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nun IST 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 'JP * *i ’ 1 tVIOnZAkV.*. 7*.%n.V x,jnrmcreln.-«ma w • vummwK vu ■- i ,-tm mim, , ■ mi 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