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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 •3ujuioo 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 Is sent *ree. It Is a complete guide to painting. It Includes a book of color schemes for either exterior or inter ior painting, a book of specifications and an instrument for detecting adul teration in paint materials. Nearly every dealer has National Lead Company’s pure white lead. (Dutch Boy Painter trademark). If yours has not notify National Lead Cos., and arrangements will be made for you to get it. Never operate during periods of de pression, particularly financial. 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. 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Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is in flamed yon have a rumbling sound or imper fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is tho result, and unless the in matiou can be taken out and this tube re stored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten arecausedbycatarrh, which is nothingbutan inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused bycatarrh) that can not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free. F. J. Cheney & Co.,Toledo,o. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. Dishwashers will naturally turn to the popular varieites of wash goods for their working costumes. For dress what could be more appropriate than china silk? BABY’S WATERY ECZEMA. 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