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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN 4 D 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. fey T Alabama Singer Lauds Accent *1* • *1* *1* • .[•••;. •;•••!« 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 $10 per acre.” E. Blakelee, Commissioner of ■riculture of the State of Mlssis- ,pt, writes: ’The weevil last year certainly maged the crop to the extent of 1,000 bales. You can figure that • as to -what the actual damage In lars and cents would be. Now, the ■p this year Is in splendid eondi- n all over the State, and If It were r the weevil I believe that we 000 bales. "This gives you an Idea of what the weevil does for a regular cotton-pro ducing' oountr^, and particularly one In. which negroes and mules make the cotton. Land values have depreciat ed fuliy 40 per cent where the wee vil has been as long as two or three years. Experience has shown, how ever, that this depreciation is tem porary. and, of course, in four or five years It begins to stiffen up and go back to previous prices." Danger Not Local One. Cotton is the money crop of the Hunnicutt Won in First Round Pioneer Tells of Ante-Bellum Duel *{•••$• v#v •J***l* *!••+ 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. 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