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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-29
THE JEFFERS ONIAN
PAGE FIVE

Here is what he did send, from Atlanta,
next day:
Regarding the investigation which he asked
the New York office to make regarding certain
reported irregularities in the past record OF Mr..
Seely we desire to state that have received
quite lengthy letter from New York From
this report it appears that while so far the New
York office has learned nothing definite concern
ing any irregularities connected with Mr.. Seely's
past with any newspaper there is a significant
feature regarding a real estate deal
According to our information, named
"F. Loring Seely' promoted a suburban real es-
tate subdivision in Terre Haute, Ind, some 4
or Is years ago and there is reason to believe
this is the same Seey who has The Georgian.
Our New York office states that ST. Loring
Seely'' sold great number of these lots, which
he claimed to be his own and sold them mostly
to people living away from Terre Haute. These
people, of course, were not likely to question his
ownership and after collecting three or four pay
ments, it is said he quietly departed. It after
wards developed that he did not own the prop
erty and that he had acquired the plats from
local real estate dealer.
The report is that two Of the parties who lost
quite heavily, traced Seely to St. Louis and COM
PEELED him to refund their money, they in turn
agreeing to keep quiet. The matter however.
is that his friends settled the matter when
is said to have leaked out and information
criminal action threatened
We not sure that this IF Loring Seely'
who operated in Terre Haute IA or Is years ago
is the same F. L. Seely now Of Atlanta, but our
report states that the Seey of Terre Haute was
reported to have gone to st. Louis and later to
some point in the South, where he was said to
be in the newspaper business
1t would be we'll for you to investigate this
in Atlanta and ascertain, if possible whether or
not these and the same man. You
understand that this matter is outlawed by
time and the information give you here is
simply to keep you posted and you are not to
make of it in the ordinary manner. But it
would be we'll for you to quietly investigate and
confirm, If possible, the information we have and
to supplement it.
There is nothing incredible about the story.
per Sc. That is exactly the swindle that has
been successfully worked. over and over again
Hitchcock, Postmaster General, personally
ralded the offices of ust such confidence
game, a short while ago. The Federal Gov
eminent is even now taking measures against
the alleged dupes of H. Gaylord Wiltshire,
the well-known Socialist publisher, who is
accused of working practically the same
swindle that Seel y was accused of.
Many OF you remember a land-swindle that
was worked in Florida, some twenty years
ago. AS | remember, it was at St. Andrews
Bay that lots were sold. They were bought,
"sight unseen" all over the country So
cautious a business man as the late Judge
Sam Lumpkin was taken in: He bought lots,
according TO numbers on q plot precisely as
the alleged victims of F. Loring Seelv were
CONTINUED ON PAGE TwELvE)
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matters also, but Seely gives no hint of it.
Pond asked us to give him the circulation
claimed by The Georgian, and told him they
claimed 10000. Lanier consulted the "Guide,''
and said "The figures given in this book are
41,OOO"
Pond remarked
''Well, they won't get that number in my
report"
Strange to say, Ponds first inquiry was
about the alleged Cuban scandal.
H0a0 did he learn that anybody had qoritten
me about that? Not q qoo1d had I published
on the subject; and no one IN Atanta could
haze ha0no7o that q letter, containing the
charge against SeezI, had been qUrittera to me
excepting the writer of the letter and those
in his confidence.
Now, who qc0s the writer, and how did
Seely and Pond get on to the fact that [ had
any information, true or false, about the
Cuban stamp swindle?
Here is another mystery. Pond told me
that man in bar-room gave him the tip
that knew Of Seely's alleged scrape in Cuba
Who was this man In a bar-room?
Seely, perhaps.
Nice man for our profession, isn't he?
Quite an ornament to American journalism.
When the London Times was duped in the
matter of the Phoenix Park murders, it was
not a brother editor who did the di1ty qo0yh.
1t was a man of the very worst character,
a liar and fOrger.
The reason why [ made no effort whatever
to learn Ponds full name and standing, was
that [ had no idea then, of using his stuff.
And after subsequent events caused me to
refer to the matter I asserted nothing. Merely
asked questiors-ocAich qoere fuzly justified 6y
aohat Hrs. Porter says IS the truth about
Seezy
Any man who would get another to do
what Seely sent Pond to Thomson to do, is
capable of running two laboring men by get
ting them to commit a felony in the stealing
of a mailing list And anybody capable Of
either one of these two shameful transactions,
is quite capable of any other swindle.
A curious detail of Ponds story was that
a large block of subscriptions to The Ge0r-
gam went to a certain man, on the inside;
and that this man disposed of them after
wards, along the Rural Routes.
Why did Pond spend half-an-hour here,
going over all that? He could not have ex-
pected me to use the charges, unverifed; and
they were of such nature that | could easily
have learned whether they were true, or not.
He gave me the names of all the parties;
and the Courthouse records are open to
everybody. If there is no truth in any of
those serious accusations made by Pond
against Seely, then Pond did a tedious lot of
unnecessary lying.
Please remember that the only part of
Ponds story that used a0Gs that q0zich Mrs.
Porter co1roborated Yet, letters are coming
to me with responsible names signed to them,
alleging that The Georgian did victimize peo-
pie in the Prize Contest! What are we to
think?
In his "Last of Mr.. Watson" editorial,
Seely declares that he went to the witnesses
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said to have been taken advantage of in the
Governors office He did not give her name,
and we have no evidence that she really made
oath to the statement
Seely (aided no doubt by Smith, dug up
the wrong pardon case It was not Harold,
but Collins, whose sister went before Cover
nor Smith to beseech him for clemency in be-
half of her brother
Therefore, Seely (aided again by Smith,
perhaps,) may have sent his man. Cochran,
to the wrong woman.
Did See y secure an affidavit of denial from
the mail-clerk whose home Hoke Smith
ruined?
Not at all.
Did he induce the Columbus woman to
swear that she did not rush into Joe Sid
Turner'S office, with flushed face and rumpled
hair, and tell him excitedly that Governor
Hol1e Smith had taken advantage Of her in
his office few moments before?
Not at all.
Here IS the story, as related in under-tOnes
IN various parts of the State:
The woman went into Governor Smiths
office to plead for pardon for her brother
Smith signed it. AS it lay before him and
her, on his table, he said to her, insinu-
atingly:
II have done that much for you now don't
you think you ought to do something for
me?"
Then, it is said the unprintabIe act of i'm
morality followed, right there in the Gov
ernOrs office
It is supposed, it flashed into the woman's
mind that If she refused to yield and thus
offended the Governor he qrOuzd tear up that
pardon.
Can J. 0. Cochran, or anybody else, get
the woman to swear, qoith her lips on HOLY
Writ, that she did not rush into the room of
Joe Sid Turner, and tell him of this mon
strous deed!
Again, is there any affidavit of denial, in
regard to Mabel Johnson, the octoroon, who,
on being dropped from the list of school
teachers in Atlanta, went to Washington to
apply for a position under Hoke Smith?
He did not give her an office, but it is
claimed he made her his concubine
according to the story, the first tin1e she
aoas conducted to his office, at ezeven o'czocz;
at night, By has porter!
Did Seely endeavor to get at the facts in
this case?
He did not
Did he ask Ed. Cason, or Samuel Busy,
or Lee Smith for the truth as to the crime
committed on poor Fannie Vandever?
He did not. Yet the two first named live
in Atlanta, and the third, in Macon.
Now, if he had been acting honestly, would
he not have procured statements from these
witnesses?
If he had not betrayed and attacked me, I
would have gone on, from time to time furn-
ishing him with all the information as it
came to me; and thus he could have pushed
a bona fde investigation.
He did not want the truth. For some
reason, he was bent on pre-judging the case
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the whole story and the genial soul
proffered an easy rocker and threw
n ore coal on the fire.
But look here first. see this?'' and
she handed over a book from the table
which had been left by her husband
open with a leaf turned down. The
book was Flavius Josephus' Complete
Works and the topic of the page was
Concerning the Wickedness of
Jeheram, King of the Jews
'See, he was reading all about the SOC
concubines and 800 wives, none of whom
were good. That was the kind of a
man he was. I would not be the Grip
pie I am today had it not been for his
abuses. You can tell the Y. M. c. A.
where he got that book that they can
come and get it.
Money always seemed to set him
crazy" she went on. ''he got me to
sign mortgage on this house a short
time ago and he got $3.50. 1 should not
have signed it but he has that influ-
ence over mel don't Know what 1T
is-hypnotism guess and ever since
he went 1 can't sleep but wake and
start. And I know he gave half of it
to that women. And know he paid
her expenses to come here and while
she was here. And I know that he has
gone to her now.
Deserted Her Ten Times.
mo, this isn't the first time he has
left me. He has left me ten times and
always with that awful influence has
made me let him come back. 1 mar
ried him in '6S in Geneseo. Ill. 1 was
wealthy and they did say 1 was beau
tiful. My first husband left me every
thing he had. which included several
farms. worth about $4,000. Tassel
was recommended to me as a farm
hand. and 1 hired him. Soon he be-
gan to exert his influence over me and
wanted me to marry him, and I did.
But something seemed to be wrong
with him from that time on and he
acted queerly. Then 1 found out he
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stored houses. a reporter Knocked. At
his rap, came the sound of a crutch
humping heavily upon the floor and
the door was slowly pulled open by
short and rather fleshy gray haired
lady leaning on a crutch.
Am in troubled" she cried, at the
question, my God! look about vou."
Truly the place was in a disturbed con-
dtion. Crippled. she can scarcely keep
the place in order. Things are scatter
ed in the small living room which with a
husbands help must have been a cosy
place but where now she has brought
her bed that she may be near the fire
she keeps burning while there is coal.
The kitchen table showed the remains
of her light repast and the dishes re-
manned unwaShed. The front room was
also Uttered with papers for she has
had to begin to sell off the furniture
and the "Reverends" writing desk had
gust gone for a fraction of its worth.
"He left a week ago tonight" she
said choking back the tears. "All that
I have now to comfort me is old Tab
there. I"
Tab, a big fat maltest cat, was ly-
ing on the woman's bed sleeping with
his head under the covers and the old
lady looked at him with a frightened
look.
But sit down here and I'll tell you
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
Germs in
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Every Woman Should Read
this Advice and the Gen
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With 1t

The number diseases peculiar to
women is such that we believe this
space would hardly contain a mere
mention of their names, and it is a
fact that most of these diseases are of
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in her system.
Some women think there is no help
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of this that we offer to supply medi-
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There is only one way to overcome
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douches or like remedies for years
without getting more than temporary
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
Religious Fanatic Deserts His
Wife for Tenth Time.
Unhappy Couple Married Three
Times and Divorced Twice.
AN CAPTIVITY" CASE.
Aged Wife Declares Her Preach
er-Husband Tickle.
Marries Her, Takes Money, Then
Leaves Her PennileSS.

Alone and in half helpless misery sits
Mrs. Mahala Tassel. n years of age,
before the little stove into which she
occasionally shnvels some coal at her
cottage at 215 Forest avenue, Oakland.
George F. Tassel, her husband, 66 years
old but not gray, religious fanatic
ard street preacher, once leader of the
Bible class at the Seward Avenue Bap-
list church, and whom she has mar
Iied three times and divorced twice.
las deserted ner for the tenth time and
has gone, it is safely said, to join a
spiritualistic clairvoyant, with whom he
became infatuated during her series of
meetings here last fall.
At a little cottage between two two
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but he had $500 and he was so afraid
That l would spend a five dollar bill
he gave me that he made me come
into the office. I had just had time to
spend SO for waist and some things
Just had to nave. 1 had two dollars
left and the next morning 1 caught
him taking a silver dollar from my
pocketbook and later 1 gave him the
other 81 bill.
1--WE have been here in Topeka ten
years now and do you know 1 have
had but two hats in all that time.
Then he used to say to me. I'm
going to get out of work pretty soor
now. Then what will you do? We
see, he would have taken all my mon
ey-every cent.
Would Send Her Away.
Just the other night he said, Well
you've been a good wife to me, haven't
you! But you're past that age now
The best thing for you to do is to &C
to the old ladies' home
81 ought to have known. 1 ought
to have known. but Nellie will come to
see me soon. The neighbors are good
to me-
Mrs. Nellie E. Brown, the daughter
lives at S24 Litchfield street, Wichita
and has written that she will come and
see her mother and arrange for her il
she can. All the property left out Of
her sufficiency is the value of her lit
tie cottage above the $3.50 mortgage
and a SIS bill.
ooh, he just couldn't go away with.
out leaving me a cent and when
went to the table to sit down to break
fast where I always sit. 1 felt some
thing under the table cloth. L looked
under and there was a SIS BILL all the
money he left for me-
II wish I could do something.
wish had lawyer to get after Kit
for forging my name and losing my
husband his job. 1 would give law
yer half he could get"
The neighber women are caring fol
Mrs. Tassel while she waits for hel
daughter to come. Yet the daughter
might not come and the old lady is
in hard circumstances. She is cheer
full, nevertheless, and trusts to her
neighbors im1 licitly. saying, "They are
so good to me. They'll come in pretty
Soon.''
Thus refusing any assistance from
the reporter she sat in her big chair
waiting patiently for her neighbors and
turning toward her bed said. "Old
Table there will keep me company
Goodbye and God bless you"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
LEAvENwoRTH HAS EPIDEMIC
Typhoid Fever Is Raging and Doctors
Can Not Control Disease.

Leavenworth. Kan. jan Bow
ing to the increasing prevalence of
typhoid fever in the city, the health
officer has notified every one that the
only reliable means of preventing the
disease is to thoroughly boil all water,
no matter what its source: heat all
milk used to a point just short of boil
ing; and eat no food that has not
been thoroughly cooked.
What is causing the typhoid fever
epidemic is the question that is caus-
ing the doctors a great deal of dis
quietude.
81 have six patients who have the
typhoid fever and 1 find four of those
cases have been caused by drinking
well water" said one doctor.
During the year of 1909 there was
only fifty-one cases, from which only
one death resulted. This year there
has been reported to the city health
officer thirty-four cases, from which
three deaths have resulted.
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was married to another woman. and
l made him leave and got a divorce.
He went away and got a divorce and
came back and persuaded me to marry
him again. Then he left and went to
England with my money for six
months. never slept wink for three
nights when he had gone and then he
came back and let him come to me
again.
Came to Kansas.
THAT time he persuaded me to sell
everything and move to Kansas. and
we bought a farm near Overly Kan,
near Kinsley. TasseI mortgaged the
farm and we lost that finally, but he
treated me SO cruelty that I went to
Kinsley every week to get a divorce
but his influence kept me from it. At
last he tried to sell off everything and
had the cattle rounded up, but Brown
(rny daughters husband) told him
they were mine. and made him let
them alone. He sold the best horse
we had and went away again.
In Kansas City he was converted.
But I had gotten my divorce when he
left. Now he began to write me let
tiers again. The fourth one 1 opened
! and read and his influence come over
me and let him come back and mar
ried him again. We moved here.
That was ten years ago. We lived a
year and a half in Parkdale at the
corner of Sixth and Chandler streets
and then moved here.
Led Church Bible Glass.
For nine years he worked in the
| shops and led the bible class at the
seward Avenue Baptist church part
| of that time" continued Mrs. Tassel.
Refusing me pass to KinsIey he got
| one in my name and gave it to his
sons Wife to go to Cleveland, Ohio
Kit, Johns wife, said the old lady,
stayed the pass out in Cleveland and
on the way home raised a big racket
on the train when they would not take
| it and then she forged my name to
| 1t and came on. Then John Purcell,
| the shop superintendent called me and
asked me If I had gone to Cleveland on
| a pass. and I said 1 had not. That
was the first I had heard of it. and
then my husband lost his job, and
went into the real estate business
with E. H. Evans, and they kicked
him out up there. too''
Was With Another Woman.
"All this time" said the trembling
woman, beginning to break down
''Mr. Tassel kept limiting to me that
he might leave, but did not catch on
Il ought to have known he wanted
to go away with that woman
HE never came home until hall
past IL all the time she was here. He
| had been with her and when she went
| he told people he had takeI. his sister
| to the train
@And when he got that mortgage
! money he divided it with his partner
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and sob. and say then if you think he i.

and sob, and say then if you think he is
promoting health and strength
His wretehed ankle may get well; it
may not. That blow On the head may
never trouble him: it may lead to in
sanity. But such complete and over
whelming physical and nervous ex-
haustion must have permanently evil
results.
What good does the player get out
of it? 1t is absurd to say that he does
not neglect his studies. He may earn a
passing grade, or he may get a passing
grade without earning it; but the bulk
of his time, determination, will and
nerve power during three months goes
to football and cannot go to his studies.
Footballs False IDEAL.
Under the ordinary circumstances
football cannot be to him either play
amusement or recreation; it is work
and work only; and men can't do two
days work in one day.
Colleges are institutions for the Guilt
walton of mind and soul, and of bodies
so far as they serve mind and soul. A
sound mind in a sound body; but the
body for the sake of the mind. The
aim of colleges is to turn out President
Eliots and not Jack JohnSons. 1t may
be colleges are a mistake-that what
we need are men Of whom Johnson and
Jeffries are the supreme type-not mer
of whom Eliot is the type. If that is so
abolish the colleges. If that is not so
keep the college an intellectual insti-
tuition.
intercollegiate football puts the en-
phasis on the wrong thing; holds up g
false ideal. 1t exalts force; God is with
the big guns; force is the thing-power;
who cares for scholarship, for truth fol
wisdom, or for Righteousness?
Do Parents Want the Game?
can industrious student has come te
be looked upon with contempt by E
large bodv of the students. Thirty
years ago scholarship commanded re-
spect and won honor; now apparently
the prizes are all to the strong, the
heavy, the swift of body.
Athletics, yes; particularly for those
who need athletics; but football picks
those who are already strong, and dis
courages, rather than encourages, the
weak.
do the taxpayers of Kansas wani
their money spent to train gladiators
for public exhibitions? My judgment
is that the day not.
do the parents of Kansas want theil
sons trained as physical gladiators fol-
public exhibitions? My judgment il
that they do not.
DO the parents or the taxpayers like
these exciting public exhibitions with
their attendant evils Of betting ano
drunkenness? My judgment is thai
they do not"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FAIRS
Track Men and Directors Meet and
Makes Date Schedule.

Abilene, Kan, Jan. 29.-Thirty race
track men and fair directors. repre-
senting the eight different towns in
the North Central Kansas Fair and
Racing circuit. met here and prepared
schedule for the coming season. r.
B. Ward of Belleville was unanimous
ly reelected president of the associa-
ton and F. w. Sturgis of Concordia
was elected secretary and treasurer.
There are twelve towns in the cir
cult: Abilene, Salina, Manhattan,
Clay Center, Belleville, Concordia,
Smith Center, ST. Marys, Norton, Nc
Pherson, Riley and Minneapolis. Min
neapolis, Riley and Norton were taken
in at this meeting. Harrington had
representatives here who applied for
admission, but they were not given a
membership.
The schedule for the fairs around
the circuit is: Norton and st. Marys,
August 21 to Is; Smith Center and
Salina, August 80 to September q;
Belleville and Mcpherson, September
to 9; Clay Center, September g to
10; Concordia, September 20 to 23;
Abilene, September 81 to 80; Mime
apolis, October 4 to z; Riley, October
IL to IA.