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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
MONDAY, JOLT 28, W*.
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HOME COMING A TLONE OAK
PROVED A GREAI OCCASION
By HARRY AITCHE80N.
Dr. J. W. Lee, pastor of the Trinity
Methodist Church, of Atlanta, Dr.
Young J. Allen,' Methodist missionary
In Shanghai, China, and Dr. George
W. Yarbrough, of Oxford, Saturday
were the guests of honor at a grand
neighborhood picnic and jollification
- held at Lone Oak, Meriwether county,
and with the many happy reminders of
the former days spent In that loballty
as preachers of the gospel or as na
tives of the section, the day was one
of Joy to all who attended. Dr. Lee,
Dr. Yarbrough and Dr. Allen were each
former residents of the district and
were brought up In the rich section
which surrounds the scene of the Jubi
lant home coming of Saturday. Dr.
Lee was licensed to preach, and de
livered bis first sermon at Prospect
Church in Lone Oak, where Saturday's
exercises were held, and Dr. Allen left
for China while living In the vicinity
of that village. Dr. Yarbrough was
also a native of Lone Oak and preach
ed at the church for several years only
a short time ago.
The affair of Saturday was the event
of the year In Lone Oak, and for miles
around a stream of visitors continued
to arrive until well after the noon hour.
Crops were forgoten for the day, the
village storekeepers closed their shops
and all, old and young, Joined In the
grand and glorious welcome to the
three sons of the village who have
won fame and distinction In their life
of Christian endeavor. The three
guests arrived In Grantvllle, the near
est railroad station to Lone Oak, Fri
day night and all three participated In
religious exercises at the Methodist
Church In that town on that evening
before a congregation which taxed the
capacity of the church to its utmost.
Dr. Lee delivered the sermon and
furnished food fof though for many
days to come.
The three great religious Workers
were the guests Friday night of At
torney William A. Post, of Grantvllla,
formerly a member of the state legisla
ture, where they were hospitably enter
tained during their stay In the vicinity.
.Many of the villagers took advantage
of the chance to greet their old friends
in an informal manner and the stay at
Grantvllle was one of rare pleasure.
Dr. Young having been thousands of
miles away for many years and Dr.
Lee and Dr. Yarbrough being busily
engaged in their life work. It has here
tofore been Impossible to bring the
three men together, and naturally the
occasion was one of great pleasure and
profit to the guests of the occasion as
well as to the hosts.
Drive to Lons Oak.
On Saturday morning the party was
driven 5 miles Into the country to Lone
Oak, a pretty little village of thrifty
farmer folk. The drive to Prospect
Church was filled with Interest to the
three clergymen, who for the first time
since their start on the road of life
many, many years ago, reviewed the
old scenes of early childhood and re
counted the days when they were
young school boys trudging the many
long miles each day In an effort to get
the education which Is now so easily
secured by the average young person.
At Prospect Church was gathered a
J reat assembly of farmers, their wives,
aughters, sons and sweethearts, all
eager to meet the famous children of
Lone Oak. and all eager for a right
merry good time. A committee con-
Ustlng of J. N. Hall, J. L. Pritchett, A.
O. Lee, J. B. Hopson, J. T. Turner and
mnny volunteers met the visitors and
for two hours a merry handshake and
social chat was enjoyed by not only
the distinguished guests, but by many
of the country folk, many of whom
had not met before In many years.
Rev. A. H. 8. Bugg, the present pastor
of Prospect Church, was present, and
did his share tpward assuring aU a
food time.
Many Visitors.
Delegations of visitors were present
from LaQrange, Newnan, Hogansvllle,
Greenville, Grantvllle. College Park
and many other places. Among the
pastors of the vicinity who were pres
ent were Rev. M. S. William, of Ho-
tansvllle; Rev. J. P. Pressley, pastor of
•he Presbyterian Church at Coweta:
«ev. <J. C. Andrews, of 'Freeman's
Chapel; O. W. Murphy, of LaOrange;
Professor John Henry Covin, of Ho-
Snnsvllle. Among the Interesting per
sonages present were "Grandpa” J. R.
Rswall, a relative of Dr. Lee, who, al
though over JO years old, and the old
est member of the church, attended the
Picnic In his buggy which was wheeled
up close to a window of the little
church, where he was able to hear the
exercise* of the day. Another old
member of the church and former play
mate of Dr. Allen was Robert Pow-
hdge, who also joined heartily In the
■pint of the day, and, although unable
to take an active part showed by hi*
Presence and jovial manner of the
►ride which he took In assisting In the
teception for the visitors.
At li o'clock as many of the party
as could fl n d accommodations entered
•he little white church where short ex
ercises we re held. At this hour fully
tof 1 people were on the grounds and
PROSPECT CHURCH AT LIVE OAK,
Where Dr. J. W. Lee, Dr. Young J. Al
len and G. W. Yarbrough Preached.
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not more than half that number were
able to crowd within the little chapel,
the remainder crowding about the
doors and windows In an eitort to heal
the words of the speakers.
Dr. Les’s Talk.
Rev. A. H. S. Bugg, pastor of the
church, presided, and after a short
musical program and prayer by Dr.
Yarbrough, Introduced Dr. J. W. Lee,
of Atlanta. Dr. Lee was visibly af
fected by the great demonstration of
welcome which had been made In his
behalf, and In a cordial manner assured
the assemblage of his undying devotion
for the little church In which he
J trenched his first sermon after recelv.
ng his license, - and devotion to the
villagers who made up the congrega
tion of that church. He took for the
topic of his sermon "Condltlonb'of the
Spiritual World as Contained In the
Book of Revelations,” and In a forceful
manner Impressed upon his hearers the
Importance of keeping the three great
requisites of this day, "lat
eousness," and gave as Illustrations
points which he brought out In hts
sermon, the dominant notes In the .lives
of great men of this and other ages.
He gave assurance that no nation on
the earth will submit today to tyranny
and Inferred that Russia will soon get
her just deserts.
Praiss for Tha Georgian.
At the conclusion of Dr. Lais'* talk,
which made a profound Impression on
all who heard It, a few brief remarks
were made by the pastor and others
present. Dr. Lee took occasion to re,
quest the congregation to ladorse The
Atlanta Georgian, which he styled "the
heat paper In the South today, and one
which Is a credit to the state and the
city.” Continuing, he said: “If I had
the time to spare I would visit every
community In the state of Georgia and
endeavor to have the Methodist* In
dorse The Georgian, which la undoubt
edly the finest, cleanest and brightest
newspaper published In this vicinity."
concluded the Atlanta guest, and al
though no formal action was taken,
The Georgian was Indorsed as the pa-
E »r of the Methodists of Grantvllle and
one Oak.
Immediately after the morning ser
vice the entire party repaired to the
gtove close by the church, where a
sumptuous dinner was served by the
ladles. It was a delightful feast, there
being more than enough for everybody
and the spirit of good cheer, which was
prevalent, only added to the sense of
pleasure which nervaded the grove,
Dr. Allen's Address,
After the Inner man had been satis
fied and the heated part of the day had
been spent In rest and quietude with
social chat, the party again went to
the church to listen to an address by
Dr.' Young J. Allen, the famous ml*
sionary, who for the first time In near
ly fifty years had visited hi* old home
and met a few of his old acquaintances.
The doctor held the closest attention of
his hearers, and making no attempt at
K caching a sermon, told of his early
e in Lone Oak. He spoke of the day
as being one of peculiar interest to
him. os he had never expected to again
have the opportunity of visiting his
old home and friends. Business mat
ters, however, had required that he
pay a visit to the United States, and he
would have felt his visit but half com
plete tf Lone Oak and it* surroundings
lad not received a call from him.
"There is no spot on earth which I*
so Identified in my memory and my
history as far a* my life I* concerned,
as this." said Dr. Allen. "Protracted
■eolation of many yearn makes coming
home a glad and Joyful event. There
are very few here who knew me or
whom I knew fifty yearn ago, when I
left the little house up yonder with my
young bride for far-off China. There
are many among the young people who
greatly favor those whom 1 knew In my
childhood days and these sre probably
the children of those old playmates of
years ago. .... . . ,
«I know you are all Interested In
China and the people there. There Is
one thing certain, they know how to
dress more comfortably than you do In
hot weather over there. No heavy gar
ments on the Chinese, and although
they dress lightly, they dress In a
fashion that I* pleasant “J, »•»;
Over in China we feel that we know
the Chinese, but they don't know us.
They don't understand us. We can un-
. - i .k. fixinoa* mnrh more ranter
dentand the Chinese much more faster
than they can understand us.
And then, after telling the good peo-
,,,# of the great country In w£l<3 they
dwell and the great opportunities open
to them, he told of hla personal axpe-
if.nra id struggles in early Ufa be-
GOURDAIN NOW THREATENS
TO BUILD A PRIVATE JAIL
NEAR U. S. SUPREME COURT
Famous Eccentric Tells
of His Strenuous Life
in the South.
By Trlrate Leased Wire.
Washington, July 23.—Louis A. Gour-
daln, the banker, broker, lottery king
and general eccentric, of Chicago, New
York and New Orleans, who has been
making strenuous efforts to get back
Into a prison cell, says he will return to
Washington to spend a month while
waiting for the supreme court to con
vene, and that he may build a minia
ture jail on Capitol Hill.
Just before he left Philadelphia for
Chicago Friday, Gourdaln was Inter
viewed.
“Are You Playing Crasyf"
"Are you craay, or only playing
craay?" he was asked.
Well," he replied, "If I am craay
there are a good many other people
who would like to be aa craay. I am
not playing craay by any means. I
want to return to'the penitentiary. If
I cannot get there I will build a small
one juat beside It. If they get out an
Injunction against .me I will build a
cell in my office In Chicago and treat
myself, as though I were a prlkoner. I
will wear a gray suit which one of the
jailers got for me at Joliet and will
wear my number on It. If I come
Washington to stay until the supra:
court meets I may build a mlnialt
jail near the supreme court. Wouldn'
that be fine? The Justices would know
I meant business then, wouldn't they?"
Story of Hit Lift,
Seated In the drawing room of the
Congressional limited, Gourdaln told
hla Ktary, or aa much of It as he
wanted to tell to the correspondent
Hera It Is:
"I was born March 7, IMS, a short
time after the close of the civil war,"
said he. "My grandfather on my moth
er's side was <Dr. Bcudday, who stood
by the side of General Jackson at the
battle of New Orleans. My father was
Major J. K. Gourdaln, a veteran of the
Mexican and civil wars. He command
ed the Louisiana Tiger* at Shiloh and
was killed at Liberty Monument In
New Orleans In 1874. He left 8183,000
to mother, but her good friends who
advised her dr the management of the
estate got oil of It but 130,000. This
was soon reduced to $8,000, which was
given to my brother to start In the
commission business.
Fights Big Lottery Concern,
In 1880 I went to Oklahoma, bought
land In Oklahoma City, and sold It the
following year. In 1801 I returned to
New Orleans mid established the
Louisiana State Loan and Trust Com
pony, with an authorised oapltal of
$80,000,000 and n paid-up capital of
$1,600,000 to carry on a building and
loan association. This waa run In . op
position'to the Louisiana State Lottery,
which had enjoyed a monopoly of the
lottery business for twenty-five years.
Our Louisiana Grand Lottery paid
prises based on the diifink* ot the
Louisiana State Lottery. The latter
got after me for conducting a lottery
business and had my places raided, but
I had other plates and a-complete set
of records on n yacht, nine leagues out
In the Gulf of Mexico. It was largely
through this mlx-up that the anti-lot
tery law In Louisiana was passed and
the lotteries went out of business, al
though the Honduras Lottery 1$ con
ictlng the business today.
Buys New Orleans Daily.
“I then bought the New Orleans
Dally Item and placed a private detec
tlve of mine, Dominick'C., - O’Malley,. In
charge. We attacked the member# of
the city council and aevernl were sub-
aaquantly Indicted for fraud, 'O'Malley
turned on me, however, and wanted to
LOUIS A. GOURDAIN.
. He ia the rich Southarnar who
wanta to break into jail.
get mo aent to the penitentiary on the
charges of embesilement and grand
larceny. I dlamlased my attorney. Judge
Evan*, and pleaded my own case, which
made some people think I waa craay.
I playad the craxy act from every con
ceivable etandpolnt. I waa thrown Into
the Louisiana Retreat, but the same
night I escaped through the aid of a
pass key. I disguised myself and went
lome In the morning. The searchlm,
policemen did not recognise me. but
my little boy did. I ran upstairs, but
after a hard fight of two hours waa
recaptured and taken back to the Re
treat. The following day I again es
caped. another prisoner picking the
locks of my chain*.. .
"After a trial, In which I acted as
my own coun»el. I WM
charges against me.”
AGENT FITZWATER
DROWNED IN RIVER
Special to The Georgian.
Savannah, Oa„ July 88—Chief Spe
cial Agent George Fltswater of the
Seaboard was drowned early yesterday
morning In the Savannah river. He
went to relieve Special Agent Waln-
wrfght, who waa on duty at Hutchin
son's Island, and In attempting to step
from one lighter to another Fltswater
fell Into the river.
The recent trouble* among the negro
roustabouts have caused the Seaboard
to keep Its wharves under special guard
at night, and Fltswater waa assisting
this duly.
R'CH G'RL WORK8 hot£l wa(ter
By Private breaed Wire.
Chicago, July 28.—From a home of
affluence and refinement and the cul
ture of Wellealy College to the position
waitress at a summer resort hotel,
.. the voluntary change made by Mlaa
Louise Bosworth, of Elgin. HI.. lf-year-
old daughter of Alfred E. Bosworth, a
wealthy banker of the watch city. Miss
Bosworth had taken Into her confi
dence a girl who earned her college ex
penses during the summer by serving
as a waitress In a hotel and decided on
the same course heraelf.
fore he left for China. And a truly
marvelous story It, was, too, and not a
person left the church at tha conclu
sion but that had a love and reverence
for the doctor that nothing else than
the simple telling of his life history
could, have produced.
The hour waa late when the day was
finally brought to a pleasant close with
a farewell hand-shake all around, and
with their hearts filled with pride for
great men who have gone out Into
the world from the quiet little commu
nity, the congregation quietly dispersed
‘ ads filled with thoughts of the
TAMM li
Accused of Assault on Little
Girl, and is Lodged in
Atlanta Jail.
Accused of an aaaault on little Annie
Jester, a 11-year-old girl of Griffin, Go.,
Klllc Connelly, a negro boy 11 years
ojd, was brought to Atlanta Saturday
night by Pate F. Phelps, the chief of
police at Griffin, and lodged In the Ful
ton county Jail.
The negro Is- accused of assaulting
the little girl In a field near the Jester
farm about nine miles from Grlfiln.
Neighbors were Informed and a posse
started In purautt of the negro. He
was captured In a swamp but Chief
Phelps and other officer* aucceded In
getting the negro away from the mob
and took him to Griffin. A riot almost
owed the attempt of the officers to
rd the train and another crowd was
encountered at Experiment Station, but
the 'officer succeeded In bringing the
prisoner to Atlanta.
The negro claims that another negro
boy named Emmet Beard la the guilty
person and denies his own guilt en,
tlrely. The officers are making
search for Beard.
COUNCIL'S LAW
Says Ordinance Concerning
Policemen and Liquor
Is Not Wise.
mith hea— . _ —
great words spoken by the pastors dur-
the day.
r. Allen and Dr. Yarbrough re
mained In Lone Oak over Sunday, I .
speaking at morning and afternoon I received were on the whole unsatls-
■ervlces before large congregations. ■ factory.
Much comment, adverse and other,
wise, has been' occssloned by the or,
dlnancs passed at tha last session of
council prohibiting ssloonmen to-sell
or give liquor to membere of the police
force. The police force Is against the
ordinance to a man, and Monday morn
ing Mayor Woodward wrote a strong
massage of disapproval on the back of
the ordinance, although he did not
veto It.
Mayor Woodward declare* that the
ordinance gives too much power In the
hands of one man for the offense, and
also that he la against prohibiting tha
policemen taking a drink whan they are
off duty and have taken off their uni
forms.
Hla message to council reads as fol
lows:
"I return this paper to your honor
able body without my signature of ap-
proval or disapproval, not for the pur
pose of veto, but with the recommen
dation that It be re-referred to the
committee for the purpose of further
consideration and perfection.
"It appears to me thatyour honorable
body baa made the penalty on tha II
cenaee loo severe by making him sub.
Ject to a line ot $100, thirty (80) days In
stockade and revocation of license. The
original ordinance from the board of
xollce commissioners carried a line on
the employer and only the revocation
of license on the licensee, which, to me,
appears sufficiently strong on both par
ties for the magnitude of tha offense
committed. It further appear* to m*
that this la too arbitrary a power to be
conferred upon one man for such an
offense.
"At the time of my remarks before
your honorable body I waa not aware
that the verbiage of the original ordi
nance, aa ILcame from Jtha police hoard,
after having been fully discussed, had
been so materially changed."
PEACH CROP SHORT
ABOUT ONE-HALF
Special to The Georgian.
Sparta, Ga., July 21.—This year's
peach season, which has Juat closed In
this section, was perhaps tha most dis
appointing |n ffie history of the peach
raising Industry In the county. Until
few days before the season opened,
one of the largest crops for years waa
expected, but the fruit began to rot
suddenly before the season opened, and
fell off or the trees so fast that not
half of the fruit was marketed.
R. H. Moore, of Culverton, for years
one of the largest peach growers In
the county, was Able to gather but
twelve crates from hla orchards. While
Mr. Moore suffered worse than any
other shipper, none escaped great loos.
In addition to all of this, the prices
Unhimned Shapes
Al $ 1.00 *
A new hat to finish up the Summer,
and at very little cost, via this sale of un
trimmed shapes.
Shapes of medium or large sizes of white
or black chip braids.
Shapes that sold at $2.50, $3.00, $4.00
and $5.00
Tuesday $1.00
Children’s trimmed hats
At $1.00
Children’s white milans trimmed with
band and pompon, $2.50 to $5.00 hats,
$ 1.00 Each
Chambsrlih-Johnsoh-DuBose Co.
MINER OF GIBSON
TELLS TOR STOR
Ashton Is To Bo i Witness t
the Probing of the
Kinan Murder.
By Prlvsl* Leased Wire.
Shelburne, N. H„ July 28.—In
statement made here at his country
horns In the White mountains, William
K. Ashton gives some of the facts about
Attorney Burton W. Gibson's dealings
with Mrs. Stenton, tha mother of Mrs,
Alice Klnnn, who was murdered, which
put a new and startling aspect to the
case. He will be summoned before the
grand Jury aa a witness.
'I do not wish to criticise a fallow
attorney," said ha. "Gibson’s action
was manifestly unfair, not altogether
to me but to our Joint client, Mrs.
Stenton. Aa the secret purchaser of
the property, It waa to hla Interest to
bid It In through hla dummy at tbs
lowest possible figure. Aa a matter of
fact, the $81,000 for which Gibson ob
tained control waa vary much below Its
true value. I had sent an expert to
examine It and I felt confident from
hla report that It would bring at least
180,000 at tha partition sale. That tha
expert’s Judgment waa conservative Is
shown by the fact that Gibson had no
difficulty In finding a purchaser on tha
day of the murder, which entered Into
a contract to taka tha property off hla
hands for 110,000."
The statement of Ashton contradicts
... many Important details the testi
mony given by Olbson at the prelimi
nary Inquiry before Justice McDonald.
PRIMARY DATE ”
FIXED AUGUST 22
Special to The Georgias.
Mseon, <1*;, July a-Pollllcs did net
crop out In lbs meeting nf the ntst* Dsm
ocrstlc executive rommtUee here lodsy.
Nothing concerning the gubernatorial race
was mentioned. Tbs primary dst* was
Died for Angast 22, and lbs roles of tbs
slate Democratic executive committee were
adopted as the rules for tbs couoty com
mittee.
Killed IN Fell From Train.
Special to Tbs Georgian.
Bristol, Tenn, July 28.—Samuel Car
rier, a farmer, residing near Bristol,
fell from a’ train on the Southern rail
way last night, and waa Instantly
killed.
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DREYFUS DECORATED
WHERE DEGRADED.
By Private Lgassd Wire. O
Paris, July 88—Tha Install- O
Ing of MaJ. Dreyfus as a knight O
of tha Lotion of Honor took O
S ince In the place where ha waa O
egraded twelve years ago. o
Dreyfus was dressed for tha O
flrat time In the uniform of a o
major, and was decorated with Q
the crons of the legion, after .O
which the commanding offfeer O
In the name of the president O
embraced Major Dreyfus. O
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GRAVES OF (J.C.V.DEAO
TBBETENDED BVSTATE
IIouso Bill Which Will Probably
Pass Provides for
This.
The care of tha graves of Georgia's
Confederate dead by lha state seems
to be a certainly of tha qear future, as
than la now a house resolution which
would Initiate this, ready for passage.
Aa stated In tha resolution by Messrs.
Green and Griffin, of Cobl^ there are
8,000 Confederate dead burled In tha
cemetery at Marietta. Tbs Ladles'
Memorial Association of that city has
lovingly cared for this cemetery, clean
ing It of briars and weeds, and placing
headstones on each grave. A speaker's
stand has also bean erected of atone
and brick.
The Ladles' Memorial Association
now tenders this cemetery to tha state
and houaa resolution No, 71 provides
for the aocsptanc* of tha cemetery by
lb# house and senate for the stale.
BAPTIST MINISTERS
DISCUSS NEW
Will Probably Bo Located Near
Georgia Avenue and
Grant Street. <
Routine matters were dlscussod at
lha masting of tha Atlanta Bnptlst
Ministers' Association at the FtrJt Bap
tist Church Monday morning, the prin
cipal topic being lha location of a new
Baptist Church In the city. Acmmiit.
tee, htadad by Dr. Landrum, submitted'
a report to the effect that It would b«
well to establish one In two or three
blocks of the Intersection of Georgia
avenue and Grant street. This work
waa flrat projected by tbs Young Men’s
Bible class of the Second Baptist
Church.
■The matter of a permanent church
extension committee was discussed, but
no action was taken.
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limit of August t.
Only coots 10 cents to have limit extended until September 8, 1908.
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Call on any of tha understand for Sleeping Car or Strame
rations. D. W. MORRAH,
C. B. WALKER, City Pass, and Ticket Agt.
Depot Tickst Agent
(City Tltcst Office, 88 Peachtroo Street, Atlanta, Ga.)
W. E. CHRISTIAN, A.G.P.A., Atlanta, Ga.
