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Wheeler County Eagle
PUBWSHED WEEKLY
ALAMO, GEORGIA
ARE MEN LESB CHARMING?
The adjective is npt ours, it is used
by Mrs. Charles Henrotln of Chicago,
who very emphatically asserts that
men of today are, in matters of court
liness and charrn, in no way equal to
the men with whom her father and
mother associated 50 years ago. The
word “behavior," she says, seems to
have been dropped out of the language.
Forty-five years ago the men were bet
ter educated, they knew literature,
they were better conversationalists,
wonderfully well read, had a leisurely
bearing and good breeding that now
seems, she thinks, to have passed out
of existence, says the Pittsburgh Dis
patch. Big cities and the modern
civilization, in their tendency to part
the sexes, and the influx of foreigners,
are the causes she offers in solution.
But are her charges true? Grant that
the greater strain of life has crowded
out courtliness, that few men can af
ford a leisurely bearing In these days
of Increased cost of living, and that
modern manners are more abrupt than
those of the old school, what of her
other specifications? Are men less
well educated, less well read, less able
to converse Intelligently? Os course
not. Education, reading and Intelli
gence were never so generally dif
fused as today, and the broadening
process has not lessened the propor
tion of well-educated, well-bred and ex
ceptionally Intelligent men, compared
with 50 years ago, but rather the re
verse, because the natural effect of
wider diffusion has been to create a
larger proportion of leaders.
The New York board of superintend
ents has Issued formal Instructions to
teachers in the high schools of that
city to do all in their power to improve
the oral English of the pupils. It is
declared that the use by high school
poplls of “t’row” for throw, "toln” for
turn, "foil" for girl, "erster" for oyster,
“lawr” for law, "thoyd" for third, and
other similar expressions no longer
will be tolerated. If, as seems to be
implied, It prevails at the present
time, the fact would seem to Indicate
not only a lack of diligence on the part
of the teachers of the grade schools as
well as the high schools, but also
slovenly pronunciation on the part of
some of the teachers themselves.
Bright pupils usually imitate the pro
nunciation of their teachers. Mil
waukeeans are aware from observa
tion of this tendency. Children be
longing to homes where a foreign lan
guage was habitually employed have
grown up with a good idiomatic Eng
lish because they Imitated the speech
of their teachers in the public schools.
Is the onslaught on systematized
arson having a deterrent effect? The
fire loss in the United States and Can
ada was 120,193,250 for January, 1913,
compared with 135,653,150 in the cor
responding January, 1911. But cli
matic conditions are to be taken into
account, and these in the first month
of the present year were favorable to
a reduction in the fire loss. January,
1912, was marked by the most pro
tracted period of extremely cold weath
er which has occurred since the es
tablishment of the weather bureau,
and when the mercury Is very low fire
departments work at great disad
vantage. In January, 1912, there were
536 fires causing a loss of 110,000 or
over, and in January, 1913, only 365.
The largest fire of January, 1913, was
that which destroyed the Calgary meat
packing plant in Alberta, Canada.
Surgical treatment to turn a con
firmed criminal into a useful citizen
received a bad setback in a case
whefe a great apparent change after
such an operation led to the pardon
of the remade man. His release was
followed by a series of burglaries
which necessitated his return to dur
ance vile. Perhaps one of the reforms
to come will be the better protection
of society from theory and experi
ment connected with the criminal
classes. So far, the experiments made
to prove that morality is merely a
matter of physiology have not been
brilliantly successful.
A college paper denounces the deca
dence of students in allowing the old
time rough-and-tumble rush to be suc
ceeded by "sappy, effeminate teas
and dinners," and pleads for the res
toration of hand to-hand battles to try
their mettle. Probably thus did the
barbarians look upon the first en
croachments of civilization. The col
legestudent estimate of manliness
needs badly to be revised.
u. s. ran crop
REPORT FOB 1312
TOTAL OVER TWO MILLION
BALES LESS THAN RECORD
OF PREVIOUS YEAR.
LARGE NUMBER OF LINTERS
U. S. Census Bureau Issues Final Es
timate—Figures About as Had
Been Expected.
Washington.—-The United States
census bureau issued the annual cot
ton report.
The final estimate of the cotton
crop of 1912 is 14,076,430 bales.
The crop for 1911 was 16,109,349
bales, and for 1910 it was 11,965,862
bales.
Expressed in 500-pound bales, the
1912 crop is 14,295,500 bales as com
pared with 16,250,276 bales for 1911
and 12,005,688 for 1910.
The final estimate by states and
by subdivisions follows:
Figures by States.
Estimate Estimate
Yield Yield.
1912-13 1911-12
Alabama 1,366,424 1,727,586
Arkansas. .... 803,071 938,791
Virginia .... 25,485 31,099
Missouri .... 56,065 95,336
Florida ..... 60,033 91,146
Georgia ..... 1,887,461 2.867,741
Louisiana .... 391,437 395,603
Mississippi .... 1,048.034 1.212,046
North Carolina , . 934.420 1,152.459
Oklahoma. . . . 1,054,857 1,0-13,803
South Carolina . . 1,257,708 1.727,094
Tennessee .... 289.504 457.957
Texas 4.886,415 4,288,510
All Others. . . . 15,516
Total .... .14,076,430 16,109.349
Figures by Quality.
1912-13 1911-12
Equivalent in 500
lb. bales. , . .14,295,500 16,250,276
Round bales . . . 81.528 100,439
Sea Island . . . 236,611 119.252
Linters .... 605,704 556.726
Average weight . 507.8 504.4
Included in the statistics for 1912
are:
Linters. 605,704 bales: Sea Island
cotton, 23,641 bales; round bales, 81.-
528. Round bales are counted in the
estimate as half bales.
The average weight of the bale for
1912 is 507.8 pounds as compared with
504.4 pounds for 1911 and 501.7 for
1910.
Cotton not .vet ginned is included
in the total estimate, and is placed
by glnners and delinters as 129,172
bales.
The only surprise in the estimate
is the great Increase in linters, which
this year are placed at 605,704 bales,
a startling jump from 1911.
Analysis of the figures by states
shows big crops west of the Missis
sippi ; Texas with nearly 5,000,000
bales and Oklahoma with a million.
When the crop west of the river is
heavy, linters show a great increase,
and the diminished crop in the east
has very little effect on linters.
The Toxas cotton has a fuzzy seed,
which will not gin clean.
MANY ARE KILLED BY STORM
Buildings Demolished, Houses Unroof
ed, Wires Paralyzed, Crops Injured.
Atlanta, Ga.—More than one hun
dred persons are reported killed and
hundreds were injured, some mortal
ly, by a storm of tornado intensity,
which raged over central western,
southern and parts of the eastern
states. Property damage will run well
into the millions.
Reports from Alabama show the
loss of life was heaviest in that state,
the number of dead there being plac
ed at sixty, with additional fatalities
reported, but not confirmed. Two
towns, Thomasville and Lower Peach
tree, were practically wiped out. Two
are dead in Indiana, two in Tennessee,
two in Ohio, two in New York, one
in Michigan and one in Louisiana.
McCombs Won’t Go to rFartce.
Washington.—William F. McCombs,
chairman of the Democratic national
committee, issued a statement an
nouncing that he had declined to be
come ambassador to France. He said:
“I do not feel that I can afford to
leave my life work—the practice of
the law. I feel compelled to devote
myself to my personal affairs, and at
the same time, I will lend any assist
ance in my power that will contrib
ute to the success of the Democratic
administration and the Democratic ;
party.”
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION
IN WAKE OF TORNADO
HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST AND MILLIONS IN PRQPERTY RAZED IN
OMAHA, NEBRASKA.—PATH OF TORNADO EIGHT
’ MILES LONG.
THE CITY OF OMAHA IS PUT UNDER MARTIAL LAW
Convents and Schools Are Blown to Atoms and Every Piece of Glass Blown
From Largest Office Building—lllinois Central
Bridge Destroyed.
Omaha, Neb.—A tornado swept through Omaha, cutting a path four to
six blocks wide and eight miles long, causing an appalling loss of life and'
immense destruction of property.
Hundreds of buildings were destroyed, at least a hundred were killed and
thrice that number injured.
Lincoln, Neb.—One hundred are dead, twice as many more were injured,
some fatally, by a tornado which devastated Omaha and its environs. It
demoralized telegraph and telephone service and cut Omaha off fsom com
munication with the outside world.
Property dameage will amount to hundreds of thousands.
The tornado swept in from the southwest and zigzagged to the northeast
over the residence portion of the city, leaving in its wake destruction and
carnage from two to four blocks wide.
Fire sprang up all over thia area and added to the horror of the twister.
biiemen were unable to respond to the numerous alarms, and many
houses were allowed to burn to the ground. The police were unable to pro
t< < t the stricken district and the soldiers from Fort Omaha were called out.
The tornado zone is now practically under martial law.
The villages of Benson, Dundee and Florence, suburbs of Omaha, are prac
tically wiped out a heavy rain fall after the tornado saved the mass of
wreckage and many of the bodies from being burned.
The Webster street telephone station, containing a score or more of girls,
was one of the buildings hit by the storm, and, in a moment, was twisted
and torn. Several of the girls were killed and many others injured.
A moving picture show which was just putting on its final film was
struck. Ihe roof of the building fell in and in the rush through the only
exits many who were not hurt by the collapse of the building were tram
pled and crushed. The rush continued over the bodies of the dead, and a
few of the attendants escaped.
Mayor Dahiman of Omaha wired Governor Morehead for several militia
companies to prevent the residences and the dead bodies from being looted.
The three Omaha companies were only partially available, according to the
reports and the governor and Adjutant General Hall.
Governor and Adjutant General Hall immediately ordered two Lincoln
companies and others from nearby towns. The governor himself left on a
special train for the scene of the disaster. Passengers arriving in Lincoln at
midnight brought information that the tornado first destroyed the suburb
of Ralston and from there swept up into the residence portion of Omaha.
At Fortieth and Farnum, a garage was destroyed and a large strip of
territory north and east of that corner all seriously damaged. The Illinois
Central bridge over the Missouri river was destroyed. All wires are down
with the exception of a single railroad wire into Lincoln, which is not now
available for press reports.
Semi-hysterical persons arriving here say that the hospitals of Omaha
are full of injured and the dead are very numerous.
The Woodmen of the World building, the highest structure in the city,
was damaged to a great extent, every piece of glass from two sides being j
blown out.
What is known as the Venns Valley district was leveled by the wind.
Refugees by the hundreds flocked to the business section. They were
taken care of In the principal hotels. The hotels were full of patients, ac
cording to E. G. Swift of Chicago, who arrived here. "When he left Omaha
every ambulance In the city was rapidly swelling the congestion of the
« a rds,
Omaha's suburbs suffered heavily from the storm. Ralston, southwest of
Omaha, was razed to the ground and a half score or more are dead. East
Omaha, which felt the tail of the twister, reported houses demolished, but
no lives were tost Council Bluffs, lowa, suffered nine dead, a score or more
injured and great damage to property.
The worst damage was done and the largest toll of lives was exacted
in the western part of Omaha and the vicinity of Twenty-fourth and Lake
and from there northeast to Sixteenth and Binney. This is the residence
portion and the destruction wrought was appalling. Whole blocks of homes
were picked up and dashed into a shapeless mass. Street cars were hurled
from the tracks and demolished.
A moving picture show at Twenty-fourth and lake streets was destroyed.
Ten dead and eight injured have thus far recovered from the ruins.
About fifty persons were In the theater at the time of the disaster and it is
feared that most of them are buried in the debris.
Bemis Park, one of the prettiest residence districts in Omaha, was razed
to the ground and fires dotted the park, completing the destructive work j
of the tornado.
Among the show places of the city damaged by the storm was the Joslyn j
Castle. The root was torn off and the trees and shrubbery uprooted.
The convent of the Poor Clares at Twenty-ninth and Hamilton streets
was unroofed and the grounds were littered with debris.
The storm so paralyzed the telegraph service that no reports of the dis- j
aster eould be communicated to the outside world. The Omaha telegraph ■
office sent their Associated Press messages to Lincoln on an early morning i
train in an effort to get them east.
Omaha presented a sorry spectacle as a result of last night's terrific ;
storm. From the Field club, which is the western part of the city, to the j
Carter I-ake club, situated at the northwest extremity, is one mass of de- >
bris from two to six blocks wide.
Federal soldiers from Fort Omaha assisted the police in keeping looters j
and morbid curiosity seekers at bay. The presence of the soldiers gives th |
city the appearance of bein under martial law.
Terre Haute, Ind.—With a known death list of sixteen; reports brought by
messengers on horseback from the southern part of Vigo county indicated
that the toll of a tornado which struck here would be increased to fifty. It
may be several days before the exact number of dead-will be known, as
many are believed to be burled in the ruins of their homes. The property
loss will probably exceed five hundred thousand dollars.
In addition to destroying about three hundred homes in the southern por
tion of Terre Haute, Prairieton, a small town six miles south of here, was
destroyed and the intervening territory devastated. The injured will num
ber at least three hundred, many of whom are in a serious condition. The
hospitals are filled
SIOO,OOO of Human Hair Found.
New York. —Creditors of Antonio
Musica and his son, Philip, the hair
importers, who are under arrest to
New Orleans, charged here with ob
taining over a million dollars from,
twenty-two banks through fraudulent,
invoices, learned that human haii \
valued at SIOO,OOO had been found in,
a secret sub-cellar of a stable owned:
by the Musicas in the Bay Ridge sec- i
tion of Brooklyn. Deputy sheriffs.
made the discovery while conducting;
a search on a writ of attachment-!
They found 217 bags of hair.
Montgomery, Ala. —Dispatches re- ,
■ reived tell of the flooding of four I
towns in the vicinity of Greenville, I
Ala., a town of 5,000 population. <
Greenville^ itself. Bolling, Chapman. I
■ and Garland, Ala., sustained losses i
i variously estimated up to $200,000. ;
i The loss at. Garland, alone, it is said, j
, will amount to $75,000. At, Garland.
■ the L & N. depot was just visible
■ above the water; telegraph and tele
-1 graph poles were, covered: the stores
‘.were inundated and many of she 500
; prions living to the town were forced
[to go hungry.
DISFIGURED BY
SKINERUPTION
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j Pimples, blackheads, rashes, ringworm
t and, worst of all, that red, itching, scaly
: torment, eczema, vanish when you use
l Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap.
There is no doubt about it. Even
though your skin is so unsightly with
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your friends shun you, Resinol makes it
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; trifling cost. When you are sick of wast
ing time and money on tedious, expensive
treatments, get Resinol Ointment and
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and you will quickly see why it has been
I prescribed for eighteen years for just such
I troubles as yours.
The Resinol treatment works so geutly,
and is so absolutely free from anything
■ that eould injure even the tenderest skin,
■ that it is perfect for healing the skin
i troubles of infants and children. You can
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at our expense. Write to Dept. 5-K. Resi
nol, Baltimore, Md., and we will send you
a generous trial. Resinol Ointment (50c and
$1) and Resinol Soap (25c), by parcel post
on receipt of price.
Suffragettes on the Jury.
“Is the jury ready to report?”
"No, your honorees; they are still
discussing the way in which you wear
your hair."
FOR WEAKNESS AND LOSS OF APFE
TITE.
The Old Standard ttmerxl stmtsthenins ton!#,
GBOVa-STABTItI,I«SBchin TONIC drives ont Ma^
larla and bulldf, up tbo system A true tonic and
sure Appetiser For admits and children. 5C cents.
Circumstantial Evidence.
“Did you find our poor friend s spir
its were broken?”
“Yes, In away. He was ordering
nothing but brandy smashes.”
VERY TRUE.
Wl
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“What kind of a season are we go-
ing to have, Uncle Abner?”
■'Well, it’s awful hard to say as to
that You know it depends a hull lot
on the weather.”
In Desperation.
“Has your order been taken, sir?”
inquired the head waiter.
“Yes,” replied the patient diner, "fif
teen minutes ago. If It isn’t too late,
though, I’d like to change it.”
"To change your order, sir?”
“YestJt you don’t mind, I’ll change
it to an entreaty.”
True happiness leaves no reactions.
The mind is at rest with itself, and
the consciousness is filled with the
joy of living.—David Starr Jordan
A Jolly
Good Day
Follows
A Good Breakfast
Try a dish of
Post
Toasties
tomorrow morning.
These sweet, thin bits made
from Indian Com are cooked,
toasted and sealed in tight
packages without the touch
of human hand.
They reach you fresh and
crisp—ready to eat from the
package by adding cream or
milk and a sprinkling of sugar,
if desired.
Toasties are a jolly good
dish —
Nourishing
Satisfying
Delicious
