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219 N. 20th at., mahogany bedroom furni
ture, chairs, tables, davenport, iron bed,
seme china and bric-a-brac, rugs, all
sizes, in Brussels, Axminster and mat
ting. W. T. Parker, Auctioneer.
FOR SALE—Five passenger Chalmers
$350, seven passenger Oldsmobile, $800,
five passenger model D Franklin $450;
Firestone-Columbus runabout $450; Hup
mobile runabout $100; Randolph truck
$260; 1911 Packard ‘'30” Phaeton $2260;
$1910 Packard ”30” Phaeton $2000. All of
these cars in first-class second-hand
condition. Southern Garage, 1922 Ave. F.
Chattooga Polls Light Vote
Lyerly, Ga., July 19.—(Special.!—Consoli
dated figures of the senatorial election
held in Georgia this week show’ that Chat
tooga county cast only 180 votes, one of
the lightest votes polled in the history
of the county. At the Lyerly precinct
only 17 votes were polled, and at other
places as few as four votes were cast.
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CHESTERTON OSES
ALLTHEGRISTTHAT
CONIES TO HIS MILL
Remembered Newspaper
man’s Call for 7 Years
and Made Copy of It
INSIDE HISTORY OF
HIS FASTEST STORY
Ambassador Page Busiest Man in
London—How Fourlh Kate Au
thors Assisted Hugo—Piots
While Playing Piano
By HAYDEN CHI RCH
London, July 19.—(Special.)—Few
men writing today turn out a greater
volume of work or hold forth In a
greater number of veins than G. K.
Chesterton, and perhaps one eplana
tion of “G. K. C's” amazing fertility
is that he is one of those authors who
let nothing whatever go to waste.
Here is the reason for thinking so.
Some six or seven years ago, or just
after he had scored his big success
with “The Napoleon of Notting Hill,”
the present writer sought an interview
with Chesterton, who then lived in
Battersea, and to his astonishment
found the sage immersed in the pages
of a lurid detective story of the “Nick
Carter” and “Old Sleuth” type, ft bore
the title, if one * remembers correctly,
of “The Crimson Hand,” its cover be
in^ ornamented with a human hand
apparently all “Muggy,” as the im
mortal Toddie would have said.
Outlines Plot
Noticing his visitor’s look of amaze
ment, the portly author chuckled. "I
enjoy detective stories better than any
other reading on earth," he said, “and
having read all the good ones, “I’m
forced now to read bad ones, such as
this, rather than not read any at all.”
Chesterton added that some day he
meant to write some detective stories
Of his own and proceeded to outline
a plot of one. (All the while he was
talking, be it observed, he was draw
ing, with great rapidity, exceedingly
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Illinois Suffragists Find Clothes
Essential In Casting Their Ballots
Leaders in Aurora Dressed so Gorgeously That Shirtwaisted Sister, Much Embarrassed, Re
turns to Her Husband and Babies—“Silk Stockinged” Carried Lagging Men
to Polls in Their Autos
Aurora. 111., July 19.—*‘I haven't any
thing to wear and I'm not going to
vote,” said a young Geneva housewife
today as she beat a hasty retreat from
the polling place toward which she was
headed, and went back to her home and
babies.
Along the streets of Geneva auto
mobiles were rolling toward the polls.
In them were women arrayed in their
linest gowns. There was more sartorial
glory than Geneva had seen at a pink
tea. a card club or a reception for
years.
A few minutes after the polls were
open women voters greatly outnum
bered the men. It was the first time
they had had an opportunity to exercise
their franchise right since the passage
of the Illinois suffrage bill. The issue
was whether the kindergarten now op
erated as a private institution should
be conducted hereafter as a part of the
Geneva public schools.
The women of wealth, of whom there
are many in Geneva, were first at the
polls. Their automobiles had been spe
cially burnished for the occasion. Sum
mer gowns of radiant splendor were
in the panorama. Headgear and para
sols were in keeping with the other
adornments of the women voters.
Scores W'ho cannot afford automobiles
or fine gowns wanted to go to the polls.
They started bravely, clad in shirt
waist outfits. Then they saw the auto
mobiles with their richly arrayed oc
cupants. Many of them thought of
their own simple attire and hesitated.
Some hurried home and donned their
best and then returned to the voting
places. Others did not think voting
Worth all this trouble.
The automobile^ were decorated with
the yellow of the suffrage cause and
bore placards, "We Want a Kindergar
ten." The women did not confine their
efforts to getting votes among their
own sex. Men were importuned to vote
for the measure and many rode to the
polls in the automobiles of the new
voters.
There was little confusion. Most of
the women knew what to do. Many
left their babies in the arms of friends
or husbands w’hen they entered the
booths.
grotesque little figures, similar to
those with which he subsequently il
lustrated his “Club of Queer Trades") in
the margin of the no doubt blood curd
line “Crimson Hand.”
This plot of Chesterton’s in a nut
shell, was as follows: The body of a
man was found somewhere in Prance,
with the head severed from the trunk.
Witnesses disputed as to the identity of
the corpse, and the affair became a
world mystery, when a private detec
tive came forward and pointed out that
the head and body did not belong to
gether. The murderer wras eventually
proved to be the public executioner,
who had murdered a man, beheaded
him, and then substituted the head of
a man of the lower orders, whom he
had decapitated in the ordinary course
of duty, for the murdered man’s head.
L’sed After Years
This struck me at the time as a
gorgeous plot, and for months after my
talk with Chesterton I waited for him
to use it. Years “elapsed,” as the play
rights say, and still he did not. Then
his first Father Brown series, “The
Innocence of Father Brow'n” was an
nounced, and in the second story of the
series I discovered the plot that the au
thor had unfolded to me.
Recently, however, there has been a
sequel. Chesterton has written a new'
“Father Brown” series—“The Wisdom
of Father Brow'n" this time—which is
now being published, serially on both
sides of the water. The fourth ad
venture has just appeared over here,
and it opens with an American news
paper man in England making a call
on an English scientific writer. He
fails to get his “talk,” how'ever, the
great author being to much absorbed
in a shilling shocker w'hich he happens
to be reading and the title of which is
“The Bloody Thumb.” Now the ques
tion arises, has Chesterton remembered
my humble call all these years, or is
it a harmless pose of his, profound
writer as he is on many exalted sub
jects, to be found reading a “penny
dreadful?” Tf the first be true, r am
vastly honored to ha,ve supplied him
with an idea.
Methods hf Hugo
Writing the above about Chesterton
reminds one that we have lately had I
a peep into the literary methods of !
an even greater star of the literary
firmament, Victor Hugo, no less, who,
it seems, did not hesitate to “crib”
when he thought well, even from the
smallest among authors. Here is a
decidedly curious confession of the
master's which is recorded in the re
cently published reminiscences of Ed
mond Lockroy.
“I find,” said Hugo, “that it pays
lo read fifth rate authors. Very of
ten. buri*< amidst their twaddle and
platitudes, there are fresh ideas and
novel points of view, which they are
incapable of developing, but which
prove serviceable to me. 1 also believe
in reading an odd volume of a novel,
and then sketching a beginning and
an ending for it on my own lines.
This is excellent practice for a story
writer.” Lockroy adds that Hugo's
library in Guernsey contained little else
but odd volumes.
Page Is a Busy Man
There are not many busier men in
London at present than Walter Hines
Page, the American ambassador. When
I saw him for a fleeting moment at
the embassy in Victoria street, he said
that he was dividing his time betwixt
four strenuous occupations, namely, at
tending to his ordinary diplomatic du
ties, helping to entertain the French
President, getting Claridge’s hotel, one
of the most fashionable In London,
ready for the big reception to his coun
trymen which he is arranging for the
Fourth or July and, last, but decidedly
not least, preparing to receive Mrs.
and Miss Page. waO, at this writing,
are still on the high seas.
‘ "But, you know,” declared the am
bassador, beaming through Ills glasses,
“I’m enjoying it—enjoying every min
ute of it Immensely.” He looked it,
too.
Makes Plots'While Playing
An acquaintance who knows Percy
James Brebner, (“Christian Lys”) in
timately and frequently is his guest,
has been telling me some rather in
teresting things about the author of
'A Gentleman of Virginia.” He says
that Brebner is bard at work on a
new novel, and that as usual, he is
utilizing a piano a lot in its compo
sition. Brebner, it seems, has a habit
of extemporizing <#n the piano while
sketching out the scenes of his books,
of which he now has written 20.
This author, whose latest novel, “The
Little Grey Show,” appeared In the
United States on his forty-ninth birth
day. began young, and - at 16 perpe
trated a five-act tragedy In blank
verse.. His father, however, failed to
be impressed by his son's literary at
tainments, and placed him with a well
known firm on the London Stock Ex
change, where he stayed for several
years. His real "vent” would out,
however, and he soon began writing
short stories, under the nom de plume
which now is so well known. The
stories sold, too, and it was not so
many years before their author shook
the dust of the Stock Exchange off
his feet and for all and devoted all
his time to writing. He lives at East
Sheen, by the bye, which is a portion
of the royal and lovely borough of
Richmond, Surrey, a few miles up the
Thames from London.
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Fortune Telling
From Judge.
Jap—Yon can toll what is to happen?
Clairvoyant—Always.
Jap—Well, what is going to happen to
mft?
Clairvoyant—In a certain contingency
you are going to get what in this neck of
woods is known as a whaling.
Belie Theatre
Nothing but liigh-class Association
films such as Lubin, Kalem, S. & A.,
etc., shown at this theatre. The cool
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fans and big exhaust fans in roof.
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AS IN EARLY DAYS
Like the American Indian,
Gradually Becoming Ex
tinct—Have Similar
History
Beounos Aires, July 19.— (Special.)—
Dike the American Indians, the In
dians of Brazil are said to be fast
passing away. There are still 400,000 of
them In the whole of Brazil, occupy
ing the stretches of that vast country
almost exclusively. Dr. Lacredji esti
mated, when he was director of the
National Museum, that W'ithin a cen
tury there would not only be no In
dians alive in Brazil, but the wholo
colored population that originated there
in slavery days Would have disappear
ed. The Brazilian Indians, despite the
W'ork of the government and the spe
cial missions that have been organized
to civilize them, are for the greater
part savages, quite as much so in some
sections, it is said, as when Amerigo
Vespucci of Seville was sent out with
an expedition by the King of Portugal
in 1501. The first gruesome chapter of
Brazil’s history began then.
When the little I’leet reached land
two of the party were sent ashore to
negotiate with a group of natives that
they saw congregated on the hill. Sev
eral days passed and the sailors did
not return. Another was sent ashore,
and in sight of the ship’s company
women came forward to meet him,
gathering about him and examining
him in evident curiosity and wonder.
Suddenly another woman cam© behind
him w'lth a stake and dealt him a blow'
which brouht him to the ground. Im
mediately he was dragged away, ami
then men among the Indian women
rushed down to the beach and dis
charged a cloud of arrow's at the sail
ors remaining in their boats. Several
guns were fired at the savages, who
fled to the woods. The Indians cut the
poor youth's body in pieces and boiled
It within sight of his enraged com
rades.
In his book on Brazil for 1911, which
the Pan-American Union is now dis
tributing. J. C. Oakenfull says of one
tribe of these Indians, who live In rude
bamboo huts about seven feet high and
nine feet wide in the forests:
“They are not more than five feet four
inches in height on an aV’erage, and their
lower limbs have generally grown crook
ed. They cut off their coarse, black hall
in front, and are ornamented with toucan
feathers, stuck on with wax. Every
Bugre pulls out his eyebrows and eye
lashes and pulls down his under lip with
a huge appendage, besides ornamenting
himself, if fortune be kind, with a neck
lace composed of rows of teeth. They still 1
carry stone axes, the counterparts of
those used In prehistoric times in Eu
rope.
“Attempts to civilize these wretched
beings generally prove entirely vain.
“A peculiar characteristic part of the
whole of the Indians is a deep super
stition. They believe in luna phantoms
and beings of life, who are spirits of God.
They are afraid of certain dark, sh ado wry
forms, powers of ill, vengeful and awful,
whom it is necessary to propitiate. These
are supposed to be the souls of their
ancestors. They call God Tupa, and they
say that dead men’s souls are converted
into demons. They also believe in spirits
of the deep waters, and are afraid of
bathing in the dark, except in company,
as traditions are current that many have
been dragged down into the lakes and
rivers, and never returned. In common
with other primitive races, their natural
powers of observation are very highly de
veloped. Many of the tribes are capable
of producing artistic ceramic ware, and
they have some ability for wood carving
and makipg grotesque masks. Some of
them weave baskets and construct large
canoes by the hollowing out process aided
by fire.’’
Portugal started the settlement of
this country when it dispatched Amer
igo Vespucci again from Lisbon in 1503,
on a second expedition, with six ships.
Only two of the ships reached the
other side. The others were lost, but
the crew of one was saved. This com
pany remained five months on friend
ly terms with the natives, and then re
turned home laden with parrots, mon
keys and Brazil wood, leaving behind
them 24 men, who had been saved from
the shipwreck. These were the original
settlers, all Portuguese sailors, who are
said to have taken wives from among
the native women. Piso, a Dutch phy
sician, says that “among the Brazilian
Indians the husbands go to bed when
the child is born and eat the most
nourishing food they can got in order
to recover their lost strength.'*
It appears that the history of Brazil
since these early days in its relation
to the Indians is not Vv«ry different
from that of our own country. The III
ABOUT ENSLEY BACHELORS
BY SAM T. KKN.VKDV
At the performance of the “Old Maids’
Convention,” at the Ensley opera house,
some valuable information to the un
married women of Ensley was given out.
Although the play was supposed to be
a convention of old maids seeking to de
vise the nearest cut to matrimony, all the
members of the cast were married wom
en, and therefore well qualified to give
out advice on how to obtain husbands.
For the benefit of those of the fair sex
still unmarried and who were not pres
ent at the performance, the following
valuable information is given. The sec
retary of the “Old Maids’ Convention,”
when called upon by the president for
a report on the matrimonial prospects in
Ensley, read the following:
Judge Charles H. Mandy—Almost per
suaded.
Dr. W. D. Fonvilie—Fickle.
Robert Martin—Too busy making pills.
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Judge J. T. Lowry—Stubborn.
Oliver Caldwell—Indifferent.
Oscar Berney—Uncertain.
Dr. E. W. Averyt—Immovable.
J. S. Falkner—Out of the market.
Mr. Brooks—Yielding.
Holt Simonton—Cold feet.
Frank Brush—Getting Interested.
John Byrum—Busy watting.
Fred Moore—Still repining.
G. IV. Morris—Hoping on, trusting ever.
Charles Sloan—Nothing to him.
Walter Davenport-Has faint hopes.
Gus Nelson—Too timid.
Guy Overton—Willing. I
Mr. Sparks—Anxiously waiting.
Alex Cochran—Always trying to escape.
Captain Donlin—Worth trying for.
If the dissemination of this line on the
prospects for matrimony in Ensley does
not result in some captures from the
above list it will be most surprising.
With this data a plan of campaign may
be laid out with full knowledge of the
weak points in the defenses of the be
sieged and orange blossoms and wed
ding marches are guaranteed as a result.
0
dians were non-dependable, turning
from hot to cold in their attitude to
ward the white races, being extremely
kind som'etimes and Satanic ut others.
Mr. Oakenfull says:
"The harmony which marked most of
the first intercourse betweon the abor
igines and the discov rers did not con
tinue for very long. They found little
reason to be satisfied with their neigh
bors, and, like most savugcs, passed
from one extreme of attachment and
veneration to that of hatred and fear.*'
Finest of Wild Bulls
The guar is often wrongly termed "bi
son." The name is not correct; the bison
is the bos bonassus of Lithuania and
the Caucasus. The gaur, found in Indo
china, is certainly the finest of all the
wild bulls; he overawes all opponents by
his courage, audaeit>, and great strength,
says the Wide Worid Magazine.
He is a huge beast, and sometimes
measures six feet to the root of the tail
He is distinguished from all other wild
cattle by tilt prominent hump between
the two horns. The latter are massive,
flat at the base, and winged, and they
describe a very wide curve from the root
upward.
The coat is of an olive brown tint,
shading in black, with very short, fine
hair.
The gaur is found both In the forsst
and on the mountains’ for, in spite of
his great size, he is extremely agile, so
that he can run up the mountain slopes
and climb the rocks with .'ase.
Lite the elephant, he feeds on grass
anil plants, and when he cannot get tfic?;
he falls back on bamboo shoots and the
buds and branches of tree**.
The gaurs feed until about 9 o’clock
in the morning; then they return to the
bamboo forests and clearings to sleep.
Later in the afternoon they come out to
graze and drink. They are not timid, an l
several shots can be fired among a here,
before they become alarmed.
Mark Twain’s First Earnings
From London Tit-Bits.
! A friend of Mark Twain once asked,
him if he remembered the first money i
he earned.
“Yes,” he said; “it was at school, and ,
a very painful recollection it Is, too.
There was a rule in our school that any
boy marking his desk, either witli pencil
or knife, would be chastised publicly be
fore tlie whole school or pay a fine of $f>.
Besides the rule there was a ruler; T
knew it because I had felt it; it was a
darned hard one, too.
“One day I had to tell my father that
T have broken the rule, and had to pay
a fine or take a public whipping, and he
said:
“ ‘Sam. it would be too bad to have the
name of Clemens disgraced before the
whole school, so I’ll pay the fine. But I
don’t want you to lose anything, so come
upstairs.*
“A few minutes later I came down
with a bad feeling and the $5. and I de
cided that as l had been punished once,
and got used to it, T would not mind
getting the other licking at school. 80
T did and kept the $o.“
News of Ensley
The new Ensley crematory has been
In full operation since Wednesday of this
week and has fulfilled all expectations
In the way of destruction of garbage.
The capacity of the plant Is more than
sufficient for all present needs of Ens
ley. A horse and cow were consumed
in the plant one day this week most
successfully und with ho offensive odors
emanating therefrom, according to resi
dents living near the crematory. City
officials are highly gratified over the
splendid showing made during the lirst
week's operation of the plant.
The funeral of Mrs. Sarah A. Echols
was held this morning at 10 o'clock at
Crumley's chapel. The funeral services
were conducted by the Rev. J. s. Glas
gow.
Funeral services over the remains of
Eula May Athey were held at the resi
dence of the parents at 2615 Avenue C,
yesterday afternoon. The service was
cotjjlucted by the Rev. George E. Boyd,
pastor of the Ensley Methodist church.
Eula May was the 2-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Athey and was
drowned Friday afternoon In the -ewer
running from the steel plant near the
residence of the parents of the little
girl.
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