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TTEAKST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. OA , SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1013.
JUDGE SPEER TO Prudent to Open Knoxville Fair
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FIGHT CHIB Wireless Will Flash His Signal ETERNflLVDliTH
BEFORE DOUSE Conservation" Exposition Ready
Congressional Inquiry Into Fed
eral Jurist’s Acts Is Slated
for the Late Fall.
MACON, An*, so.—That Jtidira Em-
ory Speer, of the United Staten Court
for the Southern District of Georgia,
against whom charges have been pre
ferred by a special examiner of the
Department of Justice, will not sub
mit tamely to the investigation by
the Judiciary Committee of the
House, ordered in a resolution passed
by the lower branch of CongresR, Is
the positive statement of those most
intimately connected with the Georgia
Jurist, and is further demonstrated by
the afct that Judge Speer has already
asked for a copy of the charges and
an opportunity to appear in person
before the committee in his own de
fense against impeachment proceed
ings
Various charge* against the Geor
gia Judge have been brought during
the past three or four years, but this
investigation, on the findings of which
Attorney General McReynold* has
presented a special report, has been
conducted during the year by R. Col
ton L^wls, a special examiner of the
Department of Justice, and others.
Examiner Lewis spent a number of
weeks In Georgia.
Judge Alleges Espionage.
Jodge fipeer. In a recent speech In
the West, denounced what he char
acterized as the espionage of Federal
agents upon Judges, and Senator Bo
rah recently charged in the Senate
that Federal agents had harassed
Judges by investigations to influence
their actions in rases in which the
Government was Interested. Judge
Speer maintained in his speech that
this deliberate attempt on the part
of the department to influence legis
lation will, if action is not taken to
Put a stop to it, lead eventually to
the bankruptcy of attainable Justice
in Federal courts, because Jurists will
be robbed of all independence of ac
tion and will be deprived of the priv
ilege of adjudicating esses upon their
merits and the testimony. Judge
Speer claim* that the clamor against
him has been largely promulgated by
influential lltiaantii in his court,
H*ainst whom adverse action hail been
rendered.
Summary of Charge*.
Some of the charges re id by Chair
man Clayton to the House, after
wh!i»h the resolution authorizing the
investipntlnn was passed, were as fol
lows:
“Violation of section 67 of the Ju
dicial code, in allowing his son-ln-
Ibw, A. H Reyward, to be appointed
V° *nd employed In offices and duties
in his court.
“Violation of the bankruptcy act in
allowing compensation in excess of
ihe provisions of that act to g tras-
!ee . . w,1 ° was his Personal friend.
Violation of the laws in drawing
Juries.
"Violation of a mandate of the
Supreme Court of the United States.
"Oppressive and corrupt use of his
official position In deciding cases un
justly In favor of his son-in-law.
“Corrupt and unwarranted abuse of
his official authority in using court
officials as private servants, who were
paid by the Government without ren
dering any service to the Govern
ment.
“Oppressive and corrupt conduct in
allowing the dissipation of assets of
bankruptcy estates by the employ
ment of unnecessary officials and the
payment of excessive fees.
“Oppressive and corrupt abuse of
authority In granting orders appoin -
ing receivers for property without no
tice to the owners and without cause,
resulting In great loss to the pnrties
Use of Drugs Alleged.
"Oppressive and corrupt abuse of
authority in refusing to allow the dis
missal of litigation for the purpose of
permitting relatives and favorites to
profit by the receipts of large fees.
"Oppressive conduct in entertainine
matters beyond his jurisdiction, fining
parties, etc.
"Oppressive conduct in allowing
money to remain on deposit without
Interest in a bank In which relatives
or friends were interested.
"Allowance of excessive fees to re
ceivers, etc., for purposes Improper.
“Corrupt conduct In raising amount
of fees allowed fb others in ord ‘r
that his son-in-law might profit
thereby.
“Attempted bribery of officials ap
pointed to act as custodians.
“Use of drugs
"General unlawful and oppressive
conduct to serve his own private
ends."
Chairman Clayton, of the Judiciary
Committee, announced that the in
vestigation of Judge Speer's conduct
would not begin until late In the
autumn
TWINS PUZZLE JUDGE;
FINES BOTH AS FLIRTS
PHILADELTHIIA. Aug-. SO—It cost
either Frank or Harry Swartz, 19
years old, $8.50 to be the twin of the
other to-day, when Magistrate Mor
ris fined them each that amount be
cause he couldn't tell which had been
guilty of flirting in the park.
After Vacation Peel
Your Discolored Skin
T. A. Wright, president of the National Conservation Expo
sition Company, and view of the mines and minerals building, one
of the eleven structures to be dedicated to-morrow.
‘Age Curable Disease,’ Says
Teacher at Summer School of
Perpetual Life—Eats Nuts.
BERKELEY, CAL., Auk. SO.—Four
hundred years ago Ponce DeLeon
grew' old and died searching for the
fountain of eternal youth. To-day
comes a man from London acclaim
ing that he has found it. His name is
Harry Gaze, a young man—In ap
pearance at least—who has forgotten
his birthday and expects to live for
ever.
He has a considerable following in
a summer school of perpetual life at
the First Unitarian Church and as
serts that he has a theory based on
scientific knowledge and sound com
mon sense. Gaze never says die.
“Age is a curable disease.’’ he said,
at his apartments at Bancroft way
and College avenue. "I hava forgot
ten how* old I am and I never expect
to die. I believe 1,000 years of life
will only whet my appetite for liv
ing.”
The oool enunciation of such a doc
trine takes faith, and it is Just such
faith that Is essential to perpetual
life, according to Gaze. His phil
osophy in a nutshell is this:
To BuMd Better Bodies.
“Every eleven months, according to
science, we build an entirely new
body. The secret of perpetual youth
is the building of a better body each
succeeding year. We don’t grow old;
we become old by not growing. There
is no limit to a man’s age except the
one he fixes himself. Banish the Idea
of maturity. Make w r ar on the ‘prime
of life.’ Co-operate with nature, don’t
defeat her. Cheer up; the best is
yet to come."
Gaze himself is the picture of
youth, muscular, alert and vital. There
seems to be nothing of the poser or
freak about him.
“People call me an Englishman, but
really I am a native son. I have been
here a year and my body has been
REGGNCILEB TO
Rebellious Members Tackle Task
of Settling Tariff and Currency
Questions Before Fall.
By JONATHAN WINFIELD.
WASHINGTON, Aug 30.—With
summer on the wane, tired members
of Congress have become reconciled
to the fact that both the tariff and
currency questions must be disposed
of before adjournment, and have set
tled back to await the arrival of fall.
It’s hard on the statesmen who had
figured an adjournment about July
25 or August 1. Congress has been in
almost continuous session for the past
five years. It’s either long regular
session or extra session following the
short ones. The truth is, the contin
uous performance in Congress Is cost
ing the members, as well as the coun
try, a lot of money. The majority
of the national legislators are law
yer*— men who have built up pretty
good practices back home. Otherwise
they might not be here.
Not so very long a~o there weren't
a half dozen investigating commit
tees grinding away; the tariff ques
tion was comparatively quiet; inter
national muddles were few and far
between, and the country struggled
along some way with its currency
system.
G. O. P. Slumber Is Disturbed.
Sixteen years of Republican rule
rather got everybody in the habit of
taking things easy and not hunting
for trouble and there didn’t seem
half so much for Congress to do.
In those days a member of Congress
could count upon spending at least
four to six months of the year at
home and frequently he could put in
eight to nine months on his private
affairs. It made a difference finan
cially and otherwise.
Sine* early in the Taft administra
tion, however, Congress has been
grinding away, getting a good start
with the Payne bill, which passed on
August 5, 1909. When President
Wilson called the current extra ses
sion last April it was hoped to get
the Underwood bill through not later
than August 15, but such hopes van
ished when the Senate Finance Com
mittee and the Senate caucus held
up the measure almost two months
after it passed the House.
Then the President came along
with his currency message and the
anxious-to-get-home fellows Just
groaned. At first there were hopes
of calling off the President and
hints were thrown out that currency
might go over until the regular ses
sion.
The President’s message was plain
enough, but he supplemented it with
certain observations made when in-
quiring^ptatesmen dropped in at the
White House to ascertain if he were
really in earnest about this all sum
mer business.
Adjournment Plot Fail*.
The grumbling increased as the
weatner got hotter. Then, seizing the
psychological moment, certain Repub
lican Senators broached the subject of
a compromise; they agreed to rush
the tariff through if the currency
question were left over until fall. The
President, however, eat on the propo
sition, so the Republicans went ahead
talking tariff.
The physical inconvenience due to
an all-summer stay In Washington,
however, is but one of the causes be
hind the complaints of "overworked”
statesmen. The little matter of finance
is also involved. Things have actually
come to such a pass that a Congress
man must give practically his entire
time to the Government’s business,
and he has had to cut out the “side
lines.” The Chautauqua lecturers in
the Senate and House are compelled
to cancel their midsummer engage
ments; the la wyer members are forced
to turn their law business over to an
understudy and the farmer statesmen
have to get someone else to harvest
the crop.
Many lawyer members almost have
decided to live on what Uncle Sam
pays them.
With all that there are a bunch of
fellows “back home” willing to take
the Congressman’s job If he doesn't
like it, and It will be noted that there
are few resignations.
(From Broadway Weekly.)
Women returning from the seaside
with browned, reddened or freckled com
plexions 1 will be wise in immediately
taking up the mercolized wax treatment.
Weatherbeaten skin had best come off.
for no amount of “beautifying ' will e\er
make such skin pretty to look at. The
surest, safest, easiest way to shed the
despoiled cuticle is with the treatment
suggested. Put the wax on before re
tiring. as you would cold cream, and
rinse it off next im-ming with warm wa
ter Minute particles of scarf skin will
peel off day by daj. gradually show ing
the healthy, youthful skin beneath. One
ounce of mercolized wax, obtainable at
any drug store. Is enough to make any
discolored or spotted complexion clear,
white and satiny soft. Its iction is so
gentle no injury Is caused and the face
shows no trace of its use.
Burning heat, irritating winds and dirt,
are such wrinkle-makers that the daily
use <>f the following astringent-tonic lo
tion at tils season is highly advisable:
"‘owdered saxolite, 1 our. ,-e. dissolved in
k-' . ' b:»/. '■ p.i.T ls.«; as a fa. .•
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hd preventive. -tAdv.j
Goven .t ! looper To Be Present at Dedication
(Vremonies Monday.
KNoAi i a-:. Aug. 30.—Promptly
at lo o’clock Monday morning in
Washington President Wilson will
flash a wireless telegraph message to
Knoxville. The message will be picked
up by the wireless station in the
grounds of the National Conservation
Exposition in this city.
Tlie receipt of the message from the
President of the United States to T.
A. Wright, president of the exposi
tion company, will be the signal for
the formal opening of this exposi
tion. the first in the history of the
world devoted to the cause of con
servation and designed to tench by
concrete example the necessity of
conserving all material resources if
the country is to grow and prosper.
Manner of Opening Unique.
Even as the National Conservation
Exposition is unique in history, so Is
the manner of opening it unique. No
exposition ever before has been
opened by a wireless message sent
by the President. Ben W. Hooper,
Governor of Tennessee, and his staff
will be present on the opening Uav.
The exercises will be impressive.
There will be speeches by Governor
Hooper, Mayor Heiskell of Knoxville
and President Wright of the exposi
tion.
The new buildings on the grounds
will be dedicated; there will be an
automobile parade, the formal open
ing of “Joy Street,” as the midway
will be known; firework*, band con
certs and a general good time. The
official progr;im starts the fun going
at 8 o’clock in the morning, and it
will continue without a break until
late at night. Two promises made by
the director* months ago will be kept.
These were:
The exposition would open on time
and be complete down to the last de
tail.
The exposition wrould open free of
debt.
Building* All Are Ready.
Opening day will see the exposition
grounds looking more beautiful and
more attractive than ever before.
Eleven great exposition buildings, all
snowy white, are filled with exhibits
of all kind*, Government, State, mu
nicipal and private. Flower bods dot
the landscape. Flags arc flying. The
lakes are alive with motor boats. The
grounds present a gala appearance.
But it is in carrying out the idea
of the exposition Itself—the idea upon
which it was founded—and in teach
ing the lessons of conservation that
this exposition, projected by the South
and brought into being by men of
the South, stands out as different
from any other exposition. From
start to finish, from one building to
another, the main id<*a of teaching
conservation lessons never has been
lost sight of for a moment.
The big mines and minerals build
ing is an exnmple. Here the displays
have been so arraanged as to em
phasize the fact that In the South
nearly every mineral is found, and
also to emphasize the fact that all of
these ores have a commercial value.
A model coal mine dug into a hill
forms a feature of this exhibit.
The exposition will run until No
vember 1.
Woman on Rampage
With ‘Perfume Jag’
Rancher** Wife Drinks Cologne and
Starts Fighting Stranger on
Street Corner.
VISAIJA, Aug. 80.—Mr*. Dave
Rivers, wife of a rancher at Goshen,
imbibed a quantity of cologne which
which sho blames for an exhibition of
exuberance in Main street.
She stood at the curb and dealt right
swings and left hooks at male passersby
until a riot call was sent for the sheriff
ana two deputies.
TREES ALL FED TO CATTLE.
PLEASANT HILL, MO.. Aug. 30.-
So dry are pastures around here that
farmers are feeding their trees to
their cows. In some instances farm
ers who are short of feed have re
sorted to cutting limbs from oak
trees and tossing them to their stock.
entirely rebuilt out of your California
fruit, nut^ olives and sunshine,” he
said
While Gaze believes he has found
the fount of youth in the human mind,
he regards the physical as an Im
portant factor.
Water and Sun Baths.
“Take brisk walks every morning.
Take water and sun baths. Eat spar
ingly and only when hungry. Eat
meat if you can not enjoy other foods,
but nuts and fruit* are the best diet.
Eat a* much uncooked food as pos
sible, for heat breaks up the vital
composition of food. Fruit contains
elements that do not ossify the body.
“Eat at least one apple every day
in the year. Chew thoroughly. The
ripe olive is an excellent rejuvenating
food, but the green olive has no food
value. Olive oil is a solvent for lime
deposit* and should be used internal
ly and externally. Do not drink
water with your meal*, but drink
about one-half gallon of distilled wa-
ter a day. Do not drink coffee, tea
or alcoholic beverage*.
“The mental attitude toward eating
is more important, however, than the
food. A feast of pork and pickles
oaten in harmony is better than ap
ples and figs in strife.”
Pays $40 Alimony to
Another Man’s Wife
200,000 Mummies -
In Aztec Catacombs
Niches in Great Wall Surrounding
Cemetery Rented for Any
Number of Years.
GUANAJUATO. MEXICO, Aug. 30.
In the catacombs and cemetery at
Guanajuato, within an inclosure em
bracing about six acres, rest the
ashes and bones of over 200,000 hu-
m;in beings. It contains mummies
of Aztecs who had their life and be
ing centuries ago.
Surrounding the spot is a wall
built of masonry, twelve feet high and
twelve feet thick. The wall is honey
combed on the inside with holes
about eighteen inches square, some
of which are open, while others are
sealed with cement. It Is said that
there are about 5,000 of these niches.
They are used to stow away dead
bodies and are rented for that pur
pose for periods ranging from one
year to five years.
When the period of rent expires the
renuuA® are removed’ami the bones
cast Into an underground chamber.
The municipal authorities of Gua
najuato charge eighteen cents for a
burial permit.
Detroiter Grows Tired of Contribut
ing Further to Support of
Former Spouse.
ANN ARBOR. MICH.. Aug. SO.—
Henry Hubbard, a meat dealer of De
troit. has filed a petition in the Circuit
Court here, praying that the divorce
suit, tried here in 1911, by which his
wife was granted her freedom and
alimony of $40 per month, be re
opened.
H t « declares that his wife has sine©
married a man who wag posing as a
boarder in her home, and that the
fact has been kept secret in order
that she might collect her alimony.
He asks to be relieved from paying
further alimony, and petitions for the
custody of two children of his for
mer marriage. He is also remarried.
Women Start War
On Horse Nose Bags
Hard-Working Equines Lose Oats
When Campaign Is Started in
San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30.—A
taste of feminine militancy was given
to the people of San Francisco when
four women started a crusade
against nosebAgs for horses.
Invading the business district, they
hunted out horses that were feeding
from the customary canvas bags, and,
without ceremony or apology, and de
spite protects from teamsters, hurled
all the feedbags they could find into
the gutter.
The crusaders were members of the
Animals’ Friend Society, which is op
posed to nosebags.
Whole U. S. Playing‘Peek-a-Boo’
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Everyone Gives ’Em ‘Once Over’
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What? the X-Ray, Slit, Etc., Skirt
Half the Nation Stares, Other Half Shudders—
and Stares, Too.
Slit skirts, X-ray gowns, diapha
nous dresses, kneeless stockings, ank
lets, and kneelets, back-to-Eve cos
tumes, all in one mighty array have
swept the country, leaving one-half of
the nation staring and the other half
shuddering, although the shudderers
also have stared.
Back In the prehistoric days when
Roosevelt was President and Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw still beautiful, the di-
rectolre gown made its appearance
and the public felt th* first thrill and
a premonition of what was to come.
After the dlrectolre came the hob
ble and the harem and modistes be
gan to rank with statesmen and slay
ers in public interest.
The diaphanous dress has been the
greatest boon to the newspaper cor
respondent since the man invented
the story about the bell buzzard and
the genius thought out the yam about
the eagle that flow away with the
baby as the mother stood in frozen
horror.
In one day last week, August 24.
correspondents came in with slit
skirt stories and they were from
cold New 1 England, the Sunny South,
the great West and the Golden Coast.
Here they are:
Slit Skirt One
Sign of Insanity.
PEORIA. ILL., Aug. 24.—Miss Edna
Kay, 22 years old, who yesterday cre
ated great excitement as she prom
enaded through the principal thor
oughfares of the city dressed In
clothes of the latest cut and design,
Including a slit skirt of the extreme
variety, was to-day sent to an asy
lum.
Crowds of old and young men fol
lowed and looked until she was ar
rested by a policeman. She was put
In Jail and later turned over to Judge
Stone for a hearing.
After hearing the evidence the
judge decided to send the woman to
the Bartonville Insane Asylum for
treatment.
Anti-Vice Society
Asks Law Agin ’Em.
BALTIMORE. Aug. 24.—The in-
vasion of Baltimore by only one
wearer of an “X-ray” skirt was
enough for the Society for the Sup
pression of Vice. It will petition the
trousers have come to stay, and with
in a few years everybody will be
wearing them.”
Diaphanous Gowns
Bring Out Reserves.
HARTFORD, Aug. 24.—A crowd of
men gathered at the busiest corner of
Asylum street, gazing raptly in one
direction and emitting every now and
then a ripple of sound—applause or
ridicule, i fie policeman on the beat
couldn’t tell which.
The policeman Joined the crowd and
soon discovered it wasn’t t he glorious
setting sun at the foot of the street
which the men were admiring, al
though It was the sun that was fur
nishing the show.
Women dressed In the latest trans
parent skirts were tripping down the
Mrs. James S. Marcum Learna
Through Medium She Is Heir to
Property Worth Millions,
thoroughfare, and—well. It took the
reserves to disperse the audience.
Kneelet Is Latest;
Skirt Cut to Show.
ATLANTIC CITY. Aug. 24.—
The “kneelest” to-day made Its ap
pearance upon the board walk, cir
cling the legs of two young women,
who acknowledged they came from
Pittsburg. The “kneelet” Is worn with
the slit skirt and is the twin to the
anklet, with the exception that It is
worn Just abov© the knee instead of
around the ankle.
Also, the slit in the skirt extends
much higher, to show the “kneelet.”
Board of Police Commissioners or
Marshal Farnan to prevent the wear
ing of such skirts in Baltimore.
A young woman walked along
Howard street in a transparent gown
yesterday and was more of an at
traction than an ordinary circus pa
rade.
Alderman Exposes
Calves for Coolness.
Los, ANGELES, Aug. 24.—P.
J. Durbin, City Trustee of Vernon,
appeared before the Board of Public
Works to-day in the first pair of “slit
trousers” to be introduced into offi
cial circles. The slit in the trousers
runs halfway to th eknees, and a
corresponding slit in the sleeve ex
tends halfway to the elbow.
“I Intend that Vernon shall have the
latest styles,” said Durbin. “Slit
Bride’s X-Ray Gown.
Surprise to Husband.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24.—Los An
geles to-day had Its first X-ray bride.
She wore a diaphanous wedding gown
of white charmeuse and lace through
which the light shone with startling
effect. Miss Belle Hassler, of Waco,
Texas, who has been living with
friends in Los Angeles, was married
to J. M. Pitcher, a well-known Spring
street merchant.
When Miss Hassler told Pitcher
that eh© would become his wife, she
also told him that their wedding must
be the latest thing In dress and a
little ahead of the times. Pitcher says
he knew nothing about the gown until
he walked up the steps of the cler
gyman’s house with Miss Hassler and
the light struck the skirt.
Garden of Eden Clad
Pair Run Out of City.
FARRELL, PA., Aug. 24.—Wearing
a splendid creation of the diaphanous
gown. Miss Helen Garden Harvedge,
who is visiting this city, appeared on
the streets to-day with an escort,
Henry Burton, who wore trousers that
were slit from the bottom to the knee.
Before they had traversed two
blocks "trailers” were behind them In
constantly Increasing numbers. When
the pair reached the center of the
business section they were hemmed
in by a howling, Jeering mob.
They appealed to the police for pro
tection, were placed in an automo
bile and told not to come back to
town unless they were fully clotted.
Fortunes in Coal Oil
Sought in Calgary
Baby's Cry an Index
To Future in Life
Experts Believe Western Canada Soclety Woman Dec , ares She Can
Will Become One of Greatest
Fields in World.
CALGARY, ALBERTA, Aug. 30.—If
the expectation* of experts who have
been conducting drilling operations
to the southwest of this city for nine
months are realized, Calgary will be
come the center of the world’s new
est and one of its greatest oil fields.
Although the members of the two
syndicates which are drilling will say
but little about their operations, there
have been rumors of late that oil has
been struck in small quantities.
"We are finding that the geological
formation is much broken.” said A.
W. Dingham, of the Calgary Pe
troleum Products Company, “and as a
consequence the oil field, if there is
any, is broken and distributed. This
may mean that the oil, if struck, will
not be in paying quantities.”
BOYS WITH AIR GUNS RID
CITY OF ENGLISH SPARROWS
APPLETON, WIS.. Aliy. 30.—While
“swatting the fly” is now the pre
dominantly popular summer sport
with the young, the boy with the
airgun is still chasing the sparrow,
and the chase has become so warm
that the sparrow has quit the battle.
A few years ago the streets were
literally full of sparrows, but to-dav
one is rarely seen. Farmers state the
same condition applies about their
farms.
Read Child’s Disposition
In His Wails.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 30.—-Mrs. L.
B. Bishop, a society leader, of Chi
cago, now in Washington, can tell
from a baby’s cry the kind of a man
or woman It will make when grown.
She said:
“The baby that cries with a whine
or snarl note will make a discontent
ed, fretful adult. The Infant whose
cry is a series of wails will have a
chip on its shoulder always, while
the youngster with a strong, lusty
cry, with a laugh and smile at the
close, makes the world leaders, de
termined to succeed.”
HUNTINGTON. W. VA^ Aug.
The voice of & ghost, developed by a
spiritualistic medium, may bring Mrs,
Fannie 8. Marcum, wife of Senator
James 8. Marcum, of Westmorland,
a fortune of from 12,000,000 to $7,040,-
000.
Mrs. Marcum was persuaded a few
weeks ago to accompany two friends
across the Ohio River to visit a spir
itualistic medium, and while her
friends were apparently conversing
with friends in the great beyond a
voice suddenly cried out, "Is Fannie
Marcum here?” Mrs. Marcum an
swered.
Tells H*r to 8©«k Fortune.
'*1 am William M. Pleraon, your
uncle,” said a voice, “You ore heir to
my wealth, but If haste is not m&de a
fortune will be lost to you. Go at
once to Aurora.”
With the ghostly command still
sounding in her ears, Mrs. Marcum
returned to her home, only to find a
letter, postmarked Aurora, awaiting
her.
The letter inquired whether or not
there were any heirs of “William M.
Pierson” alive. Senator Marcum test
ed the “ghost.” Every word spoken
to Mrs. Marcum was repeated.
Their 6on, Attorney P. H. Marcum,
was dispatched forthwith to Aurora,
and there, according to hie *tate-
ments, the entirety of a marvelous
story was unfolded. The Piersons
lived on the site of which is now
Huntington until 1859 when the hus
band went to Louisville to dispose of
a fleet of timber.
Wife Married Second Tim®.
He never came back to his wife,
who, after several years of mourning,
supposing him to be dead, became the
second wife of the late Dr. P. H. Mc
Cullough, one of the prominent citi
zens of the county. In 1910 Mra
Pierson McCullough died, naming her
niece, Fannie B. Marcum, wife of
James H, Marcum, as her sole lega
tee.
Pierson, however, was not dead. He
went from Louisville to Denver,
where he purchased a silver mine,
and later is reported to have Invested
in Mexican mining property, and to
have smuggled goods between Mex
ico and Ouba, becoming as the result
of his various activities immensely
rich. In February, 1882. n© died In a
hotel at Hot Springs.
After his death a will was diecov-
ered. which made millionaires of the
Bell brothers, the beneficiaries, but
the claim Is made that Mrs. Plersoit
was entitled, under the laws of Texa^
to inheritance of one-half of her hus-*
band’s property.
They ASS
Hand It to Us
Don’t yon fall for any of
that $25 or $30 talk. The
wise boy*” are going to or
der a Scotch Woolen Mill*
Suit or Overcoat
Made-to-Order
We’ve a whole store fan at
Bnappy Fall and Winter style,
end all wool materials. Come in.
107 Peachtree
MARRIAGE
INVITATIONS
CORRECTLY AND PROMPTLY ENGRAVED
SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES
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47 WHITEHALL ST.. ATLANTA. GA.
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