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Wednesday, jan. s
WEDDING RAIMENT
CONGEALED
, GRIEF
Persons who attended the brilliau*
redding of Miss Hilda Gehrken to
Mr. Thomas Bird Tuesday evening
at the Gehrken home on Greene and
Elbert streets little dreamed of the
sorrow that was concealed by some
of those in attendance. Shortly be
fore the time of the wedding came
the news of the death at Ft. McCord,
Fla., of Mr. Charles Louis Stoffel, a
brother of Mr. Fred Gehrken, the
mother of --iss Gehrken whose wed
ding was about to begin. Knowing
that the announcement of the death
would cause the wedding to be post
poned and would serve no good pur
pose, the few to whom the intelli
gence had been conveyed resolved to
keep the death a secret until the
wedding was over. This was done
and the wedding party made merry
While a few of its members were
•ad at heart.
Mr. Stoffel was at one time a citi
*en of Augusta and is well known
kere by a host of friends who will
grieve to learn of his death. The
remains will be forwarded to Au
gusta for interment. The funeral ar
rangements have not yet been made.
MRS. REBECCA WOOD
PASSED AWAY TUESDAY
Mrs. Rebecca Woods died Tuesday
night in the eighty-ninth year of her
age. Mrs. Woods had been at the
county home for some years. The
funeral services were held at 4 o’clock
Wednesday afternoon from the resi
dence of her sister, Mrs. Fix, No. 1
Campbell street. Rev. H. R. Jr
officiated. The interment was i..
city cemetery.
NEGRO FELL OFF TRESTLE
AND KILLED HIMSELF
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga — Alexander
Griggs, a negro twenty years old, fell
from a railroad trestle here Wednes
day morning and killed hintseif in
stantly. The coroner will hold an in
quest bit the verdict will undoubtedly
be declared an accident.
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PEKING—The American, British
and Japanese ministers are acting
upon the principle that the situation
brought about by the dismissal of
Grand Councillor, Yuan Shi Kai, re
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of powers and sent a warning to the
Prince Regent against any admin
istrative act that might endanger
peace.
CLOSING ARGUMENTS
MADE IN ERB CASE
MEDIA, Pa.—Closing arguments
were made today in the case'Of Mrs.
Florrie, Erb and her sister Mrs. Reisel
charged with the killing of Mrs.
Erb’s husband and the case will go
to the jury today.
CONDITIONS IN ATLANTA
PRISON BETTER LAST YEAR
ATLANTA. Ga.—“ These figures tell
their own story,” is the observation of
the counciimanic committee on pris
ons, in its annual report to the city
council, submitted Monday night. The
report deals exclusively with the work
of the city stockade during the past
year, and the pertinent observation is
made after it has been shown that the
average decrease in the number of
prisoners for the whole year was 32
per day.
The reduction in the number of
white prisoners for the year was 58
per cent as compared with the pre
vious year, and the number of ne
groes decreased by 32 per cent.
The average sentence of the pris
oners was 11 1-2 days, as compared
with an average sentence of 12 1-2
days for 1907.
The number of whites sent to the
stockade from December 16, 1907, to
December 16, 1908, was 729—585 men,
135 women and 9 boys. The number
of negroes for the period was 3,338 —
2,319 men, 844 women and 175 boys.
The total number of prisoners for
the year, white and blacks, was 2.067.
The aggregate number of days
served by the whites was 9,187; by
the negroes 56,546. The grand total
for both races was 65,733. As com
pared with the previous year, the
number of white prisoners decreased
780; the number of negroes 1,296.
The actual number of days served by
both races decreased 11,848.
The committee recommends con
crete cells and individual cots for the
inmates of the prison.
It is reported that the fare served
the prisoners, their treatment, general
health conditions and attention dur
ing the year was good. The manage
ment is highly complimented.
MIGRATORY SPIRIT
HITS ATLANTANS
Two Men Kept Busy at the
Postoffice Keeping Track
of People Who Move.
ATLANTA, Ga.—Atlanta, for some
reason or other, has developed a
migratory habit. Over one thousand
changes of residence are now being
made weekly. Perhaps it is the de
sire to start the New Year under en
tirely new conditions, or it may be
that the abnormally spring-like weath
er has put abroad a touch of the
wander-lust of spring. At any rate
the Changes are being made and, to
keep count of them, the postoffice is
being compelled to devote two men
to no other work.
The postoffice has a form of blanks
which it furnishes to be filled out to
all who make a change of residence.
Over a thousand of these blanks are
being returned to the postoffice
weekly, and many effect a change of
icsldence without furnishing the posr
office with a notification of the
change, so s hat the figures obtainable
through the returned blanks are real
ly inadequate.
The change is not being confined to
one part of the city, But is common
to all. None are leaving the city,
there simply seems to be restless
ness abroad that is sending home
holders to new quarters. Perhaps
the unusual amount of building now
going forward is responsible in part
for the changes.
The reting agents all report that
business is unusually brisk, and that
the work for their hands to do is
ficient to keep them well employed
GATES WANTS TARIFF MAIN
TAINED.
WASHINGTON—John W. Gates
has writen a letter to speaker Can
non, saying a cut of fifty pet - cent in
the steel schedule would hurt man
ufacturers.
ONE OF MESSINA’S PRINCIPAL STREETS
— ■ .jgj^'
Picture shows one of the principal streets in Messina. Tite arrow shows
the American consulate, which fell, crushing Consul A. S. Cheney anti his wife
WOULD Hi THE
COMMERCE LAWS
WASHINGTON. The president
sent a special message to congress,
calling attention to the recent de
cision of the supreme court in which
E. H. Harrlman was upheld in his re
fusal to answer the questions put to
him by the interstate commerce com
mission, indicating the further amend
ments to the interstate commerce law
was advisable.
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EL PASO, Texas.—According to pri
vate information received here to
day, E. H. Harriman has decided to
build a railway line from the main
line of the Southern Pacific east of
El Paso into Mexico.
TIGER CASES HAVE
BEEN POSTPONED
The cases against J. E. Jim
Brooks, Chas. Spradley, J. T. Paul,
J. C. Richardson, Will Todd and T. L.
Howard, charged with a violation of
the city ordinances by having for the
purpose of illegal sale, whiskey, or
other malt or spirituous liquors, have
been continued by Judge Picquet un
til Friday morning at, 9 o’clock.
The witnesses against these defend
ants are: E. B. Martin, W. L. Burn
side, Dr. R. L. Henry and C. T. Sea
go. The cases are exciting a great
deal of interest and a large crowd
will no doubt be present at the trial.
SUDDEN STIMULUS.
The villager rushed into the volun
teer firehouse.
‘‘Come on, boys!" he shouted, ex
citedly, ‘‘Lem Wheatly’s barn is burn
ing down."
‘‘Oh, shucks!” yawned the captain,
lazily. “We’ll have to look up our red
shirt and fire hats. Tell Lem we'll
be there in an hour or so.”
“But Lem’s barn is burning and
‘there be five barrels of hard elder
stored in the loft.”
“What’s that? Five barrels of hard
cider? Come on, boys! Every man
tc his post. We’ll have that barn
saved inside of twenty minutes.”—■
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CRUCIAL TEBT.
She vowed the man she accepted
must be brave and he felt as courage
ous as Robin Hood.
“But what proof have I of your
bravery?” asked thlß apartment
house maid.
“I defy the world!” he shouted, gal
lantly! »
“Tut! tut!” she laughed. ‘‘l have
heard that before. Go down and defy
the janitor and tell him to put some
more coal into the furnace. I am al
most frozen ”
But the young man paled and called
for his hat and cane.—Exchange.
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It will be fine
In nineteen-nine
To kep the pace we are going,
But better still
And sure it will,
Give us greater cause for crowing.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL
CINNOTJXPLAIN
WASHINGTON.—The president in
his special message to the senate de
clines to permit the attorney general
to say why he has failed to bring ac
tion against the United Stales Steel
Corporation on account of the absorp
tion of the Tennessee Coal and Iron
company. The message is a response
to a resolution introduced by Senator
Culberson.
MURDER AN ISSUE IN
TENNESSEE FIGHT
Prohibitionists Say That
Carmack is a Martyr To
the Cause and Will Fight
Hard To Make the State
Dry.
NASHVH LE, Term.—“ Remember
Carmack!” is the rallying cry of the
temperance forces of Tennessee, who
are gathering in the capital during
the first week of the legislative ses
sion to demand the passage of a pro
hibition bill that will drive every sa
loon from the state. Only three Ten
nessee big cities are now left in
which liquor can be legally sold and
there is every prospect that before
long Memphis, Nashville and Chat
tanooga will be rendered “drv.”
The assassination of Senator Car
mack. the editor of a local newspaper
by a political enemy, has been made
an issue by the friends of state-wide
prohibition. Carmack was last vuar
a candidate for the gubernatorial nom
ination aaalnst Governor Patterson.
Ho ran on a prohibition platform,
but was defeated by a narrow mar
gin after a heated campaign In which,
the liquor traffic was the principal is
sue. He did not allow his defeat at
the polls to end the campaign but
kept the prohibition question to the
forefront through editorials In the
newspaper of which he was the edi
tor. It was his devoted advocacy of
the temperance cause, declare his
friends, that led to his tragic death
In ad uel on the streets of Nashville.
Now he is being hailed as a martyr
to prohibition, and a state wide law
prohibiting the manufacture and sale
of liquor Is urged as the most fitting
monument to his memory.
Despite reverses they suffered In
the first conflicts with the liquor ele
ment, the leaders of the temperance
army ''are confident that public
opinion will force the present legis
lature to pass a prohibition law.
It is alleged that the prohibition
bill will have more than the neces
sary seventeen votes in the senate,
and that nearly two-thirds of the
members of the house are state-wld
ders or will eventually be brought, to
that way of thinking by the force of
public opinion.
The liquor dealers have not yet
given up hope that Tennessee will be
savetl from the Impending fate of
prohibition, and the battle between
the "wets” and “drys” will be fought
to a finish. Opponents of prohibition
assert that the attempt to make the
Carmack murder an issue is ahsurd,
and that the assassination of the
former senator was due to personal
difference and had nothing to do with
the liquor controversy.
A GOOD IDFA.
The fiddler always wants his hire
And therefore, mates.
Ere he tunes up, let us inquire
About his rates.
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FORMER OPPOSES
THE FULTON BILL
WASHINGTON. —After two tie
votes had been east in a specially
called meeting of the senate commit
tee on Interstate commerce, Chair
man Elkins was authorised to report
adversely to the Fulton bill to prohi
bit railroads from increasing freight
and passengers rates withou' due no
lice, in event Senator Forakcr, who
was absent, should oppose the meas
ures. Senator Elkins stated that
Senator Forakcr was opposed to the
measure and he was authorized to ob
tain the latter's volt and make the
report to the senate accordingly.
ARGUMENTS HAVE BEGUN
IN NIGHT RIDE r . CASES
UNION CITY, Tenn. "he defense
Ins begun its argument u the night
rider cases.
MANY BILLS PASSED.
WASHINGTON.-—Bills on calendar
occupied the attention or the senate
and various measures of much im
portance were passed. The house
proceeded under the call of commit
tees.
MR. HENRY LUDLOWE
TALKS ABOUT STAGE
Is Appreciative of Great
ness of Edgar Allen Poe.
Looks For Shakespearean
Revival.
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Into the brightness of the sunlit
room where through the open win
dows floated the airs of spring that
stirred the filmy curtains and klss*d
the plants of the window-garden Into
new life, crept the shadow of the Ra
ven, and through the spaces hounded
by the four walls of an apartment
opening on Broad street, as it. is in
the year 1909 reverberated the hush
ed yet intense and thrilling voice of
Edgar Allen Poe that has not sounded
In any earthly space for fifty years.
The near approach of the Centen
ary of this great poet, of the South
land has called for such a study of
his life and work In the magazines
and the dally press as has never be
fore been known, and lends a marked
additional interest, to the appearance,
Henry Luldowo, in a play that is the
love story of Edgar Allen Poe.
Because he is an appreciator of all
that is fine and true and beautiful in
nature, and ari, Mr. Ludlowe loves his
new part, and because his Shake
ppearan training nas taught him to
be thorough In all he undertakes, he
has made a close study of the poet
and of his greatest poems. Ills con
ception of "The P.aVen,” probably
Poe’s most widely known work, Is
largely his own, and as he expresses
It Is both attention-compelling and
inspirational. His own exquisite
English, the wonderful music of a
voice long trained to sound immortali
ties, cannot be reproduced here, hut
perhaps there can be conveyed :/ne
idea of what “The Raven” stands for.
Mr. Ludlowe thinks that Poe has
gone close to the hearts of mankind
simply because he has passed
through the greatest depths possible
to human experience and has known
the fqll eestney of such heights as
mar. aspires to In his loftiest flights.
Remorse dogged the footsteps of the
poet who recognized fully his own
divine possibilities, and dogged them
so persistently that it took a shape
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as tangible to him as was the dagger
to Macbeth or the ghost to Hamlet.
The Raven that constantly croaked
“Nevermore" was the ever-present
black shadow on his heart that warn
ed hint constantly away from the In
effable glories represented Ivy the
"Lenore," the bright spirit that ever
urged to the blaze of light on the
tummlt. With consummate skill
does the master actor recreate the
situation in which the mighty poetic
genius so sadly found himself, and
with infinite pity does he acknowl
edge that Poe was not a victor be
came nls moral weakness vanquish
ed him.
There can he no doubt, Mr. Lud
lowe said upon the. conclusion of a
brief Interview ibis morning In which
he loil been led to resurrect a long
dead scene, but that before the cole
bration of the two hundredth anni
versary of Poe’s birth he will have
received the recognition us a poet not
yet accorded him. All great mas
ters of their art, he thinks, can bo
judged truly only in perspective.
Tliis has been markedly Irue of
Shakespeare, and right here It is In
teresting to note that this great,
scholar and thinker who Is also an ac
tor of tremendous potentiality, Is con.
vinccd that we are on the eve of a
great Shakespearean revival. He
bases this opinion on many signs of
the times, but principally upon ills
own recon! triumph and success in
Shakespearean roles In New York, a
success watch he modestly attributes
far less to his own reputation than
to the love for Shakespeare in the
hearts of theatre-goers. An especial
ly significant fact to which Mr. Lit 1-
iow calls attention Is that It Is among
tile masses that, one finds the keen
est appreciation of the dramatic
miracles of the Bard of Avi.n, and
that in New York and elsewhere his
most wildly enthusiastic receptions
iiave been accorded by the people
who thronged the galleries and the
balconies of the large I heat res. The
world is studying Shakespeare as
never before, studying him so Intel
ligently and so illuminating that no
longer does It content Itself with the
ranting of the old barn stormers. In
the dawning of the higher era of art
there Is a light that shows clearly
any lack of the more masterly meth
ods and i.iai demands intelligence
rather than tempestuousness in a
dramatic presentation.
With especial pleasure does Mr.
Lualowe speak of the possibilities for
ari elevated stage that are to be open
ed up wlln the dedication of the
now theatre in New York next. year.
In the meantime Jt Is a message
from a more modern master that Mr
Ludlowe Is bringing us, a message
from a poet which is really ours and
a message that may be fruitful In
great good If only we grasp correct
ly Us meanings. K. B. A.
PAGE FIVE
TEDDY ROOSEVELT, JR.,
BECOMES A MAJOR
His Appointment on Gov
ernor Lillcy’s Staff Be
came Effective Wednes
day.
HARTFORD, Conn. Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., Is Wednesday a full
fledged military officer, with the rank
and title of major. Clad in a gay uni
form, with much gold braid, the son
of the president rode proudly in the
van with Governor Lllley's escort tu
the Inaugural procession while the
est wda cheered the doughty warrior
who has added the profession of arms
to the trade of carpet-making. While
the appointment was announced some
time ago, It did not become fully ef
fective until Wednesday.
As Governor Llllev, when a mem
ber of congress, was the central fig
ure in the suhninrlne-baat scandal at
Washington and was subjected to
the bitterest of personal attacks dur
ing his 1 campaign for the governor
ship, his appointment of young Roose
velt as an aide de camp was a great
political surprise.
The republican leaders insist that
President Roosevelt, consented to his
son's appointment, because of his
wish to indicate that he approved of
Governor I,llley both personally and
politically. Many of the Taft lead
ers were active opponents of Lilloy
in the campaign.
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