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GEORGIA BAPTIST.)
Entered at the post office at Cum
mine, Ga., as second clasß matter.
The great tribute to women, thinks
the New York Press, is bow good they
are in spite of men.
Dr. Osier, a sexagenarian himself,
is compelled to admit, notes the Wash
ington Star, that advancing years do
not prevent a man from giving peo
ple something to talk about.
The law of supply and demand as
it applies to coal, explains the Chic
ago Record-Herald, amounts to this:
Mr. Baer supplies as much as we find
it necessary to use and demands what
he pleases for it.
"I won’t say a word to anybody
cither in confirmation or denial,” re
plied President Tuttle of the Boston
and Maine when asked if he was about
to retire. The New York World com
ments: "Tutt, tutt, Tuttle!’’
There are times when the Courts,
backed by public opinion, can send
unworthy hankers to prisons, hut the
lime has yet to come when these two
agencies can keep them there, moral
izes the Philadelphia I-edger. Why
so large a proportion of the executive
clemency afloat should settle on un
worthy bankers is a chronic mystery.
Rural carriers are under contract to
deliver mail only when the roads are
open and passable, and routes are
not allowed where toads are not well
made and kept in good condition the
greater part of the year. The move
ment for better highways, claims the
Epitomist, is backed up by on ‘ in
creasing number of important consid
erations.
Discoursing; on morals, the New
YorWPjournal says: Honesty would
take all the conductors from the
street cars and from the trains and
give them better and more profitable
work. There is no real wealth in this
world except human intelligence, and
all human intelligence employed to
check the dishonesty of human be
ings is absolutely going to waste.
In former times debtors were put
in‘prison. That sentiment on the sub
ject has gone from one extreme to
another, thinks the Baltimore Amer
ican, is illustrated by th(! case of a
man in Pittsburg, sent to jail for
dunning another for .a debt. It was
the man who borrowed money who
used to be punished. Now it is tlfo
man who lends it, and maybe it serves
the latter right.
balneation it is, not research, main
tains the Louisville Courier-Journal,
for which our colleges are organized!
In an era of specialists it is well to
bear that in mind; well, too, to re
member that much may lie said in
favor of that old-fashioned “liberal ed
ucation” which made men, not prigs.
Such a problem is one, after all, in
which the laity have most at stake;
if tno college is in a formative state,
and it is, by confession of the experts,
plain people must help mold it wisely
and with discretion.
It seems, to the New York Tribune,
as If the Transvaal system of “trek
king” had overtaken our American
millionaires as regards their country
homes, for scarcely is one beautiful
estate completed (which brings neigh
bors of lesser wealth, though perchance
of greater Importance) than they pull
out, sell or close up indefinitely and
pnsh on, developing some other wild
tract into a luxurious domain, with
velvet lawns and formal gardens. The
call of the wild seems to have entered
the soul of the composite American
c itizen. His ancestors broke their way
through the wilderness to some spot
where the first home was built, and
have bequeathed their spirit through
generations of thrift and toil to these
wealthy spendthrifts. Even to the Par
West are good citizens of the Eastern
states “trekking” to build new pal
aces on reclaimed prairie lands, and
the day may soon come when one may
isotor by way of a chain of stately
mansions where friends reside from
4,ea to sea.
COMPOSER JF “DIXIE”
Daniel Decatur Emmett to Be
Memorialized.
MONUMENT TO BE ERECTED
Committee of Well Known Southerner*
Will Meet in Na*hville to Perfect
Plan* to Rai*e Fund*.
Nashville, Tenn. —The long list of
memorials which the south has erect
ed, i:n the past, to iier Immortals will
soon be augmented by a monument
to the lamented Daniel Decatur Em
mett, author of “Dixie.” This memo
rial has been considered and talked
of in the southern press,' but the first,
actual move toward its consummation
will c-cine at a meeting to be held at
Nashville between Colonel S. A. Cun
ningham, editor of the Confederate
Veteran; Colonel Walker Kennedy,
editor of the Commercial-Appeal,
Memphis, and A1 G. Field. These
three, for many years closely associat
ed- with the dead musician, have ap
pointed themselves a committee to
look after the collection of the memo
rial fund and are confident that, with
the necessary nead organization to
I lead, the south will come forward
promptly and generously.
As to the form of the memorial, it
is believed that the committee and
those whom they call into consulta
tion will favor a simple shaft of gran
ite or marble and most appropriate
of the unassuming personality of the
bard it commemorates.
Though many cities have asked the
honor of the location of the memorial,
Memphis being particularly aggressive
In her demands for recognition, Rich
mond, as capital of the Confederate
States, has practically been chosen,
and work on the monument will begin
there in the spring, it is believed.
Georgia is particularly interested in
anything that pertains to the memory
of Dan Emmett. While he was bom
a northerner, his vocation as a travel
ing minstrel and musician brought
him largely through the south, where,
in the early days of ills talents, he
was most appreciated. Georgia was
a favorite spot and in his studies of
economic conditions this state afford
ed him an ideal field of investigation,
and it is believed by many that here
be obtained the inspiration th,at begot
Dixie.
The poem was written and set to
music in the summer of 1859. In the
fall of that year it was first presented
for public approbation in the so-called
modern minstrel organiaztion, oi
which Emmett, was the creator. This
was in a northern city and the new
song gained popularity at once. A
few years later it pervaded the south
to such an extent that the land south
of Mason and Dixon’s line became
symbolical in name with the title of
the song.
The last appearance of Emmett was
in the winter of 1896-7. While on
tour that season the aged minstrel
celebrated his 84th natal anniversary
at Dallas, Texas, and the Daughters
of the Confederacy there presented
the old gentleman with a gold watch.
In the spring he sickened and retired
to his home in Mount Vernon, Ohio,
lost to public attention, almost to pub
lic memory until his death, which oc
curred in July, 1904.
FAKMEBS HAVt I§l TO INVEST.
Ready to Buy Railroad Securitiss if
Federal Control Be Assured.
Washington, D. C.—As a result of
his observations recently into the con
ditions p.mong the agricultural class
es in the west, Secretary of Agricul
ture Wilson is firmly convinced that
federal control of railroad capitaliza
tion would lead to large investments
in railroad securities by American
farmers.
The secretary expressed the opin
ion that if some government board or
official had the right to pass on pro
posed issues of railroad securities and
say whether they represented actual
property, it would give the farmers
confidence in such securities, and they
would buy them freely.
Secretary Wilson said that the far
mers were now buying automobiles to
a large extent, wheih indicated to
him that there were not many oppor
tunities for investment.
BANK ACCOUNTS GIVEN CHILDREN.
John Geldmacker Gelieves the Little
Ones Will Be Inspired to Save.
Bloomington, 111. —In an effort to
prove his theory that poor children
will be inspired with a desire to save
if (hey only have a bank account of
their own. John T. Geldwacker, a
member of the Chicago hoard of trade,
hns started one hundred and fifty
bank accounts for as man.v poor boys
and girls, putting a dollar to the cred
it of each in a Bloomington Bank.
NEGRO GIRL FREED.
Government Pardons Daughter of
General Miles’ Servant.
Washington, D. C.—“ Release that
woman at once,” is, in substance, the
older, which the acting attorney gen
eral has telegraphed to City Sergeant
J. C. Chichester at Fredircksburg, Va.,
after an appeal from an aged negress
for the release of her daugnier, Gtara
Rose Turner, from the Fredericksburg
jail.
The old negress' works for General
Miles’ family, and she had haunted
the department of justice in the effort
to get her girl, who is serving a six
months’ sentence on the charge of
sending obscene letters through the
mails, from the jail.
150 PERSONS PERISHED.
Lo*s of Lifa Greater Tha 1 t Firct Re
ported-- -Louisiana Crop* Ruined.
made necessary by the West. Indian
hurricane, which swept Louisiana and
Mississippi have found their task a
far more colossal one tham they ex
pected. Practically all of the isolat
ed country sections of the storm swept
area have now been explored. A con
servative estimate of the number of
people who lost their lives, as a result
of the hurricane, places the total num
ber at one hundred and fifty.
In spite of the work of the thou
sands of men brought in by the rail
read, telegraph and telephone compa
nies, New Orleans and many other
smaller cities in Louisiana and Mis
sissippi are still seriously handicapped
in the way of communication with the
outside world. Many miles of track,
trestles and bridges are yet to be re
placed by the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad.
Jackson, Miss. —The Illinois Cen
tral Railioad has a force of 400 men
at work in the Louisiana swamps re
placing several miles of track wash
ed away during the hurricane.
A report from the scene states that,
the bodies of nine persons drowned
during the dash of the tidewater
through the swamp have been recov
ered. Five of the victims were ne
groes. The agent at. a small station
and his wife and children perished.
Mobile, Ala. —News received here
from Biloxi, Miss., is to the effect that
500 people are homeless at Bayou La
Mannere, near the mouth of the Mis
sissippi river, and two lives were lost.
Water rose 8 feet in the houses, car
rying every structure away. People
saved their lives by taking to boats
and going up the Mississippi river. At
this place 182 head of stock perished.
The schooner Evd Foster lies on
the bed of the Louisville aDd Nash
ville Railroad track near Pearl river.
Refugees are coming into Biloxi with
tales of hardships and battle with
death, in which death the odds. Three
persons were drown at Bay St. Louis.
Parts of the big Perries Oyster facto
ry at Bay St. Louis have been blown
away. Twenty-nine vessels were com
pletely wrecked against the Bay St.
Louis bridge.
Baton Rouge, La. —Traces of the
hurricane are fast being removed in
the capital city of Louisiana. Large
forces of carpenters and laborers are
repairing the damage to storehouses
and dwellings and removing trees,
wires, poles and rubbish from the
streets. The havoc done by the storm
here was large. One woman, a negro,
lost her life, and the damage to prop
erty is conservatively estimated at
over half a million dollars.
Gangs of workmen are hurrying the
repairs on the state house. The dome
and other portions of the capitol were
damaged to the extent of $25,000. The
general property loss will amount to
$150,000, and the barges of coal, owned
by the Monongahela Coal Company,
which were sunk, are valued at $600,-
000. The damage along the river front
and to shipping of all kinds is esti
mated at $20,000. One item of dam
age in the capitol building which has
not been included in the estimate of
loss is the damage done to the rec
ords, all of wheih were more or less
damaged, some being practically de
stroyed, They represent years of la
bor and those destroyed can hardly
be replaced.
Two Dead in Auto Accident.
Americus, Ga.—ln one of the most
horrible automobile accidents ever
happening in this section, John K.
McClendon, one of the most popular
young men in Americus, and Miss
Ella G. Burke, an Americus woman,
were killed.
The car was evidently going at a
high rate of speed when the accident
happened, as it ran off of an embank
ment, turned turtle, caught fire and
turned the occupants.
Bringing Bisiiop Ward’s Body Home.
Nashville, Tenn. —A cablegram re
ceived here from Kobe, Japan, an
nounced that the remains of the late
Bishop Seth Ward of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, who died
in Kobe, will leave there on October
3, and will leach San Francisco about
October 22. The remains will be in
terred at Houston, Texas.
To Run First Train.
Nashville, Tenn. —It is announced
that the first passenger train over the
Madisonville, Hartford and Western
Railroad will run into Madisonville
on October 10th, by way of Hartford
and Irvington and then on to Louis
ville, making a direct line to the me
tropolis of the state.
Newsy Paragraphs.
A special dispatch received at Lou
don, England, from Kiev, Russia,
says that anti-Jewish riots broke out
in that city and that as a result twen
ty persons have been killed and sev
eral hundred injured.
While illuminating gas slowly as
phyxiated him, Salvatore Cerrano, a
violinist, fifty years old of Chicago,
calmly played Chopin’s funeral march
until, overcome by the poisonous
fumes, he died. He had broken the
gas fixtures in order to commit sui
cide. His violin was heard by other
roomers in the house, and soon after
the strains ceased, the smell of gas
caused an investigation.
With a home-made wireless station
that cost him just sl9 Eari Lamb, a
seventeen-year-old Toledo, Ohio, boy,
picked up the station at Atlantic City,
N. J„ and a few minutes later picked
up the cruiser Oklahoma on the At
lantic coast and the station at Cape
Cod, Mass. The feat in regarded a.
remarkable.
PROSPERITYFOR SOUTH
Cotton Now Selling Higher Than
in the Famous Sully Year.
HURRICANE CAUSED ADVANCE
The Market i in Control of Southern
Operator* and Record Price* Are
Looked for Thi* Season.
New Orleans, La.— Developments of
a sensational and far-reaching charac
ter have taken place in the coiron
market. The worst tropical storm ex
perienced in the cotton belt since
that of September 27-28, 1!)C6, caused
an advance of over 2 cents a pound
in cotton contracts, passed inland
over this city, leaving destruction and
desolation in its wake. The damage
to the cotton crop in nearly all sec
ions of Louisiana and of Mississippi
has been heavy, it being conservative
ly esimated that, as a result of the
storm, which was of the hurricane
type, the yield in thees two states
and in some portions of Arkansas and
of Tennessee, where the blow was
also folt, has been decreased at deast
250,000 bales. In addition to blowing
the locks of cotton out of the bolls,
the torrential rains that accompanied
the storm beat the cotton into the
ground, so that, little, if any, of it
can be picked ox the ground.
In the famous Sulley years, when
cotton ultimately sold at the 18 cents
level, no such prices as now prevail
were recorded until along in Decem
ber, when the bulk of the movement
was out of the way. At the top in this
market, December contracts sold as
high as 13.40 and January as high as
13.50. Some profit-taking was indulged
in at this level by the cautious bull
element, but the enthusiastic ones re
mained long, believing that he dam
age done by the storm has uot yet
been fully discounted, and that still
higher levels will be witnessed when
ihe complete extent of the damage
done is known.
For the first time this season, the
coton market is controlled by south
ern operators, friends of the south,
who are determined that. Dixie Land
shall reap the full benefit of as high
prices as the spinner can pay with
out closing his mills.
Before the storm, the fighting point
of the bulls was 12 cents; since the
storm the supporting limit has been
raised to 13 cents. Should the south
ern farmer aid his friends in the mar
ket by a gradual marketing of his cot
ton, there is no reason why, with such
a poor prospective yield and with such
a bright outlook for trade consump
tion, that average receipts should not.
sell around 13 cents from now until
January 1. After that date, with half
of their crop disposed of, the rest
could be held for still higher prices,
and it is within the range of proba
bilities that middling spots may ulti
mately sell for 15 cents a pound.
Even with a crop of only 10,500,000
bales, the net financial return on a
crop disposed of on the basis of 13
cents would be practically $700,000,-
000, without counting the extra in
come from the sale of seed, which is
now commanding in this section, any
where from S2O to $22 a ton. What
an inflow of wealth like this would
mean to the south is a matter for
the imagination to dwell upon. Dixie
Land would blossom as a rose under
the fair sky of prosperity, such as it
has not. known since ante-bellum
days.
TAFT PREACHES 10 MORMONS.
Great Congregation Heard the Pres
ident in tne Salt Lake Temple.
Salt Lake City, Utah.—ln the pulpit
of the famous Mormon Tabernacle, in
this city, where, four years ago, Hon.
Theodore Roosevelt, then president,
preached a long sermon on right liv
ing and the duties of goad citizenship
President Taft faced an audience
which, he said, inspired him to try to
follow in the footsteps of his prede
cessor and deliver a preachment. Mr.
Taft did preach a sermon —text and
all. The immense audience in the
flag-draped edifice, the splendid music
al programs of operatic and patriotic
selections, the enthusiastic cheering
as President Taft appeared and the
quick response of the audience to the
points which he endeavored to impress
upon his hearers, inspired, the presi
dent declared, to higher thoughts of
country and patriotism.
The president's sermon was an ap
peal for amity between the people—
for attributing the best rather than
the worst motives to the action of
others when possible to do so, and not
to harbor hatred or animosity.
“A soft answer turneth away wrath,
but grievous words stir up anger,” was
the text Mr. Taft selected from the
Book of Proverbs.
BALLOON FELL 600 FEET.
Four Men Killed When French Air
ship Exploded.
Mouline, France. —While passing
over the national road which leads
from Paris to Antibes, and when at
a height of .between 500 and 000 feet
the French dirigible military balloon
Republique exploded and fell to the
ground. The four men on beard were
killed. They were Captain Marchal,
Lieutenants Phaure, Vicenot and
Reux..
It was the intention of Captain
Marchal to stop at Nevers, and an au
tomobile containing mechanicians was
following the balloon. It was almost
directly beneath it when the hccidc.it
occurred.
IRIiSADE AtiAINST IffISMPTIOIi
$4,000,000 Appropriated During P*t
Year to Fight Tuberculous-
Washington, D. C.—Appropriations
over $4,000,000 for the suppression of
consumption have been made by 28
siate legislatures in session during the
past year, according to a statement is
sued by the National Association for
the Study and Prevention of Tubercu
losis.
Since January 1, 1909, forty-three
state and territorial legislatures have
been in session. Of this number 28
have passed laws pertaining to tuber
culosis; eight, others have considered
ouch legislation, and in only seven
states no measures about consumption
were presented. In all, 101 laws relat
ing to the prevention or treatment of
unman tuberculosis were consideied,
and out of this number sixty-four were
passed.
Of the sixty-four laws passed, four
teen were in reference to building
new state institutions. New state san
atoria for tuberculosis will be built in
Pennsylvania, Connecticut, where
three will be erected, Arkansas, Ore
gon, South Dakota, North Dakota and
Florida. In New York, North Caro
lina. Indiana, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire and Maine; appropriations
have been made for enlarging sana
toria, already-being built or in opera
tion. There are now twenty-seven
states where such institions have been
established. Every state east of the
Mississippi, except Illinois, West Vir
ginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, South
Carolina and Mississippi, have pro
vided hospitals fori tuberculosis pa
lients.
Five states, Illinois, New York,
Ohio, Minnesota and lowa, passed
laws giving their county officers the
power to erect tuberculosis sanatoria
without resorting to a special vote.
In Main, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
New Jersey, Michigan, lowa and Kan
sas, laws providing for the strict re
taining and registration of tuberculo
sis were passed. Only five other
states, including the District of Co
lumbia, have such laws. The Na
tional Association considers laws of
this character as the first requisite in
an organized movement against tu
berculosis.
Ten states have this year granted
nearly SIOO,OO to be spent only for
the education of the public about tu
berculosis. In some states traveling
exhibitions will be used, while in oth
ers lectures and literature will b,e
the chief means of education. *" Tne
states making provisions of this sort,
are California, New Jersey, New
York, Rhode Inland, lowa. Minnesota,
Porto Rico, Delaware and Texas
The statement of the National As
sociation calls particular attention to
one fact which shows the remarkable
interest in anti-tuberculosis work,
evoked during the past year, namely,
that fully one-third of '.he $4,000.0ne
appropriated this year is by special
legislation and for new work. The
last congress appropriated, in addi
tion to this sum, nearly $1,000,001) for
the maitnenance of the three federal
sanatoita in New Mexico and Color
rado. It. is estimated besides that, the
numerous' county and municipal ap
propriations made or to be made for
tuberculosis work for next year will
aggregate at least $3,000,000, making
the official public expenditures in the
United States for the wiping out of
tuberculosis at least $8,000,000
Killed His Wife, Then Himseil
Greenville, S. C. —Whit Galloway,
an operative in Woodside Mills, kill
ed his wife and then turned the gun
on himself.
Th® shooting awakened their little
girl, who rushed out calling for help,
but when the villagers rushed in the
remains of Galloway and his wife
were lying on the floor almost cold.
Domestic trouble caused the trag
edy, it is said. Galloway and his wife
were both of some prominence in the
section from which they moved to
Greenville.
Destitute People Will Be Sami
Washington, D. C. —Strandecl at
Nome, Alaska, one hundred American
citizens will be brought back to
attle, Wash., on a revenue cutter.
Telegraphic, orders were sent by As
sistant Secretary of (he Treasury
Hilles, directing the deputy collector
of customs at Seward, Alaska, to have
a revenue cutter proceed at once from
Seward to Nome, there to take on
board the one hundred men and worn
en who are destitute.
Gold Dicovered in North Carolina.
Charlotte, N. C. —Placer deposits of
gold which promise rich returns were
discovered in Catawba county, near
Hickory, this state. Hearing rumors
that gold was being dug up on the
place, the owners of the farm made
investigation, panning out the gravel
of a tiny stream which traverses the
place. Twenty tiny nuggets ox tm
pure metal were found in a short
time.
Check for Less Than $1 Legal,
Washington, D. C. —There is no iuw
which stops a man or woman from
writing a cheque for less than a dol
lar, despite reports to that effect, ac
cording to the treasury department.
A number of inquiries have leached
the department regarding a statement
that there was such a provision in
the penal cede about to go into effect.
Cotton (ill in Alabdina.
Montgomery, Ala. —Reports all show
(hat the cotton crop in this section
of the country is far off. A. B. Bran
sell, a worker for the national de
partment of agriculture, says that
there is a condition of no better than
.56, compared to .64 a month ago.