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NOTICE If you have any difficulty in buying Heart's Sunday American anywhere in the South notify Circulation Manager. Hearst’s Sunday Ameri- n„ Atlanta. CJa. a n XTRA VOL. I. NO. 9. Copyright, 1313, by The Georgian Company. ATLANTA, OA., SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 191 PRICE FIVE CENTS. Senate and House Are Beginning to Take Some Stock in His Re- Admonitions to Be Pre- John D, Rockefeller Getting Real Poor Tax Returns of Cleveland Show That He Is $2,905 Worse Off Than Last Year. CLEVELAND, May 31.—John l>. Rockefeller is rapidly losing his wealth and is becoming practically a poor man. according to the report of John T. Fisher, tax assessor for Cleveland Heights, in which place the Forest Hill estate of the oil king is situated. The figures show that a year ago JYIr. Rockefeller returned his personal property as worth *7.190. This year he is poorer by $2,905. his return of personal property being $4,285. Last year Mr. Rockefeller’s farm superintendent included some grain peated Admonitions to Be Pre- in the returns. John D. objected to oared for “Yellow Peril” War lhat °" the Kroun<1 ,hat thP K,ain pdfoU lOi I eilOW reni ""dr. ^ was to be used on his estate and that it was not returnable as personal New Dangers Are Pointed Out in property ami should not be taxed. This year the grain was missing from Some of the Situations Con- I the tax duplicate. _ .nr The fl * ur< “ s show that John D. has fronting This Country in Refer- ence to Hawaii and Alaska. WASHINGTON. May 31.—The an nual war scare that Richmond Pear-1 son Hobson. Representative from Alabarpa in Congress. usually stirs up over the “yellow peril,” thereby mean ing Japanese, seems to be a thing hovering In the air at this time. Hobson, the hero of Santiago, know® what he is talking about. He was a naval constructor before he had a desire to represent his district in Congress and anything nautical appeals strongly to him. Aside from the technical parts of nine horses worth $55 each. ten head of cattle worth $40 each and furniture worth $3,300. He has no automobiles here at the time of the year that the assessment' were made, so none is returned for taxation. Dies Shut in Vault As He Clips Coupons Henry W. Hubbard. Missionary Society Treasurer for 35 Years, Succumbs in Bank. NEW YORK. May 31.—Henry W. Hubbard, treasurer of the American Missionary Association for 35 years, his profession. Hobson is keenly alive j died of heart failure yesterday after- to the conditions that confront the ! noon in a vault of the Saf^ Deposit Company of New York. In the Singer American nation. Ever since ha c been in Congress 1 he has harped con tinually on the question of the “yel low peril.” In effect he says tha: Japan has covetous eyes not only on , the Philippines but on Alaska. Given Much Warning. He does not think Japan will make a move to capture the Hawaiian Is lands. although he predicts that if they prove successful in a war with the United States they will denude this nation of its possessions in the East. He has given this country much warning on a -ub.iect that is nearest to his heart. Not territorial ag grandizement. but conservation, per haps preparedness. That’s what Hob son wants. He knows as i navy man that the United States is deficient in the protection of its great coast lines. aUo understands the problems that j confiont a nation that has any idea i of invading the United States. Rut his main contention Is “Is the honor of the United States involved lr. affording protection to the Philip pines and Alaska?” The Philippines*a re material to the Japanese. Alaska has been a bon** of contention between the two Govern ments for the last ten years—the ?eal industry furnishing employment to thousand 0 of Japanese being one ot the reasons why the Japanese would like to obtain sovereignly there. Conditions in Far East. In Hawaii, the balance of power, should Japanese have the right to vote, would be held by th<- Orientals. In the Philippines army officers be lieve that discontented natives would flock to Japanese standards should war be declared between Japan and the United States. What the result would be is hard t° determine. In tlie Philippines, the army, through dint of perseverance, has; succeeded in getting from Congress , . -nyr*, , cnly such appropriations as will pro- LCWlS (jQlS MltteilS vide for the armament of the most Important harbors. There are many places along the coast where hostile fleets from Japan could And harbor, and from which r-xpeditions could be sent through the island, and finally to Manila. In Hawaii it Is different. At Pear. Harbor the United States has spent nearly $13,000,000 in arming what is considered to be the Gibraltar of the Pacific. Yet adverse criticism has been heard, even in army and nav\ circles, that the naval base there is r.ni of the strength that it is supposed to be.' Engineers employed in erect ing the fortifications, it is said, have discovered that a grave mistake was made in Selecting Pearl Harbor as the American base in the islands. Alaska Not Fortified. In Ala.-ka there is no formidable fortification that would aid the “home guard" in staving off a Japan ese invading force. Little money has b*en spent b' the Government in for tifying the principal harbors of the territory; It is closest to Jordan, also, of any of the insular possession* ol the United State®, and, perhaps, is • one of the most logical places for a Japane* fj fleet to attack. Turning from the meager land de fenses that the United States has in rhe Paciflr Representative Hobson points to the navy equipment. The Asiatic squadron is composed ot thirty-five- vessels of all types-'•cat- tere r1 be:ween Manila and China it Blue, Striped, Fancy Best Dressed United States Senator May Set New Style in Washing ton by Donning Them. WASHINGTON, May 31.—Senat jr James Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, the best dressed man in the Senate, may take to wearing woolen mit tens next winter. He has them, at any rate; a dozen pairs—black, blue, brown, striped, fancy and plain weaves. They arrived to-day from a knitting mill company in Chicag ». accompanied by a brief to show that the Underwood bill will prove costly to the industry. The brief sets forth that labor abroad gets* only $3 to $6 a week, while in th s country, it gets $8 to $15 a week.. ONE WOMAN BUYS ENTIRE GROUP OF COLORADO MINES IDA H 1 . One of I deals ir ) SPRINGS. COL.. May 31. the most important mining two years in Clear Creek ■ID RESCUE FIS F Town Pump Mislaid And Doctor Needs It Boy Balls Boat With Instrument— One of the Stomach Variety—as “Dad" Takes Horse Medicine. Winifred James, Authoress, Says World Is Kinder to Cats and Dogs Than to Unhappily Wed. MARRIAGE NEEDS REFORM Building. He had gone to the vaul to deposit securities for the associa tion and to cut coupons that were due. He seemed in excellent health at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, when he said to the Rev. Charles J Ryder, secre tary of the association, as he was leaving his office at 287 Fourth Ave- nut: "Well. I’m going downtown and clip coupons. I’m awfully late this month.” Head Clerk Mitchell of the Safe De posit Company, wondered why Mr. Hubbard was staying in the vault so long At ( losing time the dpor was opened with a passkey. Mr. Hubbard s’at with his head renting on a tabU. He had been dead about an hour, a surgeon from the Hudson Street Hos pital said. “Three Kates Club" Has Cupid's Charter Trio of Washington Society Girls, Including Kate Elkins. Agree to Marry Only for Love. WASHINGTON, May 31 -The Three Kates Club" is the fnost ex clusive social organization in Wasn- ington. Its three members are Masses Katherine Elkins. Katherine Jennings and Katherine Britton. The strictest rule of this club is that no member shall marry except for love. Miss Jennings and Mias Elkins have a common tie in the fact that th Ir immense inheritances .make them the target for fortune hunters. Miss Katherine Britton comes into a charmed circle, perhaps, because the devotion she is receiving from young “Dick” Elkina. County was closed to-day when Mrs. p]tta H. Minter took over the entire i holdings of the I’ommodore group “f mines situated on Red Elephant Mountain. The properties included are known as the Commodore and Tabor tunnel, the White. Boulder Nes:. Free America and Young Amer ica lode mining claims, three mill- Continuecf c 1 * 5, Column 5. Utes and power buildings standing on the line of th® <' r d<>rauo & South ern tracks at Lawson. Divorce Can Only Break Up Wretched Home, Not Happy Ones, She Declares. NEW YORK. May 31.—“We rail it morality to tie two comparative strangers together so inextricably that they efrther have to remain | hideously bound, or else wade into the mud to get free." Winifred James, the well-known English—or rather Australian— authoress, is among us and yesterday afternoon made the above remark and expressed in her customary, easy me. ner. other of her views on mat- j rimony. She recently returned from j a trip to the West Indies. “The marriage ceremony in Jamaica is not followed very rigorously.” said Miss James, "but in all the months I was there I only once saw a negro woman treated harshly or unkindly.” “Marriage Needs Adjusting.” "Now please do not misunderstand ! me.” she continued. "I don’t argue against marriage. It must have been | a necessary thing for the race, other- \ wise it would not have survived so many centuries. But it needs a great deal of adjusting for present uses if there is to be any decent and true morality in it. * “It cannot be right in this age of enlightenment, when even lost dogs and stray cats have champions and when every care is taken to prolong the life of the epileptic and the im becile. that there should be no hope for two fools who at a period when their intelligence was limited or may be temporarily dimmed. put their arms around each other and jumped without any conception of the depth of the water. “Oh. yes. 1 know all about the ar guments against divorce. ‘It will break up the home lifer* Surely it would. It would break up the un happy home life, that is what it is for. and the sooner the better. "Teach Divine Usury.” “We are too much given to portray natural inclinations as sins. It is natural to mate, but a boy can be taught that fastidiousness is no more an eccentricity than brushing his teeth is just as necessary for his health; that to deny himself sordid tilings for the love of something un- sordid is going to return him a hun dred-fold that which he has denied himself. Teach him that divine usury, and teach the girl that it is just as unholy to sell her body in the church as in a street, and you will diminish your divorce list very considerably.” Winifred James has recently be come Mrs. Henri de .Ian Her hus band is an official of the United Fruit Company. She is going to live in Central America. Curtiss Carries Four In New Flying Boat Aviator Makes 60 Miles an Hour in the Air and 50 Miles While Skimming the Water. HAMMONDSPORT, May 31.—The distinction of making a record fiighi with four persons in the first four- passenger fixing boat made in Amer ica belongs to-day to Glen H. Cur tiss. The boat proved unexpectedly fast, averaging more than 60 miles an hour when flying and 50 miles an hour on the water. The, machine is of the tractor type, with the propeller in front. The boat is unusually heavy, weighing when loaded more than a ton. It is designed for rough water use. with a freeboard of about four feet, and eight watertight compartments. A? an extra precaution each of the compartments is provided with an au tomatic boiler. Bob Taft Collecting Harvard’s Old Clothes Son of Ex-President Calls on Senior Law Class to Help Out Charity. CAMBRIDGE. MASS.. May 31.— Robert A. Taft, son of the formef President, has finished his task as a | collector of old clothes at Harvard, where he is a student at the law school. He turned over to the com mittee of the Phillips Brooks House last night one of the largest collec tions of the week. Each year a group of Harvard stu dents make a canvass of the univer sity foF cast-off clothing, old shoes and the like. These are packed and sent to mis* ions and sailors’ homes in Boston and New York. Taft was assigned to the task of i olleeting old « lothes from tht 150 ; member* of th® senior class of the ’ . v v boo! and ki .■ had the busiest ‘ «even days of his life. BROWNVILLE, MINN.. May 31.— James P. Colleran. a Union Veteran, who had been suffering from rheuma tism. swallowed a big dose of h*ns® medicine by mistake to-dav. Dr. Francis Duff\ hurried to Colleran’s house, followed by hulf the men in town. The doctor took a look .it Col leran and the horse medicine bottle and told ”Cv” Jenkins to run over and tell Mrs. Duffy to send the stom ach pump. Jenkins came back out of breath in a few minutes and said Mrs. Duffy pouldn’t And the pump. Dr. Duffy sprinted to his* house and hunted hig;i and low for the pump—the only one in town—while Colleran was doubled up in bed deeply regretting that he wasn't a horse. Finally some one thought that "Jimmy” Duffy, the doc tor’s 10-year-old son. might know- something about the instrument. Scouts went forth in search of "Jimmv” and found him "bailing' out hi* boat .ith the stomach pump. Coll' jn’s life wap saved and "Jim my" went to bed supperless and sting ing with remorse. N, Y, Millionaire on De Luxe Whale Trip John Borden Tires of Big Game and Goes After Monsters of the Sea. SAN FRANCISCO, May 31.—John Borden, a young New York million aire left San Francisco to-day on a private whaling expedition on his new whaler de luxe, the Adventuress. The boat is finished in yacht style ana was built especially for this cruise. Borden was accompanied by Ro\ C. Andrews, a member of the Na tional History Museum an Ameri can expert on whales. The main quest of ihe expedition is- to secure a specimen of the rare bow head whale the least known of the whale family and which has the longest whalebones of any of the species. Borden, an enthusiastic hunter, tir ed of pursuing the usual wild game in Africa and elsewhere and so built bis $50,090 yacht to see if he couldn't find a new thrill hunting the whale. Professor Edward T. Reichert Announces the Discovery of a Method of Distinguishing. UPSETS ANIMAL CLASSES Investigator Finds It Impossible to Mistake the Crystals of One for Another. u.s. Mrs. Luke Lea Now Being Treated +•+ •!••+ Senator Kern Tells of His Recovery Mrs. Luke Lea, wife of the Senator from Tennessee, who is receiving latest lung treatment. Starving Man Chokes On Meal Provided Him Abundance of Kindness Causes Death of Street Corner Loafer in Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, May 31.—An abun dance of kindness cost Frank Leop ard. 36. a homeless man. his life la;e yesterday afternoon. Leopard lounged around Knowlton's corner and was a well-known figure. August Prate met the man during the later afternoon and asked him if he would have a bite of lunch. Leopard accepted gratefully. A bountiful lunch was spread before the man. While he was dining a morsel of food stuck in his throat, and before it could be dislodged he had strangled to death. The body was removed to the morgue. Coroner Foertmeyer is try ing to find relatives of the dead man. He learned that Leopard ds from Milldale, Ky. Jno, Hays Hammond's Pay Cut to $1,50 Day Famous Mine Expert Forced to Waste Much Valuable Time as Witness. NEW YORK. May 31.—John Hays Hammond ha® made his appearance before Judge J. Mack in the United States Court on the average of four days each week or three weeks, ready to testify in a $200,000 damage suit involving the title to certain oil lands in the District of Ozulurna. Vera Cruz, Mex. The frequent postponement of the suit is apparently costing Mr. Ham mond money, as he is allowed only $1.50 a day in witness fees, whereas his daily fees as an expert mining engineer are $1,000 a day and up wards. TESTIFIES HE’S FARMER. BUT CAN SELL COFFINS IN PINCH ST. PAUL. May 31. After naming farming as his sole occupation. T. O. Thompson, of Leonard. N. D.. testify ing at the hearing of the Govern ment's anti-Trust suit against the International Harvester Company, admitted on cross-examination that he is an aeent for the International, handles other lines, is a bank di rector. is associated with an elevator company and has 'sex-ora! side lines Aren't j ou an undertaker, too?' acked Government counsel. "Well, not exactly but I can sell a man a coffin if he wants it," the wit ness replied. PHILADELPHIA. May 31.—Prof Fdward T. Reichert of the University of Pennsylvania, in a report just made to the Carnegie Institution at Washington on his researches to dis cover if possible a method of produc ing life artificially, has announced the discovery of the blood < haracteristics of various human races. Dr. Reichert declares that as soon as he has completed his experiments he will be able to differentiate be tween the blood of a Chinaman. In dian. negio and other races »n as to make his discovery of absolute value In a diagnostic way for medico-legai wo 9k. Blood Crystals Differ. By a study of the different blood cells Dr. Reichert says he has found lhat it is absolutely impossible to mistake the blood crystals of one an imal for those of another, just as l r . would be impossible to mistake the animals themselves. Dr. Reichert describes his discov ery by enumerating some of the an imal- that he has rec lassified. In the old method of classifying animals ac cording to their tribes the bear was always placed in the same family as the dog. the wolf and the fox B\ the new method of comparing the blood crystals of those animals Dr. Reichert has proved lo his satis faction that tne l.*ar is related close* iy to the sea Hops and the seals, as naturalists have contended, and is not related to ihe deg. the wolf or the fox. In the bird world Dr. Reichert says the guinea fowl has oeen classed a* belonging to the same family as the domestic fowl. He has proved also to his satisfaction that the guinea fowl’s Mood crystals are Mke the ostrich’s. Studies Plant Life. In his preliminary researches Di. Reichert studied plant life to get at the underlying methods of the forma tion of tne protoplasm. H.- says that starches from different plans vary in their physical and physio-chemica! properties, and that the differences are distinctive of the plant and can be plotted out ir. the form of reac tion curves which show the specie and the genera from which they spring. His laboratory tecords contain i descriprhn of l,2ec starches obtained from a large number of plants a id p'ant | arts from ail over the world. The scientist declares that the differ ence ;r. the proper.ies of the *\i:t»pl®x organic metabolic plants ard animals efftrs a :ogica basis for the re lass;- flcntior of animols according to the form* of cell life with which the* were born. Dr. Reichert believes he lias arriv ed at the very mechanisms which give rise to the phenomena which in the aggn gate constitute lile. WORKS 16 HOURS A DAY RUNNING 32,000-ACRE FARM (VAL1.A WALLA. W ASH. May 31. — Henry’ Vincent, the wheat grower of Eureka Flat, who harvested 12.000 acres last year, has increased his holdings until this season he will have 32.000 acres in spring and fall w heat. This is believed to be the largest wheat farm in one piece in th*» Un ited States All the wheat is up and the outlook for the crop is good To manag® such * form requires great executive ability. Vincent, w ho stand? 6 feet 4 inches and is of sturdy frame, work.- sixteen hour* ® v ®ry da>. Bo rarely takes more than five hours' sleep. Surgeon General t<> Obtain Cultures and Make Tests of Von Ruck Cure in Hospital. WASHINGTON. May 29.— Interest of Senators in the Von Ruck anti- tuberculosis serum which cured Sen ator Kern. Democratic leader of the upper house, increased to-day when It became known that the wife of Senator Luke Lea, of Tennessee, is now receiving the same treatment at Dr. Von Ruck's sanitarium at Ashe ville, N. C. Mrs. Lea has been at several san itariums. and only about two weeks ago was removed to Dr. Von Ruck's, and, although said to be in an ad vanced stage of the disease, she Is re ported to have been benefited by Dr, Von Ruck's treatment. All the Senators are deeply inter ested in her recovery, because of the heroic and prolonged fight she has been making against the disease. Two years ago her husband, a stalwart athlete, underwent a transfusion op- j eiation and permitted a full quart of j his blood to flow into his wife's veins.' j Temporarily strengthened, but still in grave danger. Mrs. Lea a month later | was ruehed in a special train to Den- : ver. There she partly regained her ! health. Surgeon General to Test It. The resolution of Senator Overman > of North Carolina, which passed the upper house by unanimous vote on I Monday, has already borne fruit. Sur geon Genera! Rupert Blue, in change | of the Public Health Bureau, and wno was directed by the Senate to make a thorough- investigation of the serum, said to-day that no time would be lust in obtaining cultures and distributing them among Government hospitals for tests. Dr. Von Ruck has already placed his serum at the disposal of the naval medical school and experi ments are now being made there. Senator Kern to-day talked freely of his experience at the sanitarium. The Democratic leader spoke of many others who w'ere cured by Dr. Von Ruck about the same time as himself. Among them were Mrs. J. M. Trotter, wife of a wholesale grocer of Chat tanooga, Tenn., and prominent in so ciety there. Kern Relates Experience. "There were many others there at the time, and l have since met and corresponded with a number who said they had not experieneed any recur rent attack.” said the Senator. “This sanitarium is filled all the time, and Dr. Von Ruck has been so successful in the treatment of tuberculosis patients that his serum really ought to be care fully investigated for the benefit of suffeiing humanity. lam very grate ful. and I could not praise him or nis serum too much, although I regretted that Senator Overman had divulged my secret to my colleagues.” Senator Overman said to-day: "I know a lady and her two grandchil dren who were cured by the Von Ruck serum. Also many others, but am not at liberty to mention any names. The serum has been a boon to North Oarolinans. and as Dr. Von Ruck is willing, ought to be given to the world.” Influence of Statesmen From Dixie at Washington Is More Pronounced Than at Any Time Since the Days of Civil War, Wilson Himself Born Southerner Has Treated South Liberally in the Selection of His Cabinet and in Filling Other Posts. In Senate Also, Chairmanships of Most of Big Committees Are in Hands of Southern Men, but There Is No Sectional Feeling, WASHINGTON. May 31.—It la only two or three years alnce Mr. Taft a« President went through the South urging Southerners to hasten the day when they again would take an active and important part in the conduct of the Federal Government. Mr. Taft was sincere In his desire to see the South attain the influential place it occupied at the national capital be fore the Civil War. but he probably did not an^ipate the fulfillment of his wishes In Just the way it has been brought about. The South and Southern influences are more strongly represented In the Government at Washington than ar any other time since the Civil War. Political observer** are beginning to realize this more and more as the lists of appointments to the Federal service come from the White House and the new committee assignments in Congress are studied. In the first place the Presidency itself is in the hand** of a man South ern horn for the first time in nearly half a century. Woodrow Wilson was born in Virginia. w*as graduated from the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, and has re tained strong Southern sentiments from his early training and surround ings. Wilson Liberal to South. In choosing his cabinet Mr. Wilson has been very liberal to the South. More Southerners are in charge of the big executive departments of the Government than since back in th® ’50s. Grover Cleveland gave only two of his cabinet posts to the South in his first administration. He selected Lu cius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, of Mississippi, for his Secretary of In terior and Augustus H. Garland, of Arkansas for his Attorney General. When Cleveland was elected in 1892, he gave only three of the eight cabinet places to the South—select ing John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, for Secretary of the Treasury. LJilary A. Herbert, of Alabama, for Secre tary of the Navy, and Hoke Smith, of Georgia, for Secretary of the Interior. Three of the ten men In President Wilson’s cabinet are credited directly to Southern States, two others w'ere born and have lived most of their live® in the South and one is from a border State. McAdoo a Southerner, Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, comes from North Carolina. James C. McReynolds. the Attorney General, is from Tennessee, and Al bert S. Burleson, the Postmaster Gen eral, is a Texan. The Secretary of the Treasury, Wil liam G McAdoo, is credited to New York State, but it requires only a slight stretch of memory to recall the time when he entered New York City fresh from Georgia with noth ing to build on save one big idea and plenty of pluck. David F. Houston. Secretary of Ag riculture. not only comes from Mis souri, a border Stat£. but is a South erner by birth and training. He was born in North Carolina, was grad uated from the South Carolina Col lege and was president of the Uni versity before he became chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. As contrasted with this impressive list of Southern Cabinet officers. Mr. Tafts official family contained at the close of his administration not a single man who was credited to 3. Southern State. The nearesr approach to it was Charles Nagel, of St. Louis, whrr was Secretary of Commerce and Labor. He was a native of Texas, At the beginning of his administra tion. Pro ident Taft gave the War portfolio to Jacob McG. Dickinson, a