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PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE
IN THE HOUSE.
June 30.
A kill by Mr. Foster of Cobb was
providing where a common carrier
(nils to settle an over charge, duly
denuded for thirty days, the person
to whom the overcharge is due can,
■poo establishing the correctness of
fcis claim in the courts, recover, in
addition to his claim, a penalty of not
less than SIOO, the same increasing
with an increase in the amount of
the claim, was passed.
The hill permitting depositions to
%e taken before justices of the peace
and notaries who are exofficio justi
ces of the peace, was passed.
The bill prohibiting any unauthoriz
ed person from stopping, starting or
•tberwise interfering with a locomo
tive. was passed. Also a bill by Mr.
Iteid of Putnam requiring monthly
publication of the doings of the board
•f commissioners of roads and reve
nues of Putnam county.
A resolution providing that the
House visit the property of the state
in Chattanooga in spite of the fact
that the senate had declined to go
was referred to the committee on tem
perance. The house adjourned until
Id o’clock Wednesday morning.
July 1.
Governor Smith’s message was re
ceived by the house, urging a formal
approvement, of the application of the
Uairersity of Georgia to be made a
participant in the Carnegie foundation
(wad, which provides a pension for
•ged teachers under certain condi
tioas. It was shown that the univer
sity would receive this benefit if for
■ud approval was given by the trus
tees, the governor and the assembly.
Aa lavltation was received from the
Ladies’ Memorial Association and
Kennesaw chapter United Daughters
•f the Confederacy, to attend the un
veiling of the monument at Marietta
•a July 7. A resolution, providing
that the general assembly attend in a
body, was adopted by the house.
A bill providing that all locomotives
•n main lines be equipped with elec
tric headlights beginning July 1, 1909,
was passed 131 to 0.
A hill to license the carrying of ri
les and pistols was defeated by a
vole of 73 to (14.
July 2.
The larger part of the Thursday
■Turning session of the house of rep
vesentaUv.es was taken up in the dis
cussion of amending the law' which
1 units the rights of recovery of dam-!
ages to certain members of the im
mediate family of the deceased in
case of homocide. The amendment,
if passed, will permit any personal
representative of the deceased to re-j
cover damages. It was sent back to
the judiciary committee.
Mr. Edwards of Habersham, speak- j
iig to a question of personal privel-1
ege. denied the newspaper report that
subcommittee, which inspected the i
convict camp of the Bibb Brick Com
pany, was drunk when the inspection
was made.
July 3
Mr. Edwards, of Habersham, pre
sented a resolution, calling for* the
appointment of a committee of five,
tf which three are to come from the
fcoutui, to investigate the charges of
drunheunesß, made bv John T. Moore,
•f the LUbb- Brick company of Macon,
against Representatives Edwards,
Powell and Bowen and Senator Staple
ton. at the time that these gentlemen
acting as a sub-committee from the
general assembly, inspected the con
vict camp of said brick company.
Speaker Slaton appointed as the
committeemen on the part of the
fcoose Messrs. Atkinson, of Morgan;
Mama, of Elbert, and Johnson, of
Jeff Davis.
ff resolution by Mr. Candler of De-
Kalb, granting the request of the
trust res of the University of Georgia
that the university and its eligible
tranches, be made eligible to partici
pate in the Carnegie foundation fund
ior aged teachers, was adopted.
July 6.
The third week of the house of rep
resentatives commenced on Monday
■naming bt 10 o'clock. Immediately
after the preliminaries of opening the
session, two bills by Mr. Wright of
Richmond relating to the collection of
tack taxes and the arbitration of con
tested assessments, were taken up by
■aanltnous consent, read the third
time and passed.
On motion of Mr. Hall of Bibb it
was decided that when the house ad
journs it adjourn until Tuesdav morn
hag at 5 o' clock, instead of 10 o’clock,
as has been the custom up to this
time.
After considerable discussion the
llykes bill, amended, penalizing tele
graph companies $25 for failure to de
liver messages was passed by a vote
•f t§2 to 27.
July 7.
Immediately after the house met at
9 arJock Tuesday morning a number
vff lecml bills were placed on their pns-
At 5:30 o’clock the special order for
•he day—the Alexander bill for the
■(tension of the Western and Atlantic
■afftwad to the sea—was taken up. the
•muse resolving into the committee of
•he whole with Mr. Wise of Fayette
ha the chair. Mr. Alexander, the au
thor of the bill, spoke for almost three
•mors on the merits of the hill and
■turn the house adjourned at 1 o'clock
dfl had the floor. The argument will
ha continued at the next session of
IN THE SENATE.
June 30.
Senator Williford of the Twenty
eighth gets the credit of the first gen
eral bill to be passed by the senate.
His measure provides for uniformity
of school terms. Mr. Knight ques
tioned the wisdom of the bill and op
posed its passage. The bill was pass
ed by a vote of 25 to 4.
A petition from the penitentiary
committee, asking that Senator How
ard be designated as a member of the
committee, was read, and President
Bryant announced the appointment of
Mr. Howard.
A bill by Mr. Crittenden to prohibit
any ordinary, county commissioner,
judge of any city court or county
court, sheriff, solicitor of any court,
or other county or court officer of this
state, from hiring or turning over to
any private person or persons, or any
corporation, etc., and person who may
hereafter be convicted and sentenced
for misdeameanor in any court was
passed.
July 1.
The first, business of the senate was
the consideration of the Overstreet
bill, making the possession of a fed
eral liquor license prima facie evi
dence of .violation of the prohibition
law. it was tabled by a vote of 22 to 18.
Message from governor was received.
July 2.
The Weaver bill, to prohibit unfair
commercial discrimination between
different localities of Georgia, and
aimed particularly at Standard Oil,
was passed by the senate Thursday
morning, by a vote of 29 to 10. The
measure was debated at considerable
length. Senators Henderson, L. A.
Akin, Knight and Camp championed,
aggressively, the measure, while Sen
ator Hawes opposed it vigorously.
The committee appointed to report
the Hardman bill for the imposing of
penalties upon any common carrier
who intentionally converts to its own
use any commodity entrusted to it,
recommended that it pass. Mr. Hard
man spoke briefly in behalf of the
bill. An amendment by Senator
Hawes of the 30th was adopted and
the bill was passed.
The senate accepted an invitation
from the Ladies Memorial association
of Marietta to be present at the dedi
cation of the new Confederate monu
ment in Marietta cfemetery, July 7.
July 3
The senate was in session for an
hour and a Half Friday morning and
adjourned until Monday morning ac
10 o’clock, this in face of the senate's
recent refusal to adjourn to visit
Chattanooga.
The first bill of the session to pass
both houses was put through the sen
ate without objection. It was a
measure by Mr. Dunbar of Richmond,
providinng for the vilidation of muni
cipal and county refunding bouds. The
bill was amended in a slight particu
lar, and when this amendment is
agreed to by the house, the measure
will go to the governor for his signa
ture. It will become the first law of
the session of 1908.
July 6.
The senate mot at 12 o’clock from
the adjourned session. 'A good many
senators' were absent. A resolution
from (he house asking for an investi
gation of the charge of drunkenness
made by John T. Moore of Macon
against the committee that inspected
the convict camp at the Bibb Brick
company in November. 1907. was
read. The resolution must, under par
liamentary rules, lie on the table for
one clay.
Reports were read from the commit
tee on counties and county matters
and after a session of exactly twenty
six minutes, the senate adjourned un
til Tuesday.
July 7.
President Flynt appointed as the
senate members of the joint commit
tee for the investigation of the charge
of drunkenness preferred against
members of the committee investi
gating the convict camp at the Bibb
Brick company. Senators Stevens of
the First, and Peacock of the Four
teenth districts.
Senator Hardman’s bill to provide
for the election of a pension commis
sioner by direct vote of the people
was passed by substitute, the substi
tute excluding the state geologist's
election by the people. Seuator Fel
der opposed the bill.
A bill regulating the compensation
of judges trying cases outside of their
own judiciary circuits by Seuator
Stephens was passed.
A bill toy Senator Williford to
amend the section of the code in such
a way as to authorize punishment for
assault with intent to murder to be
not less than two years nor more than
thirty years wfts passed without op
position.
Senate bills were read for the third
time and passed as follows:
By Senator Stephens—Regulating
the compensation of judges of the su
perior court for services rendered out
side of their own circuits.
By Senator Stephens—For the au
thorizing of the city courts in large
counties to appoint special bailiffs.
By Senator Hardman —Providing
for the election of pension commis
sioner by direct vote of the people.
By Senator Crittenden —To amend
the charter of the town of Shellman
in Randolph county.
By Senator Wilkes —To establish a
city court of Moultrie.
By Senator Brantley—To amend act
establishing the city court of Dublin.
MRSjFRANKSTROEBE
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A Remarkable Recovery.
Mrs. Frank Stroebe, R. F. D. 1, Apple-'
ton, Wis., writes: “I began using Peru
na a few months ago, when my health
and strength were all gone, and I was
nothing but a nervous wreck, could
not sleep, eat or rest properly, and felt
no desire to live. Peruna made me look
at lifo in a different light, as I bogan to
regain my lost strength.
“I certainly think Peruna is without
a rival as a tonic and strength builder. ”
Probably from the viewpoint of the
man in the moon a balloon doesn’t
come up to his expectations.
Hicks’ Capudine Cures Nervousness,
Whether tired out, worried, overworked, or
what not. It refreshes the brain and
nerves. It’s Liquid and pleasant to take.
10c., 25c., and 50c., at drug stores.
The Most Delicious Eggs.
Many a Chinaman in New York
would like to have those addled eggs
of Andrew Carnegie’s Minorca hens.
By a son of Confucius nothing is
(more prized than an addled egg. We
Americans use the term with great
(license, as if it meant the same as
rotten egg. Far from it. An egg
j addled is merely in the earliest stage
of decomposition. The French epi
cure hangs his meats, poultry, game,
flh, etc., until they are almost “in
,sincere.” All offensive odors disap
pear in the cooking. A rotten egg is
•one of the foul things of earth; but
la stale egg, properly prepared, beats
all the “strictly freshes” ever brought
to a table. ,
I want to claim this invention and
/should like to have it patened, trade
marked and copyrighted. Finding it
Impossible to eat and enjoy a soft
,boiled egg nowadays on account of
•the toughness and preponderance of
the white, I instructed my chef to
give each egg a thorough shaking be
fore cooking. The idea was to mix
perfectly in the shell the white and
'yellow. It was exquisitely success
ful. You could never imagine any
thing better. A few days ago I
bought a milkshake machine, such as
may be seen in all public resorts in
•summer. Instead of milk in the
glass, I filled the latter with cot
ton and put in the egg. A few turns
of the crank and —as Delmore says—
there you a.re! —New York Press.
WIFE WON.
Husband Finally Convinced.
Some men are wise enough to try
new foods and beverages and then
generous enough to give others the
benefit of their experience.
Avery “conservative” Ills, man,
however, let his good wife find out
for herself what a blessing Postum is
to those who are distressed in many
ways, by drinking coffee. The wife
writes:
“No slave in chains, it seemed to
me, was more helpless than I, a coffee
captive. Yet there were Innumerable
warnings—waking from a troubled
sleep with a feeling of suffocation, at
times dizzy and.out of breath, attacks
of palpitation of the heart that fright
ened me.
“Common sense, reason, and my
better Judgment told me that coffee
drinking was the trouble. At last my
nervous system was so disarranged
that my physician ordered ‘no more
coffee.’
“He knew he was right and he
knew I knew it, too. I capitulated.
Prior to this our family had tried
Postum but disliked it, because, as
we learned later, it was not made
right.
“Determined this time to give
Postum a fair trial, I prepared it ac
cording to directions on the pkg.—
that is, boiled it 15 minutes after
boiling commenced, obtaining a dark
brown liquid with a rich, snappy
flavour similar to cofTee. When
cream and sugar were added it was
not only good but delicious.
“Noting its beneficial effects In me
the rest of the family adopted it—all
except my husband, who would not
admit that coffee hurt him. Several
weeks elapsed during which I drank
Poetum two or three .times a day,
when, to my surprise, my husband
said: ‘I have decided to drink
Postum. Your improvement is so
apparent—you have such fine color—
that 1 propose to give credit where
credit is due.' And now we are
coffee-slaves no longer."
Name given by Postum Cos., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to
Wellville." in pkgs. “There’* a Rea
son."
Ever read the above letter? Anew
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
Interest.
STATE GLEANINGS.
Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the
republican presidential candidate, is
in Savannah, the guest of her school
friend, Miss Dorothy Baldwin, daugh
ter of Mr. George J. Baldwin. These
two young ladies were roommates at
Bryn" Mawr and classmates and are
close friends.
Governor Hoke Smith has been ask
ed to serve as one of the vice presi
dents of the International Congress
on Tuberculosis, which will be in ses
sion from September 21 to October 12
next in the city of Washington. Other
Georgians who are taking a leading
part in the arrangements for the meet
ing are Dr. Thomas D. Coleman, Au
gusta; Dr. H. F. Harris, Atlanta; J.
C. Logan, Atlanta; Dr. Theo. Oertel,
Augusta.
The full realization of $300,000 for
endowment and improvements at Mer
cer university was announced at the
office of President S. Y. Jameson, of
Mercer university. This marked thq
close of the movement in which $225,-
000 has been given to Mercer within
the bounds of the state. The endow
ment fund is by this movement doubl
ed, and a fund of such consequence
has been added as will mean a great
financial strength. More than SIOO,-
000 of the money raised was secured
after the panic loomed up.
The action of the city council of
Brunswick in the matter of water and
light schedules for the coming term
of five years, it is believed, will have
an important bearing upon the devel
opment of, the city. While officially
nothing has been given but it is con
ceded that the Mutual W’ater and
Light Company will agree to a reduc
tion in rates and at the same time will
bind themselves to build the proposed
trolley line within the next few
months.
Tobe Wooten, Sam Edmundson and
others were given possession of a
large amount of gambling parpherna
lia which has been held in dispute
by the sheriff at Macon for over two
years. They agreed to pay all court
cost arising from the litigation.
It is predicted by peach growers in
the Macon section of the state that
the fruit shipment this season will
amount to more than double the ship
ments of last summer. To the pres
ent, 2,232 cars of fruit have been ship
ped to the Northern and Eastern
markets, and '.it is expected that at
least 3,500 cars will be shipped be
fore the season closes. Last year only
1,500 cars of fruit were shipped out
of the state, but this season the fruit
growers are shipping as fast as the
pickers and packers can basket the
fruit.
The Carnegie public library at Moul
trie has been opened with a liberal
shower of books by the people of
Moultrie. The city has furnished a
fine selection of assorted literature.
Mrs. W. C. McKenzie is librarian.
At a meeting of the board of health
of Augusta, important resolutions,
drafted by Dr. W. C. Lyle, were pass
ed, providing that in the future, when
the new government slaughter house
is built, ail meat exposed for sale in
Augusta must have been killed in con
formation with the United States gov
ernment regulations.
Saturday —the fourth —was made a
day of forgetfulnes and keen pleasure
for the men whom the bars and gran
ite walls of the federal prison at At
lanta shut in from the joys and hap
piness of life. The fourth was cele
brated with the most successful en
tertainment in the history of the pris
on. A well known singer now appear
ing in Atlanta sang several selections
and a hand of 25 musicians gave a
two-hour programme after which a
fine dinner was served the convicts.
Mr. Oscar Bruce of Dawson county
was dragged to his death by a mule
with which he was plowing. The
young man was riding his mule with
the plow gear on, when the animal
took fright and threw Mr. Bruce. His
leg caught in the harness, and he was
dragged for some distance. The mule
was finally stopped by a number of
people, who happened to be nearby,
The young man’s leg was almost torn
from his body. He lived only a
short time.
At an enthusiastic meeting of mem
bers of the rural letter earners' asso
ciation and citizens of Albany the
Georgia Good Roads club was .organ
ized. The following officers were elec
ted for the first year: Fred White, of
Buckhead, president; W. Hastin, of
Palmetto , secretary; D. E. Jones,
Manassas, treasurer. In addition to
these a vice president for each con
gressional district was chosen.
The Dublin district conference
which,has been in session at Swains
boro adjourned sine die. This has
been one of the largest and most suc
cessful conferences ever held in this
district. There were present at this
meeting about one hundred and
twenty-five delegates, representing the
seventy-five churches in the district.
The interest and enthusiasm of the
people of Swainsboro in this confer
ence was remarked and was evidently
appreciated.
Douglasville’s new curfew law went
into effect on July X and provides that’
no young man under 18 shall be al
lowed out at night after 9 o clock
without permission from his parents.
The Jaw has been a bone of conten
tion in the city politics for a good
while, there being much oopposition
to it, and the results of its work will
be watched with much interest.
J. H. Bowen, a liveryman, of Mon
roe, was shot and almost instantly
killed on the street by O. M. Thoma
son, a business man. it was not
known that there was any trouble be
tween the two, and the cause of the
sad tragedy is thus far a mystery.
The principals to the tragedy are
both prominent.
Mr. M. Moore has been elected city
clerk of Macon for the forty-sixti
time. 1
Mad Doga.
ThUo da tihie time of year when th*
odd fallacy connecting hot days
mad dogs begin* to show new tignj
of Ufe,” eaid a physician. “a 3 a mat
ter of fact, hydroprobla has no more
to do with the temperature than it
has with the climate of Hawaii. Hy
drophobia Is a germ disease and th#
germ is just as active In January as it
fe In July. Dogs go “mad” in the win
ter Just as frequently as they do
the summer, all popular superstition
to the contrary notwithstanding. “Dog
days” dn the latter part of summer,
have nothing to do with hydrophobia
but are *o called because that i s the
season when Sirius, the dog star,
rises in conjunction with the sun.
“The germ of hydrophobia attack#
the throat of the animal, Irritating the
glands and finally closing uhe passage.
Hydrophobia means, literally, ‘afraid
of water,’ and it Is commonly suppos
ed that a mad dog dreads the touch
and sight of it. The contrary is true.
The animal craves water and will run
any distance after it, but an attempt
to swallow increases its agony and
often results in death. This 1b the
only connection between water and
dog madness. Of course hydrophobia
Is a real and dangerous disease, and
the greatest care should be taken to
avoid an animal apparently afflicted;
but many useful and valuable dogs are
needlessly killed every year by panic
stricken people. Take on chances, but
don’t kill your dog just because ha
is hot and dusty and his tongue Is
hanging out.” —Birmingham News.
DEATH TO RING WORM.
“Everywhere I go I speak for tettbsws,
because it cured me of ringworm in its
worst form. My whole chest from neck t
waist was raw as beef; but t*tt*b*e cured
me. It also cured a bad case of piles.” 8
says Mrs. M. F. Jones of 28 Tannehil 9t.,
Pittsburg, Pa. Tettbbihs, the great skin
remedy, is sold by druggists or sent by mail
for 50c. Wfite J. T. Hhuptbine, Dept. A,
Savannah, Ga.
An interesting product shipped re
oently from a well known New En
land plant was a three-ply leathei
belt, 141 feet long and seventy-twt
Inches wide.
John R. Dickey’s old-reliable eye water
cures sore eyes or granulated lids. Don’t
hurt, feels good; get the genuine in red box.
Says Ernest Renan, my craving to
be just has prevented me from being
obliging. I am too much impressed
with the idea that in doing one per
son a service you as a rule disoblige
another person; that to further the
chances of one coompetitor is very of
ten equivalent to an injury upon an
other.
NO NEED TO CUT CORNS.
Just paint them with abbott’s east In
dian corn paint, following directions on
the bottle, and you’ll have no more corns.
It cures hard corns on top of the toes, 30ft
corns between them, bunions or sore, cal
lous spots on the feet without cutting, burn
ing or leaving any soreness. 25c. at drug
■tores or by mail from The Abbott Cos.,
Savannah, Ga.
MODERN BUSINESS ETHICS.
“Oh that a boy of mine should liv*
to disgrace his family!”
“Why, dad, what’s the matter with
you? It’s all right. I got oflf on a
technicality.”—Kansas City Journal
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