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TL'RRDAr. DECEMBER 11, I9G6.
SAYS mormon leader
is GUILTY OF POLYGAMY
Washington, Uec. 11.—The opening
l„ w hat promise* to be one of the
, notable debate* In the history ot
,W senate itia fired thl* afternoon by
' tor Burrow*, chairman of the
Joitimlttee on privileges and elections.
! n support of the committee report that
Rrt d Smoot I* not entitled to hla seat
«hnuM be excluded therefrom.
In' a carefully prepared speech of
“ , 30 000 word* the senator mar-
“n-Vi the vdrtou* arguments against
umoot’s eligibility to represent Utah in
fj" upper l’OU«e of congre**, charging
at the oaths he took as an ofilclal
'/ the Mormon church were lncom-
Mtlble with that which he took upon
•n ering the senate, and that he hns
n,o countenanced the practice of po-
ljf*tnj^t Uek on j 0Mp h Smith.
The character of the speech Is well
Illustrate'! by one paragraph In which
Senator Burrows referred to the evi
dence given before the committee by
Joseph I. Smith, president of the
church, to the afreet that Smith Is
continuing hl s polygamous relations
y’th flve plural wives, and that he had
42 children.
Sahl Mr. Burrows:
"If the public press is to be credited,
this number has been augmented dur
ing the last year to 4J. and while we
are discussing the right of the repre
sentative of the hierarchy to a seat In
this body, we can Imagine Its salrtiy
head sitting In the home of hls fifth
plural Wife, rocking the cradle of the
latest illegitimate offspring of hls
debauchery and crime and with sanc
timonious air singing the familiar
hymn of hls church:
" ‘Now the gentile reign Is o’er,
liarkness covers earth ro more;
Gentile tyrants sink to hell.
Now’s the day of Israel.’''
HAS COUNT BONI
CAPTURED RICH
MME. LATELLIER ?
OLD POCKET BOOK IN WOODS
RECALLED “BEFO' DE WAR”
Messrs. B- A. Ewing and W. C. Puck-
»tt have returned to Atlanta, after
-pending three days ir. Fairmont, Gor
don county, on a hunting trip, having
been the guests of Messrs. “Bird" Barn,
well and H. 8. Watt*, two of the be»t-
Jiuown and most expert hunter* In this
part of i he country.
They bagged 272 partridges. 3G ’pos-
, m i. yj squirrels nnd 5 rabbits, and
„re mourning their ill luck In not kill
ing a deer or twfc. But what they are
die most proud of I* the finding of au
interesting ante-bellum relic.
The party wa* over the dividing ridge
oil Dawson slough, by I.ong Hole wa
ter, making preparation* to tree a 'pos
sum. It was while clearing away the
leaves from the trunk that Mr. Ewing
kicked out an old leather pocketbook,
whose age made It almost unrecogniz
able as such. •
N
Upon opening i«<* pocketltook, it wa
found to routnin I’V rent "shin plaster'
nri'l h bill 4if aaln to a tu»gr«*. sold by one
Jackson* to V. M. Watt, who wa* none
4>thrr tfutu tho father nf Mr. Watt*, one
of tin* hunters,
A notable fart In connection with the
*alo of the stove was* that, although It oc
curred on l<ehruary if. 1ft?.*. /Iwlnir the
war, the ueifro brought $1,193. which showed
that the •*lk>y,f hadn't nearly if Iren nr
hope at that time.
Following la the exact text of the bill of
sale:
"State of Georgia.
‘/County of Gordon:
"necelved of M. V. Watt* eleven him
dreU and nlnetjr-flve dollars In payment for
negro bar bjr the mime of Andy of dark
comp!cxlc% about 11 ye.tr* nt ago, which
hoy I do warrant to bo sound In body and
mind. * i
FASHION PLATE VISITORS
ARE LOOKING EOR A JOB
"You never can judge a man by hli
clothes. Sometime* you are likely to
get disappointed."
That’s what Secretary J. £. Logan,
of the Associated Charities, remarked
Tuesday, and ho said so because he
found ft was true.
There were two of them and when
they entered hls office he felt happy.
They were dressed In the latest fashion
with fancy vests and elaborate ties.
They had every appearance of wealth
and prosperity.
When they first entered Secrctury
Logan thought they were philanthrop
ies looking for a place to throw some
of their surplus wealth, lie offered
them both chairs and — opared to tils- 1
cuss the problem of poverty with them
and receive their views.
And he did. But In a different man
ner than he expected would be the case.
Both were broke nnd wanted tj> get
to New Orleans. They said they were
waiters and found white waiters had a
tough time getting jobs in the South.
Hecreutry Lognn thought they bad beep
following the ponies and had gone
broke trying to break the bookies. He
told them so and they smiled. They
smiled again when he asked whetlu* or
not any races were going on In i.- w
Orleans. They denied all this, and said
they didn't know the difference be
tween a Brooklyn handicap wlnnei and
a selling plater. /
Hut as they were willing to work In
Atlanta until they got the price of a
ticket ti> New Orleans. Secretary Lo
gan got them a meal and a bed nnd will
find them jobs Tuesday.
MACHINE THA T ACHIEVES
MICROSCOPIC MARVELS
Picture from a recent .photo of
Baroness de Forest, also known as
Mint. Letclller, divorced wife of
Albert Mcnier, the millionaire
chocolate manufacturer. Count
Bonl de Castellano is now said to
l>e engaged to her. She Is worth
at least $75,000,000.
From Pilin’* “Seven Follies of Science." English square Inch. The tneasure-
Mlnute works of art have always ex
«■-ited the curiosity and commanded the
admiration of, the average man. Con
sequently, Cicero thought It worth
while to record that the entire Iliad of
Homer had been written upon parch
ment In characters so fine that the copy
could be Inclosed in a nutshell. This
lias always been regarded as a mar
velous feat.
There is in the French cabinet of
medal* a seal said to havo belonged to
Michael Angelo, the fabrication of
*hlch must date from a very remote
•poeb. and upon which fifteen figures
nave been engraved in a circular space
of fourteen millimeters (.55 inch) In
diameter. These figures cannot be dis
tinguished by the naked
The Ten Commandments have been
entraved in characters so fine Jhat
x tney could be stamped upon one side
of a nickel 5-cent piece, and on several
occasions the Lord's Prayer has been
•ntraved on one side of a gold dollar,
tn« diameter of which Is six-tenths of
»n Inch. I have also seen it written
vith a pen within a circle which meas-
ured four-tenths of an Inch In dlatnc
ter.
On April 25, 1855, Mr. Farrants read
wore the Microscopical Society of
i*ondon ;i full account of a machine
constructed by N. Peters, a London
wnker. with this machine the Invent
or hail written the Lord’s Prayer (In
ordinary writing character, with
out abbreviation or contraction of any
J ,n< V in a space not exceeding one
Jundrcd and fifty thousandth of n
Jjuaro inch. Seven years later Mr.
currants, as president of the Micro*
•coplcal Society, described further Im
provements In the machine of Mr. Pe-
ment an<i ma<5e the •‘following state-
*7 he Lor *l's Prager has been written
•no may be read In the one-three hun-
ar d and fifty-six thousandth of an
merits of one of these specimen
verified by Dr. Bowerbank, with a dlf
fercnce of not more than one five-mil
lionth of an Inch, and that difference,
small as It I*, arose from hls not In
cluding the prolongation of the letter
T In the sentence 'deliver us from
evil;' ho lie made the area occupied by
the writing less than that stated
above."
Some Idea of the minuteness of the
characters In these specimens may be
obtained from the statement that the
whole Bible and Testament, In writing
of the same size, might be placed twen
ty-two times on the surface of a square
Inch. The grounds for this startling
assertion are as follows:
'The Bible and Testament together.
In the English language, are said to
contain 3,566,480 letters. The number
of letters in the Lord’s Prayer, as writ
ten, ending In the sentence 'deliver us
from evil,’ Is 223, whence, as 3,566,480
divided by 223 Is equal to 15.922. It
appears that the Bible and Testament
together contain the sumo number of
letters as the Lord’s Prayer, written
16,000 times; If, then, the prayer were
written In one sixteen-thousandth of an
Inch, the Bible and Testament, In wilt
ing of the same size, would he con
tained by one square inch, hut as one
three hundred and fifty-six-thousandth
of an Inch is 1-22 part of 1-15,922 of
an inch. It follows that tho Bible and
Testament, In writing of that size,
would occupy less space than 1-22 of
a square Inch."
And yet, minute as are the letters
written by this machine, they are char
acterized by a clearness and precision
of form which proves that the moving
parts of tho machine, while possessing
the utmost delicacy of freedom, are
absolutely destitute of shake, a union
of requisites very difficult of fulfillment,
but quite Indispensable to the saflsfac.
lory performance of the apparatus.
RUSSIANS ADMIRE
ATLANTA SCHOOLS
The fame of the Atlanta school sys
tem has outrun the report of the small
pay fqr the teachers und the superin
tendent, the crowded school houses, und
the fewness of them, and from far nway
St. Petersburg conics a request for the
latest report of the school board.
Th« letter was received bg- Mavor
Woodward Tuesday morning. It is as
follow*:
'27 Nov. 1906,
“St. Petersburg.
'The Honorable the Mayor of At
lanta.
"Dear Sir:
“Being Interested In your excellent
school system, I should be happy and
very thankful If you would kindly send
l copy of your latest school board
report.
"Very respectfully yours,
“J. VV. GARDNER,
"of Franklin College,
"To be opened in Jan. 1907.
IN A LOOKING GLASS.
As Famous Meu See Them
selves.
cii i.
Shakespeare lias often been eoinpn
ijjc, but the eiViupnrIson is hardly fair.
Shakespeare's talents were limited to
play-writ Inc. He never wrote a great-novel,
und oven hi* plays, while they show tinnier-
otis literary touches, never paid like "ahe
Christian," for Instance.
I«wk nt the bust «of Shakespeare. Then
look at luy bend. Hoc the dome of thought,
a*’colossal III Its way as the dome of fit.
Peter's. There Is no coinpnrl»4*n.
It 4ifti*ii innuses me to think how I affect
tli4>*o with whom | come III eontllet. I see
mi many of them nervously trying to escape
from my presence, ns men do from the pres
ence of n ?»ore. They are overcome In my
society. They hasten away to lesser heights, j
where they run breathe n duller nlr than
that of genius. And they will hand down
t4> their posterity ns n priceles heirloom
the story that they once met Hull Cn’“
I work when I am Inspired. Oeen*l<
! rush front the tllnner table to d*sli
•ceno, nnd the guests think ft affectation.
A* If I need affect the ways of genius. The
uinn win* won hi rut her have Ids soup hot
than wait while nn Immortal chapter Is be
Inc penned Its* no soul. *
In iny home In the Isle of Msu I nin ap
pivrlated. The simple Manxmen often tell
me they wish I was in Westminster Abbey.
Well. I shall l*e some day. In the meantime
I give living boiiks to au unworthy public.
tnul create drama*• for (teoplc that won't
pay $2 to see them performed.
But genius was ever solitary.
OF A~PERSONAL NATURE.
l.onl* N. Parker, the dramatist, was born
In Prance; hls father was nn Amerlesn. hi
mother nn Flngllshwonmn; hls first langung<
HOBBLE'S ESSAYS.
By WILLIAM F. KIRK
GRAND OPERA.
!l V* h c * the sects reaches high X
lifting (bare golden voice 111
was wrote*!) jsrcu Goonoo,
k Pa bought 3 ticket*
ng iuash<‘cii
I, , 1 rae II
;* Mini::, It ,
£L* H" look
, landlord A the h
'••mt cum for thare doe. hut tliny
hlf" hext morning when It was too
* 00 ** U P ,n ll ‘* gallery.
mu p' “ “are nil true muslek lover* cum.
!c{, i , tlo1r ? 7*>Dder lioxes »»>t the Idle
t, i**'* i*eople that Inv the golden
Ms v,.',V I 1 . 0 bot-lnv Art for Art’* snlk. and
Inn#) ,1 1 or . biy sslk plee*e duant talk wo
‘W l, M | f ur * looking st you.
'{„VJ? man mlra out it *tarte«l t*i
l.#r . to « Indy wlcb kept
‘ ,a r k °« him A nlso kept
x,\i....,**? by step. I guess he ws*
i « i „ , , 1 1 . WH *kaus he had a black mustache
1-* u ■; e ■ »ngej, that i* him. sed Ps.
•hak.-**’ r ® "•'* fellow, iu the words
II...
face?
L, feep«l have such
■'M a tenor lie nn bass?
over the bl
Kv-'i It was ll„ „
” was vary touching. s»*d
‘ / 'dent say anything, lieekaus I
hfpi»odroatii letter.
. * - , POKBIl.
‘tolm Wleb I* playwl for keeps,
N*' ‘‘tit u u different lieekaus
f H-m X , h F wins sum mnrliels he keep*
'*'*■ hmuny wlch folk* wfn playing
• n**r,. * .,** “O'slrofi on the river, n ndu
ls»ke r ^ }*** fbe loans wife git* It.
S uivlsbnn*, a IlmTl ghlm k
tube! stakes, the first gulm i* when
men piny, that is the limit.
wo had n poker party nt our h«*tise Inst
week. Mister »V Missus Smith. Mister A
Missus Jones & Pn «V Mu. Missus J**nes A
Ms whs betting prltty hard ngeilat eeeh
other A Mn won the pot, but she only had .?
cards, she forgot to nick lip her other 2 A
mi she sod Vary Well, If you wont to be
silly. Missus J4»ncs, I will only take 3 3 of
tho pot but Missus .lone* t.*.k nil tho
mutiny A Pa soil (Julte light A Mu loft
tho toltcl wlch broke up the galm.
tho next nlte Pn won $»f* ut the club A
gnlv It t4) Mn wlch tlxinl things up. Always
ph^k up yure cards, iny 'leer, sc.| Pu, even
if yon git too many you cun swallow one,
when’I git Idg I urn going to watch my j 71
Pa ami leru how t. “ -1
way to
tho men
the time..
"Why do you avoid making speeches
yourself?” asked the friend. "It's let
ter to have someone else attend to the
oratory," answered Senator Sorghum.
"In that way you can ascertain which
of your opinions are unpopular and re
pudiate them."—Washington Star.
In the basement of the while house Iu ....
exhibit made up entirely of remnants of
the dinner sets of former presidential faiut
lies.
The princess of Wales, who. like ihe
queen dowager of Italy, Is an enthusiastic
nutomohlllnt. Is having an nuto built ex
pressly f.*r herself after her own Ideas. It
Is described ns u quite modest appearing
vehicle, with nothing but the Initials "V.
M.." surmounted by a crowu, ou the door
panels to distinguish It. The Itody of the
auto is green.
I'ran* Jdsef, the emperor *>f Austria, hau
n f«<I fur collecting menu ranis, amt as Ids
stock i* .tititrlhuted to by other monarch*.
*- truly womlerful one. Ills choicest
ill leru how to Piny poker, the l*e*t j pneclmen 1* one ii*.h1 nt the dlnuer given l*r
to fern Is to watch (dm. fs*ksus nil i .i.,, esar t4* president Fiorr This
Wl.’h I>I«.V« With IM w:.l. U 1.1... all ,T n l ,52-k 7.f .h, rISJ.t l.ta7i iSHbl, l«u.
”1 tliouKht.” rrnmrkfil tin- .aller,
"that your Itu.band hail Joined the
chur.li?” "Yen" oat.l Mr*. Bogft*. "bo
did." "But ho n*v*r ottand* *ervloe*."
"I know. Vou nee, the day aftrr he
Joined Ihe doctor derided that he didn’t
have ronniimplton. after *11."—Cleve
land Leader. —
irreti In wiiite Ivory.
Olady*—J feel »ure he ha* ’never
loved before!
Penelope—Oh, I felt the Maine way,
dear, alien he u«ed to make lore to
me!—New York Pie**.
**Noveht, —A Petticoat Perfectly Suited te
* \
ths Prevailing Medss.
J \ PRACTICALLY all Gowns this season, the waist line is
long, slender and as unbroken fyy sharp trimming effects as
possible. The fit is snug over the hips—the approved effect—
and the folds tall generous and undulating about the feet.
Ordinary Petticoats, bulging and bulky, are sure to mar
the attractiveness of prevailing .styles. The “Novent” alone
has the right contour. Without gathers, vent, buttons or hooks
and eyes.
Glove-fitting jersey top. Elastic waistband. Produces new
bell-shaped figure. Encircled at the base by a deep flaring
flounce, in a profusion of new styles.
I he Novent” shows the beauty of a well-developed figure
by accentuating the small waist and curving outlines.
1 he medium figure attains additiopl symmetry, contour and
g’race.
Pa. wh»C* n |ilillosg|iher7" “A poor
man who la tryln* <° make other peo
ple believe he do«*n't want to be
rich.”—Chlcngo Record-Herald.
"Wliat kind of augur doc* Mr*. Coin...
up want?" u.ked the grocer. ’’Mr,
I'omenp told me to *qy.’' an.wered the
Hervunt. "that h* how we nre now in
i>n*Hlety. «he. don't want none but the
refined augar.’’—Baltimore American.
■Your huaband I* very methodical,
j you nay? *afd the minister. "Very”
replied the wife of the man In question
"He believe* there I* a place for every-'
thing." "Wish you'd get that idea out
of hi* head that the place to Bleep I* i n
church."—Y»nk*r* Slaleammi. I I
With Sateen Ruffles
1.50, 2.00, 2.50
With Silk Rufflss
5.00 and 7.50.
Chamberlih Johnson-DuBos? Co.