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Return of Habits of Thrift, Prudence, Econs
omy and Sobriety Results of 1907 Panic.
L S B et o 1 A B
By Alexander D. Noyes.
&4 T is no less true of a nation than of an individual, that a
show of enormous prosperity, based on extended debt ana
achieved though living beyond its means, paralyzes the real
constructive and progressive energy with which its fortune
was originally established. We shall in due time be paying
;.QQ“Q(“ more attention to the fact that the astonishing rice of indus
trial America in international power and prestige, during
m.““i the prosperous decade since 1897, its “invasion” of foreign
markets, its intrusion on the scene as a new force in the
world’'s productive industiy, resulted largely from the saving of capital, the
search after economies in production, and the application of cost-reducing in
vention, which were forced on the busziness community by the hard times atter
1893,
The resources, developed with so extraordinary success by those methods
of a dozen years ago, we still possess, and they are not less certain a factor
in the future of industrial America than they were in 1896 or in 1901, Eco
nomic history is unfailing in one of its specific teachings; namely, that after
each succesgive crisis of the sort, American finance and industry have in due
time rigen to far greater heghts of genuine power and prestige than in the pre
ceding cycle of prosperity. As for the further outcome, in the return of hab
its of thrift, prudence, economy and sobriety, to the American people In their
private life, this will be the quickest and surest of all results. Nobody who
has studied our social history during the last half dozen years will doubt that
the change was neded.—The Century,
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FIU st ons How ...w-.uc,g
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By H. J. Cocper.
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0990960009090 L& in Galveston do think, however, that we have pretty nearly
QOOOOOOBOOO (v the most difficult problem of civic administration.
§ After six years’ trial of it there is very little that we would
want changed in the charter, and we have re-elected the
. whole board of commissioners three times. There is 1o pol
itics in it—and the remnants of the old board of aldermen
:““00“9 and the “bad” element following them—and yearning for the
QOOOOOOOOO9 | (ays of misrule and gratt—have tried very hard to in-
Ject politics into it. It is a plain business government, on
& plain, everyday, common-sense, business, human plan; it has nothing sec
tional, racial, or geographical in it that will limit it; it is practical for every
American city, even the very largest ones, for size has nothing to do with its
principles,
Election at large of a commissioner for each department or group of de
partments--never less than four nor nec dfulyy more than seven,
A sharp definition of the departments,
An equally sharp definition of the powers and responsibilities of each and
every head of department.
A president--also elected at large—not having charge of any department
and who has a vote but no veto,
No “executive” sessions,
No “standing” comwittees nor any “committees” in the usual aldermanic
sense,
That is all. As Kipling says, “Think of the gorgeous simplicity of it!"—
Success,
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2 Martian Life iz
RBS i A S R
Conditions Make for Creatures of an
Advanced Order of Intellect. . . . .
N R e e ————
By Percival Lowell.
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= HATEVER its actual age, any life now existent on Mars must
! must be in the land stage of its development, on the whole a
| w much higher one than the marvine. But, more than this, it
I | should probanly have gone much further if it exist at all,
e for in its evolving of terra firma, Mars has far outstripped
' ' the earth, Mars's surface is now all land. I4s form of life
; must be not only terrestrial as against aquatic, but even as
opposed to terraqueous ones. They must have reached not
simply the stage of land dwelling where the possibilities
are greater for those able to embrace them, but that further point of pinching
poverty where brain is needed to survive at all.
The struggle for existence in their planet's decrepitude and decay would
tend to evolve intelligence to cope with circumstunces growing momentarily
more and more adverse, But, furthermore, the solidarity that vhe conditions
prescrihed would conduce to a breadth of understanding suflicient to utilize it.
Intercommunication over the whole globe is made not only possible, but obli
gotory, This would lead to the easier spreading over it of some dominant
creature—especially were this being of an advanced order of inteliect—able to
rise above its bodily limitations to amelioration of the conditions through ox
ercise of mind. What absence of seas would thus entail, absence of moan
tains would further. These two ohstacles to distribution remaoved, life there
would tend the quicker to reach a highly organized stage. Thus Martian con
ditions themselves make for intelligence.—From The Century,
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or Spiritual Uplifting
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By Jt. Clair McKelway,
Dice-Chancellor of the University of the State
of New York. eafipre
HE state establicshed normal schools and normal colleges
against the contention that “to teach teachers to teach
l would be as absurd as it would Le to teach mothers to nurse
or children to play.” Well, teachers are now taught to
= teach, and until they have shown their capacity both by
' knowledge and practice to do so they are not allowed to
{ - teach in the schools of, the state, Mothers continue to
——— NUrse, but many mothers of the overworked poor are now
intelligently taught how to bring up their cbildren amid
cleaner and sweeler surroundings than used to prevail, and their children are
even tenderly cared for amid clean and sweet surroundings, while the mothers
are at hard work in congested city centres. The children of the slums are
gathered in kindergartens or in playgrounds. They are even tenderly taught
how to play instead of leaving the instinct for play to be out-worked amid con
ditions of confusion and of dirt and of barbarism which combine te make for
sin. The state is bound to complete and perfect what it begins for the moral
and spiritual law in pursuance of which the state consciously or unconscious-
Iy acts; is bound imperceptibly, invisibly, and irresistibly to have its way in
the heart of things and in the hearts of men. Jn this is not the socialism that
levels down. In this is the spiritual regnancy which levels up.
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Pigs of Large Frame. S
Grow the pigs with large frams.
This requires bone and muscle m
ing feeds—alfalfa pasture, f
clean drinking water and just a little
corn. On this diet the pig will have
strong bone and large frame and be
in the very best condition for taking
on fat quickly and cheaply when vou
are ready to give him a fattening
ration.—Farmers’ Home Journal.
For Most Profit, :
Cut out all the intermediates you
can, and sell your product direct to
the consumer, if possible. The scale
of profitable disposition of dairy pro
ducts is as follows, beginning with
the least profitable: “
Home-made butter, with skim
milk fed on farm. Whole milk sold
to condensery. Whole milk sold to
creamery. The use of hand separa
tor, with cream collected by cream
ery, and fresh, warm skimmilk fed
on the farm. Milk and eream
shipped for city consumption. The
retail milk route, selling the milk
direct to consumers.—H. A. Bere
man, in the American Cultivator,
Demand Yor Good Horses,
Farmers must take to breeding
good horses. Such are not only
needed on the farms, but it is as easy
to raise a good horse which will sell
at a long price as it is to raise a serub
for which there is no market, 'lsbe
demand for heavy horses was never
betier than at present, and it is likely
to increase rather than to decrease.
The population is centralizing in large.
cities. These naturally become the
great distributing centres, and with
increase in distribution comes in
crease in the demand for heavy dray |
horses so extensively used in such dis- ;
tribution. This means, therefore,
that the breeding of such horses is an
entirely safe venture on the part of
those who will take it up on intelli
gent lines. Those who engage in it
need not be harassed by fear that
they are putting their money into a
plant that will soon become useless
because of depreciation in the price
of horses. The great mistake in
rearing horses for dray uses lies in
the fact that they are too lacking in
weight. Any number of horses can
be bred which weigh between 1300
and 1400 pounds. The number is
not large that weigh more than 1500
pounds, and yet it is the latter class
that is most wanted.—Farmer's Ad
vocate. it
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Fertilizer For Corn.
As I am_a reader of your valuable
baper and seeing an item of great
importance to the farmer in regard
to fertilizing of corn, will say, on ac
count of not getting a stand of .lo
ver two years ago I purchased an_
‘ atm@mm%.:tqp ‘my planter for thfl
purpose of using commercial ferti
lizer and applied in the hill about
eighty-five pounds to the acre, and
50 well pleased with the result that
I will try it again this season. My
farm is of a clay timber land and
considered rather poor land. I have
been raising from forty to fifty bush
els per acre for the past six years
on clover sod, but last year with the
addition of fertilizer I raised better
than sixty bushels per acre of good
corn. Now there is a difference in
the quality of fertilizer, I prefer the
best, as it is the cheapest in the end. |
Of course, it costs more per ton, but‘
we get less ground stone in the bet-‘
ter quality. Some will tell you if‘
you commence using it you have\,toi
keep it up. Now that is all bosh.‘
Of course, a farmer should raise clo
ver by all means. Clover seed will
never be so high but what it will pay
to sow it. T paid $25 per ton for
my fertilizer.—W, H. Wilson, in the
Indiana Farmer.
How to Test the Acidity of Soils.
Supposed correetive treatments
are often given to soils supposed to
be acid, when as a matter of fact
an opposite treatment may be re
quired. A recipe given by the De
partment of Agriculture for deter
mining soil acidity is as follows.
Boil for a half hour a sample of
the soil to be tested in.a small quan
tity of water, say a quart. Allow
it to settle, and when perfectly clear,
pour off the water into a white dish
and test it with both blue and red
litmus paper. These papers can be
procured from any drug store for a
few cents. If the soil is acid, the
blue litmus paper will turn red. If
it is alkaline, the red litmus paper
will turn blue. Ten minutes should
be allowed in the water fofthe lit~
mus paper to change color. If at
the: end of that time there is no
change, then the soil is neutral—
neither acid nor alkaline,
It should be understood that such
2 test as this is not a determination
of whether or not a soil needs lime.
The question of liming of soil is still
a mooted subject. Much evidence
has been presented to prove that lim
ing of soil has been most beneficial
when the soil was in no sense : .ur.
If, however, the soil dees show strong
acidity by the litmus or other posi
tive tests, it is safe to say that liming
will be beneficial. :
Saccharine Feeds the Latest,
The history of the manufactured
a2l dalanced saccharine feed is a
shost one. The man whe left the
farm ten years ago and plunged into
other lines, forgetting his former oe
cupation, smiles with incredulity
vhen he picks up a farm nr feed
Journal and sees “Molasses ®eods™
advertised and dQiscussed. Put the
up-to-date farmer, cairyman and
feeder already understand the value
of molasses or saccharine feeds. The
{overwhelming demand for such feeds
prove this.
But the very fact that this demand
is so great has produced conditions
in the manufacture of saccharine
feeds of which feeders should be in
formed and of which they should
make a note.-
Demand will induce a supply of
gome kind, and where the demand in
creases rapidly, the supply is very
liable to be inferior to what it would
be were the demand limited to sell
strietly on superior merit,
This rapidly growing demand for
saccharine feeds has induced scores
of manufacturers to place such feeds
on the market under various names,
and with almost as varions ingre
dients. Analyses of many of these
feeds reveal the fact that they con
tain a large amount of indigestible
matter that is not even legitimate or
healthy roughage; in fact, much of
it is absolutely injurious to the stock.
Oat hulls, rice hulls, weed seeds and
other matter of neutral or harmful
character have been found in large
proportions by the experimental de
partments of animal industry in the
various States.—Epitomist,
Money in Horses.
Nor were the Morgan horses the
only noted horses in New England.
The farmers of Maine were sufficient
1y adventurous and enterprising to
secure in earliest times a son of the
renowned imported Messenger, who
‘elevated the horse stock of the State
'to a higher level, and left his mark
‘that is clearly in evidence to-day, al
though sadly lowered by indifference
and neglect. General Knox was an
.other New England horse that left
‘his mark and made a fortune for his
owner; the first horse in the country
for which the then fabulous amount
of $25,000 was offered and refused.
;Since his time $125,000 has been
‘paid for a single horse by a resident
of New England to a more enter
prising farmer and breeder in a West
‘ern State.
A few years back the sale cata
logues of an auction firm announ:ing
a sale of valuable blooded stock, con
tained a map showing Boston as a
central point, and including the
country within a radius of five hun
dred miles. From their many pre
vious sales and tabulations they
learned, and so published in this cata
logue, that seventy-five per cent. of
all the fine horses bought, and the
long prices paid for them—the kind
that sold for one, two, five, ten and
fifty thousand and upwards — were
‘bought and paid for by residents
within the territory shown. And vet
?!thatlus great market at their very
loors it is unnecessary to ask how
much all this profited the New Eng
land farmer. And yet we are told
by them that horses cannot be profit
ably raised in New England. Save
the mark!—American Cultivator.
k Peaci. Rot.
The peach or plum rot has done a
great deal of damage to the fruit
c¢rop in Oklahoma., In the summer
of 1906 it was very bad on the en
tire crop. In the summer of 1907
it did a great deal of damage to the
early peaches and plums but was not
80 noticeable on fruit ripening later
in the season. This disease is wide
spread and very well known. It is
known by several names as: ripe rot
of stone fruits, brown rot of peach
and plum, fruit rot, and twig blight.
The disease attacks the twigs early
in the growing season and~ causes
them to turn dark and shrivel. The
leaves also turn dark and wilt. Later
in the season, the fungus attacks the
fruit. The twigs have not suffered
to any considerable extent in Okla
homa from the presence of this dis
ease. It appears shortly before the
fruit is ripe and attacks the fruit
‘at this time. The spores of the dis
ease find lodgment on the surface
‘and during moist, warm weather the
‘spores germinate rapidly and the fun
gus then makes its entrance into the
fruit and develops rapidly. Soon
after the fungus makes its entrance
into the fruit small, brown circular
spots appear on the surface. These
brown spots go deep into the flesh
of the fruit and spread very rapidly
over the surface. If the weather is
[favorable, the entire fruit will be
discolored in one or two days, the
skin ruptured by many small pim
ples that throw out large quantities
of an ashy gray of dove-colored pow
der that entirely covers the surface.
This powder is the spores of the dis
ease and is easily spread by the wind
to neighboring fruit, and there finds
lodgment and in a very few days
repeats the entire process of destruec
tion. Warm weather is especially
favorable to the development of the
disease and the early soft-fleshed va
rieties that mature and ripen during
moist warm weather are especially
subject to the attacks and are some
times very difficult to protect from
the disease.
Spraying the trees with Bordeaux
mixture has been found in severai
States to be entirely effective in pro
tecting the plants from the disease.
The trees that have been attacked by
the disease should be spraved before
the growth starts in the spring. All
the old mummied and rotted fruit
that is on the ground under the trees
should be gathered and burned.—
Oklahoma Agricuitural Esperiment
Press Bulletin
IN THE HOUSE.
July 14,
After a long discussion, the house
passed a substitute to a bill previous
ly introduced by Mr. Shaw of Clay
county, which demands an immediate
investigation of the charges which
have been recently made against the
state prison commissgion, its officers,
employes, agents, the lessees of con
victs, the conduct of wardens, and in
fact an investigation of all matters
pertaining to the handling by the com
mission of the state’s convicts,
The resolution calls for the appoint
ment of a committee of five, of which
number three are to be named by the
speaker of the house from the mem
bers of the house, and two are to be
named by the president of the senate
frem the members of the senate, The
paper will be immediately sent to the
senate for action, as it is of joint char
acter and must be sanctioned by the
higher body.
Under the terms of the substitute
adoptled, the committee ©f five can he
gin its work at once, but has leave,
if desired, to sit in vacation. It has
the right to summon before it all wit
nesses desired, and to punish them
for contempt as'in courts of law.
The substitute passed by the over
whelming vote of 141 to 15.
July 15,
The house of representatives, after
a spirited debate Wednesday morning,
refused to indefinitely postpone the
anti-pass bill of Senator Born of the
Thirty-fourth district by the decisive
vote of 93 to 58, and the considera
tion of the bill will be resumed in its
regular order.
A motion to reconsider the pension
bill, which had been defeated, was
carried,
A resolution calling on Governor
Smith to furnish legislature his rea
sons for dismissing Joseph M. Brown
was laid over one day.
. g July 16.
Objection to leasing the convicts of
the state developed on all sides
Thursday when the Holder convict
measure was offered to the house. A
decided tendency, if to lease at all,
to limit to one year the lease and by |
that means throw the question, for:
final settlement upon the next admin
istration with its new legislature pre
vailed, |
Only two speeches were made dur
ing the session. The first was by Mr.
Holder of Jackson, the author of the
measure, and the second by Mr. Cov
ington of Colquitt, who had the floor
when the house adjourned. |
July 17, j
Almost the entire time of the house
of representatives was occupied Fri-|
day morning in a continuation of the
diseussion of the question of the dis-!
position of the state’s convicts, Mr.|
Covington finished his address, which |
was begun Thursday. Mr. Jones oi‘i
Alexander, Mr. Fullbright of Burke,!
Mr. Boyd of Spalding, Mr. Wright of |
Floyd and Mr. Holder of Jackson ex
pressed their views in regards to the
convict leasing system. ot
The house c’oncurre«ii‘in :{he Senati |
resolution calling for investigation of
t,?iéolééfl’vidf ‘léafé»'é!fif’c%!fi’-‘ ele i
P R T e
The house was in session but thir-|
ty minutes, during time the following
bills were passed: by Mr. Odum of
Baker, to create board of county com
mission, to repeal act creating the
board of county commissioners; by{
Mr, Flanders of Johnson, to create
board of roads and revenues; by Mr.
Haywood of McDuffie, to create a
board of roads and revenues; by Mr.'
Strickland of Pike, to incorporate the
town of Williamson; by Mr. Simmons
of Gilmer, to create new charter for
Ellijay; by Mr. Peterson of Montgom
ery, to incorporate town of Orland;
by Mr. Simmons of Gilmer, to repeal
act incorporating town of Ellijay; by
Mr. Trent of fleard, to repeal act
granting new charter for Franklin;
by Mr. Alexander of DeKalb, to au
thorize bond issue for Decatur; by
Mr. Trent of Heard, to create new
charter for Franklin; by Messrs.
Candler and Alexander of DeKalb,
to authorize mayor and council to
issue bonds; by Mr. Burwell of Han
cock, to repeal act incorporating Cul
verton; by Mr. Berry of Union, to
incorporate town of Blairsville; by
Messrs. Brown and Watkins of Car
roll, to create office of commissioner
of roads and revenues; by Mr. Cal
beck of Gordon, to authorize town of
Calhoun to deed certain lands; by
Blackburn and Bell of Fulton, to
amend charter for East Point; by
Mr, Ballard of Newton, to establish
public school for Mansfield; by Mr.
Peterson of Montgomery, to create a
new charter for Glenwood; by Mr.
Swilling of Franklin, to authorize pub
lic school system for Lavonia; by
Messrs. Nix and Wilson of Gwinnett,
to amend charter of Norcross; by Mr.
Mays of Butts, to create new charter
for Jackson; by Mr, Boyd of Spald
ing, to authorize Grifin to lay out
certain streets, ‘
July 20.
They heard a message from Gov
ernor Hoke Smith read in which the
governor gave his reason for dismiss
ing Joseph M. Brown. It was referr
ed to the judiciary committee. |
Under a special order the house
took up the bill by Mr, Dunbar of
Richmond providing for the valida
tion of certain county and municipal
bonds, concurred in the senate
amendments and passed the bill,
The house then went into a com
mittee of the whole house and Mr.
Wright of Floyd took the floor and |
spoke favoring the Alexander substi
tute to the convict lease bill, i
Wool growers of Colquitt, Irwin,
Worth and Tift counties and of West
Florida met in Tifton to sell their
wool clip for 1908, and were met
there by buyers representing leading
export firms of the state. The crop
this vear is larger than it was last,
something over 20,000 pounds being
sold against about 18,000 from the
same growers a year ago. In addi
tion to this there will be shipments
from Brookfield and Ty Ty, Ga., and
from Bristol, Fla, on the sales made
there, t
[ IN THE SENATE.
‘ July 14,
. A motion to investigate the news
'paper charges of misconduct and graft
in the convict lease system was adopt
‘ed by the senate Tuesday after a heat
'ed debate.
The house bill appropriating $15,000
to the University of Georgia was pass
‘ed by a vote of 25 to 8. Senator
Knight gave notice that he would
move a reconsideration.
The house bill introduced by Mr.
| Tift, of Dougherty, to require rail
‘roads of the state to equip locomo
tives with electric headlights caused
'considerable discussion, A commititee
on this bill had reported favoring the
passage of this bill, This report was
disagreed to by a vote of 19 to 11.
As first business of Tuesday’s ses
!sion the house passed the following
.local bills:
| By Mr. Massengale of Warren—to
extend the city court of Warrenton.
By Mr. Donaldson of Decatur—To ex
tend the time for beginning work on
the Georgia Southwestern and Gulf
railroad. By Mr. Sumner of Turner—
'To amend act creating city court of
Ashburn,
| July 15,
| President Flynt was again in the
chair Wednesday morning, after an
adsence of several days on account of
the illness of his father, whose con
dition he reported as still critical.
Senator Hay's senate bill (by re
quest) providing that “power plants
furnishing light or heat to the public
shall have power to use water for con
densing purposes from any near by
stream, provided that 75 per cent of
the same shall be returned to the
stream at the same place from which
it was taken,” was made the special
order of the day.
- In speaking in opposition to the bill
Senators Overstreet and Henderson
charged that considerable lobbying
‘had been done for the bill,
- Senator Williford and Senator Boyd
‘also spoke at some length in opposi
tion to the bill. The bill was lost by
a vote of 21 to 6.
A Dbill for the regulation of the con
duct of telegraph operators and train
‘dispatchers of common carriers and
for other purposes, was passed with-_
out opposition.
A bill for the provision of an aux
iliary militia, composed only on veter
ans of the Spanish-American war and
such men as had served a full enlist
ment in the national guard, which
would provide a proper guard for the
property and lives of the state at
such times as the regular national
guard should be called out of Georgia
by the president of the United States
was passed without opposition.
July 16.
At the sesion of the senate Thurs
day appropriation bills giving the
University of Georgia SIO,OOO for the
remodeling of old college at Athens
and $5,000 for the equipping of the
Carnegie library at the Georgia
School of Technology were passed.
During the debate over the appro
priation bill for Carnegie library,
Senator Wilkes of the Second district
made many - sensational statements
voncerning Andrew Carnegie.
The Shaw resolution, calling for the
appointmedt of two members of the
senate to act with the three members
of the house on the investigation of
the convict lease system, was passed
with but one dissenting vote.
July 17,
Friday's session of the senate was
uneventful and quiet,
The Shaw resolution on the investi
gation of the convict lease system,
which was adopted Thursday, was
reconsidered and laid on the table and
the Felder resolution on the same
subject was adopted. This course
was taken because the house had
had already adopted the Felder reso
lution,
The following bills were passed:
By Senator Lashley—To prevent the
taking of fish from Brass Town creek
in Towns county. By Senator Wilkes
—To incorporate the town of King
wood, in the county of Colquitt. House
bill by Mr. Mercer of Terrell—To
provide for relief from the state tax
on our dispensaries in Terrell county
in 1907.
July 18.
There was no session of the senate
Saturday, that body having adjourned
Friday until Monday.
July 20,
The senate heard the reading of
the governor’s special message with
out comment, It was referred to the
judiciary committee, .
President Flynt announced his ap
pointments from the senate for the
investigation of the convict lease sys
tem and the state prison commission
under the Felder resolutions as fol
lows:
Senator Felder of the Twenty-sec
ond district, Senator Brock of the
Fourth, Senator Hayes of the Thir
teenth, :
Stung Again.
Even an onion kiss in Texas is bet
ter than a winter-green chewing gum
kiss in Marvelous Manhattan.—Hous
ton Post.
At the conclusion of Mr. Wright's
address Mr. Barrett of Stephens pre
sented a substitute to the bill,
Mr. Hall of Bibb speaking on the.
Barrett substitute had the floor when
the house adjourned,
The following bills were passed by
unanimous consert: By Mr., Thurman
of Walker—A bill to create the coun
ty court of Walker county. By Mr.
Flanders of Johnson—A bill to create
the city court of Wrightsville.
The following postmasters have
been appointed for Georgia towns :
Agate, Floyd county, H. L. Montgom
ery, vice W. T. Montgomery, dead;
Indianola, Lowndes county, Cowper I.
Shelton, vice C. L. Shelton, Jr., re
signed; Martinez, Richhmond county,
Jesse W, Clark, vice J. B. Morton, re
signed; Mullis, Laurens county, Ar
thur W. Mullis, vice Hiram Mullis, re
signed; Tivola, Houston county, Jo
geph Palmer, vice John F, Logan, re
signed; Ingleside, DeKalb county,
Henry Lee, vice A. K. Jones, resigned,
