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0 iiit Ai JiAA i A t/iJjitUlAis AM/ IshW’b. Aids DA V, AlAY 12, 1913. TEDDY'S TRIUMPH /4 Comic Series 1 hat Actually Happened v ■BAPTISTS MEMBERSHIP RACE Fight Over $100,000 Fortune Left to Mercer Will Cause Executor Currier to Quit. Ths Georgian th«* other flay told In brief form the Btory of Teddy. The story of Teddy whs so remark able that one of Tho Georgian's ar tists has depleted It as “a comic Mprles that actually happened." Hit pictures appear below, preceded by i brief introduction: Mrs. H L\ Grantner, of Ham mond. tnd., saw a little 3-year- old bov who was homeless. She offered him food He 1c Relatives of the late Mrs. Barbara K. Dodd will contest her will which bequeathed- the bulk of her fortune, approximately $100,000, to Mercer University. Charles B. Currier, ex ecutor, has been informed of the pro posed contest by Mrs. Fannie T. Ack erman, of New York, sister of Mrs. Dodd. A breach with her relatives y.< veral year-ago caused Mrs. Dodd, widow of , th»* late Philip Dodd, i wealthy At lantan. to destroy a will executed In 1906, in which a considerable sum was set aside for her brother and sister and their children. It Is said \ disagreement following the estab lishment of a sanitarium at Mrs. Dodd's old resident e on Whitehall S Street, by the sons of Henry S. Dibble, her brother, led to tho ewtrangemept. Attorney <P. Goree. who drew tho last will, said It was clearly Mrs Dodd’s Intention that little be l«ft her relatives. Mrs Dodd had considerable trouble with her nephews about a loan on a sanitarium established some years a*n." said Mr. Goree. "In fact, she had to take the matter into the courts for h settlement. "That why the Mercer bequest was not in the form of an endow ment but as a fund to be loaned de earving young men. 1 have not been informed of any intention to contest the will and T ran not see what grounds the contest will be based upon ” Tt is recalled that Mrs. Dodd be queathed to her brother, Henry S. Dibble, $5,000 to be held in trust, ihat he was to receive only the pro- ■ aadU from Its Investment, and that at his dn&th the amount was to re vert to the Mercer fund. To her sis ier, Mrs. Fannie T Ackerman. \va. left a similar sum, without incum brance. Charles K. Currier, president of the Atlanta National Bank, executor of the will, said Monday that if a con test is made he will quit. Carnegie Aids Ghent Memorial Project Agrees to Help Pay Expense of Pre serving Room in WKich Treaty Was Signed. WASHINGTON. May 12. Andrew < 'ajmegie, in Washington as conferee on the treaty of Ghent centenary, has agreed to bear a portion of the ex pense of setting aside as a perma nent peace meq*»rial the room in the Carthusian Monastery in Ghent in which the famous treaty was signed on Christmas eve, 181*1. Portraits *»f the participants, famous facsimiles and historic paintings and other ob jects are to he placed in the room. Mr Carnegie is*the guest of Mrs. Oliver Ricketson here Lord Wear- dale, Neil Primrose, M l’., son of Lord Rosebery, and Sir George Reed, the British conferees, also are in the cl|y. ‘Woody Tiger’Is New White House Mascot Mr*. Wade Hampton Substitutes Wil son Administration Toy for ‘Teddy Bear' and ‘Billy Possum.' WASHINGTON, M;y 12. The "Woody Tiger" made its official tie- j but To-day as the official toy of the Wilson administration. As this new 1 monarch of childhood entered the front door of the White House, es corted by Mrs. Wade Hampton. I he originator of the novel Idea, "Teddy i Rear" and “Billy Possum," mascots of; previous times looked on with brim- ming eyes. The new toy i, rather flerce-look- lng and somewhat resembles a Princeton tiger In miniature. Underwood Boomed for President in 1916 Hi* Friends Believe That the Tariff Bill Will Make Him Popular Candidate. WASHINGTON, May 12 — Rppr tentative O ar \V. Underw..o.l friends have started to boom him f. the Presidential nomination in 191 They assert that tariff bills hat made Presidents and that Mr. Undo w ood will come to the front mi u hill that passed the House last v\*. They are backing Mr. I nderwo* u f *f!A\ iuap|saj,i j**n*ri m will abide by flip int« nt of the IG 11more convention platform which d dared in favor of a single term. These friends of Underwood a confident the Underwood tariff h will prove acceptable to tho count and will grant relief to tho mass from heavy burdens of taxation pitied him an and a bed in her bom*,. ...t perfectly demure and harmless. And he made no trouble at all when sleeping, which he pro-- «edf*d to do shortly after reach ing the housl. But when Teddy (as he whs nicknamed) awoke at 6:30 o'clock the next morning, ho got bu»y, and in the course of do mlnuto accomplished the following. ■r fey 7 i 1.—Turned the hose on Mr. Grant ner, who w$s planting sweet peat. Defeated Sunday School Prepar ing to Give Picnic to Christians. Other Contests Planned. Preparation* are under way for the great picnic to he given the First Christian Sunday School by the Sec ond Baptist, the Toser in the mem bership campaign that closed Sun day. The final score of the two schools was First Christian, 60,358; Second Baptist. 62,074. At the First Christian Church Sun day morning Superintendent C. V. LeCraw, of the winning school, in troduced to his audience the super intendent of the Second Baptist, John S Spalding, who spoke on "What I Think About the First Christian Sun- I day School." | "You have beaten us," said Mr. Spalding, "hut you had to break world’s record, to do it. 1 want to offer the most cordial congratulations of the entire Second Baptist Sunday School." j The contest standing the closing 'day was: Second First Bapt’ixt. Christian. Attendance 1.233 1,673 Points scored 3.988 5,014 Final standing 52.074 60,358 It Is probable ihat both contestants will enter another raq^paign with other schools in similar races for membership. To discuss this a meet ing of Baptist pastors and superin tendents was held Sunday afternoon. Freight Car Bulletin Shows Trade Is Brisk Decrease of 17,799 Idle Pieces of foiling Stock Regarded as a Good Sign. 2.—Painted the front of the house in yellow streak*. Painted the rear same color; different design. 3.— Emptied kerosene can in the kitchen. Scattered garden seed in the parlor. 'N ok v-Ta 4.— Hit Forrest Grantner, aged 7, with baseball bat, blow landing in pit of stomach. Whipped Ellis Grant ner who came to rescue of Forrest. No slackening in general trade Is ■ reflected by th»- American Railway Asitceiation's bulletin on the number of Idle freight ears In the United Slates and Canada on May 1. On the contrary, a decrease of 17, 799. as compared wilh April 15, would I indicate a quickening of business. The decrease for the two weeks Is tiie largest reported since the early part of June. 1912. On May 1 there was a total of 39,- J799 idle ears, compared with a short age of 51,169 on November 7, when the railroads were congested and In need of rolling stock A year ago Idle curs numbered 138,881. The shrinkage in ears was •fine largely to the brisk demand for coal cars, which caused a shrinkage In that class of rolling stock from 19,649 to 8,510 cars. Fugitive, Like Lot's Wife, Turned--Jailed Charles Smith Butts Tree While Looking to See How Far Chief Was Behind. If Charles Smith, a negro, had not become possessed with an inane cu riosity to see how far behind him Chief of Detectives Lanford was Sun day nighl, when that officer was giv ing chase to him. be might have es caped. Smith did turn his head, however, rammed a tree and fell un condbious. Now he Is at police headquarters awaiting trial for careless driving. Smith, in a two-horse rig, while dashing flown Hunter Street, nearly collided with the chief, who was driving home, l-anford gave pursuit to the negro, who abandoned bis bug gy and took to his heels, with Chief Lanford after him. Lightning Kills Five In Oil Field Tornado Great Damage to Wells and Plants is Done by Wind Storm Near Tulsa, Okla. 5.—Then, while the household was recuperating from these blows, Ted dy, placed tor safekeeping in a room, combined a box of matches and sev eral lace curtains, achieving a first- class bonfire. The damage was |150. Valdosta Thief Caught. VALDOSTA. Abe Courie. a Syrian, no is (‘barged with the robbery of t>hn Mansor’s fruit store and saloon •'Vo. was caught at Jacksonville, and P <>! tii, $265 stolen was recovered itbin a t w hour* after the robbery. !<• w is brought back to Valdosta TULSA, OKLA , May 12. At least five men were killed by lightning, many oil tanks and welly sot on fire, power plants damaged and other havoc wrought by a terrific electrical and wind storm that swept over the Tulsa oil district early to-day. At Collinsville, 20 miles north of bore, five pipe line builders, employed by tho Texas company, were killed w hen a holt of lightning .struck, their vehicle, en route to oil fields. The wagon was demolished and horses killed. THREW BRICK AT NEGRO HE MISTOOK FOR PUGILIST CHICAGO, May 12. Mistaking a negro In a lunch mom for Jack John son. the pugilist, on trial for violating the white slave •law, Amos Geiger hurled a brick through the plate glass front of the restaurant. Geiger was taken to a police station., where he begged the police to release him that he might "get'* Johnson. ST wr.-’ B HRS&m A WOMAN’S PROBLEM In the looking-glass * woman often sees wrinkles, hollow circles under eyes, “crow's feet,’ *N because she did not turn to the right remedy when worn down with those troubles which are distinctly feminine. Backache. headache, pains, lassitude, nerrousness and drama upon vitality bring untold suffering to womanhood and the face shows it. The nervous system and the entire womanly make-up feels the tonic effect of DR. PIERCE’S FAVORITE PRESCRIPTION CABLE || NEWS Important Events From All Over the Old World Told in a Few Short Line*. n aiujr. ana .undue, nervou. excitability, irritability, nerv- i , other distressing symptoms commonly attendant upon fur..- nr diseases of the feminine organ.. It induces ref-i-.hinr ■ mental anxiety and despondency. Known everywhere sp.i as the at a ndard remetl— for the diseases of women. Your ‘ eeiis it in liquid or sups -oaf'll tablet form: »► you . in - •tamps for a trial box of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite rres'erip;, .n ta Dr. R. V. Pierce, Invalids* HoieJ aci Surgical Institute, Buffa <• exhaustion, and ial and organic p and relievo* over 40 year* or in medicines nd 50 one-dent '' •* ’-a. Audi css Dl. PIERCE’SPLEASANT PELLETS REGULATE AND INVIGORATE I STOMACH, LIVER AND BOW ELS. SUGAR-COATED TINY GRANULES I FGLKSTOXE. ENGLAND, May 12. uolonel Fleming, a millionaire, was shot to death hero this afternoon. The police at flr?»t thought Fleming had been murdered, but later Inves tigation led to the theory that he had taken his own life. Slaying Mystery in Berlin. BERLIN. Mav 1 s olving the deaih of fronts the Berlin p< the vlctfm. wrappi " »und by a porte GETTING OUT THE STRAW By QUILL. well, i Bought the riRST STRAW HAT IH THIS town j 1 don(t care - ! [what PEOPLE think) I r FI INbEPENOENT ( H0V) FOOLISH HE LOOKS j —-j IT'S TINE FOR VTRAW HATS ANT HOW *»C. HEY. 1 M DIDN'T YOU LOOKOUT?! I 1EVfr * 1 1 A STRAW HAT? © V/HY CANT A MAN WEAR A HAT WITHOUT\ HAV'NQ EVERYBODY YELL AT HIM? T 'J £' © HEY MISTER! HER£‘$ Your. HAT ! A mystery in hoy to-day con- i o. Tho body .f ed in paper, w. « | j an the step.* msmm Potsdam Railway station. At th j morgue the boy was identified as Otto I K’nehn, of a wealthy family, i FRATERNITY KIHI1 FEAST NEWSBOYS Young Men's Uplift Organization to Give Banquet and Entertain ment Tuesday Night. SEQUEL TO 3TEADWELL, of Nashville, who will entertain “newsies” at banquet. Extensive preparations are being made for the feast to be tendered the newsboys of Atlanta Tuesday night by the S. Y\ D., a fraternity composed of young men of the city for the bet terment of conditions for young men and boya. A feature of the program will be child impersonations by Miss Mary Roberta Steadwell, a society girl of Nashville. More than 500 newsies' will be guests at the affair, which will he staged in the Y. M. C. A. assembly ball. Interesting addressee by leading Atlanta citizens, including Dr J. Made Conklhig. Major R. J. Guinn and others, will be made on ihe sub jects of character building and future citizenship. Officers of the H. V. D. include S. B. Swilling, president, who will act as toastmaster^ the feast; Gonrad So- leskey, vice president; Vernon Frank, treasurer, and Allen Callahan, Fecre- tary. The fraternity was organized five years ago. Rebels Moving on City of Chihuahua Non-Combatants Warned to Flee by Wednesday—General Villa to Lead Siege. JUAREZ. MEX., May 12. Non- ombatant* in the city of Chihuahua have been warned to leave the city by Wednesday. General Pam:ho Villa, leader of the « ’onatitutionalists in tlie State of Chi huahua, has sent a notice to the city that the railway lines to the border will be cut and the siege of the city will be begun Wednesday. THURMAN FOR ^COMMERCE DEPARTMENT SOLICITOR WASHINGTON, May 12.—The Senate Judiciary Committee to-day ordered favorably reported the fol lowing nominations: Allan Lee Thurman, of Ohio, to he solicitor of the Department of Com merce; Louis D. Irwin, to be United States marshal of the Fourth Dis trict of Alaska: Andrew H. Huds peth. of New Mexico, to be United States marshal for New Mexico. LAMAR WASHINGTON ENDS WILL SUIT; GETS $50,000 MACON, OA., May 12.—By a set- tlement made with his aunt, Mrs. Julia Taiamar. as executrix of the wifi of the late Henry J. Umar. Jr., young H. J. Lamar Washington, of New York, will receive $50,000 in cash and real estate. The suit brought by him for a share in his uncle's estate wna dismissed in the United States Court. 75 DIE IN TYPHOON IN PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. MANILA, P. I., May 12.—At least 75 persons perished in a typhoon which struck the Philippine Islands to-day. So far as the military au thorities have learned no Americans lost their lives. Many boats were wrecked and the rice, sugar and tobacco crops have suffered. HORSE SAVES 20 GUESTS WHEN HOTEL IS BURNED Leander Hutcheson Dies of Apoplexy Funeral of Aged Atlantan Takes Place Tuesday, With Inter ment In Oakland. Leander B. Hutcheson, age 64 years, diet! at 8 o'clock Sunday night at the Grady Hospital from an at tack of apoplexy three days ago. He was bom and reared here. He was a member of Capitol Lodge of Odd Fellows. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday afternoon from Greenberg & Bond's chapel by Rev. Hugh Walker, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. The body will be interred in Oakland Cemetery'. The pallbearers will he L. D. Hicks, Benjamin W. Tye, Henry L. Belltngrath. Dr. Fred J. White, George P. Whitman and William V. Phillips. M% Hutcheson la survived by a wife, two gons, Carl and Fr^d H. Hutcheson, of Atlanta; a daughter, Mrs. Thomas Buck, of Chattanooga, and a granddaughter, Mrs. Fred May- field, of Atlanta. MONEY REFUNDED WITH A SMILE Leading Drug Store Will Give Money BacK Should There Ever Be a Case Where Dodson's Liver Tonef Fails. Dodson's Liver Tone Is a mild vegetable Liver Tonic which oper ates so nucocasfully in case* of constipation, torpid liver or bil iousness that it hne praotlcally taken the place of calomel—the drug w hich 1s so often dangerous All druggists who sell Dodson’s Liver Tone recommend it as a reliever of constipation, sour stom ach, biliousness and sluggish liver It works gently, surely and harm lessly. If a bottle should ever fail to give satisfaction any dealer will refund the price paid without question. The price of Dodson's Liver Tone Is 60 cents per bottle. Be sure you get Dodson's Liver Tone and not some medicine put up in Imitation that is not backed up by a guarantee and that may con tain harmful drugs. WOMEN IN 8TRIKE RIOTS. PATERSON, N. J., May 12.—Fifty- one Industrial Workers of the World were arrested here to-day following a Hot of strike pickets at a silk plant. Many of the rioters were women. Curs for Stomach Disorders. Disorders of the stomach may he avoided by the use of Chamberlain s Tablets. Many very remarkable cures have been effected by these tablets. Sold by all dealers. REV-O-NOC TRIPLE SILVER PLATED SAFETYim ii RAZOR ii Solid Sanitary Handle Sliding Stroke Barber’s Angle Vest Pocket Flexible Leather Case Toothless Cuard Easily Cleaned Hand- Stropped Hollow Oround Norway Steal Bladas Special Sale Priee 25c YANCEY HARDWARE CO. Phone 3171 134 Peachtree CHAMBERLIN=JOHNSON=DuBOSE CO. ATLANTA NEW YORK ’ PARIS GADSDEN. AI.A., May 12.—Twen ty sleeping boarders were aroused by the neighing of a horse in a nearby barn In time to escape from flames that destroyed the Crudu" Hotel, at Crudup. Ala., this morning. The building housed miners employed by the Standard Steel Company. NEGRO POSTAL CLERK HELD FOR MAIL THEFT SAVANNAH, GA., May 12.- Charged with systematically rifling money order mail, W. N. Ingram, a negro postal clerk, said to have been a Harvard University student a year or so ago, was placed under arrest here to-day. He Is said to have con fessed. The Summer Garden A‘Unique and Attractive Display of Summer Furniture . Second Floor==Furniture Store You are invited to enjoy The Summer Garden, of Summer Furni ture that we have transformed the second floor of our Furniture Store into. Those planning to make their homes as comfortable as possible against the warm weather v’iy find this display their first aid. The splendid Crex Furniture—for which we hold the exclusive agency in Atlanta—is here in great variety, chairs, rockers, tables, settees and swings, in green and the baronial brown that blends so well with ma hogany and that therefore can be used after the summer season in living rooms. -'-Natural finished maple chairs and rockers for porches, at $1.25 to $5.00. —French willow furniture in green and baronial brown, upholstered richly, chairs, rockers, tables, settees and swings. —And the new Barnegat Cedar Summer Furniture, new this season. The posts of the chairs, rockers, settees and tables are bark-covered, sweet-smelling cedar. More fitting furniture could hardly be found for the porch of a rustic summer home. . But see all the different kinds—that is your privilege here. Make Summer Dresses With Aid of LOVE FOR DOLL Maternal Instinct Greatly Developed by Teach- \ in« Children to Love Their Doll*. The ttttle rttlld’s doll W mother to the most romantic fairy. And In the years that pas-*, the doll fades into the petals of a June rose, to evolve the most wondrous of all trans formations. And now comes a more serious period when , I c the Joy of real motherhood should be as tran J qutl a^ best effort can provide. This Is accomplished with a wonderful rem- < edy known as Mother - * Friend, an external l application s*> penetrating In its nature as to l thoroughly lubricate every cord, nerve, muscle 1 and tendon Involved. There will ^e no pain, none of that nausea r morning sickness, no sensation of distress , or strain <»f expanding muscles. The nerves. ( too. will be calm, thus making the period one < i\t restful days. (X peaceful nights and a ( source of happiest anticipation ( The vouDjr expectant mother must be care 1 fully watchftil lest she become absorbed In those mentaI distresses which illy prepare hejr } \ for the most important rTent In her life. S Mother's Friend enables her to avoid ail sen J sjitlon of dread, worry or pain, and thus she A is prtscrvd 1" health and strength to take up ) the joyful task <»f motherhood, i You will ttnd Mother's Friend on sale at ( ail drug stores at )l a bottle Do not fall to i use it regularly as directed. Write to-day to S S Rradfleld Regulator Company. ISA Tama* R»tiM i j) ins:. Atlanta. Ma.. for »heir most valuable little ) S guide book for expectant mothers. The Pneumatic Dress Form PNEU FORM is the only Dress Form that shows you exactly as you are. It will stand for you while you study your own figure, create new designs, make alterations, change tri minings, drape or redrape last year’s gown. Women who possess a Pneu Form, and who have their dressmak ing done at home or at the dressmaker’s, need not, stand for hours, nor dress and undress forty times a day at the request, “Just let me try this once more, please.’’ Pneu Form is the only Dress Form in exist ence which will reproduce absolutely any figure. There is no guesswork about it. It duplicates your exact, figure by means of an individual lin ing made to tit you. This lining is fitted snugly \allon the same form over the corset,reproducing faithfully any varia tion in size of shoulders or hips. Pneu Form is inflated within this lining. If your dress fits your Pneu Form it will fit you. The air is contained in a rubber cloth bag, having the general curves, etc., of the human form. Pneu Form is a skirt form, as the lining is made well down over the largest part of the hips, giving an exact model over which skirts may he fitted and draped. Adjustable rod gives skirt length. It is the most helpful and satisfactory dress form we have ever seen. Ask at the pattern counter to have it demonstrated to you. , ^ Agents for Butterick Patterns and Publications ChamberlindohnsoirDuBose Co.