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Summary of Ebents as They Happen
Hudson Buys Big Plantation.
Hon. Thomas G. Hudson, Commis
sioner of Agriculture, added to his
landed interests near Americus a few
days ago by purchasing a desirable
plantation of 500 acres.
Commissioner Hudson considers
plantation property an excellent in
vestment, and already owns extensive
interests in the vicinity.
Quail Season Opened.
The merry popping cf guns and the
smell of burning powder on the hill
sides of Georgia proclaim to the world
that the legal bars are down and
sportsmen are now privileged to shoot
all game birds. Reports from the
county are to the effect that the quail
are both plentiful and fat this sea
son, which will no dcnbt make hunt
ing quite a diversion. Our sportsmen
have been going out in great numbers
the past week and report good luck.
Who Shall Control Alabama?
The governor declares that the is
sue is brought squarely to the point.
The legislature is in extra session.
Both houses were called to order by
Lieutenant Governor Gray and Speak
er CarmichaeL
The governors’ proclamation calling
the legislature together was read in
both houses. There were thirty sen
ators present. A large number of
ministers are in the city of Montgom
ery to look after a general prohibi
tion bill.
In the governor’s message he men
tioned conpulsory education, forestry
preservation, excess baggage bill, and
many other bills that he wanted con
sidered.
After the Scalp of Paper Trust
President Roosevelt today indicated
to members of the committee on pa
per of the American Newspaper Pub
lishers’ Association that he will rec
ommend to congress the abolition of
the tariff on press paper, wood pulp
and the wood that goes into the manu
facture of paper; also that he w'ill
make a recommendation to the de
partment of justice that it lake im
mediate steps to ascertain whether
the anti-trust laws are being disobey
ed by the manufacturers of paper.
The promise of the recommenda
tions by the President was obtained
after he had listened to the repre
sentations of the members of the com
mittee, and to a petition from the
national organizations of printers and
stereotypers, prssmen and etchers,
all of which set forth the evidence
of .a combination on ihe part of the
manufacturers of paper for the pur
pose of controlling the output, regu
lating and greatly increasing the price
and otherwise making hindersome reg
ulations governing the source of sup
ply and delivery of paper.
The call upon the President was
made in pursuance of resolutions
adopted by the American Newspaper
Publishers’ Association at a meeting
hold in New York, September 19 last.
The committee which called on the
President by appointment, included
John Norris, of The New York Times;
Medill McCormick, of The Chicago
Tribune; George Thompson, of The
BL Paul Dispatch; Delevan Smith, of
The Indianapolis News; John East
man, of The Chicago Journal; Walter
Page, of The World’s Work; Dr. Al
bert Shaw, of The Review of Re
views; F. J. Ridgeway, and the presi
dents of the national organizations of
the Allied Printing Trades.
The history and facts which make
up the protest were presented by Mr.
McCormick, after which the president
indicated the action he would take.
An investigation of the so-called pa
per trust has been in progress for
some time by the Department of J us
tice, and it is understood the Presi
dent will immediately call for the
facts which have been ascertained up
to the present time.—Columbia State.
Georgia Postmasters Meet in Macon
on November 20.
A meeting of the postmasters of
Georgia has been announced to be
held in Macon on November 20th,
the object of which is to perfect an
organization to be known as the
Georgia Association of Presidential
Postmasters.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Hitchcock has accepted an invitation
to address the postmasters on the
date named and Harry Stilwell Ed
wards, of Macon, Chief Inspector
Vickery, and other prominent offi
cials of Uncle Sam’s postal depart
ment are booked to make addresses,
which will make it a pleasant and in
teresting meeting.
Plans of a tentative nature have
already been made for the organiza
tion of the various postmasters, and
it is believed that nothing will hinder
them in their work when the meet
ing is held.
Hairy Edwards, Macon’s well
known government official, is largely
responsible for the selection of the
Central City as the place for the con
vention. In Atlanta, where tempo
rary offices for the Georgia Associa
tion were selected, Mr. Edwards sug
gested that Macon be named for the
organization meeting, and the sug
gestion met with popular favor and
resulted in a call for the convention
in that city.
Postmaster R. L. Williams stated
yesterday he would attend the con
vention, if his business was such that
he could get off at that time. —Griffin
News.
Histoiic Letters Found in Rubbish.
Two interesting letters, written 66
years ago to Jhat distinguished Geor
gian, Alfred H. Colquitt, were dug
up in a trash pile a few days ago by
J. A. Middleton, a jcntractor, at 60
West Alabama street.
Both letters are sealed with wax in
antique fashion. Neither is enclosed
in an envelope—envelopes were un
known in those days —and neither has
a postage stamp. One of the letters
is from Senator Colquitt’s mother,
and is full of news about society and
home life in Macon. The other js
from H. H. Welles. It recalls adven
tures which the two experienced in
the Mexican war, and begins, “To my
dear and long-lost friend, the major
Mr. Middleton came upon the his
torie letters accidentally. He was
rummaging through a pile of rubbish
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
and picked up the first letter simply
as a scrap of paper to make some
calculations on. When he read this
one he realized its value and hunted
through the trash until he found the
other. —Atlanta Journal.
Oklahoma Now a State.
Oklahoma is now one of the States.
It has many features added to the
constitution of the State:
Direct legislation through the ini
tiative and referendum.
Nomination of all State, county,
district and township officers by di
rect primaries.
Prohibition of railway corporations
from owning any productive agency
of a natural commodity.
Prohibition of corporations from
owning more land than is absolutely
necessary in the operation of their
business.
Prohibition of watered stock and
provision that the books of all corpo
rations shall be open to examination
at any time.
Prohibition of the employment of
children under 15 years of age in fac
tories and mines.
Abrogation of the fellow servant
law.
Elective State corporation commis
sion with complete supervision of all
corporations.
Two-cent railway fares.
Labor and arbitration commission
with compulsory powers.
Agricultural commission.
Oil, gas and mineral commission.
Prohibition for twenty-one years in
the present Indian Territory and all
Indian reservations and State-wide
prohibition for the entire State as
vot?d on a special ballot.
Eight-hour day.
Establishment of a State printing
plant.
If you like straight talk and sound
doctrine, and want to hear the truth,
told by a man who knows, read
Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine.—
Polk County Record.
MAN’S LIFE OF WOE.
A man’s life is full of crosses and
temptations. He comes into the wotld
without his consent, and goes out
against his will, and the trip between
the two is exceedingly rocky.
The rule of contraries is one of the
important features of his trip. When
he is little the big girls kiss him, and
when he is big the little girls kiss
him.
If he raises a larg? family he is a
chump; if he raises a small check he
is a thief.
If he is a poor man he is a bad
manager; if he is rich he is dishon
est; if he’s in politics it’s for pie; if
he is out cf politics you can’t
him, and ho is no good to his coun
try.
If *he doos not give to charity he
is stingy; if he does, it’s for show.
If he dies young there’s a great fu
ture before him; if he lives to a good
old age he has missed his calling.
The road is rocky, but the man
loves to travel it, just the same.—
Exchange.
SKETCH OF JUDGE JOSEPH N.
WORLEY.
Prepared especially for .The Jefferson
ian.
Judge Worley was bom March 25,
1854, in Newborn, Virginia. He was
six years old when the. lamentable
civil war broke out. His early boy
hood days were spent in East Ten
nessee and North Georgia, a section
of country that was about half Union
and half Confederate.
Judge Worley came from old Vir
ginia stock, his father being the late
Rev. Ambrose Gaines Worley, who
was presiding elder of the Methodist
Church for a number of years in the
various and most intelligent districts
of Georgia.
Pretty soon after the war Judge
Worley’s parents moved from Mur
ray county to Elbert county, and it
is of his life here that we desire most
ly to speak. In a country school
house located in what is known as the
flatwood section, Judge Worley re-
JUDGE JOSEPH N. WORLEY.
ceived a common school education.
Being extremely poor and unfortu
nately the oldest member of the fam
ily, in that he had the hardest tasks
to perform, he worked hard on the
farm and got his schooling by piece
meal. But this is the thorny road
that many boys have had to climb in
order to reach the summit. Young
Worley walked from four to five miles
to attend the log cabin school in
which ho acquired his education, many
times going barefooted through the
cold in the winter months. At home
he would do the drudgery of the
morning and evening about the house
and study at night by the light of a
pine knot.
After his school days had ended in
the little rural school hut, Judge Wor
ley read law under the well known
Robert Het ter, of Elberton, Georgia,
and was admitted to practice under
that learned jurist, Edward H. Pot
tle.
For eight years Judge Worley was
commissioner of roads and revenues
for Elbert county. During these
eight years he gave us the system of
covered bridges across our streams.
When the prohibition question first
pertirbed the minds of iw people,