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Wheeler County Eagle
POLISHED WERItLY
ALAMO. GEORGIA
THE WALKING FAD.
A revival of Interest in pedestrlan
lim is reported from New York,
where, probably, the "automobile
knee” and other ailments new and old,
due either to the craze for automobll-
Ing or simple neglect of ordinary
healthful exercise, are to be found at
their worst. In any event the walking
fad lias taken a strong hold on the
metropolis and many walking clubs
are being formed. The value of walk
ing as a pleasurable and health-pro
moting exercise cannot be denied. The
trouble with most people is that they
do not walk enough to realize its ben
efits. Automobiles fdr those that
can afford them and the trollies for
the less-favored many offer a tempt
ing case of transportation that is
hard to resist. As a result there
are few men who can ingage in a
brisk long walk without becoming
overfatigued. The present revival of
walking, If it does not prove to be
only a passing fad, may accomplish
great good in getting men away from
the dreary monotony of paved streets
and the dust and smoke-laden at
mosphere of the cities, out into the
clean, pure, invigorating air of the
country, refreshing their lungs, ton
ing up their circulation, driving away
many of the minor ills that annoy and
giving them a cleaner and better out
look on life. •
Somehow the impression nan gone
abroad that Boston has Invented a
new slang word, and that the same is
“fudgy,” says the Boston Post. Even
the usually well informed New .York
Herald remarks that “from the rare
fied air of Boston a new bit of slang
has been evolved, a poor, anemic word,
■fudgy,’ used to indicate that every
thing Is as it should be. It will doubt
less prove a convenient term in Bos
ton, a city in which a vast number
of people look upon them with com
placence and declare that the town
could not be Improved upon. But it
will never take root In a city like
ours, which is always being reformed
and uplifted and rebuilt and Investi
gated.” The Herald and all other
newspapers that mention the matter
ere barking up the wrong tree.
"Fudgy" is not Boston slang and never
will be. It Is unheard, save perhaps
from the lips of a few- noodles who
are said to have enriched their danc
ing vocabulary with the word. But
they amount to nothing; they can not
make slang. Slang comes from other
and abler quarters.
What’s the matter with the girls
these days? Can't they hold the at
tention of anyone? Is it necessary to
keep repeating the word "listen" in an
ordinary talk where the “talkee" is all
attention? A miss of perhaps seven
teen years asked for a certain brand
of face powder in a drug store re
cently, says the New York Sun. This
is a fair account of what she said:
"Listen! I want a box of yuh face
powder. Listen! Do you keep that
there kind that comes with—with a
mirror? You know the kind I mean.
Listen! What shade do you think I
need? Is Raychel (Rachel) too dark?
Listen—” That was as much as I
heard. But it was enough. If a girl
has a toothache, or a wart on her
finger, or a headache, it Is “Listen, lis
ten, listen," to the patient or in many
cases impatient drug clerk. No miss,
It seems, considers her vdcabularly up
to date unless it Is burdened with
"listen." Girls, take a tip. Put "listen”
on the shelf.
A dispatch from London states that
two tiny coffins have been found in the
monastic burial ground of Peter
borough and have been placed in Pe
terborough Cathedral. One is two feet
six inches in length and the other two
feet eight inches. They are said to
be the coffins of the twin children of
King Canute (995-1035), who were
drowped in Whittlesey Mere as they
were crossing to be educated at Pe
tersborough Abbey. Every reader of
English history is familiar with the
rnocdote of the courtiers who told
King Canute that he was the lord of
the waves as well as of the land, and
will recall the dramatic way in which
he rebuked their ilattery by setting
his chair on the beach while the tide
was rising and commanding the waves
not to engulf it, which, however, they
promptly did. But the still more im
i*essive circumstance that two of Ca
nute's children lost their lives by
drowning probably will be news to
the general reader, though it happened
utne centuries ago.
FOB BEUER ■
GARRISON PLEADS
URGES THE ASSEMBLY OF BRIG-
ADES AND DIVISIONS PERI
ODICALLY.
CHANGES RECOMMENDED
Secretary Says There Are Too Many
Posts, and Not the Proper Train-
ing for War.
Washington.—ln a statement Secre
tary Garrison, pointing to the Ameri
can army scattered in small units
throughout the country, impossible to
coalescence for practical instruction
in the larger tactical treasures of bat
tle, urged the importance of assem
bling brigades and divisions periodi
cally and temporarily in times of
peace for war training, pending the
adoption of a governmental policy for
the adequate distribution of the army.
Epitomizing his idea, the secretary
said:
“I hope that war may never come,
but in the present stage of civiliza
tion we must recognize the possibil
ity; and it is with this idea in mind
that I say I believe it will be well
for the country, if our legislators
would make provision for the annual
assembling of at least one division
as a school, wherein our officers
might be given that practical train
ing which is so necessary to develop 1,
educated generals and staff officers.
We may not need a large army, but
it should be one which in organiza
tion and training is as nearly perfect
as it is possible to make it. Otherwise,
whatever is spent is not bringing its
full efficient return. And this applies
to thought, skill and training, as well
as to money.”
Discussing the question of a future
military policy for the United States,
Secretary Garrison said it seemed to
be agreed that there were entirely
too many army posts at the present
time, and that many/of them were not
where they were useful or desirable
under existing conditions:
"Whether this situation should be
remedied/’ he continued, "by^ concern
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Rebels Doing as They Please in All
Parts of Mexico.
Mexico City.—Further evidence of
the aggressiveness of the Northern
rebels was given when several hun
dred of Jhem, well armed and mount
ed, captured the town of Venegas,
on the National railway, in the state
of San Luis Fotosi. They cut the
railway to the north and they moved
over to Matchuala, a mining town and
smelting center.
The rebels continue to cover new
terirtory and cripple transportation
facilities. More than 2,500 miles of
the National railway system are out
of commission. To this is added a long
stretch of the Southern Pacific south
of Guaymas and other short independ
ent lines.
The inability up to date of the gov
ernment to float a loan is a serious
handicap, but notwithstanding this,
I President Huerta is doggedly forcing
i the campaign. The recent annouace
; ment that the pay in the army will be
a peso and a half a day has been fol
lowed by fresh efforts to augment the
ranks. Voluntewa, for the most part,
by conscription, are being obtained
here at the rate of one hundred a day.
However, the government’s campaign
appears to be largely defensive.
Man Impaled to Stake.
Grafton. W. ya.—While a bundle of
2x4 timber was being lowered into the
shaft of the Sterling Coal company at
Independence, a sharp-pointed stake
slipped from the bundle and impaled
Watt Lawrence of Newburg, who was
at work in the shaft 185 feet below.
Flew Across Isthmus.
Colon.—RobeH G. Fowler, the Amer
ican aviator, made a flight across the
Isthmus in a hydro-aeroplane with a
passenger. Fowler left Panama beach
at 9:45 a. m. He circled over Pan
ama City and the entrance to the ca
nal for more than half an hour, as
cending to a considerable altitude, and
then turned in the direction of Colon.
He met strong wind currents over Cu
lebra, but iu spite of this was able to
carry out various evolutions. Low
clouds ocacsionally hid the earth from
view.
PAY LAST HONORS TO EMPRESS OF CHINA
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The picture shows the Taf Ho Tien in the first courtyard of the For
bidden City. It shows the altar, arch of honor and the crowds of people
wishing to bow three times before the picture of the late empress on the
altar Inside the building.
500,000 WORKERS WIN VOTE
BELGIAN GOVERNMENT ACCEPTS
A RESOLUTION WHICH PRO
VIDES FOR SETTLEMENT.
Victory of Strikers Means Abolition
of Plural Voting in
Belgium.
Brussels. Belgium.—Owing in great
part to the advice of the king, the
governmenlt accepted the compro
mise proposed by the Liberal leader,
F. Masson, and the great strike for
manhood suffrage, which on account
,of the remarkable discipline main
tained, the solidarity of those who
joined in the movement and skillful
organization, is unique in history, will
be called off.
A week ago the Belgian premier,
Charles de Broqueville, declared:
"No government could yield to a
strike of this nature. To yield would
be to abdicate.” g
Nevertheless the strike of 508,000
workers seems to have made sufficient
Impression on the government to in
duce it to unbend from its uncompro
mising attitude far enough to insure
the termination of a situation which
has already cost the country more
than 114,000,000 and is dailj' driving
away from manufacturers customers
they may never win back.
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war over ti.e possession of Saloniki,
The Greeks have mobilized every
available soldier and concentrated one
army in the neighborhood of Saloniki,
while another is being landed at Or
fani, in the Gulf of Orfani, to watch
movements of Bulgarians at Drama
and Kavala. The victorious Epirus,
army from Janina is being distributed
along the new strategical front from
Saloniki to Orfani.
In the meantime the Bulgarians
have suspended passenger traffic be
tween Dedeagatch and Saloniki and
are utilizing the railway for concen
tration of troops in the neighborhood
of Drama close to the Greek position.
They have now brought one division
each from Adrianople, Tchatlja and
Bulair, and if is estimated that the
Bulgars now ’have 90,000 soldiers fac
ing the Greeks and a Servian force,
supporting the Greeks, which Is as
sembling along the railway
Bryan Ordered to California.
Washington.—President Wilson di
rected Secretary of State Bryan to
proceed to Sacramento to co-operate
with Governor Johnson and the mem
bers of the California legislature in
framing a law regarding the ownership
of land by aliens that would not con
flict with the treaty obligations of the
United States, particularly with Japan.
"I am going in the hope that we may
be able to find the best solution of the
difficulty,” said Secretary Bryan to
the press. "I feel sure that they in
California will enter upon work with
the same spirit of co-operation as the
president and I do. 1 am hopeful, in
deed, that we will be able to arrive
at the wisest solution.”
For Reform of Currency.
Washington.—Chairman Owen of
the senate banking and currency com
mittee, called its members together,
and advised them of results of infor
madl conferences with President Wil
son, Secretary McAdoo and Chairman
Glass of the house banking commit
tee on the su) eject of currency referm.
Working informally, obtaining the
views of the president and his advis
ers, Senator Owen and Representative
Glass have been looked upon as the
men who will frame a Measure to be
known as the Owen-Glass bill.
MAM KILLED IN EXPLOSION
BODIES OF MANY OF THE VIC
TIMS HAVE BEEN RE-
COVERED.
Those Who Escaped Crawled on ;
Their Hands and Knees Out of
the Deadly Fumes.
Pittsburg, Pa. —The lives of 100
miners, possibly more, paid the toll
of a disastrous explosion In the Cin
clnanti mine of the Monongahela Riv
er Consolidated Coal and Coke com
pany at Finleyville, Pa.
Over three-score of workmen in the
mine made thrilling escapes, crawling
most of the time on their hands and j
knees through deadly gas fumes and i
over debris.
Many bodies were located by rescu- |
tng squads of the United States bureau ■
of mines, the Monongahela River Con- '
solidated Coal and Coke company and -
of the Pittsburg Coal company. As
the rescuers found bodies they were |
carried to the entries.
The rescue work was hampered by
afterdamp. Fire' which followed the
explosion has been completed sub
dued. Three entries of the mine arc
entirely choked with debris.
The force of the explosion was ter
rific. A fifteen-ton motor was turned
over. Many feet of mine track were
twisted and ripped from tire ties.
Only a few of the miners who reach
ed the surface could talk. Suffering
from burns or fright, me miners only
knew that au explosion had occurred,
and that the large number of men are
cither killed by the explosion or as
phyxiated by the afterdamp.
FORTRESS OF SCUTARI FALLS
Action of Montenegro in Defying the
Powers Causes Critical Situation.
London. —News of the fail of Scuta
ri to the Montenegrin army has been
received with extraordinary demon
strations in all the allied capitals, no
tably Belgrade and the Bulgarian pre
mier has sent effusive congratulations
to the Montenegrin premier.
The first effect of the fall of the
fortress lias been the extension of the
international naval blockade to Du
razzo, but what will be the next step
of the powers in facing the new sit
uation it is difficult to foretell. Ac
cording to the view prevailing at Si.
Petersburg, the coercion of Montene
gro would not be an easy matter.
Belgrade.—Not even Servian victo
ries during the war caused anything
like the,scenes of enthusiasm which
were witnessed here over the taking
of Scutari by Montenegrins. Business
was at a standstill, while the whole
population gave itself over to rejoic
ing Lawyers, merchants, soldiersand
workmen danced in the streets to the
strains of music. Wine may almost
be said to have been flowing in the
gutters, for everywhere barrels were
broached, and all were free to drink
to the victory of the Montenegrins and
the glory of "Greater Servia.''
95-Year-Old Frigate Saved. *
New York. —The 95-year-old frigate
Granite State, the largest wooden ves
sel ever built for the United Stated
navy, which seemed doomed by fire
which broke out on board her, was
saved from destruction, but qot before
serious damage had been done
throughout Her fore part. The frigate
formerly was known as the Alabama
and the New Hampshire. Roofed over
like a mammoth houseboat, the old
warship has rested for the past forty
years at a permanent anchorage off
Sixty-ninth street.
Owner of Titanic Loses in Court.
New York. —The federal district
court dismissed the petition of the
Oceanic Steam Navigation company,
limited, as owner of the White Star
liner Titanic, for a limitation of lia
bility resulting from the loss of the
Titanic. The court held that the. com
pany's liability is to be determined
by the law of Great Britain, which
would make the owners of the Titanic
liable for‘about $3,000,000. The Ocean
ic. Steam Navigation company sought
to have its liability fixed by the laws
of the United States.
BUM PEEKS
m CALIFORNIA
SECRETARY OF STATE APPARENT
LY UNABLE TO CHANGE GOV
ERNOR AND LEGISLATORS.
STATE ASSERTS HER RIGHTS
Bryan, Governor Johnson and Leg sta
ture Were in Secret Conference.
Bryan Asks Instructions.
Sacramento, Cal.—A day of confer
ence between Secretary of State Bry
an and Governor Johnson and mem
bers of the California legislature ove;
proposed anti-alien land laws ehded
with the conference adjourned to
await replies to messages that were
sent to Washington by Mr. Bryan.
The impression prevailed here when
the conference adjourned that the res
olution of the majority leaders pre
viously announced, to enact a bill s:pe
cifically debarring “aliens ineligible to
citizenship" from owning land in Cal
ifornia remained unchanged, although
Mr. Bryan ^dvised strongly against
such action. Governor Johnson indi
cated this in a brief address to th^
conference. He declared California’s
right to follow the lead of other states
in framing the land bill ,was unques
tioned and said such action.now seem
ed assured.
“I have presented the president’s
views as I understand them,” declared
Mr. Bryan to the conference just be
fore it adjourned. I shall submit him
the further questions you have asked
me, calling attention to the statutes
of Washington and Arizona, and J
shall be prepared, I hope, to give you
his answer."
stating his position to the confer
ence, Governor Johnson said, in part:
"The bill proposed for passage by
the California legislature can cal! forth
no just criticism from the national ad
ministration nor from any foreign na
tion. Here in California, it is not a
question of whether the Japanese gov
ernment takes offense at what we do,
but whether we give that government
just cause for offense. I do not be
lieve the proposed law prohibiting lard
ownership by aliens who are ineUgihle
to citizenship gives the Japanese just
: cause for taking offense.
। “If their dignity is threatened, they
should have protested when Washing
ton and Arizona passed laws stmilsra
td that whicl^we now propose to pass.”
HE WANTS TO FIGHT JAPAN
Mississippi Congressman Wants U. S.
to Back California.
Washington—A "war speech” in
support of the proposed California
anti-alien law, was delivered in the
house by Representative Sisson of Mis
sissippi.
“If we must have war or submit to
this indignity, I am for war." cried
Mr. Sisson. “1 am with the people, el
California in their efforts to prevent
these aliens from acquiring land.”
"I believe,” said Mr. Sisson, "that
’no non-resident aliens should he a?
’ lowed to hold a single foot of land in
: the terirtory of the United States
' What would Washington say in ar,
I swer to the question, war or submls
j sion? What, would Jackson say? What
■ would CleveJanld say? What would Me
i Kinley say?
"I resent the efforts of Japan to
’ force us to submit to her demands."
, Mr. Sisson took the position that
■ the Japanese government iu protest
ing against alien land legislation was
! endeavoring to exempt its citfens
from the operation of the laws of
I states. *
Friedmann Has Sold Tuberculosis Cu^e
New York. —It was announced at the
’ apartments of Dr. Friedrich F. Fried
i manin that he had signed a contract
! for'the disposition of his tuberculosis’
vaccine by a company through insts
tutes to be established in every stair
The contract, it is said, provides for
the free treatment of the poor in all
j localities. No details of the financial •
; end of the contract were made public.
Plunged Into River With Little Sons
Wilson Open on Cana! Controversy.
Washington.—President AVilson told
i callers he considered the controversy.
! with Great^Britain over the exemption
of American coastwise shipping from
i payment of tolls through the Panama
। canal a very debatable one. The, pres
ident gave no intimation as to what
his previous view had been, but qomo
eratic senators who talked with him .
had the idea that he opposed tbe ex
emption and favored the Root amend
ment to repeal it. When Mr. Wilson
discussed the question he said he feit .
he should ’keep his mind open.