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-ATLANTA, CTA. 3
TO BE FOUGHT
Plan to Uphold Criminal Court
and Bailiffs, Opposed by
Civic League.
Fulton County court officials, It be
came known Wednesday, are plan
ning to put up a strong fight against
the movement launched by the Civic
League of Economy of Fulton Coun
ty for the Abolishment of the City
Criminal Court, presided over by
Judge Andy Calhoun; the reduction
of the number of court bailiffs, a de
crease in the pay of all court bail
iffs, and other proposed “reforms. ’
Conferences already have been held,
tt is understood, at which the whole
situation has been thrashed out, and
methods of warfare discussed. Indi
cations pointed to strenuous resist
ance to the “reform league” along the
whole front.
The first gun, according to official
announcement, will be fired by the
league at the next regular monthly
meeting at the County Commis
sion, when resolutions calling for
•reforms” in the “interest of taxpay
ers” will be presented, following the
permanent organization of the league
at a meeting of the leaders Wednes
day at the courthouse.
Officers Are Elected.
It was announced that Attorney
Leonard J. Grossman had been elect
ed president, Tax Collector- A. P.
Stewart and Charles I. Branan vice
presidents and John N. Sims secre
tary. 0
In connection with the fight started
by the league, county officials are
awaiting with great interest ahe pre
sentments of the present Grand Jury,
which is known to have had under
consideration the question of th*
Abolishment of the City Criminal
Court, as was recommended in the
presentments of the two preceding
Grand Juries.
Major E. E. Pomeroy, County Attor
ney, recently was called before the
Grand Jury and was in consultation
with the jurors for an hour. It was
learned Wednesday that still another
conference will be held with Major
Pomeroy before the jury’s present
ments are formulated.
May Uphold Court.
The nature of this conference is
not known, although it is rumored
that Major Pomeroy will submit a
report as to legal points involved In
the proposed merging of the City
Criminal Court with the criminal
branch of the Superior Court, presid
ed over by Judge Ben H. Hill.
The opinion was current about the
courthouse Wednesday that this
Grand Jury will take issue with the
two preceding juries and fail to con
cur in their recommendation that the
City Criminal Court be abolished.
Such action would render the situa
tion doubly interesting, in view of the
fight by the economy league.
Court officials declared Wednesday
they would be ready at any time to
demonstrate to the County Commis-
thar -ft wool# even
think of abolishing "the Criminal
Court,” and algo to show that every
bailiff and attache of the courts is
necessary to keep the machinery of
the courts from becoming clogged.
The fight by the economy league not
only will have to be waged before the
County Commission, but before the
Legislautre, as a legislative amend
ment would be required to abolish a
court.
Capt, Clayton Opens
Engineering Office
Captain Robert M. Clayton, for
many years City Chief of Construc
tion, has returned to private life as
consulting engineer. His offices in
Temple Court Building were open
Wednesday.
Following the line he has pursued
for years as a city official. Captain
Clayton will specialize in waterworks
and purification, sewerage and sew
age disposal, and highway and street
paving.
WILTON
JELLICO GOAL
$4.50
PER TON
THE 1ELLIC0 COAL CO.
82 Paachtra* St.
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Atlanta 3668
Country Things
to Eat
Georgia Raised
For This Week
Country Butter, tb. ..
Black-eyed Peas, tb 8c
Water-groupd Meal, pk. .30c
Fresh Country Eggs,
dozen 19c
Sun-dried Peaches, tb.... 7c
W,e carry country meat and
lard; sorghum and syrup, wa
ter-ground flour, grits, etc.
All sorts of things from the
country.
Georgia Products Go.
(TWO STORES)
21 Auburn Avenue.
68 S. Forsyth St.
Noted
Basso to Sins Here-
Saw Service in Trenches
C&)
Leon Rothier,
the famous
basso, who will
be heard in
three operas in
Atlanta.
Rothier has just
been mustered
out of the
French army,
because of his
being disabled
t§( §1
by rheumatism.
m
He was a
h
private of the
Forty-eighth
Infantry of
ip, 1
France, and
1 1
saw much ser-
1
vice in the
. ’ ,
trenches in the
11;
early part of
the war. This
■Pi t ^ 1
picture shows
MIL
him as he
ill II
appeared
rip U ^y
leaving Paris
for the front
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early last fall.
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Madame Sans- Gene, New
Opera Atlanta Is to Hear,
A Delightful Love Story
Madame Sans Gene has been chon
because it is one of the most popul
one of the largest crowds of the wee
Saturday evening, Map 1. Here is th
Caterina, or Madame Sans Gene,
is the keeper of a laundry in Par-
13. It is in the time of the French
Revolution, and Caterina enters
the shop greatly incensed over the
roughness of the soldiery, which
she tells the girls in the shop
about in a humorous way. The
crowd enters the shop as she is
telling Fouche, the police agent,
about her betrothal to a young man
in the village named Lefebvre.
Her confidence is interrupted.
Left alone by the crowd, which
presently goes out, Caterina is
confronted by an Austrian officer
named Neipperg, who is wound
ed. She leads him to her bed
room, locks the door and puts the
key in her pocket. Presently her
lover, Lefebvre, comes in with a
party of soldiers, and, maddened
by JeaJousy, secures the key and
enters Sans Gene’s room. He re
turns and tells the soldiers that he
has been mistaken, that there is
no one there. In a low voice he
asks Caterina why she did not
tell him she had a dead man con
cealed in her room, and by her
reply knows that she Is innocent.
He then tells her that the man is
not dead, and that he only desired
to test her. and that he will ar
range for the safe flight of Neip
perg that night. A reconciliation
takes place.
Nineteen years pass, and Le
febvre has been made general in
the army of Napoleon, with tne
title of Duke of Danzig. Besides,
Napoleon has bestowed on Lefeb
vre and Caterina a splendid
chateau. Madame Sans Gene, who
has not overcome her provincial
manners, is laughed at by the fin**
people with whom she comes in
contact, and finally Napoleon ad*-
vises Lefebvre to divorce her. He
tells Caterina what Napoleon has
said, and she tells him that she
would have replied that the
great Napoleon could take back
his chateau and his gold and all
that he had given them; that she
had worked through hardships
with Lefebvre, and that he was.
as her life, her very heart’s blood,
and that shfe would not divorce
her husband. And she added that
if Lefebvre had one drop of maiVs
blood in him, or the least glimmer
of a heart, he would have an
swered the same. Her husband
tells her that is Just what he had
told the Emperor. Her joy is un
bounded.
Napoleon bellevs that the Count
of Neipperg has fallen in love
with the Empress and* 1 has dis
missed him from his service. The
Count comes to bid farewell to
Madame Sans Gene and Lefeb
vre, and declares that he must
see the Empress once more be
fore he departs. About this time
Fouche, who has been made Min
ister of Police, announces that the
en for the last night of G-rand Opera,
ar operas ever written, and because
k is expected at the last performance,
c story of the operas
Emperor and Empress are going
to make Madame Sans Gene and
her hifsband a visit, and he tells
Madame Sans Gene that her man
ners need great improvement,
and that when he takes snuff
from his pouncet box she must
change the subject of her con
versation.
Caterina goes out to prepare
for the coming of the distin
guished guests, and when she en
ters the court laughs at her until
she flames up and gives them a
tongue-lashing, after w’hich they
hurry away in face of her rage.
The Emperor orders her to ap
pear before him. Napoleon rep
rimands Madame Sans Gene for
her uncouth manners and tells her
he has advised her husband to di
vorce her. tie tells her she has
brought ridicule to his court, at
which she becomes furious and
tells Napoleon that his army has
been scorned, and how she has
followed his brave troops as a
lowly vivandiere and undergone
untold horrors and privations.
She tells him of her bad debts
as a laundress, and as a climax
presents him with an unpaid bill,
made in her shop, by Napoleon
himself, which he had run up
when he was a poor young lieu
tenant. The Emperor forgives
her and is about to have her es
corted out with honor, when he is
informed that the secret door of
the building is ajar. The lights
are turned down. Madame de
I Boulow enters, and.’thinking the
room deserted, leads Neipperg to
the door of the Empress. Na
poleon steps forward and has the
frightened Neipperg arrested.
Although Caterina has assert
ed the innocence of Neipperg and
begs Napoleon to spare him, the
supposed lover is sentenced to be
killed, and Lefebvre is given the I
task to perform. But Napoleon
is not quite sure that Neipperg is
guilty and he tells Madame San»
Gene to knock on the door of the
Empress and to say that Neip
perg is without. Caterina does so
With reluctance. The door opens
slightly as she knocks and the
hand of the Empress is thrust
without and her voice called soft
ly, “Give this to him, and my
farewell.” Napoleon seizes the
package. It is addressed to the
Emperor of Austria and reads;
“Honorable and dear father, since
the Minister of Police opens and
reads my letters, I am taking re
course to the Count of Neipperg
to send this by him in secret. His
assiduity troubles me and the Em
peror. Entertain him in Vienna.**
Napoleon Is overjoyed. Caterina
is likewise made glad, and as the
rising sun floods the room the
Emperor extols the virtues of
Madame Sans Gene before all the
people of the court and kisses her
hand as the curtain falls.
Just Released From Prison Here,
Safeblower Is Held for Maine
Authorities.
That he has a hydro-aeroplane in
vention intended to keep all hostile
warships away from American snores
is the claim of Joseph Kelley, Just oui
of the Federal Prison for blowing a
safe in Massachusetts and arraigned
Wednesday in the United States Dis
trict Court # on a warrant charging*
that he blew another safe in Maine.
Kelley exhibited a letter from Sec
retary Daniels, of the Navy Depart
ment, written January 14, as follows:
“Your letter in regard to using
hydro-aeroplanes in war has been
duly received. It will be given careful
consideration. I desife to thank you
for the Interest you have taken in the
subject.”
While Kelley was reluctant to dis
cuss the technique of his invention,
he declared it would revolutionize the
war industry by putting the dread
nought out of business. He said a
flotilla of hydro-aeroplanes along the
Atlantic coast could repel the most
formidable fleet that could be sent
against American, and the American
navy, except for purpose of conquest,
could be sent to the junk heap.
“I can make bond all right if two
corporations which have my inven
tion plans can be reached.” Kelley
told Judge Newman. “I admit I am
Joseph Kelley and have been in pris
on two and a half years, but I think
another man is wanted in Maine.
When I began serving for the Massa
chusetts offense, the authorities told
me they would be through with me.”
“Let him be remanded to Maine.”
ordered Judge Newman. “He can tell
his story to the Judge up there.”
During his term in prison Kelley has
been working night and day on his
Invention, and he declares it will te
an eye-opener.
Still Raiders Found
BoyHanging to Fence
That Marion Downs, a country lad of
Gwinnett County, was hanging on a
barb-wire fence when revenue agents
arrived at a still in the neighborhood
was the declaration Wednesday of wit
nesses in the United States District
Court in the case of Tom McClung.
They unhooked him and proceeded to
question him about the still. Tom Mc
Clung explained his presence there by
saying that he had put on his Sunday-
go-to-meetin’ clothes to sit up with a
sick aunt. After he had left his aunt,
greatly relieved, he followed a lantern
light and drew up at a still. About that
time the agents arrived aqd the boys
went snipe-nunting, with Downs ending
up as stated.
Deputy Marshal Miller testified that
McClung had on overalls as he stirred
the still mash and put on the cap; and
around this point the battle waged,
with Attorney .Nix insisting that he
wore a light suit of clothes, which under
ordinary conditions he wore only to
church. The jury took the case.
April in Brunswick
Coldest Since 1876
BRUNSWICK, April 7.—Weather
records show that April so far is the
coldest since 1876. Since April 1 there
has been a deficiency of 92 degrees,
or a daily average of 15 degrees.
As compared to April last year,
there is a deficiency of 110 degrees.
The mean temperature for the first
six days was 70 degrees. This year
it was only 48 degrees. So it can be
seen that folks are justified in grum
bling about unseasonable weather.
Sunday morning there was frost. It
fell again yesterday morning, and
some of the country people declare
ice formed in many places. The mini
mum temperature to-day was 40 de
grees.
Coroner’s Jury Looks
Into Curry Suicide
A Coroner's jury, sitting at the
Bloomfield undertaking rooms Wed
nesday, returned a verdict that
George T. Curry, branch manager at
East Point for the Atlantic Coal and
Ice Corporation, committed suicide by
taking carbolic acid.
The funeral of Mr. Curry will be
held Thursday from St. Anthony's
Church, West End. Interment will be
in Westview.
CODDLING THE STOMACH
The So-Called "Scientific”
Feeding.
In this twentieth century of ad
vancement people are too apt to listen
to the new theories and put into prac
tice new-fangled notions of feeding
Not only do adults follow so-called
''scientific systems,” hut they cram
down the mouths of their children
such scientific soft foods that require
no exercise of the digestive organs,
and the children are apt to become
fragile and their stomachs too weak
to take In strength-giving food and
be able to assimilate it. This is a
hothouse condition that no man,
woman or child should permit. The
muscles of the stomach require exer
cise just as any other muscles of the
body; neglect them with too much
ease and inaction and you raise a
dyspeptic. Use a tonic made of me
dicinal herbs which will stimulate the
stomach into greater activity—a rem
edy which will do this Is one which
has stood the test of public approval
for over 40 years, containing no alco
hol or narcotic. We refer to Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
It arouses the little musc ular fibers
Into activity, and causes the gastric
juices to thoroughly mix with the
food you eat, simply because it sup
plies the stomach with pure, rich
blood. It’s weak, impure blood that
causes stomach weakness. Get good
blood through the use of Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, and you
will have no more indigestion.
Sick people are invited to consult
Dr. Pierce by letter, free. All corre
spondence is held as strictly private
and sacredly confidential.
KNOW THYSELF.
Read all about yourself, your sys
tem, the physiology of life, anatomy,
hygiene, simple home cures, etc., in
the "Common Sense Medical Advis
er,” a book of 1 008 pages. Send to
Dr. Pierce. Buffalo, N. Y., 3 dimes (or
I stamps) for a cloth-bound copy.—Ad
vertisement.
Toothless Dog
Sale Brings
Indictment
The Federal Grand Jury for the
spring term, Henry H. Cabaniss,
foreman, has gone on record against
the peddling of decrepit bird-dogs as 1
specimens of rare hunting qualities.
After hearing the etories of witnesses
from Tennessee and Dothan, Ala.,
they returned an Indictment Wed
nesday in the United States District
Court against George H. Lawhon, of
Cartersville.
A witness swore he had ordered a
young hunting dog from Lawhon. but
had received a dog whose teeth had
never been given attention, with the
result that they had all dropped out.
The dog was described as a fair hunt
er, with an acute Hense of smell, but
little or no masticating powers, and
consequently a very bad digestion.
It is understood that Lawhon? de
fense in this particular case will be
that he sent the kind of dog that
could retrieve without breaking the
skin of thb bird, which is the ulti
mate with all good hunters. In other
instances, it is charged, Lawhon fail
ed to send any dog at all. which the
complainants think it worse, if pos
sible.
A batch of indictments was return
ed against moonshiners, and the
Grand Jury was excused until May
10. Asked why he ran from the reve
nue officers, a moonshiner replied
“Because I couldn’t fly.”
Atlanta Woman Pens
Prize-WinningSlogan
After going over a. Irage number
of slogans, submitted by people in
every section of the South, the fol
lowing has been selected for the
Themelis cigarettes—
“Class—tip to li£>.”
Some weeks ago the Themelis Bros.
Co. inserted an advertisement ex
clusively in Hearst’s Sunday Ameri
can, offering a prize of $25 for the
best slogan submitted for these cigar
ettes. Hundreds of answers were re
ceived, and out of them all the one
submitted by Mrs. Howard Stevens,
of Atlanta, was selected as the prize
winner by a committee of judges com
posed of Julian V. Boehm, secre
tary of' the Ad Men’s Club; Frank
Hammond and M. C. Maxwell, of The
Georgian and American; Press Hud
dleston, of The Constitution; J. L.
Gregory and R. H. Rowe, of The
Journal, and Colonel' Harry Silver-
man. The new slogan will be used
from now on with the Themelis cig
arettes.
Attorneys to Fight
Claims Fee Limit
WASHINGTON, April 7.—Claims
attorneys here have given notice that
they will test the constitutionality
of the section of the omnibus claims
bill, passed by the last Congress,
which limits their fees to only 20
per cent of the face of the claims.
They contend it violate? the fifth
amendment of the constitution as to
taking property without full com
pensation, a contract being property.
Many of the attorneys had contracts
for 50 per cent, and had advanced
clients money.
The suit will not retard the -ay-
ment of the claims, however, and if
the attorneys win they will then pro
ceed against the beneficiaries after
the claims are paid. The first claim
was paid to-day.
Teacher-Pupil Row
To Be Aired in Court
Following an altercation between
Professor Rainey, of the Lithonia.
High School, and Emmet Cameron, a
14-year-old pupil, the authorities of
Lithonia have made a case against
the teacher for assault and battery,
which will be aired at the Monday
session of the Recorder’s Court there.
According to witnesses, the boy
was beaten about the face and body
by the professor, who charges he was
threattned with a knife. The Camer
on boy. *it is alleged, had refused to
abide by certain school rules, and.
when told he must get an excuse or
take chances of a whipping, he is
said to have opened his knife and at
tempted to cut the teacher.
TO BE GUEST AT
Atlanta Alumni Will Entertain
President Lowell and Wife at
Druid Hills Club.
Harvard men in Atlanta will enter
tain President A. Lawrencer Lowell,
of Harvard University, and Mrs. Low
ell at the Druid Hills Golf Club on
Saturday evening, April 24.
The distinguished guests will ar
rive in Atlanta on that date, and will
be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. M.
Atkinson until the following Monday,
and probably will be here long enough
to attend the opening performance of
grand opera.
Mr. Lowell succeeded Charles W.
Eliot t6 the presidency of Harvard,
and is one of the world’s distinguish
ed educators. He is taking advan
tage of the spring vacation to make
a tour of the South, and while here
will endeavor to interest more South
ern people in Harvard. It Is his first
visit to the South since he has been
president of the university.
The banquet which the Harvard
Club of Atlanta will give President
Lowell will l>e a brilliant affair, and
it is the desire of the club officers
that every alumnus in Atlanta or
Georgia be present. Harvard men
who desire to be present can commu
nicate with SamuH N. Evins, secre
tary of the club, with offices in the
Empire Building, A* with H. M. At
kinson or P. C. McDuffie.
An invitation has been forwarded
to William Randolph Hearst, who is
a Harvard man, and who is expected
to be in Atlanta at that time.
Puls Trust in
Stranger; Is
Out $25
James McCord, a farmer, who lives
near Canton, will never trust appear
ances again, he told Atlanta police
Wednesday. Also, the stranger who
approaches him with a pleasant
“Good-morning” is likely to find that
Jess Willard is not the only man in
the world who has a punch.
Mr. McCord’s resolution Is the di
rect outcome of his loss of $25 Tues
day afternoon through the operations
of two confidence men, one of whom
accosted him at the Union Station,
and, being a pleasant young man,
drew him Into conversation and in
vited him to a stroll. Mr. McCord was
lonely, and went along.
On Whitehall street they met a
friend of the Canton man’s new-found
acquaintance, who lamented his mis
fortunes, and McCord, affected by th*
sad story, let him have $25 for & few
minutes—Just long enough to get a
valuable parcel from the depot.
Whereat the two men disappeared,
and McCord and the police are both
still looking for them.
Avoid Spring Ills
Purify and Build Up the Blood With
Hood's Sarsaparilla.
In the spring your blood needs cleans
ing and enriching. You feel poorly, and
there is more or leas eruption on your
face and body. Your appetite is not
good, your sleep is broken, and you arc
tired all the time.
You need Hood’s Sarsaparilla. It is
the one safe and effective tonic that
has stood the test of forty years. It
makes the pure red blood that will make
you feel better, look better, eat and
sleep better. It is the old standard,
tried and true, all-the-year-round medi
cine for the blood and the whole sys
tem.
Ask any druggist for Hood’s Sarsa
parilla. and insist on ht ng it. Noth
ing else acts like it, for nothing else
has the same formula or ingredients,
and so there is no real substitute. Get
it to-day.—Advertisement.
Atlanta Scots Give
Benefit for War Fund
Tho benefit concert and dance to be
given Wednesday night by the Atlan
ta Scottish Association in aid of the
war fund for Scottish widows and or
phans will be featured by the produc
tion of an original sketch entitled, “A
Night With the MacGregors,” in
which members of the association will
take part.
Another feature of the concert,
which will be held at the Hotel Ans-
ley, will be the dancing of the “High
land Fling” by Miss Dorothy Mur
ray, in native costume.
Nobody Home When
Raiders Smash Still
United States Deputy Marshal Lee
Whatley and Deputy Collector J. A.
Henderson arrived Wednesday from
Fayette County, where on Tuesday
they raided and destroyed a 132-gal
lon still, with 800 gallons of beer. No
body home.
The still was four miles northeast
nf Fayetteville.
Our “Jitney” Offer—
This and 5c.
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and address clearly. You will receive
in return a trial package containing
Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound,
for coughs, colds and croup. Foley
Kidney Pills, and Foley Cathartic
Tablets. Sold everywhere.—Adver
tisement.
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ThiH splendid home is in the
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Bell Phone Ivy 8578 Atlanta Phone 352®
ENOCH
ARDEN
Tennyson's Immortal Love Story,
with Lillian Gish and Wallace
Reid in leading roles, will be
shown in motion pictures.
THURSDAY
The delightful story of love and
sacMfice, abounding in thrilling
action, has been produced in Mu
tual Master Pictures, with all the
scenery and surroundings that are
portrayed in the original novel.
This great Mutual Master Pic
ture is in four parts, and a
KEYSTONE COMEDY
will be added that smiles may
take the place of tears.
THE STRAND
“The House of Quality."
Home of Mutual Movies.
Building for the Future
/COMMUNITIES served by the Bell system are always grow-
^ ing up to their telephone equipment.
Exchanges, switchboards and subways are built not only to care
for the present needs of each community, but are so planned as
to be readily and economically adapted to necessary extensions
and developments for twenty years ahead.
Construction plans are based on careful studies of each locality
by men especially trained in estimating possibilities in growth of
population as well as commercial and industrial expansion.
The work done here carries out this principle. The building contains
room for larger switchboards and central office equipment. The cables
contain more wires than are needed at present.
As the city grows these facilities will be needed. They will be ready
for instant use and will keep the Bell telephone system always ahead
of this rapidly growing city.
T. R. GENTRY, Mgr.
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY