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■ * TTEAKST’fs MJ.MIAI AiVlKKlUAIN ATLANTA, HA., MuMIAt, IJKGKMKKK 28, 1912. 5 D GQTPHBN r i FREE TO ASTHMA SUFFERERS A New Home Cure That Anyone C*n bee Without Diecomfort or Lo»* of Tlmo. We have a New Method that cures Asthma and we want you to try It at our expense. No matter whether ‘ your case is of long standing or r«- cent development, whether it Is pres ent as occasional or chronic Asthma you should Bend for a free trial of our method. No matter in what climate you live, no matter what your age or occupation, if you are troubled with asthma, our method should re lieve you promptly. , We especially want tc send it to ' Noted Artists Pick ‘Girl of To-day SCATTERS GOLD Chicagoan Wins in Beauty Test v • v *!•••> v§v •!« •»’« •!*•*!• Chum of West's Richest Heiress Miss Elizabeth Goodrich, chosen as the ideal type of American girlhood in a contest judged by noted artists. CompanyAsked $104,623,500 for Its Plant—“Proved” Capital Outlay To Be $81,870,295, But Accepted $51,568,825. Public Ownership of 600,000 Telephones Was Preceded by Parliamentary Appraisal—Tele- gramsl,000 Miles,Cent a Word Special Cable to The American. LONDON, Dec. 27.—The United States, if it acts upon the suggestion of Postmaster General Burleson and tak^s over the telephone and tele graph systems, may take a leaf from the history of England's experience. The British Government, which now has an absolute monopoly of every public means of communication in the Pelted Kingdom, paid less than half ’he sum demanded by the National Telephone Company when it took over the 6^0,000 telephones of that concern on January 1, 1912. The National Telephone Company asked $104,623,500 for its plant. Sub sequently it reduced the demand to a round $100,000,000. It "proved" that its capital expenditures, up to June, 1911, were $81,870,295. \ Parliamentary commission, after a hearing covering 71 days, awarded the companv $62,576,320. The Gov ernment finally paid the concern $51,- 568.825, which included $1,235,945 ex pended by the telephone company in raising capital during its lifetime. The price at which the company sold out to the Government, was therefore, $30,301,470 less than its ex penditures had been, and $53,054,675 less than its original demand. How Capital Was Divided. The capitalization of the National Telephone Company was $53,405,000. It was divided as follows: $750,000 6 ner cent first preference shares, $750,- 000 6 per cent second preference, $6,- -*50,000 5 per cent third preference, $11,125,000 6 per cent preferred stock, $18,625,000 6 per cent deferred ordi nary shares, $7,657,320 3 1-2 per cent debentures, and $8,248,580 4 per cent debentures. The average dividend payment worked out a little under 5 1-4 per cent per annum. Prior to absorption by the Govern ment engineering experts took an In ventory of every article in the pos session of the company. This work required eighteen months. One hun dred experts were employed. Ham mond V. Hayes, an American engi neer. looked after the interests of the telephone company. All telegraph and telephone sys tems in the kingdom are owned and operated by the Government. There Is a uniform charge of 12 cents for a twelve-word telegram to any part of the British Isles, with a charge of 1 cent for each additional word. One can send a twelve-word tele gram from Lands End to John-o’- Groats, nearly 1,000 miles, for 12 cents. Postmaster General Samuel recently announced a coming reduc tion both in the minimum number of words and the cost. Cheap Public Telephones. The rent of telephone instruments Is $25 annually. This does not in clude any calls, which, in addition, cost 2 cents each if in the county of London, and 4 cents each outside the county of London, in Greater London. A deposit of $7.20 is required against such calls. The deposit must be renewed when exhausted. An ad ditional deposit of $4.80 is necessary if the subscriber requires the use of the long-distance telephones. The cost of unlimited service is $85 for the first line and $70 for every additional line, no matter how many. The telephone systems of both Lon don and Paris were not well managed by the nrivate companies, and are not well managed by the Government as yet, but it is only fair to say that the officials are showing signs of improv ing matters. Europe has much to learn, however, from the American telephone inventors and operators. HORSE PUT ON PENSION LIST. JUNCTION CITY. KANS.. Pec. 27.— Mick, the only horse on Uncle Sam’s pension list, is enjoying his new free dom in a pasture on the military reser vation at Fort Riley. Kans.. after 26 years of continuous service. HIS FIFTH HUE Charles W. Lewis, 54, and Miss Elsie M. Hinman. 20, Mar ried at New Rochelle. -My True Type of New Daughterliood of the United States Is Discovered. CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—“The Girl of To-day," as. judged for beauty and distinction by a company of the most famous American artists and illus trators, is Miss Elizabeth Goodrich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert W. Goodrich, of No. 920 Lincoln Park way. The committee of distinguished artists who favored the charms of Miss Goodrich with those of the daughters of New York and Wash ington was composed of James Mont gomery Flagg, Clarence Underwood, C. Allan Gilbert, Philip Boileau," Pen- rhyn Stanlaws, W. L. Jacobs and Hamilton King, who were chosen as judges of a beauty contest in New York to ascertain “The Girl of To day.” “She is the true type," they said; “the new daughterhood of America— delicate, yet spirited as a steel band!” Miss Goodrich—the “Girl of To day,” is on her way to spend the NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., Dec. 27. Ten-dollar gold pieces for everybody in sight made a joyous audience for the marriage of Miss Elsie Marie Hinman. 20 years old, and Charles W. Lewis, 54 years, by Mayor Fred erick H. Waldorf in the City Hall this noon. Grateful recipients of the bride groom’s largesse spent their odd pen nies for rice at the nearest grocery shop an.l tossed it gleefully upon the newly wedded pair. City Hull em ployees stopped work to beat “Here Comes the Bride" with penholders on electric light shades, and lucky loungers jingled their new eagles and whistled their respective conceptions of the Mendelssohn march. Mr. Lew is seemed to enjoy the air, though he had marched to it into matrimony four times previously. Mrs. Charles Hinman, of No. 54 j Decatur street, Brooklyn, beamed on her daughter and appeared to have entirely forgotten that she was fined $7 after her last previous public en counter with Mr. Lewis. Miss Mar tha Peralta and Miss Hannah Pear son. who were witnesses, with Wil liam J. McAllon, Deputy City Clerk, did not give their addresses and de clined to answer when asked if they were on the stage. Income $30,000 Yearly. “I’m going to take them with me to Bermuda," the bride said as the big limousines bore away the wed ding party to Hunter’s Point Inn for the wedding breakfast. The bride is the daughter of Charles Jay Hinman, of New York, who has a summer home in Wood bury, Conn. Her mother, who is wealthy, sought a separation from Mr. Hinman three years ago. The daughter then went to live with her father at Woodbury. Mr. Lewis in herited an estate of about $400,000 from his father and testified in his last divorce action that he enjoyed an income of $30,000, but could spare none of it for Mrs. Lewis, No. 4, be cause he needed all of it to gratify bis passion for travel. She was Mrs Mary Crofut, owner of an inn at Ox ford, Conn. She began an action for divorce three days after the mar riage, early in 1911, complaining that Mr. Lewis, with great cruelty, had deserted her early in the morning after their wedding. Gnce Were Enemies. Mr. Lewis was sitting on the porch of the Curtis House one day nearly four years ago, when Mrs. Hinman appeared in her automobile. Edward Hinman, her son, was with her. They expressed indignation because of re holiday vacation with her parents, in j ports of friendship between Elsie company with her schoolmate, Miss Hinman, then only 16, and Mr. Lew- Catherine Barker, the Indiana girlies, who was 51 and married to his heiress to the steel fortune of $20,- third wife 000,000. | Mr. Lewis went into the Curtis They are -chums at Brlarcllff, New i House ahead of an umbrella and a vork. Miss Barker is only 10 and ex-| chair in the hands, respectively, of peots, with Miss Goodrich and Miss M r.s. Hinman and her son. The ho- Edith Harrison, daughter of Mayor and Mrs. Harrison, to enter a finish ing school in Paris next fall. Eugenics a Failure, Declares Professor MILWAUKEE. WIS., Dec. 27.—Pro fessor John M. Coulter, of Chicago Uni versity, declared in a lecture here that eugenics is practically a failure, say ing: “Voluntary selection plays a more important part in the laws of heredity than anything eugenics has dreamed of." He asserted that a consonance of sympathies takes precedence in impor tance over other acknowledged abilities and determining factors. ‘Venus' Plays a Joke; School Teacher Sad SPOKANE, Dec. 27.—-The dream of a “veritable Venus” of F. M. Ghormley, the Troy, Oreg., school-teacher, who came a-wooing to Spokane by the want ad route, has become a nightmare. “Miss Mary Parker," the “Venus,” is no more. But Mrs. Miller, a hotel guest who loves a joke, has returned with her husband to Montana. Mr. Ghormley’s present wife, whom “Venus" was to supplant, lives in Lew- id determining iaciors. . : . ... Speaking of tendencies to insanity, he jston. U® has biougnt an action for said that where both parents come from . divorce. a source of sound mental control, insan- , B< v,r .pp^, ,n U.e c^n. $1,000 in Shoe, Hobo j s Cured by Prayer Asks Mayor to Dine JOLIET, ILL., Dec. 27.—John Kramer, Mayor of Rockdale, a suburb of Joliet, is noted locally for his benevolence. He is a friend of the friendless. A ragged and half-starved hobo appeared before him and was sentenced to jail. Mayor Kramer asked the prisoner his name. "John Kramer," was the reply. The Mayor ordered the man freed, whereupon the hobo asked him out to dine. , , _ . “I thought you were broke and hun- grv," sattT Kramer to Kramer. “No, indeed," replied Kramer. The hobo then took off his shoes and extracted $1,000 in bills. those apparently hopeless cases, < where all forms of Inhalers, douchos 1 opium preparation*, fumes, “patent ; | amoka®. etc . have failed We want , » to ehow every one at our own ex- 1 • p*n»e that this new method Is de- j •igned to fend all difficult breathing. , all wheezing, and all those terrible paroxysms at once and for all time. J This free offer is too important to neglect a single day Write now and then begin the method at once. Rend no money. Simply mall coupon below. Do it to-day Would Rather Hang Than Eat More Soup UNION TOWN, PA., Dec. 27.—“They tell me I am to be hanged on January 8," said John Payne, aged 65. convicted murderer, in jail here, to-day. “But I would be glad If they wou d advance the date, and hang me as soon as they can put up the scaffold. I would rather walk up the steps of that scaffold any time than face another bowl of soup. I have had nothing to eat but soup since 1 entered this jail, and I’m so tired of it I can’t look at the stuff any more. Indians Use Thumbs To Sign for License unable to FREE ASTHMA COUPON FRONTIER ASTHMA CO.. Room 550-H Niagara and Hudson Sts., Buffalo. N. Y Send free trial of your method to: SPOKANE, WASH.. Dec. 27. —For the first time in Spokane County's civic records thumb prints were taken in lieu of signatures of persons write. „ Neas Skumentia. aged 4o. Indian rancher, and Louise Larose, aged 18 asked for a marriage license. They readily acceded to the thumb print sug gestion of Auditor Butler. | Greatest Tunnel Is Planned in West j VANCOUVER. BRITISH COLUMBIA, ; Dec. 27.—The Canadian Pacific Railway i Company w ill build an 8-mile tunnel i through the Selkirks at Rogers Pass. I Work is to begin on January 1 and com- j pleted in three and one-half years. The contract is the largest tunnel job *»ver let In America and probably will I cost about $88,000,000. CENTRA LI A, ILL., Dec. 27.—Mrs. Edna Kent, a victim of tuberculosis, j whose case was given up as hopeless ’ by her physician, has apparently fully recovered her health and attributes her cure entirely to prayer. Mrs. Kent was so weak she could not speak above a whisper when her physician informed relatives she would probably not survive, until morning. The patient overheard the statement. She called her husband to her bedside and the two spent the night in prayer. Indian Is Ordained As Catholic Priest ST’PERjbR. WIS., Dec. 27.—Philip B. Gordon, sin Indian, has been ordained to the Catholic priesthood by Bishop Koudelk. He is the second of his race to be ordained in ihc I'nlted States The Rev. Albright Neganquet was or dained several years ago for the diocese of Oklahoma. Gordon’s grandfather was Anton (Jor don. one of the first settlers in this country. The town of Gordon was named in his honor. He was influen tial with Chief Hole,-ln-the Day, and his counsel prevented an uprising of the Chippewas in 18(12. Woman Shot Him and Now He Marries Her CHICAGO. Dec. 27.—A near-tragedy in the life of It. Bruce Watson, archi tect and politician, has turned into a romance. Mr. Watson has married the woman who two years ago shot him twice and chased him through the streets with a revolver. The present Mr.s. Watson formerly ealthv [ r as •V s - !:•""*« '/■ Roney. Coney ob- -i.S i tamed a divorce three years ago, men tioning Watson a* co-respondent. Pastor Calls Tango Devil’s Harvest Field MARSHALL. MICH., Dee 27.—Resi dents of Paw Paw have burned hun dreds of decks of playing cards and the public dance bail has been closed This is the result of revival meetings con ducted by Rev. Mr. Grimes, pastor of the Baptist Church of Ceresco who ral ed the tango “the devil’s harvest field. - The tango, hesitation glide and other new dances are now tabooed at Paw Paw. Children’s Long Hike Inspired by Movies MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 27. -LOured by what they saw irt a moving picture show. Viola and Donald Norton, aged 13 and 12 years, set out on a camping expedition to Lake Minnetonka. Although the distance is more than 20 miles, they made the trip on foot, carrying provisions and cooking uten sils. They were found living in a small house at the lake. Believing that they had been kidnaped their parents and the poliee had searched for them since their disappearance. tel lost a door and a window before Mr. Lewis was rescued. Mrs. Hin man and her son were each fined $' next day. All Merry at Fifth Wedding. Everybody Interested had forgotten that little incident to-day and Mr. Lewis in his sworn application for a marriage license reported that his fourth wife, Mrs. Crofut, had obtain ed a divorce on January 16, 1912, in Waterbury, Conn., and an award of $15,000 from Judge Lucien F. Bur pee. He said his first divorce was December 23, 1881, at Moodus, Conn., but did not go into details. Two ol the predecessors of his bride of yes terday had died, he said. Mrs. Hinman, whose decree of sep aration was granted by Justice Keough in Westchester County Jan uary 20, 1913, and Mr. and Mrs. Da vid W. Glasser, of New Rochelle, went with the others to the wedding breakfast after the ceremony. Mrs. Hinman and her daughter have been staying here with the Glassers, who have a country place near the Hin man home, in Woodbury, Conn. The whole party arrived in auto mobiles about 11 o’clock, and after the license was issued arranged with the Mayor for the wedding at noon. In the interim they disappeared, and when they returned Mrs. Hinman bore a great bunch of orchids, lilies and Killarney roses. Four Offices Filled One Oregon Citizen ALBANY, OREG., Dec 27.—Through being drawn as a member of the Linn County Grand Jury, Henry W. McEl- murry, of this city. In for the next few months an officer of the county, city and school district in which he re sides. Last spring McElmurry was elected a member of the Albany School Board. In the city election he was chosen Councilman from the Third Ward. Last month he was drawn as a Juror for the December term of court and began his service on the same day an the city election. Marion Jackson's Aid i Sought by Savannah ! Leader of ‘Drys’ Thinks Atlanta Man I Should Make His Fight Statewide. SAVANNAH. Dec. 27 —The cru sade that opened this week with the closing of six wholesale places by injunction and the serving of 23 war rants on alleged whisky dealers will bring Marion Jackson, >»f Atlanta, into the fight, if lie accepts the invi tation of W. R. Stubbs, the local leader. Mr. Stubbs and his attorney, Ma jor George Richter, considered to day a campaign similar to that car ried out by Mr. Jackson in Atlanta including the posting of bulletins in daily papers. They have, however, decided that it will be necessary to get some one experienced with the work and at a meeting this afternoon it was decided to make an effort to interest Mr. Jackson and see if he will not make his fight statewide. The leaders say it will be difficult to raise money enough in this city to prosecute the fight, and unless aid comes from the outside it may prove unsuccessful. Husband WedsAgain; Wife to Get Divorce DANVILLE, VA., Dec. 27.—Mrs. William Lamb, of this city, whose husband was arrested in Augusta, Ga., several days ago, a few moments after he had married a young woman of that city, announces that she will lose no time instituting divorce pro ceedings. She and two of her chil dren have been working for some time to support the family. Mrs. Lamb is held in the highest esteem here and has the sympathy of the entire community. Her husband was here last summer, anti is said to have sought a reconciliation with his wife without avail. Mrs. Lamb expressed no surprise when she learn ed of the Augusta marriage and his arrest. According to a dispatch from that city. Lamb escaped from the bailiff while pretending to be ordering a cab for his bride before he was lodged in jail. J “Dirtiest Man" Made To Wash His Face Peary Wants U. S. South Pole Station First Rural Credit Bank in U.S.Opened MARINETTE, WIS.. Dec. 27.—Th* first State Land Mortgage Association in Wisconsin under the new law has opened for business with a paid-in cap ital of >25.000. The institution is com bined with the Farmers' Saving and Trust Company, also a new organization with a pa’d-in capital of $55,000. Application for a number of loans by farmers under the provisions of the new statute were received before the bank opened, and it is believed that the as sociation will play an important part in agricultural development. 11 IT DIVORCE CAUSED BY PACE SET IISDCIETV Major Ferguson, Defendant, Tells of Aspirations That Brought Trouble. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 27.T-The dirt- lest man in Kansas City. charged with vagrancy in the South Munici pal Court, was sentenced by Judge Bland to wash his face. He was Frank Jackson. “You are the dirtiest man I ever saw,” said the Judge. “Go and wash your face and hands and let us see what you look like.” Ten minutes later the man re turned. The change was wonderful. His face was flushed from the vigor ous rubbing. “You have been punished enough,” said the judge. “Discharged." Teacher Wants Cut In Pay; Is Refused BOSTON, Dec. 27.—Diogenes, please harken! The Everett School Board was in session when Clerk Whitney | read : “Communication from Charles R. Herrick, instructor in high school and evening school. Mr. Herrick asks that hi» salary as evening instructor be reduced.” “Move motion be refused," gasped one member. And the other revived long enough to nod assent, ^o Her rick will still get the money. Wedding Off, Both Soon Wed Others JEFFERSONVILLE, INI)., Dec. 27.— Miss Dora Dediva refused to be kept “waiting at the church," even if it was only a country justice’s court, so, when the man she was to marry was late, she married another. William E. Mo ran#, of Danville, Va., who was to marry Miss Dediva, was not to be ex celled by her. He was introduced to Miss Lora E. Blythes, of this place. Twenty minutes later they were mar ried. SAN’ FRANCISCO, Dec 27—Tile sorliil aspirations of .Mrs. Hattie May Ierguson were the underlying rea- sons for her divorce from Major Henry T. Ferguson. 17. s. A. as brought out in his testimony. She mon * ranted $17 ^ per month ali - «ml a i jor , r erp:usu ’' on the witness stuml objecting to his wife’s peti tion lor 1200 a month alimony, sum marized their domestic troubles In one short sentence: -Judge, 1 have been Poverty-stricken for eighteen years. Counsel for the wife asked the Major if he considered $50 a month sufficient to maintain the 18-year-old daughter in the social position which “flf. , a , d . boen accustomed to, and to which them standing in the commun ity entitled her. Mistaken Idea. “There seems to be a mistaken idea about the culture and social position which officers of the United States Army occupy," replied Major Fergu son. “Army officers, as every one knows, are honorable genflemen, but as everybody also knows they are poor devils in the matter of worldly goods. “It is not necessary that my daugh ter should associate with millionaires. Sbe not able to and neither am [ able to move in tlie same social set as do our millionaires $50 Month for Daughter. I believe that $50 a month, which Is all I am able to pay, is sufficient to maintain my daughter in the sta tion in life which she was intended to occupy, and I would like it to be understood that I pay this money directly into her hands each month. “I want my wife’s allowance to be separate from that of the children. I shall pay it to her each month, and it will be hers exclusively as long as she lives or until she remarries. I have no attack to make on my wife, and if any one else should attack her I stand ready at ull times to act as her defender. “I couldn’t possibly live in the same house with her any longer, however. 1 his divorce has been coming on gradually for eighteen years." Street Car Men Are Forbidden to Drink RICHMOND, IND., Dec. 27.—All em ployees of the city street car lines and the local division of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis end Eastern Traction Company were notified to-day that their presence in saloons, on or off duty, will result in dismissal front the company’s service. It is probable that a delegation of j TT Q QVino TitOf UVD local motormen ar.d conductors will go Ui ij i ijIlOtj i-CoLoI to Indianapolis next week with General Superintendent Jeffries regarding an increase In the wage scale on the Rich mond lines. S ERGEANT WALSH, who just finished a walk from Washington to San Francisco to test shoes offered for army use. G.0.P.HDPEI5 Raleigh Republicans Believe Plan Wou'd Have Saved Party in South Last Year. RALEIGH, Dec. 27.—Raleigh Re publicans look with considerable com placency upon the recently announced program of reorganization. Colonel Harry Skinner, until threo years ago District Attorney of the Eastern District, has been here this week, and by a leading Democrat m quoted as saying that the sole horn* of the party in the South is the plan adopted a few days ago. Colonel Skinner’s view is that the trading power of the South has been too great. Lester F. Butler, brother of former Senator Marion Butler, declares that the old organization in the South was opposed to growth and that tile new plan will help. Ex-Senator Butler says the present State organization opposes reorganization because it de poses present leaders and gives tho opportunity to "row. Such leaders as former Attorney General Zeb Vance Walser. ex-Con- gressman Richmond Pearson, ex-See- retary of State Cyrus W. Thompson. Judge YV. S. O’B. Robinson, leading Republicans two years ago, declare that they are no longer of the faith, but they believe the plan now would have saved the party from defeat last year. Chairman John Motley Morehead, Congressman from the Fifth North Carolina four years ago, is strongly in favor of the new plan, it is said here, though Mr. Morehead is not In the State and could not be Inter viewed. Colonel J. C. L. Harris. Roosevelt leader of last year, declared vest< r- day that Republicans can not hop® to restore the men lost last year, though the reorganization plan should strengthen the party next year. Minister Working To Save Dora Murff His Foot Not Dainty; Shoe 17 Inches Long LORAIN, OHIO, Dee. 27.—A shoe company of this city received two pairs of shoes, one lor dress’, the other for working wear. These shoes are for Louis Levandosky, a. tube factory em ployee. They are No. 16. The store had nothing larger than No. 12 when Levandosky called recent ly to make a purchase. The shoes were made to order. Levandosky. is 6 feet 10 inches high and weighs 290 pounds. The shoes are 17 inches long. Elevator Man Wants Raise to Haul Women RICHMOND, Dee. 27.—Anticipating an extraordinary rush of traffic inci dent to the session of the General As sembly, which convenes next month, Dick Blankenship, elevator man at the Capitol, is demanding a raise in sal ary from $80 to $100 per month. Ho estimates that women lobbying for State-wide prohibition and the equal ballot will alone furnish his elevator with more traffic than It can handle. Ends 4,000-Mile Trip Sergeant Walsh, U. S. N., Retired, Wears Out Six Pairs of Shoes on Trans-Continent Hike. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 27.—Hikers after records, professional walkers and seekers of fame through the medium of their tireless legs have come in for an unusual share of the public’s attention In recent years, but here Is a walker, unheralded and unsung, who hikes for the United States Government and gets paid for it. He is Sergeant John Walsh, United States Army (retired), who has com pleted a 4,000-mile hike from Washing- 1 on. Walsh, who Is 64, was retired from the Second Cavalry two years ago to become official shoe tester for the Army. When the War Department lets a I contract numerous tests are made of types of sty)e. To Walsh Is delegated the choice, and he makes his recommendations on ac tual wear and t»-ar Dn his present trip, which started May 6, he wore out six pairs of shoes. He put on his sev enth pair at Rugby, S. Dak., ami they were polished for the first time oi\ his arrival here. As soon as he made out his official reports on footwear he prepared for aft- other long tramp across the Continent. CROWLEY. LA.. Deo. 27.—An 80- year-old minister has taken up the cause of Dora Murff. convicted of man slaughter in the. killing of her alleged betrayer. Millard Delhaye. The Rev. J. S. Sutton, attending the conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Crowley, is circulating a petition to ask Judge William Camp bell for a merciful sentence. Each day the white-haired minister, whose service In the church measures half a century, passed among the dele gates attending with his plea fo rinter- cession in the imprisoned girl’s behalf. Son Will Not Accept His Fathers Bequest PARIS. ILL.. Dec. 27.—Erastus Hurst. of Billet, Ill., has refused, in court, to accept property, valued at $25,000, be queathed to him by his father, William Hurst, of this County. The unusual action was the outgrowth of an estrangement which the lather, •on his deathbed, sought in vain to heal. The wiil disposes of an estate of 700 acres and includes a bequest of 120 acres to Erastus, but a codicil, follow ing the date of the attempted recon ciliation, provides that if the legatee does not *ake possession of the land within one year after the father’s death, the property shall revert to the other heirs. Divorced One Day,She Weds Aged Veteran BALTIMORE, Dec. 27.—One day after her divorce. Mrs. Lillian M. C. Buck was married to William A. Wankmiller, 71. and a veteran of the Civil War. The bride has been living apart from her first husband for five years. About two years ago she met Wankmiller and the two began a courtship. It was then arranged that Mrs. Buck should secure a divorce, which was done, and the wedding followed promptly. XMAS RATES Reduced over N., C. & St. L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R. Apply any Agent. NEW YORK, Dec 27. Admiral Peary in an address to the blind of the city at the Museum of Natural History urged American scientists to continue bring ing glory to the United States, as they had done in the past. “In the discovery of the North Pole and with the completion of the Panama ('anal. Americans have accomplished in five years the things of which men had dreamed for ages..” he said. "I would like to see American scientists stationed at the South Pole." High School to Use Motion Pictures DES MOINES. IOWA. Dec. 27.-Mo tion pictures are to be introduced as a regular part of the course of study of the YV'est High School. Not only this, but one night each week the large auditorium will be open ed as a real "movie" house, although without train robberies. Indian massa cres, Chinatown murders or Illustrated songs. Weekly news event service will be a feature, and there probably will be a series of cartoon films. Southern Express Company SERVICE IS STANDARD 1- Southern Exoro*« Company , Incorporated^ Fnn ATLANTA, QA. to. t .TiAN*— Jtmto Ripr.* 00 this wiiprocnt »nc B Wto!* •* — u -• Bn ry,,.. fZUVf- ° “ Southern Express Company InoorporaM. Fm ATLANTA, CA. TiWy It to* »■ COLLECT charges at destination •n pieces Church Food Talks Salt Lake’s Plau SALT LAKE CITY. Dec. 27. Food lectures in churches, as a campaign of public education for enforcement of State and Federal food regulations, are being planned for the winter by F. B. Raynor. Food and Drug Inspector. “Every food buyer an inspector” is the slogan adopted. Hold-ups Cause Drop In Church Going SPRINGFIELD. ILL.. Dec. 27.—That the frequency or hold-ups perpetrated by highwaymen In Springfield is cut ting down church attendance Sunday nights, and that the city authorities should therefore take extreme meas ures to catch and convict the band of crooks now Infesting the city, was the plea made In his sermon recently by Rev. G. T. Gunter, of the Second Pres byterian Church. Yellow Labe; Msana Prepaid. Yellow Label package bearing a yellow labe shipper has already paid the White Label When you r e- oeive an express package bearing a yellow label pay nothing. The shipper has already paid the charges. Whit, Libel Mean, Collect. If a package bears neither Collect nor Pre paid label It will be delivered without charges, and collection, if proper, will be made thereafter. No Label This System When you receive an express pack age bearing a white label pay the charges. 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