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WIFE OF SICKLES REVEALS AN OLD j TRAGEDY I Goaded by “Unspeakable In sinuations,” Aged Mate of General Finally Speaks. i i NEW YORK, Sept. 3lt. -Goaded by I “unspeakable insinuations’ - contained I in a public statement issued by Genera! Daniel E. Sickles. Mrs. S-, kies broke a ! silence of 32 years to tell why she and . the picturesque old warrior pa ted ini Paris in 1880. In a statement, dictated at her dine- I tion by her son. Stanton, who is es pousing the cau.-e of his mother in her | troubles with the aged Civil war vet eran. M.S Sickles holds a New York society woman, p eminent in Fifth av nite circles, responsible for the present j estrangement. I his woman lives in the thirties, jus’ oft Fifth avenue, and ts a member of j one of the oldest and best connected | families in Manhattan. Son Broke the Infatuation. In his statement. Stanton Sickles] declares that General Sickles" liason 1 with the society woman began in 1878 I and continued until December, 1896.! when he (Stanton) broke it off. The j society woman was but a girl of seven teen when the general, then verging on to 60 yea s of age. began his attentions, according to the son. "The fearful statement of General Sickle- concerning my mother makes it necessary for me to disclose the name of the person responsible for their sep aration and the misfortunes of our fam ily." said Stanton Sickles, "She s t nere folio,, s the name anti I a Id.ess ' f the soci-i’, woman). Be fore het marriage in March, 1899, ,li was Miss . of New York. I ' have in my possession the correspond- j trice between my father anil this worn- j an during the eighteen years of their liason.” The next paragraph • ’ the son's statement concerns the life of the fam- { ily at No. 8 Rue <!■■ P esbourg. Paris. ] The general -ailed for New York on | business September 5, 1876. He was ' gone much longer than Mrs. Sickles] < xpeeted. not returning until the fol lowing June. He remained with his wife only two weeks and 1 1hen sailed for Ameri a again. He did not return to Paris until August 15. 1879. Telltale Letter Is Shown. "About a month after the death of my father’s mother, or. to be exact, on April 5, 1878. my father's liason with the woman I have tn ntioned began. T have in m*. posse-sion a letter ad dressed to her, dated April 6. 1897. in! which the above date is referred to as] the date of theii union." continued] Stanton Sickles. <]()n nty father's sec- j olid retun to Paris he remained only I three months, returning to America the latter part of 1879. "After I uncovered his liason with the i woman in December. 1896. she broke it I off and went to Rome, where she met | the man whom site afterward martied.i This "oman i- now 51 years old.” Mrs. Sickles says that speculations in Wall street have sapped the general’s resources. Miss Eleanor Earle Wil merding. his housekeeper, is an invet erate -rock trade: and has entangled] the general in her financial operations. "Tit'- housekeeper has great influ ence over my father," added Stanton 'Miss Wilmerding was in '■‘•dii'-id clr ' umsianres when my father engaged her. Miss Wilmerding is a cousin of; the woman with whom Genetai Sickles I was intimate. They ate enemies, how-j ever." In her apartments in the Mariton ho- I ti '. Mrs. Sickle- heatedlv denied the in- . sinuations of the general regarding a] boy named Miguel, who lived with her i family for some time. Mrs. Sickles said Miguel was an orphan, now dead, j Dramatic Denial By Wife. After giving the fi'st intel view Mrs. I Sickles refused to see anv one Late in I the afternoon she I'ft th- Hotel Marl- ! ion and. with Stanton, engaged new quarters at No. 7 l-’ifth avenue. On | the way over the old lady talked with I newspaper men. Raising her hands] dramatically, she cxclaimsd: "There is a God above who sees I everything. We must act in accord- : mice with His will. I shall not dispos- , sess the odl man because he is the fa - ! ther of my children and i bea his. name. I rhall always protect him.” | "My mofber holds a S'-cond mortgage I "f 8-io.ooo on the general's home." said] Stanton, in giving out his statement. | "With interest it amounts to $54,000.; rhe genera! could not pay it. But he I "ill not be forced to. My mothe: was temporarily carried away by the tin-| speakable cha-ges he made 'la'nst he ; "lien she made that statement. MILLIONAIRE’S SON BACK IN JAIL OF OWN ACCORD •'HK’AGO. Sept 30.—Harold Fl Hoops, who set veil 25 days in tin Hoyse of Correction for motor car! "mashing.” was rt i ase.. last week. but returned there voluntarily to avoid] temptations. Hoop- is a s nos W. H Hoops, a millionaire merchant. He is I 22 years old. and has gone a giddy’pai , . for two years. His father h'Tped him out of a scor" of- ; apes, but refust •o pay the SSO fine assessed for I "inching." HERO OF HAYMARKET RIOTS DIES PENNILESS •'H It 'AG< >. Sep St). as Bi. mingham, one of tie- It r< • s «>f the Hay market riots in an i who at that time was consitbied the hnndsotm-t and mott neaHi physica y perfecl man in th- < 'ii tea go , 41»• • • nt, <.' -• 1 ' p'tinii < at tin county, hospital. I - . .. T 277 b. Roosevelt Declares He Has “Blazed the Trail” in Dixie .HE’D “LOVE” TO WIN GEORGIA V i Hr ■k A t-TwSgp Sh Hpw : ’, r ' ’ ISM OWS •’V. t SmlBS SB' . , wllPfr w. / Z s7 \\— " &> V- < oiottt‘l Roosevelt and General A. -I. West, snapped by The Georgian's photographer. Colonel Leaves Atlanta in Ex cellent Spirits—Thinks He Made Some Impression. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt left At lanta yesterday afternoon for Chatta nooga and Knoxville, after having vis ited his mother’s old home in Roswell during the day. The former president expressed him self as entirely satisfied with his inva sion of Georgia, and he expects to get a gieat many votes in November, even if he does not entry the state. Speaking of hi.- tour of Dixie, he jsaid: i "1 feel that I have the right to ask i for votes, on behalf of the Progressive . Republic., n party, in any and all sec tions of tile nation. ■’Our party is non -sectional. We, to express it the other way, are all-sec i tional. We think Georgia is as much I a part of this nation as is Wyoming, ■or lowa, or New York, and entitled to the same fair, honest and generous consider.!lion that should be accorded other states. C s He Has Blazed Trail. "I ni be doing pioneer work in i Dixie, after a fa hion. Anyway, 1 have i blazed the trail. Others who come after me tnay see some evidence of my having passed this way, and I think I shall be awarded some measure of thanks by the South eventually for that 1 "Georgia? Ah. 1 should dearly love ito carry Georgia! It is my mother's j state —I never forget that. I never I shall forget it, no matter what comes Ito pass in the future. "I should count my battle grandly I won, if lost so far as achieving the | presidency is concerned, if only it I might be said of me, 'He carried Geor gia!’ 'The people have been most kind to Ime all the way along the line. I have i been given a hearing—l have been per mitted to plead my party’s cause in my own way. 1 think we have made some impression!” Colonel Roosevelt left Atlanta in .most excellent spirits. Whatever of fatigue some people may have thought th<> noticed in him Saturday was not Lt all in evidence as his special pulled lout over the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. I.otiis Sunday afternoon at 4:55 o’clock. He was beaming with good nature and enthusiasm. His long tour, with its three or four speeches every day, apparently has worked nothing to his mental or physical disadvantage. Colonel Visits His Mother’s Birthplace ■ Leaving f r a single day the hurry, Ituimoi' and discussions of a turbulent ' pu-identiul campaign. Theodore Roost - i t elt quit the comforts of a big city ; yesterday to spend .» few hours in the I home of his sot efat hers—the Bullocks-- ’at Ro-well., twenty miles away from I Atlanta. Die ex-president wished to get away I • rom all connect d with his strenuous I figii t >:• votes and In accordance to his j wish the many newspaper men tepie l senting great dailies ihe country over did not accompany him on the trip, which w. 8 made by autom-.blle, Hi. cousin. G urge Etnlen Roosevelt, Gen eral A ,1. West and <'. W McClure were his only companions. Without ostentation the little party arrived in Roswell and were welcomed .it the home of Colonel Roosevelt's mother by Air and M s Bart Wing, v. h ’ now occupy the house. They '-ci a. I -ii «■. try nook and cranny he ' had dreamed of w hile, as a little child, THE ATLANTA GKORGTAX AND NEWS.'MONDAY. SEPT EMBER 30. 1912. Lily Langtry Sees Day of Ruffles for Males SATIN SUITS FOR MEN NEW QORK. Sept. 30. —"A be-rib boned. be-ruffled, dainty and dandy male American—think of this!" was the picture of the American citizen of the future painted by Lily Langtry, now I Lady de Bathe, when she returned to America today after an absence of five years. Here is what the men are going to wear before long, according to the “Jersey Lily;” i Tight .pink or blue or green satin trousers or knee breeches. ‘ Satin-tailed coats, colors according to taste. : j Ruffled, lacy, soft shirts, with long ’ lace wristbands. Feathered beaver bonnets, like the kind one used to see in the "costume" > drama. Colored leather pumps, with buckles 1 or colored boots with satin spats. Stockings of neckpieces. i i VALDOSTA BUSINESS MEN ORGANIZE BOARD OF TRADE VALDOSTA. GA.. Sept. 30. —The Val ' dosta Board of Trade was organized at an enthusiastic meeting of business men held at the city hall. J. T. Bla lock. cashier of the Merchants bank, was elected president, and committees to name an executive committee and a board of directors were appointed. These committees will report at another | meeting next Thursday night. The se i lection of a secretary and the fixing of ' dues will be left to the directors and the executive committee. M. .1. Chaun cey is temporary secretary . i ■ ~ SPURNED SUITOR KILLS BRIDE ON WEDDING DAY i I LA CROSSE, WIS„ Sept. 30. An gered because she r •fu-ed him for Se ver Yttre, a young farmer. Peter Pe- • terson. also a farmer, shot and killed Mrs. Emma Yttre, a bride of a day, on the Burlington railroad platform here. ! Peterson then turned the gun on him self. He will recover. The bride and bridegroom were wait ing for a train when Peterson crept up behind ano shot the girl through the back. As the husband turned. Ander son shot himself through the temple. ' I Mrs. Yttre died instantly. MILLS TO PAY DIVIDENDS. i LAGRANGE, GA, Sept. 30.—Five big mills controlled by local capital will on October 1 pay out about $60,000 in dividends. The mills are the Unity Cotton. Unity Spinning, Elm City Dot ton. Manchester Cotton and Milstead mills, the latter two being at Man chester and Conyers, respectively. The i mills are owned by the Callaway in- ■ terests, he had heard tales of the ante-bellum ■ mansion where a little girl, his mother, . had played. He was shown the spot i where his father and mother stood when they were married. The old church in which his grand ; father. Major Bulloch, died one Sunday . morning at the conclusion of a prayer, was closed, but the key was found and ■ for a long time the colonel stood alone, his head bowed, as recollections of his mother's stories came back to him. Hi had intended attending the services there, but found that the minister was in the pulpit only two Sundays in each • month and was yesterday away. I An informal good-bye meeting was . held by the colonel's friends In f ont of the Met'lure w holesale store yesterday afternoon at 4:30 as he was on his way to the s- .-i m and he was cheered en , thusiastieully. Just gather that array in your mind's eye and multiply it by American hustle. Ob, yes, she is quite serious about it. “You don't believe it?" said the Lily. "Well, it's coming. Men are surely going to quit wealing the ugly clothes they' do now and go back to a former period for their wear. They will look much better in satin and colors, and they- are beginning to realize it. They like it, which is plainly shown at the fancy dress balls, "Wliy, I believe so much in it that I have started a club in London to fur ther the movement. Men are eager for the reform in their dress, and they’ will go back to the costume of tlie French court of the Eighteenth century for their model.” Lady de Bathe is a suffragette, but she is not a militant. She thinks mili tant suffragism has set back the cause in England five years. ! BEES LEAD OWNER TO HOME OF HONEY THIEVES STERLING. COLO.. Sept. 30When IJ. M. Cornelius, a honey producer near ■ | here, awoke yesterday morning he found that dicing the night fifteen bee , l hives had been looted of 50 pounds of i { honey. He followed the dispossessed L ibees to the home of two brothers named I Bennett, living a mile away. There in found the bees swarming about the I house, while the Bennetts, besieged, had shut the door and windows and I were afraid to go out. Cornelius swore out warrants for th< arrest of the Bennetts. They admitted | the theft. . WIFE A MARBLE STATUE, HE WINS DIVORCE DECREE ST. LOUIS, Sept. 30.—William R. Brock Webster Groves, former pro ! prietor of the Brock Corset Company testified in Judge Wurdeman's court ai Clayton that he hadn't kissed his wife in 25 years. Brock obtained the di vorce he asked on the ground of de sertion. Explaining his reason for not kissing her. Brock described his married life as "living with a marble statue." She re pelled all emotion, he declared, and -pent her time reading fiction. INVALID'S DEATH ENDS BETROTHAL OF 22 YEARS ST. LOUIS, Sept. 30. After spend ing 22 years of devotion waiting for her sweetheart to rec over so they might be married, .Miss Elizabeth Keller, of Elsah, arranged tin funeral of her for mer sweetheart, Lee Walcott Spier. Spier in his younger days was a rail road conductor, running to Grafton. . The young couple fell in love, became engaged and act the date for the wed ding. Then Spier was taken ill and ' finally suffered locomotor ataxia. EXHIBIT THRONGED WHEN W. C. T. U. OBJECTS TO ART MINEOLA, L. I„ Sept. 30. - There I was almost a riot at the art exhibit by throngs desiring to get in when It was , discovered that W. C. T. I". members had objected to some nude studies. The , doors had to be closed for a lime. MARBLE USED FOR GLASS MAKES DAYLIGHT EFFECT BERLIN, Sept. 30. Patents just have been taken out for using marble in • stead of glass in lamps, which has the i.Tect of making the illumination scarcely distinguishable trout daylight. DOODLING MOLD IN NEW ORLEANS Detectives Uncover Gigantic Frauds in Books While Poli ticians Quake in Fear. NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 30.—A graft exposure of the first magnitude, in volving high political bosses in New Orleans and other cities of the state, is impending and mav break any hour. Gr ift running far into the millions is charged. Behind the movement are Governor Luther E. Hall, of Louisiana, and Dis trict Attorney St. Clair Adams, of Oi - lcans parish. Reinforced by a squad of about 25 operators from the William J. Burns Detective Agency, an investi gation which has been under way for two months lias come to light. * Six months ago.the Democratic bosses of Louisiana received a shock In a three-cornered tight for governor. Hall was elected. For a couple of months the bosses shivered every time the name of Hall was mentioned, but when he made no move toward an investiga tion they grew bolder, and went even so far as to say that "Hall was safe.” To- ay there is not a politician, from 'the minor ward boss up to Robert Ew ing, the Democratic national commit teeman, who does not believe Governor Hall is going to "clean up." City Records Demanded. It became known several weeks ago that Burns was working on the case, but the situation was not realized by the politicians until Thursday, when District Attorney Adams called a spe cial grand jury to force Martin Behr man, mayor of New Orleans, to turn over to an auditing committee of citi zens all the records of the city. The mayor had refused to do this "It's just politics,” shouted the bosses. "Just to show you that it isn't," re turned the district attorney, "I ll ad journ the grand jury until next Wed nesday, the day after election. Then I’ll proceed.” The auditing committee got the books of the board of education, it took just half an hour to discover that a certain plumbing firm held a blanket contract to supply all plumbing mate rials without competition and got about $500,000 in this manner. Another smalk item of $2,000 a year, known as the "charity fund," and han dled by Michael Rooney, chief clerk to the mayor, was investigated. Mr. Rooney’s explanation is that he gave the money to mendicants who asked for alms at the city hall. Graft in Canal Tolls. The state of Louisiana some ten years ago built a canal from Lake Pontchar train to New Orleans. Canal compa nies operating barges were charged tolls tor tonnage. It is now found that the Jalinicke Navigation ('ompany, a contracting company doing the largest business oy er the canal, had boats equipped with false bottoms. Boats drawing 500 tons only paid on 250 tons. Tlie New Orleans levee board is found to have paid a certain man $1 a square foot for his land when a dollar a front foot would have been proper. An investigation of the Belt railroad, owned and operated by the city, is said to show that when Hampton Reynolds had a levee contract for $200,000 he used cars which the city hired from the railroads to carry his earth over the belt road. The ears were badly dam aged in this work. The city paid the Dili and charged it up as demurrage. Stanley Behrman, son of the mayor, was the foreman on the levee work. WOMAN BITTEN BY SNAKE: OLD REMEDY SAVES HER COLLINSVIbLE, MO., Sept. 30. While cutting grass in her front yard here. Mrs. Julia Hubetz was bitten by a snake. She screamed and ran into the' house. Neighbors heard her, and went to her aid. They knew there was an old tradition that whisky is the sovereign cure for snake bite, and the antidote was speedily forthcoming. Having given her all the whisky she would ill ink, they sent for a doctor. He cauterized the wound. While not com mitting him-elf as to the efficacy of whisky as a snake bite cure, he said no fuither treatment would be necessary. 14.574.688 ACRES OF U. S. LANDS OPENED IN YEAR WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. A total of 14.574.688 acres of public and Indian lands were opened to settlers In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912, ac cording to a statement of the land of fice today. In the same period, pat ents were issued by the land office tot 10,135,478 acres, giving the landhold ers clear title to the pi -parties. Despite the fact that homestead tracts are steadily growing less suit able for cultivation, the land office shows that more than 5.011,948 acres of public lands were patented under the homestead law. YOUNG MAN ENDS HIS LIFE AS GIRL WAITS TO WED HIM ST. LDI'IS. Sept. 30.—Prostrated by the suicide of her fiance, who killed himself with poison as site awaited him in iter bridal gown. Miss Rose t'hrlstman. 24 years old, is unable to leave her bed in her home. Edw-ard I Wflthaupt. the man she was to have wed, ended Ids life at the hour set for th<- ceremony in the flat he had furnished for his bride. Miss Christman gave up a position s. veral days ago to prepare for her wedding She and Welthaupt worked togethet arranging tin; furnishings us a flat | Senator Dixon Once Fled Clash of Cymbals MOOSE TASTES CHANGE Bull Moosers are strange creatures, according to Policeman C. F. Allen, who is a first cousin of Joseph Dixon, cam paign manager for Theodore Roosevelt. Policeman Allen was standing on Peachtree street today, telling some in teresting observations he had made of this new political animal. He said he had had the best opportunity in the world to study them, for he was horn witliin a stone’s throw of the senator from Montana, and they worked to gether as boys in the fields of Guilford county. North Carolina. Things certainly do change.” he said. "When Joe Dixon had become a sena tor and returned to visit Ills old home. Ids friends got the neighborhood brass band together and went eight miles through the country to the railroad sta tion to meet him. “I'm Plain Joe Dixon.” Says He. "When he got off tlie train tie looked at that band and turned and walked to the hotel, "'l’m no celebrity.' he answered, when the boys went to find out what the trouble was. 'l'm plain Joe Dixon. YOUR ■ IS FLUFFY, BEAUTIFUL MD LUSTROUS 111 A FEW MOMENTS Girls! Get a25 cent bottle of “Danderine” and try this. Also stops falling hair; destroys dandruff. Your hair becomes light, wavy, fluffy, abundant and appears as soft, lustrous and beautiful as a young girl's after a "Danderine hair cleanse.” Just try this moisten a cloth with a little Dan derine and carefully draw it through your hair, taking one small strand at a time. This will cleanse the hair of dust, dirt and excessive oil and in juet a few moments you have doubled the beauty of your hair. Ue-mi.-s bra ut ifi ing ihc haii ,i( once. “5 W OF FIGS” FOR INDIGESTION. BILIOUSNESS AND CONSTIPATION Better than castor oil, calomel or cathartics to cleanse your stomach, liver and 30 feet of bowels. Harm less Laxative for men, women and children. Primitive folks did not need laxa tives. They lived outdoors, ate plenty of fruit, and all of their food was coarse. We modern people are different. We exercise too little, eat little fruit, and our food Is too fine—too licit. We simply can’t have our ten yards of bowels clogged up, liver choked with sour bile and stomach full of foul effete matter and feel well. It means that the food and waste retained in the stomach and 30 feet of bowels ferments —decays. The decay creates poisons, gases and acids, and those poisons are sucked into the blood through the very- ducts in tended Io suck in the nutriment. Then we have sick headache, become dull, bilious, tongue coated, nervous, meals don’t digest, and we feel miserable all over. So we must make our choice. We must live like primitive folks, else we GASCARETS TONIGHT! IF BILIOUS. CONSTIPATED, HEADfiGHY ANO SQ Turn the rascals out —ttie headache, biliousness, indigestion, constipation, the sick, sour stomach and foul gaseiw— turn them out tonight with t'asearets. Millions of men and women take a Caacaret now and then and never know the misery caused by a lazy liver, clogged bowels or an upset stomach Don't put in another day of distress wake up refreshed and feel fine. Let I'ascarets cleanse and .sweeten your stomach; remove the sour, undigested CANDY IO CENT BOXES-ANY DRUG STORE • ALSO 2S 5n Or mt nnw* is compounded with the utmost care, under the personal supervtsion of expert chemists, and always insures uniform quality and best results. 1 lb. 20c.-X lb. 10c.—X lb. sc. Insist on having it. All good Grocers aell it. rm irma—i Dr. E. G. Griffin’s o X c i s >** < *^* > S. JIS S c ' ei, W' c Equipment *** ** jMh Painless Dental Ways Set Teeth. . $5.00 Delivered Day Ordered. 22-K Gold Crowns .. $3.00 Perfect Bridge Work.. $4.00 Phone 1708. Lady Attendant Over Brown & Allen Drug store-24% Whitehall and unless you disband that band I am not going home.’ "The chief Bull Moose seems to like a very different sort of reception, though, from • he new spaper accounts. "No, I’m not a Bull Moose. I’m a Democrat,” continued Officer Allen. "My father and Joe Dixon’s father and all of our people up in North Caro lina are and have always been Quaker Republicans.” First “Insurged” Against Father. He said, however, that Joe Dixon be came an insurgent early in life. Joe Dixon was educated at Guilford college, the old Quaker school of North Carolina. When he had finished his ed ucation he went to work as the man ager of a small woolen mill his father owned. He wanted to put some new ideas into effect. Tlie old man objected. "So Joe hiked for Montana." said Policeman Allen. "Not many years later we heard lie was in congress. W hen he got to lie a senator, he came dow n for the visit that came near being spoiled by a brass band. "But if they should take away the brass bands now. I fear the Bull Moose movement would bp spoiled for sure/* Danderine dissolves every particle of dandruff; cleanses, purifies and invig orates the .scalp, forever stopping itch ing and falling hair. But what will please you most will be after a few weeks" use when you will actually see new hair—fine and downy at first—yes—but really new hair growing all over the scalp. If you care for pretty, soft hair and lots of it surely get a 25-cent bottle of Knowl ton's Danderine from any druggist or toilet counter, and just try it. (Advt.i must take artificial means to move the excess bile and waste matter on and out of the system. Tiie safest, most harmless and- effec tive stomach, liver and bowel cleanser and regulator for men, women and children is delicious Syrup of Figs, which doesn't irritate, gripe or weaken. Its effect is the effect of fruits. It is composed entirely of luscious figs, senna and aromatics. IXin't think you are drugging yourself Syrup of Figs can be constantly used without harm. Ask your druggist for "Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna,” and see on the la bel that it is prepared by The California Fig Syrup Company. This is the onlv genuine—the old reliable. Refuse, with contempt, the so-called Fig Syrup imi tations sometimes offered to deceive you. (Advt.f and fermenting food and that misery making gas; take the excess bile from your liver and carry off the decomposed waste matter and constipation poison from the bowels. Then you will feel great. A Cascaret tonight will straighten you out by morning—a 10-cent box keeps your head clear, stomach sweet, liver and bowels regular and you feel cheerful and bully for months. Don't forget the children—their little insides need a good, gentle cleansing, too. 3