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Jacksonville, Fla., People Are
Urging Naval Stores Bill.
Taliaferro Bill, It Is Said, Will Divert
Naval Stores Traffic From Savannah
to Jacksonville,
Washington, D, C.—The bill to pro
vide for federal inspection of naval
stores was urged for adoption by a
delegation from Jacksonville, which
appeared before a subcommittee of
the interstate commerce commission
of the house, The Floridians have
been in Washington for some time
working zealously for the passage of
this measure, The Savannah dele
gation, which was here to appear at
the hearing before the senate com
mittee have gone, but the supporters
of the bill remained on the scene, and
have continued the fight vigorously.
A bill similar to the bill introduced
by Senator Tallaferro in the senate
was introduced in the house by Mr.
Sparkman, Its passage is being urg
ed at both ends of the capitol. While
on the surface it provides for federal
inspection, its real purpose is to di
vert from Savannah to Jacksonville
the tremendous naval stores products
now handled through the Georgia
port.
The principal speaker at the hear
ing was W. M. Toomer of Jackson
ville, formerly of Waycross, Ga. The
delegation was accompanied by Rep
resentative Frank Clark of the Jack
sonville district.
The greatest interest is being shown
fn this bill throughout the pine belt,
The naval stores industry amounts
to nearly $30,000,000 a year.
GIANT STEAMERS CRASH.
White Star Liner Republic and Ital
jan Liner Florida in Collision.
New York City.—The palatial ocean
steamship Republic of the White Star
Line, which was in collision with the
Italian liner Florida, off Nantucket,
Mass., went down while she was be
ing towed to this city. No one was
lost. Her passengers had been trans
ferred to the steamship Baltic.
The Republic was in tow of the rev
enue cutter Gresham and the derelict
destroyer Seneca, proceeding 10 New
York. On board was Captain Sealby,
with a volunteer crew of fifty. The
crew was taken off by the Gresham,
which stood by until she sank be
neath the waves.
The Florida steamed slowly to New
York, convoyed by the American liner
New York.
That there was loss of life attend
ing the collision was not known until
some time after the accident. The
wireless, which has had its great trial
and proved its utility, brought .the
news that Mrs. Eugene Lynch of Bos
ton and W. J. Mooney of Langdon, N.
D., had been killed, and Mrs. M. M.
Murphy of Grand Forks, N. D, and
Eugene Lynch of Boston, injured. It
was reported, further, that four mem
bers of the Florida’s crew had met
death,
The bodies of the dead and injured
were transferred to the Baltic.
JEFF DAVIS’ BODY GUARD
Answers Last Roll Call—Was Pris
oner in Washington,
Atlanta, Ga.—Robin W. Cauble, a
Confederate veteran and one of Pres
ident Jefferson Davis, bodyguards, is
dead at his home in this city. Mr.
Cauble was aged 73 years, and was
a native of Charlotte, N. C., where
he resided for twenty-five years.
Mr, .Cauble enlisted with the Con
federate army when the war began.
He was transferred from the army
to the navy yards of the Confede
acy, where he was a pattern-maker
and machinist for two and a haif
years. Near the close of the war he
became one of Jefferson Davis’ body
guards; and, when the president was
captured in Irwin county, at the sur
render, by the Yankees, Cauble 'was
placed under arrest also, and was
taken with President Davis to Wash
ington and thrown in prison.
He made a fine recordp as a soldier
and did much for the south as a skill
ed pattern-maker in the navy yards,
and was proud of the honor of being
the president’s protector.
TAFT HAS SAILED,
President-Elect Leaves on the Cruiser
North Carolina.
Charleston, S. C.—After a, round of
entertainments by his friends in
Charleston, President-elect Taft sail
ed from this port on the United
States cruiser North Carolina for the
Isthmus of Panama.
Mr. Taft had no statement to make
regarding the conferences which he
‘held here with Senator Philander <.
.Knox and Frank H. Hitchcock, both
‘of whom arrived here, in response to
telegrams from Mt. Taft, requesting
them to meet him in Charleston,
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YELLOW SCARE IN CALIFORNIA.
Raised in Interest of Navy, Claim
Congressmen,
Washington, D. C.—Whatever the
Californians may think of the Jap
anese war scare, the war bugaboo has
been exposed in the house. It is an
exploded balloon, a worn,out device to
stimulate public support of the ad
ministration’s naval program,
Congressmen from California are
claiming that the controversy between
that state and President Roosevelt
over the proposed anti-Japanese leg
_islation aims at the sovereign power
of that state to control its domestic
affairs, and furthermore, is a racial
g;oblem in which the sympathies of
A% south should be enlisted.
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But the Tennessce Legislature Override
the Governor.
Nashville, Tenn~—Governor Patter
son has flled with the clerk of the
senate a message vetoing the state
wide prohibition bill, which last week
was passed by Dboth houses of the
legislature,
l The governor's action followed ad-
Journment of the senate, after it had
passed on third reading the bill pro
hibiting the manufacture in Tennes
see of Intoxicating liquors, :
The bill prohibitiug the manufac
ture of liquor was amended so as 10
become effective January 1, 1910
With the two laws on the statute
books, property worth many millions
would be made practically worthless,
vast revenues to the state, certain
counties and cities would be cut off
and anti-prohibitionists claim ‘that
taxes would necessarily become bur
densome, Nashville, Memphis and
Chattanooga are the only cities that
would be affected by the bill prohib
iting the sale of liquor, as local op
tion laws are already in effect prac
tically through the state,
In his veto message, Governor Pat
terson charges that such legislation
is against the democratic platform
and the doctrine of self-government;
that it sets aside the recorded will
of the people; that experience has
taught that no arbitrary prohibition
law was ever obeyed and its enact
ment brings no settiement of the
question; that it destroys property,
reduces state revenues, increases tax
ation, takes money from the people
to send it elsewhere, foments discord
impairs the dignity of the common
wealth; fosters hypocrisy and invites
evasion and deceit in the people.
Over the veto of Governor Patter
son both houses of the legislature
passed the senate bill aumber I,which
prohibits the sale of intoxicating li
quors within four miles of a school
house in Tennessee, and is in effect
a state-wide prohibition act, It is ef
fective July 1, 1909. ;
The vote in the senate, which came
at 2:45 p. m., stood 20 to 13, the same
as on the original passage. The house
acted at 5:40 p. m., the vote standing
61 to 36, the original vote there hav
ing been 62 to 37. In each house the
passage was effected through a co.u
bination of republican and state-wiae
democratic strength,
The action of the legislature prac
tically brings to a close one of the
bitterest and most sensational politi
cal fights in the history of Tenneus
see. State-wide prohibition was the
main issue in the recent contest
REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA
In Tottering State According to Re
ports Received in Washington.
Washington, D. C. — President
Roosevelt has transmitted to con
gress, with his approval, a letter from
Secretary of State Root, asking that
authority be given for the appoint
ment of a commission of three Amer
icans to go to Liberia and assist that
republic in strengthening its hold on
the reins of government. The presi
dent, in his endorsement of the
prposition, asks for an appropriation
of $20,000 for the payment of the
expenses of the commission.
Mr. Root says that the condition of
Liberia is really serious. The forty
or fifty thousand civilized negroes,
mostly descendants of colonists from
the United States, find it especially
difficult to control the native tribes,
or, because of lack of education, to
conduct their own government in ac
cordance with modern requirements.
Child Labor Conference.
Chicago, Ill.—“ Keep the child out
of the factory.” This was the con
sensus of sentiment at the opening
of the fifth annual national child la
bor conference. The plight of the
poor child who is taken from school
to become the support of parents, the
unnatural and unhealthful surround
ings of a child in the factories of the
big cities and in the cotton mills of
the south, were all described by so
cial workers of national repute, as an
argument for more legislative protec
tion for children,
Didn’t Like “Rebel Yell.”
Augusta, Ga.—The Taft banquet
here was a grand success, John D.
Rockefeller attended and was hav
ing a rare old time until one of the
guests proceeded to give the “rebel
yell” on any and all occasions. .
At first the Standard Oil magnate
laughed, and then became peevish
and glanced ferociously at the man
who heeded him not. :
Japanese Praise Roosevelt.
Tokio, Japan.—Japan is singing the
praises of President Roosevelt again
as a result of his protest against the
proposed anti-Japaneses legislation
in California. Leading Japaneses be
lieve the president’s second interfer
ence will bring to an end adverse leg
islation and that it never again will
be brought up.
Last of Criminal Havens.
Washington, D. C.—Through the
ratification by the senate of an extra
dition treaty with Honduras, steps
were taken ‘to break up the last re
maining asylum of persons who com
mit crimes. in the United States.
When this treaty is proclaimed by the
president of the United States, extra
dition of criminals will be possible
with all governments of the world,
Judges’ Salaries Increased.
Washington, D. C.—After much dis
cussion the senate voted that the
compensation of the twenty-nine cir
cuit judges be increased from $7,000
to $9,000, and that of eighty-four dis
trict judges from $6,000 to SB,OOO. -
Asks for Regulation But Not Pro
hibition of Whiskey.
Denounces Intemperance, the Saloon
Loafer and the Unprincipled
Keeper of Dives.
LO“IIV"}O. Ky, — Denunciation of
prohibitiofl as insincere and fallaci
ous gave way to a taking of the
sense of the delegates to the secoud
annual convention of the National
Model License League upon the ques
tion of regulating properly the ligquor
trade of the country, This census
resulted in the approval of one of
the strongest sets of resolutions along
the line of self-government advanced
by tradesmen of any particular in
the United States.
The resolutions were adopted with
great enthusiasm by the several huu
dred delegates from all parts of the
United States who are attending ‘the
convention,
The principal address of the day
was delivered by Mayor David A. Rosc
of Milwaukee, In introducing him,
President Gilmore of the league caus
ed something of a sensation by stal
ing that among the men who had
been invited to the convention were
many ministers, all of whom endors
ed the purposes and methods of the
league, but said they were afraid tu
come as they might be misunde:-
stood.
“We will consede absolutely,” said
Mr. Rose, “that if prohibition in fact
prohibits; if it operates to promote
the well-being of the people; if iu
truth it is elevating to society and
is beneficial to humanity, then prac
tical considerations should be set
aside. Whatever the result to vest
ed interests might be, whatever loss
it might produce, all should be sac
rificed in the interest of the general
welfare, just as the buildings may
be blown up or razed to prevent the
spread of the conflagration. But, if
the opposite of these is true, then
not only should prohibition be re
fused as an ethical proposition, but
questions of investment of capital,
business profits, employment of labor,
consumption and markets for farm
products, municipal, state and federal
revenue and the many other elements
so inseparably connected with them,
should weigh in the balance in favor
of the other remedy.
“But we cannot reject prohibition
as the remedy unless we can offer
something better, and with the think
ing, the query is, Wkat shall it be?
“My experience as the official head
of a city of 400,000 inhabitants for
ten years, as well as my observation
of the conduct of other large cities,
wet and dry, and the study and in
vestigation I have prosecuted to gain
the fullest information upon the sub
ject, teaches me to begin to believe
‘that regulation is the remedy.”
- The following rules were suggest
ed by Mayor Rose:
"«License should never be granted
to an unworthy person.
“License should never be granted
to keepers of illegal places or to per
sons who could permit open or secret
gambling,
" «Minors should be éxcluded from sa
loons, and sales to minors should be
prohibited.
" «Habitual drunkards should be de
nied.”
He also said tkat loungers should
not be allowed in a saloon.
LEGISLATOR INDICTED.
Immune from Arrest Under South
Carolina Laws.
Columbia, S. C.—Granted immunity
from arrest by the constitution of the
state during the sessions of the leg
islature except on charges of felony
or breach of the peace, Joshua W.
Ashley, prominent as a member of
the lower house, who was indicted by
the federal grand jury, in session
here, on a peonage charge, continues
to occupy his seat in the house. Mr.
Ashley says he is not worried in the
least by the action of the grand jury,
attributing the indictment to spite
work of some of his enemies.
Mr. Ashley is perhaps the most
wealthy member of the lower house,
and District Attorney Cochrane says
he is not in the least apprehensive
that he will attempt to evade arrest,
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FREE PRESS IS NECESSARY.
Senator Tillman Alarmed at Possibil
ity of Success in Libel Cases.
Washington, D. C.—Declaring that
“no patriot can contemplate, without
great alarm, the possibility of the
president’s success” in the Panama
libe] cases, noOwW being investigated
by the grand jury in this city and
in New York, Senator Tillman of
South Carolina, in a statement, sound
ed a strong note of warning on the
question of the freedom of the Amer
ican press. ‘
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WiSHINGTONS SWOKD
Presented to Mt, Vernon Association!
By J. B. Morgan. |
Baltimore, Md.—J. Pierpont Mor
gan, the New York banker, has pus
chased from Miss Virginia Lewis of
this city the sword worn by General
George Washington, when he resign
ed his commission as commander-in
chief of the Continental army in 1874.
Mr. Morgan will make a contribution
of this historic relic to the Mount
Vernon association. |
The price paid for the sword will
not be divulged, although its value
may be determined, from the fact
that 'a few’® years ~ #4go’ ‘the United
States senate pasped a bill appropri-.
ating ;2@00&3 ior{ its figrqhase. b }
P TR, Vg W B AR g Yool bl B i A
TO SAVE COUNTRY'S RESERVES,
Report of the Committee on Conserva
. tion Sent to Congress.
Washington, D, C.~President Roose
velt has transmitted 'to congress the
report of the commission of conserv
ation of the national resources.
He gives it the sweecping designa
tion of “the first inventory of its nat
ural resources ever made by any na
tion,” Every recommendation is cor
dially indorsed, he stresses the duty
of the national posterity and the com
mon sense side of the conservatism;
and recommends that $50,000 be ap
propriated to perpetuate the work of
the commission, since the present re
port may be viewed as only a tenta
tive survey of the nation's assets,
Opening with the declagation that
“the duty of man to man, on which
the integrity of nations must rest, is
no higher than the duty of each gen
eration to the next, the report refers
to the marvelous mineral, land, for
est and water resources of the coun
try, and the manner in which they
have been prodigally wasted.
The awakening of the public to
the importance of conservation is viv
idly pictured.
The report cites present wasteful
methods of treating al lour resources,
and declares that in their conserva
tion “our dual system of government,
state and ‘federal, should be brought
into harmonious co-operation and col
laboration,”
LOCATED BY A TEAPOT.
How American Consulate at Messina
Was Found.
Washington, D. C.—lt was by a
battered teapot, the property of Mrs.
Cheney, wife of the American consul
at Messina, at the time of the recent
earthquake, both of whom lost their
lives, that Stuart K, Lupton, vice con
sul at Messina, succeeded, on the
morning of the catastrophe, in fixing
the location of the American consul
ate.
In a letter to the state department,
Mr. Lupton says that immediately af
ter the terrible shock he started for
the consulate,
“I had not proceeded more than 50
yards when 1 found myself walking
in water up to my knees in a place
where it should have been eight feet
above the water level,” he says. “At
the place where 1 supposed the con
sulate to be there was nothing but a
heap of ruins, iron beams, splinter
ed wood, bricks and stone in hapless
confusion, I was not sure of the
spot, and climbed over the ruins to
see if 1 could find anything familiar.
Finally, 1 came across a battered tea
pot, which I recognized as the prop
erty of Mrs. Cheney, and, remember
ing the spot where it had stood, was
able to get my bearings.”
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\ STUART IS DEFENDED.
John S. Mosby Explains the Famous
1 Cavalry Leader’s Action.
. Richmond, Va.—Colonel John 8.
Mosby, who has been ill in Washing
ton, but whose recovery is now pre
dicted, holds a unique place in his
tory. While he bears a strong re
‘semblance to the famous cavalry
raiders of revoluticnary times, and of
the civil war, the fact that instead
of raiding into the enemy’s country
he operated nearly always in the
northern neck of Virginia, within
sight of Washington, and in the rear
of his enemy’s grand army, and often
in the midst of it, distinguishes him
from the merely dashing and cour
‘ageous cavalry leaders.
\ He has recently finished a lgbor of
love, in a book concerning Stuart’s
cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign,
defending J. E. B. Stuart from the
charge of being . absent improperly
from the battle of Gettysburg. It was
Stuart who gave him the opportunity
to establish an independent command,
and it has been a life-long effort of
his to clear the memory of his ben
efactor from the blame which some
military writers, following General
Lee's report of that battle, as they
understood it, have placed upon it.
131,000 BALES TO BE GINNED.
National Ginners’ Association Issues
an Estimate on Cotton Crop.
Memphis, Tenn.—The National Gin
ners’ Association places the number
of bales of cotton ginned to January
16 at 12,628,000 bales, and estimates
that 131,000 bales will be ginned dur
ing the remainder of the season.
The amount is apportioned bY
states as fololws:
Alabama, 1,314,000, amount ginned
to January 16; amount yet to gin, 4,
000; Arkansas, 922,000; 22,000, Flor
ida, 68,000; 1,000. Georgia, 1,942,000;
;4,000; Louisiana, 462,000; 2,000, Mis
sissippi, 1,544,000; 21,000. =~ Missouri,
’54,000; 3,000; North Carolina, 659,
000; 5,000. Oklahoma, 614,000; 31,
000. South Carolina, 1,189,000; 8,
000; Tennessee, 319,000; 5,000. Tex
as, 3,526,000; 25,000. Virginia-Ken
tucky, 15,000; —. Total, 12,628,000;
1121.000. ;
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.
That one person in every twenty
in England and Wales is a pauper,
is the appalling fact brought out in
the first three weeks of the old age
pension law. In London the ratio
is one in fourteen, and the figures
gathered tell such a story of nation
al poverty that the government :is
believed to be in danger. More than
500,000 persons have been found eli
gible for old age pensions, and it is
expect%i this total within the next
few months will reach 600,000. Fig
ures compiled within the last few
weeks give a population to England
and Wales of 34,934,600. The number
of ‘paupers is-1,709,436, while 2,209,-
436 receive government aid, :
Professional Cards.
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King & Sellers,
LAWYERS
Wil practice in all the courts,
Office at the Court House,
HAZLEHURST, GA.
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J. M. HALL, W. M, GIRTMAN
Resid'c’e, Phone 49, Resid’c’e Phone 8
HALL & GIRTMAN,
Physicians and Surgeons
HAZLEHURST, GEORGIA,
DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHIL
DREN A SPECIALTY.
Doctor of Dental Surgery.
HAZLEHURST, GA.
Chapman-Patrick Building.
DR. J. M. CHRISTIAN,
PMHYSIOCIAN & SURGEON
Hazlohurst, - Qeorgla.
Office over <Citizens’ Bank.
Office ’phone, No. 6§4; residence
'rhone, No. 9.
Calls promptly answered day or
night.
JULIAN H. PARKER.
Lawyer
HAZLEHURST, GEORGJIA.
R. M. MONTGOMERY.
Physician and Surgeon.
HAZLEHURST, GA.
Office with Peoples Drug Store
Residence Phone No. 14.
FEMININE NEWS NOTES. \;'
Giovanni Minessale was buried in
the ruins of her home at Messina,
Italy, for eighteen days. '
Through the will of the late Mrs.
Astor, the destitute blind will acquire
$50,000 toward building an asylum.
Mrs. Charlotte P. Gilman said the
domestic service of wives in American
homes unfitted them for motherhood.
Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay made her
debut as a speaker in an address in
favor of equal suffrage, in New York
City.
Violet Gordon Charlesworth, who
was reported killed in an automobile
accident in Wales, was found in Scot
land. .
The Chicago Charter Committee
has accepted a resolution declaring
for a clause giving municipal suffrage
to womenu.
Miss Ethel Dickens, a granddaugh
ter of Charles Dickens, is the head of
a large typewriting bureau in London,
and is described as a keen business
woman.
Mrs. Alma Lafferty, of Denver, is
a member of the Colorado House of
Representatives, the first woman to
occupy a seat in that body for a num
ber of years. y \
Michigan’s new constitution, lately
ratified by the voters, grants women
who pay, taxes the right to vote upon
questions involving the expenditure
of public money.
Mrs. Richard A. Alley has the dis
tinction of being the only lady in the
world who is the active manager of a
line of steamships. Since the death
of her husband, nearly a year ago,
she has personally managed the Alley,
Line.
In four States of the Union, Wyom
ing, Colorado, Idaho and Utah, wom
en possess the same political rights
as men, voting at all elections on
the same conditions. In Wyoming
the right has been exercised for forty
years. g
In the Winter Woods, '
From “Nature and Science” in Feb
ruary St. Nicholas.
You will add greatly to your pleas
ure in summer if you do not pick so
many of the wild flowers but watch
them develop, notice what the fruit.
looks like after the flower is gone,
and then watch to see how each one
distributes its seed, for all of these
seed receptacles have their own
methed of fulfilling this all-important
mission. Some, iike the evening
primrose, have their pods open at the
ends and so let the wind shake out.
their seed; :others, like the witchhaz
el, shoot their seed quite a distance
from the hard cases, which is done
as you would shoot a slippery orange
seed by pressing between your finger
and thumb. And then there is the
cranesbill which throws its -seed from
a little cup at the end of a spring,
which you may see even now coiled
up with the little cup at its tip. - (
A walk in the winter woods spenty
in identifying your friends of the
summer by their dried pods or thei
seed will prove a most enjoyable and,
profitable pastime.
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The man who works only for him--
selg has a very exacting boss. /
