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Newspaper Page Text2 NMR IS WON or O'NEAL FOB LOCAL OPTION Mallory. Leader of Stringent Prohibition Faction. Is De feated for Governor By Ma jority of 20.000 to 30.000 MONTGOMERY, Ala.. May 3—The •nti-amendment faction of the Demo cratic party, opposed to the recent pro posed amendment to put prohibition in the legislation of Alabama, appear to have made a clean sweep of the state ticket in yesterday's primary. Emmett A. O'Neal, leader of the anti amendment forces, defeated H. S. D. Mallory, of Selma, a supporter of the amendment, by a majority of between fa.aeo and 35,000 for governor. ► ‘ United States Senator John H. Bank head received a vote which will proba bly equal the combined vote of his two opponents, John B. Knox and Frank S. White, and is assured of a new term in the senate. SWEEP STATE TICKET. L For chief justice of the supreme court. Justice ( J. R- Dowdell appears to have been renominated, githough the friends of C. C. Nesmith claim that the more remote country beats will give him a majority in the final count. Leon McCord is certain winner for railroad commissioner, and Frank L. Julian is leading for second place. In the Fifth congressional district. Congressman J. Thomas Heflin has de feated his opponent. Judge A. J. Driver. Al! other members of the Alabama dele gation are refurned without opposition. For attorney general, R. C. Brlcknell and H. H. Riddle ran close. Justices Sayre and Anderson have been renomi nated. while Justice Evans has been de feated by Ormond Somerville, a member of the law faculty’ of the state univer state; J. A. Wilkinson, for treasurer, and C. B. Smith, for auditor. h*ve won. MODIFY PROHIBITION. The ciaim is made that the majori ty of the delegates to the stste conveti tion, which meets on May 17. will stand for local option, and will Insist on a modification of the present state-wide prob lb t ion laws. It is also claimed that a majority of the state senate will favor local option as opposed to state-wide ■ prohibition, although the attitude of a majority of the members of the house of representatives will not be known un til later. It Is accepted as certain that the prohibition laws of the state will be modified. . The lines drawn in the recent prohibi tion amendment campaign were main tained In the primary. The candidates who supported the amendment received practically the same vote as cast for the amendment, while the anti-amend ment candidates received the majorities east in the various counties against pro hibition amendments. Future legislation on the prohibition issue will be guided largely by the declaration made by the Democratic state convention on May 17. There were contesting delegations tn most of the eountiee of the state, but if it is claimed by state leaders that the dele gation favoring local option have been elected in all the larger counties and In a majority of the smaller counties. FINE WHEAT CROP AT STATE FARM NOT HURT r* 5 i Commissioner Wiley Williams believes : that the state prison commission has good reason to be justly proud of its > grain crop this year at the state farm, i and particularly of the first wheat crop that the state ever made at that institu tion. There are 30* acres In wheat, out of LfiOf -acres altogether In various grains, on the state's farm lands near MilleJge- I ville Commissioner Williams, just re turned from a visit ..<•>». saja mat in ail that acreage he found not even i •ingle stem of wheat, corn or anything else that was hurt by the recent un timely cold ware, he predicts that *t will he a bumper -'top. and will produce sufficient wheat to give the state all the flour it needs al tne farm, where about 4*o people must be fed all the time. IL Commissioner Williams reports also that none of the farm's cotton was hurt by the eo'd weather, and attributes this good fortune to the fart that the seed has been in the ground only a very few lays SI.JDoTIECKLACE AND PENDANT RECOVERED NEW YORK. May Through the ar rest here of two scullions employed on the Ward line »l*amer Mexico. Mrs. Fran c*g J. Daly, wife of a paymaster tn the •United Pistes army, now stationed at . Ovontanamo Cubs, will receive a n*ck . lace and pendant valued at tl.sm.which she ; 3’*** while en route from this city to CAha on that vessel last month. p?’ The Mexico was searched on arrival here last Friday. In accordance with a wireless message to the police, but no trace was found of the jewels. Last night pj two men from th* steamer visited a tail shop near the water front, presented k ■ the necklace and asked Its value Their *f r aneat followed. One of the men said .he found the necklace in the fore castle ,LADYLIKE BEHAVIOR ® FAVORED RY THIS WOMAN S’ NEW OP’.rxNS May “Perfectly ®|3»dy-llke behavior" was advocated by Miss Rae Costello, of England. In sneak * inr here last night In advocacy of wo men’s suffrage. 7 Miss C«s*el’o oualffted this, however, f-.h’- saving that she Wa<- not a militant wE»»*ffr»r*t. because she believed no good ■Jvtv accomplished by violent met ho.ls. Jt-Fev. Dr. Anna Snaw president or the Woman's Suffrage association. Kalso addressed the meeting., Tirn MHk tn Riitt°r rns'rnv. War « —Tr«-nlnr t« bntte- s l»rs» U esrt •* »*• milk ’het •« tvdnr held b'-k f-oSi wE? •%. MMit'ar»nr* rSn ♦„ n»v winter nr’ew *•- ft. f« r«w ’hr oertntatlnn nf tfrr f«-TTT-r* IT rr»«A regared In the mt’k war In Masaa | — ~ T- Cood Spring Tonic “We have taken Hood’s Sar«aparilla for a spring tonic and as a blod purifier. Last spring I was not well at all. When I went to bed I was tired and nerxou.-. and could not sleep well, in th- morning i would feel twice as tired: my brother got a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla, which I took. I felt like a new pe-son when I had finished that bottle. We always have sothc of H<l*l« medicine in the house.” HHvey Resell*. Marinette. Wis. Oct it today Jw usual liquid form or Chocolated tablets known as Sarsatabs. HUfILEO FOURTEEN FLOORS IN PLUNGING [LEffIOB Two Men Save Lives By Climbing Up Steel Cable Against Falling Lift MEMPHIS. Tenn.. May 3-Thanks to a rare presence of mind, Otto Herold and F. Howard, structural Iron workers, escaped what seemed certain death late yesterday with nothing worse than blis tered hands, while U. Porter, a fellow worker, who was not so quick to grasp the situation, was painfully if not seri ously injured. Completing their day s labor near the top of a 17-story building in course of construction, the three start ed to descend on a frail elevator. All went well until the 14th story was leached. Here something happened to lhe engine, which hoists the car, and the elevator started a rapid plunge downward. Howard and Herold, grabbing the steel cable started a climb against the rapidly descending lift, making such headway that they were several feet above the car when it reached the ground. Porter clung to the car and suffered several broken ribs and was badly bruised while his two companions were practically un hurt. MANY MASONS GATHER IN ROME CONCLAVE ROME, Ga.. May 4.—Rome is today the mecca of southern Masons. This morn ing at 10 o'clock Worsi<>pful Master Meyerhardt called to order the Seventh convention of the Masons of the Seventh congressional district. Delegates from 70 lodges in 13 counties are present, and there is a full representation from Ala bama and Tennessee. All of the district deputies of the state of Georgia, and all of the members of the grand lodge of Georgia are here. Th* address of welcome was delivered by Mayor J. W. Hancock. Then tho convention proceeded to the transaction rs routine business This afternoon th* first degree was conferred by the 11 dis trict deputies. Tonight at the opera house is “ladies' night.” Besides a mu sical program, addresses will be made by Grand Master Henry Banks, Deputy Grand aster George M. Napier. Rabbi .-avid Marx, of Atlanta: Judge John W. Maddox. Judge Joel Branham, Judge Moses Wright. Andrew 8. Harvoy, Judge Richard B. Russell, of Atlanta and F. W. Copeland, of Rome. TWO GLASSES of beer WASHINGTON. May 3. Brewers in this city have conceded to their em ployes an eight-hour day. In return the employes have agreed to take riot more than two drinks of beer during the eight hours. No wave of temperance reform on the part of the breweries' management, how ever. is responsible, but a wish to get s full measure of work out of the em ployes. Before and arter working hours It is agreed the employes can drink all the beer they want. PLAN ANOTHERIPARK LIKE OUR YELLOWSTONE NEW YORK. May 4—Wealthy Danish- Amer icans here have secured options on I a large tract or neath land in Jutland. Denmark, whkh they plan to purchase and pr-sent to their .atherland ns a na tional park, on the order of Yellowstone park in America. A. C. Madson, presi dent nf the Danish-American society of the United States, has already received ] over 500 subscriptions to the fund I the purpose. The tract is close to the center of the Jutland peninsula, near the town of Aar huua. it is planned tha the park shall be used as the annual meeting place of | American Danes who visit their native land and also for parties of American tourists who go sightseeing tn the Scan dinavian country. FIRE EATER, AFLAME.’ IS THROWNJNTO FOUNTAIN NEW May 4.—lt Is as a fire eater that Roehl Mundi, a Hindoo, makes bis living, but h* nearly lost his life! last night in flames. H* was rehearsing a new act when I he spilled a bottle of ether over himself, and instantly was enveloped by the blaze. I Mundi ran howling Into a nearby park, i There a man threw him into a fountain. tn time to save his life. WOULD DRESS CONVICTS INMOTHER HUBBARDS ROME. Ga., May 3.—Floyd county I commissioners aroused by the frequent escapes from jail and the reports of ver- , min-infested prisoners, this morning evolved the ICea of taking the clothes away from all male prisoners and dress ing them in mother hubbards. A strong speech advocating this was made by Chairman W. M. Gammon county Attorneys Shaw and James E. Maddox have been asked for a ruling as I to whether it will be legal to force pris oners to wear dresses. The board be lieves this garb would prevent escapes and insure cleanliness. JUDGE - ADMITS’CROKER’S DAUGHTER WED GROOM NEW YORK. May 4.—For several days there have been rumors that Miss Ethel Urcker and John J. Breen, a groom nt a New York riding academy, were merited recently in Hoboken, N. J. Tientsin end counter-denials from 'both sides followed. The justice of ’ peace said to have officiated declined to tnake any statement until last .night, when he issued a sworn statement that the Miss Croker concerned is a daughter of the former Tammany chief, and Breen is the riding academy groom. He had kept the secret, the Justice added, at the request of Breen. Miss Croker, or Mrs. Breen, Is booked to sail for Europe todav. Her family declines to discuss ' the justice's statement. KING’S DAUGHTERs’wiLL CONVENE IN SAVANNAH SAVANNAH. Ga, May 3.—The out-of town delegates to the annual state con vention of the King's Daughters and Sons began arriving yesterday and they have continued to com* on all train» en- I tering the city today. The visitors are being met by local committees and escorted to the homes In which they will be entertained while heie. Mayor George W. Tiedcman will deliver the address of welcome tonight at the first of the meetings. The convention will last. three days. LONDON COMMANDER PEARY LONDON. May 3.—lXMi.lnn Is making j muefi of commander Robert E. Peary. Today a great crowd tn the streets ad- I jacent to the home of V*** royal society, 1 where he was entertained at luncheon, awaited the arrival of th* American ex plorer and gave mm a hearty reception. THE ATLANTA SEMI WEEKLY ATLANTA. GEORGIA FRIDAY. MAY 6, 1910 ELAY PRACTICALLY j WINS HIS FIGHT DU l TAFT RAILWAY BILL ! It Is Almost Certain That the Senator’s Amendment to Eliminate Sections 7 and 12 Will Prevail BY SMITH. WASHINGTON, Maj- 3.—lt is practical ly certain that Senator Clay's amendment to eliminate sections 7 and 12 from the 1 administration railroad bill will prevail In | the senate. The chances are better than I even that this will have been accom plished before the senate adjourns to day. Section 7 authorizes traffic agreements between railroads and section 12 legalizes mergers in cases where the road has as much as 50 per cent of the stock of an other road. The sections are the most objectionable features of the administration bill, and their elimination means that President Taft, the administration and the regular Republicans of the senate have been forced to yield their most treasured de sire in the shape of legislation. With these sections elimianted. prac tically all that is left of the bill will be the provision establishing an inter state commerce court, the section making it obligator}' on railroad* to quote rates correctly to shippers, that giving the in terstate commerce commission pow-er to initiate investigations on its own com plaints, and the section providing for a 60-day suspension of rates pending an investigation by the commission into their reasonableness. Senator Clay's leadership in the fight against the. objectionable provisions of the bill was recognized generally today by regular Republicans and insurgents alike. His amendments have been pend ing for some time and as the opposition to sections 7 and 1 Senator Clay's amendments gathered strength. He has constantly pressed their adoption, and the encouragement and promises of sup port he has received made it practical ly certain that they will be adopted. suffragetteTtcTwork TO WIN OVER ILLINOIS I CHICAGO. May 4.—Bands nf woman suffragists, touring the state in automo biles. will descend upon every <Mts, town,| village and hamlet in Illinois before the legislative primaries next September in an effort to make the question of “votes for women" a leading Issue in the cam paign. At a meeting of the executive commit-] tee of the Illinois Equal Stiffrage associa tion today the details of the plan will be l taken up and arrangements for organiz ing the bands of workers and securing! automobiles for their use will be made. Every woman who has ever indicat’d sympathy with the woman's suffrage movement and who is fortunate enough to possess an automobile will be called upon to give her machine to the work. Speaking of the plans of the association, Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch, law- I yer and justice of the peace in Evanston and a leader in the equal suffrage move ment, said; "We plan now to hav<> five women in each party, first a matron ac chaperon, then a college girl, a working girl, a singer, to draw the crowd, and a woman ! lawyer. We will go into a town, get a I permit to speak from the mayor and hold meetings in two or three different places and present our cause to the voters.” BOY CONFESSES HE HAD KIDNAPED HIMSELF NEW YORK. May 3.—Harry Spindle, a i brisk littl? boy of 13 years, is being held by the Children's Society on his own confession that he kidnaped himself, ter lorizcd his parents with blackhand let ters and then, when they failed to pro ' cure the money he needed to get west, invented a get-rich-quick scheme that 'netted him SICO in less than a week. A i string of sad little girls, his tools, and j their angry mothers, his victims, cor roborated ilis story. | Harry's plan, as told by himself was to ] find some little girl on the street, flatter i her with news of how her father had j Just Izecn elected president of a lodge, ! and then get the mother to borrow $3, $1 or $5 from the corner grocer to buy j flowers for a surprise to father when he I came home. Then Harry would offer ! to run to the florists with the money, but he never came back. | With his pal. Arthur Gulden, 12 years old. Harry left liorrie more than a week I ago. fired with an ambition to go west I after having seen a thrilling moving ' picture shew. IT SLUGS HARD Coffee a Sure and Powerful Bruiser "uet your coffee slave be denied the I hup at Its appointed time! Headache— ; sic* stomach —fatigue like unto death. I know it all In myself, and have seen it lin others. Strange tnat thinking, rea i soning beings will persist in its use,' i says a Topeka, Kansas, man. I He says further that he did not begin drinking coffee until atter he was twen ty years old. and that slowly it uegan to poison nini. and aifect his hearing (..rough his nervous system. ‘finally, I quit coffee and the condi- I tions slowly disappeared, bu. one cold ‘ morning the smell of iny wire s coffee was too much for me and I took a cup. Soon 1 was drinking my regular allow ance, tearing oown nrain anu nerves by i e daily dose of the nefarious voticuc i tion. • loiter. I found my breath coming I hard ano frequent -,ts of nausea, and <.>en I was taken down with bilious fe j ver. "Common sense came to me ano I quit I cotfee for good and went back to Pos -1 turn. I at once began to gain and have , had no return of my bilious symptoms, ' headache, dizziness, or vertigo. I "I now have health, bright thoughts, and added weight, wiere before there was invalidism, the blues, and a skeie , ton-like condition of the body. My brother quit co.fee Because of its effect on his health and now uses Pos tum. He could not stand the nervous strain while using eofrec, but keeps well on Potum. "Miss F., I know personally, was in capable of doing a day's work while she ' was using coffee. She quit it and took j up Postum and Is now well and has per ' fectly steady nerves. Read the little book. "The Road to ! Wellvill*. in pkgs. "There s a Reason." j Ever read the above letter? ! A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human inter est. CARUSO WEARS NO. 18 COLLAR, AND THEREBY HANGS A STORY I Enrico Caruso wanted some new collars i and other duds. Tuesday morning, and he ! fared forth upon Atlanta's streets with ■ three companions to Ibuy them. Cloud-Stanford’s "shop of quality” was 1 the favored emporium of gentlemen's goods. ( Caruso bought a silk hat. a soft hat, some pajama suits, one of Cloud-Stan ’ fords new Tuxedo stocks, some—but why , be too embarrassingly accurate?' After about three-quarters of an hour ,of purchasing, during which the great I ttnor saw fit to speak some nice praise (of the shop, he turned to leave. Then— " Ah-h-h, one coljaire! Casi me olvide!" I "Yes. yes, yes!" ejaculated one of his j younger companions, who was armed , with a kodak and spoke rather good Eng ; lish. "He mus' have some collaires, if you J please.” "Qute right, best in town." returned Mr. Stanford. “Collars—yes! What num ber, please?’ “Eighteen, I believe." Hero the Inter preter turned to converse rapidly -with the tenor, who said: “Os course, you ought to remember," with his hands and arms and shoulders and eyebrows while 'he talked Italian with his mouth. ("Eighteen— yes," the Interpreter confirm ed Mr. Stanford, always polite, was vlsi ! bly confused. He could not think how to ■ correct the Interpreter's ‘English without ! appearing too rude. So Instead of saying ] anything, he turned to a big drawer be hind him and selected a No. 18 leather belt of the latest summer style. It was the smallest he had In stock. As he put the belt on the counter con sternation struck him. The w'aist line of the great tenor caught his eye and sent him into a panic. A No. 18 for that cir cumference! Follte and deprecatory coughs came WESTON HAS HARD TIME DOING NOTHING IN N. Y. Pedestrian Spends Part of His Time Meeting His Old Friends Again NEW YORK .May 3.—These davs are restless ones for Edward Payson Weston. For the first time in three months or more he has nothing to do. and it takes a deal of scheming to make the doing of it fill the day. Something of his leisure time is being spent in renewing old acquaintances here One of his first calls was upon Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard, the lawyer and patron of adventures, and another favor ed friend. Joseph H. Choate, former am bassador to Great Britain. Mr. Choate had treid to get to city hall on Monday to see the end of Weston's 3,500-mile stroll, but the crowd was too dense and he had to turn back. He took Weston to task for walking 72 miles in one day. "When he read about it in the newspa pers," said Mr. Weston later, “he wrote me s letter In which h* wanted to know whether I was ever going to get over being a fqol." The pedestrian's ankle, which was In jured In an automobile collision a few days before he reached the end of his journey, is still bothering him a little, but he expresses no fear that the Injury will have any permanent effect. STENOGRAPHER SUES RYAN FOR $252,000 NEW YORK. May 4.—John D. Ryan, president of the Amalgamated Copper company, has been sued in the supreme court of this city for what he claims is the largest stenographer's fee on record. The amount Is $252,000. The claimant Is William SV. Johnson, who was Ryan's stenographer and confidential secretary in 1904. He claims that he assisted Ryan in a confidential capacity in getting control of F. Augustus Heinze's copper interests in Bu.te, Mont., and that through his ef forts in February, 1906, Ryan and Thomas F. Cole secured control of Heinze's prop erties. Ryan in his answer declares that Johnson was employed simply as a stenographer and did nothing more im portant than stenographic work. “DAMMIT” OBSCENE AND a CRIME. COURT HOLDS LONDON. May 3.—A police magistrate at Ivy Bridge, in Devonshire, has de cided that the wortl "dammit" is ob scene and that its use may be punished as a crime. The Hon. Francis Lascelles, son of the Earl of Hardwood. was bicycling through the country when he was run into and capsized by a carriage driven j by a woman. I Tn the accident the Hon. Francis lost J one ear and his collarbone was broken, j Under this slight provocation, he said “dammit," and the woman had him ar rested and arraigned for using obscene language. The magistrate fined him 35 and costs. COLE AND BUSH ARE CONFIRMED BY SENATE BY RALPH SMITH. 1 WASHINGTON. May 3.—The nomina ‘ tions of Dewitt C. Cole to be postmaster Marietta, and Harvey D. Bush to be ! postmaster at Covington were confirmed 'by the senate yesterday afternoon. ELECTRIC POWER PLANT IS SOLD FOR $400,000 GAINESVILLE. Ga.. May 4.-The en tire property, including the Dunlap power plant and the tower line from i Gainesville to Atlanta and the Tallulah Falls property, belonging to the North I Georgia Electric company, was sold in > Gainesville yesterday by H. H. Dean, as 1 receiver for said company, to 8. F. Smith, iof York, Pa., for the sum of $400,000. • The sale was made subject to the two ' outstanding mortgages, one known as ' the Dunlap mortgage of $200,000, and one I known as the Wilson mortgage of $250,- ! otx>. AMERICAN’ COff ON”OIL DECLARES DIVIDEND I NEW YORK, May 3.—The directors ( of th* American Cotton Oil company to ; day declared a semi-annual dividend oi ' 2 1-2 per cent oh the common stock. Tn ! November, 1909, an annual dividend of ! 5 per cent was declare... HOUR’SCALE REDUCED IN SUU I HERN SHOPS J PHILADELPHIA. May 3.—John H. i Converse, ofs the Baldwin locomotive ■ works, one of the most prominent Pres j bvterian laymen In the country, died sud j denly at his home early today. WILLIAM SAULS OF' COLUMBUS IS DYING COLI’MriUB. Ga., May 3.—WttLam Sauls, aged 86. a prominent citizen of 1 Columbus, was stricken down with par | Siysis this morning and is now tn a {dying stale from all four of the foreign gentlemen standing across th* counter. "Que me perdone,” whispered the younger interpreter. “I say 'collaire,' If you please.” "Excuse me, too.' returned Mr. Stan ford. flushing. "But did you say 'No. 19?’ ” The young man nodded brightly, and Caruso nodded, and the other two nodded. Yes, quite right: No. 18 collar 1 . Mr. Stanford now cast one eye shyly up on the tenor's neck- Then he understood. "Will you please to inform Mr. Caru so.” be said (Mr. Stanford was by now getting quite Italianesque in his man ner). "that had we anticipated for a mo ment he would so favor us with his patronage, we would long since have supplied ourselves with collars galore for him to select. But No. 18. —ah, that is worn only by the greatest of tenors, and we have none in stock. There is none in town. There is none in the whole broad southland. Mut Mr. Caruso has but to command for me to obey. A col lar? No. 18? At once. Tell him. Right away I will have a plentiful supply made. Soon, now. this afternoon, I will have it for him—in two shakes of a sheep's tail, just like that!” The tenor was so 'impressed with this upholding of Atlanta's tradition of turn ing no man away dissatisfied that he not only heartily agreed with the plan, but came back again a few minutes later to make some more purchases. Mr. Stanford, five miutes later, had placed the order, to be ready Tuesday af ternoon. in just the high style for even ing wear that the tenor wanted. Mr. Stanford says the firm Is going to name their new Tuxedo stocks, “the stock Caruso,” after the tenor who is one of the very first to wear it. Caruso saw one or two of them displayed in th* shop window and called for one as soon as he entered. DUKE AND DUCHESS LITTA HERE FOR VISIT Duchess Was Mrs. Schaife, of Charleston lnterested in Colony for Italians NEW YORK, May 4. —Duke Pompee Litta, of and his duchess, Wno was Mrs. Jane Jtohnson Perry Scaife, of Charleston, S. C. have arrived in New York for their first visit to American since their marriage in 1898. Their visit is partly in connection with a philanthropic scheme for the coloni zation of Italians in Manatee county. Fla. Early last year tne duke offered to colonize a large tract of land with Ital ian earthquake sufferers, giving each family ten acres. » 5 ALLEGED KIDNAPPERS ARE BROUGHT TO TRIAL HOLTON. Kan.. May 4.—Five persons vere brought to trial in the country court here today charged with complicity in the sensational kidnaping at Topeka In Au gust last, of Marian Bleakley, the "in cubator baby" of world’s fair fame. The defendants are Mrs. Stella Barclay, of Buffalo, N. Y.. who once adopted the child and who Is alleged to have planned 1 lie kidnaping; Joseph N. Gentry, a Kan sas City detective: Frank H. Tillotson in whose employ Gentry was; Robert Randolph, whi Is said to. have driven the motor cars in making the escape with the child, and David Gregg, of Topeka, alleged accomplices. Marian Bleakley was recovered In Kan s.'s City, and after a sensational brittle in the courts was turned over to her mother. SAY FIRM OWES OVER TWO MILLION DOLLARS NEW YORK. May 3—An involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed in the United States district court today against the Standard Cordage company of New York. Brooklyn. Boston and Elizabeth. N. J., by three bondholders, who allege insolvency. They claim the liabilities of the concern are $2,400,000 and that its assets are not worth more than $1,000,000. Judge Hough appointed Lindsay Rus sell receiver of the company with a bond of SIfiO.OOO. / WeTreat You 30DaysFREE jyiii Rlon<l Pu.av.. <mi ne> er be cureu ou luereury er potash. Yon as well know this tirar as last. Medical authorities say so. * The meet these drugs can do ts to drive the btooJ poison back int» the svstem and smother ft for several years. Then when yon think yon arc enred pltlfnl mercury symptoms will break ont and von find that your boees have been rotting ah' the while. Your teeth will begin to loosen nnd your tissues, glarda. brain and vita! organs will shew the terrible destructive p..‘vet of the mercury and potash. 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GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. th« o.NTAun eoMeaxv, rr murr.v .mcr, nrwroßKCrn. THE SOUTHERN I —METHODISTS The quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, will meet today In Asheville, N. C., and will continue its sessions through the re mainder of the month. This conference, composed of lay and ministerial dele gates elected by the 48th annual confer ences, is the supreme authority in the church. The Methodist Episcopal Church. South, has 1,850,000 members, and is the second largest of the 16 Methodist bodies in the United States. The Methodist Epis copal church, or Northern branch, has 3,000,000 members. These two major Methodist churches divide, after a fashion, the territory of the United States. The southern branch has the southern states and also a large following in the west and along the Pa cific coast. The two churches overlap each other in many places, but the move ment for federation has progressed to such an extent that there is now a con siderable measure of co-operation be tween the two bodies. Since the separa tion in 1844 some few differences in de tails of church polity and government have sprung up, but there is no differ ence in faith and no essential difference in practice. Several years ago the two churches adopted a common hymnal and ritual, if one may give that name to the severely simple Methodlstlcal order of worship. There is entire co-operation between the two churches with respect to foreign mission fields, and in the Orient this co operation has reached the stage of actual union. One of the most Important meas ures which will be considered at this meeting of the conference will be the re port of the joint commission on federation of the two great Methodist churches. Organic and complete union is not now contemplated, but federation and com plete co-operation soon will be attained. Thirty-eight of the 48 annual confer ences in this church are fully organized and independent church bodies, subject only to the authority of the general con ference as exercised through the col lege of bishops. The other ten annual conferences are mission conferences which are under the paternal care of all the church. One of these is a Ger man mission in Texas, there are two In Brazil, one In Japan, one in Korea, one In China, one in Cuba, and three in Mexico. For the benefit of those who are not familiar with Methodist nomenclature it may be said that the phrase “annual conference" means not only the annual meeting of preachers and lay' delegates, but also the organized body in a certain prescribed territory, and even that ter ritory itself. Many important and some revolutionary measures will be considered at this ses sion of the general conference. There is a movement In the west in favor of eliminating the word “south" from the official name of the church body. Sev eral annual conferences support thia movement and it will be seriously con sidered. j Another party In the church advocates the abolition of the title of bishop and substituting therefor the office of super intendent. at the same time reducing the tenure of office from life service to a term of eight years. Methodist bishops have a great deal of episcopal power, but the nature of their office is purely politi cal and not religious. The bishops are not a higher order of the ministry, and they have no diocesan jurisdiction or power. They are in no way comparable to the bishops of the Roman Catholic or the Protestant Eplscoapl churches. Other changes in church polity which will be considered include the proposal to abolish the time limit which now pre cludes the services of a pastor of one church extending more than four consec utive years: the abolition of the office of presiding elder: the election of presiding elders or district superintendents by a vote of the annual conference and giv ing them a voice in the appointment of pastors. Some of these changes already have been adopted in the Methodist Epis copal church. At present the bishop pre siding 'over an annual conference ap points the pastors of each church each year and there is no appeal from his de cision. The advocates of these changes are mostly western Methodists, One of the most Important matters which will come before the conference re lates to the management of Vanderbilt university. This university- is located at Nashville. Tern., and is the largest edu cational institution of southern Method ism. The question will come up in the form of memorials from several annual conferences asking the general confer ence "to take such conclusive action as will fully and finally assure to the church the ownership and control of the univer sity. with all the rights accorded to the church and bishops under the university charter and the findings of the Vanderbilt commission." Vanderbilt university, while acknowledg ing the control of the church, has devel oped the non-sectarian idea in all its branches save the theological department In its capacity as a non-denominatlonal school it is proposed to federate the uni-, veralty tvith a collegri sos teachers to be endowed by several million dollars by the George Peatoby educational fund. Those who wish to preserve the strictly Methodist churacter of the university are opposed to this federation. The discus sion on this question promises to be very acrimonious. Vanderbilt university has 1.000 students. 125 instructors and an en dowment of approximately $2,000,000. It is one of the largest educational institutions in the entire south. Another question which will create great interest will come up on the peti tion of the women of the church for the extension of the full rights accorded to laymen. Thei women’s question, the Van derbilt dispute and the proposal to elim inate the word "south” from the official name of the church will be the three live Issues of the conference. No Important theological or doctrinal discussions are anticipated. Under the Methodist polity the bishops have almost complete control of the af fairs of the church and the election of new bishops always is an interesting and important part of the duties of a general conference. There are now only eight bishops in the church, and one of them is superannuated. Three active bishops have died since th© general conference in 1906, which met in Birmingham, Ala. It is probable that two of the present ac tive bishops will ask to be superannuated at this time. One is Bishop, A. W. XVllson, of Baltimore, who is the dean of the College of Bishops, and who has been In active service ever since 1882. The other is Bishop J. 6. Key, of Sherman, Tex., who was elected in 1886. Bishop O. P. Fitzgerald, of Nashville, Tenn., is now in retirement.' The other active bishops are E. R. Hendrix, of Kansafc City, Mo.; W. A. Candler, of Atlanta, Ga.; H, C. Morrison, of New Orleans, La.; E. E. Moss, of Monteagle, Tenn.; and James Atkins, of Waynesville, N. C. It is probable that mis confefence will elect six new bishops, possibly eight. The new bishops probably will be chosen from among the fo.-ov ing eminent di vines of the church: W. F. Tillett, of Tennessee; Walter R. Lambuth, of Ten nessee; Collins Denny, of Virginia; J. U. Kilgore, of North Carolina; W. B. Mur rah of Mississippi; W. F. McMurray, of Louisville, Ky.; J. A. Cannon, of Vlr gina; H. H, Dußose, of Mississippi; Gross Alexander, of Kentucky; S. H. Wainright, of St. Louis; John A. Kice. of New Orleans; R." G. Waterhouse, of Ten nessee; Frank N. Parker, of Louisiana; W. C. McCoy, of Alabama, and E. B. C-.appell. of Tennessee. The bishops are elected by a majority vote in the conference, ministerial and lay delegates having equal voice. The episcopal election always is the most exciting feature of the work of a gen eral conference, and already the whole of southern Methodism is alive with in terest on account of the fact that such an unusually large number of bishops is to be chosen at the Asheville confer ence. The Methodist Episcopal church, south, is fourth in point of membersnip among the Individual Protestant bodies of th* United States. The Methodist Episcopal church is the largest, the National Bap tist convention (colored) 1s second, the Southern Baptist convention is third. 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