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llEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATI WTA, GA, SUNDAY. SEI’TEMBEH 14. 1013.
PERSONALITr
OHMS LIFE.
Rest Breaks Down ‘Wizard’
*•*
•1’*+
Doctor Forbids His Taking Vacation
Sir Oliver Lodge Declares That
Psychic Region Can Be
Studied Effectively.
EXISTENCE RESEMBLES LOOM
Intercourse Across the Chasm of
Death May Be Gradually
Attained, He Asserts.
Special Cable to The American.
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND. Sept.
13.—“I am one of those who think
that the methods of science are not
so limited in scope as has been
thought, that they can be applied
much more widely and that the
psychic region can be studied and
brought under law, too.”
So declared the learned Sir Oliver
Lodge, president of the British As
sociation for the Advancement of
» Science, in his address at the opening
of the association’s meeting here to
day.
And again the erudite president
said:
“Already the facts examined have
convinced me that memory and affec
tion are not limited to that associa
tion with matter by which alone they
can manifest themseives here and
now. and that personality persists be
yond personal death."
So. despite his denial that he would
invade the psychic region in his ad
dress Sir Oliver did enter it, but he
watched his every step, guarded hia
every word.
“Keystone of Evolution.”
Said he to his great audience:
“If we have learned from science
that evolution is real, we have learned
a great deal. Surelv evolution is not
an illusion: surely the universe pro
gresses In time. Time and space and
matter are abstractions, but are none
the less real; they are data given by
experience; and time is the keystone
of evolution.
“I see the whole of material exist
ence as a steady passage from past
to future, only the single instant
which we call the present being ac
tual. The past is not non-existent,
however; it is stored in our memo
ries; there is a record of it in matter,
and the present is based upon it; the
future is the outcome of the present
and is the product of evolution.
Life Is Like a Loom.
“Existence is like the output from
a loom. The pattern, the design for
the weaving, is in some sort 'there'
already; but whereas our looms Eire
mere machines, once the guiding
cards have been fed into them, the
Loom of Time is complicated by a
multitude of free agents who can
modify the web. * * •
“Either we are immprtal beings or
we are not. We may not know our
destiny, but we must have a destiny
of some sort. Those who make de
nials are just as likely to be wrong j
as those who make assertions; in fact,
denials are assertions thrown into |
negative form.
“Scientific men are looked up to as ,
authorities and should be careful not
to mislead. Science may not be able
to reveal human destiny, but it cer
tainly should not obscure it. Things
are as they are, whether we find them
out or not.
Asks for a Fair Trial.
“Allow us. anyhow, to make the at
tempt. Give us a fair field. Let those
who prefer the materialistic hypothe
sis by all means develop their thesis
as far as they can; but let us try
what we can do in the psychical re
gion and see which wins.
“Our methods ar*» really the same
as theirs—the subject, matter differs.
Neither should we abuse the other for
making the attempt.
“In justice to myself and my co-
workers I must leave on record our
conviction that occurrences now re
garded as occult can be explained and
reduced to order by the methods of
science .carefully and persistently ap
plied,” said Sir Oliver, on wnom uni
versities have showered honorary de
grees.
“The evidence, to my mind, goes to
prove that discarnate intelligence, un
der certain conditions, may interact
with us on the material side, thus in
directly coming within our scientific
ken; and that gradually we may hope
to attain some understanding of the
nature of a larger, perhaps the real,
existence, and of the conditions reg
ulating intercourse across the chasm.”
ALABAMA PRESBYTERIANS
AID PROHIBITION FORCES
HUNTSVILLE, Sept. IS.—The
Huntsville Presbytery of the Pres
byterian Church. U. S. A., held its an
nual meeting at Copeland Church
in Limestone County, and adopted res
olutions pledging the support of the
efforts that will be directed toward
the removal of the dispensary from
Huntsville and saloons from Sheffield.
The Presbytery asked all loyal .mem
bers to co-operate in the fight to
place Alabama in the State-wire pro
hibition column again. The Rev. W.
J. Bruce, of Sheffield, was elected
moderator and H. L. Turner, of New
Decatur, was elected clerk.
S. J. JONES’ DAUGHTERS
‘RUN AWAY' AT SAME TIME
DALTON, Sept 13.—S. J. Jones, a
prominent farmer of Center Point, this
county, had two of his daughters
■stolen" from him on the same day.
Miss Lizzie Jones and Earl (lavender
went to the residence of Kev W. H.
Bird, who made them man and wife.
While this ceremony was under way,
Miss Estelle Jones, a younger sister,
and Cephas Mallett, of Tilton, were
being married at the home of Suulre
M. A. Bradford, at Carbondale.
3ARACAS HAVE HOME-COMING.
DALTON. Sept. 13.-The Baraca.
class of the First Baptist Church is
planning a big rally and "home-com
ing" day for to-morrow morning. An
interesting program has been ar
ranged.
. Thomas Alva Edison, as he appears in his
Inventor III at Home, After He ratory in West Orange, N. J., in which he labors
Had Enjoyed Brief New
England Trip.
WEST ORANGE, N. J., Sept. *3.—
Thomas A. Edison, who is ill at his
home here, has been ordered by his
physician never to take another va
cation and told to remain away from
his laboratory for another two weeks
to recuperate from his recent fort
night in New England.
This was Mr. Edison’s first vaca
tion in eight years, and, according to
the doctor, the aging inventor is more
tired out from his holiday than he
ever was from working twenty hours
a day.
It was said to-day that Mr. Edi
son’s condition was improving, but
that he was tired out completely and
required at least two weeks’ rest.
That Mr. Edison should take a va
cation at all was regarded a>< unusual,
for the “human dynamo,” as he is oft
en called, is a tireless worker at the
age of 66. Fully recovered from a
slight cold, Mr. Edison had been en
joying himself at Monhegan, Maine,
then at the summer home of his
vrealthy friend, Richard Colgate, the
marvelous
19 hours
labo-
a day.
HITS ENGINE
When Explosion Doesn’t Occur
Negroes Refuse to Unload Car.
Engineer and Fireman Jump.
BRUNSWICK, Sept. 13.—Engineer
Fred (in-yin and his fireman faced
death here when a runaway box car
loaded with dynamite collided with
their locomotive. Despite the heavy
jar, the dynamite fulled to explode,
and superstition regarding it sudden
ly developed among the negro labor
ers, who have refused to unload It.
Girvin operates a locomotive on the
Georgiu Coast and Piedmont Railroad
at the Dept plantation. The runaway
car broke loose from a train on a
slight grade on the plantation spur
and started toward Girvin’s engine.
Other trainmen called a warning to
Girvin and his fireman, but the car
’Everybody Tango/
But Two Orchestras
Couldn't Stand Pace
Trial of Columbus Officer Who
Shot Youth on Account of 50-
Cent Debt Set for Friday.
COLUMBUS, Sept. 13.—Robert L.
Willis, the Columbus bailiff who shot
and killed Luther Hawkins, the At
lanta youth, August 29, will be given
a preliminary hearing next Friday
morning before Recorder Frank D.
Foley, who will sit in the case as a
special magistrate.
It will be remembered that Willis;
in company with Charles Jordan, a
boarding house proprietor, was at
tempting to arrest Hawking under a
warrant charging him with beating a
50-cent^board bill, when the latter
started to run off from the officer,
laughing at the time. The officer
drew his revolver and began flourish
ing it in the air, when the gun was
suddenly discharged, and Hawkins
fell to the ground mortally wounded,
dying a few se. ends afterward.
Say* Killing Was Accident.
Since the firing of the fatal Shot
Willis has maintained that his re-,
volver was accidentally discharge*!,
while the State claims to have eye
witnesses who state that Willis, after
taking deliberate aim, shot and killed
him. The State has refused to di
vulge the names of the witnesses.
Willis will be represented by T.
Hicks Fort, Solicitor of the City
Court, and Attorney D. L. Parmer,
who will maintain that the defendant
accidentally shot Hawkins, while the
contention of Solicitor General
George C. Palmer, who will represent
the State, will be that the killing is
j murder. The father of young Haw
kins is now making Columbus his
home ip order to attend the prelimi
nary hearing and assist in the prose
cution. The people of Columbus con
tinue to condemn the killing, because
of the smallness of the offense thar
had been committed by the young
man, whose life was forfeited be
cause he did not pay a balance of 50
cents on a board bill, for the simple
reason that he did not have tho
money at the time.
BRASS BAND FOR AMERICUS.
A MERIC ITS, Sept. 13.—A move
ment has been started by the Cham
ber of Commerce to organize a band
Americus music lovers have signified
their willingness to contribute
soap manufacture!', at Lake Sunapee,
N. H.
Mr. Edison looks to-day the man he
is. His heavy thatch of white giv^s
him a distinguished appearance ut a
distance. He is about 5 feet 7 inches
tall and is thick-set enough to weigh
about 175 pounds.
The traveling public noticed him at
Monhegan. Maine, in Lowell, where he
and Mrs. Edison stayed overnight, to
break their long automobile trip, and I
at Lake Sunapee. wnere the EdiSuus
wound up their New England s f ay.
Unusually Vigorous.
Those who failed to recognize tba
Inventor saw In him an unusually
vigorous man for his years.
If his hat was off, one noted in
stantly the wide, lofty brow, the brow
of a thinker. As General Lew Wal
lace said of Simonides, the steward in
“Ben Hur,” it is apparent that a man
with such a head must have a tre
mendous brain from cubic capacity, if
nothing else.
Mr. Edison has bright eyes, gray- j
blue eyes, that gaze ever so keenly I
But they are not merely sharp eyes.
They are kindly ones and humorous,
too; for "Wizard" Edison exemplifies
the old saying:
“A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the best of men.”
Witness his Mttle joke about “run
ning up to Colgate’s to take a bath”—
a sly illusion to the soap with whicn
his host is ever associated.
Brain Works Like Flash.
Dressed usually in a sack suit of
dark mixture, Mr. Edison is neat In
appearance. -*ny idea that an inven
tor has to wear rnussy clothes and
necktie askew does not apply to Mr.
Edison. Maybe he is naturally natty,
maybe Mrs. Edison sees to it that her
distinguished husband always is pre
sentable. Anyhow, he ' as well kept
as a man need be.
Speak to Mr. Edison and right away
you realize that you have started
something.
He replies quickly.
His brain seems to work like a
flash.
His answer comes on the instant,
and is a full, comnkte one. Mr. Edi
son knows what he knows and when
he makes a reply he covers the
ground.
He uses few gestures, but he keeps
his right hand cupped up against his
right ear because he Is hard of hear
ing in the left ear and he uses the
right one. He has put his hand up «o
that ear so many thousand times that
he has actually pushed the lobe of the
ear out a little.
Cordial and Democratic
He Is as cordial as he Is alert and
as simple and democratic as he is
cordial. Such Is the best known liv
ing inventor in appearance.
Mr. Edison has pronounced ideas on
about every topic of current thought,
from “X-ray” gc*vns to mental stand
ards and from eugenics to “Casim
Johnny.” as he dubs Harry K. Thaw.
academ7creek channel
IS DEEPENED ELEVEN FEET
BRUNSWICK, Sept 13. The work of j
the channel of Academy ,
Creek has been completed and will save j
many miles in reaching the Akin docks l
here! The channel for a distance of
2.000 feet wa 1 - deepened from 11 to 22
feet, in low tide.
HERE ARE MR. EDISON’S VIEWS
ON SOME OF THE LIVE TOPICS
DANCES AND DRESS—The weird dances and freakish
dressing are not an indication of moral deterioration, but mere
ly the expression of peculiar mental flights. They are here to
day and gone to-morrow.
EUGENICS—A splendid proposition. Affection will not
be subordinated. As physical and intellectual evolution takes
place affection will be deeper and more wholesome.
THAW—It is about time we lost “Casino Johnny.” The
country is better without him and too much publicity has been
given him.
AMERICA—-America is the hope of the world. Here we
are constantly advancing, because the mental standard is cou-
'stantly improving as the result of public school education.
TRUSTS—Trusts are good and bad. Government control
means the end of the trusts that conspire against the public
good. It is for the Government to regulate the trust business,
eliminating the bad and protecting the good.
ROOSEVELT—A solid man, an honest one, who has been
under fire for twenty years, without one shaft by the enemy
striking a vulnerable spot.
POLITICS- I am a Progressive. Advancement cannot be
attained without these changes. The Republican and Demo
cratic parties stand for the old order of things.
MEXICO—I mtins and Anglo-Saxons do not mix and never
will. Mexico is ipcapable of self-government. It would not be
wise for us to interfere.
VACATIONS—It docs seem great to have a day off. What
a wealth of material there is for the human mind to enjoy if
one only has one’s eyes open to it.
WORK—Sometimes, after nineteen or twenty hours’ work;
I hate to give it up, even for a few hours’ rest.
SLEEP—Sleep is largely a matter of habit.
ELECTRICITY—We are in the infancy of electricity. It
is taking the place of steam the world over.
“CANNED” MUSIC—It has been the aim of all phono
graph manufacturers to eliminate the scratching noise of the
needle and the composition. Eventually we will produce music
minus all scratching sound.
collided with their locomotive before
they could jump.
The freight car was nearly torn
from its trucks, hut an explosion fail
ed to follow. The negro laborers who
were preparing to unload the car took
to the woods and absolutely refused
to return to t h eir task.
That trie dynamite did not •xplode
from the jar is regarded as miracu
lous by men on the plantation who
are accustomed to handling the ex
plosive.
Aged Justice Is Near
Death From Fist Blow
J. S. Kimbrough, 70 Years Old, Sus
tains Broken Jaw In Altercation
With Charles Spires.
i
COLUMBUS, Sept. 13.—J. S. Kim
brough, for the past twenty years a
Justice of the Peace in Phenix City,
Ala., is in a critical condition, as a
result of a broken Jaw, caused by a
blovy from the fist of (’harles Spires.
Judge Kimbrough was knocked down
and rendered unconscious for sev
eral hours.
Owing to the fact that he is 70
years of age. his recovery is con
sidered doubtful.
METHODIST STEWARDS
* OF SAVANNAH ORGANIZE
SAVANNAH, Sept. 13.—The boards
! of stewards of the Methodist churches
in Savannah propose to organize
; themselves into a union for social
| and fraternal development. Commit-
j tees have been apnointed with power
; to perfect an organization. These
| committees will meet in joint session
: at Epworth Church next Thursday
evening
The idea was first suggested by
the presiding elder of the district, the
Rev. W. F. Smith, who briefly outlined
the many benefits of such an organi
zation.
WHITFIELD COUNTY FAIR 'COTTON RECEIPTS ARE
OFFERS $1,000 IN PRIZES HEAVY AT VALDOSTA
DALTON, Sept. 13.—Catalogues for
the twelfth annual county fair of the
Whitfield Farmers’ Fair Association are
being distributed. Prizes aggregate
over $1,000 The fair opens Monday.
October 13. and will last throughout the
week From now until <>p<*njng day
President B. C. Wilson and his Corps of
helpers will be extremely busy.
VALDOSTA SCHOOLS OPEN.
VALDOSTA, Sept. 13—The public
schools of Valdosta wifi begin the
fall term Monday morning. Jhe reg
istration of pupi’s which began on
Wednesday indicates that the attend
ing^ this year will be very much
larjrcr than ever before.
TWO OLD SEA DOGS MEET
AFTER QUARTER CENTURY
BRUNSWICK, Kept. 13.—When the
Lstearner Ruth arrived in port Septem
ber 10 two old sea dogs met who had not
seen each other for twenty-five years
They were Captain Duncan Wright, pi
lot commissioner of this city, and Cap
tain Risk, of the steamer.
Captain Wright and Captain Risk
were on the same vessel as far back
as 1876, when Captain Risk’s father was
I master of the schooner Luuru Gertrude.
! Captain Wright and Captain Risk de
veloped a warm friendship for each
other and very affectionate was the
greeting they extended each other.
35 to Cross Hot
Sands of Desert
Savannah Shrlners to Initiate Candi
dates in Columbus Sep
tember 24.
COLUMBUS, Sept. 13.—A commit
tee composed of J. Edgar Chancellor,
Park Dexter, James \V. Woodruff. W.
L. Williams # and Jack Stern, repre
senting Columbus Shrlners, Is making
extensive preparations for entertain
ing Shrlners from South Georgia and
East Alabama, wno are coming to the
city September 24.
A special train will reach the city
from Savannah on the evening of Sep
tember 23, bringing a team of 75
Shrlners who will come equipped with
a car full of paraphernalia for put
ting on the work on the day follow
ing. There Is a ejass of 36 Shrlners
in Columbus to be Inducted into the
mysteries of the order and the work
of Initiating this class will be one of
the features of the meeting.
Musicians Fall From Exhaustion, but
Tampa Dancers Cry for More.
Just Couldn’t Get Enough.
TAMPA, Sept. 13.—Had the tango
pedometer been attached to the an
kles of any of the buds who took
part in the dance given by J. C. Mc
Kay at. the Country Club Wednesday
night they would have broken all
records.
“For once we’ll have just all the
dancing we want,” said Mr. M«"Kay.
Consequently he engaged two ir-^
chestras instead of one, with orders
to relay when .the pace got too hot,
so that there was continuous music
for three straight hours.
Then the two orchestras played out.
But still there were cries for more
music.
“Never let it be said that I didn’t
do my best," said Collins Glllett, und
he went to the pianola.
Collins is something of an athlete,
Jmt played out in less than an
hour, and there were still shouts for
“Encore.” They didn’t get it.
Can Serve No Quail
In Restaurants or
Hotels in Florida
Game Laws Have Practically Retired
Game Birds From Markets.
May Change Name.
JACKSONVILLE. Sept. 13.—Quail
have been practically retired from the
market in Florida because of the
strict State laws now in force for the
protection of the game birds.
Under the law, not only may hotel
proprietors who serve quail be pros
ecuted, but any person who buys and
eats a prohibited bird at a hotel or
restaurant out of season may be
prosecuted, according to D. J. Her
rin, who was recently appointed Game
Warden in this county by State Game
Warden E, Z. Jones.
In order to avoid prosecution, it is
said, the hotel men will serve tho
toothsome birds under another name,
but as Herrin anticipates this trick,
arrests are expected when they try It.
Tars Marooned as
Trousers Are Stolen
Sailors in Savannah Unable to Re
turn to Ship When Apparel
Is Missed.
Thought Delirious
Man Was a Ghost
Fever Patient Escapes From Savan
nah Hospital Dressed Only in
Night Shirt.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 13.—-A ghostly
presence startled the residents in the
neighborhood of the Georgia Infir
mary on two nighty this week.
A white, blurred figure, flitting si
lently from shadow to shadow, gave
superstitious spectators a thrill, and
awakened startled curiosity in those
not afflicted with a belief in the su
pernatural. The police were sum
moned.
The mystery was exploded when
the officers arrived in an automobile
and identified the ghost as a patient
who had escaped from the infirmary.
In the absence of his nurse a fever
patient slipped out of a window and
went his way. He was clothed In his
nightshirt.
RUN-OFF NECESSARY IN
SPARTANBURG CITY RACE
SPARTANBURG, S. C.', Sept. 13.—
No candidate In the Democratic pri
mary received a majority on last
Tuesday, hence a second municipal
primary has been called for next
Tuesday. O. L. Johnson, incumbent,
and John F. Floyd, the two leading
candidates, will again make the race
for the Democratic nomination for
Mayor.
Eight candidates will mak“ the
race for Commissioner out of the
nineteen who entered the first race.
.The election will he held under
the new commission form of govern
ment, which goes into effect with the
new officers.
SAVANNAH. Sept. 13—Three so
licitous comrades led a pair of ex
tremely sleepy bluejackets to a room
in the Belmont Hotel where the two
erstwhile merrymakers went ptaca-
fully to sleep, and their comrades
departed. After a time they returned
to the hotel and awakened the sleepy
pair for return to their ship.
But they didn’t depart. The rea
son for the delay was that neither
custom nor the ordinances of the city
of Savannah approve of a man’s ap
pearing on the streets without his
trousers. And these highly necessary
parts of the apparel of the weary
sailors had been abstracted as they
slept.
The police were asked to aid In the
search for the missing trousers. Af
ter a long and exhaustive quest the
garments were found hidden In a
bureau drawer in the room. The
pockets had been depleted of coin.
'Boy Burglar' Admits
To Seven Robberies
Teasdale Calmly Pleads Guilty to
Charges When Arraigned Before
Savannah Recorder.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 13.—With the
same frankness that has character
ized his demeanor since his arrest,
William Teasdale. alias W. F. Palmer,
the Jacksonville “boy burglar,” plead
ed guilty to seven charges of bur-
g arv at Ills preliminary hearing in
Police Court, and was held by Re
corder Schwarz for trial in the Su
perior Court.
Teasdale was arrested after a re
port had been made to headquarters
that a young man was trying to dis
pose of certain articles at a suspi
ciously low price. This report was
made by M. J Bettencourt, who kept
the young man under surveillance
and was of assistance to the police
In locating him.
DALTON CHURCH TO MEET
FOR WORSHIP IN THEATER
VALDOSTA, Sept. 13.—Cotton receipts
here have he«»n very heavy this week
and desplie the rather poor price for
sea islands, there does not seem to be
any disposition to hold the crop hack.
Every farmer seems anxious to get his
cotton to market as soon as ginned,
and to sell It at once. No. 1 sea islands
is now bringing about 20c a pound.
TOBACCO GROWERS TO MEET.
JESUP, Sept. 13.—On the second
Tuesday in October a Wayne County
tobacco growers' association will be
organized here
•THREE LINKS CONVENTION
AT C00LIDGE ADJOURNS
I THOMASVILE. Sept 13 The Second
1 District Convention of Odd Fellows at
I Coolidge this week was most successful
and well attended Delegates were pres
ent from every lodge in the district.
«Addies were made b> it i. J.
j Smith, of Commerce, who represented
j the grand master of the State, and by
C. A. Vomlerleoth, of Athens, g: and
treasurer.
Hon Roscoe Luke and B. M. Zangwill,
of this city, were also among the sp<*ak*
Jk
*
morrow Sunday school and church
services of the First Presbyterian
church will be held in a motion picture
theater. This arrangement is the re
sult of the beginning of the rehabilita
tion work on the new church building
Various local churches offered the use
of their buildings, but the congregation
voted to accept the offer of a motion
picture theater. The new church is well
ventilated and tilled with electric lights
and fans, and will prove a cool place
for worship.
NEW STEAMER ADDED TO
FLEET ON CHATTAHOOCHEE
COLUMBUS.-Sept. 13.—Owing to the
increase in traffic on the Chattahoochee
River, the Merchants and Planters'
Steamboat Company put on an addi
tional boat Saturday, adding the Three
States to the City of Eufaula and
the \T. C. Bradley. l>aJer in the
season still another steamer^wUl be put
into commission
Divine Healer in
Chattanooga Jail
Francis Schlatter, Thought Dead, Ar
rested on Charge of Drunkenness.
Had Taken Name of Waters.
CHATTANOOGA, Sept. 13.—Fran
cis Schlatter, the divine and psychic
dealer, of Chicago, who, with his cult,
enjoyed an international reputation a
decode ago, was discovered here to
day in E street Jail, where he had
been confined under the name of Fred
Waters, on a churge of inebriacy.
Numerous letters addressed to him
disclosed his identity. Schlatter lias
been reported dead upon many occa
sions,' onqe at Denver, Colo., and an
other time at Albuquerque. He pre
cipitated a riot in Kansas City a few
years ago.
Decided Decrease
In Infant Death Rate
Rigid Dairy Inspection Shows Re
sults in Tampa—Report
of Expert.
Race for High Office Grows in
Interest as Day Approaches.
Claims of Candidates.
MACON, Sept. 13.—To what ex-
tent Macon is interested in the may
oralty campaign la shown by the reg
istration of over 5,000 citizens. This
registration exceeds by nearly l,80u
the registration of the Millei^Moore
election of 1909.
With only thirteen days interven
ing before the election on September
26, the three mayoralty candidates
are keyed up for much hard work on
the last lap of the race. The most
work in tho line of public speaking
will probably be done by the Wallace-
Miller ticket, which is running on an
anti-administration platform. The
Miller workers will have a rally Mon
day night in South Macon and an
other during the week in East Ma
con. There will also be meetings!
In North Macon, and in the Third
and Fourth Wards.
Mr. Dasher has a number of ward
rallies scheduled.
Starting on Monday night, Septenv-
ber 22, there will be public rallies at
the city auditorium for four consec
utive nights. The Miller party will
have two, the Smith workers one, and
Dasher one.
Predictions Vary,
Upon the closing of the registra
tion, the Miller campaign committee
made the prediction, that there would
be 4,200 votes polled, and that Miller
would receive 2,150; Smith, the ad
ministration candidate, 1,550, and
Dasher, independent, 500. The Smith
forces predicted Smith’s election by
a majority of fully 700. Dasher mere
ly stated that he was confident of
election. Neither Miller nor Smith
concede over 500 votes to Dasher.
The charge made by Dasher, both
from the platform and in the public
print, that the Macon Railway and
Light Company Is contributing liber
ally to Smith’s campaign fund, elicit
ed an emphatic denial from Smith.
‘Menagerie’ Coach
Will Tour the South
Central of Georgia Will Send Live
Stock Exhibit to Various
Fairs.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 13.—The Cen
tral Railroad “menagerie coach”—the
exhibit car used in the transportation
of horses, pigs and various and sun
dry live stock for exhibition pur
poses—in charge of Troy G. Chastain,
the road’s agricultural expert, will
again this year make an extended
tour covering the better portion of
the fall months.
The plan of furnishing exhibits to
fall fairs in Georgia, Alabama and
other States traversed by the Central
was Inaugurated last year.
The special car used in transport
ing the animals and exhibits will
leave Montgomery on September 29.
and will visit Columbus. Augusta.
Atlanta and numerous smaller cities
before winding up its itinerary on
December 1 at Atlanta, where a pre
tentious exhibit will be made in con
nection with the State Corn Club
show.
Shake-up in Athens
Postoffice Expected
Postmaster William Fleming May Be
Asked to Mr.ke Room for
Devout Democrat.
ATHENS. Sept. 13.—United States
auditors have been checking up tho
local postoffice for the last ten days,
and it is freely rumored that a shake-
up is scheduled such as has Just hap- #
pened In Atlanta. Postmaster Wil
liam Fleming was appointed at tho
expiration of Cleveland’s term as
President, and if he does not see flt
to resign, he will very probably be
asked to step down and out to make,
room for a more devout Democrat.
Captain J. H. Rucker has been
mentioned prominently for the posi
tion, as has Harvey Stovall, who is
a brother of the L’nited States Min
ister to Switzerland.
Freight Rate Bureau
To Meet in Raleigh
North Carolina Shippers and Legls
lators Prepare for Long War
With Railroads.
TAMPA, Sept. 13.—The success of
Tampa’s pure food department Is
shown by the fact that 2,600 dairy
cows were Inspected last year and 412
showed tuberculosis, while of the
same number inspected this year but
97 reacted.
The figures are given in Chief R. I.
Gordon’s report, made public to-day.
The Hillsborough Medical Society is
authority for the statement• that the
work has greatly depressed the in
fant death rate.
RALEIGH. N. C., Sept. 13.—Fred
N. Tate, president of the Just Freight
Rate Association, has called a mass
meeting of shippers and business
men to be held in the RaJeigh Audi
torium Wednesday, September 24, the
same day the General Assembly meets
in extraordinary session.
So Important is the freight rate
matter regarded that Governor Craig,
in issuing his call, placed freight
rates in front of constitutional
amendments, thereby emphasizing his
position Many believe that the Stato
will enter upon a long warfare with
the railroads unless an agreement is
reached.
Drew $6,000 Salary:
Gave Wife Nothing
Charged in Divorce Petition That
Florida Man Did Not Provide
for Current Needs.
TAMPA, Sept. 13.—Mrs. lola Annie
Holmes, who is suing her husband,
son of County Commissioner Holmes,
of Jacksonville, for divorce, says that
he did not supply her with money
for her current needs, though he has
an income of $6,00 a year.
She claims he kept drunk constant
ly and did not provide a JiNne for
her, requiring her to live in W^Frank-
lin street rooming house