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Epitomized Items of Interest Gathered at Random. SIETTIRT " 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. * % =% 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., s N ® 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. *® w® * 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. *® w * 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. & * &® 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. - - E 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. ® . 9 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. o . @ 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. : & - x 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.” «* @ | : 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.” | e eet g 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. :