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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.