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1 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. BEST YEAR FOR GEORGIA SEEN Iff BUSTREET'S ELOPEMENT10YEARS AGOCELEBRATEDNOW That the new year will be the biggest in the history of the South is the ronfident 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 with the taritf 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 pla.nted, worked and harvested ii themselves at a minimum cost, practically free from the load of debt that had accumulated the past iwo years, which will give them a good start for 1914. “The general trade throughout the Madman Shoots Wife And Baby for Having ‘Devil’ in Their Eyes CINCINNATI, Dec. 29. -“I killed her because I saw the devil in her eyes. The baby would also have the devil in her eyes, so I killed it, too.” This was the explanation given by n man registering in the Hotel Wal ton as D. R. Willard, but who later said he was Robert Munroe Maroney, aged 26. of San Antonio, Texas, for the murder of his wife and 3-year-oid daughter thi9 morning. The mother and child were riddled with bullets as thev slept in a room. After the shooting. Maroney, flour ishing a revolver, ran, half eald, from the hotel and was pursued by a crowd to the river, where he was caught on 1 iie bridge. He told the police lie was a magician, a son of James Willard, and was known as "Willard, the Wiz ard.” Coroner Foertmeyer pronounced the man violently insane. 4 Ships Reported Lost in Gulf Gale .MOBILE. Dec. 29.—Reports were received here to-day that at least four ships foundered in the gale which swept the Gulf of Mexico Christmas Day. The British schooner Cheslie, the schooner Griffin and the barks Sirdar and Milwa are missing. The Sirdar's crew has been landed at Pensacola, but the fate of the oth- ers is pnknown. A schooner bound for Mobile this morning had aboard tile crew of an unidentified vessel. Auto Bandits Hold Up New York Pool Hall NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Six masked motor bandits early to-day held up 30 patrons ,of “Young” Wagner’s pool- room. at No. 58 Thompson street robbed them of $400 in cash and took all the watches, stickpins, rings and other jewelry in sight. Then they dashed out to a high- powered automobile and escaped. The robbery took place one block from a police station. Southeast has been restricted and repressed, and more in the line of filling in than normal buying, with 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 Best. “With the tariff and currency bills disposed of; with 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 yfiu 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 all 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.” Another Eruption of Vesuvius Imminent Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. NAPLES, Dec. 29.—Another gre it eruption of Vesuvius is believed to be imminent. Professor Klercalli, director of the observatory on the mountain, declares that the specimens of lava and other data obtained by Frederick Burling- ham, in his descent to the bottom of the crater, indicates that the volcano is reawakening. 600 of U, S, Warship Crew Quarantined LEWES. DEL., Dec. 29.—Six hun dred members of the crew of the bat- hip Ohio are confined In the ma rine hospital here, while 250 of tneir fellows are fumigating the vessel. The fumigation was ordered be cause of several cases of smallpox that developed after the Mediterra nean trip. The men will be in quar antine for two weeks. Tangoing Forbidden By French Bishop Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. PARIS, Dec. 29.—A decree forbid- d'ng the dancing of the tango in his diocese was issued to-day by the Bishop of Besancon. The Prelate denounces the dance as immoral and calls upon all Christians to bar it. Wedding Rush On to Beat Eugenic Law MILWAUKEE. Dec. 29 —Anticipating the enforcement of the new eugenic law in Wisconsin, a rush is on in every 0, inty in the State to obtain marriage •ic* rises this month and evade the ex amination provided in the measure, fc'hich becomes effective January 1. U. S. GETS REI10Y t HELD.2 S0UGHT! T Federals to Attempt Recapture of City—Border Guard Prepares to Avert Casualties. WASHINGTON, Deo. 29.—Antic*- pating a battle near Juarez, Major General Leonard Wood, Chief of Staff of the army, to-day sent word to Brigadier General Bliss, com manding the American forces in FI Paso, Texas, to make every effort to prevent firing across the border by the Federals or the Constitutionalists. General Bliss was instructed to or der his men to take every precaution to prevent casualties or damage to the property on the American side of the line and to warn the respective commanders that they would be held personally responsible for any dam age to lives or property. Reports from El Paso to-day indi cated that the Federal forces will at tack Juarez not later than Thursday, and that they will try to recapture the customs port. Secretary of the Navy Daniels to day ordered the gunboat Yorktown from San Diego, Cal., to the west coast of Mexico to relieve the gun boat Annapolis. The Annapolis will return to San Diego for repairs. Border Town. Rebels Marching On PRESIDIO, TEXAS. Dec. 29.— Scouts of the Mexican Federals in OJinaga reported to General Orozco there to-day that they had sighted the advance guard of the rebel army marching from Chihuahua. This news was immediately followed by the departure of scores of women and children from the Mexican town of Presidio. United States troops are preparing to enforce their order that no Ameri cans must be imperilled by the firing of the two armies. It is probable, however, that the battle will not begin before Tuesday afternoon, as the rebels will travel slowly through La Mula Pass. Negro Cabman Arrested Denies Knowledge of Robbery—Police After Alleged Accomplices. With a negro cabman, Tom Bow man, under arrest on suspicion of having driven Jason A. Rosier to the alley off Decatur street where he was assaulted and robbed and left half deaxl, detectives Monday morning be gan a search for two other negro?v, who also are under suspicion. The t lews connecting the two ne groes with the assault were unearthed by a brother of the injured man, wnc told i.he police late Saturday night his reasons for suspecting them. He went with tw r o detectives on a search for the negroes, but was unable to find them. The theory connecting the ne groes and the negro Bowman with the crime is that Bowman, having secured Rosier as a “fare,” drove him to the alley, where the young man was pulled from the cab and assaulted and robbed by the other two, who lay in wait for their victim. Hosier's broth er says* a $350 diamond stud and a gold watch which the injured man wore are missing. Bowman denies all knowledge if Rosier. He declares that he never had a white man in his cab Friday night, and that throughout Friday and Saturday be was not in the vicinity of the robbery. He probably will be grilled by detectives Monday In an effort to induce him to help unravel the mystery. The condition of the wounded man appears to be growing worse. Sun day he was still unable to talk, and has not said a word since he was found. News has reached Atlanta of the death of T. H. Ellett, retired mer chant and prominent citizen of Rich mond, Vo.. He was w r ell known here, having frequently visited his daugh ter, Mrs. Dunbar Roy. Dr. and Mrs. Roy are on their way to Richmond to attend the funeral, which prob ably will be held Tuesday. While on his last visit to Atlanta, Mr. Ellett was taken ill with heart trouble, but had recovered sufficiently in August to return to Virginia. He is survived by his wife and Mrs. Roy. SLAYER S HIDING PLACE FOUND. CHESTER, S. C., Dec. 29.—Frank Grant, who killed Sidney J. Fergu son. a. well-known citizen of this county, has been arrested. He was found hid under the gable of the house of his uncle a few’ miles from the city. Builders Call New Crematory O.K. Now The new crematory plant now is free from its defects, according to Engineer Canham, who has had charge of the work since it began. However, Councilman Claude L. Auh- ley. chairman of the Sanitary Com mittee of the Board of Health, de clares that when he visited the plant Saturday he found it in worse condi tion than ever before. The city has assumed the role of dictator as to when the- test shall be made and the builders, the New York Destructor Company, has sent its sales manager, W. D. Dowd, Jr., to Atlanta, to agree on a date for the official test He will arrive Tuesday. MANUAL TRAINING PROVIDED. ST. AUGUSTINE. FLA., Dec. 29.— Through co-operation of public- spirited citizens with local school of ficials, a fund has been raised for a manual training department, and to-day equipment was ordered. Marshal Quits; Jail Now an Ice House GENTRY, MO., Dec. 29.—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 jail 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. Treat Children's Colds Externally Don't dose the delicate little stom ach with harmful internal medi- • cines. Vick's "Vap-O-Rub” Croup , and Pneumonia. Salve is applied ex- ( ternally over the throat and chest. The body heat releases soothing an- £ tiseptic vapors that are inhaled all t night long, loosening the tough ( phlegm and opening up the air j passages. For all Inflammations of , the air passages from head colds and catarrh, down to bronchitis and incipient pneumonia, Vick’s is / quicker than internal medicines. Can be used freely with perfect safety on the smallest child. At druggists—25c, 50c and $1. CRICHTON-SHUMAKER Cor. S. Pryor and Hunter Sts., Atlanta MONTHLY FOR TUITION Places Both TEACHER and PUPIL ABSOLUTELY ON THEIR MERIT Sch i ? la P r r , c h f i e p rred p,an E. C. CRICHTON Shorthand Department. D. E. SHUMAKER Business Department. XMAS RATES Reduced over N., C. & St. L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R. Apply any Agent. INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION By the PROPRIETORS in Person Places the CRICHTON-SHUMAKER BUSINESS COLLEGE In a Class by Itself. SPRING TERM BEGINS MONDAY, JAN. 5, 1914 Three of Mr. and Mrs. David Webb’s five children.' Above is David, Jr., on left, from a pho tograph some time ago, and Mary Lee, aged 6; below, on left, is a recent picture of David, Jr., now aged 4, and on the right, Howard, aged 8. Kelly Defends Self In Radium Dispute BALTIMORE, Deo. 29.—Efforts to discredit Dr. Howard A. Kelly in his activity in the field of radio-therapy met with indignant bursts of disap proval to-dav from his friends. The physician himself declared there is no basis for the charge that he is “ad vertising the merits of radium solely lor his own financial gain.” "1 have never refused to give a cancer sufferer treatment with ra dium,” said Dr. Kelly, "and my in terest in conserving t lie country's supply of radium deposits is that the thousands of cancer patients may be benefited by such a policy.” Wayne Posse, With Dogs, Trails Negro JESUP. Dec. 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 batled with the Sheriffs 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. Clubhouse Engaged to Accommo date Hundreds of Guests at “Tin” Anniversary. SUFFRAGE LEADER DYING. ENGLEWOOD, N. J., Dec. 29.— Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, 78, n suffrage leader, is not expected to live until to-night. She had been in a critical condition since she fell and broke her hip two weeks ago. Ten years ago when David \V. Webb and pretty Miss Annie Elder secretly planned and gleefully carried out a runaway marriage—to the amazement of their own parents, as well as to the general surprise of their friends and acquaintances—the young bride exacted a promise that they would celebrate the tenth anni versary of their wedding in a manner that would make up for the trick they had played on people by their elope ment. So it comes that there will be a "tin wedding" Tuesday evening in the Women’s Clubhouse out at Clarkston. Each of the elopers was 20 years old when, without saying a word to any one, they met by appointment and went to the lioem of the Rev. Julian S. Rogers, then the assistant of the Rev. Len G. Broue*hton, and made de mand that he then and there make them husband and wife. With the lapse of years Mr. Webb, now a sedate and well-established Atlanta business man. had begun to imagine that Mrs. Webb had forgot ten the promise he had made her in the excitement of their elopement. And, with the ordinary man’s not overly enthusiastic liking for social functions, he was not in any haste to remind her. But she remembered. Their home in Clarkston’, to which they moved several years ago, would be too small for tlie concourse of friends and rela tives. she thought. The Women’s Clubhouse was just the place. Be tween three and four hundred invita tions have been issued to the celebra tion. The Rev. and Mrs. Julian B. Rogers will be among the guests of honor. And then there will be three of the younger generation of Webbs—How ard, aged 8; Mary Lee, aged 6. and David, Jr., aged 4. But this is not the entire family of Mr. and Mrs. Webb, by any means. There still are Rob ert, aged 2, and William, who was ushered into the w’orid only four months ago. They have been prom ised that they shall attend the next decennial celebration of tiie Webb elopement, but they are too young just now to go out to parties and cel ebrations. Mr. Webb is a member of the Webb & Vary Printing and Publishing firm at No. 38 1-2 West Alabama street. D, W. Brown Calls His $166,000 Gift ‘Trifle’ DENVER, Dec. 29.—A check for $150,000 and a $16,000 necklace was the gift of D. W. Brown, Denver multi-millionaire, to his daughter Ha zel Bird Brown, who was married in New York on December 6 to Captain J. W. Flanagan. Mr. Brown admitted he had made the present and called it "a mere trifle ” Hunger Strike Can Never Kill, Says M.D. Special Cable to The American. BERLIN. Dec. 29.—Suicide by a hunger strike is impossible, declares Professor Karl Ludwig Schleich, an | expert. This is apropos of an em bezzler in jai! here who is abstaining from food. “Let him alone.“ advises Professor Schleich. "Do not attempt forcible feeding. When lie has starved him self sufficiently he will go into a frenzy and devour any food given to him." Cripple Runs Amuck And Terrorizes Town SAN BERNARDINO. CAL., Dec. 29.—Supposedly a helpless cripple, but in an instant transformed, James O’Brien, who now occupies a cell in the County Hospital awaiting ex amination by a lunacy commission, tried to kill a dozen persons and kept tlie little town of Dale in a state of terror for two days. He finally was overpowered and guarded day and night until an au tomobile could be summoned from Mecca. Alabama Elopers Marry at 1:30 A, M. El FA FLA. ALA., Aec. 29.—Eluding their parents in the dead of night. Miss Rosa Goodson and Clem Stevens drove from White Oak. this county, to Georgetown, Ga., across the Chat tahoochee River and w r ere married at 1:30 o’clock this morning by Ordinary J. E. Dozier. Of the hundreds Mr. Dozier has married these were the ’ earliest.” A Sure-Enough Kidney Remedy Stuarts Buchu and Juniper Compound Acts Like Magic on Liver, Kidneys and Bladder. No more bone pains, aching back, headache, puffy eyes, swollen legs, of fensive urinous odor, diabetes, cloudy urine or frequent desire. Try Stuart’s Buchu and Juniper Compound, the new’ and wonderful kidney and bladder rem edy. We could talk till doomsday about how good this remedy is, but the only sure wav Is for you to try it your self. Buy a $1 bottle and take as di rected on bottle. Stuart’s Buchu and Juniper Compound has cured thousands of sufferers where all other remedies have failed. Stuart's Buchu and Juni per Compound won’t make you feel sick when you take it. but tones you up. Stuart’s Buchu and Juniper Compound acts directly on the urine through the kidneys. It keeps the blood healthy. It strengthens the neck of the bladder. It regulates the kidneys and does awav with backache and all disagreeable symptoms. If discouraged with other medicines, buy a $1 bottle of your drug gist to-day and take as directed on bot tle.—Advt. timbrel! as and Raincoats at Special We are unusually well prepared to supply your wants in Umbrellas and Raincoats at most unusual prices. The stocks are large, the size scale practically unbroken and owing to our Reorganization Sale we are offering values which mean a large saving as compared to the prices you will pay elsewhere. Extraordinary values in Raincoats from the best makers in the land, at $3.95, $5.50, $6.50, $7.50, $8.50 $ 1.00 Umbrellas 85c $1.75 Umbrellas $1.35 $1.50 Umbrellas $1.15 $2.00 Umbrellas $1.65 XMAS RATES Reduced over N., C. & St. L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R. Apply any Agent. Better Grades at Proportionate Prices Cloud-Stanford Co