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THE NORTH GEORGIAN
(BUCCESSOR TO THE NORTH
GEORGIA BAPTIST.)
EnUrd at the postofflce at Cura
mine, Ga„ as second class matter.
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The satisfactory thing about making
love to a woman, to the New York
Press, is she will believe you mean
it when she knows you don’t.
We would like to have a million
dollars, admits the Commoner, but
we’ve got several possessions that
we would not part with for twice that
amount of money.
To the Indianapolis News there is
just a suspicion that some of the
speeding motor cyclists have in some
manner got the notion that they are
attractively picturesque.
Remarks the Nashville American:
Business will have its periodical re
verses so long as a man who coqldn’t
pay cash for a wheelbarrow is able to
buy an automobile on credit.
A combination lawn-mower and mu
sic-box has been invented by a Jer
seyman. Now, suggests the New York
World, if he can invent an attach
ment whereby the machine will run it
self while the owner of the lawn sits
on the veranda and smokes he will
supply the great long-felt want among
those who own lawns.*
Says the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Chaos has come again in Morocco, and
each day’s events increase the prob
ability that intervention for the restor
ation of order and for the protection
of foreign interests will presently be
come imperative. Sultan Mulai-Kafid
has never been able to enforce his au
thority or to organize a really effec
tive government.
Nearly all the strawberries grown
in Texas are sold by associations who
have something to say about fixing the
price. Asa result, declares the Farm
ers’ Home Journal, the growers are
getting prices that pay them well for
their work, while the price to the
northern consumer is no greater than
it always has been* The difference is,
that the money goes into the pockets
of the grower and not into that of the
commission man.
The cigarette, once associated chief
ly with Spanish and Turkish smokers,
has attained a world-wide use, insists
the New York World. The consump
tion of manufactured cigarettes has
largely increased both in the Orient
and in Europe. In England they are
replacing the pipe, the sales of cig
arettes in the United Kingdom last
year amounting to $75,000,000, as
against $45,000,000 spent for smoking
tobacco. In this country the manufac
ture of cigarettes has reached the
enormous total of more than 55 bil
lions annually. Their indiscriminate
use by minors undoubtedly requires re
striction. How far their general sale
can be prevented remains to be seen.
People are incurably religious, sub
mits the Boston Transcript. That they
have an abiding interest in the themes
that religion has furnished the world
is shown by the widespread and pro
longed discussion which has followed
President Eliot’s recent exposition of
the so-called new religion before the
Harvard Summer school. What he said
was not particularly new, either from
him or for the world in general. He
has always expressed his views,
though perhaps never quite so ex
plicitly, on essentially these lines. It
is doubtful if he said anything which
it was a surprise to anybody who had
followed his public utterances to have
him say. Other leaders of liberal re
ligious thought have long taken a sim
ilar position, as many of them have
since declared. And yet the statement
by President Eliot of this religious
opinion has provoked comment, and in
some instances controversy, from one
end of the country to the other. The
ministers, who now seem to be espe
cially alert in their search for timely
topics, took it up in large number:? lhet
Sunady; their utterances, with the
earlier comments of the press,
now furnishing fuel for the flames of
an old-time theological discussion.
Even the humorist has taken It up,
declaring him the “six-foot of reli
gion.”
THE DECLINE IN COTTON
New York Letter Explains Slump
in Price of Staple.
MARKET WAS OVERBOUGHT
The South Ha* Sold Cotton to Amount of
$350,000,000 and I* in a Position
to Fight a Decline.
New York City. —The sudden de
cline in the cotton market came to
many like a flash out of a clear sky.
To others, after an almost uninter
rupted advance of sls a bale, a set
back of $2.05 to $3, such as occur
red then, was no more than natural.
Patten and other Interests are sup
posed to have reduced their holdings,
if they are not acutally out of the
market. Wall street houses have
been heavy sellers. So have the
rank and file of cotton traders. The
market had become heavily over
bought, and when bulls withdrew
their support, the price came down
with startling suddenness. Vigorous
hammering by bear leaders helped to
bring it about. The net decline for
the week Is comparatively moderate,
but bears predict that from now on
there will be a gradual sagging of
prices to a point where the spinners
will be induced to hold freely. For
eign mills have bought heavily this
season, but the American spinner
has, for the most part, held aloof. As
a rule, he claims that he could not
buy the raw material at existing
prices, and sell his goods at a profit.
Therefore, it either abstains altogeth
er from buying or else bought as lit
tle as possible. Also, thevre has been
a steady spread of the movement to
reduce the output of cotton goods so
many hours a day or so many days
in a week.
Of late the spot markets have
shown less snap, less activity and
strength. Liverpool’s spot sales have
suddenly dropped to a very small to
tal daily. The New York stock is
steadily increasing, as cotton can be
bought from the south at a profit.
Crop news has ween rather more
cheerful. The top crop of Texas and
some other states, may turn out to
be larger than at one time seemed
possible. Over election day there
was very heavy selling, supposedly
by Patten and other interests in New
Orleans and Liverpool. The bulls be
lieve that even a setback of 50 to 60
points in a day is no valid argument
against the proposition that, sooner
or later, prices must mount to a very
much higher level. In the Sully year,
when the price was around 12 cents,
and above, there were frequent set*
backs of 40 points or more in a day,
yet the price ultimately reached 17.55
cents. The exports are on a very
large scale and sfunners’ takings for
the season, despite the high prices
ruling, show a considerable increase
over those for the same period last
season. Liverpool has been buying to
liquidate straddles. At times both
American and foreign spinners have
been buyers of futures here. It is
contended that the south has sold
cotton to the amount of $350,000,000,
and is in a position to fight a de
cline, and is likely to do so. Crop
estimates from various sources have
ranged from 10,000,000 to 11,000,000
bales, while bulls refuse to listen to
argy estimates of the world’s con
sumption of American cotton of less
than 13,000,000 to 13,500,000 bales.
BLED BY BLACKMAILERS.
Thousands Extorted From Treasurer
of Big Four Railway.
Cincinnati, Ohio. —In the presence
of his wife and officials of the Big
Four railway, C. L. VVarriner, depos
ed local treasurer of the road, is said
to have confessed that the shortage
of his accounts, estimated at over
SIOO,OOO, was due to his paying black
mail to a man and a woman for the
last three years.
In his confession, Warriner is said
to have stated that he paid the black
mailers in all $75,000. The man to
whom this money was given is said
to have been an old employe of the
Big Four, and to have had knowledge
of an earlier shortage in Warriner’s
accounts. For keeping silent about
this shortage he demanded and re
ceived from Warriner large sums.
Steps will be taken to arrest him.
BURNED SICK FARMER’S CROP.
Kentucky Night Riders Destroy Crop
Valued at SIO,OOO.
Lexington, Ky.—Lying helpless in
bed, Thomas Stafford saw his tobacco
barn, with all its contents, a crop val
ued at SIO,OOO, burned by night rid
ers in Jessamine county. Stafford
had been warned to join the tobacco
pool put had defied the threats made
against him.
He was stricken recently with ty
phoid fever and this opportunity was
seized by his foes.
GUILTY OF PEONAGE.
Foreman of Railroad Gang is Given
Fine.
Asheville, N. C. ln the United
States court counsel for Robert Chris
tian announced that they would not
resist a verdict of guilty, whereupon
Judge James E. Boyd sentenced the
defendants to pay a fine of $2,500.
Christian, together with W. L.
Smith and W. A. Perry, railroad con
tractors, were indicted for peonage
alleged to have been committed by
them in Macon county in 1906, when
Christian, as foreman, was alleged to
have detained negro employees who
sought to escape from the construc
tion camps, and to have forcibly
brought back some who had escaped.
IMPROVEMENT OF HOADS.
Government to Secure Valuable Data.
Engineer* to Tour Dixie.
Washington, D. C. —The office of
public roads of the United Stales del U
partment of agriculture is preparing
to send an engineer and a photogi/
pher on a tour, beginning Novemy
1, through most of the south/
states, for the purpose of secuJ
accurate data, with explanatory J '
tographs, showing the present st?
of road building and maintenancqyj(
the south. The exact itinerary
not yet been arranged, but it is _
able that the party will follow! Q(
line of the Southern Railway thif
Virginia, North Carolina, Tenrv
and Alabama to Memphis, 1
down through the Delta coup
New Orleans, and thence e
through Mississippi, Alabair ry
gia, Florida and up the Atl/
board.
The investigation will i&tton g
assembling of much ini*. . .
useful data, not only ,n tn '
if road building in back il
opportunities for imp'
the standpoint of th<ac; Best SI
tour will be excec, Cotton Outi
as it will afford •
comparative studJiated Sugar 1
gravel sand-clay 3.4 patent $3.2
of road under
climate, topog sack of Flour t
in addition to none y and payyo
will be mad
burnt clay r* F,our sometime
delta, and a; n be bought for to
at Greenvi’ . , . . . .
der the an be bought elsewl
States a bargain counte
study, Remnants of Dry G
suits fJg money by picking u
ing S °in /“vertising is often tii
ties. fc, and will allowance
A*S t
nitely W sa y that we will sel
that eje above mentioned price
qj ’.je sure to come in and s
sire/ds elsewhere. We will s
Cl "iat the priees may be. In
iqmost first cost from now 1
Ptock gets picked over and r
j;
f a tWe have a few Buggies to
f >offins t Caskets, etc. .
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frankia
all mmmmmmm—m •—
stat</ e are pl ease d to learn that Mr.
of Anderson Estes who has been
!' ! jpite sick fqr sometime, is improv
vvjp g.
5 Drs. O. L. Barnwell and W. D.
Martin, of Alpharett, spent a few
T \ours in town Wednesday.
\There are 20 pupils in school
o" u lre from near Bethlehem. Thac
dcfapeaking well for the settlement.
Ums!( r - auc * Mrs. Candler Clement
doubl| children, of Big Creek, spent
with relatives here
origin!
GreentCte was an extra large crowd
from aii a y er meeting Wednesday
some yc J
daughter
Davis wed
ing existedsught to see the Avery
Greene Took) Disc Plow before you
Yount and )lows for this fall, — S. J.
when theyj kut< Buford) Qa
Cannon Wa.\
South Bend, \d & Otwell, Heard
of the United SU a j_ e a p ee p their
sentatives, is maltF r r
the franchise of tHT\abouts, etc. They
of the Central Lef&
the club to Danville,\
believes a good ball n Echolg
vertise Danville. V 5
Mrs. Jno.
Newsy Paragre t the
The Journal of the BA
monical association says 111110016.
ilteration of the usual mai
the surface of the planet Mkof Coal
ing the September observation* ~
gloomy yellow veil indicates a t
tic catastrophe of some kind, v last
change may be connected with ...
abnormal electrical conditions of U IC!S
sun. at
“It looks at this time that if prop
erly handled, the national congress
will make the waterway movement a
certainty this winter on a contract
basis. There has been no convention
lu the history of this country looking
to the development of the inland wa
terways which has had such an effect
upon public sentiment as the one we
are now holding here.” Reviewing
the immediate work of the great gath
ering and looking into the immediate
future, President W. K. Kavanaugh.
of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Water
way association, just before the con
vention adjourned at New Orleans,,
summed up what had been accom
plished by the convention and the
lesults likely to accrue at an early
date.
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—Rev. Dr.