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ATLANTA, DA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 31. 1313.
Northern Veterans to Meet, Sep
tember 19-20. for First Time
on Southern Soil.
DIXIE SOLDIERS ARE INVITED
Great Preparations Made to En
tertain 300,000 Visitors at
Historic Battlefield.
CHATTANOOGA, Aug. 30.—On thP
very spot that veterans of the Con
federacy celebrated their twenty-third
annual reunion Just three months ago
the Grand Army of the Republic will
hold Its forty-seventh encampment,
and the land on which the meeting
takes place has been hallowed by the
blood of men who wore the gray and
soldiers of the blue.
For the first time since the close of
the struggle between the States the
Grand Army holds its encampment on
Southern soil. It is regarded • s
typically fitting that the place is
Chattanooga, around which many of
the most spectacular battles were
fought.
It is held as no less fitting that the
time will he September 19-20, the fif
tieth anniversary of the battle of
Chickamauga, whir' came so near
halting the invasion of the South by
the Army of the Cumberland,
Great Reception Planned.
Chattanooga has made mammoth
preparations for the entertainment of
the veterans of the blue. As soon .<s j
the Confederate reunion closed last j
May and the G. A. R. bad accepted j
Chattanooga's invitation the people j
the Tennessee city began making I
their arrangements.
One hundred thousand persons at
tended the Confederate reunion. T > I
care for them was a gigantic task,
and it is expected that at least 300,000 i
will attend the encampment.
Always from 200,000 to 000,000 peo- '
pie have attendee these meetings of
the G. A. R., but never has a meeting J
been held in a city so ripe with his- l
toric interest as Chattanooga, or a 1
city where the personal viewpoint ap- !
peals to so many.
In view of this enormous influx of
visitors, ih*- execut ve committee of
the Incorporated Encampment Asso- ■
elation is composed in large part of j
the leaders who served in similar ca- I
parity in May. The records, proper- |
ties, employees and experience are all
carried forward into the new organi
sation, thus assuring that blunders
due to inexpeirence will be obviated.
Many Historic Scene:
Of the historic scenes around Chat
tanooga Chickamauga may well be
placed at the front. On this field
there fell, in round numbers. 35.000 j
meip which, when divided, shows
about 25 per cent of each army and
33 per cent on each side for the troops
actually engaged. Then there are
Lookout Mountain, the scent of a
thrilling charge by the Federal troops j
against obstinnte defense; Missionary
Ridge, stormed by the Northern troops j
without orders, and taken. Casual
ties in all the battles of the Chatta
nooga district numbered about 47,000.
Part of the field of Chickamauga
Is now occupied by a garrison of
United States regular troops, this post
soon to be increased for a brigade.
Many thousand acres form a Govern
ment reservation, the Chickamauga-
Chattanooga National Military Park,
on which there are 2,000 memorials
and monuments.
Silent testimony to the military op
erations around Chattanooga is found
tn the National Cemetery, where lie
buried about 12,0 0 soldiers; and in
a well-ordered Confederate cemetery,
where an attractive entrance ani
large monument mark the South's
devotion to her beloved defenders.
Dozens of special entertainment
features are being arranged. Chief
among the events w be a sham bat
tle between regiments of the regular
army on Chickamauga field, conclud
ing at historic Snodgrass Hill. This
Is sure to be of intense interest to
the old soldiers.
Signal fires will be lighted every
evening on Signal Point, reproducing
the beacons that burned during the
long campaign of 1863.
“Battle Above Cloudy.”
Another spectacular feature will be
a reproduction of the “Rattle Above
the Clouds” in fireworks on Lookout
Mountain, 2,500 feet above the sea
level and 1,500 feet above the vallev
in which Chattanooga is situated
It is planned to be one of the great
est fireworks spectacle ever staged
in the United States.
A collision between two passenger
trains, a steamboat reception and
dinner to visiting officials of the G.
A. R. and hydroplane flights will also
be features. There also will be a
number of regimental and brigade re
unions during encampment week.
Wilder’s brigade will hold a reunion,
as will also the Army of the Cum
berland. Many of the regiments that
fought in the Chattanooga battles
will hold reunions, the dates to be
announced later. *
While the encampment is in no
sense a Joint reunion of the blue and
gray, as was held July 4 at Gettys
burg. title soldiers of the North are
anxious that the veterans of the
South fraternize with them during
the meeting
Colonel Adam Foust, of Warren.
Tnd.. president of the Chickamauga
Survivors’ Association. Union veter
ans. has issued a cordial Invitation to
Confederate survivors to meet with
ftis comrades in a reunion on Chick
amauga battled~ld September 2i near
the 75th and 101st Indiana regiment
al monuments on the west side of
Poe field. This invitation is issued
to all Confederate . urvivors of the
battle, but Colonel Foust is desirous
that all survivors who were with the
lamented Genera! W. R. Rate shall
attend He allude* to the Bate men
as those “who gave us so much trou
ble that day.”
23 PRISONERS BAPTIZED
LANSING, KAN , Aug 30.- While
scores of their fellows stood about
witnessing the ceremony, 23 convicts
*Jhe ^tate Prison h*r» w«r* bap-
^n th«A prison laundry Sunday.
of the converts were women.
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Proposes to Bring
Up Baby Devilfish
Californian to Attempt What Scient
ists Have Declared
Impossibility.
LONG REACH, CAL., Aug. 30.—In
an effort to accomplish what has
j heretofore been declared impossible
by scientists, bringing to maturity a
baby devilfish, will be attempted by
I>r. W. S. I^eroy, a scientist of Ap
pleton, who is a summer tourist in
Long Reach.
Dr. Leroy discovered the tiny oc
topus, wo small that it can only be
seen distinctly under a magnifying
glass, attached to a tiny piece of
coral on the beach here this morn
ing He will construct a glass case
in which fresh sea water will be cir
culated In the effort to bring the
deep sea creature to maturity.
The tiny inhabitant of the ocean
has lost two of its spider-like tenta
cles, evidently In a fight with some
oth*r member of its species, but
otherwise is in apparently healthy
condition. The remaining tentacles
are about two inches* in length and
of such strength that force was nec
essary In prying them from the rock
to which they were fastened.
Girl Sunday School
Teacher Also Forger
Dual Life of Pittsburg Young Woman
Is Bared in a Remark
able Confession.
Halt Tariff Amendment That
Would Admit Plumage From All
Species Outside America.
Friends of bird protection won a
victory in the Senate when the feath
er provision in the tariff bill was re
ferred to the Finance Committee for
further consideration after that com
mittee had amended it to permit the
admission of feathers of all birds
killed as pests and feathers of game
birds The provision originally barred
feathers of all wild birds, except os
trich feathers, and feathers of do
mestic poultry.
“Inasmuch as practically all birds
are killed as pests in some parts of
the world, due to ignorance of their
value, and ns most birds are like
wise killed as game birds, somewhere
or other, by different races of men.
the passage of this amendment would
remove protection from all the birds
of the world which live beyond our
bounds, ’ declares James H. Rice, Jr.,
field agent of the Audubon Society.
“The Audubon Society seeks to
bring about such legislation in all civ.
I lllzed countries as will prohibit the
I ' use of feathers taken from any w r ild
bird as an article of commerce.
Insects’ Toll a Billion.
“The United States loses $1,000,-
000,000 yearly through harmful in
sects, Georgia $40,000,000, and birds
are the only check to the insects. It
requires 250,000 bushels o$ insects a
day to feed the birds of Georgia. In
sects are largely migratory. The boll
weevil came from Guatemala; the
cabbage butterfly from the Malay Ar
chipelago; the gypsy moth from Eu-
tope.
“The destruction of bird life in any
I part of the world will affect every
| other part, because the insects, if
not checked, will multiply enormous
ly and must migrate for food.
Kill 300,000,000 in Year.
“The objection to the slaughter
yearly of 300,000,000 birds for their
plumage becomes stronger by reason
of the fact that most of the birds
whose plumage is used in commerce
are killed during the nesting season,
when they are tame and their plum
age has an added luster. Many, like
the snowy heron, known as aigrettes,
have a special nuptial plumage bridal
dress.
“So heavy has been the agricultural
loss of the w'orld that every civilized
government has been forced to pass
laws conserving the birds within their
boundaries.”
WILL»CITI
Municipality Adopts Charter Plac
ing Responsibility for Affairs
on One Man’s Shoulders.
plan of government is the short non
partisan ballot and the elimination of
ward lines. At the same time a long
list of petty offices are taken off the
ballot and made appointive. Under
the new’ plan the commissioners are
chosen for a four-year term, half of
the body being elected every two
years. This feature of concentrating
responsibility in the hands of a few
men was desperately fought by all of
the old party machines.
The administration of the city 19
divided into five departments, the
heads of -which are appointed by the
Manager. All remaining city officers
are subject to civil service appoint
ment.
A unique feature is the creation of
a department of socle’ welfare, which,
in addition to supervising the depart
ments of health, parks and play
grounds, must makj inquiries into
the causes of poverty and disease in
the city, and make recommendations
to the legislative body.
The new charter Is also unusual in
providing for the complete adminis
trative machinery of the city, de
signed In harmony with the most ad
vanced Ideas of city management.
Plans are made for a scientific bud
get, complete auditing of city ac
counts. a modern accounting system,
purchasing agent, standardization of
city supplies, time and service records
and many other advances. These in
novations are the result of investiga
tions made by the Charter Commls
sion into the government of New
York, Philadelphia ;.nd Cincinnati.
The new charter will take effect
January 1, 1914.
The charter is said to be the most
advanced ever adopted by an Ameri
can city. Dayton is the first city of
any size in the country to acquire a
city manager, and the first to com
bine the best features of the old com
mission plan with the manager ldso.
COX jib College and Conservatory
DEED DATED 1756 IS FILED;
HANDED DOWN IN FAMILY
PHILADELPHIA, Aug 30.—A deed
that was recently recorded In the Re
corder’s office In Lancaster shows how
old country families cling to ancestral
acres. It was dated November 14, 1756,
ami had been handed down In the family
ever since that time, only being now re
corded It transfer* from James King
to his son Vincent 23F> acres In Little
Britain township.
DAYTON, Aug. 30.—Following the
adoption of the decidedly new form
of city government, Dayton is now
looking about for a competent man
to assume the position of “City Man
ager,” upon whom will devolve the
whole duty of managing the affairs
of the municipality when the charter
becomes operative next January.
In addition to the City Manager, the
charter provides for five commission
ers, but their duties will be purely
legislative.
There is no diffusion of responsi
bility as seen in the straight commis
sion plan w’here each commissioner is
active charge of a department. To
complete the balance of power, the
people are given the right to the ini
tiative, referendum, protest and re
call.
An intergral part of the Dayton
College Park,
Georgia.
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Css Cdflcg© and Conservatory U being recognized store every day *•
k nn institution lor thorough instruction and high standards, In (be
Academy, College and Conservatory departments. Fifteen raits
are reqnired for entrance to college. In its history of 70 years
it is today more thoroughly organized than ever before.
Cox College is ideally located near Atlanta, the most
progressive city in the South, and it* health record in
unsurpasseds\K boasts of having the most modern eqnip-
-ment for instruction mditerary and conservatory
work, and it prides itself in its beautiful campus
with many botanical specimens. Its well equip
ped libraries, laboratories and museums add
much to the proficiency of a thorough cnrricalam.1
Cox College has always draWn patronage from
the best families of th* South, and it points with
pride to its many students and alumnae who oc
cupy some of the most prominent places in out
Southland.
The present staff of officers and teachers in
the literary and conservatory departments nun-’
ber thirty-one. The guiding principles in the selection el the Incnlty has been lor moral worth and proficiency and its members represent
some of the best American and European Universities and Conservatoriea.
Seventy-Brat session begins Septeaaber 10th. Parents who desire for their daughters the best instruction under the most favorable
•orroundiags. apply COX COLLEGE AND CONSERVATORY, College Park, Gau
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PITTSBURG, Aug 30 Carrie
Elizabeth Wilson, alias Graham, 22,
hails a dual existence, according
to her own confession. Hornet!men
she is a Sunday school teacher in
Brookline, with six to eight little girls
in her class, and sometimes she earns
a precarious livelihood by forging
names und pretending to be other
persons, she says.
The charge of false pretense and
forgery she admitted, but told a story
that she expected to extenuate her
offense.
According to the girl’s story, she
needed money to pay room vent and
board, and she forged the nurne of
Mrs. R. R. Hough, of Knoxville, to
account slips In a local department
store and obtained Jewelry and cloth
ing thereby.
Clubman Flees Into
Wilds From Gossip
San Diego Society Leader Becomes
Hermit When He Tires of
‘Butterfly’ Life.
SAN DIEGO, UAL., Aug 30 —John
W. Drummond, clubman and society
man. non of the American tobacco
magnate, now owns a little beauty
snot on the old Casa Grande Indian
Reservation.
Weary of metropolitan society,
seeking surcease from the scandal
thrown at him, thirsting for a life of
simplicity, Drummond stumbled upon
the place. Now he lives there, dress
ing in a tattered bathrobe and a pair
of sandal*.
Drummond, whose money could
buy him the luxuries of the day,
sleeps in a roughly built house on
the epot where the aborigines slept,
drinks from the same spring and
spends his time and entertains his
friends under the same trees.
Rich Clubman Won
By Polite Phone Girl
Operator’s Courtesies Cause Presi
dent of Exclusive Bachelor Or
ganization to Resign.
PITTSBURG, Auk. 30.—“Number,
please.”
“Grant—Grant—let m© see; I've
forgotten—can you help me?”
“Certainly. Will you tell me whom
you want?"
Sweet voiced and winsome. Miss
Margaret Cecelia Morgan, of Home
stead, relief operator of the Home
stead, Rraddock und Duquesne tele
phone exchanges, thus gave kind and
courteous attention to the calls 5 of
Thomas J. Kane, president of an ex
clusive club for young bachelors of
Homestead. Now they are married.
A? a result eighteen fellow bache
lors **f the Rellefonte Club, Home
stead. to-day are cynical.
Came in Patches. Almost All Over
Her, Like Ringworm. Made Sores
and Itched. Cuticura Soap and
Cuticura Ointment Cured.
Clarendon. N. C.—“My baby was
broken out with a red. thick and rough
looking humor when about two months old.
It would come in patches
and went almost all over
her in that way. Tha
places wore like ring
worm and as they would
spread they would turn
red and make sores and
Itch. The trouble went
to her face and dis
figured her badly. Her
clothes irritated it.
“I used several different kinds of salves
that wero recommended for the trouble and
and — —. but they did no good
I saw the advertisement of Cuticura 8oap
and Olutment and 1 got a sample and In one
night s time I could see a change In the
redness and in two days the place would be
nearly gone 1 sent and got one twenty-
rtve-cent cake of Cuticura feoap and two
fifty-cent boxes of Cuticura Ointment, which
cured uiy baby She was well in three
months (feigned' Mrs. Bertha Sawyer,
Oct. 11, 1912.
Why not have a clear skin, soft white
hands, a clean scalp and good hair? It Is
your birthright. Cuticura Soap with an oc
casional use of Cuticura Ointment will bring
about these coveted conditions in most caste
when all else fails Sold throughout the
world Liboral sample of each mailed free,
with 32-p Skin Book. Address post-card
"Cuticura. l)ept T. Boston
SxT Men w ho hba> and hhatnpoo with Cu-
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Two Hundred Shoe Salesmen
Are Leaving LYNCHBURG
With 20 Car Loads of Shoe Samples
These 200 knights of the sample case will take with them from eight hundred to a
thousand trunks containing approximately two hundred thousand (200,000) shoe samples,
LYNCHBURG is “The South’s Shoe Center.” It occupies the same relative
position in the South as a shoe distribution point that Boston occupies in the North—*
and the supremacy of LYNCHBURG as “The Souths Shoe Center” is due to the su
premacy of LYNCHBURG Shoes.
When You Buy LYNCHBURG Shoes
You Are Patronizing Southern Industry
From Which Every Southerner Must Eventually Benefit