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1 FTEATCST’S SUNDAY AFRICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 1013. 3 D 13,001,000.00 Commandant at Ft. Leavenworth Started Five Years Ago on Stupendous Task. PRISONERS CONSTRUCTORS Three Hundred of Them Employed on the Work Proper—Some of the Sanitary Precautions. FORT LEAVENWORTH, KANS., Aug. 2.—Beginning: five years ago With an appropriation of $643,000, Lieutenant Colonel Slavens, com mandant of the United States Mili tary Prison here, set out to build the finest penitentiary in the United States, to cost close to $3,000,000. The new prison is rapidly approaching completion, and when it is finished the cost will be well within the orig inal appropriation. Meantime it will have changed its character, for instead of making con victs of deserters and other petty of fenders, Uncle Sam is going to try another plan. There is too much good soldier material wasted by the old system. Uncle Sam is going to conserve this by giving the deserters a chance to go back to the ranks, through the reformatory, and clear their records. Through their labor Uncle Sam has been enabled to save the difference between $643,000 and $3,000,000. Al ready the prison walls, power plant, auditorium and kitchen have been completed, and within a very short time two of the four cell wings will be ready. Labor Problem Easy. The labor was the easiest problem Colonel Slavens had to solve. Con fined in the prison are men from every walk of life. There are now 960 men in the prison, mostly deserters from the army. Three hundred of them are em ployed on the construction proper, while the others are assigned to the work of preparing material for the different buildings. In addition, pris oners operate the post terminal rail way system, aid in the construction of roads, the preservation of forests and lands, till the soil on the prison farm, besides making clothing and shoes. The thick walls of the prison are of concrete blocks, the foundation of which is in some places 30 feet in the ground. The cellhouses are of brick, burned In the prison kiln; concrete blocks, made by the prisoners, and steel. The walls are several feet thick. The crushed stone was taken from the prison quarry. Even the usual expensive feature of building, the woodwork, is costing the Government little. From the forest of trees, many of them walnut, the lumber for the woodwork Is obtained and the work ers in the mill are turning out the finest of finished material. Three-story Cellhouses. The cellhouses are three stories, each containing eight tiers of modern cells. Each cell is equipped with a toilet, a cot, an electric light and a chair. One man will be allotted to each cell. The big auditorium has a seating capacity of 2,200. Th© stage is fire proof and sufficiently large for a big production. The scenery is being painted by an artist who is serving a term for desertion. The dining hall is as large as the auditorium and is now being used daily. The bathhouse is said to be one of the largest in the country; the entire command can bathe within a few hours. There are now 968 men confined and the old prison quarters are crowded to capacity. When the new prison is completed 2,000 can be comfortably quartered. The new prison Is not to be a pris on at all, but a detention home for deserters and petty offenders. All hardened criminals and those found guilty of grave offenses are to be confined at Alcatraz Island, Cali fornia. Plenty of Work to Do. ‘‘After the prison is completed what will all of the prisoners do?” Col onel Slavens was asked. “Why, there will be plenty of work for all of them mapped out,” was the reply. “We have a model farm here of 700 acres and in September we are to Install a dairy with 60 cows to supply the prison with milk and but ter. The yield on the farm this year will be great. “But not all prisoners can be given farm work, so within a short time the Government is going to try out the detention system. This principle will first be introduced in the prison here and it will be watched by mili tary experts throughout the world. “Prisoners will be detailed in com panies and drilled and Instructed in the use of firearms, signaling, engi neering and other branches. They will be given much the same instruc tion as are the regulars. Many of the men now confined here would make excellent soldiers if given the chance. “Men who show' themselves worthy will have the chance to go back into the service again following their dis charge from the prison if they care to. Before, when discharged from the prison, they w'ent away with a black mark against them. They were dishonorably discharged from the army and never could re-enlist. I think that the system will prove very successful.” Makes 98,000 of 100,000-Mile Walk Pedestrain Now Thirty Started on Long Jaunt When Newsboy. Is After $30,000. “American Beauty” Will Wed +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ Noted Model in Strange Romance +•+ +•+ +•+ Her Picture Wins a Husband Two poses of Miss Hannah A. Berlinger, the original of Pen- rhyn Stanslaw’s “American Girl,’’.and model for Harrison Fish er, Charles Dana Gibson, Clarence F. Underwood and others, who is to marry young municipal contractor in October. OF MILLIONS IF STRATTON Mrs. Sophia Kennedy Stratton Declares Her Mite Started Mine Owner on Road to Riches. DENVER, Aug. 2.—Mrs. S. G. Ken- nedy, or, as she now calls herself, Mrs. Sophia Gertrude Stratton, who has filed suit against the trustees of the Winfield Scott Stratton estate, asking a widow’s share of the mil lions he left, tells a strange story. She says she is entitled to half of the Stratton millions—that she was the legal wife of the famous mining man, that he deserted her after tak ing $10,000 of her money; that he be came a bigamist by marrying again in Colorado. "I’ve had a hard time of it since Stratton deserted me in Texas,” she said. “I knew what it meant to have money to spend before I mar ried him, January 1, 1874, when I was ‘Widow Poor.’ Gave Stratton $10,000. ‘T gave him $10,000 and he rode away with my money, telling me he was going to the Panhandle to buy cattle. “I waited several weeks, and, not hearing, started out to search. In a wagon with the twins, Scott and Frances, only 4 months old, I start ed out for Owens’ ranch, hundreds of miles across the plains. “Owens’ ranch was the headquar ters of cattle men. In round-up time Original of Stanslaw’s “American Girl” Is Literally Captured at Marriage License Window. NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—The old adage, “Faint heart never won fair lady,” was never more forcibly illus trated than In the announcement that Miss Hannah Arline Berlinger, one of the most famous artists’ models, is to wed Ronald J. McKinnon, mu nicipal contractor, in October, the exact date not yet being set. The circumstances leading up to the engagement read like a page from one of the day’s “best sellers,” the only essential difference being that they are facts, while the other is fiction. Mr. McKinnon was walking one day in Brentano’s studio, at Fifth avenu» and Twenty-eighth street, with a friend, when he saw a picture of Miss Berlinger by Penrhyn Stans- law, the artist. He remarked to his friend that from then on the ambi tion of his life would be to meet the original. Repeatedly Views Picture. The matter passed from his friend’s mind, but not so with McKinnon. He visited the gallery repeatedly to gaze on the picture and finally confided his attachment for the picture to a second friend, and asked the latter to visit the studio with him. This the friend consented to do, and on seeing the picture informed McKinnon that he knew the young lady well and would secure an intro duction for him. The presentation followed and immediately McKinnon took his place in th e young lady’s train of admirers. On July 9 last. Miss Berlinger ac companied Mr. McKinnon to the city hall on a matter of business. While there Mr. McKinnon suggested there was no time like the present, and proposed they get their marriage li cense then and there, thereby saving the necessity of another trip. Miss Berlinger consented and the license was secured without any publicity being given the fact. Several days later alert newspaper men, scanning the license docket, discovered the li cense, and hence the story. Original “American Girl.” Miss Berlinger, who is 23, is con sidered one of the most famous, if not the most famous, models of the day. She is the original of Stans law’s “American Girl” and is also known as the “American Beauty.” She has posed for such noted artists as Charles Dana Gibson, Harrison Fisher, and is responsible, in a great measure, for the success of Clarence F. Underwood. Mr. Stanslaw has painted her picture, which he is to enter in the International Beauty Contest at Paris this fall, and has great hopes of winning first prize. Miss Berlinger is also the girl on the Armour calendars. COLUMBUS, OHIO, Aug. 2.—Walk ing 100,000 miles for $30,000, which he says has been promised him. Julius Rath, aged 30, who started on nis long walk when he was 14, passed through Columbus en route to San dusky. Rath sav6 he has walked more than 98,000 miles and 1* a year ahead, of the time scheduled for his finish at San Francisco. When Rath finishes, he must have $1,000 and a dog. He now has $500. When he started, he was a penniless newsboy, having made the money lie possesses by selling cards descriptive of himself. WIFE HAS EX-HUSBAND EXILED FROM HOME TOWN MILWAUKEE, Aug. 2.—If you are divorced by a Wisconsin woman and she advises you to leave town, move, if you are in the jurisdiction of Judge EschwelleTs court. Mrs. William Schwarting, of Thiensville, a village near Milwaukee, got a di vorce, but her former husband re mained in the village. She called on the Judge, said her former husband annoyed her by calling attention to her former married state, and the court gave him 24 hours to leave. He obeyed. POETESS WALKS FROM SEA TO SEA Woman Makes Jaunt to Prove Her Theories on Humanity and High Heeled Shoes. OAKLAND, Aue-. 2.—New York City to Oakland is a long way to walk— more than 3,000 miles—to prove to one’s own satisfaction that one’s theory is right. Mrs. Clara A. Mitchell, poetess, dreamer and pedestrian, weight 120 pounds, hight 5 feet 6 inches, has Just completed the walk to prove to her own satisfaction that she can safely repose faith in mankind. She is satisfied that she is sound in her belief. She also satisfied herself on two or three other points upon which she was doubtful. She has fully demonstrated that the power of intui tion is a wonderful thing; that mechan ical motor action is all that the late Professor James, of Harvard, claimed for It, and that woman can walk very comfortably and effectively in high or even French-heel shoes. Mrs. Mitchell left New York twenty- eight weeks ago with $3.50 in her purse and an abundant confidence in mankind. She learned many things as a result of her walk. “As a psychological experiment, my trip has been a success. she states. “During the first half of the walk I ate but little to prove that physical endur ance does not depend upon diet or mus cle alone. “I have proven that women can walk, and walk most comfortably, In high heels—even French-heel shoes. That is just the kind of shoes that I wear, and I walk an average of from 35 to 40 miles a day. My longest distance has been 45 miles in twenty-four hours. I walk yntil I become weary. “I carry no weapons and am unes corted. In the loneliest spots in this country I have found my way to the Pacific Coast without asking questions. I have been merely guided by my In tuition and it has not yet failed me.” I Public Cigar Cutter Called Health Peril I United States Bureau Issues Bulletin Warning Smokers of Danger of Appliances. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Warning to the public against the use of the automatic cigar cutter on the ground | that It is an agency for the spread of diseases, was issued to-day by the United States public health service. The statement points out that many smokers on purchasing a cigar and before clipping off the end place it between their lips while paying for the purchase. “This would seem,” the statement declares, “to be a very effective method of bringing about the inter change of mouth secretions and pos sibly the spread of Infection. “It is suggested that the use of such automatic clippers should be avoided.” Tariff on Woman’s Ashes Halts Burial TWO POLICEI Alfalfa Substitute I Grows on Arid Land you could find buyers there from all over Texas. “My twins died there on the ranch from poor food and water. “I couldn't go back home Just then because another child was coming—• another of his and mine. She was born four months after I arrived at the ranch. “I went back home when I was able to travel and with the hope of every wife, waited for some word, either that he was dead or alive. But none came. At last I made up my mind that Stratton was either dead or an adventurer that had married me to get my money. Saw Him in Leadville. “But I remained unmarried four teen years. Then I married Ken nedy. We came to Leadville and It was after his death that I heard the man who had deserted me was not dead. He came to Leadville and promised to give me $10,000 and many times more, but he never did.” Mrs. Kennedy says that when the suit she brought against the Stratton estate is tried, she will have wit nesses on hand who attended the marriage of herself and Stratton. “The records of the marriage were destroyed in a fire that burned down th£ courthouse.” She says she never knew that he had sold his mine for $10,000,000 un til years after the sale had been made. At present she makes wax flowers and sells them in Leadville. MINNEAPOLIS HAS SCHOOL FOR BACKWARD GIRLS MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 2.—Special schools for girls who, through lack of ability or Inclination to work, ham per the regular classes were recom mended by the School Board Com mittee or. Education late yesterday. This was the first such action in re gard to backward girls. Fraud Is Freed to Repay His Victims Montana Convict Is Allowed Five Years to Make Good All His Misdeeds. Customs Officers Have to Place Valua tion on Them Before They Enter Country. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2—The ashes of the mother-in-law of Cap tain Meyer, commander of the North German Lloyd liner Koln, are held here until the customs officials can put a valuation upon them. She died in Germany and the cap tain was bringing the ashes to this country for burial. As ashes of a human being are not enumerated among the things to come in free of duty, much customs red tape must be unwound before the captain can bury the ashes. He was informed that he will have to wait until a ruling from Washing ton can be obtained. Boy Kind to Miser Gets $40,000 in Will Relatives Hear That Child Finds Treasureln Hut and Try to Break Instrument. SPRINGFIELD, MO., Aug. 2.—The Missouri Supreme Court will be called upon to decide the $40,000 claim of a 10-year-old boy against the estate of a miser, who left him his fortune in return for little acts of kindness the child had done him. Orris Northrup showed a genuine affectiorf for James Burge, an aged recluse, who, on account of his miserly habits, was shunned to a great extent by his neighbors. But the child, with a child’s keen insight into nature, loved the old man, and the miser re turned his affection, and when he died left him the hut in which he and the child often had played together. A pearch of the hut revealed $40,000 hidden, and It is this claim that the court will pass upon. Convict Surrenders When He Sees Ghost Escaped Prisoner Tells Warden Vic tim’s Spirit Gave Him No Peace During Freedom. FRANKFORT. KT, Aug. 2.—An old man, who said he was George Broge- man, of No. 315 West Twenty-seventh street. New York City, surrendered to Warden Wells, of the Kentucky Peni tentiary, to-night, stating that he had escaped 21 years ago. He declared that he had been haunted by the ghost of his brother-in-law, whom he murdered 32 years ago in Covington, Ky., for Ill-treating his sister. His right name, he said, way George Koors. An Investigation will be made and the man will probably either be par doned or placed in an asylum. He said he had contemplated suicide. Good Stepmothers To Receive Pensions Los Angeles Fire Commission Draws Distinction in Making Provisions for Firemen’s Families. HELENA, MONT., Aug. 2.—On con dition that he repay those he swindled within five years. Ham A. Hall, of Butte, was granted a pardon by Gov ernor Stewart. Hall was convicted of having de frauded clients of his investment firm out of from $30,000 to $75,000. and his sentence would have expired in 1920. The Governor appoints the State Board of Examiners to pasa upon the claims of Hall’s victims and designate the bank through which the repay ment is to be made. Hall is to be subject to the orders of the Board of Pardons, and should he fall to make the repayment or should the board be convinced he was not attempting to live up to the term: of the contract, he must return to prison to complete his sentence LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2.—Step mothers, beware! If you are the wife of a fireman and the stepmother to the fireman’s children, and are real good to those stepchildren, you may receive a pen sion when your husband dies, but if you are not good to those children you may have to divide the pension, giving the children half. This was the decision of the Fire Commission when it Informally ap proved the recommendation that the proposed pension ordinances for the fire and police departments be so amended as to give the Pension Board discretionary power to say whether a pension shall go to the widow or to the widow and children. Camera Reveals Attack of Robber Photographer Taking Picture of Val ley Sees Stabbing Focused on Ground Plate. PITTSBURG, Aug 2.—While mak ing a photograph of a valley from a hill overlooking Braddock, Ray Cal vert, of Swissvale, saw focused on the ground plate of his camera a man at tack another with a knife. In his ex citement Calvert fell over an embank ment, wrecking his camera. He notified the police and they ar rived on the scene in time to find An thony Goura crawling away with a dozen stab wounds In his body. He had been robbed of $126 by a fellow countryman. He is in a serious con dition. The assailant escaped. AUT0ISTS SEE BIG EAGLE CARRY OFF DOG IN CLAWS Winter Vetch Has Fine Nutritive Power and Is Said to Thrive Without Irrigation. Prove Diplomats by Preparing Meal in Big Boarding Holise for Landlady. CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—When It comes to tact and diplomacy Patrolmen Fred Ecklund and William Lanning are entitled to a ribbon of the deepest ultra-marine. Yesterday they accom plished the feat of taking the mistress of a big boarding house out of her kitchen right at dinner time, and yet giving the boarders ate good a dinner as they ever had. The story has its beginning in an altercation on July 4 between Koch- ten Mewelski and his wife, Marie, of No. 1535 Wilder street, which was to have been reviewed In court yester day. But when court opened neither wife nor husband was there. Eck lund and fanning were sent to bring them In. Mewels'kl they found at work In a coal yard, and sent to court. Mrs. Mewelski they found clad In the airiest of raiment, working over a big djnner for her boarders. “You’re under arrest—come or. to court.” “I have no time to be arrested,” she protested. “My boarders must have their dinner. Then I must get some clothes on to go to court. The board ers can not go without their dinner. You must take off your coats and help if you would have me hurry.” “You get your clothes on and we’ll attend to the dinner,” said Ecklund. So while Mrs. Mewelski attired her self Ecklund and Lanning donned aprons, made the potato pancakes, boiled the coffee, made the stew and attended to all the intricate processes of a boarding-house dinner, and served it with all the proficiency of a real chef and waiter. Rural Girls Put City Youths on Blacklist Village Belles Band Against Gay Beaux of Summer Boarder Colony. MEEKER. COLO.. Aug. 2.—A sub stitute for alfalfa that will prove a boon to the entire State, especially to dry ranchers, has been found In winter vetch, a plant which is not only the equal of alfalfa In nutritive qualities, but requires less attention and grows without irrigation. J. G. Byrnes, who owns a dry ranch near Meeker, wae in town exhibiting winter vetch, mammoth red clover and alfalfa. The winter vetch Is a trailing, vine-like plant, and the sample shown by Byrnes was exact ly four feet long, several times the length attained by either alfalfa or red clover. It Is a leguminous plant and makes excellent feed for all classes of range and domestic ani mals. It Is beat sown with fall ry«. PASTOR 16 KEPT BUSY. ALBANY, OREO., Aug. 2.—Besides preaching two sermons and attending two other church services, the Rev. D. FT Leech, pastor of the First Methodist Church, of this city, officiated at two weddings and a funeral Sunday. Women's Drinking Divides Washington New Excise Law Is Supported by Mrs. Gore and Fought by Mr*. Kent. WASHINGTON, Aug. 3,—The new excise law, which prohibit* drinkin* by women in public place*, has great ly Interested Washington society which Is taking sides In the mattea Such prominent leaders as Mn» Thomas P. Gore, wife of the Okla* homa Senator; Mrs. WUTIam Hay wood <?nd Mrs, A. S. Burt aeon, wife of the Postmaster-General, are n«t slow to express their approval ef the new rule. Mrs. Gore said: “A woman who takes a drink In public with men or without them, would have been dlsgr&oed for life In my girlhood days. This public in dulgence by women In liquor baa be come a national menaoe and I am glad It Is to be controlled.” On' the other hand, Mrs. William P. Kent, wife of Representative Kent* of California, and one of th© Congres sional society queens, thinks the act presumption and a dangerous attempt at class legislation. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Aug. 2.— Girls in Millerton, Dutchess County, will no longer be ensnared by the wiles of city youths who have every year Invaded the village disguised as summer boarders, bent upon heart conquests. They have formed a so ciety of self-protection called the “Beaux Nots.” Its mandates are. In the summer members are to have no young men callers and are not to allow them- yelves to be courted, especially by city youths, from Juno until September. At all other times Cupid shall have his open season. Cure for Infantile Paralysis Announced Physician Hopes by 3ame Method to Find Remedy for Locomotor Ataxia. VENICE, CAL., Aug 2.—Dr. Irvin McGee has announced that after a year’s work he has discovered a cure for infantile paralysis which robs the disease of the paralysis feature, and he is confident that by similar treat ment he can control locomotor ataxia. In the Infantile paralysis treatment Dr. McGee used subcutaneous injec tions of a glycerin emulsion of the cell of the anterior horn of the mar row of the spinal column of a healthy animal. The physician says he has treated sixteen cases successfully by the above method and in no case did paralysis ensue. Muir Glacier Wakes After 14-Year Rest Movement of Gigantic Ice Mountain Prevents Alaskan Tourists From Visiting It. SEATTLE. WASH., Aug 2.—After lying peacefully asleep for more than fourteen years Muir Glacier awaken ed for a few moments some time last winter and lazily stretched herself. In the life oft a glacier “a few moments” may be a period of three months' du ration. The result of the glacier's awaken ing is that Glacier Bay, Alaska, Is filled with gigantic icebergs, and it is impossible for ships conveying tour ists to the north to make a close ap proach to the great Ice mass which Is one of the spectacular features of the northern Journey In summer. Baby Strangles on Cherry She Cried For Children, Minding Infant, Give Fruit to Pacify Her, and Death Follow*. NEW YORK, Aar. 2.—Mrs. Joseph Yonabeck left her home at Rockaway. N. J., for a short time yesterday, ask ing several children of neighbors to mind her baby. Her little daughter Annie, 3 months old, lay In a crib asleep. The children agreed to watch the baby, but she awoke and they couldn't keep her quiet. To silence her cries one of the children gave her a bright red cherry to play with. The babe got the cherry Into Its mouth and choked to death. GREAT NOTCH, N. J., Aug. 2.—An automobile party traveling along the Notch road from Montclair to Pater son this morning saw a big bird which looked like an eagle swoop down on a farm yard and ascend with a email dog In Its claws. Many persons have reported the disappearance of cats and dogs, but It wan not known until to-day what took. them. . . . SUFFRAGIST NAMED AS PAROLE OFFICER FOR GIRLS TOPEKA, KAN., Aug. 2.—Mrs. Em- ma Sells-Marshall, prominent In the equal suffrage movement In Kansas last year that resulted in the granting of franchise to women, has just been ap pointed as parole officer for the Girls’ Industrial School at Beloit. The Legislature last winter provided for this position and appropriated $750 a year in salary Mrs. Marshall was chosen by the State board of control because of her high qualifications and , fitness for this work. Some Persons “Flinch” When Truth Hunts Them "Tf nn.v man Is nblp to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, X will gladly change, for I seek the truth, by which no man was ever Injured.”—Uarcut Aurelius, Roman Emperor. p Some shrink and try to dose their eyes and ears to the haunting fact that the little 2 1-2 grains of Caffeine in every average cup of coffee is the de mon which relentlessly pursues and starts various ailments, such as biliousness, headache, nervous ness, sleeplessness, bowel trouble, heart failure and a long string of aches and ails, taking one form in one person and another in another. The effect of repeated doses of coffee, on those who are susceptible to caffeine poisoning, is so complex that it is difficult to foretell where its hurt will be most serious; in Heart, Head, Eyes, Nerves or where. The stroke of trouble will come somewhere if the daily doses are persisted in. Of course, if anyone prefers to treat his body in that way it is useless to suggest relief. Let him “follow the trail” until badly wounded. Some go so far they can’t get back to health. Others quit the foolish, losing game before fixed chronic disease sets in. There is a mighty army of sensible ones, how ever, who have bravely tested the truth with their own bodies to see whether or not it was the truth that coffee caused their ailments. It’s an easy test. Quit coffee absolutely for 10 days. Take Postum hot and well-made and keep track of the change toward health day by day. It’s the most exquisite pleasure in the world to be perfectly well with all the delicate and beauti fully adjusted machinery of the body working in harmony, not interfered with by drugs, one of the most insidious and deceptive of which is caffeine in coffee. i This is Truth. Meet it bravely with head up and a hearty ,; handclasp. Truth thus made welcome will prove your best friend. These are facts without regard to our own opinion, or to whether or not you use Postum. However, it is well to consider that famous food-drink because it supplies a hot beverage of the deep seal-brown color of coffee, which turns to the rich golden-brown when cream is added. It has a snappy flavor much like the old-time real Java, but there is no “sting” in it, no caf feine or other drug of any sort. It is skillfully manufactured of wheat and a trace of New Or leans molasses. It comes in two forms. One called Regular, Pos’Aiin, must be boiled full 15 minutes. The other, Instant Postum, is in powder form and a level teaspoonful in a cup of hot water makes the beverage instantly. Grocers keep both kinds. “There’s a Reason” for POSTUM / ! /