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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. 7