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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” HORLICK’S It Means Original and Genuine MALTED MILK The Food-diink for All Ages. More healthful than Tea or Coffee. Agrees with the weakest digestion. Delicious, invigorating & nutritious. Rich milk, malted grain, powder form A quick lunch prepared in a minute. Take no substitute. AskforHORLICK’S Others are imitations. 1 Diogenes T Nearly Settles Copyrlflit. m:t. International N apanese Question! 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. Steel Engraved and Embossed Stationery BUSINESS CARDS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Largest Plant in the South Lowest Prices Samples will be submitted or our representative will call upon request. J. P. STEVENS ENGKAVING CO. 47 Whitehall Street. 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 I 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 For Infants and Children. Thi Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of For Sale VAUDEVILLE THEATER For colored patrons; seating capacity '1,000 Big money-maker. Cleared 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. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Originated in a physician’s pre scription years ago and has al ways been pure, safe, beneficial —an honest spring and all-the- year-round medicine. Get it to-day in usual liquid form or l *i the tablets called Sarsatabs. CRICHTON- SHUMAKER 7g/ Kiser Building ATLANTA Without doube the mosi elegantly furnished busi ness college in the Southern States. Class rooms are perfectly equipped, well lighted, thoroughly sanitary'—clean and inviting. Strictly up-to-date in every sense. $ 10 E. C. CRICHTON, Prfn. Shorthand Dept. per month for tuition places a — BUSINESS EDUCATION — within the reach of all. THE BUSINESS WORLD wants young men who have been educated for BUSINESS. The demand for COMPETENT bookkeepers is greater to-day than ever before. D. E. SHUMAKER. Prln. Business Dept. Hon. Chauneey M. Depew says: The young man, even a graduate from college (literary or classical), who enters business without going through a busi ness school will be greatly hampered in his progress through life. STUDENTS of this SCHOOL are not turned over to the mercy of cheap, incompetent teachers, but re ceive INDIVIDUAL instructon from the proprietors in PERSON. Catalogue free. CRICHTON- SHUMAKER BUSINESS COLLEGE WRITES LETTERS AS GAS 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. »mntmiiii»mniHitntniiunitmHn>iminuiniiininmiiniim»mmnnimmn»!i Dftll’f J^oolt YEOMAN’S delicate system requires | Old Before Your Time W OMAN’S delicate system requires more than ordinary care and at tention-more care and attention than it is given by the average woman. 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Pierce’a Medical Adviser, newly re cited up- te-date edition, a newer» hoete of delicate gueetlone about which every icammm, ninpte or married ought to knew Favorite Prescription 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. White City Park Now Open iiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu'iuiuuiuiuiuiiuuiuuuiuuuiuiuuuiuituiuiituiuuiiuiMiui %