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THE HERALD local cotton 12 %c THE ATHENS VOL. 2. NO. 113. ATHENS, GA., THURSDAY E SIX non FE1ERALS III THE B M HE (By Associated Press.) I'residio, Texas, January erals and Mexican rebels at 0 inaga lasted all night and was continued this morning. Fiv already killed and more than t Horrifying sights were v —The battle between the fed- or six hundred federals are lat many wounded, itnessed today. Wounded sol diers, with shattered aj-ms, anil legs shot off, and injuries that later proved fatal, dragged themselves across the Rio Grande river, begging the United Stales soldiers for help. All avail able doctors and medical supplies were placed at their com mand. Some of the wounded begged the Americans to kill them. Only wounded desertjers were allowed to remain in the United States. The others were disarmed and sent back to Mexico by Major McNamee, commanding the United States cavalry. Hundreds of federals have deserted, indicating that Huerta’s army would like tojgive up. The United States cavalry has more than three hundred guns taken from the deserters. Last night the American sol diers heard the groans of the (wounded on the battlefield across the river. The firing is apparently heavier today. Women, children and non-combatants left O.jinaga and crossed the border. REBELS DRIVE FKDERALS TO SHELTER. Laredo, Texas, January 1.—The Mexican constitutional ists drove the federals to the shelter of their trenches by a cleverly executed movement this morning. The rebels were apparently double the federal force. At daybreak the federal column made a sortie from the city toward a point where a few rebels had apparently occupied a position. Just as they neared the rebel lines the constitutionalist force appeared from another direction. The federals fled back to the forti fications under a heavy fire. Hundreds of Mexican women, girls and children took refuge here. __ TAKES OFFICE TODAY Oath Had Been Administered Several Days Ago—Public Reception Given. (By Associated Press.) New York, January 1.—John P. Mitehel, elected mayor by the fu- sionists, took his ofice at noon. The oath had been administered several days ago. The ceremonies were sim ple. They consisted of an address of farewell by retiring Mayor Kline, who succeeded Mayor tfciync-", and a brief inaugural speech by Mr. Mitchell. A public reception followed, and then Mayor Mitchell swore in the new heads of the city departments. He has not selected the police commissioner, corporation counsel and water health commissioners. THE WEA Rain and cofc JANUARY 1, 1914. DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. $5.00 PER Harvard Professor’s Daughter Held by Italy as Spy for French Government DIAMOND NECKLACE STOLEN THOM (By Associated Press.) St. Louis, January 1.—Mrs. Alex ander Landau, the 'wife of a St. Louis fur dealer, was robbed of a $10,000 diamond bracelet last night between her home and the theater. The brace let was a Christmas gift from her hus band. 12 HOURS A DAY E AS SLAVES DECEMBER HAS CALL ON MARRIAGE LICENSES of Many Weddings—Seven teen Divorces Granted, Which Seems to Be About the Aver age—Sixty Marriage Licenses Granted in December to Twen ty-One Whites and Thirty- Nine Blacks. Now that the year 1913 ha3 passed away, we find it quite interesting to look back over the records and find just what has been accomplished in these twelve months. We like to take stock, to find out just where wc stand. It was with tlris idea in view that a Herald reporter made his way toward Clarke county court house this morn ing and with the aid of the officials there, managed to compile a few sta tistics. The hooks of the clerk of Clarke superier court show that during the past twelve months, seventeen di vorces have been granted, which Mr. C rawford states is just about the av erage. Thus, in this respect, we seem to he neitho,* better nor worse, anu the hoodoo ’13 seemed to have no SPEciAUIOTICr Beginning with the New Year, [January 1st, the Adams Market Iwill sell for cash only—abso- |Jutely cash to everybody—and at a saving of 10 to 20 per cent Deiow the ordinary 30-day pric es. Watch our show windows or come in and price for your own fatisfaction. We guarantee you saving from 10 to 25 per cent bn anybody’s 30-day prices. Get the habit of paying cash for your pupplics and you will, to a great extent, solve the problem of the high cost of living. We will only quote a few prices, as. advertising come3 »igh. Pest Granulated Sugar, 25 L lbs - $1.25 fiver Leaf Lard, 10 lbs.. 1.40 ride of Buford Tomatoes, standard size, 14 cans.. 1.00 ew Pack Quaker Oatmeal, . 1* Packages 1.00 Hb. Tomatoes, per dozen cans 1.20 [In fact, every article in our dees P ro P°rtionately low • Phone or call in to get prices. [Remember that money saved 1 noney made. Very respectfully, noticeable effect on the happiness of Holiday Season Is the Occasion jClarke county homes. Now, as to marriage licenses issued. According to the figures obtained by the reporter there were 137 issued to whites while the number issued to blacks was considerably more, namely 208. Now, which month of the twelve ran the best race? This was December, by a good majority, the fact being true of both races. The ordinary’s office was busy from the first to the end of the month, twenty-one whites and thirty-nine blacks applying during that period, making a grand total of sixty, or two to a day. The following is the statement by months: Whites. Blacks. Total January . . . . 8 21 29 February . . . 11 15 26 March . . # . . 10 12 22 April . ... . . 1.7 10 23 May . .. 9 13 22 June .. .. ... 17 8 25 July .. 4 7 11 August .. . ..IQ 17 27 September . . . 12 21 33 October .. , .. 15 25 40 November .. .. 7 19 26 Lcccir.wcr . . .21 Z2 ee Total . .137 207 344 Washington, D. C., January 1.— Dr. Manly, who recently investigated for the federal bureau of labor, con ditions of employment in the iron and steel industry, asserted that the num ber of 12 hour men was enough in the manufacture of iron and steel, gas, cement, paper and pulp, coke, starch, beet sugar, glass bottles, in Laborers compelled to work twelve hours a day are “worn out more rapidly than were the slaves on the southern plantations and are more effectually debared from the common pleasure of life than many of the prisoners in our penal institutions” declared Dr. Basil M. Manly today before the American As sociation for Labor Legislation in joint session here with the American Political Science Association. “These men,” he said, “are little less than slaves to the machines they operate. The twelve hour worker has no time for recreation, no time for friends, no time for his wife and no time for his children.’ S. Thurston Baliard, of Louisville, Ky., a member of the federal indus trial relations committee, who has an 8-hour shift in operation in his flour mill, contended that "a man doing active or laborious work can do as much in 8 hours as he can in 12.” Austin B. Garrettson, president of the order of Railway Conductors, con- :mr.“d !" n g hours in railroading. Trade in Athens. PROSPECTS ARE PLEASING IN PATHS PEDAGOGIC IE ADAMS MARKET Superintendent Bond Expects a Big Increase in the School At tendance Next Monday—New Reese Street School Will Open Doors — Can Accommodate 1,000 Pupils — About the Splendid Educational System of this City. “What is the prospect for the school enrollment next Monday?” asked a re porter of Superintendent Bond of the public school system, this morning, “Good,” replied Mr. Bond. “I have ex pected to see from seventy-five to one hundred and fifty new pupils at each school. We will throw open the doors of our-new Reese street school (col ored) which will contain fourteen class rooms, accommodating 1,000 children. “We have been crowded during the last three months in ail the schools, and have in some been forced to hold double daily sessions, which I think the new school will eliminate to a cer tain extent the congestion.” There is no city in the state for its size (with probably the exception of Augusta) that has a better public school system than Athens. It’s corps of teachers can’t be improved on, and in Superintendent Bond an able head to the system is found. The school houses are up-to-date, methods of teaching the latest improved kind and all in ail the young idea in Athens has an excellent ground on which to shoot Few cities its size can boast the number of institutions of learning that this city possesses. There are eleven schools, eight white and four colored. ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED » PARADES CHICAGO STREETS Chicago, Ill*., January 1*—Entering restaurants and demanding food, smashing windows and puncturing au tomobile tires, an army of nearly BOO men marched through the business section. They carried a banner say ing they demanded work, net chatfty. They were composed of the unem ployed. They formed a striking con trast to the New Year’s revelers leav ing the cafes. The army stopped street ears and shouted to the passen gers that they demanded work. They were $na% depend Ayr tfea «a NEW YORK PASSES CITY OE LONDON IN P0P0LATI0N RACE (By Associated Press.) New York, January 1.—New York leads London in population by one million, says Dr. W. H. Guiltoy, the health board statistician. He fixes New York’s population at more thr/1 5,300,000. This estimate is based cn the increase since the last census. The comparison does not include London’s large suburbs. New York is gaining in population, while London is retro gressing. Rode Muleback To Atlanta; Vestibuled It Back Home Mr. Charlie Davis, a well known young man of this city, loft early Sunday morning for Atlanta, riding a mule. He took the mule there for Mr. McLeroy and left Atlanta yes terday, arriving on the vestibule. Charlie says the roads from Athens to Atlanta are in bad condition on account of so much rain. Miss Dorothy Macvane. Miss Dorothy Macvane, daughter of Silas Marcus Macvane, professor emeritus of Harvard, who resigned his chair and went to live in Europe shortly after one of his daughters married a French army officer, was virtually arrested by the Italian gov ernment on the charge os being a French spy. She was held ^it Taran to, while engaged there wit;, an Ital ian opera company, of whic(i she was the leading lady. The young woman has considerable reputation in Europe as a singer, and for the last few years she hgd travel ed with Italian opera companies over Europe. She has never yefcbeen seen in the United States. Righijafter he? detention her sister, Edith Macvane, who is the author of several success ful novels, hurried to American Am bassador Thomas Nelson Page to get him to intervene. The "father, who was ill in Rome, was not notified. The Macvane sisters—there are three of them, the Misses Edith and Dorothy and the Baroness Emily Dodeman do Placy, who left Cam bridge to become the wife of the French cavalry officer of that name- arc New Englanders, and their swift rise to fame has been the source of Miss Edith Macvane. admiration to their many friends around Harvard. They are unusually handsome women. • Of the three Miss Edith is perhaps best known to the reading public-from her novels and short stories. Among her novels are the “Adventures of Joujou,” “Duchess of Dreams,” “‘The Thoroughbred,” “The Black Flier," “The Tarantella,” and “Her Word of Honor,’ which came out only last spring. Night Watchman at Central of Georgia Road Injured Last Night at Depot. The carelessness of a negro porter at the Central of Georgia depot last night is the first cause of Night Watchman J. II. Brewer, aged 70 years, to be confined to his home to day, suffering with a broken nose, badly bruised chest, legs, arms and hips. It seems that a new negro porter pushed a heavy truck into a coach and it turned over, striking Mr. Brew er, knocking him down. He was taken into the waiting room and road’s sur geon;' Of- Benedict, sent for. The doc tor came at once and attended the in jured man, and had him sent to his home on Tallulah street. DEAIR BLIGHTS A BRIGHT FUTURE TOE SHOT OFF. Jonesboro, Ga„ January 1.—Shelton Brown, son of S. A. Brown, of this place, while out hunting one day this week, put his gun barrel down on his foot. The gun was accidentally dis charged, tearing off one of his toes. When women are doing fancy work with their needles they are often do ing embroidery with their tongues. NEW DEPOT AT JONESBORO. Jonesboro, Ga., January 1.—Tho new passenger depot of the Central of Georgia railroad at this place has been completed and the railroad au thorities are entitled to the thanks of the citizens of Jonesboro and the traveling public for the splendid ar rangements offered for the conveni ence as weii as the comfort of their passengers. ATHENS HERALD DECEMBER CIRCULATION. The circulation of The Athens Daily Herald for the month of December, 1913, was as follows: December 1...3,010 December 17.. .3,018 December 2,,, 3,008 December 18.. .3,023 December 3.. . 3,013 December 19- . .3,020 December 4... 3,010 December 20.. .3,014 December 5...3,015 December 21 (Sun.) December 6... 3,010 December 22.. .3,043 December 7 (Sun.) December 23.. .3,012 December 8.. .3,020 December 24.. .2,993 December 9... 3,025 December 25 Holiday December 10.. .3,020 December 2G.. .3,005 December 11.. .3,030 December 27.. .3,017 December 12.. .3,040 December 28 (Sun.) December 13.. .3,020 December 29.. .3,770 December 14 (Sun.) December 30.. .3,776 December 15.. .3,036 December 31.. .4,040 December 16.. .3.023 Total for December, 1913 81,01-1 Daily average for December, 1913 .3,115 The Athens Daily Herald has a circulation in Athens approximately twice as large as that of any other Athens newspaper. Advertisers and agencies are invited to test the accuracy of these figures in comparison'with the claims'of any other Athens newspaper. Very Sad Death of Mr. Benja min Harris, Brother of Mr. J. W. Harris, of This City. Mr. J. W. Harris has returned from Riddleville, Ga., where he was called last week by the sudden death of brother, Mr. benjamin Harris. Mr, Harris, who was only 29 years of age, was an exceptionally bright young man and had a promising future. He had recently graduated from Mercer University, and had entered upon his life's profession, that of teaching, in which he was meeting with signal success. COUNTY PROPERTIES ARE IN NEW HANDS Board Held Meeting at Noon Today, Mr. Hodgson Is Chairman and Mr. Wright, Clerk. At a meeting of the county commis sioners at noon today the transfer of the county properties to the new board was made, and Mr. Joseph M. Hodgson was elected chairman and Mr. Tate Wright, clerk. Both gentle men succeeded themselves in office. CARTOONIST MISSING. Chattanooga, Tenn., . anuary 1.— The newspapers have been called upon to aid in the search for E. R. Hamby, cartoonist upon a local paper, who has been mysteriously missing since De cember 20.. Hamby left suddenly af ter a misundersthanding with his wife and the latter appealed to the papers today after an active search by the police had failed to disclose the where abouts of her husband. MANY SCIENTIFIC ADDBESSES. (By Asrodatcd Press.) Atlanta, Ga., January 1,—Educa tors, chemists, botanists, entomolo gists and psychologist* were on to day’s program of the American Asso ciation for the Advancement of Science. Eminent investigators In these lines made addresses. ■— ' ~ ’j Huerta evidently hopes to simplify currency condition!.in Mexico by tak ing personal charge of all the cur. JAISfl A $500 BOND; HEARING ON 12TH Man Who Shot Mr. Ghoteton Whs Released From Custody Late Yesterday—Dr. Fullilove Reports Wounded Man Rest ing Easily Today—Will Not Lose His Arm, Doctor Says. Mr. C. E. James, who yesterday shot Mr. J. T. Cholston at the Toomer Mu sic House, and who was arrested soon after, gave bond of $500 and was re leased late yesterday afternoon. Ha will be given a preliminary hearing on January 12th before Judge Cross- ley. ill Dr. Fullilove reports’ Mr. Gholston as resting easily today, and says that amputation of his arm will not bo necessary. ADDER MACHINE CO, VS ADAMS PROMISES TO BE INTERESTING The following is the docket in cham bers for the beginning of the new year with Judge Brand of the superior court: Friday, January 2. Crystal Theater vs. Stone AjWur- ner’s Features, Inc., Injunction. Saturday, January 3. Adder Machine Co. vs. Adams. Elder vs. Elder. Custody of chil dren, etc. (Thomas and Shackelfor Thursday, January 22. Claude Hancock vs. Va.-Carolii Chemical Co. Injunction. (Cooley). Claude Hancock vs. Empire Cotton Oil Co. Injunction. (Cooley). Holder vs. Empire oCtton Oil Co. Friday, January 23. Pew vs. Sou. Ry. Co. Motion for new trial, from Gwinnett. Waters vs. Sou. By. Co. Motion for new trial, from Gwinnett. . . Davenport vs. Davenport. (Nix and Mahaffey). Saturday, January 24. State vs. Montgomery. Motion for new trial, from Jackson. State vs. Cummings. Pee Dee Mfg. Co. and Delgado Mills vs. Gr. R. R. Co. Motion for new trial. R. L. Moss & Co. vs. Ga. R. R. Co. Motion for new trial. One of the eases of interest which promises to be contended strongly is that of the Adder Machine Co. vs. Adams, an injunction proceeding, which involves a counter suit fur $5,000. The negotiation of a peace treaty with Denmark indicates that the Doc Coot incident has been forgiven— Boston Transcript. Circulation of The ATHENS HERALD Daily average by months for the past four months is follows: • July 2,492 August 2,656 September ..... 2,859 October 3,125 ADVERTISERS Who Wish to Reach the Buying Public of Athena Trade Territory ARE GUARANTEED The Biggest and Beat Circula tion is the Athens Herald. A Guarantee Goes With Every Contract, or Money If the Claim Is Not True Accurate. Guaraatees tho l.argaat lation of any Athens II per. —