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IBS MURPHY IS ■PION GIRL SWIMMER Walthour Wins Men’s Title in Final 1912 Meet—Record Crowd Sees Sports. Miss Mabel Murphy holds the hand < .in o piece of cut glass, first prize for women swimmers at Piedmont park. ;i ml Tat" Walthour, brother of Atlan ta'. world famous bicycle rider. Bobby Walthour. holds, the silver loving cup nd the men's championship of the lake. The women's prize was won in a closely contested 25-yard swim in which Miss Murphy won l/y a few inches from Misses Frances Smith and nrrie <'renshaw. who took second and third places, respectively. Nearly a dozen other pretty bathers at the lake entered the contest and all of them were closely bunched behind the lead , r=. Miss Murphy's time was 30 sec ,,nd“. which is considered splendid inuning for an amateur. Walthour. who apparently is as fast in th" water as his brother is on a wheel, proved the wonder of the after noon He won the cup by making the largest number of points in the events ,f the afternoon. Record Crowd Soes aces. T'i'i swimming events, which were the fina’ ones of the season, drew one ..f the largest crowds that has ever io n at Pi ilmont park betich. Hun dred- of the bathers were in the water and on the banks several thousand wati-heti the contestants and applauded oi.ir favorites. Atlanta's "seashore n-ort" never proved more popular. Appreciation of what the life savers i t the lake have done this year was shown when they were presented with cold medals and $lO gold pieces. The ~ lais were inscribed with their names : nd bear the testimonial, “For faithful . Tviie at Piedmont park lake, summer .f 1912." 1.. A. Carraway and ('. R. .'•.!< Dermott. the life savers, were called before the throng and stood on the flouting raft just outside the bathing pool when the medals were presented ml at the conclusion someone offered three cheers, which were taken up by m e titan a thousand voices. hi the various events, all of which ■ <los I? contested and proved ex iting, the winners and their time and I r ■.? - are as follow s: Events and Winners. 25-Yard Dash for Aten —Time,' 16 so. ends: Trammell, Peeples. Bedell. Piize. shirt, offered by Es-ig Bros. u-Yard Dash for Men—Time. 36 - i wnds. First heat. Walthour, Mon- - Jxatge, Bedell: second heat. Logan. Sams. Lenniek; final. Walthour. Logan P..<!ell. First prize, bathing suit, of fered by Yaneey Hardware Company, second prize, tie, from Eiseman Bros. 100-Yard Dash for Men —Time. 1 minute 25 seconds. Logan, Walthour. Cowles (Crane winning but disquali fied as professional). Prize, bathing cir. offered by J. M. High Company. Half .Mile Race for Men- —Time, 16 minutes 34 seconds. Walthour, Len nivk. Logan (Crane was disqualified for third place). Prize, gold signet ring, offered by Charles Chosewood, in ■■large of the boat concessions at the like. .’-Yard Dash for Boys—Time. 17.4 - • ontis. Louis Sams. Gilbert Frazier. H-mv Anderson, Prize, bathing suit, off -red by College Co-Op Company. 100-Yard Dash for Roys—Time. 1 i nite 32 seconds. Louis Sams. Gil- i Frazier, Harvey Anderson. Prize, 'Gibing suit, offered by Cloud-Stanford 1 '"inpany. Boat tilting contest, two best falls "f three. Monsalvatge and Ryan, Sons brothers. -'7-Yard Dash for Girls—Time. 30 "nds. Miss Mabel Murphy. Miss francos Smith, Miss Orrie Crenshaw. I' piece of cut glass, offered by k ng Hardware Company. Winners of points in silver cup con test: , Walthour 40- points; Logan, 30 """its; Lenniek. 15 points. DAUGHTER OF MORGAN SAYS HE DIED IN 1899 ''l I'HRIE, OKLA.. Sept. 3.—Claint " - l hat she is a daughter of General " in H. Morgan, the noted Confederate ' o,dry leader and head of “Morgan's ru kiers," Mrs. L. F. L’abrue. of Chero ''"e. in addressing a reunion of old mrs. told them that General Mor gan. living under the name of Dr. John M 1 'ole. died iri old Indian Territory 'i 1899 and is burled near Vian. Okla. 'if war history relates that General '"'Ran was killed at New Greeneville, 1 °nn.. on September 3. 1864, after a " 1 ational escape from the Ohio pen "entiary. WORTH MONEY TO BE ALIEN: $7,000 IS IN THE BALANCE WASHINGTON. D. (’.. Sept. 3—The 1 niter! States Supreme Court has been i -ked to decide w hether Belinda ''Hara, a working girl, is a citizen Youngstown. Ohio, or of Ireland. ' 'n the assumption that she was a citi "n of Ireland the Federal Court of " 1 thorn Ohio awarded her $7,000 for ' iurii s received w hile getting off a ■ "vet car on her way to church in 1 mngstown two'"years ago. Ihe Mahoning Valley Railway Com my today filed an application for a 1 " lew of the case on the ground that was a citizen of Youngstown. In 'h < vent the Federal Court w ould ' had tw right to have tried Miss ilara'g vase. Mrs. Frances HaydenWedsWealthy N. Y. Broker KEPT HER PLANS SECRET - 9 Jihl flKZrare - '•"* ''j w'M '-3 \ V 1i • * \ j 1 ’ V- fl J J fX u 1 ■ w - Jh / / MRS. FRANCES H AYDEN LAIRD. Mrs. Stephens Hook, Her Sis ter. Knew Nothing of the Romance. She Says. Mrs. Frances Johnson Hayden, of Atlanta, and Charles Chambers Laird, a wealthy young New York stockbroker, are now on their honeymoon, and will soon visit Atlanta. Their marriage is announced today by thA bride's broth er. Joseph H. Johnson, fire commission er of New York, and a former Atlan tan. The marriage, which took place a day or two ago. attracted wide attention in New York, where Mr. Laird was well known in financial circles. Mrs. Hayden was a daughter of the late Joseph Johnson, of Atlanta, and a sis ter of Mrs. Stephens Hook, of Atlanta, and Mrs. Louis Sloan and Mrs. Albert Drooge. of Providence, R. I marriage was an entire surprise to her. News to Sister. Mrs. Stephens Hook said today the and that she was not acquainted with Mr. Laird. Here is an account of the wedding which appeared in a New York paper. Friends of Charles ('. Laird, wealthy plantation owner of Haw River. N. C., grandson of former Governor Holt, of North Carolina, and present member of the New York Cotton Exchange, were sur prised to hear yesterday, that he had been secretly married early Saturday morning in Hoboken While they doubted, but express ed the hope that It was true, these chums of the wealthy and popular young broker waited about the lob by of the Hotel Imperial, where Laird recently took up a tempo rary residence, watching for his re turn. One Hundred Phone Calls. During the day at least a hundred calls were made for Mr. Laird at room o. 236. But as evening approached and he had not appeared the word spread about that he would be found at a bote! in Long Beach, and several of his friends started a telephone search for him the e. According to the reported wedding the bride is a charming young woman of Atlanta. Ga. Friends of Laird said that he had introduced her at a party at Shanley's a few nights ago as "Mrs. Hayden” and that they understood her to have been the wife until recently of a lieutenant In the I’nited States army. The reports of the Hoboken wedding THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 3. 1912. 39 NOW KNOWN DEAD IN FLOOD PITTSBURG. Sept. 3 Thirty-nine persons now are known to have been drowned yesterday in floods resulting from cloudbursts that swept valleys In western Pennsylvania. Ohio and West Virginia, causing property loss estimated high in the millions. The death toll may mount higher. Hun dreds of families are homeless and shivering on the damp hillsides. Rail road traffic ia materially impeded and many cities were in total darkness, both electric and gas plants being flooded. Among the towns which suffered principally from the rise of water were Washington. Beaver. Burgettstown. Canonsburg, and many .smaller places throughout the Chartiers. Cherry and Beaver valleys, while In West Virginia, Colliers and surrounding territory suf fered principally. The dead at various points thus far ascertained number: At Hollidays Cove, 6; at Colliers, 9; at Cherry Valley. 13; at Burgettstown. 3. stated that the bride, who appeared at the home of Registrar Joseph Tucker at No. 58 Eighth street about 4 o'clock Saturday morning looking for license to marry, was named Mrs. Hayden. Last night Mr. Tucker was not at home. A young man who wore a gold badge and declared that he was Deputy Colvin, said that he was not authorized to show the records of the marriage license because he had not Issued it. The wife of Pastor Reichter, of St. Matthews church, at Eighth street anJ Hudson street, in Hoboken, said that she was awakened In the parsonage, which is directly opposite the Tucker home, at ten minutes before 4 o'clock Saturday morning by the arrival of a party in an automobile. "The party left the engine running when they entered the home of the registrar, and I soon guessed that it was a wedding crowd and that they would call here to be married by the Rev. D Reichter." she said. "But as my husband was away, I waited up to keep fro mbeing disturbed until they came out. They did not call here." RAUERS PUP.E FLAVORING EX TRACTS have no equal. Sold every where 10c and 25c the bottle, at your grocer s. COTTON FARMERS AGE VICTIMS DE TARE RULES Corporation Commissioner Re ports Injustice From False Weight Practices. 'VASHINGTON. Septi 3.—A false standard of weights which inject un certainty into practically every Ameri can cotton sale in the important mar kets of Europe, resulting in serious abuses, indefensible practices and even fraud on the part of cotton merchants in this country, has been created by the rules of foreign cotton exported from the I’nited States, according to Luther Conant, Jr., commissioner of corpora tions. in a report to President Taft. l'he report is based unon an exten sive investigation of cotton tare—the allowance for bagging and ties enclos ing a bale of cotton in order to ascer tain the net weight—which was under taken on complaint that American cot ton producers were subjected to seri ous loss because of excessive deduc tions for taie under the regulations of leading European markets. The pro ducer does not ordinarily suffer under these rules, according to the commis sioner. because of the active competi tion among merchants in Ihe purchase of cotton from the farmer for export. The existence of competition and its remedial effect, however, he points out, cannot always be relied upon, and it is impossible to escape the conclusion that the produce may be injured, and sometimes is. Complicates Price Figures. The tare rules, the report declares, complicate price regulations with an unnecessary element of chance, and in. volve economic waste because of the use of excessive bagging. If this waste does not injure the producer, or merchant 01 spinner, it must impose an unnecessary burden upon the con sumer of cotton goods, says the report. Commissioner Conant declares that im mediate action should be taken to remedy the evils, and offers sugges tions for temporary and ultimate per manent relief. The American producer sells his cot ton gross weight and,, as a rule, ac cording to the report, believes that he makes a big profit on tare by receiv ing the same price for bagging that he obtains for cotton. This is untrue, the report says, as tite evidence demon strates that the buyer of cotton takes the tare into consideration in fixing the price he offers. Cotton for export, on the other hand, is sold net weight. It is in this con nection that complication and uncer tainty are injected into cotton sales. The American exporter, by the terms of his invoice contract with the foreign buyer, must compute the net weight of his cotton by deducing 6 i>er cent from the gross weight. The average bale of cotton weighing 500 pounds gross, contains about 478 pounds of cotton and 32 pounds of tare as it comes from the producer to the ex porter. A deduction of 6 per cent, un der the foreign tare rules, from a gross weight of 500 pounds net or 8 pounds less than the actual weight of the net cotton the bale, in addition to that discrepancy the report points out, the situation is further complicated by the fact that when the cotton reaches its destination, the foreign buyer, under the contract with the American ex porter, has the right to demand an actual test for tare. In this test the rules fix a maximum allowances for tare of 500 pounds. This is a discrep ancy of three and one-half pounds as compared with the 30-pound invoice deduction, and the foreign buyer calls upon the exporter to make good that amount. Exporter Faces Problem. lite American exporter, under these circumstances, according to the report, faces a serious problem to avoid con ducting business at a loss. Some cot ton merchants, Mr. Conant—says, argue that these facts are thoroughly under stood by the trade, and are adjusted in the price which the exporter asks for his cotton. The commissioner does not entirely agree with this view, and says that the practical result of the rules has been that the exporter adds unnecessary tare to his cotton. "The expo'-ter." he says, "naturally adds tare up to the amount allowed by the rules .roughly 26 1-2 pounds). He does this by 'patching—that is, placing strip-bagging on the bale. A small part of such patching is usually necessary to cover sample holes. However, since the exporter, in making out his invoice, must deduct six per cent, he frequently goes further and adds tare up to at least six per cent of the total weight of the bales; sometimes he adds even more. "Obviously, if the exporter makes a complete adjustment in the price, and also adjusts by adding tare, he makes a profit of such added tare. If, how ever. complete adjustment is not made in tite price, this addition of tare be comes simply a means of protection against loss, although in the trade it is usually spoken of as a 'profit on patching.' "Granting that the price of cotton is in no way affected by the six per cent rule, it is nevertheless highly ob jectionable. It results in changing the gross weight of the bale and thus in troduces an avoidable element of chance, both as to the actual weight of cotton to be para for and as to price." Hilf Over-Tared As a result of this six per cent rule, the commissioner estimates that at least 50 per cent of American exporta tions of cotton are ovrr-tared and that an insignificant proportion of the re mainder is under-tared. It is this use PROGRESSIVES ARE FOR A VISIBLE GOVERNMENT, SAYS SEN, JOS. M, DIXON By SENATOR JOSEPH M. DIXON, Chairman of the Progressive National Committee. NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—The Progressive party is determined to have a visible and not an invisible government in Ktis coun try. It Is determined that the man who pays the taxes shall get value received for his taxes. It Is determined that pub lie men shall work for the voters who put them in office, and not for interests whose object is to raise the already tre mendous cost of living that they may personally profit. The Progressive party believes in the suffrage for women because it believes that women are just as intelligent, just as honest and just as interested in the welfare of the nation as men are. A mother who has a son who must make his living as an American citizen can be trusted to vote to surround him with the right conditions, and to give him honest opportunity. A woman who is supporting herself can be trusted to vole to make conditions of labor better. It is unthinkable that any woman would vote for a man who defended child la bor. or who sought to give any employer the right to work his employees, men or women, twelve or fifteen hours a day. Better Labor Laws Urged. Better labor lavs are insisted on by the Progressive party. We do not attack property, but we hold that human life is more precious than property. And while we intend to do no man an injustice, we do not propose to permit any man to do other men injustice. Go into any city slum and you will see the need for a government that takes an interest in the welfare of the people. What this country needs is intelligent effort to conserve human life; to place a decent living within the reach of every man or every woman who works: to pro tect the aged and the weak; to guarantee to every human being the right to hap piness. We know that the laws now on the statute books are not all suited to pres ent condlthions. Some of them have been put there dishonestly, for dishonest pur of unnecessary tare, says the report, that injects uncertainty and possible fraud into the cotton business. "This uncertainty," adds the report, "strikes at the basic factor of every transaction, namely, the amount of the commodity actually sold. It in effect establishes a false standard of weights with the invariably unfortunate con sequences of such a condition. It thus gives an advantage to a skilled class of specialists who best understand the complicated details *of the business with a corresponding disadvantage to the less expert. It is not sufficient to say that the competition among these skilled classes often forces them to turn over the benefit of this false measure to the producer. It is not seriously contended that this is always so. and there is thus ever present the open door to fraud. There is always the invitation to cotton merchants to adopt Improper practices, and there is thus enticed into the trade a class of men who bring discredit upon hon est merchants. This is not only the oretically so. but it is actually so. Buy ers of cotton, both in this country and abroad, are constantly finding them selves involved in transactions where shippers have taken advantage of these opportunities to defraud.” Standardization Remedy. The ideal remedy for all these evils, Mr. Conant concludes, is the standard ization of tare to be put on a bale of cotton by making It a definite or read ily ascertainable amount, so that the net weight may be determined with out controversy or test. The present careless and Irregular methods of cov ering cotton, if the evils are allowed to go uncorrected, he declares, seem like ly to invite legislation. Pending the adoption of a thorough remedy, the commissioner believes substantial benefits will accrue by modifying the six per cent contract so as to provide for a deduction of five per cent or some other percentage more ac curately representing the amount of covering actually necessary to protect the cotton. The requirements of the contract, he says, should certainly be identical with the allowance established by the rules under an actual test. There'would be a great saving, the report says. If the cotton could be com pressed at the gin. Under the present practice, the staple is pressed at the gin and later compressed to greater densi ty at numerous establishments scat tered over the cotton belt. Compress ing at the gin. he says, would encoun ter opposition from the owners of com presses because it would destroy their business. Furthermore, he adds, it would be Impractical at this time be cause it would require a capital outlay of at least $100,000,000 to equip gins with compresses. 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HUGHES, Specialist Opposite Third National Bank 16 ! 2 North Broad St.. Atlanta, Gi poses. Some of them were put there years ago by men who could no more foresee our national, social and industrial development than they could foresee the aeroplane, or the telephone, or the eigh teen-hour train between New York and Chicago. It will not be a light task to write our program into the statute books, but it can be done, and we mean to do it. Dishonest laws must be repealed. Statutes written in a bygone age and un suited to the times must be repealed anil new statutes must take their place It is the people who will do this. The new laws will come from the people, and the legislator's who try to stand in their way will surely be brushed aside "Courts' Power Too Great." As for the judges who attempt to say that they and not the law-making bodies of the states and of the I’nited States shall make the laws, we have provided a remedy for them—the recall. No hon est, upright Judge has any reason to fear the recall. No dishonest judge has any reason not to fear It. Judicial terms are often long, in some cases for life; and until the people have the power to re call those officials either too stupid or too dishonest to discern the difference be tween right and wrong, the power of the courts is greater than is good for the country. No one knows that some judges are cor rupt better than the lawyers themselves. No one suffers from corruption on the bench more than the lawyers who prac tice before it. It ought not to be neces sary to invoke congress to get rid of a judge the people do not trust The peo ple should he able tq do it themselves. And the great majority of both the bench and bar will privately admit that this is so. All we ask of the voter is to think about the issues. We have made most of them. \Ve provide remedies for evils; the other parties provide vague promises to correct them. If our program is given careful thought we shall win And we are going to try to get every voter to think about it before the end of the cam paign. $150,000 TELESCOPE IS DEDICATED AT PITTSBURG PITTSBURG. PA., Sept. 3.—A new 30-inch photograph refractor tele scope. valued at $150,000, said to be the third largest instrument of its kind in the world, has been dedicated at the Allegheny observatory, Riverview park. Ten years of subscriptions were made before the amount was raised. Director Frank Schlesinger announced that an attempt would he made to determine the exact distances between the earth, stars and planets, although the task might occupy the next ten years. The new instrument was erected in memory of William Thaw and his son. William Thaw, Jr., who were lifelong 1 students in the researches of Samuel Pierpont Langley and James Edward Keeler, both former directors of the Allegheny observatory. Dr. E. G. 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BILIOUS, CONSTIPATED-CASCARETS KNIGHT No odds how bad your liver, stomach or bowels; how much your head aches, how miserable and uncomfortable you are from constipation, indiges tion. biliousness and sluggish intestines—you always get the desired results with Cascarets. They end the headache, biliousness, dizziness, nervousness, sick. sour, gassy stomach. They cleanse your Liver and Bowels of all the sour bile, foul gases and constipated matter which Is producing the misery. A Cascaret tonight will straighten you out by morning—a 10-cent box from your druggist will keep your head clear, stomach sweet, liver and bowels regular and make you feel cheerfid and bully for months. J. 8 \ Sj! jF hCA 10 Cents. Never gripe or sicken. "CASCARETS WORK WHILE YOU SLEEP.” ARTIST'S Iff E IS REFUSED D«[ Judge at Reno Thinks Mrs. Hutt Has Failed to Make Out Case. RENO, NEV., Sept. 3.—Judge French refused to grant Mrs. Edna G. Hutt a di vorce from her husband. Henry Hutt, the New York artist. Judge French said the charge of wilful desertion against. Hutt was not sustainiated, and Mrs Hutt's a.t» torney has asked that a date be set when he may introduce further evidence. Judge French has set September 18 as ihe time for the taking of further depositions in New York. Mrs. Hutt, wearing a dark satin gown, took the stand. She testified her hus band had stayed away nights from their apartments at No. 342 West Eighty-fifth street. New York, and toW how they had quarrelled. Finally, she said, she became in poor health and her doctor recom mended that she go to the seaside. Furniture Was Gone. She went to Narragansett Pier on July 2. 1910, and with the full consent of her husband, she asserted. Hutt went re their New’ York apartments and took ev ery tiling out of them. When she came back from Narragansett Pier, she said, she found her apartments bare and her husband gone. Mrs. Hutt testified she was compelled to go to her aunt s. She declared sho had been a dutiful wife, and upon ques tions from Judge French, slated she had not seen her husband after her return from the seaside, and that she had not rung him up by telephone. Hutt told her attorneys that he wanted nothing further to do with her. Mrs. Hutt said. There was no possibility of a re conciliation. she felt sure. Mrs Hutt denied there had been an” agreement to separate,permanently. She described a number of quarrels with her nusband, which, she asserted, marl* 1 her nervous, and affected her viuiig s*m. She Was Artist's Model. Mrs. Hutt, whsoe husband once declared her more beautiful than the Venus Pe- Milo, won a suit for separation a year ago. ,\n allowance of $l5O a month ali mony was made to her. She came here in January last and has Veen living with Mrs. Harry Mechling. daugl ier of Mira beau L. Towns, of New York Previous to her marriage Mrs. Hutt was Edna Garfield Polla Torre. She was noted for her beauty as an artist's mod el and had posed for Charles Pana Gib son, A. B. Wenzel and other artists, 'l’he romance that ended in her marriage be gan when she posed for Hutt Hutt declared that his w'fe had been cruel to him and that she had ceased to be an inspirations for his work. IN BED 50 YEARS. SHE DIES: WOMAN GRIEVED FOR LOVER LUZERNE. N. Y.. Sept. 3.—As a re sult of her sweetheart disappearing, Miss Helen Jackson kept to her bed for 50 years in a dark room in her home at Luzerne. She died today, and for the first time in the half century the sunshine has penetrated this bedroom. 3