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Southern. '~
Patriotism was the keynote struck
by the Southeastern Divigion of the
Ad Men’s Club of America at its ses
gion in Atlanta. About two hundred
men, interested in publicity, from the
Rio Grande to the Atlantic coast, as
sembled for the meeting. ~They did
not talk about themselves. They
talked about what they had done,
might do and would do for their par
ticular city and section and gave their
fellows the benefit of their advice.
Thomas E. Basham of Louisville, Ky.,
declared that every city in the South
should appropriate a fund for adver
tising itself and its resources. He
held that every city in the South is
worthy of advertising. Throughout
the entire program "the note re
sounded. :
That he murdered Gov. William
Goebel of Kentucky, in cold blood, at
Frankfort ,in January, 1900, was the
dying declaration of James Gilbert,
ex-feudist of Breathitt county, Ken
tucky, who was fatally wounded in a
pistol fight with a bartender, at Hel
ena, Ark. The name of James Gil
bert did not appear in the proceed
ings of the Goebel trial and persons
who were in close touchi with the
Frank tragedy were not impressed
with the Gilbert confession.
Mann Hamilton, a negro, identified
by Mrs. John Bell as the man who
attacked her at her home near Stark
ville, Miss., and after clubbing her
about the head with an iron bar,
threw her into a well, was hanged
by a mob near Starkville, Mrs, Bell
is probably fatally wounded. She
was found in the well, which con
tained only several feet of water, by
her 10-year-old son when he return
ed from school. Posses were imme
diately organized and Hamilton was
captured.
Shorn of its “injunction feature,”
and delayed in taking effect, the
Erickmann-Osborne-Carlisle anti-rac
bill law was accepted by the house of
representatives of the South Carolina
legislature, and was ordered enrolled
ag an act, the senate having passed
it in amended form. The bill now
goes to the governor for approval.
The fight on the racing bill eliminat
ed the provision making violation of
the law a common nuisance abatable
by injunction proceedings.
The Rock Hill plan of cotton re
duction was indorsed by the South
ern Merchants’ convention at their
meeting in Atlanta. The convention
deemed it unwise to encourage the
production of a large crop in 1912,
because another bumper crop would
ecertainly sell for a very low price,
which, in turn, would cause general
and serious denfralization in busi
ness, Another 16,000,000-bale crop of
cotton will bankrupt half the farm
ers in the state and and. hundreds
of merchants, said a speaker. /
General.
Twenty-five thousand dollars in cur
rency was stolen from a taxicab in
the heart of the New York business
district by progressive highwaymen,
who sprang into the vehicle and over
powered W. F. Smith and Frank War
dell, messengers of the East River
National bank at 680 Broadway. Both
messengers were badly injured and
the robbers escaped with the money,
$15,000 in five dollar bills and SIO,OOO
in one hundred dollar bills.
The United States government ar
rested in cities from New York to
Savannah to Denver at least forty
one, almost all of the fifty-four men
indicted in the dynamite conspiracy
cases, It took into custody within a
few hours practically the entire offi
¢ial staff of the International Asso
ciation of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers, including the chief officers,
the members of the executive board
and about twenty business agents and
former business agents, These in
cluded Frank M. Ryan, the:president;
John T Butler of Buffalo, N. Y., the
first vice president, and Herbert S.
Hookin, the second vice president,
apd_successor to J. J. McNamara as
Socrelary-treasurer, =« i o oS
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- _Edward B. Alsop, 75 years old, a
wealthy retired Pittsburg steel man
ufacturer, and Miss Effie Pope Hlll,
19 years old, of Washington, Ga.,
were married in Trinity_”c.h_grch, New
York City, with gg b groom’s two
crowt b Abd Sdvard 4
sop, studéngs at Hérvard, as witness
es. “The wedding was originally.-to
have ~ been "~on March 13, but the
young bride herself decided to hasten
‘the ‘ceremony. Mr. Alsop. met Miss
Hill in Washington, D.:C., about two
years ago. :
The Chinese national assembly
unanimously elected Yuan Shi Kai
president of the republic and then de
cided that the provsiion capital shall
be Nanking.- Dr. Sun Yat Sen’s res
ignation of the presidency of the Chi
nese republic- was accepted by the
national assembly on condition that
both he and the present cabinet hold
office until the new president and
cabinet take over their duties. The
national assembly afterwards passed
a resolution paying great tribute to
Doctor Sun. : .
The fundamental cause of the tex
til strike at Lawrence, Mass., is the
high cost of living, in the opinion
of Governor Foss. In a letter to Rep
resentative Oscar W. Underwood, the
Democratic leader of the Federal
house of representatives, Governor
Foss urges the immediate removal of
the duties from foodstuffs and other
necessaries of life. The letter says,
in part: . “Back of whatever - local
causes there may be for this strike,
the fundamental cause is the high
cost of living.”” : i s
Promising the new state a “golden
rule” ‘administration, George W. P.
Hunt was inaugurated as governor
of Arizona, accompanied by a num
ber of newly elected state officials
and a few close friends, Governor
Hunt, who began life in Arizona 25
years ago.as a waiter in a small min
ing camp restaurant, walked to the
capitol, about a mile from the cen
ter of that city, where the ceremonies
tdok place. Governor Hunt is a Mis
sourian, and 50 years old.
Reduction of bell weevils in the
cotton belt during 1911 undoubtedly
had an important bearing on the pro
duction of the record cotton crop, in
the opinion of W. D. Hunter of the
bureau of entomology. In a report’
on the movement of the Mexican cot
ton boll weevil, Mr. Hunter says:
“During 1911 the boll weevil ~was
greatly reduced in numbers through
out its entire range. This resulted
from a combination of climatic inffu
ences. extendiftg ‘over “a’ period . of
three years. .
Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of
the treasury, firing an administration
pre-convention campaign gun at Lan
sing, Mich., at the annual diner of
the Zach Chandler Republican club,
where he was the guest of honor,
came eout flatly with the expressed
belief that Col. Theodore Roosevelt
“would not—and with his make-up,
ould not—run against Taft,” for the
Republican presidential nomination
this year. Secretary MacVeagh con
fined his confidence to the present
contest,
: Washington. =~ -
Adj. Gen. Fred C. Ainsworth, who
was relieved of his office on charges
assumed to be those of conduct prej
udicial to good order and discipline,
was placed on the retired list dn his
own application. This precludes the
possibility of a courtmartial. Presi
dent Taft approved General Ains
worth's application because of the of
ficer’s thirty-seven years of service.
“Foolish stories” about American
intervention, circulated in Mexico,
through erorneous press dispatches,
have aroused so ~much feeling
throughout the troubled southern re
public and so endangered the safety
of American residents there, that the
state department issued a circular
to its diplomatic and consular repre
lar répresentatives i Meéxico, deny
ing all such stories 7and reiterating
expressions of good will and sincer
est friendship \(or Mexico.
Comptroller of the Currency Mur
ray announced that he would strict
ly enforce the law which holds di
rectors of national banks liable for
losses sustained through loans in ex
cess of legal amounts. He instruct
ed national bank examiners, when
such losses are discovered in future,
to request the board of directors of
the institution affected to pass a res
clution setting for the names of the
directors responsible for the -excess
loafl. :
Publication of the names and ad
dresses of the 900,000 pensioners now
on the Federal pension rolls, feeding
on the bounty of the government, is
provided for in a bijll offered by Sen
ator Bryan of Florida, and adopted by
the senate pension committee as an
amendment to the Smoot substitute
for the dollar-a-day pension bill. A
howl of protest will now go up from:
a large group of these pensioners. For
years the demand that the list should
be made public has been met with the
)8t subborn-oppesition. -
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ROCK HILL PLAN --
- WORK UNDER WAY
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TWENTY-SIX COUNTY COMMIT
. TEES NAMED BY MAYORS OF .
i COUNTY SEAT TOWNS. - -
THE COMMITTEES AT WORK
The Active Co-Operation of All the
Members to Reduce Acreage
Is Being Pledged.
£ —Atlanta.
Twenty-six county committees have
been named by the mayors of the
county seat towns, to put into exe
cutionn the “Rock Hill plan” for re
ducing the cotton acreage. :
The most prominent men in the
various counties are being selected,
usualy a farmer ,a merchant and a
banker. B
So far.as heard from, the commit
teemen are enlisting in the campaign
in the heartiest way, and promise
their ablest co-operation.
Arrangements have been made for
an organization in every cotton-grow
ing state in the South, with- the ex
ception of Florida, and there are sev
eral counties in Georgia each of
which make about as much npland
cotton as all of Florida.
| The twenty-six counties which have
reported so far will get to work ear
ly this week on the preliminaries for
the canvass. The first thing to do is
to select canvassers and to raise a
fund in the county to pay them where
they require compensation. Numbers
ofoffers -have been made by individ- |
uals over the state work in their
home sections without pay. . |
Frank Weldon, who is managing the
“Rock Hill plan” in Georgia, an
nounces the following county commit
.tees: . .
Troup—J. E. Dunson, E. B. Clarke,
R. H. Hutchison. * i
Hancock—Moses W. Harris, C: W.
Coleman, H. L. Harris}
[ Randolph—D. A. McPherson, bank
.er; N. M. Weaver, planter; R. D. Gay,
farmer and banker.
Schley—A. C. Murray, J. H. Steph
ens, R. E. L. Eason.
Houston—L. F. Carter, A. F. Smith,
€. -.C. Duncan.
-~ Upson—T. M. Matthews, S. Y. Pru
itt, W. L. Jenkins.
Mitchell—J. W, Butler, merchant; J.
L. Hand, banker; Isaac. A.. Bush,
farmer. z
Newton—L. W. Jarman, farmer; E.
W. Fowler, merchant; J. F. Hender
son, banker. , -
Putnam—B. W. Hunt, banker; J. R.
Griffin, merchant; John T. Dennis,
farmer,
Quitman—J. T. Gibson, merchant;
L. G. Brannan, banker; T. N. Balk
corn, farmer. :
Lowndes—J. F. Lewis, banker; T.
M. Smith, farmer; J. H. Powell, mer
chant.
Ben Hill—“ Bill” Paulk, G. E. Davis,
J. B. D. Paulk.
-~Clarke—C._ B. Griffith, J. J. Wilkins,
J. W. Collier. -
Elbert—H.” P, Hunter, John T.
Heard, 1. H. Thornton. ™~
Milton—George D. Rucker, banker
and editor of the Alpharetta Free
Press; S. J. Paris, merchant and clerk
of the superior court; Rev. W. H.
Smith, farmer and preacher.
Coweta—@G. M. Jones, T. G. Farmer,
B. L. Dedwine. /
Lee—T. Cobb Tharp, banker; H. R.
tSovall, merchant; J. R. Long, farmer.
Telfair—T. J. Smith, banker; Tom
Eason, farmer; Rob\ert Tompkins,
merchant. :
Morgan—H. T. Shaw, banker; L. T.
Penick, merchant; C. F. Barnett,
farmer, =
Bartow—Joseph S. Calhoun, bank
er; John B. Foster, merchant; W. A.
Dodd, farmer. %
Sumter—M. M. Lowry, banker; J. L
Johnson, farmer; R. S. Oliver, ms
chant. : :
Walton—A. B. Mobley, banker; W.
C. Wright, merchant; R. W. Johnston,
farmer.
Talbot—C. L. Passmore, J. W. Jor
dan, C. M. Black, J. M. Heath, E. R.
Matthews, R. Leonard, T. H. Persons,
J. T. Green, John A. Smith, mayor.
Thomas—Lee Neel, J. M. Jones, R.
R. Chastain.
Bullock—J. L. Coleman, banker; D.
E. Bird, farmer; C. B. Aaron, mer
_chant. :
Laurens—J. M. Finn, banker; W. B.
Rice, Jeptha Tingle.
Tips May Be Outlawed. e '
A definite movement is on foot for
the outlawing of the tip in Georgia.!
It will come before the approaching |
session of the Georgia legislature for
action; and the prediction by its.
friends is that a law will be enacted
similar to the ones passed almost
upnanimously, not long -ago, by the
legislatures of Mississippi and Ken
tucky. . News of the movement was
heard at the capitol, but the- details
of it were withbeld from publication |
Georglfa Cracker Nearly Extinct. . %
That the many improvements, in
ventions and junovations of this nrode
ern age are changing tlhiecharacter
of the “Georgia ‘cracker:* and that the
next generation will-see the passing
of this picturesque figure so closely
associated with the life and literature
of Georgia is” the opinion of Patrick
Pettibone, a man whose business now
takes him through the various coun
ties of the state. ;
The term “cracker” is said to have
originated from the practice. of the
drivers of teams from the country in
cracking “their long whips, residents
of the towns first applying it them
.and then to all of those living in the
backwoods regions of the state. How
ever, it originated, every Georgian
knows what a “cracker” means as
applied in its present significance to
any one, just as in other sections the
term “rube” or “hill billy” is used.
It used to be considered that a
“wiregrass cracker” was just about
the worst sort of a cracker that could
be found anywhere, but with the won
derful changes that have taken place
in the wiregrass region in the past
few years, it is said to be getting very
hard to find a"Tégular bona fide one.
There were sections, some of them
not very far from Thomasville, where
up to a few years ago the mere men
tion that a person was a resident of
them was sufficient to mark him as-a
cracker. There has been a marvelous
change in -this respect, however, and
many of these same sections are now
among the most up-to-date parts of
the coutnry. 55
Many of the old Georgia crackers
were illiterate, but the introduction
of the “present system of county
schools has done away with all that.
The younger generation are getting
good, -practical education. Rural free
delivery brings the mails to the door
and a daily paper keeps a household
up with the latest news of the day.
Magazines and fashion books enable
the women to keep up with modern
styles. Telephones put neighberhoods
in constant communication with each
other. Good roads bring automobiles
and other teams constantly by the
doors, where -before it was a rarity
to see even a wagon pass, and these
'same.good roads enable a farmer to
'carry his family often into the nearby
‘towns, so they have more opportuni
!ties to see what is going on and be
?ing done by the residents. New rail
‘roads are being built and many more
projected. The boys are learning sci
entific farming and the girls scientific
cooking, besidés many other modern
innonvations, and in twenty-five years
from now the “cracker’ bids fair to
be an extinct species, or there will
be only a few are specimens left
that will be regarded as curiosities.
State Farm Geeting Crowded.
The custom of some judges in send
ing able-bodied white men and even
husky young negro youths to the
state farm is tending to crowd. that
institution above the limit of comfort
and at the same time take perfectly
sound men off the public roads of the
state.
A law was passed a few years ago
to prevent the working of white wom
en on the Toads, and an amendment
inserted, gave the judges discretion
in certain instances where males were,
concerned. This applied, of course,
only in misdemeanor cases. This gap
relative to the men is a loophole,
while many judges seemed inclined
to use in sending strong and healthy
men to the farm, instead of putting
them on the roads,
Some judges even in felony cases
sentence to the prison farm, which is
said to '_pe clearly illegal, since no
such authority is vested in the judge
in cases involving felony.
Nine cases came to the prison com
misssio¥ which the parties were all
instructed to be sent’ to the state
farm. Two or three cases involved
felony. And this is not an unusual
day, it is said at the commission of
fices.
There are now about 225 men, and
some 75 women on the state farm and
the quarters there are becoming
crowded. Many of those on the farm
are strong, young and healthy, there
fore perfectly capable of doing road
duty. On the farm there is not suf
ficient to keep all employed, especial
ly during the winter, and it visits a
heavy expense on the state in feeding,
clothing and caring for this large
number.
The state farm was created primar
ily te care for the old, the crippled
and the diseased, in order to prevent
them from having to work in camps
and on the roads. But this one of
the farm is apparently being lost sight
of in sections of the state, and the
prison . authorities are apparently
helpless to prevent it.
Georgia is 179 Years Old.
Georgia Day was observed in prac
tically every school in the state on
Monday, which was the 179th birthday
of the commonwealth of Georgia.
In Atlanta special programs, con
ducted by the teachers of various
grades in the different schools, were
held, while the state schools featur
ed the great seal cf the state of Geor
gia dn-their exergises, -~ = = s
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Al Treatments Failed. Relieved
~ byPeruma. .
' Mrs. Wm. Hoh
mann, 276¢ Lincoln
Ave., Chicago, lIL,
writes:
I suffered ‘with
catarrh of the bron-
R ‘chial tubes and had
SN a terrible cough ever
e ;.g;_% since a child.
B “J would sit up in
B o bed with pillows
@oB propped up behind
SUME e me, but still the
e I ey cough would not let.
RSy me sleep. I thought
2\‘{% i and everybody else
BN BTN that I had consump
&‘Q%%‘ “So reading the
RS papers about Pe-
SRR %., runa I decided to
% o try, without the
| R least bit of hope that.
‘ SRy it would do me any
g good, But after tak
; By ing three bottles I
B noticed a change.
O ;i My appetite got.
| s better, so I kept on,
! Mrs. Hohmann. pever discouraged.
iFina]ly I seemed not to cough so much
‘and the pains in my chest got better
and I could rest at nigbt. :
“] am well now and cured of a chronic
cough and sore throat. I cannot tell
you how grateful I am, and I cannot
thank Peruna enough. It has cured
where doctors have failed and 1 talk
Peruna wherever I go, recommend it to
everybody. People who think . they
‘ have consumption better give it &
' trial.” k
| . Ladies’ Diplomat.
Miss Lillian Russell, more beautiful
i than ever, was serving tea at the Pro
fessional Woman’'s league bazar at
‘ the Waldorf-Astoria. A member of
JtßESpanish legation passed with twao
ichziirming girls, and Miss Russell said:
“No wonder that soung man is so.
popular with the ladies. He is a la
dies’ diplomat.”
“How a ladies’ diplomat?” a com
poser asked.
“Well,” explained Miss Russell, “he
is the sort of chap who always remem
bers a waman’s birthday and forgets
her age.”
Domestic Difficulties.
Husband—What's the matter, dear?
Why do you look so worried?
Wife—Oh, I've just got everything
all ready for Mrs. Neatleigh's visit.
I've done up all the curtains and
pillows shams and bureau covers and
centerpieces, and they're all spick and
span.
Husband—Well, if everything is in
such apple pie order why look so dis
consolate about it?
Wife (bursting into tears)—Oh, I
just know, as soon as she sees them,
she’ll know I cleaned everything all up
because she was coming.—Judge. <
Styles in’ Ailments.
“Well, here I am,” announced the
fashionable physician in his breezy
way. “And now what do you think
is the matter with you?”
“Doctor; I hardly know,” replied the
fashionable patient. “What is new?”
A mirror often prevents a woman
from getting }onesome.
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