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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, SECOND CHARGE OF CRUELTY TO CITY^PRISONERS Man Appeals to Mayor Aft er Story of Cruelty in Stockade. For the aecond time In the laet few weeks charges have been brought against the city stockade authorities tor cruelty to prisoner*. It was only a short while ago that a man who had Just come out of a hos pital after Are months lying between life and death was sent to the stockade on the charge of being drunk. This man was working on a steel structure In Birmingham, when he fell about forty feet fo the hard pavement below, his head striking an Iron beam. His skull was fractured. His life was saved, but when he came out his health was broken and the Injury to his head subjected him to epileptic fits. While In Atlanta on his way to his home. In Norfolk, Va., he took several drinks, which precipitated a lit on the streets, he states. He was given a sentence at the stockade, and was made to work out there In his terrible condi tion until the stockade physician, upon learning that he had had a At at the stockade, ordered him released. The latest charge Is brought by man whose name Is withheld because he fears that If It Is learned that he had been to the stockade for being drunk he would lose his position. This man's right , hand Is swollen to twice its normal else, and his left hand Is cut. The swollen hand Is bruised severely, and the skin Is torn In several plnces. He was given a sentence of twenty, one days In the stockade for being drunk nnd disorderly. He began his sentence on October 18. He charges that he was worked so hard that hts hand became bruised and swollen. "I pleaded with the authorities.” he told the mayor Wednesday morning, "not to make me work In my condltiSi, but Mr. Grogan; the head guard. Just told me to get In line. I had to work several days when my hand was throb bing and paining me almost to death, even more than It does now. "Finally. I Just had to refuse to go to work. I couldn't stand It any longer. Two days before my sentence expired I was turned out. Now I am In such a (lx that 1 have to appeal to the city to do something for me.” Commissioner of Public Works Col Her will, no doubt, make an investlga. tlon. FIGHT EXPECTED BEFORE COUNCIL The special session of council, for the purpose of considering the pro posed salary raises and of the pro posed whisky regulations, will be held Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. There will be determined opposition to both of the measures In part. Mem bers of council are practically unani mous In favoring further restrictions of the whisky trafAc In the city, but they are sadly divided as to what these regulations should be. The same applies to the salary raises. Council, as a whole, favors the raising of the salaries of a number of officials, but the members are almost hopelessly divided, as to who shall get till' raises nnd how large they shall be. There Is also opposition to the pro posed reduction of the salary of the lire chief from 14,000 to 13,000. Coun- i liman Terrell is leading this oppo sition. WISHED BOTTLE "W-l-l-t-h. l»y cum. thla Ixrttle bail a baie uu nt to it. I'd nffer quit drinking." # With n big quart bottle, which ho had re- ••nitly emptied of wbiaky, In hia bonds and Razing longingly down its neck, oue of tbo resident* In the Krog atreet neighborhood KJit on the ground Tuesday evening near Hi- Southern railroad and phlloaophiced an above. Before he emptied the lwttle hla head fell over on hla arms, but with manly • ffort* he raised the bottle to his mouth tin- HI It was duiued. lie then longed for a i>ii*oiuent to the bottle, so he could drink more. Earlier In the day, this anme man waa riding n bicycle, when the machine becama unmanageable under the Intoilcated man a direction. He fell to the ground, but sroae. wiped the dust from bis face and smiled i tanking a quiet Investigation. CAPTAIN WORCESTER MYSTERIOUSLY ABSENT Given Month’s Leave of Absence, But Fail ed to Return. ACTION FOLLOWED CHARGES PREFERRED Case Under Investigation at Headquarters in Atlanta. Report Is Awaited. 8peel,1 to The Georgian. Augusta. Ga., Dec. 6.—Colonel John D. Twlgga, of this city, commanding the Third Georgia regiment of Infantry, haa received an order from the head quarters of Georgia troops In Atlanta, transferring the military company at Sparta from the Second regiment to the Third regiment. The transfer will be made before the holidays and the Spar ta company will be under the direct command of Colonel Twiggs. The Third regiment now contains seven comps, nlea and the addition of the Sparta company will mako the number eight. Colonel Twiggs stated In an Inter view that companies are being formed at Monroe, Covington. Conyers and Washington, Ga., nnd that when all these are added to the Third regiment as la now planned this regiment will contain twelve companies and will be one of the largest In the state. The lo cal military companies are very pros perous at the present time and the in terest taken In the drills la greater than ever before. Captain Wore#,tar Disappears. It Is thought very probable that Company I, Third Georgia, will be without a captain, and may be without one at the present time. Captain Ru pert Worcester, who was elected to the captaincy of the company several months ago, has had charges preferred against him by Colonel Twiggs and a report on the case has been made to the headquarters In Atlanta. Captain Wor cester was given a leave of absence of a month and action on the cose was postponed until he came back. More ;han a month's time has elapsed and Worcester has not returned. His wife, whom he left In the city, left here sev eral days ago, so It Is said, and no one seems to know whore he or she Is. RAY SUES CLAYTON FOR CARELESSNESS For loss of sertlee* of kle wife In caring for the home and family and tor her per manent disability, W. II. Kay brought eult In the superior court of Fulton county Wednesday morning for 15.000 damage* against George A. Clayton, through wboao negligence, It la alleged, tb* Injury to Mr*. Rny occurred. Mrs Bay also Bled eult against Clayton for 110.000 damage! for her Yt Ha'alleged that on Imbor Day. Saptem her 3, 1900. defendant left a pile of lumber lu front of a building ho woe erecting on Whitehall atreet near Alabama A sharp- pointed plank projected from the pile And 'he crowd* near the place pushed Mrs. Bar ngainst the plank. Injuring her .pine and left aide so severely that her life haa tieen despaired of several time*. It la said she la permanently disabled. EXPRESS ROBBED OF 1110,000 CASHs Train Robbers Entered Car While Crossing Plains of Texas. Special to The Georgian. Paleatlne, Texas, Dec. 5.—After fa tally wounding the express messenger, near Eylan aiding, Saturday night, rob bers secured 3110.000 from the express safe. The oAlciaia of the Pacific Ex press Company refute to talk about the affar. Tlfe messenger's books show the amounted atated above. About 380,000, It waa learned, was from the local treasury department of the Cotton Belt at Tyler, and consigned to General Treasurer S. C. Johnson, at SEC, BONAPARTE BAPS LOUISIANA FORJNDECISION Says Silver Service Must Be Presented or Indefinite ly Postponed. IN THE EXCHANGES. The Atlanta Georgian It On Sal* Regularly at the Fol lowing Hotels and Ntws Stand*. BUFFALO. N. y.-lroqoota Hotel. BALTIMORE. Ml).—The New Holland. Belrtdere Hotel. BOSTON. MASS.—B a r k * r House. Young', Hotel, Rummerset Hotel. CHICAGO, ILLS.—G rest Northern Betel, p. o. News Co., Palmer Ilona*. B. II >'lark. 112 Dearborn Bt.; Auditorium lioici, joe Herron, Jackson and Dear- DENVER. COLO.—J. Black, II. U. Smith. INDIANAPOLIS. IND.-Bngllah Houe*. Orind Hotel. NEW YORK. N. Y.—Hotel Aetor, Ho- *-l Imperial. "MAIIA, N— «AS DIEGO. CAL. BT. PALI, MINN.-N. '.t. Marl*. M B. Hfth street. PRATTLE. WASH.—A M. Kay. XT. LOL'IH, MO.—Hotel lAclede, Bonth- •ru Hotel. Planters not*!. rOt.F.OO. OHIO.—Jefferson Hotel. OHONTO. CAN.—King Edward llotet. WAMIIXOTON. D. C.—Hotel Wlllaul. M'-hiunvy llonar, Ralrlgli Ilona*. It'a hard to try and rnn a Muff And have tome duffer call; But It la worae to hare four klnga And not gat called at all. —Uouaton Poet. It la easy to spoil a lot of religious logic with a little off color religious llvlng.- Chlcngu Tribune. A funny thing Is the way n woman ran keep her feet wnrm by wearing u pearl necklace.—New York I'reae. It la maintained of Senator Bacon, of Georgia, that he can use more language to conceal hi* tbonght than any man In public life.—Omaha Bee. A church pew In New York baa Jnat Iwen told for 33,516, but IN* I* atilt far Mow the quotatlona for a sent on the Stock Ei- chaage.—Pittsburg Dispatch. "Shirt walsta one-third off," adr*rtl*ee a Buffalo dry goods how. In the bargain counter mah they are likely to come off ah together.—Washington Pott. New Orleans, La., Dee. 5.—The In decision In' regard to tha presentation of the 310,000 silver service to the bat' tleshlp Louisiana was settled by a rath er tart telegram from Secretary Bona parte. New plans were wanted to tlx the date for January 8, but Governor Cox, of Tennessee, who was to present service to the cruiser Tennessee, urged that the date be fixed on December 15. New Orleans asked for that data and to have a Joint presentation. Without notifying the New Orleans people, the Tennesseeans brake oK negotiations and fixed on Hampton Roads for their celebration. New Orleans then tried to have the original date of January 8 reinstated, hut In a telegram Secretary Bonaparte mid: I _"Re&ret not to be able to comply with your request* but must say po*i- tively that visit must taks place aa ndw arranged for* or be Indefinitely post poned." Parker Is Appointed. Washington* Dec. 6.—C. W. Parker has been appointed postmaster at £1- berton, Ga. COMMISSION CRITICISES RAILROAD'S SERVICE Special to The Georgian. Jackson. Hiss., Dec. 1—Chairman Me* Nalr, of the railroad commission, who has been making an Inspection of the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas. City railroad, has filed hla report, In which ne criticises the service furnished by that road. He says that In several places along the Una all tha saw mills have been compelled to close down by reason of the fset that they can not get cars with which to ship their products and that the tlepqfs are bad and Inadequate. NEED TO BE TAUGHT METHODS OP FARMING Special to The Georgian. Jackann. Miss.. l»cp. 8.—Professor W. II. Hays, of Washington, connected with the department of agriculture. Is In the state, making a study of agricultural methods In Mississippi. The chief object of Pro fessor Haya^ visit to Mississippi Is to co upon the people of the rural dlatricts ___ establishment of rural high schools, at which the jroutb can bt taught practical and scientific farming. First lessons In acquiring the poker face come when the boy ran toAJgKT 0 * •***{ having eaten one of his mothers Jars of choice Jam.—Florida Tluiet-L nlon. Senator Beveridge says no man haa need of 11.000,000, The senator will change hla view If he ever has a son at roHtgt, ja fashionable wife nnd an automobile all at the same 1 time.—HounlQP lost. The woman who buys her goods at the nearest corner store Is Just as well off* and Jnnt a* happy In life, as the friend that Is rinulng. tearing, and snorting front one bar gain counter to another In the department store.—At more Spectrum. The Chicago coupcll wants to hire a presa aiiut at n salary of $10,000 a roar to boom the iHmulatlon. 9 It would bo cheaper to send *sfenta out to chloroform the people of the surrounding town* and bring them In with their hands tied.—Rochester Her- aid. ' No. gentle reader, that du^ sickening thud you heard on Tuesday evening of last week was not a meteor striking the earth, ti was the report that come from the office if the * permit* geDrin^rntwhen the editor hit the celling.—Clifton Mirror. The Nashville American thinks the chlj- atr«n of the cotton belt could aim a hand* stun In one month. We have always advocated the postponement of the opening iS?While school* until pea picking and picking aw* dvsc.—Sevlerrllle tlndl- itor. a Connecticut man sent BO cents to a JLSSPSm VP "• *»cw and cheap way The Wisconsin man wrote - iSS! thenV on nn elevator." The fSonecttradman Isn't iimrly so well pleos- ‘ a. If be L.1 sold the Wisconsin men a , ot wooden BUtBiexa.-SaT.nnah News if the senate should undertake to ones- Jmil fatlier-lnlaw of General r.raklnx- RADIUS OIAMOND8 MAKE GOOD XMAS GIFT8. TO ELECT MEMBER OK MEDICAL BOARD The truateea nf the Grady hospital will meet at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon for the purpose nf eleetlox a aneeeaaor to the late I)r. Hurt, ae a member of the medical Itonrd. There are fire phyalcltne In the race for the iHMdttou, and the election will lie nplr* Ited. The meetlns will be held nt the turn- pltal. A 80J0URNER IN YE8TERDAY. Did you love Yesterday ao well That when at lenffth Ita twilight ram*, You made your bed aome graaay dell. Nor annwered when you heard your name Your fellow traveler* called at day. Departing on their newer way? You did not choose to hear their call. But lingered In your choaen spot. While fainter and fainter their footfall Returned that day—and answered not But tarried atlll: nnd still you stay, ' A sojourner In Yesterday. Was Yesterday so fair to you. Or did you weary of the quest— The endless quest we still pursue? O. were you weary—would you erst. Poor pilgrim, travel worn and gray From dusty roads of Yesterday? —Richard Kirk. In Smart Set. The baby of a Maryland family haa been through a tlefe nf rblcketi-pni. The In fant's atater. a Ctrl 10 years old. being met ..*•* some I tetter, thank yon.” .aid the little girl, a shy amt non-committal ehlltl. "Very much lietter. I trust,” said the minister's wife. ami naSSTCrjrtW U «An* to hare a "Ob. be eoultls'l lie very much better,” ^ uru "'™- **• ”■ Twenty Days and Christmas is With Us. If there’s anything needed in kitchen furniture or utensils or table wares come here and secure it. We give a few helpful suggestions herewith—but there are many other things in our great .stocks. that lack of space forbids mentioning’ Quality considered, you’ll find that our prices average considerably less than most dealers—and, remember that our guarantee of satisfaction is behind every sale we make. r~ Shaving Case, $4.50. Shaving Case, $3.50. Shaving Case, $3.00. Shaving Case, $2.50. 4-Piece Tea Set, $8.00 to $20. CANDLESTICKS. 75c to $30. CANDELABRAS $5 to $15. Fern Dishes, $1.50 to $6.00. Bread Tray, $1.50 to $6.00. Baker, $1.75 to $4.00. Shaving Mug and Brush, Silver Cup, this one Sugar and Cream, $4.00 to Bonbon Baskets, $1.75 $2.00 to $5.00. • $1.00. $5.00 per pair. to $3.00. wM This special Bread Tray only $1.50. Syrup Stand, $1.50 to $6. Crumb Set, from $2 to $5. Table Silver for Christmas It is generally acknowledged that Community Silver has achieved a popularity never approached by any other plated ware. The reasons for this remarkable success are: First, because it has the “style” and appearance of sterling. The Community Silver designs are care fully studied. The ornamentation is extremely rich and deep in both the effects of sterling. Second, because it represents the truest economy. At the present price of silver, the heaviest plate is tile most economical. Triple plate will wear three times as long as single, while its additional cost is by no menus three times as great. Community Silver is made only in a plate heavier than triple and is guaranteed (both by the manu facturers and our selves) to last twenty-five years. Any piece proving unsatisfactory will be exchanged for a new one. * ’ •A' COMMUNITY KNIVES AND FORKS COMMUNITY TEASPOONS COMMUNITY TABLESPOONS COMMUNITY DESSERT SPOONS .... SHIPPED ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES, PREPAID. Turkey Roasters, Etc. Royal Roaster and Baker, in 4 sizes, priced from $1.00 to $2.25. ■Turkey Roasters of best en ameled, wnre, at from $2.26 to $2.50. Universal Coffee Percolator, “The pot that pumps,” $3.00 to $5.50. Universal Food Chopper, with n hundred uses, $1.25 to $2.25. CARVING SETS, ETC. KING HARDWARE 53 PEACHTREE ST. 87 $5 and $8.50 per Set .■'.,..$1.50 per Set ..$3.00 per Set $2.75 per Set V Great Line of Chafing Dishes A Chafing Dish is u xource of entllens dellxht to a clever en tertainer nnd her.friends. Can you think of a Christmas xlft that your friend would ■ appre ciate so much or that you’d pre fer for yourself? Here's a II a* of beauties to pick from. The newest designs—the . .latest Im provement*—the best -value* There are various nixes and styles. In copper and nickel plate, tanging In price From $2.50 to $15 (A special line of excellent val- ■ ues at five dollars.) • Trays and other chafing dish accessories. WHITEHALL ST.