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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-12
HON. A. L. HULL NOT
EXPECTED TO LIVE
Secretary of Trustees of Universe
ty of Geirgia Is Reported to be
DYING at Athens

ATHENS. Ga, Nov. 1.-Hon. a. l.
Hull, secretary of the board of trustees
of the University of Georgia, is in
dying condition at his home in this city.
He is not expected to live through the
afternoon.
Mr. Hull had an attack of Iagrippe IN
the summer and has never recovered.
All the members of the family are here,
among them being his brOther-in-law.
Hon. Hoke Smith, of Atlanta.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-12

The six-mile professional motor cycle
In this race the motor displacement
was not to exceed 6O.32 cubic inches.
and the machines were limited to s.
horsepower. The three prizes were $25
first, $15 second, $40 third.
The entries were as follows:
Indian-Raymond Stubbs
Indian-Guil Joyce.
Excelsior-R. E. Walthour
Northumberland Gail
Reading Standard-D. II. Morse.
Stubs won in 5:1S:11. Walthodr
came second in (5:44:44. Gail came
third in 5:50:S7.
OVATION FOR HAYNES NO. l."
An interesting diversion was fur
nished at this moment by the old
Haynes No. !, built in 1898, the first
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-12
FIRST CAR EVER BUILT
IN AMERICA FEATURES
AFTERNOON .SPEEDWA Y

successful auto ever built in America.
1t came chugging down the track to
the grandstand amid shouts Of laugh
ter and sincere applause. The fastest
time the Haynes machine has ever
made was five miles in 26 minutes.
Seated in the car were Elwood- Haynes,
the inventor, and Asa @. Gambler, OF
Atlanta.
With keen humor Mr.. Haynes chal-
lenged Louis Strang in his 200-horse-
power fiat for a 500-mile race. The
Haynes car got off we'll ahead of the
Fiat, and probably would have won,
but was compelled to stop at the end
of the seventy-siXth yard because of
tire trouble.
EXHIBITION BY STRANG.
Strang gave a two-mile exhibition
dash in his bis car, covering the Two
miles in s1:21:5s.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-12

and an operation begun as soon as pos
s!hle. 1t was found that his intestines
had been perforated and there is scant
hope OF his recovery.
CHAUFFEUR is SHOT
The negro chauffeur was also operated
upon and he was found 10 have a dan
serous wound IN the spine.
Mrs Escott waited patiently in her
Third street home all morning for the re-
turn OF her automobile and knew Moth
ing of what had happened until called
upon 10 come across ths river and iden-
tify her machine.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-12

and author of the Hepburn act, was
principal speaker at the dinner of the
Railway Business association. Mr.. Hep
burn spoke Of future railroad legislation
and said:
DETERMINATIONS and rebates through 20
years compelled the legislation of 1906.
We are now told in some quarters that
there is to be other legislation. Probably
some contemplated provisions would be
harmful, others not. What serious hurt
could come TO railroads is their capital
could not be increased until the matter
had been approved by the government
authority?''
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-12
MOORE is SWORN IN
AS MAYOR OF MACON
New Chief Executive and City
Council Begin New Admins
tration of City Affairs

MACON, Ga, Nov. 11.-John T. Moore is now
Mscon's mayor and the new aldermanic board
is at the head Of affairs Last night the oath
of office was administered 10 the new city ia
theirs by Judge w. II. FELTON,, of the superior
court ard for the next two years the city gov
ernment will be in hands.
The board of aldermen now in office Is
as follows:
First ward P. d. Stamps. j. Ross Bowdre and
T. o. Chestney; Second ward, \. l. Drummer
w A. McKenna, Eli Elkan; Third ward, w. =.
Anderson. s NJ. Wright. VIII Gum; Fourth
ward, J. b. -.iley Eden Taylor, Jr., W. w.
Fetner.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-12
Free Deafness Cure

A remarkable lffer by one of the lead
ing ear specialists in this country, who
will send two months medicine free to
prove his ability TO cure Deafness, Head
Noises and CatarFhs Address DR.. G. NJ
Branaman. 1913 Walnut ST., Kansas City,
No. zee
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-12
Roosevelts Motor to
Crawford Home

NAPLES Nov u.-Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt and her daughter Ethel motor
ed today to the village Of San Agnello,
near Sorrento where they visited at the
home OF the late Marion Crawford. Mrs.
Roosevelt said that she would return here
In the spring to meet Colonel Roosevelt.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-12
11.n0n Chickens Burned

HUTCHINSON. Kas. Nov. u.-Eleven
thousand chickens were burned to death
when fire destroyed the plant of the
United States Packing company here ear
ly today Loss $4,000. The headquarters
Uf the kusdmoo are in Chicago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18
A MARROW VIEW.

As specimen of picayune states manship we think an extract from a recent editorial in MT. Brysn's Com noner is entitled to the chromo. He was speaking of Federal judges and their salarieA and said:
 Give him ss.ooo a year and his sum- mer vacations will be spent where he taking . brief respite from the rou- tine of life. seek some quiet and in- expensive resort. Make the judges salary s1o.ooo and he will select 2 new summer resort where he will be thrown into association with those who spend a larger sum upon their summer vacations. Raise the salary to sls.ooo and he VIII make another move and enter ! new clasA. and he is naturally more or less. affected by the opinion of the class with which he associates.
 Here fs the plain insinuation that not only the competency but the hon. esty of Federal judge Is influenced by the salary he gets. In plain words. if competent honest and conscientious judges are needed for the Federal courts they must be paid very limited salaries. Tn short they must be paid So little that one will never be able to take any rest or recreation. 'Mr. Bryan himself" comments The Norfolk Landmark. "who makes this plea for keeping the judges financially down, has become . rich man since his first nomination for the Presidency. He had two or three thousand dollars a year then: now he makes four or five times as much and has accumulated several hundred thousand dollars. How does he it the argument he ap- plies to 'the judges? We should not be harsh enough to judge him accord ing to his own uncharitabie view of the influence of incomes"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18
~we tAe Peopls ee NevaAa.. !.

Chicago Tribune.
 We. the people of the state of Nevada" there are about 4s,ooo of them--ssy they are ready for war with Japan. 'Tt to cafe to swear at . ball from . second story win dow" according to . Spanish prcverb. The people of Nevada, safe in the 4eriie and uninvtting fastnesses, are quite sale In huri- ing defiance at the Japanese and proclaim Ing to the rest of the country that now is the tinzs to curb their arrogance. Nevada has no seabsrne commerce to suffer in the event of war It has no coast towns to be bombarded. If hostile army were fa land on the Pacific coast. t would not invade Nevada. But while we. the people of Nevada, "a welcome war. they would look to the other 100000 Americans to do the fighting, and would ccnfine their activity to the passage of encouraging resolutions. Probably they are no better prepared to put hattalions in the field than they were two years ago. when the Governor asked Presi- dent Roosevelt for troops because there was e miners strike and the State had no mi. litia We, the people of Nevada" are Q little too cheeky. President Jackson once told James Buchanan that he knew a man who made fortune by minding his own business The State of Nevada would De better thought of if 1t were to mind it's own business and not Invite attention to it's in- significant existence. California and the United States can manage their affairs without the advice of the zs.ooo people or Nevada.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18
Lack of Roosevelt.
Mexican Herald.

Mexican Herald.
 Roosevelt has temperament" some times seeming to be a man afhcted with what is termed in Spanish 'malas pulgas, "Sbut his enemies are usually in the wrong. and play directly into the hand of this fortunate man. Don Theodore will rank in American poli- ticaI history with the fiery. and disturb ing President Jackson, for 'Old Hlck- ory" was a cyclone in trousers, and upset the prudent, prim and oonven- tional. and had no more reverence for the arranged and agreed-upon than a hurricane has for a church. No Presi- dent of the United States made more enemies than the sturdy old hero of
 New Orleans; but Times obliterating finger has smudged the pages on which the conservatives of JackRon's time wrote down their bitter denunciation of that 0od-fearing dueIist. So it will be with the contemporary records of anti Rooseveltism. Impartial history will set it down on her tablets that Roose- welt stirred the national conscience nightly. and made great reform pos- sible. Big men have something of the unpleasant brute in them, a driving force denied to pale-browned thinkers of the studies; they drive down op- position. and ride in heavy chariots over the bodies of their foes. Such @ man was Roosevelts hero, Oliver Crom- we'll for Old Noll was undeniably cruel on occasions. But his name lives. as does also that of the ungentle Ehza- beth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18
LONGEVITY AMONG JEWS
Average of Life Far Greater Than T
 RR OfhAR Rnn.n

Average of Life Far Greater Than That
 of Other Races.
 Superficial scrutiny of the vital sta- tisties yields the Jew a prominent po- sition in the sanitary world, if long evity serves as an index of hygienic living. With the average length of life for all Christian people placed at thirtS-six years and. eleven months (1900), the Jew may hope to reach forty eight years and nine months.
 Melville (1886). lnQuiring into the comparative duration of life and causes of death of Jews and Christians in Frankfort, learned that one-forth of the Jewish population was living be- yond seventy-one years, while only one-fourth of their neighbors was liv- ing beyound the age of flfty-nine years and ten months. Abbott claims that they q. G., Jews) are much less fre- quently the subjects of tuberculosis and acute epidemic diseases than any other race of mankind"
 Why should this seeming vital super riority exist? asks the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette. According to Rich ardson, "the causes are simply summed up in the term 'soberness of life.' The Jew drinks less than his even Chris tian,' he takes, as a rule, better food; he marries earlier; he rears the child ren he has brought into the world with greater personal care; he tends the aged more thoH ghtfully; he takes better care of his poor and he takes better care of himself" To this might have been added that through religious customs hygienEc tendencies became an inheritance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18

Now the intimatjon is out that sal- vador and Nicaragua are getting ready to enter into a hair-puIling stunt, but we fail to see that the report should excite any surprise. Scrapping is real ly the normal condition of those so- called Central American republics. To use a paradoxical expression they are never quiet except when they are fighting. A revolution is meat and drink to those people, and when one of the countries can't get up Q war with another 1t will have one of its own, just to keep in practice, we sup pose. If San. and Me. get into a scrap there will not be much harm done. but there is something more on the cards. according to the predictions of travellers and observers who claim to know something of affairs and pros poets down there. They tell us that there is now a prospect of a row which will include all the Central American countries: a sort of family affair which is to include all the members. That will be somewhat interesting. no doubt, but when 1t is all over the chances are that none of them will be badly disngured Perhaps they will be bet ter neIghbors afterwards.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18

morals generally. It Is under such conditions that the would-be refopm- CTS abandon the spiritual forces and means that have always been held to be the basis of social health and pur- ity. and look to physical agencies and iegisiation to work the changes de- sired. Men and women cannot be made honest. virtuous. true. honorable and righteous of life, by statutes and enactments. All human society is founded on what are believed to be divine doctrines and degrees. and when they are abandoned and dependence is placed wholly in human means and measures. social life is reduced to a state of pitiable helpiessness."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18
l MORNING THOUGHT
BY ,. MARVIN NICHOLS.

Marsaen declares that there Is nothing more depressing that to dwell upon
 - the lost oppSo;rstunitiesy ppS;sa ySa. of . forget it. If 1t thrOws a shadow up- on the present or causes melancho oly or despondency. there is nothing In Il gle reason why you should hold II in your memory and there are a thous- and reasons why you sh ould bury Jt SC deeply that 1t can never be resurrect- lively wicked, than to drag the skele- tons af the past-the hideous images the foolish deeds. the unfortunate ex- pertenoes of the past-into todayis pisnty of people who have been fail ures up to the present moment who could do wonders in the future if they would only forget the past if they Sosye SRly fSS SS dosr Ss Sy on a and anew.
 ..n,SSnr whSm have oy 9ur,sd nd1r~ in SouT least one as good as yourself, your pretty whims ought to dwarf into nothingness.
 scovil declares that so mysteriously are we linked with others in the duty with out harming others, nor bear ourselves bravely without benefit ta others.
 The brtlliancy of sudden rises to fame and fortune frequently blinds a careless public to the generations of high breeding and unremltting self preparation which has made the ca- reer a possibility.
 No man has q right to say T hsse earned Q rest"
 It's the battle that DrinKs sack ehe fine edge of hopefulness.
 The man who hauls down his nag is whipped.
 To be young. when old. one must keep the vision of the boy.
 What can be worse than Q thaniEleas cht1d?
 Do your duty-and little more. That's sure passport.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18
Letters To the Editer
RnsorsDnR FROM LowsDns.
John Cannfnwhan Replies To Dr. Crump3on-
 Tyeon, Ala, Feb. 16. 1908.

| -H H7 yohn Cw.na.wham Replies To pr, Crumpfon.
 | Tyson. Ala. Feb. is, 1908. 1 Editor The Advertiser, Ef l In Dr. Crumpton's reply to the 1 Lowndes county correspondent he cor- roborates what was said, namely: That the preachers have gone into politfcs.@> If he would first take the mote out of his own eye, there would be possibly be no disagreement There Is evil and sood in everything; I do not deny the evil of whiskey, but I claim 1t has its virtues. and again force against custom is impracticabie. He asks. What are the preachers danger. etc" It depends on how much of Christ he can absorb and how lit- tie of politics. Preachers ought to be nS shsnssl s. for Sn the easy wsy they .S sae litical Dignttaries.' We must set still and listen to their abuse, and 1t will not do to obetct or criticise. no! no! sinner has to sit I and take it all in@ afraid to ask. Why don't you begin at home. in your own church? First convert your members from the ways If you are successful in that, then get on a broader platform, when you will see visions never seen before" But. my dear doctor. as long as the mem- don't you think 1t best to hold up on the outside world. first pluck the mote out of your own eye"
 The great Abe Lincoln that. you men tioned. was opposed to prohibition. He taught the State was not guardian, but 1t should protect man in his law ful rights. If Internal revenue can re- lieve In war, why is 1t not a friend in peace7 Abolish politics in whiskey and the revenue remains. abolish 1t in the pulpit and we have peace.
 John Cunningham.
 P. S. Doesn't Dr. Crumpton remem- Der that Abraham Lincoln, as young man. sold whisltey for a living in Illi- nois7 See Tarbeils Life of Lincoln.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18

way. but 1t would hardly pass muster in Chicago, where the doctrine of homo rule and of popular control is hone and nors. but no typical chicAGoAn wants the Governor appointing our municipal boards. The Finance Commlssion's charter. of course. draws It's fnspirz- ton pretty largely from Harvard unf- versity and the Back Bay--the two sso- tions of public opinion in the Hub where the conviction is strongest that you can't do anything with the people and must depend for good government upon small governing class. Chicago is working ont her destiny on radically different lines.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18
TavnsDAx. EnBRUART IS. 1sos.
naoRn MoNRY WANTnp.

If our memory Is not ct fault what Is known as ''ths spooner act'' pro- vidsd for aa issus of s1s5,OOO.OOO ot goyermnen& bonds for the purpose oi building the Panama canal We pre- surne the experts in canal building fixed that figure as Q fair estimate of the total cost of tho work. That this sum was almost ridiCulously inade- quats has long since been made clear, and the estimates have gone on in- .creasing until now tkere are those who declare that fivs hundred millions win not more than cover the cost. It is true that all the money appro- pEtated has not been used, but there is 6 proposition up to issue more bonds, not for present needs but for future expenses, as Senator Hopkins explains and in a recent speech he said:
 Unexpected difficulties in way of ex- canal none absolutely sanitary and the enIargtng of the locks have increased the cost of the canal over the prelimi- nary estimates. The work now being done is under the authorization of the 6pooner act. You will remember that act was adopted before a route had been decided on. and provided for the construction of the canal by either the Nicaragua or the Panama route.
 It might be impertinent for a mere Isyman to ask why there should have been. and continue to be, so many ''unsxpeoted dinAcuIties"7 With The Jacksonville Times-Union, "we ask if shs original estimate took no heed of sanitation or difficulties in excavation or for increased cost of the Panama route2 Was not Panama chosen be- cause the cost of e canal there would be cheaper? At least so we were told and so we have been told many times. What are we to expect for the future if ignorance or the hope of deception directed the promises of the past7"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18
NEGROna RARREn.

The New Haven Register seems to be somewhat tangle6 regarding the action of the people of Springfield. H.. on the occasion of the Lincoln birth day celebration. "It is difacult to say" says The Register. whether the action of the citizens of Springfield. H.. in giving a Lincoln banquet to which the price of tickets was raised to s25 or their exclusion of negroes who wished to pay the price and par ticipate. was the more inappropriate. The plain town where Lincoln lived as . plain citizen had no use for sss ban quets in hon0ring his memory, and had the banquet been . becomingly simple one, there would have been no need to bar any of those mon whom the Great Emancipator made free"
 If we understand The Register's po- sition, if the banquet had been a cheap affair the negroes could have joined in and sat at the table with the whites As it was a sort of high-toned feed. at 225 per head, no dark meat was wanted on or around the table. Doubtless there were and are in Springfield some of those whom ''the Great Emancipa- tor made free" who were able to pay the s2B and would willingly have done so but the Republican brethren of Lin- coln's home city drew the line at the descendants of Ham. Just the same. they are always ready to Iambast Southern people for discriminating against the colored race. as they term it. There's e lot of hypocrisy in this world.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18
Chicago vs. Boston Ideas,

Chicago Post,
 The country will be interested both in the fate of the proposed Boston charter and in It's subsequent career if 1t is passed and goes into operation The abolition of party designations on the municipal ballot does not mean thu speedy death of political parties in municipal affairs. Liberal advertis- ing may carry through a Democrat or Republican. But it will of course vastly increase independent voting. To elect ane mayor and three aldermen chosen at large-here, indeed, Is al- most the shortest ticket offered the busy citizen this sioe of, a benevolent desDotism. This may be the Boston
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18
Masnanimous Beers.

Cleveland Plain Dealef.
 patriotic Boers when they consent to confer amicably with the impossible, jingoistic Jameson on the topic of the South African federation Jameson, the fire-eatfng des- perado. gentleman though ife was by birth and breeding. served as the tool of Cnam- .aa- berlain and Rhodes in bringing about the iniquitous and unnecessary Boer war. Nov the Boer leaders, who were finally crushed by the immense power of the British em- pire show themselves true patriots by their willingness to enter into conference with the raider. The object that animates them is distinctly commendable. Having lost actual Independence. they seek to secure virtual and apparent independence py founding e South African Commonwealth similar to the dominion of Canada and the Australian federation. Of the four South African colonies Cape Colony and Natal are distinctly English, notwtthstanding tne fact that many Dutch are rasideAts therein. The Orange colony and the Trnnsvaal are as distinctly Dutch. But the interests or all four are nearly Identical. and could best be served by the contamination of union. Dispatches indicate that such union maze possible by the broadmindedness or the Boers, is not far distant, When the Boers are willing. for the sake of national ad- vance to confer with such man as pr. JameSon the outlook is most encouraging.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18
This b My 4Sth Birthday
Lawrence o. Murray.

Lawrence o. Murray, Comptroller of the Currency. was born in steuben and was educated at Niagara Universi- ty, later studying law at New York University. In 1Se3 he waa admitted to the bar of New York. and soon af- the Assistant Seorotary of the Traas- ury, In 1898 he became Deputy Comp. ero1ler of the Treasury, which position trust officer of the Central Trust Com pany of Illinois. In 1904 he returned to Washington to accept the post of assistant secretary of the Depeftxnene as an executive onleer and his master ful Knowledge of banking and finance resulted in liig appointment to Che otlice of Comptroller oe the Curre9ey. wheA ton a year ago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18
The CIamaE fer aGoEs gsasss.

Whenever business in the Courts becomes particularly muddled and congested, the cry goes up for additional judgeships. It Re- quires no thought. no labor, no searching of hearts, no mending of bad ways to suggest this easy remedy.
 : It is clear, however, to common sense that our troubles in the administration of justice. criminal and civil, are not and never were due to insufkictency of Judg Q and legal machinery. They are caused .,y vices and absurdities in the system, by verb tage, red tape, meaningless technfcalitiea process of litigation.
 Taxpayers and business men should pro- test vigorously against the inpudent and outrageous more Judges' hiffs. They the victims of legal malprActice, should demand the application of sane and ra- tionai principles to Court business, In that direction alone are real remedies to be sought for the individual ard social evils caused by the laws delays Snd the law'k failures.