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I Woman § Society j CARRIK GARNER JONES. The Music Club holds its next meet ng at the Dome of Miss Laurie Neel, on 'Jovember 6, at 3 o’clock. The follow ng program is to be rendered: “Sketch of the Life of Kubenstein.’ •fiss Augusts Calhoun. Song, “Thou Art Like unto a Flower,’ iubenstein. Mrs. Felton Jones. Piano, Barcarolle, Hnbenstein. Mrs IV. W. Young. Sketch of Grieg's Life. Miss Julia 'oute. Song, Grieg. Miss Florence Milner Piano. “Valse Caprice,” Grieg. Misa Mary Foute. Song, “Maiden’s Wish.” Chopin. Miss Octavia Aubrey. Piano, “Maiden’s Wish,” Liszt. Miss Jctavia Aubrey. Violin Solo. Miss Laurie Neel. Chorus,“Night Bells.” Vincent. Music Club. Those from this city who will attend .he meeting of the State Federation of Women's Clubs in Augusta, on No rember 2d, 3d, and 4th are Mrs. A. O. Granger, who is the ex-president of ine Federation and president pf the Cart sasville Music Club, Miss Sally May Akin as delegate from the Cartersvilie Music Club, and Miss Mary Wikle, who s the delegate to represent the Chero kee Club. Mrs. Hall and and her daughter, Miss Mary Hall leave n* xt week for Ailanta to reside in the future. Several of Mrs. Hall’s sons have been in business in that city for some lime, it is with sincere regret that Cartersvilie lelin quishes her claim upon this popular family. The season finds an innovation made 1 in the wedding service, that of the minister leading the bride and the groom to the altar rather than standing there to await their coming. Mr. and Mrs. Logan Vaughan take possession of Mrs. Hall’s home on Market street on the first of November. This has ever been a pretty little borne and such it will continue to be when so charming a young matron as Mrs. Vaughan becomes us dainty chatelaine. They say now that the next improve ment to the telephone will be the trans mission by a mirror reflection ol the two who hold the receivers. Dire will be the consternation ol the girl in curl papers and kimona. When the patent is applied canuot the dear things issue an injunction upon the plea that tneir rights are infringed? Why does notsomeoneentertain dur ing this beautiful weather and thus have the houor of opening the social season? The first pf the month notes Miss Marian .Strickland’s departure for Little Kock and Memphis where she goes for extended visits * Miss Estelle Calhoun spent a few days in Atlanta last week. Miss Ullie Crouch left last Saturday to join her sisteis, Misses Kate ami Jennie Crouch in Chattanooga. ‘She will be with them a week or more. THAT SEW RAILROAD. Interesting Letter from Gainesville Citi zen to Mr. Vivion About Project. Mr. J. H. Vivion has just re ceived a letter from Mr. R. H. Smith, of Gainesville, that explains itself: Gainesville, Ga., October 26, 1904. J. H. Vivion, Esq., Cartersvilie, Ga Dear Sir: Yours oi the 26 instant to J W. Smith, of our town, has been handed me to answer. The Southern railroad people have made the surveys for a road from this point to Rome, (fa., and have completed the estimates of cost, etc., and placed them on file. We have had a public meeting here and passed resolutions and our city officials haye guaranteed terminal iacilities and all ntcessary franchises, etc, A committee of one, dl our citizens has visited Atlanta and laid all this before the railroad people and gotten everything in goofi shape up to date. N6W ft vffft tWt# the combfned efforts of all the people aiding the line as well as the best efforts of the people of Rome and Gainesville to secure this very much needed railroad A railroad from Rome to Gainesville will be about 40 miles nearer to north east Georgia and the great cotton mill Sections of South and North Carolina and the South Atlantic ports, than yis Atlanta, to say nothiog of the congested condition that freights sometimes get into in Atlanta that cause delays in all freights all along from here to the sea. What would your people of Catters vllle do tor this important western con nection to have t pass through yonr splendid town? Hoping this will be encouraging to the goeo citizens of Cartersvilie. as well as to yourself. Ism yours truly. *R. H. Smith. To Music Pupils Miss Ella Neel will return the last of November to take charge of her music class. During her absence Miss Wikle will teach for her at mu elc room on Market Street. In the new room special attention will be (iven to ensemble work and harmony. 2t Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contaiu Opium, As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physi cians, as the damage thev will do is tenfold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney A co., Toledo, 0., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buy ing Hall’s Catarrh Cure l,e sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, hv F. J. Cheney & Cos. Testimonials free, Soid by Druggists. Price, 75c. per bottle, 'f ake Hall’e Family Pills for consti pation. Calhoun Bros, will handle only the best stove and you get the best when yon buy f.om them. H poem for Coday THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD By Henry W. Longfellow — •<> S CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON in “Warner’s Library of the World's Best Literature’’ says of Long fellow. “His relation Is to the great body of readers. Sympathy with the broadly human is one of the marks of the true poet. To put simple things into graceful and Intelligible poetic form requires genius, for thou sands try to do it every day and fall for lack of the special gift. Longfellow succeed(#l, and those who say that his themes and method are alike commonplace forget that the touch which Illuminates the common place Is the most delicate in art." ♦.— A T*— IHIS is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms; But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the villages with strange alarms. Ah! what a Bound will how wild and dreary, When a death-angsi touches those swift keys! What loud lament and dismal miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies! I hear even now the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony, the endless groan, . Which, through the ages that have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own. On helm and harness rings the Saxon hammer; Through Cimbric forest roars the Norseman’s song, And loud, amid the universal clamor, O’er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong. I hear the Florentine, who from his palace Wheels out his battle-bell with dreadful din, And Aztec priests upon their teocallis, Beat the wild war-drums made of serpents’ skin; i The tumult of each sacked and burning village; The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns; The soldiers’ revels in the midst of pillage; The wail of famine in beleaguered towns; The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, The rattling musketry, the clashing blade; And ever and anon, In tone of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is R, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest nature’s sweet and kindly voices, And Jarrest the celestial harmonies? Were half thepporerw r er that fills the world with terror, ~ Were half the w r ealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts; Ip * The warrior’s name would be a name abhorred; i £'3 And every nation that should lift again \; Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; Ajhl like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say, “Peace!” Peace!—and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of war’s great organ shakes the skies; But, beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise. <| LOCAL MATTERS. §> Mrs. Postell will give a beneft Halloween party Monday evening, 31st, from 8 o’clock until midnight. Admisson, price ten cents. | For sale—cheap—a sound family horse, afraid of nothing. 1 piano, and 3 heaters. Mrs. Withers. Manager Beutley,of the Commer cial hotel has arranged to serve fresh oysters, stewed or fried every evening. The hungry public is now invited to call and partake of the same. The corner stone of the Baptist church will be laid Tuesday, No vember 15, at 2:30 p. m. An inter esting program will be arranged with the Masons in charge. Rev, J, E. Barnard,now at Scotts boro, Ala., will return the last of the week and fill his pulpit at the Baptist church Sunday morning and evening. A large force of hands carrying a number of scrapes and other grad ing tools passed through Calhoun Wednesday for Pairmount and other points ou the new railroad. The attention of The News read • ers is called to the big ad c f H. T. Bradley & Cos. in this issue. Brad ley’s store is one of the best known and popular mercantile houses in this section of the state and carry a large stock cf well selected goods and spare no pains to meet the wants of customers. Read the ad and call on them when you come to Cartersvilie. Worshipful Master Paul T. Akin, of the Cartersvilie Masons’ lodge, is attending the meeting of the grand lodge in Macon this week. The dedication of the Masonic Or phans’ Home takes place this week at Macon ard will prove an inter esting event! The Masons of Bar tow CountyVhave furnished one room in the hk ' THE NEWS, CARTERSVILLE GEORGIA, OCTOBER 27, 1904. HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT j How many hours out of each week ; would be saved by yourself, your family and your teams, by the telephone ? Have you ever calculated how many minutes can be saved in case of business, sickness, or emergency ? Have yon ever thought of the dollars you might gain, if you were only in close connection with the market ? Can you conceive of the pleasure to be derived from having in your home im mediate communication with the homes of neighbors and friends though situated I The telephone will pay for itself by getting better market prices. I It will save several dollars every month by avoiding needless trips to town. It will take and deliver telegraph messages immediately without extra expense. I *r It will keep you informed on weather predictions npon inquiry. It will order repairs instantly when machines break down. It will do the visiting and make social calls without the trouble' of “dressing up” and taking a long, dusty, heated or freezing ride. ■ 0 It will get a doctor on a moment’s notice and maybe save a loved one’s life. It will get election returns as soon as they are in. It will keep away insolent tramps and prowling burglars. It will keep the boys on the farm. It will makes homes happier, brighter, better and more delightful in a thousand different ways. Progressive fanners living in the country are installing telephones in their homes, and in the near future every cultivator will have a direct means of communication with the outside world. THE SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CO. will be glad to famish full information upon ap plication to M. R. McCLATCHY, Manage r. Heating p 'ves a Cal houn Br<r | Co un ty N ews.jj LIGON. Mrs. F.dgar Grffin, who for some time has been suffering with her throat, is in Atlanta under treatment of Dr. Calhoun. Mrs. Fred Durand, of Jacksonville, Fla., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isbell, at Ford. Three attractive young ladies, Misses Adams, of Savannah, Hen derson, of Rome, and Nan Ligon, of Shorter college, were guests this week of Mr. and Mrs. J O. Ligon, at Bonny View. Mr. Herman Mayhew came up from Atlanta Saturday for a few days visit with home folks. Mr. Hawkins,of Birmingham,was a guest last week at the home of R. F. Jolly. Miss Nellie Mayhew will leave this week for Rockmart, where she will e.i ter school at the Piedmont Institute. H*ill Wade, of Etowah, called on friends at Ligon Sunday. Miss Lois Colbert of Stilesboro,spent Saturday with Mrs. J. O. Ligon. She W 8 s accompanied ho ue by her mother, Mrs. Frances Henderson. OAKDALE. Farmers were never busier at this season of the year gathering their cot ton, a large per cent which is gin ned anti sold. Some are getting ready to sow wheat while others will be delayed on account of corn in the way. The church at Csssville is under going some needed repairs and when completed will he as good new. The sweet tone of her bell reminds one of one of Col. Warren Akin’s selec tions anil gifts many years ago. The Baptists at Cassville whre very kmil in tendering the use of their church to the Methodist folks to hold their meeting for this conference. Cranford Luke lost his sawmill by fire a few nights ago. The cause is not known. Mr. Fletcher McElreath has gone home after running his sorghum mill very successfully for quite awhile in this community. Miss Clara Anthony has been select ed for our teacher another year. Pa rents,get your children ready and let ihe school commence about the mid -die of November. . CASSVILLE. Cassville has been on the quiet list for sometime on account of our corre spondent leaving us. Anew corre ondent attempts for the first time to let the people know what is happen ing in this delightful spot made beau ful by nature. Rev. Thomas Gr. Davis,pastor of the Woodw T ard ave. church, Atlanta, w ill deliver his famous leeture on “Life’s Trials and Triumphs” at the Baptist church tue night of Nov. 1. The doors will open promply at 7:30 oclock. The proceeds of the lecture will go towards the new church building. Admisson of 25c will be charged, come out and lend a helping hand towards the new church building. Messrs Mike Crawford, Clayton Sloan and Will Hawkinsare all smiles. Anew visitor has arrived at each home. Don’t forget the election Nov. 1. Misses Mary Lee Millhollin, Belle Headden and Louise Smith have re turned after a pleasant visit of several days in Home. Mrs. Sullivan spent last week in Cartersvilie, visiting relatives. Messers. Con. Pittard and Robert Wilson came up from Cartersvilie Bunday and spent the day with home folks. Work on the new Methodist church is almost completed. Services held last Sunday at the Baptist church, the beloved pastor Rev. J, M. Turalin paid us his farewell visit for this con ference year. All hope to have Rev. Tnmlin with us one more year which will make his fourth year on this work. Oil stoves at Calhoun Bros. Adme flour, every sack guaran teed, at J. A. Monfort & Co.’s. The well known same flour can be found at J. A. Monfort & Co.’s. Miss Sallie May Akin invites the Daughters of the Confederacy to meet with her Friday. October 28, at 3 o’clock. Dr. R. E. Cason, of Cedartown, was in Cartersvilie Tuesday. Buy your stove from Calhoun Bros, and save money. Cooking stoves at Calhoun Bros. Ranges at Calhoun Bros. All intersted in the Mallory plow see R. C. Rowan, the plow for deep fall plowing. Mr, and Mrs. Logan Vaughan spent Tuesday in Atlanta, A Tfrold Holdup fler'Oy "Deed of a Lone Urain "Robber In Missouri* Alt by Himself He Compelled a Missouri Tacific Grain to Stop and Forced Messengers to Turn O-Ver Valuables. The doors of the Missouri peniten tiary have opened to Sam Wilson, known as tlie “lone train robber,” who was received at the penitentiary July 3, 1803, and set him at liberty, having served three-fourths of the fifteen years to which he was sentenced. Un til quite recently, when he was placed in the prison library to look after the books, Wilson had been employed in A MASKED MAN CLIMBED FROM THE COAL TENDER. the shops. Friends will do something ( toward putting him on his feet. The officials declare his prison record good. Black Bart terrorized California by holding up stages. He did it aii alone, but seldom had more than half a dozen persons to contend with. Fred Witt rock robbed Frotheringham, a railroad express messenger, and did it single handed, but he was concealed in the car and had only the messenger to overpower, but Sam Wilson, alone and unaided, “stood up” a train and en forced the assistance of the crew in despoiling the express car. The Missouri Pacific train which left St. Louis on the night of May 24, 1893, was held up one mile west of Pacific. The express car was shattered with dynamite, and the messenger, Samuel Hammel, was compelled to open the safe and deliver Its contents, amount ing to $4,000 in silver, to the robber. The robber, however, carried away on ly one-fourth of the amount, and half of this sum he strewed over a cornfield which he crossed in his flight United States Senator William Joel Stone, then Mieswrt; mm- Lon, V. Stephens, then state treasurer, and United States Attorney William War ner were among the passengers. The holdup was not wholly unexpected, as ’three officers armed In anticipation of such an attack were among the passen gers. That seven men were engaged In ;the crime so successfully carried out by one, and he a gawky country boy, seemed to be the impression that night, And a message so stating was sent by Governor Stone to the St. T/uila njfl. I clals. A few hours later—within a day, at any rate—lt was developed that the lob was performed by oue man and j this man Sam Wilson. ’ John Hamilton was the engineer and A. R. French the fireman of the train, and their atory, told soon after the rob bery, wras that shortly after the train left Pacific they heard a peculiar voice ; and, turning at the sound, saw a masked man climbing from the coal tender Into the cab. This intruder had a pistol In each hand, one of which was leveled upon the engineer and the other upon the fireman. Unissued or ders that the train be stopped, and the Injunction was not disregarded. When the stop was made the men were or dered to leave the cab and speedily complied. Hamilton and French were marched back to the express and bag gage car, a combination coach, with a baggageman and an expressman in charge. Here the robber ordered the express messenger to open the door of the car. Getting no reply to his repeat ed demands that the door be opened, the robber took from an Inside pocket a small bundle, from which he man aged to remove the wrapper, though still holding his pistols, showing its contents to be dynamite. There were three sticks of the explosive, and one of these was used in forcing an open- j ing in the*car, the other two being : carefully returned to his pocket. Hamilton and French, whom he had permitted to step a few paces away, were then summoned to come closer j and keep pace with him. He struck a match, but before it could be applied ' tQ the dynamite the wind extinguished it. This was repeated three times cool ly and with as much deliberation as though he were only lighting his pipe. Finally he managed to light the stick of dynamite, placing it about two inch es from the door. The engineer and fireman, witnesses of this proceeding, attempted to move away, but the pis tols came into play, with the command: “Now, just you wait, boys. You will have plenty of time to get out of the way.” When the dynamite exploded the car door was shattered, and at the opening appeared Hammel, the express messenger, and Slmmonds, the bag gageman, with hands raised. They were ordered to Jump and so soon as they alighted upon the ground were “bunched” with the engineer and fire man. The robber’s next move was to climb into the car. Then he called to the ex press messenger, commanding him to enter the car, saying, “I want to use you.” He forced the messenger to open the local safe, from which four sacks, each containing SI,OOO in (di ver, were taken. These sacks were thrown out upon the ground, and then the robber left the car, compelling the 1 engineer to place a sack of the money upon his shoulder. He Intended to so take away all of them; but, finding one of them alone weighed too much and his escape would be wholly impossible with all of them, he left the other three sacks lying upon the ground and coolly xvalked away. The next day after the robbery de ; tectives searched the vicinity and In an adjoining cornfield found nearly 500 silver dollars strewn over the ground, together with a tag marked “SI,OOO, May 24.” This tag was on the money bag taken from the express car. The money so recovered was taken to St. Louis and turned over to the officials of the express company. There was also found an old valise containing the mask worn by the robber and a couple of letters addressed to S. A. Wilson. This gave the first clew to the possible Identity of the robber. It was learned that Sam Wilson had been released from jail'in Waynesville only a day or two before the holdup and that a fel low prisoner said that Wilson had planned and was planning to rob a Frisco train at Richland. He answered the description of tye lone robber, which turned the attention of the oflb cers to him, and search for him was begun. Wilson was released from the Waynesville Jail under bond. lie was charged with felonious assault. Just before his arrest on that charge it w r as made known to the officers at Richland by one of the men who were asked te take part in the job that Wilson was preparing to hold up a train there. It was only the weakening of one of the gang, Mho gave the plot away, that prevented the attempt at carrying it out, the others all learning that they had been betrayed. They swore posi tively that the informer manufactured the story and that there was nothing In it. In that instance Wilson was the leader. Dynamite Mas to be used, Wil son having gone from Richland to Leb anon, it was afterward learned, to purchase it for that purpose. The train which was to be held up arrives at Richland at midnight. It neither leaves nor takes express and consequently re mains there but a few seconds. Wil son, w'ho lounged about the depot a great deal, having once been in charge on the section there, was to send n tel egram, being an operator, notifying WHEN THE DYNAMITE EXPLODED THE DOOB WAS SHATTERED. the express messenger to be in readi ness to receive several coops of chick ens when the train arrived, and when the messenger opened the door to re ceive the express Wilson and his ac complices were to make the raid. One of the gang gave it away, and the hold up was abandoned. Wilson, who was cleared on that charge, was being held for felonious assault, having fired a fu sillade into a farmer’s house in order to draw him outside, when he was to be robbed, it being known that he had a large sum of money. Wilson’s father, Frank M. W T ilson, is a reputable farm er and by mortgaging his property se cured bond for his son, who left his ac customed haunts, not to be heard of again until taken in charge on Jane 2, less than a month after his holdup of the Missouri Pacific train, at the home of his father, and he admitted to the officers that he had committed the crime. He first confided to his father hia guilt and at the suggestion of his father sent word to the sheriff saying where he could be found and that he desired to surrender. This he did.