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THE JOURNAL
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
COCHRAN. GA.
Water your horse*!
What are the hot wave* saying?
Animals suffer as well as humanity.
The flyless city Is an Irrldescent
dream.
What has become of the old fash
ioned sea serpent?
Alatskan Ice is just now more popu
lar than Alaskan coal.
Pari* has declared against statues
In frock coats. It may prefer pajamas
Some think an electric light bulb
throws out more heat in summer than
In winter.
A Worcester boy killed 1,119,000
flies In a contest, but they will never
be missed.
What has become of the old-fash
ioned man who carried a palm-leaf fan
In summer?
Do not try to invent a new excuse
for going to the ball game. Any old
excuse will do.
Doctor Wiley says that men who
■moke are liable to sunstroke. Do
your smoking at night
A New York woman who lost SI,OOO
Joked about it Evidently she didn’t
have a husband to support
Aviators now fly across the English
channel before breakfast as an appe
tizer. It is a humdrum trip.
Wo are told that a dog In St. Louis
has learned to smoke. He shows as
much intelligence as his teacher.
A hog out in Oregon ate Its own
er's coat and S7OO in real money and
seemed to thrive on the rich diet
One of the dangers of being married
In an aeroplane is that the first falling
out is likely to result disastrously.
Aviator Atwood is going to try to
fly from New York to Chicago. It Is
sincerely hoped that he may find the
flying good.
One way to keep cool in summer Is
to avoid summer resorts. One is
likely to be prostrated when one pon
ders ou the bill.
A New York boy who walked away
from home eight years ago to seek
his fortune has spoiled a good story
by walking back.
An advertisement reads: “Wanted
—A girl to paste labels on." No self
respecting girl would care to have
labels pasted on her.
A phyßlclan ndvises us to eat
onions and become healthy. We know
from personal experience that garlic
Is productive of great strength.
A man In New Jersey killed his
sweetheart with an "unloaded” pistol.
So history, unmindful of the tragedy
of it, keeps on repeating Itself.
We have congealed winter in the
form of Ice to temper the summer;
now why not bottle up the heat and
release it on a cold day next winter?
A bullfrog may be a champion fly
killer, but he is not what might be
called an ideal pet, especially if there
are nervous women around the house
A committee of Chicago teachers
has decided that stenographers should
be taught enough of English to en
able them to correct the boss’s blund
ers.
A French 'scientist has devised an
Instrument to forecast thunder storms
but our amateur weather prophets
cling to the old, reliable rheumatism.
One man at least has felt the op
pression of great wealth —the em
ploye of the San Francisco mint who
was buried under $9,000,000 In gold
coins.
An Omaha debating society has de
cided that a horse is more desirable
than an automobile Notwithstanding
this we presume people will still go
on mortgaging their homes for the lat
ter.
A Wisconsin Judge has ruled that a
man must provide his wife with false
teeth If she wants them. This, how
ever. is interesting only to the women
who want them.
An Ohio man boasts that he can
rock the cradle with one hand and
button his wife's dress with the other.
We presume also that the gentleman
has learned to speak distinctly with a
mouth full of pins.
Judging by the English, channel
aviation will soon become as common
as a ride on a lumber wagon in the
country.
Collector Loeb has seized $130,000
worth of furs. No one, however, cares
what becomes of furs in the present
weather.
We see by the papers that a Phlla
deiphia woman 80 years old is taking
cornet lessons. Evidently she has de
veioped a terible grudge against her
neighbors.
WHAT LEGISLATURE DID AHD DIDN’T DO
IMPORTANT GENERAL BILLS PASSED BY BOTH HOUSES INCLUDE
LABOR BUREAU, FISH AND GAME, ADVANCED CORPORATION
TAX PAYYMENTS, STATE AUDITOR AND APPRO
PRIATIONS MEASURES.
MORE MONEY IS VOTED FOR THE COMMON SCHOOLS
Floods of Legislation Turn Out Comparatively Few New Statutes—Large
Part of It Pigeonholded, Defeated or Left to the Next Annual
Session of the State Legislature.
MANY GENERAL MEASURES PASSED AT THIS SESSION OF
THE ASSEMBLY.
At the session of the general assembly, the following general bills
were passed:
To create the office of state auditor.
To provide for the registration of all legislative agents, et cetera.
Amended.
To amend section 1482, code 1910, relative to salary of clerk and
stenographer In pension office.
To prevent publication of name of any female alleged to have
been assaulted.
To amend section 379, code of Georgia, so as to make wife com
petent witness in certain cases.
To promote public welfare by draining certain lands in this
state.
To make it prima facie evidence of selling intoxicating liquors
to have U. S. revenue license.
To prohibit floating sawdust in the streams of this state.
To provide for a reserve for outstanding losses of casualty insur
ance companies. Amended.
To permit railroads to accept advertising for transportation from
newspapers.
To amend constitution relative to casual deficiencies of revenue.
To amend constitution so as to require certai ntax returns to be
made to comptroller general before March 1. Amended.
To give Judges power to prevent lynehings by changing venue.
To place Medical College of Georgia under control of state univer
sity.
To create a department of labor.
To establish a department of game and fish.
To regulate and control the sale of commercial fertilizer.
Various special appropriations.
To prevent adulteration of food.
Education bill creating office of state superintendent of schools,
and state board of education.
IMPORTANT BILLS SIGNED
THUS FAR BY GOVERNOR.
Designating Medical College of Geor
gia, at Augusta, as a branch of the
TJnivcrsity of Georgia. (House.)
Providing for election of officers for
board of trustees of North Georgia
Agricultural College at Dahlonega.
(House.)
Providing for filling vacancies in of- 1
flees of judge, solicitor and clerk in
any court. (House.)
Amending constitution to permit
teaching of advanced studies in the
common schools of Georgia. (House.)
Amending charter of Kirkwood to
remove 20 years’ limit to public util
ity franchises. (House.)
Reapportioning membership of the
house of representatives according to
the 1910 census. (Hose.)
RESOLUTIONS APPROVED
THUS FAR BY GOVERNOR.
Endorsing efforts to secure univer
sal peace. (Senate.)
Authorizing investigation of depart
ment of agriculture. (House.)
Authorizing house and senate com
mittee to visit University of Georgia
during interim. (House.)
Inviting Governor Woodrow Wilson
of New Jersey to address general as
sembly. (Senate.)
HOUSE BILLS FINALLY
PASSED BY THE SENATE.
Amending act creating board of
trustees of North Georgia Agricultu
ral college at Dahlonega.
Reapportioning membership of the
house of representatives of general as
sembly in conformity with the 1910
census.
Permitting transportation of ice and
empty refrigerator cars on Sunday.
Recognizing the Medical College of
Georgia, at Augusta, as a branch of
the University of Georgia.
Creating state department of labor.
Creating office of state superintend
ent of schools in lieu of state school
commissioner.
Rearranging Northern and Western
judicial circuits.
Amending charter of Kirkwood.
Creating commission government
for Marietta.
Creating Dublin judicial circuit.
Relating to reduction of weights of
price of cotton for bagging and ties.
Creating state department of game
and fish and providing for protection
of game birds, game animals and fish.
Abolishing fees and substituting sal
aries as compensation for officials of
Fulton county.
Making general appropriations for
state departments and institutions for
1912 and 1913.
Regulating sales of commercial fer
tilizers.
Authorizing DeKalb county to issue
road bonds.
Establishing new charter for city of
Atlanta.
Bills Passed
By Mr. Hollis of Taylor—To provide
for election by governor of banks
named as state depositories.
By Br. Ragsdale of Paulding—To
amend act incorporating town of Hi
ram.
By Mr. Kent of Montgomery—To
add Uvada to list of state deposito
ries.
By Mr. Tippins of Appling—To
amend act creating new charter for
the city of Baxley.
The following bills and resolutions
were passed the closing day :
Reapportioning state into twelve
congressional districts in conformity
with 1910 census and Federal reap
portionment law.
Appropriating about eight thousand
dollars to meet deficiencies in public
buildings on contingent funds for
1911.
Creating agricultural pchool dis
tricts in lieu of old congressional
school districts.
Appropriating $5,000 for hospital at
Soldiers’ home.
Appropriating $25,000 for agricultu
ral and normal college for South Geor
gia at Valdosta.
Amending state pure food law to
conform with the Federal pure food
law.
Appropriating $25,000 for manufac
ture and distribution of hog cholera
serum.
Reorganizing common school sys
tem, creating state and county super
intendents of schools in lieu of school
commissioners, and prescribing quali
fications for members of state board
of education.
Authorizing Macon to Issue $900,-
000 of waterworks bonds.
SENATE BILLS FINALLY
PASSED BY THE HOUSE.
Creating office of state auditor.
Relating to fees of county treasu
rers.
Requiring paid lobbyists and agents
to register with secretary of state.
Prohibiting publication of name of
any woman alleged to have been crim
inally assaulted.
Amending act creating Waycross ju
dicial circuit.
Making valid contracts by minors
for educational purposes.
Providing for drainage of overflow
ed land.
Making pcssesssion of Federal liquor
license prima facie evidence of guilt.
Reducing hours of labor in cottton
factories from 66 to 60 hours a week.
Requiring casualty insurance com
panies to provide reserve for out
standing losses.
Permitting railroads and newspapers
to exchange mileage and advertising.
Requiring general and public utility
corporations to return property for
taxation on before March 1 and to
pay taxes on or before September 1.
Giving judges power to prevent
lynehings by ordering change of venue
on their own motion.
Giving judges power to prevent
lynehings by ordering change of venue
on their own motion.
Making wife competent witness
against husband in certain cases af
fecting marriage vows.
Increasing the governor's borrowing
power.
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS
APPROVED BY SENATE.
Providing for investigation of state
department of agriculture.
Bills Passed
By Mr. Vinson of Baldwin —A bill to
appropriate $5,000 to the Georgia Nor
mal and Industrial college.
By Ault of Polk, Wimberly of Bibb,
Bush of Baker—A resolution providing
for an expert accountant to assist in
making Investigation of agricultural
department.
By Mr. Foster of Floyd—To increase
fees of eouny surveyors to $5 per day.
i By Mr. Massengale of Warren—To
| appropriate $5,000 for an annex to the
! hospital at the Confederate Soldiers’
i home.
Relating to tare on bales of cotton.
Installing new elevator in capilol
to b eoperated throughout the year.
Authorizing joint committee to visit
University of Georgia during interim.
Expressing sorrow in the death of
Representative Henry C. Smith.
Appointing commission to examine
judicial system of state.
Permitting joint committee to visit
Georgia School for the Deaf during
interim. _
Providing for committee to visit the
convict camps during interim.
Providing for joint committee to re
vise hanking laws.
Providing for joint committee to re
vise insurance laws.
SENATE . RESOLUTIONS
APPROVED BY HOUSE.
Appointing joint committee to pro
cure oil portrait cf late Senator A. S.
Clay.
Endorsing efforts to secure univer
sal peace.
Appointing joint committee to in
vestigate new lease of Western and
Atlantic railroad.
Endorsing effort to amend Federal
Constitution to prohibit polygamy.
Inviting Governor Woodrow Wilson
of New Jersey to address general as
sembly.
Requiring prompt payment o fcom
mon school teachers.
Advocating abrogation of treaty be
tween United States and Russia, be
cause of Jewish persecution.
Providing for senate committee to
make interim visit to Academy for
the Blind.
HOUSE BILLS BURIED BY
ACTION OF THE HOUSE.
To appropriate SIO,OOO for water
power and swamp Hnds surveys. De
feated on third reading.
To permit women to practice law in
Georgia. Defeated on third reading
and on reconsideration.
To provide additional funds for sup
port of district agricultural schools.
Tabled on third reading.
To authorize Bibb coJOfcy to issue
SIOO,OOO of road bonds. Tabled on
second reading.
To merge Glascock and Warren
counties. Withdraw after the first
reading.
SENATE BILLS BURIED BY
ACTION OF SENATE.
To authorize county school commis
sioners to issue interest-bearing script
to public school teachers. Lost on sec
ond reading.
j To make judges of supreme and ap
| pellate courts an dsolicitors general
! appointive by governor, instead of
I elective by people. Lost on third
i reading.
To increase salaries of supreme, ap
pellate and superior court judges and
attorneys general. Lost on third read
ing.
To remove $1,500 property clause
from pension laws. Tabled on third
j reading.
| To increase salaries of prison com
! missioners. Tabled on third reading.
To change management of Soldiers’
home. Tabled on third reading.
To authorize erection of monument
to soldiers, sailors and women of the
Confederacy. Tabled on the third
reading.
To authorize street and interurban
railways to acquire or operate prop-
I erty or franchises of other companies.
! Indefinitely .postponed on the third
! reading.
After haggling for nearly five hours
over the question of who should ap
point the pages of the senate, the mes
senger or the president, and over a
difference of $50,000 in the school
fund for 1912, the legislature complet
ed its 1911 session at 12:45 o’clock
Friday morning.
Practically all the special appropria
tions having been passed by the sen
ate, the total revenues disposed of
by the legislature to meet deficiencies
of this year and the demands of 1912
amount to approximately $5,950,000 —
the largest single budget ever voted
by a general assembly in this state.
The last day of the session was
characterized by the passing of several
important bills in both houses, though
some of the most important were
j forced to go over until the next ses
! sion. These include several constitu
tional amendments —the one abolish
! ing justice of the peace courts in At
i lanta, one requiring corporations to
' pay tteir taxes by September 1, and
another affecting the school laws.
; Before the close of the night session
j a resolution praising and commend
j ing the work of Speaker John Holder
: was introduced in the house and w T as
i passed with much enthusiasm. In
j dismissing the house he felicitated the
! members on their splendid co-cpera
| ticn and unceasing aid to the chair.
The Georgia state senate spent a
i busy day and night before adjourning.
1 Many bills of importance were passed,
among them being the reapportion
ment bill, the fertilizer bill, the coun
: ty road tax bill, and many special ap
! propriatlon bills, amounting to $131,-
j 465.10.
j The sealed, communications of Gov
| eruor Smith, sent to the senate some
Bills Passed
By Mr. McElreath of Fulton —To ap
propriate $16,000 to make up deficien
cy in printing fund.
By Mr. McElreath of Fulton —To ap
propriate $15,000 to printing fund.
By Mr. Hall of Bibb—To appropri
ate $212.20 due Representative Smith
of Tattnall to his widow.
By Mr. Nisbet of Sumter —To allow
the Third District Agricultural school
| to sell 100 acres of land.
By Mr. McElreath of Fulton—To ap
| propriate $4,500 to public building
i fund and $328,022 to contingent fund.
time ago and thought to contain sev
eral appointments, failed to be brought
before the senate, although as many
as four attempts were made, to have
the senate go into executive session to
consider them.
The fertilizer bill passed the senate
with two amendments, one by Senator
Buch making the act go into effect
January 1, 1912. The other was that
of Senator Blalock, allowing to vary’ 10
per cent instead of 5, recommended
by the agricultural committee.
The senate concurred in all of the
special appropriations as passed by the
house diving into the state treasury
for the sum of $131,465.10. There was
not a dissenting vote in the senate for
the appropriations as they came from
the house.
Appropriations Passed.
Following are the appropriations
passed:
Georgia Normal and Indus
trial College ........ $ 5,000.00
Unpaid pensions 40,000.00
State Norman College .. .. 4,874.75
Mansion committee 240.00
Tenth Georgia Agricultural
School 7,000.00
Printing 15,000.00
Widow of Representative
Smith of Tattnall 217.20
Hog cholera serum manufac
ture 25,000.00
South Georgia Normal School
Public building fund .. .. 7,780.22
Soldiers- Home hospital an
nex 5,000.00
Convict Investigation wit
nesses in 1908 270.13
Entomology department .. 270.13
The following senators were ap
pointed by President Slaton as mem
bers of the Western and Atlantic rail
road Investigating committee:
Senators I. A. Buch, W. J. Harris
and J. S. Shingler.
By the vote of 29 to 0 the senate
passed the congressional reapportion
i ul mu introduced in the house by
Mr. Anderson of Chatham, and passed
by substitute several days ago.
The only change made In the bill
by the senate was to transfer Putnain
county from the tenth district back
to the eighth, and that amendment
was unanimously concurred in by the
house, so that the bill which gives
Georgia a new congressional district,
the twelfth, is now ready for the ap
proval of the governor.
The amendment orginally agreed on
by the senate committee, which trans
ferred Rockdale county from the fifth
district to the ninth was withdrawn by
unanimous consent.
The counties and the population of
each district are as follows:
First —Burke, Bryan, Bulloch, Chat
ham, Effingham, Jenkins, Liberty, Mc-
Intosh, Screven and Tattnell —219,?52.
Second—Baker, Calhoun, Colquitt,
Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Grady,
Miller, Mitchell, Thomas, Tift and
W0rth—210,539.
Third —Ben Hill, Clay, Crisp, Dooly,
Lee, Macon, Quitman, Randolph,
Schley, Stewart, Taylor, Terrell, Tur
ner and Webster—2o4,slo.
Fourth Carroll, Chattahoochee,
Coweta, Harris, Heard. Marion, Meri
wether, Muscogee, Talbot and Troup—
-202.834.
Fifth—Campell, Douglas, DeKalb,
Fulton and R0ckda1e—234,357.
Sixth —Bibb, Butts, Clayton, Craw
ford, Fayette, Henry, Josper, Jones,
Monroe, Pike, Spalding and Upson—
-222,048.
Seventh—Bartow, Catoosa, Chat
tooga, Cobb Dade, Floyd, Gordon,
Harralson, Murray, Paulding, Polk,
Walker and Whitfield—223,s44.
Eight Clarke, Elbert, Putnam,
Franklin, Hart, Greene, Madison, Mor
gan Newton, Oglethorpe, Oconee, Wal
ton and Wi1ke5—247,531.
Ninth —Banks, Cherokee, Dawson,
Fannin, Forsyth, Gilmer, Gwinnett,
Habersham, Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin,
Milton, Pickens, Rabun, Stephens,
Towns, Nnion and White —214,172.
Tenth—Baldwin, Columbia, Glas
cock, Richmond, Taliaferro, Warren,
Washington and Wilkinson—2l2,722.
Eleventh—Appling, Gerrien, Brooks,
Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Coffes,
Echols, Glynn, Irwin, Jeff Davis, Lowd
des, Pierce, Wayne and Ware —208,462.
Twelfth—Dodge, Emanuel, Houston,
Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Pu
laski Tombs, Twiggs, Telfair and Wil
cox—2o7,Bos.
The senate concurred in the house
amendment to the bill requiring cor
portaions making returns to the comp
troller general to pay their taxes by
September 1 instead of the latter part
of December.
The original bill gave the corpora
tions the constitutional right to arbi
trate tax differences and this provi
sion was stricken out in the house.
The senate concurred in the amend
ment.
Bills Passed.
The following bills were passed:
By Mr. Dußose of Wilkes —A bill to
amend an act abolishing county .com
missioners of roads and revenues in
Wilkes.
By Mr. Patten of Berrien —A bill to
amend an act creating a board. of
commissioners of roads and revenues
in Berrien.
By Mr. Cook of Telfair —A bill to
amend an act establishing the city
court of Mcßae.
By Mr. White of Screven —A bill to
Increase number of commissioners of
Screven from 3 to 11 members!
By Messrs. Lawrence and McCarthy
of Chatham—A bill to regulate com
pensation of court house officers in
counties having a city of between 65,-
oSo and 100,000 population.
By Mr. Chandler of Franklin—A bill
to incorporate the town of Carron;
By Messrs. Brown, McElreath and
Westmoreland —A bill to fix salaries
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The Bridegroom’s Portion.
Miss Elsie Gentsch, who teaches
Sunday school, had been reading to
her class from the gospel of Matthew,
and was examining a promising boy,
a newcomer, about the subject matter.
“There were ten virgins,” said the
young man, “five wise ones and five
foolish ones, and the five wise ones
filled their lamps and the five foolish
ones wasn’t in no hurry. And at
midnight came the bridegroom. So
the five foolish ones went across the
street to buy oil and got locked out.”
“Very good,” said the teacher.
“And what did the bridegroom do?”
“Why,” said the good little student,
“he married the five wise ones.”—■
Cleveland Leader.
HIS COLOR CHANGED.
Evelyn—But when It comes to love
making Harold is rather green, isn’t
he?
Myrtle—Not now.
Evelyn—lndeed!
Myrtle—No, he’s blue; I rejected
him last evening.
GET POWER.
The Supply Comes From Food.
If we get power from food why not
strive to get all the power we can.
That is only possible by use of skil
fully selected food that exactly fits
the requirements of the body.
Poor fuel makes a poor fire and a
poor fire is not a good steam producer.
“From not knowing how to select
the right food to fit my needs, I suf
fered grievously for a long time from
stomach troubles,” writes a lady from
a little town in Missouri.
“It seemed as if I would never be
able to find out the sort of food that
was best for me hardly anything that
1 could eat would stay on my stomach.
Every attempt gave me heartburn and
filled my stomach with gas. I got
thinner and thinner until I literally
became a living skeleton, and in time
was compelled to keep to my bed.
A few months ago 1 was persuaded
to try Grape-Nuts food, and it had such
good effect from the very beginning
that I have kept up its use ever since.
1 was surprised at the ease with which
l digested it It proved to be just
what I needed.
“AH my unpleasant symptoms, the
heartburn, the inflated feeling which
gave me so much pain disappeared.
My weight gradually increased from
98 to 116 pounds, my figure rounded
out, my strength came back, and I am
now able to do my housework and en
joy it. Grape-Nuts food did it.” Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
A ten days’ trial will show anyone
6ome facts about food.
Read the little book, “The Road to
Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s a reason.”
Kver read «he above letter T A new
one appear* from time to time. They
are cennlae, true, and full of human
interest.