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SAT I Iir»AV, NOVEMBER 1". \W*. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY. EXTRAORDINARY CUT PRICE CASH FURNITURE SALE As stated In our last week's ad. we have Inaugurated a special cut-price cash Furniture sale on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays of each week. Last week -was a big success. This next week will be a greater success, owing to the fact that we have so many more good things to offer. You will miss a great opportunity if you do not attend these sales. We are going to make this store a_ bonanza for cash furniture buyers. Why throw away one-fourth of your money by buying elsewhere? No Inferior goods sold by us. Every piece carries our guarantee to give satisfaction In every partlcu- MONDAY—SPECIALS. How we can offer you such bona fide opportunities is explained, right here, from a common sense standpoint—a four-store buying combination enables *35,00 Bed Davenports ... .$23.00* 7.56 Morris chairs $5.60 us to get carload propositions, paying cash gives us every available dis- i.,7 r ‘ ,1„„. . „ „ „„ .count. Our specialty of buying factories’odds and ends, close cuts and job T J< 11 ,,,e Leaftiet eonKn'^ Rattan Rockers .....$ 2.60 lots enable us to give you such goods at actual factory prices. Our location (.open ••••■• $JU,oU, lT„,.tr,„.,l I?,,..« 1 qs In a cheap rent district gives us a running expense of 5 per cent on the vol- l|> 5.00 Ladies Desk $ 3.40;' xtaruoru (tuga e .0 unle of |, ua | ness we d 0 . some concerns have a running expense of 30 per * (1.50 Metal Couches $ 5.30 $ .75 Stove Boards $ .50 . cent. See what this alone means to the furniture buyer and to you. CD MATTHEWS & CO., 21 Cast Alabama Street. Between Whitehall and Pryor. STEAM AND STEEL BATTLE WITH EARTH AND STONE IN TURNING HILL INTO PLAIN West Atlanta Will Be ■ Changed in Appear- ance. THE UNSELFISH LIFE By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. NEW RAILROAD WORK ‘ DESTROYING HOMES .Engineers Undertake Great Task to Briug Road Into City. T By CHARLIE HARP. •' A mammoth 60-ton strain shovel > atlnit Its way Into the Hide of u big hill at the rule of‘six cubic yards per upMite: puffing and struggling true tlon engines with strings of dump tars, busy laborers and noisy teams, and everywhere the atmosphere of en ergy and progress Is the scene present ed In West Atlanta, where the yards guid terminals of the Atlanta, Birming ham and Atlantic are uipler construc tion. ‘The shovel digs Into the side of the lull like a mammoth spoon, taking up iso cubic yards of curtb ut each dig. ’Already ' wh'ehtl 1 'thousand ' yards of gArtlt have been removed and dumped jhtn the fill In the hollow between Rhodes street und North avenue. The •hovel cuts through rock nnd earth alike, tlio contractors only being forced to blast where solid rock Is too thick ,to be handled. . The engineers have calculated that fully 6(0,000 cubic yards of earth will have to be excaruted In building the Date t'lty Terminals. The Immense ,111 from Rhodes street north to North ave nue will be 6.000 feet or more In length, the depth ranging front nothing to 50 feet, the average beingJibout 25 feet. The tracks will pass either above or below cross streets and no grade cross ings will he permitted. Hemes Are Deserted. All the houses along both sides of Mangum and on the east aide of Haynes streets huve either been vacat ed or torn down. The right of way agent has passed along and the scene between the two streets from Magnolia To Hunter streets looks as If a cyclone bad passed that way. Thli Is one of the oldest sections In Atlanta, and In habitants who were born nnd reared In that locality have moved nway to make room for a new era of progress. . ’ Tho Improvements being inode In West Atlanta by tlio Atlanta. Birm ingham and Atlantic, their yards und their terminals will represent an out lay when finished of not less than 11,- •00,000. The contractors. Lane Broth ers ft Co., expended not less than 165.- 000 before work of any description wall commenced. The freight warehouses and storage terminals will front on West Hunter street, boundi-d cast ami west by Man- gum und llaynes streets. Tlio prop erty In this section was bought two or three years ago. but condemnation pro- coedings have been necessary und the road 'has not yet hnlshed paying for a number of the purchases. Injunctions have been served, but tho big steam shovel and fraction engines keep on working as If nothing Itad happened. Old Church Remains. It may be n relief to some to know that |t)e stone church at Mangum und Hunter, streets -rilie Sixth Baptist church—will not he molested by the railroad. This church and the little congregation of faithful workers have tiad a hard time. Its cornerstone laid'in 1666, and It was over eight years under course of construction. It Is said that more different Atlanta |teo- plc have contributed to the erection of this church limn any other charita ble movement ever storied since the city was organised. The right of wuy of the railroad passes to the east of tills little churrli and goes underground to the tracks of the Southern railway south of the .At lanta Terminal (Station. The engineers huve planned to tap the (Southern's tracks uniter the Peters street viaduct. The trains of the Atlanta. Birming ham and Atlantic will be backed Into tbe Terminal Htatlon. The work of the Gate City Terminal Company, a corporation backed by the STEAM SHOVEL AT WORK. The monater shovel bitea into tho hill and with every bite takaa away aix cubic yarda of dirt and atona. which it dumpa into tha cara. railroad, begins nenr the foot of .Ma rietta street nhout on a line with tho Intersection of the Seuboard unit the Western and Atluntlc tracks. The ynnls will he between Jefferson and Ashby streets nnd will be graded to a width of 400 feet with space enough for -7 tracks. The trucks will iotas under Bellwood menu,', entering the city lim its nt Travis street west of Walnut, crossing Hlmpson, West Klllott, Unvfs and Rock streets, Nowton. Thurmond. Foundry tint) Rhodes streets, ending ut West Hunter, between Haynes und Mnngiim streets. Great Terminals. The yards, and freight terminals be tween these streets will oover an area of 506 by 'l.loo square ; feet' / When these terminals Hre completed tho rail roads will. iMtye possession of every thing north of West Hunter to Rhodes end east of Haynes streets. It has been predicted that. wliat was formerly known ns "Hobo Hollow" will bo en- the trestle and the' “filling” proceeds as fast a i the trips, can he made. Already a-cut has been made Into the htlt to feet deep near Rhodes street. Ralls hnve been laid and the dirt tralna, are pulled up to where the shovel Is nt work by traction locomotives. Two of these powerful locomotives are neces sary now on m-amnt of the exceeding ly high grade, but as soon ns rails cun be laid In another ’direction two dirt trains of live cars each wilt bo run und tbe woyk of filling will proceed fwlcef ns fast ns at present ' . Monater. Steam Shovel. ' ' The whovel holds two cubic yajpls of eurth-nnd each dump car held*?three shovelfuls ,ot 0 ruble yards. Barring acehlSnts . und . unddr' favorable, condi tions tile steam Shovel' can handle j.nOM cubic yards of earth every ten' hours. The contractors are running two ten-hour shifts und the work pro ceeds without Interruption. The nil I tisrvnAn I id—.s. i.vne. A week ago atevan ears ran away and crashed through the trestle into the street, blocking traffic and tearing down telephone wires. And of one thing be sure; Jf you do echo from your heart those words, and If you seek to minister, lather than to be ministered unto, you will find a* the years go by, that.many will seek to minister unto you. Hands and hearts will offer you the best they have! And-the thorns will be taken from the paths you tread, by Invisible Angers. Just so sure as you forget 'yourself. In the effort tp “minister unto" others. Just so sure as you begin to count your blessings, and to accept your trou bles* as a part of your spiritual edu- Ilgion which teach Christianity to thefcatlah,'Just so sure w-lll greater hap- “For I cams not to be ministered unto, but to minister.” HEBE were tbe words of a great Teacher, a great Master, who came to earth nineteen hundred years ago, and left a truck of splendor behind Him, a Path of Light, - which leads out Into Infinity. The teaching of this Master was simple, as Love Is simple always. It has been, called Christianity, und has grown most complicated dull the manipulations of translators and the forms arid ceremonies of churches. There are great Institutions of Re- World. and many of the leaders of these Institutions and mapy of the’followers of their teachings are most tmmpohs Individuals. There are. gome famous clergymen In plness. and pleasure and success come to you. It Is the Law. -Ret'yourself the task of making over the land w ho surround themselves with your blessings. As n nun tells her beads, morning when you auaken. the Master so great , that all kings !' 0 "' unfortunate you.be- *e©in like atoms of dust compared • to Ilcve yourself to-be, when you begin him. did not exalt Himself while on: to take stock of- the benefit* fate has earth. ^bestowed, you will find a go.ally num- He was no respecter of persons, and ! her. * . » ' He was sjmple and approachable. He i Each time you name one over, than t said of tho common people: ••Rehold [ the Great.G|v*r and know that what- my brethren, behold my mother.” ; soever else you desire is also yours. tlrely filled In nt no lato date to make a foundation for a net work of rail road tracks. When this takes place property In west Atlanta Is predicted to take a jump skyward. Tho construction company 1ms al ready constructed a temporary trestle from Rhodes meet north for about S,000./feet. In some pluces thl* trestle Is 50 f<<et In height, it Is used to make a temporary roadway for the little traction engines nnd dump cars. The cars loaded with eurth are run out on near Rhodes street will contain about 500,000 cubic yards of earth. In most cases where streets ure crossed overhead stone turtles will be built of concrete. There will be no other kind of bridge work. The con tractors have just finished a building In which three rock crushers will be Instalknl nnd the work of mixing con erwte will be started when the masons are ready to begin work on the arches. Two hundred laborers are engaged on this job. In West Atlanta. About There Is no verse, ho sentence In the Bible, save, the simple command. "Love one another” which Impressies me more than the words pluced at the beginning of this article. It Is perhaps because I opened them one day. when I was fatigued and overtaxed with had per formed for others, to me these duties luu! not been ap preciated, ami theVl fbdulged In one of thoseuolf-pitying mohdx. which most of us enjoy nt tlmes-rhl'iods whece we think over all our goinX qualities and forget all our fauftai whrt*e we ivuguffy our troubles and inInlfy-A»ur blessings; where we retail the behoftts we have bestowed upon the unworthy and take no heed of tho times pur good utilon* have been repaid a-hundred fold. Ho. when l had succeeded In making hiyseir believe that I was on utterly misused fsnd unappreciated person, de serving much better treatment than Kate had accorded me, 1 opened my Bi ble to see what word .of sympathy might be offered mo. And then I read those words: "For I came not to be ministered unto, but to minister.” And Immediately I perceived what a petty and ridiculous and wicked per son I was making myself. Hurely, when the world’s great Mas ter (who, having "passed through all His earthly Incarnations, was now ready to become ortb wlflf God. as we all will become In time); effaced him self by saying, ”1 came not to be min istered unto, but to minister,” it be hoove* those who in any way believe they ure living an unselfish lire to ab stain from self pity. Every time we Indulge In the mood of sorrowing over our hard lot In life we commit a sin, as well as n folly. Every time we regard ourselves ns separate creatures, set apart to be min istered unto by others, we arc guilty of colossal egotism, an egotism which will prove a formidable bl«A*k in our eveutual progress. Thousands of women today imagine themselves good Ghristinn*. while they ate making fathers, husbsnds, chil dren and their own lives wretched by complaining over their lot In life. They want more leisure, more pleas ure, more attendants, more attention. They feel that, unlike the Master, they came to earth to be ministered unto, not to minister. And yet they would be Indignant were they told they liad no right to be called Christians. The men and the women of earth, who are continually lost In sympathy for themselves, who are always think ing of the pleasures and blessings and benefits denied them, are not Chris tians. i • , If this applies to you, take It lioihe. If you Cannot echo from your heftrt the words of the Master, do m*t yourself a Christian. It Is stored in God’s great Reservoir of wealth, waiting your claim, The Key to the Reservoir Is yours. Use It. M^iFIFTY mail clerks TO BE ADDED FOR COMING CONFERENCE WILL BE ATTENDED BY SEVEN GOVERNORS Question of Southern Immigration Will Be ! Discussed. NASHVILLE MEETING THE COMING WEEK Prominent Southern Men to Meet and Formulate Plans for Betterment of Ijabor Condi tions. Postal. Tiafiif Shows Enor mous Increase, in ' " * Volume. Kl/t>"additional railway jdnli # clerks Will probably be pur to; work on-mails under the Judlsdi^tloi)* of the southern division of the railway, mAh service about December 1,’Mo take cnre ,6f the Increasing malls cuused .by ,{he ap proaching holidays and tourist - travel to Klorldu. The Increase In the- service.will be confined to no particular railroad sys tem. but to, nil the trunk lines In the southwest; The volume of mall matter now being handled by the railway mail service Is taxing the capacity of the force now at work nndj frequently the nmll crews on tbe more .important routes come Into .Atlanta “stuck” und arc forced to work up tbe accumulated matter In the railroad yards after the cars have been sfdetrucked. The approach of the holidays always calls for an increase In the force of mull clerks% but the Increuso In the tourist movement to winter resorts In Florida 1ms caused a noticeable In crease in the vpluirn* of mail matter earlier this year than usual. A majori ty of the additional force will be put on trains running to Kloridn points. The Increased force will remain at, work un til after .January 1. NEW LORD MAYoTT IS INAUGURATED. London, Nov. 10.—The new lord may or. Sir William Purdie Treloar, was Inaugurated today with tin? usual cerer mony. Tho customary banquet was given last night at Guild Hall, the of ficial residence of the lord mayor, and was uttended by the usual crowd of ministers, ambassadors nnd other nota- nil i bfe men. • In the absence of the prime minister.! migrants ulso. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, tho Marquis of Rlpon. Ion! privy seal, was the chief speaker special to The Georgian. Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 10.—Prepara tions are almost complete for the re ception and entertainment of the many- prominent visitors who will reach Nushvllle Monday morning to attend the Houthem Conference on Immigra tion and Quarantine. November 12-14 This meeting will be the second an nual conference of this nature held In the Houth, the first having met at Chattanooga last year. Although it wap well attended and much Interest was aroused. It Is already evident from air Indications that the Nashville meeting will be much larger and tho Interest In It far more wide spread. For a time It was thought advisable to postpone the conference on account of the fact that President Roosevelt could not attend at this time, but, upon consideration, the dates first announced were adhered to. The visitors during the first three days of next week, will be the guests of tho local board of. trade und the members of that organisation have spared no effort In arranging for their comfort as well us their pleasure. Purposes of Conferenct. The chief purpose for which the con ference has been culled this year Is to -discuss means of securing desirable Immigration for. the South. At tho Chattanooga meeting last year the quarantine situation was the principal topic of discussion, the conference hav ing been called a short while after the yellow fever epidemic, and this year the same subject Is to be up for,con sideration again. Ways of protecting the Houth against undesirable Immi grants um well as securing the better sort will receive due consideration. Another matter will be the discus sion of the general labor supply and Itpition throughout the South with a view to securing remedial legislation. As stated in the call issued by Gov ernor Cox, the conference will be com posed of governors, congressmen, sen ators, commissioners of agriculture and immigration, state superintendents of education, with mayors of cities as ex- ofllcio members. Railways ore also en titled to representation and their repre sentatives will be requested to submit working plans of co-operation between their systems and the states of the Houth for securing settlers from the North and West and for desirable Ini- Governors will state fifty are skilled laborers and handle the steam shovel.and dirt trains. Ful ly ns many more are trained draughts men und clerks at work in the offices In the old Dooly home at Mangum and ...... West Hunter street * and In the cum- j Kryptok invisible blfoculs, made Into pony's offices in the Empire building, one solid piece, yet giving double vts- The engineering Is under the dlreGtim Ion. They are ahead of everything In of R. T. McDonald, engineer of term!- the eye glass line. Made exclusively In tials. The actual construction Is under J Georgia by John L. Moore & Sons, 42 the direction of Hugh MoKowen. Both | X. Broad street. Prudential building, are veterans In their respective lines, ••• and thoroughly competent men. j — The contractors have been engaged TRACTION ENGINES COUPLED. The puffing little locomotives haul away the earth and dump it below tho trestlo to form pormanent roadway. m this job only six weeks and already much work has been accomplished. From now on the engineers believe that the work will proceed more rapidly than it 1ms in the past because the hurdest por.tlon has been completed. They think that the terminals will be finished within eighteen months. It has been stated that the western crew will have the rails into Birmingham within fifteen months. EVERY SUNDAY Athens. Ga.. and Return. Only One Dollar for the Hound tri|». Trains leave the Union Depot at 7:'JO a. nt. Cheaper to go than it la to stay at home. Remember Just It.OO. (SEABOARD. W. E. CHRISTIAN. A. G. P. A., Atlanta, Ga. the advantages rtf their several states und show why they arc desirable as hollies for prospective settlers. State superintendents will be asked to offer suggestions for improvement along ed ucational lines and the representatives of the commercial bodies will bring be fore thconference such matters as they may deem of Importance In the commercial or labor field of the South. Large Attendance Expected. Although called by the governor of Tennessee, the conference will be under the auspices of the Nashville board of trade and tho correspondene and work of preparation has nil been done by of ficers nnd mends?r» of this body. In- vitutlons have been sent In accordance with the call anil an unusually large number! pf. acceptances has been re- celved. The .attendance by a conserv ative estimate will reach 2.50(1 and the personnel of the conference will be of the highest. In order t*> facilitate mat-, ters tho board of trade has seen red ... up-to-date list of boarding houses , will be ahown visitors upS5 raues, ara* no trouble b anticipated iTpropcr^ th°e U t l h n r r ee a da>* Ue * t " ° £ ‘ he C,ty Ambaoadora May Attend. The English Cotton Spinners have. aaent*of Vh R '^ h ' lrd »- lmm.grat.oa agent of the bouthem railway. si gn i. Bed their Intention of. attending i!„ meeting. If possible, and have assured the board of trade of their heartv m- terest In the conference and of their support. The British, Italian and Ger. man ambassadors have Indicated an in. terest and will either be present or send a representative to this city, ah the railroad. |„ the South have signified their Intention of having represent, tlvea from tbelr Industrial deportments and the majority of governors of Southern states have written here to the effect that they will be In Nash ville on the above dates. Besides the speakers on the program, which appears, are Dr. Stephen M. Newman, of Washington, who will rep. resent the Liberal Immigration League, und L. J. Ellta, of New York, who Is also a member of that body. E. J. Watson, Immigration commis- xloner for South Carolina, will ad dress the conference on condition in Europe, from which country ho has but • recently returned, and their bearing on tho situation hero. Edelman, who has traveled a great deal, and is in close touch with the situation, will speak on the "Desirabili ty of the. Russian Jew aa an Immi grant. ' • ( ‘i Terrell and Smith Invited. '/ : j Secretary Eugene .bhannoiy of the Ideal board of trade, sent a letter ye.- terday to Governor Joseph »f. Terrell of Georgia, and also to Governor-elect Hoke Smith, urging their presence hetr next week, and the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Is expected to send rep resentatives, though the list has not yet been forwarded to this city. A communication has been received from the secretary of that body, however, stating that Us members are in hearty sympathy with the movement. A feature of the meeting will be the discussion of the proposition of gettlm; rid of the Idle and worthless negroes In the South. This subject was proposed by N. F. Thompson, of Chattanoogn, who was sent to Washington as a spe- cihl representative of Xashvllle'a com mercial body. The Idea as presented by -Mr. Thompson Is to have the Vagrams of. both races sent to Panama to work upon the Isthmian canal. The second annual convention of the Tennessee state board of trade will he held In Nashville In conjunction with the Southern conference. Complete Program. The convention will be called to or der by Governor Cox and the follow ing program, with the additions men tioned, will be carried out; First Day, MORNING SESSION. 10 A. M. Welcome to Delegates—Hon. John L Cox, governor of Tennessee. Response on behalf of Delegates— Hon. Newton C. Blanchard, governor of Louisiana. Address, “South Carolina's Efforts for Immigration"—D. C. Heyward, govern- or of South Carolina. Address—Hon. It. L. Taylor, ex-gov- i ernor of Tennesse. AFTERNOON SESSION. Address—Hon. M. V. Richards, land and Immigration agent Southern rail way. , Second Day, Address, "Technical Education of tiie Negro"—Hon. J. K. Vardanian, govern or of Mississippi. Address—Hon. R. B. Glenn, govern.if of North Carolina. Address—Hon. X. B. Broward, govs ernor of Florida. Address—Hon, E. W. Carmack, Ten nessee United States senator.* Address—Representatives Of foreign embassies. AFTERNOON. Visit to "Hermitage," home of An drew Jackson. i NIGHT SESSION, 8 P. It Address—Hon. F. M. Simmon-, United States senator from North Car olina. Address—Dr. J. H. Kirkland, chan cellor of Vanderbilt University. Immigration—N. F. Thompson. Address—Dr. D. I,. Wlggens, vice chancellor University of the South. 8s wanes. Third Day, Address—Colonel Robert Gates, im migration agent Louisville and Nash ville railroad. . Address—J. R. McMullen. Trahe School of Alabama. Address—Hon. Oscar Underwood, - Alabama. Address—Hon. James B. Frazier. United States senator from Tenne--. " COME DOWN TODAY! 50 per cent Reductions on our 5c, 10c f 15c and 25c Counters ALL CHINA, CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE ARE BEING CLOSED OUT ENTIRELY. KING HARDWARE COMPANY, 53 PEACHTREE STREET.