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2 D TTEAKST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JULY 27, TITANIC COURT STRUGGLE PREDICTED IN TRANK CASE Continued From Page 1. that the trial will bo a titanic fight. Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey, Frank Hooper and Assistant Solicitor Stephens will conduct the ca?e again.** Frank. The three are known as ag gressive, tireless lawyers. The Solic itor General has put Into the State’s case all the energy for which he is noted. At the very first he took charge of the case with a masterful hand, and when the mystery eeemed beyond /so lution he set an army of detectives to work Through all the stress of a veering public opinion, he has held firmly to the course he had set, defi ant. obviously preparing for the great fight of his career as a public prose cutor. In most of the preliminar> legal battles, erpeclally in his hardest fight against the Indictment of Con ley, h© has been successful. The Solicitor General, from the evi dence in hia hands, believes in the guilt of Frank. He will defend his conviction to the end. The defenpe presents a corps of at- tornevs who are reputed to be as able criminal lawyers as the South can produce. Luther Z Rosser, county attorney, is the towering figure of the deftjise. He is a pitiless questioner of witnesses and cross-examinations which he conducts are generally pro ductive of significant results. The defense will build its greatest hope, it is expected, on the charge that Jim Conley killed the Phagan girl Jim Conley will be one of the witnesses against Frank, and all the force, all the ruthless power of Luther Rosser’s questions will be brought into play against the negro. The public ex pects a wonderful psychological dem onstration or> the hour the negro takes the stand. Aroold Striking Figure. \o less powerful as a criminal law yer is Reuben R. Arnold, who was re tained by the defense to co-operate with Mr. Rosser. Arnold is a brilliant lawyer, and always a spectacular und compelling figure in the criminal cases with which he is connected. Asso ciated with Rossor and Arnold in the case will be Herbert Haas and Sam Boorstln, who were employed by the Frank family when Leo Frank first was arrested, and who have been zealous in conducting the score of in vestigations that were made neces sary by the unexpected turns which Incidents took time after timj The trial will be called Monday morning in the Superior Court room on the first floor of the courthouse, at South Pryor and Hunter streets. The room, which is the largest available to the Stata courts, is expected to be all too small for the crowd that will come, eagerly curious and expectant. A strict police supervision of the crowds will he necessary, and ar rangements already are being made by court officials to prevent conges tion or disturbance. Special deputies will be employed for the occasion, and altogether It is expected that twenty officers will guard the courtroom. The little army will be in charge of Deputy Sheriff Miner, who will be stationed at the mMn entrance. According to the plan, all principals in the case, all who are interested as lawyers, rela tives. witnesses and press represen tatives, will be admitted before any spectators are allowed to enter. Afte»* them the spectators will be admitted, one by one. until the seats in the room are filled. Then the doors will be locked. It has been sugested In the Sheriff’s office that every person admitted to the courtroom will be searched for firearms. but whether this course will be followed has not been decided. Postponement Unlikely. Judge L. S. Roan will preside at the trial. He announced in a telegram from Covington, where he is spending a short vacation, that the case will be called Monday morning, without fail. There Is little probability that an attempt will he made to obtain a postponement, although it haR been hinted that there are one or two causes which might tend to bring about delay. One is excesive heat, another the fact that certain attor neys in the case are engaged simul taneously in other litigation hardly less important. But the court officials and all who are Interested vitally are ready to scout the idea of a postpone ment „ The ground thus is laid for what is confidently expected to be the great est battle of Atlanta’s legal history. A mysterious death, a chain of dam aging circumstances pointing to the guilt of the accused, a coterie of law yers for the defense who are given to surprises and who are known for in exhaustible resources, a Solicitor who 1* determined and a fighter—every thing points to a great struggle. Considerable difficulty will h© en tailed at the first, it is expected, when the Jury must be drawn. 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Whether this request will be granted is altogether in the discretion of the trial Judge. It is expected, however, that It will be refused unless significant reasons are brought to bear by the defense. Trial Will Last Days. Then the case will start. Evidence probably will not be taken until the morning or afternoon of the second day It will be taken slowly, in great detail, at such length as to Insure a trial of many days’ duration, if tne b ngth of time consumed in examining the witnesses at the Coroner’s inquest is any indication. Surprises will come, surely. It is likely that most of the surprises will be those of tho defense, the public generally crediting that aide with more evidence hitherto hidden than the prosecution. The State’s caHo has been perpet ually before the public. The agencies of the State have been crossed at times, and out of the antagonism has grow’n publicity that was not good for the privacy of the prosecution a line of attack. Tho defense, on the other hand, has kept quiet. When the Mln- cey affidavit was published last week, favoring the defense, it came as a surprise to the public, and led every one to expect further surprises. The Frank trial absorbs the public Interest for more than one reason. The revolting nature of the crime by which Mary Phagan went to her death, the mystery surrounding its circumstances, the uncertainty that came with new revelations day after day, pointing first to one and then ;o another suspect, the final centering of all suspicion on the two prisoners— Prank and Conley—the charges and countercharges that have been ban died back and forth—all make the case one to attract and to hold the Interest of every man or woman who can hear or read. At Factory Short Tim©. Mary Phagan, an employee of the National Pencil Factory, was a girl 14 years old. Her father was dead, and she lived with her mother and her stepfather. W. J Coleman, at No. 146 Lindsay street. This is in that sub urban section of Atlanta known as Bellwood. She was a gay, friendly, lovable girl, well liked by the children of the neighborhood and by the grown folks as well, according to every rev elation of her personality that has come since her death. The little girl had worked for some time, straitened circumstances of th family driving her to that necessity. She had been employed at the pencil factory on South Forsyth street only a short time. Saturday afternoon, April 26. she went to the factory to draw her week ly pay. It was the day of the Con federate Memorial parade. Forsyth street was deserted. The factory was quiet. The little girl went alone to the big building at about 12:10 or 12:15 o’clock, according to the state ment of the street car men who took from her home to the down town sec tion. Watchman Finds Body. Early Sunday morning, at about 3 o’clock, Newt Lee, the negro watch man at the factory building, found the . girl’s body in a dark coi ner of the * basement, bloody from a dozen cuts and bruises. The clothes were torn, and every evidence pointed to the fact that there had been a struggle in which the little girl fought vainly against her assailant. Her neck was discolored, where a rope had been used to lower her body down an ele vator shaft from the first floor. Later, on the third floor, in the bathroom of the factory, blood, strands of hair and other evidences of a Struggle wcro found, pointing to the fact that the child had there been at tacked first. Few men were In the factory build ing between the last time Mary Pha- gan was seen alive and the hour her body was found by the night watch man. The men were Leo Frank, the factory superintendent; Jim Conley, a negro sweeper; Newt Lee, the negro night watchman; John Gantt, a for mer employee of the company who en tered with Frank’s permission, that he might get a pair of shoes he had left behind, and two workers. Harry Denham and Arthur White, who were on the fourth floor and who remain ed in the building until 3 o’clock. At that time Frank, who had left the building at 1 o’clock, came in and let them out. Frank was alone in the factory until 4 o’clock, by his own ad mission. When Cdnley came in, or when he left, no one knows. Newt Lee Suspected. After the first discovery of the body suspicion fell on Newt Lee, who ha I reported the discovery of the body. He was arrested. The negro, frightened to within an inch of his life, protested his innocence. The police were not satisfied that he was the murderer, and began the search. Information came thick and fast and of every variety. The first tangi ble statement was from Ed Sentell. a grocery man, who said he had seen Mary Phagan walking by the side of a tall young man as late a» 12:30 o’clock Saturday night. Later he identified the young man as Arthur Mullinax. a street car worker. Mullinax was ar rested. Develpornents came fresh with every hour that day. Gantt, the young man who was in the factory late Sat urday afternoon, was arrested on sus picion. which deepened when it was announced that he had been in love with Mary Phagan. Monday morning following the dis covery of the. body an inquest was held, and as a result of revelations that he had been alone in the factory building much of Saturday afternoon. Superintendent Frank was arrested on suspicion. Detectives asserted their conviction that the guilt lay between I^ee and Frank. Gantt and Mullinax, proving alibis, were released. The third day of the mystery a young man named Paul Bowen was arrested in Houston. Tex., on the charge that he had killed Mary Pha gan. It is said that he had acted in a suspicious manner upon being con fronted with news of the girl’s death. He was arrested by the Houston po lice. but later was released when he established an alibL Uut of his ar- Washington Society Trembles ^••1* ‘Fairest Girl’ Turns Author TOWNS ARE ALL •!•*+ +•+ +•+ +•+ Miss Hinckley Writes Experience Miss Gladys Hinckley, called “the most beautiful girl in America, ” who has written her experiences in Washington society Brilliant Young Woman Will Tell Heal Facts of jife in the Capital’s Whirl. WASHINGTON. July 26.—Society 1h waiting, it can’t be said eagerly, for the publication of Miss Gladys Hinckley^s book. “My Experience in Society." in fact, it I'' v hie pet - d that there are not a few of the Cap ital’s four hundred who would breathe with more ease if they were assured that the girl called by the Russian Ambassador “the most beautiful girl in America" had decided to forego her literary career. So far Miss Hinckley has been able to keep secret Just what her book will reveal, though all society has know n she has been working on it for monthH. The young author, she is Just 20, has had a decidedly Interesting ca reer since her debut a couple of years ago. Tier beauty made her admired, but her caustic wit has made her feared. She is a deep student and is known to be fearless in expressing her view's. Realizing this, the society set is ex pecting a pretty frank statement of Miss Hinckley’s experiences, and there is no great Joy in the expecta tion. Miss Hinckley does not hive to write for a livelihood. She has a'for tune in her own name, while society momentarily expects the announce ment of her engagement to young Jerome Bonaparte. Asks Governor to j Stop Papa's Drinking! J Girl’s Appeal Touches Heart of Ore gon’s Chief Executive, Who Or ders Investigation. Magical Development of Section! Is Aided by Gainesville and Northwestern Road. Magical development in the lum ber sections of the North Georgia mountains lias caught in its tide not only Robertstown, about whose growth a story appeared recently in The Sunday American, but neighbor ing towns as well—Helen, Brookton, Clermont and Cleveland. It Is at Helen that the overnight town was built, and not at Roberts town. as the story had it. Helen, named for the daughter of the presi dent of the new railroad into that section, was laid down in the prime val forest, and now is a town with electric-lighted hotel and residences, waterworks and all the appurten ances of a modem city. The new railroad is the Gainesville and Northwestern Railroad, which now has in operation 37 miles of track well constructed and laid with 60-pound rail, with mgdern depots being completed along the line of road between Gainesville and North Helen. Robertstown, an old settle ment, now is known as North Helen, the name being changed by the rail road company. The trains are operated by a tele phone system, and are imposing af fairs with their 75-ton locomotives. Stops are made at sixteen stations along the line. rest grew a scandal In the Houston police circles. That Lee killed the girl was assured by the detectives for several days. By the side of the girl’s body had been found several dirty scraps of paper, on which were written almost unde cipherable words. They were sup- posedl> from the unfortunate girl. One note was as follows: "Ho said he wood love me laid down like the night witch did it, but that long. tall, black negro did it by his- self.” The other was: “Mama, that negro hired down here did this I went to get water and he pushed me down this hole a long tall negro black that has it woke long lean tall negro 1 write while play with me.’*. Experts declared positively that these notes were in Lee’s handwrit ing. The inquest, stretching through several clays, was productive of one result, at least. The bulk of the sus picion veered to Frank. The negro Lee made a number of candid state ments which afterward were found to be true, and thus much of the suspi cion against him lightened. Elevator Boy Arrested. Testimony tending to show that Geron Bailey, a negro elevator boy in the factory's employ, hud been seen lurking around the building the fatal Saturday evening, brought about his arrest. Lee and Bailey still are held in the Tower, although suspicion against them is negligible. Fntil several days after the body of the unfortunate girl was found no one had thought of Conley as a man to be suspected. But while the inquest over Mary Phagan’? body was in progress E. F. Holloway, an employee of the factory, found the negro sweeper in a secluded spot on the fourth floor washing a bloody shirr. He told detectives, and Conley was arrested oti suspicion. Days passed, days that were full of theories and iptcul&tion, but produc tive of no real result. Eyes were turned to Frank as the guilty person, with an inconsiderable number of peo ple suspecting Newt I.ree. On May 25 came a statement from a woman named Mrs. Mima Form by, the keeper of a rooming house. Mrs. Formby declared that the night of the murder Frank had telephoned her with the request that she rent him a room for himself and a girl. She de clared in her statement that she re fused him; that he insisted, later be coming desperate and announcing that it was a matter almost of life and death with him. The statement was pretty generally discredited by the public. Conley Admit* Writing Notes. After three weeks Frank was in dicted by the Grand Jury. Then came a startling and unex pected thing. Jim Conley, silent un der a siege of questions, suddenly is- f sued an affidavit, in which he de clared that he had written the notes at Frank's dictation, on Friday before the Sunday on which the girl's body was found. Not until then was Conley suspected with any degree of strength. But when the affidavit came, with its in conceivable charge that Frank had plotted the death of the girl more than a day before he kUled her, Con ley was suspected of having had a hand in the murder. It was recalled that Mary Phagan’s visit to the fac tory had not been anticipated Friday, and that there w’ould have been no reason for a murder plot. Conley, it seemed, had destroyed himself. The next day he issued a revised affidavit, declaring that he wrote the notes on the morning of Saturday, the day before the body was found. Then came his third affidavit, that he had dragged the body of the girl to the cellar, where it was found, at the in stance of Frank. Tho three affidavits semed to con tradict one another, and to make charges that were unbelievable. It was not until then that suspicion against the negro solidified. Public speculation and doubt deep ened. Then, after two weeks, it de veloped that W. H. Mlncey, a school teacher, in conversation with a negro on the afternoon of April 26, when the murder occurred, had ben told by the negro: “Go away. I’ve killed a girl this evening. I don’t want to kill anybody else.” M«ncey Identifies Conley. He identified this negro as Con ley. Against every statement and every affidavit that has been published, charges of untruthfuiness and mis apprehension have been made by one side or the other. Mincey’s statement has been attacked. Conley’s affidavits are declared false, Mrs. Formby’* declaration is said to be without foundation. Refutations come for every bit of evidence, revealing plain ly that the trial itself will be a fight of veracity and of reasonableness of testimony. And so the case stands to-day. Brilliant detective talent has been en gaged. Pinkertons were first retained to reinforce the local detectives, and later the Burns men were called in. But out of that incident grew another scandal, another of the unpleasant in cidental features that have made the Phagan case the most notable of Georgia’s crime annals, even beyond the fact that It is the greatest mys tery. Last week It was announced that the Pinkertons believed Frank inno cent, after weeks of announcing that he was guilty. Later the declaration came that they had not made the statement. This incident was value less in unfolding the mystery, but is indicative of the turmoil in which the * case has been from the first. ‘Valueless’ Land Worth Thousands Farmer Awakens to Knowledge De spised Acres Are Desired by Lumber Company. MEDICINE LODGE, KANS, July 26.—Ten acres of plow land in a little canyon for which he never expected to get $100 has been found by J. W. Smith, known hereabouts as “Buffalo’’ Smith, to hold a fortune for him. The ten acres are covered with old walnut trees, the only grove of the kind with- in miles of this city. Several years ago Smith rented his ranch, which included the canyon of walnut trees, and went to Idaho. Sev eral months ago a timber hunter for a w'alnut mill learned of the gro/o and tried to buy the land. The man’s insistence aroused Smith's curiosity and he came back to look it over. Smith had a survey made of the patch and is now dicker ing with the walnut mill for a sale. The last offer was for $10,000 for the patch. He is holding out for more. PROMOTER TO FIX CAVERN TO RIVAL MAMMOTH CAVE SPRINGFIELD, MO., July 26.—The sale of Fisher's Cave, one of the most beautiful of the natural caves of the Ozarks, to H. E. Peterson, of Utah, is announced. Peterson will at once wire the cavern for electricity. He believes the cave’s marvels superior to those of Mammoth Cave. The cav ern extends a mile Into the hillside, and contains a navigable river, which is the longest subterranean stream in the State. Robert Smith, the former owner, has made a reputation as “cave farmer,” and every year has earned large profits from the sale of mushrooms, rhubarb and frog legs. PAUL REVERE IN AUTO WARNS VILLAGERS OF FIRE CANTON, OHIO, July 26.—A mod ern Paul Revere, in an auto, rode through the village of Freeburg. east of Canton, tooting his horn frantic ally and shouting “Fire” w’lth all his might. The villagers awoke to ?ee part of their little town in flames. They formed a bucket brigade and fought the fire all night long. A part of the Alliance fire department came to aid them, but it could get no water. The general store and barn of Lief & Hahn was destroyed and several dwellings were badly damaged. The total loss was estimated at $10,000. BONES OF INDIAN PRINCESS UNEARTHED BY GRADING SALEM, OREG„ July 26.—What is believed to be the skeleton of an In dian princess has been unearthed by workmen grading in front of property near State street. The bones were in an upright position, and around them w'ere quantities of beads and other rare Indian ornaments. Near the bones was a stone foot which is believed to have been the totem of the tribe. The woman was at least 100 years of age. ILLINOIS FARMERS OFFER BOUNTY FOR CHINCH BUGS ST LOUIS, July 26.—Farmers in Ma coupin County, Illinois, are making a profit out of a pest by taking advan tage of one of the strangest “bounty” of fers ever made. Macoupin County business men or ganized a committee whch offered $2 a bushel for all chinch bugs sent in by farmers to the committee headquarters at Carlinville. An even bushel measure is estimated to contain about 8,200,000 Each pair will produce from 200 to 400 bugs. ELEVATOR BOY FINDS DIAMOND IN CHEAP CIGAR SAN FRANCISCO. July 26—John Orin. elevator man in the Harding Building, smokes tw’o-for-a-nickel cigars. Yesterday, as he bit off the end of a cigar, his teeth struck some thing hard. Orin investigated and, as he looked at the frayed end of his moderately-priced perfecto, he found himself staring at the polished facets of a perfectly good little diamond weighing one-half carat. “DEAD" MAN RETURNS HOME. CHICO, CAU July 26.—Richard Crittenden, miner, who left this city ten years ago for French Gulch Shasta County, and Who was a year afterward reported dead, gave ht-» friends a shock by appearing and shaking hands with them. SALEM, OREG.. July 26.—The faith of a little girl in the power of the Governor to make everybody stop selling her papa “drinks" so her mam ma will have money with which to buy clothes, is graphically portrayed in a letter received bv Governor West from a little girl living in a email Oregon coast town. The letter says; “Mr. West, Dear Governor: “I am a little girl, 12 years old. My papa is a hard w'orking man and he is not very well, but what I am trying to tell you is that oftentimes he gives the hotels for drink what we need at home, oh, so bad, and they sell it to him on Sunuay, too, and it makes us all so unhappy. My dear mamma can not go to church She has no clothes to wear like she us»ed to have. Oh, I wish you could do something for us. He is often so cross to my mother. “I tried to earn enough to buy my* mother some clothes. It is such hard work to earn money when you are so small.” TOD.S.ISSEE JAP CONQUEST OF MEXICO Beauty a State of Mind, Says Doctor Homely Girls May Remedy Defects by Concentration on Ideal of Pulchritude. CHICAGO, July 26.—Dr. C. Frank lin Leavitt has made public a lesson in winning a husband by suggestion. “A woman has two weapons— thought and action. When she is pos sessed of a ‘going mind’ she is almost irresistible. A woman with power wins the man she wants, "The first lesson to all unattractive women should be to picture them selves in a receptive attitude toward men. From childhood they should be taught to meet the opposite sex with out fear and bashfulness. Fear gives a shock. “Thoughts properly directed can change the physical being. From concentration on a subject fifteen minutes a day women have become beautiful. They should suggest to themselves at intervals that they are beautiful. “Married women should take ‘treat ments’ to retain the affections of their husbands. Going back to the old days of honeymoon attraction she is able to keep her husband interested.” Conscience Hurts •m Few U, S. Employees Amount Returned by Those Whom Error or Fraud Benefits Is Decidedly Small. WASHINGTON, July 26.—Fewer penitents tortured by the “still small voice” confessed and surrendered “conscience money” to the Federal Government during the fiscal year 1913 than for many years. The "con science fund” received during the twelve months ended June 30 totaled only $2,814.44, the lowest amount since 1901 and comparable with a hundred year average of $4,200. That fund is the only official index to the scruples, but no Treasury of ficial attempts to explain the decrease in restitution of money received from the Government by fraud or error. During the last hundred years the Government has received conscience contributions aggregating nearly a half million dollars, the. exact figures up to June 30 last being $434,615.69. Baltimorean Exiled By Servant Problem Society Leader Prefers His American Home, but Goes Abroad to Get Service. BALTIMORE, July 26.—Samuel 8. Keyser, whom Baltimore society gave such a warm welcome last winter when he returned to his native city after an absence of 15 years, has sold his big house at No. 609 Washington Place and will again go abroad to live, driven hence by the complexities of the serv ant problem. In London Mr. Keyser maintained a beautiful home, but Baltimore, according to his oft-repeated statement since his return, is the ideal place to live. GARBAGE MAN HIDES FACT HE IS BLIND FOR 2 YEARS DENVER, July 26—For two years Edward Dormer ha? worked faith fully as a garbage collector and has a good record. City officials In the sanitary department who employed him did not know he was blind until recently. He as able to get about with the ease of one with clear vision, but Is very sensitive about his affliction. City sanitary officials were dum- founded when they learned of Dor mer's affliction. He has not lost a day since hi? employment and will be allowed to retain his position. PURSE OF MOURNER IS STOLEN FROM GRAVE’S SIDE SHELBYVILLE. IND.. July 26.— Mrs. O. L. Adams, of this city, when decorating the grave of a relative at Forest Hill Cemetery, hung her pocketbook, containing jewels valued at $500, on the tombstone. She went away, leaving the purse hanging on the stone. When she re membered where she had left it and returned the purse had disappeared. accidentaTpicture ORNAMENTS CAPITOL Continued From Pag© 1. been investigating Mexico and Cen tral America, and there can be no doubt of the favorable nature of the reports to Tokio. Nature produced there a section so much like Japan that its visiting natives feel at once at home. This marvelously fertile country has been given up for cen turies to the rapacity of Spanish con querors and native despots. Japan awoke half a century ago, and since then has astounded the world by its superb advancement. In that half-century the principal con tribution of Central America to the world were “revolutions” which gave picturesque material for comic operas and plots for grotesque fiction. Mexico for centuries has been the victim of military adventurers and political plunderers, and looks back with longing to the Interim during which Porflrio Diaz ruled as the most absolute despot in modern history. The United States would not make a move to remedy these conditions and interpose the Monroe Doctrine in the way of any other power, with the result that the world still con tains a vast and practically undevel oped tract of land perfectly suited to the expansion needs of Japan. Hail Japan a* a David. The stand taken by Japan against the United States and its demand for a recognition of its equality has met with the enthusiastic approval of the jingo political factions in all of our “Monroe Doctrine Republics.” All anti-American factions in Mexico and Central America acclaim Japan the David who will humiliate the dollar- hunting Goliah. In recent years the Japanese have sedulously conducted a campaign cal culated to win the favor of the ruling officials of the Monroe Doctrine zone, and have lost no opportunity to fan the anti-American sentiment. This hatred of the United States does not flow from any act. It arises and is fed by the very fact that we still proclaim the sovereignty of a Monroe Doctrine, which implies that the republics affected by it are in ferior and are therefore entitled to our protection against the world and against themselves. Their contempt arises from the fact that we have not enforced the detest ed doctrine. What does Japan now say to the anti-American factions of our Mon roe Doctrine republics? She says: “We also are classed as inferiors by the United States, whose Declaration of Independence asserts that all men are created equal. Let us co-operate to resent these insults.” Birthplace of Japan. But, a far closer tie than a lust for revenge binds the peoples of the American tropics to Japan. Millions of the natives of Mexico and Central America are Japanese in all save name! This Is a startling statement, but it is absolutely true. Scores of so- called Indian tribes scattered all the way from Northern Mexico to Costa Rica speak languages derived directly from the Japanese, look like Japa nese and follow closely the primitive arts and customs of the Japanese. It is a moot question with archaeol ogists whether Japan was settled from Mexico or whether Mexico was settled from Japan. There are cogent reasons for the belief that the birth place of the Japanese race was in Mexico, or Central America, and that some great war or great migration resulted in a pilgrimage northward to Alaska and thence to Japan. The reader should understand that strictly speaking there is no such thing as a Mexican nationality. This applies to all of the Monroe Doctrine republics. The upper and ruling class is of Spanish descent or strain from inter-marriage with the innumerable branches of the native stock. This native stock is cs-lled “Indian,” but millions of them are not Indians. There are hundreds of these so- called Indian tribes. They speak as many different languages. They con stitute the endrmous majority of the population, but they play almost no part in the Government. Different Class of Indians. The Spanish who came with and who followed Cortez naturally inter married with the more aggressive and best-favored of the native races. The Indians who inhabited the present territoty of the United States bore absolutely no relation to those in Mexico and Central America, who reared wonderful cities whose ruins still attest their advancement and their Japanese origin. There are at least ten known tribes In Mexico where an A?iatic Japanese can make himself readily understood. There is one so-called Indian tribe in Mexico in which a vocabulary of 2.000 words contains not less than 1,600 which are pure Japanese. The observing stranger who walks for the first time the streets of Mex ico City. Orizaba, Guatemala City or w'ho penetrates into the interior of these countries can not fail to note that a large share of the natives bear on their faces the plain proof of their kinship to the subjects of the Mikado The physiognomy of many of the up per classes reveals a fine blending of the distinctive facial lines of the Spaniard and the Japanese. Mikado's Subjects Welcome. There is an intuitive recognition by the people of their kinship to the Japanese. The door? of most of these republics are open to subjects of the Mikado. The school children are taught to respect the military prow ess of a race deemed inferior by a world who did not awake to the truth until the little Jap conquered Russia. The school children of Mexico are also taught that their country defeated the United States in its attempt to annex their soil. A f?w years ago I witnessed a mili tary parade in Mexico City in honor of her independence. A company of marines from a Japanese cruiser was in line. Flowers were strewn in their path. A half million people greeted them as if they were their saviors. All along the line arose the affectionate salutation of “Brothers." I did notf understand it; I doubt if they under stood it, but back of it all was a racial intuition. It is a matter of history that Mexico stood ready to deed to Japan a naval base in Magdalena Bay. Had not the United States intervened Japan might now posses? all of the Mexican terri tory of Lower California. Japan Moves Steadily. f I do not say that Japan contem plates at present the actual occupa tion or military conquest of any of these countries. This is not within her probable power, but Japan Is moving steadily for the settlement and devel opment of these neglected and revo lution-desolated republics. The Japanese will naturally take possession of fields of enterprise once possessed by detested Americans. Thus the doors are opened for the re incarnation in tropical America of the old Japan which has slumbered through the ages. Its vigorou? Asiatic offspring can pour 20.000,1)04) of its people into it and create the richest and most beautiful empire the world has ever known. We could do the same thing, but w& seem to have "more important mat ters to attend to.” DYING MEXICAN WRITES HE’LL SEE FRIEND BELOW TACOMA, July 26.—While the .street? were crowded with merry makers. a Mexican, who gave his name as Joe Moonlight, and Joseph Porter, members of a troupe of cow boys performing here, were shot by an unidentified negro. The Mexican will die. The Mexican, lying on a cot in the hospital, lighted a cigarette, called for a pencil and paper and wrote: “Good-by, Dave; will see you be low.” Tho message was addressed to Dave Porter, National City, Cal. , COMPLETES 72D YEAR IN SERVICE OF SINGLE FIRM KENOSHA, WIS., July 26.—George Yule, veteran wagonmaker, has Just completed seventy-two years of con tinuous service with one firm here. He became superintendent of the * wagon factory more than sixty years ago, a position he held for thirty years. For twenty years he was vice president .and is now the active head of the company. Although 90. Presi dent Yule is one of the first officials to reach the office in the morning. WOMAN MARRIES BROTHER OF DIVORCED HUSBAND TAYLORSVILLE, ILL., July 26.— Monroe Nave, 24, and Mrs. Gracey Nave, 30, were married by Rev. John Score, pastor of Clayton Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mrs. Nave told Deputy Recorder Otto Preiss, who issued the license, she had been di vorced from Monroe Nave’s elder brother in Hillsboro, Ill. To Overcome Sunburn, Tan, Freckles, Wrinkles (From Outdoor Life.) If you are freckled, tanned or sun burnt. dab a liberal amount of mer- colized wax on the face and allow it to remain over night. When you wash off the wax in the morning, fine, flaky, almost invisible particles of cuticle come with it. Repeating this daily, the entire outer skin is absorbed, but so gradually, there's not the slightest hurt or inconven ience. Even the stubbornest freckles f field to this treatment. The under - ying skin which forms the new com plexion Is so fresh and youthful-look ing you’ll marvel at the transforma tion. It’s the only thing I know to actually discard an aged, faded, muddy or blotchy complexion. It is fine for a discolored neck. One ounce of mercolized wax, procurable at any > drug store, is sufficient in most cases. If sun and wind make you squint and frown, you’re bound to cultivate wrinkles and crow’s feet. To over come these quickly, bathe the face in a solution made by dissolving an ounce of powdered saxolite in a half pint witch hazel. EXCURSIONS Two great tours East and West; special trains, exclusive ships; all ex pense paid; best hotels. On August 9 Southern Merchants’ Tour (free to merchants) visiting Cincinnati, In dianapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee and I^ake Michigan An eight-day ex pense-paid trip for only $49.75 (ticket good for thirty days). August 16. Our great 5,000-mile circle tour of Cin cinnati. Detroit, Buffalo, Niagara Falls. 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