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WHEN POLLY WAS MY SWEETHEART.
When Polly was my sweetheart When Polly was ray sweetheart
The (lays went dancing by And vowed she loved mo true,
As lightly ns her laughter, | I had not guessed the lurking
She Hermoaklng, brought or her sigh; Of guile In eyes so blue;
the sunshine with her, Or that a oheek can offer
A dawn of new delight, The same dellolous roso
And left me when we parted To greet a wooer’s coming.
To dream of her all night. And speed him when he goos.
When Polly was my sweetheart Whon Polly was my sweetheart—
I knew no sordid care; Oh, Idle time and blind!
What gold oould keep its lustro Its memories blow backward
Beside her glinting hair? Witli every April wind
And who was I, to envy Until, it I oould suffer
The proudest of the land, The Joy and palupf yore,
That felt but lately on me I should not mind her making
The touch of hor dear hand! A fool ot me once more.
—M. E. W., in Lite.
Behind a Closed Booh. ,
Dy W. J. LAMPTON.
m
OLOXEL HARRY
... Ford was the presi¬
dent of a big bank
in a Western State
and the colonel and
$ I were at the chron¬
icling of this tale
in New York,
whither we had
gone as chance traveling companions
on a train from the West. It was on
Sunday morning, and as we took it
easy in the handsome apartments he
was brought occupying, a messenger boy
him a telegram. The message
was from his wife, and the boy being
colonel a bright-eyed youngster, the cheerful
chatted with him pleasantly a
moment and gave him a quarter as he
departed.
“Doesn’t that make telegraphing
come pretty’high?” I inquired, with
the true Yankee spirit of thrift.
“Iused to be one myself,” he said
in explanation, “and now. whenever I
see a bright-eyed kid like that I warm
up to him and give him something,
though not always a quarter. Being
Sunday, and the telegram being from
my wife, I do a bit better than usual
and part with all of 25 cents.”
“Do you really mean that you were
once great a surprise, messenger boy?” I asked in
as I looked over the
elegant man of the world, every inch
a gefftleman born, who sat in the big
chair by the window gracefully pois¬
ing a cigar on his thumb aud finger.
“Really and truly,” he laughed,
“and if you can stand a reminiscence
this morning, I’ll tell you the story of
my life. Journalists,” and he bowed
over the arm of the chair, “I believe,
are always on the lookout for interest¬
ing facts in history and fiction, aren’t
they?”
I hastened to assure him that they
were, and after making me swear that
I would keep awake at whatever sacri¬
fice, he began.
“When I was a youngster of ten,”
he said, “I was a messenger boy earn¬
ing the luxurious salary of three dol¬
lars a week, all of which I gallantly
turned over to my mother, who was a
banker’s daughter, though she had
been turned out of her father’s house
because she had not married to suit
him and her stepmother. Indeed, she
had gone farther and married the man
who had suited her, and after that,
while her heart was never empty, she
and her husband and only son were
often so, and life was not quite as rosy
as it might have been. Wo were brave
people, though, and with my three
dollars a week wo managed somehow
to get along. I improved after a year
or two, and incidentally picked up te¬
legraphy, so that when I was fifteen I
got a place at a small country station
in Missouri and took my mother there
to live with me on my salary of forty
dollars a month, my father having
died a year before.
“At sixteen my mother died, leav¬
ing me alone in the world, and at my
mother’s funeral my grandfather re¬
lented sufficiently to propose that he
educate me, which proposal I accept¬
ed and agreed to take a good business
education. By the time I was twen¬
ty-one I had been graduated, and my
grandfather gave me a position in a
bank he owned in a very pleasant in¬
terior town, where I showed such ap¬
titude that the old gentleman entirely
forgave me for having been the son of
his disobedient daughter and told me
to go ahead and I should be a partner
some day.
“The next most natural thing in the
world to do was to fall in love, and I
did it for all there was in mythrobbing
heart, and on the evening of the day
I was promoted to the cashiership of
the bank I asked Kate Vernon to be
my wife. I did it advisedly, too, for
my grandfather had told me when I
married he would give me an eighth
interest in the bank. Miss Vernon
wasn’t the most beautiful girl the eye
of man ever rested on, and even I was
forced to confess that there was too
much pug in her nose for classic
beauty, but she was the brightest
young woman in the county, aud the
cheeriest, and I was heels over head in
love with her, which made up for all
discrepancies.
“During all the time of my experi¬
ence in tbe bank I had kept up my
interest in telegraphy, and after Kate
and I had settled upon our future
relationship, I had connected her
house with my room at the bank, and
whenever I had the chance I called
her up and talked love to her between
meals by eleotricity. I don’t know
how much of that kind of talk we in¬
dulged in, but I do know that
Kate became almost an expert telegraph
operator, and could easily have made
her living at it had there been such a
necessity. that
“One of the other customs of
charming time of love in tho fore-
ground was a drivo that Kate and I
took two or three times a week in a
trap she owned, leaving the bank just
after closing time, 4 o’clock, and driv¬
ing for a couple of hours, to eudather
house, where I took supper with her.
On the days when shewould telegraph
dowu that she was coming, I would
lock up the money and valuable papers
in the inside safe and leave the outer
doors of the big vault open, bo tho
last man out of the bank could put the
books away and lock them up against
fire. The man who did this nearly al¬
ways was an old fellow, partly deaf,
and a janitor rather than a clerk. One
day, when I had shut up the inside
safe and gone out to join Kate in her
trap at tho door, she sent me back to
wait until she went up town to see a
friend about a church supper they
were interested in. Old Jock, as we
called him, was not at his desk when I
came back, though I had said good-bye
to him as 1 went out, nor was there
anyone in tho bank, and as I sat a mo¬
ment at my own desk I noticed a pa¬
per that that had been left there by
mistake. I got up at once to put it
where it belonged in the safe, and as I
went into the vault I did not observe
that all the books had been put away,
though I could hear old Jock, in the
little room bask, telling his boy about
sweeping out.
“The paper belonged in a pigeon¬
hole far back in the vault and high up,
so that I was compelled to go up a
stepladder we kept there, aud about
the time I had got myself hid away in
the shadow the big outer door swung
to aud I could hear old Jock turn the
combination out of joiut. I yelled
out, but it was too late, even if the old
man’s ears had been sharp, and I
found myself in the disagreeable pre¬
dicament of being sb^t up in my own
safe and no visible means of escape.
At first it struck me as ludicrous;
then it became serious, and in a few
moments I had gone to thinking as
those people think who are confronted
with tremendous moments in their
lives. I soon decided that my only
hope of getting out was through Miss
Y ernon, who, when she returned,
would naturally inquire “or me and in
this way old Jock would in time dis¬
cover that he had shut me up in the
vault, How long it would be until
Miss Vernon roturned, or what chance
of the old man still being there when
she came now began to demand dis¬
cussion in my brain, and for a minute
or two I stood still in the thick dark¬
ness and listened to my heart beating.
Then I remembered that we always
kept a hammer in a pigeonhole near
the door, and groping around I
found it and at once began to pound
on the door. Immediately a response
came, but, of course, I did not know
who was giving it, though evidently
the boy, as the old man could scarce¬
ly have heard. This gave me hope,
at ouce, and I sot up a regular tattoo
on the door with my hammer, to all of
which came the responses from the
outside. But it was not getting out
of my prison, and confinement was be¬
coming irksome.
“For the first time now I hoard
faintly the sound of human voices call¬
ing to me, but it were as if they were
miles away, and I could not distin¬
guish whose they were, though I
thought I know Kate’s. I answered
back, but the place was so thick and
heavy that my voice frightened me,
and I used the hammer instead of call¬
ing. Up to this time I had not thor¬
oughly realized what my entombment
meant, but now it came upon me that
the only man in town except myself
who knew tho combination bad gone
away for a vacation to the seashore,
and that with the door air-tight, or
practically so, I could not live a very
great while in the vault. Certainly
not long enough to hear from either
the clerk on vacation or from the peo¬
ple from whom we had bought the safe
in St. Louis. Indeed, if I stood it for
two hours, I felt I would be doing
well, for my had pounding had filled the
little air I with dust, and it was
nearly suffocating mo. The pounding
from the outside increased the dust,
too, and whilo I could prevent myself
from doing it, and did stop, the very
fact of my stopping mads those on the
outside pound harder as if to encour¬
age me, whon, as they thought, I was
losing hope.
“This thought came to me with a
shock so great that I almost collapsed.
I caught at the sides of the vault in
the inky darkness and for a minute
I became deathly sick. Following this
came almost a frenzy to yell and howl
and claw at the door and scratch at my
face and tear at my hair. I had heard
of people doing that way and going
mad when lost in caves and such places,
and I felt it coming on me in that
dreadful hole. To add to the horrors
of my situation, the air was growing
rapidly worse and I could not stand
ux> in the vault without a feeling of
tlie most profouud nausea. It was the
nausea of despair, if anybody has ever
analyzed just what that is. At inter¬
vals, notwithstanding the harm of it, I
would grape around for the hammer
and pound on the door, only to choko
more and to hear the muffled thuds or
tho responses from the outside.
“Two feet from light and air nnd
love and life and utterly shut off from
them all. It was horrible to thiulc of,
and I am sure a thousand times worse
than if I had been entombed in a mine
ten thousand feet deep or had been
buriod in the sands of a desert a hun¬
dred miles from water and green trees.
Slowly I felt my strength going, and
at last I could not so much as respond,
even at long intervals, to the knocking
on the outside, and I sank to the floor
with my bead against the oold steel
wall between the light of the world
and the darkness of death. As I lay
there panting I heard the dull thud of
the beating on the outside, and it soon
came as a beating of time, or rather
eternity; a measure of music to soothe
me to sleep, and I sank into semi-con¬
sciousness and seemed to be dreaming.
“You know, they say that when a
man is dying under unnatural or vio¬
lent circumstances all his past life
comes back to him, even in minute de¬
tail. It did not quito appear to mo
that all my life was passing in review
before me in my dungeon, but it did
seem as if the youth of my life had
come back to me, and I thought I was
once again in that little telegraph sta¬
tion on the Missouri River catching
tho clickity-cliek-click of the instru¬
ment on my table, and which always
seemed to me as important as a ship’s
deck is to an admiral. I seemed to
bo hearing the ‘calls’ of operators all
along the line, but I gave no response,
and then the scene changed, as it does
so suddenly and unaccountably in
dreams, and I was at my instrument in
the bank listening with all a lover’s
eagerness for the first call of Kate
Vernon’s over the wire I had put up
for her.
“It was very faint and far off, and I
think I must have smiled as I bent my
ear closer to the instrument to catch
the sound, having in mind my sweet¬
heart at the other end of the wire es¬
saying her first attempt in handling
the lightning. For a moment it was
vague enough, with its modest little
clickety-click-click, but all at once it
seemed to say something to me. I
could not distinguish at first, but
presently it took form and I could
catch the ‘call’ I had taught her. It
was the letter K, repeated over and
over again, ‘just as all operators do
when they want some other operator
who is not at hi3 desk to respond
promptly. Then it was the clickety-
click-click of the letters that formed
my name, and I smiled to think that
as a child learning to talk says ‘mam¬
ma’ first, so Kata was saying first in
this new language of the wires that
she was learning the name of her
teacher.
“Sat there was something more
than a dream in the sensations I was
experiencing. I could feel that it was
something more than a dream. I
knew that some sound must be shaping
my dream for me, and without know¬
ing what I was doing and with an odd
feeling of the very peculiar key we
had put on our instruments I took up
the hammer and sounded my ‘call’ to
Kate,in response to what I was hearing.
Instantly the ‘call’ was repeated aud
my name followed. Now I seemed to
throw off the nightmare, aud I roused
myself. Striking with the hammer on
the door I called to Kate by name, and
then distinct enough, though muffled,
I heard the clickety-click-click on . the
outer door, and Kate was telling me in
the mysterious manual of Morse, a
message of courage and hope.
“Aud what a wonderful strength is
hope. Now that I had established
communication with the outside world,
I took great courage immediately,
though I did not understand just what
or how I was going to do to be saved,
for I confess that I was not very clear
headed at this time. I thought only
of telegraphing to St. Louis for the
combination, and had actually sig¬
naled to Kate to do so at once, and I
would try to keep up until word was
received, when to my indignation, she
laughed at me over the wires, that is
the door plate, and told me to telegraph
right then and there to her what the
combination was and she would do the
rest.
“How plain and simple that was,
and I had never thought of it. Neither
had I thought of telegraphing to her
from my prison, and it was only be¬
cause she was a woman that she ever
thought of sending word through that
dull door to me with a hammer. She
has since told me that some men never
will learn anything unless it is ham¬
mered into them, and I never say a
word. Anyway, when three minutes
after I had told her what the combin¬
ation was, the door opened and I fell
forward into the fresh air of the world
of sunshine. Kate caught me in her
arms, and it was her voice I heard
faintly and far off as I had heard the
olickety-click-elick of her tapping that
led me back to life and light and love
once more.”
“And you lived happily ever after?”
I inquirod, after so long a silence that
I was surprised at myself.
“My boy,” said the banker, earnest¬
ly, “she has saved my life a hundred
times since that, and I wouldn’j; trade
her for all the other women in the
world. And when she sees this story
in print,” he added laughing, “I’ll
need to have my life saved again, hut
she won’t do it, I’ll bet a horse and
harness.”
“She must draw the line some¬
where,” said I.—Washington Star.
“On the whole,” said the aged
weather prophet, “I have found that
the safest course is to predict bad
weather.” “How so?” asked the neo¬
phyte. “Because people are much
more ready to forgive you if the pre¬
diction does not come true.”—Puck.
WHILE EXROL'TE FROM SAN SE-
BASTAIN TO SPANISH CAPITAL.
A SENSATION CREATED IN MADRID
Over the Alleged Ascertainment of Uncle
Sam’s IVogrum »s Regards
the Cuban War.
Advices of Sunday from Madrid state
that the arrival of United States Min¬
ister Woodford from San Sebastian
has made a sensation. The programme
of the United States has been ascer¬
tained.
This does not contemplate a declara¬
tion of war if Spain rejects meditation,
but, according to report, an ostenta¬
tious proclamation to the world of dis¬
approval of the Cuban regime by sus¬
pending diplomatic relations with
Spain and withdrawing the United
States minister.
General Woodford has declined to
be interviewed on the subject further
than to say that his conference with
the duke of Tetuan, the foreign minis¬
ter, was of the most satisfactory char¬
acter. The unexpected bitterness of
tho press and of public opinion has
painfully impressed him, but he hopes
this will soon be allayed,as he believes
his mission favorable to Spanish inter¬
ests and cannot comprehend that Spain
could reject mediation designed to stop
an impoverishing war.
He has not named a time at which
the war must be terminated, but he
hopes, as the result of his tenders,
that it will be ended quickly. He be¬
lieves the war is inflicting incalculable
loss upon the United States and it is
impossible to prevent the organization
of filibustering expeditions.
Unusual measures were taken to
protect Minister Woodford on bis
journey from San Sebastian to Ma¬
drid, but the trip was quite unevent¬
ful. A party of gendarmes,commanded
bya sub-lieutenant,guarded the south¬
ern express on which he was a passen¬
ger. Secret police were posted at the
station and the prefect of police was
in waiting to escort him to his hotel.
The drive through the streets was
marked by no special incident, though
several people saluted him, receiving a
bow in return.
Some comment has been caused by
tlie fact that Minister Woodford’s
family has not accompanied him, but
remains on tho French frontier. Min¬
ister Woodford explains that his party
is a large one, requiring a commodious
home, and prefers spending a pleasant
October in Biarritz until a suitable
residence can be secured in Madrid.
NEW EDITOR SELECTED
For Cotton Plant, South Carolina’s Al¬
liance Organ.
A Columbia, S. C., dispatch says:
The managing committee of The Cotton
Plant, the alliance organ, has awarded
the printing and editing of the paper
to Colonel James A. Hoyt, editor of
The Greeneville Mountaineer.
The paper was until recently under
the management of Colonel T. B.
Crews, of Laurens.
It attacked McLaurin during the
campaign and caused considerable dis¬
turbance in the alliance because of its
partisan action. The contract was
forfeited and Colonel Crews displaced.
MINERS HOLD CONFERENCE.
Alabamians Beeline to Unite With United
Mine Workers of America.
A convention of coal miners of Ala¬
bama was held in Birmingham last
Saturday, with nearly all mines repre¬
sented, for the purpose of effecting an
organization.
A discussion arose as to forming a
state organization or becoming a part
of the United Mine Workers of
America.
The delegation from Pratt mines
worked against affiliation with the na¬
tional organization, and it was decided
to form an independent state organi¬
zation on October 22d.
JURY FAILED TO AGREE.
Responsibility For the Shooting of Miners
At Hazelton Not Placed.
The coroner’s jury to inquire into the
manner in which the strikers met their
death at Lattimer, Pa., on September
10th, failed to agree on a verdict after
a lengthy session.
SEVENTEEN LIVES LOST.
A Mine Caves in With Fearfully Fatal
Results.
The San Pedro mine, in the Carril-
itos group, twelve miles from El Paso,
Tex., in Mexico, caved in Saturday,
killing seventeen men.
The victims, according to the report,
were buried under thirty feet of rock
and dirt. The San Pedro is one of
the oldest mines in the group and rich
with silver. It is the property of the
wealthy Carrilitos company, the prin¬
cipal stockholders of which reside in
New York.
If the mine was not timbered the
Mexican government will impose a
heavy fine on the compan.
AUSTRIA AS PEACEMAKER.
She Will Mediate In the Trouble Between
Spain and United States.
A dispatch to the London Standard
from Madrid says:
“The rumor of Austrian mediation
between Spain and the United States in
the event of hostilities has created a
great surprise, mingled with much in¬
credulity. Spaniards failed to see
what Austria oould do unless seconded
by naval powers or at least by the com¬
bined pacific action of governments.”
MORE YELLOW FEVER NEWS.
Saturday and Sunday's Record In Three
Plague-Stricken Cities.
In one respect Saturday was a record
breaker in the fever situation in New
Orleans. There were more new cases
reported to the board of health than
on any previous day and a number of
new foci of infection were established.
The number of new eases reported
reached twenty-three. The death list,
however, was not heavy. Only two
cases had proved fatal during the day.
Several cases were reported to be in a
critical condition.
Fifteen cases were recorded on the
books of the board of health Sunday,
but there were no deaths.
Although there were six new cases
in Mobile Saturday, the week closed
without any material change in the
situation in the Alabama city. The
fever manifests itself in the infected
district mostly in the houses where
there have already been cases. It is a
fact that not one person has yet died
of the yellow fever who would not in
ordinary cases have been carried off
by malaria. The sick have recovered
with remarkable rapidity, most of them
having such light attacks that it has
liven with difficulty that the symptoms
of yellow have been recognized.
The returns at the board of health
office Sunday for the twenty-four
hours ending at noon, showed five new
cases and one death, with two patients
discharged.
The Biloxi board of health reported
Saturday as follows: “Total cases of
yellow fever to date, 85; now under
treatment, 46; new cases, 10; total
deaths to date, 4.”
The condition of affairs at Biloxi
Sunday was changed very little. Ten
new cases were re; .rted, and the sick,
with few exceptions were doing well.
There were two deaths' at Edwards
from yellow fever ,,Saturday. Total
cases for the day, 6r 'Ll; total to date,
140; deaths to date
Edwards’ sick list Sunday showed
a rapid growth. Twenty-three new
cases and one death was the day’s
record. A few more strides and the
fever will have stricken the entire
town.
Information has been received from
Stonewall, Miss., that the Morgan
family at that place are dov/n with a
suspicious fever, pronounced dengue
by the local physicians, but generally
believed to be genuine yellow fever.
GERMANY IS FOR SPAIN.
Her ’Support Assured in Case of War
Witlr * !.,■ United States.
Advices from Berlin, Germany, state
that the reported American ultimatum
to Spain lias been received with pro¬
nounced displeasure by tbe entire Ger¬
man press. The official denial from
Washington is generally disbelieved,
and the denunciation of jingoism, yan-
kee insolence and the ridiculing of tho
Monroe doctrine have filled the news¬
papers. The conservative press, as
usual, is the most violent in denoun¬
cing American aspirations.
The Staats Zeitung, a leading or-
.gan, says:
“A coalition of all the European coun¬
tries is absolutely necessary to repulse the
schemes of American patriotism and jingo¬
ism, as both are becoming more and more
insolent.”
The same newspaper claims that
Spain has been assured of Germany’s
support in event of the United States
taking hostile steps.
ALLEGED VVHITEC ADDERS FREE.
After Being Out Twenty-One Hours the
Jury Acquitted Them.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
The jury on tbe case of the citizens of
Fairfield and Kershaw counties,
charged with white-capping Mormon
elders, after being out twenty-one
hours, sent for the judge and said that
they could not agree.
Judge Beuet ordered them back in
their room to “try again.” It is said
they stood eleven for acquittal and
one for conviction.
In less than an hour they returned
to court and reported a verdict of not
guilty. The accused were charged
with whipping A Mormons, burning
their church an persecuting them.
The elders say they will continue
their work.
Free Coinage Not Wanted.
The Journal des Dehats (Paris) con¬
tains an article from the pen of M..
Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulieu protesting
against the proposal of the free coinage
in the French mints, which, he declares,
would “compromise the commerce,
credit and political power of France.”
GREE KSSTILL BE LLIGERENT.
Hold a Mass Meeting and Call For a
Renewal of Hostilities.
A large meeting was held in Athens,
Greece, Sunday, at which a resolution
was adopted calling upon King George
and the cabinet to renew tbe war with
Turkey rather than accept the terms
of peace offered by the peace confer- 1
ence.
Moipt Speaker of the making addresses were violent bellicose, attack
one a
upon the king aud Crown Prince Cou-
stantinei. The police endeavored to
arrest him, but he escaped with the as¬
sistance of the crowd.
The motst influential section of the
press continues peaceful in tone.
TWO LOST IN FIRE.
Village of Bain bridge, O., Almost Wiped
Out of Existence.
A special dispatch from Chillicothe,
O., says:
“An entire sinuare in the village of
Bainbridge, containing most of the
business houses? several handsome
residences and tl)ie Methodist church,
was entirely destroyed by fire Thurs¬
day afternoon, and! two prominent bus¬
iness men lost tlie'jr lives in an explo¬
sion which occurred in a drug store."
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COMMISSIONER GLENN’S REPORT
WILL SHOW GOOD RESULTS.
. CONSOLIDATION OF STATISTICS.
Significant Facts—Information As to Pay¬
ment of Teachers for the
Third Quarter.
The consolidation of statistics of the
public schools of the state which has
just been completed by State School
be Cojnm^sioner incorporated Glenn, in that and official’s which will
an¬
nual report to the legislature, is of
general interest, and, when compared
with corresponding statistics of last
year, show a gratifying increase in the
number of schools, in the enrollment
aud in the number of new school
houses, and an important improve¬
ment in die efficiency of teachers as
shown by tbe large increase of normal
trained aud first grade teachers. The
following is a comparative statement
of statistics for 1896 and 1896:
Number of teachers, 1896, 8,125;
1895, 7,982; increase, 143.
Number of normal trained teachers,
1896, 937; 1895, 695; increase, 242.
Number of first grade teachers,1896,
3,187; 1895, 2,909; increase, 278.
Number of schools, 1896, 7,419;
1895, 7,252; increase, 166. The in¬
crease in the number of colored schools
is 3.
Number of pupils enrolled in 1896,
389,057; 1895, 366,937; increase, 22,-
120 .
Number of school houses owned by
county boards of education in 1896,
423; 1895, 277; increase, 144.
Value of these houses in 1896,
$78,977; value in 1895, $51,157; in¬
crease, $27,820.
Number of visits made by county
school commissioner in 1896, 10,615;
in 1895, 8,742; increase, 1,853.
Significant Facts.
One of the most important features
of these statistics is the increase in the
normal trained and first grade teach¬
ers. This, of course, means better
teachers, better scbools and conse¬
quently a better improvement of the
money appropriated for school pur¬
poses by the state.
In speaking of the statistics, Com¬
missioner Glenn said:
“While Georgia’s public school sys¬
tem lacks much of being that which it
is hoped to make it, the people of the
state are to be congratulated upon the
condition and growth of their schools.
In my visits to all portions of the state
I have noted an increasing interest in
the public schools on tbe part of the
people, and to this is largely due the
improvements and the growth which
the figures show.
“The increase in the number of
school houses is of especial interest.
Nothing will more quickly aud more
satisfactorily re-populate rural dis¬
tricts, and make lands and homes
more desirable and consequently more
valuable in such sections, than good
school houses. A fit school house is
good evidence of the proper interest
in educational affairs and of the pro¬
viding of adequate educational facil¬
ities.
“There is no better indication of
the coming of prosperity to our state
than the evidences that better school
facilities are being provided for the
rural* sections.”
Fay Of Teacliers.
Commissioner Gleen has just issued
a circular letter to the county school
commissioners, notifying them that
on account of a lack of funds in the
state treasury, the money for the
payment of teachers for the third
quarter, cannot be sent out until
about December 1st, at which it is
estimated that a sufficient amount of
tax money will have been received at
the treasury to supply the funds
needed.
REFORMATORY DLAN
As Regards Convict System In Georgia
Will Be Pushed.
Although the joint meeting of tho
committees of the senate and house ad¬
journed without committing them¬
selves by direct action to any plan for
the disposition of the penitentiary
convicts which are to be dumped up¬
on the the st ate at the expiration of
the present lease, they manifested
their plain approval of the plan out¬
lined by Governor Atkinson.
The joint assembly defeated, almost
unanimously, the proposition to re¬
lease the convicts under the present
system. With that question out of
the way the members promptly turned
their attention to the many schemes
which have been proposed in the way
of reform legislation, and, after nearly
a whole day of discussion and debate,
declared in favor of the plan aud
passed, without opposition, the follow¬
ing resolutions:
Resolved, That a committee he appointed
by the chair to be composed ot three mem¬
bers from the senate and four from the
house, together with the chairmen of both
senate and house penitentiary committees
to draft a bill for the purpose of disposing
of the convicts of this state, and to present
such bill to this committee two days imme¬
diately preceding the convening of the
coming session of the legislature.
Resolved, further, That such committee
shall sit during the time intervening be¬
tween now and the meeting of the legisla¬
ture for the purpose of hearing arguments
and submission of plans to enable them to
draft a bill.
Resolved, further, That the bill drafted
by the ooramittee shall be printed and mail¬
ed to Caoh member of tlie joint committee
by the 10th of October, togother with all in¬
formation gathered by the committee.
