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if knocking paid. how easily
We might win freedom from on- .ares!
The problems that are hard for me
Would soon be trivial affairs;
I'd live in luxury and own
An auto of the highest grade;
Witii all my troubles overthrown.
I'd shout for joy, if knocking paid.
Of all the things that people do
I trow the easiest, by far.
Is finding that the world's askew.
Arm knocking at the things that are.
The 1 azy man who turns his gaze
A thousand times upon the cioek
lAnd dawdles meanly through the days
Is never too inert to knock.
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The native band was playing on
queer, uncouth instruments?both
reed and string?in front of the Casino
in Helwan, near Cairo. Several
wandering showmen were giving exhibitions
with trained monkeys,
snakes and ?'.her animals; and the
piasters were pouring into their upheld
tambourines.
One swarthy showman, quick and
cruel of hand, was putting a tired
mongoos through ais tricks close by
the kiosk in which I was seated,
nursing my rheumatic knee. The little
creature seemed intelligent
enough, but was evidently exhausted.
Presently he balked altogether, and
lay panting on the hot, yellow sand.
The ow-er, eager for more pias"
ters, at once gave him a sharp blow
with a stick, and was about to repeat
, the blow, when a young American
girj of about fourteen, fair, cleareyed,
sprang forward from the circle
' of spectators, leaping over a squirming
cobra that lay in her path, and
caught the man's upraised arm.
Her eyes sparkled with indignaand
cfi.a cnol'o n + first irt hpr I
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mother tongue: "Stop that! Stop it,
you cruel?"
Then she remembered that the
Egyptian fellah probably could not
understand her, and she turned to
the few native words she knew: "La,
la! (No, no!) Moosh gwais! (Not
right!) Matidrasca, matidrasch!
.(Don't strike, don't strike!)"
The showman may or may not have
understood her exact words, but he
could not mistake her determined action
and her indignant blue eyes.
His lips parted, and I thought I detected
a gleam of defiance in his face;
but that quickly yielded to a mechanical
grin, his crafty eyes blinked,
and he nodded obedience to her command.
He was equally ready to beat
the helpless little creature or to refrain
from beating him, according as
his hope of bakshish turned. He
now stepped over the panting mongoos,
stroked him with his lean; sinewy
hand, and gabbled, "Poo' li'l
beast! Poo' li'l beast!" words which
he had probably caught, without any
very clear sense of their meaning,
from pitying tourists. The girl released
her hold on the stick, dived
into her pocket, and drew out. a little
harmonica, several fragments of
doubtful native candy, a scarab, and
several copper and silver coins. As
if completing a bargain, she counted
out four or five pieces of money, and
gave them to the showman.
"There!" she exclaimed. "Take
that! But don't let me see you striking
that poor little thing again! If
I do, I'll have you arrested, and?
and tried before tlie American consul;
he's my uncle." '
This happened in the forenoon.
, The donkey-races were just beginning,
and I hobbled away to watch
them.
In the atternoon, as the glare of
the midday sun sensibly diminished,
I went out for one of my somewhat
infirm promenades. Coming around
the corner of the-Cheriah Mohammed
Ali, just outside the now deserted
Casino garden, I saw several of the
showmen and their trained animals
l and "properties," sitting or lying in
the warm sun, against the white wall
of the Hotel des Bains.
An Arab with a ccbra lay at the
end of the line. I recognized him
by the ox-skin bag in which such as
he carried their reptiles. A few people,
natives or tourists, were walking
along the shady side of the street,
which I found myself instinctively
seeking.
One of these tourists was opposite
the cobra-Arab, when I saw him stop
and look across the street with some
intentness. As I came near him, my
gaze followed his; and I felt a tremor
of uneasiness and fear as I saw the
horrid brown head of the cobra projecting
from the bag, and thrusting
this way and that in restless curiosity.
Another moment and the creature
glided quite out of the bag, and his
brownish-gray body extended its five
feet of length along the dusty sidewalk.
His owner was all untonscious
of passing events^?probably
too drunk, even if he had been awakened,
to recover his reptile.
The man beside me exclaimed, "I
don't like the appearance of that!
What had we better do?" But I had
no plan to offer. The creature's
fangs might have been drawn, and
again they might not have been. In
either case, I did not care to go near
him.
By this time several other people
had noticed us, and stood watching
the now excited and active serpent.
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The one who labors all dav long
Willi brawny arms and ail his might ]
TirxU that so very much is wrong,
And. oh! so little that is right! '
If knocking paid, his wife could wear <
Fine gems upon her soft, white hands, \
And there would be a palace where ,
His poor, unpaintcd cottage stands.
Alas! that what is must be so. 1
That all things are not otherwise! j
This world is but a vale of woe.
Where man must languish till he dies. '
Fiie easy things are not the kind ]
That cause the cares we bear to fade, <
i do not doubt that we should find 1
It hard to knock, if knocking paid.
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As I had seen him performing that 1
morning under the control of his 1
Arab owner, he had appeared slug- J
gish and harmless; but now, feeling :
that he was free, he appeared ^vely 1
and vicious. ;
As the'escaping snake glided swift-' 1
ly down the street I hobbled after, 1
looking for some club or stone with i
which I might attack the dangerous
creature. :
Suddenly I started with new alarm. 1
There was indeed peril, and possible '
death impending over one or more
human beings. Near the end of the 1
wall, leaning against a tree, I saw a 5
lame woman whose crippled figure 1
was familiar to every tourist in Hel- 1
wan; in her arms was a baby. 5
Her husband placed her each morning,
with the wizened little child, at 1
some favorable corner, there to re- s
main through the day, to beg from
passers-by. To-day it was her ill- 5
fortune to be placed under the tree (
directly in the path which the cobra 1
was following. In a few moments 1
he would reach Ler. <
My heart beat rapidly; and, un- *
mindful of my lameness, I impulsive- 1
ly started forward on a run. The na- *
tives about me ha1 too little intelligence
to render effective aid. The *
cobra glided on, and at intervals
lifted his head into the air, expanding
his hood, and turning his flat, ?
evil head to one side and .he other, {
as if daring any one to bar his way. <
I suddenly became aware that 5
somebody was moving across the i
street straight toward the reptile.
Then I recognized the young Ameri- ?
can girl whom I had seen in the fore- 1
noon. I stopped in astonishment. I 1
saw the girl wave one hand warn- i
inglv toward her mother?who stood 1
spellbound on the sidewalk?and 1
then hurry on toward the serpent, i
Could she be mad? Or was she
ignorant of the reptile's presence
and path ? No, her gaze was directed
straight before her; and now I (
saw that she held some object in her
hand. The next moment she raised
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the soft music of the Harmonica.
At once I comprehended the meaning
of the girl's conduct. She had
read about the power of music over
serpents, and had seen Arab showmen
exercise its influence. She was
now bent, in her self-reliant, daring
way, and in her pity for the helpless,
crippled woman, upon trying to divert
the excited, threatening reptile
from his path.
I could not repress a cry of alarm
as I saw what she was attempting;
but I was too far away to interfere.
I could only look on, holding my
breath in anxiety. I saw her go up
to within twenty feet of the cobra's
path, then drop to one knee, and
there remain, playing and waiting,
as steadily as if she had done the
thing a hundred times before.
The cobra raised his head and
stopped; he spread his hood wide.
He swayed his head back and forth
two or three times; then he moved
slowly up out of the depression or
gutter in which he had been gliding,
and advanced toward the girl.
I knew that professional snakecharmers
often draw these deadly
creatures from some lurking-place in
a house, but they always have a
saucer of milk ready, interposed between
themselves and the serpent;
and the creature, in its fondness for
milk, is led to eat. and then is cap- *
tured or killed. J
But there was no object here interposed
between the reptile and the
girl. What would happen when he
reached her, gliding so slowly now, J
and yet with nervously darting head
and flickering, forked tongue, I dared '
not think.
I did not believe that her strength ,
would quite hold her up in her im- J
pulsive purpose; therefore I was not
surprised, although I was horror- j
stricken, when I saw her shrink back t
as the fierce creature drew near. ,
Certainly she trembled, she tottered;
and the cobra was not five feet away
from her!
At that moment I heard a faint
scream from the terrified mother,
who seemed?like so many people in 1
Helwan?to be an invalid, as she 1
dropped in a heap on the sidewalk; !
and I groaned in helpless sympathy. '
Then came a new and unexpected
episode in the drama. The Egyptian !
showman who had the mongoos was 1
C zing at the extreme end of the
white wall; and the mongoos?being
new fully rested?was walking sedately
back and forth at the end of
liis tether, with that appearance of j'
calm self-possession and conscious ;
lower which these strange animals
show.
The mongoos is not a native of
Egypt, but of India. You see a few
Df them, however, in the possession
Df the fellaheen. It is possible that
:his one had never eeen a cobra, possible
also that the cobra had never
seen a mongers; but between the
:wo species is fixed a mortal an:ipathv.
And the superiority is in
iavor of the mongoos, which does
not move, ordinarily, with much
speed, but on occasion, like the rattlesnake,
can spring with astonishing
rapidity.
The mongoos was pacing slowly
back and forth, :t the full length of
his tether, hie long, tapering tail,
like that of a kangaroo, drooped and
trailing in the dust. Suddenly the
tail stiffened and the small, ferret1
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my. His strong hind legs gathered
themselves, and with no apparent
pause, he sprang straight at the oscillating,
hooded head some eight feet
away.
His powerful leap parted the cord
which held him to his master's hand,
but he overturned himself in his effort
and sprawled in the dust. Before
I couid exactly discover how it
was done the confused furry heap ... i
again gathered itse'f, and I saw the
qow elongated form of the mongoos
launched again at his hated enemy,
just as the young girl wavered, her
band with the harmonica dropping at
her side, and she fell, unconscious,
upon her side in the dusty street.
With unerring aim the mongoos
struck the cobra in the neck, his
;eeth closing on the scaly, oscillating
3ody like a vise.
Instantly there was a fierce struggle.
All that I could distinguish was
i confused writhing and twisting;
:hen the dust of the dry roadway enveloped
and obscured the combatants
md the prostrate form of the girl.
The fierce, invisible struggle could
aot have continued more than a few
seconds.
As soon as possible I raised the insensible
girl from the ground, and
carried her out of the dust and confusion
to the sidewalk. A dash of
water from the brass cup of a watercarrier
revived mother and daughter;
ind the mother caught the girl in
ipr arms. Then I was aware that
;he fierce struggle had ceased,
There lay the motionless body of
:he cobra, hideous even in death.
\Tear the body the brave mongoos
cvas pacing back and forth, like a
sentinel on guard. He glanced now
md then with a critical eye at his
lead foe, and appeared as self-possessed
and dignified as if nothing of
mportance had occurred.
As soon as the sleeping, drinkstupified
owner of the mongoos could
)e shaken into intelligence the galant
little creature passed, by sale,
nto my ;ossession; and he later
:ound a home in the garden of the
American consul.?Youth's Compan*
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THE RISING "SCHOOL.'*
3ur Young Men to Be Looked to to
Make a Fair Tomorrow.
Of course, whatever may be es;ablished
with reference to the intelectual
product of the old schools of
!ormer days, a door will still be
fnr" thnse who mourn the de
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iline of morals and the disappearmce
of "old-fashioned honesty" from
:he land, rust now we are right in
he midst cf lamentations of this sort.
Those who incline to optimism have
aewspapers and frenzied magazines
;hrust before their eyes to be concerted
by reports of investigations
nto various forms of "graft." We
ire told that men occupying posi;ions
of trust and honor have been
,'ound wanting in the virtues which
ire the very root of manliness and
ighteousness. All these things are
:rue, alas! But are they the prolucts
of the modern school? Look
it the men at whom an indignant
public is pointing the finger of scorn.
Their hair is white, their eyes have
,ost the brightness of youth, their
?tep is tottering; they were trained
n the "thorough" schools of. the
past, where the schoolmaster's word
vas law, where "lickin' and larnin' "
vent hand in hand; where the three
Rs were the supreme anxiety. The
nvestigators of these men who
arought disgrace upon this country
?they are the products of the modern
school. Philadelphia was re"
* -/.llUnal clavorV hV the
leemea irum ijunu^ui ? _
poung men of the city. Almost
everywhere the warfare upon "graft"
aas had its beginning in the ranks of
poung men, most of them graduated
from college within the last ten or
:welve years. These young men had
ideals and could not stand idly by
while monstrous evils wer# threatening
to corrode the very foundations
Df democratic institutions. These
poung men founded good government
clubs, not minding the scoffs
3f their cynical seniors. They organized
vigilance committees to bring
lo task the betrayers of public trusts,
whom a diffident generation had lifted
into power.?The Forum.
Money in Tea Rooms.
<*e of the very first things that
m-esent themselves as a means c' re
smiting a wrecked fortune is opening
a. tea room. Fortunes do not always
follow this venture, but a nice, comfortable
income can be derived from
such an establishment if conducted
by experienced hands and judiciou?
management.?Madame.
New York consumes close to 3,000,000
tons of ice annually, of
tvhich the ".upply of the manufactured
; :oduct amounts to 700,000 tons.
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An Appeal for Valparaiso.
President A. C. Kaufman of tho
South Carolina branch, American National
Red Cross, hus issued an appeal
through the leading papers in
the state, for contributions for relief
of the Valparaiso sufferers.
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Miller Retains Position.
Thomas Miller will remain at the
head of the stale colored college at
Orangeburg. This was decided at a
meeting of the board of trustees a
few days ago when that body unanmously
requested Miller to withdraw
his resignation, which was tendered
some time ago. Miller resigned on account
of alleged immorality among
s:uaents -and teachers.
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Merchants Enlarge Organization.
As a result of the visit of G. B.
Downs of Atlanta of the Business
Men's Mutual Protective Association,
the Charleston Retail Protective Association
has been merged into the
- l.u'gei organization with consequent
be?.elits to the merchants.
The merchants will get the benefit
of the protection from outside of
Charleston as well as within the city.
The local association has a large and
flourishing membership. J
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Husband Slays Wife's Insulter.
After an all-night chase, W. L. Marshall
of Florence shot and killed Lew- 1
U Gray, a negro, for improper pro- !
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PC ?"&!? tO IIIS Wlie. 1 lie ucgiu ??tin.
t) Marshall's house during his ab- J
sence. On being informed of the affair
Marshall armed himself and at
once started in pursuit of the negro.
While lie was resting at a store at
E fling nam, Florence county, the negro
walked in. He was recognized
a ad shot to death. The negro was a*
toweling barber.
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Baptists Denounce Lynchings.
The Spartanburg Baptist Association
at its annual meeting at Camp>
bello, passed strong resolutions condemning
lynching and all those who
engage in mob work. The articles
l-.icommend that all members of Baptist
churches ^vho are known to have
engaged in lawlessness of the kind be
withdrawn from affiliation with the
church.
Several lynchings hav^ occurred in
Ihe state recently and the religious
workers fee! that some action of the
condemnation should be taken,- indicating
the abhorrence of those who
are engaged in battling for the right.
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Sheriff to Be Prosecuted.
.Acting upon testimony adduced at
'Ua ?T.'e, innnfljf intn the death
Ll'.U U'lUIICl >3 1U\(UVW>.
of Will Spain, tbe negro, who was
lynched at St. George, Governor Heyv.aid
has ordered the indictment and
prosecution of Sheriff Liraehouse of
Dorchester county. It is charged that
the official surrendered the negro in
the hands of a mob without proper
authority or effort to give him proper
protection. The sheriff admits that
he surrendered the negro to the mob
i?:r the purpose of "investigation."
The lav.* provides that in such cases,
upon conviction, the said official shall
be ineligible to hold any office of
trust or profit within this state.
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Old F&ud Causes Killing.
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Kenry Monts, a farmer, living near
Leesvilie, was shot and killed by J.
Godfrey Taylor, his neighbor. Both
nen v^ere about 40 years old an-1
hxve families.
The killing resulted from an old
quarrel over the boundary line between
their lands. About one year
ago Monts shot at Taylor. Six months
ago Monts' house was burned. Taylor
v.as charged with the crime, but was
a< quitted.
Taylor went at once to the home
of the county supervispr and surrendered.
Both men were among the mo rt
..ti-oHaiiip nf the community.
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Candidate's Face Slapped.
Considerable excitement was caused
at the state campaign meeting a*.
Greenville when A. C. Jones, prohibition
candidate for governor, slapped
the face of Joel E. Brunson, who is
running on practically the same platform.
? Brunson, who is a one-armed man,
offered no defense to Jones' attack.
As a candlelite for attorney general
v-as speaking, some one shouted out
"stop that fight over there." The
crowd immediately surged to the
storm centre and for a few moments
there was considerable excitement.
Eye-witnesses say that but for police
Rmnfton's fi'iends Would
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have handled Jones roughly. Jones
was arrested and later bailed in the
sum of $5.
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The Crop Outlook.
The cotton crop in South Carolina
made fairly good progress in growth
1 ho past week. While in parts the
wheather has been favorable, the
plant is not fruiting very well. In
sjme sections of the state there has
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biooms have been killed by heavy
rain? in portions of the state.
Sunshine for the week has been
rivch below normal, there having been
bu" one clear day in the interior, while
c u the coast from two to six days
were clear.
The temperature -veraged slightly
above normal and was remarkably
erp able, with unusually small differences
in the daily temperatures from
the mountains to the coast. The highest
maximum temperature was 97 degiees
at Blackville. There was very
l'tlle variation in the night temperature?:
throughout the week, the minimum
bcirg 65 degrees at Greenville.
The precipitation was copious over
the state, but. was much below normal
in a few localities, most of which
were in the eastern counties.
Jack Frost Appears In Kansas.
A light frost was reported from
Reading, Kans., Monday, breaking the
record of the Ikst ten years for early
frost.
EPIDEMIC THREATENED
in Earthquake-Wrecked City of Valparaiso?Heroic
Efforts Made to
Collect Dead Bodies.
Advices from Chile state that some
of the business housese were opened
Thursday for the first time since
the earthquake of August 16. Telephone
and telegraph communication
witli CanHaern Viae heen rp-pstahllshefl.
but the lines are used almost exclu/
sively by the government officials.
The city is still under martial law.
Traffic ceases at 6 o'clock in the even-'
ing and everybody is compelled to
take some part in the work of restoring
noraial conditions. As a first installment,
the government has appropriated
$4,000,000 for the relief of
the destitute. The customs house was
re-opened Thursday and traffic by waj
ter and by rail has been resumed. The
! postal service also is in operation.
I One of the greatest difficulties encountered
by the authorities is the inter?
! flient of the bodies recovered from the
ruins, as all the cemeteries were destroyed.
At the various temporary
morgues, heaps of coffins have accumulated,
awaiting the designation of
their place of burial. The work of
recovering the bodies is being pushed
to the utmost in order to avoid an
epidemic, in fear of which many families
are leaving the city. Through the
whole length of Brazil avenue and all
over Victoria square large sheds have
been constructed to shelter the homeless
from the severe rains.
Survivors of the earthquake say that
during the shocks it was impossible
to stand erect without support.
A movement is on foot to organize
a Company to facilitate the raising of
the money necessary to reconstruct .
the city. It is proposed to advance the
suras needed without interest for the
first six months.
The plan is to construct the new
buildings of light materials and to
lay out the streets so they will have
a uniform width of twenty meters.
The provinces of the north and south
which have not suffered from the
earthquake are sending, supplies of
food and money to the stricken cities
and towns.
The department of public works at
Santiago has appropriated $100,000 for
the construction of sheds to shelter
the refugees from Valparaiso and elsewhere,
who continue to arrive at the
Chilean capital in large numbers.
Valparaiso still is without street
lights, but order is maintained, owing
to the severity of the authorities, who
shoot all persons caught committing
robberies.
Among the buildings which fell at
the timfl of the earthnuake are the
palace of justice and the maritime
prefecture.
The board of directors of the Merchants'
Exchange at New York Wednesday
ordered a letter sent to the
members of the association aiid other
citizens'of New York asking subscriptions
for the relief of the earthquake
sufferers in Chile.
San Francisco made the first American
contribution for the relief of the
Valparaiso earthquake sufferers. A dis patch
received by the state department
In Washington from Americai:
Minister Hix at Santiago announced
that a donation of $10,000 had been
received from San Francisco.
RAILROAD ENTERS PROTEST.
Line Seeks to Evade Provisions of the
Mississippi Constitution.
A bill of complaint was filed in the
federal court at Jackson, Miss., Thursday
to restrain the railroad commission
from enforcing an order requiring
the main line of the New Orleans
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Columbia, Miss.
The Mississippi constitution provides
that no railroad shall be built
within five miles of a county seat
without building into it, unless prevented
by natural obstructions.
increase for Mill Operatives.
An increase of five per cent wages
which goes into effect at once was
granted Thursday to 1,000 employees
of the cotton mills of the Boston Manufacturing
company at Waltham, Mass.
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COMER IS NAMED
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For Next Governor of Alabama
in State Primary.
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FREIGHT RATES AN ISSUE
Other Officers Selected, Besides Nam- '
ing Two Alternate Candidates for
United States Senators to Suc>
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The democrats of Alabama Monday
elected state officers by a primary
and also-voted for two candidates ton ' ,
United States senator.
Owing to the great age of the present
senators from Alabama, who had
no opposition to re-election, two candidates
for alternates were voted for.
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These alternates will be appointed
by the governor or elected by the
legislature in case of the death or
disability of the present incumbents.
' For governor, Hon. B. B. Comer of
Birmingham wras nominated over Dr.
1^. M. Cunningham of Ensley by a
majority estimated at from 5,000 to
8,000. , . - W
For lieutenant governor, H. B. Gray
of Birmingham and D. J. Meadbr of
Myrtlewood are in the lead, the returns
at hand being insufficient to
name the winner.
For United States senator John T.
Morgan and Edmund W. Pettus had
no opposition. For alternate United v
States senator, Joseph W. Johnston, - .'
John H. Bankhead and John A. Knox |
are in the lead. ' Unofficial returns v-::
from 27 counties indicate that former - '
Governor Joseph F. Johnston and. Con- v
gressman J. H. Bankhead have been. , j
nominated.
' O. W. Underwood of the ninth con- V
gressional district was renominated * M
and W. B. Craig of Selma was nom- -<A
r vinated
to succeed Sydney Bowie . . 31
as congressman for the fourth .district.
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The issue in the governorship con- ^ y
test was freight rates. Comer making//
his race on a platform which de- J
manded that the railroads grant to
Alabama shippers the same rates as r$!
are enforced by the Georgia railroad v J?
commission in that state.
Every return indicates that Judge
Weakley has been nominated for chief ':
justice of the supreme court, which 'vM
is a surprise to even his most intimate
friends. The race for auditor
ia> rinse.
There are seven candidates for .as*
sociate railroad commissioners, two ''
to be elected, and it is impossible
to pick the winners. -.
There are two associate justice*
of the supreme court to be elected,
and five candidates with no indica- :ll|
tion of the leaders.
The candidates are: A. Bilbo, T. W. '
Coleman, J. R. Dowdell, T. C. Mo- -..'I
Clelland and W. L. Parks.
GEORGIA'S TREMENDOUS GAIN. J|
Total of Tax Returns for the Year %
1906 is $624,465,472.
The gigantic total of Georgia's tax >
returns for 1906 is $624,465,472! It. ':M
is an increase of more than $46,500,000
over the total returns for 1905.
Of this increase $40,423,050 is shown
on the county digests.
Then there was an increase of *6,192;140
in the corporations return*
made to the comptrolKr general, making
the grand total of increase $46,625,190.
This increase means an additional
income of something like $230,000 to
the state on a 5-mllls oasis, dui ine ^
state tax rate, it is thought, will be
considerably below that maximum figure.
The total tax returns on the
county digests this year are $535,253,338,
and the total corporation returns
$89,212,134.
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Adopts Simplified Spelling.
The simplified spelling system will
be introduced alternatively in the
higher grammar grades of the public
schools in Washington. D. C.< -The
children will be given their choice , \ \
of the old or new.
CONDEMNED WOMAN RESPITED. .
Governor Folks Ajlows Appeal in Case
? of Mrs. Myers.
Governor Folk, at Jeffersoh City,
Mo., Monday granted a reprieve till '
October 2 to Mrs. Agnes Myers, now
in jail at Liberty awaiting execution
for the murder of her husband.
Governor Folk granted the respite
so that the woman's attorneys might
have time in which to perfect an appeal
to the United States supreme
court. ' " i
A respite was also granted to Frank
Hottman to October, which is the '
same day for the execution of Mrs.
Myers.
CHARGES AGAINST OIL OCTOPU8.
Grand Juries Return Ten Indictments
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Containing 6,428 Counts.
The first and second federal grand
juries at Chicago, Monday, returned
ten indictments against the Standard
Oil Company before Judge Bethea, in
the Unite%d States circuit court. The
indictments, which contain 6,428 *'
counts, are all in connection with
the granting of rebates.
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