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4 D ir KARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA.. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1013. Bnt< \ ftl ‘Velvet Slipper Girl’ Now Bride -i- • %« %•••** No Book,Ring or Priest at Wedding 10 DAUGHTER Formal Contract Only Binds Pair . , | Mrs. I M*r , tnidc. i Hassler Carpenter, the ‘^Wlvot Slipper <iirl M “I Will Obtain a Divorce and Let who married a wealthy Chicagoan without other ceremony than Them Be Happy,” Says Mrs. I u c0U,rH, t Martin Becker. SUED ST WIFE HAS WEPT ALL HER TEARS Man Fled With His Stepdaughter in September—Their Where abouts Unknown. A. (} NEW YORK. Dec. 6 Her mother- love rising superior to all else, Mrs. Martin Be'rker. of Winfield, I.. 1 . yesterday declared her only one wish 1* that her husband, who eloped in September with his stepdaughter, Lillian Herbs*, will marry the girl. “I have shed my last tear,” she said. ”1 can cry no more, and fur ther disgrace, so far as I am con cerned, is impossible. My daughter’s future unless my husband marries her can be nothing but the blackest. If he will promise to come back with her and marry her, I will get a di vorce. It will be hard to go into c ourt and say that my home, my life, was wrecked by my own daughter, but it will be only telling on the witness stand what the whole world knows. It will not be nearly so hard as the blow their elopement was. “Then. too. I want my child, it was cruel for them to go away, but more cruel to take my baby Evelyn. 1 forgive them. 1 only wish I eould forget as easily as I have forgiven.” Mrs. Becker was the widow of Henry Herbst when she married Becker six years ago. She had two c hildren. Lillian 1f> and very pretty, and John, 11. Last summer she was in a hospital for four weeks. Lillian kept house for the stepfather, her brother and little sister. i If I Ate That I Would Die ""Am ■' -V w You Will Never Fear Food If You Gro to a Dinner Carry ing One Little Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablet. Ton needn't pass up all thos** savory dishes just hpi-ause von art* afraid of what the stomach will say to them. Armed with a bo* of Stuart’s Dysfrf-pslu Tablets, you can bid defiance to the most cantankerous stomach and be as sured that your fo<xl will be perfectly digested in spite of the stomach’s ob jections ja CT/nT i TN A 1 ^ '■V I >ocuments oi‘Legal Aspect Lscd When Plaintiff in Heart-Malm Suit ‘Takes Husband. At Every Banquet You Will Always See Some Person Who la Afraid of Food/* Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablet* are a com pound of pepsin, and those elements that must be secreted by the stomach If the food is to be 11 Rested When the stom ach fails to secrete enough of these di gestive agencies, the only sane remedy !* to supply a sufficient quantity of these elements to digest the food. This Is the service for which Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets were made ami they are recom mended by leading doctors and scien tists One or two of these tablets Is sufficient to dlges* the largest dinner. They stop almost Instantly all forms of indigestion, such as sour stomach, beicning. heartburn, dizziness, brash and dysentery Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets contain digestive elements, a single grain of which is capable of digesting 3.M0 grains of food, such as mepts, CKK*. grains, vegetables, si arches and mineral matters of all kinds. Tf your stomach is sluggish or worn out. let Stuart'* Dyspepsia Tablets do your digesting for you until the stom ach can recuperate Give it a little va cation It has a hard enough struggle at the best, with a’l you put In It And even when your stomach Is in perfect condition, you will occasionally need one after a big banquet or other social affair wrat taxes your stomach to the utter most Make Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets the ever-ready friend and assistant to your stomach Get a 50c box of your drug gist to-day (’HK.'AGO, Dec 6 - Signed con tract* iriMt» .id of religious vows united Frederick A. Carpenter, a wealthy Chicago business man, and Miss Ger trude Wakefield Hassler, the “velvet slipper girl.” as man and wife in the first ceremony of its kind on record. Miss Hussier, who was a popular concert and chinch singer, recently came Into public notice through her $T>00,000 “love balm” suit against Dari G Fisher, multi-millionaire automo bile dealer and race promoter of liir dianapolis. The suit was settled tor $25.000. The marriage contracts were signed nt Kenosha, Wis. The one signed by the “contract bride” reads as follows: I, Gertrude Wakefield Hassler, do by the signing of this contract, give myself to Frederick A. Car penter to be his laAvful wife, to have, to hold and to love l prom ise to be faithful so long as he proves true and 1 will strive to fill with a vast measure of ton- Plaintiff Demands $50,000 From Blonde Employer Charged With Alienating Servant’s Affections. Man Captured at Home After Long Search Is Hurried to Hospital. OLD-TIME DISTILLERY One Relic of the Past Is Still Busy Producing Corn Liquor in A abama Alabama has one thing no ether State has that is the only Corn whisky dis tillery of the old type so prevalent a few decades ago in this eas«% the seeming lack of progress is real prog ress, for by the old method the distiller got only two and a half gallons of liq uor from a bushel of corn and it was considered to be a generally healthful and palatable beverage By the newer modern method the dis tilleries add what is known as a cooker to their equipment, and boil out the last drop of juice from the corn, getting as much as five gallons to the bushel But the quality Is said not to be so good This old-time distillery is busy every day turning out corn liquor for people who prefer the old-time article. ‘ Yes,” said Mr. Moore, proprietor of this old plant at Girard. Ala., "we are satisfied to do It the old-fashioned way. because we turn out so much better ar ticle. No we charge no more than the others ’ Oh. yes. we will mall orders and pav the express, too. Of course, unless a man really appreciates an old-time su perior corn, liquor, we don’t care for his ^rade. tor we sell about a'l we can make ‘However, anybody that wants to try ome of our Good Stuff Corn Liquor car **■00 f**r four honest quarts Ao- 1 M(. »e’s Distillery. Box 29, Girard. Schoolboys to Shoot For U. S. Army Prizes WASHINGTON. Dec. 6.- At the instance of the National Rillo Asso ciation. Hu* War Department has de cided to offer prizes for marksman ship in competitions of pupils in the public schools of sue it cities as will recognize rifle shooting as a legiti mate branch of sport, like football or baseball. Already attractive prizes have boon offered to the pupils in the public schools of Boston, in which cadet corps long have been maintained, and the offer has been accepted by the authorities. In connection with the offer, the de partment promises to supervise the competitions ami to throw around them every possible protection foi both spectators and those who take part Male Stenographers Now Hard to Find WASHINGTON. Dec. tv Where has the male stenographer gone? This is a problem occupying the attention of the Givll Service Commissioners, who are convinced he has joined the great auk and the dodo bird. Efforts have been made, and made strenuous ly. in the recent past to ensnare some of the species for positions paying from $840 to $900 a year, but without avail. Women apparently have driven their male competitors from the sten ographic field, but in certain lines of stenographic work Government offi cials desire to employ the mere men 'Judy,' an Elephant, Easily Lifts Truck tontment each day of our lives thus joined.” This was the agreement signed b>* Carpenter: “I. Frederick A. Carpenter, by this contract, take as my lawful wife Gertrude W. Hassler, and I solemnly promise and agree to be faithful in words and thoughts and deeds, to protect and love and devote my life to her to bring her the happiness and contentment she so well deserves.” After the reading and signing of the contracts Miss Hassler*s mothef put both her daughter’s hands In Carpenter’s and said: “May all the good and truth of the universe com bine to Keep vour hearts bright.” Miss Hassler’s suit against Fisher attraefe I widespread attention. She herself furnished the climax, when she took the stand and told her story of the millionaire clubman. She said that Fisher at one time had begged her to allow him to take one «»f her velvet slippers with him to Europe. Pastor Wants Gun: Fears Bootleggers GRAND .U NCTION. COLO. Dev I 6. Re\~ Edward C. Cameron, pastor of the Baptist Church at Palisade, appealed to the sheriff for permis sion to carry a gun. He declared lie and other ministers of Palisade had been warned that they would be run out of town if they did not stop their war on bootleggers, j “0W!" Corns? Use “GETS-IT” *GETS-IT." thq New Plan Corn Cur% Makes Any Corn Shrivel, Vanish. You’ll say. "It does heat all how quick ‘GETS-IT’ got rid of that corn. It's almost magic!” "GETS-IT” gets every corn, every time, us sure as the sun rises. It lakes about two seconds NEW YORK. Dec. tf.—Blonde Miss Eleanor A. McGill, who inherited more than $700,000 from her father, the late Dr. John D. McGill, and is on*- of the most prominent women socially in New Jersey, was sued yesterday for $50,000 by Aim Mary Mayer, who charges that Miss Mc Gill alienated the affections of her husband. Walter Mayer, who Is em ploy'd by Miss McGill as her chauf feur. At her home. No. 10 Gifford ave nue. Jersey city, last evening. Mian McGill refused to comment on the suit. "For all Information, you must see mv lawyer, former Supreme Court Justice Gilbert Collins,” she said. Justice Collins also refused to make a statement. He said the state ment would be contained in Miss Mc Gill’s answer, which is not yet filed. Wife Makes Charges. In her complaint Mrs. Maver says that her husband entered Miss Mc Gill's employ early in 1912. She charges that he began Improper at tentions to Miss McGill April 25, 1912 and that since then the two have made long automobile trips to gether. going to Massachusetts, New Hampshire and other States According to the complaint, Mrs Mayer went to her husband and ac cused him of undue intimacy with his wealthy employer, and he re plied : “Well. I've got to keep my job. haven't I?” The wife began suit against the chauffeur for non-support and he was ordered by the court several months ago to pay her $4 a week for the support of herself and their five- year-old son. This was not enough for them to live on, nnd she took tip her home with her parents. She is employed In a pencil factory Mrs Mayer’s suit was filed by hei attorney. Alexander Simpson, who said the complaint spoke for itself and there was nothing further to 1 add. Secretly Married to Dr. Carr. Miss McGill in 1909 became the wife of Dr. William B. Carr, of Washington. The couple were mar ried months before they announced it. Their marriage was not happy, and a year Inter Mrs. Carr sued for separation, charging desertion. Dr Carr replied that he hid not desert ed his wife, but that his «domestic affairs had been interfered with b\ Ills wife’s father. The divorce decree was granted to Mrs. Carr, with the privilege of re suming her maiden name, and she returned to the home of her father. Dr. MoGil! was a brother of the late Alexander T. McGill, formerly Chnnoellor of the State of New Jer sey. and son f the former Governor of New Jersey. At hi* death Dr. McGill left more than $1,000,000. three-fifths of which went to his daughter. The remain der be left to hts son, Alexander T McGill. Miss McGill is 20 years old. a blonde and unusually handsome. Suit Is Entered for Former Town's Site ATCHISON KAN'S.. Dec. fi. The passing of a historic Kansas town is recalled by an action tiled in the District Court here by Albert .1. Schoenerker to gain possession of the town site of Pardee, containing about five acres. The town, now extinct, was named for Pardee Butler, who, in the border days, was tarred and feathered and sent alone down the Missouri River on a raft. NEW YORK, Dee. 6.—For the last I fourteen months Airs. Isabella Gooi- 1 win and .Mrs. Adele Priest, detective sergeants working under direct or ders from Commissioner Waldo, have been trailing hYank Henry Wo.f, ! charged with a $10,000 stock swindle. The complainant against Wolf, who, It Is said, was an extensive operator in stocks, is Mrs. Francesca Groeh- nert, of Astoria. She says Wolf cheated her out of the savings of a lifetime. The two women detectives have followed Wolf to various cities, hut invariably arrived Just too late to ' make an arrest, lie is about 53 years old and a widower. He formerly made i his home with his mother-in-law, Mrs. Catherine Schaeffer, in the Bronx: Women's Guess Correct. The women detectives figured that j Wolf must be tired of being a fu gitive and probably would spend Thanksgiving at home. So they and Detective Henry C. Jessup, of Deputy Commissioner Dougherty's staff, went to the Franklin avenue house. Mrs. Priest said that she, wanted j to see Mr. Wolf. She was shown to I a front room where a man, ema- \ elated from illness, was sitting in a ' chair. "I am Mr. Wolf,” he said. Mrs. Priest went to the door and let in Mrs. Goodwin and Jessup. The I amazed Wolf was-told he was under | arrest. Has Cancer of Stomach. "To take me to the police station . will mean my death." he protested "I have cancer of the stomach. I have only just got to this house and must stay if I, am to live." It was plain to the detectives that ' the man was not far from death. They called an ambulance from Fordham Hospital and had him removed there \ a prisoner. A hearing "will be given Wolf at the hospital. Tree Sawing Device Supplants Woodmen LEWISTON. MAINE, Dec. 6.—Dan iel XV. Smith has invented a machine j for sawing trees down with a mini mum amount of waste and labor. Penobscot lumbermen who have, been trying the appliance out say it is likely that next season will find many of the Eastern Maine lumber amps equipped with the new device. Postal Cleanliness Fiat Is Promulgated j Insanitary Roller Towels to Go, and Each Employee to Have Own Cloth. WASHINGTON, I>ec. 6.-Post- t master General Burleson is In the market for 10,000 huck towels, and later on he expects to Invest in about 200,000 more, as the fiat has gone forth that the insanitary roller towel must disappear from all establish ments under control of the Postoffice Department, and each employee of the service must be provided with an In dividual drying cloth. Later the Postmaster General may provide each employee of the service with individual cakes of soap and drinking cups, as a further sanitary measure, though he has not yet deci ded on this step. It will take 200,000 towels to sup ply all employees of the postal ser vice. AT7I.MANQUITS HE IDS GIRL FOR SIMPLE LIFE '10' IN PAPER Rich St. Louis Man Moves to ^ arrow and Miss Stagg Put Fin* North Side, Where He Lived in the Sixties. ishing Touch to “Wanted- Wife” Romance. Bees Acquire Opium Habit From Poppies OOLCMBl'S. Dec. 6.—Just add this one to all the queer things that have happened in the year of grace 1913. and believe It's true because W. E. Baker, Deputy Auditor of the State of Ohio, says he can prove it. The honey bees near Fostoria. which is Baker's home town, have contracted the opium habit. Like the Chinese, they get theirs from the poppy. Baker and many other residents of Fostoria grow Oriental poppies. The bees have found this out and of late they are leaving acres of clover blossoms to hunt out the poppy beds. They work vigorously for an hour cr so and then fall to the ground appar ently as stupefied as are Chinese opium smokers after "hitting, the pipe.” Pastor Says Cooking’s Our Biggest Business Special Cable to The American. CINCINNATI, Dec. 6.—In a sermon to-day In the Universalist Church, of Walnut Hills, Rev. A B. Beresfonl, with "Sense and Sentiment In Life," his topic, said: "Cooking is the biggest single busi ness In America The American house wives spend $14,000,000,000 annually for food. Ten per cent of this Is wasted before it reaches the dining room table. Women spend 90 per cent of the money man earns." ST. LOUIS, Dec. 6.—Samuel Marx, for thirty-three years a director In the Bremen Bank, who removed near ly a year ago from his daughter's residence In Kingsbury place to a six- room house at No. 3620 North Ninth street, in the neighborhood where he lived in the sixties, has decided to remain there for the rest of his life. He is 78. A housekeeper cares for the old- fashioned house. His daughters fre quently visit him. "At my daughter's home,” he said. “I was treated the best In the world, and everything was fine. But I pre fer the simpler way of living. I was happiest back in this neighborhood in the old days. PATCHOGUE. L. I., Dec. 6.—Aftei they had heard he had received hun dreds of letters in answer to his ad vertisement for a wife, friends of E r . nest \V. Darrow were relieved to-da? when he married Miss Julia Stagg an English girl. She has been in this country a few months. Mr. Darrow has six chit, dren, and he said he had an income of $50 a week and would give $40 foi household expenses. Among the many persons who senl him letters was a widow In Brooklyn, This woman decided that as she had one daughter the family would be too large, but strangely enough this widow Introduced Mr. Darrow to Miss Julia Stagg. TAKE ft GLASS OP SALTS TO FLUSH TOE KIDNEYS IE YOUR RACK HURTS Advises Folks to Overcome Kidney and Bladder Trouble While It Is Only Trouble. FJating meat regularly eventually pro duces kidney trouble in some form or other, says a well-known authority, be cause the uric acid in meat excites the kidneys, they become overworked: gel sluggish, clog up and cause all sorts of distress, particularly backache and mis ery in the kidney region; rheumatic twinges, severe headaches, acid stom ach, constipation, torpid liver, sleep lessness. bladder and urinary irritation. The moment your back hurts or kid neys aren t acting right, or If bladde? bothers you. get about four ounces Jad Salts from any good pharmacy i take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid d grapes and lemon juice, combined witn lithla, an/1 has been used for generations to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal activity; also to neu tralize the acids in the urine so it n<i longer Irritates, thus ending bladder disorders. Jad Salts can not injure anyone; makes a delightful effervescent lithia water drink which millions of men and women take now and then to keep the kidneys and urinary organs clean, thus avoiding serious kidney disease.—Ad vt. STOP FOOLING VOIR CORNS WITH MAKESHIFTS Root Out the Core Painlessly With TANGO: End Your Suffering. j No wonder everybody Is enthusiastic about TANGO. It Is the one sale rem- I ed.v GUARANTEED to root out the j CORE of the corn, without pain or ! makjng the toe •sore. Rings and p’asters that press on the painful corn, caustic remedies that make the flesh raw and worse than the corn, gouging and cutting -only makeshifts j that do not reach the root, the CORE. I or kernel of the corn. TANGO for Corns is safe and posi- I live. Applied in an instant, dries in a i minute, and it’s done. No bump in the shoe to press on the tender corn, no bandage to pull away with excruciating agony, no bicking and gouging, no i blood. Jm The first Touch of TANGO emls *v our 1 suffering, and it roots out the CORE of j the corn painlessly and without swell ing or making the toe shre. If it does not your druggist will return your money. Best remedy for corns, bunions and callous stmts; the one GUARAN TEED remedy. 25 cents at All Drug gists. Made an<1 guaranteed by Jacobs’ Pharmacy. Atlanta. NEW YORK. Dec. 6—Judy an ele- I phant. which had been taking part in the recent Carnival of Joy at the Grand j Central Palace, was going north on Third avenue recently when she scared a team of horses so that they threw a ' truck they were drawing into the gut ter A rear wheel was wedged in the I sewer j The horses couldn't dislodge the ' , wheel Neither oUld more horses imd • a dozen men Judy's keeper grinned and said something to her in her native language She rubbed her nose inr; , against the ba< k part of the truck, ami truck, men and horse rose into the air 1 The wheel was released. J "Madam, If You’d Use ’GETS-IT' for Corns. You Could Wear Any Tight Shoe Easilyl” to apply it Corn pains stop, you for get the corn, the corn shrivels up, and it's gone! Ever try anything like that ° You never did There a no more fussing with plasters that press on the corn, no more salves that take off the surrounding flesh, no more bandages No more knives, files or razors that make corns grow, and cause danger of blood poison "GETS- IT ’ is equally harmless to healthy or Irritated flesh It "gets" eevry corn, wart, callous and bunion you've got. "GETS-IT" :s sold at all druggists at 25 i ents a p. : tic. or ... Don’t Let Your Dealer Tell You There’s Any Other MEDICINAL WHISKEY “Jus! as Good” or “Belter” Than DUFFY’S He knows there is not, and so do you. Unscrupulous manufac turers and dealers some times seek greater profit from base imitations and substitutes of Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey because it is the standard of purity. Hut remember Dully’s Pure Malt Whiskey has been us*Mt by the medical profession, hospitals, sanitariums and tn the home for more than half a o'tHurj with wonderful result*. It is an absolutely pure distillation of selected, clean grain, thoroughly malted, so palatable and free from Injurious substances that the most sensi tive stomach has no difficulty In Its retention. In the treatment of pneumoni^ grip, coughs, colds, malaria, low fever*, stomach troubles, and i all wasted and diseased conditions, it Is used with remarkable results. The genuine Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey is sold in SEALED BOTTLES ONLY, by drugg.sts. gro cers and dealer*. Should our friends for any rea son be unable to secur. ii In their locality, we will have It shipped to them -from their nearest dealer, express prepaid (cash to accompany order) at the following prices: k i >m Duffy’s Pure Walt Comes but once a vear—then whv not make the Holi- *■ V days of 1913 the greatest season of rejoicing that has ever occurred within the history of your household? Onee in a lifetime the head of every family is called upon to provide a high-grade piano or player- piano for his home. What time more appropriate than Christmas? The sooner this duty is discharged the better it will be for your loved ones and the easier for you. Let U s Help Y ou ^ on will be surprised to learn how smooth and pleasant we have made your road to the possession of a high-grade instrument. Our prices the lowest in the South, and our terms "to suit your convenience,” apply on pianos and player-pianos of the highest standard of excellence. Call and inspect our Holiday display of Chicker- ings and other standard makes of which we are the exclusive distributors for Georgia. Or write for cat alogues, prices and terms. Ludden & Bates Chicago. bv receipt L*Diiihuj Company, 4 Large Bottles. $4.30 6 Large Bottles. $3.90 12 Large Bottles. $11.00 Duffy’s l*ure Malt Whiskey should be In every home and at- make the above announcement so that you n4y become familiar with a source of supply. Remit hv express order* po»t office order, or certi fied check to Tin Duffy Malt Whiskey Company. G White St . Rochester, N. Y;