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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
Rumor That Hardwick
Will Leave Sys
tem.
A shake-up In the passenger depart
ment of the Southern Railway la ached
uled to take place on July 1, If the
deductions of those In close touch with
railway affairs count for anything,
fact, changes among the higher of
ficials have been rumored for some
time, and recent happenings have
strengthened these rumors.
The fact that President Finley has
made several trips to Chattanooga re-
cently and that on the last one of these
trips he held a long conference with
C. A. Benscoter, assistant general pas
senger agent with headquarters there,
lead many to believe that the latter
to be appointed general passenger
agent on July 1. Telegraph dispatches
from Chattanooga Indicate that this
true, and the friends of Mr. Benscoter
firmly believe he Is to be promoted.
In connection with this, a paragraph
In a Montgomery paper Is looked upon
as significant. This paragraph was to
the effect that on July 1 S. H. Hard
wick, passenger trafric manager of the
system, would leave on July 1 for Eu
rope.
It Is believed In some quarters that
Mr. Benscoter Is slated for Mr. Hard'
wick’s position and that the latter will
or has already resigned his position.
In other quarters It Is believed that
Mr. Benscoter is slated to take the
place of General Passenger Agent W.
H. Tayloe, and that the latter's reslg
nation Is a probability. It has been
said In railroad circles for some time
that this resignation might be looked
for. and If It Is true, the news will be
received with genuine regret by those
who know him.
Than W. H. Tayloe, few railroad
men are better liked and his friends In
this part of the country can be count
ed by the hundreds. There have been
rumors, however, that there Is frlc
tlon somewhere among those higher up
In the Southern.
At present those who keep posted on
railroad affairs know of no one In the
Southern’s passenger service who
would likely be promoted to take the
place of Mr. Hardwick as passenger
traffic manager, but It Is not consid
ered outside the range of possibilities
that later on It may be tendered to Mr.
Benscoter.
At present he IS the ranking assist
ant general passenger agent of the
road, and Is considered not only
thorough railroad man, but a conserv
ative one.
Since the death of President Spencer
there has been a change In things, and
It Is known that President Finley does
not have the weight on hls shoulders
that President Spencer had. Mr. Spen
cer ran the system, both financial and
operative, but this is said to not be the
case with President Finley. With the
financial management of the road he Is
said to have nothing to do, but Is an
executive to carry out the orders of
the Interests controlling the Southern.
Necessarily, it Is pointed out. changes
are bound to occur.
If Mr. Benscoter Is promoted to one
of the two vacancies that are believ
ed will be made In Washington, other
changes will be necessary to fill the of.
flee of assistant general passenger
agent now held by Mr. Benscoter. and
as a result considerable Interest la be
ing manifested.
And In the meantime those Interest'
ed are looking towards July 1.
Bargains For
A Big Cut of One-Third Off
the Price of All Wom
en’s Suits, Coats, Silk
Waists and Mil
linery.
MENTER & ROSENBLOOM CO.,
the largest Credit Clothiers in the
world, and operatora of 72 retail stores
with a store In thie eity over 71 White,
hell etreet, announce that beginning
today thoy will sell every Women'e
Suit, Coat, Silk Waist or Hat in the
store at one-third off tho regular price.
You can make the reduction yourself,
the price tage are the same as they
have been all season. For instance, a
suit or coat that ia marked $24 you can
hava for $16.
Thirty dollar suits are now $20.00
Twenty dollar suits are now $13.33
Eighteen dollar suits are now....$12.00
Fifteen dollar suite are now......$10.00
Twelve dollar suite are now..;... $8.00
Ten dollar suite are now $8-8®
And you can hava credit, too. If you
desire—that is what makes this won
derful offer more remarkable. You can
Buy at one-third offi have your pur-
chase charged and pay in small pay
ments of $1.00 a week. ,
There is a wonderfully good etock of
women's stylish garments here, and
•very woman in need of new clothing
should call as early ae possible.
Mr. W. H. Nunnally, the manager of
the Atlanta store, said that when he
got the order to close out women s
goods at one-third off, he thought It
wee a mistake, and telegraphed the
Home office of Menter & Rosenbloom
Co., at Rochester, N. Y., to confirm the
order, which they did. Go and see
theee great bargains early while chooa-
•no is best. You don't need money to
take advantage of this great offer.—
Your credit is good, _
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ON.FOURTH OF JULY
Will Be No Parade, but
General Closing of Busi
ness Houses.
At the meeting of citizens In the
mayor's office Monday morning for the
purpose of taking action relative to the
proper observance In Atlanta of tho
Fourth of July, a motion was passed
requesting Mayor Joyner to Issue
proclamation calling upon the mer
chants of the city to close their stores
at noon and asking for a general deco
ration of homes, business houses and
other buildings.
The motion was made by Colonel
Harry L. Bchleslnger, and was passed
unanimously. Mayor Joyner has sign!
fled hls Intention to Issue such a proc
tarnation.
It was decided that Inasmuch as
there would be a big parade and plen
ty of speaking on Saturday at the gov.
ernor's Inauguration, and as a program
of exercises had been arranged by the
Daughters of the Revolution for the
Fourth, and also that the Red Men
would have a big celebration that day,
a parade would be unnecessary.
DALY SAYS 2-CENT
FAREr:::i:
Big Four and Erie Roads
Will Figlit Flat
Rate.
New York, June 24.—The report of a ae
cret meeting of high railroad officials at
Chicago, at which It was decided to reduce
•II passenger rates throughout the United
8tntes to 2 cents. Induced Charles F. Duly,
rice president of the fourteen lines of the
New York Central system, to make _
statement of the railroads' position In re
gard to the 2-cent fare.
“The adoption of a 2-cent fare by the
railroads, os atoted In that dispatch," said
Mr. Daly, “Is nn absurdity. It Is s physl-
il impossibility. The railroads
> It and continue to do btislm. .
President Underwoods of the Erie rail
road, said:
OF FRENCH REVOLT
Wives and Families of Riot
ers are Quitting
Besiers.
Bealera, France, June 21.—Franc!, War
rington l)awaon wires that be waa a cor.
rraponrtrnt. anti merle a canraaa of the en
tire disturbed dlatrtct where the wine-grow,
era' trouhlea have been on. He aaye the re
volting peeaenta are matlere of the sHun-
tlon. A wholeaele exodus of wlvee and Pun-
flat of the aggrcaalve rlotera la ou from
here today.
GEORGIA WILL SUE
Mill llll Mil
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LEGISLATURE
The Hotel Lobbies Are
Thronged Monday
Morning.
It la probable that a part of the |30,-
000 appropriated for the Georgia ex
hibit at Jameetown will be returned to
the atate treasury, aa It aeema now
that the entire amount will not be
needed.
A brief meeting of the Georgia com
mlaalon waa held Monday morning In
the office of Governor Terrell. To date
about half of the original approprla
tlop has been expended, and the heav
iest expenses have been met.
Executive Commissioner Yeates re
ported that Georgia had the finest min
eral exhibit the state had ever sent to
any expoaltlon, and that It Is attract
ing a great deal of ‘attention.
1ESLEY FUND GROWS;
RAISE $2,000 MORE
Aa a result of collections taken In
various churches on Sunday, nearly
000 additional was added to the fund
for the Wesley Memorial enterprises.
The amounts so far reported are: The
Irat Methodist church. 11,200; Ep-
worth church, 1246; church at Dun-
ody, Oa., $68.60 additional; East
Point church, M1.25 additional; Sandy
Springs. $30 additional; St. Lukes, $20
additional.
Good elxed amounts were raised In
other churches which have not yet
been reported. It la believed that the
total amount raised Sunday will
amount to nearly $2,000.
man electrocuted
AFTER LONG FIGHT
Oaslnlng, N. Y„ June 24.—After a
two years' light for hls life, John John
son died In the electric chair thll morn.
Irg. In hls protracted legal battle
Johnson waa aided by Albert T. Pat
rick. who had a cell close to hls In the
death hous*
Hotel lobbies are beginning to
sume the appearance of political as
semblage In the advance guard of the
lawmakers already In the city for the
opening of the generbl assembly Wed
nesday.
A few reached Atlanta Saturday and
Sunday, but they began coming
ftumtyers Monday. By Monday evening
the lobby of tbe Kimball will look like
old times.
Four candidates for the senate presl
dency have opened headquarters In the
Kimball and are ready for their friends.
Hon. John W. Akin, of Bartow, has
rooms 106, 108 and 110. Hon. T. S.
Felder, of Bibb, has rooms 113 and
116. Hoo. J. J. Flynt, of Spalding, has
rooms 117 and 119. Dr. L. G. Hard
man, of Jackson, has headquarters In
rooms 216 and 230.
This race Is being watched with keen
Interest. Besides the four who have
opened headquarters, Hon. J. D.-How-
ard, of Baldwin, and Hon. W. C. Martin,
of Whitfield, are candidates. Undsr
the law It takes a majority of those
voting to elect a president, and not a
majority of the body of 44, as Is com
monly supposed.
House Committees.
It Is believed that Hon. John M. Sla
ton, who wilt be elected speaker with
out opposition, will select and name
Ills commlttteei much earlier than us
ual, as he has no contest on hls hands,
and a very large percentage of the mid
members return.
The body now consists of 183 mem
bers, and Instead of 88 votes to pass
a measure, 92 will be required. There
are nine new counties, but only eight
will have representatives. Ben Hill,
the newest county, will not have <
member. Hon. J. E. Dormlny, of Ir
win. will serve both counties. Hls
postofflce Is In Fitzgerald, the county
alts of Ben Hill.
There Is much speculation as to the
placing of tho big committee chair
manships. It Is only speculative talk
now, but this Is what one hears around
hotel corridors:
Chairmanship "Dope."
Appropriations—C. M. Candler, De
Kalb.
Ways and Means—J. W. Wise, Fay
ette.
General Judiciary—Boykin Wright,
Richmond.
Amendments to Constitution—H. H.
Perry. Hall.
Western and Atlantic—Hooper Alex-
ander, DeKalb.
General Agriculture—L. H. O. Mar
tin, Elbert.
Temperance—W. A. Covington, of
Colquitt, or Seaborn Wright, of Floyd.
Labor—Madison Bell, of Fulton.
John Bolfeulllet will be re-elected
clerk of the house, having 178 members
out of 183 pledged to him. Hls working
force will not be changed and will con
sist of the following:
Hon. D. F. McClatchey, of Cobb, will
be the reading clerk; O. L. Gresham,
Journal clerk; E. B. Moore, calendar
clerk; Troy Kelley, message clerk.
For Doorkeepers.
Four candidates seek the place of
doorkeeper of the house, as follows:
Williford, of Fayette; Cochran, of
Hall, and two others. Cochran claims
to have the Job cinched. Pittman, of
Fulton; Beauchamp, of Butts, and
Smith, of DeKalb, are candidates for
messenger of the house.
C. Sr Northen will be secretary of
the senate, and hls working force wlU
radically the same as last session,
With This Wsek Passes J
If the **Blue
un?, and
rices Upon
Tag P
Furniture Go With It
You’ll thahk us for soimding and resounding this net? of warning about the “Blus Tag’’
Furniture Pries Rsductions.
Opportunities teo profitable to you who are horns buildefs te let them pass unimproved.
If_yeu can look ahsad and see whsre you’ve furniture to buy, taking advantage ef thess
prices will provs a shrewd investment-earning of a big psreentags upon your money.
Even though yeu are het ready to take thsse things bstween new and hext Saturday night,
you can turn this sale to good account.
Thsy can be held for future delivery—to be taksn whsn you are rsady for them.
Chamherlin-Johnsoh-DuBese Co.
GIRL'S FATHER
IS BEING TRIED
Continusd from Page One.
FEAR OF LEGISLATION
MA Y BRING NEW OWNERS
will not come back.
Colonel Flem Greene, of Baldwin,
will probably be named doorkeeper of
the senate.
T
TO INSTRUCT JUDY
Defense Asserts He Cannot
Be Punished Outside
Department.
Washington, June 24.—Following the rul
Ing of Juatlce Stafford, In tba cotton leak
case, this morning, that the testimony of
James D. Gibson, of Chicago, relative ‘
an Interview with Secretary Wilson c
corning tbe condition of the wheat crop
for the spring of HM wat Iramat - *“*
bla source of Information waa not
the bureau of statistics. Attorney ...
lister, for tbe defense, the government
having reated, addressed tbe eport. asking
that the jury be instructed to bring in a
verdict for tbe defendant.
Attorney Lester maintained that
■* any one else be nunlsbed.
? the de-
Have a Real Vacation
and read The Georgian and
News every day while away.
Sent everywhere 45 cents a
month, 10 cents a week.
Phone 4928 or write circula
tion department The Geor
gian and News. No trouble
to change address.
The Hop. James Bryce, the British
ambassador, haa taken a pew at the
New York Avenue Presbyterian church,
Washington. He Is a member of the
United Free Cburqb at Scotland.
the shooting he told several bystand
ere that there was no use to send for
physician, aa the man waa dead, and
he had shat to kill.
The trial promises to be more sensa
tional than that of the Strother broth
era for the murder of their brother-ln
law, Bywater. In the present case the
evidence of the daughter may be a
sensational feature of the trial.
Barksdale Presiding.
Judge* William R. Barksdale, of Hali
fax, was designated by the governor to
hold court for Judge Bennett T. Gor
don, of Nelson, who retired for per
sonal reasons. Judge Barksdale, on
motion of the defense, ordered the case
transferred from ifelson county to
Halifax, and fixed the trial for June 24.
The sheriff has summoned a venire
of sixty-four men from Halifax, from
which to select a Jury. There are eev-
en lawyers In the case—four for the de
fense and three for the state. The de
tense Is represented by Aubrey E.
Strod, of Amherst; John L. Lee. o
Lynchburg; R. Walton Moore, of Fair
fax, and W. P. Barksdale, of Halifax.
For the prosecution—Wood Bouldln,
commonwealth's attorney for Halifax;
B. B. Whitehead, commonwealth's at
torney for Nelson county, and Daniel
Harmon, of Charlottesville.
Girl Drank Whisky.
Sunday, April 21, young Estee took a
Mies Kidd out driving. Miss Loving
was stopping with Miss Kidd, and when
the couple returned Mies Kidd request
ed Mr. Estes to take Miss Loving for
a drive. The young man was obliging,
and about 7 o'clock they drove off.
Miss Loving had complained of feeling
badly, and It waa thought the drive
would do her good.
It Is alleged that while out on the
road Estes, who was a delicate man,
gulled from hls pocket a flask contain
ing liquor, and Miss Loving drank a
•mall portion of the contents. About
8 o'clock young Estes drove up to
the home of the Kidds with Miss Lov
ing. who was apparently very 111 and
partly unconscious. She was lifted
from the buggy and placed In bed. and
a physician summoned, young Estes
going for the doctor.
Miss Loving related the circum
stances to her mother and expressed
the belief that the. whisky given her
was drugged. This Information wss
Imparted ta Judge Loving, and he pro
ceeded to the home of the Estes family
In hunt for Theodora Not finding him,
he drove to Oak Ridge, some six miles
away, and found the young man at
work supervising the unloading of a
car of freight.
Estes Killed.
Ordering the two negro men In the
car to stand aside. Judge Loving asked:
"So you were out driving with ladlee
again Saturday night, and without
awaiting a reply, Judge Loving la said
to have raised a double-barreled shot
gun and emptied both barrels Into the
yAung man's neck and shoulders. Judge
Irving at once surrendered to the offi-
Rumors of Central’s
Sale Believed To
Be True.
That negotiations are now on for the
sale of the Central of Georgia railroad
stock, and that the road will change
ownership In the near future Is firmly
believed In Atlanta by those posted In
railroad affairs.
The story In The New York Herald
that C. W. Morse was making over
tures to secure the road and the Ocean
Steamship Company waa not a sur
prise to Atlanta people, as such a move
had been expected for some time.
In fact ever since the New York Cen
tral and the Pennsylvania unloaded
their stock In other roads because of
public agitation all over the country. It
wee bolleved that the sale of the Cen
tral was Inevitable.
Who Owns Central?
Just who owns the Central has long
been a disputed question, but that It
Is controlled by the Southern has been
generally believed. It Is pointed out
that - when the Richmond Terminal
went Into the hands of a receiver, the
Interests controlling the Southern
bought everything else the Richmond
Terminal owned except the stock of
the Central of Georgia. These Inter
ests bought the East Tennessee road,
the Richmond and Danville road, both
of which were’ consolidated Into the
Southern, and other properties. By buy
ing the stock of the Richmond Ter
minal, these Intercets became the
owners of the remaining asset of the
Richmond Terminal, which was noth
ing more than the stock of the Central
of Georgia.
It la said that President Spencer de
clared once that It had been the Inten
tion of the Southern to Incorporate the
Central of Georgia Into the Southern,
but changed these plans when the
question of tho constitutionality of such
a plan was raised. ,
The result was that the surviving
stockholders of the Richmond germinal
-Southern railway Interests placed the
Central of Georgia stock Into the hands
of three voting trustees.
Fear Legislation.
It Is now believed that the fear of
legislation on this particular question
by the coming reform legislature, and
the agitation all over the country
against trunk systems controlling com.
Iietlng lines, has determined the In
terests owning the Central to unload.
Whether or not Morse and the syn
dicate behind him In the coastwise
shipping trust will get It Is a question.
But that It will be sold there Is little
doubt In the minds of those in a posi
tion to know. Of course it Is doubtful
If It Is sold to Interests antagonistic
to the Southern. It Is true that there
Is a possibility of Harrlman making a
bid for ths road to get out of Birming
ham after he gets In there, and tbe
Frisco System might wnnt It.
Whether or not Major J. F. Hanson
continues to be president of the road
and the steamship company, depends
largely upon Its purchasers.
The New York Central sold Its In
terest In the Chesapeake and Ohio and
the Norfolk and Western and the Penn
sylvania cold out the stock It owned
In the Baltimore and Ohio and tbe Nor
folk and Western. So railroad people
ask:
Why not the Southern?
LET IT FOLLOW YOU.
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nows ovary day while you sro “vacat
ing 7” Ordsr over 'phono 4928 or by
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made n» statement wTiaUvsr, so that
the reason given for the killing when
Judge Loving applied for ball Is all
that Is known. Ball was allowed Judge
Loving In the sum of $6,000.
The case was sent on to the grand
Jury, and May 27 an Indictment for
murder was returned by the grand
BE SINCERE I ]
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By MAURICE MAETERLINCK.
It la Lnpoaalhle to b« sincere with others
unices you have learned to be sincere with
yourself. Sincerity Is only the conscious
ness and analysis of tbe motives of all life’s
actloqa. It Is the expression of this con
sciousness that one Is nblo later to lay be
fore the eyes of tbe being with whom one
Is seeking tbe bliss of sincerity.
Thus understood, sincerity's aim Is uot to
lead to moral oerfectlou. It leads else
where. higher If we will: In any case to
more human and more fertile regions.
The perfection of a character, as we gen
erally understand It, Is too often but nn un
productive abstention, a sort of atarnxy,
an abatement of Instinctive life, which Is.
when all la said, the one source of all the
other lives that we succeed In organizing
within us.
This perfection tends to suppress our too
ardent desires—ambition, pride, vanity, set
which nothing can replace.
If we stifle within ourselves all tbe mani
festations of life, to substitute for them
merely the <outemptation of thetr defeat,
soon we shall hare uothlug left to coutem<
plate.
When we bare achieved a sufficient sin
cerlty with ourselves. It «1$h‘b uot follow
then
fWPWWiiili lliged region of confidence
laud love, which Is like a delightful shorn
where we meet In our nakedness and go
bathing toegther under tho rays of a kindly
■un.
Until this hour man lived on hls guard
like a culprit. He did not yet know that
every man baa the right to be what he Is,
that there la no ahame In hls mind or lu
hls heart, auy more than in bln body. Ho
soon learns with the feeling of relief of an
acquitted prisoner that that which he
thought It hls duty to conceal Is Just the
most radical portion of tbe force of life.
When we have reached so far tho Idea no
longer comes to ua to hide a secret thought
or n secret sentiment, however vulgar and
contemptible. They can no longer make us
blush, seeing that In owning them we dis
own them, we sepamte them from our
selves, we prove thnt they no longer belong
to us, no longer taka part In our !!%••■■*. no
longer spring from tbe active, personal and
voluntary side of our strength, but from
the primitive, formless and enslaved being
that affords us an entertainment as amus
ing as are all those In which we detect the
Iplsy of the Instinctive powers of uature.
Imagine Sbylock capable of knowing and
confessing hls greed—ho wonbl ceaso to bo
greedy, and bla greed would ebnng** it*
shape and no longer be odious and hurtful.
We all desire to confess our faults, at
least at times, but we are long afraid lent
those who love us should loro us less If wo
revealed to them that which we scarcely
dare reveal to ourselves. It seems to us ns
though certain confessions would disfigure
forever tbe Image which they have formed
•s that on which we love. It la not he who
makes confessions that should blush, but
be who does not yet understand thnt we
have overcoma a wrong by the very act of
confessing it ,
It Is not we, but a stranger who now
stands In tba place where we committed a
“salt. Tbe fault itself we have eliminated
'rom our being. It baa nothing more iu
common with our real life.
OFFICER KILLS ONE
AND WOUNDS TWO
Lexington, June 24.—In a fight be
tween Policeman Jhon Bollard and ne
groes at Winchester, Clark county, the
officer shot and Instantly killed Lew
Mason and wounded Bob Mack and
Morris Mack. Ballard was trying to
slop a general fight, In which over 100
negroes took part, and the negroes at
tacked him. Mason was shot three
times In the breast.
Judge Loving and Miss Loving hava jury, holding William O. Loving (or exrimnge
kept quiet since the tragedy and have the murder o( Theodore Estes. e-ha r«c
what he thinks or feel,.
If he tie uncertain whether the truth you
propoee to spetilt will be underetontl, do uot
utter It. It would apiH-nr In otbera quite
different from whet It la In yon, aud, tak
ing lit them the npitenram-e of n lie. It
wonld do the Name harm ee a real lie.
Whatever the alieolute inorulletM tuny igy,
na awn nn one la no looser nmoux equal
consciences every truth to produce thu ef
fect of trnth needs focuslnx.
“ ' therefore right thnt 1
> ench man ouly the t.—
i room In the bnt or palace which
hmi built to admit the truths »f bla life.
But let un. nevertheless. give ten or twenty
times as many truths as we ant offered tu
The new Chinese minister. I.lang
jTung Yen. who Is to succeed Sir Chen-
tung Liang Cheng at Washington, will
he entitled to full membership In the
"tennis cabinet," unless he has forgot
ten hls athletic days at Yale. Hls fel
low student! at Yale used to call him
l"Tlng." In hla time at Yale he was
one of the most assiduous tennis players
Ithere, as well os one of the champions.
Like hts predecessor, who won great
renown at Amherst as a baseball play
er, "Ting" waa also an expert In that
game while a student In this country.
Ipplne Islands qualified to vote (600 pe-
PITCHER RAYMOND
SOLD TO ST. LOUIS
Bperlnl to The Georgian.
Charleston, S. C, June 24.—Manager
J. J. McCloskey, of the St. Louts club,
was here yesterday and a deal was
closed for Pitcher Raymond.
The terms are not made public. The
deal la effective September 4. McClos
key left last night.
number only 122,927 voted at the last
un of Instinct begins only when municipal elections. _.. •