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7 T TTT7 VTMNTA O.EORflTAN AND NEWS. "i ttwwjMwwsvwwxzrv: [ Hixon-Searcy Bill Merely Goes Over Until Next Year, Awaiting Decision on U. S. Statute. That the Hixon-Searcey bill, pro posing to extend the Webb bill pro visions to Georgia, was not killed outright in the House Temperance Committee, rather than sent over to next session in charge of a sub committee, is due to the work of Mr. Ennis, of Baldwin. When the question of this bill's probably unconstitutionality was raised in the committee, it was pointed out that the Webb law is being tested in the United States courts, and that by this time next year it will be ruled upon finally. If the law Is upheld, it was contended. Georgia might extend its laws to meet the Federal statute. If ruled unconstitutional, however. Georgia would lose nothing by waiting. In addition to this, it was shown that to pass the law now simply would shut off approximately $300,- 000 revenue to accrue within a year, which, with the $750,000 shortage al ready on hand, would pile up a total deficit to the appalling extent of over $1,000,000. When these things were made clear to the committee, a disposition was evident upon the part of several members to kill the bill outright, with the idea that it might be rein troduced in the next Legislature, if it then seemed advisable, tax reform having been enacted in the mean time and the present deficit wiped out. Mr. Ennis, vice chairman of the committee, strenuously objected to the bill’s slaughter in the commit tee, however, and prevailed upon his colleagues to refer the entire mat ter to a sub-committee for a report next session, rather than let the bill go to its death in this Legislature. The bill was given that direction, and Mr. Ennis was made vice chair man of the committee having the measure in charge. Turks Defy Powers To Force Them to Give Up Adrianople Special Cable to The. Georgian. ADRJANOPLE, July 30.—Enver Bey, chief representative of Turkey in the recaptured city of Adrianople, to-day threw down .he gauntlet to Europe. "We will not evacuate the city wa have recaptured,” he said. “Europe can not drive tis out. The quicker the powers understand this the bet ter it will be for the peace of Eu rope.” \ This was his reply to the con templated move by the powers to drive the Porte out of Adrianople. BELGRADE. July 30.—Despite the overtures among the Balkan allies heavy fighting is still going on. A dispatch from Sofia says that the Bulgarians forced the Greeks to re treat from Mehomia and Nevrokop Divorce Refused by Greene County Jury GREENSBORO, July 30.—W. L. Branch, a prominent citizen of Bish op, Oconee County, was refused a divorce in his suit against his wife, Mrs. Ethel Branch, of Woodville, Greene County, by a jury in Greene Superior Court. Mrs. Branch received a verdict for alimony in Oconee County, and Branch then instituted divorce pro ceedings in Greene County. Mrs. Branch alleged that her. husband treated her cruelly and often drank. Branch alleged that his wife willfully deserted him. Winged Fire Wagons I Conference Thursday On Macon Depot Issue Forecast in Salem SALEM. MASS.. July 30.—A fly ing machine fire department for Sa lem was predicted by J, F. Hurley, Mayor of this city. Fire engines, hook and ladders, hose wagons and aerial water towers of the future will go through the air on the wings of aeroplanes, accord ing to Hurley’s ideas. Knife Makes Little Town Appendixless MOUNT PLEASANT. N. H.. July 30.—Colebrook, near here, has gained the name of the “appendixless town.” More than 200 of the 2,000 inhabl- , tants have undergone operations for i appendicitis. MACON. July 30.—A delegation from Macon will confer with the Georgia Railroad Commission and officials of the Central of Georgia Railroad in Atlanta Thursday in re gard to the proposition that the claims for damages arising from the closing of Cherry street, where the new passenger depot wil be built, shall be settled by arbitration. All but one of the property own ers have agreed to arbitration and the proposition is now up to the Central of Georgia and the Railroad Commission. SPARKS STORE ROBBED. TIFTON.—Studstill’s general mer chandise store at Sparks was entered by burglars and eight watches, a suit of clothing and a lot of underwear stolen. Wife-Slayer Escapes, Then Returns to Jail CHATTANOOGA. July 30.—After felling his jailer with his bare fists*, Charles Goodlake. charged with the murder of his wife, escaped from the county jaVl at Decatur. Tenn., late lAst night only to return to his cell after an hour of freedom. Another pris oner who escaped with him has not been located. t Goodlake 1s prominently connected here. He killed his- wife at their sum mer home at Decatur while in a drunken frenzy. COLUMBUS VETERAN DEAD. COLUMBUS.—John H. Farr, a Con federate veteran, died at his home here yesterday. His funeral took place this afternoon. CHAMBERLIN-JOHNSON-DuBOSE CO. ATLANTA NEW YORK PARIS OFFICER’S SLAYER Hooray! Baby to Role the House | No Longer Do Women Tear < the Greatest of All Human ! Blessings. I nal It is a joy and comfort to know hat those much-talked-of pains nd other distresses* that are said to recede child-bearing may easily be voided. No woman need fear the lightest discomfort if she will fortify erself with the well-known and me-honored remedy, “Mothers riend.” This is a most grateful, penetrat- ig, external application that at onoe often* and makes pliant the abdom- muscles and ligaments. They iturally expand without the slight- it strain, and thus not only banish 1 tendency to nervous, twitching tells but there 1* an entire freedom om ’ naueea. dtswmfort, sleepless- vsB and dread that so often leave ielr impress upon the babe The occasion Is therefore one of un- >unded. joyful anticipation, and too uch stress can net be laid upon the markab’e influence which a moth ’s happy, pre-natal disposition has pon the health and fortunes of the eneratlon to come. Mother's Friend is recommended 3ly for the relief and comfort of ex- setant mothers, thousands of whom ive used and recommend It. \ ou ill find it on sale at all drug stores * $1 00 a bottle. Write to-day to the radfleld Regulator Co., 130 Lamar Idg Atlanta. Ga.. for a most tn- ructive book on this greatest of all lbjects—motherhood. DALTON, July 30.—Clem Poole, charged with the murder of Police man Harry Cook, was brought here from Chattanooga a^ 4:15 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, a crowd of sev eral hundred people being at the Je- pot awaiting his arrival. Police Chief White, Policeman Duckworth and John P. Elrod had him in' custody. The prisoner was in no way molested by the large crowd. From the train he was taken to the Whitfldld County jail and locked up. being immediately in consultation with his attorney, Judge G. G. Glenn. Acting upon his attorney’s instruc tions, he refused to discuss the crime with which he is charged. Shortly after 5 o’clock Tuesday aft ernoon the Grand Jury returned .m indictment against Poole. Dan Hat field. and John and Tom Nicodemu3, charged with the murder of Will Par rish, were alsK* indicted. The four prisoners were taken be fore Judge Fite late Tuesday after noon and announced they would be ready for trial. To-day Hatfield will be arraigned. Stating that he was unable to jemploy an attorney, Judge Fite appointed Colonel W. E. Mann to represent him. Colonel Mann has been retained by the Nicodemus brothers and is familiar with the case. The Poole murder trial will, in all probability, be the first matter taken up when court meets Thursday morn ing. Judge Glenn states that he was employed only Tuesday and had been busv through the day in preparing a defense, but added that he saw r-o reason at present why the defendant would nbt be ready by Thursday. He also added that he didn’t fear the ver- dict. To-day it was alleged that the trouble which led Policeman Cook to go after Poole grew out of Poole’s anger when his wife, converted at a revival in progress in North Dalton, was baptized and admitted Into the church Sunday afternoon. It is al leged that his anger caused him to shoot twice at his wife. Albany Wins First New Cotton Bale SAVANNAH, July 30 — In a race to market in Savannah the first bale of up land cotton for the season. Albany won by a narrow margin over McRae. Both bales were ginned yesterday afternoon. The bale capturing the prize was grown by Frank Thomas, a negro. It was consigned to Hunter & Co. It graded good middling, weighed 410 pounds and was bought by the Brown- Cramer Cotton Company, of Albany, at 17 cents. It was sold at auction in front of the cotton exchange this morning. The new bale this year arrived two days ahead of the first bale last year. i Postmaster Baker Offers Resignation SAVANNAH, July 30.—Marcus S. Baker, Jr., postmaster at Savannah, has returned from Washington, where he went last week to confer with First Assistant Postmaster General Roper about the recent investigation of the Savannah postoffice by Inspector Frank Frayser. Baker offered while in Washington . to resign in case the report is adverse 1 to him, and he has been given as- ! surances that he w’ill be allowed this j privilege. Whitfield Tax Increase. DALTON.—Whitfield County tax I values increased $25,962 during the 1 past year, according to the report of i Tax Receiver Broadrick, just forward, i ed to the Comptraller General, the total valuation being returned at $4,- | 687.070. CHANGE URGED IN LEARNS TO WRITE EL The general insurance law’ of Geor gia will be amended in at least one particular if legislation now proposed in that body is placed on the statute books. It is intended to change cer tain features which discriminate against and work to the detriment of Georgia home companies in the mat ter of making investment* Two similar measures. House Bill No. 260, Introduced by Representative Meador of Oconee, and Senate Bill No. 99. by Senator McNeil of Macon, are before the Assembly committees. These measures change the law so as to allow home companies to make in vestments. under statutory right, in stocks and other stable securities./ At present, while foreign companies are. of course, free to do this, Georgia companies are restricted. Georgia’s life and fire companies are all inter ested in the proposed reform. These companies have done a great deal to create a market for bank slocks in Georgia. Both of the bills are modeled after the New York law, which is conceded to be the best In the Union. The pres ent Georgia law allows home compa nies to make investments only at the discretion of the Insurance Commis sioner. Georgia companies, it is declared, write 10 per cent of the premiums written in this State, while in other States home companies, not hampered by this investment law, write 65 par cent. IN PRISON. AGE ii BAXLEY. July 30.—It was not un til after he had been given a life sen tence in the State penitentiary that William H. Chancy, a white man. 53 years of age, learned to write his name. Chancy is now confined in the Appling County jail, pending an ap peal to the State Supreme Court. He was convicted in Jeff Davis County for killing a man named Carter last February. As Jeff Davis has no Jail, he was brought here for confinement until his appeal is disposed of. Chancy was reared in the country, without the advantages of schools, and never learned to w’rite. In order to pass tjie weary hours in jail, he asked his attorney, W. W. Bennett, to set him copies on an old-fashioned copybook. From these copies he has learned to write a legible hand. He wrote his wife his first love letter by his own hand a few days ago. As Mr. Bennett was formerly a school teacher—one of the pioneer masters of the little log schoolhouses in the pine forests of Appling—he has taken a keen Interest in teaching his client-pupil. Chancy confidently believes that he will ultimately be acquitted. He says that he did not receive a fair trial and that the killing was In self-de fense. He says he was put ufion trial thirteen days after the killing, while the public mind was in a high state of prejudice. He has been an exem plary prisoner in every way. Some clays ago. when another prisoner es caped, he was the first to give the alarm to the officers. Prices Are Greatly Changed For Tomorrow On Girls’ and Misses’ Dresses Junior Department, Third Floor Dainty lingerie dresses, sturdy linen dresses and gingham and percale dresses that will wash beautifully—all have their prices changed in substantial fashion for to-morrow. It is a Chamberlin-Johnson-DuBose Co. clearaway—a right ing of stocks and so a time of savings for mothers, of savings so big that none but the most extravagant can afford to miss the opportunity. At $4.95 At $1.59 Negro Lad Catches Two 9-Foot Sharks CHARLESTON. July 3ft.—**I got one!” exclaimed Son Brown, a negro boy Ashing for Sharks off the Charles ton waterfront, and he had a hard time to keep from being dragged Into the Cooper River by the Ash that his mullet-baited hook had caught. Sixteen men helped him pull the vic tim In. It was a man-eating shark. 9 feet 4 inches long, weighing 500 pounds. A half hour, later the boy caught another, only two inches shorter. These two sharks are the larges* caught here this season. Gulf Stream Speedy; Seaman Fears Storm CHARLESTON, July 30.—Sea captains coming into Charleston con tinue to report ah unusual speed for the Gulf Stream, which is raging along, according to more than one mariner, at a rate of two or three knots faster than usual. Captain Pennington, a well-known coast sailing master, believes that the spead of the Gulf Stream forecasts a big storm, this oelng his experience in the past when the stream was un ruly. NEW BANK CASHIER. JACKSON.—IV. H. Wilson, City- Tax Collector, has succeeded J. F. Ball as assistant cashier of the First Farmers’ Bank, of this city, the lat ter having accepted a position as cashier of the Farmers’ Bank of Brun w ood. No More Headaches Coffee drinking induces headache, indigestion, nervousness, heart trou ble, and many other ills. This because coffee contains the poisonous drug, caffeine. A prominent business man of Memphis. Tenn., writes under date of April 21, 1913, of his experience in quitting coffee. He says: “For a number of years I had been a great sufferer from headaches and indigestion. “About January Arst of this year I left off coffee and began the use of Instant Pos- tum. Since getting from under the influence of coffee, headaches have ceased. I can eat anything I want to, and have no indigestion. In addition to this I have gained in weight. “I attribute it all to the stopping of coffee and the use of Postum “I write this letter simply to add my testimony to the many you already have, and to Induce some fellow sufferer to get relief by quitting eoffee and turning to Instant Postum as a morning beverage.” (Name given on request.) Instant Postum is a pure food-drink, made only of clean, roasted whole wheat and a small quantity of molasses. It. contains no drug whatever, hut does contain the vital phosphates of the grain which are essential for the upbuilding of brain and nerve and muscle tissue. , If something interferes with your comfort, suppose you try leaving off coffee and use Instant Postum. Postum comes in two forms. Regular Postum (must be boiled.) Instant Postum doesn’t require boiling, but is prepared instantly by stirring a level teaspoonful in an ordinary cup of hot water and adding cream and sugar to taste. A level teaspoonful makes it right for most people. Some use a heaping teaspoonful and temper it with plenty of cream, and it has a delightfully snappy flavor that is won derfully pleasing. Find out how you like it and always have it served tjiat way. “There’s a Reason” for POSTUM Girls’ $7.50 and $8.50 Lingerie Dresses Sizes six to fourteen years. They are white and dainty and charming, made so by the use of hand embroidery, Valenciennes and Cluny laces, some even have Irish crochet laces in yokes and sleeves— long waisted with plaited skirts. With these are a scattering few of white linen dresses. Girls’ $2.25 and $2.50 Wash Dresses Siz^N six to fourteen years. Neatly figured and flowered lawns, ginghams in plaids and stripes and percales in stripes, dots and figures—such a variety as you would like to choose from at regu lar prices. Buy for now, *buv for the soon to come school days—long- waisted effects. At $3.98 At $1.98 $6.50 Junior Dresses $6.50 junior dresses and suits of linen in white and blue. Not many of these, set time your visit to early in the morning. The dresses are trimmed in con trasting shades, the little suits are piped, the blue with white, the white with blue. $5.00 and $6.00 Junior Dresses The clearance of the better grades of Junior wash dresses. The materials are fine ginghams and percales, usually the imported kinds, of choicest patterns. Then they are so prettily trimmed—with braids, pipings and buttons—all one-piece dresses. A Sale of Women’s Gowns The savings warrant an early morning trip to town for these. Here are the reductions: $1.25 and $1.50 O CT Gowns are 05c and $1.19 7^ Gowns are d Priced so merely because they are an odd surplus. They were splen did, unusual values at regular prices. Anfong those now 95c are nainsook and cotton crepe gowns, Empire and kimono styles, made pretty with laces and sheer embroideries. Among those now 7 75c are nainsook and crepe gow r ns. The nainsook is exceptionally sheer and soft. The crepe is in c o 1 o r s, slip-over style, touched w r ith laces and embroideries. New Models of Warner Corsets Just in the house are several models of Warner corsets that women will want for these hot days. Perhaps the lightest and most comfortable corsets that women could find at these prices. They are of ventilated batiste with low and medium-low 7 bust, four and six hose supporters. Priced at $1.00 and $1.50 Agents for Butterick Patterns and Publications Chainberlin=.lohnson=DuBose Co.