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Court.
A lars uittnr of citizens hare
commended the article which The
Joura.il hal im its issue before the
l;ist calling alttion to the record of
Jude Lane aa failing to open court
here at the proper time. This would
iwm to iuMrte that the moderate
criticism w;ui not only just and fair,
hut that the need of it was widely
recognized. While The Journal often
criticises what it believes to be weak
ness In our general judicial system,
it criticises individual Judge or a
specific case very unusually and then
with reluctant. This, no doubt, is
generally true of newspapers which
have a sense of responsibility, anl
the reason for it is no doubt apparent
to thoughtful people.
Since the matter of the courts is
up it seems tlio proper time to voice
the sentiment so often heard here,
(hat "We have too many courts." We
now have the same number of
courts, all of them costing something
in time and money, that we had be
fore the Recorder's court so success
fully and satisfactorily relieved the
Superior court of so much work. Fif
teen years ago the county had court
only twice a year. The dockets be
came conjested, and to relieve the
situation the (.resent schedule was
arranged by Mr. T. J. Jerome who
served in the Senate of 1 $!!. Before
that time we never had a June or De
cember court and there was much
complaint at the time this schedule
was made, on the ground of incon
venience. The farmers were too
busy to attend in June and ever) body
was too busy in the holiday season
of December.
The dockets were not only caught
up with, but since the establishment
of the Recorder's court, the Superior
courts have loafed more and wore on
the job. Yet ro one seemed inter
ested enough to demand any change.
But the time has now come to save
the expense and trouble to the peo
ple of at least two sessions of the
court, and our representatives in the
coming session of the genreal assem
bly will no doubt give the matter
proper consideration.
Frank May (iet .New Trial.
Judge Lamar of the United Stales
Supreme Court, yesterday granted the
petition of appeal of the attorneys of
Leo M. Frank of Atlanta for a hear
ing by the full court of the decision
the Judge of the Federal Court of
Nurthern Georgia that Frank was not
entttlbd to a habeas corpus hearing.
The case will now go to the full court
of the Supreme tribunal of the Unit
ed States on the point of whether or
not Frank Is entitled to a habeas cor
pur lhearing. If they decide that he
Ts so entitled this will give an oppor
tunity for a review of the evidence
before a Federal judge. If the court
should decide that he is not entitled
to such a hearing, there will be noth
ing In the way of the State of Geor
gia going on with the execution. Thir
ty days are given by Justice Lamar
for the preparation of the case, and
this itself gives at least a temporary
stay of the execution of Frank.whlch
is set for the 22 nd of January. This
is one of the most remarkable cases
In the history of the United States.
It appears to be as complete a case
of mob law executed through the
channels of the courts as if a mob
had rone to the jail and taken the
man out and killed him. The courts
ought to be as able to protect an in
nocent man as to punish a guilty one.
The historians say that George
Washington was left without children
in order that he might be called the
father of his country. Mr. Noah Biggs
of Scotland Neck was without chll
dren, but he adopted the three or
four hundred orphans at the Thom-
asville orphanage as his own. Not
only did he take the place of a father
to them while he lived, but when he
died and his will was read, it was
found that he had left them ninety
thousand dollars. Perhaps the great
est blessing which God bestowed upon
Noah Biggs was the fact that he did
not narrow his soul to the contem
plation of two or three children of
his own, but enabled him to be fath
er to the fatherless. Mr.. Biggs also
left large sums, nearly all his estate,
to Baptist institutions.
Man Afflicted With Tubercutcsis and
Given Up to Die Hat the Laujh
on the Sectors.
If the doctors have given you up
to die cf tuberculosis, don't do it. but
go and get a dose of the measles, am!
when you have recovered from the
combination you will not have any
tuberculosis, and will be as likely to
outlive the doctor as he will be to
outlive you. This may seem like a
peculiar remedy, but a man named
Trotter, who was given up to die by
his physician, has outlived the doctor.
Trotter was of a jolly disposition,
and kept cn his feet and out of doors
a large part of his time, but It finally
1 became only a question of days, and
! was so recognized by the sick man
and all his friends. About this time
an epidemic of measles broke out in
the neighborhood, and as Trotter had
never had the disease the doctor ad
vised him to leave the locality, as to
contract it would surely kill him.
Trotter replied: "Well, Doc. you say
I'se gwlne to die anyhow; I reckon
I'll Jes stay to hum with the ole wo
man an' die with a good taste in my
mouth." He got the measles and had
It from the crown of his head to the
soles of his feet. The disease re
mained with him as long proportion
ately as he was physically (he was
tlx feet and four Inches tall), but
despite the doctor's prognosis he got
well and when he was well of (he
measles he was well cf the tubercu
losis, and though the doctor told him
one lung was pons and half of the
other one. he persisted In remaining a
well man, and outlived the doctor and
nearly all his neighbors. It would be
a heroic remedy for a man given up
to die to seek, but Trotter's philos
ophy proved to have a better founda
tion than that of the doctor who had
done all that his education and ex
perience enabled nim to do.
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GIVES VIEW OF THE OCEAN
Periscope, "Eye of the Submarine," Is
In Many Respects a Remarkable
Invention,
The great fault of the early subma
rines was that they could not see once
they were below the surface of the
water. The Invention of the periscope
altered all that, and gave the modern
submarine a marvelous eye by means
of which it could see over the surface
of the ocean, though the body of the
submarine Is completely below the
waves.
The eye of the submarine is
straight, hollow tube starting from the
steering chamber of the vessel, and
projecting above the surface of the
waves when the boat Is submerged.
As the periscope Is only a matter of
six inches In diameter, aud only pro
jects some IS inches above the waves,
It Is a most difficult thlcg for an enemy
to see. Its total length is about 15
feet.
The submarine's eye Is really a com
bination of telescope and camera ob
scura. At the top Is a powerful lens,
and inside, at Intervals all the way
down, Is a series of mirrors which
carry the reflection of what is above
the surface to the watcher in the sub
marine 15 feet below.
Astonishing Amount of Food Con
sumed by Human Being During
the Course of Year.
If you are of average weight, height
and appetite, and live to be seventy
five, you will have eaten 64 tons of
solid food and 53 tons of liquid. That
is. about oue thousand three hundred
tinns your own weight.
If you were to stack the bread you
will have consumed in this number of
years the pile would equal a fair-size!
building. The amount of butter you
will have used on this bread would
come to a ton and a quarter. If you
are a lover of bacrn and were to
stretch that which you have eaten out
in single slices, four miles would be
the length. Five tons of fish and 12,
COO eggs would stand to your credit.
while the normal cheese eater would
easily have consumed 400 pounds.
The vegetables you will have eaten
would till a train three miles long.
You will have consumed some 10.000
pounJs of sugar and 1,500 pounds of
salt. It you are a smoker you will
have used about a half-ton of tobacco
In pipes, and will have smoked a mil
lion cigarettes.
Does a Meter Reader WorkT
Few people realize how many mo
tions meter readers have to go
through in collecting the Information
necessary for making up electric
bills. Some Interesting facts are
brought out in the analysis of a
meter reader's movements In a town
of 17,000 people, as presented in the
Electrical World,
The data show that 28 hours was
required in reading 730 meters. Dur
ing that time 681 stairs were climbed
and 1,867 doors had to be opened. In
traveling from one consumer's house
to the next the meter reader trav
ersed 304 blocks and crossed streets
314 times.
These figures suggest that consid
erable time could be saved the men,
while Inconvenience could be spared
the customers, If meters were in
stalled in more accessible places,
such as, for instance, on back porches.
Only a Little Mouse.
In an uptown church Sunday even
ing, when the pastor had got well into
his sermon, he noticed an unusual
commotion among the choir, at his
right. For a time he tried to ignore
It, but the trouble became so lively
that he felt it his duty to rebuke the
singers in a loud voice. The disturb
ance finally quieted down and the ser
mon proceeded with due dignity. A
member of the choir managed to com
municate to the much annoyed pastor
the cause of the disturbance before the
services were concluded. It was a
mouse only a little mouse. But with
the perversity of Its kind, this little
mouse bad managed to get under
the skirts of one of the ladies.
Last Friday the parliament of Ja
pan refused-to vote Increases in the
army, despite the fact that the coun
try Is at war and the emperor asked
for the measure. That does not look
as if the "yellow peril," nf which the
Jingoes talk so much were very
threatening. But the jingo must
have something to get scared at
Children of Sick Mothers.
Many a mother w ho has been urged
to submit to an operation to restore
her to the health which is necessary
for propirture of her family has been
distracted at the thought of being
obliged to go to a hospital and leave
her children without proper care dur
ing her absence, specially is this
trtie among the very poor, where
most of the relatives, male or female,
leave to go out to work, or, perhaps,
have large families of their own to
feed.
To meet this cmergensy an excel
lent charity Is belrg financed by some
wealthy women in Gotham, who have
established a nursery' where young'
tters ranging from a few months to
five or six years can have trained
care while their. mothers, with easy
minds, are trying to regain their own
strength.
A Monument In Altklrch. ,
One of the public monuments in Alt-
kirch commemorates the deliverance
of the town from an attempt to cap
ture it made in 1375 by a troop of
English freebooters. Their leader was
a son-in-law of Edward III, Enguerrand
de Coucy, who was then waging a
fierce but futllo warfare against the
Holy Roman empire and had pillaged
a number of towns in Alsace, and on
reaching A'.tkirch penetrated into the
town In the small hours of the morn
ing, when 60 the legend runs an ap
parition appeared In the sky to warn
the inhabitants, who promptly sprang
from their beds end routed the invad
ers. Every year, February 2, Altklrch
holds a fete to celebrate its escape
from de Coucy and his English merce
naries. London Chronicle.
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OF
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Coat Suits at Almost Halt.
$10.00 Misses Coat Suits, 15 and $5.00 Value iu Black Coat with
16 sizes, reduced to Braided Collar
$4.98, $2.98.
$10.00 and $11.50 Ladies Suits, $8.50 Striped Coat with set in
Sacrifice Price Sleeves
$6.98. $498.
$13.50 and 15.00 Coat Suits, in $12.50 Ladies Mixed Coats
Blues,etc,
$9.98. $9.98.
$25.00 and 27.50 Ladies Coat Suits, $4.00 Line Misses 8 to 14 year size
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Its Breath Is Death.
One variety of the orchid which
grows in the tropics is known as the
vampire orchid. This flower has a
wonderful odor which is peculiarly at
tractive to animals. When a beast
approaches the flower the odor nar
cotizes him and he sinks languidly by
the tree trunk to which the flower Is
clinging. Then the flower Btretches
down Its long, green tentacles and
sucks out the blood of the poisoned
animal. The beast never awakens
from Its sleep, w hlle the erstwhile pale
flower takes on a soft velvet flush.
LOCAL MARKETS.
COTTON.
Best short staple 7.30
Extra 7.30
Seed 30
PRODUCE.
The figures given here are prices
paid by mercants today. They may
be different tomorrow or next day.
Readers are advised to 'phone some
responsible merchant on the day they
expect to come to market and get
figures for that day.
Hens 30 to 35
Young chickens 20 to 25
Roosters 26
Guineas 20 to 25
Turkeys 12 Mi to 15
Eggs 25 to 27
Butter 15 to 20
Hams 15 to 20
Beef cattle 4 to 4 H
Mutton 5 to 6H
White Pea (2.00 to (2.50
Pork 11
Corn 80
Oats 60
Fodder 2.00
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AUTHOR OF MANY THRILLERS
"Dark Hollow," One of the Best Detec
tive Tales by That Popular Writer, ,
Anna Katharine Green.
The fame of Anna Katharine Green
as a writer of detective stories Is an
international one, but there may be
some Interested admirers who do not
know that in private life she is Mrs.
Charles Rohlfs. She was bora In
Brooklyn almost sixty-eight years ago.
In 1884 she married and her husband,
jfv) ' If
Anna Katharine Green.
for some years, was an actor In the
company of Booth and other trage
dians. The author made her first well-sustained
literary reputation with "The
Leavenworth Case," which still stands
pre-eminently among the world's big
detective stories. It was staged and
added new emphasis to the dramatic
qualities of the author's rare story
telling ability. More than thirty pub
lications followed, and now, after
all these years of steady writing,
comes "Dark Hollow," the new serial
we are about to publish, every bit as
baffling and exciting as were the first
fruits of her tireless pen. It is a
capital and engrossing mystery tale,
with a new depth and seriousness
that carries with It a truth that only
could t3 felt by one whose keen ob
servation had been measured by life
values. You must be sure to read It
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