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EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN
Plans for Georgia Work Out
lined at Conference.
TWO COMMITTEES APPOINTED
It Wan Shown That Georgia Teachen
are Poorly Paid for Their Services.
Plea for Free Text Books.
Atlanta, Ga. —Georgia Is on the
even of a great educational campaign.
Thin fact was brought out conclusive
ly at the Georgia conference In At
lanta, where the large number of
prominent educators from every sec
tion of the state went on record as
being in lavor of a fixed policy look
ing to wind in lu end, and the confer
ence, beiore adjourning, appointed a
committee of lifteen to outline this
campaign.
This committee is to report to the
business men’s committee of lUU
prominent citizens of the state, of
which S. M. Inman of Atlanta, as
chairman, is to can at an early date.
It is believed the plan adopted by
the subcommittee from the confer
ence will he accepted by the busi
ness men’s committee, and a cam
paign luud for education win ue rais
ed in Georgia, and the campaigners
started out before the beginning of
the new year.
State '1 reasurer R. E. Park was
named chairman of the meeting by
acclamation. Professor T. J. Woof
ter of tne University of Georgia ot
tered a set of resolutions wnicn were
linally adopted.
Summarized, they called for the fol
lowing Improvements In the school
system as it exists today:
1. The need of a fixed state tax, a
constitutional amendment for the sup
port of education.
2. A more thorough organization of
the school system in Georgia; (a;
state school commissioner to be state
superintendent of scnools. In fact;
fbj county school superintendents in
stead of county schools commission
ers; (c) state supervisors of educa
tlou to aid the state superintendent.
3. The formal organization where
by the state colleges and secondary
schools shall work in close harmony.
4. Better provision for the training
of more teachers; and,
a. Ultimate compulsory education
foi the state.
Professor Woofter stated that the
fifth suggestion wus not to he ex
pected until tlie other had been car
.ied Into successful practice.
The following letter from J. E.
Brown of Atlanta was received:
“Petitions are being circulated to
Induce the legislature to pass a law
In favor of compulsory education. It
i* my opinion that it would be unfair
to pass such a law unless the state
la willing to furnish free textbooks.
There are many poor people who are
scarcely able to give to their chil
dren tne cheapest of food and cloth
ing; and it would be impossible for
them to buy textbooks aiul other par
aphernalia required by the modern
school room. When books as well as
school houses and teachers are pro
vided for the children, then may they
'be required to attend. But why
should the rich and well-to-do wish
to legislature a burden and an im
possibility upon the poor?”
CAUSE OF ANUEKSUNVILLE MORTALITY.
Dr. H. F. Harris Claims the Hook
worm Disease Killed Many.
Atlanta, Ga. —That the excessive
mortality at the confederate military
prison at Andersonville, Ga., was due
to the hookworm disease, a cause
not r.t that time known or under
stood, is the belief of Dr. H. F. Har
ris, secretary of Georgia's state
.board of health. This theory was
first advanced by Dr. W. F. Arnold,
United States navy, retired.
While he has had decided opinions
of his own upon the subject for some
time, Dr. Harris has withheld them
in the absence of confirmatory inves
tigation, which has recently b.een
forthcoming; and these inquiries and
examinations by official and non-offi
cial medical men have led them to
the same conclusion.
The present prolific existence of
the hookworm at and around Ander-
Bonville, has been established beyond
all question. The hookworm was
probably brought to America from
Africa by the negroes brought here
as slaves, and here it has continued
to thrive and to multiply.
That conditions for the rapid prop
agation of the hookworm and its suc
cessful entrance into the body of those
exposed to the ground, in rapidly mul
tiplying numbers, were all present at
Audersonville at the time the con
federate prison was maintained there,
Investigation has established almost
beyond any reasonable doubt.
Badly clothed and poorly fed be
cause conditions made it impossible
to do more than was done, the pris
oners were constantly exposed to the
ground upon which they walked with
bare fleet and upon which they slept,
and Dr. Harris and the other medi
cal authorities who have examined
into this question do not hesitate to
express the belief, which, with them,
approximates a feeling of certainty
that the hookworm uisease got in
there its deadly work.
Additional weight is given this view
from the fact that the mortality
among the guards who were fed and
clothed just about the same as feder
al prisoners, was in almost every re
spect similar to that among the pris
oners themselves.
Something like .14,000 persons died
at Andersonville during the war, and
vhe records show that there was a
proportionate mortality among the
federal prisoners and their confeder
ate guards.
liELKGIA NEWS IN PARAIiHAPHS.
The Georgia firemen closed their
work at Macon after a highly satis
factory convention. Chief Thomas
Balentine of Savannah was made
president; C. C. Bunn of Cedartown,
vice president; E. E. Thompson of
Cordole, secretary; Chief James of
Albany, treasurer; Chief McArthur of
Americus, Ga., statistician. The con
vention goes to Savannah next time.
A state organizer will be Out with a
view of bringing together all the de
partments In the organization by the
time another session is held.
So far there has come nothing but
approval of the plan to work the
white convicts temporarily on the
public roads in the larger counties,
which are prepared to care for them
as the la wiequires. The belief is
growing that this will ultimately
prove to be the proper and satisfac
tory solution of the problem of deal
ing with the white .convicts.
The mutilated skeleton of a woman
was found under the steps of the old
Second Baptist Church at Augusta by
a negro. It was placed there by .boys
who found it in a yard nep.rby. It is
thought that the body wr., stolen
from the dissecting room of the med
ical college some days ago.
Thirty white convicts who are able
to do manual labor were brought from
the state iu Baldwin county and
divided equally between Fulton and
DeKalb counties. This gives Fulton
a gang of about eighty and DeKalb
about forty white convicts on their
public roads, In addition to the negro
gangs which they secured in the gen
eral distribution.
The supreme court decided in the
case of J. D. Holloway, against the
Macon Gas Light and Water Compa
ny, that a citizen cannot sue for an
alleged loss on account of failure in
the performance of a contract made
between a municipality and a private
corporation.
Judications are that the railroad
commission was not a unit in the mat
ter of certain suits for penalties for
failure to conform to the commis
sion’s rules with regard to the pay
ment of reciprocal demurrage, which
the commission has requested Gover
nor Smith to have instituted against
the Central of Georgia and the South
ern Railway. There is said to be at
least one member of the railroad com
mission who thinks that the law in
this matter is largely on the side of
the railroads. It involves the old
question as to whether, after a cat
load of freight reaches the city of its
destination a subsequent movement
to the side tracks or yards of anoth
er railroad company Is a transporta
tion movement or simply a drayage
service. Under the present rules of
the Georgia Railroad Commission it
is a transportation movement, and is
required to be performed at a speci
fied rate, under penalty of demur
rage, which must be paid the eon
signee In the event of delay or re
fusal. The railroads hold that it Is
a dray age movement and that as they
are not in the drayage business they
are not in the drayage business they
there is a legal question in the case
which has never been definitely de
termined by the courts, and the rail
roads contend that they are not liable
for demurrage under these circum
stances. This is said to .be the rea
son why Governor Smith proposes to
make a full investigation of the mat
ter before he orders the suits brought
as the commission has requested. *
State School Commissioner Jere M.
Pound, Dr. A. M. Soule, president of
the State Agricultural College at Ath
ens, and State Chemist R. E. Stal
lings of .Georgia have .been named
by Secretary Wallace of the Cotton
Seed Crushers’ Association of Geor
gia as the state judges to pass upon
the compositions, now being written
by the school children of Georgia. In
February this association offered SIOO
m gold for'the four best compositions
written by the school children of
this state on “Cotton Seed Products
as a Human, Animal and Plant Food,"
limiting each composition to 750
words. The prizes are SSO for the
first, $25 for the second, sls for the
tith'd and $lO for the fourth. Several
weeks ago School Commissioner
Pound sent out a circular letter t®
the county school commissioners call
ing their attention to this offer and
asking their co-operation in having
the children study up on this won
derful southern by-product of King
Cotton and enter the contest. Asa
result the department of agriculture
has been besieged with requests for
literature on this subject of feeding
cotton seed meal to cattle, its use as
au ingredient for commercial fertili
zer and the relation it bears to the
pure food law as a human food.
A $50,000 plant for the manufacture
of steel work for buildings and for
railroad and county highway bridges
has been located in Atlanta, and dirt
has already been broken for the foun
dations. The Virginia Bridge and
Iron Works will erect the plant as a
branch of its main plant at Roanoke,
Virginia.
The Americus board of trade dis
cussed at length the proposition of
fered the city by eastern mill inter
ests for the erection here of a cot
ton mill to cost a half million dol
lars, and employ not less than 500 op
eratives. The direct offer has been
made of an investment of $350,00t)
of outside capital if tho business men
of Americus will subscribe the addi
tional $160,000, thus making it a
half million dollar plant. While In
New York recently President Frank
Lanier of the Americus board of
trade conferred with cotton manufac
turers to the end of interesting them
in southern investments, and quite
successfully, as the offer to invest
$350,000 here was immediately forth
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SAVING PAINT MONEY.
It Cannot He Done by Using Cheap
Material and Cheap Painters.
in arranging for painting, a good
many property owners try to save
money by employing the painter who
offers to do the job cheapest—or try
to save money by Insisting on a low
priced paint. But no property owner
would run such risks If he realized
what must be taken Into considera
tion In order to get a Job that will
wear and give thorough satisfaction.
No houseowner will go wrong on
the painting question If he writes Na
tional Lead Company, 1902 Trinity
Building, New York, for their House
owners' Painting Outfit No. 49, which
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schemes for either exterior or inter
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and an instrument for detecting adul
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Nearly every dealer has National
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(Dutch Boy Painter trademark). If
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Cos., and arrangements will be made
for you to get it.
Never operate during periods of de
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Tetterine Cures an Orphan’s
Tetter.
Bell Haven Orphan Home, Ruling, Texas.
Thl is to certify that I have tested
the merits of Tetterine among the chil
dren of this home and find it to be a suc
cess. One little girl had a very bad case
of tetter on her head which had taken
most of her hair out. I could notice
some Improvement after using the sec
ond application, and after one week’s
treatment all traces were gone and her
hair commenced to grow back. I can
earnestly recommend Tetterine tor all
skin diseases. Yours respectfully,
Miss Jennie Clark, Supt,
Bell Haven Orphan's Home.
Tetterine cures Eczema, Tetter, Ring
Worm, Ground Itch, Itching Piles, In
fant’s Sore Head. Pimples, Boils, Rough
Scaly Patches on the Face, Old Itching
Sores, Dandruff, Cankered Scalp, Bun
ions, Corns, Chilblains and every form of
Skin Disease. Tetterine 50c; Tetterine
Soap 25c. Your druggist, or by mall from
the manufacturer, The Shuptrine Cos.,
Savannah, Ga.
Sicily’s Wheat and Fruits.
Sicily was the “granary of Rome”
In former days. Wheat grows to an
enormous height, and the ears sel
dom contain less than sixty grains.
The rice is the finest on earth. I buy
it at 10 cents a pound to make that
famous dish —“riso el buterro e from
agio.” No other rice answers the
purpose. The most bountiful crops of
Germany and France, of England and
Austria-Hungary, present to the Sicil
ian the image of sterility. A Sicilian
watermelon Is a dream. It was the
original nectar of the gods. No Geor
gia rattlesnake variety is in its
class. Indian figs and aloes are won
derful, the former serving as food
for the poor. The pomegranate
reaches its highest perfection along
the southern coast, and is shipped to
all parts of the world under the
name of “punlca,” In honor of the
Punic war; It was brought from Car
thage into Italy by the Romans.—New
York Press. • - ,
Evil Communications,
“Here,” said Johnson, entering the
dealer’s shop in a rage, “ thought you
guaranteed that parrot I bought two
days ago to be quire free of objec
tionable habits. Why, it has done
nothing but swear once I got It.”
“Ah! sir, it’s wonderful how soon
them birds get corrupted in new quar
ters. I should ha’ been more careful
who I sold him to. I didn’t thing you
was that sort a gent.”—Tit-Bits.
“COFFEE DOESN’T HURT ME”
Tales That Are Told.
“I was one of the kind who wouldn’t
believe that coffee was hurting me,"
says a N. Y. woman. ‘‘You just
couldn’t convince me Its use was con
nected with the heart and stomach
trouble I suffered from most of the
time.
“My trouble finally got so bad I
had to live on milk and toast almost
entirely for three or four years. Still
I loved the coffee and wouldn’t be
lieve it could do such damage.
“What I needed was to quit coffee
and take nourishment in such form
as my stomach could digest.
“I bad read much about Postum,
but never thought it would fit my
case until one day I decided to quit
coffee and give it a trial and make
sure about it. So I got a package
and carefully followed the directions.
“Soon I began to get better and
was able to eat carefully selected
foods without the aid of pepsin or
other digestants and It was not long
before I was really anew woman
physically.
“Now I am healthy and sound, can
eat anything and everything that
comes along and I know this wonder
ful change is all due to my having
quit coffee and got the nourishment
I needed through this delicious
Postum.
“My wonder is why everyone don’t
give up the old coffee and the trou
bles that go with it and build them
selves up aB I have done, with
Postum.”
Easy to prove by 10 days’ trial of
Postum In place of coffee. The re
ward Is big.
“There’s a Reason."
Ever read the above letter? Anew
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
The biggest surprise in the spot
cotton market in lecent years occur
red at Selma, Ala., when C. A. Mc-
Kinnon purchased 3,000 bales at an
average price of 10 cents a pound.
The rioting which occurred at Vel
ardena, Mexico, the big coal mining
camp in the state of Coahuila, recent
ly, was more serious than at first re
ported, thirty-two men being killed
and many injured. The trouble was
instigated by Father Valenzuela, the
parish priest, it is asserted, who lies
-in a hospital hovering between life
and deatn. Fourteen of the rioters
nave been summarily executed by the
government troops, and many impris
oned. Many Americans reside in Vel
ardena, the camp being controlled by
American capital.
Rear Admiral Gregorieff and Lieu
tenant Smirnoff, subordinate officers
under Vice Admiral Nebogatoff in the
Russo-Japanese war, have been par
doned and released from confinement
at St.. Petersburg, Russia. These of
ficers were sentenced to death for
having surrendered their commands,
but, in view of extenuating circum
stances, their sentences were com
muted to ten years’ imprisonment in
a fortress. They began serving thei* -
sentences in 1907. It is reported that
General Stoessel and Vice Admiral
Nebogatoff also will be pardoned
shortly.
Workmen in the Louisville and
Nashville machine shops, in Louis
ville, Ky., missed Charles H. Wal
dron, aged 50 years. They climbed
to the top of a huge boiler in which
he had been working and saw him
lying prone. It was found that a
gas pipe leading to the big tube had
sprung a leak and that Waldron had
died in the depths of the boiler.
Nearly $200,000 more a year is be
ing paid for school books by the
school children of Chicago than the
prices charged for the same text
books in other cities. This is the
estimate of aggregate overcharges
formed by a special investigating
committee of the board of education
appointed early last winter.
George F. Heath of Ellenville, N.
Y., who is believed to be the oldest
printer in the world in point of active
service, recently took a few days’
vacation before starting in for another
year at the “case.” Heath has spent
sixty-four years setting type, and al
though he is eighty-two years of age,
he is still able to do a good day’s
work on the local papers at Ellen
ville.
Denunciation of the principle of
protection and of the tariff legisla
tion now pending in congress as a
pretense and a show, formed the key
note of the addresses at the annual
dinner of the National Democratic
Club in New York City, in celebra
tion of the one hundred and sixty
sixth anniversary of the birth of Thos.
Jefferson. There were present a
number of democratic notables.
Washington.
President Taft announced to an
Augusta, Ga., lady that he would make
Augusta his winter home in the fu
ture.
President Taft has declined to in
terfere in the casq of Joaquin Segre
ra, convicted on the Panama canal
zone of murder, and the sentence of
death will be carried out on May 7.
The case was called to Mr. Taft’s
attention during his visit to the ca
nal zone before he was inaugurated.
The United States supreme court
denied a rehearing of the Waters-
Pierce Oil company case, which it
recently decided against the com
pany.
Presenting a united and unanimous
front in favor of the movement, thir
ty-seven out of the forty-eight, gover
nors of the states and territories have
written to Commissioner McFarland,
chairman of the committee, to change
the date of inauguration. Letters
will be written to the remaining 12
governors again bringing the matter
to their attention an drequesting their
co-operation. The committee is hope
ful of getting action at the present
session of congress and are awaiting
future developments.
J. O. LaFontisse of Jacksonville,
connected since last July with the for
estry bureau, was found dead in the
bath room adjoining his roolh at a
Washington hotel. The gas in the
room was turn on. The coroner, not
satisfied as to the cause of death, has
deferred giving a death certificate un
til after he can make a more thor
ough examination. 1 Mr. LaFontisse
was for a number of years connect
ed with newspapers of Florida.
The statement was given out from
the United States district attorneys
office at Muscogee, Okla., that the
government had decided to abandon,
any further prosecutions of Governor
Charles N. Haskell and six other
prominent Oklahomans, recently In
volved in the Huscogee town lot
cases.
Not satisfied with breaking gunnery
records in shooting at moving targets
similar in outline to English sloops,
the Atlantic battleship fleet in its
regular battle practice during the
coming summer will have real tor
pedo boats to “shoot up.” The tor
pedo beats Nicholson and O’Brien
have been selected as the “victims.”
These vessels will be taken from the
Norfolk navy yard to Annapolis,where
the machiery will be removed and
used in the instruction of the mid
shipmen at the Naval Academy. In
order to make them unsinkable and
prevent the damage of the big guns
from being too great to spoil their
usefulness as targets, the vessels will
be filled with cork.
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