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News of the Legislature.
"The bill by Messrs, Tippins of Ap
pling and Macintyre of Thomas "o
provide the method by which " local
‘districts having taxation for publie
#chools may do away with said taxa
tion, amended by the committee on
education to read that a local school
system, once in force, shall not be
changed for throe years, was enacted
by a vote of 107 to 4 in the house
Wednesday,
The bill by Mr, Lewis of Hancock
to permit justice court juries to as
gess the punishment in criminal cases,
was voted down after a brief debate,
Biennial sessions of the general as
gembly are a probabiiity of the future
in Georgia, The senate committee on
constitutional amendments Wednes
day tavorabiy reported a bill propos
ing such an amendment to the consti
tution. Should the¢ measure pass the
general asgembly, it will be submitted
to the people for ratification at the
next general election,
The house resolution, authorizing
the governor to borrow §52,000,000 to
meet casual deficiencies in the treas
ury, was also favorably reported Dby
the finance committee and concurred
in by the senate Thursday.
The Morris bill, introduced at the
request of the ‘retail merchants of
Augusta, to prevent the giving of trad
ing stamps to induce tfade, was read
a third time by substitute, and passed
by the senate . - :
The McCurry bill,. making & a penal
offense to utter an{ false and defam
atory remarks about women was pass
ed by the senate Wednesday.
The bill by Mr. Griffith, providing
for amendment of code relative to
written waivers in lunaty cases was
passed. -
The senate passed the bill of Mr.
Akin, authorizing Glynn county to is
sue SIOO,OOO of bonds to improve
The jay bill to give criminal court
judges :¢he right to suspend senten
ces in mizdemeanor cases, on recom
,mendatien offi}he jury, was passed.
Mr, Griffith’s bill to make it an of
fense to.-have a deadly weapon at pub
lic place;:s and gatherings was passed.
If thg bill introduced in the lower
house by Representative Adams of
Hall county goes through, there won’t
be heard in times hereafter the stirr
ing yells of the college boys as they
meet for masterful struggles on the
diamond or the gridiron. The bill,
which was read the first time and
referred to a committee, is entitled
“An act to prohibit inter-collegiate
football and baseball games between
institutions recgiving financial aid and
charters from this state; to provide
penalties for violations of this act;
and for other purposes.” The title is.
sufficiently =self-explanatory. It spells
a woeful lot of dire possibilities.
There is every indication that there
will be a favorable report made to
the house soon on the compulsory ed
ucation bill introduced by Dr. J. R.
Littleton of Richmond. The bill
was referred to the committee on ed
ucation, .
If a bill introduced in the senate
by Senator Griffith Monday is c¢nact
ed into law, you will scme day pass
the door of the little red =chool hcuse]
on the hill and hear the pupils at
their do-ra-mes, Senator. Griffith is
from the Thirty-eighth “disfrict, em
bracing Haralson, Polk and Paulding
counties, where it_is considered a dis
grace not to sing. Under his bhill,
every teacher taking the regular ex
amination for license must qualify in
vocal. That is going to be a consid
erable handicap to some very gocd!
educators, for there are many first
class teachers who couldn’t pass mus
ter at the singing game.
' Senator Ward of the Seventh dis
trist has introduced a bill providing!|
for the referendum -in county schools.
If charges are preferred against a
teacher by -a majority vote of the
patrons, it may result in his or her
dismissal., Failure cos the teacher to
help a pupil with a lesson when re
quested, cruel treatment, unnecessary
punishment and neglect of duty are
some of the things upon which action
may be taken against the pedagogue.
* If the general assembly of Georgia,
through unanimous request, has influ
ence, Luther Burbank of California
wizard of the plant world, will soon
direct hLis attention to improving the
cotton plant and increasing its pro
ductiveness. Hooper Alexander intro
duced in the house a resclution ask
dng Mr. Burbank to take hold of this
fiftm-. It passed house and senate
by a unanimous vote, and will now go
to the Californian. He has pertormed
E;;\uch miracles with other plant lite
tnat it is believed he could be equally
successful with the cotton plant. His
investigations and experiments along
this line will be watched with keen
interest, and mag mean finally mil
lions to the cotton growers of -the
south, ‘
Senator Price introduced two bills
that will be of considerable interest
to the live stock indwustries of the
state, 'The first provides for the crea
tion and support of the office of state
veterinarian. The second is to pro
tect the live stock of the state from
contagious diseases by providing for
the condemnation and slaughter of
hopelessly diseased stock, the quaran
tine of diseased localities and the vro
hibition of transportation of any live
stock having a contagious or commun
icable disease,
- Representative Wright of Floyd in
troduced a resolution providing for a
joint committee of two from the
senate to investigate the feasibility
cost, and desirability of improving
the Western and Atlantic right ot
way property in ‘the heart of the unity
of Atlanta, by putting stores and other
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' STATE AID FOR HIGH SCRUN
Bill Introduced in House Calls for
* Constituticnal Amendments,
Atlanta, Ga,—One of the most inter.
ceting pleces of proposed legislation
that has becn introduced is a bill by
Representative Persons of Monroe
locking to the amendment of the con
stitution so that the state may uld one
or more high schools in every county,
There is no student of educgticn in
this state but what has recognized
the glaring defect in our constitution
which prohibits state 2id to high
gchools, The result of this abridge
ment of the educational facllities of
the state is that the large majority of
the rural counties are without ade
quate high school fecilitits and with
out provision for thelr establishment,
Georgia has about five high school
students in every thousand of popula
tion, while the average for the United
States s nine and a half students per
thousand, and fully one-half of the
states exceed this number, In fact,
Georgia ranks thirty-ninth among the
states in high school attendance and
thirty-fourth in college attendance.
This is not due to the lack of ambi
tion and brains on the part of our
youth, but to the inadequacy of the
high school facilities,
This amendment will give probably
a thousand dollars to each county to
aid in establishing one or more high
schools. I believe that ever represen
tative who has the welfare of his
county at heart will vote for this
amendment, I urge the gocd citizens
of every county to consider this mat
ter and write or see their representa
tive at once asking his support of this
bill, It means better prepared school
teachers, better trained men and more
boys and girls whose ambitions will
be aroused and -whose preparations
will enable them to enter the higher
institutions of the state.
i WIJOSEEH S. STEWART.
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I A bureau of labor for the state of |
Georgia is provided for in a- bill in--‘
troduced in the house of representa
tives on Tuesday. The measure is |
framed in accordance --with the- de
mand of Governor Brown in the last
campaign and the platform declara
tion of the convéntion which nominat.
ed him for governor. The measure is
| signed by Messrs. McCarthy of Chat
ham; Barrett of Stephens; Slade of
Muscogee; McElreath of Fulton; Guy
ton of Effingham; Alexander of De-
Kalb, and Anderson of Chatham. The
bill contemplates the creation of a
department of labor under a commis
sioner of labor, who shall be named
by the governor ‘to serve for a term
of two years. The commissioner of ‘
labor is authorized to appoint an as
sistant. ‘
That it is the intention of this leg
islature to place a sharp tax upon,
the owners of automobiles was shown ‘
'when the general tax bill was intro
' duced by Chairman of the Ways and.l
Means Committee Reid of Campbell,‘,.|
carrying with it an annual tax of $25
on thcse vehicles. The only other new }
feature of the tax bill was a tax on |
wholesale and retail tobacco dealers. |
In senate the house resolution |
requesting Georgia’s representtives in |
congress to favor legislation denying l
the mails to the New York and New
Orlenas cotton exchanges met with
some opposition and was finally re
ferred to the agricultural committee.
Senator Burrcws characterized the
resolution -as calculated to ‘interfere
with the legitimate business of cotton
mills and other industries, '
The house resolution urging con-|
gress to enact a law requiring the na
ticnal department of agriculture LOI
supply statistics as to stocks of cot- i
tcn onh hand in mills and factories
was adopted by the ‘senate, |
The senate passed by substitute the |
pill of Senator McCurry, prouviding:
for the election of county school com
missioners by the people, The substi
tute was oftered by Senator Jackson
and fixed qualifications, including the
holding of a diplecma from a reputable’
institution or a license from the state
school commissioner, and also the re
quirement that the candidate must
have made at least 85 per cent in his.
examination, It was also provided,
that the term of ofice shall be tour
years instead of two. The bill in this
shape was passed atter briet discus
sion,
Kollowing are some bills that the
house passed:
By sr. McWhorter of Greene, to
change the time for holding the su
perior court of Greene county.
By Mr. Reid of Campbell a resolu
tion (such as is formaily adopted by
each legislature), to authorize the
governor to borrow money to supply
the casual deficiencies in the reve
nues,
By Mr. Reid of Campbell a resolu
ticn authorizing the treasurer of Geor
gia to sign his name to certain bonds
issued by the state,
By Mr. Burch of Laurens to amend
the act establishing the city court of
Dublin,
By Mr. Reid of Putnam to abolish
the becard of county commissioners of
Putnam county.
By Messrs. Barksdale and DBooker
of Wilkes, to change the time of hold
ing the superior court of Wilkes coun
ty.
By Mr. Miller of Calhoun, to amend
the act creating the city court of Cal
houn,
By Mr. Fields of DeKalb, to repeal
the act providing the method for
changing county lines lying within the |
limits of incorporated towns.
By Mr. Stovall of Elbert, to invite
pr. J. N. Mac Cormack oof Kentucky
organizer of the American Medical
association, to address the legislature
and the public upon pure fxod, drugs,
sanitation and public health, some
time duritig the fatier part of July OF.
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Growth of Cuba.
R. P. Cane, resident consular
agent of Cuba for Louisville, Ky,
has received some interesting statis
tics on Cuban growth and progress.
At present the total population it put
at 2,048,980, divided as follows:
Males, 1,074,882, and females, 974,098,
Referring to the last census, that of
1907, the increase in eight years has
been 30.28 per cent. Many munici
palities show phenomenal increase,
and only one a loss, the city of Car
denas, which had thirty less inhabit
ants than in 1899.
Five cities increase 10 per cent.
Nuevitas, Ila de Pinos, Vinales, Ran
cho Veloz and Saqua la Grande.
Twentyflve cities increased frem
10 to 25 per cent.
Twenty-nine cities increased from
25 to 50 per cent.
Thirteen cities increased from 50 to
75 per cent.
Seven cities increased from 75 to
100 per cent.
Mantau, in Pinar del Rio, increas
ed 107 per cent.
Mayari, in Oriente, increased 138
per cent.
These last two are, respectively in
the extreme west and the extreme
east of the is'and, and the increases
are accounted for by an increased de
velopment of the cultivation of to
bacco and the colonizations in the
Bay of Nipe. in districts formerly
very sparsely inhabited. .
. The Road to Success. /
Benjamin Franklin, the great
American, when asked for the secret
of success, gave the following max
ims: :
One today is worth two to-morrows.
®at nnt to fullness; drink not to
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They that won't be counseled can’t
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Drive thy business; let not thy
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He that hath a calling hath an
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Tolerate no uncleanliness in body,
clothes or habitation.
Keep your eyes wide open before
marriage, half shut afterward.
Be not disturbed at trifles, or at
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Early to bed, early to rise, -makes
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Speak not but what may benefit
others or yourself; avoid trifling con
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Buy what thou hast no need of
and ere long thou shalt sell thy nec
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Use no hurtful deceit; think inno
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A man may, if he ¥nows not how
to save as he gets, keep his nose all
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Swat the fly, but always leave one
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This dainty, tempting food i
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and all Eastern Cities, ’
Full information carn be had of any Sea%oard
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- Savannah, Ga.
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Doctor of Dental Surgery.
HAZLEHURST, GA.
Chapman-Patrick Bullding.
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~ Diseases of women and children a
specialty.
Calls attended to promptly—day or
night.
Office in Capital Drug Store. Office
Phone 51; Residence Phone 92.
PRIGE & GRANT,
Attorneys at Law
Hazlehurst, Georgia.
Practices’ in state ard federal
courts. <Collections a specialty, Of
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King & Sellers,
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Office at the Court House.
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