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CHSLOEAN GRUFF NIPPED BI LOGIN Chanties Secretary Identifies Solicitor for “Orphans” Be- j fore He Starts Work Here. When Joseph Nicola, an Assyrian, a; Chaldean or something or other from the Mesopotamian hinterland, strolled i into tne office of the Associated Chari - ■ ties today with a holiday greeting and a n armful of documents from a mythi ,aj bishop, Mar Sergius, he didn't know hat it was in Atlanta that the elab ,-ate Chaldean mission swindle had been flushed. Secretary Joe Logan, of tin Asso-1 lated Charities, turned to a list ofj oriental solicitors furnished him by New York authorities and found that Nicola vas one of the crew who had been So iling funds for the “orphans” of Chaldea. Xot two years ago Johan Bejean and Uienael Joseph, with credentials simi lar to those presented by Nicola today. I took up a collection at St. Lukes church I f,,r the Chaldean “orphans." It hap- j nened that a missionary, acquainted I itli the conditions in Asia, was in the I congregation, and he questioned the I men a their own tongue. One of them | i.rok. ,mwn and admitted that the "or- | chans" were in his imagination. Hej suid that he was a poor man and • ■ nildn’t grow a crop the barren hill side. Later the pair were arrested and sur . i.i.'i d their alleged credentials to iv police. Both were released, but the ...ntials. including indorsements om a score of foreign consuls, ware : ctained. Xicola protested to Secretary Logan . r he was really a representative of la- '"haldean church, and produced affi o'its. signed by himself, testifying i>:,t he had sent money abroad. He i ft the office of the Associated Chari i - declaring that he expected to leave \ ■ lanta tonight. SUFFRAGE BUTTONS SUCCEED RED CROSS STAMPS; SOLD AT P. 0. I.ue is just one good cause after an other. Go to the postoffice and see for j ourself. Yesterday it was the Red Cross stamp booth that drew sympathy from the husky-lunged and money from their pock ets. But sic transit gloria tuberculosis. Today the booth flies another flag, and posted on its pillars, from which the cheery face of Santa Claus beamed down for a week on the parcel-laden postoffice throng, is a placard: "Woman Suffrage papers and but tons for sale here. "Help a good cause "Votes for women." And the old cause had nothing on the new one in the matter of alluring plead ers. The girls and matrons who sold the lied Cross stamps are succeeded by others who will make as good in selling suf frage literature. And, maybe If they asked for votes themselves they might get 'em. DOORBATTERED.SHOP ROBBED IN FULL VIEW OF POLICE STATION ' HICAGO. Dec. 27.—Backing a wag on to the rear of the Westerfelt Pack ing House Company, thieves, in full ' iew of the West Chicago avenue po ke station, battered down the door, roke open the cash register, rifled it. •adeii dozens of turkeys.- hams and -e on their wagon and drove away. In the station forty policemen were -i--ep and ten others were on duty. i-a heard of the robbery an hour aft it occurred. They reported they "Uld find no trace of the burglar-. HAS CARAT DIAMOND CUT FROM HIS ARM AS A GIFT FOR WIFE TAX BERNARDINO. CAL.. Dec. 27. nan who gave only the name Hitch -k presented himself at the office of surgeon here today and had a dia lond weighing a carat cut from the *h of his arm. The diamond, he said, was sewed in die be was in South Africa. He re i-'d to give any of the details of the i-tory, telling the surgeon to hurry, as wanted to present the gem to his as a Christmas gift and he was ' adj- a day late. PLEADS HE CAN'T LIVE ON LESS THAN $6,000 YEARLY PITTSBURG. Dec. 27.—Asserting ifl t he could not live on less than •■.''oo a year, H. B. Kirkland, vice pres ent of the American Conduit Conipa- . appeared In court to protest against l "anting his wife more than the sls weekly alimony she is now getting. TOOTHACHE KILLS GIRL: HER BLOOD IS POISONED 1 HICAGO, Dec. 27.—Toothache caused * death of six year-old Kamielia Gru ■°'vska, whose home was at 1037 North “.ullna street. The child died of blood i toning during the night after- suffer ■ K much pain. When her gums were 'rollon a physician Is said to have been '■’•iP'i Blood poisoning developed later • caused death. KILLED UNDER ENGINE. savannah, GA., Dec. 27—As a re- ’ of a derailment in the Seaboard ■Hr Line yards yesterday. Jo we ph Ivey. ■Eichman, was instantly killed. Ivey IS standing on the footboard of the ‘ t'gine and was thrown under the fhuit liner floated. •LANTir CITY. N ,1 . Dec. 2. The •ated Fruit Company's brier Tiirrialba. ; "><h WPn) ashore ..i Ftrigar.tine shoals’ ' ir ‘L Tuesday. was flouted .odaj Sh'-| nulled off by two tug.- being » Actress Thinks It’s ‘Simply Awful To Be Small SORRY SHE'S “DAINTY"! / --1' - WmSbT fej- w A WW aBL EoHßterl - HR Hr ■ w i ißrrtKWn*' OTW aM / / jr// i MISS MAKJORIE CORTLAND. ■ Baby Mine” Star Would Bed Happy if She Could Get Clothes to Fit Her. There are a good many actresses wl» have attained success through the good | fortune of a stature —either large or . small— which will fit into parts most 1 suitable to them otherwise. Most of them, therefore, are extremely grateful that they were endowed either with corpulence or were just low and slim, whichever the case might be. But there is no gratitude in the heart of little Miss Marjorie Cortland, who will be seen at the Lyric theater next < i week in the leading feminine role in i ■Baby Mine," due to the fact that she 1 grew up small and dainty. 1 No sir-e-e. Miss Cortland says it t may be all right for Billie Burke to be small, or Trixie Friganza to be overly < large, and for both of them to be i thankful for the stature bestowed upon I them. 1 But as for her. she prefers—well, just I read for yourself what she says about it: ' ••I just hate being little." she ex- 1 claimed. "I would like to be twice as t big as i am —yes, fatter than Walter ; Jones, ind as tall as. let me see. we’ll .• sax Eddie Foy. Then I could look I down on people just as they look down t on me now. Il is simply awful to be < small You can realize that yourself < when you know that I find satisfaction < in -landing on a chair and absolute 1 consolation in sitting on the top ot a , stepladder. “Big women can buy pretty things* to < wear without going to all the trouble of ' having them made to order. You can't appreciate how much this means. I 1 often walk down the street and see the prettiest things in the shop windows. Then, on account of past experiences l and hoping against hope. 1 enter and 1 ask the salesman if he won't kindly run , through his stock, and see if some- I where, tucked away, he can't find some thing that will fit me. "But they invariably shako their heads, smile good-naturedly', look down on me’, and tell me that 1 am too small: < that 1 will have to have them made to order. That's the wax with everything —made to order. Gloves, shoes and dresses. And then, after I have bad t them made to order, what is the re sult 9 Just this: In my estimation modern clothes are all designed foi the , purpose of making large women look ' small As a result, when I have got my nice new things 1 look like an animated ' doll in up-to-date toggery. If they , i would only comt back to the coati I ,>f ancient Greece— flowing robes, san- I dais and all that sort of thing—how happy I would be." CAROLINA MILEAGE BOOK HEARING AT CHARLESTON i'll XKl.i‘ ST< >N. S. f’. Dec. 27.—Spe- I (.la 1 Examiners Ryan and Elder, of the interstate commerce commission, are ll*, todax to look into mileage book regulations and rights of 79 railroads of the Southeast. The hearing opened at 11 o'clock and adjourned to 1 o’clock , pending the arrival of Attorney Genesgi I byon, of South Carolina, and other oiti- ■ rials who were delayed. There is a I large attendant-, of rail fad ■ epresen- ' tatives The cas- g’"W« out of the , South ' 'aroliri. m•. - booh a liott advocated by travelmg men < urn- . I nlssiotier Lam ■ - m.t coming Th he a -im ' • THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1912. BROYLES SLIMES LM PISTOL LfflS Recorder Calls for Stricter Stat utes Against Gun-Toting to Check Holiday Disorder. Summing up today the boisterous, disorderly features of Atlanta’s Christ mas celebration, Recorder Broyles said he was forcibly impressed with the need of stricter laws against the pistol toter. Two ideas were suggested by the re corder as a remedy for this constant menace and nuisance—the levying of a prohibitive license on dealers who sell pistols and the taxing of all owners of pistols. “Such a heavy license should be pro vided for the sale of pistols as to pro hibit their sale,” said the recorder. “If a license of, say. $5,000 or SIO,OOO per year was assessed, it would stop the sale of pistols in pawn shops and prac tically everywhere else. And it is in the pawnshops that the great majority of irresponsible negroes buy' their cheap, deadly weapons. They rarely ever go to a hardware store and pay' the regulation price for a. new pistol. "I think it would be a splendid idea, too, to levy a special tax of from $1 to $5 per year on owners of pistols. Thia would cause most people to get Tld of these weapons, for they would soon get tired of paying the tax every year. With these two plans in operation. I be lieve we would soon reduce the peril of the pistol toter to its lowest possible minimum.” NEGRO SLAYER IS FREED IN RECORDER’S COURT Atlanta's sole Christmas tragedy was investigated today in police court, Re corder Broyles freeing John Henry Per kins. the negro who shot and killed Robert Henderson. another negro, Christmas day In Perkins' home in Crew street alley. The recorder held that a complete case of self-defenec had been made out. Perkins showed that. Henderson at tacked him xvith a knife and severely stabbed him before he brought his pis tol into play. 2.000 DEAD, 10.000 ILL OF CHOLERA AT MECCA LONDON, Dec. 27. —Nearly 2,000 deaths have occurred in the past four days in Mecca, Arabia, from cholera, and there are more than 10,000 victims in the city, The disease is spreading rapidly, despite all efforts to cheek it, it was reported today from Odessa. TO GIVE OLEOMARGARINE TO NAVY IS PLAN OF U. S. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. The question of substituting oleomargarine for butter In tin I'nited States navy Is being con sidered by the navy department. Accord ing to The Army and Navy Journal, oieo ha? not been used in the navy "fur the reason that its use would cause wide spread < riticsim and opposition from but ter-making imeiesi It-ecutlx the manti tn* Hirers <>' ob 'itmirgnrin* have offered their prodtr - al Hi ospe» tally tempting price ' won off to i TOWN OF BIRTH President-Elect to Sleep To night in Bed in Which He Was Born. PRINCETON, N. J., Dec. 27.—Still suffering from the cold which has kept him indoors for several days. Presi dent-elect Woodrow Wilson left here at 10:30 o’clock today for his old homo at Staunton Va„ to celebrate his fifty sixth birthday. He was accompanied Iby Mrs. Wilson. Dr. James Camochan, who had been treating the president-, elect, called at the Wilson residence shortly before 10 o'clock and pro nounced the governor fit to travel. In Dr. Carnoehan’s words, the president elect was “about himself again.” Mr. Wilson was bundled up in heavy furs as he rode in an automobile to ths I railway station. At Princeton Junc i tion, where the branch line connects I with the main line of the Pennsylvania I railroad, the governor was joined by J Democratic National Chairman William F. .McCombs, The Wilson party left the junction at | 10:48 o'clock, a fast train being stopped there for the president-elect and party as a special favor. Mr. Wilson expects to sleep tonight in the bed in which he was born. He will devote tomorrow to celebrating his birthday, the chief features of which will be a family reunion and a banquet tomorrow night. The governor looked pale as the re sult of his two days in bed and his voice was a little husky. Mr. Wilson will leave Staunton at 11:05 a. m. Sunday, reaching Princeton Sunday night. "MUTE” FAKER GETS 30-DAY SENTENCE; HE LAUGHED TOO SOON Several occupants of a downtown of fice building stood before Recorder Broyles today and smiled "sheepishly” as they listened to "Bubber” Lindsay, ! a negro, talk to the recorder in a voice | that rang out through the court room strong and clear. These witnesses had been “taken in” by the smooth negro, who yesterday invaded the office building and success fully worked a deaf and dumb game. Handing out a small paper which read, "Please help me—l’m deaf and dumb,” the negro annexed numerous coins from tender-hearted persons. He was finally suspected, however, and was watched. To the astonishment of his benefactors, he was seen laugh ing and talking with a friend, and, re ealizing he had been caught, gave them the laugh. He was turned over to a policeman and locked up. Judge Broyles gave the faker 30 days in the stockade, and bound him over to the state courts in bond of S2OO on the charges of va grancy and cheating and swindling. FRANK LOWENSTEIN IS RE-ELECTED HEAD . OF STANDARD CLUB The Standard club last night re ; elected to hold office for the coming . year Frank E. Lowenstein, president; I Herbert J. Haas, vice president; Oscar I R. Strauss, treasurer; St. Clair S. Ja cobs, secretary; S. Frietag, financial secretary. A new governing board was elected, ! composed of the following: I. A. Hirsch ' berg, Louis H. Moss. Rudolph S. Adler, i Jake H. Hirsch, George M. Kohn, and - Albert S. Meyer. i The club is in a most flourishing con dition. and a series of social affairs is ' being arranged. The first and largest ' of these will be the grand ball New s Years eve. ANGERED WHEN WIFE ; BUYS AN XMAS STEAK, HUSBAND SLAYS HER i • CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—Pasquale Mon ' tague is in jail today facing a charge of ' murder because his wife gave him a s Christmas gift. Montague became angered at her ex travagance. To restore his good humor Mrs. Montague, bought and prepared a steak for him. Then, angered again at her waste of money, the man drew a < stiletto and stabbed her seven times. - Gus Montague, nineteen, their son. saw ■ tl>e killing. He admitted to the police i that he was afraid to interfere and try i, to save his mother. X BELT SLIPS FROM PULLEY 1 AND KILLS SAWMILL MAN ■ BAXLEY, GA.. Dec. 27.—Jehu Crosby ' is dead as the result of an accident on Christmas eve at the sawmill of J. M. Bloodworth, near Pine Grove, in Ap pling county. Mr. Crosby was the saw. yer for the mill and was standing near the belt when it slipped off the pulley, caught a stick of wood and hurled it » at Mr. Crosby, striking him In the face. Mr. Crosby was the eldest son of the . late Judge S. A. Crosby, and is survived " by a wife, several children, four broth > ers and two sisters. His mother is at • the point of death, The interment will be at the family burying ground, neat the old Crosby residence. TAFT AND PARTY WELL EN ROUTE BACK TO U. S. i r COLON. PANAMA, Dec. 27.—“A1l ■ well on board.” This wireless inessag. was received ’ today from the battleship Arkansas, which is conveying President Taft and - his party back to tin- United States ! aitei an inspection tip to .. Panama n i anal. The Arkansas ■ night f..r Key \V. ~t MISS HELEN GOULD AND HUSBAND-TO-BE < ir ■ > w hH WHI \ \ if ■■' \ I A9 9Q<. I«l . S ./ Miss Helen Gould, the rich philanthropist, and her fiance. Finley Shepard, of St. Lonis, snapped as they were strolling down Fifth avenue. New York. Game Warden Sets Trap for Boastful Nimrods TO BARE HUNTERS'YARNS Game Warden Jesse Mercer has ap pointed himself a committee of one on credentials to membership in the Sportsmen’s Ananias Club of Georgia, and proposes to sit continuously for the transaction of business from September to April of each year he is on the job "wardening." Incidentally, Warden Meroer hopes to enforce the game laws of Georgia more rigidly and more surely than they have been enforced heretofore. Mr. Mercer has conceived a notion that the game laws of Georgia are well and wisely fashioned. Besides, he swore a mighty oath when inducted into office that he would see that those laws xvere carried out, and he now says he never meant carried out into some vast wild erness and forgotten, moreover! Far be it from such! Pleads He Was Only “Funning.” Recently Mercer read where a cer tain Georgia nimrod had slaughtered 113 quail, all in one day, and then added insult to injury by having himself pho tographed and placarded abroad as the season’s champion quail shooter. When Mercer called this mighty hunter to account and reminded him that no man is allowed to kill more than 25 quail per day. said hunter wilt ed, came down off bis high horse, and acknowledged that he had prevaricated outrageously, and was "only funning, anyway!” "Hiim-m-!” said Mercer. “Betternot be so funny hereafter —might get you in jail for seventeen or thirty days!” Nimrod promised by the memory of all his honorable ancestors never again to get "funny’’—not with Warden Mer cer. at least. Mercer Gets an Idea. But the circumstance gave Mercer an" idea. He then and there resolved to or ganize a nice little hunters' liars club, and he elected this quail shooter Ex hibit A on the membership roll. Discussing his club today. Mr. Mercer said: “I have just read about a wonderful performance in soutli Georgia. A con gressman. xvith one hand tied behind his back, claims to have shot a day or so ago two deer with the same gun, at the same time, and both deer running in opposite directions at the moment— or something like that. “He claims to have the two deer in his south Georgia home to prove it. "If lie lias. I’ll make him sweat tor breaking the game laws, sure! If he ■hasn’t, I'll make him Exhibit B in my Ananias club —that's all. "I cite him. and others into ••sted, the law bearing on this case. Section 14 provides that no person ‘shall have In his possession' slaughtered deer in this state, except between October 1 and December 1. Tin provision Is clear and un mistakable. Sets Trap For “Fibbers.” "If this south Georgia congressman has those miraculously slaughtered deer in his possession he must answer to the law—if he hasn’t, into the Ana nias club he goes! “I am going to stop violations of the game laws in Georgia or violations of the Lord’s commandment against pre varication —one or the other, and both. 1 hope! "I am partieulai lx intetested in < all i Ing this congressman to "tuw,* because he is a Ittwyei and ought to know the and tr ■ ails- his profession lays 1 '«• ■' v ln the populu mind to sun- plclons of carelessness with the truth, i anyway. , “I am having my deputy warden look into this ease. If he has those deer, he ’ is my meat; if he hasn’t, he will have to acknowledge it, right out in meeting —loud!” ' Warden Mercer’s outspoken attitude In this matter will attract much inter ested attention, and the outcome of his unique acivity will be watched for 1 eagerly. i BROWN WOULD BAR FROM GEORGIA MEN FREED BY BLEASE Undesirables from the prisons of South Carolina, freed by the pardon power of Governor Cole Blease, would . be excommunicated from Georgia soil I if Governor Joe Brown could see away. I Governor Brown will investigate his rights in the matter, although he said yesterday he fears nothing can be done , to bar the recent jail birds if they be have themselves. Governor Brown criticised the South Carolina executive for his policy of re , leasing prisoners on condit' a that they ! leave South Carolina. This, be said, relieves Carolina of the necessity of ' supporting them, but burdens neigh boring states. ‘‘An- action of great Impropriety, to 1 say the least," he characterized it. ’ MIGHT OVERLOOK SNUFF IF POCKET IS RIGHT CONNELLSVILLE, PA.. Dec. 27—A want ad in a local paper requests a "good 1 washerwoman; must not chew tobacco or rub snuff; must not have too large a . pocket in dress.” CEDARTOWN HOTEL LEASED. CEDARTOWN. GA., Dec. 27.—Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Wilson, of Blue Ridge, I have leased the Boaz house and will take charge January 1. S Indoor Occupations ry kind prevent the gunlight exercise fended, and vital ’duced. he concentrated pure tood-medicine to check this decline. J 11 refreshes the body by making healthy blood and is nature’s greatest r aid to fortify the lungs and prevent tuberculosis, Ji s Scott’s Emulsion makes energy, health and strength. X V H'<wr»e Bloomfield, N.J W % SUFFRAGEHIKEHS NEIH THEIR GOAL Despite Slush, They Are Ahead of Schedule -Will Enter Albany Tomorrow. STOCKPORT, N. Y.. Dec. 27.—The suffragists who ire hiking from New York to Albany for the purpose of mak ing a plea to Governor-elect Sulzer to insert a suffrage plank in his inaugural address hope to reach the state capitol tomorrow night. They started from here early today, wading through mud and slush, deter mined to cover fourteen tulles before nightfall .uni rniik. th. remaining four teen miles to llbany tomorrow . They will sleep at a farm house tonight. The original plans called for the en try of the pilgrims into Albany on De ceniber 31, but despite bad weather conditions which have been encount ered in the last week, the pilgrims are nearly three days ahead of schedule. The pilgrims, intend devoting their time Monday and Tuesday in making suit rag. converts in Albany, a store keeper there having donated the use of :i niy. . roomy store as headquarters for them, on New Y. ar‘s day. just before Govetno- Sulzer is inaugurated, the message will be delivered to him. MEXICAN MINISTER TO U. S. NOW ADMITS HE'LL RETIRE JAN. t UAsHlXill'ii.X. Di. 1 , 27. ■ - Sen or Ca li ro. Mexican ambassador to the Unit ed States, today admitted that he will return to Mexico City shortly after January I to resume law practice. "1 am sorry to leave the United States, said Ambassador Calero, “but my affairs in Mexico City at the pres ent time demand my personal atten tion. I here has been absolutely no trieta.v between President Madero or his cabinet and myself, and I am re tutiiiug to Mexico ot my own free will. "1 leave Washington with every ex pression of godd will for the United States anil her people, ami on returning to Mexico 1 will do everything in my power to preserve the bonds of friend ship which have bound the two sister republics together for the past cen tury." STORE BROKEN INTO FOR SIXTH TIME AND SAFE IS DYNAMITED ROME, GA.. Dec. 27.—For the sixth time the store of J. F. Sloan at Cedar Hluft, Ain., near Rome, has been broken into and the safe cracked. The store of Clifton Tatum was also robbed of considerable booty! The explosion could be heard for miles, officers were at once summoned and a request sent to Rome for the bloodhounds owned by the county. Four negroes have been jailed. There is a report that prominent* white men of Cherokee county are involved in the crime and that the negroes w’ere sim ply their tools. Valuable papers taken from the vaults were found in the pos session of the blacks. The negroes re fuse to make a confession. WATCHMAN FIGHTS DESPERATE BATTLE WITH CRACKSMEN CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—Charles Hines, a watchman, fought a battle with safe blowers in the office of the Morava Con struction Company early today. He was probably fatally wounded. The poUct believe he shot one of the safe blow ers. - As Hines entered the office, a man stepped in front of him and thrust a revolver in his face. Hines grappled with the man. Both rolled on the floor, the robber firing his revolver. Another man, endeavoring to fix a charge of dy namite to the safe, ran to join the fight The robbers became frightened at the noise and fled. Hines followed them to a rear window of the office and fired until lie fell unconscious. $.90,000 IN OLD SUITCASE NEARLY SENT TO DUMP WINSTED, CONN., Dec. 27.—Over $90,000 In bills was found tn an old suit case that was about to be thrown Into a rubbish heap and which was the property of Mrs. Emeline C. Mills, who died a few days ago. 5