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THE NORTH GEORGIA (BUCCESSOR TO THE NORTH GEORGIA BAPTIST.) Entered at the postofllce at Cum- Bing, Ga., as second class matter. *V ■ iwm— 1 It Is the marrying parson who pro fits by the mistakes of others., chirps Life. Education, opines ihe Pitsburg Dis patch, is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. It is easy enough to make people cry if one has a dramatic gift; but tears, insists the Christian Register, whether shed in a theatre or in a revival meet ing, are not infallible signs of moral reformation. The incident of an American tally ho party trailing the British flag in the mud in a Canadian city is a text mere ly for remarks on the vulgarity of a certain form of tourists’ “patriotism’’ abroad. It has no bearing on the cor diality of international relations, as serts the New York World. The annual loss by lire in America is so large, complains the Birmingham Ledger, that it is high time to begin the reforms necessary to check the enormous loss of money. American houses are better fitted for losses by fire than for any other purpose, exceot shelter. It is high time fireproof houses that won’t burn were being erected in our country. A little girl was greatly interested in watching the men in her grand father’s orchard pitting bands of tar around the fruit trees, and asked a great many questions. Some weeks later, relates the Argonaut, when in the city with her mother, she noticed a gentleman with a mourning band around his left sleeve. “Mamma,” she asked, “what’s to keep them from crawling up his other arm?’ It is not wholly desirable that prop erty should ever be destroyed, but sometimes there are compensations, at least to the minds of the non-sufferers. The old toll bridge across the Hudson at Troy, remarks the New Haven Reg ister, will be missed by many as an old landmark, and by its owners as a great source of revenue. But it had served well for 105 years, and had ex tracted some millions of dollars in tolls, and somehow the mourning at its burning will not be universal. The only power which has been able to preserve law and order in Moham medan countries is England, whose king is sovereign over more followers of the prophet than even the Sultan of Turkey. Egypt and India and the Sou dan, argues the Brooklyn Standard Union, are examples of what can be accomplished by overwhelming force. Germany would doubtless be glad of the chance to show what it could do in Asia Minor and Armenia and Syria; but still more hopeful, because more nearly possible, is the expectation of an improvement to come about as the result of strong representations to be made to the new semi-constitutional government of Turkey. There is not much danger that the campaign against the fly as a public enemy will assume such propoitions that the species will be exterminated, or that there need arise a class of sentimentalists in defense of the par ticular members of the hugh family of the diptera against whom sanitar ians have declared war. A New Eng land entomologist, notes the Philadel phia Ledger, thought it necessary to sound a note of warning against the balance of nature that mankind would suffer more from the removal of the flv than it now does from its disease spreading habits. Justice required that this protest should have a hearing, but even a casual review of the measures that are being taken do not inspire much confidence in the hearts of those who echo Artemus Ward’s anathema against the fly. That a great deal can be done, however, to reduce the num ber of flies, to protect them from con tact with disease, and to limit their filth-spreading propensities must bo obvious from a moment’s considera tion of the conditions under which flies are bred and thrive. SOUTHERN MILLS LEAD' The North Outstripped in the Matter of Cotton Consumed. COTTON CENTER IS MOVING Consumption of American Cotton the Largest on Record---Visible Supply 3,052,000 Bales. New Orleans, I.a. —For the second consecutive year Southern mills have consumed more cotton than the Northern mills, according to Secretary Hosier’s report on the consumption of American cotton, made public on the tioor of New Orleans Cotton Ex change. Southern mills, up to close of tlie commercial year ending August 31, 1909, consumed 2,560,000 hales, against 2,500,000 hales consumed in the North. When the Hester report a year ago showed that the Southern mills had lor the first time gone ahead of those of the North by a narrow margin, it was generally attributed to unfavor able commercial conditions having had a more serious effect on the New England mills than on those of the South. % The figures created considerable stir among cotton men, for such results were hardly expected, although it had been reported for some time that Southern mills were increasing their bpindles at faster rate than Norhern mills, and that the expansion of cot ton manufacturing in the South was on a scale seldom known in any in dustry. For years the bulls here have been claiming that the centre of the cotton manufacturing industry of the world was fast moving from Lanca shire to the United States, and that eventually the centre would be estab lished in the South. Secretary Hester’s statement was taken as confirmation by the bulls of their predictions. The total consumption of Ame' ican cotton by the world was put as 13,116, 000 hales, the largest on record, larger by 1,004,000 bales than last year and larger by 505,000 bales than the larger consumption ever known before, which was two years ago. The total consumption of American cotton last year was 12,112,000 bales, while two years ago it was 12,611,000 The total visible supply of cotton was put at 3,052,000 bales, against 2,412,000 a year ago, and 2,932,000 two years ago. Mill stocks in the United States were estimated at 480,000 bales, against 300,000 a year ago, and foreign mills stocks were estimated at 1,160,000 bales against 1,123,000 a year ago. The spot cotton trade was treated to anew way of quoting the market, in accordance with a decision reached several mbnths ago by the Cotton Ex change authorities of the country. In addition to the grades, which have been quoted day by day for many years past, t'here were posted prices for strict ordinary, strict low middling, strict middling, strict good middling and middling fair to fair. There were quoted in addition to the standard grades, off colored, spot ted, light tinged, tinged, light stained and stained grades and many others. All these new grades, ninety-one in number, made the spot board a com plicated looking sheet of statistics in place of simple little columns of spot prices which have been posted every trading day for the last quarter of a century. The new' method of quoting spots is in line with the effort to make the market more valuable to both buyers and sellers, and also in order to make it conform to the national standards adopted some time ago by the gov ernment. BIBLE NOT ORIGINAL WITH LOPMILERS Story of Creation Older Than Bible, Says Professor Smith. Chicago, 111. —The Bible is not orig inal with its supposed compilers, ac cording to the opinions expressed by Professor Gerald B. Smith, of the fac ulty of the divinity department of the University of Chicago. “The story of creation and the deluge appeared long before the Bible was written,” the speaker declared. “Both of these stories were traditional in the early literature of tlie Babylonians. “The theologian of today is ac quainted, as the theologians of form er days were not, with the realty and vitality of non-Christian religion, and in the investigation of the Old Testa ment religion it has been found that many of its elements were derived from Israel’s contact with Babylon. The history of Christianity reveals the fact that Christian beliefs have grown and changed as Christianity has met with the secular forces of its history. There are elements in every pagan religion which every Christian is compelled to recognize as truth." TO TORTURE PRETENDER. El Roghi to Wear Wooden Shirt Studded With Nails. Tangier, Morocco. —For the purpose of torturing El Roghi, the rebel lead er and pretender to the Moroccan throne, until he tells where his wealth is hidden, the sultan has ordered made a wooden shirt studded with nails. El Roghi will be fastened in this contrivance and the nails will be pressed into his body. The bandit chief is known to have large sums in foreign banks which he obtained from foreign companies. However, he has persistently refused to give up any part of his wealth unless the powers would guarantee that he would not be put to death. JOBS FOR 3,000 CLERKS. Examinations for Census Positions to Be Held October 23. Washington, D. C. —The census bu reau announces that 3,000 temporary clerks will be appointed for the thir teenth decennial census, throughout the country, the first examination be ing held October 23 at the following cities: Alabama Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery. Florida Gainesville, Jacksonville, Key West, Miami, Pensacola, Tampa. Georgia—Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Macon, Savannah, Thomasville. Louisiana Baton Rouge, Lake Charles, Monroe, New Orleans, Shreve port. Mississippi Meridian, Vicksburg, Jacftson. North Carolina Asheville, Char lotte, Durham, Goldsboro, Greensboro, Raleigh, Wilmington. South Carolina —Charleston, Colum bia, Greenville. Tennessee Bristol, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville. Very few appointments from the October examination will be made be fore January 1 next and not. many will be made until April, 1910. The maximum force will be drawn about August, next year. These 3,000 appointees will be giv en salaries of S6OO per annum at the beginning, but promotions to S9OO per annum, at least, will be reasonably rapid for those who render satisfac tory service. All appointments will be on probation, subject to termina tion at one month or any period if the appointee does not come up to the requirements. In every case the appointments will be temporary and subject to termina tion as the exigencies of the service may require. All expire by operation of law on June 30, 1912. The average tenure of office will probably be about one year, but the general duration will range from six months to two years. Not one of these clerks will ue eligible for transfer into the clas sified service. TAFr TO 1 HAVEL 13,01)0 MILES. During Long Journey President Will Be in Touch With White House. Beverly, Mass. —During his long swing through the west and south, beginning September 15, President Tatt will be in constant touch with the white house by means of special telegraph wires. These special wires will be established in zones, and as soon as the president’s train passes from one zone to another the loops into the telegraph room at the wbue house will be rearranged. At almost any station along the route it will be possible for the president to send a message direct to the executive of fices in Washington The official itinerary of the presi dent’s trip shows the total mileage to be 12,759, of which 1,165 miles will be made on a steamboat down the Mississippi river. The highest point at w'hlch the pres ident will stop for any length of time is the rim of the Grand Canyon,which is 6,900 feet above the sea level. The lowest point for a stop is at New Or leans, which is but 5 feet above the level of the sea. Crossing the Rocky mountains, however, tlie president’s train will attain an altitude of more than 10,000 feet. Newsy Paragraphs. Mrs. Alice Webb Duke, divorced wife of Brodie L. Duke, was arrested in Chicago and spent a night in a cell at the Harrison street station. Mrs. Duke was arrested upon the com plaint of an automobile company be cause of her inability to pay S4O rent for a machine during the day. Frank Williamson and Florence L. Wood, of Brooklyn, N. Y., were mar ried in a Brooklyn hospital, where they are recovering from lullt wounds inflicted in a suicide pact. Their nearly successful attempt at death brought the young couple to their senses and at the same time won the consent of the girl’s parents to their marriage. Both Mr. a4 Mrs. Williamson are blind in one eye as a result of the shooting. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, the spiritual successor of John Alexander Dowie, and the deposed temporal potentate of Zion City, went to the county jail of McHenry county, at Woodstock, 111., in default of the payment of a SIO,OOO judgment rendered against him. He declared he gave up his liberty to “sustain an eternal principle.” The trouble is the result of a suit brought by Philip Mothersil, of the now tri umphant faction in Zion City, who charged the deposed leader with li belling him in his papers. The Canadian government has fol lowed ex-Persident Roosevelt's sug gestion by appointing a commission for the conservation of natural re serves. It is made up of representa tives of the federal and provincial governments, the universities and men particularly skilled in minerals, timber and other natural resources. Through the state department at Washington, Acting Secretary of the Navy Winthrop has received $14,000 from the Panama government, paid by it as money reparation in the case in volving the mistreatment of Ameri can naval officers and seamen at the hands of the police of that republic. Of this amount $5,000 is indemnity in what is known as the cruiser Colum bia incident, when several officials in uniform w r ere arrested, locked up and roughly handled in Colon on June 1, 1906. Indemnity of SB,OOO will be paid to the relatives of Charles Rand, a boatswain’s mate on the cruise. Buffalo, who was killed in Panama in September, 1908, and SI,OOO will be given to Joseph Cieslik, a sailor of the same vessel, who w r as stabbed at the time Rand was killed. TERMINAL DEAL OFF State Cannot Buy Land in Chat tanooga for W. & A. R. R. NO MONEY IN TREASURY Attorney General Hart Rule* That Treasury Funds Can Be Used Only For School Purposes. Atlanta, Ga.—Georgia will not pur chase the 87 acres near Chattanooga lor the Western and Atlantic termi nals at this lime, at any rate. Under a decision rendered by Attor ney General Hart at the request of Governor Brown, it is held that the moirey now in tne state treasury can not be used for this purpose, because this money was raised by a special tax levy for the support of the common schools. Theiefore, unless the options on the Chattanooga property can be extend ed until the state has the money for this purpose, the deal will be off and the chance to acquire the land will have passed. Governor Brown had doubts about the matter, and direct ed a communication to the attorney general. He slated specifically that he was anxious to comply with the request of the legislature in its reso lution if it could be done now. Gov ernor Brown says: - “The legislature of 1907-08 appro priated $2,500,000 for the common schools of the state for the year 1909. The state is short nearly $2,000,000 in meeting this appropriation. Under this statement of tact, would I be author ized to draw mv warrant and would the treasurer have the authority to pay this $69,000 for the purchase of this vacant land which we may pos sibly need for railroad purposes ten years hence?’’ After stating the facts in the case, Attorney General Hart decided as fol lows; "The money now remaining in the treasury ($160,000) was raised by a special tax levy and for the support of tlie common schools of the state. The teachers of the state have performed the service upon the faith of that promise that it would be paid them for their services. The teachers have ex ecuted their part of this contract and the state now owes them the money which it had pledged would be paiu them. For a subsequent legislature to divert the money and apply it to a dif ferent purpose from that which it was raised by taxation and pledged by the state, amounts substantially to the impairment of a contract, which is forbidden, both by the constitution of this state and the United States. In view of these conditions, there is at present no money in the treasury which could legally be used for the purchase of the land in question.’’ Under this ruling it would appear that the state can not use- the funds now on hand for any purpose other than that of the common schools, and this means a serious money situation in carrying on the necessary work of the land in question.” Under this ruling it would appear that the state cannot use the funds now on hand for any purpose other than that of the common schools, and this means a serious money situation in carrying on the necessary work of the state. A MURRAY COUNTY PHENOMENON. S. Treadwell’s Face Weaves Itself In to Marble That Covers His Tomb. Spring Place, Ga. —Slowly, as if painted by the hand of time itself, and as surely, the stern, rugged line aments of Smith Treadwell’s features are being worked in the solid mar ble that covers the tomb where for years he has slept beneath the soil of Murray county. In the massive rectangle of Geor gia marble —the world-famed “cre ole,” of black and white—now appear with a distinctness that grows more striking with each passing year, the strong, high and bearded features of the Murray county pioneer. It is not the stain of weather. It is not the corrosion of time. To all appearances, it is the gradual shifting of the fadeless black crystals that streak the eternal marble. The shifting has formed a face. The face is that of Smith Tread well. The gradual appearance of the face has been noticed for the past five years. COLQUITT WOMAN HEIR TO FORTUNE. Mrs. Florence Horne Soon to Come Into Possession of $75,000. Moultrie, Ga. —Mrs. Florence Horne, wife of John Horne, a farm tenant of Colquitt county, is to soon come into possession to a fortune worth $75,- 000. The property is the estate of a Mr. Wheeler of Emmanuel county, and is now involved in the courts, but attorneys for Mrs. Horne believe they have the fight won. Mrs. Horne was formerly a Miss Wheeler. Her mother was a Miss Florence Meadows. She married Mr. Wheeler in Emmanuel county. She w r as deserted three months af ter her marriage. A child was born to her, and the deserted mother and child • were brought into this county by the father of the former, and have resided in Colquitt and Worth for 50 years. The widowed mother secured a di vorce and married a man named Am mons, raising a large family. Flor ence Wheeler grew to be a young lady, married a poor farmer boy and has remained in very humble circum stances for all these years. CURES BLOOD, SKIN DISEASES, EC ZEMA, GREATEST BLOOD PURIFIER FREE. If your blood is impure, thin. dise “ e< \* hot or full of humors, if you have blood noison, cancer, carbuncles, eat ; jjrr gores, scrofula, eczema, itching, risings and bumps, swollings or suppurating sores, ft - pjJVicabby, pimpiv s kla . ulo era - pains, catarrh, rhoama pjUfP.Tf I tism, or any blood or skin dis {B. B B.) 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Guaranteed to cure or you money back. 921 TORRENT FROZE IN NIGHT. The phenomenon was one that I have never before experienced a run* ning river frozen solid iu a night. When we arrived the waters of this stream, tumbling over the great bowld ers and rushing through the tortuous channels, made a deafening roar. Gradually, but almost imperceptibly, the tumult decreased, while, worn out after a hard day, we fell asleep. A few hours later, when 'we awoke, a deathly silence prevailed, and on looking out, to my intense surprise, I found that the rushing tor rent of the previous night had been transformed into a solid mass of ice. In this region of extreme tempera tures I had on other occasions seen torrents frozen, but never under such startling conditions. On looking round we found that everything we possessed was also frozen solid, in cluding our saddle of mutton, which was merely a block of ice. We were ravenous, but we got no satisfaction from gnawing at lumps, of rock which ought to have been a succulent joint, and so, despite our hunger, we had to content ourselves with a lit tle tea —to make which we melted ice—and a few biscuits. —J. Claule White, in Wide World. If roses have thorns, man’s band In rough enough to heed not those, but the marvelous loveliness of the flower. SENSE ABOUT FOOD Facts About Food Worth Knowing. It is a serious question sometimes to know just what to eat when a per son’s stomach is out of order, and most foods cause trouble. Grape-Nuts food can be taken at any time with the certainty that it will digest. Actual experience of peo ple is valuable to any one interested in foods. A Terre Haute woman writes: “I had suffered with indigestion for about four years, ever since at attack of typhoid fever, and at times could eat nothing but the very lightest food and then suffer such agony with my stomach I would wish I never had to eat anything. “I was urged to try Grape-Nuts, and since using it I do not have to starve myself any more, but I can eat it at any time and feel nourished and satisfied: dyspepsia is a thing of the past, and I am now strong and well. “My husband also had an exper ience with Grape-Nuts. He was very weak and sickly in the spring. Could not attend to his work. He was put under the doctor’s care, but medicine did not seem to do him any good un til he began to leave off ordinary food and use Grape-Nuts. It was positive ly surprising to see the change in him. He grew better right off, and naturally he has none but words of praise for Grape-Nuts. “Our boy thinks he cannot eat a meal without Grape-Nuts, and he learns so fast at school that his teach er and other scholars comment on it. I am satisfied that it is because of the great nourishing elements in Grape- Nuts.” “There’s a Reason.” It contains the phosphate of potash from wheat and barley, which com bines with albumen to make the gray matter to daily refill the brain and nerve centres. It is a pity that people do not know what to feed their children. Thereare many mothers who give their young sters almost any kind of food, and when they become sick begin to pour the medicine down them. The real way is to stick to proper food and he healthy and get along without medi cine and expense. Ever read the above letter? Anew one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest.