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Bi Country ///'/ Timely Topics.-' \ arm. Ml <om.~le.tloo. for UU depsrtmsat to Mm F . H- Fritoa Q*rter* T1 l>. Gz. _ “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. 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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. 7
