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* j * 4 I'll h A n.-nlTA < fit'UK! i I-V \ AJNU JNFJVVtt \\ i\l ».\ i\.>i n t . M.A1 21, i-M.; I. Wylie Smith’s Own Story 4 ' , 4*t^ *!• • *1* +•+ *l*t^ *1*• v '1*• v Stirring Episodes in Long Flight *•+ *•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ . Career ^Mexican Army Thrilling ■ i > n Thi* it the third installment of r the story of J. Wylie Smith, the * refugee president of the defunct *' Commercial Loan and Discount a.i Company, who, after evading ex- rr" tradition during two years of service in the insurrecto army of v i General Orozco, in Mexico, re - v,i turned to Atlanta to stand trial Qtf because he is dying with tuber* • 1 f culosis—a phantom of his former j ^ ' self. f, ° f By J. WYLIE SMITH, ion (Continued from Yesterday.) Evert? moved rapidly after thnt. i *43rotct resigned as commander of the fv Federal forces in Chihuahua on March just as Rojas had told me lie qr would. He loafed around Chihuahua until Saturday, shaking hands with )iia friends like a politician at the gathering of a convention. He seemed * very peaceful and onlv a few of us knew what war going to happen. Saturday Orozco came to the prison and demanded of the warden that lu- ^ release the 75 revolutionary leaders, •'ll/ The warden refused. Orozco re- jhc turned to his old regiment and stand- bing in front of tha liue declared: f l am the leader of .a new revolu- ♦*» tion. I promise you good treatment (% r . if vou will follow me. If you don t there will be a fight. AIT who "want was pounding erals. in leas tell it he had sensible. Before he <• heard that w my dog I thought he hai the five fpd- n It takes to them all in- Southerner Heads Sons of Revolution CHlf'AQtL May 21.—The following officers were elected by the XaHortal Society of the Sons of the American Revolution: President general, Rogers Clark Ballard, Thurston. Ky.; vice presi dents general, W. W. Kirby. Colorado: Laverne Noyes. Illinois; Wallace Me- Camant, Oregon; Rear Admiral George W. Baird, United States Navy, retired, Washington, b, C., and Jumen I» Baxter. Portland, Me. secretary general and register general, A How ard dark, of the Smithsonian Insti tute, Washington, D. C., treasurer geni ral. John II. Burroughs. New Yofk; historian general, David L. Pierson, East Orange, N J ; chap- Whit- to follow me step two pa cos forward.’ g*t<> «£ nian. bn The regiment moved forward as one an. . . , n Orosco’s first act was to rout a de- tachment of his old army under Pan- cho Villa, whom he had purposely ls<>- —r dated Villa was loyal to the Gov- ernment. Given Pardon and Troop. Rojas and Mendoza joined Orozco The Goverror of t.’hlhuahua had fled to El Paso Before men with the magnetism of most of the revolution leaders the ordinary officials had no chance. The fighters all followed the men of magnetism. * Orozco took the Governors chajr and wrote out pardons for the i5 revolution leaders. Rojas was given avlarger command. On Tuesday a No Billboard Ads for Fritzi Scheff NEW YORK, ,M)iy 21.—Fritzi Scheff, who will IjfKin a revival of •Mile. Modiste" next week has fol lowed the example of Richard Mans field and come out against the blll- bnard as a means of advertising her self "Richard Mansfield recognized the lack of dignity ir. the billboard," said Miss Scheff "I will not have mV r o; release came fir me Nfj. ;*‘You can join the troops or not, |M. jult as you like,” .‘“•aid Rojas. EM* ‘Til join.” 1 replied. 1 felt that it ; [•!» was my only chance to escape my s Vi pursuers, but what.prompted me molt » was the spirit of adventure. And 1 ■ !*! tell you I didn’t fall to find exclte- | iV ment. I was given command of a 5 ” company of 87 cavalrymen. Mendoza, ’my colonel, said to nw*^ • You’ve got an awfully tough set Ijj[• to deal with. The reason the place P : is varanf’ is that no one has been able to get along with that crew." I j* 1 . They were a motley crew, indeed. I »*. All cow punchers, they were made up I of Mexican peon*, Yaqui Indians and Ilf half-breeds. fiM* "Men.” 1 cried, as 1 surveyed that i J •' hellish band of dark, scowling faces I Pi; had learned to speak Spanish in | prison, it being very easy to learn, is no letter has more than one sound — J want to be your friend as well ' **1 did not speak long, but they |V cheered me That night about 15 of them got beastly drunk. They rained a rough 1 house right, except as they were out doors they raised it with the firma ment. I did not Imprison them, as was the custom. but bad them wrapped jn their blanket®. When they awoke tho next rnorn- g / -,ing. free. 1 was their hero. They (cheered me as "El t’apitan Ami ri- fcano,” and within a week any man ■ j ! *in the bunch was ready to die for ’ [me. j , 4 Orozco ordered us south to Jimi- i 1 Inez to meet General Salazar with 1 ' 'the main army. fl)bout 4,500 men. j. < There w ere 8*25 in our regiment. We ’parted and soon the battle cry was: J. "On to Mexico City.” I |*l• i had two friends* whose affection ’* was the moat remarkable of any l have ever known. One was my dog | |*i airapped onto my saddle blanket. The other was my first corporal, Pedr Rodriguez, nn attendant whose faltli- *{)j fulness a king might envy. Dog Saves His Life. While lying resting on the ground, my dog. always near me, gave that same gruff bark with which he had greeted me at our first meeting. I had learned that that bark meant danger. Turning. I saw a huge rattler snake, coiled ready to strike. 1 jumped up just In time to save my self Pedro was as big and strong and active as a gorilla, thank God, else 1 would not be here to-day to tell my story. We reached Jim Inez before Genera’ Salazar arrived. The. fortification's were held by a number about equal to our regiment. Our ambitious leaders decided to charge the place at dawn the next day. Now comes a part I hate to tell. It sounds too much like bragging and boasting. We had made our charge and been fighting fiercely for several hours. We were inside the cuartel (barracks) and too close to each other to reload. Fought Like Wild Beasts. It was the most savage fighting one i ould imagine. Men were striking each other over the heads with the butts of their guns, slashing in every direction with their sabers and blind ly ‘ Kicking- sits any form before them with their bayonets. The firing had almost ceased but the shrieks and veils dinned my ears like the gloat ing of devils over death. 1 had not been in the thickest of the fighting- Standing at the righfbf my company I was ordered to charge at full speed to the relief of a regi ment that was about to be over come. We plunged forward with the zeal of maniacs. And as 1 ran shouting for my men to follow I gained a lead of about 30 feet on them. When just about to alow up one of my feet became entangled in a vine and I fell headforemost. Rising on my knees I could get no further." Five federals arose from an entrenchment with machetes (bayonets) drawn and I knew my time had eorpe. Out of ammunition. I had thrown away mv pistol and m\ gun • I shut my eves and buried my face . in my hands. I felt rather than saw \ "j a dark shadow sweep over me. i 1 , r waited—It seemed ages—to be struck HI dead and when 1 could bear the anx iety no longer I raised ray head and opened my eyes. It was Pedro /who .had swept <t»vi?r me Pedro had come rescue. Standing on the edge oftrie entrench ment. his giant arm? extended over ead grasping a gun barrel he mid turn to see me 1 aiming little bark of had forgotten him, I I been lost in the bat tle. Jumping to my feet as quick ly as I could I confronted anothro* j lain general, the Rev federal, crouching and aiming his gun a ker New Jersey, at Pedro just as Pedro was making! a giant swing at the fifth federal. All 1 had was my saber. I real ized that if I struck down the gun of the federal it would merely ward off the blow and my end would come next. Still bending over 1 drew: mv sword and slashed at the under side of his arm with all my force. The barrel of the gun swayed to ward the ground and the discharge only kicked dust at Pedros legs. Pe dro, wheeling, took in the situation at a glance. Another of his famous swings landed the butt of his gun on the head of the federal. It smashed like an egg shell, the blood and brain * splashing in my face. Reported Killed in Battle. The liKhtinh' raged on. lasting eight ■ -, r Thp oth „ r (lav i „ aw a picture hours altogether But IV'lros v« - f Madame Bernhardt that had been liant work had saved the day. It — was easy to see that we were going to win. We let them fiee without pursuit and went into camp. That seemed foolish Imilltary tactics to | me but It was impossible to get the Mexicans out after night and qll they | seemed to care for was to dislodge the enemy. The federals 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 Infan-j try. General Salazar joined us next dav And we resumed our march to Mexi co City. At Escalon we learned that the federals were strongly entrenched and waiting for us. They had entrenched themselves on a mountain side in the eastern side of the Conchas River. About.- 8,000 strong under General Vlctorlana Huerta, now provisional President o? Mexico, and General Trucy Albert They hail good artillery, but we had but one cannon and a few old ma chine guns. Fought for Three Days. We took a position on the oppo site side of the river. We fought for three days there. It was more like an American battle than any I have ever heard of In MexlQo, At the end of the tljirdVday the federals took to flight. Out of aftojit Fi.OOO men engaged 600 were killed and 1,300 wounded. Again w r e hri them go. I saw r little bard military service after that but soon afterwards the most humorous and effective ruse In military history was worked on us. In Chihuahua there are three towns that form a triangle. At Torreon General Tellez was stationed with 15,000 federals. At (’onejop General Salazar had 5,000 rebels. At Mopemi there was a small detachment of fed erals holding a fortification. BEGIN LIFE ALL of added to by youngsters. That set tled the matter for me. $160,000,000 Patent Remedies Used in 'll WASHINGTON, May 21.—-That nf-arly $160,000,000 worth of patent remedies were consumed by the peo ple of (his counlry during 1911 was the assertion of Frank J. Cheney, of Toledo, Ohio, president of the pro-, prletary Association of America who delivered the opening address to-day to the 300 delegates assembled in convention at (he New Willard. He said that no matter what the price, if patent medicines afforded re lief for the ijati^nt’s .suffering,' they were worth the money. (Continued in To-morrovFs Georgian!) Vice President, Too, A Precedent Breaker WASHINGTON, May 21.—Vice President Marshall made his., debut hj§ a precedent'breaker yesterday. A flood of bills anil resolutions was offered shortly after the Senate, con vened, and Vice President Marshall, ignoring the clerk, proceeded to read the measures himself. Thla is the first time within the memory of the oldest newspaper cor respondent that the President of the Senate has acted as his 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. Convinced Only Way to Escape Ruin Is To Be Reborn—Denies Stories of Misconduct. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, May 21. Evelyn Thaw, wi^ of Harry K. Thaw, who is going back 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 4vould 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 of 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. “ ‘Evelyn Thaw, there must be an other way,’ and what all these wom en did I determined not to do. I have no bad habits. I have no habits tvhich have a weakening tendency on my will. I wanted to know all that was worst. And the woman who can say ‘l know the worst’ has her feet on the first rung of the ladder which leads upward and to happiness. I am going to begin a, new career—a new life. “I begin fair to this extent, that I am‘fortified with the knowledge that a pretty woman who wants work is Offered love and a plain woman who 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 Cfty, Utah, painting the town red with the most scandalizing be havior and posing meanwhile as Eve lyn Thaw. Stories Are Untrue. Upon another occasion, she said, a frierjd 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 tlie person who told it de clared he had witnessed the incident. “Some well-meaning persons have described mew as a victim of passion, but victim is a word I loathe,” said Mrs. Thaw. JL 11 T T1UB STOR fXf itlM? iS Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue will sell goods. Try it! Singing for Help Is the Very Latest. Mrs. Newlywed is mistress of a charming new bungalow in West End. She is simply wrapped up in her lit tle home, her baby and her young and handsome husband. Hubby is a stu dious chap .when he isn’t busy at the office making money, and when he's home of an evening nothing pleas** him more than to get out a volume of his favorite author and go to it till bedtime. Of course, when wifey feels in a talkative humor, hubby lays aside his book and converses just as animated ly as in the old courting days. But after the evening meal Mrs. Newly wed is usually kept busy putting baby to sleep so that conversation Is more or less of a to-be-continued-in-our- next hffair. 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 the jovial lightning’s bolt. The other evening Mrs. Newlyw-d had retired to the nursery to put baby to sleep. Mr. Newlywed was en grossed in one of his favorite books. A storm suddenly arose. Probab’y you remember how suddenly it came up. First there was a quick blast of wind. Then a whirling shower of rain. Next.a vivid flash, and, follow ing it, the rumble of thunder. At the first sound Mrs. Newlywed became frightened. She was alone, except for baby, in the nursery. She wanted somebody to talk to; some one to fend off the lightning. So she began to sing. It was a plaintive lit tle song, containing a C. D. Q. mes sage for help. It was sung to the tune of ‘‘On the Trail of the Lone some Pine,” and went something like this: “I’m so scared of the thunder and I’m all alone in this back room. WIja somebody would come back here anl 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 sang 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 back 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. STRICT CENSORS FOR IVIES HERE Library Board, Authorized by City Council, Names Special Com mittee to Inspect Films. 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 Evebett said Wednesday he would call a meet ing within a few days, when plans for visiting all the movie theaters in the city would be arranged. The other members of the commit tee are George H. Boynton, chairman of the Council library committee; Harrison Jones, A. W. Tindall, of the County Juvenile Court; E. G. Everett, one of the leaders in the Boy Scout movement, and Philip Weltner, of the Prison Reform Association. “We are not at all apprehensive of the sorts of pictures being shown in the better theaters,” said Councilman Boynton, “but there has been com plaint about the cheaper theatere, particularly those for the negroes. “There is a city ordinance prohibit ing the appearance of a girl under 16 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 see 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. “John 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 York, and it would 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 spection of all the theaters in the city.” YOUR HOBBY STAMPS? HERE’S JOB FOR YOU WASHINGTON. May 21— Are you _ philatelist? If so and are anxious to work at your profession, the Unit ed States civil service commission has a place open which pays $1,200 a year. The duties of this position will con sist of overhauling and arranging, ac cording to countries and issues, the collection of stamps now in storage In the museum. POLICEMAN KILLS DOG AFTER THREE ARE BITTEN SAVANNAH. GA.. May 21—A dog which may have been suffering with rabies was killed by a policeman after having bitten Mrs. Abraham Lease and two children. The head of the dog is now in the hands of the city bacteriologist. Mrs. Lease had her wound cauterized im mediately by a physician. The dog was shot after the officer had chased it several blocks on a bicycle. 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, ete., under direction of a graduate naval instructor. Expert coaching in sports of ev ery kind. Enough serious study to overcome deficiencies or to insure ^—-d advanced standing. Cadets live in !( 4 \ floored water - proof * 1 tents or in perfectly appointed dormitories, as preferred. Magnifi cently equipped dining hall. , Eight weeks session begins June 26th. Charges $100. Uni forms, $20. No extras. For catalog, address RIVERSIDE NAVAL ACADEMY Box 23 Gainesville, Ga. iplll /< '4'. i (! Nature's Gift fomt/ie Swimy South' D O YOU know the difference between Cottolene and lard? Cottolene is a vegetable product; lard is an animal product, Cottolene is made from purest and choicest cotton oil, 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. Cottolene The better class of housewives often use butter instead of lard for cooking purposes. It's a mighty expensive and needless habit. Cottolene is every bit as good as butter for shortening; it is better thah butter for frying. And Cottolene costs much less than butter. Cottolene will not bum nearly as easily as butter or lard, and with its use the strong, irritating and indigestible acids found in foods fried in animal fats are avoided. Two-thirds of a pound of Cottolene will go as far as a full pound of butter or lard. Just think these facts over and let them sink in. pail of Cottolene of your grocer. Then order a Made only by THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY s (Jr A U£ Ik im I-Vv ,.>• ‘2V -7 * -*v ^<4 Davison-Paxon-Stokes Co. A Little Sale of Silk Hose for Women 100 pairs of $1.25 Silk Hose at 98c pair for quick selling Thursday— they have extra high-spliced heels, double hem silk garter top — black, white, pink and tan. ALSO A few pairs of extra g“ood 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 OQe Embroidery Flouncings at Answering Fashion’s call for dainty white summer dresses leads you to these beautiful Embroidery Flouncings which you may buy to-morrow 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. 25c and 35c Lace Bands at Pretty trimming hands 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. Children’s Socks in a Sale at 15c pair White Socks with plaid tops- leet from. -an assortment of colors and kinds to se- 11c for Women’s oool, gauze Summer Vests; bodice style, with tape over shoulder. Extra size Vests—dor stout women, priced at 15c each. Davison-Paxon-Stokes Co.