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GEORGIA NEWS STEMS
Brief Summary of Interesting
Happenings Culled at Random.
Convict Camp Abolished.
Tbe convict camp in Coffee county
Las been abolished by order cf Gov
ernor Candler on account of the con
victs being inhumanely treated. The
camp is under the supervision of the
comity commissioners of Coffee county.
The members of tho board of commis
sioners and the owners of the camp,
Messrs. Wall & Peagler, were sum
moned before the governor several
weeks ago to testify concerning the
conduct of the camp.
The state warden had reported that
the quarters of the convicts were inad
equate and not properly kept, and also
that tho convicts were not given a suf
ficient amount of food.
After an investigation the commis
sion decided to abolish the camp and
the order was issued.
Tho convicts will be turned over to
the authorities of Jefferson county to
work.
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Dublin Prepares For Horticulturist*.
The people of Dublin are making
considerable preparations for tho en
tertainment of the members of the
Georgia State Horticultural Society,
which convenes ou August Ist, and
the state Agricultural Society which
meets ono week later. A part of the
entertainment will probably consist
of a ride down the Oconee upon the
steamers “City of Dublin” and “K.
C. Henry.”
Oforjilß Butter nt I'Mrln.
Oeorgia butter l’roru the LaGrauge
oreaxnerv is ou exhibition at the
world’s fair in Paris. Last October,
at Gruntville, nt the convention of the
Georgia dairymen, the LaGrange
creamery butter took the sweepstakes
priae for the state as having the beat
butter on exhibition.
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Laftt Spike I>riven.
Tbomasville celebrated the coming
of the Tiftou, Thoinasville and Gulf
railroad with great euthusiasm. Ex
cursions were run from Tifton, Moul
trie and intermediate points, fully five
thousand people attending the cele
bration. The last spike in the road
■was driven by Captain E. M. Smith,
president of the I3auk of Tbomasville,
and an address of welco no was deliv
ered by Major 11. W. Hopkins aud
was followed in a short speech by
Judge Wilkes, of Moultrie. A big
basket dinner was given the visitors
in the city park.
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Tripp** I>r(l.
Judge Robert Pleasant Trippe, b<-
lieved to bo the last surviving member
of the confederate congress, the last
surviving member of the class of 1839
of the University of Georgia, and a
distinguished ex-member of the su
preme bench of this state, died at his
home in Atlanta Sunday night after an
illness of only about two hours. His
death resulted from paralysis.
He had reached the age of eighty
years, having been born in Jasper
county, this state, December 21, 1819.
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Ootton Mill For Fit7.ffer*ltl.
The Irwin County Cotton mills were
organized at Fitzgerald the past week,
and subscriptions to the capital stock
are more than SOO, OOO. A charter has
been applied for and oporatious will
commence at once aud be pushed un
til the factory is completed.
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WMI Ho Unique (Jaiherlng.
The Confederate encampment to be
held in Macon in September promises
to be one of the most uuiquegatherings
of the kind ever held in Georgia. It
is proposed to stretch tents for the
occasion on one of the main plazas of
the Central City and revive the camp
fire reunion in a realistic manner.
Governor Candler has been invited by
Macon’s chief executive to be present
and spend a night in one of the tents,
and the governor has accepted.
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From Au; r uit lo Athon*.
The Seaboard Air Line is at work
preparing for the construction of the
road from Augusta to Athens. A party
is now out verifying the survey. Some
big nows is expected from the Seaboard
within the next few mouths.
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The Kcllior* at Talltilnh.
Half a hundred editors of Georgia
weekly newspapers left Tallulah Falls
the past week declaring that they will
fill the world with the glories of the
falls aud the grandeur of the mount
ains. The editors did the falls in a
rush. The visit was a revelation to
most of them.
The people of Rabun and Habersham*
live in hope that these iniluential gen
tlemen of the weekly press will help
to bring this picturesque spot into
{greater favor with the public. The
falls deserve to be a great popular re
port,
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Athena* Invitation Accepted.
A telegram received from President
W. S. Coleman nuuouuces that Athens’
invitation to entertain the Georgia
Weeklv Press Association next year
was accepted unanimously. The Classic
City is delighted.
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Historic ttulhUntf Change* llrind-*.
The Leyden house, on Peachtree
street, Atlanta, the ancestral home of
the Leydens, one of Georgia’s promi
nent families, was sold a few clays ago
to James G. Trnitt, of LaGrange, for
$45,000. It was originally built iu
1840, aud has a highly interesting
history.
General George H. Thomas, of the
Union forces, used the house as head
quarters when the Federate entered
Atlanta. General Sherman also estab
lished headquarters there during his
stay in the city in 1804. The walls of
the mansion are pitted with bullet
holes, grim reminders of the time
when, with other Atlanta homes, it
furnished refuge for southerners xvhile
Federal guns boomed from adjacent
hills.
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A Question of Constitutionality.
The state supreme court has heard
argument in the case of the mayor aiul
council of Savannah vs. the Savuunaii
and Thunderbolt Street Railway Com
pany. The city of Savannah taxed the
street railway SIOO per mile as a busi
ness tax iu addition to the ad valorem
tax. The company operates about
nineteen miles of railway, and the tax
was based on the number of miles,
making the total amount to be paid
yeurly $1,900.
The company rook the position that
such a tax was unconstitutional and
that the city council of Savannah had
no right to impose such taxation.
If the decision in this case is in
favor of the city of Savannah, every
city in Georgia will have the right to
'ax street car companies and railroads
passing through them, and for the to
lul number of miles the company ope
rates.
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Wan An Overnight.
A telegram was received by Comp
troller General Wright a day or two
ago from the Pacific Mutual Life In
surance company of San Francisco,
faying the semi-annual returns accom
panied by a check had been forwarded
to Atlanta. The telegram stated that
the failure to send in the returns at
the proper time was due to an over
sight. The company will not be as
sessed the SSOO penalty.
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Ccnsu* Kulmate DUp lrates Savannah
There are many persons in Savan
nah who believe that, the estimate of
Census Supervisor Henry Blun, Jr.,
that the population of the city will
uot go beyond 52,000, according to the
census of 1909, is far too low, and
that it does not do the city justice.
I’he residents, for the most part, had
been building their hopes on from
09,000 to 65,000 people, at least, and
to come as far below as the supervisor
appears to think is disheartening and
discouraging to them.
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Melon Crop Curtailed.
Reports received at the agricultural
’apartment indicate that the melon
vop will be short this year. It is said
by the officials at the department that
ihe melons are uot bringing the prices
expected, and that in addition they
were not of the kind that have been
grown during the past few years in
Georgia.
The excessive rains during the
mouth of June played havoc with the
melon crop aud many of the fields in
the state were entirely ruined. The
railroad men say that the number of
ears handled is far below the number
shipped last year.
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1> c'are Six Per Cent. Dividend.
The stockholders of the Monroe
cotton mills have re-elected the old
board of directors and the same offi
cers for the ensuing year. The mill
l as been very prosperous during the
past several mouths, and felt fully
authorized to declare a simi-aunual
dividend of six per cent. This is the
largest dividend ever paid, but the
managers believe that they will be
able to keep up the stroke.
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At Their Old Trick*.
President Jordau, of the Georgia
Cottou Growers Association, says the
bears are trying some of their old
tricks against cotton, aud have now
spread the report that Georgia has in
creased her cotton crop 225,000 acres.
“This is a crime,” says Mr. Jordan.
“Auybody who takes the trouble to in
vestigate the least bit knows that the
acreage has been reduced instead of
being increased. I have been through
nearly every county iu this and ad
joining states, aud I have studied the
matter carefully.
“In my opinion there is a big de
crease in acreage ami the yield will
be quite small in both sections.
The farm labor is not available in
the first place for cultivating an in
creased acreage.
“Iu the next place the wheat and
oats ami corn that have been planted
on the iambs made it impossible for
more cottou to have been planted.
“I am looking for 11 cent cotton in
the fall in spite of the early tricks of
the bears.”
Affre** to Pat In JMnnt.
If the Courier-Journal Publishing
Company, of Louisville, Ky., is
awarded the contract for state print-
U"fTi)o hair has
flriifl no life.
It is starved. It keeps
coming out, gets
thinner and thinner,
bald spots appear,
then actual baldness.
The only good hair
f °°d
y°u gKkaM I \
can i "*w
?.- nair
kiser
the roots, stops
starvation, and the
hair grows thick and
long. It cures dan
druff also. Keep a
bottle of it on your
dressing table.
•It always restores
color to faded or gray
hair. Mind, we say
“ always.”
51.00 a bottle. All druggist*.
“ I havo fonnil your Il.uir Vigor
to 1-3 the beat remedy X have ever
tried for tho hair. ‘My hair was
falling out very bad, so I thought
I would try a ‘ootMo of it. I had
used only one bottla, and tny liair
stopped falling out, and it is now
real thick and long.”
>'ASCV J. IIOCNTCASTI.E,
July 23, 1803. Yonkers, N. Y.
Wrtto (ho Doctor,
ITe will send von lii book on The
Hair and Scalp." Ask him any ques
tion you wish about your hair. Yon
will receive a prompt iniawor free.
Address, 1)U. J. C. AYER,
Lowell, Mase.
A Wonderful suecess.
The Cincinnati, 0., Enquirer is the
only paper in the United States that
has maintained the high, hard-price
subscription rates up to this date.
The daily Enquirer costs 814.00 a
year and its weekly issue $l.OO a year.
Nothing but actual merit and true
worth in a newspaper could maintain
such rates in these days.
Its circulation, price, size and en
terprise are like its success, truly
wonderful.
The native dress of the better class
of Japanese of both sexes is a loose
wrapper, open at the chest and at the
waist contined by a girdle.
Malsby & Company,
?9 S. Broad St., Atlanta, Ga.
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Southern dental College
DENTAL DEPARTMENT
Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons
Oi.de.st College in State. Fourteenth An
nual Seeslou opens Oct. 3; closes April noth.
Those contemplating the study of DentUtry
should write for catalogue.
Address S, SV. FOSTER, Dean.
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Just out and a splendid seller. Our New
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Complete and attractive. Sample and
terms sent ui>u receipt of '£> cents.
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GURLS Eisfo^'
Im Best Cough sjrup. Taetes Good. Use P*j
In time. Boid by druggists. ryj
mg, tho company has agreed to put up
a SIO,OOO priutiug plant in Atlanta, so
that no delay will be occasioned to the
state.
A bond in tho sum of 820,000 is re
quired of the company awarded the
contract as a guarantee for the faithful
performance of its task. The Louis
ville company does the state printing
6f Florida, aud claims that by estab
lishing a plant in Atlanta it will place
itself on the same footing with other
bidders so far as convenience to the
state is concerned.
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Han Full Quota of Troop*.
No more military organizations ca
be accepted by the state.
Inspector General Obear says that
the ranks of the infantry are tilled and
no more companies could be mustered
iu. There are several vacancies in
the cavalry regiments, but at this time
the state does not oare to take in any
new organizations, as there is not suf
ficient amount of money to pay for the
equipment.
Colonel Obear said that the state
had the troops needed at present, and
it would be some time before any more
would be needed. It cost a great deal
more to equip a cavalry troop than it
does an infantry compauy, and for this
reason no new cavalry company can
betaken in.
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Kick on Freight Rates.
The mayor and council of Tifton
have filed a complaint with the rail
road commission charging discrimina
tion in freight rates on the part of
several railroads eutering the town
and their connections.
The petition filed with the commis
sion states that the various roads have
formed a combination against the city
of Tifton, and give other towns of
southwest Georgia lower rates on
freight. The petition alleges that
rates to aud from Atlanta to Tifton, to
and from Savannah to Tifton, to and
from Brunswick to Tifton, and to and
from Columbus to Tifton are much
higher than the rates from the same
places to Cordele, Valdosta, Albany,
Bainbridge and other Georgia towns.
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Street Fair For Athens.
Athens is to hold a street fair. The
Athenaeum is behind the movement
aud what that dub takes hold of gen
erally succeeds.
REPUDIATED BY DEWEY.
Admiral Says Alleged Interview
With Filipino Representative
Is a Base Fabrication.
A Washington dispatch says: The
letter received by Senator Pettigrew
from one of Aguinaldo’s generals,
T . Alejandriuo, containing an alleged
account cf an interview between him
self and Admiral Dewey on board the
Olympia, in the hay of Hong Kong, in
April, IS9B, in which it is stated that
Admiral Dewey promised independ
ence to ihe Filipinos, was shown to
the admiral Monday by an Associated
Press repot ter. The admiral charac
terized it a “tissue of falsehoods.” He
declared it absurd ou its face.
“I not oidy had no power to prom
ise independence to tbe Filipinos,”
said he, “but the whole tenor of the
words put in my mouth s.tamps them
as false. I am made to say things
which I never thought of and which I
could never have uttered. You will
notice that lam addressed in the al
leged interview as ‘admiral,’ when at
the time 1 was a ‘commodore.’”
The admiral said he had never heard
of Alejaiidrino. Several Filipinos,after
much importuning, did come aboard
the Olympia at Hong Kong. They
were anxious to be taken to Manila.
“I considered their representations
of little importance,”said the admiral,
“and I did not take them to Manila.
Later I gave permission to Aguinaldo
and about a dozen others to come to
Manila. All that they were anxious
about at that time was au end of the
tyranny of Spain against which they
had heed fighting. After the destruc
tion of Moutejo’s fleet the city virtual
ly surrendered, and I am satisfied if
we had 5,000 troops there at that time
we could have gone ashore and beeu
received by the I ilipiuoe as deliverers.
They bad absolutely no thought then
of independence. That was an after
thought" of their leaders during the
interim between the smashing of the
Spanish fleet and the arrival of the
United States troops.”
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BOERS ARE PERSISTENT.
Sharp En(Etinont Which ltesults In De
feat of Kruger’s Men.
The war office in London has re
ceived the following dispatch from
Lord Roberts:
“Pretoria, July 22.—The Boers
made a determined attack yesterday to
destroy a post at the rail head, thir
teen miles east of Heidelberg, which
they attacked with three guns and a
pompon and surrounded. They were,
however, beaten off after a sharp en
gagement before reinforcements, sum
moned from Heidelberg, had arrived.
Keeoinj Attractive.
A woman can make or mar her at
tractiveness. She can by an utter dt
regard of hygienic laws and a npwio
Oi to:k-I ariMsork-s lose entirely that
earth of -nee and form that natu™
obxiohsly intended should be hers it
tv ill do no woman harm to know that
a t ew drops of a soothing lotion will
transform a pair of rough red hands
into soft white ones; that systematic
care of the complexion will keen it
smooth and ward off wrinkles, and
that an eagerness to read clever books
and to know things and a lively Iq.
terest io the current events of the dav
will brighten the eyes as nothing else
can, except it bo tho sympathy of the
man she loves. The woman posses.
Elcg this knowledge is f ar mo re
charming and attractive than she la
whose path no beautifying whims
have ever come. And the woman
who applies this knowledge is the one
who will develop into the entertaining
interesting grandmother of the next
generation, as dainty and as straight
and as youthful as was the
the past generation.
In Boston.
Minerva—l wouldn’t think of mar
rying him. Why, he said he hoped
he could make me happy!
Diana—What is the objection to
that?
Minerva—Why, lie ought to know
that mortals are put on earth to fulfill
missions—not to be happy!—Puck.
A Wesleyan Definition.
“What is co-education, my son?”
“It is a foolish system of education,
father, whereby the male students are
perpetually condemned to see them
selves crowded from first honors by an
inferior sex.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Millions for Baseball
A million of dollars are every year
upon the game of baseball, but large as this
sum Is, ft cannot begin to equal the amount
spent by people In search of health. There
is a sure method of obtaining strength, and
it is not a cotkly one. We urge those who
have spent much and lost hope to try Hos
tetter s Stomach Bitters. It strengthens the
stomach, makes digestion easy und natural,
and cures dyspepsia, constipation, bilious
ness and weak kidneys.
(Sort of Ho'iinprmi; XVi-h.
Mrs. Probe—“ That man who had typhoid
sends word he can’t pay your bill for a month
J’et.”
Dr. Probe— “Confound him! I almost wish he
hadn’t bee.; sick!”—Life.
To Cure a Cold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Taclsts. AU
druggists rotund the money if it falls to cure.
K. W. Drove s signature is ou each box. 350.
A }!! Vacation.
“You and your wife <1( n’t seem to talk to
each "th‘T much when you travel.”
“No; we agreed befoio we started that we’d
get n s'ed.’’—t. hleogu Record.
FITS permanently cured. No fl t.s or nervous
ness after first day’s use of Dr. 1C Hue’s Great
Nerve Itestorer. .f!J trial bottle and treatise free.
Dr. It. a. Kline, l.td., 931 Arch at.. I’hlla., Pa.
In the Rhetoric Cln.s.
Young Professor—Give me au example of
ear. asm.
Mvee: Jtmioress—The phrase. “Man’s superi
ority to woman,”—Somerville Journal.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces in2.amma
uou, ai,aj a pain, cures wind colic. ~3c. a oottle.
I do not believe Plso’s Cure for Consumption
has an equal for coughs and colds. —John F.
Boyer, Trinity springs, Ind, Feb. 13, IJUO.
XV. H. Griffin, Jackson, Michigan, writes;
“Suffered with Catarrh for Ilf teen years.
Hall s t utarrh Cure cured me.” Sold by Drug
gists, 75c.
Edith—Yes; that is one of my ancestors; had
ts head cut off iu the tower, I believe,
lieggy—liawl elevator accident, 1 suppose*
PmmMi
Periods
are overcome by Lydia E-
Pinkham’s Veg etable
Compound*
Fifty thousand happy
women testify to this in
grateful letters to fifirs-
Pinkhanu
Menstruation is A
severe strain on a
man’s vitality a if it * s
painful something
wrong which
| Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compo""^]
will promptly set right; if
excessive or irregular
write to Mrs- Plnkhant,
Lynn, Massa, for advice-
Evidence abounds tb°t
Mrs- Pinkham’s advice
end medicine have for
many years been ho p 9
women to be strong- no
other* advice is so un
varyingly accurate,
other medioine has sue
a record of cure *