STATE ASSEMBLY BEST
Maximum Penalty for Bigamy
Made Twenty Years.
LIABILITY BILL PASSED UPON
Appropriations for State Institutions Fa
vorably Acted Upon—Fertilizer
Bills Discussed.
Atlanta, Ga. —The senate officially
declared that the bigamist was a
much blacker criminal than existing
laws make him appear and increased
the maximum penalty for this crime
to twenty years. The minimum re
mains at two years. Under the pres
ent law the maximum punishment is
imprisonment for four years.
The senate voted down the bill to
increase the salaries of judges of the
court of appeals from $4,000 to $6,000.
The effort to have the senate recon
sider its former vote on the bigamy
bill called forth an earnest and elo
quent plea from Senator Burwell in
behalf of Georgia women and the
sanctity of the home.
The bill of Senator Rutherford, in
creasing the powers of the state bank
examiner and providing more strin
gent regulations for state banks, was
reported favorably by the committee
■on banking and surrency, with some
amendments. The original bill re
quired the payment in full of capital
stock of all chartered banks, the
minimum capital allowed being $25,-
000. An amendment was added by
the committee, which leaves this mat
ter within the discretion of the stale
treasurer.
The committee on railroads reported
favorably the house bill allowing free
rides cn street cars to policemen and
firemen, and, by unanimous consent,
it was pased to second reading.
The senate passed the bill.
By Senators Price and McCurry, to
require assessment insurance compa
nies in this state to submit, upon the
notice of deaths of insured, or loss,
the number of parties composing the
■division in which death occurred, and
to provide penalty.
In the house, the employers’ liabil
ity bill was favorably acted upon bv
the general judiciary committee and
the measure was reported by substi
tute with the recommendation that it
do pass.
. This action by the committee came
after many vigorous arguments had
been made against the bill by counsel
for railroads operating in Georgia and
after a vigorous attack upon the meas
ure by Hon. Joe Hill Hall, chairman
of the committee.
The bill provides that in case the
employee has contributed to his own
injury he may recover damages, but
the amount of such recovery shall be
reduced in proportion to the degree
of his negligence.
The general judiciary committee
also agreed to report favorably the
following bills:
A bill to prohibit the publication in
periodicals or the sending over the
telegraph wires the name of any wom
an upon whom a criminal assault was
-committed or attempted.
The railroad committee of the house
voted to kill the bill requiring all
railroads in this state to stop all pas
senger trains at all county seats.
They also voted down a bill to pro
vide for the examination of firemen
and other railway employees by a
board of examiners.
Several representatives of fertilizer
manufacturers and other persons ap
peared before the house committee on
general agriculture to oppose any
change in the present law affecting
the marking, branding and sale of
commercial fertilizers.
Those opposing the bills introduced
by Mr. McMichael of Marion and Mr.
Edwards of Walton to change exist
ing laws, were Harry C. Fisher of
Atlanta; Harry Hodgson of Athens,
Mayor Robert F. Maddox of Atlanta
and others.
The present law .prescribes how fer
tilizers shall be marked, branded and
registered with the composition and
weight of the package and other facts.
The McMichael law proposes to add a
provision requiring the manufacturer
to state from what the potash is made
and also the source of the filler.
It is provided in the bill that if a
farmer finds that fertilizers sold him
have been misbranded, and loss to his
crops results from the use of such fer
tilizer, he may recover from the man
ufacturer for the loss of the crops.
The Edwards bill prohibits the use
of any artificial filler.
The senate committee on agricul
ture heard a comprehensive argument
from Captain R. F. Wright of the
state agricultural department, in be
half of an appropriation of $5,000 to
fight the cattle tick; and an appropri
ation of $2-,500 to employ a state vet
erinarian.
The following appropriations for the
maintenance of state institutions were
favorably acted upon: For state sani
tarium at Milledgeville, for 1910, $424,-
522; for 1911, $430,992, an increase of
$10,000; for the University of Georgia,
at Athens, $37,500, an increase of $5,-
000; for Georgia School of Technol
ogy, $70,000, an increase o SIO,OOO ;
or the Georgia Normal and Industrial
College at Milledgeville, $42,500, an
increase of $7,500; for North Georgia
Agricultural College, $21,500, no in
crease; for State Normal College at
Athens $42,000, an increase of $5,000;
for State Agricultural College at Ath
ens $60,000, an increase of SIO,OOO,
which was appropriated with the un
derstanding that this amount is to
be used in holding farmers’ institutes
over the state for the purpose of edu
cating farmers in the most approved
methods of agriculture.
SHUT WHEN HE TOUH JACK POT.
Shooting at Hotel in Albany Enlivens
Alleged Poker Game.
Albany, Ga. —Thf St. Nicholas ho
tel was the scene of a sensational af
fair recently between L. H. Glenn, of
Abbeville, sheriff of Wilcox county,
arm G. B. Me Duffy, marshal of Leary,
when it is alleged that Glenn shot
McDuffey when the latter grabbed
the money of a "jackpot” in the po
ker game in which he had been los
ing steadily and attempted to leave
the room with it.
Both men were put under arrest,
Glenn charged with assault and bat
tery, can ying concealed weapons, as
sault with intent to murder and gam
bling, and McDuffey charged with
gambling.
McDuffey was wounded in the ear
by the ball fom Glenn's pistol as it
grazed by his head.
Glenn claims that he struck McDuf
fey with the pistol which was acci
dentally discharged.
Following the arrests of these men,
four other cases were made against
parties alleged to be gambling in the
hotel. They were A. S. McLendon,
of Cordele, W. R. Beazley, of Jackson
ville, Fla., D. B. Motley and Charlie
Daniel, of Albany.
All the parties arrested waived com
mitment hearing and made bonds for
their appearance at the next term of
court.
NO ADVANCE IN LUMBER.
Lumber Dealers Place Orders With
Mills.
Valdosta, Ga. —The lumbeh brokers
in this city were somewhat amused
and the saw mill owners incensed by
the publication of a dispatch from Sa
vannah in the state papers recently,
to the effect that the mill men of
Georgia, and other states bid fair to
“kill the goose that laid the golden
egg” by arbitrarily raising the prices
of lumber anywhere from $3 to $4 per
thousand feet, and by ignoring the
brokers in that city.
Valdosta wholesalers say they are
experiencing no trouble in placing
all the orders they have with the mill
men in this section at practically the
prices that have ruled for some time.
In no cases are they paying more than
$1.25 advance over the prices of even
four or six months.
TO LAY CORNER 81 ONE.
Ex-Governor Smith Will Be Orator
of Day.
Thomaston, Ga. —Wednesday, Aug
ust 4, has been set as the date for
the laying of the corner stone of the
new scliool building and unditorium
of R. E. Lee institute. It is planned
jo hold an educational rally at the
same lime, to which ail the friends
of the school from several counties
will be invited. Ex-Governor Hoke
Smith will be the principal speaker
and addresses will be delivered by
prominent alumni of the institution
and well known educators from differ
ent parts of the state.
The corner stone will be laid by the
Mascns, Grand Master Thomas H.
Jeffries, of Atlanta, officiating.
After the exercises of the day an
old-fashioned Georgia barbecue will
be served to the visitors.
Bibb County to Purchase New Farm.
Macon, Ga. —Bibb county will spend
the sum of twenty thousand dollars
this month for a new county farm.
Bibb has at present a good farm for
which it paid fifteen thousand dol
lars a few years ago, but the county
has outgrown the present place, and
a new one will have to be secured
if the county wishes to continue to
raise hay and vegetables. During
the last few years enough hay has
been raised upon the farm to more
than supply the county with a third
of the hay needed during the year.
Vegetables and pork have also been
raised to such an extent (that the
farm has been a very valuable ad
junct, and next year the commission
ers intend to branch forward and see
just how much money they can make
for the county through agricultural
pursuits.
Plans to Draw Trade.
Savannah, Ga. —Savannah is to
have another organization, the pur
pose of which will be to draw trade
to Savannah. The Merchants and
Manufacturers’ association will be
formed here in a few days. Its mem
bership will consist of the jobbers
and wholesalers of Savannah. The
purpose of the organization is to in
crease Savannah’s wholesale and job
bing trade.
The fact that Baltimore houses are
bringing retail dealers through Sa
vannah and sending them to Balti
more by shiploads has moved the Sa
vannah merchants to action. It is
hoped through the organization, which
will he a sort of branch of the cham
ber of commerce, to get the business
of many merchants in territory hith
erto unworked by Savannah wholesal
ers.
Will Protect Roads.
Bruinswick, Ga.—Glynn county’s
commissioners propose to preserve
the shelled roads, as far as possible,
as is shown by the unanimous in
dorsement by that body of a bill now
before the legislature to prohibit log
carts from using the public improver
roads of this county. Lumbermen
owning mills in the county are pre
paring to fight the bill.
Cotton Receipts Increase.
Athens, Ga. —Athens has this sea
son gone far beyond all her previous
records in cotton receipts. The re
ceipts last year were a little more
than 110.000 bales; this season, up to
July 14, the receipts amounted to 124,-
397. showing an increase of nearly
15,000 bales.
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
MENTS FOR AUGUST 1.
Subject: Close of Paul’s Second Mis
sionary Journey, Acts 18:1-22-
Golden Text: John —Com
mit Verses !), 10—Commentary.
TIME.—A. D. 52.
PLACE.—Corinth.
EXPOSITION.—!. Paul Conduct
ing a Revival in a Synagogue at Cor
inth, l-({. Aquila and his wife Pris
cilla became very important members
of the church of Christ (see v. 26;
Rom. 16:3, 4; 1 Cor. 16:19; 2 Tim.
4:19). It was, apparently, a matter
of small consequence that threw Paul
in with them—“he was of the same
trade.” But God uses things just
like this for the promotion of His
kingdom. It would be well if we
would make more of them for the
same purpose. Are you a merchant?
Make a point of getting hold of mer
chants for Christ. Are you a black
smith? Cultivate the blacksmiths.
An unrighteous edict of Claudius had
driven Aquila and Priscilla out of
Rome. It doubtless seemed to them
a bitter thing, but God turned it to
their good, to no less a good than
their eternal salvation (cf. Ps. 76:
10). There are men to-day who
think it wrong, “a lack of faith,” to
do manual labor or any secular work
for their own support or that of their
families, because God has “called”
them to preach. If there was ever a
man about whose call to preach there
could he no possible doubt, it is this
man Paul, and yet he -wrought with
his hands (cf. ch. 20:34, 35). He
got right down to honest toil, and set
a wholesome example for the church
and for us (1 Cor. 9:6-12; 2 Thess.
3:8, 9: 1 Thess. 2:9). We need
many Pauls to-day, men so on fire
with the Gospel and love for souls
that they will not wait for some one
to promise them support before they
will preach, but, if need be, sup
port themselves. Paul preached,
too, while he worked. To an
audience of two; a small audience,
but how those quiet meetings
counted for eternity. Probably he
got pretty tired during the week, but
every Sabbath found him at his post.
Note a very expressive statement in
the R. V., "Paul was constrained by
the word.” Paul had meditated upon
the Word of God until it had so got
ten hold of him that he could not
keep still (cf. Jer. 20:9; Acts 4:20).
It impelled him on. It showed him
and overpowered him with the
thought that Jesus was the Christ,
and he must tell it out. But the Jews
were not willing to receive Paul’s tes
timony. ‘‘They opposed themselves
and blasphemed.” The most faithful
testimony will often be received in
that way. That does not prove it un
true, or that it has been unwisely
put. It simply shows the thorough
going badness of the hearts of even
religious men. But Paul’s testimony
was not in vain, after all. A large
and singularly gifted church grew up
in Corinth. Paul, in the face of all
their opposition and rejection, could
say, ‘‘l am clean.” It is a great thing
for any man to be able to say that.
We can only say that we are “clean
from the blood of all men” (Acts 20:
26), w'hen we can say, as Paul does
in the next verse, “For I shrank not
from declaring unto you the whole
counsel of God” (R. V.).
11. Paul Conducting a Revival in
the Home of Justus, Corinth, 7-11.
Paul’s labors bore abundant fruit.
Even the ruler of the synagogue re
ceived the truth and with him his
whole house. Many others believed
also, and openly confessed their faith
in baptism. The order of experience
as given in verse 8 is suggestive;
heard, believed, were baptized. But
still there was opposition. Indeed the
opposition doubtless increased with
Paul’s success. “Then spake the Lord
to Paul in the night.” That is just
like the Lord. Paul had had a pretty
hard time of it in Corinth, and was to
have a still harder time, and the Lord
appears and comforts him and
strengthens him for the coming trial.
The Lord often spoke to Paul in this
way (ch. 22:18; 23:11; 27:23-25).
So He is ready to speak to us, but we
do not need visions, as Paul did, for
we have the written Word. We can
carry the voice of God around in our
vest pocket and have Him speak to
us whensoever we will. Listen to the
Lord’s message, “Be not afraid.” That
is one of God’s favorite messages.
There was to be opposition, but Paul
must throw fear to the winds, and
speak right out the whole message of
God. The Lord gave Paul an all-suf
ficient reason for not being afraid:
“For I am with thee.” Of course,
then, Paul couldn’t be afraid. Ali
Corinth was no match for Christ. It
is no use telling a man not to be
afraid unless you give him some rea
son for fearlessness. But here is an
all-sufficient reason and every child
of God who is obeying Christ and go
ing out to do His work, has the same
reason (Matt. 28:19, 20; comp. Josh.
1:5, 9; Isa. 41:10; 43:1, 2). Paul
was to “speak” in face of all opposi
tion and not hold his peace, and the
Lord Jesus tells him why: “For I
have much people in this city.” The
Lord had people there and the Lord’s
people are called out by the spoken
Word. It was a reason, too, for no
man setting on Paul to hurt him. He
never allows us to be really hurt
(Rom. 8:31; Isa. 54:17; Jer. 15:20,
21). Corinth, with its wealth, its
luxury, its profligacy, its vileness. did
not seem much like a place where the
Lord would have much people. But
so it was. Let us take courage con
cerning our modern cities.
A SEASONABLE FORM OF RACE SUICIDE.
—Cartoon by Berryman, in the Washington Star.
BOY WHO SHOT WEE GIRL TELLS OF DEED
**l Don't Know What Made. Me Kill Frances,” Says Joe
! Kane, Aged Eleven.
Burlington, N. J. —Declaring that
he deliberately shot three-year-oid
Frances Lord, but unable to explain
what impulse forced him to the act,
eleven-year-old “Joe” Kane, held for
the slaying of the little girl lasj Sat
urday evening, made a complete con
fession to Assistant County Prosecu
tor Robert Atkinson and Policeman
Claude Sell, of Burlington, at the City
Hall jail.
“I knew r it would kill Frances and
I Juiow they hang people for doing
things like that,” said the youthful
prisoner. Then recovering some of
the braggadocio he displayed when
arrested, Kane said he had been in
spired to play “robber” by moving
picture shows which he had wit
nessed.
“All the boys play robber,” con
tinued Joe. "Sometimes we use
sticks for swords and hold up all
the kids that come along, but it’s
more fun to use a gun, because you
can scare all the kids with that.
“We often used the olrl gun when
we were having ‘fun’ playing high
wayman. I came near shooting
Freddie Roberts once when I pulled
the trigger and the gun went off just
over his head. We used to swipe
caps and shoot them off on the gun
when there weren’t any other ioad3
in it, as there was this last time
when I shot Frances. My brother
had loaded it to shoot blackbirds
last week. Sometimes I’d chase the
whole gang out of the yard, telling
them I’d shoot them. Once I got a
pistol and made a fellow run like
sixty.
“But I never had a fight with
Frances. She was just a little girl,”
said the boy, in tears for the first
time during the interview, and he
added remorsefully, “I don’t know
why I did it.
“When Frances ran up to see what
we were doing I said, ‘l’m going to
shoot you!’ She says, ’Please don’t
shoot me!’ and put her hands over
her face and peered through her fin
gers. She started to run and I shot
the gun at her. The old gun kicked
so hard it nearly knocked me over.
“My mother and father told neigh
bors it was an accident, so I just
said it was an accident and blamed
it on Tommy Ocas. I knew it wasn’t
right to kill her. 1 didn’t mean to
shoot her, and I don’t know why I
did. We were having such a good
time playing robber!”
“Ever go to Sunday school, Joe?”
asked the prosecutor.
“Nope, but I’d like to go. Never
got any good clothes to wear. I ain’t
a bad boy, though. Folks say I’m
bad when I’m just having fun.”
Kane had an opportunity to tell
his story again before a coroner’s
jury.
Local officials who listened to the
boy’s story believe he suffered a sud
den attack of insanity, aird assert
that his case is a study for alienists
rather than a jury.
The boy prisoner seemed to enjoy
his experience on the trolley trip to
the county seat with Patrolman
Claude Sell. “I wonder if they’ll
hang me for this,” he asked the po
liceman. When assured that hang
ing was no longer in force in New
Jersey the boy seemed easier in his
mind.
MAY WARD OFF OLD AGE.
Removal of Large Intestine Urged by Doctor Who
Backs Up Metchnikoff.
London.—As the result of investi
gations at St. Mary’s Hospital, Lon
don, Dr. Distaso, of Paris, says he has
verified the theory of Professor Met
chnikoff that old age can be warded
off.
It will be recalled that Professor
Metchnikoff declared it to be hi 3 con
viction a couple of years ago that the
large intestine was the breeding place
of the majority of harmful germs in
the human body, and that when this
intestine was removed the majority
of germs remaining in the body were
beneficial, with the result that life
was prolonged. Dr. Distaso’s investi
gations were directed to comparing
the germs found in normal individ
uals and in those whose large intes
tine had been removed by operation.
He so satisfied himself by his studies
“I wish I was out in those •woods,”
he exclaimed as the car passed si
shady grove. “That’s a bully place
to play robber.”
“Flayin’ robber” seems to be the
boy’s chief joy In life. He was
“playin’ robber” when he killed
Frances Lord.
“Joe’s” eyes bulged and he wept a
little when the policeman led him up
the steps of the old county jail, but
he recovered quickly and chatted
with the turnkey and Sheriff Wor
rell before he was assigned to a cell.
What to do with “Joe” is becom
ing more of a puzzle to the authori
ties every day. He is too young to
be put on trial for manslaughter,
and local officials wish that he might
be turned over to some “home so
ciety,” and saved from the reform
school. - 4*. .w&i --,-t
Testimony of Mrs. Lord at the in
quest that she saw her daughter
shot, and of eleven-year-old Thomas
Ocas, a boy companion of Kane’s that
the latter deliberately shot Frances
after threatening her life, destroyed
the theory that the shooting was an
accident.
“He said, ‘Me shoot you; me shoot
you, Frances.” She cry, and then he
shoot her,” the Ocas hoy testified in
broken English, when Prosecutor At
kinson asked him to describe the
tragedy. Kane at first charged Ocas
with the shooting, but afterward con
fessed that he did it himself.
Smiling and crying alternately as
he answered the prosecutor’s ques
tions, the Kane boy was by far the
most interesting witness at the in
quest. Rather small for his age,
with bis round face plentifully frec
kled. the defendant seemed a perfect
ly normal boy, and a murmur of pity
ran through the room as he was
called to the witness stand.
The prosecutor asked him If he
knew what would become of him if
fie told an untruth.
“Yes. you’d send me to the reform
school,” answered the boy.
“But if you died, what would be
come of you then. Joe?”
“I’d go to the bad man.”
The little prisoner then rehearsed
the events leading up to and sur
rounding the tragedy, which were
substantially the same as he had
given in part in earlier confessions.
He again changed the story to deny
that ho shot the girl deliberately.
“Tommy had the gun and I took
it away from him; Frances came
around the corner. ‘Lookout, I’m
going to shoot you,’ I said. She be
gan to cry and then the gun went
off,” the witness testified. “I had
my hand on the trigger,” he contin
ued, “but I just pressed it a little.
T didn’t mean to.kill her. We were
good friends and nlayed together.”
For nearly an hour and a half the
jury deliberated before returning a
verdict which was the mildest form
under which the boy could be held.
Mrs. Kane, Joe’s mother, broke
into tears as the assistant prosecutor
read the verdict, and fainted when
Coroner Bisbing remanded him to
jail to await the action of the coun
ty authorities.
Joe gravely shook hands with sev
eral boy friends, who said they were
sorry for him and hoped he would
get out soon. But he didn’t cry.
of the truth of Professor Metchni
koff’s theory that he unhesitatingly
says that every child ought to have
its large intestine and appendix re
moved when two or three years old.
He further affirms that almost
every chronic disease can be traced
to the action of these intestinal
germs, among others heart disease,
arterial sclerosis and most kinds of
headaches. Everybody would get
along better without the big intestine,
but those who care notto sumbit to its
removal by operation ought, if they
want to live long, to eat very little
meat, once daily being plenty, with,
green vegetables, and only vegetables
at other meals.
Water should be drunk abundantly
throughout the day, but no tea, coffee
or spirits.
