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D HHAKST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1913. WIFE IF I LEPER >• Tom Heflin Couches Lance Against New Foe +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ TELLS Slum Or Byronic Congressman Called Ignorant by Woman T EUf’S CRIED E 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 P 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. * -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