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$129,000,000 TAKEN FROM THE
PUELIC BY MAIL
FRAUDS.
IS RECORD OF TWO YEARS
Many Schemes to Defraud the Public
Are Operated Through the |
Mails.
. Washington—Loss of $129,000,000
in two years by the unsuspecting pub
- He through swindling operation car
ried on by use of the United States
malls has stirred the postal authori
ties to a drastic campaign against
fraudulent schemers. Wholesale use
of governmenut's right to deny the
‘mailing privilege to persong or firms
whose operations may be tainted with
“get rich quick” and other false
promises is the weapon to be em
- ployed.
An effort to stop this swindling by
reliance upon criminal courts has
proved ineffective, according to W, H.
Lamar, assistant attorney general for
the postoffice department, whose an
nual report was made public on the
first.
- "Criminal proceedings are necessa
tlly slow,” says the report, “and by
means of appeals and other methods
the execution of sentence are deferred
for long periods, during which the
concerns and individuals engaged in
such fraudulent business continue to
reap a harvest through their fraudau
lent enterprise. In some instances,
the penalty being merely a fine, there
was nothing to prevent the parties
from ‘continuing their schemes ex
cept fear of subseguent fines, These
they could easily afford to pay in
view of the large revenue derived
from the business.”
Mr. Lamar points out that a fraud
order immediately cuts off the source
of supply of funds upon which the
scheme largely depends for ite contin
yance and puts many prospective vie
tims on their guard.
Postmaster throughout the country,
the report says, daily ask rulings on
various lottery schemes which cause
the department no end of worry, Nu
merous concerns located abroad con
tinue to mail their advertisements of
foreign lotteries into the United
States. Fraud orders were issued
against 74 such firms during the
year, ‘
CIVILCOURTS UNDER TROOPS
West Virginia Authorities Arraigned
for Conduct During Strike.
- Washington.—A severe arraignment
of the authorities who administered
martial law in West Virginia from
-~ September, 1912, to June, 1613, when
the Cabin Creek and Paint Creek coal
mine strike troubles were in prog
ress is contained in a subcommittee
report made public by Senator Borah,
member of the senate connaittee that
conducted ay investigation into all
phases of the West Virginia disturb
ance,
~_The report does not bear the formal
indorsement of the full senate com
‘mittee, but was given out as the
“statement of facts,” prepared by Sen
‘ator Borah "as the member charged
with preparing .that section of the
report bearing on courtmartial trials!
and alleged violations of law by mil
itary courts.
Senator Borah's statement holds
that the military authorities, acting
under the direction of the governor,
superseded all constitutional courtsin
“West Virginia, imposed sentences not
authorized by any standing laws, and
took over all the duties of the civil
courts of the district; and that at the
time such martial law was being en
forced there was no evidence that the
civil courts had been intimidated or
that they would have failed to per
form their duties faithfully.
Five Persons Killed in Collision.
‘ Memphis, Tenn.—Five persons were
killed and several injured when a
train of freight cars struck a street
car at a grade crossing here. The
accident occurred in the southern out
skirts of Memphis where a belt line
and the street railway tracks cross.
The street car was crushed and the
bodies of the dead badly mangled.
Negro Is Lynched in Louisiana.
Shreveport, La.—Dave Lee, a ne
gro, was taken from the Marion coun
ty Jjail at Jefferson, Texas, by
a4 body of masked men and hanged
to a bridge nearby. The mob com
peiled the jailer to give up his keys,
quickly secured the prisoner, execut
ed him and quietly dispersed. Lee
was ¢harged with shooting and wound
ing Constable Matt Taylor, while re
gisting arrest. It is said there were
but fifteen men in the Iynching par
‘ty. No arrests have been made.
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John Skelton Williams of Richmond,
Va., at present assistant secretary of
the treasury, is the choice of Secre
tary McAdoo for controlier of the cur
rency.
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REBELS ATTACK THE TOWN.
MANY ARE KILLED AND |
WOUNDED, |
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Red Cross Werkers Find Two Hun-‘
dred Corpses on the Battle
field,
Laredo, Texas.—With the dead vari
ously estimated at from 150 to twice
that number, and the wounded sevy
eral hundred, both armies fought for
possession of Nuevo Larede, Mexico,
the Revolutionists under Gen. Pablo
(Gonzales less than a mile from the
town and the Federal forces entrench
ed within Nuevo Laredo,
The government commander at
Nuevo Laredo admitted that at least
fitty of his troops had been Kkiiled,
including Captain Francillas. Offieial
reports from the attacking forces
place their dead at 100, including
Capt. Eziquel Parars. Red Cross
workers who crossed to Nuevo Lare
do during a lull in the firing reported
that they found more than two hun-
{dred dead on the field. '
Fighting, which began at day
| | break, lulled at noon, but was reopen
ed three hours later by a machine
- gun squad who drew away from the
| main body of Revolutionists and pour
jed a hail of bullets into the Federal
| stronghold. Undaunted by the burst.
| ing of shells, the gunner, said to be
.|a Frenchman named Brien, trained his
|gun with deadly accuracy whenever
|a sufficient number of Federal tar
| gets appeared.
| Many bullets fell on the American
{side of the river. Narrow escapes
were numerous, but no deaths
|UNCLE SAM CUARDS HEALTH
Patrois From Ocean to Oceon to
Keep Down Disease,
Washington.—Uncle Sam’'s health
patrol is catching ite breath on New
Year's day in anticipation of the big
gest year’s work it ever has under
taken. The summary of the last 12
months of its work contains a record
of 'heroic fights against disease, oppo
sition to the invasion of foreign mal
adies and excursions into new fields
of medical exploration which has had
no equal in the history of the organ
ization.
Experts working under the direc
tions of Surgeon General Rupert Blue
and Assistant Surgeon General Ruck
er have during the last year covered
every nook and corner of the coun
try, routing out unknown diseases,
cleaning up infested places, teaching
communities and individuals how to
guard against disease and protecting
the American public against disease
immigrants, itinerant “carriers” of
disease, unhealthful surroundings, in
fected rats and polluted drinking wa
ter,
New York Tops London.
New York—New York City leads
London in population by 1,000,000, ae
cording to figures made public by Dr.
W. H. Gulfoy, statistician ° of the
board of health. He fixes New York's
population at 5,376,966, a total based
on the city's presumptive growth
gince the last count was made. This
comparison, however, does not in
clude as part of London that city's
large suburban area. While New
York is gaining rapidly in population,
the city and county of London is ret
rogressing.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
-1913 EXCEEDED BEST EFFORTS
OF THE PRECEDING |
/ YEARS. ;
FOREIGN COMMERCE GROWS}
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1913 Imports Show Decrease, Due to |
Big Reductions in the Cost of !
Certain Articles, |
Washington—~The foreign com
merce of the United States in the
calendar year 1912 approximated one
and three-quarter hillion dollars of!
imports and two and a half bmlon;
of exports. The imports of the eleven |
months ended with November were|
1$1,609,000,000; should the December |
imports equal those of November the‘
total for the full year would be §l, |
756,000,000. The exports of the eleven %
months ended with November were |
$2,2561,090,000; should the December |
exports equal those of November the |
total would be $2,497,000,000. This?
estimate would make the excess otg
exports over imports approximately |
$740,000,000. |
The figures of exports and of excess |
of exports over imports will exceed |
those of any earlier year. The largest |
export in any preceding calendar year |
wag that of 1912, which showed a to- |
tal of $2,399,217,993; and as the eleven |
months ended with November are |
$102,000,000 in excess of the correog
sponding period of the preceding vear |
the estimate of approximately twol
and a half billion for 1913 seems to |
be justified. The excess of exports |
over imports in the eleven months
ended with November was $642,000,-
000, and for the single months of
November $97,000,000, thus apparently |
justifying the estimate of $740,000, |
000 excess of exports for the full
year.
In imports the total for 1913 will |
be less than that of 1912, but larger |
than that of any year preceding 1912. j
This decline in imports in 1913 is due
in part te reduction in prices of cer
tain articles imported. While the |
quantity of sugar imported in the ten [
months ended with October exceeded
that of the corresponding period of
1912 by 368,000,000 pounds, the value
of this larger quantity imported dur
ing the 1913 period was 522,000,000}
less than that of the corresponding |
period of 1912, |
PLAN TO DROP CORPORATIONS
Men of Affairs Decided to Line Up
With Spirit of Times. ’
New York.—The withdrawal of J.
P. Morgan & Co. from more than a
score of great corporations and the
statement shortly afterwards Dy!
George F. Baker, an almost equallyl
dominant figure in American finance,
that he soon would take similar ac
tion, gave Wall street generally a
thrill that almost brought trading on
the stock exchange to a halt.
- While it probably is true that many
prominent bankers had information
foreshadowing this momentoug move
toward ending interlocking directo
rates, the public and brokers had no
advance knowledge of what was tak
ing place in the inner councis of the
greatest of all American houses of
finance. Wherever telephone and tick
er flashed the news about the street,
groups of men gathered to discuss
what was the all-absorbing topic. l
Mr. Morgan, departing from his
firm’s traditional policy of silence,i
made a public statement announcing
the withdrawal of five members of
J. P. Morgan & Co. from the drector
ships in twenty-seven corporations
and the intention to withdraw from
more. |
Exports to South Africa.
Washington. — Success that has
marked the efforts of American manu
facturers to establish markets for
their exports in the union of South
Africa, long considered to be exclu
sive province for foreign traders, re-’
futes any assertion that competition |
is driving Americans from the field of 1
trade, according to a statement made§
public by the department of com-i
merce, Y i
Lower Express Next Month. %
Washington.—Lower express rates
throughout the country will become
effective one month from now by the
terms of the recent interstate com
merce commission order. Not only
will the rates be reduced materially,
but the companies will comply with
‘regulations for improved methods of
-service. Experts estimate the aver
‘age reduction in charges will approx
imate 17 per cent. One official of a.
large express company said that the
business for 1913 was 25 per cent.
less than it was in 1912,
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| _ and GirisWho ‘Set Record in. “
Jore L Corn and Tomatet
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| Washington.—Commenting on the
statement issued by the United States
| department of agriculture, showing.
the results attained by the boys and
girls who won prizes in the Boys’
‘Corn Clubs and Girls’ Canning Clubs,
in their respective states, in the sea
| son of 1913, President Harrison of the
Southern Railway company, said: |
“While the work done by the boys
and girls in all of the states was re
markable, it is very gratifying to me
to note that first honors, both in the
Boys’ Corn Clubs and the Girls’ Can
ning Clubs went to states traversed by
the lines of the Southern railway sys
tem. ®he wonderful record made by
Jerry Moore of South Carolina, who
grew 22875 bushels of corn on a sin
gle acre in 1910, directed attention
to the greaf advantages of the South
eastern states as a corn-growing lo
cality. Now comes Walker Lee Dun
son of Alabama, with a record of 232.7
bushels on a single acre, setling a new
‘ma.rk for the members of the Boys’
{(.‘,om Clubs throughout the United |
i States. The superiority ‘of the South- |
east for corn production is demon-i
strated not only by Walker Dunson’s |
remarkable record, but also by the |
fact that the yields obtained by the
prize-winning bovs in each of the
lstates of Virginia, North Carolina,
iS(mth Carolina, Georgia, Florida and
Tennessee exceeded the highest yield
obtained by any boy in a Northern or
Western state,
“No less remarkable jhan the rec
ord made by Walker Dunson in the
corn club work was that made by
Miss Clyde Bullivan of Georgia, who
grew 5,354 pounds of tomatoes on a
tenth of an acre, surpassing by 1,374
pounds the highest record made by
any girl in the North or West. Other
Southeastern girls did remarkably
well, notably Migs Lizzie Kelley, of
South Carolina, with a record of 4,-
376 pounds on a tenth of an acre.
“Taken as a whole, the records of
the Southeastern boys and girls dem
onstrate the superior agricultural and
horticultural advantages of the South
eastern states, not only for purely
Southern crops which are usually as
sociated in the public mind with the
North and West. They demonstrated
“that the states south of the Ohio and
Potomae rivers and east of the Mis
sissippi offer unsurpassed advantages |
for the man seeking to engage in prof
itable diversified agriculture.”
Man Milks Cow in Skirts,
Word comes to Atlanta of a farm-
er named Frank Stoddard, who has
-to put on skirts and a sunbonnet ev
ery time he milks his cow!
The cow, a particularly fine Jersey,
was purchased a short time ago from
two maiden ladies, Misses Jennie and
Alice Case. For a number of years
passed they had milked the cow reg
ularly, and the gentlest of bovines had
{ never been touched by a rough male
hand.
Stoddard bought it, knowing it to
be absolutely gentle, and was there
fore astounded the first morning he
went to milk it, when the cow gave
one frightened glance at him, kicked
over the bucket, and jumped the
fence.
It was the Misses Case who sug
gested the expedient of the skirt and
sunbonnet, and now Sookie stands just
as calmly for Mr. Stoddard as she
used to stand for the Case sisters.
Divorce Record Broken.
All records for new divorces filed
in the local superior court, when fif
‘teen petitions of mismated couples
were put on record. Sometimes as
many as & hundred are granted in a
day, but never before have this many
new petitions come in in one morn
ing.
Thomasville.—There have been
more pecan nuts shipped out eof
Thomasville to other markets this
year than ever before, and it seems
‘probable now that in a few years the
shipment of nuts by carload lots will
be one of the standard businesses of
this section. The nuts sent from here
went to the north and middle west,
where they found ready sale. These
nuts were of the large paper shell
*variety, and refailed in the cities
i where sold at from 50 cents to $1
a pound. The shipment of the trees
for planting is on now and all the
nurseries through this section report
large sales, showing that the planting
of pecan groves is still popular,
Macon.—The state convention of
the Farmers’ Union of Georgia will
be held in Macon, January 6 and T,
and fully five hundred delegaies are
expected te attend, coming from all
parts of the state. Among those who
will be in attendance will be Presi
dent Barrett of the National Farm
ers’ Union, who will have some im
portant news for the farmers of this
state, A number of the experts from
the state college of agriculture will
be among those who will address the
convention this year.
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No sick headache, sour stomach,
hiliousness or constipation
by morning.
Get a 10-cent box now. = ;
Turn the rascals out—the headache,
biliousness, indigestion, the sick, sour
stomach and foul gases—turn them
out to-night and keep them out with
Cascarets. .
Millions of men and women take a
Cascaret now and then and never
know the misery caused by a lazy
liver, clogged bowels or an upset stom
ach,
Don’t put in another day of distress.
Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach;
remove the sour, fermenting food;
take the excess bile from your liver
and carry out all the constipated
waste matter and polson in the
{ bowels. Then you will feel great,
A Cascaret to-night straightens vou
out by morning. They work while
you gleep. A 10-cent box from
i any drug store means a clear head,
| sweet stomach and clean, healthy liver
{ and bowel action for months, Chil
i dren love Cascareis because they
never gripe or sicken. Ady,
CHANCE FOR OBIJECT LESSON
ißlvalvee Would Have Little Prospect
of Escape if Karl Really Got
*Started Romancing,
* “Talk of opening oysters,” sald old
}Hurricau.e, “why, nothing's easierw, if
you only know how.”
“And how’'s how?” inquired Star
light,
“Scotch snuff,” answered old Hurri-
Icane, very sententiously, “Scotch
isnuff, Bring a little of it ever so near
their noses, and they'll sneeze their
lids off.”
“l1 know a genius,” observed Karl,
I“who has a better plan. He spreads
|the bivalves in a circle, seats himself
in the center, and begins spinning a
yarn. Sometimes it’s an adventure in
Mexico, sometimes a marvelous stock
operation on the exchange.
“As he proceeds, the ‘natives’ get
interested-—one by one they gape
{with astonishment at the tremendous
| whoppers which are poured forth, and
a8 they gape my friend whips them
out, peppers ‘em, and swallows them.”
“That'll do,” said Starlight, with a
long sigh. “I wish we had a bushel
of the bivales here now; they'd open
| easy.”
i Enemies of Household Pest.
Among the enemies of the house fly,
including fungus diseases, protozoa,
nematodes, mites, spiders, the house
centipede, parasitic insects, birds, and
fly-catching rats, Mr. H, B, Ewing of
Corvallis, Ore., describes in Entomo
’ logical News a strange parasite which
| attaches itself to the central body wall
of the fly. It belongs to the gamasid
family, and as it feeds it hangs on in
a manner nicely calculated not to
throw the fiy out. of balance in flying.
SELF DELUSION,
Many People Deceived by Coffee.
We like to defend our indulgencies
and habits even though we may be
convinced of their actual harmfulness.
A man can convince himself that
whiskey 18 good for him on a cold
morning, or beer on a hot summer day
‘—when he wants the whiskey or beer.
It's the same with coffee. Thou
sands of people suffer headache and
nervousness year after year but try to
persuade themselves the cause is not
coffee—because they like coffee.
“While yet a child I commenced
using coffes and continued it,” writes
a Wis. man, “until I was a regular
coffee fiend. I drank it every morning
and in consequence had a blinding
headache nearly every afternoon.
“My folks thought it was coffee that
ailed me, but I liked it and would not
admit it was the cause of my trouble,
s 0 I stuck to coffee and the headaches
stuck to me.
“Finally, the folks stopped buying
coffee and brought home some Postum.
They made it right (directions on
pkg.) and told me to see what differ
ence it would make with my head, and
during that first week on Postum my
old affliction did not bother me once.
From that day to this we have used
nothing but Postum in place of coffee
—headaches are a thing of the past
and the whole family is in fine health.”
“Postum Jooks good, smells good,
tastes good, is good, and does good io
the whole body.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battie
{ Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Well
wille,” in pkgs.
Postum now comes in two forms:
Regular Postum—must be well
| boiled.
Instant Postum—is a soluble pow
der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly
in a cup of hot water and, with cream
and sugar, makes a delicious beverage
instantly. Grocers sell both kinds.
“There’s a Reason” for Postum.