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ifi‘fi mm*mwfli - Epitomized Items of Interest Gathered at Random. 1 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. . % 9 ‘ 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 . % % 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, i k % * ! 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. *® & @ —— 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. ¢ & B 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. * * * 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. s %® % 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.” ® % & 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. % % 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. * * & 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. : ® Xk % 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. ® * - 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. s & = 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