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EDITOR EDMONDS WRITES
OF CONDITIONS IN SOUTH
BEARING upon the present satisfac
tory condition of the southern
states, some figures given in a let
ter from Richard H. Edmonds, editor of
The Baltimore Manufacturers' Record,
will be found very interesting.
The letter, written to John L. Williams
& Son. of Richmond, follows:
Baltimore. July 28, 1903.—Gentlemen:
' Between 1.891 and 1899 the average price
of cotton was lower than ever before, ex
cept during a brief period over sixtv
years ago. From 1850 to 1890 the average
New York price of cotton had always
been over 10 cents with the ex
ception of one year; but in 1891 the price
suddenly dropped and continued to de
cline until the average price in New York
In 1597-1898 was only 6.22 cents and in
1898-1899 was 6 cents. From these ex
ceedingly low and unprofitable figures,
marking for the farmers of the south just
such a period as the west some years ago
endured when wheat and corn were at
I their lowest point, there was a fair ad
vance until in 1901 and 1932 the average
price in New York was 8.96 cents for the
former and 8.75 cents for the latter year.
| Under the development of the bull move
ment now prevailing cotton is command
ing higher prices than for many years,
I higher than it has averaged for a third
of a century; but even without regard to
the bull movement we have the assur
ance. by virtue of the statistical position
of cotton throughout the world, that tho
southern farmers will for the coming crop
got a higher price than for some years,
probably higher than for the last ten
or twelve years. The importance of this
in adding to tho south’s prosperity is
I aptly illustrated by a few figures.
Ender the high prices prevailing up to
1910 the south was receiving for its cot
ton and cotton seed only about $350,000,000
to $.175.000,0'.>0 a year, much less than it
had received during the ten years prior
to 1891, notwithstanding the very great
Increase in the size of the crop. During
the last three years the south's cotton
end cotton seed crops have averaged con
st ie:ably over $500,000,000 a year, a gain in
thr. e years of not less than SKO,uOO.OJO
compared with the aggregate of the three
preceding years, it is safe to estimate
that this year's cotton an 1 cotton seed
crop wtii during rhe coming twelve
months bring to the farmers of the south
at least $600,030,000, and so great has
been the progress in the development of
diversified farming, including truck grow
ing and fruit raising tor northern and
western markets, that other agricultural
pro loots of the south will aggregate n»t
far from $900,000,000, or a total of $1,500,-
txh.ooo ;,s the outcome of the farming op
erations of the south this year. In 1900,
according to the census report, the value
of the agricultural products of the south
was $1,271,600,000 against $600,000,000 in ISSO.
Notwithstanding the fact that the cotton
crop represents only about 40 per cent of
tite total value of the agricultural prod
ucts of the south, it is the great money
crop of the south, and its history for a
hundred years shows that whenever it
has sold at high prices there has been
general prosperity throughout the south
ern states. During the ten years
from 1890 to 1900, in which low
prices prevailed, tite assessed value
of the property in the south increased
from $4,659,009,000 to $5,547,000,600, or a gain
of $798,000,000. which wits less than one
half of the gain in the assessed value
between 1880 and 1890, a period in which
cotton averaged considerably above 10
cents a pound. Between 1900 and 1902,
two years in which fairly profitable
prices of cotton have combined with in
dustrial activity to increase the south’s
prosperity, the gain in the assessed value
of prop rty has been $460,000,000, an aver
age of $230,000,000 a year against an aver
age of $79,000,000 a year for the preceding
ten years. In other words, the assessed
value of southern property in two years
was more than one-half as much as in
the ten years from 1890 to 1900. With the
assurance of much better prices for cot
t>n than even the fairly satisfactory
figures of the last two years, the soutli is
preparing to enter upon the most pros
perous period in its history, and the next
ton years is certain, regardless of the ups
or downs of the speculative market in
Wall street, 'to show a greater aggregate
development in the south than the last
twenty years. It needs no argument to
prove tins, for increase of population and
(■„iea.’e of weL.'- development
which has already beei. accomplished
< make it a certainty.
/ The statistics of pig iron production as
published In The Manufacturers' Record
this week show a total output in the
\ southern states for the first half of 1903
’• of 1,693,000 tons against 1.458.000 tons for
the corresponding period of 1902, a gain
of 230,000 tons. On this basis, taking into
account several new furnaces lately built,
it is safe to count, even allowing for
contingencies, that the production dur
ing the second half of the year will ex
ceed these figures, thus assuring to the
south an output for the year of not less
than 3.500.009 tons, nearly one-half of
which will be the production of Ala
bama. In this connection it is interest
ing to note that in 1880 the total produc
tion of pig iron in the south was 390,000
Eyes
Did Not Close For a
WecK.
Heart Trouble Baf
fled Doctors.
Dr. Miles’Heart Cure and
Nervine Cured Me.
There is nothing more necessary to health
than sleep and rest. If these arc denied you,
if you rise in the morning more tired than
when you went tolled, there is an affection of
the nerves plainly present. If your heart is
weak, or there is an inherited tendency in
that direction, your weakened nerves will
soon so affect your heart’s action as to bring
on serious, chronic trouble. Dr. Miles Ner
vine is a nerve tonic, which quiets the nerves,
so that sleep may come, and it quickly re
stores the weakened nerves to health and
strength. Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure is a great
blood and heart tpnic which regulates the ac
t-on of the heart, enriches the blood and im
proves the circulation.
"Some time ago I was suffering severely
w ith heart trouble. At times my heart would
seemingly stop beating and at others itwou. i
beat loudly and very fast. Three to four
h’ -urs sleep each night in ten months was an
I could get. One week in last September I
neverclos- d my eves. I got Dr. Miles’ Nervine
and Heart Cute at a riiug store in Lawrence
burg, after spending $300.00 in medi
cines and doctors in Louisville, Shelbyville,
Frankfort, Cincinnati and Lawrenceburg,
and in three davs have derived more benefit
from the use of your remedies than I got
from ail the doctors and tiieir medicines. I
think everybody ought tn know of the mar
velous power contained in yc-ur remedies.
W. 11, Hughes, Fox Creek, Ky.
All druggists sell and guarantee first bot
tle Dr. Miles’ Remedies. Send for free book
on Nervous and Heajt Diseases. Address
Dr. Miles Medical Co, Elkhart, Ind.
tons, and that the total production for
the entire country in the same year was
only 3,800,000 tons, or but little more
than the production of the south the
present year. In ISBO the output of bi
tuminous coal in the United States was
42,000,000 tons, of which 6,000,000 tons were
in the south Last year the south alone
mined 61,600,000 tons, which was ten times
its output of 1880 and 50 per cent more
bituminous coal than the United States
mined In ISBO. What has been done in
coal and iron but illustrates what is be
ing done in the development of cotten
mill interests and nearly all other lines
of manufacturing.
The period between 1880 and 1890 was the
one in which the south first commenced
to show the great rebound from the de
pression following the overwhelming
disasters of war and the reconstruction
period. But the failure of Baring Bros.,
followed by the panic of 1592-3. came
upon tho south before its industrial in
terests had secured a solid foundation,
and before the world at large believed
that its coal and iron interests and its
cotton mills could weather the storm of
a panic and the long depression that
would follow. For the next ten years,
notwithstanding the coincident loss by
reason of tho almost unprecedented de
cline in cotton, the south put its man
ufacturing interests on a solid basis,
demonstrating to the " world that they
could live and prosper through the worst
period of depression and the lowest
prices of iron ever known. \\ ith this
demonstration fully made there came
another period in the material advance
ment of the south. The south itself had
accumulated capital, notwithstanding the
low price of cotton and the general in
dustrial depression; it had accumulated
experience, and it had established its
credit throughout the world. With these
things accomplished, outside capital once
more sought investment in that section,
and for the last three years the south
has been making very great progress.
But these three years have been a con
structive period, in which its iron in
terests have been overhauled, its iron
making methods brought up to a par
with tiie best furnace practices of the
country, its coal-mining and coke-mak
ing interests developed, its cotton mill
interests advanced from an Investment
of $61,000,000 with 1.700,000 spindles in 1890
to about 8,000,000 spindles with a capital
of $175,000,000 at present. The south is
now reaping the profit of these great
interests. Moreover, it is not only at
tracting capital from all sections, but it
is attracting Immigration to a larger
extent than ever before. The world now
accCqtfs it as the coming section of Amer
ica, or as the late Judge Kelly, of Penn
sylvania, familiarly known for many
years as "Pig Iron" Kelly, fifteen or
more years ago, forecasting this present
condition of affairs in the south, called
it "the coming El Dorado of American
adventure." Its material advancement,
based on the upbuilding of its manufac
turing and mining interests and the rap
idly increasing development of its agri
cultural interests, promises to tax to (he
utmost the freight-handling facilities of
all southern railroads.
RICHARD H. EDMONDS,
Editor and General Manager of The
Manufacturers' Record,
The Secret of Success.
“Get something the people need. Then
let the people know you’ve got it.” That
is the plain talk prescription for business
success given by Mr. 11. L. Kramer, the
famous creator and advertiser of Casca
rets. Candy Cathartic, which, in a few
years, have developed a sale of a million
a month. Every reader of this
newspaper knows that tjie manufacturers
of Cascarets have persistently Used news
paper advertising to "let the people know’’
and the results have shown that Major
Kramer “got something the people need
ed." it is a great object lesson in the
school of business
Should your estimate at the Port Re
ceipts be the nearest one received dur
ing July or August you will receive
the S2OO special prize therefor. All
estimates received during July or Au
gust for the Port Receipts Contest
may miss the mark widely, but the
nearest one is to receive the special
prize of S2OO cash. Submit your es
timate on the Port Receipts during
August, so you may take opportunity
in the contest for S2OO special prize
for the nearest estimate during the
first period.
NEW YORK SUN REVIEWS
GEORGIA’S VAGRANCY LAW
A bill concerning ‘vagrancy,” Introduced
into the Georgia legislature, represents a
new method of treating the question of ne
gro labor which is finding much favor In the
south. By this bill it « s made the duty of
every county officer, the police and other
like officials to give to any officer empow
ered to i.<sue a criminal warrant information
concerning all vagrants, or persons sus
pected of being vagrants, with a view to
their trial.
Anybody familiar with social conditions at
the eouth. more especially as affecting the
negroes, will understand the motive and Intent
of this bill.
Chronic or capricious idleness among the
negroes is a very serious evil w jth wjlich
southern industry has to contend, for. be
sides loss of the needed labor, it involves
a vagrant tendency to crime, to pilfering, for
•example, and to destrueaive immorality.
Farmers, as The Augusta Chronicle says,
seek in vafn for laborers, though about street
comers in towns, cheap rum shops and
railway stations, negro loafers are congre
gated in large numbers. “They have too
easy a time in town, living by their wits or
on the charity of negro cooks and house
servants.” largely, we may add, obtained
from the larders of the households in which
these are employed; and no persuasion can
induce them to go to work on the farms where
they are needed.
John Blair McAfee, who is building the
extension of the Seaboard Air Line from
Birmingham to Atlanta, tells The Consti
tution that at present his own and other
large enterprises in the south are suffering
grievously because of the scarcity of labor
on which they ran rely, though, apparently,
the labor supply is abundant. At» a remedy
for this very great evil. Mr. McAfee sug
gests “turning a part of the European Im
migration to the south* rn ports and fields.”
That in f-uch away some relief for rail
way enterprises might be obtained is con
ceded by the Atlanta paper, but it con
tends, with long southern experience to sup
port its argument, that “so long as the
negro is the labor element in the south
and white races are compelled to compete
with hint it will be difficult to get the
consent of the latter to enter into the strug
gle with the negro for the labor field in this
section.” That indisposition on the part of
immigrants is the explanation of the trifling
percentage of the foreign-born in the south.
Even at this time, when the greatest im
migration in American history is coming
in. almost none of it tends to the south,
though methodical efforts to increase the
population of that now thinly peopled part
of the union are made by interstate asso
ciations, with the earnest assistance of enter
prising railroads. Heretofore when any of
these immigrants have been induced to try
the south as a field of labor they have been
likely soon to withdraw.
It may therefore be assumed that for a
long time to come the south will continue
to be dependent on negro labor mainly, and
undoubtedly the support of it is sufficient
foi its demands, if the negroes will work.
Incidentally, too, under that situation the
negroes will be sure of considerate treat
ment as laborers. If they will work and
give up loafing they will be a peculiarly
fortunate laboring clase—very much better
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUnONj ATLAOTA. MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1903.
off than are the run of their race at the
north. Usually, too. the south prefers negro
labor when it can get it. Projects to pro
mote negro immigration, on any considerable
scale, to Africa op to the north, are looked
on with great and natural disfavor at the
south. It wants the negroes, but- it wants
them to work.
That is the reason for the Georgia vag
rancy bill.” The negroes of tho south, as
The Atlanta Constitution contends, must be
made to understand that shiftlessness and
unreliability in labor employments,” no longer
to be tolerated, will bring sure suffering to
them; and It recognizes that Booker Wash
ington is helping laudably to tha-t Fn
inculcating “a reform of negro philosophy,
or the philosophy of winning white respect
by working to deserve it.
TELLS OF GOEBEL MURDER.
YOUTSEY IN HANDS OF PROSE
CUTING ATTORNEY.
Youtsey Admits Having Made Many
Conflicting Statements After
He Was Arrested.
Georgetown. Ky., August 14.—1 n tho
trial of former Secretary of State Caleb
Powers for complicity in the murder of
Goebel today the cross-examination of
Henry Youtgpy was resumed by Attor
ney Violett, of the defense, this morn
ing, A large crowd was assembled to
see the noted prisoner and hear him tes
tify. Tho attorney took the witness over
his movements for a day before the shoot
ing of Goebel and after tho arrival of
Howard In Frankfort. Youtsey said he
expected Howard on the morning of Jan
uary 36, as he had seen preparations in
the agricultural building for trouble.
For two hours ho was interrogated as to
his various plans to assassinate Goe
bel
He admitted that he made conflicting
statements immediately following his ar
rest at Frankfort wjuch do not now con
form to his sworn statements. He said
that on his own trial in October, 1960,
he p.etended to have a lit in the com l
house here to avoid going on the witness
stand and to excite the sympathy of the
jury.
Youtsey Maintains Calm Demenor.
For live hours today Henry Youtsey.
who is a life prisoner, underwent a very
Hying and vigorous cross examination
as to liis participation in the conspiracy,
which, lie says, resulted in the assassina
tion of William Goebel. He maintained a
calm demeanor that the people cannot
understand in him after the sensations
lie furnished two years ago, when lie was
himself on trial here, and "threw a lit
in the court room.
Judge Robbins held the defense to a
systematic cross examination and lined
one attorney for violation of his rule
The defense scored several points on tho
witness as to the conflicting stories told
by him before his arrest, and trial and
afterwards. He admitted that tie had
testified frequently to confuse detectives
and lawyers employed by the Goebel
brothers. His most important testimony
that as to the written agreement will;
Caleb Powers, regarding the affidavit of
Powers’ innocence, the truth og falsity
of which was waived, was ignored by
Powers’ attorney in thier cross examina
tion.
Ingles Denies Youtsey’s Story.
Madison, Ind., August 14. —Tn the trial
of Caleb Powers, at Georgetown, Ky.,
Henry Youtsey is reportfid to have
said:
"The first conversation had with me
was by the chairman of the republican
county committee of Trimble county. He
was in one of the first crowds of men
whp came to Frankfort. He came to
my office and we talked about Goebel.
Tho man said that he understood Goebel
wore armor of some kind, but that he did
not wear it about his head, and he oupuu
to be met at tho state house gate tome
morning and swung to a limb.’
John R. Ingles, postmaster at Milton,
who was chairman of the Trimble county
committee at that time, in a telephone
message to The Courier today, said that
Youtstt.-’s story was entirely false. In
gles says he was not in Frankfort in
January, i 960.
JETT AND WHITE GUILTY.
They Will Spend Their Lives in State
Prison.
Cvnthlana, Ky., August 14.—The jury
in the case of Curtis Jett and Thomas
White charged with the assassination of
James B. Marcum at Jackson this morn
ing returned a verdict of guilty, fixing
the punishment of each at life imprison
ment. The verdict was returned when
there were but few persons in the court
room.
Tho only attorney present was County
Attorney Webster. Jett received the ver
dict with comparative indifference and
calmness. White, who lias been appar
ently under a severe strain during the
trial, flushed up and his eyes tilled with
tears.
Attorney Golden, for Hie defense, stated
that a motion for a new trial will be
made us soon as possible. The general
opinion seems to be tiiat the motion will
be overruled by the court and that it
will then go to the court of appeals. Tite
verdict occasioned little surprise here
after the deliberation of the jury had
been so prolonged. The only question
which caused the delay, it is said, was
that of punishment—death or lite im
prisonment.
The verdict on the whole is regarded
as a victory for the defense, as the
prosecution asked that no middle ground
be taken and that the men either go
ciear or be hanged.
The case lias been on trial almost
three weeks, having been begun July 27.
At the first trial at Jackson, the jury
disagreed and it is believed the verdict
today was a compromise with a Juror
opposfffl to capital punishment.
JETT AND WHITE SENTENCED.
Cynthiana, Ky., August 15.—Judge Os
borne today overruled the motion of the
attorneys for Curtis Jett and Thomas
White for a new trial. On application of
attorneys for the defense. Judge Osborne
granted an appeal and gave the defense
until .September 9 to tile their bill of
exceptions. Jett and White were for
mally sentenced to life imprisonment at
hard labor. The troops broke camp, one
detachment taking Curtis Jett to jail at
Lexington and another Thomas White to
jail at Covington.
Read the first offer for the best esti
mate made during different periods of
the contest. Yours may be the near
est one and get the money.
CORN DEAL COST HIM DEAR.
Can't Tell How Much Money He Put
Into the Deal.
St. Louis, August 10.—In n deposition
given before Commissioner Saunders to
day, Thomas Clearge, the manager of the
Ciearge Commission Company, admitted
that he could not tell within SIOO,OOO what
he had paid his brokers and that he could
not tell within $500,000 what lie had lost
in corn last December.
In the investigation today into the bus
iness methods of the company, which
was brought, about by the claim that
Clearge was over $1,000,000 in arrears to
the government on war revenue taxes.
Clearge was the only witness heard.
When asked to give the name of any
man to whom he sold a bushel of grain,
Clearge did not respond. He admitted
that he had three plans of speculation.
One was known as the regular pool, an
other as the "special fund” and the third
as the emergency fund.
Clearge had hundreds of customers all
over the country, and everything prog
ressed smoothly until some customers,
mainly California Investors, experienced
difficulty when they desired to withdraw
their investments, and this Investigation
followed.
TO CALL CONGRESS IN
EXTRAJiESSION,
Reciprocity with Cuba and Financial
Legislation Will Be the Ques
tions Which the President
Will Stress in His
Call.
Oyster Bay, N. Y-. August 12.—Presi
dent Roosevelt had as his guests tonight
at Sagamore Hill the members of the
subcommittee of the senate committee on
finance which is engaged in drafting a
currency measure to be submitted to
congress next fall. The subcommittee
consists of Senators Aldrich, of Rhode
Island, chairman; Platt, of Connecticut;
Allison, of lowa, and Spooner, of Wiscon
sin.
Prior to the adjournment of congress
last spring this subcommittee Was ap
pointed and authorized to sit during
the recess of congress to study the finan
cial situation and prepare a measure to
meet Hie requirements of the situation
as the committee viewed it for Introduc
tion when the senate should reconvene.
On this work the committee, sometimes
as individuals, part of the time as a
body, has engaged during Hie latter part
of the summer. F<v.- a day or two the
members have been the guests of Sena
tor Aidrich at liis Warwick residence,
near Providence. They are preparing
now to put into concrete form the re
sults of their investigation and labor.
Desiring to consult with President
Roosevelt regarding the work, the sub
committee came to Oyster Bay late this
afternoon. .
It could not be ascertained definitely
whether-a draft of a currency measure
has been made and was to be discussed
tonight or not; but, as the senators have
been engaged for two days at Warwick
with their clerks and stenographers, it is
reasonably certain that some progress
has been made toward tile preparation of
a currency bill.
The object of the committee is to as
certain the views of Presidi nt Roosevelt
with definiteness in order, if possible, to
meet them in the framing of the meas
ure. It Is understood to be the desire
of all, Including the president, that the
bill should lie ready for introduction at
the extraordinary session which the
president has announced lie will call
Monday. November 9- prior to that time
the subcommittee will submit its draft
of the proposed measure to the full re
publican membership of the senate com
mittee on finance or probably such other
republican senators as may bo accessible.
It is hoped that a measure may be drawn
that will meet the approval of all repub
lican senators so that when it is intro
duced it may have Hie undi ided party
support. It can be said that the presi
dent is not wedded to any particular
plan of currency reform, so called, but
desires simply that a practicable scheme
bo evolved and put Into the form of leg
islation at an early date that will ren
der tho currency system >f the country
the more elastic and the less likely to be
affected by the fluctuations of values or
the demands for money at crop moving
seasons.
It is said to be unlikely that any defi
nite information concerning the work
of the subcommittee already accomplish
ed will be given -to the public at this
time.
To Call Extra Session.
Oyster Bay, August 13. -President Roose
velt's conference with the members of the
subcommittee of tiie senate finance com
mittee was not concluded until tho small
hours of this morning. The whole sub
ject of financial legislation nt the ap
proaching session of congress was dis
cussed thoroughly.
The committee did not present even a
tentative draft of a currency bill to the
president, although some propositions
which, subsequent!;, may be embodied in
the measure, were reduced to concrete
form, no definite conclusions as to the
shape of the proposed legislation were
reached. Tiie conference related rather
to methods of procedure in the work at
hand rather than t> tiie form of legisla
tion. At 11 o'clock some of the members
left Sagamore JI ill for Senator Aldrich's
homo in Rhode Island.
One fact of distinct importance was de
veloped at tiie conference. While an ex
traordinary session of congress next fall
is assured, it has not been determined
whether it. will be called to meet in Oc
tober or November. It has been supposed
tiiat the extraordinary session would
convene Monday, November 9, but the in
dications now are that it will be called
perhaps several weeks earlier.
The primary purpose of tiie extraordi
nary session will be to enact legislation
making operative the Cuban reciprocity
treaty, but financial legislation also will
be pressed upon the attention of congress
after It convenes.
Il can be said Hint tiie senate finance
committee will draft no measure formal
ly and conclusively until consultations
have been held will other members of the
senate, democrats as well as republicans,
with members of the house and with the
best authorities <n finance in the coun
try. It is the desire of the committee to
be constantly in uucli witli the president,
with other senators, witli members of
the house, with tankers of the west as
well as those of tie east, and with coun
try bankers as wall as city bankers, so
that some plan if legislation may bo
formed by the ojening of the extraor
dinary session of congress.
It is the hope of he committee to devise
a genuinely elastis currency system--a
system that will eipand when the neces
sity shall arise aid contract when the
necessity shall have ceased to exist.
Senator Aldrich, Then asked with ref
erence to Hie visit, said:
"We talked wilt Hie president about
financial conditionsand tile need of legis
lative changes. No bill has been drafted
or agreed on. and tone will be until after
the fullest consultation with our demo
cratic associates of the subcommittee and
ail the members o tiie finance commit
tee. ft is, however our purpose to have
a bill m readiness; Or presentation to Hie
senate at the beginiing of Hie extra ses
sion, if one shall ft called in October or
November. We ar> hopeful that a bill
can be agreed lipin and reported that
will receive tiie approval of both houses
of congress and afprd pronjjjt and effi
cient relief to the business interests of the
whole country.”
PRESIDENT PIRDONS FOLLIS.
Testimony of tin Convict Was In
competent Until He Was Free.
Washington, Augist 10.—The president
has granted a parton to William Follis,
of Tesas. whose ftstimony is said to bo
essential in a muder trial pending In
Texas, in which J;mes Follis, a nephew
of the pardoned ann. is the accused.
William Follis is sid to be the only one
who can establish Hie identity of tho
dead man, an old nd well-to-do farmer,
and ferry tender in Henderson, Tex.,
named McDonald, but as he served a
term in the Detrot house of detention
some years ago, fter conviction in a
federal court in 'exas for counterfeit
ing. his testimony as incompetent under
the laws of the stfe until he was par
doned.
YOUNG GOES 00T Os
HIGH OFFICE.
But He Will Assume the Duties of
the Chief of Staff—Secretary
Will Issue an Order in Re
gard to Staff Chief’s
Duties.
Washington, August 14.— Secretary Root
tomorrow -will promulgate an order de
fining the duties of the general staff of
the army, which goes into effect under
the law August 15. The most Important
feature of tiie order is that in relation
to the duties of the chief of staff. On
this point the secretary says:
"Under the act of February 14. 1903, the
command of Hie army of the United
States rests with the conslittuional com
mander in chief, tiie president. The presi
dent will place parts of tiie army and
separate armies whenever constituted, un
der commanders subordinate to his gen
eral command; and, in case of exigency
seeming to him to require it, he may
place the whole army under a single com
mander subordinate to him; but in time
of peace and under ordinary conditions
the administration and control of th
army are effected without any second in
command.
“Tiie president’s command is exercised
through Hie secretary of war and the chief
of staff. Tiie secretary of war is charged
with carrying out Hie policies of Hie
president in military affairs. He directly
represents and is bound always to act In
conformity to Hie president's instructions.
Under the law and the decisions of the
supremo court his acts are the president s
acts, and his directions and. orders are
the president’s directions and orders.
Military Adviser to Secretary.
"Tiie chief of staff reports to the secre
tary of war, acts as his military adviser,
receives from him tiie directions and or
ders given in behalf of the president, an 1
gives effect thereto in tiie manner here
after provided.
“The chief of staff is detailed by the
president from officers of the army at
large, not below the grade of brigadier
general. The successful performance of
tiie duties of tho position requires what
the title denotes—a relation of absolute
confidence and personal accord, and sym
pathy between tiie chief of staff and Hie
president, and necessarily also between
Hie chief of staff and Hie secretary of
war. For this reason, without any
lion whatever upon the officer detailed,
the detail will in every case cease unless
sooner detailed, on the day following the
expiration of the term of office of the
president by whom the detail is made;
and if at any time the chief of staff con
siders that he can no longer sustain to
ward the president and the secretary of
war tho relations above describee.. It will
be his duty to apply to be relieved.
General Young will tomorrow issue or
ders relinquishing command of the army
assuming the duties of chief of staff ana
assigning officers of the general staff.
New Officers of General Staff.
Two general orders will be Issued by
General Young tomorrow as chief of
staff of the army under the new law.
The first states tiiat In compliance with
tho instructions of the president, he,
General Young, relinquishes command of
the army and assumes tiie duties of chief
of staff.
The second order announces the as
signment of officers of the general staff
''Assistants to the chief of staff. Major
General Henry C. Corbin, adjutant gen-
Cl ßrigadier General William 11. Coster,
Brigadier General Wallace F. Randolph,
chief of artillery.
War College Board—Brigadier General
Tasker 11. Bliss, president; Colonel Alex
ander Maykin, secretary; Colonel Wil
liam P. Hall, assistant adjutant general,
is designated acting adjutant general of
the army.
Heretofore all army orders have been
issued from the headquarters of the
army, adjutant general's office, by com
mand of the lieutenant general. Here
after orders will be issued direct from
the war department signed by the chief
of staff and inscribed “official. W. I“.
Ifall, acting adjutant general.”
BAGGAGE MEN AS MAIL CLERKS
Innovation. Has Been Decided Upon
by Postmaster General.
Washington, August 10.—Postmaster
General Payne has decided to make the
experiment of employing baggage men on
trains which are not provided with mail
clerks to take charge of, deliver and open
newspaper mall. This decision has been
reached after much consideration, and
in response to a petition filed by many
j <>f the leading newspaper publishers of
’ the country, who asked the postoffice de
partment to provide facilities for distri
buting open bundles of papers along tha
lines from trains which carry only closed
pouches.
There are a large number of such trains
and as tiie department is not represented
by an employee on them, the postmaster
general declined to assume responsibility
lor papers not inclosed in the pouches.
Second Assistant Postmaster General
Shallenberger then suggested the expe
dient of employing the baggage men to
take charge of the mail in such cases and
tiie suggestion was adopted. The plan
contemplates that the baggage masters
shall be sworn in as postoffice employ
ees and that they shall be paid for their
services. It is intended tiiat they shall
deliver the papers to those to whom
they are addressed at points along the
line from the car doors, thus saving much
time. _
LANGLEY DODGES REPORTERS.
Airship Man Is Tired of Newspaper
Surveillance.
Washington, August 10— Driven from
his quarters at the Quantico Club at
Widewater, Va., by the criticisms of
Truxton Beale and other members of
the club, and taking exceptions to what
they declared was his monopoly of the
club house. Professor S. P. Langley, of
air ship fame, has directed his chief
assistant, Manly, in charge of the flying
machine experiments, and the force un
der liis command to move to Clifton
Beach, 8 miles below Widewater. Pro
fessor Langley hopes thereby to get out
of the reach of reporters and conduct
his experiments In absolute secrecy. His
new headquarters are 8 miles from a
telegraph station. The newspaper men
at Widewater have prepared to follow
him to Clifton Beach and continue their
vigil over his operations.
STOMACH OF BILLY GOAT
IS SEARCHED FOR STAMPS
(Memphis, Tenn., August 12.—The stom
ach of a goat la to be analyzed by ex
pert chemists in an effort to account for
tho disappearance of a number of United
States revenue stamps, involving several
hundred dollars. A wholesale whisky
firm sol I five barrels of whisky to a
saloon keeper. The w-hisky was deliv
ered and left on the pavement in front
of the store. The proprietor's pet goat
ate Hie revenue stamps off the heads
ct the barrels and soon after a govern
ment Inspector Inspected the whisky and
found the necessary stamps missing, fin
thereupon confiscated the whisky.
The proprietor explained that the goat
ate the stamps. The inspector declined
to accept this explanation. After a con
ference it was agreed to kill the goat
and examine Its stomach to locate the
missing revenue stamps in order to pro
tect the saloonist from a heavy fine.
f Any bright boy who reads this advertisement
can start in business next week selling
EVENING POST
He can do it afterschool hours on Fridays
and on Saturdays. The work is pleasant, as
well as profitable. The only qualification
necessary is a willingness to wotk—no
money needed. We provide the capital.
Ten copies of tbe magazine are furnished free
of charge the first week. These are sold at
Five Cents a copy and provide tiie necessary
money to order the next week's supply.
HEZBnggSaXJMf I MHSWmMf—m
1N extra cash
PRIZES WILL BE
DISTRIBUTED NEXT MONTH
AMONG BOYS WHO SELL 5
OR MORE COPIES WEEKLY
If yon are willing to try it. we will send next
week’s supply and everything necessary
for making a success, including booklet
showing photographs and describing
methods of successful boy agents.
THE CURTIS PUBLISHING CO.
-411 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Pa.
EFFECT OF COTTON SEED DIET.
It Is Said. Cows Fed on Them Inva
riably Go Blind.
Though It did not take important ac
tion on any subject, the board of health
of Atlanta did gather some interesting
information at Friday's meeting.
They were discussing the dairy situation
anct the best food for cattle, when Dr.
Longino, the chairman, remarked;
"A dairyman told mo tho other day
that if a. steer is fed for six months on
cotton seed meal and hulls alone he will
go absolutely blind. I suppose that what
applies to a steer will apply to a cow
as well. That is something I had never
heard of before.”
Dairyman Hill, who was present to
give his views with reference to a dairy
inspector, said:
"Yes, sir, it's true. I can testify to the
fact, for I have had experience. If you
feed Cows on nothipg else but cotton
seed meal and hulls they will go st.irk
blind within three to six months. It will
fatten them all right and get them in
good shape, but it will make them blind
and it will make them act, too, as if
they were drunk. I have sold cows fed
on cotton seed to butchers, and they have
had to haul them Eway. Tho animals
were in such a condition that they could
only stagger around and could hardly
walk at all.
"I don't know why It Is they go blind
from eating cotton seed, but I via know
It. is a fact. If you stop feeding them
cotton seed they will gradually recover
their sight, but they will get. thin as i
rail, and then there Is no food on earth
that will fatten them again You can
fatten them one time on cotton seed
food, but it won't work on the second
trial.”
Here are some physical facts for which
It would be interesting to see a scientific
explanation. Possibly some one has one.
It would make interesting reading.
Dr. 11. G. Carnes, veterinary surgeon,
says tiie feeding of cotton seed meal and
hulls alone in the summer time will have
this effect, and will unquestionably injure
cattle where Injudiciously used, but
where fed in proper amounts and at the
right season, the cotton seed food is a
most excellent one.
Rich and strong in nitrogenous matter,
cotton seed meal attacks the spinal cord
and nerve centers of the animal, and has
practically the same effect on it that
whisky does on men. making them blind
and drunk, and eventually killing them.
For these reasons Dr. Carnes says it
should be fed sparingly in tiie summer
time, particularly.
“Cotton seed meal,” says Dr. Carnes,
"is the strongest, richest nitrogenous
food and tho best food that exists today.
When intelligently and judiciously used
it produces flesh and milk in abundance.
It contains 9 per cent oil, 43 per cent
protein, 2 1-2 per cent pnosphoric acid,
and 1 1-2 per cent potash, thus making it
a powerful stimulant. It should not,
therefore, be fed in hot weather except
in small quantities, as it affects the brain
and spinal cord, the seat of ad nerve cen
ters, producing Uindness and death. I
have been caned to uairies and round
four or five cows dead and eight or ten
prostrated or crazy to the extent of be
ing dangerous, in t.iese cases 1 nave
found that Hie owner hid b.ea feeding
gallon measures of cotton seed meal
tnree times daily. liis excuse was that
the demand for milk was so gieat he was
obliged to use this in order to supply
his customers.
"There is no question that cotton, seed
meal is a great fat and milk producer,
but should never bo fed except in small
quantities, it. at ail, in the summer time.
Ollier foods should always be given with
it tiiat tiie rumen or pouch may ba kept
1 comparatively full. Shade is essentia ,
1 yet this is often overlooked in hot weath
-1 er. Cotton seed meal has Ihe same effect
I on tho cow as whisky on a man and
1 the brute devours it at the cost of her
system. The dairyman should reme.mb r
that a cow's udder is neither a spring
nor an artesian well. The remedy in
such eases is a purgative and discontinu
ance of the use of the meal."
Do You Suffer with Piles?
Do they protrude?
Do they bleed?
Do they pain you?
Do you have mucous or bloody dis
charges? ~
I can certainly cure you. M rite me
fully. Advice perfectly free. Dr.
Tucker, 15 Broad street. Atlanta, Ga.
BLACKS AND WHITES CLASHED.
Shooting Affray on Public Road in
North Carolina.
Charlotte, N. C., August 10.—(Special.)—
As the result of five shots fired at as
many white men, in Long Creek town
shift yesterday afternoon, by Charlie
Shuford, a negro, Alexander Auten Is
dying In Dr. Monroe's hospital, in David
son; Charlie Liwing is painfully wound
ed in the right arm and side, and John
Lawing is painfully, if not seriously,
wounded in his right arm.
Charles Phillips and Mr. Utley, the two
other members of the party of five, es
caped injury, though both were shot,
the balls striking some parts of their
clothing.
Tiie five men were all in one wagon
returning from the camp meeting at
Reek Springs.
John Lawing, one of the Injured men.
came to Charlotte this morning in order
to have warrants sworn out for Charles
Shuford and Charles llolnjeA the two
men said to be guilty of making the
attack on the five men. Mr. Lawing .
went before Squire S. 11. Hilton and se
cured the papers and Sheriff' Wallace to
day mailed them to the sheriff of Gaston
county. Both the negroes named in tho
warrant live on the edge of Gaston, and
it is said that both are bad characters.
In speaking of the trouble yesterday.
Mr. Lavving states tiiat he nor any one
of his party provoked the negroes to such
violent acts; that, they met in the road
and that his party gave them more than
half of the highway, still the buggv
| occupied by the negroes ran against their
wagon. When the wheels of the tw
vehicles locked, thug causing some angry
words to be passed.
When Shuford and Holmes fired the
white men were unarmed.
HOSTS OF BLUE VETERANS
Arriving- in San Francisco for An
nual Convention.
San Francisco, August 12.—From now
on until next Monday there will be a
string of special trains pouring li|‘o
the city, loaded with visltlns; veterans to
the Grand Army of tho Republic encamp
ment. In addition to these special trains,
many thousands oj people will come to
tho city from all parts of* the country
on the regular and excursion trains.
Hotels and lodging houses are already
filling up rapjdly with the eastern vlsit
' ors.
■ Ip to noon 4 vesterday. 3.500 persons had
| passed through Ogden for this city with
i Grand Army of the Republic tickets
l iti is figured there, will b-- three hundred
| special cars or thereabouts, which, in the
f aggregate, will contain fully 70,000 per
: sons. Commander jn Chief T. J. Stew
art and party, from Philadelphia, now
at the Grand Canyon. Colo., are due to
arrive here on Saturday.
The Sons of Veterans are furnishing in
formation to visiting veterans and the uu
teau of registration is now fully engaged
with its dutips.
Special prders have been issued to ra
trojmeu by the chief of police to cqre
for thi ti.te.rans and treat them with
all courtesy during their stay hero.
Special arrangejnents have been made
to provide for any who have lost their
way and patrolmen will make .every effort
to get the visitors t<- their lodgings
A S2OO special cash prize for the
nearest estimate in the Port Receipts
Contest received during July or Au
gust.
YELLOV7 FEVER IN MEXICO.
Texas Border Threatened with Dire
Death-Dealing Epidemic.
Laredo. Tex., August 12.—1 n view of the
appearance of the yellow fever at Vic
toria. Mexico, about 70 miles from Mon
terey, on the line of the Monterey and
Gulf railway, the quarantine against the
yellow fever established hero has been
made more rigorous by the appointment
of an additional force of guards by the
stata authorities.
Both the state and marine hospital
service physicians are at present at
Monterey investigating the rumor to the
effect that yellow fever exists in that
city and will not return until tomorrow,
when an official report on the situation
will probably be made to the Washing
ton authorities.
The consensus of opinion is that a quar
antine against Monterey will be estab
lished. Should such action be taken It
would mean a complete temporary tie up
of railway traffic and would work great
hardship upon border merchants.
WRECK ON THE SOUTHERN.
Two Postal Clerks Injured, Passen
gers All Escaped.
Charlotte, N. C., August 10. —The wreck
of No. 35, the Southern railway’s fast
southbound train, 1 mile north of Gas
tonia. at 11 o’clock tonight, resulted in
serious Injury to Engineer Black and the
colored fireman, and to Postal Clerks
Birchfield and Sharpe.
Southern railway officials here declare
that the train ran Into an open switch,
but passengers on the train say that the
boiler exploded while the train was run
ning at an unusually high speed.
At any rate, while the train was run
ning about 60 miles an hour, there was a
loud explosion that was heard at Gas
tonia and beyond, and tho cars came
almost Immediately to a standstill. The
engine and tender were almost demolished
and hurled down the embankment.
The car containing the postal clerks and
all the cars except the last two Pull
mans were overturned.
The train was crowded, but no passen.
ger was seriously hurt, though a num
ber of people were bruised by the violence
of the explosion.
“Katy” Flyer in the Ditch.
Kansas City, August 11.—A dispatch to
the Associated Press from Sedalia, Mo.j
dated 12:40 a. m., reports the "Kafy
flyer. No. 6, is ditched near Shell City,
Mo., and the wreck is a bad one.
Railroad Gross Earnings.
United States Investor: The gross earn
ings of thirty-nine roads for the fourth
week of July were $12,405,532, against SIL
-019,567 for the fourth week of Jmi. I»0_,
an Increase of $1,385,965. Thirty-four
roads show increases ajid five decreases.
Since July 1 the roads referre to above
earned $38,148,482, an increase of $4.08i,<0l
over the $33,560,731 reported for the cor
responding period of last year. lor the
longer period thirty-four roads show in
creases and five decreases.
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