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: GEORGIA BRIEFS V ^ w 1 V V 'XZ V - Corner Stone is Laid. In the presence of many Columbus citizens and quite a party of disfin guished visitors, the corner atone el the secondary industrial school, the $50,000 nucleus of Columbus $299,- OO 0 technological plant, was laid with impressive ceremonies. Railroad is Extended. The F. R. & Q. railroad, which has been operating between Asli- burn and Sylvester since March 1, has extended Its road to Brldgehoro, a point on the Albany Northern 14 miles southwest of Sylvester. The passenger and freight traffic hHH increased to such an extent that It became necessary to put on a >eg ulur freight train. The road Is doing *. good business and is pushing its line on to the gulf as rapidly as pos- ‘ slide. Apprentice Slays Foreman. J. M. Stewart, section foreman of the Seaboard, at Bladen, Ga., was stud and instantly killed by Oscar Knight, his apprentice, Saturday night. Knight shot him twice in the hack, and when he fell fired seven shots into his body. The body was found in front of Stewart's home Sunday morning. Jealousy of his wife and Stewart is the cause given by Knight, who was committed to Brunswick jail charg¬ ed with murder by the coroner’s jury. Tech Grads in Demand. During the course of twelve hour-? following the Tech graduating exer¬ cises in Atlanta, President Miatiic- Hun of that Institution recelced three letters from manufacturing concerns wishing to place some of the ’06 class at munificent salaries. The reputation of the Georgia Te- h has spread over the entire country and none of its graduates expenen-e trouble in securing lucrative posj- tions upon graduation. Court Cuts Out Oral Argument. After having disposed of 666 cases of the 1,146 cast's on the docket since the October term, 1906, leaving 4M> cases undisposed of. and being new engaged in reviewing judgments of 145 superior courts and 57 city courts, which number will he increased by the audition of fast hills of excep¬ tions in criminal and civil cases, Hie state supreme court has been com-, polled to order that oral argument in remaining cases he dispensed wlili ■when practicable. The court lia.^ is- fined au order to that effect. * Wants to Get Nearer Home. There is probability that Tom Wat¬ son’s Magazine will, at an early date, be published in the south, probably in ■Georgia, possibly in Augusta. It is not known definitely what Mr. Watson’s plans ate, hut it is under¬ stood, on excellent authority, that he •is desirous of transferring all the me. chanical work of his magazine to a place that will 1 k> nearer his home interests than is now the case. Printers in Atlanta and Augusta have received notices from the pub¬ lishers of the magazine and are now preparing estimates that will be sub milted. * Atlanta Postmaster in Luck. Owing to the fact that the post- office receipts of the Atlanta pos»- office for the past salary year <>x ceeded the sum of $609,000, Postmas¬ ter Blodgett has received a boost in pay of $1,000 a year. Tbis increase in salary for the head of the department, making a total ot $6,990 a year, means that the Atlanta postoffice now ranks with the best in the country, the salary being exceeded by that of jus*, one office—New York. * * Avalanche of Wreck Suis. A total of wreck suits against the Atlanta and W Point and the (Vsi tral of Georgia, ns a result of H e recent wreck in Atlanta to a picnic | train returning from pearl Spvi'c-;. i were filed a few days ago annum'iny I to $1 iY..c- 9. This amount is lav ■' •. j probably, than any other one day’s j 1 total against the two roads for tae recent wreck. The tal amount that the two rea ls combined will have ta pay. if they pay all that has been asked of them t;t» to date. on the recent Pearl Spring. - wreck, will be $711,000. * Farmers to Gather on Fourth. The farmers’ institute for the 12*;! senatorial district—Quitman. St -,v;:r nnJ WvuSter counties—will be tr-i ! | at Lumpkin or. July 3 r.r. l 4. H n Harvie Jordan in charge. A numne- ; of prominent speakers and ex jk- i ; - wli] be present. On July 4, the Stewart coun y branch of the Southern Cotton Grow¬ ers’ Association and the Clement A. Rvana camp of Confederate Veterans, will unite in a suitable celebration. There will be an extensive bade' dinner on this day, with approprTe speeches, a brass band and other fea¬ tures that will add interest to the day. * * Look tc Farm for Best Men. Interest in the agricultural ednea lion and the development of the College of Agriculture and the M' chauic Arts to the highest standard of efficiency has marked the meet.ng of alumni and friends of the Tnivar¬ sity of Georgia at this year's com¬ mencement . George Foster Peabody, that tree friend of the agricultural intertiis of the state, in an address much* to flic aitimni, stated that from the farm the state must in the future get Hs strongest and best men and womt.'i, and that every movement for the d<- veloprnent of agricultural education ;n this state means better citizens ,u:ci more prosperity in the future. Backing up his words by his in¬ terest and money, he has given to the university an additional 350 acres of land, in order that the university may have the very best campus in the south, it now comprising 900 acre 3 . * Havoc Wrought by Hail. The hail storm a few days ago in Clarke and Oconee counties was heavier than was at first reported. In Oconee county the hail fell to the depth of 14 inches on a level, and even the pine needles on the trees were stripped and piled on the ground several inches deep. In the upper edge of Clarke county the loss was heavy. In Clarke the storm was about a mile wide and seven miles long. In Oconee it was two miles wide and ten miles long. The corn and cotton crops in the path of the storm were totally destroyed. Monticeilo and vicinity was also vis¬ ited by a hail storm, doing conside able damage. Fences were blown down and on several plantations crops and fruit were entirely destroyed. Lawlessness Alarms Citizens. Miayor J. 1,. Allen and other prom¬ inent citizens of Chipley appeared before Judge William A. Kittle, m Columbus, a few days ago, and urge! him to grant a petition signed by thirty or forty citizens of Chip.cy and Hamilton asking that a speem! term of Harris superior court he called for the purpose of trying the persons arrested in connection won the recent double tragedy at Chip. ley, and also for the purpose of sup¬ pressing the lawlessness in the core inunity. The petitioners say that people arc carrjiug arms openly, and that the feeling of apprehension is demoral¬ izing and is injuring the town’s busi¬ ness. The petiti. ners at first applied to Governor Terrell for relief, and he suggested that they cotfer with Judge Little in reference- to a special term of court-. Judge Little reserved his decision. * Minnesota Man Enlightened. Secretary of Agriculture Hudson has received a letter from I’. Brown of Cockston, Minne- so* a, in which he states that he and a number of his ne'g.n- hors, some of whom are nun of ee.:i- sidevable means, are desirous of coin¬ ing to Georgia to make their honn s. Before coming to the promised Inn i, Mr. Brown was desirous of acquir rg certain information with regard to the climate, rainfall, etc., and to lew.n whether or not there was any danger from snakes and insec's. It being apparent that Mr. Brown was under the Impression wntca seems to prevail among the most of the inhabitants of the far north¬ west that Georgia ls a sort of tropi¬ cal jungle where it was insufferably hot in summer and the inhabitants were in danger from venomous rep tiles. Assistant Secretary Robert Wright wrote him fully in to his ques ions. Mr. Brown will, no doubt, he stir prised and pleased to learn that the mean temperature of South Georgia is from 64 to (IS degrees, and Nor.n Georgia from 2 to an. while tne . moan tempera Hire of til mount a -t- ous part of the state is 32 dr-^ tvs, Mount Airy having about the tern- perature hi summer as Ohio, In iin- ua and ITnris. A JDB I OR (OlItGF GRADUAlES. Kansas Wants 8,000 Harvest Hands to Gather Her Wh-*at ( rap Governor Hoch of Kansas Saturday sent the following to W. J. Black, traffic manager of the Atchison. To- ,tkn , , i!B(1 , * 0 :mta I e railroad , company, at Cb'-c igo, and E. S. McLoud. chair- man cf the Wes cm Passenger As- : “” de ’f ” J «**•, “ cro|1 will be . lost, l appeal to you.” PROSPERITY OF GEORGIA Indicated in Reports to Comptroller General by Tax Collectors in Va¬ rious Sections of the State. As an indication of the general prosperity which is prevalent through¬ out Georgia, and which, U appears, is on the constant increase, Comptrol¬ ler General VY. A. Wright is receiv¬ ing letters almost daily from tax cm lectors in various sections of the state, in which they tell him that the property returns for taxation th.it year will show an increase equal practically to the almost unpreceden¬ ted increase shown by the returns of last year. It is regarded as little short of mar. , vclous that Georgia should show an increase of more than forty millions in property returns two years in suc¬ cession, but the indications are that this is coming again when the 1 Q 0 «; digests are examined, and this wi.l mean that the total taxable valuations in Georgia will be carriad away over the $600,000,000 mark. The total property returns for 1301 were $530,000,000. In 1905 they jump¬ ed up to $577,000,000, showing an in¬ crease of $37,000,000 in general prop¬ erty returns and $10,000,000 in corpo¬ ration returns. Another increase like that of 1905 and the total returns of taxable property in Georgia will be carried up close to $625,000,000. And in the event that 1907 should show similar results, Georgia would return in her taxable values to the high tide which she knew before the civil war, when, with all the slaves, the highest total reached was near $675,000,000. There -will be an increase this year in the returns of corporations amount¬ ing to $4,000,000 or $5,000,000. The total returns of corporation property in 1905 were $83,000,000 in round numbers. This year the total from corporations will be about $88,009.- 000. The value of Georgia’s corpo¬ ration property is getting close tr the one hundred million mark, i r about one-sixth of the total taxable property of the state. This year’s increase in the corpo¬ ration returns will be secured by the comptroller general, it appears now, without a single arbitration. Where he thought the returns too small, lie has simply so indicated, and as the result of conferences with officin’3 of the companies interested he has secured practically all he has asked for. In addition, there has been some new railroad mileage returned, par¬ ticularly that of the Louisville and Nashville, between Cartersville ana the Tennessee lines, and also the new mileage constructed by the At¬ lantic and Birmingham Railroad com¬ pany. CONVICT CASE TO HIGHER COURT. Both Parties to Controversy Dissatisfied With tower Court’s Decree. The recent decree of Judge Pen¬ dleton in the superior court at A’- lanta in the case of the Georgia Iron and Coal company against the prison commission of Georgia and Hamby &. Tcomer, in which an injunction was granted restraining Hamby & Tooin- er from having transferred tc their use 59 convicts whose services the Georgia Iron and Coal company had acquired by sublease, will be taken to the supreme court, both the Geor¬ gia Iron and Coal company and Ham¬ by & Toomer being dissatisfied with portions of the decree. BANKS ARE ASKED FOR STATEMENT. Georgia Treasurer Calls Upon State lusti- iutions to Matte a Showing. State Treasurer R. E. Park of Geor¬ gia issued a call Wednesday on all the state banks of Georgia, 373 r in number, for statement of their a condition at the close of business on June 18. This is the same day upon which the call was made upon the national banks of this and other states by the comptroller of the cur- rency. A composite statement will, therefore, show the condition of all the banks in Georgia as a whole. Niqht Session Heldbv Senate. The senate Wednesday decided to hold a night session to consider the sundry civil appropriation bill. SAUSAGE CONTAINED DEATH GERM. farmer end His Children Die from Poison lhrouqh fating Bologna. reSld,ns near near Tort Smith, Ark., and his chil- dren, Emma, aged 5 years, and James ’ a s ed K 18 mnivh? months, died rtip,! Monday at „ Belle- p0i ’ Jt h °sPital at Fort Smith from poisoning. They had eaten boloena sausage. A daughter, aged seven years, is at the point of death - street 1„ J stand. :V— ) ■; SB 7 ■ ••___ ii tt •»» iNl x 11, “Where Ocean Breezes BIow”ggi ''/'X, Is th. place to go In the summer for rest, recreation and a real good time. Travel via The Central of Georgia Railway. \ In a few hours you can be on the shores of the Atlantic, listening to the roar of the surf, drinking in the wine-like air, bathing, boating, fishing and dancing, and mingling with a gay throng of charming, good-natured people; the bluest of blue skies above you. A maximum of pleasure at a minimum of cost. For full information, rates, schedules, etc., ask your nearest Ticket Agent. LOW-RATE EXCURSION TICKETS are on sale at all tmh ticket offices of tbe W. A. WINBURN, J. C. HAILE, F. J. ROBINSON, K&ORGLl RYCO Vice-Pres, and Traffic Mgr. Gec i Pass r Agent. Ass’t Gen’l Fass’r Agent. ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPS K BUSINESS esas AND INCREASE T«VR A* Advertisement Is s Siloat Canvasser wha Is ALWAYS AT WORK IN YOUR INTEREST Par liberal rater apply ta publication office of THIS PAPES. Public Men Are Underpaid.. Secretary of the Navy, Chas.J. Bonaparte. IQ " ^ the course of the past ten months I have been led by my sur¬ roundings and my duties to consider seriously and frequently why our best men so often shun public life, and especially pub¬ lic service, and the subject appears to me of such grave and! £113 urgent occasion import the mature to the consideration people that I of venture the league. to ask for it on this Why do really first-class men, as a rule, shun public em- .5 its higher grades? First, because public offices of great respon¬ sibility^ ar v generally and grossly underpaid. A very little thought should’, serve to show that the trusts and the multi-millionaires get what they pay tor, and we get what we pay for likewise; the only difference is that they are sufficiently sensible to know they must pay for what they want in order- to get it, and we are sufficiently silly to think we can get what we want with¬ out paying its fair value. I believe this anomally to be the result of two pop- mar prejudices. Of these, the first is the doctrine that all men of right ought to be, andi should therefore be made and kept, precisely equal. The second popular prejudice is the fruit of a theory of Government. According to this school of' thought, but one question need be asked about a candidate for public office or an aspirant for political power, namely: “l s he the man best fitted to go\ern in the public interest?” In this view, it is quite ibrevelant whether." he will rule as the people may wish to be ruled; the material inquiry * is. whether he will rule well. Now we can as readily get good civil servants as we can get good mili¬ tary servants; we can obtain legislative and executive officers of as high?, grade as are our judicial officers or even as these ought to be. A free peo¬ ple has always as good a government as it deserves, If its rulers are un~ worthy, it has shirked the duties and burdens of freemen. The Celts qf Brittany, By Carroll Durham. E Americans are familiar with the Celts of Scotland, Wales and? w us; in Ireland. much The less time Celts well they known of have France, than been however, they deserve isolated are to less and be. well separate Until known with¬ peo¬ ta» our own an MU ple. did not Armorica, become their a part ancient of the country, growing now kingdom known of France as Brittany,, until; a year before the first voyage of Columbus. A passionate conversatism has always characterized |.hese Celts. They have clung to old allegiances, much as they have clung to the fringes of their- old lands. Usually more royalist than the king, they have often been more- religious than the church. It may be said that their royalties, if intense, have* often been narrow. Their unit of government has been the clan rather than, the nation; the clan, a kind of enlarged family, grouped about a fighting; leader, who was also a judge, a provider, a benevolent, parental, arbitrary^ and absolute master. Something of this survives among us in the vitality and persistence of a clan rule like that of Tammany 4n New York. The Celts of Brtttany are thus a people of strongly marked character.. The warrior, at the head of his clan, is one ef their great m.en. The woodland' priest is another; and quite as Interesting and important as either is the- minstrel, who sings of love and war, of the mystical forest and the gods: above. One may find his successor today in the wandering singer, who goes; from Pardon to Pardon, reciting in the Breton tongue old poems from mem¬ ory, and often delighting his listeners with new ones of his own creation -— American,Monthly Review of Reviews. The Girl Behind the Counter By Mary Rankin Cranston. LH ROMOTIONS is very slow in a department store. A girl may enter a store at $G a w r eek and, after five or six or seven years, receive.- an advance of $1 a week if she puts up a pretty stiff fight and is- a valuable saleswoman. ,_hours ifiii Her are work long, is it n is °t true, the but dull the grind continual it might procession be supposed of liuman- The ity which fi]es before her lends interest and a certain kind of ex- eitement . to every hour. Human nature is wonderfully facile in wits its disclosure* h^ and the shop girl who has two ideas in her head and keeps her about ^ ery 50011 learns the difference between the real lady and the spurious article” w“ She Iearas to knmv at a glance whether her customer is likely to order a of hair pins cr a spool of thread sent home, miles away, bv the debverv wagon h may be high-priced goods ordered to be sent C. O. D. to a locality which «"ffiw'wtUw Oh^eTi? St^'LpX ■/ ^t° n kn0w ' h °w to size’em up.”—The World To-Day.