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STATE ASSEMBLY BUSY
Maximum Penalty for Bigamy
Made Twenty Years.
LIABILITY BILL PASSED UPON
Appropriation* for State lntitution Fa
vorably Acted Upon—Fertilizer
Bills Discussed.
Atlanta, Ga. —The senate officially
declared that the bigamist was a
much blacker criminal than existing
laws make him appear and increased
the maximum penalty for this crime
to twenty years. The minimum re
mains at two years. Under the pres
ent law the maximum punishment is
imprisonment for four years.
The senate voted down the bill to
Increase the salaries of judges of tho
court of appeals from $4,000 to $6,000.
The effort to have the senate recon
sider its former vote on the bigamy
bill called forth an earnest and elo
quent plea from Senator Burwell in
behalf of Georgia women and the
sauctity of the home.
The bill of Senator Rutherford, in
creasing the powers of the state bank
examiner and providing more strin
gent regulations for state banks, was
reported favorably by the committee
on banking and surrency, with some
amendments. The original bill re
quired the (payment in full of capital
stock of all chartered banks, the
minimum capital allowed being $25,-
000. An amendment was added by
the committee, which leaves this mat
ter within tlie discretion of the state
treasurer.
The committee on railroads reported
favorably the house bill allowing free
rides on street cars to policemen and
firemen, and, by unanimous consent,
It was pased to second reading.
The senate passed the bill.
By Senators Price and McCurry, to
require assessment insurance compa
nies in this state to submit, upon tho
notice of deaths of insured, or loss,
the number of parties composing the
division in which death occurred, and
to provide penalty.
In the house, the employers’ liabil
ity bill was favorably acted upon by
the general judiciary committee and
the measure was reported by substi
tute with the recommendation that it
do pass.
This action by the committee came
after many vigorous arguments had
been made against the bill by counsel
for railroads operating in Georgia and
after a vigorous attack upon the meas
ure by Hon. Joe Hill Hall, chairman
of the committee.
The bill provides that in case the
employee has contributed to his own
injury he may recover damages, but
the amount of such recovery shall be
reduced in proportion to the degree
of his negligence.
The general judiciary committee
also agreed to report favorably the
following bills:
A bill to prohibit the publication in
periodicals or the sending over the
telegraph wires the name of any wom
an upon whom a criminal assault was
committed or attempted.
The railroad committee of the house
voted to kill the bill requiring all
railroads in this state to stop all pas
senger trains at all county Seats.
They also voted down a bill to pro
vide for the examination of firemen
and other railway employees by a
board of examiners.
Several representatives of fertilizer
manufacturers and other persons ap
peared before the house committee on
general agriculture to oppose any
change in the present, law affecting
the marking, branding and sale of
commercial fertilizers.
Those opposing the hills introduced
by Mr. McMichael of Marion and Mr.
Edwards of Walton to change exist
ing laws, were Harry C. Fisher of
Atlanta; Harry Hodgson of Athens,
Mayor Robert F. Maddox of Atlanta
and others.
The present law prescribes how fer
tilizers shall be maiked, branded and
registered with the composiiion and
weight of the package and other facts.
The McMichael law proposes to add a
provision requiring tiie manufacturer
to state from what the potash is made
and also the source of the filler.
It is provided in the bill that, if a
farmer finds that fertilizers sold him
have been misbranded, and loss to his
crops results from the use of such fer
tilizer, he may recover from the man
ufacturer for the loss of the crops.
The Edwards bill prohibits the use,
of any artificial filler.
The senate committee on agricul
ture heard a comprehensive argument
from Captain R. F. Wright of the
state agricultural department, in be
half of an appropriation of $3,000 to
fight the cattle tick; and an appropri
ation of $2,300 to employ a state vet
erinarian.
The following appropriations for the
maintenance of state institutions were
favorably acted upon: For state sani
tarium at Milledgeville, for 1910, $424.-
522; for 1911, $430,992, an increase of
$10,000; for the University of Georgia,
at Athens, $37,500, an increase of $3,-
000; for Georgia School of Technol
ogy, $70,000, an increase o SIO,OOO ;
or the Georgia Normal and Industrial
College at Milledgeville, $42,500, an
increase of $7,500; for North Georgia
Agricultural College, $21,500, no in
crease; for State Normal College at
Athens $42,000, an increase of $3,000;
for State Agricultural College at Ath
ens SOO,OOO, an increase of SIO,OOO,
which was appropriated with the un
derstanding that this amount is to
be used in holding farmers’ institutes
over the state for the purpose of edu
cating farmers in the most approved
methods of agriculture.
SHOT WHEN HE TOOK JACK POT.
Shooting at Hotel in Albany Enlivens
Alleged Poker Game.
Albany, Ga—The St. Nicholas ho
tel was the scene of a sensational af
fair recently between L. H. Glenn, of
Abbeville, sheriff of Wilcox county,
and G. B. McDuffy, marshal of Leary,
when it is alleged that Glenn shot
.VlcDuffey when the latter grabbed
the money of a “jaclqiot” in the po
ker game in which he had been los
ing steadily and attempted to leave
the room with it.
Both men were put under arrest,
Glenn charged with assault and bat
tery, carrying concealed weapons, as
sault with intent to murder and gam
bling, and .VlcDuffey charged with
gambling.
.VlcDuffey was wounded in the ear
by tlie ball fom Glenn’s pistol as it
grazed by his head.
Glenn claims that he struck McDuf
fey with the pistol which was acci
dentally discharged.
Following the arrests of these men,
four other cases were made against
parties alleged to be gambling in the
hotel. They were A. S. McLendon,
of Oordele, W. R. Beazley, of Jackson
ville, Fla., D. B. Motley and Charlie
Daniel, of Albany.
All the parties arrested waived com
mitment hearing and made bonds for
their appearance at the next term of
court.
NO ADVANCE IN LUMBER.
Lumber Dealers Place Orders With
Mills.
Valdosta, Ga. —The lumbeh brokers
in this city were somewhat amused
and the saw mill owners incensed by
the publication of a dispatch from Sa
vannah in the state papers recently,
to the effect that, the mill men of
Georgia, and other states hid fair to
“kill the goose that laid the golden
egg” by arbitrarily raising the prices
of lumber anywhere from $3 to $4 per
thousand feet, and by ignoring the
brokers in that city.
Valdosta wholesalers say they are
experiencing no trouble in placing
all the orders they have with the mill
men in this section at practically the
prices that have ruled for some time,
in no cases are they paying more than
$1.25 advance over the prices of even
four or six months.
TO LAY CORNER STONE.
Ex-Governor Smith Will Be Orator
of Day.
Thomaston, Ga.—Wednesday, Aug
ust 4, has been set as the date for
(he laying of the corner stone of the
new school building and unditorium
of R.' E. Lee institute. It is planned
to hold an educational rally at the
same time, to which all the friends
of the school from several counties
will be invited. Ex-Governor Hoke
Smith will be the principal speaker
and addresses will be delivered by
prominent alumni of the institution
and well known educators from differ
ent parts of the state.
The corner stone will be laid by the
Masons, Grand Master Thomas H.
Jeffries, of Atlanta, officiating.
After the exercises of the day an
old-fashioned Georgia barbecue will
be served to the visitors.
Bibb County to Purchase New Farm.
Macou, Ga. —Bibb county will spend
the sum of twenty thousand dollars
this month for anew county farm.
Bibb has at present a good farm for
which it paid fifteen thousand dol
lars a few years ago, but the county
has outgrown the present place, and
anew one will have to be secured
if the county wishes to continue to
raise hay and vegetables. During
the last few years enough hay has
been raised upon the farm to more
lhan supply the county with a third
of the hay needed during the year.
Vegetables arid pork have also been
raised to such an extent that the
farm has been a very valuable ad
junct, and next year the commission
ers intend to branch forward and see
just how much money they can make
for the county through agricultural
pursuits.
Plans to Draw Trade.
Savannah, Ga. —Savannah is to
have another organization, the pur
pose of which will be to draw trade
to Savannah. The Merchants and
Manufacturers’ association will be
formed here in a few days. Its mem
bership will consist of the jobbers
and wholesalers of Savannah. The
purpose of the organization is to in
crease Savannah’s wholesale and job
bing trade.
The fact that Baltimore houses are
bringing retail dealers through Sa
vannah and sending them to Balti
more by shiploads has moved the Sa
vannah merchants to action. It is
hoped through the organization, which
will boa sort of branch of the cham
ber of commerce, to get the business
of many merchants in territory hith
erto unworked by Savannah wholesal
ers.
Will Protect Hoads.
Bruinswick, Ga.—Glynn county’s
commissioners propose to preserve
the shelled roads, as far as possible,
as is shown by the unanimous in
dorsement by that body of a bill now
before the legislature to prohibit log
carts from using the public improved
roads of this county. Lumbermen
owning mills in the county are pre
paring to fight the bill.
Cotton Receipts Increase.
Athens, Ga.—Athens has this sea
son gone far beyond all her previous
records in cotton receipts. The re
ceipts last year were a little more
thari 110,000 Dales; this season, up to
July 14, the receipts amounted to 124,-
31*7. showing an increase of nearly
15,000 bales.
MADE DRUNK ON AIR.
Alcoholic Atmosphere Has Disturb
ing Effects on Strangers.
There can be no doubt that the air
of distilleries, wine and spirit vaults
must contain appreciable quantities of
alcohol. The stranger on his first
visit to the great sherry bodegas in
the south of Spain, experiences at
first a decided sense of exhilaration
with quickening of the pulse, follow
ed by a narcotic effect, a feeling of
languor and headache. In the great
brandy stores of Cognac, again, to
some people the air is sickening.
It might be naturally expected that
the more volatile constituents of
wines and spirits would be the first
to evaporate into the air, and possibly
the volatile ethers would thus pre
vartl. It has been said that the effect
of inhaling the air of the sherry
vaults Is more marked than when
other spiritous liquids are kept in
store.
Air, therefore. Impregnated with
the vapors of spirits and wines, must
have a deteriorating effect on the
health. And according to an examin
ation made of the >a.ir of a distillery,
it would appear that no less than an
ounce of proof spirit, or one-half
ounce of absolute alcohol may be
present in five cubic feet of air. And
since this aloohol would gain access
to the circulation through the lungs,
it follows that special arrangements of
ventilation are an absolute necessity.
CEMENT TRUST IMPOSSIBLE.
..Geological Survey Says Every;
County in Country Can Make It.
A bulletin issued by the geological
survey on the “Concentration of Ce*
ment Interests” declares “it can be
said that there is noticeable a oer
tain concentration of interests in the
cement industry, and that this will
probably become more marked year*
by year. The eighty-eight plants in
existence in 1905 are owned by sev
enty-eight companies, and several of
these nominally independent compan
ies are closely connected in owner
ship.
“The nature of the cement industry
renders It improbable that any com
bination or noncompetitive arrange
ment can be carried to such a point
as to result in a monopoly of the in
dustry and permanently high prices.
“Good raw materials are so widely
distributed in the United States that
there is hardly a county which could
not produce Portland cement if prices
were 'forced high enough. The only
limitation now on the erection of ce
ment plants is the fact that the great
cost makes the ventures prohibitive
for the individual or for the small
firm.”
TRUE TO THE SEX.
Mrs. Stufob —John, they say that
one-half of the world don’t know how
the other half liver 1 wonder which
half knows.
Mr. Stubh—Why, the feminine
half, Maria. If they don’t know they'll
soon fin’d out. —Boston Post.
Archbishop Farley of New York
has definitely settled upon the pur
chase of the homestead of Pope Pius
IX at Senigallia,. Italy. It will be
transferred into a shrine in which
relics of that pontiff will he placed.
SURPRISED HIM
Doctor’s Test of Food.
A doctor in Kansas experimented
with his boy in a test of food, and
gives the particulars. He says:
“I naturally watch the effect of
different foods on patients. My own
little son, a lad of four, had been ill
with pneumonia, and during his con
valescence did not seem to care for
any kind of food.
*T knew something of Grape-Nuts
and its rather fascinating flavour and
particularly of its nourishing and
nerve-building powers, so I started
the boy on Grape-Nuts and found
from the first dish that he liked it.
"His mother gave it to him stead
ily, and he began to improve at once.
In less than a month he had gained
about eight pounds and soon became
so well and strong we had no further
anxiety about him.
"An old patient of mine, 73 years
old, came down with serious stomach
trouble, and before I was called had
got so weak he could eat almost
nothing, and was in a serious condi
tion. He had tried almost every
kind of food for the sick without
avail.
“I immediately put him cvn Grape-
Nuts, with good, rich milk and just a
little pinch of sugar. He exclaimed
when I came next day,, ’Why, doctor,
I never ate anything so good or that
made me feel so much stronger.’
"I am pleased to say that he got
well on Grape-Nuts, but he had to
stick to it for two or three weeks,
then he began to branch out a little
with rice or an egg or two. He got
entirely well in spite of his almost
hopeless condition. He gained 22
pounds in two months, which at his
age is remarkable.
"I could quote a list of cases where
Grape-Nuts has worked wonders.”
"There’s a Reason.” Read “The
Road to Y/ellville,” in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
They arc genuine, true, and full of
human interest.
THE PULPIT.
AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. SYDNEY H. COX.
Theme: What is It to Live?
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Sunday morning
the Rev. Sydney Herbert Cox. pastor
of the Church of the Evangel,
preached on the special subject,
“What is It to Live?" The text was
from Matthew 4:4: “It is written —
Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God." Mr. Cox
said:
It is written! Where? In Deuter
onomy, the second giving of the law,
the recapitulation of man’s experience
with God, and his interpretation
thereof. It is declared that man’s life
is something more than escape from
a wilderness of hunger to a land of
rich harvests.
The temptation cf Jesus is the pro
totype through which every per
sonality must pass. This profound)
fact of spiritual consciousness brings
man face to face with the elemental
questions of his being. What is our
life? Why are we tempted, and how?
What is sin, and how can we be free
from it? What is to be the end of
the battle, with its deep failures and
few successes? What does it mean to
live?
The answer of Jesus includes a
denial and an affirmation. He sets
forth (1) the unity of life. His re
ply to the tempter was surely unex
pected. He does not say, lam divine,
I am unique, I am in a social sense
the Son of God. He speaks for the
race as its representative and refers
to a fundamental law that man has
experienced, though rarely inter
preted. Man does not live by bread
alone. His living is something more
than the means to live. There is one
life. Only part of it depends on
bread. Bread, like the plow and the
soil, is but an agent, a tool. It pre
serves the body, but the body also is
only a machine in which the person
who has life for a little while dwells.
The answer of Jesus does not define
life, but declares the source of its
fullest expression. "Your fathers did
eat manna in the wilderness, and are
dead. The bread that I will give, if
a man eat, he shall live forever.”
There is a distinctness of the life that
is purely physical, or intellectual, or
moral, or spiritual, but with the dis
tinctness there is also the impossibil
ity of separation. The source of each,
and the unity of all, originate in God.
This, then, is the denial of ma
terialism. Man does not live by bread
alone! God has given to each phase
of life its need, and no lower nature
in us can supply the needs of the one
above it, though it may influence it
more or less. A bilious body may
cause a pessimistic philosophy, but it
could not be the sole cause. The
pugilist acquires a perfect physique,
without gaining an atom of intel
lectual force, moral perception or
spiritual desire. The skeptic may
inherit wealth without faith, and the
hypocrite may own libraries and art
galleries. These live —that is to say,
they exist; they eat, drink and are
merry, because the bread of the
world, the things of time and place
and of the present are theirs in abun
dance. But in the deeper, profound
er, timeless, ageless sense of life, in
the vision of the true, the beautiful
and the good, do they live?
Jesus denies it. He affirms the real
ity of the spiritual. All things proceed
out of the mouth of God. The soul
must receive life by an incarnation.
That is the representative miracle or
sign of the being of Christ. God
must pass into our consciousness as
He had always been in that of Jesus,
dominating our nature, but only with
our voluntary acquiescence. What is
it to live? To have the force of the
life of God put in control of our hu
man forces at the command of our
own will, the higher controling the
lower, and yet making more of the
lower. The spiritual, feeding on the
vision of God and then expanding the
moral, the intellectual, and the phys
ical, so that, for the whole man, lim
its disappear; time, death and the
grave are but temporary expedients
and all his nature cries, “I live, yet
not I, Christ liveth in me.” Thus life
eternal is something more, and some
thing different from life prolonged.
It is anew quality of life, involving
the recognition of God’s share in the
making. It is God lifting man into
the new spirit of being. Man lives —
by the things that proceed out of the
mouth of Jehovah, said the Deuteron
omist. He does. The words of God
are symbols of his volition, whether
his will reveals anew harvest, anew
idea, anew duty, or a ne- sacrifice.
The spiritual man greets either of
these words of God by giving them
their holiest expression because now
he lives! He lives in growing har
mony with the perceived will of his
eternal Father. He has a stronger
life than the pugilist, because his
physical powers are only at the ser
vice of the world’s need. He is
mightier than the physical champion,
because his sup, rb bod'iiy endowment
cannot escape his spiritual ideals of
service.
His mind towers above the skep
tic’s because, in spite of poverty or
bodily weakness, or many sorrows,
or grave problems of truth, he has
the power to prevent these things
from obscuring his vision of a child’s
complicity, a woman's tenderness, a
man’s courage, or those larger suc
cesses seen when races struggle up
through fearful toil to days of laugh
ter and powers a thousandfold
greater.
He sees that men have risen above
the level of their dead selves to
nobler living, and he finds that
neither money, nor land, nor power,
nor luxuries have explained the
primal forces tHat have urged man
on.
No Place to Advertise.
Miss Anna Held, at a dinner n
New York, admitted that her recent
statement to the effect that she had
made $1,000,000 s in the last thirteen
years was a very good advertisement.
“And an advertisement,” said thi3
pretty actress, smiling, “is never out
of place. Stop, though. Once one
was. It was in Nola Chucky.
"The local preacher of Nola Chucky
conducted the general store, and on
a Sunday morning in June he was
nearly half an hour late for church.
Finally, about 11, he hustled into the
pulpit, mopped his brow, beamed
down on the impatient, wondering
congregation, and said:
“-‘Dear brethren and sisters, I bog
you to pardon my tardiness th.B
morning, but the fact is, I was kept
up last night till the small hours open
ing the finest stock of summer dress
goods ever brought to Nola Chucky.
We will now sing hymn six hundred
and two!’ " —Washington Star.
For HEADACHE —Mirks’ CA PtiDlltl
Whether from Colds. Heat. Stomach or
Nsrvous Troubles. Capudine will relieve yott.
It’s liauid-pleasant to take-acts immedi
ately. Try it, 10c.. 25c, and st)c. at dru*
stores. _
PROFESSIONAL SCORN.
Knicker—What did the gardener say
when he saw your lawn
Bocker—He asked if I shaved my.
self. —New York __
BABY’S SKIN ERUPTION CURED.
Was So Sore, Irritating and Painful
That Little Sufferer Could Not
Sleep—Scratched Constantly—
Cuticura's Efficacy Proven.
“When about two and a half years old
my daughter broke out on her hips and the
upper parts of her legs with a very irritat
ing and painful eruption. It began in Octo
ber: the first I noticed was a little red sur
face and a constant desire on her part to
scratch her limbs. She could not sleeq and
the eruptions got sore, and yellow water
came out of them. I had two doctors treat
her, but she grew worse under their treat
ment. Then I bought the Cuticura Rem
edies and only used them two weeks when
she was entirely well. This was in Febru
ary. She has never had another rough
place on her skin, and she is now fourteen
years old. Mrs. R. R. Whitaker, Winches
ter, Tenn., Sept. 22, 1908.”
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props,
of Cuticura Remedies, Boston, Mass.
Ellen Glasgow has gone to Europe.
She expects to remain there for some
time, and will carry on her literary
work in some quiet place in England.
Painkiller (Perry Davis’) should be on
hand now for colic, dysentery and other
summer t omplaints. 25c., 35c. and 50c.
PROMPT ACTION.
“I want to ask your advice," said
King Midas. “You’ve heard that ev
erything I touch turns to gold.
“fes,” answered the financial ex
pert.
“What shall I do about it?”
“Get out a prospectus and start in
declaring dividends &o that our stock
can be floated before the myth ex
perts get busy.”—Washington Star.
THE WAY OF THE WORLD.
“What did they do with the money
their aunt left them?”
“Spent it for a monument to their
aunt’s memory and an automobile.
“What did the monument cost?”
•Seven dollars."—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
WANTS HER
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PUBLISHED
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r —caused a weakness
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2115 Second St., North, Minneapolis,
Minn.
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