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10 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TEXAS WILL QUARANTINE AGAINST WHITE PLAGUE BOV IS FOUND Frightened Abductors Strangle Child to Death. SUSPECTS HELD BY OFFICERS Strong Guard Maintained To Prevent Angry Citi zens From Storming Jail. Bptclsl to THt Georgian. New Orleane, La.. June 24.—Tbe headless body of Walter Lam an a. an Italian child between seven and eight years old, who was kidnaped and held for 16,000 ransom two weeks ago, was found by police and vigilantes just be fore daybreak yesterday In the Interior of a big swamp, about 20 miles from the city. The head was found a short distance from the body. The boy had been strangled death, according to tho confession of one of several Italians held by the po lice. His neck Is supposed to have been broken when he was strangled, causing the head to become separated from the body when decomposition set In. By order of the police, the dead boy'i funeral was held yesterday afternoon. By 6 o'clock In the morning the entire Italian colony appeared to have learned the details of the murder, and the po lice feared tbe crowds which would r ther at the funeral If It was delayed. string of carriages about fifteen blocks followed the hearse, and police kept the squares Immediately adjoin ing the house free from loiterers on foot during the services. Five Italians, two of them women, are under arrest charged aa accom plices to the murder, and extra details of police and deputies are maintaining order In the excited Italian quarter of the city. All day long small crowds were dispersed promptly by the police, despite whose precautions a report had gotten out summoning a mass meeting at Elk place. Seventy armed deputies were placed on guard at the Orleans parish prison, the strongest In the state, where three of the prisoners are held. The murdered boy was found near St. Rose, In a territory which has been well searched with bloodhounds In the past few days. Where the dogs failed to locate the boy a "third degree" sweating process wrung a confession from one of the' suspects, who was taken from hla home In St. Rose about midnight and carried Into the woods by a combined force of the officials and vigilantes. This man. Ignaxto Cam- plgclano, was kept In the woods an hour, when he confessed, charging four Italians with the murder. He said that about the time of a mass meeting In New Orleans, more than a week ago, held for the purpose of prosecuting a search for the boy, these men, who were In a vacant house In St. Rose, be came frightened and consulted about what to do with the child. The boy was crying, begging to be taken home stop his noise. Later two of the kid napers. he satd, came to him carrying the boy In a blanket, and after threat ening him with death If he told, took tbe body Into the swamp. FOR SAN FRANCISCO Spreckles, Honey and Lang- don Will Meet and Select One. Ban Francisco, June 24.—District Attorney william II. LangUon. Btwlnl Prosecutor Francis J. Henry and l(inloli>b K|>r*ckl*s will meet this afternoon to talk over tbe • mayoralty situation aud to And, If possible, a man to succeed J nines L. (iallsgber as acting major to All out tbo unesplrvd term of Eugene 1C. Bcbmlts. It la tbe Intention to select the man for point blm to office after _ tlon for bis relaae from tbe county jail Is passed on by the district court of appeals, for the proeerutlon Armtj believes the writ will "be denied and Bchmfta totally Incapaci tated for performing tbe duties of mayor de facto of 8an Francisco. GLARING DEFECTS IN BATTLESHIPS Washington, June 24.—Alleged de fects In tha construction of the battle ships Oregon, Massachusetts, Indiana, Iowa, Ksnturky and Kearsargn are pointed out In an article In the cur- . rent Issue of The Navy. The gravest fault In the construction of these battleships, the article ex plains, la the "soft ends"—that Is, long mm viio 1 1 Xlisax I o, stretches at bow and stern unprotect ed by side armor. Another defect Is the open space in the armor about each sain, '‘which is so great aa to Invite the immediate wrecking of every* gun by a hostile ship shooting moderately . straight according to the standards of the day*” m Officer Shoots Negro. Charlotte, N. C. t June 24.—Follow ing an assault upon a 7-year-old yiegro girl, Ethel Henderson, Patrolman John son, of the local force, shot and prob ably fatally wounded Jim Crawford. Crawford, after committing the Iced, made his escape The officer waited foi the negro to come back fo», his clothes. Crawford resisted arrest, attempting to hit the officer with a rock. Washington, D. C., June 24.—Tbe an nouncement by the Texas commissioner of public health that be proposed In a day or two to Issue a proclamation under which persons suffering from tuberculosis In an advanced stage will be debarred from enter- ing tbe stufe has caused decided Interest in government quarters In which tbe ad ministration of t!|; public health and Fed eral quarantine laws Is Involved. While the officials don't wish to be quoted at this time, they make plain the opinion .that Texas Is raising a question that will have to be settled by tbe highest courts before It will be settled for good. Under the Federal code, consumption Is Yet, on the other bond, it Is recognised as menace to the public health In tbe lmr£- grntion regions, which lists It as one -* dlsenses on scconnt of which Immi grants shall be barred from tbe country. If Toxns should adopt and enforce such policy It would close that state, with I peculiarly advantageous climate for con sumptlves. against tbe Incursion of thou sands wbo go there every year for their health. It would further mark the Initia tion of n new policy which other states might ultlwutely enforce. BAND LEAVES AS SCENE AT VOTING POLLS BEGINS Spsclsl to The Georftan. Valdosta, Go., June 24.—The battle here against aaloona Is the moat won derful ocena ever wltnesaed in Val- to l. doata. The county Is going dry by 4 Two brass bands; Imported to play for the liquor people, left town when they saw the demonstration 'by fair women and brave men around tho polls at sunrlao, the songs, prayers, tears of Joy falling and ealoon men being con. verted In the whisky crowd, dlsheart* enlng them. Telegrams of congratulation from all over Georgia are being read from the court house steps amid wild enthu siasm. At 12 o'clock it looks like a great prohibition landslide. The prohlbt tlon leaders are claiming from 800 1,000 majority in the county. Following a great rally at the the ater last night, many workers, male and female, went to the Flret Metho dist church and remained up all night singing and praying. A prayer meet Ing was held at 4 o'clock and before I o’clock hundreds of ladles and workers were on the court house square sing ing. The voters are marching to the poll* In this city through a long lane of la dles and children. Very few negroes are voting and the wet side seems badly demoralised. There has been no perlous disturb ances. MISTAKE CAUSES DEATH BY POISON T, Drank From Bottle of Em balming Fluid Left in Closet. Mistaking a battle of embalming fluid for medicine which he had been accuatomed to take, Frank T. Ryan, 69 years of age, swallowed a email quan tity of the poison at his residence, 177 Woodward avenue, early Sunday morn ing, and died at 3 o'clock Sunday after noon In aplte of the efforts of skilled physicians to save his life. For a long time Mr. Ryan has been accustomed to keep his medicine In a closet at his home. Unknown to Mr. Rynn, his son, Paul, who Is In the un dertaking business, brought horns a bottle of embalming fluid, which he also placed In the closet, and the poison from this bottle was swallowed before Mr, Ryan realized Ills mistake. Mr. Rynn was born In Jasper coun ty In 1838. In enrly life he moved to Atlanta and since his residence here has been prominently Identified with the buelnesa Interests of this city. He served several terms In the city coun ell. He was a veteran of the Civil war, having served In the Confederate army, Sixteenth Arkansas regiment, until tha battle of Chlcanmugd, where he loet a leg. Mr. Ryan Is survived by three chll dren, Frank T., Paul and Miss Annie Ryan. FIVE WERE KILLED 40 EIGHT INJURI N HEAD-ON WRECK Baggage and Smoker Tele scoped and All Cauglit Fire. KILLED FREEMAN! TOOK RAT POWDER Was Recovering, When a Drink of Water Caused His Death. With praise from his young wife of three months os to his being a model husband ringing In his ears, (J. O. Free man, of 37 Carnegie place, left a party of friends on the front porch of his home Sunday night, and going upstairs, swallowed poison. In an hour he was dead, but if tes timony of one of those present Is true, actual death, though primarily caused by poison taken purposely, was in reality on accident. This testimony Is to the effect that Freeman swallowed rat poison, was brought out of danger by a physician, and then drank water after the physi cian left. The water, with the poison remaining, proved fatal. Sunday night Freemun, who came to Atlanta several weeks ago with his wife, from Talbotton, was sitting on the front porch of his boarding house talking with several friends. He was happy, or appeared to be, and had heard Ills wife tell what a model hus band he was when he decided to retire. He went upstairs at 10:30 o'clock. About 11 o'clock. Just after Mrs. Free man had retired to her room, the peo ple In the house were startled by screams and investigation developed that fVeentan was desperately ill from the effects of the poison taken. A phy sician was sent for and after work ing over tho young man left, and It was thought he was out of danger. Then It Is said he drank some water, hich proved fatal within a short time. Freeman had been unable to secure position since coming to Atlanta and nocheater, N. Y., Juno 24.—In a bead-on collision between a passenger train. No. 230, and a freight train near Pittsford* on the Auburn branch of the New York Central railroad at midnight, five persons were killed and eight badly Injured. The cause of the wreck Is not deAnltely known. Tho smoker of the passenger train was telescoped by the baggage car. It contained Afteeu persons. Neighbors came quickly to rescuo with blankets, improvlaed stretchers, etc. Doctors from l'lttsford were i on the scene and calls for ambulances were sent to Hochester. The wreckage cought Are, hut was soon extinguished. The pnssonger train had been put ou the ached ule only last week, and as It runs only Raturdny and Sunday It Is supposed that the train crew forgot about It. The Dead. The IdentlAed dead are: MILES H. CUTTING, station agent at Hall road Mills. J. McARTHUR, a bridge foreman. H. If. YKOON, a freight brakeumn, of East Uuffnlo. The Injured. The seriously injured are: James Lyons, Rochester; ribs, arm and leg broken and face cut and badly ■raided James Lyons, Jr., Tiding in the euglue ribs and a leg broken, face scalded. William Madden, Clifton 8prlngs; arm and ankle broken, cheat crushed; probably Roy Jured. Martin Hinds, Ryrncuse; badly Injured. F. A. Nopman, Rochester; badly injured. NINE WERE KILLED; THIRTY-FIVE HURT Fast Passenger Crashes Into Work Train Carrying Laborers. Hartford, Conn., June 24.—In a rail road smash-up in the home section of Hartford last night nine workmen were killed and thlpty-flye Injured, some fa tally. A passenger train on the High land division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad ran Into a work train carrying elxty-ftve men, which was backing Into tho city, and crushed the cars. Hoth engineers tried to stop, but they had little time, and the trains came to gether In a smash. Some of the train men and workmen Jumped, but most of those on the work train were caught. The engine of the passenger trnln tore through the cars and piled up on top of the debris. Dead and Injured were scattered along the street for some distance, but many were caught under the wreckage. The survivors and men from neighbor ing bouses started the work of rescue, and they were soon Joined by scores of others. Fire started.In the wreckage, and the firemen were summoned and soon hail the flames under control. Engineer Wilson jumped In time to save himself. MADE HISTORIAN OF BLUE ANI) GRAY Judge Robert L. Rodgers, one of At lanta’s well known lawyers and a Con federate veteran, lias received from J. ’nrr, commander in chief of the Na tional Association of the Blue and Gray, his commission, making him na tional historian of the organisation. Judge Rodgers will have the rank of brigadier general. Is believed he was despondent be caupe of jbls. _ Ills young wife is pros- / t rated. Fireman Waite Better. The condition of George W. Walts, the fireman who was badly Injured Fri day morning. Is such that his friends now hope for his recovery. He spent a restless night Sunday until 1 o’clock Monday morning, when he went to sleep and had a good rest. He Is at hU home. Stewart avenue. Chamberlin-JohnsQn-DuBose C o. ^The hois Harvest of my daily Life is somewhat as intangible And indescribable as the Tints of Msming and Evehing. It is A littk stardust caught; a Segment of the raihbsw which I have clutched.’—Th orsau. You need not strain your aural nerve in order to sense the Aura of the store. The Aura does not speak, but it is intensely eloquent, just the same. It assumes no tan gible form—but is immate rial, nebulous—an ethereal- ized emanation, an exhala tion, as pervasive as per fume-silent, unseen, but powerful in its appeal to the spirit. ^he sum of the store’s generic and specific elements is the essence—the Aura— of our business. Concrete things do touch the imagination. Vague ab stractions are not all of fan cy. A picture, a palace, a bit of lace, a pressed flower, a jewel, a quaint urn, a curl, a rusty sword make the blood flow faster. The corona of tradition, the radiance of legend, the halo of history, the garlands and wreaths of luminous fame connect your heart with the inanimate objects of your amaranthine admi ration and inspiration and keep your veneration alive. The atmosphere of the store is what we are talking about—the moral and men tal atmosphere. It’s as strong as it is subtle and sur rounds every transaction. It isn’t massive and ex pansive, like the air that en velopes the earth, nor is it gaseous like the element that surges about the sun and stars. Therefore, it defies ex act analysis. But you feel it as soon as you pass the por tals. It is the force that robs our business of the sordid quality which for so many years kept storekeeping on a level lower than that of the learned professions. We have smote had prac tices at hip and thigh. The best preachers, and doctors, and lawyers now are busi ness men. They teach right living. The laws they formulate would be of small benefit un less they were backed by the businesses that supply the necessities to humanity that life demands. Your clergyman opposes short weights and inferior quality. Your physician com bats foul conditions in stores and factories, and. largely through his efforts sanitary measures are being enforced. Your lawyer guides you along the smooth waters, away from the treacherous currents and eddies of litiga tion. Business men everywhere are uniting with the priests to do God’s work. We learn; we teach. And in our day we have witness ed some vast reformations. We’ve seen old standards shattered and helped to es tablish brighter and better ones. However, we’ve only clear ed the stubble—burned out or dug out the stumps—so rapidly does our ideal out strip the actual. But we are doing our part, as best we can, to prepare the way for others. The brain cudgeling over delicate and intricate ethical and practical problems pro ceeds peacefully under the propitiating influences of in ternal and external harmony and prosperity. We are on good terms with everybody. Are you with us in this work? Deep down in your heart, do you cherish the same sentiments that we are trying so hard to express and succeeding so lamely? Who shall say where our sincerity ends and policy be gins? We are keenly alive to the comments that this kind of advertising may cre ate. But the fear of those comments does not deter us from printing these words of hope and cheer. If corro sive cynicism taints the fac ulties of some men and ar rests belief in the honesty of our expressed and implied motives, all we ask of them is to plumb our promises with our performances. We are satisfied to rest our case with the fair judgment and safe reason of those who know the store and its meth ods by actual experience. The winning qualities are the same in all walks of life. The soft acquiescence of weakness that compromises with standards has never in this world marshalled forth the inert mass of men and things and moulded a "full- measure” success. Knowledge is acquired slowly, and to establish truth costs blood and tears. As in the scientific study of the horse, no progress was made from the time of Aris totle to that of Leonardo (1800 years) , so Hegel says there was no advancement in philosophy from the time of Aristotle to that of Spinoza. Peter Cooper and George Peabody were the evangels of the higher ethical culture, the application of which widened the breach between the merely shrewd and smart shopkeeper and the really fine and splendid mer chant. Not because of the millions they amassed, but because of the way they amassed them, is why we have always cherished their careers as shining exam ples- i .. * Peter Cooper gave an ex quisite "atmosphere” to his glue factory, and George Peabody conducted his store on the principle of not sell ing a customer anything that could injure him, or that he did not need. Both were practically al truistic. One gave New York "Cooper’s Union;” the other gave Baltimore "Peabody’s Institute”—two halls of learning erected and endow ed with money cleanly earn ed. Business is beautiful, of course—if it brings a big in come and gives power. But business just for the money and the power has small at traction for us. The reward we are striv ing for is not alone the one that fills our pocket, but the one that fills our breasts as well. Chamberlin-JoKnson-DuBose Co. J L