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-4* anything to sell? The SUIT'D A Y AMERICAN Can Do It for You CIRCULATION OVER 10#,000 The Atlanta Georgian — Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 110. ATLANTA, OA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1913. Copyright, 1906, <) RAT NO By The Georgian Co. “ ' I-jLN io, MORE. 42-MILE WIND BRINGS COLD WAVE 20,000 HOMEL Jlj I j t TEXAS nr iAj 1 JL \ SHIVERS Atlanta Experiences Real Touch of Winter When the Mercury Goes to 24 Degrees. Official figures on wind and temperature for Sunday night are as follows: Highest wind ve'ocity, 42 miles an hour at 1 o’clock Monday morning. Wind velocity at 9 o’clock Mon day morning, 28 miles an hour. Lowest temperature, 24 degrees above zero, at 7 o’clock Monday morning. Temperature at 10 o’clock, 27 degrees. A large red sun crept slowly up in a steel blue sky Monday morning. Old Sol got up at the usual time, but he didn’t cheer up very much. He looked shivery, and his rays failed to hit the earth with much'of a wal lop, for the thermometer at 9: # 30 o’clock registered four degrees below freezing. The late attack of Indian summer was over all at once, and winter had touched Atlanta with an icy hand. The temperature in the early morn ing was five or six degrees under the freezing mark, and the sharp wind len* point tr the chill and poked it around through the crevices of over coats and tugged at hats and caused exposed ears and noses to blush vig orously. Wind 50 Miles an Hour. The switch in the weather ar rangements was presaged Sunday night when a 50-mile-an-hour wind began to sweep bare the streets of Atlanta and whoop Joyously around the skyscrapers. Pedestrians’ hats came to grief, and there was even a smash of plate glass along Peachtree and Whitehall streets. The wind came up as the sun went down, and whooped about under the stars, which looked a good deal less like "forget-me-nots of the angels'* when set in a sky that looked like the roof of a frozen lake. And all night long the snugly housed citizens of Atlanta burrowed deeper and deeper under the cover lets, and heard at waking intervals the dull thunder of the wind, and regretted, dozily, the approaching time for getting up. Winter Fires Started. In the morning there were furnace fires to build, which is a peculiarly unhappy task to be performed in slippers and pajamas even with an unfeeling overcoat to boot. The blaze eddied and swirled in op*n grates, and the stoves roared a&ain. with a doleful sound of good heat flying up the chimney. Then breakfast—and it was a prop er juncture for the good old warming sausage-and-buckwheat type of food, while the vegetarians and the anti- caffein warriors must have suffered a Qualm or two at the prospect. Downtown in the early morning you could tell It was chilly, even if you didn’t feel it. The town looked chilly. Make Atlanta “Get a Move On.” Chunks of ice that a few days ago AT 8prea d water abroad on the side walks while waiting to be shaved p P for the soda fountains now' stood j* 1 the solemn majesty of conserva tion, without the faintest suspicion of a wasteful trickle. There was no loitering on the street corners. Everybody seemed to have somewhere to go and not very much time to get there. It was not a dreary scene. Rather, ; sparkled with a brisk life and ac- •yHy, as if Atlantans far from de- n:ng to take the proffered hand of •Pter had grasped the chill glove ^artily and were squeezing some armth and life into the old boy who frwv, 8 * n * or a visit when the last otball games are over and Christ- mas is drawing near. Carnegie’s Fortune Has ‘Dwindled’ to Only $15,000,000 ;Pankhurst, Freed ; By Hunger Strike, Taken to Hospital BOSTON, Dec. 8.—Andrew Carne gie has given away all his fortune with the exception of 815,000,000, ac cording to a Wall street correspond ent for a Boston news bureau. The story is that Carnegie had planned to save $25,000,000, but found that as some of the trustees of his various funds differed with him on some of his ideas, he was forced to take $10,000,000 from his private for tune In order to have his own way about certain bequests. He has provided handsomely for Mrs. Carnegie and Miss Carnegie. CAPITAL Race Between Zapata and Car ranza for the First Blow at Mexico City. Rockefeller Victim In Alaska Fraud SEATTLE, Dec. 8.—The late H. H. Rogers, John D. Rockefeller and others were caught in the sale of stock of the Cook Inlet coal fields. The company', the Government charges, built the uninhabited town of Homer, in Alaska, with saloons, dance halls, hotels and stores and street cars that pictures might be taken for the prospectus upon which stock was'sold. Then the town was dismantled. Twenty-one coal claims have been cancelled because of fraud. May Yohe Back,Keeps Next Husband Secret NEW YORK. Dec. 8,--Elated over her London success, May Yohe, the music hall artist, has Just arrived from England, accompanied by the Baroness VonStuenkle. "I am here to spend Christmas with mother,” Miss Yohe said. “Then 1 shall return to London and marry.” “Are you going to remarry Lord Hope?” “If you say who I am going to mar ry, it might spoil my plans,” she re MEXICO CITY, Dec. 8—Three thousand fully equipped rebels, under the command of Emlliano Zapata, are almost withi nslght of this city to day. The revolution waged by Gen eral Carranza and Zapata has devel- opd into a race between the latter’* bandit forces and the Constitution alists for the honor of taking the Mexican capital and probabilities are decidedly in favor of Zapata at the present time. There is a growing fear in the city that a few hours will see looting and killings in the streets. Every avail able Federal soldier was dispatched to Cuernavaca to-day by Minister of War Blanquet to swell the forces of General Castro, who is opposing Zapata’s advance. The Government claims to have been victorious in the first skirmishes- with Zapata’s horde, but foreigners accept this claim as based on the same foundation that reports of Fed eral victories in the north have had. Ugly Hands Spoil U.S. Girls, S^ys Sculptor piled. Find Bodies of 15 Americans in Cuba CINCINNATI. Dec. 8.—If it were not for her hands and feet, there would be no more beautiful witm-in than the American 'matron or maid. So says Professor F. F Triebel, a sculptor, of Rome, now a visitor here. Hands are too angular, he declares. Justice Marshall's Portrait Nets $1,005 Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. HAVANA, Dec. 8.—The lorg-lost remains of fifteen of Colonel Wii Ham Crittenden’s Kentuckians whom the SnaniarcLs shot in 1851 have been found in a hillside near Atares Fort. Colonel Crittenden and his men went to Cuba on a filibustering expedition. Colonel Crittenden was told to kneel before the firing squad. His answer was: “An American kneels only to his God.” 9,000 Ask Jobs of Mayor-Elect of N. Y. Tango Pedometers Worn Upon Garters NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—It is reported that 9,000 applications for positions under the administration of Mayor- j elect John Purrov Mitchel have been i filed at the City Hall. BALTIMORE. Dec. 8.—Debutantes here have taken to wearing tango pedometers as garter ornaments. It is no longer fashionable to ask one how long she has danced. The proper question is, “How many miles did you make?” One young woman proudly assert* that $she went fourteen miles at a dansant held at a fashionable coun try club. ‘Morphine Is Making Monkeydom of U. S,’ PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8.—“If mor- ' phine using is not checked, the na tion will degenerate to something worse than monkeydom,” declared i Dr, B. C. Keister, a specialist, of Roanoke, Va. According to Dr, Keister, the Uni ted States Is second to China and ahead of every other country in the world in the use of opium and nar cotics derived from it. Twenty-ninth Child In Wisconsin Family STEVENS POINT, WIS„ Dec. 8.— Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kostruck broke the record for babies when their twenty -ninth offspring put in its ap pearance. Dr. Montessori Is Guest of Miss Wilson Near-Zero Weather Hits the North. CHICAGO. Dec. 8.—Long delayed r ter weather -was fully upon the * orth and Central Western States to- ' The cold came suddenly sending m *rcury downward 26 degrees in a mJi ^ours. Chicago was plunged from a mi?} 1 umn weather to midwinter with abovJ llmurn temperature of 18 degrees 1 vei or ,x, zer ,°- A wind that reached a dtv ,$1$ ^ miles an hour swept the Girl, 8, Urges U. S. to Name Younger Santa Expert Says City Folk Live as Ants CINCINNATI, Dec. 8.—The growth of cities in America is causing the in habitants to live like ants, declared George Hooker, civic secretary of the Chicago City Club, in aa address here. A i * niiiea an ijijur swept me iffiiV... v,ng a fine snow in excellent —t*on of a blizzard. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 —“Please appoint a younger Santa Claus.” This plea was made by letter to Postmaster General Burleson by M ss Lodenia L. Hile, 8 years old, of Al bion, Ind, who -ays: •'Santa Claus used to call on grand pa when grandpa was a little boy. Santa Claus must be too old now o get around to see all the children.” Wife to Lose Finley Estate if She Reweds Tolstoi’s Son Tells Of Real ‘Karenina’ PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8.—A por trait of John Marshall, Chief Justice, brought $1,005 at a sale of effects of the late J. R. Burton Willing, brother of Mrs. John Jacob Astor. The por trait Is a copy of a portrait by Henry Inman. NEWCASTLE, IND., Dec. 8.— Pretty Grace Brenneman, 17, the telephone operator whose elopement with Joe Bufkin was nipped in the bud last Monday night at a local theater, became his wife Saturday at Leedy. Okla. She eluded her mother by prom ising to go to Crawfordville, Ind., for a visit with relatives. Vein Photos May Oust Finger Prints NEW YORK, Dec. 6 —The finger print method of the identification of cr'minals may some day be supplant ed by photographing the veins of the hand, according to Professor Tamaa- sla, of the Univ.rsit- - Padua, Italy. IT- ays the merest novice can de tect variations in the veins of the hand. First Indian in U. S. Named to Priesthood SUPERIOR, WIS-, Dec. 8.—Phipp B. Gordon, an Indian and member of one of the pioneer families of this country, will be ordained to the Cath olic priesthood Monday by Bishop Koudelk. He is the second of his race to be so ordained and the first in the United States. Insure Railroad for $100,000,000 WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Dr. Ma ria Montessori. the famous educator, was guest of Miss Margaret Wilson, eldest daughter of the President, and Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell. MONTREAL, Dec 8—An insur ance policy for $100,000,000, the larg est In history, has Just been put through by the Canadian Pacific Rail way Company. The property being insured Is val ued at between $112,000,000 and $115,- 000,000. The Moral Is-Look Before You Peep! CORTON, N Y, D c 8. -Peeping into what he thought was 1 s sweet heart’s home, Andrew Law on was struck on the tv d and fell, breaking his wrist and ankle. Wrong house! WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—By the ternls of the will of the late W. W. Finley, president of the Southern Railway, the $185,000 left to Mrs. Fin ley during her life goes to the chil dren whenever she should revved. J THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Fair and much cold er Monday; fair Tuesday. ELABORATE PLANS LAID TO MAKE XMAS FUND-GIVING ATTRACTIVE Special Cable to Tne Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, Dec. 8.—Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the militant suf fragettes, who was released from jail In Exeter because of illness, brought on by a hunger and thirst strike, was brought to London to-day. She was taken in an ambulance to the headquarters of the Woman’s So cial and Political Union in Kingsway. These quarters have been tempo rarily fixed up as a hospital. The famous militant was haggard and so weak she could not stand. She had suffered a general breakdown. Bandit Lopez Still Alive in Utah Mine BINGHAM, UTAH, Dec. 8.—Raphael Lopez, the Mexican bandit who already has taken six Ives, is alive in the Utah Apex mine, and is closely pressed by a searching party of twelve men. Evidence that Lopez is alive and close by were found by his pursuers early this morning On the floor of the slope was a quilt, a crash towel covered with soot and some pieces of burlap with which the Mexican had bound his feet. These articles were not there Saturday. Yvette, violin artist, who will take notable part in Empty Stock ing Fund All- Star Matinee. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. PARIS, Dec. 8.—That the suicide of Anna Karenina was based on an incident in real l fe was revealed here by Count Elie Tolstoi, son of the novelist. “In January, 1872.” said Count Tol stoi, “In a fit of jealousy, Anna Step- hanovna threw herself under a train. My father ada~‘ed the details in de scribing the death of Karenina.” Second Elopement Attempt Succeeds All-Star Matinee Big Inducement to Atlantans to Insure Santa's Visit to the Poor. It might be a pretty good thing to begin the week with a little reminder of the Empty Stocking Fund of The Georgian and Sunday American, and of what it means. For a whole week now you have heard every day about the ambitious plans arranged to make it attractive to give. You have heard of the tango party that will be held at the Wine- coff Hotel after the theater Monday night. You have heard of the all- star matinee Friday. You have heard of the dolls to be dressed. You have heard these things until you are about to fall into the danger of forgetting what it is all about. What do you think of a word Just now of the spirit behind it all? Suppose we talk to-day of little Johnny Merritt, who never dreamed of a tango party, and whose theatri cal experience has been limited to a wistful Inspection of the bright-col ored lithogranhs that stand on the outside of all moving picture shows, and who thinks of Santa Claus only to feel .a little dull ache In his heart, an ache that has a whole lot of envy in it because he hears the other boys and girls talk happily of the Christ mas that will be here soon. Dreads Day Others Welcome. Johnny can’t conceive of Christmas and happiness together. Christmas, he thinks, will be a day like last Sun day—a cold, wet, gray day, with no fire inside the house, and no sun out side, a day made miserable by a lingering hunger for goodies to eat, and by his child whimper for some thing that he wants, without know ing what, it is. A stocking with just the toe full of candy and a single orange would sat isfy that hunger. A horn or a wood en gun, or—oh, no, it could never be —a cowboy suit, would quiet that pitiful whimper. And a whole pair of shoes and warm stockings probably would have the effect of brightening the whole winter for him. That’s a moral effect, you know, because contentment makes a good boy, where discontentment would make even a 6-year-old person surly and cross, and a fruitful field for the germ of bitterness. Johnny, ragged little fellow, can’t arouse much cheerfulness by his thoughts of Christmas. But the Christmas Editor is here to tell you— that is. if you won’t tell Johnny—that the little boy is in for a great sur prise. Atlanta People Responding. Atlanta people, giving heartily tc the Empty Stocking Fund, are go ing to see to it that Santa Claus becomes a wealthy person this year, wealthy enough to lay by a stock of goodies and toys and useful presents that will be enough not only for Johnny Merritt, but for the hundreds of other little boys and girls and work-stooped women and helpless men of Atlanta, who are In the same plight that Johnny Is, and who are thinking of Christmas with the same thoughts as Johnny’s. Atlanta people are listening to the appeal of the Christmas Editor, that person is proud to inform you. And, as this story has told you once before, a number of arrangements have been made so that It will be attractive to give There is the tango party, now. for instance. It will be a glorious affair. It will be epoch-making, because, if all the plans work out, Atlanta will see something of an after-theater party that ought to become an institution. There is too little of bright, enjoy- Continued on Page 2, Column 5. OGLETHORPE TO IE GIVEN CITY F Rested ftnd invigorated by their lit tle vacation Sunday and cheered by the treemndous success of their first week’s labor for Oglethorpe Univer sity, the various committees started out briskly Monday morning to cut down the $1 11,064 of the $250,000 fund which remains to be raised. Another encouraging piece of news received Monday morning was that the Atlanta Typographical Union had led the way for the other labor unions in the city by subscribing $100 to the fund, In addition to substantial amounts already given by individual members. This official evidence of friendship and good will was ex tremely gratifying to the Oglethorpe leaders. The rush of subscriptions In ^he first week of the campaign has en couraged the workers to believe firm ly that every dollar of the $260,000 will be subscribed by Christmas Eve, whereas it was at first thought the fund could not be completed before the first of the coming year. “The way it looks this morning,” said the Rev. Thornwell Jacobs, “At lanta is "olng to find In Its Christmas .-Mocking one of the finest Christmas gifts her people have yet bestowed on her. The campaign is progressing beyond all predictions,” LASTSEEN Fifty Drown at One Point on the Brazos — Refugees Suffer From Hunger and Cold. DALLAS, TEXAS, Dec. 8.— Five hundred persons are be lieved dead in Central and Southern Texas as the result of the disastrous floods that have swept these sections of the coun try. As the water recedes and communication is restored every hour brings tidings increasing the death list. Fully one hun dred persons are known to have pc-'ished. TL* latest reports received here told of the drowning of 50 persons, moat of them negroes, at Sunnyside on the Brazos River. No news was to be had to-day of 500 families who were last seen marooned In tree tops and on the roofs of houses. There are 20,000 persons betas cared for by the municipal authori ties of Bryan, Hearne, Temple, Aus tin, Waco and a dozen other cities In the path of the flood. All are suffer ing on account of the lack of food and the cold wave that followed the flood. At Bryan more than 1,000 homes were destroyed. Near Navasota 50t* dwellings were swept away. With out food and suffering greatly from cold, 200 Italians are marooned in the upper stories of a few houses at Bryan. Great masses of debris are being swept against the houses by the swollen stream, and the houses are In danger of being washed from their foundations. Sight Gone, Sub-Dean Refuses Promotion Special Cabla to The Atlanta Georgian. ROME, Dec. 8.—Cardinal Zerafln«» Vanutelli, sub-dean of the Sacred College, who Is entitled to succeed Cardinal Oreglia as dean, will re nounce that honor on account of ill health and partial blindness. Cardinal Rampolla in that case would become dean, since Cardinal Gibbons, who is the senior Cardinal, is excluded because he does not re side in Rome. John D. Breaks Rule; Helps Catholic Fund CLEVELAND, OHIO, Dec. 8.—John D Rockefeller to-day contributed $25,000 to the fund of $250,000 being raised for St. Vincent's Hospital, a Catholic institution which is more generally known as Charity Hospi tal. Mr. Rockefeller ordered that the rules of his benevolence board, which prohibited such a gift, be broken in this instance. Brain Displaced, Girl Writes Backwards Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, Dec. 8.—Examination <rf a girl who insists upon doing every thing backward has revealed a pe culiar case of abnormality. The girl’s heart is on the right aid*. Her brain is displaced. She write* from right to left in a manner stmi- lar to that used by the boy with th«% “camera eyes” recently discovered* who sees everything upside down. I! I 1 If 1 VI I i!' nl h ill ’win m