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IIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN'. ATLANTA. OA., SUNDAY, OECEMBI* 23. 1013.
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CAPITAL’S PEI
Mexico City in a Panic as Depos
itors Vainly Strive to Withdraw
Their Money From Banks.
Continued From Page 1.
W ASHINGTON,
Building a
rebels wore within 100 miles. None
knew that the men of Villa had pen
etrated so far, as Charces is Just
north of San Luis Potosl.
Newt Brings Terror.
Consequently, terror was brought
Into Mexico City, together with the
news that the troop train was de
stroyed. Even the feeble efforts that
had been planned for a Christmas
observance were forgotten. And
Christman Day was dismal enough.
The day before, shops were dark and
deserted. There was no shopping.
There was no holiday spirit There
-f.nnrd no Thought of anything ex
cept that Villa’s murderous rebels
were marching on, unimjHtded, to
ward the capital.
News came also from the west
coast, where, In the vicinity of Apa-
euipo, it is reported, the rebels are
revealing even greater strength. The
Federal troops, without supplies,
made resort to a forced loan on the
Spaniards in that city.
Industry Is Paralyzed.
Commercial and industrial activi
ties on the west coast are at an end.
The construction «>f a railroad out of
Ae.ipulco has been stopped, and the
Americana who were building it are
on their way to the capital.
In Mexico City the people are Im
poverished. There is no money for
the necessities of life In many In
stances, much less for a Christmas
celebration. Fears exist for the sol
vency of all banks, and checks are
accepted only with great trepidation.
The banks open their doors only by
mutual agreement, and when deposi
tors apply, only limited amounts are
paid out.
The announcement made In the pa
pers that the clearing house would
handle checks had no effect on the
general state of mind. Depositors,
instead of trying to obtain their
money by resorting to the clearing
house, in their lack of confidence rc-
eorted to the method of making per
sonal efforts to withdraw their de
posits from the banks.
Few Young Men Fit
To Wed, Says Bishop
MADISON. WIS., Dec. 27.—Bishop
Charles I* Anderson, of the Episcopal
Church, addressed 3.0(H) students In th
second all-university convocation of
the year,
"We must have principles of conduct
in the family, the root of the State
"According to physicians, few young
men are mi rally und physically fit for
matrimony, in my little cathedral at
Chicago I was so amazed at conditions
that 1 forbade by ministers to solemnize
the marriage ceremony unless the your
iiran could show a clean bill of health
Finds Kidnaped Son
In Home of Widow
A LB l RQUR, X. MEX., Dec.
Kidnaped eight years ago at Crane,
Stone County, Missouri, Wallace 1
tars, son of Mrs. F. A. Pocks,
Crane, has been discovered here and
claimed by his mother.
A legal battle Is in prospect before
the controversy is settled. The bov
declares he will not leave his foste
mother, and Informed officers th.i
they would have trouble if they trio<
to take him away.
Elope
Dec. 27.—
barbed - wire
fence along the Mexican border to
prevent rebel and Federal Mexican
bands from making raid# across
the line was proposed in a reso
lution which has been introduced
in the Senate by Senator Ashurst,
of Arizona. The measure proposes
to appropriate $350,000 for the
purpose.
He Will Let Wife Be
Boss, So Suit Ends
SHARON. PA., Dec. 27-Myrtle A.
Baldwin, of Girard, entered suit for di
vorce from W E. Baldwin, and the
ease took a new’ turn when the parties
asked that a certain contract be filed.
Upon the affirmation of same the plain
tiff withdrew her petition.
The contract stipulates that the hus
band must live up to the following:
Give up attentions to another woman
not named.
Be g«.od and Und and quit abusing
plaintiff.
Refrain from the use of Intoxicating
liquors.
Plaintiff may choose any position in
defendant's store.
Defendant will quit loan business If
plaintiff desires.
Plaintiff will fix their place of rest
denee.
She is also to know about his business
affairs, money In bank and claim what
she wants.
Husband must pay court costs.
Husband May Eject
Relatives of Wife
SPRINGFIELD, MASS., Dec 27.—
Judge Charles L Long, who two years
ago made the celebrated decision that
"man, who pays the bills, is boss of
the household und lord and master of
the exchequer," has recently ruled that
a husband may eject his wife’s relatives
from tiie house.
IlormIdas G. Labtne, the defendant
in a separate support suit, declared
that It was u case of "too much broth
er-in-law."
Judge Long said that a husband has
the right to remove from Ills home any
of his wife’s relatives, and if he can not
do so alone, the police, If called upon,
must help him.
Soldier Will Marry
His Wartime Nurse
OMAHA, NEBR., Dec. 27—A ro
mance of love and war will reach Its
ulminatlon when H. R Ubta, of Mar
shall. Mo., reaches lxmdon. He Is hur
rying to get there that he may marry
Miss Elliott Ramsbotham, a nurse, who
helped care for him while he lay in
jurat! In a hospital during the Balkan
war
‘She left several weeks before I
started for this country.” Libby said.
"I came back to America, returned to
the lumber business at Marshall and
then proposed by mail."
Forty-Year Mystery
Is Ended by Death
CRIPPLE CREEK, Dec 27 When
old "Jack" Johnson, veteran of the
boom days, a saloon porter, aged SO.
dropped dead, a search of his shabby
clothes solved the mystery of the disap
pearance of a wealthy manufacturer of
Wichita. Kana., more than forty years
ago.
In "Jack’s" coat was found a worn
Bible, on the fly-leaf of which was writ
ten :
"1 am F. B. Price, of Wichita. Kans.
In case of death notify Howard Price,
Wichita."
Possum Hunts the Rage
Now, Even in New York
Noted Men Are Epicures and Know Very Rest
Way to Cook Marsupial.
Judges File Their Reasons for
Refusing Divorce to Steel
President.
PHILADELPHIA, Dpc. 77.—■Judges
McMlchael and Ferguson have re
fused a divorce to Clement R. H.
Cunningham, president of the Cruci
ble Steel Castings Company, who
sought separation from his wife be
cause of her strict adherence to a
“purity pact” made before their mar
riage eighteen years ago.
The pair lived together fourteen
years, but the pact waa never broken,
in 1909 Cunningham left his wife, who
afterward asked the desertion court
to compel him to support her. An
order was made against him, but
Judge Orlandy, in the Superior Court,
set it aside.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Up-State,
over in South Jersey, on Long Island
and, indeed, wherever the possum
makes its home, these cold nights
find pursuers on its trail. After the
supper dishes have been cleared away
the hunters get the dogs together,
light the torches and go out to tree
the game. New Yorkers who go to
the Virginias, the Carolinas or Flor
ida frequently join in the hunt "for
the fun of it.”
Not long ago Jefferson City, Mo.,
got together 250 automobiles and just
after sundown Governor Major, mem
bers of his staff and other friends
started in their machines, with horns
and dogs, and followed by motor
trucks bearing refreshments and ne
gro "beaters.” for an all-night possum
hunt.
Someone sent President Wilson a
large sweet potato last October. From
MacFarland, N. C., Joe Farrell, who
described himself as “an old slave,-
time darky," wrote that he was send
ing a possum to go with the potato
and by express there came to the
White House on October 30 the Norch
Carolina possum, fine, fat and "sassy
T . , Secretary William Jennings Bryan
Our whole social system. Judge raU gh t a possum last month in an un-
Leniency for Soldier
Who Prefers Mother
on One Horse;
Ride 50 Miles; Jailec
FAYETTEVILLE, ARK.. Dec. 2
J. R. Cowan and Miss Lillie Dear
men. who had eloped from Bunch
Okla., and made the f0-mile trip on
one horse, were arrested at Fayette
ville, Ark., and jailed when they ap
plied for a license.
KANSAS CITIZEN 101 YEARS OLD.
MAHON CITY. loWA. Dec. 27 \t his
in Kansas. John Muns nger cele
brated his 101st birthday. December 12
H* is the tamer *■: Miss Gra<-« Mur
ger. supervisor « f music in this city.
a of fourteen children. There are f.t
indchtldren. 83 great grandchildren
two great great grandchildren.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 27.—Upon the abil
By of Albert Edward Charleton t
prove that he deserted the army to pro- I
vide for his sick mother, Mrs. E. Mill,
after a furlough had been denied him,
will depend whether he will serve two
years in the Federal Prison at Fort
Leavenworth. Kans., or whether he will
he locked up in the guardhouse at Jef
ferson Barracks for only six months.
Lieutenant Starkey, Judge Advocate
at Jefferson Barracks, says clemency
will be shown Charleton if he proves h»
deserted to aid an invalid mother.
FREED FROM JAIL TO WED.
CARTHAGE, MO., Dec. 27 Because
he desired to get married and promised
to keep out of trouble in the future.
Circuit Court Judge I». E. Blair paroled
Andrew Mayers, a prisoner in the county
.iail at Carthage. After his parole was
granted. Mayer was wedded to Mis"
Anna Yeach. <»f Joplin, awaiting him in
the courtroom.
Orlandy said, "is founded on the
theory of husband and wife living to-
i|**lKer as such, and the natural and
rdaeonabh* expectancy is that chil
dren shall be born to that lawful
Wedlock.”
Rehearing Granted.
Shortly after that decision, Cun
ningham began an action. The mas
ter recommended a decree, and the
>urt approved it. On the plea of
former Judge James Gay Gordon,
counsel for the wife, a rehearing was
granted. Judges McMlchael and Fer
guson then rejected the report of the
master.
Judge McMlchael in his ^pinion
says:
However strange, abnormal and
against nature was their compact and
their subsequent mode of life, it does
not seem to have affected libellant’s
health for ten or twelve years, anti
although he does assert that after
that his health began to break down,
the testimony If* that, up to a com
paratively short time before he left
the respondent, he was In good health.
No Cruelty Shown.
"It is difficult to decide this case
merely on general principles. The
testimony must he studied, and al
though we have great respect for the
master and for his learning, and are
sure that his findings are conscien
tious, yet we think his finding that
there was cruelty wits against the di
vorce laws of Pennsylvania as Inter
preted by the higher courts and
against the evidence. No evidence of
nagging within the legal definition
was presented which was sufficient to
sustain the libellant's contention in
that respect.
"The testimony ns to refusal is
vague and indefinite. And the fact
of the compact and of their life to
gether for fourteen years without ab
solute relations has forced the •con
clusion on the court that their meth
od of life was by mutual consent, and
not on account of the refusal or de
nial by the woman of conjugal rights.
Pennsylvania Different.
“There are well-reasoned cases in
i other States which have held that the
refusal of equal rights Is a ground for
divorce. Thus it has been held In
Xe.v Jersey that refusal is construct
ive desertion.
"But the courts of Pennsylvania
have taken a different view.
"They have held that the refusal Is
neither an act of cruelty nor an act
of desertion, and we think we are
bound by these decisions.”
Judge Ferguson, associate of Judge
McMlchael, says:
"The extraordinary fact that Mr.
Cunningham persisted in close and
intimate relations* with his wife for a
period of fourteen years shows clear
ly that he acquiesced in his wife’s be
havior as a compliance with the
agreement they had made.”
usual manner. Somebody sent
Bryan family a possum. After they
had fattened it for several days it es
caped. Three days later the possum
was found In an alley, and it took ref
uge in a big tree. One of Mr. Bryan’s
colored men climbed the tree, shook
off the possum and the Secretary
caught it
A Possum’s T. R. Button.
Possums are found as near New
York us the Orange (N. J.) Moun
tains. Henry Clark, of Orange, hunt
ing one night last month, caught a
possum, and when he dressed it he
found a celluloid button in its stom
ach bearing a picture of Colonel
Roosevelt and the words “Vote for
Theodore Roosevelt for Governor.”
Whether the pssum gulped down the
campaign button recently or whether
It swallowed it when Roosevelt was
running of Governor is a question.
If you waht possum hunting, go tc
New Jersey. Up along the hills In the
northern part of the State, where the
Hackensack River begins, is the place
to go. Woodcliff Lake has within its
borders a number of possum hunters,
and almost any point in Bergen Coun
ty is a good place to start from.
John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi,
was recently the guest of 25 Missls-
sipplans at the Hotel Astor, where the
menu included possum and sweet po
tatoes, crackling corn pone and hom
iny.
Oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama,
also likes the possum, and not so long
ago he was the guest at a possum din
ner given by the Birmingham Press
Club.
A Historic Possum Dinner.
Robert Love Taylor, of Tennessee,
and famous as Fiddling Bob Taylor,
not long before he died received word
that an especially fine possum was be
ing sent to him from Waklos Ridge,
in his State, and he planned a possum
dinner. But he wouldn't have It cook* d
by a Washington chef. "That would
be desecration.” he said. “Nobody
knows how to cook possum but a Ten
nessee nigger.” And he sent to Wal
dos Ridge and got a negro to cook the
ar.lmal in true Tennessee style.
The party that sat down to that
dinner included Senator Crane, of
Massachusetts, and other Northern
ers, besides men who knew' the val le
of possum, such as Senator Bradley
and John Sharp Williams, and they
said it was the most successful pos
sum dinner ever given outside of Wal
dos Ridge.
Recently John Stewart Bryan, in
The Richmond Times-Dispatch, dis
owned the possum. This hard blow
from a Southern editor came when
Mr. Bryan said in an editorial: “Pres
ident Wilson grows bigger daily. Hav
ing had a possum wished on him from
some lummox in Mississippi who
wanted to get rid of the beast. Wood,
row did not pretend to eat the ‘on’y
American marsupial,' but sent it to
the zoo. Possums are about as fit tj
eat as cotton cake."
One Way to Cook Possum.
But a Southerner who loves possum
takes issue with Mr. Bryan and says
that if the possum is prepared in this
manner Mr. Bryan will welcome the
prodigal back again: “Singe the hair
of the possum in hot wood ashes, be
cause its skin Is a delicacy and must
not be scalded. Then parboil him.
This takes a certain strength away
and makes him more tender. Then
put him in a pan with a good deal of
butter, pepper and salt and a litrlo
brow'n flour, leaving the head and t'i 11
on. Cut little slits along the ribs and
haunches and fill them with red pep
per pods. Baste him with gravy while
browning. cook sweet potatoes
around him and then ser»'e him smok
ing hot, though some, tc be sure, pre
fer him cold, like roast pork.
“You must have corn dodgers very
brow’n and very crisp, persimmon
pickles, chow’chow' and tomato ketch
up, and lastly pumpkin pie and a sec
ond cup of coffee. Then a darky and
a banjo and a mint julep, and be
happy.”
The first thing, of course, Is to get
the possum. You go out after him
when there is n "frosty feelin’” in the
air. A negro hand usually locks up
the possum dogs in the morning so
that when night comes they will he
“right sharp.” Possum dogs pay no
attention to the scent of raccoons,
rabbits or wildcats. When the do vs
strike a possum scent, they follow'
the circuitous route of the little ani
mal and soon the possum is treed. A
rifles does the rest in case the possum
can not be shaken off the tree and
dispatched by the dogs or the hunter.
Verses That Offended Wilson
Penned by Soldier Who
Died in 1904.
MEN SMOKE AT POLLS
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WOMEN’S IRE ROUSED
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—When Chi-
cago women voters go to the polls
next spring, they will be com
pelled to mark their ballots in a
haze of tobacco smoke.
A request that smoking be pro
hibited at the polls was made to
the election commissioners by the
Political Equality League. The
commissioners informed the wom
en that there is no law by which
smoking can be prohibited.
Trolley Overtaken
After 12-Mile Race
Police Chief Defends
Stocking as Purse
PITTSBURG. Dec 27—Superintendent
of Police MrQuade. when informed that
Major Richard Sylvester, superintendent
of police of Washington, had taken ex
cept n to McQuade’s advice * at wom
en should use their stockings as purses
during the rush of Christmas shopipng.
defended his statement.
"Major Sylvester evidently has not
hod much experience with the situation
which t am trying to overcome." suid
McQuade. "When he advises women to
continue to carry their cash in purses,
he Is inviting them t«> lose their money
and virtually assitlng in the making of
new thieves.*'
FORT WAYNE. Dec. 27.—Ten dollars
and costs was the penalty assessed by
Judge Graebner against Burton McKin
ley, who utilized his automobile to over
take a trolley car and attack Lyman
Fry, who had written an endearing let
ter to Mrs. McKinley. Now Mr. Mc
Kinley has instituted surety of peace
proceedings against Fry, who has been
one of his employees.
Starting on the chase for Fry when
he got hold of the letter to his wife,
McKinley learned that Fry had been
warned and had taken flight.
Putting his auto at full speed, he
took up the race, with gasoline pitted
against electricity. At Huntertown.
twelve miles north of the city. McKinley
overtook the car, and during its stop I
in the village dragged oft' Fry and ad
ministered a sound beating.
Plea of 4 Girls Gets
Release of Father
Takes Him 28 Years
To Get Site of Cave
NORTH YAKIMA, WASH.. Dec. 27.—
After fighting the conversation element
in the United States Land Department
for 2S years, Adolphus C. McBride, of
this city, has just received patent for
160 acres in South Dakota, which In
cludes the entrance to Crystal Cave, a
hole in the ground which has never beer,
completely explored, hut which is de
clared to be larger than the Mammoth
Cave In Kentucky.
The Crystal Cave Is near the North
western Railroad in South Dakota and
is on the proposed National automobile
highway to Glacier National Park.
Modest Senator Uses
10 Words in Records
FORT LEAVENWORTH. KANS.,
Dec. 27.—A young man called "Bud”
started all the trouble for the Cara
baos. He was a reporter, and none
of the officers at Leavenworth, which
is the second chapter of the Carabao,
ever heard of him, although some of
them were in the Sixth Infantry.
“Bud” worked on a New York
newspaper as a reporter before en
listing in the Sixth Infantry. When
he was discharged somewhere in Ne
gros, he remembered he had a pro
fession to fall back on, so he began
to write copy. He was "broke” and
this copy was his “last hope."
The copy came from Isabella,
Island of Negros. It was rattling good
copy. "Bud'’ got money for it, and
turned school teacher. It was in a
village practically unknown. On Sat
urday nights there was a chicken
fight. ___•,
“Bud,” whose real name was Wil
liam C. MacDougal, -tlied there in
1904. Here is some of his copy:
DAMN, DAMN THE FILIPINOS.
There’s a land of dopy dreams.
Peaceful, happy Philippines,
Where the Bolomen are busy night
and day;
Where the natives steal and lie,
And Americanos die.
While the soldier sings this Filipino
lay:
Chorus:
Damn, damn, damn the Filipinos,
Pock-marked Kakiak ladrones,
And beneath the starry flag,
Civilize ’em with a Krag,
And return to our beloved homes.
Social wants are very few.
All the ladies smoke and chew.
And do other things the padres say
are wrong;
Presidentes cut no ice,
For they live on fish and rice.
And the soldiers still will sing that
same old song:
’Neath the nigger’s nipa thatch,
Where the lazy lepers scratch,
Only haven after hiking all day lortg,
As I lay me down to sleep.
Slimy lizards o’er me creep.
And 1 hear the soldiers sing this
evening song:
At Fort Leavenworth there are 78
army officers; 43 are “scared to
death” and the rest think President
Wilson should have some sense of
humor.
A New Parody.
The official name of Leavenworth
is the School of the Line. A booklet
on the press contained the “Damn”
song. It was out last week and can’t
be hurried back.
Also It contained, the “Cotton”
song, which was paraphrased from a
Koster and Bial comedy. This orig
inally was directed at General Otis
and seemed to be the one which
Governor General Harrison objected
to. Here it is:
COFFEYVILLE, KANS., Dec. 27.
Women had their first experience
: here as judges and clerks of elec
tion recently, and two of them,
j Mrs. Fannie Green and Mrs, Belle
Manager, rebelled because the men
clerks smoked and chewed tobacco.
They also declared the election
booth was not properly heated.
The election was on an inter-urban
bond issue.
Pasadena Prepares
For Rose Tourney
PASADENA, Dec. 27.—The city is
preparing to celebrate, January 1, its
twenty-fifth consecutive annual tourna
ment of roses. For a quarter of a cen
tury this spectacular floral festival has
been held this date or the day follow
ing, when New Year’s Day came on j
Sunday, and the entire population this
year has united 10 set a new standard.
In addition to the private gardens, for
which Pasadena is noted, the school-
grounds have been turned into flower
beds, and every inch of available space
in the city parks has been comman
deered.
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Question Decided in Hackensack
Debate — Weather Prophet
Devoe Is Put to Rout.
TOPEKA, Dec. 27.—The plea of four
motherless little girls that their father,
who is in the penitentiary, might be
released, won the father’s freedom to
day at the hands of Governor Hodges.
Hezekiah Watts was a teamster. His
wife was dead and he had four girls,
the oldest of whom was sixteen. As the
(Tbvernor’s parole clerk tells the story
from the records, a mail was rooming
at Watts’ home. Watts missed some
money and thought that his roomer had
taken it. He got a gun and went after
the man. "The latter was only slightly
injured, if at all." said the parole clerk.
This a 1 ’»ened last Match.
Watts was convicted of assault with
intent to kill and sentenced to from
one to five years in the penitentiary.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 27.—Senator
Lane, of Oregon, apparently believes
“that brevity is the soul of wit.”
When he turned in the copy of his
autobiography to be printed in the new
Congressional Directory he established
a new record for using the fewest pos
sible number of words. He wrote:
"Harry Lane. Democrat, of Oregon.
Term expires March 3, 1919.”
Gallows Erected by
Citizens as Warning
AKNKAKEE. 'ILL.. Dec. 27.—A gal
lows nine feet high and equipped With
a noose was erected in from of the
courthouse to-day. At the top was a
placard informing the authorities that
"we. the people of the city ami county
I of Kankakee, demand justice."
It was intended to demonstrate senti
ment over the killing of Patrolman
• U4 Arc&is Hutchins.
Oh,
I’d
I’ve been having a hell of a time
since I came to the Philippines;
rather drive a bobtail cart than
live on pork and beans;
They call me the Governor General—
I'm the hero of the day—
But I have troubles of my own, and
to myself I say:
Chorus:
Oh. am 1 the boss or am 1 the tool?
Am I the Governor General or a
hobo?
A hobo? For I’d like to know who’s
the boss of this show—
Is it me or Emilio Aguinaldo?
It w’as to be printed in the Songs
of the Line class. As a matter of
fact, each of the songs was supposed
to be doggerel and to be used as such.
They weren’t designed to make a
President mad. merely to amuse a
soldier—and soldiers will sing.
Suggests Farm Life
To Cure Drunkenness
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27.—The San
Francisco Association for the Treatment
and Cure of Drunkenness and the Drug
Habit was organized here. Superior
Judge Frank H Dunne being elected
president.
The association plans to secure such
changes in the State laws as may be
necessary to permit counties to care
for persons addicted to liquor or drug
habits on a social farm, and to extend
the probation system to persons dis
charged from these farms.
Nurse Gets $9,000 for
Kindness to Patient
EASTON, PA.. Dec. 27.—Mrs. William
C. Koch, a trained nurse of this city,
received a check for $9,000 from attor
neys for the estate of the late Miss Ann
Corey, who died three weeks ago at
New London.
When Mrs. Koch’s husband died two
years ago she returned to her former
occupation as a nurse, and the first
case she took was that of Miss Corey.
Bones of Imperial
Elephant in Tar Bed
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27.—An impe
rial elephant with tusks 15 feet long,
and with bones exceeding many times
the dimensions of the largest living
species, is being unearthed in the great
asphalt beds at LaBrea.
L E. Wyman. W’ho has charge of the
paleontological investigations and ex
cavations about the famous fossil beds,
first discovered the skull bones In one
of the pits.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Never mind
how the tariff’s going to work out,
or what the currency bill is ali about,
anyway, or when Huerta is going to
fall, or the next White House wed
ding to occur, or—let everything stop,
everything go, and see if you are the
smart person who can stand right up
here and answer this question:
“Who saw the first rainbow?”
That's all that’s worrying Hacken
sack, N. J.
Down at the Town Hall last night
there was a public debate with, the lo
cal “champ” Weather Prophet Devoe.
expostulating that Noah saw' the firs:
pretty ribbons strung in the skies,
and the Rev, Dr. Hume, of Brooklyn,
a-coming right back at him and a-go
ing it up hill and down dale that It
was Adam got the first peek—yep—
before Eve started playing big time
at all.
"No, sir,” said "Champ” Devoe:
“there wasn’t any rain till the worid
went all wrong and the moon changed
her course and the flood came. And
when the rain stopped, then, Noah
was first in it, at the first afternoon
of the big sky show. Before that there
wasn’t anything but mists. And men
grew' to be giants and never died, and
women could go shopping and never
be caught in the rain. First time a
rainbow* is ever mentioned In the
Bible was when. Noah looked up after
the flood.”
“No, sir,” said the Rev. Dr. Hume
“How comes it Noah w*as preaching
100 years about rain if he never saw
It? It isn’t necessary to have rain t>
see a rainbow. You can see rainbows
iri the Niagara mists any day the sun
is shining. So, if there w'ere only
mists before Noah’s time, there were
rainbows, just the same. Brother
Devoe knows nothing about sunshin*
—it’s all moonshine he’s been giving
us—and him a prohibitionist, too”’
“And,” chirped up the Rev. S. F
Davis from the audience, “he went
and prophesied squalls for to-night,
and the stars are shining.”
Then everybody laughed “Ha, ha.
ha!” at Prophet Devoe. and the rrmei-
ing broke up. But Just the same. t«j
a mere amateur it would seem that .
Eve ever saw a rainbow' she’d ha\e
told Adam to go get it and chucke
away her fig leaf for the new deco
ration.
Mull's
COUGH SYRUP
A racking cough with paras
through the chest to the
back, short breathing, hoarw
VSS ness and raising of mucu-, 1S ‘
treated with the tried and depen
Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. Pnce.f
Buy it only, and protect your beaa
No Morphine or Chloroform.
“I always have Dr. Bull's Cough
house for severe coughs and gljjlj Murnan «,
i it to be the tag
SAMPLE FREE
BOY. 9, KILLS SISTER, 3.
TERRE HAUTE. IND.. Dec. 27.—
Robert Milligan, aged 9, playing with a
revolver at his home in Brazil, shot his
3-year-old sister, Louise, in the face,
killing her. Mrs. Milligan once had
taken the weapon from the boy and
warned film not to use It.
XMAS RATES
Reduced over N., C. & St.
L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R.
Apply any Agent.
PAY 5VSE FOR CURES ONLY
.*.* you havs boon taking troatmont Tor week* and yt»a
log out your hard earned money without being cu ' 0 rp£R?
think It Is high time to accept DR. HUGHES' GRAND Of CoBf||l .
You will certainly noi bo out any rooro niooey IT J?
tatlon and Examination are Free for the not thlrty 0 y • treat-
If I decide that your condition will not yield rcaoi > accop*
xnent, 1 wid l>« honest with you and tall you to.
your money under a promise of a cure. M ebon*
My troatmont will positively oura or I will «■**•
for the following discuses:
KIDNEY, BLADDER AND BLOOD
TROUBLE. PILES. VAKICOSE VEINS.
FISTULA, NERVOUSNESS. WEAKNESS.
RUPTURE, ULCERS AND SKIN DISEASES.
vtaBa-HRBi CONSTIPATION
tetenii, RbeumatHm. Catarrhal Affections, Pilot and Fistula and nil Nervous ■
Diseases of Men and Women. . I •*
New and Chronic Cases of Burning, Itching and Inflammation atopred ar«
against high and extortionate fees charged by sons rhyaldana and epedall***- iB( j
reasonable and no more than you are wliling to pay for a cure. Ail me(llcinyrsJTLN 0
best of drugs, are supplied from my own pm ale laboratory. OUT-OF-TOWN lax.* r etun»ind
THE CITY, consult me at once upon arrival, and maybe you can bo cured oa
homa. Many cases can be cured In one or two visits. , . wosrr* •
CALL OK WRITE—No detention from business. Treatment and advice cooCden..* . jr , iT
a m. to 7 p. m Sunday. 9 to 1 If you can't call, write and give mo full uesrn. • j
«a*e In your own words. A complete consultation costa you nothing and If I can ut.p
DR. HUGHES