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" Rawlg Charged With Shortage.
Harry 8. Rawls, son of State Repre
sentative Rawls, of Effingham county,
has been arrested, at Savannah,
charged with being short $1,200 in
his accounts at the postoffice, where
he was money order clerk, He has
given bond and the shortage, it is
sald, will be made good.
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Quiet Reigns at Pavo.
The antlcipated trouble with the ne
gro lodge men at Pavo falled to ma
teriallze, It is belleved that all danger
{s passed and excitement is subsiding.
The whites are still on guard, but ne
groes, as a rule, have returned to their
work.,
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Major Ryals Loses Lé&g.
Major G. M. Ryals, one of the most
widely known men in Georgila, had his
left leg amputated in the Savannah
hospital a few days ago. Ha has been
suffering from dlabetis. The opera
tion was successful, and Major Ryal's
chances for recovery are now regard
ed ag bright.
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Cashier Walters Under Charges.
Willlam H. Walters, Cashier of the
Bank of Waynesbhoro, hag been put
under arrest by the bank authorities
for a shortage of about $3,000. Walter
claims that there is no real shortage,
but a mistake in bookkeeping. W, L.
McElmurray has been elected caéhler;
in Walters’ place. The bank’s books
are in the hands of expert account-!
ants. Major Wilkins, president of the
bank, says the matter is in course of
adjustment.
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Costly Blaze in Quitman,
Quitman was the scene of a dils
astrous fire last Sunday morning, in
which three stores and contents weat
up in smoke and considerable damage
done to as many more, and it was only
by heroic work on the part of the fire
company that a whole block was not
wiped out, i
The fire was discovered in the up
per story of the store of Lazarous
Brothers, and it quickly spread to the
adjoining buildings, occupied by C. C.
Joyner, J. B. Finch &Co. and W. T.
Thompson. The first three stores were
completely destroyed and considerable
Jamage done to the fourth. The con
tents that were saved were ruined by
fire and water. The loss is nearly $20,-
000, with less than $lO,OOO insurance.
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Ready to Collect Gordon Fund.
W. L. Calhoun, president of the Gor
don Monument Association, has in
structed the Confederate organizations
and committees appointed on the Gor
don Monument fund that all the sub
gcriptions to the Gordon fund should
be coliected during the month of No
vember. :
It is the intention of the association
to erect an equestrian statue to Gen
eral John B. Gordon, at the cost of
$BO,OOO. This must be raised by pop
ular subscription, and the officers of
the association see no reason why
the money should not be subscribed.
Up to the present time between $B,-
000 and $9,000 hag been received, and
checks are being received every day
from all parts of the South. This $B,
000 already subscribed is due in No
vember.
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Kick on increased Tax.
The tax rate of Cobb county has
recently been raised from $5 to $8
a thousand and the whole county is
said to Dbe thoroughly n}used and
indignant and a protest will be made.
It 1s claimed by promifent citl
zens that the tax rate has been al
most doubled without any apparent
cause and up to the present time the
fact that the raise has been made has
not heen printed. The citizens, how
ever, have learned of the action of
the grand jury and the ordinary.
The reason given for the enormous
raise, it is sald, is that improvements
have beer made in the country roads.
According to the citizens the wock
on the roads ig not sufficient to war
rant any such increase in the tax rate
and they want to know what is to be
done with the money.
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Governor Back from Manassas.
Governor Joseph M. Terrell and the
party of distinguished Georgians who
accompanied him to Manassas to wit
ness the maneuvers ag fhe guest of
General Corbin, returned to Atlanta
Sunday afternoon, reporting a very
pleasant visit,
The members of the party besides
the governor were General W. A.
Wright, Colonel W. L. Peel and Ma
jor Emmett Irwin, military secretary
to the governor, all of Atlanta, and
Colonel Peter Meldrim, of Savan
nah,
There were many prominent men
from both military and civil life at
the great Manassas maneuvers, but
Governor Terrell and his party were
none the less paid most distinguished
attention and were given most promi
nent places among the visitors.
At the big review of Saturday the
governor wag escorted by a troop of
Georgia cavalry and during his stay
at Manassas received hundreds of
callers, military officers from Georgia,
other states and from the regular
army. In fact, he was kept quite busy
receiving these visitors.
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Coffee’s Bond Is Increased.
The bond of P. 8. Coffey, one of
the alleged filve counterfeiters, whose
arrest in Atlanta created such a sen
sation about three weeks ago, has had
his bond inoreased from $5,000 to §lO,
000. This was done three o 1 four days
ago at the request of the United
States district attorney. Judge New
man, in increasing the bond, stated
he would hear from the defense, if
called upon to do so, and it is like
ly there will be a move made to have
the bond made less than the last
amount named.
Coffey was arrested with J. N. Lit
tle, C. W. Rebb, Will Wgane and O.
L. McMichael. It was charged that
Wynne maide the bogus plates and sold
them to Little and Coffey, who gave
them to McMichael and Rebb, who
printed the spurious money in a job
office in Atlanta. Rebb passed some
of the money, and when caught made
a full confession, Subsequently Little,
Coffey, McMichael and Wynne made
confessions.
When arraigned for a preliminary
trial, all waived a heating and the
bonds were fixed as follows: Coffey
and Little, $5,000 each; Rebb and Me-
Michael, $3,000 each. Wynne was giv
en a hearing in St. Louis, where he
was arrested, and his bond was $5,
000. .
There has been some talk about
Coffey, who lives in the country, and
is reputed to have some money, mak
ing bond, and this may hmave been
one cause for his bond being raised
to $lO,OOO. :
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Express Penitence or Withdraw.
The Methodist Church of Statesbovro
has considered the lynching of the ne
groes, Reid and Cato, in a strong set
of resolutions, in which the request is
made that members who participated
in the affair, if any, should at once
withdraw from the church. This relo-l
lution ig in the following language:‘
“We regard the act of any one
who participated in this deplorable af- !
fair as being inimical to the best in- |
terests of our church and we recom
mend that such of our members as
participated therein, if any, be here- l
by apprised of the displeasure of the ,
church and be requested to withdraw !
without delay from our communion
and fellowship, unless a public con
fession of wrong be made with ex
pression of penitence and contrition.”
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: Professional Education. |
One of the significant facts relat
ing to education is the rapid growth
of the professional schools and de
partments of our universities. <The
following statistics from the exhibit
of the government at the St. Louls
fair shows this increase in number‘
of students: ‘
: ' 1880 1902
THeOlogY .o ex oy oo - 5,048 7,848
Medicine .. .. .. .. ..11,089 20881
TR .. i i i BARE 18008
e - R R ¢ 8,420
FREPIAREY o ;.0 . v 5 Tadl 4,427
Nurse Training .... .. 823 18,252
Tachpleal. i.. .. .. ... 8780 214
These statistics show that the peo
ple recognize that a man trained in
the schoels in both fhe science and
the art of his chdésen profession has
an immense advantage over the man
who learns his art by the’ practice of
the art. We have long called the doc
tor a quack who did not take a medi
cal college course. The tendency is to
discount any professional man who
does not take a special course prepar
atory to his life work. True, it is
that he discounts himself by not tak
ing such a course. The man who takes
the college course and the one who
beging without it will both have to
begin at the bottom, but the trained
man will rise more rapidly and will
g 0 much higher. He does not reach
the end of his tether so soon.
The years apparently lost while tak
ing the college course are soon made
good by the increased knowledge and
skill. With rare exceptions the man
who devotes most time to prepara
tion will be worth more to the world
and to himself, just as the erude ore
becomes more valuable ag it is refin
ed and worked .into useful articles.
The young lawyer who has had no
training beyond what he has picked
up in an office, the young druggist
whose only training has been the lo
cal drug store, the young machinist
whose only training has been his fath
er’s blacksmith shop, or the young
farmer whose studies have been lim
ited by his corn rows, will find him
self at a great disadvantage when he
comes in competition with the techni
cally trained man. The diiterence is as
great as botween the skilled Jap and
the Chinese.
Whatever your life work take time
to get ready for it. As Dr. Haygood
used to say, “you will cut more wood
by having taken time to sharpen your
axe.” — J. 8. STTEWART, of State
University.
BOLD BANDITS HELD BANKER.
Financier in New' Mexico Has Stren
uous Experience With Robber Gang.
A dispatch from Roswell, N. M., to
" The Fort Worth Record says: Wool
ly and unkempt, Banker Hiland re
turned to hiz home at Portales, N. M.,
last evering and reports one of tne
l most remarkable stories ever heard in
New Mexico., or the entire west.
‘ On August 4th he was captured by
bandits, who robbed him and were
' holding him for a ransom when he
‘was fortunate to escape while his cap
tors slept. ;
GOOD THINGS Awurlfgg,; B
teline Is One of the Most F=e. :
Animals About His Toilet.
“There has been so much talk _bout
sats in the newspaipers and i%pseu&!}_)r
scientific circles of late and about the
way in which they spread all Kifigs of
disastrous and deadly contagidms,”
said the cat’s friend in the New Or
leans Times-Democrat, “that it is{peal
ly refreshing to find in print an ‘thing
that is at all good about the feline.
Recently the cat was put on the out
lawed list in Washington. Doctors
and scientists have been urging for
some time the claim that the cat was
an unclean thing and the scatterer of
diseases. B
“It is & bit cheering in ti#-aste
of pessimism to turn to the following
in the London Mail, in defense of the
cat: ‘The most fastidious mammals
in matters of the toilet are to be
found among the members of the cat
family, as all must haye noticed in
domestic tabbies. The rough tongue
makes an excellent brush, while the
sharp claws are on occasion employ'ed
by way of combs, all these invaluable
aids to cleanliness and smartness pos
sessing the further advantage of al
ways being at hand when required. A
healthy - cat is not only cleam, but
finical, not to say vain, about her (or
his) personal appearance. And moral
degeneration in pussy is accompanied
by neglect of personal grooming. That
the dog is as dirty as a boy must re
luctantly be confessed. He was th»
first animal to be domesticated, a.a
long association with man has per
haps had to do with his carelessness
in the matter.
‘ “If this view is correct all this talk
| about cats being such dangerous mems
' bers musi be a little wrong. My own
view of the matter is that the cat is
' not the bad and dangerous member he
is supposed to be. He is cleaner than
Ithe dog, according to the English
view, and this is no doubt the correet
} view, though the reason assigned by
,the paper quoted, namely, that long
association with men and boys is re
' sponsible for the dog’s uglier ways, is
‘ probably not to be accepted literally.
| Still—but I was speaking of cats.”
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l Romance of a Chauffeur. :
] The chauffeur is becoming more
i dangerous than ever coachmen or bi
| cycle instructors or roller skaling
«teachers were, says the Motor World.
*This peculiar fascination of the chau
ffeur over the fair sex has not yet
been very conspicucus here, but it is
| comprehensible that a daring and
’ dashing driver, with perfeet control of
| his car, should become something of a
hero, and the primitive instinct of
woman wBs ever prone to hero wor
ship. The news from England there
fore may be received hers as some
thing in the nature of a warning. .
The London smart set is eagerly
i waiting developments in the case »f
| Miss Baldock, who still stubbornly
clings to her determination to marry
her handsome young chauffeur. She
. @uly recently passcd her twenty-first
' birthday, and has an income of $5,000
a year, with expectations, bound to
be realized if she lives, of inheriting
‘an additional $75,000 a year. This
may perhaps account for the fact
that the chauffeur has refused an
offer made by the girl’s father of $50,-
000 cash down to call the match off
' and exile himself until the young
| girl has outgrown her infatuation fnr
I him. He will come of age in Sep
l tember, and the girl has so far yield
ed to persuasion as to consent {0 the
postponement of the marriage until
October, stoutly protesting that she
will make no further concessiomns to
her parents’ feelings. The father has
issued his ultimatum, to the effect
that the day she leaves her home to
become the bride of the chauifeur its
doors will be closed against her for
ever. -
A Japanese bride gives her wedding
presents to her parents as a slight
recompense for the trouble they have
had in rearing her. :