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10 REDUCE THE
COST Os LIVING
FARM PRODUCTS TO BE CARRIED
DIRECT TO DOOR OF THE
CONSUMER.
TEN CITIES ARE SELECTED
By Parcel Post Postmaster General
Burelson Will Cut -the Cost of
Living.
Washington. — Preliminary steps
were taken by the postoffice depart
ment to perfect its plan for reducing
tlie cost of living by having the par
cel post carry farm products direct
to the door of consumer. Ten cities
were selected to beg n the work of
establishing direct connection between
producer and consumer, Postmaster
General Burleson having issued an or
der permitting the use of crates and
boxes for butter, eggs, poultry, vegeta
bles and fruit shipped by parcel post.
Orders went to the postmaster at
Boston, Atlanta, St. Louis, San Fran
cisco, Baltimore, Detroit, LaCrosse,
Wis.; Lynn, Mass.; Rock Island, 111.,
and Washington, directing them “to
receive the names of persons who are
willing to supply farm produce in re
tail quantities by parcel post." Print
ed lists of these names will be dis
tributed among town and city patrons
“By the use of the lists,” said First
Assistant Postmaster General Roper,
“the city consumer can get in touch
with a farmer who will fill his weekly
orders for farm produce. The constim
er will receive the product fresh from
the country, and tiie personal relation
ship established no doubt will tend
to improve the quality. The farmer
will be relieved of carrying his pro
duce to market, as the rural carrier
will make daily collections at the farm
er’s own door of the retail shipments
to city consumers.
"The point has been raised that dif
ficulty will be experienced in the re
turn of hampers and other containers.
Titis problem does not appear to me
to be difficult, as the farmer may use
inexpensive hampers whose value
would not warrant their return, or he
may use the higher grade hampers
for which he may include an additional
charge to be credited to the consumer
on the return of the hamper by par
cel post,"
EUROPE CONTROLS RADIUM
Claimed Americans Fail to Recognize
Importance of Radium.
Washington.—How the American
people failed to recognize the import
ance of radium as a cancer cure until
European countries had obtained vir
tually all of the present available sup
ply, Is graphically told In the annual
report of Joseph A. Holmes, director
of the federal bureau of mines, made
public. The report tells in detail of
the bureau’s unsuccessful efforts to
obtain a quantity of radium sufficient
to supply the twenty or more hospi
tals of the public health service and
“serve in part to meet the needs of
the various cancer hospitals of the
country.”
Director Holmes estimates that "in
the United States 75,000 persons die
each year from cancer. Explaining
that radium is considered the most
promising cure for certain types of
cancer, the director says the most
serious barrier to progress in demon
strating this is the scarcity of radium.
“There probably is not more than
thirty grams of radium now available
for use in such treatment in all coun
tries,” the report says. “Os this amount
there probably is not more than two
grams of radium bromide in the Unit
ed States, in the hands of a few sur
geons. Probably fifteen grams of ra
dium bromide was produced during
1912, and of the fifteen grams nearly
11.5 grams were extracted in various
European countries from ores shipped
to them from the United States, main
ly from Colorado and Utah.
Man's Slays Four Persons.
Oak Park. Ga. J. A. Eubanks, a
farmer of this place, killed his wife
and two young daughters as they
slept, and after setting fire to his
home, barn and several tenants’ hous
es. tired a bullet through his own fore
head, killing himself.
Two Badly Hurt on Trestle.
Atlanta. -Edward L. Huie, senior at
Tech, and Miss Mabel Bixbie, a milli
ner, were seriously injured when the
Seaboard Express No. 5 from New
York City to New Orleans ran them
down as they were walking over a
trestle near this city. As the fast train
swept around the curve, thirty minutes
late, the engineer saw the couple
crossing the steel structure. Too late,
he blew a warning blast. The couple
attempted to escape, but before they
ran ten feet the pilot of the engine
had tossed them into a dry gulley.
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Gusav Bauch is an American rail
road man who dieappeared In Mexico
and is believed to have been killed
by the constitutionalists. Carranza
has ordered an Inquiry into his death,
but Villa says he was slain by fed
erals.
DOG SAVES FORTY LIVES
GUESTS OF WINDSOR HOTEL. IN
MILWAUKEE, SCURRY DOWN
FIRE ESCAPE.
Yelping of Vagabond Pup Awakens
Hotel Proprietor, Who Rouses
Guests in Time.
Milwaukee, Wis. —Guests of the
Windsor hotel, numbering nearly
two score, were compelled to Itee for
their lives when a tire, which destroy
ed the hotel and the Western News
paper Union plant, in the southern
portion of the building, and burned
out the four-story structure. The
barking of a dog sounded the alarm
in time for escape.
Charles Sandberg, lessee of the ho
tel, declared that every guest of the
hotel got out safely. The property
damage is $200,000.
The barking of a vagabond dog
aroused Mr. Sandberg, the hotel keep
er, and he and policemen went
through the halls smashing in doors
where the guests failed to answer
knocks. Guests were soon scurrying
for safety clad in night attire.
Patrolman Wilke was the last to
emerge from the mission of awakening
the guests. He said tlie guests had
all been awakened and managed to
get out.
BANDIT MAKES RICH HAUL
Bandit Robs Express Messenger on
Santa Fe Railway.
Beaumont, Texas. —After bundling
the messenger, "Reb” Martin, in a
gunnysack, a masked man robbed the
express car attached to northbound
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe passen
ger train No. 202 of several packages
of currency, estimated to aggregate
about $14,000, and escaped from the
train at the village of Helbig, 12 miles
north of Beaumont. Posses, which
went to Helbig from this city in auto
mobiles, have not found trace of the
bandit, who is believed to be hiding
in the dense forest about the village.
G. A. Taft, general superintendent of
the Wells-Fargo Express company, es
timated the amount stolen at $14,000.
The money was part of a shipment
made by a Houston lumber concern to
be used in paying their employes at
camps along the road.
Tuscaloosa Swept by Fire.
Tuscaloosa, Ala. —Fire in the busi
ness section of Tuscaloosa early did
damage estimated at a quarter of a
million dollars. Three business hous
es and their stocks were destroyed.
The cause of the tire has not been de
termined. Rosenau company, depart
ment store owners, were the heaviest
losers, their building and its contents
being valued at $150,000,
Wants $2,000,000 for Atlanta P. O.
Washington. —Among the things rec
ommended by the efficiency commis
sion in its report on the Atlanta post
office is the erection of a new build
ing to accommodate the increasing
volume of business handled by the At
lanta postoffice. In lieu of this, Con
gressman W. S. Howard has introduc
ed a bill recommending a $2,000,000
appropriation to erect a public build
ing for the postal department. Mr.
Howard says that in the event a re
gional bank is located in Atlanta the
present postoffice can be used for it.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO. GEORGIA.
BUREAU REPORT
OU COTTON CROP
CROP IS ONE OF THE LARGEST
EVER GROWN IN THE UNIT-
ED STATES.
NEW METHOD IN REPORTING
Over Thirteen Million Running Bales
Produced by Southern Farmers,
Is the Report.
Washington.—One of the largest
cotton crops ever grown, amounting
to 14,127,356 equivalent 500-pound
bales of linters, was produced by the
farmers of the United States during
1913, the census bureau announced in
its preliminaray report of cotton gin
ned as reported by ginners and de
linters to February 28.
These figures compare with 13.703,-
421 equivalent 500 pound bales of lint
and 609,594 bales of linters last year,
and 15.692,701 bales of lint and 567,«•
575 bales of linterest in 1911.
The department of agriculture’s es
timate, announced December 12, plac
ed the 1913 crop at 13,677,000 equiva
lent 500-pound bales.
The total value of the crop, includ
ing the value of cotton seed, Is unoffi
cially estimated roundly at more than
$1,000,000,000, compared with last
year's $920,000,000, and $963,000,-
000 for the previous most valuable
crop, that of 1910.
With this report the bureau of cen
sus departed from its previous method
of reporting the cotton crop by not
including the quantity of linters in the
total production. Director William J.
Harris announced this was done be
cause with the installation of modern
machinery closer delinting of seed had
increased the quantity of linters
and at the same tiipe lowered the aver
age quality-of the fiber so that now
only a small part, If any, was used
as a substitute for lint cotton.
The number of running bale of lint
cotton, counting round as half bales,
was 13,964,981, and of Hnter cotton.
629,019 running bales, compared with
13,488,539 running bales of lint and
602,324 running bales of linters last
year, and 15,553,073 runnigg bales of
linters in 1911.
Included in the production for 1913
are 29,267 bales, which ginners esti
mated would be turned out after the
time of the March canvass.
Round bales included numbered 99.-
916 compared with 81,528 last year and
101,554 in 191 b.
Sea Island bales included 77,490 com
pared with 73,777 last year and 119,293
in 1911.
The average gross weight of bales
for the crop, counting round as half
bales and excluding linters, was 505.8
pounds, compared with 508.0 last year
and 504.5 in 1911.
VILLA REACHES TORREON
Federal Stronghold Shelters 9,000
Troops Under General Velasco.
Constitutionalist Headquarters, Yer
mo, Durango, Mexico.—General Villa
and his army of 12,000 rebels invested
the federal stronghold of Torreon.
The khaki-dad columns occupied the
environs of the city without opposi
tion, and in wheeling and dragging
field pieces into place to shell the
federal trenches, dug at every point
where the federal commander, Gen.
Refugio Velasco, expects attack.
Velasco's army is estimated to num
ber 9,000 men. South and southwest
of this city his position is regarded
as almost impregnable by reason of
the mountains, through which only
three passes run, and these have been
rendered almost impassable by fortifi
cations and barbed-wire entangle
ments. In other directions the city
is reached through the desert and
high hills.
Lansing Named to Succeed Moore.
Washington. - President Wilson
nominated Robert Lansing of Water
town, N. Y., to be counselor for the
department of state, succeeding Jalm
Bassett Moore, and Cone Johnson of
Texas to be solicitor for the depart
ment, succeeding Joseph W. Folk. Mr.
Lansing is an associate editor of the
American Journal of International Law
and the author of several works on
international subjects.
Identifies Train Robber.
Atlanta. Ga. —Harry B. Mellville. the
postal clerk on the Queen and Cres
cent sotuhbound train No. 1, running
from Cincinnati to New Orleans, which
was robbed near Birmingham of $40,-
000 on the night of February 19, ar
rived iu Atlanta and identified A. O.
Perry, one of the three alleged yegg
men, who were arrested at No. 89
Brookline street, as the train bandit
who stabbed him in the back with a
knife when he refused to tell the gang
of robbers where all the money in the
small car was hidden.
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Miss Trimble is the pretty daughter
of South Trimble, former congress
man from Kentucky and now clerk of
the house of representatives. liss
Trimble is popular with the younger
set in Washington. .
MANY BODIED UNDER WALLS
BUILDING FALLS IN HIGH WIND,
CAUSING DEATH AND
DESTRUCTION.
Tragedy in St. Lois Due to Collapse
of a Wall of Burned
Building.
St. Louis, Mo. —At least two persons
were killed, fifteen buried under de
bris and ten injured when the west
wall of the Missouri Athletic club
building, which was destroyed by fire,
in which thirty persons lost their lives
a week ago, collapsed under a high
wind here, and crashed through a
four-story building occupied by the
St. Louis Seed company.
The wall of the Missouri Athletic
club building, which stood seven sto
ries high, crumbled when a 35-mile
wind veered to the northwest. A few
minutes before the collapse. Building
Commissioner McKelvey, who was di
recting 170 men in the work of ex
ploring the ruins of the Missouri Ath
letic club, feared the wall would fall
and ordered his men out of the de
bris. This action probably prevent
ed a heavy loss of life.
The four-story building occupied by
the St. Louis Seed company had weak
ened, apparently during the burning of
the Missouri Athletic club building,
which adjoined it on the east, and
when the brick wall crashed on the
roof of the four-story building, the
walls of the latter gave way and all
above <ne second floor crumbled.
COTTON EXCHANGE REFORMS
New York Organization Adopts the
Nire-Grade System.
New York.—Submission to the nine
type system of cotton grading favor
ed by the United States government
; was acknowledged by the board of
i managers of the New York cotton ex
i change in the adoption of a resolution
making the government standard types
of cotton the basis for trading on and
after April 1, 1915.
The resolution reads:
“Resolved, That the government
: standard types of the fololwing grades
of cotton, i. e., middling fair, strict
good middling, good middling, strict
| middling, middling, strict low mid
| dling, low middling, strict good ordi
nary and good ordinary shall be the
basis for determining the grade of all
cotton for delivery upon contracts ma
turing on and after April 1, 1915."
The nine-grade system has been ap
plied by the New Orleans exchange
for years, and is said to simplify the
: marketing of the product. Concilia
; tory action was taken last fall by the
New York exchange, but the conces
sion did not completely appease dis
j satisfaction in the South, which has
’ insisted on a complete surrender, it is
said.
Girls Flee for Their L ves.
Wellesley, Mass.—Perfect discipline,
coolness and bravery on the part of
students and faculty members pre
. vented loss of life or injury, when
I college hall, oldest of the Wellesley
! coHege buildings, was burned here,
i Two hundred and fifty young women
students, fifty instructors and fifty
maids, were in bed when the fire was
discovered. Every one was saved, and
aot one of the scores who marched
in an orderly procession through the
<mcke-filled hallways, suffered so much
as a scratch.
ENOS DYSPEPSIA,
NDIGESTION. GAS
'Tape’s Diapepsin” cures sick,
sour stomachs in five minutes
—Time It! x
"Really does” put bad stomachs In
order —"really does” overcome indiges
tion, dyspepsia, gas, heartburn and
sourness in five minutes —that —just
that —makes Pape's Diapepsin the lar
gest selling stomach regulator in the
world. If what you eat ferments into
stubborn lumps, you belch gas and
eructate sour, undigested food and
acid; head is dizzy and aches*; breath
foul; tongue coated: your insides filled
with bile and indigestible waste, re
member the moment "Pape's Diapep
sin'' comes in contact with the stomachr
all such distress vanishes. It's truly
astonishing—almost marvelous, and
the joy is its harmleseness.
A large fifty-cent case of Pape's Dia
pepsia will give you a hundred dollars’
worth of satisfaction.
It s worth its weight In gold to men
and women who can’t get their stom
achs regulated. It belongs In your
home—should always be kept handy
in case of a sick, sour, upset stomach
during the day or at night. It's the
quickest, surest and most harmless
stomach doctor in the world. — : Adv.
Granted.
Howard Elliott, the president of t^e
New Haven lines, said of a certain
financier at a dinner in New York:
"There’s one thing we must grant
him —in a business deal he never
splits hairs.”
With a wink and a smile Mr. Elliott
added:
“He takes your whole scalp.”
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the -z-vj/ 7 ,/
Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children -Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
Like and Like.
William Dean Howells said .the
other day of a certain type of “best
, seller” novel:
“The men who write these books
are intellectually debased, and the
public they write for is intellectually
: debased also. The thing reminds me
of an anecdote.
" ’What are you doing, dear?’ a
mother said to her little four-year-old
daughter.
“ I'm writing a letter to Alice,’ the
1 youngster replied.
“ ‘But, dear,’ said the mother, ‘you
don’t know how to write.’
"The little girl, however, as she
' calmly continued her pencil scrawl,
; answered:
“ Well, mother, Alice doesn't know
I how to read.' "
Affirm Higher Qualities.
A persistent affirmation that you do
possess the qualities which are nec
; essary for your higher success, that
■ you will develop them to their utmost
I strength, aids wonderfull}’ in acquir
ing the desired possession. There is
i everything in assuming firmly and per
sistently the part you wish to play in
: life. Resolve and believe that you
are manly, or womanly, noble, vlgor
; ous and strong. Never tor an instant
. allow yourself to think that you are
weak and mean and contemptible.
' After a while you will retain perma
i nently the character which you as
■ sume. —Urlty.
WANTED TO KNOW
The Truth About Grape-Nuts Food.
It doesn't matter so much what you
hear about a thing, it's what you know
that counts. And correct knowledge
is most likely to come from personal
experience.
"About a year ago,” writes a N. Y.
man. “I was bothered by indigestion,
! especially during the forenoon. I tried
several remedies without any perma
nsnt improvement.
"My breakfast usually consisted of
oatmeal, steak or chops, bread, coffee
• and some fruit.
I “Hearing so much about Grape-Nuts,
I I concluded to give it a trial and find
out if all I had heard of it was true.
“So I began with Grape-Nuts and
cream, soft boiled eggs, toast, a cup of
Postum and some fruit. Before the
f end of the first week I was rid of the
acidity of the stomach and felt much
relieved.
"By the end of the second week all
traces of indigestion had disappeared
and I was in first rate health once
more. Before beginning this course of
diet, I never had any appetite for
lunch, but now I can enjoy the meal
at noon time.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. "There’s a Rea
son."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full es human
Interest.