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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOHEIt 31. UXfc.
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for the purjHite,
THE GEORGIAN prints no ttnelfattt
or ohjcetlonnhlc advertising. Neither
goes It print whisky or any liquor ads.
OUR PL AT FOR IwT-Tb * • Virgin u
stands for Atlanta’s owning ifs own gss
and electric light plants, a* It now
owns Its waterworks. Other cltlon do
Ibis and get gas as l ev .•« 60 cents,
with a (.roll! to the city. This should
he don** at or.ee. The Georgian be
ll eras that If street railways can l*e
o:»err.tt d sueeeasfully by Burn p v a u
cities, nr they nrc. there Is no good
reason why they cannot he so operated
here. But we d«» not believe till* ran
lie done now, and It may he some years
Wfoi
Its
WIDE SCOPE FOR BOARD OF TRADE.
The prompt response Inode by the merchant* of Atlanta In pledging
(unite for the organization and equipment of a board of trade demonstrates
fully that the bullnes* Interest* are beginning to eee the beneflta to be de
rived from out'll an institution.
The effect of thle organization will be felt Immediately, and evcntuall/
It will double or even treble (lie city'* trade. All that Atlanta need* la bide
for business—not Individual bldh, but bldi from the organized Intereetz of
the city, representing all claasez and branches of trade.
Before the board of trade there can be brought matterz of vital Impor
tance, which would have but little chance of consideration otherwise. But
carried before proper authorities by this board of trade of the Chamber of
Commerce, a claim or contention would be courteously received and se
riously considered by a railroad or any other corporation.
The availability of (he board of trade in matters of this tort hat been
Immediately shown by the action of the grain and produce shippers of tbs
city, who have for years been lighting for re-bllllng, re-,hipping and dif
ferential privileges' from the railroads. Bringing their claims and argu
ments merely as Individuals they had seldom secured a hearing and never
a result. The matter, If taken up by the board of trade, will certainly be
given attention by the railroads.
In another direction the board of trade can exert a beneficial Influence.
There nre quite a number of corporations—home corporations—doing a pay
ing business In Atlanta. The bonds and stocks of these corporations a/e
not even known by name to many people with money to Invest. Cor some
reason the city press does not list prices for homo bonds and stocks, and It
Is difficult for most investors to get quotations.
If the stockholders of Atlanta form complete'organization In the board
of trade, the buying and selling of cotton, off stocks and bonds, local and
domestic; wheat, corn, oats and other commodities at one central point,
where merchants from a distance may come to trade, will be freed from a
restraint that has Impeded business In tills city.
STRIKE BREAKER
FOUND WITHPISTOLi
IS SENT TO TOWER
Thomas Hedrlngton, 17 years of age.
ope of the Southern railway strike
breakers, recently brought here, was
arraigned before Recorder Broyles
Wednesday morning apd was bound
over to the elate court under, bond of
1100 on the charge of carrying con
cealed, weapons.
Hedrlngtofl stated that his horns Is
In Boston. He explained that he wax
carrying a pistol for fear he might be
attacked and Injured by some of the
striking machinists. In default of bond
he went to the Tower. He was ar
rested by Special Ofllcer 8wlnney, of
the Southern.
House Cleaning Needed.
1 Georgia am! Georgians have a right
to be proud of their state capitol.
There la no more beautiful building
In America. Ita chaste tines are an
exemplification of the epigram that
architecture le frozen music. Granting
which, It may be said that the capitol
ts A symphony of superb simplicity.
Based on the architectural plan of the
capitol at Washington, It Is an ex
quisite diminutive, heightened with
beauties of Its own.
Designed by a distinguished Georgian
who devoted at least a year of his busy
life to the work, built by Georgians, of
Georgia material, it stands a menu
Ment to the glory of the state.
* Tet It has been suffered to become a
house In disorder, reeking with dirt and
duet and filth.
Grimy and discolored, the wall paper
Is falling away here and there, and
algns of neglect obtrude at every angle.
There Is no excuse for the existence
of such a state of affairs. There Is
less for Its continuance.
Let those whose duty It Is to cere for
the capitol put a brigade to work with
soap and water, or It will be necessary
for some patriotic cltlsen to do as tha
Hon. Ben Blackburn did ten years ago.
when, after storming In vain through
the columns of his paper for a house
cleaning, he himself descended on the
capitol with a cohort of scrub women
and annihilated the filth.
R«d Tape at Waahington.
Compilation of the colonial and rev
olutionary records of Georgia Is pro
gressing most satisfactorily under ex-
Governor Allen Candler's direction.
Practically all the material for
these two pci Inds Is in hand or In
sight. Records are still coming from
Knglsnd, where copyists employed by
the, elate, are risking them as rapidly
aa possible
But It is An the records nr the civil
war that so much trouble has been ex
perienced. With a large number of the
roll* of aeorgln troops obtainable only
In the government wer office In Wash
ington, absolute prohibition has been
placed ou them hy the heavy price the
denartment wishes to. exact for having
these rails copied:
Ex-Governor Candler has called at
tention to the contrast between our
own and the British governments.
When ^Georgia named records in the
Brltleh museum, the authorities gladly
gave permission for the copyists to go
and secure nil the data wanted. And
they did not charge a cent for tt.
Tel when Georgia wanted to get the
records In Washington, offering to pay
copyists to go right In the office and
work under,the direction of the head
of the department, there was a demand
for fees. They wanted a good many
thousand dollars for It.
There eeemz but one avenue open,
and advantage will prubably l>e taken
of that during the coming session of
congress. That la to have one of the
congressmen and one of the aenatora
Introduce resolutions In both branches
of the national congress granting
Georgia tha special right to this data.
This should be done at the very be
ginning of the session, and the roster
commission will doubtless take the
matter up at once.
It Is said that no other way exists
for the state to secure these nfktera
without enormous expense, as all over
tures to the war department have
proven unavailing. It lz provable that
Congressman Livingston and Senator
i city will be asked, to Introduce the
I resolutions when congress convenes
Sunday, December I.
A WEAKNESS IN THE GEORGIA LAW.
Among the presentments of the September term 6t the Fulton county
grand jury wits one recommendatlou that deserve* the attention of the
entire state, and demnnda Immediate consideration In the next session
of the Georgia legislature.
It Is to- make the offense of attempt at criminal assault a capital
offense In the discretion, of course, of (he jury trying the case.
Betwixt attempt to commit crime and the commission of
there Is no difference in a sane code of morals.
But If there were such a difference. In the Instance of criminal as
sault Its observance would be a violation of the geniui of law Itself.
Our scheme of law Is not so much based on the idea of securing
retributive justice as It la Intended to be preventive of crime In Its In
fluence. ,
Face every fiend, who attacks a woman, with the certainty of death
even for his attempt at criminal violence, and there will be an Immedi
ate decrease In the South’s roll of horror, If the officers of the law ave
vigilant In apprehending the criminals.
Although this recommendation of the grand jury cfcnnot hope to
solve the problem of preventing rape, at the same time It officially
calls attention to a weakness In the state's penal code that demands Im
mediate correction.
Danger in Mrs. Dickson’s Plan.
The proposition of Mrs. Mary Grant
Dickson to estubllsli a tea and beer
garden on Piedmont avenue, between
Eleventh und Twelfth streets, Is one
that will not commend itself to the
majority of the thinking people of At
lanta, and It la to be hoped that the
police committee of council will oppose
the granting of the license tor 'which
application has been msd*.
Mrs. Dickson’s project, while rather
an Innovattoh for staid Atlanta, Is In
Itself not so deserving of censure. She
Is a woman of character and of culture,
and her plan Is merely one based on s
business proposition. There Is no
doubt but that the tea and- beer gar
den as conducted by her would bi
maintained on a/'hlgh plhne.
But the evil of it Is that by granting
n license for a beer garden on Pied
mont avenue, between Eleventh and
Twelfth streets, council would be set-
tlng a precedent that would cause
trouble.
The saloon limits ss they now exlet
are*too wide. The residence section of
the city must not be Invaded.
Gotham’i Winter Harbinger.
Down here In the more or lets Sunny
South the harbinger of winter It s
composite of full-blown golden rod and
chltterllns. 1
Further up toward Virginia It Is the
Albermarte pippin and the falling chest
nut. But In metropolitan Gothsmtown
the only sure and unfailing Indication
that winter I* In their midst le the first
meeting of the Pleiades Club,
The rare spirits at the Mermaid and
the Apollo, the buns vlvnnts of Cham-
berlaln’e and Hancock’s In }be good
old Washington days, many have had
each a glory of Its own. But differing
from them all, perhaps, we might say
surpassing them nil, In glory, are the
mcetlnge of the Pleiades.
The astronomers tell ue that one star
is In reality misting from the heavenly
seven, and so, on Sunday night, one
star, the perennial and Irresponsible
Mickey Finn, was missing from the
convivial constellation.
But there were so many state pres-
ent that no one but Mickey would have
been missed. There was Miss Wlnne
—Miss Annie Wlnne—with an
who is the alithor of "Broken Bars"—
whether of soap, seashore or sound, we
do not recall. She accompanied the
oysters and the banjo wkh a negro
melody In Baxter street dialect, which
literally set the house a-roar. It wax
recherche, ax they say at Flowery
Branch; It was charmingly sweet and
wisely short.
And then there was Miss Mattie
Sheridan, the editor of "Men and Wom
en." Presumably she It lx who
edits the Invitation list. At least, It
would be presumable If It were not k
part of the constitution and by-laws
that any man or woman may freely
enter and regale If he or she feels that
she has talent and knows that she has
76 cents. Miss Sheridan had a difficult war against tha Untied States
part. She merely sat and beamed, it
would be too long to enumerate all the
talent preeent—the artists, the slpgers
—who are, of course, also artists-
the actors—who are artists also. But
the wit that gurgled with the wine
was of course the feature of the even
ing. There were those who opined that
Kipling was snot writing In his old
form and that Laura Jean Libby was
really Improving of late. The ethics
versus the esthetics of St. Gaudens
come Ih for a rapid running debate.
Richard Harding Davie waif present, xo
It wax thought on the part of many—
not Including Richard himself, per
haps—that It would be Indelicate to
discuss his masterpieces. ‘ Most of the
ijrltldsms were, like Coogler’s verse,
purely original. The only offender was
a fat lady (who wrote pieces) from
Washington square, who recalled that
Mf. Wilde had saldsthat "Meredith was
a sort of prose Browning—and ep was
Browning."
Her borrowed wit was roundly
hissed.
Neither New York nor winter would
be Itself without these wlt-fest* and
wine-fests of the Pleiades Club.
Atlanta Is a growing community—
to be trite—and there ts no reason why
we should not have a Pleiades Club
before long. Wc have the talent and
the temperament to be Bohemian now
and then—and a little of It could do no
harm. We would have to give It a new
name, of couree, for we could not Imi
tate even eo ambitious a metropolis as
Nsw York.
But the eplrtt, the form and sub
stance would be there. An originality
unmarred by the Infraction of the fat
laiLy would be ever present, and the
life of that night would be one grand,
sweet song.
A Quart.of Blood.
The chivalry that was Spain Is not
wholly passed away.
From Annapolis, Md., comes a story
that Vicente Garcia Valdes* native of
Hlspanla, but now- Instructor of mod
ern languages at the i’nited States
Naval academy, has In fulfillment of
a vow offered a quart of his blood to
the authorities of the Si. James hus-
pltai, Newark, to save the life of a
man he has never seen.
Many years ago in Spain, It appears,
Senor Valdes’s mother was thought to
be dying. But on October SS It was
saved, In an almost miraculous man
ner. The son’s gratitude was so great
that he made a vow so long ns he lived
to offer on October SS of each year .an
act of kindness to some person In sore
need. On that day of this year, Senor
Valdez read In a Washington paper of
the deeperate condition of a man who
had been asphyxiated, and the belief
of the Physicians that his life could be
saved by the transfusion Into his veins
of a quart of blood from some healthy
nan. trcrrdlngly. Senor Valdes made
his offer. ^
Senor Valdex is one of the most pop
ular Instructors at Annapolis, although
he served In the army of Spain In its
CLEARING HOUSE -
HAS FIVE MILLION
INCREASE FOR OCT.
An IwifA** of 95,503,990.05 In ctearlugg It
reported I»y the Atlanta (.’tearing Hoijkc A«-
Moclntion for tht* month of October, 1906,
orer the Nairn* month of 19%.
So better Indh-ntlon of flip ateady and
rapid growth of Atlanta could lie shown
than by the figures of the Clearing House
Association. The report for the month
shows figures which prove tbntn period of
Atlanta Hearing House Assdcbit
tiesdnft The clearings for October. 190G,
Crime, *' pr *l while those of 19a> were
I19.482.S7I.S7.
' | The clearings for Wednesday. October 31,
compared with the same date Inst year,
I show n decrease of 667.520.21. The clearings
(for today were 1716,815.69. while the same
date last year thews $$24,335.9<);
SHALL COUNCIL
I CORPORATION
SET SCHEDULES?
Shall the Georgia Railway and Elec
tric Company or the town council of
Oakland City make the schedule)* for
the street cars that pass through that
suburb? That Is the question which
Judge Pendleton has been called upon
to decide.
The authorities of Oakland City
"ordlnanced* that the East Point cars
should stop to put off and take on
passengers at every street corner in
that corporation, but the company re
fused to have its cars stop at any
except dealgnated crossings.
So the town marshal began to arrest
the motormen and conductors every
THOSE LAST YEAR
The applications tor building permits
recorded In the building Inspector’s of.
lice for the month of October amount,
In dollars, to 3445,919.
The building permits for October of
last year were $266,557. The Increaxe
of this month this year over the same
month last year ts $189,462. * *
There has been a great Increase each
month of this year, with the single
exception of September. The prospects
are now that the Increase for the year
will be well over the two million mark.
Report of. Theft of
$7,000 Has Reach
ed Nashv He.
IN FACE AND EYES
Suddenly pulling from her clothing
a bottle of hartshorn, Stella Jones, n
white woman, while under nrrest Tues
day night, at Mitchell and Mangum
streets, threw tjte contents Into the!
face of Mrs. Lucy Gale, of 137 West
Mitchell street, -who had caused her
arrest.
Mrs. Gale was considerably Injured
about the face and eyes by the strong
fluid, but It is not thought she was se
riously hurt. She was given attention
at a nearby drug store.
The Jones woman Is said to have
been Intoxicated at the time. She Is
said to have been acting disorderly
and the police station was notified, Call
Officers Brannon and Norris respond*
Ing and taking her Into custody. She
will be tried Wednesday afternoon.
THREE ARTkILLED
AND TEN INJURED
IN TRAIN CRASH
Hatttesvllle, Miss., Oct. 31.—Quarrel
ing over a game of cards, L. A. Wright
and H. Brevoort Ryan, wealthy plant
ers, killed each other In a duel In the
store of J. W. Brentand, who was also
shot dead while trying to separate
them.
Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 31.—There was
an express robbery yesterday on the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louts
railroad between-this city and Chatta.
nooga. \
The Southern Express Company offi
cers admit the robbery, but refuse any
Information as to details.
It Is said the loss Is aa hlfch at
$7,000.
RESULTS IN DEATH?
Special to The Georgia n.
Salisbury, N. l*., Got. 31.-Loti* Tallin-
brochef, a Hollander, wan killed yesterday
afternoon at the granite quarry, and four
other fellow-workmen hurt, by the runa
way of a granite ear belonging to the
American Atone Company.
The engine was drawing the ear up n
ateep grade, when the hook broke ami
caught the men.
The lege of a colored man were broken,
l»»it none more were fatally hurt.
MAY EYENTOALLY
HEACH 0.8, COURT
time they would not stop at a crossing.
The street car people applied for and
got a temporary Injunction restraining
the city authorities from Interfering
with the running of cars until the mat
ter could be threshed out before Judge
Pendleton. The Judge hes for the paat
several days been hearing the argu
menta which were concluded WedneS'
day.
MR. SESSIONS PRESENTS
HIS SIDE OF THE CASE
OF MARIETTA'S UTILITIES
To the Editor of The Georgian
Having known you for a number of
yeare, and feeling that you would not
do any man an Injustice, I desire to
take notice of the article In last Fri
day’s Georgian, In hlg display type,
headed “Marietta’s Plucky Rjght for
Municipal Ownership Seems Assured of
Success,” and also an article headed
"Mass Meeting Declares for City Wa
terworks.”
Tke statement that not a half dozen
of the men at the meeting were op
posed to the plan for municipal own
ership Is absolutely and unqualifiedly
false. The statement or Inference that
we had Mr. Blair as an attorney or a
citizen address the cltlxent’ meeting
for us la not only an Inrfuit to Mr.
Blair, but to the writer. It Is the
writer’s opinion that there Is no man,
or set of men. who could, for any
amount of money, employ Mr. Blair as
citizen to make an address at a
citizens’ meeting. As to the correct
ness of the statement that Mr. Blair
drafted the bill that was Introduced
In the summer of 1904 authorising a
vote for $80,000 bonds for system of
waterworks, the writer cannot say. The
statement that Mr. Sessions headed a
delegation for this measure Is Infa
mously false, and anyone who desired
to Inform himself could And that there
Is not n word of truth In It.
It It untrue that the company was at
that time anxious to dump the old
plant on the city. In fact, Mr. Editor,
the entire article Is misleading and out
of proportion to the facts.
Your papar, at the outset of the artl.
cte. seems to summarize the matter,
and It appears as your paper's own
statement as to facts and conditions.
Do you believe, Mr. Editor, as a fair
man, that your paper did the right and
proper thing In writing up an article
of this kind, with great headlines and
pictures of the leaders In this tight for
■addling 3110.000 bonds on the city,
without asking the owners of the pub
lic utilities of the city their opinion and
their rights and their side of the ques
tion? The writer learned early In life,
when a mere lad, that there were two
■idee even to a plank, and that one
side was the better side.
Practically all the write/ has Is In
vested in these enterprises. We hsve
a franchise front the city for these utili
ties, and the franchise provides that we
shall not charge for water, for public or
private use, more «hon ts charged in
other towns end cities In Georgia of
similar else and situation.
Your Issue of Saturday, the 2?th,
sets up Griffin, Ga.. ns a line example
of municipal ownership, and you praise
the low price* charged. Since the
writer took charge of the public utili
ties of this city we have reduced the
K rlee on lights on contract for business
ouses to 10 cents per kilowatt, the
same as Griffin, and tor residence 12
cents, with & per cent discount. We
have reduced the price for water, fur-
other city does, to a minimum-of $1 per
month. This city (a only paying $37.60
per year per hydrant, while Orlffin.
according to,your statement, has a
charge of 150 per hydrant. We only
charge 167 for arc lights, against Grif
fin’s $75. Our taxes are only $7.20.
against 110 for Orlffin. which means a
saving In favor of the tax payers of
Marietta of over $7,000 per year.
You say that the writer appeared at
the .city meeting lest Thursday night
and opposed same In a strenuous! way.
It Is true that he appeared In the city
meeting called In favor of the bond Is
sue and opposed same In as business
like talk as the writer could make In
a conversational tone for about an
hour, going Into detail snd explaining
his position fully fbr the benefit of the
mess meeting.
His position, condensed, was that he
had lived In this town practically all
hi* life and had never Injured a person
or a corporation; that. In addition to
the old plant—before knowing that
there would be an election for $80,009
bonds—we had prepared and were ex
pending $36,000 enlarging the water
works, getting a new supply of water,
putting In a first-class flittering plant
and pumping station, all of which
would soon be completed; that It was
not proper or a fair business proposi
tion for tbs city, tinder the circum
stances, to undertake to put In a com
peting system of waterworks; that It
would make both of them practteully
worthless, and that It would pile up
taxes on every piece of property, rich
and poor alike. Pointing out that wt
bad a survey made by a competent
man. and that the pip* line alone from
the only available source—other than
the one we are using (Little Noonday
Creek) would cost 380,500. From Big
Noonday creek, which would be more
practical for a larger town, the pipe
line alone would cost 396,000, and would
take 140-horse power to pump the water
Into the city. Or. If they went to the
Chattahoochee river. It would take
3l20,000.fcr the main line. The writer
Went into these matters In detail and
took up others which arc not necessary
to enumerate In a newepaper article.
The writer has bad the pleasure in
the past of talking to you as to your
views and Ideas of pure elections. We
supposed that the use of money In any
way hereafter to be barred. We had
no organlsatln nor raised any money.
The only money that ivae spent was on
Friday, the day before the election, for
the purpose of getting out a few circu
lars. giving the above facts In a con
densed way, sending boys to 'distribute
same around the streets, costing about
36 or 37. On the other bend, the town
was circularised through the mall, and
on the day of the election hacks and
carriages were used by the city mar
shals and others for hauling negroes
and others to the polls. We now have
about 900 white voters alone In tha
city. The total vote* polled, white and
black, for waterworks bond* were 236.
Out of about 660 property holders In the
city, not to mention the 100 or more
property holder* In the new territory
taken In who could not vote, only about
100 property owners voted In this elec
tion.
Now. Mr. Editor, we do not question
your right to hold any view that you
nlehlng meters free of charge, which no wish on municipal ownership, snd cer
The. cases against the negroes being
tried for the kilting of County Police
man Jim Heard, In Brownsville, on.
the night of September 24, seem It) a
fair way to reach the supreme court
of the United States eventually.
In addition to fighting.every step in,
the trial of the case of Alex Walker,
a former Kimball house porter, before
Judge Roan, In the superior court, the
lawyers for the ilenfendants, who have
pooled their Interests, have, through
the leading counsel, J. D.-Kilpatrick,
Injected a Federal question which may
eventually save some gullty negroes
from punishment on technical grounds.
Mr. Kilpatrick first raised the point
and cited authorities to show that the
authority vesied In the county police
Is unconstitutional, and that In effect
they formed a mob, which was fight
ing the negro mob. This contention
was overruled by Judge Roan, how.
ever, and that Is where the defense
will Inject the Federal question.
The lawyers will claim that the ne-
8 rots who shot Heard had a rig
er the constitution of the United
State* to bear arms; that. If the posse
of police was composed of legal offl
cert, the state of Georgia was respon
slble for their acts and that In dis
arming the negroes the officers were
depriving them of their right under
the Federal constitution.
County Police Illegal.
Mr. Kilpatrick argued that the act
creating the county police force was
Illegal, because it dir] not Include a
statement of the police powers of the
officers In the caption which states
that the net Is "to provide for inspect
ors of roads and bridges, for defining
their duties and for other purposes
connected therewith," but does not, as
Is provided In the body of the act
state that the "sheriff shall" appoint
them as his deputies.
When counts' Policeman Jordan was
testifying Wednesday morning a law
which has been almost universally dls-
regarded in cr!|nlna! courts was
brought suddenly Into the limelight.
Mr. Jordan had about finished his story
when Mr. Kilpatrick suddenly asked
him;
"Didn’t you know that It was against
the law for you to come armed Into a
court of juetlce?"
■ Mr. Jordan replied that he "didn’t
know anything about it," and the Inci
dent ended with a reminder from
Judge Roan to the officers In the court
that firearms In the court room would
not be tolerated. The Idea of the law
Is, of course, lo forestall any attempt
at Intimidating a court, but the rule
applies to those who are there to pre
vent the court from any possible In
timidation.
The submitting of evidence In the
case closed after a rambling statement
hV VVflllflH' Ilia ilefon.lnn) ..U *' m
1 GOSSIP!
BY CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
Neiv York, Oct. 31.—I nm ierry to
see thnt one-of Father Knickerbocker’s
most picturesque old fish markets—
that occupied by the Wholesale Fish
Dealers’ Association, In Beekman street
at the East river—Is soon to be re.
moved. It will be replaced by a sani
tary and fire-proof building.
Five on six million tons of fish, rep.
resenting 75 different varieties, g0
through this market every year. Wed.
nesdays and Thursday, the market
days, traffic Is congested for blocks bv
reason of the narrowness of South
streer.
The Ruaslon ambassador, Baron Rn.
sen, has returned to Washington from
his visit to Chicago and the West, ami
will be Joined at the embassy on Fri
day by Baroness Elizabeth Rosen.
Mme. Quesada, wife of the minister
from Cuba, left Washington for New
York today. Sho will spend a week In
shopping and visiting, Tho minister
has not selected a house to be used as
a legation and may remain at a hotel
all winter.
Thirty- or more prominent cottagers
are to remain at Newport until after
Thanksgiving, Including Mrs. John Car
ter Brown, Mr*. Harold Brown nml
Mrs. John Nicholas Brown. The eele.
brated 310,000,000 Brown baby Is seen
on the business thoroughfare—Thames
street—dally with hie aged nurse.
"Summer prisoned In the heart of
winter." Is the keynote.of this sea
son's Interior decorative fancy, of widen
the president's wife Is the leader. Mis.
Roosevelt Indirectly Is doing a great
deal to extend the fondness for rat
tan and willow furniture.
Her Idea Is best ret forth In the
green room/of the white house, which
she has turned Into an Indoor bower.
Willow furniture Is used exclusively In
this apartment, and It3 freshness Is
toned wfth the cushions and hangings
of green. Most of tho settees, lounges
and chairs >arc of pale green, others
shading to the natural hue.
New York Is having a feast of cheap
apples. They ere piling up in the fruit
markets. About 7.000 barrels have
been.received each day this week, and
the figures are likely to bo maintained
for some days, for there are large ship,
ment* on the way.
There are large 'quenties.of apples
on the piers and In railway yards, some
of which had been there fop several
weeks.
A celebration Is being planned, finder
the auspices of tho Cambridge Society,
of the one hundredth anniversary on
February 27 of the birth of Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow.
The day will be observed as "Long
fellow, day" In all the schools of Cam
bridge, with appropriate exercises. In
the evening. In Sanders theater, them
will be public exercises, at which Wil
liam Dean Howells will be the principal
speaker. President Elliott, Colonel
Thomas Wentworth Hlgglnson and
Professor Charles Elliott Norton will
also make addresses. .
A special Longfellow exhibition will
be held of early, rare and beautiful
editions of the poet’s work.
Sheriff J, W. Nelms has, at the re
quest of the grand jury, rescinded all
commissions of deputy sherlffe created
by him during the recent rioting and
as Its that all thoae appointed for (hat
emergency consider their commissions
now void except for six In each of the
militia districts of the county, as pro-
vlded for prior to the rioting, and a
few othenuln factories, In the employ
of the street railway and other neces
sary places
GEORGIANS 12$ GOTHAM.
New York. Oct. 31.—Here arc tome
of the visitor* In New York today;
ATLANTA—R. P. Black, Mrs. Arm-
strong, J. A. Brown, Mrs. J. EL Singer,
G. Westmoreland.
MACON—Mr*. Y. C. Mallory, J. H.
Stevens.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
by Walker, the defendant, shortly af
ter noon Wednesday and five hours on
W ednenday afternoon was set aside for
argument—three %>r the defense and
two for the state.
Walker has been positively Identified
by every witness as being In the front
of the mob and shooting at the officers
with a pistol. He admits being nearby
at the time, but swears he didn’t shoot
and that he Is always respectful to
white people.
OCTOBER 31.
1760— Kon mintIon atone Inhl for Blnrkfrtnrt
•bridge serous the river Thames.
1806—list tie of HtreMtx.
1841—Mrs. Tom Thumb lioru.
1S4S—Stephen Watts Kearney died. Born
August 30, 1794.
1864—Nevada admitted to the Union.
1879—J. B. Rurkstone, actor, died.
tS9J—< Xchrstions In honor of I.uther «t
1ft Ittenhcrg.
-Two earthquake shocks felt in many
of the Western states.
1808—American pence commissioner* de*
nmntled whole of Philippines from
ftnaln.
IRK*— henry Adams Neely, Protestant Ept»*
copal bishop of Maine, died.
1902—British caWe completed uround lb*
world.
1934—Wiiiiam II. Elder, nrchblnbop of On*
elmmti. died. a*e$! S5.
1905—Shaw’s play, "Mrs. Warren’s Profes*
jwn.” prohibited by the police hi .New
York.
tainly not as to Atlanta. We do not
know anything about the conditions
there, and are too busy here attending
to our own business to express an
pplnlon; but we do feel that you should
,* ' e ' ln A!’* *■»’ >’ou did and
flood the town on the eve of the election
with hundreds of papers predicting %lc-
tory and full of misstatements, without
giving us an opportunity to be heard
or even knowing that an article was to
appear. Believing In your fairness and
Jkftnees, we appeal to you to give mi*
Prominence-as you dlS
the article of Erlday, October 26
Yours truly,
MOULTRIE M. 8E3SIONS.
Marietta^ Ga., Oct. 27. “•
Moultrie Protests.
Editor Graves fears that cattle rais
ing Is one of the waning Industries of
Georgia. This shows lack of Informa
tion. He ought lo visit Moultrie.—
Moultrie Observer.
Neither, Thanks.
An esteemed contemporary says that
"John Temple Graves made Hearst."
And here we have been thinking > !
was the other way all the time.—lVn-
sacola Journal.
Non* Better in the South.
The Atlanta Georgian le new ft*’"
ting out a morning edition, and there
I* no better paper being published m
the South.—Dahlonega Nugget.
Something Unusual.
The Atlanta Georgian ha* "men
tioned” Hoke 8mlth for president. But
they are always doing something ou [
of the usual down In Atlanta.—Mem
phis News-Scimitar.