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THE GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS. CAIRO, GEORGIA.
NEWS OFTHE WEEK
LATE NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
SOUTH, EAST, NORTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
out the Nation and Particularly
the Great South.
Southern.
Fully twenty-five thousand (specta
tors in the vicinity of the Candler
building' in Atlanta, Ga„ throughout
Sunday afternoon, while nearly every
fireman in the city battled furiously
with one of the most dangerous down
town fires in years, which almost com
pletely wrecked the McKenzie build
ing at James and Peachtree streets, a
city landmnrk. Damage is estimated
as being between one hundred thou
sand and one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars. Five firemen were In
jured. A number were almost suffo
cated by smoke fumes. Other fire
men were hurt by flying glasi},
A Hlrmlngham, Ala., dispatch says
that a train on the Queen and Cres
cent, running forty minutes late, was
held up about twelve miles north of
Birmingham, and four sacks of regis
tered mail said to contain over forty
thousand dollars taken. There is no
clue to the robbers.
The body of United States Senator
A. O. Bacon reached Macon on a spe
cial train from Atlanta. Hundreds
of Mncon people were In watting at
tile station and stood with bared heads
as the casket contal»ing the remains
of the dead Georgia senator was taken
from the car and placed In the hearse
and transported to the city hall. The
funeral services were held in Christ
Episcopal church, of which Rev. John
Bunting is rector, and was attended
by large concourses of people. The
church only seats one thousand peo
ple, and many stood outside during the
burial service.
The forty-ninth anniversary of the
entrance of the Northern soldiers in
to Columbia S. C., was marked by the
unveiling of a granite boulder.
Some unknown person has been
making a target out of one of the
faces of tlie Cordele, Ga., city clock in
the court house steeple for practice
with a rifle.
The $1,500 trophy for the best peck
of oats, contested for at the Nation
al Corn exposition at Dallas, Texas,
was won by a Canadian.
General. ,
Joseph Fels, millionaire' soap manu
facturer, single tax advocate and phi
lanthropist, is desfil at his home in
Philadelphia. died from pneumo
nia. He was/61 years old. He had
spent mosj. -of his life In advocating
thejjticMne, of the single tax in both
this country and Great Britain,
j A violent storm swept across the
continent from Colorado, causing rain
in the Southern states and snow in
.the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, the
lake regions and the north Atlantic
states. Hall began to fall throughout
Misssouri and by night had coated the
ground in many places with more than
an inch of ice. Northwest Iowa, east
ern South Dakota and northeastern
Nebraska are in the grip of a storm.
A 36-mile an hour wind, piled snow in
great- drifts and delayed traffic in Illi
nois. A storm of sleet and snow swept
over western Missouri and most of
Kansas.
Three men held up an interurban
train on the Seattle-Tacoma electric
railway at night and robbed the pas
sengers of more than three hundred
dollars. After the robbers had col
lected their tribute, they leaped from
the moving car and escaped. The
train left Seattle, Wash., at 9:05
o’clock and was made up of two
coaches. In the first forward car
there were 90 menl and in the second
there were 30 passengers, • mostly
women.
With molten lead and red hot pieces
of cornice falling about them, sixty
men and twenty women made, their
way out of a factory building in,Green
street, New York City, when three
floors were a raging furnace, but ev
ery one escaped unhurt.
Maximo Castillo, the bandit, has
been, taken by United States troops to
Hachita, N. M. With him are his
brother, his trumpeter and the latter’s
wife and two Indian women. The ban
dit apparently was not at all averse
to being placed under the protection
of the United States.
Among the stories told by the pas
sengers of the steamship Columbia of
the Anchor line, and the Red Star
liner Lapland, which came into the
port of New York City three days
late, was the statement that the pas
sengers were startled by the appear
ance in the northern sky of a brilliant
ball of fire. Shooting in a parabola
toward the liner, it seemed to them
almost certain to fall on the Lapland’s
deck. Instead it burst into pieces with
the report of a cannon and sank into
the sea.
Four persons were killed, five prob
ably fatally injured and twenty-five
others hurt in Indianapolis, lnd„ when
an English avenue street car was
crushed between the two heavy trac
tions.cars. The accident was caused
by slippery rails.
Scenes of tumult, which at times
bordered on riot, marked the close of
the special session of the Ohio legis
lature, which adjourned sine die at
the capital, Columbus. There was an
altercation over the automobile license
bill between a Republican and Demo
cratic member, but the bill passed.
The commanders of the German
cruiser Dresden has shipped to the
German legation In Mexico City two
machine guns and 4(1,000 rounds of
ammunition. Accompanying the ship
ment went asqund of sailors from the
Dresden In civilian drbss. This step
was taken after Gen. Gustave Maas,
communder of the federal forces at
Vera Cruz, had given his consent.
So far as railroad communication Ib
concerned Los Angeles and southern
California remain cut off from tho
world as a result of the record-break
ing storm of rain and wind which
swept that region for three days. Re
ports from the six counties most af
fected did not materially change the
estimate of the total damage amount
ing to about four and a half million
dollars. The greatest anxiety con
cerns tho situation of the three hun
dred pussengers marooned aboard the
California limited and the Phoenix ex
press of the Santa Fe train. The citrus
crop is seriously damaged.
The floods around Los Angeles, Cal.,
have severely damaged the citrus fruit
crop. The loss Is stated to be very
heavy. Scores of homes in the low
lands were inundated when a tempo
rary dam, erected to protect railroad
tracks, gave way.
Col. George W. Goethals says that,
barring unforeseen accidents, the Pan
ama canal will be open for merchant
ships July 1. Tho colonel added that
he had always been opposed to the
exemption of American coastwise ship
ping from the payment of tolls, be
cause that would decrease the reve
nues of tho canal, and, in his. opinion,
would not accrue to the benefit of con
sumers, but merely increase profits of
ship owners. The colonel declined to
discuss Its legal aspect or Its bearing
on treaty relations. He says the canal
fortifications are entirely adequate
and cannot be captured.
Two more Englishmen are reported
as having "disappeared” in Juarez,
Mexico. The report came from Samuel
Steward, who Bays the men, John Law
rence and a companion named Curtis,
went to Juarez to search for William
S. Benton. Stewart expressed the fear
that they, like Benton, had been shot.
Gustav Bauch, who was on trial for
being a spy, also,disappeared in Jua
rez. Thomas D. Edwards, American
consul at Juarez, said that when the
friends of Bauch went to visit him
with bedding and food he was not in
the cell where lie had been held in
communicado while his tyial was held.
Salvador Diaz Mirorf, editor of El
Imparclal, Mexico. City, has been plac
ed under police surveillance because
of the report that he had threatened
to kill Minister O’Shaughnessy, who
receirtly protested to President Huerta
concerning the character of anti-Wil
son editorials appearing in El Impar-
cial. It appears, however, that the
most serious threat made by Miron
was that he “would repeat to Mr.
O’Shaughnessy’s face what he had
written in editorials.
Washington.
President Wilson was the central
figure at a mass meeting in a down
town theater at Washington under the
auspices of the Sons of the Revolu
tion in commembration of Washing
ton’s birthday. Joseph W. Folk, solic
itor of the state department, in an
address, paid tribute to the founder of
the republic as a man "imperfect
enough to be intensely human and
near Enough perfect to be an inspira
tion to all who honor justice and wor
ship liberty.’’ President Wilson did
not speak.
A Washington telegram states that
there was $1,866,619,157 In gold coin
and bullion in the United States at the
close of the last fiscal year.
Conservation—particularly as it af
fects the building of water power proj
ects in the navigable streams of the
country—was added to the chief ad
ministration polices under discussion
at the white house. Conservationists
have learned in a preliminary way the
answer which the Wilson admlnistra-.
tion has prepared to the question of
whether the federal government of the
states shall be supreme’ in the matter
of water rights of navigable rivers. It
is stated that federal permits for water
power projects will be given only to in
dividuals or concerns duly Incorporat
ed as public utilities.
The administration Alaskan railroad
bill authorizing the president to con
struct a $35,000,000 railroad from
Alaska’s coast to its great coal fields,
was passed by the house by a vote of
230 to 87. A similar measure has
already passed the senate and the bills
will be taken up at once in confer
ence between the two houses, with a
view to sending it quickly to file
president, who has signified his inten
tion of signing it.
The federal reserve bank organiza
tion committee, back in Washington,
after a five weeks’ trip through the
country, in a statement, announces
that its selection of federal reserve
cities and definition of reserve districts
would .not be made until it l ed care
fully considered information t'.ccumu-
lated on the trip. The statement said
the committee found the country very
prosperous and learned that bankers
and business men are confident of the
success of the banking system.
Information that President Wilson
would veto the immigration bill if it
sent to him from congress with the
literacy test provision amazed mem
bers of the senate immigration com
mittee. Many of them confessed that
they were' bewildered, inasmuch as
they had determined to retain the lit
eracy test in their draft of the immi
gration measure as it passed the
house, under the impression that the
president would accept the bill if it
passed the senate. An interesting ses
sion of the committee is looked for.
The committee had directed its chair
man to consult with the president.
MAKE GARDENS OF
PARKS 10 YARDS
MOVEMENT TO START GARDENS
IN CITY BACK YARDS BY
SCHOOL CHILDREN.
WANT HELP FROM TEACHERS
Move to Keep City Children Out of
Harmful Moving Picture
Shows.
—Atlanta.
Following closely upon the sugges
tion made a tthe meeting of the City
Federation of Women’s Clubs when
Councilman Ashley advised that the
club women start a crusade to make
back yards as perfect as front yards,
comes the word from Miss Celeste
Parrish, supervisor of rural schools in
Georgia. Miss Parrish would have the
children in Atlanta start the movement
of making gardens in city back yards.
Relative to the work Miss Parrish
states:
"Back yard gardening is one of the
revelations to modern city life. As an
occupation for children, it has no
equal. The exercise furnished by it
brings into play every part of the
body, and, since it mus tbe done in
the fresh air and sunshine, it includes
many hygienic factors. It arouses a
high order of intellectual interest, and
reacts in a moral way. If the children
of Atlanta could be persuaded to un
dertake it, it would be a city analogue
of the corn and cannig clubs of the
country. In the end it would be an
economic asset for Atlant aand would
do much to solve many of the moral
problems which now perplex us. For
one" thing, it would help to keep the
children off the streets, out of the
harmful moving pictuer shows and in
’God’s great out of doors.’
"With the co-operation of the teach
ers of the city, every child could be
easily reached. With some of the inter
est now manifested by our splendid
chamber of commerce in the children,
the success of this movement for the
city children would be assured.
"There are practically no city lots
too small for the work. One square
lot, cultivated intensively, and plant
ed with reference to constant succes
sion, has been known to furnish a fam
ily of four or five with a variety of
delicious vegetables. Vacant lots could
now and then be secured for larger
enterprises than the home lot would
afford.
"Miss Beaufort Matthews, 428
Peachtree strdet, Atlanta, is interest
ed in this work, and is anxious to
serve the city children by stimulating
the movement. She seems to me to
be eminently fitted for the task, and
I hope that she will have the co-opera
tion of every good man and woman in
Atlanta. I entreat the various agen
cies for civic betterment and child wel
fare to give her their cordial support.”
John Carson “Boss Fiddler.”
Old John Carson, grinning and
chuckling to himself, tied his fiddle
up in its muslin bag, tucked his $50
prize and his state championship cer
tificate in his boot leg, and started
back to Blue Ridge to sppend the bal
ance of his natural life telling the
folks how he proved himself boss fid
dler of Georgia.
Shorty Harper, also elated, took his
$35 second prize and started for Mon
roe to explain how he just missed
the “champeenship.” He will prove
what he says by the fact that he
stood second.
Joel Hudson just took his third
prize of $25 and went home, satisfied
to be "in the money.” Trailing after
Hudson came a dozen others, lugging
their fiddles and some portion of the
additional $200 divided between them
by the judges.
Thus closed the three days’ fid
dling contest at the auditorium to de
termine who of all Georgia's fiddlers
is the flddltngest fiddler.
Washington’s Birthday Observed.
Despite the fact that the actual date-
of the birth of the Father of His
Sountry fell on Sunday, the banks, city
and county offices, also the state and
national departments, took cognizance
of the event on the 23rd.
Just as Atlanta begins to really ap
preciate that. Washington’s birthday
has, from * the ' calendar standpoint,
passed, in far-off Guam, on the Philip
pine archipelago, will be a first salut
ing the flag in honor of the even^. The
only’object in bringing this point out
is to show that the date may not fall
exactly on the same hour the world
’round or even'IiT Atlanta.
In fact, one good old mammy “bo’n
ttvo years befo’ freedom” told her mis
tress when informed that the day was
the one on which George Washington
first saw the light, that she was "pow
erful glad that was so ’cause no one
in her family could ever tell her just
when her older brother had been
born.”
It seeias tfiat an older brother had
been named George Washington,
Issues In Georgia Politics.
Many moves are figured as possible
and probable on the political chess
board of the state in the next few
months.
With the practically accepted state
ment to the effect that Congressman
Thomas W .Hardwick of Sandersville,
now in his sixth term as representative
from the Tenth district in the national
congress, will be a candidate for suc
cession to Senator Bacon in the fed
eral election, the opening gun in what
promises to be a spectacular fight for
control of state affairs in all important
offices has been fired.
7,500 BANKS ENTER
INSTITUTIONS THAT HAVE NOT
COME IN NEW SYSTEM
ARE SMALL.
BIGIN FIGURING RESOURCES
Lest Than Fifty National Banka Failed
to Respond—Some State
Banks.
Washington.—The new federal re
serve system will begin business with
a membership of at least seven thou
sand five hundred banks. This was
apparent when, at the close of the
last day on which national banks could
signify their Intention of accepting the
terms of the currency law, less than
fifty of the 7,493 national banks of
tho country had failed to respond fa
vorably. More than enough state in
stitutions had applied for membership
to bring the total to 7,500.
Official count of the banks and tab
ulation of their resources and liabil
ities will begin at the treasury depart
ment.
Most of the institutions that have
not come into the new Bystem are
comparatively small, and it is esti
mated that 97 per cent, of all the capi
tal and resources in the present na
tional ban ksystem is represented by
those whose applications are in.
VILLA’S STORY OF KILLING
Rebel Leader Says Englishman Tried
to Take His Life.
Chihuahua, Mexico.—General Villa’s
story of the killing, of William S. Ben
ton, told to reporters here, differs but
little from the official statement given
out at Juarez.
The Juarez statement declared that
when Benton reached for his hip pock
et Villa knocked him down with a
blow of the fist. Villa said that when
Benton made this move he poked his
own pistol into Benton's stomach and
then turned him over to the guards.
Villa insisted that Benton came to
take his life, and referred to Benton’s
mission concerning the welfare of his
rancli as a pretext to gain admittance.
According to Villa, Benton, after the
verdict of the courtmartial, confessed
his guilt and declined to ask for mer
cy. He merely requested that his prop
erty be turned over to his widow.
Villa contradicted his official report
to the American consul at Juarez that
Gustav Bauch, a German-American,
accused of being a spy, had been
brought to Chihuahua. Villa said he
knew nothing of him.
The rebel general marked another
milestone in his political and military
progress from the rustic outlaw of i
three years ago to the dictatorship of
northern Mexico, when he received
the homage of his officers and promi-'
nent citizens at the gubernatorial pal
ace.
College Course for Winners.
Washington.—Substitution of a
year’s course in practical training at
some agricultural college instead of
annual trips to Washington for the
young prize winners of the corn, can
ning, poultry and other agricultural
clubs, is the recommendation of the de
partment of agriculture. In the event
the young champion’s academic train
ing would not enable him to enter the
state agricultural college, the depart
ment suggests elementary courses in
instructions, teaching less advanced
instruction work. Officials of the de
partment express belief that such
courses would be valuable.
Ex-Senator Teller Dead.
Denver, Colo.—Henry Moore Teller,
secretary of the interior in President
Arthur’s cabinet, and for more than
thirty years United States senator
from Colorado, died hei'e at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. G. E. Tyler. Sen
ator Teller was 84 years old; had been
ill two years during which he had
many sinking spells, but from which
he rallied. In the late seventies, Sen
ator Teller became a person of wide
repute because of his activities in the
United States senate. His most ar
dent work was his opposition to the
standardization of gold in the mone
tary system of the nation.
Mississippi Race Riot.
Robinsville, Miss.—There were no
indications here of further trouble be
tween whites and negroes after the
race riot, in which Morris Love, white,
and two negroes were killed. White
men, said to have been incensed by
noise a score or more, negroes made,
formed a posse to arrest them. The
negroes, it was claimed, began shoot
ing and Love fell dead. In the ex
change of shots two negroes were kill
ed. The white men retreated when
their ammunition was exhausted and
the negroes fled.
19 Persona Poisoned.
Birmingham, Ala.—Every physician
at Mountain Creek, a small town south
of this place, was at work to pre
vent death to any of the- 19 persons
poisoned from eating "soused yfeat.”
Several traveling men to wthe
meat was served at a hotel were
among those taken ill. The meat
was distributed by a local market
man who had purchased it from a
farmer. Town authorities are inves
tigating the cause, but have reached
no decision as yet.
LACE-TRIMMED
PETTICOATS FOR
COMING SPRING
T HE same sheer materials—always
a little more sheer—the same reli
able laceB and the same dainty embroi
deries enter into tbe composition of
undermuslins, as have been used fqr
many seasons. But there are certain
little new touches which make the up-
to-date garments.
For one thing, ribbon is used with
everything. It is a part of the con
struction of our underclothing and an
always present decorative feature.
Two inexpensive and dainty petti
coats are shown here. They are nar
rower than of yore, being only a yard
and three quarters or two yardB wide
at the outside limit. Narrow them
to suit yourself. In order to step com
fortably in the narrow ones the bot
tom is slashed. Such a petticoat is
shown in the upper figure.
The body of this petticoat is of nain-
Book. There is no flounce, but alter
nating rows of Cluny insertion and
Swiss embroidery edge the bottom in
the manner of a ruffle. The skirt 1b
T HOSE new coiffures which have
been promised and are surely com
ing, reveal the hair much more elabor
ately dressed than is the rule at pres
ent. The new high styles will be
welcome, and coiffures which show
careful arrangement (and also atten
tion to the hair before'it is dressed)
are certainly needed. Our passing
modes are characterless. It is oply
on the most formal occasions that one
sees hair-dressing that looks carefully
and well done.
At the opera and other hatless func
tions, the opportunity to note the new
efforts of the designers of coiffures
shows the departure from simple,
plain styles. They are all right for
very youthful and pretty faces, but
the new coiffures demonstrate how
wonderfully potent the hair-dressing is
in adding attraction to the face.
Two styles are shown here. In both
the hair is waved and arranged to
look very soft and abundant. For the
possessor of a beautiful brow the
style in which the hair is combed up
in a small pompadour is a good selec
tion. The arrangement is managed so
that the forehead is set off—made to
look wide and low with tbe temples
uncovered.
The lady with the serene expres
sion, the placid brow, will do well to
adopt this style. The back hair is
coiled In a loose and ample PByche
knot, just above the crown of the
head.
A half-band of gilt supporting a full
slashed (o the depth of the trimming
(about eight inches) and the lace
edging finishes the slash and extends
about the bottom of tho skirl.
The skirt is shaped in at tho waist
line, and no fullness is allowed about
the waist. A bow of wash ribbon, in
pink or blue or pale yellow, or "tan
go" color is placed at tho top of the
slash.
The second skirt Is wide enough
to dispense with a slash. It is finished
at the bottom with row on row of
Val. insertion in two patterns, and.
two rowB of edging about the
bottom. A novelty in the way
of using tbe insertion is pictured
In the medallions of embroidery with
the lace insertion sewed about them„
forming a wheel of lace In the flounpu.
They are set in at Intervals. They
cause an unevenness in the bottom of
the skirt, but be not disturbed there
by, it is a fashionable unevenness.
Between the lace wheels, small bows
of wash ribbon are sewed. This dain
ty flounce is often further embellished
with a short spray of little chiffon
roses and leaves., The ribbons and
roses must be taken off when the skirt
is laundered. No starch, by tbe way,
is to be UBed in these petticoats. Rib
bons are washed separately. As for
chiffon flowers, they serve their brief
time and are discarded, unless one
manages to clean them with gaso
line.
It 1b fascinating work to make up the
under-muslins of today. The garments
are charming and the work easy to
do. Nearly all the sewing is done by
machine. JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
Chains of Gems.
Jewelry of every kind is ehown ip
the glittering shop windows, and tbe
variety of design in which personal
ornaments are made is equaled only by
the fanciful laces, brooches, bracelets,
bodice ornaments and Bprays or ban
deaux for the hair. Chains will be
very welcome presents this winter,
being in fashion again. They are as
long as ever. Some are costly, indeed,
in diamonds and other precious or
semi-precious stones. The latter are
much in fashion, for various reasons,
among which the prevalent "hard
times” are pleaded. Many of the semi
precious are equal in beauty to the
magnificent sapphire, emerald and
ruby. The lovely peridot with its
delicate pale green is regarded ub
more aesthetic than the rather em
phatic tint of the emerald. The moon
stone haB a loveliness all its own.
spray of feathers completes the hair
dress and is a very stately affair.
Greek bands without the standing
feather would be excellent with this
coiffure.
The arrangement shown in the sec
ond figure is entirely different in the
treatment of the brow. In this the
hair is loosely waved and the brow
and temples covered. As in the first
style the ears, except for a glimpse of
the lobe, are quite covered.
The high hairdresB is usually ac
complished with puffs on top of the
head, but in a new arrangement the
hair is waved and combed over a
support. It is parted at. one side,
brought over the top of the head and
the ends fastened under with a comb
at the opposite side. This new ar
rangement is required by many of the
new hats which are shaped and posed
to show much of the hair qt one side.
An effective hair ornament of em
broidery and rhinestone, finished with
a standing feather finishes this
piquant coiffure. The style is smart
and suited to a vivacious face. It is
very generally becoming.
Women who have very gray or
white hair are considered most for
tunate this season; it is distinctly the
fashion. For them the most elaborate
of coiffures are designed, and these
have been so much admired that the
younger generation have threatened to
introduce powdered hair for them
selves.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.