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THE NORTH GEORGIA!': j
(BUCCESSOR TO THE NORTH
GEORGIA BAPTIST.)
Entered at. the postoffloe at Cura
Kin*. Ga„ as second class matter.
A pretty face without mentality
back of it, announces the New York
Telegram, is like a rose without per
fume, but with this difference —a rose
Is always natural.
A prisoner, relates the Staffordshire
Advertiser, appeared at our county
Jail, bringing his own commitment.
.The constable, he said, was busy in
his harvest and could not come with
him. It was not until afteif he had
given his word and honor that he was
the person named in the commitment
that he was admitted.
The automobile horn is probably a
necessary evil, submits the New York
Tribune, but why should that type of
horn which suggests nothing so much
as the snort of a hurt and angry horse
he permitted? There are some forms
of siren horns which are almost melo
dious; there are other types which
are not intensely offensive, but the
injured horse type is an abomination.
By a curious horticultural irony,
notes the Westminster Gazette, the
dahlia, which is the popular idol of
all our early autumn flowers shows,
has a dreadfully prosaic parentage.
It has been developed from the Mex
ican tubers introduced about one
hundred and twenty years ago by the
Swedish naturalist, Dr. Dahl, for the
purely commercial purpose of sup
planting or supplementing the potato.
They did not “catch on,” and the
dahlia dish soon disappeared from
British dinner tables, but our garden
ers at once perceived the great po
tentialities of the flower and pro
ceeded to produce the double dahlia
and other delightful floral fantasies.
The tubers of the dahlia, too acrid for
our insular taste, are still eaten in
some parts of France.
If the plentiful orange tide will
continue to come from year to year
It will be a measureless blessing to
town folk and farmers, for no matter
what rivalry is brought against it,
winter or summer, the orange is just
about the best before breakfast fruit
that grows. It may be noticed, de
clares the New York Press, that since
the great flood of cheap tropical fruits
in the last ten years people some
how or other are losing their appetite
and relish for Northern winter fruits,
including the apple. Anyhow, it is
some consolation when good oranges
are two for a nickel while apples are
$6 a barrel. This Florida and Louis
iana increase will probably keep up,
because science is teaching orange
growers how to guard against sucfy
deadly devastating cold as the zero
weather in the South in February,
1899. Orange groves in Florida have
moved further south and old orange
groves are now more profitable as
truck farms.
It is hardly fair to cTiarge the press
with having reduced the dimensions
of the criminal lawyer by paying
more attention to civil suits than to
criminal prosecutions. It is by criti
cism of the tactics of a certain type of
criminal lawyer that the press has
brought that practice into discredit
that is certainly undeserved where
the criminal lawyer is a decent citizen
and not a jury fixer, argues the Louis
ville Courier-Journal. Possibly the
pendulum may eventually swing the
other way. It is the fashion of the
time to refer to many clients of civil
lawyers as “criminal corporations,"
and, indeed, many of them are truth
fully so described. So, after all is
said, our leading lawyers are often
engaged in “criminal practice,” al
though they are not defenders of life
and the sort of liberty that means
freedom from jail or the penitentiary.
Surely a clean criminal lawyer should
have a higher standing than—for the
sake of illustration —the attorney who
tells a millionaire corporation or in
dividual client how safely to rob the
people of a city, or of the country,
without being mulcted for the offense.
The one often defends a prisoner
who committed a deed of violence in
sudden affray. The other often serves
a client whose crime is planned ia
cold blood.
COTTON GRADES READY
Standards Are to Be Distributed
By the Government.
REFORM A GREAT BENEFIT
The Adoption of the Etabli*hed Stand
ards of the Different Grades Will
Help Cotton Interests.
Washington, D. C. —Ready for dis
tribution in about three weeks are
the sets of cotton standards which
have been prepared by the bureau of
plant industry, department of agricul
ture, under an act of congress mak
ing appropriations for the secretary
of agriculture to establish a stand
ard for the different grades of cot
ton, etc. Each set prepared repre
sents fine grades, and the price per
set has been fixed by the department
at $35. The bureau of plant indus
try has about 175 sets for distribu
tion-through purchase, in accordance
with the act, and it was officially
stated that the entire output had
been engaged.
The grades, as prepared under the
standardization act, are based entire
ly on color and dirt, and have noth
ing to do with the length and the
strength of the cotton fiber. The de
partment hopes and expects that the
next appropriation for standardization
work will provide for the inclusion
of these important factors in the
fixing of the grades.
It was stated at the department of
agriculture that the established
grades would have been made public
ere this but for the recommendation
of the committee of cotton experts
that they be held back, as the con
tracts for current deliveries had been
I based upon present practices. Some
cotton exchanges, however, have had
copies of sets, although they have
not ■ been formaly and finally passed
upon. Within the next three or four
weeks a committee of experts will
pass on the standards, and this last
formality will make the sets distrib
utable by sale.
The experts who will place the offi
cial o. k on the sets probably will
include, besides the department ex
perts, representatives of th£ different
interests of the trade, who have al
ready given assistance in the work of
standardization. Four or five experts
probably w'ill be selected from the
old committee, which inculdes James
Aker3 of Atlanta; Lewis M. Parker,
president of the Olympic Manufactur
ing Company of Greenville, S. C.;
Jules Mazerat, chairman classification
committee New Orleans cotton ex
change, and seven representatives of
eastern and southeastern cotton man
ufacturing companies.
Officials of the department of agri
culture said that they entertained no
misgivings for the adoption of the
work of the standardization commit
tee by the cotton interests. They
feel that an ideal standard has been
prepared, and its acceptance will be
universal. The Farmers’ Union is un
derstood to have endorsed the grades
as now officialized. The adoption of
the grades, however, is not compul
sory, as in standards of weights and
measures, but there is no doubt that
the established standard for the dif
ferent grades of cotton, doing away
as it does with hurtful inequalities
because of the absence of a uniform
standard, will be generally accepted
by the cotton interests as a reform
of great benefit.
NUMBER OF U. S. EMPLOYES.
370,065 Fersor.s Are Now on the Fed
eral Payroll.
Washington, D. C. — The personnel
of Uncle Sam’s establishment is in
creasing by leaps and bounds, the
grand total of all federal employees
at present being approximately 370,
065, as against 306,141 in 1907, a.
increase in the two years of about
64,000 persons, or about 20 per cent
These and other interesting facts
are brought out in the official regis
ter, cP government’s “blue book,” for
1909, which shortly will be issued.
The new publications will show that
there were 28,947 persons in the fede
ral employ in Washington on July 1,
last, the annual pay roll for them be
ing $31,541,225, an average of near
ly sl,lO each. This total will be tem
porarily swollen next year by the ad
dition of about 3,000 persons to the
clerical force of the census bureau,
adding nearly $5,000 in salaries dur
ing the year, or more of their em
ployment. v
The treasury department, with 6,
996 persons, takes the lead of all
the government departments in
Washington in the number of em
ployees, while the executitve offices
end the list with only forty-three em
ployees.
CHILE TO BOYCOTT UNITE!) STATES.
Chilean Merchants Say Alsop Claim
is Unjust.
Santiago, Chile—The attitude of
the United States government in the
matter of the Alsop claim held by
the United States against Chile is
producing an effect upon the busi
ness of the country. Chilean buyers
are cancelling orders for American
products pending a decision.
Iquique, Chile.—The popular feel
ing here is that the Alsop claim of
the United States against Chile is
unjust. A public ineeting was held
at which it proposed to boycott Amer
ican importations unless the United
States desists from pressing the
claim.
WOMEN HILLED DEFENDING M C N.
Mother and Daughter Are Killed in
West Virginia Feud.
Williamson, W. Va. Firing from
the doorway of their home on a sher
iff’s posse to give their father and
brothers time to escape, Mrs. Charles
Daniels and her 16-year-old daughter
were shot to death near Devon, Min
go county, by the officers.
The shooting of Mrs. Daniels and
her daughter grew out of a family
feud between the Christians and Dan
iels on the border of Kentucky and
West Virginia. The Christians lived
in Mingo county, West Virginia, and
the Daniels in Pike county, Kentucky.
About three weeks ago George
Christian ventured to the Kentucky
side, and was slain by Jim Daniels.
Christian and Daniels were brothers
in-law, and had formerly been allies.
After the killing of Christian the
two families and their friends became
involved. The Christians secured war
rants for Jim Daniels and his brother
Charles and led a posse of Pike coun
ty officers to the home of the Daniels.
When the officers approached within
a few feet of the house, Mrs. Daniels
and her daughter opened fire with
rifles, one of the posse receiving a bul
let in the arm. The two Christian
hoys and their father opened fire.
Mrs. Daniels was shot down in the
doorway, but the 16-year-old daughter
stood over the prostrate form and
fired upon the posse until she dropped
dead across her mother, pierced by
three bullets.
The officers closed in, but by for
feiting their lives, the mother and
daughter had so effectually covered
the retreat of father and brother that
they made their escape.
COMPEL MEN TO MARRY.
So Says Preacher in a Sermon to Chi
cago Congregation.
Chicago, lll—"There is only one
good reason for not getting married,
and that is ill health,” said Rev. Fred
erick E. Hopkins, in Pilgrim Congre
gational Church. “A medical exami
nation for matrimonial purposes has
more to commend it than such an ex
animation for life insurance.
“The state should compel men to
marry for the same reason it com
pels education, and in some countries
military service. It is for the wel
fare of the state that there should
be the largest number of homes and
a normal and regular increase of pop
ulation.
“Brutality and criminality are usu
ally the only valid reasons for di
vorce. Neither party should he per
mitted to marry again in less than
three years, and, in most cases, the
offending party, ne^er.
“If, after a suitable acquaintance a
girl woudl like to marry a man, hut
he does not ask, then let her ask
him. Why not? If she wants him,
she will probably give him a. good
many hints, anyhow. So why not
speak out and ask for what you want?
It is a useless conventionality and a
silly custom, any way we look at it,
to stick to the old-fashioned way.
“Some young men are simply too
bashful for their own good, and a
nice girl ought to help out a little.”
1909 MTTOIHROP.
Final Reports Place It at 10,625,000
Bales.
New Orleans, La. —The Times-Dem
ocrat, in presenting its correspond
ents’ final reports on the cotton crop
of 1909, states that the concensus of
opinion points to the following re
suit in bales:
Alabama 1,050,000
Arkansas . 725,000
Georgia and Florida 2,000,000
Louisiana . .. 350,000
Mississippi .. .-. .-V *. 1,100,000
North Carolina .. 725,070
Oklahoma 625,000
South Carolina 1,150,000
Tennessee 300,000
Texas 2,600,000
Total 10,625,000
Correspondents report that farm
ers have hitherto been disposed to
sell freely at current prices, but are
now inclined to hold the remnant.
no slaveryiTafrica.
Stories of Brutality Are Denied by
the Portuguese.
New York City—The wide-spread
allegations of deplorable conditions
in Portuguese, East Africa, particu
lar in the Islands of San Thome and
Principe", credited by recent English
and American writers to the exis
tence of a cruel slave trade in Afri
can negroes among the planters, were
denounced as unwarranted fabrica
tions by Colonel J. A. Wylie, fellow
of the Royal Geographical society of
England, who arrived here from
Southampton after a two months’
investigation of conditions in Portu
guese, East Africa.
The African's condition is wonder
fully improved as a laborer for the
Portuguese in contrast with his home
environment in Central Africa, said
Colonel Wylie.
Assassin Shot French General.
Paris, France. —An individual, be
lieved to be insane, having an imag
inary grievance against the war de
partment, shot and seriously wounded
General Verand on the steps of the
Hotel Continental. The man was ar
iested. Later it was learned that he
had mistaken General Verand for
General Brun, minister of war.
Cotton Crop of Egypt.
Cairo, Egypt. According to the
best authorities this year’s cotton
crop will amount to something un
der 6,000,000 cantars, as compared
with nearly 7,250,000 cantars in 1908.
A cantar is equivalent to about a
hundredweight.
AMERUNSJOIITira
Cannon and Groce Were Treat
ed Cruelly By Nicaraguans.
NICARAGUA NEWS CENSORED
Letters and Te. -grams Deposited at
Managua Are Confiscated By
Zelayas’s Orders.
Panama. —Reports reaching here de
clare that Cannon and Groce, the
Americans over whose execution the
United States government and Pres
ident Zelaya of Nicaragua are on the
point of conflict, were tortured before
they were shot.
Cannon and Groce were shot 25
hours after their capture, and while
they were weak and almost prostrate
from the cruelties to which they had
been subjected.
Soldiers are said to have stabbed
them with bayonets, beaten them with
sticks, kicked them, strung them up
by the hands and put pistols at their
heads to frighten them into telling
what it was supposed they knew
about a revolution aimed at the over
throw of President Zelaya. It is dif
ficult to obtain complete details of
the cruelties the men had to enduie
before their death, because they were
killed in an old fort called El Castil
lo, where there was little chance of
what transpired being communicated
to the outside world.
A Nicaraguan revolutionist, who has
just arrived here from Biuelieids, re
ports that Cannon and Groce were
taking bearing sights from a height
in Costa Rican, and not Nicaraguan
territory, when they were . captured.
They were with only three soldiers
of the revolution when Zelaya’s troops
crossed the frontier and put them un
(ler <HT6St.
Letters written at Managua and
smuggled on board a steamer at Co
rinto arrived in Panama bringing tlie
first authentic news from the capital.
The letters state that the situation
at Managua is chaotic beyond de
scription. President Zelaya has sur
rounded himself with a strong guard
of picked loyalists and the presiden
tial palace is a fortress. Martial law
is enforced with a rigorous hand.
Crowds that gather on streets are
dispersed with bayonets, hundreds of
men suspected with sympathizing
with revolutionists have been thrown
into prison. The jails are overflow
ing. It is impossible to communicate
with the outside world from Managua,
either by mail or telegraph. All mail
deposited in the Managua- postofhce is
inspected by the government, and as
a rule is confiscated. No mail arriv
ing at Managua is delivered -until it
has been opened by a censor and if
it contains the slightest reference to
the revolution is destroyed. No for
eign newspapers are allowed to enter
the country.
The telegraph office is under the
complete control of Zelaya, and no
messages can be sent unless they
have his o. k. .
One of the letters received in Pan
ama closes with the following para
graph; “We are praying that Godwiii
cause some foreign power to inter
vene in the name of humanity, and
put an end to the anarchistic condi
tions that exist in Nicaragua.”
Washington, D. C. —The state de
partment is still without information
from the American vice consul at
Managua, Mr. Caldera, and the ( strong
inference is that his dispatches have
been intercepted by the Nicaraguan
officials under President Zelaya at
least to the extent of cutting tele
graph wires. The department has no
doubt that Mr. Caldera has attempted
to communicate with it several times
during the last week or more. Owing
to the absence of specific information
sought to he obtained through Vice
Consul Caldera and other agencies,
the officials here undoubtedly will de
lay, at least, for a time before taking
definite action.
A dispatch received from Bluefields
reassures the United States as to
whether American interests or Amer
ican citizens are being interfered with
by the revolutionary army. In effect,
the dispatch states that great care
is being exercised to protect Ameri
can interests.
TROUBLE FORJUBA.
Retirement of President Gomez is Be
ing Sought.
Havana, Cuba. Not since the
downfall of the administration of
President Palma has the political at
mosphere of Cuba been more obscure
and more laden with suggestions of
trouble than at the present time. The
re-established republic is scarcely 9
months old, and rumors have become
persistent that some way is being
sought to secure the retirement of
President Gomez.
GIiOULTIAKE BABY’S iiOBY.
Fiends Rob Grave of Infant Son of
Montana Millionaire.
Great Falls, Mont. —One of the most
fiendish crimes ever committed in
this vicinity was brought to light
when the sexton of Highland Ceme
tery found that some time during the
night the grave of the infant son of
Harfield Conrad, son of William Con
rad, the Great Falls millionaire bank
er and former candidate for the dem
ocratic! vice presidential nomination,
had been opened and the body of
the child made away with. The only
reason which can be ascribed for the
crime is that the perpetrator desired
to hold the body for ransom. The
child died a year ago.
150 CORP3ESJFUUND.
Conceded That No More Men Are Living
In Cherry, II’.; Mine.
Cherry, ill. —After more than one
hundred and fifty bodies had been
discovered in the St. Paul mine ef
forts to carry them to the surface
were temporarily abandoned while an
effort was made to check a fire which
agaiQ threatened the main shaft.
The mine has been sealed, and will
remain so for weeks.
That no men survive in the mine
now is generally conceded.
An accurate count of the victims
has not been made, but it is now be
lieved all but a score of the missing
men have been accounted for.
The bodies discovered were found
five hundred feet from the main shaft
on an elevated surface, where they
had retreated before the advancing
water and fatal black damp. They
died after a strugle that may have
continued for two days.
Messages, scrawled on wood and
the natural slate cropping from the
walls, placed the number of dead at
one hundred and sixty of one nundred
and sixty-eight. One message said;
‘We are all here to die together.”
This is accepted by mine officials
as indicating that many men whose
escape from the second vein had been
cut off by fire had descended to the
lowest level, and that less than a
dozen bodies will be found in other
sections of the mine.
TrCONSERVTFUEL.
Railroads Making Tests to Determine
Waste of Fuel.
Washington, D. C.— Ninety million
tons of coal, one-fifth of the total pro
duction of the country, were consum
ed by the fifty-one thousand locomo
tives in the United States' in 1906 in
hauling freight and passenger trains.
This fuel cost the railroad companies
$170,500,000.
This enormous consumption of coal
by the railroads led the United States
geological survey through its techno
logical branch, to conduct a series of
tests on a locomotive to determine
whether or not there could be a sav
ing to the country in the amount of
fuel used and the results have just
been announceed in a bulletin of the
survey.
Professor W. F. M. Goss, now dean
of the University of Illinois, who
has charge of the experiments makes
the statement that of the total, ninety
million tons of coal used, ten million
and eighty thousand tons are lost
through the heat in the gases that are
discharged from the stacks of the lo
comotives; eight million six hundred
and forty thousand tons are lost
cinders and sparks; five million and
forty thousand tons are lost through
radiation, leakage of steam and wa
ter; two million eight hundred and
eighty thousand tons are lost through
unconsumed fuel in the ashes; and
seven hundred and twenty thousand
tons are lost through the incomplete
combustion of gases. In addition,
eighteen million tons are consumed
in starting fires, in moving the loco
motive to its train, in backing trains
into or out of sidings and in keeping
the locomotive hot while standing.
“Under ideal conditions of opera
tion,” says Professor Goss, “much of
the fuel thus used could be saved,
and it is reasonable to expect that
the normal process of evolution in
railroad practice will tend gradually
to bring about some reduction in the
censumtion thus accounted for.
WHY THE CHURCHES FAIL.
Bishop Williams Says It’s Because
Church Doesn’t Do Duty.
Kansas City, Mo. —That America is
in a worse state .of class conscious
ness and social stratification than is
England, and that the churches are
wasting time over the details of
creed and ritual instead of being the
leaders in declaring those spiritual
principles which are the guidance of
society, was declared by the Right
Rev. Charles S. Williams, Episcopal
Bishop of Michigan, in an address
here.
“The masses are leaving the church
because the church does not concern
itself with the vital questions of the
masses,” he said.
“We have no right to turn away a
beggar because his breath smells of
whisky and receive into the front
pew a wealthy debauchee because he
helps support the church.”
Newsy Paragraphs.
The Manchester, England, federa
tion has recommended that the time
curtailment now in force in the cot
ton mills be continued until the end
of February.
Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, who has
been living in seclusion since her ex
communication recently by the moth
er church of the Christian Scientists
in Boston, announced that she has
resigned from the membership of the
First Church of Christ, Scientist,
New York, of which she was formerly
first reader.
A letter from Chief Forester Gif
ford H. Pinchot was read at the Na
tional Farm congress in Chicago. Mr.
Pinchot said that upon the develop
ment of the country’s farm lands de
pends the vitally important increase
in the food supply, and also the in
crease in the proportion of the popu
lltion which lives on the farms.
A bill was introduced in the Cuban
senate for the establishment, of a na
tional currency on the gold basis, and
similar to that of the United States.
The gold coins are to be of five, ten
and twenty-dollar pieces and the sub
sickary coins of silver, nickel and cop
per. The amount of coin issued is to
be determined by a currency commis
sion to be appointed by the govern
ment.