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VOL. XIV. NO. 12.
MUCH MONEYJN HIDING
Fabulous Sums Hoarded in Tin
iCans and Stockings.
MIGHT BE JMfiHT OUT
By Postal Savings Banks, According to
the Postmaster General—Other
Nations Have Adopted Idea.
Washington, D. C. —Postal savings
banks, which are just now being fa
vorably discussed in all parts of tne
country, do not embrace a new sub
ject. The United States is practically
the only one of the great nations
which has not adopted the idea.
The postal savings system was es
tablished in Great Britain in 1861. In
1907 they had on deposit $950,000,-
000. ’ '
In a statement before a sub-commit
tee on postoifices and postroads, Post
master General George Von L. Meyer
said: “I feel we are going to get out
eventually through the postal savings
bank, if established, $50,000,000 of
new money, which has lost its func
tion
The postmaster general takes the
position that all depositors will be
skeptical about some banks, and some
depositors will be skeptical about all
banks. The result is, he says, a fab
ulous sum of money is hidden in tin
cans and stockings.
“But you can’t find any one in this
country,” said Mr. Myer, “who is
afraid to trust Uncle Sam. If Uncle
Sam says: ‘I promise to pay on de
mand’ everyone believes and knows
he will pay on demand. If there was
a postal bank hoarded money would
soon be on deposit with the govern
ment, as every one prefers drawing
interest if there is no risk, and a de
posit can be withdrawn at any time
the money may be needed. The mon
ey that is now hoarded and out of the
channels of trade would be turned
over to the banks by the government
and would thus stimulate trade.
•Such a system as the bill reported
provides for would make it possible
for 100 persons to save their earnings
where one does now, and would mane
it impossible for any depositor to ever
lose a cent.”
It s pointed out that under pie ■
ent conditions a large proportion of
laboring people, and those who would
constitute the saving classes a el o
cated in rural districts and territory
more or less remote from banki^
centers. They are deprived of bank
ing facilities, and of the slimulu ® ^se
encouragement that acciue o
who carry a savings account in
^^‘The easy introduction to the art of
saving,” reads the report, “is to pro
vide a convenient and safe means of
saving A lucrative means is less eo^
sentiM. A place near at hand where
a dollar may be deposited, and may
be secure against the temptations of
the burglar, "the theif and the saloon
keeper, even if it accumulates but
very little, has everywhere proved a
strong inducement to saving. -•
nostofflee is near to every citizen,
the savings bank must always be re
mote to the most.
It appears to be a little known fact
that Uncle Sam has already ex P®“-
mented with the postal bank, gettin,
, satisfactory results.
only io in n. l city
According to Personal Tax Returns of
That City.
New York City.—Only ten million
aires are left in New York city, ac
cording to tentative personal assess
ments on the tax books for 1909.
While the number of men in the
millionaire class is decreasing y ea *
after year, the number of women io
increasing steadily and this year con
tains six names.
The ten millionaires are: Andrew
Carnegie, $5,000,000; William K. Van
derbilt $1,000,000; John D. Rockefel
k ler, $2,500,000; Clifford V. Brokaw,
L 51 500 000- Mrs. Russel Sage, $5,000,
I Si? Si «»«.
■ ence G Satterwhite, $1,500,000, Alic-
I g Vanderbilt, $1,000,000; Countess
’ Szechenyi $1,000,000; Ida A. Flagler,
$2 000,000; total, $22,000,000.
BURIEDINSO|fHEHFrSOIL
Union Soldier Made Request on His
Death Bed.
Columbus, Ga.—The dying request
of J. M. Foster of Massachusetts state
that he be buried in the south was
i granted when he was laid to rest in
the Masonic lot of Linwood cemetery
by the members of that fraternity.
He came here six years ago to be
come superintendent of one of the
large cotton mills of Columbus. He
died at the city hospital, where he
had received the tenderest attentions
from the Masons. He was a member
of a Masonic lodge at Waltham, Mass.
Mr Foster was a union veteran and a
member of the Grand Army of the Re
public, but he fell in love with the
south when he came here.
Wholesale
* and
Retail
DEALERS
She Jnmttiim Whim.
IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 15,1909
CATTLE TICK CAMPAIGN
Blocked by Jealousies Between Colleges
and Agricultural Department.
Washington, D. C. —Jealousies be
tween the agricultural colleges, ex
periment stations and scientists other
wise attached on the one hand and
the department of agriculture on tue
other have come to the attention of
the house committee on agriculture
so forcibly during the hearings be
ing held on the agricultural appropri
ation bill that its effect will, in <ll
probability, be felt in no uncertain
way on the finished bill.
At the beginning of the hearing
Secretary Wilson of the department
cf agriculture called the attention of
the committee to the difficulties tne
department was meeting as a result
of the jealousies of outside scientists.
“We have an association that is
known as the Association of Ameri
can Agricultural Colleges and Exper
iment Stations,” explained the secre
tary.
"There are a few of those men who
are perpetually jealous of what we
are doing. To illustrate this very
point, they are always raising com
mittees to come and tell us what they
think we ought to do, and how much
of the work ought to be left to them
alone.”
The executive committee of the
same association referred to by Sec
retary Wilson had its inning. Among
those present was Dr. H. C. While
of Athens, Ga.
The committeemen said in sub
stance that the value of the soil sur
veys of the bureau of soils of the de
partment of agriculture, a work over
which there has been much dispute
in congress, was “grossly exaggerat
ed,” not alone by farmers, but by
officials of the department itself.
Furthermore, Dr. Alonzo D. Melvin,
chief of the bureau of animal indus
try, has informed the committee that
owing to the attitude of local officials
in North Georgia, and the cattle own
ers there, he would probably be com
pelled to abandon the campaign
against the cattle tick in that state,
When questioned concerning the op
position, he said the antagonism arose
out of political reasons.
“Much of the opposition,” explained
Dr. Melvin, “came from poor people,
who had but one or two cows, and did
not want to be bothered by having to
keep them confined. They wanted
them to run on the commons, and
rather than have opposition the au
thorities failed to enforce their own
ordinances.”
Another line of work in which there
is a lack of co-operation between the
state and the federal authorities came
to the attention of the committee
when Representative Watkins of Lou
isiana addressed it in behalf of an
increased appropriation for demon
stration work in raising cotton to re
sist the 'boll weevil. He said that al
though the state appropriated money
for demonstration work, the federal
and state officials did not co-operate.
PIGS BLOOD OF VALUE.
Recommended for Use in the Eearly
Stages of Tuberculosis.
■Chicago, Ill.—Pig’s blood, medically
prepared, is of the highest value in
the cure of incipient tuberculosis, ac
cording to an announcement made
here by Dr. Dariel E. Ricardo. By ex
periments carried on independently,
Dr. Ricardo says he arrived at the
same conclusion as Dr. R. C. Rosen
berger, of Philadelphia that tubeicu
losis first manifests itself in the
blood of the patient.
“I have found pigs’ blood to be of
the highest value in tuberculosis
cases,” declared the physician. “The
reason for that is that pigs’ blood con
tains more hemogelobin than cow
blood. Swine are fed better than cat
tle. and there is a heavy strain on the
cows from being milked. Cattle also
are subject tn tuberculosis, while I
never heard of a case of that disease
among swine.”
SOUTHERN BUYS AT ANNAPOLIS
Passed Sea Examinations Successful
ly and Will Be Commissioned.
Washington, D. C— Henry R. Keller
of Meinhard, Ga., was one of the for
ty-five members of the class graduat
ing from the Naval Academy in Jan
uary, 1907, who has successfully com
pleted the examination at sea after
the two years’ sea cruise required.
M C Shirley of South Carolina
failed because of defective eyesight,
though he stood e’-venth in his class.
Prank R King of Scottsboro, Ala.,was
-.-ond in the class of forty-five.
CANADA AND UNITED STATES AGREE.
Secretary Root and Ambassador
Bryce Sign the Treaty.
Washington, D. C. —After a long pe
riod of hard, patient work, Secretary
of State Root and Ambassador Jas.
Bryce of Great Britain signed a trea
ty for the settlement of international
differences between the United States
and Canada. This is the agreement
which has been known as the water
ways treatv,” but it contemplates a
disposition of every difference be
tween the two countries.
Robinson Hardware
Company.
JAPANESEJRE ANGRY
By Anti-Jap Legislation Threat
ened by California.
GREAT SURPmSEEXPRESSED
That Bills Should Be Pushed Just after
Hearty Welcome in Japan of
U. S. Fleet.
Tokio, Japan.—Following the re
ceipt of special cable dispatches from
San Francisco relating to matters
i now pending before the California |
। legislature, Japanese newspapers at
I this place elaborate upon the strained ,
relations that may arise through the I
I passage of bills and the enactment^ of i
laws forbidding the ownership of land
I and the attendance of public schools ,
by Japanese residents of the state.
A majority of the papers assume the
passage of the bills as a probability,
and protest against them as an injus
tice to the Japanese now living in
California.
The Asahi, the Jlji and the Nichi
Nichi express surprise at what is
termed an evidence of unfriendliness
after the sincere effort on Japan’s
part to prove her friendship toward
the people of the United States.
The situation is seriously embar
rassing to Americans residing in Ja
pan, and especially so as the incident
follows so closely the creation of an
excellent feeling through the visit of
the Atlantic fleet, the American com
mission to the Japanese exposition
and the excursion of business men
from the cities of the Pacific coast.
The foreign office is endeavoring
to convince the protesting newspapers
that the action of the California leg
islature does not represent general
American sentiment, but the publica
tions continue to be extremely pessi
mistic in their tones, and some of the
editorials of the opposition press, be
coming violent, are liable temporarily
to inflame popular opinion and seri
ously hamper the exercise of Ameri
can influence in Japan for many
years.
SOUTH’SIOTEIAS£EOR BRYAN.
Messengers Are Chosen Carry Elec
tion Results to Washington.
Atlanta, Ga.—The presidential elec
tors who were successful in Georgia
at the November election met in the
senate chamber, state capitol. in con
formance with the statute, and bal
loted for a president and vice presi
dent. of the United States, to succeed
Theodore Roosevelt, on March 4th.
William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska
and John Worth Kern of Indiana, re
spectively, received the unanimous
vote of the thirteen electors for pres
ident and vice president. Clayton Rob
son was elected as messenger to car
ry Goergia’s vote to Washington.
Nashville, Tenn.—The electors met
at the capitol. formally canvassed the
vote for president, finding that Bryan
got twelve votes of the state for pres
ident and Kern the same for vice
president. After twenty-three ballots
B. E. Tatum was elected messenger
to carry the announcement of the
vote to Washington.
Richmond. Ya—The Virginia electo
ral college met, cast the vote ot the
state for Bryan and Kern and sent
the following telegram to Mr. Bryan:
“The Virginia electors in electoral
college assembled, with undiminished
confidence in you and the principles
you represent, send their respectful
greetings.”
Raleigh, N. C—The electors of
North Carolina met in the senate
chamber and the twelve electoral
votes were cast for Bryan for presi
dent and Kern for vice president.
Walter Murphy of Salisbury, elector
at-large, was elected as the niesseii
ger.
Montgomery, Ala. — The Alabama
electors met. declared the vote of the
state case for Bryan and Kern, and
chose E. R. Norman of the Birming
ham Ledger staff messenger to take
the vote to -Washington. In an ad
dress Emmett O’Neal, the chairman
of the college, said that the south
still looks to a democratic president,
and a return to the class of good gov
ernment that democracy only can
^Columbia, S. C.—A short and for
mal session of the state board ol
canvassers was held for the purpose
of organizing and casting the vote of
South Carolina for William J. Brvan
and electing a messenger to take tne
returns to Washington in March. 1.
B. Butler was elected messenger to
take the returns to Washington.
Montgomery, Ala. — The electoral
college of Alabama was convened at
the state capitol and the eleven votes
were cast for Bryan and Kern, for
president and vice president, respect
ively.
Little Rock, Ark.—At a meeting of
the presidential electors of this state
th© vote of Arkansas was declared
for Brvan and Kern. Thomas Brooks
of Russellville was named as the mes
senger to convey the vote to Wash
ington.
CHARGED WITH GRAFT
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, Re
plies to President Roosevelt.
Washington, D. C. —By direction of
President Roosevelt, the secret ser
vice shadowed Senator Tillman vt
South Carolina on the theory that he )
possibly was interested in an Oregon
“land grab” and the result of that
investigation is now before the sen
ate.
President Roosevelt made public
the details of an investigation by the
postoffice inspectors and secret serv
iice agents of Senator Tillman's con
nection with an alleged "land grab”
I in Oregon.
j As he presents the evidence to
| Senator Hale, in response to the lat
' tea’s request to the heads of the va
’ rious executive departments for a
। statement of the operations of the
secret service, the president under
takes to show;
“That Mr. Tillman used his influ
ence as a senator in an effort to
force the government to compel a
railroad corporation to relinquish its
control of land grants from che Uni
ted States in order that he and his
family and his secretary, J. B. Knight,
might profit through purchases of the
land; that the senator used his gov
ernment franking privileges in nu
merous instances for the conduct of
private business.”
The language of Senator Tillman in
denouncing the St. Paul and Pacinc
timber syndicate of Portland, Ore.,
on February 19 of last year, is said
to have been responsible for the ref
erence in the president’s reply.
That President Roosevelt dislikes
Tillman is no secret. That Senator
Tillman detests President Roosevelt
is equally well known. Several times
Tillman has bitterly attacked Roose
velt on the floor of the senate.
Declaring with vigor that he had
told no falsehood and broken no law-,
I Senator Tillman, in the senate replied
to the attack of the president in con
nection with the senator's negotia
tions for the purchase of certain wes
tern lands.
Mr. Tillman asserted that the pres
ident’s accusation was due to animus
based upon personal malice and ha
tred and a “desire to get revenge on
Ben Tillman.”
The South Carolinian told in detail
the whole story of his attempt to pur
chaser nine quarter sections of land
in Oregon, and how he cancelled his
order and denounced the promoters
as swindlers when he heard they
were making improper use of his
name. He denied that he had been
guilty even of indiscretion in the deal
ings. and demanded the fullest inves
tigation of every phase of them.
It was not the kind of Tillman
speech the senate has been accustom
ed to hear, and had expected on this
occasion. There was little “pitch
forking” in it. Only once did he ac
cuse the president of falsehood.
Throughout the address the conserva
tive touch of Senator Bacon, who aid
ed in its preparation, was felt.
In spite of this the audience, which
packed the floors and galiaries. was
undoubtedly in sympathy with the
speaker. '
CALL ON NATIONAL BANKS.
United States to Withdraw $25,000,-
000 of Deposits in Banks.
Washington, D. C.—The secretary
of the treasury has announced a call
on the national bank depositaries for
approximately $25,000,000 of govern
ment deposits, $15,000,000 to be paid
on or before January 23, 1909, and
the remainder to be paid on or be
fore February 10, 1909.
This call on national batiks for the
return to the treasury of $25,000,000
is not made necessary by any urgent
need of cash, the balance on hand and
available for all purposes being fully
$29,000,000 with the revenues show
ing slight increases over one year
ago.
/ The secretary’s desire to provide
ample funds for treasury needs at the
beginning of the new administration
tbout eight weeks hence is believed
to be the only purpose in making a
call at this time. The banks are said
to be in condition to spare the cash
without any embarrassment, and it
is believed that most of them are
quite willing to surrender a consid
erable share ot the government hold
ings.
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.
Colonel Zanamitsky, chief of the
Russian secret police of Vladiscostoa,
was sentenced to four years’ imprison
ment for manufacturing evidence at
the treason trials.
George LaFord. a chauffeur, is con
fined in a hospital in Menohinee, Wis..
in a critical condition as a result of
a hip disease contracted while run
ning an automobile. The constant
iar of the machine and the use of the
right foot upon the levers of the ma
chine have developed the disease in
an aggravated form, the right leg be
ing useless.
ORDER OUT OF CHAOS
Conditions Greatly Improved in
Wrecked Italian Provinces.
SEISMIC SHOCKS CONTINUE
But the Survivors Are Accustomed to
Jars—American Relief Ships
Have Arrived.
Messina, Italy.—Balmy weather has
prevailed for the past two or three
days at this place, and it is a great
blessing, making it possible for the
troops and survivors of the eartu
quake to live more or less comtore
ably in the open. Occasionally there
are earth shocks, but the people have
become accustomed to them. Two
severe shocks brought down many
ven walls in Messina.
General Mazza, who is in supreme
command, has adopted stringent meas
ures in order to protect the people
and the people's property. In addition
to establishing a police service around
the city, he has issued orders that
any person found excavating without
a permit will be shot.
General Mazza’s command extends
to both sides of the strails. In an in
terview he said that some semblance
of order was at last being re-estab
lished. The work is now systematiz
ed, and the situation, he believes, is
well in hand.
The official death list has been plac
ed at 164,000.
The United States supply ships,
Yaukton and Culgoa, have arrived and
are distributing the cargoes of provis
ions they carried.
The United States battleships Con
necticut, Kansas, Minnesota and Ver
mont, under Rear Admiral Sperry, the
commander of the Atlantic fleet, have
arrived at Naples.
12,476,226 BALES GINNED.
The Census Bureau Reports on the
Cotton Crop.
Washington. D. C. —The census bu
reau reported 12,470,226 running bales
of cotton ginned from the growth of
1908 to January 1 last, against 9,951,-
505 a year ago, and 27,386 ginneries
operated, against 27,276' a year ago.
The percentage of the whole crop gin
ned to January 1 is 90 per cent for
1909, and 90.4 per cent for 1908.
The report includes 231.821 round
bales, and 88,016 sea island bales for
। 1908. It counts round bales as half
। bales and excludes linters. The cot
ton ginned to January 1, 1907, and
1906, were 11,741,039 bales and 9,725,-
426 bales respectively. The total crop
of 1907 was 11,057,822 bales, of which
92.7 per cent was ginned to January
1. The crops of 1906 and 1905 were
12,983,201 bales and 10,495,105 bales,
respectively. The running bales by
states, ginned to January 1 last and
ginneries respectively, follow:
Bales. Gins.
’ Alabama 1,304,324 3,407
■ Arkansas 1,911,123 2,118
i Florida 66,308 2a5
Georgia ...... .1,933,956 4,453
Kansas. Kentucky
and New Mexico, . 1,672 6
Louisiana 456,188 1,691
Mississippi 1,518,707 3,465
Missouri ;. . . 53,929 78
South Carolina. . . .1,176,743 3,219
i Tennessee 317,343 646
I Texas 3,486,510 4,147
Virginia 12,143 114
There were 179,694 round bales and
73.425 sea island bales for 1908, and
255,566 round bales and 54,275 sea
i island bales for 1907. The distribu
| tion of sea island cotton for 1909 fol-
I lows:
! Florida 32,798
Georgia 41,037
South Carolina 12,181
25 MEN-KILLED IN EXPLOSION
In the Famous Leiter Colliery at Du
quoin, Illinois,
I Duquoin, Illinois. — A most
| disastrous gas explosion, in
i which twenty-five men lost their lives
I occurred in Joseph Leiter's famous
! colliery at Zeigler. A spark from a
! trolley’ pole of an electric motor, com
l ing in contact with a pocket of gas,
j is assigned as the cause of the explo
| sion,
Joseph Leiter personally conducted
: the first relief party that descended
• into the mine to recover the bodies.
| The lone survivor of the explosion
: was an Italian youth, who escaped un-
I harmed.
The bodies taken from the mine
I are badly burned, and identification is
difficult.’ Twenty-six men entered the
mine on the night shift, and the
names of the victims are taken from
the payroll.
The explosion was peculiar. No
noise or shock was heard or felt at
the opening of the shaft —only a puff
of smoke.
The engineer, noticing the smoke,
realized that an an accident had hap
pened and summoned aid. The mine
had recently been on fire and the
flames probably sealed and confined
to workings which were not in the
vicinity of the present explosion.
$1.60 a Via-.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
has decided to recommend
restrictions in the application of the
death sentence.
Efforts are being made by the Penn
sylvania Child Labor association to so
enthuse the residents of the entire
state with the spirit of the fight it
is making for the abolition of the
“child labor evil” to induce Govern
o’ - Stuart to do for Pennsylvania tn
1909 what Governor Odell did for the
rtrt° of New York in 1903.
The German government is about
to farm out for a series of years the
right to mine diamonds along tne
right of way of the railway in the
South African zone of German influ
ence. The diamonds are small and
of good quality.
The national child labor committee
is sending a request to clergymen,
’breps-hout the country to observe
Sunday, January 24, as child labor
day.
An official report gives the value of
the mineral products cf the United
Kingdom for 1907 as $657,000,000, an
increase cf $143,5CC,000 over 1906.
The Smith n Pacific Railroad
company i„ to build an air line from
Denison, Texas, through Topeka,
Kans., to Lincoln, Neb., connecting
with the present main line at Central
City. The new line is expected to cut
out Kansas City as a clearing house
for Nebraska and Kansas grain, and
will give the Harriman system two
routes from the Pacific coast to the
Gulf of Mexico.
That the fight of the doctors of
medicine against Christian Scientists
and all others who profess to heal
without medicine will be renewed
vigorously this year, has become ap
parent with the appearnace at the
Massachusetts state house of the an
nual report of the state board of reg
istration in medicine.
John T. Milliken, the millionaire
brother-in-law of Albert T. Patrick,
now serving a life sentence in Sing
Sing prison. New York, for the slay
:Jng of Millionaire William M. Rice,
has gone to Texas to take what is
reported to be a death-bed confession
of the valet, Charles F. Jones, recant
ing the confession which convicted
Patrick of murder and gained free
dom for the valet.
The religious riot^between Moham
medans and Hindus. India, have tak
en a more serious turn again, requir
ing the active intervention of British
troops at Tltaghur, who fired upon
the Hindus mob.
Twenty-two years after leaving
Brockton. Mass., a poor man. Albert
Moore has returned rich, to find that
his wife had secured a divorce, re
married and is now a widow. He will
her to his new horn? in Califor
nia.
For his part in the dispatching of
the steamer Goldsboro to Honduras
last spring with SBO,OOO worth of
goods said to have been obtained un
der false pretenses. Albert W. Bailey,
former secretary and treasurer of the
defunct Export Shipping company of
New York city was sentenced to
state’s prison for four years.
Washington.
The president has sent to the sen
ate the nomination of Colonel George
H. Terney to be surgeon general, med
ical corps.
Rear Admiral Casper Goodrisn
has been transferred to the retired
list.
N. J. McArthur, former president of
’■he Interstate Cotton college, and an
expert cotton sampler, has written a
letter to Secretary of Agriculture Wil
son. criticising the proposed plan of
a committee, acting under his direc
tion. to establish a new standard of
cotton grading. Mr. McArthur thinks
that the attempt to reduce about
thirty distinct points of cotton classi
ficaion to nine grade designations
would work great injury to the cot
ton grower. He shows that the points
of difference in any two gradse
vrnnid thus be increased, and that all
intermediate half and quarter grades
of the present standard would be vir
tually eliminated. He asserts that the
grower with cotton only the slightest
shade under any given classification
would have it graded at the next low
er grade point.
That Judge Taft has mistaken the
sentiment of the people of the south
end that he could not expect political
preferment there because giving such
preferment is against the principles of
the people of that section, is the
statement made by Representative
James Hay. of Virginia. Mr. Hay de
clares the south the land of the dem
nc’-ats. and he assures the republi
cans that it is as impossible to
change the principles there as it is to
change the spots of the leopard. “The
attitude c’ Mr. Taft toward the peo
of the south is a matter of sur
prise and disappointment to all self
’■esnecting southern men,” said Mr.
Hay.
DUBLIN,
GEORGIA.
