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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-14
W. ]. Bell, Ill Many
Weeks, Has Relapse

W. J. Bell superintendent of the
Southern Railway, who is i'll at his
home, No. 10 Peoples street, West
End, was reported Saturday to have
taken a turn for the worse, and his
condition Is considered grave.
Mr. Bell has been i'll for two months.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-14
Bertillon, Finger
Print Expert, Dead

Special Gable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Fe3. 14-Alphonse Bertil-
lon, inventor of the Bertillon finger
print system OF tracing criminals,
is dead.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-14
I'll us save you

IT. EFT us save you
tramping, look
IL ing, inspecting
and worrying incident
to your quest for rooms
or house.
A glance at t h e
Want Ad" section
under Rooms f or
Rent or Houses for
Rent displays a gal
lery of Photographic
descriptions of what
you require.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
HuMPBACKED SALMON
ARE Moved TO Maine
Bureau Places 7,ooo,oooEggs
In natcha[ias There.

Washington.-Seven million eggs of
the humpbacked salmon spawned in
Alaskan waters have been rushed
across the continent by the federal bu-
reau Of fisheries to replace the all hut
extinct Atlantic salmon of Maine wa
tiers. Their destinations are the bu-
reau hatchery stations at Green Lake
and Craig Brook, Me. DR.. 81. M.
Smith, director Of the bureau, is per-
sonally interested in the attempt to
give Maine new salmon industry.
With the single exception of the
Penobscot river, where Atlantic sal
mon come to spawn. there are but
few salmon left in the waters of
Maine. In the fall of 1913 the bureau
sent 100000 humpbacked salmon to
that state, but because of the tenden-
cy of that species to spawn prolifcal-
~ only every second year the bureau
is planning to liberate a new stock Of
the young fish next spring, which will
spawn. it is expected, in the off
year.
The humpbacked salmon will spawn
near the mouth of a small river or
stream, while the other Pacific coast
varieties as we'll as the Atlantic SAL
mon insist on the headwaters Of large
streams as spawning places. The
Chinook salmon of the Columbia river
will very often run" 2,1OO miles up
stream to spawn, while the humpback-
ed variety has no objection to spawn
ing as near as 2,1O0 feet to the mouth
Of the stream.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
RAISES CHICKEN THIEVES.
Otherwise Known as Chunks, Which
Are Profit. ble.

Otherwise Known as Chunks, Which
Are Profit. bic.
Greenville, CaL-Greenville has now
established one Of the most unique in
dustries In the state namely, a skunk
ranch. Early In the spring Will Ste
vens, butcher, formerly of Goldfield,
rented the F. W. Peck ranch and en-
tered the business on small scale.
Young skunks were captured in vari-
GUS parts of Indian valley and placed
in pens. They grew and multiplied
rapidly.
The business proved so lucrative that
larger pens Of corrugated iron were
made, and the number Of skunks in
creased. The skins sell for from So to
Sc each. The oil is also valuable and
Is sold to druggists. Stevens now has
large skunks that will be ready for
market In couple Of months.
The skunks will eat all sorts of
scraps and waste food, but are espe-
c1ally fond Of milk and vegetables.
They seem to like human companion
ship and when called come to be pet
ted. TO see forty chicken thieves with
their long, white striped bodies and
bushy tails feeding at trough like so
many pigs is an interesting sight.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
DREAM REVEALS HOMICIDE.
Mothers Vision Of Slain Son Lead, to
an Arrest.

Mothers Vision Of Slain Son Leads to
an Arrest.
Butte. Mont.-The arrest of A. J.
Crisler. for whom officers had been
searching since the finding of the body
OF Jonas Brown. homesteader, in q
shallow grave near homestead claim
which had been occupied by Crisler, is
reported from Regina. Canada.
Brown was murdered near Glasgow,
Mont. in the northern part of the state,
his head having been split open with
an ak. presumably as he slept as Girls
ler's guest. The body, attired only in
night clothes. was dragged to hole
nearby and few shovelfuls of earth
thrown in.
Suspicion attached to Crisler when
he was seen driving a team that had
belonged to the missing man. It was
dream of Browns mother that her
son had been murdered and buried that
caused her to arouse the officers, ana d
search revealed his decomposed body.
The crime was committed last April.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
WOOD POINTS OUT
U. S. WAR PE|RILS
Lays Down -Four Fundamental
Army Reforms Needed.
WOULD ESTABLISH RESERVE
Serious Menace 10 Found In Lack of
Ammunition-Creati of Three Tao.
ticaI Infantry Divisions With CONT
mental Limits Urged-LesisIa to
Eliminate Unfit Officers Proposed,

Observation-Disclosures is presented
the vital section Of a report which
General Leonard Wood. formerly chief
OF staff, now in command Of the de-
partment Of the east, with headquar-
tiers at Governors island. made to the
secretary Of war the other day.
recommendations in the report for
the reorganization Of the army are &C.
cepted by military men as the first
steps that must be taken in any plan
for preparing the army for great
war. 1t Is upon these recommended
tons that Representative Gardner
based, in part, his resolution for an
investigation of the military defenses
of the nation.
When the Gardner resolution is
finally considered by the rules COM
mittee at the coming session of con-
gress the following recommendations
made by General Wood will be pre-
sented as concise embodiment of
the fundamental needs Of the army:
"First.-The establishment Of a re.
serve of trained men for the regular
army sufficient to bring it, Immediate
~ to full statutory strength and to re-
place the losses of the first three
months of war.
"Second.-The prompt provision of
the remaining AZ per cent of our very
modest project for field artillery guns
as yet unprovided for and the neces-
sary ammunition for those now made
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
MOTOR ARTILLERY
TO SPEED up WAR
Tractors Carrying Big Guns
Not Dauntod by Bad Roads.

London.-That motor artillery may
be used by the belligerents before the
present war IS over is the conclusion
of an automobile expert expressed in
an article publised here He bases
this idea on the success Of motor
transport over broken country. Ap-
proving the phrase "This is a motor
war;" he says:
Zone Of the most interesting phas-
es, in face Of future developments of
automobilism for military purposes, is
those vehicles which have been de-
signed and which are being used for
breaking across country where roads
do not exist or where surfaces are
exceedingly bad. In this connection
some extraordinarily ingenious pioneer
work has been done in this country,
notably the Diplock-Pedrail. If the
inventor had received more support
undoubtedly this system of self pro-
peeled vehicle could have been brought
to a stage at which it's practicability
would have been recognized through
out the world today.
las it is, since 1878 he has been
perfecting his machinery every year
and got it to an extraordinary stage
before the war broke out. Some of
the heavy machines that the Germans
are using reveal, moreover, that they
have not been slow to study his in
genious scheme whereby a self pro-
PEELED road vehicle can also be made
to break across country, over plowed
fields or any other surface that it may
be necessary to negotiate.
In Belgium the Germans have been
using heavy motor tractors with wired
wheels in front, designed to insure
steering way when going through
slime, in that whichever way they
tend to slide they must presently dig
themselves in deeper laterally. The
rear driving wheels are really a vari-
ant OF another British idea evolved in
some Of the motor sledges that were
taken with Captain Scott on his antarc-
tic expedition s,s"" - 49,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
HUNTS HONEY, FINDS BANDIT.
Section Foreman Discovers Sole Sur
vivor Of Bank Robbers Cana. -r

Section Foreman Discovers Sole Sur
vivor Of Bank Robbers Gang.
McMurray, Wash.-While looking for
a honey tree in the woods near PHI
chuck, Andrew Austin, foreman Of a
Northern Pacific section gang, discov-
cred a man sleeping. The man CORE.
sponded to the description Of the lone
survivor Of the gang of Sedro- W. olley
bank robbers, for whose capture re-
ward Of $1,000 has been offered. he
had a we'll filled cartridge belt about
him and an automatic pistol in hol-
ster, while on his face was ten days
growth of beard.
Austin stole quietly away and mott
fed officials of his discovery, with the
result that within short time the sur
rounding country was filed with men
eager to capture the outlaw. The
search had been conducted heretofore
along the international boundary.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
DARING RESCUE OF CHILD.
Reading Laborsr Carries Two year-oid
to Safety With Teeth.

Reading laborsr Carries Two year old
to Safety With Teeth.
Reading.-A two-year-old child, Mary
Pertorna. wandered from her home.
near the old Seyfert furnace. to be dis
covered several hours later on decay.
Ing bridge 100 feet above the Reading
railway tracks. A strong breeze and
the weakened bridge made her position
extremely dangerous, and the only
way to reach her quickly was by q
rough climb up the precipitous side Of
a cinder bank.
Stephen Circella, a young Italian la
borer. was the hero who rose to the
occasion. While hundreds of neigh
bors watched he climbed the sharp
bank of Stag, painfully tearing bis
hands and legs, crawled out on the
shaking bridge structure. seized the
belt Of the little girls dress between
bis teeth and carried her thus back to
safety and her anxious parents.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
TO VIEW CHINa'S - I'D AREA,
Engineers to Examine Ground For
$20,00O,0O0 Reclamation P,an.

Engineers to Examine Ground For
$20,000,000 Reclamation Plan.
Washington. : The hrs, step In the
American Red Cross f;rreaching plan
for the prevention Of floods In eastern
China through $2O.(hW.WW reclama-
ton project has been completed with
the selection of board OF engineers
to examine the ground. The plan has
the approval of President Wilson. who
was authorized by congress to lend tho
Red Cross specified number OF army
engineers skilled In river work.
The board will consist Ut Colonel
William Luther Sibert of the corps Of
engineers. u. s. A.. builder OF the
Gatun locks and dam at Panama; Ar
thur Powell Davis. chief engineer Of
the United States reclamation service,
and Daniel Webster Mead. professor
OF engineering In the University Of
Wisconsin. Charles Davis Jameson,
general advisory engineer. who made
the preliminary examination Of the at
aicted district and ON whose report this
board is being sent to China, will &C.
company the engineers.
When the work is undertaken Colo
mel Sibert will have the Red Cross rec
ommendatton at the request of the
Chinese government for appointment
as engineer in chief of the conservancy
work,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
TALKS TO SPIRITS
OF DEAD FRIENDS
Sir Oliver Lodge Is Certain
That Soul Lives.
RECEIVES SCIENTIFIC PROOF
Communication 10 Not Easy, but 1t Is
Possible, Says Investigator, Avowins
Entire Faith In a Future Life-Con:
verses With Departed Scientific Men.
His Past Experiments.

London.-Sir Oliver Lodge, president
OF the Society For Psychical Research,
recently made striking declaration of
his spiritual faith. He expressed his
absolute conviction of a future exist
ence and stated that he had conversed
with friends who had passed away.
Sir Oliver said that once one realized
that consciousness was something out
side of the mechanism it made use of
one realized that survival Of existence
was naturally the simplest thing.
1t was unreasonable, he added, that
a soul should jump out of existence
when the body was destroyed.
I'VE ourselves are not limited to the
few years that we live on this earth.
We should 60 on without it; we should
certainly continue to exist; we should
certainly survive.
"Why do l say that? l say it on
definite scientific grounds. 1 say it be-
cause I know that certain friends Of
mine still exist, because have talked
to them.
Communication is possible. One
must obey the laws and find out the
conditions. 1 do not say it is easy,
but say it is possible, and I have con-
versed with them as I could converse
with any one in this audience.
"Now, being scientific men, they
have given proof that it is real. not an
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
ADVERTISING PAYS PARSoN.
In Two Years He Married Ninety swo
Couples at Paris, III.

Couples at Paris, III.
Ierre Haute, Ind.-The Rev. H. H.
Peters. pastor of the First Christian
church of Paris, ILL.,. desires the patron
age Of couples who go over the state
line from Terre Haute to the Illinois
Gretna Green. He is not diffident.
Therefore he has written to a Terre
Haute newspaper to have it say:
paris has sure enough marrying
parson-the Rev. II. Fl. Peters Of that
city has qualified. In less than two
years he has married ninety-two cou-
pies, of whom twenty-five couples were
from Indiana. The First Christian
church Of Paris is a large organization
Of over 1000 members The church is
located one block from the public
square and within half block Of the
interurban station. The parson has an
office in the church and is ready to
meet the young people at all hours. If
people are determined to leave Indiana
to get married they can do no better
than strike for Paris and look up the
marrying parson."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
COURTESY TO AN OLD
WOMAN DINA wins $4,000
Mrs. 0steI Of Denver Rewards
Young Man.

Denver.-For being courteous to an
aged woman Robert Reiner has been
left $4,000 in her will. but Mrs. Chris
tina j. Evans, who took care of the
same old lady's dog until the dog died.
for which. she says, she was promised
$500 in the will. had to start suit in the
district court against the estate in
order to collect the money she said
was due her.
The old lady was Mrs. Celia Oster.
She was worth about 100000 when
she died short time ago and divided
her money and property among num-
Der of friends and heirs and made sew
eral requests to charitable institutions,
but Reiner came In for the rest of the
estate. receiving $4,000 from it and
all Of the money Mrs. Oster had in two
Denver banks. amounting to $4,000.
Mrs. Oster became widow a num-
Der Of years ago and, being childless,
found that nobody was kind to her
unless he was we'll paid for his
little services. Reiner. however. she
found to be different sort. although
young man. He entertained Mrs.
Oster in numerous ways and never
asked anything in return. When she
died he found he suddenly had become
rich.
When Mrs. Oster made her will she
left $1.5O0 to be paid to Mrs. Evans
for taking care of her dog. Daisy. until
the latter's death. Daisy died in July.
1918. and shortly before Mrs. Oster's
death she made codicil to her will In
which she revoked the bequest to Mrs.
Evans.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
SAVED LIFE, WON LIBERTY.

Convict Plunged Into Lake and Res
eued Drowning Boy.
Wichita Falls. Tex. Plunging into
the waters If the Fort Worth and
Denver railroad lake. near here. a
member of the county convict gang
rescued drowning boy.
The boy was Joe Perdue. who was
SEEMING In the lake with other boys
and got beyond his depth. The cries
Of bis comrades reached the convict
gang at work nearby and one Of them
plunged into the water and dragged
Perdue ashore just IN time to save bis
life.
The convict was given his liberty.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05

impersonation, not something emanat-
ing from myself. They have given
definite proofs. Some Of them are be-
Ing published. Many are being with
held for time, but will be published
later.
Il tell you that it is so with all the
strength Of conviction I can muster
that it is so; that we do persist; that
people still take an interest in things
going on; that they still help us and
know more about the things that we
do and that they are able from time
to time to communicate with us.
Il know that man is surrounded by
other intelligences. If you once step
beyond man there is no limit until you
come to the infinite intelligence him
self. Once having gone beyond man
you 60 on and must go on until you
come to Cod
but it is no strange land to which
1 am leading you. The cosmos is one.
We here on this planet are limited in
certain ways and blind to much that is
going on, but tell you that we are
surrounded by beings, working with
US, cooperating and helping, such as
people in visions have had some per-
ception Of, and that which religion
tells us saints and angels are. That
the Master himself is helping us is, I
believe, literally true.''
Sir Oliver is one of the best known
leaders of the Society For Psychical
Research and one of the most coura-
geous defenders of the theory that the
occult may itself be a science with
laws Of it's own. for all that its phe-
nomena are intangible. ~ a. :.
In the summer of 1908 there were
widespread reports that he and some
Of his friends had had unquestionable
communication with Edmund Quincy,
DR.. Richard Hodgson. Frederic W.
n. Myers and other persons no longer
living These stories were quite cir
cumstantial and declared that the COM
munication had been established
through several mediums. among them
Mrs. Margaret Verrall, wife of the
Cambridge professor; Mrs. Piper and
Mrs. Holland. At that time Gurney's
spirit was said to have described the
process Of communication with living
beings as like the telling of vastly
important message to sleeping per-
son. Most of the messages. however.
purported to come from Mr.. Myers.
It was said at the time that Sir Oliver
Lodge was sure Of the genuineuess of
the communications.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
HIGH COST OF EDUCATION.
Doubles In Twelve Years In Minneapo-
lis Schools,

Doubles In Twelve Years In Minneapo-
lis Schools.
Minneapolis cost $39.81 per pu-
pill for elementary education in Min.
neapolis public schools in 1914, as COM
pared with $3.50 in 1902. and the
high school cost per pupil in the same
period has mounted from $3S.42 to
$3.50. These comparisons have been
made by Miss Katherine Brace, Sec
rotary to School Superintendent F. E..
Spaulding.
The cost of heat, light and upkeep
of buildings is not included in these
figures. In 1902 there were 81 build
ings in use, 9O6 teachers and 1862
pupils, as compared with u buildings,
1,423 teachers and 49,167 pupils en-
rolled in 1914. The wider range Of
courses and the care given defective
children are given as causes for the
increased cost.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
GIRL WIDOW WITNESS
AT FATHERS TRIAL
He Killed Her Boy Husband,
and She Is In PitifuI Dilemma,

Haverstraw, N. Y.-Unique in dra-
matte situations that murder trials
have brought about is that which will
arse when William V. Cleary. the
Democratic boss and town clerk of
Haverstraw, comes to trial in New City
shortly for the killing of his eighteen.
year-old son-in-law. Eugene NJ. New
man.
1t lies in the narrowing position in
which the dead lads girl wife, Clearys
daughter, will find herself. To appear
upon the witness stand in defense of
her father involves the necessity of
aspersing the memory of her youthful
husband; to ignore her fathers des-
perate plight and remain away from
the courtroom or to take the stand
and be forced to give evidence against
him obviously carries with it poignant
distress, the torture of filial affection.
Newman was shot dead in Cleary's
office last July.
Eugene Newman and, Anna Marie
Cleary were first attracted to each 9TH
er when he was in knickerbockers-
lad of fOurteen-and she at sixteen had
just assumed the dignity of shoe tor
skirts. The only shadow on it all was
Cleary's attitude. He didn't like the
boy. There wasn't the objection of
their being so youthful, for they did
not ask to be allowed to marry i'm
mediately. They said they knew they
were too young and were willing to
wait. But when Newman was eight
cen they were married. When young
Newman entered Cleary's Office with
the marriage certificate In his hand he
was shot.
The state declares that Cleary was
prompted by vicious spite against the
boy because he had overridden Cleary's
opposition and outwitted him by mar
rying the boss daughter.
On this crucial point, Of course, the
testimony of young Mrs. Newman
might prove all important. In her
tragic quandary she has said of her
problem: ....a.
Il dare say my father was so furi-
GUS to think Gene and had run away
and been married that he absolutely
lost his head. For any one to attribute
any other reason for my father killing
my husband is to cast slanderous re
Election on my husband that will not
permit. Now that my husband is dead
his memory is too sacred to me for m,
to stand by and allow persons to throw
mud on his character. ..
please do not ask me if I have
forgiven my father. You must realize
that l am in a terrible position. My
husband is dead, and no atonement my
father could possibly make can brin
him back to me. The least I can d.
IS to protect his memory. On the 9th
er hand, my father stands in DANCE
Of dying in the electric chair, and ever
to protect my husbands memory l can
not allow my father to suffer that fate.
Ny one hope is that will not be called
at the trial.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05

@ 1914, by American Press Association.
A BELGIAN FIRING ON GERMANS FROM
BEHIND TREE.
taken prisoners. The French trenches
ceased firing after the Germans had
forced the zouaves to cry out "Cease
firing!"
When the zouaves were very near
the bridge, however, one of them yell
ed out in a commanding voice, "Open
fire, nom de Dieu!' ~.
1nvoluntarily the French trenches
opened volley at the command. The
result was that every zouave was kill
ed, and all the Germans were finished
off with mitrailleuse The French then
took the bridge.
The name of the French hero who
gave the command to fire remains un-
known. There was nothing from which
he could be identified in the heap of
bodies on the bridge. ..r....
Many other touching stories are told
by correspondents.
In a diary found on a dead German
officer at Dixmude appears this de-
scription of the horrors Of war:
Man is becoming a beast. There is
no respite from the roar of the guns.
We continue to shoot. starve and die.
One of our pontoons across the User
has been destroyed, and that means a
more horrible inferno than ever.
"On every side are the dead and dy-
ing. Our colonel and major-indeed.
three-fOurthS of our battalion-we
have left on the bloody field. More
over. the confusion of the units is un-
belicvabe.
IA regiment, ba talon or company
no longer exists. Allziis now debris
We just wander about and have moth
Ing to do but make targets for the
enemy. The whole thing is impossi-
bic. but the only order we hear from
our base is, Go ont"
Russia's soldiers take, a sporting de-
light in battle. They carry this quail
ity so far that they sometimes embar
rass their officers
Cossacks chafe for action. Whel.
they can't have action they search fol
limitations and sport. During a recen:
iull songs were sung, races run and i'm.
aginary Turks heads pierced by wild
~ charging horsemen. The Austrians
fred and killed the pony of Cossack
jockey who was three yards from the
winning post. The jockey rose and
by a terrific exertion of will dragged
his pony past the winning post. He
was declared the winner.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
FIRST WHISKY KILLS HIM.

Young Man Dies After Cornwall Even.
ing With Friends.
Philadelphia .-After dropping uncon-
scious in his home Edward Cavanaugh,
Jr., twenty-one. died soon afterward.
According to the police. Cavanaugh
went for stroll with several friends.
He never had drunk whisky before
During the evening he had several
drinks
he returned home and. according to
his father. was not intoxicated. he
went to the cellar to remove q nail
from his shoe and called that he was
dying His father rushed to his aid,
but he died few minutes later,