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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-27

| few years in the mountainous regions
of Montana and adjacent Rocky Noun
tain states. 1t is called spotted
fever"-though by no means to be con-
fused with epidemic cerebro-spinaI
meningitis, which commonly goes by
that name.
The malady is entirely new-un-
heard of, that Is to say, UP to twenty
five years ago. For quite while no
attention was paid to 1t by the health
authorities, save locally, but OF late 1t
has been killing so many people that
the federal government, appealed to
for aid, is doing It's best to find out
the cause of the mischief, and, II pos
sible, to discover remedy. With this
end in view, the public health service
| has sent several of its experts to Bit
ter Root Valley, which has been the
scene of the most serious epidemics OF
! the disease.
| Spotted fever has been known for
many years in Idaho, where 1t pre-
| walls throughout almost the entire val
| ley of the Snake river, including the
| tributaries of the latter stream and
the foothills Of the neighboring noun
tains. 1T occurs also in parts of Ne
vada, Wyoming, Oregon, Utah, and
| Colorado. But, while always serious,
the complaint Is not nearly so fatal in
these regions as in the Bitter Root
Valley of northern Montana, where
four out Of every five persons, attacked
die of it.
The infected district is about fifty
miles long and from four to ten miles
wide, in the foothills of the Bitter
Root mountafns-a range along the
top of which runs the Montana-Idaho
state line. The disease prevails ex-
clusively in spring and early summer,
and it's most striking external mani
festation is an eruption Of small red
| spots, pimply in character, which
covers almost the whole of the body.
Death, when it ensues, usually occurs
between the sixth and the twelfth
| day of the illness.
The first important step toward a
scientific investigation of the matter
was taken by the Montana State
| Board Of Health, which sought advice
from Drs. L. B. Wilson and w. M.
| Chowning, of the University of Mime
sofa. They started in to make a
thorough study of the problem in the
Bitter Root Valley, and it was not long
before, in the course of their investi-
cations, they came across some susp1-
cious-look1ng microbes in the red blood
cells of the patients sick with the dis
| ease. These microbes We're protocol,
somewhat resembling the blood para
sites already known to be the cause of
the so-called Texas fever" in CATTLE
From Strange Disease Battles
Science" in the February Technical
! World Magazine.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-27
The Standard Oil In China.

ne standard Oll IN Cnind.
The two largest and most successful
foreign business concerns in China
are American, says Louis Brownlow in
Success Magazine. They are the
Standard Oil Company and the To-
bacco Trust. The former operates
under its American charter and is
controlled from No. rs Broadway, New
York.
1t was the desire of the oil men to
induce the Chinese poorer classes to
use kerosene. 1t was to this end that
a small lamp was invented which could
be sold at cost for about five or six
cents. A quarter of a million of these
lamps were made in an Ohio city and
bent out to Shanghai The Standard
oil agent gathered into his Office the
representatives of several of the huge
Chinese merchant guilds. They were
shown the lamps, it was explained TO
them how even this small light would
be great luxury in a household
where there had never been any artl-
fetal illuminant; how the luxury
would soon develop into a necessity,
and how the purchaser of lamp must
thereafter forever be a purchaser OF
oil-in fact, a very slave of the lamp.
The Chinese merchants were not slow
to see the advantages to them as the
retail distributors of the Oil, and they
placed their orders for lamps. This is
one of the reasons why the Standard
Oil business in China has prospered so
wonderfully, and it illustrates in itself
the vastness of the Chinese market
hnd its susceptibility to being trained
10 demand goods which it does not
now consume
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-27
Relative Rank in European Titles.

relative Hank IN European Titles,
American girls DESTROYS of MARRYING
titles should be able. to distinguish and
know how to pick out the real goods,
says Hrolf Wisely, writing on The
Heiress Mart in the March Smart
Set.
American girls know less about
titles than geese about arithmetic. 1t
makes no difference that French titles
are of no account since the Republic.
the export heiress will insist on marry
ing one in preference to any other.
Believe me, these geese had rather be
styled Madam Ia Marquise or Madame
la Princesse any day, no matter how
rotten the family antecedents, than try
to annex what in Europe is understood
by great and noble rank, and meta
morphose into a Frau Baroninn or
even Frau Grafnn.
This stupid prediction is founded
on a rather innocent enough miscon-
ception. The American girl is am
bilious to marry as near the throne as
possible. The family dictionary en-
courages her fairy story illusion that
dukes and princes are somehow in the
train of royalty, whereas barons and
counts are out of it. That settles it:
she will go cunning for the princeIy
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-27
Ballinger Made
. False Statements,
Declares Pinchot

Continued from First Page.)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-27

J. T. Virgins and F. CarIin, of Mil
ton, registered at the Merchants last
night
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-27

Strange Disease Battles Science.
One of the most malignant and fatal
diseases known to attack man has
made its appearance within the last
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-27
In the Corridors.

Posted at the Merchants and Es-
Gambia are notices advising the travel
ing public TO avoid New Orleans as
much as possible in the week of April
1914, account of the Shriner's Con-
vention The circular states that all
hotel room is engaged, and the public
should be governed accordingly. The
notices are issued by the Hotel Men IS
Association.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-09

mines and foundries, and great steel
making works at Rheinhausen on the
Rhine and at Magdebourg.
They have coal and iron mines all
over Europe The famous iron-mfning
town of Bilbao, in Spain, is partly
theirs. 1t is from Bilbao that Britain
gets most of her supplies of iron ore
Everything Krupp's do is on gil
gantic scale. At Essen they keep a
hotel solely for the use of the firm S
guests. These are chiefly foreign mill
tary and naval officers. inspecting the
work Krupp's are carrying out for
their respective countries. No bills, Of
course, are presented. This hotel costs
Krupp's clear $125,OOo a year.
Alfred Krupp was succeeded by his
son, the second Frederick Krupp. The
new head of the firm was a peace-lov-
ing scientist with passion for botany
and zoology, and a positive distaste
for cannon making. Rumor has it.
however, that on at least one occasion
he made his presence felt. On one
occasion he bearded Bismarck in his
den and told him fatty that a certain
war must not break out And it did
not.
There are several uncrowned kings
in Europe, and the head of the Krupp
firm is certainly one of them. There
are very few nations that can wage a
war without the assistance of Krupp's
The firm is now managed by board
of twelve directors, the chairman of
which is the second husband of Frau
Krupp, the late Fredericks widow
Frau Krupp, as she is still called, IS
the largest shareholder. The name, by
the way, is pronounced "Kroop."
Frau Krupp and her two daughters
have all married German Barons.
friends of the Kaiser. The Emperor,
indeed is said to have done the match
making, as he naturally wishes to
bind the Krupp interests as firmly to
those of the state as possible.
Round Essen four towns have been
specially built by the Krupp firm for
their workmen. Two or these are gar
den cities, much like those of En- land,
and are reserved for retired and dis
abled employees.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-09
THIS WHOLE SECTION SHOULD 60
ON EASTERN TIME.

The movement in Atlanta to estab-
list eastern time should succeed. 1t
simply means the securing of one
hour more of daylight for working
purposes. AS it is now, working I'M
der the central standard time of the
railroads sixty minutes of sunlight is
lost in the morning by every one,
and the working hours are extended
over into the darkness of the late af-
ternOon. Especially is this true of late
fall and winter months. To remedy
this all necessary would be the adop-
ton of the eastern or as it is fire.
quently called New York" time. the
showing back of the clocks some fine
morning to the extent of sixty min
utes. A day or two later everybody
would have forgotten the incident and
business and domestic affairs would
be the gamer of the period of daylight
thus obtained.
AS a matter of fact this whole sec
ton should work on eastern and not
central time If the various towns
would revert to the natural time for
this section the railroads would, in
all likelihood speedily adjust their
time tables accordingly, and there
would be no confusion whatever. The
Savannah Morning News says:
But eastern standard time-there
are four standards between the At
lantic and the Pacific-is the time that
should be used everywhere from the
Atlantic ocean to a line running from
Chicago to New Orleans There is a
scientific reason for this to which we
have often referred. We hope that
Atlanta will adopt the eastern stand
ard, and that Dublin and Cordele and
Griffin and Macon and Columbus and
the rest Of our important towns will
do the same thing. That would force
tile railroads east of the ninetieth
meridian to make their schedules con-
form to the safe and sane rule gov
erning navigation, which says that
sixty minutes of time shall be drop
ped from the clock for each fifteen
uCSiCSS VI lOuSIIuuG west OL green
witch, and that as the sun travels
from east to west. the east time shall
be observed until the new fifteenth
multiple meridian has been reached.
The one hour of daylight lost in
the mornings means much during the
course Of the five or six months when
darkness settles upon the earth early
in the evening. It would mean a re-
duotion of lighting expense for the
business men generally and the re-
suits on the whole would be found
far more satisfactory.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-09

comparatively cheap autos now so
much in vogue. Give a man good
road and an automobile and he has
no objection to farm life, he de-
c1ares. The monotony of the country
can then be broken at any time and
the pleasures of life in the open
are enjoyed without the ennui that
sometimes comes from inability to
get to town for an occasional change
No only are many men going back
into the country in the North and
West, as actual farmers, as a result
of these conditions, it is said, but
host of business men are taking up
small places in the country and con-
verting them into beautiful homes.
This has been rendered possible by
the autos and good roads. Around
all the large cities can be found the
homes of men who are not rich, but
in possession of comfortable incomes,
who have bought five, ten or fifteen
acres, built comfortable homes and
are getting genuine taste of rural
life and still attending to their daily
work in town This class of country
residents is destined to greatly in
crease from year to year as good roads
are extended.
Writing along this line, the inves-
tigator in question says:
The business man can carry on the
life of one in the busy marts of trade
and that of the country gentleman
at the same time. Almost every man
takes more or less delight in being
close to nature-and what is closer to
mother earth than watching the pro-
duce grow from the ground? AS a
consequence every suburban home
and every city man who has the room
and the aspirations of country gen
tleman has a patch Of ground on which,
he raises certain garden truck. His
servants are no longer dissatisfied
with remaining in the country: instead
they rather prefer it, for their duties
are less arduous.
The country youth whose earliest
ambition was to go to the big CITY.
and make a name for himself, or sim
ply get a job there and come home
now and then to be adsqired by his
less fortunate brethre1A lis fast los
ing that desire, as HI sees around
him men who are com Sled by their
training and education b engage in
the busy marts of tradg Seeking to get
away from that humdrum every
time they chance. He sees the
possibilitiesAl sg farm, andw@. lad
of the chancQkaA stay there an ake
the most of TITO
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-09

The Baltimore Sun aptly says that:
1t is not rank nor birth nor state,
But git-up-and-git that makes men
great.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-09
Editorial Room, Telephone 80.
Americas, Ca, March 8, 1910.
4 HINDOO LEGEND.

A Hindoo died, happy thing to do
When twenty years united to a shrew.
Released he hopefully for entrance
cries
Before the gates of Brahma's para
disc.
Hast been through purgatory'' Brah-
ma said:
4 have been married." and he hung
his head,
Come in, come in, and welcome too,
my son,
Marriage and purgatory are as one"
In bliss extreme he entered heaven s
door
And knew the peace HE ne'er had
known before.
He scarce had entered in the garden
fair
Another Hindoo asked admission
there.
The self-same question Brahma asked
again
Hast been through purgatory?" mo!
What then?"
Thou caDst not enter did THE god
reply.
He who went in was there no more
than L.
All that is true but he has married
been
And so on earth has suffered for all
sin"
Married? it's well for I've been mar
ried twice."
'BegOne! We have no fools in para
disc. Unknown
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-09
AUTOS LEADING MANY BACK TO
THE COUNTRY.

Automobiles are doing much to lead
many men to return to the country
declares an investigator who has been
carefully studying the situation with
especial regard to the likelihood OF
the "back to the land" cry having
any effect on the popular movements
AS result of his own researches he
declares that the two greatest factors
in inducing men to take up farms and
themselves in the country
with their families have been the
building of good roads and THE quick
communication made possible by the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-09
WORLDS GREATEST EMPLOYING FIRM.

The great German firm that is
known to every one as ''Krupp's," and
which supplies half the civilized world
with what it wants in the way of can
non, is buying large tract of land in
Holland with the object of erecting
new works there, says Pearson's.
If so, this gigantic business which
already gives employment to about
10000 men, and owns city and sew
eral towns and villages in Germany,
will soon possess no fewer than nine
different groups of works.
The rise of the firm has been re-
markedly swift. In 1910 working
mechanic called Frederick Krupp set
up. "a forge in the village of Essen.
Wretchedly poor, he yet contrived to
keep four Workmen in his pay. He had
ideas which, he hoped, would revolu-
tionize the manufacture Of steel.
Handicapped by his poverty, how
ever, and by a ten years lawsuit, he
accomplished nothing, and died, worn
out by failure, in 1926.
When his son, Alfred, for whose
schooling the widowed mother had
scarcely been able to pay, entered the
business in 1848, he found, to use his
own words, three workmen and CON
siderably more debts than cash" Be-
fore his death, fifty years later, he was
one OF the most powerful factors in
the wars of Europe.
Wedged in between two huge work
shops in Essen, which is now a CITY of
100000 inhabitants, and is practically
the property of the firm, there stands
the tiny old-fashioned cottage IN
which the founder of the firm strug-
gled for livelihood. 1t bears an in
scription in the handwriting of Alfred
Krupp, commencing the example of
his parents to the workpeopIe. The
site of that cottage is worth thousands.
but it still stays unused.
1t would be difficult to name three
European countries in which the
Krupp firm have no interests. In Ger
many they own, besides Essen Ctheir
headquarters), the Germania Dock
yard at Kiel (where they build Dread
noughts), three coal mines, many iron
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-09
LET THE BOARD OF TRADE SEE
MR.. COUNCIL ABOUT THIS.

One of THE movements started by
the Americas Board of Trade that
had in it the promise of much good
for Sumter county was the exhibit of
agricultural products. 1t seemed i'm
possible to induce the farmers of the
county to take an interest in it, and
after paying rent for several months
the project was abandoned.
The idea was one of the best that
was ever suggested to the Board and
if it could have been carried out there
it no doubt that it would have been
the means Of advertising the county's
agricultural interests to a much
greater degree than even it's promot-
ers had anticipated. Why the farmers
failed to show any interest in l. we
do not know Perhaps it was not
brought before them properly, or
the effort was not continued long
enough.
Our interest in the matter is re-
vived by the fact that in Albany a
movement has been begun along the
same line. 1t is proposed there to
have a permanent museum of Dough-
erty county's resources. AS the Herald
explains it:
The principal object of the exhibit,
which will be museum of the natural
resources and products of the farm
and factories of this city and county.
will be to have a place where WISH
tors, seeking information concerning
this section, can be taken and where
they can obtain some idea of what this
city and county nave to offer home
seekers and investors. 1t will be ar
ranged along the lines of similar ex-
hibits maintained by the Southern
Commercial Congress in the national
capital These exhibits of the re-
sources and products of the South are
viewed by capitalists and others from
ali over the country and have a splen-
did effect in disseminating accurate
information along these lines.
The exhibit to be placed in the city
nall Will not be an extensive one to
begin With, perhaps, but it is ex-
pected to be enlarged from time to
time, until it becomes a comprehen-
sive and creditable exhibit of this
connty's resources.
This is simply the same plan that
was proposed and fell through here.
But because we were not successful
in the first instance is no reason why
the endeavor should not be made
again. If every time we fail to ac-
complish a certain purpose we give it
up in despair we will never succeed
in accomplishing anything definite.
Plans in the same direction should be
laid and during the coming summer
the specimens desired should be gath
cred together. Perhaps it might he
possible to arrange for theic display
at the Windsor hotel. The new pro-
pTietor of that building is thoroughly
ienterprising and progressive, eager
to promote the growth of the CITY.
Those whom it is most desired to
show the exhibits to would be the
guests of the hotel If Mr.. Council
Will give the small space required,
surely the Board of Trade could ar
range TO secure the exhibits and
photographs that would tell to every
visitor to the city the wonderful agri-
cultural development the county has
undergone and the vast possibilities
that lie before it. The thing is worth
further consideration, anyway. 1t
would be an ideal advertisement and
an inexpensive one.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-09
PLANTING TREES IN AMsS, 10.

"A large numbeIg Shade trW have
recently been put a the PUBLIC reefs
OF Americas thrV1gh the enterprise
and liberality of two of it's citizens,
the Messrs. Harold. 1t is true that
in doing this work these large prop
erty owners have been advancing their
own future interests, as nothing is
better calculated to make building
lots attractive to prospective home
builders than beautiful shade trees in
front of them, but the fact remains
nevertheless that there is a measure
of public spirit displayed in such i'm
provements that is especially worthy
of commentator. The entire public
shares in the benefits that accrue
from tree planting. The street that is
lined with trees is a delight to every
one, benefit to the entire city, and
every citizen who does anything to-
ward improving the city in this way is
entitled to due praise.
Attention is called to this matter
because the time for successful tree
planting is rapidly passing. There
still remain some days during which
trees can be transferred with a meas
ureable prospect of their taking root
and thriving in new quarters. There
are still many residences in the city
that have no trees in front of them
There aer still many vacant lots that
would be improved in appearance and
enhanced in value by the planting OF
trees before them. The man who
Wants tree advances his own finan-
cial interests and is also to be rank
ed as public benefactor
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-09

The general opinion seems to be
that the Philadelphia Traction Com
pany spends so much of its income
bribing the politicians that it hash t
enough money left in the treasury to
raise THE employees pay AS a general
rule the street car companies of the
land are the worst corruptionfsts in
existence.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-09

The labor leaders in Philadelphia
seem to think that all union working
men are "plumb-fools." The idea Of
men in trades having absolutely no
connection with a street car line, in a
distant city, striking in sympathy is
too absurd to need consideration, The
average workingman needs his wages
too much to indulge in such sentiment
al nonsense.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-09
Americas National Bank,

CaptaI :. SlOOOOOOO
Keep written all expenditures
do
simplest record checking
will tell
o Bank
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-09
LAND
BARGAINS
Snider land Sold.
Little Land Sold. J
Come quick for others or
say Il Am Sorry"

125 acres 3 miles of Plains, adioin-
Ing Jno A. Mcdonald old home place
Dwelling, tenant house and crib.
112 acres miles Sumter, adjoining
Chapel, Rogers and Countryman
Good land and good improvements.
Lots of land 223 and 224 in 18th dis.
trict of Lee Co., adjoining Sumter Co
line, and touching lands which sell
for $50 to $40 per acre. Ample build.
ings put up years ago.
Bank Of Southwestern Georgia
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-09

Tom Platt is gone but his express
company doubtless still has a repre-
sentative in the Senate to keep out a
package postal system. The old leader
is dead but the system still lives on.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-09

Having annexed everything in sight
Macon now calmly and confidently"
awaits the result of the census taking.
VIII it GUST Savannah from second
place?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-29
Isaac Cans Says

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VerSal in its appeal. The blind man
and woman are child-like in their
helpIeSSness, and the home which pro-
tects them deserves the aid of the en-
tire community. The Times will make
a record-breaking sale next Sunday"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-29

Inc penny you spend for The Times will serve t"od purpose It VIII
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