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r I anything to sell? 7he SUNDAY AMERICAN Can Do It for You CIRCULATION OVER 100,008 The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS-Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 110. ATLANTA, UA„ MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1913. By Copyright, 1000, / The G •eorgian Co. o CFVTS PAY NO - ' i o. more. GEORGIA COTTON CROP NETS $139,373,480 MRS. HOUSTON LEADS CABINET WAR ON EGGS C*3 C*3 C*3 C*3 dj<3 Disease Increases Misery of Flood Victims ' v t> <ZS 83 ?«5 s 191 DIVORCE CASES UP FOR TRIAL 500 TOLL OF Crooks Are Looting State Postoffices; Register ,6a.,Latest If the “yegg” migration through Georgia doesn’t stop, R. E. Barry, postoffioe inspector, is likely to have the family telephone taken out. “At 3 o’clock this morning,” Mr. Barry said Monday, “I was hauled out of bed to learn that the postofflce at Register, Ga., had been blown all to bits. The postmaster was too excited to mention his name and he didn’t know the exact amount of the rob bery. I guess it wasn’t any great loss.’’ Mr. Barry suggests to postmasters in small towns that they keep eyes open during the southward journey of tramps and “yeggs” for the winter. “Crooks will pick up a little change as they go along,” he said, “ahd the descriptions are always meager. A couple of ‘yeggs’ will hang around a town a week and after they blow the postofflce safe and get away, all we can find out is that one of them was a tall, slender man, wearing a slouch hat, and the other a short, heavy-set man, which description fits practi cally all the cases of safe-blowing burglary or highway robbery I ever heard of.” School Children to Sell Xmas Stamps The Red Gross Christmas seals will be sold this year through Atlanta’s thousand* of school children, the same as last year, for the benefit of the open-air school fund. Last year through the sale of the Red Cross seals school children raised over $1,000 for the purpose of estab lishing an open-air school in At'anta. U. S. to Prosecute Nine Labor Leaders MRS. DAVID F. HOUSTON Mrs. Houston proposed the boyco which was inaugurated by the wome o’.her wives of the Cabinet fell in. M that the Secretary of War could no ie. too, finally agreed to help the h nation-wide, and the embargo on th is complete, tt against the high price of eggs n of the Cabinet last week, and the rs. Garrison was at first quite certain t do without his eggs at breakfast, ousewives’ movement, which is now e hen product at the Cabinet tables ( Baptist Pastors in Men and Religion Crusade on Liquor Plans to support the Men and Re gion Forward Movement in its cru sade against liquor were formulated at the weekly meeting of the Baptist Ministers’ Association Monday. Several pastors declared their in tention to be present at the next meeting of the Police Commission, when near-beer licenses will be con sidered. They will join in the fight 'hen to be started. Pastors also were urged to do everything in their power to make Go-to-Church Day” a success. Wilson Comes South For Yuletide Rest WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—President M ilson is planning to spend his Yule- tide holiday at some Southern resort, it was learned to-day, as he believes ’he currency bill will be passed be- We Christmas. The President does not expect to make his trust address to Congress u ntil late in January. Boarding House Fire ,1s Quickly Subdued Eire, originating from a defective did slight damage to Mrs. Ida Hester’s hoarding house, No. 227 VJ ella 11 street. Monday afternoon, he fire was discovered in the roof. ,Vas extinguished by chemicals. Convict in Federal Prison Here Falls Heir to Rich Estate James E. Portgr, who is serving a term in the Federal Penitentiary here for selling liquor in violation of the Government laws, has, through the death of a relative at Batesville, Ark., where Porter was convicted, fallen heir to $20,000. The news of Porter's good fortune was received by The Georgian Mon day morning. At the penitentiary of ficials said that Porter had not as yet been notified of the legacy. The county judge at Batesville has ruled that Porter’s wife shall have the income from the fortune until the man is released. Witness to Testify Turner Took Money Aldine Chambers said Monday that he would proceed Monday afternoon to prove his charges of “graft’’ against City Electrician R. C. Tur ner at the joint meeting of the Board of Electrical Control and the Council Electric Lights Committee. “I have a witness who will con vince the investigators that Turner has been receiving money from the organization of electrical contractors in Atlanta," he declared. "I have done my duty as a city of ficial anil I am ready for the inves tigation," said Turner Monday. Texas. In several of these places smallpox and typhoid have been found in refugee camps. At Kippes Bridge 80 persons are crowded in an old ginhouse. Several babes have been born there. Pir ( ' and calves be ing swept past by the flood waters were seized and eaten raw by the hungry refugees. The total known dead to-day was 100. The Commercial Club of Bryan issued a statement estimating the to tal dead at 500. The United States Government this afternoon sent from Galveston 25,000 rations, plenty of tents, blankets, etc., In charge of a company of ten soldiers and a sergeant, to Bryan, where th£ destitution in the flooded district is greatest. Sunny Side, Wharton and Eagle Lake are overwhelmed and cry ing for help Women and Children Suffer. In many stricken towns women and children to-day were without shelter and hundreds are almost without clothing. Appeals for aid for these places went unheeded to-day because neither trains nor boats could reach them. In the ginhouses near Wellborn more than 1,000 persons are marooned in the upper stories. In Wellborn alone more than 2,000 persons are be ing cared for in the public buildings and homes located on high ground. Two white men and four negroes were rescued from a treetop there to day, after 32 hours’ exposure. 50 Negroes Drown. The latest reports received here told of the drowning of 50 persons, most 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 being 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. Citizens Clean City When Officials Lag CHICAGO, Dec. 8.— Men and women of Pennock, a suburb, tired of wait ing for the city street cleaning depart ment to get busy, dragged out their garden tools and cleared the thorough fares of mud and fallen leaves. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—The Unit ed States Government will prosecute labor leaders connected with the Western Federation of Miners accused of violating the Sherman anti-trust act In their activities. President Wilson to-day took the stand that there is nothing in the sundry civil bill which prohibits such prosecutions. TheBishop’sCarriage Is Target for Auto NEWTON, MASS., Dec. 8.—Bishop Edwin H. Hughes and his wife to day were recovering from serious bruises they suffered when their car riage was struck and overturned by an automobile. Bishop Hughes for a number of years was president of DePauw Uni versity, in Indiana. 518 BELOW F Judge Hill Rushes Hearing, Sur prising Lawyers Expecting Usual “Placing Method,” Atlanta Experiences Real Touch of Winter When the Mercury Goes to 24 Degrees. Insure Railroad for $100,000,000 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. Ugly Hands Spoil U.S. Girls, Says Sculptor CINCINNATI, Dec. 8.—If It were not for her hands and feet, there would be no more beautiful woman than the American matron or maul. So says Professor F. F. Triebel, a sculptor, of Rome, now a visitor here. Hands are too angular, he declares. Wife to Lose Finley Estate if She Reweds WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—By the terms of the will of tlie 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 re wed. One hundred ami ninety-one matri monial craft, derelict on the sea of suppositious wedded bliss, came to port Monday morning in Judge Hill’s court. It is the largest divorce docket in the history of Fulton County. And Judge Hill, new to the work, began it in a manner that upset a*lot of staid and solemn lawyers, accus tomed to have hearings arranged for their own convenience. Judge’s Views on Divorce Cases. Judge Hill holds that a judge’s or juror’s personal opinion does not en ter into the trying of a divorce case; that certain statutes have been laid down by the Legislature, and that it Is simply the jury’s business to de termine whether the 'charges agree with those named in the statutes. "So far as handling the work of the court,” he said, “I do not think it is necessary for me to give long charges to the Jury in divorce cases, or to enter into long statements on the evidence, unless It is shown, that the parties have been guilty of col lusion to obtain a divorce. I think the jurv can determine very readily as to whether the complaining party Is deserving of freedom.” That both parties should be re lieved of their disabilities unless the evidence showed one or both to be of such character that they should not be allowed to remarry was the opinion expressed by the judge in one case. All Records Broken. All records for divorce hearings in Fulton County were broken at Mon day’s session. It was the first time Judge Hill had ever officiated in a divorce hearing, but his work was rapid. From 9:30 o'clock until 1:30 a total of 55 divorces had been granted, most of them' being second verdicts. The calendar presented almost ev ery variation of marital rebellion and desertion and grief and abuse and in fidelity and non-support, and all the rest of it. Petitioners Mostly Women. There were sad-eyed women, hesi tating. and even hoping for some thing at the eleventh hour; some thing that wa^4 not mentioned in their petitions. And there were wom en who looked forward to a release as if from prison; who looked for ward right joyously to another start in life; perchance another embarka tion on the same kind of voyage that had come to grief, but with another pilot. It was the usual courtroom crowd of divorce petitioners, mostly women. The unusual feature was the atti tude of the lawyers. When it was discovered that Judge Hill, in the effort to ^lear up the clogged docket, would not “place” the cases, the lawyers suddenly and un expectedly were confronted with the Job of sticking around court all week, being prepared at any moment fof the calling of their cases. Record Time Made. There was a flurry and a hasty use of telephones, and hurried journeys LO offices. Lo arrange for the care of 6ther business, so that the week of December 8 might be devoted to the divorce calendar and cleaned up without delay. The first case on the list was that of a negro woman asking divorce, and it was disposed of in record time. The attorneys announced “Ready,” and in less than a minute the case was on. In four more minutes the Judge had instructed the Jury to bring in a ver dict granting the divorce. A little later came the case of Mrs. M. A. Sock well. “How many children did your hus band have when you married him?” she was asked. “Well, he had five children with him and four grown children else where,’' she said, and added that promptly after their marriage In May, 1911, her husband had turned from an apparenUv energetic and able per son to the “laziest white man” she ever had seen. She got the verdict. Official figures on wind and temperature for Sunday night are as follows: Highest wind velocity, 42 mile® a n 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. Forecast—Clear and cold Tues day. 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 wa.s fiv$ or six degrees under the freezing mark, and the sharp wind lent point to 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 40 Miles an Hour. The switch in the weather ar rangements was presaged Sunday night when *a 40-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 open grates, and the stoves roared again, 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- caff ein 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 had spread water abroad on the side walks while waiting to be shaved up for the soda fountains now stood in 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, it sparkled with a brisk life and acr tivity, as if Atlantans, far from de clining to take the proffered hand of winter, had grasped the chill glove heartily and were squeezing s6me warmth and life into the old boy who drops in for a visit when the last football games are over and Christ mas is drawing near. Crawford Letter Defending Widow Produced at Trial A letter written by Joshua B. Crawford to Mrs. Mary Belle Craw ford (at that time Mrs. Savag’e) urg ing Mrs. Crawford to hasten to At lanta, was Introduced by the attor neys for Mrs. Crawford Monday morning. It was filed as a counter to the charge that Mr. Crawford wrote her telling her not to come to At lanta. The letter reads: “Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 22, 15109. “Mrs. Savage: I received my trunks. I was so glad to get them. And you say my house is vacant? Before coming up to Mr. Barens and have him to rent it for me. Come up as soon as you can, for I need you. We want to get our house fixed up. so I can live once again. You promised to come soon. Don’t make it too long. I will close for this time. “Hoping to see you soon, “Your intended, “J. B. CRAWFORD.** Th* attorneys for the 48 heirs ob jected to the introduction of the let ter, charging it was not genuine. Mrs. M. J. Johnson, of Tucker, Ga, a friend of Mr. Crawford, testified as to his marriage and Illness. She told of seedng the trained nurse give him a cough syrup under the doctor's in structions. Dr. W. A. Jarnigan and Dr. Marlon Hull corroborated the testimony of Dr. J. W. Hurt and others that the amount of poison in Crawford’s stom ach was not enough to cause death. Grade This Year Is Much Higher Than From Any Other Sec tion of Dixie, Long Distance Phone Speech From Wilson ROCHESTER. N. Y., Dec. 8.— President Wilson on Wednesday night will speak by long distance tel ephone from Washington to a ban quet of 502 officers and directors of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, who are In convention here. Each will have an extension telephone at his elbow while the President telephones his greetings. Montgomery Ward Is Dead of Pneumonia CHICAGO, Deo. 8.—A. Montgomery Ward, founder of an enormous mail or der house, is dead to-day of pneumonia, which followed an accident In which his hip was fractured. He spent a large fortune In the courts to prevent the erection of build ings along Chicago’s lake front and lost only one battle, which resulted in the erection of the Art Institute. Boy Burglars Rob AlversonBros. Store Another depredation by boy bur glars was discovered Monday morn ing when clerks opened the store of A Iverson Brothers, at No. 88 South Forsyth street. The burglars got In through the transom over the back door They took $3 from the cash reg ister. College Girls War On Women's Hats WELLESLEY, MASS., Dec. 8 —A movement has been started here to compel the removal of hats worn by women. The "ostrich farms” and “flower gardens” were denounced at a mass meeting of Wellesley College girls. Georgia has collected from a world which must be clothed $139,373,460 this season. This is $33,750,000 more than came into Georgia last fall. The Government ginners’ report issued Monday shows that 2,064,791 bales of cotton have been ginned in Georgia since the cotton crop began to move. Bales ginned, as a general proposition, may be regarded as bales sold. Particularly is this true for the present season. Few farmers are holding their crop, for prices have been thoroughly satisfactory. Georgia, then, has sold more than 2,000,000 bales of cotton. The price has ranged from IS cents upward for middling, with an unusual premium for white, fine grades The Georgia crop has classed much higher than usual, better than the crop of Texas or any of the river States. It is con servative to say that an average of 13 1-2 cents was paid for the Georgia crop. This makes $139,378,460 received for the crop to date. Last year only 1,564,438 bales had been ginned to this date. The in crease this year is 500,000 bales. Girl, 8, Urges U. S. to Name Younger Santa WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—^Please appoint a younger Santa Claus.** This plea was made by letter to Postmaster General Burleson by Miss Lodenla L. Hlle, 8 years old, of Al bion, Ind., who says: “Hanta Claus used to rail on grand pa when grandpa was a little boy* Santa Claus must be too old now get around to see all the children.” Chief Tells Toccoa Of Vice War Here A clean-up movement of some kind Is not unlikely in Toccoa following an address on the reform movement in At lanta by Chief of Police Beavers Sun day. The chief said time had proved that there was no fanaticism in the anti tenderloin war here which doomed rec ognized evil. He said it also demon strated that the man whd called him “a Miss Nancy” was mistaken. The Moral Is-Look Before You Peep! (’ORTON, N. Y., Dec. 8. — Peeping into what he thought was his sweet heart’s home, Andrew Lawson was struck on the head and fell, breaking his wrist and ankle. Wrong house! Six-Day Riders One Mile Ahead Record NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—At the end of the fourteenth hour, 2 o'clock, in the six-day bicycle race all the seventeen teams were one mile ahead of the rec ord, having covered 320 miles flat. Judges He Appointed Kept Taft From Law CINCINNATI, Dec. 8.—Ex-Presi dent Taft told for the first ;im# why he was prompted to give up Cinc!n-< nati as his home and accept a pro fessorship at Yale. He said it was because he wou'd have been compelled to practice law before judges he had appointed. THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia—Fair and much cold er Monday; fair Tuesday.