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SAWSON PROSPER
lß,v E L. RAINEY
s'rRANGE CLASH BETWEEN A
p}%GMINENT MAN AND HIS
WIFE THE CAUSE.
(OULD NOT REVEAL HER Pfi
he Confesses That She Does
Know the Name of Her Father.
Case Unique in the Annals of
Divorce Suits. Some Letters.
VEW YORK, N. Y.~Jaded New
.« heen amazed at the revela
. . of the last two days in one of
he strangest clashes ever recorded in
L irv between man and wife.
.o has brought renewed dis
boon as to JHSE ho‘w l‘n‘u(‘h m'lh<‘-r
+ life a woman should reveal to
~+ husband. Mrs. Madeline G. Hoo
. veteran probation officer of Bing
ion. N. Y. 5 out with the state
"t that a woman is silly to reveal
.+ nast. Mistakes of the past have no
. in plans for the future.
“‘\nd vet "Mrs. Beverly D. Harris,
‘i of a former vice president of the
tional City bank, is being sued on
e grounds she failed to reveal her
«t The charge was made that Mrs.
cris claimed to be a descendant of
o Lee family, of Memphis, Tenn.,
her real parentage has never
1 '.A‘l('(i.
In a dramatic statement to the court
- attorney confessed that Mrs. Har
b did not know the name of her
it he exclaimed, “since when
< illegitimacy become a ground for
nwlment of marriage?”
Beverly Harris is suing for annul
ot on those very grounds and the
« is unique in the annals of the
C vorce courts.
Claims Husband Knew.
M attle declared that Harris
e is wife’s doubts as to her
renthood, for he often spoke of her
ve child.” In 1918, when the
o were living happily together, Har
r this letter to his wife:
“Precions: This is yvour birthday. Of
th ndiwork of God in all the
J e is more rare exquisite
: than you.
E 1 love child and to vou He
. every charm that artist’s
¢t's fancy could imagine of
yndert erfect womanhood.
' the very radiant flower of
[ inll throated songs of all the
5 at vour marvelous voice, vour
s are like soft skies, your skir like
blush of dawn, your teeth a cas
le of s, in face and form and
ice of movement you are all that
man fongs for, and ghat man wor
n less than a year after this epistle
passion was penned Mr. and Mrs.
rris separated. It was agreed that
s. Harris was to receive $5OO every
ks. In the separation agree
nt f hushand undertook not “to
reflections, aspersions or un
orabl comments whatsoever on
) ced incident, episode or oc
-1 the life, history, family,
mu tions, activities, manner or
living of the party of the
nd part or her associates.”
A Letter She Wrote.
A interesting court exhibit in
b strange case is a letter from the
¢, written to her husband April 14,
L n he decided to bring suit
: or annullment. |
1 may bring out anything
st me that you wish since I mar- |
Ly said Mrs. Harris, “bring
dead sister, my mother, or myself
m 2 vault of the past, many years
). regardless of Wwhat that may be |
I an innocent victim of it all), !
L il carry vou to the depths of |
will compel you to resign. I
| defame your name throughout the |
rid and then will have your \'rr_v]
| crushed to hell.” |
larris’ attorney claims the husband |
ot know at the time what was|
fnt by all this, but it was all m:nlc‘
“m the light of subsequent dc\'vl-i
I says his wife claimed to Iwi
daughter of Stacker Lee, one of|
lamily operating the famous Lee |
i ts on the Mississippi ri\'m',i‘
es of Eli Rayner, of hi;\-h}
12l standing and business promi
_ \emphis. In his plea for an- |
ent the husband says he discov- |
that Stacker I.ee died a bachelor |
that instead of being the niece of |
ner, Mrs, Harris had been the lat- |
P theart. Rayner is described |
the proceedings as ‘“*a local |
hironted by this testimony Mrs. |
: rough her attorney, filed an|
g which it was stated that|
[ t is now informed and verily |
- r mother married one Sam- |
ce, who was related to said |
i Memphis.”
r investigation, the cmn’t'
roved that Samuel C. Lee|
irs before Mrs. Harris \\':u‘;
’ ligreed that she was the|
P i the third wife of Lee, but|
¢ was made that she was|
Uut of wedlock. In admitting the |
of his client, Mr. Battle|
s a family skeleton which
n hoped would forever re-
I the closet. He insisted that
. “arris had told her husband all
E i her parentage. The hus
* dltorneys are insisting that the
N r father be revealed.
time the feminists are all aflut
"¢V say that husbands never tell
. Vives anything, and that is prc-l
% Chastity in the stronger sex
[teisted upon weddings in this
o ears would be scarcer than
sits,
e NK WILL
SOON OPEN AT CORDELE
. litorgia State bank has bought
. ‘5 of the Cordele Bank and
B s and in ten days will
ooy "Stitution with a capital of
THE DAWSON NEWS
How Was Congress?
Fine, Avers Adams:
Bum, Retorts Hull
WASHINGTON, D. G.—Congress
has ended and furnished the issues
for the coming campaign, according
to the chairman of the republican and
democratic national committees, in the
statements they issued on Friday,
John T. Adams, chairman of the
ican national committee, says in
athat 10 congress in
uch a splen
did recor legislation.”
Cordell Hull, charrmaff of the dem
ocratic national committee, says:
“A patient and long suffering pub
lic will welcome the adjournment of
the present republican congress, which
promised more and achieved less than
any other legislative body in history.”
MASKED SEXTETTE FLEE AS
VALDOSTA POLICEMAN OF
FERS RESISTANCE.
VALDOSTA, Ga.—Assistant Chief
of Police R. [.. Arant late last night
defeated a bold and sensational effort
on the part of alleged K. K. K’s. to
take a man out of a large crowd at
tending an open-air band concert, M.
L. Creed, a hoilermaker employed in
place of shopmen at the Southern rail
way shops here, was the victim.
~Creed being a powerful man gave
fight when the white-hooded sextette
attempted tc seize him and with wo
men and children screaming and flee
ing the excitement became intense.
The officer tackled the crowd and
wrestled the victim away. The masked
men quickly re-entered autos and were
swiftly whirled away while Creed was
escorted to police headquarters and
held during the night as a matter of
protection, ;
Officers of K. K. K. today denied
that they had anything to do with
the attack, declaring their robes had
been under lock and key since Su
preme Kleagle Clarke’s orders some
weeks ago forbidding the use of masks.
Conferences were held during the
day between city officials, railway offi
cials and officers of the local klan, and
it was announced that very determined
steps would be taken to apprehend
the marauders.
KILLED MAN 44 YEARS
AGO; IS NOW IN JAIL
, i
MAN 62 YEARS OLD ARREST
ED IN FLORIDA FOR CRIME
COMMITTED IN 1878.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.—Joseph B.
Kemp, alias J. W. English, aged 62,
L\\'as arrested by local authorities in
iconncction with the killing of Daniel
,3\l(‘.\':&l[ at Red Springs, N. C., Aug
lust 15, 1878. To a newspaper repre
}.\z‘r't:i?i\'o Kemp admitted the shooting,
claiming seli-defense and told the
story of the occurrence.
Self-Defense.
He stated that during a quarrel with
McNeill, who, he said, was related to
him, McNeil threatened him with an
axe and he shot him with a pistol.
McNeill’'s brother, he stated, is the
only living witness to the affair which
occurred forty-four years ago. He leit
the small town that night and has
been in Florida more than twenty
vears and in St. Augustine a year, he
said. |
Turned Up. ‘
Several weeks ago Kemp seated
himself on a bench beside a stranger.
Conversation developed that they came
from the same locality and when a|
discussion of the McNeill killing came
up Kemp appeared so familiar with
details of the affair that the strangcri
became suspicious. He communicated
with relatives in North Carolina :ul(‘l“
obtained a description of the man with
a tin type picture of him. A scar onJ
his right forehead identified him. Tt
was learned that Kemp had been in
dicted for first degree murder in con
nection with the killing and he was
placed under arrest yesterday.
Domestic Trouble.
Family dissension, he stated, played
a large part in the shooting. He re
fused to comment on this, however,
and said . that he would not do so un
less compelled to on the stand.
He was just 17 years old at the
time of the shootiig, which he said
occurred when McNeill attacked him
with a wood axe after he had implied
that McNeill was a liar. Sheriff Lewis,
of Robinson county, is expected in the
citv this week to take his prisoner
back to what Kemp calls the “best
covntry in the world.”
Chicken Thief Who Dropped $9OO
In Hen House Seeks to Recover Roll
Nervy Robber Asks Farmer to Return
The Wallet and “Is Willing to
Have Small Sum Deducted.”
William Schrock, a farmer of Listie,
Pa.. entered his poultry house one
morning recently sand discovered that
30 of his choice fowls had disappear
ed. He found a large leather wallet on
the floor under a window where the
miscreant evidently had entered. Open
ing the wallet, Schrock was amazed to
find it packed full of bills. The man
who took his chickens had left behind
$9OO in good United States currency.
Schrock permitted it to become
known that he had lost 30 chickens,
but that the thief had left a well-filled
wallet behind. A few days later a
claimant for the money communicated
with Schrock. The owner, who is well
known in the neighborhood, admitted
that he had taken the chickens and
| he Al
FLOW OF ILLICIT BOOZE INU.
~ 8. BEYOND CONTROL, “DRY”
| AGENTS ASSERT.
@ Gy
Espionage Ring Hampers Enforce
ment Agents in Their Work of Run
ning Down Law-Breaking Saloon
Men and Brewers.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—An “in
side picture” of the difficulties federal
prohibition officers are having in their
efforts to “dry up” the United States
was obtained from a recent conference
in Washington of “dry” agents from
ten large eastern and middle western
states. Privately, these officials are
pessimistic over the outcome of the
battle between the law and the boot
legger, and they all agreed that the
enforcement problem is “getting away
from them” in the two important par
ticulars of beer and bootleg.
Genuine whisky is well under con
trol, for the sources are known and
the supply is limited, But bootleg and
beer are different, for the supply is
almost unlimited and is wholly beyond
control at the present time, it was;
said. |
Beer Permits to Be Revocable. |
The net result of the conference will!
be additional restrictions designed m}
aid the enforcement officials in stem
ming the tide of beer. All permits fnri
its manufacture are to be made re
vocable at the will of the prohibition |
commission, upon showing that the!
law has been violated. Brewers are al-‘
so to be required to imprint their bot-l‘
tles and barrels for identification. Per
mits will be summarily revoked if thc_vi
manufacture beer containing more than'
one-half of one per cent alcohol. i
Beer is being manufactured by hun-i
dreds of breweries throughout the !
country, it is said. Most of it is noar(
beer which is “doctored” before itl
reaches the consumer, in some cases
the brewers including a pump and a|
“needle” with the sale. Other brewers
are said to be openly defying the law
by making the old-fashioned beer.
When arrested and fined they pay the
fines and quickly make this up from
their next few sales. Brewers and
hootleggers have built up what is said
to be the finest espionage system in
the world, \\'hjth further hampers the
“dry” agents in their work. Although
the prohibition enforcement agents
are saying little publicly, it was as
serted that the atmosphere was decid
edly “blue” at the recent Washington
conference. |
SETTLERS’ BONES
NEW YORK WORKMEN, EXCA
VATING CELLAR, DIG UP
ANCIENT GRAVEYARD.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Two motor
truckloads of human bones, the re
mains of several hundred of New
i\'r)rk'.\' carly settlers, some of them
possibly Minute Men, heroes of the
American revolution and American
soldiers of the war of 1812, were in
gloriously and unceremoniously dump
»d intofthe ocean today from a city
'rubbish scow.
| Workmen employed by a construc
tion company, excavating a cellar, dug
up the ancient churchyard. Old brown
stone tombstones with names and
dates, the latest of which was 1820,
were unearthed.
In one corner of the plot, when a
brick vault was broken open, the ex
cavators discovered the human skulls
and other bones. It was evident that
there had been a reinterment from the
original burial, possibly some 60 years
ago, when a public school was erected
on the spot.
Told to Dump Them.
The foreman of the construction job
called up police headquarters and ask
ed what to do with the human re
mains.
“Oh, throw 'em down on the dump,”
he was instructed, he says.
So a gang of Italian workmen with
shovels loaded the bones of many of
Manhattan’s pioneer citizens nonchal
antly into two big motor trucks and
the driver dumped them on a scow in
the river.
From the records it was found that
the old graveyard was undoubtedly
connected with two prominent Man
hattan churches of the early 19th cen
tury. Custom decreed in those days
that every church should have a
churchyard in which to inter the bodies
of its dead.
coolly informed Schrock that he had
lost his wallet “somewhere about the
henhouse.”
After identifying his property he
stated that he was perfectly. willing
that Schrock take out a reasonable
sum for the chickens and send the re
mainder to him. Schrock, however, is
of a different mind. The confessed
chicken thief, according te the farmer,
will not dictate the terms. Either he
will pay for his crime according to
the law or he will settle with Schrock
for all damages done during the chick
en stealing tour.
G B
FOUR STICKS OF DYNAMITE
FOUND IN ATLANTA CAR
Authorities are making an investi
gation to learn the source of a pack
age containing four sticks of dyna
mite found on an Atlanta street car.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, OCT. 3, 1922
111-Fated Smyrna Is
One of the Problems
Facing World Peace
Smyrna, tragic center of recent
stirring events in Europe, constitut
ed one of the peace problems at
Versailles. Solution oi it was shat
tered by the ambitions of King
Constantine.
When President Wilson declared
for a free Fiume and the Italian
delegations packed up its baggage
to go home from Paris, Premier
Venezellos, of Grecce, rushed to
the French, British and American
delegates with a warning that Italy
would seek to take Smyrna, located
on the west coast of Asia Minor.
As a result Smyrna was awarded
to Greece by the powers at Paris
for a period of five years, after
which there was to be a plebiscite
to determine whether it was to re
main under Greek control or return
to the Turkish administration.
Then King Constantine returned
to the throne and, fired by ambi
tion for a greater Greece, threw
armies into Smyrna and started an
advance beyond the treaty line into
the interior of. nationalist Turkey.
He had made counsiderable prog
ress when the Turks, said to have
been aided by supplies from Russia,
turned and drove the Greeks back
to the sca, virtually annihilating an
army of 200,000 men.
H. BEDINGER BAYLOR’S
.
INCLUDES DONATION TO SAL
- VATION ARMY AND POLICE
| RIDE. KISS IS PUT IN.
; ATLANTA, Ga.—Colonel H. Bed
inger Baylor, of Sans Souci castle,
Atlanta, added to the official archives
of the state today his expense ac
count in his recent campaign for gov
ernor. He went into great detail in
itemizing his dishursements, jotting
down such things as contributions to
the Salvation Army, donation to a
stranded baseball club and street car
fare. All told, his statement showed
he spent $477.77.
Lists a Kiss.
Colonel Baylor's list of contribu
tions is highly entertaining. He puts
various persons on record as contrib
uting nothing at all to his campaign,
while to others he gives credit for va
rious activities. One of his listed con
tributions is a kiss from a ‘“female
Georgia cracker.”
“I was a simon,pure democratic
candidate in what 'was supposed to be
a democratic primary,” said Colonel
Baylor, in submitting his list of ex
penditures, which included the follow
ing:
His Expenditures.
Entrance fee, $250; circular indict
ment of Thomas W. Hardwick for in
gratitude and robbery, $2O; circular
indictment of Clifford Walker for in
gratitude, $5; announcement cards,
$6O: stranded baseball club, $1; Sal
vation Army, 25 cents; Kimball house
headquarters, nothing: horse, saddle
and bridle, one day, $5; drinks—coi
fee, grape juice and orange crush, $5:
stenographer, $4; street car fare, $5.52;
campaign manager, nothing.
Some Contributors.
As contributors to his campaign
Col. Baylor listed: Self, $307.77; Mrs.
H. B. Baylor, $170; Virginia relatives,
nothing; West Virginia relatives,
nothing; Texas relatives, nothing;
Confederate veterans, nothing: Colum
bus, Ga., free ride to station house,
and lodging four hours; city of At
lanta, free space to make speech in
front of Grady monument; Elks’ club
of Savannah, toddy with kick in it;
city of Brunswick, iree boat ride and
eats: city of Savannah, free boat ride
and eats: Ed Burns, George Morgan
and Sergt. Moon, free entertainment
in Columbus police station.
\ .
}The library of Watson
i Is Valued at $50,000;
i May Go to Mercer
Is One of the Finest in South. Forty
Years of Painstaking Selection of
Rare Literary Works.
THOMSON, Ga—lt is believed
that his wonderful library, said to be
the finest private library in the south,
will be turned over by Mrs. Watson
to Mercer university, where the sena
tor spent two vears as a student. On
one or two occasions he remarked that
he wished the young people of Geor
gia to have the benefit of his literary
collection. The library represents forty
years of painstaking collection and se
lection oi literary works on almost ev
ery conceivable subject. Senator’ Wat
son’s consuming passion was for books
and he reveled in the gathering of rare
volumes. ;
A touching sidelight on his lovable
nature is seen in the fact that on
Lumpkin street, not far from the pres
ent Watson home, “Hickory Hili,”
there stands an imposing residence en
tirely unoccupied. It was in former
years the Watson homestead. After
the death of his eldest daughter Sen
ator Watson could not endure the
thought of living in the house made
sacred to him by memories of the
dead. The family moved to *Hickory
Hill,” leaving the old home empty,
but the grounds have always been
cared for. »
Myrs. Hayes Urges Mps.
Felton for U. S. Senator
Appointment of Mrs. W. H. Felton,
of Cartersville, to succeed Senator
E. Watson is urged in a tele
sent Governor Hardwick by
Mrs. James E. Hayes, of Montezuma,
President of the Georgia Federation of
‘Women’s Clubs. e |
TEN THOUSAND ATTEND
|
~THE WATSON FUNERAL
BENEATH A CLEAR SKY AND
BLAZING SUN BODY IS CON
! SIGNED TO NATIVE SOIL.
'MANY SAD, TOUCHING SCENES
’ ’
| Funeral Cortege Passes Through Liv
| ing Lanes of Sorrowing People. All
| Business Halted, and Throngs From
I Every Walk of Life Pay Tribute.
E THOMSON, Ga.—Beneath a clear
i>k).' and blazing sun the body of Unit
!“l States Senator Thomas E. \\':n.\oxl'
caie home today and was laid to|
I;\;.L in the soil of McDuffie county as
'thousands of countrymen from Geor
lgia‘< backwoods united with prominent
| leaders in the official and business
| worlds in paying a last tribute to his'
memaory. ;
~ DBref and simple were the funeral
services at “Hickory Hill,” the \\'m-'
son home, but every honor within
the province of the town was paid the!
departed senator. Rev. E. J. Forrester,!
of Sparta, formerly pastor of thel
Thomson Baptist church, and a close |
friend of the late senator, officiated.
'H{‘ was assisted by Rev. J. T. Eakes, |
}o‘l’ the Thomson Methodist church. |
‘ Several thousand people were at the|
station when the congressional escort!
train, comprising two private cars,,
reached Thomson. The car in which|
the Georgian's body lay was the one'
used by the president and ex-presi-!
dents of the United States.
The tremendons gathering, 10,000 or
more that awaited the return of Mec-'
Duffie’s most illustrious son testified |
more emphatically than any other|
possible demonstration, the love and|
esteem in which he was held not only|
by those who claimed his personal!
friendship and espoused devotedly the
principles for which he stood, but also!
by those whom political events ar-!
rayed against him. Thomson was the|
mecca of those who followed the sen
ator throughout his stormy career.!
Roads from every direction were taken |
up with one-way traffic, one of the!
greatest known in McDuffie county,|
and after the body had been removed|
to the Georgian’s palatial home thor-|
oughfares leading there were lined up |
with automobiles, a mile in ]cnp;th.l
Not all came in automobiles. There
were vehicles of all description, horse
drawn and oxen; some walked, hring’l
unable to travel otherwise. People
were present from every section m'
Georgia, many from neighboring st:nwi
and some from across the Mason-!}
Dixon line. I
| Superb Floral Offerings.
Floral offerings, the like of which
has seldom been seen, transformed
his bier into a bower of beauty. Lit
erally hundreds of wreaths, emblems
and bouquets of beautiful blossoms
came from men and women in all
walks of life. His colleagues in the
national legislative halls sent wonder
ful floral tributes, while state officials
and men in other places of authority
tendered this, their last token of love
and esteem. From the humblest of his
followers came the offerings of bhlos
soms to adorn the bier of the chief
tain whom they loved and revered.
It is a most remarkable and impres
sive demonstration of Mr. Watson’s
hold upon the hearts of the people.
In sharp contrast to the marvelous
beauty of President Harding’s floral
tribute some brought wild flowers,
picked by the wayside. But behind
their meager offerings was an esteem
second only to idolatry. Had they
been able to command thousands lhc}
sentiment could not have been greater.
Hundreds Shed Tears. |
Horny-handed sons of toil, men who
had known the Georgia statesman on
ly as “Tom” Watson for whom they
cast their first and every ballot, dur
ing his political carer, were in large
representation on their faces was a
look of bitter dejection. They wept at
the station when the escort first ar
rived; at “Hickory Hill” they shed
profuse tears when his face was seen
(a face remarkably like its naturall‘
self, but more composed than when
in action in the numerous parliamen
tarv wrangles of the senate) the grave |
scene provoked a repetition of scnti—;
ment. And even after most of the|
throng had disappeared there assem- |
bled in scattering groups, admircrsl
who were moved easily to tears at
some intimate reflection or ol)svr\'a‘:
tion among them. ‘
Examples of Esteem. |
An example of esteem in which the |
Georgian was held by individuals oc- |
cured on the congressional special ati
3 o'clock early Thursday morning. |
When the train changed engines at
Florence, S. C. District Passenger !
Agent Howard G. Rambo, of Wash- |
{Continued on page 2) '
The Mine Mule, Familiar Figure in
Underground Romance, Disappears
“Hard Tails,” Subject for Many Fan
tastic Stories, Are Slowly Giving
Away to Electricity.
The mine mule. whose history dates
back to the days oi early coal mining,
gradually is disappearing, according to
reports irom government sources.
With the disappearance of the faith
ful “hard tail,” old miners are preserv
ing for posterity tales of pathos and
sympathy for the once essential draft
animal of the mining industry.
Stories picturing the mules going
blind by constantly being kept under
ground are discounted by the more
truth-loving miners as fairy tales
whose design is to lend a touch of
romance to the early history of coal
mining. The modern mine finds use
for only one mule, that for the dis
tribution of powder after the miners
have been hoisted to thé surface. This
mule is lowered to the bottom of the
Wealthy Woman
Loses $25,000 Gem:s;
Are Found—Thanks
JACKSONVILLE, Fla—A woman
en route from New York to Palm
Beach to deliver jewelry valued at
$25,000 frantically reported to the po
lice here Saturday night that she had
lost it somewhere between the union
station and the hotel where she in
tended to spend the night.
She went to bed, ill. The police re
ported Sunday the recovery of the
valuables. A detective found the pack
age containing them in the taxicab she
used for the journey to the hotel.
“She thanked ’em, that’s all,” said
the sergeant as he closed the police
record in the case.
GEORGIA PARELLEL
iKILLING SEQUEL TO WIFE'S
'~ STORY. HUSBAND SUSPI
| CIOUS WHEN BABY BORN.
| CORDELE, Ga.—ln Indiana, a
learned prefessor of the law in a great
university heard his wife confess that
another man was the father of the
child that had been born to her.
The learned professor of the law
filed suit for damages against the mer
chant the wife named. It is now being
fought out in the courts of Indiana,
and the wife has been on the witness
stand to tell the story of her shame.
Down in the Deep Creek neighbor
hood in Crisp county, on the Cordele
road, a wife told her husband the
identical story. There was no suit for
damages, but Wednesday Lawton Nip
per, a prosperous young farmer, is
dying with a bullet through his spine.
Will Clack, the husband who heard
the confession, is in jail in Cordele.
He adm'ts firing the shot,
Shoots on Sight.
In the Indiana case Prof. John P.
Tierman held conferences and made
overtures and proposals to Harry
Poulin, the man his wife named be
fore he filed suit. Down in the Deep
Creek neighborhood Will Clack open
ed fire the minute he encountered Law
ton Nipper in W. R. Blitch's store,
where the men met aecidentally Mon
day afternoon. Physicians say that
Nipper can’t recover. Pending develop
ments in his condition Clack is being
held without bail.
The tragedy was in the making sev-‘
eral weeks ago, when it became ap-!
parent that a baby was to arrive at
the Clack home. The young farmer
was suspicious. He demanded an ex
planation of his wife.
Wife Tells Story.
It was reluctantly but completely
given. According to Mrs. Clack, Nip
per had been at the home during the
absence of the husband. |
The husband was crushed. Ten daysl
ago the baby was born and the young
husband prepared to sell his huldings“
and leave Crisp county, taking his|
S-vear-old daughter with him.
Monday evening he entered Blitch's
store to pay up his account. In the
store he saw Nipper. No words were
wasted. He drew his pistol, fired and |
Nipper fell. [
INDUSTRIES MAKING QUICK
RECOVERY FROM STRIKE.
MILLS SPEEDING UP.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The big in
dustries of the country are making a
rather better recovery from the effects
of the strikes than had been anticipat
ed, according to reports received in
financial and business quarters during
the past week.
Soft coal output is running close to
10,000,000 tons a week, and supplies of
this commodity are such that the steel
industry, which falls in the lowest class
of priority, is now receiving sufficient
fuel to run at 60 per cent of capacity,
instead of the 50 per cent of two weeks
ago. More blast furnaces are being
blown in and the trade expects all of
August’s losses in this respect to be
made good presently.
Railroads Are Busy.
With the soft coal mining in full
swing and anthracite mining in the
process of resumption, the railroads
are carrying the largest amount of
freight in nearly two years. Car load
ings for the week totaled 932,000, an
increase of 41,000 cars over the previ
ous week. Part of the gain is due to
the accelerated movement of soft coal.
The supply of idle railroad cars is
reaching the vanishing point.
Cotton consumption is encouraging.
August’'s takings by our domestic
mills amounted to 527,000 bales, the
largest in any month since July, 1920.
shait, but brought back up aiter com
pleting its work, and is cared for in
a stable above ground. Electrical pow
er is used almost exclusively for haul
ing coal carts under ground.
In mines where the mule still is
used exclusively the animals are
brought to the surface frequently. In
rare instances, it is said, are the mules
kept in the pits for any length of time.
When work in the mines is suspended
it is a general custom to bring the
animals to the surface, where they are
kept in pastures until the mines re
sume operations.
The only animals known to breed
in the shafts and pits are rats and
mice. These little rodents, however,
are often made pets of by the miners
for the reason that their presence in
dicates absence of gas pockets. As
long as the mouse or rat slips about
a certain Flace the miner is certain to
be free of the gas danger.
A NEWSPAPER
DEVOTED TO
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOL. 40.—N0. 5
'HOPES TO SEE PLANT LAWS
APPLIED TO THE DEVEL
MENT OF MEN.
Noted Horticulturist Spends Most of
His Time in Experimenting. Has
Created a New Variety of Sunflow
er for Commercial Use.
SANTA ROSA, Cal.—lf fulfillment
comes to the hopes and ideas of Luth
er Burbank, foremost plant breeder of
the world, history also will record his
influence in the developing of better
men, as well as better plants, for he
regards improvement of mankind as a
greater work than improvement of
plant species,
“We hope that the same laws, as
far as practicable, which 1 have dis-~
covered and demonstrated in plant life
will be applied to the improvement of
human life,” said the dean of plant
scientists in his Santa Rosa home.
“This in a measure can, must and
will be done,” he asserted. !
Although every possible minute of
Burbank’s day is given to his_plant
experiments he is glad to give time to
civic affairs, especially to the boy
scouts, playground activities and
school doings, for in these he sees the
beginning of the application to man
kind of his principles of plant breed
ing.
“My time is all too short to do all I
wish and hope yet to do,” he says.
l Possibilities Limitless.
The mmprovement of plants, accord
ing to Burbank, is in its earliest infan
cy, but “the possibilities are limitless,”
ihe declares.
“In mechanics and electricity great
progress already has been made, but,
as every scientist knows, it is hardly
a beginning,” says Burbank, in com
|paring mechanical and plant knowl
edge.
After 60 years of plant breeding he
enunciates the principles, ‘“plants are
pliable and amenable to the will of
man, but this has never been surmised
,h_\‘ the general public until the last 2§
| vears.”
' Agricuiturists a few years ago re-
Ipor:cd to Burbank that the tall stalks
on which sunflowers grew made it un
handy to harvest the seeds. Burbank
set to work on the problem, and this
year is marketing seeds of a new sun
flower, which grows on a 3-foot stalk.
The bloom has been so\greatly en
larged that it is a heavier producer of
seeds than other varieties and the
seeds are white.
! Next year he will give the world
six new peaches, a new prune which
does not need to be dipped before dry
ing, a new plum and a new nectarine.
He has also been working several
years on potatoes in the hope of pro
lducing a new variety which will rival
his famous “Burbank,” grown and
used in greater quantity than any oth
er, and after countless experiments has
narrowed his experimental varieties
down to 60, from which he will event
‘ually bring out one or more varieties
for the world.
Creations Amaze People.
The Santa Rosa plant scientist, hav
ing produced many firuits, berries,
vegetables, grasses and grains of great
benefit to mankind, is today giving a
bit more of his attention than ever be
fore to the development of beautiful
plants and blossoms, although in ne
measure giving up his work and inter
est in food, clothing and timber pro
ducing plants.
- But it is in the development of
striking colors in plants and flowers,
of pleasing flower fragrance and new
flavors in fruits that his experiments
today show breadth of imagination.
Hundreds of visitors stop in amaze
ment each day at the low fences sur
rounding his experimental plots in this
city and gaze enraptured at the shades
of some glorified popular flower—
some new zinnia, poppy, gladiolus or
larkspur.
Burbank has 100,000 new color
shades and varieties of the gladiolus,
in every conceivable color and combi
nation of color and of unequaled size
and freedom of bloom.
His Newest Favorite.
His new amaranthus, ‘“Molten Fire,”
is his newest pride. It is a plant from
three to four feet in height and three
feet across and whose leaves develop
an iridescent, fiery, crimson, salmon
color, a hue never before seen on land
or sea, in any plant or anything else
except the intense heat of the electrie
furnace. It retains its brilliance of col
or for three months. Two years ago
there was only one of these plants in
the world. 4
Constantly increasing publicity for
Rurbank’s work has resulted in his ex
periment grounds here becoming the
mecca for thousands of scientists and
world nqtables in every profession. He
reccives as many of these as possible,
but the unnumbered thousands wheo
come cannot, of course, be admitted
to the grounds, or his work soon
would have to be discontinued. He has
now an average of 150 callers a day,
of whom he can see but few. On a re
cent Sunday afternoon automobiles
were parked three deep in the street
for the length of a block beside the
gardens.
“I would willingly entertain all who
wish to visit my grounds, yet the very
nature of my work requires absolute
freedom from interruption,” he says.
All of Burbank’s business is carried
on by mail, a nécessary measure be
cause of the demands made upon his
time.
USED HIMSELF TO HAUL
; HIS FAMLY 300 MILES
~ Claiming that he had traveled more
‘than 300 miles with all his belongin,
in a small cart hitched to himss
Ralph DeWitt, of Sparta, Mo., with
his wife, three small children, and a
little dog, reached the Arhnufi;‘rg
cotton gélds to pick cotton. He left
home with but $6 in his pockets.