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FIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, DA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1913.
PURCHASE IF
Jessie McCann Mystery Unsolved
PNOIFSII IF GirlVanishesLike Dorothy Arnold
URGED IN SILL Disappearance Exact Parallels
SILL IN SEMITE
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Radium Two-Step
Beats Texas Tommy
cm cuk i
Makes the Turkey Trot and Tango
Look Like Dead March,
Says Professor.
TO FREE UMLOR OWNEI
_ . . , , r Miss Jessie E. McCann, above, and Miss Dorothy Arnold, below,
representative Lewis, Author ot (ri r j s disappeared in exactly the same manner.
It, Thinks Telegraph Lines
Are Not Needed.
Continued From Page 1.
phone lines as well. In his report he
says:
“Every argument in favor of Gov
ernment ownership of telegraph line*
may be advanced with equal logic and
force in favor of th** Government
ownership of telephone lines. It has
been competently decided that a tel
ephone message and a telegram are
tne same within the meaning of the
laws governing the telegraph serv
ice, and therefore it is believed that
the statute enabling the Government
to acquire, upon payment of an ap-
pra1***d valuation, the telegraph lines
of the country will enable the Gov
ernment to acquire the telephonic
•network as well.”
Washington is all astir over the
Postmaster General's recommenda
tions. Conservatives in both parties
are inclined to shy at the idea, de
claring there has been already sutti-
clent legislation of a radical nature,
with tariff revision, currency reform,
prospective anti-trust legislation and
the Administration bill to operate a
Government railroad in Alaska. The
conservatives in the House are op
posed to crowding the business world
with too much legislation and are
doubtful of the wisdom of Incurring a
public debt of approximately $1,000,-
000,000 to tAke over the wire systems
Progressive* Are for It.
However, progressives of both par
ties are favorably inclined to the
plan. Almost everyone has reservt-
tions, though, and It is believed that
if a bill is offered to carry out the
idea It will come only after repeated
caucuses and debates.
Experts declare that the acquisi
tion of the wire lines would cost about
Jl.000.000,000, according to a fair ap
praisal of the value of corporate prop
erty. Representative Lewis, of Mary
land, who Is contemplating the prof
fer of a bill for the purchase of tele
phone lines, said to-day that he did
not think the Government needs the
telegraph lines.
"We do not need the telegraph sys
tem," he said to-day. “The Govern
ment may acquire and use the wires
both to send telephone and telegraph
messages. It is being done now."
Mr. Lewis estimates that the tele
phone systems of the country, includ
ing the Hell and independent lines,
may be purchased for $900,000,000.
The acquisition of the telegraph wou’d
cost at least $200,000,000 additional,
according to his figures.
It is likely that a Democratic cau
cus will be called soon for the con
sideration of the matter. It will be
called by Majority Leader Under
wood at the request of Chairman
Moon, of the PostofTice Committee
of the House, who desires the expres
sion of attitude by the entire body .*f
Democrats.
Quality of Soil Poor, and In
centive Needed to Stop Em
igration to Canada.
“Salt” Painfully Wounded When
He Tries to Keep Pet From
Chasing Rat.
By JONATHAN WINFIELD.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—A com-
plete return to the system of giving
away public lands, in order to encour
age settlement and development, has
been proposed in Congress. During
the last twenty years public lands, es
pecially those to which Indian tribes
hod a claim, have been disposed of j
under a system of appraisal, which
has resulted in materially increasing
the Government’s direct revenue from
the sale of public lands, but which, in
many Instances, has resulted In added
hardship to the men wbo have under- j
taken to cultivate homesteads.
Although throughout the West there j
are men, now well advanced in years, !
who have made small fortunes from I
the advance In the value of land whicn
they acquired freely under the home
stead laws, it has now become a tru
ism that a twentieth century home
steader earns everything he gets.
Present Lands Poor.
The type of lands now open to set
tlement and purchase are not the
smooth, rich, black-dirt lands which
were open to settlement twenty years
^igo or earlier. The lands now opened
to settlement are of inferior quality.
The return to the system of free
homesteads is proposed as an incen
tive to further settlement of inferior
CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—Frank McCau
ley, some time a deep-sea sailor,
thrust across the operating table at
the Chicago Avenue Station yester
day two hands that looked as if they
had gone halfway through a sausage
grinder. And while Ambulance Sur
geon Helwig was sewing and bandag
ing, McCauley explained:
"Me an’ old Roughneck—that’s my
po‘ wriq vittin’ peaceful on the quar
terdeck of my apartment at No. 228
\v ttoi Superior street, snoozin' in the
sunshine, enjoyin' the calm day.
"All of a sudden a pirate-lookin’
rat—meanest-appearin’ rat you ever
saw—scoots out o’ the cook’s cabin
and Jumps clear out in the middle o’
the back yard.
“ ‘The rats is leavin’ the ship. I
yells, which in deep-water language
amounts to the same thing as sayin',
Man th*' lifeboats.’ Rut i f seems to
have a different meaning for Rough
neck.
“Roughneck was lyin’ asleep In my
lap—but the way he sleeps is like the
sleepin’ of a battery with the switch
turned off. Just that simple word
‘rats,’ it appears, was the switch to
the battery for that cat.
“Anyway, up jumps Roughneck an1
digs his hind claws into my stomach
as he starts to take up the pursuit o’
that rat.
“ ‘No, you don’t,’ says I, being will
ing to let the rat move to the apart-
HARRISBURO, PA., Dec. 20 —The
“Radium Two-Step" or “Dance of the
Atoms," latest of scientific sen
sations, makes the ordinary turkey
trot, tango, or Texas Tommy look
like a dead march, declared Professor
H. C. Jones, head of the department
of physical chemistry at Johns Hop
kins University, Baltimore, in an ad
dress here.
He told the audience that radium
is the scene of the most wonderful
dance ever revealed to prying eyes.
It is a terpsichorean hurricane.
Professor Jones declared that in Just
a few hundred dollars’ worth of the
precious element one who under
stands the substance can see thou
sands of the little atoms hugging
each other, whizzing around in a
wonderful electrical embrace, and
speeding at measured rate of 12,000
miles a second.
SUIT AGAINST
WIFE’S FAMILY SCIENTISTS SI!
Bride Lured Away on Day of Mar
riage, Walker Gets Five Thou
sand Dollars for Lost Love.
Alabama Antis Want
National Prohibition
RICHMOND, Dec. 20.—T Grant
Walker has been awarded $5,000 dam
ages 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 (lay they were mar
ried here last April. Trial of the case
lasted a week, and was bitterly con
tested. It took the Jury only twenty
minutes to reach a verdict.
BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 20.—The board t
Qf trustees of the AlabamaAntl-Saloon
League has declared its intention of
not only fighting for State-wide pro
hibition, but for the nation-wide ar
ticle.
The commendation given B. B. Co
mer and Lieutenant Governor Walter
D. Seed, candidates for Governor of
Alabama, and Congressman Rich
mond Pearson Hobson, candidate for
the United States Senate, by the
headquarters committee some time
ago has. been approved. The state
ment is made that when the next Leg
islature Is selected in Alabama a lar^e
majority will favor State-wide prohi
bition.
Both (1 iris Charily Workers With Secret Ro-
manee—Both Last Seen in Philadelphia.
Boys Discover $300
Hidden in Hog Pen
ST. CLOUD, MINN., Dec. 20.—An
old German family trunk containing
$300 was found by Nick Maehren and
Frank Badden, two Avon boys, in the
pig pen on the Achman farm, about a
mile and a half north of the village
of Avon.
The trunk was hidden away in a
secluded place and according to the
opinion of Mrs. Achman, it was put
there by her husband, Adam Ach-
man, who died in 1905.
Watch Hangs in Tree
A Year Without Harm
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 20.—The
American Society for the Study of
Alcohol and Other Narcotics has an
nounced that two average drinks of
whisky a day can be absorbed with
out a waste of precious energy. So
ciety women were reported as hope
less when they are alcoholics.
Cases were cited where men took
one drink only In their lifetime and
as a result became fathers of epileptic
ichildren.
GEORGETOWN, DEL., Dec. 20.—
Lost a year ago.fpgold watch owned
by Wilfred White, a Georgetown mer
chant, was found by the owner, after
it had hung in a tree in sight of many
persons for a year without being dis
covered. It was in good shape, and
as soon as it was wound began to
keep good time.
Federal Experts
Quit for Higher Pay
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—George
Otis. Director of the United States Geo
logical Survey, in his annua! report,
said that in the past four and a half
years, 41 geologists had left the Gov
ernment.
The salaries they received from cor
porations averaged nearly two and one-
half times the salaries paid them by
the Geological Survey.
Greater Number of Drinks Likely
to Result in Immediate De
struction of Tissues.
Girl is Kidnaped by
Four Men in Auto
SAN JOSE, Dec. 20.—-Light* burned
all night last night in the home of
Orleando Ceall, a prosperous Berry-
essa rancher, and the neighbors atdoi
in searching for his pretty 18-year-
old daughter, who disappeared in a
mysterious manner.
It was reported to the police that
the girl had been called from her home
on some pretext and that four men
jumped from an automobile, threw a
bag over her head and then bustled
her Into the motor car.
An investigation conducted by the
police disclosed the fact that Domln'.k
Lise, aged 23, a hired nian who had
paid considerable attention to the girl,
is also missing.
Horse First at Feast;
Eats All the Celery
Takes Pile of Junk
From Boy’s Stomach
MASON CITY. IOWA. Dec. 20.—Dr.
Denney, of Britt, feels that he is eli
gible to honorary membership in the
State Junk Dealers' Association, aft
er having attended the 4-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Ausbom. Dr.
Denney removed:
Sixteen large and small buttons.
Fourteen carpet tacks.
2hree cartridges (.22 caliber).
one collar button.
Three rivets.
One shingle nail.
HaH of paper
Piece of chalk.
Sixteen inches of twine string.
One one-inch bur.
The patient has no more pains in
his stomach.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20. The ghost
of Dorothy Arnold, beautiful young
settlement worker, who disappeared
three years ago this month, as if the
earth swallowed her, has returned to
terrify the parents of Jessie McCann,
also a settlement worker, who has
been missing from her home now for
more than two weeks.
In every detail the two mysteries
are identical. Both women were
young, pretty, intelligently Interested
in sociological work, and both cher
ished a secret romance aside from
their work.
Jessie McCann disappeared Decein-
cember 4 Sines that time her father,
her brothers, her friends, a corps of
policemen and private detectives have
sought her In New York, in every
suburb, in outlying towns ns far as
Philadelphia. As Dorothy Arnold last
was seen in Philadelphia, three years
ago, so the last word of Jessie Mc
Cann came from Philadelphia.
Robert G. McCann, the girl’s de
voted father, has grimly announced
his belief In the fatal omen which has
linked the stories of his daughter and
Dorothy Arnold. He Is certain, even
though he searches frahtically, that
the girl has been killed.- He enter
tains the slight hope that she is being
held by someone who prevents her
communication with him.
When the girl disappeared, a zeal
ous search was instituted, with the
intent of ascertaining her past move
ments and habits. A love affair was
revealed. It was not a happy love
affair. There were probably two men
involved. One, it is known, was Wen
dell Squires, a sophomore in the Co
lumbia School of Mines, who wrote
her, on the day of her disappearance,
that he loved her, but could not sac
rifice his college career to marry her
Immediately. The figure of the other
man is obscured in mystery.
So also was Dorothy Arnold In
volved in a love affair, as the letters
found after her disappearance re
vealed. It was not happy. The heart
of the settlement worker was bleed
ing. as seems the fate otf the heart of
this other girl whose case is being
watched widely.
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NORWOOD, OHIO. Dec. 20 —
; Here’s a fragedy. Weaver Hartley
had invited twenty friends to his
I home to spend the day. Mrs. Hartley
j and her oldest daughter were busy
preparing turkeys.
Their dining room is on the ground
floor. Just what prompted “Old Dob
bins,” the horse, to walk in there
| when not seen does not appear, but
some believe it was the celery.
What was left of that sumptuous
spread was only fit for the chickens.
Goes to Buy Shoes;
His Rival Weds Girl
COLUMBUS, 1ND„ Dec. 20.—Because
Joseph Walters, 22 years old, of this
city, took time to buy himself a pair
of wedding shoes to-day, he lost his
chance of getting for his wire Miss
Mary Moore, who had promised to
marry him.
With the exception of the shoes, all
arrangements had been made for the
wedding, but in the short time Walters
was gone Charles Hovis, his rival, in
duced the girl to accompany him to
the County Clerk’s office, where Wal
ters found the couple being married
when he rushed from the shoe store
to the Clerk’s office to get a license.
Dr, Sargent Tells How
Sports Aid Americans
Hoard in Rock Pile
Gone; He Loses $2,990
SPOKANE, WASH., Dec. 20 —
Trusting his treasure to a rockpile
cache, rather than to r bank, cost
John Fam, a Spokane laborer. $2,900.
Six months ago he made the last de
posit in an old lard pail which he had
utilized as a bank for years, leaving
immediately for Montana, where he
worked till a week or two ago to add
more to his hoard.
Returning, he found the rockpile
had been leveled and removed, to be
used in building a grade
Uniform Holidays Are
Wanted for Miners
CHARLESTON, W. VA.. Dec 20.—
The many holidays observed fey the
50 nationalities represented in West
Virginia's coal fields have caused
such serious lc.ss of working time that
the coal operators and officials of the
United Mine Workers of America
have taken the matter up in an ef
fort to make the celebration more
uniform.
Members of each nationality in
variably observe the holiday of im
portance to themselves, their church
or their fatherland. In some of the
mines last year such celebrations
caused a loss of 47 working days.
Loves His Mother:
Postpones Wedding
CLKVEIaAND. Dec. 20 Love for his
mother caused John Polatsek, 24. re
cently appointed to the position of Rec
ord Clerk of the Board of Education, to
postpone his wedding and risk his Job
by obtaining leave of absence without
pay to take his Invalid parent to Aus
tria.
The mother. Mrs. Rosalie Polatsek, GO,
has been ill. Recently she declared that
only the air of her native Austria would
help her. and her son decided to take
her to that country at once, even though
he had just been promoted from the
teaching ranks to the new position, and
wrh to have married Miss Mamie Deutch
this week.
Dr.Bull’s
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ing or racking cough attend- / ^
in^ bronchitis or grippe,
ing bronchitis or grippe
lake no chances with your
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It prove# good when other* fail, fjt:*
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^ 1 recommend it to my neigh-
No Clock in County
Since They’re Taxed
WHEELING, W. VA., Dec. 20.—The
report of County Assessor William
Ilanke shows a surprising lack of
watches and clocks in Ohio County,
W. Va.
In West Virginia a watch or a
clock is assessable as personal prop
erty. The town of Fulton, which has
2,000 inhabitants, has no clocks, ac
cording to the assessor’s report. Ohio
County, which, including Wheeling,
has a population of 60.000, reports
only 274 watches and clocks.
Wife’s Dress Afire,
Calls Out Engines
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—"Send the
fire engines—quick! This is John F.
Nolan, No. 1432 East Sixty-sixth
place! ’’
This call last night sent three fire
companies tearing through the
street*.
"No. you can’t come In." said No
lan, blandly, to the firemen.
"Yes. I called you because my wife’s
drea» was afire, but I put it out. Good
night.”
She Dictates Terms,
Then Weds Aged Man
SPRINGFIELD, MO., Dec. 13.—
"I’m in no hurry c.bout the justice.
I want these papers fixed u~» first,”
said Mrs. Josle Knouse. of Marsh
field. Mo., in the courthouse here to
day when she and George R. Lee, ci
Palmer, Kans., were given a marriage
license.
Mrs. Knouse, who is 47, superin
tended the drawing of an ante-nuptial
contract with the bridegroom of 70
years, who settled upon her $3,000 in
cash at his death and a deed to h‘.s
home in Palmer. They were after
ward married by a Justice.
lands, and to stop the tide of emi
gration to Canada.
The business of obtaining a farm by
homestead entry is not in practice
the roseate affair that men picture it.
It is a matter of record that nearly
every acre of Western land was en
tered uoon two or three times before
an individual of sufficient vigor and
resistance to keep it got hold of it.
Senator Sterling, of South Dakota,
one of the States that has been al
most entirely developed through the
operation of the homestead laws, is
the author of a bill to return to the
free homestead system. He would
wipe out, except in case of the com
mutation of a claim, the question of
appraised value, and, in case of com
mutation, fixes the maximum price to
be exacted from the homesteader at
$1.25 per acre.
No Extra Charges.
H!s bill provides that all settlers
upon homestead lands opened since
1900 "or the opening of which for
settlement has been authorized by
act of Congress, and which lands have
been acquired prior to the passage ot
this act by treaty or agreement from
the various Indian tribes, who have
resided or who shall hereafter reside
upon the tracts entered in good faith
for the period required by existing
law. shall he entitled to patents fo!
the lands so entered, upon the pay
ment to the local land officers of the
usual and customary fees, and no
other or further charge of any kind
whatever shall be required from such
•settlers to entitle them to patents for
the lands covered by their several en
tries.”
ment across the alley if he wants to,
an’ I grabs Roughneck by the reason
for his nomenclature. Now, look at
me."
The surgeon pasted down the final
bandage and Inquired:
"What are you going to do to pun-
is^i Roughneck?”
"Well" said the sailor "Roughneck
did do a lot to me, but. on the other
hand, I kept Roughneck away from
that rat. I guess me and Roughneck
is about even.”
5,000 Italians Going
Home for Christmas
CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 20.—"The United
States is supreme in the business
world because its youths are supreme
in the athletic world," said Dr. Dud
ley A. Sargent, physical director of
Harvard University, to-day.
“Baseball, football and all forms of
athtetics have cut a big figure in the
development of the American busi
ness man. Investigation shows that
at the time sports gained ui.iversaj at
tention the wonderful expansion of
the nation began.”
Will Hold Potatoes
For $1 Per Bushel
PITTSBURG, Dec. 20.—The annual
exodus of Italians from the Pittsburg
district has begun. Steamship and
railroad agents estimate that fully
5,000 Italian laborers have departed
for their former homes.
With the approach of winter they
spend a part of their savings for a
trip to Italy for the Christmas holi
days. Many will be hack with the
coming of spring.
FOND DU LAC, MTS.. Dec. 20.—Four
hundred and fifty empty potato cars
were counted on railroad tracks here to
day. The condition resulted from a de
termination by Wisconsin growers not
to ship until prices advance.
Word that the Southern crop is suf
fering from scab is said to have caused
the growers to believe that potatoes will
sell for $1 a bushel.
j No Charge for Xmas Cards and Boxes
You can quickly solve the
problem of ‘‘what to give
‘Him’''--by visiting THE DAY
LIGHT CORNER. And, if it's
from THIS store, he'll SURELY
he pleased--because every man
knows that it's CORRECT, if it
comes from this concern.
Some of the gift articles,
on sale here, are listed ’oelow:
Gifts for Men
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Co
rner
FANCY VEST
SUIT
OVERCOAT
RAINCOAT
HAT
UMBRELLA
CANE
LEATHER COLLAR BAG
LEATHER TRAVELING
CASE
TRAVELING BAG
LEATHER SUIT CASE
IWI LIT ARY BRUSHES
SILK NECKWEAR
CROCHET SCARF
KNITTED SCARF
SILK SHIRT
SILK SOX
SILK PAJAMAS
INITIAL PAJAMAS
INITIAL NIGHT SHIRT
HANDKERCHIEFS
JEWELRY
MUFFLER
BATH ROBE
LOUNGING ROBE
SMOKING JACKET
KID GLOVES
FUR-LINED GLOVES
AUTO GLOVES
SHIRTS
UNDERWEAR
SOX. TIE AND HANDKERCHIEF TO MATCH.
FITTED COLLAR BAG WITH ALL TRAVELING
ACCESSORIES (SOMETHING NEW.)
Gifts for Boys
SUIT
^OVERCOAT
RAINCOAT
HAT
EXTRA TROUSERS
BATH ROBE
NECKWEAR
BLOUSE
SHIRT
GLOVES
UNDERWEAR
INDIAN TENT
INDIAN SUIT
POLICEMAN SUIT
COWBOY SUIT
COWBOY CHAPPS
Gifts for Girls
SQUAW SUIT
COWGIRL SUIT
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Reduced ever N., C. & St.
L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R.
Apply any Agent.
At Barksdale’s
Rich Men Open Store
To Get Cheaper Food
Four-Cent Luncheons
Served to Teachers
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tors. H. C. Borchtrt, Route 3, KUendsii, Mma.
SAMPLE FREE Mention p,ipcr Md.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 20 —The Pied
mont Commercial Center, or the mil
lionaire corner grocery, as it will be
known in less aristocratic regions of
the Kust Bay District, is the latest com
mercial organization to take up arms
against the high cost of living.
For a time the high prices did not
pierce the wealthy robe which shrouds
exclusive Piedmont, but when butter
rescind $1 a roll and eggs soared to
75 cents, it was then that birth was
given to th*- Piedmont Commercial Cen
ter, capitalized at $25,000.
WALLA WALLA, WASH., Dec. 20.
Miss Gertrude Ross, deputy in the
office County School Superintend
ent Johnson, served a luncheon to
more than a dozen teachers from the
county schools to demonstrate the
inexpensiveness of warm lunches.
The menu consisted of macaroni
and cheese, baked apples, bread and
butter and hot chocolate. The cost
of materials, fuel, etc., was less than
4 cents a plate.
ROUND TRIP HOLIDAY
FARES BETWEEN
POINTS IN SOUTHEAST
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Tickets on sale December 17, 18, 19,
JO, 21, 22. 23. 24, 25 and 31, 1913: aisc
January 1, 1914; return limit January
; 6. 1914.
For all information write to or call
on J. P. BILLUPS,
General Passenger Agent.
F. 'M. THOMPSON.
District Passenger Agent.
Atlanta, Ga. Advt.
FOX
Ladies’ Tailor and Furrier
141 Peachtree Street.
Room 202 Peck Building.
Reg to announce that I
am selling out the entire
stock of suit lengths, ot
will make BEST SUIT
for $50; formerly $65 tt
$100. Also remodeling o
Purs — guaranteed first
class.
L r rcp roon UNTIL
JANUARY 1ST. ’
JUST A FEW STEPS FROM FIVE POINTS
You will find the most beautiful, largest and varied stock
of Xmas suggestions, all at reasonable prices.
Christmas Boxes Free
Men’s Xmas Neckwear, in beautiful boxes .. .25c to $1.00
Men’s Gloves 50c to $2.50
Men’s Hose, silk and lisle, in boxes 50c to $3.00
Ladies’ Umbrellas $5.00 to $15.00
Ladies' Hose, silk and lisle 25c to $1.50
Men’s Umbrellas $1.00 to $15.00
Combination Sets 5Cc to $1.50
Initial Handkerchiefs, half dozen to box $1.00
All-Linen Handkerchiefs, half dozen to box $1.50
Fancy Suspenders, in boxes $1,00 to $1.50
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