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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
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POLICYHOLDERS DEFEATED
IN FIGHT FOR THE CONTROL
New York Life and
the Mutual Life Are
Winners.
800.000 BALLOTS
CAST FOR TRUSTEES
Samuel Untermever, Repre
senting ' Policyholders
Committee, Charged
with Mistakes.
New York. Dec. 19.—The election for
trustees of the largest mutual Insur
ance companies In American, the New
York Life and the Mutual Life, Is over
snd the Indications are that the ad
ministrations have been victorious over
those of the Policyholders' Association.
Probably never before has there been
anything to compare with the election.
In number of ballots cast and In the
expenditure of time and money, the
election appeared like one of the states
of the Union.
The total vote cast In both companies
will approximate 800,000,of which about
500,000 will be In the New York Life,
In which the contest has been more
vigorously and more bitterly waged. It
will be some weeks yet before the
votes are actually counted.
The election was to determine wheth
er the present management of the
UP AGIST IT!
T
WANTEI>—8MALL SUPPLY OF IIUMPTY
Dumpty wrestler*. Apply to J. C. Lognn,
secretary Associated Charities.
Another tumble In the Iluuipty Dumpty
line has blocked the well laid plans of
Secretary J. C. Logan, of the Associated
Charities. Not that. Ilutupty Dumpty has
taken another fall out of himself, but the
stock of Ilunipty Dumpty wrestlers has
tumbled to nothing—has been sold out. So
other plans will have to he devised to help
A. A. Hall, a one-legged cripple, who wants
to got out of Atlanta.
Hall, who formerly ran a “baby rack"
with a street fair outfit, but who went
broke with the show. Is in Atlanta with n
wife and one little child, trying. to ‘make
mogey enough to get out of. town. He ap
plied to Secretary Logan for assistance, and
aid that If he* bad" a stock of goods to
Christinas
Ice by the enactment of the,
reform Insurance laws following the
Armstrong committee's revelations
mild remain In power, or whether the
the streets during the Cl
week he could make enough to take him
self and family to Pittsburg, Pa., where
he wants to go.
•Secretary Logan wired to a fakirs* sup
ply house Jn New York for a stock of
“Huinpty Dumpty wrestlers*' for Hall to
sell, but lie recelvwl word Wednesday
morning that the stock had t»een exhausted.
These wrestler* are a contrivance worked
by an Invisible string, and, ns the- fakirs
will tell you, are Just tho thing to take
* and amuse the children.
stock of tops, collar buttons or other kind
of stuff for Hnll to sell Ids way out of
town with.
men In charge of their own funds,
amounting In the two companies to
1970,000,000.
Samuel Untermeyer, a prominent at
torney of this city, led the fight against
the administration of the two compa
nies. He organised the forces of the
International Policy Holders' Associa
tion. Even friends of Nntermeyer de
clare he made some serious mistakes In
the conduct of the policy holders* fight.
Several of the directors named on th *
po'lcy holders' ticket, It developed, were
men who had no financial Interest In
either company, not even being Insur
ed In them. The administration forces
Proftator W. R. B. C. Farr.
The funeral aervlcea of Professor W.
R. H. r. Farr were conducted at his
late residence on Peachtree road Wed
nesday morning. The Interment was In
Oakland cemetery.
Oliver J. Barrett.
The funeral services of Oliver J. Bar
rett, the young son of Mr# and Mrs. T.
W. Barrett, who died nt the family
residence, were conducted In the pri
vate chapel of Harry O. Poole A Co.
Wednesday afternoon. The Interment
was in Ac worth, Qa.
TWO IRE ARRESTED
FOR ATTACKING GIRL
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El
THE 20TH CENTURY
THE JEWS
(Continu.d from 1«t Pag., 2d Section.)
Sphere nor the Christian centuries, but
quietly follow, hi. genealogical chart
until' It lahd. him ut the door of the
ark upon,Ararat.
Howav.fr It Is not antiquity alone
which makes the househdo u! the Jew
,Illustrious. .The'heroes of Biblical atory
have all sprung from the rood of Abra
ham: and, heading the long list which
Includes Moses and Elijah and David
and Solomon and Exeklel and Isaiah
and Paul and Stephen, Is the man of
Galilee, whom Christendom ranks above
all the rest: the Prince nt the House •)(
David and the Lion of the Tribe of
Judah. .
The battlefield of Hastings laid the
foundations and traced the patents of
the British nobility In rubrics which
were commonplace and palling com
pared with‘the blood of the hierarchy
of Israel. ' Nor have the life-currents
whlqh ‘ancestry has done so much to
ennoble been contaminated by foreign
admixtures. Senator Vance, of North
Carolina, has not Inaptly likened the
Jews to the gulf stream which Journeys
around the entire globe, but never min
gles with the ocean through which It
moves. The average American Is a
conglomerate whose ancestors are dis
tributed over the whole face of the
earthXand moet of the European, are
tinctured with foreign infusion*. But
the Jew I. still'the Jew. Racially he
has undergone no change whatever, and
the blood which ripples the veins of
the modern Hebrew In Amerla t. sub
stantially the blood of the ancient He
brew In Israel. The candidate for so
clal honors who Is knocking at the
door of the four hundred Is sure to be
admitted If he can show one single red
corpuscle which has come from Wil
liam the Conqueror: but the Jew, with
out using the microscope, requires only
a needle to open u. vein and out leaps
the. same blood which was bound to the
altar on Mouht Moriah.
The cynic who Is still Inclined to
sneer at the Hebrew race w ill do well
to recall the famous retort which Die
raell made In the house of commons
to the member who taunted him with
being a Jew. ''Sir,'' replied he. with
the calm poise which truth only can
give to resentment, "when your ances
tors were tending swine on the plains
of Srnndlnavla and drinking blood
from the skulle of savage victims slain
by savage victors, mine were priests
and princes .In Israel, worshipping Go.1
In thtj temple.”
Rusi
The antLSemltlsm of France ami
ilh Is by,'no'Ineans an expression
.la
of ttfe sentiment of Christendom to
ward-the Jews. On the contrary It
represents the death struggle of an old
enmity which Is slowly passing under
tho benign Influence of twentieth cen
tury, brotherhood Into the fossil re
mains of mediaeval barbarism. The
recognition of Oscar‘Straus by Presi
dent Roosevelt Indicates much more
rlenrly tho present drift of the great
world currents. In this connection It Is
of some Interest to observe that, while
the ’h ‘ —
ppolntment of Mr, Straus to the
portfolio bf.coinm.nre and labor marks
Into the president', coun-
Washington, the .vent-was anticipated
under .the, Confederate government by,
the appoimmentfbf Judah P. Benjamin,
nrst as attorney general and after
Knilurkutlnn on the n1ntrln10iil.1l l.oat nt
the age of fit Is the record of T. P. Camp
hell, a well -Iresleil man, who appenrtsl al
the office of ('h-rk to tin- Ordinary mail
ings Wednesday morning to get a license.
Mr. mailings tvns surprised, hat ns rump-
hell luaUtfil he wanted tit get married,
trip la Mrs. Nettle Smith, aged 47.
Chicago, Dec. It.—Michael Atphonsu
and Louis Calesuldle, both young men,
are under arrest here on a telegraphic
request from Chief of Police Hopkins,
"f Jersey City, N. J. The men are al
leged to have assaulted Annte Yarrla
and left her unconscious In a vacant
I 't near the outskirts of Jersey City.
While on their way to the police sta-
tlen In the patrol wagon both men
fought the police, but were overpow-
*ic,|.
Veteran Teacher Die..
8p,. rial to The Georgian.
Covington, Ga.. Dec. 19.—Hurdey
Treadwell, who lived near Oxford, died
Sunday from the .Ifect. of a stroke
"f parlysls. Mr. Treadwell was 65 years
Old. He was graduated at Emory Col
lege before the civil war and taught
school for many years. He leaves three
children. Messrs. Will and Forrest
Treadwell, of Columbus, Ga., and Miss
Treadwell, a missionary to Bra-
til
PENSACOLA TROUBLE
WAS NOT 0EP0RTE0
Army officers
gulf Iu‘at1qiinrt(>ri
leg"
a trolley car at IVnanroIa by nobler*
Fort llarranca*. ami Uu*y don't i*x|MN-t to
h*»nr anything for novornl dny*. They nr)*
Iik'IIdimI to think tho report of the affair
tclographi'il from IVimncola Is exaggorattsl.
If, however, the official report which \vf ‘
the department of th<
not yet heard any
nle by the nom commander ther
to
the department, warrants It u
court martial will Ik* ordered to
offender*.
W. E. Green.
The funeral services of W. E. Green,
who died nt hi* residence, 330 Ponce
DeLeon avenue, Tuesday morning, were
conducted at the Ponce DeLeon Baptist
church Wednesday afternoon nt 2:30
o’clock.
Mr. Green had been In bad health for
some time and hajl been confined to his
bed for several weeks.
He was 39 yea fa old and had been
connected with Dr. J. R. Hopkins for
over twenty years. He Is survived by
wards ns Secretary of state In the cabi
net of President Davis. ' ~
Following the
war. My. Benjamin took up his real
. ... — • **- became the
dence In England. Wbfcro he
queen’s counsellor. Except As foreign
ambassadors. It seldom happens that
men can lay double .claim to distinction
but such woi the dual accomplishment
of Judah P. Benjamin.
It Is significant of the popular feeling
In America toward,, the Hebrew race
Washington at the present
lirp four congressmen and one unimi
States senator of Jewish blood, nor Is
thliCfecogpltlon undeserved. The his
tory of the country from the earliest
Ills wife and three children.
have been Important factors In'Amer
ican affairs, on the military as well as
on the civil side. Though normally
men of peace and Inclined by Instinct
to trade rather than to arms, the mus
ter roll of all the great conflicts will
show that the Jews have been at the
front whenever there was fighting to
be done: and the men who have stood
shoulder to shoulder with them on the
fields of the Confederacy will attest
that the descendants of Abraham es
poused the cause of constitutional lib
erty with as little thought of surrender
as if battling for the very ark of the
covenant.
But while the appointment of Mr.
Struus is-pleasing to the country at
large ns an act of recognition Justified
by Individual as well as by racial merit,
it Is specially gratifying to the people
of Georgia. Years ago when the
Htraus family first emigrated to Amer
ica It was toward this state that the
pioneer movements of the household
band were directed. Perhaps In the
library of the old home In Rhemlsh
Bavaria there were books on the
shelves which told of how the Jews
had prospered In the colony of Ogle
thorpe. oome of therd having landed on
the bluffs of the Savannah as early as
1733. In looking over the long list »f
distinguished Hebrews the eyes of the
elder Straus must have rested upon
Sale of Feather Boas
First Floor, Ladies’
Neckwear Counter.
Coque Feathar Boas in white and delicate colors and a few dark colors
Conue Feather Boas, full, fluffy and extra
nue
lengths; white, pink, light bine, gray 4.50
Boas at . .3.50
Pink and light blue 6.50 and 8.00 Boas at .. 4.25
Light blue 2.50 Boas at 1.75
In sets feather boa and stole; reduced from
12.00 to ..... 7.50
Sets in gray with muff and stole, reduced
from 13.50 to 5.00
Sets in white, muff and stole, 20.00 set at 10.00
Brown Maribeau stole reduced from 16.00
to 7.00
Brown Maribeau stole reduced from 25.00
to 12.50
Some Dainty Pink and Blue Lined Dresser Scarafs Reduced
1.00 Scarfs : 75c
1.25 Scarfs .1 00
1.75 Scarfs 1.49
3.00 Scarfs
.2.49
4.50 Scarfs 3.00
2.25 Scarfs at 1.75
2.75 Scarfs at 2.00
75c Scarfs at .59c
Mens’ T
ies
Four in Hand in new colorings and
weaves. Ties distinctly for Xmas
50c. 1.00
gifts.
25c
Chamberlin-Joknson-DuBos?
th* Mord^cals and the Hhoftalls, and
It may be that prophecy even suggest
ed Moses and Levy and Hlrsch and
Elsas and Schleslnger and Eiseinan
and Jacobs. The philanthropic spirit
was one of the strongly marked char
acteristics of the Straus family and
the humane enterprise In which tho
colony of Georgia originated could
easily have supplied the emigrating
Impulse. At any rate, the elder Straus
gathered up his household effects and
with Isidore, Nathan and Oscar ho
started to Georgia.
BARNESVILLE,
6E0R6IA.
ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS, JANUARY 3,4,5.
THE GREAT PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF
THE SOUTH FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Patabllahed In 1*2. Enrollment now exceeds 800. Erery Honthem -state represented
ntnong the students. Msgnlfleeut whool plant, perfectly lighted, ventilated and
steam bested. Spacious halls, commodious study and recitation moms.
DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE-IDEAL ENVIRONMENT.
The character and management of Gordon appeal to parent* who de*lre to vend
their ion* and daughters to a school where every faeulty—meutnl. mornl and physical
—will t»e derelope.1 In the right war and to the highest degree. It Is non-sectarian.
Init Christian In it* fiiffueuce*. The dlecipllue la firm, hut not rigid, the cordial
relation* Iietween teacher* and students being particularly noticeable. Military de
iinrtuieuf under direction of V. K. army officer. The faculty la a* strong as thnl
of any tvdlege and the curriculum I* as high n§ that of any female college. A high
dearee of attainment Is deninnded of every student. Three course*— full elasalc.i;
course Including Latin and Greek; English course; business coarm*. Including book
keeping, .shorthand and typewriting.
Cstlloguo flivss detailed information of the advantages which havs far r.
half century enabled Gordon's graduates to excel in college, professional anc
business lives. Writs for it.
Harncsvllle. a dry of nearly 5,«W0 Inhabitants, f.GM feet afore sea level. All
advantages without the dangers of a large dty.
B. F. Pickett, President.
This was In 187)4. Locating at Tnl-
botton he straightway began to pros-
R er. The two eldest boys ns soon as
ley wore old enough entered Collins-
worth Institute: but Oscar appears to
have been too young to have enjoyed
the benefits of this excellent school ut
least for any length of time. He was
only four years old when he left Bn-
varla and before he was twelve the
family moved to Ofilumbu*. where they
lived from 1882 to 1885. The war en
tailed heavy disasters u|>on Lazarus
Straus, and. dismayed by the pronpect
which the state presented after Gen
eral 8herman’s energetic torch Jmd
ceased flaring from Chattanooga to
Savannah, he decided to start In busi
ness In New York, and thereupon he
moved to Gotham.
Organizing the firm of Lazarus.
Straus A H«.ns. tb« cs f nbll*Mnien* - n
became one of tfie largest concerns
Importing china*are ......
States, and the foundations of tin-
family fortune were laid. In 1887 Isi
dore and Nathan bought an Interest In
the great department house of It. H.
Macy A Co., which eventually became
the Joint property of the two brothers,
whose able financiering has made it
one of the largest mercantile establish
ments on the globe.
Soon after the family moved to New
York Oscar entered Columbia College,
from which institution he graduated
with the highest honor?*. Ill health pre
vented him from enjoying the cureet
which he had mapped out for himself
at tho bur. and he entered his father’s
firm, where his legnl acquirements
proved of Immense advantage. But he
was not prevented by his business en
gagements from taking an uctlve part
In politics for public service to such
an extent that President Cleveland
appointed him ns minister to Turkey.
Although a Democrat, he was subse
quently honored by President McKin
ley with the same appointment.
Besides winning the approvu) of the
home government, he also gained the
friendship of the Turkish sultan, who
wished to decorate him. but this com
pliment he felt constrained to decline.
However, Mrs. Htraus wo.i made the
recipient of the royal favor to the ex
tent of receiving the highest mark of
respect ever paid by the Turkish sov
ereign to the gentler sex. It Is by
no means the leust of the diplomatic
distinctions achieved by Mr. Htraus
that through the Turkish sultan he
was mnlnir Instrumental In keeping
the Mohammedans In the Philippines
from Joining Agulnaldo. He also ren
dered effective service to the cause of
American missions.
An accomplished literary schojar, Mr.
Straus has written numerous essays on
political and economic subjects for the
magazines and periodicals, and notably
for the Westminster Review, published
in London. He has received the de
gree of L. L D, In recognition of his
ripe scholarship and wise diplomacy;
and now his selection. Independent
Democrat though he Is, for portfolio
honors In the cabinet of President
Roosevelt Is an appropriate sequel to
the academic compliment.
selves Christians, but of all who pro
fess to l»o well-informed. Zangwetl
was not wide of the mark In declar
ing that "since the time of the exodus
freedom has spoken with the Hebrew
accent;" and so thoroughly I* the phi
losophy of Israel ingrained in the
structure of the world's thought, ris
ing from Its roots and mingling with
Its sap, that the man who Is ndlned
to decry the chosen people of God
cannot repudiate the debt which he
owes to the Jews by rejecting the
Biblical theory of the universe.
And going the full length of I ho skep.
Ileal tether, he may scorn the law, re
vile the prophets and condemn the gos
pels. but the obligation still attaches
to the civilization which he enjoys
and which Is all the Wiser for the prov
erbs of Solomon, all the sweeter for
the anthems of David and all the holler
for the beatitudes of Jesus. He may
be an avowed enemy to oxygen; but
tho despised element keeps him alive
In the water which quenches his thirst
—aye. In the breath which fills his nos
trils. And If, perchance, the very name
he bears in the ranks of unbelief Is
not enriched with the associations of
the temple, it still remains that the
very air he breathes on the streets of
Babylon Is fragrant with the blooms
of Galilee.
Los Angeles, Cal.
In Bankruptcy.
Through their attorney, Paul E. John
son, an Involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy was filed In the bankruptcy di
vision of the United States court on
Wednesday by A. L. Werner A Co.,
New York, and others against Edward
Glaser. Athens. Ga. The two other
creditors In the petition were Shulman
Bros., Philadelphia, and L. B. Flatoor,
Athens, Ga. The petitioners claim an
Indebtedness of $312.00.
CONTEMPT TRIAL
OF LARGE FIRM
Contempt proceeding. Instituted
agntnxt A. B. Tumlln A Company, al
leged bankrupt, and a prominent Arm
having .tores at Cedartown and Talla
poosa, are being heard by tho referee
In the grand Jui-y room of the custom
house. " ,
The bankruptcy proceeding, were
week. ago. The creditor,
of the company and several wltne.se.
are present at the hearing and It Is
likely that It wilt continue through
Thursday. The Arm I. represented by
Mnyson A Hill, of Atlantu.
SPECIAL SESSION
OF COURT CALLED
FOR MURDE RTRIALS
\
TERMINAL BLOCKED
RAILROADS REFUSE
TO ACCEPT FREIGHT
Mpcrlul to The Georgian.
Savannah, Ga.. Dec. 19.—The central i
way hits IkniumI a circular to
line* at Savaunnh declining to accept
except live Mtnek and ‘perishable
of the blocked condition of f
ha*
i Central railway, i
BOMBS ARE THROWN
AT RUSSIAN CHIEF
Special-to The Georgian.
Deenltir, Ain., Dec. !9.-rThc evidence la nil
In nud tho attorneys, urn arguing the case
this morning In the {preliminary trial of
Cliff May, riuirged with the murder of
Policeman J. Lent Jone*'on the night of
November 2t.
A verdict will probably lie reached late
today.
Waymond Moore, charged Jointly with
m iiiuiiii .'I'sui', i imiii-ii jimmy hum
Wny in the commission of the crime, bn*
wa_lved examination and bis cam* will go
Judge D.
Speak of the circuit court
bn* culled a special *cmn|oii of hi* court
nud also a special grand Jury to come In
. **-i dim *
Wny and Moore each accuse* the other of
Raward for Murdorar.
The governor has authorized
ward of $100 for tfie arrest of tfie un- { murdering Policeman Jones,
known person who, on December 8, in
Turner county, killed Tillman Bivins,
colored.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 19.—While i
Ing through one of the principal ■treats
of Lodx. Russian Poland, Chief of Po
lice Chrixaiiswkl, escaped death m‘
terrorists threw two bombs at hla <
rlage. '*' .
The driver of his carriage was kll I
and several soldiers of his escort were
wounded. The would-be assassins es
caped.
Overman Suit Postponed.
Special to Tho Georgian. ,
Salisbury, N. C.,'Dec. 19.—The
of the Lnnler heirs ngalnat Unit.-I
States Senator Leo 8. Overman
•Mr. Overman’s suit against them, »
solldAted by agreement of counsel, lias
been postponed.
Senator Overman will return to
to Washington, the date of the he
not having been definitely settled.
' Taken Off Probation.
An order was Issued by the adjutant
general Wednesday morning taking the
Columbus Light Guards, Company O,
Fourth Infantry, off probation. The
company was placed on probation last
spring during the regular Inspection
and Monday Colonel Obenr again in
spected the company. He found them
so much Improved that he recommend
ed that they be taken off probation.
Going to New York.
Hta’c Entomologist R. I. Smith will
leave Tuesday for New York, where he
goes to a meeting of entomologists
from nil sections of the country.
ONE ASPHYXIATED
‘ BY ESCAPING GAS
The typical Jew of the mediacvul
times was not the Shylocit of HiuAc—
speare, but the Isaac of Ivahho**; and
the typical Jew of the modern world
la not the money lender of Mortgage
Lane, but the sagacious and fur-sight-
•d man of affairs, who will presently
sit at President Roosevelt's cabinet
board. Skillful, energetic, practical and
patriotic, quick to detect points of ad
vantage, ' prompt to seize opportune
moments, faithful In performing ex-
exuctlvc trusts and modest in bearings
well-earned distinctions.
✓America has set an example which
France and Russia must follow. The
Jew Is entitled to the considerate re-
rhlcogo. Deo. 19.—One man waa
asphyxiated by coal gas and three
others were overcome and one made
seriously 111 early today In one of the
boarding houses for the Dolese A
Shepard Company employees at Thir
ty-third street and Forty-eighth ave-
nue. The gas escaped from a defective
heater.
FOREST FIRES IN GEORGIA
DO GREAT DAMAGE.
gard, not only of all who call them- rain.
H peels I to The Georgian.
Brunswick. Ga.. Deo. 19.—From all
section* of tho country tributary to
Brunswick, come reports of extensive
forest fires.
These tire* are attributable mainly to
the spell of dry weather which has
ntlnued over this section of south
tleorgia for the past three months, and
the reports are that u great deal of
damage has resulted to fences, build
ings and particularly to the Umber In
the woods. The glare from several such
fires was distinctly visible from the
streets of Brunswick at nights during
the early part of the present week.
Yesterday there waa a steady fall of
Cut Class at 25
Reduction.
Fancy China
Big special table of Fancy
China includes Vases,
Bowls, Cracker Jars and
dozens of other pieces es
pecially selected for Xmas
gifts; values $1.00
up to $2; at ...
Japanese Wares
Ijtirge Japanese Plates ini
new and pret- ,25c
ty effects
Thin Japanese .Cups and
Saucers in blue 75c
Decorations
Tomorrow we begin a special sale of fine Cut
Glass. Every article in the stock will be reduced 25 i
per cent from regular price; and regular prices I
were low. *
The line includes large and small bowls, vases, j
celery trays, pitchers, nuppics, compotes, etc., etc..
cuttings.
Nothing is more appropriate or pleasing for
i cut glo
Christmas gifts than cut gl ass.
—
All Sizes Roosevelt Bears—While and Brown.
McClure's Bazaar.
97'Peachtree Street.