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K-H-bCCESSOR TO THE NORTH 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.