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9 ,1 THE WAYCROSS WEEKLY HERALD LIVELY TIMES NEXT SATURDAY HOKE SMITH CLUB TO TRY SAT URDAY NIGHT RALLY. From a political standpoint, Way- cross will be about the llvllest place In the state on next Saturday night, The Ware County Hoke Smith Club have been keeping their eye on the Saturday nttht rallies of the Joe tt’own people, have decided to try a shot at one themselves next Satur day night Robert 1* Berner will be the princi pal speaker for the Hoke Smlthltes and be will either bold forth In the opera house or in the little park In front of the poetoflloe. The Joe Brown Club has secured speaker who will deliver an address at the court-house on Saturday morn ing. and again at the Phoenix Park Saturday night ' ROBBERS LOOT FITZGERALD SAFE YEGGMEN ENTER RAILDOAD TICK ET OFFICE THIS MORNING. REPRESENTATIVE HEFLIN WAS INDICTED TODAY. Washington, May 11.—The grand jury this afternoon returned indict ments against Representative Heflin, of Alabama, charging him with assault with dangerous weapons upon Lewis Lundy and Thoiaaa McCreary, the re sult of the affair on the Pennsylvania Avenue car ou March 27, following the efforts of Heflin , ta eject Lundy, the negro, for cursing In the presence of ladles. POLICE INVESTIGATING RIFLING OF NEIGHBORHOOD CEMETERY lmPorte, May 11.—The gold ring, bunch of keys and other articles found among the ruins of Belle Guinness' home arc declared by the authorities to be the property" of the widow, and strengthens the theory that she per ished with her children. Considerable excitement was creat ed today when Chief of Pillce Coch ran drove madly through the streets enroute to a nearby town In Investi gate a body snatching report Cochran tarried Just long enough to say that he had received Informa tion that the cemetery of n certain town had been rilled. - He said that the report might throw- light to Identify the bodies found on the Guinness farm. He refusod to disclose the name of the town. AN OPPORTUNITY TO OWN VOUR OWN HOME. Mr. W. J. Gassett, the well kaovfh constructor, has closed-It deal whereby he will furnish all building material on easy monthly payments, t<> any person who desires to build a home and has sufficient funds to pay the cost of labor. » Any person In the city who hie a lot should see .Mr. Gassett at ones. He gives them the opportunity of owning their own home at a cost not treater than their monthly rent would be. Watch for his advertise ment In tomorrow's Herald. WHOLE FAMILY 18 DEAD OR BAD LY INJURED. Montgomery, Ala., May 11.—Jim Kennedy, who last night locked bis family in a cabin and set fire ra It In cinerating three of hie children and fatally burning two others, baa been arrested. The mother of the children was 111 at the time and was powerless. Ken nedy's mother-in-law, In trying to aave the children, was seriously burned, while her grandfather la dyjng from enballng the Hamas. Kennedy and hit wife bed' separat ed and he became furious because be .couldn't take the children. Fitzgerald, Ou., May 11.—Yoggmen broke Into the ticket office of the At lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic and Seaboard Air Line Rallroada v earty this morning. They dynamited the safea and escaped with Email booty. Poises are marching the country for them. COUNSEL WILL ABK COURT TO SET PREEMTORYDATE. New York, May 11.—The counsel for Harry K. Thaw, In the antt against him for the annullment of Ms mar riage with Evelyn Keabltt Thaw, puzzled today by a notification re ceived from Attorney O'Reilly, Eve lyn's attorney, that be would ask for another adjournment at the hearing this afternoon. Col. Bartletb coun sel tor Thaw, aald that he would con- sent for this adjournment hut con sidered that there was something mysterious la connection therewith, and la determined that the refbrEh shall set a r-re-emptory date, so then will be no further adjoursmeoL O'Reilly aald that the adjournment was necessary because be was unable to get the testimony df a certain wit ness ta Pittsburg. MOSES SPORE TO GREAT CROWD GAVE HOKE SMITH'S FLOPPING RECORD OF TWENTY YEARS. CYCLONE SWEPT THROUGH OKLAHOMA LAST NIQHT. Shattuc, Oklahoma. May 11.—A se ries of cyclones swept through Ar* nette. In Eltls county last night. Mrs. Hale was killed and her husband was seriously' Injured. Several build- Ings were razed. About twenty persons were Injured, some seriously. Never perhaps before In its history has Waycross witnessed so enthusi astic political rally as was the Joe Joe Brown gathering in Phoenix Paw of Saturday nlpht Hon. C. L. Moses, one of Georgia's most gifted orators, came In on the 6 o'clock ttatn from Balnbrldget where he had made speech In the morning. He was met at the train by probably a hundred en thusiastlc Brown supporters, backed by the Woodmen of the World band, of Savannah, and amid cheers sod shouts escorted to a carriage. He was the guest at the hospitable borne of Mr. Jet Bowden for supper. Mr. Moses was Introduced by Mr. Hamp Parker, the young orator, in w few well chosen words and a thousand voters greeted hltn with applause when he aroee to speak. Fully two hours were consumed by Mr. Moses and when be would have stopped* the cry came “go on. go on.*’ It would be Im possible in tbe short space which Is ours, to give even a synopsis of the speech. The orator took up the poll* ttcal record of ''Michael Hoke** for tbe past twenty years and when be closed there was nothing left to ad mire In the picture which he drew of “Michael Hoke'Smith." The speaker cold of the governor's propensity for flopping, first he changed bia name, next he changed his church, his pre tended conviction on the prohibition question, his flop on the immigration proposition when confronted by the LYLE JOINED BAPTIST CHURCH WILL BE BAPTI8ED IF ARRANGF- MENT8 CAN BE MADE. Harry R. Lyle, who has been sen tenced to be hanged on May 26th. for the murder of his wife and child, has been accepted at a member of the First Baptist Church of this city and will be baptised by Rev. Scruggs pos sibly next Sunday. Lyle professed religion some months ago and asked to be'Accepted as a member of tbe First Baptist. It is not yet known just when and how Lyle will be baptised. If per mission can be obtained from court the condemned man wlff proba bly be taken to the Satilla river. Oth erwise the baptismal service may be held In the jail. The action of the governor In re fusing to take any action towards commuting Lyle’s sentence Is tbe last stand but one which can be taken by Lyle'e counsel (or a further delay In tbe execution of tbe sentence. Upon the affidavit of two practicing physi cians expressing their belief that tbe condemned man Is Insane, the court will be compelled to appoint a lunacy commission to try him for Insanity. This would doubtless delay tbe case ao there would be no hanging here on the 26th lust IN OKLAHOMA CYCLONE NUMBER REPORTED KILLED Wbodard, Okla., May 11.—A num ber were reported killed and many In jured during a tornado which swept the district lying twenty mUea south west, south and southeast of Wood ward last night. Several Isolated towns are reported to have been wip- ed out of existence. % PLAIN JOSEPH M. BROWN. The following Is an extract from the editorial In the Rome Herald of yesterday: The subject of the remarks is not Judge Brown, nor Capt Brown, nor even Col. Brown, but plain Joseph M. Brown, gentleman; Mr. Joseph M. Brown, the quiet, unobstrusive, uno* stentadous gentleman; a man of the highest scholarly attainments thorough business training. He is a member of the Baptist church of the highest standing, lie Is a man that know a the Industries of Georgia and her business i».urests «is you know black sheep from white ones. He Is by love of nature u farmer, and rponds bis happiest hours upon his farm. Read his declaration of principles and need not teU you it sounds like a Governor's message, a state paper, a declaration of independence to bis people and to the smaller counties, especially that have beon put under the autocratic band of RING RULE, and which the eloquent Albert Cox aptly calls the RAPE OF THE RIGHT Of tbe country counties. Should the people of Georgia call Joseph M. Brown to tbclr service as Governor, they will not have cause regret It, and those who may be doubtful now will And more gray mat ter In tbe Governor's chair of the quality of which we are moat in need than we have found there in many years. There will be no scramble for a second time after he has served one tern. ■jSJdJgy". NAVAL OFFICERS HAVE TO OBEY ORDERS. Washington, May 12,-rSecretary Metcalf has made several new regu lations in order that naval officers In the future be less able to embarrass the department in any further contro versy which may cojne up. The Sec retary believes that the new regula tions will limit officers' faculties for obtaining Information. Hereafter of fleers handing confidential Information will be made to follow rules which have heretofore been neglected. Any officer who wlsbe* Information of any kind from tbe depertinent must first get permission from the Secretary •r fn-m cne of Urn bureau chiefs. duplicity, hyprocracy and deception on every Issue where he thought his per sonal interest wag at Btake. He spoke of the wreck and the ruin Mr. Smith had helped to bring about In Georgia by his drastic legislation, aguinst rail- roads, corporations and public in< dustries, and of the thousands of idle men and suffering women and children In the land, caused by tbe enactment of laws adverse to the Introduction of capital into tbe state. He touched lightly upon the partially paralyzed condition of some of our own home industries and claimed that a change of the occupant of tho governor’s chair was an absolute necessity. Mr. Moses paid a glowing tribute to t?:e worth, the ability, the integrity, the honesty and the manhood of Joseph M. Brown, whom he bus known for many years. He appealed to the voters of Ware county to support him in a race which meant everything for them and hlr apiieal was not in vain. Mr. Moses had his audience with him from start to finish and It Is said that several Hoke Smith men who came to scoff re- malnded to rruy for Joe Brown but tous. COOKING CLA88E8 POPULAR ALL THIS V/EEK The demonstration of :wo splendid additions to borne cooking, "Snow drift," absolutely perfect shortening for cakes, pastries and anything for which a shortening Is required;* and “Wesson Cooking Oil,*’ which la perfect substitute for Olive Oil, drawing numbers of ladies to Lewis* Watson Co's. popular store. Mrs. Henrietta C. Beeks, the dem onstrator, la a mpst. delightfully Inter esting teacher, and her cakes, bis cuits, chcsse-atraws and outer dainties are delicious. Lunch Is served from 9 a. m. to 2:30 n>. to 6:30 p. m., to which the la dies of Waycrosg are invited, and th. moklng -classes will be a popular event this week at Lewls-Watson Co'* store. COMMUNICATED. Dear Editor: — How can the preachers and earnest prohibitlonlats of Georgia be consist ent and vote for Hoke Smith, after reading his speech at Augusta yoster* Fanners Union. He told of Mr. Smith's Ho denounces as a "lio” the only prohibition sentiments that were ever accredited to him Id. est. "The Hap piest Day of my Life" when he signed the Georgia prohibition bill as pres ented by the legislature. Tncn again In tho same speech he asserts Just as the Joe Brown supporters have al ways said about Hoke Smith, and that is, that he is for local option for the State, but prohibition for the county. He was, however, talking to people who wanted local option, but he for got that his speech would be read by other counties who aro full of prohi bitionist^. “SQUARE DEAL." MILLWOOD DISTRICT SHOWS GIG GAIN. EVERY VOTER IN MILLWOOD WAS FORMERLY FOR SMITH. A straw ballot was taken up at Mill wood Saturday with the result that Hoke Smith received 36 votes, Brown 20 and several not voting. Tbe Millwood ballot is u pretty- good indication of the average gain of the Joe Brown forces- In thlB sec tion during the past two weeks. in the Democratic primary of 1906 the vote at Millwood was as follows Hoke 8m!th J. H. Estm Nothing. R. B. Russell Nothing Clark Howell Nothing Jas. M. Smith Nothing. 8bort!y after the organization tbe Ware County Joe Brown Club the report waa brought In from Mill- wood that the district would cast ev< ery vote for Hoke Smith os wag done two years ago. As evidence of the straw ballot taken Saturday, which was published yesterday In a Hoke Smith paper, the people of the Mill- wood district are studying the politi cal question and twenty votes havs been gained for Mr. Brown In two weeks. DICK RUSSELL NOT FOR HOKE SMITH. TRUNK LINE WILL CONNECT GRAND TRUNK AND WABASH. Now York M.r 12.—Advices from Kumhall Michigan., .tale that before October 1. a .team road will be in op eration from Alncer, Id mllea north of Marthall, on tho Grand Trunk, to th. Utter town. It la aald lo the Ural link or lection of a trank Una that will connect tha Grand Trank and Wa bash. _ . ... . OUT OF 105 COUNTIES FIFTY HAVE NO PAUPERS. Topeka, May 12.—Out of lot coun- tee which the state of Kansua has within Its dominion at leaut fifty bava no paupers. In the entire afate but 74 paupers are reported, mid nearly ill of these are tbe overflow of In- aane, an feeble minded aayluma. One half the country poor farms are empty ,ave for the keeper, who draws hla salary and walla for patronage. Tha State has a population estimated tha drat of tha year at 1,3911,000. This means that even at that only about .me resident out of ever;.- 2,000 la In * poorhouae. LITTLE DOUBT NOW THAT MRS GUINNESS IS DEAD. Laporte, May 12.—Three additional ring■ were found on the skeleton of a hand which Uy near where the body uf e woman was discovered In the ulna of the Guinness house. One ,f the rlnfa had an Inscription which :> believed to prove the Identity of 4rs‘*Gulnnqas. ft la believed beyond all doubt Teat the widow lost her life n the fire. SPECIAL NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS. I will be at the following .named ilufee for the purpose of receiving state and county Ux returns. Third end last round for 1508. Manor May 23. Wareaboro, May 21. Sweats May 26. Beach, May 27. Blckley, May 18. Fairfax, May 22. Millwood, 30. Waycross June 1-3. Waycross, second and third round June 1. 2, 3, 4. and tfh. 8, 2, 10, and Books close Jnaa 12. H. E. HENDERSON, w 22. dlt IS. R.T. B..W. C. AtUnta. (in.. May 11.—Fearing that •ome of hie friends over the State might ba milled by recent claims as to hla position In the present guber natorial contest. Judge Richard B. Russell, of the Court of Appeal!, who ran aecond In tbe race two years ago, gave the correspondent of TDs Tele graph the following atat&ment Mon. day morning: "Anyone who will recall tho cam paign for Governor two years aso and who heard my speeches on the stump will know without telling that I not supporting Governor Smith. My utterances then were honestly made and I have seen nothing to cause me to chengc the vlewa I then expressed or to apologise for them." COTTON SPINNERS HAVE STRANGE LOTTERY SCHEME. I-ondon, May 12.—A strange scheme has been devised by the Cotton Spin ners' Association to encourage tbe purchase of Japanese yarn In Shang hai. It 1a proposed that purchasers of Japanese yarn In the Chinese port shall be entitled In tickets, according to Ihe amount of their purchasoa, the possession of which will enable them to participate In > lottery, for money prises. A protest having been made by the Shanghai Consular Body against this lottery, the acheme of the Japanese Cotton Splnnere' Association has received a check, but, still dsuntod, tha spinners have decided to continue tbe lottery system, but to award the prises In yam instead if money. Ifercd In hla championship of the pro- hlbton cause. For years the recog nized leader of the anti-Bryan Demo crats of Georgia, he doesn't dire chirp on i hot Issue, but atanda committed, If nominated, to send a solid Bryan dele gation to tha next national conven tion. Once the enemy and abuser of Tom Watson, than hla bosom cronle politically—and now agata an enemy. Only a few abort months ago active and ardent In bte support of tha Geor gia Immigration movement, he now turns tall on this work, and goes the limit In an effort to appeaao the Farm- sr«' Union and organised tabor. It's a pity, a treat pity, that any man would bey the govemorehlp at such a price; tha Inevitable lose of hla own self-respect as wall as that of tho people who once admired him as a man of force and principle. A gentleman Just from Bavannab and who lives there reported at the Herald office that In hla candid opinion Mr. Brown would bant Ur. Smith tan to one Is Chatham County. GOVERNOR WILL JOT COIWTESENTEKE. LYLE WILL PROBABLY HANG ONI MAY 26. Sheriff Woodard received the fefi- iowlng letter from the Executive P»- i>artment. Lyle will doubtless £# aung on the 26th Inst. Atlanta, Ga.. May 11* .1908 The Sheriff of Ware County, Waycross, Gjl Dear Sir:— I beg to advise you that Gov era* Smith has declined to commute sentence of Harry E. LyJe, and tm tt* absence of any order to the contrary you may proceed with his execctksn at the appointed time. Very truly youn, c. m. tunaa Secretary Executive ; ax mystery of a£*ck of Owes A private soldier by the aaaaa at John Orton waa taken before a mate trato recently for ptaytag cards tew ing Divtsa services. Jt appears teat a aergeant tninniMuIifl tha aulllera t/t church, and when tha parson had see* the prayers, be took tha text These who had a Bible took It cat. bat Ms soldier had neither Bible or eommem prayer book; but puRtag out a seat- of cards he spread (hem haters Ms. He juii' looked at one card and at another. Tbe aeigeant of thaawte pant saw trim and eald: -John pate*, the cards this ta no place lor theaa- “Nover mind Oat* sadd Un. Wlhao the service* ware oner She - constable took John before the mpn "Well,” said the mayor, "Wbat haaw - you brought thla soldier here for— For playing cards In dhnrdL- WcB. soldier, what have you k> sag for yourself?" “Much air, I hope." "Very good. If not, 1 will pnnUk yam > more than man waa aver punished.' T have bton," said She 'about six weeka on the march. I have neither Bible or common prases- book. I have nothing hit n rack ad cards, and ril satisfy yonr worship off the purity of my Intontlone," mad spreading the cards bafora tha snows-, he begun with the ace; "When I «ae tho ace It reminds me that than we bnt ona God; when I see the denegS reminds me of the Father and Bin: when I see tho tray It reminds we ad the Father, Bon and Holy Ghost; «BW " am tbe four spoL It romtade wm tel the four Evangelists that prearlhni Mathew, Mark, Luka and John; tekaai meet the five, It .reminds mo of the five wise vlrglna that trimmed MwBr lamps—there wen tea, bnt Ova wees wise ahd five war foolish, and veaa abut out; when I am th* alx.lt realedB me that in six day* tho Lord ante heaven and earth; when I son (be seven It reminds me that on the ass' entb day h* rested from the grante work h* had created, and hallowed Mr when ■ see tha sight It reminds ar of the eight rightaouv persons ter were saved when God destroyed the world, via: Noah end bis wife sad' their three eons and their wives; «haa< I am tbs nine It reminds ma at (he nine leper* that werecleanaed by oar fiavtohi—there were nine emt ot ta who never returned thabha; avion V we tbe ten U reminds me of the On commandments, which God handed te' Moans on tables of atom, when ■ see the King It reminds me erf tbe Rkag Heaven, which la God AlnrtgMj. when I am tbs quean It the Queen of Sheba, who Solomon, for she waa as wto* a he was a man. She brought her CO boye and fifty girls, alt “ boys apparel, for King Solemn tall which war* hoys and which 4 glrla. King Solomon seat for « for thorn lo wash. The girls wa tha elbow and tha boy* to the ■ Solomon told by that" Well,” aald the mayor, ”yoe I elven S good descriptions of affi cards bnt ono." “Wbat 1a that * "The Knave,” aald th* mayor. "I will give your honor a dm _ lion of that too, If yon will not he an gry." I will not,” aald the mayor "V yaw not term me the knave.* "Walk" said th* soldier, "On ante set knave that I know of 1s tbs aeets- Me that brought ma hare.’ 1 "I do not know," said th* mjw. ha la the greatest knave, hat I know ho ta th* greatest loot" “When t count how many spots te pack of cards, I find MS, as aaer I there ere days In a year; wtea I count the number ot cards la a patek than are 63, the nuartai at weeks In n year; t find four wait* Che number ot week* in e month; and ( find tbeie ere twelve picture caste In a pack, representing the mate ter months In a year, and on eouattagChet tricks, I find thirteen, the menter tat weeks in a quarter. So yon aao, afe " pack of cards serve m* for a MHl almanac and a common prayer, tart"" The man whom Tom Wktloa ease “the Booth's greatest orator.* to—’ been Invited to address the voters i Waycross and Ware county in «* e- terest of How.'Jos. M. Brown hlto nix Path next Saturday -night Sta tics of the speaking will die erase te these columns later.