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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. •>Ti ' ... r... ' " "• 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. . F reY ... afq t V privilej 1 v ' 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. °tion “b( h trade. OgJ she! ~ \ No mai hood of 0 —Rev. Dr.