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HEARST’8 SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, MAY HO, 1915.
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WEALTH
y Family of 24 With Him
The Huertas and their new home. Above, General and Senora
Huerta. Below, children and grandchildren. Photographed in
front of the home. Prom left to right they are: Eva Huerta,
Berta Huerta, Maria de Gil, Celia Huerta, Dora Huerta, Fernando
standing at right and baby Carmen Huerta in front.
Total for Nation the Enormous
Sum of $187,739,000,000, a
25-Fold Increase Since 1850,
Is Largest of Any Country.
New York State Far in the Lead,
With Pennsylvania and Illinois,
•Close Together, Coming Next.
Britain Follows Arrterica.
WASHINGTON, May 29.—With the
wealth of Europe being wasted by the
billions of dollars, the report of the
per capita wealth of the United States
has aroused unusual interest. Direc
tor of the Census Samuel L. Rogers
in his report points out the remark
able increase since 1880.
The total wealth of the nation in
1»12 was $187,739,000,000, while in
1850 it was about $8,000,000,000. The
per capita wealth now is $1,965.
The total wealth of the nation, ex
cluding tax-exempt real estate, in
creased from $7,136,000,000, or $308
per capita, in 1850, to $175,426,000,000
or $1,836 per capita, in 1912, the per
centages of increase being 2,358 Tor
the total and 496 for the per capita
amounts.
In other words, the wealth of the
nation as a whole is nearly 25 times
as great as It was in 1850. while that
of the individual is about six times
as great.
The tax-exempt real estate was es
timated at $12,314,000,000, or $129 per
capita, In 1912.
The total and per capita amounts
of the national wealth for the several
census years are as follows:
Total .(exclusive
of exempt real
property).
Per
capita.
$1,836
1,234
1,083
975
Yea r.
1912 $175,426,000,000
1904 100,273,000,000
1900 82,305,000,000
1890 61,204,000,000
1880 41.642,000,000 830
1870 24,055,000,000 624
1860 16.160,000,000 514
1850 7,136,000,000 308
Much Property Exempt.
The following table shows the esti
mated value of all classes of wealth
combined for the census years 1880
to 1912:
Total (taxable
and exempt).
Year.
1912 $187,739,000,000
1904. .
1900..
1890..
1880..
Per
capita.
$1,965
1,318
1,165
1,036
870
12,314,000,000 i
16,149,000,000 j
107,104,000,000
68,517,000,000
65,037,000,000
43.641,^00.000
Some of the items which make up
the 1912 total are the following:
Taxed real property and
improvements. . / .$98,363,000,000
Exempt real property
and Improvements. .
Railroads and their
equipment
Manufactured products
(other than clothing
and personal adorn
ments, furniture,
vehicles and kindred
property) 14,694,000, OOu
Furniture, vehicles and
kindred property . . .
*TJve stock
Manufacturing ma
chinery, tools and im
plements
Agricultural products .
Street railways
Clothing and personal
adornments*.
Gold and silver coin
and bullion
Privately owned central
electric light and
power stations
Shipping and canals . .
Farm implements and
machinery
Telephone systems . . .
New York First.
The total wealth of New York, $25.-
011,000,000, is the greatest shown for
any State, while Illinois and Penn
sylvania, with $15,484,000,000 and $15,-
458,000,000, respectively, are close ri
vals for second place. Other States
whi(*h rank high in total wealth are
(>hio, with $8,808,000,000; California.
*8.464.000,000; Iowa. $7,868,000,000:
Texas. $6,860,000,000: Massachusetts,
$6,303,000,000: Missouri. $5,842,000,000;
New Jersey. $5,743,000,000; Minnesota.
$5,547,000,000; Michigan. $5,427,000,000.
and Indiana, $5,195,000,000. No other
State is credited with as much as
$5,000,000,000.
The latest published estimates of
the wealth of foreign countries show
$108,280,000.000 for the British Em
pire in 1903, of which amount $72,-
997.000,000 was credited to the United
Kingdom. The estimate for the
United States in 1904 was $107,104.-
000.000. The wealth of Germany in
T908 was estimated at $77,864,000,000.
8.468.000,00o
6,238,000,00'' ;
6,091,^)00,000
5,240,000,000
4.597,000,000
4,295,000,000
2,617,000.000
2.099,000,000
1.491,000,000
1,368,000,000
1,081,000,000
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Secrets of London
Complexion Doctors
Famous London specialists who cater
to titled ladies and others of social
prominence. employ a remarkable
method of complexion rejuvenation.
One undergoing this treatment visits the
beauty doctor late in the afternoon, has
something dabbed over her face, then,
heavily veiled, departs in her motor car.
This is reneated daily for a week or so,
- a complexion of snowy purity and
exquisite aelicacy is In evidence. The
secret of this method is—ordinary mer-
colized wax. Any one can apply the wax
without assistance of a specialist. An
ounce of it costs very little at any drug
store (obtainable here as well as in
England.) It is used like cold cream,
before retiring, and washed off morn
ings. Its success is due to a peculiar
absorbent property which gradually re
moves wornout particles of cuticle, re
vealing the younger, healthier skin be
neath.
A wonderful wrinkle-chaser, also in
vogue among Englishwomen, is pre
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wash lotion, this completely and quick
ly effects even the deepest lines.—Ad-
•^ertisemeni.
Dictator Hopes to Return to Mexico—Will Rear
Children in American Surroundings.
NEW YORk, May 29.—General Vic-
torlano Huerta, former dictator of
Mexico, is so gratified with his new
surroundings at Forest Hills, L. I..
that he contemplates starting a Mexi
can colony either there or at some
"other spot on Long Island. This was
the report circulated among his
friends. The colony will be composed
of Mexicans who, like himself, have
been exiled.
It i» said the former Mexican Pres
ident has given up all hope of ever
returning to the land of his birth,
and will bring up his big family of 24
(now living with him) in American
surroundings.
General Huerta and several of the
older male members of the family
went to New York City on a mission
said to be associated with the pur
chase of adjoining lands. Those of
the rest of the family who had rid
themselves of their “sea legs.” includ
ing the youngsters, visited Forest
Park, which adjoins their home, and
gloried in the beauties Park Commis
sioner Weler had effected there.
“This is a delightful place,” ex
claimed General Huerta, as he waved
his hands toward the beautiful green
which extends from Commissioner
Weier’s office.
Though their quarters are some
what cramped—a sixteen-room house
for a family of 24—the Huertas are
happy. They feel more secure than
they did in Mexico.
EGLUSE'S ODD
LIKE THEM
E
Notes He Left Tell of "Babette,”
a Peasant Girl; War, Con
vent and Exile.
CHICAGO, May 29.—A letter pack
et of letters, tied with ribbon of faded
blue, has bared the life story of Louis
von Heilman and “Babette.” Von
Heilman was the aged recluse who
died facing starvation rather than to
part with a store of grimy canvases, a
few believed to be priceless master
pieces, which Uttered his squalid bed
room. The letters were found care
fully tucked away from peering eyes
In a closet corner.
They came to light as James F.
Bishop, public administrator, assist
ed by Lawton S. Parker, a prominent
Chicago artist, was endeavoring’ to
value the paintings.
Von Heilman died intestate. Most
of the letters, written In German, bore
date marks of the 70’s and 80’s. They
were deciphered by a translator.
Lbved Peasant Girl.
From out of the mass of family gos
sip w’hich burdened most of them and
the bits of Von Heilman’s story, which
had been told to his friends, the fol
lowing narrative appeared:
Von Heilman, ihe son of a landed
proprietor near Pless, in Silesia, one
of the provinces where the German
army is now encamped, loved Babette,
a peasant’s daughter on his father’s
estate. His parents disapproved, and
upon his return from the Franco-
Prussian war in 1873 she was gone.
He suspected his parents of having
sent her away. A stormy scene en
sued, after which he came to Amer
ica. Fe\v / spoke a good word for Ba
bette, and after a fruitless search for
her Von Heilman lost his faith In
womankind. He even refused to sit
at a table where women were present.
The years passed by and Von Hell-
man had come to Chicago. Letters
came from hi.s relatives. With the
exception of those from his little sis
ter, Martha, who held his affection,
they remained unanswered.
Sister Defends Her.
Then came a letter from hi.s sister.
She had heard that Babette was in a
convent. On January 4. 1893, Mar
tha wrote as follows:
“l saw Babette to-day and talked
with her for the first time since she
left our father’s house. I came away
feeling as never before that this wom
an, who has given her life to God.
could never have done great wrong.
Oh, brother, could you only have seen
and talked with her as I did to-day,
you would feel that she had never
done anything which would cause you
to lose faith in her. Will you forgive
me once more when I tell you that I
Relieve you have done her a great in
justice?”
Martha’s pleadings availed not, and
soon after Von Heilman broke all tie3
with his family, as is indicated by the
telegram, dated in 1908: *
"Have received no word for three
years. Have you forgotten your little
sister.? ”MAHTHA"
Smoke a
“CLARENCIO.”
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Jury Frees Woman
Held for Killing Babe
BELLFONTAINE. OHIO, *iay 29.—
“Acquitted” was the verdict returned by
the jury that tried Mrs. Adelaide Bentz
on a first degree murder charge. The
indictment charged she poisoned the 3-
year-old baby of Mrs. Ruth Madden.
The testimony came to an abrupt end
when attorney’s for the defense an
nounced they would offer no evidence,
contending the State had failed to make
a case. The baby, who died in the
Bentz home, was claimed by Mrs. Bentz
as her own until the trial began, when
her counsel admitted the State’s conten
tion that the baby belonged to Mrs.
Hadden. w r ho gave it to Mrs. Bentz to
place with a family In Columbus. Mrs.
Bentz kept the child and said she had
given it birth.
Wins $20,000 for
7 Pounds of Flesh
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y , May 29.—Be
cause Arthur Flawn, an aiectrlcian em
ployed by the New York Central Rallr-
road, had to have seven pounds of flesh,
muscle and skin cut from his left side
and arm, which had been burned
when he came in contact with a live
wire, a Jury in the Supreme Court at
White Plains awarded a verdict of
$2b,0(X) against the corporation. Flawn,
who lives In Mott street. White Plains,
sued for $35,000.
In June, 1918. Flawn was ordered to
replace a transformer on one of the
signal poles of the Harlem division. He
came in contact with a wire, charged
w’ith 2,200 volts, which, it was contend
ed, had not been properly insulted-
FRECKLES
Don't Hide Them With a Veil; Re
move Them With the Othine
Prescription.
This prescription for the removal of
freckles was written by a prominent
physician and is usually so successful
In removing freckles and giving a
clear, beautiful complexion that it is
sold by druggists under guarantee to
refund the money If it falls.
Don’t hide your freckles under a
veil; get an ounce of othine and re
move them. Rven the first few appli
cations should show a wonderful im
provement, some of the lighter
freckles vanishing entirely.
Be sure to ask the druggist for the
double strength othine; it is this that
is sold on the money-back guarantee.
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Mummies Grin and
Bold Burglars Flee
CO-ED AWARDED
Girl of 14 Elopes
With Her Husband
Conviction Reveals
Man Raised as Girl
Scare Intruders From New York An
tique Shop Before They 8e
lect Best Plunder.
NEW YORK, May 29.—Burglars
entered the Egyptian Art Gallery,
conducted by Robert de Ruatafjaell,
at No. 734 Fifth avenue, and packed
up about $2,000 worth of Jewels and
valuable antiques. Then they hap
pened to look Into one corner of the
store and ran. Two mummies were
grinning at them.
The burglars overlooked one old
painting which, it is asserted, has
been valued at $75,0*0. It is an an
cient daub, done with pigment on a
rude piece of linen. It represents the
Egyptian goddess Hathor surrounded
by worshipers. It was found among
the ruins of an ancient shrine at De.r
El-Bahari, in Northern Egypt, in 1905.
Mr. Rustafjaell says it is the most
ancient example of canvas painting
known.
From a case containing Jewelry
valued at more than $1,000 the men
took only one necklace, worth less
than $2u0. They also overlooked a
valuable statue. The robbers took an
amethyst ring, ten scarabs and a
gold-rimmed piece of pottery. The
mummies were not disturbed.
Lea ves Her Fiance
Waiting at Church
POTTS VILLE, PA.. May 29.—With
the minister and wedding guests pa
tiently waiting for the performance of
the ceremony. Paul Gibbon suddenly
discovered that his intended bride. Miss
Julia Schutsuskie. had disappeared The
girl had fled to Allentown after Gibbon
had given her monev which she claimed
she needed for her trousseau.
The wedding feast went on without
Interruption, however, although Gibbon
apoealed to Justice Purnell to And his
bride. After Gibbon had preferred
changes of procuring money under false
pretenses against his erstwhiy* Intended.
Constable Cope caught the next train
for Allentown. There he found Julia
plying her trade as a eigarmaker. Con
fronted by the alternative of becoming
Gibbon’s bride or paying $18 in settle
ment of the rase, she decided that it
was worth while to be single and paid
the amount.
Hairpins in His Coat
Causes Divorce Suit
ST. LOUIS, May 29.—Mrs. Della
Meyer has filed suit for divorce from
Richard H. Meyer, vice president of
the Meyer Tailoring Company, charg
ing that she found in his pockets
“hairpins, sidecombs and other arti
cles of feminine wearing apparel that
did not belong to him.” On this evi
dence. the (petition say*, she bases a
charge that he associated with other
women.
She also charges that he locked her
outside their home, in her nightgown,
and would not let her come In again.
Sentenced to Work
At Job for Two Years
/
PHILADELPHIA. -.lay 29—A sen
tence to go to work and stay at big
job for two years, under an admonition
that he would he committed to the
House of Correction as a habitual drunk
ard if he failed to do so, was Imposed
by Magistrate parson upon Michael
Pepper, aged 21.'
Pepper’s mother complained that he
got drunk and would not work. The
hpad of an embroidery company offered
Pepper his job back at ?4 50 a'week to
start, with promise of a “raise” every
time he deserved It. Pepper took the
pledge for two years.
California Places
Ban on Third Degree
SACRAMENTO. CAL.. May 29.—A
Senate bill -prohibiting the use of so-
called third degree methods on prison
ers suspected of crime has been passed
by the Assembly Any punishment or
examination which would inflict physical
pain or impairment of bodily faculties
is forbidden by the bill, which enu
merates various cruel methods used by
some police departments In obtaining
information from the prisoners.
Violation Is made punishable by dis
missal from office.
Pays Up Hotel Bill
To Change His Luck
EXCELSTOR SPRINGS. MG.. May 29.
Tohn Emmke. manager of the Elms
Hotel here, has received a letter post
marked Chicago, which contained only
a brief note and a $1 bill. The note
said:
“This is conscience money. I had a
chance to get away without paying for
dinner several weeks ago at your hotel,
hut 1 guess It doesn’t pay not to be
honest, for everything’s been going
wrong with me since. Perhaps luck wifi
Miss Grace Bell, Who Rescued
Fellow Student From Drown
ing, Won’t Be Heroine.
MADISON. W1S., May X9.— Grace
Bell, senior at the University of Wis
consin, who has been awarded a Car-
regie medal for bravery, refuses to be
a heroine.
In telling of the rescue of Alice Hud
son from drowning in I^ake Winne
bago in the summer of 1912, Miss Bell
declares that she didn’t deserve any
medal for swimming out after a
drowning girl. who. Incidentally, was
much larger than Miss Bell, to shore.
“Why," she says, “If I thought there
was any danger. I probably wouldn't
have done what I did. I didn’t think,
that is all. I don’t see why I should
get any praise for not thinking.”
Be that as it may, the students of
tlje university are proud of the senior
girl who three years ago, when she
was 18, participated In one of the most
daring rescues In the history of the
State.
Miss Bell Is a daughter of B. Bell, of
Hammond. Ind. Her family has a cot
tage on Winnebago 'Lake. In June,
1912, Miss Bell finished her freshman
yeAr and arranged a house party at
the Bell ^Summer home. Miss Hud
son. a fellow student, at Madison, was
a member of the house party.
The morning of June 12 Miss Bell
and Miss Hudson rose early and went
to a pier near the cottage Miss Bell,
who Is an expert swimmer, dove from
the pier and swam out to the break
water, 100 yards away. On the way,
in front of the breaksrater, Miss Bell
met Miss Hudson, who was about half
way out. The water was cold and
Miss Bell advised Miss Hudson not to
continue the swim. Mias Bell swam
to shore. As she reached the shore
she heard a cry. and, turning, saw Miss
Hudson’s hands above the water.
Then the hands disappeared.
Miss Bell re-entered the water and
swam to the spot where she had seen
the hands. Her feet touched the body
and she was clasped in the grasp of
the drowning girl. With only one hand
free, the other fastened to her side
by the grip of Miss Hudson, the girl
swam toward shore. She swam blind
ly and remembers no details of the
trip, which, according to spectators
on the pier, was partly beneath the
surface of the water. She reached
the pier and the two girls, the rescued
unconscious and the rescuer exhaust
ed, where hauled to safety.
Aged Couple Dodge
Relatives and Wed
STOCKTON. CAL.. May 29.—Evading
members of bis family, for whom he
had adroitly arranged a picnic for a
purpose, Erastus Kelsey, 88, remained
aboard the train while they alighted
at the picnic grounds, came on to this
city ana married Mrs. Henrietta Strlb-
llng, 73. who had preceded him here
from her home at Fair Oaks.
Neither Kelsey nor his bride would ad
mit that it was an elopement, hut the
facts became known through a taxicab
driver whom the bridegroom had cau
tioned to eecrecv.
His.Do-as-I-Please
Ideas Cause Divorce
<3 AN FRANCISCO. May 29.—Mrs.
Charles G. Huse has been awarded a
divorce from Charles G. Huse. clubman
and capitalist. \frs. Huse testified that
Huse believed it was a man's preroga
tive to do as he pleased and charged
him with cruelty, desertion and asso
ciating with other women.
Mrs. Huse was awarded $250 month
ly alimony and (mstody of their eight-
year-old son.
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This Is Why I Can Nurse My Baby
I give her one bottle of Neatle’s
Food every day.
The Doctor who welcomed her
into the world showed me how.
“So many women get so nervous
and fagged that their milk fails and
they have to wean their babies too
soon — all because they don’t get
enough pleasure and freedom.
“Now, it Isn’t going to be like that
with you—you’re going to keep
well and happy and nurse your
baby nine months. You are to sleep
all you can—walk In the freeh air,
and go out with vour husband.
“How? Once every twenty-four
hours — not always the same hour
—give yourfcaby, instead of your
breast milk,
Nestles Fowl
“It is so like mother’s milk that
baby won’t feel the difference The
tiniest baby can digest it and it
builds bone and blood and muscle
just as* mother's milk does.
“You can prepare it yourself and
leave it bottled hot, or trust your
nurse to make it, for you only need
to add water and boil one minute.
“You donetneed to worry about Itasif
it wore fresh milk. It does not tour, or
harbor germs, or need ioe Go out every
day, come back with a good appetite,
and, between you and NmtM’a Food,
baby will get ns big and atrong as she
ought to be. And then when weaning
time corns*, It will be very easy to In
crease the feedings of Nestles till the
baby Is serenely and safely weaned on
Nestis’s Food."
Nestld’s is made from clean, freeh
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Send tho coupon. I* will bring you.
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Ohio Bride Add* Another Tangle to
Knotty Problem Faced by
Officials. s
FINDLAY. OHIO, May 29.-—Dis
guised as a woman of 30, with a long
dress, Mrs. Roland Chane, formerly
Ellen Gilmore, 14, has tied another
knot into a kinky case, by eloping
with her own husband, Roland
Chane, 19.
The girl wm in the detention home
last December when It was quaran
tined for scarlet fever, but managed
to elude the officers and escape over
a high board fence to her sweetheart
on the outside.
The tw’o went to Monroe. Mich.,
where they married. When they re
turned. the girl was taiken in chargo
by her parents, and the Juvenile
Court sentenced the youthful hue-
band to the workhouse for nine
months.
The Common Pleas Court ruled
against his proceeding and liberated
both. Then the father of the bride
filed action to have the marriage an
nulled. and the girl was sent to the
detention home again. Her second
escape from that Institution has cha
grined the officials
BUNIONS CAUSE OF SUICIDE.
AKRON, OHIO, May 29.— Because he
has been suffering from bunions which
^ ^vented him from working. Robert
Ittaker cut his throat with a razor and
died a few minutes afterward.
Found Guilty of Arson He Admit*
Dual Personality—Taught
School as Woman. ft
MARUNGTON, W. Va.. May It.-d
A strange case of dual personality*
waj revealed In the conviction of Mam,
Curry, a merchant, on the charge ofl
setting fire to his store for the pur
pose of collecting the Insurance. Hm
was sentenced to six years in the pen*
ltentlary. The fire Is said to hara
been but one of many In which Curry*
figured.
Curry, who Is well connected, wam
brought up in Lincoln County as ^
girl and was knownas “Mattie** Cur
ry. As ’’Mattie” </irry he went to)
school at Hamlin, and after he wag
grown he taught school, associated
with 'Women as one of them and ex
cited no suspicion. After teaching
school for several years, "Mattie*
Curry went sway, and after spending*
some time In the West returned to
Hamlin. But the Individual who went
away in skirts and corsets came back!
in trouserR and as Max Curry, and
he declared he should never bavW
worn anything else.
COUNTRY GIRL BBST SPELLgR.
WOOSTER. OTTTO. May 29.— Madge
Barnes, daughter of Thomas Bar nee*
farmer, an da freshman in the Htgle
School at Creston. will represent Weynn
County in the State spelling contest.
She won the county oontest, In wbleh
more than 200 competed.
M AKE the home attractive and comfortable
and a man will fairly rush to it when his
day’s work is over. Decent statistics com
piled in Boston proved that the greatest cause of
intemperance was "Unhappy Homes".
What man does not enjoy to come home, put ^
on his "comfy” slippers, take un his favorite paper
or magazine—relax and drink a bottle of cold,
W refreshing beer. A man like this is never found
idling around public places and
drinking to excess.
Men like this are Invariably
steadily employed at a living wage and
do not jeopardize their employment
by over-indulgence. They drink mod
erately of beer and are physical and
mental exponenta of true temperance.
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