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HEARST’8 SUN’PAY AMERICAN’. ATLANTA. OA . SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 1013.
WIFE OF II LEPER J Tom Heflin Couches Lance Against New Foe
TELLS STORY OF Byronic Congressman Called Ignorant by Woman 10 WOMANMO
EARLY’SCRUELTY
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.
TAf’OMA S<-pl t Having miff<r j
»-d in martyr-like silence the tortures
of an outcast which were made
doubly hard to bear through the al- j
eged cruelty of the man for whom
she a>~umed her burden Mrs. Georg
Taumn the divorced wife of John I
R iskin K «r leper and man of my-- J
ter> ho has but recently been •
• iared inwane, has at last broken h^-i
long *H*»nrc
Mr*. Early, on divorcing the rn*r '
whom *he had married when a girl n
her teen^ married G'-orge Taup.i-i •
formerly clerk in the ottl< e of t>»* j
Treasio- r of Pler< e fount j Washing -
ton W.th her three children she -
living happllv.
“J lost all affection* for John H.ir’y
the day following our marriage," said
nfs wife. "I lived In Veritable purga
tory with him. It wai riot beeaus*
he wa>- a leper, we did not know that
he war. I was J11 ret eighteen. I had
been reared by an elder brother, t
minister. I was a little more than
live years I had been taught to avoid
divorce, and for that reason I did not
ee*-k one a t that tirm
Sleep Wa« Impossible.
“At Summit I did not average two
hours' sleep out of every twenty-four
for the two months we remained
there. I wftm a nervous ^ reck I lid
riot know what moment Early would
attempt to kill me and the babie-.
When I think of it all. I nearly go
mad.
"I tell you I didn't have enoug.i
*eri.-e I thought, one*- married, you
must stand all that comes with It.
‘ We w ere married November 5.
i'u.fj Here my purgatory began. H
would not work, and I was obliged
to support him. After our first baby
came. Early grew wort*-, am! I took i
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shielding m> 3-weeks-old child.
“In May. 1908, I noticed a sort of
rash nreakout on his hands, and ask-
ed him what It wa- He said It wn*
from f ■ effecth of acid dropped n
him whlb working In a small pul* j
mill. He took rne to the mill and j
showed me where the add had fallen j
on the rt*>or I never gave it another !
t bought.
ft was while in Washington th* !
terrible truth was learned. Ear
went to free about his pension. H*
was examined and told he had lepro
sv I can not describe my terror
‘Oh! it was something be , on
bought. 1 wanted to flee, and
I wanted to remain for my chi
.-*ike.
Thinks Only of Children
“If it had not been for my chlldi
God knows. I would have left h:
or killed myself years ago. But
babies! Only a mother knows h
I felt.
In 190!* we went to New York an
i • lalned t ten until 1910, tea t Ing t i
j o * .irnJ going to Los Angeles.
“While I was losing all my nleen
from nervousness, I was losing weight
rapidly When my husband was taken
b\ the authorities. I promt red to go
with him I do not deny that. I
• ouid have promised anything to get
irn a wav. If I had not promised to
M-ttle on a ranch near the Diamond
Point colony 1 was afraid he would
refuse to go.
His refusal to leave meant my
leath and the death of my babies
also. Knowln ,r 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 on* be
gins to criticise me for having him.
I had to explain ”
‘Untamable’ Wild
Geese Domesticated
Family of Six, With Uncropped
Wings. Live Happily on Farm in
State of Ohio.
WHAT HEFLIS HUSKS OF SUFFRAGE:
Tlii- woman giiffrtw movement i* tbr greatest peril now
threatening tin- Kntrli>h-‘fpcakinsr people.
The family is t.he social unit, tin- harmonious whole, with
one head, not two hea«|s.
Sex antai'itnisrri will sprint.' up in the wake of woman suf-
frair**, aurl the sentiment betwen tlie sf-xps will be destroyed.
In the mad clamor for the ballot, women are hazarding
much, and entering on a perilous journey.
Upon tli" home-lovipg, man-trusting, consecrated Chris
tian women of th<• United States rests the safety of our insti
tutions and the perpetuity of the republic.
WHAT HEFUS HUSKS OF DRESS:
The evil genius of lustful fashion through immodest dress
is playing havoe with a certain class of women, and setting
a bad example for others.
The woman who teach - 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 SL’FFRACISTS TIIISK OF HEFLIS:
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 it course in constitutional his
tory before being permitted to speak in public. AIRS. JESSIE
11A If I > V ST I'HHS. prominent suffrage leader.
J. THOMAS HEFLIN.
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Tells Court Pitiful Story of How
Husband Eloped With Her
Daughter.
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LOS 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, wa* arrested as a beggar
after she had induced Judge Willis,
of The Superior Court, to give her 110.
On the following day, while waiting
for officials to decide whether she
should stand trial as a vagrant or be
taken befor*- a lunacy ommistfon, gho
assumed the name of Mrs. Ella Skin
ner, a fellow-prisoner in the city pris
on. signed a receipt for property re
turned and walked out o? jail with $3
and other valuables belonging to Mrs.
Skinner.
Two hours later she was again un
der arrest.
Alabama ( M’ator Stops K
t ' liver Philippic
and Slit
, J. Thuman Heflin, of
the Kin-I ."let of Alabama. i» ,f ie
Hilver-toiiKue-l. lunty-lunRed «pe;!-
blnder of flemoeraev. He Ik the iiy-
ronie, Itryanic orator who-e vohe hr I
been rained in the hall of Comne*.
on ever-, tuhje' t from the oxterth na.
thin of the hull weevil to the inn.-
hllatlon of the 'ri*t oetofnts 1C- hnx
gained national fame and the undying
love of hlx H ar k Kelt conatltuentx h>
nhootlhg .'ll a WiLthlngton negro who
-siiKM-d'' him It l« plain that ■•Cot
ton Torn” hn- done much.
But the gentleman from Alabama
i« nothing if not energet unrl
pined he for new world* to eontjuor
Bark he thruet i raven lock, and with
a gifnt of determination In his eye. he
sallied forth on a deed of new ern-
prlae. Woman, frail woman, her fad.
foibles, her faults and fan. lee. wa
the windmill against which he would
shiver his !an* .• He c ould make hi-:
war against the sill skirt, the ri.aph-
anotjs d re - , the e-iual ballot, and
other lunaelee of the new woman
Anti he ha- They heard from him
first in WUMiingtoti. when he said the
ulogies ()n Kin;; < 'otton
s Against Suffrage
Skirts.
*!rei-- of the day whs Inspired by
“the evil genius of lustful fashion.”
The big guns of his eloquence, that
on re wer-e trained on the bulls and
the bears of stork gambling, were
■ ire. !*-(j 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 teems th it the doughty gentle-
t! ar; from Alabama has. indeed found
a new world to conquer The tongue
’hat one. proclaimed the glory <»f |
King f’dttcn !-■ consecrated to the
era ml** against woman, silly woman.
The ar-a-nts that once awoke the
echoes in hill and dale of the Fifth
District, as it proclaimed falteringly
“Oh. My People,” now faltered on a
new misHlo/i.
Not that the gentleman is without
chivalry. Listen:
I -land with uncovered head at th*
shrine of a gentle, modest woman-
hood." he said In the Lynchburg
speech “They are golden links ir.
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 hLs best.
Can’t you hear the voice quaver, with
the same old tremolo effects? Mr.
Heflin is still the gallant Southron,
for ail his mission agains the frail
ties of the gentler sex.
Suffragettes and modistes, they are
saying In Washington, would do well
to run for cover, for "Cotton Tom”
Is tireless. And these purveyors to
woman’s fancies fire not the only sor
row-stricken multitude. Congressman
Thomas Heflin's new crusade does
not lend Itself to anyming that Is
known of hi-* repertoire of rather ex
cellent jokes.
Heflm Best Story Teller.
A plantation story Heflin-told Is
the best remedy for dullness. Prob
ably further than on his eloquence
ha** Heflin traveled on his knack of
felling tales. But who can rehearse a
nigger camp meeting in a philippic
-m 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, ran he shout
at barbecues and schoolhouse rais
ings, as was his wont:
“Ah, my people! I have worked
long and faithfully in your interests.”
Hut 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,
in answer so heated and indignant
that it seems a sad day indeed for
the gentleman from Alabama when
he vframed his new’ campaign, and
pulled down thereby the capable in
vective of American suffragettedom
on his head.
The answer comes from Mrs. Jessie
Hardy Stubbs, of the Congressional
committee of the National 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
-rrant, 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.
'Eight Below Zero
Sure 'Nuff Winter'
Luther Burbank Tell* Story of Lake
Saranac Landlord Who Adver
tised His Resort.
PRESIDENT GETS
Song for Arkansas
Takes Hoosier There
Letters That Follow Publication of
Lyric Result in Songster Adopt
ing State.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6.—Luther
Burbank gathered a bouquet of violets
one brilliant morning in December in
Santa Rosa, and remarked:
“Why do so many of our misguided
people shiver and cough on the
Riviera In the winter?
“Th* Riviera reminds me of the
man who opened a boarding house at
Saranac Lake and advertised it as a
winter resort.
\ nwent ur 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 regis v «rred 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!’”
Electric Plant Sets
A Day for Ironing
Housewives Demand That Current
be Turned on While Sun Shines
for Washing Purposes.
BELLEFONTAIXE. 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.
Captain ‘'Bill" McDonald, an Old
Texas Ranger, Pleads Case of
Convicted Financier.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 6.—When
President Wilson a few days ago par
doned a Texas banker who had be:?n
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 stoi*y 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 no)
satisfy “Bill.” He had found that ail
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 it. His
friends said he was foolish to proceed
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 his 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 >vas told that nothing further
coum be done for the banker “Weil,
we’ll see about that." said “Bill.''
“Bill" saw the President and the
next day the banker was pardoned.
LOS ANGELES. Sept. 6.—M. J.
Monnette, vice 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 Airs. Monnette, who was Eliza
beth Spencer, returned to Denver.
GIRL SCORNS $2,400 JOB;
LOYAL TO FORMER CHIEF
LONG BEACH. CAL, Sept. 6—Miss
Eva Blbeau. Deputy City Auditor, gave
the City Council a big surprise when,
actuated by loyalty to her former su
perior. Lewis W. Shuman, who has re
signed as City Auditor, she refused to
be appointed to his place.
Jacobs’ MosquitoLotion
Banishes Mosquitoes
Three sizes: 15c, 25c, 50c
All Jacobs’ Stores
EVANSVILLE. IND., Sept. 6 —
With his fiddle ringing out "On the
Banks of the Wabash,” Cash Y. Hen
derson, song writer and for twenty
years a merchant at Hazleton, Ind.,
started in a covered wagon for a
chicken farm near Hot Brings. Ark.,
where he expects to spend the re
mainder of his life.
Henderson, a cripple, unable to
walk, uses a wheel chair. 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, his biggest success Us
ing the song. “Take Me Back to old
Arkansas." Henderson was never in
Arkansas in his 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 his song.
SUES HIS BROTHER FOR
THE OLD FAMILY BIBLE
MARION, IND., Sept. 6.—An un
usual suit has been entered in the
court of Justice Alfred McFeely, of this
city, wherein Branson Seal has an
action against his brother. Wells J
Seal, to replevin a family Bible.
Branson Seal says that on the death
of his wife a few years ago he quit
keeping house and left the family Bible
which contains all the family history
at the home of his brother, who, he
says, now’ refuses to give it up.
| Advice lo Those Who
Have lung Trouble
Pulmonary Lung Trouble is said to be rura- {
! ,,le bv Hlm P , y llv *ng in the open air and taking
an abundance of fresh eggs and milk. Do all j
; you possibly can to add to strength and in- ,
rease weight; eat wholesome, nourishing!
food, and breathe the cleanest and purest sir. |
and then, if health and strength do not return,
add the tonic and beneficial effects of Eck-
man'a Alterative. Read what It did in thla )
vase:
Wilmington, Del.
"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 1
C. A. Lippineott. my employer (LipplncoU A J
Co., Department Store, 306 to 314 Market street, i
• Wilmington. Del ), recommended to me Eck- (
man’s Alterative, and upon his suggestion I be
gan taking it at once. This was about June, j
1908 I continued faithfully, using no other )
remedy, and finally noticed the clearing of the )
lungs. I firmly believe Eckman's Alterative \
saved my life.”
(Affidavit) JAS. SQUIRES.
(Aliove abbreviated; more on request.)
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) years’ test to be moat efficacious in cases of se-
< vere Throat and Lung Affections, Bronchitis. {
) Bronchial Asthma, Stubborn Colds and in up-
S building the system. Does not contain nar-
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i adelphia. Pa., for booklet telling of recoveries ^
; and additional evidence.
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BELLEFONTAIXE. OHIO. S.-pt *. I
"There Is nothing h<* wild if a wil l j
goose." i# an old saying The saw i:*'
subject to exceptions, for a family of !
wild geese lives on the farm of F. <> i
and H. K. Hubbard, newspaper pub I
Ushers of Bellefontalne. Their wings I
are not cropped and they are as tam
as kitten*, enjoying the freedom of
the field* and barnyard and making
occasional trips to a small lake on the
farm when they desire a dip.
This summer the proud parent* are
giving much attention to four little
g
spring
Association to Aid
Women on Farms
Mildred Veitch, of Grand Forks, First
Head of North Dakota
Welfare Division.
GRAND FORKS, N DAK Sept. X
An entirely new department of word!
us being established by the Noroii
Dakota Bettei Farming Association,
the new department being devoted o
the welfare of farm wome.i. Mm-
Mildred Veitch, of Grand Forks, bus
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 organization «*f
cluhif similar to the wom**nV dubs of
the rural school .ms the community so-
. ial center, and various other objects
axil be uorkeu out.
Would Take
A Train Three Miles Long
To Carry All the Shoes Shipped
From Lynchburg Last Month
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•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 InduSi
From Vihich Every Southerner Must Eventually Benefit
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