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r 2 A IIEAUST'a SLNi)AY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA, SUNDAY, NOVEMHER 30, 1913. U. S, MISSES TROOPS II NIVY ON MEXICO BORDER Huerta Is Ready to Yield as Rebels M ake Big Inroads on Federal Terri tory-Power ‘Appears Tottering. I7th’s Mounted Eager for War Troopers Want to Show Worth TIM FOB SID BUTGIRLHITS Rough Riding Practice Daily GIVEN BEILIS IN IN GALLERY AmericanWomen.Not French, Bold, He Says Trooper of Seventeenth’s scout corps is shown throwing his horse to form an equine breastwork. Continued From Page 1. plied with ammunnlon, and Joked I pm about the corriDg battle. General Villa says that he plans No heavy artillery w^lb taken south to-day, but will be loaded and sent ! away by next Tuesday. Twenty-on© cannon wll compose the artillery dl- <»enern \ ma says mat ne plans to . . , taka Ills whole army of 7,000 men, ex- vlflon nebp| in Juarez pro- « ept the 1.000 who \s 111 be left to gar- | fc^.< Ignorance of the location or the liaon Juarez. | strength of the enemy. Mexicans Hear Revolt of Negroes Halts Ini erven tion WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—A force of about 3,500 cavalry, Infantry and artillery, or nearly one-fourth of th* whole force assigned to duty on the Mexican .border, will be concentrated at El Paso within a few days. This army concentration Is proceeding simultaneously with the concentra tion of the naval forces at Vera Cruz and Tampico. This concentration of forces is not explained by any of the officials at either the War or Navy depart ments. The State Department and the War IVpartment both assert that every thing is quiet at El Paso. The One Hundred and Twentieth Cavalry- squadron of 25ft men, which has been 1n pursuit of the Navajos in Ari zona. wa**to-day ordered to proceed to KI Paso. Chihuahua Cut Off. News was received to-day at the War Department of a defeat of the Federal forces in a two-day battle 25 miles south of Juarez. Communi cation with Chihuahua has been cut and there Is no confirmation of the repori that a force, of 12,000 rebels was attacking that city. Army offi cers say the outcome of the fighting at Chihuahua will have an impor tant bearing on the general cam paign and will probably result in a general retreat of Huerta's forces to ward the capital. Americans and other foreigners are leaving Monterey as rapidly a© possible. Dispatches received at the State Department to-day say every train for I,a redo from Monterey Is loaded with Americans, other for eigners and Mexicans. * The State Department to-day gave out a report from Monterey that the papers there are stating that the ne groes of the United States are in re bellion and that the Resident and Secretary Bryan have been so busy with the Insurrection they have no time to devote to Mexico. The "ne gro revolution" Is reported to be most virne In "Indiana, Texas and Colorado." Britain Waives Naval Rights. None of tiie departments had any Information to-day regarding the re nnet from Mexico City that Mr 4 O'Shaughnessy was about to make some declaration that the troubles between the United States and Mex ico would soon be settled. The Navy Department to-day con firmed the exclusive story of The American that Great Britain had waived her naval rights In Mexican waters in a personal communication between Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock and Rear Admiral Fletcher. Sir Christopher Is said to have assured Admiral Fletcher that no ac tion would bo taken by the British ships without consultation with the American commander. This state ment was mnde to dispose of the re port that there had b^en a clash be tween the British and American commanders over the question of se niority. U.S. Navg IsSuffering From Lack of Officers, Sags Blue WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—The United States Navy is faring grave danger through ’ark of officer! to man warships in time of war, accord ing to the annual report of Admiral Victor Blue, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, made public here to-d iv. t'ongress la urged to make a redis tribution of naval officers to remedy this condition. Admiral Blue states that there are now 1,000 officers of the grades of Junior lieutenant and ensign ns corn- ipared with 750 officers above these grades. Under these conditions, sacs the admiral, officers of the junior grades reach the grade of lieutenant al an age when officers are not pr )- moled to the grade of captain. Recruiting in the navy during the year was unsatisfactory, with the ex ception of the month of June, when an unprecedented number of men en listed. The navy is far short of Its authorized quota of 51,590 men. says the report, and therefore Is short of men to put the battleship fleet Into active service. U.S. Has New Death Engine; General Evans Explains It Her© we have the very latest In strument of death and destruction the newest trump card in the great Game of War. It is cylindrical in shape, three Inches in diameter, about a foot long, and about as much as you would care to hold out at arm's length. It is called a "high explosive shrap- Dr. Bull’s quickly The raw, sore feeling high up in the chest with _ that hacking and COUGH SYRUP racking cough from bronchial tubes, is soothed and promptly checked by Dr. Hull’s Cough Syrup. Use no other. Price, 25 cts. No Morphine or Chloroform “One and a half bottlrs Dr. Bull's Gough Syrup re- moved entirely a bad cough that alarmed me greatly. - ' Frank Kobyllnskl, 176 Graham Av«* , Brooklyn, N. Y. Writ* A C. MEYER & CO Mention paper Baltimore. Md Sample Free Ik A wonderful assortment of Portable Electric and Gas Lamps from $4 to $25. Brass aDd Iron Andirons from $3 to $55. Queen Mantel and Tile Co. S6 W. MITCHELL ST. Case Is Expected to Bare Work Done by Famous Peasant Monk, Special Cable to The American. KIEFF, Nov. 29—The affaire Bei lis, as the case of Mendel Beilis is termed throughout Russia, is only at its beginning according to numerous Russian newspapers. In a few' days the trial of M. Sehoulglne. member of the "Extreme Right” of the Duma will begin at Kieff. He is to be tried for his connection with an article which appeared in a Conservative newspa per several weeks ago in which the Russian Government was roundly de nounced for "trying to fasten the murder of Ushinsky upon a Jew." The same attorneys who defended Carnival Employee Dies as Train Speeds Him to Atlanta Hospital for Operation. With a bullet in his brain, Charles ("Cash”) Moore, a showman, well known in the carnival world of the South, died on a Seaboard train .it Dallas, Ga„ Saturday night while speeding to Atlanta for surgical aid. The bullet was fired accidental^ by .Miss Pearl Hawes, a young socie ty woman of Piedmont, Ala., where Moore was operating a shooting gal lery in connection with the Mayolym- pia Carnival Company, late Saturday afternoon. Scores of persons wit nessed the shooting. Miss Hawes was aiming at the tar get when Moore leaned over to pick tnvl shell, and If that somewhat knotted and combined name has a tariff of German about It, one mav remember that the new destroyer Is the invention of a German war cn- fflneer—Karhardt bv name. General R. K. Evans, of the De partment of the Gulf, balanced the neweat shell on his knee and ex plained Its construction and purpose •'Formerly our field artillery carried two types of shell,” said the General “the shrapnel shell, for exploding Iri the face of troops In the open and hurllnff upon them a shower of balls and the hiffh explosive projectile, com monly called a •shell.' used for bat- terinff down walls and fortifications, tearing open earthworks and the like. "The new shell combines both these operations, and may be used for ei ther purpose. Construction Quite Simple. "11s construction Is quite simple, at that. At the conical point here we have a movable ring; of brass, marked like the combination of a safe. In the base of tile shell, extending up about two lnci.es from the bottom. Is a charge of black powder. The body of the cylinder Is occupied by 250 halls, bedded In high explosive, some thing like the famous 'lyddite' that caused so much talk by Its use by tile British artillery In the Hoer war. "Now, suppose the shell Is to be used as shrapnel—that is. against troops In the field. The battery pre ferably Is •masked,' or hidden Just over the brow of a hill or rise In the ground, and If notice of the enemy's advance has been received early enough, the guns already are trained to drop tt\eir shells at a certain point on the road, say two miles away. Set Time Fuse. "The shell Is prepared for firing by simply 'setting' the time fuse, of ful minate. This is done by turning the brass ring in the point -to the figure that Indicates a range of tin this case) about 3,400 yards. That automati cally regulates the amount of fulmi nate to be burned before the black powder charge Is reached, so that the shell, whose speed, of course, is a fixed and known quantity. Is exploded just in front of the troops on which It is aimed, showering upon them. In stead of one solid missile, 260 balls, at a velocity slightly greater than that of the shell itself. "It Is, In effect, a prodigious shot gun spraying the advancing troops with bullets. I "Now, you can easily imagine the I terrible effect of a battery of six guns, I or maybe several batteries, playing .it i ! top speed, from a hidden location. | upon a body of troops. If they con tinue to advance, the gunners, sig- ! naled by men posted at the hill crest, j change the setting of the time fuses I so that the shrapnel always Is well Scout Corps Members Believe Tlieir Work Will Arid to Regiment’s Efficiency. Now that the war talk is sounded and echoed everywhere, most eager of all the military population of Fort McPherson are the members of the mounted detachment of the Seven teenth Infantry. To the foot soldiers campaigning is an old story. Those who saw service in <’uba and in the Philippines tell the others all about It. There have been sham battles and hikes and real half-rations camps. And altogether the foot soldier will find nothing new at the front. Rut with the mounted scout it la different. The mounted detachment of the infantry regiment Is a new in stitution. There was none In the last campaigns. The mounted detachment was added to the Seventeenth, as to other regiments, with a view to In creasing the efficiency of the infantry arm. Officers at the fort declare un reservedly their belief that the proj ect was successful, and that the mounted scouts have added greatly to the effectiveness of the corps However, the scout corps still is something of an experiment. And the scouts at the fort are ready to prove their worth in real warfare. Now adays they are more zealous and un tiring than ever in their drills and in their exercise of the horses. Much of their work consists of drills with the machine guns, and in this the scout corps has attained an exceptional adeptness. They are rather proud of them selves, these mounted soldiers, and are inclined to tie a little boastful of how they will shine In war times over the less spectacular infantrymen of the old line. And with it all they are sincerely eager that this war talk materialize into something more than a rumor. Many of the men in the mounted detachment of the Seventeenth are old cavalrymen who keep themselves primed for service by their monkey drills and their broncho-busting feats. That is, they perform as many of the old rough-riding tricks as will be allowed, a.-, a great part of the monkey drill has been tabooed by or der of the army physicians, who as cribe to them a number of injuries. spread out and effective when the fly ing charge explodes. Great Flying Shotgun. "The shell is a gigantic flying shot gun. "The high explosive powder, in this case, is no more active than the same amount of sawdust would be. It does not explode, and is not intended t}. But when the object is to batter down a wall or demolish fortifications th* time fuse Is not set, but a percussive or striking detonator Is fixed so that the high explosive charge in the she’ll explodes on striking anything—stone, brick, sandbags, wood or even soft earth." Three sizes of the new shell are made for our batteries—3-lnch, 4-inch and 6-inch, the last for the howitzers. The larger sizes contain proportion ately more explosive and balls, but the operation is identical. The pret tiest part of the mechanism, undoubt edly. Is the timing device, which per mits the shell to be exploded at any point In Its flight with beautiful ac curacy. That, of course, necessitates absolute uniformity In the velocity of the projectile, and In the burning of the fulminate fuse, which is ignited by the disoharv* of the gun. War Now Mathematics. "The game of war,” said General Evans, "has come to he largely a mat ter of cold mathematics. Particular ly is that true In the case of artillery, either on land or sea. The illustra tion of a masked battery dropping i?a shells over the brow of a hill upon troops two miles away is only one of the commonplaces of modern field ar tillery operations.” But it does take shrew’d mathemati cal application, and a very high or der of Intelligence—the operation >? these terrible "peacemakers." And that leads the general to another ob servation. Favors Large Standing Army. "How r on earth could untrained vol unteers. or even militia, be expected to handle such weapons with any ef fect?” he wonders. "It is a tremen dous argument fvjr that greatest of all brands of ‘peace insurance’—an ef ficient and adequate standing army and a thoroughly organized body of reserves." After whicfii General Evans Is in clined to speak feelingly of the Army Deague, which he is assisting to or ganize, to achieve just the ends he has mentioned. Huerta Sends Two Traitors to Penal Colony. VERA CRUZ, Nov. 29.—Major Ca- dena and Lieutenant Pin Pena, Gov ernor and commander, respectively, of the Santiago military prison in Mex- ! ico City, were brought here to-day | under arrest and sent aboard a gun- j boat for the penal colony of Quin- I tana Roo. Yucatan. The arrest Is I said to have been due to the dis covery of a plot to release and arm : (he prisoners for an attack on the | National Palace in conjunction with i dissatisfied troops, j Special Envoy Lind Is expected back i from Tampico to-night. The battleship New Jersey left last j night for Tampico and Tuxpam. GOES FAR FOR FALSE LEG. MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 29.—Minne- I apolis has been "put on the map” j again. As a market for wooden legs, i its fame has traveled all the way tc Mexico City. Likewise. Felipe Bra- eho has traveled all the way from Mexico City to get a wooden leg. It | i was a journey of 5,000 miles by sea j j and land. Beilis will have charge of Schoul- gine’s case, and in many respects the coming trial will be of greater im portance and interest to Russia than the Beilis trial. It is expected that one of ihe sensational features will be the laying bare of the information imparted In the Beilis trial by the peasant Monk Raspotine. He is said to have been the man who, at the time of the assassination of Pre mier Stolypin in Kieff, influent ed the Czar to order the Kieff authorities to "find the Jew who committed this rit ual murder.” Bell-is has been unofficially notified" tliat the prosecution will not take an appeal in his case, and in confirma tion of this the Military Governor, who has surrounded the Beilis home since the end of the trial, was made known to-day. This is something of a double-edged blessing tQ Beilis. In view of the daily threats Beilis receives through the mail from the Black Hand, warning him that htf will never he allowed to leave Russia alive, has regarded the military guard most kindly. Preacher Convicted Of Being 'Blind Tiger’ CALHOUN, Nov. 29.—The Rev. J. W. C. West has been convicted and sentenced *in the Gordon County Su perior Court on the charge of being a blind tiger. He Is a Baptist preacher and resides near Oakman, about twelve miles from here. He pleaded not guilty to the charge, but the evidence was strong ly against him and showed that the liquor was concealed in his barn, while the thirsty ones went to the barn, took what they wanted and left the money. 30 Convicts Pursue Studies by Mail, up a rifle for another patron. As she pulled the trigger the showman’s head was directly in line with the aim. With the rifle’s report. Moore sank to the ground. The leaden pellet had entered his skull behind the ear and penetrated upward toward the brain. Miss Hawes collapsed and was taken home in a hysterical condition. Physicians hastily summoned de clared that Moore’s one chance for life was an immediate surgical op eration. He was placed on a train and, ac companied by E. J. Janz, manager of the carnival company, began the race with death. Moore regained partial conscious ness before he died. Lifting his head slightly from the stretcher on which he was lying in the baggage car of the train, he asked what had hap pened. When informed of the race with death that was being made, he re plied : “It’s no use, hoys. That's one guy that you can't beat.” Moore sank back and died a few minutes later. The train was just steaming into the yard at Dallas, having made but a short portion of the distance. LINCOLN. NKBK., Nov. 29.—A cor respondence course for ambitious con victs Is to be opened by the University of Nebraska, confined to those at the J State penitentiary. Already 30 men have applied to have their names en rolled as students. Four of the 30 are “lifers.” Every lifer expects to be par doned some time. The course will include arithmetic, American history, grammar and litera ture. bookkeeping and agriculture. Chap’am Johnson will be the principal. THE RANDOLPH COMPANY 58 1-2 WHITEHALL Phone M. 3573-J ATLANTA'S BEST PARLORS FOR Hair Dressing Shampooing Manicuring Special tickets for Scalp Treatment We carry a complete line of Hair Goods Lady agents wanted to sell the “Sam-Masseur” CHRISTMAS TOYS Ask your neighbor about Daisy Gem Block. Then call us. Carroll & Hunter. f FREE! As Lons “ They Last A HANDSOME DOLL OR A DOLL BED With Every Pair of Children’s Shoes Purchased Here b </ Atlanta 25 Whitehall Nashville SWISS TOY CO. SWISS TOY CO. •P. 0. Box 932 <P. 0. Box 1092 Atlanta, Georgia Jacksonville, Florida True Parizienne Conventional, Gay Cafe Customer? New Yorkers, Max Nordeau Declares. Special Cable to The American. PARIS, Nov. 29.—That American women who come to Paris smoke cigarettes In public, attend the night restaurants, wear lavish gems and daring gowns are responsible for the reputation Parisiennes have acquired for unconventionality is the conten- tlqji of Max Nordau, in the Decem ber number of LaRevue. "When you see a woman wearing stunning hats, lunching at Pro Oapl- tan, teaing at the Rltz, dining at De- Doyon, supping at The Abba ye and de Thelme, flirting at Deauville gambling at Monte f’arlo, drinking champagne or smoking cigarettes you can be sure she is a New York er and not a Parislenne," he says. "The true Parislenne is a strictly conventional woman who shrinks from such follies.” Fain and Stamps At Possum Dinner Allen Edwards and "Sport" Ram- s»eur, shipping clerks of the Fain & Stamps Wholesale Grocery Company, entertained 25 of their fellow em ployees at a possum dinner at the Piedmont Hotel Saturday night. W. P. Fain and W. O. Stamps, mem bers of the firm, also were present, Mr. Stamps serving as toastmaster. Among the speakers were Messrs. Stamps and Fain, lien Thompson, C. W. Rose, Ralph Jones and R. Frank Taylor, assistant manager of the Piedmont, who was a guest at the feast. Alas! Alas! Denver Is Now a Closed Port DENVER, Xov. 29.—Free lunch in saloons of this city is at an end. The City Council at a meeting put back into the liquor ordinance the clause barring it. Both sides were heard, the "drys" finally winning after a bitter fight. The clause had been stricken out by the committee. The saloonmen made a hard fight to retain it, Mrs. Slaton Is Second, While Others in Family Are High in List. Continued From Page 1. whose property for taxable purposes is valued at $334,500; Mrs. Hattie I. Brandon. $317,000, and Mrs. Lena Swift Huntley, $224,000. It is impossible to tell from the tax books the exact wealth of Atlantan* because so much of the property Is given in under the names of corpora tions. Figuring the assessments to be 60 per cent of the actual value ot the property, however, a pretty accu* rate idea of the holdings of the rich est citizens can be obtained. The assesments of Mr. and Mr% John W. Grant total $2,068,660. Thiz, together with the assessments of Mri W. IX Grant, his mother, and Mrs. Slaton, his sister, makes the Grant family the city’s largest taxpayers. The aggregate of William T. Hea ley’s assessments Is $1,063,909. Including the Coca-Cola Company, in which he is the principal stock holder, Asa G. Candler pays on $2,- 164.800. Here Is a list of assessments of a number of the other largest taxpay ers: Forrest and George Adair, $638,200. E. L. Con naily. $398,930. F. M. Coker. $240,375. Julius and H. L. DeGive, $590,800. James W. English, $351,175. D. Greenfield estate, $419,590, Joel Hurt, $656,838. E. H. Inman, $421,010: S. M. In man. $902,200; Mrs. J. V. D. Inman, $355,000. Enoch C. Jones, $299,Oftft. John E. Murphy, $412,100. George M. and W, M. McKenzii* $436,345. J. Carroll Payne, $442,565. L. Z. Rosser. $305,275. A. G. Rhodes, $803,600. Ernest Woodruff, $167,890. Hoke Smith, $276,000, W. H, and J. H. Kiser, $659,300. T . ▼ > ♦ 1 At Wholesale Prices We have a large assortment of fine imported Children’s Toys bought fron Switzerland and Germany. We are offering them in bargain lots assorted, am ve guarantee you will be satisfied or refund your money. All orders express paid For $1.00 we send 2 Cuckoo whistles, 2 Jumping Jacks, 1 Box Uncle Sam’i 'Taw, 1 Box Building Blocks, 1 Box Soldiers. For $2.60 we send 4 Jumping Jacks—2 large, 2 small; 2 Cuckoo Whistles, Jrass Doll Bed, 1 Box Flower Mosaic Building Bricks, 1 Box Puzzle Color Blocks I Boxes of Soldiers, 3 Boxes Uncle Sam’s Navy, 1 Box German Castle Buildinj blocks. 4 For $5.00 yon can get a double quantity of the $2.60 assortment. No orde; illed for more than $5.00. This is a great offer for organizations giving Christmas trees. Order a >nce to avoid Christmas rush. Cash with order. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. snovuinM Viltwm High Art Protection TYTE Rfc, not tailing politics — but ** Overcoats. On that eubject we are all protectionists. Ana when you consider tke exceptional values cf irligk Art Coats—with tke prices wc kave marked tkem—you 11 understand why we sell suck a great quantity of tkem. Higk Art Overcoats are made for exposure. No amount of wear or weather can break down their shape liness. They are not burdensome in weight—hut they 11 keep you warm as toast. The model illustrated lias the emart shawl collar and turn-back cuff; con servative of lengtli and of dressy effect. Made by StrOUSe & Bros. Baltimore SOLD BY J.E iseman & Sons Co. "The Daylight Corner" I VC^hitehaB St. Atlanta > ♦ <