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CHARLTON”COUNTY HERALD.
VOLUME XII.
Taft Regrets Acrimonious Criti
cism i House Debate. |
APPRECIATES SOUTH'S RECEPTIONS
President Daplores Reflection on the South.
Augusta, Ga., Otfers to Make Up
the Deficiency. j
Washington, D. C.—ln a letter to
Chairman Tawney of the appropria
tion committee, which he made pub
lic, and in conversation with Con-§
gressman Bartlett, President Taft re
pudiated the refiection upon southern
hospitality, which cropped out in the}
nhouse debate over the president’s |
traveling expenses. Among other
things he says in his letter to Mr.
Tawney: “The teature of the discus
sion which was especially distressing
O me was a suggested retlection on
southern hospitauty. The intimation
that somewhere in the south board
was charged has no foundation in tact
and I never Leard it intimated until
I read the morning paper. In all my
experience, and | have enjoyed the
hospitality of many sections aud
countries of the world, I have never
had a more cordial, generous, open
and lavish weicome than 1 had in the
southern states during my trip, and
the slightest nint that puts me in the
attitude of a critic of taat hospitality
glves me pain.”
Congressmen Bartlett and Hara-
Wick were the central figures in the
heated debate in the house, which
drew from the president his letter to
Mr. Tawney. Tawney named Hard
wick and Bartlett as two democrats
who ‘had accepted the presidents
hospitality on nis southern trip,” and
who are now opposing an appropria
tion for his traveling expenses. Tae
assertion got a rise out of the Geor
gians, both of whom stated that they
paid their railroad fare while aboard
the president’'s special train.
Because the president exceeded his
traveling expense allowance of $25,000
voied by congress for the present
fiscal year, and the committee on ap
propriations sought to meet the ae
ficiency by making the appropriation
for next year “immediately avail-
Aable,” tae house was thrown into live
%*«féb'ate;; Chidirman Tawney offend
ed several democrats by suggesting
that the president had made his ex
tended western and southern trip
largely upon the urgent solicitation of
democrats of the house, whom Mr.
Tawney dencunced for opposing the
effort to provide an immediate fund.
This statement called forth angry
retorts from Representatives Bartlett
and Hardwick of Georgia and others
who criticised the white house for
furnishing to the chairman of the ap
propriation committee the names of
democrats who had figured in the
president’s trip.
Augusta, Ga.—At one of the larg
est and most enthusiastic meetings
ever held at the chamber of commerce
here, the pecple of Augusta, through
a joint meeting of their trades bodies,
made an offer to congress to pay the
$5,000 deficit in the traveling ex
penses of the president.
The meeting at the same time ex
pressed their humiliation and indig
nation that congressmen from the
south should have taken the position
of preventing the government from
paying this expense or permitting the
arrangement, as attempted in con
gress, holding that the interposition
of technical objections was small
business and not representative of
the true spirit of the new or the old
south. :
Shortly after the adjournment a tel
egram was received from Atlanta in
which the Atlanta Constitution made
the offer to pay SI,OOO of the $5,000
which Augusta has undertaken to
pay.
Washington, D. C.—The telegram
from the commercial bodies of Au
gusta, Ga., expressing indignation and
mortification at the action of demo
cratic members of congress in refus
ing to vote the president $25,000, for
traveling expenses to be immediately
available and offering $5,000 to cover
a deficit on Mr. Taft’s recent trans
continental trip, created no end of
gossip among members of the house.
The public-spirited offer of the
Georgia city which has entertained
President Taft was heartily approve:
The president expressed his deep
gratification at the cordial spirit
shown n the communications.
Of course President Taft has no
way of accepting the generous offer
of the Augusta people. His intention
is to pay out of his own pocket his
traveling expenses for the remainder
of the present fiscal year.
CLAIMS ENGLISH THRONE.
Brooklyn Man Says He is Rightful
Heir to English Throne.
New York City.—John R. De
Guelph of Brooklyn, who claims to be
a son of the late Edward VII of Eng
land, sent a message to both houses
of parliament, demanding the Britis.
crown.
After expressing sorrow at the
death of the king, the writer says tahat
he, John George Edward Rex of Grea:
Britain and Ireland, “the legitimate
and lawful issue of the marriage of
his late Majesty King Edward VII anc
the first princess consort was unjust.
ly and unlawfully deprived of his
birthright as the first born son of the
rigatful sovereign.”
NUMBER 52
ROCKEFELLER’S CRUSADE.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Finds the Purging of
New York City a Big Job.
New York City.—The Rockefeller
family is used to big undertakings, but
the task of purging New York city,
which young Mr. jonn D. Rocxefeuter,
Jr., has taken upon himself, is one
which has taxed and discouraged re
formers of great variety for many
years.
The results of Mr. Rockefeller’s
efforts so tar are:
Belle Moore, a white slave dealer,
is in jail awaiting sentence.
Two others, charged with being
white slave dealers, are under indict
ment,
Six Raines law hotels of shady rep
utations in the tenderloin have fallen
under police ban and Mayor Gaynor
will ask that their licenses be re
voked.
And Mr. Rockefeller declares that
he has not yet begun to fight. Already
his expenditures are said to be above
$30,000 in his crusade against vice in
New York: With the practical mind
of a trained business man he has
gone after crime with businesslike
metaods. Setting aside a sum of $50,-
000, which will be replaced with u:
other $50,000 and many other sums of
the same size if needed, he employed
private agents to investigate and re
port everything found to District At
torney ‘Whitman. Then Mr. Rocke
feller called npon the district attor
ney in person and followed this up
he told bota officials that he was anx
ious, as a good citizen, to use his
wealth and influence to stamp out the
vice which has been shown to exist
here,
Mr. Rockefeller was so horrified
with the revelations made before the
special grand jury, of which he was
foreman, that he is determined to
consummate his aims. Being a very
earnest young man with a square jaw
and plenty of money, he is making it
hotter now for the tenderloin dwellers
than any other crusader who ever at
tempted to.purge New York.
Mr. Rockefeller is reticent about
the work he is doing. He will not
even admit that he is trying to reform
New York by whiping out the stains
of the vicious hotels and white clay
ery.
“I am doing just what every goou
citizen ought to do, and if I happen
to have money that is good fortune,
for it means I can do more work with
it,” says the scion of the house of
Rockefeller and tae son of the world’s
richest man. 2
Fred Carpenter Resigns.
Washington, D. C.—Fred W. Car
resigned his . ec ;
o the Dresident, ans Fresidsnt Tatt
sent his name to the senate for ap
pointment as ministers to Morocco. It
was announced at the white that the
change was made at Mr. Carpenter’s
request, because of the condition of
his health. The diplomatic position to
which he succeeds carries a salary of
SIO,OOO. .
SR gt N e
Automobile Accidents. :
Washington, Pa.—ln trying to drive
the eighteen miles from Marianna to
Washington in thirty minutes’ time, a
party of three men in an automobile
was wrecked, two being instantly kill
ed and the other fatally hurt.
Ravenna, Ohio.—Mr, and Mrs. Sam
uel Barr, both 65 years old, were in
stantly killed when their automobile
was struck by an express train.
Lebanon, Pa.—Mrs. Mary Kyle, the
motaer of Dr. Christian B. ‘Kyle, of
Philadelphia, died in a hospital here,
as the result of an automobile acci
dent. The automobile, which carried
Mrs. Kyle, Dr. Kyle, his sister and a
nephew, was in charge of Dr. Kyle
when the steering gear broke and the
machine dashed into a tree,
Jealous Husband Shot Priest.
St. Paul, Minn.—p, 7. Gibbons, a
live stock commission man of South
St. Paul, shot and killed his wife at
their home in that suburb. A few
minutes later Gibbons rang the door
bell at the residence of Father E. &
Walsh, the young pastor of St. Au
gustine’s Roman Catholic Church, and
as the door was opened Gibbons fired
two shots into the priest’s head, kill
ing him almost instantly, At the jail
Gibbons said that his wife had made
a confession in which the name of
Father Walsh was mentioned.
Rome Visited by $40,000 Fire.
Rome, . Ga.—Fire broke out in/a
building situated in the business cen
ter of the city and burned fiercely
for two hours, four storehouses be.
ing destroyed. The loss is estimated
at approimately $40,000.
Newsy Paragraphs.
Medical Examiner Elson of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin has started a
new educational discussion by assert
ing that the fifty students at that col
lege brought before the faculty for
having cheated in examinations were
below the normal standard in height,
weight, girth of head and otherwise
as compared with eight hundred of
their fellow-students,
The Standard Oil Company is the
latest large corporation to join the
higher-wage procession. The report
comes from its New York headquar
ters that all employes receiving less
than S3OO a month, and this means
about sixty thousand workers, wil
get an increase of from 9 to 10 per
cent,
In the University of Wisconsin g
partial answer to the question, do
co-eds marry? has been given in the
form of statistics covering tae period
from 1876 to 1900. Of the six hundred
and seventy-five women graduates,
three hundred and forty-nine married,
and of those three hundred and forty
nine, one hundred and forty-four mar
ried men graduates of the same uni
versity.
FOLKSTON, GA., JUNE 2, 1910,
GEORGIA'SCOTTONCROP
Small Damage to Cottcn by the
- Recent Variable Weather
Portions of Cotton Acreage Damaged By Cold
Have Been Replanted in Corn and Peas.
Crop Will Be Late.
Atlanta, Ga.—Carefully compiled re
borts from all over Georgia show con
clusively that the state's cotton crop
has not been materially injured by
the unusually variable weather expe
rienced during the months of April
and May, and that it any permanent
damage was done at all it did not
amount to over 10 or 15 per cent of
the planted crop. 2
“Any estimate of tue cotton crop at
the present is purely guess work,
based on what appears to be true
conditions,” said Capt. R. F. Wright,
assistant commissioner of agriculture.
“However, I am convinced, from all
reports received up to the present,
that the cold weather and the exces
sive rainfall which has prevailed dur
ing the early spring will curtail the
acreage from 10 to 15 per cent, * -
“Portions of the crop which was in
jured by the cold and the wet weather
nave been replanted in corn and peas,
and I would estimate that at least 10
per cent of the crop has been so re
planted.
“The amount of cotton raised this
year, however, depends largely upon
the stand. I believe the stand this
year will show from 10 to 15 per cent
below the average. The cotton crop
in middle Georgia is being blocked
and cut to a stand, and while the con
ditions at present are unpromising,
it is very probable that great improve
ment will be shown if the hot weather
continues.
“In South Georgia there has not
been so much rain, and the prospects
for a full crop are good. At best, the
cold and wet weather has delayeq
the cotton crop at least fifteen days,
and that means the crop will be cur
tailed to some extent as it is very
true that a late crop never does as
well as an early crop.
“The cotton acreage originally plan
ted this year was just about as large
as it was last year, but I believe the
acreage has been decreased at lgafi,
10..pexr. cent, by . unfavorable weathe
conditions. Whether or not favorable
weather and good stands will remedy
that deficit is notaing but conjecture.”
Ed Inman of the cotton brokerage
firm -of Iman, Akers & Inman, ex
pressed the opinion that no damage
was done the cotton crop by the cold
weather.
“Unquestionably the crop will be a
little late,” said Mr. Inman, “but |
do not believe it has suffered any ap
preciable damage by cold and wet
weather. Aided by favorable weather
conditions, the cotton crop that is in
the ground now should produce 2,500,
000 bales, which will be an increase
over last year’s crop, when sometaing
like 2,128,000 bales were produced.”
Like Captain Wright, Mr. Inman
predicated his estimate of the crop
upon a continuance of the favorabie
wedther conditions, and declared that
his estimate of the crop is based
solely upon what appears to be the
conditions and not upon any - actual
facts or figures.
MUCH COTTON UNSOLD.
Sumter County Not Cleaned Up as
Reported.
Americus, Ga.—ln the Americus dis
trict it is said that there are still
about two thousand bales of cotton
unsold.
Speaking of cotton affairs genernj
ly, a party well acquainted with the
status of things taroughout this terr:
tory, stated that his figures showed
stlil in the neighborhood of two thou
sand bales to be disposed of and ship
ped out. :
“There are, I am advised, seven hun
dred bales at Richland,” said he, “and
five hundred at Buena Vista. Over at
Plains there are 200 and 100 at Ella
ville. This makes 1,500 bales. Then
there are a few hundred others scat
tered around.”
When this cotton will be sold and
sent off for consumption it is hard to
say. It has only been a short time
since the stock at Americus was clean
ed up. Any day may bring news that
any one of the other points has seen
its holdings taken,
Some holders of cotton still anticl
pate a rise sufficient to offset the loss
incurred by carrying so long and leave
a margin of additional profit. But
there are not absent those who do
not think anytaing will be gained by
the holding policy.
49 Injured in April Wrecks.
Atlanta, Ga.—According to reports
received by the railroad commission
from 16 railroads in the state, there
were 49 passengers injured in tnis
state during the month of April. No
passengers were killed,
The reports show there were 67
employees injured and four killed.
There were eight collisions and 2v
derailments,
The reports received by the com
mission are in pursuance of an order
recently issued which requires all ra
road lines in this state to submit
monthly reports of accidents, The
railroads agreed to submit the re
ports with the understanding that the
details were to be withheld from the
public, the objection being that the
facts might he used against them in
damage suits:
~ PROGRESS OF UNION CITY.
loton Telephone System Installed---Members
-+ Can Reach Officials By Long
FER Distance Telephone.
. Atlanta, Ga.—Union City, the head
quarters of the Farmers’ union, is now
equipped with a wmodern telephone
exgéhange and the officers of the union
gan now communicate by long dis
tance telephone with officials and
members in all sections of the south.
* The telephone plant in Union City
1&# minature of the modern exchang
3, operated by the Southern Bell
Tefephone company in large cities.
The exchange was opened last week
and was quite an event, removing, as
it goes, the isolation surrounding this
enterprising community.
- The enterprise of Union City is in
g ® with the activity of its members
thteughout the south. More than
ong thousand telephones are installed
in the homes of farmers in the south
e‘;%ry month. Each of these tele
phenes is a long distance station so
that farmers may communicate, by
telephone, with Union City or any
othier point, without leaving their
hoines.
gfixe telephone development among
farmers is one of the interesting
events in the evolution of country life
in the south. The farmer is rapidly
placing himself on the same basis
with the business men in 'the city.
Tk:e contributing agencies which are
tutning the trade from the city back
to ithe farm are the telephones, good
roads and rural mail. The encour
ageément which the enterprise of
Ultiion City gives to the farmer means
inereased activity in this great move-
P
. LATE NEWS NOTES.
. Dispatches from Russia indicate
that another attack on the Jews is
impending. The czar's officers at.
Kiev, who have been ifivestigating
-the status of the Jews in that city,
lave decided that one hundred and
seventy families and possibly two
hundred will be allowed to remain
there. The others will be expelled at
once by Russian troops and will be
driven, in destitution, to other Rus
sian cities, which will probably be
'dlfied to them.
_ Randolph county, North Carolina,
boasts of a family which for length
of life is said to surpass any other
f;fip;fly in the world. To W. M. Low
dermilk and Youthy Cole, who were
married in the early part of the nine
.’; inth c¢entury, were born sixteen
‘ghildren. One died in infancy, two in
‘young womanhood and thirteen reach
‘years, as follows: Stephen, 78; Allie,
80; Annie, 79; Adeline, 70; Reuben,
72; llsrael, 72; Wincy, 81; Emsley,
905 Kisey, 88; Alfred, 85; Ransom,
84; Z. H., 71, and Malvina, 67.
By'the latest count, sixty-nine Amer-,
ican Ccities have adopted or voted to
adopt the Galveston or Des Moines
form of government by commission.
The movement is progressing so rap
idly that any enumeration is likely to
become obsolete as soon almost as it
is- made. Twelve states have enacted
permissive laws enabling municipal
ities of certainnn classes to vote on
the question of making the experi
ment.
The new syllabus for New York
state schools proposes to cut off two
vears of the grammar school work
and put pupils so much earlier in the
high schools. This would mean the
completion of the grammar course in
six years, and efitrance in the high
school at about twelve years of age.
One of the objects of the change is
to give more time to vocational train
ing. « The shortening of the course
will be optional, at least for the pres
ent.
Washington News.
One vote was lacking to make the
necessary two-thirds in the house for
the adoption of the IHenry resolution
to fix the date of presidential inaug
urations on the last Thursday in
April.
As the result of a decision announc
ed by Secretary Dickerson, there will
be a substantial increase in the corps
of cadets at the West Point military
academy. The decision in substance
is, that after March 2 next year ca
dets will be admitted to the acad
emy as successors not only of the
class graduating in 1911, but also of
the 1912 class, making a total in
crease of eighty-eight original ap
pointments, over the usual number of
admigsions,
The aggregate number of 32,936,445
communicants or members of all re.
ligious denominations in continental
United States was reported for 1906,
according to the Unite”mtes cen
sus of religious bodies for the game
year, as detailed in part I of the Unit
ed States census bureau’s special re
port on the subject, now in press. Of
this grand total the various Protes
tant bodies reported 20,287,742 and
the Roman Catholic Church, 12,679,
142,
Mrs. Taft made her first public ap
pearance since she was taken ill about
a year ago at one of the sessionns
of the world’s Sunday School asso
ciation, whither she accompanied the
president. Mr. Taft introduced her
as the real president of the United
States. After the president had fin
ished als speech, Rev, Dr, F. B. Mey
er, who was in the chair, mentioned
Mrs. Taft’s presence, whereupon the
nation’s chief executive took her by
the hand and led her up into the
speaker’s stand. Loud applause greet.
ed her appearance. Except for an
occasiona' visit to the theaters and
one or two gatherings at which only
her intimate friends were present,
Mrs., Taft has not been seen in pub
lic for a twelvemonth,
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
wf} g
g The “old Masters”
Y AALU L T DR
% Iy Paul Be Longpre
i““’... N the last fifty years several hundred millions of dollars
z ! nave been spent for thousands of ugly, smoky, cracked old
& masters (most of them spurious).
[ § Is there any real beauty (outside of a limited number)
§ in the thousands of go-called old masters to be found in the
000000005 United States? Most assurcdly not! The majority of them
2 represent commonplace, wooden, stupid subjects, ?’ull of
80000“00; faults of drawing, with the dead coloring of mummies.
If the real old masters could only see the many «"111'001‘
ties sold under their names! If they could see the numberless factories In
America and in Kurope where old masters are painted by the gross!
Ohb, rich art-lovers, read those few lines about the great Millet's sad
life. Time after time his first masterpieces were rejected by the jury of the
Paris salon. In order to keep his wife and children from starvation he would
accept any offer and paint signs for the smallest sums. So late as 1848
a friend, learning of his plight, raised S2O for him from the Minister of Kine
Arts, At that time all Parls was talking of hig paintings. And those same
paintings, which commana now fabulous prices, nobody would buy.
Instead of enriching dealers of old fake paintings, why do not our rich
art patrons extend a helping hand to needy geniusges?
And does the study of the old masters (with few exceptisns) help the
youngest artist? It is very doubtful, To study from most of them is simply
starting those young artists on the wrong road. Copying uninteresting subjects,
color-faded and faulty in drawing, will never breed enthusiasm, and no en
thusiasm in art means very little progress.
Without exaggeration it can be said that for one genuine old master in
the United States there'are now a hundred spurious ones,
Does not that fit admirably the words of Barnum, “The Americans like
to be humbugged”?
Men Are Not Born Equal
g o
i By James R. Day, ;
Chanczllor of Syracuse University. *
deedededoleteleobop LI this antltrust talk and anti-corporation legislation 18 due
____.:..:.z% largely to certain false principles and entirely wrong con
% ceptions. I cannot see why, if a farmer in New Jersey is
% bermiited to buy up several adjoining farms and consolidate
them under one management for economical operation and
increase in produetive capacity, Mr. Morgan cannot have
et the privilege of consolidating twenty companies for the
qu.& same purpose. The principle that each man must have
an equal chance with every other man is very beautitul and
entertaining, but it is brimful of fallacies, We were not bokn equal and never
will be equal. You can’'t make a big corporation little and a little corporation
big by legislation. lam not able to understand why men who have taken
hold of the corporate interests should be considered enemies of the country, I
believe that the men wio developed the industrial sources of this country
are public benefactors, even though they get a little profit for themselves.
There is no justice in a corporation being taxed, and a business partnership
that stands beside it ond does as much business not being taxed.—Les
lie's Weekly.
SI.OO A YEAR