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2 SMITH FARM AIDPOLICE FUTED BILL AVI IN FOB KISSING Georgia Senator’s Measure Pro vides Work Through Agri cultural Colleges. No Little Indignation Also Shown by State and City Officials Over Latest "Crusade.” WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—Senator Hoke Smith to-day introduced in the Senate and Congressman Lever in troduced in the Houf=e their bill for agricultural college extension work along the lines of the bill which lack ed only one vote of passing at the last session of Congress. Senator Smith and Mr. Lever have State House and city officials com mented Saturday with mixed indigna tion and amusement on the practice of arresting couples who happen to be spooning on the Capitol steps In the evening. While the plight of an affectionate couple who are startled from their osoulatory bliss is not without its been in conference with Secretary Houston, of the Department of Ag riculture, and the executive commit tee of the colleges of agriculture, and the new bill is the result of their com bined Judgment. It is regarded as an improvement on the original bill, and provides a more perfect plan for co operation between the colleges and the Agricultural Department in ex tension and demonstration work. The amounts to he appropriated are the same—-$ 10,000 to each State and In addition $300,000 the first year, to he distributed on a ba>is of agri cultural population, this last sum to be increased each year by $300,000 until the total annual appropriation so distributed reaches $3,000,000. Buckhead Butcher Urges Policemen to Let Him Kill Rival R. E. Cain, a butcher of Buckhead, and T. B. Bell, a carpenter of Handy Springs, mixed in such a fierce fist fight Saturday afternoon that it was all two big policemen could do to separate them. They even had to be held apart after cases had been docketed against them at the police station. Cain’s story, totally denied by Bell, is that Bell came by Buckhead Satur day morning in an automobile and took up two girls for a ride. He did not look with favor on Bell’s atten tions so he followed him on a street car After searching the city all' morning for the trio he found Bell alone in the car on Harris street and pounced on him. Cain v ould not give the names of the young women, but he declared they had been hidden by Bell. He urged the police to let him get to Bell and kill him. Think Girl’s Slayer Killed in Surgery N7W YORK, Sept. 6.—Detectives at OlifTside, N. J., to-day were trying to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of the unknown girl whose torso was found in the water near that place yesterday. The girl un doubtedly was murdered and her head, arms and limbs cut off. Surgeons declare the work was that of someone skilled in the use of surgical Instruments. No Horses in '63 in Chicago, Prediction CHICAGO. Sept. 6.—There will be no horses in use In Chicago 60 years from now if the annual decrease of 2 per cent in the use of animals in this city continues, experts declare. Prefer Bachelors in U. S. Aviation Corps WASHINGTON. Sept. 6.—Recruits humorous aspects, it appealed to the majority of those who discussed the action of the police as nothing short of an outrage that persons should he subjected to a humiliation of an ar rest on the charge of disorderly con duct and, as was the case with one couple, he locked up all night in the police station. State’s Rights Involved. The question also was raised as to whether the police were within their rights in going upon State property, already guarded by State employees, and arresting persons who admittedly were doing no immoral act. P. B. Latimer, keeper of the build ing and grounds, was greatly incensed when he learned of the arrest. “I can characterize it as nothing less than an outrage,” he declared. “It is the most vicious thing that has' been done by the police in my recol lection. Anyone is likely to become the victim of their overzealousness. # "I have given orders that the grounds be regularly policed by Capitol attaches. If a couple hap pens to be sitting on the steps, I can see no excuse for disturbing them, let alone arresting them, if they con duct themselves properly. “Kissing! Isn’t It Terrible?” “And, as I understood It, the worst charge made against the couples ar rested was that they were kissing. Isn’t that a terrible thing for two young persons to he doing? “I was young once myself and I’m glad they didn’t arrest people for kissing in those days. The aggregate of my offense might have given me a life sentence. ”1 think there are a great many other lines along which the police can bend their endeavors where they will be much more profitably em ployed.” Jesse Perry, secretary to the Gov ernor, who habitually refuses to he interviewed on the subject of the tariff, so far forgot his invariable rule as to utter In an unguarded moment his bitterest condemnation of the ac tion of the police. Even Perry Breaks Rule. Unlike Custodian Latimer, Colonel Perry is still a young man. Any movement toward the suppression of innocent spooning he regards as a death blow to the Inalienable and Heaven-born rights of the younger generation. Colonel Perry was in clined most gravely to doubt the sound policy, if not the legal sound ness, of a city police crusade against spooning on State property. A. H. Ulm, executive secretary, Joined in the unsparing criticism of the arrests. It was his comment that lasting humiliation and a wholly un merited disgrace might be brought upon young women who chanced to be on the Capitol steps when some are sought for the ten vacancies in the aviation corps. Married men are not barred, but bachelors are preferred OBITUARY. John Kendrick, the three-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. James Ken drick. died early Saturday morning at a sanitarium. The body will be taken at noon Sunday to New Holland Springs, Ga.. for funeral and interment. W. H. Hodnett, sixty-nine years old, died at 2 o’clock Saturday morning at a private sanitarium He Is sur vived by one daughter. Mrs. R. O. Neal, of West Point, Ga., one broth er, James Hodnett. of L&ngdale, Ala., and one sister Mrs Mary Taylor, of Hartsville. Ga. The body will be shipped later to Longcane, Ga., for funeral and interment. M rs. A. E. Beck, seventy-four years old, died at 8 o’clock Saturday morning at the residence, No. 34 Stewart avenue. She is survived by one son. N. M. Beck. The fu neral will be held at 2 o’clock Sun day afternoon from the residence, the Rev. John Pursher officiating. Interment at Hollywood. OLD RIVALS MAY CLASH AGAIN. MINNEAPOLIS. Sept. 6.—Football games between the University of Minnesota und the University of Michigan may be resumed as a re sult of a resolution received to-day by the Minnesota board of regents from the governing board of the Michigan University. WILL IS EIGHT FEET LONG. MILWAUKEE. Sept. 6 —By a doc ument eight and one-half feet long, Mis> Mathilda Tommett leaves to rel atives a pair of old shoe strings, ‘ mv best bed spread.” chickens, chicken feed, vegetables, fruit, pickles and a pall of iard. members of the police department took it into their heads to swoop down upon the building and ensnare all who mipht be within its shadow. Man and Wife Not Safe. There would be the first humilia tion of the arrest, the ordeal at the police station, the rush to get bond or identification, and possibly, if no sponsors could be found on the in stant. incarceration in a cell. The young woman’s name would be pub lished along with that of her com- I panion and her reputation would suf- | fer In a manner entirely undeserved, said Mr. Ulm. It was not beyond the probabilities, he said, that a man and his wife might as easily be the victims as any other young couple. Carlos Mason, chairman of the hoard of police commissioners, said that he was opposed to police inter- | ferenoe in matters of this sort. He i added that there were enough duties to keep them profitably occupied in other directions. Councilman Thompson commented that the police must be mighty hard up for arrests if they were compelled to don plain clothes and stalk loving couples about the State House in or der to fill the blotter at the police station. Spooners Take Heart; Parks Opaned to You. Here’s hope fer Atlanta’s legions of lovelorn. Driven from the steps of the State ; Capitol and even arrested by raintons | of the law, who must have been who). THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. Atlanta’s Morals; Away Above N. Y.’s, Says Carlos Mason Carlos H. Mason, chairman of At lanta’s Police Commission, Just home from New York, Saturday declared Atlanta far better morally than Gotham. Mr. Mason said that as he strolled Slaton Honors Requisition From Mississippi for Man Charged With Being Swindler. A. D. Oliver, whose alleged opera tions In South Georgia made him the defendant under a half dozen Indict ments charging various forms of swindling, will find two officers of the law from Mississippi waiting for him when his three years’ chaingang sentence in Lee County expires next Tuesday at midnight. Requisition papers were honored by Governor Slaton late Friday, and the Mississippi officers propose to rush Oliver into that State with all possi ble speed. Deputy Sheriff J. H. Crosby, of Aberdeen, said Saturday that they have the prison record of Oliver and that they know of his serving time in Jackson, Mich., and Columbus. Ohio, on charges of false pretenses and swindling. Oliver's real name, ac cording to Crosby, is Charles Blazer. Oliver denies he had any part in the shady transactions charged against him. It must have been his twin brother, for whom he often Is mistaken, he asserts. Government officials are said to be after Oliver for fraudulent use of the malls. Dr. H F. Broyles, cousin of Re corder Nash Broyles, and a State Senator, was one of the victims of Oliver's alleged schemes. He lost several thousand dollars. Dr. Broyles, Judge J. O. Sykes and ex- Sheriff Ollie Jones, who figured in the arrest of Oliver In Mississippi, where the prisoner broke Jail, were in the party that came to Atlanta to ob tain the requisition papers. The people of Decatur County, from which Oliver was sentenced, had difficulty getting him convicted. One indictment after another was brought against him. He managed to slip out of jevery one. Finally he w as convict ed of bigamy, for which he served hie time. Oliver has lawyers and influential friends, It is said, and it is regarded as likely that a hard fight will be made to save him in Mississippi. Painter Fined for Swearing at Lawyer SWEPT BY FL1LS Conflagration Rages for Nine Hours—Main Business Section Saved—Houses Dynamited. DESTRUCTION WROUGHT BY HOT SPRINGS FIRE. $10,000,000 of property. 2,000 persons are homeless. An area a mile long and ten block wide is a waste of smol dering ruins. 500 residences are burned. The courthouse, light, water and power plants, high school, Iron Mountain depot and shops, three hotels, a theater and other public or semi-public buildings are destroyed. HOT SPRINGS, ARK., Sept. 6.— With 2,000 persons homeless, many of them penniless, and a property loss estimated at $10,000,000, the greater part of Hot Springs to-day is a mass of smoking ruins from fire that for nine hours swept an area from seven to ten blocks in width, in the eastern portion of the city. No fatalities have been reported. But few of those whose homes were destroyed saved any valuables. The fire originated in a negro house about 3 o’clock in the afternoon and spent itself only when it reached the foot o.: West Mountain, the Southern extremity of Hot Springs,, at mid night. Hotels, manufacturing plants and many fine residences were destroyed, and for a time it appeared as if the entire city was doomed. The hard est fight was to prevent the flames from gaining a headway on Central avenue, the principal business street. In this fight dynamite was used to wreck buildings. Militia on Duty. State militia are to-day patrolling up and down the Great White Way he was impressed with Atlanta’s in finitely better moral atmosphere. “By comparison the old home town was inviting with a shining purity,” he said. Upon Mr. Mason’s return to the city one of the first matters to come to his attention concerning the police was the arrest of a young couple for spooning on the Capitol steps. “I don’t approve of that arrest,” he declared with emphasis. “That’s a universal, time-honored method of courtship, and a policy of arresting people for yielding to that indulgence doesn’t get my support.” Georgia Experts to Study Boll Weevil Pest at Close Range Dr. E. L. Worsham, State Ento mologist, will ac#/>mpany Dr. Phil Campbell and agjfits of the Georgia State College of Agriculture next week on a tour of Louisiana. Missis sippi and Alabama, where the boll weevil, which is expected to enter Georgia next year, will be studied at close range. Dr. Worsham and these agents are going to bend every effort to have those counties which are sure to be visited first by the boll weevil for tified against this pest as strongly as possible. Early maturing varieties of cotton seed are now being raised on experi ment farms throughout Georgia which will be distributed in these counties in which the boll weevil is expected to appear, for through early maturity the boll weevil is best com bated. Plans for Medical College Abandoned At a meeting at the Piedmont Ho tel it was decided by the manage ment of the Southeastern University to abandon for the present the idea of opening a medical department this fall because the time was too short. It was stated by Dr. Manhart, financial secretary of the university, that the building formerly occupied by the Baptist Tabernacle had been remodeled for a medical college, but would be held until next fall, when in all probability a medical department would be launched. Gets Old Master for 20 Cents; Asks $1,365 Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. MADRID, Sept. 6.—In an antiqua ry’s shop window there was exhibited a painting and a sign reading “Au thentic picture by Goya, 7,000 pesetas ($1,365) ” A poor woman, passing by, observed the sign and at once caused a dis turbance which attracted a big crowd. She declared that the antiquary who now asks such a round sum for the picture, Tuesday bought It from her for 20 cents. ly devoid of sentiment, spooners had come to the disheartening conclusion that that little line about all the world‘loving a lover was piffle. But comes one as their champion. He is John O. Cochran, chairman of the City Park Board. Just as it ap pears that the smitten youths and maids must seek the depressing fast nesses of the family parlor, or the front porch, where they are the ob served of all observers, Mr. Cochran rushes forward and tells them that they may spoon in the city’s parks to their hearts' content, and that If any surly, misanthropic policeman inter rupts them he will '..now the reason why. Mr. Cochran’s pronunciamento was spread abroad Friday night Just after a young woman, blushing with mortification, and her companion, sullen at the humiliation that was theirs, had been haled into Record er’s Court charged with disorderly conduct. What had they been doing? Why, their terrible offense, accord ing to Policemen Clack and Whelehel, who arrested them, was “spooning'' on the Capitol steps. The officers of the law, waiting for a propitious mo ment, had come upon the twain just as their lips had met in a long, lin gering soul kiss. “Break away, youse!” was the gruff command that startled them from their embrace. Then they were taken to the police station. They gave their names as Miss Dora Welszmann. No. 290 Eas*. Fair street, und Gus Meyers, No. 287 East Fair street. She is a stenogra pher and he a clerk. Recorder Broyles promptly dis missed the case, as he did that of Miss Dollle Johnson No. 168 East Fair street, and W. C. Williamson, No. 474 Woodward avenue, who were arrested on a similar charge. The Recorder admonished them, however, that it were better to io their spooning at home on the porches and in the hammocks. It was this warning that brought the general Invitation of Chairman ■ Cochran for the young people to flock to the parks, where they would be 1 unmolested. E. E. George, of 249 South More land street, representative of the Painters’ Union, was fined $5.75 by Recorder Broyles Saturday morning for using insulting language to Paul Etheridge, an attorney. Mr. Etheridge asserted in Police Court that he represented a painter named Dempsey in the latter’s efforts to get a union membership, which had been refused him by George. He said George used insulting and profane language during a conversation. George asserted he said only “h ” and “d .” Canada Decides to AdmitMrs .Pankhurst OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Sept. 6.— Minister of Justice Doherty made a ruling to-day that Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the famous militant suf fragette who recently fled from Eng land, leaving an unfinished term be hind, will be admitted to Canada on her American trip this fall. Her crimes, Mr. Doherty said, do not involve moral turpitude. Frank Trial Deputy Back From Vacation Deputy Sheriff Plennle Miner, bronzed by nearly two weeks of hunt ing and fishing in Gwinnett County, returned Friday to his duties. Deputy Miner was in charge of the growds at the Frank trial and left for his vacation at its conclusion. THE PLAYS THIS WEEK A bill of prime features, the very best that the Keith offices could as semble. will be the Forsyth attraction for the week that will start with matinee on Monday, and because of the excellence of the program as an nounced there has been one of the heaviest advance sales the busy thea ter has ever registered. The head liners will be Frank Hale and Inez Patterson, dainty dancers, and Lydia Barry, the queen of singing comedi ennes. The other five acts are ex ceptionally clever and all in all are the kind of features that make people find their way to the Forsyth. Others on the bill are Doris Wilson and Company; Delmore and Lee; Russell’s Minstrels, and Gordon and Rica. At the Bijou. Capacity testing audiences will greet Jewell Kelley and his players this afternoon and to-night at the Bijou, establishing a new record for attendance at this house. “The Man From the West” has pleased large audiences during the w r eek and has demonstrated beyond a doubt that the Jewell Kelley Company is equally at home in high-class plays and in the more sensational melodramas. Next week's play will be “My Dixie Girl,” which has never been seen in Atlanta at popular prices. At the Lyric. “The Call of the Heart.” next week’s bill at the Lyric, deals with a woman of fortune who was wedded to a "name.” ancient, but not honor able. and after living a life of misery', love liberates her from bondage. There are some rather daring speeches and situations in “The Call of the Heart.” but a startling socio logical problem is handled so daintily that it is introduced and dropped al most before the listener is fully con scious that it has appeared. the burned district. United States soldiers may be sent here from Little Rock to protect property In the Gov ernment reservation. Governor Hays arrived about midnight and ordered the State military patrol. In addi tion, 250 men were sworn in as po licemen to patrol the district. Thus far there has been no disorder. Alf the homeless have been cared for temporarily, and the many offers of assistance from the outside will probably not be necessary, as the citizens of Hot Springs declare they can handle the situation. The Little Rock fire department re sponded to a call for assistance on board a special train, and did good work in the fight, but it was several hours befoie .he efforts of the fire fighters made any impression, and then only in preventing the spread to Central avenue. Public Buildings Burn. Among the buildings destroyed w’ere the city light, water and power plants, the county courthouse, the Park, Princess and Moody Hotels, City High School, Iron Mountain Railroad sta tion and shops, Ozark Sanitarium, People’s Laundry, Crystal Theater and Bijou Rink, besides 100 or more smaller business buildings. During the fire a gale was blowing, at times reaching a velocity of 40 miles an hour, thus making the fight more difficult. As the firemen were dynamiting a house the flames, forced by the. gale, would leap over them and ignite a dozen other houses. After the destruction of a number of build ings in an attempt to turn the fire toward South Hot Springs, the course was changed to such an extent that it finally spent itself against West Mountain, and the business section was saved. CABLE || NEWS Important Events From All Over the Old World Told la a ! Fear Short Line*. JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRI- CA, Sept. 6.—Elaborate police and military precautions were taken here to-day to guard against violence to night when the laboring class will carry out a free speech demonstra tion. The demonstration is a result of the recent strike on the Rand. Two hundred policemen and soldiers, all armed, will patrol the streets to night. Plan Canal Steamer Line. BREMEN. Sept. 6—The North German Lloyd Steamship Line made official announcement to-dav of a big Increase in business during the first half of this year, and that a Pacific Coast service, through the Panama Canal, will be arranged just as soon as the canal is thrown open for traf fic. Famous Candy Maker Dies. PARIS. Sept. 6.— Henry Meunier. a rich and famous chocolate manufac turer. died to-day at his home In Pontoise. ’Jail Won’t Solve Social Evil,’ Says NotedDenverJudge BOSTON, Sept. 6.—In Boston, to deliver an address, Judge Ben Lind sey, of Denver Jouvenile Court fame, declared he was being hounded by persecutors because he did not jail all the girls and men who are the victims of social conditions. He said: "In Denver my few persecutors are crying against me because I do not Jail all the men and girls who are but victims of our social condition. Jail won’t settle that question, but education will, and it is my idea^ to bring Jesus Christ Into court, and I shall handle these lesser cases as thev ought to be handled by a humane thinking man, or any Christian who I* not acting the hypocrite.” He declared his Ideal of happiness is to be married to a sympathetic woman, to have healthy and happy children. “In a word,” he summed up. “Just to be an average man.” The 97-pound Denverite continued: “I am going to write a book one of these days,” and It*is going to be called “Sex and Sin.” And in this book I am going to show up these hypocrites whose very mode of living is basically responsible for the im moral conditions prevalent to-day.” U. S, Quiz of Wreck On New Haven Ends NEW HAVEN, CONN., Sept. 6.— Recommendations of stricter discip line on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad were given by Interstate Commerce Commissioner McChord to-day at the close of the Federal Investigation into last Tues day’s wreck when 21 w’ere killed. General Manager C. L. Bardo, of the New Haven road, promised to issue orders for stricter discipline of em ployees at once. That the airbrakes on part of the White Mountain express, which rammed the Bar Harbor express, *were not in working order, was sworn to by Engineer A. B. Miller, of the White Mountain express. Killing Seals Lips of Sing’s White Widow CHICAGO. Sept. 6.—That hypnotic paralysis has sealed the lips of the white widow of Charles Sing, the murdered Chinese merchant, as she was about to, "tell all she knew,” is the belief of Dr. Louis A. Mangan. “Mrs. Sing is suffering from a strange form of hypnotic paralysis, brought on by herself,” explained Dr. Mangan. “She will not be able to speak until she is strong enough to break the spell. If she witnessed the killing of Sing, the shock of that was enough to lead up to such a condi tion.” BoardWill Watch Test of Crematory The City Board of Health will ob serve carefully the test run of the new crematory, to be weighed under the direction of Frank Lederle, the consulting engineer retained by May or Woodward to make the test. John Jentzen, Chief of the Sanitary De partment, will represent the board. The board appointed W. P. Rich ardson weigher at the crematory. F. H. Schearer, superintendent of the old crematory, was offered the posi tion of engineer at the new' plant. Charter Granted to White Plague Foes The Atlanta Anti-Tuberculosis As sociation is now a regularly char tered organization, Judge Bell having issued a charter for 20 years. The petition states that the organization Is not formed for profit and that it has no capital stock. The incorporators are Hugh M. Willet, Howard S. Cole, Mrs. H. W. Salmon, Mrs. Nellie Peters Black, Da vid Woowdard, Mrs. J. Wade Conklin and Dr. Theo Toepel. Farmers Oppose U. S. Aid in Crop Moving SALINA, KAN., Sept. 6.—At the annual convention of the Farmers’ National Education and Co-operative Association the plan of the Treasury Department to aid in moving crops was criticised severely. The convention declared "it could not see a single benefit” and that it “would put more money into the hands of speculators to buy crops from farmers forced to sell because they could not get money.” FRANK GOTCH ON MAT. CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—The appear ance of Frank Gotch, heavyweight wrestling champion, in the ring at Brand’s Park to-night will feature the athletic end of the program staged by the Cook County Democracy. Gotch is to meet Dr. Roller and Charlie Cutter in a handicap match of fifteen minutes each. BOSTON BARS “TIN ROOFS” BOSTON, Sept. 6.—A new excise law went into effect here prohibiting “drinks on the house” in local sa loons. “It is against the best inter ests of the proprietors and may be morally and physically injurious to customers,” the License Board says in its notice. KRYPTOK LENSES Keep in mind that we make the genuine Kryptoks—bifocals with out the dividing line. Come in and see a pair; they’re beautiful. A. K. Hawkes Co., Opticians, 14 Whitehall street. TRIST COMPANY CAPITAL RAISED TO I Union Organization, Headed by Pollock, Shows Progress—Fine Connections Made. Announcement of an increase of capitalization of the Union Trust Company, of Atlanta, from $300,000 to $1,000,000 and of the plan for a further increase to $2,000,000 w’as made Saturday by George D. Pollock, president of the company. The trust organization was formed only last February and has been do ing a business in farm and city loans since then, specializing in the former. The increase In the capitalization was decided upon Friday at a meet ing of the stockholders, among whom are a number of men w’ell known in the financial circles of the State. The purpose was to afford a wider scope for the operations of the com pany and to enable it to get cheaper money from financial interests in America and Europe. Important connections have been made with Chicago and New York houses by w’hich the Union Trust Company will be enabled to make loans of two or three million dollars in addition to what it would be able to do on its own capital. The offi cials of the company have decided upon an aggressive policy with the determination to make the company one of the strongest and most power ful in the South. President Pollock is an experienced banker, being the organizer of two banks in Rome, Ga., one of which he resigned the presidency to take charge of the Union Trust Company. Moultrie Sessions, a vice president, besides being president of the Ses sions Loan and Trust Company, of Marietta, is one of the best known mortgage loan men in the State. T. R. Lombard, another vice presi dent, is president of Lombard and Company, of New York, and is a financier of long experience. John Ruddle is a Pennsylvania fi nancier who came to Atlanta to be come secretary and treasurer of the company. The officers are on the eleventh floor of the Third National Bal Haven, Ocracoke and Ports mouth Safe, Though Damaged by Water and Wind. NEWBERN, N. C.. Sept. 6.—At 3 o’clock this morning for the first time since last Tuesday afternoon, when the coast storm struck this sec tion, communication with Bal Haven was possible. It had been reported that Bal Haven hsi oee'n wiped off the map. This was Incorrect, but tha damage done by the high water and wind was terrific. The worst part of the storm struck there Wednesday morning. Wat;r rose fifteen feet above the high water level and some of the buildings in the lower part of the town were in- undated. It was necessary to oper ate motor boats In t ie streets to re. move occupants of buildings to places of safety. The railway tracks between Bal Haven and Pantego were washed away, and it will be impossible to operate trains there for several days. Every sawmill in the place was eithe- demolished or badly damaged. The mailboat running betwe-i Ocracoke and Beaufort arrived at the latter place at midnight after making a special trip, and reported that no lives were lost at Ocracoke and Ports, mouth, but that the damage by wind and water was great. New'hern citizens are hard at work clearing away the debris of the storm and the city is beginning to hav- some semblance of its former seif Careful estimates of the damage done here made since the day of the storm P ace amount at not less than $500,000, and this is practically a to tal loss, as no clatyje in any of ths insurance policies provided for dam age by water. Cotton ’Change Seats Increase in Value NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—Member - ilps on the New York Cotton Ex- lange are advancing In price despite tacks made on that institution and e proposed tax of 1-10 of 1 cent pound on speculative dealings in •tton. A s*eat has been sold for $14,000. id advance of $1,000 over the last evious sale. Two memberships are iw being offered, one at $15,000 and e other at $25,000. 'Cue for Officials at Test of Fire Engine With Alderman I. N. Ragsdale and Councilmen J. T. Kimbrough and Claude C. Mason as chief hosts, May or Woodward and Council will be en tertained at a barbecue at the Tenth Ward fire engine house Saturday aft ernoon. The occasion is the official test of the new automobile fire engine. Woman Will Police Kansas City Resorts KANSAS CITY, Sept. 6.—A police woman, who will be known as “the city’s mother to the motherless,” will be appointed by the Commissioners here. She will “walk a beat” embracing largely disorderly resorts and all- night cafes. Coffin Stolen From The Grave of Woman Not More Than Half Dozen Dead. RALEIGH, Sept. 6.—Belated re ports to-day from the storm-swept area In Eastern North Carolina tend to show that earlier reports of storm damage were greatly exaggerated. The loss of life will not total half a dozen, and damage to crops and business places may not reach mo'a than $500,000. The Norfolk and Southern Railway Company, whoso lines run through the storm-swept section, is the heaviest sufferer, but it was impossible to-day to make an estimate of the money damage. If yesterday's rains do not cau«t the Neuse and Tar Rivers to rise again, It is not believed that the freshet following the storm will amount to much. No estimate has been advanced as to the loss of crops by the heavy rains. Arrest Rich Couple Who Abandon Baby SAVANNAH, Sept. 6.—For aban doning an 8-month-old baby to the care of a nurse girl, William B. Mott and his wife were severely arraigned by Recorder Schwarz to-day. The child was adopted by th3 wealthy young couple, who thought It would bridge the widening chasm in their affections. Ten days ago Mott left nis home and went to a hotel. Last night Mrs. Mott sent the baby and nurse in her automobile to the hotel to wait for Mott. Police , noticed the child when the nurse de-/ serted it, and later arrested the fos-v ter parents. ALBANY. Sept. 6.—When the grave of Mrs. Pauline Blum, whose body was buried on Sunday, was visited to-day the body wa» found in a rough box. Tne coffin had been stolen. Her finger on which she wore a wedding ring had been severed and the rigg also was missing. GROCERY IN BANKRUPTCY. A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed Saturday morning by C. W. Seymour, doing business as the Sey mour Grocery Company. He admits liabilities of $891.48, with assets of $600. Thomas J. Ripley was appointed receiver. NEGRESS HELD AS STABBER. Zada Wright, a negro woman work ing at No. 594 West Peachtree, was arrested Saturday on the charge of stabbing Bessie Green, another k ne- gress, at Forrest avenue and Butler street, Thursday night. The Wright woman pleaded self-defense, saying that the other had shot at her. $300,000 SYRACUSE FIRE. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. 6— Fire of unknown origin to-day caused a property loss estimated at $300,000, and for a time threatened the entire industrial section of city. Rich Man’s Son Robs Grave for Diamonds ALBANY, Sept. 6.—John Stevens, 20, son of Thomas C. Stevens, a wealthy fruit merchant, has confessed to robbing the grave of lirs. Pauline Blum, In Eage Hill Cemetery. The youthful ghoul opened the casket and cut off one of the woman’s fingers to get a ring. He also took a diamond pin and ear-rings. Later, he carried the casket home and put it in the cellar, where it was discov ered by a maid. Wear No Slit Skirts 1 Nor Anything Else LIMA, OHIO. Sept. 6.—Sheriff Watt was called on to-day to investigate the strange existence of 75 stranded men and women gypsies in an im provised camp near here. The nomads have dispensed wita their clothes and are running about in nature’s raiment. AN EXCELLENT NIGHTCAP Horaford't Acid Phosphate Half a teaapoonful of Horsford’a Acid Phos phate In half a glass of water on retiring Insures a restful sleep.—(adv.) SEEING THINGS Whether it’s through a field glass. 5 opera glass, telescope or a pair of Kryptok eyeglasses—be sure they j are from “Moore’s.” “Moore” qual ify is our watchword. . “We sell } everything to see with.” Jno. L. | Moore & Sons, expert opticians, 42 J North Broad street. 0UISVILLE THROUGH SLEEPERS Lv.7:12AAL 5:10 PM.