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film FOREST
Virginia Also Hit by Flames Which
Drive Thousands From Homes.
Many Persons Missing.
NORFOLK. VA., May 7.—Forest
fires which have been raging for many
'lays on both sides of Dismal Swamp
broke their confines to-day, despite
frantic efforts of hundreds of volun
teer fire-fighters*, and now are menac
ing many villages and cities in Vir
ginia and North Carolina.
Reports received here to-day state
that many homes have been burned
and in sections where the fire sud
denly made its appearance many per
sons are reported missing. «
* Hundreds of families have been
driven from their homes
The smoke is so dens*e that the sun
virtually i*s obscured for a radius
of 50 miles, and families living near
the fire zone close their doors and
w indows at night, fearing the smoke
will choke them while they sleep.
Flames twice ignited the State
School for the Feeble Minded to-day
at Kingston. N. C., but volunteer fire
men rescued the inmates and saved
tne building.
The John L. Roper Lumber Com
pany and the Richmond Cedar Works,
both of Suffolk, Va., estimated their
losses in timber destruction at over
$100,000.
The fire has driven wild animals
into the open and they are devouring
chickens and cattle belonging to
farmers.
Turns $1,000,000 Lot
Into Truck Garden
Pittsburg Woman Expects to Cut
Cost of Living by Raising Vege
tables and Chickens.
PITTSBURG, May 7.—Mrs. John S.
P'lannery, president of the Marketing
Club of Pittsburg, will solve the high
cost of living problem by raising her
own chickens and vegetables upon a
mil lion--dollar tract of land at Grant
Boulevard and Fifth Avenue.
Mrs, Flannery has rented the old
McCurdy homestead, within a stone’s
throw of the University of Pittsburg
and Carnegie Institute. She got it at
•a bargain, she asserts, and is really
saving $10 in rent.
From her “farm” Mrs. Flannery ex
pects to get 50 bushels of potatoes
and 50 heads of Yorkshire cabbage.
She also has planted com, beets, let
tuce, onions, parsnips, carrots and
radishes. She plans to plant pumpkin
seeds, peas and beans. She secured
ifcer seeds from the Government.
America Most Polite
Nation, Says Teacher
Europeans Fail to Adopt Courteous
Phrases, Two Thousand Store
Girls Told.
NEW YORK, May 7.—Mrs. Mary
E. Kelly, matron of one of the largest
department stores here, who instructs
i.000 girls in deportment, says the
United States is the home of true
politeness.
“In twenty years this nation will be
known aw the most polite in the
world,” said Mrs. Kelly in a lecture
to her girls. “My pupils among Amer
ican girls are quicker to adopt cour
teous phrases than those of European
parentage.
"The politeness of this country is
the consideration shown among
equals. Its root is the courtesy shown
by husbands to wives, wives to hus
bands arid by both to their children."
CINCINNATI STREET CAR
MEN THREATEN TO STRIKE
CINCINNATI. May 7.—A strike of
all the street railway employees of
the Cincinnati Traction Company is
s*et for Friday unless the company
yields to demands for an Increase in
pay of 5 cents an hour and a rein
statement of all employees discharged
March 15 or thereafter. The demands
'come from a newly organized union
of conductors and motormen.
“Just Say”
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t«w» Service.
METHODIST BAN ON
SHOWS KEPT HERE
GEORGIA
NEWS IN BRIEF
Honest Man upsets profitable deal! Aged Philosopher-thrown out with great
force and severely bruised by contact with office chair!
CABLE
NEWS
Important Events From All
Over the Old World Told in a
Few Short Lines.
BERLIN, May 7.—Electrification of
the suburban railroads of Berlin
finally has been assured by action in
the upper house of the Prussian Diet,
which has voted $6,250,000 for begin
ning the work.
Duchess of Connaught Better.
LONDON, May 7.—Further im
provement was shown to-day in the
condition of the Duchess of Con
naught, wife of the Governor General
of Canada, who recently underwent
two operations. She spent a restful
night.
Would Break Opium Treaty.
PEKIN, ('HINA, May 7—Resolu
tions will be introduced to-day in
both houses of the Assembly asking
the foreign office to negotiate with
the British Government for the abro
gation of the opium treaty, which
forces China to allow the Importa
tion of opium.
Chinese Grateful to U. S.
PEKIN, May 7.—-The people of Pe
kin Thursday wirr march in a mon
ster parade to the American Legation
to express the popular gratitude for
•he recognition of the new republic in
Washington. Eight thousand students
and school children will parade, car
rying 4,000 American and 4,000 Chi
nese flags.
Gonzales Mentioned
As Minister to Cuba
Judge Girard, Paris; Thomas Nelson
Page, Italy, and Charles R. Crane,
Russia, Others Considered.
WASHINGTON. May 7.—-A list of
names now being considered for dip
lomatic posts by the President con
tains those of William E. Gonzales,
of Columbia, S. C., for minister to
Cuba; Judge James W. Girard, of
New York, for Ambassador to Paris;
Thomas Nelson Page, of Virginia, for
Ambassador to Italy, and Charles R.
Crane, of Chicago, for Ambassador to
Russia.
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Bell Phone Main 1743.
ATLANTA
Tuberculosis Topic
For Lecture Series
Reports Will Be Made on Work
Done by Recent Sociological
Congress Here.
There will be a series of addresses
on tuberculosis and allied subjects
this week under the direction of the
educational committee of the Atlanta
Anti-Tuberculosis Association, of
which Mrs. J. Wade Conkling is chair
man.
pr. M. C. Pruitt will deliver a ster-
eopticon lecture Wednesday night in
the German Lutheran Church on “Tu
berculosis and Its Prevention.” A
report will be made on work accom
plished and the suggestions made at
the recent Sociological Congress.
Thu same subject will be discussed
by Dr. A. H. Bunce in a lecture
Thursday morning between 10 and
10:30 o’clock in Miss Woodberry's
school.
Dr. George M. Nile will speak
Thursday night In the Girls’ Night
School in the Einery-Steiner Build
ing. His subject will be “General Hy_
^iene and Tuberculosis M
Wilson Expected at
Capital Horse Show
President May Attend National Ex
hibition on Last Day—Society
Auction Scheduled.
WASHINGTON, May 7.—Tne
fourth and concluding day of the
national horse show brought a larre
gathering.
Under the direction of Albert di
Cernes, of New York, a society auc
tion was scheduled, at which a num
ber of the nrize winning horses were
to be sold. Preceding the sale the»p
was an interesting carck with several
"over the jumps" events included.
The President’s flag was run up
early over the box set aside for Pres
ident Wilson, who has sought to at
tend the meet on preceding day3,
but has been prevented by the press
of public business. It was expected
he would attend to-day. although
members of his family have repre
sented the White House during the
exhibition.
ODDITIES
—in the—
DAY’S NEWS
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SPARROWS ATTACK CAT.—A
cat which climbed a tree in Los An
geles to catch a sparrow was sur
rounded by a large flock of the little
birds. They pecked at pussy until of
ficers of the Humane Society res
cued It.
CONVICTS TOO EXPENSIVE.—
An investigating committee of the
Texas Legislature at Austin recom
mends that about 800 convicts be
given their liberty in order to lessen
th e cost of maintaining the peniten
tiary system of the State, which is
facing bankruptcy.
ASK GLASS “L“ STATIONS. Ele
vated railroad stations constructed of
prismatic glass are proposed by Chi
cago authorities so that the streets
beneath the present structures may
hav e more li£ht.
DREAMS GO BY OPPOSITES.—
•Right-handed persons dream with the
left side of the brain because they
use the left lobe of their brain for
conscious thinking.” said Dr. E. W.
Scripture at the congress of physi
cians in Washington. D. C.
Wife-Slayer Says
He Wants to Die
Aged Man Sentenced for Life, De
clares If He Killed Woman He
Doesn’t Know It.
ROME. GA., May 1.—“I have wan
dered alone ever since the death of
my first wife, and if I killed my la3t
one I don’t know it. There is no sat
isfaction for me to live and l want
to die."
This remarkable statement was ut
tered by I. W. Williams, aged 66, be
fore the jury trying him for the mur
der of h1s wife at Wax on March 25.
He was convicted and sentenced to
serve for life on the State farm.
Throughout the trial Williams sat in
a crouching position and wept almost
continuously.
Williams and his wife could not
agree and when she refused to live
with nim he shot her dead.
600 Newsies Will Be
Guests at Banquet
S. V. D. Fraternity to Entertain Lit
tle Paper Merchants at the
Y. M. C. A. Next Tuesday
Six hundred Atlanta newsboys will
attend the banquet which the S. V. T).
fraternity will give for them at the
Y. M. C. A. Tuesday night. May 13.
The tickets have been given out.
Entertainment will be furnished oy
one of the most noted impersonators
in the country, who will be brought
to Atlanta especially for the occasion.
In addition to the newsboys, a num
ber of the city’s most prominent men
will attend the banquet. Every news
boy in the city is entitled to a free
ticket, but older persons will be
charged $3 a plate.
Anti-Theater Rule Not Dead Let-!
ter in South as in North,
Declares Pastor.
The rule of the Methodist Episco
pal Church, South, regarding theater
going and other forms of amusement,
Is not a dead letter In Atlanta, ac
cording to Rev. C. V. 'Weathers, pas
tor of the East Atlanta Methodist
Church, who, during the last aix years,
has been pastor of three Atlanta
Methodist Churches.
The denial was occasioned by the
statement of Eastern pastors that
the ban was a dead letter in most
churches.
“It is true that in some circles
in the South the rule is not strictiv
lived up to, but in Atlanta it is far
from a dead letter.” said Dr. Weath
ers. ‘‘It is regarded somewhat light
ly in the Methodist Church, North,
but our College of Bishops, at a re
cent meeting in Baltimore, declared
the ban on theaters and forms of like
amusement to be as rigid as In past
years, and there was no inclination
on their part to declare it lifted.
“For the last six years I have been
the pastor of St. James, Asbury and |
the East Atlanta Churches, and 1 have j
found no inclination among the con
gregations to disregard this discipli
nary rule. The Methodist ministers j
of Atlanta are a unit on the quea- j
lion.
“There are, of course, some rare
exceptions when the plays are of a
high moral character and probably
Would be beneficial, but the Church
can not discriminate and It is left
to the individual. It is very seldom,
however, that any appreciable num
ber disregard the ban even when the
play is highly mora!”
White Men Warned
Against the Tropics
Depreciation in Health Offsets the
Financial Gain, Says Man From
Porto Rico.
NEW YORK, May 7.— “He who
travels far can tell you strange
stories,” said F. C. Vivian, from Por
to Rico, at the Knickerbocker when
shown a newspaper clipping saying
that J. K. Hutcheon, a Scotch engin
eer, made $3,000,000 in three years in
Bolivia.
“All these weird stories about get
ting rich quick in South and Central
America should be :aken with grains
of i*alt.
"If you have any kind of a decent
job at home hold on to it and stay
here. The tropics were not made for
white men.
“There is money there, but how
much are you going to put on the
ledger every year for depreciation of
your physical condition?”
Her Fifth Suit for
Divorce Is Failure
Mrs. Lagerquist Again Loses Her
Case—Both She and Husband
73 Years Old.
RENO, NEV., May 7.— For the fifth
time, thrice in Massachusetts and
twice in Reno, Mrs. Louis M. Lager
quist has met defeat in her at
tempts to divorce Eric Lagerquist,
against whom she has made about
every accusation recognized by the
laws of both States as ground for
divorce.
Extreme cruelty, desertion, infidel
ity and non-support have been alleg
ed in her complaints, but denial of
decree has resulted from each deter
mined attempt. Both parties to the
action are 73 years of age.
In 1915-Los Angeles,
“South Cafeteria?”
Legislator Wants California Divided
Into Two States, Southern With
Lunch-Room-Like Name.
SACRAMENTO, May 7.—A resolu
tion to divide California into two
states has been introduced in the
Senate by Sanford, Democrat. The
resolution provides that the territory
South of the Tehachapl be known
as South Cafeteria and that North Lo
be known as California. The resolu
tion was introduced because pom!-
cians here believe the state should!
have greater representation in the
National Senate following the open
ing of the Panama canal.
COLUMBUS—General Jackson, a
negro, lies at the city hospital to-day
desperately wounded as a result of a
fight with Policeman W. S. Helmes
when the latter attempted to arrest
him.
K. of C. Delegates Named.
MACON.—Cecil Morgan, State dep
uty; Augustin Daly, grand knight,
and E. A. Sheridan, past grand knight,
will head the Macon delegation to
the annual State convention of the
Knights of Columbus at Savannah
next week
Oldest Resident Dead.
MARIETTA.—J. W. Henderson, Ma
rietta’s oldest resident, died to-day.
He was 90 years of age. His wife, a
son, C. E. Henderson, and a daugh
ter, Mrs. George Duke, of Dun woody,
Ga.. survive him. He leaves an estate
estimated at $100,000.
Stolen Goode Recovered.
VALDOSTA.— Much of the goods
stolen from the store and bakery **f
Lewis Geogge. a Syrian merchant
here, has been located by officers,
and a negro, George Williams, is
under arrest. A diamond ring be
longing to George’s daughter was
also found.
Accused Woman Hysterical.
COLUMBUS.—The funeral of
George M. RadclifT. who died as a
result of wounds claimed to have been
Inflicted by his wife, took place to
day. His wife, who is in the county
Jail, has been hysterical since she
was informed of her husband’s death.
Macon Bank Buys Site.
MACON.—The purchase by the Cit
izens National Bank of the Harris
lot at Third and Cherry Streets for
$56,000, Is announced to mean the
early erection of a twelve-story bank
building. The property was sold at
auction. The money will be applied
to the debts of E. B. Harris, bank
rupt.
Dalton Seeks Convention.
DALTON.—T. D. Ridley. D. F.
Vance, A. T. Gilbert and T. F. How
ard will leave Monday for Amerlcus
to attend the convention of the State
camp Patriotic Order Sons of Amer
ica, with the intention of securing
the State convention of 1914 for
Dalton
To Complete Canal.
COLUMBUS.—Captain J. VV. Sin
gleton. Government engineer in charge
of the work on the Chattahoochee
River, will be transferred after May
15 to the St. Andrew's Bay canal to
complete that work, after which he
will be returned to Columbus.
Judge Speer Fines Roads.
MACON.—The Georgia Railroad
and the Southern Railway have been
each fined $100 by Judge Emory
Speer for working employees six
teen hours a day and have been fined
$500 each for mistreating cattle in
shipment. The railroads entered
pleas of guilty.
Socialists to Answer Critice.
COLUMBUS.—Captain Jep Mar-
chant, Socialist Mayor of Girard, Ala..
has announced that on Sunday. May
18, at a public meeting in Columbus,
he will answer statements made by
Mayor Chappell, of Columbus; Dr. L.
R. Christie, pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Columbus, and Rev. O. C.
Dobbs, pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Phenix City, at a recent
labor meeting.
Profanity Causes Shooting.
MACON—B. Raines, a barber shop
proprietor, asked J. E. Taylor, a well-
known young business man, to pay a
bill of $1.50. Taylor replied with pro
fanity. Mrs. Raines being present,
th'e barber became incensed, pulled a
pistol and fired. The Recorder has
set May 14 for the trial of both men.
Atlantans to Speak.
WEST POINT.—Tho LaGrange Dis
trict Sunday School Institute will be
held here May 8. Among the speak
ers will be Dr. S. R. Belk, Rev. H. B.
Mays and George M. Napier, At
lanta; Rev. S. R. England, Athens;
Rev. H. L. Edmonson. Newnan; Rev.
S. B. Ledbetter, Buford; Rev. A 8.
Harris and Rev. W. L. Pierce, La-
Grange. and Rev. Graham Forrester
and Professor W. P Thomas, West
Point.
Electioneers With
Fists in Australia
' Boxer Wlenholt Is Making Lively
Campaign Against Prime Min
ister Fisher.
Special Cable to Tha Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 7.—The Daily
Mall’s correspondent telegraphs that
Prime Minister Fisher of Australia Is
being opposed at the general elec
tion. now imminent, by Wlenholt, a
boxer.
The latter is travelling about the
constituency of Wide Bay. Queens
land, not, as he frankly announces, to
make speeches, but to take on any
body who will face him with gloves.
The other day he had a very large
meeting of farmers and others at a
place’ called Gin Gin, at which two
of the audience accepted the chal
lenge. providing the spectators with
two lively bouts, one of four, the
other of two minutes, duration.
CASTOR IA
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more than $10,000 last year. Owner must sell quick on account of bad
health. For full particulars call
DIXIE THEATER, 127 Decatur St.
C. TOWNSEND IS NAMED
COLLECTOR AT ST. MARYS
WASHINGTON, May 7.—President
Wilson to-day sunt to the Senate the
following nominations:
Albert Lee Thurmun, of Ohio, to b"
Solicitor for the Department of Com
merce and Sinclair ('. Townsend, jf
Georgia, to be Collector of Customs
for the district of St. Marys. Ga.
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Hon. Chauneey M. Depew says: The young man,
even a graduate from college (literary or classical),
who enters business without going through a busi
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SLOWLY ENDS HIS LIFE
WORCPOSTER, May 7.—Because ho
“found that his wife’s love was n n |
true,” Charles Brown, 21 years old.
ended his life by allowing gras to pour
Into his room, while he sat at a table
and wrote letters to his wife, his
mother-in-law, and his employer, tel.-
ing them of the act. He told his em
ployer how to dispose of his body anti
his possessions. Rrown’s wife disap
peared last Tuesday.
$1,700 WEDDINGS GIFTS STOLEN.
CHICAGO, May 7. Just after j
warning ffctd been issued against an
organized band of thieves seeking
wedding gifts as plunder, Mis. 1 ("
Favorite's apartment was entered ami
$1,700 worth of wedding glfU* stolen.
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THE
“DECATUR SECTION
If
Some of the RECENT Developments in This
Growing Section of
DEKALB COUNTY
The Mayor anil Council of Decatur have let contracts for PAV
ING parts of COLLEGE AVENUE. CANDLER STREET, M’DON-
OUGII STREET, JEFFERSON PLACE and PONCE DE LEON
AVENUE in DECATUR. Part of this work Is now under way.
The GOOD ROADS COMMITTEE of the rteeatur Roard of
Trade has let a contract for macadamizing CANDLER STREET
from the corporate limits of DECATUR to Morgan Street, and the
work Is now tieing done.
MORGAN STREET in EAST LAKE is now being laid with
macadam and tarvia binding to meet Candler Street.
PONCE DE LEON A VENUE Is now passable for vheieles from
the GEORGIAN TERRACE to the beautiful Court House Square
at Decatur, and this beautiful avenue will soon be an exact counter
part of EAST LAKE DRIVE.
WHEN ALL THIS WORK IS COMPLETED, DURING THE
NEXT THREE OR FOUR MONTHS. DECATUR WILL RE AT
THE CENTER OF THE REST SYSTEM OF DRIVEWAYS OUT
OF ATLANTA.
TILE WALKS are now being laid on KING’S HIGHWAY and
CHURCH STREET; thus completing modern sidewalks for these
streets to the corporate limits of DECATUR.
The NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING—the second in three
years—is now being constructed In DECATUR.
Many NEW homes are being erected at Bast lake, Oakhurst,
Kirkwood, and in other parts of the “DECATUR SECTION” as well
as in DECATUR itself.
The people of KIRKWOOD—one of the most attractive narts
of the “DECATUR SECTION”—are TURNING THINGS UPSIDE
DOWN, grading and macadamizing streets, laying concrete curb
and walks, and building new homes in every part of the town.
The STONE MOUNTAIN ELECTRIC LINE, extending from
Decatur through 1NGLESIDE, SCOTTDALE and CLARKSTON, to
STONE MOUNTAIN, is opening up a beautiful NEW country, a
most importaht addition to the "DECATUR SECTION.”
DEKALB AVENUE from Mayson’s Crossing to Kirkwood, is
now being laid with vitrified brick, making another MODERN
driveway through KIRKWOOD and OAKHURST to DECATUR.
What is BOUND TO HAPPEN with ALL THESE MODERN
IMPROVEMENTS GOING ON IN the “DECATUR SECTION?”
Ride through this section and see for yourself. Send for Book
let.
Decatur Board of Trade
Bell Phone
Decatur 148
Weekes Building
DECATUR, GA.
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