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ALACULSEY .
LUMBER
COMPANY
SOLD TO THE CONESAUGA LUM
BER COMPANY.
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MAY MEAN BUILDING D. SA. R. R.
The Transfer Has Been Made—ln
volves $450,000 —The Argns Told
of the Deal Early Last July.
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Binghampton, N. Oct. 22 —A
land deal through which the members
of the Alaculsey Lumber company, of
this city, sold a large tract of land in
Georgia to the Conesauga Lumber
Company, of Conesauga. Tenn., has
neen completed, and the transfer in
»• volves $450,000. The Alaculsey com
pany was organized in 1901 under the
laws of Georgia, and has 38,000 acres
of timber land in the northwestern
part of the state.
For some time negotiations have
been pending for the purchase of the
land by the Tennessee company, and
finally terms were agreed upon.
Last week final arrangements were
perfected and the transfer made.
The deal will give the Tennessee
company 200,000,0000 feet of white
■oak and popular timber.
It is planned to greatly extend the
operations of the company, and the
purchase of this tract will give the
Tennessee concern the largest output
in the United States.
The Argus carried an account of
this story last July though the sale
had not then been confirmed. This
sale now may mean the building of
the Dalton and Alaculsey rail road.
* Col. J. M. Rudolph, of Dalton, Ga.,
accompanied by his two children and
Miss Mattie Wheeler, his half sis
ter, also of Dalton, and Gilbert Mor
i ris, of Cedartown, Georgia, arr : md
here the first of the week after an au
tomobile trip of approximately se.eu-l
teen hundred miles. The jorr-iey v. '
made in a forty-horse power Knox car
driven by Col. Rudolph and was ac
complished without accident or mishap
of any kind in something like four
teen days actual running time.
Long stretches of bad roads were
encountered in Alabama and Missouri,
between St. Louis and Kansas City,
but in the latter state the trouble was
largely due to the oceurance of heavy |
rains a few days before Col. Rudolph <
and his party passed through that 1
, •• section of the country. For a con-
' siderable distance along the bottoms *
of the Ohio river in the route travel
ed by the party th roads are “cor-
i duroyed,” and rather than take the '
~ risk of giving his companions a too
J severe ‘ 1 shaking up.” bros breaking 1
his machine, Col. Rudolph and party
n boarded a steamboat at Paducah. Ken
■< tucky, and made the trip in that man
-1 ner to St. Louis, where the auto was
f again brought into requisition.
1 The party left Dalton about the
i twentieth of August and stopped at
t various points along the way, break
' J ing the tedium of the journey in that
8 | manner. With a strong, powerful.
t machine no trouble was experienced
X in pulling the deepest mud and over
! % the roughest places in the roads, al
’s x though the experience was at times a
’ c little disagreeable. Col. Rudolph will.
I in all probability, be invited by the
■ ( members of the Canon City Automo
| bie club to relate to them some of the
V- incidents of the journey to be used in
V connection with the good roads propa-
' ganda.
Col. Rudolph is a cousin of Mrs. H.
BC. Webster, of this city and has come
here to make his home. His wife, who
is an invalid, has been sojourning in
Canon City since early in the summer
for the benefit of her health. Col.
Rudolph is a lawyer by profession and
I was at Dalton, his home town. The
will, temporarily at least,
ccupv the Webster residence at 531
avenue.—Canon City News.
By Elbert Hubbard.
Copyright, 1911, by International
News Service.
There once lived a man known to
the world of horse lovers as "Pa
Hamlin.”
This man ran a general store at
East Aurora; and built up a large and
flourishing trade, as country stores
go.
And he was denounced by the mer
ry villager in exact ratio to his suc
cess and the benefits he conferred
upon the town.
It is the buyer’s right to defame
the seller, and this privilege is pret
ty thoroughly exercised the wide
world over.
When the setters set to and rip a
man’s reputation up the back, you
may depend upon it the person defam
ed is quite unlike the impeccable ones
who do the defaming. The fact that
a man has things that we want is jus
tification enough for our damning him.
Any man who does much to benefit
and help the city, town or village
where he resides, is looked upon with
suspicion.
Water works, sewerage, parks, pav
ed streets are never the spontaneous
evolution o f the people of the town,
they are pushed upon the many: and
a deal of diplomacy, argument, hand
shaking and kissing of babies is re
quired to bring about the betterment.
Only one-man power counts.
Everybody may say that Main street
needs paving, but let any one man
take hold actively to gt it done and
this man finds the way blocked, his
lands tied, his feet manacled by the
muckrakers whose chief business is
to muckrake, time and third.
That is to say, he has to make terms
with the genus setter, and when the
thing is finally completed it is the
common talk of the town that this
man has benefited himself by the
things provided for the good of all.
It is now the thorough belief of
evry business man who has any know
edge of the subject that Tweed in
New York and Shepard in Washing
ton benefitted their respective cities
immensely and that to a great degree
they were victims of village hate.
Boss Tweed bought up great num
bers of vacant lots, removed shanties,
scattered the squatters and evolved
Central Park, the great playground
r the people.
At the time the city, had not near
' ’ caught up with the park, and the
enerprise and prophetic vision of
Tweed were the very things that
brought about his downfall.
We now know that the man did not
profit at all by his transaction, and
it is probably the same with Boss
Shepard, who gave us the new Wash
ington, which is the most beautiful
city, from a topographical standpoint
in America.
This is no apology for the corrup
tion of and waste of political bosses,
but viewing matters in the light of
results, the men just named were ben
efactors of the people, and, fell vic
tims to the genus villager who oppos
es the very things that he suggests,
yet shares greedily in the graft if it
comes in grabbing distance.
Pa Hamlin was one of the first men
in America to make glucose sugar.
He bought the secret from a man who
was unable to make use of it. Terri
ble tales were told about how he rob
bed this man.
When Pa Hamlin was raising horses
laying out beautiful farms, increas
ing the y ield of crops and showing
farmers how to f arm. he hired men
who got even by damning him at the
grocery every night. These parties,
who nibbled at the crackers and sam
pled the cheese and occasionally
swiped sardines, are classics, and
their habit is never to forgive or for
get the people they have injured.
And the moral in this: When you
hear successful people hotly denounc
ed, just take fifty, ten and five, and
then withhold judgement until you
know something for sure about the
man.
Another clue, leading to the pos
sible restoration of Leonardo’s won
derful “Mona Lisa,” is being fol
lowed up in San Francisco, where the
police have been notified to look out
for one suspected Gery Pieret.
THE DALTON ARGUS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1911.
BIG BANK
WON’T TAKE
BUREAU PLAN
NEW YORK FINANCIAL INSTI
TUTE WANTS OLD STYLE
BILL LADING.
GREAT VICTORY FOR SOUTH
National City Bank of New York a
Year Ago Favored a New System—
Now Wants Original Plan.
New York, Get. 21 —The National
City Bank, which has been an impor
tant factor in foreign cotton bills, an
nounced today its decision not to ac
cept bills of lading under the terms
imposed by the recently established
central bureau or clearing house, or
ganized to prevent negotiation of frau
dulent bills.
Officials of the bank, which was
prominent in the protracted negotia
tions with European banks through
out the last year, declined to state the
reason for this actiqp. It is under
stood, however, that the terms laid
down by the central bureau are held
to conflict with certain English laws
calculated to restrict the value of ne
botiability of such documents, in tliat
it fails to fi,x responsibility in case
of fraud.
The action of the City Bank was
arrived at by advice of counsel, and
beginning next Monday the bank will
handle only ‘.straight bills”; that is.
bills of exchange that bear no refer
ence to any documents or to the mer
chandise they are supposed to cover.
The form of bill acceptable to the
City Bank is clearly set forth in the
formal circular to customs. It is not
known what effect this action will
have on either domestic institutions
or banking house dealings in foreign
cotton bills.
Banks of the south also, as a rule,
have refused to accept the central bu
reau of Liverpool system of checking.
The principal fight against the plan
was made in the south.
GEORGIA WOMAN IS
HELL FOR LARCENY
Chicago October 19—Mrs. M. H.
Barnes, said to be a daughter of a
wealthy Georgia family, was ar
raigned before Municipal Judge
Dolan in the Harrison Street court
t
yesterday morning on a charge of lar
ceny.
She was arrested hy house detec
tives of a State street department
store, who charged her with stealing
two hats, valued at s6o'.
Mrs. Barnes pleaded not guilty and
asked for a continuance in order to
obtain an attorney and witnesses. The
hearing was set for October 21. Bail
was fixed at SI,OOO. Unable to fur
nish the amount Mrs. Barnes was
taken back to a cell.
Mrs. Barnes lives with her hus
band in an apartment at 204 East
Fifty-fifth street. From friends it
was learned that she formerly was
Mrs. Martha Scott, and married M.
H. Barnes, a traveling salesman, in
December, 1910. Her maiden name
was Martha Hudgins, and she is said
to be a daughter of a wealthy south
ern planter. Her home was in Cham
blee, Ga.
MACHINERY CREAKED;
CAUSE—A DEAD MAN
Atanta. Ga., Oct. 19 —A negro em
ployed by the Gate City Oil Mill was
annoyed uesday afternoon by a pe
culiar creaking sound made by the
moving machinery.
Going to the second story to inves
tigate he found that Alfred Jones,
colored, of East Point, had been
caught in a shaft and his dangling
body was causing the peculiar sound
from the machinery.
Coroner Donehoo’s jury investigat
ing the negro’s death, returned a ver
dict of accidental death.
The married editor of the Rome
Tribune recognizes autumn’s arrival
in the following:
After lingering long beyond Time's
horizon, autumn has at last arrived.
Her coming is being acclaimed by the
poets throughout the Southland, who
thrill their roundelays. They tell of
the faint haze of the distant hills; the
crimson blush upon the leaf, the wine
like air of sunny moons, the crisp
autumnal tinge to golden morn and
star-gemmed eventide.
There are also other signs, where
by the observer may know that au
tumn is here, and we have determin
ed that they shall not go unsung.
We recognize the season by the chill
feeling which plays about the exi
tremifies, due to belated and abbre
viated lingerie. We note the pass
ing of the low-neck shoe. The last
lingering straw lid has been wafted
on the breezes of the departing sum
mer. The bright and little-worn vest
makes its incongruous appearance in
men’s attire, making his brethren of
the suit, the coat and trousers, seem
haggard by comparison. *
The housewife removes the orna
mental screen or the large palm from
in front of the grate—and urges lit
tle Bill to split kindling. The coal
man presents a bill of shocking pro
portions that slaughters the glee felt
at the temporary demise of the ice
man’s account. The semi-annual
scent of moth-balls fills the rooms.
By these tokens it is autumn.
The reign of the fluffy frock, the
brief queendom of the one-piece
suit, passeth. Every dame and
damsel must have a tailored suit.
‘‘Of course. I could have gotten one
for $28.50, George, but I knew you
would not want me to look tacky—
and I can wear this one several sea
sons. It onl cost $62.76 and the
man said he was only making 76
cents.” Thus speaketh the ruler of,
the hearth. Indeed, yes, it is autumn
—and our pocketbooks will just be
gin to reco er from the assault when
Christmas will come tripping down
the aisles of Time.
T. R. Jones, a prominent resident
of Cartersville, well known as a
stock salesman and promoter through
out North Georgia and the south, has
been indicted by the Floyd county
grand jury, charged with larceny af
ter trust, says the Rome Tribune.
The prosecutor is J. H. Walker, a
farmer of Bartow’ county. The at
mount involved is $2,400. Jones was
arrested in Chattanooga, brought here
and has made bond.
Copeland, Hami’ton and Hutchens
of Rome, and Rountree, Felder and
Anderson, of Atlant,, represent Mr.
Jones. The Rome attorneys stated
to the Tribune-Herald Wednesday
night that the case was one of mali
cious prosecution and that they in
tend to seek damages from he pros
ecutor. They assert that Mr. Jones
is a man of wealth and integrity,
amply able and willing to pay any
just claim against him, that the trans
action in question was due to a mis
understanding. and that it is now in
litigation in Bartow county. The
indictment was returned in Floyd
because the transaction is alleged to
have taken place here.
Jones is a large owner of the st ck
of the LaDara Consolidated Mining
Co., of New Mexico, and deals in in
surance and mining stocks. Walkers
a farmer living near Cassville, asserts
that he tuned over to Jones to sell
for him stock in the LaDura Company
worth $2,400; that Jones sold the
stock for that amount and that hen,
instead of turning the money over
o the rightful owner retained it.
Owing to the prominence of the par
ties involved the outcome of the case
What He Was Practicing.
When a leading citizen of a New
Hampshire town returned thither af
ter a prolonged sojourn abroad, he
made a tour of the place to find out
how all his old friends were ‘‘get
ting along,” says Lippincott’s.
At one establishment he found a
youth, the son of an old friend of his
whose father was still paying his of
fice rent.
‘‘Practicing law now, Jim?” asked
the returned one genially.
‘‘No, sir,” replied the youth frank
ly, ‘‘l appear to be, but I am really
practicing economy.”
ACROBATIC
RELIGION
POGUE
DOWN IN LOWNDES COUNTY,
GEORGIA, AMONG MANY OF
THE NEGROES—AN EFFORT
TO STOP THEIR CAVORTINGS.
Valdosta, Ga., Oct. 21—The Evan
gelical Minister’s Union, of this city,
composed of colored ministers, has
adopted resolutions calling for a con
gress of Christian people to try and
stamp out a new religion which has
been introduced among the negroes.
It is along the Pentacostal line, or
‘‘sanctificationists,” and the negro
ministers are greatly alarmed over its
spread It is said that 2,000 or 3,000
negroes attended the meeting here
last Sunday and the stunts that were
pulled off have shocked the more con
servative brethren greatly. Some of
the men and women, ‘‘while under
the influence of the spirit,” climbed
stove pipes, jumped over benches,
spun around on their heels, embraced
each other, fought each other in tlm'r
efforts to hug the pastor of the flock
and did many things that have shocked
the other ministers. It is said that
one negro fought his way through the
crowd and shouted : ‘‘l jes want to say
I’m wid you.” Then he fought his
way ought of the house to the street
again.
Charging that she was routed out
of the berth w’here she had gone to
sleep, and was compelled to march
barefooted, clad only in her night
gown and kimono, into another Pull
|inan car, in the presence of the amus
ed passengers, Mrs. Mary A. Barn
hill, of Atlanta, has filed suit for
$5,000 in the city court, against the
Pullman company.
She charges further that when she
sent the porter and conductor back
to get her rats, puffs and switches,
they brought them into the car and
presented hem with the utmost for
mality, still in the presence of the
amused car full of passengers.
Mrs. Barnhill characterizes the in
cident as a ‘‘brutal outrage,” and
goes into specific details of what hap
pened. It appears that she was go
ing from Atlanta to Biltmore, N. C.,
and she says that when she went to
the train at this end of the line, she
entered t he car and the berth indi
cated to her by the train officials as
the one to which she was entitled by
her ticket.
Mrs. Barnhill says hat she wrnnt to
sleep and shortly afterwards was
awakened by the porter and conduc
tor, who informed her that she was
in the wrong car, and would have to
hurry into another because the one
she was in didn’t go to Biltmore at
all.
She says that she pleaded for time
to dress, but that the conductor and
porter refused to allow her time, and
compelled her to throw a kimono
about her night dress, and without
giving her time to put on her stock
ings and shoes, bundled her clothing
and baggage together and hurried hr
into another car.
Mrs. Barnnill complains that the
car into wffiich she entered in this
scanty attire was full of passengers,
who were greatly amused by her ap
pearance and by the condition of dis
habille in which she had been com
pelled to come before them. She says
she was deeply mortified and humili
ated by the situation.
Mrs. Barnhill declares that after
the transfer to the other car she dis
covered that in the hurry and con
fusion her various articles of arti
ficial hair, “now so much worn by
ladies,” and known as “rats,”
“switches,” and “puffs,” which she
had removed on retiring, had been left
in the berth.
She says that she sent the conduc
tor and porter back to find the hair,
and that when they returned with it
hey presened it to her with much for
mality, in the presence of the other
passengers, which added greatly to
their amusemnt and her *
ment. embar **-
In conclusion. Mrs. B arnhill .
arterizes the affair as , br „ la | **
She declares that in aj dis '
to the humiliation to which «he
-Bieetet, ah. loßt 80me “
a valuable diamond pin ” d
Through her
she asks for »5,000 damage. ’
“I sb»thim, jnstas any other
would have done. He ,l w tried
shoot me, but God was „n my side
I shot a second quicker.”
The concluding words of the
dramatic statement in wl,i A FloV( j
Garner „„ tria| (or
John T. Smith, asked that the j n „
grant him his life, f e || into ,
ness so pronounced and tense that
the words seemed to be left
tn the air, says the Atlanta Cousi
tution.
The entire trial was marked by ear
nest seriousness. As witness ‘ af ter
witness was put upon the stand the
strain was heightened and intensified
to such a point that Garner’s state
ment seemed the climax of a swiftl
moving drama. There was scarcely
standing r oom in the court when the
man began his clear, concise state
ment to the jury and as he spoke there
was not a sound in the room.
He began by telling the jury of his
early life, how he was brought up as
a country boy in Gwinnett county,
how he and Smith had long been
friends, Smith himself being a native
of that county. He told of his mar
riage. his love for his wife, his four
children and his home, his unques
tioning faith in his wife’s loyalty and
love, his unsuspecting acceptance of
Smith s friendship as a neighbor and
man. He told of the shock and hor
ror of the Sunday evening on which
his wife came home to him “crazed,
drunk and apparently doped,” of how
he took her home, undressed her and
put be rto bed, of the two anxious
days of her delerium, during which he
heard things which aroused his sus
picions, and how on Wednesday even
ing she had confessed that she had
spent hours with Smith, admitting
her dishonor.
“It took me until Wednesday night
to learn who the man was that had
wrecked my home and dishonored my
name,” said Garner, “for my wife
persistently refused' to tell me who
the man was that had won her away
from me and her duty to my chil
dren.
“All day Wednesday she hung
about my neck and. pleaded with me
not to do anything drastic. I thought
that Smith was the man, but I did not
know it until Wednesday night when
my wife admitted that it was he
shortly after he had passed our
house.
“Then I armed myself. When he
again passed my house I went out
and stopped before him. ‘Stop. T
said, and he, conscious of his guilt,
reached for his gun. We both drew
our pistols at about the same time,
but I was a little quicker and shot
first. I fired three times just as
quickly as I could pull the trigger.
Largest Woman on Earth.
Alton, 111., dispatch to N. Y. World.)
Miss Gertrude Burke, of Chicago,
largest woman in the world, is visiting
at the home of Mrs. H. W. Hay’s-
Here. Miss Burke is 22 years of age.
weighs 825 pounds, stands 5 feet <
inches, and some of her measnn
ments are: Arm, 28 inches; waist. 54
■\Tz-z -1 1
inches; bust 75. She wears Mo.
shoes and No. 7 gloves.
When she was born Miss Burke
weighed 15 pounds and at 8 years of
age weighed 250. At the Hayes lion,
she sits on two chairs placed tm ng
paeh other. Miss Burke goes thnr
doors by turning sideways and it '■
a pretty tight squeeze at that.
Efforts have been made by showmen
to get Miss Burk to exhibit herself.
but she has never been tempted. H (
parents left her an estate and
doesn’t need the money.
Tulsa, Okla., Oct. 20—Aviator W.
L. Bonney, who has been giving
hibitions here for a week, will re
main in Tulsa Sunday and onefourt 1
of the proceeds received that da>
be contributed to the widow of E
gene Ely, who was killed Thursday
at Macon, Ga., while making a Air’