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4 GFORGIA DIVORCE LAWS ARE ATTACKED BY COURT ' Speaker of Georgia House of Rep ' resentatives May Be Guber ' ’ i natorial Candidate. The two interesting developments in State politics Thursday were the pos itive withdrawal of W. . Vereen, of Moultrie, from the Governorship race and the well authenticated statement that Speaker Willlam ¥ H. - Burwell most likely will enter the came with in the next few days. . Mr. Vereen's withdrawal is an nounced in his home paper, The Moul trie Observer, Thursday afternoon. It was entirely unexpected by - his friensd. ' - When the State Democratic Exec utive Committee met in Atlanta Sat urday a large delegation of Verene's boosters came to the capital and stated unequivocally that the Moul trie man would be in the Governor ship race, and that his formal an nouncement would be given out short ly. He was a most formidable can didate for appointment to the tem porary United States Senatorship now held by W. S, West, .and figured large ly in that situation. In his statement of withdrawal from the race for the Governorzhip, Mr. Vereen announces that he is “out of politics for this year.” He gives business reasons for his withdrawal Narrows te Two Entries. The withdrawal of Vereen narrows the prospective Governorship contest to date to J. Randolph Anderson, president of the Senate, and William H. Burwell, Speaker of the House. Such a race would be interesting in the extreme, as both are well known throughout all Georgia. President Anderson already has an nounced his positive intent to be in the Governorship race. | Asked over long-distance phone as to his rumored candidacy, Mr. Bur well replied: ‘ “I am considering, very seriously, the matter of running for Governor. 1 have been considering that very thing | ever since Governor Slaton stated | positively his candidacy for the| United States Senate. ) Conferring With Friends. | “I have already conferred with a number of my friends throughout the State as to the matter and am 2x- | pecting to confer with others during the present week I may say, too, that the outlock now is that 1 shaill enter the race. i "I do not deny an ambition to be Governer; and if it appears to me finally that the present is a fit anl proper time for me to try for that| high and honorable position, I cer-| tainly’ shall make the race. 1 shall} be in position to state positively wnat | 1 will do, however, within a fm; days.” | BRYAN WEARS CAP. WASHINGTON, April 9.—Wearing o black skullcap to protest his head from drafts, Secretary of Stalte Pryan returned to his desk at the State Department to-day, after five dayvs spent at home by order of his physician. Mr. Bryan still was suffering from his cold and his voice was very hoarse. He said, however, that he was much improved and expected to remain at work. HELD FOUR KINGS. PAXLEY, April 9.—Three men were arrested by the City Marshal of Bax ley to-day while playing poker in the Grand Jury room of the Appling County courthouse. One of them, H. Cleland, is a constable for a justice of the peace court. The others, Dave Tuten and Joseph Wills, are well known citizens of Baxley. A Cleland held four kings when the game was interrupted. GRAY IS NOMINATED. MOBILE, April 9.--Oscar L. Gray, of Butler, Choctaw County, accord ing to the full unofficial count, has been nominated for Congressman from the First Alabama district by a majority of 1,400 votes. Gray defeated George W. Taylor, who is now serving his ninth term. BONAPARTE WEDS. NEW YORK, April 9.—Jerome Na poleon Bonaparte, of Washington, grandnephew of the great Napoleon, and Blanche Pierce Strebeigh, whose final decree of divorce from Harold Strebeigh was signed by Justice Man ning in the Brooklyn Supreme Court last Friday, were married to-day at the City Hall by Alderman Mulraney. KILLS HIMSELF. NEW YORK, April 9.—After he had yeprimanded his three daughters for tuying too much Easter finery, Wii liam Weiss committed suicide by shooting. I positively ADIES "" Re'lfd mujramee my great, successful ‘“‘Monthly” Jompound. Safely relieves some of the longest, most obstinate abnormal cases in 3 to 5 days. No harm. pain or interference with work Mail _51.50. Pouble strength $§2.00. Booklet FREE. Write to-day. Address Dr. A. 1. South ington Remedy Co, 515 Main St, Kan gas City, Mo. ! THE GEORGIAN’'S NEWS BRIEFS. BEST BRITISH GOLFERS FALL BEFORE QUIMET FRANCIS OUIMET. 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His score of 83 for the round was a remarkable performance under the conditions. The match, with other fine exhibi- Tries Suicide When ries Suicide Wh SAVANNAH, April 9.—Mrs. Edna Wilson to-day is in a critical condi tion in a hospital followlng an at tempt at suicide last night when her husband, Lester Wilson, from whom she secured a separation, tried to kidnap her 3-year-old daughter while she was away at a motion picture show. The police recovered the child and will restore her to the mother. No charge was made against the father. tions in practice over the links at Deal and Sandwich, caused a switch in the bettinz on the amateur cham pionship tournament, in which Oui met, with Jerome Travers, Herreschoff and other Americans, will compete. A week ago odds of 2 to 1 were of fered that no American would win or reach the finals. After Ouimet's per formance to-day the odds on the same proposition dropped to 7 to 5. All of Ouimet's practice matches have been followed by large galleries, the British golfing public being eager to watch the American boy who de feated, in a triangular match, Harry Vardon and Edward Ray, two of Great Britain’s professional golfing giants, in the now famous playoff for the American open title last summer. Carnegie's Hand S ABERDEEN, April 10.—Mr. Page, the American Ambassador, has sent to Sez retary of State Bryan an official ac count of the honor conferred on him recently when Aberdeen TUniversity made him an LL.D. The common report Lére has it that the chief reason for making Mr. Page a ‘“doctor of laws’’ was to please An drew Carnegie, rector of rthe wuniver sity, . ' Ellis Would Put Stringent Re strictions Around the Granting of Legal Separations. Having heard for four days the woes of the unhappily mated, Judze W. D. Eliis sjuared off and took a vigorons rap at Georgia's divorce laws in a short talk he made to the jury Thursday, at the close of the divorce docket for the present term of court. Judge Ellis declared that if it iay in his power he weculd net do’away with divorce entirely—"“because a gentleman should not be linked. for life with a shrew and a virtuems woman should not be tied to a brute” —but he would make divorces harder to obtain, ¢ “The easier it is to gbtain a di vorce,” he said, “the mere divorces there will be. The spectacle we lLave just witnessed, of more than a hun dred persons securing their release from the matrimonial halter by the law is a fair sample of what goes on in this court six times a year. At every term of court I am humiliated that such a condition of affairs can exist, and I do not believe there has ever been a divorce court jury that didn't go away disgusted. Would Make Both Testify. “My idea, which I incorporated in a bill that 1 tried to get before (he Legislature but which was killed by some divorce lawyers, is that there should be no total divorces granted on the uncorroborated testimony of either party. Women come here and swear that their husbands are brutes, and a year later their husbands come here and preve by their own testi mony, that they:are refined gentle ment, “There should be no marriages withing six months or a yecar after a divorce has been granted. That would end a great many of ‘this di vorce-in-the-morning-and-marriage - in-the-afternoon business.’ “Somebody should be appointed hy the State to conduct one side of these divorce cases. Ninety per cent of them are undefended, and men and women who are called brutes and worse do not seem to think it neces eary to deny the statements. 1 am told in the country districts of Geor gia 90 per cent of the divorce cases are among the negroes, but I sup port you have noticed that in Atlanta 90 per cent of them are whites, » Urges Punishment. “Twenty years ago divorce was rare, and a divorced man or womun was a conspicuous woman on the streets., The evil has grown so that it now permeates all ranks of so ciety, and a person who has not beecn divorced is more of a rarity than one who has. And during the trial of, these seventy cases this week, there has not been the wail of an in fant in the courtroom; no children have been here.” Judge Ellis declared that the man who marries a 15, 16 or 17 year old girl and then mistreats or deser:s her, or causes her to become I, should not merely be made the de fendant in a divorce action, but should be tried for a more serious crime. Eight cases were disposed of in the final session of the divorce court Thursday. Mrs. Margaret Tuggle was granted a second divorce from B. Pinckney Tuggle. She married Tuggle in 1998, when she was but 18 years old, be cause, she said, he threatened to shoot her if she didn't. ller parents refused to let her live with him and she got . divorce. In 1911 she mar riel Tuggle again. She said ther maiden name was Margaret Bowics, and asked that it be restored to her. TAFTS IN AUGUSTA. AUGUSTA. April 9.—Ex-President William Howard Taft and Mrs. Taft arrived in Augusta to-day from New Haven, Conn. Mr. Taft came to Au gusta to rest during the Yale Easter holidays. He will be one of the prin cipal speakers at the dedication of the Archibald Butt Memorial Bridga next Tuesday. One of those who greeted Mr. Taft at the train was Thomas D. Murphy, the Democrat whom Mr. Taft named to the Augusta postoffice. “Why, hello, Murph, how are you?” was the former President’s greeting, WAS WEARY OF LIFE. MIDDLETOWN, KY. April 9— Abraham fople, aged 93, committed suicide to-day by cutfln{ his throat. He said he was weary “of life and tired of waiting to cie Conquered at Lest Write for Proof of Cures. Advice Free. DR. CHASE'S BLOOD AND NERVE TADLETS Does it. DRE. CEASE. ‘22! North Teath BBt., Philadelphia, Pa