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4 D fTRARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1913. Enti on«: foil rat- 1 m of! ri p» lit e: a BIDS ELOPING ‘Velvet Slipper Girl’ Now Bride SOCIETYWO NoBook, Ring or PriestatWedding SO Ed BY +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ Formal Contract OnlyBinds Pair Postal Cleanliness Fiat Is Promulgated Insanitary Roller Towels to Go, and j Each Employee to Have Own Cloth. “I Will Obtain a Divorce and Let Them Be Happy,” Says Mrs. Martin Becker. HAS WEPT ALL HER TEARS Man Fled With His Stepdaughter September—Their Where abouts Unknown. NEW YORK Dec. 6 Her mother- love rising superior to all else. Mrs. Martin Becker, of Winfield. L. I., yesterday declared her only one wish Is that her husband, who eloped in Beptember with his stepdaughter, Lillian Herbs*, will marry the Kiri “I have shed my last tear.” she said. “I 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 nothin** 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 « ourt and say that my home, my life, w as wrecked by my ow n daughter, but it will be only telling on the witness stand what the whole world knows. It will not b«- nearly so hard as the blow their elopement was. “Then, too, I wairi. my child. It w’as cruel for them to go away, but more cruel to take my baby Evelyn. I forgive them. I only wish I could forget as easily as 1 have forgiven.” Mrs. Becker was the widow of Henry Herbst when she married Becker six years ago. She had two children. Lillian, 16 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 If I Ate That I Would Die Mrs. Gertrud*- Gassier Carpenter, the “Velvet Slipper Girl’’ who married a wealthy Chicagoan without other ceremony than signing a contract. You Will Never Fear Food It You Go to a Dinner Carry ing One Little Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablet. You needn’t pass up all those savory dishes Just because you are afraid of what the stomach will say to them Armed with a box of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, you can bid defiance to the most cantankerous stomach and be as sured that your food will be perfectly digested in spits of the stomach's ob jections Documents of Legal Aspect Used When Plaintiff in Heart-Balm Suit Takes Husband. 'At Every Banquet You Will Always See Some Person Who Is AfrsIS of Food." Btuart'a Dyspepsia Tablets are a com pound of pepeln. and those elements that must be secreted by the stomach If the food is to be digested When the stom ach fails to secret** enough of theee di gestive agencies, the only sane remedy Is to supply a sufficient quantity of three elements to digest the food. This Is the service for whloh Btuart’s Dywpepsla Tablet* were made And they are recom mended by leading doctors snd scien tist* One or two of these tablets Is sufficient to digest the largest dinner. They stop almost Instantly all forms of Indigestion, such as sour stomach, belor.lng heartburn, dizziness, brash ana dysentery Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets contain digestive slements, a single grain of which Is capable of digesting 1.000 grains of food, such as meats, eggs, grains, vegetables, starches and miners) matters of all kinds If your stomach Is sluggish or worn out. let 8tuart’s 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 all 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 that taxes your stomach to the utter most Make Btuart's Dywpepsla Tablets the ever-ready friend and assistant to your stomach Qet a Me box of your drug gist to-day OLD-TIME DISTILLERY One Relic cl the Past Is Still Busy Producing Corn Liquor in Alabama Alabama has one thing no other State has—that is the only corn whisky dis tillery of the old type so prevalent a few decades ago. In this case the seeming ack of progress is real prog ress, for by the old method the distiller g<-t 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 boll 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 olo-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 mail orders and pav f he express, too. < *f course, unless a man really appreciates an old-time su perior corn liquor, we don’t care for his ' r a<i*. for we sell about al we can make. However, anybody that w*ants to try F^me of our Good Stuff Corn Liquor car send $3.00 for four honest quarts A<1- c- , fl g Distillery, Box 29, Girard, A-a. —JLdvL CHICAGO, Dec. 6.-—Signed con tracts instead of religious vowe 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 Hassler, who was a popular concert and church singer, recently came Into public notice through her $500,000 ’’love balm" suit against Carl G. Fisher, multi-millionaire automo bile dealer and race promoter of In dianapolis. The suit was settled for $25,000. The marriage contracts were signed at Kenosha, Wis. The one signed by the ’’contract bride” reads as follows: “L Gertrude Wakefield Haasler, do by the signing of this contract, give myself to Frederick A. Car penter to be his lawful wife, to have, to hold and to love. I prom ise to be faithful so long as he proves true and I will strive to fill with a vast measure of con tentment each a<v of our lives thus Joined.” This was the agreement signed by* Carpenter: “I, Frederick A. Carpet. >r, by {his contract, take a's rny lawfi* 1 wife Gertrude W. Haasler, and solemnly promise and agree ta faithful in words and thoughts and deeds, to protect apd love and devote mv life to her to bring her the happiness and contentment she so well deserves.” After the reading and signing of tiie contracts Miss Hassler’s mothef put both her daughter’s hands in Carpenter’s and said: “May all the good and truth of tlie universe com bine to keep your hearts bright.” Miss Hassler’s suit against Fisher attracted 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 of her velvet slippers with him to Europe. Plaintiff Demands $50,000 From Blonde Employer Charged With Alienating Servant’s Affections. NEW YORK, Dc''. 6.—Blonde Mls« Eleanor A. McGill, who inherited more than $700,000 from her father, fhe late Dr. John D. McGill, and is Man Captured at Home After Long Search Is Hurried to Hospital. NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—For the last fourteen months Mrs. Isabella Good win and Mrs. Adele Priest, detective sergeants working under direct or one of the most prominent women I ders from Commissioner Waldo, have socially In New Jersey, was sued 1 been trailing Frank Henry Wo.f, yesterday for $50,000 by Mrs Mary | charged with a $10,000 stock swindle. Mover, who charges that Mies Me- The complainant against Wolf, who, (Jill alienated the affections of her it is said, was an extensive operator husband Walter Mayer, who is em- in stocks, is airs. Francesca Groeh- ployed by Miss McGill as her chauf- nert, of Astoria. She says Wolf feur. ; cheated her out of the savings of a At her home. No. 16 Gifford nve- 1 lifetime, mie, Jersey City, last evening. Miss The two women detective® have McGill refused to comment on the followed Wolf to various cities, but suit. invariably arrived Just too late to “For all information, you must see make an arrest. He is ahout 53 years mv lawyer, former Supreme Court old and a widower. He formerly made Justice Gilbert Collins.” she said. his home with his mother-in-law. Justice Collins also refused to Mrs. Catherine Schaeffer, in the make a statement. He said the state- Bronx. merit would be contained in Miss Mc Gill’s answer, which is not yet filed. Wife Makes Charges. In her complaint Mrs. Mayer says that her husband* entered Miss Mc Gill’s emjnoy early in 1912. She barges 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 J employer, and he re plied : “Wei}. I’ve got td keep my Job, haven’t I?” The wife began suit against the chauffeur for non-support and he was ordered bv the court several Women's Guess Correct. The women detectives figured that Wolf must be tired of being a fu gitive and probably would s&end 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 to see Mr. Wolf. She was 9hown to a front room where a man. ema ciated 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 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 months ago to pay her $4 a week for j must stay if I am to live." the support of herself and their five- : it was plain to the detectives that year-old son. This was not enough j the man was not far from death. They for them to live on, and she toog up ! called an ambulance from Fordham her home with her parents. She is Hospital and had him removed there employed in a pencil factory a prisoner. A hearing •will be given Mrs. Mayer’s suit was filed by her Wolf at the hospital, attorney, Alexander Simpson, who said the complaint spoke for itself and there was nothing further to add. Secretly Married to Dr. Carr. MlSs McGill in 1909 became the wife of Dr. William B, Carr, of Washington. The couple were mar ried months before they announced At. Their marriage was not happy, and a-year later Mrs. Carr 9ued for separation, charging desertion. Dr Carr replied that he had not desert ed h’ls wife, but that his domestic Tree Sawing Device Supplants Woodmen Schoolboys to Shoot For U.S. Army Prizes WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—At the instance of the National Rifle Asso ciation. the War Department has de cided to offer prizes for marksman ship in com petitions of pupils in the public schools of such cities as will recognize rifle shooting as a legiti mate branch of sport, like football or baseball. Already attractive prizes have been 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 and to throw around them every possible protection for both spectators and those who take part. Pastor Wants Gun; Fears Bootleggers GRAND JUNCTION, COLO., Deo 6. —Rev. Edward C. Cameron, pastor of the Baptist Church at Palisade, appealed to the sheriff for permis sion to carry a gun. He declared he 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. LEWISTON. MAINE, Dec. 6 —Dan iel W. Smith has invented a machine 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 affairs had been interfered with by , many of the Eastern Maine lumber his wife’s father. camps equipped with the new device. The divorce decree was granted to : ^___ Mrs. Carr, with the privilege of re- j sumlng her maiden name, and she otoji CAAI VAIID returned to the home of her father, jlv/f rvfULlnU IUlJll Dr, McGill was a brother of the j late Alexander T. McGill, formerly CADMC U/STH MLUCQHICTC Chancellor of the State of New Jer- LUKiNd ullfi MAktMllr 15 sey, and son f the'former Governoi . of New Jersey. , Root Out the Core Painlessly With At his death Dr. McGill left more than $1,000,000, three-fifths of which WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Post 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 flat has gone forth that the insanitary roller towel must disappear from all establish ments under control of the Postofflce Department, and each employee of the service must be provided with an in dividual drying cloth. Later the Postmaster Genera! 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 tills step. It will take 200,000 towels to sup ply all employees of the postal ser vice. Bees Acquire Opium Habit From Poppies COLUMBUS, 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 Fostorla, 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 Fostorla 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 or ho 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 CINCINNATI, Dec. 6.—in a sermon to-day in the Universalist Church, of Walnut Hills. Rev. A B. Beresford, with "Sense and Sentiment in Life,” his topic, said: “Cooking Ip 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 everythfhg was fine. But I pre fer the simpler way of living. I was happiest back in this neighborhood in the old days. ftI78,MflN0UITS HE WEDS GIRL WEALTHY Nil FOR SIMPLE LIFE Rich St. Louis Man Moves to North Side, Where He Lived in the Sixties. I' IN PAPER Darrow and Miss Stagg Put Fin. ishing Touch to "Wanted—A Wife” Romance. PATCHOGUE, L. I., Dec. e —Aft*, they had heard he had received hun. dreds ot letters in answer to his ad. vertisement for a wife, friends of Er" nest W. Darrow were relieved to-dav when he married Miss Julia Stairs- „„ English girl. 88 n She has been in this country a months. Mr. Darrow has six ch" dren, and he said he had an Inconia of $D0 a week and would give $4t) f 0 , household expenses. Among the many person* who sent him letters was a widow in Brooklyn. This woman decided that as she had one daughter the family would too large but strangely enough this widow introduced Mr. Darrow to Miss Julia Stagg. TAKE II GLASS OF SALTS 10 FLUSH THE KIDNEYS IE YOUR BACK BORIS Advrses Folks to Overcome Kidney and Bladder Trouble While It Is Only Trouble. Eating 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: get 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 bladder bothers you. get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any good pharmacy! 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 of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal activity; also to neu tralize the ac.'ds in the urine so It no 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.— Advt Root Out the Core Painlessly TANGO; End Your Suffering. went to his daughter. The remain der he left to his son. Alexander T McGill. Miss McGill Is 30 years old, a blonde and unusually handsome. Suit Is Entered for Former Town's Site No wonder everybody is enthusiastic about TANGO. It is the one safe rem edy GUARANTEED to root out the CORE of the corn, without pain making the toe sore. Rings and p'asters that press on the painful corn, caustic remedies that make the flesh raw ami worse than the corn, gouging and cutting—only makeshifts that do not reach the root, the CORF'. or kernel of the corn. TANGO for Corns is safe and posi tive Applied in an instant, dries in a ■ ■ u '— | minute, and it’s done. No bump in the ATCFTTSON KANS Dec 6 -The shoe to press on the tender corn, no pa»ln™of a 1 histor”kaSfai town b to pull away with_exrn.cj.tlng recalled by an action filed in the j blood. District Court here by Albert J. j The first touch of TANGO ends your Bchoenecker to gain possession of the 1 suffering, and it roots out the CORF' of town site of Pardee, containing about i the corn painlessly and without swell- five acres. ing or making the toe sore. If it does The town now extinct was named 1 your druggist will return >our ine l ‘ wn ' V 1 V P * money. Best remedy for corns, bunions for Pardee Butler, who in the border and * allous spot *; the one GUARAN- days, was tarred and feathered and TEED remedy. 25 cents at All Drug- sent alone down the Missouri River plsts. Made and guaranteed by Jacobs’ on a raft. i Pharmacy, Atlanta. Male Stenographers Now Hard to Find WASHINGTON, Dec. Where has the male stenographer gone? This is a problem occupying the attention of the Civil 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. “0W! M Corns? Use “GETS-IT” ••GETS-IT," the New-Plan Com Cur% Makes Any Corn Shrivel, Vanish. You’ll say It does beat all how quick ’GETS-IT’ got rid of that corn. It’s almost magic!” “GETS-IT” gets every com. every time, as sure as ths sun rise* It take* about two second* Judy,’ an Elephant, Easily Lifts Truck NEW YORK. Dec 6.—Judy an ele- ■ phant, which had been taking part In ! ths recent Garnival of Joy at the Grand Central Palace, was going north on j Third avenue recently when she scared i a team of horses so that they threw a truck they were drawing into the gut- j ter. A rear wheel was wedged In the 1 sewer. The horses couldn’t dislodge the • wheel. Neither could more horses and a dozen men Judy's keeper grinned and said something to her in her native language. She rubbed her nose up , against the back part of the truck, and truck, men and horse rose into tha air TL* aLt»k was | -Madam, If You’d Use ‘GETS-IT* f© Corns, You Could Wear Any Tight Shoe Easily!** Don't Let Your Dealer Tell You There’s Any Other MEDICINAL WHiSKEY "Just as Good” or "Better” Than DUFFY’S lie 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. But remember Duffy’s Pure Mall Whiskey haa been used by the medical profession, hospitals, sanitariums and In the home for more than half a century with wonderful results. It 1* an absolutely pure distillation of selected, clean grain, thoroughly malted, so palatable and free from Injurious substances that the most sensl- Ut« stomach has no difficulty In Its retention. In the treatment of pneumonia, grip, coughs, colds, tnala-da. low fevers. stomach trouble*, and < ail wasted and diseased conditions. It la used with m Christmas Comes but once a year—then why not make the Holi days of 1913 the greatest season of rejoicing that has ever occurred within the history of vour household? Once 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 Us Help You You 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 w r rite for cat alogues, prices and terms. Ludden & Bates mi