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FARMERS PAY
CONVICTS’ FINES
In Order to Secure Mjch Needed
Help in Makia^ Crops.
GEORGIA LABOR SCARCITY
Demand So Great That Chaingang
are Depleted Ten Per Cent, Says
Report of Prison Commission.
Another indication of the great
scarcity of labor in Georgia, and this
applies especially to the agricultural
districts, Is found In the annual re-
port of the state prison commission,
which is now being prepared by Sec
retary Goodioe Yancey, and part of
which has already been placed In the
hands of the public printer.
This report, which is based on Juno
1, shows that there has been a de¬
crease of fully io per cent in the
number of misdemeanor convicts oil
the county chaingangs in Georgia, not-
withstanding the fact that there has
been an increase among the felony
convicts.
The explanation of this is that ow-
Ing to the scarcity of labor, farmers
where they are able to do it are pay-
ing the lines of able-bodied prisoners
and putting them on their plantations
to work it out. It is true they take
their chanco on getting the equiva¬
lent of the flue in labor, but in so
great need of labor do they stand
that they are willing to do this and
sometimes even more.
In 1905 the prison commission’s re¬
port showed 2,283 misdemeanor con-
▼lets, of whom 162 were white men,
and five white women. The report
this year for June 1 shows a total
of 2,043 misdemeanor convicts in the
state, of whom eighty-eight are white
men, and only one white woman. Had
It not been for the fact that mauy far¬
mers have paid the fines of the men
convicted in order to get their labor,
there is no doubt about the fact that
there would have been an increase
in the number shown on the misde¬
meanor gangs.
i The commission’s report shows this
year a total of 2,344 felony convicts,
as against 2,280 in 1905, an increase of
64. Notwithstanding an increase in
the total number of felony convicts,
the number of white felons shows a
considerable decrease as compared
with last year. In 1905 there wero
284 white men and 7 white women in
the penitentiary, while this year there
are only 207 white men and 6 white
women. The counties which use fel¬
ony convicts on their public roads in
lieu of receiving proceeds from con-
vict hire for public schools, have at
this time 571 short-term convicts, as
against 537 at the same time last year,
the variation being very slight.
It Is expected the commission's re¬
port will be completed, printed and
ready for distribution by the time the
legislature meets on June 27.
ROADS REFUSE ONE CENT RATE.
Georgia Troops in Quandary Over Trans*
portation to Encampment Grounds.
Georgia's military officials are just
now agitated over whether they will
be able to send two or three regi¬
ments to the coining encampment of
troops at Chickamuuga. It all de¬
pends on the railroad rate.
The state has asked for a rate of
1 cent a mile for the troops from
their stations to Chlckamauga Park.
The Southeastern Passenger Associa¬
tion has, so far, declined to give this
rate, and has informed them that
the rate would be 2 cents a mile.
Lyons is Succeeded by Vernon.
A Washington, D. C-, special says:
William T. Vernon of Kansas, tne
negro appointed some time ago by
President Roosevelt to succeed Judson
W. Lyons as register of the treasury,
has taken the oath of office.
ESCAPED CONVICT KILLS MARSHALL
Barricaded in Cabin, Desperate Negro
Shoots two Men.
While attempting to arrest Will
Smith, colored. an escaped convict,
Marshal Morris of Midvilla, Ga., was
shot to death and J. J. p 0 po of Wad-
ley, perhaps mortally wounded.
The negro was at bay and barri¬
caded in his cabin near the village
of Gertrude. The tragedy occurred
Thursday morning; just after sunrise.
After the shooting the negro armed
himself with a supply of ammuni¬
tion and fled into the woods, where
be is being searched for by a posse.
A RIGHr TO DEMAND.
C ”o“a g w’tha^is 1 "n°Sc/k J “ e
ing Legislation.
The tenth annual convention of the
International Brotherhood of Book¬
binders convened In Washington Tues¬
day for a five days’ session. The open-
ing exercises were devoted to ad-
dresses and orchestra music.
Chairman Conner called the con-
ventlon to order and delivered a splr-
it.ed address, in which he expressed
the belief that the success of the in-
dustrial classes lay in organization on
conservative lines. Charles P. Neill
commissioner of labor, congratulated
the delegates on their splendid or-
ganizatioo, which he said represented
one of the finest examples of success
in the trades-union movement.
.Samuel Gompers, president of tho
-
American . , Federation , of Labor, was
-ho next speaker. He reminded the
delegates of the right of organized
labor to request congress to pass
laws which will benefit them and said
that the request had gone forth, but
that if it was not answered in better
, tones ,, the request would be changed
into a demand. He said in part:
In the recent pust, the represents-
tives of labor have been told they
have no right to request from con-
gress of the enactment of laws for
the benefit of the tolling millions.
Unless such petitions from organ-
ized labor are answered in better
tones in the future, we shall change
the request into a demand. And, un-
less the demand is granted, we shall i
appeal to the sympathy and con-
science of our fellow citizens.
"YVe have been told that we have |
no right to threaten a public servant
to defeat him at the polls, My an-
swer to this is that men of great
wealth, power and position, repre¬
senting great financial and capitalis¬
tic Institutions, are not averse to
threatening congressmen, and have
even threatened the president. It Is
claimed that they have the right to
do so, and what is right for them
cannot be perverted into being wrong
when done by us.
“Our threatening is to do a lawful
thing, and I contend that a thing we
have a right to do we have a right
to threaten to do.”
MOVE FOR A SUBTREASURY
Made by Georgia Bankers at Their Annual
Convention in Atlanta.
Principal interest was centered hi
a movement to establish a sub-treas¬
ury in Georgia, and the election of
officers for the coming year at Tues¬
day’s session of both the Georgia
Bankers’ Association and that of tho
Florida Bankers’ Association in At¬
lanta. As the program for each as¬
sociation called for individual action,
separate sessions were held at the
New Kimball.
Much enthusiasm marked the unan¬
imous passage of a motion providing
for the appointment of a committee
by the Georgia bankers of fifteen
prominent citizens for the purpose of
doing all in their power to brine
about the establishment of a sub-
treasury at some convenient point in
the state.
AGAINST CO-EDUCATION OF RACES.
Berea College Loses Cose Before Ken¬
tucky Court of Appeals.
The Kentucky court of appeals on
Tuesday upheld the constitutionality
of the legislative act of 1904 prohib¬
iting co-education of the races in the
schools of the commonwealth. The
case came up from Madison county,
where Berea college is located. The
court says the new law does not vio¬
late the bill of rights or the four¬
teenth amendment of the federal con-
stitution. and that It Is constitutional
in all but the requirement that white
and negro schools shall be twenty-five
mlles apart when conducted together.
The case w111 go to the United States
supreme court.
PRESIDENT IS WROUGHT UP.
Expresses Displeasure Over House Amend¬
ment to Meat Scandal Bill.
Secretary Loeb Friday gave out a
summary of the letter President
Roosevelt wrote Chairman Wadsworth
of the house committee on agricul¬
ture, disapproving of that committee's
substitute for the Beveridge amend-
ment to the agricultural bill regard-
ing the inspection of meat products.
In the letter to Mr. Wadsworth the
president stated that almost every
change in the proposed house amend-
ment was a change for the worse, as
compared with the senate amend-
ment.
DRAMATIC HOUSE SCENE.
top “' al “" of An 'z°“ Statehood Del-
egate Elicits a Warm R:ply from
Speaker Cannon.
A Washington special says: Not in
many years has the house of repre¬
sentatives witnessed a more dramatic
scene than it witnessed Thursday, in-
1 cident to the adoption of the confer-
ence report on statehood.
A round of cheers from both sides
of the chamber greeted Chairman
Hamilton of the committee, while he
moved the adoption of the report.
While there was no discussion on the
report a more unexpected epi¬
sode occurred.
Marcus A. Smith, the delegate from
Arizona, took occasion in a guarded
way to insinuate that there had been
undue influence used in postponing
an agreement.
what he believed to
be a direct Insinuation against him,
Speaker Cannon impetuously left the
chair, calling Mr. Dalzell to the desk,
and, taking a position in the aisle,
he asked the speaker pro tem. for
five minutes to explain his position,
Thunders of applause greeted the
speaker as he stood with hand up-
lifted, his head shaking, waiting for
quiet in the house.
Finally order was restored, and
then, measuring every word, Speaker
Cannon said:
"Mr. Speaker; As a member of the
house of representatives during this
session as at all other sessions, I have
represented my constituents, and act-
ed for the whole people according to
m Y best judgment. The coming into
the union of Oklahoma and the In¬
dian Territory meets my approval. If
I had any choice, and were infinitely
su P re me. I would prefer to see Okla¬
homa and the Indian Territory come
separately with an aggregate popula¬
tion of two and almost one-half mil¬
lions, with four senators, rather than
to see New Mexico and Arizona come
together, and God knows, rather’to
see them come singly with about 300,-
000 population with four senators.
“You have the result before you,
Although every man in the Indian
Territory should vote against state¬
hood for the proposed new state
of Oklahoma, notwithstanding that
protest the state would be and will
be formed under this enabling act.
There is no separate vote there. There
is a separate vote, however, as to
the other two. I would not have
taken the floor had not the honora¬
ble gentleman, the delegate from Ari¬
zona (Mr. Smith) made the remark
that there was a high penalty for the
governor of that territory to attempt
to influence legislation, or for one
legislative body or its membership
to attempt to traffic in legislation
with the other in order to secure
certain other legislation, if I correctly
state him. That remark could not
have had but one motive and one
meaning, and that meaning is that
some one in the house has sought
to affect legislation in the house as
a matter of traffic in order to secure
action upon this matter in the senate.
That imputation implied, so far as I
know or believe upon any other mem-
ber of this house, is unwortthy of the
gentleman that uttered it, and is with-
| out foundation in fact.” (Loud ap-
P la use.)
I When Speaker Cannon finished the
house was in an uproar. It could not
be controlled, nor did the presiding
officer make any effort toward con-
trolling it. Members who had sat in
silence during the delivery of the
speech, democrats and republicans
alike, crowded around the speaker
to shake him by the hand, and tell
him how glad they were that the long
drawn out fight for statehood had
been happily ended in a compromise,
and that his speech voiced the senti¬
ments of the members.
OFFICERS MUST PAY THE BILLS.
Policyholders Demand That They Fool Ex¬
penses lor Advertising.
At New York, Thursday, Samuel
Untermver, counsel for the interna¬
tional policyholders’ committee, sent
a letter to President Peabody of the
Mutual Life Insurance company, say¬
ing that the officers of the company
would be held personally responsible
for the Mutual Life advertising which
is now appearing in the newspapers.
DECIDE TO WAIT UNTIL FALL.
* ,,onta f ' p0 *' tl0n Comm,t,ee
Work of Securing Subscriptions.
The Atlanta exposition
fifty decided Thursday afternoon
to 8tts Pe n d tbe work of raising
scriptions until next fall. A resolution
was unanimously adopted adjourning
until October* 3, and until that
no furtber efforts will be made
raise the balance of the $500,000.
CENTURY PLANT’S USES.
Producss Drink, Fibre, Needles and
Paper—Flourishes in Mexico.
One day recently I visited Hor¬
ticultural Hall. Wandering arounu
among the plants, my eyes rested
upon a "century,” or agave, plant.
I thought how beautiful they must
look In Mexico, the country par ex¬
cellence for the production of the
plant. Many countries produce
wealth as the result of labor, but
Z r ZXZ TJtt SE
the hand of Nature as has Mexico,
In the United States we use tne
century plant as an ornament; it is
often seen in the front yards of resi¬
dences; there are quite a number in
different parts of Philadelphia.
It is called a century plant because
it blooms so seldom. In Mexico it
blooms when the plant is from four
to five years old. There are between
1*50 and 200 different species. The
ancient Aztecs knew the uses of the
plant centuries ago, the leaves being
utilized for roofing their houses; the
fibre for weaving. Paper was made
from the pulp of the leaves, which
resembles papyrus. Rare and an¬
cient Mexican manuscript was writ¬
ten on it. The Aztecs used fhe juice
for a drink, which is the pulque of
to-day, the national drink of Mexico,
j us t as the agave, or century
plant, is about to bloom the flower
is cut out, leaving a large cavity,
Into which the sweet sap which has
been stored up in the leaves ex¬
udes. Then a man called a pulque
collector, or gatherer, collects the
sap and puts it in a large pigskin
bag. After fermentation this sap be¬
comes pulque, and contains from 6
to 8 per cent, of alcohol.
Another drink, distilled from the
roots mescal, or tequila, not unlike
Scotch whiskey, is very intoxicating.
There are many plantations near
the City of Mexico cultivating the
plant solely for the production of
pulque. Twine, rope and thread are
produced- from its fibre, and needles
from the fine tips of the leaves.
Some of the best hammocks, mats
and other articles are a product of
the henequen, or sisaJ, hemp, an¬
other species of the plant.
The leaves are gathered, and, with¬
out any treatment whatever, are fed
In the machine at one end, in their
green and succulent condition, and
automatically scratched and degum-
med and delivered at the other end
of the machine, entirely free from
stain, tangle or waste.
The greener and juicier the leaves
the easier is the extraction of the
threads. The fibre is dried in the
sun, which bleaches it ready for
shipment. Lots of century plants
grow in California and in most tropi¬
cal countries, but they flourish no¬
where else as in Mexico.—Philadel¬
phia Record.
London Conveyances.
’Buses and cars cease running in
London at 12:30 a. m., and one of
the reasons why the labor men in the
house of commons want earlier sit¬
tings is that they have no autos or
broughams and cannot afford cabs, so
would have to walk home in all
weathers if the house sat late.
Timing the Lightning.
Recent efforts to measure the dura¬
tion of flashes of lightning seem to
show that it is often as brief as one-
forty-thousandth part of a second. A
flash lasting the fiftieth part of a sec¬
ond is considered about the extreme
duration.
KNOWS NOW
Doctor Was Fooled by His Own Case Fo*
a Time.
It’s easy to understand how ordinary
people get fooled by coffee when doc¬
tors themselves sometimes forget the
facts.
A physician speaks of his own experi¬
ence:
“I had used coffee for years and
really did not exactly believe it was in¬
juring me, although I had palpitation
of the heart every day.
“Finally one day a severe and almost
fatal attack of heart trouble frightened
me and I gave up both tea and coffee,
using Postum instead, and since that
time I have had absolutely no heart
palpitation except on one or two occa¬
sions when I tried a small quantity of
coffee which caused severe irritation
and proved to me I must let it alone.
"When we began using Postum it
seemed weak-that was because we
did not make it according to directions
—but now we put a little bit of butter
in the pot when boiling and allow' the
Postum to boil full 15 minutes, which
gives it the proper rich flavor and the
deep brown color.
“I have advised a great many of my
friends and patients to leave off coffee
and drink Postum, in fact. I daily give
this advice.” Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Many thousands of physicians use
Postum in place of tea and coffee in
their own homes and prescribe it to
patients. “There's a reason.”
A remarkable little book, “The Road
to Wellville,” can be found in pkgs.
D? PRICES
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HICKS'
CAPUDINE
immediately cures
HEADACHES
[Breaks up COLDS
IN 6 TO 12 HOURS «
M- . - / (Trial Bottle 10c. At Dra&Sau
A bank no:e just TOO years old has
wandered back to tbe treasurer of
the Cheshire Bank, Keene, N. H. it
is on the Cheshire Ba..k for $3. and is
signed by the first president tbe bank
ever bad.
State or Obio, City or Toledo, I f
Lucas County.
Fbank J. Cheney makes oath that lie is
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney ,fc
Co., Joins: business in the City of Toledo
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum of one hundred DOL-
labs for each and every case of catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s
Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
( ——) 1 presence, this 6th day of Decern-
4 seal. her, A.D., 1886. A.W. Gleason,
Z ~ .Notary Public
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is takeu internally,and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur¬
faces of the system. Send for testimonials,
tree. F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by all Druggists, 76c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
The University of Paris is said to
be one of the most cosmopolitan in
the world. Of the 14,462 students iu
the University, 1638, or more than a
tenth, are foreigners.
DOES YOUR BACK ACHE?
Cure the Kidneys and the Pain Will
Never He turn.
Only one way to cure on aching
back. Cure the cause, the kidneys.
Thousands tell of
& cures made by Doan’s
Kidney Pills. John C.
Coleman, a prominent
merchant of Swains-
i boro, Ga., says: “For
4 several years my kid¬
neys were affected,
m ! and day languid, and my night. back ached I was and
nervous
lame in the morning. Doan’s Kidney
Pills helped me right away, and tbe
great relief that followed has been per¬
manent.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a bo*.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
City of Refuge for Debtors.
The Isle of Man, headquarters of
Scandinavian pirates in ancient days,
was, in modern times, the happy City
of Refuge for the debtors of England
and the bold, bad smuggler. The debt¬
or, especially, gave the island an evil
name. A sorrowful historian declares
that for nearly a century the isle was
a “sanctuary for the unfortunate and
profligate of the surrounding nations,
who flocked thither in such numbers
as to make it a common receptacle
for the basest of their kind.” Hap¬
pier days have come to the island, for
it is now only the fortunate “who
flock thither in such numbers.”—Lon>
don Chronicle.
How He Saw It.
Wife—This book says that in India
It is the custom to bury the living
wife with her dead husband. Isn't it
terrible?
Husband—Indeed it is! The poor hus¬
band—even death brings him no re¬
lease—Translated from Tales from
Strekoza.
Hang of a Skirt.
There are two rocks oa which wom -
en wh0 mlgbt otherwise be well
’
dressed, frequently suffer shipwreck;
tlie one is tke gaping P lacke L the other
a skirt shorter in lront than behind,
°f these, even the most inexpe-
rienced of amateur dressmakers can
avoid ’ Make the placket op the side,
and fasten with P aten t clasps sewn
Cl0Se together -
| Plenty of Language.
“Did you have much trouble speak-
lug English when you were in Eng-
land?”
“No. The trouble I had was in mak¬
ing people understand me.”—Detroit
Free Press.