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7 D JTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, HA., SUNDAY, NOVKMHKK 30, 1013. Colonel Goethals Reports That if More Occur They Will Neces sarily Push Date Beyond Jan uary 1, 1915, Scheduled Time. Whitehall Walks 7 o Be Fixed After Christmas •!-••!• *!•••!• *J* • -I- +•+ +•+ Store Patrons Will Be Able to Purchase as Usual Hero is rejuvenated Whitehall street, with the “ends” soon to be as high and as desirable ns the “middle.” The view is south from a point just north of Trinity avenue. The county has done a record job and storekeepers anticipate little inter ference with Christmas business. Sidewalk adjustments will be made after the holidays. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—No defi nite date for the official opening of the Panama Canal is set in the an nual report of Colonel George Go ethals, chairman and chief engineer of the Canal Commission, which has just been submitted to Secretary of War Garrison. Neither is there any pre diction as to when- ships may pass ipom ocean to ocean. The first day of the canal’s actual operation still depends upon the treacherous slides of Culebra Cut and how fast the dredges can work to keep the channels open. “It has been the general belief that the effect of the water in the cut would tend to retard slides, and ex perience below the Gatun Locks fully justified this belief,” said Colonel Goethals. “On the other hand, the geologist is of the opinion that the water may to some extent develop new slides. Again, much ado was made in 1909 over the seamy character of rock on the Isthmus, through which water flows quite rapidly, in conse quence of which the question was raised that the lake might leak out through seams and crevices. “The Sooner the Better.” “If these things are liable to occur, the sooner the better, if the official opening of the canal is to occur Jan uary 1, 1915; for if water were not admitted this fall, but were deferred until May 1, 1914, the full height could not be reached until October. 1914, leaving little time for the determina tion of these questions. These con siderations led to the conclusion that the water should be turned into the vout at the earliest date practicable 'for getting the dredges to work <:n the slides. “The present plans, therefore. ar<3 based upon the blowing up of Gam boa Dike on October 10, its removal by dredges immediately thereafter, the transfer of two suction dredges p id a ladder dredge to the Cucaracha slide, the smaller dipper dredges to work on the other slides until the full width of the channel is attained, and the passage of vessels through the canal as soon a" channels of full depth and of sui. dent width have been secured. Cost $349,505,222 Thus Far. The financial operations of the ca nal are told in big figures. The dis bursing omcer has paid out $20,524.- 705 on pay rolls alone. Congress so * <t has appropriated $349,505,222 ijr mil construction, of which $10,676,- 1 went for fortifications. ' -< great detail Colonel Goethals of the engineers' work during l ist year, and with particular sat- ;ion it is reported that the mech- .* ,-m of the vast locks and dams 4 s tested with success. The gates at Ga’un were swung in one minute and 51 seconds for each leaf. The heavy iron chains which are depended upon to . prevent an unruly vessel from crashing into the locks were raised and lowered in ample time to meet, any emergency. The locomotives which will tow the ships through the locks were tried out, and the elec tric installation which will invoice the use of a current of 44,000 volts. Remarkable Yield Of 250-Acre Farm Stories of the remarkable records of counties in raising foodstuffs have grown with great zest out of Geor gia products activities, and now comes the smallest county in the State—Rockdale—with a claim that Tb second to none. A farmer who cultivated 200 acres of a 250-acre tract in <that county raised this year 125 bales of cotton worth $8,125; cotton seed worth $1 250; 1.000 bushels of corn, $1,000; 8,000 bundles of fodder. $160; 20 tons of hay. $400; 400 bushels of oats, $200, and wheat, potatoes, vegetables, fruits and every other kind of proven der in the calendar of the farm. On one exceptional acre of this ground the farmer raised more than 140 bushels of corn. This acre was * exceptional only Inasmuch as It had been given special attention, but any other acre would have brought the same result, with the same care. The money represented in the crop will buy the land. The farm js on the market at that price and has been listed with J. E. Mercer. who is con ducting a real estate office with spe cial attention to farm lands. Developers of Land Are Making Dirt Fly On Williams Street ‘Second Ansley Park’ Is Promised in West Peachtree Neighborhood. Many Homes Going Up. Owners of land in the neighborhood of Williams and West Fourteenth streets are leaving no stones unturn ed to develop this property for home- seekers, and there is probably as much activity in the section as in any other neighborhood of the city.I The Peters Land Company, the Cobb Realty Company, the W. J. Davis Syndicate, Morris Brandon, J. R. Wylie, and A. J. & H. F. West are pushing important developments. Thousands of dollars are being spent cutting down hills andmlling up hol lows, and there is promise of a “sec ond Ansley Park” west of West Peachtree street. Within the last year a great many new' homes have been built. On West Tenth street, west of Spring street, for instance, half a dozen houses have been erected and a new one is now going up. Williams street has been worked out 400 feet north of Tenth, and during the winter it will be extended to Fourteenth. Four new homes will soon be erected on Wil liams in the Fourteenth street neigh borhood. Furniture Concern Near mit Customers Through Trinity Avenue To Ad- Second-Story Window. Owners of property on Whitehall and their tenants south of Mitchell street have decided that they don’t want any interference with the side walks at this time, but w’ill serve the public from the elevated sidewalks and have the readjustments done aft er the Christmas holidays. Captain R. M. Clayton, City Engi neer, in charge of Whitehall street re grading, sent a man around last week and sounded the tenants and owners, with the result mentioned above. Only one owner, John H. James, has adjusted his store to the new grade level. His ’ ee at No. 135 Whitehall, occupied furniture concern, has been drop, a floor, and the sidewalk in front cut away. Since the road bed will not be fixed right away and the rest of the sidewalk will remain for the present, however, the store will receive its patrons through the second story, with a wooden bridge spanning the cut. If customers/hap pen to enter by the present ground floor, they will probablv have to climb upstairs to eet their goods. The Whitehall job one of the two big close-in engineering feats of the year, Ivy street regrading and filling being the other. The County Com missioners have made a record on Whitehall, and in the opinion of real estate men the job ..ill be a monu ment to them for all time. This was the one thing needed, say the land- brokers, to lift into eminent respec tability a section of Whitehall that had too long been running down hill. COPnEI E ELKS PLAN MEMORIAL CORDEI-E. Nov. 29.—The Cordele Lodee of Elks has arranged an ex cellent program for the annual memo rial exercises to be held Sunday. De cember 7. Judee W. F. George, of the Cordele Circuit, has been se cured to deliver the address of the occasion. A musical program is be ing prepared by Mesdames O. M. Heard T. .T. Durrett. J. .T. Willis and A. E. Jordan. Miss Sadie Ellis and R. E Harris. Mrs. .T. Gordon Jones . will be in charge of the decorations. COMPLAINT AT^WATER. MIT T FrvGEVTI T E. Nov. 29 —A hot fight is being made here on the water that is being furnished by the water Vorrnnrv The waterworks is owned by n Philadelphia concern and the water is so muddv ’t can’t he used for rook ing or drinking purposes A citizens' meeting was railed and n’ans made for the erection of an independent plant. PLANMINC WHITE WAV. MTT T EPGEVTBT.r Nov. 29.—Mll- wtgevfile is s<>' n to hav*> a “white wav.” The rvo^po Rfve»* M’Hs are making LproraH-rs for if. the large iiehts almost eve r v merchant in the 1 city has contracted . for electric signs. Jury Award $3,500 For Girl’s Right Leg CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—The Chicago Ra,iwa>.i Company has been ordered to pay $3,500 for cutting off the right leg of Bernadette Crowell. The child is 12 years old now. She was 9 when she lost her leg. The 3-year interval has been consumed in the legal bat tle for damages. Two juries voted 11 to 1 in each case in favor of assessing damages from $10,000 to $15,000. In the first trial the solitary juror held out un til a disagreement was reported. In the second trial recently the solitary juror held out until he induced the other eleven to reduce their estimate of a right leg’s value to $3,500. Bernadette is the daughter of Mrs. Margaret Crowell and Mrs. Crowell is the widow of a city fireman who lost his life four years ago when fighting a fire. Monster Pumpkin Attracts Crowds A hug€L pumpkin weighing 75 pounds, the prize of the Hart County Fair this month, has been placed in the window of Lynch, the tailor, at No. 8 Whitehall street, where thou sands viewed it Saturday. The pumpkin was raised at T. B. Harper's Fernw r ood farm, two miles from Hartwell. It is 71 inches in cir cumference. Fifty-nine other mon ster pumpkins were taken from the same vine. Ruin Faces Town; Its Founder a Bankrupt MUSKOGEE. OKLA„ Nov. 29—A mere shadow of the wealthy Wain- wright estate exists to-day. The for mer county official was once one or the biggest cattlemen, landowners, nank- ers ana capitalists in this section of 1 the country, but now he is not only i bankrupt, bui is charged with embez zling. It is reported that the town of Wain- wright, of which W. H. Walnwright is the founder, is practically closed up, except for the postoffice and bank. Pennsylvania Law Bars Chorus Girls PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 29.—The baldheaded row in theaters through out Pennsylvania will be deserted. In all theatrical companies only women of 21 years of age or more will appear on the stage. This is the effect of a new law which regulates the hours during which women may work. The wide-sweeping effect of the law did not become known until to-day, when several local theatrical man agers learned to their dismay that women under 21 years of age are prohibited 'rom working after 9 o’clock at vaght. Rich Men Gypsies In Order to Get Well HILLSDALE. MICH., Nov. 29 —Many outfits of nomads visit Hillsdale Coun ty each summer, but the outfit that for the past few weeks has been near the fair grounds Is out of the usual class. Attention was attracted to this large camp by the neat tents and wagons, but more especially by the clean and we’l dressed appearance of the campers themselves. Ire heads of the party were the Hamilton brothers, of Cincin nati, who are said to be wealthy. A few years ago the family lost two children from consumption and the doc tors recommended outdoor life. YEAR IN JAIL FOR TWO EGGS. HUNTINGTON, W. VA„ Nov. 29 — For theft of two eggs, Charles H. Thumel was sentenced in Criminal Court here to serve a yean in the pen itentiary. It was his second convic tion on a charge of petit larceny, and this, according to State statutes, amounts to a felony. Society a ‘Frost,’ He Remains Hermit COLUMBIA, MO., Nov. 29.—After living ten years a recluse in a little hut near here, PL E. Tyler, a univer sity graduate, came from his seclu sion long enough to call society a “frost.” “Yes,” he said, “society is a frost. Behind its empty shell there are al ways slimy fingers reaching out for gold.” Tyler lives in a little hovel on a high knoll. He left it recently, but soon went back. Football Skill Saves Pastor From Thugs CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—It was only a few years ago that the Rev. Archie (_. Pres ton pastor of the Forest Glen Congre gational Church, was a football player. Recently he was overborne by four robbers. The surprise of their attack enabled them to get some small change from his pocket, but before they could get at his watch, the one thing of value about his person, he had squirmed from under the scrimmage in a way that football players know, and. once on his feet, repulsed further attacks with the straight-arm. Postmaster 16 Years, Ends Life on Removal Water Main Ready For Pace’s Ferry Pace’s Perry road citizens will soon have an ex^ra supply of water, as well as substantial improvements to their thoroughfare. Six-inch pipes have been placed along Andrew^ ave nue from Pace's Ferry road to Peach tree and the main will be laid next week. This piping will furnish wa ter for the country estate of John W. Grant. Owners between Buekhead and Mr. Grant's place have recently graded sidewalks and tenants have planted rye on their lawns, making a very pleasing effect in color. Spanking for Bride Promised by Mother BILLINGS, MONT., Nov. 29.—Out witting his brother. Hays. Henry Bryan, a recent arrival in the city from St. Louis, eloped with Miss Vida Emmerick, who arrived here recently from that city. The girl, who is only 16, was de nied a marriage license here on the orders of her mother. Bryan then secured an automobile, and motored to the first town west of Billings, where they boarded a train for the West. The girl's mother as serts that when she returns that she will give her a lirst-class spanking for not obeying her. Confesses to Slaying And Then Surrenders ROME, Nov. 29.—Marion Barren, a negro, confessed over the tele phone to Attorney W. B. Bebane lo the murder of Joe Collins at the lock and dam near here several days ago, and asked him what he would do about it The lawyer told Barrett to surren der to the Sheriff, and shortly after ward the negro did so. Statewide Search For Runaway Boy GADSDEN ALA., Nov. 29.—A State-wide search has been started for William Ponder, the 14-year-o'd son of W. A. Ponder, of this city, wno after stealing a pistol and razor from his father's room, told companions he was going out to see the world. The boy’s mother can not be con soled. and it is feared she will lose her reason. Heirs to Millions Work as Deckhands Concerns Are Ready To Occupy Offices In Chamber’s Home Many Organizations and Individual Concerns Will Locate on North Pryor—Month to Finish. A few days more than a month wlV be required to put the new Chamber of Commerce home in first class con dition for tenants, and the tenants are preparing already to move. Prac tically all the space has been let. Nearly ''very booster organization in the city will be housed in th< chamber home. The subsidiaries of the chamber, the Industrial and Sta tistical Bureau and the Atlanta Con vention Bureau, will have commo dious offices, as will the Atlanta Freight Bureau, the Merchants and Manufactures Association and the Credit Men’s Association. The Credit Men’s Association will open an adjustment bureau which will extend greatly the service in re ports on commercial credits. A large real estate firm has taken quarters on the fourth floor. BIGNESS HILLED 1, Patterson, Hero of Dayton Flood, Fights To Keep Out of Jail Cash Register Head, Convicted Un der Sherman Act, Alleges 393 Errors in Trial. Investigator Declares System Fol lowed Same Methods as Frisco and Met Same Fate. WASHINGTON, Nov, 29.—"The diseases w'hich sapped the life of the Frisco system and brought it to the point of bankruptcy are the same diseases which have contributed so largely to the weakened condition of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad,” declared Louis R. Brandeis, of Boston, ifl Washing ton to-day Mr. Brandeis, as a citizen of Mas sachusetts, assumed the responsibil ity of investigating the affairs of the New Haven road to-day. As a citi zen of the United States he analyzed the affairs 'of the Frisco Railroad system. His verdict is that a de sire on the part of the heads of these railroads to make a stb In the finan cial world rather than to increase the efficiency of the-ir properties for th-' benefit of the people Is responsible for the outright bankruptcy of the Frisco and the state of affairs which caused the New Haven stock to drop 200 points^on the exchange. “The bankruptcy of the Frisco is a signal instance of the curse of big ness,” said Mr. Brandeis. “It was not surprising that bankruptcy overtook the Frisco. In fact, it is surprising that the system escaped that fate for so long. “The conditions under which the affairs of the road were being ad ministered made failure inevitable. I have expected this crash for some time. No great railroad system di rected as the Frisco was directei could long hope to avert such an out come. It was the great prosperity of the nation alone which prevented an earlier climax. The manipulators of the system were carried over the thin ice beneath which yawned the black chasm of bankruptcy only by the very momentum of the times.” 63-Cent Chair Makes Sen. Sherman Happy WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman, of Illinois, is the first Senator on record who found the appointments of the Senate office building too luxurious for comfort. His offices are handsomely furnished with leather upholstered chairs. The Senator had a furniture dealer send up an assortment of chairs. He took an ordinary kitchen chair that cost 63 cents. It sheds its pale mo lasses radiance on a dark red desk that probable cost Uncle Sam $200. “I did my work for twenty years in a chair like this,” said Senator Sher man. “Now I am comfortable.” Hash at Seven Cents ‘Too Rich’ for Them Ministers Buy Space To Get Weddings SEATTLE, Nov. 29.—A silent battle Is being waved on Courthouse Hill by three ministers of the gospel, the Rev. August Sandell, the Rev. George Kindred and the Rev. A. E. Greene, wW»se offices surround the courthouse on two sides, bearing announcements of their calling and the further state ment that they perform marriage cer emonies. Mr. Kindred goes to the extent of buying newspaper space Underlying the question of mar riage ceremonies is a total of approx imately $30,000 paid out annually in ft" S. Tihe Rev. August Sandell, the pi oneer in the business, uses an auto mobile in going to and returning from work. Before competition became so strong the Rev, Mr. Sandell is said to have taken in from $300 to $700 a month in fees. DAYTON, OHIO, Nov. 29.—An ap peal* was filed in the United States Court to-day by President John H. Patterson and 28 other officials of the National Cash Register Company, who were convicted last year of vio lations of the criminal sections of the Sherman anti-trust law. The con victed men were some of them sen tenced to terms in the penitentiary, which were suspended pending ap peal. Patterson was given a year in pris on and a $5,000 fine. Soon afterward the Dayton flood occurred, and he be came a national figure by the manner in which lie took charge of the rescue and relief work. The appeal contains over a million words. A total of 393 errors are alleged to have been made in the trial. Albany Man Hurt as Auto Turns Turtle ALBANY, Nov. 29—Randolph Shaffer, a well-known business man of Albany, was seriously injured when an automobile he was driving to New ton turned a complete somersault. Mr. Shaffer was driving at about 35 miles an hour when he met some negroes. As he turned to pass them his car struck a sand bed. causing it to skid and turn turtle. The. negroes picked up the injured man and car ried him to Newton, where first aid was given. A local physician rushed to the scene, where it was found that Mr. Shaffer had fractured his left arm, broken his nose, suffered sev eral severe scalp wounds, bruised his l«*ft hip, hurt his jaw and received Sther minor injuries. A piece of glass penetrated his skull, but nqt deep enough to cause serious injury. He was later brought to an Albany hos pital. Preacher in Strange Trance After Spree ROME, Nov. 29.-^Thomas Bright, a Hardshell Bapil. t preacher, was stricken with a strange malady while sobering up^after a spreed. When the police went to feed him he asked them to turn him over. This they did, and then he fell into a trance. It then took the whole force, from the Chief of Police to the patrol wagon chauf feur. to revive Bright. When th3y finally succeeded, the Chief decided to send him home. In the patrol wagon Lright persist ed in standing on one leg at a time and begged the police to change them for him. Must RepeatWedding Date or Go to Jail NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—George B. Helmle. for sixteen years postmaster of Nyaek. worrying over the loss of his position Januarj' 1 next, turned on the gas and killed himself in the library of his home here. Mrs. Helmle found her husband per*ted in a reclining chair with a gas u**' in his mouth. CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—Talk of hun ger strikes,. riots, of raids and boy cotts, is abroad among women stu dents of the University ot Chicago to-day. The price of hash at Lex ington Commons, where the co-eds eat, has advanced to 7 cents. “Seven cents for their old hash! I’ll never pay it.” vowed one mili tant, unburdening her soul to a group of equally indignant co-eds. “I’ll live on pie first.” The price of hash at Lexington all last year, according to the com plaints, was 5 cents. | Disguised as a Man, She Fails as Footpad SUNBURY, PA., Nov. 29.—While Harold K. Jones w r as walking along a dark street, returning from a visit to his sweetheart, he was accosteij, by a stranger, who asked him for a match Jones said “Sure,” dropped his head and was getting it when the person said, “Hands up.” Jones looked up and into the barrel of a small re volver. Life a flash Jort**s’ foot and fist flew out and t_he highwayman was on the ground. The footpad was then revealed as a woman. She begged off, saying that her husband had deserted her. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 29.—Three vouthful heirs to millions, all recent graduates from Eastern universities, worked as common deckhands on board the Pacific Coast Company’s steamship Congress for a monthly wage of $25. One of the voung men was a nephew of George H Higbee. vice president and manager of the Pacific Coast Company The second was th'' son of Superin tendent Dickey, of the Union Jron Works. Bottle Floats 1,100 Miles in South Seas SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29.—After drifting 1,100 miles through the South Seas, a bottle containing a menu card of the liner Sonoma, thrown overboard from the steamer near Honolulu in April, 1907, has been picked up at Arorai Island, in the Gilbert group. The bottle was sent to .Sydney from the Gilberts and presented bv the steamship agents to Captain Trask of i the .Sonoma ^ MILWAUKEE, Nov. 29.—“June 14. 1887,” Philip Lebroski will have to repeat ten times a day for sixty days in order to keep out of the House of Correction, by sentence pronounced upon him by District Court Judge Eisner. Lebroski, who is a well-to-do real estate owner, was arrested when a patrolman found him shaking his fi- and swearing at his wife, perched on the highest gable on their residence. During the trial Lebroski Md the court he was trying to forget he was married. The court said no man had a right to forget such a date, and then or dered the man to recite the date of the wedding ten times daily or he would have to go to jail. ‘Buried Treasure’ Is Just Three Cents OLYMPIA, WASH., Nov. 29.—John McSorley, an aged bachelor, who lived alone in a little cabin, died recently. Although he left about $400 in cash In a bank and some scattered, proper ty, he had always been considered a miser. Meilton Giles, police judge, hired two men at $3 a day to dig around the shack. Tucked carefully away near the head of the bed they came upon a package neatly folded. With bated breath they opened it. Inside they found—three copper cents. Tne administrator has abandoned the treasure search. Never Rode in Train, Street Car or Auto WABASH, IND., Nov. 29.—Wabash County has at least one resident who has never ridden on a railroad train, street car or automobile, and whose fastest rate of travel is limited to the speed of his horse. This man is Jonathan Beal, who has lived in New Holland for sixty years. Mr. Beal travels little and his jour neys during the last threescore years have been confined almost wholly to trips to Wabash, the coun ty seat, eleven miles from his homo. In making the trip he always uses his horse and has refused many invita tions to ride in a machine. ' Girl Weds Rival of Suicide Who Shot Her MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 29.—As a sequel to being shot by a rejected suitor, who committed suicide, Miss Hattie Weier. of Corcoran, was mar ried to Rudolph Babler, the man who aroused the jealousy of the frenzied j suitor, Remie de Hosiers. Body 50 Years in Lot Now in Family Vault * SAVANNAH. Nov. 29.—The remains of Louis Barie, who died in 1853, head of an aristocratic French family that made history In Savannah, are to-day at rest In the old family vault In the Cathedral Cemetery, &fter lying 50 years In a vacant lot, in the heart of the res idential section, In an unmarked grave. Mystery surrounds the circumstances under which the body was exhumed, for the last Barie is said to have died sev- eial years ago. Whether some provi sion was made several years ago for the ceremony that was performed this week can not be learned. Grand Jury Fails, but ‘Drys’ Will Fight On SAVANNAH, Nov. 29.—The hopes of the anti-saloon element that the Grand Jury would take some\decisive step to ward stamping out the liquor evil were dispelled when that body returned a presentment, taking cognizance of the fact that the law was being violated, but staling that it was up to the offi cers of the county and city to enforce the iaw\ and not the Grand Jury. “The fight is not over by any man ner of means, however,” said W. B. Stubbs, the leader. "We intend to fight until we have Savannah as clean a a At lanta.” SLIDES PIPE 10 Girl Outwits Mother Who Locks Her in Room and Couple Flees in Auto. Nine Seek To Be Tax Equalizers in Floyd ROME, Nov. 29.—There Is a hot contest in progress here as to who will be chosen Tax Equalizers for Floyd County at the meeting of the Board of County Commissioners Monday. Nine well-known citizens are can didates for the three positions. They are I, D. Gaillard, John C. Pi tntup, O. L. Wilkerson, L. A. Dempsey, R. II. Foss, L. (’. Barton. Sheldon Sims, W, H. H. Camp and John P. Rush. Cow Devours Vest; 6-Year Suit Ensues SAVANNAH, Nov. 29.—Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pierce are to-day happy In their new home at Dawson, Ga., following a sensational elopement, in which the pretty young bride, Miss Helen Creech, risked life and limb to escape an irate parent and rejoin her husband of an hour. The couple were quietly married, but as they walked from the parson age the bride’s mother snatched the blushing girl from the arm of her hus band and whisked her away in an au tomobile to their home. Here she was locked in an upstairs room and the mother announced that no law except force and arms could force her to abandon her position in front of the door. While the youthful husband was besieging law offices in every buill- ing in the city and finding that noth ing could be done to aid him. his bride was evolving a method of escape. When it became dark, she managed to raise the second-story window and slide down a drain pipe. After an hour’s search, she located Pierce, but they were afraid to risk going to the station, for the escape had been dis covered. They managed to recruit two friends with mortocycles and as excess passengers they raced through the country to cut off the train at a station fifteen miles distant. ‘Decollete’ in Newest Style Wanders Far Special Cable to The American. PARIS, Nov. 29.—The decolett® leg has just been introduced by sev eral ultra-fashionable women. Wom en have appeared at the theaters this week wearing gowns daringly slashed w'hich reveal that the accustomed silk stockings are lacking. Even at his season this might be accepted as a return to the fashion of Eve. But some of the ladies have had dainty arabesques painted on their nether limbs, and one wore a string of diamonds caught below her knee. COLUMBUS, OHIO, Nov. 29—Be cause a cow ate a vest July, 1907, six years of litigation and hundreds of dol lars in court costs followed. The ?est contained a lease on gas land in Licking County and provided that the Bennington Oil and Gas Com pany lease 246 acres of land from Park PeCrow. The vest was hung on a rail fence by Justice Shipley, who drew the instrument, while the Magistrate drank from a spring. The cow grabbed tht waistcoat while Shipley’s back was turned Litigation over the lease en sued and has been going on ever since. Victim of Pellagra Drinks Carbolic Acid SPARTANBURG, Nov. 29 —Afflict ed with pellagra, W. M. Meares, a white man 52 years of age, drank three ounces of carbolic acid at his home on West Perry street and was later found dead by members of the family. Meares, a carpenter, contracted the disease about a year ago and it had affected him in a manner that he was unable to work at his trade. It is thought the disease had affected his mind. Mean’ Man Kills Flowers With Salt CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—The meanest of policemen travels a beat In South Chi cago. But he may not travel long, for Dr. Julius Gottlieb, nature lover, is after his scalp and so Is Captain Collins. Dr. Gottlieb is the South Chicago ambulance surgeon, who transformed a tin-can alley Into n garden. The alley was adjacent to the police ,, station. J When cold weather arrived Dr. Gott lieb transplanted all his plants. The more beautiful ones he placed in pots and with them decorated the rooms of the police station. Last week he noticed that the plants were dying He discovered that some body h^id put salt in every plant Jar. Science Explains Mystery of Ghosts BOSTON, Nov. 29.—Now me “haunted” house—chronicled in fic tion, and actually shunned in real life—has been deprived of its mysti fying wonders, says The Journal of the American Medical Association. The sensations of apparitions in duced by the breathing, during sleep, of a tainted atmospherq are of in terest to the students of pV^chic m^^^ ifestations. The hot air often praised for its ventilating ef fect—and with justice when properly operated and in perfect condition— may evidently become a distinct men ace to health, as well as a cause of “ghosts.” Men in Slit Skirts Go Out to Catch Hugger NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—In ths Sixth Ward of New Brunswick, N. J., there strolled about the streets last night three slender figures in s*it skirts, low-brimmed velvet hats with plumes on 'em, and all heavily veilel. While all did their best to walk like perfect ladies, there were many griev- . ous lapses in these efforts, for the three were slender, muscular young men, and they were out trying to trao a hugger who must be found. In the last five nights i the Sixth Ward this hugger has attacked twen ty young women and girls, and a sit uation of actual terror has been cre ated, wherein wpmen fear to go about Judge Puts Curb on Extravagant Wives DETROIT. Nov. 29.—Compulsory sav ing for a certain class of wives is to he enforced by Judge Lacy, of the Wayne County Domestic Relations Court, who says his experience has con vinced him that many couples “go wrong” because some women are ex travagant. In cases where men make complaints of this character, Judge Lacy an nounced he will enter an order requiring the husband to pay his wife a specific amount each week and compelling the wife to deposit a specific amount in a bank. Fiance May Keep Engagement Ring PITTSBURG. Nov. 29.—The suit of Miss Jeanette Adler, a young business woman, with beauty and wit, against Paul M. Feldstein, her former fiance, for return of an engagement ring he had given her. was decided by a jury in the Criminal Court. Miss Adler met Feldstein in January. They become engaged in April and he gave her the ring, which cost $210. Feldstein broke the engagement, seized an opportunity, while she was washing her hands one day and took the ring Miss Adler sued. Judge and jury decided In favor of Feldstein. a