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HHAKST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1913.
WIFE IF I LEPER >• Tom Heflin Couches Lance Against New Foe
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TELLS Slum Or Byronic Congressman Called Ignorant by Woman T
EUf’S CRIED
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I‘Eight Below Zero
Sure 'Nuff Winter' j
Luther Burbank Tells Story of Lake
Saranac Landlord Who Adver
tised His Resort.
Declares That She Suffered in
Martyr-Like Silence the Tor
tures of an Outcast.
EXISTENCE WAS NIGHTMARE
How She Learned Truth—Speaks
Now to Clear Herself of De
serting Husband Charge.
TACOMA, flapt, 6.—Havtng differ
ed In martyr-Ilke alienee the tortures
of an outcast which were made
doubly hard to bear through the al
leged cruelty of the man for whom
she assumed her burden, Mrs. George
Tauaan, the divorced wife of John
Ruaktn Early, leper and man of mys
tery, who has but recently been de
clared Inanne, has at laat broken her
long alienee.
Mrs. Early, on divorcing the man
whom ehe had married when a girl In
her teena, married George Tauaan.
formerly clerk 1n the office of the
Treasurer of Pierce County. Washing
ton. With her three children she Is
living happily.
*T loat all affection* for John Early
the day following our marriage,’* said
his wife. “I lived In veritable purga
tory with him. Tt was not because
he was a leper; we did not know that
he was. I was Just eighteen. I had
been reared by an elder brother, a
minister. I was a little more than
five years I had been taught to avoid
divorce, and for that reason I did not
seek one at that time.
Sleep Was Impossible.
**At Summit I did not average two
hours’ sleep out of every twenty-four
for the two months we remained
there. I was a nervous wreck. I did
not know what moment Early would
attempt to kill me and the bable».
When I think of It all, I nearly go
mad.
”I tell you. T didn’t have enough
oense. I thought, once married, you
must stand all that cornea with It.
“We were married November 3,
1906. Here my purgHtory began. He
would not work, and I was obliged
to support him. After our first baby
came. Early grew worse, and I took a
number of blows from him while
shielding my 3-weeks-old child.
“In May, 1908, I noticed a sort of
rash breakout on his hands, and ask
ed him what it was. He said it was
from the effects of acid dropped on
him while working In a small pulp
mill. He took me to the mill and
showed me where the acid had fallen
on the door. I never gave It another
thought.
It was while Ip Washington the
terrible truth was learned Early
went to see about his pension. He
was examined and told he had lepro
sy. I can not describe my terror
"Oh! It was something beyond
thought. I wanted to flee A and yet
I wanted to remain for child's
wake.
Thinks Only of Children.
"If It had not been for my children
God knows, I would have left him
or killed myself years ago. But nv
babies! Only a mother knows how
I felt
"In 1909 we went to New York and
remained there until 1910, leaving that
place and going to Los Angeles.
“While 1 was losing all my sleep
from nervousness, I was losing weight
rapidly. When my husband was taken
by the authorities. I promised to go
with him. I do not deny that. I
would have promised anything to get
film away. If I had not promised to
settle on a ranch near the Diamond
Point colony I was afraid he would
refuse to go.
"His refusal to leave meant my
death and the death of my babies
also. Knowing that, I gave him my
promise, but which I know will not
be held against me
"I have never spoken of my trou
bles before, but when every one be
gins to criticise me for leaving him,
I had to explain.”
WHAT IIEFIAN THINKS OF SUFFRAGE:
This woman suffrage movement is the greatest peril now
threatening the English-speakiijg people.
The family is the social unit, the harmonious whole, with
one head, not two heads.
Sex antagonism will spring up in the wake of woman suf
frage, and the sentiment betwen the sexes will be destroyed.
In the mad clamor for the ballot, women are hazarding
much, and entering on a perilous .journey.
Upon the home-loving, man-trusting, consecrated Chris
tian women of the United States rests the safety of our insti
tutions and the perpetuity of the republic.
WHAT HEFLIN THINKS OF DRESS:
The evil genius of lustful fashion through immodest dress
is playing havoc with a certain class of women, and setting
a bad example for others.
The woman who teaches her daughter modesty and good
sense has done more for her day and her generation than she
ever could by active participation in polities.
WHAT SUFFRAGISTS THINK OF HEFLIN:
Ignorance in some people may be excused, but not in a
member of Congress, and I think every Congressman and Sen
ator ought to be made to take a course in constitutional his
tory before being permitted to speak in public.—MRS. JESSIE
HARDY STUBBS, prominent suffrage leader.
J. THOMAS HEFLIN.
Tells Court Pitiful Story of How
Husband Eloped With Her
Daughter.
LOR ANGELES, Sept. 6.—Mrs. Lu-
ella Nicholson, who came here from
Trinidad, Colo., and asked the police
to find her husband, who, she de
clared, had eloped with her older
daughter and kidnaped two younger
children, was arrested as a beggar
j after she had induced Judge Willis,
of the Superior Court, to give her $10.
On the following day, while waiting
for officials to decide whether she
should stand trial as a vagrant ot be
taken before a lunacy commission, she
assumed the name of Mrs. Ella Skin
ner, a fellow-prisoner in the city pris
on. signed a receipt for property re
turned and W'alked out of Jail with $S
and other valuables belonging to Mrs.
Skinner.
Two hours later she was again un
der arrest.
Alabama Orator Stops Eulogies On King Cotton
to Deliver Philippics Against Suffrage
and Slit Skirts.
Congressman J. .Thomas Heflin, of
the Fifth District of Alabama, Is the
silver-tongued, lusty-lunged spell
binder of Democracy. He Is the By
ronic, Bryanlc orator who*© voice has
been raised In the hall of Congress
on every subject from the extermina
tion of the boll weevil to the anni
hilation of the trust octopus. He has
gained national fame and the undying
love of his Black Belt constituents by
shooting at a Washington negro who
"sawed" him. It Is plain that "Cot
ton Tom” has done much.
But the gentleman from Alabama
Is nothing if not energetic, and so
pined he for new worlds to conquer.
Back he thrust a raven lock, and with
a glint of determination In his eye, he
Rallied forth on a deed of new em
prise. Woman, frail woman, her fads
foibles, her faults and fancies, was
the windmill against which he would
shiver his lance. He would make his
war against the slit skirt, the diaph
anous dress, the equal ballot, and
other lunacies of the new woman
And he has. They heard from him
first In Washington, when he said the
dress of the day was Inspired by
“the evil genius of lustful fashion.”
The big guns of his eloquence, that
once were trained on the hulls and
the bears of stock gambling, were
directed then with no less sincerity
against lighter things.
Finds Her New World.
Then he went to Lynchburg, Va...
where he spoke before a Y. M. C. A.
gathering. And he said:
“This woman suffrage movement
Is the greatest peril now threatening
the English speaking people.”
It seems that the doughty gentle
man from Alabama has indeed found
a new world to conquer. The tongue
that once proclaimed the glory of
King Cotton Is consecrated to the
crusade against woman, silly woman.
The accents that once awoke the
echoes in hill and dale of the Fifth
District, as It proclaimed falterlngl.v
“Oh, My People,” now’ faltered on a
new r mission.
Not that the gentleman Is without
chivalry. Listen:
“I stand with uncovered head at the
shrine of a gentle, modest woman
hood,” he Raid in the Lynchburg
speech. “They are golden links In
the endless chain of the Almighty’s
plan to people the earth with be
ings whom God with His own image
blessed.”
It Is worthy of Heflin at his best.
Can’t you hear the voice quaver, with
the same old tremolo effects? Mr.
Heflin Is still the gallant Southron,
for all hls mission agalns the frail
ties of the gentler sex.
Suffragettes and modistes, they are
saying in Washington, would do w r ell
to run for cover, for “Cotton Tom”
Is tireless. And these purveyors to
woman’s fancies are not the only sor
row-stricken multitude. Congressman
Thomas Heflin’s new crusade does
not lend Itself to anything that is
known of hls repertoire of rather ex
cellent Jokes.
Heflin Best Story Teller.
A plantation story Heflin-told Is
the best remedy for dullness. Prob
ably further than on hls eloquence
has Heflin traveled on his knack of
telling tales. But who can rehearse a
nigger camp meeting In a philippic
on fashions or a speech against suff
rage? It Is duller now In Washington,
they say, since “Cotton Tom’* sallied
forth in vindictive quest of the mode
and the suffragette.
And how, they say. when he gets
back home in the Fifth, can he shout
at barbecues and schoolhouse rais
ings, as was his wont:
“Ah, my people! I have worked
long and faithfully in your interests.”
But he has found a'new world to
conquer, and fearlessly has set out
to conquer it.
However, he is not going unchal
lenged. Already an answer has come,
an answer so heated and indignant
that It seems a sad day Indeed for
the gentleman from Alabama when
he framed hls new campaign, a.nd
pulled down thereby the capable in
vective of American suffragettedom
on hls head.
The answer comes from Mrs. Jessie
Hardy Stubbs, of the Congressional
committee of the NaticAial Suffrage
Association. It is Just such a clinch
ing answer that a confident suffra
gette would be expected to make, a
smiling, supercilious, “pity-the-mere-
man” kind of answer.
“Brother Heflin doesn’t mean any
harm,’’ says Mrs. Stubbs. “He’s Just
ignorant.”
Suggests Examination.
Take that, you foolhardy knight
errant, who would go out to fight the
noble causes of suffrage and slit
skirts.
Mrs. Stubbs suggests that Mr. Hef
lin. 'together with other Congressmen,
be forced to take a course in consti
tutional history. Certain Incidents to
which he referred in his speech, she
said, were dead and done away with
years ago.
“Somebody ought to inform Mr.
Heflin that the world has moved on,”
she says. "I don’t believe he willfully
intends to misrepresent things.”
And so the Ciceronian gentleman
from Alabama is not going unchal
lenged. And not all suffragettes are
running to cover.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6.—Luther
Burbank gathered a bouquet of violets
one brilliant morning in December In
Santa Rosa, and remarked:
"YVhy do many of our misguided
people shiver and cough on the
Riviera in the winter?
“The Riviera reminds me of the
man who opened a boarding house at
Saranac Lake and advertised it as a
winter resort.
"A guest went un there and after
a brief sojourn packed up, paid his
bill and said:
“ ’How can you have the nerve to
advertise this place as a winter re
sort when the thermometer for the
last week has registered eight be
low?’
“The landlord looked aggrieved.
" Well, that’s winter, ain’t It!’ he
exclaimed. ‘If eight below ain’t win
ter, I’d like to know what Is!’"
PRESIDENT GETS
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Captain “Bill” McDonald, an Old
Texas Ranger, Pleads Case of
Convicted Financier.
Electric Plant Sets
A Day for Ironing
Housewives Demand That Current
be Turned on While Sun Shines
for Washing Purposes.
BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO, Sept. 6.
The village of Degraff, Logan County,
has a municipally owned electric light
plan. The plant has been operated
only at night because no power serv
ice was sold.
Recently an agent visited the vil
lage and sold such a quantity cf
electric irons that petitioners in pet
ticoats asked village officials to op
erate the electric light plant in day
light hours so that the irons could be
used.
Tuesday thereupon was selected as
ironing day, and the electric light
plant was operated Tuesday mornings
for the benefit of owners of electric
irons.
Banker Weds to Get
Companion: Repents
Los Angeles Financier Finds That
Woman He Married Cherished
Different Purpose.
LOS ANGELES. Sept. 6.—M. J.
Monnette, vfee president of the Citi
zens’ National Bank, and director In
many corporations, stated just be
fore leaving for a three-month trip
to Europe that he and Mrs. Monnette
had separated and would not again
live together. They were married
June 3,’ last.
Mr. Monnette stated that two weeks
after the ceremony he discovered that
it was a big mistake and a grave
disappointment. He married, he said,
for a companion in his home, but he
found that Mrs. Monnette had not
married for that purpose. Financial
arrangements were settled, he said,
and Mrs. Monnette, who was Eliza
beth Spencer, returned to Denver.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—When
President Wilson a few days ago par
doned a Texas banker who had been
sent to the penitentiary for violation
of the national banking laws, few
persons knew that he did so at the
request of his old bodyguard, “Silent
Bill” McDonald, who came all the way
from Dallas to lay the case before
him.
"Silent Bill" is now United States
Marshal for the Northern District of
Texas, thanks to the President, and
one of his first duties was to take
the convicted banker to the peniten
tiary to serve a five-year term. On
the way the banker told his story to
"Bill," and so impressed was the vet
eran ranger that he at once started
an investigation on his own account.
In the meantime friends of the
banker had succeeded in getting the
sentence reduced from five years to
a year and a day. But this did not
satisfy “Bill.” He had found that all
the man had told him was true, and
he did not hesitate to say that no in
nocent man was going to stay In the
penitentiary if he could help if. His
friends said he was foolish to rroceed
any further, as everything possible
had been done.
“No, It hasn’t,” said “Bill.” "I’ll pay
my own fare to Washington and lay
this case before the President rather
than see an innocent man do time in
the pententiary. I know the man is
Innocent, and I won’t rest until he Is
freed.”
So “Bill” packed hls suit case and
started for Washington, armed with
the papers in the case.
On his arrival here he went at once
to the Department of Justice, where
he was told that nothing further
could be done for the banker. "Weil,
we’ll see about that." said “Bill.”
“Bill” saw the President and the
next day the banker wajs pardoned.
Song for Arkansas
Takes Hoosier There
Letters That Follow Publication of
Lyric Result in Songster Adopt
ing State.
EVANSVTLLBi IND., Sept. 8.—
With his fiddle ringing out "On ths
Banks of the Wabash,” C-eh Y. Hen
derson, song writer and for twenty
years a merchant at Hazleton. Ind.,
started In a covered wagon for &
chicken farm near Hot Brings, Ark.,
where he expects to spend the re
mainder of hls life.
Henderson, a cripple, unable te
walk, uses a wheel cheJr. Henry
Ingle, who expects to be a tenant on
Henderson's farm. Is driving the wa
gon.
He has gained a reputation as a
song writer, hls biggest success be
ing the song, "Take Me Back to Old
Arkansas.” Henderson was never in
Arkansas In hls life, but shortly af
ter his song was published he be
came Interested In the State by re
ceiving letters from people In that
State who had read hts song.
SUES HIS BROTHER TOR
THE OLD FAMILY BIBLE
GIRL SCORNS $2,400 JOB;
LOYAL TO FORMER CHIEF
LONG BEACH. CAL., Sept. 6—Miss
Eva Bibeau, Deputy City Auditor, gave
the City Council a big surprise when,
actuated by loyalty to her former su
perior, Lewis \V. Shuman, who has re
signed as City Auditor, she refused to
be appointed to hls place.
Jacobs MosquitoLotion
Banishes Mosquitoes
Three sizes: 15c, 25c, 50c
All Jacobs’ Stores
MARION, rND„ Sept. 8.—An un
usual suit haa been entered In the
court of Justice Alfred McFeely, of this
city, wherein Branson Sea! has file,, an
action against hls brother, Wells J
Seal, to replevin a family Bible.
Branson Seal says that on the death
of hls wife a few years ago he quit
keeping house and left the family Bible
which contains all the family history
at the home of hls brother, who, ha
says, now refuses to give It up.
Advice lo Those Who
Have Lung Trouble
Pulmonary Lung Trouble la g«M to bo cura-
J Lie by simply living In the open air and
an abundance of freah eggs and milk. Do all
; you possibly can to add to strength and In
crease weight; eat wholeoome. nourishing
| food, and breathe the cleanest and purest air,
| and then, if health and strength do not return,
i add the tonic and beneficial effect! of Eck-
! man’s Alterative. Read what It did In this
case:
Wilmington, Da!.
"Gentlemen: In January, 1908, I was taken
| with hemorrhages of the lungs. I took eggs and
| milk In quantities, but I got very weak. Mr.
i C. A. Llpplncott, my employer (Llppincctt A
| Co., Department fltoire, 306 to 814 Market street.
'Wilmington, Del.), recommended to me E«k-
I man’s Alterative, and upon hla suggestion I be-
| gan taking It at once. This was about June.
1908. I continued faithfully, using no other
remedy, and finally noticed the clearing of the
lungs. I firmly believe Eckinan’s Alterative
[ saved my life."
(Affidavit) JA8. SQUIRES.
(Above abbreviated; more on requeat.)
[ Eckman’s Alterative haa been proven by many
> years* test to be most efficacious In cases of se-
, vere Throat and Lung Affections, Bronchitis,
1 Bronchial Asthma, Stubborn Colds and In up-
i building the system. Does not contain nar-
1 cotics, poisons or hablt-formlng drugs. For sale
i by all of Jacobs’ Ding Stores and other leading
| druggists. Write the Eckman Laboratory, Phll-
i adelphla. Pa., for booklet telling of recoverlea
! and additional evidence.
It Would Take
‘Untamable’ Wild
Geese Domesticated
Family of Six, With Uncropped
Wings, Live Happily on Farm In
State of Ohio.
BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO. Sept. 6
“There is nothin* as wild aa a wild
g'oose,” le an old saying. The saw Is
subject to exceptions, for a family of
wild geese lives on the farm of E. O
and H. K. Hubbard, newspaper pub
lishers of Bellefontaine. Their wings
are not cropped and they are as tame
as kittens, enjoying the freedom of
the fields and barnyard and making
occasional trips to a small lake on the
farm when they desire a dip.
This summer the proud parents are
giving much attention to four little
geese that were hatched out In the
spring.
Association to Aid
Women on Farms
Mildred Veitch, of Grand Forks, First
Head of North Dakota
Welfare Division.
A Train Three Miles Long
To Carry All the Shoes Shipped
GRAND FORKS, N. DAK., Sept, f
An entirely new department of work
is being established by the North
Dakota Bettei Farming Association,
the new department being devoted .o
the welfare of farm women. Mias
Mildred Veitch, of Grand Forks, has
been appointed first superintendent of
the new division.
Miss Veitch will conduct a cam
paign for the Interests of the women
of the rural districts, particularly
with respect to the organ zation of
clubs similar to the women’.*' clubs of
the rural school as the community so
cial center, and various other objects
lijll be worked out,
From Lynchburg Last Month
—LYNCHBURG is “The South’s Shoe Center.”
—LYNCHBURG is the largest shoe center in the world for its popula
tion.
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-LYNCHBURG is the fifth shoe center in importance in the world
regardless of size.
When You Buy LYNCHBURG Shoes
You Are Patronizing Southern Industry
From Which Every Southerner Must Eventually Benefit