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THE ELI .HAY COURIER. ™ A*. » ->- .« ■»* A-.;, ■» - •* . * *“■ ~ ‘ ' VOL XXVII eorgia Briefs ems of State Interest Culled From Random Sources. Comptroller Issues Fi. Fas. Comptroller ..General Wright has is¬ sued tax li. fas. against the Savannah Electric company for $11,596.88; the Brinson railway for $297.93, and against the Western Union'Telegraph compa¬ ny for $420.03. The executions were Issued at the roquast of the tax col¬ lector of Chatham county far taxes al¬ leged to be due f ? county. * * * Must Continue Conyers Train. The railroad commission has given Superintendent W. S. Brand of the Georgia railroad and the people In¬ terested to understand that it would not permit the discontinuance by that road of the daily accommodation train between Conyers and Atlanta. This announcement was made fol¬ lowing the conclusion of the hearing on this subject. ■ » * - * Slayer of Policeman Doomed. Andrew Johnson, the negro who kill¬ ed Patrolman Mauier in Atlanta, some months ago, will have to hang, accord¬ ing to a decision of the state supreme court, handed down last Friday morft ing. The opinion was rendered by Justice Atkinson (all justices concur¬ ring), and affirmed the decision of the lower court in refusing a new trial. * * *" County Liable for Debt. In .a decision handed down a few days ago by the state supreme court, Butts county’s liability to the Jackson Banking company for money loaned the county by the bank is fixed. From February to October, '1906, the Jacksoli Banking company loaned Butts county about $48,000 on notes. Ail bat some $19,000 was paid, then the county treasurer declined to pay any niore of the amount on the ground that the county was not liable. * * * Big Power Company Projected. A company has been formed in Jesup with a capital of $300,000, for the pur¬ pose of developing water power and generating electricity for manufactur¬ ing purposes. J he company will erect a cotton* mill and a cotton seed oil mill and storage warehouses, and will build and operate an electric railway. front Jesup to several other surrounding towns. Application for charter is now be¬ ing prepared. The privilege of increas¬ ing the capital stock to $500,000 is asked. i * * * Postal Clerks Transferred. Twenty railway postal clerks and about $25,000 a year in salaries spent in Atlanta will be taken away as a re¬ sult of changes recently made by the Southern railway in its train sched¬ ules.. Orders to this effect moving away from Atlanta this number of men have,bee a.: issued . by L. M. Terrell, superintendent of the United States railway mail service. Under the schedules as ehanged there was r.o other alternative for Su¬ perintendent Terrell, and he was com¬ pelled to have twenty Clerks transfer¬ red to- Washington. * * * Appeals to Stale Supreme Court. B. C. ■Sloan, son-in-law of the late Rev. Sam- P. Jones, has appealed from the decision of Judge Fite, ih which he awarded the little grandson of the great-.-.evangelist to. his grandmother, Mrs. Sam Jones, at Cartersville, for five years. In an effort to obtain possession of the baby his wife waived her claim to the boy, to her mother, Mrs. Sam P. Jones, 'and Judge Fife, after reviewing the case, ordered the child to the care of Mrs. Jones, its grandmother. It is from this decision that Mr. Sloan appeals to the supreme court of thef-.state. * * * Ociila Declared County Seat. According to a decision handed down ffiy the state supreme court, Ociila. will be the county seat of Ir¬ win county instead of Irwinville, the old capital of the county. Following an act passed by'the last legislature a new county, named Ben Hill, was created with Fitzgerald as the. .county seat, out of parts of the ■comjty of Irwin and adjoining counties. Irwinville was at that time the county seat of Irwin county, and was left n the old county. A petition was got en up, signed by the required number f tax payers, seeking to change the aunty site from Irwinville to Ociila, l&o in the old county. On the f;;ce the returns Ociila won. Proceedings begun by certain.citizens to stop ■'■{Taiisfer of the county seat to iif'wqm ’Ja^.ijnd 111 the lower court, Ociila ’Thfr'caSe was brought up review;' 'wiffi' 'the ‘fSSiflt that* the er court was sustained, and Ociila i* out again. * U; cle Sam IsSues rom- the- r.cfcdnte fidfe-sliti jjjrign-nal siiiee 4t^5jt%flirfsi;matipn Offered that the first of-Jan- 66 federal licenses ]iatX e -been ' -d ' - _ .. «r ’ ... * - DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OR ELLIJAV AND GILMER COUNTV. issued for the retailing of spirituous and malt liquors in the state of Geor¬ gia. The purpose for which these licenses are secured is of course not apparent. With a prohibition law operative in the state, making illegal the sale of intoxi¬ cating liquors or beverages, the num¬ ber of licenses issued by the federal authorities, expressing the permission of the national government for the holders of those licenses to do the thing which is prohibited by state law, becomes exceedingly interesting. A perusal of the internal revenue record of these licenses' shows that most of them were issued to people who give Savannah as their place of business. Only four of the whole number are charged to Atlanta, with an additional license issued to a fish¬ ing club located at Brooks Station in Fayette county. * * * Decision %i Favor of State Fair. There will be a state fair at Pied¬ mont Park in Atlanta this fall. The old machinery hall will lie torn down this spring. These two things were agreed upon by the park board after a three-hour session, at which a num¬ ber of prominent citizens, including la¬ dies, were heard from. There were ar¬ guments against the holding of the fair at the park so all the bid buildings might be removed, and there were ar¬ guments for the holding of the fair for commercial reasons. The argument to tear down the old machinery hall came in the way of a compromise, as this will give room for the immediate beautifying of a portion of the park which will not be used for fair purposes. * * * Crime Decreases in Atlanta. Here is the record of Atlanta’s first month under prohibition. It speaks for itself: Total number of cases tried in police court in January, 1907, 1,663. Total number of drunks, 341. Total number of cases tried in Jan¬ uary, 1908, 768. Total number of drunks, 64. ’Ae 'first month under the reign of prohibition shows a slutrip. in police court business of 895 cases. The de¬ crease in. the number of -ca'ses of drunkenness is even greater than in the' total number of cases. The police court acts as a splendid barometer and gives a good idea of the effects of the “dry” reign. JEROME LAMBASTS THAW. Likewise District Attorney Severely AT ^cores New York White special in Summing William Up. says: Travers Jerome, representative of tha people, made a masterly plea Thurs¬ day that justice bs done in the case of Harry Kendall Thaw. Vindictiveness, sneers, insinuations all were lacking; logic, analysis and a calm consideration of the facts were their substitutes. It was no blind appeal for the ven¬ geance of the law that Mr. Jerome ad¬ dressed to the jury, but ever and al¬ ways there was the note of fairness, even at times of mercy. The year that has elapsed since the (first trial liad wrought a wonderful and startling change In the prosecutor. No longer attempting to shield the name of Stanford White, he. accepted the story told by Evelyn. Nesbit Thaw as true-r-all but the drugging—arid no made frank confession to the jury that the velvet swings and mirrored rooms of the studio houses described, by The girl were indeed a miserable Vrbality^ No longer attacking Evelyn T§iaw as a skilled adventuress, Mr. Jerome pleaded for the girl, because she never had had a chance for any of tile higher, cleaner, sweeter things of life. The climax came, however, when Mr. Jerome denounced both Thaw and White in one breath and classed them as “two degenerates quarreling over a woman.” And the woman, the pros¬ ecutor declared, knew no more—had been taught no more by the world— than to play one against the other until in jealous rage, in blindest rage, in vengeance of “an undeniably gross wrong done to his wife,” Harry Thaw shot and killed the architect. TO REIMBURSE CONFEDERATES. Congressman Howard’s Bill in House Appropriates $50,000, Representative -Howard Wednesday introduced a bill in the. house provid¬ ing for an appropriation of $50,000 to reimburse the confederate soldiers who were paroled in 1S65 and under the terms of their parole were permit¬ ted to keep their horses, saddles 'and side arms, but had these accoutre¬ ments taken from them before they reached home. J "fOR DEATH ATTEMPTED RAPE. Mississippi Legislature Makes New Penalty for Crime. The lower house of the Mississippi legislature has passed a bill provid¬ ing the death penalty of life impris¬ onment for attempted rape, the pun¬ ishment to be within the discretion of the jury. This places attempted rape in the same class with murder. Heretofore the maximum punishment has been £en years. . -V- LABOR UNIONS HIT In Far-Reac’n'ng Decision of U. S. Supreme Court. EVERY LABORER IS FREE Railway Companies May Discharge Men for Belonging to Unions—Con tion Won by the Louisville and Nashville. A Washington special, says: The i - coeetitotkmaiity- , of the- act of congress of June 1, 1908, prohibiting railroad companies engaged in interstate com¬ merce from discriminating against members of labor organizations in the matter of employment, was called into question by the case of William Adair against the United States, which was decided by the supreme court of the United States Monday favorable to Adair. The opinion was by Justice Harlan, and held the law to be repugnant to the constitution. The court held that Adair, as master mechanic of the Louis¬ ville and Nashville Railroad company, had a right to discharge an employee because he was a member of a labor organization, just as it was the em¬ ployee’s right to quit such employment because of his membership in such or¬ ganization. The case came to the supreme court on a writ of error from the United States district court for the eastern district of Kentucky. Adair is the mas¬ ter mechanic of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company, and he was proceeded against o;i the charge of threatening to discharge front the employ of the company a locomotive engineer named Coppage, because the latter was a member of a labor union. The act of 1898, which was one of the results of the great Chicago strike, was invoked for Coppage’s protection, and the district court fined Adair $100. The constitutionality of tha act was stren¬ uously attacked in the district court by the railroad attorney, and when the decision was announced they promptly brought the case to the supreme court, with; ttes rer-Mt that the* deetsforr-o* the lower court was reversed. In his decision Justice Harlan held it was Adair’s right to serve his employer as best he could, so long as he did nothing forbidden by law as contrary to the public welfare. Supreme Court Justice Holmes also expressed the opinion that the law should be construed as intended. He thought that the right to make con¬ tracts had been stretched to the limit by the court’s decision in this case. That congress had a right to so legis¬ late as to encourage labor organiza¬ tions was another suggestion of Justice Holmes. “While,” said Justice Harlan, in his. opinion, “the rights of liberty and prop¬ erty guaranteed by the constitution to the United States against deprivation without due process of law is subject to such reasonable restraint as common good or the general welfare tnay re¬ quire, it is not within the. functions of government—at least, in the absence of contract between tin- parties—tp com¬ pel any person- in the course of his business and against his will to accept or retain the personal services of am other or to compel any person against his will -to perfqyfii. .personal services for another. •. ... - “The right-of a person to sell his labor, upon such terms a's lie deems .proper, is in its'essence the sartie as the. right of the purchaser of labor tq' prescribe conditions upon which he will accept such labor from tiie person offering to sell it. So the right of an employee to quite the service of the employer, for whatever reasqn, is. the same as the right of the employer,-for. whatever reason, to dispense with the services of such employee. In all such particulars, the employer and the em¬ ployee have equality of rights and any legislation that disturbs that equality is an arbitrary - interference with the liberty of contract which no govern¬ ment can legally justify in a free land.” "' CASE UP TO ROOSEVELT. President to Pass Upon the Hancock Courtmartiai Papers. The case of Major Hancock, coast ar¬ tillery corps, stationed at Fort Baran cas, Fla., has been received at the war department for action of the pres¬ ident. Hancock was tried by court martial at Atlanta, Ga., on charges of alleged violation of a pledge to ab¬ stain from the use of Intoxicating li¬ quor. STANDARD OIL : IN AFRICA, Interests of Trading Company Purchas¬ ed and Monopoly Established. The correspondent of The London Daily Mail at Durban announces in a dispatch that the Standard Oil com¬ pany has acquired the South African trading interests of the Shell and Trading company, thus' ing a monopoly in South Africa. „ . js ELLIJAY. OA„ TH FEBRUA RY r,. 1008 grosveno^rguring. Official “Statistician” *f Republican Party Prognosticate How Na¬ tional Election will Terminate. A Washington dispatch says ^Gen¬ eral Charles H. Grosvenor, ex-con¬ gressman, has recently given new' proof of his claim to. the ‘title “Oid Figgers.”' He is’the recognized sta¬ tistician of the republican party.' - Though he is now out; of ..congress, he is still furnishing “statistics’’ to show 8 that the republican party will be successful this y$ar, ancf that Mr. Bryan is facing hopeless and comfort¬ less defeat. If it proves true Mr. Bry¬ an can expect no r’ynlpsfSiy from the “i general; he will be able' to say told you so.” He has allowed Mr. Bryan 166 electro-, ral votes. As the electoral college will consists of 483 electors' it 1 will require 242 to secure the pVesidency. This means that Mr. Bryan will need to win 76 from the states put down by the general as solidly republican. He says that Bryan cannot possibly do it. The states conceded to Mr. Bryan and their 166 electoral votes are as follows: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Geor¬ gia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. The following states, with 2-50 elec¬ toral votes, are picked by General Grosvenor in the republican cqluran: California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska," New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Vir¬ ginia, Wyoming* Connecticut, Minne¬ sota, New Jers#, Ohio, Rhode Island, Wisconsin. While not admitting that the follow¬ ing states are in any sense doubtful, General Grosvenor declares that any gains in the democratic electroal vote must be secured front,these: Connecti¬ cut, Delaware, Indiana, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Rhode Isl¬ and and Wisconsin. These states have 137 electoral votes and out of this number the democrats must secure the required v 6 to lici^e a majority in tile electoral college. While contending that Mr. Bryan cannot win the necessary 76 votes, this statistician says: “The long career of Mr. Bryan as a successful candidate has seemed to make it impossible to consider the j claims of anybody "else. He is a' vigor¬ ous candidate; he is aii attractive can¬ didate ; he is a tremendously successful candidate in every way except getting electoral votes.” Gro^enor General kindly suggests Judge George Gray of Delaware to the consideration of the democratic party as a man who can carry Minnesota, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Ohio and Wisconsin if any democrat can. In making up election predictions, interesting note nray be made of the prediction of Justus L. Johnson, pres¬ ident of the Swedish-American Repub¬ lican League of Illinois, who was in Washington. Thursday, Mr. Johnson, although a republican, declares’it as his belief'that09vemor^John A. John¬ son of Minnesota can carry enough states to .give him forty-pine more electoral votes than Bryan. DISPENSARY PROBE BEGINS, South Carolina Commission Begins In¬ vestigation at Columbia. The commission to close out the , ' affairs of the defunct South Carolina dispensary .•'gjet in Columbia, Thurs¬ day t<t inspect. books of creditors whose claims aggregate .$66<),fli00. The commission, .-sitting, -as a .court, had announced previously that some claims were believed to he fraudulent, and they would pay no clairiis until all claimants presented books .showing narative of all transactions with the state. ’ ARTHUR GIOVER HANGED. Paid Penalty at Augusta, Ga., for the Murder of Maude Dean. At Augusta, Ga;, Friday morning, Arthur P. Glover was hanged for the murder of his sweetheart, Maude Dean. He professed to forgive all those who had anything to do with his conviction, but said up to the last that he never knew when he killed the girl. Though the execution was private, by order of the court there were about 160 people in the jail yard, .wearing badges of “special deputy.” Twenty minutes after the drop fell Glover was cut down. FLORIDA FARMER MURDERED Body Was Found Near Home With Head Beaten to Pulp. Elia's Sappold, a prominent farmer of Jonesville, near Gainesville, Fia., was waylaid and killed Monday night. His body was found near, the roadside in the vicinity of liis home.’” His head . was beaten .into a.pulp with some blunt instrument. . Suspicions of certain par¬ i ties are 'entertained, . FOREST PRESERVES Given Boost at Big Meeting in Washington. CANNON IS WON OVER Speaker Promises Early Consideration of Appalachian Bill—Hot Fight to Be Made for Its That tins nation has reached' the Point where' it must decide whether it is to iose the use of the rivers in tha east and sotuh through the non-pres¬ ervation of forests which safeguard the wat^r sheds, was the declaration of Secretary of. Agriculture Wilson, president of tne American Forestry Association, which convened In Wash¬ ington Wednesday. ' The secretary said that the rivers of the west were fairly well taken care of on account of forests. He expressed the hope that congress would take action to assure the beginning of the work of the preservation of the forests and the safeguarding of the watersheds. Speeches were made at the morning session by Gilford Pinehot, chief of the forest service; J. T. Rothroclc, secretary 'of the Pennsylvania State Forestry Association, and others. John A. Walker, game and fish commission¬ er .of Alabama, said that his state was not only making wise laws to pre¬ serve its forests, but is enforcing them. The membership of the association is 6,555, of which 1,735 were added during the past year. One of the objects of the convention is to further the movement for the establishment of national forests in the White mountains and the South¬ ern Appalachian range, a bill 'appro¬ priating $5,900,000 for the ertatift of which is pending in congress* The territory to be set apart comprises about 5,000,00) acres in the south and 600,000 in the White mountains. To further this project,' a hearing will be given before the committee on agriculture, to representatives from the states affected and also represen¬ tatives of all societies Intel eeted in the preservation of the forests. At the afternoon session Secretary of Agriculture Wilson was re-elected president, and the following vice pres¬ idents were chosen: Edward Everett Hale, chaplain of United States senate; B. E. Burnow, dean of the Canadian School of Fores¬ try; J. W, Pinehot, Washington, D. C.; W. J. Bachelder, master of the Na¬ tional Grange; George F. Peabody, New York; George C. Pardee, Califor¬ nia; Rutherford D. Hayes, Ohio; Al¬ bert Shaw, New York; W. W, I^iley, Washington, D. C.; D. J. Rothrock, Pennsylvania; George T. Oliver and Dr. Van Heiss. Otto Leaukbert was elected treasurer. Three important resolutions were adopted, one recommending the pass¬ age at this session of congress of the bill providing for the establishment of national forests in the White moun¬ tains and the Appalachians; another providing for a census of the timber lands of the United States,, and- still another asking co: gross to enlarge the Hatch fund law, so tb it out of the receipts from the national forests an addition would be made to the fund, to be spent strictly on forestry ed,uca 'tlon and experiment's. ■ At the” concluding session Wednes¬ day night' Gov. Hoke'Smith of Georgia Announced . the arrangements for the before the house committee' bn tiie establishment of the proposed forests. Addresses wcr.e made by E. T*. Wa'tson, South Carolina; Professor L. CV Glenn, Vanderbilt' University : Harvey N. Shepard, Boston, and W, J. McGee, .Washington. “Uncle-Joe” Cannon, speaker of the - national house ol representatives, on Wednesday announced that the com¬ bination of the Appalachian forest re¬ serve people from the'sotuh and the White mountain men from. New Eng¬ land was so formidable that he could no longer defer the consideration of the Appalachian forest reserve bill, This means that the bill will be per- • mitted to come to a vote in the house. That it has not clone so heretofore has been due to Speaker Cannon’s attitude exclusively. • FIRST ITALIAN CONSULATE Established at Savannah with Senor Mose Cafeiro at its Head. Senor Mose Cafeiro of Savannah, Ga., Wednesday received credentials appointing him Italian consul at that city. This is the first Italian consul¬ ate to be established in Savannah. Se¬ nor Cafeiro is also the consular repre¬ sentative of Cuba. BUSINESS BLOCK IN ASHES. Loss In Big Stone Gap, Va,, Confla » gratlon of $100,000. An entire business block at Big Stone Gap, Va., was wiped out by fire Thursday morning, entailing a loss of $100,000. . Among the "buildings burn¬ ed was the Hotel Eugene; the South¬ ern Express company and the West ern -Union officers were also destroyed, «<JWTaufo« mm Must Serve Temporarily in Asylum at Matteawan—Curtain is Down on Malodorous Case. A New York special says: Adjudged not guilty of the murder of Stanford White by reason of insanity at the time the fatal shots’'were fired, Harry Kendall Thaw Saturday was held by the court to be a dangerous lunatic and was whirled away to the state hospi¬ tal for the criminal insane at Mattea¬ wan, It was quick transition from the din¬ gy little cell in the Tombs, which had been tiie young man’s home for more than eighteen months, to the •white-bedded wards of the big asylum tucked away on the snow-covered slop- - ing banks of the Hudson river, 50 nif 1 es above tiie city. The verdict came after twenty-five hours of waiting and when every one connected with the case had abandon¬ ed all hope of an agreement ever being reached in this or any other trial. Four hours after the foreman’s lips had framed the words “not ullty” with an accompanying insanity clause, Thaw protesting he was sane, was on his way to Matteawan. A little after night¬ fall he had been received in the in¬ stitution under commitment papers, which directed his detention “until dis¬ charged by due course of law.” Scarcely an hour later the members of the Thaw family were in conference with their lawyers as to the advisabil¬ ity of applying for a writ of habeas corpus. Thaw was greatly enraged over being committed to the asylum and argued strenuously for the appli¬ cation to be made. It was finally de¬ cided to defer Ibis action at least a week. After deliberating twenty-five hours, the jury brought in a verdict of “not guilty” at 12:45 Saturday afternoon. The verdict was arrived at on the ground that Thaw was insane at the time the deed was committed. Although practically cleared of the charge of murder, Thaw is not yet a free man. On the recommendation of Justice Dowling lie was taken to the insane asylum at Matteawan as a dangerous person and one whose malady is likely to recur at any moment. This uoted case may be summed up Chronologically as follows: Harry Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit were married in Pittsburg on April 23, 1905. On June 25, 1906, Thaw killed Stan¬ ford White on the Madison Square roof garden, and on June 28 he was indict¬ ed. -In January following the first trial began. Ten days were required for the jury to return a disagreement. The trial cost the county of New York $100,000: The cost to the Thaw fam¬ ily is estimated to have been $400,000. The testimony of alienists brought the figure to this great total. The euitre second trial occupied but seventeen days, five of which were tak¬ en up with (he selection of a jury. The prosecution had but few witnesses and made oiit its case in four and a half hours.-' The defense brought witnesses from several European centers, from the Pacific coast of America, and from a number of other cities. The cost to the county will hardly exceed $2’5,000, while the cost to the Thaw family will be equally as' much as that of-the first trial. The case may justly be referred to as the “million dollar mur¬ der trial.” FIVE VICTIMS OF FIRE. Fatalities Result from' Burning of Rooming House in Kansas City. - Five perrons were burned to death and twelve others injured in a fire in a three story rooming house in Kan¬ sas Cify Saturday morning. Tiie fire started from an explosion of natural gas hi the basement. The flames ard dense smoke spread quick¬ ly throughout the building and before an alarm could be given all means of escape by the ordinary exits had been shut off. The five persons who lost ^ves were asleep on tht third' floor - FORESTRY DELEGATES AT WORK Governor Smith of Georgia, Pleads Ee fore Senate Committee. Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia had charge of the hearing Thursday before the committee on agriculture in regard to the bill now pending before the house of representatives for the Appalachian and W’hite Mountain na¬ tional forest reserves. Much expert testimony showing the need of this action and some strong addresses containing arguments for the Currier hill were submitted to the committee. ALLEN GAINS FOUR VOTES. Senatorial Deadlock in Kentucky Leg¬ islature Remains Unbroken. John R. Allen of Lexington, Ky., gained four more votes in the joint ses¬ sion of the Kentucky legislature at Frankfort for United States senator W ednesday. The ballot resulted: Beck¬ ham 57, Brddley 57, Alien 7, J. J, C. ; Mayor 1. Thus the deadlock remains i unbroken, NOTIN SNYTRi Many newspapers Lave lately ,-::v--n • irrfiV* torcporis byirivs|>onstf<ie parties to the effect that THE NEW HOME SEW,';? fM2H'.H5S0 had entered a tis^f * r cm ..i t: v •• wts'i to assure the j sMif fan a. .v * *»o : ». Slidi rc*i»or!s. \Vi* \ i *.t sewing maehfnuRfor; • n:*r? t«-: ry, and have ostabiishe.i a r. ;n;! rrion f .. . r selves and our niruhiin sii.; t i j< tl.u ' y*.. 1 others. Our **JY<*?r J/oiru” iro. >< never fcren rivaled s u. t. y . * * stands at the la-ad ofaH //;%? ’; <Jr r .-•*?;•» s* :n r machines, and i lands on its t*>: :t The, Tictv Home” £3 t -. 'f t . HIGH GItAHJS on the Ii is not neressary for : to < v,* r r i - o r tra>t to save cur credit «*r pay a t v »'.• r « -«.* ■! :r, ? no debts to pay. We hav*’ n« r ■ -d competition with mairjUact’if'T- of ?mule cheap machines that a *v u t • s • ■ ‘ i r- -nx less of any inlrin.sl» mcri' . ]) » >*• ' 1...» de¬ ceived,when you want as 'n il:..' : ■ u-j don't send your money r way ironi 1 ^ “New Home'* Hcaier better machine for less than yo elsewhere. If there is 1*0 d write direct to us. THE NEW HOME SEW&I3! ORANGE, MASS" New York, Chicago. Til., St. I.i .uis, A i’ai> ta, Ga., Pallas. Tex., S;m i’ruiicb \ I. GILMER COUNTY DIRECTORY. Gilmer Superior Court meets third Monday in May and second Monday In October. lion. Geo. F. Gober, judge Blue Ridge Circuit: Hon. B F. Simpson, solicitor general. Court of Ordinary meets first Mon¬ day In each month. County Board of Education me. ta first Tuesday in each month. Horace M. Ellington, president Boavd of Edu¬ cation. N. L. Tankersley, county school commissioner. COUNTY OFFICERS. T, If. Tabor, ordinary. ]. \V. C’rnigo, Clerk Superior Court. A. J. Pinson, sheriff. E. J. Chastain, tax collector. L. B Chastain, tax receiver. R. P. Parks, treasurer. CORTELYOU SENT ONLY BRIEF. Manner of His Reply to Senate's In¬ quiry Causes Criticism. The long delayed reply of Secretary Cortelyou to a senate resolution call¬ ing ifor information concerning tho operations of the treasury department in connection with the recent financial vrisis, was laid before the senate on Wi dnesday by the vice president. Tha document was not read, but a printed copy of it was on the desk of yaclj senator, and nearly all of them at once gave it bis attention. Mr. Culberson inquired of the vice president whether the pamphlet con¬ tained all of the secretary’s communi¬ cation. The vice' president said he had not examined tiie report. “I do not recall an instance," said Mr. Culberson, “in which a head of a department of the government has .an swered a senate resolution in printed form.” ”1 will ask the senator from Massa¬ chusetts,” broke in Senator Ti.llman, turning,to Senator Lodge, “who is such a stickler for senatorial, digrity and senatorial rights, to reply to Gils in¬ quiry.” "I don’t know,” responded .Mr. Lodge, “whether a cabinet officer ever sent in a printed report of this kind as a convenience, and I do not think it is a matter of importance. The entire reply will be printed tomorrow.” Mr. Tillman retorted by declaring: •‘The secretary of the treasury is as¬ suming the airs of a president before he is elected to that office. The pres¬ ident sends his message in‘this printed form, but I have never known it cabinet officer to assume to do this before. Mr. Culberson said that the fact of which he complained was that the sec* rtU'.ry of the treasury had printed his argument'itMd had it laid on the debits of senators which and .rad^leftfo^^temcaf of facts a c co in printed afterward. OLD FOOD LAWS Georgia Ai.orney General Says New ' Statutes Supervede Them. According to an opinion, by Attoi ney General John <’. Hurt of Georgia, to Commissioner of Vgriculturp Hud¬ son, old laws under which county food inspectors were appointed by ordina¬ ries anff municipal inpsectors mid r ordinances, ..superseded ' elty have been by the general pure food la(v enacted in 1906 and effective August 1, 1097. The effect Of this view of the,.new law is to' take the appointment of meat, milk and other food inspectors out the hands of ordinaries and health boards, and to lodge this jurisdiction entirely in the hands c-f tbg.-e<5rfftEi<v^ sioner ot agriculture. MORSE IN MORE TROUBLE. Ship Combine Buiit Up by Him Goes to the Wall. Proceedings in Boston for ? receiv¬ ership for the Consolidated S;-aroship company were instituted simultaneous¬ ly with those at Portland, Me., and New York, Wednesday. Bills of com¬ plaint were fiied against the Consoli¬ dated and also against two subsidiary companies, the Eastern and Metropol¬ itan Steamship company. Petition:! for an injunction against these companies were also filed. NO. 1684