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4 and the cannery now in use prepared about 3,000 cans of fruits and vegetables this past season. It is designed to extend this industry in order to take outside orders for canning. Printing, too, is taught, and a very readable and clever paper is printed on the place. This is called “The Right Arm,” and its staff of “re porters” consists of members of the Home whose English work makes it possible for their contribu tions to be acceptable. Again, the handicrafts are taught through the medium of a lately established wood working plant and the boys are busily and happily engaged in making tables, swings and wagons. The latter ■article is given special attention as the wagons made by the boys are serviceable and marketable. This branch of the work and the printery are both designed to eventually bring in a revenue to the Home as it is also hoped may be the case with the electrical work which the boys are to be trained to do. There is a fine stream on the grounds of the Home which can easily be made available for electrical purposes and it is hoped that this may soon be utilized to produce lights not only for the Home but for the adjacent farms as well. A poultry department is one of the most recent acquisitions and a dairy plant on a very small scale as yet, would about complete the line of in dustries from which the young male inmates of the Home may choose their life work! What the Girls Do. While it is not the idea of the Industrial Home to train girls for domestic servants, yet the girls there are taught every domestic art which would make their services of value in any home, their own or another’s, in which their future may be cast. Cooking, sewing in all its branches, laundry work, sanitary care of a home as well as some stenography and a full school course are offered to the girls and right nobly do they avail themselves of these advantages. One of their most en joyed pieces of work is the manufacture of neck ties which are sold in many stores in Macon and elsewhere and so well is this work done that the Georgia Industrial Home ties are winning a place in the regular trade centers of the South. The Future of These Children. While these destitute children are taken and oared for during the tender and formative years of their lives it is neither the design nor intention of this valuable Institution to set the young peo ple adrift at any given time. While it becomes necessary for homes and positions to be secured for them from time to time, these homes are se lected with the utmost care, and quarterly reports are required from families having in their care a boy or girl from the Georgia Industrial Home. These reports are made on printed blanks fur nished by the Horae and the questions to be ans swered cover every possible exigency which might arise. Thus it will be seen that a child once enter ing the Georgia Industrial Home can never again be friendless or unoared for and that the benign influence once entering his life must combat all difficulties and remove, as far as human will may, the dangers which surround us all! Financial Plan. We have told thus far as much of the purpose of this institution and of its practical fulfilment as an article of this length will pennit, and we hope that we have at least aroused some interest in the work actually being accomplished from day to day. But we have purposely reserved for a final word some detailed account of the financial sup port of the Home. As has already been said, Mr. Mumford began the work without any fund whatever. The State, under its present legal conditions, does not do nate any fund to its maintenance and it has no other organized source of support. Therefore, it is dependent on freewill offering alone for its con tinuance! These conditions have supported it from its birth and on this source alone does it now rely. First Donation. The first donation received for the Home in re sponse to Mr. Mumford’s appeal, was that given by Miss Eula Felton Willingham, a little girl at the The Golden Age for December 20, 1906. time, who handed to Mr. Mumford five dollars as her contribution to the work. In honor of this do nation one of the dormitories is called “Eula Fel ton Hall.” Following the example of Miss Willingham, do nations have been made from individuals in every part of the state and even from other states. Os the latter we may mention a recent gift of SSOO from Mr. George Spencer Peabody, of New York, The only endowment donation ever made was a sum of $1,200 recently left to the Home by Mr. J. 0. Baskin, of Pulaski County. This amount is at present conservatively invested and brings but a small revenue. Despite the fact that all the work of the institution is done by the inmates, it is nec essary to employ a Superintendent for the manual work and the farm work; also matrons for the care of the girls and young children, until it is now estimated that the cost of maintenance per year for a single child is about SOO, or $5 a month. It will readily be seen that a generous and steady stream of contributions from the people must be kept flowing in order that this most worthy institution shall be continued and its usefulness be increased. Vt the present time there is an urgent appeal be fore the public for a Dollar Donation as a Christ mas Gift Fund, the plan being to reach 100,000 persons with this appeal. Urgent Need for This Amount. While there is need for more funds in every branch of the work the specially urgent need is for the completion of the large new building to be called Mumford Memorial Hall, and which is at present the only brick building on the place. It is to be used for a General Administration Build ing containing the office, reception room, chapel, teaching and music rooms, dining room, pantry, bakery and kitchen. To complete it $20,000 is de manded and the need for this building is most pressing, each one of the buildings now used for the purposes mentioned being entirely inadequate. Rev. J. R. Gunn. The management of the Home is a wise one in many ways, the chief one being in its system of appointing a General Manager, with full powers to act as he deems best on all occasions. The complex nature of this work makes this system almost im perative, while it also complicates the work of the Board of Trustees in selecting the best man for the place. This Board consists of Mr. E. J. Wil lingham, president, and Messrs. C. M. Wiley, W. A. Davis, A. W. Lane and A. F. Holt. At the death of Mr. Mumford some two years ago the choice for his successor fell upon Mr J. R. Gunn. While the wisdom of this choice is be yond question, the numerous responsibilities of the position and the urgency of fully carrying out the plans laid down by Mr. Mumford were enough to daunt the bravest spirit. But, after taking the matter under careful advisement for some time, Mr. Gunn decided to accept the position, and his conduct of the Institution cannot be too highly commended. He has given himself to the work with an enthusiasm which is almost an inspiration, and has so identified himself with it that it has be come a part of his very life. The success which is shown in the present and which is approaching in even fuller measure in the future is evidence of the ability, wisdom and intelligence with which Mr. Gunn has worked. His acumen as a man of bus iness is remarkable in a scholar and a student, but above all else is his sympathy, his tenderness and his genuine love for little children, and his thor ough understanding of their needs and their rights. He has written most scholarly articles on the sub ject, both in the Institution paper, of which he is editor, and in other publications. A work of this sort requires a powerful hand at the helm of its affairs and its usefulness as a spiritual and social force is determined by this same hand. Knowing this and after a careful personal inspection of the work done it is safe to declare that the Georgia In dustrial Home has already won for itself a promi nent place in the endless struggle for the better ment of the race; a struggle to be won only through the medium of intelligent care and helpful guid ance of the neglected and unwelcome children of the commonwealth. The Editor Abroad. (Greensboro, N. C., Correspondent in Charlotte Observer.) The reception at the Normal and Industrial Col lege tendered to the Convention was a social event which will live long in the memory of the dele gates as an event that added much to the pleasure of the Convention. At the close of the delicious repast served in the dining room, a number of “after-dinner” speeches were made, notable among these being made by Hon. J. C. Scarborough and Mr. W. D. Upshaw, the latter gentleman being a visitor to the Convention from Atlanta. These two gentlemen, for the purpose of entertainment, carried on for a little while a friendly tilt on the subject of “Woman’s Voting,” Mr. Scarborough championing and Mr. Upshaw arguing against the same. The climax was reached when the Georgian successfully met every argument of his opponent by repeating the following lines: “She comes around the corner, I hear her manly tread, The air is filled with quaking's, My heart is filled with dread. My, my, behold the pictjire! That now my eyes do scan, If she’s the ‘coming’ woman, Then I’m the going man.” The applause which followed the lines was deaf ening, being entered into heartily by the Normal students as well as their guests. Mr. Upshaw replied to the same by saying, with a smile, that he judged this expression of appre ciation from his hearerls was to be taken by him as an encore. He then, changed the scene entirely by paying a beautiful tribute to the life and work of the lamented Chas. D. Mclver, late president of the Normal, whom he had known and loved. In a few minutes tears were starting from the eyes of many of his hearers as Mr. Upshaw pleaded for the continual upholding of the high ideal of Dr. Mclver for woman which was that of practical, useful Christian womanhood. About Mr. Upshaw. Mr. Upshaw is editor of the attractive publica tion, “The Golden Age,” which is issued from At lanta each week. It is a high-grade periodical which has been in existence only a few months, but which has already received recognition that many older publications would prize. Among its regular contributors are Rev. G. Campbell Morgan, of London, and Rev. Len G. Bsroughton, of At lanta, these two with the talented editor giving the paper enough, exclusive of others who write for its columns, to make it well worth its price. Mr. Upshaw is an alumnus of Mercer University, and is a Baptist layman, who devotes much of his time to evangelistic work, having for some weeks past been engaged in holding meetings in this state. An Incident at Wake Forest. The young Georgia editor has also received many congratulations from the members of the conven tion on account of his recent- conquest of the Wake Forest forces at their own celebration of victory in debate with Mercer University. The story goes that the Georgian was invited by President Poteat to come up from Raleigh, where he was engaged in a meeting at the Tabernacle church, and take part in celebrating the defeat of Mercer. The Georgian went to “attend his own funeral,” he said, but he proved to be the liveliest corpse that was ever “laid out” at Wake Forest. When it came his time to offer congratulations he laid aside the shroud in which his victorious friends had wrapped him and startled his hearers with a “spun ky” speech right in the enemy’s camp that cap tured them with wit and electrified them with at spontaneous flow of native and magnetic eloquence!. He mercilessly removed the cuticle of every Wake Forest speaker that had preceded him, but he did it with such skill .and good humor that the op eration was hugely enjoyed, and in the ovation ac corded the Mercer man he was hauled to the train in the “chariot of victory” which had carried the Wake Forest champions over the campus.