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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD
VOLUME XIV., NO. 7.
Southern Principles
Are Hard To Change
SO SAYS GOVERNOR-ELECT
BROWN IN COMMENTING ON
PRESENT POLITICAL
DISCUSSION
SOUTH CONSERVATIVE
Mr. Brown Thinks Prohi
bition Law Has Been of
Benefit to the State
Governor-elect Brown is not san
guine of the success of President-elect
Taft in making inroads on the Solid
South. In an interview with a re
porter of The Herald Thursday morn
ing he gave his views predicting for
the president-elect no greater meas
ure of success than has crowned the
efforts of other presidents, unless he
convinces the South by the logic of
facts that a policy of government to
which they have clung tenaciously for
so many generations is a wrong pol
icy, and unless he convinces the
South that he has a better, a more
practical policy,
"Southern principles are hard to
change," said Mr. Brown. “It is the
popular idea that climatic conditions
make of the southern people a hot
blooded, impetuous race. In reality
we are conservative. We are a homo
genuotts people; the absence of ex
tensive immigration has left us prac
tically one race. Southern views are
cast in certain lines, lines that have
been moulded for generations. It is
one thing for the south to be pleased
with Mr. Taft’s winning personality,
his charm cf manner, his famous
smile; and it is another thing for the
South to change her policies. That
was one great trouble after the war.
Northern politicians held aloof, and
kept on legislating.”
Mr. Blown pays Judge Taft a high
tribute. I regard him,” said the gov
ernor-elect, “as the highest type of
American manhood. He will make a
great president. If he has an under
lying principle of government that
will make its appeal to the logic of
Southern then he may
drive in a wedge. But our people will
not swap a principle for an idea.
HIGHEST TYPE OF
AMERICAN MANHOOD.
“I think Mr. Taft did a wise thing
when he came South to spend a
weeks of the winter season, and I
think he could have no where found
a city so thoroughly representative of
both the old and new south as Au
gusta. I think the best way to wipe
out any lines that may exist, in spirit
between the noth and the south is for
the people of both sections to visit
those of the other, visit them in their
homes. Of course such a thing is im
possible, but I believe if the south
might spend one summer in the
homes of the northern people, and the
north spend one winter in the homes
of southern people, every trace of se
ctional feeling would be forever wip
ed out.”
Judge Taft’s intimate knowledge of
every branch of the national govern
ment, both legislative and executive,
will qualify him as one of the best
presidents in history, is the opinion of
Georgia’s governor-elect. “I regard
Mr. Taft,” said he, "as the best repre
sentative the republican party could
have put forward. He is fitted to
have a broader view of government
than any statesman I know. He is
familiar with the American foreign
policy, and with the inland policy of
our country.”
Mr. Brown will pay his respects to
the president-elect while he is in Au
gusta.
Aside from a desire to fulfill his
promise to the voters of Georgia made
before the primary election, to visit
the different counties of the state, out
line his policies of governorship and
discuss political issues, governor
elect Brown's motive is coming to Au
gusta and in visiting other towns or
cities of the statte is to get acquaint
ed with the people.
WANTS TO SWAP
IDEAS WITH PEOPLE.
“I want to swap ideas with the peo
ple of Georgia,” said he. “To familia
rize myself with the needs of the peo
ple of ou r state, I feel that it is neces
sary to exchange thoughts with the
best representatives of every class.
People have a great deal more sense
than they are sometimes credited
with having.”
Mr. Brown will continue his visits
until aljout the first of May. He
plans to make a tour of South Geor
gia counties, and to penetrate some
of the more isolated sections in the
northern part of the state. After the
first of May, it will be necessjyrv for
him to plan more carefully his af
fairs ,and he will remain at home.
From Augusta he goes to Waynes
boro, where he will probably speak,
and returning from there to Augusta,
he plans to leave next Tuesday morn
ing, visiting at Harlem, Thompson
and Washington on his way to At
lanta.
The governor-elect spoke at some
length on the effects of the Georgia
prohibition law. "It would hardly be
fair for me to say whether or not, in
my opinion, the law has done as
much rood as its supporters predict
ed, for - isiasm is alwaya prond to
under-estj'tiate the strength of an op
posing force. I think the only fair
test of the benefit of the measure is
to average carefully its effects in the '
various sections of the state, and, I
having done that, I can truthfully j
say that I think the law has been of
benefit to the state.”
Oaring the early morning, Mr. I
Brown met quite a number of callers. 1
SISTERS FOUND
SOT GUILTY OF
ERB MURDER
MEDIA, Pa. —Mrs. Florence Ml
Erb, the wife of Captain J. Clayton
Erb, who was well known in polit
ical circles all over Pennsylvania,
and her sister, Mrs. Catharine
Bqisel, who were charged with the
sensational murder of Captain Erb on
the night of Oct. 6, 1908, Thursday
walked from the Delaware county
court house as free women. After
the jury had been out nearly eigh
teen hours it brought in a verdict of
not guilty in the case of each wom
an, both of whom had been charged
separately and jointly with the shoot
ing of Captain Erb.
Thus ends a trial that has held the
interest of the people of this state
for more than a week, during which
much scandalous evidence was
brought out, some of which did not
reach the reading public.
After the foreman announced the
verdict of acquittal there was a sec
onds pause, and a dead silence, then
with half a scream, the sisters fell
into each others arms. Everybody
in the courtroom was on his or her
feet and i«e. women wept as they
looked at the pathetic scene. In an
instant the women were surrounded
by their friends and attorneys and
overwhelmed with congratulations.
Harry Beise] threw his arms around
his wife and his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Erb, and tears came to their eyes.
This scene lasted several minutes.
Both women shook hands with the
jurors and thanked them for their
verdict.
CLAIMING DUKEDOM
DIES IN NEW ORLEANS
Lawyers Say That Man
Was No Doubt Entitled
To the Italian Title and
Fortune.
NEW ORLEANS. —Death, late Thurs
day ended thp claim of Bartholomew
Albanese, heir to the dukedom of
Verona, in Italy, and an estate valued
at many millions of dollars. Attor
neys who represented him, say that
there was no doubt whatever that
Albenese was the rightful heir to
the Verona title and fortune.
The father of Albenese, who ba
came an oyster peddler, is said to
have fled fretm his home and come
here when a mere lad, He died a few
months ago, and in an old tin box
he left to his son, papers were found
which were claimed to have revealed
his real identity. The duchess of La
Mesa, said to have been the sister
of Albenese, Sr., had died without
heirs. Upon being told by lawyers
here a short time ago that his claim
was apparently bona fide one, Albe
nese’s reason became dethroned.
Some days later was found in a half
starved condition in a forest near
here, which he had conceived to be
his ducal estate.
Negotiations were being carried on
in connection with the matter at the
time of the claimant's death
MAYOR TIEDEMAN
IS UNOPPOSED
Will Be the Mayor of Sa
vannah For Another
Term. Few Changes in
Council.
SAVANNAH —Mayor Tiedeman will
go into office for two years more un
opposed. The opposition did not put
a ticket in the field up to midnight
last night when the time for filing
the ticket expired. Messrs. R. M. and
A. Vetsburg are the only new mem
bers of the board of aldermen, all
the others standing for re-election.
SKYSCRAPER XIUAKED
WHEN STRUCK BY COLD
CHICAGO —Tenants of the Sewart
building, a thirteen-story structure at
State and Washington streets were
thrown into a semi-panic Wednesday
afternoon by a shock which swayed
the building and which was supposed
to be due to an earthquake. The en
gineer of the building put an end to
the sensation by declaring tha f the
“shock” was rather a sharp report
made by the contraction of the ma
terial in the building, due to the in
tense cold.
CENTENARIAN PASSED
AWAY AT HEPHZIBAH
HEPHZIBAH, Ga.—Aunt Lydia
Griffin, an old negro woman who is
over a hundred years old died here
Wednesday. This old woman has Uv.
ed to see five generations of her fam
lly. She was a former slave of Dr.
J. H. Kilpatrick, the grandfather of
Dr. Andrew Kilpatrick of Augusta.
She died in her old home on the old
Kilpatrick estate.
Forecast for Augusta and Vicinity—Clear and Freezing Tonight, Friday Fair.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 7, 1909.
FAMED TOLEDO
DATREDRAE
DOMED
TOLEDO, Spain-—A board of archi
tects has pronounced the cathedral
at Toleda, one of the largest and
most ecelebrated Gothic edifices in
Europe, unsafe and liable to collapse
WILL DESTROY
HISTORIC HALL
Will Tear Down Old Barry
County Court House
Where Missouri Ordi
nance of Secession Was
Signed.
CASSVILLE, Mo. —With the pass
ing of the old Barry county court
house, which has been condemned to
destruction, there will go out, of ex
istance the last historic structure
connected with the attempt of the
Missouri legislature to bring about
the secession of Missouri from the
Union. It was in this old building
that less than a quorum of the legis
lature met in 1801 and ratified an
ordinance of secession.
The actual ordinance of secession
was passed at Neosho, and was en
titled "An act declaring the ties here
tofore existing between the United
States and the state of Missouri dis
solved.”
The bill was immediately signed by
Governor Jackson, while Price’s can
non fired a salute. Another bill was
passed notifying provisional govern
| ments of Confederate states of this
1 action of the Missouri legislature. Al
ter these proceedings the house and
senate adjourned to meet in Cass
ville, October 1, 1861.
The erroneous statement that the
secession ordinance was passed at
Cassville grows out of the fact that
when the Confederate legislature did
I meet at Cassville Senator Vest re
| wrote the ordinance of secession and
other proceedings took place in the
I legislature here. The handful of
members of the two houses who were
present at Cassville adopted several
! acts relative to war measures, none,
!of which, however, were put into
actual effect.
DESIRE FOR LIFE
IS DECREASING
Bishop Greer Says the
Country is in the Grip of
a Terrible Epidemic of
Suicide.
NEW YORK—-New York is startled
by the sensational statement of Bis
hop Greer that the desire for life
among the people, not only of this;
I city but of the whole country, is de
j creasing. The Bishop declares that
men and women are becoming less
sensative to their personal respon- j
| sibility to L,od, and lays the blame
for the appalling wave of self de
struction that has been sweeping the ;
land during the last few months to a
relaxing of modern life on the vital [
!realities. “The people are forgetting
that they are placed here to struggle”
says the bishop. "Too many seek
only happiness, instead of striving
to be worthy of life. The country is
in the grip of a terrible epidemic of
suicide. The agnostic, when the bur
dens of life becomes too severe, is
willing to free himself from them and
take the risk of what death will
bring. Auto-suggestion plays an Im
portant part in the wave of suicide.
Newspapers are indirectly responsible
for flaunting ghastly stories of crime
before the eyes of the people, and!
thus inciting them to follow in the j
steps of those unfortunates who have j
died by their own hands.” Bishop ■
Greer’s statement voices the opinion
of many prominent men in New
York who have discussed the sui-;
cide epidemic of late.
FIVE CENTENARIANS
AT ONE DINNER TABLE
One Can Remember Great
Naval Battle of the War
1812 With England.
NEW YORK—lmagine a dinner ta
ble at which five centenarians, the
oldest of them 114 years, sat down.
Just such a table was set recently at
the Jacob home In this city. There
were 187 guests in all and their
wages totalled $14,900 years. Esther
Davis who remembers the day the Am
erlcan frigate constitution defeated
the Guerrlere of England In the war
of 1812 was the oldest of the assem
bly. Rose Arronwald was next wltn
107 years of life behind her, and there
was another 106, and two who have
just celebrated their 100th anniver
sary. After a hearty meal, Mendel
Kalmenson, despite his 106 years,
gave a Russian dance called the Ko
zotsky.
THE WORLD’S BIGGEST
OFFICER TAKES OATH
ANDERSON, S. C.—William B.
King, age 41, weight 430, height six
feet three Inches, yesterday took the
oath of office of sheriff of Anderson
county. He is said to be the biggest
officer In the world. He was elected
over two strong opponents, one of
whom served as sheriff sixteen
yeara-
CATHEDRAL IN MESSINA
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Picture shows the Cathedral in Messina, which
is reported to have been destroyed by the recent
earthquake. Reports indicate that a large number
of the clergy were killed here.
FMIMERIH
TfiEITI SIGNED
" •
PARIS —The new Ftanco-American
treaty of extradition has been signed
here by Ambassador White for the
United States and Foreign Minister
Pichon for France. This treaty Is
substantially identical 'With the one
negotiated in 1892.
CRIME WAVE WILL
SWEEP NEW YORK
Pat Sheedy Says That
Doings in That City Will
Be a Shame To the World
NEW YORK.—Pat Sheedy, the “cit
izen of the world,” says there are
50,000 criminals now at large in New
York and predicts that 1909 will he a
year of unprecedented crime. He de
clares that while the traditional cour
age of the, New York police depart
ment still exists, the department, it
self is disrupted, the organization Is
gone, the ranks are torn by dissent.
He blames Commissioner Bingham for
the conditions and says t/iat the
crimes that will be perpetrated here
this year will not only shock this
i country but will be the shame of the
world. Pat surely is a pessimist.
BAR ASSOCIATION
PLANS BIG AFFAIR
Judge Andrews Cobh Will
Deliver Address At An
nual Meeting.
The annual meeting of (he Augusta
Bar association will be held at thfi
court house Tuesday morning, Jan
uary, 12th. The program for the oc
casion i.as not yet, been arranged, but
it will be one of the best in years.
Judge Andrew Cobb, ex supreme court,
justice, of Athens, will make an ad
dress.
The Bar association will give a
banquet to President-elect. Taft on
the evening of January 11th at the
Bon Air hotel. The officers of the
association who will go out of office
at the annual meeting are: Major J.
C. C, Black, president; Major J. B.
Cummings, first. vice-president;
Judge J. C. Lamar, second vice-presi
dent; Geo. T. Jackson, Jr., secretary;
Mr. Bryson Crane, treasurer.
SOPRANO SINGERS '
PRACTICE THURSDAY
Attention is called to the fact that
[ soprano voices of the music festival
chorus will be reheased Thursday
evening at the Tubman auditorium.
| The hour is 8 o’clock, and a full at
tendance is urged.
MARSHAL WHITE
WILL HOLD PLAGE
Charges Against the Fed
eral Official Are Declared
Most Trivial.
WASHINGTON— United States
Marshal George F. .White, of Macon,
who has been in Washington the pant
two days In the interest of hts reap
(ointment, accompanied by United
States Assistant Restrict Attorney,
Alexander Akerman, left for Georgia
tonight.
Charges of a minor nature have
boon made against Marshal White.
For one thing, it was said he paid too
much attention to the personal com
fort of Judge Emory Speer, the other
charges against him were on a par
in point, of seriousness. The attorney
general said this afternoon that the
charges were considered most trivial
and no Investigation wiuld he order
ed This means that Marshal White
will be reappointed, i
Judge John I. Hall, of Macon, attor
ney for the Georgia Southern and
Florida railway, has also been in
Washington the past few days. H(;
staled there was no special signifi
cance attached to hts visit, and that
he was simply here attending a meet
ing of railroad attorneys.
JOSEPH D- BOYD IS MADE
RECORDER OF GRIFFIN
GRIFFIN, Ga. —Hon. Jos. B. Boyd,
representative-elect, from Spaulding
county, has heen unanimously elect
ed city recorder of Griffin, and will
assume his duties as such on Mon
day, January 11. Colonel Boyd is one
of Spalding county's most prominent,
young lawyers, and his close study of
human nature admirably fits him for
the post he Is to occupy. It has been
investigated arid ascertained that,
there is no conflict between the two
offices and that, he can hold both.
ADMIRAL 808 EVANS TO
DELIVER FIRST LECTURE
NEW YORK —A reception such as
has seldom heen tendered to a naval
hero will greet Admiral "Fighting
Bob” Evans when he appears upon
the stage of Carnegie Hall Friday
evening to deliver his first lecture be
fore an audience that has already
bought out the house. Admiral Evan.;'
first attempt as an orator will he un
dor the auspices of the Navy League
nf the United States.
RECEPTION FOR DIPLOMATS.
WASHINGTON—President and Mrs
Roosevelt will entertain the diplo
matic corps at a reception to he given
at the White House thlb evening. This
will be the first formal reception of
the season, aside from the public <if
alrs of New Year's Day.
DAILY AND SUNDAY $6.00 PER YEAR
CASE OF LEPROSY STIRS
UP THE PEOPLE OF AIKEN
ADDITIONS ARE
RECOMMENDED
FORJAIIT
WASHINGTON—Secretary New
berry, who appeared before the
Mouse of naval affairs committee,
recommended the authorization of
four monster battleships, four new
scout cruisers, ten destroyers, four
submarines, three colliers, one repair
ship, one ammunition ship, and two
mine laying ships.
MACON RIVERMAN
FOUND SUFFOCATED
Sam Allen, Widely Known
in Central City, a Victim
of Escaping Steam.
MACON, Ga.—Snip Allen,'one of the
best known rlvermeil of Macon, was
found dead In a naptha launch yester
day by a friend. Death resulted from
suffocation.
Somehow or other a plug to a part
of the engine became detached during
the night and the escaping sleani silt
focated Allen who was sleeping in the
boat with his head under a blanket
near the motor.
Allen has piloted hundreds of par
ties up and down the river in all kind
of crafts and was.also a fisherman of
repute. He knew every bend and
crook and turn In the Ocmulgee from
Macon to Brunswick and up to the
head of navigation. Ills death is
rather mysterious /because one wit It
his knowledge should have guarded
bettor against such n happening. Ho
was 43 years of age and leaves a
wife.
IMMIGRANT MOVJBS
BACK TO CHARLESTON
The Firat Man To Land
From the Wittekind Will
Open Large Poultry Farm
CHARLESTON, 8. C.—Nickolas
Niemann, the first Immigrant to land
in Charleston two years ago on the
steamer Wittekind, is back here, in
tending to locate and make this his
home. He has been in the poultry
farm business near Columbia and he
has decided that the field here Is
more encouraging and ho has cornu
to Charleston for the purpose of es
tablishing a model poultry farm in
the suburbs which he says ho is con
fident will prove a siicces-?. Niemann
is from Hamburg, well educated, a
handsome young man and unmarried.
INAUGURATION DAY
IN BRYAN’S STATE
For the Firat Time in
Many Yeara Nebraska
Has a Democratic Gover
nor.
LINCOLN, Neb.—-For the first time
in a snore of years Nebraska has a
Democratic governor. Ashton C. Shal
lenberger was Thursday Inaugurated
as chief executive and the event was
nude the occasion of a widespread
jubilation on the part of the Demo
crats of Bryan’s state.
The legislature which convened this
week is also Democratic In complex
ion for the first time in many year.;.
Many radical measures will be taken
up, among them a law to guarantee
bank deposits, such as was advocated
In the national platform of the party.
The bill will be similar to that which
Is now In successful operation In Ok
lahoma.
Another Important plank In the
Democratic platform Is the pledge to
enact a law providing for the phys
ical valuation of public serving corpo
ration. This pledge will have consid
frable opposition.
County option was an issue in many
of the counties at’the election and It
is claimed that the legislature is op
posed to any change In the presen'
liquor laws, although the country op
tion advocates will make a fight Just
the same They claim to have a pe
tition asking for the enactment of a
county option law or the submission
of a prohibition amendment, signed
by more than 150,000 persons. This
petition will be presented to the leg.
islature.
FRENCHMEN WANT
TO BECOME CITIZENS
Raul Alexandra Kella, Fred Per.
roux and Alexandra Joseph Perroux,
Frenchmen engaged In the automo
bile garage business here, have filed
declarations of their intention to be
come naturalized citizens of the Uni
ted States.
MR. FOURCHER RETURNS.
Mr. V. E. Forcher, a former resi
dent of Augusta, who has lived In
Atlanta for the last two years, has re
turned to make his home In Aurusta.
Mr. Fourcher will be connected with
the Smith-Premier Tyewriter Agency
here as manager.
AGED LADY WILL BE SE
QUESTERED IN A SPECIALLY
BUILT HOUSE THREE
MILES FROM TOWN
AN EX-MISSIONARY
For Several Days Armed
Guards Have Been Placed
Around the House to
Prevent Contagion
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Discovered to he afflicted with
leprosy, Miss Mary V. Klrke, an aged
lady of Aiken, Is to be removed from
her home in the center of the town,
to a small house built three miles
from Aiken by the town authorities.
The caso lias wrought up the citi
zens of Aiken to a high degree and
for several days armed guards have
been on duty around the house to
prevent the possibility of contagion.
On this point the people of Aiken
are at variance with the physicians
attending the case, who contend that
the malady is Anaesthetic Leprosy
and Is not contagious. The doctors
have brought to strengthen their
case a letter from the chairman of
ihe board of health of South Caroli
na, saying ihat Ansesthetln Leprosy
Is not contagious. Notwithstanding
this the people of Aiken are deter
mined to take no chances and are
guarding the Klrke residence, and
have already begun building the
house of detention In an Isolated spot
away from the town to which Mrs.
Klrke will he carried. Augusta phy
sicians who have been approached
by representatives of The Herald
side with the people who have taken
'hese precautionary measures, an.!
give it as their opinion that this form
of leprosy Is contagious.
The following letter Is submitted
by the Atken Physicians, who have
had the case in charge, to sustain
their position. The letter Is directed
to Dr. Klrke, a nephew of the strick
en lady and Is signed bv Robert Wil
kins, Jr., Chairman of the State
Board of lienlth of South Carolina.
"in reply to your Inquiry in regard
to the contagiousness of Anaesthetic
Lepfnsv, t have no hesitancy in sav
ing that a patient with this disease
Is In no ways dangerous to the com
munity in which he or she may re
side."
Mrs. Klrke was at one time an
Episcopal Missionary to South Amer
ica. She came to Aiken a number
of years ago and buying a residence
there took up her abode and has uot
moved since
HAS BEEN BLIND T
FOR THREE YEARS. '
For three years Mrs. Klrke has
heen blind. Common report has it;
that at the time she became so af
llleled she gave up hope Ihat her mal
ady was other than leprosv. and open
ly announced that she had that, dis
ease. Since then she lived alone at
tached to her presence of a Mrs.
Edmondson, who became attached to
her and who remains In the guarded
house with the stricken lady in tho
eapactly of nurse For the last «ev
fral years Mrs. Klrke has been afc
tended by Dr. Croft a local physician
who says Ihe lady has leprosy.
The evidences of some disease havo
become more manifest during tho
last several years. Since her blind
ness, Mrs. Kirke has lost the fin
gers on one hand and one on tho
other. Her limbs below the knees
are without feeling, even boiling wa
ter making no sensation which it
perceptible to her. It is said to be
Mrs. Klrke’s belief that her limbs
will drop off below the kneea as her
fingers h.'.ve done. For several years
she has made her appearance on the
streets being led by Mrs. Edmondson
with her hands encased in bandages
or gloves.
Neighbors who had for a long time
been curious about the lady’s condi
tion have recently begun to make
more searching inquiries which cul
minated a few days ago !n a report
of the matter to the state hoard of
health. Tho Aiken authorities decid
ed to place the guards around tho
house simultaneously with the report
und the guards have remained tilers
since.
RESIDENCE IS «f!f
ON MAIN STREET.
Mrs. Klrke’s residence Is on the
main street and within two blocks
of the business portion of the city.
The house Is a large two story build
ing situated on the main street, it
is painted white with green trim
mings and it is surrounded by an
evergreen hedge. The house is about
fifteen feel from the street and has
small porches on each side of tha
house. The house is in the middle
of the lot, which is well shaded and
neatly kept.
Augusta Physicians commenting on
the peeuMartty of the disease a*
ihown by Mrs. Ktrke’s having no feel
ing In the pnrts affected, and upon
the knowledge of physicians that the
disease is uncurable, give an in
stance celebrated In medical lore,
'he case was one where a well
known physician discovered he hod
the malady by accidentally touching
a hot lamp and finding he did not
feel the heat.
Mrs. Klrke Is known a most os
llmabie lady, and tta fears of th*
people nf Aiken arc mixed with deat
feelings of regret that she Is so at
Dieted. Mrs. Klrke is 60 years old.