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THE WILLACOOCHEE RECORD PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. GA. If Venice builds subways the gon dola will get a black eye. Missouri claims to be the banner strawberry state of tte union. They used'to say ihat football was an awfully rough game before politics got to be so unladylike. Man in Baltimore demands a di vorce because his wife is deaf and dumb. Casting pearls, as it were. California man committed suicide because he'was deserted by his wife. ExcessiVe joy often causes insanity. According to many millionaires, any man can become rich. 8.. t after look ing at some of them, who wants to? A foreign prince says that American girls are the prettiest in the world, and most of the; \ -dmit it graciously. A I'bg.ty Yorker is building a $3,000 dog house at Lenox, Mass. Possibly afraid of some one kickin’ his houn’ aroun’. They have had Incubators la Egypt since the dawn of history. Tush! They never used the vacuum for a dog’s fleas, anyway. A Kansasyfa rmeT &Sj vert isos for a “good milker who will’not swear at the from the gen tle milkjnaid are now in orfrer. We are told that coal gas first was used as an illuminant 100 years ago, but natural gas has been used as an argument since politics began. An Oklahoma dentist says kissing is a national crime that ought to be stopped by law. Are there not enough laws that are dead letters now? Milwaukee doctors say that kiss ing is a blot on the.state. It is at least frequently a biot on a freshly damask ed cheek or a newly incarnadined lip. « Twenty-five million dollars’ worth of cutlery an.’, kitchen utensils belongs to the shah of Persia, yet he never has home-made strawberry Ehortcake. A . ? grreat deal 0 f attention is being Si'eh these days to mothers’ clubs. Yet the time was yhon the slipper seemed to answer the purpose very well. v French i<* Vior that t-heJUfjna L| «' i|SBEB but in spite the Hour t ProfesortßMßHWtoi? has Ybund Kpme microbes in dogs that he thipks will prolong the lives of men. Rut whp wants to gain more days by the dog route? A frankfurter, a glass of lemonade and a ball game proved fatal to a Jer sey City boy. Strennuous combina tions are apt to prove fatal these ex acting days. f.ludgsFifii Pittsburg advocates a law Prohibiting the soused Individual from ridiDg on a street car. A better plan would be to make him pay an extra fare for his load. If baseball players should announce tl.at they wilLdefy the umpire's de cisions before they commenced the game, how many scores would they win by that method? There is no limit to the amount of punishment the human stomach can Etand. For instance, there is the man Who' goes camping in summer and :.cboks' v his own grub. One of the unconscious jokes of fate is shown in the fact that a Bel gian sjgmp fias been withdrawn from circulation because the face of the king upfen it has a squint - A traveler tells us that a laborer in Egypt cpn live on 8 cents a day, but there is 1 reason to believe that said laborer does .not eat porterhouse steak any oftener than once a day. The young man named Wright, who cleared thirteen feet in a pole vault. Is not related to the Wrights of aero plane fame, but he is considerable aviator, all wright all wright. The-proposition to card catalogue every, public sclfool child In the coun try and keep tab on its record merely 6hows how easy it Is for the statistical mind to figure out jobs for itself. . alleged to have no swear wqrds. This may explain Its failure lot produce a first-class baseball team, which cannot be expected to flourish without language to burl at the um pire. An itfutomobile running wild In New York bumped into a wagon contain ing half a ton of dynamite, with no subsequent proceedings. These mod ern products, it seems, cannot be re lied on to always rise to their oppor tune 1 les. , Niue Oregon girls who went to New York for the purpose of looking over that city'report that they were unable to see t fly thing there which was beau tiful. Still, we' think They may have been prejudiced, phe view down the fcaj i» pretty fair ! . t k. e . > PRESCRIBE LOWER EXPRESS RATES T * AS A RESULT OF A SEARCHING INQUIRY BY THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. TO LOWE# COST OF LIVING Commission .Thinks Conclusions Con stitute Step Toward Solving the Greatest American Problem. Washington.—fjjvjieepdng reductions in express approximately 15 per cent.; drastic re forms in initiations and practices, and comprehensive changes in the methods of-, operation, are prescribed in a report, made public by the in terstate commerce commission of its into the business of the thirteen great express companies of the United'States. Dealing with the identity of inter est between the various companies, the report finds that while these com panies are* separate ie&al entities, “it is of interest fca regwfdr ftas* stock ownership and otherwise they are so interlaced, ihtertwined and ’in terlocked it is with difficulty we can trace any one of the greater com panies as- either wholly independent in its management or the agency of a tingle raitroadAsystemiSa. that these companies operate separately and compete with each other for .traf fic, the express business may be said to be alrffest a family affair. An tn I foresting *genealogieal tree, in fact. | might drawn showing a common j ancestry *in all of-the larger compa-j nies. And while many names may j be usedj'to designate these compa nies, it ia within the fact to say that aside frJm the operations b£ th£ mi nor and railroad" express companies, the express business of the United States is managed. Uysjiot more than three groups of interests.” The inquiry was the most exten sive, anS in/w.ealttr, of-infinite detail, probably the most thorough, ever prosecuted by the commission. It was conducted and the report was pre pared h_y Commissioner Franklin K. Lane, alt .been in progress . for nearly three years. The report itself' makes 600' printed pages; *l7l n velvet) an examination -ajml Cftlftpa risen of j practically more than 600 0.00,000'-ex- i press rates in effect in this country, i in addition to an examination of mil lions. of wuajJfflU and investigation through j notaj 2\ of theirJfinlyiciatjyiierkfions and their business mt-jbi>do.i<j 1* Y ’f i ‘- t* * 1 M'COMRS NAMED CHAIRMAN Democratic Leaders’ MeeE the -.Wishes \ > of Governor Wilson.^ f’hicago.—William F. tac'doiuifa of New York, Governor .Woodrow Wil- j son’s choice, was chairman of the Democratic ! haticnal committee, and was empowered to.appoint a com mittee of not fewer than nine’ mem bers to take active charge of the Dem ocratic presidential nominee's cam paign. Mr., McCombs aIEO was authorized to select a national treasurer and such other officers as he may see fit, in cluding possibly a vice chairman and, after consulting' with Governor Wil son, to name the Ideation of the head quarters. Mr. McCombs said that he thought the principal headquarters would be in New York. “But I am not going to appoint any body or select any placfe uptil ;I con fer with Governor Wilson,’' £dded; Joseph Ei Davies of Madison’, Wid., was elected secretary of the commit tee to succeed Urey Woodson of Ken tucky. John I. Martin of St. Louis was re elected sergeant-at-arms. Mr. McCombs’ selection and the plan to appoint a campaign commit tee of inine, thp majority whom are to be members of the national committee, with Mr. McCombs chair man of the sub-committee, were or dered on resolutions offered by Com mitteeman Robert S. Hudspeth' of New Jersey as representing the wish es of Governor Wilson. Bodies Recovered From Airship. Atlantic City.—The bodies of Mel vin and Frederick Efmer, tWijf clothe ; five qf the tiirship Akron- which! exploded while sailing over Brigantine beach on July 2, have been recoveitscWend brought to "this city. . With the finding of these bod ies SllMiave now been recovered. El mer’s body was found about four miles from the spot where the dirigible bal loon struck the water after exploding more than 500 feet in the air. Vani man’s body was recovered by the beach patrol,, ■- v .„ f ., , ■ ■ ‘ t Postal Rec-rds Broken. Washington. —The largest three ifltmths” business in ."the., history of the postal service is shown by the latest financial statement of Aud tor Kram Audited returns for the quarter end ing with reached $64,368,854.45, ’an increased of $2,396,5j)1»Jl ,oyejr the same period last year.~'Total expfns es amounted to $64 878,636.78, a daily average of $712,952.05. Expenses ex ceeded revenues during this quarter, hut a net profit of $645,836.16 is Ehowr for the first nine months WILLIAM F. M’COMBS I"""’” ” ' I ■■"!■■■■ . Jr la. x fIJL. 11H Selected as Head of the Democratio National Corasaittle. GHAFIM WAIKiNS NOMINEES • * __ - STANDARD-BEARERS F FOUR YEARS AGQ 7 A iAIN £ N^jNA^% Proposal to Change the N; le of the Party Not Taken Up fj/ the Convention. I Atlantic City, N. J.—TlfsSj national Proifibition convention concluded-its' labors here with, the nomination of the party- stan_dard-bearers of four [years ago—Eugene W. Chafin of Ari zona for president and Aaron S. Wat ikins of Ohio for vice presiflent. In j each case the nomination was made |by acclamation single ballot had indicated the preference of the 1 delegates. ,^ r Four aspirants tyere placed in nomi nation agaihst Mr. Chafin'-They were F. W. Emerson of California, Finley ,C. Hendrickson of California, Aaron S'. Watkins of Ohio and Andrew Jack son Houston of Texas. Each with drew his name after first ballot, Mr. Houston creating 'efithmliasm Tsy the statement that he wouljl rather receive the lo ( west vote in mt (Prohi bition convention than the B jest in f.ither Democratic conventions. V Both of the i called to the platform and rijfce brief [speeches. Mr. said he I tbe nomination ahsJhe grealeßfciti caj honor bestowed TSbon yedr. He hiss second nqmli.A stand for 1 the of the .-party war <A. J. [orem of Massa’chiisX.iT in a brief j speech, promised to pledge fnore mon- Jey to the campaign fund should the name be changed. ’ WILL* FIX BOUNDARY LINE American Engineers to .Determine the Line Between Colombia and Panama/*-’ I ' 'C r 7 r . Boston, Mass—To determine exact ly iw'nat line- forcer President Loubet of France decided upon in 1900, when as arbitrator he fixed the boundary line between Costa Rica and the por tion of Colomhia which now forms the republic of Panama, Frank W. Hodgdon, chief engineer of the port [of Boston, and P. H. Ashby, a New | York engineer,- have sailed for Port Lirion. Messrs. Hodgdon and Ash !by are two of four engineers chosen !as commissioners to interpret M. Lou rbet’s finding to Chief Justice’White of the. United States Supreme court. Costa Rica epenqd ithe boundary dis pute after Panama seceded; from Co lombia, and the two countries agreed on Chief Justice White as the final arbitrator of the question. The oth er commissioners arq John F. Hay ford of the Northwestern university and G. M. Leland of Cornel! univer -Bi*- . . ... „ Orozco's Forces Repulsed. Juarez. —Information from rebel sources is that the Federal troops d?ove the insurrectos from Sauz, thir ty miles north of the city of Chihua hua on the Mexican Central. Forest Fire Destroys Village. Halifax, N. S.—As the result of a fbrest fire tile village of Point Tup per, a settlement near the entrance to Port Hawkesbury, is in ashes, jpe'ng 'practically wiped out by "the flasaesr [The town of fort .Hawkesbury itself [was seriously threatened, but was : saved when the wind died down. The | heaviest s'ngle loss at Point Tupper | was sustained by the Inter-Colonial 'railway, whose freight sheds, coal [sheds and transfer piers, together with many loaded freight cars, were destroyed. 19 Struck by Lightning. Anniston, Ala.—Charles Kirby and H. Rape, are dead and seventeen oth ers are seriously injured as a result of being stricken by lightning in the’.r mess' tenf B, Secdfid.Ala bama infantry, commanded by Capt. [ C. H.’ Seals of Birmingham. Pandemo nium ' rCTfned in camps for several hours after the bolt -struck. The mess hall was net demolished, although nearly all metal about the structure was melted, including several metal ,cups TOGA STRIPPED FROM LORIMER BY VOTE OF 55 TO 28 SENATE DECLARES HIS ELECTION INVALID. HE SPOKE TWELVE HOURS -■ f Lorimer Says He Is a Victim of Con spiracy, and Intends for the World to Know theiVybole Truth. * '< ... I- ' • ' ' ResoCution That Drove ■ Lorimer Out 6f Senate. - ‘if’ Thib the. resolution which - drove , Lorimer 1 from file seiiate. ■ He vfcs' expelled, 'although' l the tAKi-tflirds l vote--necessary to ■ do schwas- His title to ■ his seat was declared invalid. 1 “Rijfcsolved, Thwh-rorrupt meth- ■ "ods 4hd practices;iiftijpe employ-, 1 ed ill the election of. William 1 Lorife’er to the senate' of the 1 United States from the state of 1 . Ulinjgs and that his election 1 wasl therefore, invalid.’’ ■ 1 5 - ■* • * x i M 7 ashington’—By a rvote just short of 2 to 1, the senate expelled William \ WILLIAM LORIMER. Lorimer,, junior-, senator" from Illinois. r After a sensational struggle extend ing over' two" years, /- A:his representa tive of one of the greatest states in the Unicta, in the seiiate of the United was told that his election was antt corruption, * Whch * rbhe «*»WituUen of. Senator Luke Lea of Tennessee was adopted by a vote of 55 to 28, practically 2 to 1, Mr. Loritner walked (lift of the chamber, stripped of his toga and* consigned by his "fcoHeagues to the' obscurity of private life. . V • ' After an'“impassioned ’. speech of three hours and a half in a crowded room, where the heat and humidity was stifling, Mr- Lorimer closed his speech in his or", defense Standrhg in the center,.uf Ui& mid dle aisle thre ialmost exhausted mgn raised both hands- to heaven and fol lowed them with his .ey.es a 6 he ex claimed; "No, I will not resign'! No, no! If I go from „this_ body it will be because more senators vote in favor of that resolution than vote - agc,;nst it. My. exit will not be from fear. It will not be because I am a coward. It will be because of the crime of the senate of the United States.” - The vote was taken jat the ..conclu sion of the twelve hour speech, cov ering three days, during whicTi Lori mer had proven himself a master or dramatic methods. Ignoring the usual course of appeal in judicial cases oT this subordinating logic and cumulative argument to the achieve ment of climacteric effect, -he played - upon the .emotions not only of ..the people in the galleries, but of senators on the floor of- the chamber. When, Hushed with exertion, his collar limp about his neck, he stood with out stretched arms and head thrown back and said ip a hoarse, quavering voice, “I am ready,” a tremor 'of excitement ran. through the chamber and not a few women and some men wiped away tears. Cloudburst Strikes Altrn, Illinois. St. Louis —Four - persons were drowned at Alton, 111., by a cloud burst which destroyed two miles of Streets, wrecked six buildings and tbfe gas plant of the Alton Gas and Electric company, with a total prop erty loss of $250 000. The cloudburst followed a spectacular storm which lasted all night. Three times it pass ed over Alton, flooding streets and cellars each time. The third time I rain fell in torrents, sending a wall of, water 9 feet deep through the street. '■ * Cutan Consul Dead. Savannah, Ga.—A. E. Moynelo, for merly prominently identified with the struggles of Cuba for independence and latterly,.Cuban consul at Savrfn nah, drojiped dead at his home here. He was about 60 years of age, mar ’ried the father of two children and wealthy. At cne time, the story, is told. Moynelo was so hotly pressed by his Spanish enemies ,in Cuba thgt he was nailed in a barrel by his and shipped out of the way. He had [been consul here for a number o 1 i years. MRS. OLLIE MURRAY JAMES _____ i Mrs. Ollie Murray James, wjfe of Kentucky Senator, She is fond of out door sports. IOWA MS ROOSEVELT REGULAR REPUBLICAN CONVEN TIONS DECLARES THE .CHICAGO CONVENTION FRAUDULENT. Taft's Friends Vai-RtytyFought to Pre vent Adoption of Condem natory- Resolutions. DesMoinqs, lowa.—The efforts of Governor Carroll, a- Taft adherent, to have the Republican state convention pass a resolution, indorsing the plat farm adopted at the national conven tion, failed, being tabled, 773 to 342, and his effort to eliminate from the report of the majority of the resolu tions committee the section cortd eT^n- . ing as fraudulent the Chicago conven tion also failed. The progressive con trolled the convention throughout. Neither Taf,t nor Roosevelt were mentioned in jhe resolutions adopted which commend'“Republican achievfe ments and indorse progressive poli cies.” . Governor Carroll precipitated a dem onstration for Roosevelt which lasted for more than twenty minutes when he said the national Republican plat form was not tained, but was adopted regardless of whether the delegates’ were aligned with Taft or Roosevelt. The mention of Roosevelt was the signal for cheer afteb cheer, delegates waving fcanna Hags and “p&sf the question of votfes for wortafcn to the people and indorsed direct nomination qf president, vice president .and Unit ed .States senators. 1 • V . ~ *, - j NATIONAL EDUCATORS MEET Fairchild Chosen Head of Educators Over Miss Strachan. Chicago.—Electing as president E.. T. Fairchild of Topekg, Kan., after a heated contest, in which th ica S° teachers -werq severely criticised by New York members for “behind the curtain tactics," the'National ’Educa* tidnai association, representing more than 15,000 educators, went on record as favoring; Woman's suffrage, “because 'Woihen teachers realize-the .responsibility of training youth .for. citizenship.” Promotion' trf jinteTnational peace, An <nvestigation of teachers’ sala ries throughout the country with ref erence to the high cost of living. A uniform! Federal law for marriage and divorce. Extension by congress of plans for training, in agriculture,, domestic econ omy and-.other industrial work in.vari ous institutions. Greater attention in public schools tp health of pupils. To study rural education, school administration, vocational ed ucation and hygiene and higher edu cation, including the training of all teachers. More attention by teachers to th'e individual necessities of pupils for’a training that will fit them for a defi nite occupation in life. That a greater spirit of altruism be inspired in* school work. * -- Tramps Play Ball,-.- Wilkesharre, Pa.—The baseball dia mond took ov’er”t'he functions of a court here in connection with the con viction 'of 'Sfi tYartips recently'arrested by the police of Plymouth borough. When the tramps were arraigned be fore Bufgess W. D„ Morris, the bur gess, who is an enthusiastic baseball fan,- ordered that the men be divided into equal squads from which two teams were selected to play a full nine-inning game on the town com mon. The w’nning squad were to go free, tut the losers to' work. Pretrffiee Clerk for President. Louisville, Ky.—James P. Hawkins of Louisville, who was arrested in Washington and sent to Washington asylum hospital after offering himseU as the compromise candidate for pres ident on the Republican ticket, was a . clerk in the' Louisville postoffice qs,o:e than 22 yeaTS. He* resigned a fe\V months ago, after announcing fn the local papers '-that he would be a candidate for president on the Re nutlican ticket. Up to that time he mil never shown any mental vagaries. RURAL TELEPHONE SERVICE AND GENERAL MERCHANTS Address of J. T. Duncan of Douglas ville, Ga., Before the Southern Merchants’ Convention, Atlanta, Ga. “The other day I was in the home of an humble Georgia, Cracker. The beds of pine plank were nailed to the wall. The entire household out fit consisted of a tin pan, a bucket and gourd, dining table with a bench on eaea side, a pot and frying pan for cooking in the fireplace and one lone chair for visitors, and yet— “On that cabin wall there hung a highly polished box, rich in meaning. For through that box tjiat man could have talked in a few moments with colleg§ presidents, with kings of trade, ; with almost any Important per son in America. S “Happy the merchant who sees what' that little box means and sees it first. For that' is success in mer chandising, to see things first. Out of that box runs a wire and over that wire thera,,flows., into that home the ideas, desires and . spirit of. scronger men. People that were in another world yesterday,'are in his today; and as surely as that box stays there It..will In time put "shoes on the frost bitten feet, clothes on the back and furniture in the home. Cabins are empty of furniture only because they are empty of ambition. But that lit tle box on the wall is full of the wine of pride—give it time and it will tingle in the nerve of every mem 'tfer of that family. -j-. “So the little borx makes trade. A “Again, the little;.box steadies the market, at least helps to. An ideal market foi» -merchant and famer is not fluctuating, ...speculative market, but one Jin which prices vary hut little. The world never before marketed a huge crop at. so steady a price. ''As sf>op as the price found itself, it prac tically stayed between 9 and 10 cents. That little box has had its part. The moment prices went up that little bell rang in ten thousand cabins .and by nig,ht endugb had. come to town to bring it dow-n; the minute the price went down it locked the gate of near ly every farm lot until prices went back to normal. In exactly the same way it helps to give every article of barter its normal value. For in stance, never were there so many chickens and such fine ones being raised in Georgia and yet they have kept at a fine average price. “The telephone is a spender. Every man here knows that the tefephone costs him far more tfign the monthly charge. Let any member of the fam ily think of something that he wants, or- she wants,, especially she, and the rushes to tb 1 - telephone-and orders o.' at leas' inquires. Her witliouy —She has mi rural telephone is a sjientß a manfiTils '“■.‘Sjlriit to h^ 3S or his neighbor that want is ■Tkstencß in his mind untir he gets It, TlB telephone farmer;is in ttwft .alrea-flsa and becomes a town spehdtrri-i tB 'The little'box. brings' merchant antH country customer together.. :The vil lage grocery man that takes. the .lead is the one. whose phone t is forever ringing with like this; ‘HeHio !* how are..all morning!. I’ve' some nice so—, just ;in. Would you like this morning?’ Custom-, er feels notice and Complimented. Far jpQre sq the rural customer. • ‘“The little box on the wall causes cash,trad£ Ideal; trade is cash trade, and barter, constant barter through the year is the first step. His tele phone helps Mr. Farmer find a market for his barter the year around—he can sell before he hitches up his horse. If his merchant ig progressive the phone says, ‘Any butter? Any country hams? Any surplus corn on hand? Any fodder left over! Any pea* nuts? I'm ’ clear out! ’ That coaxes' him into raising things that will sell ’be year around. “The telephone forced ‘free deliv ery’ of goods in the town. The mer chant that saw it, ‘saw it first,’ forg ed ahead. The rural telephone will .force up tp solve somehow' the diffi cult problem of rural free delivery,of goodg, Happy the merchant who sees and dares it first. It will be preced ed by' a short period in which there will he a small fee for delivery. And is not something like rural free de livery bt our own goods the only wav to head off the mail -erder drain? It sounds visionary now, but the little box on the wall will do its work in time.” •v* Panama Canal Causes Clash. Washington—Tlife' lines are drawn for a great “diplomatic struggle be tween the TTnited States ami flreat Britain over the question of whether this country may discriminate in' .fa vor cf Amer’can vessels in th° adorn ist’-aticn of the Panapia canal. TIP*? wordy war may terminate in th» sub-' missirn of the ouestion *n The Hague trbtma’. A series of dinlofnat'c m’d leg's'etive ccnferences developcftV-*he. fact that the. forces In the Amer'can government wh'ch favor aßOw'ng tfce American ships free passage u:u T Po-d Prices lower. . Chicago.—Chicago provision deal ers tell a story of cheer for house wives who have been cm thej,verge of panic because of high food prioes. : The dealers declare vegetables of all ) nds are selling at prices 50 per sent. lower than quotations of a year Nature has been a big factor in the reduction. Abundant rainfall through out 'the country fs malting bumper crops. The potato yiejjd is unnrece dented this year. There has teen a tig drop in retail prices.