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4 TI1E ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, MA Y17. 1913. AUK I “No One Else Involved---I Am No Embezzler; I Have No Sensational Disclosures to Make—I Am Back to Pay the Penalty of My Eailure.” Thf> Georgian on Friday published a long, detailed, exclusive story by J. Wylie Smith, who lor two years has been a fugitive from justice, following the failure of the Commercial Loan and Discount Company of Atlanta. Smith, lying on what he believes to be his deathbed in tbe hospital ward at the Tower, reiterated on Saturday what he said in The Georgian on Friday; that he returned to Atlanta because hp believed he was going to die, and that he wanted to die in At lanta. He told a Georgian reporter on Friday the story of his ex periences in the Mexican army; of the privations he suffered, and of some stirring battles in which he participate! Smith vigorously denies that he has any exposures to make touching the failure of the Com mercial Loan and Discount Com pany. 'T shoulder all the blame for that,” he says. “and 1 have no sensational disclosures to make. “There will In* no squealing and no body else involved. If I live long enough. I will tell my whole story on the witness stand. and I have confi dence enough in the jury that may be selected to try me to think that m.v story will be believed. "Alone in the Failure.” 1 was alone and had no intentions of incriminating others. I will tell all I know, and thnt will involve no one but myself After I have rested a while in jail here. 1 expect to get out of prison. II take the necessary time to he hooka and papers of the jmpany to prove that I wa» or embezzler. mistake was an honeat one. but toe failure of the company left me penniless. If 1 had had ten days more, I could have pulled through and saved the company. Time was against me, and rather than face bankruptcy pru- < eedings I went away. \ "Now I am back to nav the price.” Born To Be Fighter. When the "Commercial Loan and Dis» ount Company failed, there was a furor. Anxious clients sought J. Wylie Smith, but they hunted him in vain. One night he quietly boarded a train and left Atlanta, leaving his wife, his child, his business behind. Ft is dream of an old age In comfort was shattered. "I was born to be a fighter." he re marked in his cell Friday night. "All my life I harbored an inclination to go to war. In my youth I had been restrained, and then I settled down n quiet commercial pursuits. 1 thought the spark was dead. “But when I decided to flee I like wise decided to get the excitement I had been hungry for all my life 1 went to Mexico. 1 had a hard time making the goal. There were officers to dodge. The Pinkertons followed. The border was watched. 1 managed to slip over the lines, though, and when 1 did I was safe" Smith's first job in Mexico was with the Chihuahua Lumber Company, in Chihuahua, which lies south of Jua rez He didn’t stay there long, how ever. "I had to lay low then.” he ex plained. "1 knew the detectives were warm on my trail. I put through a few deals for others, though. I stayed there a month. Then l bought and sold cattle for a Mexican company. "All the time the revolutionists were fighting all over the republic. 1 made up my mind to join the first command that came near. One day they burned a bridge ‘JO miles north of me. That was enough. I got a horse and rode to their camp. 1 found it was a w ing of General Orozco's army, with General Rojas in command. 1 couldn't talk much Spanish then, hut 1 made signs General Rojas came out himself to look me over when he learned a gringo' tlonlwt. Soaps and cleansing pow ders may clean your walls, floors and woodwork, hut they won’t kill disease germs CN does both; it makes everything with which it comes in contac 100 per cent clean It frees the home of conditions fa vorable to germ life, clean from Assigned to Ranks. “I was accepted. They gave me a gun and assigned me to a place In tee ranks. Evidently they were proud of their American private, for they gave me a prominent position at the ex treme right of the company. Inci dentally. I was usually tlrHt In the line of fire. too. General Rojas said he couldn’t give me a uniform then or promise me any pay, be cause the treasury was, as usual, empty. 1 didn't care. I wanted to fight. "I didn’t te|| him how I came to be in Mexico, and he didn't ask. There was a mutual understanding He knew there was a price on my head and I knew he knew. Words were unnecessary. There was a sort o( an unwritten, unspoken contract that I would not he turned over to the Unit ed States as long as I paid for pro tection hv fighting. “1 want to say without any ego that l was a brave soldier When there was a charge to be made I was generally In front. I was never be hind the rompanx I led the charges. One time I captured a cannon, with five other Mexicans, and turned it on the Federal troops. They fled. After that I was a hero. There was noth ing in the army's scanty commissary that was too good for me. Big Corporal His Best Friend. "The best friend I have ever had was a Mexican corporal, bigger than any other greaser’ I ever saw. He was always at my side with a sooth ing Spanish word when we were in danger. He could pick me up in his arms and carry me Once when a bullet whizzed through my hat so close to my head that it raised a blis ter on my ear. I would have fallen if his arms had not held me up. ‘‘I thought I had that bullet through the head "That corporal won my first pro motion for me. We were charging tlie Federal troops near Chihuahua There was a river between us. There was nothing to do but w-ade It right under the nose of the enemy’s guns As we neared the brink of the stream on the double quick that big corpo ral—J don't know any more of his name than Carlos—-picked me up as if I had been a pet cat and lifted me to his shoulders. Then he dashed through the water. From his hack I fired two defiant shots at the Federal troops. We were among the first to the other side, and led the charge up the river’s hank. And we won. It was a complete victory. When General Rojas rode by a few minutes later with the satisfaction of vietorj beaming called me. , " 'Gringo.' he said, recommend you for General Orozco.' Given a Captainoy. "Two weeks after that 1 had a troop I was the leader of the best company in the regiment And I got m\ first uniform then. too. I still have it." he said, as he weakly lifted one leg up and propped It on the foot of the little iron bed to better exhibit a pair of well-worn cheap khaki trousers. “That's the coat under my pillow." “As a captain 1 was a success. A few- months later they made me h member of the general's staff and 'l had a hand in the planning of cam paigns and battles. “1 think I showed the Mexicans something about war. even if 1 wasn't a professional soldier," Smith com mented with a smile and a tinge of color in his careworn face. "1 want to state this as a fact: 1 never saw a Pinkerton but once while I was in Mexico. That was in Juarez when I Jay in the hospital with a bul let through my thigh. The detective came in and saw me. And he was a good entertainer, let me tell you. When the Mexicans brought in u meal he said ‘Do you have to eat that stuff? Wait! I'll get you some thing good.' He went and ordered me. ‘That detective used to call at the hospital three times a day. I guess he wanted to get on the good side of me. so 1 would cross the bridge to El Paso and return to Atlanta under arrest. When he failed in that he tried trlekerv over to the three meals restaurant a day for ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DIS COURSES TO BE DE LIVERED HERE SUN DAY WILL BE THAT OF A NOTED LECTUR ER, 0 L. SULLIVAN. NEW YORK, AT CA BLE HALL AT 3 P. M. HE WILL SPEAK ON “THE RESURREC TION, OR LIFE BE YOND THE GRAVE." TWO CHARMING YOUNG VISITORS Judge Takes Jury to a Movie Show DENVER, May 17.—Judge Rothger- ber gave a Jury and his bailiff, clerk and stenographer a rare treat to-day shortly after opening court. He gave i a recess and ordered the Jury to ae- j < ornpany him in a body to a moving ; picture show. They remained through j an entire act of the show. They did not discuss the merits of it. hut on their return discussed the stairway which leads to the balcony of the theater, which figured in a suit | they were hearing BattlingDamoselIs | Chilled at Capital n WASHINGTON. May 17.—The little pink damosel of Paul Chabas’ "Sep tember Morn." who has been wander ing forlornly from city to * city for months looking for a shop window home in which she may bathe iti peace, has reached Washington an i met a welcome at once as chilling as the waves which lave her feet and as warm as the glow which suffuses her undraped figure. Debutantes and the young men v. ho regret they have but one life to give their high school fraternities have received her with whispers of admi ration. The Rev. t’harles J. Mullaly, presi dent of the Washington Truth Socie ty. has appealed to the police for the picture's removal. 2 Women Accusers Confront Educator PITTSBURG, Ma\ 17.—Superin tendent of Schools S. I. Heeter xvas confronted with two of his accusers at a secret meeting of the committee ap pointed to investigate his moral fit ness. The two witnesses are believed . d | be Margaret Yenny. Heeter* s former domestic, and M s Alice Lang Wea sels. Heeler's former stenographer, who yesterday afternoon filed a signed affidavit xvith the chairman of th“ committee, in xxhich she accused j Heetei \xith attempting familiarities in his office. AUGUSTA TO AGAIN TRY FOR COMMISSION FORM A Util'S TA GA . May 17. -Friends of com mi sMc Ul g< nernnv •nt here are planning to have ■ anoth ier election. Commissi' on gove rnrnent lo st by a narrow margin i n aii c tion held here last yea rl its frj on* is believ< it Will XV' in t bis ' time by fin- ma- lority. i White City Park Now Open TWO MEN LIKELY TO DIE FROM LIGHTNING SHOCK MERIDIAN. MISS.. May 17. Rog ers Ross. 22 years of age. and Henry Harlow-, aged 35. were seriously In jured when lightning struck a tret- under which they and several friends had sought shelter from tain. A hoise belonging to a negro was killed out right. A number of others xvefe se verely shocked, among them several boy^. The recovery of both Ross and Harloxv is considered doubtful. FLORIDA MONUMENT TO BE DEDICATED MAY 28 CHATTANOOGA. TENX May 17 The Florida Monument Will be dedi cated at Chickamauga Park May 2$, the second day of the Confederate re union. This \xas agreed upon at a conference betxveen Senator Pasco and General E. M. Lane, of the Flor ida Monument Commission, and the local committee. Kina A'fonso 27 To-day. MADRID. Max 17 King Alfonso was 27 years old to-day. He cele brated the dnx by pardoning six n&Qp condemned to death. 4 Miss Leishman Can Never Be a Duchess President to Warn Cubans to Behave The largest social events of Sat urday were arranged for delegates at tending the Presbyterian Assembly, now In session in Atlanta. At the Piedmont Driving Club a luncheon was given for the repre sentatives of the women's boards of the various assemblies. One hundred and fifty guests were entertained at an elaborate luncheon, and there was music by an orchestra. Mrs. John W. Grant, chairman of the ladies’ ntertainment committee, was the of ficial hostess, and she was assisted by the committee members. The af fair was al fresco. Following luncheon a reception was tendered the visitors at Agnes Scott College. Eighteen hundred guests were entertained on the lawn, and punch xvas served from eight floral bowers. Mrs. Parker’s Luncheon. Miss Mary King, who leaves Mon day to travel abroad, was guest of honor at a buffet luncheon by Mrs. William A. Parker Saturday at her home on North Boulevard. The deco rations xvere garden flowers and the ■ luncheon table was a mass of pink peonies. The minor details were in pink. Mrs. Parker’s guests- were Misses Mary King. Helen Rhorer, Myra Scott, Marie Dinkins. Virginia Bow man, Helen Brown, Estelle Fort, Mar garet Traylor, Reble Wilkinson, Jane Cowles, Elizabeth Black. Sophie Haas, Lydia McBride. Lawson Hines. Ame lia Smith. Grace Sims. May Walker, Jennie Walker, Elizabeth Tuller. Wy- cHffe Warm, Louise King. Mamie Kirkpatrick. Helen Dykes. Bertha Moore, Elizabeth Shippen. Grace Davis. Ruth Paden amd Jane Robin son. For Mrs. Dillard. Mrs. Alonzo Richardson’s domino part Friday complimented Mrs. James Spotswood Dillard, of Lynch burg. Va. Paul Neyron roses were decorations and luncheon was served. Mrs. Erx/vin Entertains. Mrs. Rush Erwin entertained the following friends at a box party at the Atlanta, followed by tea at the Georgian Terrace Saturday: Mrs. J. N. McEachern, Mrs. Henry Brittain, Mrs. Charles Forrest. Mrs. F. J. Spratling. Mrs. Eugene Boothe. Mrs. Howard Dobbs and Mrs. John Arnold. Mrs. Frank Rice to Entertain. Mrs. Frank Rice will be hostess to the Woman's Pioneer Society next Thursday afternoon at her home on West Peachtree Street. About 75 guests have been asked for the after noon tea. and the receiving line will be the officers of the Pioneer Society and Mrs. Charles Rice. The officers are Mrs. Joseph H. Morgan. Mrs. An thony Murphy. Mrs. Frank Rice. Mrs. William Perrin Nicolson. Mrs. Sid Holland, Mrs. Joseph Wusthoff and Mrs. L. B. Wylie. Silver Tea. Circle No. 1 of the Young Wom en’s Missionary Society of the First Methodist Church will give a silver tea Tuesday afternoon and evening, May 20, at the residence of Miss Hazel Kirk. 119 East Pine Street. The public is invited. For Mrs. Saxe. Mrs. O. C. McCanne will entertain seven tables of bridge Wednesday for her guest. Mrs. Francis J. Saxe, of Seattle, Wash. She will also give a 500 party for her guest, who will be tendered a bridge Thursday by Mrs. John Sutton. For Mr. and Mra. Seydek Dr. and Mrs. Vassar Woolley will entertain at tea Thursday afternoon for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Seydel. of Jer sey City, who will arrive Monday to visit them. U. D. C. to Meet. A meeting of the Atlanta Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, will be held In the Woman's Club rooms on Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The annual reports of offi cers and chairmen of committees will be received and a large attendance is requested. The executive board will meet at 3 o’clock. Young People’s Rally. A rally of young people of all de nominations will be held Sunday evening at the Wesley Memorial Church, when a stereopticon lecture by Dr. Tuppen will be given, ex plaining the missionary conference at Black Mountain. N. C., June 27- July 6. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. BERLIN. May 17 The proposed marriage of Miss Nancy Leishman and the Duke of Croy was discussed at the annual meeting of the As sociation of Her German Nobility, which regulates affairs connected with the semi-royal houses of the nation. The members have unanimously de- sided that Miss Leishman. the daugh ter of the American Ambassador, can never expect to be recognized by a German court either as a Duchess or a “Highness." They declared that no marriage of a Duke of Croy could be recognized as regular unless the bride were a woman "of equal birth.” Despite this edict, preparations are making for a wedding in June. U. B. CHURCHMEN TO BOYCOTT EXPOSITION DECATUR. ILL.. May 17.—Because the Panama - Pacific International Exposition will be conducted on a xvide-open" policy the quadrennial conference of the United Brethren Church, representing 300.000 church members In the United States, has adopted resolutions pledging mem bers of the church not to attend the exposition unless the policy is changed. Recovery Remarkable. VALDOSTA Physicians regard as remarkable the apparently rapid re- covery of Charles McCranic. A piece of scmtling. IK feet long, xvas hurled through his body at a sawmille near Adel a week ago. WASHINGTON. May 17.—Presi dent Wilson is preparing to give Cuba a broad hint that he expects it to behave. It was reported that Dudley Field Malone, Third Assistant Secretary of State, delegated to at tend the inauguration of Marco Men- ocal as President Tuesday, will bear a message 'calculated to keep down revolutionary tendencies. Strong feeling against General Menocal exists and Liberals made ef forts to have his election declared il legal. Since the election last year the country has* been on the verge of several revolutionary outbreaks. Gr.A'IL Members Meet With Confederates Atlanta Camp. No. 15P. Confederate Veterans, will invite members of the G. A R. and visiting Confederates to a meeting in the Capitol Monday night. Many of the older men attending the Presbyterian Assemblies are known to have fought on one side or the other and an invitation will be extended them by the officials of Atlanta Camp. DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE PLANS PUBLICITY BUREAU NEW YORK. May 17.—Democrats of the country will be appealed to for small contributions to maintain a permanent publicity bureau in Washington. This was decided at a meeting of the Execu tive Committee of the Democratic Na tional Committee Representative A. Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsylvania, was elected chairman of the committee. Dr. Elliott's Lecture. Dr. John Lovejoy Elliott, of New York, will deliver the concluding lee- RESINOL STOPS ITCHING INSTANTLY It is a fact that the moment Resinol Ointment touches itching skins, the itching stops and heal ing begins With the aid of Resi nol Soap, it almost always clears away all trace of eczema, ring worm. pimples, blackheads, or other tormenting, unsightly erup tion quickly, leaving the skin clear and healthy. And the best of it is you need never hesitate to use Resinol Soap and Resinol Ointment. There is nothing in them to injure the tenderest surface. Resinol is a doctor's prescription w hich' for 18 years has been used by careful physicians for all kinds of skin affections. They prescribe Resi nol freely, confident that its sooth ing. healing action is brought about by medication so bland and gentle as to be suited to the most delicate or irritated skin—even of a tiny baby. Resinol is sold by practically every druggist in the United States. < but you can prove at our expense w hat it will do for you Write to- da> to Dept. 22-S. Resinol Balti more. Md . and we will pend you by parcel poet a liberal trial of Resinol Dintment and Resinol Soap. ture of a series on ethical culture whlch has been given this winter in Atlanta, under the sponsorship of an organization of 52 prominent men and women, next Thursday evening at Gable Hall on “The Driving Power of Social Discontent.'’ The lecturer is an authority on his subject, being head-worker of the Hudson Guild, one of New York’s most influential social settlements, and an associate of Dr. Felix Adler in the Nexv York Society for Ethical Culture. The lecture here will be free. Mrs. Smith Entertains. Mrs. Paul Smith entertained the Universalist Church members at a garden party Wednesday evening, be ing assisted by Mrs. G. Perry,'Mrs. S. Wilby. Mr- A. Bates. Mrs. F. W. Nighbert and Mrs. J. C. Stanford. Mrs. Cooper Hostess. Mrs. John Cooper will entertain at dinner at the East Lake Country Club Saturday evening for Miss Lillian Beattey. of Columbus, Ohio, who is the guest of Mrs. Henry Troutman. Miss Black Hostess. Miss Louise Black entertained 12 guests informally at bridge Friday evening at her home on Spring Street in honor of Mrs*. Bates Block’s guests. Miss Lorna Carr, of St. Louis, and Miss Caroline Scott, of Arkansas. To Mrs. Bannen. Miss* Kathryn Wilson gave a mati nee party at the Forsyth Saturday afternoon Tor Mrs. J. B. Bannen. of Winona. Minn., who came Wednesday to he the guest of Miss Pearl Plitt. Training School Exercises. The graduating class of the Wesley Memorial Hospital Training School will hold their graduating exercises the evening of May 23 at the Wesley Memorial Church. Tea for Visitors. Mrs. Willis B. Parks and Miss Aline Parks will give a tea Tuesday aft ernoon for their guests. Mrs. J. F. John, of North Carolina, and Miss Louise Dowmer. of Hopkinsville, Ky. Convention in Athens. A convention of the women of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Atlanta*- will meet in Athens next week in connection with the annual council. The program will open Wed nesday morning, May 28, at 9 o'clock with an address by Bishop C. K. Nel son and the annual address of the president. Mrs. Emma LeConte Fur man. of Macon. Memorial resolutions will be read by Mrs. Charles L. Pet- tigrew, of Atlanta, and Miss Rosa Woodberry. secretary. Mrs. Nell Cooper Frederick, treasurer, will make the annual reports. Others on the program are Mrs. Mallory Taylor and Miss Mary Pearson. Rev. C. E. Wheat will conduct ser vices Thursday. Mrs. Frank D. Hol land will talk on church work among negroes. Mrs. Nellie Peters Black will have an article on the forward work in the Far East. A NOTRE DAME LADY'S APPEAL To all knowing sufferers of rheuma tism. whether muscular or of the 1 joints, sciatica, lumbago, backache, pains in the kidneys or neuralgia pains, to write to her for a home treatment which has repeatedly cured all of those tortures. She feels it her duty to send it to all sufferers FREE. You cure yourself at home as thou sands will testify—no change of cli mate being necessary. This simple discovery banishes uric acid from the blood, loosens the stiffened joints, purifies the blood and brightens the eyes, giving elasticity and tone to the whole system. If the above interests you. for proof address Mrs. M. Sum mers, Box R, Notre Dame, Ind. NO WASTE ,r your co *' burns to a fine ash. with no clinkers or rocks left in the grate, you are burning good coal. 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