Newspaper Page Text
THE COTTON CROP
Of 1907 is 11,412,829 Bales
Say Commissioners.
FINAL SESSION IS HELD
Commissioner Hudson of Georgia Elec¬
ted to Succeed Commissioner Wat
son as President—Next Meet¬
ing in Nashville.
The third and final session of the
convention of Commissioners of Agri¬
culture and Agricultural Workers in
Columbia, S. C., was held Thursday,
closing at 3 o’clock. Just prior to the
conclusion of the meeting, after two
ballots between Atlanta, Asheville and
Nashville, the latter place was chosen
as the next place of meeting.
Commissioner T. H. Hudson of Geor
astehgia was unanimously elected pres¬
ident, with Commissioner Blakeslee of
Mississippi, as first vice president, and
Hon. R. E. Rose of Florida as second
vice president .
Dr. B. W. Kilgore of North Carolina
was re-elected secretary and Dr. Mac
Gruder of Virginia, was re-elected as¬
sistant secretary and treasurer.
During the session the special com¬
mittee apointed to canvass the reports
received from the several states of
the coton belt, estimating the 1907 cot¬
ton crop of the south, reported,
through Commissioner Hudson of
Georgia, who, in presenting the re¬
port, stated that the material differ¬
ence between the 1906 and the 1907
crop rested in the telegraphic estimate
of Commissioner Milner of Texas, who
had reported the Texas crop at a
maximum of two and one-half million
bales, with a minimum of two and
one-quarter million, against over four
million in 1906.
Commissioner Hudson stated that
Texas was the one state in the south
having a complete system of reporting
the cotton crop. The report, estimated
upon the basis of carefully gathered
data, from all the states, fixfed the 1907
crop at 11,412,829 running bales,
against 13,439,734 running bales as
reported by the federal government for
the crop of 1906.
The chief feature of the final ses¬
sion was an elaborate address upon
the subject of immigration by J. H.
Patten, secretary of the American Im¬
migration Restriction League, who
dealt with this broad subject as af¬
fecting the south in the most exhaust¬
ive manner. He suggested changes
that he considered absolutely necessa¬
ry in the federal laws. In this con¬
nection, he said;
“First and foremost, the federal law
should not only allow absolute freedom
for the state selection of immigrants,
but should aid and assist instead ol
hamper work along the lines of a
.picked immigration.”
Another feature of the convention
was the address of Commissioner Wil
kinson of Alabama, along the line of
work not now undertaken by the state
departments of agriculture for the bet¬
terment of the agriculture of the sev
eral states.
During the afternoon session there
was a vigorous debate in regard to
the endorsement of the bill pending in
congress as to intermediate agricultu¬
ral education, proposed by Congress¬
man Davis of Minnesota. Finally, a
resolution urging the passage of this
bill by congress was adopted.
Resolutions weer also adopted
dorsing in heartiest terms the
lachian forest reserve.
The association
endorsement of the policy of selection
of immigrants at their own homes and
of the effort being made to open trans
Atlantic service between the cotton
belt and Europe for the purpose of
putting the agricultural product of
the south on direct export. These res¬
olutions have been adopted by the as¬
sociation for the last three years.
The draft of the uniform pure food
law was submitted and approved, the
association referring such draft to
the different states for their consider
eration.
There were numerous addresses du¬
ring the day, relating principally to
uses of fertilizers in the southern
states.
The association reached an adjourn¬
ment sine die at 3 p. m., and the bal¬
ance of the day was devoted to a
ride over the city of Columbia and
her suburbs, the guests being enter¬
tained informally at the Country Club
by Commissioner Watson of South
Carolina.
TEDDY CALLS A HALT.
Warns Office Holders Not to Bcom Him
for a Third Term.
President Roosevelt has addressed
a letter to members of his cabinet,
sult sting them to inform federal rn
Jnin ]pyees under their jurisdiction to
from political activity, with
object of the renomination of
Roosevelt.
USUAL DANrF TRAGE0Y '
I One Man Killed and Half a Dozen
Badly Wounded in Pistol Fusilade
in a Darkened Room.
With all lights extinguished, pistols
volleying, terrifying women sc ..6 ..
and the injured groaning, a country
dance at the home of George Yinees,
one mile from Flint, in Mitchell coun¬
ty, Georgia, wound up between 11 and
12 o’clock Wednesday night in a car¬
nival of blood.
When the smoke of battle lifted and
lamps were relighted it was found that
Will Shiver, member of a prominent
Mitchell county family and a young
man highly thought of, was dead with
a bullet in his brain; Peter Luckey
and Floyd Fowler were painfully
wounded by pistol balls; Mack Ford
and Hillie Shiver were insensible from
the effect of frightful beatings, and
several others were injured.
The coroner is making an investiga¬
tion of the case. There is a good
deal of doubt as to who fired the shot
which killed Shiver, owing to the fact
that the lights were all extinguished at
the time the shooting began.
About thirty shots were fired in the
crowded room where the dance was
being held, and it was miraculous that
many more people were .not killed or
seriously wounded.
None of the young ladies present
were hurt.
It was stated that the fracas was
caused by liquor. Will and Hillis
Shiver were drinking, and when they
attempted to dance together in the.
crowded room they knocked against
a number of young ladies. The lat¬
ter’s escorts resented this and a fight
resulted.
In a moment pistols were drawn and
the shooting became general.
BIG STICK WARDED OFF.
Suspended Captain and Crew of River
Boat Found “Not Guilty.”
Exoneration from the charge of
reckless navigation which endangered
the life of the president of the United
States during the river trip from Cai¬
ro, Ill., to Memphis, Tenm, October 3,
was obtained at Cairo Thursday for
the officers and crew of the steamer
Dick Fowler, who were found not
guilty by United States Inspector
Waltz and Hodge of Memphis after
an exclusive trial.
The charges were brought by Com¬
mander L. S. Vanduser, who was on
the lighthouse tender Lily, which act¬
ed as escort to the steamer Missis¬
sippi, the boat on which President
Roosevelt traveled. The Fowler was
accused specifically of running by the
Lily without sounding her whistle and
running too close to the steamer Mis¬
sissippi, the boat the president was
on, thereby endangering his life. The
captain of the Fowler was suspended
on the express order of President
Roosevelt.
Cairo residents who made the trip
the Fowler say the charge grew
of jealousy because the Fowler
a speedier boat than the Lily. The
it is said, was not near the
except when it ran along¬
side in order that the Cairo delega¬
tion might serenade the president, and
then he came out and acknowledged
the tribute.
TELEGRAM FINALLY SENT.
Georgia Baptist Convention Congratu
lates Alabama Soions.
At Thursday afternoon’s session of
Georgia State Baptist convention in
Valdosta, the matter of sending a
congratulatory telegram to the Alaba¬
ma legislature, on the passage of the
prohibition bill, which created some
excitement, Wednesday, was sprung
again.
Rev. J. C. Solomon reintroduced the
resolution, wording the proposed tele¬
gram as the previous one. Many dele
gates opposed it again, and
on the grounds formerly stated, hoid
ing to the complete divorcement of
church and state, but they were flna’r
ly outvoted.
I PASSENGER RATES FIXED
Ey Alabama Railroad Commission to
Become Effective Dec. 10.
The Alabama railroad commission
has ordered that joint passenger rates
between all points in the state be made
by each road on a basis of 2 3-4 cents
per mile, the date to be December 10.
Roads which have not accepted tho
state rates are included, as w'ell as
those which have. An order is also l
sued allowing those lines which did
accept the state rates to increase the>
rates to 2 3-4 cents a mile straight,
2 1-2 cents for family books and 2 1-1
cents for 2,000-mile books.
SCHOOL GIRLS DISOBEY RULES.
Attended Football Game and Are Sjs
pended for a Year.
Fourteen girls comi) rising the
senior cia f Peutwat r, Mich., high
school attended the football game be
tween Hart and Pentwater at Musk ck.
gon, disobeying the ord ( rs of the prin¬
cipal and were suspended for the y<ar.
WATSON BIFFS BRYAN,
Declares That Greenbacks Are the
Thing Needful—Is Invited to the
White House by Teddy.
Hon. Thomas E. YYatson has some
pronounced views on the present finan¬
cial situation, which he will communi¬
cate to President Roosevelt at a white
house luncheon on Monday, Decem¬
ber 9.
Just a few days ago Mr. Bryan called
on the president and outlined a plan
for government guarantee of deposits
in national banks. Now, Mr. Watson,
one time a candidate for presid-nt, has
been requested by the president to
come to Washington, and has accepted
the invitation. ,
When he was found in his work den
on the second floor of his handsome
home on the outskirts of Thomson,
Ga., by a staff correspondent of tho
Atlanta Constitution, Mr. Watson was
asked if his contemplated visit had
anything to do with the president’s in¬
vestigation into financial relief meas¬
ures.
“President Roosevelt and I have had
some correspondence on the financial
situation,’’ he replied, “and I have been
asked to come to Washington for a per¬
sonal interview and shall accept.”
In discussing various phases of the
financial situation and recent sugges¬
tions of amendments to our financial
laws, Mr. Watson was asked what he
thought of Mr. Bryan’s proposal. He
said:
“The idea that the government shall
become guarantor for bank deposits is
a monstrous proposition so long as the
national banking system exists.
“The only way in which the govern¬
ment should guarantee deposits is by
establishing postal savings banks.When
the government has the handling of the
deposits, the government can well af¬
ford to guarantee them, but when such
ravenous treasury looters as Harriman,
Ryan, Belmont, Heinze, Morse and com¬
pany are in control of the big national
banks, how can any man who claims
to be a Jeffersonian democrat advo
cate a government guarantee of de¬
posit?
“This recent Bryan interview sent
out from Washington clearly shows
him to be an opportunist. He is catchr¬
ing at every plausible proposition that
bobs up. If he were more of a serious
student and not quite so much of a
whirlwind talker, he would avoid some
startling errors.
“This last proposition commits him
to the national hanking system and to
a close alliance between the Wall
street money power and the govern
ment.”
On being asked what he would say to
the president in regard to changes in
the financial laws, Mr. Watson declared
he would give some idea of what a
“genuine Jeffersonian democrat’’ thinks
of the situation which he character¬
ized as calamitous. He believes this
can best be done in a face-to-face,
man-to-man talk. He declared there
was no political significance whatever
in the visit, and said:
“I will earnestly press upon the pres¬
ident the danger of an asset currency
to be issued by the national banks,
and will urge him to recommend to
congress an act amendatory to the act
of 1862-3 authorizing the issuance of
at least one billion dollars of green¬
backs.”
Mr. Watson believes these civil war
acts are still good law.
GREAT PROHIBITION CRUSADE.
Planned to Move State of New York
into “Dry” Column.
Cheered by what they believe the be
ginning of the greatest temperance re
vival the country has ever seen, the
prohibitionists of New York state are
planning a crusade to move the state
into the “dry” column.
A state ticket will be put in the field,
and , the campaign . to elect a legisla
ture, which will pass a prohibition law
next year, is being planned.
FIVE YEARS FOR BANKER.
Sentence is Suspended to AJlaw for
' Provision of Family,
Louis M. Dyke, president of the for
mer Attalla National bank, at Attalla
Ala., charged with
funds, entered a plea of guilty
the federal court at Anniston Friday.
The court sentenced him to
years in the Atlanta penitentiary.
of $10,000 was taken and the
for six months in order to allow
defendant time to make provision for
Tils family.
CASHIER IS FOUND GUILTY.
He Accepted Deposits When His Bank
Was Insolvent.
J. H. Hoffman, former cashier of tho
) Citizens’ batik of Jennings, La., was
found gtiHty in court at Lake Charles
i Friday of accepting deposits after he
knew of th<- bank’s Insolvency. The
bank suspended op-rations in 1904.
Sentence was deferred.
HE 2 W. llB#liS .......
Mr X:
|7?i
VI
ipw I
New Yora City.—The simple shirt
waist in tailor style is a favorite one
of the season, and is to be noted in
silk, in flannel and In cashmere, made
.o' f
*tr m,
V
L*Vl
lit*
V WM W$!1
1 \ y&f1 %
•op;
m V
IV/A'A.
in various colors to match the pre¬
vailing. suits, so that, while there is
a separate blouse worn the one color
can be maintained throughout the
costume, as well as in washable fab¬
rics. This one is distinctly novel
and smart in effect, while it retains
the simplicity essential to waists of
the sort and is finished with stitched
m
vv II m
li v:
BE
I ■•Vi
!/ : ; • igu,
ii iii m id
! I.j I A
v
\ V \\ 1 l\\
,S • V.
\ \ \j i.
i l L Li
lit
ll*
€5 I
ft j !/« j i IS <r
■j mm m 4 i h Ji
m J m i : !
m 1) i 1 <
>
ii t *
fe*. ! j
! fe-‘- / fc*. I 5
’•...J
'
edges. Buttons are used as trimming
as *ell as for practical closing, how¬
ever, and as there are numberless
beautiful ones found in the season’s
display, there is ample opportunity
for excellent effect. In the illustra
tion the blouse is made of heavy
white linen trimmed with large pearl
buttons and with collar and cuffs em¬
broidered in eyelet style; but later,
when actual cold weather shall have
arrived, silk, flannel and the like,
will be in demand,
The waist consists of the fronts,
! the back and the pointed panel at the
centre front. The waist is closed at
the front but the panel is buttoned
over into place at the left side. There
are tucks at the centre front and back
*hat extend full length with wider
ones to yoke depth only, at each side
thereof and the outermost tucks of
these groups serve to conceal the
arm hole seams. The sleeves are
quite novel and are pleated at both
their upper and lower edges, while
| they can be finished in three-quarter
| length with roll-over cuffs or extend¬
ed to the wrists and finished with
plain fitted ones.
Finest of Velvet.
A new velvet is so fine that entire
width can easily be put through a
small ring.
When Lining Dresses.
For dresses in light weight mate
rials the lining of the bodice should
be quite a small affair, extending
back and front just below the waist
line.
•
I Dainty Petticoats.
! Petticoats are lovelier and more
fluffy than ever before. Fine hand
embroidery and masses or ruffles are
i the daintiest that can be worn with
I evening gowns.
WAYS OF SEN DIN G LET
TER 3i
Pest of St. KiIda_
Letters ried in Plaster Bust?'* ’ Ca *
by airship are ?
novelty of tho French p ost e latest
Last month a party of mim system.
steered cants ascended from \ i U T '° y n aer °
for the War nm at d
Whe " over the
addressed was brought to to a halt an! ^ Mp
the Minister of
Gen. Picquart, dropped f rom ttle War,
Through their glasses th th « „ >*ar.
watched the missive in . aeron aut3
and as lts descent,
soon as it had been secured
* turned - the aerostat
back and wade their
■way to Meudon.
A very ingenious method
Ployed to facilitate delivl, l s em
letters the f
in to the the islands TheseM of th° f
group Pacific. nds
guarded as they are bv ' ’
rocks Bits, are and difficult breakers, and says hazardous London t?'
near approach, and would often of 1
the ordinary outline of delivery were
ployed, have to 8X> letterless. em
ate this the steamer To ohvi
that carries the
mails is supplied with skyrockets hv
means of which letters are projected
across the danger zone onto the shore
During the winter, when St. Kilda
has no direct communication with th
mainland, the inhabitants e
their letters in small deposl‘
culiar buoys of a «
shape. These are then thrown
into the sea, and are by the currents
carried to the mainland, where they
are rescued from the waves and their
contents taken to the nearest post
office. A floating post office, consist¬
ing of a painted cask, is attached by
chains to the rocks at the extreme
point of Terra del Fuego. To this
strange office, which is under the joint
protection of all nations, every pas
sing ship sends a boat to post and
collect letters.
J. A. O’Shea relates how Bazaine,
during the siege of Metz, sent a mes
sage through the enemy’s lines, a
young Posener, who volunteered for
the difficult task, had one of his teeth
drawn and an artificial one, in which
was a hollow, substituted. In this
was placed a quill, within which was
a despatch In cipher, reduced by
photography to microscopic minute¬
ness.
Then, disguised as a beggar, he
left the town, the sentries, to give
color to the ruse, discharging blank
cartridges at him as he fled. Taken
prisoner by the Germans, he was
brought before those in authority, to
whom he told such a woful tale of his
suffering at the hands of the French
that he was released, with many ex¬
pressions of condolence. He duly ex¬
ecuted his mission.
When Rochefort, In consequence of
his virulent attacks upon imperial¬
ism, was forced to seek refuge in
Brussels he still continued to circu¬
late La Lanterne in France. How he
introduced the proscribed paper into
that country was a mystery to the
authorities, who little suspected that
In certain plaster busts of the Em¬
peror and Empress, which reached the
empire from Belgium, were carefully
concealed the obnoxious sheets print¬
ed on “flimsy.”
The great campaign for reform in
which the American people are now
engaged—the greatest ever undertak¬
en by any people—is based on the
idea that there is a moral law by
w'hich men are bound, says the Indian¬
apolis News, that conscience ought to
be controlling and that men are re¬
sponsible for wrhat they do or fail
lo do. These truths ought to be ap
plied to those working on the side of
reform as well as to those who have,
by their misdeeds, made reform neces¬
sary.
A VOLUPTUARY.
“Im afraid,” said Mrs. Oldcastle,
“Mr. Harkins w’ould have been better
off if he had never inherited that
money from his aunt. He is rapidi?
becoming a voluptuary.” host
“Do you think so?” replied her
ess. “But mebbe he’d of got that
anyhow. Most men begin to fatten
when they get along about 18
up Record-Herald.
age.”—Chicago
THE PROOF. husband
“How- do you know your cook
loves you? Does he eat your
ing?” let me eat
“Yes, but he refuses to
it.”—Houston Pest.
WHAT WAS IT
The Woman Feared?
What comfort to find it 13
a
“the awful thing” feared, u er
chronic Indigestion, which pr°P
food can relieve.
A woman in Ohio says:
"I was troubled for >’ ears tion
.
digestion and chronic con ‘
At times I would have sue a
stomach that ^
ing in my dislike to or
feared I had a — I
even think of what I feared. Grap*
“Seeing an account of a
Nuts, I decided to try it- After
satisfied the trouble
short time I was bat
aw,»l IbO. ,
was not the 1
was still had enough, of dyspep;
was relieved of a bad case food
sia by changing from improper
to Grape-Nuts. b° bar®
“Since that time my dals0
been as regular as a cloe • g ra pe
noticed before I began t0 e tfal
becoming rge » he
Nuts that I was t t
where I put little things
alinl ^
house, which was digestiveo° very ”j anS bar®
“But since the G _ ape .
become strong from *' aL ‘. d $
Is 8°' an
Nuts, my memory j 0 u#f
mind as clear as wIiea given W
and I thankful.” * ’ l '
am Creek. »
Postum Co., Battle ^ ^
the little booklet. “The • , g #
ville,” in packages. AUC ‘
sou,”
Fancy Blouse Waist.
Whatever feature tho new, up-to
date waist may include, the one all¬
essential one is some arrangement ol
trimming whereby the seams that
join the sleeves to the blouse are con¬
cealed. Here Is a distinctly new
model that is both simple and effec¬
tive, and which is trimmed to bring
about this desirable result, while the
shoulder line is by no means over
broad, and it consequently is becom¬
ing to almost all figures. In the il¬
lustration it is made of crepe de
Chine in a new lovely grey-green
with trimming of velvet in a darker
shade and of soutache braid and rib¬
bon frills, while the yoke is of ecru
lace. The combination of several
materials on a single garment, as
well as the color, mark the very
latest style, and the blouse is alto¬
gether one much to be commended.
It can be utilized both for the entire
gown and for the separate waist, and
is really appropriate for every fash
material of indoor wear, in¬
asmuch as all are soft and can be
made full with success. Trimming
of various sorts can be substituted
for the velvet and soutache. The
shoulder portions, for example, could
be made of Oriental embroidery or
of bands of embroidery held by nar¬
row straps of velvet ribbon, or they
could be of some contrasting ma¬
terial embroidered, while the frills
can be of ribbon, as in this Instance, i
of silk, of lace, or of the material.
The blouse is made with a fitted
lining on which tho yoke and the
full portions are arranged. The
shoulder straps, or epaulette like
trimming, are arranged over it, and
the regulation stock collar completes
the neck. The sleeves, also, are made
over fitted linings, and the lower
edges of these linings are covered
with frills.
fei’ja /(7C
C \*.fr
WM Us
m m
11
wm W
\ ill
' Sw
i| i
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is three and
three-quarter yards twenty-one, three
yar( t s twenty-seven or one and three-
1 ,lar ter yards forty-four inches wide
w *th three-eighth yard of all-over
lace, four and three-quarter yards of
velvet ribbon, and ten yards of rib
bon for frills, to make as illustrated
in the medium size.
Long Wrap Popular,
Take it which way you will the
enveloping wrap is an insignia
A the hour>