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OVER 100,000 THE SUNDAY AMERICAN’S NET PAID CIRCULATION 7 he National Southern Sunday Newspaper — — — — ■ — — The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results South Georgia AFTIRNOON EDITION VOL. XII. NO. 128. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1913. Copyright. 1906. By Th* Georgian Col 2 CENTS. PAT NO MORE. SEES BIGGEST YEAR FOR GA. MEN-AND-REL il ■ RITZI SCHEFF BRIDE; TAKES 3D HUSBAND FRITZ! SCHEFF. <3^> X PERITY Farmers Freed of Debt by Cotton Crop—Heavy Trade Coming, Says Expert. That the new year will be the biggest in the history of the South is the confident prediction made Monday by J. E. *C. Pedder, division superintendent for Bradstreet’s and an expert on business conditions in this section. Mr. Pedder declares 'that w r ith the tariff and currency bills disposed of and the banks full of money, nothing stands in the way of 1914 breaking all records. “The year 1913, just closing, has been one of the most complex that the Southeastern States have experi enced in years,” said Mr. Pedder, “and although crop conditions and prices in this territory have been good, owing to the disturbing factors of the tariff bugaboo and the cur rency bill, general conditions during the past summer were not entirely satisfactory, although there was no reasonable explanation. Free From Load of Debt. “The marketing of the cotton crop this fall brought the farmers, who had planted, worked and harvested it themselves at a minimum cost, practically free from ’ the load of debt that had accumulated the past two years, which will give them a good start for 1914. “The general trade throughout the Southeast has been restricted and repressed, and more in the line of filling in than normal buying, with Police Seek Youth for Kicking Glass Doors The police Monday are searching for a young man, well dressed and supposed to be insane, who kicked in the glass doors of the Cronheim Phar macy at Pryor street and Georgia avenue, and the Melton Pharmacy at Pryor and Garnett streets early Mon day morning, walked in, turned around and walked right out again. In neither store was anything missing w’hen the owners of the place came to work. Neighbors who saw the strange an tics telephoned the police, and Cap tain Poole answered with a squad of men. The neighbors said that the stranger slouched along the street with his hands In the pockets until he reached the store, and then, in both instances, kicked In the glass of the door and entered the store, coming out In a few seconds and hurrying up the street. Record Scarcity of Police Court Cases It may be due to the strained con dition of Atlanta’s pocketbook so soon after the holidays, or it may be due to the remnant of Christmas spirit that fills the civic heart—but there were only 39 cases docketed at police head quarters Monday for both sessions of Recorder’s Court It is the smallest number in the his tory of the court, and has occasioned considerable comment among police and court officials. Usually on Mon day the cases number all the way from 150 to 250. Lump on Her Neck Cost Painter $750 HACKENSACK, N. J„ Dec. 29.—A • on Mrs. Emil Klug’s neck in r portrait by Charles C. Hayes led e jury in the Circuit Court here to xle against the pointer in his suit recover $750 for the work. The ‘fense held the painting was not true Osborne Tries Plan of "Pals” for Convicts AUBURN, N. Y., Dec. 29.—Thomas ■Mott Osborne, chairman of the Com- missiun for Prison Reform, announced ’'to formation of the Prisoners’ Aid J-oague, known among the convicts of Auburn as “The Pals,” a name de- r ived from the initials of the league. 63 in Augusta Seek $1,000 Beer License AUGUSTA, Dec. 29.—Already there have been sixty-three applications for near-beer licenses for 1914 in the city of Augusta at $1,000 per license. The num ber of near-beer saloons this year is between 95 and 100 and It is believed that, despite the license increase from $500 to $1,000, the number will be prac tically the same. The near-beer dealers are to pay $500 on January 1. $250 on April i and $250 on Julyl. Bank Cashie rto Help Untangle Its Affairs AUGUSTA, Dec. 29.—It Is under stood that J. P. Armstrong, cashier of the Irish-American Bank, will go to work to-morrow to assist in straight ening out the tangled affairs of the Institution which was closed two weeks ago bv the State Bank Exam iner at the instance of the board of directors. Armstrong has returned to the city, furnished bond of $10,000 and Is re ported to be ready for business. Miss Knight to Ring Out Year for Middies Girl Gen. LaFayette Kissed Is Dead at 100 MELROSE, MASS., Dec. 29.—Mrs.' Ein • ‘ hamberlain, aged J00, grandaughtef .* mas Cutler, one the original ; ute men" of Lexington, is dead : ' When she was 12Tyeara'old,. Ocn- " 1 Lafayette visited Lexington, and ' her when she ptfeatoued Jiirfi/witji l * bouquet. ' 1 . . . 175 Paupers Sleep on Police Station Floor Chicago, Dec, 29.—when 17.1 homeless men appeared at the Side police headquarters and -earened to break into the build- 2 obtain shelter. Captain Me - r ulowed them to sleep on the u,ior °t the roll call room. NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Fritzi Scheff, the piquant star of light opera and vaudeville, who divorced two notable husbands within four years, was married secretly Wednesday in New Rochelle to George Anderson, her leading man and manager, it is just learned. j Rumors that the two were en- j paged began to be heard shortly after i the actress obtained her decree from John Fox, Jr., the novelist, last Feb- j ruary. But Miss Scheff made a de- ! nial of the rumors last April. The latest ceremony was vfery sim- | pie. Miss Scheff and Mr. Anderson | motored to the clerk’s office at about J 3 o’clock in the afternoon, obtained a license and hastened to the house, ! where the minister awaited them. The ceremony took place at 4 o’clock, j The bride wore a simple traveling j costume. They left at once foj* St. Louis. where Miss fcjcheff will appear 'this evening. - The first husband^pf the “little of opera, iis Paderewski called her, was the Baron Fritz von Bar- deleben. He came with her to this country several years ago and estab lished himself in business. He had been a captain of Hussars in the German army. She obtained a di vorce in 1908. Soon afterward, following a roman tic courtship in the Adirondacks, Miss Scheff was married to John Fox. Jr., the famous stury teller of the Cum berland Mountains. There was a clash of temperament, and she ob tained a decree. the result that merchandise stocks at the present time are depleted. “This indicates that the early spring months must show a decided increase in orders and sales. In fact, numerous local wholesalers and job bers have already felt this trade im petus in largely increased orders for spring shipment. 1914 To Be eBst. “With the tariff and currency bills disposed of. w r ith our banks full of money; with our farmers in better financial condition than for years; with the faith in ourselves that we have gained by the magnificent for ward strides we have made in the past few years, we can all look for ward with confidence born of our past successful achievements that 1914 will be the best year ever known in the South. “I might tell you of the wonderful record we have made here in At lanta, but the world knows that, and statistics are dry reading, anyway; but if we hll attend to our own knitting, each one striving to make his individual efforts the best, we of the Southland will lead the nation in comparative results.” NEWPORT, Dec. 29.—Miss Kath erine Knight, the handsome 19-year- old daughter of Rear Admiral Aus tin M. Knight, has gone to Annapo lis as the choice of the middies to ring out the old and ring in the new' year at the Naval Academy New- Year’s Eve. She was selected by the graduating class of cadets. ‘Corset Raids' New Crusade in Berlin Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. BERLIN, Dec. 29.—Local police are making “corset raids” as the result of protests against shopkeepers who display corsets on life size wax fe male figures. The shopkeepers made a concession by putting flimsy petti- ! coats on the figures. Tin Can, Cotton and Stove His Incubator NEWTON. X. J., Dec. 29.—George Schaefer hatched an egg on the kitchen stove, using a baking pow der can and cotton. The chicken is alive. Cow Wreck Victim Given Wooden Leg NEW YORK, Dec, 29.—James Gal loway, veterinary surgeon of Kirkin tilloch, Scotland, arrived here from Glasgow with photos of a cow with a wooden leg. Dr. Galloway attached the stump after a locomotive had re moved the original. THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia—Rain Monday; clear ing and colder Tuesday. SCIENCE TOPROBE ASKED CUBE SKY'S IN SECRETS ATTACK Foremost Astronomers of Nation ■ Will Lecture During Great Convention Here. Labor Federation Calls on Con gress for Investigation—Lead er in Serious State. New discoveries in astronomy are expected to furnish the principal in terest at he opening session of the sixty-fifth meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which convenes In Atlanta Monday, with more than 500 dele gates in attendance. Each of the men attending the convention is of note in some branch of scientific develop ment. An address expected to prove o f unusual interest as regards the sci ence of the stars wil 1 be given Mon day night by retiring President Dr Edward Charles Pickering, director of the astronomical observatory of Har vard University who will speak on “The Study of the Stars.” Dr. Pick ering is a w’orld-famed authority on astronomy. At 9 o’clock Monday morning D.\ L. O. Howard, of Washington, who Is permanent secretary of the associa tion, opened his “office” In the Pied mont Hotel, where he will be busy registering the delegates to the con vention and assigning them to their different halls. The convention will be divided into six different bodies, meeting individually during the day and gathering at the Auditorium in mass session in the evenings. Reception for Delegates. The first general assemblage will be held at the Auditorium Monday night at 7:30 o'clock. The first half hour will be devoted to a musical re view by Organist Charles A. Sheldon. At 8 o’clock retiring President Dr. Pickering will speak, being followed by Dr. Edmund Beecher Wilson, pro fessor of zoology at Columbia Uni versity, and the new president of the association. Governor Slaton and Mayor Woodward will make ad dresses of welcome. A 9 o'clock the meeting will ad journ to the University Club, where the first public reception will be held. All visitors connected with the asso ciation or affiliated with the socie ties composing it have been invited to attend this reception, which will be informal. Many other social affairs have been arranged for the visitors. Tues day evening they will be the guests of Governor and Mrs. Slaton at a re ception at the Governor’s Mansion. Other receptions and tours to points of interest about Atlanta are plan ned. The visiting ladles will be given a reception by the College Women’s Association of Atlanta. The different bodies composing the assoc iation began organizing In their respective halls at 10 o’clock Mon day morning, and at 2 o’clock will take up their respective programs. Each body will be addressed by its respective vice president in the form al openings. Foreign Expert# Here. Every branch of scientific research will be discussed in these meetings. Two distinguished foreigners who are scheduled for addresses are Dr. Paul Otlet, of Brussels, who will read a paper at 4:30 o’clock Tuesday aft ernoon on “The International Organ ization of Scientific Activities.” Dr. Otlet is general secretary of the Union of International Congresses. Dr. Flduardo Braga, of Rio Janeiro, who is connected with the Brazilian Department of Agriculture, also Is expected to attend. He is extending himself In the effort to get all South American countries to join in the work of the association. Tw'o public lectures, complimentary to the citizens of Atlanta, will be given at 8 o’clock Tuesday night by Dr. Charles Waddell Stiles, of the hygienic laboratory of the United States Public Health and Marine Hos pital Service, on “The Health of the Mother in the South,” and one on "The Explosive Resources of the Confederacy During the War and Now,” by Dr. Charles El Munroe, o* George Washington University. He will exhibit samples of the work of Professor Mallet, of the University of Virginia, who during the war was in charge of the manufacture of ex plosives for the Confederacy. CHICAGO, Dec. 29.-—Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Mir who fled to Chicago from Calumet, Mich., where he said he' was set upon by a mob of angry Citizens and fired upon from the darkness, was still In a serious condition to-day with a re volver bullet a half-inch from his spine. Physicians at St. Luke’s Hos pital said they might remove the bul let later to-day. In spite of the conflicting stories of how Moyer came by his w’ounds, Charles H. Tanner, a Los Angeles la bor agent, convinced the Chicago Federation of I^abor that Moyer was the victim of an attack by citizens of the Calumet copper region, and resolutions were adopted by the fed eration calling upon Congress for an investigation of the incident and for the punishment of the men responsi ble for the attack on Moyer. Panic Victims Buried; Strike Leader Sought. CALUMET. MICH., Dec. 29 — Efforts to adjust the labor difficulties between the strtktair'cefjjpef m4wers in Calu met District and the mine owners were renewed to-day following the funeral of fifty-nine of the victims of the Christ mas panic in Italia Hall. With Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, In Chicago, suf fering injuries which he says were In flicted by citizens who drove him from the district, a new leader was being sought who would show the miners the way to a peaceful settlement of their troubles. As the fifty-nine caskets—forty-four of them small white boxes, containing the bodies of miners’ children—wound through the streets and along the snow- covered country roadway to the ceme tery. every miner in the 2 miles long procession and every person who lined the streets as the eortege passed real ized that if the strike had ended be fore Christmas eve there would have been no Italia Hall celebration and no l>anlc. The undercurrent of sentiment In favor of peace to-day appeared to be growing in the minds of the miners and their families. Representaives of the Citizens’ Al liance to-day continued their efTorta to give aid to the families who need food and clothing. Notwithstanding the in junction of President Moyer that aid of fered by the citizens be refused, many families accepted baskets of provisions and bundles of warm clothing. Mme. Nordica on Ship Aground in Antipodes Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA. Dec. 29. Ships which went to aid of the Dutch steamer Tasman that went ashore on Bramble Elay, Gulf of Papua, report ed by wireless to-day that the stranded steamer is not in grave danger. They reported that several vessels were standing by to take o ffthe passengers, who include Mme. Nordica, the singer, and ex-Governor Alva Adamh, of Colorado, and T. C. Stallamith, of California, Panama Exposition commissioner. Wedding Rush Onto Beat Eugenic Law MILWAUKEE. Dec. 29.~Anticipating the enforcement of the new eugenic law in Wisconsin, a rush Is on in every county in the State to obtain marriage licenses this month and evade the ex amination provided in the measure, which becomes effective January 1. U.S.Put Next to China In Cheapness of Life CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—Human life is cheaper in Industrial America than any where else in the world except China, according to Episcopal Bishop Charles D. Williams, of Michigan, who lectured here. WORKING WOMEN +•+ +•+ +•+ Write What Shakespeare Couldn't IN LITERARY CLUB +•+ +•+ •I’H* LONDON, Dec 29.—Socialist working women of London have formed e pen club for the cultiva tion of their literary talents. Among the contributors are: A London cook, who writes verse. A general servant, aged 19, who has written a promising sketch in dialogue. A young married woman who has written several dramatic sto ries on the struggle of the agricul tural laborer. Several Lancashire mill hands. “I ask them,” said Miss Canrie, founder of the club, “to try to real* ize that although they are not Shakespeares, they can write something that Shakeapeare could not write.” REPLY 10 ’5 Marshal Quits; Jail Now an Ice House GENTRY, MO., Dec 21—The news papers have had a great deal to say lately concerning Kingston, Mo., be cause the town marshal resigned his position and the calaboose was sold for a chicken house. Gentry has had no marshal since the last one re signed several years ago and It is more than a year ago that the city 1a.ll building was sold and moved away for an Ice house. Furthermore, Gentry has no pool- room, billiard hall or bowling alley. Even games of marbles and horse shoes, so common in most small towns, are not played here. LIE! Marion Jackson Declares Bulle tins, Scored as Breeders of. Evil, Will Be Continued. Wayne Posse, With Dogs, Trails Negro JBSUP, Deo. 29.—A Wayne County posse with bloodhounds to-day is pursuing a negro who last night at tempted to attack an aged white woman at Hortense, near here. The negro barricaded himself In a shanty, and balled with the Sheriff’s posse, escaping in the darkness. Later he shot the Seaboard Air Line bridge watchman near Everett City, when the watchman attempted to ar rest him. Congressman Metz Tired of Washington NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—“Well, I don’t think Til go back to Congress again. I won’t be a rubber stamp for anyone, and I don’t think you have much of a show in Washington unless you are a Southerner.” Ex-Comptroller Herman A. Metz thus expressed himself when asked how he liked Washington. He Is now Congressman from the Tenth Dis trict, but wants to retire. To Dance at Xmas Tree for Turnverein The Christmas tree to be given by the Atlanta Turnverein to the chil dren of Its members on the night of December 31 will be the largest ever, in the opinion of the officers. The boughs of the big green tree are now bending under its load of gifts for the children lees than 15. Dancing will begin at 9 o’clock. Richmond Sister of Macon Woman Buried RICHMOND. Dec. 29.—Mr». Wil liam F. Rhea, whose husband Is a member of the Virginia Corporation Commission and was formerly a member of Congress from the Ninth Virginia District, was burled to-day. Mrs. Rhea was a slater of Mrs. C. L. Bunting, of Macon. She died Sun day. Augusta Folk to Get $300,000 Dividends AUGUSTA, Dec. 29.—January 1 will be dividend day and a large amount of money will be turned loose in divi dends by Augusta banks and industrial corporations. On July l and January 1 dividends are paid by many local Institutions A sum in the neighborhood of $300,000 is turned into the local charnels of trade twice each year by the dividend method. Intense interest was manifest in religious circles Monday over the attack of Colonel Frederic J. Faxon, one of the leading busi ness men of Atlanta, upon the bulletins and propaganda of the Men and Religion Forward Movement, which appeared ex clusively in yesterday’s Sunday American. Colonel Paxon’s denunciation of the bulletins, on the ground that their discussion and agitation of “taboo ’ subjects breeds evil in the minds of the young and injures the city, is considered by many to be the first gun of a campaign against the bul letins by a group of influential men In sympathy with Colonel Paxon. leaders of the Men and Religion Forward Movement refused Monday morning to enter the controversy per sonally, although Marion Jackson, secretary of the Executive Commit tee and author of the bulletins, threw down the gauntlet to Colonel Paxon and his associates with the statement that the criticism of the bulletins w'ill not alter the future work or pub lications of the movement. Committee Meet# Monday. “I shall not make the matter per sonal,” Mr. Jackson said, "for the Men and Religion Forward Move ment, through Its executive commit tee, speaks for the churches of At lanta and not for any Individual. It. goes without saying that Colonel Paxon’s statement In yesterday's American will have no bearing or ef fect on our future plans, and we will not abandon our campaign of bulle tins merely on account of personal differences of opinion regarding their effect.” The regular weekly meeting of the executive committee of the move ment will be held Monday afternoon at 1 o’clock, but Mr. Jackson refused to state whether there was any like lihood of official action being taken as a result of Mr. Paxon’s criticism “The matter probably will be men tioned,” he said. It Is generally understood that many members of the executive com mittee favor the preparation and pub lication of a reply to Colonel Paxon’s attack, and It also has been inti mated that some sort of official ac tion will be taken at the meeting to day. Mr. Jackson’s reticence regard ing the probable steps the committee will take appears to bear out the lat ter rumor. Businas# Men Likely to Act. Interest in the fight started bv Colonel Paxon centers now in the probable action that may result from the Informal conferences of business men that have been held for the past several weeks, when the advisability of denouncing the bulletins was dis cussed by some of the most promi nent men In the city. That this group of business men will take some action Is regarded as an almost abso lute certainty. The nature of thi6 action is, of course, unknown. It is understood, however, that the men who oppose the bulletins on the ground that they are harmful and destructive will withdraw their financial support to the Men and Religion Forward Move ment and withhold It until the lead ers of the movement agree to confine their operations to the work for which they say the movement was orig inaily organized—the spreading of the religion of Christ.