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A I I, A.? I A, <; A . H15AKST S "SUNDAY AJlwtu.AiN, Nl'NUAY, DKl.'.K.M UK If 14. 131fl 9 A r.iabama Presbyterians Secure bOO Acres Near Lookout and i J lan Big Improvements. BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 13.—Fostered by the Synod of Alabama and influ ential Presbyterians of the lower ^outh, tho Lookout Mountain Chau tauqua and Summer Assembly has been formed. BOO acres of desirable hand have been purchased, together with the DeKalb Hotel in Fort Payne, now known as the Hotel Manitou. Preparations are being made for chautauquas every summer, the first to be held next year. The Rev. Henry M. Edmonds, pas tor of the South Highlands Presbyte rian Church of Birmingham, is at the head of the organization, with H. C. Kegley, editor of The Presbyterian, as Secretary, and W. F. Thetford, Jr„ of Montgomery, one of the leaders in the project. Dr. James G. Snedecor, of Tusca loosa, and other promnient Presby terians of the State and adjoining! States are giving assistance in the movement, which is expected to ex pected to attract attention through out the South. The property, which is on Lookout Mountain, is to be developed at once. The erection of a big hotel on the grounds, together with an auditorium, recreation grounds and other conven iences, including a number of summer cottages, is planned. There are ex cellent railroad connections and a Rood road leads to the grounds. Near by is an immense lake which will af ford bathing, boating and other facil- ities. There is a big cave in close proximity to the grounds. An invest ment of nearly $200,000 is assured. The locality is noted for its altitude, tne statement being made that the Place is the highest point between Cincinnati and New Orleans on the Queen and Crescent Route, and it is expected that health-seekers will also be attracted. Ceremony to Mark Return of Stolen ‘MonaLisa'toFrance Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. ROME, Deo. 13.—An international event of major importance will be made of the return to the French Government of the priceless art masterpiece, “La Gioconda," or “Mona Lisa,” as it is also known. The painting, which was stolen from the Louvre in Paris and subseauenl- ly discovered in Florence, will be re turned to the French Government through the Ambassador at Rome and frill be accompanied by brilliant ceremonies designed to cement the friendship of the two governments. The thief. Vincenzo Perugia, prob ably will be committed to an insane asylum as a result, of irrational state ments he has made in defense of himself. Perugia declares he stole the picture in retaliation for wrongs committed against Italy by Napoleon Two carabineers have been detailed to watch the painting night and day until it is formally turned over to the French authorities. War Relics Awarded To Jeff Davis’ Heirs COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. Dec. 13.—Civil war relics from the property of Jefferson Davis, which have been in the possession of the War Department at Washington for almost half a century, have been awarded to the Davis grandchildren here on the request of Joseph Addi son Hayes, president of the First Na tional Bank and husband of Jeff Da vis’ eldest daughter. Hayes has obtained the relics for the collection of William Hayes, his second son. Duchess of Teck Hurt Riding to the Hounds TO BUMS Railroad Removes 550,000 Cubic Yards of “Refuse” Which Now Has Value of Iron. BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 13.—Slag, refuse from blast iron furnaces which has been accumulating in va rious parts of the Birmingham dis trict where there are blast iron fur naces for the last 20 to 30 years, is rapidly being removed and used for road work and other purposes. It is figured that within three to five years the present stacks will have been removed and the daily output of the product be in great demand. The slag pile of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company, in the city of Birmingham property, has been cut down and removed entirely since June 1. 550.000 cubic yards of the slag being removed and used on the new double track of the Ixiuisville and Nashville Railroad, between Birming ham and Nashville. Five to six years ago the slag was looked upon as a mass of useless stuff and apprehension was felt as lu how to get rid of it. The space taken up grew and valuable sites were cov ered. as property began to improve in this neighborhood. The Birmingham Slag Company purchased the slag piles, put steam shovels to work, found uses for the product, such as ballasting by railroads, manufacture of cement and road building through the country, etc., until to-day the product is almost as valuable as iron. Hotel Containing 1,800 Rooms To Be Part of Exposition, Charg ing Reasonable Rates. Breaks Silence Vow; Free After 20 Years Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, Dec. 13—The Duchess of Teck, sister-in-law of Queen Mary, suf fered a seriou* injury while riding to the hounds. The Duchess jumped her hors* ov<*r a stone fence and at the same moment she was swept from the saddle by a heavy bough. LEAVENWORTH, KANS.. Dec. 18. Jasper # W. Rainey, who broke a si lence of twenty years recently when, on his bended knees, he begged Sam uel Seaton. Governor Hodge’s pardon clerk, to give him a parole, has left the prison. He will be free as long as he ob serves the parole regulations. Always the Last Word in Motion Pictures Sufficient Quantity Without Sacrificing Quality TO-MORROW—MONDAY General Film Company’s Exclusive Service VITAGRAPH: Two Reel Sensational Drama. “The Blue Rose SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13.—A great hotel, “The Inside Inn, ” containing I 1,800 rooms and equipped with every j modern luxury and convenience, will be erected within the exposition grounds. The rates to be charged by this ho tel will be from $1 to $3 per day. It will be built and managed by private parties as a concession, but the ex position directors, by the terms of the concession, will have a voice in the lixing of the rates to be charged. - This mammoth hotel was finally de cided upon yesterday by tlie direct..-rs of the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Fair Treatment Assured. This hotel is San Francisco’s guar antee—and tne guarantee of the Pan ama-Pacific directors—that the thou sands of gueBts who will crowd into this city exposition will be accorded fair treatment in the matter of hotel accommodations and rates. Already 186 conventions are booked to come to San Francisco during the year 1915. The officials having these conventions in charge already ar< seeking reservations and demanding to know in advance the rates to be charged. The exposition directo***, after three months of negotiations with the hotel managers of San Fran j cisco, have been unable to come to any agreement as to reservations and the rates to be charged during 1915 by the hotels in this city. Decide on Drastic Step. Failing in their efforts to reach an agreement by which they could guar antee reasonable rates to visitors to San Francisco in 1915, the exposition directors decided to take the drastic step already outlined by providing for the erection of a magnificent hotel, which will at least provide accommo dations for the delegates to the 186 conventions already booked for this city during the exposition year. In providing for the erection of this hotel the exposition directors believe that they have removed the one and | only obstacle that threatened the suc cess of the exposition. Wanted Decision on Rates. As long ago as last August a joint meeting of the exposition direc tory and hotel men was held. The exposition directors at that time requested that the hotel met: decide upon the rates to be charged io exposition visitors, and also to guarantee that a ceriain percentage r.f the rooms would be reserved for tne use of the delegates to the many con ventions that had accepted the citv's invitation to attend conventions in San Francisco in 1915. The hotel men refused to come t:> ^ny agreement. i President Fails to Improve; Stays In WASHINGTON. Dec. 13—Presi dent Wilson is not showing such im provement In his condition to-day as was expected, and consequently will remain in his room all day. His tem- l.orature is normal, however, for the first time since ho had his relapse, according to his physician, Dr Gray- son. It was officially announced that he will not attend the Gridiron Club din ner here to-night. Boy Goes to Bed in The Wrong House I NEWARK. OHIO, Dec. 13. -By nvs- J taking north for south, Forest Farmer, a Newark school boy, found himself in an embarrassing situation at South Bend. Ind. Intending to surprise his sis ter, Mrs Henry Osborn, with a visit. Forest went to South Bend and inquired his way to Taylor street. Me located No. 421 and, finding no body at homo, entered, took a cold plunge and refreshed himself at the re» frigerator. After reading an hour he retired. Toward midnight he was awak ened by the question: “What are you doing here?” It then developed he had visited No. 42*. South Taylor instead of North Tay lor street. Wag Ears to Prevent Deafness, Says Sage \ CHICAGO, Dec. 13. Wagging ears and making faces is recommended as a certain preventive of deafness In an article in tHe current number of The Journal of the American Medical Asso ciation by Fernet, a French doctor. SIBE PRAISED Hr PRfflTOfll! Ul HU! LuuUll Saloonkeeper Fined America,, Dailies Most Readable ForGivingFreeLunch Publications of Any Age, in Iowan’s Opinion. Finest Dinosaur’ Is 3,000,000 Years Old ; OTTAWA, Dec. 13 -The complete l skeleton of a carnivorous dinosaur is being mounted at the Victoria j Memorial Museum. The monster lived some 3,000.000 years ago and ! left his bones near the banks of the Red Deer River, northwest of Med icine If.it, where they were recently dug up. The skeleton is the finest and most complete ever found in North America. The dinosaur was thirty feet long, fifteen feet high and weighed four or five tons. Girl of Eight Sent By Mail to Father NEW LEXINGTON, OHIO, Dec. 13. In the mail that arrived here recently was an 8-year-old girl wearing a tag, pinned on by New York immigration officials, reading: “This child, Julia Kohan, is going to her father. John Kohan. box 117, R. F. D.. No. 4, New Lexington. Ohio.” After a breakfast supplied by the postmaster, the child was taken in care, of a rural delivery carrier to the home of her father. The trip of 7.000 miles from Bavaria was made by her unaccompanied. j | MADISON WIS. Dec. L?.—"The j newspaper style, w hich is becoming ! more and more essential in the equip- S nunt of every successful writer, is the clearest, most concise and most inter esting style In which things can be written." declared Professor F. W. Beckman, of Iowa State College*, in addressing the American conference of teachers of Journalism. “It has been hammered out in the heat and stress of newspaper work to meet the demands of the millions for ; something to compel their attention, ! interest them and give them informn- i lion iu the quickest, clearest way pos- ' siblc. The ranks of present-day literary successes are filled with men and women who had their training in the newspaper office. The demand of editors and publishers everywhere is for matter written in the same clear, concise, interesting way that has made the American newspaper the most readable publication printed, either to-day or in any time.” Papers Above Colleges in Efficiency, Says Educator. CARLISLE, PA., Dec. 13.—The dec laration that the average newspaper is superior to the average college in efficiency was made by Prolessor Charles E. Himes, president of the Cumberland Valley Historical Society and one of the greatest living author ities on physics. Talking of the work of newspapers in promoting moral and social effi ciency in the respective localities, lie deplored the criticism of newspapers by college men on the score of im purity of language. HARTFORD, CONN., Dec. 13— Be cause he served soup and food to poor customers. Frank Francollnl, a saloon keeper. was fined $10 under the anti free lunch law’. lOp.c.Rise in Exports To South America WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Statistics by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, for the first ten months of the calendar year, show' that to five of the principal countries of South Ameri ca—Brazil, Argentina. Chile, Peru and Uruguay—American exports were 10 per cent greater than in the first ten months of i912. $108,300,000 this year, against $99,000,000 last Imports showed a large falling off, being $129,600,000 this year, a decrease of almost 21 per cent. Last year Brazil sent 516.000,000 pounds of coffee, against 441.000,000 pounds this year. Exports to Argentina increased from $42,000,000 to $46,000,000 while imports from that country decreased from $28,- 500,000 to $17,750,000. STOMAiBift mmm Tiring of Father’s Coffin Talk, Elopes ROME, Dec., 13. Miss Hansel Gilbreth, the daughter of a wealthy coffin manufacturer of Cleveland, Tenn., became tired, she says, of hear ing her father discuss his trade and the lugubrious subjects apertair.ing to it and eloped to Rome with Carl Hunter, a. one-legged noy, thereby causing his arrest as a kidnapper and making him liable to an accusa tion of white slavery. Hunter and the girl, who is 18 and a beauty, registered at a local hotel where they were arrested. Both were taken back to Cleveland, the boy under arrest. *9 Featuring Van Dyke Brooke and Norma Talmage. PATHE: Current Weekly, Last Moment Happenings Throughout the World. EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION Winter Heat Record Is Smashed in North BRAINERD, MINN., Dec. 13.—All warm weather winter records in Northern Minnesota were beaten to a frazzle here this afternoon when a baseball game was staged between the machinists and boilermakers of the Northern Pacific Railway shops. The temperature was 60 above, the =un was bright • and there was no snow. rr r 7 K | KING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS. Special Cable to The American. PARIS, Dec. 13.—King Haakon of Norway and the Norwegian Queen l<*ft here to-day for Christiana to Christmas. Forbids Marriage of Man 65 to Girl of 12 BALTIMORE. Dec. * 13.—Judge Frank I. Duncan, at Towson, forbade the clerk of the County Court to is sue a license for th<* marriage ot William Still. $65. to Bertha Groves, his 12-year-old housekeeper. Still, accompanied by the girl, showing the written consent of her parents, asked for a license. He was refused because the consent was not signed by two other witnesses. 5,635 on Liner to Europe for Xmas NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—The trans- Atlantic Christmas rush set in to-day with the departure of six liners bear ing 5,635 passengers and 6.733 sacks Most of the travelers were to Europe to spend the hol- of mail. returning idays. Pure Food Lav; to Bar Poison Drugs Washington. Dec. 13.—There are more* than 1.000.000 drug users in the United States, and the habit Is growing so that a heretofore dormant provision In the pure food law may be utilized by the Government to curtail the traffic in narcotics. Hold Up 67,900,000 Acres of U. S. Land WASHINGTON. Dec. 13 - Secretary Lane has announced that the total area of public lands withdrawn from general entry up to the end of November was a j trifle less than 67.900.000 acres, of which all but about 10.000 000 acres is included j in coal withdrawals, and is therefore 1 open to homestead entry. Says Parents Teach Children to Gamble CHICAGO, Dec. 13—The influence j of mothers who play bridge and 1 fathers who indulge in poker pro- > motes the interest of children in 1 games of chance and makes gambler.- 1 of them, Mrs. Aria R. Black told the ! Chicago Women’s Association ot Commerce. ‘Rough Rider’ Medal Won by Georgia Boy CULVER. IND.. 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