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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01
Want Negro Trops Disbanded.

Inspector General William G. Obeaf,
Georgia state troops, in his report, Just
filed with Adjutant General Harris. rec
ommends the mastering out of all the
negro troops in the state. He deals at
length with the subject and thinks
that the question should be determin
ed once and for all. The mastering out
Of the negro troops has been recon-
mended from time to time for the pas,
several years, and the Georgia Officers
Association in Savannah some time
ago made a similar RECOMMENDATION.
The negro troops drill fairly well,
but they do not come up to the other
standards Of efficiency. Besides it has
cost the state about $4,000 to equip
these troops and it costs about $1,000
a year to maintain them.
A bill passed by the legislature
would he necessary to muster the
troops, as the state law now says
that there shall be a battalion of col
ored troops. These troops, Colonel
Obear says, are absolutely useless to
the state as the governor is unable
to order them out anywhere when the
services Of troops are needed.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01
BEDROOM FURNITURE.

The newest wrinkle in bedroom fur
nishings for summer is the use of the
crown tapestry canopy for the dresser
and bedstead. The chief thing to
recommend the tapestry canopy is it's
economy. Any old bedroom suite can
be used as a foundation, or even a
vine framework, painted white, for
the dressing table and washstand.
The latter is draped with figured tap
estry along the simplest lines to give
the valance effect. The dressing ta-
BILE has a crown foundation overhead,
from which the tapestry falls in grace
full folds and extends to the floor.
The background for the mirror is also
of the tapestry, and in this frame
work is set an oval baVeled glass at
a height convenient for woman to
sit when making her toilet. The en-
tire dressing table is enyeloped in the
tapestry, over which a white point
da3prit frilled dressed scarf is spread.
A bedstead painted white, or a brass
one, has a draped crown fashioned to
correspond with the dressing table,
and also has vaIances of the tapestry.
White rufled point d'esprit pillow
shams and spread give the little dain-
ty touch and tone down the brilliance
of the floral coIoring. A slipper OF
terman, upholstered and lined with
plain sateen, which has pockets about
the sides for the footwear, goes with
this set. A chair which is the epitome
of comfort is an addition to the set.
It is called the Thirty Winks," "For-
ty Winks," or Fifty Winks," accord
ing to it's size. 1t nearly envelopes
che occupant, as it has not only a
high back, but high side pieces which
extend out to the padded arms. A
box couch upholstered in the tapes
try, with cushions, is offered as an al
ternate to the chair.--Kansas City
Star.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01
No Increase in Pensions.

Commissioner of Pensions Lindsay
announces that it will not be neces-
sary for the legislature to increase
the appropriation for pensions for the
year 1905. This statement is regarded
as significant, as it tends to show
that the pension appropriations will
rapidly grow less from year to year
Not that the state of Georgia will re
joice over the fact, but it does not
stand. to reason that the old heroes
who wore the gray will live much
longer, and every year now will wit
ness their gradual passing away.
The amount needed for next year
will be $4,000. Commissioner Lindsay
is busy with his rolls for next year
and will be engaged in getting them
in shape for some time to come.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01

be done successfully The appropria-
ton would be sufficient inducement for
acceptance by any progressive COM
munity when the prestige and added
boarding students are taken. into con-
sideration 1t would develop self help
on the part of the communities and
knit the parts of our educational sys-
tenn together, carrying out the orig
inal plans of our fathers. The plan
has the endorsement of the county
school commissioners, of the teachers
association, of DR.. True Of the agricul-
tural department at Washington and is
in successful operation in several Of
the states. ]. S. STEWART.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01
Still Waiting for Their Money.

Can a dead man be adjudicated a
bankrupt? This is a question being
freely asked by attorneys interested
in the affairs of the late R. H. Plants
estate, and an answer to this question
will determine Just about when the
hundreds of widows and orphans, poor
people and rich will get what is COM
ing to chem from the |. G. Plants Son
Bank.
Since the collapse of the two banks
the dep0sitors of the private institu-
.tion have waited patiently for the af-
fairs of the dead banker to be straight,
oned out by the receiver.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01

secretary was elected for a term OF
three years.
The time and place Of the next
meeting win be selected by the exec
tive committee.
The committee on legislation for the
summer school at Athens was contin-
ued in office. 1t is composed of j. G.
Woodward G. F. Oliphant and w. M.
SlatCn
The educators heartily endorsed the
local school taxation amendment pro
posed for the constitution of Georgia
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01
The unsocIabIe EnalIshman.

If there are three Englishmen and
three empty railway carriages the
train will leave the station with one
Englishman in each carriage. 1t has
always been held that this proves the
unsociability Of the English. 1t really
proves their good feeling. They do
not resent the presence of strangers
in the very least, they only feel il
they are in the position of stranger
to other people they will be lowering
the tone, spelling the manners and
blasting the intellect Of the other PEG.
pie. The most social train-that is to
say, the train best devised in the
interests of society-would consist
largely of cells, made to seat one
person only. 1t has often been sug-
gested that when two strangers m Yet
in q railway train they might become
temporary acquaintance and speak
to one another. But this is absurd.
One never wants to make the ac-
Quaintance of people one does not
Snow.-LO2don Sphere.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01
Raided treasury First Day.

Members of the legislature, or at
least some of them, swooped down
upon the state treasury on the first
day of the session and drew there
from the sum of $3.50, Some of the
members apologized to Treasurer Park
fer seeming eager to set their pay,
but stated that they needed the mon
ey Another delegation OF solons call.
ed at the treasury on the second day
and drew two days pay. From now I'M
til the close of the session there will
be lively times in the treasury de-
partment, and the officials there will
be busy paying out money and keep
ing a record of it.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01
Farmers, Institutes.

An interesting and valuable meas.
ure that has made its appearance in
the house is that by Mr.. Leigh, of Cow
eta, providing for the establishment
and maintenance in Georgia of sys-
tenn of farmers institutes. This meas
ure provides that a farmers instt
tute shall be held in each senatorial
district in the state annually anc
that the sum of $4,000 shall be appro.
priated in addition to the $1,000 now
guaranteed by the state university to
pay the expenses Of the director ana
the lecturers at these Institutes. These
institutes are to last not less than two
days in each senatorial district.
Last year for the first time, farm,
ers' institutes were held in each sen.
atorial district of the state
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01
sIaton is COMMITTED.

Governor Terrell, on recommends
ton of the prison commission, has
committed from the death penalty to
life Imprisonment the sentence OF
Jack Slaton, colored, who was convict
cd of the murder of negro woman
in Wilkes county, and sentenced to die
on the gallows This case has been
pending for some time and one or two
respites have been granted in order to
allow time for a proper consideration
of the case.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01
County High Schools.

Perhaps the most suggestive recon-
mendation Of Governor Terrell in his
message to the General Assembly was
that providing for county high schools
Our educational system has never been
completed. We have a common school
course of seven years and a univer-
sity system, but between the two
there is a gap of at least three years.
Thousands of boys complete the rural
school course and seeing nothing
ahead are satisfied and begin life
poorly prepared for it's duties. Others
have heard of the college and its val
liable trainings, but find several years
of preparation needed and no school
in the county that can help them. III
the common school the boy learns his
tools, the arts of reading, spelling, of
accounting and of language. In the
high school he gets breadth Of view,
technical training, cultural knowledge.
On their completing the elementary
course as prescribed by the state
board the pupils will enter the county
high school driving in daily or on Mon
day and returning home on Friday. Co.
operative boarding facilities will be
provided so that board should not eX-
coed 81 a month and much of this
can be provided from the products of
the home English, history, agriculture,
physical geography, physics will be
given their proper place in the cur
riculum while the classics and math-
ematics will retain their just relation
to the whole.
To establish these high schools we
must have united community effort
The state should appoint a high school
commission composed of the ch8ncel
lor of the university, the state school
commissioner and one representative
citizen in each congressional district
to have general supervision and to
act with the local authorities in high
school matters. The state should set
aside $3.50 for each county to be given
to that high school matters. The state
should set aside $3.50 for each county
to be given to that high schol, select
ed by the commission, which will best
meet the requirements in curriculum,
equipment, management and provision
for boarding students from the coun-
try. The selected high school would
become an accredited school-of the uni
versity, subject TO inspection. The
plan would assure a high school in
each county, it would prevent loss
of time in the rural schools and con
centrate the work so that it could
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01
OVERHEARD ON THE PIER.

els this all?" demanded the Gus
tom House Inspector, as he finished
up Binks's trunks.
well, no" said Blnks. "I got
new wife over in Paris that little
woman over there VITA the pink
cheeks is she"
CAN right" said the Inspector.
Well have her appraised. She looks
like a work OF aGt.''--Lifc,
If he asks you. Amt It hot?" let
your answer be swat, with your
hammer for his grammar, and his neck
is just the spot!
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01
State owes Teachers 100000.

The 100000 which is due the teach
ers of Georgia by the state cannot be
paid for some time yet. The governor
has informed State School CommIs
sioner Merritt that no more payments
can be made at present, as the condi
ton of the treaury is very much de
pleted, and with the legislature in ses-
sion, it will take nearly all the
money that is coming in to meet the
demands Of the solons.
On that account the teachers will
have to wait until the treasury gets
an overplus before they get that $780,,
600. Many of the pedagogs have be-
gun complaint to the state school
commissioner, but he is powerIess IN
the matter
If a loan is made by the state, it is
likely that the teachers will be paid,
but the governor does not want TO
borrow any money unless it is abso-
lutely Necessary.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01
New Electric Line Proposed.

The latest railroad talk is that the
electric company Of Gainesville will
run line to Homer, Banks county, via
White Sulphur Springs, Gillsyille,
Commerce to Homer A meeting has
been held at Homer and the people
there are enthusiastic over the pros
poets of securing railroad facilities.
They stand willing to pledge large
subscriptions ard to secure the right
of way for the line.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01
Quota of Troops cut Down.

An order recently Issued cutting
Georgia's quota Of soldiers from 1920
to 1900, and cutting the time of their
presence on the Gettysburg battle
field Is to 16 days is the obstacle
which seems now to stand in the way
of the Georgia troops, and which will
likely debar them from participation
in the maneuvers
Much correspondence is now going
on between the adjutant generals Of
fee and the different commanders in
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01
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Epitomized Items Of Interest
Gathered at Random.
seoret orders to ceIebrate.

The Fourth Of July will be celebrat-
ed by she secret orders Of Atlanta at
Ponce de Leon Springs. Arrangements
for the celebration have already been
made, ana it is probable that it will
be the largest Fourth of July celebra-
ton that has ever been held in the
South
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01
Commission Urges ReformatOry.

Strong reference to the necessity for
state rcformatory for youthful Grim
mails is made by the prison commits
sion in it's annual report, which has
just been sent to the printer.
There is a measure now pending be-
fore the legislature providing for an
investigation of the reformatory ques-
ton, with view to taking some &C
ton at this session.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01

the state and the war department at
Washington in an effort to have a
contingent from the Georgia state
troops present.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01
Corporation Tax Bill.

The feature of fridays session of
the house was the passage by vote
of 1926 to 8 Of a bill providing for the
appointment by the comptroller gen
eraI Of a board Of state tax asses
sors.
The lii, in substance, calls for the
appointment by the comptroller gen
eral of three disintetested persons
whose duty it shall be to assess all
corporation property in the state which
is now returned to the Office of the
comptroller general. The assessors
shall have the power to summon wit
nesses and to examine books, and the
valuation which they shall place on
any corporationu property shall be
final and not subject to appeal.
1t is The purpose of the bill to ap-
ply only to the property in the state
owned by corporations.
The Georgia Educational Association.
The Georgia Educational Associa-
ton at its closing session in Warm
Springs elected officers for next year
as follows:
G. F. OHphant OF GAINESVILLE, pres
ident; NJ. NJ. Park, Of AIilledgcyile, first
vice president; Miss Ella Mitchell, of
Sandersville, second vice president;
NJ. L. Britain, of Fulton, treasurer.
E. B. Nell, of Athens, the present
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28
Export of Manufactures.

Figures recently issued by the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor at Wash
ington show that during the month Of
July last our exports of manufactures
amounted to $4O,0O0.O0O. against $751;
100000 of agricultural products. During
June the exports of manufactures were
nearly $40 100000. against $37,5OO,OOO
Of agricultural products. This is the first
time in the history of the country that
the exports of manufactures have ex-
ceeded those of the farm. This does not
mean that the exports of farm products
are falling off, but that those Of manu-
factures have greatly increased. This is
due to a protective tariff which, while it
benefits American manufactures. also in
creases the home demand for American
farm products.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

loosen, even in the slightest measure,
the closest bonds to the United States.
reasoning from past failures, Euro
pean and many American people pro-
phesied the failure of the American Re
public and its principles. But it sue
ceeded, and behold the liberalizing effect
upon the governments of the world. De-
spite the discouraging prophesies of
even our own people, is it not the brave
and manly part for us, at least, to try
to conduct a tropical possession on new
er and higher principles and motives,
setting such liberalizing example to
other colonizing nations that che 49,,
100000 souls to-day peopling the tropi-
cal countries will rise up and call us
blessed?
Whether or not we retain the islands,
let us make our example in the tropical
domains as far-reaching in benefcient
effects as that of the American Republic
has been among the great nations of
the earth. Our own shores, under our
own government, have been the refuge
for the oppressed Of the world; let us
make those other shores under our own
government no less blessing, no less
a refuge. By the good it has DONE make
that flag loved in the Philippines as 1t
is respected throughout the world
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28
THE PHILIPPINES.
Democrats Acknowledge the Wisdom
of the Republics Policy.

OG"OCTdCS ACknOWlGU&S tine wisdom
of the Republican Policy.
John M. Switzer, formerly Of Califor-
MIA, but now in business at Cebu, Philip
pine Islands, says, ina letter.
THE two factions of the Democratic
party have adopted the Republican policy
OH the money question, after hanging for
eight years Like pair of Kilkenny cats
over a cross of gold. That is the only
sound policy they have to offer the peo-
pie but even that was an afterthought
and they are as pleased with stealing it
as the old hen which, after setting eight
years on her own non-producing eggs,
adopted full-grown chicken and thought
she WAS young mother. While it does
not happen often that the Democrats
see question except through glasses
darkly, yet there is one other instance
in recent history where they acknowledge
the wisdom of the Republicans When
the government of the Philippines was
turned over to Governor Wright he
promised and hoped that he would be
able to carry out the policy of Governor
Taft and the administration, and he has
done SO. A few months later the Demo
cratic party of the Philippines, in it's
convention at Manila, adopted the fol-
lowing resolution:
Resolved, That we heartily commend
the able, wise, patriotic and non-partisan
administration of the Hon. Luke Il. Wright
as Civil Governor of the Philippine Is
lands
"Thus the Democrats of the Philip
pines, who know what we are doing
there, acknowledge the wisdom and
soundness of the Republican admins
tration in the islands, even if their party
in America is still setting on door-knob
nest eggs.
THE Democratic delegates from the
Philippine Islands to the st. Louis Con
vention knew too much to suit the Demo-
cratic party in America, and were con
Sequently denied not only Il vote but
voice in the convention"
In concluding his letter, Mr.. Switzer
says: 80 long as we are doing every
thing that is possible and necessary for
the future success of those people,
whether we retain them or not, and as
no one can fortel when they Will be
ready for independence, or whether they
will wish itN even when they are ready,
would 1t not seem wiser to leave the
premature question of independence to be
decided by the better educated Filipino,
and more experienced American of the
future? American sovereignty has exist.
ed over the soil on which we stand only
about fifty years longer than over the
Philippines. Would not every son of
California give his life for the benef-
cence of our common flag? Let us be-
stow such blessings upon those islands
that a grateful people will not wish to
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28
Democracy's Bad Record.

When the veterans of the Civil War
were with Gen. Grant before Richmond
or with Sherman marching to the sea, q
democratic national convention declared
the war a failure and demanded dis
honorable peace. When the business
men, the wage-earners and honest men
OF all classes were battling for sound
money and the gold standard the Demo
cfatlc party, as, an organization. was
clamorlng for free silver at Is to I.
When the Republican party was contend
ing for protection to American manufac-
turers and workmen, its opponents were
advocating policy destructive to both
What good thing has the Democratic
party ever done. ANYHOW?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28
TRIBULATIONS OF A GREAT
GRANDFATHER.
Over Teddy's letter.
ElkiuS w Va Sapt 4.


Dear Sonny-Ive just finished readin'
Teddys letter and haven't had so much
fun since | was tossd in blanket the
year that grand old rough rider Andy Jack
son, was elected for second term. 1t
losses us up so high that it seems as if
we'd never come down.
| never did see a paper so full of in
terrogation points as that letter. and every
derneu one Of them like jolt on the solar"
plexus that Steve is SO fond OF talkin'
about.
.Nunky,' said Steve, as / hobbled into
breakfast this mornin', the first time since
/ posed as Methuselah pickin the shoe
strings out of his eyes, 'Nunky," says he,
why does Teddy's letter remind you of a
corduroy road"'
Because it's so full of bumps says |,
gueSsin' his conundrum the first crack.
There's nothin like few sharp jolts on
the spine to sharpen an old mans intel
ectuals
No wonder you thought it a mile long.
A short piece of road like that goes a long
way when your wagon hasn't any springs
or straw on the bottom, an your old hams
lack fat like mine
tell you, Alton that's the matter with
us. The Democratic band wagon hasn't
got any springs nor straw for cushions and
I'm gettin all fired tired furnshn' all the
axle grease.
This letter of Teddy's doesn't run oh
rubber tires. He may. mean well, but what
right has he pryin into our convictions?
What business is it of his if we are like
the man stealth a ride on the end of Il
train who never sees anything until it's
passed? Ii he was as old as / am, he'd
bless his stars if he could see anything,
behind or before.
This havin' foresight is all Republican
gift We Democrats haven't got it, We're
always suckin' the hind teat.
We never saw anything in infant indus
tries till the Republicans adopted the
foundlin and brought it up on Protection
milk.
We never saw that the Union had to be
preserved, If there were to be enough
offices to go round, until the Republicans
saved. it and filed the offices for nigh onto
forty years.
occupy the same place at the same time
until the Republicans adopted the gold
standard and left us holding the bag be-
tween bimetallism and free and unlimited
silver.
| tell you, we've no faculty for fore
sight-and. as far as can see mighty
little for hind-sight, either. No wonder the
donkey is our party emblem. Do you
know I've been lokin' in mothers looLin'
kers amt grown like a goats and my ears
are gettn' so long they droop. Steve says
it's only an optical hallucination, superin-
duced by too much brooding over Repub-
ican cartoons.
But, say, Alton-on the quiet-have you
consulted your glass since you made that
speech to Charlie Knapp and the other
Charlie horses?
Donkeys have this advantage over men:
they can get their ears to the ground with
ont craWlin' on their bellies
Waitin to see you put Teddy on the grid
iron, your old uncle.
HENRY GASSOWAY.