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HON. BOWDRE PHINIZY AND THE GEORGIA RAILROAD. (Continued from page 9.) ports and writings of any character upon the subject of wrecks, derailments, collisions, de lays and breakdowns occurring upon said rail road since Ist of January, 1906, and the causes of the same, in order that the commission may judge whether or not travel upon the said road Is safe and expeditious as the law requires and demands. 10. That after the defendant has filed its said answer and the lessees have filed the doc uments above set forth, complainant prays that the commission have such hearings, inspec tions and further investigations as may be deemed necessary for an ascertainment of whether or not travel upon the said road is safe and expeditious according to law. It seems to me that Mr. Phinizy has done all that the commission asked of him. His SPE CIFIC requests are really SPECIFIC charges. It is now up to the railroad commission to make the investigation or explain to the peo ple why they refuse to do so. A GOOD OFFER. . The word FREE Strikes most peo ple as meaning nothing, hence there are opportunities absolutely free of fered to people every day which sim ply goes unnoticed and overlooked by the masses, simply because they saw the word “free” attached to the of fer. As one of the most prominent men of our country today once said that he could always tell who were the most successful, It was those that took notice. So let us call the read ers of our paper to the John Foster Company, of Atlanta, Ga., to their add which is shown in this paper. Look for it, they offer to send their catalog of stoves and ranges free to any one; their catalog gives you lots of infor mation and may be the means of sav ing you dollars on an article of neces sity. The information which their catalog gives is worth something. It’s free; doesn’t cost you anything. So write to the John Foster Company, of Atlanta, Ga., for their free stove cata log. M M H WEALTH IN COTTON. American Exports last Year Nearly $500,000,000. Washington, Feb. 22. —America’s pocketbook was enriched by practical ly $500,000,000 through its exportations last year of cotton and the products of that staple, according to a state ment issued today by the bureau of statistics of the department of com merce and labor. The exports of these products amounted to 28 per cent of the $1,773,000,000 value of the domes tic exports. The following figures show the kind of cotton products exported last year and their value: Unmanufactured cot ton, $413,137,936; manufactures of cot ton, $42,961,048; cottonseed oil, $13,- 993,431; cottonseed oil cake and meal, $14,165,268; cottonseed, $245,920; cot tolene, lardine, etc., chiefly from cot tonseed, $4,801,000, bringing the total exports of these products up to $489,- 304,681. Os the $413,000,000 worth of raw cotton exports, $173,000,000 went to the United Kingdom, $109,000,000 to Germ any, $45,000,000 to France, $31,500,000 to Italy, nearly $7,000,000 to Belgium, $5,000,000 to Russia and $1,000,000 to the Netherlands, while to Japan the exports were valued at over $11,000,- 000 and to Canada $7,333,000. The figures show a reduction in the exports of cotton sent to Japan compared with 1905, while to Canada they show a slight increase. In quality the records show a falling oft as compared with 1905, the total number of pounds shipped in that year Speaking of the Georgia Railroad, Bowdre Phinizy has already accomplished something for which all of us living along the line should be thankful. He is making the management get a move on in the way of making repairs. Many of the bad places have been put in good order since his original complaint was filed. If it has the effect all along the line that it has had here, the EXPERT, which this road was willing to pay, will have an easy job. We are not particular about having the road made better by recommendation of the railroad com mission, or by the EXPERT’S report —just so it is put in good condition. Do that before the INVESTIGATORS have time to INVES TIGATE, and we will be satisfied. It meets the same end. * * n Our Congressional delegation at Washing ton has dined Hon. Hoke Smith. It is the first time that all of the Georgia delegation has been together at this session of Congress. being 4,137,154,935, while for 1906 the figures were 3,850,229,030. The fall ing off in quantity, however, was more than offset by the increase in price of cotton exports, the increase in val ue in 1906 exceeding the previous year by $21,000,000. Os the cotton manufactures export ed the bulk went to countries other than Europe. The value of cotton cloths exported last year was $32,- 500,000, of which a little over $500,000 went to Europe, $16,750,000 to China, $5,000,000 to other Asiatic countries, about $3,000,000 worth to the West In dian islands exclusive of Porto Rico, $1,500,000 to Central America and more than $750,000 to Canada. m «b m THE GROUND HOG. De groun hog cum out, An e look all eroun, E peer at de sky, An e gaze on de groun. Wen e seed no shadder, E frisk all erbout, An e say ter esef I gwine ter stay out. But all ob er sudden, De clouds brake away, De sun shine pon ’im, An e elude not ter stay. So e skid ter e hole Ter sleep dout honger Till winter hold out, Fer six weeks longer. ■ H. 1 ** * j JAPANESE STOC'M Tokio, Feb. 22.—Tin in the stock market, vl for a week, was act vJi-n quotations .’ho • ■roasos. The pessin in some quarters to fl bv the eommittte J peel . \e,- tcnhl.V to ■ lesaniin.' the £ _ of tile govertinieii, fact that .1 is lit « / '/ ' ' the " |;|,! ,li;i, 'b lie pi om. a!< .1! <>f ■r- ■! fl i * 1 cotto 1 At 1 The Mh.w in:' flg J 111 x ' " i ■ • i' 111,11 v March April ■ •i May June T* THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. July 9.57 9.56-57 August 9.59 9.59-60 September 9.61 9.60-61 October 9.90 9.87-88 Liverpool. The following table gives the open ing range and close. Futures opened steady. Open. Close. February 5.72 Feb.-Mar5.62% 5.66 Mar.-Apr 5.62 -5.61% 5.64% Apr.-Mays.6l -5.60% 5.63 May-June 5.61 -5.60 5.62 June-July 5.61 July-August 5.58 -5.54 5.49% Aug.-Sept 5.52%-5.51% 5.56 An effort was made to launch a Hoke Smith Presidential boom, but Mr. Smith very mod estly stopped the same by saying that he de sired to give Georgia much needed reforms, as her next Governor. There are reforms need ed in Georgia, and if the next legislature goes back on Mr. Smith, he will let the people “at home” know it. Perhaps a few Statesmen will be hunting other jobs before two years have expired. A good thing that our next legislature can do is to investigate our public school system. Public schools should be what the name im plies, that and nothing less. We pay taxes to this fund, and we should get, in return, what we pay for. The system may work all right in some sec tions of Georgia, but where it is cheaper to send to a private school than to the public school, there is something wrong about ttye system at that place, and the tax payers are not getting what they pay for. Sept.-0ct5.49%-5.48 5.54 Oct-N0v5.48% 5.50% Nov.-Dec 5.49 -5.48 5.50 New Orleans. Following is the range in cotton fu tures in New Orleans Monday. Open. Close. February 10.07 March 10.16 10.17-18 April 10.18 May 10.28 10.28-29 June 10.29 July 10.43 10.41-42 October 10.21 10.18-19 December 10.23 10.22-23 January 10.25 10.26-30 Closed Steady. 13