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THE ■ ATLANTA GEORGIAN. ftOB IS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF BIG STEEUOMBINE Queers and Directors Are Chosen at Meeting Held in New York. ROCKEFELLER IN FEAR OF ASSASSIN’S KNIFE Mi I l» Tie Georgian 0,did«n, Ala., Sept. 7.—A special ■Bnouncefl the completion of the mey 0 f the tacey-Buek and Southern •L, Company interests in this city ,' d Motion. Moses Taylor, of Kean- „ n courtlandt & Co., was elected Jreildent; C. P. Perln, chairman of the L r d- E. T. Schuler and C. E. Buck, °| C e presidents, and George F. Schuler, “"-““"(rectors are: Oaklelgh Thorn, ttobert B. Van Courtlandt, J. D. Lacey, John Brindley, H. B. Schuler and Courtlandt Van Camp. A meeting of the stockholders of the Southern Steel Company was held in Ihlt city l*«t Saturday, at which time iho capital stock was increased from III tKHl.fioo to 115,000,000. Announce- senu of the plans qf the new Interest ire ospected within a few days. It »as announced from n reliable oource today that the Southern Steel "ompany would move Its offices from Jlrmlngham at an early date, as prac- Ically all the company’s Interests are 'entered here. It Is further stated that 'he company will erect a handsome office building In the heart of the city or lt» use. WIFE DISAPPEARS Hlddletown, N. Y„ Sept. 7.—The po lice department of this city has been aiked by Frank McGowan, of Baltimore, to look for his wife, Mrs. Alice Mc- Gouan, who disappeared somewhere between England' and this city. Mrs, McGowan sailed from England on August 25 on the steamship Philadel phia. o( the American line. The steam er arrived, but the anxious husband could not find bis wife. He appealed to the Ellis Island authorities, but they knew nothing of the missing woman. Thinking that hla wife might have come here where she lived nt one time, the husband has appealed to the police to find her. The husband haa cabled to his wife's address In England, but received no answer. AMUSEMENTS "GRAND TONIGHT ANP SATURDAY—MATI NEE 8ATURQAY. TIM MURPHY AND DOROTHY SHERROD IN OLD INNOCENCE Night prices 25c to $1.50—Matinee Be to $1.00. Sale pow open. BIJOU 0NIGHT 8:30—MATINEE 8ATUR DAY. Haverly’s Mastodon Minstrels Same Bijou Prices. Next week "HOW HEARTS ARE BROKEN.” . NEXT WEEK—Usual Matlneee. The Sensational and Emotional Drama "How Hearts Are Broken. A stormy Story of the Heart and wal, told in four acta. A scenic display of rare splendor. Same Bijou price*. (CASINO TONIGHT 8:30—MATINEE TOMOR- ROW. 6 HITS in vaudeville—g ENOUGH. Order Seat*, North 236. Wheat and Jackson Sts. MONDAY and TUESDAY, Sept. lOandll Gentry Bros* Shows. ^heir Pour Shows Actually ^ Combined. act- higHIy educated ponies, 150 dog (Semin, v 1 monke y«. 2 herd* of per- T™ ln i, h »by elephants. ttenca ’s Leading Amuse- th. ® en t Enterprise. tills CAM ! mb * Family—first time In II,.*, un * r y. Their blggeet and beat -_ Grind and Gorgeous Street a * 10 a. m. Monday. Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. T.—The fear of the assassin In again In the heart Of John D. Rockefeller and the oil king, fearful that some anarchist will at tempt hla life, la constantly surrounded by a body guard of five detectives. In addition. Dr. r.lggar, Mr. Rocke; feller's constant companion, la also somewhat of a guard. The men do their own woVk without ostentation and are under orders to avoid newspaper men. Great wealth has Its drawbacks. LOVE IS AN INCENTIVE TO WORK, SA YSHALL CAINE By Prlvnto Leased Wire. London, Sept 7.—In these days when newly-made millionaires are casting off their wives who have atuek to them through the struggle to success, the following Is an Interesting opinion by one of the world's foremost students of human nature on the subject, "Does Love Spoil a Man's Work?" By HALL CAINE. "Dpes love s^oll a man's work?” "Well, that depends upon the woman loved. "If.she be the wrong woman, tho husband Is like the man whose boat has sprung a leak. Half the time that ought to be spent In making way Is spent- In baling out. If she be the right woman, she Is that much extra "One sees, of course, the obvious ad vantages of celibacy to pioneers like Cecil Rhodes, Just ns one realising Its practical necessity to priests, as well as to men who carry their lives In their hands and should think of nothing but work and duty. In the hour of peril, having wife and children Is apt to make ■ coward of a man. ‘A brave woman by a man's aide Is an added strength. "The marriages of literary men have often been unhappy; the selfish o' sorption required by the literary ca log is not generally helpful to domestic "The same might be said of the mar rlages of painters and still more of ac tors, where the aame condition* apply. But against the Barons, the Shellys, the Coleridges, the Dickenses, the Lyt- tons, you may well set the Brownings, the Southerns, the Scojts, the Word worths and the Tennysons, “It Is obvious that some of the hap pleat marriages of literary men hav, not been to literary women, but to tho sweet and simple souls who were no: all too good for human nature's dally food. "Coming to humbler condltlopp of life, I should say thaj marriages among working people generally unsettle the woman: She becomes a worse servant, hut the man becomes a better servant, for the added sense of pergonal respon sibility with the coming of wife and children makes a man more cartful of his duty and more anxious to keep his place. "In the limited degree In which I am an employer and a landlord, I certainly want my men to be married." MISTAKE MADE IN DRUGS KILLS. MAN IN HOSPITAL By Private Lea soil Wire. Chicago, Sept. 7.—Poison adminis tered by mistake to Joseph Michaels, 21 years, a patient at St. Lukes hos pital, caysed his death yesterday. The fatal blunder waa made In the drug department of the hospital. Michaels was given a large dose of atrophlne, Instead of pratropln, which had been prescribed by attending physicians. A coroner's Inquest was held In the afternoon at the hospital and the Jury returned a verdict assorting that death had been caused by the administration of poison by mistake. No one wi censured, hut the coroner wlll make further Inquiry. GOES HOME TO KILL SELF ON SWEETHEARTS GRAVE By Private Leased Wire. New York. Sept. 7.—When the La Provence steamed down the bay bound for Havre there atood on her deck one who looked hla last on America, tha land of his adoption, for he la on his way to Lecco in Lombardi, Italy, to commit suicide on the grave of his sweetheart, Luigi Contartml is the man's name. He Is but 24 years old. and hla return la In compliance with the wish of Jose phlne Ballantlnl. expressed in her let ter to him written Just before she drank a fatal poison, rather than marry one whom her parents would force upon her. Luigi has been In America for four years. Soon after his arrival he went to Oklahoma, d here he prospered and became a wealthy ranch owner. FUGITIVE IS CAPTURED BY A BOYHOOD FRIEND By Private I.oaird Wire. Chicago, Sept. 7.—After eluding de tectives on his trail for over two years, William Donahue, accused of the murder of Walter Gelsbert, a Chicago druggist, on April 8, 1204, was ar rested Inte yesterday In Indianapolis by Detective Joe Kennedy. ' When the officer confronted him, Donahue tried to fight for his liberty, but was forced to surrender at the [mint of a gun. Donahue was arrested after officers UNION STATION PLAN CALLED OFF Special to The Georgian Valdosta, Ga., Sept. 7.—It la definite ly announced that the proposition for a union pgssenger station In this city la ofT, and that the Georgia Southern and Florida and Atlantic Coast Lina rail roads will begin within a short while the erection of separate atatlona. The Coast Line will at once let the contract for a station to occupy the site of its old station on Patterson street. The building will b« 210 feet long and two storlea high, and will contain quarters for the Southern Express Company. The Georgia Southern railroad, consideration of the closing of. Florida avenue by the city council, and the granting of yard facilities, has agreed to build a handsome new. passenger station^ to occupy the site of Its pres ent depot, and work on the structure Is to begin in not less than 90 days. It Is said that the railroad company will build a station not approached by that In any town of similar site In the country. The city council granted the Atlantic Coast Line right to cross Patterson street south of the present crossing. In order to reach with side-tracks a num ber of large warehouses which will be built In that section. Sam Jones Tabernacle Meetings, Carters- ville, Ga. On Septemper 15th to 23rd, Inclu sive, the Western and Atlantic rail road will sell tickets from Atlanta- Dalton and iptermedlate. stations, to Cartersvillc, at rale of one fare for the round trip. Sam Jones will be assisted by Evangelist Oliver and other ministers of renown. Prof. E. O. Excell will have charge of the music, and oihvt goapel singers of note will attend. Three services each .day, 10:30 a. m.. 3:00 p. m. and 8:00 p. m.. and the people of Cartersvlile will welcome the great crowd* with tho aame hos pitality they have always shown had followed him thousands of miles— even aa far aa Ireland. He alwaya managed to escape their grasp a few hours, and the Chicago police had al most given up hope of capturing him. Lieutenant J, O. D. Storen, who han dled the case from the first, received tho news of Donahue's arrest today. Kennedy had known Donahue since the two were boys, and he said he surely had his man. Storen w||l leave today for Indianapolis with extradition papers for ths prisoner to bring him to Chicago for trial. JOHN WESLEY GAINES' IS By Private Leased Wire. Washington, Sept. 7.—Representative John Wesley Gaines, of Tennessee, who has been In Washington for tha post fortnight working on the literature the Democratic congressional committee Is preparing to send Into, the campaign, left hurriedly for his home In Nash ville last night In response to a tele gram Informing him that his mother was not expected to live. hire. Gaines Is 70 years old, but aside from the Infirmity of age was In good health when Mr. Gaines left home. VALD08TA 8CHOOL8 HAVE LARGE ATTENDANCE. Hpctinl to The Georgian Valdosta, Ga., Sspt. 7.—The opening of the Valdosta public schools this week was marked by the largest at tendance 111 the history of ths city. Un der the superintendency of Professor R. B. Dnnlel the school system here has been brought to a high state of ef ficiency, and with, the erection of the new high school building which was opened last spring, adequate facilities were provided for the growth of school population far a number of years. Both the white and colored schoola show an ytcreaseij attendance this year, and It Is probable that the figures will reach a total of 1,500 before th, term Is far ad vanced. Money for Gala Weak. Special to The Georgian. charleston, 8. C., Sept. 7.—The Gala Week committee has announced that It has secured the (5,000 subscriptions nsked for the biggest free show which Chtiieston has given In years Tho Fall Festival here this year Is planned to eclipse anything of the kind which has been given slr.ee the early '90’s. • Floods Imped# Work. Special to Tim Georgian. Charleston, 8. C.. Sept. 7.—Charles ton's new union station, to cost alto gether over (220,000, is now over half completed. Grant Wilkins, of Atlanta, Is the contractor erecting the main its TB LET CONTRACT Williams Syndicate to Ex tend Lines Into Other Sections. Special to The Georgian Valdosta, Ga„ 8ept. 7.—It Is an nounced here that the contract for the building of the connecting links In the Georgia and Florida railroad from this city to Augusta, will be let on Septem ber 15. A syndicate of capitalists, headed by John Skelton Williams, re cently acquired control of a number of short fines In South Georgia, Including the Valdosta Southern railway, from this city to Madison, and the building of a few sops In the system will build a through line from Augusta to Madi son, Fla. One of the most important connections to be effected Is the build ing of a fine from Valdosta to Nash ville, In Berrien county, where connec tion will be mnilc with the Douglas, Augusta and Gulf, and the people of this section are watching with the keenest Interest tho preparations for the building of this line, which will be 26 miles long. FELDER NOMINATED FOR STATE SENATOR Convention Indorses State Platform Adopted at * Macon. Special to The Georgian. Forsyth, G*-, Sept. 7.—The senatorial convention of the Democratic party of the Twenty-apcond district of Georgia met here yesterday and was called to order by Hon. F. M. Stafford, who ivas chosen temporary chairman. Hon, B F. Hill was chosen as secretary. Mr. Stafford was later, elected chairman of the executive committee. Colonej S. Rutherford nominated Hon. T. B. Felder, for senator, in neat little talk. The nomination was seconded by B. F. Hill, Jr., E. M Owen and Dr. J. p. Thurman. On mo tlon of Judge A. L. Miller, the,nomtna tlon waa made unanimous. In accepting the nomination, Colonel Felder made a speech, putting himself on record as favoring, and pledging himself to advocate, all reform legis lation espoused by the chosen leaders or his party In this state. He unqual ifiedly Indorsed the platform adopted by the late gubernatorial convention held at Macon; At thp noon hour the convention ad Jpurned In a hody to the Hotel Laneas ter, where ah elegant dinner was served —the compliments of the Monroe dele gallon. CALL BOY RECKED CAR Slteclnl to Tho Georgian. Anniston, Ala., Sept. 7.—Grover Witt, aged 16, employed as call boy at the Oxanna Junction stntlon of the Southern Railway, was horribly crush ed and Instantly killed at 2:40 o’clock yesterday afternoon when two enr* of * heavily loaded eastbound freight train left thp rails at the foot of Sixth street and were overturned. The dead boy was taking a ride from the union depot to the junction, as Is his usual custom. Thp car woe filled with slog, several tona of which were thrown upon him, and It was only after 40 minutes of work that h|s body was recovered. The train was proceeding to Atlanta, FRIENDS OF COMpR TO CONTROL COMMITTEE Special to The Georgbiu. Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 1 7.—There will be a conference of the friends of B. Comer In Birmingham Saturday to discuss the meeting of the state convention In Montgomery on Monday. Comer’s friends are anxious to con trol the next state committee, and will make a strong effort along thla line. Found on the Skin Phosphate Direct from the brain ling and We know that active brain work throws out the phosphate of potash, for this product Is found on the skin after excessive brain work. Brain workers, In order to keep well, must have proper food contalnli phosphate of potash to quickly irely rebuild the used-up tissue. That one can obtain such food has been proven In thousands of esses among users of Postum Food Coffee and Orape-Nuts. Both contain phosphate of potash in minute particles, just as It Is fur niihed by nature In thp grains. This product blends with albumen and makes the gray matter that builds the brain and fills the nerve centers. In no way can thla gray matter be made except by the action of phosphate of potash upon albumen, and this min eral should be Introduced to the body just as It comes from nature's labora tory, and not from the drug store. The human system Is more or less fastid ious about taking up the needed ele ments, and, as might be suspected, It III favor the products of Mother Na ture rather than the products of the ig shop, however valuable for certain uses. they may Athletes, lawyer*, journalist#, doc tors. ministers, business men and others who earn their living by the uae of the brain, are using both Postum Food Coffee aq0 Grape-Nuts Food. Both products are manufactured for a reason. They were originated by an expert, and the regenerative value of both the Postum Coffee and the Fond CHA8. E. HARMAN,. Gen. Pass. Agent . tlon building, snil has had some dim- has been demonstrated beyond quea I culty In making time limits because of I tlon. Made In the pure-food factories floods which have swept into, the ex-1 of Postum Company, at Battl* Creek, cavatlon work* Mich. WOMEN WHO INTRODUCED THE PEARL EARRING FAD INTO NEWPORT SOCIETY JlATLANTAN CHOSEN SERGL-AT-ARMS BY P J, CLERKS Organization Not Affiliated With Federation of Labor. Special to The Georgian Savannah, Ga.. Sept. 7.—The follow ing officers were elected yesterday af ternoon by the National Association of Postofflce Clerks, after which the con vention adjourned: President—Frank T. Rogers, Chicago. Flrgi Vice President—Charles Kirk, Toledo, Ohio. Second Vice President—J. Thurlow Barrett, New Orleans. Third Vice President—Charles H. Mitchell, Portland. Secretary—V, J. Gibbons, Scranton. Treasurer—John J. O’Brien, Boston. Sergeant-at-Arms—\V. J3. Hunt, of Atlanta. Advisory Board—Frank P. v Lorang, Detroit; "VV. A. Hickey, Bt. Pa\jj: Rob ert Connelly, St. Louis; M. Buttimer, Savannah; R. E. Martin. Nashville. Finance Committee—Joseph Burns, Kansas City; J. W. Templeton, Ottum- la.; Thyme* Salmon, Bloomington; Con Desmond, Washington, D. C; Lin coln, Lincoln, Nebr. Organization Committee—Chairman eastern division, J. XI. Farrell, Lowell, Mass.; chairman western division. Col onel James Power, San Francisco, Cal. Peoria, I1L, was selected ns the place for the next meeting, after a spirited Contest with Saratoga Springs. There were two tickets put forward for officers, headed by Peter Wynn, of New York. The vote was 88 to 64. It » announced tliaf the clerks were not affiliated with tho Amerlcun Feder ation of Lsabor, an Impression hai been spread abroad that such case. P. Mayer, on the right, at the Sandy Point Farm fete, where they Intro duced tho pearl earring fad th Newport society. the 77 STEAM SHOVELS ON WA Y TO THE MORGUE ‘ ‘ CORPSE "GETS GRIP ON LIFE By Private Lea mil Wire. Washington, Sept. 7.—After being placed In the morgue wagon and start ed on a Journey fo the place pf un known and unclaimed dead, John For- qythe, 40 years oid, who waa apparently lifeless when fished from the water at the north end of Highway bridge yes terday, showed signs of life while op the way to the morgue. He now lies unconscious on a cot In the Emergency hospital* but has a fair chance of re covery. ‘ ‘ WALKING ARSENAL JAILED 2 HOURS AFTER WEDDING By Private Leased Wire. Washington, 8ept. 7.—Two hours after lie was married to Hiss Ilattle E. TuyU>r, 18 years old, of Itlrhpatcb, Vs., Malvern B. llughc*, of Isowmoor, Vn„ was locked up at the Sixth precinct police station, charg ed with carrying eopcenjcd wcapouv. When Ing bride refused . She wild be bitd (men drugged. Iftiglic* Is only n country boy and unac customed to the way* of a great city, and he brought along for protection the revolver and knuckles. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Has a Word for the Woman Who Is Jealous of Her Son’s Wife. P EHIIAl’8, Jhe most pathetic tragedy which the press his recorded this many it month was that of the young husband who sent his wife homo after months of vulu effort to reconcile his mother to her, and then committed suicide. Hu left n and llttlp note to each, •aylug he hoped they would lie happy. Olio can liiuiglne the tender hearted young fellow, loving both women and feeling his duty toward both, worn out with the strife Indwreu the two, and finally giving up the battle of life. “ It was a weak thing to do, and there Wos ft lack of stamina In the man’s char acter, uf course, hut It Is all very piti ful. Not long ago a mother said to wet "I love uiy son so dearly I shall he wild with grief when he marries.“ ••Perhaps not,” I said; "If be marrlca n lovable sort of girl, who will ftdd a <iew Joy to your life, lustead of taking one away.” ••Oh. I love him so, I should he sure to bnte hla wife, however lovable she t*re," was her reply. But thla Is not loving a son; It ... loving herself when a mother, with no cause, feels such an antipathy for even au Imagined daughter-in-law. Selfish Mothers. We never hear a father talking in this extravagant manner of his devotion to a daughter. It Is seldom, Indeed, that a father aud sou-ln-law get on badly togeth- We often see them In business asso ciations the licet of friends. Yet fathers love their daughters quite aa deeply and dearly as mothers love their •pus. It la s sad hour to a parent always when a child's heart turns to a new and absorb. Ing love, when tho > r oung life Is sunk ke a brook In the broad river of mar. Jage and the dciM-ndcnt member of the household circle fiecomes all Independent Is maintained. It la l(ecnnae this nnwlll lug mother-lndnw willingly took some mother's sou for her husimnd that she IMssesesd her own son to love anil grieve It wool rltnling 1 * parehte-es| i|d lie amusing were It not so Ir- tn observe the titter forgetfulness Ms—especially mothers—regardinij •crMvtn/WL* ■■ ^ ELLA WHEELER WILCOX* Richmond* Va., Sept. 7.—The largest order tor steam shovels ever received at the Richmond branch of the Ameri can locomotive Works came yesterday when requisition calling for 77 of these lormouH engines was received. It has been rumored that a govern- mfiht order for 150 of these steel dredges would soon be made for the Panama canal, and It is said that such on order as the present could only come from the government. COTTON WAS DAMAGED BY WEDNESDAY'S STORM Special* to The Georgian. Anniston, Ain., Sept. 7.—As the re sult of Wednesday afternoon’s severe storm, which wfw general throughout this section. It la estimated that ut least 25 per cent of the cotton crop Is utterly ruined and much of the re mainder badly damaged. ‘ The high wind and driving rain destroyed the open bolls and droVe sand and mud Into those which were not fully open. Local farmers are rather gloomy over the prospects for'a successful crop this year. MINISTER THANK8 DISPENSARY 8UPPORTER8. Special to The Georgian Decatur, Ala., Sept. 7.—Dr. S. E. Wasaen, pastor of the First Methodist church and the president of tho local dlnyonBnry or^anluntlon, Is out In an open letter thnnklng those \vh<» voted for thd dispensary In the recent elec tion. $23.55 son and husband becomes a must difficult A young couple bad better naas their early years together In a tent than under the paternsl roof. I (iid the jKxir fellow who killed him self, ss the only way out of hla trouble. two women would have been settled with time. It Is to be hopcil that woman's widen- ...g sphere will lepve Its Influence upon her ns a niother-Jii-Jnw und make her na semdtde aud fortieni'liif as tfie average fath er-in-law Is toilsy. early proceedings In the FIRST CALHOUN BALE PLACED ON MARKET By Private Leased Wire. Anniston, Ala., Sept. 7.—Tha first Calhoun county grown bale of cotton of the season of 1906-07 was brought Into this city lost night by J. w. Clem ent, of Choccolocco Valley, and ginned at the plant of the Anniston Fertiliser and Ice Company. WORK ON CAPITOL HAS BEEN RESUMED Special to The Georgian. Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 7.—-Work on repairing the old capUoI has begun In earnest and the flooring on the second ^floor has been torn up and a new one Is being put In. Work on the south wing addition Is progressing nicely and the ways 11 •* beginning to show what It will :-cbmer r sod when that new- really look like when completed. called a weeping womnn'i atten tion to the fn^l that her ilmighter-lii-law waa not the first i>er*on who married a mother’s son. Ydu evidently did.” I remarked. ■Oh, no; I married nn orphan,” she re plied. with an air of self-righteousness. Better Live Alofie. But If your husband's mother had lieen living, I doubt not you would have married hlui Just the same,” I said. The mother who really loves her son I tet ter than she loves herself does not make scene when be chooses a wife. *be tries to lore the girt he bss c hosen for bis sake, and ahe realises that the love a uian l»ears bis wife In no way Interferes with the love be l*ears bis mother, unless the mother chooses to make It nn Interference through selfish Jealousy and petty unrea* It wonbl seciu in this age of the world fhst n man ought to know lietter than hla married fife under the roof LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, —and Return— VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY Tickets on sale September 10*11, limited to September 15, 1906. Two trains daily, leave At* lanta 5:30 a. m. and 4:50 m. Passenger and Ticket Of fice 1 Peachtree Street. Phone 142. J. C. LUSK, District Passenger Agent. ARE YOU GOING TO PAINT? If i), uxe Southern Home Lead and Zinc Mixed Pair.ta. The standard of quality in tho Soui v . for tho past twenty-two year.i. F. J. COOLEDGE & SON, 12. N. Forsyth St Atlanta.