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OCHA,A, GEORGIA.
HENDERSON & HANLON, Publishers.
A New York jury lias diaided thtt
kiliug a critic was only manslaughter.
"Wlmt would killing a publisher be?
The board of education of Louis¬
ville, Ky., has forbidden women teach¬
ers to wear short skirts while in the
practice of their profession. The ex¬
act length of skirt required is not
stated, but presnn ably not only bicy-
cliug costumes but those designed for
use ou rainy days are banned.
The downward tendency in street¬
car fates is illustrated by the propo¬
sition of a syndicate to Columbus,
Ohio, to take all the franchises at the
.disposal of the city and make a three-
ceut fare. The fact is very good evi¬
dence that there is money iu the busi¬
ness with a charge as low as throe
cents.__
Money is an excellent thing in so
far as it enables oue to command
health and power and education and
opportunity, and promotes one’s use¬
fulness, but children are a power aud
an unceasing entertainment, and con¬
stitute usefulness immediate aud pros¬
pective, writes E. 8. Masten in Har¬
per’s Weekly. While money tempts
to idleness, children are an incentive
to industry; where monoy makes for
self-indulgence, children make for
self-denial; where money is an aid to
vagrancy, children necessitate a home
aud some adherence to it. Money in
superfluous quantities is « recognize!
demoralizei 1 , but every good child is a
moralizer to its parents.
The London school board, by a de¬
cisive majority, twenty-seven votes to
five, has refused to entertain the
proposition to provide dinners for
hungry school children, on the ground
that tho scheme is far too Socialistic
iu its character, and would only be a
prelude to feeding all children in the
public schools as well as educating
them. The original proposition came
from special committee which ... re- |
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ported that many of the poorer chil-
area came to school too hungry to
learn, and that although some of them
were fed by voluntary charity, this
was but an uncertain resource, aud
that the matter was one that called
for official supervision.
The San Francisco Chronicle, com¬
menting on the recent football games,
says: “When thousands of people turn
out aud pay a big price for the privi¬
lege of watching a struggle on the
gridiron between two varsity football
teams, it is not merely college spirit
and the love of sport that are dis¬
played ia the sjrectacle. Underlying
it all is a sentiment of much deeper
import to the race which is so unob¬
trusive' that few if any of the great
mass of excited spectators may give
it a passing thought or be conscious
of its presence. It is tho intimate
relationship which athletic tourna¬
ments of all kinds bear to race and
national deve]oi>me.it.”
Publicity is often sought by men
au.l women who have no public spirit.
To appear iu public, to speak in pub¬
lic, to figure iu the magazines as oue
who is iu the eye of the public, to
carry cue’s self so that h3 will be re¬
garded as a jutblie character, having
his doings anil sayings chronicled in
all the daily papers — all these things
may be, without the slightest exhibi¬
tion or comprehension of public sqjinit.
On the other hand, one may work
quietly, avoid publicity, make no sen-
satiou, but seldom ajjpear in public
and never upon the pdatform, and yet
in the whole course of his daily life
exhibit,in its finest form, ijublic spirit,
observes the Christian Register.
The temptations which lead young
men to leave farms aud go to cities
should be resisted and combatted by
every influence that can be brought to
bear against instates the AtiautaJour-
ual. For oue such youth who makos
a hit in town, w ho gets a good grip on
the skirts of hapjry fortune, ten dis¬
cover too late their fatal mistake and
go to wreck. There is no substantial
encouragement to the country to be
drawn from the rapid growth of its
•cities, but rather the reverse, The
average boy who is making a good
living in the country, who is becom¬
ing a better farmer every year and
therefore a larger and more econom¬
ical producer takes his big chances
when he leaves the old homestead and
goes to town to make a name and a
fortune. He is far more apt to make
a failure.
Keep abreast of these stirring times
by subscribing for your home paper.
The price is little, and you eannot
•afford to be xeithovj. it.
LIVING ON THE WATER.
Somo Families Spend Their Time on
Their Anehnroft Yacht*.
A wet sheet and a flowing sea lias
nothing whatever to do with life
aboard a yacht, as exemplified In the
Eiay Itldge Yacht Basin, in South
Brooklyn, says tho New York Herald.
There are five or six yachts there, one
of them a roomy schooner craft, which
for various reasons are not in commis¬
sion this summer. Nevertheless the
owners and their families or their
friends live and sleep on board. On
one sloop are fivo young men, who go
to a skyscraper building in Nassau
street every morning and take out
two or three vivacious typewriter
girls when work Is over to make
the evenings merry, They rented
tlje boat on condition that they
would not take her outsida the
basin, and hired a retired sea cap¬
tain, who lives near the basin, to
look after the boat during tlie day
nr.d to “mess” for them. They find it
cheaper than paying board in the city,
and ever so much pleasanter. Three
families wintered on yachts in the Bay
Ridge basin last winter, and they en¬
joyed the experiment so much that
they talk of trying it again. The bliz¬
zard and the rough weather had no
terrors for them. One sloop, the Peri,
was housed above decks very much like
those in the tales we read about Arc¬
tic expeditions. The families who lived
In this way were on terms of sociabil-
ity and visited every night for games
and cards. They gave a boat party
iu January, and their friends in
Brooklyn who are given ,to assisting
at social entertainments, joined them
in a modest little vaudeville. When
the basin was frozen solid one night
they gave a skating party, with a- pip¬
ing hot supper below decks as a wind
up. There are still novelties about for
persons who know where to look for
them.
LONDON’S WOMAN BARBER.
Sho Is Learned in tiie Mysteries ot
Hypnotic Influence.
The Lady Barbers’ association—the
original one, mark you—has existed
eleven years, says the Pall Mall Ga¬
zette. Its present address is 655 Chan¬
cery lane, and its latest proprietor
Mine. St. Quentin, who has been in
possession since June last, She is a
charming and accomplished lady—
learned in tho mysteries of hypnotic
influence,and has even views on Budd¬
ha. In response to the invitation con¬
tained in the announcement that ma-
dame was at home, coupled with the
parenthetical promise 0 f tea,the writer
descended to the pleasant basement
room, with the electric lamps diffus-
ing brightly warm color through the
crimson shades, and beheld the priest¬
esses of the razor performing the cus¬
tomary rites upon various stubbly and
upturned masculine chins, It seemed
so entirely pleasant a process that the
writer remembered with a secret joy
that he had not shaved that morning.
Presently it was his turn, and, plac¬
ing his head upon the pad, he suffered
himself to be lathered and prepared
for sacrifice. To be shaved by a deft¬
handed woman is almost a magical
process. There is none of the “slish-
slashing” of the gentleman whom a
bountiful nature intended to be a
hedge carpenter. No, no. There is
something smooth and gliding over
one’s cheek, with here and there the
light pressure of delicate fingers, and,
presto! one emerges with a chin that
is equal without a shadow of depreca¬
tion to every domestic and ante-mari¬
tal demand upon it.
TO FIND JONES’ GRAVE.
Perhaps few people know that the
ashes of John Paul Jones, one of the
most distinguished heroes of the Amer¬
ican revolution, are buried somewhere
in Paris. Exactly where nobody knows.
After leaving the American service be¬
cause of some alleged grievance, Jones
enlisted in the French service, and dy¬
ing shortly afterwards, was buried in
the French capital. Efforts to locate
the tomb of the great naval officer have
failed up to date, but with increased
vigilance it is throught that the dis¬
covery can be made in the course of
time by carefully inspecting the grave¬
yards of Paris. Recently a Philadel¬
phia paper has commenced to agitate
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search be instituted for the grave of
John Paul Jones, and in the event the
quest is successful, that the body be
brought back to tnls country and
buried in Washington, D. C. Twelve
governors and many other distin¬
guished public men have indorsed the
enterprise.
To make laws complete they should
reward as well as punish.
HAGG ARD ON THE WAlt
DEL1EVES ENGLAND'S DOWN¬
FALL WILL RESULT.
Cnlla It Judgment from on High—III*
Private Life—Will 8ooi» Stand for
Farl lament In a Cornwall Constit¬
uency.
Rider Haggard has had ample oppor¬
tunities for forming his judgment of
Transvaal affairs. He says that in the
end England will be beaten and that
it is the judgment of heaven. Ho i3 one
of the few survivors, now only three
or four in number, of the party that
accompanied Sir Theophilus Shepstone
on his mission to the Transvaal,which
resulted in the annexation of that
country on April 12, 1S77. Mr. Hag¬
gard spends several months each year
in a big house in Redcliffe Square,Lon¬
don; but after the season, if still in
England, he is pretty certain to be
found in Ditchtngham Manor, the an¬
cestral home of his wife’s family,which
the novelist has filled with souvenirs
of his travels. His study is on the sec¬
ond floor. Its walls are lined with book¬
cases, with pictures above them, the
latter being original drawings of the
illustrations in bis books. Here, too,
is Mr. Haggard’s greatest treasure—a
desk formerly used by Charles Dickons
and bid in by Haggard at tho Gads
Hill sale. In this room he does the
greater part of his work, writing away
steadily if he feels in the mood, and
often tossing his pen aside in favor of
either a rod or gun.
Mr. Haggard’s new book, “A Farm¬
er’s Year,” has had abundant success.
Its sales have been eclipsed by those of
the sixpence edition of one of hi3 earli¬
est works. This is “Jess,” whose scene,
it will be remembered, is laid in the
Transvaal. The astute publisher of
this novel saw his chance, and in tak¬
ing it was wise enough to make the
new edition a popular one. The re¬
sult i3 that he is unable to supply the
demand for the book, and it is said
that “Swallow,” also a story of Boer
life, is having a greatly increased sale.
However, the author of “Allan Quar-
termain” seems to have no idea of sit¬
ting down to watch his royalties pile
up. He is planning a long trip through
Cyprus, Egypt and the Holy Land,
which Is taken to mean a book from
him. There is no truth in the report
published by an American paper that
the novelist has gone in for gold min¬
ing in Alaska with Lord Ernest Hamil¬
ton. It was a cousin of Rider Haggard
instead who took a large slice of Bill
Partridge’s shares off his hands.
It would be supposed that the long
and important trip that Mr. Haggard
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has mapped out for himself would be
enough to occupy him fully, but the
novelist adds politics to the list of
things he wants to study, and it is an¬
nounced that he soon will stand for a
constituency in Cornwall.
LIQUID FUEL IN RUSSIA.
Ait Important Factor for Firing; Loco¬
motives for Railways.
The Russian petroleum industry has
been placed in an exceptionally favor¬
able position during the past year and
a half by the introduction of a large
amount of foreign capital, says the
New York Commercial, and the im¬
provement is due to the companies
having devoted themselves mainly to
the production of liquid fuel rather
than to that of illuminating oil. The
output of liquid fuel, or masut, and of
petroleum by-products has now be¬
come the mainstay of the Industry, and
in Russia alone the annual quantity of
masut consumed amounts to no less
than 500,000,000 poods, which, with the
extension of the railways,is expected to
further increase to a large extent. But
it is not only in the firing of locomo¬
tive boilers that liquid fuel is playing
an important part, but also in connec¬
tion with the raising of steam in ma¬
rine boilers. As a preliminary all the
war vessels belonging to the Baltic
fleet are now fired with liquid fuel, and
it is believed tho whole of the Russian
imperial navy will eventually be con¬
verted to the system, according to a
gradual process of transformation. As
to the financial position of the petro¬
leum companies, it appears that the
dividends paid by the eight leading
companies for 1898—the total capital
being 28,000,000 rubles—averaged 19
per cent. During the last few years
the supply of oil-carrying vessels has
been extremely inadequate. To the
United Kingdom alone the importation
of oil from America and Russia has
made enormous strides. In regard to
Russian oil, comparing the first six
‘months of 1898 and 1899, the importa¬
tion of refined oil into Europe has in¬
creased from 12,821,624 poods to 16,-
016,990 poods; in lubrication oil from
3,342,638 poods to 3,627,044 poods.
When the system of transporting oil In
bulk began, some little time previous
to 1880, it was probably not thought
that the growth of the Industry would
be so great, and it was not until 1888
that any great activity wa3 exhibited
in the provision of tank steamers. Ia
that year eighteen steam vessels, hav¬
ing a tonnage of 42,037 were added to
the oil-carrying licet. In the following
year fourteen vessels, of 39,493 tons,
were constructed, and 1890, eleven ves¬
sels of 2S,2S7. For the year 1893, how¬
ever, the largest quantity of tonnago
for the oil-carrying trade was con¬
structed, namely, thirty-live vessels of
94,568 tons, while since that year the
output of vessels has gradually dimin¬
ished. The average freight for oil¬
carrying vessels in 18S6 was 14 shil¬
lings; in 1897, 12 shillings 7% pence,
and in 1898 it had risen to 23 shil¬
lings 4 pence. The English shipyards
are still extremely busy, and probably
an almost prohibitive price would have
to be paid for vessels to be delivered
within a reasonable time.
BEGINS NEEDED REFORM.
Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, the newly
elected president of tho W. C. T. U.
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and successor of the illustrious Fran-
ces Willard, will this season begin an
active campaign against the sale of
liquor to college students, She will
try to have a national law passed for¬
bidding the sale of intoxicating drinks
near any college campus. The famous
Princeton Inn, which was closed last
year, was largely owing to the work
of Mrs. Stevens’ sisters in the W. C.
T. U. Mrs, Stevens was born in Do¬
ver, Me., and has always made her
home in the Pine Tree state. Her first
public work was as a school teacher,
but at the age of 21 she married Mr.
Stevens, a leading business man of
Portland. One daughter, now Mrs.
Gertrude Stevens Leavitt, blessed their
home. When the Maine Christian
Temperance Union was organized
about twenty-five years ago, Mrs. Ste¬
vens was elected treasurer, which po¬
sition she held for three years. She
was then made state president, and for
twenty-two years was re-elected to the
position, and in all that time but one
ballot was cast for another candidate.
From 1880 to 1893 she filled the posi¬
tion cf assistant recording secretary,
and in the latter year was elected re-
cording secretary, Of profound wis-
dom, Mrs. Stevens holds the respect
and love of the organization at whose
head she is placed. She is a born lead¬
er, and where she leads other women
will gladly follow.
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson
has been governor of Natal and Zulu-
land since 1893. On account of his rec¬
ognized abilities he enjoys the good
will and confidence of the crown. In
dealing with the native chiefs he has
been unusually successful, rarely ever
having failed to carry his point. Be-
for taking up South African work this
distinguished Briton was connected
with Fijian affairs and also with af¬
fairs in New South Wales. At one
time he was lieutenant governor of
Malta. Being the son of the fourth
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earl of Donougmore, he belongs to one
of the most aristocratic of old English
families.
Smallest PostofBce.
California claims to have the small¬
est postoffice in the United States. It
is located at Virginia, on a beautiful
stretch of road between Escondido and
San Dtego, and consists of an old piano
packing case, in size about seven feet
high, six feet long and five feet wide.
In its front are the locked doors to
five private boxes, in addition to the
general delivery window. No money
order business is transacted there, but
the office has the monopoly of Vir¬
ginia's stamp trade.
Sterlingworth—I think people should
marry their opposites, don’t you?
Throckmorton—Of course I do. A
self-made man should wed a tailor-
made won: in.—Judge.
GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Brief Summary of Interesting
Happenings Culled at Rand cm.
Senator Bacon Injured.
Senator Bacon is lying on his back
in his apartments on Oregon avenue,
Washington, suffering from injuries
which may and probably will keep
him an invalid for several weeks.
A fall, which soemed at first trivial,
has placed him under the care of sur¬
geons, and while he has not yet under¬
gone much physical sufferings tho in¬
juries he sustained are sure to keep
him confined for somo days and per¬
haps some weeks. In starting from
his house Saturday morning the sena¬
tor slipped on an icy step and fell in
such a way as to fracture one rib and
perhaps two.
Komi Issue* Recorded.
The bond issue of the Atlanta Stan¬
dard Telephone Company, amounting
to $000,000, has been placed on record
in the office of Secretary of State Thil
Cook. Five hundred thousand dol¬
lars of the issue of $000,000 is intend¬
ed to replace the issue of bonds by the
company April 10, 1896.
County Line Not Changed.
In the recent establishment of the
dividing line between Wayne and
Charlton counties, iu accordance with
a survey made by Mr. Thomas J.
Peck, it was published at the time that
Chariton had lost an immense tract of
about 25,000 acres. The line, how¬
ever, established by Mr. Peck as the
true line between the two counties is
tlie same line that has been recognized
ever since 1812 as the real dividing
line. The line run by him is the line
which has been recognized ever since
that date by both the citizens of
Wayne and Charlton counties as the
true line, and instead of Charlton
losing any territory, the county re¬
mains the same as lias been since the
lie establishment of Charlton county
from a part of Camden.
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Condition of State Treasury.
The books of the state treasury
show that the state has at jrreseut on
deposit $1,454,790.53. This showing
is somewhat better than that made ou
February 1st of recent years, and in
spite of the increase of the pension
roll. The $50,000 due for the quarter
from the lessees of the state’s convicts
has all been received by the state
treasurer.
Rome Gets Rig Plant.
The C. L. King Manufacturing com¬
pany, of Holland Mich., is at present
removing its immense plant from
ihat city to Rome, where it is erecting
a larger plant. It will manufacturif
boxes, crates, berry baskets and a line
of hardwood veneers.
The plant was located at Romo
through the efforts of the industri¬
al department of the Southern railway.
Life Convict Pardoned.
Governor Candler has pardoned
Henry Smith, serving a life sentence
for murder committed iu Clayton
county iu 1880. The pardon board
recommended executive clemency on
the ground that the evidence seemed
to warrant a verdict of manslaughter
rather than murder, and because such
action was asked by the judge, prose¬
cutor and all the living members of
the jury that tried the case.
4 'PejC Lcr** Remanded,
Judge W. T. Newman, of the federal
court at Atlauta, declined to take ju¬
risdiction in tho iiabeas corpus pro¬
ceedings in the case of II. A. Williams
—better known as “Peg Leg” Williams
—and remanded him into the custody
of the sheriff of Morgan county.
Judge Newman held that the state
courts should pass upon the case.
Waycross Sells Bondi).
The recent issue of bonds by the
city of Waycross, amounting to $50,-
000, were sold a day or two ago to J.
W. Dickey, of Augusta, Ga., for $54,-
335. Several bids were received, but
that of Mr. Dickey, being the highest
was accepted. A premium of over
$4,000 on the issue of $50,000 speaks
well for the credit of Waycross.
Depot a “Nuisance.**
The Atlanta board of health has de¬
clared the union depot a nuisance!
This action vas taken at a meeting of
the board and the vote on the resolu¬
tion was unanimous, Furthermore,
prompt measures will be taken to sup¬
press the nuisance and all roads en¬
tering tho structure have been so ad¬
vised.
Fifth Itejtfiment Ofllcern.
The result of the military elections
was an almost entire erorganization cf
the Fifth Georgia regiment. The fol¬
lowing are the field officers: Colonel,
Park Woodward; lieutenant colonel,
W. G. Obear; major, J. V. H. Nash,
Jr.; major, W, W. Barker; major, W.
A. Patton,
Demand Pay In Ad ranee.
The railroads in the melon-growing
section of the state are making an effort
to arrange that all lines concerned re¬
quire prepayment of freight on melons
shipped during tho coming season.
The men behind the movement- claim
that this action will shut inferior stock
out of the northern and western mar¬
kets and make good stock command
juices that will enab'e the shipper to
pay the present freight rates and have
a profit.
HaDroiui For Ctiinmlnjj.
J. R. McKeivey, lessee of the Law-
rpnoeville branch railroad, it is said,
has announced his intention of extend-
ing the line of liis road to Cumming.
At proneut the road extends from Law-
reneeville to Suwanes. The proposed
extension will run from Suwaueo to
Gumming, a distance of about fitteen
miles.
The present length of the road is
about ten miles. It is said that the
citizens of Gumming and of the coun¬
try which it is proposed to run the
new line have announced their readi¬
ness to subscribe $25,000 toward its
construction. The people of this sec¬
tion of the state have for a long time
felt the need of a more direct railroad
connection with other sections of the
state. Tho now line, when it’ is oon-
structed, will open up a rich and
hitherto untonched, bo far as the rail¬
roads are concerned, section of the
state.
AT OLD liOHE.
Remains of Goebel Carried From
Frankfort to Covington—An
Impressive Scene.
Tho Goebel funeral train arrived at
Covington, Ivy., at 8 o’clock Tuesday
morning from Ftankfort. It consisted
of a baggage car with the casket and
floral tributes, a coach for the pall¬
bearers, judges of the appelate court,
legislative committee and others, aud
a Pullman with the relatives.
It was an impressive scene when the
casket was removed from tho Capitol
hotel at Frankfort. The hearse, fol¬
lowed by carriages and many pedes¬
trians, proceeded under the electric
lights to the special train which left at
4 a. m. on the mournful journey.
Although the train made no stops
except at junctions, yet there were
groups at the stations aloug the way
to see it even in the darkness of the
wintry morning.
The only railway that runs through
Covington and Frankfort, the Louis¬
ville and Nashville, is credited with
opposing Goebel. At any rate, those
in charge of the arrangements insisted
ou Goebel's remains being carried
from the capital to his home without
traveling over any of tho rails of the
Louisville and Nashville.
This bit of sentiment caused tho
special to be run into Cincinnati on
tlie Queen aud Crescent. After cross¬
ing the Cincinnati Southern bridge
the train was run around through the
yards of oue railway into the yards of
another railway in Cincinnati and
transferred back into Kentucky over
the Chesapeake and Ohio bridge, and
thus reached the Chesapeake aud Ohio
depot in Covington. This route by
train involved about twenty miles of
additional travel and half of this dis¬
tance was through the railway yards
in Cincinnati.
The demonstration iu honor of Goe¬
bel in the city and county, which ha
had represented in the state senate for
twelve years, was peculiar and simple.
A large detail of police was stationed
about the depot aud another detail
kept the streets clear from the depot
to the Odd Fellows’ hall, where the
body lay in state. While the demon-,
stration was participated iu by both
city and county officials, yet the com¬
mon people made up the long line of
the procession.
At no time during the forenoon was
there any cessation of the current of
people passing the catafalque.
Later in the day excursionists
reached the city from adjoining coun¬
ties. Many crossed the bridges from
Cincinnati, and the attendance from
Bellevue, Dayton, Fort Thomas, Lud¬
low, the Highland and other Kentucky
suburbs was very large.
The remains lay in state in Coving¬
ton until 10 ir. m., and then they were
placed in charge of the guard during
the night and conveyed back to Frank-
foit by special train Wednesday rnorn-
ing, to lie in state until the funeral.
RULES RADICALLY CHANGED.
South Carolina Dispensary Board ci
Control Abolished.
The South Carolina state board of
liquor control is to be abolished and
the management of the dispensary to
be radically changed. The of seuate bill
to provide a new system house govern¬ Tues¬
ment was passed iu the
day and Governor McSweenoy will
approve the act.
The vote in the house was 77 to 24
in favor of abolishing the board. The
action of the general assembly is the
result of dissatisfaction all over the
state caused by lack of harmony in the
present board. There were no charges
of open dishonesty in the speeches,
but it was plainly asserted that the
factional fight among the members on
tho board had hurt the state.
BRYAN ENDS TOUR
Of New England States at Cities of
Hartford and Bridgeport.
Thursday night William J. Bryan
finished tho work for which his New
England trip was undertaken. He
delivered two long addresses. Tues¬
day afternoon in Hartford he spoke to
an audience of 3,800. He took occa¬
sion to rap the knuckles of tho iusur-
anco aud manufacturing capitalists of
the capital city, “the splendidly
wealthy city of Hartford,” as ho put it.
In Bridgeport he was wildly ac¬
claimed upon his arrival, and later he
spoke to an audience which taxed to
its utmost the largest theater in the
city.
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Newspaper Han Honored.
Mr. Edward M. Durant, a well
knowu young newspaper man of At-
lanta, has been appointed by Gover¬
nor Candler us secretary of tho com¬
mission from Georgia to the Paris
exposition. The position is in reality
one of the most important of is the virtually]*’ com-^
mission, as the secretary
the executive officer of that body.