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CHARLTON COWNTY HERALD.
VOLUME XII.
Lake Charles Is Practically De
stroyed By Fire.
$1,900,000 PROPERTY LOSS
5,000 People Are Homeless and Thirty City
Blocks Wasted By Flames--Dynamite
Checked Spread of Fire.
Lake Charles, La.—This city of 20,
000 persons was practically wiped out
by flames that swept over thirty
blocks. The loss is estimated at sl,-
500,000 F Five thousand persons are
homeless.
The flames swept from the busi
ness section of the city to the outly
ing residence district. Scores of
homes were destroyed, almost in the
flash of an eye, as the flames, driven
by a gale, hissed through the resi
dence section.
Dynamite - was employed to make
breaches in the path of the flames.
It stayed their progress, but not un
til the city had been practically wiped
out.
Temporary camps were erected on
the outskirts of the city to care for
thousands of the homeless.
Lake Charles, while an old com
munity, is practically a new city. It
is the biggest town in southwest Lou
iasiana, and is a big rice and lumber
center. It is the center of the Jen
nings oil field. -
The fire started in the old French
opera house, almost in the center of
the business district section. A gale
fanned the flames, and before the fire
men had organized for battle, the fire
was hissing through the main com
mercial streets, leaving in its path a
trail of ruins.
The district burned is at least. two
miles square. Much of the property
was not insured to its full value,
A great deal of the loss is sustained
in the destruction of priceless family
heirlooms and old public records.
JEWELRY FIRM IN TROUBLE.
Alabama Men Held in Charge of Con
spiracy to Defraud Government.
Mobile, Ala.—Jesse H. and Daniel
H. Shreve at San Antonio, Texas; A.
C. Shreve, Tuscaloosa; R. T. Shreve,
James E. Shreve, Hilliard Shreve, Geo.
H. Shreve, John Johnson, William
Franklin at Moantgomery and Sam
Copeland at Scottsboro, Ala., were ar
rested simultanecusly on the charge
of conspiracy to detraud the govern
ment,
Indictments sworn out here charge
that the defendants conspired, con
federated and agreed to withhold from
the referee in bankruptcy of this dis
trict assets of the City Jewelry Com
pany of Montgomery, Ala., willfully
knowing of taeir whereabouts at the
time,
It is alleged that the above parties
purchased from wholesale houses
throughout the Uvited States valua
ble jewelry, silverware and other
goods with which to fit out a store
and opened headquarters in Montgom
ery. It is alleged further that they
shipped a dummy package supposea
to be worth $20,000 to Greenville,
Ala, to the store of Daniel H. Sareve
—that the store of Shreve at Green
ville caught fire and was destroyed.
The next move ‘the defendants
made, according to the warrants, was
to have some cone throw them into
involuntary bankrutcy, and in their
schedule of assets they stated that
their stock of goods had been de
stroyed.
An investigation brougiat to light
a great deal of the stuff that was
actually purchased in a store at An
dalusia. This stuff is valued at $20,-
000. The fraud is said to be one of
the biggest unearthed in this section
of the United States in some years.
FEDERAL AID FOR HERO.
Aid for Man Who Gave Health to
Destroy Yellow Fever.
Washington, D. C.—lll, helplessly
paralyzed and supported by the faith
ful wife, who earns a pittance at the
wash tub, Joan R. Kissinger, the sol
dier who gave up his health and his
future that the cause of yellow fever
might be known, will receive a spec
ial pension of $125 a month if a bill
favorably reported by the senate com
mittee becomes a law. When the ray
ages of the dread plague swept the
men from the ranks and the trenches
faster tanan the machine guns of the
enemy at Siboney and Santiago could
do, Kissinger offered himself ag a
volunteer subject for experiment in
an army hospital. The surgeons prov
ed by has sacrifices that the mosqui
to spread the plague, and their ex
periments upon him are believed to
have been responsible for his helpless
condition now.
HIS CAREER CROWNED.
Roosevelt Addressed Frech Academy
and Received Great Reception.
Paris, France. — To use Colonel
Roosevelt’s own words, he has reach
ed the crowning of his career as a
man of letters. He was the guest of
intellectual Paris, participating as a
member at a session of the French
Academy, delivering a lecture at the
Sorbonne and remaining as the guest
of the faculty for dinner and the
grand reception given by the univer
sity in his honor.
Colonel Roosevelt's reception atthe
French Institute and that at the Sor
bonne were equally impressive, At
the Sorbonne no attempt was made to
restrain the demonstrations.
NUMBER 47
USING IMPORTED MEAT.
Solution.of the High Cost of Living Puzzle
Discovered---Cattle From Australia.
New York City.—As the price of
meat started downward meat dealers
and importers announced® that they
have discovered the solution to the
high cost of living puzzle. Taey in
tend importing meat in great quan
tities from Australia and Argentine
Republic just as England does. Then,
instead of being compelled to buy so
called meat trust products, paying
trust prices, the dealers get meart,
which they claim is of the same quai
ity, at from 3 to 6 cents per pound
cheaper.
The meat trust made its first hostile
movement to check the incipient im
portation of beef, mutton and pork,
when plans were made to ask the
government to stop the influx of for
eign meat on the ground that it was
not properly inspected.
At least a score of meat dealers in
Brooklyn who have taken advantage
of the Australian beef started to un
dersell the houses relying on the
beef trust. The beef trust gets its
meat from western and Mexican cat
tle, while, if Australian importations
grow, this meat will probably be
landed upon the Pacific coast and
sent east by rail. While England re
lies very largely upon Australia and
Argentina for its meat, the distance
to the United States is much less
than it is to England.
It was announced that aside from
the lower price of foreign meat the
cost of living was gradually declin
ing in Greater New York. Since April
1 pork has fallen nearly $2 per bar
rel and hogs $2 per hundred weight.
~ Sayles Zahn, owner of a chain of
meat shops, declared that the trust
could be forced to lower prices by im
porting foreign-grown meat.
“The Australian meat is better
than the trust beef,” said he. “In ad
dition to this, we are able to under
sell at the rate of from 3 to 6 cents
per pound.”
AT MERCY OF LOOTERS..
‘Uncle Sam’s Millions Are Poorly
‘ Protected.
Washington, D. C.—The agtonishing
‘statement was made by Charles D.
Norton, assistant secretary of the
treasury, before the house committee
on expenditures in the treasury de
partment that there was at present
no law on the statute books by which
a subordinate in any of the various
subtreasuries of the United States
could be punished for making away
with public funds. .
A man might loot the treasury of as
much as he liked or could get away
with, and no law exists by which he
could be punished, declared Mr. Nor
ton. If two or imore employes en
gaged in an embezzlement, they might
be punished for conspiracy, but that
was all.
The further information was elicit
ed that the bonding system of treas
ureres and assistant treasurers of
the United States and their various
subordinates was obsolete and inad
equate.
The assistant treasurer at New
York furnished a bond of $600,000,
signed by private parties for the rea
son that a bonding company would
charge him $4,500 premium, and Mr.
Norton said the furnishing of bond by
private parties in such cases was a
most undesirable arangement for the
United States.
Subordinates in the treasury re
partment, handling millions in money
daily, were required to furnish no
bond, excepting in some cases where
assistant treasureres required bonds,
regardless of the law in the case.
This much and other similar in
formation Wwas eliciteds from -Mr Nor
ton during a hearing on the question
of whether the committee on expendi
tures in the treasury department
should undertake an investigation of
the shortage in the subtreasury at St.
Louis and other places and incidental
ly inquire into the accounting system
of the United States treasury.
After listening to statements by
Mr. Norton and Representative
Shackelford and Bartholdt of Missou
ri, the committee adjourned without
deciding whether an investigation
would be held or not.
Hettie Green to Retire.
New York City.—Hettie Green is
planning, it is reported, to retire from
active business. She is now 73 years
old, and feels she does not care to
take an active part in the business
world any longer. Her daughter, Mre.
Matthew Astor Wilkes, will probably
assume direction of Mrs. Green’s af
fairs.
No South Pole Hunt.
Washington, D. C.—The proposed
American South Polar expedition, un
der the joint auspices of the Peary
Arctic Club and the National Geo
graphic Society, has been abandoned
for this year, according to an an
nouncement made. here.
Find Gold in Louisiana.
Merryville, La.—Reports of discov
eries of gold in this section of Lou
isiana have caused great excitement
and a company has been formed with
the purpose of looking into the finds
and ascertaining the extent of the
deposits, with a view to development,
if feasible.
Cotton Mills Curtail.
Chicopee, Mass.—ln order to meet
unfavorable market conditions by cur
tailing production the cotton mills of
the Dwight Manufacturing Company
of Chicopee and tihe Chicopee Manu
facturing Company of Chicopee Fallg
have gone.on a schedule of five days
a week. The two corporations to
gether employ 3,000 operatives,
FOLKSTON, GALRAPRIL 92 1910,
2 : S
Systematic Seating of Audience |
to Be a Feature. @~ |
. 2
SINGLE SEATS: ARE SELLING:
£ E {lB
Interest in Atlanta’s Grand Opera Season IS
Daily Increasing Throughout the e
Entire South., - i
Atlanta, Ga.—There will not be any
difficulty in seating the people in At
lanta’s great auditorium-armory upon|
the occasion of the production of
grand operas that are to be heard|
there during the first week in May.
It is true that the immense hall’
will seat more than six thousand peo
ple, and that every seat in the house
will be occupied at each’'and every
performance, but no one will have |
the slightest difficulty in finding his |
or her seat, and all will be done with
systematic certainty that will make
the whole matteér seem very simple.
Already a large special corps of
ushers is being assembled, the work
of - organization being in the tapable
hands of Custodian Weever of the
auditorium-armory. The plans of the |
seats, divided systematically into sec
tions right and left, and numbered
according to a’ carefully devised sys
tem, are already in ‘Mr. Weevers
hands, and daily instructions will be
given to the ushers from now utnil
the opening opera of May 2. i
" The ushers are to be selected: from
the members of the Georgia National
guard, who are stationed in Atlanta,
and they will add to the attractive
ness of the music festival by appear
ing in full dress uniform. All the
aisles will be covered with some form
of matting or carpet, so that the en
try of spectators during™he perform
ances will not create any disturbance
whatever. It was found last year |
that this noise detracted from the
beauty of the concert.
The demand for reserved seats for
the season continues, ‘the amount re
celved far exceeded all expectations.
The sale of seats for the individual
performances is now g@pen.
interest in the grand opera season
is daily increasing . throughout the
entire south, and with each mail
comes a flood of orders for reserya
tions, requeste for information: sud.
other inquiries. ; P
All railroads entering Atlanta are
offering reduced round trip rates
from all points .to Atlanta during
grand opera and automobile week.
Trains will be "held until after the
evening performances of the opera to
accommodate the great number of
out-of-town people who will be in at
tendance.
FIGHTING CATTLE TICK.
Wright to Superintend War on the
Cattle Parasite.
Atlanta, Ga.—Captain R. F. Wright,
assistant commissioner of agriculture,
is spending this week in the field in
north Georgia personally superiaend
ing the work of organization a in
gpection in the war which 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
field, the state will employ an oflicer
and the federal government officials
will co-operate in establishing a quar
antine that has proved effective else
where and will prove so there,
Similar organizations are doing this
work in the counties of Hall, Hart
and Creen, where the tick has been
very aggressive, but where it is be
ing gradually driven out.
GREAT PEACH CROP.
Georgia Peachtrees Weighted With
the Greatest Crop in Years.
Americus, Ga—With a half million
peach trees fruited to the capacity
with heaithy young peaches, the big
orchards about 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 muca-dread
ed curculio. This is 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 bro
ken boughs are assured, for the
weight will be too great,.
A BOTANICAL FREAK.
Three Varieties Tree Growing From
One Trunk. -
Athens, Ga.—The Classic City pos
segses more than one curious tree,
from a botanilogical point of view,
but the most peculiar one has only
recently been noted. The tree thai
owns itself, the Austrialian oak thar
bears the giant acorns, the tree that
is .growing out of a two-story build
ing, have all been objects of interest,
but the new discovery beats thern,
all,
It is three trees in one, and the
freak is situated on Finley street,
near the Athens High School.
The original tree is a large china
berry tree, and out of the trunk of
this are growing two other kinds of
trees. One is a water oak and the
other is of the Empress of India va
riety, and recently, when the latter
was in bloom, the trio presented a‘
curious sight, 1
| GEO tGIA NEWS NOTES.
B
¥Phe races at the state prison farm
A% Milledgeville will in all probability
B 4 separated in the near future.
Clairman Hutchens of the prison
g@mmigsion, now hag, under consider
‘@tlon a'rule to this” effect, and will
"pEpbably submit it to the general as
‘S@mbly at its next session. Chairman
'Hiitehens thinks that the negro boys
an’ white ‘boys should be separated
‘attopce. It is his ddea to purchase
Segeral acres of land next to- the
“présent site and on this place the ne
-BTB, “f"‘,}‘hls will enable the com-
SMIRSION .t 0 use the new dormitory,
‘noWebeing built, as a school building
for ! i@» inual training of white boys.
‘Ompeithe negro and white boys are
Separated the negro women will be
plaged i another section of the farm
‘ang the white men where the negro
‘women are mow kept. The money
rof the abundant crops that are be
ing" raisec ?‘fi‘ the farm this year will
‘W _%’ff?m,*'llaying for the improve-
Rty ’
lf’fg;,;_ fi'a&, Lipscomb, , ex-president
“of the Leorgia Federation of Wom
on'S clubs, through her influence with
indiyidual citizens, and through the
_Dre#s, is working for a’ medical in
spe for infthe schools of Athens. Mrs.
Lips :_;_g work is one which should
‘be @uplicated in effort in every com
{nusiity. whert there is a school of
f‘tg':@?nted by children of all
(S
i wffifigefi_iright and runs
AWag When an engineer of a railroad
en; i puts on ‘more steam, the rail
l 1 t;:.‘-;fi.&e.fot any damage that
Sult, So held the court of ap
) the. case of Chancq against
the "Southern railroad. Chance was
,;4&;: zilongg the railroad
traclfone’ day and the mule took
frighy ’ifl( ‘when the engineer put
_morsEsteam into his engine for the
‘purpis’ of cl @ grade. Chance
‘was #ijired and”heé'sued the railroaq,
and @Beured a verdict in his favor.
‘The @urt reversed the decision, hold
ng that the engineer had a right to
‘put o@more steam at tnat point and
*j} loes not appear to have been
done »_ghten thet“mule. ; .
Aceiding to rumor which has been
afloat Mor several days, Judge Rich
ard B Russell of the court of ap
peals 1 make the race for gov
ernor ithe next campaign.' When
nsked &' f" ect. question concerning
g{é [dacy, Judge I}usstélli stated
that §ié®has not made up his mind
cithel, W a?trewrt has it that he
‘has tue matter under serious consid-
CoPALIOIRE Ao s e
. *ruggle,” state ins; n
coviet camps, has returned to Atlan
ta from a trip to Turner county,
where he inspected the work being
done by that county with its convicts
on the roads. “Turner county works
thirty convicts,” said Mr. Tuggle,
‘and there are no better regulated
camps in the entire state. Splendid
work is being done on the roads, and
under the care of Warden J. A. Put
ham the convicts are kept in good
condition, and no trouble is experienc
l ed with them.”
Captain Wiley Williams of the pris
on commission has returned to Atlan
ta from a visit to the state farm at
Milledgeville, and he declares that
the prospects for an unusually abun
dant harvest on the state farm at
that place are most encouraging,
“The recent heavy rains have done
a world of good,” said Captain Wil
liams, “and you can almost see the
oats, corn and other things grow.”
Captain Williams states that work on
the hospital and the new dormitory
at the farm is progressing rapidly
Judge Emory Speer of the United
States district court confirmed the
sale of the Savannah, Augusta and
Northern railway to W. J. Oliver of
Knoxville, Tenn. The amount bid by
Oliver was $250,000. He had foreclos
ed on the property in order to collect
the amount due him for constructing
the line. Mr. Oliver was present in
court at the time of the confirmation,
and stated that he might operate the
road himself. The line is twenty
three miles in length and extends
from Garfield, Ga., to Statesboro. Mr.
Oliver states that if he decided to
operate the line it would be extend
ed. :
The legislators of Floyd county will
be asked to introduce a bill at the
next general assembly providing
broader powers for the state board of
health. The request comes from the
county medical association and may
be the forerunner of similar action
by other counties throughout the
state, A resolution to this effect
was presented at the meeting of the
Floyd County Medical association.
The reasons for this action arce for
the establishment of better quaran
tine regulations between the counties,
for the prevention of the spread of
contagious and infectious diseases.
lixperiments in irrigation that were
made in the western part of Dougher
ty county last year under supervision
of a government expert are being
extended this year, as an example to
the farmers of this immediate gec
tion. Under the direction of Milo B.
Williams, irrigation engineer of the
United States department of agricul
ture, ten acres in cotton and ten
acres in corn are being cultivated
under irrigation on the John P. Fort
plantation, in west Dougherty, Water
is secured from artesian wells hored
for the purpose, and interesting re
sults are anticipated. Many farmers
are watching the experiment closely,
with a view of putting land under
irrigation next year.
Felled six years ago in a court
room with a cuspidor thrown by John
M. Smith, prominent Rome real es
tate man, Honorable Wright Willing.
ham has just got his revenge. Smith
was fined $25 and costs, amounting 1o
$75 in all. Willingham said he was
Dollar Saving Days
Prosperity dates from the first dol=
lar saved. If you are earning
money you ought to save some=
- thing. What you do now
in the way of saving may
determine what the fu- *
a 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?
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é A Few Rules that May Help You to Con
% tract Nervous Dyspepsia
N D SN 81
By Joseph Fitzgerald
ERVOUS dyspepsia, like that kindred ailment neurasthenia,
is very prevalent in our progressive modern life; in fact,
N an observer at our l=nch counters and dining tables might
become convinced that it was a fashionable disease with
— symptoms of popularity that may tend to an epidemic,
For the benefit of those who have so far failed, after
w w strenuous efferts, to contract the “classy” ailment, I append
a few simple but effective rules which I am sure will not
fail to make the user eligible for the “groucher’s” list after
a little practice.
Concentrate the mind continually on the stomach and articles to go
therein, A healthy stomach works aubomatl'cnlly. Your true dyspeptic should
be able to draw an exact diagram of his digestive tract.
Subscribe to all the “health” magazines.
Take daily cold spray baths before breakfast and be massaged twice
daily.
If, after the morning spray, you practice fasting until lunch hour, you can
soon eat sufficient at that meal to hold you for a few days. If you can suc
ceed at this, your progress will be rapid, and a timely economy will reward
you also.
& Do not, under any circumstances, rest after meals, as thig is only the
habit of very healthy people. Worry as much as possible. If you have no
business of your own to practice this on, get busy on some one else’s,
If you are married and cannot coax your wife to Join you in your dyspep
tic fads, rehearse your symptoms to her at every chance, This is guaranteed
Vo make a hypochrondriac of the most cheerful optimist.—New York Sun.
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? The Natural Life
¥y
.A 8 20 00 iA2
Ey David L. Brown é
IFE is an investment. You get out of it what you put into
it in inecreased measure,
The music i 8 not in the piano—it is in the.soul of the
player, The plcture is not in the colors of the palette—it
is in the artist’s mind. ‘
L Moreover, you get out of life what you pay for,
The investment does not have to be in dollars. It is
made daily in effort, in sacrifice, in love,
It is put in the Bank of Humanity, deposited to the
credit of your neighbor—for the world begins in yourself and ends in him.
The thing that pays best In life is to be natural, And this means: Let
your real self show through all exterior coverings. Let your own personal
ity color your environment.
Let every noble thought In you have expression—put each high resolve
to the test of actual experience.
Let the life in you—vivacity, appreciation, enthusiasm, affection and spir
itual impulses—bubble over in natural and frank manner,
For thus only can you be yourself. If you are anything else, you'have
nothng to invest in life, you have no principal—you are speculating on' bor
rowed money, ' ; i
Be natural!—New York American, Bowy ko
SI.OO A YEAR.