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MONDAY, JANUARY M.
FI MEETING
OF ELI CLUB
Was Held in Jacksonville Last
Week. Agents in Sympathy
With Removal of The Empire
Headquarters to Augusta.
The convention of The Empire Life
Insurance Company's Eli Club in Jack
sonville was one of the most enthu
s<7 *ic meetings of life insurance
agents ever held. The motto of the
club is “Get There Eli.” No man is
eligible for membership who does not
produce a hundred thousand in paid
for business or more during a year.
The man who leads the entire agency
force of the company or the Eli Club
is the president of the club for the fol
lowing year. The president can serve,
but two years, then he becomes hon
orary president.
The convention Vf/f-s called to order
at 10:30 Thursday, January Bth, by Mr.
H. C. Vaiden, president of the club.
From the first sound of the gavel un
til the close of the convention. The
Empire Life and Augusta, Ga., were
enthusiastically discussed by every
one. A number of interesting talks
were made by the different members of
the club and plans were made and res
olutions adopted to make the year 1914
the greatest year in the history of the
company, and to that extent to show
to the public that the Eli Club is in
sympathy with the removal of the
home office from Atlanta to Augusta.
Several of the Augusta directors were
present at this meeting and extended
a most cordial invitation to the ejitire
club to visit Augusta, in order that
they might show their hospitality and
their enthusiasm for the company and
their agents*
Thursday evening at the Seminole
Hotel a most delightful banquet was
served to the club, officers and direc
tors of the company. The Jackson
ville press was well represented. There
was no wine served, but the banquet
was in every respect thoroughly en
joyed. Speeches were delivered by
the officers and directors of the com
pany as well as a number of the in
vited guests. There seemed to be but
one opinion, and that was that, The
Empire Life was indeed the company
of tlre South and with the splendid
agency force which was represented by
the Eli Club she was desinfd to be
come one of the greatest insurance
companies in the country.
The convention moved headquarters
to St. Augustine on Friday where the
day was spent in sight-seeing. Eating
oranges plucked from the trees and
drinking freely of the waters of the
Fountain of Youth. We returned to
Jacksonville on the evening train and
in short form brought to a close the
most successful convention ever hell
by the agents of The Empire Life In
surance Company.
Aiken News
Aiken, S. C. —Although not many of
the Aiken winter tourists have arrived
yet. it is said from a reliable sourc'3
that is going to he one of the best ami
largest seasons in years. The po.o
and tennis season is expected to be
great Practically all of the smaller
c ottages have been rented and the ma
joiity of the larger houses have also
been rented.
.’lr. and Mrs. Wm. Post arrive this
v c ek. .Vlr. Post has quite a number
of polo ponies with him.
Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Stephens, of New
York, arrived Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Hopping, of New
York, are stopping at the Palmetto
Inn.
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. DeForest, of
Cold Springs Harbor, L. 1.. arrived yes
terday.
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Perrin, of New
York, are expected lo arrive in a few
days and will occupy the Wiehl cot
tage on Colleton avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Almirall are oc
cupying the cottage known as “Uncle
John’s Cabin."
Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt is also ex
pected this next week. He passed
through here som time ago but only
stayed a short time.
Tabloid Tales
What, Mother, is meant by a "house
party?" I read of it often these clays.
A house party, Child, Is one where
the hostess has to worry about sheets,
as well as tablecloths.
What, Mother, is a debutante?
.It Is a name. My Dear Riven to a
Kiri when she is about sixteen and
which makes her much harder to Ret
alonß with than if she Roes by the
old-fashioned name of "one of the
young ’uns.” *
What, Mother, Is ambition?
It is a praiseworthy hope and de
sire, child, to do great things. Every
one is well supplied in youth, but it
dwindles away in time like a cake of
soap, so that by the time a man is
seventy he can't remember that he
ever had any in the tub with him.
What, Mother, Is a Bookmark?
It is anything, Child, which a
woman uses to mark the place be
tween the pages of Uplift literature?
Rut, Mother Mine, what is It called
when the literature Is not Uplift?
you are so unsophisticated, Uttle
fine A bookmark Is never used be
tween the paxes of trashy literature
for the reason that after the reader be
gins to read, the book is not put down
till the end Is reached. lam old, and
I have seen many books, but never saw
a bookmark in a trashy novel.
Who, Mother, is the ideal wife?
It Is the wife. My Child, who, when
her husband shaves and puts on his
dress suit and says he Is going out to
help a friend dig a well, believes him
ATHENS BOYS
HEAR SLATON
Governor Addreses 1,200 Stu
dents at University. Makes
Plea for Applied Education.
Athens, Ga. —Nearly 1;200 students
of the State College of Agriculture, the
University of Georgia proper, the State
Normal School and Lucy Cobh Inatt- j
tnte heard Governor Slaton speak at!
the agricultural hall on Lumpkin Hill j
on the general practical theme of “Ed
ucation Applied.”
The governor came at the invitation
of Dr. Soule to address especially the
short-course students of tlie state col
leke, the corn club scholarship win
ners. the girl’s canning club winners,
the demonstration agents and women
county agents, here for the two weeks
or more of special mid-winter study.
In his honor the faculty of the uni
versity and of the state college ap
peared In caps and gowns. The sight
was an Inspiring one on the open hill
near the agricultural building with
the Impressive processioal accompa
nying, the governor and the twelve
hundred students massed about the
building in the clear winter sunshine.
Governor Slaton made a clear-cut
plea for applied education—whether
purely vocational or cultural, whether
theoretical or technical. He commend
ed the work of the State College of
Agriculture as exemplifying perhaps
more directly than many institutions
the application in profitable and ap
parent form the results of training
along a specific and definite line.
GBBCE IS DEAD
FROM BDLLET
As He Was Laspsing Into Un
consciousness Quoted as Say
ing: “It Was Daisey Who
Shot Me.”
Atlanta, Ga.—All question of the
sincerity of Eugene H. Grace in accus
ing his wife of shooting him seems
to have been silenced forever by the
whisper of Grace as he lapsed into
unconsciousness Sunday night:
"It was Daisy who shot me.”
Mrs. Grace has been cleared in open
court. The law has pronounced her
innocent. The secret of the mysteri
ous crime will in all probability re
main forever a secret, but of one thing
there can no longer be any doubt and
that is that Eugene Grace believed his
wife was guilty.
I lost at the trial, and now I am
to lose my long fight for life,” the
dying man is quoted as saying, "but
1 will appeal from earthly tcourts to a
(tigher tribunal, and she will not coihe
flean then!”
At another time, while he Was
growing weaker, Grace is quoted as
saying to members of his family, "She
did it! She did Itl She shot me and
then left me locked In the room to
die. I am thinking of it all the time
and it has eaten into my soul.”
Shot Two Years Ago.
Newnan, Ga. —Eugene Grace died
here at 1:46 o’clock Monday morning
from the bullet wound he mysteriously
received in Atlanta nearly two years
ago. He had suffered from partial pa
ralysis since shortly after the shoot
ing occurred and had been In a seri
ous condition for several days.
Grace was wounded at his Atlanta
home in March, 1912. Police summon
ed by a telephone call found him In
a semi-conscious condition. At the
hospital he accused his wife, Mrs.
Daisy Opie Grace, of the shooting.
Mrs. Grace was found at the home of
Grace’s mothe> here and arrested on
his accusation. Later in the same
year she was tried on a charge of at
tempted murder and found not guilty.
At the,trial Grace, brought Into the
court room on a cot, made a state
ment that he had been shot by his
wife for the purpose of securing a
large amount of life insurance which
she held. Mrs. Grace said at the trial
that her husband had been wounded
in a struggle between them for pos
session of a pistol and that she bad
left him and gone to Newnan In the
belief that he was not In a serious
condition.
Soon after the trial Grace left h!s
Atlanta home to live with his mother
In Newnan. His death, physicians
said, was due directly to uralmic poi
soning which set in about the wound
in his back.
KILLED BY MARSHALL IN
CROWDED GEORGIA DEPOT
Williamson. Ga— John Shipp, newly
elected marshal, shot anti killed Wll
liatn Bibb, a negro, In a desperate
pistol duel just as the three passenger
trains met here Sunday.
Bibb, running to catch a train, drop
ped his pistol from his pocket. When
Shipp ordered him to give up the pis
tol, the negro opened fire on the mar
shal. firing two shots before Shipp
got his gun. He then shot and killed
the negro almost instantly. A large
number of people around the depot
were within range, but escaped the
bullets.
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turally on the stomach and liver, stim
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tone up the entire system. Price, 25c.
At all Druggist:- H. E. Bueklen & Co.
Philadelphia or St. Louis.
GEORGIAN ON DIPLOMATS
PRECEDING SENATORS
..Atlanta, Ga. —Georgia's senior sena
tor has issued an interesting statement
to the general effect that there is no
proper warrant for giving cabinet of
ficers social precedence over senators.
Senator Bacon makes the point that
membership in the house or senate is
a constitutional office, whereas the
cabinet is a creation of congress, and
argues that the creature can never be
greater than its creator.
Therefore, Senator Bacon believes,
not only a senator but a representative,
should march out to a dining room a
little in advance of a cabinet member.
An interacting and altogether good
natured discussion lias arisen around
the point thus made. Washington so
cial usage, of course, gives the cabinet
members precedence.
The 5 Points
of Authority
in this Book
★ 1. All of the chapters in this
hook pertaining to the actual
construction of the canal were
read and corrected by Colonel
George W. Goethals, Chairman
and Chief Engineer of the Isth
mian Canal Commission.
★ 2. All of the illustrations were
made from photographs taken by
Mr. Ernest Halh-n, the official
photographer of the Commission.
A 3. The hook contains the beau
tiful, colored Bird’s-eye View of
the Canal Zone, made under Ihe
direction of the National Geo
graphic Society, as well as the
black-and-white official map of
the Canal.
★ 4. The extensive index was pre
pared by Mr. G. Thomas Ritchie,
of the staff of the Library of
Congress.
★ 5. The final proofs were revised
by Mr. Howard E. Sherman, of
the Government Printing Office,
to conform with the typographical
style of the United States Govern
ment.
This book is by the author of
“ The American Government ”
which was read by millions of Americans,
and still holds the record as the world's
t>est seller among all works of its kind.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
ATLANTA CRIMINAL COURT
WON’T DECIDE DEBT CASES
Atlanta, Ga.— -T. H. Martin, the At
lanta business man who tried to pros
ecute a former employe criminally for
a debt of Vi cents, in the new munic
ipal court got the hook pretty strong
from Judge Luther Rosser, ,ly.,
who not only dismissed the case but
assessed costs in the sum of $9.25
against Martin fee bringing the action.
This seems to indicate once and for
all the policy of the new municipal
court to do away entirely with the
collection of debt through the agency
of criminal warrants, a practice which
it is said was indulged in a good deal
by the former justice of the peace
courts.
The lower courts will continue, as
usual, to render the lawful aid in the
collection of debts through the civil
division, but it is announced as a fair
warning that cases involving debt
must not be brought into the criminal
division.
GEORGIANS DRINK MORE
SINCE PROHIBITION LAW
Atlanta, Ga. —That Georgians have
drunk more “spirituous, vinous and
malt liquors” since the proihibition
law went into effect than they did
when the state was wet seems to be
Indicated by figures just, made public
showing that more revenue is being
collected by the state of Georgia from
near-beer and locker club taxes than
used to come into the state’s treas
ury from the saloons in 1907 and
prior to that year.
In 1907 the last year of local option,
the state collected a little over 235,-
000, from liquor licenses. In 1912 the
Culebra Gut
The thirsting for a fight, with the odds all stacked against them was the lure that
led the Americans into the greatest battle with Nature Ihe world has ever seen.
The event slated was the breaking of a Continent’s backbone. ~ The prize offered—
Culebra Cut.
It was a fight to the finish.
On one hand stood a grim mountain range, its face covered with the dense tangle
of the Tropics, its feet, imbedded in the steaming, stinking jungle a place no white man
bad a right, to be; a place so hot and poisonous that it might well be called the border
land of Hell.
Against this barrier of the ages marched your Army Engineers with their sgienre,
your gang bosses with their courage, and the faithful negro workers with their brawn.
They tackled that mountain with their steam shovels, they bored into its sides with
their pneumatic drills, they shot it up with tons of dynamite, they went at it with bare
hands.
The mountain fought back with infernal spite. It hurled down everything, from
great boulders to giant land-slides.
Over night it would drop a 40 acre lot into the cut, burying ears, tracks and shovels
three weeks deep.
#
Not once but 20 times did the mountain “backfire” with Nature’s weapons of
rock and rubble.
And this in a land of torrential rains and withering heat —where the fighters were
alternately roasted, drenched and parboiled.
For seven years this savage, upstanding fight between man and the mountain went
on.
Then slowly and inevitably the mountain gave way to the “ I will” of human purpose.
Today a man-made nine-mile eaynon is the trophy of that conflict. On its peace
ful waters the commerce of the world is quickly shifted from ocean to ocean.
And it is this awful and majestic chasm which will stand for eternity as a monument
to American love for a fight to the finish. N
It is the “mightiest deed the hand of man has done.”
For the most graphic and authentic description of Culebra Cut read
p > Ay Frederic J. Haskm
Author of “The American Government”
To get this hook at cost use the cou
pon printed elsewhere in this paper
clubs and the beer saloons together
paid over $281,000. The 1913 total is
expected to go still larger.
PRETTY ATLANTA WIFE
"WILL SHOOT MASHERS”
Atlanta, Ga.—“l am going to get a
pistol just the same and shoot the
first masher who bothers me,” declar
ed pretty Mrs. .1. H. Pickle this morn
ing.
Mrs. Pickle is the young woman
who is so beautiful that she can’t go
out on the street without, having half
a dozen men flirting with her, accord
ing to her repeated complaints to the
police.
She applied to the chief for permis
sion to carry a pistol, and permission
was denied her, but she says that At
lanta men are the worst mashers that
she ever saw and that she is going
to get a little pearl-handled revolver
whether or no, and that the next time
a gay Lothario tries to get gay with
her, 'Bang,” she is g r olng to shoot
him in the foot.
His Stomach Troubles Over
Mr. Dyspeptic, would you not like
to feel that, your stomach troubles
were over, that you could eat any kind
of food you desired without injury?
That, may seem so unlikely to you
that you do not even hope for an
ending of your troubled but permit us
to assure you that It is not altogether
Impossible. If others can he cured
permanently, and thousands have
been, why not you? John R. Rarker,
of Battle ('reck, Mich., Is one of them.
He says. “I was troubled with heart
burn, Indigestion, and liver complaint
until I used Chamberlain’s Tablets,
then my trouble was over.” Sold by
all dealers.
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