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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN 1 . SATURDAY, AUGUST U, M. 7 OF JUNE AKD JULY yearly Twice as Much Pre cipitation This Year as *1 1905. According to figures Just compiled, fry ihe Atlanta weather bureau at the request of Director K. J. Redding of the elate experiment station, nearly twice as much rain fell in Georgia during the months of June and July as last year, making the crop season of this year re markable In the annals of the state. Fifty-two towns are selected, repre- •rntlng the entire state, and the total rainfall nt each place for the months of June and July of the two years furnish the comparison. The grand total of rainfall regis tered at the 52 stations during the two months of 1905 was 402.15 Inches: the -rand total for this year was 723.69. The Increase In total rainfall was 321.54 Inches, 80 per cent, or an average In crease of 4 Inches throughout the state. The effect of the superabundance of rain marked on the growing cotton. It put a great deal of stalk and foliage Jo the plant at the expense of the ^However, the past two weeks of qom- naratlvely dry weather have to some extent offset the bad effect of the rain. The table made up by Forecaster Marbury Is as follows: —1905— —1905— IT Tl We Solicit the Printing Accounts of Reliable Business Houses in Atlanta. Our Plant is Equipped With All the Latest and Finest Machinery—We Guarantee Our Work To Be Satisfactory and Our Prices Reason able—We Are Not Members of Any Printing Combine orTrust. The Latest Type Setting Machines. Cylinder Presses. Job Presses. Embossing Presses. Folding Machines. &c., &c. The above is a picture of the latest addition to our press room, just installed. It is the Huber-IIodgcman Block Bearing Press. The only one in the Southern states. We invite our customers and friends who are in terested to visit our plant. It will be a pleasure to show how we are equipped to handle * even the largest contracts with our modem machinery. The Most Complete Assortment of All Job Type. Only Skilled Workmen Employed in All Departments. CLARENCE BLOSSER, Pres. & Treas. W. M. BENNETT, Vice Pres. W. A. MAC GREGOR, Sec. THE BLOSSER PRESS 38-40 WALTON ST. ATLANTA, GA. W. C. NUNEMACHER, Manager Jj Total* 193.80 208.85 Grand Total*., lucre***.. NEGRO ADMITS STEALING JEWELRY Special to Tho Georgian Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug, 18.—The hlg steal* which have been going on at Lookout Inn for week* are gradually being brought In the limelight a* the (uses are tried in the court*. Harry Clayton, the negro who wa* arre»ted In Louisville and brought to thl* city, ha* admitted that he and J. L. Hightower, another negro employee of the hotel, looted the rooms of guest*, taking Jew elry, toilet, article*, money, and that Hightower watched while Clayton en tered the guest*' room*. In consequence of his admission* Clayton wa* bound over to the criminal court In two case* on bonds of *1,000 each, In default of which he wa* returned to Jail. The cases against Hightower were post poned until today. The cases against Eugene Jordan, the chief clerk, who ha* been charged with grand larceny of Jewelry from Mrs. J. C. Simmons, of California, amounting to *3,000, have been called f .r today. Jordan I*, reticent about the charge. Not of Atlanta Baptist Colled*. It is stated that the negro. J., J. Lumpkin, who was arrested In Augusta this week on the charge of tampering with the mall, wa0 never ft student at, • ■v otherwise connected with, the At lanta Baptist College. Blakely Brought Jto Atlanta. *1 to The Georgian. Columbus, Ga., Aug.. 18.—Bailiff Jor dan. „f justice Puckett’s court, of At- . mtn, come here Friday and took back with him James Blakely, a man who arrested here at the instance of Justice Puckett on two charges, lar ceny «nd misdemeanor. First Bala Received. 8|"*i*l»l to The Georgian. • "lumbus, Ga., Aug. 18.—The Davis Warehouse Company received the first bai** of new cotton from any of its ' u'tomera today. It was shipped by w. H. King, of Weston, Webster coun ty. and classed strict middling. Mrs. Paul B. Matthews. •Vdrtl to The Georgian. Jefferson, Ga., Aug. 18.—Mrs. Paul ” Matthews, who before her marriage J'®* Miss Alice Holder, died last Sun- d;, - v afternoon after an illness of aev- er: 'l months. WHO IS JUDGE RUSSELL oowooooooo<HXHCioeoo<H»ooooo O WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. O 0 a 9 Montgomery In Atlanta, Pled- O 9 'tont park. Game called tit 1 O JJuitork. ' . O 9 -Nashville In Birmingham. O “ Shreveport In Little Rock. O Memphis In New Orleans. O uotjaooooooooooooooooaooood 11 begin, to look s* though the tight he- , Jack Dougherty mid Mike iTwIn) ■ '-oi will have to lie cntle.1 off. The "To to have mot st Butte, Mont., on t ttay, hut the Itutto elvle league will *t*'Iix to have the fight stopped. The a g , io Is the same orgsnlsnthm thot stop- tlJ - open gambling In Butte tost w>u- Moaes Way, an original settler of Liberty county, was the great grand father of the subject of this sketch. His father, William J. Russell, was a native of that county and one ot the pioneer cotton manufacturers In this state. He operated the Sweetwater factory In Douglaes county prior to the war between the states, and subsequently became general manager of the mill at Princeton, Clarke county, Georgia. "Plain Dick” Russell first saw the light In Cobb county, this state, In 1861, where he lived until hls father removed to Clarke county In 1867. He was graduated from the University of Georgia In 1879, and began the practice of law In 1880. In 1882 he was elected, without opposition, to the Oeorgla leg islature from Clarke county, and re elected In 1884 and 1886. In 1888 he was elected solicitor general of the western Judicial circuit and became Judge of that circuit In 1898, which last named position he held continuously until February, 1906, when he resigned to make the race for governor. The writer does not know who hls first wife was, but his second wife, whom he married In 1891, was Miss Ina Dil lard, of Oglethorpe county. Go. She ha* borne him ten children, nine of whom are now living. The pleasant home of thl* well known Jurist Is on a farm near Winder, Jackson county, Ga. . In hls race for the chief Justiceship of the supreme court of Georgia, in 1904, hla erudite and formidable oppo nent was the late Hon. Thomas J. Sim mons, against whose private life and public record there was not even a sus picion. In that race, with the shrewd and alert politicians throughout the state arrayed against, him, he carried forty-eight counties and received more than 70,000 votes—Judge Slmmoim de feating him by 613 majority. Those counties represent every part of the state, as the reader will notice. They were Clarke, Oconee, Franklin, V.ni ton. Hart, Habersham, Elbert, Madison, Hall, Dawson, Cobb, Clayton, Douglass. Dade, Catoosa, Polk, Murray, Whlt- 11 eld. Walker, DeKalb. Rockdale Talia ferro, Warren. Olascock, Lincoln, Henry, Butts, Paulding. Wjyne, Lib erty, Tattnall, Wilcox, Appling, Irwin, Pierce Early, Charlton, Randolph, Jackson, Olay, Gwinnett, White, Union, Towns, Fanrtln, Echols, Dodge and M Ab cuTxelb lawmaker, prosecuting at torney, lawyer and Judge he has hon estly and fearlessly met every require ment. Entering the present race short of any advice from the politicians, this unassuming, approachable man of the people, has, by the force of seemingly inexhaustible energy ami perseverance, and determination that knows not de feat, worked hls way up from the factory boy of Clarke county to dan gerously near the governor * chair of hls native state. He does not pose as a reformer ami statesn v e r ,.imr<loeshe claim to have received a divine call. He Is simply running "Plain Dick Russell’s race in "Plain Dick Russell s own Inimitable way. In short, he is "toting hls own skillet, nml nsklng the plain, hard-working, honest. God-fear ing people of the Empire ntate of the South to indorse hls private and public record He has taken no part In the "Kilkenny cat fight" that has been go ing on for months In this state be tween Hons. Clnrk Howell and Hoke Smith to the utter dl/gust of many re flective and conservative men. He Is endowed with a sufficiency of common sense to fully realise that he dldate” nor Is he being "boosted” by the corporations, yet he believes In "rendering unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God’s." He believes In build ing up rather than I? tearing down. Hls plan Is to remove all obstacles that may stand In the way of the wheels of progress rather than to block the track with Isms. Conservative and well-poised, pos sessing a vast store of general and le gal Information, in the prime of vig orous, healthy manhood, this plain man of the people, who knows how to sym pathize with the masses In the strug gle for a living and a few of the com fort* of this life, ha* steadily grown In strength and the affections of tne people to such an extent that the muck-rakers, mud-slingers and char acter assassins have crept from their slimy dens and turned their pusillan imous batteries against him. Voters, take a dispassionate view of the situation and look at the line-up. Do you not see that all the alert, keen and prominent politicians in the state are supporting the two Smiths, Estlll and Howell? Name one that Is sup porting Judge Russell, If you please. It behooves every voter to search hls own heart and conscience In this mad race for office and see If they can sin cerely believe that either Estlll, How ell, Hoke Smith or Jim Smith—each of whom is reputed to be a million aire—has any sympathy for the work ing people of Georgia. Do you sup pose they think that he who earns hls bread In the sweat of hls brow Is wor thy to unloose their shoe latchets. The fake reformers and pseudo-state savers are frantically striving to rule Into the governor’s office by appealing to our passions and prejudices. If one- half of what Howell says about Smith number one is true, or if one-half Hoke says in regard to Clark is correct, neither Is fit to be a constable, much less chief executive of a state. They ought to know each other, for they are neighbors and have slept in the seine political trundle bed for the past *5 years. Both think that Atlanta is the hub of the universe and the state of Georgia is its backyard. One might as well try to fry a snowflake or extract nectar from a seasoned dogwood mall as to expect reform from either. The rich never retrench and reform, prom the founding of the government of An cient Egypt during the reign of Raine ses to the present time, nil reforms have hnil their origin nmnng the com mon people. Witte, the great Russian diplomatist and brnin of the Port* mouth Pence Conference, Is the son or n peasant. Had he not been opposed by the hazel brush of Russian royalty " i • t. ,eo.l nhilpr (lilt Ilf Additional Sporting News FOR FULL PAGE OF SPORTS 8EE PAGE SIXTEEN. Poolroom Men and Reformers Wage Hot Fight at Saratoga mouth Peace a peasant. he would* have restored order out of chaos In hlfi own country. Editors of subsidized newspapers nro besmearing the columns of their re spective sheets with slanderous insinu ations and Innuendoes against Judge Russell; alert and keen politicians, as well us those of the plainest and meas- ,v variety, nro arraying themselves ngnlnst him In a solid phalanx; law yers are delivering their philippics and harangues and airing their "pinions from a hundred stumps against him £,r u f«f culaled" in every - vale and hamlet tn ami his cause, and yet this plain man of the people and for the people has gone to the people for hls support in this race and they will not forget h.m on the 22d Inst. . ' . . Backed by the indorsement of Ills neighbors that know him best, whose assertions that he Is a gentlemnn of sp,dles. morel character havcheenclr- By J. 8. A. MACDONALD. Saratoga, N. Aug. 18.—One ot the Interesting sidelights to the whirl ot pleasure here just now is the light the pool rooms of New York are making to obtain information of the racing. The Jockey Club In Its compact with the anti-racing reformers agreed to kill the pool-room evil In New York by cutting off the. information, sueh as the results of the races, the odds, the Jockeys, etc., which must be trans mitted by telephone or telegraph. The reformers Ip lieu of this promised not to wage a fight for legislative enact ment ugainst betting on the race tracks In the state of New York. The first thing the Jockey Club did was to refuse the sending of race re sults over the wires running from the trackside telegraph office. The pool room agents were debarred from en trance. Then the rooms In New York estab lished an organization and collected a campaign fund. Up to the Saratoga meeting they have been getting the stuff wanted by a system of runners from inside the course to a near-by telephone. But tbe Pinkertons dis covered this and soon stopped It. Then the room agent erected a h pole Just outside the track. Near top a platform was built and on this platform was placed a powerful tele scope. By aid of this instrument the running of the horses and the result of the finish could be learned. Also on the platform was a battery of telephones which made possible the rapid transmission of the news to the rooms. The Pinkertons looked on In a mystified way when they first dis covered this ruse. They were for cut ting it clown, but encountered a wrath ful owner of the property upon which the pole was hoisted, who defiantly In formed all visitors that an attempt to cut or saw the pole would bring hls shotgun into play. He had leased the land to the pool rooms. Then the Jockey Club gave him three times the value of the little lot and down came the pole. Not to be outdone, the poo! room people are now' employing a small cap tive balloon which soars Just above where the pole stood some days ago. Some one fired a bullet into the big gas bag on last Tuesday and down came the huge affair in a Jumble of wire and silk. At this date the battle of wits is about a draw. NELSON MAY WIN ON HIS GAMENESS By TAD. By Private Leased Wire*. New York, Aug. 18.—Gatneness and* stability are going to cut a vast amount of Ice In the coming champion ship fist fight between Gans and Nel son. The very mention of gamencss brings ^he name of Nelson to the front, was this quality that put the Battler where he is, and, according to many It will keep him there. Nelson Is certainly a gamer man than Gans. There Is a record showing that Joe stopped in hls battle with Frank Erne, claiming that uis eye was knocked out of Its socket from a butt. Erne won because the dark gent re fused to battle further. There is nothing in the Dane s record a.y show where, and how he ever stopped. Joe Hedrnark put him to the mat seventeen times Ip six rounds. Nelson was there at the finish, fight ing as hard as he had been in the first round. . , , Young Corbett put him down twice the state; strengthened by the decla ration of Dr. G. A. Nunnally, whose word Is hls bond, that he is the best and cleanest man In the race. Judge Richard B. Russell, the only people’s candidate among the five, continues to pursue the even tenor of hls way re gardless of thi aspersions cast at him _ by the pismires that follow in hls o quiry. in their fights. The Dane got up and knocked* the Denverite out cold on both occasions. Terry McGovern, whose terrific slam has downed more corners than any other in the world, did not even rattle the gent from Hegeswich .when they fought. Terry landed at least flv< or six times flush on the Jaw- with hls right, but he might Just as well have thrown it up In the air. It had the same effect and the question ROW Is, will Gans have necessary souk to put the Dane out for keeps. Gans Is the cleverest, -coolest nnd most accurate man tn the world, but will hls slam stop that rushing gent from Hegeswich? Gans will not he the aggressor In this battle. He will not do the forcing over a minute, and If hls punch lacking, hls heart will soon depart SPORT JOTTINGS. The many admirers of the Cleveland club are hoping thnt the Napa will take a brace aeon nnd climb toward tbe top. Why they •hould take such a slump ench season Is one of the inexplicable things In baseball. Injuries nnd umpire* keep “Kid” Eiber- feld out of the gnme pretty much all the time. Funny thing that the Philadelphia Amerf- enua enn’t win In Chicago. They hare won but one tame from the White gox la the Wlnday City tbla season. Brooklyn fans hnre been turning out In good numbers of Into to see tbe Muperbns perform. Clarence (Pop) Foster has quit the New- rk club nnd joined tbe I.aticaster team. In the Trl-Htnte League. Foster has been the leading batter in tbe Eastern I*eague nearly nil season. The Vincennes. !nd., club look* like • •ure winner In the K. I. T. league. The Sti’iilM-nvUIi*. Ohio, club has been do ing grent work In the P. O. M. Lu.igiwyf lute, working up from Inat to fourth posi tion In it short time. Who soys the old-tlihers are all In and the youngsters are the. only ones playing ga me? The* I>es Moitie* club, with Jack Boyle, Itogrefver, O’Leary* Dexter nml Mngonn. bus it elnrh for the Western Leagne pennnnt, being 200 points ahead of the second team. Clyde Goodwin recently pitched and won for Milwaukee both ends of a double, header with Indianapolis. Another chae of • cast-off getting back st hla former teurn mates. Joe Walcott and Billy Hhod*a hare been matched to meet at I^arenirorth on Sep tember 1«. According to tbe terms, Walcott Is to get >760 for hi* end, whether he wins or loee*. From all reports, the women of the town of Goldfield, Nrv., are about as anxious to see tbe Gans-Nclson fight as tbe men. It I* said the promoters hare received 600 appli cations for ticket* from women. Dan CreecJon. the Australian middleweight who apent a number of years In America nnd then returned to the Antipodes, was knocked out In three rounds by Bill Smith in Sydney recently. It Is the first this country has heard of Creedon In a long while. Right From Ringside. By Private I*eaoed Wire. New York, Aug. I*.—At Kaufman and hls manager have arrived In Loa Angeles, where Kaufman is to meet Tommy Burnt a September 11. Hallor Bnrke, the Brooklyn boxer, has been matched to tpeet Hugh Kelly, of Chi- ago, at Chelsea August 28. Th* men will go fifteen round# at 160 pounds. Mont AttelL tbe younger brother of Abe, O00000000000O00O00000000O0 O 0 O KENNEDY WILL COME O O WHEN HE 18 ORDERED. O 0 0 O Special to The Georgian. 0 O Little Hock, Ark.. Aug. 18.— O 0 President Kavanaugh today re- 0 O reived n telegram from Umpire O C. W. SPARKS. 0 Kennedy, who jumped the South- O 0 ern Longue during the Atlanta- O O New Orleans series in June, say- 0 O Ing that he would come South 0 0 whenever needed In the “rubber 0 0 ball” investigation. 0 O Fof jumping, Kennedy was sus- O O pended by Kavanuugh and at the 0 O request of President O'Rourke of O 0 the Connectfctitt League, he was 0 0 reinstated on condition that he 0 0 would return South for the in- 0 0 SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT # For the Six Months Ending June 90, 1908, of the Condition of THE SOUTHERN STATES LIFE INSURANCE CO. Organized under the Inw* of'fbo state of Alabama; made to the governor of the state of Georgia lit pursuance of the laws of sold state. I. CAPITAL STOCK. 0 O 00000000000000000000000000 2. Amount of capital stock II. ASSETS. Totnl assets $161,546.70 III. LIABILITIES. 10. Totnl policy rlnlms, including legal reserve > 11.194.90 12. Hurpltt* over all liabilities ! 62,352.80 1163,646.70 IV. INCOME DURING THE FIR8T 8IX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1908, FROM COMMENCEMENT OF BU8INE8S, 10TH MAY, 1906. Total Ira**,m*' fl4,W<X42 V. DISBURSEMENTS DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1906, FROM COMMENCEMENT OF BU8INE8S, 10TH MAY, 1906. Total disbursement*. .>2,964.31 A copy of the net of incorporation, duly certified, la on file in the office of the Insurance **unuti#*biu< > r. STATE OF GEORGIA—County of Fnlton. Personally npitcared before the undersigned Frank Omte, who. being duly sworn, dep***ea nnd say# that he is the secretary and treasurer of The Southern State* Lifa Insurance Company, nml that the foregoing statement Is correct and true. FRANK ORMK. Sworn to am! subscribed before me this 15tb day of August, 1906. B. L. DUPREE, Notary Public. For particulars os to agency contract, apply to P. C. WADSWORTH, Vie. Pr*,id«nt and Director of Agoneio*, 1214 Candler Building, Atlanta, Georgia.