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z u TTKAKST'N SUNDAY AMKKK AN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, DKCKMBEK 7, 1913. Enti H pi lb REBEL ARMY CUTS ITS WAY THROUGH HEART OF MEXICO ( ~^ EXEKAL VILLA’S artillrry opening an rngiigirnont with the, IVdarals in the eours .T advance to the firing line, Photographs by staff representatives of the llearst newspapers, w of the rebel advance toward .Mexico City which has been so successful, and, at the right, troops entraining at Villa’s headquarters on the Mexican Central Railroad vho are with both armies, and send stirring accounts of the exciting warfare in the Republic of the South. to m ; * V M * s? :’, /" V : \ mm m iK. ■ ' ■ V- '-o3-r-s x/rzz jTrirjz-jK.*rA ar^©jv.»_z. j\rjctrzs sjsx -vor<^s- £??.-> * x >;- • <$*?<?*'■ y _ MEN FLOCK TB VILLA; Americans in MexicoOitv Fear to Take Measures for Own Protection Lest They He Considered Hostile by Huerta. Peace Overtures Denied. Continued From Page 1. prominent Federal* feared, that thej United States would recognize the < 'onstitutionalisi. or rebel, Govern-, ment. He is confident of his power to thwart Villa and hi* men; he was | not eo certain that he could with- j stand the rebels if they had been sup ported by the moral backing of Uncle I Bam. Huerta’s men are busy denying that ' TreneraJ Salvador Mercado, command er of the Fed era la in Northern Mex- j ico, made overtures for peace to the j rebels. In spite of the denials, how- I ever, the report of Mercado’s action I is generally believed, and is thought j to constitute tbe most serious blow i yet struck at Federal prestige. Local Revolts Feared. The prospect of local Insurrections, ! fostered by frightened Federals in the capital or by hitherto silent advocates , of the rebels’ cause, is considered not Impossible. Preparations for defense In event of strife within Mexico City are being made by all citizens of foreign powers except the Americans. The people of the United States who have remained In Mexico City to look after their interests fear that any at tempt they might make to Insure protection would he construed bv the Federal* its hostile. Therefore they have arranged to seek shelter with the Europeans in event of trou ble. Huerta’s officials are seizing upon flimsy pretexts for the arrest of Americans. H. S. Kidder, connected with an American oil corporation, was arrested on the charge of sedi tion, although the grounds of his detention were practically nothing. His entire offense, it is understood, consisted of looking at the land scape through his field glasses, and In talking to natives In the course , f his travel concerning general con ditions. ! Mistake to Suppress 'Puppy Love/He Says* LAWRENCE, KANFL Dec 6.—“The suppression of puppy love has been one of our greatest mistakes,” sail Professor William A. McKeever, head of the department of child welfare in the University of Kansas, In a lec ture to-day. "Boys and girls must have a chance to make love,”.he said. “Puppy love is an expression of heart hunger which has an important Influence upon the nature of boys and girls. ’ 24-Year-Old Promise Kept by Astronomer Women's Labor Law Hits Funeral Designs OAKLAND, Dec. 6.—Dr John A. Brashear. the noted astronomer and lens manufacturer, Is now here to keep u promise made 24 years ago to Dr. Charles Burckhalter, director of the Utiabot, Observatory. In 1889 Dr. Brashear was a member of a total eclipse expedition that in vaded the Pacific slope, and while a guest at a birthday party given by Dr. Burckhalter promised that, if alive, he would eat his seventy-third birthday dinner with Dr. Burckhalter. NIT PEEPHOLE Witness Could Not See Through It, Judge Believes, and Di vorce Is Annulled. HARRISBURG, Dee. 6.—Complaint has 6een made to the Department of Labor and Industry that strict com pliance with the new women's em ployment law' will result in consider able Interference with the business of making floral designs for funerals. The complaint of the florists was that often in their business they re ceived rush orders for floral tributes for funerals, and that in order to handle them women and girls had to be employed until late at night, and sometimes to work long hours. Villa Is at Chihuahua Ready to March South CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO, Dec. General Villa and his rebel army oc cupy Chihuahua. They gained the < ity without a struggle and there fore the residents are rejoicing that they have escaped the horrors of war that have hitherto marked every spot where Federals made resistance to the powerful Constitutionalists. Villa has a force of nearly 7.000 men. a formidable army, according to the standards of Mexico. He left * Juarez with 2,000. and 5.000 more men joined him on the way. Recruits flock to the rebels in great numbers. Villa confidently expects to have 20,000 men by Christmas, when he will confront the capital. Rebels Start in Few Days. The march of the rebels will be continued toward Mexico City with in a day or two. Temporary military headquarters of the Constitutionalist party probably will be established, and then Villa will continue hiH march, leaving only a few hundred men to garrison Chihuahua. fJeneral Salvador Mercado was in command of the Federals who occu pied Chihuahua. Upon the approach of the rebels he sent & peace com- General Shake-up Is Expected in L. & N. BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 6.—Rumors will not down In Birmingham to the effect that a wholesale change in of ficials is about to take place on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. It is said that B. M. Starks, now gen eral manager, will either be advanced or given an assistant, and that T. E Brooks, superintendent of the South and North Alabama Railroad, and Birmingham Mineral divisions of the L. & N\, will be called to the general offices In Louisville, Either John R. Wheeler, of Nash ville, or A. B. Rayliiis, of Etowah, Tenn., will probably be sent to Bir mingham. Superintendent Brooks, however, says there is nothing to the rumors. ‘Lawyers Bought and Sold/ Says Attorney BAN DIEGO. CAL.. Dec. 6.—“We are as merchandise, instead of officers In the courts of Justice.’’ R C). Gray, a San Francisco attorney, told his asso ciates at the meeting of the California Btate Bar Asosciation here. “We are as merchandise, bought and sold,” emphasized Mr. Gray. “We are employed to distort and conceal the truth, and even In some cases to make away with the law and the truth.’’ MISS SARAH E. WELLS, Teacher of Fiano. 417 Wesley Memorial Bldg. Res. Phone Ivy 3870-J. mission to treat with Villa. The rebel leader rejected his overtures scorn fully. but Mercado did not w'ait oven for the reply. He fled, with all his officers and troops, and wdth a num ber of civilian refugees, who prob ably feared the vengeance of Villa- It Is believed that the peace com mission was sent to Villa as mask, to enable the Federals to flee. Federals Threaten Mutiny. The city Is quiet, and the residents, If anything, welcome the advent of the rebels. Mercado, practically bankrupt and without funds to pay his disgruntled forces, had for days been thre«ut curing to exact tribute. His soldiers, on the other hand, were an even greater menace. They threatened looting and mutiny. But Villa has come, and Is already preparing to leave, and Chihuahua sees the prospect of peac . Villa will inarch on M* terey and the few remaining Federal strong holds In North "Mexico. He expects little resistance at any place, and al ready has announced his intention of garrisoning those places with a hand ful of troops and marching with his main army on toward the capital: Ohio Recluse Lives On Two Cents a Day KB5NTON, OHIO, Dec. 6.'^Xhe high cost of living seems to have been solved by Nicholas Reffer, aged 55, who lives as a recluse in a shuck on the out skirts of this city. He declared that for several years he has lived on 15 cents a week. He says he makes a pound of sugar and a pound of coffee lust a year. His chlet expense is bread He buys four stale loaves for a nickel. Reffer is said to be worth nearly $15,- Q(K» He has a deadly fear of robbers, and keeps a pile of rocks and several huge clubs at the head of his bed. Dr.Bull’s NEW YORK, I>ec. 6.—The decree of divorce granted in July of last year to Mrs. Henry A. Siebrecht, Jr., wife of the wealthy Fifth avenue florist, by Justice Mills, in White Plains, was reversed by the Appellate Division sitting in Brooklyn. The reversal was made on the ground of insufficient evidence. The higher court held that a stovepipe, through which one of the chief wit nesses against the husband declares she saw r many things, was not "in a possible range of vision.” The witness who testified she saw through a stovepipe Siebrecht an 1 Mrs. Miner sitting on a couch, was Mrs. Thurza Tucker, who keeps a boarding house at Hawleyville, Conn. She said she had peeped through the pipe after she had heard both go to the room. The alleged offense was said fo have taken place at the board ing house at which the Miner and Siebrecht families were spending their vacations. Meanest Bridegroom Takes Justice’s Hat LOS ANGEI.ES, Dec. 6.->Just!ce Summer-field entered his courtroom to day without his customary smile and jaunty manner. It appears that when he married a loving couple the evening before the bridegroom not only did not pay him any fee, but walked off with the magistrate's brand-new hat. “I just bought that hat,’’ said Sum- merfleld. “It was an expensive one. That man I married w’ore a hat that looks as though he got It at a rummage sale. He is the meanest man in Los Angeles County.” COUGH SYRUP For a hoarsa, deep cough and raw, sore cheat—cold attacking bronchial tubes or lungs- there is nothing better nor a* soothing. Price, 2$ eta. Mo Morphine or Chio • roform. TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. “Ifavp used Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrpp for years when 1 have had bad coughs. It is fine.’* Mrs. M. E Boyer. Middletown, Del. rhrr Write A. C. MEYER A SAMPLE FREE Md - Our coals will please you. Call us. CARROLL & HUNTER. Elopers Win Race; Arrested. Then Freed WINONA, MIX'S Dec .6 — An .hopr 1 and a Half after William !st*W>m ai>d Kosie Moss, of Sparta. Wi* hud beerr married In Winona a wn< re.-'.’ ceived from the brides father asking- tlie police to arrest them, in an effort- to prevent their marriage. The father was ad vised that the service bail been performed The two were taken Into‘ohstofly, but later the father asked that they be re* 1 eased and permitted to return home to receive his forgiveness. WAITRESS HURT. SAVES DISHES CONNKRSVJLLE. 1XD. Dec. 6.~ To fall ten feet into a cellar, wrench her spine and be knocked senseless, yet not to break any of the 31 chiija dishes she was carrying was the un usual experience of Miss Esther Heo- nafee, a waitress at a restaurant here. 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IND„ Dec. 6 -When Abraham Hoagland. 65, of Bioknell, felt that death was only a few minutes off, after a long illness, he beckoned the family to come closer to his bedside, and, barely able to articulate, told them where to dig In the barnyard to find an iron bucket in which he had placed $3,- 000 in gold. SUIT TO ORDER “Baby Sister” of 87 Aids in En tertainment of Friends at Centennial Celebration. NEW YOKK, Dee. 6.—Mrs. Marga- ret Kiddney of Newark, N. J., at tained yesterday a century of years and was in guch good health and so active that >he prepared the dinner for the guesta to her birthday party She stuffed, roasted and basted some delicious chickens, mashed the pota toes and prepared the salad, sauces and other features of the meal, assist ed now and then by her baby sister, Mrs. Mary Gavan, who is 87 years old. Mrs. Kiddney’s home Is in Newark, and she told her guests yesterday that for a long time it had been her secret dream to attain 100 years and have them all to Thanksgiving dinner on that occasion. She said that not many weeks ago she had had a spell of ill ness and felt very weak and was fear ful that she would not realize her ambition. To many of her friends she had formerly confessed this fear, and they made her daily visits to give her encouragement. Aged Convert Pens Verse Deriding Devil HUNTINGTON, W. VA„ Dec. 6.- E. W. Gorman, who is *3. has joined a church here. At the end of a prayer meeting at Cottage Grove Baptist Church, con ducted by Rev. J. J. Cook, the aged man stepped forward and was bap tized. After the baptism Mr. Gor man recited this verse to the pastor: The Devil’s mad; I am glad, For he’s lost a sinner He thought he had. Mr. Gorman said he never had been a member of a church before, but de sired to become a churchman before he died. Missouri Insect Toll Is $30,000,000 a Year COLUMBIA, MO., Dec—6.—Mis souri farmers are setting aside $30,- 000,000 annually to feed insects is the estimate made by Leonard Haseman, chief orchard and nursery inspector at the University of Missouri. A campaign of education in com bating orchard insect pests is part of Haseman’s plans. HEAVIEST BRIDE WEIGHS 5«0. DAV EX PoKT, IOWA. Dec. 6.—Hun dreds attended the marriage of A. L. Woollett. weight 133 pounds, of Ornsbv, Wis., and Miss Aina Gene Bare, weight 560 pounds, of Olympia, Wash., the bride being the heaviest woman in tbe West. Miss Bergina Delboyo was the bridesmaids, while acting as best man was James Boyd. Child Has Ten M.#fjn Yean Back of Him in Fight With Environment NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—The encoun aging word of science that "hereditj is overwhelmingly a force for >i< Improvement of the race;” that “th« child at birth has not a few months but 10,000,000 years of unbroken lift to back him in his fight with envt. ronment,” and that "even In the slum, four-fifths of ail the children are bor, normal and healthy,” was proclaimed by Dr. Woods Hutchinson. “One excitable gentleman,” he said' "figured out that at the rate at whiej Insanity was increasing we would d be mad in a century and a quarter “He forgot that the- Increase *a< due largely to the fact that mod eases of insanity are cared for to-daj than formerly. And, at the wore, only from 1 to 2 1-2 per cent of his manity is defective mentally. “A careful use of negative eugeu, ics, preventing the breeding of real defectives, can reduce that proportiol almost to nothing." /WOOLEN M/LLS TO ORDER PAIRS OF 1.000 TROUSERS Made to Your Order FREE! This Remarkable Sale, the largest and most successful ever held in Atlanta--IS EXTENDED and will continue until the entire 1,000 pairs of trousers have been given away. They’re going fast. COME EARLY! Extra pair with every suit to your order. Free means FREE! No prices changed. We wish you to bear, in mind that you get the extra $7.00 trousers absolutely FREE! Furthermore you get the same good service—-Now and always. JUST THINK OF IT, MEN! m A REGULAR $25 AND $30 a 1^ fQTTTT Tailored to Your Measure and an Extra $7.00 PAIR OF PANTS FREE WORLD’S LARGEST UNION TAILORS Union Made ASTHMA RELIEVED IN 2 MINUTES Or Money Refunded. 50c Pkg. by Mail Isn’t Our Offer Fair? 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