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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. JULY 3, 1808. 5 • A BURGLAR III THE (Continued From Pago One.) shoving the letter Into the boy', face. "Why. yea.” said George. "I wrote It for thin prisoner. What'a the mat' '"’You wrote this about the food and these other things, didn’t you?” "Why, yea: but he dictated It: wasn't my letter.” "You’re a Mar.” said the officer. "You put him up to kick.” "I didn’t, really I didn't.” said the "You're a liar and a Sneak,” aald the officer, "and now you'll get what's coming to you." The next day the prisoners were lin ed up for the slave mart, and George was promptly chosen. Gehenna—a Convicts' Camp. He was taken to a convicts’ ramp at a place that I shall call Gehenna. That Is not Its name on the map, but It will do well enough for our purposes. It was one of many convict camps; some better some worse. The company that bad bought,of the state of Georgia this particular batch of slaves was engaged in making brick. Its camp was remote front the cities and ordinary ways of men; nobody knew what went on there and nobody cared. It was morning when George, with a fresh detail of purchased slaves, arriv ed at Gehenna. With the first glance at the camp, a chill struck to his heart; there was something moat forbidding about the wild and desolate spot, mnde more hideous with the ragged, dirty structure and the black chimneys of the brickyard. In one corner was a high stockade with guard pend about It and men with rifles on guard; within the stockade were wretched, dark, dilapidated, and most filthy huts In which other men were doomed to sleep and eat. About the factory yard were men at work, In the broad stripes of the convict, some preparing the clay, some wheeling the yellow, damp, new bricks to the furnaces to be baked. George noticed that all these men were very badly clad, and some went almost naked. Beyond the brick-kiln the land sloped Into a swamp, a promising breeding place for disease. George and the others of the new gang were led to one of the filthy sheds, where they received a breakfast of one slice of boiled salt pork and one piece of greasy corn bread. There were no knives nor forks, and George took the pork Into his fingers. He felt some thing move under his fingers. He saw what It was that had, moved. It was worms. Slave Women In Georgia. Struggling hard with himself, he managed to swallow a little of the corn bread (after he had carefully examin ed It), and with the rest of the gang he was marshaled Into the yard. His work was to wheel loads of those fresh clayey, yellow brick from the place where they had been shaped to the place where they were to be baked. When he went the first time to the place where the bricks were to be shaped, he was amazed to see that the persons en gaged In removing the bricks from the drying belt were women. He remem bered then that the state of Georgia has no prison for convicted women, and that they are rented to slave brok- era Just as the men. slaves are rented. The work that these women were do ing seemed very laborious; with bend ed backs they must toll hour after hour, lifting the heavy bricks and piling them. A man with a rifle stood and watched the women. They regarded him with manifest terror. If for an in stant he turned away, they were wont to stand up and straighten their backs and draw In long breaths of air. From the place where bricks were shaped to the place Where bricks were ' burned thero wound thru the yard a path about <00 feet long. George was ’ told that by this path he must take upon- the wheelbarrow each time from fifty to seventy bricks and that he must de liver at the furnaces not fewer than 105 loads In the day sixty loads from sunrise to noon and forty-five loads from the end of the noon hour to sun set. He was also told that his work would be checked up every few hours, and that If he were found to be fall ing behind he would with good reason be sorry. This Is the substance of the Information conveyed to him; I need not quote the words. Each of the un baked bricks weighed between 6 and 6 pounds. That made usually a wheel barrow load of more than 800 pounds. George weighed 110 pounds and he had ben certified by the prison doctor to have heart disease. Under the Taskmaster's Lash. He has not proceeded far with that first day’s work when he has an op portunity to learn exactly wbat are the good reasons for regretting a failure to complete an apportioned task. There Is a commotion In the yard, and two of the guards appear, leading forward a convict to a place where a great bar rel lies on Its side. A big, authorita tive man comes forward and gives orders. The convict Is stripped. Then he Is bent over the barrel. Two negroes hold his arms and his head. Two oth ers hold his legs. He begs and pleads nnd struggles. The negroes hold him fast Another man stands by with an Instrument. It Is made of sole leather about 3 Inches wide, S feet long and 3-8 of an 1 Inch thick. It ha* a stout wooden handle. The man lifts the In urnment high In the air. He brings It down, swish! upon the naked man on the barrel. The man on the barrel screams aloud with sudden agony. He does not shout nor exclaim, he screams » horrible shrill scream of unutterable pain. The other man raises the Instrument and brings It down, swish! again. Again the man on the barrel screams. A blow and a scream; a blow and a f ream. Presently It Is a blow and a foh: the man on the barrel Is crying. Again a moment, and his blood trickles down his side; he Is screaming, sob- n ng. crying now—and bleeding. The blows fall upon his bruised and bloody back; he wriggles and twists about; the negroes can hardly hold down his head and his legs; the other men stand •""o gase; the guards hold their rifles; °hd from the bluest of skies the soft r, m of Georgia looks Upon the frightful feen». an< j th« sweet spring air from ’he Southern woods blows over It. "'it the man hda done jvrong: he has c rnmlted a fault. ***, from sunrise to noon he has ''heeled fifty-seven loads of fresh brick; the regulations of this hell on ’"rill require that In such a time he '• ••! wheel sixty loads. So, haring y l,ls transgressed, power and law and ■] rice as administered In the state of ’corgta exact from him thla penalty un tll he screams and cries and dobs— end bleeds. He walks with difficulty, this offend. r r “gainst the majesty of the state of orgi a and Its slave contracta. George notices his limping gait and thinks It “rises from the punishment the offend er has earned. But day after day George notices that the offender walks always with the same difficulty. Then George learns that the offender Is a fripple: he has chronic rheumatism In ™ back. So that la why he offends concerning the three loads missing ' r '>m his tally between sunrise and noon. He fs lame, he la no longer I r, ung, about 85, George thinks; he rannot with ease wheel 800-pound mads. So thereupon the state of Geor- means of the slave contractors t,»r the llia t It tolerates quickens his movs- designed to make life wretched for the ments with 3 feet of sole leather, well laid on. So grinds on the first day. For din ner they have each a piece of boiled salt pork, a piece of greasy com bread. 41tho he Is nearly famished, having worked all morning in the open air, George looks upon the food before him. and at the recollection of his break fast his stomach revolts upon him and he turns sick and faint. But he gulps down the com bread and, at last, turn ing the .salt pork to the light and shredding It with his fingers, he man ages for aheer hunger's sake to swal low a little of it. The rest Is begged by the hungry man next to him. For supper he hajs boiled salt pork and a piece of corn bread. He learns then that the state of Georgia does not furnish these viands: they are provid< ed at the sole charge and cost of the company to which his slave labor has been sold. State-Made Criminals. A light begins to daw*n upon him. He* perceives that he Is no concern of the state of Georgia and no concern of the edmpany to which he . has been sold. Between the two he Is the lost and for gotten outcast and pariah. The state turns him over to the company and does nut care; the company can get all the convicts It wants and does not care. Nobody cares. , Why, then, should the convict care what war he makes upon the society that has thrust him Into a pit and left him there? The days that followed that first day were to George like days in a mad man's dream. He must learn face the salt pork and animated contents; he must harden himself against the dally whippings, he must harden himself against the Inces sant. brutality, vile smells and abomi nable sight*. While all else is being hardened In him, shall bis soul escape? At night he crawls, sore and weary. Into his horribly bestenched prison house, where whites and negroes, young and old, veteran criminal and novice, decent and vile, herd together indis criminately. Every few days his stom ach, which, however his mind may fare, will not become accustomed to the salt pork and greasy corn bread, rebels and rejects the poisonous stqff, and then he works on in the sun ready to drop of weakness and weariness. The Process of Soul-Killing. Once he falls In a faint at his task and his companions In misery carry him to his filthy bunk, and even th6 camp doctor admits that he can work no more that day. And so he lies there, and a million Insects that Inhabit his bed crawl over him and feed upon him, and for weakness he can hardly lift his hand to brush them from his face. So he lies there two days, three days, four days, five days, delirious part of the time, happily unconscious part of the time. The doctor comes and glances at him and goes his way; the slave contractor's agent looks In at the door and curses him. There Is one person that seems to feel a spark of hu man Interest In him. She comes in at noon and gives him a drink and lays her hand on his head and straightens the pillow and chases away tho Insects. She Is one of the convict women that pile brick down there at the drying- place. At last he comes back from the shad, ow-land where he ho* strayed, and the insects drive him to his feet, nnd he puts on the broad stripes and staggers Into the yard. And then his wheelbar row Is put into his hands again and he begins to wheel brick. But they do not exact of him that day nor for many days the 105 loads. JJven^g^he brick yards of Gehenna there Is a limit to brutality. Or maybe it would be 111 if In such a way he should die on the slave contractor's hands. Long after wards he learns that In'the near by town some church society or Salvation Army or some one else had learned that there was a very sick convict and had sent him Invalid’s food and chickens to be made Into broth. *But he never re ceived them. He knew why. And If the agents of society practiced theft upon him, why should he not practice theft upon society? Many were the horrible sights he witnessed and shuddered at In those days before the crushing of the system nad atrophied In him the last nerve of conscious revolt and he had arrived at the state In which he did not care. Three times in one day he saw that same old man whipped, the man that had rheumatism In his back; three times, and for no fault but for falling to make the required number of loads. After the third whipping he was too sore to move and had to be helped to his cot. His rheumatism was very bad, but he lay on his filthy bunk with no covering but a cotton sheet, and be tween the chinks of ths wretched wall of that hut the night wind blew sharp ly upon him. The rags wherewith he was clad scarcely covered him; his rheumatism grew worse; It was In his legs now as much as In his back. To see him struggling along the path with his barrow of heavy brick was a pitia ble sight, but after a time George dldp't notice It. He was sinking Into a lethargy of indifference. He had learn ed to eat his salt pork now—sometimes. Aqd when he could not, his companions would beg It of film. The. whippings went on. Nobody cared, except those that were whipped. George learned, after a time, that the men In charge were obliged by the rules to report to the state prison com missioners every case of punishment, with the cause thereof nnd the name of the person punished, but In fact not one case In twenty was ever so re ported. He knew that because, writing a neat hand, he was employed to copy the reports and had monthly before him the evidence of the dereliction.' Serving Two Matters. The deputy warden that represented the state In clterge of the cami^was also In the jlay of the company, which paid him three times as much as the state paid him and to which his obllga. tlon was in the same proportion. To the contracting company his use seem, ed to be to extract from the convicts the utmost labor at the least cost. To the state his duty was much vaguer. The contracting company was obliged by its contract to feed and clothe the slaves; the function of the state seemed to be that It kept the convicts from running away. Simply that and noth ing more. Nowhere appeared the slight, est suggestion that any of these unfor tunates were men—men, made In the divine image nnd In spite of follies and weaknesses and sins like our own, still men to be pitied and helped antj/re- SET OF $5.00 GOLD CROWNS $4.00 and $5.00 Goig Fillings $1.00 and up Silver Fillings 50c and up Painless extractions FREE when plates are ordered. All work guaranteed 10 years. American Dental Parlqrs Cor. Peachtree and Decatur Sts., Entrance 191-2 Peachtree St. ATLANTA. * formed and redeemed There were rules, George found, of the most beautiful and humane char acter, rules evidently, ileslgned hy kind, hearted men to prevent cruelty and to secure some measure of comfort to the convicts, but all thfc rule* were merely a Jest among the perrons In charge of the camp; no one pretended to observe them. Thus, It was prescribed that the contracting company should • furnish ample food of good quality, good and sufficient clothing, good and clean beds. All these rules were as If they had never existed. In that remote and sel dom-visited spot the deputy warden was the unquestioned master and seemed to have no limit to his sway except the Interest of the contractor. All the conditions seemed framed and victims of this terrible system. In the beginning the contractor had bought the labor of the convicts for 111 a head for each year. Now competitive bid ding had Increased the price to 8225 a head a year, and even more, and be sides the contractor bore the expense of feeding and clothMig: That he might secure a profit on such a bargain it was necessary that the men should be driven .thru long hours to the utmost rapacity of their enduranc. And that was why the deputy warden was on the contractor's pay roll. The Mockery of Inspection. Once In a long time an Inspector from the state prison department came to visit the camp, but hts cdjnlng was In variably known In advance, and the mciCwerc set to work to clean-up the barracks and whitewash the stockade; and when the Inspector capio, for that one meal the men had decent food, and the whip was out of sight. The Inspector went among the convicts to receive compIalntB, but a deputy war den or a yard boss went with him ev erywhere, listening to every word said to him, and the convicts knew too well what would be the consequences to them of any complaint. They were In a trap. In the middle of George's second year, the term of the old rheumatic sufferer expired. He had made A faultless prls. on record, for there Is one gleam of mercy In this system of evil In that the whippings for Insufficient work are not allowed to bo entered against a con vict's record. Therefore, tho old man had earned for good behavior eleven months' commutation. He knew It and was filled with Joy as the day of his freedom drew near. The prison com mission In Atlanta looked over his rec ord and found It good, and the cus tomary order was sent for his release. But he was not released. Instead, he served out his full time, nnd for eleven months longer he tolled with his heavy wheelbarrow up and down the path, battened upon scrape, nnd endured the lash. Another kind of man would have complained, or his friends would have complained for him. This old man was Ignorant, friendless, helpless—and a criminal. So he bore his lot and went forth at last with another sense of In jury burning at his wronged heart. Lessons in a School of Crims. Some Incident* camp to vary the mo notony of hop-or,. the whippings, .the tugging at the wheelbarrow, the strug gle to and fro In the hot sun or the cold mins. Old faces disappeared as men died'or as time won for them an exit from the doors, of hell; new faces appeared as fresh relays of slaves were brought up to feed the Insatiable con tract. At rare Intervals other events broke upon the stupor In which they dragged out their days. One of the pris oners had a mistress, a prostitute of Atlanta, who came sometimes to the camp to see her lover, and then the ex traordinary liberties allowed to this couple awoke a loathsome comment thru the camp. And once n convict stood for a moment by the marge of the swamp, looking at the bright sunlight as It lay on the hills far away, and then plunged suddenly Into the water. In stantly blazing rifle shots awoke the echoes, and guards ran and shot and shouted; an hour passed In excitement until, covered with mud, the fugitive was dragged back, to be beaten first nnd then loaded with heavy shackles that for weeks he must wear. Anil once there was something else. All day the man that was working next to George complained of terrible pain* In his chest and stomach. Rome Instinct of fast-perishing decency must hava revived in George, for he called’ a guard's attention to the case. A yard boss came and looked the man over and ordered him back to work. He toiled In agony, holding, when he could, his hand to his side. At last he fell In a faint. They car ried him to his bunk and that night he died. Hla death was entered nj due to sunstroke. It was no sunstroke; the time was the fall, and the weather was cool^. But what of truth shall the rec ord* bear that are made In such place? Some of the men got pneumonia and died of It. Sometimes they stood for hour* to their knees In Icy water while they worked In the swamp. Always they were ill-clad, Ill-nourished, and Ip ne state to withstand the cold. The contractor furnished shoes as well as clothes, and the shoes were rotten and worthless even when they wm new, nnd went quickly to pieces, sovhat In winter men with bare prolrudlrtg toes walked In the slush. Some had no un derclothes. some had no eoeks. One received a letter from a friend an nouncing that a supply of shoes and socks was about to be sent to him. Some days later he received one pair of socks’ but no shoes. Afterward he noticed a guard that wore socks of a pattern like his and good shoes. But he said nothing. He had no desire for the heavy shackles nor for more beat ings than fell naturally to hit lot. The time wore by and George came to the end of his term. He hod learned to be as sullen, aa defiant, as hardened, as reckless as the Indurated men about him. When at last the doors opened to set him free, a guard said to him; ••Well, I suppose you are going to yegg It." * • And George said: • "By God, I am.” He did. He went back to Atlanta and turned burglar. The Rights of Convicts and Negroes. And was he the only man that went forth from those gates resolved to prey upon the society that had preyed upon him? 1 think not. Was he the only man that ever learned at Gehenna the terrible lesson* of desperation and re venge that are taught dally In that most perfect academy of crime? I think not, by some thousands. Then how shall we justify to ourselves the system that makes criminals and turns them loose to do evil among us and then catches and brands still deeper the very criminals it has mode? Convicts. I know It. Most of them negroes. I know It. Convicts and ne groes, we have decided, are outside the pale of humanity, having no aouls, nor rights nor feelings. I know It. The convict must be punished—society has so decreed; he has done Ul, he has brought his retribution upon himself. I knew It. Then why bother? What Is all this to us? Much: It Is very much to us for three reasons. In the first place, It It had been a horse or a dog that.had been thus beaten and maltreated In the name of the state of Georgia, a million voices would have been raised In ve hement protest, a million hands would have been stretched out to shield the victim. It Is IU for us all, III for our common humanity that to anything In the shape of a man we should do that which we should not endure to have done to a brute. And tfcjs Is true, soul or no soul, rights or no rights. In the second place, for all these things the world at large must pay too dearly. Is Georgia Worse Than Other Statee? In the third place, there la back of the whjpper and his dreadful thong, back of the screaming man on the bar rel, back of the armed guard and the dreary stockade ijnd the contract slaver, a typical American story that holds the glass up to us and shows ex actly what spectacle ws present to the world when we are engaged In our fa vorite national pursuit of dosing the symptoms of an evil lnitead of cutting out Its source. This Is a story of "regulation" os a cure for social wrongs. It Is also a story of how we fare and how ogr victims fare under the beautiful po litical system by which we are en abled to shoulder our civic responsibil ities from one to another and to go smugly and undismayed about our pri vate alms and personal profit, no mat ter wfio Is wronged. Georgia does 111 to tolerate this abom inable system. Oh, yes—how easy It la to say that! Shall the rest of us give thanks that we are not aa the Geor gians? How shall we do that when their trouble Is only one phase of the universal disease, which Is the domi nance of corporation greed and the lack of a way by which our own affairs can be put Ipto qur own hands. Geor gia tolerates one form of the evil; the rest of us tolerate others. For ths same reasons that New Jersey and Pennsyl vania allow themselves to be debauched and defrauded and rotted and ruled bv corporations, Georgia aJtowa this can cer to grow within It, For tjie whole system of leasing con victs, In other words for the whole system of convict slavery, the great majority of the people of Georgia have only abhorrence. Of the hideous things the system Involves they know little or naught, but on general principles and becauso they are a humane and kindly people, they abhor It. Against their will It was forced upon them; they never chose It nor wanted It nor ap proved of It. They have always loathed It; It a proposal to abolish the system could be submitted to a popular vote, It would carry five to one. At any time for many years such a proposal would have carried. And yet this hateful thing continues. Why Conviot 8l*vsry Endures. Why? For two reasons: First, the people of Georgia, being, like the peo ple of the rest of the United States, ursed and clogged with representative Instead of popular government, have no direct control of their own affairs; and, second, the system Is profitable to very powerful Interests. So far these Interests have frustrated every attempt to end the abomination. Therefore, and foy these familiar reasons, behold It still persisting In spite of all the In dictments of Its horror* that cry aloud against It and In spite of the plain evi dence that It Is of no avail In this world, truly none except to break hearts and malm bodies and ruin souls. And these profitable Interests are able to maintain this system of hell In the midst of one of the most enlightened and progressive commonwealths In the "union. » Incidentally, the history of this mat ter Involves a very curious Illustration of another trait of ours, to-wlt, our quucksalvlng device of changing names nnd disguises. Ten or twelve years ago, when the Populists wore powerful In Georgia, they took up convict lsnslng and de clared In their platform thels Intention to annihilate the business. The people of Georgia «t)oweA such a disposition to respond to this program that the ruling powers were alarmed and hastened to make a concession to popular senti ment. So ten years ago the system of making leases was gravely abolished. Thereafter "convict leasing" did not ex ist In Georgia—according to the ruling powers. Instead of leases there were "contracts,” and, tho no conceivable difference resulted In any essential particular, the change of name afforded to some persons thst soothing relief for the conscience that we all are too ready to accept when civic duty In terferes with our Interest. But however the thing may be named, lease or contract or what got, the fact remains that the state does give over to private, unauthorised and Irresponsible persons the care,, control and labor, and therefore the punish ment, of Its offenders; and that to the private persons thus most Improperly endowed with one of the most solemn and perplexing functions of stale, the sole Interest lies In extracting the greatest possible amount of labor at the least ppsslhle cost. Under such a system the most terrible conditions, multiple and Irremediable, are abso lutely assured. It makes little differ ence and can make little that the pres, ent prison commissioners are honest, fulthful. sealous and kindly; It make* little difference that to the very utmost of their power, and unceasingly, they strive to remedy every abuse that Is brought to their attention;* It makea little difference that the legislature re peatedly Investigates the condition of the victims of these contracts. The whole thing la utterly and Incurably and hopelessly evil. Nothing does nor ran affect tile great fatal fact that from the labor of the state's culprits prlvat* persona make gains, that the extent of such gains depends upon the amount of labor that the culprits can be forced to perform, and that >w.rul- prlts are and must be practically at the mercy of those that buy such labor. Result—More Crime. For the year ending May 31, 1807, the state of Georgia had 2,<6< convicts, of whom 1,880 were contracted Into serv itude to various private persons and corporations, and 574 were employed on the county roads. In 1808 the num ber was 1,771 to the contractors and 571 on the county roads. From the labor of these culprits thus sold to pri vate persons, the state In 1308 received 1311,413.84 and lo 1307 3351.455.56. These profits are the sole returns from a system that multiplies criminals, breeds brutality, encourages crime, and puts upon one of the fairest states In the union a hideous blot. If the profits were a thousand times as great, they would be dear at that price. •In the month of March. 1308, the commie- Some Boys’ Suit Reductions —Thai- Will , Make thi Parehtal Pock?tbook Glad One lot of boys’ suits in gray mixtures—double-breasted coats with plain trousers. This lot embraces about 150 suits in many different patterns. ’ > ' • . • Suits that were $4.00, $5.00 and $6.00, reduced to Suits that were $6.50, $7.50 and $8.00, reduced to $2.50 $3.50 All the rest of the boys’ suits in wool weaves or wash material at a uniform reduction of 25 Per Cent -MUSE’S- 3-S-7 Whitehall LEGAL NOTICE8. GEORGIA—Fulton County. Ordinary's Office. July l, ----- — - W. Plaster has applied for lettera of ad ministration on the estate of I). L. Plaster deceased. This la. therefore/ to notify n concerned that the same will he beard o the first Monday In Auauat. next. JOHN If. WILKINSON, Ordinary. GEORGIA—Fulton County Ordinary's Office. July r Rums, guardian of Lula nnd Annie Durham, form*?..* *><••••*. sent* that he has fully discharged the du August, next, wb be discharged. JOHN R. WILKINSON, Ordinary. Ingle, guardian of Robert B.. inlaaton. ...... ... - — K raona concerned to ahow muse. If any ey can, on or before the first Monday Ir August, next, why *n!d guardian should no *» " l * f feft l N*n, WILKHCWW. Orfilnsry, GEORGIA—Pultun County. ter, of illmnlmlon. Thl. I,, therefore, .houlil sot h» ■il.i-hnrgnl. JOHN It, WII.KISBON, Ordinary. GEORGIA—Pulton County. „ „ Orillnnry'. Office, July 8, 1908.—P. tl Brewster, admlnl.trator c.tnt. of An.eli: I.clyli, ilrcMiMMl, represents that he hn they can, on 01 iiefiir* "the first Monday" In Aujust noxt, why said administrator .Mould not lie <11. rh"rgBdjon X n w| ,, KINBOX . Ordinary. GEORGIA—Pnlton Conntjr. IMIVIIIROII, I r irainie fully dfarluirged tho duties of hi. jsld trii.t, nml nrnr. for l.tter, of dtamlo.lon. Thl, l«. therefore, to notify all person, concern ed to .how cauae. If any they r«n, on or Itefore the flr.t Jlond.y In Augnst. nest, why Mid adtnlnl.ttetor should not b, dl,' chnrgod^ |x ^ WH.KINfiON, Ordinary, GEORGIA—Pulton County. . Ordlnnry’. Office, July 8, 1808—G._ W. Elterhnri, sdmlnl.trntnr estate of Ehcrhnrt. deceased, represent, that fully discharged the duties of his Mid trust, and praya for lettera of dtanilsslon. Thlr |a. therefore, to notify ul! persona concern i*d to show cause. If any they can. on 01 In-fore the first Monday In August, .next, why said administrator should not !a» din* Ch * fg *JOHN R, WILKINSON, Ordinary. Ordinary’s Office. July 8, 1PW.—Jonn it. Fuller, administrator estate of W. A. Fuller, deceased, represents that he hap fully dis charged the duties of Ids said trust. and »rays for letters of dlamlaslon. This I*, hcrefort. to notify nl! persona concerned te iliow muse. If any they can, on or before the first Monday In Auguat. next, why said administrator should not be discharged. JOHN B. WILKINSON. Ordinary. GEORGIA—Fulton County. Ordinary's Office. July 8. 1998.—Forrest Adair, administrator estate “ ~ ~ nnd prays for letters of dlamlaslon. This Is therefore, to notify all persona concerned to show cause. If any they ran. on or In*- fore the first Monday lo August, next, why •aid administrator should not be discharged. JOHN R. WILKINSON. Ordinary. GEORGIA—Fnlton County. ordlnnry's Office. Jnly 8, 1908.—T. W. Word, administrator estate of A. R. word, deceased, represents that be has fully dls- inus'-d the duties of h!s said trust, and >rnya for letters t of dismission. This Is, .herefore, to notify all persona concerned to show cauae. If any they ean, on or before the first Monday In August, next, why said administrator should not I* discharged. JOHN R. WILKINSON. Ordinary. IA—Fulton County. rjr’s Office. July 8. lOflw-R. A. Roh. idmlnjstrntor estate of Mrs. M. II. contractors. Issued au order forbidding the deputy wardens to accept auc*^ The commission will Isatie make nny possible change In Utlons rjjnt seems to promise tile least bet* ter went; but bow powerless It la to know GEORGIA—Fulton Count; Ordlnar ertson. ail —.... —... — |{ol9ertson, deceased, represents that he has fully dlacharged the duties of his said trust, and prays for lettera of dismission. This Is. therefore, to notify all persona concern ed to show cause. If any they can. on or t»efore the first Monday In August, next, why aabl administrator should not be dis charged. JOnN R. WILKINHON. Ordinary. OKoKGIAw-Fttlfon County. Ordinary's Office. July 8. 1908.—Hattie E. Massengale. guardian of Alice May, Ethel. Roscoe, Gordon, Leola and Raymond Mas- sengsle. minors, represents that she has fully discharged the duties of her said trust, and praya for lettera of dismission. Thl* la. therefore, to notify all neraons con. why aa! Id guardian should not he discharged! JOHN II. WILKINSON, Ordinary. wbat really goes on In the camps Is shown and the commission has but lately discov ered the fact. But of course It la useless to try to turn a wrong Into a right by hav ing a commission to sit upon It. LEGAL N0TICE8. GEORGIA—Fulton County. Ordlnnry's Office. July 8, 1908.—Hattie Wilson High, administratrix c. t. a. es tate of Joseph M. High, deceased, repre sents that she hns fully discharged the du ties of. her said front, and prays for let* torn or dlamlaslon. This Is. therefore, to notify nil persona concerned to show canse, If nny they can, on or before the first Mon day In August, next, why Mid ndmlnlstra- trlx should not he discharged. JOHN R. WILKINSON, Ordinary. GEORGIA—Fnlton County. Ordinary's Office, July 8, 1908.—Lucy Les ter. executrix will of Walter II. Lester, de ceased. represents tjbnt she has fully dis charged the duties of her snld trust, nod prays for lettera of dismission. This Is. therefore, to notify all persons concerned to ahow cauae. If any they can,, on or be- fore the first Monday In August, next, why Mid executrix should not be discharged. JOHN R. WILKINSON. Ordinary. GEORGIA—Fulton County. Ordlnnry's Office. July i, 1908.—Mrs. F. M. Kimble, formerly Evn N. Houser, adminis tratrix estate of Edward H. Houser, de ceased. represent# thnt she Bns fully dis charged the duties of her snld trust, nnd prays for letters of dismission. This Is. therefore, to notify nil persons concerned to show cause. If nny they cnn. on or be- for* the first Monday In August, next, why snld ndiulnlsftntrlx should not be dls- rh " r *"!jonS n. tVIl.KI.NKON. Onllnnrj\ GEORGIA—Fnlton County. Ordinary's Office. Jnly f. 1998.—Daisy R. Harrison, executrix will of John W. Harri son. deceased, represents thnt she ban fully discharged the duties of her snbl trust, nnd prays for lettera of dismission. This Is. therefore, to notify all persona concerned to show cntise. If any they can, on or be fore the first Monday In August, next, why snld executrix should not In* discharged. JOHN R. Wll.KINBON. Ordinary. GEORGIA—Fulton County. Ordinary's Office. July 8. 1998.—Mary F. Thompson, executrix will of Carle R. Thomp son. deceased, represents that she has fully discharged the duties of her snbl trust, nnd prays for letters of dlsmlMlon. This Is, therefore, to notify nil persons concerned to show enuse. If nny they cnn, on or before the first Monday In August, next, why snld executrix .should not lie discharged. JOHN R. WILKINSON. Ordinary. GEORGIA—Fnlton County. Ordinary’s Office, July 8. 1908.—Fnnnle G. nnd R. 1,. Ktover, ndmlnlstra tors of es tate of John A. Stover, deceased, represent that, they hnve fully discharged the duties of their Mid trust, nnd pray for lettera of dismission. This Is, therefore, to notify all 1 >ers<>ns concerned to show canse. If any thev can, on or before tho first Monday In August, next, why Mhl administrators should not In* dlsi'hnrgcfl. JOHN R. WILKINSON. Ordinary. GEORGIA—Fnlton County. Ordinary’s Office, July 8. 1908.—Trust Coni* iiauv of Georgia, administrator eatate of William II. Kean, deceased, represents thnt It baa fully discharged the duties of Its snbl trust, nnd praya for lettera of dtsmla* slon. This is. therefore, to notify all per sons concerned to show csiim. If any they cnn. on nr liefnre the first Monday in Au guat. next, why Mid administrator should «0t lie discharged. JOHN R. WILKINSON. Ordinary. GEORGIA—Fulton County. Ordlnnry's Office. July 8, 1908.—W. R. Joy- per nnd George K. Johnson, executors of will of Jacob Emtnell, deceased, represent thnt they have fully discharged the duties of their snbl trust, and pray for letters of dismission. This Is. therefore, to notify nil persons concerned to show cause. If any they can, on or before the first Monday In August, next, why Mbl executors should not l*e discharged. JOHN H. WILKINSON. Ordinary. GEORGIA-Fnltpn County. Ordlnnry'a Office. July 8, 1988.—J. Wylie Smith has npplled for lettera of administra tion on the estate of Pannle W. Ilnllejr, de- censed. Tbla 1* therefore to notify nil con cerned that the Mine will be beard on. the flr.1 XMfiajt jj> fviT.KINSON, Qntinarr. OEOHfHA—Fulton Conntjr. Orilln-rz*. Offire. Jul. 9. UOfl.—D. J. Ba- k*r. z’l.rill.n of Alz.nl. B.k.r and A. B. Latham, minora. rrprrarBta that hf has fall? fllnobarcml th. dull., of hla asld treat, and prajr. for l.tt.r. of dl.ml.alon, Thla la therefore to notify all persona concerned to ■how cause, If «ny they cao. on or before the first Monday in August next, why Mid guardlsn should not he discharged. JOHN R. WILKINSON. Ordinary. GEORGIA—Fulton County. Court of Ordinary, Chambers. July 8, 1908. —To the heirs at law of J. E. Crane, de- ceased: John 1*. Coleman having applied for an order requiring Robert Crone, the ad ministrator of the estate of Mid deceased, to execute title under a bood for title, you are hereby cited to be and appear at the next August term of aald court, to lie held on the first Monday In Anjraat uext. then find there to show enuae. Ir any you can, why said order should not be granted. JOHN R. WILKINSON, Ordinary. GEORGIA—Fnlton Connty. * Court of OrdlnaYy, Chambers, Jnly 8, 1908. —To the heirs at law .of Rouse H. Egejston, ilreraMd: lira. Annie WIIII.rn.on h.rlnz .ppllnl for an ord»r requlrinz William | Scott, the executor of the will of said de- | censed, to execute title under n bond for ! title, yon are hereby cited to.be and appear at tne next Augnst term of Mid court, to be held on the first Monday In August next, then and there to show cause. If any you can, why eald order should not In* granted. JOHN R. WILKINSON, Ordinary. LEGAL N0TICE8. their objections. If any they hare, on or before the first Monday In August next, else leave will then be granted aald appli cant, as applied for. JOHN B. WILKINSON, Ordinary. GEORCJIA—Fulton County. . ‘ 9«£ ou ^ of binary, at Chambers, July 8. 19QJL—The appraisers on the application of Belinda Peavey McGregor, widow of Malcolm McGregor, deceased, for « twelve months' support for herself, having duly filed their return, all persons are hereby cited to show cause. If any they have, at the next Auguat term of this court, why said application should not be granted. JOHN U. WfLKINBON. Ordinary. GEORGIA—Fulton County. r ™ Court of Ordinary, at Chambers. July 8, 1908.—The appraisers on the application of Alllo Anbury, widow of Kpple N. Anbury, deceased, for a twelve hionths' support for herself nnd minor children, having duly filed niiKimi ii:rni m inm inuri, wny snu entlnn should not be granted. JOHN B. WILKINwON, Ordinary. ill!I A L'liltnh I'nnnlr (I Finite 11 A—Fill ton County. Ordlnnry's Office. Jnly 8, 1908.—EUn 8. Webb, gunrdlnn of Hasel E. and Vivian E. Conner, minors, has applied for lenre to sell the land of Mid minors. This Is there fore to notify nil concerned to file their ol»- Jeetlonn, If nny they have, on or before the JOHN B. WILKINHON, Ordinary. frteORGfA—Fnlton County. Ordlnnry's Office, July 8. 1908.-W. n. Mitchell, administrator estate of W. s. Martin, deceased, has applied for lenve to sell the land of sab! deceased. This la therefore to notify all concerned to flic their objections. 1/ any they have, on or before the first Monday In August next, else lenve will then be granted said appllrnnt, ns ap* piled for. JOHN R. WILKINSON, Ordlnnry. GFloROli—Fnlton bounty. . Ordlnnry's Office, July 8, 1908.—Mnry Hng- land, administratrix estate of George Hng- land. deceased, has applied for leave to sell the land of an Id deceased. This Is therefore to notify all concerned to file their ohjec- tlnns, If any they hnve, on or before the first Monday In August next, else lenve will then be granted snbl applicant, as nppltal JOHN R. W1LKIXHON, Ordinary. I" flinw rniisr, 14 nuj 11 tho first Monday In Angustmext. why If. Winn, administrator estate of Thomns Courtlnml fc«. Winn, ns n.lmlnNt-nt r am! |J. Pollard, deceased, has applied for leave gunrdlnn as nfore-i.iM. should net l»e dts to sell ihe land of sold deceased. This Is charged from sold trusts thtrefpfc to , notify all concerned to fila JOHN U. WILKINSON, Ordinary. GEORGIA—Fulton Bounty. Cotjrt of Ordinary, Chambers, Jnly 8, 1908. —To the heirs at law of Martha C. Fleming, deceased, who reside out of said State: Hnrnh Margaret Fleming having, ns execu* trfx, applied for probate In solemn foym of the Inst will of snld deceased, you nre here by cited to In* slid sppesr nt the next Au* gust term of snbl court, to he held on the first Monday lu August next, ns said will of said deceased will then be offered for pro bate In solemn form. ■ . JOHN R. WILKINSON, Ordinary, GEORGIA—Fulton Comity. Ordinary's Office. July 8, 1908.—Notice Is hereby glveq to nil concerned that Stephen A. Ryan, Inte of snbl county, died Intestate, nnd no t>crann tins npplled for administra tion on the estate of snbl deceased, nnd that administration will In* vested In the county Tor, or some other fit ami proper the first Mnndny In August next, unless valid objei-tlon la made thereto. JOHN R. WILKINSON, Ordinary- Ilea. July Tlrnsnolskl has applied for lettera of admin istration on the estate of Kilns Tower, .de ceased. This Is therefore trt notify all con- ' that the same wilt he beard on ths londny In August next. JOHN R. WILKINSON. Ordinary, This Is therefore to notify all con- that the same will be heard on tha first Monday In August next. JOHN' 11 WILKINSON, Ordinary. Ordinary's Office. July 8. 1908.—Daisy E. Monday In August next. JOHN R. WILKINSON, Ordinary. ordinary's Office. . ... _______ ley Smith has npplled for lettera of ad- llatrntlon on the estate of F. X. Bliley, eased. This Is therefore to notify oil icerned that the same will he heard on first Monday In August next.. JOHN B. WILKINSON, Ordinary. Ordinary's Office, Jnly 8. 190B.-S. J. Mitch- II has applied for loiters of administration n the estate of J. J. Mitchell, deceased. JOHN It. WILKINSON. Ordinary. Winn, as administrator ef the estate ... D. Latta. all deceased, nnd as guardbin of Fiord Crrmes, Frieda Ilentchd Irby. Era and Cedi Usher and John Albert, minors, represents that he hns fully dls