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Officlal Organ Charlton County and
the Town of Folkston,
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R e S e T
Mr. Carnegie remarks: “You don't
find much knowledge of poetry resi
dent in the average milicnaire.”
The visit of the real Di. Koch to
America, the Robert Koch made fam
ous by his study of tuberculosis, is an
event of importance. Here is a man,
declares the Christian Register, who
has set himzelf at the head of the life
savers who, the world over, are stu
dying to abolish such digseases as ma
laria, yellow fever, tuberculosis, can
cer, and other physical enemies of the
race, The success already achieved
makes it certain that when the knowl
edge of the few becomes the common
property of the many, the pestilence
that walks in darkness will no long
er devastate the world.
"The highbrows have discovered that
all nervous diseases are caused by
too much talking. “People silent by
nature are seldom ill,” they claim. “A
large percentage of the victims of
nervous diseases are great talkers,
who discuss imaginary ailments until
thevy get them.” The treatment they
propose of those affected with the gift
of gab is silence, ohserves the Pitts
burg Dispatch., Tt includes walks in
cemeteries and vigits to deaf and
dureh asylums and other institutions
devoted to silence, There will be spe
cial courses for barbers, street car
conductors, actors and others aicted
with limber maxillaries. :
The statistics of the agrlcultmjpl
Aepartment show an increase in 1907
cover 1906 of 297,725 horses and mules
“in the United States. There are 8,237,
449 more harness-using animals in
the country now than there were 8
“years apo. There was a considerable
~decline in the export demand for
horses owing to high prices in 1907, the
“total being $3,608,119,"as aghinst $4,
914,999 in 1906, In December last 1180
American horses were exported, as
:fihpflred with 1736 in December,
1906, These figures show to the Indi
anapolis News, that the introduction
of motors has not had any injurious
affect on the price of horses, and that
j'.‘horie raising is as active an industry
a 8 ever. :
We have stiff laws against killing
our song birds, although there is this
to be said for that abominable prac
tice that it furnishes food to the hun'
gry. But this eradication of our choice
wfld‘.fliwers. remarks the Hartford
Courant, goes on year after year un¢
interrupted and is rapidly extermina
ting the choicest of them. The city
resident deplores the sacrifice—and
then buys a bunch of the flowers.
" That's about as practical as ‘much of
our sentimemnt proves to be. Presum
ably the logic of it is that the flowers
have been picked anyhow and they
will wilt soon, so that whoever buys
them gets their last appearance. That
holds a.s'lugh' but it holds equally
. well as a invitation to go out and de
atrdfv'"'som;h _fore plants. Something
'ah‘oql:il be done to put a stop to this,
ruthless raiding of the natural flow
er les's. It is most discreditable,
: ¢« The report of the park commission
-5 er\g of Milwaukee has the following to
_algj'; ahout playgrom\@: “The play
‘grounds question has received consid
erable attention this season and play
. grounds have been established in all
i,fmfé'\parks and fitted up with suitable
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. being considered that they needed the
* recreation more than the older chil
dren, who will have to wait until the
park funds are such that athletic
fields and apparatus can be supplied.
There has been nothing done that has
~caused more satisfaction to the public
and 'j‘oy to the little ones than _the
playgrounds, and arrangements will
be made to extend them in all the
parks as the needs require. Efforts
should also be made to secure land
for playground purposes in the inter
for portions of the city, so as not to
compel children to go too great a dis
tance to reach the same. . Wherever
; fiogglble, the system of dls‘tr?t‘)mhé
$ schgolhouses and fire engine houses
' throughout the city might well be fol
. lgwed in the installing of these play
grounds,” i e
IN THE HOUSE.
T June 30.
A bill by Mr, Foster of Cobb was
providimg where a common carrier
fails to settle .an over charge, duly
demanded for thirty days, the person
to whom the overcharge is due can,
upon establishing the correctness of
his claim in the courts, recover, in
addition to his claim, a penalty of not
less than SIOO, the same increasing
with an increase in the amount of
the claim, was passed,
The bill permitting depositions to
be taken before justices of the peace
~and notaries who are exofficio justi
ces of the peace, was passed,
The bill prohibiting any unauthoriz
ed personsfrom stopping, starting or
otherwise interfering with a locomo
tive, was passed, Also a bill by Mr.
Reid of Putnam requiring monthly
publication of the doings of the board
of commissioners of roads and reve
nues of Putnam county,
A resolution providing that the
house visit the property of the state
in Chattanooga in spite of the fact
that the senate had declined to go
was referred to the committee on tem
perance., The house adjourned until
10 o'clock Wednesday morning,
July 1.
Governor Smith’s message was re.
ceived by the houze, urging a formal
approvement of the application of the
University of Georgia to be made " a
participant in the Carnegie foundation
fund, which provides a pension for
aged teachers under certain condi
tions, It was shown that the univer
sity would receive this benefit if for
mal approval was given by the trus
tees, the governor and the assembly,
An invitation was received from the
Ladies’ Memorial Association and
Kennesaw chapter United Daughters
of the Confederacy, to attend the un
veiling of the monument at Marietta
on:Jduy 1. A resolution, providing
that the general assembly attend in a
body, was adopted by the house, ‘
A bill providing that all lacomotives |
on main lines he equipped with elec
tric headlights beginning July 1, 1909,
was passed 131 to o,
A Dbill to license the carrying of ri-'
fles and pistols was defeated by a
vole of 73 to 64. 2
July 2, |
The larger part of the Thursday}
morning session of the house of rep-!
resentatives was taken up in the dis-|
cussion of amending the law which
limits the rights of recovery of dam
ages to certain gme bers of the im-|
mediate family o t[{:e deceased in
case of homocide. The amendment,
it passed, will permit any personal|
rg%rgsemat,lve of the deceased-to re-}
covér damages. It was sent back to!
the judiciary committee. I
Mr, Edwards of Habersham, speak- |
ing to.a question of personal privel
ege, denied the newspaper report that
sub-committee, which inspected the
convict camp of the Bibh Brick Com-[
pany, was drunk when the inspection
was made,. ;
July 3 :
.~ Mr. Edwards, of Habersham, pre
sented a resolution, calling for ghe‘
appointment of a committee of five,
of which three are to come from the
house, to investigate the charges of
drunkenness, made by John T. Moore,
of the Bibb Brick company of Macon,
against Representatives Edwards,
Powell and Bowen and Senator Staple
ton, at the time that these gentlemen
acting as a sub-committee from the
general assembly, inspected the con
vict camp of said brick company.
Speaker Slaton appointed as the
committeemen on the part of the
‘house Messrs, Atkinson, of Morgan;
Adanis, of ‘Elbert, and Johnson, of
Jeff Dayis, |
A 'resolution by Mr. Candler of De-
Kalb, granting the request of the
trustees of the University of Georgia
that the wunlversity and its eligible
branches, he made eligible to partici
pate in the Carnegie foundation fund
for aged teachers, was adopted.
Fd e July 6. .
_The third week of the house of rep
resentatives commenced on. ‘Monday
morning. at 10 o'clock. Immediately
after the preliminaries of opening the
session, two bills' by Mr. Wright of
Richmond relating to the collection of
back taxes and the arbitration of con
testéd ‘assessments, were taken up by
unanimous. consent, read the- third
time and passed, -
On’ motion of Mr, Hall of Bibb it
was decided that when the house ad
journs it adjourn until Tuesday morn
ing at 9 o'clock, instead ot 10 o'clock,
as has been the custom up to this
time, "
After considerable discussion .the
Dykes bill, amended, penalizing téle
graph companies $25 for failure to de
liver messages was passed by a vote
of 102 to 27, :
In a freight wreck on the Georgia
road, at the ninety-one mile post,
near Augusta, a through train in
charge of Conductor Jack Paschal,
coming from the direction of Atlanta,
had ten'cars derailed and six cars
badly smashed at an early hour Sun
day morning, Nobody was injured.
Superintendent Brand had the wreck
ing train’ on the scene and by the
‘afternoon the track was cleared, The
cause of the wreck is not known, but
the twenty-first car in a train of 31
was the first to leave the track, :
- If “the ‘world credits a man with
brains, it is-a sign it has found out
that he has money. y
Everybody has a few good traits—
excepting our relatives,
Fearful of the possible escape from
Georgia of W. G. Boyett, for whom he
had signed a bond in the amount of
S6OO, W. Martin, a prominent Pierce
county farmer, tied 'Bovett with a
rope to hold him and Jrought him to
Savannah, whtre a warrant was issued
for him some time ago. Boyett |is
charged with padding pay rolls of the
Atlangic, ~Coast Line - vaillway, and
earning=s2oo in that way.
Receipts at the Atlanta pestoifice
increasel $31,644 during the year end
ing July 1.
| IN THE SENATE. ,
i June o, T T i
Senator Williford of the T wenty
eighth gets the credit of the first gen
eral biil to be passed by the senate.
His measure provides for uniformity
of school terms, Mr. Knight ques
tioned the wisdom of the bill and op
posed its passage. The bill was pass
ed by a vote of 25 to 4.
A petition from . the penitentiary
committee, asking that Senator How
ard be designated as a member of the
committee, was read, and President
dryant announced the appointment of
Mr, Howard,
A bill by Mr. Crittenden to prohibit
any ordinary, county commissioner,
judge of any city court or county
court, sheriff, solicitor of any court,
or other county or court officer of this
state, from hiring or turning over to
any private person or persons, or any
corporation, ete, and person who may
hereafter he convicted and sentenced
for misdeameanor in any court was
‘passed,
July 1,
| The first business of the senate was
|the comnsideration of the Overstreet
bill, making the possession of a fed
| eral liquor license prima facie evi
(dence of violation of the prohibition
[law, It was tabled by a vote of 22 to 18.
Message from governor was received.
July 2,
The Weaver bill, to prohibit unfair
commercial discrimination between
different localities of @Georgia, and
aimed particularly at Standard Oil,
|was passed by the senate Thursday
morning, by a vote of 29 to 10. The
measure was debated at considerable
length. Senators Henderson, L. A.
Akin, Knight and Camp championed,
aggressively, the measure, while Sen
‘ator Hawes opposed it vigorously,
The committee appointed to report
the Hardman bill for the imposing of
penalties upon any common carrier
who intentionally converts to its own
use any commodity entrusted to it,
recommended that it pass. Mr. Hard
man spoke briefly in behalf of the
bill. An amendment by Senator
Hawes of the 30th was adopted and
‘the bhill was passed.
The senate accepted an invitation
from the Ladies Memorial association
;of Marietta to be present at the dedi
cation of the new Confederate monu
‘ment in Marietta cemetery, July 7.
| July 3 ;
The senate was in session for an
hour and a half Friday morning and
adjourned until Monday morning at
10 o'clock, this in face of the senate’s
recent refusal to adjourn to visit
Chattanooga. i :
~ The first bill of the session to pass
‘both houses was put through the sen
‘ate without objection.” It was a€
‘measure by Mr, Dunbar of Richmond,
providinng for the vilidation of muni
cipal and county refunding bonds. The
‘bill was amended in a slight particu
‘lar, and when this amendment is
‘agreed to by the house, the measure
'will go to the governor for his signa
ture. It will become the first law of
the session of 1908. .
: - July 6, S
The senate met at 12 o’clock from
the adjourned session. A good man}
senators were absent. A resolution
from the house asking for an investi
‘gation of the charge of drunkenness
‘made by John T, Moore of Macon
‘against the committee that inspected
the conviet camp at the Bibb Brick
‘company in November, 1907, was
‘read, The resolution must, under par
liamentary rules, lie on the table for |
one day,
Reports were read from the commit
tee on counties and county matters
and after a session of exactly twenty
six minutes, the senate adjourned un
til Tuesday. :
Pretoria, a lumber center in south-;
west Georgia that has been silent and
almost in the deserted village class
for the past two or three months, ow
ing to the closing down of the big
lumber plant there, is to resume its
former busy appearance, a Thomas
ville, Ga., company having concluded
its arrangements to place the pine
lumber plant there in operation again,
| At the sixth annual convention of
the Rural Letter Carriers’ Associationi
of Georgia in session at Al
bany the annual officers were elected, a
pew constitution and by-laws were
adopted and Cordele, Ga. chosen as
the next place of meeting July 2 and
3. 1909..."The following officers were
elec¢ted: President, Paul C. Coker,
Chamblee; vice president, S. M. Hall,
()nwgu; secrefary-treasurer, George
C. Bond;- Elherton., Delegates to na
tional conyention. at Omaha: S, M.
Hall, Tifton, Ga; .George C. Bond,
Elbeérton; P. C. €Coker, Chamblee; J.
A {fl;gxiu, Round Oak;.L. W. Ford
hani, Dublin; J. B. Lumpkin, Rome;
J. A, Simmons, Zebulon? J..L. Erwin,
Atlanta. Executive Board==F, L.
White, Buckhead; B. J. Mann,Albany;
G. W. Gammage, Brownwood. -At the
conclusion of the convention .dele
gates were given a big barbecue by
the citizens of Albany. "
W. W. Wells has been appointed
postmaster at Connesauga, Gilmer
county, vice W. M. Evett, resigned.
Rural free delivery carriers for
Georgia have been appointed as fol
lows: Davisboro, route 2, Thomas -J,
Orr, carrier; J. P, Riddle, substitute.
Deep 'Step, route 2 Loyd T. Hall, car:
rier; Jessie [, Hall, substitute. Ten
nille, route 4, Charles C. Everett, car
rier; Oliver Everett, substitute. Ty
| Ty, route 3, Moses A. Shiver, carrier;
{John Inman, substitute. Warthen,
route 3, Steve Cobb, carrier; John L.
| Brows, substitute. i
The career of Banker J. J. Parrish,‘
Jr., 23 years of age, who had quite a|
string of banks in Georgia and Flori.
da, has ended in ' the bankruptey
court, his ligbilities being $25,000 and
his assets $17,000.
The payment of $250,000 by the
Southern Steel Company to the Geor
gia Iron and Coal Company, attorneys
and others in Atlanta marks the con.
summation of the agreement between
practically ‘all parties interested to re.
organize -the $30,000,000 Southern
Steel Co,, Which went into bankruptey
last October.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
Secretary of the Interior James R.
rfield, who went to Honolulu on the
ba'tt'?égliip Alabama to investigate the
commercial and industrial conditions
in these islands, returned to San
Francisco on the protected cruiser
St. Louis.
M. Bleriot at Paris, succeeded in
flying six hundred metres with his
monoplane machine, winning the Aero
club’s medal,
H. R, Shaffer is the only delegate
and D, M. Field, the only alternate of
the twelve elected to represent Porto
Rico to attend the Democratic conven
tion at Denver. The others have
named proxies residing in the United
States.
Under an enactment of the last gen
eral assembly, bucket shops in Con
necticut ended their business July 1.
The penalty for violation of the law
is a fine of from SSOO to SI,OOO, and
imprisonment for not more than one
year.
Twenty-two members of the Manila
and Fibre Paper Manufacturers’ asso
ciation who were fined $2,000 each re
cently for operating a combine in re
straint of trade, paid their fines to
the United States circuit court. The
The other two companies are expect
ed to pay theirs in a few days.
On account of the local option laws
in so many counties in Illinois buffets
in nearly all railroad cars will, be
closed. An order has been issued by
the Pullman company closing the buf
fet in the parlor car of the Alton lim
ited between Chicago and St. Louis
and abandoning entirely the sale of
intoxicating drinks.
One man was shot and seriously
wounded as the result of a mutiny
among the convicts at a convict camp
near Atlanta, Ga. The trouble started
when the men in the camp refused to
go to work.
The final report of Receiver T. A.
Oherinn of the Mississippi Home In
surance Company filed at Vicksburg,
Miss.,, shows a deficit of $183,588.34,
and the numerous premiums $89,672.-
73. The capital stock of the corpora
tien was SIOO,OOO.
Miss Helen Gould has come out in
open disapproval of the marriage of
her sister, Anna, and the Prince De
Sagan, although she joined the other
coheirs of the late Jay Gould in sign
ing a formal deed of consent.
An automobile carrying a bride and
groom, returning from their wedding
journey, ran down and killed a woman
near Grant’s monument in Lincoln
park, Chicago. The victim was cross
ing the roadway.
A wave of crime and disaster spread
through the section about Bluefield,
W. Va., as a result of which nine are
dead and one seriously wounded. Six
met death in wrecks or by track walk
ing, while two men and one woman
were murdered.
- A letter from the insurgent sultan
of Morocco was read aloud in the
‘Mosque, in which the writer thanked
the people for preferring him to Abd-
El-Asiz, the legal sultan. The pre
tender asks for SIOO,OOO.
) Six hundred persons were drowned
in a storm off Java, according from
sdvices received -at Victoria, B. C.
The disaster occurred near Batavia,
‘when a terrific storm struck suddenly.
~ While Ferdinand Bunday was lying
asleep by the side of his wife in
their home near Echo, La. an un
identified assassin crept into the
house and shot him to death. There
is no clue to the murderer.
The Arkansas railroad commission
ordered railroads operating in the
state to use three brakemen on freight
trains of over twenty-five cars. The
railroads objected to the order on in
terstate trains. The commission, how
-ever, ruled that trains must have full
crews to the state line.
Chris Rochroff, a Greek, was arrest
‘ed at St. Louis, Mo., on an indictment
charging him with embezzlement as
bailee, the allegations being that he
secured about SIO,OOO from a number
of Greek laborers who frequented his
saloon and gave him practically all
' their wages to keep for them.
Seven are dead and over a score
injured in a wreck on the Missouri-
Pacific Railway near Lamont Mo.,
Because Georgia Devortoria, of Mec-
Keesport, refused to deposit $2,000 in
a specified place, members of an al
leged “Black Hand” society dynamit
ed his residence. The house was
partly wrecked while a neighboring
house was damaged. Many were
hurt,
Washington.
One of the most sweeping orders
ever issued in the New York navy
yard forbids giving out any informa
tion regarding the work on the 20,000-
ton battleship to be started soon.
Even the date of laying the keel will
‘not be given out,
Orders have been given by the war
‘department that during coast artillery
‘service practice all emplacement doors
‘and windows of the battery that is
}flred will be kept open. This is
stated to be simply a precautionary
measure and intended to prevent the
loosening of the door hinges and the
!breaking of windowpanes if these are
closed.
~ In a statement issued by the treas
ury department it is stated that *al
though the treasury statements show
a deficit in round numbers of $60,000,-
000 in the operations of the govern
ment during the fiscal year just clos
ed, the dificit is more apparent than
real, beinng due to antiquated system
of bookkeeping, which Secretary Cor
telyou-is having overhauled and mod
ernized.
At the state department in Wash
ington it is said there is nothing new
in the Venezuelan situation, the Amer
ican legation at Caracas has been
withdrawn and until some move wat
ranting it, there dpes not seem to be
any probability of-the resumption of
diplomatic relations. -
Saturday, July 4, the United States
department’s flag-staffs and all govern
ment posts and vessels ran up *“Qld
Glory” with forty-six states in honor
of the admission of Oklahoma to
statehood. The expense of new flags
was heavy. 5
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DENVER AND THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
’ Up to Saturday there was no storm
ing of Denver’s gates, and the ad
vance guard was somewhat below the
average of national conventions, ow
ing to the distance of Denver from
the populous centers, and also be
case the government and state restric
tions on railroad passes keep back
the hundreds who have heretofore
made national conventions the occa
sions for a quadrenniad free excur
sion, The early arrivals include the
Missoui delegation, headed by the tall
form of Senator Stone; part of the
North Carolina delegation, headed by
Governor Glenn, and straggling ad
vance gards of many of the other del
egations. These, with Judge Parker,
the democratic candidate of 1904;
Congressman Clayton of Alabama, the
silver-tongued southernern; Chief
Murphy of Tammany Hall and Gov
ernor Haskell of Oklahoma, were the
chief fiugres of national interest on
the ground. But there was rather a
noticeable absence of national leaders
and the conspicuos figures of former
conventions—Tillman, Bailey, Culber
son, Champ, Clark, John Sharp Wil
liams—and most of the men of action
in the gathering were from the ranks
of local leaders.
There are more automobiles in Den
ver in proportion to population than
in any city in the west. Few east
erners who came expecting to have to
dodge the bullet of rampaging cow
pnnchers and miners engaged in the
cheerful occupation of shooting up the
town watched for these things in vain.
A mounted cowboy, one of the Fred
erick Remington type, in the streets
;of Denver, would have his troubles in
dodging the scurrying automobiles.
The speed limit seems to be some
what higher than Pike's Peak and lost
in the fleecy clouds paneled against
the “turquoise sky.”
The reception committee for Geor
gia, North and South Carolina, Flor
ida and Alabama met Saturday night
and appointed subcommittees to meet
the delegates from these states upon
their arrival in Denver. Each state
was under the care of a special com
mittee, and the entire section had
their headquarters at room 203 Ireal
building, The executive committee of
the Southern society met Saturday af
ternoon in the office of C. S. Thomas
to co-operate in the entertainment of
the visitors from the south.
This is a convention a mile high.
It was the late Amos J. Cummings
who eight years ago was so fond of
alluding te William J. Bryan as the
“Pike Peak of Democracy.”
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gates to the Democratic National Convention.
In many respects this was a unique
convention. It is the first notional
convention eve held west of the prair
ies, The republeans went farthest
west in 1892, when they held the ill
starred convention at Minneapolis and
started General Harrison toward his
defeat. The democrats went farthest
west when they held their eqally n
lucky convention at Kansas City.and
nominated William J. Bryan for a
drubbing, But: now the democrats
have gone into the Rocky mountains
and hold their convention in the cén
ter of the mountain states, .
- Charles P. Clark, managing editor
of the Denver Times, had an appoint
ment to confer with Mr. Taggart at
his headquarters at 10 o’clock Satur
day morning, Instead of calling in
person, Mr. Clark sent a’ highly illu
minated and ribbon-bedecked coal
black bpurro. Accompanying the ani
mal Mr. Clark sent the following let
ter to Mr. Taggart: “My Dear Sir: I
am sending you by a trusted messen
ger a rare and wonderful Colorado
bird, the Rocky mountain nightin
gale, His melodious veice will charm
you early and late, and his sweet
smile is something to inspire you
when cares of state oppress. His
name is ‘Denver,” so he will serve to
remind you of our city whenever his
bright smile happens to haunt you.
The Rocky mountain nightingale is
probably the most democratic denizen
of Colorado. You will find him a
friend to rely on and as affectionate
as a brother. Take this living em
blem of democracy and treasure him.”
When “Denver” was taken through
the hallways, up the elevator and
along the tiled corridors of the Brown
hotel this morning he was apparently
not well pleased with his surround
ings, and it required no little;&ysical
persuasion to make him-— recall ~iiis
gocd manners, but when he arrived in
the committee rooms Denver behaved
like a perfect gentleman. One glossy
black side bore the legend in white
paint: “My name is Denver—ask me,”
while on the other were the words:
“I belong to Tom Taggart.”
“This bird will be the mascott of
the democratic party this year,” said
Mr. Taggart, “and with him we can
not lose, When I go back to French
Lick after the convention, Denver is
going with me, and he will be looked
upon as one of the attractions of the
place. People who come there will
want to see the new acpuisition to the
Taggart family, and others who want
to wake up early in the morning will
be arosed by his dulcet chirpings and
whistles.”
Denver has a population of about
200,000 and the entertainment .com
mittee had a membership of 200,000.
The convention visitors owned the
town for the time being. The Denver
club, Denver Athletic club and other
organizations turned their qaurters
into houses of entertainment. for the
visitors. For the purposes of the oc
casion the operation of the anti-pass
law of the state was suspended and
visitors traveled whither they willed
without having to pay fare, which is a
distinct novelty since the Hepbarn
law went into effect.
Denver naturally calls up historic
memories, Just back from the con
ven hall, on the hill, is the home of
Senator Teller, who entered the Té
publican party as a voter when Col
orado entered the union and was da
member of Grant's cabinet as secre
tary of the interior. He it “was who.
with tears in his eyes, led the: bolt
from the republican national conven
tion at St. Louis in 1896, when the
platform declaring for the gold stand
ard-was adopted. He hecame a silver
republican, but entered the democratic
caucus,