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8 SICKLES REFUSES TO RECEIVE WIFE Veteran Spurns Reconciliation Even Though Mate Pawns Jewels to Pay His Debts. NEW YORK, Sept 19 There wi be no reconciliation between Mai General Daniel E Sickles and hie w’.ft This was learned yesterday when became known that the general refuse ‘to see the woman who had i edged ! ‘jewelry to prevent the sale at au ti of her husband s personal projxrty Mrs Sickles, accompanied to h- r eon, Stanton called at No I'3 Ftfl avenue, the home of General Sickles on last Thursday aft. rnoon Sh» wa« smiling as she rang the front door bei. A few- hours befote she had affe'te.i 'the liquidation of her husbands del.. | (amounting to $3,200) to the Unio n Trust Company Her face lighted as the door to her Ehusbands borne opened. She was letopped by the butler The smile left Eher face as she was told that she must inot enter; that there were orders to the 'effect that neither she n >r her son should be admitted. Barred by the Housekeeper. These orders had been issued by Mi=s .Eleanor Earle Wilmerding, housekeep er for General Sickles The aged wife asked to see Miss Wilmerding, but the latter sent out wud that she -ould not be disturbed. With U-ars in het eyes Mrs. Sickles returned to he apart ments in the Hotel Marlton I'rnm there her son Stanton telephoned to John Reilly, of No. 170 Broadway, his attorney. When Reilly appeared Mrs Sickles told him to inf. i m the genera! of the liquidation of the ss,2nu debt "It is my earnest wish." she said, "that he be told not to worry about the auc tion tomorrow, because the debt has been paid.” , She explained to the lawyer that she did not want him to tell Mr. Sickles how the money had been secured .lust tell him that there is no need to worry —that everything is all right." Mr. Reilly obtaitp.l admittance to the fiickl es home. He was not known as the attorney for Stanton Sickles Miss Wilmerding declared that she "knew all about it" w’hen the lawyei informed her of the good news he brought for General Sickles Their conversation ■was stopped by the telephone bell Miss Wilmerding answered ft ‘‘lsn’t It fine!” cried the housekeeper “One of the general's old soldier friends has come forward and paid the $8,200 to the Uncoln Trust ” Insists That Truth Be Known. Lawyer Reilly, when informed that the party at the other end of the wire was the general’s counsel, Daniel P Haya, who had called up from Pleas antvllle, expressed a desire to speak to him. This was granted “It is untrue, Mr. Hays." he said, •'that an old soldier friend paid Gen eral Sickles' debt. It was paid by Mrs. Sickles, his wife, who pawned her jewelry to get the money I tell you this because 1 think it only just that you should know .” When Reilly had begun speaking over the telephone to Mr. Hays. G. ner.. Sickles had silently entered the room He heard everything that was said. Outside In the hall Mrs Sickles and 'iStanton, her son. also heard it. They followed Mr Reilly and had succeeded .in passing the servants As Mr. Roll! ( began speakinv to the general Miss IWllmerding cried to him tp stop, that idt would “kill him.” Then crossing over to the general’s side, she said: "It's all a He. She did not y.i, u It was paid by one of your friends" Mrs. Sickles, hearing litis, cried out. "Mr. Reilly! Mr Reilly! Does ho know » —does he know it is all right?" “It's all right, Mrs. Sickle- 1 11 be .there in a moment," replied Reilly, an 1 left the room. JAIL TUNNEL IS FOUND: IT WAS DUG 75 YEARS AGO BOSTON, Sept. 18. \ mysterious tunnel jiist discovered under the street in Court Square, is thought to have been made bv prisoners attempting to escape from jail cells of three-quarters of a century ago tn the old court house, recently demolished, to make wav for a city hall annex Workmen r..moving the last stones of the foundation of the court house found the ent t.inc,, to tit.- tunnel, six feet below the street level. The hole was three feet square and led from that part of the court house which in former years had been us. d for cells. There was nothing to show that the tunnel had ever been walled Up. which strengthened the belief that it had been made secretly by prisoners Are You •Constipated? The most common source of ill health is constipation. Liver and bowels that need strengthening Instead of forc ing Forced activity never ' tires. Jacobs' Liver Salt is agreeable and effervescent; bubbles pleasant!' Take tt be fore breakfast. Make s you feel good, and gives an easy, regu- « ’ar. natural aetivitj It never forces. Don't take any substitute. 1-2-lb. J»r 25 Cents At Druggists, By Mad, Postage 16 Cents Extra. Jacobs' Pharmacy SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS ON GEORGIA POLITICS By JAMES B. NEVIN. In the offlt e of the Georgia commls ■ sfoner of agriculture in the state cap - toi hangs a picture of one of the most , luxuriant, sweep- Jakm e, ocirvur I 1 n g. impressive and alfalfaesqtie set of whiskers that ever adorned a human being Behind the whiskers, a man very much of a i man, for the mat -1 ter of that —is very cleverly con cealed almost. ■ The whiskers I are the ultima I Thule of dignity/, I They Impress vis itors mightily and lingeringly. t >ne rarely sees TV h I « 1- such w hlsk er s 's. nor w ere they seen at all in the good old "Pop" days—for the whis ker- m question nourished in the late 70’s, and they belonged to Augustus Octavius Bacon, now United States senator from Georgia! 1 t\ hen Senator Bacon was coining regularly to the legislature from Bibb, he brought those whiskers with him every yeai No session of the legisla ture in the SO's would have been con- ' sidered a finished product minus Ba con and his familiar facial adornment. Th< reason why Senator Bacon's pic- ’ ture, whiskers and all, hangs in the de- 1 partrnent of agriculture In Georgia is a very pretty story, for the senator never was a commissioner of agriculture, an ml Inspector, and anything like that. " hen he was speaker of the house— and h. was speaker five terms, of two wears • i. h the question of establish- ' Inga department of agriculture came ' before the house, and there was much opposition to It. 1 he speaker favored It, however, and threw all th< powerful influence hethen ' wi' Med in the Abuse to Its establish- ' ment 1 When the matter came to a vote, the toll call showed a tie, and Bacon, being speaker, voted in favor of the bill, thus breaking the tie and making the de- ' partment of agriculture a living thing! So great was the appreciation of the friends of the measure that Bacon’s picture was given the first and most conspicuous place of honor In the new agricultural department, and there it has remained ever since. On the fourth of next March. Senator Bacon Will begin his fourth term In the senate of the United States. No other man in Georgia ever was honored by a fourth election to the senate, succes sive or otherwise. Indeed, there have been lew instances in which more than two terms were awarded. With the passing of "Uncle Shelby" Cullom, of Illinois. Bacon will be al most. if not quite, the dean of the senate. Says The Albany Herald; Governor Brown is no lawyer, but that he has a legal mini! not 1. r. r. | AT THE THEATERS •NAUGHTY MARIETTA” WILL BE NEXT SHOW AT ATLANTA Victor Herbert, the most successful < oinpo.svr of light opera the world has evt r known, considers '■\;ingin\ Marl etta ’ to be his best comic opera. And it is undeniable that the hook of this opera • the best libretto ever written by a woman and Rida Johnson S’oung has ;nan\ brilliant successes to her credit. With Florence Webber as the stellar at traction, '.Naught \ Marietta" will be pre sented at the Atlanta Friday and Satur day b\ Oscar Kammerstein, who has sup plied a company of 60 vocalists whom he loeruited from his grand opera forces. An orchestra is also provided and the scenic equipment and costumes are all good. Seats are now selling. AL. G. FIELD AND HIS MINSTRELS ARE COMING Rett Swor. a Texan whose histrionic -. -t flehi of experlence, bads the comedy corps with the Al. G. Field greater minstrels. He is ably sec onded b\ Johnny Healy, the comical de lineator of the old-time negro; Johnny Dove, the dancing expert. Gov. Bowen, a favorite blackface comedian. Eddie Duni gan. Hal <»rvin and Master Alsey Sexton, the youngest of the group of mirth-pro vok ei s. \t the h(*ad of the comedy, singing and dancing forces, is Al. G. Field, who needs no introduction to theatergoers. This year the program includes a feast of surprises that are termed the minstrel’s master* piece V The monarchs of mirth, song and dance will be at the Atlanta Monday, l’uesda> and Wednesday. Seats go u.i sale Thursday. •SEVEN DAYS” IS DOING GOOD BUSINESS AT LYRIC ' Seven Days." which has been pro nounced by critics pne of the funniest tan < s < n Um stage in recent jears, is doing a splendid week's business at the Lyric The plot, which is built around the on ■ r< cd marooning of a diner party n Tom Wilson's home foj a week, brought about by the illness of h servant with smallpox, which afterwanl turns out to he < hickenpox. furnishes no end of ma erial foi - lever dialogue, funny situations ami wholesome laughter. The company which is playing this week at the Lyric is fully < apablu oi doing the play full . usti<« The usual matinee on Thursday land Saturday. ALKAHEST COURSE HAS MANY FINE ATTRACTIONS Season tickets to the Alkahest Lyceum course are going with a rush at the Cable I’(.«no < i nanj TI < aah • ipeni d Mon day, and will close Saturday of this week. The seating rapacity of the Tabernacle auditorium is so arranged that there are really very few poor seats in the house, and 1t is believed that the patrons of this series of entertainments will prefer this hall to any the course has been held in yet The Xlkahest course will open on < >c loher M. with the Edwin It Weeks corn ual w! h is at ol I fan ot Ite In Atlanta iMr Weeks stands pre eminent in the ly | • curn world as an original ami versatile • j tertaitici His offerings are almost en iirel\ <4 I.is wn rumposltion and run the <ui!u gamut <•( things musical and hu- ! Theia- is withal a gentle reflne- ' ii.ent about bis hum"!*, and here and ; then blended with it. Is u touch of pathos iai tto driving home of u hotneh truth w I a h pf'*\»s that real mirth has its true; missb n lb is assisted bv Mrs Weeks, iwiio hub won faim throughout the coun | try by the beauty of h« i thoroughly mu- ; »i i ram \<i< ♦ <n ! Miss Lulu Sin ! •lan i f..ru«r rmuJ.t-i t »ht faculty .f '■ln \m«’ .it < *<'iiMery atm y ( f t'bicago. I | ’ • .ui » I \ ; Iph W t übg the gr< at I ffi® ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 18.1912. without considerable admirable training haa been repeatedly dem onstrated. The Herald is mistaken in its pri mary statement, and the same mistake has been made by others. Governor Brown Is a lawyer—was regularly admitted to practice years ago, and could take up the law as a profession after the end of his term In I the governorship. If he so desired. He never has engaged actively in the prac tice of law, however. Gordon Lee will be unopposed for congress. Not even the Bull Moosers. said at one time to be contemplating the idea of running somebody against Lee, will protest his unanimous election for a fifth term. C W. McClure, of Atlanta, head and front of one wing of the Roosevelt party In Georgia, was in Rome the day Mr Lee was renominated, and had a chat with the congressman. He told Mr. Lee that the Progressive Republi cans in Georgia would not oppose him. "I heard down in Atlanta.” said Mc- Clure, "that we likely couldn't beat you. anyway!” Mr. McClure, however, expects to give the Woodrow Wilson electors a big run for their money in Georgia Colonel Dan Fogarty, dressed all in white linen, after the fashion of Au gusta folks at this season of the year, breezed into the governor's reception room this morning, and shed the sun shine of his presence around and about most engagingly. "How do you manage to come all the way from Augusta and never get even one speck of grime or dirt on a suit of clothes like that, Dan?” inquired John T. Boifeuillet, who was present. "Well," smiled Fogarty, "I suppose it is an art. although we Augusta folks think we just come by it naturally. "It Is accomplished by not trying—■ that's all. You simply don your rega lia, step aboard the train, sit down carelessly, forget that you have on linen rags, take things easy, and you will arrive in Atlanta as spick and span as if you had Just stepped from a band box. You see, don't you, John?” "Yes, I—don't!" said John, who is some dresser himself, moreover, and likes to pick up sartorial information as he goes along. Then Fogarty went in to see the gov ernor, and in a minute or two the gov ernor signaled Jesse Perry to cut off the electric fan in the executive of fice, as between it and Fogarty’s breezi. ness the governor was afraid of catch ing his death of cold. William Schley Howard, of DeKalb, congressman from the Fifth, spends much of his time nowadays in Atlanta. The gentleman from the Fifth Is very sanguine of Wilson’s election, and has the “dope" always ready and willing wherewith to convince the most ob streperous Doubting Thomas In the world "Wilson will win in a walk." said Howard today. "From everywhere the samf Information comes to the cam paign committee. He will sweep the nation, carrying heretofore impregnable Republican strongholds." r ARMY ORDERS Washington, sept, is.—The fol lowing orders have been issued: First Lieutenant Elsworth Wilson, medical reserve corps, from Fort Hua chuca. Arlz., to Benicia Arsenal, Cali fornia. First Lieutenant Charles J. Boies, medical reserve corps, from Fort Banks, Mass., to College Park. Md. First Lieutenant Hew B. McMurdo, medical corps, from Fort McDowell. Calif., to Fort Huachuca, Ariz SOLDIERSSEE BIBLICAL SUBJECTS IN “MOVIES” Moving pictures are playing their part in religious instruction of the sol diers at Fort McPherson. Every Sun day evening Chaplain Durrant directs a "movie." in which the action is based on Biblical subjects, with musical ac companiments. A series of free entertainments is be ing given at the post under the direc tion of the chaplain. The post gymna is crowded every Tuesday and Inursda.v evening. VAUDEVILLE AT GRAND~ DRAWS BIG AUDIENCES Vaudeville is going to make the Grand come back stronger than anv one ever be lieve,] possible The new theater the new management and the new policy has been grabbed with such an interest that even with the wonderful seating capacity, the house Is going to be taxed to accom modate all who will want to be in the shows • The bill this week is one of extraordi nary quality. Every act has scored a hit and the bill collectively has won the ap proval of all theatergoers. For next week there Is to be another of that quality There are features that ate played in the best theaters and the star act, "More Sinned Against Than Usual " Is the big laughing success of the new season. Why do they ah say. "As good ai Sauer's?" SAUERS PURE FLAVOR ING EXTRACTS nave received thir teen highest American and European awards ' Advertisement.) EXQUISITE WEDDING BOUQUETS AND DECORATIONS. ATLANTA FLORAL CO., Call Main 1180. ' Advertisement ) You are invited to the Atlanta Theater tonight, Sept. 18, 1912. Brilliant music and interesting exer cises. Admission free. Southern College of Pharmacy. I« there anything you could I use a WANT AD for today? Both phones 8000 .'5100,000 PLEDGE FDR OGLETHORPE Carolinan Heads Trustees of ! Proposed College—All Dixie 1 Asked to Aid. i ' Oglethorpe university, the great in stitution of the Presbyterian church, which it is proposed to build at Silver Lake, near Atlanta, within a few years, was converted from a vision into a certainty at a banquet at the Piedmont hotel last night, when more than SIOO,- 000 in gifts was announced. Directors were elected and plans begun for active work for the university, which will be ail-Southern in scope. Those present represented the first 100 gifts of SI,OOO or more each. Most of the donations ran to $2,000, while one person whose name was withheld has promised $25,000 and perhaps $50,- 000 to the fund. Secretary Thornweil Jacobs announced that an institution with an endowment of $650,000 already has taken up the question of amalga mation with the new Oglethorpe. It was decided to extend the scope of the university to the whole South and six teen states will be asked to co-operate in its building George W. Watts, of Durham, N. C„ a well known philanthropist, was elect ed president of the board of trustees. Senator Hoke Smith was named vice president. C. E. Graham, of Greenville, S. C., second; H. K. McHaarg, Stam ford, Conn., third, and L. C. Mandeville, Carrollton, Ga., fourth vice president. John K. Ottley was made treasurer of the board and Rev. Thornwell Jacobs secretary. Site For College Donated. The executive committee is composed of President Watts. Hoke Smith, John K. Ottley, Frank M. Inman, Wilmer L. Moore, J. K. Orr, Dr. Hugh K. Walker, Edgar Watkins, E. G, Jones, W. Woods i White, Rev. Thornwell Jacobs, Captain i James W. English, Dr. K. G. Matheson, i E. J Spratling. James R. Gray. Hugh , Richardson, J. T. Andprson, Marietta, and J. W. Hammond, Griffin. Secretary Jacobs, who presided, an , nounced that 55 acres of land on Peach- I tree road, running back to Silver Dake, , had been made a gift to the university by the Silver Lake “Park Company, William Owens, president, and C. H. Ashford. Perpetual right to the use of r the lake Is guaranteed. To avail them selves of this gift the incorporators must begin actual construction by May 1. 1913, and expend SIOO,OOO within the first year. The movement to found a new insti tution of learning which shall carry ’ out the ideals and perpetuate the name and memory of old Oglethorpe univer , sity. long defunct, has been given en , thusiastic support by many well known , Presbyterians in Georgia. It is now assured that a university, long needed , by Atlanta, will be built in a few years. I A vast amount of ill health is due to . impaired digestion. When the stomach fails to perform Its functions properly , the whole system becomes deranged. A ; few doses of Chamberlain’s Tablets is all you need. They will strengthen your digestion, invigorate your liver, and ■ regulate your bowels, entirely doing away with that miserable feeling due to faulty digestion. Try it. Many others have been permanently cured why not you? 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Atlanta. t.«u CHICHESTER S PILLS I SOtnur DRLGGISTS FVFRYHHf Rf I MEN AND RELIGION BULLETIN NO. 20 ""1 “The Houses In Our Midst” A CHOICE OF COMPANY But Not of Evils Right is common sense. Sodom suggests hideous vice. I Capernaum was famous for its beauty, wealth and culture. Notwithstanding, Jesus said that, in the day of judgment, it would be more tolerable for Sodom than for Capernaum. The reason is common sense. ‘Capernaum had had better opportunities to know what was right than Sodom had, and rejected them. Nicodemus, like many another so-called eminently respectable citi zen before and since, did not dare to come out openly for the right. After sunset, he sneaked through the shadows of Jerusalem’s streets to see Jesus. Much of that prominent citizen’s pride of position must have oozed away in the night, when he heard Jesus say : “This is the judgment, that the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.’’ Jesus voiced only common sense. Vice honestly viewed in the light can not live. Hence the desire of some for silence with reference to the social evil and the Houses in our Midst. Honest study, knowledge kills it and them. / Apply sincere thought to the facts. r Nothing more is asked or expected of you. Until they investigated, some of the members of this Executive Com mittee believed in segregation, i r Today, they are as one in asking the suppression of these houses ille gally protected by the police. The members of the Chicago Vice Commission were: / / Dean Walter T. Sumner, William Healy, M. D., Judge W. M. Phinckney, W. L. Baum, M. D., Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin, Alexander Robertson, David Blaustrin, Rev. Abraham Hirshberg, Julius Rosenwald, A Rev. J. F. Callaghan, ' Prof. Charles R. Henderson, Louis E. Schmidt, M. D„ Anna Dwyer, M. D., Rey. E. A. Kelly, Bishop C. T. Schaffer, W. A. Evans, M. D., Rev. John G. Kircher, Hon. Edwin W. Sims, Rev. Albert Evert, Louis O. Katz, Edward M. Skinner, Rev. Dr. Frank Gunzaulua, P. J. O’Keefe. Prof. Graham Taylor, W. W. Hallman, Judge Harry Olson, Prof. Herbert L. Willett, Prof. William J. Thomas, Prof. Wm. I. Thomas, • Abraham W. Harris, LL.D., Hon. John L. Whitman. At the first, many of these believed in segregation. >f After investigation they were a unit in recommending the suppres- f sion of the houses. / The members of the Minneapolis Vice Commission were: / Rev. Marion D. Shutter, Prof. John H. Gray, Nicholas C. O’Connor, Eugene T. Lies, Prof. David H. Painter, Charles M. Way, Rev. Father James McLeary, Herbert O. Collins, M. D., Gilbert L. Byron, Judge Edward F. Waite, Max P. Vander Horck, M. D., Stiles P. Jones, Edward J. Davenport, Mrs. Mabel S| Ulrich, M. D., Mrs. Mary L. Starkweather, At the outset, the majority of these were opposed to trying to sup- ( press the houses. / The chairman, a minister, says in their report: “The chairman has yielded the theory which he had on becoming a member of this commission to the overwhelming evidence which he dis covered against it.’’ / Like the Chicago Vice Commission, without a dissenting vote, they recommended the suppression of the houses, declaring the public houses of prostitution the center of the evil, the market place for the white slave trade, and “the source of most of the loathsome disease which afflicts so ciety.” New York’s Committee of Fifteen had the following members: , r ■ Wm. H. Baldwin, Jr., Wm. J. O’Bryan, Jacob H. Schiff ' " ' Felix Adler, Alexander E. Orr, Andrew J. Smith, Joel B. Erhardt, . George Foster Peabody, Charles Sprague Smith, Austin G. Fox, George Haven Putnam, Charles Stewart Smith, John S. Kennedy, J. Harren Rhodes, Edwin R. A. Seligman. They put the emphasis upon the enforcement of existing laws. They recommended the punishment not of the women, but of the men higher up who live upon their shame. Many of the members of the Chicago, New York and Minneapolis Committees were and are men of more than national reputation. Their attitude before and after study is significant. But more so are developments in France, cited by many from hear say as a model for the scientific handling of the social evil. Scandals in connection with their systems caused the French Parlia ment to appoint an extra-parliamentary Commission of 75 members. Among them were legislators, doctors, prefects, mayors, publicists, and professors of political economy. Their sessions lasted three years. At the start, those in favor of abolishing the whole French system as a failure were in the minority. “The force of their arguments and the facts presented by them was such that at the end of their deliberations the Commission voted by a considerable majority that the entire system of regulation as practiced in France was so defective and on the whole so immoral that it ought to be entirely abandoned.” They recommended that all “tolerated and licensed houses” be pro hibited. Not yet has their report been adopted by the French Parliament. Like America, France is cursed with not a few politicians to whom protecting the virtue of girls and the health of their country is nothing in comparison with the importance of keeping their masters pleased. But all the great chiefs of the medical faculties and all the import ant heads of hospitals have now become converted” to the views of the Commission. The adoption of their report in the end is inevitable. In Ameiica, the nation-wide fight against men living by buying and selling women is being led by David Starr Jordan, President of the Le land Stanford University; His Eminence James Cardinal Gibbons Very Reverend Dean Walter T. Sumner, Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University; Julius Rosenwald, of Chicago; Miss Jane Addams, Dr. 0. Edward Janney, of Baltimore, and others who are officers and directors of the American Vigilance Association, the object of which is to stamp out houses of prostitution and the white slave trade. Consider and choose! Such men and women on one side with God. On the other are the pimp, the procuress, the corrupt politician, the landlord and other criminals with Satan. Where do you belong? Atlanta should and will close the Houses in our Midst. THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Os the Men and Religion Forward Movement.