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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07

pictures or postcards or any OBJ
scene matter.
In accordance with it's policy
of placing heavy duties on luxu-
ries and reducing taxes on ne
cessities of life. the committee
has transferred altar Of rose from
the free list and made II dutiable
at 20 per cent ad valorem.
PERFuMERY HIGHER.
Perfumery is slightly increased
Perfumed toilet soap is reduced
from so to 40 per cent.
chinaware is reduced from go to
SIS per cent. Glass and marble
manufactures are also given slight
reductions.
The present duty of IS per cent
on automobiles is left undisturbed
at As per cent. Shotsuns are given
a reduction of about 8 per cent,
Aeroplanes are reduced from As
to 25 per cent. Bamboo is re-
duoed from IS to 20 per cent.
Caviar remains at SO per cent.
and preserved fruits are reduced
from approximately 90 to 20 per
cent.
The duty on olives is changed
in application, but the present
duty practically is allowed to re-
main.
Nottingham lace curtains are
slightly reduced. Oriental rugs
and carpets are reduced from So
to so per cent.
Billiard and pool balls remain
at 80 per cent, but crackers,
which have enjoyed a protective
duty Of 1926 per cent, are reduced
to approximately SO per cent. The
SO per cent on fans is allowed to
stand.
Jswelry is reduced from "a to
60 per cent
lsees and enbroideries, con
corning which the committee
heard many protests against re-
auctions, experience the nominal
cut of ? per cent, from 90 to 60
per cent.
Ivory tusks are transferred from
the free list and made dutiabIe
at 20 per cent.
Some Of the reductions in the
agriculture schedule are:
Horses. from 25 to 10 per cent;
cattle, from IS to 10: sheep. 10
to 10; barley. - to %: racaroni.
50 to %; hay. 43 to %; fruits.
p to IS; figs, SIS to ~; lemons,
6s to "a; live poultry, IS to 6:
vinegar. SO to II.
COTTON AND WOOL CUTS.
IN the cotton and wooden SEIZED
ules the reductions are Of
sweeping character. Cotton
thread IS reduced from, 81 per
cent TO 10 per cent: spool thread.
p to IS; cotton cloth. ~ to 90:
waterproof cloth. from so to 25:
ready made clothing, from so to
80 per cent: collars and cuffs,
from 81 to Is per cent; pushes.
from 81 10 40 per cent: handker-
chiefs, from SO to 30 per cent;
stockings, Is 20 so; cotton gloves.
to 35: cotton underwear. so TO IS,
and damas<. 80 10 IS.
Woolen yarns are reduced
from 70 to 20 per cent: blankets.
z to 25; fsnnels. 90 to Is and IS
per cent: dress goods. go to 81:
clothing, 70 to 50; weddings. 50 to
s.. and carpets, 50 and 90 per
cent to IS and 20 per cent.
Jute yarns are reduced from %
70 IS; cables ard eordsee. 8 70 !:
oIlcioths. ~ 20 IS, and linen hand
ksreniefs 50 TO IS.
Partially manufacturer silk
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07

Postmaster Allen. Of East Point. is
not farmer, but to-day he had a
busy time picking sweet potatoes from
the mail at the suburban postoffice.
because someone in North Carolina
had sent by parcel post a lot of baked
sweet potatoes TO a friend in East
Point. The potatoes were crushed in
the mail
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07
80 kiIIed IN Aeeident.

JACKSONVILLE. FLA April -
Harry Stahl, Il wears Old, was killed
instantly. and Joseph e. Sloan was
injured so badly that he died a few
hours later when Sloan'S auto turned
turtle on the Atlantic Boulevard yes
terday when Sloan attempted to pass
another car. SJahI was crushed IN
der the machine.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07
U. S. GRAND jury INDlcrs.

Several indictments were returned
BY the United States grand jury.
which met to-day for A few hours un-
der the special call of Judge ". T.
Newman. Up to a late hour this aft
ernoon none of the persons named in
the indictments had been arrested.
Adjournment was taken before nooa
until April 81.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07
CONGRESS SITS;
TARIFF REVISION
FIRST TAKEN UP
President Wilson, Breaking 100
Year Precedent, Will Speak on
Floor of House.

WASHINGTON. April THE Six
ty-third Congress was called to order
in both Houses promptly at noon to-
day.
Practically the entire membership
was on hand, and no time was lost in
either branch getting right down to
business.
The one circumstance of the day
that gave extraordinary interest to
the occasion was the authoritative
announcement from the White House
that President Wilson had determined
to appear in person before Congress
tomorrow and deliver his first mes
sage Of advice and suggestion.
In taking this step, the President
will upset tradition and precedent for
more than 100 years, but win not per-
form an unheard or act by any means,
nor viii he violate anything whatever
either of the spirit or letter of the
constitutional prerogatives of the
Presidency
Senate Awaits Tariff Bill.
The President is said to have reach
ed the conclusion that by delivering
his first message in person he thereby
will demonstrate to Congress his sim
cere desire and inclination to get in
close and personal touch with it, both
as executive and friend
The Senate, already organized, held
only a brief and uneventful session
to-day, Until the House has framed
and passed the new tariff bill the SEN
ate will do little more than go through
the occasional motions Of meeting and
adjourning.
Under the Constitution, the tariff
bill being a revenue measure. must
originate in the House. The Senate,
however, eventually may amend it out
of existence. if it 50 inclines. As a
matter of fact, the real tight on the
tariff is expected TO come in the SEN
ate.
The House was called to order by
Clerk South Trimble. Speaker Clark
promptly was reelected to his office.
receiving the entire vote of the House
Democracy
The Republicans named James r.
Mann, OF Illinois, and the Progressives
named Victor Murdoch. of Kansas. for
Speaker clark received e71 votes,
Mann i'll and Murdoch IS. Repre-
sentative Cooper Of Wisconsin. got 4
votes. and Nelson. also of wisconsin.
received
Dunbar, Of Georgia, Gets Place.
South Trimble was re- elected clerk
Of the House. Robert Gordon. of Ohio,
was named doorkeeper and William
a. Dunbar. of Georgia. was named
postmaster.
The converting of Congress to-day
was suspicious in Democratic his
tory. II marked the first time in
nearly a score OF years that Demo
Gratis have succeeded to complete con-
troll of the Senate, the House OF Rep
resentattves and the Presidency.
Long before the hour set for throw
ing open the doors Of the House and
Senate galleries the Capitol was be-
sieged by sightseers, seeking admit
tauce.
Among them were hundreds oil
prettily gowued women-thc wives oil
Senators and Representatives. with
fair sprinkling Of suffragists These
rubbed shoulders with job hunters
from AN parts Of the United States.
close friends Of the legislators ana
Just plain citizens, who later Joined
their voices with those of the law
makers in cheering the heroes of par
liamentary debate, Irrespective Of Pc
litical creed
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TROUBLEFOR TARIFF BILL
EXPECTED IN BALKY SENATE
Continued From Page I.

shingles, hewn and round tim
bers.
Bacon, hams, beef, veal, nut
ton, pork, fresh water fish, other
fish Of number of varieties,
meats Of all kinds, lard, talIow,
dairy products.
BREAOsTuFFs REDUCED,
5readstuffs, including bread,
buekwheat flour, broomeorn,
maize. corn, eornmsaI, oatmeal,
wheat flour, potatoes, salt, swine,
sugar Of milk
Bsgging for cotton, flax straw,
raw wool, press cloth for oil mill
ing purposes, wooden rags.
Wood pulp, print paper valued
at not more than 10 cents a
pound, Bibles.
Bone meal, bran, wheat screen
iugs.
Coal (bituminous and shaIe),
coke, slack, cork, waste and shaw
ings.
Gloves, made OF horse hides,
and cattle hides, boots and shoes,
harness.
Agricultural implements and
leather, including lhoe laoes.
Many important changes are
made in the administrative fes-
lures of the tariff law and in
place Of the maximum and mini
mum section of the Payne act,
which empowered the President
to invoke higher duties against
any nation which Disseminated
AGAINST the United States, there
is provision giving the Chief
Executive a free hand to nego
tate reciprocity treaties with
foreign nations, the only provIso
being that such agreements shall
be ratified by majority of both
houses Of Congress. Heretofore
ratification of such treaties was
accomplished by a two-thlrds
vote Of the Senate.
The trade treaty with Cuba IS
retained and provision is made
for absolute free trade with the
Philippines. There will be here
after, according to terms Of the
bill. no restriction on the amount
Of rice, tobacco and sugar that
could be imported free from the
islands.
WON'T WAIT FOR MERCHANTS
The provisions Of the entire act
are to become effective the day
after the bill becomes a la" by
atfixine Of the Presidents sig
nature.
The committee Violently was
not impressed with the plea Of
Manufacturer who demanded
that the date Of effectiveness be
postponed until three or sN
months after the bill IS signed BY
the President.
As an assurance against any
duties IN the bill being ultra pro
tectrve. Il IS provided that the
President shall cause TO be as
certained each year the amount
Of imports and exports of all ar
ticles with an estimate of the
amount of domestic consuuP-
zion and production, and where it
IS ascertained the imports
amount to less than per cent
Of the domestic consumption he
shall immediately notify Con-
grsss IN a special message Of his
facts and conclusions bearing on
the matter.
The provision, according to the
committee, IS to maintain tac
tariff on a competitive" basis.
A provision IN the bill also pre-
vents the Importation Of obscene
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07
SENATOR'S sWoRN IN.

WASHINGTON April I.-I.sa-
renee Y sherman, Of Illinois. and
Judge Nathan GoT Of West Viz
-inia. we're to-dsy sworn in as United
states Senators.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07

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back.
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07
Richest Roumanian Dies.

FoINVGSL FhOAHiGhtdh OtCSss
BUCHAREST. April Mr. George
Cantacuzene. president of the Senate,
and reputed to be the wealthiest man
in Roumania. is dead. He was sew
eral times Premier and also Minister
of the Interior
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efforts. Every merchant should make 1t a point to advertise his goods and prices instead of his name
 The country editors should remem- Der that publicity advertising is the only kind which sells goods and is best calculated to pull in orders, and should educate his clietns into that form as rapidly as possible
 ''How do the big stores in the city get the orders of the country trade First, by full-page display ads in the big daily papers These are a,.nost g complete catalog of eacn Of the vari- ous departments of the entire store. Think of it, a daily issue of we'll il- lustrated catalog with catchy talk about cut prices, spread out daily before 5,0G0 to 10000 women who have money to spend and who need the goods. There ean be but one re- suit which means a sale
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BEST ADVERTISING MEDIuM.

One of our exchanges prints an article entitled "The Newspapers in the Country Towns of the United States Are if Properly Handled the Best Selling Agents in Amreica." The article is replete with sound argu- ment and good sense, and we have often wondered why local mer- chant neglects to use the columns of the local pare for his betterment.
 The great catalogue houses spend thousands of dollars each week to place their goods before the buying public, while the country merchant depends paratively little on this medium and also many times in the wrong spirit. What the country mer- chant should do is to advertise con- sistently and, as the extract from the article puts it, make it a point to ad- vertise his goods and prices, instead of his name." Extracts from the ar ticle in question follow, and we re- spectfully urge our merchants to give it their attention and consideration:
 MT. Merchant, just store this thought under your hat-every .coun- try town that has daily or weekly newspaper is missing harvest if it's merchants do not make it their mail order catalogue. Each inch of it should be used. It is 9 gold mine. Mind you, it should be the cut price catalogue, with a good illustration and catchy description of every article of merchandise car ried in stock in your town, no matter whether it be package of onion seedt, a gas engine, hay scale or flannel shirt, and every article shown should be quoted at a price that con- pares favorably with the prices in the advertisements of the city concerns.
 There is not a country town in America where three or four pages of this class of advertising would not boom. the local trade and put the city stores out of business, as far as orders from that locality are con- cerned. Their advertisements should resemble a catalog, not bill posters
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WHY EDEN PARK ARE NONE!
H. K. TONEY.

In an article in yesterday after noon's paper signed by the commit tee from the Chamber of Commerce, Messrs. F. B. Tomlnson, M. Selligman, Clifton Howell, V. o. Alexander and w. J. Parkes, the statement is made to the effect that recent editorials i the Graphic, (protesting against the summary disposal of the park ques- tion at the meeting of the 27th) may result in no park at all. Why no park at all? The Graphic content ion is that Pine Bluff can have a park on much more liberal terms than the Eden Park proposition, and that the action of the meeting was of such q nature that the citizens of Pine Bluff nor even all those present were not given an opportuniyt to realize the merits of the two propositions.
 Our position has certainly been plain, enough We merely urge that further time be given ill which to all low both propositions to be under stood and given to the public for di- gestion.
 The Graphic is positive that there were some members on those commit
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CARD FROM RABBI JASIN.

Editor of the Graphic As a rule am not much concerned over little erros that will often creep into news paper accounts of matters in which I am interested. But I would like to correct an erroneous impression that is likely to be created by part of the report of Thursdays meeting of the City Beautiful Club. The public should know that when the proposed Vice Commission was up for discus sion, the organization of such body was unequivocally endorsed by an unanimous rising vote. The matter of appointing one or more ladies to serve on such a commission was postponed for two reasons One was a desire to know a little more defin- itely the commissions scope of work; the other was the need of more time in which to find the appointees among such ladies as combine the ability and the inclination to do the work that will be required of them. Immediate ly after adjournment two or three eX- Cellent names were unofficially dis cussed, and I think the appointments will be made in the near future.
 In matter as serious as this one a definite alignment of public force is a primo necessity. For that reason
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Amazon River.

1t has been stated in official cunsu lar reports tha. the aggregate na7; gable waters of the Amazon and trip otaries for all sorts of craft is esti mated to exceed 45,000 miles. The average depth is from 40 to 150 feet and the average width from to 40 miles.
 At the mouth near Para the river ss l38 miles wide, including the is land of Marajo and the northern and southern outlets. The immense vol 7me of water discharged marks a path sf yellow water in the blue of the At. lantic easily dlstinguishable for 15G miles at sea, creating fresh wate, sea while out of sight of land This yellow ur old gold colored water unit. Ing with the equat irial current trends to the north at tLe rate of six miles An hour. and entering the Caribbean )ea forms what Is recognized as the Gulf stream.
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MAYOR BLOOMS OPINION.

Mayor Bloom at the park meeting stated he was told to go-way- back and-sit down. He later learned he was delegate from the Eagles lodge therefore could speak.
 MT. Bloom said at the meeting in sumstance that personally he prefer red the Eden Park, but that he want ed to know where the $10.00000 was coming from, and that he thought that if that park was selected, a commit tee should be appointed to raise this money and report back to the meet ing. that if we did not raise that mo- ney to take the Rhodes -Hayerty park.
 In conversation with a Graphic rep resentative yesterday MT. Bloom re- iterated this statement and said we had an opportunity of getting park with all improvements, houses. etc.. without costing the city a cent, and to get the park at once. His plan is as follows: To accept the Rhodes Haverty park. then that would in crease the value of the city land, ad- joining the cemetery,s to add 40 more acres to the cemetery and then di7 vide the remainder up into lots, sell the outside lots. for s15O.OO and inside lots for s100.oo The city in this way could raise over S30,0o0.Oo above ex-
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CLOSING OF THE
 OLD ASTOR HOUSE

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)
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New York. May 30.-"No woman should depend for her support upon a man. Young girls would do we'll to prepare themselves early in life for the struggle for existence. Independ- ence is one of the glories of life" Such are the opinions of Mrs. Sarah M. Sheridan, society singing teacher, who has just returned to New York after having been a guest of Presi-
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To The Democratic Voters of the Eleventh Judicial District:-.
 Believing the office of Prosecuting Attorney to be one of the most hon orable positions within the gift of a people, and one fraught with the grayest responsibilities, because the welfare of a people, and the security and safety of their homes and thei1 livos are dependent upon full, com- the law by the officer holding such a position; and since our Governor said that he would make only temporary appointment to fill out the uneNpircd term of the man who so ably filled the office, until the people of the district could elect the man of their choice Prosecuting Attorney; and believing myself by experience fitted to attend to the duties imposed upon the man who shall be chosen at the election June 21, 1913, l hereby annouce my self as candidate for the office of Prosecuting Attorney, subject to the will of the Democratic voters of this district. l bespeak for myself care full consideration of my candidacy. l promise, if elected, faithful, conser- yatiye and impartial enforcement of the law. A good citizen demands no more, and violater of the law should receive no less. My opponent and myself are good friends and 1 know that our race will be a friendly one, conducted on the high plane of decen- cy, conforming 1 am sure to the wish of all the people that our campaign will be a clean one and free from bit terness and anything that bespeaks "mud-slinging." l now submit my cause to my friends and the Demo- cratic voters of Jefferson, Lincoln and Desha counties. 1 solicit your vote and your influence.
 If H. K. TONEY.
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The spring months often find a women tired out, with pain in back hips and head, nerousv and sleepless. Foley Kidney Pills will quickly prove their worth and alvue as healer of all kidney and bladder ailments and irregularities. They are splendid remedy for rheumatism, cleaning the uric acid from the joints and system. Try them. Seawells Pharmacy.
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DINE BLUFF OROGRESS
 ROSPERITY
ANNOUNCE MENTS.
For Prosecuting Attorney.

The Graphic is authorized to an nounce T. G. Parham as 2 candidate for prosecuting attorney of the Elev- enth Judicial District, to fill out an unexplred term, his candidacy being subject to the action of the Democrat lc party at the special primary elec- tion to be held ill the Eleventh Judi clal District on June Fl, 1913.
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am anyious to have it known that the City Beautiful Club was unanimously in favor of the commission and its general program of work.
 Yours sincerely,
 JOSEPH JASIN.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE OND
 small compared wit hmodern times when the cost of the erection of some of our skyscrapers runs far into the millions.
 The house was first known as the Park Hotel and although there was not room with a private bath i'll the house. it was considered to be his last word in elegance and luxury. For twenty years after it's opening the hotel continued to be the head quarters for notables who visited New York. Foreign noblemen who came here, prominent politicians and states men of our own country and the so- cial elite all stopped at the Astor House. Daniel Webster was frequent ly registered at the hotel; John C.. Calhoun, Silas Wright, Franklin Pierce, Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, Zachary Taylor, William G. Seward, Stephen "A. Douglas, Lewis Cass, Jefferson Davis, Horatio Sey- mour and Henry Clay were all regis tered at the hotel at one time or an- other.
 President Lincoln, stopped there on his first visit to New York, and Louis Kossuth, bid farewell to America from the steps of she hotel. The monster meeting to arrange for the reception of Charles Dickens on the occasion of his visit to this country was held here. Many public din- ners of note, chief among them the dinner in honor of the Prince de ing room. Gen. Fremont and his fam fly lived there during the presidential campaign of 1856, and Admirals Far ragut and Porter were frequent guests after the war. It would be impossible to name the list of famous men who have slept in the rooms of the old As tor House. Unfortunately, some o1 the old registers in which these men wrote their names have been lost.
 The first manager of the hotel was Frederick Boynden and the second was Charles A. Stetson, who came to the hotel With Boyden as clerk. In 1871 Stetson retired and was succeed ed by his son, who met with finan- cial reverses in 1875 and the hotel fell under the auctioneer's hammer. The house was closed for four months, the only time in it's history, up to the present. It was renovated and re- opened by F. J. Allen and A. J. Dam, who soon retired and left the manage ment to Allen.
 Allen continued to manage the place successfully, until 1901, when he died. His widow and her nephew, A. H.. Thurston then took over the manage ment and upon the death of Mrs. AL len four years ago, Mir. ThurstOn formed the present company which consists of Mr. Thurston and his sis ter and is known as A. H. Thurston < Co.
 At the beginning of this month when it became certain that the old hotel would have to be closed, MT. Thurston notified the employees that they had better seek other jobs. Sev- cral of the employ91s have been with the house for twenty years or more. Invariably the walters at the Astor House lGve been Irishmen. At the conference when M7. Thurston told the employees that the place would have to be closed, many of those who had grown up in service at the old hostelry left the room in tears.
 A few will lament the passing of the old landmark and soon it will be only a memory, but memory which can never be separated from the his- tory of the city.
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dent and Mrs Wilson for the last two weeks at the White House. Charles Oscar Sheridan, her husband, who is a well knwon decorative painter, has just procured divorce from her at Reno, on the ground that she prefer- red to, live near2 her relatives and friends in New York than to residing in California with him. They were married thirty y-three years ago and have two grown children.
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penses of plating and selling; and this money could be used for build ings and Identification of the park.