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Anxious to See if Conley Will
Stick to Latest Confession
Under Dramatic Test.
Continued From Page 1.
'book here, Mr. Frank, they’re going
to think that means me.’ Hut Mr.
Frank said he Just wanted it to send
to his mother, so his mother wouldn’t
think he done It, and he told me he
had powerful wealthy folks in Brook
lyn—that was the first time I ever
heard he had rich folks up North at
all. I thought they all lived here—
so I w rote what he told me.”
Frank Always Good to Him.
Now this reply, as it is given, sounds
Incoherent and preposterous, but it is
given Just as Conley gave it and no
amount of questioning could change it.
“How long did you know Mr.
Frank?” was another question.
"I guess I must a known Mr. Frank
(Conley kept scrupulously to the “mis
ter” throughout) for about two years.
Yes. sir, he was always a good boss
to me. There was never no trouble
about my getting money If 1 needed
It. Yes, sir, Mr. Frank was always
pretty good to me.”
“And now you’re telling a story, Jim,
that may cost a good boss his life.”
“Well. I had to do It. That’s all
there was to It. I had to tell the
truth. 1 waited and waited for Mr.
Frank to do something and when he
didn’t I Just reckoned he couldn’t and
It was about all up.”
Three distinct times during the
questioning Conley let drop remarks
that might truthfully be Interpreted
as Jubilation that another man was in
as bad a plight as he.
Shows Little Sorrow.
Kach time when the remark was
called to his attention he protested
that he had no feelings of malice
against Frank and that he was not
eager to see him suffer. In spite of
his protests, it was very plain thRt he
Upheld with little sorrow the pre
dicament of the man he accuses.
The stumbling block of premedita
tion Conley removed entirely. He ex
plained without any apparent hesita
tion that Frank had told him Friday
that he should report Saturday to
inove some boxes of pencils that had
been reposing on one shelf for about
two years.
He was absolutely certain that the
killing was accidental.
“Mr. Frank,” said Conley, “never
meant to kill that girl. No, sir, he
never had no idea like that. When
he come running to me and said. ‘Jim
want to make some money quick,’
and I said yes, he said ’I picked up
a girl back there and let her fall and
her head hit against something,' and
he told me to get a cloth, and I ran
back and I looked down and I saw
a girl lying on the floor, all still, and
her head was cut, and I hollered,
*Why, Mr. Frank, this girl’s dead.”'
Clings Close to Details.
The rest of this chapter of the
heartbreaking story ha* been told and
retold since The Georgian presented
Conley’s affidavit. The negro clung
tenaciously to the details us he gave
them to the detectives.
He added that he had heard no
scream, but accounted for that by the
distance he was from the scene of the
killing, according to his story—sev
eral hundred feet, he thought.
He declared that a piece of the
girl’s skirt had been torn away. Cer
tain grim questions were put to him
jjjlong lines which the detectives have
pUdicated they will take. The replies,
jfcvn hesitatingly and with apparent
■unwillingness, were sinister and un
mentionable, but they will play a for
bidding part In the trial of Frank.
Conley .asserted that he could not
explain the torn-away staple on the
back door in the basement. He as
serted also that he had not put the
death notes beside the body.
Senate Probers to
Visit Coal Fields
WASHINGTON, May 31.—Consldera
tion of plans for the Senate probe, of
conditions in the strike zone of the West
Virginia coal fields was begun to-day
by the Fenate Committee on Education
and Labor.
It is expected that the investigation
will be begun by a sub-committee, which
will villit the strike district and take the
testimony of mine owners, strikers and'
officers of the militia.
Army Band Plays at
Grant Park Sunday
The Fifth Infantry band will play the
following program at Grant Park Sun
day afternoon from 3:30 to 5 30 o’clock:
King Bombardon/' W. P. English;
"t^ueen of Autumn.” Carl Bigge;
“L’Ejuestrienne,” Hosmer; “Southern
Rcscx." J. Strauss. “Silvery Bells/'
B-tsford; “In the Shadows,” Stern;
“The Sprites' Revelry/ Hailey. “Lights
and Shadows,” Holmes; “The Grand Mo-
guJ.” .Ladera; “T. M B./' King
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In all the grim annals of Atlanta’s
criminal history an illiterate negro,
Jim Conley, stands out to-day the
principal figure in one of the most
remarkable and dramatically Impres
sive "third degrees” ever administer
ed by the city police.
A chief of police, ordinarily stolid
and unmoved, and chief of detectives
and members of his force, a Pinker
ton operative—all men in daily touch
with every sort of crime and evil
hung with tensest Interest on each
word as it bame from the lips of the
negro, and watched, as wide-eyed as
any tyro in man-hunting, the negro's
every move as he re-enacted Friday
afternoon what he steadfastly assert
ed was his part In the ghastly Mary
Phagan tragedy.
Factory Men Look On.
Dumb under the spell of the drama
In which Conley played a triple role—
first in his own personality, then as
Leo M. Frank, and, finally, as the
young girl victim—two employees of
the factory listened to the damning
accusations that unconcernedly, al
most glibly, were made against their
superintendent. They were Herbert
Sehiff, chief clerk, and E. F. Hollo-
day, the timekeeper.
Both had reckoned Frank innocent.
They had said many times that he
could not have committed the shock
ing deed. More likely, they had de
clared, it was the negro himself. Yet
here they were the spectators of a
grewsome performance in which
Frank was represented as nervous
and shaking and half in a panic as
he directed the carrying of Mary
Phagan’s limp and lifeless body to the
elevator on the second floor of the
factory and down into the dark and
dirt-strewn basement.
Theatric in It* Appeal.
Every incident and every circum
stance added to the theatric and
powerful appeal as Conley duplicated
detail by detail the movements he
said were made that fatal afternoon
of April 26. No stagerv could have
been more impressive with weeks of
planning by the detectives. The sin
ister. gray-black factory, itself, threw
a spell of silence upon the little group
of detectives and police as they en
tered the forbidding doorway.
A score of girls, a number of them
of just about the age of Mary Pha
gan. were just inside the door when
the automobile of Chief Beavers, its
curtains tightly drawn, dashed up to
the front of the building during the
noon hour. Their chatter and laugh
ter instantly was stilled. It had been
more than a month since their young
companion had been taken from them
by a mysterious crime and they had
been able to forget some of Its tragic
details, but now the spectacle of a
stern blue-coated officer, a squad of
keen-eyed detectives and a . shackled
black man brought back the tragedy
In all its first horror.
Young Girl* Shudder.
Some of the girls, pitifully young
and helpless looking, pressed back
against the wall and stood there with
distended eyes and afrlghted manner
as the men brflshed past and mounted
to the second floor. Several of the
older girls gave hysterical little laughs
which died in their throats when they
noted the dead stillness that marked
the passage of the officers and their
prisoner.
Then followed during the very hour
in which Mary Phagan is believed to
have met her death on April 26 n
reproduction of all that Conley de
clared took place after he heard tin*
two low whistles with which Frank
was to signal him. With the detectives
following him closely and clustering
about nim each time he stopped tc
make an explanation, the negro start
ed at the point he said he first saw
the dead body and went through the
building exactly as he claimed he did
on the afternoon he bore the tragic
burden to the elevator, down to the
basement and then to the dark cor
ner near the furnace.
Does Not Break Down.
If the detectives hoped that the plan
of bringing Conley right to the scene
of the tragedy would break him dowrn
and force him to confess that it was
he alone, and not Frank, who com
mitted the crime, they were disap
pointed.
The negro proved himself either a
most consummate actor or a man
who finally was telling the truth. He
was letter perfect, so far as a person
could be in a tragedy of the sort. He
never faltered nor hesitated. Yet he
reproduced in startling detail every
movement and ec rv convert* ition cf
importance which he said took place
w hile the body of Man- Phagan was
being hurried to the basement.
Conley did not pretend too £reat a
knowledge. Occasionally when he va*
asked a question In* would reply: “I
don’t know, boss, 1 don't know/' He
did not assume to quote Frank ver
batim in many instances. If he was
lying, it was ;t most amazing fabri
cation he built up. He told more than
His Objection Was Overruled and
He Drank ‘Famous’ Beer,
Witness Testifies.
Conley Star Actor in
Dramatic Third Degree
enough to demonstrate conclusively
that he knew all about the disposal
of the body. He told enough of his
alleged conversations with Frank to
indicate strongly that they actually
took place, but he did not go Into such
s wealth of detail as to give the im
pression that his whole story was a
mass of lies so far as Frank's connec
tion with the affair was concerned.
However, Conley’s credibility will
be a matter for the court to decide.
Several times before he has related
stories of his movements the day of
the crime and has afterward admitted
them false or imperfect.
Displays Little Emotion.
Conley displayed little or no emo
tion in his remarkable recital. Rath
er than detracting from the dramatic
impression, this accentuated it. He
impersonated the actors In the black
tragedy with such unconcern and ap
parent fidelity to detail that the de
tectives were forced to feel that they
were witnessing an almost exact re
production of what took place after
Mary Phagan was killed the after
noon of April 26.
“She was layln’ jus’ like this when
I found her,” the negro said easily,
and dropped on his stomach to the
floor near the metal room. He had
been unshackled so that he might go
through all the movements that were
necessary in telling precisely how the
girl’s body was disposed of.
Conley told of his terror when he
had discovered that the girl was
dead, but there was no terror In his
voice as he related his story.
Throughout, hts tone was matter of
fact and his motions free as though
he were giving the description of
some commonplace Incident that
might have occurred in his daily rou
tine as sweeper at the factory.
How He Carried Body.
“I carried her jus’ this way,” he
remarked, and he .went through ex
actly the motions that one would use
In shouldering a bag of grain.
Relating a moment later how the
girl's body became too heavy nnd he
called Frank to his assistance, he
added one of the little descriptive de
tails of his recital by saying:
"Thif is where Frank got nervous
and dropped the girl’s feet. They
dragged on the floor. He had hold of
the cloth that I had wrapped her in
and was walking like this. I guess
he Just was so nervous he let go."
A little later as the party arrived
at the elevator down which the negro
said the girl's body was taken. Con
ley remarked that he had 1o wait
there at the elevator while Frank
went to the tofflee to get the key to
the door. |
Employees Show Curiosity.
As the elevator passed down with
its* load of detectives, a large crowd
of the factory employees could be
seen gathered in the corridor* of the
first floor eager to get a glimpse of
what was going on. They peered
through the openings in the elevator
and after the officers and the negro
had got to the bottom of the shaft
and were making their way to the
place the girl’s body was found by
Newt Lee, one venturesome young
fellow raised the trap door on the
first floor and poked his head Into
the dim light of the basement.
“Get out of there and shut that
door ” Chief Clerk Sehiff shouted at
him, and there were no more prying
eye? directed at the strange proceed
ings that were taking place. It was
through this trap door that Conley
said Frank made his way to the first
floor after the body had been dis
posed of.
Left Indelible Picture.
When the remarkable recital was
ended, all who had gone through the
building with the negro had an in
delible picture graven on their minds.
It might not have been what actually
took place at the factory the fatal
day, but it was most realistic and im
pressive.
They saw a man, a white man.
standing at the top of steps lead
ing from the second floor down to the
first. He was signaling some one. A
negro answered the signal.
They saw the horrified face of the
black man a few moments later bend
ing over a huddled form at the rear
of the building. The form was that
of a little girl. She was dead.
They saw her wrapped in a rough
piece of crocus bagging on the
shoulders of the stocky negro. Her
head hung limply from one end of
the bagging. Her legs dangled from
the other.
Drops Heavy Bundle.
When the burden became too heavy,
the spectators in this grim drama
saw the body dropped to the floor
and the white man come cursing from
a doorway where he had been direct
ing the negro.
Then the white man took up the
feet of the girl victim and the negro
the shoulders. They carried her a
few feet and the white man in his
nervous fright loosed his hold on the
bagging and the body dropped again.
The little party saw. almost as
plainly as though they had witnessed
it, the body carried to the elevator,
the white man hurrying to the of
fice to get the key and then running
the elevator down himself, standing
with one foot on one side of an ex-
MARQUETTE, MICH.. May 81.-
Colonel Roosevelt lent himself to the
fame of Milwaukee on one of his trips
there to the extent of drinking some
of the locally brewed beer, over his
own protest, according to one of the
Colonel’s witnesses in his libel suit
against Editor George A. Newett, of
The Ishpeming Iron Ore, which was
resumed to-day. The amount the
Colonel drank, however, was only a
swallow.
W. Emelin Roosevelt, a cousin of
the former President. was the first
witness. His testimony was short,
following the cour.^e of previous tes
timony as to the Colonel’s use of
liquors. He was followed on the
stand by William Loeb, Jr., former
private secretary to Roosevelt and
collector of the port of New York.
AH-Day Session.
It was expected that the court
would hold only a half session to
day, but when the session convened
Judge Richard F^lannagan announced
that owing to yesterday’s holiday he
felt that the case should be pushed
as rapidly as possible and that an
afternoon session would be held.
William Loeb was questioned by
Attorney Pound.
"Extremely moderate” was his
characterization of the former Presi
dent’s use of Intoxicating liquors.
Q.—Did you accompany the plain
tiff to Speaker Cannon’s birthday
dinner?
A.— Yes. •
Q.— What did he drink? I mean In
toxicating liquor.
A.—He drank a glass of champagne
In pledging Speaker Cannon’s health.
The witness on cross-examination
said the Colonel, since he retired from
the Presidency, had lunched at his
house and had partaken of cham
pagne which was served.
Enticed at Milwaukee.
Frank T. Yeree, United State? mar
shal for West Virginia, was the next
witness. In reply to questions he said
he was the personal secret service
guard of Colonel Roosevelt when he
was President.
Q.—Did you ever see any indica
tion? that he was under the influence
of liquor?
A.—I should say not.
Q.—In all your acquaintance with
the plaintiff, what have you seen him
drink?
A.—A little sauterne mixed with
apnolinarls or white rock.
Q—How much whisky have you
seen him drink?
A.—I never saw Colonel Roosevelt
take .a drfYik of whisky
Q.—Ever see him drink any beer?
A.—Yes, in May, 1903, he was visit
ing in Milwaukee and went to a re
ception tendered him by the Deutscher
Club. He was invited to have some-
beer and replied that he did not drink
beer. They urged him. however, tell
ing him it was what made Milwaukee
famous. Then he raised the glas-'s
to his lips and took a swallow of the
beer. That’s the only beer I ever saw
him take.
Wilson’s Guard Testifies.
James Sloan, who was Tyree’s re
lief as constant secret service com
panion of Colonel Roosevelt while
President, and now a personal guard
to President Wilson, gave testimony
similar to other Roosevelt witnesses.
William Shauffle. of Cleveland, in
Ull2 accompanied Colonel Roosevelt
oil his trip through Ohio. Ishauffle
traced the Colonel’s movements care
fully throughout the trip, denting em
phatically tlpat Roosevelt used any
liquors or w ines.
Year of Hard Luck
For Col. Roosevelt.
MARQUETTE, MICH., May 31.—
Colonel Roosevelt thinks he’s had a
hard and expensive year. He said:
“It’s tough when a man gets shot
up and has a wedding in his family
and gets into a libel suit all in one
year. That bullet in Milwaukee cost
me about $3,000; the wedding about
the same. I’ve no idea what this af
fair is going to cost me.”
tended leg of the girl and the other
foot on the other side.
In the Dim Basement.
The tragic panorama then repre
sented the two lifting the mutilated
body out of the elevator, the negro
carrying it past the dimly burning gas
light and into the darkness at the
other end of the basement. Mean
while the other stood guard at the
trap door lest anyone interrupt them
at their grewsome work.
Then the negro ran the elevator up.
the white man climbing up through
the trap door and meeting the eleva
tor at the first floor. A graphic pic
ture was presented of the white man
as he stumbled from the elevator in
his frenzy of fear at what he had done
and of his terrified actions after he
had reached his office. His face
blanched and then went red. He
wrung his hands as though in abject
terror, according to the story of the
black man. He muttered: "Why
should I hang?” and mentioned rich
relatives in Brooklyn who would help
the negro financially. He gave the
negro $200 and then took it away
from him. He said it would be all
right, that the negro would get the
money Monday.
Air of Calm Finality.
All this the negro told and told it
with an air of calm finality that
convinced the officers where they had
doubted his other stories. They real
ized when they walked from the gray-
black building that they had passed
through one of the most remarkable
experiences of their lives The ne
gro had told a startling and grewsome
story. He had related it as though
it were a matter of little moment.
The tale was not without its improb
abilities. but these were swept away
in the minds of the detectives by the
assurance of the black man and his
many references to incidents that
seemed impossible of invention in any
human mind unless they actually had
taken place.
MACON, GA.,
May 31.—Colonel
William Arnold
Huff, the 82-year-
old ex-Mayor of
Macon, will next
Tuesday know
whether or not he
will have to serve
a jail sentence,
pay a fine or go
free on the con
tempt of court
charge filed
against him by
Judge Emory
Speer, of the Un
ited States Court
for the Southern
district of Geor
gia. At that time
the decision of
Judge W. I. Grubb
of Birmingham,
who heard the
evidence, will be
announced in open
court here.
The contempt
charge grew out
of a caustic letter
written by Colo
nel Huff to Judge
Speer last year, in
which the jurist
was severely crit
icised for his
course In bank
ruptcy proceed
ings In his court
against Colonel
Huff, instituted
fourteen years
ago and still
pending.
The court now
holds {96,000 as
sets of the Huff
estate. Recently
Judge Speer or
dered a distribu
tion of about two-
thirds of this
amount. However
Colonel Huff and
five creditors, in
cluding the City
of Macon, which
■has tax and pav
ing claims, are re
sisting this order
Consequently the
litigation will
likely continue for
two or three years
longer. This case
holds the time
record in Federal
0 courts in Georgia.
Two of Colonel
Huff's sons, Edi
son and Travers
Huff, reside in At
lanta.
The accompany
ing picture of Col
onel Huff is the
first taken of him
in 28 years. It
Colonel William Arnold Huff, aged defendant 'Y a * P°* ed eai ? e '
, • sr dally for The
in contempt of court case m Macon.
CROWD VIEWS BATHTUB.—
Hundreds of Findlay (Ohio) citizens
gathered to gaze at the bathtub of
Admiral Sigsbee, which was recovered
from the wreck of the battleship
Maine, which was placed on the steps
of the court house here because the
committee could not gather enough
cash to mount it.
BUFFALO BULLS BATTLE.—In
a battle at Allentown, Pa., for the su
premacy of Colonel Trexler’s herd of
bison, “Roaring Frank,” a 1,400-pound
buffalo bull, killed "Comanche.” a
2,000-pound buffalo, considered one of
the finest specimens of the breed.
TINY INSECTS COVER CITY.—
Millions of tiny insects descended
upon Colorado Springs, and residents
and shopkeepers were kept busy
sweeping them from their places and
sidewalks. The name of the insects
is not know and no one knows
whence they came.
TYPIST IS 80 YEARS OLD.—Mrs.
Priscilla J. Gory, 80 years of age, to
day took a position In a Memphis,
Tenn., attorney’s office as a stenogra
pher. She began taking lessons two
months ago, and says she can get as
much speed from her machine as
though she were a younger woman.
Mrs. “Pat” in Barrie’s Play.
LONDON, May 31.—Charles Froh-
man will present in September next
at the Duke of York Theater, J. M.
Barrie’s "The Legend of Leonora,”
with Mrs. Pat Campbell and Sir John
Hare In the principal parts.
Hansen, Out of Row,
Will Leave England
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 31—J. Salter Han
sen, Chicago theatrical man who be
came embroiled in the courts with
Arthur Bouschier, a London show
producer, over Dr. Henri DeRoth-
schild’s new play, “Croesus,” appear
ed in Bow Street Court to-day and
informed the magistrate he could not
furnish $10,000 to keep the peace, as
ordered.
“I will leave England to-day if you
will reduce the bond to $5,000,” Han
sen informed the court. The magis
trate agreed.
Sheriff to Evict
A Carnegie Hero
SHARON, PA., May 31.—Unable
to pay the interest on money loaned
to apply on his house, after receiving
$1,000 from the Carnegie Hero Com
mission, Henry Herwlg will be evict
ed by Sheriff Crain.
Herwig saved two men from drown
ing and the Carnegie Hero Commis
sion sent him a medal and $1,000, but
stipulated he.must invest in a home.
He coud not meet the payments and
the house was seized.
PIT TO TEST
Democrats Resent Effort to Bind
Them Not to Enact Laws
Leader Opposes,
WASHINGTON, May 31.—Majority
Leader Underwood’s control of the
House will be put to a test Monday
in the Democratic caucus. House
Democrats to-day declared that, while
Underwood was able to apply the
gag when the tariff bill was being
put through, it was not at all cer
tain he would be able to do so this
time.
Underwood proposes, it was learned,
to have the caucus pass a resolution
binding ali Democratic members to
refrain from enacting any legislation
during the present session except a
brief presentation which Underwood
will specify.
The resolution will set forth that
there be no legislation except the final
enactment of the tariff bill into law,
passage of a banking and currency
bill, the passage of a deficiency ap
propriation bill.
If the Underwood resolution is
adopted all kinds of private bills in
which many new members are inter
ested will be barred from considera
tion.
It was said the resolution probably
will be adopted.
Sulzer Clambers on
Grape Juice Wagon
NEW 1ORK, May 31.—Certain wal
lops handed the demon rum in Wash
ington and Marquette, Mich., were re
inforced here to-day when it became
known that Governor Sulzer has joined
the grape juice brigade. The an
nouncement was made at the Waldorf
by Mrs. Sulzer, who is accompanying
her husband on his swing over the
State in the interest of a direct primary
bill.
"My husband would rather drink
buttermilk than wine, and he. like Sec
retary Bryan, has become a great devo
tee of unfermented grape juice.”
Twits Woman About
Ragged Hose;. Held
A woman caused the arrest Friday of
Max Singer, a watch maker of 309 East
Hunter Street, alleging that Singer in
sulted her on her own doorstep in East?
Fair Street.
According to Singer the woman said
the watch repairer needed to have the
holes In his shoes repaired more than
her watch needed oiling.
Singer replied that while his shoes
were suffering from the ravages of Time,
the woman had holes in her hosiery.
Photo by Thurston Hatcher, Macon.
Georgian.
MHS.PANKHURSTIS RURALISTENTERS
NEAR DEATH AGAIN PRINTING FIELD
Friends Are Convinced She Will
Not Live Long Enough to
Serve All of Jail Term.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 31.—Militant suf
fragettes "posted” a bomb in the post-
office at Lewisham, a suburb, early
to-day, causing an explosion which
destroyed a number of letters and
packages. There was no one In the
mall sorting room at the time, the
women having; chosen an occasion
when human life would not be jeop
ardized.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst. who was
released from Holloway jail yester
day because of acute dyspepsia and
heart exhaustion, is reported to be
near death. This is the second time
Mrs. Pankhurst has been released by
Home Secretary McKenna since she
was sentenced to three years last
month.
Mrs. Pankhurst has vowed to “hun
ger strike” as long as she is in prison
and her friends are convinced she will
not live long enough to serve her
sentence.
Many lives were placed in peril by
the burning of a railroad signal box
at Beechlands. near Buckingham. The
police who investigated attributed the
outrage to militant women.
Kaiser ‘Peace Lord,'
Declares Carnegie
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 31.—“The peace
lord of Europe” is the new title given
Kaiser Wilhelm by Andrew Carnegie,
who is in London to-day. enroute for
Berlin to take part in the quarter
cefitennial celebration of the Kaiser's
ascension to the throne.
Mr. Carnegie, who is dedicating the
declining years of his life to interna
tional peace, said:
"Emperor William is the one man
in Europe who can do most to abolish
war. Instead of being the war lord
he is the ^eace lord of Europe.”
White City Park Now Open
I
Will Increase Equipment Follow
ing Purchase of Sunny South
Publishing Co.’s Plant.
Following the purchase of the en
tire plant of the Sunny South Pub
lishing Company, the Southern Rur-
alist Company to-day began to occu
py the whole of the two-story con
crete building at the corner of Pied
mont Avenue and East Hunter Street.
The mechanical equipment is to be
increased at once and it is the pur
pose of the stockholders of The Rur-
alist to enter the general printing
field, although it is announced they
have no intention of conflicting with
the work of any of the existing print
ing concerns.
There is a great deal of printing
sent out of Atlanta, and it is this class
of work which The Ruralist plant will
seek. The Sunny South Publishing
Company, which owned and printed
Uncle Remus’ Magazine, had the lar
gest plant of its kind in the South.
F. J. Merriam began the publica
tion of The Southern Ruralist in At
lanta a good many years ago. He is
president of the existing company.
Dr. H. E. Stockbridge is editor; L. D.
Hicks, advertising manager, and C. R.
Cunningham, manager of circulation.
Since taking over The Sunny South
plant The Ruralist has appointed C.
H. Pritchard mechanical superintend
ent. He has entire charge of the
plant.
A wonderful magazine given
FREE with every copy of the
the Sunday American.
LOW ROUND TRIP
RATE TO BALTI
MORE VIA SEA
BOARD.
$20.85 from Atlanta, correspond
ingly low rates from other points,
on sale June 5, 6, 7. Through
trains, electric-lighted steel sleep
ing and dining cars, observation
cars. City Ticket Office, 88 Peach
tree.
Mrs. Wilson's Brother
To Quit Princeton Job
PRINCETON, May 31.—Professor
Stockton Axson, for fourteen years
connected with the English depart
ment of Princeton University, an
nounces that he will tender his resig
nation to the board of trustees next
week.
Professor Axson is leaving Prince
ton to accept a position in the Rice
University at Houston, Texas. He is
a brother of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.
Gives Life Trying to
Keep His Goat Dry
BURLINGTON, N. J., May 31.—So
solicitous was he for the comfort of
his pet goat that Porter Naylor, 14
years, lost his life. He kept his goat
in a small shed. When it rained the
boy saw that the water was leaking
through the roof onto his pet.
He was trying to repair the leak
when he slipped from the shed and
broke his neck.
Poultry Thief First
Uses an Anesthetic
The anesthetic negro who first puts
poultry to sleep is the latest comer. He
still is at large, but his sleep-producing
implements were found in the rear of
James Morgan's restaurant, 12k East
Georgia Avenue.
Two policemen answered a hurry call.
Searching for the chicken thief they
found a basket full of fat hens and
roosters, all fist asleep. A pint bottle
of chloroform also was found.
FORTY IN TALLYH0 PARTY
ARE PLUNGED DOWN CLIFF
DENVER, May 31.—Forty members
of a tallyho party were hurled down
a cliff near Mount Morris late last
night as they were returning from a
day’s outing when the horses became
frightened. Some are reported fatally
injured.
NEWS JOTTINGS
ABOUT TOWN
Rev. A. A. Swanlund, pastor of a
Swedish Lutheran church at Thorsby,
Ala., will preaoh a sermon in the mother
tongue to Atlanta Scandinavians to
morrow afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at the
English Lutheran Church. Mr. Swan
lund has just returned from a visit to
the Swedish colony at Fruithurst, sev
enty miles from Atlanta.
Ellis Whitman, a human “rattle-
bones,” will be demonstrated Saturday
before the Georgia Osteopathic Associa
tion in session at the Imperial Hotel.
Whitman can dislocate almost any of
his joints or muscles at will and move
his heart from the left to the right side
of his body. Whitman has been observed
by many prominent physicians.
The meeting of the committee from
Council to act on closing the Forsyth
Street underpass and go over plans pre
pared by Captain R. M. Clayton was
postponed until next Tuesday on account
of the absence from the city of W. A.
Winburn, vice president of the Central
of Georgia Railroad.
Your Blood
Needs purifying and your whole sys
tem renovating in the spring, as pim
ples, boils, eruptions, dull headaches,
dyspeptic troubles, loss of appetite
and that tired feeling annually prove.
The most effective and successful
medicine for the complete purifies,
tion of the blood and the complete
renovation of the whole system, is
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
It will make you feel better, look
better, eat and sleep better.
Get it today in usual liquid form
or in the tablets called Sarsatabs.
FREE, TO-MORROW.
The American Sunday
Monthly Magazine, contain
ing the first chapters of Jack
London’s new story, iz
GIVEN FREE with every
copy of the Sunday Ameri
can.
We hate Beautiful Bedding
Plants, 3c each. Atlanta Flora!
Co., 555 L. Fair Street.
Whole Fried
CHICKEN
Saturday and Sunday
50c
We deliver to any part within the City limits. Call
M. 4818-J.
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42 S. Pryor St., next to the Old City Hall