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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, lufcd From Page 1. out from one office to Then he* come back in i'stenographer's office and Jack and told me, “Here Emma Clark and Corinthia I JRv come bark and told m« to f file T < 1 1 d !llr to I HI f : • - a :i i".ut I amn It, and Mr. Frank, whoever (hat was come into tin* offi.-* . : iu*y didn't stay so very long till Mr. f eight minutes, and 1 was still In the wardrobe and he never had come to let me out, and Mr. Frank come back and I said: “Goodness alive, you kept me in there i mighty long time,” and he said: “Yes, I see 1 did; you are sweating/’ And then me and Mr. Frank sat down in a* chair. Mr. Frank then took out a cigarette and he give me the box and asked me did I want to smoke, and I told him, “Yes. sir,” and 1 taken the box and taken out a tigarette and he handed me a box'of matches and I handed him the matches back, and I handed him the cigarette box and he told me that was all right I could Ik-ep that, and that 1 told him he |had some money in it and he told me that was all right I could 'keep that. Mr. Frank then asked me to write a few lines on that paper, a white scratchpad he had e and he told me what to put on there and I asked him what he waa going to do with it and he told me to just go ahead and write, and then after I got through writing Mr. Frank looked at it and said it was all right, and Mr. Frank looked up at the top of the house and said, "Why should 1 hang? I have wealthy people in Brooklyn,” and I asked him what about me and he told me that was all right about me, for me to keep my mouth shut and he would make everything all right. And then I asked him where was the money he said he was go ing to give me, and Mr. Frank said, “Here is $200,’' and he handed me a big roll of green back money and I didn’t count it. I stood there a little while looking at, it in my hand and I told Mr. Frank not to take out another dollar fer that watch man I owed, and he said he wouldn’t—and the rest is just like 1 told it before. The reason J have not told this before is I thought Mr. Frank would get out and help me out, but It seems that he Is not going to get out, and I have decided to tell the whole truth about the matter. While I was looking at the money In my hand, Mr. Frank said: “Let me have that and I will make it all rig lit with you Monday if I live and nothing hap pens.” And he took the money back, and I asked him if that was the way he done, and he said he would give it back Monday. JAMES CONLEY. Sworn to and subscribed before me the 29th day of May, 1913. G. C. FKBUARY, Notary Public, Fulton County, Ga. If the latest confession of James^ 2onley is true, then Leo M. Frana’ killed Mary Ph&gan. and the killing vas apparently accidental Conley swears Frank told him he ad picked up a girl and let her fall, and that her head hit something. /hen the body of Mary Phagan was found there were deep wounds and abrasions on the skull. Conley does not say specifically whether it was all un accident Conley says when he reached the girl she was dead. In his confession Conley admits he himself tied a cloth about the dead girl's head, so he could carry her to the basement at Franks direction The police theory has been that the murderer of Mary Phagan accidental ly knocked her against a piece of ma chinery, then became frightened and finished the job by strangling her with a rope. Conley makes no men tion of a rope. From his story, there fore, it would appear that the deep furrows in the dead girl’s flesh giv ing credence to the theory of strangu lation were produced by the cloth which the negro himself tied about the girl’s body. Conley insists the girl was dead when he first saw her Turning the Suspicion. Frank superintended the .carrying of the girl’s body to the cellar, Con ley swore, displaying great nervous ness. Then, when the body had been rash pile, Frank took k upstaii g ind laid plans frrote the notes presumed to have en found with the body of Mary I V* negro a cigarette, remarked, Why should I hang?” and told him The Georgian-American Pony Contest VOTE COUPON FACTORY CRIME RE-ENACTED Conley Shows Detectives How He, at Frank’s Orders, Dis posed of the Body. Continued From Page 1. he (Frank) would see that everything would come out all right for him (Conley.) Frank then gave the negro a roll of bills, which he said was $200. In a few* minutes he took them hack, promising to make it all right the fol lowing Monday morning. Whether the killing was premedita ted murder, or murder after Frank had unintentionally injured Mary Phagan, or accident pure and simple, remains to be determined. “Betrayed Himself.” If Conley’s confession is true, Leo M. Frank killed Mary Phagan by ac cident, and in nervous, half-crazed efforts to dispose of the body laid himself liable to the vary charge of murder he sought to avoid. He knew he was alone in the fac tory with the girl, that sensational reports would follow discovery of the body and feared his story of an acci dental killing would be discounted. Therefore, he bribed the negro to help him dispose of the body—fear ful lest the groundless charge of murder be made against him. Frank told Conley—so the negro ■ays—that he picked the girl up and let her fall, her head hitting some thing hard. The girl was dead, Con ley says, when he first saw her, and In an effort to facilitate removal of the body he, Conley, tied a stout cloth around the head. It was this cloth, tightly drawn over the dead girl’s features, which gave rise to the theory of strangulation. Examination disclosed a fractured skull, caused by contact with a heavy substance. This wound un doubtedly followed the dropping of the girl’s body against “something hard.” Frank’s statements to Conley while the girl's lifeless body was not yet cold throw* no light on the dramatic scene ending in Mary Phagan’s death. Whether they were on inti mate terms and he was fondling her, or whether they were struggling when he “picked her up,” is still a mystery —a mystery made all the more deeper by the absence of any details per taining thereto in the negro’s nar rative. Dorsey Ready to Indict Conley as an Accessory Solicitor Generni Hugh M. Dorsey announced that if Conley persisted in his story he would take steps to have him Indicted as an accessory after the fact and bring him to trial on this charge. Conley wrs Friday afternoon re moved to the Tower, on an order signed by Judge Roan. Conley's startling tale came late Thursday afternoon after he had been under a merciless sweating for near ly three hours. Noting the signs of weakening, Detective Harry Scott and Chief Lanford shot question after question at him in rapid succession. Conley hesitated and then told the men who surrounded him, that he had seen Mary Phugan on the day of the crime, but that she was dead when he saw her. When it became evident that the most im portant disclosures of the long in vestigation were to be made. G. C. February, secretary to Chief Lanford, was called in and took the negro's statement. Sticks to Note Story. Conley stuck to His story that Frank had him write the notes that were found by the girl’s body and the detectives believe that there can be no doubt of this now. He said that after the notes were written Frank took his arm and led him to the body. Frank's hand was shaking, the negro declared. To gether. they raised the limp form from the floor, Conley told the de tectives, and took it into the base ment. Offering no explanation of the tragedy which had occurred, Frank ordered Conley to leave the build ing. according to tne statement. Conley explained his long silence by saying that he thought Frank had plenty of money and that he would he able to get both of them free within a short time. Chief Lanford and Detective Scott both declared after the third degree that they were confident that the ne gro at Inst was telling the truth. If he has any further knowledge of the .crime, they said they would get it out of him Friday when they put him through another grilling. Admission of Conley's statements into a court of Justice is certain to be fought most bitterly. The fact that Conley has been discovered In a tan gle of lies which he has been telling ever since his arrest three weeks ago is expected by the defense to go a long ways In shutting the doors against his affidavits. In addition to the maze of con flicting stories In which he has been involved, Conley has signed three sep arate statements, no two of which agree in some essential points. How Affidavits Conflict, not at the factory on the day Mary Phagan was murdered. His second affidavit swore that he was at the factory on the Saturday the girl was brutally slain, but that he left immediately after he had writ ten the notes at the direction of Frank. He saw Mary Phagan neither alive nor dead, according to this doc ument. His third affidavit, or statement, re pudiated both of tiie other statements in many of their details, and declared that he did not leave the factory at the time stated in the other affidavits, hut, Instead, assisted Frank to carry the little girl's body to the basement, where it was found by Newt Lee Sun day morning. The fact that the negro has altered his statement in some important par ticular every succeeding time that he has been questioned has not served to throw suspicion on the negro In the eyes of the detective. Think He Is Merely a Tool. They accept as true the explanation of Conley that he withheld much that he knew and lied about much that he did tell because he was afraid that if he told all he would be In danger of hanging. He was merely a tool, they believe, and knew nothing about the actual murder of Mary Phagan. Another effort will be made to con front Frank with the negro Friday. The detectives do not regard this ns essential, but think it may serve fur ther to strengthen the negro’s story if he can be made to repeat it before Frank, or if he breaks down, to inject the possibility that he has manufac tured the whole story to protect him self. The negro, on his own admission, was in the factory for a considerable time on Saturday and had an opportu nity to commit the crime. The de tectives declare they are not overlook ing this fact in their questioning of Conley, although they are firmly con vinced at present of his Innocence. During the sweating process Thurs day they took copies of The Georgian into the office of Chief Lanford and went carefully over the discrepan cies in the negro’s testimony with the apparent facts of the case. They made him give an explanation for every occurrence that had been over looked on the day before and went over some of the same ground that had been covered before. 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The negro appeared to be telling a straightforward story and was ready with an answer whenever any of the officers asked him a ques tion. As Conley and the detectives reach ed the elevator, the negro said that he waited there while Frank went into the office to get the key to the eleva tor door. He described the manner in which the body was carried into the elevator and dropped on the elevator floor. Frank ran the elevator down to the basement, according to Conley, while he (Conley) ran It on the return upstairs. Conley went down on the elevator Just as he had done before, the officers with him. “I took her body out of the eleva tor,” said Conley, "and Mr. Frank helped me. He told me to take the body up to the trash pile in front of the furnace. . I put the girl on my shoulders again and walked up there with her ana dropped her right there,” pointing to a point only a few feet to the left of the furnace. “I pulled the bagging out from un der her and threw it there on the pile of trash In front of the furnace. Mr. Frank he waited there at r.he trap door to pee if anyone was coming. Before that 1 went back upstairs and got her hat and shoes and brought them down in the basement.” “Show’ us the way you left the girl’s body,” commanded Chief Beav ers Conley promptly lay down in the identical spot where Newt Lee found the body of the girl. His lay with the left side of his face on the ground, his right arm slightly under him and the left arm stretched by his side. His feet pointed toward the rear door of the basement where the staple was pulled. Negro Never Hesitates. “You can’t help but believe him,” muttered Detective Harry Scott, as the negro went through the terrible tragedy movement \>y movement without faltering for an instant or hesitating as though he were not sure of his ground. Conley appeared perfectly composed as though he were reciting an every day occurrence, but his earnest and apparently truthful bearing gave his dramatic story, told in a matter of fact way, a convincing power that evidently had its effect on every one who was listening to his recital. Negro Ran Eelevator Up. “Did you ever find that piece of cotton bagging?” Chief Reavers In quired of E. F. Holloway, the day watchman. “No, I never did.” Holloway re plied, his answer leading to thfe pre sumption that the bagging subse quently had been burned. After showing the detectives where he had disposed of the body, Conley retraced his steps toward the eleva tor. “Frank climbed up this ladder.” he said, “and I ran the elevator back up. He met me on the first floor and got in the elevator with me and rode with me up to the second floor.” Conley ran the elevator back up as he had done the day of the trage dy. Chief Beavers and several of the detectives rode up with him. Chief Lanford climbed up the ladder as Frank was represented as doing. Con ley said that Frank was nervous and rushed off the elevator before it had come to a stop, stumbling in his haste. Illustrates Fall, Having the elevator stopped about a foot and a half below the landing, Conley illustrated the fall of Frank, who in his hurry to get out of the elevator stumbled and fell on his hands, the. negro says. Getting up from the floor, Conley led the officers to the sink where the negro claims Frank washed his hands. Conley says he waited for Frank by a post near the elevator landing When Frank came from washing h1s hands. Conley said, he led him (Conley) into the office and had him sit down. Conley said Frank kept twisting about in his chair, wringing his hands, and “act ing lak white folks does when they is scared, turned red in the face, and kept looking around.” Conley said Frank next walked out of the room and got a box of matches, stopped in the door and fooled with a cigarette box. He says Frank then looked out the glass door and said: “Oh, God. here comes Emma Clark and Corinthia Hall,” and quickly pushed him in the closet at the side of the door, closing the closet door. Put Him 'n Closet. The officers put Conley in the clos et. It easily held him. Conley said he could not tell whether or not the girls entered the room. Tie heard one of them ask. “Are you all alone. Mr. Frank?” and Frank answered, “Yes, 1 am alone.” Pretty soon Frank came and let Conley out, Conley says, and had him sit down at Frank’s desk. Conley says Frank got some paper from a drawer and told him to write a note. The officers had Conley sit down and write what he claims Frank dictated to him. Conley readily wrote, "Dear mother a long tall black negro did this by hisself he told me if I would lay down he w’ould love me play like the night wich did this by hisselb.” How About Me? Conley says he asked Frank what he was going to do with the note. Frank replied that he was going to put it in a letter and send it to his mother in Brooklyn, that he had wealthy people there. Conley says Frank then clasped his hands, looked at the ceiling and exclamed, “Why should I hang?" “I asked him," Conley told the of ficers. "what about me?” Frank says. “Don’t you worry, you are a good boy and you will be all right.” The negro stated that Frank then hainded him a roll of greenback money and said it was $200. Conley says he did not count it. and that Frank suddenly grabbed it away from him. telling him that his people in Brooklyn would send him plenty of money and he would give Conley plenty of money later. Frank next took a cigarette, Con ley declared, and then asked him to Cars and Drivers In Big Auto Race Car. Driver. Nyberg Harry Endicott Stutz Charles Merz Htutz Gill Anderson Keeton Bob Hurman Macon Bob Evan* Mason Jack Tower Stutz . Don Herr Sunbeam Albert Guyot Henderson Billy Knlpper Gray Fox Howard Wilcox Peugot Zuccarelll Peugot 1 Jules Goux Anel William Lelsaw Schacht John Jenkins Mercer Caleb Bragg Mercer Ralph DePalma Mercer Spencer Wlahart Mercedes-Knight Then. PHlette Tulsa George Clark Isotta Harry Grant laotta Teddy TetzlalT Isotta Vincent Trucco Mercedes Ralph Mulford Case Ivouis Disbrow Case Joseph Nlkrent Case William Endicott Mason William Haupt CONSTITUTION Speakers at Meeting of Georgia Lawyers Declare Time Inoppor tune for Calling Convention. WARM SPRINGS, GA., May 30.— Lawyers of Georgia as a whole are opposed to a new State Constitution, considering the present time inoppor tune for a constitutional convention because of the general spirit of po litical unrest that Is manifest not only in Georgia, hut throughout the coun try. This sentiment was forcibly brought out to-day in a report and addresses before the Georgia Bar As sociation in annual convention here. The report of a committee on State Constitution, appointed a year ago, was submitted by Alex Smith, of At lanta, declaring that any general change in the constitutional law ot Georgia was now unwise. Several speakers discussed this re port and constitutional subjects, and each one expressed views coinciding with the committee’s report. The speakers were John R. L. Smith, of Macon, on the executive department; cx-Congressman W. G. Brantley, now of Atlanta, on the legislative depart ment; Wright Willingham, of Rome, on the judiciary; Walter McElreath, of Atlanta, on taxation and finance, and Edgar Watkins, of Atlanta; H. J. Kullbright, of Waynesboro, and Hat ton Lovejoy, of LaGrange, in a gen eral discussion. Messrs. McElreath, Fullbright and Lovejoy were mem bers of the last Legislature. The annual election of officers takes place this afternoon. Addresses by Justice Joseph R. La mar, of the United States Supreme Court, and Judge Andrew J. Cobb and Hamilton McWhorter, both of Ath ens, were features of the convention. Justice Lamar, whose home Is at Au gusta, made a masterful address on “The history of the organization of the Supreme Court.” Burman Makes Terrific Pace for First One Hundred Miles. Many Cars Forced Out. Continued From Page 1. have one. handing him the box. Con ley says he saw a little money In the box and was afraid to let Frank se it, for fear he would take It away from him. Conley next illustrated the man ner in which he says Frank walked to the stairs with him. The negro says Frank placed his arms around his shoulders and walked to the stairs with him. and watched him de scend. Then Fran ran about five steps down and looked to see if Con ley went on out. Of His Free Will. While in the superintendent’s of fice Conley stated that he was making this confession of his own free will and accord; that the officers had nev er in any way mistreated him or cursed him or struck him, and that they had not offered him any reward In order to induce him to tell what he knew’. He explained his delay in making his confession by saying that he had been hoping to receive a large sum of money from Frank’s people. He said that he had thought Frank would get out and then help him out, but he now saw’ that there was no hope for either of them, and he had decided to tell the truth. Conley stat ed that the people at the factory seemed to be down on him. but that he wanted to tell all he knew and had done so. After Conley had finished Illustrat ing his part in the crime he was led bac k to the second floor and then was taken back down to the basement in the elevator. On the way down Chief Beavers remarked to.him: “This must be familiar scenery to you, Jim.” The negro smiled and re plied: “It sure is, boss.” Conley did not hesitate for a mo ment during the entire time he was showing his part in the crime, and his frankness of speech and clocklike word impressed the officers that he was st la?it telling the exact truth. “There is not a doubt but that the negro is telling the truth and it would be foolish to doubt it. The negro couldn’t go through the actions like he did unless he had done this just like he said,' said Harry Scott. "We believe that we h%ve at last gotten to the bottom of the Phagan mystery. Conley's confession fits ex actly in with our f heory.” Going out the rear door of the base ment, the officers hurried Conley into Chief Beavers’ automobile and took him back to the police station. A large crowd had gathered in front of the pencil factory and at tlie rear, tut there was no marked demonstrauen against him. Most of these were factory employees who have been of the belief that Frank is innocent end that the negro has been shifting the responsibility from his own shoulders to those of an inno cent man. There was some muttering of “There’s the negro now; get him.” but there was no concerted demon stration. The automobile was driven rapidly away. Detective Harry Scott stated to a Georgian reporter that there would be very little more questioning of the negro. He said that there could be very little more to tell, and that it was his opinion that Conley had told practically everything he knew*. Chief Beavers and Chief Scott, aft er the dramatic story of the negro, were of the same opinion. They said that Conley had proved to their sat isfaction the guilt of Frank and that they could no longer hold any doubt of it. back in later as relief for Caleb Bragg, the Mercer driver. Paced by Carl G. Fisher, president of the motor speedway, the racing cars in the free-for-all 500-mile con test made a slow circuit of the course Just before 10 o’clock. At 10:30 the starting bomb was fired and the racers plunged forw’ard on the mad chase around the brick- paved track. Bob Burman, driving a Keeton, was the first man w’ho experienced trouble His steering knuckle was broken. His car could not make the preliminary circuit of the course. While the other cars made the circuit Burman and Tony Janette, his mechanician, work ed desperately. Their car was repaired and they trundled on the track and got away Just before the starter would have been compelled to declare them out of the race. The crow’d, which favored Burman, cheered wildly when it taw his Kee ton take the track. His only handicap as a result of the accident was the lack of a flying start and a position far back in the field. The other cars crossed the starting line at an in creasing speed of 50 miles an hour. Drivers After Records. The cars got away without a hitch, except • for Burman's mishap. The drivers w’ere out after records and sent their machines away at top speed. In the first dozen laps the cars were bunched closely. Bob Burman took the lead in the fifteenth lap. going at a rate of 82 miles an hour. At the end of the sev enteenth lap he was three-fourths* lap ahead of Anderson. Tower and Nik- rent, who were following in that order. Anderson and Nikrent narrowly es caped a spill in the eighteenth lap. At the end of 40 miles Burman was still holding the lead, while Zuccareiii was second, with Nikrent third. In the twentieth lap “the jinx" marked Jenkins for its own. A broken crank shaft sent him out of the race with his Schacht. DePalma Forced to Quit. DePalma was in the eighteenth lap when he was compelled to pull his car from the track. DePalma a year ago shattered all records and was within seven miles of the finish when his car was disabled and he was compelled to quit the race. At the fiftieth mile Guyot, in a Sun beam, was leading, Burman second. Time for 50 miles was 37:29.27. The record for this class car was 39:47.35. Don Herr, in a Stutz. was the third to withdraw. A broken clutch dis abled his car, and he was forced to leave the track. At the end of 60 miles Burman still was leading. His time was 47:20.23. Burman Sots Record. Burman, in his Keeton, took the lead in the thirty-second lap and at 60 miles had established a new record. The time was 47:20.23. At noon the race was apparently between Burman, Tower and Guyot. Harry Grant, with one of the Isot ta cars, developed tire trouble and went out of the race at the end of 80 miles. At the end of the twenty-ninth lap DePalma, a favorite with speedway fans, got back into the race as re lief driver. He slipped into the seat of Caleb Bragg, his Mercer team mate, and started around the course w*ith the touch of daredevil that has endeared him to motor fans. Burman w’as retaining his posi tion in the lead at the end of 100 miles. Goux Peugot was second. Bur- mans’ time for 100 miles was 1 hour, 15, minutes, 50 seconds and 55 hun dredths. The record for this class of cars was 1:23:43.11. The world’s rec ord for all classes of cars was 1:13:37.25, established on the Indian apolis motor speedway by Tetzlaff in a Fiat car on May 30, 1912. At the end of 120 miles Burman and his Keeton were first, Goux. in the Peugeot, was second, Anderson, in a Stutz. w’as third, and Merz. in a Stutz, was fourth. Burman’s time for this distance was 1:31.00.63. Besides the tire trouble that hin dered the operation of his Isotta, Grant discovered a leak in the gaso line tank that made it impossible for him to get back In the race. As Burman was making his fortieth lap Endicott. in a Nyberg, was mak ing his twentieth. Burman was driving a masterly race For the first ten laps he con tented himself with careful driving. Then he began to develop the speed of his car and soon shot ahead. Merz drew an enthusiastic round of Facts About Great Auto Speed Contest Distance, 500 miles, or 200 times around the 2 1-2-mlIe brick oval. Average speed, 80 miles an hour (estimated). Prizes—Winner, $20,000; second, $10,000; third, $5,000; fourth, $3,- 500; fifth, $3,000; sixth, $2,200; seventh, $1,800; eighth, $1,600; ninth $1,500; tenth, $1,400. Trophies—Remy Brassard, value $2,500, for leader *t 200th mile; Prestolite, value $2,500, for leader at 300th mile; Wheeler-Schebler, value $10,000, for leader at 400th mile. To-day’s race Is the third. The flr*a was won by Ray Harroun, driving a Marmot! Wasp, May 30. 1911. The second was won by Joe Dawson, driving a National, 78.2 miles an hour. May 30, 1912. applause when he stopped at the Stutz pit, changed a tire and took on oil and gasoline In 65 seconds. For the first 100 miles the time av eraged 78.94 miles an hour, while for 120 miles the average was 79.11. This was not equal to last year's speed. The time for 140 miles was 1:45>08.75. Harry Grant, whose Isotta went out of the race, got into the running again as relief driver for Billy Knip per, In the Henderson. French Contemplate Barring U. S. Stocks PARIS, May 30.—Americans may be barred from the Paris bourse in the future as the result of the finan cial collapse of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad just after a bond issue of that road had been disposed of here. Maurino D’Ailly DeVerneuil, agent De Change De Paris, to-day said: “1 am very’ much afraid that as a result of the ill advised conduct of the American financiers behind the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad ether American stocks, other than those above suspicion, no longer will be accepted by the French public. Wesleyan Warns of Social Dissipation MIDDLETOWN, CONN,, May 30.— "Undue attention, not to athletics, but to society, is responsible for the most serious dissipation of student energies to-day and for the majority of the failures in college work," says the Wesleyan University Bulletin. "The multiplication of social func tions and their increasing expense during recent years is becoming a serious problem in student life,” it adds. BEEF FINE II, S, CERTAIN, With Population Increasing, Cat tle Supply Has Decreased Nearly Half in 6 Years. CHICAGO, May 30.—“Uncle Sam must pay higher and higher prices to other countries for his beefsteak or go without it—unless Mexico comes to his relief by furnishing cattle for restocking the ranches of the United States.” M, A. Traylor, vice president of the National Stock Yards National Bank, of Chicago, made the foregoing gloomy forecast in an address to an association of Western bankers. After calling attention to the tre mendous decrease In the number of beef cattle—from 62,000,000 head in 1907 to 36,000,000 head in 1913, while the population Increased 12.000,000— Traylor said: "Should this tremendous shortage be added to annually in the same ratio for another period of six years not a very vivid Imagination is nec- I essary to realize what the price of| beefsteak will be when the nation’s total supply of cattle has reached 30,000,000 head, of which not more than 20.000,000 wili be beef stuff, and its population has been augmented by] another 12,000,000 people to be fed.” Our storage stocks, according to] the speaker, have decreased from some 262,000,000 pounds in 1908, to little more than 135,000,000 pounds in 1910, while at the close of 1912 they wore estimated at only 35,000,0001 pounds. Argentina and Australia, hitherto I supplying the world from their sur plus, are going backward in produc tion. Referring to Argentina the speaker said: "So serious has become the condition there and so insistent the demand of foreign countries for beef, that legislation Is now,'pending to prevent the slaughtering of male calves and all female cattle under seven years old, or the export of live cattle of any character; and it is cal-I culated that with this strenuous leg islation it would take ten years for the cattle supply to reach its nor-1 mal proportions.” The unsettled political conditions forced the Mexican ranch owners to sell their herds to prevent their de- | struction. Our total imports in 1912 amounted to 326,000 head, of which 305,000 head came from Mexico. FREE, NEXT SUNDAY. The American Sunday Monthly Magazine, contain ing the first chapters of Jack London’s new story, is GIVEN FREE with every copy of the next Sunday American. Save money NOW on Furniture at High’s. We have Beautiful Bedding Plants. 3c each. Atlanta Floral Co., 555 £. Fair Street. “THE VICTOR" Now Well After Using Eckman’s Alterative The makers of Eckman’s Alterative, which Is doing so much good for Lung Trouble, are continually In receipt of wonderful report* of recoveries brought about solely through the use of this medicine. Invent lgate the case of this writer, who used Eckman’s Alterative and who la to-day enjoying good health: 421 8econd Ave.. Aurora. HI. “Gentlemen: Tardon me for not writing soon er. but I wanted to see if I would stay eured. I can now truthfully aay I am perfectly well. I have no pain, no cough, no night sweats, no hay fever. Since a child of two years I have been ailing with lung trouble, which grew worse as I grew older. At the age of fourteen the doctors said If I could not be sent South I would surely die of Consumption. Every winter I would be sure to have either Bronchitis. Pleurisy or Pneumonia. I had Typhoid-Pneu- ' monla one time. I had catarrh of the stomach and bowels and had Hay Fever for the last ; few years; but have not anything of the kind this year. I will answer all letters sent to me, asking a history of my case, from any one suf- i feting with lung trouble.” (Affidavit) ETTA PLATH. (Six years later reports still well.) (Above abbreviated: more on request) Eckman’s Alterative lias been proven by ] many years' test to be most efficacious in cases | of severe Throat and Lung Affections, Bron- , chltls. Bronchial Asthma. Stubborn Colds and i In upbuilding the system. Docs not contain narcotics, poisons or habit-forming drugs. For sale by all Jacobs' Pru* Stores and other lead ing druggists. Writ* -.he Kokman Laboratory. 1 Philadelphia, Fa., for booklet telling of re- 1 corerice and additional evidence. DR. WOOLLEY’S SANITARIUM • a tm . a and all in.bri.ty and Opium and Whisky tn^sss r * years' experience shows these diseases are curable. Patients also treated at their homes. Consultation confidential. 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