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i w $ Legislative Melange w v 0 v ^ ___ Bills Passed In Senate. Among the bills parsed by the sen¬ ate the past week were two by Mr Smiley. Oue of them was to allow discharged violent, lunatics, in care of their becoming to be returned to the , asylum . on the certificate tending physician of the at¬ and without a n^w jury trial. The other bid was to allow the county courts jurisdiction over trover chsis. and , the distribution of flues and forfeitures instea 1 of requir¬ ing the supreme court judge of the cir¬ cuit to distribute ttum. By Heitors Henderson and Harrell a bill in 1 ogard to the removal of suits which have Iwen non-suited because of non payment of costs. malIdurncts . 3V he “ ti,e house bill, providing (hat inhabitants the having a town of 500 election polls shall be opened on days at 7 a. m. and closed at bp. m. came up, opposition devel¬ oped and there was debate. The bill vas killed, but notice of reconsidera¬ tion was given. To Check County Officials. Hen a tor Grautlaud, of the Twenly- aixth district, introduced a bill in the senate Saturday which requires ordi¬ naries aud county commissioners to furnish to the comptroller general al¬ phabetic lists of the names of insol¬ vent taxpayers and a record of their place of residence, as well as the amount of the li. fas. against them. At present only the amounts are ro- turnab e to the comptroller. The ob¬ ject o Mr. Grantlatid’s bill is to pre¬ vent offic als from defrauding the state. In his county the tax collector and the county commissioners had been aj parentiy iu collusion and thousands of dollars had been im- propeily appropriated in the form of costs, he said. The collector had failed to collect taxes due iu order to make the parties pay costs. He had raised li. fas. and entered upon them ‘nuila bona” against si me of the best men in the county, some of them worth as much as $50,000. These li. fas. were sub¬ mitted to the county commissioners aud by them a retto n of the amounts was made to the comptroller. The tax collector had been forced to pay hack $- 1,000 to tbe county, but'the state got nothing, and the information furnished the c< mptroller was so in¬ sufficient that there was no nay of lo¬ cating the partes returned as insol¬ vent. Senate Reconsiders Rebuke. Shortly after President Howell had called the senate to-order Saturday a message from the house was received stating that the house had passed the general appropriation act and sub mittiug'dt to the st-uute. Senator Ellis then moved to recon¬ sider the action of the senate on his: resoluiiou calling the attention of th*-.'.- house to the fact that the senate awaited the bill and would not con¬ sider ny other matters until it had been received. Senator Ellis stated that as the resolution had had the de sired effVct that he thought it’ would be best to reconsider it and lay it on the table. The senate passed the mo¬ tion to reconsider and tbe resolution was laid on the table fur future use if it should be mcessaiy. Later on iu the session the appropriation act was read in the senate and re erred to the senate committee on appropriations. Senator Grautland moved that a hundred copies be printed at once aud disiributtd among the members of the senate. The motion'was carried. During the morning session an in¬ teresting resolution came from the house for tbe concurrence of the sen- ate. It was a resolution to pay John Vaughn for work in the state peniten¬ tiary after he had been pardoned, but not liberated. The resolution was passed, thereby ending one of the most interesting cases that ever arose in the entire country. the During the morning senate pass¬ ed the house bill repealing the dog law and that famous statute that, never went into effect is uoiv no more. *** Tax Rate Reduced. The house made haste slowly in its consideration of tbe general tax act. The ways and means committee sub¬ mitted a substitute bill, which was considered bv sections. The tax rate for the maintenance of the state was assessed at three mills and for^tke ap¬ propriation for the common ^schools two mills- The latter was amended by making it two and one-tenth mills. Ibis will make the general state tax levy for .the next two years 5.1 mills, or one-tenth of a mill less than this year—the rate for 1900 being 5 2 mills. In view of the large appropriations this will hardly be sufficient to meet tbe de¬ mands of tbe state government for the next tw o years. *** Appointments Confirmed*"* The senate in executive session has ecu firmed these appointment^ by fhe governor: S. Carswell to be solicitor of rtporo’e Wilkinson b county court of county. . « Adams to be judge of the John S. ty court of Dublin. £ G. Carker, solieitor of the same court. J, J. Smith, solicitor of the city B Jeffers rt of on. cou M. Route, judge of the city court 4 0 f Bartow- *** jVlill Owners^ Take Action. result, of a bill presented in the r-nt region of the legislature to 3" I. ; J 1 s ■ ■ k m i , 1 . - m: prohibit children under twelve years of age working in the cotton mills of the state, the mill-owners of Georgia have formed aU association to stop the practice. Since the organisation the mill-owners, the advocates of tbe bill have decided not to insist bn its passage. CHAMBERLAIN DENOUNCED. intense Hatred of Colonial Secre¬ tary Is Shown In Opening Ses¬ sion of English Parliament. Ihe fifteenth parliament of the reign of Queen Victoria opened in London Thursday. Before the iights were out in the ancient chambers almost every leading politician had spoken. Such fierce, personal animos¬ ity and such bitter invective had scarcely ever before marked the pro¬ ceedings at Westminster. Joseph Chamberlain', secretary of state for the colonies, was the center of the Btotm. The policy of the empire regarding South Africa and China, the action of the government in causing a diss iution when it did* the conduct of the war against the Boers, and, iu fact, all the questions vitally affecting the empire, were gravely discussed and explained, but dominating all was the apposition’s hatred of the colonial sec¬ retary. For hours this target of satire and abuse sat with bis head on the side, listening intently, unmoved by groans or cheers. Sir Henry Campbell-Ban¬ nerman shook his notes in Mr. Cham¬ berlain’s face and declared that a man wbo published private letters for poli¬ tical purposes (referring to the Clark- Ellis correspondence) wmuld be exclu- led form the society of nil honorable men and ostracised for life had he re¬ sorted to such action as a private indi¬ vidual. , Arthur J. Balfour, first lord of the treasury, referring to Sir Henry Camp¬ bell-Bannerman’s suave regrets at the departure of George J. Goscben and Sir Mathew White Ridley frmpi the front bench, said he believed Wat Sir Henry was so generous that he would even find good iu Mr. Chamberlain, should tlie latter be removed to au- jther sphere. A liberal shouted: “We draw the Hue semewhere,” and both sides of. the house roared with laughter. Once Mr. Chamberlain interrupted and leaped to his feet. A thrill went through the bouse. “It is not so,” he declared, and pro¬ ceeded to deny the allegation that he had said that any seat lost in the gov- • rnment during the recent election was one Bold to tbe Boers. It was nearly midnight before he rose to reply to the avalanche of attack launched against him. How great a strain he had undergone was evident in the scarcely suppressed excitement of tone on the part of one rarely known to show feeling in the house. He deuied also that he had ever accused Mr. Ellis of beiug a traitor. V He denied also that he had decried any accusations against his own per soual integrity. He declared that the purpose of tho meeting of par¬ liament had been forgotten iu an at¬ tack upon himself. Irritated beyond control by frequent interruptions and disimbances, he called one of t]ie lib¬ erals amid the excitement a “cad.” The speaker called him to order and Air. Chamberlain then withdrew the epithet, apologizing for its use. After ‘defending the publication of the Ellis correspondence he was cut off by the midnight adjournment. BIG BOUNTY MEASURE. Principal Features of Ship Subsidy Bill Pending In Congress. The ship subsidy bill, pending in the senate, is one of the biggest boun¬ ty measures before congress in years, aud it is regarded by the Democrats as one of the most iniquitous propositions ever considered by the federal legisla¬ ture. The principal features of the bill are the following: Subsidies to American vessels in foreign trade, based on gross ton¬ nage of ships and mileage. American vessels already built to be subsidized for ten years, vessels to be built hereafter for tweDty years. The maximum subsidy to be paid any one year is $9,000,000. Subsiily of one and one-half eents a gross ton for each one hundred nauti¬ cal miles, not exceeding 1,500 miles sailed, outward bound. Ajen-knot ship, with a mileage of 42,000 per annum, would earn $48,- 300. A twenty-knot ship, with a mileage of 88,200 per annum, would earn $304,200. ___ All vessels receiving subsidy reqnir- ed to carry the United States mails f ree Q f c h ar g e au d subject to service as alix j]j ar y cruisers in case of war. *p be bonntv will amount to $90,000,- 00c in teQ year6 . LIBERAL TERMS OFFERED. Nicaragua and Costa Rica Will Ke Moder¬ ate In 1 heir Demand*. A special to The Chicago Record from Washington says: “Nioftrfurn'v ^ and f!nsta Rica have * announced • willingness their .► to grant a lease to the United States for a pe- riod of 200 years of the territory nec- f„ v tb „ construction of the projected - i. i xr;„ Nicaragua eana.. 1 Tf t - s un- derstood that Nicaragua and Costa Rica will accept bonds, the value of those to be accepted by the former government to Ua be less tunn than Sb.UUU.UOO non non and by the latter to be less than $1,- 500,000.” Flax Mills Shut Down. On accounfof the Bcarcity of raw ***>?«■»■* 10 or 12 per cent, r»r and a haT number \“ dvs of ^f the d mills have closed their doors. A DEI, BERRIEN COUNTY. GA„ FRIDAY. DECEMBER 14. 1900. r ev. dr. ta lmas e Tha Bihinent Divifle’d Sunday Discourse. Subject: Lack efl’atience—Faith, Hope and Charity Bloom iii Many Hearts Where the Grace of Patience Is Wanting-Pity Bather Than Condemn the Erring. s . , tT- . \> ashixgton, D. C. — This discourse j- of t Dr. Talmage is a full length portrait of a Virtue which all admire, and the lessons taught are very helpful; texc, ^Hebrews r, 36, Ye have need of patience.” Yes, we are m awful need of it. Some of ua have a little of it, and some of us have hone, at all. There is less of this graefe in the world than of almost any other, haiih, hope and charity are all author find °one of 'specimen the 6 W pltfence. "Paul, the siori lost W text: on a with conspicuous ¥ ca- patience d coworker, and froni way he urges this virtue ion tteliesIlonTns, ipon^theR^ mans, upon theological the Colossians, upon the young conclude'was student, Timothy, I speaking out of his own need of more of this excellence. And I only wonder that Paul had any nerves left, Imnnsonment: flagellatidn, Mediterranean eyciotie, arrest for treason and fcanspir- acy, the wear and tear of preaching to angry mobs, those at the door of a thea- ieR turn emanated^ndTn^^^and with’a jang.e. lie goes us a snap shot of him- seif wheti he deacribes his appearance and .his sermomc delivery by saying, “In bodily presence weak and m speech contempt!- ble. and refers td his inflamed eyends rne uaiatums, 0 ne h i“ sa>3, e * rd ^ it ‘ifLj it nau £e» been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me.” W e all admire most that which we have least or. 1 hose of ti9 with ummpressivfe visage most admire beauty; those of us with discordant voice most extol musical cadence; those of us with stammering speech most wonder at eloquence; those of us who get provoked at trifles and are naturally irascible appreciate in others the equopoise and the calm endurance of pa- tience. So Paul, with hands tremuloua with the agitat'ons of a hfetiroe^wntes ot tb ® God of patience and of ministers of God in much patience’ and of patience of hope ’ and tells them to “follow after patience,” and wants them to “run with patience,” and speaks of those “strength- ened with all might to all patience, ’ and looks us all full in the face as he makes the startling charge, “Ye have need of patience.” ; The recording angel, making a pen out of some plume of a bird of paradise, is not getting ready to write opposite your name equilibrium anything applaudatory. All your sublime of temperament is the result of worldly success. But suppose things mightily change with you, as they some- times do change. You begin to go down hill, and it is amazing how many there are to help direction. you down when you begin to go in that A great investment fails, The Colorado silver mine ceases to yield. You get land poor; your mills, that yield- ed marvels of wealth, are eclipsed by mills with newly invented machinery; you get under the feet of the bears of Wall need to borrow money'Tind'no^ne \n S mg to lend. Under the harrowing worn- ment you get a distressful feeling at the base of your brain. Insomnia and nervous dyspepsia lay hold of you. Your health goes down with your fortune; your circle of acquaintances narrows, and where once you had were oppressed by the fact that you not time enough to return one-half of the social calls made upon you now the card basket in your hallway is empty, and your chief callers are your creditors and the family physician, who comes to learn the effect of the last prescription. Now you understand how people can become pessimistic You have and cynical and despairful. reached that stage yourself, Now you need something that you have not. But I know of a re-eniorcement that you can have if you will accept it. Yon- aer comes up the road or the sidewalk a messenger of God. Her attire is ttnpre* tending. She has no wings, for she is not an angel, but there is something in her countenance that implies rescue and deliv- erance. She comes up the steps that once were populous with ^he affluent and into the hallway where tm tapestry is getting faded and irayed, the place now all empty of worldly admirers* I will tell you her nante if you would like to know it. Paul baptized her and gave her the right name. She is not brilliant, but strong. There is is iTSMt i scroll revealing her mission. She comes from heaven. She was born in the throne room oi the King. This is Patience. “Ye Ffrs n t? e P a patien c e wRh the faults of others. No one keeps the Ten Commandments Xch^omLndmeit*Te rj icb S Ti h L P 8 shtr h C nt me whybTso^hard . v commandments ourselves on those who break others of the ten? If you and I run against one verse of the twentieth chapter oi Exodus, why should r^inst^Sr g nst nother verse of the same Wh V chap- Un Until we are periect ourselves we ought to be lenient with our neighbors imperfections. Yet it is often the case that the man most vulnerable is the most hypercritical. Perhaps he is profane and yet has no tolerance for theft, when pro- laUer ku is robW roDDery oTa or a min man, ^he tne fo^mer toimer is is robbery oi God. Perhaps he is given to defamation and detraction and yet feels himseii better than some one who is guilty ot manslaughter, not realizing that the assassination of character is the worst kind or assassination, the layer for wash- mg in the ancient tabernacle was at its side burnished hue a looking glass, so that those that approached that laver might see their need ot washing, and if by the gospel loosingglass we discovered our own need of moral eieansmg we would be more economic of denunciation. The most of those who go wrong are the victims of cur- cumstances, and if you and I had been rocked in the same iniquitous cradle, and been all our iives surrounded by the same baleful influences we would probably have done just a % badly, perhaps worse. \Ve also have need of patience with slow results of Christian work. We want to successiul. see our attempts to do good immediately The world is improving, but improving at so deliberate a rate;, why not more wbee,s rapidity and momentum? Other lurn s .° swiftly; why not the gos- chariot take electric speed? I do not know. I only know that it is God’s way. Me whose cradle and grave are so near to- father have to hurry up, but God. wbo manages this -world and the universe, is from everlasting to everlasting. He takes 500 years to do that which He could do in five minutes. His clock strikes once in a thousand-years. While God took only a v ' eek to fit up the world for human resi- denee, geogolgy reveals that the founda- tio , of the world were eons in being laid, an d God watched the glaciers, and the fire, and the earthquakes, and the volcanoes as through shaping centuries and millenniums they were the wprld before that last th / arb ° r f. 8CeEce - A , rocks my friend said to the scientist, ‘I suppose these rocks were hundreds of thousandsjpf years in construction And ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM. but £ Stiisf the Lord, and He won't “Vr te!i." If it took so long to make this world at the stirt; be Cot Surprised if it takes a long WBilS t« make it Over again now '* that it has been ruined. The it..and Architect has promised to fCCOn- Struct the plans are all made, and at j«*t the right tin* it will be so com- P !ete that 14 Wlj l be fit for heaven to move in. if, according to the belief of some of hit friends, this world is to be made the eternal abode oi the righteous. The wall of that temple is going up, and jny only I anxiety is to have the one brick that am trying to make for that wall turn out to be the right shaps and smooth on all reject sides, so that the Master Mason will not it, or have much work with the trowel to get it into place. I cm respon- sible fob tml* that one brick, though you may be responsible for a panel r,f the door °So God’s' workmen * 0 and we have to do is to manage our own hammer or ax or trdwd until ths night comes in which no man can work, and When th# privileged SjoS^ThaS* help rearing* (Tod* V™ to in the of that temple! I had a part in the work of the world’s redemption.” Again, inflicted, we have and need of patience under tnong who escapes it in some form? It comes td all people iH pr< 3 - fessior.al life in the shape fif being misuri- derstood. Because of this, how many peo- pie fly to newspapers for an explanation. Y ° U S T f heir C f^ d 8 ^ ed b / the | r ^ not taken realizing that every man comes to be for what he is worth, end you can- not) by any newspaper puffj be taken for mor e than you are worth nor by any news- paper depreciation be put down. There »; r rit ot '““s " b ™ d *» ,te «r“- anc j y 0U are a public man you are classi- fied among the friends or foes of society. If you are a friend of society, you will find plenty of adherents, and if you are the foe of society you canndt escape reprehen- s ion. Paul, you were right when yon said, not more to the Hebrews than to us, “Ye have need of patience.” I adopted a rule y ears ago which has been of great service to me, and it may be of some service to you; Cheerfully God consent to be misunder- stood. knows whether we are right 0 r wrong, whether we are trying to serve Him or damage His cause. When you can cheerfully consent to be misunderstood, many of the anaovances and vexations of hf e will quit your heart, and you will come i n t 0 calmer seas than you have ever sailed on. The most misunderstood being that ever trod the earth was the glorious Christ. The world misunderstood His cradle and concluded that one so poorly born could nevef be of much importance. They charged Him with inebriety and Called Him a winebibber. The sanhedrin ittisun- derstood Him, aid when it was put*to the vote whether He was guiltv or not of treason He got but one vote, while all the others voted “Ave, ave.” They misun- derstood His cross, and concluded that if H e had divine power He would effect His own rescue. They misunderstood His grave, and declared that His body had been stolen by infamous resurrectionists. He so fully consented to be misunder- stood that, harried and slapped and sub- merged with scorn, He answered not a word. You cannot come up to that, but you can imitate in gome small degree the 1 “ ^enough present woes in the world without the perpetual commemora- tion of oast miseries. If you sing jn your home or your church, do not always choose tunes in long meter. Far better to have your patience augmented by the considers- t ion that the misfortunes of this life must soon terminate. This last summer I stood on Sparrow hill, four miles from Moscow. It was the p ] ace where Napoleon stood and looked upon the city which he was about to cap- ture. His army had been in long marches an d awful fights and fearful exhaustions, an( j when they came to Sparrow hill the s hout went up from tens of thousands of voices, wonder “Moscow, the Moscow!” I do not at transport. A ridge of hills sweeps round brilliance.' the city. A river semicir- c i es it with It is a spectacle that you place in your memory as one of three or fo r most beautiful scenes in all the earth. Napoleon’s army marched on it in four divisions, four overwhelming tor- rents of valor and pomp, down Sparrow hill and the through bridges the beautiful valley and across and into the palaces, which surrendered without one shot i resistance because the avalanche of troops was irresistible. There is the room in which Napoleon slept, and his pillow, which must have been very uneasy, for, 0 h, how short his stay! Fires kindled in a is? ±‘ y h which 95,000 men perished. How soon did triumphal march turn into horrible demo- i it i on! ?•'” hXof ChrSlfiS marchLd rnd have defeats had a lonff fearful baHles and have again and again mingled with the victor- les ' but to ' day w : C ,°T iu sl ^ ht of gre a t city ’ thecaiutaiofthe 5 , lit universe t the - . ‘j G S evel ?he d j ^th k at the juMle towers and hear m ring eternal Look at the house of many mansions, -where manv of our loved ones are. Be- hold the s t ree ts of burnished gold and hear the rumble of the chariots of those who are more t i, an conquerors. So far from be j ng driven back, all the twelve ga tes are wide open for our entrance. We are mar chi ^ on and marching on, and our every step + brings us shall nearer to the city. At w j iat we enter we have no power to foretell, but once enlisted amid ti, e b 2ood washed host our entrance is cer- tain. It may be in the bright noonday or t he dark midnight. It may be when the a .; r ; s ] a den with springtime fragrance or chilled with falling snows. But enter we must and enter we will through the grace offered us as the chief of sinners. Higher hills than any I have spoken of will guard that city. More radiant waters than saw m rne Kuss.an valley will pour through that great metropolis. No raging eonfla- gration shall drive us forth, for the only ff res kindled in that city will be the fires 0 f a splendor that shall ever hoist and never die. Reaching that shining gate, there will be a parting, but no tears at the parting. j, There will be an eternal ferewell. u fc n o sadness in the utterance. Then an d there we will part with one of the best friends we ever had. No plaee for ber i n heaven, for she needs no heaven. While love and joy and other graces enter heaven, she will stay out. Patience, beau- tiful Patience, long-suffering Patience, will a t that gate say: “Good-bye. I helped you i n the battle of life, but now that you have gained the triumph you need me no more. I bound up your wounds, but now they are all healed. I soothed your bereave- ments, but you pass now into the reun- ions of heaven. 1 can do no more for you, and there is nothing for me to do in a city where there are no burdens to carry. Good-bye. I go back into the wor i from which you came up to resume my tour among'the Bbspitals and siak rooms and bereft households and almshouses. The cry of the world’s sorrow reaches my ears, and I must descend. Up and down that poor suffering world I will go to assuage andcomfort and ^ustai.iuntil the world is. not one soul left that has need of pa- Hence.” ' GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS - Brief Summary of Interesting Happenings Culled at Random. NeW Trial Fof flaked bathes L. Baber, the Atlanta wife kin ’ w bo was convicted of murder and , sentenced , to , be , - hanged, _ , , has si- . ready been respited a number of tuneSj has been given a new chance to save b i 8 nec b through a decisioil of the sn- nHrt t< - P r ® m ® Con „ / Baker, it will be remembered, en- tered the dining roonS where bts wife was seated with other persons fftfd shot l?fer t0 death iu tbelr P resence - He bas never d , f nl ® d the crime, but the plea was made in his ffehfilf that he was insane when it was committed, ^ th .*{ Baker „ must liave fl regular jury trial *° determine whether he fo tft is not insane. The decision was rendered by Justice Lewis. Justices Lumpkin .«,! Fiah T ish dissented dissented. CoWrtot AptitntMCoartinsrilal FlndinKi Governor Candler has atmtoted the finding of the Savannah eonrtmartial company M, First infantiy, charged with disorderly conduct at Loui ville in Mav last. The court ordefed Har- ris rls dishonorablv aisDonoraoiy aiscnargea. discharged w which niCQ c * rr,s " mah “ oer,am dl8 * b "' ties. lu approving the findiug of the court Governor Candler issued an order P ,, a an ^°nm? loninz Harris Dar”*', so so that tuat his nis disabil- msauii Dies might be removed, and repn- mands flarthelmess Captain Wilson and Lienten- *nt fof their conduct to- _. r n Harris Ilia order and renri- V ,naD a t reaa . as n « follows• *0 |,0WB - 1 r approve the nudings of tue court iu this case because under the evi- deuce the defendant was technically ? „„a tt Hilt bis U onense offense was was commit commit- * ed , dader * reat . provocation and was more technical than real, and for these reasons ho is hereby pardoned of said offense ” Comptroller Ordrreil to Court. A writ of maudamus has been served nP0 n J- Comptroller i °mptroiier General General YVricbt H right to to , Uav ® 1,1111 aaow cahse before Judge J. H. pumpkin, iil tue Fulton superior court at Atlanta, why he should not conform to the board of arbitrators ap- P oint ® d to determine the .. amount „ v> . of , taxable property of the Flaut system of railroads in this state. Deuii.. K ’s Official B«-p.>rt. - C. W. Deming, of Brunswick, who attended the recent Southern Indus- < f nveotion a k New ° r lea .f 83 lbe olticial representative . of f Governor Candler, returned to Atlanta Friday and made his report to the governor, Concerning the part Georgia played m th convention coavenI10D . Mr Deminir deming said- said, txeorgia was kept prominently in the foreground throughout the conven- tion by .-neb men as CaDtain Lyman Hall, Colonel W. A. Hemphill, Gener¬ al John B. Gordon and other promi- nenfc members of the delegation. In their addresses on the floor and at other times they presented statements s y nw ; no . th» imnwinn!Ho« °PP ort «nitie 8 this „i„i state . ( onerea to investors, Union Station Promised to Savannah. President John Skelton Williams, of the Seaboard Airline is quoted as saying a tripartite agreement has been signed etween the Seaboard, South¬ ern and Plant System for the building of a $500,000 union depot at Savannah. Wan»» Keceiver Appointed. Samuel Greenbaum, of New York ** »«■>*». ms attornf *ys. to foreclose a morigage on the Union Paper Company, of Conyers, anti to appoint a receiver for ih % C0DceTri : A temporary restraining ° rder WaS also requested, so as to pre- venl the com P an y from changing, in any manner, the present status of the hu81neHS - Jndge Newman granted the restraining order and named Saturday, December 22d, as the date, for the beann K of receivership petition. The Wellhouse brothers, of Atlanta, are connected with the paper com- panv. 1 ” v ** w r- a ^ ConvenMon. Active preparations for the state convention of the Youner Men’s Ctirm- tian Association are now being made v State Seoretnrv 8 )V y ® tate ec J retar y Keld mi, The con- - veD t>o Q will .,. be held , at Athens, Feb- ruary 7 to 10, and the attendance this year promises to be the laraest in the history of the association .i' " DeWatps eie 8 9tes lr from om tho the Atlanta * , associa- will are be in now being chosen and there all more than a carload, Other cities and towns in Georgia will send large delecratirms 'Ti,» Tbe program * Ior » .. T e convention . pared “ and will be is in now being pre- the printers for pat the hands of days, publication in a few s . . 1 _ ®* Nok -Lb® general , tar levy of two and one- tenth mills for school purposes, which was enacted by l the last general assem- j,] v ’ _;n f b ® changed foi the °ext t * years. Inis was the decision of the house of representatives when the tax act was taken UD and nlnced on its passage ? and and when when the the effort eff to to reduce reduce t£le lev y two mills had .ailed, lire ways and means committee, through its chairman, Ed L. Wight, strODgly recommended the reduction f the rate nn a .. . P ®P e . .- r Georgia . had , increased . over $22,000 ® 0 o non - 000 m the last year and that with such L™, an increase \L a tax of two mills would n T 818 ? the ««nn nno a »nnro- PP ro P rift ted to , schools. . * * ToAdjudicaie Bond Election. superior court, basset Monday, ue cemuer ivtn, as tbe day for bearing argument upon the validity of the i«- cent bond election in Borne. A reoent law requires all bond elec¬ tions to go before a judge of the stipe- rior court and he is to pass upon the validity of the vote before the bonds can be issued by the county commis¬ sioners. Will Be Under Civil Berne*. Congressman « * Litiftgston , has • . ueeQ notified by Attorney General Griggs, in Washington, that all the places at the Atlanta federal prison will be nn- a. _ 0 01V1 .‘ 8 ^ rvicf * «*«ept those of chaplain, , , physician and Mipenutend- ent. ' The system in use fit Leavenworth prison will be put in force in the At- lauta institution. All applicants for places wdl be required to p«ss au ex- atsdnation for fitness. The examine- t } OQ ^ tl U CondttCted in AtIanta iu April, Colonel Livingston has Mia that he has received about 1,000 applications for places but says he can do nothing J vet 'etin in the matter of oenointments P pl “ a ”; The sapenntendent . , of the prison will receive a salary of $8,500 a je&T. Mr. Griggs is quoted as say.ng the sn- perinteiuient may not be taken from se ; n >. ^ ° Colonel , . Litingston is opposing . this P ,an ftnd want8 a Cfeorgian selected. »«sAi! js trying to have all the employes t „» congressional __^ district. Colonel Livingston says he has uot made «u^ recommendations for places, ftfulcaQ do nothine until \ttornev r;„ ue f n eral - rft j Griwirs “P, makes out li«i " st » uo w ,, t^at the Civil service rflle has been d , * c,detl «P on . applicants will havo to take their chances on exami- nation ‘ Georgia Utttenne K**ceipti. The annual report of the cornmis- eioner of internal revenue has been issued by the revenue department and contains much valuable information. Tbe repoit deals with tbe work of the different revenue agents throughout dif&rent the union, and shows the sources from which the government derives millions of dollars The report, as relates to Georgia, is very interes ing. Among other things, it ahows that this state holds the rec¬ ord, lu reference to illicit stills, or, in other words, the profession of “moon- shining.” North Carolina, however, is a close second. Tbe number of stills reported de¬ stroyed in Georgia is 673, the number removed 99, and the record of arrests is 245. The amount of money expend¬ ed in accomplishing the above result was $10,669.48. David A. Gates ie the agent in charge of the district em¬ bracing Georgia. Of the amount of material used iu the production of distilled spirits, the report shows that in Georgia 11,830 bushels of malt and G5.442 bushels ot corn were utilized, making a total of 76,772 bushels. The report shows that seventy-nine cigar factories in Georgia manufae- *“* during ,w yt ,r. ENTOMOLOGIST IS UNRELENTING. Infcct«tl Fruit Tree# Shipped Into Geor- (fia Conaigned to Flames. Georgia’s state entomologist destroy- ed nearly three thousand dollars worth of fruit Irees in Columbus Mdnday morning becansq they were infected with the San Jose scale. Tho seizure and burning of tho trees is quite in- teresting, as beiug part of a very vigorious crusade which the state eu- tomologist is waging jast now against the Sau Jo«<* scale, and, incidentally, all dealers who ship into the state trees so infect* d. This is the third or fourth seizure made during the past several weeks. WON’T ACCEPT BIG PRIZE. specialist Ha* yellow Fever Cure a ml •100.000 Await* Him. Dr. Angell Bellinzaghi, a yonng specialist whose success in the treat- menfc of sufferers from yellow fever recently attracted mneh attention in Mexico, is in New York on his way to Brazil. Dr. Bellinzaghi has been offered the $100,000 prize set aside by the Mexi- can government for the discovery of serum that would cure yellow fever, but he says tbat he is unwilling to accept the prize on the terms proposed by the Mexican government, although he is ready to give all sufferers from the disease the benefit of his cure MORE TELEGRAPHERS OUT. Sympathetic Strike of Operators on Ateh- Icon, Topeka and Santa Fe Road. Six hundred telegraph operators on the lines oj the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad struck Saturday in sympathy with the operators on the Gulf Colorado aDd Santa Fe railroad. a branch of the Atchison system, who went out Thursday. taking steps The company is as rapidly as possible to remedy the trouble. Agents who are also opera- tors have been supplied with telegraph instruments are now receiving and sending all messages governing the movement of trains. Negro’s Yietini Dies. A special^from . . , Borne, c* cvr- 7 -vf re Joseph White, tbe victim of Bud Ra f as died i ^ Sunday c„ n ;,, T uitrht night at at Earkv Lariy, , f rom the effects of the blow on her hefld ' / Lieutenant ~T7TZ Hobson Is Recover!ng, Presbyterian hospital in Now Monday, Lieutenant Hobson of a |j danger. NO. 42. FILIBUSTERS WIN OUT Oi btat8 , tv i. "ill n -ni Blocked 1 -r In the , Georgia Legislature, A VOTE WAS EFFECTUALLY PREVENTED *»Hatory Tactics Resorted to By Opponents ot D‘« Measure Result in it* Displacement. An At ‘ an * a speoial says: Under the rules of the Georgia house of repre¬ Bea tatives, which admits of a handful of meQ control i ing 8 tha eutire action of body, the depot . bill ... nas success¬ blocked Friday by the uso of dilatory tactics. Gathering around him a majority of tlie men who are against legislation, thirty-one iu num- ber, the member from Bibb county. Hon. Joe Hall, determined . . that , m spite of the majority of the house and . trRVeu .. of , tb »“ co ,ou ® re P or 0 * should not come up on its passage. Ten votes more than v&ough to pass ,iie 1,1,1 were r8ad j y [° f caa f 101 tlie measure, according to those ; fovoring **• »»>> «• •***?* *• *?■>" as a vote could bo cast, and the ooco- flents of oi the the bill bill resorted resortert to to a a filibuster hlibustei * 8 Iheir only hope of killing the bill, The entire morning was taken up in a stubborn wrangle. Every effort “ mn( ] e t h e T^e maioritv obsGuctiouTs^s to biinff on a TOle failed ,allea - ODS.rucnouists re re sorted to every parliamentary expe¬ dient afforded them under the rules to prevent a vote. So stubboru were the filibusters tbat U becama a PP a renf- early in tbe . lbat f b of ach,11 8e88, °? 8 °Pf B ^ & a tlie da J a 8 ® s81on a 8 en er one. bome f? h eTed tba ‘ tb ? obstruction- 18ts - , uld . k th8,r ^ 8I)d "° ee P tac cs f 8 vote f dunQ & the cutire 8e9 ‘ rbe °P‘f 108 WM ex ,P res88d . 80mo tbat .. the , blockers id mak ™« « 11 necc “- sary for the governor to call an extra session of the legislature to. pass nec- eS r^ r 7 bills. callF ;? llatory T«es , “ ions otloD of , s personal aud , 8 P®®<*® privilege , 8 . ,, ’ we r8 re8 ° r,edt8 ° ver and OV " 8 P, al “; It r was a red-hot f and spirited ngns from tbe start. Much feeling was man¬ ifested. There were many heated exchanged of repartee and the friends and oppo¬ nents of the bill engaged in a constant clash from the outset. Much time was taken up over a resolutien that the house adjourn sine d '°‘ The galleries were packed with peo¬ ple and tbe interest was intense, Several times the galleries vented their feelings by cheers or hisses and Speak- 8r Little was forced eeyeral times to threaten to clear the galleries. He at ?UlSTJ hissing. Many senators came ever from their wing of the capitol and watched tbe fight. The house was powerless to place the bill on its passage so long as the call for the ayes and Days continued, and finally at 12:30 o’clock, when it was evident tbat nothing could bo done at tbe session, the house agreed almost unanimously to an adjourn- ment, At the close of the session the steer- ing committee was called to order for the purpose considering the action of the minority. In the interest of economy, of time and money, two eon- siderations which the minority had failed to take into account or had ignored, the committee decided to put tbe depot bill aside for the time being and recommend that a number of sub- 8 |diary measures be placed on their passage. This arrangement met with tbe bear iy approval of the minority, f or j be afternoon session the seren- of the house remained undisturbed, SENATE ENTEB 8 PROTEST. The filibustering in the house on the aroused the senate and - tne .. depot bill _ latter body entered a severe protest, On the motion of Senator Ellis, the house wos informed that if it does not g e nd the tax act and the general appro- priations act promptly to the senate, tbe latter body will refuse to consider bills of the house until those two im- portant bills are eont. SAVANNAH A NAVAL STATION. Recruiting Offic* Opened to Secure Jack 1 ar* For Wnrahlp*. A recruiting office for the navy was Qed ftt Savanna b, Ga., Thursday, . g ^ fir8t time nava j recruits jj een 6 onght iu Savannah in some years The office in the custom house. . i 8 in charge of Lieutenant Commander j. b. Collins, who is accompanied by Surgeon D. H. Morgan. T he officers say they want specialty men with trades, and are looking for a u electricians they can get. They expe cttoi get a good number of^ Geor- giausfor service on Uncle Sam s war¬ ships. ---— LITTLE REPUBLICS AT OUTS. f . ■4- strained Relation. Said to „ Exist . . Bet Portnaai and Holland. A a cable cau « dispaUi^Mtiisbo ’V_ lne mini thM *. at Tbe Iia « u ® .Wd ha ^| two posts. It is dct erenee has arisen on exequatur to the Duti §o»ernmefit has ^ wit