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4 D HEARST’S ST’NDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, C.A., SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1013. DESPOT HUERTA CM BETWEEN VILLA’S GUIS While His Foes Sweep on Toward the Capital, Civilians Besiege the Dictator’s Banks to Redeem Their Notes--Coined Money Is Scarce. MEXICO ' ITT, Det ao.—Huerta, the Mexican despot, hn* been forced from the field of military strategy Into that of financiering. Money trouble* beset the Government. A? great ns is the menace of General Villa, the ruthless rebel leader, great er still is the danger from the army of frightened civilians in Mexico City, who daily besiege the doors of the Central flank, demanding gold and silver for their bank notes ami try ing to withdraw their deposits. There is little available coined money, and to prevent a panic Huerta is planning to issue a presidential decree, making State bank notes legal tender. This, it is believed, is the only solution to the difficulty. Otherwise, there will be a hoarding of metal money, a cl an actual panic that will represent the Federal Gov ernment as bankrupt and incapable. Already ther • Is something of a pan ic. The city Is flooded with paper currency, most of it bank notes of ’he State banks. Hundreds Besiege Banks All day long hundreds of men and women stand in line before the doors of the Central Hank, each < iy. trying to get to the window of the teller and to redeem their notes officials of the bank are forced to daily \\ith each applicant, deln> rig piymerft. talking to him, soothing him, dis easing general situations, and thus* to hold back the Importunate line. Meanwhile, military activity is slight Plans of the Federal forces In North Mexico to regain Chihuahua and other points taken h> Villa are being discussed here at the capital, hut no definite determination has been reached. Order* have gone out from Huerta to General Mercado, leader of the Federal army in the north, to attack Villa, and to check the rebel march to the capital. How ever. the orders are couched in gen eral terms only, and no specific move* are suggested. Villa Lauahs at Huerta. Word comet) from the north that Villa, knowing of these orders from ■ Huerta, is defiant of Federal power, | and laughs it the thought of Mer cado's attacking hirn. | However, it is generally understood I in military circles that if Mercado i wins a victorv over the rebels at Chihuahua, tho southward course of Villa would be checked, and the 1 threatened march to the capital would be nipped in the bud. Villa Is arro gant. and his troops are jubilant, be cause in all their recent t-areer they have bean successful In conflicts with the Federal!. - Nowhere has there been a .setback, but Mercado has fled, and th* other Federal leaders have capitulated. Villa in drunk with suc cess. In the *npital the loyal Federal* are wild in their Impatient denuncia tion of their troops in the north. They can not understand why Mercado and the others have allowed Villa and his mmdt s ript bund to sweep everything before them. They are beginning to, demand a turn in the tide of military fortune. Villa has not yet been re pulsed. Zapata Fights Near Capital. Indication of the determination of the rebels t<» penetrate tin* Federal lines and inarch on the capital came yesterday, when the startling news whs flashed to the public that rebels, presumably commanded by General Zapata, had clashed with the Federal! at 'Mil pa \!ta and Lorenzo two points well within the Federal dis trict. but to the south of the capital. In this clash the Federal! were rather more sue. essfu than in the north, and Zapata was repulsed, but not routed, and It is understood that he i* gaining strength for another at tack. In remote districts, far removed from Federal authority', ;i state of lawlessness reigns, it is announced in dispatches. Tidings come, by way of .Sun Francisco, from the Pacific Coast, telling of uprisings of the Cor- ra Indians as an incidental demorali sation resulting from the rebellion. Hand its. as weil.a- Indians, conduct depredations in those parts, it is un derstood. Altogether, there is disor der everywhere. 'Happy Days,' Says Bay Horse to Black, As They Drink Wine Nags Hitched to Water Wagon Caught , Helping Themselves From Liquor Delivery Cart. I SAN FRANCISCO, He-. m* "Here's how!" said the black. “Happy days!" paid the bay. "The bouquet of this white wine is exquisite," said the bay. "It'* got nothing on this." said the brunette nag, taking a draught from the iKittle of red. For several days in succession ■fipen'• r Wasirom dUeoveri-d that wine had been stolen; always it was the wine that comes in straw-cov ered bottles. He is deliveryman for j a wine house. Yesterday the culprits were dis covered. Wastrorn left his wagon in front of the sprinkling • art that operates near Mission and Eighteenth streets, and when he returned to the spot he found that the horses, a black and a bay, attached to the water wagon were nibbling at the straw- covered bottles, and he overheard file equine equivalent of the conversation previously noted. SUIT AGAINST WIFE’S FIILY Bride Lured Away on Day of Mar riage, Walker Gets Five Thou sand Dollars for Lost Love. RICHMOND, Dec. 20. T Grant Walker I an been awarded $5,000 dam age* by a jury In the Law and Equi ty Court in his action for $25,000 against five members of his wife's family, who were charged with alien ating her affections and causing her to leave him the nay they were mar ried here last April. Trial of tlie case lasted a week, and was bitterly con tested. It took the Jury only twenty minutes to reach a verdict. Gas to Take Place Of Ice for Cooling PIJILAI iGLI’IIIA, Dec. 20.- Complete : gas refrigeration outfits for small homes will soon dispka-e old it* boxes and ice 1 r* frigerators. according to report! made at the sessions of the National Com mercial Gas \ spoliation In convention j llere. In the wear future, it was predicted, I the new machine wi'l become one of Op most economical appliances in the I lulchcn 'I h»* method of operation is simple, | When i. Is necessary to keep the re frigerator old the gas jets in the h».iter Art* lighted. These jets play up on a tank In which is placed ammonia in a liquid form. The ammonia boils and vaporizes, the vapor being con ducted through the refrigerator by means <if coils, forming the cooling agent upon the same principle that the great ice machines in breweries and other enterprises work. BABY HAS TWELVE TOES. YORK. FA.. Dec. 20. - A child recent ly born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wen ger. of Dillsburg, has six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot. The extra lingers are Joined to the hands at the base of the little finger. The sixth toe on each foot grows out from th'* base of the little toe. The child is normal in all other respects. ill ENOUGH. SCIENTISTS I Greater Number of Drinks Likely to Result in Immediate De struction of Tissues. PHILADELPHIA. Deo. 20.—The American Society for the Study of Alcohol and Other Narcotics hag an nounced that two average drinks of whisky a day can be absorbed with out a waste of preciou* energy. So ciety women were reported as hope less when they are alcoholics. Gases were cited where men took one drink only in their lifetime and .«*- a result became fathers of epileptic children. Bear Left at Car Barn an ‘Elephant’ rol.L'JIlirS, Dec. 20.- Uw-I a b'-arj ever become an elephant? Thie is a question that the uIHcials of the Co- j lumbus Railroad Company are ask ing themselves, all because of a man and Ills wife who recently came to ' Columbus with a carnival, decided to J quit the show business, provided they j could sell their bear. They first tried to sell the bear. | amt failing this they sent it to the barn of the Columbus Railroad Com pany during the night and hurriedly left town. Now the question that is worrying the street railroad people is what to do with the bear. He is a youngster, only 9 months old. weighs 150 pounds and can be bought at a small figure. U» was born in Northern Maine, is gentle and has been taught many tricks. PLAN LONGEST POWER LINE. DENVER. Dec. 20.—The longest electric power transmission line in the world from Bishop Creek. Cal., to Mexicali, .Mexico, a distance of 425 miles, is building. The work is a part of the development of tile Nevada- California Power Company and its subsidiary, the Southern Sierras Pow er I'ompany. University of Pennsylvania Expe dition Makes Report of Dis covery of Much Importance. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. Dec 20 Three tribes of Indians hitherto'ur known to civilization, have been dD covered by the University of Penn sylvania's Amazon expedition in re xions of Brazil never before pene trated by white men, according to „ letter received at jthe University Mu seum to-day from Dr. Farabee, head of the expedition. The letter \ya« dated Boa Vista, Brazil, which is ai the head waters of ordinary naviga tion on tile Uraracuara River northern affluent of the Amazon ’ Many Hogs Are Saved By Being Vaccinated HKCTOR, MINX., Dec. 20. There ha* been some question to the ef ficiency of serum to prevent hog cholera. The matter has been thor oughly tested in the Hector asso ciated school districts. Since August 2 s Fro tensor Kiser has vaccinated 1,042 hog*. Of fill hogs vaccinated in infected herds 70.54 per cent were saved, in the herds vaccinated before the. chol era appeared 99.97 per cent of 4 31 vn« ciliated recovered, or were not sick. $65,000 Mine Brings $1; Litigation Ends KDYVARDSVILLE, ILL., Dec. 20.- The Henrietta coal mine here, whi-’t cost $65,000 to sink and once gold for 45 cent*, was sold iy the Federil Trust Company to Mrs. Philipina Kraft, of Fast St. Louie, for $1. Neither side will tell the inside de tails of the transaction, which adds another chapter to the history of a mine of much litigation, it is said that the plant now really will be op erated by picks und shovels and not by attorneys' pen*. People Leave Rural Routes in Indiana PATRIOTISM UNKNOWN TO MEXICAN PEOPLE ’’Bondage lias Made 1 lim Servile; Fear, Treach erous; Hatred, Gruel,” Kavs Writer. By N. C. ADOSIDES |i In the analysis of a race one must * '.count for centuries of history and breeding. The wins ami virtues of the fathers are woven into the centuries io come. The Mexican is a miscellany of the Aztec and Spanish races and haw, by atavism, the inclinations und traits of those tribal ancestor* The Moor ish blood flowing sluggishly in his vein* gives him much the character of the Mohammedan; the Indian, ap parently predominating, makes him a. materialist, while tin diluted Span ish has weakened his moral muscle! and made the outward expression of himself a curious mixture of acting and primitive emotion. Bondage has made him servile, fear reated in him cowardice and treach ery. and hatred of his master* has made him cruel and suspicious. Like all oppressed races, the Mexican, who has for centuries suffered under the grinding Span!* i yoke had lost frank ness of character. directness of npe«*« h und power of discrimination. There is no faith among them selves. The father is suspicious ol the eon. and the son has no confi dence in the father. This is one of the reasons why the Mexican does not develop a business of hi* own. Again, thi* lack of belief is a char acteristic fostered b\ the turbulent condition of the country's political af fairs and the curse «*f peonage or so cial degrada* ion. The peon b not re sponsible for his decadent condition. He is the natural deduction **f a long era of tyranny, brutality and selfish ness. He has been imposed upon, robbed of his lands and employed op he footing of a slave Cheated Even To-dav. Even to-day his ruler bleed* and his employer cheats hint In the Southern States the plant* r pu\s the peon 12 cents a day. in t e North where he works in t «* cotton fields ar as a cowboy, he receives 25 cents. Un such despicable wages the pelado w‘an not keep body and soul together, und that s wh\ he auctions himself to tiie army of the revolution or Joins .be brigand grou] *. Regardless of hi* < the Mexi can is shorn of pairioiitcm, .vet each \ JEWEL!;R,s Jt PKOKKRg I*r* mi iv 1/ «• 1 JJonoj ''''CA|p, to ,, 1 oiii a f y-\' Phone Maui _-’$ STRICTLY PRIVAl t □EEDrEHO-3 AIULC* 5 *.*NVTC ALJ3f NCf R& LIVER THE sees in hitnseif the savior of his country and a hero. The peon, ig norant. weak-minded and long-suf fering, is abused by the leaders, a group of political vagabonds who periodically throw themselves at each other’s throats, and. by fair words and foul means, satisfy per sonal ambition and old grudges. And how civil they are! Vanity Is the predominating char acteristic of the Mexican. Appear ances are everything to him. Eve l the women of the better classes, who exhibit Parisian gowns, luxurious car riage* and superb horses oil the fash ionable promenade, arc. at home, un tidy and primitve This love of dis play i* symbolized by the National Opera House, at th** ('npital. It is a most wonderful UO.OOO.OOO-p »so monument to vanity, and even th* half-starved and diseased mendicants who crawl about the steps of It pay homage. Their hull fights are another phase of their extravagance, another reek- lens squandering of Ilf** and spilling of blood. The same foolishly open palm offers gifts which, though they arc forced upon the unwilling admir er uf them, must be returned. Tins is an absurd item of their super flciu’ etiquette. \ service rendered to them is received with obsequious gratitude, but not, however, recorded to tho credit of the one who tenders it. Botn the succor and he who gives it are convenient lv forgotten. Vice Is Rampant. So utterly lacking in thrift and moral pride, the race lias become ram. pant xx it 1 r vice, it is unclean, indo lent and alcoholic, and in only rare Instances are in individual member* educated or self-respecting. A peo ple that has no regard for women is bound to be an inferior people In Mexico woman is an instrument of pleasure or a beast of burden. The separation of the sexes is almost pronouncei as it is among the Mo- haimnedam Jealousy and distrust are the cause! of the barrier. The charming voung renorlta u'.n is seen at an early hour of the morn ing on lie; wa\ to church, always ac companied b> maid *>r duenna, not awake to the business of *ne world. She h i* a smatteri < of Sn» lish French . r Italian. she knows a little geosrai and history, strums a bit on the piano, tinkles the guitar and play* a' embroidery and la e inn king. Mc>:!\ she .inks . f iff flirtation.* land the lov* r Who comes u> her win- | dow clandestinely On the other hand, (the female pe'.adx vegetates in the jiountr.x *\vanipt»d in the > ares of h ’ farnllv or employer, or she !a»e« about i 1 he ci;y. peddling fruit*, begging • ; c.eiibera’.ely tunning hi i self bones!." la wall. Anothei portion of th « class is j nerving ike husband, brother or 'riend who « with the «rmv These r<* the reliant soidaderas TV:; the tho pfkxds a'd even the mvaluabU ^old&dera are !ij the Mexican background, it is ’he »n<-n who ni;> .. ticM'i'. Safe to * ■ ■ however, that the inferiority of th® i woman . e* m tr.e verx emphasis . • ** man. fo” c spit« of h - .> serine- \ deep-think Qg a i t ■:* Mexican *• undermined, otnp;\ Feature. ; COLUMIU'K. INI,*., Dec. 20.—Fig ures In a report by John M. Davia, j postmaster here, show the population j along the rural routes is growing less. The repoit shows there are 1.456 families a»n the thirteen routes that en'ih.nato from Columbus and the esti mated population on those routes is about 6.000. In the bust year ten routes have shown a loss of 45 fam ilies. - The Home-Made Cough Syrup Will Surprise You Costs Little, but There Is Noth- 5 ing Better at any Price. Fuliy Guaranteed. ( Here is a home-made remedy that J ( takes hold of a cough almost Instant- ) > ly. and will usually conquer an ordi- \ nary cough In 24 houfs. This recipe ^ s makes a pint—enough for a whole 1 family. You couldn’t buy as much ) of a* good ready-made cough syrup J for $2.r>0. ) Mix one pint of granulated sugar l with l n pint of warm water, und stir ( 2 minutes. Put 24 ounces of Plnfex l (fifty cents’ worth) in a pint bottle. ( and add the Sugar Syrup. This s keeps perfectly und has a pleasant > taste—children like It. Braces up tin* appetite ami Is slightly laxative, w hich helps end a cough. You probably know the medical value of pine m treating bronchial MNthma. bronchitis, spasmodic croup and whooping rough. Plnex is a most valuable concentrated com pound of Norway white nine extract, rieti in guaiacol and other natural healing pine element*, other prepa ration! will not work in this combi nation. The prompt results from this in expensive remedy have made friends for it in thousands of homes in the Failed States ami Ganada. which ex plains why the plan ha* oeen imi tated often, but never success fully. A guaranty of absolute satisfac tion or money promptly refunded. goo* with this preparation. Your |jj|!,' druggist has Plnex or will get it for you. If not. send to The Pinex Co., Ft. Wayne. Ind. PELLAGRA Sufferer.* Write For Our Free Book in which m*ny men and women who had well-defined, severe cases of Pellagra state, UNDER OATH, that they ware cured — and in some case* literally snatched from the grave—by Baughn's Pellagra Remedy Every day’s mail brings us •otters from Pellagra sufferers ail over the country, thanking us for what Baughn's Pellagra Remedy <• doing for them. De lay : s dangerous—don't wait until warm weather aggravates your symptoms. Get our book at onoo—WRITE FOR IT TO DAY—it oosts you nothing. Ad- d-e«s your Istter © r postcard to " American"™ Compounding Co. CHRISTMAS BARGAINS J Now is the time to place a beautiful Piano or Player-Piano In your home $| A Will Buy a Piano ■ V For Christmas Call at our warerooms Monday morning and let us show you our brand new $375 Pianos for $148.00 400 Pianos for 168.00 450 Pianos for 135.00 EASY PAYMENTS Players ^ Grands i Half Price <6,800 Roll Library Absolutely Free) Our Holiday Offerings are the most attractive in the city. Call and be con vinced yourself Out-of-town customers write us. Open until 9 o’clock every evening WEATHERHOLT PIANO 00. i $85 Fiselter Rosewood case, me dium size; exception- $188 Kimball ; ’ In Circassian Walnut, thoroughly guaran teed—a beauty. i I i t $98 Willard Largest size, Colonial design — Crotch Ma hogany case. 72 N. BROAD ST. - ssrasi - -acka —— "* ~ I;'.' Bo\ 5S7-D •la*.per. Ala.