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VOL. XL NO. 11.
MRS.CIVE'S
SlHElll
JJIL. IS
SILENT
Mrs. Jones Refuses to Divulge
Motive for Killing Young
Nashville Widow.
DEAD WOMAN’S BABY SON
ONLY WITNESS TO TRAGEDY
Jealousy, Caused by Neighbor
hood Gossip as to Divorce
Case, Theory of State.
NASHVILLE, TENN., Aug. 16.
While relatives and friends today be
stirred themselves to obtain bail for
Mrs. Leola Jones, the Nashville woman
charged with killing her rival, Mrs.
Alva Frances Cave, a comely young
widow, counsel for the accused took
'** their first steps in preparation for the
prisoner’s defense.
It Is believed that the commonwealth
will have condiserable difficulty in con
victing Mrs. Jones, because no one
save the two-year-old son of the dead
woman saw the shooting. Mrs. Jones
today refused to make any statement.
Garbed in spotless white, the pris
oner sat in her cell today, showing
neither fear nor excitement. Her only
perturbation of mind arose over the
grim-barred room which soiled her
snowy garments.
Jealousy caused by neighborhood
gossip is the motive which the prosecu
tion will try to establish. Charges made
by Mrs. Jones in a suit for divorce last
year, in which Mrs. Cave was named as
i co-respondent, will be introduced to
show the mental attitude of the prison
er toward the victim.
The shooting of Mrs. Cave may result
in a double tragedy, owing to the pre
carious state of health of Mrs Sophia
Leinhous, mother of Mrs. Cave, who
collapsed when told of the killing. She
is at present under the constant care of
physicians.
Owing to the prominence of the fam
ily of the slain woman, the case has
aroused high Interest throughout the
state. • Airs. Cave was the daughter-in
law' of Dr. R. Lin Cave, pastor of the
Woodland Street Christian church of
, this city, chaplain general of the United
Confederate Veterans and former pas
tor of the West End Christian church
in Atlanta. He has a brother in the
ministry in St. Louis. For a number
of years he was engaged in educational
work In Lexington, Ky.
Mrs. Cave was 30 years old. Pa
thetic circumstances connected with
the case are that the dead woman
leaves two small children, a son aged
, two and a daughter aged five.
CONFESSES SLAYING
HIS STEPDAUGHTER;
WIFE TO PROSECUTE
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16.—Charles
Eugene Greenfield, of Chicago, accord
ing to the police, has confessed that he
killed his little stepdaughter, who was
found with her throat cut at Venice, a
cuburb.
Greenfield said he and the little girl
had planned to die together. They
were going to drown themselves at the
beach, he said, but there was too big a
crowd. They went to a room and he
cut her throat with a razor. Seeing the
blood, he said, he lost his nerve and
could not kill himself.
Mrs. Greenfield, almost insane from
the shock of her daughter’s death,
show ed the first sign of relief when told
her husband had confessed.
“Now, I want to sleep,” she said,
"and then I want to kill him. I do not
want the police to do anything. I want
to get justice from him myself.”
YOUNG WIDOW OF MACON
BIBB’S BIGGEST TAXPAYER
MACON. GA., Aug. 16.—The tax di
gest for 1912 shows that one-half of
the real estate in Bibb county changed
hands last year. There were 3,800 war
ranty deeds filed, and these in the ag
gregate represented about one-half of
the property, whose total tax valuation
Is $21,100,000. Never before in the his
' tory of Macon has there been so much
activity in the realty business. The
digest also shows that fully 300 wealthy
.Macon families have practically-their
entire fortunes invested in real estate.
The largest property holder is Mrs. L
L. Dempsey, a young widow, who pays
taxes on an assessment of $285,000.
FLIES 60 MILES.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. .1., Aug. 16.
Aviator C. C. Bergdoll made a cross
country aerial dash from Philadelphia to
i Atlantic City today, arriving here un
•> heralded at 7:15 o’clock It took him an
hour and thirty minutes to negotiate the
60 miles in his monoplane.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
Mt. Gilead Revival Retreat of Young More Than Ever for Wooing
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The Commissioner of Agricul
ture Surely Ought To eB One,
Says Busy Candidate.
“Jim" Price, of Oconee county, who
is a candidate for commissioner of ag
riculture, is about the busiest man in
Georgia nowadays, but he took time
from his campaigning to run into At
lanta for a day or so to look over the
legislature in its dying hours, and to
give it a few' suggestions on how to
talk to the folks back home about com
missioners of agriculture, particularly
prospective commissioners.
"I have been out among the country
people, frankly talking my race over
with them. lam a plain farmer—never
was anything else, and don’t know how
to be anything else," said Mr. Price.
“I find the people acutely interested
in the forthcoming primary, and the
farmers are looking well to the ques
tion of who shall be the next commis
sioner of agriculture. I believe I shall
be elected, for I am the only real farm
er running, there is any place
at all for a farmer in our scheme of
things political, the commissionership
of agriculture would seem to be the
place.”
“Jim" Price lives in Oconee county,
and has served in both the house and
senate of the state legislature. JHe has
hosts of warm friends all over Geor
gia, particularly among the farmers. He
was “born and raised” on a farm,
knows how to conduct a farm suc
cessfully, and does conduct one that
way, and possesses every qualification
necessary in the high position to which
he aspires.
He doesn’t spend much time in the
cities, although he is well known in
most of them, for. as he says, “the
job I am after is not a city job pri
marily, although upon a wise adminis
tration ot the agricultural department
depends much of the cities’ prosperity.”
DR. C. C. THACH HERE FOR
AUBURN ALUMNI BANQUET
Di. Charles ( . Thach, president of
Auburn, arrived in Atlanta today to
attend the banquet tonight which the
Atlanta Alumni association of Auburn
men will give at the Aragon hotel.
A public reception in honor of Dr.
Thach will be held at 5:30 o'clock this
afternoon at the University club and all
members of the club and college men
in the city are invited to meet the pres
ident.
Dr. E. J. Spratling. one of the leading
men of the city and president of At
lanta's Auburn club, will act as toast
master tonight and more than 50 Au
burn men are expected to sit gt the
banquet. ,
MULAY TO GET $75,000
A YEAR TO BE OUIET
PARIS. Aug. 16.—For keeping out of
Moroccan politics in future, Mulay Ha
fid, former sultan, is to receive $75,000
yearly from the French government,
The Temps says. He also is to get a
big indemnity for the forfeiture of his
throne and his living expenses so long
as he stays at Vichy, France.
VIDALIA HOME BURNS.
VIDALIA, GA., Aug. 16.—Fire de
stroyed the two-story residence on Pine
street belonging to S. H. Vann and
occupied by P. H. Smith. The building
was valued at $2,000 and was insured
for sl,ooii. Household furniture was
insured for SSOO.
ATLANTA. GA.. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1912.
But It’s Not the Marriage Mart
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: FOR TRI BANDIT
r ? Lone Robber Gets Away With
$3,000 Express Package
i. Near Asheville.
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ASHEVILLE, N. C., Aug. 16.—Offl
-1 cers of this city and section are today
scouring- the mountains around Ashe-
■ ville and Biltifiore and searching these
‘ two cities and adjacent towns for a
> lone bandit, who last night held up
! and robbed the express car of a South
ern railway train as it was leaving
, Biltmore coming into this city from
I Columbia and Spartanburg.
! The robber boarded the train as it
was pulling out of the Biltmore yards,
• three miles from this city, and, at the
, point of a pistol, held up E. F. Carr,, of
■ Marion, the express clerk, rifled the ex
t press chest, toqk a package containing
i $3,000 in currency, locked Carr up in
i the chest and jumped from the train
as it.slowed up in the Asheville yards.
> Express employees found Carr In the
i chest when the train reached the Ashe
. ville depot. He was unable to give a
description of the robber, saying that
the bandit was completely masked.
I The robbery took place about 10:30
o’clock, the train being more than an
hour late. Anticipating that the robber
might attempt to escape on the first
train out, officers boarded one leaving
’ here at 10:50 o’clock. Railroad detec
tives and police officers telegraphed to
• all cities and towns in this section to be
, on the lookout for the thief.
MERCER CICERONIANS
OUTSPEAK PHI DELTAS
I BLUE RIDGE, GA., Aug. 16.—The
annual debate between the Phi Delta
and Ciceronian literary societies of
Mercer university was held in the audi
torium of the Baptist Blue Ridge as
sembly, when the subject discussed was
"Resolved. That a uniform Federal di
vorce law is desirable for the states of
, the Union."
The affirmative was championed by
T. Hoyt Davis, of Braselton, and E. M.
Chapman, of Lithonia, for the Cice-
■ ronians, and the negative by R. M
Donehoo. of Atlanta, and A. T. Cline,
, of Cant for the Phi Deltas. The af
firmative won.
CONVICTED OF PERJURY.
MONTGOMERY, ALA., Aug. 16.
Otto T. Barr, one of the best known
i automobile men of Montgomery, has
been sentenced to three years’ impiis
onment for perjury. Officials say that
this is the first conviction of a white
man for perjury eVer obtained in Mont
gomery county. Harr has appealed to
the supreme court. ,
MAN, 62, WE|jS WOMAN 28.
NEW YORK, AuJ r;. Frederick Horn
by. aged 62, of Phl.adelphia, has been
| married *li Long l<land City to Miss
Emille Fleming, whf Is only 26.
Baker and Barber to
i Mingle With Elite at
Billion-Dollar Fete
H. Clay Frick, Snubbed by Taft
and Society, Goes Into High
ways for Guests.
BOSTON. Aug. 16.—Henry Clay
Frick, a Pittsburg steel magnate and
Prides Crossing pride, is at odds with
Northshore society over his billion-dol
lar lawn fete planned for tonight. So
ciety is not coming out the way it
ought. Mr. Frick decided when the an
swers to his invitations began to ar
rive. Mr. Frick in this crisis, perhaps,
turned to the Gospel for comfort. At
any rate, his answer was to emulate a
Gospel example and "go out into the
highways and byw'ays" of Prides Cross
ing and the surrounding towns for
guests to fill the vacant places. And
as a result, two Beverly barbers, the
Magnolia baker and several others not
acceptable to the Northshore elite will
stroll about the beautiful Frick lawn
tonight. Publicity, the failure of the
invited guests to respond properly and
a gentle snub from President Taft are
held responsible for Frick's change of
plans.
Be that as it may, the blllion-dollar
fete won't be nearly so pretentious as
was at first planned. Frick has cut and
slashed his own nrogram until the
Northshore groans.
ECHOLS COUNTY TOWNS
HAVE BIG CELEBRATION
ON 79TH ANNIVERSARY
VALDOSTA, GA.. Aug 16. —The cel
ebration of the seventy-ninth birthday
of John A. and James S. Carter, of
Echols county, has just been held at
the home of the latter. For several
years the annual celeb.ation of the
Carter twins lias been an event of much
importance in that section. They are
prominent men in Echols county, re
markably well preserved and noted for
their unusual height, both pf them be
ing nearly seven feet.
At the celebration 100 descendants,
relatives and friends were present to
congratulate both the aged twins. They
were the recipients of many valuable
and useful presents. The bounteous
dinner provided was enough to have
fed twice the 100 guests. Messrs. Car
ter and their wives are pioneers of
Echols county and have lived there
practically all of their lives.
HOOSIER POET GIVES HIS
NEPHEW $50,000 FORTUNE
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Aug. 16.
Edmund H Ettel, who Is now traveling
with his bride, will receive a present of
$50,000 from James Whitcomb Riley,
the Hoosic: poet, on his retufn to this
city. Young Eitel is a nephew of the
poet and for several years lias been his
secretary and confidential advise’.
it was in I hem Good Old
’Days” of Old.
Not even in the halcyon days that
, the patriarchs speak of w itli so much
feeling has courtship been so striking
and pleasant a feature of a camp meet
> ing as is now the order at Mt. Gilead
camp meeting, w hich is just closing.
At least, that is what S. H. Wallace,
of Ben Hill, Ga., says, and he should
know, for he has been an attendant
upon camp meetings for the last 77
years. Mr. Wallace was the oldest of
the patriarchs at Mt. Gilead.
"1 am glad to see that." he said, smil
ingly. as couples went strolling by.
“When a man’s with a woman, lie
hasn't much chance to get into devil
ment She’ll generally keep him pretty
busy.
“There's more of that going on now
adays, too,” he continued, with a
chuckle. "Baek w hen/I was a boy, we
were a little bit afraid of 'em until
they got us —and then we were still
afraid of them. But now boys and girls
get used to each other mighty quick.
I remember the first camp meeting 1
ever went to—a boy and a girl, when
caught talking to each other by them
selves, would always blush up to their
eyebrows.
Marriage Mart in Olden Days.
In “ye olden days,” said Mr. .Wal
lace, the camp meeting was more oi
less of a marriage mart. Every tors
male who couldn’t find himself a mate
anywhere else wrould go to a meeting.
Usually' he found her, and a marriage
occurred forthwith, in the present day
courtship is not considered so seriously.
Swains and swainettes now consider it
perfectly proper to bill and coo just
for the sheer love of it. And at parting,
if no agreement has been made, there
I is no heartache for either, for both will
be at it again before the close of an
other day.
Spoonoidt are considered matters of
Course at the present day camp meet
ing.
The Mount Gilead camp meeting just
concluding has been called successful in
every sense of the word by those most
vitally interested.
Beginning last Sunday, when there
were 2,500 people on the grounds, all
of its meetings hive been well attend
ed. ami a high interest has been mani
fested.
Everybody at Meetings.
The meetings have been in charge
of three preachers—Rev. George D.
Stone, of Payne Memorial church, At
lanta; Rev. I-’. S. Hudson, of East Point,
and Rev. W. P. Lovejoy, presiding elder
of the Atlanta district. Four services
were held every day—at eight, eleven,
three and seven o'clock.
In the congregations were represent
ed men and women of every age and
distinction. Generation upon genera
tion of the same family were there—
graybeards whose attendance at camp
meetings in the past had gone beyond
their calculation; young nten who were
just beginning to shoulder the burdens
of religious life; little children there
for the first time, who as yet did not
appreciate the significance of the meet
ings.
Close to nature, next the sighing of
the woods and the singing of the birds,
they sat and listened to powerfully put
words listened the more solemnly, it
seemed, for being In a church created
almost by nature Itself,
i
Left to right. Miss Mary Me-1
Gee, of Atlanta, one of the many;
girts at the Mt. Gilead camp
meeting whose voices help swell'
the volume when the revival
hymns are sung. Little Marion I
Cook, of 210 Hill street. Atlanta, I
is a happy camper at the Mt. i
Gilead meetings, for she has her!
big doll with her. Miss Lucy
Mathews, of Ben Hill, and Clyde
Dunean, of Stonewall, “court?
ing’’ at camp meeting.
BETTER COTTON
PRICES PLANNED
Farmers Union to Hold Impor
tant Meeting Here August
27 and 28.
The Farmers union is to hold one of
its most important meetings at Red
Men’s wigwam, 86 Central avenue, Au
gust 27 and 28. when plans for insuring
a satsifactory price for cotton will be
discussed.
The stockholders of the Union Phos
phate Company and the stockholders of
the Carmichael Implement Company
hold their annual meeting at this time.
The National Warehouse Company
has been thoroughly organized in some
states and the work of organization is
now in progress in other Southern
states. This company is preparing to
finance and market the South’s crop
this year. V. Otis Robertson, of Jack
son, Miss., general counsel for the Na
tional Warehouse Company, will ad
dress the farmers. He will take up
the plans in detail.
Special rates have been arranged. It
is expected that this will be the largest
meeting held by the Farmers union in
several years.
DEMOCRATS OF THE WEST
CONFIDENT.SAYS DOUGLAS
“I never saw Democrats so enthusi
astic over the prospects of victory and
so confident as those I met at Denver
last week,” said Hamilton Douglas,
dean of the Atlanta I«w school, today.
Mr. Douglas had just returned from the
supreme lodge of the Knights of Pyth
ias, of which he is a member, and he
talked politics ail the time he could
spare from business while out West.
MAN SCARED TO DEATH:
DROPS DEAD FROM FRIGHT
BALTIMORE, MD„ Aug. 16—Joseph
Brown literally was scared to death
when two policemen began to question
him about a woman .he was in company
with. He dropped dead from sheer
fright.
COULDN’T LAND WITH DOG
IN ENGLAND: BACK TO U. S.
BOSTON. Aug. 16.—Because they would
not let her land with her dog owing to a
technicality of the British law. Miss Cora
Chamberlain has returned to Boston with
out leaving the ship.
SUNBURN BLISTER FATAL.
NEW YORK. Aug. 16.—A blister
caused by sunburn proved fatal to Win.
throp Jordan, a summer resident at
Bay Shore. Blood poison developed.
extra
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P *^ N E C
hopes mm
tiffs EYES
10SEE0LD
CHURCH
Blind Newsman Would Visit
Boyhood Place of Worship
if He Gains Eyesight.
ALSO LONGS TO STUDY
THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE
Viewing Atlanta and Meeting
Judge Broyles Other Two
Ambitions of Cashin.
Out of the world’s myriad beauties,
out of tlie thousands of things of grip
ping interest that human eye can see.
four views alone stand out in the am
bition of John Cashin, blind Atlanta
news seller, who believes his sight will
be restored by having the eyes of a
condemned slayer transplanted to his
sightless sockets.
The first object he would have un
folded to his new-born sight is stateiv
St. Johns Cathedral in Richmond. Va.,
the city where he worshiped as a boy.
His second wish is to know the hum
ming city in whose heart he has lived
in total darkness for fourteen years
The third desire is for the power to
view nature’s glories, to be given the
ability to distinguish the brilliancy of
the sun’s rising from the amber beauty
of its setting.
And ins fourth wish is to gaze on
the countenance of Judge Nash R.
Broyles, redoubtable Atlanta police
magistrate, with whom he has come in
contact on rpore than one occasion.
Then He Would Get
■ Acquainted With His City.
If the operation is successful, Cashin
Intends to board the first train for the
■Virginia capital, and when he reaches
there he plans to hurry to the cathedral
where he worshiped as a boy. All his
life he lias been told of the beauty and
impressiveness of this structure. It has
counted much in his life and in the
life of his friends. He wants to see
how it looks.
Then he wants to know \tlanta. For
fourteerf years he has sat each day in
the very heart of the city, and he
knows no more of its nature than a
Hottentot. He has heard of the rno:;-
ster buildings. He wants to see them.
He lias heard the tramp of thousands
of feet as they pass him or pause thwt
their owners might purcha-e papei-
He. knows no Atlanta save. He waais
to serf what the people witli whom Im
has been associated so long look like.
He wants to become an active membi r
of the society of which he has been >i
dependent so long.
But more than all he wishes to un
derstand nature'- beauties. He Iris
never known the difference between th,
glory of a sunrise and the passiv ■
grandeur of sunset. The budding o£
trees never told him that sp, ing had
come. The coloring leaves never told
him that autumn was at hand. He lias
never seen a smile, but he does mu
know a frown.
In contemplation of nature he would
wish to spend his first weeks of sight.
Two Men He
W~ants to Know.
Then there are two men that lie
wants to know. The first is himself.
He has no idea whethei he is gargoyle
or Adonis, one of his first acts would
be to utilize a mirror. The other man
that he most wants to know is none
other tlian the redoubtable Judg“
Broyles. H * has come in contact with
Atlanta's famous police magistrate on
more than one occasion “I want to
know what lie looks like* the old ras
cal,” says the blind man.
With the restoration of Ills sight,
Cashin has no fears for the future. He
has plenty of determination. He tells
of working as a news butcher until
railroad officials discovered they were
employing a blind man, and discharged
him.
His ambition is to become a lawyer.
He will first have to learn to read and
write. "I can master this easily,” la
says. There are friends in Virginia
who, he says, would stand back of him
in his work of obtaining an education
and starting the practice of his pro
fession. He thinks that his wide knowl
edge of human nature that he has pick
ed up on the streets while selling pa
pers will stand him in good stead
when he appears before the bar. He is
determined to succeed, and lie believes
that the time is not long before he has
the opportunity. •
Cashin Has Been
Blind Since Birth.
The blind man believes in his heart
of hearts that if Claj goes to the gal
lows and the slayer's eyes are used ti
make him see. through the operation