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Eatered at the postoffice st Folkston,
Ga, as Second Clais Matter.
Remarks the New York Herald: Go
ing to make paper out of cornstalks.
Fine! There’s mighty little they have
not made out of corn to increase the
&ayety of nations,
“Woman’s place at the university of
Berlin,” says the Tageblatt of that
city, “has already become an import
ant one, although her rights have not
yet been fully recognized there. Ac
cording to the latest report 440 wom
en were entered at the largest high
school last summer and 753 attended’
the winter session. Degrees were
conferred on 12; 10 in medical and 2
in philosophy.”
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Remarks the New York Tribune:
Encouraging as is the progress made
since it was first discovered that the
prevention and cure of consumption
are possible, it does not satisfy those
iwho are most actively engaged in the
<campaign. They are eager to see what
can be accomplished by a more skil
ful use of the weapons now in service
and the adoption of more efficient
ones, if sucly can be found.
In the far west 10,000 acres, contain
ipg valuable timber, were set on fire
by a lighted match, carelessly tossed
aside by a casual traveler. In the en
lightened jurisprudence of the days to
come the careless tossing away of
fire, however small the combustible,
will e accounted among the criminal
acts to be reckoned with by the law; ‘
prophesies the Baltimore American.
There is entirely too much costly
«arelessness in the disposal of lighted
matches and of cigar and cigarette
Butts. :
The English Expositor, by John Bul-
Jokar, brought out in 1616, was the
“QGM , - true
m‘ s”"‘s"“’l@ *‘mfis’m':*ma:’w&'%’a
‘words and definitions in that lan
‘guage, writes the Boston Transcript.
Dr. Johnson's dictionary was pro
mounced an epoch-making work in the
‘history of the language, and doubt
less it deserved the distinction,
though, as has been intimated, his de
finitions were more quaint and epi
grammatic than always exact. It was
probably not hmis best loved labor,
since he said: “I am not so lost in
lexicography as to forget that words
are the daughters of earth, and that
things are the sons of heaven.”
Dr. T. D. Crothers, superintendent
of the Walnut Lodge hospital, Hart
ford, Conn. contended that inebriety
was a far more fatal disease than con
sumption and was more widely spread,
The so-called moderate use of spirits,
by diminishing the vitality and lower.
ing the resisting power of nature, he
said, was an dcg‘w cayse of consump
tion and .t)'p_hul;d fever nq& _Wa; ac
,countable for over 80 percent of all
case§ of pneumonia. In fact, there was
no disease known and no surgical op
eration performed, that was not {nfiy"
enced and made worse by spirits, Thee
whole alcoholic problem, he continued,
was a physical one, the result of dis
©ase controlled by laws which move
with the same exactness and certain
ty as any other operation in nature.
The present efforts of laymen and so
cietles to correct and prevent this
evil as a moral one is a sad reflec
tion on the stupidity of the medical
profession, Dr, Crothers said,
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There is much humbug and make be
lieve (“make see,” they call it) in
China. The army, the national wealth
and even the supposedly world men
acing population of the Celestial Em
pire have one and all been taken down
a 4 peg or two of recent years. Prob
ably only one great potential for good
or evil of the commercial bodies, of
whose anti-foreign activity we have
beard so much of late.
From Manila has come the pithy
statement that\'al} foreign devils look
alike to Chinks,” but, unfortunately,
our consular officers scattered through
out China «ll agree that the boycott
of which all foreigners complain is es
pecially directed against the prestige
of Uncle Sam and the very profitable
commerce of his sons, Big as China
is, it is apparently not big enough to
contain this boycott, which three or
four hundred million persons are called
upon by their usual leaders to enforce,
Wherever “the Chinese drive” there
they have a way of monopolozing com
merce, and they certainly are the con
trolling factor in the trade of East
Asia, from the mouth of the Amoor
down to Java Head and Sumatra, and
it is equally certain they are working
against the expansion of our trade.
A great many very conscientious
men, who carry their New England
consciences into our Far Eastern pos
sesgsions, say that we are only getting
what we deserve out in China. They
aggert that our treatment of the Chi
nese coolie has been outrageous, and
that the exclusion acts are a stain up
on the otherwise stainless honor of
our national escutcheon. This may
well be, but 1 do not think that it
strikes the Chinese in this light, and
probably our treatment of the Chinese
coolies has little or nothing to .do
with the boycott under which our trade
and our feelings are suffering. Wheth
er it be right or wrong ethically, the
Chinese government recognizes the
absolute “necessity of protecting the
home labor market in the various
provinces which compose the empire.
There is no such thing as free emigra
tion from one province to another, ac
cording to the demands of the labor
situation.
For instance, the people of the cen
tral provinces will only allow jthe im
portation, say of a few Shantaung men
from the north or Cantonese from the ‘
south. The moment the influx of for- i
eigners threatens to reduce wages the
same troubles arise which twenty
years apo distracted our Pacific states
and brought about the enactment of
the exclusion law. Our trade and our[
prestige are doubrtless made the ob-‘
Ject of the first attack because Mr. Wu
Ting-fang, until recently Chinese min
ister In Washington and now an open
wdvocate of the anti-American boycott,
knows full well thay the national con
science of America is not at all satis
fied with what has been our policy to
ward China and would gladly bring
about a change.
It is also undeniable that our popu
larity has waned in China . of recent
years. Our policy during the Boxer
outbreak was most correct, but in de
tails its execution was faulty and the
Chinese were disappointed, Our gOV~
ernment and most of our officials
spared no effort to stop looting, but
unfortunately the Temple of Ances
tors, in Pekin, was looted and the
blame for it, rightly or wrongly, has
been placed upon our shoulders. Then
again, when the disorder was over, we
sent in a pretty thrifty bill for dam
ages. I shall never fotget the crest
fallen countenance of Li Hung Chang
®hen he received Uncle Sam’s bill.
“You talk very good,” he said, “but
you send in mighty big bill.”
Of course, we mean to pay back this
noney after all the real proved dam
ages have been paid, but the Chinese
«do not know that. They only know
that we exacted a surprisingly large
sum of money when they needed
money most and it was hardest to get.
Of course, our bill was not as big as
that of some of the other Powers,
whom we are accustomed to charao
terizé as predatory, but it was a
mjght‘y big bill, in view of the fact,
as the veneable Jiceroy put it, ““we had
talked so good.
Undoubtedly the negetiations which
have, recently been conluded between
the "Chihese goVernment and the Am
érican “capitalists who' own' the con
éesslqn to build a i'nlli'gud‘trbm Han
kow ‘to Canton have left™a very.bad
impression upon the Chinese mind. The
concession was secured- because- thoge
who sought it were ‘Ap)qri(‘g‘lis:-‘~4lxlq
consequently without polftlcal\afi -
tions in the great intrigueé thatewas:
then going on for the upper ‘han@ i
China. But these good Simon® Ru
Americans immedistely soold} T out~a:
large interest in their conc®ssion *to
Belgium capitalists, behind whom,
rightly or wrongly, the Pekin govern
ment thought to see the hand of
Russia. \ X
\.. Rightly or wrongly, the viceroys who
“had backed their project thought the
sAmerican concessioners had deceived
“them, and ‘theh began that passive op
'posmon to the execution.of the pro-
Jeet which has,resulted in the Chinese
taking over the property at which they
.considered an exorbitant, not to say,
extggtionate, price. Eight million dol
lars for less than twenty-eight miles of
{milway in a country where manual
labor is as cheap as it is in China, is
a pretty stiff price. The Chinese,’ lit
tle experienced in the expérse. of
promotion and flotation and the fees
of international lawyers, call’it a §win
dle. Certainly Minister Conger in pro
nouncing ‘the whole transaction ;ifir
“fous blow to American prestige "and
American influence in Ckina was
lspeaklng well within the bounds of
moderation,
In the reports of the existing boy
cott and the anti-American riots which
it has provoked the directing and con
trolling influence of the agitation is
generally recognized as that of the
commercial clubs or gwids. Of these
there are three kinds, all as old as the
hills, far antedating the famous guilds
of London. Some are simply trade or
ganizations of merchants—for instance
those engaged in silk or the rice trade
are organized for muiual help and pro
tection. Others are simply labor un
ions, such as we know them. All men
who handle rice have one organization,
all who work in silk have another. The
more interesting and novel forms of
the Chinese guild is one in which the
employers and the employed meet up
on a common ground and in the same
club house. Here the employers sit
on one side and the workers upon the
other, All troubles arising have to be
regulated by arbitration, and em
ployers and employes combine to take
such action as may be beneficial {0 the
trade in which they are both vitally
concerned.
What self-contained and influential
bodies these associations are may be
seen from the fact that one of the reg
ulations provides that no appeal from
the decisions of the guild can be made
to the courts, A member who offends
in this particular, whether he be em
'ployer or laboring man, is immediate
1y expelled. If the:unfortunate be a
merchant, he is ruined by the boycott
‘which his late comrades enforce, if he
be a working man he is refused em
ployment by all and ostracized in every
way, and there are frequent instances
where such an unfortunate has been
glarved to death,
Every Chinese guild has its patron
saint, or rather sage—generally some
very successful ‘bgsiness man of a past
generation., In China George Wash
ingten would be the patron of the to
bacco growers and Marshall Field of
those who make their money in depart
ment stores. The patron’s “soul name,”
and sometimes his statue, stands in
the pagoda most affected by the mem
bers of this particular guild, for the
purpose of pilgrimages and picnics.
Until the last three or four generations
the activity of the guilds in China, it
is said, was limited to purposes of mu
tual aid and protection. Latterly,
bowever, their activity has become of
fensive as well as defensive. As a gen
eral thing, when a member of a guild
considers’ himself wronged in a com
mercial or any other transaction he
lays the facts before nis fellow mem
bers. If they find that his grievance
s well founded, as a rult the guild
prosecutes the case allox-
PEHiBOs. ey 3 e "
Many of the handsomest buil I
all China are occupied by the g.‘}.i&?l
ebther as clubs for social purposes or
as exchanges. Many of them have
magnificent halls for theatrical per
formances and suites of rooms for dis
tinguished scholars and traveling of
ficials, The rice guilds and the silk
guilds often spend more money than
have our life insurance companies in
making legislators have a good time
and feel friendly. Judge Fields’
“House of Mirth” in Albany looks like
less than thirty cents in comparison,
with the wonderful Blue Pavilion
where the Cantonese merchants bind
influential people with the chains of
hospitality.
Undoubtedly through the guilds pub
lic opinion in China finds its most po
tent expression. Influential guilds of
ten bring about the removal of a vice
roy. They are eminently associations
to be conciliated, because they repre
sent that class of society in China
which is most effectively organized.
If a governor or viceroy can get along
with the guild his administration is
apt to be a peaceful and a profitable
one. If he does nothing to restrain
trade and much to further it, legally
or illegally, the guilds will dine and
wine him and sing his praises through
the resident lobbyists, which all the
important guilds maintain in Pekin,
and when the end of his administra
tion is reached, for in Chlna‘&ey have
rotation in office and the uncer
tainty in the matter of promotion as
we do, the guild may ask of the de
parting viceroy as a last favor the
present of a pair of his boots, which
are hung up by the city's gates or in
the pagoda of the guild to keep frag
rant th&,memory of an official who
fostered trade and understood the re
quirement of business.
:‘\ Often the guilds speak a mighty
W for righteousness, and not sel
dor, alas, for graft. For instance, it
ibp half they say of the Coffin Guild
in ‘Canton be true that must be in the
words of the late Jesse James, ‘a
‘most_ despisable” body of men, Some
years ago, when the black death was
iraing in the great city of Southern
China, the viceroy: la\l‘nc' at the sug
gestion of several fqreign physicians,
ordered that all the rat and eat rests
rants, much affected by thee Jower
classes, be closed, the rat particulacly
being regarded as a very common Gar
rier of the plague germs. There wa
course some discoutent among hose.
who app.eciate the tidbits of ‘rat™and
the tend-rloin of cat, and the € ’“*
Trust got up street parades and torchs
light “processions in boats along the
walvwxmt, and they they told the
viosroy=he would get himself dishiked
it he didplt let the rat f‘
lauré.’ntfi'% up. Certain N_Mtf“_
withdrew the position e had at.
first mken',l‘?, The_restauranis: were
opesied, (he ‘plaguélincrmased;. elghty
thousand men and women died that
summer in Canton, and all paid tribute
to the Coffin Trust, which c¢® course
accorded a certificate of merit to the
Viceroy when his-term was up. Here
indeed was a man who had not re
strained trade.
Some of the guilds represent in the
aggregate almost untold wealth and
some not the least influential, however,
are very poor. Even the beggars have
a guilld. The wholesale merchants of
Central and Southern China are espec
fally conspicuous for their wealth and
for the ability and the honesty with
which they manage large enterprises.
The retail merchant may keep false
weights; he often admits he has to,
the competition is so great, but as a
rule in China the wholesale merchant’s
word is as good as his bond. Indeed,
I once heard a retiring governor of the
Hong Kong Bank say that in his
twenty-five years banking experience
he had found the word of the China
man as geod as the bond of the for
eigner, in fact, it was, he said, the
best' collateral he knew of. In the
old days of the China trade, when the
American firms of the Russels, the
Heards, the Lows and the Griswolds
were powers in the Eastern trade, the
absolute integrity of the Chinese Hong
Kong merchant was proverbial. In
those days before international bank
ing had been develcped to its present
state of perfection, millions were of
ten intrusted for months at a time to
the Chinese representatives of “these
firms, and. there is no record of a not
able breach of trust.
How effective the boycott against us
is proving the reports from our con
suls show only too plainly. The Chi
nese practised the poycott centuries
before the Irish question arose z2nd the
modern name of the practice was
evolved from the proceedings of the
Land League. The poorest guild in
China is that of the beggars, but by
the power of effective organization
they can, and often do, ruin the rich
est merchants. Every gréat city is
divided into wards and apportioned to
delegates of“this guild. Each house
holder or storekeeper is told what he
must give in the name of sweet char
ity. The delegate is always polite and
restrained in language, but if an un
derstanding is not reached, should the
luckless merchant protest that he is
‘taxed too high, his shop is suddenly
invaded by hundreds of cripples, his
goods ruined by contact with their noi
some rags, his stock in trade is lost,
his customers leave him, he is ruined,
unless he capitulates in time and the
beggars’ guild graciously consents to
condone his error of judgment,
The guilds of China, large and small,
count for many millions of people and
many millicns of profits, It might be
worth Uncle Sam’s while to find out
really what is the matter and to talk
business before it is too late.—Steph
en Bonsal in New York Herald, ,-'J\
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Highest Mountains of Texac.! ‘
That the honor would rest with the
Guadalu cManntia timber-capped
EuT k‘,aim“{:m“ of E 1 Paso
| %"to speat st the C¥New Mexican |
.!\.O%né;“'fiafs long seemé&d prob- |
able. In describing these mountains
Professor R. T. Hill in his monumen- ‘
tal treatise on the Texas region pro- |
nounced them the highest in the state. |
Notwithstanding an error of nearly a
thousand feet in his published eleva
tion—an error resulting from the un- |
certain aneroid—his statement was ‘
correct. During the summer of 1904, |
while Van Horn county was being
mapped by the topographers of the
United States Geological Survey, care
ful observations were made to deter- ‘
mine the elevations of the Guadalupe |
Range. The work was constructed by
Arthur Stiles, who has recently work
ed out his field notes and has conclu
sively determined the highest point}
in his native state. The elevation is
5,690 feet above the sea, and the peak 1
—the highest in the Guadalupe Range |
—is significantly called by the Mexi- |
cans El Capitan.—Gainesville Hes
perian. 1\
Most Ancient Condiment. 1
Mustard is the most ancient of con- l
*diments, The Egyptians regarded it
as an aid to digestion. The Asians ate
it freely. It was sold by peddlers in
Solomon’s time. Christ likened the
Kingdom of Heaven to a mustard seeds
The Normans and Anglo-Saxons in the
earliest times never went to war with- |
out an ample supply of prepared mus
tard. It was their food and medicine. |
The plant seems to thrive ia all parts
of the world, and is eaten by every civ
ilized nation, and many heathen tribes
either as a spring salad (the young
leaves are most delicious) or a sea
soning prepared from the ground seed.
—New York Press. |
- Worth the Fare,
It was during a very tedious rfde on
.4 Western railway, and the passen
gers, tired, dirty and thirsty, all be
rated the company with the exception
of one single man. His fellow passen
gers commented on this, and asked
him why he did not denounce the com
pany, too. ~
"It would be hardly fair,” he replied,
“as I am travelling on a free pass;
| but, it théy don't do better pretty soon,
| blame me if I don't go out and buy
, ticket and join you—Harper's
eekly. "
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BN, ~ Toot, Toot!
. A woman'®m the train entering
§' i' Ra -fuked the conductor
SSO 5 %o Pl
"fi;;\:‘; &3 t. pped at the
| e réPMed: “Madam, we stop just
{:;‘gg' tes, from two to two, to two
[ two. e . T
% foman turndd to her compan
[ lon @M said: “I wonder if he thinks
Ta; i® whistle on the engine.”—Out.
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Asks That Timber Schedule Be
Left Undisturbed.
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Chairman Asks Why People of the
South Vote Against Tariff and
I Then Ask for Protection.
Washington, D. C. — The timber
schedule was again under discussion
before the house ways and means
committee, H. H. Tift of Tifton, Ga.,
who appeared at the request of the
committee, said that the creation of
forest reserves by the government
had had the effect of increasing the
price of stumpage. He declared that
the government gets the highest
prices for what it sells.
Mr. Tift asked that the lumber
schedule be left undisturbed, saying
that the free entry of lumber would
not tend to conserve the American
forests, and that the consumers prob
ably would get no benefit in the way
of reduced prices, ’
He admitted that he would be sat
isfied with the retention of the tariff
|on the lower grades of lumber.
Chairman Payne asked Mr. Tift
why the people of the south come
before the committee and ask for
higher duties than the people from
any other section, and then vote for
{a low tariff in the national election.
[ “Taft got 40,000 votes in Georgia,”
| remarked the witness.
| “Yes,” replied Mr. Payne; “but he
lsheuld have gotten a majority.”
“There was no campaign made in
Gecergia for him,” retorted the wit
ness.
John H, Finney, representing the
Appalachian National Forest Associa
tion, urged the committee to take the
duty off certain white pine seedings,
which, he said, were needed for re
| forestation, as this type of trees does
| not reproduce itself,
l GATTLE RAISING IN GEORGIA
iWiII Be Chief Topic of Discussion at
‘ Farmers’ Conference.
| Athens, Ga.—What promises to be
ithe most interesting gathering of the
' farmers to be held during the com
' ing year, is. that to be known as
' the Farmers’ Conference, which will
' be held under the direction of Dr. A.
' M. Soule, president of the State Ag
' ricultural College, from January 18th
' to the 23rd, inclusive. |
Commissioner of Agriculture T. G.
Hudson has been invited to attend
this conference and deliver an ad
dress, which he has accepted. In ad
dition, State Entomologist ¥. L. Wor
sham_ will also attend this confer
ence, and it is expected that Govern
or Smith, State School Commissioner
Jere M. Pound and State Chemist R.
E. Stallings will also attend and de-|
liver short and instructive talks. |
Cattle trading in Georgia is to be‘
one of the chief topics of discussion.
Dr. Soule is a staunch advocate of
the "use of cotton seed meal mixed
‘with hulls as a cattle feed, having
made numerous tests which proved
it to be the best, as well as the
\cwst feed on the market,
’ e dairy operated in connection
wtih the agricultural college, where
bthis ration s fed tg the milch cows,
will be one of the inggresting exhibits
during the confe , as will be the:
rich products se red from this dairy,
.The full program of the conférence
is to be announced later, giving the
names of the speakers and their sub-
Jectss =, o
Geprgid, as ‘an agricultural state, is
rapidly forfiihg ahead in the great}
interest b®fhg aroused over the de
velopmeft of Georgia raised prod-{
ucts.
MUCH WHISKEY SEIZED,
Six Business Places at Augusta Are
Closed and Proprietors Held.
Augusta, Ga.—ln an effort to fore
stall the ministers of the city in an
“anti-blind tiger” movement, which
was, according to public announce
ment, to have been agitated simulta
neously in a half dozen puipits, Chief
Norris of the police départment or
dered a sweeping raid of all estab
lishments alleged to be dealing in
whisky.
Six places have been closed, and
more than $3,000 worth of whisky
seized. .
NEW FORM OF DIVERSIUN.
Toy Autos Are UsEd to Race at the
Savannah Exchange.
Savannah, Ga.—The members of the
Cotton Exchange have a new form of
diversion during this happy Christ
mas season. Several of them have
nurchased little toy automobiles that
run with a spring, and there are
races held on the floor of the ex
change ,every afternoon at the close
~f business. T%e machines are rez
ularly numbered, and the little tin
drivers named after the big fellows
who went over the long course here
on Thanksgivirg Day. The greatest
excitement prevails when these daily
events are started. .
TO EXTEND G, F. & A. RY.
From Cuthbert North to Connect with
Seaboard Air Line.
Coluryhus, G.a—Authoritative con
firmation has been given to the report
circulated and denied about three
weeks ago that the contract had been
awarded to a Macon firm for the ex
tension of the “*Georgia, Florida and
‘Adabama reilroad from Cuthbert
nofth to connect with the Seaboard
Air Line at or near Richland, the
work beginning January ist, next.
The gap is about twenty-five miles,
NEW STATE FARM.
Prison Board Plans Purchase of 5,000
Acre Tract. -
Atlanta, Ga.—The prison commis:
sion has under consideration a prop
osition to prrchase a far mos about
5.000-acres to be used exclusively for
whité’ convicts, the idea being to em
ploy them upon the farm rathe:
‘than upon the public roads.
Should the commission decide tr
take this step, the state farm at Mil
ledgeville, where both white and ne
gro corviets are now stationed, wil
be used exclusively for sick or aged
negro convicts who are unable to dc
service upon the roads.
; SCHOOL BOOKS ADOPTED.
Vertical Writing Dropped in Favor of
| Semi-Slant System.
Atlanta, Ga.—After thorough inves
tigation, the state school book com
‘mission has finished the task of re
vising the school book system of the
state and making the final adoptions
of the text-books to be used in the
common schools during the next five
years, beginning January il, 1909, or
‘as soon as the changes can be effect- -
‘'ed in the various schools. : :
~ With a view to securing uniformity §
‘and simplicity as nearly as possible,
‘the commission dropped several
‘books from the various branches and
‘substituted other books written by
‘the same author. i
~ The only new books adopted were
Wentworth’s New Elementary Arith
‘metic, which will precede Went
'worth’s Practical - Arithmetic, and
Hyde’s Second Book of Grammar, to
follow %yde’s Course in English. The
latter book is already in use in the
larger cities of the state and may be
' purchased for 40 cetns. The new
‘arithmetic will cost 25 cents.
The books dropped by the commis
sion are Bacon's Primary and Inter
mediate Arithmetic, Mines’ Standard
Arithmetic, Reed & Kellogg’s Graded
Lessons in English Grammar, Conn's
Elementary ~ Physiology, Coleman’s
Elements of Physiology and Holton’s
Primer. :
One important change made by the
commission was the abandonment of
the vertical writing system and the
adoption of the semi-slant. To this
end the Roudebush copy books were
discarded and the Writing Hour Sys
tem was adopted. S
The complete list of bocks ag adopf
ed by the commission for use in the
schools during the next five years fol
lows: :
Readers—Graded Literature, - first
reader, Maynard, Merrill & Co.; Grad
ed literature, second reader, Mayu
nard, Merrill ‘& Co.; Lee’s Third
Reader, American Book Company;
Lee’s Fourth Reader, American Bocg
company. :
Arithmetic—Wentworth’s Pnactical
Arithmetic, Ginn & Co.; Wentworth's
New Elementary Arithmetic,
Grammar—Hyde’s Course in Eng-
Jish, Book I, D..C. Heath & Cbo.:
Hyde's Second Book in Grammar.
Geography—Frye's Elementary Ge
ography, Ginn & Co.; Frye’s Higher
Gecgraphy, Ginn & Co.
. History—Beginner’s History of Our
Country, Southern Publishing Com
pany; Field’s United States History,
American Book Company; Evan’s
History of Georgia, University Pub
lishing Company.
Agriculture—Hunnicutt’s Agricul
ture, Cultivator Publishing Company.
Physiology and Hygiene—Hutche
son’s Lessons in Physiology and Hy
giene, Book 1, Maynard, Merrill & Co.
Civics—Peterman’s Civil Govern
ment (Georgia edition), American
Book Company.
Primers—Wheeler’s Graded Primer,
Wheeler & Co.
Spelling—Branson’s Speller, first
book, B. F. Johnson Publishing Com
pany; Swinton’s Work Book of Eng
lishing Spelling, American Bood Com
pany.. il
Writing—The Writing Hour Sys
tem. &
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
Georgia postmasters appointed are:
Gartrell, Gilmer -county, vice H. W.
Gartrell removed; Hagan, Tattnail
county, Apn Jane Geiger, vice J. M.
Elders removed; Rockymount, Meii
wether county, Anna O. Clark, vice
W. H. York resigned.
Governor Smith has named Dr. A.
F. White of Butts county and Dr. S.
A. Brown of Murray county as mem
bers of the state board of electric
medical examiners for a term of three
years, beginning January 7, 1909.
Both men were named to succeed
themselves. .
Upon the recommendation of the
prison commission the governor
granted a pardon to Otto Black, sent
up for ten years from Fulton county
for horse stealing. A confession by a
man named Herman that he was the
guilty party and. that Black was inno
cent, furnished the basis for the
prison commission’s recommendation
of a pardon. Black was convicted in
1903.
The Georgia Hotel Men’s associa
tion held a meeting in Atlanta, J. A,
Newcombe of Macon presiding. The
following ofiicers were elected: G. L.
Keene of the Pulaski, Savannah,
president; J. Lee Barnes of the Ara
gon, Atlanta, vice president; Tred
Houser of the Aragon hotel, Atlanta,
treasurer, and Leon F. Jordan, At
lanta, attorfey.
The state has been divided by the
prison commission into three peniten
tiary districts, each of which will be
under an inspector. The districts are
to be known as the northern, south
eastern and southwestern, and are to
be composed of the following coun
ties: The northern will contain the
road camps of the following counties:
Floyd, ‘Bartow, Fulton, DeKalk, Wal
ton, Newton, Jackson, Clark, Ogle
thorpe, Madison, Elbert, Wilkes, Lin
coln, McDuffie, Columbus, Taliaferro,
Greene, Jasper, Puilnam, Baldwin,
Warren, Hancock and Rockdale, The
southeastern distriet will contain the
following: Chatham, Effiingham,
Screven, Bulloch, Glynn, Ware,
Clinch, Echols, Lowndes, Brooks,
Berrien, Coffee, Aepling, Ben Hill,
Dodge, Laurens, Emanuel, Jenkins,
Burke, Jefferson, Washington, and
Richmond., The southwestern district
will comprise the following: Monroce,
Jones, Bibb, Houston, Macon, Sumte.,
Lee, Crisp, Wilcox, Turner, Tift, Col
quitt, Thomas, Dectur, Mitchell, Mil
ler Early, Calhoun, Baker, Randolph
‘and Muscogee.
Joel Hurt of Atlantahas been naw
ed by Governor Smith as a member
of the commissfon to investigate the
feasiability of employing convict la
bor to extend the Western and Atlan
tic railroad to the sea. Mr. Hurt was
named in place of James R. Gray, ed
itor of the Atlanta Journal, who de
clined to serve, The other three
members of the commission of nine
whom the governor was authorizéd to
appoint, are Paul B. Trammel of Dal
ten; William H. Burwell of Sparta,
and George Dole Wadley of Bolling
broke, :