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THE ATLANTA O'KOKUI AA AMI .\htt5, ilMiwr. Amu 2JJ. DMA. GERMAN PRINCE AIDS CHILDREN OF POOR CROWN PRINCE FREDERICH WILHELM. E-l CAUSED FLIGHT Capital City Members Authorize] Committee to Buy Estates for Country Organization. Negotiations are on between the (Capital Uity Club and r* alty men that will load to the purchase of the TJpookhaven estate for the establish ment of a country club h.- an adjunct of the downtown organization. Authority to make the purchase was givon last night at the annual meeting of the club. A special committee was authorized, to be appointed by Presi dent R. F Maddox, to take up finally the details of the purchase, in connec tion with the finance committee. Negotiations will hinge on the price. John K. Murphy, member of the Capi tal City Club, said to-day the owners of the Brookhaven estates will !»»• afrfked to reduce their demands in round figures, about $100,000. The overwhelming vote by dub members in favor of purchasing the country property Is considered evi dence of the desire for the double establishment. The plans provide for the maintenance of the country club by the downtown club, but with sep arate officers. The Brookhaven estates include n handsome club house, located pl< turesquely In a tract of about 150 acres, upon which i» u fine nine-hole golf course. It is proposed to lay out an eighteen-hole cour*"* and otherwise amplify the club grounds arrange ments. It is the opinion of the business men of the Capital City Club that they tnn> reserve 60 acres and sell it eventually for enough to pay for the entire prop erty at its present price. Policeman Accused As Bandit Leader; Confessed Robbers Say Officer Walk ed Beat by Night. Planned Crime by Day. — CHICAGO. April 29. In a < ell at the county jail to-day, Policeman William H. Ohm denied that he was I the chief of a gang of robbers that j worked in Chicago all of last win ter. Ohm was the ‘'brains" and silent leader inf a gang of seven burglars and highwaymen, according to con fessions of three of the men who said they were members of the gang. Ohm. according to the three high waymen. walked his heat at night, and in the daytime planned and or dered the robbery <»f places and pe destrians in his district. MISS GORDON AGAIN HEADS CHILD LABOR CONFERENCE MERIDIAN. MISS.. \pi il 29. The child labor conference, in session here, to-day re-elected Miss Jean M. do* dim. of New Orleans, president. H. P. Hanson, of Memphis, was made secretary -1 rea surer. Find Honesty Is Best Policy. "Sheriff John Quinn," said a law yer who has just returned from Bos ton. "is an old friend of mine, and while 1 was in his town the other day I called on him at the Charles Htreet jail. In the course of our conversation, he told me this story: One of the inmates of the jail accosted the sheriff not long ago with the statement that lie had found a I* $10 bill in the prison yard. i "Why didn’t you keep the money?" 1 asked the Sheriff. "I didn’t want to take what didn't belong to me,” came the ready re sponse. "What are you in here for?" then asked "Honest John.” “Larceny,” answered the prisoner. “BUT I DID NOT PLEAD GUILTY.” be added. When his term of imprisonment ended this week, and due to the fact that no claimant for the $10 had ap peared, Sheriff Quinn gave the finder the money. She Wanted to Have Corsets Fitted. In a city not a million miles from Atlanta there is a young bachelor whose given name is Chandler and whose last name, for convenience sake, shall be Blank. Mr. Chandler Blank occupies luxurious apartments in one of the fashionable hotels. In the same town there is a man who runs a tore which sells women’s wearing apparel. Ilis name is (’han dler, too. Only that is his last name. Well, the other day Mr. (’handler ODDITIES —in the— DAY’S NEWS YOU CAN DO AS YOU LIKE; IN YOUR OWN FLAT A person’s Hat is his own castle. If he wants to sing and play ragtime all night it’s his own business. So ruled Judge Gemmill. of Chicago, in deciding Mrs. Nellie Met’alley had no legal com plaint against Miss Anna O'Rourke of the fiat above. ARM UITT OUT AND HI DIDN’T KNOW IT.—While searching John Bergstrom for weapons after arrest ing him for disorderly conduct, po licemen at the Hammond, Ind., pris on found the prisoner’s right arm had been cut off. Bergstrom had not missed it, and could not account for the accidesnt. MONEY DOESN’T TALK IN THIS COURT.—A remark that money might make the road to divorce easier was regretted to-day by Eugene Bauchnitz, a divorce litigant in a Chicago court. ' May be if 1 had a million dollars 1 might a divorce,” said Bauchwitz when the court re fused his application for a decree "Thirty days In jail,” said Judge Petit. ‘I Wanted My Mother and Father,’ Declares Millionaire's Daugh ter, Thought Kidnaped. Crown Prince !•'!•*■(i.■ i'icli Wilhelm of Germany is very kind to the poor, his latest effort in their behalf being his iirningcmenl to take one hundred poor children from the schools of Ber lin lor a three weeks' stay at the seashore. He is lo defray all expenses from the profits of a hook he lias written, and the happy youngsters are to Lie sheltered in the quarters of his army regiment. Blank, tho I I Ba j.o. BAGWELLAP M'CLELLAND GETS E ms pno ‘ Hello." “Hello,” said Mr. Blank. “Is this (’handler?" said the un known from the other end of the wire. "I am the man." admitted Blank. "If I conic downtown to-morrow about 10 o’clock will you be able to fit c pair of corsets on me?" "What?" gasped Blank into the re ceiver. "Would you please fit——*?" "What do you take me for?" de manded Blank as soon as he recov ered his breath. "Why, you are Chandler’s, aren't you? You said you were." Mr. Chandler Blank hung up the receiver quickly. Kaiser Enjoyed “Bob” Evans' Joke. A K< about one ai off many storle "Fighting Bob’ related by Ret have been told Evans. Here’s r Admiral Wil liam Swift, former commandant of the Charlestown Navy Yard, and which was repeated th the Capital City who has known * other evening at Club by a member Admiral Swift for CASH GROCERY CO. | 1 Guaranteed Fresh Country EGGS 16 F2c Dozen many years. Swift was the executive officer of the cruiser New York at the time she represented the United States at the opening of the Kiel Canal. ’Fighting Bob” was her captain, and the story concerns him and Emperor William. "The German war lord, accompa nied bv a small retinue, was dining with Captain Evans on board the New York. "To’ Majesty,’ said he. we are a very simple people, and if there is anything yn’ like better than the rest, do not stand on ceremony, but let Geo’ge give you another po’tion. "George, an ex-slave, had been Evans’ servant from boyhood, and was the only attendant at the meal. The Emperor asked George for an other portion of ham. which happen ed to be from Virginia mast-fed hog and was very fine. That disposed of, a third portion was asked for. and as the royal guest was being served. Uv.fn- remarked: ” ‘Vo Masjesty, if 1 were a diplo mat instead of a sailor man. I would take this occasion to broach the sub ject of German restriction on Amer- ' look of dismay that covered ices *>f the Emperor’s retinue way to smiles when the war :ave a shout of laughter that card from stoke hole to lighting LEMONS 12 l = 2c Doz. 40c Coffee, lb 28c 80e Tea. th 39c Meadow Gold Butter.... 37c Quart Georgia Cane Svrup 10c CASH GROCERY CO. 118 and 120 Whitehall St. j Unemployed Show Big Decrease in 1912 j Bui ring. Transportation and Metal Trades Alone Produce the Most Idleness Among Workmen. IK, April 29.—The per- •n out of work last >oar. with previous years, is reduced according to •ns tarnished to the New of Labor Statistics bv cons ic montl ! York ember the lxwcmli per- Former General Secretary of the Y. W. C. A. Bride of Business College Man. Miss Daisy Eckert, who resigned as general secretary of the local Y. NY. U. A. April If*, was married at noon to-day to J. O. Bagwell, of the Bagwell Business College, in Atlanta, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. NY. NVoods White, 32 Howard Street. Rev. Charles Daniels officiating. Miss Eckert, incidentally, demon strated the fact that a woman—one woman, anyway—can kep a secret, if she makes up her mind, even though it is a secret so sweetly delicious as her own wedding day and the name of the lucky man. Several weeks,ago, when the rumor first went abroad that she was con templating matrimony, wily friends and associates undertook to get from her the name of her intended and the wedding date the soft Miss Eckert did not deny impeachment within the rumor, but "some time before the summer is over, perhaps.” was all she would venture. She had heard, for one thing, that a conspiracy was on foot to make trouble for the daring male person who came a-wooing Miss Daisy with intent to take her away from the Y. 'NY. C, A Maybe it was that and maybe a was omething else. What ever it was. she kept it, and it only became known to-day. Mr. and Mrs. White tendered Mr. and Mks. Bagwetl a delightful lunch eon after the wedding. Everybodi wishes the bride—and, oh, well, the groom, too—long lift and a deal of happiness. Expose Threatened By Resort Owners Woman Tells Vice Probers She Will Give Names of Legislators If Forced to Testify. SPRINGFIELD. ILL. April 29. —In preparation for possible trouble when tli«' Illinois Senate white slave com mittee resumes its hearing here to night. Lieutenant Governor O’Hara to-day ordered ten extra sergeants- at-arms to prevent anyone entering the committee rooms who has n >t been asked to testify. A report was widely circulated thru a woman had been called to testi'v and she replied that if she polled to appear before thf she would disclose the nan more legislators who have and money in her resort, not called. Alderman Who Accused Three Colleagues of Graft Agrees to Attend Inquiry. Alderman John E. McClelland, who charged three of his colleagues with corruption, to-day acknowledged ser vice of a subpena to attend the meet ing of the Councilmanie graft inves tigating committee this afternoon and announced that he would be present. He also said lie was prepared to an swer the charges made against him by Alderman J. W. Maddox. Alderman McClelland’s refusal to attend former meetings of the com mittee had indicated new difficulties in the progress of the trial. Assistant City Attorney W. D. Ellis, Jr., said to-day he had never received from Alderman McClelland a list of the witnesses to prove the McClel land’s charges, hut that the inves tigation would proceed anyway. The case of Alderman Maddox having sub-contracts with the city will he the first to be taken up. and the fol lowing witnesses have been called: John E. McClelland. City Attorney James L. Mayson. Chester A. Dady, John Nichols, R. M. Clayton and W. A. Hansel. Aldermen F. J. Spratling and I N Ragsdale, the others accused, will take the stand later. to te: were c ifimni spent 1 She Miss Alys Meyer Married as Alice i License Clerk Insists Upon Bap tismal and Not the Fashionable Name. WASHINGTON. April 29 -Wash ington society smiled a sly smile to day when it discovered that Miss Alys Meyer, daughter of Mr. Tafi s Secretary of the Navy, whose mar riage to Lieutenant (\ C. Rodgers was the social event of Saturday, gave her name to the marriage 11- ense clerk os Alice, not the moiv fashionable Alys. Several years ago Miss Meyer an nounced that she was now Miss Alys, father than Miss Alice, and society obligingly adopted the change of name. Phonetic spelling does not ge with (’upid. however, and she was married Alice, even if she resum 'd Alys immediately afterward. CHICAGO PHONE RATES CUT. CHICAGO. April 29—Reductions in o lepbon rates in Chicago of $60.(100. annually \\e < announced to-day by the City Council committee on tele phones. and uglveM to by the Chi cago Telephone Company, u Bell con cern. NKYY YORK. April 29. A cry of a lonely girl for a mother, a father and a home came to-day from Miss Ra mona Borden. 17-year-old runaway- daughter of (Jail Borden, who plained for the first time why she left a sanitarium near Pompton Lake, X. J.. a week ago, giving the impression that she had been kidnaped. ’ For four years 1 have lived in 1m- tcls.” said Miss Borden, "with a san itarium in between. I wanted my home, my mother, my father, the open air and dogs and horses as other girls ha ve. I am going back to Los Angeles with my mother, and T feel that 1 shall be happier, although I would be far happier If my father and mother were together." Although not divorced, Mr. and Mrs. Borden have not lived together for three years. Mrs. Borden’s suit failed. "I did not run away because I was in love,” cried Miss Borden. ‘‘There is no man iri my ufe. although T ho\* to be married some day." Miss Borden exonerated Mrs. Helen White, wife of a Cleveland million aire. from the "kidnaping" charge Hh*» said she wrote t<> her mother io take her from the sanitarium where she had been placed by her father, but became impatient and wrote t » Mrs. White to help her. She did not give the appearance of being ill. "This is the second time I have run away, and T hope it will be the last." concluded the young heiress with laugh. Savannah Society Hears Opera Stars Music Festival Opened by Metropoli tan Singers—Althouse Still Talking of Atlanta. SAVANNAH. GA., April 29. The Savannah Mush Festival opened last night with a concert program. Mem bers of the Metropolitan Opera Com pany, who are to sing, have been ar riving for severals days. Mme. Louise Homer was the first to arrive. The others had a special train oper ated over the Southern and came in late in the evening. Miss Anna Case lias made a dis tinct impression by the simple de mocracy of her manner. Paul Alt- house also has made a hit by his frank and boyish ways, and talks incessantly about an exciting game of baseball he witnessed in Atlanta, lie admits that he likes "rag” music, and plays th. H* says*-the time will never come when only “high-brow” music will be appreciated by all the people. The best society in Savannah oc cupied boxes at the concert last night, when these three stars Were on the program as soloists. Chinese Democrats Fight Foreign Loan Cancellation Demanded by Faction That Would Have New Republic Control Its Own Finances. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. PEKIN. (’HINA, April 29.—Tne signing of the quintuple loan for $125,000,000 lias caused a grave po litical crisis. The Kuo Min Tang (or Democratic party) demands the can cellation of t^ie contract, -contending that it contravenes China's sovereign rights in giving foreigners power to supervise the nation’s finances. It also objects because the matter was not referred to the present assembly for approval. The Government contends that this was not necessary, as the loan agree ment is practically the same as that approved by the provisional govern ment assembly December 30 last. | ('hang (’hf! president of the assem bly, has telegraphed to all the pro vincial assemblies urging them not to sanction the loan. GIVE THE HAIR THE , FOOD IT NEEDS 1! Parisian Sage Soaks In At Once. Feeds, Cleanses and Makes Hair Grow. What a delight to have a beau tiful head of hair. Huffy, lustrous, abundant and tree from dandruff. Hair is r. plaut and your head is a garden—a little cultivation works wonders. If the hair is too dry it needs freshening up. If it begins to get thin it needs fer- talizing. 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