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*l!f * I \ 4 D IT KARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. OA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14$ 1013. K 10 Rays From Brain of ‘Wizard’ Edison rnnn # * ,+ “ *•* +,+ +#+ +#+ +-+ Nnu Opinions Flash From Thaw to Eugenics Inquisitorial Body Will in All Probability Take Up Poison Case This Week. WIDOW SEEMS CONFIDENT Sees Only Move in Will Contest in Charge Brought by Rela tives of Dead Husband. iw. Grand Jurors of Pulton County will this week in all probability begin their Investigation of the death of the late Jostia B Crawford, wealthy Atlantan, whose widow has been charged with poisoning him in order to get his riches barely a month aft er their marriage in 15*09 In the meantime. Mrs. Mary Belle Crawford, the widow, is at her Peach tree afreet home, serenely confident that 1f the Grand Jury should Indict her she would be promptly acquitted by a trial Jury. She declares the bringing of the charge of poisoning against her was done merely as a new move of the hairs of the aged real estate operator, who are fighting for the 1250,000 fortune that wa* left to her • Poison Pretence Admitted. The report of Dr. IT F Harris that traces of morphine poisoning were found In the stomach of the deceas ed is not denied by Mrs. Crawford or her counsel. They simply contend that this drug was prescribed for Crawford during his last illness, and declare that the attending physician will take the stand and testify that he administered the opiate to relieve the aged men's pain. The Crawford heirs however, take an entirely different view of the mat ter. Thev charge a deep-laid con spiracy on the part of Mrs Craw ford and Fred Dumb, a barber now In New York, and who 1» sought by j the heirs as an accomplice. Their contention is that when .1 B Crawford, then in his seventies, went to 3t. Augustine. Fla... in 1909 in aearch of health and took hoard with Mary Belle Bishop, the woman then and there planned to wed the old man and as soon hr the could make him will her his property, poison him, and then wed I»umb The contesting heirs are nieces and nephews of the man for whoso wealth they are fighting, and though the will contest ha# been on practically since the death of Crawford, It was not until a few months ago that the poison charge was made nnd the body was exhumed for examination of the stomach. Sheriff Issues Warrant. A Coroner's Jury at Carrollton, the old home of the Crawfords, returned a verdict declaring that the deceased had come to hie death from poison administered by his wife It was then that the Sheriff of j Carroll County mailed a warrant to | the Sheriff of Fulton for the arrest, j When officers went to serve It, Mrs , Crawford was not at her Atlanta J home, but she afterward surrendered to the Sheriff here and promptly fur nished the $6,000 bond required. In addition to the poison charge the nieces nnd nephews have alleged j nl that undue influence was exercised , by Mrs. Crawford to have herself made the chief beneficiary in the will, and witnesses have been introduced at the will he ring to prove that at the time he uttered the instrument, Crawford wan not only mentally un balanced through ssnlllur, but was constantly under the Influence of alcohol. Back at Work After Brief Vaca tion, Inventor Is Still "Human Dynamo” at Sixty-six. WEST ORANGE. N. J., Sept IX I Thomas Alva Edison, the "Wizard Menlo Bark," whose life has been one invention after another, is buck in his wonderful laboratories here to day plunged Into nineteen hours of work a day, after a fortnight’* va cation in New England. That Mr. Edison should take a va cation at all is regarded an unusual, for th*- “human dynamo," as he I* oft en < alled, is a tireless worker at the age of 66. Fully recovered from a slight cold, Mr. Edison has been en joying himself at Monbegan, Maine, then at the summer home of his wealthy friend. Richard Colgate, th-* soap manufacturer, at Lake Buna pee, N H. Mr Edison looks to-day the man he If la heavy thatch of white gives Thomas Alva Edison, as he appears in his marvelous labo ratory iii West Orange, N. J., in which he labors 19 hours a day. TO RUSH CtS[ ‘I Would Do Anything for Harry if He Asks Me To, ’ Declares Evelyn Thaw Grows Impatient in Fight on Soil of United States to Prove Conspiracy Charge. Continued from Page versal in their admiration of him as were the Canadians. There are ele ments among the populace who are emphatically favorable toward his suit, it is true, but there are many New Hampshire men who stoutly maintain that he ha3 no right to re main In New Hampshire. Not that the opinion of the public is significant in this matter, but that opinion has been .< spectacular factor in the case so far, and probably will continue so. The Monadnock House, the hotel where he is held, has be come a public debating field, itg lobby being crowded with men for Thaw and against Thaw. him j distinguished appearance at u distance. He is about 5 feet 7 Inches tall and Is thick-act enough to weigh about 175 pounds. The traveling public noticed him at Monhegan, Maine, in Dowell, where he and Mrs. Edison stayed overnight. :o break their long automobile trip, and NEW YORK, Sept. 1 a.—‘There are many ways In which I could help Har ry, Just as I havs done before. Some day he will realize that and come to me asking for help.” The above statement was made to day by Evelyn Nsbit Thaw aftr she was asked what she would do If the attorneys for Harry Thaw should call her to appear as a witness for him in his efforts to obtain his freedom. “There is nothing in all this world that I would not do to help Harry if he would come to me and make a request," continued Mrs. Thaw. "He realizes that I have sacrificed every thing In the past for his happiness and that any one who has gone as far as 1 have gone would not ‘quit’ until they had won a complete victory.” "Do you believe you could help Harry in any material way in his fight for freedom?" "Yes, Hairy realizes that. But I will never give any assistance to Har ry until he sends for me as his wife.’ Depends on His Lawyers. "There are a hundred ways in which Harry could communicate with me. I realize that he can not come to me. But he doesn’t communicate with me; he depends upon his high-priced law yers." “Could a friend transmit a message to you from him that would act the same as a personal message, so that you would hasten to his side and aid in his fight?" Mrs. Thaw was asked "Yes." "In what way could you help your husband?" “I will not discuss that with any one," was Mrs. Thaw's answer. "I will say that I stand ready to help him In a way he knows. But he re fuses to ask me. But let Harry send me the proper message and I will show the world that I stand ready to again make every sacrifice and do everything in my power to make Har ry a free man." "Why don’t you communicate with Harry Thaw’s mother?" was asked. "Because she cut off my Income more than a year ago. You all tell stories of how Harry Thaw’s mother has worked and sacrificed for him, but let me tell you that her sacrifice has not been one-half what Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's has been." Wishes to Win Success. Asked why she refused to appear in a vaudeville act billed aa Evelyn Thaw, she answered: "It was not because the name Thaw is distasteful to me, but because 1 did not want people to come to gaze upon Evelyn Thaw, the heroine of a murder trial, but I wanted to win suc cess and thereby obtain an Income for my child and myself by real abil ity and not by notoriety." Asked whether she would promise the authorities that she would live wMth Thaw as his wife if he was given his liberty, Mrs. Thaw refused to An swer. She also refused to answer the question as to whether in case Thaw regained his liberty she would go with him to Europe. Pair of Men Routed When Young Matron Resents Their Ap proach With Blows. Arctic Has No Terror For College Girls University of California Graduates Sail to Spend Year Teaching In Alaska. BERKELEY, CAD., Sept. 18— A winter in the frozen north has no ter rors for Miss Florence Getchell and Miss Lorraine Andrews, two Intrepid young Berkeley girls, who will leave soon to teach In the high school of Juneau, Alaska. Miss Getchell and Mias Andrews are both recent graduates of the Univer sity of California, where they were very prominent in college doings They sailed to-day for Alaska and will be gone a year. Miss Getchell will teach mathemat ics and Miss Andrews will teach Eng lish. A number of ■orority girls will go up to Alaska on a jaunt next spring, and will Join the two girls and return with them in the summer. History Study Scored By School President Indiana Solon Says World Events Are Too "High-Brow” for Youth ful Mind*. at Duke Sunapee, where the SMI sons wound up their New England stay Unusually Vigorous. Those who failed to recognize tha Inventor saw in him an unusually vigorous man for his years. If bis hat was off, one noted in stantly the wide, lofty brow, the brow of a thinker. Ah General Dew Wal lace said of Simonides, the steward in ■ 'Ben Hur,” It 1r apparent that a man with such a head must have a tre- j mendous brain from cubic capacity, if nothing else. Mr. Edison has bright eyes, gray- blue gytg, that gata ever so keenly I Rut they are not merely sharp eyes They arc kindly ones and humorous. | too; for "Wizard" Edison exemplifies the old saying: "A little nonsense Is relished by the now and then best of men.” “OW!” Corns? Use “GETS-IT" ••GETS-IT," the New-Plan Corn Cure. Makes Any Corn Shrivel. Vanish. You'll say. “It does bent all how quick GETS-IT’ got rid of thai corn. It's almost niagi< !’’ "GETS-IT” gets • vary corn, every time, a* sure as the sun rises. It takes about two seconds "Madam. If You’d Use ‘GETS-IT’ for Corns. You Could Wear Any Tight Shoe Easily!” to apply it Corn pain* atop, you for- get the ciiin, the corn shrivels up. and like no '''* gone! Ever try anything that** You never did. There's more fussing with plasters that press • »n th*» corn, no more salves that take •ff the surrounding flesh, no more i-andage^. No more knives, tiles or ktora that make corns grow, and a use danger of blood poison "GETS- IT" :» equally harmless to healthy or irritated flesh. It “gets" eevr> . urn, wart, callous and bunion you’ve g.»t GETS IT is sold at all ..ungg > - nis a bottle, or sent on receipt fof pi E Ijawrtnce t’ornpat • Chics go. Witness his little joke about "run ning up to Colgate’s to take n bath”-- a sl\ illusion to the soap with which host Is ever associated. Brain Works Like Flash. Dressed usually in a sack suit of dark mixture. Mr. Edison is neat In appearance. ,uiy idea that an inven tor has to wear mussy clothes nnd necktie askew does not apply to Mr. Edison. Maybe he Is naturally natty, maybe Mrs. Edison sees to it that her distinguished husband always is pre sentable. Anyhow, he ' as well kept as h man need be. Spettk to Mr. Edison and right away you realize that you have started something. He replies quickly. His brain seems to work like a flash. His answer comes on the instant, and is a full, comnK te one. Mr. Edi son knows what he knows and when lie makes a reply he*- cover® the j ground. He uses few gestures, but he keeps his right hand cupped up against his light ear because he is hard of hear ing in the left ear and he uses the right one He has put his hand up to that ear so main thousand times that I be has actually pushed the lobe of the | car out a little. Cordial and Democratic. He is as cordial as he 1s alert and I as simple and democratic as he is j cordial. Such is the best known liv ing inventor in appearance. Mr. Edison has pronounced ideas <>n about every topic of current thought, from “X-ray" gowns to mental stand ards and from eugenics to “Caslm Johnny." as he dubs Harry K. Thaw. Spellers Stumped by ‘ Rhythm'' First Word Chicago Club Members All Miss and Judges Order Spelling Bee Started Over. CHICAGO. Sept 13.—The word “rhythm” almost broke up a spelling match at the outing of the Empire State Club at Bautina. It was the first word given to the twenty-five contestants -all former New Yorkers now living in Chicago— ami not a person could spell it The judges conferred and started over again, after promising that “rhythm" would not l»e given again. Mrs Alexander Dennison finally won. | after her closest competitors bad stumbled over the word "judgment.” About Hire*- hundred attended the outing, which was in charge of J. C. J Merrill, president of the club. HERE ARE MR. EDISON’S VIEWS ON SOME OF THE LIVE TOPICS DANCES AND DRESS-Tho weird dances and freakish dressing are not an indication of moral deterioration, but mere ly the expression of peculiar mental flights. They are here to day and gone to-morrow. EUGENIOS—A splendid proposition. Affection will not he subordinated. As physical and intellectual evolution takes place alfeetion will be deeper and more wholesome. THAW—It is about time we lost “Casino Johnny.’’ The country is better without him and too much publicity has been given him. AMERICA—America is the hope of the world. Here we are constantly advancing, because the mental standard is con stantly improving as the result of public school education. TRUSTS - Trusts are good and bad. Government control means the end of the trusts that conspire against the public good. It is for the Government to regulate the trust business, eliminating the bad and protecting the good. ROOSEVELT—-A solid man, an honest one, who has been under fire for twenty years, without one shaft by the enemy striking a vulnerable spot. POLITICS T am a Progressive. Advancement cannot be attained without these changes. The Republican and Demo cratic parties stand for the old order of things. MEXICO I ,atins and Anglo-Saxons do not mix and never will. Mexico is incapable of self-government. If would not be wise for us to interfere. VACATIONS It does seem great to have a day off What a wealth of material there is for the human mind to enjoy if one only has one s eyes open to it. WORK —Sometimes, after nineteen or twenty hours’ work ; 1 hate to give it up, even for a few hours’ rest. SLEEP—Sleep is largely a matter of habit. ELECTRICITY We are in the infancy of electricity. It is taking the place of steam the world over. “CANNED MUSIC—It has been the aim of all phono graph manufacturers to eliminate the scratching noise of the needle and the composition. Eventually we will produce music minus all scratching sound. ‘Count the Flies,'Now Slogan of Kansas Novel Method of Making Merchants Drive Out Pest Decided on by Board. TOPEKA. Sept. 18.—“Count the flies!" instead of “Swat the fiy!” will be the slogan of the State Board of Health for next year. Without getting nearly the amount of advertising from such a war cry, the Health Bottrd of Ohio han been getting results that are entirely satis factory by the application of h clever idea which the Kansas board has de termined to appropriate. Next year the proprietor of the res taurant or store who permits flies to buzz around where flies ought not to be may expect to find in his daily mail small cards bearing some such mes sage as this: “Dear 9ir: While in your place of business yesterday I counted fourteen flies. Yours revpectfully', "JOHN DOE." That is the Ohio Idea. The Kansas Board of Health will have a lot of cards printed and will get the wom en's clubs over the State to distribute them. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 13.—History is one of the most useless subjects taught in the common schools, In the opinion of W. W. Parsons, president of the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute. President Parsons says he bases his thoughts about hintory on the necessary reaction on the part of a person acquiring historical knowl edge. To make his word* clear, he said the mind of a child, and even that of an older person, can not grasp the magnitude of the battle of Gettysburg or similar events, which are the more important history les sons. Despite his opinion, President Par sons did not advocate less history in the grade schools or any change in the system of teaching that branch. Iowa Professor Scores ‘Apostasy' Professor Lamson Says Colleges Threaten to Destroy Foundations of the Government. HASTINGS, MICH., Sept 13.— ! Profesacr J, C. Damson, of Nevada, lowo, one of the most prominent lead ers of tha Seventh Day Adventists, condemned the tendencies in modern life which, he said, threaten to de- ; stroy our constitutional government, j Though the professor had for his ! topic "Apostates From Republican- j ism," he failed to attack any par ticular political party and did not say j how he classed the Progressives. The class of professors In Ameri can universities and colleges and others who art* Joining them In at tempting to overthrow the Constitu tion in its present form were de nounced at length by Professor Lam son. Such tendencies, he said, would commit the Government to religious legislation. LOGANSPORT, IND. Sept. 1*.— Mrs. Jessie James stood on a corner In the business district to-day con versing with her father, John Gtnga- man, and near by, gazing at her, were grouped five mashers. Mrs. James bade her father good-bye and started away. “Oh, you chicken! Busy?" cried one of the group. Wheeling around, Mrs. James step ped back to the group, and smilingly Inquired, “Who spoke?" One of the crowd stepped out and asked: "Where you going?” Mrs. James slammed her fist against his face and he staggered. Before he could recover she struck again, a fair, straight blow, which put him to the sidewalk. Then she rushed upon the other four, who crowded against a building. Her attack was so unexpected and forceful that the quartet had felt the effects of her fists before one of them fought back and knocked Mrs James across the sidewalk and against a mall box. She stooped, grabbed a loose pav ing brick and let it. fly. It landed on the head of the man she had knocked down, and who had risen and was running away. The otheia followed and boarded an outgoing interurban car. From the comer to the place where i they took the car a trail of blood marked the passing of the one against | w hose head Mrs. James’ brick collld- ! ed. I "Sometimes T carry a gun,” said Mrs. James to the crowd that gath ered about her. ~I am glad I dll not have k to-day. Hereafter I will carry it, and if I am addressed as t was to-day Til kill the man w’ho does It.” Blackmailers Reap Harvest of $200,000 Los Angeles Chief Says Swindlers Work Under Qulse of Being Private Detectives. Safer ‘Harbors’ for Germany's Airships Even Subterranean Dock Is Planned for Kaiser's New Aerial Dreadnought Fleet. Special Cable to The American. BERLIN, Sept. 13.—Germany is pro viding airship “harbors" along the French and Russian frontiers Al ready she has 30 hangars that shelter 40 dirigibles and are supplied with stores of hydrogen and petrol. New and Improved hangars, each capable of holding two Zeppelins, will be built at Darmstadt, Mann heim, Hanover and three other cities. Some will revolve as the wind varies to admit monster airships entering or leaving. A subterranean dock Is planned to protect the airships from overhead attack. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18. -Decl&r- j ing that Los Angeles is infested with j blackmailers, operating aa private de- j tectlves, Chief of Police Sebastian ! recommended to the County Grand Jury and to the Police Commission the passage of an ordinance licensing all private detective institutions. Sebastian said he based his recom mendations on a record showing the payment of upwards of $300,000 in blackmail tribute. i TALC IS 3QRATED .THERE Is no other Tal- 3 cum Powder bo uoft, *o smooth. »o delightfully perfumed. Guarart«es-< Par* 10 Cent* a Box. Mined and made only by TALCUM eurr CO. Slush Terminal Building Brooklyn, N. Y. 15he object oi putting our ACCUSED SWINDLER IS TRAILED FOR 5,000 MILES CENTRALIA, ILL.. Sept. 13.—After having traveled more than 5,000 miles In an effort to run down h crook. Spe cial Agent J. E Stoy, representing a Chicago furniture company, arrived here this afternoon. Stoy has been on the trail of this man nine months, covering Colorado. Wyoming, South Dakota. Missouri and Southern Illinois Traces of the fugitive's work were discovered in t'arbondale. Duquoin and Staunton. He uikes order* for a furniture house, collecting on the orders, and he goods are uot delivered. WOMAN ELECTED ON PROGRESSIVE COMMITTEE LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13.—Mrs. John D. Hooker, of San Francisco and Los Angeles, has been unanimously elected by the Progressive National Committee at Washington to the of fice of California national commit teeman to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mrs Isabella Bla- ney. according to an announcement made here to-day by members of the Progressive party. Mrs. Hooker, who is one of the best known women of California, is now traveling in Europe. Greeley Coach Will Make One More Trip Ancient Vehicle That Hauled Editor, Brete Harte and Mark Twain Will Reappear. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13.—When California makes merry at the Por- tola Festival next October, in this city, a post of honor in the parade will be given to “Charlie McLean No. 1"—a stage coach with a place in the history of the State. This coach is a link with the pe riod of Bret Harte and Mark Twain. According to Honn. from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 in bullion has been transported in it. Black Bart, Joaquin Murletta and Vasquez halted it In their heyday or were defied by its messengers. It still carries bullet holes. It was in the "Charlie McLean” that Horace Greeley made his noted ride to keep a lecturing engagement at Place rville, when the name wasn’t Placerville, but Hangtown. Sam Clemens was its passenger many times when, in his newspaper days, he covered the Nevada Legislature at Carson City. UTAH TO BOOM STATE IN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN SALT LAKE CITY. Sept. 13.—"1 am for Utah.” Within the next month this slogan will be fixed in the minds of e%» local Utah man. woman and child. i i This is the aim of the publicity I bureau of the Salt Duke Commercial Club. The plan for financing the bureau was completed by the finance com mittee Yesterday The first move was | to order by wire 100,000 “l Am for Utah” buttons. These will be sold * • for 25 cents each. The finance com mittee hopes to raise ar. initial fund ■ of $20,000 by this means. in a carton, is to protect it from flies, rodents, roaches and all forms of insect life and dirt Too know that in the Grocery Store each night ra.ts hold revelry in the rice barrel. To guard against this unhappy condition, merely state on your grocery order 10c and 25c package s Book of Recipes on Application to HEW ORLEANS. LA