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VOL. L NO. 19.
Copyright. 1913, by
The Georgian Company.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY. AUGUST 10, 1913.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
OIL LETTERS
KILLED HIM
Folly of Suffrage
Shown by Dresses,
Says Mrs. Marshall
Vice President’s Wife Believes Wom
en Can Do More Good Cor
recting Cabarets.
SITS TABLET
New Version of Genesis Found in
University of Pennsylvania
Nippur Collection.
DATE IS FIXED AT 2100 B. C.
Dr. Arno Poebel’s Discovery Is
Regarded as Oldest Story
of Origin of World.
PHILADELPHIA, Au?, 9.—It was
a woman who created mankind, •ac
cording to a tablet 4,000 years old
just deciphered at the Pennsylvania
University Museum by Dr. Arno
Poebel, who is at work translating
the tablets dug up in Nippur some
years ago by the museum expedi
tions.
About 37 years ago George Smith,
the English scholar and explorer,
brought back from Babylonia the
cylinders which gave a Babylonian
account of the origin of mankind and
much of his early history, and these
not only excited great interest but had
a profound effect upon the theological
teachings. The parallelism between
the Babylonian story and that of
Genesis developed a new school In
theological. criticism. But the cyl
inders of Smith only dated back to
the reign of Assurbanlpal in the
seventh century B. C. The university
museum tablet dates back possibly
to 2500 B. C., and it is reasonably
certain to be no later than the reign
of Hamurabi. about 2100 B. C.
Female Deity Created Man.
The new account of the creation
and the flood throws much new light
on the early ideas of the Babylonians
and Sumerians.
The striking novel features of the
new tablet are these:
That it was a female deity who
created mankind, known as “the
blackheaded," from the color of the
hair.
That new deities or new character
istics of the gods are discovered in
the original document, although they
have been hinted at in other ways.
The character of the female goddess
is now made important from the ear
liest times and equal with the two
male ruler gods. Later tablets speak
of these as unimportant.
That the first seven prediluvian
cities and the special god of each are
discovered.
That the older Babylonian name of
the Scriptural Noah is Zingidda.
That deluge ruins of the predelu-
vian cities were not all destroyed,
some not until historic times. There
i3 historic basis to much of the state
ment in this epic.
Opens With Poem.
Dr. Poebel has prepared a careful
literal translation of the tablet. It
originally was about seven inches
square, but on such a* surface the
ancients ccald write in ideographic
signs a long epic poem, and that is
what this table contained. Like the
first chapter of Genesis, the story
opens with a great poem on the origin
of the heavens as well as of the earth.
It appears that Nintu. a female god,
created mankind, and »he is found
lamenting that the other gods seem
bent on the destruction of her sub
jects. She speaks of the human be
ings as “my creations.” It appears
that Anu and Enlll were the chief
gods of power, although they were
among seven of equal rank, the first
being god of heaven and the second
god of earth. Then comes the story
of the creation:
“Nintu created the blackheaded,“
(human race.) * * * “The fields
of the ground produced abundance,
the cattle and the four-legged beasts
of the field artfully they (the godsj
called into existence."
POLITICALLY,
SAYS FORMER
Exposes by William Randolph
Hearst Responsible for Down
fall, Declares Former Senator
Before Senate Lobby Inquiry.
Official of National Manufactur
ers’ Association Writes Demo
cratic Simplicity Will Mean
Union Label on U.S. Stationery.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9— Former
Senator Foraker admitted to the
Senate Lobby Committee to-day pub
lication by Williapi Randolph Hearst
of the famous Standard Oil letters
killed Foraker’s chances for re-ele:-
tion to the Senate in 1908.
After identifying a letter received
from Martin M. Mitchell, the con
fessed ex-lobbyist, making a report
of political activities in Ohio in For- ;
aker's behalf, the former Senator
said:
"It was the morning of the day Mr.
Hearst’s disclosure was rffade public.
An attack had been made on me oy
Mr. Hearst which destroyed my
chances of election, saying I had
acted as counsel for the Standard Oil
Company. This had created a senti
ment in our State very prejudicial to
me. I continued as a candidate in the
campaign only because to retire from
it after I had become a candidate
would look like an admission that
there was some justification for the
attack,- whereas there was not any."
Senator Foraker said Muhall, whom
he had known thirty years, greatly
overestimated his own importance.
No Aid From N. A. M,
Foraker said he had never received
aid from the National Association . f
Manufacturers and while he received
a fee of $500 for the part he played
in the sale of the Union Pacific Rail
road in 1896. he was not in the em
ploy ..of either David Lamar or Ed
ward Lauterbach in an injunction
case against tb Union Pacific in
1903.
The House Investigating Commit
tee opened its probe with introduction
of correspondence showing the activi
ties of the National Association of
Manufacturers in fighting labor legis
lation in Congress and various at
tempts to have “conservative” men
named as members of House commit
tees.
Discussing the recent sundry civil
hill, with its provision prohibiting the
expenditure of certain funds for the
prosecution of farmers and labor
unions under the Sherman law, James
A. Emery, counsel of the N. A. M.,
wrote to President John Kirby, Jr.,
of the association, on March 7, 1913,
after President Taft had vetoed the
bill:
“I wanl to emphasize as hard as I
can the importance of lining up for
a tremendous demonstration ^ hen
this bill reaches President Wilson, ns
it undoubtedly will, with the same
provision in it. You will then have
an early opportunity to decide wheth
er the glittering Democratic motto,
‘Equal right ‘for all and special
privilege for none,’ means anything
or whether the Administration has
surrendered completely or will merely
turn over the Department of Labor.
Objection to Secretary Wilson.
"I note, by the way, your reference
to a letter from C. W. Post on the
question of a protest over the ap
pointment of Wilson (Secretary of
Labor). A protest on this subject
is a mere waste of breath, and on
the whole I am inclined to think
the whole purpose of this depart
ment will be shown up quicker with
the unions in control of it than in
any other way. Gompers will run it
characteristically with a high hand,
and if the whole thing does not smeil
to Heaven within a year I shall b.>
very much astonished.
“By that time Democrats simplic
ity will probably mean a union label
on the White House stationery and
the President conferring with the
Waiters' Union over the appointment
of his steward. At present we have
nothing more startling in Jeffersonian
simplicity than the news Mrs. Bry m
is making a new suit for the Secre
tary of State, and cakes and ginger
ale will be served at the dinner for)
the British Ambassador. Toothpicks I
will, of course, be an after dinner
course at all Cabinet receptions, and
the demand for dress suits will be
confined to waiters in the hotels.”
In this same letter Emery advised
Kirby, “if you have any idea Taft
would have vetoed this bill of his own
motion, get over it. A list of public-
men who had ‘pie’ in this $113,000,000
appropriation bill included many
prominent men in both Houses.”
CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—Slashed skirts
with the silhouette gown and other
freaks of modern fashion are the worst
enemies of the newly made voters of
Illinois, and the cabaret and the tur
key trot are more in need of reform
than Chicago’s First Ward, in the opin
ion of Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, wife
of the Vice President, who was in Chi
cago with her husband.
Mrs. Marshall declared frankly that
she was opposed to the municipal power
recently granted to the women, of Illi
nois. Mrs. Marshall said:
“I have never been a suffragist. To
me the fashions of to-day ought to con
vince any one that a woman is not fit
to vote. Some women's dress Is not
only extreme, It is objectionable. A
woman would do more good by cor
recting the dances in our cafes and
cabarets than in running for office.
“The women in the East are not
strongly in favor of the ballot, and none
of the Cabinet women seems to fa
vor it, with the exception, perhaps, of
the President’s daughter. Miss Jessie
Wilson.”
Two Young Women
Steal Trolley Car
Girls Abandon It After It Catches
Fire on Their Morning
Joy-Ride.
LOWELL. MASS., Aug 9.—The police
are searching the city for two well-
dressed young women, who, ft is al
leged. stole an electric car from the
corner of Pawtucket and Middlesex
streets, early to-day, drove it nearly a
mile into Middlesex Vilage, and then
abandoned It after it was in flames.
The car, with a score of others, was
left on the tracks near the car barns of
the Bay State Company. It was missed
shortly before 2 a. m. and within a few
minutes an alarm of fire was pulled in.
At the same time two young women
were seen running from the place.
Persons living in the vicinity state
that they saw the blazing car whirl past
their homes, and that they heard women
laughing as it passed.
Beats His Wife to
Get Up an Appetite
Husband Confesses in Court That He
Used This Exercise Before
Eating Meals.
NEW YORK, Aug 9.—Convicted for
the sixth time in three years for beating
his wife, Peter Pellerine, 43 years old.
of No. 1407 Third avenue, was sen
tenced to the workhouse for six months
in the Harlem Police Court yesterday.
According to Mrs. Pellerine, her hus
band came home early on July 3, de
claring that he was hungry, and beat
her with a stick until she prepared
breakfast, saying that the exercise af
forded him an excellent appetite. He
then disappeared, returning home on
Thursday morning to repeat the beat
ing.
Pellerine pleaded guilty and ac
knowledged five previous convictions
for the same offense.
Here’s How to Make
Congressional Salad
Wife of Representative Smith of
Minnesota Invents Dish Popu
lar in Capital.
WASHINGTON, Aug 9.—Mrs. George
R. Smith, wife of Representative Smith,
of Minneapolis, whose husband is a
neophyte in the Sixty-third Congress,
has invented a new salad called the
Congressional salad, which has grown
in vogue among the hostesses here.
This Is how she makes It:
One grapefruit, one orange, one pine
apple, or two apples, nuts according
to taste and a pinch of salt. To this
chopped up fruit she adds cream doubly (
whipped. The salad Is served on
squares of buttered toast or browned
crackers.
Philadelphia Women
Gamble on Baseball
Vice Squad Detective Finds Hun
dreds of Them Taking Chances
In Pool.
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 9—Three
hundred women gamblers, working in
mills and spending their money on
baseball pools, have been counted by
Detective Charles Lee, head of the vice
squad here. Harry Reed, of No. 4470
Germantown avenue, has been held in
bail by Magistrate Coward, having been
charged with operating a pool. Lee
says 1.800 persons gambled on ball
games In Reed’s place each week, most
of whom were women. The chances
cost 25c each.
AGED HUSBAND SUES~GIRL
WIFE WHO SPENT FORTUNE
PITTSBURG, Aug. 9.—Joseph Wal-
ters, aged 70, a prominent McKees
port man, who married Ruth Hender
son when she was 17 years old, filed
a suit in Divorce Court, asking a de
cree because his wife, after forcing
him to spend his fortune of $100,000
on her, "ran away.”
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EXTRA
Not a move
escapes this
man’s restless
eyes, though
his face
is calm.
Slit Skirts Furnish
Mosquito Clan With
Choicest Barbecue
Trainload of Winsome Stenographers
and Milliners Have to Tramp
Through Stegomyia Belt.
/ _____ .
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—“All those in
favor of slit skirts, please stand up.’’
Millions of full grown mosquitoes and
three or four little fellers were rushing
wildly out of their apartment houses
on he Flushing Meadows, about 7
o’clock last night, and took part In the
most rollicking barbacue ever held in
the East.
Right In the middle of the salt grass
waste were five cars of a Long Island
Railroad train, stalled. The lights were
out, men were running up and down
shouting orders and Flushing was two
miles away. After the train had stood
for a few minutes, out of the passenger
cars poured the choicest morsels of hu
manity that Mr. and Mrs. Culex Pun-
gens and the little Pungenses ever saw.
There were stenographers, typewriters,
cashiers, millinery attaches and buxom
matrons. Slit skirts were numerous.
In an endless procession the five hun
dred and more suburbanites trailed over
the ties toward Flushing. There is
some style in the mosquito belt and
every member of the family seemed to
know at once which of the passengers
was dressed a la mode. The squeals
and slaps of the fair ones as they tried
to stop the onslaught sounded like a
tattoo.
The procession lasted for more than
two hours and when the last stenog
rapher reached home a unanimous vote
was taken declaring the mosquito a
pest. Of course, there were some men
along, but what self-respecting mosquito
would bother with them at such a
time?
NEGRO FIRM IN ACCUSING FRANK
•{•••!• *£■•*1* ^•4* +•+
He Describes Slaying of Mary Phagan
-i-#-:- •;•••{• +•+ •I***!* +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ ,
Defense Battles for Lite This Week
Leo Frank
in his
seat in
the court
room where
he is
fighting
for life.
The prisoner
is shown
in the
unconcerned
attitude he
assumes
most of the
time.
Although Conley Admits Some Lying
He Sticks to the Main Story Under
Terrific Cross-Examination—Heat
Causes Suffering in the Court.
ADMITS HE’S DECENT
ANSWERING MARRIAGE AD
YONKERS, Aug. 9.—Reginald P.
Shennan. editor of The Rye Courier, al
ready has received one reply to the ad
vertisement inserted in his paper by a
“gentlewoman with large tract of land
not far from Port Chester," who is seek
ing “an unselfish, decent, self-support
ing man for a husband.”
He turned the letter over to the ad
vertiser, whose identity is being guard
ed carefully. The letter bore a Brook
lyn postmark.
AUTOS EMPTY CHURCHES,
SAY COUNTRY PREACHERS
MANHATAN, KANS., Auk. 9.—
The dwindling of the congregations ot
country churches, due to the new era
of automobiles, which makes it easy
for the rural residents to attend serv
ices in nearby towns and cities, will
be discussed at the Conference of
Rural Leaders, July 21 to 25, at the
Kansas Agricultural College. Mem
bers of the organization declare that
Kansas now has about 1,200 aban
doned churches in the farming dis
tricts.
Jack London Puts
Joke on His Appendix
Novelist Tells the Latest on Former
Part of Himself and
What’s Left.
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 9.—Here is
the latest joke Jack London, the fa
mous author, is telling on himself:
London was operated on recently
for appendicitis. After the ordeal
the surgeon held up the severed ap
pendix In his fingers for the patient
to see. The author looked at it
thoughtfully then grinned and said:
"It was a case of all alone in Lon
don, wasn’t it, doc?”
By TARLETON COLLIER.
Leo Frank’s lawyers promise that with the beginning of tha
third week of his trial the full force of their defensive evidence
will be displayed. Little testimony of significance was offered in
P’rank’s behalf during the brief period following the termination
of the State’s case last week.
The State practically closed its case with the evidence of Jim
Conley, the negro sweeper, who declared that he helped Frank
dispose of the body of Mary Phagan, the girl whom he swore
Frank killed. The testimony of the few State witnesses who fol
lowed the negro was much of an
anti-climax, coming as it did
after a story that was thrilling
in the extreme.
C. B. Dalton, who said he had
been with Frank in several esca
pades in which girls were con
cerned, and Dr. H. F. Harris, of
the State Board of Health, who
testified as to the condition of
Mary Phagan’s body, were the
important witnesses who fol
lowed Conley for the State.
Negro Endures OrdeaL
But Conley’s testimony em
bodied the prose cution ’a
strength. The negro, a man of
the most common African type,
burly, thick-lipped, anthropoi-
dal, sat for three days in the wit
nessed chair, and endured the
most exacting ordeal ever forced
upon a witness in a court of law.
The cross-examination of Luthcif
Rosser and Reuben Arnold, law
yers for the defense, was sav
age and pitiless at times. The
negro, in spite of an apparent
lack of intelligence and brain-
force, showed the strain. He sat
unmoved of body, but perspira
tion beaded his faoe. The ex*
amination told on him.
But he stuck persistently to*
the main part of his story.
Coolly, calmly, almost nonchal
antly, he admitted that he had
lied time and again in his testi
mony, that he had not told the
truth in making affidavits dam
aging to Frank during the in
vestigations preliminary to the
trial. But his significant accu
sations against the white man,
his former “boss,” he maintain,
ed were true.
Of his testimony that remain
ed unshaken when he finally was
discharged Wednesday after
noon, these facts were promi
nent:
On the morning of April 26, at Frank’s behest, he had
taken his station at the door of the National Pencil Company
building, to watch.
Frank was upstairs in his office, at the front of the build- "
ing.
Mary Phagan entered at his door and went upstairs.
He heard footsteps as if someone walked from the front of
the.building to the rear, upstairs.
Soon after he was summoned by Frank, who told him that
a girl was hurt.
He found Mary Phagan in the lathe room, at the rear of
the building, dead.
Together he and Frank bore the body to the cellar.
With numerous details the negro embellished this story. Time
and again Luther Rosser forced the negro to admit that he had
lied about this fact or that, but, although coaxed and browbeaten,
the negro maintained steadfastly his main charge against Frank.
Words Have Dramatic Force.
He repeated it persistently, with the appearance of earnest
ness that is common to the ignorant members of his race. He talk
ed and gesticulated in a manner to show that he was indeed illit
erate and ignorant. But in the very simplicity of his words and
j manner there was a dramatic force, particularly when he was
| telling his story under the direction of the Solicitor General.
“I wrapped up her body like a bundle of dirty clothes,” he
i said. It was one of many of his statements that, told with simple
directness, thrilled those that heard.
i The prosecution allowed him to tell his story unchecked. But