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KUNG HAI FAT TOY!”
SAYS JOHN CHINAMAN
Celestial New Year
Will Be Celebrated
Next Thursday.
By PAUL E. WILKE*.
I’,Mirations for one of the r»l«i
if the year are now twine made
aV ,|„ Chinese colony of Atlanta. Some
i van foaling In anticipation of fill-
i,„ U1 , on the good feed which la cum-
, nK to iliom In lean than a week.
for he It known that on February
n ,o xt Monday nlghl—New Year's
will lie celebrated. And, of course.
Tuesday la New Year'e day according
Chinese way of reckoning time.
Ton there will be celebration! ga-
, ,f , ouree the Chlneeo won't hire
a hall nr.d get political oratore to read |
lhe Declaration of Independence and
do the apreud-eagle act. They .don't
rriebrau their Now Year that way.
liter will they make arrangements
iiiih the owner! of factory whittles to
w „„ them for n half hour and keep
lanplc awake.
nut titty will celebrate the comine
„f the new year and the ending of the
.,1,1 In a titling manner only ae celes-
. know how to celebrate.
VI,rally large etorts of rice and pe-
hulking dried hah with huge
ttiiilhK i yea and funny curling talla.
nariher with Junk to make chop ouey
nil .It licloue birds' neats, ducks' feet
III,I other delicacies are being laid
WILL BE DEFEATED
IN LOCAL ELECTION
, - ».—Cobb county
la todhy In the throaa of a local elec
tion on' the question of the Issuance of
bonds to the amount of tilt
110.000 for the
Improvement of publlo rondo. The rote
» very light, and from present ‘
cations It will not carry-
A two-thirds majority la required for
the plan to carry. This Is UN votes
In the county.
There are (00 necessary In Marietta,
and at noon only about (00 had been
cast At thla rate the Issue Is lost.
l'„r tit. Chinaman feeds well tn New
yrjr's eve and Now Year'e day proper.
Kuna Hei Fet Toy.
It Is Hung f Hal Fat Toy with him.
That's what he talla 1 New Year. The
—KiiiTT** means some part of the New
year and the "Hal Fat Toy" means an
ther part. Just which Is not tranalata-
t,i,. but In the altogether the jumble
of words mean New Year.
The Chinese reckon the years ac-
ronilnc to the reign of the emperor and
,h, year thut Is almost ended le the
meat . -second of the reign of Em-
... r. r Kwong Soye.
vnl the year that will enter on
t„, nUht of February 11 will be "23 "
All the Chlntse colony Insist and de.
date that It won't mean “2J for
K.o.ny, It might, though, for every-
DOWN IN HUNTER STREET.
In Hunt#r str##t is the headquarters of the almond-eyed of Atlanta.
a a till]
H«ro they find the dtlicacios of their own land, here tfcey gather 'for
friendly chats. Here ie the test of Chinos# Mantonry, for tho Celestials
have their own lodgoe of this aneiont order.
IIHIIW .w.,
that his mother. Tel An.
the dowager empress, le distinctly the
hud .niIhi. In Chinese politics and poor
Kwong does Just like the old lady says,
la fact,erst An.might be called the
..ntli.il boss, while Kwon* le Just i,
flsurohesd. •
But .til that's got nothing to do with
tut. cflcbratlod 111 Atlanta of the Chi
nese New Year.
William F. Lee.
The most prominent Chinaman In At-, ' .
nn. and the leader of his race la \\II- '
lo». of If Beat llunjer etreei. | V.
H. k.tits'll store there where all the
'| n FT' tlcttT-lo the henrl of a LIllMnWB
k<q« .at sola. Thai la. nearly ell.
It any hop Is k(pt-there nobody known!
m\ thing about It- But there are tiny |
tamp* there .by which the dellclona pills
..I dreamy wealth and affluence may
t» loki-d. •*.*■■
Anyway*. Lea'll'.tU tooth nqueexe In,
Chinese affaire In Attahto, and he says,
the .tent this year will be an Inlef-
I'ttlni* one. All good Chinamen pay
up all tlielr debts on New Year's eve.
«n.l If Kill the dew year an over again.
Th.li * the custom. But Lee avers by
all the bones of his departed ancestors
nut then. Is a "heap Chinee man who.
!).. pay up." He sayii: "CHaod Chinee
play up debts like glood Englee^and
heap had Chinee like bad Englee.
means there are deadbeats among the
fhir *e just like there are amonv
Americans. •’ , .
Then, t.Kt, New Year'e day'Is a day
Then, too, New Years nay non)
. feasting among the Chinees. They
-atall the good things which a t hi.
nsituin ,*U loves and they make merry.
Ti.* said that some, loo, hit the hop.
a* It Were, after the good meel and
>« pleasant pictures. However. Lee
know* nothing about that. Lee doesn t
•moke himself and he doesn't pry Into
hi* n. le' hors' affaire.
Get New Year Shave.
Those Chinamen who have queues
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
The queer characters are "Kung
Hei Fet Toy,” which it a New
Year's a resting.
shave of tHe head on New*
T-hC* eve and leave nothing on the top
•f ihelr head but the queue. They also
t >• htitits and put on nice dean
clothe*. Hut. of course, thle doesn't
"-.in that they wait until New Year’s
do to do this. They Just take an ex-
irn on.* on that day.
■are *ay* the Chinees have been cel-
-braiing New Year's day for over.(.000
w *r- It.* declares China has had more
[h.tn :,!Hm emperors and' there have
t» -n *.. eral new years for each one.
tie i-iis something else about the
i (.he -., calendar. The year twenty-
la
thlrti
ktp
months. A Chinese month
'‘ .niy thirty days, »o to get even
wish time they throw In a year of thlr-
months every three year*. The
'hat Is almost here—(3 for Kwong
reign—will have only .twelve
m hut again In I(0( there will be
months. ’.Lee also telle that
ry sixty yean the Chinese New
* on January 1 of the modem
The last time thla happened
\ - three years ato, and It will
■sum In 1(24.
* ve.tr that Is juat ending has two
i tii „f April, tha second being
, it- intcrcalaray month of April.
, l hu e nn East Hunter street Is
. r ‘"' , ; * Juss House and a ron-
.-■o , 1 "* l' ta re for tha Chinese. It la
o l'inarters for the Chinese Free
-■ n >.,. t,.|y, and | t will be then that
"m crowd will hang out on
i i * u* * e\e end on New Year’s day.
an. , i'"s*.* won’t work on that day.
yj I. r v heed a clean shirt or collar
'“V! b *. M#r Wt It out of tha
ip "" Monday night, for there
t» n ", h |ng dotn, on Tuesday.
If > ' ,u w * nt *° make a hit with
k on Monday, Just say:
k.init Hal Fit Toy.”
Cherlee Lawless.
'"•■ral services of Charles Law.
1 'tied Wednesday, have been
■I until Holiday afternoon at 1
■*' ,h « North Atlanta Baptist
CORPORATIONS
MAY PAY PINES
Unless those corporations both for
eign and domestic doing business In
Fulton county who have not registered
with the ordinary and paid the special
tax get busy, there Is a probability of
the grand Jury Investlgailng the mat
ter and It Is possible that Indictments
will follow.
It Is estimated In the ordinary's of
fice that there arc 600 or 1,000 corpo
rations both foreign and domestic do
ing business In Fulton county which
are subject to this occupation lax. and
yet only abilut 10 per cent of them have
compiled With the law. The lax va
ries according to the capital st.jck and
ranges from 15 a year to (too.
E. H. Amilen.
Tile funeral services of E H. Ami-
Ion. of Stockholm. Sweden, who died
suddenly Wednesday nlght-at Cl Hous
ton street, will be conducted Sunday
afternoon at the chapel of II. M. Pat-
f -Inn & Son M 2 o'clock. The In-
{Iment will be In Wgatvlew cemetery.
WHAT IS THI*f
The Chinaman who wrote II
wouldn't tell. But he.aald It was
“all right."
HALF MILLION GAIN
IN BANK CLEARINGS
Bank clearings for the past, week
show an Increase over the atone week
lest year of I505.4S2.70. The statement
showa the week's clearings to ba 16,-
4*7,151.(1. The clearings for the day
were Ilf5,(21.72. a decrease from the
aatne day of lfOS.
BREWER BtJSCH
IS GOING WEST
Adolph Busch, of Bt. Louis, and hla
party of about thirty relatives and
friends, arrived In Atlanta shortly, after
2 o'clock Saturday afternoon on n spe
cial train on the Georgia railroad from
Augusta. Tha millionaire brewer le en
route lo Pasadena. California, ona of
the most exclusive aummer resorts on
the Pacific elope, where the remainder
of the winter will be spent In search of
health.
IT'S DECLARED;
REBELS ACTIVE
Fate of thpVenezulla
President Kept
Secret.
Kingston. Jamaica. Feb. (.—The of
ficers of the steamship Trent, which ar
rived * here from Colon, declare that
President Castro, of Venezuela, Is dead
and Vice President Gomel is conceal
ing thq fact. General Herandex, who la
a passenger on the Trent, Is going to
New York to raise funds to elan a rev
olution. ■ '
The Tribune says:
"The long-planned Insurrection of
General Ai\tcy> Parades against Presi
dent Castro, of Venexuele, has begun.
Nleonar Bolet. the local repretentative
of General Parades, recalved a cable
gram yesterday from the revolutionary
agent at Port of Spain. TrfOldad. which
rontalned-tbla one word ‘aalgne.' which
In cipher code, arranged betwetn lhe
two points means 'Antonio has landed
r.t Pedemalev. 1 The message bore yes-
terday's data ao the landing was ef
fected probably bn Wednesday,"
EOT SHUN
IN A SHAFT
E
Burning Timber Ends
the _LLv.es._of
Miners.
LINCOLN FARM ASSOCIATION-
NATIONAL PATRIOTIC SOCIETY;
, ITS FIRST YEAR; ITS PURPOSES
Has Acquired Title to
the Birthplace of
Lincoln.
MEMBERSHIP IS TO
BE OP THE MASSES
Contributions of Prom 25
Cents to $25J)0 Will Make
Up the Memorial.
Since that strong yeoman plot
Thomas Lincoln, moved his family
across tha Ohio Into the almost un
broken wilderness of Indiana, lbs little
farm In tbs heart of Kentucky on which
Abraham Lincoln was bom has boon
loft In n state of neglect. Blnoa the
'day* whan little Abraham 'played
around tha cabin door near tha fxrtous
rock spring that lies In tha center, of
the 110 acres which hie father claimed,
this historic ground has been transfer,
red by title but three times.
A year ago last August thle “little
model farm that raised a Man," as
Marla Twain has happily called It, was
placed on sale at auction on the court
house steps at Hodgenvllle. the neigh
boring town, to free It from the entan
glement of a protracted litigation be
tween n private eatete and that of a
religious aocley that had triad to ac
quire It.
"At** (ke~ tAw# - commoawf 1th n f
Kentucky directed this public sale It
woe discovered that thla historic spot
was coveted by at least two large mer
cantile establishments. both of which
were planning to exploit It for com
mercial ends. To prevent this, and
believing that thla birthplace of* the
"Ftret American” should forever belong
to the American people, ona of the pub-
nmer, and at
Wllkesbarrfc Pa.. Feb. (.—Seven
bodies at miners have been extricated
from the Wunsmle mine of lhe Lehigh
and Wllkeebarre Coal Company. The
men were suffocated to death by burn
ing timber In the mine. One other man
U atlU thought tu be burled In the mine.
Three hundred men were worhlng In
the elope when the fire eterted, and all
but eight escaped.
Sim HURT
Two Fast Street Cars
Crash at Grade
Crossing.
Philadelphia, Feb. 9.—In a col-
lisipn between' two trolley can at
the South Fourth street cross
ing of the Pennsylvania railroad
this morning, sixty employees of
the League island navy yard were
more or less seriously injured.
Slipped on lee.
Mre. Laura Howell slipped on tha
tee at tho corner of Houston and Lamp-
kin streets Thursday night, brooking
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her left leg. Friday morning (he wee MUST ANSWER CHARGE
moved to the Tabernacle Infirmary,
where she I* reported to be reefing
easy. Mre. Howell resided at 10 Lamp-
WILL HA VE NO EXHIBIT.
AT JAMESTOWN EXPO.
Special t'
Macon.
The Georgian.
ii» Feb. (.—U now seems
Macon and probably lhe
u'enrsu will not be represented
state of tleoigi* Exposition. The
e't "tf the plan w»t doubtless be d«>-
fste of lto l’i»|| litl , aken ,|||* Meek.
usketl lo furnish a
j.-ti the structure
elded by Ihf
Macon has ■
room to Bull*—-- » r ect.
which thla stats Is "> 're* <.
the present there hoe been no Inclina
tion nn the part of tha mayor and coun
cil and the Chamber or Comroorce to
take part. It looks as If Macon will
not contribute lo this etgerpriee. There
Ire some'who are dleplhaaed.'and feel
that the officials who should lake the
matter. People wno know whoa fairs
_ have bean good for here are by no
but up to means Inclined to donate to Uie project.
OF DRUNKENNESS
Rpcelat to The (InirjtllB.
Jackson. Miss.. Feb. (.—Judge Rob
ert Cochran, of Meridian, who recently
horse whipped H. T. Jenkins, of Meri
dian. must answer lo the charge nf
drunkenness today at Newton. Jen
kins filed nn affidavit against Cochran
charging him with thla crime, and the
warrant for the arrest of Cochran has
been sent to Meridian for service.
The filing of the affidavit created a
considerable sensation at Newton.
live American cltliens In forming a na
tional asaoclatton for tho preservation
of thle ground.
Thle group of cltlsens, acting se n
self-appointed board of trustees, or
ganised tha Lincoln Farm Association,
hlch was promptly Incorporated under
the laws of tha state of New York.
The title to Uia Lihcoln birthplace
farm waa transferred to thla associa
tion. and the program for enlarging
the membership of the society was at
once 5**un- IWiMje
Rather than mkkq; It poam^for “’a .
few men nf great Yrealth to ebfflrtbute
ID** eumi tn the development of tide
national shrine It was decided to re
ceive Into membership In the society
anyone who contributed to the general
fund of the. association te small a sum
as 26 cents, and to limit nil contribu
tions to (21—thus * making the great
memorial to Lincoln represent JJie trib
utes of nil ths people, who In loved
and eerved, and not that of a jivtlllegfit*
few*. ... ■ ‘
The purpose end plans of thla new
patriotic society thnt was to make this
Kentucky farm, almost In the center of
population nf the Untied Btatea,
worthy companion of Ml. Vernon In tho
affections of* our countrymen were
placed before the president nf the Unit
ed mates and hla cabinet, one of whom
was one of*the organisers of the so
rlety. All gave It most enthusiastic
LINCOLN IN 1907
Prom Celller’e Per February f, 1(07.
I-unking backward at men who here greatly llred Is ever ose ef the etresgth-
prtvUefes ef time coming.after, lime who hare rises te high f
ths fate re. And no better model has been set bsfon
those with which America Is blessed,
r ef oar
I Meter?, thee
nnlurnt In die etorr ef oar eoutluent. Uncnla mure' then say other
In refemaee to ths deeds aad,priiirt|>lce of oar day. What IJncols
avs deae le aa allegation that ever rsrrlee weight; and this
ml ad tor wisdom, rhsrtty and devotion; for ao
amt
voaid ha'
■unde tc
la'raSl npon
by enppesBfO'/
every mlad tor wisdom, chart
ambition: Mr ell that pteeue virtue,
mt egotism. Sous, cruelty, or luste.
Is because he
iuesssre" and' reality: iff**L4U __
“A greet man." anld the eldaneiu J*rr
ms. m |— T
lltjr aui]
’ right, i
lUajwrtftL ttnWH
•ie effeble In hie con%>rer, frevrdne In hie temper., and eqnelly removal from
end pride.' And another philosopher ceils,him ,
greatest
Ij**» vlrSt
the greatest chief
■ri hall with lama. ••
That erer peopled hell with heroes. 1
It lei • rlew of greet ness whleh grows stronger with the freeing <
le e view to whleh the appreciation of Lincoln la largely doe. Hie wit e spirit of
meretlfy. It wee hnwble. He sew this little world iiy the landmarks of eternity.
MdUtr. ■„
. Ueeoln T s poetry end humanity of vletoa rqoalfd hla clear throat of mind; they nrg
pert of that Image whleh Iltee lo the heart of man.
Lincoln's farm will be dedicated to the public In. HOI. Those acres on which
the child Abraham drat aaw the dag will lie turned over to tho nation 'last oho
hundred years Worn the time when ho wss I men. The prepare ties of this tract for
Its memorial purpose might have been accomplished by a tow n
happened to have wealth. It le far more fitting that It ekoald
by the ueu end women end children of all <mr states, end we Id
let
Ten nf sll oar listen, amt we Invite
nartlclpettun of those from whom a quarter of one dollar to a mighty
these Silver pieces corns from Melee to California, from Sooth Carol
"May one who tostht to honor for the Booth
Uncovered stand and slag hy Uneoln's graver*
lie ires of the gosth as mart, it of the Morth: ef the East ee of the West!
nf today as of the period In which his body lived, nie childhood
and Tinted by bis people, will he an expreealoa ef our effect Ion sw
west)
(MOM
and e monament
forever to tho services which he wee permitted Is sorrow and devotion to par-
to the rude timbers that first sheltered
the sad humorist of the Bengamon. And
when at last the special train that bore
It. brilliant In red, white end blue,
crossed the Ohlojnlo Its native border
state It waa met at the LoutoVttle depot
with martial music and military honors.
It was carted through the city s streets
and placed In the city's perk, where
t’olonel Henry Watterfion and Adtol E.
Htrvenson. former vice president of the
United filet ee, made the formal ora-
tlons WMcaimn*~Beck to If native sail
the cabin In which Abraham Lincoln
waa born.
Co-operation by Living Commanders.
The moat cordis] co-operation hoe
been pledged by many of the surviv
ing commanding generals of the Con
federate army, and the Grand Army of
the Republic has officially Indorsed the
work of ths association, and empower
ed Its commander-in-chief to chit upon
Its upward of 4.000 poets to lend their
aid In giving publicity to the work and
to enlisting all patriotic cltlsens as
members of lhe association.
Un ths 12th day of February. I(0(,
the najlon will celebrate the one hun
dredth anniversary of Lincoln's birth.
Oh thnt day the Lincoln Farm Asso
ciation will dbdlcats tho birthplace
fffrm (a (hn A marinan Tim
farm to the American people. The
principal address will ba made by
President Roosevelt, and the nation's
moat dlstlngiilehad. representatives,
Ne rnitlnnnj psrk within our'.Vest do
main ran emphasise our national Ideals
and our abiding union as will this
birthplace farm.
II will symbolise to our posterity tin
..T.
strong heroism that toft* the New
land ntllg and the tortile valleys of Vir
ginia, self-suOcIent In their needs, to
hew n nation out of n wilderness. It
lies In the neutral elate that In our
great crtols waa torn by Its loyalty to
all the etara on tb# flag. It will forever
be a monument to our Union rxtbetr
than to our lamentable difference*—
and It will be the moet signal tribute
ever paid by the American people to
the nation's greatest servant in Its
hour of greatest need.
Invitetlone to American People.
Is it not a cause WOfthy ST fh» db-
operatlon and old at every living soul
who to proud to be on American? It
Ibis be so, the board of trustees In
vitee you moet cordially lo Join the
association by sending lo lie treasurer,
Mr. Clarence H. Meckay, at T4 Broad
way, New York, any sum from Xi cents
lo til. and they urge you to Invite
your friends to Join. It le to the
American people that the board of true-,
tees must appeal. By l(0( the Lincoln
Farm Association should hare a mem
bership of halt a million loyal Ameri
cans. If the American people will
themselves make this possible, the Lin
coln centenary will be. Indeed, one of
the moet significant events In the na-
The 1
trustees of Iho UnCdm
Farm Association ore: Joseph W. Folk,
president; Robert J. Collier, vice presi
dent; Richard Lloyd Jones, secretary:
Clarence H. Meckay, treasurer; Joseph
H. Choate. Henry Wattarson, Augus
tus Salnt-Oaudens. William H. Toft.
Lyman J. Gags, Norman Hapgood,
Horace Porter, August Balmont, wil
liam Travers Jerome, Samuel It CM-”
ravers Jerome, Samuel L. Cle-
Edward M. Shepard. Ida M.
Tsrbell. Cardinal Gibbons. Jsnktn Lloyd
Jonas. Charles A. Town*, Albert Show
and Thomas Hostings.
then laid before members
Htntrs senate and house of representa
tives. governors of states, men of let
ters rvrrywhera, and educators of na
tional fame. With their unqualified In
dorsement, a year ego tnls week the
Lincoln Farm Association, through the
pages of some of the most prominent
' monthly publications end
weekly and
the newspapers throughout the coun
try, appealed to the American public
for members. The response wee Im
mediate and generous. Subscriptions
came In from every elate In the Union
—North and South, East and West. To
every subscriber the association Issued
hnndaome steel engraved certificate
W. H. Childress.
The funeral services of W. H. Chil
dress, who died In Copenhlll Wednesday
night, will l>r conducted Bundsy In lhe
.'clock. The body will be taken
to Palmetto, Go., for interment
Lincoln, a picture of tfto tog cabin In
which he was born, the White House
as li appeared when he occupied It. lit*
autographs of all the officers and trus
tees. and the noal of the association.
The nntnee of these members arc filed
In card catalogues and claailltrd by
stairs. Whan the list of members hn*
been completed and the constructive
work of lhe association has culminated
In thr centenary of February 12. 1(01.
this list will ba preserved and gunrded
In the Historical Museum, which win
havr been eraettd nn the farm, os tho
honor roll that built the Lincoln Farm
Memorial.
Cabin in Whleh Lincoln Wee Bern.
During the year the trustees of the
association have placed the farm under
lhe iiersonal charge of a competent
caretaker, who lives on the ground.
They Imve sent Mr. Jules Guerin end
Mr. Guy Lowell, two of America's fore
most landscape architects, to survey
the ground and pUri.lls development,
and they beta purchased the cabin In
which Lincoln waa borp from the eper.
ululnrs w ho took It from the little knoll
where It ortgtnelly-etood and*exploited
International expositions This cabin
« as found stored. In e cellar at f'ollegv
Point, on 1-ong Island. New York. The
IVnnsylvenla railroad provided a apt-
dal car, which Mr. John Wnnamaker
decorated with flags and the national
colors. The governor of Kentucky sent
to New York n special squad of bids
militiamen to eocort the old weather
worn log* Lincoln’s old Krnturky
home, bock to Its native soil, lie ride
■•> Louisville to historic. It rested a
day under military guard at Philadel
phia. Baltimore. Harrisburg. Altoona,
Pittsburg. Columbus ami Indianapolis.
Thousands of cllltens came.Jo see end
begged lhe privilege of toucning lh-
sacred pile. Mayors of clllrs and gov
ernors of slalea paid c|.«»e»- inns
CONGRESSMAN RIXE Y
‘DIES IN WASHINGTON
Washington. Feb. f.—John Franklin
Rlxey. Democrat, who represented the
Eighth congressional district of Vir
ginia In.ths house, to dead.
Hr was born In Culpspper county,
Virginia, August I, 1164. He was n
lawyer and farmer. For twelve yearn
he was commonwealth’s attorney tor
Culpepper county. He had been •
member of fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, flfty-
seventh, fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth
congresses.
MUDDLE COMPANY
GOES TO RECEIVER
in the absence of Judge John T.
Pendleton, Judge George F. Oober, of
tho Blue Ridge circuit of the superior
court, has signed an order naming W.
8. Lincoln, of Msrbls Hill, On., tem
porary receiver of the Southern .Marble
Company and ordered that reasons be
given on. March ( why a permanent re
ceiver should not bo appointed end the
affairs of the company wound up.
This was In response to a petition
filed by O. W. Norcrose, A. J. Park.
W. J. Denholm and H. J. Cross, of
Worcester, Mess., and V. W. Divert,
nf Cleveland. Ohio, against J. C. Hul-
livnn, < ’. A. Moore, administrator of the
estate of A. T.
ARTIST GUTHERZ
WAS WELL KNOWN
IN ALABAMA TOWN
Decatur, Ala., Peb. (.—Csrl authors,
the famous art let, who has Juet died In
Washington, D. C, to well known here,
where much of his boyhood woe spent.
Hie wife was Mies Kata Scruggs, who
wee born and reared In Decatur.
Mrs. Busan Murphy Nelson, of De
catur, to a slater of Mrs. authors.
Mrs. Bessie Burdette.
Mre. Bessie Burdette, the wife of W,
M. Burdette, died Saturday morning at
I o'clock at the family residence. (6
Powell street. The funeral waa held at
(he chapel of Greenberg, Bond A
Bloomfield, at It o'clock Saturday
morning. The body woe sent to Gaines
ville. Ga.,UFor Interment. 1
city; W. A. Fuller, of Fulton eoaaty,
the Southern Marble Company and lhe
Fenners' Loan and Trust Company, of
Wing, nf New York New York.
NEWS FORECAST OF COMING WEEK
Washington. Feb 9.- The case nr Representative Blnger Hermann, of
Oregon, who le charged ivlth the destruction of certain letter ptwi copy
books when he retired from the office of commissioner of the general
land ufllcr, will come up for liisl In the dletrict criminal court on Mon
day. *~ ,’*
Tho second section of the class of 1(07. United mates Naval Acad
emy. will tic graduated at Annapolis Monday. Secretary Metcalf will de
liver Hie diplomas to the graduates. - ,
Many visitors end tourists will Dork to the South during tho week to
attend the nnnual Mnrdl Oras celebrations In New Orleans and In Mo-
bile, Peneiicula and Notches.
Tuesday the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln will be
absolved throughout the country In the ruetomary manner.
Klnr Edward will open parliament with full stele ceremonial on
Tueodav.
The thirty-first nnnual bench <how of the Westminster Kennel Club
Will open Tuesday In Madison Bqu.tre Garden. Naw r Yo(h, arid continue
through the week. . * . * *'i
The National American Woman Suffrage Association will begin Its
thirty-ninth annual convention In Chicago Thursday. , ,*-t, •
Michigan Republicans will assemble In state convention st Grand
Rapids Thursday lo nnine two candidates tor Justice of the supreme
court, two candidates for regent of the elate university, * and a candidate
for member of the state’board of education.
A motion Is to Iw argued at Findlay. Ohio, Friday lo quash the to-
dlctmrnta recently found against John D. Rockefeller, the Standard OO
Itsmitany and Its subsidiary concerns. , * .. . ■*~.j>;.
Four man, three whites and one negro, are to pay the penalty an
the gollown It, Kentucky Friday for Crimea they have committed Two
of the men are lo ills for criminal assault and two tor murder
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