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CONVICTS UNDER
NEWSYSTEM
OUT ON HONOR
Forty-five From Joliet Prison Do
ing Road Work Without Any
Guards to Prevent Escape.
PLAY BASEBALL AND SWIM
Have Organized a Watch of Their
Own in Order to Justify the
Faith of the Warden.
DIXON, ILL, Sept. 20.—-Forty-five
picked prisoners from the State peni
tentiary at Joliet are sloping each
night practically unguarded on the
banks of Rook River. For five or six
months they will enjoy most of the
liberties afforded working road gangs
of free men.
Warden Edmund M. Aller. Is deter
mined to put the new "honor” system
to a thorough test—the first ever at
tempted in Illinois. He asserts his
confidence that not one of the pris
oners will attempt to break his
pledge and seek to escape The pris
oners themselves are jubilant over the
confidence placed in them and have
entered into the camp life with high
enthusiasm.
Part of the men made a sortie
against the great Mil through which
they propose to cleave a pathway
during the next few weeks. Tn spite
of heat that registered more than
SO degrees they wielded picks and
shovels with seal. And after Super
visor T. F. Kegan had called the ex
periment at an end for the day they
returned to camp duties, perfecting
arrangements for their long stay. In
the late afternoon they played base
baU, went swimming, fished. None
of the men look on the hard work
that is confronting them as other
than a Congenial summer outing.
A little before 5 a. m. the men
sauntered out of the front door of
the penitentiary. It was dark be
cause of a clouded sky, and had any
wished to escape it would have been
a simple matter to slip away in the
darkness.
“But no man wants to escape,” J.
R, a former Chicago burglar, said:
"We think too much of the Warden.
Since he came here In April I have
gained in weight from 156 to 180
pounds. There is not a man in this
crowd but would fight to the death
for him. He has made himself a
personal friend to each one of us.
"While he does not guard against
any of us breaking faith with him,
we have taken upon ourselves for
our own and his protection to estab
lish our own guard Without his
knowledge we have selected a secret
judge and secret detective who will
report any sign of weakness on the
part of any one of us if such a weak
ness should become manifest. Once
a week or oftener we will convene
court and summon any <?t the gang
who may need a word of warning.”
British Believe Japs
Are Backing Mexico
Boselal Cable te The American.
LONDON, Sept. 20.—1 n many quar
ters in London the view is held that
Japan is responsible for Mexico’s
contumacy.
It is well known here that for a
Jong time Japan has been paying
court to the Mexicans, and it is cer
tain that General Huerta has armed
his Infantry and cavalry with rifles
and carbines of Japanese service pat
tern.
There was no object in going to
Toklo for military equipment unless
it was thought possible that Mexican
and Japanese troops might some day
be operating together in the field.
Buckingham Palace
To Have a Historian
Queen Mary's Treasurer Is Writing
a History of Castle, Illustrated
by Photos.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Sept. 20.—A history of
Buckingham Palace, from its building
to the present day. Is being written
by the Hon. Alexander Nelson Hood,
treasurer to Queen Mary's household.
Mr Hood, an artistic photographer,
has taken some splendid pictures of
rooms and works of art in the palace
to illustrate this work, which—in the
first instance, at least —will be for
private circulation.
Ugly as it is in its exterior, Buck
ingham Palace contains much inter
esting and valuable historical mate
rial.
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■Farmers' Fruit To
Run Their Machinery
Scientist Tells Them to Make
Denatured Alcohol and Use It
as Motive Power.
KANSAS CITY, Sept 20.—Farmers
should get the motive power to run
the engines on their farm machinery
from denatured alcohol made from
inferior applet Joseph M. Anglada, of
York, said In an address here.
"This is the solution of the problem
for supplying power on the farm.” he
said. "Farmers should establish co
operative alcohol plants. There are
barrels of apples which go to waste
on the farm. The farmers of each
neighborhood in which apples are
produced should gather up these ap
ples and take them to a co-operative
mill and denatured alcohol could be
made in large quantities.
"The motive power furnished by
alcohol is more desirable than that
from any other source.”
Moves Cottage 40
Miles to Get Tenant
Landlord Strikes on Unique Plan of
Renting an Unoccupied
Residence.
FORT LUPTON, COLO., Sept. 20.
A unique and original way of get
ting a tenant for his empty house was
adopted here by B. F. Brown, who
moved a four-room modern cottage
from Ault, 40 miles away, on a flat
car and got a renter for it before the
building had been taken off the
tracks.
Brown, a resident of Ault, is also
the possessor of several vacant lots
here. He conceived the idea of taov-
L ' wit a
if - I
ing the house to this city, where de
sirable residences are in demand.
Whan the building reached here
he took a prospective renter to the
track. The latter went through and
rented it at once.
Queen’s Jewels for
Miss Sackville-West
Necklace About Which Dumas Wrote
His Famous Novel Will Be
Hers Some Day.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Sept. 20.—Miss “Veta”
Sackville-West will one day inherit
not only pictures, but jewels of great
interest. Among these is a Greek
patterned diamond tiara, famous as
having formed part of the diamond
necklace that caused the romance be
tween Marie Antoinette and Cardinal
Rohan, about which Dumas wrote his
great novel. "The Queen's Necklace."
London Girl Barbers
Now Popular Fad
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Sept. 20. —Girl barbers
are growing in popularity in London
and there is an increasing demand
for them. Many Americans are loud
in their praises of the prepossessing
young women, neatly attired in white,
who deftly wield the scissors and
There are a considerable number
of these establishments here now.
It is one of the "new callings." z
Many of the girls are experts at
manicuring and ladies' hairdressing
as well. Some of them earn large
Incomes.
HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1913.
Sarah Bernhardt Building Tomb
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‘Divine One’ Carving Own Vault
Two views of Madame Sarah Bernhardt, who is now build
ing her own tomb at Belle-Ile-en-Mer.
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Wave-Swept Mausoleum Is Across
Bay From Last Resting Place
of Chateaubriand.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, Sept. 20.—News comes from
Belle-Ile-en-Mer, where Carah Bern
hardt lives when she is not charming
Parisian or American audiences, that
the divine Sarah is building her tomb
with her own hands. It stands at the
water's edge and is washed at high
tide. Far across the waves toward
the mainland, at the Grand Berock.
Chateaubriand rests. Will It be pos
sible that these two great geniuses
will communicate with each other
across this narrow stretch of water?
To work on one’s own tomb is not a
pleasant occupation, but Sarah, hav
ing lost the follies of a youth sup
posed to be perennial, knows that her
day. perhaps her hour, is approaching
and she wants to be fully prepared
Sarah, as Is well known in Europe,
carries with her on steamer, train or
sleeping car a wonderful shroud of
silk. She thus follows the custom of
the Chinese mandarins, but the cuss
tom is new to Europe,
When death finally comes the great
actress should not undergo any . sen
sation strange to her, because for half
a century and almost every evening
Mme. Bernhardt has succumbed on
the stage to every known kind of
death, by hanging, poison, the dagger
or by fire, by suffocation, being
ciushed, drowned, strangled, asphyx
iated or falling a victim to her great
emotion —no method of passing from
this life is unfamiliar to her, and if
she does not well play her role when
the final call comes it will not be from
failure to rehearse It.
WOMAN MAKES SUCCESS
AS A NOTARY PUBLIC
BRIDGEPORT, N. J„ Sept. 20.—Al
though equal suffrage in New Jersey
has had a slight setback, this little
i town Is demonstrating the ability of
women to serve the public. Miss
Eva May Truitt is a notary public,
being the first woman to hold such
a position in this section of the
State. She also does a thriving in
surance business. Mrs. Elva Truitt
has been appointed postmistress, the
first woman ever receiving such a
commission in this township, and with
her experienced assistant. Miss M. E
Sheets, is ably helping Uncle Sam to
1 tuoisaet his business.
Heat That Turns Winter Into Summer
How do you feel about the cold winter winds that will soon be blowing through every crack and crevasse? And
do the chill days that are suretocome on the heelsof winter’s first blast make you shiverwhenyouthinkofthem?
Is your home adequately equipped with a heating system that laughs at cold weather—that keeps every
room in the house comfortably heated every hour in the day? If it is not, you should begin making prepa
rations for having such a heating plant installed. The Original Moncrief Furnace is the acme of perfection in the warm-air
lurnace world—and we are the only people in Atlanta who sell the Original Moncrief.
A Moncrief Furnace for Your Home
A MONCRIEF Furnace in your home would enable you and those dependent
on you for warmth and comfort to pass the winter months pleasantly, comfort
ably, and with the dangers of a half heated house eliminated.
You have doubtless been considering the mattter of installing a warm-air fur
nace, but for one reason or another have kept putting it off. This advertisement is
written for the express purpose of impressing on you the importance of quick action.
There are six months of winter ahead. Dreadfully cold some of it will be, ami with
an inadequately heated house, you can not help but feel the chill of some of the days
and nights that are to come. Act now. Call us over the telephone to-morrow
morning aud ask us to estimate the cost of installing an original Moncrief in your
home. If you live out of Atlanta, semi us a pencil sketch of your house and ask
us to estimate the cost for you. But act quickly, for winter will soon be here.
Products of Experience From the House of Moncrief
We carry everything in the warm-air heating line, and are in position to supply any of the supplies needed for repairing or replacing wornout
parts. We also do expert repair work, and despite the fact that we use a higher quality of goods than is usually found elsewhere, we do our repair
work cheaper than others.
Get the name right—we are the
Moncrief Atlanta Company
R. A. JONES, Manager
73 Walton St. Atlanta, Ga. Phone Ivy 4930
RICH MAN'S LIFE
HANGS ON TALE
ofwifeschum
Church Worker Declares Husband
of Her Friend Attacked Her
When Helpless.
CHARLESTOWN, W. VA, Sept 20
Graham Wilson, wealthy and promi
nent in the social and business affairs
of this part cf rhe State, must effec
tually disprove the story of Mtae Mary
Turner, one of the most highly re
spected young women In Jefferson
County, or face death by hanging.
Held in jail here, without bail, Wil
son seems to show no worry over the
fact that the crime charged to him is
a capital offense in this State His
young wife, *hn says she is madly in
love with him: his father, a retired
Kpiscopal minister, and his brother
and sister make no secret of the fact
that they are in great distress.
Until a week ago Miss Turner’s life
was In danger. When she lay on
what was believed to be her deathbed
she told and retold the story’ which
she will tell to the jury next month.
One of her most devoted friends
was Mrs Wilson, the wife of the man
she accuses. For years It has been
Miss Turner’s custom to spend much
of her time at Wilson farm, a beau
tiful strip of land on the Charlestown-
Knabletown turnpike.
On June K last Wilson left hie home
to attend the Leesburg horse show,
and Miss Turner was Mrs Wilson’s
guest. On the morning of June 6
Wilson returned home, and, accord
ing to the charges. Invited Miss Tur
ner to accompany him on a drive to
another farm he owns.
According to Miss Turner. Wilson,
without warning, attacked her. She
screamed, according to her testimony,
and he choked her.
Wilson is a man of great strength,
but Miss Turner said she broke from
>im and. screaming, ran 100 yards
before he overtook her. She was
semi-conscious when he lifted her
back into the buggy, according to her
testimony. She said that Wilson then
laughed at her and told her she would
t*e a fool to attempt any exposure
Woman Stamps Out
Smoldering Bomb
Blackhanders Make Infernal Machine
From Preserve Jar and Powder.
Woman Save* Husband.
NEW YORK. Sept. 20.—Coney Is
land. long neglected by the Blacx
handere. just saw its fir»t bomb.
Mrs. Marie Tarmantola. No. 2442
Gravesend avenue, where her hus
band has a grocery store, discovered
one. It vas smoking and she
stamped out the fuse. Later the po
lice took charge of it.
It was made from a preserve jar
filled with gunpowder, with a kero
sent-soaked fuse running through the
cover. It evidently had just be-'n
placed w’here the woman found it.
96 YEARS OLD, LIVES
AFTER FIFTY-DAY FAST
HARRISBURG. Sept. 20—William
Beidleman, who lacks only three
months of being 96 years old, com
pleted lijs fiftieth day ofx fasting.
Throughout that period only two
small bites of toasted bread have
passed into his stomach, but he has
drunk quantities of ice water.
OFFERS NICKEL
TORESCUERFOR
SAVING HIS LIFE
Los Angeles Hero Is Told to Go
and Buy Himself a Five-Cent
Smoke by Grateful Man.
LOS ANGFXBS, Sept. 20—Five
cents, cash, was yesterday proffered
Roy Haslet, of Los Angeles, by a
young man of Compton for saving
the latter’s life Mr. Haslet refused
the money—he said he didn’t care for
expenses.
The Compton man is an expe
rienced swimmer and was caught in
a dangerous rip tide off Long Beach.
Haslet, seeing the bartier's predica
ment, plunged into the surf.
The young man was rapidly be
coming exhausted, and Haalet reach
ed him as he was sinking. Sets ng
him by the haJr, he swam vigorously
to shore, and he, too, was exhausted
as he reached land
First aid treatment was given both
young men. and soon neither was the
worse for the adventure.
Later the Compton citizen sought
Haslet.
’’You saved my Hfe,” he said. "I
appreciate \\ liat you have done a
great deal. Here is a nickel, go buy
yourself a good smoke.”
Mr. Haslet doesn't smoke—that
kind.
Oregon Man Grows
A Grain Like Wheat
Farmer Uses Burbank Method in Ex
periment and Develops Big,
Fine Product.
OREGON CITY. OREG., Sept. 20
A new and unnamed grain has been
grown by P. O. Chindgren, a farmer a;
Mulino, after a series of experiment
with the corn-wheat and the Egyptian
species of the grain.
For the last two or three years the
farmer hns been studying the possi
bility of "Burbanking the two kinds
of wheat Samples just cut and placed
on exhibition here show that he has
been highly successful.
The grain produces a stalk about
eight feet long and heads that nre
much larger and better than either of
the old kinds No name has been se
lected for the new grain.
“Haunted" School
House Abandoned
Children Refuse to Attend Classes
In Building in Which Teacher
Was Murdered.
CHICAGO, Sept 20.—Children of
Warrenville. 111., will have a new
school building thia year to replace
the “haunted school” they have re
fused to attend since the winter of
1912. The new building was dedicated
Labor Day.
The "haunted school” was made a
place of hom»r tn the children by the
killing there before her class of Miss
Edith Smith by Sylvester Adams,
January 10. 1912. The mans ad
dresses had been rejected ty the
pretty teacher, and he shot her at her
desk, following the <1- »-d by commit
ting suicide on the spot with the same
weapon.
Moncrief Special and Exclusive Features
All Cast Iron.
All Cast Iron with combination steel and cast radiator.
Moncrief Duplex Grate with large grate surface.
Straight and deep tire pot cast extra heavy in two sections.
Top return flue radiator affording a large radiating surface.
Latest and most improveil grate hangers, each grate hanging Individually can
be removed without touching a nut or cotter pin; simply take out the bar.
Self-cleaning surfaces. Sueli cleaning as may be necessary can be attended to
readily through the smoke flue, feed door and clean out door opening.
’lTic Moncrief Beaded doors assuring you an absolutely gas and air tight furnace.
All cup joints deep and roomy. Will burn all grades of hard and soft coal.
The Height. All Moncrief Furnaces are low down and can be set to advantage
in low basements. All collars extend through casings.
Hot water for domestic purposes may be obtained by running a coll in the spe
cial pouch at side of feed door.
Extra large double casings, affording abundant space for the circulation of air.
Rancher Victor in
Battle With Bear
Cattleman Comes Suddenly Upon '
Animal Preparing to Feast on
Pheasants' Eggs.
JULIAETTA. IDAHO, Sept. 20.—At
the headwaters of Swift f'reek, which
empties into the north fork of the
' Clearwater east of Teakean, Levi B.
Groseclose. a cattle raiser, had a fight
to the death with a bear.
Groseclose took his rifle with him
on a trip to look after his cattle. He
came upon a pheasant which seemed
distressed. Looking around, Mr.
Groseclose saw a large nlack bear
which had driven the bird from her
nest and was preparing to eat the
eggs.
The farmer shot the bear, but be
fore he could eject the empty shell
bruin charged. A second shot put out
the beast’s right eye. But on he came.
A third shot put a ball just under
neath the eye.
At this juncture the bear started in
the opposite direction. Pursuing his
advantage, the farmer continued to
fire and with the sixth shot bruin suc
cumbed.
$200,000 Securities
Plaything of Boy
Youngster Ha* Fine Time Mutilating
a Fortune Lost by Express
Driver.
CHICAGO. Sept. 20 -A child mutl
• latlns a fortune of $200,000 was the
Interesting spectacle in the town of
■ Pavia, Mo., the other day. Senor Vi
tali, a rent collector at Stradella, gave
an expressman a package wrapped
In old newspapers, asking him to
hand it in at a bank at Pavla. It
' contained $200,000 In securities. The
driver forgot all about this seemlng-
■ ly Inconsequential bundle, and when
Vitali went to the bank to cut his
coupons there was nothing there for
him.
These securities were afterward
. found in a mutilated condition They
had been picked up on the road by a
boy, who had amused himself by cut
ting out the head of the King of
! Italy from the securities and throwing
1 away the rubbish. The King, how
ever, has been restored to his old po
sition. and with a little trouble In
' getting duplicates the Italian will re
' store Ms fortune to Ita former magnl
' tude.
: Rich Widow Leaves
Fortune to Lawyer
Will of Wealthy Cumberland Wo
man, Ignoring Relatives, Made
Public—Contest Likely.
CUMBERLAND. MD.. Sept. !«.
s Surprise was caused here when It be
came known that Mrs. Margaret Mc-
Cray. aged 37, widow of William L.
McCray, had left her automobile end
I the remainder of her estate, valued
v at $75,000, to J. Philip Roman, at
. tomey, and son-in-law of James
f Clark, president of a distilling com
-1 pany.
a Mrs. McCray was taken HI Tues
r day while Roman wa* drawing up her
s will. Dr Thomas W. Koon and
i, Charles W. Fries acting as witnesses.
- Yesterday she died, and an hour later
« the will was filed for probate.
r Mrs. McCray leaves two brothers, a
- sister, and several nephews at Pitts
>* burg, who, it is said, will contest the
instrument.
VICTIMS GO W
WHEN TRIPPED
IN DEATH VALLEY
Tragedies of Lower California
Desert Told by Bodies of
Overwhelmed Men.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20—The
recent death of Peter A. Busch, a Col
orado miner, tn Death Valley, recalls
many instances of the treachery of
that portion of California which was
denominated by the early tribal In
dians as the “Valley of Fire.”
The Piutea, Weshoe and other«rfbes
in ftarly days condemned their crimi
nals to the country surrounding Death
Valley. When an outlaw Indian vio
lated the most sacred laws of his tribe
he was condemned to the “Valley of
Fire,” where he waa expected aoon to
perish.
Os the hundreds of bodies found 1n
Death Valley, where men perished
from heat and thirst, they are almost
universally naked to the’ waist The
trail made by the men before death
also shows a circuitous course.
At a certain stage, after being at
tacked by the heat, the person begins
to run and claw at his breast. First
his hat is abandoned. Then he begins
to claw at his shirt, and finally tears
it from him.
Then he turns in a circuitous route
and narrows the circuit>ontil finally
he falls exhausted in a heap and
never rises again. Delirium comes on
instantly.
It is presumed that the terrible suf
fering from the heat and thirst feels
like r load on his lungs and makes
breathing difficult, and that the vic
tim imagines by running he Is getting
away from the thing, and that In
clawing off his upper garments he is
releasing the weight.
Scientists who have visited Desth
Valley in warm weather and had %
touch of the heat state that the ex
traordinary effect of the heat there is
caused by the peculiar situation of
Death Valley. It 1r from 100 to 400
feet below sea level and Is shut In on
all rides by high mountains.
The Panamints range shuts oat the
moist air from the Pacific Ocean, and
the Funeral and Grapevine range’
shut out the wind from the slight
vegetation on the eastern side, so that
the only wind that reaches Death Val
ley and the atmosphere of that region
is the dryest of all place*’ on earth;
that it absorbs from every living
thing, both human and vegetable,
every particle of moisture.
This Is illustrated by the fact that
at certain places in Death Valley,
when the thermometer 1s at Its high
est '-’fieri 117 degrees in the shade —
a man never can satiate his thirst.
As soon as he takes the canteen from
his lips the thirst returns just as
strong as ever.
When the system is drained of all
moisture the brain yields, the victim’s
eyes stare like a madman’s and he
runs his circuitous course to death.
Land ‘Boomers’ Hired
For British Colonies
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Sept. 20. —The “boomer”
has found a new home In the British
Colonial Office, and a new achsme of
picture tours of the empire has been
devised for advertising the country's
possessions.
Thousands of pictures. Including
about 200 original paintings, have
been prepared The services of a
well known artist have cost the de
partment SIO,OOO.
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