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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS,
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PDLICEPLAN
Anxious to See if Conley Will
Stick to Latest Confession
Under Dramatic Test.
Continued From Pago 1.
couldn't get out of it after all, and it
was all up, so I told the truth.”
Look* Little Like Novelist.
A shiny-skinned, close-cropped,
thick-chested, low-browed negro is
Jim Conley—with eyes smiling or sin
ister as his mood changes—like a
thousand and one other negroes that
make faithful servants or troublesome
prisoners as their footsteps happen
to fall, and if the story he tells is the
product of his Imagination he belles
appearances.
It may be he has learned his tale
as a child learns a fairy story until
it sees the goblins as it plays in the
twilight. It may be that constant
turning over of them in his mind as
he lay in a police cell for three weeks,
that constant repetition has made the
details come readily to his lips. The
lesson is learned. There is no doubt
of that.
“Jim, why did you write the notes?”
he was asked. “Didn’t it strike you
that 'long tall black negro,’ would be
taken to mean you?"
“Yes, sir,” said Conley, readily. “It
did and 1 tole Mr. Frank so. I said,
’Look here, Mr. Frank, they’re going
to think that means me.’ But Mr.
Frank said he just want**! 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 wrote 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 1 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 I 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, 1 had to do it. That’s all
there was to it. I had to tell the
truth. I 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.
Each 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 wus very plain that he
beheld with little sorrow the pre
dicament of *ne man he accuses.
The stumbling block of premedita
tion Conley removed entirely. He ex
plained wiflhout any apparent hesita
tion that Frank had told him Friday
thajf he should report Saturday to
jfovc some boxes of pencils that had
een reposing on one shelf for about
two years.
He was absolutely certain that the
killing was accidental.
“Mr. Frank,” said Conley, "never
meant to kilt that girl. No, sir. he
never had no idea like that. When
he ccme 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
eartbreaking story has been told and
id since The Georgian presented
nR^'s affidavit. The negro clung
macio\|sly to the details as he gave
hem 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
H' declared that a piece of the
girl's skirt had been tom away. Cer
tain grim questions were put to him
along lines which the detectives have
indicated they will take. The replies,
sri ven 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 tom-away staple on the
back door in the basement. He as
serted also that he had not put the
death notes beside the body.
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SCHOOL BOYS’AND GIRLS’ BALLOT.
Conley Star Actor in
Dramatic Third Degree
ADDITIONAL TRAIN
SERVICE.
Effective Sunday, June lat, the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad will
establish double dtlly service between
Cartersvllle, Ga. and Btowah, Tenn.
Train 56 will leave Etowah 6:50 a
m A arrive Cartersvllle 9:25 a m.;
train 56 will leave Cartersville 10 50
htifT 1 ''" ®*f» ah 1:30 p. m.; train
87 will leave Etowah 2 2f. p m ar .
lye Cartersvllle 6:20 p. :1; . traln s8
dll case ' arterevi::. : m
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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 moat
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 came 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
Bchiff, chief clerk, and E. F. Hollo-
day, the timekeeper.
Both has 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 ami down into the dark and
dirt-strewn basement.
Theatric in Its 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 stagery could have
been more Impressive with weeks of
planning by the detectives. The sin
ister. gray-biack 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
tlie 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 Girls Shudder.
Some of the girls, pitifully young
und helpless looking, pressed back
against the wall and stood there with
distended eyes and afrlghted manner
as the men brushed 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 a
reproduction of all that Conley de
clared took place after he heard the
two low whistles with wihch Frank
was to signal him. With the detectives
following him closely and clustering
about him each time he stopped to
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
cn the afternoon he bore the tragic
burden to the elevator, down to the
basement anti 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 down
and for.'e him to confess that it was
he alone, and not Frank, who com
mitted til© crime, they were disap
pointed.
The negro proved himself either a
most consummate actor or a man
who finally was telling the truth. Ht
was letter perfect, so far as a person
could be in atragedy of the sort. He
never faltered nor hesitated. Y«t he
reproduced in startling detail every
movement and every conversation cf
importance which he sab* took pla?2
while the body of Marv Phagan was
being hurried to »he basement.
Conley did not pretend too great a
knowledge. Occasionally when he was
asked a question he would reply: “1
don’t knok. boss, I don’t know ’’ He
did not assume to quote Frank ver
batim in many instances If he was
lying, it was a most amaxing fabri
cation built up. He told more than
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 thej r actually
took place, but he did not go into such
a wealth of detail as to give the im
pression that his w’hole story was a
mass of lies so far a.s Frank's connec
tion with the affair wa„s 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
1 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, his 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 dally 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 and he
called Frank to his assistance, he
added one of the little descriptive de
tails of his recital by saying:
“This' 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 to wait
there at the elevator while Frank
went to the office 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 corridors 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 Schiff shouted at
him, and there were no more prying
eyes 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 fhe 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.
NEWS JOTTINGS
ABOUT TOWN
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Rev. A. A. Swanlund, pastor of a
Swedish Lutheran church at Thorsby,
Ala., will preach 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 hits 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.
FIH STEVENS
Violence Feared if Negro Pair
Accused of Slaying Are
Captured.
Continued From Page 1.
was, or whether he was a white man
or a negro.
Thomas H. Morgan, a milk wagon
driver employed by C. A. Nelms, the
first man to drive into the Stevens
yard after the fire said he passed the
Stevens home about fifteen minutes
after Mr. Self, and that he saw- no
one, neither the man nor the girl, in
the yard. A light in one of the front
windows was the only evidence of
life.
No one could be located during the
investigation Friday who had seen
any strange negroes or white men in
the neighborhood of the Stevens
home, either during the day or on
the night of the murder. It was
learned that the two negroes who
were seen driving a wagon loaded
with oats from the general direction
of the Stevens home were in the em
ploy of J. L. Cowan, and were hauling
the oats to market.
Negroes Called Worthless.
Evidence that the negroes Wilkes
and Maynard were shiftless, treach
erous negroes who would stop at
nothing to gain their ends continues
to pile up, and the neighbors and
friends of the Stevens family firmly
believe that when the police appre
hend them they will have caught the
murderers of the woman and her
daughter.
Even members of their own race
declared Friday that Wilkes and May
nard were bad men, and would not
hesitate to kill to obtain money. One
of the negro farmers of the vicinity,
Eulice Hambrick, living about three
miles from the scene of the crime,
declared that he would not trust
Wilkes and Maynard as far as he
could see them. He said they threat
ened to kill him once because he tried
to collect some money they owed him.
Wilkes and Maynard hoarded with
Hambrick last January and Febru
ary, shortly after Wilkes returned
from a two-year trip to the North,
Hambrick said, and both owe him
money that he had loaned them to
purchase shoes. Wilkes owes him $7
and Maynard $4. He said he asked
them for the money at one time, and
the negroes threatened to kill him.
Tells of Half Threat.
"W*’re going to get some money
from Mrs. Stevens some of these
days,” Maynard and Wilkes are said
to have told Hambrick. Maynard was
working for Mrs. .Stevens at the time,
and Wilkes was working for Samuel
Farris.
Hambrick said he has not seen
either Wilkes or Maynard since
Wilkes was discharged from Mrs.
Stevens’ employ, but has heard of
them being in Atlanta. He said both
the negroes had often talked of the
large amount of money Mrs. Stevens
had, and they also had remarked that
she probably kept a lot of money
about the house.
To a number of farmers in the
neighbors, for whom they have work
ed, Wilkes and Maynard have de
clared that the Stevens family had
lots of money, and they also had ex
pressed their opinion that they kept
a large sum about t» z hous *. Wilkes
told Mr. Cowan at one time that “Mrs.
Stevens is mighty good pay; she's got
all kinds of money," and he said he
would like to have some of it.
To a number of farmers, Wilkes is
also said to have declared that “Nellie
Stevens is a mighty pretty girl."
Came Three Years Ago.
The negro Wilkes first appeared in
the territory near the murder a little
more than three years ago. He told
the farmers he came from La Grange,
but more recently had been living in
Atlanta, working on the streets. He
worked for a number of farmers in
the neighborhood during the next
year, among them Samuel Farris, J. L.
Cowan and a man named Bacon near
Henrico, and C. A. Xelms. About two
years ago. while Wilkes was working
for Mr. Nelms and was alone on the
place, the Nelms home was robbed
and several hundred pennies stolen.
The next day Wilkes was seen with a
quantity of pennies, and suspicion
was directed to him. He left the
country at once.
He returned to Atlanta last Decem
ber, and, after working in town for a
month, went into the country and
obtained employment with Samuel
Farris, a farmer living within a mile
of the Stevens place. At that time
Maynard was working for Mrs. Ste
vens. and the two negroes # became
partners. Wilkes lived in a cabin on
the Farris place and Maynard lived
in the cabin on the Stevens farm.
The time of the negroes was about
equally divided between the two
farms. Their conversation with farm
ers and negroes during this period
usually began and ended with guesses
as to the amount of money Mrs. Ste
vens had.
After Maynard was discharged
from the Farris place he endeavored
to get a job with Mr. Cowan, and
borrowed $6 as advance wages.
Wilkes stood good for the money,
which Mr. Cowan declares has never
been paid. Mr. Cowan says Wilkes
told him, after Maynard refused to
pay, that he would pay as soon as he
could gete some money from Mrs.
Stevens, whtch he declared would be
soon.
Got Work With Farris.
This money was borrowed from Mr.
Cowan on March 28. and a few days
later Wilkes was discharged from Mr.
Farris' place and secured Maynard's
job with Mrs. Stevens. Mr. Farris
said he discharged Wilkes because
the negro was treacherous and dan
gerous. despite his protestations of
religion and statements that he was a
preacher. Maynard then obtained
employment with Mr. Parris, and his
intimacy with Wilkes continued.
Maynard was finally discharged by
Mr. Farris, and even though he had
no job he remained in the country,
spending most ofhis time w ith Wilke*
at the Stevens faim. About a month
r three weeks ago Mrs. Stevens dis-
harged Wilkes for the same reason
she had previous* discharged May
nard—he insulted Nellie Stevens, and
was several times seen leering in their
windows while they were dressing.
Wilkes and Mavnard left the Ste-
vents’ home together, and have not
been seen since, save by Mrs. Ste-
\ ens.
Wade Stevens’ story that Wilkes
and Maynard have been seen prowling
around his home since their discharge
EGGS IS EGGS
CoprrlJfet. 1913, International New« Serrloe.
When It Comes to Law—The Owner of the Chicken Is the Owner
of the Egg.
(Absolutely the Last Egg Joke)
NEAR DEATH AGAIN
Friends Are Convinced She Will
Not Live Long Enough to
Serve All of Jail Term.
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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
mail 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 hep
sentence.
Many lives were placed in peril by
the burning of a railroad signal bo*
at Beechlands, near Buckingham. Thd
police who investigated attributed the
outrage to militant women.
TO DAY’S MARKET
OPENINGS.
-H-H-I-M- -I-l-M-I-H- -i-l-M-l-i-i-I-
EXCHANGES CLOSED.
• All the New York and New Or- 4*
- leans exchanges took an extra hoi- ■ *
1 iday Saturday, following Memorial • •
Day. The Chicago Board of Trade • *
1 was open for business. Liverpool • •
also was open. • ■
All exchanges will reopen Mon- -J*
day.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
LIVERPOOL, May 31.—In the absence
of support from the American market* 4
this market opened quiet with a narrow
range, being unchanged to 1 point lower
to % point higher. At the close the
market was quiet, with prices net un
changed to 1 % points below the final
quotations of Friday.
Spot cotton quiet at unchanged quota
tions; middling 6.61d; sales, 8,000 nales-l
imports, 1,000 bales.
Opening
Range. 2 p. m.
6.38 @6.39 6.38
@6.38%
§ 6.34
6.32%
@6.22 %
May . . .
May-June
June-July
July-Aug.
Aug.-Sept.
Sept.-Oct.
Oct.-Nov.
Nov.-Dec.
Dec.-Jan.
Jan.-Feb.
Feb.-Mar
Mar.-Apr.
6 38
6.33
6.32
6.23
6 12
6.05% @6.06
6.02%
6.00%
6.01%
6.02 @6.02
6.03
6.37
6.32%
6.31%
6.22
6.11
6.05
6.00%
6.00
6.00
6.01%
6.02%
P rev-
Cl os e.
6.38 Va
6.38%
6.34
6.33%
6.22%
6.11%
6.05
6.01%
6.01
6.0t ■
6.02 *
6.03
LIVERPOOL GRAIN MARKET.
LIVERPOOL May 31.—Wheat closed
firm %d higher; October %d higher and
July %d higher, as compared with
Thursday’s close.
Corn closed unchanged, compared with
Thursday’s close.
was corroborated Friday by members
of the Cowan family. Last Saturday
afternoon while visiting at the Cowan
home Mrs. Stevens said she feared
the two negroes, and declared that
they had several times come there
and asked for money.
Driven Awiv With Pistol.
Once she drov 1 ihem away with a
revolver, and she told the Cowan
family that they had been there as
late as last week. They usually, Mrs.
Stevens is said to have stated,
prowled around the house at times
when they knew Mr. Stevens or Wade
were not at home, and that they had
been heard and seen at midnight and
in the early morning hours.
One of the remarkable facts ob
tained regarding Wilkes was that no
matter where he went, he always car
ried a Bible and made a pretense of
studying it to be a preacher. Eulice
Hambrick declared that Wilkes read
the Bible a great deal, and would al
ways laugh and chuckle while doing
so. He said the negro appeared to
like the Old Testament, and espe
cially the parts that relate to violent
sin and death.
The entire country in the neighbor
hood of the Stevens farm is aroused
over the murder, and threats of ven
geance against the two negroes, who
the farmers are confident committed
the crime, are often heard.
Theory of the Crime.
The theory of the neighbors is that
Maynard, working at Mrs. Stevens’
home, became imbued with the idea
that Mrs. Stevens kept a large
amount of money in her house. He
took Wilkes into his confidence and
the two plotted the crime, but no
opportunity occurred before Maynard
was discharged. Then, in order that
whenever an opportunity presented it
self they might be ready. Wilkes se
cured employment at Mrs. Stevens’,
and Maynard remained in the neigh
borhood.
Neither Wade nor Mr. Stevens left
the farm while Wilkes was working
there, and no chance came before
Wilkes also was discharged. Before
he left Wilkes learned that Mr. Stev
ens would attend the reunion at
Chattanooga. Tuesday night he met
Wade and learned that the two wo
men would be alone on the farm.
The theory is then that he and May
nard walked out to the Stevens farm
and murdered the two women in the
hopes of finding a large amount of
money. They became frightened, ac
cording to the theory, and burned the
house to hide the evidence of their
crime.
The time of the fire has probably
been fixed beyond a doubt. Three per
sons were found on Friday who saw
the blaxe, Farris Simpson, a rail
road fireman; Sam Pritchett, a far
mer. and a negro who works for
Thomas Harper. All of them fix the
time as between 12:30 and 1:30
o’clock.
Jack London's new story,
‘‘The Scarlet Plague,” begins in
the American Monthly Magazine
given free with every copy of
next Sunday’s American.
RURALIST ENTERS
FIELD
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.
FREE, NEXT SUNDAY.
The American Sunday
Monthly Magazine, contain
ing the first chapters of Jack
London’s new story, is
GIVEN FREE with every
copy of the next Sunday
American.
White City Park Now Open
FIELD GLASS
For your vacation trip, all styles
and CORRECT prices, at John L.
Moore & Sons. 42 North Broad
Street.
FREE, NEXT SUNDAY.
The American Sunday
Monthly Magazine, contain
ing the first chapters of Jack
London’s new story, is
GIVEN FREE with every
copy of the next Sunday
American.
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 puriflear
tlon 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 Sarsatab*.
We have Beautiful Bedding
Plants 3c each. Atlanta Floral '
Co., 555 L. Fair Street.
A remarkable article about
the wonderful sculpture
found in one of the Christian
tombs in Asia.