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2 HUNOREDSFLEE FLOOD’S ADVANCE f • e- Many Spend Night of Terror as Increasing Sweeping Tor rents Weaken Dikes. x--.; Continued From Page Ons. affectei as scon as 'he waters re -epe. Orleans because >-f its ie 'u..a- defens’.'-e ttrength. is the safest ■if in the Mississippi. Oh:Mi - sourt vaiics. despite- the far' that) Louisiana mur protect her. r ' from th f.Coij waters of some other •‘a'es This should be the dut- of the n.a’tonal government, bi- a broad and >at- I ten; .of conservation at the head 'ca ters. such as contemplate .in ’he > - i lands river regulation bill. Wh nouln I Louisiana spend millions of d-'-ars .in- | nua.ly to protect herself from ’he •.< • . tr-.-f which come from near'- t hirds 1 of the Union Louisiana has -pen’ ' >so,o<iQ.nnn out of the public trsatur and y?-a’4 indi'idua.s and "uiiroad? have spent millions more for levee pr - tection since the t'ivi] war. We ea;-- Bestly urge the citizens ' 'he United States, and particular'’ the newspa pers .to give us the only outside aid w ask—that is. discredeme of false alarm - Ist stories and suppo’ - ’ of trie Ne < lands river regulation bill, which •*. ili harr.eff the floods and force them to serve instead of to destroy This Vassar Girl May Be the Last of a Line of Daisy Queens NFTW YORK. Mar 11 --When 24 rr’s. led, by Miss Martha Louise Tipton, of New York (arming the annua! dais" c.’.aic. march across the -a input- of 5 as eag’cbllege at the Vassar commence ment week exercises next month, it I ma ,; be the last time the custom will be observed at the famous college Every 'ear a number of sophomores j are selected •« carry the daisy ham. Only the pretties’ girls are supposed to | ca.’r - it. The selection of twentv-odd | gifts from a class of several hundred as 1 "the pretties' ' ' ua results in mm envy and ill feeling. Into such a sta'e of dissension was the sophomore . la-s pungfd this r«: L" the si -eetion of .4 gr I.- "ill "f the ; 27* ’of the class that discontinuing the < dais chain '.as seriously < unsidered by. the, facuitv. .The daisy chain dates hack neatly MU Hears. io the time the college ••■n opened in 15C.7.. tin 'he day before , la.-- , da - ail of the sophomom- .imrney Intel the fields tbnut Va«»<r >nd online’ | K.ormous nuanti’ic- of daisies T v are corked into a haln, which .- sup posed 10 be one foot in length for cicn rr.rmbe- of the graduating < ■ Selection of ‘hose who wo this voir car:' the da -y - ham was made by a committee <f throe, composed ' the senior president Mi-s 1 linoi Prudder Os Brookline. Mass. the sopnoiwi’e | president, Mgs e V. Gouldner. ■ ’ . Cleveland Ohio and the chairman of the class day committee. Mis: Carn- : lyn Congdon, of < 'maha. Appropriation Bill Carrying $34,000,000 Is Passed by House i WASHINGTON. May 11 The 'eg..- a five, executive and tudleial appropriation, bill, carry mg approximate! ‘>4 000.000 and containing rarroad legisla ion in ’.ad ttlg- a - eartion abolishing the < onunerce court has passed the house Xn record ' vote was taken on the Anal passage of ; UM'btU. and. contra.-' tc expectation, a roll cal! was not demanded on the abdi tier, of the commission court In com mittee of the whole the house had st me :r. favor of icing aw ay > ith this ne' created court As final!' passed, ’he bo ge' provides fftr numerous cuts in the salaries of em ployees of various departments and the I abdliiion of several positions in the serv ire ttf contains :r. addition, the follow icg legislative changes A prew igion abolishing the commerce eourt on June so 1912 A ppew-istor that the ’erms of -ffire of a., emplr ’ees under the classified servre ir. "the Uistr’.ct < f Columb a -hall terml nate on July 119 U A provision abolishing the bureau of trade‘relations tn the .iipartmer.t of- ate and merging under the department < f I enpimerre and labor the bureaus .->• -van ufactures and statistics The < nsoli dated bureaus wh: ■ « .. in effee’ hate the functions o' a tariff I- a: . will be known us the bureau of f. -eigr and do mestic' cc-mmer. e SEE Niagara Falls Dm a FREE Trip Write the Contest Manager The Georgian. UNCLE TRUSTY! Copyright, lai2. by International News Service. - 9 Blr*/ VXI .WT /// 77 7/ 'W ' ® 1 II lUll. “William, while we're on mir way t<> the hi<i fi'jht out in Ohio 1 w ; «h you and Theodore would lot me fret a little sleep. You both jive me a pain'. Put a good shine on my shoes. Elihu --you'll got your usual lip in the niorninv i'' LI OS NLMES I. B. DEIEMTES Convention in Birmingham. Roosevelt Republicans Hold a Thompson Committeeman. BIRMINGHAM ALA M.o 11. The stat’ lytos?' :: R'ciib: t n t cvnyrn;i"n I vh;-' m*' > I'l’nn in ’n- ity I‘t "‘ivh-i 1.300 men from i parts of th* smte l pi'cs'ni ihe'Trd loudb u every mention! |of I'nrmT Pi'ei-ident 'se\ elt's nanv I J. <’ Thompson called thf' convention! !• , , ■.‘us. and introduced Judgt ii Hun'.T' is temporal! <hairman. "ill; j ..ir-orgs <''Rea>. of Bi.mingham. ; 4 '• ! porarj sei■>•••:,u" Upon taking ' ■ : bai. Judge H.indie- c-oiv < • io-: : ; F •; l-m T i ft. .-ar i.-: "as not lo\ al I ' hir fl lends. t;.'--< utions "ere oinpted inlo:s;nx 'o' n'l i'i'';slj' a nt. Rnosei 4t, aj'.j 'o-j a'ing .1 ' late priina: '■ law Jo; ' i ’ nominate nos a offiiers. A reves-. ,n hour " is 'ttU n t ' permit th? "I'hir : Fourth, Sixth. Seventh ind Eighth ui.- ! I'ri>ts tn o ganUf and select distru t ' i deieg ste- to <'hit ago rharles Si"'. m Montg >mei". "as ! elr ted itate ''.airman over George ! De.'er. of I' ul'inan. .1. <>. Thompson I ' i indorsed ' . Alabama member of 'the Republican national committee. The contention late: elected t" ' ' e ieleg.ites to th" national. , invention ' ■ 'Uh 'ne-th*- 1 v.'tt i '■TC'D 'cast' the! four to’es from the state at large " st. S-. o:U Fifth and Ninth' : ■ongressiona' diet •■ t= held meetings j I early toda and •■■»• h selected t"o dele- ’ gates to the na’iona; convention. SHE OBEYED HUBBY; EVEN HELPED HIM GET DIVORCE FROM.HER NF'V y.iRK. Ma- ■.. M . ir.i'ilw Rea’— e Denn's ae'inst ''.'T'.n>’i I'alvin, IL Dennis, head of iiw "cwl importing . ' c.»' '<■•■' I" , ,<■ Denn.s. "b- | ■ '. Sri ’>-■ no-' > i ' Ji. . . ilet,ird t i i i f h i ? !’. ’.i sb4 n i Sh € rid *h’ .• si■* < Si; I. Iwi.ri.o- ' I i! I .n s "hew e l tr I ’. has ; bat' ■ ’ ''. • ' -o< ’ h>- ><. muc ■■> ■ older than ’ >a- A f 'lend •' h ’ si.e •' ; I Dennis .i; a.tn'.-’i’t. 4U ‘ •'r' . o I'a.k. ' West on Janna 1 ; 27. - nam- Ihi th, suit b Dennis as co- ns: 'n’er* '!■■ ’ ;! T.n.s t -a ■ e : ■ .»• ' is FI arm I ; Evans ,'f East tirjnr «•. • ••. !■' :■ ' * J -ur u 3-aC -r.. T. - ani >: - j . /.< r >•••(’ -a a .•ji.-jit f'* u' r.\c-r. er., ; ar’ a,:.- *•• • , be- Lix-jn <• f.- -eiei r ar • : n. h-Tum;-::' /..TTY _ . -* -Wj u . Us 11 - I _ I LLI'-IT- •-ft; MTU ‘Plant Corn* Advice Given Gloomy Cotton Planters by Connor i. J. Connor, commisgioner of agri otilture, "'ll! tomAifioe send out a message to the farmers of Georgia urging diver sification of Cl'l'F. The commissioner s message is a result ■ f tlie apnalling cotton situation which Georgia is said to be lacing It will urge the farmers to turn from cotton to pro ' 'Sion crops In discussing the situation today, the <• mmissioner said 'll needs I" be impressed upon the I farmers that - Georgia .an raise other i-lb ng.- hap <qpttsn. esnecißil'" now "hen '! the■‘r-ytten < rofi : Is late all over the state land ptalcill.' doomed in some sections "The' need not be utterly disconraged ! \\ ions are a« I'ad as I have ever -een 'hem orn and haj and forage crops. I if planted now. "ill > ield returns equal ; to returns from cotton. 1 expect to impress on the farmers the I fart that Georgia lands, no matter what their <i-c tiio.’t\e values ma' be. are rar j n:t;v losing n intrinsic talue by single ' p: eg ' JAPAN T OO POOR FOR J \\ \R: CREDIT GONE. TRAVELER DECLARES I SAN I’RANCISt'O. May 11.—That the I " h-> rient. from Uatro tn Yokohama, iis on tl ■ >. erstr of political and so-, ial ■ Mutton is the conclusion of Dr ' rhomtts EE Green, author and traveler. "ho has jus’ . ompleted a trip around the ' I. the g enter part of the tint having been spent In Egynt. India, Cht ! na and Ja pan. i "It is impossible said he. "for peo- I nle Os the Occident to realize the deep seated. "td’.-prrad economif and polit ical unrest existing throughout the i " h'Tient In Eg? pt there is a : growing party, led b\ t'opti' youths. | "ho t c dreaming of the day "hen jEgy;’ be for the Egyptians and th. English rule a thing of the past. "A : In Jia is .'■“•’thing 'ith the same I iiss.iti-f.o tian, ,r. i the world knows - 'loeinnig of "hat :s going on in t'htna As Japan, it is ihudish fol!'- to .a k - f a- fighting "ith am nation. She as he hands fit I at home The lapare" ■ government t.- financially at ci. 4 or its tether. Th“ nation has : ui rd itself in an cffoit to kevt> j up th!- .lupearam e of a world p''"e : . j and the peop!" at large are beginning :l" i“a i.’.e lhei, great foil.'. There .s 'Hit' h in ' ■ danger of a bread iot tn r.-kc’ than the • is -f Japan engaging H 1 "ar "ith any Western nation < 'n. - Japan in mm "ar exhausted her pres “n' sunt ' of money , she < >uld n >t gt more, f ■: -he has no credit. ” i'h’ iournals and newspapers of Ja pan i “ W" de. r\ ing the fi> l\ of the ; h -armament The people are ask ling sot more factories and less power. ' j I'.’ • no’ begin toda and take ad | i: age ' ’-e nimiberles■ 'ot"rtunt i - that daily appeal in the 'A ant ■ U”ns ' Th- Georgian ' Bargains ga ar« the e tha' mean a big -iv " - ’’ you. Answer quickb in> ais '".i tha 1 "ffer you things at I'.'trguin .'"ice-- Remembei ’.hat all At jlm .1 atcbJog these page.- and the h.'st er.. *e answer gets the goods. I BELO OF NORMAL WOOD ENDS 0 ' J President Branson Resigns and Jere Pound Is Chosen as His Successor. e The feud in the faculty of the Georgia .. i Normal school at Athens has been end -1 I ed by the retirement of E. 0. Branson * «is president of the institution. | Mr. Bransons resignation, said to r'have had been filed with the prudential j i committee soniF time ago, but kept se '•ret has been accepted, and the eom " , mit.ee has named Jere Pound, membgr |of the state board of education and » . head of Gordi n institute, at his suc cessor. Tii’- action of the prudential commit tee, sanctioned by a referendum vote of the members of th” state board oftrus j ’eh' brings to an end the fight inside I the faculty for control of the institu ? I tion. Won Over Fees Year Age. Branson triumphed over rhe forces arrayed against him a year ago, when Ym-. I'ph’sic- Parrish, now state scho-l : supe vise . failed tn b* re-elected a member of the fn ulty after a strenuous session of boi'n th» prudential commit tee and the state board. Aecm-ding to reports, the school au ! thorities have tendered Dr. Branson the [chair of rural economies, and it is -aid t I that he will accept the position under [ the Pound regime. Dr. Pound, so it is [ i understo''d. "ill accept the presidency Actio" Was Expected. J R Smith, of Atlanta, who since his appointment on the state board of trtis ses has taken an active part in the i affairs of th ■ school, said toda' that J while he did no attend the meeting in I Athens, he had expected som’e su< h ac , i tjon ’some time. M Smith declined tn discuss in de tail the dissension that has existed , I among the faeuit' members, hut sain i frankly tha: he believed that the new , I arrangement would do away with con | I ejrierahie fro. tioti. It is s id that after Miss Parrish had , been turned down by the hoard seye-ai members of the faculty took up! her battle for control and the same old ■ scrap was resumed KAPPA SIGMAS TO MEET. MONTGOMERY. ALA.. May 11.—The Montgomery Alumni association is | planning to entertain the district eon- ' la'? of the Kaopa Sigma fraternit of Alabama and Georgia in Montgom er on May 25 to 28. inclusive. About 250 delegates are expected FOR INDIGESTION ■cake Hcrsferd's Acid Phosphate Half a teaspoonfu! n water before 1 •■neals recommended .is grateful relief trem distress after eating. | THIS ARDEN WEDS AFTER V FEARS He’s 71 Years of Age and His Bride Is 68 Years Old. Courtship Was Rapid. SAVANNAH. GA., May 11.—Forty teven years after the war robbed him i of a wife and fami’v Peter J. Thompson has come back to the South and. in spite of his 71 years, has married the I girl" he courted at Pembroke. Bryan county, nearly a half century ago. Mrs. Ann Celenia IVilsOn. aged 68. : was the bride to whom Thompson was | wedded b" the Rev. John S. Wilder, of I the South Side Baptist church, and I while the aged couple are celebrating ■heir belated honeymoon at th» home of Mrs. L. A. Schuman. Thompson s first w ife. happily married again and living at Blichton. has been told that ’he husband she thought long since dead has returned to spend the rest of his life with the sweetheart of his boy hood near the village where he wooed her nearly half a century ago. War Shatters His Romance. It was in the. late fifties that young Pete Thompson, whose father owned half the land in the Pembroke section, told his sire that he was bent on mar rying Miss Ann Walker, who lived on 1 ’he adjoining farm. Thompson, senior. I said the marriage must be postponed and the sweethearts were still waiting for the parents to fix their wedding date when the Walker familv moved to a distint village. Thompson did not see Miss Walker for several years. He thought she had-forgotten him and he married another girl. Then the "ar came. Pete Thompson enlisted in a cavalry troop. In 1865 he went one day to visit his wife, hie fa ther and. his baby girl at Pembroke, be was there when Sherman swept across the state. Young Thompson, with many other Confederate soldiers, took to the swamps, but hunger drove him from their fastnesses and he was foraging one night when he was cap tured at a Federal outpost. The Fed eral® sent Thompson to Nbw York as a refugee and later carried him farther [ West. When he was free to write to his people in the South many months had passed, his wife had believed him dead and had married a man named I Davie. His father died and he could : learn no word of his child. Thompson, discduraged, decided to remain in the North. He took up a parcel of land in Kansas and was just accumulating a competence in that new | country when a cyclone wiped out all I his property and left him stranded in the strange country. He wandered to Kentucky and had started a successful business there, but fire destroyed this also. Like Enoch Arden Finds Wife Wed. Once more penniless and grown old and stooped. Thompson decided that he would give up the struggle and return to ’he old home in Georgia. H» reached Savannah in February. There he learned that his wife was now Mrs. Davis, of Blichton. and that his daughter had married Berry Jones' at Black Creek. Thompson saye that this news stunned him Utterly disconso late. like Enoch Arden of Tennyson’s poem, he went to a boarding house and told the landlady that he would remain there only a little while, because he would die in a few months of loneli ness. But that same day. when the feeble old man came down, to dinner, he sa« a face at the table that seemed somehow familiar. A moment after " ard this woman, one of the occupants -ts the house, crossed to his seat and held nut her hand. "You are Peter Thompson, aren't you’ ’ she asked in a voice that trem bled a little. "Yes,” he said, “I am Thompson. Tour face, ma'am, looks familiar to me and I'm surprised because I didn't expect to met folks I used to know any more.” “M hy.- I'm Ann Walker, the gray haired woman said. "Don't you re member me when we were boy and girl down in Pembroke'.’" Thompson did remember. Years fell away from him by the score when his new-found friend told him that she had given him up for dead, had married and was. now Mrs. Wilson- but a widow. In spite of his years, Thompson had not forgotten courtship. As he had done in the days of the fifties, nor lie wooed Ann Walker again and the gray haired woman of 68 did not reject his advances. "We won't wait his time. 11l take no chances of losing you again." an nounced Thompson with pos’’iveness. And when Mrs. Wilson had consent ed and the lawyers had said that Thompson's first marriage- was out lawed througn the statute of limita tions. the couple lost not a moment in hurrying to the Rev. John S. Wilder, w ho made them man and wife y ester day. Thompson says he feels 30 years l younger than his age and happier than he has been since the Civil war. COUNTRY CLUB OPENED. ATHENS, GA.. May 11.—The Clover : hurst Country club has just held its i first meeting in its new club house. hree miles from the cit l Officers for I the ensuing year were elected. They are . President. Charles B. Griffith: '‘ice president Professor John Morris, sec ! retary and treasurer. William D Hoop er. and board of governors. John Mor is. Hugh H Gordon and W. Oscar Payne _______> Laura Pepe Stripling. The remains 'f Laura Pepa Strip- I 'mg th? 4-- ear-old daughter of Mr >.n z Mrs G O Stripling who died yes . terday tn a private sanitarium were -ent toda> to Chip!?: Ga. for funeral I and interment. ACT RESSAND AOP PA RTY ON “GREAT WHITE WAY” COSTCAROLINAN SB,OOO NEW YORK. May 11.—Dorothy Dale, twenty years old. an actress, was one of five prisoners held under bonds by Magistrate Appleton in the West Side police court, charged with being implicated in the robbery of Aaron Moore, a young man from North Caro lina who took a w hiss of opium smoke byway of experiment in.the parlor of a furnished roorn house at 256 West Forty -fifth street. He. informed the police that he had been despoiled of 8200 in cash, a five carat diamond ring valued at 81,000, a gold and diamond studded matchbox, a gold and diamond studdied cigarette case and a gold fob studded with 126 small diamonds. Altogether he reck oned his loss al $8,083. The prisoners gave their names as Francis McDonald. Walter Gavin. Hor ace Sperry. Dorothy Dale and Florence Doyle, a model. Did She Smoke Opium? Moore was bent on a mission to dis cover the truth about his inamorata— w hether or not she smoked opium in her idle moments and told lies when under the influence of a toy bonfire of poppy leaves—when the robbery oc curred. The young man from North Carolina testified that while he and his supposed friends were "hitting the pipe,” sing ing and dancing in a hazy fashion, two Rip Van Winkle Adrift in Atlanta BUSTLE DAZES VETERAN Where once were a few uncertain shacks with numerous ill kept paths called streets leading out in different directions theta stood a city. busy, hus tling with buildings that seemed to touch the sky. Samuel May a Confed erate veteran. 80 years old, who last saw Atlanta 55 years ago. passed through the city today. He is yet rub bing his eyes at the contrast. May is a Georgian by birth, and lived fifteen years in and about At lanta. At the age of 25 years he moved to Louisiana and was teaching school when the war broke.out. In the 60 years of his absence from the city. May had not read much of Atlanta. He was, of course, conscious of the fact that a steady growth was going on For that reason, he expect ed to see a good, substantial city. What he did see caused him to think that he had caught the wrong train. Whirl Bewilders Aged Man, Passing from the capacious Termi nal station, he. went out in the broad plaza, stopped for a moment to locate himself, and then passed out into the whirl which began at Madison and Mitchel! He had gone just two steps and was emerging into the third when something stnlck him. Being an old man. he tottered, out caught himself long enough to leok around and catch sight of tr.it object which had hit him “Whata the matter with him?" he asked some one. The only answer was a broad grin. May then noticed that every one seemed more or less in a hurry. This was bis first sight of the Atlanta idea —"get there as fast as you can.” "Right down there was a place I used to know. I’ll go there,” he said tc himself. No Landmarks Anywhere. The place he used to know was two stories high, brown in color and had a few chairs in front of it where the populace was wont to gather. He got there very quickly—with the assistance of a pay-as-you-enter vehicle, but gone was his little brown house. A soft tear started down the old man’s cheek, but froze in the amazemen’ i which grew- as his eyes began to take ■ in the proportions of the building. » r The Price of a KODAK Think of a Perfectly Practical Picture-Taking Hamera. For Two Dollars. There’s no possible excuse for you to go without a Camera this summer. For three dollars a larger one. for four dollars still a larger one and so on up to the folding Kodaks and the high-grade, specially equipped machines. But remember, if you are limited as to price. Two Dollars will make you the owner of a splendid little picture-taking machine. We do first-class’ finishing and enlarging. Fresh films, paper and supplies. Special department for prompt handling of mail orders. * We will send catalog and price-list on request. A. K. Hawkes Co. KODAK DEP’T —————— I 14 Whitehall ' KESBESEgnEßHHnMggggygnMgn men wearing masks over their faces broke in tenon their little entertainment, each leveling a brace of heavy revolv ers. After being entreated by the others to hold up his hands as they were do ing. he did so anef was relieved of his money and as if to search the others in the room, but took nothing from them, although, they wore valuable jewelry. Held From Giving Alarm. He was warned not to give an alarm and when he attempted to follow the hold-up men he was held back by the others on the pretext of fear that he would be shot. He finally succeeded in reaching the street, and immediately went to the police station, where he told his story. Officers went to the room and arrested the three men and then to Miss Doyle's room, where .they found the two women. They all denied putting up a game to rob Moore, but could not explain why the robbers had failed to take their valuables. Moore said that he was from Pitt county, North Carolina, where he has a farm, and that he had been in New York since September. When he was asked his business in New Y'ork he re plied : “Well. I do a little of everything, but principally I gamble, and then I enjoy an income from my farm besides my winnings." All the prisoners were held. Up—one. two, three, four, ten stories his eve traveled. There above him was a city in itself. In every window he could see signs of life. The old man made no comment. He merely looked into the years and pictured the old group standing out incongruously against this setting He wondered" what they would say, what they Would do. what the'- would think. He won dered how it all had been accomplish ed; if it were another Chinese wall, reared by the incessant labor of the entire population. He then asked a policeman if this was the highest building in town. The officer told him that it was. except for two other'that "ere almost twice as high, three that were from four to six stories higjier, and several scattered about which , possessed from ' two to three more stories. The old man then leaped three feet to avoid a taxicab. From this time forth the city began tq close in swiftly on May. Like a man too far gone in wine for recovery, yet not so far gone for realization of what was happening, he gave himself over complete!'. Crowd Becomes Oppressing. The roar and bustle and clang be came blurred and only that which rose distinctive came through. He rented a cab and asked to be driven out of the noise. The driver did this in about five minutes. The roar and bustle and crowded feeling had gone. Instead he was passing a cool, green avenue. On both sides were residences of palatial proportions. Marble and granite and other stones of different grade and dif ferent hue appeared. Presenth- he ar rived at a long, sweeping turn in the road and saw before him an Italian, villa. Passing on still further, there was seen a club house surrounded with smart!} liveried horses standing about and automobiles in front. And so it " ent until the city began to disapoear and he was out on the lanes of the country. "Isn't there some way we can go back'without seeing so much?" he ask ed the driver. The negro cabbv didn't understand, but essayed to make an en trance into the city by another route. "It's no use!" cried May. “It’s everyv.here."