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RUSHING THE SCRAP HERO.
- —From the Indianapolis News.
CONSUMPTION COSTS US A BILLION A YEAR.
Startling Statistics Brought Out at the Tuberculosis Congress by Professor
Fisher, of Yale.
Washington, D. C.—Professor Irv
ins Fisher, of Yale University, read a
fiaper before the International Con
gress on Tuberculosis which created a
decided sensation. Professor Fisher’s
gaper was on “The Cost of Tubercu
tosis,” and he made the startling an
aouncement that the great white
plague costs in hard cash over one
Million dollars a year.
He estimated that consumption
Kills 138,000 persons every year in
She United States. This is equal, he
Mid. to the deaths from typhoid
fever, diphtheria, appendicitis, men
itagitiß, diabetes, smallpox and cancer
all pat together. Then again, he said,
* generally takes three years io die,
daring which time the poor victim can
•earn little or nothing.
“Five million people now living in
Che United States are doomed to fill
consumptives' graves unless some
thing can be done to prevent it,” de
clared Professor Fisher. "As each
death means anxiety and grief for a
whole family, I estimate that there
will be over twenty million persons
wondered miserable by these deaths."
The scourge, he said, picks out its
victims when they are young men and
young women, at the very time of life
3125 COAL MINERS LOST LIVES.
R:cords Show 1907 Was the Worst Year in History of Industry.
Washington, D. C. —Accidents in
tfcal mines of the United States dur
fiag the last calendar year resulted in
the death of 3125 men, and injury to
5316 more, according to statistics
just made public by the Geological
Survey. The death record among the
•anal miners during the year was
treater by 1033 than In 1906, and is
aaid to have been the worst year in
the history of the coal mining indus
try The figures do not represent the
ff*!l extent of the disasters, as re
ports were not received from certain
States having no mine inspectors.
West Virginia reported the heaviest
death rate in 1907, 12.35 per thou
sand employes, and this State also
•Stowed the lowest production for
«a*‘Jh life lost; —65,9 69 tons. New
Mexico stood next on the list with a
death rate of 11.45 and a production
#4 77,332 tons for each life lost. Ala
tama was third, with a death rate of
U per thousand and a production of
DIVER FIGHTS DEVIL FISH.
Thirty Feet Under Water in Hold of Wreck When Attacked.
San Francisco, Cal.-—Wrapped in
tic tentacles of a giant devil fish,
Martin Lund, a diver employed by
tte Coast Wrecking Company, fought
far his life in the hold of the wrecked
ateamer Pomona, which lies in thirty
fiwt of water in Fort Ross Cove off
£hr Marin County coast.
The devil fish had evidently entered
<g%£> vessel’s hold during the night.
Lsnd had been at work some time
ifcefore he was attacked. » A giant ten
tacle four inches in diameter first
tripped one leg. Before Lund real
ised what was happening another en
orcled his thigh.
The diver began to chop at the rub
•eT-like bonds and at the same vime
gave the hoisting signal to the barge
above. Two more tentacles squirmed
MERCURY FOUND BY SURGEON TO CURE TUBERCULOSIS
Washington, D. C. —Physicians and
Wbe laity will be greatly interested in
the result of a series of experiments
aaade by the navy surgeons recently,
through which they believe they have
demonstrated that mercury is a spe
cific for tuberculosis. The Govern
ment Bureau of Medicine and Surg
ery has published the reports of Med
ical Director C. T. Hibbett and Sur
geon Barton Leigh Wright.
Surgeon Wright, who is the origin
ator of the treatment, says he discov
ered the efficacy of the drug by acci
dent. He was treating a case which
required mercury. The patient was
ftnbercular as well. To the surgeon’s
astonishment the tubercular lesions
began to heal.
The mercury is administered by in
when they are beginning to ear*
money. The minimum cost of doc
tors’ bills, nursing, medicines and loss
of earnings amount to over $2 400 in
each case, while the earning power
which might have been if death had
not come brings the total cost to at
least SBOOO for each individual.
If this sum is multiplied by the
138,000 deaths, the cost, It is seen,
is bigger than the immense sum of
$1,000,000,000. Professor Fisher es
timated that over half this cost falls
upon the victims themselves, but the
cost to others than the consumptive
is over $440,000,000 a year.
As a matter of self-defense, h®
averred, it would be worth while to
the community in order to save mere
ly a quarter of the lives now lost by
consumption to invest $5,500,000,-
000. At present only a fraction of
one per cent, of this sum is being
used to fight the disease.
Professor Fisher expressed his be
lief that isolation hospitals for in
curable consumptives are the best in
vestment of all, because in this way
the most dangerous consumptives a»a
prevented from spreading the disease
by careless spitting in their homes
and neighborhood.
92,535 tons for each life lost. Mis
souri had the lowest death rate, head
ing the roll of honor with .95 and
499,742 tons of coal mined for each
life lost.
Statistics do not bear out the pop
ular idea that most mine disasters
result from explosions. Of the total
number reported during the last year,
947 deaths and 343 injuries resulted
from gas and dust explosions, and SOI
deaths and 416 "injuries were caused
by powder explosions. The chief
cause of death among the miners, the
report explains, was due to the falling
of mine roofs and coal. Such disas
ters caused 1122 deaths and 2141
injuries.
E. W. Parker, chief statistician of
the survey, asserts that much benefit
will result from the action of Con
gress in appropriating $150,000 to in
vestigate mine disasters and take
steps to decrease the number of ac
cidents each year.
out of the darkness and one twlneu
about his neck. As the efforts of the
men on the surface to comply with
his signal threatened to pull his hel
met off, Lund was forced to signal
them to gtop.
With only his left r.rm free he
hacked at the tentacles until they
were partially crippled, but he was
being drawn toward the fish when he
saw the outline of the body. Plung
ing toward it he drove his knife with
all bis force into the head, repeating
the blow until he had slashed it into
sections. In its death throes the oc
topus tightened its tentacles until the
diver was almost crushed in its em
brace.
Lund finally cut himself free and
was brought to the surface fainting.
jection into the muscular tissue in
order to avoid digestive derangement.
Dr. Wright says:
“I am convinced,” he adds, "that
in mercury we have a specific for tu
berculosis, and that the only question
remaining is how long a time will be
required to effect a cure. We follow'
the well established rules of treat
ment during the administration of
the drug—open air, rest, proper food
in abundance, sanitation, personal hy
giene and selection of climate.” Sur
geon-General Rixey declines to com
ment on the tests.
Of course it is not claimed by Dr.
Wright that the new' treatment will
restore the lost lung tissue, but where
there is enough lung tissue to support
life he believes the victim can he saved.
GEORG™ E
For This Year Will Be Held at
MACON, GA„ OCT. 21 TO NOV. ]
BY THE
MACON GEORGIA STATE FAIR ASSOCIATION,
Under the Auspices of
Georgia State Agricultural Society.
While Agriculture will form the leading feature of the exhibition, the
commercial and manufacturing interests of the State will be fully represented
in the various displays.
Among the best attractions to be offered, will be included Fireworks,
Balloon Ascensions, Horse Racing, Hilitary Displays, and other first-class
amusements.
Premium List will be forwarded to all who wish them.
For all other information in regard to space for exhibitors, prices, and
terms for privileges and concessions, please write to
i BEN. L. JONES, President.
BRIDGES SHiTH, Secretarv.
R. L. McKINNEY,, Treasurer.
W. A. HUFF. Gen’l Mgr.
GEORGIA’S GREAT EOSS
American Naval Stores Company
Will Move Its Headquarters.
CHANGE TO OCCUR JANUARY!
Loss to Savannah and State of Georgia
in a Business Way Will Be
Very Large.
Savannah, Ga. —The American Na
val Stores Company, through its sec
retary, Charles J. DeLoach, has an
nouneed its intention to remove its
headquarters out of the state of Geor
gia. Mr. DeLoach stating that Savan
nah would, be abandoned as a beach
quarters for the corporation with the
end of the present year, and that the
offices woujd be opened in Jackson
ville. The formal change is to take
place on January 1.
The announcement, coming fast on
the discovery that the United States
government is again conducting an in
vestigation into the naval stores busi
ness, has agitated South Georgia busi
ness circles. It is even hinted tha:
one of the reasons for the change of
location contemplated is a desire to
change from the jurisdiction of on®
federal court to that of some other
Officers of the company refuse to as
sign a reason, but state that the re
moval has been in view about two
months.
The corporation is capitalized in the
millions, and its loss to Savannafnand
Georgia, in a business way, will be
large. Orders have already been is
sued to office men in the company’s
employ to prepare to move their fam
ilies to Jacksonville before January
first.
Savannah and Jacksonville’s fight
for naval stores market supremacy
lias been a bitter or.e, and the effect
nf the removal is expected to bo
large.
NEW ROAD PROPOSED.
Electric Road from Atlanta to Cunv
ming Wiil Be Built.
Atlanta, Ga. —A new electric line
from Atlanta to Cumming, in Forsyth
county, and one which will subse
quently be continued on into the
mountain section of north Georgia,
will become a reality in the near fu
ture, if plans now’ on foot are carried
out.
The railroad commission of Geor
gia has authcmed the Atlanta North
eastern Railroad company to issue sl,-
200,000 of stocks and bonds for the
purpose of constructing a line from
Atlanta to Cumming.
The plans for the new electric road,
for which a charter has been granted,
contemplate a line from Atlanta to
Cumming, through Roswell and Al
pharetta.
When the line above mentioned is
ia operation, it is contemplated that
extensions will be made to Dahlone
ga in Lumpkin county, another to E!
lijay in Lumpkin county and another
toward the east. Eventually $ net
work of electric roads will cover these
counties of north Georgia, which now
have not a mile of steam road withra
their horders.
A man can get cold feet in the mid
dle of summer simply he reading the
stock ticker.
SENATOR BACON HOME.
Reaches Macon After a Tour of Eu
rope—ls in Fine Health.
Macon, Ga.—Senator A. O'. Bacon
has been welcomed home from another
long European trip,' and is here- to
Mist his ballot in the state election.
He" will, before the- final contest in
national politics is closed, journey
north and join in the- effort to elect
Bryan and Kern. He. is only on a
short trip home. He will leave in
a few days to speak for the national
democratic candidates. He wanted in
foe present at the coming of How
John W. Kern, and wanted to see
home folks before leaving in the par
t.y’s interests.
Senator Bacon is in fine health, and
was never in better spirits. He is
hopeful as regards the democratic
chances, and. his predictions, al
though not madie with a great ameuat
of knowledge of recent occurrences,
are baaed upon sound and safe esti
mates, and he deems the winning
probabilities very strong.
One of the strongest workers for
the democratic candidates in the coun
try will foe Senator Bacon. He wild
pnt his whole time and influence into
his addresses, and as soon as he has
his duties assigned, he will be heaid
from. Every years he adds a grea-.
store of knowledge of world affairs in
his travels, and local citizens are
proud of him as one of the strongest
democratic statesmen of the present
day.
GOVEKNOK WILL KOI ATTEND
Meeting of Peabody Board Conflicts
With Date of State Election.
Atlanta, Ga. —Owing to the conflict
of dates between the state election
and the annual meeting of the Pea
body board, Governor Smith has aban
doned his purpose of attending the
meeting, which will be held in New
York. He will remain in Georgia to
support the democratic nominees in
the state election and vote for the
ratification of the disfranchisement
amendment.
Governor. Smith has been a member
of the Peabody board for many’ years,
and he rarely misses a meeting, but
he believes that his duty to the party
and the state demand that he remain
in Atlanta to support the state ticket
and the suffrage amendment to the
constitution.
OPENING AGAIN POSTPONED.
For the Third Time Opening of the
Schools is Deferred.
Augusta. Ga. —The opening of the
public schools was again post
poned at a conference between the
board of health officials and the super
intendent of Uie schools.
The latest date agreed upon is Oc
tober 12th, when it is believed there
will be plenty of water for flushing
purposes.
This makes the third time school
opening has been deferred.
The Elberton Air Line railroad,
which was some time ago put in a re
ceiver’s hands, has been ordered sold
by a decree of the federal court and
will be sold before the court bouse
door in Elberton on the first Tues- j
day in November next. J. H. Rowe. .
of Athens,’has been named com mis- j
sioner to make the sale. The road is |
one of the best paying pieces of rail |
road property in the south and is op
erated by the Southern Railway com
pany-
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
“The cotton crop of Georgia will be
the shortest in years,’’ said Commis
sioner of Agriculture Hudson. “A
sonservative estimate of the total
yield- is 1, 3J)0 r 000 bales, as against
2,100,000 bales Last year..’’ According
to Commisisoner Hudson’s statement
the decrease for the year will be- 800,-
000 bales, and estimated at SSO a bale,
the loss in money will reach. $40,000,-
000.
J. Gordon Cranford of Valdosta who
was nominated at the June ptimary
as one of the representatives m the
next legislature from Lowndes coun
ty, has resigned the nomination. Mr.
Cranford states that his business ar
rangements win not allow him to ac
cept the place- and give- it the atten
tion that it demands. A number of
citteens have signified their intention
of running for the place Mr. Cranford
has resigned.
Believing that Georgia’s agricultur
al 1 school law is a good, one to copy
after, E. C. -Gaines, recently elected
to the Texas legislature, has determin
ed to introduce a similar measure. He
wrote to C, S. Barrett, president of
the Farmers’ union, for Information
and Mr. Barrett turned the letter ov
er to the commissioner of agriculture.
A copy of the law will be sent him
with a report of what is being done
in Georgia along this line.
In reply to an inquiry lodged with
Mayor Dunbar of Augusta by a com
mittee from the general flood relief
committee, asking if there was no
employment for those left idle by
the flood, an announcement has been
made by the Riverside mills that
work will be given there to all who
apply, up to several hundred.
The program for the seventh annual
convention of the League of Georgia
Municipalities, which will be held in
Albany Oceober 6, 7 and 8, has been
completed. It is a program of unus
ual strength and interest and gives
promise of one of the most profitable
meetings in the history of the league.
The following' 1 distinguished speakei.,
wfill address the convention during its
sessions: Governor Hoke Smith, Hon
orable S. G. Heiskell, ex-mayor of
Knoxville, Tenn; Honorable Minter
Wimberly, former city attorney of Ma
con; Honorable A. J. Scott, adjutant
general of Georgia; Honorable Jere
M. Pound, state school commissioner;
Honorable A. L. Miller, mayor of Ma
con; Dr. B. F. Brunner, health officer
of Savannah; Honorable Dowming
V T aux, of New York; Honorable James
M. Barnett, city engineer of Athens;
Honorable James M. Griggs, congress
man second congressional district.
It has developed that the burglars
who broke open and stole a number
cf guns and other articles from
Hutchinson Lumber and Supply com
pany at Gordele. might have been the
same parties who caused that city to
be in darkness more than an hour by
tampering with the electric light
plant. In some strange and mysteri
ous way the wires and dynamoes
caught on fire and came near destroy
ing a lot of Cue machinery.
Americus is asured a spirited mu
nicipal campaign in the election of
mayor and aldermen. Mayor llaw'-
kins, for six years in that office, will
scarcely offer again. Colonel George
B. Ellis has announced his intention
of making the race, while the friends
of Colonel W T. Lane are urging his
claims as well. '
