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t h A HKARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA.. SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1013. Ill I!! Latent picture of Andreir Carnegie. Thin photograph was taken 'thursday m \etr York and shows the ironmaster and advocate of peace just as he looks to-day. Ft. McPherson's System of Keep ing Fighting Men in Good Humor Successful. LOVE PLAYS BIG PART Regular Wears His Heart on His Sleeve and Wants Sweet heart Badly. -Confronted, as are military officials everywhere, with the problem* of how to decrease desertions and to foster contentment among the soldiers, the authorities at Fort McPherson, At lanta's suburban army post, think they have solved it to some degree. Dances and moving picture shows are their most powerful weapons in ihe fight against discontent. t’olonel John T. Van Orsdale and f'baplain Henry L. Durrant hav** worked together in the introduction of interesting innovations by which they hoge to hold the heart and in terest of the enlisted men. The plan, as outlined yesterday by the chap lain. tells the story of a great trust pat in the efficacy of wholesome amusement as the best antidote against dissatisfaction and restless- “We encourage these things to overcome the great loneliness and restlessness that affects the soldier,” said the chaplain. "He is essential ly a wanderer, and grows tired of surroundings without change." He told of other phases of the plan. An enlisted men’s club has been established. A library of fic tion is offered, without cost, to the soldier for his reading The weekly dances and the picture shows three times a week are only part of a big scheme to hold the men. Boxing, baseball games, vaudeville shows, all are encouraged. The dances, the chaplain explained, are extremely popular, offering to the soldiers that companionship with girls, for which there is a peculiai yearning in the hearts of all soldiers. Petticoat World. “Pretty much their whole world revolves around the ‘petticoats,’ as they call the girls," he said. “As with sailors, so with soldiers. On the stre?t they are honestly excited by the sight of a pretty girl. it may be due to the fact that he is kept eternally with hundreds of other men,' but for some reason the soldier man is keenly susceptible to feminine charms.** The soldier’s girl is as much a type as the soldier himself, Mr. Durrant said. And. according to his analy sis, hen- she is, the composite sweet heart of Fort McPherson: She is honest and sincere with her soldier lover, and demands sincerity in return. The soldier always tells the truth about himself to her. She is ladylike and proper enough, and yet she has no mock modesty. This is her sincerity again. She comes out to see him. and is not ashamed to admit it. She is a good fellow. She under stands. She knows that he has not alt the money in the world, with his $15 a month, and consequently does not demand anything of him. Shi* even is ready to lend him money, if he wants it. Fond of Simple Things. She is fond of the simple things— likes to stroll a-field, to pick flowers, to watch the Sunday afternoon base ball games, sitting on th*- grass like a good comrade, and candidly yelling \ for her favorites This, w 1th her. is preferable to picture shows. And then, of course, she is pretty, in varying degrees Mr. Durrant explained why the men sometimes desert. There are times when to this big-hearted fel low there comes an acute loneliness and restlessness. The world of men is too much with him. He longs for the streets and the sight and com- paniorship of grls, even more than is afforded' film by the free discipline a; the fort. , Donelineas and restlessness are the biggest factors. The chaplain was hearty in his en riorsement of the plan of the War Department whereby a regiment is kept in a post only a short time. Old Plan Unbearable. “Under the old plan, with ten or twelve years’ stay In one place, prob ably, army Ife became unbearable to many men, ’ he said. “There were desertions. Many men did not re enlist at the expiration of their terms. Now. with the change of scene*, it is somewhat different, and the life more to bv desired." The chaplain’s whole analysis of the pleasures and the behavior of the enlisted man tended to an analysis of the soldier himself The picture 41-hieh he drew of the soldier in th Atlanta post is that of a type. And it is: He is very much of a boy. “crazy" about the girls, and in love with love. His heart is on his sleeve He is fond of the simple pleasures —the stroll afield, the baseball game, the moving picture, dancing He is of the stripe that makes heroes, full of a buoyant enthusiasm and patriotism, ready to cry at "taps' and to cheer at the sight of a waving flag He likes the melodramatic* spice of life, and is always looking for it. He is a wanderer, and in his wanderings he looks for romance. He gambles, and usually he drinks. Again he is the boy, because the l ations are very attractive to Put with it all, he is very much rnnn. i <■< ause. you know, "The r bravest arc the tenderest, the loving are the daring.*’ \ Each Will Be 30,500-Ton Type and Sister Ships to the Fuso, Now Building. - m ARMORED TO MAIN DECK Speed of Vessels to Be 27 Knots an Hour Faster Than Any of Our Warships. v i M / Woman Points to Fact That Laird of Skibo is Registered as a Voter in Scotland. Miss Mar Scott-Troy, n San Fraticisco suffragette, lias quea tioned Andrew Carnegie's claim to United States citizenship and in a pointed question makes the following demand of the Laird of Skibo: “What right have you to pose as an American citizen when you are registered as a voter in the parish of Dornoch, in the County of Sutherland, Scotland? You are voter No. 11 on the official list received by me to-day from the Sheriff of the county. Why did King Edward offer you a dukedom?” Mr. Carnegie is described on the voting list as “A gentle man. Place of abode, Skibo Castle. In answer Mr. Carnegie's secretary, James Bertram, makes the following reply: “Mr. Carnegie is an American citizen. He became so without naturalization because he came here when he was 11 years of age, and his father was naturalized before he became of age. If he is registered as a voter in Scotland he had noth ing to do with it personally. He is a property owner there and his name probably appears on their registry list in con nection with that fact. He could not vote in that country be cause he is an alien there. TOKIO, JAPAN, May 10.—The Na- vy Department has contracted for three battleships of 30,500 tons each, to be built in Japan. They will he sister ships to the Fuso, now building in the naval dockyards at Kure. Squadron of Four. When completed the new Japan ese battleships will comprise a hom ogeneous squadron of four, of which the Fuso, now under construction at Kure, will be launched in the latter part of this year. They will be, It is understood, en larged and improved editions of the Hiyei class, which goes into commis sion next fall. The Hiyei class ships carry eight 13:5-fnch guns, but the new ships, It is believed, will carry ten of the same caliber. They will be arranged in five iwo-gun turrets on the fore-and-aft line, so as to be trained on either broadside, and the second and the fourth turret will be raised above the first and the fifth so as to give a deadahead and dead- astein fire of four guns. This ar rangement ol the turret guns was first introduced in the American bat tleships South Carolina and Michi gan, and proved such a success that it has been almost universally copied by foreign nations. Heavy Armor Belt. Very little is definitely known of the Fuso. but it is supposed that her armor, in accordance with the Jap anese practice since the Russian War, will consist of a moderately heavy belt, probably ten inches thick, ex tending over nearly her entire length, and carried clear up to the main deck. ^ The ship is designed, according to report, for a speed of twenty-seven knots. This would make her faster than any ship of the American navy except a few torpedoboat destroyers. Letter Travels 3 Miles in 20 Years / Missive Long Overdue Is Finally Delivered in San Francisco. Mailed in Oakland. SAN FRANCISCO, May 10.—A let ter which was posted in Oakland 20 years ago was delivered the other day at the office of the San Francisco Board of Education. "Found m box by carrier” was written on it, to ex plain why it had lain so long neg lected. The envelope contained a card en- nouncing the marriage of Joseph B. Travis and Nellie C. Wallace, on Thursday. May 18, 1893. at the Cali fornia College in Oakland, und stat ing that they would be at home in Tulare, Cal., after May 23. It was addressed to Mme. Louise Humphrey-Smith, teacher of elocu tion, San Francisco. On the envelope vv.is a stamp of the Columbian Expo sition issue, commemorating the World’s Fair at Chicago. The Kan Francisco postmark of May 23, 1893, was on it, Indicating that it was received on this side of the bay. Apparently it was sent back to Oakland, the Oakland stamp of May, 1893, and also of April, 1913, being on it. It has been sent to the Board of Education with the idea that Mme. Humphrey-Smith, being desig nated as a teacher, can be reached in this way if still living. Baseball League Aids Church Work Sunday School Attendance and Con duct of Boys Riased by Stand ard of Teams. PRATT. KANS., May 10. The churches of Pratt have joined in a baseball league season of fifteen games. Each Sunday School.. rep resenting Its church, lias charge of Its individual team As a result there are more young men attending Sunday School now than ever before and the collections have increased, l.ast Sunday the following combi- tion was carried by the various base ball fans and players: A Bible, a quarterly and a 1013 baseball guide The contract which ail the players must sign, stipulates that the player cannot use tobacco, swear or flirt and must attend Sunday School at least three Sundays out of each month. At one of the churches, so a playet says, the lesson was cut short last Sunday and the question ably dis cussed as to whether a pitcher could legalyy make a balk while standing outsl'de of his box. IWOMEN THREATEN STRIKE UNLESS MICE ARE BARRED ST. CLAIREVIUI. E, O.. May 10.— The proverbial dislike all women have for rodents, even the smallest of the species, is responsible for a threat ened strike among the women clerks In the Belmont County court house. The edict issued to the officials is: "No mice in the building, or we quit.” In addition there has been a mark ed falling off in the business >f the marriage license bureau, which is lo cated in the court house. The build ing has been so infested with mice that many a bride-to-be has refused to enter the building. ♦ wn to aid her husband-to-be to obtain a marriage license. The officials in this department have indorsed th. strike of the worn* n and hope to rid the court house of mice. Operation Asked To Prevent Crime Kansas City Prisoner Believes Pressure on Brain Responsible for His Misdeeds. KANSAS CITY, May 10.—Harry Morris, 22 years old, held in the County Jail charged with a crime, pleaded in a letter to a local paper for an operation on his head to cure him of his criminal tendencies. Morris is to have his chance. Judge Ralph Latshaw said he would order the prisoner sent to the General Hos pital if anything could bo done for him there. Dr. U. E. Gatelaw. super intendent of the hospital, said Mor ris would be put under the care of the aurgeons of the institution. An X-ray of the man’s head will be made, and if the photographs show any pressure on the brain the skull will be raised. In his letter, Morris said: "I want some doctor to take enough interest to perform an operation on my bead, as 1 think 1 have what physicians term a ‘skull pressure on the brain.’ I was hit on the head with a brick when 1 was sixteen years old. and since then have been leading a life of crime and wickedness.” GIRL OF SEVENTEEN IS CONVICTED OF ROBBERY CHICO, CAL.. May 10:—Myrtle Col- lins. the 17-year-old girl charged with having robbed a companion in an au tomobile a; the point of a revolver, and who was brought here from Oak land. pleaded guilty before the Juven ile Court • She stole a revolver from Chauffeur William Lansdale while riding with him. and used it to take $15 away from him. She said sin* walked seven miles to Durant and there boarded a train for Oakland. She is said to be the sister of a no torious highwayman who escaped from the Oregon penitentiary som* time ago. Chicago Baby Scholar to Study in Rome Janet Urie, Daughter of Roosevelt's Former Physician, to Enter Mon- tessori School in Italy. CHICAGO, May 10.—Little Jane^ Erie, who Is two years old, and until recently a .resident of Hull House, has sailed for Europe to study in Rome. Sho Is to have the most mod ern training that it is possible for the daughter of progressive parents to have. Miss Janet already ran lisp In three languages, and when next she sees her Chicago friends they expect that she will talk Italian fluently. Little Janet is the daughter of Dr. John Francis Urie, former assistant Surgeon General In the United States Navy, and private physician to Theo dore Roosevelt when the latter was President. Her mother is the daugh ter of William Dudley Foulke, author, sociologist and progressive leader. She is herself a woman of remarkable attainments and will take a course of training for educating her daughter under the direct supervision of Mme. Montessori In Rome. The atm of the parents Is to give their daughter the proper start to ward becoming the most modern and scientifically brought up Twentieth Century woman. Roth parents ac companied Miss Janet when she sailed. The Urie family expects to live In Rome tor at least tf year, and prob ably longer, if Miss Janet has not in that time mastered all the fine points in the Montessori methods of train ing, her mother expects to have be come sufficiently skilled to continue the work in Chicago. DENNIS TOO FUNNY TO BE GOOD NAME FOR CITY DENNIS. KAN. May 10.—This town has boon trying to struggle along under the handicap of its name for more than 30 years, but it hardly has grown in all that time. Now a new generation of hustlers has come along, and they have de cided that the only way to get the town anywhere is to change its name. Rivals have always poked fun at the twin, saying. "Oh. it’s name is Dennis!” This has always been good for a laugh, but it won’t be any longer. Signers for the necessary peti tions are now being obtained, and as soon as the petitions are ready they will be sent to the Legislature. The townspeople, who favor the name Fairfield, believe the change will be made. LABOR UNIONS ASKED TO RAISE FUND FOR DARR0W CHICAGO, May 10.—Clarence S. Harrow surprised the Chicago Feder ation of Labor to-day by walking in and taking a seat. He was given a rousing reception and addtessed the Federation on the child labor ques tion. Later it developed that Har row s fortune of $150,000 had bee : swallowed up in his two trials*. \ lott« r was read from President Charles H. Mover of the Western Federation of Miners calling on all union labor organizations to- sub scribe to a fund to assist Darrow m i his third trial. This move was in dorsed by the Federation and colie rions will be made. The trial is | for June 16, Home Run Hits Horse and Man; Wins in 9th Wagon Is Wrecked, but Driver With Sore Head Grins at Victory—Be ing a Baseball Fan. I'jEW YORK, May 10.—A home run hatted out by a Paterson, N. J., high school boy in a vacant lot won the game for his team in the ninth inning yesterday. The ball went into the street and struck Andrew 7 Van Ninwegen, of 57 Clinton Street, a baker, who was driving by. It hit his head and caromed off upon the back of his horse. The horse ran away, the baker fell from his seat, and his wagon was wrecked. The baker, a baseball fan, was un able to find who had knocked the ball, and didn’t care when he learned it had been a home run that won the game. MOURNED Tor dead man COMES HOME; SISTER FAINTS SACRAMENTO, May 10.—R. S. Kies, formerly of this city, arrived here from Nogales, having been em ployed near Madero, in the State of Chihuahua in Mexico, for several years by the Madero Lumber Com pany as a night rider. He was re ported to have been killed in the Mexican rebellion, and when he walked into the presence of his sis ter, Mrs. Charles Gaylord, she nearly fainted. Kies said that he had been shot three times and knifed once dur ing the Madero rebellion. LEAVES Stranger in Strange Land Enters House Next to His After Night of Pleasure, DENVER, May 10—When Miss Minnie O’Connell. Just out of high tchool, awoke In the night and dis covered » man in her room she did not scream. On her bureau was a beautiful now toilet set that she had Just received for her birthday. She was positive that the strange man was a burglar who had come to steal that new toilet set, and she decided that she would lie very quiet and get a good look at him, so she could identify him and have him arrested, and thus have her birthday gift re stored. In the meantime the man wap ex periencing equally strange sensations, but he was not so calm as was the young lady. In fact, when he struck a match and discovered that he was not in his own room, but had in truded upon the slumbers of a strang. 1 young lady, he precipitately removed himself, together with coat and hat and vest, of which he had divested himself before he discovered his sur roundings. Very softly he sneaked out, just in time to avoid discovery by Mr. and Mrs. O’Connell, who had been aroused by the fioise. When Miss O’Connell hysterically told her parents that she had beer disturbed by a burglar they tele phoned for the police. Several police men ransacked the house witl\put dis covering the felon. Next morning a woman who lives next door came over with profuse apologies of her boarder, a young man named Nuttall, who, It seemed, had got into the wrong house. The two houses are just alike. Mr. Nuttall has been in Denver only a short time, having come here from the East By mistake he entered the wrong house. DOG MAY BITE YOU IF YOU HAVE PULLED HIS TAIL WILMINGTON, DEL., May 10.— Mrs*. Mary McCormick was arraigned in the City Court on the charge of harboring a vicious dog, but after the case had been explained to the court by Prosecuting Attorney John F. Lynn, Judge Churchman decided tha the woman could not be held or. that charge, so she was dismissed. The court was informed that the dog had bitten a child after the lat ter had pulled the dog’s tail. Mr. Lynn said that some court had de cided that a dog could not be con sidered vicious unless it had bitten more than one person, or in other words, each dog is entitled to one bite. Judge Churchman said that he did not agree w ith this rule, and that he never heard any court rule that way. He decided that if the child had pulled the dog's tail he did not think anything could be done with the owner of the dog. Genius of Winsted Misses a Chance Greatest Nature Fakir in America Lets Green-Spotted Birds by Unclassified. Has the fertile brain of the genius of Winsted, Conn., lost its cunning? It surely must be so. For years read ers of newspapers all over the coun try have chuckled over storieu un der the Winsted date line, which dealt with some of the most marvelous na ture fakes that it Is possible to Im agine. But yesterday there came over the wires an item which admit ted of the greatest possibilities in the hands of the imaginative correspond ent of Winsted, and instead of send ing out a story of some new wonder, the following matter-of-fact para graph tricked over The Sunday American wires: WINSTED, CONN., May 3.— Bird lovers in Pleasant Valley •thought they had discovered a new' bird yesterday when a flock appeared with spots of green on their plumage. But somebodj' re membered th'at the old iron bridge is receiving a fresh coat of dark green paint and the local natural* ists decided not to write to any of the museums. In the words of Shakespeare, “What a fall was that, my country man. '* PETRIFIED TREES Prehistoric Used That Tool Con clusion Reached by Scientist After Examination. Marriage Bars Man From Cornell Crew College Boy Takes Bride and Given Release by Coach for His Action. Is ITHACA, May 10.—That marriage is a bar to rowing, at least in Cor nell. has been demonstrated In the case of E. W. Pollard, until recently a member of the junior varsity crew and a member of last year’s crack freshman combination, who has been dropped from rowing by Charles E. Courtney, coach. Pollard slipped quietly' out of town a few days ago, telling Courtney he would be away from crew practice for several days because he had to go to Syracuse to see a sick brother. The bluff worked for a day or two, but Courtney' picked up a Syracuse newspaper which in formed him that Pollard had married a school chum in Fulton, where he lives. When Pollard strolled down to the boat house last Friday, Courtney said: “Hello, Pollard, how do you like married life?” Pollard admitted he liked it and waited a second for Courtney to assign him to a crew. No such order came. Just before Courtney pushed out in his launch, he turned and said: “What, Pollard, are you here yet? You’d better look out, or the boys will throw you Into the inlet.” Then Pollard knew he never would earn a varsity crew C. No married man ever has rowed in the Cornell shell, and apparently Courtney will see to it that none ever does. GREAT FALLS. MONT.. May 10.— Going to prove that men inhabited this part of the world in prehistoric times and even then used axs and shov ed Judgment In felling trees, Sol omon Abbott, of Shelby, north of this city, has developed startling evidence in his section. Not far from the Sullivan ranCg and near the junction of Cut Bank Creek and Two Medicine Creek, there is a butte, probably 450 or 500 feet above (he surrounding country and about' seven miles* in circumference. It has cut banks so steep at every point that they are impassable for cattle and horses, and at but one point is a fence needed to keep the animals on top of the butte. The butte Is absolutely devoid of timber, but at one time on the sum mit there grew a fine straight pine # tree two feet in diameter and not short of 80 to 100 feet high. This la proved by the fact that the tree now lies full length on the ground, cut into two-foot lengths, the ax marks of the woodman being plainly dis cernible In every cut of the wood, which Is now petrified. To fell the tree up bill, as was done, it had to be chopped on the side to ward which it was to fall almost entirely, and the petrified stump shows that this was done. Every one of the cuts, which hint of commercial purposes for the wood, gives indis putable evidence of the woodman’s ax. Abbott is a pioneer and is believed to have been the first white man to have climbed to the.top of the butte. He found the petrified tree ‘just as it is to-day. and the wonder is in what age was the tree cut and what sort of people did it an£ wiih what sort of an ax. CHILDREN BORROW PARENTS SO THAT THEY MAY MARRY KANSAS CITT, MO.. May 10.— Determined to be married despite the fact both were under age and neither could obtain parental consent, Roland H. Fairchild, nineteen years old, and Lucile Hatfield, sixteen years old. bargained for the services of two elderly and respectable looking guests of the Helping Hand to furnish the needed “parental consent.” The entire party was arrested la ter at the Wyandotte County Court house just as the two residents' of the Helping Hand were telling Pro bate Judge John T. Sims they had no objection to the marriage of their offspring. The "near” bride and bridegroom were returned to the homes of their respective parents. On Brookhaven Car Line PEACHTREE HIGHLANDS On Beautiful Peachtree Road HIGH-CLASS BUILDING LOTS ■■ ■ ' FOR ' HOME BUILDERS AND INVESTORS PRICES $600.00 to $2,000. Easy Terms 5% CASH; 2 1-2% MONTHLY LOCATION On Peachtree Road and Brookhaven Street car line, at the junction of Piedmont Avenue. This property is right in the hub of Peachtree Road’s greatest development, at the Five Points of approach to all that is and will be in this most desirable and exclusive section. IMPROVEMENTS Water, Sewer, Curbing and Gutter, Cement Sidewalks, Street Car Service, Electric Lights, Telephone accessible. HOME AND ESTATES Surrounding and adjacent to Peachtree Highlands, value from $5,000 to $200,000, in all direc tions, have fixed the present values on all surrounding property at $50.00 to $100 per front foot. This property is being developed to the highest extent. Every street will be a wide one, with easy grades, and all lots made perfect. All streets will be cherted, and cement side walks, water and sewer mains will be laid in front of every lot. All the above improvements without cost to purchaser. OPPORTUNITY Does not present itself often here is yours. These lots are going FAST. WE SOLD 25 % Of these lots the first week. Make appointment and see them to-day. L. P. BOTTENFIELD 1021-25 Empire Building Phone Main 3010