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THE NORTH GEORGIAN
(SUCCESSOR TO THE NORTH
GEORGIA BAPTIST.)
Entered at the postofllce at Cnra
tain*, Ga., as second class matter.
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A bird in the hand, advises the Bos
ton Transcript, is much better oaten
with a knife and fork.
The less advice a man hands his
neighbors the more popular he will
become, submits the Boston Post.
Packers of meat assert that they
lose by increased prices. If this refers
to money, avers the Philadelphia
Ledger, they err, but possibly it is
public esteem they have in mind.
The vnst enterprise for the reclama
tion of Mesopotamia, by which 12,-
r,oo,non acres will be redeemed and
irrigated, is the subject of an exten
sive neport from Consul Frederick
Simplch, of Bagdad. Since August last
frarn 3,500 to 4,000 laborers have been
at work on the initial projects in
Northern Mesopotamia, and substan
tial progress has been accomplished.
It. is predicted that agricultural bene
fits will be derived from the first of
these irrigation works within two or
three years, at the most.
"Is someone dead at the Fogartys’?’’
askd Mrs. Milchschlegel; “I see an
undertaker’s wagon in front of the
door.” "Oh, no,” replied Mrs. Ran,
“It’s only Mrs. Fogarty getting her
Christmas turkey from the undertak
er’s.” It’s a fact, observes the New
York Tribune, that every Christmas
the funeral directors of Philadelphia
give hundreds of turkeys to poor fam
ilies. In accordance with this custom
undertakers in every part of the city
on Christmas eve dispatched their as
sistants to the homes of impoverished
families, with each one of whom a
large, fat turkey was left, with the
giver’s compliments. One West Phila
delphia undertaker alone distributed
fifty turkeys. The distribution of the
tutfkeys is usually made from the un
dertaker’s wagon.
The House of Lords as It stands is
an anachronism; Mr. Asquith said so
and the House of Lords itself (prompt
ed by the Earl of Rosebery and the
Handwriting on the Wall) had said
so some time before. In his speech
Mr. Asquith said farther that he and
his political friends mean to “get rid”
of the anachronism and free the Com
mons from “thraldom.” In an unfor
gotten ante-election speech he said:
“We are not going to reform the
Lords.” Yet now we find him, remarks
the Hartford Courant, talking vaguely
about contemplated changes in the
make-up of the second chamber, and
saying that his resolutions are not
brought forward to prevent them. The
rumor that there are two opinions in
his own cabinet about all this queer
tacking and filling is probably a
truthful rumor.
While the meat supply ancr the most
of living are under consideration we
may as well take notice that according
to the Department of Agriculture there
were in the country of cattle other
than milch cows on January 1, 1900,
27,710054 head, but exactly one year
later there were 45,500,212. We can
believe a good deal of official infor
mation when none other is availa
ble, admits the Philadelphia Record,
but we cannot credit an increase of
15,000,000 head in one year. We pre
sume that the figures for 1900 are the
estimate of the department, and the
figures for 1901 are the result of the
eensus enumeration. The farmers
are as prone, we presume, to under
estimate the amount of livestock as to
underestimate a crop of cotton or
wheat, and we doubt greatly if the
number of cattle other than milch
cows decreased 10,000,000 from 1592 to
1599. In the case of sheep there ap
pears to have been an increase of 38,-
000,000 and of swine almost 20,000,000
in the calendar year 1900. We decline
to believe that that was a year of phe
nomenal fertility in livestock, and in
cline rather to believe that the farm
ers had not been reporting all the cat
tle they had and which the census
disclosed. But the figures show no
such sudden jump in the number of
milch cows.
AUTO CURSE OF COUNTRY
SAYS CHANCELLOR BAY
Syracuse Professor Denounces
the Automobile Craze.
HE EXPECTS TO BE CRITICISED
Professor Day Declares That Many Men Are
Mortaging Their Koines to Purchase
Automobiles.
Syracuse, N. Y. —There are so many
men coursing about the country in
automobiles and tneir pleasure ab
sorbs such a large share of the pro
dutivo capital of the country that
Chancellor James R. Day of Syra
cuse university believes it is becom
ing a question if the automobile is
not a curse to the country.
The chancellor was speaking to the
graduating class of the university on
self-sacrifice and self-iienial
‘ Young mechanics ana clerks and
business men,” he said, "who need all
of their capital are mortgaging their
homes by the thousands and losing
their positions often by their infatua
tion with this form of pleasure.
“It is said that above live hundred
million dollars are invested in the
automobile trade and this enormous
capital is non-productive. That is, it
add comparatively nothing to the
wealth of the people, but on the con
trary absorbs it. it means 90 per cent
of wasted money and wasted time. A
certain per cent returns in business
uses and v.holesoine rest and recrea
tion.
“I know the criticism that will be
sure to come because of what will be
called an attack on a great industry,
but I address myself to the abuse of
self-indulgence in a good thing. 1 em
phasize self-denial.”
Selfishness is responsible, the chan
cellor believes, for a lower marriage
rate, ‘‘if you want to know,” he said,
“why men marry less than of old,
perhaps the secret is in the false
whim of supporting a wife. He cannot
afford to support a wife, the bachelor
says. No woman ought to consent to
be such a wife. She ought to say: ‘I
am not seeking or consenting to be
supported. There will be two of us.
If I cannot earn as much as you, x
can save more. We will plan to
gether.’
“The greatest woman is the woman
who bring to a man a home. She is
greater than the suffragette or the
female temperance lecturer.”
CHURCH STATISTICS.
Church Growth Exceeds Increase in
Population.
Washington, L>. C—Church growth
-n the United States has been greater
than the increase in population be
tween the years of 1900 ana 1906, ac
cording to the special census report
on tue census of religious bodies for
1906, now. in press. In the principal
cities of the country, the growth,
both in the number of religious or
ganizations and communities, was far
greater in the years mentioned than
the increase in population, while in
the area outside the principal cities
the rate of increase in the number ot
new churches was approximately the
same as the rate of population in
creases, although in the number of
communicants the increase in the out
side area, as in the cities, was in ex
cess of that in population.
Out of every 1,000 people in the 160
principal cities of the country—that is
those which had a population of more
than 25,000 —'there ’were 469 church
members, while for the area outside
these cities there were 363; and for
tho entire country there were 391. As
compared with 1890, the report shows
a gain of 90 communicants in earn
1,000 of population for the principal
cities and a gain of 51 outside of them.
Female members in 1906 outnum
bered the male members by 32 per
cent in continental United States,
while in the principal .cities the ex
cess of female members was propor
tionately less, being 960,526, or 23.5
per cent.
TEXAS HOOK WORM SAFE.
Money of Rockefeller Will Not Be
Used to Fight Parasite.
Austin, Texas —Xot one cent of the
Rockefeller million-dollar fund for the
investigation of the hook worm dis
ease will be spent in Texas. State
Health Officer Brumby briefly an
nounced that the Rockefeller hook
worm commission will do no work in
Texas. When asked the reason the
doctor said:
“There are a number of hitches we
do not care to discuss. If suffices to
say there will be no hook worm in
vestigation. It was impossible for the
state board of health and the hook
worm commission to work together
satisfactorily.”
YOUR SHARE OF MONEY.
Each Person Would Have $34.59 if
Money Were Divided.
Washington, D. C. —Treasury offi
cials figure out that if all the money
in circulation in the United States
were divided equally, every man, wo
man and child would have $34.59. This
is 14 cents per capita more than they
should have had by the same process
of reasoning a month ago. Compared
with a year ago there was on June 1,
$14,000,000 more money in circulation
and yet, strange as it may seem, the
per capita was 42 cents less. This, it
is said, is due to the increases in
population. The general stock of
money in the United States on Juno
1 was $3,392,284,000.
OVERCHARGE ON PEACHES.
The Peach Growers oi Georgia Want Five
Million Dollars Rebate.
Atlanta, Ga. —It is very probable
that the peach growers in Georgia,
through the action of the Georgia
Fruit Exchange, in suing before the
Interstate Commerce Commission for
a reduction in the minimum weight
to be loaded in a*efrigerator car, will
be able to recover over a half mil
lion dollars for overcharge.
Counsel for the Georgia Fruit Ex
change have already tiled with the
Interstate Commerce Commission at
Washington a petition to reduce the
minimum weight allowed from 22,500
pounds of 19,000 pounds per car. The
reason advanced for cars are not ca
pable of refrigerating 535 crates, the
number required to take advantage
of me present minimum weight, but
are only capable of refrigerating 445
crates, a total loss of 87 crates, if
packed in a car, because these are so
badly damaged when they arrive at
destination as not to be salable.
For some time now the fruit grow
ers, in order to save this loss in
fruit, have not packed the cars but
four stacks high, 448 crates, but have
paid for the rull minimum weight,
't his has entailed a loss of about $42
a car.
This has taken place for two sea
sons, which draws up the aggregate
amount which is collectable, in the
event the Interstate Commerce Com
mission returns a favorable decision,
of over $500,000, and to go to the
fruit growers of Georgia.
in the event a favorable decision is
handed down, suits to recover the al
leged overcharges will be filed for re
covery.
AERIAL WAR TEST.
Government to Test Utility of Aero
plane in Warfare.
New York City.—A spectacular test
of the utility of tae aeroplane in war
rare is to be made at the military en
campment of United States troops and
the national guard of several South
ern states at Chickamauga Park, Ga.,
June 22 to 24.
The government has closed a con
tract with Cnarles K. Hamilton, who
appeared in Atlanta during the auto
races, to conduct the most extensive
practical jxperiments in aerial recon
noissance and bombardment ever at
tempted. In addition to Hamilton s
macnine, which is a duplicate of the
machine in which Glenn H. Curtiss
fiew from Albany to New York, there
will be present at the maneuvers the
Wright biplane owned by the govern
ment and the dirigible balloon sold to
the war department by Captain Thom
as S. Baldwin.
In executing the work laid out for
him, Hamilton will carry aloft from
200 to 300 pounds of highly explosive
nifro-glycerin bombs. Racing at a
speed varying,from 45 to 55 miles an
hour, he will release this.deadly cargo
while at a height of a quarter of a
mile above the earth, raining it down
upon targets in the two-miles square
area below in 75 installments. The tar
gets underneath will consist of dum
my fortifications, batteries, arsenals,
bridges, trains and troops. In order
that danger to life may be minimized
to the remotest degree, the troops en
gaged in the maneuvers will be em
ployed to police the area over which
Hamilton will carry on his extraordi
nary operations.
More Railroads Advance Rates.
Washington, D. C.—Undaunted by
the government’s proceedings under
the Sherman anti-trust act, by which
a part of the proposed increase of
freight rates in the territory west of
the Mississippi river was suspended by
injunction, railroads in the east and
in the middle west filed with the in
terstate commerce commission tariffs
embodying increased rates.
Across English Channel and Return.
Dover, England—The Hon. Charles
Stewart Rolls, captain in the London
section of the army motor reserve,
driving a Wright biplane, vindicated
Anglo-Savon aeronautics by crossing
English channel twice without
alighting. He> made the round trip
between Dover and Calais in ninety
minutes.
Prince Leopold IV Stoned.
Detmold, Lippe.— Prince Leopold IV
the reigning prince of Lippe, and his
brother, Prince Julius, were stoned
by a band of Italian laborers while
motoring. Prince Julius received a
found on the head. The laborers di
rected a shower of missiles at their
highnesses, w r iio were compelled to
drive away at higii speed. Later, sev
eral of the assailants were arrested.
To Establish Jew College.
Galveston, Texas —Wealthy Jews of
Texas will co-operate with Jacob
Schiff of New York in purchasing
i rge tracs of land between Galves
ton and Houston for colonization. The
purpose of the project is to divert im
migration of the Jewish race from
New York to Texas, fhe settlers will
be given land at a low price.
Extra Session of N. C. Legislature.
Raleigh, N. C. —Governor Kitchin
signed a proclamation calling the gen
eral assembly of North Carolina to
meet in Raleigh in extraordinary ses
sion on Tuesday, June 14, to act on
the matter of the failure to sell the
entire issue of $3,430,000 of refunding
bonds to take up the issue due on
Juiy 1. '
First Cotton Blooms.
Americus, Ga. 'lhe first cotton
blooms developing in southwestern
Georgia this season were brought to
Americus from the Ferguson and the
Methvin plantations in Sumter coun
ty. The general condition of cotton
crops here is satisfactory, though
needing rain.
TAFT’S RAILROAD BILL
PASSED BY THE SENATE
Radical Change in Bill as Drafted
By the Attorney General.
PASSED ALMOST UNANIMOUSLY
Democrats Favored Large Portion of Measure
and the Insurgeuts Claim to Have
Won Signal Victory.
FEATURES OF THE
NEW RAILROAD BILL.
Creation of anew court of
commerce for the consideration
exclusively of the fields from or
ders of the interstate commerce
commission.
Long and short haul provis
ions of the present • interstate
commerce law amended so as to
permit a greater charge for a
short haul than for a long haul.
Railroad companies required to
furnish written statements of the
rates from one place to another
upon the written application of
the shipper.
Either upon complaint or upon
its own initiative the commis
sion is authorized to determine
the reasonableness of individual
or joint rates of classification.
Unless satisfied by a compe
tent court orders of the commis
sion are to remain in force for
two years.
Authority is given the commis
sion to establish through routes
and joint classification and to
prescribe maximum rates over
the same whenever the carriers
themselves neglect to do so.
Shippers are given the right
to designate a through route or
part of a route over which their
property shall be carried.
At intervals of six months the
commission is to analyze tariffs
and classifications.
Telegraph and telephone lines
are placed under the jurisdiction
of the interstate commerce com
mission.
The only provision in the bill
applicable to other than railroad
corporations is one regulating in
junctions by the federal courts,
which suspend the operation of
state latvs.
Washington, D. C—The senate pass
ed the administration railroad bill. It
had been under consideration for
more'than 12 vreelcs, and practically
no other business except appropria
tion bills were considered in that long
period.
Only 12 votes, all of these by demo
crats, were recorded against the bill.
The practical unanimity with which
the measure was passed was due to
the radical changes made in the meas
ure from the form in which it was
drafted by Attorney General Wicker
sham, following numerous confer
ences at the white house on the sub
ject of amending interstate commerce
laws. All of the "insurgents” who
opposed many features of the original
bill, voted for it.
Through the elimination of Tooling
and merger sections and by reason of
the adoption of many amendments
in the interest of shippers, the pro
gressive republicans claimed to have
won a signal victory, and most of the
democrats express themselves as fa
vorable to the large portion of the
maesure.
Ilad it not been for the retention of
the sections to create a court of com
merce it is likely that the vote for the
bill would have been unanimous.
Debate ceased when Senator Elkins,
chairman of the interstate commerce
committee, moved to take up the bill
which was passed by the house, and
after striking out the body of that
measure to substitute the mattei
agreed upon by the senate. In that
form the bill was voted upon, with
the result that it was passed by a
vote of 50 to 12.
ROOSEVELT QUITS LONDON.
Ex-President Entirely Oblivious of the
Rumpus He Has Caused.
London, England. Apparently ob
livious of the storm w'hich he has
raised or the disregard with which he
is looked upon by England as the re
sult of his Guild Hall speech in Egypt,
Theodore Roosevelt quit London for
the week-end, going to Buckingham
shire county place of Arthur Lee,
where the ex-president spent a part
of the last week-end.
England appears to have gotten het
second wind after Roosevelt made the
country gasp with his criticism of
British rule in Egypt and imperialis
tic strictures at the Guild Hall.
PEACE COMMISSION.
Ex-President Roosevelt Expected to
Head Peace Commission.
Washington, D. C. —Former Presi
dent Roosevelt is expected to head a
peace commission provided for in a
resolution, which was favorably acted
upon by the house committee on for
eign affairs. President 1 aft has in
dicated, it is said, that he would ap
point his predecessor as chairman of
the commission.
The commission would be directed
to visit the capitals in all foreign
countries, in the interest of securing
the limitation of armament of nations
and of preserving international peace.
Both houses of congress are expected
to act favorably upon the resolution.
TARIFF INIQUITIES SHOWN.
Exhibit Shows That Increases Hit Common
Materials.
New York City.—A cost of living
exhibit, aiming to show that the
Payne-Aldrich tariff law has worked
“gross injustice and terrible advances ’
in cotton goods, has been prepared
by the general committee of the
wholesale dry goods men’s organiza
tion here. Typical classes of popular
white goods are taken as illustrations
of the committee s claims that the
new so-called special rates on cotton
goods show increases that have hit
materials in common use by the peo
ple of the country.”
According to tlie committee these
articles, picked at random, expose per
centages of advance up to 80 per cent
increase in goods actually imported
since the law went into effect.
On the goods quoted, tne Dingley
duties of from 25 to 40 per cent are
replaced in the new law by specific
duties of from 6 cents to 12 cents
per square yard. The percentage of
increase as argued by the committee
are as follows:
Percentage of Increase.
increase
Net cost in Duty
Per Yd. Per Cent
Persian lawn 25 15
White madras 12 43
White madras 12 45
Madras waisting .. ..14 25
Madras waisting .. ..1G 57
Madras waisting .. ..20 55
Shirting madras .. ..20 50
Colored madras waist
ing •-18 13
White pique 21 35
Cotton lunch cloths . .20 80
Commenting on the advance in tar
iff shown by these tabulations the
committee says:
"The percentages of increase shown
are to first handlers of the goods,
therefore corresponding increased
percentages must show to the retailer
and yet greater proportonal advances
in prices to the ultimate customers.
The new tariffs particularly increase
duties on linings such as are used in
medium or cheaper grades of men’s
clothing.”
NAVY COAL FRCr/I ALAS&A.
Admiral Dewey Makes a Report to
the Secretary of Navy.
Washington, D. C.—Admiral Geo.
Dewey, president of the general board
of the United States Navy, has for
warded a report to the secretary of
the navy as to the possibility of pro
curing and the economy of using
Alaskan coal in the United States
navy. The report is in the form of
answers to questions concerning the
matter.
In answer to the question as to
whether the Alaska coal field would,
in case of war with Japan, be of use
to the government’s Asiatic fleet, the
report states that "should this Alas
kan coal be of the grade required by
the navy the cost of mining and of
transportation not greatly exceeding
that for coal in the eastern states,
and it be laid down in an accessible
and safe Alaskan harbor with proper
facilities and in quantities necessary
for the fleet, it would be of advantage
to the government.”
Other interesting figures and data
are given. The West Virginia fields
supply the greater part of the coal
used on the Pacific, the rest being
imported from Australia. The cost of
transportation of the West Virginia
coal to the Pacific coast averages
$4.50 per ton to Manila and Yoko
hama about $2.75 per ton.
Newsy Paragraphs.
The latest meanest man has been
discovered in New York. He kept all
his money in his shoes and slept with
his shoes on, to prevent his wife get
ting any of it when she went through
his pockets.
A mine rescue and experimental
station at Linton, Ind., is provided for
in a bill introduced in the house by
Representative Culiop or Indiana. He
sets forth the needs of the station
and indicates that $50,000 should be
appropriated.
The abscess on the right hand of
Emperor William is healing and his
majesty’s physicians appear to be
satisfied with the results of their
treatment. The emperor remains at
the new palace, where King Albert of
Belgium is being entertained.
An extraordinary instance of a hus
band's devotion to hs wife’s memory
has just been revealed at Bukharest.
An inventory of property left by Mik
los Denner, a merchant, was being
made, when the skeleton of a woman
was discovered locked up in a cup
board. It was at first thought that
a murder had been committed, but in
quiry showed that the skeleton was
that of Denner’s wife, who died a nat
ural death ten years ago, and was bur
ied in the ordinary way. The hus
band was inconsolable till he secret
ly exhumed his wife’s remains, and
hid the skeleton in the cupboard,
which always stood in his bedroom.
The skeleton is to be re-interred in
Denner’s grave.
Recent cold and rainy weather evi
dently encouraged the boil weevil in
Louisiana, for reports are reaching
Shereveport of the discovery of the
troublesome pest on farms. As yet
no great alarm has been occasioned.
So far the weevil is not in as large
numbers as last year.
Nearly one hundred young Scotch
women, betrothed to men who have
been in America from six months to
several years, arrived in New York
city in the first and second cabin and
steerage of the Caledonia from Glas
gow. Some of the first cabin voy
agers were met at the pier by men,
who took them away to marry them.
The steerage passengers, who were
taken to Ellis island, may be released
and married.