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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-02
RAILROAD DISASTER RECORD.
663 Killed and 1922 Injured in Last
Quarter Year.

Washington, d. C.-The number Of
persons killed and injured in the
United States during the months of
January, February and March, 1903,
as shown in the reports made by the
railroad companies to the interstate
commerce commission in a bulletin,
which was issued, is 1878 (66S kill
ed and 1922 injured).
While this shows an increase of 344
in the total number of casualties,
there is a decrease Of SIS in the total
number killed as compared with the
number reported for the same period
The total collisions and derail-
ments in the quarter now under re-
view was 2,284 (1,042 collisions and
1922 derailments), of which 1853 COLI
sions and 145 derailments affected pas
senger trains. The damage to cars,
engines and roadway by these acct
dents amounted to $1,847,202.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-02
TAFT WANTS CHINA TRADE.
Corps Of Commercial Agents TO Enter
"Open Door"

Washington, D. C.-In view of the
favorable changes recently made in
China's internal government, Presi-
dent Taft has mapped out, cam
paign that is intended tos capture a
lions share of the rich trade of that
country for the United States This
is indicated by the fact that William
O. Dawson, former governor of West
Virginia, will be commissioned July
/ to work in the China field as COM
mercial agent.
1t Is the, intention of the govern
ment to attach a corps of special
commercial agents to the legation in
Pekin. These agents will be under
the immediate direction of Mr.. Daw-
son. The creation of the, corps is
rendered necessary by the activities
Of other foreign nations throughout
China and the scramble for business
there is, certain to become acute be-
fore many months HAYES passed
The% consular service in China is
to be strengthened, and the successor
to Minister Rockhill, who is to be
ambassador to Russia, viii be selected
with care.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-02
CALL FOR $25,OOO,OOO.
The Government Asks National
Banks For Its Deposits.
BALANCES TO Be REDUCED
100000 Wanted on July Is, and
$l6,O0O,OOO on August 15---Will
Nearly Wipe Out Deposits.

Washington, D. CA call on nar
tienal depository banks for a return
to the treasury, government funds ag-
gregating approximately $25,OO0,Ooo,
was made by Secretary of the Treas
ury MacVeagh. OF this amount, 49,
100000 has been called for July, Is,
and $16,000,000 for August Is.
Balances in all active repositories
are uniformly reduced to the lowest
amount which the daily needs OF the
government will permit.
This call will practically wipe out
all Of the deposits Of government
funds in national banks subject to
check by the treasury except about
$37,000,O00, which is held in active
account and to meet checks of the
government disbursing officers. and
S1,O0O,0O0 which will be allowed To
remain in $1,000 lots in such of the
one, thousand smaller national banks
as desire to retain their designation
as national bank repositories.
sssN. "a working balance is more than
S43,000,600, which will be increased by
the call to approximately $68,000,000.
The low state of the government
working balance made its strengthen
ing a necessity and thus augmented,
the treasury department will have
ample funds for at least some months.
1t is expected, however, that before
the coming December an additional
issue of Panama bonds, or the fur
ther issue of treasury receipts of in
rebtedness will be found necessary.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-02
AWAITING SULTAN ROOSEVELT.
Uganda Ruler Had Heard Of American
"Benefactors Of Blacks"

"Benefactors Of Blacks"
Mengo, Uganda, /Protectorate, Brit
ish Africa.-In an interview with
Daudi Chwa Kampala, the boy king OF
Uganda, who is the nominal ruler
Of the country over which the British
government has established a protec-
torate, the young ruler greeted the
correspondent travelling ahead of the
Roosevelt expedition effusively, say
ing:
Il have been looking forward with
the greatest glee to meeting Sultan
Roosevelt and will see that he is re-
ceived with BETTING honors when he
reaches my country | have heard
of the great good he. has done to the
blacks in America, and l shall receive
this man, who was benefactor to
my race, in a strange land, in most
royal manner.
Sultan Roosevelt will find splen-
did hunting in Uganda, and | shall
see that his hunt here is successful. .
Mengo is near the mouth Of the
Kiyira river on Victoria Nyanza
(lake) and about four thousand feet
above sea level, six hundred miles
from Mombasa as the crow flies. The
head waters of the Nile are in Ugan-
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-02
BALLOONESTS COURT DEATH.
st. Louis Aeronauts Tatd Hazardous
Trip Through Clouds


St. Louis, Mo.-John Berry, winner
of the Indianapolis distance cup, and
M. A. Haimann, a balloon manufac-
aurer, who is seeking balloonists
license, assembled in the latter's bag
near Belbach. They nearly met death
at the start They were carried swift
ly to an altitude of eight thousand
feet, then ten thousand feet into
thunder clouds. At times the balloon
lay on level with the basket as the
wicker pitched madly by sudden
jerks
"The trip was the most hazardous
one | ever experienced said Berry
later. After we entered the cloud
we were in a cold, penetrating mist,
which nearly froze us. / believe the
temperature was several degrees be-
low freezing"
Berry and Hermann landed at Rock
Hill, three miles from st. Louis. Hell
mann sprained his ankle getting out
Of the basket.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-02
FLIRTING is ENDORSED.
Harvard Professor Says College Boys
and Girls Are Too Studious.

Boston, Mass - Professor George
Herbert Palmer Of Harvard, 81 years
old, has come forward with the state
ment that a little flirting, properly
conducted, of course, is not only adj
visable. but even imperative for the
average college boy and girl.
Flirting is the surest way toward
the proper knowledge Of social life"
says the professor; 81 think the girls
of Radcliffe and the boys of Harvard
devote too much of their time to
study. They actually bury themselves
In their books, and the result is that
when they get through college they
don't know thing about social life.
They should mingle little frivol-
fly with their studies-in other words,
they should fiirt little"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-02
HOW DEPOSITS WILL Be TA1EN.
Statement is issued by the Secretary
of the Treasury.

OF the treasury.
Washington D. Gin connection
with the call on national banks, for
the return of S25,OO0OOO public funds,
the. secretary of the treasury has no.
titled depository banks that the bonds
held by. the treasury as security for
the deposits called for must be with
drawn in the following order:
First group, state, city and rail
roads; second group, Philippine Rail
way Company; third Philippine loans,
Porto Rican loans, District of Column
bia and territory of Hawaii. The
fourth class includes all government
bonds and the Panamas of 1896 and
1888 Bonds within a group, how
ever, may be interchanged by banks
if desired, but bonds in a lower group
may not be substituted for these in a
higher group. The amount of state,
city and railroad bonds in the treas
ury to secure public deposits is $20,.
900 KIT
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-02
COUNTRY'S GREATEST PROBLEM.
High Prices Due to Lack of Farm Labor,
Says Secretary Wilson.

Washington, Lack OF farm hands.
a problem which the American farmer
now faces, is the chief cause of the
high price of foodstuffs," said Sec
rotary of Agriculture James Wilson.
"All thru the West and Northwest
the same situation exists.
The country is as healthy and pros
porous as it ever was, but thousands
Of acres of valuable and fertile land
are resting idle, because the owners
can not hire labor, although wages
paid farm hands in these states are
the equal of those paid to the labor
ers in our largt Cities"
The Mississippi valley states do
not feel the want of farm labor so
much as the Western states, for the
negro partially solves the problem,
but, nevertheless, the farmers in the
valley states can find work for every
laborer who applies to them"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-02
WOMEN CHARGE PARLIAMENT. !.
Another Riot is Preciptated by Mill
tant Suffragcttes of London.


London, England The thirteenth
vain attempt of the militant suffra-
gettes to obtain access to Premier AS
quith by deputation resulted in excit-
ing scenes in Parliament Square and
the arrest of more than 100 women.
4 The plan of campaign followed the
lines previously employed by the suf
fragettes. The "Woman's Parliament"
assembled in Caxton hall and sent a
deputation headed by Mrs. Parkhurst
to endeavor to see the prime minis
ter, who had previously decided not
to receive the deputation.
Enormous crowds Off onlo0kers as
sembled in the vicinity of parliament
hours before the time set for the raid
upon the house, around which several
thousand police had taken up strateg-
ic positions. The first noteworthy in
cident was the arrest, after a great
deal of trouble, Of a buxom equestri-
an suffragette who tried to penetrate
the police Gordon to take a message
to the premier. -,
Next appeared the deputation under
command of Mrs. Parkhurst, and it
was. received by the crowd with wild
cheers. Escorted by the police, the
deputation arrived at the st. Ste
phen's entrance to parliament, where
it was met by Chief Inspector Scantle-
bury, who handed Mrs. Parkhurst a
letter from the premier regretting his
inability to receive the deputation.
Angrily throwing the letter on the
ground Mrs. Parkhurst exclaimed:
Il standSon my rights as the kings
subject, to enter the house of com
MONS" and she endeayored to force
an entrance.
The police tried to induce the WON
en- to dispense quietly, and then be-
gan to take the members of the dep
utation by the arms to lead them
away. To the surprise of inspectors,
who were massed around the en-
trance, Mrs. Pankhurst slapped In
spector jarvis in the face, knocking
his cap into the mud
A moment later, another member Of
the deputation, Mrs Saul Solomon,
knocked off the inspectors cap a Sec
ond time, while others made attempts
to rush the Gordon of police.
Eventually the entire deputation
was placed under arrest.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-02
LOCKER SYSTEM UPHELD.
Judge sayre Rules Liquors Are Prop
erty and May BE Owned.

Montgomery, Ala. The supreme
court gave much encouragement to
the locker system by holding that a
man may own and keep as much
liquor about his place as he sees fit,
provided it is legally secured. The
opinion is by Justice Sayre and re-
iterates the principle that intoxicat-
ing liquors are property and may be
owned and held as such.
The Bessemer ordinance prohibiting
storage of liquors in places where soft
drinks are sold is declared in VIOLA
ton of the constitution of the state
and nation.
The effect will be to make storage
of liquors legal, and, as the ruling
is constitutional, it is not possible
to see what the legislature can do
to break up locker systems.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-02
TO DESTROY HOUSE FLY.
Crusade Started by Committee Of New
York Merchants Association.

New York City. A campaign
against the common house fly has
been started by a special committee
of the Merchants Association.
A circular was prepared instructing
householders how to minimize the
danger from this pest, but efforts to
have either the board of education
or the board Of health distribute it
failed. Still determined to wage the
war, the committee has begun the
insertion of large display advertise
ments in newspapers, calling upon all
tenants and householders to screen
their premises, keep them clean and
report the names Of provision dealers
who expose them to the disease-breed.
ing fly
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-02
SOUTHERN SENATORS PLEASED.
Cotton Baesins Victory Will B,
Clinched in the House.

Washington, d. C.-While the south
ern senators are pleased with their
victory in having cotton bagging plac-
ed on the free list, they admit that
the fight has not yet been fully won,
and they will organize to make sure
Of the victory. They call attention
to the fact that when the Dingley
biM was before the senate, they were
successful in placing cotton bagging
on the free list, but, when the bill
got into conference, the house CON
ferees were strong enough to force
the senate conferees to recede, with
the result that cotton bagging went
back on the free list.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-02
PETRTFIED BODY FOUND
Curious Discovery Made in a Cave
Near cordele, Georgia.

Near CoTueIe, GEORGIA,
Cordele, Ga.--A perfectly petrified
human form, believed to be the re-
mains Of an Indian, together with nu-
merous skeletons and bones, were
discovered by local exploring party
that ventured far into Rock House"
Cave, eight miles southeast Of this
place. Romantic history has always
attached to the natural underground
cavity, The party that partially in
vaded it's depths, ventured several
hundred fet into mysterious chain Of
passageways. In the limestone walls
a 4 gruesome sight was presented by
the protruding remains of scores Of
human beings. The petrified form
weighed several hundred pounds.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-02
Newsy Paragraphs.

Bombs were exploded in two Of the
Bacelona, Spain, theaters. One of
the playhouses was empty, but the
other was crowded and the audience
was thrown into a panic. One man
was fatally wounded.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-04
ARITHMETIC.

l. Divide Al I'd. I'd. 10 in. by yd. 2
IT, s in.
2. Write a short history of our cal
endar. Write the table OF time
measures in full.
3. 81 of 81 is 2/O OF what number?
4. Principal, $3.50. Date May 10
1891. Rate 10. Endorsements: July
10, 1902, $3.50; june l. 1893, $40; Dec
l2, 1894, $3.50. What was due May Ia
1887
5. To what single discount is dis.
count of 20, l2 and 10 equaly
9. When it is 4 hr. 20 min. Z. NJ. G50
25I west longitude, what is the time l7'
20' east longitude
Z. buy oranges at 1873 cents dozen
If sell them at three for 10 cents, what
is the gain per cent!
s. Which is the better investment
bonds at 80 drawing so or bonds at lis
drawing 6l49o?
y. About circular field, so rods in
diameter, is road OF uniform width
containing six acres. What is the width
OF the roadf
10. A and b can do piece of work to-
gether in ~ days; A and c in 10 days;
B and G in Is days. How long will il
take each TO do the work working alone
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-04
GEOGRAPHY.

1S /. Give the physical TEXTURES Of West
'ern Canada. Nam6-two rivers and two
lakes. Why the recent influx OF immi-
grafton into that rogionl
2. What cargoes are exchanged
between Chicago and Alontrcalg Trace
the water route in detail from one city
10 the other.
3. Name three manufacturing cities Of
Ohio, tell what they manufacture. and
describe their transportation facilities.
4-5. Write Il concise description of the
Anglo Saxon people, their history, and
their accomplishments. (Not over one
hundred words
q. Tell briefly of the climate, vegeta.
ton, animals, government, and indus
tries of Hawaii
I. Compare the Rhine and Amazon
valleys in any three points.
8. What can you say of the size, gov
ernment, and products of Bolivian What
about a recent dispute concerning its
boundary line!
0. Locate three regions below sea
levels three high plateaus. How do you
account for these,
10. What and where are Lopatka,
Kiel Sheffield, Conneaut, Sioux Falls,
Oahu, Tasmania.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-04
UNITED STATES HISTORY, INCLUD-
ING CIVIL GOVERNMENT.

!. Who was Marcus Whitman' Capt,
John Smith! Merimether Lewis! Simon
Kenton?
2. Trace the history Of Florida
briefly
3. Outline a campaign OF the Revolu.
tionary war.
4. Describe one important event in
your answer TO the third question.
.. Tell as fully as you can OF the set.
tlement OF your own county; OF the set.
tlement OF New York.
o. Write short biography OF noted
man from Ohio. $3.50 rEH
!. Name two state officers; give their
terms. duties, salaries, etc.
8. Give briefly the history of one OF
our political parties. 3s'a't
L O.. Define municipality, preamble, in
come tax, tariff, appellate jurisdiction
10. Tell OF Washington's career in
the French and Indian war.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-04
GERMAN ALLIANCE MEETS
President Hexamer Pleads For Right
to Drink Beer.

Cincinnati, OK Oct. 4.--with dele.
gates representing AZ states present
and with an audience that filed Mu.
sic hall, the National German ALI
ance was formally welcomed to Ohio
and to Cincinnati. The main busi-
ness meeting of the body is being
held today.
At the meeting Governor Judson
Harmon. in welcoming the visiting
delegates on behalf of the state, paid
eloquent tribute to the German-Amer-
leans of America. ascribing to them
love Of liberty that is characteristic
of them as people, and which he
said can but make for good in the
country Of their adoption.
In his reply President c. j. Hexam-
er of Philadelphia said that, as de-
voted citizens of this country, the
members of the alliance held them
selves second to none in the cause of
true temperance and all that makes
for the sanctity of the home and de-
cency, but that they are opposed to
the enactment of laws that destroy
their personal liberty that the right
to drink wine and beer is considered
as absolute an attribute of human
liberty as the right to buy other
foods. He closed by saying:
THE strongest plea that can be
put forward for the mildest form OF
prohibition-local option--is that 1t
enables fanatical majority to lord
it over llberal-minded people. Let
us hope that the spirit of liberty and
American fair play will soon cause q
reaction against the move of fanati-
cism that Is now spreading over our
land"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-04
PHYSIOLOGY.

/. Ought you az teacher influence
your patrons to make their homes more
sanitaryl How can this best be done
in rural communities2
2. Enumerate some things n village,
or rural, home maker should observe in
providing a healthful and attractive
1lace TO live? Why make it healthful
Why make it attractive7
3. Give concise description of the
blood. How keep it healthy?
4. How is our house fly dangerous
pestf Give the best method OF driving
him away.
5. What is the chief function of the
spinal oordl
9. What are the effects OF tobacco on
the nervous systemY
I. Give the uses of the skin. How is
its condition responsible for the health
of the bodyY E tq a..
+ s. Name the bones of the thorax. How
improve their Development
0. Describe one of the special senses in
detail. How preserve its healthy
functions?
10. What is physical culturei A
Fatty heart? Good ventilation?
llabitY A, ligan,enty ..E-,
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-04
ORTHOGRAPHy.

!. Give a synonym of "annals;" "ar.
tisan;" healthy" annual 'panacea. -
2. Define the following preiiXes; ante,
circum, a, dd, post, cpl, anti, peri, pro,
eT
3. Mark correctly with the proper dia.
critical marks: spectacle, disease, vii
lain, stationery, superlluous.
4. Write five primitive words and
change them TO derivatve words.
oa5. How are grammar and .orthography
related? Distinguish between etymology
in grammar and etymology in orthog-
raphy, telq yts - ,,7s1.p ,..
G,l0. Spell the following words; bicy-
Gle, acquiesce, .criticise, incursion,
quinsy, alert, cereals, persuasion, lapel,
tennis, forage, velocity, celestial ennis
sary. corps, shrewd abscess, calamus,
caprieious, tenor, shelackcd, suffrage,
snppurate, courageous, gistcn.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-04
LITERATURE.

j. Name an Ohio novelist; an Ohio
poet; an Ohio statesman, and work by
each. Quote from two OF them.
2. Write biography OF Walter Scott
In what lines is he famous! Quote from
his writings
3. Describe one of Tennyson's best
poems. Quote from il.
4. Name three of the leading maya.
zines OF America and the editor of each
What can you tell of the literature OF
the publications?
D. Give a biography of one of the fol.
lowing writers, tell OF his works, and
quote from them: Oliver Goldsmith
Joseph Addison, Edmund Spenser, OF
John Milton.
D. Who are some of the great living
writersy Tell about one of them.
q Write about the career OF the Cary
Sisters. Name their best productions
Quote from one Of them.
8. Who wrote "Blithedale Romance"
"Old Kentucky Home? Silas Marnerpi
"Ohio"2 David Copperleld"g "Concord
Hymn! "A Life Of Washington"g "Man
Without Country?
9-l0. Tell briefly how you would teach
one OF the following poems to an eighth
grade; "Evangeline,' ''vision of Sir
Launial," /" "Snow Bound" or "Thanat top
SIS. Quote from two of these.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-04
Doubtful compIimsnts.

The colonel who. taking his leave at
a garden party, inquiries. "Hcve had
the pleasure Of saying goodby 10 you.
Miss Mary" the hostess sweetly as
suring a distinguished pianist who has
risen abruptly from the instrument
with sarcastic protest lest he should
disturb the conversation that he does
not do so at all; the young man who,
on being told that a possible rival had
taken the lady who is speaking in to
dinner the previous evening. declares
that that's all he's fit for"-these are
decided instances Of this class Of bad
compliment. while for well meant but
lukewarm one poor Newman Noggs
reply to the collectors query respect
ing the Kenwigs' new baby. that It
wasn't very nasty one, may be cited
London Academy.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-04
THEORY AND PRACTICE.

l. What should be the teachers aim
and guide in forming rule for his
schoolY
2. Does the school law say anything
on the subject of teachers wages State
the law upon this subject.
8, What kind of knowledge is acquired
by perceptions BY memoryY
L. Enunerate some wholesome incen-
tives to good work at the seats by the
pupils. a,.,
3. How procure efficient cooperation
Of the parents of your schoolY What
wrong methods may be usedy
q. What essential characteristics
should q good teacher posscssy
Z. Name some OF the great educators
of the world; tell briefly OF one OF these
s. How long should pupil be kept
on the same lesson Why, or why notl
o. Give very good method of teaching
scientific temperance.
10. What is industrial education !
How best arranged for the rural schools 7
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-04
THE MEAT OF IT

II. Daniels and M. Germaine. two
"jaclSies" from the Montana, were
asphyxiated in a New York hotel.
George Killian. brewery agent at
Loogootee, Ind, ended his life be-
cause the county voted dry.
Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation Of Labor, is on
his way home from Europe.
Captain Inman Sea'by, so, comman.
der of the steamer Republic when
she was sunk by the Italian steamer
Florida, has entered the Ann Arhor
(Mich) law school as freshman
President Lewis of the United
Mine Workers of America states that
the organization has grown more rap
idly in the eight months Of his ad-
ministration than 1t did at any time
in the previous FIVE years:
Mrs. Augusta T.. Stetson of New
York, one of the leaders In the Chris
tian Science movement, has had her
license as a healer revoked for al
legged erroneous teachings Of its doc
trines.
Park Policeman A. j. Rogers
climbed tree at Youngstown, o.. to
gather nuts to send to his mother In
Missouri, He fell 80 feet and was
fatally injured. .l,,
Dennis RAIDER, constable of Pick.
away county, probably fatally shot
Joseph Carles at Ashyille during an
alteration over the seizure of wet
goods in Carle's store.