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A BATTLE ROYAL
Is on in the U. S. Senate—Denatured
Alcohol Bill, Etc., Receiving
Attention.
A battle royal Is on in the Senate
besides which the struggle over the
railroad rate bill will look like the
overworked thirty cents. It Is the
fight between the friends and oppon
ents of the “denatured alcohol bill “
and at first blush It looks as though
it were going to be a show-down of
strengtn between the Standard Oil
Company and the whisky trust. If
this were thefact no one woul partic
ularly care whether the bill passed or
not for no matter which side won the
public at large would get no benefit.
But, according to the best Information
obtainable, it looks as (bough the in
terests of several millions of people
are vitally Interested.In the passage of
the measure. If the bill becomes a
law Rockefeller may be forced to re
duce the price of coal oil and gasol
ine, and thousands of termers through
out the country who are now barely
making both ends meet will find a
new and very profitable source of rev
enue in raising potatoes for the menu-
faotute (ft the wonderful “denatur-
ised alcohol.*'
Denatured, or denaturlzed, alcohel
is Just everyday alcohol with some
substance added which will prevent
its use as a beverage. If alcohol goes
Into the manufacture pf whisky.
Uncle Sam wants his Internal revenue
tax of 91.10 a proof gallon, and as he
goes upon the theory that all alcohol
made which is at all drinkable, or pot
able, as the official term designates
it, he taxes every drop at that rate.
Under the present law* wood alcohol
■ One scheme to defeat ; t has already
! been exposed—-that of tacking the
| Phlllpine tariff measure to the bill in
I order to secure for it the enmity of
| the Senators who are opposed to that
unpopular piece of legislation.
| Talks of Canada's Resources.
The Hon. Henry R. Emmerson, Ca
nadian Minister of Railways and Ca
nals. declared recently that Canada is
going to take possession of the twen
tieth century as the United States took
the nineteenth. Her areas are beyond
calculition, her mineral resources, for
ests and fisheries make the potential
ities of the 6,000.000 Canadian beyonJ
conjecture. In the last ten years the
commerce has doubled, and to
eight months of the current fiscal year
it has Increased $52,000,000 over the
same period last year. We will pass
the $500,000,000 mark this year, and
you will understand what this means
when I tell you that we have a per
capita trade of $90 compared to $30 In
the United States. We are no long
er content with merely crossing the
Atlantic, but we are reaching across
the Pacific as well."
It is not often that a condemned
murderer takes up the pen in defense
of his jailers. This has been done re
cently by Luchenl, the murderer of the
Empress of Austria. The regicide's
conduct in Jail has been so good that
he is allowed to possess a few books
in his ceil and to read certain Journals,
French by preference, because though
an Italian, he has taken a fancy for
learning French, and takes constant
lessons in It from a prison official
Reading (none of these journals that
he is harshly treated la prison, and
that his features have become almost
unrecognizable as a result, he became
Tabulated Statement Saturday's Trimary.
a g c a
is not taxed, but on account of its j very angry, and. although warned that
limited manufactre has never been I letters from him could not he dls-
made cheap enough to Justify Its I patched, wrote a memorial to the
general use in targe quantities. But Swiss government declaring that his
were every farmer able to make alco-
hol from his potatoes or beets or
corn and sell It at a fair profit with
out paying Ihe top-heavy tax, millions
of gallons would be distilled every
year and used In Ihe manufactures and
arts. It would then become an ac
tive competitor of coal oil and gasol
ine for the economical production of
heat and power, and doubtless light.
The great manufacturing Interests of
the country are, ss a consequence,
backlog the bill as strongly ss they
know how. Automobile makers and
automobile users want it for the pre-
treatmeot Is humane, and oven kind.
This memorial Is, the Neues Wiener
Taghlatt says, written not only In
French, but In good French, of which
at the time of his condemnation In
1893 the regicide knew not a word.
For Senator
O A BACON
For Congress
W. G. BRANTLEY
For Senator
W. F, CRAWI-EY
C W. BEEN
For Representative
N A FRIER
O K. WALKER
For Judge City Court
JOHN T. MYERS
For Clerk
E. J. BERRY
For Sheriff
J. A. DOUGLASS
C. H. LOWTHER
f. b. McDonald
J. M. MATHIS
J. C. ROUSE
D. A. WOODARD
For Tax Assessor
W. R. HARBIN
M. E. HENDERSON
H. J. JEFFORDS
For Tax Collector
J. R. BENNETT
W. T. JAMES
C. A. JOHNSON
W. J. MULIJS
J. J. WILKINSON
For Treasurer
W. C. BUTLER
T. H. MORTON
D. A. WILLIAMS
For Surveyor
J. A. MAY
H. M. PAFFORI)
J. H. WILSON, JR.
For Coroner
JACKSON GRIMES
70 59:1 II 39 33
<53 191 19 .37 31 II
IS 63—1126
15 131 IS 82—1577
19 34 14 IS
21— 511
58— 977
31 29 29 37 73 12 194 li 76—1080
761 297 tl 36 35 29 77 80 15 133 18 82—1568
776 299 II 39 35 21 77 79 16 133 IS 89—168.3
13 « 2 9 I 2 1 15 0 I 0 28— 76
127 68 2 11 4 4 27 21 1 12 2 II— 289
239 H9 I 4 14 4 10 15 6 52 1 19— 608
33 36 0 0 0 0 1 0 7 39 1 0— 117
1150951 2 2 0 2 9 1— 30
316 51 1 23 6 10 35 26 1 28 14 21-. 661
l Automatic Time-Table.
An iiui-niuri train indicator hat*
been set up at tin* entrance to Caurch
Kriil, Finchley station, says the Isonlon
Kx proas
It 1m the invention of two locil
tradesman, and stands some eight foot
high. In the top of the front la a clock
1 regulated so as to keep time with the
station clock. In the center of the ma
chine, behind a glass panel, appear*
in bold figures tne time of trains lea?
ing the station for one hour
F>very hour the whole of these
train times aro automatically changed
in accordance, with the movement of
tho clock, and so from morning to
night the public have the train time
table hour by hours placet before
tnepi.
53 66 11 124 13
190 125 5
389 102 10 27 4
39 35 11 113 11
51 40 2 53
16 32 13 41
61— 745
3— 227
12— 251
7— 336
33— 218
26— 409
4— 385
21— 359
17— 385
45— 811
2— 325
52— 690
28— 528
*99
39 33 21
lienders<ms plurality
O. W. Deen’s majority 436.M.
N. A. Frier's majority 619.W. J. Mullin' plurality 24
D. A. Woodard’s plurality 66.D. A. Williams' plurality 426.
16 79 15 127 18 83—1673
H8. H. M. Pafford's plurality 162
Pstar's Mistake.
The 'school mistress was showing
- -off her pupils to some vhltlng friends
relates Men and Women. She haa
been over the name ground a day or
two before, and thought she could
trust tnem to do her credit.
“Who knows what useful article la
duction 'of power for their red dev- furnished to us by the elephant?”
11a. Silk manufacturers say that If she asked.
the bill la passed they can make the “Ivory,” was tha prompt reply of
finest grades of "their products at a three boys at ance.
greatly decreased cost, tor In the ■
finishing of the best silk nearly a gal- Agaa of Birds.
Ion of aplrlta Is used.
Various plans are proposed for den- From the Detroit Free Press,
aturlxlng alcohol. The Introduction of The doctlne of vegetarianism ap-
a certain amount of coal oil will ac- pears to be slightly shikeo by the re-
compllsh the result; so will the al- suit of an inveatlgation that an Eng-
ditton of wood alcohol or any one of llsh newspaper has maJc In to tho
a hundred medicinal substances which subject of the longevity of birds, with
wljl cause the spirits to be treated to one notable exception the carron or
become a powerful emetic or create The Easter display of a millinery
some other immediate convulsion of shop not far from the Wal lorf-Astorta
the drinker's system. Tho proper will he mostly the work this year of
treatmen of the product under govern- a man poet whose writings appears off
meat supervision Is provided for In and on In the magazines,
the ren’-ynj bill. At first the measure This youth graduated from college
was opposed by the prohibition In- two or three years ago and triej to
tercet of the country under the belief make bis living out of Poetry. He
that the paasage of the bill would In- couldn't by a great deal. One day he
crease dru^keneas. were sqos 'Ing trouble* with a woman
convinced of their error‘ln this regard friend who Is a milliner an 1 she told
and have now withdrawn their op- him how hard It la to get new 1 leas
■ position.* for hat*.
The leader of the', taction, fight In* • ”1 believe that I could design a hat,”
the bill Is Senator Aldrich of Rhode he said.
Island. The same man who la doing “Well, for goodness sake, try!" she
battle with the President on the rail- answered.
real rate'blit," will he found fighting He did, and he proved a great inc-
for the Standard Oil. With Aldrich ces*. Now he makes 150 a week le-
agalnat It a great many well Informed signing hat* and has time to carpen-
men are willing to bet that the den- ter poetry on the aide. And In spite
stared alcohol bill will surely lose of his double profession ee's noi at all
for In many ways Aldrich lends the York Son.
Senate about by the nose. Aldrich's an effeminate man, either. —New
laughter Abble married John D.
Rockefeller's son, John D. Jr., so the'
Betting Is as old as human nature I The town of Eden, Me., by a vote
and probably as durable .Since Eva, of
made her venture In apples with the
Garden of Eden at stake her sons and
daughters have been rlaklng t'nefo
hopes of happiness on everything from ' Quired the habit of crawling Into Eden
the comparative celerety of quad-' tho beginning, and has never forgot-
rupeds to a matrimonial engagement. teB ,lie tr * c * r
to 75, has barred “devil carta"
from entry on the streets. But the
devil himself is not barred. He ac-
The Ogdenburg (N. Y.) street rail
ways are now operating by electric
power transmitted from the falls of
Raquette River, thirty-five miles dis
tant. It Is quite possible that the
trains of the Philadelphia and West
ern Railroad may be operated by elec
trical power obtained from tne raplls
of the Susquehanna River, not far
distant from the point of probable
Junction with the Wabash lines.
It might be nil right for American
heiresses to marry titles If It were not
for want goes with the titles.
New York clniins to have discovered
goli dust under Wall Street. It prob
ably dropped through the street pav
ing while the lambs were being shear
ed upon tne street suggests the At
lanta Journal.
Too many young men have been
killed or crippled for life at our Amer
ican universities Jurlng the present
college year, There Is something
loose In the athletic regulations. There
should be rational reform, and that
speedily.
At a result of the canal grant of
810,000,000, the Repnblic of Panama
proudly exhibits a bank account, a list
of public Improvements and a bunch
of patriots willing to run for presi
dent.
About 3,000,000 ounces of quinine are
used In the United 8tates a year,
which is more than 100 tons. The
whole value Is toward $1,000,000. The
Judge Tajt bit the. bull's-eye when
he bald: “It Is Impossible to (ram a
law which will on Its Jfsce^ stand tho
test of the flfteeenth .amendment"
The thing to ;lo is to.knock out the
fifteenth araendmept. Then we oaa
make disfnanchisefnent laws to suit
taste.—Nashville Herald.
Aptly spoken. As so .often said by
John Tomplo Graves, ihftjxily source
from which abolishment of negro auf
frage can come is the one from which
the evil was promulguted-r-the nation
ul congress. Thinking men la tso
North and East are almost ready' to
join bunds with the South In ailing
her to throw off this incubus, and tbe
dawn of that bright day Is n*tr At-
hand. But every spasmodic effort
on thn part of the Southorn states
to pans unconstitutional and discrim
inating laws against tho negro but
fans the expiring (l imes of sectional
hatred, and postpone, again the timo
when the question will be finally and r
The New York Sundays: "Secretary
Taft has asked Congress for authority
to pay the actual expenses of army of
ficers when traveling on duty without
troops. Under tne present law a uni
form allowance of four cents a mile Is
made for their expenses. In Alaska
an officer traveling from St. Michael
to Nome, 115 miles, receives $4.60
from (he Government. His actual
expenses are no less than $90 for
men' lodging, a helper and his logs.
One lieutenant Is under Ordors to
make the round trip four times a year,
with the resuit that he spends $683.20,
which Uncle Sam dops not repay to j
him. In this ns In many other things,
Ware Superior Court adjourned
this morning for tho t vm. Judge
Parker sentenced W. R. Smith, wtao-
was convicted for arson, to ten years
in the penitentiary. /
Simon Howard, who was convicted-
with a recommendation to 'the mer
cy of the court, wns -sentenced to
serve twenty years in the penitenti
ary. Smith and Howard * aye both
white men.
Tho trjal of Dan Styles, colored. *
ciwapno.. <rf th. aluff puta It within * who |§ ch>r(ed wu .
the roach of all victims and TMt-'aon Hill, alao colored,-wa* postpoa-
pockct nibbles. It li contained In ed. It la understood that Style's bond
patent preparation, sold aa liquid at, wHI **• flled •* **.000, and It la sal*
ho will bo able to fire the required
eode water fountain! and dispensed In
piila, powders and candles. The cla
ssy* cocktail la a farorlto form. Some
years ago a league of American quin
ine fiends prevented a revolution In
South America, fearing that It might
cut off their supply of the drug.
The New York Herald observes:
bond for his appearanoe at the next
term of court v
Flogging.
tho Government system I. Inolaetlc I ln connectlon «'»*> ' lfl ' Insurance com
and unadaptable, with th- result that i " anl «* dlvw ln, ° •""* P°-
hardships la infllot.-d on Ita employe*." J ll,lc *J d ' unll, ' lH Th » K'"”' 1 ‘""I «»>■
I tempt for moral and statute law ox-
I by many rich men afforded
Just ground for popular Indignation,
and this has been expended and fan-
in various direction! by cranks
and by self-seeking demagogues until
we hive a sort of mud slinging
as occasion requires, and we arq with “ cnwo " which Individual reputa-
Mrn. Myrick, of the Amerlcus Times
Recorder, is being criticised for flop
ping from one man to another In the
congressional race. A handsome
widow has the right to flop from man
to man as often as she pleases and
Flogging, In public and otherwise
Is not of mediaeval origin. In tho
More than a year ago aymptom. of' “ ,dd,e **** r, '" cule «"
popular unreal were noted abroad and I w “ 11,0 “*“* emp,0y * d ,or
at homo and observer. of tho notable " 10 erection of wrongdoing; henco
"revival” movement In England fan . ">« PHI« r y. tne .lock tod the thew^-
a chair suspended high over tho hesda
J of tho crowd, In which women, gen
{ orally scholds wore brought to n
sweet reasonableness—but the whip
ping pout holongs to the Tudor age.
The Kllzabetnan servant quesntlon
was met by flogging girls for Idleness
on Sunday morning. But It wan In
the Hanoverian period that flogging
was cnrrloil to excess. As late as 1804
six women were prfblfciy flfiggged is
Gloucester, England, because they had
been found begging. "
cl<> I that the unrest fori-shadowed a
great wave of religious excitement
which would sweep this country. Per
haps the revelations of “high finance*'
her la defiance of public opinion la
matters of this nature.
The magnificent
nation to tho child of help'from the
8an Francisco sufferers Is s wonder
ful demonstration of American broth
erhood and Christian charity.
tlons far and wlJe are recklesaly as
sailed, and the fact that a man Is
rich Is treotej aa prima facie evidence
that he ia a scoundrel. This Is to be
bespattered tho guilty ones can no
longer be singled out for obloquy, and
those assailed, the good as well as
the bad, will be Impelled to unite for
common defense.
In view of the disorder Introduce!
We are pleased to "llowdy" with
Japan Is resolved to try the expert- Into Japanese finances by the large
ment of nationalizing tne railroad., expansion of the national debt, It In j John T ,. m|)k , arav „., Atlanta Oenr-
and the Japanese Diet, by a two to-one .omewhat surprising to learn that tho j „„ m|r CTchanw
voU*. has appropriated $250,000,000 to Japanese statesmen, rated cautious in
Rhode Island Senator has a family Richmond Selected for Nsxt Meet. J buy out .the rompinles now owning financial matters, are |*ersuaded that,
interest in keeping up the price of Orleans. I,a.. April W —Wen-
all. There are other Senators wan moa q chosen as the next meeting
tre believed to be In the direct psy place of the Confederate Veterans,
of the Standard Oil Company and unanimously and with a great ovaaion.
when the timo coass are expected to Birmingham was nominated, but was
The senior editor of the Heral 1
Mrs. George GouUL has • succeeded •
in tracing her lineage back* to the
twelfth century. Fatfilly tree! always
grow well for those who have the
money.
The withdrawal of John Tem
ple Graves from the senatorial race
against “Gus" Bacon mirks him as a
man of good Judg—ment, as our
friend Joe Brown would say.
The numer of automobile* In Mas
sachusetts now exceeds the number
of those who had appen Ileitis, de
clare* Somervilto Journal.
end operating the roada. The pur iho new railway debt c-«n lie success-
chase of the entire system of the fully floated within five years. The about through looking after the In- satisfactorily settled.. And Southern'
country, Jt U anticipate J, will be af-; nt value of all property In Japan ! teroat of the farmers In the matter
fected within five years. ; is estimated ns less than tan billions . of Inspecting fertilisers, and will
I*
to a debt of thelve an! a quarter bil- of dollars. For her a dept of a I
shortly begin work la asslstlag to
pot a, a bitter fi*kt a**ta*- tbr bill, withdrawn before the rote wu wt. Ilo* for qf
‘ ‘ * _ r. ..VI *» '*T"" ’* '*
- aa* a quarter 1*4 therefore, eifutnlenri build Greater Wayeroef
. . 41»- - - ■>
men who allow themselves to bo mlw- ■
lad by politician! seeking-only tho
present rota are lnstnimtataJ.1* thin