Newspaper Page Text
VOL. XIV. NO. 16.
COTTON GRADES FIXED
By the Experts Appointed by
the Agriculture Department.
fiOVERIM]jmVISION
Experts Recommend That the Standard
of the Different Grades as Adopted
By Them Be Made Official.
Washington, D. C. —Recommend-
ing that the standard of the different
grades of cotton as fixed by them be
adopted as the official classification
of the government, the committee of
expert cotton classifiers designated by
the secretary of agriculture to assist
him in establishing a standard, have
made their report to the latter. The
committee has made up types repre
sentative of the nine dfferent grades,
to be designated middling fair, strict
good middling, good middling, strict
middling, middling, strict low mid
dling, strict good ordinary and good
ordinary to be the official standard.
The recommendation is made that
in view of the confusion that might
arise in case the standards were pro
mulgated at once, that they should
not go into effect until September 1,
'1910; it is also recommended that ef
forts should be made to secure the co
operation of foreign exchanges in con
nection with the standards. The fur
ther recommendation is made that
congress enact legislation penalizing
any one tampering with the standards
which are to be kept locked up at
the department of agriculture. Secre
tary Wilson still has the report of the
committee under advisement.
The belief was expressed that as
the result of an examination of the
standards of this and foreign coun
tries the least confusion would arise
to the cotton business by adopting a
classification of cotton, that was ac
ceptable to all foreign, consumers, but
owing to the action of congress the
committee found it necessary to con
fine Itself to stated names in use in
this country. The standards finally
recommended are those in use in prac
tically every day’s business through
out the greater part of the cotton
belt, and are the standards accepted
in commercial practice between this
country and Europe. The characteris
tics recognized in the estimates of
the grades are those generally used
in the trade at the present time.
It was the expressed wish of the
committee that the government should
at all times maintain the strictest su
pervision of the preparation of the
standards, and that the standards
prepared should be safeguarded in ev
ery way by legislation to prevent their
being handled or tampered with. It
was strongly urged that steps imme
diately be taken to secure the con
currence of foreign exchanges in
these standards, and owing to the
fact that on the exchanges in Ameri
ca transactions are being made in
contracts fully a year ahead, it was
believed that in order to avoid con
fusion the standards certified should
not go into use in the trade prior
to the time indicated. It was pointed
out that it would be unfair to have
the standards used as a basis of sales
in the middle of the cotton season,
and that they could not be used for
the coming season without great in
justice and confusion.
MOSQUITO CAUSED FAILURE
Insect Blocked French Panama Canal
Project.
New York City.—ln an address be
fore the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Dr. George Adami, of Mc-
Gill University, said that it was the
mosquito and not the graft that caus
ed the French to fail in their project
to build the Panama canal. This ma
laria-breeding pest, he continued, was
indirectly responsible for the decay of
Greece and the fall of Rome. Aftev
paying a high tribute to American
medical science for the work in Cuba
and in Panama, he said:
“Half the population of the world
.die from malaria, in most cases spread
by the mosquito. Out of six millions
who died in India, five millions died
from malaria. Pathological research
has led to practical means of preven
tion, and the death rate has greatly
decreased.”
VILLIAGE DEEP IN GROUND.
One in Calabria Buried 250 Feet Deep
by Earthquake.
Rome, Italy.—Such distressing re
ports have been received here con
cerning the suffering in the moun
tain villages of Calabria, which have
been inadequately reached by the
work of the large relief committees,
that Ambassador Griscom has decid
ed to send a relief party there.
Prince Scalena, who has just re
turned from Calabria, brings reports
of some telluric phenomena, which
seem almost increditable. One of the
villages, he says, was carried two
hundred and fifty feet underground
by the opening up of the earth and
the subsequent landslide.
NOTICE I
J ni.r—- in
I WILL BE IN IRWINTON EVERY TUESDAY FOR THE PURPOSE
OF DOING DENTAL WORK.
THOSE DESIRING WORK PLEASE REMEMBER THE DATE AND
MEET ME PROMPTLY.
R. I. BUTLER, Dentist.
f ARE YOU A SUBSCRIBER?
3nmntim Sulkittu
IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12,1909.
TORNADO SWEEPS THE SOUTH.
Property Throughout Various State*
Will Be Very Heavy.
Louisville, Ky.—Death for probably
a score of persons, losses of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in prop
erty and the crippling of many tele
graph wires resulted from a series of
small tornadoes, which swept the
south central states, from the Ten
nessee line to the Texas Pan Handle.
The storms were accompantod, in
most cases, by hail, darkness, terrific
light flashes and sheets of rain.
Two women and a child were kill
ed at Stuttgart, Ark., and at Sulphur
Springs, Texas, Mrs. C. Caldwell lost
her life. From Rolling Fork, Miss.,
word camo that four had been kill
ed. Booth, Miss., reported to Bir
minham that six had met death, at
that place. In other towns, such as
Ennis and Waxahachie, Texas and
Boscoe, La., many dwellings' are said
to have ben demolished by the wind.
Arkansas and upper Louisiana rice
fields were injured to the extent of
many thousands of dollars, while the
larger cities experienced rains and
darkness and lightning bolts that
made large buildings quiver. At
Chattanooga there was a terrific
storm of hail. Reports from Birming
ham state that seven persons were
killed by a tornado at Cullman, Ala.
Birmingham, Ala. —Mayor George
H. Brier of Culman, Ala., wires that
seven people are known to have been
killed in that county by the cyclone
which passed over this section of the
state, but that wire communication
is impossible with the stricken lo
cality.
The property loss in the territory
north of Birmingham appears to have
been very large. Numerous trees
were blown down on Red mountain,
within a mile of the corporate limits
of Birmingham. Telephone commun
ication to the north is impossible.
Dallas, Texas. —Property valued at
many thousands of dollars was de
stroyed and several persons were in-_
jured during a storm of wind and
rain, in some instances attaining the
proportions of a tornado, which swept
throtfgh northern Texas and portions
of Oklahoma.
In northern Texas telephone wires
and telegraph wires are out of com
mission.
At Muskogee, Okla., the power
plant of the lighting company was
crippled a half of a day, because the
wind tore away two smokestacks.
Four houses. were damaged at Ter
rell.
In northern' Texas the most severe
damage was at Sulphur Springs,
where a score of houses were badly
damaged.
Hanceville, Ala. —The third destruc
tive cyclone to pass over this com
munity in the past score of years
came and left a trail of death. Com
munication of all kinds is interrupt
ed, but news reaches here that the
home of George Stewart, seven miles
east of here, was totally destroyed.
MONEY ORDERS STOLEN.
Relief Agent of Southern Express
Gets Five Thousand Dollars.
Savannah, Ga. —Secret service men
of the Southern Express Company
and the Atlantic Coast Line are
searching for the former relief agent,
Oscar R. Hull of the Savannah divis
ion of the railroad, who, it is charg
ed, stole a book of blank Southern
Express money orders from the com
pany's office at Winokur, Charlton
county, Georgia, cashed. them all in
Savannah and skipped.
The face value of the orders was
$5,000. It is well known that twenty
six of them were cashed at an aver
age of S4O each, a total of something
over $2,640.
It is charged that Hall played no
favorites, “sticking” banks, restau
rants and offices indiscriminately. The
Commercial Bank, Savannah Bank
and Trust Company and others gave
him money. That fondness for wom
en’s society caused Hull’s alleged
downfall is asserted by those who
know him intimately here. Hull is
25 years old, was born at Asworth,
Ga., and has lived at Cartersville. If
he is caught he will be brought back
to Savannah for trial.
FOREST FIRES RAGING.
Section of South Georgia Covered
With Thick Smoke.
Albany, Ga. —The whole face of the
earth in this section is covered witn
a thick pail of smoke, the result of
woods fires which cover a wide area.
Reports coming into Albany by tele
phone, incoming trains and parties
who have driven through the county
in buggies and automobiles, indicate
that fires are burning everywhere.
In many places, turpentine farms
have been invated by the flames
which have fed on undergrowth dried
by the dryest fall and winter this
section has experienced in many
years, and the loss will be exceeding
heavy.
UTENEmOTtS.
General.
Forest fires are raging in southeast
Texas. Heavy losses are being In
flicted on the lumber companies.
A fireman on the battleship Ken
tucky, while jumping from a small
boat to the ship's ladder, fell over
board and was drowned. He was
burled at Gibraltar and the coffin was
escorted by detachments of French
and American marines.
Alfred Picard, who was named min
ister of marine in succession to M.
Thomson last year for the purpose of
reorganizing and carrying out reforms
in the French navy, has presented to
the cabinet of that country an ex
tensive plan of development which,
not counting new ships, involves an
expenditure of $45,000,000.
The despised cockleburr bids fair
to become a product of cultivation.
An experiment of making oil from the
weed in a mill erected for the pur
pose at Vidalia, La., is said to have
proved very successful, and the farm
ers in that, section have gone in for
its gathering on a large scale. The
promoters of the plan say the future
may develop a cockleburr plantation,
in place of cotton.
The strange affiliction of Anna
Kane, a Watertown, Conn., mill girl,
is puzzling physicians. Last week,
while working in the box department
of Hemingway & Bertlett, silk manu
facturers, she suddenly lost her mem
ory. Before she reached home she
had forgotten her own name and
where she was. She now lies in a
state of coma, having brief rational
spells, when she recognizes friends,
some of whom she will call by name.
She takes little nourishment.
Henri Lemoine, the Frenchman
whose claims that he could manufac
ture diamonds, were aired in courts
of Paris last summer, has been sen
tenced to ten years' imprisonment in
default. Lamoine fled just before the
final hearing in the ease against him.
ing secured money from an English
diamond mine owner on false pre
tenses by declaring that he was able
to manufacture diamonds.
Nearly $15,000 was realized from
the musicale and fiesta held in one of
New York’s leading hotels for the
benefit of the victims of the Italian
earthquake. The affair was marked
by the presence of a great many mu
sical and theatrical stars, some of
He was being tried on charges of hav
poured tea at a dollar a cup, or drew
caricatures at ten dollars each. The
honors of the day were divided be
tween Paderewski and Enrico Caruso,
the tenor, who was kept busy for sev
eral hours drawing caricatures subse
quently auctioned off by Geraldine
Farrar, Maxime Elliott, Emma Eames,
Eleanor Robson and other artists from
anywhere between ten and a hun
dred dollars.
The Pacific mail steamer Newport,
used for the first time the new Paci
fic entrance to the Panama canal,
which has been deepened to a depth
of 35 feet. Only a few persons wit
nessed the departure of the boat,
which left the dock and steamed to
the right of Naos island, ploughing
the waters of the canal. As the Naos
breakwater is not completed, the
Newport had to contend with a strong
current, but she kept a straight
course and, gaily decorated with bunt
ing, she passed down the narrow way
which in years to come is destined to
become such a great highway of com
merce.
Washington.
That a serious situation confronts
the American legation at Peking, Chi
na, in that its supply of water may
be exhausted at any time, is made
known in a communication to the
house from secretary of the treasury
in submitting a request from the
state department for an appropriation
of $14,000 for the construtclon of a
well, pump and water tower. Two
shallow wells, having from three to
four feet of water, are all that the
legation has to depend on, and em
phasis Is laid upon the danger of fire
without sufficient water to extinguish
it.
Married women will not be eligible
to examination for postal positions
this spring, because of a ruling that
has been made by the government.
A number of postoffice employes.
Clerks at the stamp windows, time
keepers, etc., and postmasters them
selves at the smaller offices, are wom
en; therefore a number- have been
married women, but hereafter no mar
ried woman can secure postoffice po
sitions. The position of the govern
ment is that unmarried women stand
in more need of these positions than
those with the support of a husband.
In the spring will be held a number
of postal examinations by the civil
service department, and many will be
eligible to women. Hitherto they were
open to all women, but hereafter they
can only be taken by women lacking
the support of a husband. The new
ruling does not affect present em
ployes of the postoffice, but applies
only to applicants.
Representative Bell has introduced
in the house a bill to return to the
state of Georgia the money illegally
collected from cotton taxes during
and just after the civil war. Georgia’s
part of this amohnt, which the su
preme court has held was illegally
collected, amounts to about $11,000,-
000.
The monthly comparative state
ment of the government receipts and
expenditures shows the total reseipts
for January, 1909, to have been $47,-
480,428 and the expenditures $63,024,-
260, which leaves the deficit for the
month $15,543,842 and for the seven
months of the present fiscal year $79,-
814,443- The public debt statement
shows an increase for the month, less
cash in the treasury, $18,778,482.
Go To The
WHITE STAR
Furniture Co.,
For
Furniture and
Ten Cent Goods
for Xmas Trees
and Presents.
M. M. Fmll,
Proprietor.
DnSlin. • tarsia.
R. H. Brown,
TOOMSBORO. GA.
Wheelwright and Blackmith,
And General Repair Shop.
All Work Guaranteed.
The Oldest Inhabitant.
There is a man in New' York who
before he went into vaudeville was
the impressario of a dime museum in
Boston. This was a good many years
ago, but he still tells of an experi
ence that befell him in his search
fry novelties in the way of freaks,
says the New York Times.
“I read the paper the other day of
a man up in Maine who had just cel
ebrated his hundredth birthday, and
was still hale and hearty,” said Mr.
Keith. “I remember his name well.
It was Amos Whiffletree. I journeyed
to his farm and found him in the
early evening sitting on his stoop
smoking a pipe. I introduced myself
and asked if it were true that he
was 100 years old. He replied that
he was. I then made him an offer to
exhibit himself as the oldest man
alive.
“ ‘I guess you made a mistake, ain't
ye?” he said. ‘You must be thinkin’
of my father.’
“‘Your father!’ I gasped. ‘ls you
father alive?’
“ ‘Surest thing you know,’ said
Amos.
“ ‘Where is he?’ I asked.
“ ‘He’s upstair putting grandpa to
bed,’ replied Amos, refilling his pipe.
His Finish.
Five-year-old Burton was not ac
customed to corporal punishment, but
one day, when an unpardonable of
fense had been committed, his moth-,
er took him across her knee, and
with a piece of shingle administered
an old-fashioned spanking. At its
close, with hands clapped to the part
most affected, the youngster wailed,
“Oh, this is the end of me!” —The De
lineator.
NO MEDICINE
But a Change of Food Gave Relief.
Many persons are learning that
drugs are not the thing to rebuild
worn out nerves, but proper food is
required.
There is a certain element in the
cereals, wheat, barley, etc., which is
grown there by nature for food to
brain and nerve tissue. This is the
phosphate of potash, of which Grape-
Nuts food contains a large proportion.
In fhaklng this food all the food
elements in the two cereals, wheat
and barley, are retained. That is why
so many heretofore nervous and run
down people find in Grape-Nuts a
true nerve and brain food.
“I can say that Grape-Nuts food
has done much for me as a nerve re
newer,” writes a Wis. bride.
“A few years ago, before my mar
riage, I was a bookkeeper in a large
firm. I became so nervous toward
the end of each week that it seemed
I must give up my position, which I
could not afford to do.
“Mother purchased some Grape-
Nuts, and we found it not only deli
cious, but I noticed from day to day
that I was Improving until I finally
realized I was not nervous any more.
“I have recommended it to friends
as a brain and nerve food, never hav
ing found its equal. I owe much to
Grape-Nuts, as it saved me from a
nervous collapse, and enabled me to
retain my position." _
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, ‘‘The Road to
Wellvllle,” 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 of human
interest.
RIES & ARMSTRONG,
WATCHES, CLOCKS, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY
AND SILVERWARE.
Reliable Goods only.
Phone 836. 315 Third Street.
MACON, GA.
We Want All of the People
Os Wilkinson County
TO COME TO SEE US.
Ice Water and a Warm Welcome. Ask
the Editor of this Paper About Us.
Birch Hardware Co.
MACON, GEORGIA.
— n—
B. T. ADAMS W. O. KINNEY
B.T.Adams &Co.
Cotton Factors and
Commission Merchants,
MULES, ETC.
552 to 558 Poplar Street,
Macon, Ga.
For Sale!
ONE 3-INCH TREAD OWENSBORO 2 3-4 THIMBLE SKEAM TWO
HORSE WAGON, USED THREE WEEKS, FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN.
TWO ONE-HORSE WAGONS IN GOOD ORDER FOR SALE CHEAP.
TWO BUGGIES, TOP BUGGY, NEW, OPEN BUGGY IN GOOD OR
DER, FOR SALE CHEAP.
ONE NEW STORE HOUSE AND FIVE ROOM DWELLING HOUSE
FOR SALE.
Titles Good to All Property.
I AM MAKING ARRANGEMENTS TO MOVE TO SAVANNAH, AND
MUST SELL.
Apply to J. B. Stevens,
mcintyre, ga.
We Invite You to
Visit us
In Our Banking Rooms in
Masonic Hall Building.
Being centrally located, having recently installed new and
modern office fixtures, and having efficient and accommoda
tin’ office force under direct supervision of an officer of the
Bank, we feel justified in making the assertion that every
consideration consistent with good banking Is accorded our
patrons.
Organized in 1903 with $15,090.00 capital and no resources
we now point with pardonable pride to our capital of
$25 000.00, undivided profits of over $10,000.00 and deposit
aoocunt of $70,000.00. In our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
we pay interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum.
In addition to eur capital, stockholders’ liability and sur
plus, for the further protection of our depositors, we carry
insurance against burglary and daylight hold-ups.
If you are not a customer of this bank you are the loser.
EXCHANGE BANK,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA. _
SI.OO a Year.