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4 6 D 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 ' 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. i \ 3 \ (•✓© V.BWC3C Tells Court Pitiful Story of How Husband Eloped With Her Daughter. X 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.) ^ Eckman’s Alterative has been proven by many ; ) 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- ) cotics, poisons or habit-forming drugs. For sale $ ) by all of Jacobs' Drug Stores and other leading £ f druggists. Write the Eckman Laboratory. Phil- < i adelphia. Pa., for booklet telling of recoveries ^ ; and additional evidence. m X'e : Jl/~ h * ■ ' JK J 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 t? •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 .i * (lie <i*}