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THE NORTH GEORGIA? 1 (SUCCESSOR TO THE NORTH GEORGIA BAPTIST.) Entered at the postoffice at Cum Balog, Ga., as second class matter. ■ —. There’s a much ignored difference, preaches the Chicago Tribune, be tween beating our drums and beating the devil. Everything Isn’t going up in price, remarks the Boston Herald. The Hud son river can now be bridged for many millions of dollars less than the work would have cost 25 years ago. Trouble is most of us don’t care to build bridges and the rest of us couldn’t do it, even at a marked down price. We are told by dealers that more auto sales are now being made to people living on the farms than to any other class, and that farmers west of the Mississippi river last year bought more autos than all other classes. Millions of dollars worth of auto orders are now on the books of the manufacturers to be filled as soon us possible, boasts the Indiana Farm er. We believe the above is authen tic. We have heard from good author ity that one-third of the farmers around certain small towns in Illinois own automobiles. At a recent short course in agriculture at one of our western states a farmer who attend ed came many miles in a large closed car, ns handsome and elaborate as any we se in the cities. The farmers want the best if they are able to pay for them and many of them are. That is a pretty radical proposition, that mail carriers shall deliver mail at no houses save those which are provided with boxes conveniently placed outside to receive it, but it would be difficult to demonstrate its unreasonableness. At present a large part of the carrier’s time is wasted in waiting for an answer to his ring ing at the door, complains the New York Tribune, if he could drop the let ters into a box 1 and go his way, with out waiting for a dilatory maid to come and get them, he could make his : rounds in much less time, and the re- , suit would be a more prompt delivery of mail to all. As for the cost of boxes to the public, it would be so small as to be practlcaly negligible; certain ly no more than people might properly be expected to pay for the facilitating and expediting of their own service. Medical gentlemen who are propos ing menus of corn meal mush, her rings and beans for the workingmen, on which he is assured that he will grow fat at an expense of only 20 cents a day, are disposed to congratu late him upon the opportunity that prevailing high prices afford him to arrange his diet on “a safe, sane and economical basis.” We cannot imagine tnese benefactors trying the mush, beans and herring fare themselves nor the workingman thanking them for their thoughtlessnes, says the New York Sun. The benefactors the work ingman is looking for are those 'who will bring about a reduction in the price of the meat that has always been a component of his food. He knows what its sustaining power is from habit, and he doesn’t want to know how little he can live on, but why the price of the meat should be al most prohibitive. A. W. McCann, advertising manager of Francis 11. Leggett & Cos., of New York City, in a recent address before an advertising class in Brooklyn, gave some practical illustrations of the ef fectiveness of telling the truth in ad vertising. His long experience with a house which knows how the best re sults are obtained enables him to speak with authority. “No matter how well our story is told,” he said, "if not founded on facts its effectiveness will perish. Untruth has no place in adver tising, because the common sense of the consumer challenges the merit of the article brought before its atten tion, and if every detail of goodness claimed for that article does not as sert itself upon personal inspection, the interest of the individual is lost. A caution, therefore, which harmon izes with the first commandment of simplicity is framed in the second commandment, “Thou shall be truth ful or silent.’’ important mm ■ Experiments in Acoustics at At lanta Attract Attention. TRANSMISSION OF SOUNDS Soft and Faintest Sounds Are Carried Great Distances —New Discovery Will be Ap preciated by Grand Opera Audiences. Atlanta, Ga—A startling discovery and one that is certain to attract much comment throughout the entire country, has been made through ex periments in acoustics at the Atlanta auditorium-armory, where the Mero politan Opera company is to appear in grand opera during the first week in May. Through the new discovery, it will be possible for the softest, faintest sounds emanating from the stage to be heard in any part of the immense building, and the great singers will be able to make themselves clearly understood without any additional care in enunciation or added volume of voice. When the new stage, necessary to accommodate the great choruses anu scenic effects of the opera, was de signed, it was found necessary to ex tend the partitions at either corner of the stage proper on out to the side walls or the building, in order to shut off that portion of tne edifice that is left unused. After experiernenting with several sorts of materials to be used in these side walls, the great stage carpenter, Peter Clarke of New York who erect ed the $250,000 stage of the Metropol itan opera house, and the immense Hippodrome stage, hit upon a plan for installing a double wall of tight ly stretched asbestos fabric, specially treated, and stretched to an incredi ble tension. These walls are supported by a framework of seasoned, light timbers, until tlie whole resembles the gigan tic sounding-board of a monster vio lin. The effect will be that the walls will vibrate to any sound produced upon the stage, making it possible to hear the sound of a pin dropped into a plate from the height of a few inches, the listener being stationed anywhere in the great building. This will greatly enhance the beauty of the grand operas. Caruso, the great tenor, who is coming to Atlanta with the other opera stars, has expressed intense interest in the discovery, and has written to Mr. Clarke, congratulating him upon his ingenuity. Work upon the $5U,000 organ is practically completed, and the great instrument will be used in conjunc tion with the grand opera. BOLL WEEVIL CIRCULAR. Farmers Are Warned to Report the Cotton Insect. Atlanta, Ga.—State Entomologist E. L. Worsham, perhaps the best posted man on cotton diseases and insects in the south, is now engaged in prepar ing a circular which is to be distrib uted among the cottou growers of this state on the present status of the i ex as boll weevil and when this dread insect may be expected to appear in southwest Georgia. According to Entomologist W orsham the boll weevil traveled eastward last year a distance of 125 miles. Tuis is the greatest distance yet recorded for any one year. At this rate it is ex pected the boll weevil will reach this state in three years more. The circular letter will tell the planters what to expect and how best to identify the dread insect in order that its presence may be reported, in stantly, and promt steps taken to re tard its onward march wherever pos sible. So far nothing has been discovered which can effectually stop the march eastward. It appears to ue a case oi watch and wait. TUBERCULOSIS DAY. Ministers Requested to Make Dread Disease Subject of Sermons. Atlanta, Ga. Tuberculosis day, which will be April 24th all over the United States promises to be of un usual interest in Georgia. Preachers here in Atlanta and over the state, regardless of creed, will preach ser mon* appropriate to the occasion. A number of prominent Atlanta men are urging the importance of observing the day. Dr. George Brown, a well known tuberculosis expert, has ad dressed personal letters to the minis ters and leading business men and others throughout the state in the interest of the day. MUCH DIVERSIFIED FARMING. Georgia Farmers are Growing Corn and Oat Crops. Thomasville, Ga. —-Cotton planting in this section is nearly over, and the acreage seems very little larger than that of last year, or, in fact, of several years past, the farmers al ways putting about as much land in it as they can spare. With the high prices of the past season it was thought that the acre : age would be much much increased, i but the south Georgia farmer has found that his food crops are very I profitable and a very safe investment lor bis time and labor, and he no longer risks his all on cotton. The corn crop in Thomas county ! was an especially fine one last year, ! and a large acreage in it has been I planted this season. LATE NEWS NOTES. General. The millions popularly credited to Harry K. Thaw at the time he killed Stanford White did not exist. In re ality he had only $400,00, so his moth er, Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw testified in the suit brought against her by Clifford W. Hartridge to collect $92,- 000 for services in Thaw’s first trial. Ambitious to gain fame as a sculp tor, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw sailed for Paris to continue her art work abroad. She will rent a modest apartment in Paris and do her own cooking. She still receives a monthly allowance from tho Thaw family, but her friends say she is permanently estranged from Harry K. Thaw, her husband. Dr. Mason W. Pressley of Philadel phia arrived in New York city from Dutch Guiana and announced that he had found a cure for the hook worm. He refused to say what the cure is, however. He came on the liner Sara macca, and brought with him many lantern slides showing the complete development of the work in all its stages. The slides are the fruit of six weeks study in the hospital at Paramaribo. It became known in Chicago that detectives who have been working under the personal direction of J. T. Harahan, president of the Illinois Central railroad, have concluded their report into the charge that the road has been swindled out of large sums, perhaps $1,000,000. It is expected that arrests will be ordered. Beybnd the fact that the money was obtained from the railroad company through an alleged conspiracy, nothing is known concerning the details of the manner in which it was conducted. Dr. Eugene Doyen explained at the International Congress of Physiother apy in Paris his treatment of 'cancer by means of electrically produced heat. The secret of the discoverw is that the cancerous cells are destroy ey by a temperature of from fifty to fifty-five degrees centigrade, which is entirely harmless to healthy cells. The method shows wonderful results, he says, in eliminating the need of the knife in all lesions which are ac cessible to an electrical current, arti ficially applied. The healing of the tissues follows immediately upon the coagulation of the cancerous cells. Dr. John J. Hurley of Boston, Mass., announces the discovery of an anes thetic which, like the Janesco discov ery, does not make the patient uncon scious, but allows him to take an ac tive interest in what is going on while feeling no pain whatever. The new est method consists of an injection of a solution of cocain adrenalin and salt solution, beneath the periosteum, which is a delicate membrane cover ing the bones of the body. The ad renalin is a substance made from the so-called supra-venal bodies which are small glandular structures resting upon the kidneys. Dr. Hurley asserts that he has used this method with great success. Announcement is made by the offi cers of the Atlanta Music Festival association that beautiful Miss Geral dine Farrar, America’s own famous soprano, has voluntarily consented to sing at the federal prison during her visit to Atlanta the first week in May. Several others of the world’s famous artists of the Metropolitan Opera company, including Scotti, the great baritone, and Oliva Fremstad, the Swedish soprano, have also expressed a willingness to sing for the unfortu nate prisoners, * Washington. “I regret to say that the report that my parents are reconciled to my marriage is not true. Would to grac ous it was,” said Philander S. Knox, Jr., “I love my father and mother, hut I love my wife and I am happy with her. My going to New York to meet my brother, Reed, started the false report,” the secretary of state's son said. “I am selling automobiles and earning big wages. Ask my boss if I’m not a star employes.” Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and several industrial educators appeared before the senate committee on agri culture and urged the passage of the bill introduced by Senator Dolliver of lowa which seeks to appropriate $4,- 000,000 for instruction in secondary agricultural institutions. The bill was framed by the American Federation of Labor. Senator Lodge submitted to the senate- the report of Dr. Harvey Wil ey on the subject of storage of food products. The report says that the value of some foods, such as cheese, ham, bacon, wine, beers and other products, is increased by cold stor age; other products like eggs, milk, vegetables and butter are better when used fresh. Dr. Wiley adds that surplus products should be kept in cold storage for such time as they are not in season, and approves of canned goods, but says they ought not to be carried in storage beyond one season and that no food products should be stored beyond nine months. The will of Thomas F. Walsh, the mining magnate, filed in Washington, D. €., leaves SIOO,OOO to charity and the rest of the estate practically in its entirety to Mrs. Carrie B. Walsh, the widow, and Mrs. E. B. McLean, a daughter. The estate is valuad at from $8,000,000 to $10,000,000. Colonel Roosevelt has communi cated to some of his admirers in Washington the news that on his re turn he expects to stand .by Gifford Pincliot, the deposed chief forester of the United States. This information is furnished by letters from the form er president, as they are interpreted by their recipients. It has filled the friends and adherents of Mr. Pinch ot with great delight and they are not concealing their exultation. COL COOPER PARDONED Carmack’s Slayer Freed By Gov ernor Patterson of Tennessee. SON GRANTED NEW TRIAL Tennessee Supreme Court AEEirmed the Sen tence ol D. B. Cooper and Ordered New Trial For Robin Cooper. Nashville, Tenn—ln the case of Colonel Duncan B. Cooper and Robin J. Cooper, father and son, convicted of killing former United States Sen ator E. W. Carmack on the streets here November 9, 1908, and sentenced to twenty years each in the state penitentiary, the Tennessee supreme court by a divded vote affirmed the sentence as to Colonel D. B. Cooper. As to Robin Cooper, the case, also by a divided vote, is reversed and re manded to the lower court for anew trial. While Chief Justice Beard was read ing a dissenting opinion in the case of Duncan B. Cooper, Governor Pat terson wrote a full pardon for tne defendant in which he declares: ‘'ln my opinion aeither of the de fendants is guilty, and they have not had a fair and impartial trial, but were convicted contrary to the law and evidence.” The reversal in the case of Robin Cooper is based on assignments of error in the trial judges failing to charge separately as to Robin Coop ers’ theory of self-defense, linking the defense of the two defendants to gether; excluding testimony of Gov ernor Patterson as to talks with de fendant, Robin Cooper, and advice giv en him as to Colonel Cooper before the tragedy; and the admission on cross examination of Robin Cooper as to intent of certain state’s wit nesses in testifying as to certain in cidents. Colonel Cooper was still at the capitol when the pardon was enter ed in the secretary of state’s office. He was at once surrounded by a crowd of friends seeking to congrat ulate him. He was as calm, and even cheerful, through it all, as if he had received an acquittal. The reversal of his son’s case seemed to interest and please him to the ex clusion of his own fate. “I wanted Robin’s vindication more than I wanted a pardon,” was his smiling remark when told of the gov ernor’s action in behalf of himself. Robin Cooper is under a $25,000 bond. His friends freely predict that he will not again be arraigned for trial. Should he be, it would be a most difficult undertaking to secure a jury in Davidson county ->• The supreme court opinion marked an epoch in not only the legal an nals of the state, but the political as well. The democratic party of Tennessee has been rent into bitter factions over the prohibition ques tion, and, as a wheel within a wheel, “the Cooper case” has played a con spicuous part. Cooper is the close friend and al leged political adviser of Patterson, who is the leader of the anti-prohibi tion forces in Tennessee. Carmack was the chief of the prohibition move ment. Patterson was a most import ant witness for the defense at the trial of the Coopers for the killing of Carmack, whose death his friends al lege, was the outcome of political machination. Now, on the verge of an election of the judiciary, the supreme court was called on to pass finally upon the case over which it seems the party factions have actually aligned themselves on one side or the other. For sixty-nine days the court had the case and the state has been on the tiptoe of ex pectancy as opinion days came and went without its being referred to. The announcement at last shows an interesting status to those famil iar with the intricacies of the politi cal situation. The pardon was not unexpected. From Governor Patterson’s testimony in the doubt below there could remain no doubt as to his personal convic tion of the innocence of the defend ants. Such being the case, there was never any doubt in the public mind that he would grant a pardon to both defendants should the supreme court affirm the sentence. But while this action did not come as a surprise, it created all of the interest and all of the wild excitement that a totally un expected denouments to the whole series of events could have done. As to the result politically in Ten nessee of the state supreme court’s decision, opinion seems general that the old factional lines —Patterson and anti-Patterson, the latter representing the prohibition or state-wide element of the state democracy are un changed. WAR ON AMERICANS. Foreigners Are Not Wanted on the Railroads of Meico. 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McGraw has not found much to en thuse over in his young players. It looks like the same team that played at the Polo Grounds last year. The Giants had hard work defeat ing the Norfolk (Va.T nine by " to 0 owing to the fine pitching of Lloyd, formerly a twirler in the Bronx. President Noyes, of Washington, went to Norfolk and induced the hold out pitcher, Bob Groom, to sign. All Washington players are now in the fold. Manager Jennings has decided to retain three recruit infielders, name ly, first baseman Liste’’. second oase man Simmons and third baseman Lathers. Gus Schmelz, the old-time mana ger. now a prosperous business man of Springfield, 0.. is of opinion that the Cincinnati Reds will win the pen nant this year. Few ball players have stuck to one city like Theodore Breitenst.ein has to New Orleans. The old fellow seems to have drunk of the fount of perren lal youth in the Crescent City. President Stanley Robison, of St. Louis, says that ‘‘double-headers do not cheapen the snort,” and he says if he had his way he would positively stage a double bill every Sunday. Hans Wagner and John Miller are inseparable companions. This pair of star Pittsburg infielders is rarely seen around the hotel lobbies. They spend their time playing seven-up in their room. May Ainlee’s. The May Ainslee's opens with an entertaining story of love and mys tery, called “The Sapphire Bracelet,” by Edward Salisbury Field. It is a complete novel, sparkling with inter est and humor, and moving forward without a hitch to an amazing climax. Women readers will be interested in this story and in “The Eagle's Fe?‘ fer,” a dramatic love story by Emily Post, in the same number. The is a serial, and to those who have not read the former chapters, is wort,, looking up. Samuel Gordon tells a very funny story of a woman fiirt's nemesis at the hands of two men whom she had engaged herself to sir ultanenously in “A Cross Reference. ' The lure of strange lands is in a dra matic story of the Chinese boxer up rising, told by Will Levington Com fort in “The Final Portrait.” Humor is rampant in the charming tale of Fannie Heaslip Lea, entitled, “By the blue Hydrangea.” Ah, the brief and unctious self-con fidence of those who have not yet been found out!