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g D THE HERALD. e e eo o |o o o et Published Every Thursday, SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, s§l A YEAR IN ADVANCE, Advertising Rates Reasonable Bk S iikbt oe S s Officlal Organ Charlton County and the Town of Folkston, W. W. TYLER, Proprietor, Entered at the postoffice at Folketon, Ga, as Second Claszs Matter. A stenographers’ union is pro posed. We think, says the New York American, most of the unionizing has been done with a marriage li cense. Remarks the New York Herald: Notice that in most of the new novels the scenes of which are laid in the distant future the streets and side walks are described as covered with rubber to deaden the noise, Wouldn't it be a pretty good idea to start gome of this noise deadening before we are all dead? The rural free mall delivery will cost this fiscal year $25,000,000. This is operated at a great loss be cause there is no parcel post. A par cel post would make the rural deliv ery pay, urges the New York World. It would cheapen the farmers' pur chases and increase enormously the volume of general business. Two-thirds of the people of the United States are working hard pro ducing things to eat and to wear, Half of the other third are working hard in transporting these things from one neighborhood to the other. Yet the people who produce nothing, laments the New York World, but who merely act as mediums of ex change and distribution between pro ducers and consumers, get as much for themselves as all the others put together, ‘ e (ag i Bays the New York World: It is the soclal and industrial uplift which has made the temperance gain we note to-day. Public sentiment re wolts not at the use but at the abuse ~f aleoholie drinks. The spirit of in .dividual freedom is very much alive ‘and 1s not controverted by the great Jallroad and other corporations which &LT Do e shion e “koeping sober and finding new jobs. “These employing bodies have done more for abstinence than any form of legislation can possibly do. P e o vt ' Malne's greatest wealth is in its forests—directly or indirectly, avers the Forest Service Bulletin. In seve eral ways it has been a pioneer in forest legislation and management. It is one of the few States—probably the only State—whose forests are nearly holding their own. Lumbering has gone on there for a long time, and every year there is something ready to cut. The folly of stripping land and leaving (it defenseless against erosion is well understood in Maine, and the Legislature has taken the preliminary steps toward a law compelling unwilling forest land own ers to leave enough small timber and brush on the ground to cover it, 2 Somebody asked Consul:General Ozmun about the prospects for seillng building materials to the Constanti nople folks, and his,answef is not en couraging. “The dwellings, even of ‘flt-héw”lthy classes, are built of wood almost without exception,” he writes. “The exceptions are the few imposing villas of rich Eurgpeans, the large ad ministrations which possess their'.oif;l buildings, the imperial palaces, the various embassies and consulates, and schools and apartment flats. As re gards the latter class of building, they are nearly al of the !__rio_t\__x_. girder type, with bric_? and mortar vs:!)lp.: While a good quality of baked building brick is imported from Marseilles, there are several local br!ck-kllnl.";m 1 cansnot regard work as the high est’ fecessity of man, writes_ Auer bs.cn; The noble man Is he who is idle,"'who cherishes, nourishes and de velops himself; thus do the gods live, and man is the god of creation. This is my heresy. I have confessed it. But in the chair of confession there sits anothet being, and he is really right when he says: Well, n;xy»cealld. to do nothing, merely to be here— that would be the worthiest and l“mp? limest. Very fine! But as no man can be here without another working #or him-—come here, stand on this polnt—'-—thekench must also work. None is here, terely for the sake of veing, nor otlfers merely for the sake of working. $o Says Dr. A. Calmette, a French Scientist--Man Must Drive Out or Be Driven. IS A MIGRATORY RODENT Assertion Made That a Single Pair Will Ordinarily Multiply in Two Years to Fifteen Hundred. Rats as a menace before which hu manity may disappear is a theme developed with disquieting precision by Dr. A. Calmette, a French sclen tist, in La Revue du Mois, of Paris. Dr. Calmettte predicts that mankind will have to engage in a general war fare on rats before many years clapse if the world is to continue to be habi table. He pointed out that different countries have different breeds of rats which are no great menace in themselves, which, in fact, are often useful. The peril comes from the mi gratory rat, otherwise known as the sewer rat, which has been evolved by civilization, and which follows the march of man into every clime. Rats of other breeds have been known ever simce man began to keep re cords of the things around him. The first mention of him was made only in 1620, when he was a native of Persia and East India. He did not invade Europe until the eighteenth century. At that time he was driven out of his old haunts by the widespread famine in those regions and of which he was largely the cause. Old chronicles report that millions of the vermin crossed the Volga in 1727. They made their appearance in Prus sia Inl7so,and firet were seen at Paris three years later. The newcomers were not welcomed. Within a Week gixteen thousand were slain. This made no apparent difference in the ranks of the invaders. Professor Calmette says that the sewer rat did not appear in America until 1865, when he was first no ticed along the coast and in various seaports. As late as 1870 he had not yet reached the head waters of the Missouri. By 1900 he had gone up to the permanent ice beit, At present, the scientist con tinues, this migratory rodent is de stroying in the West Indies, in the Azores and in the Cape Verde Isl ands annually hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of coffee, banana, sugar and orange plantations. As a sample of what he can do, the case of an island in the estuary of the River Humber is cited. This island was once completely covered with rich grass, which kept in gbod condi wd all the year “;;und about 3000 head of cattle. The island is sepa rated frgm the shore by half a mile of water. One day the place was in fested by rats that had reached the island by swimming. = That was fif teen years ago. To-day there is not enough verdure on the island to nourish a rabbit. The whole island has been honeycombed by the ro dents, so that it cannot even be re claimed by cultivation. In a number of the Channel Isl ands, where nothing grows but a few ferns .and mosses, there are also many thousands of rats. How they found sufficient food was long a mat ter of curiosity, but one day a scien tist, bent on investigating the mat ter, dug up one of the numerous rat holes and discovered, not without surprise, sixteen large crabs in a single pocket of the earth, while there were six in another. The crabs had not gone there by them ®:lves, that was evident, for all of them had their legs cut off. Investi- gation showed that the rats were in the habit of making their crabbing _expeditions at low tide. To immobi “lze their victims and render them ~ harmless the rats amputated them - ag'soon as captured. All the crabs | found were still living and in good | condition. Whether the wily ro l dents kept their prisoners fed or not - is unknown, . _.The sewer rat is perfectly at home '[ In sea water, and, according to Dr. iTCalmette. is always on the outlook ~for an attractive ship in which to } take passage for some foreign port. ’ He will wait patiently until nightfall and then swim out to some yacht | which has pleased his fancy and crawl aboard by way of the anchor chain. He is extremely prudent and is not easily caught. The amount of damage these rats do annually in the cargoes of seagoing ships, in docks and warehouses would count up easily into the tens of millions, They have even been known to at tack children and old people. It is reported that a few years ago these hardy quadrupeds organized a regu lar expedition against the Pitie Hos pital. They were only banished after the nurses and physicians in charge had used hundreds of pounds of sulphur and disinfectant. ¥ Everybody is familiar with the stories of how rats carry disease "germs from one part of the world to the other. These stories are per fectly true. Extraordinary precau l tions are taken against rats at Mar . seilles and other Mediterranean l,dpq::a&yblch have lear;;ed much by < éxXperienceg in the past. ¢ i«' D Cllmet\:“.:anc\udea by show ing that wif two vears a single pair of gill ordinarily multiply | to over 1500, to be exact, to 1536, ‘ That is one of the reasons why he | thinks that unless something is done rats_will nélh&“hy, be the omnly ami mals: jest. on thy surface of the globe, . . £ S WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW Bradstreet’s Crop and Industrial Report is Favorable. | Output in Certain Lir es of Cotton Goods Are Being Curtailcd---Condition i of the Corn Crop. New York City.~-Bradstreet’s review says; “Trade, crop and industrial de velopments of the week are mainly favorable, The first of the fall mer chents’ excursions are reported in .eudlng cities, thereby enlarging sales oy jobbers and wholesalers, Indus 'rjal reports are generally of {ncreas ¢d time run, or enlarged output, and the leading crops have approached a week nearer harvest,’ = There are, bowever, some features accompanying thege developments deserving of note, There are statements from quite a few markets that early fall buying is pardly up to expectations, and that caution and conservatism govern buy of's’ actions, “In the industrials there is percep tibly more doing in fron and steel, nardware manufacturing, western coal mining and the lumber trades gener ally. The railorads are certainly buy ing more of rails, cars and also light gupplies. The building trade evident ly turned the corner in July, but re ports of curtailment in output of cer tain lines of cotton goods are still prominsent, “Business failures in the United States for the week ending August 6 number 205, against 275 last week, and 157 in the like week of 1907. “Business failures 'in Canada for the same period number 19, which compares with 32 last week and 18 in the like week of 1907. Washington, D. C.—The crop-report ing board of the bureau of statistics of the department of agriculture find ings, in a bulletin just issued, shows that the condition of corn on August 1 was 82.5 per cent of a normal crop as compared with 82.8 last month, 82.8 on August 1, 1807, and 83.1 the ten year average on August 1. By states the condition was: IMinots .. ~ i & THES lowa .. .. % v s obe . TOXAS .. vounivn vl Missourl .. Vi Ga e ’;; PABKR .o ¥ sl gggfli’s ee e Oklshoma ~..vs gg : Indl P 0 eSS NS 5 gemm 89 2=e o~ .. i i ent A 8 Kentuoky .. ~ .. .. 88 iy Tennessee.. .. ~.. 84 o Alabama .. .. .. .. 87 o North Carolina .. .. 91 = © ATKansas .. .. .4 <+ 10 =) Mississippl ~ .. .. 88 S TP e o) WANT RATES ANNULLED, Kalamazoo Merchants Object to %01 Southern Classification, Kalamazoo, Mich.—The Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ t::noclgttgg; has filed e interstate ~-comerce] m@m%‘mflmmt; g L into force an increase in rates for the southern classification territory proposed by the rallroads to go into effect this month., The increase, Vice President Shepardson of this city, who' announced the filing of the protest, says, ranged from 10 to 25 per cent. The protest declares shippers in 41 thousand towns are affected, a.ndi says: “We trust your investigation on this subject will enable you to annul the rates in southern classification terri tory the day they are to take e!leet.."} Bloody Kentucky Fight. Harlan, Ky.—A pitched battle was fought at the Howard store at Lay man. John Blanton was killed, Sher: man Blanton was shot in the arm, and Stokley Osborne was mortally wound ed; Lee Russell was seriously wound ed, and a young man whose name is not unknown, was also shot, He ran into the timber, and has not been found. : The trouble was caused by long standing enmity between the Taylors and the Blantons, which dates back several generations, Dealers Object to Army Methods. Chicago, Ill.—Manufacturers of the west are severely criticising the }methods employed by the war depart ment in awarding contracts for army clothing. The special board to pass on all bids ordered a special sample of twenty yards of cloth to be used in the uniforms to be furnished. The manufacturers, in an informal protest, declare this virtually creates a mo nopoly, as the cost of manufacture of a special sample is prohibitive for small dealers, i 47,000 Barrels of Whiskey Destroyed Midway, Ky.—Fire threatened to wipe out this town. It destroyed five warehouses. of the 8. J. Greenbaum Distilling Company, entailing a loss of about $300,000. More than 47,000 barrels of whiskey were destroyed. Captain Guthrie a Suiclde. Savannah, Ga.—Captain A. H. Guth rie of the schooner Frank A. Williams of New York committed suicide by jumping overboard eight miles west of Cape Lookout, The schooner was being brought from New York to! Southport, where it had been recent ly sold. The schooner was left with. out a navigator, but the mate safled it safely to Savannah, Must Dismiss His Harem. London, England.—The Times cor respondent at Sofia says that ome of the sultan's envoys captured at Ag{: anople b{ young Turks was compelle to swear fidelity to the new rmh Then he was éntrusted with a to the sultan plainly. informing him that he still was under suspicion and that unless he changed his ways he would be mqncile,sgly dealt with, Va rious demands thed were set forth in the letter, among them one declaring that the sultan should dismiss his ha rem and henceforth live in Eurepean fashion—with one wife. T LATE NEWS NGTES, e General. ~ The New York Central railroad has “decided upon the immediate expendi ‘gfl of two millions of doliars in the r ttsburg, P 4, district for improve - ments, . After saving her husband's life by wrenching a hammer with which he - had been beaten into unconsciousness !Irom the hands of her brother-in-law, (Ira Cody, and knocking him to the sground, Mrs, Wade Riggan was shot and killed by Cody at Cox’s store, Mississippi. Wilber Wright of Dayton, Ohio, made a successful flight with his aer "'2}“o at Lemaus, France. The ma chine covered 2.17 miles and the of ficial time of the flight was one min ute and forty-six seconds. * Becoming angered at his wife, John ‘Goolsby, a wellto-do farmer, of Ox ' ford, Mississippi, knocked her down _and while she was lying prostrate sat _urated her clothing with oil. He then set fire to the clothes, and she was badly burned before the flames were “extinguished by neighbors, . The Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mill ing company has been placed in the hands of a receiver. This Is one of the largest flour-making concerns in } the world. l Hundreds of the Turkish govern -ment officials of the old regime are Bscurrying to the other side of the frontier. They are loaded with mil ,gons of which they have been plun ‘dering the country for years. It is estimated the graft has cost two .million dollars, ' (odfriend Probst, a worker in a - Brooklyn restaurant, has been notifled that he and his sister are joint heirs to an estate of nearly sixteen million ‘dollars, left by their uncle, who died intestate in B):)mbay, India. _ Beth M. Richereck, a former Indian apolis banker, who absconded a year ‘ago with something over a hundred “thousand dollars of depositors’ mon ey, has been located at Johannesburg, \South Africa. He is living under an assumed name and is doing a banking ' business. . The Missouri Pacific railroad has is - sued an order for the reopening of its “ locomotive shops in St. Louls, Sedalia, - Fort Scott, Atchison, Osawatomie, Dé- Soto and Baring Cross. The reopering ~will provide employment for more - than one thousand men. ' Notice has been given to the resi dents of Argenta, Ark., by the St. Lou _is and Southwestern railroad, that un- E_jless sults for $70,000 damages, alleg ed to have resulted from the construc ftion of about a mile of _trackage through the principal stre® of the city, are dismissed, the track will be ftorn'up and all orders for improve ~mens, including a depot to cost S2OO, 000, will be annulled. A tornado which struck Dunping, . Nebraska, a town of 1,000 inhabit .anis completely destroyed, all tele phone and telegraph lines in the town and ,surrounding country. The tor .nado laid waste to many valuable 'Ex;ms and several large buildings in the town were blown down. - The American Tobacco Company has declared a quarterly dividend of 2 12 per cent and 7 1-2 per cent extra on the comxnon‘,.s:yckz. This “¢orpares with 2 1-2 per cent and & per cent extra three months ago, 2 1-2 per cent and 2 1-2 per cent ex tra six months ago and nine months ago, and 2 1-2 per cent and 7 1-2 per cent extra a year, ago. George H. Sommers ,a conductor on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, was arrested by United States officers charged with violating an act of con _gress in carrying a passenger free while in charge of his train. He is held under SI,OOO bail. Mrs. Ethel Gaylord of Rich mond, Va., has been inform ed that he r husband, whom she though she had buried in Jacksonville, Fla., a year ago, had turned up alive and was searching for her. The man buried in Jacksonville was found floating In the ocean.at that city, and was identified by Mrs. Gaylord as her husband. Twelve hundred mechanics employ ed by the Canadian Pacific railroad are out on a strika. The engineers and firemen are in sympathy with the mechanics and may call a sympathetic strike, Owing to the fact that Jap anese laborers are being used as strikebreakers, feeling is running high @@d serious trouble may result if the Japanese are not discharged. Washington. China has formall%Y accepted the date, January 1, next, and the selec tion of the city of éhanghal as the time and place for the holding of the meeting of the international opium commission. The commission is to make a preliminary investigation into the general question of the opium traf. sic. It has no plenary powers, but will make recommendations for future ac- | tion by the various countries, \ President Roosevelt refused to grant an augdience to James M. Har alson of Alabama, a midshipman, whose rismissal from the Naval Acad emy was approved by the president some tirie ago. Haralson seemed to think that if he could lay his case before the president, he would have a chance to be re-instated. Major J, H. Russell, U. 8. A, one ‘sergeant and ten privates of the Pan ama expeditionary regiment of ma rines, ~lfiv,q arrived in Washington and entéred the new navy medical college hosp&gl to receive the Pasteur treatment agalnst hydrophobia. The officurs and men were severely bitten or scratched by a’puppy Shepherd dos at Camp Diobolo on the isthmus July 21 and 22, Honauras nas aecnnea to compiy with the wishes of the American gov ernment requesting the revocation of the decree issued by President Davila, canceling the exequaturs of American Consul Drew Linard and Vice Consul ‘Virgil C. Reynolds at Ceiba, on the ‘ground that they had interfered in ‘the internal politics of Honduras and _that with the vice consuls of France and Norway, they advised the surren der of Ceiba to the revolutionists. . The trademark and copyright treaty ‘bhetween American and Japan has ‘been passed by the privy council at ‘Takio. 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Bagwell, former county school commissioner of Gwinnett county and editor of The Gwinnett Journal, has sold his newspaper plant to J. C. Flanigan of Lawrenceville. F. E. Purse, a represen‘ative of a Rome publishing house, attempted sui cide at Jacksonville, Florida by cut ting the arteries in his wrists. He will recover. Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, has been appointed a member of the newspaper advertising committee of the democratic naticnal campaign committee, The Jasper County Masonic Associ ation gave their annual BParbecue in the Jordan grove, near the city lim its. The orator or the occasion was Grand Master Jeffries, and the audi torium of the court house was filled to its utmost capacity. The ten year old son of Jackson Newsome cf Mitchell fell from a tree in which he had climbed and impailed on a snag on which his body struck near the center. Medical attention was given and it is thought the bay will recover. Mayoer A. L. Miller of Macon came very near bringing down a shower of ill-feeling upon his head from Ital lans who reside in Macon because he happened to use the term ‘dago” while presiding in recorder’s court. In rebuking a prisoner, the mayor in advertently made use of the expres slon with malice toward none. A lodge of Woodmen of the World was organized in Eatonton with the following officers: James (. Griffith, C. C.; E. J. Wilson, adv. lieutenant; W. 8. Tomlinson, banker; Carll In gram, escort; I F. Griffith, watch; H. B, Wilson, sentry; W. B. Moore, ex aminer; J. W, Robertson, clerk. Dr. A. A. Smith, a prominent Gaines vgle physician, was drowned in the Chattahoochee river near Key’s ferry while seining with a party of friends. Dr. Smith was a son of H. D, Smith, a prominent cotton merchant of Gatinesvflle. He is survived by his wife, The shippers of Georgia have filed a complaint with the interstate com merce commission against the propos ed Increase of freight rates in the southeastern territory, The cotton crop in thirty south Georgia counties is reported to State Entomologist E. L. Worsham to be suffering from black root, which he estimates will reduce the crop in that section of the state by 10 per cent. The counties which report this black root are Cclumbia, McDuffie, Washing ton, Bibb, Talbot, Harris, Muscogee, Chattooga, Marion, Sumter, Ma con, Houston, Pulaski, Dooly, Stew art, Webster, Randolph, Terrell, Cal houn, Dougherty, Early, Worth, Col quitt, Thomas, Brooks, Lowndes, Ber rien, Montgomery, Tattnall, Effingham | and Pierce, It was deemed advisable to ad journ the Spalding county superior court, and allow the farmers to re turn to their work, as a very season able rain has fallen in the last two days, which will be of vast benefit to the growing crops. Macon citizens have raised a fund of SIO,OOO to be used for the purpose of holding a state fair ia that city next year. Claiming that the city of Macon was negligent in allowing a pile of cotton to be stored on the street. J. H. Shaw, who was seriously injured by collding with the obstruction, has sued that city for SIO,OOO damages. In removing the front of the brick building of the J., H. Kelly company at Monticello, which was built in 183§, preparatory to the placing of new show windows, a jar containing the follow ing named deposits was found in one of the corner siones: A copy of the Atlanta Constitution bearing date of September 1, 1886, in which was con tained an account of the Charleston earthquake, a copy of the Weekly Madisonian of same date, a copy of the Jasper County News, a copy of Grier's Almanac of 1886 and coins of various kinds, The distribution of prizes by the Uniform Rank of the Knights of Py thias was made before the close of that lodge’s convention at Boston. Company L of Georgia won the $1,500 prize in the infantry class. The Mo bile, Ala., company won S6OO for the company coming farthest. ~ During the past few months ninety two men in the city of Augusta have applied for enlistment in the United States Army, but seventy-five of thd men were turned down and only sev enteen accepted, WORLD'S 100-YARD RECORD. Walker, South African Athlete, Makes New Time of 0.09 2.5, Abergavenny, England. —R. E. Walker, the South African sprinter, who won the final of the 100 meters dash at the recent Olympic games, at the games here broke the world's record for 100 yards, his time being 9 2-5 seconds, one-fifth of a second less than the record made by Dan J. Kelly at Spokane, Washington, June 23, 1906. . A T When you have something to say to a mule, don’t say it behind his back, advises Lippincott's. $ ......old Folks’ Bibles ......S. S. Teachers' Bibles .......Family Bibles ......Red Letter Bibles ......S. S. 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John Sanford’s Mohawk 11. broke down when leading in a race at Sara toga. Spanish Queen won the SIO,OOO M. &M. trot at Detroit; best time, 20Ty T : TR Beals C. Wright and W. J. Clothier won in the lawn tennis tournament at Seabright, N. J. M. W. Sheppard, of America, broke the Scottish record for the half mile run in games at Glasgow. Announcement is made that the Vanderbilt Cup course will be guard ed by 1200 uniformed troops. Sir Thomas Lipton, of London, en tertained sixty of the American ath letes on his steam yacht Erin. Jack Gilday, an eighteen-year-old life-saver, swam five and a half miles through Hell Gate, N. Y., in 1 hour and 22 minutes, a record. Leander Boat Club representatives and the Belgian eight qualified for the final in the Olympic regatta at Henley on Thames, England. Arrangements have been made whereby there will be a race between German and American Sonderklasse Yachts off Marblehead next year. J. B. Haggin left Lexington, Ky. for New York City, having decided to dispose of all the thoroughbreds at Elmendorf Farm and will announca the details from New York in the near future. Parley Giles, of Sait Lake City, at-the Saltair cycie track, broke the world’s amateur unpaced record for a mile, riding the distance in 1.55 1-5. The former record of 2.00 2-5 was held by J. B, Hume. Two Americans practically have been decided upon to journey to Aus tralia in quest of the Davis Interna tional Challenge Cup. Beals C. Wright and Frederick B. Alexander, it is said, will be the American chal lengers. Missing Will in Old Book. A curious story of a missing will comes from Paris, In 1906 M. Frossard, director of the Mont de Piete at Dijon, a bache lor, died without heirs, leaving a fortune of about 100,000 francs., He had previously announced to his inti mates that he intended to remember them in his will, but on his death no will could be found. The for tune then went to three distant rela tives. 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