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GEORGIA REWS:
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Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Federation to Meet in Rome,
The program for the meeting of
the Georgia Federation of Labor in
Rome on June 15-16 has been arrang
el and promulgated.
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Crops in Bad Shape.
According to. information gathered
by the state departmtnt of agriculture
the Georgia cotton crop is in bad con
dition. The weather has been unfavor
able, planting has been backward, and
the portion of the crop already up is
making a poor shewing. 5
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Troup’s New Ccurt House,
The corner stone of the new Troup
county court hcuse will be laid at La-
Grange on the 30th of June with im
pressive exercises by the Masons.
Grand Master Max Meyerhardt, of
Rome, will be present to deliver the
address of the occasion and a grand
barbecue will be gerved. All the Ma
sons in the county will be invited.
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Elberton Sells Water Bonds.
The city of Elberton has sold $40,-
000 worth of bonds to Seasongood &
Mayer, of Cincinnati, at 95, the bonds
bearing 4 per cent interest. These
bonds were issued for the purpose of
installing a water works system. The
preliminary survey has been made by
Civil Engineer H. S. Jaudon, and the
sygtem wil] be inaugurated at the
earliest possible moment.
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Fifteen Thousand Acres Sold.
“~yA-land deal of importance has been
effected at -Sylvester, H. J. Corbett
& Co. buying the saw mill and timber
on 15,000 acres of lang-from C. A.
Alford, of willingham. The price was
$140,000. Mr. Alford retains his ex
tensive turpentine interest and also
has left about 28,000 acres of land on
which the timber has been only par
tially cut.
Mr. Alford will, in future, devote a
pcrtion of his time to improving his
lands and caring for his banking in
terests, being ,nresident of the Syl
vester Bankingg?‘ifi'npany.
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Stopever PiMf. ties Granted.
Stopover privileges in Atlanta, go
ing or coming, on St. Louis exposi
tion tickets is what Atlanta has been
granted by the Southeastern Associa
tion of Passenger Agents at their re
cent segsion.
This unusual and important privi
lege means more to Atlanta, perhaps,
than a hundred excursions coming in
from different sections. It means for
the six menths during which the St.
Louis exposition will be open overy
body going there and passing through
Atlanta en route will be privileged to
stop in the Georgia capital severai
days, whether going or coming
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No Clemency for Gamblers.
The prison commission has denied
the applications for clemency of Gad
D. Bryan and Charles Odell, of Savan
nah, convicted of Keeping gaming
houses, and each sentenced to pay a
fine of $l,OOO and to serve six months
in jail.
The defendants will now have to
pay the fines of $l,OOO each in addi
tion to serving six months in Chat
ham county jail, the latter being the
part of the sentence which they par
ticularly desired .to avoid. In fact,
their applications for clemency which
were filed and argued long before the
suprem?2 court passed on their case did
not ask that they be relieved of the
fines, but only of the jail sentences.
This the commission has declined to
recommend.
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Shortage May Be Increased.
Since the report of Receiver Cor-
bin of the bankrupt estate of R. H.
Plant and J. C. Plant’s Son Bank
at Macon has been made public, it is
the general opinion that the deficien
cy owed to creditors will greatly ex
ceed the amount mentioned in the re
port. The assets of the estate are all
given at their face value, but it is
thought the property interests of Mr.
Plant will not bring over one-half of
what is estimated if they are thrown
on the market,
There are many nominal assets to
he added to the list, which, on ac
count of details, cannot be learned
now, but it is stated that the net de
ficiency may reach $1,500,000, as the
book value of many of the assets
mentioned in the report cannot be
realized.
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Saw Utter Ruin Ahead.
State Treasurer R. RB. Park, who
was a life-long friend of R. H. Plant,
of Macon, who committed suicide, re
ceived a letter from the unfortunate
man the same day of the tragedy, giv
ing the only admission of the ferrible
condition of affairs which coniront
ed him and which led to the final act
of taking his own life.
When the failure of the baniks in
Macon was first announced, State
Treasurer Park immediately wrote
Mr. Plant a letter of sympathy and
condolence. This letter was purely
personal and simply the expression of
deep regret which he felt for his
friend.
Saturday morning the state treasu
rer received a typewritten letter bear
ing a Macon ‘postseript, and, open
ing it, he fund it to be a reply dic
tated by his old friend. This reply was
also of a purely personal nature, and
in it President Plant admitted that
he had been a very sick man for sev
eral weeks. .
Mr. Plant also stated that ihe steps
that had been taken Guring the last
few days leff him confronting a sit
uatichn that meant utter ruin. The en
tire letter conveyed the idea that the
Macon man had given up all hope and
that he could see no ray of light tc
illumine the shadows of the present
nor the darkness of the future.
The statement in this letter was
made still more significant by the
terrible tragedy that occurred on the
same day and which left little doubt
but that this letter to his old friend
was the last letter written by Mr.
Plant, .
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Life Sentence for Cawthorn.
The jury in the case of the state
against R. D. Cawthorn, charged with
the offense of murder, at Eastman,
brought in a verdict; finding him guiity
with a recommendation to the mercy
of the court. o
Judge Roberts immediately sentenc
ed him to serve the rest of his nat
ural life at hard labor in the peni
tentiary.
It will be remembered that in July
of last vear two good citizens of the
county, living in the same neighbor
hood, died very suddenly, apparently
from the effects of poison. Within
about one week of each other, these
citizens died. One of these was W.
J. Tucker, at whose house Cawthorn
was living'and where Horne, the other
citizen, got the dose .that resulted
in his death. Upon the death of Tuck
er, the second man, Cawthorn, was in
mediately arrested, charged with the
crime, the theory of the state be
ing that he had poisoned Tucker for
the purpose of possessing himself of
Tucker’'s wife, a woman wilh eleven
children.
Cawthorn, in his statement, admit
ted that an intimate relationship had
existed between himself and Tucker's
wife for some time, but claimed that
this was chargeable to her and that
she poisoned her husband because of
the love she had for Cawthorn.
At a previous trial, which was set
aside by the supreme court, Cawthorn
was convicted and sentencd to be
hanged. The result of the trial is,
therefore, regarded as a considerable
svictory for the defendant, par:iially
' due to the fact, it is thought, that
the woman was not also indicted.
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i New County Proposed.
| A movement is being agitated 10
' form a new county from a portion
gof Irwin, Dooly, Wilcox and Worth,
! with Ashburn as the county seat. The
l proposed line will be as follows: Run:
'ning from Ashburn east ten miles
éinto [rwin county:; north into Dooly
iten miles west- into Worth fifteen
' miles; south into Irwin, taking in
iCycloneta, ten miles; northeast into
iWilcox fifteen miles.
' Several meetings have heen held
gand active steps are being taken to
'secure the much needed change. A
“map of the proposed new county, show
!ing the location, etc., has been drawn.
| Htnderson has been selected as the
name of the new county, proposed in
| honor of Captain Jack J. Henderson,
| the oldest citizen of the section af
| fected. ;
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Selection of Teacherg for Schoois.
Now that the time is at hand when
hoards of education must select teach
! ers for ancther year, they should
| look well to their duties in this mal
| ter. The head of the school should be
Ea man of thorough scholarship wilh
]special training in his profession and
;sovme experience. Having selected the
| head, the board should ask and ex
| pect ‘his advice in the selection of his
iassismants. If he makes a success of
' his schools he must have teachers as
l sociated with him who will co-operate
| with him in his plans and work har
i moniously with him, The board should
make him share responsibility with
them by having him nominate teach
ers whom he knows are competent in
spirit and scholarship to teach and
control the several grades.
"It is a part of his business to know
good teachers, to meet them at sum
mer schools and institutes and by vis
its to other schools and thus be ready
to recommend successful teachers.
The superintendents and every mem
ber of the board must have in mind
that the schools are for the good of
the children and in the selection of
teachers their goood must be para
mount.
It is not a question of whether this
good woman needs the place or that
tgood woman is our kinswoman and
wants a position; or whether this
applicant is from our town or has
lbeen a teacher a long time in the
?school. The board should consider
which is the best teacher for the
tchildre‘n of that grade.
l The children deserve the best that
'gthe salary will command. Nepotism,
i the pensioning of incompetent persons,
‘the supporting of inferior teachers at
| the expense of the children, political
{ trading, should be discredited by all
! conscientious boards.
. Boards of educaticn should encour
| age their teachers to attend the sum-
I mer school once in every twg years
'in order for them to keep up with
' the best in educational advancement,
| just as owr doctors occasionally re
| visit the great hospitals. Tht expenses
j'are nominal and the summer school
| combines hoth an outing and especial
[ training. Over forty courses are of
;fered each year, including every sub
|'ject taught in the schools from the
' kindergarten to sophomore class. If
. beards of education wish to introduce
' physical culture, domestic science,
}manual training, agriculture, singing
; their present corps may prepare them
' selves at the summer gchool. Oceasion
' ally a board re-elects a teacher on
| condition that she takes special work
{ during the summer. The teacher is
!anxions to do her best for the school
!and is glad of the opportunity for
' self-improvement. Everywhere let mer-
Eit win and experience and efficiency
' receive the best salaries.
| J. S¢ STEWART, of State Univer
| sity.
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i Servia is torn by conflicting emeo:
tions. It wishes to be respectable, and
; \t hates to bounce King Peter.
CATCHING A TARTAR., _
An Arizona Story Which Exactly Fits
the Trite Phrase. .
Former Congressman Maguire is re
sponsible for the story that follows.
Trite as is the old phrase, “catching a®
Tartar,” it never was applied with
stronger force than to this tale, says
the San Francisco Call: ;
“Down in Arizona I had a client
who was in jail awiting trial for mur
der,” says Magiire. “He told me the
story of his life. It was alive wiih
crime. He had been a ‘sure thing’
man, gold brick seller, and all that
sort of thing. His plan was to pick
up a likely vietim, take him inio the
couniry and palm off a gilded brick
for ail the real gold he could induce
the patron to part with.
“Once he went to OGakland, found
his man, and won him with a yarn
that he and a ‘pal’ had stolen a vala
able gold brick from a big assay of
fice; that the ‘pal’ was dying in an
out of the way place, and had the
brick, but wanted to get rid of it. It
was a bargain.
“The pair went out to Crockett, or
thereabouts. In an old ramshackle
hut they found the ‘pal’ on a cot,
choking and gasping in the near reach
of death, apparently. From under
the hlankets came the brick, the hack.
ing sufferer painfully telling the story
of the crime. ete., ete.
“Yictim, being duly impressed with
the genuineness of it all, was suppos.
ed to bite quickly, but this one didn’t.
Offers to sell at wretchedly low figures
brought little encouragement. At last
the intended purchaser invited his
guide out of doors.
“‘See hqre,” he said to the steerar,
‘what’s the use of me buying that gold
bar. T'll just go back and choke #ia:
thief's’ breath out, he’s nearly dea‘l
anyway. We’ll take the brick and no
body will be any the wiser.’
“‘Do you know that it was all }
could do to keep that rube from kill
ing my pal?’ said the prisoner to Ma
guire.
“‘I didn’t care whether I ever so!l
another brick until T had got that fel
low far enough away from Crockett
so my pal could escape safely. it
was worth the weight of the brick in
good gold to lose that trick.””
The World’'s New Ships.
According to the annual raport of
Lloyds’ Register, the toia! number of
vessels, exclusive of warships, launch
ed in Great Britain during the past
year was 697, of 1,190,618 gross tons.
Of these 632 were steamers. Eise
where 549 steamers of 798,285 tons
and 404 sailing vessels of 156,808 touns
were launched, in addition to 78 war
vessels of 239,210 tons displacement.
The new tonnage in the United States
was 382,000, in Germany 134,000 anll
in France 93,060,
In Great Britain the sailing tonnage
decreased by abcut 92,000 tons, while
the steam tonnage increased hy 467.-
000. Of the tonnage launched in
Great Britain 99 3-4 per cont. was
steel. A feature of the French ship
building is the abandonment of tha
construction of large sailing vesse!s.
The wreck returns for the yoar
show that the tonndge of all natian
alities totally lost, broken up, ete..
amounts to abouc 744,000 tons, of
which 412,000 was steam tonnage. The
net increase of the world's mercanti'o
tonnage during 1903 was about 1,402-
000 tons.
Value of Milk Diet.
One of the most valuable foods for
the nerves is milk, for those who caa
digest it. A person whose nerves ara
played out cannot revive himsalf
quicker than by living for a time ex
clusively on milk, hkeated but not
boiled, sipping very slowly a tumblei
ful every few hours. Milk, however,
is a food that easily disagress with
grown people. Before star.ing on a
milk diet, you should fast for a day
or two, and wash the stomach out
thoroughly with hot water.