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HUSBANO SLAYING MANFOUNDWITH) WIFE IS FREED Coroner’s Jury Upholds Car penter Who Shot Rival as He .. nbraced His Spouse. I-'. Gi’stra.p. who kilied Will Seals )n the woodi near the western city lim s yesterday. is a free man today, a kroner's ju y having declared t’le sja.x - I ■ng justifiable. But there is no more | happiness in the Gilstrap home after th, circumstances of” yesterday. I’er iiaps th l ' dead man is best off of ,the i o m the tragedy, of which Mrs. Gil st ap was the third person. Gilstrap, t lank, tough-looking car penter about 30 years < id. loft his home] in ttiivcr street, just at the city limits,! ■md went to work it) Ti nth street. Just j afte' noon his twe ve-? ear-old son. | Willie, came tinning to him with the] news that Mrs. Gilstrap had left home j with a stiange ipan. I'iic boy said bis! mother had sent the eitildr n to an uncle's house, promising to return for thrnn later in the day. but they had I watched her enter the woods I home. _ I Gilst ‘ap went qii, kly home, pick'sl . up hi.- pistol and "ent toward the | S ippine. softly into the unde, - ■ c owtl’ ja came upon his wife and th,' ; rn m .lie -ward idcntifi -1 aS Seals j Standing hardly three feet away, the husband emptied l.is revolver .into i S. s' body. He fired -blindly, no; car- , Ing w.iet.’.er his bullet- I'ouiel th man m a woman, but, s,rangc to say. th* I won.. ■ was not stink. S.als was] <1; cd almost instantly. Then He C«ils the Sheriff. Gils: a), teiephcne.l th she-iff to j e,,m, aii.l ge. aim and Ii imtv IC. P > Stan', item to t'-c scene. Xfterward Gils:..i, is taken back to point out th, seep" of the snooting. ami finally he ami his wife were brought to the I Fulton Tower. The fig res in t'i< tragedy were com-I mmip'.ac . The h i i 'as forbid-| lii g In apo, irance. t'.r wife a bedrag gled. unkempt woman far older in ap-| pearati'-e 'han years Sv- whs clearly; under 'lie influence of whisky' « hen “1t,., at fix rd al I'.- s'l riff's office. -,nd s m. d zed by the events of I l*.e fi - , ?rneon Seals was a farm,- from Cobb j ?,,inty. ,» i 'oronei Paul Donehoo convened a i ■ i i' Patterson’s chapel last night 1 ■ .'min ■<! tie witnesses. The xxom- j an -a s' a s •■ame ;<> lier house and] p, is;, ic . in r to ,' di xith. him until! so xx.i.- :nt ,xicated and after that she I ■ti l ~ ny'liing. 'file little son; to'o of-. . ing his u: ithcr leave honi" ’ and of'U.aliig Io get ids f :tii r. <»'•!- st'. ;, . p'Hniy lee 'ory of : lie | ■ootii g r. ,nd sevral office.s - oe 1 Ji st < ne. '1 he jin x r ndered a x,- ri‘ -i of justifiable homicide without ‘.'■a., -it. i'd, s' rap tx a s-i free. The wifi was .. Ihe 'To ci- for further 1 in x ■ stiga ; lop. FINDS THE WOMAN HE IS ■’LOOKING FOR” IN WALES, i: PA., Oct. 2. After I ling ar for a wif<. William ] J 1’ " "as. aged yea s. a widuxxer. of I T -mneL has found one of his I' i'k ’.s. cat he has to go out of the: to get he:. He is going just as ] •"■""I, , in: can dispose of his property. I 1 "in,- advertised for a xvife be-j ci- isin said he was lonely and be-I '■"is, m was forced to eat his holiday m-a - it. home. His "ad.-" brought him] *'• !'■' - num all over the country and | foreign climes as veil. None of Ho women seemed to meet his re-, 'in. * in- nt-. His last mail. however, 'nought him a letter from Cardiff, xxa es. and : his woman just suits him. j so 11 ■ sa \s. 1 1 beaten nearly to death IN FIGHT OVER A WIDOW ''' ILKESBAPiRE. PA.. Oct. 2.—ln a fight over a woman's love, John Shurau "as so badly injured last night that he ' ■ vpeeted to die and Martin Marks is " jail axvaiting the outcome of Shu-j; s injuries. Both Shuran and Marks ‘ 1 enammed over Mrs. Mary Adams. , a xvidow. mian called at the house last night 1 ,m his xx ay Imine xxas attacked by 1 men and beaten xxith steel knuek -11, was left on the road in a dying 'ndition. On his statements Marks arrested. Mark- denies the charge. demand for laborers NOW GROWING SERIOUS I'TI'TSBCRg PA.. Oct. 2.—For the !lr "’ time in its history. Pittsburg is paying out Sl.tMio.upo a day in \xage-. , ' was announced yesterday at the I‘armg house The reason is the pres rn remarkable activity in industrials. -• lion- i l( is the labor famine be that employers are stealing men Hom business rivals. This is a misde- , ' "anor under the laws of Pennsx Ivania. , """ during the week two suits xxere y 11 against employment agents xx Im , '"k workmen from on, rival concern l< * another FINDS LOVE NOTES 4.000 YEARS OLD: STILL WARM ' Uli 'A ( ; ( , ()ct B._ ljOVe |e tie ,. s . i, ( 11 l-hiid years ago on a baked brick I ■ ' !| iylon. a unique cure for tooth-I and a complaint about poo ng house f.ir, xx ere tran“lated imm-iform xx citings re- ■ 'Xavutc.l by the rt.-\ Dr. |- <•. : ■ e 1 tcssni ( if iml Testament in- love left • was ii words of e , at Warmth Dixon, Oldest Poster in Dixie, Sighs for the Stars of Bygone Days SEES BILLBOARD .BEAUTIES REFORMED JWwißßa/ Hi ■ f ■ I wMffliMlF.F MISS GERTRUDE HOFFMAN. Robert Dixon Recalls When Billboards Looked Like Ad for Hosiery Store Opening. "Actors’.' Srrc, I ought to know thorn. Haven’t i been sticking up their paper I' t 30 years? I’ve posted them all from Booth down to vaudeville acts. "Rut have I seen them act? Foolish um-cion. son. I’ve seen them all. There wasn't a show 1 missed in the old days, and when I wasn’t out in front 1 was at the back, standing in the wings. \nd I've seen some g eat people in my day.” Robert E. Dixon was talking, the oldest billposter in the South, perhaps. Hi was slicking bills when Patti's voice] was fresh, when Keene, as the limpingj Richard, held thousands under his, spell; when Booth and Salvini and Fanny Davenport played at the old De- Giv«- opera house. He is still posting portraits of players on the same old corners, though most of his favorites hav» taken their last cm tain call. Dixon wa> inclined to think the bill posting busitps- had been uplifted of recent years.' Billboards Are Cleaner. “The., can talk about the stage being on the bum with these two-men-and-a- ; woman plays," he remarked. "But the billboards ate cleaner than they used to be. Not so many tights. Why, I re member the time when a real good cor ne looked like a spring opening show window in a hosiery store. No. that wasn’t in the real old time, you might say. It was after "The Black Crook” and that sort of show commenced com ing along. Some of the bills tn those days were enough to make a real nice man duck down a side street to get by. I haven't noticed any scarcity of tights in these musical shows, but there are not so many on the billboards. I don't know whether it's because there’s no use so: picturese with so much silk stockings on the sidewalks, but ft might he. The fashions these days are some thing strange to jne.” It is not as a billboard artist that Dixon shines, however. He is a-critic with ideas of his own on plays and players And. contrary to most veteran iheatergoers, he does not think all the good acting passed with Florence and Jefferson and their contemporaries. But he confesses that he doesn't enjoy the plays of today as he did the famous old tragedies of a few decades ago "That old DeGive opera house had the very best," be said. "It's the Bijou now. and considered a little house, but it was big enough for Atlanta in those days, though many a lime people sat ui> all night to. buy tickets and thou sands were turned awa) Keene the Greatest Richard. "I guess Booth and Lawrence Bar rett, when they were together, was the greatest one show in my recollection. But when Joe Jefferson and William Florence played The Rivals,’ with Mrs. Drew as Mrs Malaprop. it was a wonderful east. Kene was the great est of all the Richards. "It's hard to gay who was the gteat >-st ai t '-s of those days I believe I'd say Fanny Davenport. though perhaps I couldn't judge Bernhardt -o well, so she played in French. Rut Daven po Is- I'l- opatra was wonderful. Th* r< \ THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS AVEDNESDA Y. OCTOBER 2. 1912. ■ . * I «/ I , . -sir ' / tioberl E. Dixon, oldest billposter in South, who has seen billboard beauty styles reformed from lhe scantiesl of apparel to the very proper indeed. were many splendid women. Did you ever see Clara Morris? Did you eve’ hear of Patti Rosa. , the comedienne" She was a tremendous favorite. W<* didn’t have vaudeville, of course, but we had extravaganzas like Rice's I Evangeline, with plenty of what we called variety in them." . Rut there is one of the moderns to whom Dixon gave unstinted piaise w ho lives in the memory of even young At lantans. Richard Mansfield, the strange genius w hose "Peer Gyn " was his last Atlanta role. Remembers Old Irish Comedians. “Mansfield was the greatest of them all. in repertoire." said the old critic. "I saw him In everything he ever played, I think. Do you remembe his Beau Btutnme!?’ Did you eve see the role which made him famous in a night, Baron Chevrial In ‘A Parisian Ro-, inance?' Ah. he was a wonderful actor. "Rut when I was a youngster it was the lighter shows that made me hap piest. There was old Scanlon, the Irish comedian. Chauncey Olcott follow ,- ’ in his footsteps, but he could never fill Scanlon's shoes. And the minstrels! They were the boys I loved. There were Primrose & West, and Thatcher, and old George Wilson. Minstrels were bigger things in those dflys than now Primrose is still dancing, and dancing w ell, and Wilson was here not long ago 1 sat and watchfed him every day, not because he was so clever now. but be ta use I loved him. There were min st’els in those days who drew great salaries. "No, I can’t say the really goad act ors of today ate not as good as th>- old timers. but we don't see them in the great old tragic roles and it’s hard to make comparisons. It was Richard 111. and Kit helieu, and Mark Antony then, and the star tragedians played them one after another, and we could choose between them with better judgment They don't seem to care for the old plays any longer.” NEW POSTMASTER AT EASTMAN. EASTMAN. GA . Oct. r. I, Hen nett. who was appointed postmaster at this place about two weeks ago. is now in charge of the office Mr. Itonre't wll! he assisted by W s Wa'io. assistant postmaster; Mias Lili) Mae <;-..o|sb\ money order clerK. arri T. f. Waite, gen eral deliver) and mail.ng clerk. RAILROAD SUED FOR LAND GIVEN IT YEARS AGO FOR TERMINALS VALDOSTA. GA.. Oct. ’'.— Suit has been entered her- hy Mrs. W. W. Law son et al., widow and heirs of W. W. Lawson, of Hahira, Ga.. against the. Georgia Southern and Florida railroad! for the recovery of lands in the town I of Hahira, which had been deeded io] the railroad company when the line] was built through that place 24 yeans i ago. Four or five acre s in the heart of | the town are involved in the suit. The plaintiffs claim that the land | was deeded to the railroad company for I railroad purposes and was to be used | by the road for its tracks and termi- j rials, but that the road is now leasing I ihe property to private individuals for the- erection of wai'-hous s, ginneries electric light plants and other things. The suit is brought in the superior court of Low ndes count). WANT A GOOD GLASS EYE? OFFICER HAS 2.650 TO SELL' CHICAGO Oct. 2. Who wants a glass eye? i'nit -<l States Marshal Lu- I man T Hoy w ill dispose of 2.6.7 Ual ti I ficial eyes at public sale, pursuant to an order of United States Judge <’ar penter, entered this morning. The eyes were seized by custom- in- , speetors in the Geneva Optical tom , pany's store, at 37 South Wabash ave- | nue. B. <'. 1., Schulze, w hom the cus- , loms authorities alleged smuggled tin ; e> -s through the port of New York, , was prosecuted criminally for failure ; to pay duty on them. FOOTPRINTS CONVICT HiM; ; THIEF WALKS ON BIBLE i FORT WORTH. TEXAS. Oct. 2. HD 1 footprint on the dusty cover of a Bibb ■ sent William Hargraves to the state ' penitential) for two years at Denton. He rollbed the store of W. W, Pruitt, of Roanoke, lust March. Mr Piultt di-cove e,| th<- footfirin', w Hi- h i '-responded with tm •hoe of ■ Ha graves, wh.i had bought a new pair al the Pruitt store , , MlSfe BILLIE BURKE. HHO OWW Faculty Members for State In stitution at Vaiciosta Are Chosen by Trustees. VALDOSTA. GA. Oct 2 ill - board of trustees of tile South Georgia State Normal college in this city has de cided <m Thursday. January 2. 1913. as ibe date for opening tin- college. The matriculation fee for Georgia pupils .ill bi sln. Foi pupils from other states there will bi a tuition fee of $ ii in addition to the iii.ttriculation fee. Board in lhe dormitory will be sl2 per month. Valdosta pupils for the train ing school will be charged $2.50 per term, and classes in the training school w ill be limited to fifteen pupils. The following members of the fac ulty have jusl been elected: Pedagogy, J. M. Gulliams, Ocil a. Ga.; mathematics and science, .1, F. Wood, graduate of Columbia university, re cently of Nashville. Ga.; English and history, W. J. Bradley, Barnesville, and Miss Elizabeth McElreath, Atlanta; English and Lutin, K. L. Brimberry, Al bany; agriculture and manager board ing ib purimenl J. E. Creel, College Park. Ga.: art and manual training. Miss Frances Ruth Carpenter, Elber ton. Ga., now of Columbia university; nature study and geography. Miss Alice Prickard. of State Normal and Indus trial college al Columbia. Miss., now at I'niversity of Chicago; school of music. Miss Gladys Norton. Marengo. III.; su perintendent of the training school. Miss Lillian Rule, Knoxville. Tenn . for mer!) of the .Milledgeville Normal col - lege; matron, Mrs. R. H. Patterson, Wiens, Ga. The teacher of'domestic science and art and two training teach ers are to be elected later. Professor II H. Powell is president. GAME ROOSTER PECKS OUT EYES OF BOY. AGED THREE PITTSBI'RG. PA. Oct 2.—The fe rocity of a Game rooster here cost lit tle Johnnie Charles, aged three, the sight of his eyes The boy was playing In the yaid at bis parents’ home In Lin coln avenue when the cock, which had been fighting in another yard. Hew ovei the fi nee and seiiled on the Charles family por. -i: Johnnte rushed for lie roost er ind t l ied to seize it. The enraged fowl lb w gj the boy and knocked him down Although the lad fought to defend himself and cried (or help, the bird peck'd out his left eye and injured the ollie- so badly that the attending physician says the vision is destroyed. JOLIET FEELS TREMORS. JOLIET. ILL.. Oct 2. Two distinct ■ alt h'l Ila ke shocks were felt here with ,i half hour Intel val between shocks i * yesterday. Window - were biokeii and houses sliglitlv rocked SIDELIGHTS ON STATE POLITICS Interesting Comment on Men, Measures and Conditions in the Field of Statecraft. I’p in the grand old county of Gil mer they are an election to day, as they are holding them through- k out the entire - state, for that j matter, of course i —only in Gilmer I they hold them i differently. I Nobody seems to : knoxx’ exactly xvhat is going to hap- I pen in Gilmer to- I day, howe ve r, ] which makes the ] situation extraor ! dinarily interest | ing. because the i rule has been i heretofore that I everybody knew t exactly xvhat xvas I going to happen several days in advance —that depending, in the main, upon which side of the pending con troversy had charge of the i-ather loose and reckless election machinery at the time. Some light is throxvn on the situa tion in Gilmer by the folloxving illumi nating paragraph, picked, palpitating, from the current issue of The Pickens Progress, published in the neighboring grand old county of Pickens: In Gilmer county w< notice the "Slick Tail" Democrats xx ill have a full ticket to vote for Wednes day- against the nominees. The re cent judge contest in that county doubtless caused this move. We are told there are three parties in that edunty—the "Simon Pure” Democrats. "Slick Tail” Democrats | and the Republicans. The difficulty in establishing the Democratic household on a rock in Gil mer seems to be the apparent hope lessness of getting the "Simon Pitres” and the "Slick Tails" into the same boat, and everybody pledged not to rock it! The precise difference bet ween a "Si mon Pure" and a "Slick Tall" i» hard I to explain, for while one seems to have no corner on purity, the other seems equally to he shy of a corner on slick ness. Alternately. It seems, the "Simon Pures" and the "Slick Tails” combine with the Republicans, and there is deuce to pay In the Democratic ranks! Since the big shakeup in the state I convention. Gilmer polities has been a ] little bit up In the air. The story that comes from there today xvill. there fore, be more than mildly int re-ting. Alex Lawrence, of Chatham, xvlio manages very cleverly Io eoiiceal <l - ay s, when he so elects from his right hand that which hisjvft hand is doing, blexx into town today, topped off with an ancient straw lid that looked as if it long ago had been claimed tor me'an eholy’s very ox'n and sighed for noth ing so much as a lodge in some vast j wilderness xvi’er,- Alex Lawrences are unknoxvn. "You Atlanta people make me tired," said Mr. Lawrence, his straw hat hav ing been “kidded" unmercifully in the Kimball house lobby, "and you imagine xx e south Georgia folks have to set <>ur paces according to your ideals. Let mo tell you that a Savannah m in res, r'cs the right to wear a straxv hat right along to New Year's day. if he wishes, and it is not considered anybody's [particular business. This is my first I summet with this hat. anyway. I got lit last April, and it still looks pretty ; good to me. Next April I can got It j made good as new for a dime —we have 'a place In Sivairmfi that fixes them up fine atjd dandy for a dime. You Atlanta folks think you have tn call In your straw hats ev. y September 15 you think that just because some New York dude once said It is the fit and proper caper. It I: a comfort and a pleasure to live jn a town like Savan nah. where folks mind their oxxn busi ness, and one may wear a straw hat whenever he gets ready, and no foolish questions asked! lUusi r.itive of the manners of you Atlanta people. I was walking along Peachtree street an hour or so ago. xx hen a pert young thing, with a big picture hat on. sniggered right In my face. and. pointing to my I straxv. giggled to her companion, ‘There Igoes one of ’em now!’" That was the longest ovation any body present ever had heard Mr. Law rence deliver, and it made an impres sion accordingly! It .stopped the “knocking." too, as I suddenly as Mr. l.awrenee's appearance in the lobby had started It. There is many a politician in Geor gia whose heart beats sadder today that "Jack" Wilson is no more. “Jack” Wilson never went in very much for politics, but he knew all the politicians and he was held in high es teem by a very great majority of them, i oo! A minor incident in Wilson's life here in Atlanta serves to illustrate precise ly what manner of man he xxas. When John Temple Graves ran for vice president of the I'nited States a few years back. Georgia did not rally to him as generously as it might have done; hut one of those xvho did vote for him xxas "Jack” Wilson. The night before the election Wilson was sitting at a table In one of the Atlanta clubs, and the election xvas be ing discussed. \s the conversation proceeded. Wilson made his compan ions a little speech, and this Is about xvhat lie said; “As for me. boys, T am going to the noils tomorrow and vote for John Teni- WOMEN ASK BOY ROBBER GO FREE Sisters. With Letter From Gov ernor Marshall, Plead for Drug Store Bandit. To secure the release of Charles Sut ton, one of the drug store bandits who terrorized Atlanta two winters ago. Mis. M. E. Beacham and Mrs. Mamie Penniston. of Indianapolis, will go to Governor Brown today with a letter of introduction from Governor Marshall. After that they will use evei-y other possible means to get him from the state farm. They declare the life of their aged mother in Indiana depends upon the return of the youth, xvho is but 21. and that he xx .is a gooil boy xx ho xvas forced into becoming a robber because he had a young wife to support and could not get work. Sutton is at the state farm .where he was sentenced soon after he and four others made a daring escape from the Toxxer early in 1911. The story of the two sisters is pa thetic. and they firmly believe that the governor will listen tn their plea ami let the box- go home to his mother. They declare that he never did any wrong until A. R. Knox, his bandit partner, persuaded him to come to Atlanta. pie Graves for vice president; and I may say I am not much interested in the election beyond that. I do not sup pose John expects to bo elected, but I am sure he does expect old Jack' to vote for him. and 1 shall nor disap point him. I don't know Sherman and I don't knoxx Kern, hut John is my friend, and In Atlanta was one of my crowd. Friendship is more to me than anx thing else—and John, therefore, gels my vote. If you fellows want to please me, you will tote for John to morro'x." And it is a fact that every man about the table promised Wilson he .vould do that very thing. Ijeonard, the colored porter of the. executive department In the state Cap itol. has about as many friends among the passing throne as anvbody in the big building. Leonard is an institution all within himself, and bx his alwavs oolite and courteous manner has made it more or less unconsciously incumbent upon all visitors to pass him a pleasant word going in or coming out of Governor Brown's office, as the case may be. Notwithstanding his <'hesterfeldiap air generally, however. Leonard had a terrible fall taken out of him recently, and sufl'ered much undeserved but re signedly sustained embarrassment. A careless newspaper reiiorter. in mind wandering with respect to Lieu tenant Colonel Jesse Perrv’s grand and gorgeous new uniform, understood to re. cord Leonard's remarks thereon, and ho put a lot of "dialect” and half-baked words In l. onaid's mouth that never had been the,,-, really, and that rang exeeedinglx’ tin-Leonardesque. lie had Leonard calling Colonel Per ry "Cunnui.” and he also had him speaking of a certain piece of the Perrx military regalia as a “bellyband!” I' wouldn't have been so bad had not Leonard's Sand i 1 school class got hold of it and > ailed him down about it! His repiitttiion for using correct and impressive English xvas fixed in the minds of that class, and it demanded to knoxx xvhat his “condition” coulc have been xxymn lie said those things about "Cunnui” Pert ;, and his 'military "bellyband! ’ For (lie fits! time in many moons Leonard failed to shoxx up at Sunday school this xxeek. "Emba r> asstnent and chagrin so oh sessed my 5,,0l on Sunday. In retro spective eon'enijd ,:i >n of that ealumir heap, d upon me." explained Leonard th;,; I Inti’ 11. tai! the vmiage to face my class. 1 am eeite sure the mem bets under.-lood lha. I never was gtli>- t> of the assault xxith intent l > mjt dci the Kni lis i language charge against me. but it occasionally is bar to elucidate the situation, never! iv less!" Covernoi Brown ha- undertaken 'h leli'ate task ol interceding for the re porter who aif'onted Leonard, but L gave no assurance in advance that hi diplomatfc mission will be successful. The highes' point of woman's hap piness is reached only through moth srhood, in the clasping of her child within her arms. Yet the mother-to be is often fearful of nature's ordeal and shrinks from the suffering Inci dent to its consummation. But for nature’s ills and discomforts nature provides remedies, and in Mothers Friend is to be found medicine of great value to every expectant mother. 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