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4 NEW MIKADO ON JAPAN’STHRONE Yoshohito Takes Oath, Suc ceeding His Dead Father. Progressives to Front. TOXIO, JAPAN. July 30.—Yoshohito. the ncv. emperor of Japan, took the oath of office this afternoon as succes sor to his father, Mutsuhlto. The sol emn ceremony, in which the young ruler swore to uphold the glory of the ancient empire, was performed in the throne room of the palace. Earlier in the day the religious ceremonies con nected with his accession to the throne were held in the Imperia Shinto sanc tuary. The voice of the emperor broke as he took the solemn vow to perform the duties which the death of his father had imposed on him, and there were tears in the eyes of the privy council and cabinet members. The oath was administered by Prince Aritomo Yama. gata, president of the privy council, who had worked practically all his life time with the late emperor. While the envoys were calling at the palace the cabinet held a conference and decided to call a special session of the parliament. There is expected to be no change of the policy of the new ruler. The progressive leaders, who have been checked by their love and respect for Mutushito, will now force their ideas to the front and try to overthrow the established order of things. The body of the late emperor lay to ds x in the room in which he died, guarded by Shinto priests. It will be embalmed and laid in a temporary vault for a month, and then taken to Kioto for burial. The coronation ceremonies for Yoshohito will be held at Kioto in June. 1913, according to present plans. SAM HYDE. CONDEMNED TO DIE, IGNORES FATHER ANDERSON. S. C.. July 30.—"1 have not heard one word from my son.” said George W. Hyde, father of Samuel Hyde, the Anderson man who killed his wife and father-in-law and who is in the pen itentiary now awaiting the report of alienists. George Hyde spent his small means in the effort to save his son from electrocution. Sam left here two months ago for the penitentiary and has cut him self off from all communication with his home people. OLD OFFICIAL OF CENTRAL TO ENTER JUSTNESS HERE SAVANNAH, GA., July 30.—R. L. Baugh, for many years In active charge of the purchasing department of the Central of Georgia railway, has ten dered his resignation, to become effec tive August 1. He will engage in busi ness in Atlanta. Baugh has served the Central for a third of a century. W. C. Hunter, of Americus, has been named to succeed him. POWER COMPANY GIVES 'CUE. COLUMBUS, GA.. July 30. The Co lumbus Power Company is giving a barbecue to its wholesale customers today at Goat Rock, Ala., up the Chat tahoochee river, twelve miles above the city. The consumers were taken to Goat Rock on a special train by the power company to see the new $1,500,- 000 dam that is nearing completion. Millions of housekeepers and exper. chefs use SAUER’S PURE FLAVOR ING EXTRACTS. Vanilla. Lemon, etc. Indorsed by Pure Food Chemists. MUSICAL COMEDY MAKING BIG HIT AT BONITA THEATER The initial performance of the King- : Murray-Jones Musical Comedy Com pany at The Bonita yesterday afternoon marked one of the most pleasing of ferings this house has offered during' the present season. The entire cast is possessed of excep- I tional ability, and a riot of fun. songs, j catchy music and pretty, shapely girls, 1 together with tastily designed fresh costumes, stamp the show as being far above the average in every respect. Beautiful motion pictures round out the show. Continuous performances after noon and evenings Adults, 10c; chil dren. sc. *** EXQUISITE WEDDING BOUQUETS AND DECORATIONS. ATLANTA FLORAL CO., Call Main 1130. Bargain in Direct Connected Sets I have seven brand-new Secor Kerosene Oil Engines, direct con nected to Slow Speed Northern Dynamos suitable for lighting arid power purposes. The sizes are. (1) 6 H. P. DC to 31-2 K. W, (2) 4 11. P. DC to 212 K. W.. and (4) 2 1-2 11. P. DC to 11-2 K. W„ and include rheo stats, wrenches, batteries for ig nition and directions. Sacrifice price. $2,500 for entire lot. First call gets them. Thos. H. Giblin, 115 Broadway, N. Y, Ocean View Hotel W. H. Adams, Owner and Manager, Pablo Beach, Florida. Forty minutes from Jacksonville, P’orfda. the moat desirable seaside re port for the ac< ommodation of Georgia people. One night's ride from Atlanui. European plan, rales one dollar |>< i baay and up. ss.on a week and up Ex cellent case in connection. Special ic oucod rate to regulu. guiei? SENATE BILL FIXES LAWYER’S CHARGE IN DAMAGE ACTION Damage suit lawyers partial to the con tingent fee method will find hard sledding if the state legislature passes the Harris- Hamilton bill. This measure, which went to the sen ate yesterday, limits contingent fees taken by lawyers to 25 per cent of the amount of the judgment. The 25 per cent applies to Judgments under $5,000. Be tween $5,000 and SIO,OOO the bill limits the fees to 15 per cent. On judgments of more than SIO,OOO a fee of not more than 10 per cent can be taken. Senator Harris said the present, law handicapped persons unable to pay law yers large retainers. As a result of the present system, he asserted, it was not uncommon for a lawyer to take 95 per cent of a judgment as a fee. CONVICT CAMP COOK STABS WHITE YOUTH CORNELIA. GA.. July 80.—Tinney Woods and W. W. Gailey, white youths, and General Gordon, negro cook of the Habersham county convict, camp, lo cated near Alto, in this county, were placed under bond of SIOO each for engaging in a three-cornered fight in the public road near the catnp. Gailey was painfully, but not severely, stab bed in the back in two places by the negro. A preliminary hearing will be held on Thursday. j (jl RICH & BROS. CO?J=={ M. RICH & BROS. | S M jc ■■ The Real Department Store ————-——\|| jg | Grand “Finals” On I j Linen and Pique Dresses! | | $6.50, $7.50, $8.50 Values | | | ’*■ If you really knew the values represented in these Sg JJ Linen and Pique Dresses, you would be as eager to buy JC 5 them, as we are to sell them. They are strictly season- J able, beautifully made of excellent quality material. 5 They are cool, chic and charming and adaptable for 3L ;jj house, street and outing wear. They are designed on •J the modish slender lines of the season’s most approved J- styles, and not to respond promptly to this invitation to J ; £ participate m this sparkling special of the great ’’Finals” t;£ sale in this department, is to vote yourself lax in the SE .JJ recognition of genuine economy opportunities. Every jC JJ garment in this final offering of Linen and Pique dresses £ were dashing values at original prices of $6.50, $7.50 ':£ and $8.50. See what the possibilities are pleased, at Sr! s $4.98. J Colors are White, Blue, Pink and Natural Linens. ' £ The w hit e dresses are trimmed with contrasting solid jC J color Blue, cuffs and collars, sailor and Robespierre £ styles. The solid color Blue dresses are finished with £• black piping, waist and skirt, patch pockets, all supplied SE with four-in-hand ties. ' £ There are other style departures amongst the lot. jg .JJ Peplums, Button Trim and Panel effects. These dresses 5 will sell rapidly tomorrow, lhe suggestion to come J £ early is well advised. JF; g! if| $6.50, $7.50, $8.50 Values |E | SJ_.9B I i : I S H M. Rich & Bros. Co. B «: ■i HE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TLESDAY. JULY 30, IDiz. HOUSE IN moil OF MILEAGE BILL The railroad committee has reported favorably to the house the bill of Rep resentative Watts, of Randolph, re quiring railroads In this state to "pull” mileage on trains. The general judiciary committee has reported unfavorably the bill of Mr. McElreath, of Fulton, providing that three-fourths of a civil jury may return a verdict in certain cases; the bill of Mr. Massengale, of Warren, to prescribe the measure of damages for failure to deliver telegrams, and the bill of Mr. White, of Screven, to provide for amendments to bills of Indictment and special presentments of grand juries. The bill of the Fulton delegation which provides for closing the Forsyth street underpass likely will be reported favorably from the committe on muni cipal government, notwithstanding the opposition of Mr. Hall, of Bibb, who blocked a report late yesterday after noon. The bill to provide for the annexa tion of Ormewood to the city of Atlanta has been set as a special order for Wednesday afternoon. DORCAS SNODGRASS’ DEATH A PUZZLE; NO MARKS OF VIOLENCE CATSKILL, N. Y., July 30—Working by the light of lanterns and improvised lamps, which hung from the surround ing trees and were fastened to the un derbrush, physicians at midnight lagt night performed an autopsy on the re mains of Miss Dorcas I. Snodgrass, the Mount, Vernon society girl and nurse, whose body was found floating in a small creek running into the Hudson here, after she had mysteriously disappeared from home. Hundreds of villagers gathered at a dis tance and watched the physicians at their grewsome task. The scene was one of the most weird ever witnessed. The body was laid on a stretcher on a small grass plot in the cemetery. Dr. Rooney afterwards declared that there was no signs of violence and that all of the organs were Intact. He will examine the stomach and intestines for signs of poison in his laboratory at Al bany. Various theories have been advanced to account for the girl’s death, but the police believe she committed suicide by jump ing from a Hudson river boat and that the body floated up the creek. OPEN CHATTAHOOCHEE BRIDGE. COIATMBUS. GA., July 30.—The Dil lingham street bridge across the Chat tahoochee river between Columbus and Girard, Ala., built by the city of Co lumbus at a cost of $200,000, will be thrown open to traffic tonight for the first time. The bridge is built of stone and concrete. It has been nearly two years in course of construction. MEN AND RELIGION BULLETIN NO. io “The Houses in Our Midst” Berlin, Madrid and London Will Not Tolerate Them; Atlanta Should Not. Defenders of the Houses in our Midst have knowledge of the world. Not without sadness, they say “Closing the Houses will not elimi nate the social evil.” ” / Some of them almost weep in referring to the antiquity of the sin. But they forget that theft was committed in Eden, and just with out the Garden’s gates man murdered his brother ere they had devised the brothel. Imagination staggers at .the thought of the heights that might have / been attained by the thief and the murderer in their peculiar lines had ' they been favored with a segregated district for their avocation. Their sin is older than harlotry, but even the defenders of the “Houses in our Midst” would not advocate their protection and license 1 by our city officials. / Yet picking a pocket is better than ruining a girl. And cutting a man’s throat is more profitable for the city than z blinding his children and destroying his wife by the poison distilled through the Houses in our Midst. There is better authority than the defenders of the Houses for the ' statement that the evil will not go in a day with the closing of the i’ Houses. Jesus said: ' / “It is impossible but that occasions of stumbling should come; but woe unto him through whom they come! j “It were well for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck * and he were thrown into the sea rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.” t “Occasions of stumbling” will come. But no longer will followers of Jesus Christ in Atlanta be without protest parties to causing these “occasions” through the failure of city officials to keep their oaths of office. And with His followers in the fight, if fight there must be to free ourselves from this intolerable shame, will be hundreds and thousands of good men who do His will though they may not know Him as Lord and Saviour. The international order of B’nai B’rith at its recent convention in Europe instituted a world wide campaign against the white slave trade. A splendid Jew, A. Leo Weil, leads the battle for decency now on in Pittsburg. A people to whom we owe our religion, whose God is also our God and Father, whose law decreed death to the seducer of the Jewish girl, will not willingly endure a traffic based on the ruin of girls. Nor will the descendants of the Teutons, whose blood is in our veins. Before they knew of Christianity, ere the inroad of the Roman, drunk with materialism and debauched with the decadent civilization of Greece, they punished crimes against chastity with death. Not yvonderful then is it to hear a German speaking in the Reich stag, protesting, say: “A state which officially tolerates and guarantees these houses assumes the role of a procurer.” The same must be said of cities. And this role for our city, this causing of girls to stumble and fall, can not and will not be tolerated by men of our religion and blood. Every day that these more than forty houses remain open, the con sent and protection given by city officials make our city, and every man and woman in it a party to the betrayal of the girls necessary to furnish the inmates. Logic, not idealism, compels this conclusion. And German cities, including Berlin with its great population, have closed such places. Madrid and London have done likewise. In Great Britain there is now no form of police regulation of social vice. Persistent repression is the method in force. In these cities, those American ones listed in Bulletin No. 8, and other cities where a policy of suppression has been adopted, the social evil has not been entirely eradicated. Nor has burglary, arson and murder. But they have proved Mr. Weil, of Pittsburg, right in saying that the social evil is greatly reduced by removing police protection from it. And they can no longer be classed with the cities without conscien ces, the cities which sanction and cause the destruction of the virtue of women. The appeal is to the conscience of Atlanta and her officials! Individuals could close the Houses with an injunction today. But this would advertise that citizens in Atlanta have to do the work for which officials are elected and paid. It would be ineffectual because the same authorities who are re sponsible for the present condition would permit the evil to spread to other sections. , It would not silence the false accusation often made that Atlanta exists only to make money. Her officials alone can disprove the charge that she is a conscience less city. And let them consider! Her laws are sacred; oaths are made to he kept. The disregard of these by public officials resulting in the wreck of women and girls and the spread of infection can not and will not be justified in the eyes of men and of God by the cynical and false idea that the passions of some men must be gratified. Men and women have been deceived. But “God is not moeked.” And today Ho is waking His children, the men and women of the world, and they are beholding the truth! Atlanta should and will close the Houses in our Midst. The •Executive Committee of THE MEN AND RELIGION FORWARD MOVEMENT.