Charlton County herald. (Folkston, Ga.) 1898-current, December 03, 1908, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text1 N ’ THE BERALYD.- isl il s b osemoaiimeit Publizshed Every Thursday, 'SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1 A YEAR ¢ IN ADVANCE. J j Advertising Rates Reasonable e I S — ©fcial Organ Charlton County and the Town of Folkston, e e — W. R. Wainwright, Proprictor, " E. L. Wainwright, Editor & Mgr. Emntered at the postoffice st Folkston, Ga, as Second Clasa Matter. ° “Drug takers” classifies the drink ers of thé so-called “soft,” or non-in toxicating drinks, according to the London Lancet, which advises every one to drink only when thirsty, and then drink pure water. Citric acid in most of the lemonade and carbon-di oxide gas in soda water the Lancet considers injurious. ' Today the tubercle bacilll is the chief of all the germ enemies of man kind. Dr. Flick of the Philadelphia lli;_s'i'ltlite: for VP(I)or Consumptives, es . thfxa_tes that in 15 years that great city ‘will bé free from it. If this re sult could be brought about within 50 v yéars, suggests the Atlanta Constitu tion, it would be worth all the time, study and expenditure of funds need (-d_' to 'eradicate the séburge. To the 'disthxgulshod visitors from foreign lands, America extends a most cor dial welcome, i One of these long evenings at a par ty, where you might make yourself agreeable by entertaining the younger folk and thereby render yourself pop ular with mama and papa, get the whole crowd a-singing the simplest baby songs‘; notice the hit—a very pal pable hit, advises the New York Press, The older folk will join in. It beats all the story telling in the world. I have often lost myself in wonder ment that our educators do not under stand this. Take up one of your adult friends who sings ‘divinely,” mnever losing a word. Stop the music and ask her to repeat the poem, or the ‘words (if not poetic), Ten to one she cannot recollect a single stanza. oy < I ' The principal sufferer from the kaiser's outbursts of activity is Ger many, avers the New York Herald. His peaceful intentions, but he. pro vlaims them so flercely and to such ‘a noisy accompaniment of big drum and martial music that peace may “well pray to be saved from her friends and German interests may well wish that the kaiser would not protect them quite so roughly. In the mean while the Franco-Spanish note episode - has not ‘ereated the conflict that the professional pessimists of the French press and the professional Germano phobes of the British press gloomily anticipated. That gratifying fact ought surely to encourage the world to take a less tragic view of the Moroccan guestion. It has been inevitable, ever since the linotype keyboard was made near ly identical with that of the tyepwrit er, that one of the links between the writers and the readers of newspa pers was bound te be cut out, in the interest of speed and economy. At present, explains the Brooklyn Eagle, an editor or reporter sits in the edi torial rooms and prints his ideas on a typewriter. This printed sheet then goes to a linotype operator in the composing room, who si_ts at a key board like that of the typewriter and strikes the same letters that the edi tor or reporter has struck before him, in order to put the editor's words in to type metal. Obviously, two men are employed for an opl\mtlon which might be done by one, if the editor conld be made mechanically skiilful enough to operate the linotype, or the linotype operator could receive the {a tellectual training of the editor. W. M. OLLIFF, ', ATTORNEY AT LAW, ! tovestigations of Land Titles a Specialty, KiLL v« COUCH a 0 CURE e LUNGCS S o) v fir, King's i l New MDiscovery ' i \ PRICE FOR GSYSYS ghtiim, AND ALL THROAT AN LUNG TROUBLES, GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY OR MONPY REFONDLD, | NEW -RAILROAD RULES Made by Commission are Now in Effect. : Twenty Four Hours Must be Allowed- No Loaded Shotguns to be Car ried on Trains. Atlanta, Ga.—The railrocads inp Georgia must allow twenty-four hours for checking baggage. This ruling ot the rallroad commission went into ef fect December 3rd. Heretofore bag gage left for more than twelve hours has been subject to a demurrage charge of 25 cents a day. The rail road commission took up this matter several weeks ago, and ifs investiga tions led to an amendment to passen ger rule number § relating to the checking and handling of baggage. The public must, therefore, he given twenty-four hours before demurrage charges cah he assessed, A new rule has been adopted by the raflroad commission which re quires all railroad companies to stop their passenger trains at stations with a view to easy egress and ingress for passengers, In most instances trains are stopped in a way to expedite the handling of baggage. The commis gion has decided that the comfort of passengers must be the first consider ation, No passenger wiil in future be al lowed to carry a lcaded shotgun into a railway coach. Any person entering a coach with a gun, must breech it within view of the conductor and show LAST TRIP GF INSPECTION. The Pure Food Law Now in Effect for Fifteen Months, Atlanta, Ga.—Georgia’'s pure food and pure drug inspectors are out on thelr final tour of the state for the year which comes to a close on De cember 31, They are endeavoring, if possible, to have the new year begin with only pure foods and feedstuffs and pure drugs on sale in Georgia. The pure food law has been in effect now fifteen months and has accom plished wonderful results. The pure drug law has been in effect only since summer of this year, but during that time much good has been accom plished. y Pure Food Insgpectcr P. A. Methvin is devoting his time now to the in spection of western feedstuffs, which are being shipped into.this state, Un. der a report of the state chemist re cently issued, it shows that a major ity of these feedstuffs do not measure up to the standards reguired by the Georgia law and as fast as found they are selzed and shipped out of the state, More and more the Georgia mer chants and planters are coming to re alize that the southern preduct, cotten geed meal, when mixed with cotton seed hulls, s not only cheaper but a better cattle feed than anything ship ped from the west. This is proven by statistics gathered by the agricul tural department in Atlanta, which shows a tremendous increase in the uge of this feed in Georgia, especially since the pure food Jaw went into e:i fect, | SEEK TO EXTEND NOTES. Plans Advanced to Aid the Holding of Cotton, Statesboro, Ga.—That the Bulloch‘ county branch of the Farmers’ Union {s making a determined effort to as sist the farmers of this county cannot be disputed, Through a committee of the branch a meeting has been called for December 12 at the court house, which, if the object of the meeting is carried, will mean much to the farm ers of this county, The object of the meeting is to con sider the guegtion of extending the ma turity of all notes and other obliga tions, and every man who has given a note or is now holding cone, is request ed to be at the meeting. The commit tee thinks that by later maturity cot ton will be kept from being forced upon the market too ecarly, and thus unduly depressing the price, $15,000,000 MCRTGAGE DEED. Will Taks Dcuglas Oifficials a Week to Transcribe, Douglasville, Ga. — A $15,000,000 mortgage deed is encugh to create at tention in large money centers, but such a deed was filed in Douglas coun ty superior court here last week, The deed was made in favor of the Central Trust Company of New York by the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company for the purpose of refunding its outstanding indebtedness, A copy of the mortgage is filed in every coun ty where there is a branch of the Vir ginla-Carolina Chemical Company, FOREST FIRES IN FLOYD, Many Acres of Timber Have Been Destroyed, Rome, Ga.—Fcrest fires in several distriets of Floyd county have wrought great damage and destroyed thousands of dollars’ worth of property in the past few days. Acres of timber were consumed by the fires on Horseleg Mountain and the fires have not yet been subdued. Miles of fence have been destroyed by the fires, and the loss will fall heavily on the farmers. It {8 hot known how the fires have ben started, buv it Is thought by many that the woods were set on fire pur posely, or by persons out hunting care lessly dropping matches in the dry leaves, The city has been filled with smoke from the fires during the mornings recently, ROAD MAY ENTER COLUMBUS. Rumored That G, F. & A. May Build Extension to Richland, Columbus, Ga.—lt is rumored here, although unconfirmed, that the Geor gia, Florida and Alabama * Railway Company is to build an extension from Cuthbert, Ga,, to Richland, Ga., and that its trains will enter Columbus over the tracks of the eSaboard Air Line Railway, J. P. Williams of Savannah is pres ident, and J. O. Hatch of that city i vice president of the road. THROUGHOUT THE STATE. e T Qute a flurry of excitement wag cre ater in Dalton when a plow which was being used in the excavation work on the proposed government building bit into soft dirt and unearthed several bones, supposed to be those of a hu man being. The dirt was quickly clear. ed away and a United States army belt buckle was found surrounded by a large pile of other bomes, This seemed proof conclusive that the bones were those of a union soldier killed during the civil war and buried here. The grave was fully five feet below the surface, and quantities of lime surrounded the bones, Several doctors were attracted to the secene and, on examining the bones, com pletely wrecked the varlous theories formed by the oplookers, for they gave out the information that the bones were those of a cow, A : Governor Smith has offered a re ward of S2OO for the apprehension and cenviction of any of the persons who recently wrote threatening letters to members of the Mormon congregation at Montreal, in DeKalb county., after dynamiting the church at that place. The reward was offered as the result of a call upon the governor from Fielding Payton, Melvin Payton and Jim Bankston, who told of receiving numerous threatening letters, Governor Smith has sent- to the prison commission correspondence bearing upon the misconduet of Su perintendent A, B, Coombs, of the state prison farm at Milledgeville. The latter was arrested and convict ed for being drunk and disorderly on October 31 at the Macon fair grounds. The correspondence submitted con sists of a letter from Governor Smith to Mayor A. L. Miller of Maccn asking about the reported incident; the reply of Mayor Miller and a state ment of the factg in the case from G. S. Westeott, chief of police of Macon, to which is attached a copy of the po lice record, Chief Westhrook states that Superintendent Coombs pleaded guilty, stating that he had drank near beer and some whiskey, and his con dition was due to this fact. He was fined sls. The only member of the prison commission in Atlanta is Gen eral Clement A. Evans, When the commission meets the matter will be brought to its attention by the govern or and will be investigated, y In regard to recent discussions in various papers anent the state's finan cial condition, present and prospec tive, a statement was given out at the office of Captain R. E. Park, state terasurer, in which he says: “For nine years he has been watching care fully the income and the outgo of the treasury in Georgia, and at this time there is only $66,216.34, $50,000.00 of which is borrowed money, leaving really in the treasury, as the result of taxes and other sources of {ncome, only $16,216.34, with several warrants due before the close of the month, He says that in December the largest part of the income of the state should come into the treasury, and that he can readily meet the $232,000.00 due to the pensioners on fourth quarter before the holidays, that he has paid only thirty-five per cent due to the teachers of the state for their year’s hard work, 4nd that they will be due from the incoming taxes 45 epé_r cext, or $1,330,000.00,- and the p®hsitners will be due in round numbers, in one payment, instead of in four payments, as in last year, about $990,000.00. Inman & Company of Augusta, cot ton factors, were awarded in Musco gee superior court at Columbus a ver dict in the sum of $64,568.71 azainst the Central of Georgia raillway, on a suit for alleged damages to cotton burned in the Columbus yards of the defendant ‘company. Suit was brought for $160,000. The case continued for a week and a brilliant array of coun gel put a hard legal battle. It was al ieged in the complaint that the cot ton was destroyed while in the hands of the carrier, Passenger trains in this state must be brought to a stop as near as pos ‘sible to waiting rooms or stations as will be most convenient for passen: gers, according to a ruling of the rail road commission. The commission’s order follows: “All passenger trains operated in this state shall, at all sta ticns where such trains stop, either upon flag or regular schedule, be brought to a standstill with such re lation to the waiting room' of the sta ltian building, or octher passenger fa cilities at said staticn, as will render |ogross from and ingress to said trains ' most practicable and convenient for thé passengers, without reference to the convenient handling of baggage or other freight.” The Georgla Fruit exchange, an or ganization of the peach growers of l(’;oorgla. which is now being perfect ed, has secured pledges covering two 1 thousand five hundred cars, or approx imaately half of the entire state's vield of peaches, which will be shipp ed through the exchauge on the co operative plan. Subscriptions to stock in the exchange now exceeds thirty thousand dollars. The plan of the ex. 'oh;mgo. as outlined in its charter, is te prevent glutting the markets, which resulted last season in poor prices for the growers. The exchange proposes to.act as the growers’ agent, and to have such general su. pervision of shipments as to direct them to the best advantage. The ex change will not be run for financial profit, but wil be a co-operative or ganization, solely for the benefit of the growers, ¢ Beer containing as much ag 4 per cent of alcohol, is intoxicating, under the meaning of the state prohibition law, says the state court of appeals in a decision handed down at Atlanta, in the case of Cornelius O'Connell, ap pealed from Macon, There is a probability that the eon federate veterans of Georgia may ‘not get their fourth quarterly pen ‘sions in time for Christmas. ‘The law provides that they shall be paid be tween Qctober 1 and December 10, but the indications are that the state will not have the mgnéy to meet this pay ment and at the same time give t teachers’ money due them since la March on account of salary, Heveto fore the veterans have b’eeh__“l" scell ing their annual pension’ paynis in a lump suit in advance of \ry SIGN OF RETURNING CONFIDENCE ¢’ , R — - -l @,m,,.#’ ¢ i L st TG R B M/( M I, - TR o | /ey L E;r (;/ / gl bt {|| G N el g - ‘ MR o IS, g il‘ w i :%Lrlnvg“?ﬁ"'? 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From all over the country have come reports of the reopening of factories after ten months of cessation. Whirrig machinery tells of the employment of thousands of men and women who have had noth ing to do. While only a short while ago mills were running on half time, to-day they are rushed with work and ave giving employment to all who apply. - Ratilroads are feeling the Aladdin-like touch of prosperity and are planning to expend millions of dollars upon improvements. There has been a lcosening up of the money market so that funds to carry on the gigantic projects contemplated ave to be had readily. Correspondents send in glowing reports of conditions in all the manufacturing cenires. In the Northwest, the South, the East— cverywhere there are signs of beiter times. One positive evidence of the improvement in conditions is given in the disbandment of the National Prosperity Association, of St. Louis, Its ~hairman, K. C. Simmons, explained that now that: prosperity is sWwiltly returning, there is no more work for the orgahization to do. gl : 7 L News of a Week That Shows . ™ . o ‘ Evidence of Better Times ~ Washington, D. C. — Reports re ceived by the International Brother hood of Operative Potters during the week indicated a general cpening up of work everywhere in that industry. 'The force at the Riverside Pottery at Wheeling, W. Va., has been greatly increased, and the firm is getting or ders in a steady stream. 'The Dresden Pottery is working at full force. The Klondike Pottery will have no slack time this winter, its employes having all they can do. The Sebring Pottery, at Sebring, 0., has had the busiest November it has known in years. It is expecied that the American China Company, of To ronto, will operaie steadily to the Year’s end. The Union Buffalo Cotton Mills, of Unicn, 8. C., which is said to cperate more looms than any other textile corporation in the South, received such a rush of orders that it will be obliged to run ail of its thres im mense plants to their fullest capacity.l This sets going 17,000 spindles and‘ §OO looms, which were idle during the summer. The mills employ 2000 en and women. The Fales & Jenks Machine Com pany, of Pawtucket, R. I, employing 400 hands, began working on a fifty five-hour-a-week schedule. The fac tory had been running on haif time. The Easton & Burnbam Machine Company, of Pawtucket, R, 1., started its factory con full time, after running on short time during the summer, It | employs 100 men. ” Lumbermen of Tifton, Ga., report that all the mills are booked with enough orders to keep them going full tilt for three months. Some are declining orders until March 1. The American Tobacco Company agicad to take seventy-five per cent. of the 60,000,000 pounds of iohacco of the Burley Leaf Tobacco Society. Thke deal involves $10,000,000. After a shut-down of six months, the Illinois Steel Company reopened fcur of its plants at South Chicago, 700 men being put to work. Setveral additional furnaces, requiring 500 men, will be blown at once. Prominent railroad men, including Donald G. Reid, of the Rock Island, and E. C. Converse, of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and the United States Steel Corporation started the organization of a $2,000,000 corpora tion to manufacture steel. Most of the bonds have been subscribed. The works will be located near Gary, Ind. Contracts were awarded by the Crescent Steel and Wire Company to construct' a new plant at New Cor nerstown, Ohio. Invention of Great Importance to Ironclads Exhibited in Germany. -Charlottenburg, Germany.—At a meeting of the League of German Naval Architects, Dr. Anschuetz kaempfe, of Kiel, exhibited & compass without a magnetic needle, which has just been invented. It is in the form ~oi a gyroscope, which, when suspend ‘ed in a certain way, always adjusts ‘Eiﬁtg parallel to the earth’s axis. 7 "The invention is regarded as of great importance to ironclads, where the compass needle is frequently de flected by the adjpcent metal. The United States Steel Corpora tion decided to ereci-a $3,000,000 plant at Monessen, Pa., in the Mo nongahela Valley. The Schoen Steel Company, of Pittshurg, announced that it would take on 300 more men and spend sl,- 500,000 in improvements. The National Tube Works, of Me- Keesport, Pa., placed its plant on full time. .The Westinghouse Electric Company put all its departments on full time. The Republic Iron and Steel Com pany, of Pittsburg, ordered every one of its furnaces run to full capacity. Evéry spindle in the cotion mills of Midham and New London counties, Conn., has been started up, and the mills are rushed with orders. The American Woolen Company’s mills at Moosup, Conn., ars prepar ing to run full time, after a bad pe riod in which less than half time was worked. | The Michigan Lake Superion Power Company, of Chicago, which suspend ed because of the financial conditions, started to reorganize, and it is expect ed to resume within a few weeks. Ifills of the International Paper Company, at Berlin, N. H., idle for three months, reopened with a re duced force. J. D. Farrell, of Seattle, Wash., representative of E. H, Harriman, i{n the Panific Northwest, has been called to New York. Financiers and con tractors say that railroad construc tion work on a scale heretofore un known is about to be inaugurated in the Pacific Northwest. The North Coast, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul and Harriman system are the three facS)rs in the spending of mill ions for a dominant position in Pu get Sound and Northwest Coast. Officials of the Lackawanna Rail road announced that improvements costing $25,000,000 will be begun soon., Plans have been drawn for the extension of the road to Chicago. The electrification of the suburban lines is contemplated. Generally, the shipment of curren ey, gold and silver to financial insti tutions in rural districts begins to de cline in November, in accord with the slackening of trade and the receipt of money from abroad on grain and cot ton exportations. But confidential re ports of the St. Louis reserve agents show that the shipments to all cen tres in the South and West are al most as large as last month. To the growing trade and invigorating in dustry is attributed the activity. Conditions in thewhole South show remarkable improvement. Dancing Masters Solve Problem of Clingsome Drapery, Paris,.—Women are now wearing skirts so tight that old-fashiocned dances are impossible, and it became imperative to deyise means to meet the crisis. If the present styles re sulted in stopping dancing they would deprive the dancing masters of a live lihood. ; They met, resolved and forthwith decreed that waltzes, polkas and all other dances be danced with shorter steps until fashion gives women freer use of their lower limbs. PEARLS OF THOUGHT, o Good Lord, save my friendg from 1! - A Ihtle egotism is a great aiq (g self-respect. A large chest gives no indication of brain measuremant. Allah, she was a silent woman ayg I trembled before her. Life is made up of dull yesterdays and dazzling tomorrows. Life loves to keep the grouchy mgap supplied with grievances. You never see a hatter fitting a pat. ron by waist measurement, Two is sometimes a tired crowq ir they happen to be married” Love is the only magic that keeps the heart young and the face lovely, To-morrow may never come, byt what's the matter with today, broth er? 'Why should we fear Death, the king old night nurse who will one day put us to sleep. The gcod of all creeds of all coun tries is comprehended in the one word, “kindness.” The wise editor does not assert hig editorial perogative, “we,” in domestic conversation. : A man who cwned a barber shep and also treated corns began at the foot and worked up. Life is only given to us as an op portunity to sbow the love of which we are capable. Love is the only lorgnette through which we may look and behold the loveliness of the world. The cleverest girl is she who ar ranges her pompadour over a bump of old fashioned horss sense. Lots of people manufacture stories out of whole cloth and then embroid er them for good measure, When a man imploringly heads off your hospitality, my sister, it doesn’t necessarilly indicate that he is too aesthetic to eat pr drink. He may be an epicure.—From ‘Eve’s Epigram’s” in the New York Telegram. SMOKING &AND SPEECH. Smoking in Moderation Doss Not Harm the Voice. The thanks of thousands of tobacco consumers will go out to Sir Charles Santley for his statements respecting the effects of smoking on the voice. It has always been one of the argu ments of those who have tried to dis suade us from, the habit ¢f smoking that pipes, cigars and cigarettes in jured the voice.; But on this subject Sir Charles, who may surely be con sidered an authority, writes that he found smoking in moderation made his voice clear and that he has never known more than two or three differ ent singers who did not smoke. The only drawback to this statement is that it will tend to increase the num ber of men who try to sing. Hitherto these have had a notion that they must choose either tobacco or singing and leave the other alone, and they have chosen the former. Now that it has been pronounced possible to com bine the two they - will come out of their lairs and start in on “Nancy Lee,”. or £The Wolf.” It must be re membered, however, that it is only moderate smoking which has no harmful effect on the voice. There is no doubt at all that to smoke exces sively is to injure one’s chances of singing well. The voice, as a matter of fact, is one of the best possible tests of moderation in smoking. When we find that our voice is losing that clear bell-like siote which so delights our neighbors and is taking on a roqpiness suggesting a rather unheal thy fowl then we can be sure that we have smoked too much.—London Globe. 7 Peril of a New Dance. “If the young people allow this barn dance craze to grow,” remarked a well, known local architect, “buildings here will have to be erected much more substantially than heretofore—that is, all buildings such as private homes or clubs where dancing is carried on. There is a jump and a swing about barn dances that will cause swaying of the beams in even the mest sub stantial frame houses. 3 “With a whole crowd on the floor at once and skipping up and down on the floor right together, with the music you can imagine what might happen. You know how necegsary it is some times for a company of soldiers to break step when crossing a bridge. If this dance cemtinues popular it may be necessary for some of the dancers. to keep out es step with the musie. I know cos one dance out at the Colonial club ‘last season at which the barn dance numbers had to be stopped, the buildings swayed so noticeably.”— Cieveland, Plain Dealer. g Diamonds May Explode. A curious fact about diamonds is that it is net uncommon for the crys tals to explode as scon as they are brought up from the mine. Some times they have burst in the pockets or the warm hands of minc:s, due to the effect of increased temperature. Large stones are more likely to do this than small ones. Valuable stones have been destroyed in this way. To safeguard them some dealers place large diamonds in raw potatoes for safe transport from South Africa. —[ndianapolis News. The Unlidded “I.” The teacher was giving the juven ile class. a lesson in punctuation. “What {s that?”’ she asked of a small pupii, pointing to a period. “That,” answered the little one, “is the lid off an ‘l'."—(Cidcago News.