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ANENT WHITE CONVICTS
|Prison Ccmmission Does Not
’ Know What To Do With Them.
COUNTIES DONOT WANT THEM
JLessees Used White Prisoners for Book
keepers, Etc.---State Will Put Them
| On Fnrm.
Atlanta, Ga. — When the convict
lease system goes out of susiness in
Georgia, as it will on April 1, that
class of white convicts which has
Dbeen able to do mental and profes
sional work, and for whose talents
the lessees found use, may have to
pick up a hoe or take hold of a plow
and go to work in the field.
There has always been a number
of white convicts skilled in business
or certain trades—such as bookkeep
ers, engineers and the like, for whom
the leszces have found ofice work in
such lines or employment at those
callings in which they were expert
Almost every one of the lessees got
bhold of a bookeeper, accountant, of
fice man, engineer or some other
among the convicts allotted to him,
and they were kept employed in these
lines.
The state will have no use for these
now. The counties will not want them,
as they do not propose 1o take any
white convicts, It is the purpose ot
the state to place all of the white con
viects on a central farm, soon to be
purchased. On this farm the state
may have occasion to use or or two
office men, but scarcely more, and it
looks as if the balance will have to
take to the field and do farm work.
The prison commission has had this
feature under consideration, but has
not been able to arrive at any defi
nite solution, other than the employ
ment of practieally all of the white
convicts at farm work.
Another opportunity which the con
wvicts will lose is that of accumulating
money by extra work, as they have
ibeen able to do in many instances un
lder the lease system. Usually in the
lessee camps each convict had so
much work to do, and all he did in
excess of the amount required he was
paid for at a certain fixed rate. In
this way many of them have been able
to leave the penitentiary with com
fortable sums to their credit. One
negro recently left the penitentiary,
after fourteen years’ service, Wwild
SBOO cash in his pocket. :
The state, of course, will not es
tablish any such custom as this. The
Jaw does not contemplate that a con
viet shall earn anything, nor could tae
opportunity be given in doing road
‘work under state direction. Tne only
thing the prison commission could do,
ghould it deal in any way with this
phase of the problem, would be to
shorten to a certain extent the terms
of those who give their best service
to the state. ‘
Présent indications are that after
each county which has cailed for con
victs has been supplied with its legal
pro rata share, there will remain only
about 200 “overs” for distribution
"among the counties that want con
zlcts in excess of their legal num
ber.
This number would supply scarcely
more than one-tenth of the demand.
There are applications now on file for
jsomething like 1,600 overs or more,.
Bach county calling for overs would,
therefore, get from one to five, or
something like that.
Inasmuch as the large counties will
get a suflicient number of convicts
from their regular pro rata to consti
itute a good-sized working gang, Sec
retary Goodloe Yancey or the prison
commission, has suggested that the
smaller counties be permfitted to di
vide the ‘“overs” among themselves
so that they may secure gangs_of
'sufficient size to accomplisn some
thing. :
FRUIT NOT HURT.
Blooms Appear Ohly in Sheltered or
Diseased Trees,
Atlanta, Ga.—Despite rumors of
damage to peach orchnards from the
unseasonably warm weather of the
week, and the appearance here and
there of blooms, President H. C. Bag
leg of the Georgia kruit Exchange
says that the orchards have not been
damaged. He has recently returned
from Fort Valley, and that territory,
‘and says that he not only saw no pre
mature blooms himself, but that none
were reported to him by growers,
whom he met in large numbers.
Mr, Bagley says that the peaci
‘blooms one sees on trees in and
‘around Atlanta are ngt dangerous in
dications, These trees, he says, are
either sheltered by houses, or are dis
ased, The warm weather has not
-g‘een prolonged sufficiently to cause
swelling of the buds in orchards.
Mr. Bagley added that reports of
injury to the crop are very damaging
to the growers, and while made in
\good faith are none the less damag
‘ing to fruit interests.
~ FUNDS FOR GEORGIA RIVERS.
'Estimates for River and Harbor Im
i provements in Gecrgia.
' Washington, D. C.—Following are
United States’ engineers’ estimases
'for river and harbor improvements in
igeorgia, this year, which will be car
ried in “lump sum” rivers and har-
Lbors bill to be reported:
" gavannah river above Augusta, $25,-
0; Altamaha, Oconee and Ocmulgee
Wwers, $40,000; waterway Savannah
; Fernandina, $25,000; Flint river,
: - (Chattahoochee river, $115,-
~ sa river, $40,000, o
‘ ropriations will carry work
e | ST i gl
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
- —-——~.
The seven hundred and fifty dele:
gates In attendance upon the annual
meeting at Atlanta of the Georgia
Farmers' Educational and Co-opera
tive union pledged themseclves. not
only to wear clothing made of cot
ton while engaged in their farminyg
operations, but pledged themselves
to produce this year all the corn,
meat and other supplies necessary to
carry them through the year, It was
decided to consolidate all of the
farmers’ cetton warehouses in the
state under the management of a cen:
tral organization, Four lecturers will
be sent to all sections of the state
during the next few months to appeal
to farmers generally to raise their
supplies and to wear cotton clothing
on their farms,
A new south Georgia railroad has
been chartered by Secretary of State
Phil Cook. Its promoters plan L 0
build a line from Abbeville to Fort
Valley, and thence to Montezuma.
The company is designated as the
“Abbeville and Northwestern Rail
road Company.” The line is to be
seventy-five miles in length, fifty
eight miles of main line and eighteen
of branch. The latter will comprise
the extension from Fort Valley (o
Montezuma, The counties of Wilcox,
Pulaski, Dooley, Houston and Macon
will be passed through. The capital
stock is to be SIOO,OOO,
It is probable that there will be no
agricultural college-on-wheels as has
been planned by Dr. A. M. Soule, and
the professors of the State College of
Agriculture for the coming spring.
Indications now are that the train
will be abandoned for the present
yeéar, because of the probable inabil
ity of the dean and other attaches of
the state agricultural college to ac
company it on its rounds.
Judge Kimsey made a sensational
charge to the grand jury ot Gaines
ville. He said that if reports were
correct there ought to be an investi
gation of the affairs of the eounty.
“] am told,” he said, “that there is
not enough money in the treasury of
the county to pay the expenses of
this court, the tax levy last year
made a specific levy for court pur
poses, if the money has been divert
ed to use illegally, the matter should
be found out and published, if there
has been graft in the purchase of
the road machinery it ought to be
made known, if bridges have been
built contrary to the law about ad
vertising for bids, it ought to be un
earthed, If what is rumored in this
county is true then the officers should
be handled by prosecution.” He also
touched upon what, in his opinion,
constituted disturbing religious wor
ship and spoke of the right of offi
cers to carry concealed weapons.
Following closely upon the pledges
of President-elect Taft to recognize
Georgia as a unit worthy of national
consideration in the councils of the
republic, the announcement has
reached Atlanta from Washington
that his committee cn arrangements
for the inaugural procession on
March 4 has® assigned Georgia fourth
place in that conspicuous line so that
she may have an opportunity to de
monstrate her interest in the gov
ernment’s executive affairs. In addi
tion to this signal honor of Georgia,
it is understood that in Augusta,
where Mr. Taft is making up his cab
inet and other high official appoint
ments, the names of two distinguish
ed Georgians are under serious con
sideration, those of Colonel Robert J.
Lowry of Atlanta, in connection with
the national treasury portfolio, and
Judge Joseph Lamar of Augusta, in
connection with the supreme court
bench, oo
The “Living Like Christ” move
ment which is attracting much atten
tion in Cleveland, Ohio, may be start
ed in Atlanta . Several pastors
are considering the idea of suggest
ing that members of their flocks make
an experiment along that line, be
lieving that such would be of great
moral benefit to the community.
The first skirmish in the battle be
tween the Muscogee County Medical
Society and certain of Columbus
druggists resulted in a victory for the
drug store folks in Muscogee superior
court when Shepherd Brinson, a
prominent young pharmacist, charged
with practicing medicine without a li
cense, was found not guilty by the
jury., Two other cases of a similar
character were continued until the
next term of court.
Mrs. Hoke Smith, wife of the gov
ernor, is seriously ill at the execu
tive mansion in Atlanta, and her con
dition has aroused considerable un
easiness on the part of the family and
friends. Mrs. Smith’s health has nat
been good for several months, and it
was the purpose of the governor to
take her to Florida for a_rest, but
unless her condition improves it will
be necessary to postpone the trip.
Under the guard of a squad of pa
trolmen, the cash, bonds and securi
ties, making a total of probably more
than six millions of dollars, of the
Citizens’ and Southern bank of Sa
vannah were moved into its mnew
‘home in that city.
Macon members of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
have forgarded a petition to Rresi
dent Theodore Roosevelt asking him
not to kill any animals on his Afri
can hunt. The announced intention
of the president to bag big game has
brought forth a protest from the Na
tional Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, and by its direc
tion blanks have been sent to each
local organization, to be filled out by
school teachers arnd’ others. Presi
dent Hugh V. ' hington is in re
ceipt of these nks and a strong
protest will _from the Macon
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Generai. :
The receivers of the Seaboard Alr
Line rallroad In = Norfolk, have
awarded contracts for ruiling stock
aggregating about $900,000.
The Chinese harbor boat Samstul
fired two shots at the British steam
er Chenpo for fouling a wood raft,
This angered Captain Lewington, of
the Chenpo, who, arming himsell
with a revolver, boarded the Samstul
in a small boat, arrested the com
manding officer and turned him over
to the captain of the British gun
boat Robin, The occurrence is now
being investigated by the captain of
the Robin and the British consul,
A serious “no rent” campaign has
begun in Tipperary, Ireland, owing
to the refusal of the landlords of sev
eral estates to sell land to the ten
ants under the land purchase act of
1903, The judge, in issuing decrees
against thirty-six recalcitrant tenants,
said that the landlord was making a
mistake in not selling the lands, as
it would involve all the old troubles
of evictions and martyrdom to ten
ants, The priests and the public gen
erally are supporting the tenants
strongly and are raising funds for
their defense. The struggle promises
to be severe,
In an effort to stem the increasing
number of “affinities and make mar
tial infidelity a thihg to be shunned
by both husbands and wives,” Sena
tor Dennis J. Harte of New York is
to introduce a bill in the state legis
lature providing a twenty-year pen
alty for such offense.
An increase in the number of
moonshine whiskey stills destroyed
in Alabama, Florida and Georgia dur
ing the past six months, as compared
with any previous six months, was
reported by the United States inter
nal revenue department at Atlanta,
Ga., Three hundred and ninety-sAven
illicit stills were destroyed in the
three states and about two thousand
gallons of whiskey seized. Eighty
per cent of the stills destroyed were
in Georgia,.
New York will furnish the bath
tub to be used by President-elect
Taft on his trip to Panama. It was
made especially to accommodate Mr.
Taft. Efforts were made to secure
the tub in Norfolk, Va., but there was
none to be had of the required capac
ity and New York was appealed to.
The tub is to be installed on the
cruiser North Carolina.
Washington.
The collection and publication by
the director of the census of statis
tics of stock of baled cotton in the
United States, to be summarized as
November 1, December 1, January 1
and March 1, in addition to the cot
ton reports, is proposed in a joint
resolution presented in the house by
Representative Lever of South Caro
lina.
Lydia Kamekaha Liliuokalani,
former queen of the Hawaiian Is
lands, who is in Washington making
an appeal to congress for compensa
tion for the crown lands which she
lost when the islands were annexed
to the United States, said in an in
terview that although fifteen years
had passed since she yielded her au
thority over the kingdom to avert
blocdshed, she yet believes congress
will make some reparation for her
great financial loss.
General James Allen, chief signal
officer of the United States army;
Major George O. Squire and Lieuten
ant Lahn appeared before the sub
committee on ordnance and fortifica
tions. General Allen has asked for
$500,000 with which to carry on the
aeronautic branch of the signal corps
service.
The erection of a monument in
Washington to the memory of Abra
ham Lincoln is recommended in a
resolution introduced by Senator
Dick of Ohio. The monument it is
provided, shall “be worthy of his
great fame, his service to humanity
and to his country and fittingly com
memorate the grandeur of character,
the nobility of life and epoch-making
career.”
The Italian relief fund of the Amer
jcan Red Cross Society has passed
the $900,000 mark.
In reporting the naval appropria
tion bill to the house the committee
on naval affairs fixed the amount
needed for the maintenance of the
naval service during the fiscal year
1910 at $135,662,888, as compared
with the $122,662,485, the present ap
propriation.
A remonstrance against a further
increase of the United States navy
signed by two hundred and twenty
four clergymen of various -denomina
tions in Boston, Mass., was received
by congress. It is the Dbelief of the
ministers that mnaval preparations
have grown SO enormously as to be
come a distressing burden upon the
richest nations and an actual me
nace to the peace of the world.
The senate has passed the bill per
mitting the use of the pension office
for the inaugural ball in connection
with the main inauguration of Mr.
Taft. Senator Scott, in charge of
the measure, explained that it con
tained the usual provision for special
police, ete., “to provide for the pick
pockets and others who come here
6n occasion of inaugurations.”
The story of the striking economic
featires of the German steel and iron
industry developed in the face of nat
ural advantages, is told in a report
of special Agent Charles M. Pepper,
made public by the bureau of manu
facturers of the| department of com
merce arnd labog An increase from
M‘MLi‘m‘» AL ‘J(‘(L’i“" ‘;,!;”;%;“. a 3
South's Brains In Business,
The Yrains of the south have been
turned to business—brains that woulqd
under better conditions, pol tically,
dominate the United States and give
it a strong, virlle government of
statesmen., Turned into active busi
ness, the brains and abllity of the
south are making this country rich.
er year by year, In spite of Yan
kee pensions and protective highway
robbery, and we are going to get
along regardless of the conditions and
abuses of government. No Rockefel
ler or Harriman has yet been de.
veloped to the point where he can
control the cotton crop or the sea.
sons, and until such a one arises we
are all right, regardless of whom the
dev'lish hosts of Yankeedom may
select to roll around in the presiden.
tial chair.~Humboldt Courier-Chron
icle.
OFTEN THE CASE.
Women Struggle Hopelessly Along,
Suffering Backache, Dizzy Spells,
Languor, Etc.
Women have so much to go through
in life that it's a pity there is so much
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the time I could not attend to my
work and irregularity of the kidney
secretions was annoying. Doan’s Kid
ney Pills brought me prompt relief.”
Sold by all dealers. 50c. a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y,
A Premature Celebration,
Andrew L. Harris, the farmer gov
ernor of Ohlo, was defeated last No
vember for re-election. But in the
opinion of his neighbors, down in
‘Preble County, where he makes his
?llome on one of the most beautiful
farms in Ohio, he didn't mind the
defeat at all compared with the time
Paul Sorg, the tobacco man, outdis
tanced him in a race for congress.
It wasn’'t that he wanted to go to
congress so much. There were more
particular reasons that made the de
feat annoying. The first returns that
night indicated that “Andy,” as his
neighbors called him, was elected.
EEvery-body went over to his house
to celebrate. When still later ‘re
turns confirmed his election, some
body suggested that they ought to
start a big bonfire. As there was
‘nothing else handy they just tore
idown Andy’s nice picket fence and
used that for the big celebration. The
hoss of the fence never feazed Andy
'a bit—not that night. “But gosh all
hemlocks!” says one of his old neigh
rbors, “how sore he was the next
morning when the corrected returns
came in showing that he was licked
after all.”—New York Press.
TOO SMART A BOY.
Traveller—Say, boy, your corn looks
kind of yellow.
Boy—Yes, sir. That’s tke kind we
planted.
Traveller—Looks as though sou
will only have half crop.
Boy—Don’t expect any more. The
landlord gets the other half.
' mraveller (after a minute’s thought)
—Say, there is not much difference
between you and a fool.
Boy—No, sir. Only the fence.—
Judge’s Library. >
JOY WORK :
And the Other Kind,
Did you ever stand on a prominent
corner at an early morning hour and
watch the throngs of people on their
way to work? Noting the number
who were forcing themselves along
because it meant their daily bread,
and the others cheerfully and eagerly
pursuing their way because of love of
their work. :
It is a fact that one’s food has
much to do with it. As an example:
If an engine has poor oil, or a boil
er is fired with poor coal, a bad result
is certain, isn’t it?
Treating your stomach right is the
keystone that sustains the arch of
health’s temple, and you will find
“Grape-Nuts’’ as a daily food is the
'most nourishing and beneficial you
can use.
We have thousands of testimonials,
real genuine little heart throbs, from
people who simply tried Grape-Nuts
out of curiosity-—as a last resort-—
with the result that prompted the tes
timonial.
If you have never tried Grape-Nuts
it’s worth while to give it a fair, im
partial trial. Remember there are
milifons eating Grape-Nuts every day
-——they know, and we know, if you
will use Grape-Nuts every morning
your work is more likely to be joy
work, because you can keep well, and
with the brain well nourished work
iv‘fl la. .joy. Read the “Road to Well
ville” in every package—‘There's a
suffering from back
ache and other com
mon curable kidney
ills. If you suffer so,
profit by this wom
an’'s example. Mrs.
Martin Douglass, 52
Cedar St., Kingston,
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a lame, aching back,
dizzy spells, head
aches, and a feeling
of languor. Part of
Py
‘ Her Visiting Carde. [
“The story In The New York Pross
about the short.sighted woman who
‘was ashamed to wear glasses, re
minds me of my Aunt Maria, who has
begun ‘to wear them and is ashamed
to have any one know it" says a
reader,
“Aunt Maria is something of a
business woman, and on a certaln
day net long ago made several calls
at ofces where she was requested
to send In her card first. It is her
custom to keep some of her own
cards in one side of her card case
and those of people she meets In
the other side. She thought she
knew the right-side-up of her card
case, and so without hesitation hand
ed out the bits of pasteboard to of
fice boys and secretaries on request.
She noticed that every one seemed
surprised to see her, but not until
several days had passed did she dis
cover the reason. Wishing to verify
an address, she consulted the various
cards in her case. \
“‘Gracious!’ she shrieked, ‘do you
know what I've been and done? Hand
ed out Tom, Dick and Harry'sand the
Lord only knows whose cards to all
sorts of people the other day!’
“And so it proved on inquiry. The
good woman had sent in the cards
of various clergymen, dentists, lectur
ers, teachers and even one or two
military titles.”
PRESERVING THE PROPORTIONS.
A little Scotch boy’s grandmother
was packing his lunch for him to
take to school one morning. Looking
up into the old woman’s face the hoy
asked:
“Grandmother, does yer specs mage
nify?”
“A little, my child,” she answered.
“Aweel, then,” said the boy. ”
wad just like it if ye wad tak’ them
off when ye're packin’ my loonch.”—
Success Magazine. : L
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