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CHARLTON COUNTY HERALD.
VOLUME XII.
GENSUS TAKING. ENDS
Schedule of Enumerators Are Ar
riving in Washington.
No Izformation, as to Population of Cities,
Will Be Given Out Until Work of Census
Bureau Is Entirely Finished.
Washington, D, C.—Like a vast war
ship the census bureau here “has
. cleared its decks for action.” In ad
dition to the main building of the bu
reau, two others have been leased,
giving a total floor space of 150,000
square feet, whicu is enough to ac
commodate the permanent census
clerks and the temporary force of 3,-
000 employes whose service will be
required during the coming summer
only. ¥
. The enumerators’ schedules have
begun to arrive, but it will be sev
eral weeks before official announce
ment is made of the total population
of any city in the country. The pop
ulation of the cities will be the first
tabulated, after which the states and
minor civil divisions will be complet
ed. C. Dana Durand, director of the
bureau, announced that “no prelimi
nary official statements will be issued
by the bureau until the ‘established
count’ for each of the different areas
has been made.
“There will be no ‘dough counts’ or
‘appropriations,” ” he added, “and no
sacrifice of accuracy for haste.”
Work will be carried on night as
well as day. The punching machines,
semi-automatic and electrical, 300 in
number, will be operated night and
day. Each machine can complete 3,
000 cards in a 7-hour day, which
means that all the machines at this
rate can dispose of 45,000,000 cards in
a month, by working 14 hours a day.
Semi-automatic electrical tabulating
machines also will be used.
LeGrand Powers, chief statistician
of the census divsion of agriculture,
does not expect to publish any infor
mation regarding the farm census of
1909 until September 15, when he may
dssue the first preliminary bulletin giv
ing for each state and territory the
totals derived from the tabulation sep
arately of general farm data, the prin
cipal crops and the live stock on farms
_and E?fl&e,s.,- moedils Sgl il
" William M. Stuart, chief statistician
of the census division of manufac
tures, has received about 150,000 of
the 340,000 schedules involved in the
census of manufactures, mipes and
quarries. It 1s likely that an an
nouncement of the totals for the Dis
trict of Columbia will be made some
time in June. Publication will be
made of the completed returns for
other areas as fast as they are re
ceived and tabulated.
Procrastination in furhishing infor
mation on the part of a few manufac
turers in some of ehe areas will oc
casion delays, it is announced, which
the census bureau cannot avoid.
UNUSUAL WEATHER.
No Weather Like the Present in the
History of the Bureau.
Washington, D. C.—“ Unparalleled
in the history of the weather bureau,”
is the way in which Professor Edward
B. Garriott, official forecaster of the
bureau, described the ranges and dis
tribution of temperature in the United
States during the past two weeks.
He pointed out that “the incomput
able damage to fruit and vegetation in
the central valleys and southern
states caused by the cool wave dur
ing the latter part of April might
have been avoided inlarge degree by
a proper appreciation of the timely
warrnings issued by the weather bu
rea and the employment of approved
frost-protecting devices. |
“The warm wave,” he added, “fol-}
lowing this cool preiod produced the‘
highest April temperature on record
at points in the north central states
and temperatures that approached the
records in middle interior and middle
eastern states. In turn this warm
wave was followed during the first
week of May by an extensive ana
persistent cold area which, during
three consecutive nignts carried the
frost line over the middle Mississippi
and Ohio valleys and southern por
tions of the middle Atlantic states.”
Changed Husbands Quickly.
Columbus, Ga.—lmmediately after
Susie R. Haralson was granted a di
vorce from her husband, Samuel Har
alson, in Muscogee county superior
court, she was married in the same
court room to Joseph A. Debrabant,
was in waiting, license in hand.
Judge S. P. Gilbert, who signed
the divorce decree, performed the
marriage ceremony upon request.
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL.
Panama Canal Gets s37,Bs9,Boo—Tar
iff Board $250,000.
Washington, D. C.—The sundry civil
appropriation bill reported to the
house appropriates $11,848,200, sl7,
650,860 less than the regular and sup
plemental estimates. Included in the
bill is $37,859,890 for the Panama Ca
nal, which is reimbursable out of the
sale of bonds authorized for the con
struction of the canal.
The bill includes appropriations for
information for use of the tariff board,
$250,000; enforcement of anti-trust
laws, $100,000: river and harbor con
tract work, $8,051,428, and investiga
tions of frauds by the department of
justice, $50,000, .
NUMBER 49
CCAL MINE HORROR.
One Hundred and Thirty-Five Miners Killed
in Alabama Colliery.
Birmingham, Ala. — One hundred
and thirty-five men were killed in
No. 3 coal mine at Palos, as, the re
sult of a terrific expiosion. °
Palos is 40 miles west of Birming
ham and the coal mines are owned
by the Palos Coal and Coke Com
pany, of which the Drennan Broti
ers of Birmingham are the owners.
The flames resulting from the ex
plosion shot into the air from the
slope for a distance of 200 feet and
the shock was felt for miles around.
Timbers from the slope were hurled
several hundred feet from the mouth
of the slope, and rocks from the root
of the slope caved in and made ac
cess to the mouth very difficuit.
The first rescuers who went into
the mine after the explosion were
overcome by fire damp, and had to be
carried out, :
James Gousby, a mail carrier, was
killed 30 feet from the mouth of the
slope, and the body was hurled 30 feet
into the river. He was walking along
the railroad track and was directly in
front of the slope when the explosion
occurred. It was judged from this that
the force of the explosion was such
that none of the men on the interior
could possibly be alive. There are a
number of mining camps within 2 or
3 miles of the Palos mine, and within
a snort time after the explosion a
vast crowd had gathered about the
ill-fated slope. . s
Hundreds of women and children
were around the mine wringing their
hands and crying piteously.
It is thought that the explosion was
caused by the accumulation of gas in
some of the old abandoned entries
which are rarely visited.
The bodies of the dead men
brought to the surface were mangled
so that their features were not rec
ognizable. Identifications were pos
sitle only by means of the little
brass checks which they carried.
Already the work of succoring the
families deprived of their money-earn
ing, hands is in progress. Besides the
relief extended by the officials of the
mine, the Red Cross, through Maurice
Willows, of Birmingham, is supplying
the necessaries of life to the families
of the victims, many of whom were
left penniless.
COMET DRIES LAKE.
Charge Halley’s Commet is Absorbing
Water of Lake lamonia.
. Thomasville, Ga.—Lake lamonia,
one of the big Floria lakes near here
wk.l,ig% went ary the early part of the
year and filled up about a mnionth ago,
is reported to have gone dry again,
the first time that such'a thing has
ever been known: to happen. Parties
returning irom there state that the
water has gone out entirely, leaving
only a little mud and water in the
‘basin.
~ Both Lakes lamonia and Miccosukie
‘went dry during the past winter, but
filled up again, and as they have
never been known to do such a thing
more than every twenty years, it was
thought the water had come back for
aJengthy stay, but it seems to have
taken a nction to go out again. Mic
cosukie 1s not yet dry, but it is
thought it will fotlow suit before very
long. These lakes are supplied trom
underground streams and it is sup
posed that the one from which lamo
nia gets its water must have been af
fected by the dry weather again.
Some lay it to Halley’s comet, but
as nobody here remembers just how
the comet affected it on its tormer
visit, this cannot be confirmed.
Druggists Would Abolish Alcohol.
Richmond, Va.—The most drastic
and important action taken by the
American Pharmaceutical Association
since that body convened here occur
red when the convention as a whole
placed itself on record as advocating
the abolition of alcohol as a commod
ity of sale in all American drug
stores, and earnestly urged the elimi
nation of all traffic in what it termed
“habit-forming drugs,” as harmful to
public morals and detrimental to the
best interests of the public.
Battleship Maine to Be Removed.
Washington, D. C.—After 12 years
the ill-fated battleship Maine is to be
removed from the Havana harbor and
the bodies which went down with the
vessel will be interred in the National
Cemetery at Arlington. A bill provid
ing for such removal and burial was
passed by the house and senate.
Pension Bill Carries $175,000,000.
Washington, D. C.—At the rate o?
$1,000,000 a second the senate pass
ed the pension appropriation bill. The
measure, which carries an expendi
ture approximately of $175,000,000,
was passed in less than two minutes.
Three Macon Firemen Killed.
Macon, Ga. — Three firemen were
killed and three injured here in the
wreck of the new automobile fire en
gine. The auto engine was going to
a fire when the wreck occurred,
Duke Plans Colony in Florida.
New York City.—Duke Pompeo Lit
ti of Lombardy and his duchesg, who
was Mrs. Jane Johnson Perry Scaife
of Charleston, S. C., have arrived in
New York for their first visit to
America since their marriage in 189%.
Their visit is partly in connection
with a philanthropic scheme for the
colonization of Italians in Manatee
county, Florida. ;
$12,000,000 Pension Fund.
New York City.—The United States
Steel Corporation announced that it
had established a fund of © $8,000,000
for pension purposes and would con
solidate this fund with the $4,000,-
000 fund heretofore created by An
drew Carnegie.
FOLKSTON, GA4 MAY 12 1910.
Sundry Appropriation Bill Pro
vides for Georgia Buildings.
ATLANTA'S CITY HALL
Old Postoffice Builhing in Atlanta Will Be
Sold to the City to Be Used as a City
Office Building---Other Items, ©
Washington, D. C. — A paragraph
providing for the transfer of the old.
postoftice building to Atlanta 1s con
tained in the sundry civil bill report(‘
ed to the house of representatives.
For completion of the wall around
the United States penitentiary at At
lanta, $75,000; tor postoffice and court
house at Alpany, $50,000, the total
nmit of cost of the building being
$125,000; LaGrange poSLOMICe, Pavy:
000, the building wien completed to
cost §50,000; Milledgeville also gets
SIO,OOO ‘toward a soo,ooo building ;
Brunswick, Ga., for new whart at
quarantine station, §§,664; Augusta,
Ga., oil house at arsenal, $2,500; su
perintendent lite saving station in
South Carolina and Georgia, $1,900;
Chickamauga Park for maintenance
of government road from Stevens’
Gap by Davis cross roads to Crawnsa.
Springs, $3,000, :
The sunary civil bill reported con
tained no new appropriations for pub
lic buildings and grounds. It siwply
made avallable money heretofore au-'
thorized to be spent. f
The committee on public buildings
is expected to report a biil within the
next week or two. The bill will con
tain authorizations for public build
ings in a number of Georgia towns.
The limit of cost on some buildings
already provided for 'may be increas-:
ed. When these buildings are author
ized by one committeg, the appropri
ations committee coimes along a?p_q;
makes available ‘eacli year as much
money as can be economically expend-:
ed until they are completed.
MORE CORN PLANTED.
The Increased Acreage Will Make Up
.. for Meat Shortage. i
Macon, Ga.—President J. L. Lee of
the Farmers’ Union asserted that
there is more ‘corn planted in Georgia
this spring than has ever been put inm
the ground in this state for a sin i‘é:
crop. He is happy at the promised
resuits. - His- campaign ‘through s4s
spring was a continuous journey from
one place to another, where he never
lost time in urging the farmers to
get the grain crops increased.
“We are sure to gain as much in
the corn crop as we are to lose in
meat-raising,” he declared. “I know
there will be large increases in the
corn and other grains. It is true that
the seasons now promise very little
advantages to the farmer who has
conscientiously tried to make a heavy
oat crop. Things have been dry all
over the state, and rain has fallen
so seldom during the past few weeks
that the oat crops generally are sui
fering,
“As to meat, I am sure we are to
pass the pinch this year in this re
spect. Last year prices caused every
farmer that could sell to market his
hogs or fatten them so that this year
the prospect for home-raised meat is
generally a.poor one. There are very.
few hogs to be fattened. The man
with business acumen, however, has
seen his folly, and now hogs are in
demand. More are being raised, and
next year will give us a greater sup
ply than we have heretofore had.”
MINERAL RESOURCES.
State Geological Survey Has Report
Ready to Distribute.
Atlanta, Ga.—The state geological
survey now has ready for distribution
“A Preliminary Report on the Min
eral Resources of Georgia.”
The physiography and geological
formations, accompanied by a geolog
ical map of the state, are described,
and the following Georgia mineral
products are discussed: Ashestos, ba
rytes, corundum, fuller’s earth, gold,
granite and gneisses, graphite,, iron
ores, limestone, manganese, marbles,
marls, mica, ocher, precious stones,
pyrite, road material, sand and grav
el, serpetine, slate, tale, tripoli, min
eral waters, and in addition artesian
wells are described. 'l'he treatment
of each product is local—that is, writ
ten with especial reference to the
Georgia deposits. The report shows
that Georgia is richly endowed with a
great variety of economic minerals
which, when developed, will add much
to the state’s wealth.
Copies may be obtained for the
price of the postage, 17 cents.
Georgia News in Paragraphs.
The state agricultural department,
through Pure Food Inspector P. A.
Methvin, issued an order condemning
12,600 bushels of corn at Macon
which was being offered for sale in
violation of the pure food law. Ten
thousand bushels of the corn were
condemned because it can only be
sold when branded “damaged corn for
hog feed only,” and the remaining 2,-
500 bushels were condemned under
the section of the pure food law whici
requires that the purchaser be noti
filed in writing of the nature and ex
tent of the damage. Notice was also
served by the agricultural department
prohibiting the sale of 185 bushels of
bleached flour which was bemg of
fered for sale in this state. The
names of the owners of the corn and
“he fiour were withheld by the de
partment,
" GEORGIA NEWS NOTES,
" +The Central of (Georgia returned its
%fi%penty for taxes on the 1909 ac
count. Its rolling stock, equipment,
realvestate and buildings and supplies
re valued at $17,982,837. The Ocean
Steamship company properties are
g;alued at $2,5612,213.98. The company
Jreturns under provest approximately
1,700,000 bonds of the Western Rail
{way of Alabama and the Western
iCarolina. As cash on hand the com
pany returns $700,885.54. The net
jearnings of the company since the
fast returns are put at $3,354,693.90.
‘The total income :s $3,374,020.39.
. During the past year of 1909-1910
‘the State Normal has made a great
‘record and has surpassed all previous
‘years both in point of attendance,
which has has reached the six hun
‘dred and thirty-eight mark already,
‘but in the progress made by the stu
‘dents. President Branson and his ef
éflclent carps of assistants have done
‘wonderful works and tae total enroll
‘ment of the school, including Musco
‘gee Practice school is eight hundred
.and fourteen. But the point that
tells, from the position of the im
‘mense educational value of the State
Normal, is the fact that there were
one hundred and seventy-one applica
‘tlons of students refused during the
year on account of the lack of dormi
tory room to accommodate the seek
~ers after education,
| If. Georgia has any land lying
| around loose and unoccupied ~ which
Bhe would like to tender to Uncle
'Sam as a ground for military encamp
ments and maneuvers, the war de
| partment would like to have it. A
bill by Representative Byrns of Ten
| nessee authorizing the war depart
- ment to accept such grants of land
| for the purpose named, passed the
L house. The bill was drawn after
| conference with army officers. It
| seems to be the idea of the depart
| ment to secure land presenting varied
jogra.phical features so that the
bregulars and the militia may have
L wider experience in the fighting game.
| Hence, cites in different locations are
f desired. The only Georgia site now
avallable is that at Chickamauga,
- Ga.
. The railroad comgmission's inspec
(tor of car wheels, M. C. Kollock,
' has made the rather startling state
‘ment that practically all trains run
| ning in the state have wheels with
’@ or less cracked or broken
Spokes. Mr. Kollock did not think
that the wheels were on that account
unsafe. There was no danger of their
| breaking, he said, so long as the 2 1-2-
dmch steel rim which bound the
yqr‘-fiot Fulton county is to be taken
as an index to the general attitude,
‘.the people of Georgia are not inclined
’ to pay much attention to the dog tax,
which was passed after a hot debate
~at the last session of the general as
sembly. He states that the city dog
owners are returning their pets, to a
‘fah'ly satisfactory extent, but the
‘man from the country who does it is
an exception, and a rare one at that.
The Fulton county farmers have it
flgured out very logically that there
isn’t much chance to collect the dog
tax. If it is not paid, they argue,
there is nothing to do but levy, and
such a small levy would be more
trouble than it is worth. If their un
taxed dogs are killed, the state will
derive no benefit, and if they are im
pounded the state will have to feed
them.
What the state of Georgia loses
through failure to utilize the hereto
fore discredited cornstalk represents
an amount sufficient to feed the cat
tle “on a thousand hills” according to
Governor Joseph M. Brown. Tae gov
ernor in a recent lecture with
‘Waste” as his subject, proceeded to
show with convincing clearness and
considerable directness that the corn
stalk is a valuable item of feed stuff
for cattle and should not be discard
ed. “One acre of corn will producs
a ton and a half of cornstalks,” said
the governor, ‘“and when this ton and
a half of cornstalis is shredded it
will provide sufficient feed stuff to
support several head of cattle for a
considerable period. The state of
Georgia nhas several million acres of
land planted annually in corn and it
is amazing to think of the amount of
feed stuft that goes to waste each
year through failure to utilize the
cornstalk. In some places cognizance
is being taken of its value and when
the people generally realize it the
cattle industry in Georgia will receive
a boost of no small proportion,” i
Judge J. W. Maddox made a very |
important decision when he igsued a 8
permanent injunction prohibiting thei
county board of education of Polk
county from paying over any of the |
county school funds to the Pledmont '
institute. This institute is a school |
under the auspices of the Methodist
church and for twenty years or more,
it has been receiving, in its primary |
grades, pay from the county board of |
education for children of school age.
The decision was on the ground that
it i 8 unconstitutional to divert public |
Bchool funds to retigious institutions.
This decision will in all probability |
affect a number of other institutions
of the same character throughout the |
gtate, |
The department of education is |
now preparing to sénd out checks for
another ten per cent paymient of tne
1910 appropriation to the common
schools of the state. This will make
twenty per cent on the account of
1910, that has been paid up to te |
present. There will probably be |
other small payment of pozsibly five
or ten per cent made this spring.
There will then have to be a long
wait by the scaools until the middle
of: December, when the fall taxes
come in, before another payment can
be made;
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
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?
THE ‘
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FOLKSTON
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The Origin of Gol »”
g Arthur B. Reeve
NE of the foremost of the games which we have adopted is
the royal and ancient game of goff, gouff, gowff—the last
0 the genuine old pronunciation—or golt, which, curl
ing expected, is the game most peculiar to Scotland, as
T characteristic as baseball in American or cricket in Eng
) ( land. The word was derived from the Dutch kolf, a club,
but the game i not of Dutch origin, though in early days
golf balls were imported from Holland and perhaps the
name came with them.
The date of the origin of golf, even approximately, like that of most
sports, is unknown, Tradition has it that the game originated with the
Scotch shepherds knocking a ball about the heath with their crooks, But
among the Romans a game called paganica was played with a ball stuffed
with feathers, As early golf balls were made in the same way n Scotland it
has been surmised that the Roman game was perhaps a forerunner. An early
name in England was bandy-ball and in old prints reproduced by Strutt in his
“Sports and Pastimes” the club, some four and a half feet long, had a curva
ture much like a crook. Later, the heads of the golf sticks were aflixed to ash
shafts and were faced with horn and backed with lead.
Golf in the early days was a highly democratic game—laird and cobbler
were competitors; everyone played, ever the women, The links were the
common land along the secashore. The prizes were simple—a golf elub or a
dozen balls, and only later the more elaborate medal and cup. Even the
great national prize was a silver stick which never became the property ot
the winner.—Outing Magazine, ’
(St~ Yy N prrpremnint ST
Joys of Uncooked Food ?
R T
i By Grace Aspinwall %
O the uninitiated it sounds brutal—raw food! The first ques:
tion they ask is, *How can you eat raw meat?” But the un
' cooked food devotees eat no flesh; l'hcy find their health is
vastly better without it, and so they live on all manner ot
e uncooked things that are really marvelously ‘tempting, ‘Lhe
raw food people never have colds, fevers, stomach trouble,
‘ torpid livers, nervousness or a lot of common, everyday ail
——— ments that the out-of-date, ordinary cooked food eater has.
The amount that a raw fooder eats at a meal is small.
He is quickly filled. The reason is that the stomach seems to know when it
has had enough of the elemental things from whch it draws its strength, and
telegraphs the fact to the taste, and the eater finds himself satisfied, On the
other hand with cooked food he goes on eating and eating, and the stomach
delays its message, as it has to receive a vast bulk of stuff, largely waste mat
ter, hecause of the life being cooked out of the food by fire, Y
Raw onions are estecmed highly as a cleanser of the system as well as
a fortifier in other ways, and the onion is blended into things so subtly that
one does not detect its flavor. For example, a dish is made from the soft in
gide part of figs, grated raw onion, olive oil and grated nuts, in the proportion
of five parts fig, one part onlon, two partg olive oil, one part grated Brazil or
proteid nuts and one part lemon juice. The ingredients are carefully blended
and the taste of the onion is not detected, The flavor of the dish is delivious.
The raw fooder dotes on raw vegetables, and one of his favorite ways of
Aeeghring them is in the form of salads.—Good Housekeeping,
Bsl.oo A YEAR,