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2 rnr a ofot?ota\ t AWD NWS. PROSPERITY FOR STATE 16 MORE SEPTEMBER MORNS AT PIEDMONT MISS FRANCES SMITH. The nun is Hhining prosperity all over Georgia to-day. The Government report, which *ent the price of cotton up $3.BO a bale, ■hows that the crop in this State is .n much better condition th.it it wallas*, year, and that the harvest will yield Georgia more than $5,000,000 more than in 1912. Cotton in Georgia did not deterio rate even one-tenth of a point from July 25 to August 25, according to tho Census Bureau estimate of condition North Carolina and South Carolina gained 1 and 2 points, respectively; Florida lost but 1 point In condition. With these exception*, every State In the cotton belt recorded serious de preciation in the condition of the growing staple, the losses ranging from 4 points for the relatively unim portant area in California to 36 points for Oklahoma. Texas, the greater cotton State, is 17 points off. The central belt shows insect ravage*. Ir. the West is drouth. Mills Seeking New Crop. Spot cotton rules now above 12 cents. The world’s mills are supposed to have used 750,000 more bales la at year than the world's fields grew. This must have reduced the cotton left over from 1911. the banner 16,000,- 000-bale crop year, to almost nothing. Those who are keenest in watching the cotton trade already see signs that PRICES H the mills in America and abroad al ready are in the market for the new crop. These are the arguments which point to sustained high prices for cot ton. Georgia last year had a short oottor. crop, while Texas produced an enor- I mous yield. This year Texas banks are overflowing with money. Many of them are going through this au tumn without borrowing from New York, for the first time, they say, in twenty years. Many of them, in fact have loaned funds in New York at this period of tight money. That’s what a big crop and high prices do for a favored State. That Is what Georgia financiers look forward to hopefully. Crop Going to "Pay Out.” What Georgia needed this year, above all things, was a good crop at fair prices. Obligations are hanging over from the previous season. There was tight money this year. This crop has to "pay out.” Everyone realized this, and the discouraging early spring brought general gloom. All this now Is changed. Trade already reflects the optimism born of. good crop pros pects. The crop never was grown with less expanse. Even 12-cent cotton will show good profits, and just now it looks as if 13 and a fraction Is a price for middlings not beyond possibility. Homer Whitaker, 19, Sentenced for Contempt of Court for Not Paying Alimony. For failure to pay alimony of $30 a month to his divorced wife. Homer A. Whitaker. 19-year-okl son of J. AY. Whitaker, general yardmaster of the Southern Hallway, was sent to the Tower for contempt of court by Judge Ellis Wednesday. The young man expressed regret that moving picture shows and baseball games are not provided for prisoners. The sentence provides for his con finement by the Sheriff until he "purges himself of the charge against him by the payment of $45," and also provides that the oroiginal order pro viding of the payment of $30 per month alimony shall stand. A divorce petition was filed against Whitaker by his wdfe, Eula C. Whita ker, April 18, and a decree granting the divorce and alimony rendered May 30. The original petition stated the pair were married September 20, 1912. and that Whitaker had aban doned his wife in April, and had re fused to provide for her, though she was 1,11. Whitaker’s father, it was also al leged. had remarked that he "would pay any fine for contempt of court for his son before he would allow the alimony to be i»aid.” Mrs. Whitaker charged that her husband was capable of earning $100 per month. In a cross-bill, he alleged that, as an extra switchman, he could riot earn more than $35. Soon to Complete McDaniel Sewer Work on the connecting link of the McDaniel street sewer will be com menced immediately, the County Com missioners deciding upon this Wednes day A contract for the use of a steam ahovel at a rent of 250 per month was approved and every effort will »>.- ex erted to get the work under way as quick as possible. The sewer to be constructed will ex tend for a distance of 3.00'* feet Its construction is a matter which has been before the commission for some time. Apartment house owners in Atlanta have united in an effort to stay the enforcement of the smoke laws against them. Given eighteen months In which to repair their furnaces so as to stop the smoke nuisance, they now de clare they are uncertain as to the proper course to pursue, and want a conference with the smoke commis sioners. George Traylor called at Smoke In spector Poole's office Wednesday and explained that he came at the chair man of a committee appointed at a meeting of apartment house owners who met in the office of Edward Du rant Tuesday. His request that they he given a hearing at the meeting of the' board next Tuesday was granted. To Ask Another Year. From Mr. Traylor’s statement, it seems that the owners will urge that they be given another year’s time be fore the law making smoke a nuisance is enforced against them. Mr. Durant Maid Wednesday the apartment house owners wanted to do what was best, but they were uncer tain just how to proceed, and their conference with the smoke commis sion would be in the spirit of co-oper ation. R. M Harwell, chairman of the smoko commission, declared Wednes day he had anticipated just such a move and expected the commission to turn deaf ears t-> the apartment house owners. Factories Have Complied. “We nave made the manufacturing plants, office buildings and railroads go to great expense to endeavor to comply with this law.” he said. “Won derful results have been accomplished. About 20 per cent of the apartment house furnaces have been remodeled so as not to make excessive smoke. The other 80 per cent has done noth ing. "Would it be fair to give them more time? Can Make Test of Law. "We notified them last March that they must not make over a certain amount of smoke when their furnaces were fired up this fall. “Despite the fact that apartment houses were among the greatest sources of the smoke nuisance, injur ing and discomfiting homes, we ex cused them from shutting off their heat during cold weather. "I understand that ife we refuse them an extension of time they will employ a lawyer and attack the con stitutionality of the smoke law*. "I think that will be their only re course. They have waited too long to protest against the course of the smoke commission.” GHEE SUIT IS FOUND HER III I DEFENSE "—• Attorneys for Divorcee Who Slew Former Husband and Bride Get Evidence Here. “Developer of Efficient Executives” Paid for Decisive Thoughts The efficient manager is better comforts and pleas- the man who decides and ures in his home. You directs. The man paid for want to lx* this man. You and can grow. Get the “de- HABIT. Decide Decide right. lake our collegiate courses in Commerce. Accounts. Finance and Commercial 1a\\v. Glass hours don’t conflict with your work or pleasure. Number of student* limited. Your future life and hap piness may be in the balance. Decide right. Enroll note. Work be gins September 15th. Evening School of Commerce Georgia Schoo! of Technology J65 W. North Ave., Atlanta, Ga. decisive thoughts plans—not for time and eide’ details. He can have the now. Classes t«J5 to 8:15 Ivy 4775 Free booklet on request Fair Bathers Hail With Delight the Postponement of Lake Closing. There are a lot of people in At lanta who were made happy by the action of the Park Board in deciding to keep Piedmont I-ake open until September 19, but none of them is any happier than Miss Frances Smith, oi o of the most popular girls at home in the lake. Miss Smith is one of the best girl swimmers in Atlanta, and has been a familiar figure at the lake all sea son. She was the first person to dare the waters, and dived off the big springboard into the chilly waters of the lake within a few moments after the lake was declared officially open, and she says she is going to be the last person to leave the lake when the pow'ers that be shut It down on the 19th. Miss Smith has done a lot of un usual things at Piedmont Lake. She can swim faster and farther and more gracefully than any of the hun dreds of other young women who are devotees of the currents, and on La bor Day she proceeded to break a few more records. Incidentally she proved to the satisfaction of every body who saw her that the water is not too cold for bathing at this time of year. She swam three miles with out geting out of the water, break ing all records, and then <*ame out of the lake as fresh and as rosy as when she went in. Then she posed for a picture of "September Morn!” Not "September Mom” a la Paul Uhabas, but "September Morn” a la Piedmont Old records of & suit for divorce in April, 1907, by the late Judge W. S. Godbee against his first wife, who killed the Judge and his bride in Millen recently, which Judge Saf- fold, Mrs. Godbee's attorney, claims is proof that Mrs. Godbee was not the aggressor, were unearthed in the Fulton County Superior Court Wed nesday morning. The suit was en tered April 29, 1907. and was later withdrawn, Judge Saffold claims, when Judge Godbee discovered that his wife had considerable money. Judge Saffold, w r ho Is in Atlanta to get a pardon for Dr. W. J. Mc- Naughton, the Emanuel County phy sician, declared Wednesday the new evidence in regard to the early mari tal relations of Judge Godbee and his first wife would be used in the trial of Mrs. Godbee next week. He declared further that he is in vestigating a report that Judge God bee took Mrs. Godbee to a question able house on Piedmont avenue when the couple came to live In Atlanta several years ago. Charged Cruelty to Wife. The petition of Judge Godbee for divorce in the Superior Court of Fulton County was filed on April 29, 1907, and was attested by Clerk A. B. Harrison and Paul S. Ethridge, the plaintiff’s attorney. Deputy Sheriff W. C, Tolbert served the defendant with a copy of the petition. According to the petition Judge flodbee and the defendant were mar ried on July 12, 1887, in Burke Coun ty, Georgia, and lived together as man and wife until 1907, with the exception of the year 1897, when they were separated for about two months and from 1901 to the latter part of 1904. Judge Godbee asserts further that each of the separations alluded to were brought about by t' - cruel and inhuman treatment of the petitioner by the defendant. "Your petitioner,” It is stated, "al leges that practical’y during the en tire period of his married life with the defendant she has been harsh and cruel in her treatment of him, has been absolutely devoid of the af fection due from a wife to her hus band, that she has maae his lite utterly unbearable; and that your petitioner has been forced to J.epa- rate himself from the defendant us above alleged, fearing lest she would take him unawares and do -ini bodi ly harm. Says She Humiliated Him. "The petitioncr,” it Is asserted further, "never fails to use every*op- portunity to humiliate your defend ant in the presence of friends, or in the presence of strangers or oven in the presence pf his own children. She has time and again ordered him to leave and threatened him if he did not leave. "Petitioner has borne this treat ment in silence, and lias done all in his pow r er to ameliorate matters, but to no purpose. Defendant has be come more and more violent in her manner toward petitioner and her threats have become so frequent and so malignant that defendant can not in safety be in her presence.” It is stated further that petitioner shows that defendant is well pro vided for in worldly goods and hag an abundance of property In her owi name to support her. Posse Searches for Assailant of a Girl WAYCROSS, Sept. 3.—A posse, led by the Clinch County Sheriff, is to day searching the woods around Cut ting, a small mill and turpentine town west of Waycross, for an unidentified white man who attacked an 11-year- old girl of a prominent family. The girl was returning home from a store, where she had been sent on an errand by her mother. Richmond Raises Tax Rate to Pay Big Debt AUGUSTA, Sept. 3.—The tax rate for Richmond County for the year 1913 has been fixed at $5.70 per $1,000. Last year it was $4.60. The increase is due 'to the fact that the county is in debt $140,000 and rather than issue bonds she will raise the rate and liquidate the debt in four yearly instalments of $35,000 each. 25 Killed When Old Irish Tenements Fall Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. DUBLIN, Sept. 3.—The death toll in the collapse of two antiquated tenant houses in Church street last night, when thirteen families were buried, probably will exceed twenty-five. Up to noon to-day fifteen bodies had been re covered Of the thirty-five rescued, ten were said to be fatally injured. There were pitiful scenes about the disaster While workmen oug through the wreckage the faint cries of those pinned beneath the debris could be heard. 'Ine ruins fill the street. My Own Beauty Secrets ANNA Y HELD The Most Instructive |g and Highly Inter esting Series of Its Kind Ever Pre sented to Beauty- Seeking Girls and Women, Superbly Illustrated by Spe cially Posed Photo graphs. BEGINS ON THE WOMAN’S MAGAZINE PAGE To-morrow BIG I SLATON’S OLD BILL DIES ST STATE In Last Hours Picturesque Bandit Bares Secret Passages in His Life History. Naming New Atlanta Judge and Fish and Game Commissioner Are Most Important. When Governor John M. Slaton gets back to his desk early Friday morn ing after a ten-day trip through the West, where he attended the Gov ernors’ Conference, he will be con fronted by a calendar embracing problems as important as any he has tackled since he succeeded Governor Joe Brown. ^ According to the schedule, the Gov ernor will take up first the matter of naming a superior judge for the new' court created for the Atlanta district by the last Legislature. Scores of applications have been filed and delegations of Atlanta lawyers have called on the Governor several times to urge the appointment of an At lanta attorney. Rumor had It at first that Judge L. S. Roan, who pre sided at the Frank trial, was to get the plum. Another matter of importance w'hlch will be decided by the Gov ernor within the next week or ten days is the appointment pf a suc cessor to Fish and Game Commis sioner Mercer. Those w r no are in close touch with the situation say the Governor has already determined to give the plum to Charles Davis, and has given notification of the change to Mr. Mercer, w r ho is in Washington. The Governor must also appoint delegates to several State conven tions which convene during the next few months. Commissioners Estimate Total Ex pense of Trial to Fulton County at Nearly $5,000. CHORUS MAN FOUND DEAD. NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Russell Summerville, aged 22, a member of the chorus of a musical show, was found dead to-day in his apartments. He was a son of Mrs. Amelia Sum merville, the actress. ESTRADA UNDER KNIFE. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 3.—General Juan Jose Estradd. President of Nicaragua, was operated upon here to-day for appendicitis. Physicians ( declared the operation was successful and that he was resting well. Woman Blind Tiger Given 39 Days in Jail MACON, Sept. 3.— Mra. J. D. Nobles, owner of a grocery store on the Co lumbus road, has been convicted in the City Court for violating the prohibition law and sentenced to serve 39 days in jail or pay a fine of $100. Deputies found beer and whisky in the rear of the store. A similar charge against Mr Nobles will be heard later In the week. Mrs. Nobles has been in jail 52 days, owing to her inability to givp bond, which has been fixed at $2,500. She is t’'e second woman ever tried in the lo cal courts for breaking the prohibi tion law. She is not more than 35 years of age. The jury in the trial of Leo M. Frank cost Fulton County $974.71 for board and lodging alone. Bills for this amount w r ere ap proved by the county commissioners Wednesday morning, there being two accounts, one from the New’ Kimball Hotel and the other from the Ger man Cafe. Bills of the Kimball to taled $685.66 for rooms and meals, and that of the German Cafe $289.15 for meals. It was estimated by the commis sioners that the total cost of the case to the county will be betw’een $4,00 and $5,000. A request that the commission pay Newt Lee for the four months he was held as a witness was filed with the board by his attorneys, Graham and Chappell. It was referred to the County Attorney for an opinion. Chairman Shelby Smith said he though it was nothing but right that the negro should be paid something; that he had done the county a great service. General Clifford L. Ander son said he did not believe the board had a legal right to make such a pay ment. Commissioner Tull C. Waters suggested that a payment of $75 or $100 be authorized, and the matter be gotten rid of at once. FOUNDER OF TOWN DIES. MACON. Sept. 3.—John W. Brad ley, a prominent and wealthy middle Georgia planter, who founded the town of Bradleys, in Jones County, died here yesterday afternoon from appendicitis. He was 58 years of age. Mr. Bradley retired several years ago and has lived in Macon since. King’s Chauffeur Driving. Police investigating the acicdent in which a boy on a bicycle was run down by Dr. J. Chester King’s auto mobile, have established the fact that Tom Ridgeway, the physician’s ne gro chauffeur, was at the wheel. The case against Goodwin will be tried soon. "Old Bill” Miner, formerly of the Jesse James bandit gang, and one of the most picturesque highwaymen of the past half century, has made his peace with the world. "Old Bill” died at 9:25 o’clock Tuesday night at the State Prison farm near Milledge- vllle. Death is supposed to have resulted from hardships suffered when he es caped from the farm last summer. For several days Old BUI hid in a dens® swamp without food or water. Since that time he had suffered from gas tritis and his health had failed rapid ly. He was 76 years old. Before he died “Old Bill” had a con fidential talk with Warden J. E. Smith and gave him some of the secret his tory of his life, which he asked to be made public after his death. He also gave the name of a sister in Kentucky whom he wished notified of his death. This has been done and she wrill ar rive in Milledgeville Wednesday to take charge of the body. Despite his lawless career, which he started at the age of fifteen years, "Old BUI” boasted that he had never harmed a woman or child or robbed an individual. He terrorized express trains, holding them up at times sin gle-handed. Had Cod® of Honor All His Own. He held to a code of honor pecu liarly his own. His victims were cor porations, especially the express com panies, against which he held a griev ance. He claimed that never during his many sensational holdups of ex press trains did he demand mon ey of passengers, but confined his operations to the baggage and express cars which he looted of thousands of dollars. Among his "ten commandments” which he held to was one which com manded: "Never take what belongs to an other man. Rob only corporations." Others were: Never fail to help a woman. Keep every man’s good will. Give a feliow money when he needs it. Never say a bad thing about a man when you can say a good one. And don’t squeal. "Old Bill” was sent to the Milledge ville farm about two years ago for train robbery near Gainesville. De spite his years, he declared to the prison officials that they could never keep him. Soon afterwards he, with Tom Moore and John Watts, made the stockade. Moore was killed while resisting arrest, and Miner was captured in South Georgia. "Old Bill" claimed that he could have made his escape, but would not desert his comrade, who broke his leg while climbing over the sockade. Wouldn't Desert Comrade. After being brought back to the farm, Miner w r as put in chains, but his health became so feeble that he was unshackled, and he escaped again last summer, this time with Widencamp and Wiggins. Widen- camp was drowned in the Oconee River and Miner was recaptured. When he was returned to the prison, "Old Bill” declared that if his life lasted he would escape again. Before his first arrest in Georgia he had escaped from a penitentiary in Can ada. Miner took an active part in guer rilla warfare during the war between the States. He also fought in Indian campaigns in the West. He had traveled throughout the world, going from the California coast to South America, and from there to Africa, Alaska and Europe. At Monte Carlo he gained note as a gambler, drop ping $5,000 in an evening’s play. Lithonia in State Chamber. L1THONIA, Sept. 3.—The Lithonia Board of Trade will join in the organ ization of a State Chamber of Com merce. At a recent meeting the Board 6t Trade voted to send a representative to the meeting to be held in Macon September 16 and elected J. K. David son delegate. , TOMBSTONES OF ASTOR HOUSE. NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—The granite blocks that have served as walls for the old Astor House here will be sold to a tombstone maker by the firm engaged to raze the landmark. Oakville Prison Fire Laid to Incendiaries MEMPHIS, TENN., Sept. 3.—That three men set fire to the Oakville, Miss., prison, in which thirty-five negro pris oners were supposed to have burned to | death several weeks ago, was asserted here to-day by Will Davis, a negro, who was arrested as an escaped convict from \! BSlSSippl Davis said that he did not know how [ many of the negro prisoners escaped from the burning penitentiary. He jumped when the fire ate away the side j wall near where he was lying. $5 COME TO ME Examine YourTestliFree! Police Chief Loses His ‘September Morn’ WAYCROSS, Sept. 3.—Chief of Police John W. Colley is on the warpath here to-day. This morning some one entered his office at the City Hall and stole his recent gift, a copy of "September Morn,” I and he has failed to locate the picture. J It was in an appropriate frame. I I point with pride to the fact that hundreds of patients have been created successful ly ar.d satisfactorily by me since the opening of my Atlanta office some months ago, amply demon strating that I do Dental Work Painlessly and that my service is strictly MODERN and agreeable in every re spect. I want to thank the people of Atlanta and vicinity for their kind patronage so gen erously extended to me and I promise faithfully to give the best Dental Service for the least money. My prices are the lowest: Set of Teeth $5 Gold Fillings $1 up Platinum and Porcelain Fillings . .50c to $1 Gold Crowns and Bridge Work $3, $4, $5 Teeth without Plates, $1 per tooth. Work guaranteed for 15 years. Terms, Don’t worry: these are arranged to suit. Painless Extracting and cleaning FREE, where other work is being done. Appointments can be made by Phone 1298. DR. WRITLAW, PAINLESS DENTIST 73 1-2 WHITEHALL STREET. Opposite Vaudette Theater; Fourth Door South of J. M. High Store. Open Daily, 8 a. m. to 8 p. m.; Sundays, 10 to 5. Lady Attendant. Ladies’ Rest Room. Phone 1298. Five different grade* of Rice including "Domino" were placed under the magnifying glass and photographed. No. I repre sents ‘Domino while the others represent various inferior grades. DOMINO RICE I> Sold Only in Sanitary Package* l Pound Size 10 cents 2 l /i “ Size 25 cents AT YOUR GROCER