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THE NORTH GEORGIAN
(SUCCESSOR TO THE NORTH
GEORGIA B-APTIST.)
Entered at the postofflc* at Cua
King, Ga., as second class matter.
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Civilization, defines I’uck, means
morn and more middlemen living oil
the fellows at the ends.
The Irish may or may not get home
Mile In Ireland, but they already have
It In America, boasts the Atlanta
Journal.
The “hired girl” 1n many tastar/cee
1b a wanderer, through the ccaidl
tlons of her railing, writes the New
York Mall. The demand Bar domestic
service Is always greater than the
Bupply, and so the. profe*sors of do
mestic sc.fence -can move from place
to place, be reasonably sure of -em
ployment wherewsr they h?o and earn a
comfortudsile living whfie seeing the
world. Jk number of these wandering
cooks tend houremaids, it would seem,
iar‘ nrtt looking for work; they are
looking for experiences. Some of them
stay just. long enough to decide that
ttre butcher boy, the lee man and the
bnlkere’ and grocers’ assistants are un
interesting. Then they move on into
a mew social circle.
•One Of the great restraints upon the
sundering of the marriage tie, cites the
Springfield Republican, is the public
ty supposed to attend the performance,
anil the causes leading up to it. Most
couples who come to find their married
life hard to endure will hesitate a long
ttlme before consenting to undergo a
public trial or exposure of their
troubles or transgressions. Increasing
ly frequent as divorce is becoming in
America, few will venture to affirm it
would not become much more frequent
if divorces were obtainable in secret.
Yet in secret, so far as the courts are
concerned, has it come to pass that
■divorce is 'obtainable in New York
■state among the wealthy, where di
vorces seem to he especially numer
als. This secrecy of divorce for the
rich is fast reaching the dimensions
of a public scandal.
Two men were talking together, nar
rates the Columbus, Ohio, State Jour
nal. One said of a third person, “He’s
a dirty dog.” It Is quite common for
people to speak In this eplthetical way
of others and to ascribe to them some
low qualities that usually lit animals,
scoundrels or devils. It Is a very poor
habit and reflects more upon the men
who are guilty of the habit than upon
those against whom the bad names
are directed. If one would go to the
bottom of this habit and see what it
really means he would, for his own
sake, endeavor to extricate himself
from it. He would easily see that it
was an expression of prejudice, spite,
111 will, hatred and not of candor, good
will or justice. It must not be implied
from this that a man must not hold a
bad opinion of another. It simply
means, if there is room for a good
opinion, take that, and there is not,
disparage and denounce the offence,
■which calling a man names does not
do.
It is the practice of some dealers to
take the oysters from their beds in
the tidal bays and lay them down for
a short time in fresh or partly fresh
water at the mouth of a creek. Asa
result the oysters are whitened and
bloated, and in that condition they
are shipped to market It is supposed,
says the New York Tribune, that they
sell more readily and for higher prices
than they would In their natural gray
color, and, of course, it does not take
so many of them to measure a quart
after they are bloated. Whether the
federal authorities are right in re
garding this as "adulteration” need
not be discussed here. The question
will be authoritatively disposed of in
due time. Sanitarians will, however,
observe that no better way of infect
ing oysters with typhoid fever could
well be devised than by thus laying
them down at the mouth of a stream
which is an open sewer for towns and
cities, while consumers should not
need to be reminded that it destroys
the natural flavor. We are glad to
say that this foolish and harmful prac
tice is less common than it was a few
years ago.
PEARY TURNED DM
Rank of !Rear AimiraJ Denied
The Explorer.
MAY BE GIVEN GOO MEDAL
Hi/sitf 'Committee Reports Againit Pro
motion of Man Who Had Ten
Years of Absences.
'Washington, D. C —“ Commander”
Robert E. Peary, discoverer of tlie
North Pole, will not be given the
■r/iuk of rear admiral in the navy as
.proposed in recognition of his serv
aces as an explorer, if congress ap
proves the action of the sub-commit
tee of the house committee on naval
affairs, which voted to report ad
versely the bill offered by Senator
Hale and Representative Allen. The
committee of six members voted
unanimously against bestowing the
honor upon Mr. Peary.
A letter from Secretary Meyer, was
received by the house committee, giv
ing Mr. Peary’s naval record, and
stating that he should be designated
as "civil engineer” and not comman-.
der.
Secretary Meyer said Mr. Peary en
listed on October 26, 1881, and that ne
had had a total of more than ten
years in leuves of absence, the sec
retary spoke of Mr. Peary's discovery
of the pole as “self-imposed,” but of
most commendable task, having no
military or naval significance, and
recommending ttiat Mr. Peary be re
tired as a civil engineer with the
rank and pay of a rear admiral.
Members of the committee express
ed antagonism to any idea of “pen
sioning’’ Mr. Peary with increased
pay, although they thought congress
might favor the idea of giving him
a gold medal.
The salary which Mr. Peary would
have received as a rear admiral, U. s.
N., retired, for the remainder of his
life would have been about ?6,000 a
year.
Washington, D. C. —A wide opening
of the breach between line and staff
officers of the navy gives promise of
being the almost certain outcome of
the turn down given bills to make
Robert E. Peary a rear admiral and
place him upon the retired list.
Upon the highest authority, it is
asserted that the staff officers attrib
ute the action of the house sub-com
mittee on naval affairs failing to en
dorse the bills to the pressure brought
upon it by the navy department, which
it is alleged practically was dictated
by the line element. Not only did
the department go on record as op
posed to Representative Allen’s bill,
which it was asked by the committee
to consider, but it became known that
it is having a statement prepared set
ting forth how much Peary has cost
the government in the course of liis
arctic explorations.
This statement, it is said, has been
asked for by the opponents of the
explorer, who contrived to have it
brought before the house committee
or used it in an attempt, to humiliate
Peary before the public, had it become
evident that congress was seriously
considering making him a rear admi
ral.
88 PERSONS DROWNED.
Ship Lima Strikes Island in Magellan
Straits.
Santiago, Chile —The Pacific Navi
gation Company’s steamer Lima Is
ashore on one of the islands of the
Huamblin passage of tlie straits of
Magellan and will probably be a total
loss.
The British steamer Hathumet res
cued 205 of the persons aboard the
stranded steamer, but was forced to
leave 88 persons aboard, whom it was
impossible to rescue.
dk.Touk again found.
Explorer Said to Have Been in Chilean
Port.
Valdavia, Chile —Ur. Frederick A.
Cook, the Arctic explorer, and his
wife arrived here on board the Ger
man steamer Osiris, having taken a
cabin at Montevideo. Dr. Cook trav
eled under the name of T. Craig. He
declined to be interviewed.
The steamer Osiris sailed from
Hamburg, January 1. Presumably she
touched at Montevideo, where the
Cooks are said to have boarded her.
To Rebuild Tybee Hotel.
Savannah, Ga—lt has been decided
that the burned hotel on Tybee Island
will be rebuilt and that too for the
approaching season. Of the necessary
amount F. B. Stubbs furnishes the site
and $25,0U0, while citizens must raise
$50,000.
Drops Dead in Court.
Gulfport, Miss— Ex-Judge T. S.
Howell dropped dead while present
ing his argument in a case before the
United States commissioner here.
Death was due to heart trouble.
Dollar for Ordinary Broom.
New Albany, Ind—Housewives may
within a few months be compelled to
pay a dollar for an ordinary broom,
is the discouraging prediction of the
large manufacturers of this commou
ity. Evansville factories are reported
to be offering three times the normal
price for broom corn and And it an
ovtreniely scarce article even at that
figure.
Alabama Fights Hook Worm.
Montgomery, Ala.— Alabama has
begun the fight on the hook worm.
Dr. R. G. Perry, vice president for
the state, appointed at the recent At
lanta conference, inaugurates the
work in Pike county under direction
of the state department of health.
IMPORTING EGYPTIAN COTTON
Shipment* of Fleecy Staple from Far
East Sent to Carolina Factoriaa.
Charleston, S. C. Six hundred
bales of Egyptian cotton have been
shipped by rail from Charleston to
the upper part ol’ the state in the
last few days, this being the first
case of the transportation ot foreign
grown cotton into this .port for Caro
lina liner by way of Liverpool, re
versing the usual order of cotton
shipping. More of it is coming, it is
announced, and extensive experiments
are being made with tiiis staple,which
is cheaper than the American product
and somewhat inferior to American
cotton. tl has been found to be
practicable for manufacturing pur
poses and Charleston bids fair to be
come an important importing center
for the foreign staple used in South
Carolina mills. Already a consider
able quantity of this cotton has been
imported into South Carolina, but it
came by way of New York.
While Egyptian cotton is now being
imported, much American cotton, es
pecially sea island cotton, the highest
priced cotton grown, has been export
ed for English and German mills this
season.
“DRY” LAWDEAiT lN MEMPH IS.
Prohibition a Failure and Even the
Courts Laugh at It.
Memphis, lenn. —Replying to a me
morial presented by the Law Enforce
ment league of Memphis city and
county officials made formal declara
tion with regard to certain statuory
laws, especially state-wide prohibi
tion.
Embodying his own views and in
behalf of members of the municipal
commission, Mayor E. H. Gamp is
sued a statement pointing out that
Memphis had indicated an opposition
to prohibiion and, in his opinion, he
could accomplish more in enforcing,
regulative measures and inaugurating
municipal improvements than “in
striving to secure something 1 believe
is opposed by the great majority of
the people of Memphis.”
Judge John T. Moss, judge of the
first criminal court, while assuring
the committee presenting the memo
rial of his sympathy in their endeav
ors, evplained that a judge alone can
not enforce a law.
CHILDREN IMITATE BIRDS AND FISHES.
The Pupils of Pittsburg Are Being
Put Through an OrdeaL
Pittsburg, Pa —The pupils of the
sixth ward public school, north side,
are learning to imitate the bird and
the fish, an art which they name
“aeroplane swimming.”
Professor Walter W. Shook has
adopted the use of small biplanes in
the course. Sara Herzberger,. a 14-
year-old pupil in the school, demon
strated the new game by gliding
from a high balcony by means of the
biplane and as she reached the pool
she shook her “wings,” turned a som
ersault and dived into the water. Pro
fessor Shook hopes next summer to
take his human fish birds out to the
rivers and ponds to glide from high
boats, bridges and banks.
CRIME IN 81. LDUiS.
Over Seven Hundred Robberies Re
ported in Twenty-One Days.
St. Louis, Mo.—While the police de
partment has been busying itself for
the past three weeks investigating
itself because of a shortage of be
tween $17,500 and $25,000 in the Re
lief Association funds, criminals have
been having a merry time. For twen
ty-one days seven hundred and twen
ty-eight robberies have been entered
on the police records. Included in
the list of crimes for the period are
one hundred and forty-nine burglar
ies, four hundred and eighty-five rob
beries by sneak thieves and twenty
three highway robberies.
DYNAMITE WRECKED POOL BOOM.
Well Known Cincinnati Resort Is Al-
Most Completely Destroyed.
Cincinnati, O. —The house known
as the “Hanover Pool Room,” near
Lawrenceburg, Ind., was blown up by
dynamite. ;
The building was completely wreck
ed and the watchman had a narrow
escape.
The house was well known among
the “sporting” fraternity throughout
the country. It was understood to be
operated by Cincinnati racing men,
and last summer was the objective
point of numerous excursions.
GUARDS FIGHT DUEL.
Locked in Each Other’s Arms They
Fought to Very Death.
Chattanooga, Tenn.— ln a bloody
duel in the office of the “E” street
jail, G. W. Thomas, a guard on the
city street gang, was shot and fatally
wounded by Superintendent Matthew
Godsey, of the street force. Thomas
died at Erianger hospital two hours
after the duel. Godsey is seriously
woundeef, but will recover.
REMEMBERED THE MAINE.
Tuesday Was the 12th Anniversary of
Destruction of Ship.
Washington, D. C. —The twelfth an
niversary of the destruction of the
battleship Maine in Havana harbor,
Tuesday, was made the occasion for
memorial services extending over sev
eral days in this city and at other
points throughout the country where
a movement to erect at Arlington na
tional cemetery a suitable monument
to the sailors who lose their lives in
the explosion is under way.
Rear Admiral Charles 1). Sigsbee
of the navy, commander of the ill
fated Maine on the night of the ex
plosion, made the principal address at
a meeting of patriotic organizations
FRENCH STEAMER SINKS
156 Persons Drovtfied When S. S.
General Chanzy Foundered.
ONLY ONE PASSENGER SAVED
The Big Ocsan Boat Crashed on the
Treacherous Reefs of Minorca
in the Dead of Night.
Palma, Island of Majorca.— Driven
helplessly from her coNirse in one o
the wildest storms that has swep
the Mediterranean sea in forty year ,
the French Trans-Atlantic Steamship
Company’s steamer General Chanzy,
crasned at full speed in the dead of
night on the treacherous reels neai
the island of Minorca, and all but
one of the 134 souls on board perish
ed. The sole survivor is- an Aige
rium customs official, Marcel Rodel,
who was rescued by a fisherman, and
who lies in the hospital at Ciudadela,
raving as a result of the tortures
through which he passed, and unable
to give an account of the disaster.
In the ship’s company there were 8 <
passengers, of whom 30 were in the
first cabin. The crew numbered <O.
The ship was in command of Cap
tain Cayol, one of the most caretul
officers of the line.
Marseiles, France. —The news of
the wreck of the General Chanzy
caused consternation in this city,
whence the vessel saile dfor Algiers.
Relatives and friends of the passen
gers and crew rushed to the steamsnip
office, imploring details of the acci
dent. alhetic scenes were enacted
when they were informed that with
the exception of one passenger, all
on board had perished.
The government is arranging to as
sist the families of the crew, who
were all members of the Merchant
Marine.
Among the victims was the cele
brated Parisian music hall singer,
Francis Dufor, as well as other promi
nent music hall favorites.
It is now believed that three Amer
ican vaudeville players, hailing from
San Francisco, were on board the
steamer. Their names are Elsie
Henry and Messrs. Drenda and De
lymm.
SOUTH SWEPT BY BLIZZARD.
Snow and Sleet Fell Over the South
ern States.
Louisville, Ky. —The south from the
Ohio to the gulf and from Texas to
the Atlantic coast experienced a va
riety of weather calculated to please
the most exacting. At Tampa, Fla.,
a temperature of 64 prevailed; north
and to the west, Mobile was deluged
with a rainfall of 2 inches; northern
Alabama and northern Louisiana saw
a light snow, after a night of rain,
while Memphis, Nashville, Chattanoo
ga and Knoxville were given a gen
erous covering by the white flakes.
High winds prevailed over the lower
gulf states from Galveston to the At
lantic ocean. Galveston reported a
velocity of 440 miles an hour, while
the wind whipped up the Atlantic
coast as far north as the Carolinas
at the rate of 30 miles, making some
what dangerous gales off Hatteras.
The Louisville weather bureau fore
casts snow and much colder for Ken
tucky and Tennessee.
To the far north, Winnipeg was at
home with a temperature of 18 below
zero, and it was near the zero mark
in North Dakota, lowa, New England
states and northern Canada.
The first snow of the season in cen
tral Mississippi fell during the day.
Snow to the depth of a foot was re
ported at Bovfling Green, Ky. There
was a steady fall of snow all day a-.
Louisville, Nashville and generally
throughout middle Tennessee and
Kentucky The snow in Chattanooga
was followed by a sleet storm, which
was felt for many miles in several di
rections form the city. There was
considerable disarrangement oi tram
schedules, and the difficulties of those
concerned in wire communication in
creased as the day closed.
Nashville, Tenn.— A heavy snow fell
here. The snow is general through
out middle Tennessee and southern
Kentucky. . ...
Memphis, Tenn —Snow fell in this
section of Tennessee. From one and
a half to two inches covered the
Knoxville, Tenn. —The heaviest
snow of the winter fell in Knoxville
and vicinity. It is stuck to the
ground, and traffic was more or less
interfered with.
Charlotte, N. C.— A heavy snowfall
occurred here.
Commerce, Ga. —Two inches of snow
fell here. Trees were bent with a
heavy sleet, and wires heavily loaded
with ice.
Chattanooga, Tenn. Chattanooga
exuerienced a snowfall of .18 inch.
Dispatches from Decatur, Ala., say
all of North Alabama is covered with
6 inches of snow.
Langley Medal for Wrights.
Washington, D. C —The Langley
medal of the Smithsonian institution
was presented to the Wright broth
ers. The medal was created in 1908
in commemoration of Professor Lang
ley and his work in aerodromics.
Labor Leaders Sentenced.
Chicago, 111. —Martin B. Madden,
former president of the Building
Trades council; M. J. Boyle, an offi
cial of the Electrical Workers’ union;
and Fred Pouchot, former business
agent of the Metal W orkers union,
were sentenced to pay a fine of SSOO
each, following their conviction on
May 29 of conspiracy to do an illegal
act. A motion for anew trial was
overruled.
TO AUVBRIISE SOUTH.
Southern R.'lwy Pln. ■<■ Jo Ellen
sive Work.
Washington, D. C.-President Fin
ley announced that the Southern Rail
way will, in the near future, througn
its land and industrial department,
again enlarge the publicity and pro
motion work which it has carried on.
tor the development of the country
reached by its lines, it was necessary
lo curtail this work somewhat io low
the business depression oi 1907,
on account of both general and spe
dal conditions. It is now “fit that
not only the business conditions in
Te country, but the local situation
In the southeast, warrants a larger
campaign for tae
tries, the bringing of n Two,k
a general development work, that is,
resumption in full of the com
pany’s efforts to build up the soutii
ea* In carrying out this policy,
there will be a larger use ot the
rade agricultural and other newspa
pers and periodicals of the north and
west the publication of many special
pamphlets exhibits at many north
ern 1 fairs knd a larger work in north-
er Tlje U s™thern has found that one of
the best methods of publicity is m the
exhibits of the products f lts . le ™ e
tory at the larger iairs held m the
north and west, and more atlention
than ever will be paid to this line
The south will be advertised in.
northern European countries by the
circulation of specially prepared mat
ter and by the use of newspapers,
in ’a way that is consistent with our
immigration laws and as is permi
ted by the laws of the respective
countries. The Southern has main
tained for some years a European
agency of its land and industrial de
partment, with headquarters in Lon
don, which will carry on the Probecu
tion of active efforts to interest land
seekers and investors from that side
of the ocean in the south. The most
thorough co-operation possible is to
be given to local business and other
organizations in the development of
the various communities along tne
Southern system.
COAL COMPANY TO SETTLE.
For Lives of 300 Miners Only $300,000
Is Offered.
Cherry, 111. —Surviving relatives of
the nearly three hundred miners kill
ed in the St. x-aul mine are discus
sing an effort by the St. Paul Coal
company to settle out of court ail
damage suits resulting from last
November’s mine lire. The proposal
for settlements was brought to Cner
ry by State’s Attorney Eckert of Bu
reau county. J
It is proposed to pay a minimun|r
sum of SBUU to relatives of unmarrieS
men, and a maximum amount of si.;i
200 to widows with six or more chi ''
dren, the money to be paid jmmedl
ately the interested persons sign #■
quit claim receipt. It was
to those sounded on the subject thiwj
the company was not guilty of any sl
criminal negligence; that, as its cap
ital was only $350,000, it could not
b held for more than that amount,
and that the present offer was made
to avaid the delay of litigation.
It is claimed by the St. Paul Coal
company, it was announced, to mort
gage the Cherry mine for $300,000 to
pay the damages contemplated under
the company’s proposal of settlement.
Heirs of rescuers who died In their
attempt to save lives of miners
would also share in the settlement
money. A mass meeting of those
concerned will probably be called.
Louisville Would Tax Cats.
Louisville, Ky. —Alderman Coder has
a scheme for increasing the general
revenue of the city by imposing a tax
of $2 upon every cat and kitten main
tained within the corporate limits or
Louisville.
Diplomatic Service and the South.
Washington, D. C. —A resolution
asking the secretary of state to in
form the house whether the twelve
cotton-growing states have represen
tation in the diplomtic and consular
service in the foreign countries that
purchase American cotton, particular
ly the United Kingdoms, France and
Germany, was introduced by Repre
sentative Hull of Tennessee.
Newsy Paragraphs.
Last week every practicing physi
cian in the state of New York receiv
ed free of charge from the state
board of health a tiny tin tube con
taining the aseptic silver solution
which the highest authorities had de
cided was the thing to * prevent the
inflammation of the eyes of newly
born babies, which so commonly re
sults in blindness. This distribution
is begun as the result of a long cam
paign initiated and directed by Helen
Keller, the deaf and blind woman,
who achieved such remarkable men
tal development and who is devoting,
her life to the defective classes.
Justice M. H. Kammelhor of Cedar
Grove, N. J., hearing that an aviator
of Patterson contemplated a trial
flight in the vicinity of his home, has
had erected near his house a ten
foot sign reading as follows:All avi
ators are hereby warned not to fly
their machines over this house un
der penalty of imprisonment. The
judge insists that he owns above his
property to the sky and below to the
center of the earth. Tfce aviator in
question has laughed at the sign and
an amusing contest is expected.
Governor Gillett and several Cali
fornia capitalists have purchased,
for $300,000, a tract of thirty-two
thousand acres of land on the bor
der of Mexico, between Calexico and
Yuma. They will raise cotton.