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THE ATLANTA GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31. lSi THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ' JOHN TEMFLE CRAVES. Editor. F. L. SEELY. Fresideat. Published Every Afternoon. (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY, At 25 Welt Alabama Sf. t Atlanta. Ga. Subscription Rates. ' Year S4.50 Montlm. 2.50 <>• Months 1.25 Carrier, 1'er Week 10 r**lei>lioues roqnerilnu all departments. I.oujf distance terminals. Smith &• Thompson. ndvertiiluff rep- .‘s<-i)tnfives for all territory outside or York Office Potter Bid*. If you have any trouble getting THE GEORGIAN’, telephone the Clirul“‘*-— J’oparfnent #•**«! have Jf promptly Hied. Telephone*: Beil 4527 1 Atlanta 4401. illation rem- Mntn. It Is desirable that all rommunlei publication tit ;rr Iteil to 4W st’ortls length. signed, as nn evnieure or good Mini, lhough the names will be tvttlibeid it requested. Befooled manuscripts trill not be returned iiuless stamps for the purpose. > sent THE GEORGIAN prints no unclean or objectionable advertising. Neither does It print tvhlsk.v or any liquor ads. OUR PLATFORM.—The Georgian • tnuds for Atlsuta's owning Its own gas and electric light plants, as ft now owns Its waterworks, other cities do this and get gas ns low as 60 rents, with a profit to the city. This should l-e done st once. The Georgian be lieves that If street railways can be onerated tucceaafnlly by European cities, as they ore, there Is uo good reason why they cannot be so operated here. But we do not believe this can be done now, audit may bo some years before we are ready for ao big an un dertaking. Still Atlanta should set Its face In that direction NOW. WIDE SCOPE FOR BOARD OF TRADE. The prompt response made by the merchants of Atlanta In pledging funda for the organization and equipment of a board of trade demonstrates - fully that the business Interests are beginning to sea the benefits to be de rived from such an Institution. The effect of this organisation will be felt Immediately, and eventually It nlll double or even treble the city's tratje. All that Atlanta needs Is bids for business—not Individual bids, but bids from the organized Interest! of the city, representing all classes and branches of trade. Before the board of trade there can lie brought inatt'ers of. vital Impor tance, which would have but little chance of consideration otherw ise. But carried before proper authorities by this board of trade of the chamber of Commerce, a claim or contention would be courteously received and se riously considered by a railroad or any other corporation, The availability of the board of trade In matters of this sort has been immediately shown by the action of the grain and produce shippers of the city, who have for years been lighting for re-billing, re-shlpplng and dif ferential privileges from the railroads. Bringing their claims and argu ments merely as Individuals they had seidftm secured a hearing and never a result. The matter, If taken up by the board of trade, will certainly be given attention by the railroads. In another direction the board of trade can exert ft beneficial Influence. There are quite a number of corporations—h1>me corporations—doing a pay ing business In Atlanta. The bonds and stocks of these corporations are not even known by name to many people with money to Invest. For some reason the city press does not list prices for home bonds and stocks, and It Is difficult for most Investors to get quotations. If the stockholders of Atlanta form complete organization In the board of trade, the buying and selling of cotton, of stoeks and bonds, local and domestic; wheat, corn, oats and other commodities at one central point, where merchants from a distance muy come to trade, will be freed from a restraint that has Impeded business In this city. House Cleaning Needed. * Georgia and Georgian* have a right to be proud of their state capItol. There Is no more beautiful building In America. Its chaste line* are an i exemplification of the epigram that f Architecture fa frozen music. Granting ■ftvhich, 11 may be said that the capittri 1* a symphony of superb simplicity, fifined on the architectural plan of the ; eapfto) at Washington, It la an ex- quislte diminutive, heightened with beauties of Its own. R Designed by a distinguished Georgian who devoted at least a year of lit* busy life to the work, built by Georgians, of Georgia material. It stands n nionu- | ment to the glory of the state. Tet It has been suffered to become a bouse In disorder, reeking with dirt and dust and filth. Grimy and discolored, the wall paper i* falling away hero and there, and "tens of neglect obtrude at every angle. There Is no excuse fdf- the existence of such a state *ot affairs. There If less for Its continuance. Let those whose duty It Is to care for the capftol put a brigade to work with soap and water, or It will be necessary for some patriotic citizen to do as the Hon. Bon Blackburn did ten years ago. when, after storming In vain through the columns of his paper for a house* Cleaning, he himself descended on the capitol with a cohort of scrub women and annihilated the fllth. « A WEAKNESS IN THE GEORGIA LAW. Among the presentments of the September term of tlie Fulton county grand jury was one recommendation that deserves tbe attention of the entire state, and demands Immediate consideration In the next session of the Georgia legislature. It Is to make the offense of attempt at criminal nssault a capital offense in the discretion, of course, of the jury trying the case. Betwixt attempt to commit crime and the commission of crime, there Is no difference In a sane code of morals. But if there were such a difference, in tho Instance of criminal as sault its observance would be a violation of the genius of law Itself. ■ Our scheme of law Is not so much based on the Idea of securing retributive Justice as It Is Intended to be preventive of crime In Its In fluence. Face every fiend, who attacks a woman, with the certainty of death even for his attempt at crfmlnnl violence, and there will be an Immedi ate decrease in the South's roll of horror. It the officers of the law are vigilant In apprehending the criminals. Although this recommendation of the grand Jury cannot hope to solve the problem of preventing rape, at the aame time It officially calls attention to a weakness In the state's penal code that demands Im mediate correction. Red Tape at Washington. l Compilation «f the colonial and rev olutionary records of Georgia Is pro. gtrsslng most satisfactorily tinder ex- j- Governor Allen Candler's direction. Practically all the material for these two periods Is In hand or In sight. Kecords are still coming from England, where copyists employed by the state, are making them ns rapidly as possible. . Bat ft Is In the records of the civil wsr that so much trouble has been ex perienced. With a large number of the rolls of Georgia troops obtainable only In the government war office In Wash ington, absolute prohibition has been placed on them by the heavy price the denartment wishes to exact for having these rolls copied. Ex-Governor Candler has called at tention to the contrast between our own and the British governments. When Georgia wanted records In the British museum, the authorities gladly gave permission for the copyists to go and secure all the data wanted And they did not charge a cent for it. Yet when Georgia waited to get the records In Washington, offering to pay copyists to go right tn the office and stork under the direction of the head of the department, there was n demand for fees. They wanted a good many thousand dollars for It. There seems but one avenue open, and advantage will probably lie taken of that during the coming session of congress. That Is to have one of the congressmen snd one of the senators Introduce resolutions In both branches of the national congress granting Georgia the special right to this data. This should be done at the very be ginning of the session, and the roster commission will doubtless take the matter up at once. It Is said that no other way exists for the state to secure these rosters without enormous expense, as all over tures to the war department have proven unavailing. It Is probable that Congressman Livingston and Senator Ctsy will be asked to Introduce the resolutions when congress convenes H »0ay, December 1. Danger in Mrs. Dickson’s Plan. The proposition of Mr*. Mary Orant Dickson to establish a tea and beer garden on Piedmont uvenue, hetween Eleventh and Twelfth streets, Is ono that will not commend itself to the majority of the thinking people of At lanta, and It Is to bo hoped that the police committee of council will oppose the granting of the license for which application haa been made. part. She merely sat and beamed would be ton long to enumerate all the talent present—the nrtlsts, the singers —who are, of course, also artists—and the actors—who are artists also. But the wit that gurgled with the wine was of course the feature of the even ing. There were those who opined that Kipling was not writing In his old form and that Laura Jean Libby wns really Improving of late. The ethics Mrs. Dickson's project* while rather i vtnUK esthetics of St. Gaudens an Innovation for staid Atlanta, Is tn Itself not so deserving of censure. She Is a woman of character and of culture, and her plan Is merely one based on a business proposition. There Is no doubt but that the tea nnd beer gar den as conducted by her would bl maintained on a high plane. But the evil of It Is that by granting a license for n beer garden on Pied mont avenue, between Eleventh nnd Twelfth streets, council would be set ting n precedent that would causo trouble. The saloon limits as they now exist are too wide. The residence section of the city must not be Invaded. Gotham’* Winter Harbinger. Down here In the more or less Sunny South the harbinger of winter Is a composite of full-blown golden rod and ehltterllna. Further up toward Virginia It is the Albermarle pippin and the falling chest nut. But In metropolitan Oothmntown the only sure und unfailing Indication that winter Is In their midst Is the first meeting of the Pleiades Club. The rare spirits at the Mermaid and the Apollo, the bons vtvants of Cham berlain’s snd Hancock’s In tlie^good old Washington days, many have had each a glory of Its own. But differing from them all. iierhaps, we might say- surpassing them all, tn glory, are the meetings of the Pleiades. The astronomers tell us that one star is In reality missing from the heavenly seven, and so. on Sunday night, one star, the perennial nnd Irresponsible Mickey Finn, was missing from the convivial constellation. But there were so many atars pres ent that no one but Mickey would have been missed. There was Miss Wlnne —Mis* Annie Wlnne—with an "e"— who I* the author of “Broken Bar*"— w hether of soap, seushore or sound, we do not recall. She accompanied the oysters and the banjo with a negro melody In Baxter street dialect, which literally set the house a-roar. It was recherche, a* they *ey at Flowery Branch: It was charmingly sweet and wisely short. And then there was Mis* Mattie Sheridan, the editor of "Men and Wom en." Presumably she It Is who edits the Invitation liat. M least, It would be presumable If It were not a part of the constitution and by-laws that any man or woman may freely enter and regale if he or she feels that ahe has talent and know* that she lias came In for n rapid running debate, Richard Harding Davis was present, so It was thought on the part of many— not Including Richard himself, per haps— thnt It would be Indelicate to discuss his masterpieces. Most of the criticism* were, like Coogler's ver*e, purely original. The only offender was a fat' lady (who wrote pieces) from Washington square, who recalled that Mr. Wilde had said that "Meredith was n sort of prose Browning—and ao was Browning." Her borrowed wit was roundly hissed. Neither New York nor winter would be Iteelf without those wit-tests nnd wine-fests of the Pleiades Club. Atlanta |* a growing community— to be trite—and there le no reason why we should not have a Pleiades Club before long. We have the tulent and the temperament to be Bohemian now and then—nnd u little of It could do no harm. We would havo to give It a new name, of course, for we could not Imi tate even ao ambitious a metropolis as New York. But the spirit, tho form and sub stance would be there. An originality unmnrred by the Infraction of the fat lady wouid he ever present, nnd the life of that night would be orte grand, sweet song. STRIKE BREAKER FOUND WITH PISTOLs IS SENT TO TOWER one of the Southern railway strl! breakers, recently brought here, wax arraigned before Recorder Broyles Wednesday morning and was bound over to the state court under bond of 1100 on* the charge of carrying con cealed weapons. Hedrlngton stated that his home Is In Boston. He explained that he was carrying a pistol for fear he might be attacked and Injured by some of the striking machinists. In default of bond he went to the Tower. He was ar rested by Special Officer Swlnney, of the Southern. E HAS FIVE MILLION INCREASE FOR OCT, THOSE LAST YEAR The applications for building permits recorded In the building inspector'* of fice for the month of October amount, In dollars, to $4(5,»1>. The building permits for October of last year were $266,55". The Increase of this month this year over the same month last year la $18#,462. There haa been a great Increaae each month of thla year, with the single exception of September. The prospect* are now that the Increase for the year will be well over the two million mark. THREW HART! IN FACE AND EYES An Increase of $0.503,996.65:411 dearitiK* is rejKirted by the Atlanta (’lairing Horn** As- —M'lntlon for the month of October,, 1906, .or the name month of 1906. . No bo*tor ludlontion of (be steady and rapid growth pt Atlanta could. J»e shown than by tlie figures of the flan ring House Association. The report for the month shows figure* whIHi prove thnt n period of prosperity I* being enjoyed by all branches i*Miioi| by I>iirwin 11. Jane*, malinger of the Atlanta Clearing House Association. Wed nesday. Tho efVnrliigi for October. 190C. sere f2t.0S6.3G6.92, while those of 1905 were 119.4&2,371.£7. Tho vUwrlnitn for Wednesday, October 31, compared with the Kamo date ’last year, ►how n decrease of $67,520.21. The clearings for today wore $7.76.815,69, while the same date lust your tthows f824.325.90. shallIoIcil OR CORPORATION. SET SCHEDULES? Shall the Georgia Railway nnd Elec tric Company or the town council of Oakland City make the schedules for the street cars that pass through that suburb? That.!* the question which Judge Pendleton has been called upon to decide. The authorities of Oakland City ordlnanced’ that the East Point cars should Mop to put off and take on passengers at every street corner In that corporation, but tho eompuny re fused to have Its cars stop at any except designated crossings. So the town marshal began to arrest the motormen and conductor* every Suddenly pulling from her clothing a bottle of hartshorn? Stella Jones, a white woman, while under arrest Tues day night, at Mitchell and Mangum streets, threw the contents Into the face of Mrs. Lucy Gale, of 137 Weit Mitchell atreet, who had caused her arrest. Mrs. Gale waa considerably Injured about the face and eyes by the strong fluid, but It Is not thought she was se riously hurt. She was given attention at a nearby drug store. The Jones woman Is said to have been Intoxicated at the time. She Is said to have been acting disorderly and the police station waa notified, Call Officers Brannon and Nprrlt respond ing and taking her Into custody. She will be tried Wednesday afternoon. threeIrTkilleo AND TEN INJURED IN TRAIN CRASH Hattlesvllle, Miss., Ort. 31.—Quarrel ing over a game of cards, L. A. Wright and H. Brevoort Ryan, wealthy plant ers. killed ench other Iq a duel In the store of J. W. Brenland, who was also shot dead while trying to separate them. time they would not stop at a crossing. The street car people npplled for and got a temporary injunction restraining the city authorities from Interfering with the running of car* until the mat ter could be threshed out before Judge Pendleton. The judge has for the past several dnya been hearing the argu ments which were concluded Wednea- day. MR. SESSIONS PRESENTS HIS SIDE OF THE CASE OF MARIETTA'S UTILITIES To the Editor of The Georgian: (other city doe*, to a minimum of fl per Having known you for a number of [month. Thl* city Is only paying $37.60 ars, und feeling that you would not j Griffin, do any man an Injustice, I desire to A Quart of Blood. The chivalry .that wo* Spain i* not wholly passed away. From Annapolis. Md„ conies a story that Vicente Garcia Valdez, native of Htspanla. hut now Instructor bf mod ern languages nt the United States Naval academy, ha* In fulfillment of a vow offered a quart of his blood to the authorities of the 8t. James hos pital, Newark, to save the life of a man he has never seen. Many years ago In Spain, It appears, Senor Valdez’s mother was thought to be dying.* But 'on October 26 It was saved, In nn almost miraculous man ner. The son's gratitude was so great that he made a vow so long a* he lived to offer on October 26 of ench year an act of kindness to some person In sore need. On that day of this year, Senor Valdez read In a Washington paper of the desperate condition of a man who had been asphyxiated, and the belief of the ohyslclans that his life could be saved by the transfusion Into his veins of a quart of blood from some healthy nan. ecu ruing ly. Senor Valdes urnae his offer. Senor Valdez Is one of the most pop ular Instructor* at Annapolis, although he sert'ed in the army of Spain In its 15 cents. Miss Sheridan had a difficult war against the United States. take notice of the article In lost Fri day's Georgian, In big display type, headed “Marietta’s Plucky Fight for Municipal Ownership Seem* Assured of Success,” and also an article headed ’’Mass Meeting Declares for City \Vn- terwork: The statement that not a half dozen of the men at the meeting were op posed to the plan for municipal own ership I* absolutely nnd unqualifiedly fa!*e. The statement or Inference that we had Mr. Blair .as an attorney or a citizen address the citizens’ meeting for us I* not only an Insult to Mr. Blair, but to the writer. It Is the writer’s opinion that there Is no man, or *et of men, who could, for any amount of money, employ Mr. Blulr as a citizen to make an address at a citizens’ meeting. As to the correct ness of the statement* that Mr. Blair drafted the bill that was Introduced in the summer of 1904 authorizing a vote for $80,000 bonds for system of wntesworks, the writer cannot say. The statement that Mr. Session* headed a delegation for thl* mea*ure is Infa mously false, and anyone who desired to inform himself could find that there Is not a word of truth In It. It Is untrue that the company wns at that time jtnxlous to dump the old plant on the city. In fact. Mr. Editor, the entire article Is misleading and out of proportion to the facts. Your paper, nt the outset of the arti cle. seems to summarize the matter, nnd It appear* as your paper’s own statement a* to facts and conditions. Do you believe, Mr. Editor, a* a fair man, that your paper did the right mid proper thing In writing up an article of thl* kind, with great headlines and pictures of the leaders In thl* fight for saddling $110,000 bonds on the city* without asking the owners of the pub lic utilities of the city their opinion and their rights and their side of the ques tlon? The writer learned early In life when a mere lad, that there were tw> sides even to a plank, and that one side was the better side. Practically nil the writer has is In vested In these enterprises. We have a franchise from the city for these utUl- ties, and the franchise provides that we shall not charge for water, for public or private use, more than I* charged In other towns and cities in Georgia of similar size and situation. Your issue of Saturday, the 27th. set* up Griffin. Ga.. as a fine eximpte of municipal ownership, and you praise the low prices charged. Since tho writer took charge of the public utili ties of this city we have reduced the K rlce on lights on contract for business ouses to 10 cents per kilowatt, the same as Griffin, nnd for residence 12 cents, with 5 have reduced according to your statement, hatr a charge of $50 per hydrant. We only charge $67 for arc lights, against Grif fin’s $75. Our taxes are only $7.20, against $10 for Griffin, which means a saving In favor of the tax payers of Marietta of over $7,000 per year. You say thnt the writer appeared at the city meeting last Thursday night and opposed same In a strenuous way. It Is true that he appeared In the city meeting called In favor of the bond le- sue and opposed tame In as business like talk as the writer could muke In a conversational tone for about an hour, going Into detail and explaining hi* position fully for the benefit of the mass meeting. His position, condensed, was that lie had lived In this town practically all lilt life and hnd never injured a person or a corporation; that, In addition to the old plant—before knowing that there would be an election for $80,000 bonds—we had prepared and were ex pending $36,000 enlarging the water works, getting a new supply of water, putting In a first-class filtering plant and pumping station, all of which would soon be completed; that It waa not proper or a fair business proposi tion for the city, under the circum stances, to undertake to put In a com peting system of waterworks; that it would make both of them practically worthless, and that tt would pile up taxes on every piece of property, rich and poor alike. Pointing out that, we had a survey made by a competent man. and that the pipe line alone from the only available source—other than the one we are using (Little Noonday Creek) would cost $60,600. From Big Noonday creek, which would be more practical tor a larger town, the pipe line alone would cost $96,000, and would take 140-horse power to pump the water Into the city. Or. If they went to the Chattahoochee river. It would take $120,000 for the main line. The writer went Into these matters In detail and took up others which are not necessary to enumerate In a newspaper article. The writer has had the pleasure In the past of talking to you as to your views and Ideas of pure elections. We supposed that the use of money In any way hereafter to be barred. We had no organlzatin nor raised any money. The only money that was spent was on Friday, the day before the election, for the purpose of getting out a few circu lars, giving the above facts In a con densed way, sending boys to distribute same around the streets, costing about $6 or $7. On the other hand, the town was circularized through the mail, and on the day of the election hacks and carriages were used by the city mar shals and others for hauling negroes and others to the polls. We now have about 900 white voters alone In the city. The total votes polled, white and black, for waterworks bonds were 236. out of about 650 property holders In tne city, not to mention the 100 or more property holders In the new territory taken In who could not vote, only about ion property owners voted In this elec tion. Now. Mr. Editor, we do not question your right to hold any view that you I GOSSIP I Report of Theft of $7,000 Has Reach ed Nashv.lle. Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 31.—There was an express robbery yesterday on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad between this city and Chatta nooga. The Southern Express Company offi cers admit the robbery, but refuse any Information as to details. It Is said the loss Is as high as 37,000. INCLINE ACCIDENT RESULTS IN DEATH! THREE ARE INJURED Special to The Georgian. Salisbury, N. C„ Oct. 31.-Lorl» Taunt- broeber, n Hollander, wns killed yesterday afternoon at the graulte quarry, nnd fonr other fellow-workmen hurl, by tho runa way of a granite car lielonglng to the Amerlcnu Stone Company. Tho engine waa drawing the car up a sleep grade, when tbe book broke and enngbt the men. Tlie legs of a colored mnn were broken, but none more were fatally hart. BY CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER. New York. Oct. 31.—I am sorry to *ee that one of Father Knickerbocker’s most picturesque old fish markets— that occupied by th, Wholesale Fish Dealers’ Association, In Beeknmn. street at the East river—Is soon to be re moved. It will be replaced by a sani tary and fire-proof building. Five on six million tons of fish, rep resenting 75 different varieties, go through this market every year. Wed nesdays and Thursday, the market days, traffic Is congested for blocks by reason of the narrowness of South street. The Russlon ambassador, Baron Ro. sen, has returned to Washington from his visit to Chicago and the West, and will be Joined at the embassy on Fri day by Baroness Elizabeth Rosen. Mme. Quesada, u'lfe of the minister from Cuba, left Washington for New York today. She will spend a week In shopping and visiting. .The minister has not selected a house to be used as a legation and may remain at a hotel all winter. Thirty or more prominent cottagers are to remain at Newport until after Thanksgiving, Including Mr*. John Car ter Brown, Mrs. Harold Brown and Mrs, John Nicholas Brown. The cele brated $10,000,000 Brown baby Is seen on the business thoroughfare—Thames street—dally with, his aged nurse. "Summer prisoned In the heart of winter.” Is the keynote of this sea- soft's Interior decorative fancy, of which the president’s wife Is the leader. Mrs. Roosevelt Indirectly Is doing a great deal to extend th* fondness tor rat tan and willow furniture. Her Idea Is best set forth In the green room of the white house, which she has turned Into an Indoor bower. Willow furniture Is used exclusively In this apartment, and Us freshness l* toned with tho cushions and hangings of green. Most of the settees, lounges and chairs are of pale green, others shading to the natural hue. New York Is having a feast of cheap apples. They are piling up In the fruit markets. About 7.000 barrels have been received oach day this week, and the figure* are likely to be maintained for some days, for there are large ship ments on the way. There are large quantles of apples on the piers and In railway yards, some of which had been there for several MAY EVENTUALLY REACH U. S. COURT nicking meter* free of charge, which no wish on municipal ownership; and cer- The cases against the negroes being tried for the killing of County Police man Jim Heard, In Brownsville, on tho night of September 24, 'seem In a fair way to reach the supreme court of the United States eventually. In addition to fighting every s(ep In tho trial of, .the ense, of Alex Walker, a former Kimball house porter, before Judge Roan, In the superior court, the lawyers for the denfendanta, who have pooled their Interests, have, through the leading counsel, J. D. Kilpatrick, Injected a Federal question which may eventually save some guilty negroes from punishment on technical grounds. Mr. Kilpatrick first raised the point and rlted authorities to show that the authority vested In the county police Is unconstitutional, and that In effect they formed a mob. which was fight ing the negro mob. This contention was ovepruled by Judge Roan, how ever, and that is where the defense will Inject the Federal question. The lawyers will claim that the ne groes who shot Heard had a right un der the constitution of the United' State* to bear arms; that,.If the posse of police was composed of legal offi cers, the state of Georgia was respon sible for their acts and that In dls- arming the negroes the officers were depriving them of their right under the Federal constitution. County Polies Illegal, Mr. Kilpatrick argued that the act creating the county police force was Illegal, because It did not Include a statement of the police powers of the officers In the caption which states that the act 1* "to provide for Inspect ors of roads nnd bridges, for defining their duties and for other purposes connected therewith," hut does not, as I* provided In the body of the act, state that the "sheriff shall" appoint thsm as his deputies. When County Policeman Jordan was testifying Wednesday morning a low which has been almost universally dis regarded In criminal courts was brought suddenly Into the limelight Mr. Jordan had about finished his story when Mr. Kilpatrick suddenly asked him: "Didn't you know that It was against the law for you to come armed Into a court of justice 7” Mr. Jordan replied that lie "didn't know anything about It.” and the Inci dent ended with a reminder from Judge Roan to the officers In the court that firearms In the court room would not be tolerated. The Idea of the law la of course, to forestall any attempt at Intimidating a court, but the rule applies to those who are there to p r e- (Weeks. A celebration Is being planned, under the auspices'of th* Cambridge Society, of the one hundredth anniversary on February 37 of the birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The day will be observed as "Long fellow day" In all the schools of Cam bridge, with appropriate exercises. In the evening. In Sanders theater, there will be public exercises, at which Wil liam Dean Howells will be the principal speaker. President-- Elliott, Colonel Thomas Wentworth Hlgglnson and Professor Charles Elliott Norton will also make addresses. A special Longfellow exhibition will be held of early, rare and beautiful edltlona of the poet's work. • ARE DISCHARGED Sheriff J. W. Nelms has, at the re quest of the grand Jury, rescinded all commissions of deputy sheriffs created by him during the recent rioting and asks that all those appointed for that emergency consider their commissions now void except for six In each of tho militia districts of the county, as pro vided for prior to the rioting, arid a few others In factories, In the employ of the street railway and other neces sary places v GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. New York, Oct. 31.—Here are some of the visitors In Neiv York today: ATLANTA—R. P. Black, Mr*. Arm strong, J. A. Brown, Mr*. J. E. Singer, G. Westmoreland. MACON—Mr*. Y. C. Mallory, J. II. Stevens. vent the court from any possible In timidation. The submitting of evidence in the case Closed after a rambling statement by Walker, the defendant, shortly af ter noon Wednesday and five hour* on Wednesday afternoon was set aside for argument—three for the defense and two for the state. Walker has been positively Identified by every witness as being In the front of the mob and shooting at the officers with a pistol. He admits being nearby at the time, but swears he didn't shoot and that he Is always respectful vhlte people. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. OCTOBER 31. 1760—Foundation stone laid for BlackMan bridge serosa the rlrer Thames. 1806—Battle of Rtrelltz. 1841—Mrs. Tom Thumb Imrn. 1848—8'teplien Wotts Kearney died. Born August 31. K9«. 1*64—Nevada admitted to the t'nlon. 1879—j. it, Baekatoue, actor, died. I'M—Celebrations In honor of l.utlier St Wittenberg. 1895— 1 Two earthquake ihncka felt In many of the Western states. 1898—American peace rotnndasir.nera de manded whole of Philippines from tulnly not ns to Atlanta. We do not know anything about the conditions there, and ore too busy here attending to our own business to express an opinion; but we do feel that you should not take sides In the way you did and flood the town on the eve of the election with hundreds of papers predicting vic tory and full of misstatements, without giving us an opportunity to be heard, or even knowing that an article was to nppear. Believing In your fairness and justness, we apiieal to you to give this article as much prominence ns vou did the article of Friday; - October 2*6 Yours truly, MOULTRIE M. SESSIONS • Marietta, Cq, Oct. 37. ’opsl bishop of 1932—British cable completed around the world. 1934— lYilllsm II. Elder, srebbltbop of Cin cinnati. died. age.I 85. I9M—Show's play. "Mrs. Warren's •Ion." problkl' ' ' York, Moultrie Protests. Editor Graves fears that cattl* rais ing Is one of the waning Industries of Georgia. This shows lack of Informa tion. He ought to visit Moultrie.— Moultrie Observer. Neither, Thanks. An esteemed contemporary says that "John Temple Graves made Hearst.” And here we have been thinking It was the other way all the time.—Pen sacola Journal. Non* Belter in the South. The Atlanta Georgian le now get ting out a morning edition, and there Is no better paper being published I: the South.—Dahlonega Nugget. Something Unusual. The Atlanta Oeorglan has "men tioned" Hoke Smith for president. But » iu are tt| waya doing something out of the usual down In Atlanta.—Mem phis New*-.Scimitar.