The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, October 09, 1908, Image 9
At the Waist PEADODV FUND DIVIDED It Will Be Apportioned Among States of the South. FUND TOTALS $2,500,000 i Peabody Normal School at Na#hville Wiil Be the Chief Beneficiary, Receiving $1,000,000. New York City.—The trustees of the Peabody education fund at their fifty-first annual meeting, decided to make final distribution of the main fund, aggregating $2,500,000. Further more, it was decided to give the entire sum to educational institutions of the south, with the Peabody normal col lege at Nashville as the chief bene ficiary. This institution will receive $1,000,000 upoh the proviso that the state of Tennessee, Nashville and the county in which the college is located raise a similar sum. As the teilns of this agreement have been practical ly lived up to, little doubt remains in the minds of the trustees that the terms will he carried out. The remainder of the fund will be apportioned throughout the south, the bulk of it in all probability going to Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky, since none of these states has benefit ed from the fund up to the present time. The fund was founded in 1867 by George Peabody of Massachusetts, and heretofore the income has only been used. COUNTRY LIFE COMMISSION. Work for Improvement of Conditions in Rural Districts. Washington, D. C. —The work of the country life commission, appointed by the president last August, is fairly un der way. The president intends to send a special message to congress on the necessity for improvement in the conditions of rural life and he has re quested the commission to report its findings to him before the end of De cember in order that he may have time to study them before sending in his recommendations for legislation. As soon as President Roosevelt's letter creating the commission was made public, the farmers began writ ing to him and to the commission, giv ing their views as to the features of farm life that needed remedying. The schedule the commission will send out is practically a request for a con census of opinion as to the correct ness of its findings. HOME VOYAGE OF THE FLEET. Returning Itinerary of the Battleships is Announced, Washington, I). C.—The itinerary of the return home from Manila of the battleship fleet has been announced at the navy department. The fleet will leave Manila on December 1. arrive at. Colombo December 14. stay there six days and then depart for Suez, which it is scheduled to reach on January fifth. . The ship will pass through the ca nal and coal at Port Said as expedi tiously as possible. They tire to spend the month of January and a few days early in February in the Mediterra nean, two or three vessel ; going each to Ville Franche, Marseilles. Genoa, Leghorn, Malta. Algiers, Athens. N» pies, Negro bay and Gibraltar, 'bo whole fleet, leaving the latter plnoc? February (1, being scheduled to ar rive in the United States February 22nd. SOCIETY (IF EQUITY. Organization of Farmers in Convention at Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Wls.-The American So ciety of Equity, having a membml'-hln of 100,000, and represented by « huge number of delegates, is boldine an nual convention here. The society * made up of farmers, and Us object to regulate the price of farm produce It is a part of the program to estab lish elevators and warehouses In dl ferent parts of the -mint!' am- »> keeping grain and othei P’cdm"' 1 store and placing upon the turn u there Is a demand for it, It hoped to regulate prices. SMUGGLERS ARRESTED. Five Men Are Charged With Having Smuggled Jewelry Into U « New York City NW ha* out of the seizure by 'iHenv; 'un.se officers in this city of more tlmn * 000 worth of costly came"" " ' Jewelry, and this news led ' , closure of a gigantic stoure t involving more than * """ . Already five men have ' ed in connection with 1 urea Three of Ihem ate no bail for trial These turn h;uv-'‘ are evidently fools of t 1 acting behind the scenes Pains at the waist, back, front, or side, are nearly sure proof of female trouble. Some other signs are headache, pressing down pains, irregular functions, restless ness, cold limbs, nervousness, etc. These pains may be allayed, the system braced and the womanly functions regulated by the use of Wine of Cardui Mrs. Annie Hamilton, of Stetsonville, Wis., writes: “Cardui saved me from the grave after three (3) doctors had failed to help me. It is*a good medicine and I recommend it to all suffering women.” For sale at all druggists, in $i bottles. li/DIIT IIS A I FTTP D Writ# today for a free copy of valu«Me64-Mirp illustrated Po-* for Women. tf you need Medical Ad fl s\l I L Ui3 l\ LLI ILK vice. describe your symptoms, stating .itfe. akl reply will lie sent In plain sealed envelope. Address: Ladies Advisory- Dept., The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga. Tenn. J-17 LATE NEATS NOTES. General. Advices from Arvonia, Virginia, the center of the slate mining region, sev enty-five miles west from Richmond, Va., indicate that the citizens of the comunity are aroused to a state of dread and panic over recent acts and threats of lawlessness in the commu nity. The receipt by several citizens of annoymous letters threatening mur der and arson, aud the shooting from ambush of W. M. Gregory, a substun tiol land owner, have intensified the feeling and fear. Mrs. Mary Dougherty, aged 30, of New York City, accidentally shut her 2-year-old baby, Rose, up in a folding bed, A very similar accident occur red in Chicago when Edward Koz lowski, ten months old, was accident-, ally smothered to death in a folding bed. The child was placed in the bed and covered with a blanket. A short time later mother entered the room and found that the bed had been closed. She opened it, to find her child smothered to death. Will Vails, a farmer who lives near Ruleville, Miss., shot and instantly killed Dr. J. M. Taylor, one of the most prominent men of Ruleville. Edward Moot or Weathorsfield, Ver mont, proved himself the world’3 champion wood chopper when in the presence of railroad magnates, lumber kings and millionaire New Yorkers he chopped down five cords of wood that had been standing trees, split them into stove lengths and piled them into regular piles, between sun rise and sunset and with an hour and a half to spare. At the end of the unprecedented teat several thousand dollars was paid Maxwell Everts, who had backed Moot’s powers with the ax. After a quarter of a century of vol untary exile in the South seas, Thom as Fleming, the original of Steven son’s character, “The Wild Scotch man,” arrived in San Francisco, Cal., on the schooner Aerolus, and arrayed in garments of a fashion scarcely ever seen before, has proceeded to get ac quainted with electric cars and other evidences of an advancing civiliza tion. Fleming is a trading agent at Arne island, one of the Marshall group, located one hundred and fifty miles from the nearest white neigh borhood. He made the acquaintance of Robert Louis Stevenson, years ago when the author visited the island. Fleming has announced his determina tion to return when he shall have tired of sightseeing, saying: “Perhaps the life out there is lonely, but some how it gets into a man’s blood and he stays there.” Wrapped In the tantacles of a giant devil fish, Martin Lund, a diver, fought for his life in the hold of the wrecked steamer Pomona, which lies in thirty feet of water in Ffcrt Ross Cove, off the California coast. The devil fish had evidently entered the vessel's hold during the night, and Lund was at work some time before he became aware of its appearance. A giant tentacle, four inches in diam eter, first, gripped one leg. Before Lund could realize what had happen ed. another squirmed out of the dark ness, and twined about his neck. Plunging suddenly toward it, he drove ihe knife with all his force into the head, repeating the blows until he had slashed it into sections. Lund then cut himself free, and was brought to the surface in a fainting condition. More than three thousand Indians of tlie Kiowa, Comanche, Apache and affiliated tribes assembled at the foot of Mount Scott, near Okla.. ior a great inter-iribal council and for the annual payment of lease naon oy to those Indians who have their lijj.ln leased for farming. The Indiana received from $1,300 to SIOO each ac cording to the amount of land leased. The supreme court declared uncon stitutional the Wisconsin eight-hour railroad telegraphers’ law, which was cum ted at the 1007 session of the leg islature The la wis declared uncon stitutional on Ihe theory that, it ie in conflict with the provisions of the fed aral constitution. Four men were arrested in Cleve land. O. for converting horse flesh into Knu«nget» and selling the product foi free lunch counters. Society in Atlanta, Ga„ is greatly amused over the elopement of Silvey Mpeer |7 vear-old daughter of Mr. and \lis vVillism A. Speer, and heir to a rot tune of, about $750,000, with Roswell t Thomas, her father’s chauffeur. The couple were married and started im mediately for the east. At Charlotte, \ £ they were arrested, and brought i ia * to Atlanta. The Speers are now aft erupting to have the marriage an ituled and say that a reconcilia- .on iS Impossible The young bride is beauti ful and talented and is wel known in the vounger society set. Thomas is cnid to be a young man of unusual nmmlarify among his friends, many df whom surprise that the c,p Pri should object, to the match. Thomas had been ,n the employ of tb v -tpeor family for two years. EUROPE’S NEWEST CZAR Ferdinand of Bulgaria Proclaims Independence of His Country. MAY MEAN WAR WITH TUKKEY Congress of the Powers Will Be Called to Consider Violation of the Treaty of Berlin. London, England.—ln the ancient capital of Tirnovo the independence of Bulgaria has been proclaimed with the czar of the Bulgarians as a ruler. The czar of the Bulgarians is recog nized to moan more than czar'of Bul garia, because it is a distinct intima tion that he regards his country as having sovereignty over all the peo ple of that blood in the near cast. The question which has berm stir ring the whole of Europe more deeply than any similar question within the memory of the present generation is, does it mean war? From all tho cap itals come reports indicating that it means, first of all, another European congress of the signers of the treaty of Berlin to consider the situation and probably to revise the treaty, From the British standpoint the whole affair lias been a surprise, be cause, for the first time in years, the government felt itself with apparently an understanding with France and Russia and complete friendship with Italy, to be in a position where it dominated European politics, reserv ing, out of this consideration, the al most open enmity between itself and Germany. Probably never in the history of Eu rope has politics taken such amazing ly kaleidoscopic revolutions as during the past week. An entangling situa tion will come wheu th<■ signatrories of the Berlin treaty meet to consider what action shall be taken regarding the violation of the treaty. Great Britain has served notice that it does not recognize the right of the parties to this treaty to violate its provisions without consulting the oth ers, but English diplomats know that the conference will resolve Itself into a scramble among tho powors to get what is termed in European politics ‘‘compensating advantages” which Austria, backed by Germany, has al ready obtained. The chances of war between Bul garia and Turkey are Ixdng minimized by Great Britain and France, who are working together and who have ad vised Turkey against it. Turkey, how ever, is apparently disposed to follow this’advice, and it is believed that if hasty action on and part, of Turkey can be prevented, Bulgaria will have difficulty in finding an excuse to be gin war. The action of Prince Ferdinand in proclaiming the independence of Bul karia is condemned alike by the gov ernments and press of Europe, but in some quarters this is considered a matter of minor importance, so long as it does not eventually end in war as compared with the threatened an nexation of the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary. Reports from Belgrade Indicate that Servia has been aroused to the dan ger point, bands of Servians marching the streets of Belgrade and shouting for war with Austria rather than an nexation. Turkey refuses to recog nize Bulgaria’s independence. GENSUS BUREAU CBTTUN REPORT. Number of Bales Ginned to Septem ber 25, Was 2,5£2,68£. Washington, D. C.—The census bu reau report on cotton ginning Bhows 2.582,688 bales, counting round as half bales’, ginned from the growth of 1908 to September 23, compared with 1,- 532,602 for 1907; 2,057,283 for 1906 and 2.355,716 for 1905. Number of ac tive ginneries this year is 23,650, com pared with 18,121 for 1 DOT"; 20,416 for 1906 and 21,389 for 1903, Round bales, including this year, are 55,018, com oared with 43,367 for 19*i7; 66,502 for 1906 and 74.816 for 1906. Sea island ,11,275 for 1908; 4.259 for 1907, 2,684 for 1906 and 11,963 for 1906. By sta-es the number of bales (counting round as ha!* bales, and ac tive ginneries respectively for 1908 follows: Alabama, 307.5‘>8 bales and 2.911 ginneries: Arkansas, 85.827 bales and 1,490 ginneries; Florida, 310.260 hales and 3.875 ginneries; Kentucky, 117 bales and 1 ginnery; Louisiana. ’41.207 bales and 1,252 gin neries; Missouri, 4,131 bales and 47 ginneries, Mississippi, .38, 433 bales and 2,638 ginneries; North Carolina, 89.198 bales and 1,812 ginneries; North Carolina, 89,198 >ales ano 1,812 ginneries; South Carolina, 238,921 bales and 4,699 ginneries; Tennessee, 23.128 hales and 419 ginneries; Texas, 961.833 bales and 3,764 ginner.es. The distribution of Sea island cot ton for 1908 by states is: Florida, 5,- 092; Georgia. 5,813; Sooth Carolina, 371>. FLEET IN MANILA AAY. Pride of America i« Greeted By Cheer inf Thousands. Manila, p. l.—With the brilliant tropical sunlight pouring down on their polished guns and gleaming paint and a swift land breeze whip ping their many tings out straight from the staffs and stirring the bunt ing that covered the hall hundred launches and excursion steamers that, crowded with cheering thousands, es corted the big ships up the bay, tho Atlantic battleship fleet steamed slow ly into Manila hay, and, sailing majes tically across (lie hay where Dewey and his men fought their historic fight with the Spanish fleet ten years ago, dropped anchor off the city. The fleet steamed up tho center of the bay, while dozens of launches mid steamers, sailing proudly along be side the monsters of the navy, sound ed a discordant welcome with whis tles, cheers and every other noise making device that could be contriv ed. The ships presented u magnifi cent appearance as they moved slow ly along, and the sight of tho long line evoked the wildest enthusiasm and the admiration of thousands that crowded every point of vantage. As the Connecticut led the line past Cor regidor, the garrison there fired tho admiral’s salute. The progress through the channel was made in sin gle column, but, as soon ns tho Inst ship of the long line was safely pass ed, signals were ho kited for the dou ble column formation, and In this manner the ships steamed up the bay. The anchorage was reached and all along the shore line the crowds con tinued to Increase, even after the last vessel had come to rest. As the ships anchored, General Weston, military commander In tills city, sent u wire less message conveying the greetings of himself, ids officers and the men of the army to Admiral Sperry and his men Governor General Bmilh witnessed the arrival of the fleet from his launch, where he entertained a largo party of officials. loafer in paid his official visit to the Connecticut, and t.he Manilans welcomed the sailors In [the form of a great water parade, as the men of the fleet were tiol allowed to come ashore on account of the many cases of cholera in the city. GOVERNMENT ISIiVS SILVER. Will Amount to 125,000 Ounces a Week—Demand for Coin. Washington, D. C.—Director of the Mint Leach has announced that he would resume immediately the pur chase of fine sliver for subsidary coinage. He states that he expects to purchase about 125,000 ounces each week for an indefinite period. Director fa'ach said he was confi dent purchases would tie made as long as there was an active demand for the coin. The mint now has on hand only about five million ounces of fine silver and this supply would soon be exhausted at the present rate of demand. For several months prior to the late financial stringency the demand for subsidary coins was so active as to necessitate the operation of the mints to their full capacity, but the demand fell off until there was an accumulation in the treasury in April last, of about $27,000,000 in standard dollars and $26,000,000 In subsidary coins. Early in the summer the call for silver dollars became more active and soon the supply was practically exhausted. Attentf'Ofi was then directed to the halves and other subsidary coins with the result that now there is only $21,000,000 avail able, notwithstandirig the fact that, in September $634,0<>0 in silver subsi dary was coined and added to the stock on hand. Mr. Leach expects a still stronger demand when the cot ton crop begins to move and the de cision to purchase more silver is in anticipation of this demand SEEKING SUNKEN TREASURE. Harvard Student* Will Have to Mod ify Their Plan*. Kingston, Jamacia. —The expedition composed of Harvard students which started recently on the .steamer May flower from New York ir, search of sunken treasure in these waters, will likely have to modify the original plans. The treasure seekers intend ed to search a Spanish galleon which sank many years ago, but the Ameri can expedition has been anticipated by a Jamaican syndicate which char tered a schooner and after an inef fectual search returned to Montego The Jamaicans occupied several weeks in their gold hunting trip and had exciting experiences with hurri canes. The galleon was not found but her position on the ocean was located, the wreck having broken to pieces years ago. Divers were sent down ard a number of Spani-h gold coin?, were recovered, but nothing or great value The leader of the ••xp* ■ dition was the son of Sir Henry Ar thur Blake, who was governor of Ja maica 1889-97. TUDEBCIII.OSIS Will END When Every Social Unit IWina to Fight Says Dr. Flick. IS NO INHERITED INFEXTId Philadelphia Expert Saya That Wa** Earner* are Specially Menaced By Dread Diaeasa. Washington, D. C “If every twß of our society Is willing to do than which they can do, l tool confident that the day is not far distant whete we will have wiped the dread diseaw. tuberculosis, oIT the face of the earths’*' This was the message of hope give* by Dr. Lawrence Flick of Philadti phla, one of the most eminent Bt<4 cal men of the country, at the \*w National Museum, where tin. .illicit* losis exposition Is being held in on* neetion with the International Cm* gross of Tuberculosis. The meet In* was In I In l interest of labor, and wa® one of a series to he given Tk® speakers were Dr. Flick, John Mitt* ell, former president of the Uwita# Mine Workers of America; HannvoF Gotnpers, president of the America® FedenUlon of Labor, and others “Tti*'reulosls is peculiarly a ease of the wage-earner," salt! Mr Flick, and this is so for the «*tf good reason that one of the stixmgtw* predisposing causes of tho disease tm overwork. II is an exceedingly fatal l and prevalent disease among wa»e earners.” Dr. Flick pointed out that the rro* son why the wage earner is so likeKf to contract tuberculosis Ih because l® many Instances he L overworked, k® toils in unsanitary workshops and at 1 mil lines lie Ih underfed, which can®’* his powers of resistance to he lew* able le throw off an Implantation the tubercle bacilli. If the wage ear® er gels the implantation, l)r. FlkA said, it Is almost certain to result far tally. 1 lie refilled Hie theory of Infeciia® from Inheritance, saying that ante*® the luhereulosls micro-organism Is milled Into our bodies It Is not poa**- hie for one lo become Infected rg* need of the establishment of hosplta** and sanalorlunis for the care of co» tag lons and non contagious ooiiHiinqp lives was emphasized. John Mitchell, who presided, emit® orated some of the obstacles to grea*- er progress In the promotion of healffc and the eradication of disease, boS said it was due to the attitude many employers of labor whom, lie d<* elured. resisted the enactment of ’»** for the prevention of accidents and the promotion of henlili Samuel Gompers paid a tribute Dr. Robert Koch, the German set** tint. He declared that Hr. Koch wfHI live In the memory of man when rimer who fail to appreciate his discovery of the tubercle bacillus, or those vrh® fall to follow his precepts, are forgot ten. lie declared that the union work ing man was less susceptible to tube* miosis Infection thnn the non urdn® man, because the union shops are rm perlor in sanitary appliances to other shops. Tim death rate from consume Hon among non-union men In 100 i*r cent greater than among union mew. he said Statistics were presented bv Fm* crick L. Hoffman, showing that tfc# number of deaths from consumpt l**i among the 32,000,000 wage earners i# this country Is 77,000. WILD RUMOR AT AMOY. It Was That the American Fleet Would Seize That Port. Amoy, China Local agitators hav* been circulating a report to the effeeg that Hie American battleship which will visit this port the end October, purpose; to seize Amoy an a base of operations In a forthcoming war against Japan. The people became alarmed and began leaving the city Then, to prevent a general exodus oF the population, the municipal author ities issued a proclamation forbidding people going into the interior to (ah* heavy baggage with them Two of the agitators were arrest** and given 1,500 blows each QUARANTINE IS RAISED. Texas Now Open to Traffic With Gw ban Port®, Austin. Texas The state healih de partment, through Acting State ffe»}»Jk Officer .1 H Florence, has rained yellow fever quarantine which ban been In effect, against Havana ami other points in Cuba for some tins© past, and passengers from Ha van® and other Cuban ports will be allow ed to leave Cuba and come here wit*- out detention. This action was base* on a message received from the oir geon general of the marifie hospital service conveying the informal ion (hit the government had raised the em bargo existing at Havana. Cotton Crop Report. Washington, ft. C The cotton crt» report issued by the department, at agriculture shows that the average condition of the cotton crop on Sep tember 25 was 63.7 per cent of a nor mal against 76.1 per cent on Aug*rf 25 last; 67 7 on September 25, IWI. 71.6 on September 25, 1906. The condition and ten year averag* on .September 25 respectively by statv* follows Virginia 78 and 69.6; North Carolina, 69 and 71; South Caroliiva, 68 and 70; Georgia, 71 and 71; FI or la. 72 and 70; Alabama. 70 and 63; Mississippi. 70 and 63; f»uisiana. 5$ and 66' Texes. 7i aiiu 64; Arkansas. 70 and’ 68: Tennessee, 78 and 74; Mis-ouri 70 and 76; Oklahoma, e* or g “JA ai>U fv.