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THE HERALD. i S RS e eA A BB R AREES Published Every Thuarsday, SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. Advertising Rates Reascnable Ofic:al Organ Charlton County and the Town of Folkston, W. W. TYLER, Proprietor. BEntered at the postoffize st Foliston, Gu, as Second Clasz Matter. e—_ o ———" ‘ William Avrcher finds four social strata in New York, the sediment, the strap hangers, the intellectuals and the plutocrats, He probably re gards these as the American equiva- | lents, retorts the Bosion Transcript, of the four estates of his own coun- ‘ try. | Says tha Pittshurg Dispatch: “Ag riculture, the oldest of man's indus tries, I 8 yet in its infancy, It is just beginning to realize its possibilities. During this century it will make amazing progress, with engineering experts on the farms and scientists in the experiment stations and the laboratorfes.” ' Many criminals have suffered from eyestrain or some other defect of vis fon, which prevented the exercise of wmplete self-control. In conse quence, asserts Cassell’'s Magazine, habits of drug taking and alcoholic excess were formed, and the moral sense so perverted that crimes of greater or lesser magnitude were committed. " Observes the New York World: “T'he balance of trade in farm prod uets in favor of this country was $444,000,000, a 8 compared with a favorable balance of only $2,600,000 in all other products. It is the farmer, and not the captain of indus try, who pays our bills abroad. Stocks may tumble, but the real basis of na tional wealth remains secure.” g C—————— ' Wonderful as are the advances in crop raising during the past decade, the soil surveyors declare that only 420,000,000 acres—not one-half the farms of the country—can be classed as lmproved land, and but one-third, or about 290,006,000 acres, is fruit ~ful. Congress will do well to amplity the scope and influence of the de partment according to Mr. Wilson's recommendations. 5 N 5 e——————— ¢ ‘An Bnglish social chronicler notes that King Edward’s grandchildren do not stand in awe of him. To them he is “grandfather” with all that the term implies. 'Twas ever thus, coms ments the Boston Transcript. The divinity that hedges a king hardly ever comprehends a grandfather, or even a royal father in the domestic cirele, Mr. Samuel Pepys having oc casion to take an important dispatch to the Duke of York, afterward James 11., then head of the admiralty, was ushered into the duke's private apart ments, and there found him playing with his two daughters, the Priacess Mary and the Princess Aune, “like a common father,” to the astonishment of that delightful diarist. - Dr. Evans, Chicago's health come l missioner, finds cause for alarm in the rapid increase in pneumonia and consumption in his city, and has is sued a bulletin in which it is stated that walking is “almost a specific against them,” says the New York Herald. Heo recommended that every, person llving within two miles of his work should walk the distance twice dally instead of viding in the cars. To New Yorkers, wino are obliged to suffer the torture of overcrowded cars twice each day, the walking cure is attractive. In this city as well as in Chicago pneumonia and consump tion are the most prevalent of all dis eases, and physicians generally agree that poisonous air in street cars, homes and offices is the main cause. S—— Y— o —————— ittt . At every rung on the social ladder now is a group of “soclety” guides, lni\)oy‘arlll}‘od well-connected men and wdmen ‘\"yhmofor a consideration— assist fhose who are endeavoring to relch’the.-l‘mmit. declares London r,’l‘ruth. “TM way to ‘soclety,’ " ery " those on the fih} steps; “This way to the duchesses,” ery the guides a little higher; “This way to title,” “This way to the court,” “This way to the tog,“ call others as the social elimbers #pproach them respectively. The “well-connected * hppear to be unablo to move forward themselves any lons ger, anl to bo only able to maintain thé level they severally occupy by obs x nly Jbayment Mr directing the so- Jcial o of aspirants from the kP Bl ik & ~ Bome of the big financiers would do mighty well at steering alrships, suggests the Atlanta Constitution. e r— It costs more to live, and, since un dertakers’ charges have risen, it costs more to die. According to Puck, all a man can do {8 hang on and trust to luck, .~ They may be able to maintain the high prices of meat, propounds the Indianapolis News, but when it comes to beer something has got to be done about it. “What constitutes a beauty?” asks the Chicago American. Well, an swers the Louisvme. Courier-Journal, any fall hat costing more than SSB is so regarded by the average Ameri can girl, w When everybody produces and everybody consumes everybody is prosperous, observes the New York World. To discharge willing work men thereby cuts down consumption and reacts upon production, Idle hands make hungry mouths. The Boston Advertiser declares: “The average man in the United States 18 just as well off ag he was six months ago. He can do as much business, soon, as he did then, if he and all his business associates will look on the right side of things and live up to their professions.” Clear thinkers, clean-cut writers, who can condense their thoughts, are 80 rare that they are in great de mand, declares Success. Kverything is covered up with words, words, words. The whole tendency of mod ern life is toward diffusion. Rhetori cal condensation is becoming a lost art, What are we to do with the tramp? inquires Country Life. He has come to hate the casual weard, with its com pulsory work, which is abhorrent to him, and its compulsory bath, which is almost equally so—in fact, prefer prison fare, which is much Dbetter than it used to be, and which cerries with it no compulsion to labor. ———————— f Aun eminent man, who is a strict abstainer from both wine and Eumal food, relates the Christian Régtster, is obliged, in consequence of this pe cullarity, to refrain from dining out. He entertains, however, an occasional kindred spirit. One such was recent ly at his table. “You ought to have seen them,” said the eminent man’s son, “rioting over boiled carrots!” e ————— Hitherto the ordinary fly, the mus ca domestica, has been regarded as annoying rather than dangerous. Its low tastes have been recognized, and feeble efforts have been made to pro tect us from its excessive familiarity, It has shown itself superior, however, to the influence alike of fly paper, patent fly killers and window screens. As an early riser, says the New York Times, it has quite outdone the lark, and as a disturber of late sleeping on summer mornings it has been more potent than the alarm clock. O ———— An exchange says that alcohol will remove grass stains from summer clothes. The exchange is right, ac cording to the Woodbury Reporter. It will also remove summer clothes and also spring and winter clothes, not only from the man who drinks it, ‘ but also from his wife and children. 1 It will remove household !urnlture‘ from the house and eatables from the pantry; the smiles from the face ot' his wife and the happiness from his home. As a remover of things alco hol has few equals. eet ee e Another burden of the American ambassador or minister abroad is the importunity of his fellow countrymen for social favors, such as presentation at court, introduction to pérsons of mark and the like, insists the New Orleans Picayune, HKvery American traveler seems to feel that the Ameri can minister is in duty bound to look after him, introduce him into the best society and make him feel at home. It is naturally something of a | task to avold these importunities without making powerful enemies, who, however insignificant abroad, wield great influence at home. ‘ NThe American public has becomel 80 hardened to the idea of bond-se cured currency, withi no proper rela tion to gold, and, therefore, no auto matic elasticity, that we fear there is little chance of creation of simple, sound and uniform system of cur rency. If American bank notes are issued to an unlimited extent on se curity of railway bonds, thinks the Lordon Economist, we may have to study again the history of Law's Mis sissippl scheme, and of the French assignats, which were proudly de stribed as paper money based on the @rm foundation of landed propdrty. Transmitted to Congress By President Roosevelt, REMARKABLE DOCUMENT Stands Pat on His Previous Recom-: mendations and Suggests Strenu ous Legislation Along Some Special Lines. . President Roosevelt sent to congress a special message Friday which is, in reality an uncomprosmising and categorical review of his administra tive policies, an analysis of their meaning and the necessity for their existence and a vigorous attack upon criticis who have sought to ‘discredit the administration campaign against commercial corruption, or to hold it responsible for the recent paaic. He omits no single phase of the war against “predatory wealth,” points out the interest of every citizen in decent government, dwells on the prime ne cessity of railroad and corporation reg ulation, touches on federal and state functions in this direction and on the question of jailing or fining malefac tors of “great wealth,” He calls cor porationg and individuals by name with unerring fluency. The president calls for the immedi ate reenactment of the employers’ liability law, which has been declar ed unconstitutional, in such form as will meet the requirements of the su preme court. He depends upon the respective stateg to do their part to ward fulfilling the duties of which the federal government is deprived. He also urges that an aet be passed compensating government employ'iel injured in public service, “It is all wrong,” says Mr, Roose velt, ‘to use the injunction to prevent the entirely proper and legitimate ac tions of labor organizations in their struggle for industrial betterment, or undar the guise of protecting property rights unwarrantably to invade the fundamental rights of the individual.” He promises to send a special mes sage to congress on the case of Adair vs. the United States, the effect ot which ig far-reaching, but which of ficers of the government have not yet had the opportunity to study in all its bearings. : T The president would give the inter state commerce commission the right to pass on any rate or practice 9W railroads on its own initiative. "He would also give the government super vision over the financial affairs of in terstate railroads, to the end that over capitalization might be avoided, specu lation eliminated and bond proceeds devoted only to legitimate purposes. He declares that overcapitalization al ready of fixed value must be recognized as affecting thousands of innocent shareholders. Many rates, he contends, are already too low, and it is better in the interest of imperative improve ments that earnings should be too liberal rather than insufficient. The Sherman anti-trust law, he says, calls for immediate amendment. In its present shape it is entirely unfitted to meet the conditions of today, oftemn tending to produce the very evils it alms to suppress. The president speei fies certain combinations which are lawful and expedient for the railroads. The president attacks stock and mar ket gambling in strong terms. | Thé message created a great deal of comment among the nation’s law makers. The. president's friends com mend it enthusiastically. Some of the talks in the cloak room and corri dors turned upon a third term for Roosevelt and discussed this action as a bid for support from those who be lieve President Roosevelt is the only man with the determination, grit and perseverance to fight through congress the aggressive policies outlined in the special message. & It came as a surprise that the presi dent should send anotlier message to congress calling for further corporate regulations; particularly since he reit erated his old recommendations in his December message. In the senate the message was heard in decorous sl lence. In the house it was continuously applauded, particularly the reference to punishment of wrongdoers and his de fense of federal judges. “A splendid democratic doctrine,” said Senator Jeff Davis. “A bid for a third term,” said Representative Clay ton of Alabama. Senator Davis moy ed that 10,000 copies of the message be printed anvd the motion was adopted. BUSINESS BLOCK IN ASHES, Loss in Big Stone Gap, Va., Confla gration of SIOO,OOO. An entire business block at Big Stone Gap, Va., was wiped out by fire Thursday morning, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO. Among the bulidings burn ed was the Hotel Eugene; the South ern Express company and the West ern Union officers were also destroyed. ) s ACQUITTAL FOR THAW, Must Serve Temporarily in Asylum at Matteawan—Curtain is Down on Malodorous Case. A New York special says: Adjudged not guilty of the murder of Stanford White by reason of insanity at the time the fatal shots were fired, Harry Kendall Thaw Saturday was held by the court to be a dangerous lunatic and was whirled away to the stale hospi tal for the eriminal insane at Mattea wan, It was quick transition from the din gy little cell in the Tombs, which had been the young man’s home for more than eighteen months, to the white-bedded wards of the big asylum tucked away on the snow-covered slop ing banks of the Hudson g‘ver, a 0 miles above the city. The verdict came after twenty-five hours of waiting and when every omne connected with the case had abandon ed all hope of an agreement ever being reached in this or any other trial. Four hours after the foreman’s lips had framed the words “not uilty” with an accompanying insanity clause, Thaw protesting he was sane, was on his way to Matteawan. A little after night fall he had been received in the in stitution under commitment papers, which directed his detention “until dis charged by due course of law.” Scarcely an hour later the members of the Thaw family were in conference with their lawyers as to the advisabil ity of applying for a writ of habeas corpus. Thaw was greatly enraged over being committed to the asylum and argued strenuously for the appli cation to be made. It was finally de cided to defer this action at least a week. After deliberating twenty-five hours, the jury brought in a verdict of “not guilty” at 12:45 Saturday afternoon. The verdict was arrived at on the ground that Thaw was insane at the time the deed was committed. Although practically cleared of the charge of murder, Thaw is not yet a free man. On the recommendation of Justice Dowling he was taken to the insane asylum at Matteawan as a dangerous person and one whose malady is likely to recur at any moment. This noted case may be summed up Chronologically as follows: Harry Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit were married in Pittsburg on April 23, 1905. On June 25, 190 G, Thaw killed Stan ford White on the Madison Square root garden, and on June 28 he was indict ed. In January following the first trial began. Ten days were required for the jury to return a disagreement. The trial cost the county of New York SIOO,OOO. The cost to the Thaw fam ily is estimated to have been $400,000. The testimony of alienists brought the figure to this great total. The enitre second trial occupied but seventeen days, five of which were tak ~en up with the selection of a jury. The prosecution had but few witnesses and ‘made out its case in four and a half hours. The defensa: hrought witnesses from several European centers, from the Pacific coust of America and from a namber of other cities. The cost to the county will hardly exceed 325,000, while the cost to the Thaw family will be equally as much as that of the first trial. The case may justly be referred to as the “million dollar mur der trial.” FIVE VICTIMS OF FIRE. Fatalitiec Result from Burning of Reoming House in Kansas City. Five persons were burned to death and twclve others injured in a fire in a three story rooming house in Kan sas City Saturday morning. The fire started from an explosion of natural gas in the basement, The flames axd dense smoke spread quick- Iy throughout the building and before an alarm cou'd be given all means of escape by the ordinary exits had been shut off. The five persons who lost their lives were asleep on the third floor. ARTHUR GIOVER HANGED, Paid Penalty at Augusta, Ga., for the Murder of Maude Dean. At Augusta, Ga., Friday morning, Arthur P. Glover was hanged for the murder of his sweetheart, Maude Dean. He professed to forgive all those who had anything to do with his 753nvlctlon. but said up to the last that he never knew when he Kkilled the girl. Though the execution was private, by order of the court there were about 100 people in the jail yard, wearing badges of “special deputy.” Twenty minutes after the drop fell Glover was cut down, BAN PLACED ON WHISKEY. L. & N. Will Henceforth Refuse Ship mems into Dry States, Annonucement was made at Louls ville, Friday night, by the Louisville and Nashville railroad that it will no longer recelve shipments of liquor into the states of Georgla or Alabama, which have recently passed prohibition Georgia Briefs Items of State Interest Culled From Random Sources. Comptrolier Issues Fi. Fas. Comptroller General Wright has is sued tax fi. fas. against the Savannah Electric company for $11,596.88; the :Brinwn railway for $297.93, and against ithe Western Union Telegraph compa ny for $420.03. The executions were |issued at the request of the tax col ilector of Chatham county for taxes al leged to be due the county. . g e . Must Continue Conyers Train. ‘ The railroad commission has given Superintendent W. S. Brand of the Georgia railroad and the people in ’terested to understand that it would not permit the discontinuance by that !road of the daily accommodation train ' between Conyers and Atlanta. This announcement was made fol lowing sthe conclusion of the hearing on this subject. k% * Slayer of Policeman Doomed. Andrew Johnson, the negro who kill ed Patrolman Manier in Atlanta, some months ago, will have to hang, accord ing to a decision of the state supreme lcourt, handed down last Friday morn ing. The opinion was rendered by lJus,tlce Atkinson (all justices concur ring), and affirmed the decision of the ’lower court in refusing a mew trial. $ % % County Liable for Debt. In a decision handed down a few |days ago by the state supreme court, Butts county’s liability to the Jackson Banking company for mcney loaned |the county by the bank is fixed. | From February to October, 1906, the Jackson Banking company loaned Buttg county about $48,000 on motes. All but some $19,000 was paid, then the county treasurer declined to pay any more of the amount on the ground that the county was not liable. * % * Big Power Company Projected. A company has been formed in Jesup with a capital of $300,000, for the pur [poae of developing water power and ‘generating electrieity for manufactur -ling purposes, | The company will ereet a cotton ‘mill and a cotton seed oil mill and sterage warehouses, and will build and operate an electric railway from Jesup to several other surrounding towns. : - Application for charter is. now be ing prepared. The privilege of increas ing the capital stock to $500,000 is asked. ® % % | Postal Clerks Transferred. ? Twenty railway postal clerks and ;about $25,000 a year in salaries spent in Atlanta will be taken away as a re ‘sult of changes recently made by the 'Southerp railway in its train sched fiules. Orders to this effect moving ‘away from Atlanta this number of men 'have been issued by L. M. Terrell, isuperintendent of the United States Tailway mail service. ~ Under the schedules as changed ithere was no other alternative for Su perintendent Terrell, and he was com ‘pelled to have twenty clerks transfer 'red to Washington. 1* ® % ~ Appeals to State Supreme Court. B. C. Sloan, son-in-law of the late Rev. Sam P. Jones, has appealed from the decision of Judge Fite, in which he awarded the little grandson of the great evangelist to his grandmother, Mrs. Sam Jones, at Cartersville, for five years. In an effort to obtain possession of the baby his wife waived her claim to ‘the boy to her mother, Mrs. Sam P. Jones, and Judge Fite, after reviewing the case, ordered the child to the care. of Mrs. Jones, its grandmother, It is from this decision that Mr. Sloan appeals to the supreme court of the state, o & & Ocilla Declared County Seat. According to a decision handed down by the state supreme court, Ocilla will be the county seat of Ir win county instead of Irwinville, the old capital of the county. - Following an act passed by the last ‘leglsluture a new county, named Ben Hill, was created with Fitzgerald as the county seat, out of parts of the ‘county of Irwin and adjoining counties, Irwinville was at that time the county {seat of Irwin county, and was left in the old county. A petition was got {ten up, signed by the required number of tax payers, seeking to change the lcounty site from Irwinville to Ocilla, also in the old county. On the face o? the returns Ocilla won. Proceadings were begun by certain cmze'rg to stop she transfer of“the county seat to Ocilla, and in the lower court, Ocilla | again won. The case was brought up |l’m~ review, with the result that the lower court was sustained, and Ocilla won out again. . & e . Uncle Sam Issues Liquor Licenses. From the records of the internal revenue office in Atlanta, information is gathered that since the first of Jan 'uary, 66 federal licenses have bheen issued for the retailing of spiritugns and malt liquors in the state of Geer." gia. ~ The purpose for which these licenseg are secured is of course not apparent. With a prohibition law operative in the state, making illegal the sale of intoxj. cating liquors or beverages, the num ber of licenses issued by the federa] authorities, expressing the permission of the national government for the holders of those licenses to do the thing which is prohibited by state law, becomes exceedingly interesting. A perusal of the internal revenue record of these licenses show_s that most of them were issued to people who give Savannah as their place of business. Only four of the whole number are charged to Atlanta, with an additional license issued to a fish ing club located at Brooks Station i Fayette county. £ % & Decision in Favor of State Fair. There will be a state fair at Pied mont Park in Atlanta this fall. The old machinery hall will be torn down this spring. These two things were agreed upon by the park board after a three-hour session, at which a num ber of prominent citizens, including }a dies, were heard from. There were ar. guments against the holding of the fair at the park so all the old buildings might be removed, .and there were ar guments for the holding of the fair for commercial reasons. The argument to tear down the eld machinery hall came in the way of a compromise, as this will give room fer the immediate beautifying of a portion of the park which will not be used for fair purposes. & % % Crime Decreases in Atlanta. Here is the record of Atlanta’s first month under prohibition. It speaks for itself: Total number of caseg tried in poliee court in January, 1907, 1,663. Total number of drunks, Bs4l. Total number of cases tried in Jan uary, 1908, 768. Total number of drunks, 64. The first month under the reign es prohibition shows a slump in poliee court business of 895 cases. The de crease in the number of cases eof drunkenness is even greater than iam the total number of cases. The police court acts as a splendid barometex. and gives a good idea of the effects of the “dry” reign. JEROME LAMBASTS THAW. Likewise District Attorney Severely Scores White in Summing Up. A New York special says: William Travers Jercme, representative of the people, made a masterly plea Thurs day that justice be done in *he case of Harry Kendall Thaw, V!ndlqtiveness, sneers, insinuations all were lacking; logic, analysis and a calm consideration of the facts were thoir substitutes. It was no blind appeal for the ven weance of the law that Mr. Jerome ad dressed to the jury, but ever and al ways there was the note of fairness, even at times of mercy, The year that has elapsed since the first trial had wrought a wonderful and startling change in the prosecutor. No lecnger attempting to shield the name of Stanford White, he accepted the story teld by Evelyn Nesbit Thaw ag true—all but the drugging—and he made frank confession to the jury that the velvet swings and mirrored rooms of the studio houses deseribed by the girl were indeed a miserable reality. No ‘longar attacking Evelyn Thaw as a skilled adventuregs, Mr. Jerome pleaded for the girl, because she never had had a chauce for any of the higher, cleaner, sweeter things of life. The climax came, however, when Mr. Jerome denounced both Thaw and White in one breath and classed them a 8 “two degenerates quarreling over & woman.” And the woman, the pros eoutor declared, knew no more—had been taught no more by the world— than to play one against the other until in jeslous rage, in blindest rage, in vengeance of “an undeniably gross wrong done to his wife,” Harry Thaw shot and killed the architeet. ESTILL ESTATE APPRAISED. Property Left by Late Editor Stated ‘ to Be Worth $643,000. ~ The report of the appraisers of the estate of the late J, H. Estill, at Sa ‘Vlumfih, Thursday, and shows the to tal value to he $643,000, The principal item in this scheduke is The Morning News, which is valued at $400,000, The debts against the estate amounted to upwards of SIOO,- 000. DATE OF ELECTION CHANGED. North Carolina to Vote on Prohibition Question May 26, The North Carolina state senafe has amended the bill passed some days ago for general election on state pro hibifion by the house so that the=- election will be May 26th, instead of April 20th. In this the house con curs,