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PAGE FOUR 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,