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. ALAMO. GEORGIA 4
1t science can evolve a nl}n;:au‘
. bee, why not a volceless cat?
' Take your choice, hubby, when the
~_parlor rug comes out. Beat it or
! “Bkirts will be worn tighter than
~ ever,” says a fashion expert. How
~ tan they?” : :
“Woman Goes Over Niagara Falls
' on Pleasure Trip,” says a headline.
. How enjoyable!
’/‘ Do you thlhk that the man who is
miways telling how to manage a wom
an, ever .trled it?
1f Priedmann's vaccine shall be es
tablished, the turtle will take its
~place alongside the cow.’ ;
~ What an awful calamity it would be
if the leading baseball players should
~contract writer's cramp!
long silence by a man at a tele
phione may not indicate wire trouble.
Mayba his wife's at the other end.
Twenty-three hundred love lstters‘
were found among the effects of an i
Australian bachelor. = Evidently he
_efther had to die or marry to stop
them,
Some men would llke to have a
job pleking the blossoms off a cen
tury plant at SIO,OOO a year, if they
couldn’t get the job of boiler In
spector,
In payment of an election bet a
man {8 to lead a donkey from Port
land, Me., to Portland, Ore. His com
panion in the “'hike" is singularly well
chosen.
Announcement that pythonms have
jncreased In price five dollars a foot
need cause no uneaginesg, ag a very
gmall helping would be enough for
anyhody,
Utah evidently wants to increase its
population with its reward to moth
ers of ten dollars for the first child,
and seven dollars for each additional
congumer,
With a buffalo on the new nickel,
don't feel called upon to shirk hust
ling for the coin. The “hump" is on
your side of the fence just as much
as it ever was. '
The pursuit of ferocious African an
fmals is urged a&s a distraction for
brair fag. Looking a large lon in the
eye 18 well calculated to dislodge all
other thoughts.
s k& New York patriot has issued a
pamphlet that we should speak Ameri
can, & greater name for the greatest
language. What's the matter with
talking United States?
A hobo is reported to demand of
Los Angeles jallors that he be permit
ted to take four baths a day. Possi
bly he is working for & permanent
berth in an insane asylum.
The new nickel has evoked much
unfriendly critictem, yet the coin
might have been a great deal worse.
Suppose some cubist had been allowed
to furnigh the design for it.
One pleasant thing about a cold is
the large variety of delightful cures it
brings to one's attention, and the pa
tient can generally try them all before
the cold gets tired and quits,
The common notion that talk is
cheap will have to give way before
the figures of the Bell telephone sys
tem, which announce gross receiptsl
of $199,200,090 for a single year. 1
An eastern divine remarks that thel
world i¥ growing better day by day.
How about the nights? |
It is guite indicative that when a
girl speaks of her corsetler that her
father makes at least $5,000 per an
pum, and alsa when she speaks of her
parisienne corsetiere, daddy has got
another raise,
The complaint of the New York
{ady that on an income of SIB,OOO a
year she had to help in the housework
{s expected to arouse sympathy and
commiseration only among the “Little
Brothers of the Rich.”
The cartoonists these days are
wielding the pencil to pertray spring
puds. About the best spring buds in
the minds of womeén, however, are
thoge seen in the millinery depart
ments marked $49.98
Here and there you will see a re
gourceful young man wearing one of
those green hats and trying (o es
cape, avold, or minfmize the deep
darnation thereof by having the bow
shifted from the back to the side
SUFFRAGETTES HANDLED IN
LONDON, BRIGHTON AND .
OTHER PLACES,
POLICE CHARGE ON CRCWDS
| The British Public Seems Tired of:
the Militancy and Only the Po- -
. lice SBave Women From Mob
London, England.—The suffragettes
had plenty of evidence that the pub
lic hag tired of militancy and only
the protection afforded by large bod-.
fes of police saved the women from
the hands of angry mobs. At Brighton
the suffrageites were chased off the
esplanade and took refuge in a neigh
poring house. This was surrounded
by hh?gllng thousands who bombard
ed thé place with stones and smash- |
ed every window. In defiance of the
ban on meetings in Hyds Park, the
‘Womens' Social and Political Union
attempted to carry on its propaganda
there.
London had anticipated that such
atterapts would be made and 20,000
persons assembled at the customary
meeting place.
No sooner had a suffragette mount
ed the box and unfurled the militants’
flag than the police interfered. There
were a few cries of “Free speech!”
“Are we in Russia?”’ But these were
drowned by hostile yells. Turf and
stones were thrown” and then strong
rushes were made toward the wonmen,
but a large force of mounted and foot
police surrounded them and keut the
{mob in check.
No sooner had the police escorted
one group of women to a place of |
safety than others appeared from an
| other quarter. It took the police!
| three hours finally to restore order.
: Similar scenes were witnessed at
| Wimbledon and Hampstead Heath.
An infernel machine was discover
ed by a policeman in the doorway of
the Yorkshire Herald office at York.
| The wrapping inscribed “Votes for
| Women” indicated its origin.
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J. PIERPONT MORGAN'S WILL
| Extraordinary Document Left by the
; Great Financler is Dead.
: New York.—“l commit my soul into
the hands of my Savior, in full confi
dence that having redeemed it and
| washed it in His most. precious blood
. | He will present it faultless before the
| throne of my heavenly Father; and
|1 entrust my children to maintain
and defend, at all hazard and at
any cost of personal sacrifice, the
| atonement from sin through the biood
{of Jesus Christ, once offered and
| through this alone.”
L This is the extraordinary and strik
| ing utterance which begins the last
'wm and testament or John Pierpont
| Morgan, who died at Rome on March
181 last, whose body, heaped over with
| flowers from the crowned heads of
| Burope, was, a fortnight later, broughit
back to his own land and was borne
to its last resting place at Hartford.
As to the amount of the estate,
which is one of the first questions the
public naurally is asking, there is
nothing in hte will to give any accu
rate idea, and the executors declare
that no announcement will be made
on this point until the apraisal has
been made for determining the state
inheritance tax.
The amount of bequests and trusts,
named by speclfic sums, is under $20,-
000,000, but the entire residue of the
estate is left to J. P, Morgan, Jr., who
is designated by his father to hecome
the chief heir not only to his fortune,
but to hiz many charitable and artis
tie activities.
Wilson Allays ire of Japan.
Tokio.—The announcement that
President Wilson and Secretary of
State Bryan are making efforts to |
bring about a compromise in the pro- l
proposed California legislation with
resject to the alien land ownership
bill and that Governor Hiram John-®
son is oposing the bill, has softened
Japanese ire and public opinion has
now become more optimistic. The al
leged unwillingness of the American
missionaries to assist in resisting the
bill is the subject of harsh criticism
in the Japanese papers.
Alleged Swindlers Are Jailed.
New York.—After pursuing them
for five months through several states
| in this country and a part of Canada,
central office detectives arrived here
from Charleston, S. €., with Frank
R. Tarbaux and Albert A, Carter,
who are accused of having swindled
G. M. Jones of Pittsburg out of $20,-
1 000 and E. J. Pendleton of Washing
| ton out of $55,000. After the arrest of
I the~men in Charleston, they were or
' | dered released on @ writ of habeas
| corpus, but Blease ignored the court
order and bonored extradition papers.
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JAPANESE ARE DISPLEASED |
{ANTLALIEN LAND OWNERSHIP '
MEASURE, PASSED BY CALI
FORNIA LEGISLATURE.
President Wilson at Work to Prevent:
| Friction Between United States
and Japan.
Sacramento, Cal—An antialien
land ownership bill, designed primari
ly to prevent Japanese from acquiring!
.| title to real property within the state,
but so worded as to prohibit an alien ‘
| from owning land more than one year|
except upon a declaration of his in
| teniion to become a citizen, was pass-|
{ed by the lower house of the legisla
| ture by a vote of 60 o 15. |
| The measure was drafted by & Suh»_ |
| committee of the judiciary committee
| as a substitute for bills previously in
| troduced, all of which specifically pro
| vided that “aliens ineligible to citizen.
| ship should not hold lands.” l
; The commitiee, however, proceeded |
lon the thegry that such a statute
might be held in violation of the
| treaty rights of Japanese subjects and
| broadened the measure to inclnde all
lallens who had not declared their
‘| intention of becoming citizens.
CONSCIENCE IN BUSINESS
Vice President Marshall Amplifies His
Warnnig to the Rich.
Washington. ~ Amplifying his
speech before the Nallonal Democrat
ie club in New York ecity, in which
he served warning on the rich, Viee
President Marshall authorized in a
local paper publication of a remark
able statement regarding that ad
dress. Principally he urged the in
jection of conscience into “big busi
ness” as an antidote = for Social
ism. He also reiterated his argument
against the perpetuation of great for
tunes,
The vice president insisted he was
not expressing his personal opinions
alone, but that he was guided by!
those expressed by him “by many
homest fingnciers, lawyers, miners |
and ditch-diggers, men he had metl
on the street, on trains and trolley
cars and in their homes. |
Oshorn Heads internal Revenue.
Washington. — President Wilson
nominated former Covernor John E.
Oshorne of Wyoming, to be first as.
sistant secretary .of state; Walter H.
Page of New York, to be ambassador
to Great Britain; William H. Osborn‘
or QGreensboro, N, €, to be commis- |
sioner of internal revenue, f
Murder is Nabbed at Still. i
Griffin, Ga—Drew Smith, an escap
ed convict from the state prison farm,
was captured in Plke county whflet
engaged in the illleit distillery busi-[
ness and will again don prison
stripes. Smith was caught by Deputyi
Collectors E. J. Hinton and R. S.|
Ison, at his still in Plke county, about
12 12 miles north of Jolly, while he*
lay sound asleep by the mountain!
side. He made no attempt to resisti
arrest, though a dangerous dirk and
& 1-pound slingshot was on his per-!
4y e
‘WILSON DISCHARGES WEATHERI
‘BUREAU HEAD INVOLVED IN
| ALLEGED SCANDAL.
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‘Moore's Dismissal Followed a Con
ference Between the President and
Secretary of Agriculture, l
¥ it |
Washington—Professor Willis L. |
Moore, chief of the weather bureau
since 1895 and an appointee of the
(leveland administration, was snm-i
marily removed from office by Pres.
{dent Wilson, His resignation re- |
cently had been accepted to take ef
fect July 31, but after an Investiga
tion of his alieged efforts to become |
secretzfi'y of agriculture in the pres
ont cabinet,- grave charges of irreg.
alarity were preferred and the pesi- |
ident withdew his acceptance of the
resignation, dismissing Professor
Muoore. Later he referred the sub
| ject to the .department of justice for!
inguiry,
Heeretary Houston of the agricultu-!
ral department, conferred with me{
president before the removal of Mr. |
Moore was announced. The secreta: |
ry then issued the following st.ale»’
ment:
“fmmediately after {he resignation
of Professor Moore of the weather
bureau, was submitted to the presi
dent and accepted by him, charges
were filed with the secretary of agri
culture by responsible men within the
service, These charges were of such
a grave nature that the secretary of
agriculture called upon the depart
ment of justice for an investigation.
~ “The investigation is still under
way, but the facts so far secured and
laid before the president were suffi
clent to warrant him in deciding to
withdraw hig acceptance of Professor
Moore's resignation, and remove him
summarily, which has been done. The
president has also directed the sec:
retary wof agricullure Yo suspend |
Charles 'T. Burns, an employee of
the weather hureau, pending a further
!mvesugation of the case, and take’
‘such disciplinary measures as he may
jeem necessary with such other em
iplcyees of the weather bureau as may
i 3¢ found to_ have been unduly active
iin using the public service for pri
vate and personal ends.”
Unofficially it was said at the
white house that the campaign to
make Mr. Moore secretary of agri
culture had heen extensive; that the
wembers of congres¥ in various parts
of the couniry had been canvassed,
and that a letter writing campaign
{had been conducted among weather
§bureau employes, -
European Syndicates Protest Law.
Sacramento, Cal—Not the exeht
sion of the Japanese farmer, but the
probable effect of the proposed alien
land law on European capiial invest
zed in the state is now the principal
iissue involved in discussion of the
| bills proposing to restrict the rights
iot foregners in California, one of
’wbich was passed by th eassembly.
{ Protest has arisen from representa
juves of English and continental syn
.dicates, and a strouger influence than
‘ima;t represented by the former com
{plaints of the Japanese governmeat.
1l ASail AmtiAaArTEnllrm
WH SN GONGERNER
WILJUIN ÜBUNULHIRLY
e R
CARAHT CAIFNRNIA
RESOLUTION TO PASS ALIEN
~_ LAND MEASURE AGAINST
JAPS, DISAPPOINTMENT.
GOVERNOR JOHNSON TALKS
The Question Will Likely Go to the
United States Courts as a Last -
s s - Resort. E
Washington.—News of the deter
‘mination of the legislative leaders in
Sacramento to frame and pass- an
alien land-owning bill, directly ais
icflmtnatmg -against the Japanese, un
officially conveyed to the white house
}and state department, was Teceived
with grave concern and disappoint
ment. Such a development had not
been expected in view of “the first
favorable comments in California up
on the president’s suggestion of that
regard he had for the preservation of
}the friendly relations between this
country and the Oriental nations.
| While the president nas, s his mes
sage to Governor Johwson, transmit
' ted through Secretary Bryan. recog
| nized the right of the people of Cal
lito.rnia to legislate according to their
ijudgment on the subject of land ten
| ure, he is also under the obligation
. of guarding against eneroacnment by
‘ state legisaltion upon that part of the
| fleld of international relations reserv
}ed by the Constitution to the nationgl
| government. Therefore, in the event
‘tl\a California legislation takes the
form of direct discrimination against
}the Japanese in violation of what the
{ administration itself regards as their
| treaty rights, the national government
l itself might enter the liste against the
state of California before the judi
cial tribunals of the land.
It does not follow that the United
States government would take tke
initiative in the judiclal proceedings
}lntended to test the egality of the
% state’'s action. In the ordinary course
[ the initial step would be taken by
{ Japanese individuals or corporations
iin California, whose lands are sought
! to be escheated.
i Sacramento, Cal—Governor John:
}son gave out a statement regarding
the pending alien Jand legislation.
i'l?his is the first statement the gover
nor has made on the subject. He said
{dn part: s
i “(Californians are unable to under
i stand why an act® admittedly within
| the jurisdiction of the California leg
!islatm'e like the passage of an alien
5 Jand bill ereates tumult, confusion and
| eriticism and why this local act of
{ undoubted right should become an ju
jtermmonal question, Os course the
i California legislature would not at
{ tempt to contravene any treaty of the
{natlnn nor to do more than has beer
Edone by the tederal government itself
i s many other states.
} “To say that California must de less
| or be subjected to harsh criticism gnd
| the charge of disrupting friendly rela
tions wtih foreign powers is to deny
to California what has been freely ac
corded to every other state in the Un
!ion aud what has never been dues
tioned with any other state.
’MMN LINE LEVEE BREAKS
Surging Waters of the Raging Missie
sippi Destroy Great Embankment.
i Vieksburg, Miss.—The first serious
break in the main levees of the low
er Mississippi river occurred when
the Woodlawn levee just north of
sMayersvme, Miss., went out. With
iin a few minutes the creavsse was
‘2OO feet wide, and the space through
{ which the waters are pouring is in
1{ creasing.
I - Parts of four Mississippi counties
{wi)l be fiooded and the property dam
!age which will result is estimated st
more than five hundred thousand dol
{lars. Practicaily all of Isquina coun
ity and parts of Warren and Washing
iton counties will suffer heavily from
| the overow. As a reselt of the break
110,000 or 12,000 people will be
.’ rendeved homeless.
| Thousands of acres of the most fer
; tile cotton and corn fields in the Mis
| sissippi delta, all of which had been
| planted, will be flooded and the loss
! to the farmers in that section will be
? heavy.
i it St - cor ot ot
’ Isthmian Canal Pacts Attacked.
| - Washington.—A demand for the ah
;irogauon of two treaties with Great
| Britain bearing upon Isthimian capal
l{rights. presented to the senate in @
{ resolution by Senator Chamberlaiz,
| brought a new element into the ca
;{n&l coniroversy now in progress be
“| tween this couniry and Greai Britain
‘}oxer the rights of the United States
| to exempt American coastwise ships
l from the payment of tolls. The Charo
‘| perlain resolution would require tfe
| president to terminate the Hayv-Paun
- | cefote and the Clayton-Bulwar freaty.