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130 ar rWvl We can discount time notes in city or country for merchants and farmers till cotton moves and can use farmers' rent notes for money consideration or cotton. ii interested write us. ALP TRUITT. President GEORGIA FARM MORTGAGE GO. ATLANTA CA.

Member of State Senate Turns Author. Classic of the Six Published by Baxley Attorney Bids Fair to Make a Distinct Hit' With the Reading Public. Baiity la. August iS. Special.

Classics of the Bar' Is the title of a. kook just. ublished by the Classic Publishing Company. of this city The au. SENATOR ALVIN SELLER- Author of Classic of the Bar' thor is State Senator Al Seller of the Baxley bar.

The contents of the book consist mainly of stories of the worlds great jury trials and Include some brilliant examples of court room oratory. Among oh interesting chapter aro the Tilton-Beccher trial the wood trial. the Durrant murder case the trued of Madison Square Garden Prntiss' Defense or His Friend and the Trial of Sun B. Anthony. An interesting and unique feature of the book edlcatlon.

which tead as follow Dedicated to those members of the bar who have felt In th tr hearts the thrill and the JOY or lifting from i prison veil to loving arms some mothers darting. fhe book i Illustrated the trontls- DISCS illustration being after the fa mous painting by Cope. entitled The Plaintiffs ADDeal at the First Trial by Jury. and showing the- open air court of the. Scandinavian settlers or I Iceland with relatives gathering around the.

body of the slain appealing to the fury for the blood of the slayer. A few orators represented in the book by brilliant examples of their tc. resIc eotuenCC are Detmas Brady. Runer. Reward.

In cersol Yoorhep5" Beach. Clarence Darrow. James Ham- IHon Lewis- Sergeant S. rentins and United States Senator Senator SelUrs has nt a great deal Of time lItatherlng material for this work. and he is being congratulated on It successful completion.

Rev. C. E. Ackerman Named. Cincinnati.

August WI an nounced at the headquarters of the SSTtf er Heddlns N. H. has been appointed president of CooVman I 1" Jaekscnvie. Fa Rev. Mr.

Ackr- man succeeds the Rev. James Docking who recently wu appointed wesident of Rust university. In MU- JlMlPPl Rev. Mr. Ackerman was con- I.

ectd formerly with Grant university. In Chattanooga Tenn. To Protect Oy ter Beds. Montgomery. Ala.

AUut 28. oov- rt10r B. B. Corner today signefl the yter protection bill or the extra isgion. the elect of which wilt be to prevent tm other state ravishing tre Alabama be Every canning plant wilt be watched VT schooner licensed.

It is estimated that Alabama has lost rniflon dollars In tm put few years by being robbed of Its oysters on the gulf Chinaman Released. Savannah. Os. August IS Young Too. a Chlnmn arrested last night.

uipected ofr being Leon Ling the alleged yer of Elsie Stget of New TOrt. was rel sed today. The China- tnan proved that he had lived in Blr- US1ltam and Atlanta for a long period. Bank Cashier Arrested. TlptOD Jnd.

August 28. W. 1 Marker former cashier of the First National bank. was arrested here today In connection with the alleged defalcation of 1103000 of the banks funds some weeks ago. He gave bonj Wal released.

Neither the arrest of Marker nor the arre of E. W. gfeirk president cf the bank ia Chicago. created any excitement ner There we no rut on the bank. Although a few depositors did withdraw their funds.

Good Time to Buy a Diamond In fact the best of times is now before the heavy ees go Into effect. in the South can you better choice of or better value than ut LBerkck i vtM CUB ON ME Win Be Home of the Bankers' Club. Organization to Be Composed of Banker of Georgia Alabama and South Carolina. Handsome Building Planned. Savannah Oa.

oat 28. Spe clal. Steps for the organization of the Bankers' and Transportation Club. of Georgia Alabama. and South Carolina were taken lot II.

meetUnc held at the Citizens' and Southern bank yesterday by those Interested. The cub will erect a. 200000 palatial club house on Tybee Island. Its organisa tion la already assured and a eharte i to be applied for at once. The movement tot the or ani or the club began with the meeting of the state Bankers' Association held at Tybee last summer.

The Idea wax suggested Informally at that time and has been pushed since. by. President Mills B. Lane. of the Citizens' and Southern bank.

with the result that It Is assured. The club will be composed of bank. and transportation men of Savannah. Atlanta and other cities In the thr states. The membership Will also admit prominent men In other lines of business.

The club house wilt be for the exclusive us of member- although it la possible that arrangements may be made for the admit. tanee of personal friends of members white thy are at Tybee. An option has been secured on twenty-eight lots on Tybee Island for the site. The site Is 1IW by 2398 feet. and i one or the roost Ideal building locations on the Island it will make the club house face the sea on both the east and the south The building it la to be two stories height.

will be constructed of concrete. anti wilt completed In time for the early summer season. Th building la to consist of one hundred rooms and will be arranged with courts and other architectural features that wilt make It one of the mo palatial dub houses in the south. Its total Cot will be at least 500000. It will draw to Tybee each season many of the states mot prominent men.

A. A. Doonan Who Will Be Connected With the Firm of E. P. An ley.

Mr. A. A. I oonan. who Is now thief ClerK in the Atlanta offices of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co.

severs his connection with that company Seotember I to enter the offices of Edwin P. Ansley as sales agent. Mr. Doonan is a prominent member of the Atlanta Athletic Club. and his friends predict success for him in his new held.

HONORS HIS AGED FATHER 1. Wil bn Nolen Spreads Banquet for Six. Alexander City. Ala. August 2 Special.

Following the tradition to dye honors to a worthy father and having for two years now called the family Into it annual reunion on the birthday of their worthy sire J. Wilson Nolen. a prominent attorney of this city. today sorew an elaborate banquet In honor of the seventy- second birthday of his father. Hon.

Richard S. Nolan. This custom has been carried out for two years by some one of the sons or daughters of the family. and is looked to by everyone as an I event of much pleasure and family reminiscences. There are today around Ute festive board forty-eight guests to do honor to this well-known and worthy grandsire and many telegrams from Texas and California and other distant points bringing congratulations have been re celved from those Invited who could not come.

and those who know Hon. Richard S. Nolen to love and cherish his friendship. Hon. Richard S.

Nolen Is well known' in Alabama and has served several terms In the legislature In both houses a reoruentaUve or this county. NEGRO CUTS SHERIFF IN CELL OF PRISON- Under a Sentence of Death Negro Murderer Tries to Take Hi Own Lit. Houston. Texas August 21. Calling the death watch to his cell early today.

Marcellus Thomas. a negro sentenced to be ban rd on September 3 for th murder of two white men. announced that It was his Intention to commit suicide. exhibiting a knife made from a piece of tinplate and sharpened to a. razor edge.

Sheriff Anderson. the man nearest the cell door. grappled with the nero for possession of the weapon and in the struggle sustained a Inch Rash across the cheek. Thomas Was placed In Iron. where he will pTob.

ably remain until the date of the execution. Granted a Respite. Nashville. Tenn. August 2 Vlrgli Let of Wayne county.

sentenced to hang at the penitentiary hers Thurs day. has been rplted for thirty days by Governor Patterson. The governor refused to Interfere In the cues of William Mitchell and Cecil Palmer the latter a negro. and these two wm be hanged at the state prison sett Thurs day. Hot Winds Blight Crops.

Leesboyg. Ga. August Zl. Special. While a few weeks ago prospects were rood for a do.

cotton crop. the last few days of blighting windand dry. hot weather have east down hopes ot 4v ffM rood crop s7l8r11 sH PEONAGE CHANGES FALSE DECLARES COLONEL SMITH Oglethorpes Big Farmer Answers Charges Made by r- Attorney Moore and Negro Witnesses at Police Court Trial. Colonel James M. Smith.

the Ogl thorps planter known as Georgia' largest farmer ha furnlahed The Constitution a statement to answer to charges made by Attorney Charles I. Moore end a number of nepo wit. flee In the Atlanta recorders court Saturday. August 21. when Stm B.OUS- er.

a negro. wa bound over under a 1660 bond under a charge of kld- npfne It was charged that Rousser aided In the Illegal arrest of a negro In order that he mlgtt he taken back to Colonel Smiths plantation. Colonel Smith declares that he II. been brought Into the case without warrant. The attest of the negro Julius Rueker.

Whtdh occ ilontA Ui kldnapln. charges against was made by Ute sheriff of Ogle thorp county. save Colored Smith. and he 1. now In the tethorpe Jail awaiting trial on a warrant which the sheriff held for Mm.

Colonel Smith further denies that Captain T. 7. Erwin it In employ or has been In recent yea A statement also hen from Captain Erwin in which he denies that he Is employed by Colonel Smith. and also the charge that he arrested Julius Rock. fr Is was in the company of Atlanta policemen when they made the arrest.

olel attai ltatemet Colonel Smiths letter to The Constitution is as follows Editor Constitution In your issue of the 22nd instant. under headlines Peonage Charge In Police Court. Colonel James tit. Smith Involved to Case you publish an account or a police court trial in which were made charge. which.

for mendacity and ht lying- straight from the shoulder. have seldom been equaled and rarely excelled. The whole series of charges from beginning to end Is a vile and iblamous slander. It Is a plot made unprln clpled and low down prs4 to get money from roe. It Is nott by any means the first time that such jp tempts have been made agatnsth1 Under th hypocritical guise of protecting the poor.

It is nevertheless plain to be seen that this Is an at tempt to rob by using the courts as an Instrument. I hardly believe the' courts of our country have as yet be come so corrupt loll to aid such diabolical schemes. The principal points of the charges summarized. are II follows Slm 1 a nelro is held under a 11001 bond. charged with kid.

t1pln Julius Rueker a. boy. without a warrant and that Sim Rousser is I. spy employed by James M. Smith.

that Julius Rueker was arrested by Captain Erwin without a warrant and supped oft to Howell station and taken back to th farm of vr smith. of Oglethorpe county where be Is now at work that Beckie Rueker the mother of Julius Rueker worked on the farm of James M. Smith for three years without receiving any pay for hr services and that she had to slip off in the night remaining In hiding until several weeks elapsed that Captain irwin Is a whipping boss on the plantation of James 14. Smith the plantation of James M. Smith Is compared with a place worse titan slavery or the penitentiary.

i Am td by the Skeytif. The facts are The sheriff of Olethorpe county In forms me that he went to Atlanta last week with warrants against several nerroes who had committed misdemeanors and felonies in Olethorpe county. whom he had reason to believe were in and around Atlanta some or these warrants were against ne- Kroes who had at come time worked on the farm of James M. Smith and some were against negroes from other parts of the county that among these warrants was one for Julius Rueker that Julius Rueker was arrested by the oollcemen in Atlanta. and locked up in police headquarters where he remained until the next morning when he was turned over to him and by i him brought back to Oglethorpe coun- tv.

nZaced In tail after being legally committed. where he now i and has been since the sheriff arrived with him from Atlanta. I am also informed by Free Stoo Suffering With Catarrh Lo. Me Care Ysu. Will rmA a Large Trial Package of My Combined Treatment Absolutely Free.

I intend to tin a tr ttfu thouIaDd pwace of I Ciurtb Curs to tutiUKlr who ii nfferlaf from tt lrd 4 Ua rau UM CtUrrh. Ciurrti not onto sesles 4 rt1I. UIOPItIOfl and 4w UM ujsuct. but it ll the tU rullUn. eaules boa of IppoU tdicwtioa inputs blood.

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rscku- Simply III MID sdtN a dotted Haw below mill to Co AU ml ell tm. MsnSsfl. Lab. the sheriff of Oglethorpe county that Mr. T.

J. Erwin. at hit request was In Atlanta with him and assisted in these matters. The fact as to who ar. rested Julius Ruoker or whether or not the parties who rested him had a warrant and aatioritr for takln him to the polio headquarUr and toirning him over to the sheriff of Ot.

tMr1le county can be ascertained front the oollce authorities of AUtnta. Ju llu Thicker 1 not. a boy but a man thirty-odd years or eg Beokie Ruofc. er. hi mother.

lived on my farm for a number of year. but never worked for me II. day In her lit. She claimed that he cooked for her two boys. Tu Ito.

and Mpnroe. On this account I furnished her a house. garden potato patch and firewood without cost to her and she was taken care of by her boy She claimed to be afflicted and not able to work on the farm. It is absolutely untrue that she slipped away from my place. I have been Informed she went away in the daytime and moved her household goods with her.

I had no objection whatever to her Sinn Rouuer at one time lived on my farm and worked for me. Some years ago he left my farm and I have not seen. heard from or communicated in any way with him since. nor has none communicated with him under my authority or for me. Is abso- lutely false that he was to any way.

representing me as a spy or In any other capacity. From the lce in your article I believe he has been committed upon perjured testimony. Erwta is HI EmplOT. Mr Erwin has not lived with me or has not had anything to do with my business for more thin fifteen years. Some seven or eight years SO he bought a farm from the Carter estate and ever tnce has been living on that place farming for himself.

tie lives four or five miles from me. Mr. i. I am Informed. Is the legal and muiled bailiff of his district and ha a right under the law to make arrests anywhere In the state.

I am also In formed by the sheriff of Ollethorpe county that his connection with the. cases was under the direction and In connection with the sherl of Ogle. thorp county. I have. always had correct books kept with every person with whom I have had dealings.

I have given a great deal of my Urns and attention to keeping my books balanced. The main trouble with me an along ha. been to' get people to PLY me whet they Justly SVed me. No one has ever had the least trouble In getting me to pay what I justly and honestly owed him. I have always settled with those whom I had hired or employed according to the terms of the contract.

Hundreds of the but people or this section of both races wilt testify to the truth of the statement which I have' Just made. The idea of any farmer working a negro any great length of time and not paying him anything for his labor is unreasonable. Such a thins cannot be done. Four neltrou out of live working for a farmer. will get ahead of his wages.

He Is never satisfied until he does set ahead. He will come at his employer In a hundred different wy until he gets In hi debt. Most negroes who work for farmers for wanes tart In debt and never eaten up. Anyone with ordinary sense 1 ought to know that no one can pus- stbiy work the same ntgro. year after year and not ploy them.

I can I see how a man might work nelfrou 1 for a week. or a month and not pay I them. but any man who llev that I negroes can be worked any length Of time without paying them knows but very little about working negroes on I. farm nine out of every ten of the negroes whom I have ever hired and worked on the farm got their pay to advance. Any negro who ha ever worked for me and who will tell the truth will say that once a year.

when be was working by the year. and once a month when he wa working by the month. I have had my bookkeeper to go over his account with him. calling out each Item charged to klm. there were any error.

they were corrected. I do not know of any one who has taken half the pain that I have taken in settling with those whom I have hired for wages. PM tilt HlgHest tV I There was RO necessity of cheating and wronging the negroes whom I I worker for wares. I always made them do good and faithful worlc. and made good crops and was able to pay them.

and did pay them all that I promised them. I always paid the highest wages of any farmer in my section of the country. My neighbors and friends sometimes complained that I was paying higher wages than they could afford to pay. On my books I have a record of what was paid to each laborer and when. it was paid.

I also have a record of all the labor done for me by each and every person who ever worked for me. It my books were ex amlned by competent persons the facts which I have stated would be set up beyond controversy. So one man has done more. if so much. as I have done for the general good of the negro.

It has often been used against me that I WI olng too much for the negro. I have sold many negroes land and waited on them for a number of years to ploy for It. in consequence of which there are many negroes In this section of the country who today own good horns. who. In all probability.

would never have owned them If I had not aided them so liberally. Among these there Is one negro In Oglethorpe county to whom some years since I sold a large tract of land consisting of 900 acres. at a very reasonable price and gave him six years In which to pay for it. With this crop be will finish paying for this land. tie has been offered 35 per acre for the tract of land which I sold him.

All along I have aided the neKTon In building churches and school houses. helping them to the extent of thousands of In these matters. During the odd years In which I have been engaged In farming I have had thousands of negroes In my employment. Coming as they did from almost every southern state. these negroes represented every class of their race some of them were good people many of them were the worst specimens of their roe During all these years while I was handling these hundreds of negro from day to day and front year to year.

I never carried a weapon of any kind and never hurt one In the least. No- nelro in my eti ployment who ever came to me and said he was out of rations barefooted. needed clothes. medicine or money went away dissatisfied. 1 kept a physician employed II' the year who came every day and gave medical at tention to every negro on my farm who needed It.

For a long time they appeared to be contented and satisfied. Once or twice a year all the negroes my employment were al lowed to go on excursions sometimes to Charleston. sometimes to Savannah at other times to Mscofl Atlanta and other cities- They used ray mules and buggies to attend their churches In various parts of the country many of them went as delegates to distant parts of the state to attend their con. veriUons and associations wet Ele 4 Oat Getrl It haa often beenrtmark 4 tntflu nellO In. my employment b4 better bQsig In which to live nor tarsi ture and.

better furniture In their houses better clothes to wearmoral and better food to tit ad kandleA more money and looked better than the average negro of the country. As the older negroes died out and the younger ones grew up they became harder to satisfy. They began to steal more. committed greater crimes. The worst class among them dominated and controlled the better class.

When the worst class got lull control of the better class as they finally did. they began to gamble more. to drink more whisky to carry concealed weapons' they began to teal hogs and cows and to break Into stores. granaries. com I minute.

corncrlbs eto. one occasion. ally was bold enough to steal a mule or a horse. Finally they engaged in burning. In ten years I lost from Incendiary tires not less than 110000 worth of property.

on which I had no Inuranee It was difficult to ret proof as to who did this burning therefore but few of those guilty Of these Heinous crimes were found guilty and punished. I offered large rewards for those who escaped to avoid trial. In sons. cases I offered a high a Hit reward. Many of the negroes whom If tad employed for waif" would of nights.

in rflmote fields gather eorn' out of the fields pick cotton and In combination with outsiders take It off and sell It. Some of them would take my mules out of the lot and rids them of nights occasionally they would steal bales of cotton from the sin- house yard. They would also steal. plantation tools and sell them. One.

negro preacher stole a new wag-on from the wagon yard and sold to a white man In an adjoining 1 county. I recovered the wagon. but I Ute rro preacher made his escape. 11 have been looking for him to testify in some police or other court. Of late years great efforts upon the part of i some people have been made to make I i It appear that the farmer who has the ro employed and who Is trying to work him on his farm Is persecuting the negro.

It has become II. favorite' plan with the ntgro and with those who are sympathizing and defending him to insist that the farmer la a great rawal and the negro is a nice man. Every effort made by the farmer to I have the neltro punished for the crimes which he has committed Is construed as an effort on the part of the farmer to control the negros labor. Some iso. I lated cases of this kind may have occurred but as a general rule.

It Is a slander on the farmer to make such charges ag- in him. Bekie Bucklers Testimony. Referring to the testimony given in the police court upon which your 4 ound d. It it stated that. Becltie Rucker swore that worked for me for three years and I I i never paid her anything for her labor.

At least 100 reputable witnesses can be produced who will swear In any court that Beckle Rucker never work. led for me a day In her life. Beekl. must have sworn she 1911 told to swear. I always knew she belonged to a very low type of the negro race but I hardly thought site was so lost to every instinct of honor and Impulse of truth as to swear to such an arrant and stupendous lie.

She lived by rot charity. Often have I sent ad paid a physician to treat her when she complained of being sick for which I was never paid a cent. Morgan Halley also wore In the police court Many years ago Morgan Bailey was convicted of a heinous crime and sent to the penitentiary. After serving out his time. he came to me to hire.

I hired him and worked hint the best I could. He has always in my debt. lie was lazy trilling and' an round mean negro besides he was constantly stealing' something despairing of ever getting him out of my debt. 7 dismissed him and' pocketed the loss. I is an ex-convict of the meanest class or convicts.

and Is liable at any time and anywhere with or without provocation to swear to the biggest lie he can think or. He teems to enjoy It. He appears to be constituted that way. I do not think -anybody persuaded him to wear in the police court In all probability. hi.

volunteered. He has not worked for me In many years. Pearl also swore In the police court. She swore to too big a. lie for anybody with an ounce of common sense to believe her.

She overdid the thing. On one occasion. Eb Lee her husband long John Williams and some other negrou combined together and stole from my fattening hog pen a tine hog took the hog to Pearl Lees house. where helped to clean It. and then carried the hog over to Frank Fortson's who took the hog to Athens sold it for about SIP.

brought the money hack and divided It among the crowd. Pearl Lee getting her part. For this on true bills were found against the whole lot. and these warrant are now In the hand. of tile sheriff of Olflethorte- county who.

up to this time. has not been able to locate the parties. ad of Me Yanto Ivlng also wore. Manto be tong to a nerro family or thieves most of whom have served terms In the penitentiary. It was said that his lather un away from Warren county for breaking Into a smokehouse.

Manto himself would have been In the chain. gang long go It I had not kept him out. This fact. Manto himself has often admitted to me and to others. He has been I.

sort of leader among mean nelfroe. He has often been charged with gambling. drinking blind carrying concealed weapons. breaking Inta granaries and corn cribs and stealing wheat and torn. and coramlttng other crimes.

I believe the latest case against him of which I have heard Is a charge that he entered an old nee rro mans house by the name of Dab Arnold and stole from this poor Old negro il In silver was all the money the old negro had. Dab has sworn out a warrant against Manto for stealing his money. and this warrant Is In the hands of the sheriff. who Is liable at any time to arrest Manto. It stated that when Marito left my place he carried with him 8200 In money.

I either paid him what was due hint. or he got the money by some other way. I might go on telling the facts and the true character of an the witnesses In the police court and of others who have not yet testified In the police court. but do so lest this article be of too great opinion somebody making money outof these daludadland Ig norattt neroes They are led to be lieve that they un. hr lllng and swearing to such Un as they did In the police court.

get money out of m. I am sure they have either gone crazy or been hypnotized. Not one of them can say and tell the truth that I ever rnistrete4 or wronged a single on of them. I helped them to raise their children. I also helped many of them to send their children to school.

When they had become old and cr plt I have without pay. taken care of many of the parents of those who are now ready to Join any band of cutthroats who would. If they could. as- sastiliate my character and rob me of my money. For pin or hatred or envy or prejudice.

there are white men low and groveling enough tr help them. It i said the neKTO has no gratitude. I believe it. I thlrtk I know what the peonage laws are. I FREE I 5445 WILL BRING YOU 1VXJO.

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Facilities VERY FACILITY FOB THE prompt and careful transaction of all business entrusted to it every accommodatiori for' making and developing HusI- ness interests and indeed every advantage that modern banking affords to further business interests is offered by the Atlanta National Bank. Policy and Methods The policy of this in- ts as liberal as sound banking will permit every dollar is carefully safeguarded by the most approved up-to-date methods. and every patron is accorded courteous treat- ment and careful ATLANTA. NATIONAL BANK The Oldest National Bank in the Cotton States IRBY. ADV.

ATI have been careful not to violate them. Since the peonage laws have been put in force I have received many blackmailing letters endeavoring to extort money from me. What I have written In this corn- munlcatlon does not rest alone upon my veracity but upon indisputable records and tlmony of hundreds of other on both white and black. whose characters are above reproach. It seem.

to me that In th opinion of some people the greatest offense PCblch I have committed 1 that by a long life of intense application to business. the exercise of a fair arodunt of Judgment and reasonable economy I have accumulated a. re spectable fortune and sin trying to take care of It. There Is much more to be written along the lines of my present communication which. with your courtesy I hope In the near future to give to the pubtfc.

This letter. I tear Is al ready too long. Respectfully JAMES it. SMITH. Sznlthsonia Oa.

August 27 1 09. Statement from Mr. Krwla. Editor Constitution I notice In the Issue of your paper of August you publish a story under head lines ot Peonage Charge in Police Court. re lating charges which place me in a.

false light I am a legal and duly authorized bailiff of Oglethorpe county and. as such on one day last week I accompanied the sheriff of Ogletborpo county to Atlanta to assist him In making certain arrests which I did in connection with three policemen of Atlanta. I notice that your article says that. It was charged that I. In connection with Stm Itouser.

a spy employed by Mr. James at. Smith. kidnaped Julius Rucker. arresting him without a warrant and slipped him off to Howell Station and then to th tarot Of Colonel James M.

Smith. wh re he Is now at work. The article also says that' it was charged. that I was whipping bou for Mr. Smith.

I have not worked for Colonel Smith In fifteen years and when I did work for him it was by no means In the capacity of a whipping boss since that time I have had nothing whatever to do with hi business. I have never wore a blue uniform in my life. I have not seen Stm Rouser in five or six years. and. have not Aid soy communication with him whatever.

In connection with three policemen of Atlanta I did assist In the arrest of Julius Rucker I did not arrest him personally. After he was arrested he wee placed In the patrol wagon and carried to the police headquarters. where he remained until next morn- log. when he was brought by. the sheriff OKlethorpe county to Oglethorpe county and placed In Jail where he Is now.

As to the accuracy of this statement any person desiring to know the truth about can readily find out by applying to the police a quarters of Atlanta. I will appreciate It. in view of the fact of the story published in your paper. It you will publish this letter and give it the um. prominence which you did the original article.

Respectfully. T. S. ERWIN. Wlntervllle.

Oa. August 26. 1 0 MISS WOODBERRYS SCHOOL Will Open its Fan Session September 15th. The boarding school of Miser Woodberry's School for Girls Is an attractive college center on Peachtree and Pine streets. A number of very charming girls who come with records for high scholarship.

have en entered from various parts of the state. A number of the faculty twelve In number. win reside with Miss Woodberry at 428 PeLcbtree street. The school opens September U. An Illustrated catalogue may be had on re quest.

Muskogs Okl. August 8. After hi father had be tucked flown into a treacherous whirlpool In the Grand river near Wagoner. Ok la. the little year son of James Livingston a wealthy cattleman anti former Texan.

WAS daringly and heroically rescued by Mrs. James Roonsy. Texas worn- an. Livingston warn out Into the stream with his boy on hi back and was caught In the whirl leaving the boy struggling In the swirling water. Mr Rooney plunged Into the river and after a desperate struggle brought the boy to the bank.

PARDON IS GRANTED TO LOUISA LINDSAY On recommendation of th prison commission Oovarnor Brows st rday rrtttrt ft pardon to Louisa LUda wMU Who WM sentenced to lit. imprisonment from pstdisg dotia. IB WOO. far lattttkld don wa raj t4 RATES BETTER Both BothAeAsKedby Patrons of Atlanta Northern' Railway. Representing the city councils of Marietta and SmYTna.

and Ute patron of the Atlanta Northern Railway Company generally. Judge George OoNer yesterday tiled with the railroad commission II. petition In which is sated that the electric railway line bet Marietta and Atlanta. be ed to give lower tell and better The petition is sighed by nearly a thousand patrons of the Atlanta North. ern Railway.

and In addition to re duced fares they want several Important changes and improvements made in the company's service. They ask that the straight fare sate between Atlanta and Marietta be 'reduced from 35 cents to 2 cents apd that the monthly commutation tickets be reduced from 7 to It Is urged that the rates now charged are too' high for electric runway service as compared with charges on oCier line under the same management. It also asked that the railway company Ire required to furnish pure1 drinking water on its cars t1- it be compelled to provide separate cars or compartments for the white and cot ored pasmngrer and that th car equipped with toilet rooms. The petition will probably a- signed for hearing at the next meeting of the commlMlon to be held. this week.

Georgia Postal News. Washington. August Special. James 1. Hutto appointed rural carrier Mai com Yent substitute rout 2.

Benjamin A. James carrier Daniel 1. Raulercon. substitute route 2 at Rocklogham. Charles A.

Jackson appointed muter at MldvUle. BUrke eouatf. Vtae R. H. Burton resigned.

la Guaranteed Abafa4y Pure Whiskey Ca of4ftill jart 5 1 Can 1ilio time or. I fovea AT SfLURS WRITfS A BOOK. Bart" ax ley. it tJe 1 ok. Com pan It 1 I tria In-I brl 11LDt othr jnt resting Tiltcm- Hher Ca ntl88' I 8u edl atJon.

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in thl. city to that the Rev. E. Ackum of 1act ke aucce d5 T. Do klng.

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char teTi the la lon appJlc Uon am unt ud ment re- IIn. at. Au ut 7. 1909. I our re- laUD auth ed i et ofl I cUon thatl conne t1on I empo the where 111 1.1 IIln his In I rl I 1 morn-I a brou ht appl lDg 11I 1 Rupec ttully U)8.

or vel" be re- DARING WOMAN SA YES BOY FROM THE RIVER hi. been own Okla. I' Itr his an Itru IUne Mrs. an LSGRANTED of' the tar4lJ on a4ao. WO 1lQ WhO anta 4i Jmprlo I aC1ou ID.

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deereDit assess we saUd 11 I wS it ears. aipe sad lined. Ui tpiiiit vi4 the 1t' I V5' sen. nail iIU t55r5 54 oaf. C' sans stArTle.

D4SVOR Id' Mebes. N. i a carefuftraxisac centrUst every-accommodation I a BY ADV'- if ai 27. connectIon' 01 i 0r of hea4- 26 ben th SAVES a the' yesterday a btts pIi was jnjits4 tautly tout the IOtthIt she Ii iapidll I snd is' sat' Ui btht afsw wsekataA1L rt A BETTERSERVICE of i atvies. A1 ure i' It be I.

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