SVtfeiwta ShwwL
VOL. X.
SI XT Y l iRST CONGRESS BEGINS ITS LAST SESSION
RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD
■ 'i: i -?
- ;
vßk
-l5 z x
■MT
|oS®l
*? ■ ■' o
SvMF ■■
- ■ >- ■ '
■> fat ■ - ■ ' %NU&I
; . ’ '-'V *'**
■■ ■• "•&•
• wiaHStr v*
W
MU«. Polxire. advert.red as ‘the ricjiest woman in the world.” who haa
made antohor great success in * new play entitled "Gay Life on Montmartre.”
MARY BAKER EDDY DEAD
AFTER BRILLIANT CAREER
Head of Christian Science Church Yields Unto Death While
Her Followers All Over the Civilized World Mourn—Brief
Sketch of Her Career and What She Accomplished
(By Associated rrvss.l
BOSTON Dec. B.—Mrs. M»r Baker
Glover Eddy, founder acid leader of
Christian Science, died at 4:30 o’clock
Sunday morning at her home in Chestnut
Hill.
"Natural causes." explains the death.
a<cording to Dr. George L. West, a dis
trict medical examiner, who was sum
moned a few hours after Mrs. Eddy pass
ed away. —ater Dr. West added to his
a icement by saying that the more im
mediate cause was probably pneumonia.
The news of Mrs. Eddy's death was
made known simultaneously by Judge
Clifford P. Smith, first reader of the
church, at the close of the morning serv
ioe. and by Alfred Farlow, of the Chris
tian Science publication committee, in a
statement to the pres/.
DIED SATURDAY NIuHT.
According to Mr. Farlow, Mrs. Eddy
passed away at 10:4> o'clock Saturday
night. ,
"She had been indisposed for about
nine days,” said Mr. Farlow's statement,
"but had been up and dressed, and as
late as Thursday transacted some busi
ness with one of the officials of the Chris
tian Science church. She took her daily
afternoon drive until two days before her
gcing. Saturday night she fell quietly
asleep, and those around her could at first
hardly realise that she had gone. Her
thought was clear until the last, and she
left this final message.
” ‘Ton may be looking to see me in my
accustomed place with you. but this you
must no longer expect. When I retired
from the field of labor it was a departure,
socially, publicly and finally, from the
routing i»nd such material modes as so
ciety and our societies’ demand. Rumors
are rumors—nothing more. I am still
with you on the field of battle, taking
forward march, broader and higher views,
and with the hope that you will follow*.
*’ ‘All our thoughts should be given
to the absolute demonstration of Christ
ian science. You can well afford to give
me up. since you have in my last revised
edition of science and health your teacher
and guide.’
"No physician was In attendance, but
she had the assistance of the students
who comprised ,her household. With her
at the time of her departure were Mr.
Alfred Frey. Miss Laura Sargent. Mrs.
Ella H. Rathvone. Rev. Irving Tomlinson,
her corresponding secretary, William
Rathvone. and her secretary, Adam 11.
Dickey.
"No arrangements regarding the time
or the place of her burial have yet been
decided upon. It is well ..nown to her
household that she believed in simplicity
on such occasions, and 1- compliance
with this knowledge it is expected that
the services will be private and of a sim
ple nature, consisting probably of prayer
and readings from the B ble. with some
brief from the Christian Sci
ences text-book. Only her relatives, her
household and the officials of the church
are expected to be in attendance.
HAD NO PHYSICIAN.
“There navtng been no physician in at
tendance, Dr. George L. West, of Newton
Center, medical examiner for the dis
trict. was called early Sunday morning.
"Dr. West, after investigating, pro
nounced the death due to natural causes,
and issued the customary certificate.
“A telegram was sent to her son,
George W. Glover, of Lead, 8. D., appris
ing him of his mother's demise, and re
questing information of his attendance
and that of his family.
“Mrs. Eddy was born in Bow, N. H.,
July 16, 1821. and was. therefore, in her
90th year.”
There were few of the congregation at
the morning service at the mother church
today who knew that the life of the lead
er and teacher had ended. The services
were as usual, and the two readers.
Judge Smith and Mrs. Leland T. Pow
ers, presented the sermon of the day:
"God the Only Cause and Creator,” with
voices that were without emotibn and
had no suggestion of sadness.
The routine service, which closes
with a hymn, the reading of the scien
tific statement of being, and the bene
diction, was strictly followed, but just
before the benediction Judge Smith
changed the usual form by saying:
"I shall now read part of a letter,
written by our reverend leader and re
printed on page 35 of ‘Miscellaenous
Writings.’
SHE PASSED AWAY.
“My beloved students:
“Although these lines,” said Judge
Smith, ’’were written years ago, yet
they are true today and will continue
to be true. But, it seems my duty
to announce that Mrs. Eddy passed
frqgn our sight last night at a quarter
before 11 o’clock. at her home on
Chestnut Hili.”
The greater part of the congregation
left their seats in silence. There were
no words of sorrow, although many a
tear was shed. The strains of the Re
cessional on the great organ were as
joyous as ever.
The question of future leadership
was referred to with great reserve by
the leaders and others. Those who ex
pressed a view’ said there would be
no change in the methods of carrying
on the work, that Mrs Eddy’s teaching
an<l instruction would be implicitly fol
lowed and the church that she founded
would continue to grow in the future
as it had in the past. It was pointea
out that with the exception of a few
routine matters, the actual direction of
the church work was relinquished to a
great degree by Mrs. Eddy some years
previous to her death, although she
continued to keep in close touch with
those to whom she had entrusted the
work and had a clear understanding of
how- it was being performed.
The notice which was read at the
morning service of the mother church
was repeated at the evening service
to an unusually large congregation and
was also read at many other Christian
Science churches in this section of the
countrv.
CLARK HAILED US
NEXT SPEAKER ANO
CMN IS CHEERED
Senator Tillman Back in His
Place--Crowds Watch Ef
fect of New Conditions on
Once Powerful Leaders
“FIRST NIGHTERS” OF
POLITICS WATCH THEM
Members Are on Hand Early.
Appropriation Bills Will Get
Prompt Action—Early Ad
journment Is Taken
(B» Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON. Dec. s.—Both houses
convened today for the third and last
session of the 61st congress. The gal
leries were crowded and there was a
good attendance of senators and repre
sentatives. In the senate a number of
new faces were to be seen.
Senator Tillman, who had been absent
from his seat for some time, was in his
place. He showed the effects of his
long illness and entered the chamber
supporting himself by a stout cane. Sen
ator Scott, Just convalescent from an
illness that confined him to his bed
for several days, also was in his place,
Speaker Cannon received a remarkable
ovation when lie took u)> the gavel to
announce the opening of the session in
the house. The applause lasted several
minutes and the Democrats joined with
the Republicans in acclaiming the veter
an legislator.
CLARK IS CHEERED.
Representative Champ Clark also was
given a similar ovation when he entered
immediately upon the conclusion of thd
prayers. The Democrats hailing him as
the speaker of the next house.
Both houses adjourned almost imme
diately after the formal ’ assembling,
calls of the rolls and the adoption of
resolutions on the passing of those mem
bers who have died since th<e adjourn
ment of the last session.
Congress reassembled today in a
session of more than usual in
terest and tenportance, , because in
three months it will expire by
constitutional limitation and control oi
the house of representatives will be sur
rendered to the Democratic party.
An impelling curiosity to see how men.
long in the public eye as statesmen of
commanding influence, would bear up un
der the crumpling of their political for
tunes. drew to the capitol at an early
hour a crowd of unusual proportions.
Many of those who are numbered year
after year In the opening session gather
ing, like theater "first nighter?,” were
there as critics. *..ey recognized me
faces of most of the prominent members
of both branches of congress, and parad
ing the corridors they pointed out among
the celebrities such men as were bitten
by the hoar frost and bleak winds of
November 8.
SOME AMUSING COMMENT.
The running comment that could be
heard by mingling with the throng was
often ludicrous, and reaosns were assign
ed for the defeat of this or that member
that had never occurred to the political
experts who searched for logical explan
ations.
The fixed convening hour was 12 o’clock,
but long before that time senators and
representatives had reached their office
rooms in the two splendid buildings near
the north and south e«ids of the capitol
building proper, while crowds of specta
tors were on hand early in the morning,
waitiing for vantage points in the gal
leries. x
Early work on appropriation bills has
cleared the way for prompt consideration
of those meoures on the floors of the
two houses. The bills appropriating many
milions of dollars for the Indian service,
tor the legislative, executive and judicial
departments of the government general
ly and for the District of Columbia,
whose expenses arc borne jointly by the
federal and municipal government, are
well advanced and one more of them
may be reported to the house this week.
The avowed intention is to hurry those
bills along as fast as possible to avoid
any hitch in providing for toe expendi
tures for tte government, and strenuous
efforts have been made by President Taft
and other administration leaders to keep
the budget down to the lowest point pos
sible.
COPPETHiLLTfENNr
RAZED BY FLAMES
Second Fire Saturday Destroy
ed Buildings Left From Con
flagration of Friday
COPPER HILL, Tenn.. Dec. 0.-The
second fire of Saturday night burned
more than half of the town, causing a
damage of 82C0.000. Coupled with Friday
night's fire, the town is almost complete
ly burned out.
The laundry, postoffice, hotel, Methodist
Episcopal church, achoo* houses, three
stores, bottling works and 50 houses are
the losses of the second fire. Both bank
buildings damaged, with small insurance
on all except banks. The cause of the
fire was a spark from Friday night's fire.
GENERAL^MERRITT DEAD
AFTER LONG SERVICE
WASHINGTON. Dec. 5,-MaJ. Gen.
Wesley Merritt, U. S. A., retired, died
today at Natural Bridge, Va. General
Merritt was a resident of the District of
Columbia at the time of his death. The
details of his funeral have not been ar
ranged.
General Meerrltt was the military com
mander in charge of the first detachment
of United States troops landed on the
Philippine islands and the land opera
tions against Manila were conducted un
der his direction.
He served throughout the civil war
with great distinction. He was retired
from active service at the age of G 4, in
ATLANTA. GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1910.
•r- - .
What Will Santa Bring Them?
COLD WWE COMING
FROM THE ROCKIES
BRINGJNGMORE ICE
Temperature Due to Take a
Decided Tumble by Tuesday.
Change Will Be a Sudden
One
/
Make the most of the warm winds
blowing Monday for by Tuesday there
is due a cold wave that will rattle the
teeth of the most blase, not that the
cold is to be so intense but because the
change will be so sudden.
By Teusday it is exnected that the
temperature will have dropped some 30
degrees and that a wind fresh from the
Rockies will be blowing kisses to the
orange blossoms of Florida.
Sunday proved to be a disappointment
both to the public generally and the
weather watchers in particular. It had
been figured out by the experts that a
gentle, soothing rain would fall late in
the afternoon. But instead . ere came
a frosty sprinkling the forenoon and a
downpour in the evening.
The man who is commonly reported
to have scoffed at Noah and have or
dered him “to sail away in his old
scow’, because it ain’t goin' to rain no
how,” w’ould have hunted up a macin
tosh if he had been out Sunday evening.
The ram came down in sections about
the size of a healthy paving stone, burst
ing with relentless fury on the heads of
all 'classes, letting none escape. After
everything but the sins of ordinary mor
tals had been washed away the deluge
gradually abated.
Monday around the Rocky mountain
section there is enough cold being sent
out to make a grizzly bear hunt a warm
place to spend the remainder of the win
ter.
In Atlanta Monday at noon the tem
perature was 66, according to official
figures, with the storm of cold coming
on schedule time. It Is thought that a
drop of 25 or 30 will reach Atlanta by
Tuesday. After that it will be a toss
up as to which way the thing will go.
There may be a rise and it is just as
possible that there may Ue a fall.
At any rate, it will be prudent to look
over the furnace and take a squint at
the water pipes to see what the last
freeze did to them.
BULLET IS FIRED AT
VIRGINIA MINISTER
General Secretary of Anti-Sa
loon League Narrowly
Misses Death
LYNCHBURG, Va„ Dec. 5. —Police are
searching for an unidentified man who
Sunday fired a revolver bullet through
the window’ of the headquarters of the
local Anti-saloon league, occupied by
Rev. J. D. McAlister, general secretary
of the State Anti-saloon league. The;
bullet lodged in the wall directly over j
the desk of Rev. McAlister who had left i
the room only a few mmutes before the
shooting.
Rev. McAlister has been leading the j
campaign of the “dry” forces in the 11- ;
cense campaign which w ill come to a I
climax here at the polls next Friday. |
His assistants say to the authorities that
they bel.eve that an attempt has been
made to assassinate him. The city had
been since March, 1908.
AGED BUND WOMAN
FORCED DT RELATIVE
TO DIMM HOME
Mrs. Casanria J. Lanier in Pe
tition to Court Claims That
Son-in-law Patrick C. Jett
Forced Her to Sign Deed
Claiming that while totally blind, par
tially deaf and almost an invalid she
was forced by tnreats against her life
to sign, against her will, a deed giving
away her property at 534 West North
avenue to her son-in-law, Patrick C.
Jett, and thus forced to go to the county
poor house, Mrs. Casanria J. Lanier
1 Monday brought suit in the superior
' court against Patrick C. Jett and his
| wife to recover the property. The alle
■ gations as to how Mrs. Lanier was treat
| ed in the fight made on her to take her
i property are sensational in the highest
degree.
| The petitioner states in her petition
I that not only was she opposed to signing
i the deed giving away her property,
| w hich was her only means of support,
i but that she was rudely held by Pat
; rick C. Jett and tw*o unknown friends
land her hand guided as she made her
I mark. She also alleges cruel treatment
| in the extreme in the fight made upon
her by Patrick C. Jett and aided in it
Iby his wife.
.In the lengthy statement drawn up
by Ogburn, Dorsey & Shelton and filed
by Mrs. Lanier, she sets forth that she
was. forced to go to the Jett home to
live, as they w r ere the only living rela
tives she has. The petitioner states that
■the cruelties to her started soon after
she took up her residence with the Jetts
and continued until she finally left and
went to the poor house to escape their
persecutions.
Mrs. Lanier went to the Jett home in
April and the crusade against her was
begun immediately, she states. She
claims that she was threatened and that
she feared for her life when Patrick C.
Jett abused her while drinking, he being
especially severe to her on those occa
sions. She claims that he often broke
up the chairs in the house and pitched
them across the room, cursed her and Ori
cne occasion stuck his knife in the face
of the clock.
On one cocaston, Mrs. Lanier alleges,
that she tried to leave the Jett home
but did not do so as she was afraid he
would kill her and aau no other place to
go. Mrs. Lanier, so she states, held
out against her son-in-law and until he
came to her with two unknown men
and placing a paper before her demand
ed that she sign it. It was never read
to her, she said, but she was forced to .
sign It when her son-in-law grasped her |
by the hand ano guided it as she made
her main. Soon afterwards she states
that sue had to leave the Jett home and
! go to the county poor house, as life was
jmade entirely too miserable for her.
The property which Mrs. Lanier Is
I endeavoring to recover fronts 54 feet on
I West North avenue and runs back a
| depth of 139 1-2. It was conveyed to
jS. J. Lanier by Samuel B. Hoyt on
i March 24, 1890.
The case has been set sos a hearing
before Judge Pendleton at 9:30 o’clock
Saturday, December 10. In the mean
time Jett is prevented from disposing
of ar -•‘•ring the property in any way.
557.208 IS PRICE
CIR HALI DIMS
KT PMC OLITCRY
Reuben R. Arnold and Harvey
Hill, Well Known Lawyers,
Bought on Half and Half In
terest
:Reuben R. Arnold and Harvey Hill,
well-known Atlanta lawyers, bought the
city hall property at public auction Mon
day noon for $67,200.
This figures $1,280 per front foot. The
lot has a frontage of 52 1-2 feet and a
depth of 125 feet. The building is a sub
stantial brick structure four stories high.
There is a loan of $30,G00 on the property
which matures April 19, 1914, with interest
I at 4 1-2 per cent.
The terms of sale were cash. Thus the
I purchasers will pay over to the city $37,-
200. The city headquarters will stay in
the building until July 1, 1911, paying S3OO
per month rent.
WILL REMODEL BUILDING.
The interest of Mr. Arnold and Mr. Hill
is half and half. Mr. Arnold states that
they have figured on remodeling the
j buiiding for stores on the ground floor
J and offices above. He is not sure yet,
however, whether they will change that
plan or not.
The auction drew a large crowd. For
i rest & George Adair were the agents,
the latter being in charge. In the crowd
were Mayor Maddox, John W. Grant,
and numerous other city officials. It was
all over In about ten minutes.
Frank Hawkins started the bidding
j with an offer of SBOO per front foot. In
a moment he was raised. Offers got high
er for a few minutes at a rate of $25 to
SSO per front foot. Then the raises be
gan to get less and less, until finally they
were outbidding one another at $1 per
front foot. Among those who bld were
Mr. Hawkins, Albert Howell. Shelby
Smith and Mr. Mason, of the Title Guar
antee company. Mr. Adair dwelt on the
final bid about two minutes.
OFFICIALS SATISFIED.
The feet of the Adairs tor selling the
property will be 2 1-2 per cent, which
makes $1,680. This leaves the city $35,520
clear money; on the sale.
Os that sum $20,000 has already been
applied as a first payment on the old post
office, thus leaving $15,520 to spend on im
provements. It will probably be appro
priated for that purpose.
May.or Maddox was satisfied with what
the property brought. So was John W. I
Grant, chairman of the finance commit-1
tee of council. He estimated it would I
bring from $60,000 to $75,000.
panam’a'~to'ask'’
COLOMBIAN TREATY
PANAMA. Dec. s.—With a view to re
newing relations with Colombia, the
Panama government has commissioned
Dr. Carlos Mendoza, formerly acting
president of Panama, to go to Bogota
on what is announced as a secret con
fidential mission, but really to negotiate
a treaty of peace. The commissioner will
leave /or Bogota Tuesday.
Dalton Lodge Officers
DALTON. Ga., Dec. s.—Dalton lodge.
No. 72. I. O. O. F.. held Its semi-annual
election Friday night, the officers chosen
being as follows: Joseph L. Wallace, no
ble grand; Ben Bishop, vice grand; Guy
W. Keister, secretary; E. W. Petty,
CAVEAT DN WILL OF
LATE JULIUS BROWft
RECALIJDBY WIDOW
Agreement Reached Out of
Court-Terms Not Known.
Report Says Mrs. Brown
Withdraws for $40,000
FACT OF AGREEMENT IS
ONLY MATTER RECORDED
Details Closely Guarded by All
Parties---Notice of Agree
ment Filed Monday-Tech
Still Gets Substantial Share
An amicable settlement has been effect
ed in_ihe contest over the will of the
Julius L. Brown, brother of Gov. Joseph
M. Brown, and his widow, now a resi
dent of Chattanooga, has withdrawn her
caveat filed upon the will in the ordin
ary's court of Fulton county.
The settlement was reached last Satur
day. The terms of it are not known,
save one—that its details should not be
divulged. That term at leaat is being
strictly observed thus far, for nothing
cap be learned from any of the parties
familiar with the other details.
Col. Tomlinson Fort, brother of Mrs.
Brown; Governor Brown, executor of his
deceased brother's estate; K G. Mathe
son, president of the Georgia School of
Technology, and Col. Nat E. Harris, of
Macon, chairman of the board of trus
tees of that school, which was one of.
the beneficiaaies of the will; and VV. Car
roll Latimer, of the Atlanta law firm of
Watkins & Latimer, associated with Col
onel Fort as counsel for the latter's sis
ter—all of these decline to discuss the
terms of the agreement.
, The fact that it has been reached Is
; the only matter of public record. Judge
' Wilkinson, ordinary of Pulton county,
i states that he knows nothing beyond
I what is on record. The interested par-
I ties reached their agreement out of
court and evidently intend to keep its
terms among themselves.
MRS. BROWN GETS 140,000. *
A dispatch from Chattanooga states
terested parties in Atlanta. Mrs. Brown
will receive $40,000 cash, t
I This can neither be confirmed nor re-
1 futed upon authority of any of the in
terested partines in Atlanta. Mrs. Brown
is not among those here.
At the filing of the agreement Mon
daj’ morning at 10 o’clock, in ordinary's
court, were present Colonel Fort. Gover
nor Brown, President Matheson, Colo
nel Harris and Mr. Latimer.
This meeting resulted in the signing
and filing of another paper which is not
altogether self-explanatory—that if the
Georgia School of Technologj’ does not
receive Its share (or words to this ef
fect) in 30 days, the amount shall draw
interest at 6 per cent from this date, De-
I cember 5.
The only clear assumption that can
be drawn by outsiders from the fact
that an agreement has been reached
and the caveat withdrawn, is that after
Mrs. Brown's new share in the estate
has been turned over to her, the re
mainder shall be subject to the original
terms of the will. This instrument
now stands on file without protest
against it.
Another assumption seemingly per
mitted by the information at hand. Is
that Tech gets something substantial,
though doubtless considerably less than
was originally willed to it by the late
Mr. Brown.
Under the will, Mrs. Brown, widow of
the deceased, was to have one-half the
income of the estate after the other
grants, including that to Tech, had
been settled.
Through her brother, Colonel Fort,
and his Atlanta associates, Watkins
and Latimer, she filed a caveat upon
the will on the following grounds:
That the deceased lacked testamentary
capacity; that undue influence had been
brought to bear upon him; and that
the will was illegal under section 327 7,
of the Georgia state code of 1895,
which reads as follows:
"No person leaving awife or chi’d,
or descendant of child, shall by will de
vise more than one-third of his estate
to any charitable, religious or educa
tional or civil institution to the exclus
ion of such wife and child.”
Mrs. Brown represented that her half
share In the income of the estate was
an annuity and not an estate to dis
pose of as she saw fit; that she had a
lawful right to a share in the property;
and that until her share was received,
none of the other terms could be legal.
DR. G. wZrADEY DIED
WHILE AT SUPPER
JESUP. Ga., Dec. s.—Dr. G. W. Bradley,
a prominent physician of Jesup, died
suddenly tonight while eating a lunch in
the restaurant near the depot: He is
prominently connected in Jesup and in
Wayne county.
He was about 60 yearfe of age and had
practiced medicine here for about 25
eyars. He is survived by a wife ana
one daughter, Miss Essie Dradey.
Dr. Dradey was a prominent member
of the Baptist church and also a Mason.
The interment will take place tomorrow
after the funeral services at the church.
The Masons will conduct the services at
the cemetery.
THINKS! SENATE WILL
PASS OCEAN MAIL BILL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—“1 have everv
reason to believe that the senate will
pass the ocean mail bill by a decisive
majority.” said Senator Gallinger, of
New Hampshire. The Gallinger bill pro
viding a mail subsidy is before the sen
ate as unfinished business and will come
up immediately upon the convening of
congress.
Home Is Burned
DALTON. Ga.. Dec. 6.—The residence
of Charles Crow, a farmer living in the
upper end of the county, was destroyed by
fire the last of the week, the building be
ing burned to the ground, while consider
able furniture was destroyed. The loss
la estimated at $1,500. with no insurance.
NO. 22.
