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3 D HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1013. PLUNGERS Owtlight of Wall Street' Is What Some Observers Call Present Dullness, Which Brings Wolf Close to the Brokers’ Doors. Retired Merchants and Everyone Else With Money Refuse Now to Play Other Man's Game. Exchange Members Sell Autos. Panama Is the Luckiest Nation in the World . •!•••£• +•+ -S**-:- •!•••!• +•+ +•+ •$•••!• Canal Makes It Money Lender, Not Borrower This, the latest photograph from the Canal Zone, was taken with a camera turned to the southward from Forebay. It shows I one of the gates which guard the approach to the celebrated locks at Gatun. In ease of accident a second gate to the same lock is pro- | vided. A heavy fender chain is also placed in the channel some distance from the gate. If the vessel- is proceeding at proper speed this chain falls to the bottom, out of the way. But if the craft is moving too rapidly the chain remains stretched across the channel. The vessel strikes it and is gradually brought to a stop. VEW YORK, Dec. 6.—It is the Twilight of Wail Street. The dar ing and spectacular plunger Is gone forever. The public is apathetic to ward stock speculation. One of the most picturesque elements in our pnblio life Is passing. These are some of the conclusions drawn from the dullness on the Xew York Stock Ex change, the failure of brokers to make a living, the dry rot. It was not so In the olden days.” Wav back In the Black Friday era, Jay Gould or Jim Fiske wouldn't hes itate at all to appear In the public share mart and flay the opposing crowd of either bulls or bears with the utmost freedom. Everybody knew what they were about, and nobody thought of complaining in the sense of considering their faults as of a public character. Everyone Took Chance. Later came the great speculative eras of our national life, when a “million share day” was considered nothing, when doctors and lawyers and merchants gambled in stocks from every hamlet, when the little speculators were myriad and the big speculators were as fierce if slightly more cautious, than in the seventels. Harriman flinging railroads into the gambling pit, John W. Grates and other men of his type leading spec ulative campaigns which netted them 'ens of millions, foxy old James R. Keene, engineering pools—for many years the American people stood for them and simply laughed. Then the great outcries began. They've never led to the actual gov ernmental reformation or abolition of the Stock Exchange, but they seem to have put it almost hors de com bat simply by the force of public opinion. “Nobody's buying!” the brokers cry. “We never .sell anybody from up town,” complain the hungry-eyed ones, meaning that the merchants vho accumulate fortunes no longer follow’ the custom of retiring, seat ing themselves next the ticker, and proceeding graduallv to turn their hard-earned wealth over to the men of stocks and bonds. The “men from uptown” are coming to realize that this is the broker’s game—not theirs. And the broker is selling his auto mobile. He’s no longer known as the wine buyer.” He’s no longer known as the patron saint of the chorus lady. Too Much Machinery. The floor of the exchange these days resembles the lounging room of a clubhouse. The exchange is a club in reality. Will it become one in name? Will it turn into a mere social or ganization, with traditions of busi ness? Hardly, because there are more se curities to be traded In each year. There must be a public auction room where they can change hands. The trouble just at present is the broker age machinery is too big for its pur poses. It is built on a scale to handle great speculations and little specula tions, and when it has to come down to calm and peaceful transfers, it is ;ike a sightseeing automobile carry ing a single passenger. There Is no profit. FIT JIB’ Everybody After Hot Springs Liver Buttons IK [Rich in Metals and Agriculture, but Long War- Ridden, Prosperous at Last. New Scheme Devised To Lower Egg Prices Sterilization Plant Being Erected in j Pittsburg to Try Out New Process. Soup Silencer Need Is Urged by Judge He Also Decides Against Carrying Peas on Knife—Fines Two . for Fighting. Prevent 5Kin Blemishes By Using Cutlcura 5oap and Ointment They do so much to promote and maintain the purity and beauty of the complexion, hands and hair un der all conditions, and are unexcelled in purity, delicacy and fragrance foi the toilet and nursery. ''urlcure Po»p *Bd Ointment sold ’hro'igoouttt>* ~orl4 Liberal sample of earb mailed free, book Address "Cutlcura. ’ Dept 8P. *W“\ren who shave and shampoo vrltb Cut'eurr '•ap will end It beat »»'r and aratr PITTSBURG, Dec. 6.—A plant to sterilize eggs is building here. An egg, even in hot weather, can by the sterilization process be stored for ten months and when taken out be as fresh as a newly laid egg, according to those who have made the process a success in Europe for the last five years. The promoters say the price of fresh eggs will have to come down, as it has in Europe, because the egg thus stored can not be told from the freshly laid ege. The eggs are subjected to the ac tion of carbonic acid and nitrogen gases. This kills all the bacilli. They are then packed in cases In which is . sterilized air. and these cases are'her- I metically sealed. The eggs can then be kept for at least ten months—the longest period ' yet tried. Bones of Ancient Race Discovered JACKSON, MICH., Dec. 6.—That Jackson County was once thickly populated with the mound builders, now extinct, is the belief of persons who have made a careful study In re^ search work here. Recently a large number of bones, clay pipes and other articles were un earthed in a mound on the hanks of Eagle I.ake, and since then other dis coveries have been made, which leave little doubt that large numbers of mound builders inhabited this part of the Sta(e. Kansas ManPlanning Cruise of 7,000 Miles KANSAS CITY, MO., I>ec. 0.—Be fore the Sweetheart, Bid ward H. Witte’s new ocean-going launch, with her owner and a party of friends on board, reaches Chicago next April, she will put 7,000 miles of water be hind her. The cruise will take the Witte par ty dow T n the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, through the Gulf of Mexico, up the Atlantic coast to New York, through the Erie Canal and the Great Lakes to Chicago. Kansas Too Rich as Farmers Prefer City CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—The State of Kansas officially complains of being too rich. Its cry of protest relates particularly to the distribution of its people. The percentage of population liv ing in the cities nas risen in ten years from 34 to 39. In measuring the significance of this fact one must remember that a “city” is an aggre gation of 1,000 persons or more. A Panama Cleaning, Need of Jerusalem CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—The ancient city of Jerusalem, according to the Jour nal of the American Medical Associa tion. needs just such sanitary measures as were taken under Federal supervision in the Panama Canal zone. Out of the 70.000 people of Jerusalem. The Journal says at least three-fifths are suffering from enlargement of the spleen. $726.79 Nugget Is Found in California OROVILLE, CAL.. Dec. 6.—One of the largest nuggets over found in this sec tion of the State has been taken from the works of ihe old Emma mine in Ninishew section by O. IT Hugh, of this eitv. The nugget was composed of u:\rtz and gold, and minted *726.79. The Emma has a record of one of the p-odvers bi this section, and wa> formerly worked by th~ Ximahew Gold Mining Ooniuaru HAMMOND, IND.. Deo. 6.—Jim Stevens and George Pargins were din ing at the same table In a Hammond restaurant. While eating peas with his knife, Jim’s hand slipped and peas rolled off into George’s coffee. A fihgt followed. Both men were ar rested. Each charged the other with assault and battery. Jim pleaded in extenuation that when George drank his soup it sounded like water rush ing into a drain. Judge E. H. Ames fined each man 1 cent, and explained that a knife is not a conveyance for peas. He said he hopes Maxim soon will invent a soup silencer. Craps, Roulette, Faro Dead in Birmingham BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Dec. 6.— Gambling is at a minimum in Birmingham to-day. This condition has been brought about by activity of the recent Grand Jury, Conrad Austin, former chief of police, anu the city officials. Roulette wheels are said not to have been silent for many years. The craps table has been busy. Faro and other games have been moving along steadily in half a dozen and more places. Internal dissensions have been brewing among the gambling fraternity for some time, caused, It is stated, by proprietors hiring out side men to do the work, leaving the home talent to shift for themselves. Several of the larger places, where it is stated gambling has been going on. have closed doors now and the craps and card tables have been removed. PANAMA, Dec. 6.—Panama is the' most independent nation, financially, in the world. It is the only nation which receives interest on money it has loaned instead of paying interest on funds borrowed. The country, vastly rich in re sources of mines, fields and sea, has come into its own—and all because of the canal. Panama has no bonded debt upon which to pay interest. It has invested in gilt-edge mortgages in the United States $6,000,000. bringing in an in come yearly of about 4 1-2 per cent. There is $300,000 on deposit to guar antee the parity of its currency, and. after this year, the United States will pay a perpetual yearly rental of $250,000 for the canal. The income from taxation amounts to about $5,000,000 yearly, and there is no army, no navy, and no expen sive courts to keep up. All money is available for improvements, and Pan ama is the only nation collecting in terest on its own money instead of paying out interest on loans. Schools Are Numerous. There is one school to every 165 children of school age in Panama, and nowhere in the country are there enough unemployed laborers to sup ply the demand for workers, and the American colonies to declare inde pendence. The social movement, in Europe epitomized by the French revolution, made headway on the Isthmus slowly. When the other col onies were deserting Spain Panama remained loyal, the loyalty being based largely on incompetence. The lack of ethic unity on the Isthmus, of economic independence, distrust of Bogota, with whom her revolutionary destinies must be placed, and the presence of strong garrisons, all had an influence on that loyalty, and the home Government in 1814 conferred upon the Panamanian cities the title of “Faithful.” Colombia Rule Unhappy. Until February 8, 1822, it was an independent State. Then it became the Department of the Isthmlis of the new Republic of Colombia, and its troubles, far from being over, contin ued almost without check until 1903, when the independence from Colom bia was effected. The period of Colombian rule was one of strife, for when Colombia happened to furnish a capable and kindly Governor, the Panamanians themselves waged an Internal row. In 1903 the United States attempt ed to deal with Colombia in an effort to build the Panama Canal. In the large mining, agricultural and timber# ill of that year it became apparent Critic Criticised, He Sues Show Manager JULIET, ILL., Dec. 6.—A suit for $10,000 damages is the latest event in the war between M. R. Kelly, dra matic critic for The Herald, and the management of a burlesque show at the Orpheum Theater. Kelly saw the show and was so pained his review was far from com plimentary. Charles LeRoy, manager of the company, addressed the audi ence and said the hostility of the crit icism was due to Kelly having been thrown out of the theater. Kelly was accosted by one of the troupe, who struck him in the /ace, breaking his glasses and leaving him on the street. This disagreement was patched up later,’but Kelly filed suit against Le Roy and the theater. 'Jesse James Cave' Found in Oklahoma ALTUS, *)KLA.. D c. 6— Owing tu the fact that the celebrated and no torious Janies brothers made a ren dezvous of a famous cave near Alt.us it is called the Jesse James Cave oy the people of the surrounding coun try. That they did make a hiding place of it is evident by the names carved in the soft stones, "Frank James, May L, 1870,” being foremost among them, The cave nroper is about a mile long and at all times of the year filled with water. Love at First Sight Ends in Divorce SEATTLE’. Deo. 6. Ralph S. Hopkins, Seattle capitalist and clubman, has been divorced by Agnes V. Hopkins, the beautiful and talented Superior, Wig., girl, who he married October 14. 1908. Mrs Hopkins’ general allegation was cruelty. The couple was married under ro mantic circumstance? she was in Seat tle on a visit when Ralph Hopkins met > ,.?• Hf immediate!’ laid siege to her heart, followed b^r back to Superioi.i and final!' won her there interests are forced to import labor to operate their plants. The country is rich in gold and hardwoods. There is a fine field for agriculture and cattle raising. The United States has made the cities clean and healthy, and the interior of the country always was so. And so, after hundreds of years of strife, Panama has come into its own. Famed for Its Fish. The waters of the Pacific Ocean at Panama abound in splendid fish, and there is a tradition that the name Panama was the old Indian word for “place of abundance of Ashes.” At all events, after the execution of Bal boa in 1519, the Spaniards began to explore the Facile Coast and found a small fishing village railed Pan ama, and on August 15, 1519, Gover nor Pedrarias announced that the place would be the site of his future capital, and established the first per manent settlement in the New World. Two years later a royal decree made Panama a city, and it became the seat of a bishop. For 30 years expeditions were sent out from Panama In search of gold, and from here, in 1524. \yere started the voyages of Pizarro and Almagro, which ended In the discovery of Peru and the vast wealth of that country. On April 3, 1527, an expedition went overland through the divide at Cule- bra and sailed down the Chagres River to the Atlantic, traversing ex* actly the same route which the ships will take when the canal is finished. Panama was far from being a quiet place. Whenever the ships came in from Peru laden with gold and jewels there usually was a tight for some part of it. Pirates and contrabandists har assed the isthmus, but the city of Panama grew, and before 1550 the place had some 3,000 inhabitants, with about as many more in the outposts, and a cathedral had been built. Harried by Pirates. Thi^ period saw the rise and de cline of Panama. Spain's own deca dence played a great part in the fall, as did the attacks of the English and French on the trade of the Indies and the inability of Panama to develop its own resources as the transisth mian trade decreased. But the pi rates and buccaneers did more than anything else to wreck the country. Morgan and Drake and the others burned the towns, killed the inhabi tants, and stole the plunder which had been brought up from the south, lit 1671 the old city of Panama was destroyed and a few’ years later the present city, a few miles away, was founded In what was believed to be a safer place. To shut out the. pirates and the enemies of SpTtin a sea wall was built around the new town in 1674. and It was successful. The King’s Jest. This wall, which is still standing, cost so much money that the King of Spain said that in* did not uttder- stand why he could not see it by sim ply looking to the west out of the windows of his palace. Actually the wall is about 30 feet high and of the same width. It is built of stone and earth. The milestones in Panama, after the independence from Spain in 1821, are the completion of the Panama Railroad (1855) and the start of the construction of the Panama Canal, in 1881. The first 70 years after the new town was built were quiet ones, marked by good government, but still years in which Panama was prostrate, because of the abandonment of the trade route. Then came 90 years of internal strife, and finally, on Novem her 28. 1821. fame the declaration of independence from Spain. Par o mu u u* 'Hu ' ■ j t r n 9 Mia S3 mi t to that the government at Bogota, the capital of Colombia, would not ratify the treaty allowing the United States to construct, the waterway. Then fol lowed the bloodless revolution of No vember, 1903, when, with the assist ance of the United States, Panama became independent of Colombia. Treaty End9 Trouble. On February 26. 1904, Panama signed a treaty with the United States which practically ended its troubles fur all time, for then it be came a protectorate of the United States, which since then has assisted largely in choosing its Presidents, cleaned up its cities, and contracted to pay it enough money to. make it the most independent country, finan cially. in the world. To Have Smooth, White, Soft Skin All Winter Stock Broker Shares Residence With Former Spouse and Accused Man. SAN FRANCISCO, Dev. Her- bert L. Nelson, frenzied financier and promoter, is held by the San Fran cisco police for the police of Detroit. He is alleged to have stolen one wife from H. S. Warren, stock bro ker, and to have swindled a Detroit woman cut of $2,000. Warren, stock broker, and his wife. May. accomplished, and the mother of a beautiful 13-year-old daughter. Evelyn, met Nelson in 1908. “You understand.” says Mr. War ren, “sometimes a . woman can not control her emotions. That was the case with Mrs. Warren.” Nelson was married to a daugh ter of W. J. Brown, prominent com mission merchant of this city. “In January. 1911, I received a let ter from my wife, asking me to divorce her. that she might marry Nelson,” said Mr. Warren. “I filed suit, charging desertion, and the de cree was granted. In April. 1911, Mrs. Warren and Nelson were mar ried, somewhere in Oregon. I have always considered our separation, not as a divorce, but as a dissolution of partnership.” So in September. 1913. when Nel son. said to have been a fugitive from a swindling charge, arrived in De troit. penniless, with the former Mrs. Warren and Miss Warren, Warren met them at the depot and took them all to his own home, at No. 104 Hol brook avenue. There the former hus band. his daughter, his divorced wife and her present husband Jived until June, 1913. when, according to Mr. Warren, they left all of a sudden. “My daughter was of an age when) she should have a mother’s ca,re, and I felt that she should be with her mother; but 1 wanted her, too. and did all in my power to help Nelson to stay and make his home here, that my daughter might have us both,” he said. Cuts Off Finger to Fool Law; Plan Fails Birmingham Sheriff Stands Chance of Being Put on Salary Instead of Fees. BIRMINGHAM, De<\ 6.—By the time the date of the State primaries Is made known, there will be several political canvasses again In full swing. B. H. Comer former Governor of Alabama, has given it out that he will begin at once on a campaign in North Alabama, and that he expects to reach all parts of the State within a few months. The announcement is also made that Representative Richmond Pearson Hobson, candidate for United Btetsi Senator, will re turn to Alabama about December 16. Representative Oscar W. Underwood probably will return to the Htate and resume his campaign at about the same time. In Jefferson County the people are likely to be relieved of a fierce po litical campaign if the Legislature, called in special session, should adopt laws eliminating the fee system. The Sheriff of Jefferson under the fee sys tem nets more than half the salary of the President of the United States. If the fee system is abolished and a salary fixed for the position, it is not probable that there will be such a scamper for - the work. With the tee system still in effect, indications are there will be a half dozen candidates, and the voters will be harassed early I and late. Birmingham business men are ask- J ing for a special session to eliminate the fee sysetm. The return to Washington of Con gressmen Underwood and Hobson has given the people just a little breath ing spell. Business men in the north ern part of the State have been com plaining that j politics lias been getting the center of the stage too much. Capiain Reuben F. Kolb and John H. Wallace have announced that they are very much wrought up over the reports that two men have with drawn from the Gubernatorial can vass in Alabama, and all Intimation that they are about to retire from the race is bitterly denied. Very little is to be heard in North Alabama as to the eondidacy of Charles Henderson, of Troy. That he Is making the fight yet is not denied. People Coming for Miles Around for Wonderful Constipation Remedy That It Better, Safer and Surer Than Calomel. Tone up your liver, clean your bowel* of foul waste, drive out poisonous gasea. end constipation and feel fin* and full of energy in twenty-four hours. Throw away calomel, it’s dangeroow you know it, everybody knows it. HOT SPRINGS LIVER BUTTONS are different. They are harmless, act gently but surely on the bowels, and do not cause a particle of after misery and are fine for children as well as grownups. They are joyfully laxative and more, they are fine for laziness, dizziness, biliousness, sick headache, sallow skin and malaria. They make everybody feed good be cause, they net an a general tonic, driv ing Impurities from the blood and mak ing the entire intestinal tract clean and pure in short order. Little chocolate-coated HOT SPRING® LIVER BUTTONS are 25 cents at all druggists, and money back, if dissatis fied. Free sample from Hot Springs Chemical Co., Hot Springs. Ark.—Advt. Neglected Kidneys cause headoohe, dizziness, lame back, torpid liver and dropsy. If you arise unrefreshed in the morning, are weak, depressed and have indigestion, ail are symp toms of kidneys so diseased that the blood is improperly purified. You need Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Remedy because it goes right to the seat of the trouble and is the most re liable and successful kidney and liver remedy known to-day. Nothing else can do you so much good,’for It has a persistent re storing action on the kidneys and liver which brings perceptible re lief almost immediately. Mrs. E..Arnold, Kersey, Colo., writes: “I suffered from kidney trouble and found no relief until I commenced using Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Remedy. Two months after I began using it I was a well woman.” Each far a purpose Sold by all Druggist* 1— Kidney and Liver Remedy 2— Rheumatlo Remedy •T—Diabetes Remedy 4— Asthma Remedy 5— Nervine , Constipation . •—Pills ( Biliousness Write for a free sample, giving the number of remedy desired, to Warner’s Safe Remedies Co., Dept. 435, Rochester, N. Y. NEW' YORK, Dec. 6.—An attempt to beat the finger-print system proved unsuccessful to-day when Joseph j Sniple was identified at headquar ters^, though he had had a sixth finger on his hand amputated to fool the experts. As the prints of the remaining fin gers of the prisoner were the same as j those in the record of Hniple, the' police examined his hand closely and found a tiny scar where the sixth finger had been. He then admitted that a specialist had operated on him. Sniple was caught with three other men in a basement on East Fourth street. In which the police say they {found $2,000 worth of stolen hair goods. ^-Dcwnlij ^ICouotjtuin ENGRAVED TO ORDER IN A DISTINCTIVE MANNER IS A MOST APPROPRIATE CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR A LADY OUR NAME ON THE BOX IS A GUARANTEE OF QUALITY ORDER NOW J. P. Stevens Engraving Co. 47 WHITEHALL ST . ATLANTA FREE! “FREE! (From The Woman Beautiful.) Does your skin chap or roughen easily in this weather, or become unduly red or blotchy? Let me tell you a quick, easy way to overcome the trouble and keep your complexion beautifully white, smooth and soft the winter long. Just get an ounce of ordinary mercolized wax at the nearest drug store and use a lit tle before retiring, as you would cold cream. Upon arising, remove the coat ing with sudsy water. The wax, through some peculiar attribute, flecks off the rough, discolored or blemished skin. The worn-out cuticle comes off just like dandruff on a diseased scalp, only in almost invisible particles. Mercolized wax simply hastens Nature’s work. Used as required, It keeps the face con stantly free from devita'lzed scurf skin and only the healthy, young-looking skin Is in evidence. It’s the best treatment known for weatherbeaten, aged, muddy, freckled, pimpled and all unbeautiful complexions. Some skins wrinkle easily in winter. There’s an excellent remedy In a harm less wash lotion made by dissolving 1 oz powdered saxollte in *4 pint witch hazel. 'Hiis will quickly eradicate every line.—Advt. Slopped Nigh! Sweats and Banished Cough Tf you arp suffering with a continued cough, s cold or Lung Trouble which does not yield to Huy treatment. It might be of the greatest value • to you to Investigate what Eckman’s Alterative, 1 g medicine for the Throat and I.ungs. ha* ac complished for many similar sufferings. Many who hare investigated and used It have voiun- ) tartly declared that It was the means of earing ) their live*. Read this case:— . > "Gentlemen:—Fur four years I was troubled with a cough, which gradually became worse. ) I had night sweats and pains in my cheat. I was losing ray appetite and had become so thin ) and weak 1 could not attend to my household duties. A physician pronounced my disease Lung Trouble. Not being satisfied. I was exam ined by the physicians of the Polyclinic Hospital. They also confirmed my trouble, and I waa or dered away for treatment. My nephew would > not allow me to go until I had tried Eckxnan’a ' Alterative. Before 1 had taken the medicine S three weeks I had marked relief, night sweats ceased, pain In the breast relieved, cough be- ) ramo loose and easy, fever left me. and I enm- ’ menced getting well My health became nor- ! mal. I sm in excellent health now, and have been for twelve years " (Signed) (MRS.) MART WASSON Care YA. Green, 1722 8. 17tli St., Phila. (Above abbreviated; more on request.) Kckman’s Alterative has been pmv-ai by many years' - test to be most efficacious for severe Throat and Lung Affections Bronchitis. Broil- , ch1al Asthma. Stubborn Colds and In upbuild , trvg th'’ system Contains no narcotic*, poisons or ha).1t forming drugs. Sold hy all Jacob*' fre-ug Store* *nd «ther leading druggist* Write > the Eckman Labora’ory. Philadelphia. Pa . for booklet tell^f of recoveries and additional evl 11 GRAND CHRISTMAS PRESENTS 1 Beautiful Silver Tea Set 1 Chest of Silver, 18 Pieces 1 Diamond Locket Making up the Santa Claus Smile, 2 Parisian Ivory Clocks 2 Watch Fobs 4 Silver Picture Frames Can you find them ? iMrwtiou. Contain** tn this picture are the head* of Tvelva Children, which are use* to make up the Santa Claue SMLLJE. Out line them an* tuu in leee than 2$ words why Old Santa should make every one smile. For the beat analysis of this picture (to be determined by three Judices, compose* of Jack sonvllle business men) will be given the Tea Set; the second beet, the chest of silver; the third beat, the Diamond Locket; the next two beet, the Parisian Ivory Clocks, the meat two, the Watch Fobs; th> next feur, the Picture Frame*. an* to the next thirty will be given a Ptir chasing Order, good in the purehaae of a lot la Grand Boulevard. Each person sending in aa answer will be given a souvenir lead pencil, tf sailed for. 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