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■■ GETS
SNICKERSNEE
OUTFOpjRK
Many at City Hall Certain to
Feel Ax With Advent of New
Administration.
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disposal plant He said he felt sure a
number of other officials who voted foi
the plant would do the same.
Maddox Attacks
Construction Department.
A:, a ire eting of the sewer committee
yesterday Mr. Woodward asked Coun
cilman Aldine Chambers, chairman ot
the committee, to show him over tin
sower work now in progress. .Mr. Cham
bers said he would take the matter up
later.
Aiderman James W. Maddox, a
strong suj porter of Councilman Cham
bers. said today that Mt. Woodward
was tight If he intended to cut the pay
toll of the construction department.
"The great trouble with our govern
rmnt is that ‘the construction depart
ment is incompetent,” he said. "And 1
don't care if you quote me.”
MUSIC ASSOCIATION
PLANS FOR LONGER
CONCERT SEASONS
Active campaigning for an enlarge
ment of their work will be inaugurated
next week by members of the Atlanta
Musical association, and it Is expected
to Interest every music lover In the city
In the fifth season ,t Orchestral con
certs by the Atlanta Philharmonic or
chestra.
I'nder the leadership of Mrs. John
M. Slaton, the new president of the as
sociation. letters have been mailed to
scores of Atlantans believed to be in
terested. These letters will be followed
Immediately by a personal canvass, and
It is the hope of the members to in
crease their number so that the number
of concerts will be accordingly aug
mented.
Dues of $lO a year is the only method
the association has of raising funds and
the campaign for membership will,
therefore, be vital to the success of the
organization. It is the idea of the as
sociation to cultivate a love for music
for art's sake and to develop an inter
est which looks to the higher cultiva
tion of such art and the making of ar
atmosphere of musical culture and re
finement.
Niitable success has been attained ir
the four previous seasons, but all ol
( this is expected to be outdone this year.
ALDERMAN MADDOX
DEFENDS RIGHT TO
HOGS IN CITY LIMITS
Aiderman J. \V. Maddox today again
appean d as a star in police court.
This time lie defended his right to
raise hogs at his home, 65 Howell Mill
road. The aiderman Is the owner of a
dozen swine which run loose in a two
acre lot. The fact that this lot is inside
of the city caused Sanitary Inspector
Strickland to hale tne alderman before
Recorder Broyles, accused of violating
the city ordinance relating to hogs.
The ordinance specifies that hogs
shall not be kept in a pen within 100
yards of a residence, and the aiderman
said this didn’t "touch him.”
I’nder this ordinance, hogs can be
kept anywhere in the city, the same as
chickens, provided they are not penned
and the premises are kept clean.
BEVERIDGE SAYS
PERKINS HELPED
HIS 1904 CANVASS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Ex-Sena
tor Beveridge, of Indiana, testifying be
fore the Clapp committee of the I'nited
States senate, today confirmed state
ments that George W. Perkins had con
' tributed $30,000 of the $57,500 donation
made to his 19ul campaign, all of which
he returned the day after the election.
He denied that he knew that $20,000 of
the Perkins money came from the na
tional committee.
COLUMBUS ASKS TIME TO
MAKE TELEPHONE PROBE
COLUMBUS, GA., Op. 26.—A letter
addressed to the management of the
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company by a joint committee appoint
ed from city council and the Board of
Trade requests that the proposed rais.
in telephone rate- on Novemhei 1 be
postponed until the committee can
complete an investigation of telephone
conditions here. In the event tl tele
phone company refuses to grant the re
quest. injunction proceedings will be
instituted to stay the raise In rates un
til the investigation is made.
The subscribers of the company dr
not propose to submit to a raise in
rates until they are thoroughly con
vinced that the company is justified
The opposition to the raise is based or
the ground of poor service.
PUSRING RAILROAD EXTENSION
BRUNSWICK, GA.. Get. 26.—Witi
more than five miles of track laid, rapii
progress has been made on the Bruns
wick end of the extension of the ip.or
gla Coast and Piedmont tailroad fron
Darien to this city.
NEW UNDERTAKING FIRM.
MARIETTA. GA.. Oct 26.--. M -rri
Allen, of Marietta, and B F. Coggin
and H A. Heard, of Canton. Ga., hav
formed a new undertaking firm here
occut ying the Austin building at low
Spring# and Anderson streets.
Mrs. White Believes Woman’s Mission Is to Aid Women
ANSWERS "WHY IS A CLUBWOMAN”
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Women’s Clubs.
IBIG ODOS ON ROSE
BEING MURDERED
, Becker Must Spend at Least
i Year in Death House Pend
ing Appeal Disposition.
NEW YORK, Oct. 26. Hets of 100 to
1 were offered today among gamblers
that Jack Rose, one of the state’s chief
witnesses against Becker, will be as
sassinated. Even money was offered
that Rose will be killed ten days after
he leaves jail. Ten to one that he will
be killed in six months; 5 to 1 that the
four gunmen will be convicted of first
degree murder; 2 to 1 that Becker will
not win his appeal. On the other hand,
gamblers offered the same odds that
Becker will not be convicted if he gets
a new trial.
Becker, convicted of the murder
of Herman Rosenthal, will spend
at least a year in the death
house at Sing Sing before the execu
tion of the sentence to be imposed
upon him Wednesday by Judge Goff.
Becker will be taken to Sing Sing
immediately after sentence. He was
automatically dropped from the police
rolls as a result of his conviction.
Appeal in the Becker case will be
filed by his attorney, John F. Mclntyre,
as soon as he Is sentenced. This will
act as a stay of execution and it will be
almost a year before final decision can
be made in the case.
Becker today appealed to public
opinion. In an interview ,he denied
being a grafter, ami declared that his
life savings and those earned by his
wife during her 17 years as a public
school teacher aggregate only $23,000.
"I see I am credited with spending
$25,000 for my defense up to date.” said
Becker. "That is as true us all the
other tilings they have said against me.
$25,000 11 $2,000 more than 1 ever had
or ever will possess in thte life.”
PICKPOCKET GANG
GETS TO S2OO PURSE
IN A CROWDED CAR
The band of three men who cleaned
up almost SI,OOO last Saturday are stfll
; in Atlanta, it is thought, as several re-
I ports were received at police station
i today of pockets being picked.
The largest amount lost was by
I Grover B. Tully, a supervising archi
tect. Ho reported that he had drawn a
; S2OO pay roll from the Atlanta Nation-
I al bank and was boarding the Forrest
I avenue car nt Five Points when three
. j men jostled him. After he got on the
1 j ar he missed the roll. He can Identify
the men.
STATE GEOLOGIST SPEAKS.
BRUNSWICK, GA, Oct. 26.—5. W.
McCallie, state geologist, delivered an
illust at■ ,] lecture on Georgia minerals
‘lilt tin citv 1ml! h.-re last night before a
'. |K ”>'l sized audience. Professor Me
, I Callie als » ruvp g >od advice- to those
. |intc .vst< 1 in thi drainage pioblem of
Georgia
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 19iz.
President Tells Ideals of the State Federation
and the Work It Is Doing.
Why is a clubwoman?
Mrs. H. C. White, of Athens,
president of the federated women’s
clubs of the state, answers the
question as follows:
"As president of the Georgia
Federation of Women’s Clubs. I be
lieve that the mission of the club
woman is not to secure ’wojnan’s
rights’ or suffrage, but to help
womankind In evejy-day things, to
fit themselves and their neighbors
for their responsibilities, old and
new”
“Whether she will or no, .the
modern woman has, of necessity,
become her sister’s keeper. It may
or may not add to her value as a
member of her race; it may or may
not add to her efficiency as a citizen;
it mjiy or may not add to her in
dividual happiness. All this de
pends upon the spirit and the man
ner in which she meets the de
mands upon her and the extent to
which she keeps inviolate her es
sentially womanly qualities of
modesty. geTitlenesu and conscien
tious self-sacrifice.
“But it certainly adds to her du
ties and burdens. For—whatever
may betide in the evolution of so
ciety—woman will continue to
have, as she has always bad, chief
part in the preservation of the in
tegrity of the fundamental unit in
any social system—she must be
the keeper of the home of her sis
ter and her brother; she must be
the keeper of the children of them
both.. >
“There are some who believe that
organized womanhood is merely
engaged in a propaganda for the
securing of a larger measure of
what are designated as Woman’s
Rights. These may well excite
Atlanta Athletes Will Go in for Equine Sport
POLO CLUB IS PLANNED
\tlanta men are planning something
new in sports for the South—a polo
club, with ponies, grounds and an or
ganization which will include some of
tin best known society men and horse
lovers in the city.
"We have been talking it over, and
while our plans are still in embryo. I
believe a charter for the Dixie Polo
club will be applied for soon, and we
shall start with a membership of about
sixteen men," said one of the prime
I in- vers today. He a-ked that ills name
be not used, and was reticent about
the proposed club, saying there were a
number of reasons why publicity would
be premature.
A first team of eight men will b.
composed of prominent lovers of out
door and rugged sports, according to
the men behind the movement for' the
club. A tentative list includes Ed Al
friend, Gus Ryan. Eugene Haynes. Jo
seph Brown Connally. Bowie Martin.
Winship Nunnally. Clark McMichael
and R. C. Congdon.
The club propost s to haVe a string of
about twenty-four Montana mustangs
suspicion and distrust. But—with
out undervaluing the sincerity and
the zeal with which some may feel
called upon to wage battle in this
cause, the vast majority of us, I
am sure, prefer just now at least
not to enlist actively for the fray.
“We are content to commit to
God and to our brothers the pres
ervation and extension of such
rights as it may seem necessary for
us to possess in order that we
may be better and happier women
and more valuable and efficient cit
izens. Besides, the performance
of our clear and undisputed duties
leaves us no time to spare, no en
ergies to waste, fixtension of our
duties, our responsibilities, our
power may best be secured by
worthy performance of those al
ready in our hands.
“The individual woman should be
better, happier, wiser, and more in
telligent woman through member
ship in her club. Personal culture
is secured by association with oth
ers, cultured or seeking culture.
The extent and the great variety of
the activities of our clubs looking
to personal culture of the members
is indicated in many cases by the
names of the local clubs. The indi
vidual woman should be a more
competent and useful woman
through her club associations.
“As keeper, of the individual
home and guardian of her own
children, she may learn much of
value to her in her own offices from
interchange of thought and expe
rience with her sisters. But it is
in meeting the larger responsibili
ties which have cemented us find
which are not individual or per
sonal that the club organization
demonstrates its necessity and
proves its efficiency.”
for polo ponies. Some of these will be
purchased from the ranches which make
a specialty of training polo mounts for
the big clubs in the East and the Eng
lish army clubs, while others will be
raw. unbroken mustangs. These will
be trained to follow the ball by the local
enthusiasts.
The management of Ponce DeLeon
park has been asked to rent the grounds
for polo practice, but it is said the use
of this park will be refused, as polo is
' an extremely rough game, and the po
' nies' hoofs cut the turf badly. The park
department probably will grant the us<
of in Piedmont park for polo
practice, and it is expected that tin
polo club will later be given the use of
part of the grounds of the Athletic
club’s country home or those of the
1 Brookhaven club. Challenges will bt
‘ issued to the polo eight of the St.
Louis Country club and to the Chicago
Polo club, it is expected, those organi
. zations being comparatively new in the
I i field. Games with the Meadowbrook
and other famous organizations of the
J East will be considered after the Dixie
i elub has tested its strength against less
> formidab.-. adt ersaries.
SLAIN MAN’S SON
WON’T PROSECUTE;
SLAYER SET FREE
E. B. Echols, a farmer, living near
Easton, in the Piedmont road, arrested
Thursday charged with the murder of his
brother-in-law. James Thompson, was
given his freedom by Justice Orr today.
The warrant against him was dismissed
on his plea of self-defense.
Homer Thompson, son of the slain man,
said that he would make no effort to have
Echols indicted by the grand jury. No
further action in the matter is contem
plated by the authorities.
Thompson quarreled with his brother
in-law two weeks ago and during the al
tercation struck him with a heavy hickory
walking stick. Echols retaliated wdth a
sand shovel, dealing Thompson what
proved to be a fatal blow on the head.
Thompson died a week later without re
vealing the name of his assailant to the i
authorities. Echols gave himself up to
the county police.
COMMITTEE ASKS FOR
MATERIAL TO FINISH
OLD WOMEN’S HOME
The building committee in charge of
the large annex to the Home for Old
Women has progressed as far as it can
without additional gifts, and today
made a public request for material to
complete the work. Funds are avail
able for labor, but the committee needs
deadening felt, building paper, plaster,
plumbing material, paint, roof paint, tin
roofing and mantels.
The material for the annex has been
contributed by public-spirited persons
and most of the building has been com
pleted. The home has long been over
crowded and the annex will provide
room for a number of women badly in
need of such a refuge. The building
committee is composed 1 of Walter P.
Andrews, H. M. Patterson and J. Lee
Barnes.
FORMER PASTOR WILL
TALK AT NEW CHURCH
Dr. J. W. Lee, pastor of St. Johns
j Methodist church in St. Louis, who was
pastor of the Park Street Methodist
church in Atlanta two years ago, and
who started the movement to build the
new church, will preach there tomor
' row evening at 11 o'clock. Rev. S. R.
Belk is now pastor.
Dr. Lee was pastor of the church for
’ two years and was greatly loved by his
i congregation.
WOUNDED MAN IMPROVES.
THOMASVILLE, GA., Oct. 26
James L. Patterson, who was shot ten
. days ago by J. W. Dillon, Jr., has im
proved very greatly and the attending
. physician states now that he sees no
reason why he should not recover. Mr.
j Dillon is still under arrest, but nothing
has as yet been done in the matter, al
[• though the grand jury has been In ses
sion here this week.
COLLEGE GIRLS ATTEND COURT.
COLUMBUS, GA., Oct. 26.—A bevy
of pretty girls who are attending the
Columbus seminary went to the court
■ house and sat through part of a ses
“ sion of superior court, witnessing its
‘ proceedings. The girls, all belonging to
prominent families, appeared very
• much Interested in the trial of a negro
i tried on a charge of violating the pro
hibition law,
PERMITS ISSUED FOR
1 CONSTRUCTION OF 17
DWELLINGS AT ONCE
The largest ’number of building per
. mits in a batch during the past year
was issued this morning to the Dlllin-
Morris Company for the construction of
dwellings on Lake avenue in the Ninth
ward and elsewhere. Seventeen houses
are to be erected, eleven of which will be
at 236. 238. 240, 244, 246, 250, 252, 256,
258, 260 and 264 Lake avenue. The to
tal is $63,325, dwellings worth $33,800
on Lake avenue, and others worth $29,-
525 elsewhere, as follows: OaJcdale
street, near Ponce DeLeon, two-story
frame dwelling. $12,800; 96 Greenwood
avenue, one-story frame, $3,600; 900
DeKalb avenue, one-story frame, $2,-
825; 37 Copenhill avenue, two-story
frame, $3,400; 178 St. Charles avenue,
one and a half-story frame. $3,600; 39
Copenhill avenue, two-story frame,
$3,300.
Miss Leila R. Wilburn architect
for the Oakdale street house, and H. W.
Dillin for the others. The only other
record of recent date approaching this
was the application of the Acme Hom
Builders over a year ago to build eight
een houses in the Fourth ward.
AUSTERE COURT
WSCHOOL
Homer Cato, Aged 11, Shows
Teacher Pendleton He Knows
Multiplication Tables.
When Homer Cato, aged eleven
years, poked his thin face above the
railing of the bench in juvenile court
today and took a first furtive glance at
Judge Pendleton he failed to impress
the jurist as a bad citizen.
"What is the matter with this bay?”
the judge asked a squad of probation
officeiß standing by as prosecutors.
“Judge, you just won’t believe it”’
exclaimed the mother of the youth
pushing her way through the crowd,
“but I have to chain Homer to a chair
to keep him at home. He won’t go to
school, and I won’t let him run the
streets.”
Homer quickly admitted that he had
been going to school only when he felt
like it for seven years, and had only
succeeded in reaching the second
grade, but he came through the math
ematical examination given him by the
judge with flying eolqjrs.
At the mention of the reformatory,
Homer multiplied 6 by 2, added and di
vided various sums successfully and
went threw a course of elementary
spelling without a falter.
"Now, look here, Homer,” said the
judge. "At the rate you are going you
will be 25 years old by the time you
reach the seventh grade, where you
should be now. This has got to stop.
Can you do better or must I send you
to the reformatory?”
Homer promised that he would be at
school every morning from now on,
would conduct no further feuds with
his teachers and wouldn’t have to be
chained to the chair at home.
CENTRAL church service.
A praise service will be held tomor
row- night at the Central Presbyterian
church, opposite the capitol. W. H.
Hudson and L. I. Moffett will be the
speakers.
POSTAL CLERK ARRESTED.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN., Oct. 26.
Frank J. Harline, a clerk in the mailing
of the local postofflce, was
arrested by postoffice, inspectors today,
charged with rifling a registered letter
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local applications, ns they can not
reach the diseased portion of the enr.
There is only one way to cure deafness, anti
that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness
Is caused by an inlitimed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube is inflamed you have n
rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing, and
when It Is entirely closed deafness is the
result, nnd unless the Inflammation can be
taken out nnd this tube restored to Its nor
mal condition hearing will be destroyed for
ever; nine cases out of ten are caused by
Catarrh, which Is nothing but nn inflamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Hollars for
any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that can not lie cured by Hairs Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars free.
F. J. CHENEY * CO.. Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Take Hull’s Family I‘llls for constipation
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THEffIOIIE.
Aiderman Van Dyke Charges
That Battle Hill Head Is P re .
venting Testimony.
Continued From Page One, •
had explained his lateness all
and that he had no complaint aga’ ‘
him or the Institution. Cross n ,
tioned by Dr. Smith, he said council ha
passed a resolution providing A
tuberculosis clinic in the basemen '
the city hall, that the examination „
patients might not conflict with mv/
partment, ny de
'•Told to Stuff Gauze in Thro.t,"
In a sworn statement E W is
son, of 391 Peachtree street ant
mate, said that Dr. Merritt had t ■
him to stuff a piece of ga U z e rtown °J
throat and put his head under the
er to silence his coughing. He said n,
Merritt said the coughing
him ano the other persons In the in
stltution. He said Dr. Merritt tied\
cloth around the head of a little J
one day to hold its mouth shut and S Z
its cries, and that when the child 2
not stop crying he put a pillow over
Its mouth. r
th?' H ,d . Dr - Merrltt was ab nipt t,
the patients, and he did not think th,
doctor showed them enough consider
ation.
Mrs. R. M. Vaughan, a retired school
teacher, said that she went out to the
institution to consider becoming a m.
tient, but that she heard so much about
discipline that she thought there «as
more discipline than doctoring. So she
returned home. She said Dr. Merritt
was not considerate of her.
Mrs. P. D. Rubin, of Decatur, a for
mer housekeeper at the institution, said
that her Southern blood would not
stand for the call downs Dr. Merritt
and the head nurse, Miss Hunt, gave
her, and that she resigned. She said it
was not what they said to her. but th,
manner in which they said it, that of
fended her.
J. H. Calhoun, of 230 Lindsey street
said that he had been a patient at the
institution and that he wanted to go
back. He said that he had violated a
rule by leaving the institution twice
and that he knew he could not go back
the second time he left. He said that
Dr. Merritt was sometimes a little
strict, but that he thought everybody
got good treatment.
His wife and child were patient,
there at the same time. She, as a
witness, said she had no complaint ex
cept that once Dr. Merritt put her baby
out on the porch in the cold after Its
head had been washed.
At the next meeting Dr. R. R. Daley
of the Anti-Tuberculosis association,
who brought the original charges ot
mismanagement, will be called to the
stand. He said Dr. Smith and Dr.
Merrkt would not co-operate with hit
association.
CASHIER ADMITS THEFT
OF $44,300 IN 16 YEARS
MANISTEE, MICH., Oct. 26.—John W
Sibben, assistant cashier of the Pint
National bank here, has confessed tc
embezzlllng $44,300 during the last six
teen years. He used the money to spec
ulate on the Chicago stock markets.
Sibben began in 1896 to raise money
for doctor’s bills for his invalid son.
Directors of the bank have raised
money to cover the shortage. Sibben
was arrested.
PREFERS HIS AMERICAN
JOB TO ENGLISH TITLE
MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. Oct. !S-
That, if he chooses, some day he may
inherit the estate and title of Lord
Muncaster, master of an English estate,
was the statement of Edmund Penning
ton, president of the Soo line. Presi
dent Pennington said, however, that he
would not attempt to obtain the title,
but would remain an American.
P-A-Y-E CARS IN VALDOSTA.
VALDOSTA, GA., Oct. 26.—Three
handsome new cars for the Hill avenue
extension of the Valdosta street rail
way have been received and service on
that line began today. The cars a
larger than others in service here an
of the pay-as-you-enter type.
(Snowdrift Lard
I PAIL
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■ Cold Storage Eggs, dozen 25C I
! Libby’s Extra White njf S
| Asparagus Tips s’» *■* I
| Libby’s Asparagus i 7*/i fl
I Tips, 35c size . ■ 12V |
K Salmon, tall can, each. . • " g
I 10c Package Corn Flake* . • • S( . n
Quaker Oats, package . . • •
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