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i THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOHEIt 31. UXfc. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN JOHH TEMPLE CUM, UH$t. r. L. SEELY, Prtildnl. •Published Ev«ry Aftirnson. „• (Except 8i:tJiLny) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At 25 W'e*t Alabama St. Atlanta. On. Suhecription Rates. One Year Six Month* Three Months.,.. By Carrier, l»er Week. ♦ .RW ,. 2.W .. 1.25 Smith A ,'J h.mi/JM'ii, mlvcrtUiim rt\\ mriitAtlrcf lor nil territory outside of Georgia. Chicago Office Tribune Bhlff. New York Office Cotter Bldg. »n» liepstrttnnat nml unt edit'd. IM^hoDei: Atlanta 4401. GKOKOIAN In* limited to 4»» words lit length. It Is Imperative that they !>• signed, ns mi evidence o? good frith, though the names will he withheld. If requested. lleJeeteu mm us-rlpts will not l»e returned unl«**t stamps are sent 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.