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Texan, Confederate Veteran, Who
Firmly Refused to Swear Alle
giance After War, Comes Into
Fold So He'Can Vote for Wilson
His Career in Other Countries
Since Famous Struggle Is Re
markable—Served With Dis
tinction in the British Forces.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Sept. 30.
Willlam W. James has at last come
tnto the Union. He took the oath of
gllegiance to the Government of the
United States the other day. For more
than 50 years he was an unrecon
gtructed rebel. He fought on the
Confederate side during the Civil
War, and when that internecine strife
was over he declared that he would
never accept the amnesty that was
tendered the Confederate soldiers.
He had fought as a member of the
notorious Quantrill band, and, rather
than submit to the terms of surren
der that were required of Confeder
ates, he left this country, and faor
fifteen vears he roamed over the
world, fighting wherever an opportu
nity was given him. He joined the
foreign legion of France and served
fn the Franco-Prussian War.
Perhaps James' most notable expe
rience was in New Zealand, where he
was a member of the British colo
pial force that brought the Maoris,
#he native tribesmen, into subjection.
Fought in South Seas.
James won high distinction in Neéw
Zealand during the latter 70’s, and it
is said that he is entitled to a large
Government grant of land in that do
minion in payment of his military
services, Previous to going to New
Zealand he fought with the Colonials
of Australia against the native black
men in Queensland.
When the news reached New Zea
land that the Zulus of South Africa '
were giving trouble, James joined an
€xpedition that was sent to that re-l
mote part of the British Empire. He
was in many stirring engagements)
egainst the Zulus, and wandered over
a good part of the African continent.
It was in 1880 that James felt a
longing for home. His fighting fever
was over, and he sought peace and re
tirement. He returned to the United
States, and, after visiting scenes of his
earlier exploits in Missouri and Kan
-Bas, he came to Fort Worth, where he
has resided ever since. During all
this time, however, he continued to
réfuse to apply for a restoration of
his American citizenship. He tnokl
no part in politics, and was literally |
& “man without a country.”
Admired Wi lson.
James began to show an interest in
the political affairs of this country
when Woodrow Wilson was elected
President. His admiration for Presi
dent Wilson continued to increase un- l
til he decided that he would become a
Teconstructed American citizen and
thus be able to vote for Wilson's re
electivn,
He recently wrote to Sq:nzlmrl
Charles A. Culberson for infurmununl
4s to what was necessary to have his |
Ci?i/.(-nship restored, and Senator Cul- I
berson advised that it was necessary
for him to take the oath of .'tlloghnnw*
to the Government of this country be
fore a United States Cnnnms.\imn'r.’
James did his. |
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ogs, Children’s |
Response to an ‘Ad’|
VINCENNES, IND., Sept. 30.—Five |
hundred and two dogs in the charge o{'
800 boys and girls apepared in response
to ‘an ‘“ad” placed in the local xmxmrs'
I'n Which a local store asked for I,mml
UOgS to be delivered at its front door at
& specified time. i
Three hours before the time, boys |
and girls leading or carrying their rlw;'~‘
were on the way to the store Each |
child bringing a dog to the store was |
Elven 25 cents. A sign boosting the |
store was placed on each dog's back |
GETS MORE VOTES THAN CAST.‘
CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—1 n the official |
canvass of the results In Chicago from |
the State primaryv, errors were fuuml;
in the First Ward, where some precincts |
Bave Huttmann more votes than were |
cast, and O'Hara none. The judges|
and eledtion clerks have been called (I,E
€xplain. The First Ward is the noto- |
a‘;’:&l‘:d({yntnwn ward long ruled by Al- .
n “Kinky Dink'' Kenna,
st. G. E. FETTER, who 5
aB, Mrs. Jéhn €. .C. ;
Mayo, of Paintsville, Ky., was 5
known as the wealthiest wo- §
man in the South. Her mar- |
riage to Dr. Fetter, of Ports- g
mouth, Ohio, was the eulmina- 3
tion of a pretty romance. Mrs, ¢
Fetter was heir to the s‘2o,-§
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Found inlndianßuins
DENVER, Sept. 30.—Three thousand
vears ago cottdh was raised in northern
New Mexico and woven into cloth by
prehistoric Aztecs. Also, they made
rope and twine, perhaps even thread, of
cotton and of the yucca plant, known
to an enlightened modern civilization
as soapweed, or Spanish bayonet, and
chiefly used by small boys for the man
ufacture of toy daggers.
The cotton cloth has been discovered
in explorations directed by FEarl H.
Norris, of the University of Colorado,
acting for the American Museum of
‘Natural History, New York. Norris be
gan work July 20 on a four years’ ex
| m of the famous Aztec ruins on
the ranch of H. D. Abrams, within an
;hours walk of Aztec, New Mexico.
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Bread Prices Boost
Arouses ‘Uncle Joe'
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CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—“ Uncle Joe”
Cannon, of Danville, opines “‘the bakers
have made enough in the past to carry
them over the present high tide of flour
prices. Why should the poorer classes
now be made to suffer?” |
He asserts the solution of the bread
price question is the most Important‘
matter before the country, and so ex-‘
pressed himself to District Attorney
Clyne when he called at the Federal
Building to see Judge Samuel Alschuler
of the United States Circuit Court of
Appeals. The Congressman and the
judge are warm friends.
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ers. Mayo, by Becoming Wife of
Dr. Samuel Fetter, Gives Up
Huge Sum Under Stipulation
by Which 1t Was Willed to Her.
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South’s Richest Woman, Widow
of Kentucky Coal Baron, Re
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i LEXINGTON, KY. Sept. 30.—Ten
\mlllion dollars for love! |
| That was the price paid by Mrs.
!John Calhoun Mayo, widow of Lhc‘
;I\'entuoky coal baron, when she mar
| ried Dr. Samuel Fetter, of Ports
;mmnh, Ohio, the other might. Under
ikhfl provisions of the will of her late
{ husband, Mrs. Mayo was left $20,000,-
| 000—the entire estate—the only pro
| vision being that she should forfeit
| one-half of it if she married agaln.
| But the call of love was too strong
| for the wealthiest woman in Ken
| tucky, who lived among the hills in
| the little town of Paintsville, Johnson
{ County, and conducted her business |
| affairs in a $250,000 home. |
There she was happy and content
;\\'iLh her children—John, 13 years old,‘
jand Margaret, B—until she met Dr.
| Fetter in Florida last winter. 1
{ After that she was even happier. A
| congenial friendship ripened into
|love, and the wedding was the cul
| mination.
| And pouf! What {is $10,000,000
}whfln you have that much more?
! At the death of Mr. Mayo several
;,\'v;u‘s ago, after a struggle for his life
which attracted attention all over the
country, hundreds of poor people
{whom the Mayos had helped thought
| Mrs. Mayo would leave the hills and
imul\'o her residence in the city.
But she would not leave the com-
Im:zn;'._\' in which she was reared. She
| will continue to live there as Mrs
i Fetter,
'P' f Girl’
'Pint of Girl's Blood
~ Saves Aunt in Crisis
I : Soiaimibas
i JOLIET, ILL., Sept. 30.—A pint of
| blood--blooq that was “thicker than wa
lror saved the life of Cora Drew. It
came from the veins of her niece,
‘f:l,pl\\ Shaw Miss Shaw was stoppmgl
|lnto an auto to go to a party v\m'nl
' word came to her of her aunt's danger.
rs‘r-r ordered the chauNeur to the hospi
ll‘ll There she learned that blood trans
| fusion alone—and that without delay '
!\«-.»:]«I save Miss Drew’s life. The party
|:¥r» ss was sleeveless. In a few moments
’?l+r left arm was being tapped. Aunt
and niece are both convalescing.
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Rooster Seizes Nest
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nd Hatches Chicks
l MARYSVILLE, CAL., Sept. 30.—L. ‘
| R, McCoy declares he has the champion
freak chicken of the State on his mn:-h'
Iy,«;.r Lodi A bantam rooster drove
a bantam hen from a nest of eggs, he
's.\\'a, sat on them, hatched them out
and is caring for them
ATLANTA, GA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1916
9 Hits in 12 Shot
Its in ots,
' Record
U. 8. Flyers' Recor
Navy Airmen, 2,000 Feet in Alr,
Show Expertness in Bomb
Throwing and Gunnery.
NORFOLK, Sept. 30.—That American
gunners can hit a target from an aero
plane 2,000 feet in the air almost as
well as they can from the deck of a
battleship was demonstrated when two
members of the Aerial Corps from the
cruiser North Carolina made nine hits
out of twelve shots. A The firing was
done during stormy weather, the gun
ners using small arms and bombs.
This is the first experiment of this
kind conducted by the Atlantic fleet, and
practically every one of the fifty-five
ships on the Southern drill grounds took
observations.
The targets were surrounded by the
entire fleet, while the aeroplanes circled
around them at various heights. The
highest shooting was at 2,000 yards.
DeFoe Says Robinson
BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO, Sept. 30.—
“Whatta you know about Robinson
Crusoe getting into DeFoe's house?”’
| asked Sheriff George Smith when he
brought back from Kenton a prisoner,
who says his name is Robinson Crusoe.‘
charged with robbing the farm home of
Elisha DeFoe, near .Huntsville.
When Mr. and Mrs. DeFoe returned
home and found that their home had
been robbed and a complete outfit of
DeFoe's clothing taken they turned
their horse toward Kenton in pursuit.
As they were driving over a bridge De-
Foe declares he glimpsed his suit of
clothes adorning a man who was bath
ng his feet in a stream. Hhe got an
officer, who in turn got Robinson Cru-
BOe.
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Has 60,000,000 Bacilli
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 30.—Analysis of
samples of dust picked up from down
town streets by the big vacuum street
Sweeper shows that each gram of dust,
which is less than a teaspoonful, con
tains more than 60,000,000 bacilli, more
than one-half of which cause dangerous
diseases, reports City Bacteriologist
Baldwin to Director of Streets and
Sewers Talbert.
The tests show, Dr. Baldwin says,
that the dust particles on the streets
in the business district form one of the
contributory causes of ill health in St,
Louis. When inhaled or breathed by
persons whose systems are run down
they may cause serious iliness he de
clares.
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ohn D. Treats His
Barber to a Drink
NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—A friend of
John D. Rockefeller, reading of the oil
man's superlative water supply, told this
story:
Mr. Rockefeller recently invited his
barber, a German, for an automobile
ride. In Mamaroneck he asked his guest
if he would like a drink. Assured thal‘
he would, Mr. Rockefeller said:
“Wait till we get back to the house.
I've got a fine cold drink back there
for you."”
When they reached Pocantico Hills
the ofl king calleg for a pitcher of his
‘pure cold water.”
Wind Brings Shower
Of Bloomers in Park
NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—1 t rained
bloomers In Central Park. One Taxicab
driver gathered five pairs and another
two. They were blue and of sylphlike
proportions.
The shower was traced to the roof of
the Hotel Majestic, Seventy-second
street and Central Park West. A class
of girls assembles there daily at sun
rise to study interpretative dancing with
Mrs. Evelyn Hubbell. Their freshly
laundered bloomers had been hung out
to dry and the rope had parted.
Ask Uniform to Curb
Schoolgirls' Rivalry
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 30.—Resolu
tions requesting that all Kansas City
high school girls be required to wear |
uniforms will be presented to the Board
of Education at its next meeting,
The resolutions, which assert that riv
alry in dresses is having an unwhole
some effect on the girls, two of whom
)revenlly declined to attend school be
cause they could not dress as well as
others, have been adopted by the civics
commission of the Council of Clubs.
Goethals Bids Adieu
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PANAMA CITY, Sept. 30.—General
Goethals has left the Canal Zone for
New York, saying that he will not re
turn in an official capacity.
His going was unknown to the ca- |
nal employees, and the ship on which !
he sailed, flying the Canal Zone Guv-l
ernor's flag, was not saluted, |
Never before has he been entirely
through the canal nn a ghip,
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Amendment of the Church Rule
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of Marriage and Separation
Will Be Great Point To Be
Decided at St. Louis.
Fight Against Prohibition of Re
marriage of Innocent Parties
'
Led by Influential Laymen.
Commission s for Change.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 30.—When the
forty-fourth triennial convention of
the Protestant Episcopal Church as
semles at St. I.ouis, October 11, the
stage will be set for one of the sharp
est controversies in the religious his
tory of this country.
The question of the attitude of the
Episcopal Church in America to di
vorced persons will be definitely de
termined, and, ifr elaborate plans do
not miscarry, the present policy of
the church will be completely re
versed, and, hereafter, it will be im
possible for any divorced person, dur
ing the life of the divorced partner,
to be married by an Episcopal clergy
marn, ‘
Such action has been recommended‘
by an Episcopal commission of five
bishops, five clergymen and five lay
men, representing every section of!
the country and all shades of opInIon;
as to church government. Their de
liberations have been proceeding for
a year and their radical recommenda
tion, barring divorced persons from
the right of marriage within the
church, will, admittedly, raise a con
troversial storm. '
Are Ready to Fight. |
The advocates of the proposed re-‘
form are ready for it. They include
the bulk of the clergy, who feel that
the church must, at this time, regis
ter its protest with alj possible em
phasis against the national evil of
divorce,
The fight against the recommend
ed change will be made, largely, by
the influentia} laity, led by several
eminent clergymen.
The fires of this controversy have
been smoldering since the defeat of
practically the same recornmenda
tion in the convention of 1901 in San
Francisco, 2nd again, three years
later, at the Boston convention. In
| these futile struggles to array the
church uncompromisingly against
divorce and to interdict the mar
riages of divorced persons by chureh
canon, the successfu] Oopposition was
led by the late Rev. Dr. William R.
Huntington, who, for a quarter of a
century, was rector of Grace Church
in New York City. Dr. Huntington
had behind him a numerically small,
but distinguished Broup of clergy
men and a strong lay following,
headed by the late J. Pierpont Mor
gan, who was a delegate to the con
vention. Bishop Greer, then rector
of St. Bartholomew's Church, stood
with Dr. Huntington throughout the
fight.
Defeated Once.
They were beaten in the first vote
of the House of Bishops by a sub
stantial majority, and again in the
House of Deputies, but on the third
and final test they scored a victory in
the diocesan vote, and the law of the
‘('hurr'h was preserved as it stands to
day-—sanctioning marriage for the in
nocent party in a divorce for adul
tery,
But the Clerical party, better known
as the “rigorists,” did not abandon
Ilhmr campaign. Through the years
| they have becen working steadliy to
'mold church sentiment in readiness
for another determined effort to un
compromisingly bar divorced persons
from marriage by canon law,
. Advocates of the proposed canon
amendment will contend that tht-‘
growing evil of divorce calls for this
‘drastic action by the church: that it
is Impossible to accurately determine |
who is the guilty and who the Inno
cent party in the average divorce;
‘that the public good demands a pro
hibition of all such marriages to
' which collusive and fraudulent di
'vorce may have paved the way: rhn?!
Holy Writ defines and determines the
indissolubility ¢f marriage and III:IIi
‘the clear dutv of the church in Ihl"'
national crisis of marriage laxity is to
adopt a canon that will rightly con
trol marriages within the church and
powerfully influence public opinion in
the proper direction -
| Some Arguments for Divorce.
. Opponents of the radical change in
canon law, demanded by the ‘“rigor
ists,” will fight with these arguments:
That Christ expressly taught that the
innocent party to a divorce for adul
tery was free to marry again: that
‘the proposed legislation is a long step
toward the practice of the Roman
Catholic Church in prohibiting dai
vorce for any cause; that it is an at
tempt by the church to interfere in a
purely civil matter, and that the pro- |
posed action, If taken, will only de- |
feat its own object by driving people
| from the church and increasing the
evils embodied in a ¢isregard of the
marriage law, {
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U. S. Seeks to Free Her
Emmy Destinn, grand opera star, who is held prisoner by
Austrian Government because she tried to gain freedom of her
fiance, Dinh Gilly, the baritone (below), interned as French ser
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Prima Donna Detained by Austria;
Vainly Seeks Passports to
the United States.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30.—Emmy
iDestlnn, grand opera star, is held a
prisoner by the Austrian Government
in her castle near Prague, Bohemia,
‘because of her love for Dinh Gilly,
Ibnritone of the Metropolitan Opera
Company and interned sergeant of
{tha Fourth Zouave French Regiment.
. International complications devel
‘op!:d as a result of this romance. The
prima donna's efforts to free her
{lover. resulting in her being held cap
tive by invisible chains, now forms
a matter of interest to the State De
‘partment at Washington,
} This situation became known when,
on the arrival of the Oscar 1l in New
York, Destinn was not on board. She
was scheduled to appear in San Fran
cisco this evening to sing in the great
open-air production of the opera
“Aida” on Ewing Field. .
Appeal to Manager,
Instead of the singer came an ap
peal to her manager, Charles L., Wag
ner, in New York, asking him to help
force the Austrian Government to‘
grant her passports, |
Gilly has been held a prisoner since
1914. Destinn, who had announcedl
her engagement to her “Arabian,” as
she called him, has been seeking msl
release for a year. What methods she
took against the Austrian Govern
ment, which she, as a Bohemian,
hates, may be made the subject of in
‘quiry.
Senator James D, Phelan asked the
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State Department to mak. represen
tations to the Austrian Government
toward granting passports to Destinn.
Destinn took out her firat papers as
an American citizen in New York,
where she owns a home, February 3,
1915. This claim will be presented to
the Austrian Government through the
State Department.
The prima donna had been active in
Bohemian antagonism toward the
Austrians. This makes the situation
difficult to deal with,
Gilly is a native of Prague and
served in the French army in a regi
ment recruited in Algiers. He re
turned home on parole and was made
a prisoner,
Last February the prima donna
said in Portland:
“l am only waiting for the war to
end and Mr. Gilly to return to Paris
when 1 will meet him and become his
bride.” ’
But the war lasted too long and her
plans have gone astray,
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Balzac Makes Men
.
Smack Lips, He Says
STEUBENVILLE, OHIO, Sept. 30—
“Hosea never pictured his wife in a way
|to make men smack their lips as they
do when they read Balzac,” declared
Professor Camden M. Coburn, Allegheny
!(Jolleze. In an address to the Northeast
Ohio M. E. Conference. He used the
love for Hosea for his wife to prove and
teach God's great love for man.
' “A baby is greater than a solar sys
tem,” he asserted, “and it is damnable
to tell a mother she lost her child be-
Icauu she loved him toc muech."”
Sunflower Grows on
.
Limb of Dead Tree
| PETERSBURG, IND., Sept. 30,7, w,
Wilson, an attorney of this town, has
a dead South Carolina poplar tree back
of his law office. Several weeks ago
he noticed a sprig of green sprouting
from one of the limbs, He knew the
tree was dead and watched the sprout
until now it has grown Into a large sun.
flower bush that will be ready to bloom
in a few adys. There ig no way to get
molsture to the sunflower and the limb
I 8 less than 2 inches in diameter, ile
vegetation on the earth has mfllhv.
Allies” Superb Aviators Make Pos
sible the Scientific Co-opera
tion of Artillery With Advanc
' ' '
ing Infantry—Avoid Mistakes.
lLosses of French Cut in Half by
Success of Co-ordination in
Attack—Two Methods of Big
Gun Fire Has Been Worked Out
LONDON, Sept. 30.—The official re
port from British headquarters in
France that “the preparation and ex
ecution of the attack by the artillery
and infantry and the co-operation be
tween them, were in all respects ad
mirable,” testifies to the British com
mander’'s recognition of the advance
made toward a final solution of a
long-standing problem.
l The British and French losses in
the Somme operations, which began
July 1, have been below the calcula
tions made in advance by the general
staffs of the price that would have to
be paid for a highly desirable result,
which could only be obtained by a
thoroughly effective use of artillery.
British official dispatches have
shown several instances in the past
where the artillery co-operation with
Infantry was faulty, and French ex
perts like Captain Plerre Mille, him
self a gunner, have admitted that dur
ing the earlier stages of the war even
the highly trained French artillery
was unable to cope with all the diMf
culties presented.
“All of us,” recently wrote Captain
Mille, who spent the first twenty
months au the front, “know that even
as late as September, 1915, although
we had many more heavy guns
and shells, the connection between
infantry and artillery proved very im
perfect, and was responsible for many
losses.”
Casualties Cut in Half.
According to the same authority,
the average casualties of the French
army are fewer than half what they
were last year. The whole secret
consists in establishing a close and
almost mathematical connection be
tween the work done by the artillery
and the movements of the attacking
trocps. Such a difficult problem was
not easy to solve. The French au
| thorities make no difficulty about
| confessing that it took them a long
time to find out exactly how to pro
ceed. It was only by hard experi
ence that the best methods of deal
ing with the German barbed wire de
fenses and intrenchments were learn
ed and that two separate and distinct
kinds of artillery preparation were
required,
| It has been worked out with mathe
matical precision how many shells are
required per yard of wire entangle
ments. When it comes to the destruc
tion of ground defensive works, ex
perience has shown that the best way
to deal with front line trenches, es
pecially when the are not easy to
pecially when they are not easy to
them an enormous number of trench
mortars of all sizes Howitzers are
only used at present against the sec
ond and third lines, and all works
behind the first line trenches. As it
Is, their task is already a sufficiently
heavy one, and it assumed that every
inch of ground must be plastared
with shells,
Curtain of Fre.
Once this work of preparation is
over the great problem was to safe~
guard the attacking troops as they
moved forward by a protective cure
tain of shells, which had to be lifted
ahead, in accordance with the ground
gained. Here, owing to the difficulty
of keeping artillery exactly informed
as to movements of infantry, the only
solution which was found for a long
time. was to regulate exactly before
hand the movements of the attacking
troops and lengthening the artillery
rang» by a clockwork schedule. This
left a considerable margin for mise
takes and miscaleculations, as the ad<
vance of the Infantry was not always
wecording to schedule,
With the aerial supremacy, obtain- .
ed by the Allles on the Somme front
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