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it honored, for being expected to inspect the reports of oil inspectors who inspect the reports of oil com panies. The “one-eyed hoy of Pigeon Roost " has no san itarium. ojdy a little farm of a thousand or so acres, and so his salary of necessity must be a little bet ter. in round numbers $2,490 a year, or S2OO a month, lie must look up and compile, while not engaged in farm work, the colonial and confederate historical data that made our “daddies" famous or infamous in 1770 and 1860. but which through some unaccount able error has been overlooked by self-supporting historians. His duties are stupendous and laborious, much harder than th*' teaching of children or the nursing of old sort's, and so he must be given a pretty stiff income, promptly at the end of each month, without discount or the wait of a year as our teach ers, soldiers and jurymen are forced to do year in and year out. The general appropriation act of 1902 provides that the money received into the treasury from tin* sale of certain Georgia reports shall be used to sus tain this position. Since December. 1902. the tax payers have paid out l on it only $40,509.86. as fol lows: To the “one-eyed boy.' $14.628.06: the transcriber of London reports. $4,785,93; the printer. $21,095.37. This monev, $14,500 from direct taxation Lyle’s Hanging Followed by Double Lynching. Waycross, Ga., the scene of the execution of the lunatic, llarrv E. Lyles, .lune 22nd, for the murder •- • of his wife and child, was convulsed a tew days thereafter by tin* lynching of two negroes by a mob of one thousand men for criminal assault upon a white girl. Does not this tend to prove that the cruelty of the law. enforced without due consideration for evidence and the circumstances surrounding the commission of crime, is to breed crime rather than to deter it Our system is not to reform but to pun ish. to degrade, to torture and quarter, and as a result we do not help, we hinder; we do not give lite but death, and sowing death, should we hope to reap anything else .’ A significant feature connected with the unfortu nate occurrence following tin' hanging of Lyles, how ever, is that the tragedy seems to be sincerely con demned by the entire community. Certainly the strong condemnation heaped upon those who commit ted the crime by Judge T. A. Parker, of the Bruns wick circuit, and his determination to prosecute the members of the mob indicates that there is to be trouble for those who take the law in their hands in future. Judge Parker’s statement of the affair as pub lished in the public prints is as follows: THE REASON and $26,009.86 from the sale of Georgia reports, and also of the colonial and confederate records, has been paid directly out of the Georgia treasury on executive warrants. These reports and records art' printed with money raised by direct taxation and are sold at cost, the proceeds going into the State treasury and becoming a part of the general fund. So there* is no difference in appropriating this money and anv other monev in the treasury.. • « • The salt's of the colonial, revolutionary and war records product'd by the “one-eyed boy ’ are infini tismal. This is passing strange in view of their great value ( .’) and the fact that they are offered at cost. Some people with two good eyes can't see a bargain wht'n it is “poked under their nose. It is stated on what, is believed to be reliable' authority that Hit' boy says he needs only one more year, at $2,400 per. to complete his work. It is not expected that the* General Oil Inspector will be expected to get through inspecting the inspectors until they complete their work of inspect ing the inspected. Commissioner Hudson says flit' job's a good one if a fellow does his duty, ami says further that he's in favor of keeping the doctor, as he works for only $l9O a month, a trifle less than half flu* worth of flit' work! “1 look upon it as one of the most dastardly out rages ever perpet rated in Georgia. It was absoliit ely inexcusable. If that drove of deputies from Wayne county, together with tin* sheriff of this county, had really wanted to prevent Hit* lynching they could have done so. Their conduct in the affair is looked upon more like an invitation to the mob than it did like an effort to prevent the lynching. “What was the use of taking the prisoners to the Butler crossing in order to prevent tin* mob from getting them, ami then going uptown and making what might just as well have been a public announce ment of that fact.’ ‘Oh, but the train was late,’ thev sav. Well. when that was found out, and the « I crowd began to gather where the officers were, and to become threatening, why did not the officers take their prisoners bark to jail, as they were urged to do .’ “1 believe that if Sheriff W, B. Lyons of Wayne county, had had the prisoners in charge hi' would have protected them single-handed and alone. He is a man of courage, and when he says to a mob. ’Stand back.’ his meaning is not easily mistaken. I hardly think the result would have been different had Sheriff W’oodard had forty-eight instead of eight such deputies as he did have. “The grand jury of this county will certainly fail of its duty if it dot's not make a full investigation of 7