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KIM SAND AT WORK
Mounted Men :n Black Robes
Ride Through Streets of Dalton.
LEFT MESSAGE WiTH EDITOR
No Violence Was Done, But Many
Warnings Were Left for Gambler*
and Blind Tiger Proprietor*.
I'aJton. Ga. —Wearing long black
mbea ajul masks, a band of Ku-Klux,
or night riders, 25 or 30 strong, rode
into Dalton to take the fit at step to
ward ridding the town of evil-doers,
*o It later transpired.
The body scatteied when they reach
ed town, and seveial of the members
rode up to the residence of B. L.
Heartsiil, editor of The Argus, and
woke him up.
“Are you editor of the paper?” the
spokesman of the party asked Mr.
Bcartsill. He replied that he owned
The Argus. “Well, we have a mes
sage here to some people In Dalton
we want you to print, and then give
to the other paper.”
The warning was as follows:
"Owl Hollow, Bth Month, Ax.
"When in the course of events It
becomes necessary for us to visit a
certain section for the protection ol
women and children and good of :;o
eJetjr we are ever ready Jo answer the
call, and whatsoever we purpose that
we do. Woe unto the guilty wretch
who disobeys our orders.
‘There are certain evils existing in
this city that have got to stop. Blind
tigers and gamblers,, lewd women,
streets loafers and vagrants must go.
13d Whitaker, Lum Gartrcll, Jesse
House and several others of their col
sur- aiso several white men who are
engaged in the same business of sell
ing whiskey, take warning. The ap
peal of women and children who have
Acn made to suffer on account of;
the infernal poison you sell has bean j
heard and by the Eternal they shall
not be imposed upon any more. The
gambirra we know also, and this is
the first and last warning you will
receive.
Seine of them are married men and
have families who have our sympathy
auoA need the money that you are
gambling away while you are ruining
the youn gboys of the town. This
thing has got to stop. If it does not
the young boys of the town. This
the house, remember you have been
warned. Don’t attempt violence o: I
make aKv threats. If you do remem-1
the c•*..->;« beam on the foot bridge!
is still sound and strong. The gang
of young men who loaf the streets
both day and night must cither go to
work or leave the country. Lewd
women both white and black must go.
Certain young men who wear good
clothes and Joaf on the streets each
■tight until midnight must either go
to work nr leave. Seme of the gang
art' thieves and we hava got them
on our li?t. They must either go to
work or go further away. This order
to ail is first and final; you must quit
your cussed nets or go to another
country. Your day is over here.
"s»:>ne in conference at Owl Hol
low a ial final orders given by
“TIBO TIB,"
“Grand Cyclops of the K. K. K."
The document was typewritten,
-some sentences having been done over
in red ink.
£ H. HARMAN HOME.
Pale and ’Ertfecfeled, the Railway Mag
nate Reaches New York
* New York City.—Edward H. Hard
man. genius of finance, leader of men
jui& -imuifer organizer of railroad sys
tems., came back to the United States
while the financial world stoed on tip
toes and anxiety and expectancy.
He came back to this country as he
left a sick, tired man seeking j
health. Surrounded by his family and!
physicians at his magnificent home!
at Arden-on-the-Hudson, he has begun
the ‘Taller cure” which he needs after I
the enervating- baths and dietetic!
treatment he underwent at the Aus
trian resort.
How long it will be before he re-1
jswnrs the active direction of his vast j
railroad interests depends solely upon;
his health. He arrived feeble, face
gaunt and voice weak. "And I have j
come home.” he said, "for a cure and i
«not (Tor work.”
Hairy great Americans have return
ed to their country’s chores under ex
traoidinarv circumstances, but never
hsrs there been a more remarkable
home-coming of a private citizen than
EL HL llarriman’s. Great stock market
operators jaused as his ship drew
wear, the stock market itself marked
time and the industrial world turned
its eyes seaward, as it were, eager for
a. glimpse of the face of the man
whose illness abroad has furnished
much material for stock market ru
mors.
DEFIES POWER OF THE STATE
Mayor of Atlantic City in Rebellion
Against New Jersey.
Atlantic City, N. J. —Interest in the
vefcrrm movement In this city was in
tensified when Mayor Stoq officially
refused to receive a notice from At
torney General Wilson, ordering him
to close Atlantic City saloons on Sun
•daT-
The mayor said he knew the con
tents of the notice, which gave the
same* and addresses of thirty-eight
saloons and hotel proprietors who are
allcved to have sold liquor on Sun
«ay, and he refused to accept service
even after the paper and the signa
ture of the attorney general had been
read to him.
ALABAMA LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS.
Many Dra*tic Prohibition Bill* Passed
By Lawmakers.
Montgomery, Ala. —The special ses
sion of the Alabama legislature, which
I adjourned after twenty-two working
! days, accomplished the chief purpose
i for w hich it was called by passing
the most drastic prohibition laws ever
passed by any state, and capping the
laws by submitting to the people an
amendment to the constitution prohib
iting the sale or manufacture of in
toxicants in Alabama. The election
will bn held the last week in Novem
ber.
Governor Comer, in his call for the
xtra session, urged a compulsory edu
cation law, and the submission of a
constitutional amendment for biennial
ie. -ions of the legislature, and the
creation of new counties.
These three ideas failed, the educa
tional bill and the counties’ amend
ment being defeated, and the biennial
essions proifositicn not being intro
duced.
At least ton prohibition measures
were patted. Under the new laws a
person may not have liquor anywhere
but his home. Keeping it at other
places is made prima facie evidence
that it is for sale. Prosecutions are
to be made before chancellors, and
not juries, and state attorneys and
sheriffs may be impeached for failure
to execute the laws. Foreign corpo
’-ations may not do business of any
kind in Alabama if it is shown that
they sell or manufacture liquors in
other states.
New pure food and drug laws were
passed; the state is given a complete
ly new jury' .-ystem, designed to aid
prohibition prosecutions, and many
changes were made in the civil code.
Few railroad measures were passed.
Many of those passed by other legis
latures wore repealed or amended to
meet the opinions of federal courts.
200 PESPLE BKOWNEB.
Steamers Collide in Harbor of Monte
video, Uruguay.
Montevideo, Uruguay.—ln a driving
rain storm, the Argentine excursion
steamer Colombia and the North Ger
man-Lloyd steamer Schlesien collided
at the entrance of Montevideo harbor.
The Schlesien was outw r ard bound for
Bremen. The Colombia’s bow was
crushed in and she -sank almost im
mediately. Between 150 and 200 per
sons w'ere killed or drowned.
Most of the dead are women and
children. A majority of the survivors
are men. The Colombia was carrying
excursionists from Buenos Ayres to
a festival at Montevideo and the dis
aster has caused the keenest emo
tion. The Uruguayan government, in
consequence, lias postponed the fetes
arranged for the celebration of the
inauguration of the port.
NKillil hfJNS AMHI H.
Armed With Shotgun, Negro Roves
Over Monroe, La., Firing at People,
Monroe, La.—Angered, it is believ
ed, because two of his friends had
recently been shot by police officers in
this city, William S. Wade, a negro,
lan amuck on the principal business
street of Monroe with a double-bar
reled shotgun, shooting first at every
white man he saw and then firing in
discriminately at every object before
him.
The fire was returned, and the ne
gro finally fell dead with a bullet
through his heart, but not before 29
men, three of them members of his
own race, had been more or less se
riously wounded.
Martial Law in Mississippi Town.
Meadeville, Miss. With martial
law in effect, state troops encamped
about the court house, and, apparent
ly. masters of the situation, Meade
ville is quic.t, but withal there is a
feeling of uncertainty as to what
hours may bring forth. This situation
follows an attempt to kill Ernest New
man, chancery clerk, and son of the
loader of one faction in the Newman-
Pritchard feud fight of several months
ago, which brought about the death
of four persons.
Celebrate Birth of Admiral Semmes.
New Orleans, La.—By command of
General Clement A. Evans, comman
der-in-chief of the United Confederate
Veterans, Adjutant*General and Chief
of Staff William E. Mickle issued from
the headquarters in this city a gen
eral order calling for the observance
of September 27, next, as the one hun
dredth anniversary of the birth of
Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes of the
Confederate States navy.
Gift of $25,000 to Emory.
Oxford, Ga.—President James E.
Dickey of Emory College announced
that he had received a subscription
of $25,000 for the endowment fund
now being raised for the college from
Captain J. P. Williams, the promi
nent naval stores and railroad man,
who has recently come to Atlanta to
make his home.
Indians Burned Woman.
El Paso, Texas. —Believing a witch
brought cn the smallpox epidemic
that caused the death of many of
their children, the Indians of Huejot
zingo, near Puebla, Mexico, Durned
to death an aged woman, Juana Re
mirez. They barricaded all the exits
to her hut, set fire to it and watched
her perish in the flames.
Fear of Rats Caused Woman’s Death.
New York City.—Mrs. Sarah Nay
, ler’s fear of rats and mice led to her
I death, when she sought refuge on a
! chair from an imaginary mouse, and,
i losing her balance, tumbled out the
third story window. She was crushed
to death on the stone pavement.
Foley’s
Kidney
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What They Will Do for You
They will cure your backache,
strengthen your kidneys, cor
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up the worn out tissues, and
eliminate the excess uric acid
that causes rheumatism. Pre
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strength. Refuse substitutes,
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Tt was reported in London that the
'retans had agreed to remove the
Jreek flag.
Excessive heat was reported in the
Middle West, the temperature readi
ng 110 in Muskogee, Okla.
Ibuki-yama, one of the “Seven
High Mountains" of Central Japan,
:ollapsed in the earthquake.
Japanese troops attacked Chinese
gendarmes in Hsientao ana pursued
:he commandant to his yamen.
China has practically withdrawn
her objection to Japan’s reconstruc
tion of the An-Tung and Moukden
Railway.
General Marina issued an address
to Spanish soldiers urging them to
great exert .ons nr the campaign
against the Moors.
Under cover of a heavy fog, the
Pressed Steel Car Company landed
two cars of strike breakers at the
McKee’s Rocks plant.
Donald L. Persch and A. D. S. Ad
ams were indicted in connection with
the SIIO,OOO copper stock transac
tion, in New York City.
President Taft, at Beverly, meta
phorically "cut the wires” connecting
aim with official matters and ran off
to Gloucester for a luncheon.
The story of William E. Bancker,
long out of work, who robbed a
butcher shop for the sake of his ill
and starving wife, moved a court
room to tears, in New York City.
Killing of a black cat by one of the
crew was blamed by Captain Skju
iistad for the misfortunes attending
the Norwegian bark Gartha in her
140 days’ voyage from Padang to New
York.
Attorneys for Governor Haskell and
the other defendants in the alleged
Muskogee land fraud cases, filed a
motion to quash the indictments, al
leging that they had been obtained by
coercion.
CASTOR IA
Tor Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
FEMININE NEWS NOTES.
Miss Hilda Martindale has been
made senior inspector of factories for
Ireland.
Princess Albert of Belgium Is
said to be the happiest wife in the
courts of Europe.
Lillian Russell is near forty-eight
and Annie Russell close to forty-five.
Nazimova is thirty.
Queen Wilhemina of Holland has
a most successful and paying dairy
farm not far from her place at Het
Loo.
Etta Goldstein, an eighteen-year
old Jersey City girl, saved the family
treasure with a home-made burglar
alarm.
Queen Alexandra is an expert
needlewoman, and taught her daugh
ters to cut out and make their own
frocks.
Miss Margaret Ashton, ? sister-in
law of Jaihes Bryce, has been elected
a town councillor in her native town
in England.
Christian Scientists said that Mrs.
Stetson would remain with the First
Church, notwithstanding the rebuke
by Mrs. Eddy.
Mrs. Parkhurst, of London, the suf
fragette leader, decided to visit the
United States and will deliver a series
of addresses in the larger cities.
Mrs. Mary Francis, Brooklyn, fired
five revolver bullets at her husband
and yielded to the police, believing
she had killed him. He was not
harmed.
In order that his brother's widow’
might obtain his estate at his death,
Captain Nathan D. A. Sawyer, of
Jacksonville, Fla., married Mrs. Clara
S. Sawyer, of Belleville, N. J.
Trial marriages by girls under
eighteen were given a setback by Jus
tice Greenbaum, New’ York City, w’ho
denied the plea for annulment of a
girl w’ho while not of age had her
parents' consent.
Dcn’t block the way for the hustler.
If it is too warm, just get in the shade
cut of other folks’ way.
Stick close to the fellow’ that brings
things to pass.
CENSUS OF CHURCHES
Over a Billion Dollars Invented
By Religious Bodies.
OVER 32,000,000 MEMBERS
Statistics of the Census Bureau Show
There Are 20,287,742 Protestants and
12,076,142 Catholics in this Country.
Washington, D. C. —Advance sheets
of the bulletin now in course of prep
aration by officials of the United
States census bureau containing the
information gathered by the bureau
in the fifth census of religious bodies
in the United States reveals that is
1906 there was invested in churches
in this country more than? 1,250,000,-
000.
The churches have a total member
ship of nearly 33,000,000, of w'hich con
siderably moie than one-half are wom
en. It is also estimated from the sta
tistics that eight churches are com
pleted each day.
Out of the grand total of church
membership 61.6 per cent are Protest
ants and 46.7 per cent are Roman
Catholics, but, in spite of this pre
dominance of Protestants, in sixteen
states a majority of the total church
membership is Roman Catholic.
It is stated that United States cen
sus statistics of church membership
by sex were collected for the first
time in 1906. Of the total number of
members reported by the various re
ligious bodies and classified by sex
43.1 per cent were males and 56.9
per cent females. Among the Protest
ants the difference was greater, only
39.3 per cent being males. In the
Roman Catholic churches there were
relatively more males, the number
forming 49.3 per cent of the total
membership.
Fewer males than females were
found among the Latter Day Saints,
the Lutherans, Disciples, Methodists,
Baptists, Presbyterians and Protest
ant Episcopalians, tlie percentage of
male members decreasing in the or
der shown, and there being but 35.5
per cent male among the Episcopali
ans. Among the Christian Scientists
only 27.6 per cent were males.
Of the total estimated population of
continental United States in 1906, the
church members formed 39.1 per cent
as against 32.7 per cent for 1890.
Of this G. 4 per cent increase, the
Roman Catholic Church is credited
with 4.4 per cent and the Protestants
with 1.8 per cent '
It is stated in the bulletin that the
total number of members reported by
the various religious bodies for 1906
was 32,936,445, of which number the
Protestants were credited with 20,287,-
742 and the Roman Catholics with 12,-
079,142. Of the Protestant bodies the
Methodists numbered 5,749,838; the
Baptists, 5,662,894; the Lutherans, 2,-
112,494; the Presbyterians 1,830,555,
and the Disciples of Christians, 1,142,-
359.
Of the total of 32,836,445 church
members, 61.6 per cent were Protest
ants, 36.7 per cent Roman Catholics
and 1.7 per cent members of other re
ligious organization. The rate of in
crease shown for the Roman Catholic
Church is 93:5 per cent, which is
more than twice that for all the Prot
estant bodies combined. The Method
ists reported 17.5 per cent of all Prot
estant Church members; the Baptists
17.2 per cent.
WEEKLY CUTTUIHROP KEPORT.
Plant is Shedding and the Bolls Are
Opening Rapidly.
Memphis, Tenn. —The Commercial-
Appeal’s weekly cotton summary
says:
The crop is suffering from the want
of rain in Tennessee, Arkansas, Okla
homa and Texas and the hill lanas
in Mississippi.
Excessive heat intensified the need
of moisture and in the three western
states named above the plant is shed
ding seriously and bolls are opening
rapidly. In Texas the improvement
begun the previous week was checked.
A general soaking rain is needed to
relieve the situation.
Crops in the two Carolinas, Georgia
and Alabama improved and reports
from the Mississippi delta are better.
In these districts picking will not be
gin until well after September 1, as
the plant is still growing and setting
fruit.
In Louisiana the hot w’eather was
beneficial because many weevils were
destroyed, but so much damage has
already been done that estimates for
the yields are light. The plant is well
fruited and exce it where the drought
has been prolonged no serious shed
ding has occurred.
Montgomery, Ala.—Reports received
by The Advertiser from the important
interior cottoii markets of Alabama
indicate that at least 100,000 bales of
cotton have been sold by farmers for
future delivery at prices ranging from
10 to 12 1-2 cents.
NATIONAL MUSEUM COMPLETED.
Roosevelt Trophies Will Be Exhibited
in Ornate Building.
Washington. D. C. —The largest and
most ornate exposition buliding in the
United States have been completed
just in time to receive the unique
trophies of the hunt gathered by ex-
President Roosevelt in Africa and now
about to be unpacked in this city.
This building, with nine and one-half
acres of floor space, and costing three
and a half millions of dollars, has
been erected by congress for the Na
tional Museum, and is being put in
order for the exhibition of various
objects of interest, chief among which
are the Roosevelt trophies brough;:
from Africa.
Do You Get Up
With a Lame Back?
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.
Almost everyone knows of Dr. Kilmer’s
Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and
H—^
lifErajp!
hold water and scalding pain in passing it,
or bad effects following use of liquor, wina
or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to go often
through the day, and to get up many
times during the night.
Swamp-Root is not recommended for
everything but if you have kidney, liver
or bladder trouble, it will be found just
the remedy you need. It has been thor
oughly tested in private practice, and has
proved so successful that a special ar
rangement has been made by which all
readers of this paper, who have not al
ready tried it, may have a sample bottle
sent free by mail, also a book telling
more about Swamp-Root, and how to
find out if you have kid- <
ney or bladder trouble.
When writingmention fSsiKSiB
reading this generous JSiISSJSi
offer in this paper and
send your address to
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Binghamton, N. Y. The regular fifty-cent
and one-dollar size bottles are sold by
all druggists. Don’t make any mistake
but remember the name, Swamp-Root,
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the ad
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Kennedy’s
Laxative
Cough Syrup
Relieve* Colds by working them out
of the system through a copious and
healthy action of the bowels.
Relieves coughs by cleansing the
mucous membranes of the throat, chest
and bronchial tubes.
“As pleasant to the taste
as Maple Sugar"
Children Like It*
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Weak Kidneys
Backache, Lumbago
and Rheumatism
immediately relieved by
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Delays are dangerous. There
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than Kidney complaint.
Nature always
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l result in Diabetes,
\ m 'jf Lumbago, Bright’s
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entire system. . Do not suffer from
Backache, Lumbago, Rheumatism
or Kidney and Bladder trouble
when you can get Pineules.
Two sizes, SI.OO and 50 cents. Ihe dollar size
contains 2i times as much as the 50 cent size.
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