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DRINK DRAGS WOMEN
DOWILOW,
Dreadful Orgies of Mothers Void of
Maternal Instincts—Money for
a Child’s Burial Goes Into
Gin—Danced on Her
Child’s Coffin.
London. August I.—" Poverty produces
the casual dock laborer and relegates
him to these districts, but ft is the demon
of drink that keeps him here.”
With these words the head master of a
large board school in the neighborhood
of the docks opened a story of the effects
of alcoholism in these parts.
"It la in tlie dock districts that one sees
the fearful legacy that beer drinking
fathers and gin soaking mothers bequeath
to their offspring,” he said to an Ex
press representative. "It Is now dinner
time, when the children should be at
home for their midday meal. Let us look
Into the gars of the four gin shops In this
street.
In these places we counted tMrty-eig’nt
women and twelve children—mere Infants.
Some wore crawling on the floor, others
lying on their mothers’ knees and some
were being regaled with gin and water.
There was not a man present in one of
the bars where the women congregated.
It was a race day. A big race was to
be run In an hour or so. In ten minutes
as many women were seen to leave the
pawnbroker’s shop close by. Two of them
on their way to their favorite public
house stopped to do business with a street
bookmaker, possibly hi the hope of get
ting back enough money to redeem goods
they had pledged.
“It is In the faces and bodies of the
children that the real horror of this drink
ing curse is seen,” the schoolmaster said.
"Drink and Its attendant neglect are the
causes of nearly ail the wretchedness and
vice, ere the sins of the parents are
visited with no uncertainty upon the chil-
"Look at those poor little fellows! Were
they born of healthy parents?” and he
pointed out children whose wizened, old
looking faces told their own tale. Some
of them have been in this class—the low
est—for years. They have not the slight
est conception of the difference betwee
right and wrong. Their vocabuiary is a--
most wholly confined to blasphemous and
filthy language.
Epidemic’s Opportunity.
“Their staple food? Well, bread and
margarine. A hundred of them, 1 dare
say are dinnerless. Their mothers are
spending dinner money in the gin shop.
Do you wonder at the headway epidemics
make when they break out among such
children? The marvel to me is that the
sanitary authority ever stamps the. visita
lions out.
‘The ‘misery drinkers/ as Ihe Kxpress
so well describe them, have no morality
and no sense of deecney. During the
smallpox epidemic a mother took her
baby, which was then covered with spots,
to a public house, where she sought ad
vice as to the child’s ailment from her
cronies who regularly assemble in the
bar in the afternoons.
“You may probably have heard of the
subscription list. Well, here is a case
which came under my own observation.
A child of a gin soaker was run over and
killed. u'i>e collecting card was sent,
round for funeral expenaes kf . n
■ me money was spent in a arunion
bout, in win ii the mother and her te
n ale collectors took tlie leading parts.
The' card was sent round next time to
t.ay the doctor. This time a most hor
rible drunken orgy followed, when the
wretched ere iture who had brought the
child into the world actually danced
upon and broke the lid of the cotlin.
■This week I have stripped four boys
and burnt their clothes because of their
tllthy state. They were rigged out with
■ new one? When we give a child a pair
ol boots we st imp them with eyelets m
the Uppers. Every pawnbroker knows
the boots then.
■These drunken mothers come up to tne
school and charge their children with
truanev. AU the time the little fellows
have been kept Mt home to mind the
others while the mother goes drinking.
Maternal Instinct Dead.
"A few’ weeks ago a woman smelling
strongly of drink, and accompanied by
another In the same condition, came up
to know if her boy had been to school.
He had not. Iler language was harrible.
*1 pray to God,’ she said, that he may
be brought home a corpse tonight. Ihe
maternal instinct seems dead. I doubt
ts In the case of the gin-soakers it ever
■ had any life.
"Nurses from nursing homes give de
voted service here.
“Tho dreadful ravages upon the health
and moral tone of the people, caused by
drink, make one shudder. Here comes a
nurse fresh from visiting a school where
ehe has been attending to and dressing
the wounds of children whose mothers
will not take the trouble to see that their
little ones are washed, and whose ills
are mainly’ caused by dirt.
"It seems incredible, but it Is a fact
that these mothers will not take the
(lightest trouble to tend these poor little
mites, and some will not even allow the
nurse to see them. Children, too. have
been crippled for life through the neglect
of drunken mothers.
"In on? case, recently, a boy who had
been in a hospital was given three new
shirts. Two days afterwards he came
to school without one to his back. In
quiries showed that the shirts had been
Id, and the. money spent In drink.
“What can be done?’ Take all chil
dren of drunken mothers away, and
bring them up away from the vice which
they see every day. Save the children!
The mothers are past redemption!”
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Painless home cure guaranteed. Free
trial. Dr. Tucker, Atlanta, Ga.
HUMBERTS ARE ON TRIAL
Paris, August B—The notorious Humbert
family today faced a judge and jury to
meet the charge of having perpetrated
what former Premier Waideck-Rosseau
described as "the greatest swindle of the
century.” Investigating Magistrate Ley
det in May decided to commit Therese
Humbert, her husband, Frederic, and her
brothers, Romain and Emile D’Aurignac,
for trial on the charges of forgery, the
use of forged documents and swindling.
Jie dismissed the cases against Eve Hum
bert (Therese's daughter) and Marie
c'Aurignac (her sister).
Public curiosity which has followed
the fortunes of the family since the days
of Its social brilliance is again intensely
■wrought up, the chief interest centering
In "La Grande Therese,” who has prom
ised to produce at this trial the mysteri
ous American millionaires, the brothers
Crawford, on whom she based hl*r story
of an inheritance of $20,000,000, which she
put forward as the security lor the loans
the obtained, amounting to about $lO,-
t»oo, 000.
At the afternoon session, while Judge
J3onnet was critically reviewing the story
of the Crawford inheritance, Mme. Hum
bert complained of being suddenly taken
with a violent Illness. The judge, how
ever, insisted on proceeding witii me case,
intimating his belief that her sickness
was feigned, lie men went into the de
tails of the alleged Crawford operations
end their fleeting residence at New York,
■whereupon Mme. Humbert revived suffi
ciently to exclaim:
"I will prove everything. I will show
my good faith, but not today. Not while
I am sick.”
Judge Bonnet asked if any one ever
saw the bonds she claimed to have de
posited within the famous safe, and Mme.
Therese replied:
"Yes, mapy persons saw and actually
counted them. I tell you. the fortune
exists. I am an honest wotpan. I de
clare Jt.”
She also asserted that a notary named
Dumort, at Rouen, had seen one of the
Crawford brothers. When the judge
sought to check the outbreak of skep
tical laughter on the part of the specta
tors, Maltre Labor! sqjd:
"This is a good sign, for when 'ho
court laughs the casq not a serious
one.”
BLACKS CRY TO ROOSEVELT
TO THROTTLE JUDGE LYNCH
New York. August 6.—Resolutions de
ploring the increase of lynchings through
out the country and the existence of
peonage in the and calling upon
President Roosevelt to influence congress
to remedy these evils were adopted at a
mass meeting of colored citizens held
under the direction of the Colored Lite
vary Ix*ague of Greater New York to
night. The resolutions signed by the
members of the league and others will
be forwarded to the president.
After indorsing the administration of
President Roosevelt the resolutions con
tinue:
"Believing, as we do, that the time
lias come when something should be
done for the protection of our American
citizens from the atrocious evils of mon
disfranchisement and peonage
which was born in the south and was
inflicted upon negroes only, but is now
becoming epidemic, showing its deformed
face beyond the Mason and Dixon lili.’,
disseminating its contagion among Amer
ican citizens, white and blacks, men and
women, therefore, the subscribers, to
gether with a large number of our com
mon people of Greater New York, in
mass meeting assembled, do petition his
excellency, the president of the United
States, that he may use his official in
fluence with tlie congress of the Unit'd
States, to execute so much of the su
preme law as it may find necessary to
eradicate our national evils and to
ameliorate race prejudices, or to enact
such further laws, as may have the effect
of bringing about a better state of
affairs in our civic life.”
Among the speakers at tho meeting
were George A. Allen, president of the
league; James 11. Hayes, of Richmond,
Va.; Rev. W. 11. Brooks, of New York,
and Rev. Granville Hunt, of Mount Ver
non, N. Y. Hayes declared that to make
himself felt and to get his wrongs re
dressed the negro must use his vote in
the northern states, where, he said, eol
ored votes represent the balance of pow
e> for which politicians are seeking.
Speaking of the disfranchisement of
negroes in the south, ho said that if this
deprivation goes on, "conditions in Vir
ginia will be repeated in New York.”
TWO BULLETS FIRED
AT PREMIER COMBES
Marseille.’, August 9.—As Premier
Combes was returning this afternoon to
the prefecture from a banquet given by
the Friendly Society of Teachers, at
which M. Pelletan, minister of marine,
and Henri Brisson, deputy for Marseilles,
and a number of senators and deputies
were present, two pistol shots were tired
at the carriage in which he was riding.
The premier was untouched, and none
of those accompanying him was hurt.
The attempt upon the life of tlie pres
ident of the ministry caused great ex
citement, and tlie crowd pointed out to
the police the author of the attempt, a
man dressed in fisherman's clothes. His
companion drew a knife, but the police
quickly disarmed him. Tlie police had
much difficulty in protecting the man
who had tired the shot fron the crowd.
He struggled desperately, but was soon
overcome, handcuffed and taken to the
prefecture, where M. Combes had already
arrived. /he first interrogation of the
prisoner took place in the presence of
the premier.
The man said his name was Sanvalre
Plcolo. lie spoke very bad French with
a strong Italian accent. He denied that
lie had tired tlie shots, but when searched
a revolver was found with two chambers
which had been recently fired. It is
believed that Picolo and his companion,
who effected his escape during the ex
citement. are anarchists The police are
aware of the presence in Marseilles of a
number of other anarchists.
ANOTHER PLOT AT BELGRADE.
Several Servian Officers Have Been
Put Under Arrest.
Vienna, August 6—According to ad
vices received here a number of Servian
officers have been arrested at Belgrade
on account. It is reported, on suspicion
that they were enospiring against the war
minister, General Alanaskovieh, who is
said to have prevented the advancement
of tho participants in the assassination
if King Alexander and Queen Draga.
.—
INDIANA MOB TRIES TO LYNCH.
Sought Life of Man Accused of As
saulting Girls.
Geneva, Ind., August 9—Arthur WJl
llams, aged 35, charged with assaulting
Flossie Barr, aged 14. and Verna Wilson,
aged 13. was captured by a crowd to
day and narrowly escaped lynching. The
jail is very strongly guarded tonight.
The officials have secured all assistqjtct
possible
Luciano Taken Off His Guard.
New Orleans. August 9.—Tony Luciano,
at the head of the Italian faction whose
feud with the Calamia faction has cost
half a dozen lives, was himself murder
ed today. The old fellow, who lost
brother, cousin, wife and child since the
murders started over business rivalry,
was taken off his guard. He became
friendly with an Italian named Sam As
paro, who won his confidence and they
went to a photograph gallery to get some
pictures. On the deserted stairway As
pare emptied his pistol into Luciano and
ran througli the house into a side street,
evidently having planned the affair well.
Citizens saw him running and held him
for the police. He denied nil knowledge
of the affair.
Cut Off Babies’ Heads.
’ Columbia. S. C.. August 9. —(Special.)—
. Lizzie Aiken, a negro woman 40 years
old. was committed to jail todav for be-
1 heading her two daughters. The crime
s was committed in Colleton countv. The
- heads were severed with an ax. then she
■ threw them into a fire. The children
, were 3 and 5 years old
When first arrested, the woman ad-
■ mltted the crime, saying she got a mes
-7 sago from God, through a dog. that she
must sacrifice her children to save tho
world. She has been attending revivals
, recently.
Fiery Shower from Meteor.
» Chickasaw. Ind T., August 9—During a
■ heavy thunderstorm here last night a
- meteor fell in the north part of the city
. with a blaze of light and a shower of
sparks which lit up the entire city and the
country for miles around. The aerolite
3 struck the earth in the back yard of Mrs.
' Sarah Sibley, who was standing in the
j doorway watching the storm. She was
s knocked down and severely stunned, but
soon recovered. A terrific explosion oc
curred as the meteor struck and incan
descent fragments flew In all directions.
The telephone system in the north end of
town was. wrecked.
Tricky Tom Goes the Limit,
Jackson, Ky.. August B.—“ Tricky” Tom
Tharpe who was it witness for the de
‘ sense in tho Curtis Jett trial at Cyn
thiana. went to bls home at Elkatawa.
4 miles from here, today, and set tire
to the house and stoo<j guard over the
blazing building, shooting at all who at
tempted to extinguish the flames. His
aged father received a slight flesh wound.
THE WEEKLY OOKSmVHOHt ATLANTA GA.. MONDAY. AUGUST 10, 1903.
CONDITIONS BAD 111
AUSTRALIA,
In New South Wales, Between 1886
and 1901, the Number of Mar
ried Women Increased 63,-
219—N0 Increase in
Births.
London, August 1. —The Globe prints the
following from Its Sydney correspondent:
“The Australian commonwealth finds
itself confronted by a new problem. Under
the dictation of the labor party, the fed
eral government has adopted a policy In
tended to discourage immigration of ev
ery description, white as well as col
ored, into the federated states; and at
the same time It has to deal with a rap
idly declining birth rate, which, if not
speedily remedied, will result In a largely
decreased population. Recently published
statistics show that the lowest Austra
lian birth rate Is only 3 per 1,000 above
that of France.
"A few years ago It was considerably
higher, but the real decline is shown by
the total number of births in wedlock
compared with the number of women of
child-bearing age. Without going into sta
tistical details, it may be mentioned that
In New South Wales, between 1886 and
1901, tlie number of married women in
creased by 63,219; while the number of
children bern in 1901 was almost the same
as in ISS7.
"Taking the whole of the common
wealth and New Zealand, there are an
nually 20.000 fewer births than there
would have been had the birth rates of
ten years ago been maintained.
"This shows a decline of 200.000 in the
natural Increase of Australian population
during the decade.
Age of Marriage Advancing.
“It has also been ascertained that the
avenage marriage age of Australian wom
en is steadily advancing. In 1881 it is
22 1-2 years; in 1901 it is 24 years. This Is
regarded as an indication of a tendency
to accept with reluctance tlie responsibil
ities of the marriage state; that the Aus
tralian declining birth rate Is due less to
physical incapacity than to Individual un
willingness.
"The New South Wales government
statistician, in connection with those
facts, says: 'There have been very strik
ing changes in tlie (birth) rates for the
periods mentioned and a persistent and
astonishing doeline among women of ev
ery class. It would seem that an increas
ingly large number of women make up
their minds not to have children, or to
delay child-bearing as long as possible.
After each successive confinement an
Increasing proportion of women, still of
child-bearing age, cease to give birth to
any more children, and the extraordinary
condition of things has now come to pass
that the fertility of women who have had
two children is less than that of women
who in 1891 had nine children.
“There is no necessity for going into de
tails. tlie broad facts are sufficient; but
there is one point which lias become
overlooked by all concerned in the in
jury, and that is that the decline in the
Australasian birth rate practically com
menced with the discouragement of over
sea Immigration, which was a means of
systematically Infusing fresh blood into
Australasia.
Many Holidays One Cause.
“The Increasing reluctance, of Austra
lasian women to accept tlie responsibilities
of maternity is traceable to several
causes, one of the principal being the In
creasing love of pleasure.
"The numerous holidays and lessened
hours of labor have strengthened the
popular taste for outdoor amusement, and
weakened tlie feeling in favor of house
hold enjoyment. Then the warm sunny
climate has a somewhat enervating effect
on tlie younger population, which seems
to pass the greater part of its existence
In the open air. All this assists in loosen
ing the ties of domestic life. There Is too
much holiday-making and too little in
dustrial occupation. Yet professional
agitators like Tom Mann talk of the
slavish condition of the Australasian la
boring classes compared with that ol
their English brethren.
“Another difficulty consists in the early
age at which Australasian children be
come emancipated from home control.
Tlie moment a boj and girl can earn a
few shillings per week a start on their
own account is made, followed by an
early marriage, but no children. At holi
day time nothing is more common than
to find young married couples, unencum
bered with families, taking part in excur
sions, picnics, and other forms of al fres
co enjoyment. Where there are families
most of the parents appear of middle age.
Labor Party Is Blamed.
"How will it all end? Here is a country
capable of supporting tlie whole surplus
population of the British isles and of
continental Europe, yet possessing fewer
residents than the British metropolis, and
ever seeking to become encircled by a
wall to exclude the myriads ready to as
sist in tilling the hungry acres and de
velop the teeming mines.
"The great want of the commonwealth
Is population. without which there can
be no material advancement; yet. In the
face of a rapidly declining birth rate, the
federal government, in its fear of the
hostility of the labor party, dare not
open tho door to willing immigrants, even
from tlie mother country. The worst of it
is that the states are powerless In tlie
matter.
"if Queensland wants a few hundred
agricultural laborers she cannot have
them without tho consent of the federal
government. The states, in blindly accept
ing federation without proper safeguards,
have virtually parted with their birth
rights for a mess of pottage. Yet. how
different was everything a few years ago.
"Thon the burthen of the song was in
creasing population, expanding industrial
resources, and rapidly crowing resources:
but then the labor party, with its love
of extravagant public expenditure and
restrictive Industrial legislation, had not’
possession of the reins of power."
TEXAN VISITS GEORGIA.
E C. Green, horticulturist of tho state
of Texas. Is spending his vacation In
Georgia, where he hopes to gain much
Information from the state entomologist
and from the various fruit growers of
the state relative to the treatment of
the various diseases and pests which in
fect Georgia orchards.
Professors Scott and Sowell, state en
tomologists, are just commencing tho
work of the annual inspection of the 125
nurseries of the state, and this work
will give Mr. Green some active and val
uable experience.
IT HAS NO SIGNIFICANCE.
Charleston. S. August B.—(Special.)
W. ft. Chisholm. Manager for the state
of South Carolina of the Virginia-
Carolina Chemical Company, today gave
out a statement in regard to the various
reports that have been set afloat, to the
effect that the mills of the company here
have shut down. Mr. Chisholm said that
owing to the large quantity of manufact
ured fertilizer held by the company that
the shut-down of Its Sharlestown mills
might be more complete than it had been
in former summer months, but he denied
that there was anythink unusual or sig
nificant in the shutdown of the plants.
He said he knew of no reason for the
heavy deqjlnc in the values of the com-
pany’s securities and ihepredicted a rapid
recovery as soon as fall operations were
resumed.
It was commonly reported today that
three of the smaller local plants of the
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company had
not shut down but that they would be
dismantled. It was claimed, however,
by persons connected with the company,
that this action had been contemplated
for a year and that it consequently had
no special significance just at this time.
LANGLEY AIR SHIP ENDS
ITS FLIGHT IN THE RIVER
Winde Water, Va., August B.—A partly
successful experiment with a 15-foot
Langley airship was male this morning
from the house boat in the Potomac
river off this point. The aerodrome
started well In a straight line south with
a velocity of 70 feet per second and
flew for a distance variously estimated
at. from 401 to 600 yards.
Some deflection in the wings soon af
ter the launching caused it to bike a
downward course, which she followed
rapidly ami was impelled Into the water
under the full power of her engine. There
was sufficient steam generated for a
rapid flight of a half to three-quarters
of a mile. Under Hie full pressure of
this force the machine struck the water
and a moment more bad disappeared
from view. The machine was recovered.
It was considerably damaged.
The machine was removed to the house
boat, wh'-r* extjnslvc repaha will have
to !;;■ made before anotlur tost ean be
pulled off. At a given signal. Hie mode]
was dispatched on Ils voyage. The
launching ear was pulled back to the
leeward superstructure and s; nt forward
on its track a.* a rapid velocity.
When the windward end was reached the
machine shot forth. A better launching
could not have been desired. The Smith
sonian scientist believed that the high
est hopes were about to be realiz'd, but
after the first few seconds of flight the
wings were deflect’d and tho flying ma
chine went downward until her course
was ended on the mud bottom of the
Potomac. She was traveling at a ve
locity of about it) mill's an hour. When
tho machine was rais'ij. from the water,
a woikman attempted to cover It with
a. cloth. but for a long lime was unsuc
cessful. Its mechanism and dimensions
were plainly seen from the press boat 20
feet away. It was equipped with four
wings, two on each tj£dc, about 4 by 6
feet, made of the limst oil silk and held
upon delicate wooden rods. The wings
were shaped like n tent. The body con
; sisted of an intricate arrangement of
I line steel rods, with cylinders, motor and
boilers carefully balanced.
Between the two sets of wings were
situated the propellers, two lu number,
equipped with two blades. The steering
gear was situated at the rear and was
constructed from material like the wings.
The motor is sui.j osed to generate sotne
tn'ng in excess of 2-horse power. Sev
eral photographs were secured of the
machine in flight The wind against
which it flew was blowing about 4 mil’s
an hour. After the experiment. Assist
ant Manley refused to make aqy suite
inent for publication.
PYRAMID OF DEAD COONS
WILDCAT ON TOP OF IT.
Americus, Ga., August 9.—(Special.)—
Ono hundred and ten dead coons piled in
a cornfield; the pyramid surmounted by
the carcass of a monster wild cat, weigh
ing 35 pounds and measuring five feet
In length, was the result of a hunt waged
west of Americus tlie past week. The
coons had been raiding the cornfields, de
stroying acres of fine corn, hence the
crusade waged against the ringtails by
three colored fanners, Lee Daniel, J'oliu
Spann and Wib.ll •' Minnick. The hunt
took place in Kinchafoonee creek swapip
and 110 coons were thus slaughtered. The
wild cat had been feasting on young pigs
and had cost the negroes not a few young
porkers. He wns a vicious brute and made
a fine fight until laid low by their bul
lets.
COUNCIL ON THE SITUATION.
Professor Not Surprised at Northern
Animosity to His Race.
Birmingham. Ala., August B.—Professor
W. 11. Connell, principal of the. Agricul
tural and Mechanical Colcge for Negroes,
at Normal, Ala., who was in Birmingham
yesterday, gave out the following Inter
view :
"There is a crisis at hand for the negro
race In America. I am not surprised at
tlie evidences of antagonism to the negro
in certain portions of the north which
have been recently exhibited; in fact, I
■have long predicted that such antagonism
would arise there, because that people do
not rightly know the negro and are less
disposed to deal with him justly than arq
the people of the south.
"I have always held that the south was
the negro's rightful home, that here he
had greater opportunities for building
himself up than anywhere else, and every
day only the more thoroughly convinces
me of the truth of this; but he must be
brought to know that he can maintain
himself only along lines of honesty, in
dustry and helpfulness to those around
him. ' The south possesses in the negro
race the best and most tractable labor
element in the world, anil every interest
demands that this fact should be known
and appreciated by both white and black
alike.”
MONEY IS TIGHT IN MEXICO.
Banks Are Reluctant To Extend the
Usual Favors.
Mexico City, August 9.—This is the sea
son of the year when a lull Is usually ex
pected In ah branches of trade and the
present is no exception to the rule, though
business is reported more active, than dur
ing the same period last year. The pres
ent stringency in the money market and
the reluctance of banks to extend the
usual favors seem to have worked some
thing of a hardship on many concerns.
The uncertainty in the rate of exchange
is largely responsible for the very con
servative methods adopted by the banks,
quite a decline resulting when the rate
was ranging from 220 to 230. many foreign
buyers availing themselves of this low
rate to cancel accounts contracted when
exchange was above 250 and many depos
itors checking on their accounts for spec
ulative purposes.
HONDURAS READY TO ERUPT.
Financial Troubles Are Likely To
Result in Revolution.
Mexico City, August 9.—The financial
troubles of recent developments are In a
fairway to precipitate another revolu
tion In Honduras in the course of tho
next two months, according to Manuel
He’gueva, wllb arriv'd from that Central
American republic I~way of Vera Cruz
yesterdav The government is at the
present face to face with the possibility
of the intervention of England in the in
terest of English creditors. Senor Hel
gueva is of the opinion that just as soon
as intervention appears to be inevitable
the enemies of General Mauel Bonnila,
who are very numerous, will start a rev
olutionary movement
Judge Gray Starts South.
Wilmington, Del.. August 7.—Judge
George Gray, who has consented to act
as an arbitrator to settle the differences
existing between the coal miners and
operators In Alabama, loft here today for
the south to assume his duties.
Buying Silver for Philippines.
Washington, August 3.—The treasury
department today bought 169,090 ounces
of silver for Philippine coinage at an
average of $0.5403, all for delivery at San
Francisco.
LEIGH, COWETA COUNTY, MARKETS
A PHENOMENAL LOAD OF GOTTON
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Wagon Which Was Driven Into Newnan, Ga., Loaded With Twenty-Five Bales of Cotton.
Newnan. Ga„ July 20.—(Special.)—
It is probable that the largest sin
gle load of cotton ever marketed
was that recently brought to Newnan
by Hon. S. E. Leigh, the total wqight of
twenty-five bales of the fleecy staple
loaded upon a single wagon, being 13,140
pounds. Mr. Leigh held this cotton from
last fall's crop.
To cart this Immense load of cotton to
market at a single haul a platform of un
usual dimensions was necessarily used.
The frame was no less than 30 feet long.
7n its construction 800 feet of green pine
timber was required, which weighed 4,000
pounds, in addition to the wagon weigh
ing 1.40') pounds. When tills colossal float
was loaded wllh the product of one of
Mr. Leigh's farms, it represented a total
weight of 18,540 pounds.
When Mr. Leigh was preparing to mar
ket this remarkable load of cotton, he
thought it would be necessary to h ive an
especially largo wagon made for the oc-
TO TRY IT AGAIN
IN MISSISSIPPI
Second Primary Necessary
in the Gubernatorial
Race.
Jackson. Miss., August B.—(Special.)
Returns from over the state from Thurs
day's primary have been slow in coming
in. but all counties, with the exception
of three, have reported and the results
show that a second primary will be nec
essary ■> decble the nom nation for gov
ernor of Mississippi. The race will be
run between Vardaman and Critz, Varda
man receiving 119 electoral votes, Critz
117 asd Noel 24, 131 electoral votes are
necessary for nomination.
Carter is nominated lieutenant govern
or, Henry, auditor, and Brown, clerk of
supreme court.
The race between Miller and Sharp for
treasurer Is so close that an official
count will have to decide.
'The second primal y wil be held on the
27th Already the Vardaman supporters
have begun to light for their man asd the
Critz managers are lining up their fore s
for the second contest.
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SCANDAL ABOUT LITTLE SQUAW
Strong Statement About the Case
Given Out by Judge.
Buffalo, N. Y.. August. 9.—11. J Klein,
presiding judge of the grand circuit meet
ing, which closed here yesterday, lias
given out a strong statement anent tlie
scandal in the 2:06 pace yesterday. in
that race F. O. Cei'Jeberg. owner ami
driver of Little Squaw, was t ikon out of
the. sulky, and Ben Kenny drove the
mare, winning the h-'it ami the race.
Nick Hubinger. the New Haven piling r,
su-poc.’ed i:.- wa-. on the oiiiside ol a
job when Charlie Havt bent Little Squaw
in slow time. Hr protested and the
action of the judges resulted. Cei'Jeberg
was not fined . . ,
Mr. Klein stays if he had had autnority
he would haw* expelled < eidebeig. V.
L. Snow, the trainer, and Frank Wil
liams. of Corning, the cwner of Charlie
Ha 1 , t The other (w" judges overrn. d
hlni. Hubinger had bet inm li money on
Little Squaw, and. it Is alleged, bad prom
ised Ceidjihyrg S4OO if the mare won. He
suspected fraud,
RURAL FREE DELIVERY ROUTES
Washington, August s.—The postoffiee
department established during the month
of July 2,455 rural free delivery routes.
The total number of routes established
for the entire fiscal year ended June 30,
1903, was 5,664. It is announced at the* de
partment that, there is remaining un
allotted ' of the appropriation for the
present fiscal year a sufficient sum to
establish about 4,000 additional routes.
Yellow Fe ,r er in Mexico.
Laredo. Tex.. August 9.—The quarantine
which was established against. San Luis
Fotosl, Mexico, a week ago. because of
the appearance of a case of yellow Lew r.
is still being rigorously enforced. Citi
zens of San Luis Potogi deny that any
yellow fever exists in that territory, and
have forwarded a. petition to the author
ities in Washington asking that the quar
antine be lifted.
' Young Jones for West Point.
Montgomery. Ala.. August 9.—(Special.)
Congressman A. A. Wiley, of the second
congressional district. has appointed
Thomas G. Jones, Jr., son of Judge
Thomas Goode Jones, of the United
States district court, cadet to the mili
tary academy, and young Jones lias been
instructed to report at Fort McPherson.
Atlanta, Ga., for examination on May 1,
1904.
Dispensary Fight Is Settled.
The Rome dispensary light, the hottest
local tight of tlie legislative session, is
settled.
Messrs. Ennis and McHenry got to
gether on the floor of the house Thursday
morning, during the progress of the de
bate, and agreed to bury the hatehet.
edge down, until the next session of the
general assembly.
Mrs. A. Van Hoose Is Dead.
Gainesville. Ga., August B.—(Special.)
Mrs. A. Van Hoose died at 6 o'clock this
morning after an illness dating from Sun
day. She had been complaining for several
days and the eating of canned meat and
drinking milk caused acute indigestion,
or ptomaine poisoing, causing her death.
Iler remains were shipped to Eufaula,
Ala., tonight for interment.
caslon. Upon investigation he found in
stock at the White Hickory Wagon Man
ufacturing Company's repository in At
lanta one of their regular 2 1-4 steel axle
wagons, guaranteed capacity 7.000 pounds,
that he was assured would carry the
load. This wagon, which is similar to
hundreds in use on the streets of Atlanta
and in other cities, was required to carry
a weight of 10.140 pounds over the weight
it was constructed to carry, and It stood
tlie test without any apparent strain.
It is safe to say that there are few
counties in the state in which such an
immense weight could be transported by
team to market. On account of the* im
proved condition of the public roads in
Coweta, .however, this huge load of mer
chandise was hauled by three j oke of
oxen. Few processions, military, civic or
otherwise, have ever attracted as much
attention in Coweta as did this single
float as it passed through the streets to
the warehouse.
The cotton was raised at ’Tx*ighton." 4
EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN
GOES PEGGING IN A TLANIA
By Isma Dooly.
THERE are over seventy-five ma
chines at a standstill in the Nun
nally Manufacturing Company,
makers of men's clothing, and this be
cause of the scarcity of women workers,
according to the statement made I'ridaj
by the president of the factory, Mr. Onne
Nunnally.
This circumstance proving the scarcity
of labor among women for a class of
work that is beyond that of those cotton
factories or mills, requiring a less well
paid class of women, is rather surprising
in View of the fact that scarcely a day
th.’t OHP une? not hoftr <1 Rtorv
that brings on a series of comparative
ones relating how this woman or that
one is out of work and wants it; and
that she Is competent and deserving and
ought, to have work provided for her.
"Special writers" could be kept busy ap
pealing to public sympathy for cases
among the army of the so-called unem
ployed, and yet stopping long enough to
investigate a condition illustrated by this
one existing In one of Atlanta's beat
known institutions, where women are
employed, tempts the writer to expatiate
upon the very opposite line.
An especially significant nature does
the subject assume in consideration of
the fact that the scarcity of labor at
this establishment is not merely for the
present—during the heated term—but it
is so continually the case that Mr Nun
nally goes so far as to state that the
further broadening or development of in
dustrial enterprises like his own is being
retarded by this very lack of competent
women laborers, and that in his mind
the question here in Atlanta now Is not.
"Can we bring more industries here?”
but "How are we to furnish labor for
those already established, in operation,
and with a dally increase of business re
quiring an according increase of labor?'
To those impractical theorists about
women who may think this incident of
the scarcity of laborers among them is a
hopeful sign, that woman at this stage
of her evolution is awakening to the
consciousness that she must return to
the home and there abide, or that the
army of women forced by circumstances
to become bread winners is diminishing,
it may be said that never were they more
mistaken.
National, state and local statistics rela
tive to women wage earners, especially
among the class who are adapted to in
dustrial avocations, prove that their num
ber is on rapid increase, and deplorable
as it may seem, the number of women
forced by circumstances to support them
selves increases in proportion to popula
tion.
That it Is the spirit of woman in this
much-talked-of evolution of the sex. and
not necessity that makes of her a bread
winner is an Impression scarcely worthy
of refutation and one does not. have to
stop to study the women of this or that
class to know that no woman except in
unusual and abnormal cases would resist
the support of those who had legitimate
right and the means to do so.
Few women with comfortable homes
and the means whereby tn sustain them
selves therein would through a desire for
more activity rush into the factory or
mills or even establishments along the
more lucrative and less laborious lines.
So whether or not those conditions
should exist that place women in tlie
position of bread winners, they do exist
and there is continuous and Increasing
number of them who have to take care of
themselves, and It would be Interesting
to learn just why here in Atlanta, where
there is the average number of women
who have to work and many* of whom are
in daily quest of it, there is still com
plaint among manufacturers of a scarcity
of women workers.
"Probably it may be that in this par
ticular establishment from which the
complaint for scarcity of labor comes
that the conditions are not such as to
encourage competent women, tlie condi
tions as to hours, the pay, etc..” may be
suggested by those skeptical of tlie situa
tion. But tlie fact is a studious investi
gation of tlie operatives who are employ
ed of the time required of them and their
compensation does away with that prob
ability and after having seen at work the
employees in mauy of the factories and
other mills of the state the state of af
fairs and advantages of this establish
ment, as in others of similar industries,
justifies the statement that in this case.
not only is there an opening for the com
petent and willing women who plies thq
miles out of Newnan, and brought 9 "-4
cents per pound, the check in payment
of the load being made out for $1,281 14.
Had the cotton been held only a few days
the Increase in price of the staple would
have added something like S4OO to this
check. The past season Mr. Leigh mar
keted a couple of bales of long staple cot
ton, for which he received 11 1-2 cents
per pound.
Hon. S. E. Leigh is a representative
from Coweta in the present session of the
legislature and is one of the most pro
gressive and successful farmers of the
state His farm is < onducted along the
I most improved scientific plan and 1
admiration of his neighborhood
Mr Leigh, himself. Is a most energetic
and successful factor and Is widely in
terested in the development of this sec
tion He Is an earnest advocate of im
proved roads throughout the confines of
Georgia and as a convincing argument
! points‘to the value they have been to his
1 home county’.
needle, but compensation beyond that
which the average seamstress clears who
works by the day at home or in many m
the pretentious dress making shops of tha
citv. . .
Os the three hundred women employed
here the average pay Is $7 per
with nine hours a day work and a ha.,
holiday Saturday.
The appearance es the women no
such as to indicate overwork, and with
the exception of a. few elderly women
who have reached the age when the care
worn expression would, natural. j -how
itself the female employees where there
is this demand for seventy-five mere
nrc a healthy, wholesome-looking as- y
semhlage. /
They are all members of the Garment
Workers’ Union, of which Miss Lizzie
Humphries, one of the employees, is
president. Whether or not. genera, in
terest is taken In this organization, or
what Its influence may be. is subject
matter for another story, but during
the luncheon hour, when discussion may
be given to such matters, there Is a
recreation room, where the women im
pair to partake of their lunch or to rest.
It is a long commodious apartment hav
Ing’among'other articles o' furniture a
piano, desks, and a large ta.'.e upon
which were the latest magazines and
periodicals There were individual c.oak
racks and hat boxes, and the venti.atinn
here, as in the work room wa’ equal
to that of the average office in Atlanta s
business centers, and many of the boast
ed of office buildings.
In reference tn the class of people *m
ployed, it was evident at glance thnh
as Mr Nunr a stated the? ’ " ’
higher plane industrially and socially
than that class of people coming under
the head of the generally accepted term
of “factory operatives”
"Tho latter.” he explaired "are,
many of them, operatives b- inheritance,
1. e.; they come of a family of opera
tives, anil starting out in the factory
as children, grow up in the work an .
know nothing else
*‘ff they lose their jobs in one mill It
seldom occurs to them to do otaer work, j
but they go to another mill and seek
employment, there. From this class come
the most unsatisfactory labor-men and
women who are Inadequate to tne pii.-
poses of the work In this form ■) Indus
try. where something more than the
hand operating the machine is req'ured.
and where there must be intelligent
eye applied as well as some knowledge
of sewing."
"Then from what element o' people
do you find your most satisfactory worn- ,
en workers?" was here asked.
Tn rei ly Mr. Nut te In- 1
cident of how three >r f nr years ago
there came Into his establishment three '
young girls In cheeked dr-*s;'-'"'. t'-mm* s
and the costumes that s< 1 the
still primitive mountain people of the
state. They were sisters and asked fe*‘
work, acknowledging on being ques
tioned their absolute Inexperience, but
declaring they wanted to learn
As an experiment they were employed,
•and in two months were no longer on
the list of novices
"Now thev are my most competent
women workers,” he stated, "with a /fix
room house of their own and the com
forts of home. Their average incor/e is
$35 per week, and they are models of
thriftiness.
“What are you going to do about
this scarcity of labor?” was asked.
"Well, I ’ think I’ll advertise in the
newspapers of the rural districts. was
the. reply.
•Thea you think that this scarcity of
labor will have to be supplied from, the
rural districts?" x ,
"it looks as if that would have to be
tried, for, as 1 said before, we need the
labor to 'tljat extent when the progress
of our industries is being retarded for
lack of it.” ,
“But what about this army of unem
ployed women w* hear of every day in
Atlanta?" ,
Mr. Nunnally did not know, but the
facts remain the same—there are the
unemployed women; there is plenty of
work for them to do. and yet here is
proof of a great scan ity of Jabor.
Appendix Full of Cherry Stones.
New York. August 3,-Nearly one. hun
dred cherry pits have been found tn the
appendix’of a patient who was being op
erated upon in a Brooklyn Hospital Ihe
collection had not caused appendicitis,
howe- er Their discovery was due to an
operation for . aneer of the stomach
tfter tit'* cancerous glow th had been
cut aw-iv tlie surgeons took away the
pits ami then the patient quickly recov
ered.
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