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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
President Roosevelt declared he
would live most of his time in the
iWest after his return from Africa.
The Duke of the Abruzzi was
found in London, and sketched his
plans for scaling Himalayan peaks.
Lady William Beresford, who was
Miss Lillian Warren Price, of New
York City, died at Dorking, England.
Justice Wright is forty-odd years
-old. He is an outdoor man and a
lifelong friend of President-elect
Taft.
D. O. Mills and his daughter, Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid, have arrived in San
Francisco from New York to spend
the seaso'n at the Mills country home
at Mill Brae, near San Francisco.
. Alec Lior, the “piper of North
Muskagon,/ has a violin which, he
says, is a ‘genuine Stradivarius. In
[Civil War time on the Mississippi
River he used to get SSO a night to
[play it.
H. H. Rogers has now ordered a
$20,009 pair of brass doors and a
font for his church in Fairhaven,
Mass., and has given it a massive
communion set in memory of his
mother.
: Edward H. Hyatt, superintendent
■of public instruction in California,
. determined to ask the next Legislat
ure to provide textbooks for the pub
lic school children of that State at
jpublic expense.
■ Dr. James A. Craig, professor of
Semitic languages at Ann Arbor,
Mich., invented a system of short
hand when a student at McGill Uni
versity. He has used it constantly
Ifor thirty years.
Conrad H. Young, of Omaha,
■ hunter of big game and crack tennis
player, has been invited to become a
faunal naturalist and go along to
Africa. “Mr. Young’s sister,” says
the dispatch, “was for some years the
governess of President Roosevelt’s
children..” . ..
Mod Made Up.
“I observe,” said the editor of the
magazine, looking over the manu
script that had been submitted to
him by the aspiring author thereof,
“that you have used the phrase, ‘lean
hours.’ How can there be such a
thing as a ‘lean’ hour?’’
“Why not?” demanded the other.
“There is such a thing as a spare
moment, isn’t there ?”—Chicago Trib
une.
If the young man on the farm
would be’as energetic and show the
thinking capacity that nut grass does
in growing away from, around or
through obstacles, he would be sure
of success.
Spelling bees are not usually edu
cated insects.
<T SPORTING BREVITIES.
Billy Hamilton is after Ward Bas
tian for his Lynn team.
The Cleveland Club has sold Dave
Altizer to the White Sox.
Harry McCormick is playing bas
ketball at Harrisburg, Pa.
Harvard defeated Princeton at
hockey by a score of 3 to 2.
The Clevelands have sold Pitcher
Prueitt to the New Orleans Club.
Sir Thomas Lipton has given a cup
for an annual inter-Australian race.
’Frisco sports are anxious to secure
the Johnson-Langford fight' and offer
a purse of $25,000 for the cont<_i.
Dorando Pietri and Johnny Hayes
have been matched to run a fifteen
mile race at Minneapolis on February
22.
Marquette University, which last
fall began a memorable compaign to
put “Milwaukee on the athletic map,"
is to have a fine new gymnasium.
At Goldfield, Nev., Abe Attell, the
featherweight champion of the world,
retained his title when be knocked
out Fred Weeks in the tenth round.
The University of Wisconsin will
enter crews in all three races at
Poughkeepsie this year, as the ath
letic board has appropriated money
for the trip.
Kickers on the ball field may be
interested to know that Harry Truby,
just appointed a National League
umpire, weighs 200 pounds and is a
skilled boxer.
Mahmout, the big Turk, who has
been beating all comers on the mat
since his arrival In this country, ap
pears to be unwilling to tackle Ernest
Siegfried, the German Oak.
We have several sprinters who
make the 100 in 10 flat, half a score
who have done it in 9 4-5, three who
claim 9 3-5, and one—Walker, of
South Africa —who has been credited
recently with the wonderful time of
9 2-5.
FEMININE NEWS NOTES.
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy gave
SSOO to the Newton (Mass.) Hospital.
The Moody Bible Institute, Chi
cago, plans to erect a building en
tirely for women students.
Mrs. Eleanor Relyea, a clerk in the
signal office of the War Department,
will be the next social secretary of
the White House.
Mary, daughter of Mrs. Lewis Ed
wards, of New York, was married
in St. Peter’s Church, London, to
Major Douglas Mac Ewan.
A jury awarded Mrs. Alfred R.
Goslin, of New York City, $50,000
damages In her alienation suit against
her husband’s stenographer.
There was one woman delegate to
the American Mining Congress which
met in Pittsburg. She was Mrs.
Nellie C. Upham, a mine owner.
Mrs. Philip Snowden, wife of the
British member of Parliament, has
made a reputation for eloquence in
the interest of the suffrage propa
ganda.
Gladys Unger, who left California
in 1895 to study art in Paris, and who
has succeeded notably as a painter, is
now giving her attention to play
writing.
A woman, Mrs. Sarah R. Gilford,
served on a jury in Denver recently.
She stood for the acquittal of the
prisoner, a milkman, accused of strik
ing a woman.
Mme. Apollonie Maretzek, who had
a vogue in this country as an opera
singer prior to the American appear
ance of Jennie Lind, died at Hugue
not, S. 1., at the age of ninety years.
The recent municipal elections in
Paris were remarkable not only for
the candidature of Mlle. Laloe, who
was soundly beaten, but for the first
recorded candidature of a domestic
servant.
Roosevelt Will Lecture in Berlin,
as Well as in London and Paris.
Washington, D. C. — President
Roosevelt has accepted an invitation
of the University of Berlin to give a
lecture to the students of the univer
sity in May, 1910. The invitation
was brought by Count von Bernstorff.
Mr. Roosevelt, it is understood,
will accept no more invitations ol 1
this kind from Europe, but will limit I
his addresses to one before the Sor
bonne in Paris, one at the University
of Oxford, and the one he has now
promised to deliver in Berlin.
No Market.
Cholly—Doctor, I want something
Dr. Gruffly — My dear fellow, 1
wouldn’t take it for a gracious gift
—Universalist Leader,
for my head.
Whether distance lends enchant
ment to the view depends upon
whether the man Be on the earth or
in the airship.
PEACHES ARE ALL RIGHT
•
Cold Waves Came In Time to
Prevent Disaster.
TREES HADJOT BUDDED
Brightest Prospects in View for Some
Fine Fruit Reports President Bagley
of the Georgia Fruit Exchange.
Atlanta, Ga.—The fruit growers all
over the state, so President Bagley of
the Georgia Fruit Exchange reports,
are glad to have the gold wave come
at this time, for it prevents what
was feared to be a disaster to the
peach crop in this state.
The rather immoderate hot wave
which had been existing until recent
ly throughout the state had put the
growers in a state of fear, because it
was thought that a continuance of
such conditions would cause the buds
to grow to such a state that when a
cold wave did come they would be
killed. As the buds had not devel
oped to the dangerous state when
this cold wave presented itself, there
is now danger of an off year as far
as peaches are concerned, but the
brightest prospects for some fine
fruit.
THE BRITISH SYSTEM.
Agricultural Training in an English
County.
The education committee of Chis
hire county thinks that the schools
should aid in the vocational training
of the youths of that county.
In England the girls look after the
therefore, maintains one school for
special instruction of women in the
dairy and the poultry. The county
dairy work and the management of
poultry. Each course extends over
thirteen weeks and three courses are
offered each year. Eighteen students
are provided for in each course. Not
great numbers are sought, but solid
preparation for those actually expect
ing to engage in the vocation. Peri
patetic courses are given iu these
subjects in the elementary schools in
a more elematary manner.
Then there is the county agricul
tural and horticultural school with ac
commodations for forty-five students,
with a three years’ course of instruc
tion in all subjects connected with
farming and gardening and care of
farm animals. There is a faculty of
ten instructors. The laboratories are
well equipped for chemistry and bi
ology. The school owns its own elec
tric light and water plant. The farm
is worked by the students. A herd of
dairy shorthorns, a flock of sheep
and white Yorkshire pigs are kept.
The “duty list" is prepared each
week for the students’ work from
fl:30 to 8, and again in the evenings
under the following heads: Coms,
dairy, stable, cattle and calves, pigs,
poultry. In this way by actually at
tending to the various sections ths
students become practically familiar
with the wants of the live stock.
We have a somewhat similar ar
rangement in our district agricultural
schools. In fact, these schools should
fill somewhat the same place as the
county agricultural school in Chis
hire. Ours still lack sufficient scien
tific eqiupment and thorough textboox
and laboratory training to supple
ment the outdoor work. This was
planned, but as yet the equipment
and teaching force has not been suf
ficient. I believe that the counties in
each district should give scholar
ships to those district schools, and
the state should grant one scholarship
from each county to the agricultural
college.
The school hours are as follows:
■6:30 —Farm and garden duty.
8:00 —Prayers and breakfast.
9:00-12:30 — Lectures, laboratory
work, etc.
1:00 —Dinner.
2:00-4:W —Lectures and practical
work.
s:3o—Tea.
7. oo—Revision of lecture work, etc.
B:oo—Prayer and supper.
10:00—Lights out.
I consider the county agricultural
school at Holmes Chapel a practical
school, well taught, and eminently
fitted for the needs of the agricultural
clelssss
A new feature in this county was
the payment of a lecturer on sick
nursing. Each course consists of six
lectures and these are given in dif
ferent school centers in the order of
application to the director of educa
tion. .
The work in nature study is more
systematically carried on than I have
seen in this country. The instructor
In nature study holds classes in va
rious counties for instruction in na
ture study for teachers in chemistry
schools. The ordinary classes meet
once a week and consist of lecture
and demonstrations followed by bo
tonical exercises. The lecturer also
attends at elementary schools to give
at least three lectures on these sub
jects. The railway fare of teachers
to the lecture centers is paid by the
board of education.
Similar classes are organized for
instruction in physical drill and the
instructor supervises the work
throughout the schools.
The government issues a physical
drill manual which is used through
out the nation in the elementary
schools. This drill is as much a
part Os the day’s work as arithmetic.
It is a modified Swedish system ar
ranged by army .officers. We might
learn another lesson here. We should
insist upon medical examination and
regular physical drill in all of our
schools
■ j. s. STEWART. Aifams. Ga.
(iOODMADS school
Held at Athens Was a Big and Howl
ing Success.
Athens Ga.—The good roads school
which was held here was, in every
way a success. Over thirty counties
were represented and the interest dis
ced was unusual. There were
fifty county officials in attendance.
Valuable literature on road con
struction was furnished to those in
attendance, and the sessions will u -
doubtedly prove a forward ste P
ward better roads over the state.
THROUGHOUT THE STATE
At a banquet in his honor, given
by the Augusta chamber of com
merce, Mr. E. H. Harriman, the rail
way king, outlined the policy of his
railroads in the state of Georgia, and,
in condensed form, they are as fol
lows: If the people of the state will
cease to be antagonistic to the rail
road interests he will spend ten mil
lion dollars on the Central of Geor
gia railroad, of which road he is the
controlling factor, and that if he im
proves his property, the other roads
will have to do likewise. His address
was impromptu and he took up state
ments of the leading speakers of the
evening and defined his future atti
tude in this state. He complimented
the people of the state upon the elec
tion of Honorable J. Brown to the
governor’s chair, and said that he be
lieved it would result in prosperity
to the entire state. Mr. Harriman
came to Augusta for health, and he
says that he has gained back his
health. “It is up to Georgia to raise
the embargo,” he said. He only
vouchsafed a promise of railroad ex
tension in this state insofar as the
attitude of the law and public senti
ment will justify.
The Farmers’ National Bank of
Monticello has been authorized to be
gin business with $39,000 capital, E.
H. Jordan, president; J. A. Kelly,vice
president; D. N. Harvey, cashier.
Rev. B. F. Fraser of Gainesville,
since November the North Georgia
Conference missionary evangelist,was
notified by Bishop Hoss of his ap
pointment as presiding eider of
Augusta district to succeed the late
Dr. J. W. Heidt, whose death occur
red a few days ago.
Evangelist Burke Culpepper of Val
dosta, though not a very strenuous
preacher, has succeeded in making it
necessary to deny some very sensa
tional reports which it is said that
a street preacher has been circulat
ing about him in Florida. The re
port was that during one of his meet
ings in the upper part of this state
he became involved in an affray with
a man in his congregation and that
he shot at the man, striking a woman
and killing her.
Much has 'been heard of the alleged
cruelties of the prison system of
Georgia, but the negro who has just
been pardoned after fourteen years’
service as a convict in a coal mine,
and received with his pardon SB9O in
cash which he had earned in that
period by working overtime, evident
ly has small reason to make com
plaint.
In the clerk’s office in Bibb supe
rior court, a large mortgage given by
the Central Georgia Power company
to the Windsor Trust company, of
New York, for a loan of $3,999,099 is
being placed on record. The agree
ment covers an issue of bonds bear
ing Interest at 5 per cent, the last to
expire in 1918. The funds are going
into a large power plant now in con
struction on the Ocmulgee river near
Lloyd’s shoals, in Butts county.
Fifteen indictments were returned
by the Ware county grand jury
against alleged night riders, for tak
ing part in the recent shooting up of
the town of Beach, that county. In
the trouble, Miss Maggie Taylor, aged
14, was shot and very seriously
wounded. The indictments charge a
midemeanor, riot and assault with in
tent to murder. The indictments are
against five young men, who, it is
said, are not under arrest. They, it
Is alleged, rode into the little town at
night and fired over five hundred .bul
lets from pistols, firing into houses
at random, and into groups of per
sons on the streets, throwing the en
tire community into terror.
President J. J. Connor of the board
of trustees of the $199,009 Agricul
tural college at Athens and also the
president of the State Agricultural
society of Georgia, while in Atlanta
recently announced, definitely, that
the "Agricultural College on Wheels”
would not be operated this year, as
first contemplated. The reason giv
en for this action is not on account of
any lack of co-operation by the roads
in Georgia or opposition by the rail
road commission of Georgia, or lack
of interest in the train by the plant
ers of the state, for these three ele
means were heartily in favor of the
train, but because of the splendid
growth in the interest of the Agricul
tural college, which would prevent
Dr. Soule and his able corps of as
sistants from devoting the time ne
cessary to the trip at this juncture.
President Connor had just returned
from Athens, where he has been in
attendance at the farmers’ institute
and that of the Farmers’ wives. He
declared it has been so successful
that it Jiad been decided to repeat
the conference next year. At this
conference some of the best known
authorities on agricultural topics In
the state were heard in lectures. One
of the chief industries generally dis
cussed at this conference was that
of cattle raising in Georgia. Dr. Soule
is bending all of his energies in this
direction. He is an ardent advocate
of the use of cotton seed meal mixed
with hulls as a feed, having made ex
periments whereby it has been prov
en that by feeding a ton of this mix
ture, properly proportioned, five hun
dred pounds can be added to the
weight of the cattle fed. It is accept
ed as the cheapest as well as the best
feed on the market, and has been
pointed out In using it the southern
planter helps himself who furnishes
to the mills the seed from which it
is made. Dairy demonstrations, too,
proved its splendid qualities for mak
ing more and richer cream. Thp soil
tests where cotton seed meal is used .
in a commercial fertilizer, demon
stratlng iU value ther®, will be made j
awly in the siuing-
General A. J. West of Atlanta has
been named as an aide to General J.
Franklin Bell, grand marshal of the
inaugural parade, for the parad®
which will mark the induction into
office of Mr. Taft. From preparations
alreadv made, it is announced that
the parade will be the greatest mil
itary pageant seen in Washington
since the civil war. Application has
been made by Warren Edwards of
Milledgeville for a place in line for
the Taft Marching Club of Georgia,
including 500 men and a mili.ary
band.
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