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CHARLTON COUNTY HERALD.
VOLUME XII.
Emanuel County, Ga., Families
Settle Differences With Guns.
ROAD CROSSING DISPUTE ‘
A. S, Collins and His Son, Wilson, Were Killed
Outrigat---Three Other of Feudists ‘
Were Injured. |
Lyons, Ga.—Two dead, one dying
and probably one or two others slight
ly wounded are the results of a battle
in an inter-family feud of long stand
ing, which took place in Ema.mgel
county just at the line of Toombs
county.
The dead are A. S. Collins, road
overseer for his district, and a well
to-do farmer, and ais son, Wilson Col
lins, both of whom died during the
progress of the fight.
Alma Lewis is so badly wounded
that he Is expected to die. -
The battle was between the fami
lies of Collins and the family of Lew
is, and was the outcome of a dispute
over a public road crossing. The two
families reside less than a mile apart
and the county line runs between
their homes. Father and sons met in
a lane near the Lewis home.
Just how the battle started is not
known. The members of the Collins
family were armed with pistols while
two shot guns were used on the other
side.
A number of persons watched the
battle, which was fought in the open,
both sides standing bravely up to the
mark. ; o R
Joseph Lewis, father of Alma Lew
is, is alleged to have fired the shot
shat. ended the life of the elder Col
ins. i
A dozen or more shots were fired,
and the others who were wounded
besides Alma Lewis are not seriously
hurt. o
Three arrests have been made of
survivors in the battle. S 5
PERCY DEFIES VARDAMAN.
Mississippi_ Senator Offers to Stand
~ Again for Election. =~
Jackson, Miss. — In brief; United
States Senator Leßoy Percy demand
ed that the question of the validity of
his election be submitted to a. vote
£I the, proble of Mississippi, and-chal
érnor James .10, AlAnan. 16
g T o i OB S sl ol
e W O TR VS
. oL iraud gr of this year.
Bhe defi cay . the climax of a
Speech before i yfoint session of the
two Branches of the state legislature,
in which Mr, Percy unsparingly de
?fi\l#cea- State Senator Theodore Bil
‘bo and those wio charged itregular
ities in. connection with the recent
senatorial contest, of which he was
the successful candidate.
It7is the plan of Mr. Percy that the
-election be regularly called ‘by the
state democratic executive committee
and shall apply to the regular sena
torial; term to. begin after the com
pletion of the present unexpired term
of the late Senator A. J. McLaurin,
for which Mr: Percy was selected to
serve. Should the result be adverse
to him Percy agrees that he will re
sign and the governor may appoint
Some one to serve until the next
term, which would begin in 1913,
‘Pending ' a conference between Mr.
Vardaman and his friends, the entire
matter was held. in abeyance.
BURGLAR BAND CAUGHT.
Carload of Loot Found When Fob
" . . bers Were Arrested.
_ Dublin, Ga—Berry Bartley, Wil
Berton and Tom Cannon, negroes,
three members of an alleged band or
burglars operating in Emanuel, John
son and Laurens counties, have been
arrested and lodged in jail.
They have confessed. of having rob
bed the store of H. E. Hardwick at
Adrian twice; the store of John W.
Cheek at Scott; with having broken
into the bank at Scott; with having
robbed -the store of C. S. Keen at
Brewton and with having caused the
destruction of the store by fire, though
they claim that the fire was caused by
the accidental turning over of a lamp..
It is said that almost a carload of
stolen goods was found. The list
comprised several different kinds of
guns, several winchesters and a num-.
ber of pistols. "All kinds of dry goods, |
sheoes and other articles usually car.
ried in a general mercantile establish
ment were found. Goods taken from
the store of Mr. Barwick each time it
was robbed were found. Mr. Cheek
had no trouble in identifying goods
taken from his store at Scott, ana
Boods stolen from Mr. Keen’s store
were found. A pistol stolen from the
Bank of Scott when it was burglariz
ed was identified.
TUBERCULOGSIS SUNDAY.
‘President Taft Writes a Letter in
g Approval of the Project.
" New York City.—President Taft. ap
proves of making next Sunday, April
24; a “Tuberculosis Sunday,’ in a let
ter received by Livingston Farrand
of the Assgciation for the Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis. President
Taft writes:
“I sincerely "hope that the move
ment which you have inaugurated to
make Sunday., April 24, a Tuberculo
-Bis Sunday may prove to be success
ful. The amount that can be done in
saving human life by a .united effort
in a community and in respect to such
A disease as tuberculosis can hardly
be exaggerated.” ¢
NUMBER 46
PRESIDENT TAFT HISSED.
President Rudely Treated While Addressing
‘ Convention of Women Suffragists.
Washington, D. C.—The president
of the United States, the first chiet
~executive of the nation ever to greet
la convention of women suffragists,
‘braved the danger of facing an army
of women who want the ballot; had
‘the courage to express his opinion,
‘and was hissed. i
So great was the throng that sought
admission to the hall that hundreds
were turned away.
President Taft was welcoming -to
Washington the delggates to the con
vention of the National Woman Suf
frage convention. He frankly told
them that he was not altogether in
sympathy with the suffrage move
ment, and was explaining why he
could not subscribe to its principles.
He said he thought one of the dan
gers in granting suffrage to women
was that the women as a whole were
not interested in and that the power
of the ballot as far as woman is con
cerned would be controlled by the
“less desirable class.”
‘When these words fell from the
president’s lips the walls of the con
vention hall echoed a chorus of fem
inine hisses. It was no feeble demon
stration of protest. The combined
hisses sounded as if a valve oen =&
steam engine had broken.
- President Taft stood unmoved on
the platform during the demonstra
tion of hostility—for the higsing con
tinued but a moment, and then, smil
ing as he spoke, he answered the un
favorable greeting witn this retort:
“Now, my dear ladies, you must
show yourselves capable of suffragee
by exercising that degree of restraint
which is necessary in the conduct of
govrnment affairs by not hissing.”
Th women who had hissed were re
buked. The president’s reply had ap
parently taken hold. There were no
more hisses while the president con
tinued his address, whicah he charac
terized as “my confession” on the
woman suffrage question. At the con
clusion of his talk he was enthus
iastically applauded and some of the
leaders of the convention expressed
to him -their sincere regret over the
unpleasant incident. President Taft
assured them he had not had his feel
ings injured in the least. -
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10 CHILDREN A DISGRACE.. |
Suffragette Advocates Quality’ ang.
... Not Quantity in Children.
Washington, D, €.—“ Ten years
hence, to be the father of ten cail
dren will bé.as much of a disgrace
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Fal i g
frage associaior, which opened in this
-city. Her studies of childrer. all over |
the world, she said, had convinced
ner that “not ?mre than 10 per cent
of them are children of love, and the
other 90 per %nt are not wanted.” |
. “Rooseveélt, /poor - ignorant man,”
she continued: “urges large families,
but I tell you it is quality in children,
not quantity. Woman suffrage will
better children, for it will produce
better thinking. It is the mental, not
the physical, that rules progressive
action today and teaches us that the
greatest crime of the ages is too many
cnildren.
“When they (parents) have learned
that fully nine-tenths ‘of all the ba
bies bern every year are nothing more
or less than human culls, I believe
the birth rate will decrease and we |
shall, have a better and stronger race. |
“Before I leave Washington,” ‘said |
Mrs. Baker, “I intend to find out howi
many millions of dollars are being '
appropriated to stamp out diseases in
animals and to improve the breed of
horses, pigs and live stock of all sorts;
in fact, evereything but the ‘auman
species. What humanity needs is a
Luther Burbank. I would” have been
imprisoned a few years ago for advo
cating these views, which,. happily, all
progressive thinkers are now coming
to adopt.”
LANDSLIDE BURIES WORKMEN
Construction Camp in Quebec Buried
Under Tons of Earth.
St. Alphone, Quebec.—An immense
landslide, started by a blast of dyna
mite, carried a score of men down the
side of the steep hill and buried the
‘construction camp of the Ha Ha Rail
way -under tons of earth and rock.
Not one of the twenty workmen in
the camp escaped, and practically ev
eryone in the working gang on the
hill was more or less seriously in
jured.
Newsy Paragraphs.
Good roads are regarded in Ger
many of the utmost importance. The
one subject now receiving greater at
tention than all others over taere is
the treatment of streets and roads
for the purpose of avoiding dust and
mud. The question of the building
of good roads has already been set
tled. There are no other kind of
roads in the empire.
King Albert of Belgium has approv
ed the plans of the ministry of the
colonies for reforms in the Belgion
congo. The changes will become ef
fective on July 1, when a large area
will be open to free commerce. The
reforms include reduction in the tax
es, which will be collected in money
and not paid by labor; substitution of
native for white officials; the restrie
tions of obligatory labor.
A rush has begun for the new gold
field discovered in Calcassieu and: Ver- |
non parishes in Louisiana, A great
vein of 62 per cent pay dirt runsl
through southwest Louisiana and eas
tern Texas. Prospector Tate declares
the field the richest south of Alaska
ahd the government assay verifies hig
claims.: :
FOLKSTON, GA+ APRIL 21, 1910.
COL. COOPER PARDONED
Carmack’s Slayer Freed By Gov
ernor Patterson of Tennessee.
i -
Tennessee Supreme Court Affirmed the Sen
tence of D. B. Cooper and Ordered New
~+ Trial For Robin Cooper.
Nashville, Tenn.—ln the case of
Colonel Duncan B. Cooper and Robin
J. Cooper, father and son, convicted
of killing former United States Sen
ator E. W. Carmack on the streets
here November 9, 1908, and sentenced
to twenty years each in the state’
penitentiary, the Tennessee supreme
court by a divded vote affirmed the
sentence as to Colonel D. B. Cooper,
As to Robin Cooper, the case, also
by a divided vote, is reversed and re
manded to the lower court for a new
trial. i
While Chief Justice Beard was read
ing a dissenting opinion in the cuse
of Duncan B. Cooper, Governor Pat
terson wrote a full pardon for the
defendant in which he declares:
“In my opinion neither of the de
fendants is guilty, and they have not
had a fair and impartial trial, but
were convicted contrary ‘to the law
and evidence.”
The reversal in the case of Robin
Cooper is based on assighments of
error in the trial judges failing to
charge separately as to Robin Coop
ers’ theory of self-defense, linking
the defense of the two defendants to
getheér; excluding testimony of Gov
ernor Patterson as to talks with de
fendant, Robin Cooper, and advice giv
en him as to Colonel Cooper before
the tragedy; end the admission on
cross examina ion of Robin Cooper
as to intent oi certain state’s wit
nesses in testifying as to certain in
cidents,. ! i
‘Colonel Cooper was still at the
capitol when the pardon was enter
ed in the secretary of state’s office.
He was at once surrounded by a
crowd of friends seeking to congrat
‘ulate him¢ He was as calm, and
even chéerful, through it all, as it
he had: received an acquittal. The
reversal ,of his son’s case seemed to
interest and pleasé him to the ex-
J’ of his own- fate.
ST S o 1y R Mn's v 9 more
“*@*f%f%” RN e
"Robin 'Cooper 18’ e‘3 . ( ~”'“‘
"His friends freely predict ihat he
will not again be arraigned for trial,
Should he be, it would be a most
‘difficult undertaking to secure a jury
in Davidson: county X Moy '
The supreme court opinion marked
an epoch in not only the legal an
nals of the state, but the political
as well. The democratic party of
Tennessee has been rent into bitter
factions -over the prohibition ques
tion, and, ag a wheel within a wheel,
“the Cooper case” has played a con
spicuous part.
Cooper is the close friend and al
leged political adviser of Patterson,
who is the leader of the anti-prohibi
tion forces in Tennessee. Carmack
was the chief of the prohibition move
ment, Patterson was a most import
ant witness for the defense at the
trial of the Coopers for the killing of
Carmack, whose death his friends al
lege, was the outcome of political
machination.
Now, on the verge of an election of |
the judiciary, the supreme court was
called on to pass finally upon the case
over which it seems the party factions
have actually aligned themselves on
one side or the other. For sixty-nine
days the court had the casé and tae
state has been on the tiptoe of ex
pectancy as opinion days came and
went without its being referred to.
The announcement at last shows
an interesting status to those famil
iar with the intricacies of the politi.
cal situation. 1
The pardon was not unexpei;%ed.
From Governor Patterson’s testi ny
in the doubt below there could remain
no doubt as to his personal convie
tion of the innocence of the defend
ants. Such being the case, there was
never any doubt in the public mind
that he would grant a pardon to both
defendants should the supreme court
affirm the sentence. But while this
action did not come as a surprise, it
created all of the interest and all of
the wild excitement that a totally un
expected denouments to the whole
series of events could have done.
As to the result politically in Ten
nessee of the state supreme court’s
decision, opinion seems general that
the old factional lines—Patterson and
anti-Patterson, the latter representing
the prohibition or state-wide element
of the state democracy —~ are un
changed.
WAR ON AMERICANS.
Foreigners Are Not Wanted on the
Raiiroags of Meico. :
. Monterey, Mex.—War upon Ameri
can railroad men in this republic has
been resumed by the native employes
of the railroad companies, These na.
tives claim that they are discriminat. |
ed against and that foreigners fill the
more important positions to the det |
riment and injury generally of the
Meican railroad workers.
The native unions have appointed a
committee of sixty to go to the City
of Mexico and present their grievances |
to President Diaz, They think it thus
possible to' dislodge the American and ;
other foreigners employed in the rail'i
way service, 3 o
April 25th Named,as Day For
~ Seralons on Consumption.
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GOVERNOR'S PROCLAMATION
Georgia’s Governor Indorses Work of Anti
__ Tubercalosis Sociely and Also the
A ‘s,_;;fi;emnceot the Day. X
ORI A
_Atlanta, Ga.—The Anti-Tuberculo
sis Association of Atlanta has made
arrangements for a widespread and
very thorough observance of Anti-Tu
berculosis Sunday, which comes on
Aprili24, 5
The mdégmy of the ministers in
the state shave tlxgreed to preach lfpei
cial sermons relative to the work o
@3%‘%&@;‘o\llo&3 Association on
that day, and Governor Brown issued
a proclamation endorsing the observ
a’pee yf fl]@‘f € ay. |
1 The \governor’s proclamation is as
follows:, &' .
. “State of Georgia—By His Excel
lency, Josepii' M. Brown, Governor: A
oclamation—ln view of the wide
spread interest in tihe eradication of
that most terrible of maladies, con
aumption,'i,;;by way of giving the
best: encourigement to the concerted
xflovémeutf,_ is being planned to
save.the pegple of the future the cost
of so dire an ihheritance,
. "“T'nerefore, "I; Joseph M. Brown,
governor of the state of Georgia, do
issue this, my proclamation, request
ing the various ministers of the state
to deliver Some expression from the
pulpit in furterance of the great
work of organization ‘that has been
entered u‘p"f the National Asso
clation for the ®tudy and Prevention
of Tuberculosls, on Sunday, April 24,
1%10, which: dag has been designatea
by said ass 6 ";fi; lon as tubercular Sun
- “Given und@¥ g hand and the seal
of the exec ,3', ‘department at the
-capitol, in ] 1 ity of Atlanta, this,
the 15th ‘day & April, 1910, and of
the independenus it the United States’
off ‘Anieriea oo Bundrdy and . thirty
fqurth.'vf-“'.,jv:i".;*M sl
Lke ,}f‘f{ s “Goverfig’g’g(_
. FIGHTING SATTLE TICK,
,‘,‘hqi\Nar on, the
i aCathisE Parasite, | s
ie i 8, o OO g ;
i o SEEEain B, . Wright,
TAR RIS S Bty e L the fleld in
HUIR " JeUTRTA ot
ing'the work of orgamization and in- |
spection in the war wliich has ‘been |
undertaken to drive the cattle ‘tick
from Georgia. Captain Wright, some
time ago, is « progressing splendidly,
He will organize the counties of
Banks and Franklin. The county au
thorities will place inspectors in the
fleld, the state will employ an oflicer
and’ the federal government officials
will co-operate in establishing a quar
antine that has proved effective elge
where and will prove so there.
Similar organizations are doing this
work in the cauities of Hall, Hart
and Green, where the tick has been
very aggressive, but where it is be
ing gradually driven out.
The state authorities are looking
forward with much interest to July
15, the date an which the federal Z2OvV
crnment is to digtribute its fund for
carrying on the crusade, l
} GREAT PEACH CROP.
Georgia Peachtrees Weighted With
| the Greatest Crop ih Years.
~ Americus, Ga.—With a half million
peach ftrees fruited to the capacity
with healthy young peaches, the big
orchards ahouf Americus give assur
ance now of the finest crop in years,
and the owners of these magnificent
tracts of waving trees are correspond
ingly elated at the golden prospects,
The young peaches, now the size of
partridge eggs, are firm and of a
healthy appearance, and show no evi.
dence of the sting of the much-dread
ed curculio, This ig the bug that
produces the worm which attacks the
peach, rendering it worthless.
And if half the peaches now on the
trees remain, a bumper crop and hro
ken boughs are assured, for the
weight will be too great,
Americus orchards will begin saip
ping the first peaches of the early
varieties late in May, and as other
varieties ripen the packing house
force will be ’kept busy until the k.
berta crop i 8 ghipped, between July
5 and 20. 'The Klberta season is u
short and busy one,
A BOTANICAL FREAX.
Three Varieties Tree Growing From
; One Trunk.
- Athens, Ga.—The Clagsic City pos-
Sesses more than one curious tree,
from a botanilogical point of view,
but the most peculiar one has only
recently been neted. The trec that
owns - itself, the Austrialian oak that
bears the glant acorns, the tree that
is growing out of a two-story build
ing, have all been objects of interest, |
but tihe new discovery beats Ui
all, |
It s three trees in ome, and the
freak is situated on Finley street, |
near the Athens High School. J
The, original tree is a large china- |
berry tree, and out of the trunk of
this "are growing two other kinds or
trees. One I 8 a water oak and the
other is of the Empress of India va
riety, and recexntly, .when the' latter
was in bloom, the trio presented a
curious gight. = .
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Dollar Saving Days
Prosperity dates from the first dol=
lar saved. If you are earning
money you ought to save somes=
thing. What you do now
in the way of saving may
determine what the fu
ture will bring you.
We pay interest on
savings accounts
compounded quar=-
terly at 5 per=cent, on ;
time certificates 6 per-cent.
Let us open an '
account with
We are prepared to serve
the public in an accepta
ble way. Have you tried
us? .
O L 281
FOLKSTON
V \'
A Night Encampment on
Manhattan
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By Robert Shackleton
CQ’GM - RIS
=== IT'H great horges and great wagons; wagons so large as well
to be termed wains, built far out for sidewise augmenta
tion of ](I;l(l and heaped with bags and crates in high-piled
ingenuity; men enter Manhattan Island, night after night
fessmms=——x=d| {0 make a camp in the darkness.
They are farmers, and their goal is.ancient Gansevoort
! Market, so far southward as to be below Fourteenth Street,
J and in that ancient and most picturesque part of the city
which still bears its time-‘honored name of Greenwich Vil
lage; and the farmers approach the market through crooked old streets bor
dered by shaky old houses, dormer-windowed and perhaps even gambrelled,
You may wake in the night and hear the heavy-footed horses pacing by
anld the jolting rumble of the wagon, Look out of the window and you will
see the prodigiously loaded wain, and the tired country horses, with lowered
heads swinging from side to side, as they follow their grotesque shadows
dardeing fantastically in the light of the wagon lanterns.
The camp is made in the stone-paved gquare, It i a broad open space
clese to the North River. Six nights in the week, every night but Saturday,
market-gardeners come here, with some three hundred or more wagons on
some of the busiest nights of August and September, dwindling to a bare
fifty a night in December. The selling price of a load averages some S7O,
and when this is multiplied by over 30,000—the total for a year—it will be
seen how much Manhattan pays annually for its wagoned vegetables.—Har
per's Weekly.
THE EAGLE’S FASCINATION,
Men Have Always Taken Him as a
Symbol of Power.
However much the eagle may be in
awe of man, there seems to have been
no age in which man has not accepted
the ‘“playmate of the storm” as the
symbol of Kingship of. power. Its sov
ereignty among the birds—
Sailing with supreme dominion
Through the azure deeps or air—
is more indisputable than that of the
lion among beasts; and nation after
nation—Assyria, Persia, Rome, France,
Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy, Po
land and the United States—has used
it either as the royal crest or as its
military standard. No great man but
has been an eagle to his eulogists, and,
gleaning from the poets at random, we
find Napoleon, Pindar, Otto, Madoc,
Dugtiésclin, Lochial, Wolsey, Prince
Hubert, the Duke of York, Bacor, Her:
miniug, Coriolanug and many d@nother
equipped “with eagle qualities. The
proud I{ft of. the hair, from. the. brow
of the capitoline Jove is said to have
been studied from the forelfead of a
tion. ' %
SI.OO A YEAR,
Certainly more than one sculptor of
the head of a Roman emperor, and
more than one painter of imaginary
portraits of Napoleon, have borrowed
from the eagle the straight line of the
eyebrow, just cutting the full, round,
uplidded eye, which gives the bird sven
In captivity its wild majesty of ap
pearance, Hvery emotion, every attyi
bute of tragic circumstance of life
raised ot itg highest power is compared
in verse or by the essayists to the
royal bird; so fame, ampition, science,
reason, danger, pride, hatred are “ea
gle-eyed” or “eagle-talenad.” No
mountain Is so high as those which
are “eagle-bafling,” Even the akies
are “eagles skies.,” Greatness (tself
becomes “eagle greatness,” suocess is
“eagle-gripped” .and the true wictory
has eagle’s wings, What dignity, then,
is lacking to the bird which “builds
among the stars,” which soars “swim
ming in-the eye of noon” and fronts
the sun itself on equal terms?—Lon
don Timeg, .. = .°
. Thne New “Spoonerism”—l say,
what's the-usual tax for a tipsy cab?
—+Punch. ' ’ : :