right, which curve up
ward at the left, give them the ap
pearance of being posed at a rakish
angle. This pose carried to the ex
treme, almost covers the right eye.
Those who are Inclined to be face
tious declare that the right eye is not
being worn at present. The poise of
the hat is a thing to be decided by
individuals for themselves. There are
hats for those who like the straight
pose and hats for those who like the
tilted pose. In selecting one the idea
of-its designer should be considered.
It it was .made to be worn tilted it
will not look well placed in any other
way.
In choosing a hat for wear now—
and during the early spring (that is
during that period when we are wait
ing for Bpring)— one cannot go wrong
if hats of the same materials as those
shown here are selected.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY. j
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