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THE NORTH GEORGIAN
(SUCCESSOR TO THE NORTH
GEORGIA BAPTIST.)
Entered at the postoffice at Cum
King, Ga., os second class matter.
Nature Is too busy to turn out band
some men, announces the Chicago
News.
The only state which requires
teaching of agriculture In public
schools Is Oklahoma. The school
course includes agriculture, horticul
ture, stock raising, flower culture, fer
tilizers, dairying, drainage, irrigation
and grazing. Neighboring states have
similar laws under consideration.
It Is not a pleasant thought to the
Washington Herald, that, perhaps,
some day the women of the country
will be marching down to the polls
and casting their votes, and, in heat
ed competition with the men, indulge
in scrambling for office; intellectually
and morally they do not seem fitted
for such practical politics.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
prints a picture of the three-master
North Bend, just back from the high
latitudes and docked for repairs. “Dur
ing the summer,’’ it tells us, “the j
schooner went far north of the Arctic j
circle, carrying supplies to govern- j
meat missionary stations and schools.
The little vessel had many gales and
heavy seas while landing cargo. In
several instances it was so dangerous j
that Captain Dyer kept his sails set, I
ready to put out to sea.”
Social service has become such an
artificial term, Insists the Christian
Register, that it has little relation to
the common duties and finest oppor
tunities which open before each indi
vidual. The nearest duty of every per
son, every church, every organized
community lies right at hand and is
commonly overlooked in what are
called plans for social service. Our
socius is our nearest neighbor, the
one to whom we are allied by our
common rights, duties and privileges,
the man or the woman with whom we
are compelled to work.
"Rooks” have progressed from the
days when they were only wooden
rods or bits of bark. For the deriva
tion that which connects “book” di
rectly with “beech,” both having been
“boc” in Anglo-Saxon, is the favorite
one. "Buchstaben,” the German word
for letters of the alphabet, explains
tne Pittsburg Dispatch, means literal
ly “beech-staves.” Many book words
go back to such vegetable origin. The
Latin “liber,” a book, whence comes
our library,” was properly the inner
•bark or rind of a tree, especially of
papyrus; the Greek “biblon,” whence
“bible” and "bibliophile,” meant much
the same thing ;a “codex” was a block
of wood; and “leaf” is obvious.
Why is it that the so called "paper
carts,” which are conspicuous in west
ern cities, have gained no foothold
here, asks the Boston Transcript? A
two-wheeled affair, containing a se
ries of racks which will accommodate
perhaps four papers of a kind (leav
ing the name only in slg,. w , but an
amazing variety of kinds, is one of the
street institutions of the middle west.
Perhaps the people are there more
cosmopolitan; a larger percentage of
them li'.ive clearly come in from some
where else, and as they pass back and
forth by the paper cart on the street
the tyopgraphical make-up of the
journal which was once on their daily
breakfast table catches tlje eye and
they become its purchasers. Of course
public libraries contain all these pa
pers, but to a stranger in a western
city it is a great delight to be able to
possess the home favorites. Incident
ally, any interior city has a larger
area of only one-day-old newspapers
than would a seacoast city with no
contributions from half the earth's
adjacent surface. Moreover, the old
home is still toward the east for most
Americans, and the cities which can
draw little from that direction lack
one of the essential qualifieations for
giving the paper cart patronage, since,
as its zealous proprietors say, selling
everything on a flve-cent basis. “We
are in business just to please the pub
lic.”
REPORT ON “PELLAGRA”
Malady Is a Grave Menace to
Southern Health.
CAUSED BY SPOILED CORN'
Disease Ha* Proved Veritable Scourge
in the Old World and Ha* Good
Start in Thi* Country,
Washington, D. C. —'Looming up as
a gravti menace to health conditions
in the south is the recent appearance
of a deadly disease known to medi
cal scientists as "pellagra.” This
strange malady is a veritable scourge
in th Old World, and the possibil
ity of its becoming endemic in the
southern states is by no means re
mote.
For several centuries "pellagra” Is
known to have existed in the Old
World, but its presence in the south
has been but recently discovered. It
proi ably lias existed l’or several years
in that section of the country, but
medical men have failed to recognize
its presence.
Now, however, this peculiar disease
has been diagnosed as true pellagra,
and the credit for its discovery in the
south belongs to Past Assistant Sur
geon C. H. Lavender of the public
health and hospital service. He has
made a thorough investigation of the
disease and has but recently made an
exhaustive report on his observations
to Surgeon General Weyman.
Pellagra is a malady caused by the
eating of spoiled maize, and produces
in persons afflicted with it a sort of
intoxication. The disease generally
occurs among the poorer classes of
the rural population, who subsist very
largely or exclusively on corn most
usually prepared by boiling corn meal
in salt water called “polentia” in It
aly. Dr. Lavinder states that In pel
lagrous countries the corn is often
of a poor quality, gathered before
maturity and not properly cured and
stored, so that parasites more easily
i develop upon it.
In the preface of his report, Dr.
Lavinder declares that there is rea
son tp believe that perhaps pellagra
may be quite prevalent in the south
ern states, but is unrecognized. With
in the past two or three years, for
some reason or reasons unknown, this
disease has rapidly increased in num
bers and extent of territory affected.
Pellagra bears a close resemblance
to the accepted description of pellagra
as it occurs in the Old World, al
though differently in some particu
lars, and the acute cases greatly pre
ponderate and the mortality is high.
“Since it is of a serious character,
and epidemic in nature,” declares Dr.
Lavinder, “knowledge concerning it
is becoming of much importance to
the American physician, and especial
ly to the practitioner in the southern
states.”
CUBAN OFFICIALS CLASH. ,
President and Vice President Lock
Horns.
Havana, Cuba.—The first serious
clash between President Gomez and
Vice President Zayas, which occurred
when the proposal was made to ap
point Ricardo Arnauto chief of the
secret police in place of Jose Jerez,
who resigned upon the demand of
Secretary of Government Alberdi, has
resulted in a victory for Senor Zay
as, who, it is believed, presented an
ultimatum that he would immediately
resign if the obnoxious appointment
was made.
Yielding to the urgent remonstran
ces and threats of the vice president,
and a storm of protest from all quar
ters, President Gomez announced he
would appoint Jose Ugarte chief.
Much relief is expressed that the
threatened trouble between General
Gomez and Senor Zayas has been
averted.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPH SAVES SHIP.
Air Message Calls Tugs to Aid of
Liner.
Norfolk, Va. — I The inestimable val
ue* of wireless telegraphy was again
demonstrated in Hampton Roads,
when a message flashed through the
air, telling of the collision of the Old
Dominion liner Hamilton with a car
barge of the New York, Philadelphia
and” Norfolk railroad, and calling for
assistance. Within five minutes tugs
were en route to the scene, and the
Hamilton, badly battered, but afloat,
was towed to her pier.
GARFIELD WILL RETIRE.
Secretary of Interior to Return to
Practice of Lav/ in Cleveland.
Wshington, D. C— James R. Gar
field secretary of the Interior, will
not be in the Taft cabinet, and he
will not be an ambassador of the
country abroad.
Secretary Garfield, in the course of
departmental business, admitted that
he would not be an advisor of the
next administration and stated that
he had made all preparations to go
back to Cleveland, Ohio, and resume
the practice of law.
GRAFT AT MESSINA.
Officials Diverting Funds from Suf
ferers.
London, England.—Convinced that
only American and English relief
committees are honest, Italian corres
pondents of English papers are urg
ing that donations to earthquake suf
ferers be turned over to them.
Charges of graft against officials are
made. Rioting has broken out among
the sufferers' at Calabria, who are
aware of the fact that they are not
getting the relief intended for them.
The mayor and prominent citizens of
Messina were prosecuted on graft
charges. The work of distiibuting
$2,000,000 relief funds is progressing
slowly.
PATTERSON SWORN IN
A* the Governor of Tenneuee for Hi*
Second Term.
Nashville,Tenn. —Malcolm R. Patter
son was inaugurated for his second
term as governor of this state at the
capltol.
tu Qis inaugural address Governor
Patterson referred as follows to the
killing of Senator E. W. Carmack:
“Our state is passing through the
shadows; ner people are divided; we
save fallen into the habit of distrust,
“There Is nothing proper 1 would
not do to relieve this situation; there
is nothing I have done to bring it
about, umess it has been my success
and the honest, open service i have
tried to render in return for the con
fidence of the people.
"But I am conscious that through
out the state men have repeated slan
ders, that some newspapers have cir
culated cruel and false charges and
have even gone so tar as to connect
me with a tragedy which I deplored
tar more than many who have sought
to make out of it a political asset and
to use it as a motive and incentive
for unwise, undemocratic and des
tructive legislation.
“So far as the injustice of all this
relates to me as an individual, or the
pain it ruthlessly and mercilessly in
flicts, It is of no concern to the pub
lic, but, as governor, the people of
Tennessee have a right to have the
office respected and my service in of
ficial capacity not impaired by false
and repeated accusations.
“if, as an official, I have been guil
ty of conscious delinquency, I am un
worthy of public trust and the people
have given me an office which I
should not hold and of which 1 should
be deprived.
If, in any way, directly or remote
ly I have'sought to encompass the
death of a fellow-man, I am. deserving
of every stigma that gentlemen may
place upon me, of any indignity and
punishment which law and society
can inflict, for I am the governor of
the state, clothed with the power of
pardon,, and the charge, therefore,
involves the basest and blackest tur
pitude.
RE-UNION SCOTTISH RITE MASONS
To Be Held in Atlanta’s New Temple
In April.
Atlanta Ga.—The dedication of At
lanta’s new Masonic Temple, now
about completed, will mark a general
revival among that branch of the Ma
sonic fraternity known as the Scot
tish Rite.
Plans are under way for a spring
reunion of the Scottish Rite to be
held In Atlatna next April, which will
bring to the city many of the distin
guished and prominent citizens of the
country, including Hon. Jame3 D. Rich-
ardson of Tennessee, the grand com
mander of the southern jurisdiction,
and the full official divan of the su
preme council, the chief governing
body of the rite, whose headquarters
are at Washington, D. C.
During the reunion the degrees of
the rite, fourth to thirty-second, inclu
sive, will be conferred with full cer
emonials for tho first time in Atlanta,
on a dedicatory class of more than
two hundred, representing every sec
tion of Georgia, and the handsome
and perfectly appointed apartments
of the rite on the upper floor of the
Temple will be dedicated and formal
ly opened. The apartments include
the largest stage of modern construc
tion yet erected in the southeast. Con
tracts for the scenery, more than one
hundred pieces, necessary to properly
exemplify the work, together with a
mammoth lighting plant, to cost ap
proximately 12,000, have been closed,
and will be installed as quickly as the
artists can complete the work
It is safe to assume that nothing
so ambitious as this reunion has ever
been undertaken by Scottish Rite Ma
sons of the southern jurisdiction, and
the indications are that Masonic stu
dents from all America will gather at
Atlanta to witness the ceremonies
and enjoy the work.
ADVICE TO POLICEMEN.
“Don’t Arrest a .Drunkard; Take
Him to His Home.”
. New York City. —Police chaperon
age of drunken men to their homes
instead of under arrest to station
houses, was one of the subjects in
cisively, if briefly, discussed by Po
lice Commissioner Bingham in testi
mony before the legislative commit
tee investigating courts.
“I think Chief of Police Koehler of
Cleveland has the right idea,” said
the commissioner. “If a Cleveland
policeman meets a drunken man or
even a disorderly person on the
street, he takes him home. A man
coming home from a dinner should
not bear res ted.”
Money Given for Airships.
Washington, D. C. —By voting an
appropriation of '5500,000 the house
of representatives made liberal pro
vision for further experiments by the
army, with balloons and airships for
use In warfare.
$500,060 Deal in Naval Stores.
Pensacola, Fla.—The largest deal
in naval stores property to be con
summated in the south In many years
was consummated here, when the
Williams Naval Stores Company of
Pensacola and Savannah, purchased
all of the property of the J. R. Saun
ders Company in this city, the con
sideration being $500,000.
Centrafiank Favored.
Washington, D. C.—A central bank
issue for the United States will be
the recommendation of the first na
tional monetary commission
The postal savings bank bill has lit
tle, if any, chance of enactment at
this session.
TRAGEDY OF THE SEA
No Clue to Identity of the Ship
That Foundered.
MAY BE A DERELICT VESSEL
Secret Hidden Beneath Wave* That
Roll Wildly Over Diamond Shoal*,
14 Mile* Off Cape-Hattera*.
Norfolk, Va.—Hidden beneath the
turbulent waves that roll wildly over
Diamond Shoals, fourteen miles oft
Cape Hatteras, N. C., the secret of
the identity of the mysterious steam
er, which went down there, probably
with all hands on board, remains un
told. -
The daylight of another day gave
no evidence, furnished no clue to cor
roborate the testimony of those few
aboard the Diamond Shoals lightship,
who witnessed, helpless to aid, this
latest tragedy of the well named
“Graveyard of the Atlantic.”
Neither the government weather
station nor the local commercial wire-
less station, received any additional
news relative to the ill-fated vessel.
No definite news has come to the
Norfolk navy yard from the revenue
cutter Onondaga, which is at the
scene of the reported disaster.
The Savannah Line Steamer City
of Savannah, which arrived at Sa
vannah from New York, brought no
news that might aid in clearing up
the mystery, although her wireless
operator caught the message from the
lightship, and was positive that the
ship was described as a single-fun
neled vessel.
The wind, which blew off shore at
a velocity of 45 miles an hour Sat
urday has moderated to some extent.
A moderate northwest wind blowed
off Hatteras. As long as the wind re
mains in that quarter any wreckage
or flotsam from the ship probably will
be driven far out to sea.
The reporting of the Carolina Steam
ship Company’s steamer Theodore
Weems, which passed in Cape Henry,
bound from Georgetown and Charles
ton for Baltimore, removes that ves
sel from consideration as possibly be
ing the ill-fated freighter.
OLDEST MAN IN COUNTBY
Dies in West Virginia Aged One Hun
dred and Fifteen N'ears.
Wheeling, W. Va. —Henderson Cre
means, known to be the oldest man
in West Virginia, and probably the
oldest man in the United States, died
at the home of his grandson, Clark
Cremeans, near Point Pleasant, Ma
son county, aged 115 years. He was
strong and hearty to the time of his
death, falling by the roadside on bis
way liome ffibm the grocery store. He
was removed home and died a few
minutes later. His father and moth
er are to have been the first
couple married west of the Blue Ridge
Mountains, ip Virginia. His mother
died at 120;] his wife at 101. He was
one of the first settlers of the Ohio
valley, coming here from Virginia at
the age of 18. He has 70 grandchil
dren, 131 great-grandchildren, and l 9
great-great-grandchildren. He never
tasted liquor or tobacco in his life.
TAFTjN PANAMA.
President-Elect and Party Arrive in
Canal Zone Safely.
Colon, Panama. President-elect
Taft made his eighth trip across the
isthmus, and everywhere was greet
ed with marked demonstrations of
good will. With his party Mr. Taft
landed at Colon and proceeded by
special train to Culcbra, w'hcrc he
is quartered at the residence of Colo
nel Goethals, chairman of the Pan
ama canal commission. His reception
by the Panaman officials, both at Co
lon and Culebra, was most cordial.
The United States cruiser North
Carolina, on which Mr. Taft sailed
from Charleston and the convoy
cruiser Montana arrived at Colon,
after a voyage that was marked by
splendid weather conditions. All
members of the party weer in good
health. __
EXPERInoIiRAUE COTTON.
Official Standard To Be Fixed by Gov
ernment.
Washington, D. C. —The personnel
of the committee of expert cotton
classifiers, which will meet here on
February 1 to establish an official
standard for the various grades of
cotton, in conformity with an act- of
congress, was announced by Secre
tary of Agriculture Wilson, as fol
low's:
James A. Airey, New Orleans, La,;
J. S. Akers, Atlanta, Ga,; Clinton B.
Baker, Lowell, Mass.; F. M. Crump,
Memphis, Tenn,; John Martin, Paris,
Tex.; George W. Neville, New York;
Lewis W. Parker, Greenville, S. C.;
Nathaniel N. Thayer, Boston, Mass.;
and Charles A. Vedder, Galveston,
Tex.
CUBA GIVEN CUBANS.
Gomez Takes Oath and Americans
Sail Away.
Havana, Cuba. —Major General Jose
Miguel Gomez was inaugurated presi
dent of the restored Cuban republic,
and w'ithin an hour after he had tak
en the solemn oath of office, admin
istered by the chief justice of tne
supreme court, the American officials,
who had been in control of affiairs
since the autumn of 1906, had depart
ed from the island.
The American provisional governor,
Charles E. Magoon, who escorted
General Gomez to the palace and
there turned over to him the reins
of government, sailed on the new
Maine for the United States.
great saving in coal
Waste Coal Prove* Voluable When It Is
Made Into Briqu t .
Washington, D. C.-MUlions ot ton,
of coal may be saved to the court ry
through the invest iga ions Unlte( j
technologic branch of th the
States Geological survey into the
briquetting of coal. For several }
.his branch of the government has
been conducting a series of expert
ments in the hope of stopping: t
tremendous waste m the_ u <
and one of these was the making of
briquets out of slack or waste n c °“l
This fine coal, which has not nearly
the value of the lump coal because
of the difficulty in burning it i* :
od with five or six pet- cent of
gas pitch and pressed into cakes or
bricks by powerful machinery.
Several hundred tons of these br
quets were made at the
plant at St. Louis, Mo., and later a
Norfolk, Va. This prepared fuel was.
used in a number of tests by differe t,
railroad companies, and in eYer ?™2\
stance the briquets furnishedl more,
power with less weight of fuel than
the run-of-mine coal from the
mines. They further showed less
smoke than the coal and indicated
that their proper use at te rTnmal
might, do away with a large part of
the smoke nuisance from the railroads,
in the big cities of the countrj.
] In co-opferation with the navy de
partment, a series of tests we s®,
made on the torpedo boat Biddle off,
Hampton Roads and the briquets
weight for weight with the coal, suc
-1 ceeded in generating much more pow
er, but there was very little differ
ence in the amount of smoke,
i To the navy these tests are of the
greatest importance. The fact that'
the briquets give more power thqji;
the coal means that a vessel carrying
two thousand tons of briquets will be
capable of steaming a farther dis
tance than one with two thousand
tons of raw coal. In time of war this
would be very desirable, especially if
the fleet were in foreign waters, far
from coaling stations.
A report on the results of these
tests has just been made to the Ge
ological Survey by Professor W. F.
M. Goss, consulting engineer in
charge of locomotive tests. He sees
many advantages tc the railroads in
the use of briquets. *
The tests as a whole indicate that
many low grade coals, now consider
ed useless may make an admirable
fuel and thus add to the supply of
the country which is being used ala
rapid rate.
SOUTH CAROLINA’S VOTE LOST.
Messenger of That State Has Not
Reached Washington.
Washington, D. C. —The electoral
vote of every state has been delivered
to the vice president save that of
South Carolina and Montana. Mon
tana’s vote-bearer is repcMM tir be'
on the way, but the South Carolina
messenger is unaccounted for up to
date. Only the indulgence of the vice
president can save the belated mes
sengers from a fine of SI,OOO each.
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.
Luis T. Navarro, a student in the
national college of mines in the City
of Mexico, Mexico, has applied to the
Mexican government for a patent on.
an instrument which he claims will
foretell earthquake shocks with the
same certainty that a barometer
gives warning of a coming storm.
The young inventor refuses to go
into details regarding his invention,
but declares that it will tell with un
erring accuracy, at least six hours
previously, of a pending shock in n
given region. 1’
Peter Wambold shot himself dead
in a telephone booth in a Brooklyn
drug store after calling up his wife
and instructing her to listen for the
shot. “I am going to kill myself, as
T can’t stand things any longer,” he
said over the telephone.
The earth shocks at Monteleone,
Italy, average a dozen daily and ap
parently they are increasing in num
ber and intensity. The refugees aie
in a constant state of alarm and the
vast majority of them have decided
to emigrate to America as soon as
they can secure transportation.
Chief O’Brien of the Chicago city,
detective bureau, has devised anew;
scheme for curing automobilists of,
the scorching habit. He proposes to
establish a rogues gallery for reckless
chauffeurs. “Reckless driving in Chi
cago is going to stop,” says the cap
tain. “I intend to start a gallery of
these fellows who persistently violate
the law. I shall keep a list of their
names together with an account of
the accidents for which they have
been responsible. I’ll use it not only
to get heavier sentences for them
when they are brought into court, but;
to keep them out of jobs. I figure
that no decent citizen wants to hire
a chauffeur who has killed or maim
ed several persons.”
Governor Ansel of South Carolina
will not veto a state wide prohibition
bill, which appears certain to pass in
the present legislature, although the
prohibitionists are not strong enough
to pass it over his veto. He was
elected on a local option platform,
but he would not say positively what
he would do. It is understood the
prohibitionists have been led to feel
sure he will not oppose them.
In an opinion handed down at
Jackson, Mississippi, the supreme
court of that state sustained the va
lidity of the anti-trust statutes, which
had been a subject of attack in the
Hinds county chancery court, and
holds that the alleged cotton oil mill
trust has been guilty of violating,
these statutes.