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““His Wife Wins,”’ a Jekyll and Hyde comedy drama, is the
Pathe picture story presented by The Georgian to-day and shown
on the sereen at the Alamo No. 1 Saturday.
The way of the transgressor is shown to be hard, but before
he comes to a merited finish the audience has had a good measure
of enjoyment. Read the story here and see it on the sereen Sat
urday.
HIS WIFE WINS.
A Story in Two Parts,
CHAPTER |I.
Mrs. Buttin was one of those so®t
voiced, smiling women who could
gcent trouble where it was not, and
where it Was could scent it double.
She began every sentence with
“Listen” and ended it with “See?” and
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was altogether a very disagreeable
little person
“Why, listen, honey,” she sald as
she taok Kugenie in her arms.
“What's the matter? What's Hector
been doing to you? Tell me every
thing. I'm right here to take care of
you. See?"
“You'll excuse me, Buttin,” said
Hector, nastily; “but I've got to get to
my office. Been spending all morning
i a family row. Got called down for
something 1 never did nor dreamed
of. You know what I mean, You've
got one, too, Good-hye"
And before Mrs., Buttin or nls
‘mother-in-law could summon words
to express her wrath he was away.
"l always suspected Hector was not
quite right in his mind,” said Mrs,
Buttin. “Listen, does he talk that
way about women all the time?"”
“He does-—-and worse,” sald Mme.
Duvallon,
“Listen, Wiil: you go for a little
gtroll in.the art gailery. See? I want
to talk in private.” |
Buttin obediently strolled.
CHAPTER I, |
He came back to the drawing room
just as the . aid wase presenting a
card to Kugenie Borisart. Kugeale
1 . It in a bewildered tone:
“Mr. Julius Cornaillac-—who wishes
to see his double, of which he has
heard so much.”
The women stood speechless for a
moment., Mrs. Buttin was the first to
break the silence. “Listen, honey,”
she said; “let him come In; see?”
“Show him in, Jane,” breathed Eu
genie.
And, smiling, confldent, though po
litely embarrassed, there strode
straight into the fire of those ques
tioning eyes Mr. Hector Borisart in
his role and garb of Julius Cornaillac.
His new peirsonality breathed from
his gorgeous suit, from his perfumed
hair, even from his too-golden
mounted walking stick, He ap
proached Mrs. Buttin with an appeal-
Ing smile,
“Mrs. Borisart, 1 apologlize for
thig——-"
“Oh, listen,” she exclaimed, quite
disarmed; “I am not Mrs. Borisart.
That is shy: see?”
“Your pardon, madame,” lie turned
to face the half hopeful, half doubting
eyes _f his wife.
“Might 1 ask to see Mr. Borisart? 1
have been mistaken for him from one
end of Paris to the other. 1 under
stand he is of Americ- . birth, but
that he is my perfect duplicate--or,
rather, I am his—"
“Mr. Borisart is not at home,;
won't you sit down?” invitoed Mme.
Duvallon in a voice that rumbled like
a threatening volcano,
“Thank you—so kind of you to re
ceive me. It's all been 80 very amus
ing—amusing, 1 say-—but at times
very serfous,” he chucklefli reminis
cently, “Do you know a young wom
an of my-—er—acquaintance became
very angry with me at one time be
cause she saw Mr. Borlsart 1n a mo
tor car with Mrs., Borisart. I had a
terrible time explaining.”
Eugenie stood, trembling before the
visitor. She could not speak.
“I hope Mr, Borisart has had no
such unpleasant experiences through
my innocent fault,” the visitor rip
pled on.
“Oh-—-no—o 0 sald Eugenle.
“Only a few,” gaid Mme. Duvallon.
“Ah, indeed. 1 regret that he is not
hare.” We could exchange some in
teresting ex o
He was interrupted by the sound of
the bell,
“General Leonidas Wool; Miss Zen
obie Wool, why {t's the tieneral!"
exclaimed Mme, Duvallon. “How de
’ lightful!”
Something very ke a groan es
caped the lips of M. Cornaillac,
“Zenoble—here!” he panted under
nis breath, But he held his ground.
He saw Zenobie, his pretty musie
teacher, enter on the arm of her
staiely uncle, the General. He saw
the General greet his mother-in-law,
Mme. Duvallon, with the cordiality of
an old frlend; and, as a last guillo
tine-drop in the reign of terror, he
saw Zenobie sufdenly clagped in the
arms of Mrs. Buttin,
“listen,” exclaimed Mrs. Buttin to
the others. “It's Zenobie Wool who
went to college with me, See?”
Hector couldi not see, but he lis
tened; and in a moment he had to
face the introduction.
- Zenoble uttered a little cry of de-
I light.
~ “Why, Julius! {sn’t this charming?
Ima, this is M. Cornafillac, my flance,”
she said to Mrs. Buttin.
“In—deed!”
And under the eyes of his wife and
his mother-in-law, Hector was intro
duced to the General as Zenobie's fu
ture spouse.
CHAPTER 111,
Almost fainting from the strain of
his predicament he found himself at
last alone in the llbrary with Mr.
Burtin. The others had gone to the
art gallery.
Overcome by a sudden impulse of
sheer terror, Ilector bolted for the
door. His only thought was to setl
out of that house-—his house—and
hide forever. He might have done it,
for Buttin made no opposition; but
in the doorway Hector's foot caught
in the rug and he flopped to the floor.
He tried to get up and go on, but
he flopped again. His left leg was
useless. He could only hop to the
gofa and #it down wincing with pain.
“Buttin,” he cried, “Buttin, I'm lost.
I'm not Cornaillac; I'm Borisart; and
I've got wives present and future un
der one roof, Buttin, save me.”
“What can 1 do?”
“GGo to Paradlse street—No, 246 —
get my regular clothes and come bhack
here like the devil on wings. I"IrsII
put that screen around the sofa; 1
can't budge: I think I'm killed.”
“No, vou've got a dislocated pa
tella,” said Buttin, examining the leg.
“Never mind that; get my clothes
quick.”
Buttin dashed away. Mrs. Buttin,
Mme. Duvallon and Mrs. Borisart
came Into the library.
“Do you belleve a word of that
story?” demanded Mme. Duvallon.
“Oh, T can't doubt Hector,” said
Fugenie. “He was always so devoted
to his stoves.”
“He was always a furtive-eyed ras
cal,” said Mme. Duvallon, l
“Listen, there’'s something queer
about it, anyway,” declared Mrs. But- ‘
tin. “I never did believe Hector could
speak a word of truth, of course, hutl
[ didn’t think he had brains enough
to be two men at once.”
“T wonder where he went,” said his
mother-in-law,
“I wonder,” groaned Hector to
himself behind the screen. I
Mrs. Buttin and Mme, Duvallon|
went out and Eugenie sank into a
chair by the table, |
Robin, the poet, entered from hl!‘
private den where the miracles of
rhyme that advertised Borlsart's
stoves were concocted. |
“Madame,” he said, “would vou like
to have me read you my latest effort
~—a simple, unpretentious little thing,
but——-"
. “No, Robin, I am too tired for
poetry to-day.”
“Madame! You spurn me always.
Madame! Do you not see how you
crush the heart within me by your
coldness” Have you not known that
I was always in love with you—that
Il have enslaved my muse to sordid
- There was a sound from behind the
screen that made Robin arise hastily
from his suppliant knees. Mrs. Bori
sart did not hear the noise, for she
was fleeing from‘ the room.
The screen féll over and Hector,
forgetting his bad leg, made one lunge
at his advertising poet. He caught
him by the collar, thrust him at
arm’s length, let him go and kicked
him with all his strength,
As Robin shot through the door
Hector fell to the floor. He had
kicked with the bad leg. But he knew
he must get back to the sofa, and he
scrambled up. vTo his amazement he
found he could walk perfectly well,
The patella had been jerked back into
place by the kick,
CHAPTER V.
Buttin came back breathless.
“I've got 'em,” he said, proudly.
“But 1 had to go through water and
flame to get 'em. Your house ‘s
burned down, but 1 got your clothes.”
“My house is burned down? Say, is
there any other little thing that can
happen to me this pleasant after
noon?"
. "Put on your clothes.”
| “But look at 'em; thy're burned to
shreds.”
. "But they're YOUR clothes, anv-
I\\‘u_\‘. Whisht! under the table with
vou. Dress under there”
. Hector obeyed. In ten minutes he
“EASEAHETSH le
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Sluggish Bowels Cause Gases,
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Indigestion and Food |
Fermentation.
Get a 10-cent box now
That awful sourness, belching of
acid and foul gases; that paln in the
pit of the stomach, the heartburn,
nervousness, nausea, bloating after
eating, dizziness and sick headache
means a disordered stomach, which
can not be regulated until you re
move the cause. It {sn't your stom
ach's fault, Your stomach is as good
as any
Try Cascarets; they Immediately
cleanse the stomach, remove the sour,
undigested and fermenting food and
foul gases; take the excess bile from
the liver and carry off the constipat
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bowels, Then your stomach trouble is
ended. A Cascaret to-night will
straighten you out by morning-—a 10.
cent box from any drug store will
keep your stomach sweet, liver and
bowels regular for months Don't
forget the children--their little in
sides need a good, gentle cleansing,
too~ADVERTISEMENT. I
HOUSE PAINTING
FRIDDELL BROTHERS, The House of Quality, 107 N. Pryor St.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS,
appeared arrayed in a frock suit that
was slit and singed and sooted from
collar to heel. He surveyed himsel!f
| sadly. Buttin tried to be cheerful.
“But they're YOURS, you know,
he sald.
The ladies returned.
“Oh, Hector,” exclaimed Eugenle,
“you here?”
“Yes, my dear.” replied Hector,
“what's le‘t of me.” He displayed his
serrated sult,
“Heavens! What has happened?”
“l vrar passing through Paradise
street when I noticed fire There
were geveral little _-hildren—six or
eight of them, 1 belleve—crying ‘or
help from the upper windows. I nat
urally went In and carried them out.”
“Listen; he isn't burned on his face
or hands; see?” remarked Mrs. Butt
in.
“And what may these be?” {inquire.l
M:ie. Duvallon, drawing from under
the table the suit of glittering gar
ments that had of late adorned b - 4
Cornaillac.” |
I Mr. Buttin fled from the Toom.|
'Hero though he was, he could nnt
bear the sight of Hector begging forl
mercy on his knees. I
P
0f W.O.W. Combined
With a view of creating more en
thusiasm among the members and to
bring to a higher state of efficiency
the work of the degree teams, all
Atianta lodges of the Modern Woogs
men of the Worid have combined into
one camp, to *~ called the Greater
Atlanta Degree Camp.
Meetings will be held monthly, art
which time degree teams from tlie
different lodges will drill. The next
meeting will not be held until May 29,
Sick Man From Fire
The condition of W. M. Camp, of
No. 90 West North avenue, was re
ported Friday as unchanged. Mr.
(‘famp was rescued from his burning
home on his sick bed by Tech stu
dents Thursday.
His residence was destroyed, the
loss being estimated at $B,OOO. Mr.
C‘amp is superintendent of the Atlan
ta division of the Pullman Company.
Kirkwood Roads to
Cost Over $35,000
The paving of the principal streets of
Kirkwaood, according to Mavor R, F, il
llam, will cost more than the $35,000
bonds voted. This includes the cost of
the proposed macadamizing of DeKalb
bouievard.
Mayor Gilliam has just come back
from Birmingham, where he went by
direction of City Council to examine
the roads around that city.
TRIED TO STEAL LIQUOR,.
CORDELE, March 20.—While at
tempting to steal a case of liquor
which had been placed in the base
ment of a building in the business
section, two negroes were captured by
the police. |
Mother’s Advice
A Real Live Doll to Fondle Is Woman's
Greatest Happiness
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One of the most important matters
about which women concern themselves
Is their future status as a grandmother.
And she Is wisdom itself who knows of
ar learns of that famous remedy, Moth
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cation for the abdominal muscles and
breasts, It certainly has a wonderful
influence, allays all fear, banishes all
pain, is a, most grateful encouragement
to the young, expectant mother, and per
mits her to go through the period happy
in mind, free in body and t?ms destined
to anticipate woman’s greatest happi
ness as nature intended she should.
The action of Mother's Friend makes
the muscles free, pllant and responsive
to expansion. 'Thus all strain and ten
sfon upon the nerves and ligaments is
ivoided, and, In place of a period of
discomfort and consequent dread, it is a
season of calm repose and joyful ex
pectation
There I 8 no nausea, no morning sick
ness, no muscles twitching, none of that
constant strain known to so many wom
en, hence Mother's Friend is really one
of the greatest blessings that could be
devised
This splendid and certain remedy can
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and is sure to prove of inestimable val
ue, not only upon the mother, but upon
the health and future of the child. Write
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81dg.,, Atlanta, Ga., for their book to
expectant mothers
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wr SKIN DE
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FROSINI—CANTWELL AWALKER
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TUES. MAT,
Seats Now on Sale.
NEIL O’BRIEN
e MINSTRELS
Nights 25¢ to $1.50; Mat. 25¢ to $l.
Wednesday and Thursday
MATINEE THURSDAY.
Triumphant return of the greatest
show on earth,
Ask any of the 4,967 persons who
saw the massive entertainment two
days last week. All agreed Atlanta
had never seen such a show.
Seats on Sale Saturday
1,000 persons were turned away Fri.
day. Be wise and don’t get caught
without seats.
GET IN LINE AT 9 A M.
Prices 50c, 75c, $l. $1.50 and $2.
'
Woodward’'s Enemies Sound
Chief of Construction at Meet
ing Talking Charter Reform,
Politicians Friday were wondering
whether Captain R. M., Clayton, At
lanta's chief of construction for more
than 30 years, would be a candidate
for Mayor in the November primaries
in opposition to Mayor Woodward.
At a meeting of the charter amend
ment committee Thursday it was ap
parent that Woodward's enemies in
Council were booming the captain for
the office. Although Captain Clayton
refused to commit himself definitely,
his remarks indicated that he might
run.
The ball started rolling during a
discussion of a proposed change in
the charter whereby the chief of con
struction would be elected by the
General (‘ouncil instead of the people.
Captain Clayton repeated his deter
mination tu retire next year at the
expiration of his present term. He
said he would devote his time to pri
vate enterprises as consulting engl
neer,
Alderman Maddox urged the cap
tain either to run for the office again
or to enter the race for Mayvor.
Charter Fight Predicted.
Alderman Thomson declared that
the people were dissatisfled with
some features of the city government,
TELEPHONE ACHIEVEMENTS
In no line of human endeavor has the inventive
brain of the scientist contributed more to the world’s
progress than by the creation of the art of telephony,
of which the Bell System is the embodiment.
When the telephone was born, nothing analogous
to telephone service as we now kmow it existed.
There was no tradition to guide, no experience to
follow.
The system, the apparatus, the methods—an en
tire new art had to be created. The art of electrical
engineering did not exist. The Bell pioneers, recog
nizing that success depended upon the highest engi
neering and technical skill, at once organized an ex
perimental and research department, which is now
directed by a staff of over 550 engineers and scien
tists, including former professors, post-graduate
students, scientific investigators—the graduates of
over 70 universities,
From its foundation the company has continu
ously developed the art. New improvements in tele
phones, switchboards, lines, cables, have followed one
another with remarkable rapidity.
While each successive type of apparatus to the
superficial observer suggested similarity, each step in
the evolution marked a decided improvement. These
changes, this evolution, have not only been continu
ous, but are continuing. Substantially all of the plant
now in use, including telephomes, switchboards,
cables and wires, has been constructed, renewed or
reconstructed in the past 10 years.
Particularly in switchboards have the changes
been so radical that installations costing in the ag
gregate millions have frequently been discarded after
only a few years of use.
Since 1877 there have been introduced 53 types
and styles of receivers and 73 types and styles of
transmitters. Of the 12,000,000 telephone receivers
and transmitters owned by the Bell Company Jan
uary 1, 1914, none were in use prior to 1902, while
the average age is less than five years.
Within 10 years we have expended for construc
tion and reconstruction an amount more than equal
to the present book value of our entire plant.
Long-distance and underground transmission was
the most formidable scientific problem confronting
the telephone experts.
The retarding effect of the earth on the telephone
current often impaired conversation through one
mile underground as much as through 100 miles
overhead. Overhead conversation had its distinct
limitations.
No possible improvement in the telephone trans
mitter could of itself solve these difficulties.
The solution was only found in the cumulative
effect of improvements, great and small, in tele
phone, transmitter, line, cable, switchboard, and
every other piece of apparatus or plant required in
the transmission of speech.
While the limit of commercial overhead talking
had increased from strictly local to over 1,000 miles
as early as 1833, it was not until 1905 that conversa
and, referring to the recent charter
fight, said the people would try again
to get charter refcrms unless the
present system of government was
cleaned up. He contended that At
lanta’s chief of construction should
receive a salary of at least $6,009,
because the position is one of the
most important in the State.
Alderman Maddox then announced
he would support Captain Clayton If
he woMd enter the race for Mayor.
Councilman Jesse B. L.ee was in fa
vor of creating a position known as
consulting engineer, and thought the
captain should have it.
Captain Clayton announced appre
ciation of hig friends’ interest, but
said he was not considering running
again for the office of chief of con
struction. He believed all adminis
trative officers’ should be elected by
Council, and that the Council should
be reduced in membership, and that
each member he paid a salary.
Women Wanted on Boards.
Alderman Kelley was opposed to
the people electing anyone excepl
General Councll members, whom he
thought extremely competent to look
after such work. No action was
taken on the guestion.
Among other proposals to change
the charter was a proposition where
by women would officlate on the
boards of education, fire and police,
as well as on the park and library
boards.
Councilman Claude Ashley repre
sented the Women’s Federation of
Clubs of Atlanta. Ile said he be
lieved the mothers of Atlanta were
vastly more interested in the depart
ments with which their children had
to do than the men. No action was
taken, but the committee decided to
hold a special session Wednesday,
when women desiring such a change
in the charter will be asked to at
tend.
Welfare Board Boomed,
Among the women present at
Thursday’s meeting were Mrs. John
D. Pickett and Mrs. Victor S, Krieg
shaber.
Secretary Logan, of the Associated
Charities, proposed that instead of
the city warden being elected by the
people, the Council create a hoard of
public welfare with five members.
His suggestion was that the members
be appointed by General Council and
that their terms be from one to five
vears.
Hotel Manager Is
Held as Gambler
J. D. Flynn, manager of the Mad
ison Hotel, has been bound over to
the Superior Court to answer to the
charges of running a dizorderly and
gambling house. He was arrested 1n
a raid made upon the hotel.
A. S. Jenkins and G. A. Jackson,
who, it is charged, were in a poker
game at the time of the raid, were
bound over on the charge of vagran
cy. Ball warc fixed at $3OO for each of
the three men.
ATLANTA MACCOBEE SPEAKS.
COLUMBUS, March 20.—The Knights
of Maccabees held an Important meet
ing last night when Sir Knight J. C.
Bertram, of Atlanta, addressed the
Knights, and eight new members were
received.
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tion could be had over long-distance circuits of
which as much as 20 miles was in underground
cables. By 1906 underground talking distance had
increased to 80 miles. By 1912 it was possible to talk
underground from New York to Washington.
It was then that the construction of underground
conduits from Boston to Washington was determined
upon—not that it was expected to get a through
underground talk between those places, but in case
of storm or blizzard, to utilize intermediate sections
in connection with the overhead.
Our persistent study and incessant experimenta
tion have produced results more remarkable still.
We have perfected cables, apparatus and meth
ods that have overcome obstacles heretofore re
garded as insuperable both to long-distance over
head and underground conversation. :
Underground conversation is now possible be
tween Boston and Washington, four times the length
of the longest European underground line. This en
abled the Bell System in the recent great storm, so
destructive on land and sea, to maintain communica
tion for the public between all the principal points
on the Atlantic seaboard.
Telephone communication is established between
New York and Denver, is potentially possible be
tween all points in the United States, and by 1915
will be an accomplished fact between New York and
San Francisco.
In our use of methods or apparatus, we are com
mitted to no one system. We own, control or have
the right to use inventions necessary to operate any
system recognized or accepted as the most efficient.
The Bell System must always recognize and in its
selection must always be governed by the necessities
of a national service, with its complex requirements,
which is infinitely more exacting than local or lim.
ited service. :
These achievements represent vast expenditures
of money and immense concentration of effort which
have been justified by results of immeasurable bene
fit to the public. No local company unaided could
bear the financial or scientific burden of this work.
Such results are possible only through a centralized
general staff, avoiding wasteful duplication of effort,
working out problems common to all, for the benefit
of all.
The pioneers of the Bell System recognized that
telephone service, as they saw it, was in the broadest
sense a public utility ; that upon them rested a public
obligation to give the best possible service at the
most reasonable rates consistent with risk, invest
ment and the continued improvement and mainte
nance of the property.
Without this expenditure of millions and concen
tration of effort, the telephone art as it exists could
not have been developed.
What we have done in working out these great
problems in the past should be accepted as a guar
antee of what we will do in the future.
sl THEO. N. VAIL, President, §
‘Movie' Game Work
ovie uamnme VYOrKs
At the next weekly meeting of the
local Ad Men’s Club Julian Roytz,
well known moving picture syndi
cate manager, will talk on the
“Moving Picture Business. His talk
will be {llustrated with fiims show
ing how ‘“movies”’ are made.
At the weekly luncheon of the Ad
Club Thursday, H. T. Moore, secre
tary of the Atlanta Freight Bureau,
spoke on Atlantar as a great com
mercial center. Mr. Moore explained
how the city had attracted energetic
people, and with increaging zeal had
forced freight rates remarkably low.
PASTOR’'S HUNDRED DINNER.
Ten-minute talks will feature the pro
gram ‘l'hursday night at a banquet by
the Pastor's Hundred, at the gackson
Hill Baptlst Church. Judge Pendleton,
Dr. J. F. Purser, W. W. Galnes and
others will speak.