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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN
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ATLANTA, GA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1913.
Foes of New York Executive De
clare Wife’s Illness a Sham and
Confession a Ruse to Save Hus
band Being Branded a Grafter.
Both Sides Apparently Are Dead
locked Until Impeachment Trial, 1
September 18—Empire State’s
Official Business at Standstill.
ALBANY. N. Y, Aug. 23.—Appar-
ently deadlocked until the High Court
of Impeachment meetfi September 18
to try tho charges of high crimes and
misdemeanors against Governor Wil
liam Sulzer, both the accused Execu
tive and Lieutenant Governor Martin
Glynn are busy, the one strengthening
his defense, the other preparing to In
vigorate his attack. In the meantime,
the official business of the Empire
State is at a standstill.
The government of New York pre
sents a paradox unique to republican
government. The State has two Gov
ernors. and It has none. Two men
maintain they have the right to trans
act the State’s business. No business
Is being transacted.
And in this struggle for power, the
battle seemingly centers about a
woman, a woman who has no voice In
the government, who is not even al
lowed to vote under the statutes of
the State.
Wife’s Illness Questioned.
In addition to the law point raised
by the defenders of Sulzer that he
can not bo impeached or tried for
things he did before he took the oath
of office, the defense lays greatest
stock on the declaration by Sulzer’s
wife that she, not the Governor, used
checks he had received as campaign
contributions to speculate on the stock
market.
On the other hand. It Is learned that
the Frawley Committee, which
brought to light the charges on which
the Governor was impeached, will
make her confession the subject of a
rigid examination to shatter, if pos
sible. the defense, which will be based
largely on her statement.
In the meantime. Mrs Sulzer, 1t Is
reported. Is dangerously ill, her nerves
broken, It Is said, under the Strain
which she has experienced since the
charges were brought against her
husband.
Sulzer’s enemies even question this*'
illness. They question it so seriously
that It, too, Is to be Investigated. The
first step in this investigation, it Is
said, w ill be the issuance of Jane Doe
subpen as for the nurse, who was em
ployed by Mrs. Sulzer up to last Fri
day Information has come to the
agents of the Frawley Committee that
this nurse was discharged for “talk
ing too much.”
Beth Accused of “Shamming.”
The committee believes that “talk
ing too much” consisted of telling sto
ries of Mrs. Sulzer’s true condition
which were not to the liking of tho
Governor. An inkling of this purpose
Was contained in an interview' with
Assembly Majority Leader Aaron J.
Levy, who declared:
“Not only is Mrs. Sulzer’s confes
sion a sham, but the pretended illness
of Mrs. Sulzer is a sham, of which
William Sulzer is the chief perpe
trator.”
The Idea of attacking the confes
sion of Mrs. Sulzer has been in the
minds of the committeemen since last
Monday night, when the news was
broken to them by Minority Leader
Hlnman. Frawley had publicly an
nounced that ho was loath to ca.l
Mrs Sulzer, and that he* did not be
lieve she would be summoned before
the court of impeachment even if she
were perfectly well.
But Frawley, Lejr, Wagner. Foley
and all the leaders in the fight on
the Governor have avowed their dis
belief in the confession and their de
sire to show, if possible, before the
trial that Mrs. Sulzer is simply trying
to shield her husband.
If the committee can prove, though,
that Mrs. Sulzer has not been really
ill. the members feel that they will
have made at least a start in the di
rection of proving the entire defense
a sham.
Aim to Explode Confession.
They point out that the nervous
breakdown of Mrs. Sulzer is ascribed
by her husband to her belief that she
has ruined his career. If she has had
no nervous breakdown, they say that
the whole story of the confession has
blown up.
It is pointed out further that at
least one bulletin issued by Dr. Abra
hams as to Mrs. Sulzer’s condition
was issued while that physician was
in New York and not In Albany, and
that Chester C, Platt’s (Sulzer’s sec
retary) positive statement that Dr.
Jacobi and Dr. Carlos McDonald had
been summoned was denied by these
doctors and afterward admitted to
be untrue at the Executive Mansion,
and that no bulletin on temperature
was given out by I>r. Bedell the at
tending physician. It is probable that
Dr Bedell will be called by the com
mittee.
Governor Sulzer’s advisers are by
no means sanguine as to the outcome
of the fight. Former Senator Hin-
man, one of the foremost of his coun
selors, has told the impeached Gov
ernor that no legal technicality can
prevent his trial September 16, and
he told him, too, that he believed
Tammany could muster enough votes
to convict him. It is said that Sulzer
Is beginning, too, to realize this.
Friends See “Vindication.”
However, should Sulzer be re
moved from office by Tammany votes
with all the Judges of the Court of
Appeals voting in his favor, he would
count it a vindicaton and proof of his
assertion that he is being persecuted
because he would not turn over the
^ate to Tammany Hall,
HHIs friends have assured him that
Hch a division in the impea 'hment
Kurt would make him the most :
ular man in the State and would
completely destroy Tamamny Hall
and Boss Murphy.
Tight Skirts Make
Idle Factory Girls
Kansas Farmers in
Debt Don’t Buy Cars
No ‘Wildcat* Financiers Found by
Loan Companies in Sun
flower State.
TOPEKA. KANS., Aug. 23.—The
Kansas farmer is not a wildcat fin
ancier That is the report made to
Eastern money lenders by a repre
sentative who came to investigate
conditions.
Former Governor Hoch is respon
sible for the investigation by Eastern
mortgage companies which have been
lending money on Kansas farms. Aft
er six weeks of work the result
showed that there was only one farm
er in Kansas with a mortgage on bis
farm who was the owner of an auto.
And the one farmer who had both an
auto and a mortgage was a prosper
ous man. with plenty of property, who
could well afford to own an automo
bile any time he wanted to stint him
self a. little on hits ready cash.
Mil! Men Assert Present Styles Cur
tail Demand for Goods and Cause
Lack of Work.
NEW BEDFORD, MASS., Aug 23.
That the factories manufacturing
cloth are suffering from the present
styles in women’s wearing apparel,
owing to the smaller sale of cloth, and
that many operatives are being
thrown out of work in consequence, is
the opinion of many leading New
Bedford manufacturers.
In the past three years the cir
cumference of women’s skirts has
been cut down on the average about
two yards. The smaller sales of cloth
have necessitated a curtailment in the
payroll and hundreds of idle opera
tives are waiting until the styles
change before they will be put to
work again.
Miss Neida Humphrey, of Huntsville, Blames
Laziness for Dearth of Divas.
HUNTSVILLE, ALA.. Auk 23.—
The soft, musical voice of Southern
women, which poets have raved
about, others have envied and the
comic papers have made subject of
satire, has a value In dollars, and it
has an even greater value in the
world of art.
So thinks Miss Neida Humphrey,
of Huntsville, who has Just returned
home after a three-year course of
voice culture under (’uruso in New'
York.
Miss Humphrey, realizing the su
preme demand for American prlma
donnas on the operatic stage, not
only In tills country, but In every
capital in Europe, thinks there Is a
world of opportunity for the young
women of her own section in this
field.
“The Southern woman’s voice,”
says Miss Humphrey, “possess* s
more natural musical qualities than
the voices of any other women in the
world. With proper cultivation that
quality should make them the great
est opera stars. The world has long
known of this quality, but the South
ern women of talent have Just refus
ed'to grasp their opportunities.
Blames Indolence in Part.
“And I guess the laziness so gen
erally attributed to our people may
have a great deal to do with it. Sing
ing. I mean serious singing, is the
hardest sort of work.
"There is hardly a girl of social
position in tho Southland who has
not a smattering of musical educa
tion. The trouble is It’s only a smat
tering. When they reached the point
where singing meant real work they
retired gracefully to other fields.
“But 1 believe that the time Is not
far off when the Southern girl of
talent will realize the life she is over
looking and then I am certain that
there will bo girls of Dixie whose
names will be Just as famous os
those of Farrar, Suzanne Adams and
Louise Homer, all American born.
Miss Humphrey is very young and
she is very, very pretty, but that is
not all. She has a voice of remark
able power and dramatic quality, but
withal she holds in It that soft sweet
ness that declares her horde as plain
ly as it would be declared were she
to walk on the stage waving the
Stars and Bars.
Has Charmed the President.
She has already done things in
music and she intends to do more.
In New York she has sung before
the most critical audiences in concert
and has won their high approbation.
It was she who charmed President
Wilson and a distinguished gathering
in New York recently at a concert.
In Chattanooga last May. during
the reunion of the Confederate Vete
rans. she sang before the old soldiers
and was given an ovation.
Miss Humphrey intends to return
to New York in the fall to complete
her studies. ShQ has already been
assured of an operatic engagement
and Huntsville believes that it will
soon boast an operatic celebrity.
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Alabama Singer Lauds Accent
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Sees Fame for Dixie Song Birds
MISS NEIDA HUMPHREY
EUROPE TITS,
BUT H'T KEEP
STEP TO MUSIC
Syncopated Tunes and Dances
Beyond Ken of Old World,
Says American Composer.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Armand
Vecsey, composer and director of mu
sic at the Rltz-Carlton, has returned
fresh from a European trip with lots
of new music and home comments
upon the musical situation abroad
which may act as balm to the souls
of American composers, and a Joy
for those who are not musicians, but
like to hear the scream of the Amer
ican Eagle.
Mr. Vecsey has not lived on this
side of the Atlantic long enough to
have taken out final naturalization
papers, but there Is nobody on this
side of Weehawken who is more In
tensely >and enthusiastically Ameri
can in a musical way. He says
American music and American motifs
have spread over all Europe, but the
music the natives over there don’t
know how to play.
Opera in Europe, as Mr. Vecsey
has viewed it this summer, is poor
as compared with what is given at
the Metropolitan Opera House, and
there Isn’t anything now between
London and Vienna that has to do
with music or the stage which local
talent can’t beat hands down.
“I have been in Paris, London, Ber
lin, Munich, and Vienna,” said Mr.
Vecsey, “and everywhere I have found
American music the most popular.
Then the turkey trot one finds ill
over the Continent. Yet nowhere did
I hear the music played correctly,
although they try hard, and when It
came to fitting German or French
words to a typical trotting tune, the
effect was ludicrous.
Recognize the “Truthahn Tanz?”
“Think of what the result was in
Berlin, when they turned ‘When the
Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Ala-
bam' Into German! In Germany they
call the trot Truthahn Tanz,’ and In
France It is’ the Pas du Dindon.’
Who w'ould recognize the original un
der such appellations?
“Then the French can not dance
the trot, nor can the Germans. Some
how they can’t just find out the
character of it Of course their bands
and orchestras can not get the time
right In the first place. Why, at
the Folies Bergere In Paris, I saw two
of the best French dancers giving
what was supposed to be a most per
fect rendition of the trot, and I as
sure you it was ridiculous. It was a
very poor imitation of the real thing.
“Yet, I was astonished to find that
all the new French music and most
of the new r German operettas are
either In the American style, as near
ly as their composers could approach
It, or have American motifs. The
tango seems to be breaking up the
trot over there, partly, I suppose,
because their dancers can come near
er to dancing It than the purely
American steps. In Paris I saw a
couple trying the Texas Tommy, and
it was a sight to cause a horse to
double up.
"Why can’t they nlay a turkey
trot? For the same reason that no
body except a Hungarian can play
Hungarian music. Almost every mu
sical country has something that Is
peculiarly its own—a style of music
that when played correctly is in
fectious.
American Style Has Call.
“Hungary has its ewirdas, Austria
its waltz, and America its syncopated
time. When each-is clayed properly,
It is bound to move an assemblage
of people, and Just now the Ameri
can style has the call everywhere.
“At the Palais de Danse, In Ber
lin, I first heard a turkey trot played
by a German orchestra. It was very
bad. I want to tell you that in
Europe this summer there Is no mu
sic, no opera, no Philharmonic con
cert, and no play that can compare
with what has been heard here in
New* York this year.”
“In Paris,” went on Mr. Vecsey,
with a trace of feeling, “when they
see an American trunk, they lie in
wait to rob the owner, and go crazy
over the thought of loot. It is the
same in Berlin.
“I must tell you that not anywhere
are women so generally chic in their
costumes nowadays as right here ?.n
New' York.
“True, I did see many smartly
gowned women, but Investigation
showed that most of them were
Americans.”
Crusade Started on
Big Sunday Dinners
Domestic Science Teachers of Kan
sas Schools Are Enlisted In
The Campaign.
TOPEKA. KANS., Aug. 23.—The
custom and the physical requirements
that a man must rest at least one day
in seven have brought about a cam
paign in Kansas against the big Sun
day dinners that have so long been
the delight of the average man. The
domestic science teachers of the
schools have enlisted the aid of do
mestic science students throughout
the State and the big Sunday dinner
is going the way of tho hard biscuit
and the underdone meat in the Kan
sas homes.
The campaign was started a year
ago at the University of Kansas,
but it now has the support of every
high school and college with domes
tic science courses.
Veering of River
Threatens Farms
Every Laborer Available Is Rushed
to Head Off Flow of
M issouri.
FREEMONT, NEBR, Aug 23 —Every
laborer available Is being sent by the
Burlington Railroad to Folsom to fight
the Missouri River, which is again eat
ing into the valuable farm lands of
that section gnd threatening to cut its
way to the railroad tracks. Many car
loads of stone have been dumped into
the river.
The river suddenly began veering from
its channel a few’ days ago. Inside of
two days it had swamped 20 acres of
land. Fear is now felt that the river
will eat its way back to the extensive
put In within the last year at a cost
of more than $500,000.
SITU URGES
ZONE CUT FOB
BOLL WEEVIL
Senator From South Carolina De
clares South’s Loss in 17 Years
Is $1,000,000,000.
Continued from Page 1.
an isolated spot in Texas until It has
now reached the State of Alabama,
and I have been appalled by the dam
age wrought by its ravages. During
all these years I have been hoping
for the discovery' by which the pest
could be exterminated, or even check
ed, but in both I have been disap
pointed.
Likes Zone Remedy Plan.
Some time ago the suggestion was
made to establish across the entire
cotton belt, east of the. areas infested
by the weevil a zone of 100 miles, in
which no cotton should be planted.
It was argued that this would check
the eastward advance of the weevil, as
it subsists only on the cotton plant,
and it was also argued by entomolo
gists and other experts on plant and
insect life that my moving this zone
westward from year to year all the
weevils in the Cotton States would be
starved out and entirely exterminated
until the Mexican border was reached.
The idea appealed to me very
strongly, and I have given the sub
ject a great deal of study ever since.
I believe this plan is entirely feasi
ble, and while at first thought the
cost may seem prohibitive, yet when
the estimated cost is compared with
the estimated saving the zone plan
must be looked upon as a very sound
business proposition.
The Government entomologists,
farm demonstration agents and others
admit that if this zone plan is put
into operation it will undoubtedly
check and finally exterminate the boll
weevil, as It will have nothing to feed
upon, and they admit at the same
time that no'other plan that has been
tried so far has been at all effective.
I have had an estimate made of the
cost of the proposed zone and I think
it is a very liberal one. It follows:
“The cessation of cotton growing
over an area of 46,245 square miles, in
which the crop is valued at $98,990,047
per annum, is at first glance such an
appalling suggestion that few have
even thought to look deeper.
Sees Need of Substitute.
“We must add also to this the loss
i ginning business, which is com
uted at $2,915,518 -er annum and the
>ss in seed products totaling $5,633,-
62. This means that there must be
ompensation for a loss In earning
alue of $107,539,127 per annum.
“In the first place, any scheme
■hich would call for the cessation of
otton growing must provide the
leanfe and knowledge for growing
^mething else in the place of cotton.
“A large crop of trained agrlcul-
jrists instructing In the cultivation
f new and profitable crops and in the
rinciples of rotation, maintenance
f soil fertility, etc., would help the
eople to double and treble the output
f their land within very few years.
would also be necessary to supply
ped for planting the 2,573,672 acres of
otton land in other crops. Thus the
reater part of the prospective loss
m be met at a reasonable expense.
“The loss of the ginners and part of
le loss of the oil men will have to be
ssumed by the Government. This
iss would not exceed $9,000,000.
“It would be necessary for the west-
the* fiimrnntine area to
ree years.
‘East of the proposed quarantine
,e there lies an area of 112,027
uare miles of territory in which
(ton can bo produced. The average
aid per acre (1908-1811) for this
-ritory has been 3,051.103 bales (600
unde), of which 32,892 bales (500
unds was ?*ea Island cotton. The
lue of the latter was $4,224,235.
Places Faith in Export.
"The value of the remaining or up
id cotton, valued at 11.9 cents per
und was $174,345,554. The value
the equivalent amount of seed pro
ved would be $33,943,532. Thus the
nual value of the producers of the
jp to be protected Is $217,514,211.
•History of the boll weevil has
own that If this area is not pro
ved lts production will he lowered
ar by year until possibly 60 per cent
the crop is taken, and sometimes as
?h as 76 per cent.”
[ accept these figures as reasonably
curate When Dr. Galloway, As-
tant Secretary of Agriculture,
msmitted the report to me, he
ted that the facts and figures were
be accepted as the expert’s own
d not as representing the depart-
However, I am willing to say that 1
isider this expert just as capable a
m as Dr. Galloway, and a good deal
,re practical when It comes to con-
erinc the real problems of the cot-
1 farmers of the South. He has
„> n the matter ft great deal of
,dy and has collected the figures
th a great deal of care and after
ig research.
[ have additional testimony, from
ier sources, as to the damage done
the boll weevil.
.'rom T O. Plunkett, land and ln-
strial agent of the Southern Rall-
v j have received the following:
Farm Values Show Decrease.
1 must »Ry that where the boll
evil has done its greatest damage,
Adams County, Mississippi, for ln-
mce, there has been a great de
vise In the value of farm lands. I
ve been told by owners of property
that county that they own lands
ilch a few years ago were valued at
] to $75 per acre, but to-day can
t be sold for $10 per acre.”
E. Blakelee, Commissioner of
■riculture of the State of Mlssis-
,pt, writes:
’The weevil last year certainly
maged the crop to the extent of
1,000 bales. You can figure that
• as to -what the actual damage In
lars and cents would be. Now, the
■p this year Is in splendid eondi-
n all over the State, and If It were
r the weevil I believe that we
000 bales.
"This gives you an Idea of what the
weevil does for a regular cotton-pro
ducing' oountr^, and particularly one
In. which negroes and mules make the
cotton. Land values have depreciat
ed fuliy 40 per cent where the wee
vil has been as long as two or three
years. Experience has shown, how
ever, that this depreciation is tem
porary. and, of course, in four or five
years It begins to stiffen up and go
back to previous prices."
Danger Not Local One.
Cotton is the money crop of the
Hunnicutt Won in First Round
Pioneer Tells of Ante-Bellum Duel
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Beat Bravo With Wooden Sword
How Atlanta’s Broadsword Champion Worsted
French Fencing Master.
Time was when the prize fight was
not au fait, when in the best fami
lies, and even in the second best, and
maybe in the third, they frowned
down upon the pugilistic art as bru
tal and degenerate. Then it was that
the youn bloods turned to cockflght-
ing and fencing for the gladiatorial
features of their lives, and were sat
isfied.
And that time was not so very long
ago. Calvin W. Hunnicutt, who
Atlanta’s oldest citizen, revived them
in memory yesterday, when he fell to
the young bloods turned to coekflght-
between Charley White and Frank
Whitney, with the remark that things
were not like this of yore.
Of course, he had a dueling story
of his own to tell, and he told it—
of how he fought an arrogant French
fencing master in a combat with
wooden swords, and how all Atlanta
looked on and cheered him as its
champion.
Duel Before the War.
It occurred before the war, when
all good things, it seems, occurred. It
occurred just at the beginning of the
war, and had its effect in keeping
Mr. Hunnicutt out of that conflict.
“There had been talk of war, war,
war pretty generally,” he said. The
trouble cloudy were thick and black,
and we organized here in Atlanta a
cavalry troop that we called the Ful
ton Dragoons. Captain Wilson was
our officer, I was flrst lieutenant, and
C. B. Whaley, my best friend, was
first sergeant.
"All went well at flrst, and things
were pleasant. But after a while
politics began to leak in, as inevitably
it will with all volunteer military
bodies. Everybody knows everybody
else so well, you see. that very natur
ally Jealousy comes in. Anyhow,
when the time came for the election
of a captain for a new term, Whaley
and I, backing Wilson, lost out, be
cause the other man promised horses
to all members of the troop. Then
dissatisfaction grew and the organiza
tion loosened.
Fencing Matter Imported.
“The i\ew captain and his great
ally, Second Lieutenant Williams,
wero full of ideas as to how to run
a miliatry organization, and began to
put these ideas into play. That made
more dissatisfaction, for no volunteer
soldier likes to be driven by men who
were their friends and associates.
“One of their ideas was the im
portation of a fencing teacher, to in
struct the men in broadsword use.
Now’ Whaley and I had practiced
considerably with the broadsword,
and were rather expert In Its use, but
South, and, in fact, the money crop
of the United States, and anything
that threatens the money crop of the
South threatens the welfare of the
entire United States. The danger is
not a local one alone, or even a sec
tional one alone. I have quoted the
facts and figures above to show that
the situation is really alarming.
The zone plan is the only sugges
tion that has yet been offered that
holds out any promise of relief. The
cost of the zone plan is undoubtedly
great, but when the estimated cost
is compared with the estimated sav
ing, the protection of sections not
yet reached and the ultimate eradica
tion of the boll weevil throughout
the entire cotton belt, the cost does
not seem to be prohibitive. In fact,
the cost of the zone system will be
mild compared with the loss that
will be entailed if the boll weevil is
not exterminated.
Just at this time the Government
is being urged to go to war to pro
tect the interests of a few Ameri
can mine owners and their employees
in Mexico, but apparently nothing
is being done to check the spread of
this peril which came from Mexico,
and w’hich has already entailed a loss
upon this country greater than the
value of all the mines in Mexico, and
w’hich threatens the immediate wel
fare of a thousand times more Ameri
can people than have ever crossed the
Rio Grande, or ever will cross it.
Sea Island Crop Imperiled.
It is practically certain that if the
boll weevil spreads to tho South At
lantic States the sea island cotton In
dustry will be wiped out entirely.
This is by reason of the semi-tropical
nature of the islands, the luxuriant
foliage which affords a safe harbor and
breeding ground for the insects dur
ing winter and summer, and the fact
that there is neither extreme heat
nor extreme cold, both of w’hich are
destructive to insect life. It is my
deliberate judgment that if the boll
weevil reaches the sea islands, there
w’ill be no more sea island cotton.
I have spoken of the aggregate
loss to the country, but the feature
that appeals to me most strongly is
the loss to the individual. The coun
try may eventually recover from the
damage done to the cotton crop, but
the individual cotton farmer whose
income is cut in half or destroyed,
and whose property is made to de
preciate in value, may never recover, j
The loss to iiim will be irreparable.
My object In writing this is in J
order that the people may know just I
how seriously the cotton crop is be- ,
fng menaced, and that they may dis
cuss and understand the only plan j
that has been offered, which promises j
to accomplish the result needed. If 1
w’e said nothing of it to the captain
and his friends.
“Well, the fencing master came, a
Frenchman from Mobile. He was a
flourishing, affected sort of fellow\
and considerable of a boaster. Not
long after he was here, ..e broke off
teaching and began to talk about his
own great skill and to show it off.
"One day ho challenged all of us.
“ ‘Nobody here can touch me with
his sword,’ he announced. 'I don’t
fear to let any of you try.’ And he
flourished his sword.
Hunnicutt Accepts Defy.
“Whaley and I decided to take him
on, and I w’ent to him. He laughed at
me. But I Insisted, and the date was
set for our combat. That there should
be no bloodshed—because we were go
ing to do some ’•furious fencing it
seemed—I put a negro of mine to
work making two wooden swords, or
sticks. These were to be our wea
pons.
“Somehow the tidings that there
w’as to be a fight got abroad. At
lanta was not as large as it is now,
but it was a right smart towm even
then, and when the day for the fight
came, everybody turned out.
“We had planned to have the duel
in a theater, owned in the days of
old Atlanta by a man named Wil
liams. The place was packed, and
I began to be a little nervous over
the public nature of the affair.
“We squared off, and the crowd
settled back in the seats for a long
and interesting fight. But it w T asn’t
for long. The Frenchman came at
me wdth a flourish, and I had a flour
ish to match his. Thence I made a
thrust at him. the thrust that w f e
know’ technically as the point tierce.
It went through his guard, and to his
body. If we had been fighting w’ith
real sw’ords, my opponent w’ould have
been run through.
Resignation Follows Victory.
“All Atlanta laughed. The French
man had pretty generally advertised
his ability to fight, and everybody
w r as there. However, there were one
or two persons who didn’t like the
way the fight came out, particularly
the new captain of the dragoons and
his ally. After the fight they be
gan w’orking to get me to resign. The
duel, they claimed everywhere, might
have an effect in breaking up dis
cipline. And so, with their dissatis
faction showing plain, I resigned.
“The Frenchman we didn’t see aft
er the half minute duel. If the
dragoons learned broadsword fencing,
they learned it from somebody else.
"It’s a pity the art of fencing does
not survive in the popular fancy. It
Is clean, beneficial and Interesting.
But this prize fighting ”
any other plan is suggested that
promises to accomplish the result at
a less cost or in a quicker manner,
I will give it my heartiest indorse
ment.
Anxious Only to Save Cotton.
What I am most anxious for is to
save the cotton crop, and this may
not be done unless the people realize
the danger and demand that ade
quate steps be taken to meet the
situation.
At the conference held a few days
ago in the office of the Secretary of
Agriculture, most of those present
were from sections where the boll
weevil has already made its appear
ance and has begun its devastating
work. Naturally they wer e more in
terested in trying to get something
that would help their own sections
than in trying to protect sections
that have not yet been reached.
I will be glad to have the farm
ers and others of the South con
sider this problem carefully and
w’rite me what they think of it.
Husband Declares That The!*
Conspiracy Kept Him in Bed
Three Years, t <
CHICAGO, Aug. 23.—Alleging that
his wife was madly Infatuated with
a man of strange, weird, magnetic
powers, and that they conspired to
incapacitate him by administering
mysterious potions. Theodore Speab-
er. a former undertaker of Chicago,
filed suit for divorce from Anno.
Speaber in the Circuit Court at La-
porte, Ind.
Through the machinations of his
wife and a man w r ho represented him
self as being a magnetic healer, as
suming the name of Louis Odlllo^
Speaber avers that they tried to con
vince him that he had become a vic
tim cf tuberculosis. Odillo then in
jected a chemical in his ear, he al
leges, which brought on an illness
that confined him to a hospital bed \
for three years. This, he charges,
w r as done with the deliberate Inten
tion of causing a fatal sickness to set
in and get him out of the way.
His wife then sold out his under-*
taking business and their household
effects, he charges, for less than one**
third of the real value. She then re
fused to see him after he had been *
released from the hospital.
Friends of Speaber say that he was
at one time an inmate of the Elgin
State Insane Asylum. But he w^as re
leased later as cured.
College Girl Walker
Goes 25 Miles a Day
Little Pedestrian Reaches Pittsburg
on Jaunt From New York to
San Francisco.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 23.—With a
Jaunty rose-colored hat, Miss Gladys
Mason, a petite New Yorker, Who is
“footing it” from Broadway to the
Golden Gate, is on her way West.
The little pedestrian left New York
on June 29 and has averaged 25
miles a days. Her high mark for
a day is 41 miles, made east or Har
risburg.
Miss Mason is 22, a graduate of
Emerson College, Boston. She expects
to reach San Francisco Thanksgiving
Day.
COUNTY TO GIVE COOK
BOOKS TO NEWLYWEDS
CHICAGO, Aug. 23.—Leaden biscuits
and leather-crusted pies and aLl the
other dinner delicacies of Mrs. Newly
wed soon may cease to cause physical
pain and matrimonial estrangement. \
Their existence Is threatened. *
Authorities of Cook County are con
sidering the advisability of giving away
official Cook County cook books with all
marriage licenses. Robert M. Sweitzer,
County Clerk, will present the plan to
the County Board.
You Can’t Be Well
When Constipated
“Keep Your Bowels Open”—■
Doctors Estimate 75 Per Cent
of Sickness Due to Torpid
Liver.
Some undigested food Is left in the
stomach dally, which the liver should
clear away. A heavy or unusual diet,
or a change in water, may cause the Liv
er to leave a few particles to press and
clog, and the next day more are left
over. So this waste accumulates, clog
ging stomach and intestines, and caus
ing constipation.
That Is not all. If the waste is not
eliminated It ferments and generates
uric acid, a poison which gets Into the
blood and through the system.
JACOBS’ LIVER SALT Immediately
flushes the stomach and Intestinal tract
and washes away every particle of
waste and fermentation; it purifies the
blood by dissolving what uric acid has
accumulated and passing it off in the
urine.
JACOBS’ LIVER SALT is nruch bet
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Don’t take an Inferior substitute,
some closely imitate the name, but none
produces the same result. All drug
gists should have the genuine JA
COBS’ LIVER SALT, 25c. If yours can
not supply you, full size Jar mailed upon
receipt of price, postage free. Made
and guaranteed by Jacobs Pharmacy
Co., Atlanta.—(Advt)
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