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j n t, aTL ANT A bhunoiAjji a.\ i> :\ t\w s. " MAY 31, 13T3
I. Wylie Smith’s Own Story
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Stirring Episodes in Long Flight
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Career in Mexican Army Thrilling jr;
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Southerner Heads
Sons of Revolution
CHICAGO. May 21 The follow In* I
offlrei« wpt** elected by the National
Society of the Sons of ih'* American
Revolut ion:
President general. Rog rs * Mark !
ml. Thurvtun, K' ; vk»» presi-
i general, VV. \V. Kirby, Colorado,
me Noyes. Illinois. W.j la< e M * * - |
amant, Oregon. Rear Admiral |
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BEGIN HE ILL
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THi* it the third installment of
the tto ,v of J. Wvjie Smith, the
•efuges nreeident of the defunct
Commercial Loan and Discount
Company, who. after evading ex-
tradit*on during two year* of
service m the insurrecto army of
General Orozco, in Mexico, re
turned to Atlanta to stand trial
because he is dying with tuber
culosis—a phantom of his former
self.
By J. WYLIE SMITH.
wav on the Use fed - George \V. Baird United States NT
time than It takes tojietircd, Washington. D
Dr Baxter. Portland,
general and register ge
ard «'lurk, of
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(Continued from Yesterday.)
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Evert? moved rapidly after
Orozco resigned as comm®Oder of tl
.Federal forces in t'hihuahua on Marc
1. Just as Rojas had tol
would. He. loafed around <
until Saturday, shaking hands
his friends like a politician at
,f a convention. He seemed
of us
was pounding
erals. In leas time than It takes to
tell it he had knocked them all in
sensible.
Before he could turn to aee me I
heard that
my dog.
thought he had been lost in the hat
tie. Jumping to my feet as quick
ly as I could I confronted a noth
federal, c rouching and aiming his gun
| at Pedro Just as Pedro was making
j a giant swing at the fifth federal.
All I had was my mi her. I real
ized that If I struck down the gun < ,f
| the federal it would merely, ward off
! the blow and my end would come
I next. Still bending over I drew inv
I sword and slashed at the under side
of his arm with all my force.
The barrel of the gun sw'ayerl to-
j ward the ground and the discharge
j only kicked dust at Pedro’s legs. P |
dru, wheeling, took in the situation I
at a glance Another of h s fnrrtou*
wo, ,oh.. , i s "‘ns* landed the butt of his gun on]
ninuanu.i | (hp hef|(} of thf , federal. ~ It smashed | self
that.
and James 1
.Me. secretary
m*ral. A How-
Smithsonian Instt-
warning little bark rf I tut»\ Washington, D. (V. treasurer
I had forgotten him. I | general. John II BurroughSj Nes
York; historian general. David L.
Pierson, East Orange, N. J ; chap
lain general, the Rev. Wm. F. Whit
aker New Jersey.
No Billboard Ads
for Fritzi Scheff
NEW YORK. May 21.—Fritzi
| Scheff. who will begin a revival of
"Mile. Modiste” next week ha* fol-
! lowed the example of Richard Mans-
I field and come out against the bill
board aa a means
Convinced Only Way to Escape
Ruin Is To Be Reborn—Denies
Stories of Misconduct.
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STORES
■five
of
F
n
iif advertising hi r-
pathering
with] an ( , RJ > g| 1P i| t the blood and brain j
the j splashing in my face.
Reported Killed in Battle.
ery peaceful and onlv a few
new what wa*-' going to happen.
and
Saturday Orozcci came to the prison
demanded of the warden that lie
release the «r. revolutionary leaders.
The warden refused. Orozco re
turned to his old regiment and stand
ing in fron >f the line declared:
‘I am the leader of a new revolu
tion. I promise you good treatment
.if vou will follow me. If mm» doit t
’hejf will he a light All wllo wain
to follow me step two paces forward.
The regiment moved forw ard ap one
man. .
•—«t>roz, o*R first-act was td Tout a de
tachment of his old army under Pan
cho Villa, whom lie had purposely
a-.(d. Villa was loyal to the Gov
ernment.
Given Pardon and Troop.
Rojas-* and Mendoza Joined Orozem
The Goverror-of (Jiilhuahua had lied
to El Paso. 'Before mep with the
magnetism of most of the revolution
leaders the ordinary officials had n r >
chance The fighters all followed ih •
men of magnetism.
Orozco t«H>k -the Governors chair
and wrote out pardons for the 75
revolution leaders. Rojas was given
larger command. On Tuesday a
release . an e f* i me
You <an Join the troops or not,
ust as you like,” aid RoJ#
I ll join.’ 1 •rep!if$ I fait;* that it
was mv only ehaifre to escape my
pursuer?, hut what prompted me most
vvas the spirit of adventure. And I
tell you 1 didn’t fail to find excite-
icnt. I was given command of . a
ompany of 87 cavalrymen. Mendoza.
■n\ colonel, said to me:
You’ve got an awfully tough set
f,j fipj,i with. The reason the place
s vacant i« that no one has been
ible to get along with that crew.”
They were a motley crew, indeed.
Mi row punchers. they were made up
• f Mexican peons Yaqiil Indians and
ha ! f-breeds *
"Men.” I cried, as f surveyed that
hellish -bait'd of dark, scowling faces
I had learned to speak Spanish in
prison, it being very easy to learn,
a- no letter has more than one sound
wain to be your friend as well
as leader ”
I did not speak long, but they
• heered me
That night about In of them got
beast I > drunk Th»\\ rai-vd a rough
house right.-except as they wetc out
doors tlu.\ raised i with the firma
ment. I did not Imprison them, as
was the custom hut had them
wrapped in their blanket®.
When they iwokt tin- next morn
I was their hero. They
te a- "1 i Fa pi tan Atnerl-
.-aVio, ’ and withlr i week any man
ir’ the hunch was ready to die for
it; ■}
• »rozeo orit^red, us, §ohth to Jinn
r 4 . «o meet* Qem»T? 1 St *zar with
the main f»i*iny aVoiit 4.5<1n men
There were 82J> in our regiment. \\ •
The fignting raged on. lasting eight
hours altogether. Bw. Pedro’s va-j
liant work had saved the day. It ;
was easy to see that we were going
to win. We let them flee without I
pursuit and went into camp. That
seemed foolish military tactics to i
me but it was impossible t»> get the
Mexicans out after nigh; and all they
seemed to (are for was to dlal’odge
the enemy.
The federal? reported me killed in
that battle The news reached At-.|
lanta. i thought it Just as well.
I was promoted to the rank of
major and transferred to the infau-J
try.
General Salazar Joined us n«*\t *1 iv
and we resumed our march to Mexi
co Flty. At Escalon we learned that
the federate were strongly entrenched
and waiting for us.
They had entrenched themselves on
a mountain aide in the eastern side
of the Conchas Riv.er. About 8.0f»0
strong under General Victoriana
Huerta, now provisional President of
Mexico, and General Trucy Albeit.
They had good artillery, but we had I
but one cannon and a few old ma
chine guns.
Fought for Three Days.
We took a position on the oppo- j
site side of the river. We fought
for three days* there. It was more
like an A martian battle than any
L have ever heard of In Mexico. At I
the end of the third day the federal?!
took to flight. Out of about 1*2.000
men engaged (100 werK killed and 1,300
wounded. Again we let them go.
I saw little hard military service
after that hut soon afterwards the
moat humorous and effective ru§e n
military history was worked on us
In Chihuahua there are three tow,is
that form a triangle At Torreun
General Tellez was stationed with
If*.ooo federals. At Conejos General
Salazar had 5.000 rebels. At Mopemi
there was a small detachment of fed
eral? holding a fortification.
(Continued in To-morrow's Georgian.)
"Richard Mansfield recognized the
lack of dignity lr the billboard,” said
Miss Scheff I will not have my
picture mutilated by boys any lon
ger. The other day I saw a picture
of Madame Bernhardt that had been
added to by youngster*. That set
tled the matter for me.
$160,000,000 Patent
Remedies Used in 'll
WASHINGTON, May 21. That
nearly $180,000,000 worth of patent
remedies were consumed by the peo
ple nf this country during 1011 was
the assertion of Frank J. Cheney, of
Toledo. Ohio, president of the pro
prietary Association of America who
delivered the opening address to-day
to the 300 delegates assembled In
convention at the New Willard.
He said that no matter what the
price, if patent medicines afforded re
lief for the patient's suffering, they
were worth the money.
Vice President, Too,
A Precedent Breaker
WASHINGTON. May 21.—V! e
President Mat shall made his debi t
as* a precedent breaker yesterday.
A flood of bills and resolutions was
offered shortly after the Senate con
vened. and Vice President Mar hall,
ignoring the clerk, proceeded to read
the measures himself.
This is the first time within the
memory of the oldest newspaper cor
respondent that the President of the
Senate has acted as hia own clerk.
The Sunday American goes every
where all over the South. If you have
anything to sell The Sunday Amer
ican is “The Market Place of the
South." The Sunday American is the
best advertising medium.
Special CTb’e to The Atlanta Ceorciian.
LONDON. May 21. Evelyn Thaw,
wife of Harry K. Thaw, who is going
hack to the stage here, is going to
begin life all over again.
In a most remarkable interview
published in The Sketch, she declares
she has been making a study of the
lives of women who had figured in
such tragedies as the Thaw trial and
she became convinced she wh*uld have
to be born again to escape utter ruin
and degredation.
According to The Sketch. Mrs.
Thaw says:
"I found that of all those women
who had gone out some sank from
sheer humiliation and some found
snatches /*f happiness in some excess
some drank, some took drugs, but
they all went down, down. down. That
was the lesson I learned from reading
about these trials, and after learning
I said:
No Bad Habits.
I “ ‘Evelyn Thaw, there must he an
other way,’ and what all these w r nm-
en did I determined not to do. I have
no bad habits. I have no habits
which have a weakening tendency on
my will. I warned to know all that
was worst. And the woman who can
say ‘I know the worst' has her feet
on the first rung of the ladder which
leads upward and to happiness. 1 am
going to begin a new career—a n(
life.
I begin fair to this extent, that I
am fort ! fied with the knowledge that
a pretty woman who wants work is
offered love and a plain woman wh(
wants love gets the darning."
Mrs. Thaw says the lurid stories
circulated about her conduct were
untrue. One young woman, she de
clared. lived for two weeks in Salt
Lake City, Utah, painting the town
red with the most scandalizing be
havior and posing meanw'hile as Eve
lyn Thaw.
Stories Are Untrue.
Upon another occasion, she said, a
friend of hers heard of a story about
her which was so bad she could find
no words to describe it. This story
also was untrue.* said Mrs. Thaw, al
though the person who told it de
clared he had witnessed the incident.
"Some well-meaning persons have
described me as a victim of passion,
but victim is a word I loathe," said
Mrs. Thaw.
Singing for Help
Is the Very Latest.
Mrs Newlywed is mistress of a
• harming new bungalow in West End.
She is simply wrapped up in her lit
tle home. Jier baby and her young an J
handsome husband. Huhbv is a stu
dious chap when he isn’t busy at the
ftiee r
home of an evening nothing plea
him more than to get out a volume
of his favorite author and go to it
till bedtime.
Of course, when wifey
Library Board, Authorized by City
Council. Names Special Com
mittee to Inspect Films.
I YOUR HOBBY STAMPS?
HERE’S JOB FOR YOU
WASHINGTON. May 21.—Are you
a philatelist? If so and are anxious
I to work nt your profession, the l oil
ed States civil service commission
has a place open which pays $1,200
a year.
The duties of this position ''ill con
sist of overhauling and arranging, ac
cording to countries and issue?, the
collection of stamps now in storage
in the museum.
Strict censorship of motion pictures
shown in Atlanta will be inaugurated
by the board of trustees of the Car
negie Library under authority of an
ordinance recently passed by Council.
A special committee has been ap
pointed and Chairman Willis Everett
aking money, and when he s | sai(i Wednesday he would call a meet-
POLICEMAN KILLS DOG
AFTER THREE ARE BITTEN
SAVANNAH. DA.. May 21.—A dog
which may have been suffering with
rabies was killed by a policeman
after having bitten Mrs. Abraham
l.ease and two children.
The head of the dog is now in the
hands of the city bacteriologist. Mrs.
l.ease had her wound cauterized im
mediately hy a physician. The dog
WHS shot after the officer had chased
it several blocks on a bicycle.
r
ing within h few days, when plans
for visiting all the movie theaters in
the city would be arranged.
The other member? of the commit
tee are George H. Boynton, chairman
feels In a i of the Council library committee:
talkative humor, hubby lays aside his | ^™ U '7^e
book and converse? Just as animated- j onP of thp | ea ders in the Boy Scout
ly as in the old courting days. But j movement, and Philip Weltner, of trie
after the evening meal Mrs. Newly- 1 Ffi 900 Reform Association
wed is usually kept busy putting baby
to sleep so that conversation is mor*»
or less of a to-be-continued-in-our-
n^xt affair.
Mrs. Newlywed is dreadfully afraid
of thunder and lightning—principally
the former. As a girl, she used to
run and hide her head under the mat
tress when a thunderstorm raged, and
she hasn’t gotten over the feeling
that she is a perfect target for tin-
jovial ghtning's bolt.
The other evening Mrs. Newlyw I
had retired to the nursery to put baby
to sleep. Mr. Newlywed was en
grossed in one of his favorite hooks
A storm suddenly arose. Probah’y
vou remember how suddenly it came
up. First there was a quick blast of
w ind. Then a whirling shower of
rain. Next a vivid flash, and. follow-
Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads
The Sunday American. YOUR ad
vertisement in the next issue will sell
goods. Try it!
ng it, the rumble of thunder. ^pection
At the first sound Mrg. Newlywed city.”
became frightened. She was alone ! ■ ■
except for baby, in the nursery. She -
wanted somebody to talk to; som--
one to fend off the lightning. So sh ft !
began to sing. It was a plaintive lit- j
tl* song, containing a C. D. Q. mes
sage for help. It was sung to the
tune of "On the Tiail of the Lone
some Pine,” and went something like
this: .
"I’m so scaled of the thunder and I
I’m all alone in this back room. Wijc I
somebody would come back here anil
keep me company.”
Mr. Newlywed went right on read
ing. He didn't hear the song; he
didn't even hear the storm His wife |
9ang louder. No result. Then she
got angry. She, too. forgot to be
frightened.
"Bert,” she yelled, "can’t you see
I’m scared to death? Why don’t you
come back here when I call you?”
Mr. Newlywed leaped about two
feet in the air. It was the first time
in an hour that he realized there was
anybody else on earth but himself.
He rushed hack to the nursery ex
pecting to discover a tragedy. Mrs.
Newlywed's anger and fright had dis
solved into tears. There was a re
conciliation and Mr. Newlywed prom
ised never, no never, to be absent
when it thundered.
"We are not at all apprehensive of
the sorts of pictures being shown in
the better theater*.” said Councilman
Boynton, "but there has been com
plaint about the cheaper theater-*,
particularly those for the negroes.
"There is a city ordinance prohibit
ing the appearance of a girl under 18
years of age on the stage of any the
ater in the city. This law has been
ignored by some motion picture-
vaudeville houses We are going to
set- that it is enforced.
"I believe that we should prohibit
any picture being shown which has
not been approved by the National
Board of Censorship of New York
"lohn Collier, who was reared in
Atlanta, is in charge of this* censor
ship in New York and is doing a great
work. I understand that all the films
shown here are sent out from New
Y'ork. and it w ould be a simple matter
to demand the approval of the Na
tional Board.
"However, we can't tell Just what
we will do until we have made an in-
of all the theaters in the
A Profitable Summer
For Your Boy
The Riverside Naval Academy, in the
Blue Ridge foothills, on placid Lake War
ner, solves the long-vacation question.
Life on the water, learning to swim, dive, man a
boat, etc., under direction of a
graduate naval instructor.
Expert coaching in sports of ev
ery kind,
overcome
advanced
Enough serious study to
deficiencies or to insure
standing. Cadets live in
doored water - proof
tents or in perfectly
appointed dormitories,
as preferred. Magnifi
cently equipped dining
hall.
Eight weeks session
begins J u n e 26th.
Charges $100. Uni
forms. $20. No extras.
For catalog, address
RIVERSIDE
NAVAL ACADEMY
Box 23 Gainesville, Ga.
Davison-Paxon-Stokes Co.
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Nature's Giftfowde Sunny South
D O YOU know the difference between Cottolene and lard? Cottolem is
a vegetable product; lard is an animal product. Cottolene is made from
purest and choicest cotton oij, a product of Nature.
Lard-cooked foods tend to heat the system unduly, and cause discomfort and
indigestion; Cottolene makes food rich but never greasy, and food which any stomach
can digest with ease.
99
25c and 35c
Lace Bands at
19
C
yd.
A Little Sale of Silk Hose
for Women
100 pairs of $1.25 Bilk Hose at 98c pair for quick selling Thursday—
they have extra high-spliced heels, double hem silk garter top — b 1 a c k,
white, pink and tan.
ALSO
A few pairs of extra good Silk Hose for special selling at 50c pair.
High spliced heel—black, white and tan.
J
An Interesting Sale of
Embroideries and Laces
$1.25 and $1.50
Embroidery Flouncings at
Answering Fashion’s call for dainty white summer dresses
leads you to these beautiful Embroidery Flouncings which you
may buy tomorrow at this reduction in price. They are so pretty
no bands are needed as a further trimming; 45 inches wide, only
two yards required for a dress, Instead of $1.25 and $1.50, as
usual, you may buy them to-morrow at 89c yd.
Pretty trimming bands of linen, cotton and Venise in the
popular widths; a number of patterns to select from. They are
all regular 25c and 35c Bands—priced for Thursday at 19c yard.
New Long Gloves for $1.00
The ideal Summer Glove—Chamoisette, 16-button length;
white and natural; priced at $1.00 pair.
I
men to-foi
ow 1 gained a lead
nt 30 ft*e!
on them When
>ut iu slow
up one of my feet
entangled
in n \ine and 1
idfore most
RiHng on my
could get
no further. Five
arose fro
man entrem Inn *H
,c..' machete*-44>«ayoiuK»t drawn anti
, r.t w my time had come. Out of
ammunition. 1 had thrown away jny
•nol and my gun
I *hut my eyes and buried my face
in my hands. I felt rather than saw
a dark shadow sweep over me. I
waited—it syermd ages to be struck
read and when I could bear the anx-
; ety no longer I n;??d mv h* ad and
. opened my eyes.
It was Pedro who had swept over
Frfiro had -come to my rescue.
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"head grasping a gun barrel he
Children's Socks in a Sale at 15c pair
\
White Socks with plaid tops—an assortment of colors and kinds to se
lect from.
7 7r* f° r Women’s cool, gauze Summer Vests: bodice style, with tape over
11C shoulder.
Extra size Vests—for stout women, priced at 1oc each.
Davison-Paxon-Stokes Co.