Charlton County herald. (Folkston, Ga.) 1898-current, December 17, 1908, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text- THE HERALD. R bl o ol s o el . Publighed Every Tharsday, SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1 A YEAR " "IN ADVANCE. Adgvertising Rates Reasonable ®ffcial Qrgan Charlion County and ‘the Towh of Folkston, i i g i W. R. Wainwright, Proprietor, E. L. Wainwright, Editor & Mgr, Baotered at the postoffice st Folkston, Ga, as Second Clais Matter. When Uncle Sam begins to make appropriations for an aerial navy he will make the money fly, is the warn ing of the Atlanta Constitution. Perhaps if it is made clear that the disciplinary authority of the schools does not extend to such a matter as the association of the pu pils in organizatjons which would not exist if theré were no schools, the Parents may be made to gee the neces sity of exerciging the disciplinary powers of the home and prevailed up on to yield parental prejudice to the weight of reason and argument. For that matter, argues the New York Sun, if spanking had not gone so much out of fashion in American homes, it is doubtful if the school fraternity problem would have arisen. This philogophy from Saint-Gaudens’ letters in McClure's Magazine is the right thing, in its way, but the “Wor ry Clubs” will still do a flourishing business: “We can't remedy matters by weeping, ‘and gnashing of teeth. over the misery of things. ‘That’s the way things is' again, and, although I bave been told all my life it's best to Pput on a brave face and bear all <heerfully, it's only lately that it is really coming into my philosophy. It seems as if we are all in one open boat ©n the ocean, abandoned and drifting no one knows where, and while doing all we can to get somewhere, it is bet ter to be cheerful than to be melan choly; the latter does not help thre sit uation, and the former cheers up one's comrades.” - AW The discharge of the Brooklyn track athletes arrested for running in pub- Mmmm only a warn. “ing by the maglstrate to “go where .sensitive women won't sée you” leaves us without a judicial ruling on a ques tion of propriety, laments the New York World. The excuse advanced that similar apparel is “worn in the pres ence of thousands at the big.athletie meets"” ﬁppllcbwith equal force to chorus girls' tights, the wearing of which on Broadway would congest traffic. The even more abbreviated garments of rowing men, entirely pro per at New London or Poughkeepsie, would hardly be in place in a boat on the Central Park lake. The athletes might also have pleaded that the Olympic contestants appeared before English royalty as scantily clad to re ceive prizges from Queen Alexandra. Word cgml\s' from Toronto that the charp falling off in the demand for Ca nadian pulp wood is making trouble along the line of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario. “At the commence ment of the year,” we are told, “the | commissioners of the railway estimat ed that 50,000 cords of pulp wood would be shipped over the road. These estimates were based on actual con tracts made with American buyers, ‘Tae trouble in the paper world across the line has, however, led to only a wery small proportion of that amount being shipped, although the wood has been cul by the settlers and delivered at various points on the railway. The position is a serious one, If the wood is not shipped soon it will Dbecome worthless. The rallway authorities have done all in their power to get the bu}erﬁ to take the wood out, and a large guantity has been barked, but very little has been shipped so far.™ W. M. OLLIFF, ATTORNEY AT LAW, : Folkston, Ga : Investigations of Land Titles a Specialty. T ————— KILL e COUCH svd CURE ™e LUNGS y 3 v [y, King’s .. i Mow Dissovery | PRICE ﬂm %33%? » ol Bottie £oo AND ALL TUROKT AND LUNG TROUBLER. GUARANTLED SATISFACS 0T OR MONEY REFUNDED. The shadows deepen on the distant hill, The city’s murmurings are faint and still, The trees are motlonless as pictured dreams ‘ When sunset gleams, Then lhasdh~the colors,—a swift waving hand, The l'lnu:] deft blended by the Master iand, ‘ While far above each cireling cloud there glows ; The sunset rose, THE BELLED GHOST. “Did you ever hear the story of the ghostly bell?” Mr. Aubertin began, glancing around at the expectant ring of faces. ‘““No? Well, the thing hap pened back in the early 70's, the year I eame here, and it created stir enough and caused cold chills galcre to chase each other up and down a half-score of backs, until—but wait a minute, T am anticipating my sequel, spoiling the effect of my yarn before I have well be gun it. “Those were troupbuious hreaseosd “Those were troublesome times, back in that dark period of our city's life, and we were in the throes of the stiug gle against the miserable carpet-bag government. Down there in the sher iff’s office we had enough guns stacked, all ready loaded, to furnish a regiment, and each of us carried a big revolver, too. ‘““This %8 a strange old bhuilding; it always has been, and if you stand in any part of it in the still watches of the night, you're bcund to hear funny noises, those uncanny sounds that make you think of ghosts and hobgob lins, It's the game today, with these noigses, What causes them? Ah, 1 wish I knew; maybe it's the rats, or it might be the passing of the breezes under the wornout eaves; who can tell? “At the time of which I speak we would sit of a night down in the office, which openg on St. Anthony's alley, listen to the sounds ail over the ramb ling old building and wonder what they were, Did we think they were ghosts? Yes, some of us did, but as for myself, I never was scary of things that stray from beyond the grave, and maybe it was because I did not believe that the dead could come back, and, as Shakespeare puts it in Macbheth's so lfloquy rather inclined to the view that phantoms were but ‘false creations proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain.’ ! ~ “You might ask me here if anybody “had over seen the lawycr's ghost, the widow's spectre, or the phantoms of the slaves, and my reply to such a question would be that I do not know. They used to talk about them a whole lot, and if my memory serves me right, I think one old fellow did say that he had heard the widow crying through the night, but a clerk who was present reminded him that on the morning following the supposed ghost ly disturbance a litter of abandoned puppies, moaning and yelping for their mother, had been found in St. An thony’s Alley, just alongside the Court building. “Omne cold night in late November a knot of us sat down in the office, form ing a half-cirele around the iron grate, in which snapped and roared a cheer ful fire. We weren’'t in the best of spirits, for there were rumors of a threatened descent upon the building by some of the carpet-baggers, and at the clatter of every slate torn by the wind from the cathedral's roof, to be shattered on the alley’s pavement, or the rumble and grind of some belated cart over the stones of Chartres street, we started from our chairs and half reached toward our muskets, all ready loaded, stacked in a corner. “It was an unusually cold night for November, and gusty, too. The wind sighed in its sweep through the alley, and set the doors to creaking and rat tling, and with every heavy gust the burden of sound the gale bore was like the howl of a band of weird witches riding through space in search of the ingredients of some baleful charm. “Along about eleveu o'clock the cons versation had flagged, and most of us were nodding in our chairs; only the monotonous tick-tick of the swinging pendulum in the tall clock and (he hisg end splutter of (he glowing coals in the grate could be heard in the room, while outside the sad volces of the night still chanted their melancholy refrain. “Presently 1 was aware of a strange sound, and, sitting bolt upright in my chair, I strained my ears to listen, It was subdued and uncertain at first, and hard to locate, but at last 1 detected in it a suggestion of the metallic, and thought it came from upstairs in the corridor, And as [ listened I turned and noticed that my companions, too, were on the alert, and several of the faces showed ghastly in the firelight under the pallor which o'erspread them. We could almost hear each oth er's hearts beat in the gravelike silence enly disturbed by the clock's ticking and the fire spluttering, and, as the sound upstairs continued to weight the night with suggestions of the hor rible, the feeling ot fear tugged sick eningly at each heart. “My God, it's that widow woman's ghost!’ exclaimed a’deputy, shivering as though an ague fit had taken him. ‘Don’t you hear her? She's walking back and forth i nthe hall! Listen to her groan!® “ ‘You fool!' I said, ‘shut up; that was no groan; it was only the cry of AT SUNSET. The golden splendor fades away at last, The mystic painting of the ah'%l past; Eack uiulytmust strike its colors to the nigh s At sunset's ﬂ;gbi. How sﬁmdows decpen as our day de clines, R When ’life“and death are ranged in hos tile lines; But f:rlith dispels the darkness and the ear,— Lo 'Tis sunrise near! —Dr. A, 8, Isaacs, in 8. 8. Times. ‘the wind outside; wait and let’s see 'what the noise is!’ : ~ “We cat motionless for a few sec onds, and then with clear distinctness came a silvery tinkling, such a sound as could only be made by a small bell, The sound was unmistakably upstairs, and the cause of the weird effect, what ever it was, was moving backward and forward, sometimes slowly and again swiftly. “The bell tinkled in the corridor, and then the sound slowly lessened, and it died away, we thought, right in this very rcom. ‘“What can it be? we asked each other, and the shivering deputy repeated that it couldn’t be anything elgse than the widow’s ghost. ‘I heard her groan,’ he insisted, and I with equal vehemence repeated that the suppesed groan was the gobbing of the restless wind. The others seemed in clined to believe that a ghost was walking somewhere in the building, and when the tinkling sounded once more, very faint, but very distinet, and each moment grew in volume, I was al most taking that view of the case my self. We could easily follow the sound; it pasged from the docket-room into the ceiridor, and went along, its musical Jingling sending the blood from our hearts, for by that time we had all ccme to believe—myself among the number—that the midnight disturbance was caused by spirits. “The Dbell jingled at the head of the doors creaked, and unsecured windows slammed in the boisterous wind; they were wild, unrestrainted sounds, but we knew what they were—they were the voice of the tempest, and only re flected the majesty of the controller of the elements. But the sound out on the staircase? Ah, that was the sound that caused our cheeks to blanch and our pulses to throb; it partook of the dark and unknown, which lies be yond the chasm; it savored of death and the grave, and it had.no part in the things of nature that-man’s wli" dom has explained. Bt : “The storm still howled without, the stairs, and jingled louder each moment as the mysterious visitant descended the flight. The stairs end right at the: main door of the sheriff’s office, as you all know, and where we stood spellbound we could almost count the quick silvery beats of the bell. “The tinkling reached the little land ing between the two floors, and then, after a slight pause, came steadily on down the stairs. We felt rather than heard the sound; it seemed to perme ate every sense and banish the louder disturbance made by the gale from our ears, ‘Merciful Powers, it's coming here,” ecried the timid deputy, who had claimed to have heard the widow’s ghest erying, “What will he do? And as the man spoke, he rushed madly to ward the St. Anthony alley entrance and began to unbar the heavy door. * ‘Don’t open that door,” commanded the man in charge; ‘you know our or ders to keep things tight; come back here, you fool, and face it with us!’ The poor fellow staggered back to the group at the fire and as limp as a rag fell into his chair and sat there in the awful fear that had taken him. ’ “But meantime the tinkling bell reached the door opening on the low er corridor, at the foot of the stairs, and, to our unspeakable horror, it ceased its musical chiming for a mo ment, and then sounded again, moving back and forth just beyond the parti tion. ‘The thing is about to enter thirough the boards!' gasped one of the men; ‘this is terrible!” The door was locked and bolted and was strong enough to defy the strength of half a dozen men, yvet we all instinctively ldrew back from it, just as though we expected to see it open from some !ghostl,\' agency and admit the grizzly !spcctre who walked abroad with a j bell. ; [ “We did not break helter-skelter { from the building, as no doubt most of i us would have fancied doing, but held | our posts, a shivering, trembling crew, and in a moment or so the bell passed l down the corridor, ascended the flight | of stairs from the St. Ann street side {of the building, and was finally lost | amid the other noises of the night 1 somewhere on this floor, ! “An hour passed, and midnight { sounded from the deep-throated bell [in the cathedral steeple. One, two, i three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, [ ten, eleven, twelve, and with each beat of the.heavy tongue in that cav ernous mouth an eerie sound, in keep | ing with the terrors of the night, rose | and fell on the breath of the storm. | The last solemn clang had hardly been | swallowed up, a sobbing, sighing echo, | in the relentless maw of the storm de | mon, when another and fainter ehim ? ing was heard in a remote and distant | corner of the building, 5 “It was the ghostly bell, and the | strange disturbance followed aat!;l\lbc | route it had first taken, through the {apper corridor, down the stairs, past | the deor; through the lower corridor, and to the second floor again, by the St. Ann Street stairs. “‘“This thing’s gone far enough/ suddenly exclaimed the chief of the force, arising from his chair. ‘l'm go ing out to see what it is. Who'll go with me?’. I had recovered my nerve somewhat, and, infected by the ardor ‘of the chief, I volunteered for the ap palling venture, but all the others kept their places. Provided with a lantern, which I carried in one hand, while I used the other for my pistol, ‘we sallied forth into the gloom of the lower corridor like two modern St. Georges going out to slay the dragon. “We ascended the stairs slowly enougn, and the faint rays of the sput tering lantern I carried threw quiver ing and fitful shadows along the walls, shadows which assumed the most .grewsome and fantastic shapes and caused us to wish that we were safe back in the office again. “As the half-circle of subdued light shed by the lantern advanced, the blackness seemed to recede in a thick, rolling mass, and, closing in around us, engulfed the stairs above and be low in a mantle as dark as the interior of the tomb. “At last we reached the head of the stairs, and we started back and near ly tumbled down the flight when the door facing the little gallery over the courtyard was suddenly thrust open and clanged against the wall with such force that the four panes of glass were shattered and went clattering to the floor. A rush of wind and rain came through the opening, drenching us and extinguishing our lantern, and as we struggled to close the door in the teeth of the gale we were nearly para lyzed, for the tinkle, tinkle, tinkle of the ghost bell was audible to our ears, passing, it seemed, from the docket room, this room where now we sit, into the corridor. “I closed the door with a bang, shot back the bolt, which had become loos ened in its socket from the shaking of the panels in the wind, and turned to meet the horror. I was aware of the passing of a heavy body down the stairs, and knew that the chief had taken flight. I would have run, too, but for the moment my legs refused their office and I could not move—only stood there trembling, the useless lan tern in one hand and the pistol, ready cocked, in the other. The tinkling was in the corridor, coming toward me, but nothing was visible to my staring eyes—uothing but black, emp ty space. The sound seemed to be close to the floor, and when it could not have been more than a yard or so from me, I recovered myself sufficients ly to raise my gun and fire. “The crash of the gun reverberated through the old building and awoke any number of dismal echoes, but those echoes were still - rumbling when I found myself racing down the stairs, three steps at a time. I gained the wffice out of breath, and it was some minutes before any of us had recover ed entirely from the shock of the ex perience, “The rest of the night passed with no further disturbances of the bell ringing order, and in the gray light of the early dawn we all ascended the stairs to examine the corridor. There was no sign of anything unusual, only the broken door glass, and that was done by the wind, not by the ghosts, If I bad shot anything and blood stains were left we could not tell it; for the worn-out carpet contained® so many marks and blots that it would be impossible to distinguish one from the other. Well, we heard the ghost ly bell no more, and full two yvea¥s passed, when the mystery was ex plained. I was seated on a chair by the door in the alley one balmy after noon, when one of the priests at tached to the cathedral came out of the parish house which adjoins the court, and stood talking to me. The priest had a half-grown cat in his arms, and I casually remarked upon the beauty of the little feline. “‘Ah, yes,’ said the reverend gen tleman, ‘he is pretty, but you should have seen my Claudio.’ “‘Claudio?’ I inquired, manifesting an interest out of regard for the cler gyman. “*Yes, Claudio,” repeated the father. ‘He was a fine gray cat, was sent to me from France, and I had him up to two years ago. One morning in No vember, after a big storm, I found him on the gallery dead, a bullet wound in his gray breast, and the little silver bell he wore on his neck rusty with blood!’:’—Chicago Inter-Ocean, _Discovery at Mammoth Cave. Every one has heard of the Mam moth Cave of Kentucky, but few probably are aware that its discovery was due to the search for suitable earth for the manufacture of salt petre. The anxiety to find saltpetre earth was due to the embargo bill passed by Congress in 1807, which forbade American vessels to sell for Europe and foreign vessels to land cargges in America. The Americans needed gunpowder, and to make it they required salt petre. They had been getting it from Spain and Italy, but the embargo bill stopped that, and there was no Amer ican supply of the substance. A rov ing chemist, named Samuel Brown, had shown how saltpetre, or potas sium nitrate, could be obtained from cave earth. And so the quest for caves was begun, and assiduously con tinued. When the Mammoth Cave was found, every port of the great cavern was searched for cave earth. From pit, by-ways and avenues slaves car ried out the heavy loads of petre Jarth, Many thousands of tons were ireated, and the rude chemistry cos day produced something like 100,000 pounds of saltpetre within two years. —Kansas City Journal. U.D. C. ENTER PROTEST Georgia Daughters Object to Removal of Wirz Monument. CALL FOR A CONVENTION It is Claimed That Only a Few Were in Attendance When Monument Was Tendered to Richmond, Virginia. Atlanta, Ga.—The subject of the Wirz monument is again before the publie, brought about by the action of @ number of prominent Georgla women, who have signed a petition sent to the chapter presidents of the United Daughters of the Confederacy of Georgia, asking that a call be made for a convention of daughters to re consider the action of the recent state convention, United Daughters of the Confederacy, in Savannah, in tender ing the monument to the city of Rich mond, The new turn of affairs in the mat ter of the monument comes as a sen sation to the patriotic women of the state, though there has been openly expressed dissatisfaction on the part of many as to the recent official ac tlon taken upon the question where the monument should finally be lo cated. The petitioners who ask that the ac tion of the state convention be recon sldered are: Mrs. Helen Plane, hon orary president Georgia United Daughters of the Confederacy; Mrs. J. K. Ottley, chairman from Georgia Bhiloh monument; Mrs. R. E. Park, Mrs. J. C. Olmstead, Atlanta; Mrs. A. B. Hull, chairman committee on ar rangements Wirz monument, Savan nah; Mrs, James Jackson, Atlanta; Mrs. Lee Trammell, state registrar, Madison; Mrs. A. O. Harper, Elber ton; Mrs. R. L. Nisbet, first vice pres ident Georgia division, Marietta; Mrs. P. H. Lovejoy, Hawkinsville; Mrs. P. H. Godrey, auditor Georgia division, Covington; Miss M. B. Sheibley, re cording secretary, Rome; Miss Ida Holt, Macon; Mrs, T. O. Chestney, Macon; Mrs. W. D. Lamar, first vice president, Macon;, They state that at the recent ses sfon of the Georgia division, TUnited Daughters of the Confederacy, in its closing hours, when the representa tion was greatly depleted, a resolution to offer to the city of Richmond the monument to Captain Wirz, which all the women of Georgia had helped to build, was carried by a majority of only two of the voting power present. 8o much dissatisfaction is expressed at this result throughout the state and by interested delegates from the various states at the general conven tion in Atlanta, that they feel impell ed to protest and ask that they be joined in a call for reconsideration of the question, which can only be done by a request from two-thirds of the chapters in the state. ™ o WATER VERY SCARCE. Drought in South Georgia Causes Much Suffering. Moultrie, Ga—lt has been an ex ceedingly dry fall in this section, and many bave suffered inconvenience for some time, but recently the water problem has been very expensive for many, and the drought is every day resulting in destructive fires over the county, Not in years have there been 50 many reports of fields and fencing burning, trees burning down and for ests being damaged by fire. Turpen tine and lumbermen are heavy losers from fire, and they are also troubled considerably to get water to run their stills and mills, Ginning plants in some sections have had to shut down, A few farmers are unable to get enough water from their wells for their stock, and hogs that are being fattened have done poorly as a re sul® of the scarcity of water. TO EXHIBIT APPLES. Cornelia Grower Sends Exhibit to Spo kane National Apple Show. Cornelia, Ga.—One of the finest shipments of apples ever sent out of Georgia was forwarded to the Na tional Apple Show at Spokane, Wash., by Colonel John P. Fort. The shipment will be entered in the contest for the SIOO prize offered for the “best new apple.” The expense of getting this fruit to Spokane and hav ing it properly exhibited will amount to nearly that sum, but Colonel ort states that he did not enter his ap ples in the show purely in the hope of securiwg the prize, but to adver tise to the country what Georgia can do in the way of apple raising. If the apples safely reach their des tination they will stand a good chance of winning, which will do more to ward attracting attention to this sec tion, where are grown “big red ap ples,” than any other kind of adver tising. DEMAND FOR BETTER SERVICE. 8. A. L. Agress to Alter Schedule to Suit Patrons. Atlanta, Ga.—Before Chairman Me- Lendon of theg railroad commission of QGeorgia, the citiztns of Winder and intermediate stations along the Sea board Afir Line railroad appeared to protest against the service afforded them by that road, This road had been ordered by Chairman McLendon to show cause why the service was not commensurate with the demanaus of its patrons. At the close of the hearing the road agreed to make the Lawrenceville and other intermediate stations local stops instead of flag stops. To this extent the service will -be improved. The service of the Loganville branch, con trolled by the Seaboard, is to be im proved and quicker time made be tween JLogansville and Lawrenceville, YOTE BUYER SENTENCED, Savannah Man Fined SSOO and Six Months in Jail, Savannah, Ga.—‘The chaingang for six months, or a fine of SSOO, either added to six months in jail, is the re ward assigned to Morris Lepinsky for buying the yote of Ike Levy in the primary of June 4. The case has been threshed out in the city court, and, though he was found guilty, Lepinsky was recommended to the court's mercy. THROUGHOUT THE STATE. About five hundred and fifty gallons of moonshine whiskey was sold in Atlanta, the government being the seller, and the buyers being members of a crowd of nearly two thousand persons, attracted by the unusual spectacle of a liquor sale in a ‘“dry” community, The whiskey had been seized at illegal stills in Georgia foot hills, Bidders paid from $2.25 per gallon, to $3.35, and on one lot, the bidding reached $3.70. This bid, how ever, was rejected when it was found that the bidder’s thirst was bigger than his pocketbook, and that instead of desiring an entire keg, he wished only to “pay at the rate of $3.70 per gallon,” for enough to make a few drinks. Honorable Lawton B. Evans, super. intendent of education in Richmond county, has just returned from a visit to all the public schools in that coun ty, and makes the statement that in point of enrollment, interest and all. round progress, educational institu. tions under the jurisdiction of the board are enjoying a more prosperous' season than ever before. At a num. ber of schools in the rural districts, wagons are operated daily, transport ing children to and from home, which system has proved markedly benefi cial since it was adopted about six months ago. An interesting point of law will be settled at the approaching term of Floyd city court, when John Brown, arrested for larceny afteer trust, is tried at Rome, The charge against Brown is made by G. M. Henderson, a carpenter, who gave Brown a dollar to get him a quart of whiskey, Brown told Henderson to wait, then disap peared and the carpenter waited for several hours in the rain, but he did not return. Henderson returned to his home, disguised himself in other clothing and loitered around the spot where he had been approached by Brown, The man approached and ask ed if he would not like to have a nice quart of whiskey for a dollar. Hender son’s answer was a blow that felled him and a call for the police. Chairman S. G. cLendon of the rail road commission has signed an order authorizinng the Elberton Southern Railway company to issue capital stock in the sum of $200,000 and bonds amounting to $250,000. The road was formerly known as the Elberton Air Line and was purchased receently er’s sale, The road will be improved and put in a first class condition. A charter has been granted to the American Banking and Trust com pany of Rome, Ga., a corporation cap italized at $500,000. The incorpora tors are G. D. Pollock, T. J. Simp son, J. L. Bass, C. R. Porter, G. B. Holder, J. W. Curry and 'R. W. Graves, all of Rome, Ga. The incor porators announce that over $25,000, the amount prescribed by-law, has al ready been paid in, When President-elect Willlam H. Taft made his notable address in New York city at the banquet of the North Carolina society, the walls all about him were festooned with cotton stalks grown within a few miles of Atlanta. The banquet was a typically southern affair, and Mr, Taft spoke prin¢ipally on conditions in the south, It was ap propriate therefore that cotton should. be the principal decoration, The rich ly bolled stalks were shipped from Atlanta at’ the request of the Hotel Astor management, They were those used at the Cobb county exhibit at the state fair last fall., The shipment weighed two hundred pounds. The United States senate confirmed the nomination of Helen D. Long street, widow of the confederate gen eral, as postmaster at Gainesville, Ga. The action of the senate in confirming the nomination on the day it was re ceived was a special compliment to Mrs. Longstreet, Absentees from drill on the night of state and United States inspection of the national guard of Georgia, next year, will be punished by a fine of SIO.OO. This information was made public by Adjutant General A. J, Scott, of the national guard of Geor gia, in general order No. 14 which announces the dates of inspection, giv ing the time and place and much ne cessary information concerning the in spetcions, They will be conducted by Major F. L. Palmer, United States army, retired, who has been assigned to the state by the United States war department, who will represent both the state and Uncle Sam on these tours, The inspection is to be both day and night, the day inspection be ing for the tents, equipment and the like. Major A. J. Twiggs, a prominent en gineer and contractor of Augusta, who is superintending for McKenzie Broth ers the construction of piers upon which will be_erected the new Center street bridge in that city has ordered a diver’s suit, to be used in inspects fng submarine work on the foundas tions, Expert divers charge so much for their services that Major Twiggs kit upon the idea of doing their work himself, thereby saving the city con siderable money. A. C. Daniel is the champion grower of pecans in the Lexington section of the state, On his place near Arnolds ville this year he raised a large num ber and received $5 a bushel for them, One tree that is eight feet in circum ference, bore about fifteen bushels. His finest tree is a volunteer, President-elect Taft received a committee from the Georgia delega tion attending the waterways con gress in Washington, He accepted the Invitation extended him by the come mittee to attend a banquet to be given him in Atlanta some time during the first three weeks of 1909. Indoor target ranges will be install ed in all of the armories of the na tional guard of Georgia, These ranges will be required by one of the rules in the new book of regulations soon to be issued. Target practice will con tinue from November Ist to March 31st, The indoor range will be fifty feet, With the targets to be furnish ed and the manipulation of the rifle sights, it will be possible to shoot as though the targets were two hundred, four hundred or six hundred and even one thousand yards away.