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OUT ME LAW
RIGID ENFORCEMENT OF THE
CTATE GAME LAWS BE
ING MADE.
MISAPPREHENSION AS TO LAW
Comrois-cion Repe ls Convictions in
* Fulton and Olhn Count.es of
*v the -date.
, „ —Atlanta.
•As?. - *'
Vigeic.us enforcement <.f the game
laws of the state* is lining nu de l>y the
county pa me wardens, acting under
iH< instruct iona of Stale < 1 ; ■ Uom
inis. it.a. 1 ! Charles 1* l.'avi i lin e ne
gre.-.i, prosecuted bj <• me - ' n
Will I.imwer, were ltnin . guilty in
the city criminal court and hned $lO
each by Judge Andy ( . llioun. '• he
~-c ,■; i,: e eh casi. which wen taxed
j:gainst Cue defendants, hr< a. lit the
total amounts paid to something over
thirty dollars.
\t i! e line time Mr. /’ninnier rc
period that he had two alleged viola
tors of the law hound over to the
superior court in DeKalb vounty M;
Davis said tliat lie had just received
reports 1 1 font co-nvictii.ns in Hougli
erty county; also the report of a con
viction from Crisp county.
Commissioner Davis declare; that
he still meets with considerable- mis
apprehension among hunters as t< the
ter ms of the law. Sonic have the idea
that if they aie going i<> hunt in only i
one county they can take out ;i license
in a county other than that of their
residence for .$1 The $1 charge is for
hunting solely in the county of the
.'hunter’s residence. Ii lie goes into a
county other than that In which lie
lives, he must secure a state license
paying s.'! therefor
Another false idea which many ap
pear to have is that rahbits, not Doing
protected by the game law, may be
hunted without a lie* use. The only in
stances in which a man can hunt with
out a license, when lie is hunting on
his own land, or when he i; hunting on
Ipnd in the militia district of his resi
dence with the written permission of
the owner.
Some also imagine that there is no
protection afforded 'possums by the
law, because they are not mentioned
in the game act of 1911. ’Possums
were provided protection by a law
passed many years before the last
came act. The open season for hunt
ing them is from October 1 to March 1.
Commissioner Davis says that there
seems to be a general disposition on
the part if the people to observe the
lav; when they understand it. The
county wardens have been instructed
to keep constantly on the lookout for
; law violations and to prosecute rigor
k cusly.
Inheritance Tax No Joke.
Aftt :• Seeping over the fact for
mere than four months, Georgia has
waked up at last to the fact that the
inheritance tax, passed by the last
legislature, is not a joke.
Ordinaries and executors, under the
pain of SI,OOO fine, are now carefully
complying with the statute all over
the state, and tax collectors have been
informed as to the duties which they
have been neglecting.
' Tlie inheritance tax law has gone
through an experience without para!
lei In the history of Georgia. For four
months it has been a law on the stat
ute books, yet there hasn’t been a
single compliance with it —at least,
there hadn’t been up to the first of
last week. Executors and ordinaries, f
each time they participated in a trans j
fer of property to heirs, violated the !
law and ’aid themselves open to a pos
sible one thousand dollar fine.
It appears that all were blissfully
igncrant of the way the law was sup
posed to operate, and that now that
full information lias been put in all
their hands, the inheritance tax will
begin to bring a steady stream of
gold into the state’s treasury.
C übs Need Regulating.
The number of Christmas drunks
this year lias convinced the police
net only that the locker clubs need
better regulating, but tiiat the de
partment has by no means succeeded
in its efforts to weed out the blind
tigers.
Thcugh dozens of negro men and
women have been arrested for ped
dling whiskey, it still flows on De
catur street, and nine out of ten of
‘he negroes who hav • been arrested
i'er fighting or disorderly conduct, had
guide.see on their breaths and in their
staggering legs that the jags they
had ■. :e not purchased at the beer
ice.lf ''•ns.
A!1 in all, looking at it from the
v.■ r,. t .side it is probable tint stiil
There la net as much drunkenness
i among tlu poorer clas this Chri. t
, mas as there used to be when whis
[ 'ey oulcc s were open and in full
blast.
i Tdv.se Farmers to D.vcrs fy Crops.
A bulletin will be i ued by tin de
li i: art men t cf agriculture iu a a oarty
i date cn crop diversification. The
£ ocl'ict has been compiled by tlie
• •ends cf the different branches of the
department and is specially designed
*(c prepare the farmers of the state
for the invasion cf the boll weevr..
Attention is called tq a nuni or of
crops which can be raiser profitably
in Georgia which have so far been
very much neglected by farmers.
it is shown, among other things,
that great prefit may he made from
the growing cf oats.
Don't Care for Music.
Atlanta is the musical anomaly of
■the world, the c:iiy American cltytk.it
ha- succeeded in bringing tin* Met
repo ilan Oj.oru company out of New
York year after year, yet Atlanta now
.-tands convicted as a community that
d< • not care l'er music!
A a:.ta has performed marvels in
- '.'i *g Caruso tile biggest audience
iin ever sang to; in making grand
i ope ra pay here when it actually didn't
;ay in New York; in persuading in.
I na use audience s to applaud Wagncri
m i. usic to tin* echo; a tiling new
in tlit* South; and yet Atlanta’s popu
biMcii us a whole cares a bout as ni.ic:
.er the real music as the wild Indian 1
did when they used to roam these
hills.
It has taken some time to prove ,
this. Hundreds of dollars haw I si.
li st in the* last two or thre e- years
' n the false* assumption that because
Atlanta performed a miracle wit i
gianel opera, it wa: a music-iovis g
immunity; impresarios have cursed
At’antn; prhna donna: have* torn their !
hair; e . e of the fiuesi band.- in the
world lias played lure to empty cat-,
C.idski catnc and had to cancel he
ngn e merit because It \ as impossi- ,
hie to : II 200 ticket : Mary Gamin
got tin* frost of her career; h :ra
zinni’s manager, afte.r he saw the
.tudit'im* that grei ted her, would have 1
rot drunk if he hadn’t been a gen -
tie-man, and v;cu!d have commit'< ■:!
uicide if lie hadn't heen a good sport
Time after time Atlantians have
beet: given the opportunity to hear
ii :I m.,,dc the best music but wiiii
out the splurge and glitter and spec i
tacular, and they have taken about
is much interest in it as a mole ;
would.
This coining spring they will pin 1
wand opera over again in a blaze of
glc'y. They will make it a turee
ringed circus and a championship hall
■; " Ce mkined. They will pile* up
tiie gate receipts anel shout themselves
hoarse ever Wagner. I Jut for music
as music they don’t give a tin! ur’s
dam.
In all Atlanta there are pos ibly
thre e hundred people of whom noth
ing of the above is true. It yet re
mains to be seen whether they wilt
he* the litt!e leaven that will lift the
tump.
Difficult to Deal W'th Thieves.
The difficulty the local police nave
m dealing with auto thieves lias been
complicated by the fact, proven re
cently, that when a thief gets out of
Atlanta and is arrested in some oth
r town, there is no way to bring him
back unless the owner of the stolen
auto cheeses to dig down into his
wn pocket and pay the expenses of
sending an officer.
It isn't the fault of the police. It
is the fault of the law. No funds are
provided to bring back a thief who
gets out of Atlanta, after committing
petty larceny. The case which brought
these facts to liglu was that or Jo
eph \Y. Hill, whose car was stolen
and taken to Valdosta. He had to
ay the expenses of sending a private
letoctive to get the (liter ano ortng
liii i lack.
Evilc of Modern Dances.
'I lie e vils of modern dances, sex
drama.-, and slit skirts a.c vigorously
treated in a leading editorial ;n me
cum at issue of Frost’s Magazine,
The Call of tlie South.”
"Wo commend the action of the |
churches and women s cialis of Geor
gia," the editor says, and goes on to j
comment on the tendency which has
its outward manifestation in such
fancies.
"We must grapple with our Impuls
es and control these grotesque ten
dencies. It is a kind of Hallowe'en
madness from which we must awake
ourselves and get properly on our
feet amid the new forces we are un
! ler; we must regain our seriousness
| and self-poise.”
“Should we fail to do this Individ*
! ual'.y and socially, we either shall be
carried deeper and deeper into nerv
ous and erratic excesses, or heaven
will become hopeless, and the hand
of divine helpfulness will be with
drawn.”
The first nervous tension ef mod
cm existence is held principally to
b'.anm for the change in r.io.al ?ondi
; Former Atlantan Honored.
Y. iiiiam Hurd Hillyer and Alfred C.
Newell, who were Atlanta's represen
: tatives at the dinner given Hon. Hub
ert Adamson in New \c;:„ run, re
named to this city, and give ,-.nw
! ir.g accounts of the honors which were
heaped upon the Atlantan and South
erner who in the past ten years lias
become one of the big figures in New
York's municipal affairs.
Mr. Ililiyer declared that the din
ner, in his estimation, was the most
remarkable honor ever paid in the
North to a native Georgian at the
metropolis, and in some respects the
mi -t roimr'kuMi over received by any
New York citi: 1. The dinner, he said,
was i . ia . r rowth of tlu- sponta::; •us
>nthu asm of tire whole of Now
Y erk's better elenu at, for a mar.
whose brilliant and unselfish efforts
aid i. -ait d in the triumph of tin
Fusion ticket at the recent election
Coientlsts to Gather.
Tin lust coin, uion of the present
•r and the first convention of the
.iiumg year in Atlanta will be that of
the American -Yssociaticn for the Ad
v: ('client ci Science, wind] meet:
1 - e mber 29 to January 3.
The local executive ci ramittee ol
die urgei.it.a;ion of scientism, of which
■I. L. Brittain, state supei
>-* public itirtrt: tio.n. is chairman, will
m et in the chain b r of commerce ha)
•o compute the final arrangements fo;
I this convention.
' i:e convention will be one of the
b* si i..at has be•-li in Atlanta
THE COFFF.R (OIMV PROGRESS, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
DfICREE CE DEATH
FOB ALL LQOTERS
REBEL LEADER ISSUES DRASTIC
ORDER FOR PROTECTION
Or FOREIGNERS.
BAND CF HEEELS EXECUTED
Adi Stores Czr.-f seated in Clwhar. .ua
Locseei and Scaled —Many
Caidiers Desert.r.g.
( liihuahua, Mexico. —“Any one who
nereafter loots or molests property of
foreigner: or Mexican:: will be execut
; ed. The.- right to confiscate property
will i -t on.y with tin- Constitutional
ist government. ’’
Gen. Francisco Villa issued this or*
| der as showing hi: i iter.tion to tn.iin
. ain strict military discipline. As an
example lie executed cm the pia::.. a
band of i - v : i d been £<
raky by courtmart- 1 of sacking the
: hcrae of a we.-atthy Mexican. While
tire six rebels were marched bet me
!.he firing squad tin stolen goods
..ere rc .urnetl to !’: owner.
All stores ec:*:; t d from the- ex
pelled Spaniards i ,e closed and : -ul
ed. Orders were given that no mere
roods are to he taken from them.
This action was b loved to have re
al ltcd from the protest of the Unitec-
States against the seizure of Spanish
property. Already great eiuantities of
the goods, valued at several minion
llolla"s, had teen utilized by the rob
e’s. The remainder of the property
is to he- held pending an investiga
tion as to whether the owners aided
he Huerta government.
General Villa proclaimed amnesty
to Federal soldiers who would sur
render a:i<! give up their arms. Many
Federal troops are reported to have
jcined the rebels. Three hundr'd
the usand pounds or rille ammunition,
and 500,000 pounds of artillery am
munition were recovered from a lake
east of Chihuahua, where they were
hidden by General Mercado’s evacuat
ing Federals.
500 NATIVES DIE IN LAVA
Terrible Details of Voicanic Eruptions
on Ambrim Island.
Sydney, N. S. W. — Incoming stemn
ers bring terrible details of the re
cent volcanic eruptions on the Island
of Ambrim in the New Hebrides group
in which 500 natives lost their lives.
Witnesses of the disturbance describe
as having been so sudden and vio
lent that they expected to see the
whole we stern side of the island elis
appear.
With a terrific roar, which was fol
■ lowed with a rapid succession or artil
lery-like detonation, all the craters ot
tlie volcano entered into full activi
ty, spouting flames and lava and
i throwing out huge boulders.
Great streams of lava soon were
rushing down the slopes, cutting off
tlie villagers from escape. In one in
stance two torrents of the molten mass
joined and made an island of one en
tire section of a village. Here fifty or
sixty persons perished.
The scenes at night were awe-inspir
ing. Flames shot into tlie air to a
height of a thousand feet, illuminating
the whole scene of destruction. The
ocean seemed to boil as huge super
seated masses of stone fell into the sea
and streams of lava poured into the
bay. Dust from the craters gradually
formed a black cloud which blotted
out tlie light of the stars.
Tlie British hospital buildings were
wiped out, but previous to their de
struction the doctors pluckily remov
ed all the patients to a launch and
escaped with them.
Secretary Bryan in Florida.
Jacksonville, Fla. —Secretary of
State William Jennings Bryan, Mrs.
Bryan and their little grandson ar
rived here from Asheville, N. C„ and
spent the day with Mr. Bryan's cous
in. former Governor W. S. Jennings.
They left for Miami, where Mr. Bry
an will see for the first time his
new country home. In commenting
upon the new currency law, Mr. Bry
an said it was a sweeping victory for
President Wilson and that it would
| prove of vast benefit to the country
generally, the banks as weii as the
people.
Roosevelt Made Things Hot.
Washington.—Members of the diplo
matic corps, especially representatives
from the South American countries,
were greatly interested in a report
reaching Washington that former
President Roosevelt and Dr. Marcia!
Martinez, at one time Chilean min
ister to tlie United Stau s. had clash
ed at Santiago d- Chile on account
of divergent views on the Monroe eoc
trine. The Chilean is reported to have
strongly dissented from the Roosevelt
vi; w that the much discussed doctrine
stiil is a vital is ue
Murdered Aiding Daughter.
Fort P'-r.n, X. Y . —Posses of depu
ty fherii • a 1 ci i :ct with biood
k and.- < i :.r(!:ing the countryside
• the mar. or men who murdered
i" sf r the y had bear iiis
laughter, h: tacrine, 20 years old,
Tl.e father was
" v. i:t:- - aid < : hi.
laughter. The murderer or murder
;rs \v; re after Barrett’s money, a ccn
si.h rablo sir.:., but this was hidden
bellied a wall panel and was un
.ou'l'.ed.
SAPP’S PHARMACY
THE PROGRESSIVE DRUGGISI
PHONE US YOUR NEEDS, WE HAVE IT
PHONE 144 AND SEE
There is comfort in knowing where to get what
you want when you want it. Our Line of Drugs
Medicines, 1 oilet Ait lies, Rubber Hoods, Station
ery, Candies, etc., is extensive and will surety
please you We make a specialty of prescription
work. Drop in. Feel at home here.
SAPP’S PHARMACY
102-104 E. Ward Si. Douglas, Georgia
We Handle Native and Western Meats, Fish
Apalachicola Oysters
Also A Line of Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables etc.
Phone 261 Sycamore st, 1 Vuglas, Ga
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The Grocerymen
Our Sl ock of Grocer
ies is Fresh and com
plete. Phone us be
fore beginning a meal
We have it. A nice
line of fruits always
on hand. . . „
207 E. Ward-st, Phone S 3
Douglas, Georgia