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Sale of B. and B. Road Confirmed..
At a recent meeting of the stock
,holders of the Brumswick and Bir
mingham railroad in Brunswick, the
gale of that road to the Atlantic aud{
Birmingham was confirmed, the latler
road taking active charge on April Ist.
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Lyerly Visited by Robbers.
The town of Lyerly was visited by
thieves a few nights ago. Hill &
Bros.'s safe was blown open and about
$5OO in cash stolen. The postoffice
was robbed of about $3OO in stamps
and cash. The robbery is supposed to
be the work of professional safe blow
ers, i
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Five Years in Pen For Moore.
W. E. Moore ,the negro lawyer of
Guyton, who was convicted of penston!
frauds in the United States court at
Savannah the past week, has been sct
tenced by Judge Speer to serve five
years in the federal penitentiary al|
Atlanta and also to pay a fine of $5OO.
Moore was secretary of the republi
can committee of the first congression
a] district,
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Sale of Brenau College Enjoined.
Brenau College, at Gainesville,
which was advertised to sell for city
taxes, will not be sold. An injunction
has been served upon the city authori
ties and the sale stopped. The insti
tution claims that it is exempt from
taxation and has engaged the services
of an attorney to test the matter in the
courts. The hearing on the injunction‘
comes up before Judge Kimsey May 2.
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—— T Urner Declineg .to Debate.
Chairman Joseph 8. Turnery-of the:
Georgia prison cemmission who is a
candidate for re-election to his pres-%
ent position, has declined to acceptl
the challenge of Hon. Judson M.
Strickland, of Griffin, for a joint wa
bate on the issues of the campaign.
Judge Turner states that he does not
des're to join in any mud-slinging, e -
pecially in view of the endorsement
which Mr. Stirickland has given cer
tain charges made by his friends.
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Appeal to Confederate Camps.
Letters asking subscriptions to the
Gordon monument fund will be ad
dressed to every one of the 1,525
camps of veterans in America, and it
is expected that much money will be
raised in this way. A complete list
of the camps has been secured, and it
was decided to send the letters at a
mee;ng of the association held a few
days ago in Atlanta. The meeting was
well attended and plans for extendirg
the work of raising subscriptions were
discussed.
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Delegates to Cane Convention.
Governor Terrell has completed the
list of delegates from Georgia to tae
interstate cane growers' convention,
which will be held in Jacksonville,
Fla, May 4, 5 and 6. Last year the
convention was held at Macon.
The governor has named from five
to ten delegates from each county in
the state, these names having been
furnished principally by Hon. Harvie
Jordan, of Jasper; Hon. Dudley M.
Hughes, president of the State Agri
cultural Society, and Hon. D. G. Purse,
of Savannah, president of the Inter
state Cane Growers’ Association.
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Bug is Not 801 l Weevil.
The bug that was found in Pike aud
Spalding counties, samples of whicn
were sent to the state department of
agriculture because it was thought to
be the Mexican cotton boll weevil, is
not, after all the much dreaded pest,
and the cotton planters may rest at}
ease on that score, for a time at least.
“It is only the common blood weel
weevil,” said State Entomologigt New
ell, in speaking of the matter. “It is
gomewhat similar in appearance to
the Mexican boll weevil, but is much
larger and longer. The two bugs do
not even belong to the same family. 1
have found this bug i nall parts of the
south, and so far as I know it does
not materially damage cotton.”
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Disastrous Blaze in Lyons,
Lightning struck the depot at Lyons
early Sunday morning, setting it on
fire, and a brisk northwest wind soon
swept the flames across the street and
two whole blocks were destroyed:
The losses are: Seaboard Air Line de
pot, full of freight and three box cars,
also loaded with freight; M. M. Cole
man, two stores; T. A. Scarbore, drug
store and dwelling; R. A. Costin,
store; T. J. Parker, part of stock of
goods; R. 8. O’Neil, barber shop and
dwelling; J. B. Aaron, postmaster,
household goods and postoffice furni
ture; H. C. Odom, store; hotel, with
furniture; Mrs. M. F. Broughton, store
and dwelling; The Lyons Progress,
presses and all fixtures; Mrs. L. M.
Brown, dwelling; Harry Brown, a sou
of J. P. Brown, was seriously hurt.
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Cotton Mill to Be Sold.
The plant, property, rights and privi
leges of the Barnesville Manufacturing
Company will be sold at trustee’s sale
on the first Tuesday in June in the
city of Barnesville at public outcry.
The Union Savings Bank and Trust
Company is trustee. The plant includes
a large cotton mill, adjoining lands,
etc. This concern has been in litiga
tion for two years and this step
will put an end to the wrangling
which has been going on during this
time. The mill is well equipped and
its plant is thoroughly modern. It
has been idle for the past two years
and the people of Barnesville-will we!l
gg),mg_jigl.lg,gi,sh‘é' renewal of opera
tions as it means a great deal to the
town.
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People to Select State Senator.
It took the Fulton county democratic
execntive committee less than fifteen
minutes, at a meeting in Atlanta, to
rescind is resolution relative to the
senatorial race in the thirty-fourth dis
trict, in which it indorsed Clayton
county’s candidate to the exclusion of
the candidate of Cobb, and to pass res
olutions looking to placing the whoie
matter in the hands of the people of
the district, who will decide at the pri
mary of April 20 which of the two
counties is entitled to the nominee.
The passage of this resolution, which
prefers a request to the democratic
executive committee of the senatorial
district, was the result of an agrec
ment reached begween the friends of
‘the opposing candidates; Hon. A. C.
‘Blalock, of Clayton, and Hon. D. W.
‘Blair, of Cobb, just before the meat
ing of the Fulton county committee
was held. :
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Steamer Named For Atlanta.
. The new ocean-going sh'p of the
‘Ocean Steamship Company will be
’nflmed City of Atlanta. This has been
‘definitely decided upon and has been
’officially announced by the president
of the company to both Mayor Howe!l
and President Maddox, of the Atlanta
chamber of commerce,
The new ship is no wbuilding at
Chester, Pa., and it is understood that
it will be launched in about two
months. It will be one of the finest
of the vessels of the Ocean Steamship
Company and one of the finest ships
that ply between scuthern ports ana
those of the north.
It will be a sister ship to the City of
Columbus, which is now in the serv:.ce
of the Ocean Steamship Company, and
which was launched some time ago.
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Damage Done by Caterpillar.
State Entomologist Newell has just
issued an Tmportant bulletin relating
to the cotton caterpillar and the ddm
age it has done in Georgia. 3
The bulletin goes into details, and.
prescribes means for getting rid of the
pest. Any one desiring a copy can se
cure it upon application to State Ento-‘
mologist Newell. :
During the summer of 1903 the cot
ton caterpillar was the cause of consid
erable damage in several counties of
southern Georgia, notably in Baker,
Crawford, Chatham, Dooly, Houstou,
Laurens, Lowndes, Macon, Mitchell,
Pulaski, Randolph, Stewart, Sumter
and Taylor counties. While the dam
age in any one locality was not exces
sive, yet the loss of the aggregate
amounted to considerable and in many
of the infested fields the ‘top crop”
was entirely destroyed.
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Can a Poor Boy Go to College?
So many boys say they would like
to have an education but they have no
money. I wish to say to these boys
on the farm and in the shop that a
college course is in their reach if they
put forth sufficient energy and deter
mine to have an education. One of
the most prominent young men in
South Georgia started to college after
he was twenty-one. He borrowed
$lOO a year from the Brown fund, lived
on the plainest food, worked during
the summer, got some help from his
college mates who saw his worth, won
his diploma and studied the practice
of law six hundred dollars in debt,
but with the best education of aany
young man in his county. He has paid
back the debt, is in comfortable cir
cumstances and is solictor general of
his circuit. Was it not better to enter
business life in debt with a good
education than to go through life han
dicapped by lack of preparation?
When men see a young man of WOI"Zh!
struggl’ng for a college course they
are willing to lend him a helping
hand. »_Algexanrc.lg;j Stephens helped
our fifty boys in this way. Fully a
third of the boys at the .University
now are working, borrowing and pay~l
ing their own way. I know a young
man from Rabun county twenty-four
years of age who wants to learn all
he can about agriculture and horticul-
Ture as well as the other subjects of
a liberal education. He boards with
the professor on the farm at $7.00 a
month and gets ten cents an hour for
lcoking after the feeding and milking
of the dairy herd. He is making ail
his expenses. There is room for -an
other boy with him, About sixty boys
earn extra money in the Universivy
printing office. Several young ladies
last summer paid all their expenses
at the summer school folding and
stitching in this office. I know many
boys who teach four months and go o
college seven, studying at night to
keep up with their classes. Some
young men make money on the type
‘writer, two are selling stationary and
ibooks, some earn a little coaching
‘boys who are behind. There are hun
i dreds of ways a boy may work his way
}through college. And it is easier now
‘than .ever before. Your poverty may
impede but cannct prevent your re
ceiving an education. That rests with
you. Blographies are filled with men
who struggled upward in the night,
‘while their companions slept. Pov
erty has its advantages as well asg
‘disadvantages. The youth with the
'most money rarely does the best work
§in his classes. Time is lost in money
‘spending that should have been de
‘voted to lesson learning. So on ac
’count of your poverty you can have a
college education if you will—J. 8.
Stewart of State University.
“The average Russian peasant,” says
an exchange, “is possessed of a Vo
- cabulary of only 110 words.” Well,
they are Russian words, are they not?
And a man who ecan learn that mary
jawbreakers is no ignoramus—even it
they do all end in offsky.
THE “TYLER” MY
One Story of “How Mary Had
Lamb” Came to be Writte
Who wrote “Mary Had
Lamb?” If you answer quic
are most likely to say, “Mother
of course.” That is not so.
lamb is a more recent product
recent, indeed, that it is stran
controversy can have already
about its authorship, but suchi
case. It was written at some
the first third of the 19th cenut
by whom? 1 sincerely belie
think it can be proved, that
written by Mrs. Sarah Josep
as she says it was, and not |
Mary E. Tyler by one John
as Mrs. Tyler says it was. I ot
even sure that Mrs. Tyler says that.
To make my account of the facts
carry to the reader the conviction of
truth which I feel myself, I must try
to be more than fair to Mrs. Tyler.
Here, then, is her story as told by her
at different interviews reported in the
newspapers, and told when she was a.
venerable old woman in Somerville,
Mass. .If it loses anything by the omis
sion of details, it loses, perhaps, the:
color and effect given it by her obvi
ous and honest belief in her own story.
Since no one can doubt that belief, I,
think that these, which are substan
tially her very words, give truly all.
she would herself have thought essen
tial.
She was Mary E. Sawyer of Sterl
ing, Mass., was born in 1806, and was
about 11 when her mother persuaded
her to take her pet lamb to school.
The lamb was discovered by her teach—
er. Mary herself then took the lamb
out and tied it in a shed until noon,
when she untied it, and it followed
her home. John Roulstone, a student!.
living with his uncle, the parish min
ister, was visiting the school that fore
noon, and the next day he came to the
little old school house and| handed
Mary a slip of paper upon which were
written 12 lines, which are, she Says,
the original verses of four lines each,
and these “Mary lost and never knew
what became of them.” That would be
in 1817. When the written copy had
been lost for nearly a quarter of a
century, and many years after the
death of the lamb, Mary Wwas sur
prised to read a poem by Mr'.E. Sarah
Josepha Hale that contained three
verses of eight lines each, and &the first
12 lines of which were the same as
those written by John Roulstone in
1817—“ for Mary had them in her me
mory.” Mrs. Hale is said to have add
ed the remaining lines. Such is Mrs.
Tyler’s story.—From Richard Walden
Hale’s “Mary Had a Little Lamb and
Its Author” in the Century.
The Owl and the Cockatoo.
The Birds, having to choose @ Ruler,
chose the Cockatoo, being daleed by
‘the splendor of his Topknot. |
~ The Owl expostulated, saying: :
~ “What, in the name of Gamekeep
ers, can have induced you to elect as,
your Ruler that most frivolous of alk
feathered fowls?” ;
“Why, just look at his beautiful yel
low Crest!” replied the other Birds.
«yellow Crest be taxidermatized,’”
the Owl retorted contemptuously. “It
is not what a Bird wears on the Top
of his Head that matters. It is what
] he has inside.” ;
Moral: It takes more than a Coronet
' to make a Statesman.—Lcndon Truth.
Festival Dolis in Japan.
The great festival of the year in
Japan is the Feast of Dolls, celebrated
on the third day of the third month.
In every Japanese family of any con
sequence there is a fireproof vat or
storehouse esnecially built to hold the
dolls, which are handed down from
generation to generation. All the year
until the first day of the feast the pre
cious dolls are kept safely locked up in
this vault. Sometimes there are hun
dreds of them in the possession of one
of the great families. On the first day
of the feast the vault is opened, and
all the 'dolls are taken out. ‘
Just 100 years were occupied in lows
ering the mile trotting regord fro
three to two minutes, » v