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. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. Trnsn.w. November :<t. tin*. SCORE OF DELEG A TES OF BAPTIST CHURCH IN CARTERSVILLE, GA. to iuv »■ fxrtrravllte, Ga.. Not. 2<1—Scores J.loeatcs and ministers anil their wives Itiinliwl rnnwnHnn ‘‘ v th e oeorgto Baptist convention, Moll meet* here this evening, urrlved jt night and today, and were assigned thP |r respective homes. Many delegates from South Georgia h „ m ' e t In Atlanta are expected to ar- here at 4 o'clock, on a speclai train ! v er the \V. & A. u me opening session tomorrow 'l‘ ti at w hich the election of officers ’ ,he next year occurs, it Is believed o on . tv, J. Northen will be re-elected .resident without opposition. He has held this post for the past eleven years, while (te has on one or two occa- ,lons sought to retire from the office, the convention has prevailed upon him e continue in the harness. The following is. the propos'ed order e xer< Ises for this evening: j p. m., devotional services; 7:30, convention called to order; secretary announces names of delegates; election of officers: address of welcome on be half of t'artersvllle; reply on behalf of the convention; adoption of regular or der of business; fixing hours of meet ing; convention sermon. There are 220,000 white member* of the Baptist church In Georgia, and this denomination is malting rapid strides toward numerical leadership in this state. Endowment' funds for Mercer University and Shorter College are un der consideration and the discussion of plans looking to this end will lend spe cial Interest to the approaching session. A fund of $500,000 for this purpose! is proposed to be made available. Dr. It. J. Willingham, of Richmond, Vo., will be present to speak in behalf of foreign missions and tell of the work done by the foreign mission board of the Southern Baptist convention. Dr. B. D. Gray, of Atlanta, secretary of the home mission board, will review the work accomplished by this board during the past year. The Sunday school board of Nash ville, of which Dr. J. M. Frost is secre tary, will probably have a representa tlve on the floor of the convention make a report of the progress of i Sunday school work. Altogether the coming session promises to be a live one and abounding In Interesting dis cussion*. HILL PLANS A MERGER OF THREE BIG ROADS OFFICES COMBINED OF THE INFERENCE Woman’s Baptist Confei*- ence Meets at Car- tersville. missing man in prison, BUI A WOMAN WHO LOVES HIM IS GLAD TO HEAR IT There Is one woman in Atlanta who l. glad that her husband or brother or tome one she loves is a prisoner. At Irast she Is glad to know where he is. There Is a touch of grim humor follow ing a tragedy of Monday. In the undertaking establishment of [Barclay & Brandon lies the body of the unknown man who hurled himself from the Magnolia street bridge before a i moving train Monday morning. The Kalwart frame, the broad shouldera, the muscles that stand out on arms and breast, Indicate that he was a man whn'e physical strength was something to be envied. All Tuesday morning there vfere call ers at the Improvised morgue who asked to see the body. There were n#rt who had a brother answering the description In the newspapers; there sere women whose husbands had been missing for days; there were those who knew the habits of sons or brothers twho never take up a paper without _ fear of seeing In staring headlines the name of the man closest to them. It wae a study In human expression, that timid, frightened glance nt the cold body, then the relief which came with the knowledge that It was "only stranger." Jt Is easy to bo Indifferent when one’s own home Is left untouched. One woman called early Monday. She was nervous, excited, trembling. “f don’t know—’’ she stammered, thought—I didn’t know—It might Conyers—I want to aee him." She was led to the room where the dead man lay. She looked at the body closely. There must have been some resemblance to the man she sought, for she hesitated. "I don’t know yet—I must wait; said. And she left the room. In a few moments the telephone rang. One of the Arm answered tt. Over the wires came this message: "It's all right, and I'm so glad. Con yers Is In the stockade.’’ she IS HUMAN WRITING PAD; NEW MARINE HAS QUEER KIND OF SENSITIVE SKIN Of the thousands of men In the United State* marine corps, qne lust enlisted In Atlanta bears the distinc tion of being In some respects the most remarkable In tho service. He Is afflicted. If affliction It may be called, with urticaria, but by the su perstitious known as ’’devil writing." And he has the satisfaction of knowing lhat the affliction he has only appears In about every hundred thousandth per. ■on. This man Is James Arthur Ford, and lor the next four year* he will wear the uniform of Uncle Bam and do duty on the high seas on board men of war. White the official name given by the doctors to the affliction which Ford has Is one that carries horror with It, nev ertheless tho affliction is nothing more than having a highly sensitive skin that retains for a half hour or more any mark made upon it with a blunt instru ment. This human freak was discovered Monday by Lieutenant L. P. Pinkston, to charge of the Atlanta recruiting of fice, and Ills surgeon. Lieutenant G. G. Hart. It was noticed that wherever anything touched Ford a red mark ap peared and remained,, although the freak suffered no Inconvenience what ever. \ < Immediately Dr. Hart recognised Ford a man having urticaria, a skin affliction that is rare Indeed, and one that he has only aeen once or twice his experience. In order to demonstrate Juit what effect marking by blunt instruments would have upon Ford'a akin, Lieuten ant Pinkston and Dr. Hart Tueaday morning put him on exhibition in the recruiting offices In the Austell build ing and ahowed several newspaper men how Ford could get along In the world, even If he was not equipped with pen cl! and paper. Marks made with smooth key turned the akin into - white line for an Instant and almost Immediately red was substituted for the white, and these, red marks re mained for a half hour. All sorts of names and Inscriptions were written on the man, and not only did they not give him Any pain', but not the slightest irritation. And until he was told by the examining sur geon that he had a rare affliction, Ford did not know that he had something which It Is doubtful if any other marine In the service has. Dr. Hart says there Is nothing serious In the affliction, and that 1(1* simply caused by a hypersensitive skin. Ford halls from Arkansas and says that none of his people is marked In this fash ion. ENGINEER CRUSHED UNDER LOCOMOTIVE Special to Tho Georgian. Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 20.—Steven Beasley, an engineer, was killed and John Barton, conductor, and Lee Wll- M ». Andy McCrcery and D. Butler, brakemen, were Injured In a wreck on the north Alabama branch of the Louisville and Nashville railroad to day. The brakemen are negroes. The engine and one freight car turn ed over' near Mineral Springs. En gineer Beasley was caught beneath the engine and badly mashed and scalded. IN M. EDWARDS, 'in John M. Rdwanln, of Milled*®. "«• of the beat known men In the iilnil Tuesday morning In n private Will Smith, a negro residing at 23 Doray street, waa bound over to the criminal branch of the superior court Tueaday morning by Recorder Broyles •anitannm In Atlanta, where he went four on the charge of murder. Smith having iigo to undergo an operation. Tlmii Captain Edwards few men In Geor- eia n«T»» Letter known, nnd bla death will I' iirrml with regret by a multitude of all over the state. He was a vet- *■»'. ..f the an ,j ^ved throughout that ! gallantly In the Confederate army " 1 "mu distinction, fighting through the * "*■■* 'if Vfukghurff. wan uapecially prominent In Baldwin *"• v |M*lltli‘s nnd for years served the *V ,;t **> as treujujrer. Captain Edward* wn* * ** I ""inluent In secret order circles nnd *** ,! member of the Masons, Knights Tern- ar, d Mystic Hbrine. Captain Edwards was 97 yean of age, u ’mnrlved by a wife and three children * M. and William Edwards and Miss np-.j,. Edwards. He alto Is survived by In Atlanta, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore n Martin, captain Jack Edwards, ii , 1 “* p of the deceased. Is a promlaent dtl V 1 ot Itecatar, Ala., where he Is connected V th the Louisville and Ksshvllle road. Mrs. 7 nn , Kidd, a slater, lives In MUledgerllle, as wird. ’ Warren and George Ed- Thu remain* left Atlanta Tuesday nfter- iSL,"* ,2: ? o'clock' for Miliedgevllie, tfc,... 4 J*F the Knights Templar. The killed another negro named Henry Williams. The testimony showed that the two men had a row Monday a week ago and that Smith Btruck Williams twice In the head with an ax. The wounded -negro died last Friday at the Grady hospital. Smith made no statement. He was represented by Attorney Blub- ° Geofg* Evans, a nephew of the dead man who. It was shown, chased Smith and cut him, was also bound over on the charge of stabbing. He was also cut by Smith. TJte two negroes were arrested by Policemen Rowan and Eddleman. STORE SAFE BLOWN AND $1,000 TAKEN Clifton Forge, Va., Nov. 20.—The grocer* store of J. Werner Lewis, lo cated In the western port of the city In a residential section, was robbed last night The safe wa« blown open and about »i,«00 stolen. The safe Is a com- »"■'.rrTi. ■ Ko'shts Teuiplsr. The in- ’,, an j the paper* and books kcK&faaWStJEfsT"* WW * Ueli te tn the sM:e kv® partly deitron-d. By SAM P. JONES, JR, Cartersville, Ga.. Nov. 20.—Carters- vllle was the scene yesterday afternoon of the opening of tho twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Woman's Bap tlst Missionary Union of Georgia, aux iliary of the Georgia Baptist State con vention, which latter will convene here Tuesday night at 7:30 o'clock. 1 The first session of the Woman' Union wds held at the First Baptist church and was led by Mrs. W. J. Northen, of Atlanta. Addresses of welcome were delivered by Mi;s. W. J. Neel, oh behalf of the First Baptist church, of Cartsrsvllle; Mr*. W. H. Felton, on behalf of the First Methodist church of Cartersville, and Mr*. "Bill Arp” Smith, on behalf of the Presbyterian church of this city. The addresses of welcome were re sponded to by Mr*, W. A. Johnson, of Fayetteville. After the addresses the union pro ceeded at once to the reading of re ports, which consumed the balance of the time allotted to the afternoon ses sion. Evening Session. At 7:30 Monday evening the union convened again In the church, and the meeting was led by Mr*. Bond, of West Point. That part of the evening session which was open to the public consisted principally of addresses from foreign missionaries who are In attendance upon the convention. Interesting talks were made by Rev. Colder Willingham, returned missionary to Japan, who. with hi* wife, Is attending the meeting of the Woman's Union; Mrs. Harvey Clark, missionary to Japan; Miss Ida Truitt, missionary to China, and Mrs. A. L. Dunston, missionary to Brazil. A talk was also made by George W. Andrews, of Atlanta, Sunday school worker. Offices Combined. Upon entering Into executive session the union heard a resolution that was read by Mrs. J. W. Wills, of Atlanta, recording secretary, recommending that the offices of corresponding secretary and that of the treasurer be combined, and that the office of the leader of the Young Ladles’ work and the Sunshlno work also b* combined and that sal aries be attached to them. This was considered radical legislation, Burlington Is Soon to Pass Into Control of Great Northern. OmahA, Nebr., Nov. 20.—-It la stated here on apparent authority that within a week the equjty which the Northern Pacific holds in the Burlington will pass Into the hands of the Great Northern and that almost Immediately tho Burlington and Great Northern will be merged Into one system with James J. H1U in control. The Great Northern, Northern Pa cific and Burlington lack but one little link now of being one great system. When the short cut from Billings to Great Falls, Mont., is completed, the unification will be consummated. The western terminus of the Burl ington is Billings, where it meets the Northern Pacific. A line has been In progress of construction for some time from Billings to Great Falls, where the Great Northern runs on its way to the coast. 145 iT¥T/4 0PP0SE_ELECTI0N Continued From Pago 1. SOME MID-WEEK SPECIALS Get Your Share of Them. the questions about prohibition In non-committal fashion. I desire to call your attention to the following points; 1. That the list sought and secured was not of leading business men. No cpnvass was made of Cathollca or Jews or non-church members, but inquiry was conOned to those whom their pas tors regarded as their leading breth ren. Looking over the lists, I employers. 2. That the letter gave an unc strained opportunity to answer questions thoughtfully and in acco once with convictions. 3. That these replies are lndlcat of the average Judgment of the Chi tlan men in Atlanta. 4. That these replies are inclusive the judgments of all but live of prohibition {executive committee twety-flve that managed the last p hlbltlon campaign in Atlanta, now 1 lng in the city. Would Not Carry Now. met the approval of the union, and when put to a vote was carried unani mously. The evening session adjourned while In executive session to meet again In the church Tuesday morning at o'clock. The meeting this morning was pre sided over by Mr*. A. J. Orme, of At lanta, acting president of the union. A complete program of the services today as follows: Tutiday Morning. Devotional sen-ices, Mrs. . W. B. Reeves, subect "Sen-Ice;’’ report of president Orphans’ Home, Mrs. A. D. Adair;' report* of district superintend ents, reports of associations! vice presidents, reports from societies, ap pointment of committee*, mortuary, plan of work, auditing, resolutions, nominations. Tuesday Aftsrnoon- Thankiglvlng service, Mr*. M. C. Ware; conference on work among young people, opened by Mrs. F. C. Wallis; report of superintendent of Sunbeam work, Mrs. W. P. Anderson; report of Margaret Home, reports of committees, mortuary, plan of work, publications, auditing, resolutions, nominations, election. NEGROlOll S OAQ CHARACTER, SAY WITNESSES bllttlcs so overwhelmingly against us. This Is the situation tha but It low: Will Johnson, the negro whose cap ture at least was responsible for the sudden termination of the trial, if not for the acquittal, of Joe Glenn, the negro who was identified last week by A sharp and. Injurious divlsl tween the prohibitionist* and liquor men. Main Basement. Kitchen Lamp complete with No. 1 burner, chimney and wick; special 15c Cups and Saucers of very thin, white china; pretty bowl shape; per set 75c Cups and Saucers of good quality white ware; also Dinner Plates; at 5c Soup Bowls of good quality white ware; real 10-cent values; at 5c Meat Platters and Open Vegetable Dishes; white or decorated; 25c values 15c Open Stock China in New Designs; All sizes of Flower Pots in Stock. Basement Annex, Feather Dusters—16-inch size; very special Wednes day and Thursday at. .1 Frying Pans of best steel, with patent “cold” bandies; 8-inch size Coffee Pots of blue and white enameled ware; 3-pint size; special Dishpans of best gray enam eled ware; 14-quart size; special Covered Saucepans of best gray enameled ware;4-quart size; special “Snowflake” Washing. Com pound—the best you’ll find; per cake 25c 10c 25c 18c 25c 5c Our Annual Toy Opening Occurs Next Saturday. Re ception From 3 to 10 p. m. Music 3 to 5 and 7to 9. Souvenirs for Children. You Are Invited to Attend. i support In pub ably effective. iy wounded.and badly injured. There may be thoae who aay, that policy would martlaled and told tnat ms place v not in leadership, but In the rank*.' VO ■ £ 1 First Floor. 1 Underwear—Ladies’ Vests [1 - 1 and Pants, Misses’ and Chil- ve I dren’s Union Suits; only. 25c ot 1 Ladies’ Belts in new leather Ij® 1 styles and beaded effects, o- 1 great values at 25c 1 Ladies’ Hose Supporters in r- I most popular styles; extra £ I values at 25c and • 50c I Hose for ladies, men and « 1 children; the best values you l * 1 ever saw at 10c ' 1 Brooches in a great variety 'i'. 1 of new and pretty designs, a II at, choice 10c n 1 Ladies’ Collars in new and - I beautiful embroidered cf- ° | fects, at 10c McClure T< i 1 ■ I Seven Stores t 1 movement upon should at thla l „ The wonderful reaulta achieved by the league in other atates, let It be marked well, ure attributed by Dr. Baker, the head of the national league, to the care ful wisdom and .effective planning of Its campaigns. The Anft-Saloon League differs from other prohibition move menu In the fact that it goes in for reaulu and not for the tun and glory of fighting. It has been content with slow and patient seed sowing, cool and calculated patience. It has not expend ed itaslf In-futilities or rash engage ment*. I Invoke the geniii* of the league Ii the present Instance. This communication Is not for pub lication, but tor counsel. I do not pretend to represent any other man's vlewR beside my own, except, as indi cated by the results of my Inquiry. But when your vote Is taken I wish you would be sure that I would vote If— ■—*— on an would do so with an honest conscience be fore God and with the assurance that out of every hundred and seventy-five r h . r M , a ii ftn , .' lending Christian citizens, the most of Mrs. Annie Camp-as her assailant,In whom are prohibitionists like myself, addition to the identification by Mrs. there would be one hundred and forty- Rtchard Hembree, of Battle Hill, as I five to stand with me, were they pres- the negro who assaulted her on August ent to vote. Sincerely and fraternally, 15, Is having proven on him a very JOHN E. WHITE. bad character, which will make hi* trial . hard for him. J. B. Holbrooks and Horace Owens looked at the Johnson negro at the jail Tuesday morning and Identified Urn as a man with whom they had had trouble In West End. They said that he had been working for them on houses "which were erecting and was eternally giving them trouble so that finally he had to be run off. Mr. Hol brooks said that *n Impudent remark by the negro about a lady passing by and an Insolent reply to his reprimand led on one occasion to his having to thrash the negro. When the grand Jury meets Thurs day It may return three bills against Johnson—one for the assault on Mrs. Hembree August 15, one for the at tempt to assault Mrs. Woodlee Novem ber 2. and a third for the burglary of the house of an old negro named Bill Jefferson, November 1*. The grand Jury may, however, consider the Hem bree bill sufficient. ASSISTANT NAMED AT NEXT MEETING The assistant principal of the Boys' High School, a new office created two inonths ago, will be selected at a meet ing of the board of education at the Boys' High School next Thumday aft ernoon at 3 o’clock. A regular meet ing of the committee on school* and teachers met at * o'clock Tuesday aft ernoon and framed te report to be made to the board meeting next Thursday. DEATH OF COOPER REVEALS A SECRET New York, Nov. 20.—Following the fatal termination of the last drive of "Tom" Cooper, dare devil automobile chauffeur, lit Central park last night. It Is believed a romance of the dead chauffeur’s life has been revealed. Miss Helen Levy, the only one of Cooper’* party to escape from fatal In juries, It Is now believed, was really the bride of Cooper, who was sup- poaed to be a confirmed bachelor. Two of Party Dead. Two lives have , already paid for Cooper’s terrible drive through the park, and It Is expected another of tho parly will die soon. Cooper was In stantly killed when hts machine dashed Into a stalled car on the narrow path. David Barkalow, a cotton exchange broker, died soon after the accident, and Miss Helen Lambert, an actress. Is In Roosevelt hospital with a fractured skull and other Injuries. No hope is entertained for her recovery. Miss Levy was removed from the hospital to her home by a party of women friends. It w»* because one of Balcony and Second Floor. 15c 10c 10c 50c 10c 25c Hat Shapes in various new styles; worth up to 50c; choice, tomorrow........ Crepe Paper in' all the best colors; 6 rolls for 50c; or, per roll Photograph Frames with ea sel back; size 5 by 7Inches; Only Mirrors in oval frames, good size; real $1.00 value; tomor row .wwm. . Checker Boards—complete with checkers; very great values at Express Wagons, well made; the best values we ever of fered, at - TRIAL OF CARUSO TO PROMT! Tenor Is Working Himself Into a Fine i Frenzy. New York, Nov. 2».—Signor Caruao, the Italian tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, I* preparing for hi* arraignment In Yorkvllle police court tomorrow on the charge of annoying a woman In the Central park goo on Fri day. • He I* working hi* temper up to the exploding point. Caruso Is mad and ho purposes to let-everyone know It. Today Caruso had a lot to aay, deifying almost everything in connection with hlB arrest. Caruso’* lawyer* will try to show up the park police system. The police are doing considerable work, too, although not talking a* vig orously as Caruso. They promise to produce Mrs. Hannah Graham, the woman who made the complaint against Caruso. The latest report la that the woman is'a personal friend of Cain, the arresting detective. Cain is being back-id by him officials of the police department, and the court light Is sure to be Interesting. DR. WHITE GIVES RESULT OF PROHIBITION CANVASS Continued From Page One, the women spoke to her of “her hus band,” meaning Cooper, that the sup posedly secret marriage ha* been re vealed. Planned Daring Ride. .. was the desire of Cooper to give his friends a daring ride which led to the fatal accident. As he shot his ma chine Into the park, Cooper told them: "I will give you the ride of your life,” A abort way down the path the car of Richard A. Strong was stalled, hav ing run out of gasoline. A curve hid It from Cooper’s view. Just before hit ting the curve Cooper dodged a han som. In doing so he ran into the path of the stalled car. The Hying machine locked wheels with the Btrong car. It turned a com plete somersault and landed on the wheels. Cooper was hurled against the steering gear and It was driven Into hi* breast. He was held Impaled, after the machine had righted Itself. Thfi other* were thrown obt as the cat turned over. tlment waa undertaken by me in dis charge of my personal conscience as a member of the league and a* the repre sentative of the ministers’ association. It was necessary to have the situation In hand before any step was taken that risked a* much a* a prohibition election in Atlanta will risk. "Not Foolish Prohibitionist.” I am a prohibitionist, but not a fool ish prohibitionist. I love the cause of the' amt-saloon crusade, but I love It too well to slaughter It or bo a party to an Ill-advised movement that Is de feated before It starts. Therefore, : have at three meeting* opposed the wild vehemence of some and the pu -gllistlc seal of some other good men who would lead to a disastrous precip itation of a campaign before any real foundation for It was laid. I wish to toy two things about this letter sent out by me: First. That no church was designedly omitted and Indeed the letters were ex. hausted before all the list* in hand were reached. For Instance, no one on the list for 8t. Mark Methodist church received the letter and one or two oth ers were omitted for the same reason, namely, that I did not have the letter* to eemf them. secohd. Since the communication was sent on Friday to the league meet ing I have received nineteen additional lows that out of 134 who halo replied HO vote fhnt we should not bring on an election now and 28 vote that we should. Will Havo Prohibition, Two facta to mo are clear. We are going to have state prohibition In Geor- ’ gla at no very distant day. That move, ment I* already well udvanced in tho public mind. Judgo Speer’s recent i charge adds momentum to IL it should be seen by thoughtful people tlmt a In Atlanta now resulting dls- . and dividing prohibitionist.-, as it surely will, Is the greatest un wisdom, In view of the state movement. Also this, we can tighten -me Klip upon the traffic In Atlanta right now - only three out all the number express opposition to the third clause of m\- letter. We ought to move together to put through the city council a real re form at this time when we can do It It must seem strange to the mnn In the street that a company of Christian men, chiefly ministers of the gospel, cannot get together and plan for good things In a sensible way, respecting each other, and not Indulging In In- nuendoes um| offensive references to each other or the people who arc rep resented by them. The following Is tho letter tent t > the .Anti-Saloon League meeting on Friday, at which nineteen people, with the president of the state league ad vising agafnst It, passed a motion to launch a campaign anyhow: HOKE SMITH IN PLEADING LAW SUIT gpeelal to Th« Georgian. Columbus. Ga., Nov. 20.—Hon. Hoke Smith, governor-elect of Georgia, who of counsel In a case pending in the superior court, 1* in the city taking an active part in the conduct of the case. It I* a railroad case In which a verdict against the Central railroad has been decided twice and is on its third trial. Mr. Smith is a favorite In Columbus and has been extended many courte sies, his friends flocking to pay their respects to him. SUICIDE STILL UNIDENTIFIED The unknown man who killed him self by Jumping from the Magnolia street bridge before a moving Monday Is still unidentified. , Sir*. George Martin, Monday morning ’pho ward that the description of the dead ' man filled perfectly that of a member i of her family who was missing. She " asked that the body not Lie burled - until she arrived. ■identified. artln, of Columbus, 1 'phoned .Mayor Wood- .