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I / y j ! (•; \'l ' \ \ t \ 11 m *i M . i \ a \ \ 11 \|',n." NAII KI >A V . !M A Y Mil:?. :1 i'l-jip|!11 38k Stockings fcxas "BSE'm CO* Them ' State Convention Before Adjourn-! mg Demands Labor Laws and Better Sanitation. Vote 35 to 2 on Birdsall-Thomp son Measure After Heated All-Night Debate. T. G. Polhlll. of LaGrarige, if* tin new he.nl of the Georgia Educational Association. J!«■ \sr« elected without opposition this morning at the la*t session oi the convention. M . Pol hill was Mist vice president of the or ganisation during the pant year. He is principal of the La Grange High dr hod. Other officers elected wore .J. U. Ward law, of the Georgia Military In stitute at Milledgeville. first vice pres blent, ami Mis* Elizabeth H*>1.. of the Augusta High School, < ond vie* v pre^idem. L. Smith, superintend ent at LaGrange. v.a* re-elected sec retary. and Ralph New ion. superin tendent at Fort Valley, was r* -elected t reasurer. Three new members of th* board of directors were al*o elected. They were Ja«on Scarboro, Nuperlnt* ndent at Tifton; R. Iv Brook*, superintend- j ent at Dublin, and G. I). Godard, su perintendent at Moultrie.* Teachers Demand Prompt Pay. Rc solutions were adopted imploring tiie Legislature to provide for prompt payment of teachers’ salaries, to pro vide for better supervision of rura» school work by appointing five su-. pervisors in addition to the three nl j ready employed to provide for com petent medical Inspection of school j children, to hubs laws requiting in- i siallation of sanitary drinking foun tains and other sanitary necessities and to pass a child labor law making it unlawful to work u child undci 14 years of age. Selection of a State song and •' State flower was carried over until next year. Four songs have bee n se lected from *' larg*' number submit* ted. They will be “tried out” by various schools :-:nd ft vote taken as I to the best one. The question selecting the State flowcv also will | be put to a vote, the children of each, school voting. Each school a ill be entitled to one vote when the mat ter is decided no\* >« ar. Meetinq Place Not Fixed. Albany extended an invitation t * the association to meet there next \ ear and delegates from South gin asked that their section hi re garded in the naming the meeting piece. ’Hie matter whs left In the bands of the executive c m- mlttee. • convention adjourn "1 at it. JO nVUMiV, Puts Health Before Learning. ‘•if it were a choice between health and education. I would select health. Make the child healthy; then educate, him." was the terse comment by Hr. T. R. Abercrombie, inspector for the State Board of Health, before the association this morning. -The child’s health comes before everything else; conditions that sur round him and the condition of his physical being for tlie development “f his mental qualities are most impor tant factors,” he continued. "Too often the child has been developed mentally j when his ohy.mil part was absolutely unfit. Tdo great problem lies In mak ing him fit phy t h ally and then to de velop his mentality. “A rigid campaign along thin line 1m what i.-. need, d Teachers have hern educated to the need of health among children. It remains for the State to folio”- up this work.” Dr. Abercrombie’s address was lis tened to itentiveiy. One of tile strongest features of the Georgia Kd- > ijcation.il Vssoclation Mince Ms organ-. /T'.otion has been the promotion of f children’s hojitii. White City Park Now Open Next week. Beautiful Betiding Plants, 3c each. Atlanta Floral Co., 555 E. hair Street. Thi; Week LYRIC BILLY THE Kit) ft.ais. Tuci., Th r. S'i. HA< RAMKNTO. May 3. Th*- Fall- form in AxHembiy to-day voted ur:;»r. Imously to suHpond tin* constitutional procedure and put the Senate aiiti- alicn land bill for a final vote without the first and second readings. This action was taken when majority lead ers in the lower Hons*- received word from Governor Johnson that he d*- Hrccl till" plan carried out. Democrat* in the Assembly at fir*t opposed the Governor’s plan, hut later voted with the Ropub):* ann and Pro- gresfives. 8A< ’RAM PINTO, ftluy 3.- Th* Fali- fornia Senate, by a vote of 35 to 2, (‘fitly to-day passed the Birdftall- Thompaon bill prohibiting the owncr- s!11p of land for agricultural purposes in California by aliens not eligible for citizenship in the Fnlted States. Tin measure permits a three-year lease hold by aliens. It was adopted after an all-night session. Secretary of State Bryan had le- thed when the result was announced. His secretary, Robert I*. Rose, said Mr. Bryan would decide to-day when he will leave for the Hast. The ac tion of tin* Senate was considered a partial victory for Secretary Bryan, whose work here reniltqd in the bill being less effective against the Jap anese than the Webb bill as advocat ed by Governor Johnson. The bill permits the spread of Japanese fa lin ing colonies. State Senator Cartwright, Demo crat, announced prior to the Toll .call that he would vote against the pas sage of the bill, although he favored It. He gave as his reason: “Vote to Tic U. S. Hands." "You are turning a deaf ear to fin- best President this countr.\ has ever had. You will vote to tie the hands of the Fnlted States In its diplomatic relations with Japan: the majority has surrendered to the ‘boss’ of the State.” Consideration of the bill whs < - gun at 11 o’clock yesterday morning and continued without recess even for luncheon and dinner. All afternoon, until the clock in the Senate cham ber was ordered stopped by the pre siding officer at 11:43 o’clock at night the Democrats fought to delay action by submitting numerous amendments. The hardest fight waged around a resolution introduced by Senator Cur tin calling upon the Legislature to delay action for two years and refer the whole subject to the Federal Government. Debate on this amend ment opened early in tin* day and continued until (5 o'clock, when a rod call showed it defeated. Threat of Referendum. in the closing hours of the debate on the bill Itself, Senators Sanford, Camlnetti and Shanahan threatened to invoke the referendum. They be lieved the people of the State were pleading for relief from Japanese ag riculturists and that the measure does not correct the evjl. The Senate gallery and lobby was packed during the long session. Many Japanese lined the brass railing of the gallery, listening Intently to the debate. At no time during the scsison did Secretary Bryan appear in the Sen ate chamber, although he was in the office or Lieutenant Governor Wal lace. hardly a hundred feet away, until nearly midnight. 55,000 Out Now in Welsh Miners’ Strike Owners’ Promise to Hire No More Non-Union Men Presages Vic tory for Unions. Special Catdo to The Atlanta Georgian. CARDIFF. WALKS. Ma\ 3. The strike of Welsh coal miners in pro test against the open shop policy of the mine owners is spreading to a serious extent. Fift.v -five thousand men were out to-day. Leaders of the miners’ union expect a epeedy victory, because many of tiie rnin< ow :**rs have already prom ised. to hire no more non-union motr. This is compelling non-unionists to join the organisation. New York Justice Does Not Take Kindly to Artifices of Modern Feminine Dress. vvoine Atlanta, have a The Judicial temperament, like th#- Cole Blease temperament, does not take kindly to the ar tifices ami blandishments of mod ern dress. Listen to this storj from New York: Supreme Court Justice Ga vegan looked over his spectacles in Part XIV of the Supreme Court and scoVvl- #-d at a dainty pair of pearl gray silk stocking*. The hosiery was displayed upon the feet of Mrs. Rachael N. Ducas, a pretty wife of Benjamin P. Duca*. a wealthy manufacturer. Mrs. Ducas was sitting at the table of her coun sel. her feet crossed. "1 want to say,” the Court began gravely, "that the young lady In black there is disrespectful to this Court. If she wishes me to be more explicit, 1 will say for her benefit that her lower limbs are insufficiently clad. She Is making far too free an exhibi tion of them in a public place." Mrs. Ducas promptly pulled her hobble skirt down over the silver buckles on her slippers and kept her feet under her chair during the Standpatters Against Findings of Taft Tariff Board; Progres sives Favor Them. j WASHINGTON, May 3.—Discussion j *if the wool schedule to-day showed j the Republicans divided over the question of what sort of a substitute should be offered for the Underwood rates in Schedule K. Standpatters believed the report of the tariff board too indefinite to base an accurate scale of tariff duties upon it. while the progress-!ve faction ‘n- •sisted that as the Republicans were i declaring for a tariff commission they | should accept without equivocation I the findings of the Taft tariff board, j 'Phe Progressives took the stand j that the Payne rates on wool wore I too high and they supported the Dem- i ocratic rates. Representative Gardner of Massa chusetts, Republican, who has Veen leading the fight for tariff revision based on the findings of the tariff board, declared he believed that the Underwood rates on the better grades of woolen cloth were too low. Democratic Leader Underwood In tends to keep the House in suspense until late to-night, and it is probable that before adjournment is taken the House will have completed all tht schedules except the free list. ROME-GADSDEN RAILROAD PROMOTERS FORM COMPANY GADSDEN. ALA.. May 3.—Pro- moters of the proposed Rome and Gadsden Railroad to-day elected of ficers and directors. The officers are: President. J. B. Wadsworth, Gadsden; vice president, J. N. King, Rome; treasurer. G. P. Smith, Center; secre tary, L. S. Daniels, Rome. (in May 9 a meeting of the directors and officers will he held at 1-tome to arrange to send representatives to New York to finance the project. 51 ‘All Men Are Liars’ sly She Said;‘Insane/ t on# it Jury Votes at Once L| J Harsh Views of the Sterner Sex Prove Unfortunate for i?/1 Mrs. Fenes. YoNKERS, May 3.—Harsh views of men, written by Mrs. Lula Fenes, a prominent New Rochelle woman, con vinced a Sheriff’# jury that examin 'd her that she is incompetent, and J they returned a verdict accordingly. | "All men are liars,” she wrote "Man wants woman to slave and i work for him, to cook, to nurse him when he is sick, to close his eyes j when he dies, to dig hia grave and ' then lie down in it herself.” Mi-. F«nes wrote her husband, Dr Fenes. letters addressed. "Murderers' Row, New Rochelle,” while in a san- l Barium. Great Magazine Section in Color GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER OF P. T. BARNUM MARRIES A DRAMA OF THE WEST. With the Young American Star. BERKELY HARWELL. White City Park Now Open Homo Again With Vaudcviilc FORSYTH w,t 7° ds * ' • <o-nl*ht at o.it Jcpnye Barnard-• Lou Angler &. Co.—Chris Richards — Gabv — Heim Children—Barr 4. Hope—Muriel & Francis ard Others. nESI Gts Fbwa*4s Kid labirtt Watch for the an nouncement, of our auc tion sale of Bungalows and lets in Sunday’s American. W. E. Treadwell & Co. 24 South Broad St, — I remainder of the court session. ■r~v tut 1 1 1 i. Her lawyer replied: \ our Honoi. Dr. Winner, Eeginient ^ I i 1 s l0 y ° t u . , : s woman in blark is the :K ‘ Chaplain, Is Retired .S&WST’W; S-ffiS i exposure ot herself In this court. That’s all I have to say.” Rank of Captain Goes With Fifth’s Spiritual Adviser After Ten Years’ Service. With a record of more than ten years as chaplain with the Fifth Geor gia regiment, Dr. Cary B. Wilmer was retired from active service to-day with the rank of captain. Dr. Wilmer, who is rector of St. j Luke's Episcopal Church, has been j dbvoted to the welfare of the regi-! ment an 1 has been with the soldiers on many of their encampments, the! most notable of which was the Ma-1 nassas mmp'iiyn of 1904. His sue-j ccssor w ill be appointed on therecom-' inundation of the regimental com-! mander. CHEROKEE LIFE GETS CHANGE IN CHARTER GARDNER CANDIDATE FOR G. 0. P. CHAIRMAN WASHINGTON, May 3.—Represen tative Gardner, of Massachusetts, has announced his candidacy for the j chairmanship of the Republican con gressional campaign committee. He declared that if he is elected he will liberalize the organization. The Cherokee Life Insurance Com- < pany, of Rome, (’■«., for which a re- ? eeWorship w as asked some time ago, by dissatisfied stockholders, to-day. ? w as granted a hang** in its charter |5 by the Secretary of State, becoming;? a stock company with a capital of $ 5100,000. The company was a mutual concern: when th ' litigation began. The new arrangement divides its capital stock int > 10,000 shares with a par value of f10 each. I SLAYER DEFIES HANGMAN TO TAKE HIM TO GALLOWS LGITSY1I.LK, G A.. May 3. Armed with two knives, metal pans of bis pris on cot, which he had demolished, and several large lumps of coal. Will Thomp son, a condemned r <--;ro. yesterday after- noon defied Sheriff Smith and his depu ties when the} wti:t u* his cell to ve- tuw\ e him to ti • >-«'.> Yfold t<> hanged He thr* atoned t<- sill ti.*' first man who entered Mis cell He was later forced into submission at th* point of a shot gun ard carried to th** pall# \w Thomp*«-n was *<n\ ted if the tnur- der of Claude Hun.j.i ie\. Av« rv. t\\. A TEN CENT BOX OF “CASCARETS” Keep your liver and bowels active \ and you feel bully for months. Put asi(l* Just once the Salta, Cathartic Pills. Castor Oils or pur gative waters which merely force a passageway through the bowels, but do not thoroughly cleanse, freshen and purify these drainage or alimentary organs, and have no effect whatever upon the liver and stomach. Keep your inside organs pure and fresh with Ca-carets. which thoroughly cleans*** the stomach, remov * the undigested, sour and fermenting food and foul gases, take ihe excess bile from the liver and carry out of the system all the constipated waste matter and pois ons In the intestines and bowels. A Cascaret to-night will make you feel great by morning. They work ' bile you sleep—never gripe, -n ken and cost only 10 cents a box from > our druggist. Millions of. men and women take a Cascaret now and then and never have Headache, Biliousness, coated tongu . Indigestion, Sour Stomach oi Constipated bowels. Caacarets belong in every household. Chil dren Just fine to take them. ASHEVILLE, N. C.. Ma> Henrv : Nash Carrier and his bride, former j Mias Nancy Rarnum Clark, great granddaughter of the late P. T. Ba* - | num, are to-day enjoying an auto mobile honeymoon In the North Caro- i lina mountains, following their mar- i riage here yesterday afternoon c-.t "Rockbrook," the bride's home. They ; left Asheville immediately after the I ceremony in an automobile, keeping i their destination a secret. The bride groom is from Gr#*-* S. C. The 1 wedding was attended by friends from Greenville. Spartanburg. Richmon 1. Norfolk and Atlanta. Continuation of the se ries of extraordinary revelations by Sophie Lyons on CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR LEADER VISITS HERE Miss Mabel Langford, of Wilkins- v*ilie, Ga., field secretary <>f the Geor gia Christian Endeavor Union, is in Atlanta for a virit of several days to • (infer with leaders of the Christian Endeavor societies here and for a meeting of the recently elected State officers. At 7 o’clock Sunday evening Miss Langford will speak to the Christian Endeavor Society of the Central Con gregational Church. HUFF TO ASK CONGRESS TO PROBE SPEER AFFAIR MACON, GA., May S.—The charg of contempt of court hanging over him for sending a vitriolic letter to Judge Emory Speer last July will not deter Colonel W. A. Huff, ex-Mayor, from presenting a demand to Congress for the impeachment of the judge. The charges, which, he contends, justify an investigation by Congress, will he made public In a pamphk to be issued as soon as the printer? can prepare it. 19 LIQUOR INDICTMENTS RETURNED BY BIBB JURY MACON. GA., May 3.—Nineteen Macon locker club and saloon pro prietors have been indicted by the Grand Jury, which is conducting an exhaustive probe into local prohibi tion conditions. Following the issu ance of warrants, Sheriff Hicks raide all of the places', and in several seized large quantities of liquor. The Grand Jury in two weeks has examined 280 witnesses. If you have anything to sell, adver tise in The Sunday American. Larg est circulation of any Sunday news paper in the South. m m "How Dancing Develops a Beautiful Figure” Another of the instruc tive articles by the famous dancer, Ruth Denis. Brand-new cooking se ries by America’s most popular comedienne and best cook. ,,AsL; me for Lady Dull Cordon '^Colorado Summer" Foremost creator of fash ions in the world, has an unusually interest ing article on “Why Women Must Not Fight Their Savage Tastes A hoofy-folder, illustrated with views of the Colorado Rockies. It tells all about the Vacation delights of that Land of Many Mountains—about trout in the broods, camps in the pines, snow on the peal^s, turquoise in the sl^y. Read, and you tvill nish to go there, talcing advantage of the lorv-fare Summer Excursions After seeing Colorado, there's the Grand Canyon' of Arizona and the California Sierras or seashore ; booklets about both, on request. You can't afford to miss these “Sec America outings in the Far I Vest. Fred Harvey meals on the rvay. Jno. H. Carter. Sou. Paw. Agt., 14 N. Pryor St.. Atlanta, Ua. rhtme. Main 342. B III IS B Gorky’s Romance Ended /-■ / r~ ■ - £ Am. The celebrated Russian novelist is the central figure in an amazing story in which the other figure is an ac tress for whom he deserted his wife and child. Dozens of other fea- tures'exclusively in The Sunday American. Order Your Paper Now \ it %j> iLi i it y i Th 0 ’.Wl Ji.'UC WHEN ARE WE REALLY DEAD THE SUNDAY AMERICAN 1 EXPLAINS A GREAT MYSTERY 1