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THE ATLANTA xfEORGIAN AND NEWS. Till nSHAT PROHIBITION PARTY STATE_OFFICERS To Do Active Work For National Ticket in Com ing Campaign. A slate organization of the national Prohibition party was perfected Wed nesday evening In the assembly hall of the Piedmont Hotel'by the election of the following officers: Chairman—Colonel R. 8. Chevea, Ze nith. Ga. Vice Chairman—Rev. A. J. Hughes, White Plains, Ga. Secretary and Treasurer—Rev. J. A. Gordon. Atlanta. Resolutions were adopted showing that the Prohibition party Is the only great national party today. The reso lutions In full are as follows: Resolutions Adopted. "The fact that Georgia and all the Southern states are today leading In the movement for local and state pro- hlbltlon makes It extremely fitting that not only should the national conven tion of the Prohibition party be held In this city, but we believe that the Pro hibitionists of the nation should look to those who are successfully leading the struggle for prohibition in the South to lead the greater battle now on for national prohibition. •Second. We believe that the Pro hibition party Is the only genuinely na tional party In the Union today. In that I! champions an Issue that knows no section, an issue that Is equally Im portant North as It is South and East end West, In Georgia as it Is In the stales of Maine. California, Illinois. Texas or New York: that the fact shows It to be not only the grandest moral Issue, but the greatest economic question of the age, being by statistical comparison four limes greater than the steel trusts, eight times as big as the tariff, and Involving a cost to the Amer ican people five times as great as that which the nation pays for bread, eleven ilmes ns much as the cost of education, iHrtecn times as much as goes for re ligion and churches and one hundred and seven times ts much as the total annual contributions for home and for eign missions combined. "Third. We believe that great credit should be given the Prohibition parly Gr having chosen In the past seven rational elections nt least six Southern Statesmen for positions on Its presl- Initial tickets. if'Pourth. We congratulate our state •V her recent passage of a prohibition lav and pledge our earnest co-opera- tln with all others who shall labor for MINNESOTA FIGHTS CONTEMPT CHARGES State Takes Out Habeas Corpus Writ Before High Court. 0,S, IS PROSPEROUS, IMACON CANDIDATES SAYS SECY WILSON Washington, Oct. 24.—'Thomas O’Brien, chief counsel for the Mate, and Assistant Attorney General George T. Simpson, of Minnesota, have reached Washington and begun habeas corpus proceedings, which, if successful, will result'ln a review by the supreme court of the United States of the injunction and contempt order against Attorney General Young, of that state, issued two days ago by United States District Judge Lochren. thorough and complete enforcement and the prevention of nullification. •‘Fifth. We favor the placing In the field of a national prohibition election ticket for the November election of 1908.” Appeal oF Chairman Jones. A very strong address was made by Chairman Jones, of the national or ganization. In which he declared his belief that "rot only every Southern state, but many of the Northern states will face prohibition battles within an other twelve months.” He declared that the final dream of Prohibitionists for forty years would be in a movement for nations J annihi lation of the liquor traffic. He believes that II Is coming, ar* so rapidly that It would astound the world. A ma jority of the people of the country are either Prohibitionists or. live In prohi bition territory, he asserted. Chairman Jones then advocates a uniting of all the prohibition forces in one great national movement. He de clares that It Is In reality the only na tional party of the day. The Repub lican party Is of the solid North, >and the Democratic party of the solid South. The Prohibition party presents the same doctrines to both South and North, and appeals to the same motives and interests everywhere, be sets forth. Since 1876 Vie Prohibition party has had seven nutlonal tickets in the field, and six of the candidates for president were from the South. During the last nine presidential elections the Repub licans have presented no Southern man for president, onr have the Democrats. ! He made an especial appeal to the South to aid the Prohibition party in freeing the country from the liquor business. He concludes with an ap peal for members of the party to unite on some good man and work for his election. Secretary of Agriculture Warns Fanners Against Wasting Resources. Syracuse, N. Y.. Oct. 24.—Secretary of Agriculture Wilson addressed great throng here yesterday on the “Unproductive Farm.” He said: “The American people are prosper ous. Labor Is all employed at the highest wages paid in our history. Skill is In demand In ail lines of Industrial activity. Capital is Increasing and ac tive. Every Industry in the land Is extending. Labor from other lands looks to us and comes to us. Schools are overflowing. “Our transportation systems, the best In the world, are unable to meet the requirements of commerce. Our man ufactures more nearly supply home de mands than at any time in the past and sell heavily abroad. “The farmer feeds the people as no people ever before were fed and sells In foreign markets a surplus of 1,148 millions of dollars’ worth of his pro ducts. Prosperity quite up to the av erage of human success attends Intel ligent management of farm affairs nowadays. This convention has been called to consider decreased productiveness of the soil near the great centers of pop ulation. 8uch conventions might well be called in all the states of the unloa They are all soil robbers and wood rob- bers and water robbers and mine rob bers. in 1906 the farmers grew sugar beets enough to make 488,000 tons of beet sugar, which, with the 272,000 tons of cane sugar made in Louisiana and Texas, is enough to supply the entlro population west of the Mississippi river, and something over. In 1906 we grew 800,000.000 pounds of rice, substanti ally enough to supply home demand.” Hon. John Moore and May or Smith Make Stirring Addresses. Special to The Georgina. -Macon, Ga., Oct. 24.—A barbecue wae given by the Moore force* to the can didates for alderman running on the Moore ticket and alio to the atreet car men. who are now under charge of President Jerdon MRenee, of the Macon Railway and Right Company. A plen tiful supply of barbecue was supplied for the visitor., and the evening wae spent In going over the coming cam paign. Addresses were made by Hon. John T. Moore, Mayor Bridges Smith and Jerdon Masses. LITTLE BOY WILL RECOVER FROM KNIFE WOUND Special to The Georgian. Macon, Oct. 24.—George Lewis, the alx-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. \V. A. Lewis, living In south Macon and who was cut Sunday night In the back by a ten-year-old girl. Is much better and doctors now think that the little fellow will recover. POLICE THINK ARREST WILL BREAK UP STEALING. Special to Tbp Georgian. Macon, Ga.. Oct. 24.—The police de partment In Macon now believe they have stopped a wholesale stealing that has been going on In this city by ne groes employed In the various fruit and commission houses, when they ar rested Frank Green, a negro driver for a local fruit house. 0000000600O0OO000O000OO0OlJ| O CASH IN OLD STOCKINGS O O ATTRACTIVE TO CROOKS. O 0 0 O New Tork. Oct. 24.—There are O 0 more old stockings full of gold 0 0 and silver and greenbacks In New 0 0 Tork today than at any time O 0 within the past twenty years, or O O since the panic of 1IS4, when O O large amounts were drawn from 0 6 every bank in the city and placed 0 O In hiding hy their owners. This. It 0 0 Its believed, will attract crooks. O O and the attention of Police Com- 0 O mlssloner Bingham la called to It. 0 O A rich harvest. It la said, awaits O 0 the slick man with the Jimmy and 0 0 sack. o 0 O 00600000000000000000000000 About Brain- i . . Ever Think About Feeding It? The average man tiiav give some little attention to food to build muscle and NEVER GIVE HIS THINKER A THOUGHT. Brain wastes away daily (exactly like muscle) and must be rebuilt daily by food -the ONLY WAY Slse Brain Fag and Nervous Prostration Set in The things which Nature selects to make Nerve and Brain matter are Water, Albumen and Phosphate of Potash. The last two are found in Grape-Nuts P'% ’ . ’ ' ' Not put there from the drug store but put in the grains by old Mother Nature. A 10 davs’ trial of this scientific food will show in renewed vigor and energy in the brain—Hearer thinking powers—better memory —sharp, snappy ideas. These are the reasons why ou Can Do Things On a Grape-Nuts Diet The chance to give Grape-Nuts a fair trial is denied to none, for the weakest stomach can handle this food without trouble or effort. It is toothsome and delicious and is fully cooked at factory so it is read,' for immediate service with rich cream or in a great variety of dishes de scribed in the recipe book in each package. See also the little book, •‘The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s a Reason.” TRANSFER STATION WILL BE ERECTED. Special to The Georgian. Macon. Ga., Oct. 24.—President Maa- aee, of the Macon Railway and Light Company, haa written Chairman J ease B. Hart, of the committee on parka, to the effect that a transfer station will be built by the company, at Mul- berrv and ■ Fourth street. The atatlon le to be erected of steel ami will prove a boon during cool and rainy weather. VETERANS NAME DELEGATES TO CONFEDERATE REUNION. 8perlal to The Georgian. Macon. Ga., Oct. 24.—Fourteen Con federate veterans will represent .Macon at the coming st^r reunion to be held In Augusta, November 12. These dele gatee have been appointed and will leave Macon on the morning of the 11th. while many other veterans will leave on the following day. The Sons of Veterans front Macon will also at tend the stale reunion, and It I* ex pected that about twenty members of the Sons will be In attendance from the Central City. THINK PITTS SUFFERED MENTAL DERANGEMENT. Special to The Georgian. Macon. Ga.. Oct. 24.—Relative* and friends of Noel Pitts, who suddenly left Mecon on Saturday last and took with him $260 of the firm he was work. Ing for. have stated that they think young Pitts was Insane at the time. Three years ago a writ of lunacy waa sworn out against him by his father. John M. Pitts, living In Mllledgevllle. The youngf man recovered, but last summer he again acted In a queer roan, ner, and It Is now thought he had an other attack. NEGRO HELD FOR MURDER SAYS HOME WAS INVADED. Special to The Georgian. Macon, Ga.. Ocl. 24.—Horaco Pace, the negro who waa arrested charged with the murder of Albert Parks on Monday night last, has been turned over to the sheriff of Bibb county on a warrant sworn out against Pace by Coroner Young. Pace stated that Parka ruined hla home. MATERIAL ON ~GROUND FOR MERCER LIBRARY. Special to The Georgian. Macon, Ga.. Oct. 24.—The material is on the ground at Merger College for the new library, which will be one of the handsomest college libraries In the South. Contractor Jones Is pushing the work hard and says It will be flnlahed by February 1, IfOI. MERCER SENIOFt CLASS IS NOW UNITED. Special to The Georgian. Macon, Ga.. Ocl. 24.—The senior class at Mercer la standing aa one man In a marked contrast to the split In lest year's class. “Frats” and "nons" have come together and everybody Is pleased. The [Battle of the Bottle Unless something stems the present tide, it is only a matter of months until there will not be a saloon from Mason’s and Dixon’s Line to the Gulf of Mexico. Business, not sentiment, has brought about this situation. Business decided that whisky and business don t mix. HARRIS DICKSON, of Vicksburg^ gives in detail the story of the amazing victory that the South is winning over the saloon. It begins in this week's issue of THE SHTUIWHY EVENING POST Of all newsdealers at 5 cents the copy; J1.50 the year fcy mail. THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY PHILADELPHIA PAUL E. WILKES IN UNCLE REMUS’S One of the cleverest articles In the November Issue of Uncle Remus's Mag azine Is a character sketch of Ben L. Jones, of Mncon. written by Paul It. "Tikes, a member of The Uoorglan staff. Mr. Wilkes has known Mr. Jones Inti mately for years anil appreciates fully the wonderful capacity of the Macon man. He analysed his subject clearly and succinctly. It Is. In fact, a unique appreciation of a unique man. Mr. Wilkes Is one of the brightest and most enterprising young newspaper men In Atlanta, and Is winning a name for the cleverness and accuracy of hi* news stories. MAIL BOX COMPANY 18 GRANTED CHARTER. Special to The Georgian. Columbus. Ga., Oct. 24.—A charter lias been granted by Judge Martin to the Rural Automatic Mall Box Com pany, the Incorporators being A. C, Chancellor, H. M. Thomas. 8. T. Whit- taker. L. H. 'Chappell. T. W. Bates, James A. Lewis and J. Smith Lanier. At a meeting of the stockholders held yesterday afternoon, the following offi cers were elected: President. A. C. Chancellor; first vice president. T. W. Bales; second vice president. L. H. Chappell; secretary and treasurer pro tern, J. Smith Lanier. MAJ. WILLIAMSON ADDED TO STAFF Major Robert L. Williamson, of Rome, has bech appointed an aide on the governor’ll staff with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He ha* long been connected with the military of the state and more recently haa been a major In the Fifth regiment. He Is a very popu lar and efficient officer. The Pries ef Hsalth. "The price of health In a malarious district Is Just 23 cents: the cost or a box of Dr. King's New Life Pills.” writes Ella Slayton, of Noland. Ark. New Life Pills cleanse gently and Im-- part new life and vigor lo the system. 26c. Satisfaction guaranteed at all druggists. SOUTHERN SENATORS TALK ON FOREST PRESERVE. Special to The Georgian. . « Asheville, N. C., Oct. 24.—Dr. Thomas K. Will, secretary of the American For estry Association, and other prominent men Interested In the work of forest preservation addressed a large < rowd at the court house In this city on the pros pect» of the Appalachian forest reserve. Among those who spoke were: Senator l.ee Overman, of North Carolina; Sena tor Latimer, of South Carolina; Con gressman I-ever, of Columbia. S. ('..and William F. Hall, one of the officers of the American Forestry Association. COWBOYS ROPE COW IN STREET A wild cow gave Spring street Ity some excitement Wednesday afternoon, and Incidentally convinced nnme of the local poller that they were not much on a rouod- up. •Inst where the animal came from nn nne l-euis lo know, hut rho first attracted atten tion In Spring street hy doing some startling Jninplng alttnta. A couple of officers thought nhe ought to he locked up. and gnre chase. It was about the hottest chase those cuppers ever tackled. The now thoroughly excited animat hut died fences with on ease that Indicated practice. Finally she was rounded up in the lot of It. IV. Wille, corner Spring and Fifth atreet*. where she atno.1 off the Inrad log forces, ttelnfnrcements were 'phoned fnr. hut Itefnre their arrival four cowboy* from Itaoch 101 nptiearetl on the scene and quickly taaaoed the otiatreneroas cow. sh« waa led away to the exposition ground*. Where the animal came from la not known. The cowboys said ehc w** not a member of their organisation, hat would hs iintea* a claimant came forward. Prominent Planter Diee. Special to The Georgian. Uolumbun, Ga„ Oct. 24.—W. E. Cov ington. a prominent planter of Upatole. Muecogee county, died Wednesday. He waa 61 years of age and a prominent and ’eaves g wife and four children one slater, Mr*. 8. C. Jenkins, of thl city. nd Special to The Georgian. Rome. Ga., Oct. 24.—The body of Bose Berry, murdered In Norfolk on Tuesday, waa started on Ita homeward Journey last night and will reach Rome at 7 o'clock tonight. Russell Berry, a brother of the dead man. went to At lanta this morning to meet the body. The funeral will be bald at his home here on Friday morning at in o'clock. No further development* In the case have been learned here. SHOT MAN TO DEATH OVER BOARD BILL. Mobile. Ala.. Oct. 24.—William Mount, formerly nn engineer In the employ of the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City, but more recently a boarding-house keeper, was shot yesterday afternoon bv W. R. Manuel and died In less than ten minute*. Manuel made hla escape and has not been arreeted. The tthoot- Ing waa the result of a dispute over a board bill. CLAY TO LOOK INTO NEEDS OF BRUN8WICK HARBOR. Special to The Georgian. Brunswick, G*., Oct. 24.—A letter received here from United States Sen ator A. 8. Clay state* that he will. In the near future, visit Brunswick, prob ably early In November. The senator rill come to Brunswick partly on pri vate business, but while here will look Into matter* connected with ihl* port, with a view to polling himself more fully as to the needs and requlraments of Brunswick harbor. Aged Minister Dies. Special to The Georgian. Huntsville. Ala.. Ocl. 24.—Rev. Pres ton Brown, aged 70 years, died at his home near New Hope after a linger ing nines*. Mr. Brown waa a Bap tist preiteher for forty years trnd was born ami reared In Madison county. 7SJT 'OPff/ES CIGARETTES continually satisfy more discriminating smokers than any other cigarette ever known. Lead the world in popularity and sales, by sustained high quality—and not be cause of their low price. You ought to try them. 10c for 10 Why Pay More? S. ANARGYROS, Manufacturer New York