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’ - " GEORGIA REWS: ; ‘ 3 bbb e oo dererb drdedode ek bbbk ke 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. - * “ 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 %" * n 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. * % sk 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. ® %, % 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. r'la“‘ ® 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 * * & 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. - * * 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. @ % 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, . e % # 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. !® = 9 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. ; ISS 5 . 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. { SOV S -, 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.