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FEFFFFF R R R ‘ §GEORGIA NEWS: ¥ sbbdbbbbddbbdbddddddbddddd Epitomized Items of Interest Gathered at Random. Barnesville Chautauqua in July. At a meeting of the Barnesviile Chautauqua Association, it was unani mously decided to hold a session of the chautauqua this year, beginning Sun day, July 3, and closing the following Saturday. s » * 0 Widows to Get Pensions. Attorney General John C. Hart, in response to questiong asked by Pen gion Commissioner John W. Lindsey has rendered an opinion, the result of which will be to give the indigent wid ows their pension money this year in spite of the fact that the fund appro prated for their payment has been ex hausted. ‘% s : Valdosta’s New Directory, The new Valdosta city directory which will be issued avout Aprii 1, will give Valdosta a’ population of e than 9,000, The work of compi wn completed and the can ‘¥ ve something over 3,200 names of people over 18 years of age. Using the multiple of three—a conser vative estimafie—shows more than 9, 000 people in the corporate limits of the city. $ % = Burton’s Sentence Reduced. The motion for a new trial in the case of R. H. Burton, who was con victed of manslaughter at the last term of Muscogee superior court at Colum bus and sentenced to sixfeen years in the penitentiary, has been withdrawn and Judge Butt reduced the sentence from sixteen to twelve years. Burton is 57 years of age and the sentence is practically for ..s lifetime. On Sep tember 5 last he stabbed to death his 16-year-old =on, Jesse, because the boy cursed him 'in the presence of his mother, and, it is claimed, made an attack on him. * * * Atlanta’s Present Populaticon. The 1904 city directory of Atlanla hag just been issued. It contains 41, 348 names, which, using the multiple of 3 2.5, gives Atlanta a population of 140,682. This is a gain of about 15, 000 in population since the last city directory was issued. The increase however, is conceded by the manager of the directory to be more than that, for the reason that he has left out o. the city directory this'y?abmt 2,000 names of negro men and women, who have no permanent abiding place, who were entirely irresponsible and who were thought to be unfit to have their names in the book, »® * * Scott Works on Brown Rot, Former State Entomologist W. M. Scott, who is now in the employ of the United States government, is in Geor gia making an investigation of_ the brown rot, which affects the peach trees. Mr. Scott is very familiar with the diseases of the peach trees in Georgia and can do valuable work for the government. He came to Georgia from Virginia, where he investigated the diseases of apple trees. Mr. Scott was warmly welcomed by the state officials. He was connected with the state as entomologist for many years and did splendid work to ward stamping out the San Jose scalc. * * = A Railroad News Item. The Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern vailroad may enter Atlanta on tracks of its own, instead of coming from Marietta over the tracks of the West ern and Atlantic railroad. The water works department of Atlanta has been asked to allow the Atlanta, Knoxviile and Northern to cross the water main on Chattahoochee avenue just as the Seaboard Air Line hasg done, and as surances have been given by General Manager Park Woodward to the effect that the water board would grant the same concessions to the Atlanta, Knox ville and Northern that have been granted to the.Seaboard. . * % % : Held on a Murder Charge. John Dyal, formerly a section boss of the Atlantic Coast Line, has been arrested and is in jail at Hinesville, charged with the murder of Section Boss l.eland Murray, who was assas sinated from ambush. The arrest was made by officers of the Coast Line. The arrest of Dyal was upon circum stantial evidence. He was in the em ploy of the company up to the time of the recent strike of maintenance of way employees, and it is said that he had been heard to make threats. ‘ The assassin fired on Murray from ‘ambush, striking him in the face and Ikilling him instantly. Murray’s men started Toward him, whereupon the as gassin fired upon them also, one of the negroes being hit in the arm, " The railway authorities at Savannab weTe immediately notified of the as sassination and at once ofiered a re ward of $1,250 for the arrest of the as sassin, # * ¥ Gordon Fund Increases, Reports from numerous committees were received at the meeting of the central executive committee of the John B. Gordon Monument Association in Atlanta a few days ago. In the first place, all of the Atlanta committees were heard from, and nearly all of them came forward with additional subscriptions. Some $7OO or $BOO in new subscriptions were re ported, bringing the total now actual ly subscribed, about $3,000. President W. L. Calhoun read re ports received by letter from quite : number of the committees in various Georgia cities. These have just about had time since their appoinfment to organize, but they all report an enthu siastic readiness to take hold of the work and push it in their respective communities. President Callioun alsc read extracts from letters received from other states”showing that there is good prospects of receiving substan. tial additions to the fund from many sections of the south. Several south ern papers have taken the matter up and are, calling for subscriptions to the fund, _ President Calhoun gaid he estimaied $30,000 as the amount which would be needed to build the statue contem plated. ‘ . + * % * State Building Contract Let. The contract for the Georgia build ing at St. Louis has been let by the state commission to James Lawrence Brown & Co., of St. Louis, the work to be completed by April 30 next, in full time for the opening of the exposition, This conclusion was reached only af ter an all day session of the commis sioner of Agriculture O. B. Stevens, Commissioner General Dudley M. Hughes, Vice Commissioner Hugh V Washington, Assistant Commissioner Glascock Barrett and Captain H. H. Tift, of Tifton, president of the Geor gia Saw Mill Association. These com missioners conferred with representa tives of two firms, Brown & Co. and Broderick & Wing, with the result that they secured the lowest possible price or some $2,000 lower than the first bids. The result of the work of the com missioners is that a building which will be a reproduction 61 “Sutherland,” the home of the late General John B. Gordon, will be put up for the state on the fair grounds at St. Leuis, and will be ready when the fair opens for use. The building will be the exact size »f Sutherland, instead of being a reduced production, as was contemplated some weeks ago. The total cost of the building, includ ing the material, which was subscrib ed by the lumbermen of Georgia, and the furnishings, will be between $l7, 000 and $lB,OOO. In addition to this, it is estimated that the cost of.maintain ing the building during the life of the Louisiana Purchase exposition will be about $2,500, % * * ‘ Methodists to Have Hospital. | By ftling an application for a chartst in the Fulton county superior court at Atlanta, the Methodists of Georgia have taken definite action in the mat ter of establishing a large charity hos pital and training school for nurses .n the center of the city to be run in con junction with the Wesleyan taber nacle. The application for a charter is made by such well known Methodists as Bishop Warren A. Candler, George Winship, Rev. M. J. Cofer, Colonel H. Warner Hill, Dr, Floyd Mcßea, Colonel George M. Napier, Henry S. Johnson, Asa G, Candler, J. K. McEachern Dr. L. C. Fisher, S. B. Adams, Rev. W. B Lovett, W. P, Wallis, C. G. Goodrich and Robert T, Daniel. ' These applicants also compose the board of trustees which will control the hospital when erected. The application for the charter states that the object of the hospital is the “promotion of the Christian re ligion, education and charity particu larly for medical and surgical treat ment of all diseases and infirmities of every kind whatsoever.” : It is also stated in the application of those desiring to be incorporated that it is their wish to have a training school for nurses in conjunction with the hospital and they pray the court to allow the granting of diplomas tc young women graduates. The concern is to have no capital stock, but asks for the privilege of buy ing and selling real estate. The hos pital will depend largely upon contri butions for its maintenance, * % ¥ College Training, From recent statistics we learn that there are 695 colleges and univer sities in the United States, with a to tal enrollment of 6,000 students or one student for 1,100 of the population. When we consider how few go to col lege and how great is the percentage of success among these, the value of college training ig made manifest. In all ranks, in all great places the names of the immortals are in the proportion. of 50 to 1 in favor of college men. In state affairg uyniversity men hold @& large majority of important positions; in the ministry the graduates of Em ory and Mercer and the University fill the chief appointments; in farming the largest farmers are graduates, and in the great army of industry col lege men hold nearly 100 per cent. of the positions assigned to generals. In fhe army and navy none but college men need apply. The great leaders on both sides of the civil war were col lege men. The civil service makes it imperative for any one hoping to se cure a really valuable position under the government to have a college edu cation in order to pass the rigid exam inations. The demand is everywhere for the trained intellect, men who can think, who can originate, who can bring things to pass, who can do things and know why they do them. The de mand is not so much for the mere manufacturing of machinists or chem: ists, but for highly skilled, fully cul utred intellects of broad, deep human istic culture. Sam Spencer said that he could find many four-dollar-a-day men for the shop, but the men oi su perior mental training and executive force were at a premium. I met 2 young man recently who came south to install a $45,000 electric plant. He was only thirty, yet he was getting a salary equal to that of a congress man. In reply to my question as 10 his preparation he said that he was graduated from Princeton with full B. A. degree, then took a {two years’ course in a technical school, and then began work for the General Electric Co, sorting brass mouldings. In a few years he had passed our hundreds who had but the mechanical skill to handle some machine. He had the culture to make himself at home in any society, and the mental training that made him valuable in conceiving and executing” great undertakings. In Georgia the: masses have scarcely begun to appre ciate the value of college training. Nothing can equalize opportunities so much as the years spent in the ear nest mastery of the college course.— J. S. STEWART. i i i WAS A PLOT TO ROB TRAIN., Another Story of Shooting of Twe Maii Clerks by Negro. ~ According to reports received in Bir ‘ mingham by the Alabama Great South: ern railway, the shooting of two pos tal clexks on northbound trein No. 2 early Monday morning, (wo miles north of Meridian, Miss.,, was part of a bold plot to rob the train. The shooting was done by Jim Par is, a negro, who boarded tane train 1D the Meridian yards, as it was pulling out. Before it was fairly under good headway, Paris ‘entered the postal car ‘ and opened fire on Postal Clerks J. T. ‘ Stockton and A. J. Bass, killing Stock ton instantly and wounding Bass ID the arm. The negro then seized a package of registered mail and jumped off. In leaving the train he fell and had one foot crushed under the wheels, but 'managed to drag himself three miles. } Bloodhounds were secured at Merid ian, the train having backed to that place, and they traced Paris, who they found with a number of registered let ters in his pocket. He is now ia jail at Merdian. A mob was at once form ed to lynch the prisoner, but Governor Vardaman called out the militia and frustrated their plans. FREE PASS CASE DECIDED. 'High Court Says Holders of Such ' Transportation Cannot Recover, 1 The question as to whether a pas ) senger on a railroad train, riding on a ! free pass, who loses his life on account ‘of an accident or carelessness on the ipart of the company, stands on the same footing as a passenger who pays his fare, has been decided by the United States supreme court against -the free passeunger, in a cas einvolving the Northern Pacific, 1 JAFMS BRANDED TRAITORS. ) Bt. Petersburg Newspapers Charge the Enemy With Base Treachery. The newspapers of St. Petersburg in general denounce the actioa of Japan as treachery, declaring that it is “truly Asiatic,” but insisting that the issue of the. conflict will not be decided by the naval engagements, as the Japan ese will have to meet Rlssia on lafld, when the score will be wiped out, CHINESE ARMY MOVING. Ten Thousand Troopg are Sent to Frontier to Protect Great Wall, Transportation of 10,000 Chinese troops to the great wall has begun, ac cording to an Associated Press dis patch from Tien-Tsin to the New York World, Four trains filled with cavalry were first dispatched. Several Japanese of lficers were at the station to inspect he proceedings. R —— TROOPS FOR THE ISTHMUS. Third Regiment Ordered to Panama to Relieve Marines, The war department has issued or ‘ flers for the entire Third regiment of infantry to proceed to the isthmus of Panama. The regiment will leave at the earliest possible timo on the trans ports Sumner and McClelland from New York. 'l.‘he regiment is gofng to Panama to relieve the marines stationed there.