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“We know not what the future hath,
Os marvel or surprise
Assured alone that life and death
His mercy underlies."
The mystery of human life is as great
as the mystery that attends death. Out
side the mercy of God they are both
inexplicable mysteries and are ever to
remain so.
We coma here without our knowledge
or consent.
We go hence In sptte of our knowledge
or consent.
What preceded our advent, we know
not. What the hereafter will be. we
know not. except that our intuition tells
us we shall not be blotted out forever,
and God s word tells us there is a rest
that remaineth for His peopie.
If we could withdraw ourseh e*
from our surroundings *“d lo ? k
at the human race as it appears on the
stage of action and watch its struggle for
the things which perish with the using,
we are obliged to echo. “Vanity! V anity,
AU is vanity f*
We plan and proceed to perfect our
plans as if wo were to Uve forever and
a day. Then Death puts in the sickle and
we are cut down like grass, which with
ereto and then disappears from sight and
remembrance forever more. Made from
dust, to dust we return. The frail bark
that floats on a swift flowing tide may
roach the bay or perhaps the ocean, but
toe chances are many that the little bark
will disappear before its childhood has
past.
Oh! the misery! Oh! the silence of the
grace! As Dickens tells of Paul Dombey's
death. as toe little bark floated near
the rivers edge:
"Oh, thank God. all ye that see it, of
that nobler fashion, yet of immortality,
and look upon us, angels of young chil
dren, with feelings not yet quite estrang
ed when the swift river bears us to the
I have a comforting belief that a Merci
ful God put us here for goodness and
blessedness. He is too wise to err. and
too just to give us needless punishment.
As a Father pltieth His children, so will
our Heavenly Father place His everlast
ing arms of mercy under our feebleness
and lift us from out the pains of life
and death.
Save the Manure
The old-time southern farmer alloweo
his cotton seed to rot in the ginhouse
yard and his stable manure wasted in a
muddy barn enclosure.
When a rich piece of ground was need
ed to grow juicy turnips, the cows were
panned at night on a bit of land, so as
to save hauling out or scattering ma
■ure.
Even on large plantations where there
were idle negro slaves this haphazard
way of farming continued. When a
piece of land was washed into gullies
they would clear a new ground, roll up
the logs and put fire to the heaps; and
kthen abandon the washed red hills to
barrenness
The wonder is that the old southland
s\er regained its fertility after it was
neglected and wantonly impoverished for
so many years.
We are simply cot ten tots now and the
land will wash and gully so long as we
uae heating commercial fertilisers and
fail to keep enough cattle and other
stock to furnish healthy fertilisers in a
legitimate way.
Where farm lands improve you will al
ways find stock and careful rotation of
crops to rest the soil from exhausting
growths. Otherwise, you take off more
than is returned to the land and vie
end of that business Is sure and failure
certain.
In addition to stock there should be
ccnvenient compost heaps where ever}
wasted thing can be dumped to assist
in making fertilisers.
In England barns are built to save all
the liquid manure. With us everything
of that sort goes to waste and does no
good anywhere.
Ln the process of time intensive farm
ing will be a necessity. Then there will
he appreciation of the value of compost
heaps and the droppings of live stock to
the soil.. Experience seems to be the
only sort of a teacher that the public
will listen to.
Coming Home To Roost
During three-quarters of a century the
people of the United States have been
plagued and perplexed with the negro
problem. The question of slavery plunged
our people into a bloody four-year war.
The same qudgtion has warped legisla
tion. ruptured friendships, split churches
and made brother go out to deadly com
bat against brother. It has never been
settled, and never will remain quiet so
long as negroes aspire to office or con
tend for supremacy over any part of the
white or Caucasian race.
It is set down in the book of accounts
that the far west, especially the Pacific
slope, continued hard, bitter and unyield
ing against the southern states where ne
gro supremacy became intolerable, and
where the difference between the races
was a live political issue during three
quarters of a century.
These far westerners wanted to force
negro equality on the whites of the south
ern state®. They put their strength to
the lever, which was to turn the screw
a little harder and more cruelly. Every
vote tn congress which put the bitter cup
of negro suffrage to the lips of their
white brothers in the south they gave
with a vim and a flourish.
Although they despised the Chinaman,
they claimed to find a man and brother
in the African. The yellow pigment nau
• seated them, but the black pigment was
pleasing and acceptable.
Although China made a commercial
treaty with the United States during the
civil war looking to an open door with
the Pacific slope people, this aversion to
chinks became so violent that congress
abrogated the solemn promise and pro
ceeded to bayonet the Mongolian off the
continent.
With strange and unfathomable jierver
slty. these far westerners continue to
fling threats against the south, and are
viciously bent on making a full-fledged
voter and citisen out of the African. They
are also frantio tn their determination to
shut off the yellow races of the Orient.
Japs alike with Chinamen, must stay
away, and although Japan has become
a world-power, has won her spurs in
the most terrific war struggle known to
modern or ancient history and humbled
Russia to her knees, yet California and
her adjacent neighbors are as dead set
' against toe Japs as against the Chinese.
Right now. they are plunging into this
exclusion bustnesa Yesterday and the
day before. California legislators were
voting on this very subject of exclusion.
How it will end we do not know, but
we already know that these western peo
ple are blowing hot and cold from the
same mouth and are so oblivious of the
equities of the situation that they are
still cramming the race question down
the throats of tlie southern . people and
are viciously determined to keep negio
officials In Charleston and elsewhere in
the south—as a free people.
The Jap and the Chinaman are the
equals of the African, to draw it mild
ly. but they ‘are not willing that a Jap
child should attend even a public sohool
where their children go, and they would
jaundice with rage to have a Jap ap
pointed postmaster or collector of rev
enues in San FraucisCto.
"Curses like chickens come home to
roost.’* says the old proverb. • •
Were It not that this race question
ought to be settled. and the United
States forever declared a white man's
country. It would be a just retribution
if these negropho lists were forced to
swallow a big dose of their own medi
cine.
When the Panama canal is opened and
toe channel of commerce and emigra
tion is made easy from the orient to
the United States, we are likely to see
these abolitionists forced to listen to
their own false doctrines, when their
very souls revolt against the yellow
races In their own midst.
ATLANTA DRINK RECORD
FOR LAST FIVE YEARS
1905
Cases for drunkenness in January and
February. 783.
im-
Cases for drunkenness in January and
February. 682.
1907
Cases for drunkenness in January and
February, 887.
1908-
Cases fdr drunkenness in January and
February. 196.
1908—
Cases for drunkenness in January and
February, 547.
The above figures, which are taken
from police records, show that drunk
enness, while it decreased materially at
the outset of prohibition, is now under
going an increase which, if continued,
will soon make It as serious as it was
before prohibition became a law.
Probation Officer Coogler, whose work
is among the inebriates, says that his
duties have almost doubled within the
past three months. Prior to that time,
he had found that practically none of the
men or women placed under his care
were re-arrested, but since then the num
ber of re-arrests has become common.
He attributes. this to the fact that in
toxicants are to be secured a great deal
more easily now than they were three
months past.
The chief says that in spite of the
best efforts of his men prohibition liquor
is being sold very widely, and the record
er says that the restraint and repression
first felt are wearing off. That is his ex
planation of the increase in drunkenness
in January and February over the two
corresponding months of last year.
He says that at the outset of 1908, one
knew just what the situation was and
how the prohibition law could be evaded.
There were no near-beer saloons and no
blind tigers.
Then both came and have been growing
in number and importance.
Whether or not the normal condition of
prohibition has been reached is a ques
tion. Do present conditions mark the
fullest extent o fits violation or is the
extent of such violation to increase?
There is a tendency among the officers
to criticise the higher courts in the treat
ment of blind tiger cases. In practically
every blind tiger case brought before the
recorder, where guilt is proved, he makes
his sentence thirty days' imprisonment in
the city workhouse, a fine of SSOO, and in
addition orders the defendant bound over
to the city court. It is seldom, however,
that imprisonment in the workhouse re
sults, notwithstanding the recorder's sen
tence.
It is the contention of the police that
such cases are invariably carried to the
higher courts, there the imprisonment
clause is stricken out of the sentence,
and only a light fine is levied.
SEE HIS DYING WIFE I
Permission for a felony convict of Geor
gia to hurry to the bedside of his dying
wife in North Carolina and remain there
to attend her funeral was granted Satur
day afternoon by Governor Hoke Smith,
who himself offered to pay the convict's
expenses and those of a guard accom
panying him from the south Georgia
camp and back again. But the govern
or's offer, following close upon the heels
of the permission he telegraphed to the
convict warden at the Jakin camp, ar
rived too late for acceptance. The lessees
who have rented the man from the state,
the Flowers Lumber company, had them
selves made arrangements to pay the ex
penses of the whole trip, anticipating
that the governor would extend the re
quired permission as soon as he knew
the facts.
W. G. Thompson is the man’s name.
He is under a seven-year sentence for
embezzlement committed in Savannah.
He began his sentence only a year ago.
Now in the fiftieth year of his age, he
had led a long and honorable life and
had won the confidence of all with whom
he came in contact, till he made the sin
gle misstep of his life; and then the law
caught him.
A peculiar feature of the case Is that
not even at a late hour yesterday after
noon had it been clearly set down on the
records of the governor's office to just
what place in North Carolina will the
Georgia convict go to find his dying wife.
Probably without precedent is this per-
I mission for a Georgia convict to go be
yond the limits and jurisdiction of the
state. Altogether on his own honor, his
own promise to return. Is W. G. Thomp
son going to the side of his dying wife;
for the presence of a guard with him—a
guard commissioned tn Georgia as an of
ficer of this state alone—can hardly be
considered more than a mere sembiafice
of authority. If Thompson were to re
fuse to return, it might be necessary to
go through a long procedure of legal re
quirements before the state could get him
back.
An application for the pardon of
Thompson, citing many extenuating ctr
| cumstances in his case, is now on file,
awaiting the attention of the prison com
mission.
HOUSE AND SENATE
AGREE ON PENAL CODE
WASHINGTON. Feb. 26—A virtual agree
ment ha* been reached bv the conferees of the
house and senate on tnr uenal code bill.
The »-nate conferees have accented the house
amendment incorporating into the code the
Knox bill for the regulation of the interstate
shipments of intoxicating liquors.
The Knox bill is to be amended, however,
by a provision that a shipper commits an of
fense only when he •'knowingly" ships intoxi
cating liquors which have not been properly
marked
The so-called "Ku Klux” legislation is
stricken from the code according to the agre:-
ment.
THE ATLANTA SEMI -WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA. GEORGIA. TUESDAY, MARCH 2. 1909.
MARKET REPORTS
Spot Oottoo *
Atlanta, steady, 9%c.
New York, quiet. 9' 70 100 c.
New Orleans, steady. 9%e.
Liverpool, quiet, & U3-l<Mkl.
G<lveston, stead}’, 9 7-Wc.
Savannah. quiet, 9%e.
Mobile, quiet, 9%c. t
Charleston, steady, 9c.
Wiluiingtou. quiet. 9c.
Norfolk, steady, 9%c.
Baltimore, nominal, tfcc.
Boa tun. quiet, 9 70-lOOc.
Philadelphia, quiet, 9 96-UJUC. 1 > .
Houstou. dull, 9 5-16;. i( .....
Augusta, steady, »%c. ..
St. Louis, uuist. 9%e.
Louisville, steady. >%c.
Cincinnati, nominal.
Memphis, quiet. 9 5-14e. < 1
New York Cottoi
The following were the ruling prioes tn tM
«xchange t»4sy:
Tone quiet; middling, 9 45-100 c; quiet.
.Last Pre a
Open. High. Low- •ala Clage. Close
January . ... 9.17 9.90 9.17 918 9.19 915
March ... . 935 9.38 9.35 935 9.36 9.82
April 8,1
Mav 9.29 9.35 9.29 9.31 9.31 9.17
June .... »» 9.34
July 9.39 9.33 9.» 9.31 9.30 9.37
August ... 927 9.27 9.27 9.37 9.27 994
September .. .» .... .... .... . 523 9.20
October . ... 924 9.27 9.24 9.95 9.25 9.22
November 9.30 9.17
December . .. 9.19 9.22 9.19 9.21 9.30 9.17
New Orleans Cotton
The following were the ruling prices on the
exchange *oday:
Tone steady; middling. 9 6-16 c; easy.
Lgat Frev.
Opn. Hgh. Ix>w. Sle. Cis Cl* 1
Januarv 9.19 9.16
March 9.28 9.29 9.26 9.2« 923
April 9.26 9.23
May 9.40 4.43 9.39 9.42 9.42 9.87
June 9.48 9.44
Julv 9.51 9.54 9.50 953 9.53 9.48
October 9.24 9.25 9.21 9.24 9.3 9.24
Devember. .9.19 9.19 9.19 9.19 9.19 9.15
Chicago Quotations
The following were the ruling quotations la
the exchange today;
Previous
Open. High. Low. Close. Close.
WHEAT—
May . ~1.17%0L15% 1.17% 1.15% 1.17% 1.18
July ... 1.1M%01.03%0L04% 1.03% 1.04% l.W*
September .98%097% 98% 97% 98% » .
December . 99098% 99% 94% ’ 99% ....
CORN—
May . ... 66%066% 66% 65% 66% 66%
July 45% 65% 65% 46% 06%
September . ... 45% 66% «6 6b% 6»%
OATH- , '
May 64% 56 54% 64% o»%
July . .. 4*%049% 49% 48% 4»% 49%
September ... . 40t* 40% 4G% 40% 4O?»
May°*.. _ . 17.05 17.07 17.02 17.07 17.10
Julj 17.10 17.12 17.07 17.12 17a3
LARD—
May 9.70 9.75 9.47 9.75 $.12
July 9.82 9.85 9.80 9.85 9.82
September 1...•••• !•••> ••••
SIDES—
May 5.92 8.96 8.90 8.95 B.W
July 9.10 9.10 9.06 9.10 9.10
New York Produce Market
NEW YORK March I.—Sugar: Raw steady;
fair refining. 3.23%; centrifugal. 9« test, 3.73%;
molasses sugar, 2.98%. Refined steady; crushed,
5.35; powdered, 4.75; granulated. 4.66.
Petroleum seady; refined, all ports, 8.45@
8.50.
Coffee steady. No. 7 Rio 8%; No. 4 Santos 9.
Molasses quiet; New Orleans, 28@42.
Live Stock
CHICAGO. March I.
Cattle—Receipts estimated at 24.000; market
stjady to 10c lower: beeves 34.40®7; Texas
steers 84 ?6®5.40: western steers 34®5.90; Stock
er* and feeders 88.40496.40: cows and heifers
$1.9006.40; calves »6«8.25.
Hogs—Receipts estimated at 59,000; market
5 to 10c lower; light 35.90iH4.25; mixed s6®
6.46; heavy 16.10ffi5.50: roush 46.10®6 20 good
to choice heavy 96.30@«.50: ni«rs 3&.15©6; bulk
Os sales 96.30®« «.
Sheep—Receipts estimated at 25,000; market
10c lower; native 83.25®5.65: western 33.50®
7.70; western 35.75ffi7.75.
Naval Stores #
SAVANNAH. Ga.. March I—Spirits firm,
30%. Rosin firm, W W 34 50. W G 86.45. N
86.35. M 86.70; K $5.05, I 34.10. H 88.50. G 33.20,
F 83.20. E 83-17%, D 83.15. B 3.15. Sales, 1,028.
Spirits receipts 274. Shipments 373. Stocks 3.-
080. Rosin receipts 695. Shipment 936. Stocks
161.001. ■' '
ATLANTA MARKETS.
Atlanta Cotton.
AILANTA. Ga., March I.—Cotton by wagon.
Steady, 9% cents.
Dressed Ponltrj
Dressed turkeys, bead and feet on, drawr
82%; dressed fry a. per lb., 18@30c; brctlers.
feacy, per poo no. 20®23%c; bens, actlvt c>,
15<«16e; <-ocks. per lb.. 6@7c; ducks, pet ib.,
15c; geese, per lb., 12c.
Babits. 10®12%c; quails, 18©20c;. squirrels,
8Q1OC; doves, s®Bc.
Live Poultrv
Turkeys, per lbs., 20c; hens each, 40®46c; fries
each as to size 30033%; geese each 50®60c;
ducks each 304985 c; cocks each 25®2tc.
Fish
Pompano per lb. 27c; Spanish mackerel, pe
-Ib. 12%c; tront. drawn, per lb., 9c; bluefish, pet
lb. 7c; mixed fish, per lb. 6c; mullet, pet
j barrel, $1.00®10.00.
Candies
Candle* —Standard mixtures, 30 lb. pails. 6%c;
Kennesaw Cream of Tartar mixture, 45 lb. bas
kets, 8c; Frencb creams, mixed, 30 lb. pails,
10c; bsnd made bon-bon mixtures, 30 lb. palls,
13c chocolates. 6 lb. boxes, 16®3F>e per lb.; fine
H. M. bou-bons and ices, 18®20c per lb.
Dried Fruit
Evaporated apples. In pound cartons 7%c; boxes
bulk. 7c; bags, 5%c; evaporated peaches, 7c.
Oysters
Virginia, selecta, per gallon, 01.30; other se
lects. per gallon. sl-26; stews, per gallon, 90c
01.01).
Produce and Vegetable Sundries
Cabbage, per lb.. 2®3%c: Irish potatoes. Bur
banks, per bvsbel, $1.1001.16; sweet potatoes,
uunmpkm and bunch yam*, per bushel, 65®7i>'
white varieties. 50©60c; onions, yellow or red
glot>e. per bushel, 8L25; California celery,
9OCOBI-OO; Florida, per 'crate. 2®2%c; riorida
pepi>ei. per eiate. $3-00@3.50; eggs. 200220
doaen;; butter, fancy table, 1-lb. prints, 20®
25c; cooking, in bulk, per lb., 10<ai5c.
Smoked sides very dull, well cured, per lb.,
lOffillc; hams, owing to size, per lb., 14016 c;
shoulders.
Cucumbers, per crate. $3.0003.50: cauliflower,
per lb., 6®Bc; tomatoes, fancy ripe, crate, 32.5 U
®%3.00; round green, per hamper. $1.5002.00.
Crackers
Crackers—XXX Florida sodas, 6%c; Block se
lect sedas, 7c; lemot* creams, 8c; pearl oyster,
sc; ginger snaps. 4%c; cornbills, 8e; penny cakes,
6’Ac; autiuals. 10c; jumbles. 10%r; fig bar*, 15c;
I cartwheels, 9c. raisin cookies. B%c; Block snow
1 flake wafers, in ties. 13c: crackers in 5c car
i tons, Joc dozen; cracker* in 10c carton*. SI.OO.
Meat. Lard and Hain
Drv salt, extra ribs 35 to M lbs. 09 50; dry
salt r!b bellies 20 to 25 lbs 89.87%; dry oalt
fat backs 8 t«j 10 lbs 310: Premium hams 13c;
Premium breakfast bacon l»c: Picuie hams
B%c: Premium lard 13c; Sliver leaf lard lie;
Jewel lard B%c; cotusuet B%c.
Fruit Sundries
I.emous. Messina fancy, per box. $3.1003.75;
extra fancy. $3.7504.u0; Florida. $202.35; Lail
tomia lemons. $2.00*}2.50: pineapples, Florida,
popular sizes, crate 82&3.50; oranges, Florida
owing »o sizes and condition on arrival, per
box $2.25®2.50; Itmea Florida, per 100, 50060 c;
grane fruit, sizes 36 to 64 inclusive per box
$2.0003.00; smaller sixes per box $202.50; apple*
best varieties fancy quality 3303.25; cranber
ries gallon 40086 c; barrel 816.
FOUNDAT!ON REPORT
SHOWS BIG ADVANCE
NEW YORK. March I.—The third annual
report of the president and treasurer of the
Carnegie foundation for .tbe advancement of
teaching, shows steady progress In the work
of that institution for the fiscal year ending
September 00. • 2908. During the year seventy
eight names were added to the retiring al
.lowance roll at a total coat of 3U3.765. This
Included oenaions to fifteen widows of prn
feaaovVi
The maximum amount of a retiring allow
ance was Increased durtns ‘the year from
$3,000 to 34.000 and i.ension will be grant
ed to the widow of a orofewor in an accepted
institution who has for ten vears been mar
ried to the professor, the pension to be one
half of what the husband would have been
entitled to receive.
Condensed News items Gathered From c/11l Farts of the State.
DAWSON.—Death Tuesday night' claimed
Milner Hawkins. wgs 23 yearti of age.
He Is survived tiv hl* fiplher. 3. J. Hawkins,
of N. C.y aM several brothers and
eteters. , t J.
WRIGHTSVIIJ.E.—State School Commis-
sioner Jere M. Pound will deliver an address |
to the citizens of Wrightsville at the court
house March 20th at 10 o'clock.
COLUMBUS.—Next week will be carnival
week in this oommunitv. There will be two
carnivals in progress at - the same time. One
will be in Phenix City, just across the river,
for the benefit of the public schools, and the
other will be in Columbus under the auspices
of the Eagles prder.
DUBLIN.—The following .delegate* of the
Dublin lodge No. 81. Knights of Pythia*. have
been appointed to attend the convention which
meet* at Cordele in April; Messrs. Frank
Lawson. Peter 8. Twittv. H. M. Moore, B. A.
Garrard., J. D- Prince. C. A. Weddington and
H. M. Stanley,
' 1 WRIGHTSVILLE—Governor-elect Joseph M.
Brown addressed an audiences of about five
hundred people at the college auditorium on
Thursday morning. He was Introduced by
Judge Dalev. Mr Brown arrived Wednesday
afternoon and left soon after the speaking
for Atlanta. .- r '
MACON.’—A hearing le tn be held ou March
3d in the superior court of Macon which will
decide whether tbe city has the right to revoke
a near-beer license, ‘xhe plaintiff io tbe case
is Ed Cassldv, whose license was revoked two
weeks ago because he bad been found guilty in
police court of violating the blind tiger ordinance
of the city.
KENNESAW. Ga.. Feb. 27.—Tbe S-year-o'.d eon
of Mr. C. P. Walker, living near here, was
accidentally killed yesterday by the 7-year-old
son of Mr. Oree Brown.
The Brown child snapped in play a parlor
rifle at him thinking the gun not loaded. An
older brother hud been out hunting and left
the gun loaded.
SAVANNAH.—The divorce docket of the su
perior court has grown to fifty-three cases,
and of this number only eight are contested.
The contests cases will come uo for trial to
day and the remainder will be disposed of
during the first days of next week. Ten cases
a day are to be disposed of and the court
wih have its hands full.
SAVANNAH.—With his right arm and right
leg amputated and suffering from severe in
juries about tbe bead, Mr. J. B. Wilson, struck
bv freight cars while on duty as an Atlantic
('oast blue patrolman, is lingering on the verge
of death ut the Savannah hospital. The accident
happened in the Coast Line wharf yards. Wil
son's urm and leg were amputated.
SAVANNAH.—A large and annreciatlve audi
ence, consisting of delegates and visitors from
various sections of the state, was present
Wednesday morning at the Georgia State and
Industrial college, colored, when the eleventh
annual farmers' conference convened. After
the devotional exercises. President R. R.
Wright welcomed the delegates and visitors
and briefly outlined the work of the con
ference.
MILLTOWN —Joe Washington, a negro con
.vlct. who was sent up several years ago from
Chatham county, and who has been doing time
with the Milltown Lumber company, located
at this place, has made his escape from the
camp. He slipped a pair of pipe shears into
the camp with him and during the night cut
out a bar from the window and escaped. This
Is the sixteenth time that, he has successfully
escaped prison walls.
WAYCROSS—Wav cross Elks are practically
certain of securing the prize offered at the
state convention in Atlanta for the fattest
Elk. one of their member*. Mr. W. T. Brin
son, being nearly six nundred pounds in
weight. Mr. Brinson attained considerable
fame last summer when Governor-elect Brown
visited Waycross and the two were photo
graphed sitting in the same buggy. The pic
ture was wtdalv reproduced in Collier’s and
other well known periodicals and attracted
considerable attention. •
—— ji-
MOULTRIE—Moultrie Is certain of one
'more new road during this year. The right
of-wav for the Valdosta alld Moultrie railroad
ha* been secured, and a contract let for the
grading to begin March Ist. and be completed
so that trains will be running from Moultrie
to Valdosta bv November Ist. W. B. CJonoly
gnd Frank Roberts, the promoters of the road,
are here, and held a conference- with a com
mittee previously aru>oint4fl bv the city au
thorities In regard to stieet privileges and
terminal facilities. t»
MOULTRIE, Ga.. Feb. 27.—Rich Moore, the
slayer of R. F. Webb last December, wag
captured last night in lower part of Worth
county, and is now here in jail.
Moore, it is charged, last December went to
tbe farm house of Webb tn the lower portion
of this county and without warning shot anfl
killed him. There had been some little difer
snee over some hogs, hut Mr. Webb thought
nothing serious of the matter, and was not ex
pecting trouble at the time of tbe
Mr. Moore has succeeded in evading the offi
cers until last night.
SAVANNAH.—A warning was received by
Mayor Tledeman yesterday io Indulge in prayer
and tie was instructed to sena nine copies of
a submitted prayer to his friends with orders
that they communicate with nine others. Mr.
Tledeman has great faith In prayer, but ob
jsots to anonymous solicitations. The request
which reached his excellency Is unique In the
tact that It asks for no monev. That appears
to be far from the desires of the sender, but
the Illustrious head of the cltv's affairs will
pay a small stipend for the name of the
originator of the prayer.
MACON. Ga.. March L—A mandate received
from the U. S. court of appeals today sustains
Judge Emory Bpe«r of this city in an inter
esting decision handed down by him some
time ago in which he sustained Referee in
Bankruptcy Alexander Proudfit.
Judge Speer’s decision upheld Proudfit when
the latter allowed J. A. Huddleston, a bank
rupt, a cash exemption instead of a homestead
right. Creditors of Huddleston took the case
before Judge Speer who cqncurred with the
referee. The court of appeals has just took
a similar view and upheld Judge Speer.
All the coats in case to be paid by the
Dunlap Hardware Co., of Macon, et al., as
they took the case un.
NORCROSS. Ga., S>b. 27.—Mr. Frank Johnston,
one of the Southern's conductors, is lying at his
home here hurt.
He was tunning a southbound local freight
and In coupling some cars was caught and
badly mashed about the ebest and arms. He
aet tbe coupling which cat. and coupled all
and he thinking tbe rar was still went in
to connect the air whwfc v rebound of the
cars ca<’ght and crushed him. His breast bone
was crushed in. hi* watch that was. in bH
ovresl's pocket was crushed into a mass and
falling tbe wheel of a car fastened his arm
and had to be pulled out by hi* crew.
Dr. Rowe, the road surgeon, attended the
Injured man and accompanied hint to his home
here where he is visiting as well as could be
expected
GUYTON. Ga.. Feb. 26—A large crowd as
sembled at Springfield to witness the laying
of the cornerstone of the-new courthouse. The
county commissioners, bv resolution, requested
the Masons to conduct the ceremonies. This
Invitation was accepted by the grand lodge of
Georgia, Hon. Thomas Jeffries, grand master,
of Atlanta, could not be present, and Hon.
Pleasant A. Stovall, of Havannah. acted as
grand master. The other officers of the grand
lodge were oresent. The local lodges of the
county were well represented. These took part
in the exercises.
Over two hundred member* of the lodges of
Effingham countv formed the procession.
Troup'C. mounted, also toined in the proces
sion. which was formed near the bank build
ing. and marched to the foundation of the
courthouse building.
Middleton’s band, of Savannah, furnished
the mtislo
Quite a variety of articles were placed in
the receptacle, sealed and placed in the cor
nerstone. Hon. J. R. Sauey delivered an In
teresting speech appropriate of the occasion.
The grand master also made some appropriate
remarks. Th* building, when completed, will
be an ornament to the county seat, and a
credit to the county. The coat will be about
825,000. The large crowd was estimated at
three thousand.
€HILIFIBURNS TO DEATH
PLAYING WITH MATCHES
VILLA RICA, Ga.. March I.—The two
year-old son of Mr. and MYs. John, of
the ‘Villa Rica Sulphur nflnes, rt9o miles
north of here was burned to death Sat
urday afternoon.
The child was playing with matches
and his clothing caugat fire.
The interment was made Sunday.
NEW YORK POLICEMAN
IS PLACED IN CELL
.NEW YORK. March I.—Locked in a cell
at his own precinct station was the fate
of William Thompson, a New York po
liceman who was arrested last night,
charged with robbing a prisoner of $72.
It is alleged that he took this sum from
a Greek dishwasher whom he arrested for
disorderly conduct. Thompson is a new
on the force and Is married.
♦ DEATHS IN GEORGIA. ♦
BREMEN —Mrs. Nancy Dorough. aged 84.
died here Tuesday night. She formerly resid
ed at Bowden. Ga. She 1* survived by a
number of grandchildren and great-grand
children.
IJCESBURO.—Mr*. W. R. Clifton died at
her home here Wednemlav. Her husband and
two children. Mrs. R. B. Clifton and J. D.
Clifton survive her.
MACON, Ga., Feb. 25—A. T. Holt, a
prominent real estate dealer of Macon,
died at noon today from a stroke of
apoplexy. He was C 3 years of age, and
leaves a wife and several children.
While sitting in a rocking chair before
the fire, with his physician nearby, Rob
ert Williams, a foreman is the fertiliser
department of the Atlanta Oil and Fer
tilizer company, died suddenly of heart
iTfrease on Thursday morning at the resi
dence of Mrs. B. T. Lane, with whom ha
was boarding, at Mina, Ga.
Mr. Wl'liams was about 30 years of age
and his home was in East Point, Ga.
BUTLER. Ga.. Feb. 27.—Mrs. Dora
Cameron, 67 years of age, died at her
home, two miles south of Butler, Friday
morning at 8 o’clock. Eight grown chil
dren survive her. She was closely re
lated to many of the most prominent,
families of Taylor and Schley counties.
The interment took place in the cem
etery in Butler at 10 o'clock this morn
ing.
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga.. Feb. 27.—Mrs.
Ida Hamilton, widow of toe late J. L.
Hamilton, and daughter of the late Judge
Henry P. Wooten, is dead at her home
at Stone Mount la . n etaoin oin
at Stone Mountain.
Mrs. Hamilton was 60 years of age,
and had been a member of the Baptist
church since her 17th year. The funeral
services were conducted by the Rev. Mr.
Baum.
FORT VALLEY, Ga., Feb. 27.—There
has seldom been a funeral in this section
that brought out such universal grief as
was shown at the services over Mrs. W.
H. Hafer, at the home of her parents
lin Fort Valley. The friends of her girl
hood and young womanhood came from
• Macon, from Perry, from Marshallville
and the wealth of floral tributes showed
the love they felt for “Carrie Harris,’’
One of the most beautiful of these, a
wreath of pink roses, came from the
Stephen Hopkins Chapter D. A. R., Mar
shallville. Two of the pallbearers were
Edwin Baldwin and Pearsall Baldwin, of
Marshallivlle.
An impressive ceremony was the bap
tism of the Infant son, only two weeks
old, by the side of the casket, in which
lay the young mother.
DUBLIN, Ga., Feb. 27.—8. F. Duggan
is dead at his home at Leon, several miles
from Dublin. He Is survived by two sis
ters, Mrs. J. B. Daniel, of this city; Mrs.
J. C. Stanley, of this county; R. M. Dug
gan, of Dublin; R. H. Duggan, of Cadwell,
and C. J. Duggan, of Texas.
MACON, Ga., March I.—T. J. Zellner,
aged 66 years, passed away at his resi
dence on Montpelier avenue, early this
morning, after an Illness of ten days.
He had been janitor at the Bibb county
courthouse for years.
Mrs. Caroline S. Mahoney, well known
throughout literary circles in Georgia,
and the entire south, passed away at her
home, 641 Highland avenue about mid
night on Thursday. For four years Mrs.
Mahoney had been in feeble health and
confined for most of that time to her
room, but her spirit never lost its native
cheer and sunniness.
Mrs. Mahoney was born in Spartan
burg, S. C., where her father, Dr. Robert
Marion Smith, was one of the most prom
inent citizens of that section of the state.
A life of Joel Chandler Harris, writ
ten by her, was accompanied by a pic
ture of Mr. Harris, which was the first
picture of him ever given out for pub
lication and was obtained by Mrs. Ma
honey through the strong friendship
borne her by Mr. Harris. The biography
wae widely copied throughout the coun
try. Mrs. Mahoney was also connected
for a long time with The Sunny South,
while It was under the editorial manage
ment of John H. Seals, the veteran jour
nalist, who died recently.
NO PEACH BLOOMS
IN STATE ORCHARDS
That the peach trees of toe state will
not bloom earlier than the normal
period, between March 10 and 20, is the
concensus of reports made by growers
of the state to the Georgia Fruit ex
change.
President H. C. Bagley, who is an ex
tensive grower, and, of course, has kept
in close touch with conditions in the
state, was asked yesterday what the
prospect was. He said:
“The buds In south Georgia commer
cial orchards are advanced, but not in
bloom yet. They are in a normal con
dition, which would indicate that they
will bloom at the usual time, between
the tenth and twentieth of next month.
“In their present condition, only an
abnormal cold spell could hurt them. A
temperature as low as 35 degrees
would not cause injury. Unusual cold
is hardly probable from now on.
“While the weather some weeks ago
was unusually warm, and would have
caused premature development had it
continued, there has been enough cold
since then effectually to retard the
buds. Under the general rule of com
pensation, there would probably be con
siderable cool weather the latter part
of the winter to make up for the warmth
of the early part. This would have the
effect of checking the trees until they
couid bloom safely.”
Growers who visit the exchange re
port good conditions in their orchards,
and are preparing for a good shipping
season.
OK LA HOMA MAN GIVEN
LIBERTY BY GOVERNOR
GAINESVILLE. Ga.. March I.—Walker
Prater, formerly of this county, recently
of Oklahoma, who has been held in jail
here on a charge of stealing four mules,
and wagon in the western state, and
drivins teams to Georgia across conti
nent, selling the mules in Atlanta, and
in whose case habeas corpus proceedings
have been pending, has been liberated by
the governor.
Much Interest was aroused in his be
half in this county, where he was reared,
and a delegation from Gainesville went
to Atlanta to see the governor in his be
half. A signed petition was presented
with signatures of many Hall county peo
ple. The sheriff, who came to Gaines
ville from the southwestern state to re
ceive Prater, who had been apprehended
by Sheriff Crow o fthis county, leaves
today for Oklahoma.
He has been paid many attentions by
the local officers, and dined at the regula
tion 'possum supper wnile here awaiting
the action of Governor Smith.
Waycross Negro Sentenced to Hang
WAYCROSS, Ga.. Feb. 97.—John Sup
ple. a negro, was today sentenced to hang
by Judge T. A. Parker. The execution
will take place on April 10th.
Supple was convicted of the murder of
Simon Lee. ,
Depot Burglars Given 5-Year Term
HAZLEHURST, Ga., Feb. 27,-Frank
Hall, the negro who burglarized th*
Southern depot here last November, was
convicted yesterday and sentened to
five years in the penitentiary.
Hazlehurst Negro is to Be Hanged.
HAZLEHURST, Ga.. Feb. 27.—John J
Suple, colored, who killed Simon Lee, an
other negro, at the Ocmulgae Lumber
company's camp near the upper edge of
the county, last December, was convict-;
ed of murder in the first degree y«s!er-‘.
day and sentenced by Judge T. A. Par- <
Her today to be hanged on the 10111 day .
of next April.
Suple was formerly from Savannah.
Dr. A. 31. Soule Speaks at Carrollton
CARROLLTON. Ga., Feb. 26,-Dr. A. M.
Soule, dean of the State Agricultural and
Mechanical college, at Athens, visited the
Fourth Congressional District Agricul
tural and Mechanical school at this place
■Wednesday and addressed the students,
faculty and quite a number of visitors,
who had assembled in tbe auditorium of
the school building.
The doctor's address was along educa
tional lines, and was bights* instructive
and interesting.
K. E. Lee Institute Destroyed by Fire
THOMASTON, Ga., Feb. 27,-The R. E.
Lee institute and the magnificent audi
torium adjoining, which was the pride ofi
middle Georgia, was totally destroyed by
fire at 7 o’clock Saturday night. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
The loss is over $30,000. with insurance
At a meeting of the board of trustees
tonight it was decided to open the
school Monday in churches and lodge
halls.
Roosevelt Plans to Visit Rome.
ROME, Ga., Feb. 26.—President Roose
velt has announced his Intention of visit
ing Rome Immediately upon his return
from Africa. This Information Is convey
ed in a letter to Miss Martha Berry, di
rector of the Berry school, an institution
for the training of mountain boys, per
haps the most famous In the south. Mr
Roosevelt has long been Interested in the
school.
In his letter to Miss Berry he says.
“When I return from Africa I Intend to
come down mystelf with Mrs. Roosevelt,
if possible, so that we can see the school
and the boys as well in person. My only
regret is that you haven't a school for
girls, too.”
Block in Vienna Destroyed by Fire.
VIENNA, Ga., Feb. 26.—Fire was dis
covered yesterday in the Vaughn build
ing, and in a short while the entire
block of six stores had been totally con
sumed by the flames. «
The Farmers' Union warehouse, a large
building of brick, and containing several
hundred bales of cotton, w*as in great
danger, on account of high wind, but was
saved by excellent work by the fire de
partment.
The buildings were occupied by J. L.
Taggart & Co., millinery, stock total loss,
partly insured; A. J. Sanders, grocer, to
tal loss, small amount of insurance;
Southern Express company, total Iocs;
Jones’ barber shop, total loss.
The total value of buildings and con
tents will probably reafeh $12,000, with in
surance of about $5,000.
This is the fourth time this block has
been burned in the last four years.
Captured for Firing at Merrymakers
GAINESVILLE, Ga., Feb. 27.—C01e
Campbell, charged with shooting Richard
Gravitt at a party near Cumming, a few
days ago, and who made his escape, was
captured by Mr. J. R. Owenby a short
distance from the scene of the alleged
tragedy.
Campbell, it is claimed, had been hiding
about the settlement, armed with a pistol.
He called on Owenby to have his pistol
repaired, and while waiting for the job
stated that to prevent being seen he
would step into the nearby woods.
When Owenby finished the repairs he
loaded the pistol and” then marched the
owner to Cumming and turned him over
to the officers.
It is stated that after Campbell had
shot Gravitt, some distance from the
house where the party was being held,
the dispute being over the alleged inter
ference of Gravitt between his sister and
Campbell, that the doors of the residence
were barred to prevent Campbell from
entering, and that Campbell forced his
way in through a window and terrorized
the crowd for two hours after the shoot
ing and then made his escape.
Saloonist Gets the Limit of Law
F. P. Whitley, who Is proprietor of a
near-beer saloon at 135 Peters street, was
given thirty days In the stockade, fined
SSOO and bound over to the state court
under a SI,OOO bond, Friday morning, by
tl,e recorder for violation of the prohibi
tion law.
The sentence was the heaviest that
could have been given, but the ease is to
be appealed, and a writ of ceriorari has
been secured which will stay the record
er's sentence for the time being at least.
After the completion of the trial, Whit
ley was taken to the Tower, where he
made a bond of SI,OOO and was released.
The heavy sentence given him came
like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky,
and took him by complete surprise. The
recorder declared that he intends to be
as stringent as possible on all prohibi
tion violators, and announced that he
woiild give the maximum sentence. Attor
ney Tom Felder, who represented the de
fendant, immediately gave notice that he
will appeal the case.
Whitley s saloon was earlier In
the week by Detectives Hood and Arthur,
and, according to the testimony Friday
morning, a barrel half full of bottles of
whisky was found beneath the counter.
Man and Woman held for Murder.
DOUGLAS. Ga., Feb. 26.—The coroner s
jury which held the inquest in the mat
ter of the killing of Beaman Goodyear
Monday night finished its deliberations
yesterday afternoon by bringing in a ver
dict charging R. V. L. Day with murder,
and Mattie Lyles as being an accessory
before the fact.
The hearing consumed two days, and
was very thorough and sifting, about
twenty witnesses being examined.
The jury finds that the evidence is suffi
cient to warrant the charge that young
Goodyear was killed by a gunshot wound
inflicted by Day, and that the woman
was accessory to the crime.
The evidence showed that Day was in
the house with the woman, and that the
shots were fired from the house. It also
showed that Day purchased some shells
loaded with buckshot a short time ago
from a local hardware store, having re
moved the wad from one of .the shells at
the time to see as to the size of the shot,
and then replaced same while in the
store.
At the house of the woman shells of
this character were found by the sheriff,
one of these shells indicating that it had
been opened and closed up again. A shot
gun was also found in the house, to
gether with two pistols. This and other
evidence tending to implicate Day, in
cluding bad feelings upon his part toward
the deceased and his jealousy concerning
the woman in question, formed ample
basis for the verdict of the jury.
The coroner also required bonds of the
two younger women, Daisy Arbuthnot
and Lena Highsmith, who were placed in
jail with Day and the Lyles woman, for
their appearance to testify in the case in
toe superior court.
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BARTLETT CHARGES
VIOLATION OF LAW
WASHINGTON. Feb. 26.-Represents- .
live Bartlett this afternoon offered an
amendment to the sundry civil bill, appro
priating fifty thousand dollars and direct
ing the department of Justice to prose
cute the U. S. Steel company for viola
tion of the anti-trust law in consumat- ..
ing the merger of the Tennessee Coal and .
Iron.
Representative Tawney made a point of
order that the amendment was new legis
lation and at 3 o'clock Mr. Bartlet was
debating the point.
After prolonged debate the Bartlett
amendment was knocked out, whereupon
Representative Hitchcock, of Nebraska,
embodied the same purpose in another
form, and was sustained in the conten
tion that it was germane. The Republi
cans resisted meeting the issue of prose
cuting the steel trust, but they could not
dodge the issue. Tlie house then debated
; whether the attorney general shall prose-
I cute the steel trust for its absorption of
T. C. and I.
KNOX WILL KEEP PLACE
’ ON MONETARY BOARD
| WASHINGTON, March I.—Senator
' Knox will not sever his connections with
i the congressional monetary commission -
I because of his transfer from the senate
‘ tc the state department. Provision has
also been made for the continuant of
i Senator Teller and Representatives Over
i street and Bonynge on the commission.
1 As originally composed, the commission
I contained only senators and members and
i the provision in the currency law of the
j last session creating the commission Mm-' ,
j ited the membership to members of th®
1 two bouses.
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