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GEORGIA. Brief Summary of Dvings Throughout the State. May Festival for Atlanta The movement to have the'great May musical festival at Atlanta was formally launched among the business men of the city at a recent meeting held in the chamber of commerce, a committee of seventy-five leading citi zens being appointed to co-operate with the Atlanta Orchestra Association in the undertaking. ’ % A B Elberton and Augusta Railroad. . Application for a charter for the Augusta and Elberton Railroad Com pany is being published. The party asking for the charter is composed of some of the best men in the section through which the road is to be run. From Augusta it is proposed to run the road through Columbia, Lincoln and on to Elberton. The backers claim that the road will be pushed to a fin ish. * ® ® Agricultural Book Highly Praised. Much praise is being given to the state agricultural department for a book issued by Commissioner 0. B. Stevens and Assistant Commissioner R. F. Wright, in 1901, under the title of “Georgia Historical and Industrial.” The bock is declared to be one of the most interesting and instructive pub lications ever issued for Georgia, and those who have read it say that it should be taught in every school in the state, for the reason that Georgians now seem to know less about their state than strangers. *® . Muster Rolls Missing The Georgia roster commission is anxious to secure the names of mem bers of the Sixty-fourth Georgia regi ment, which served in the late war. These rolls have been lost and only a few of the names of members of the regiment can be found. General Clem ent A. Evans, chairman of the roster ‘commission, has issued a request for ‘those in a position to supply the miss ing names to send them to the roster commission. % % 5 Many Fertilizer Tags Sold. Commissioner of Agriculture Q. B. Stevens returned Saturday from South Georgia, where he has been in the interest of the agricultural depart ment. Mr. Stevens was in Savannah looking after some fertilizers, which were recently shipped there. The sale for fertilizer tags has been unprece dented this year and the sale of guano has been heavier than usual. All of the farmers are going in for heavy cot ton crops, owing to the prevailing prices, . Mrs. Wood Delusionally Insane. Prison doors are about to open for Mrs. W. J. Wood, but it is to the state sanitarium for the insane in stead of to liberty she will go. Dr H. D. Allen, who is a member of the medical staff of the state prison farm, where Mrs. Wood is now a pris oner, has certified to Chairman Turner, of the state prison commission, that Mrs. Wood is suffering from chronic delusional insanity. Immediate steps will be taken to have her transferred to the sanitarium at Milledgeville. Mrs. Wood, it will be remembered, was recently sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for attempting to kill her husband in Atlanta. : * ® = . Commission After Railroads. The state railroad commission has instructed the Attorney General Hart, to institute proceedings against the Hawkinsville and Florida Southern and the Seaboard Air Line railroads to compel them to pay fines of $5,000 each for a violation of the commis sion’s rules. Last October the com mission passed a rule requiring these roads to provide adequate depot facil ities at Pitts, Ga., and giving them ninety days in which to do it. This order has not been carried out and the roads will be sued for the fines. Practically all of the leading rail roads of the state are under charges of violating rules of the commission, in that they increased certain freight rates without first securing the com mission’s permission ,and also charged more for certain short hauls than for long ones, the shorter distance being included within the longer. ® * * New Railroad Chartered. Secretary of State Phil Cook has granted a charter to the Dublin and Southwestern Railroad 'Company, in terested in which are W. D. Harper and John J, Simpson, of Atlanta. An other prominent member of the new company is John M. Stubbs, of Lau rens county. The new road will run from a point near Dublin, in Laurens, county, via Eastman to Abbeville ,in Wilcox coun ty, -and will pass through Laurens, Dodge, Telfair and Wilcox counties. It will be 65 miles in length and the capi tal stock will be $lO,OOO with the priv ileges of increasing it. The principal office of the company will be in Dub lin. % % % Appropriations for Scuth, ' A Washington dispatch says: The sundry civil appropriation bill, which was reported Saturday, continues a number of appropriations for the car rying on of work under way in the southern states. Forty thousand dol lars is appropriated for the public building at Athens, $15,000 for the public building at Rome, and for build ings under construction in South Caro lina ag follows: Rock Hill, $10,000; Georgetown, $15,000; Florence, $lO,- 000. Savannah gets $20,000 for the marine hospital and $12,200 for the quarantine station. In the river and harbor improvement items there are the following: For Savannah harbor, $105,000; for Cumberland sound, $55, 000; for Charleston, $73,000; Winyah bay, $70,000; the Great Pedee, S. C,, $lO,OOO. There is the usual appropria tion of $40,000 for Chickamauga Na tional Park. The southern federal prison at Atlanta gets $134.480 for run ning expenses, itemized as follows: Subsistence, $40,000; clothing and transfer prisoners, $18,000; hospital and supplies, $20,000; salaries, $4, 480; miscellaneous, $30,000. The fish station at Cold Springs gets $3,480. % & * Decided to Take Convicts. The fight for and against the Pulas ki convict lease has been settled and Pulaski will use the felony convicts. The commissioners held a call meet ing to discuss the matter, delegations appearing for both sides, It was thought by some that should Pulaski use the state convicts her school fund would be greatly diminished and cer tain citizens petitioned the county commissioners to rescind their action in the lease. It was shown by letters from the state school commissioner and the prison commission that the wrong impression prevailed and that the school fund would not be molested in this case, and all agreed that the coun ty use them. Pulaski now has fifty convicts on her roads, which are rapidly being put into fine condition. ® ¥ % | Pension Payments Completed, Pension Commissioner J, W. Lind sey stated Saturday that he had com pleted the payment of pensions for the present year with the exception of a few stragglers and several cases in which investigation is necessary on ac count of grand jury findings. Up to date Commissioner Lindsay has paid out a total of $86,215, pay ments being made to 6,758 indigent soldiers who received $402,600, to 3, 136 disabled soldiers who received $174,105, to 2,861 of the old class of widows who received $171,420 and to 1,816 indigent widows who received $108,960. Then $5,000 of the fund was used under legislative authority to pay the expenses of the roster commission, in preparing a roster of the state troops who served in the civil war. This makes a total expenditure to date of $866,215 out of the total pen sion fund appropriated of $870,000, leaving a balance on hand of $3,785. But this small unexpended balance will soon be paid out. In the first place there are rifteen cases where grand juries have questioned the right of pensioners to draw the state’s boun ty. Commissioner Lindsey will inves tigate each one of these cases before refusing to pay the claim. * % % School Libraries-Has Your School One? There has been a decided increase in the effort to provide libraries for our common schools, We notice in the papers accounts of entertainments for the school library. All of the best schools have a library and many of the smaller schools have made a great beginning. Many of the town schools have a separate room for the library, with comfortable chairs, and reading tables on. which are found the best magazines. The library is kept open certain hours of the day, an older student usually acting as librarian. Patrons of the school visit the library and enjoy its privileges as much as the pupils. In many schools the pu pils, with the help of the teacher, have made a neat case, and the books are kept in the school room, subject to the daily use of teachers and pupils and often of the parents. The senti ment for libraries is so strong now, that schools take pride in showing their libraries to visitors and apolo ges are forthcoming if the visitor finds none in the school,. The books in the library should be such as will enrich and supplement the school work of the pupils. There should be books of travel to illustrate the geography lesson; stories from the history of the nations, biographies and sketches of the world’s great men and women, to enrich the history lesson, shape character and form ideals, books on nature, stories of animals, of the forest and fields, of ocean and land, of industries and inventions, of great achievements should find a place. Then there are the great epics of the races, the myths and legends, the poems that are heritages of all the ages, the historical novels written by the masters. There should be a few books for reference, and some of the standard works in history, science and litreature should be bought as money becomes more abundant. Some few schools have made the mis take of buying sets of books because they were cheap, while, perhaps, not a half dozen of the Dbooks were adapted to the pupils. See that there is something suited to all. J. S. STEWART, State University. OIL MILL AND FACTORY BURNED Blaze at Pelham, Ga., Causes Loss of Between $50,000 and $75,000. The oil mill and guano warehouse and factory of the Pelham Cil and Fertilizer Company, at Pelham, Ga, were totally destroyed by fire Tues day night. The loss is estimated at $50,000 to $75,000, partlally insured. Steps will be taken to rebuild at once. For a time the business portion of the town seemed doomed. LEASE EXPIRES IN 3000 A. D. Dowie Gives Permit to Build Street Railway Through Zion City. Under a lease which expires 1,096 yvears hence, the Chicago and Milwau kee Electric Railroad Company has se cured from “Prophet” Dowie the rignt to extend a lime through Zion City. According to the terms, “said lease is to expire 3,000 A. D.” . The reason for a lease instead of a purchase is that it.is forbidden “to sell the prop: erty of God.” LABOR LEADERS HARD I—!y Secretary Job Shows that Ra File are Virtually Against T A Washington dispatch says: discussion of the confusion wh ponents of the eight-hour bill d would follow the enactment ‘ measure into law, Frederick secretary of the Employers’ U Chicago, Wednesday said to tf ate committee on education ang that he did not believe the labc ers of the country representg real views of the rank and file workingmen, organized or u ized. He made an attack on the asserting that from Gomper these leaders persisted in m senting conditions. Mr. Job ca tention to the labor troubles,‘ non-union men had been k; down with clubs and shot, ay the official organs of organize never had contained one word nunciation of these crimes. I the orgals mentioned were largely by the labor ° leaders selves and therefore they assi >4O making criminals of the men. As an illustration of his as:ertiom that the leaders did not repres:nt the men, Mr. Job said he had been told in confidence by laboring men in Chi cago that the surest manner of de feating a candidate for politicrl office was to get him indorsed by th . labor leaders and then the rank and - vn der the Australian ballot | would turn and vote against the didate. : Mr. Job said that many instances where this had been dome could be cited to prove the contention. EVIDENCE AGAINST BURTON. Tell-Tale “Graft” Check Presented at Trial of Kansas ‘SenatoTr. At St. Louis, the first witress In Thursday’s session of the trial £ Uni ted States Senator Burton, of | insas, charged with having illegally : :epted fees from the Rialto Grain &i:d Se curities Company, was Joseph Carr, who was a clerk in the emp’ iy of the Rialto company. On March 26, 1903, witness drew a check for § !0 in fa vor of Burton, cashed it an | handed five $lOO bills to Vice Pre dent W. D. Mahoney, in whose roo:;i- Burton was sitting. The check wi | offered in evidence. % PRESIDENT “LECTURES” !NDIANS They are Told of the Evils pf Gam bling on Horses Races, rftc. ; President Roosevelt soun jfly lec tured a party of his callers gVe«dnes day. They were O’Gallalla ;ilgux In dians, who, it is said, are morfe addict ed to horse racing and gambl}ing than they are to the pursuits of agriculture. The president endeavored to) impress on his visitors ideas of indu}ytry “nd thrift. FILIPINO “PRESIDENT” KILLEL Macarro Sakay and Fifteen of I Band Slain by Troops. A Manila special says: Captain De witt, with a detachment of constabu lary and scouts, have encountered Ma: cario Sakay, the so-called president of the Filipino republic. Sakaly, with fif. teen of his followers, was killed, and the remainder of the band was cap tured. There were no casualties or the part of the Americans. * LIFE CONVICT DIES ON GALLOWS. Bob Stone, Colored, Pays Penaity tue Murder of Penitentiary Guard. Bob Stone, colored, was hanged in the county jail yard at Birmingham, Ala., Friday. | Stone, while serving a lif¢ sentence for murder at Coalburg prison about a ‘year ago, murdered Guayd Thomp son in an attempt to escap¢ He had threatened to give the 2 thorities trouble, but was very rhen he appeared on the gallk dled without fear.