Show f i r Y 4 J i 1 aged Millionaire Finds ft's One JT T Thing t Win a Bride 1 and Q cite Another To Be H a With ti 3 it I II t Her When M d dim I Especially a Mans Man's st x I Family Is Bound and andT j Y X y a c w wM y 1 andy y T Yn n M 7 Determined ys I y t 4 X T TV V Y That He Heys Have a r t X k r 4 1 H Ht Love Mate y Ii 5 r Below Mr Candler a daughter in n 3 1 rr law Walter Mrs MIS T Candler one y of the family that did r f eve r rr r to pr ent the old millionaire CI r 1 N NR R s 4 from marrying again and when i he i finally succeeded in outwitting x f w them last Jane refused to v a ab b ti Q d u anything to do with his bride qc Y t r r s P rJ L w r t a t i Li b y r u uJ F 45 4 Yda r p J y rya h ht t Unhappy Mr Candler who seems to have lost forever the new and Y and very r tv youthful grandmother he had been to such pains to provide for these grandchildren of his sf A Wei JK ti ant t 9 y M a fi t NE would suppose that a widower ONE O with wIlli three seventy-three years of experience ex- ex with life liCe and with mOTe more than ho he quite knows what to do WIth could indulge himself in all the ro- ro ro romance romance mance mance he pleased especially pleased especially if he be was m in full pos pos- possession of his Ius fa faculties and already had provided handsomely for his children and grandchildren But although Asa sa G C Candler the GeorgIa soft drink king lung meets all these condItIons perfect perfectly Joy he be has bas found out that falling in ID love or getting marrIed IS something he be mus must not do if he be wants to avoid o R oid trouble trouble- Several times since his first wife wile dIed and he be began to find a widowers widower's lone lone- loneliness loneliness liness unendurable be he has bas lost his heart beart as romantically and as completely as ever Iver he be did when he was a young blood But until recently each time he planned to lead the beauty who had captured It to the marriage altar mysterious ob- ob obstacles ob obstacles obstacles popped to no O to bar his way and prevent his getting even as far as the tho church door One marriage engagement was broken on the very eve of the wedding several other romances were blIghted almost as soon as they budded and and all it is now suspected because his family did not want to have to share his fortune with mth an anybody body else and so 80 spared no effort to cheat the old gentleman of the second love mate he be was so eager to have But ut Mr Candler's family had under under- underestimated underestimated underestimated I estimated the persistence o of the manI man I Vo who nho ho started life as a poor drug clerk elerk and piled plied up an immense fortune with a rapIdity that amazed everybody I IThe i The retired capitalist always has prided himself on pitting getting whatever he wanted What be he wanted now DOW was a wIfe and md he determined that have her he would regardless of what his chil- chil children chil children dren or his grandchildren or his brothers or anybody anybody else ele thought about It it It may be bf that an old dog cannot learn new tucks but Mr Candler has bas proved an old man can can lie ue decided that j 9 he had been too garrulous about his pre pre- preVIOUS previous pre previous romantic too plans plans too eager to tell t j family and fiends how joyful be he felt over the prospect of becoming a husband ThIS he be concluded was the slip on his part that had given his folks their theU 41 opportunity to hurl burl hurla burla a v monkey wrench or two into the love machinery The next time he fell in III love he re- re resolved re resolved solved he would keep his romance to him him- him himself tell self self tell nobody how hard his old heart was thumping or who had set it thump thump- thumping thump thumping ing mg or what he be was to do to re- re relieve re relieve lieve that thumping Yes scree SUTeo hI be bet t would just keep his coat sd untIl the woman he loved was o so securely in hl hid arms that all the in ID the thew orld w orld couldn't tear her h l T away wey Mr Candler did not Dot have long to tt wait before putting his new strategy gy into use While dictating a business letter to Mrs May Little Ragin Eagin a public who had an office in the Candler Build uig mg in Atlanta he ha decided that hare he-e h C was Just the love mate he wanted to have by his side through the sunset of life Very furtively the smitten man ma conducted con con- conducted con conducted ducted a little investigation into Mrs Ragin's past and presort present pre nt When he found everything 0 O K he be still began ery i cry ery an furtively furtively an ardent courtship The Tho courtship did not last so very long IonA for tor Mr Candler Candler's s 's y seventy-odd seventy years yean of has half taught him the wis ws WISdom wisdom dom dote of getting things wound up quickly in ID in love as well as the soft drink busi busy busIness busyness business ness and real estate Within a few days he was asking her 0 7 to marry him and Mrs Ragin Kagin said said- said well just what you v would expect a poor WIdow with two freckle faced daughters to say when a mul mu millionaire ti ti laid hi his heart at her ber feet Remember Rem E e m em e m ber b er e now warned Mr Candler after he be had pressed hIs tremulous old lips against hers in the betrothal al k kiss i s s not a word of thIs to anybody not anybody not even your family until until we are married For once at least leasta a woman kept a as s secret t Outside of the lovers nobody In Atlanta had any dint mt that there was to bea bo ho a wed wedding ding until WIthIn a f few hours of the time set Ed EdThe The suspicions of Mr Candler's family fam fam- famIly family ily that t the To- To romantic ro romantic mantic mantle old gentle gentle- gentleman gentle nian man IlIan was again am in inlove inlove inlove love are aro said to have been aroused for the first fast tIme the very mornIng of the day when he ap ap ap appeared at lit the breakfast t table b I Ie e wearing instead of his usual sober conservative garb the modish habih habiliments meets ments you Bee see on the smart young wo men In the clothing advertisements Nobody could remember having havinga 8 seen c e e n Mr Can dressed qUIte like this before before- most certainly not t for an informal family breakfast F Ills us lIlt cult of youth youth- youthful ful cut cut his hu open openwork work hose and sporty porty low shoes his silk ilk shirt Blurt har- har r oY i r a aa ait a it 3 r J Je e 7 V y 1 4 a rY iii t r ro o i n Q q s PM tail 1 r 7 y m i M r w w di Mrs Onezima de the soft drink kings king's who lays his broken engagement to his family's hr in color with his cravat and handkerchief border berder anda and nd a hothouse bud in his buttonhole naturally excIted some me pointed questions Why shouldn't I spruce up a bIt ned cried Mr Candler triumphantly Im III going to be thIs married roamed this IS 13 my wedding dayl day That spoiled d the breakfast for every every- body very everybody ody except the tho prospective bridegroom mobilized The family fandy forces force were hurriedly hud to see sec what rood be done about It but before they could decide on ou any plan of action adlon the afternoon papas were out WIth the news that Mrs May Rigin Ragin had become Mrs A Asa AA G C Candler The old gentleman was r revenged for all II the romances which as ns everybody suspects his relatives had spoiled lie was revenged ed for the to marry Mrs Onezima de da which S as s the New Orleans beauty openly charges they intrigued to male make him Ium break It was a cruel blow to tha tM lie Candler I M-J M s I children to see their carefully laid plans to keep their father a II Ido widower er upset like this They had been blen at su such h infinite pains to keep him out of 01 love and to drag him out of it every time he fell In inAnd now to see him married almost be bar f fre re they knew another romance romance was under well way IS it any wonder they wr were i filled tilled with regret and dismay Mr Candler returned from a brIef bridal tour with a triumphant Well I them that Well that air and proceeded to install lasts his bride and her daughters In his mansion in the fashionable Druid fills suction St of Atlanta Now for tor a few years of basking bailing In the inthe light of the honeymoon said acid ald the aged bridegroom WItha with a sigh of deep deepen en satisfaction But as he soon found out there was to be no carefree basking At least not for a long time to come and perhaps never with the bride he had so shrewdly won Before he be had been back c in At At- At Y a a Y n jv a s a 6 I V Vi 9 Vy y i The wife Mr St t r R S r Candler barred r ld ay from 6 i h ho o m e after her arrest at an l y alleged whisky P 9 s 4 with two Atlanta the men final fr h chapter in the rain of the honeymoon bliss f hA A for which ho bad struggled so hard I 1 Ii ift r j A 1 i iS S J h 3 l A AAy w fl Ay Wi K r rS L t ff I J tJ V Y JI c f f S 1 N 1 w J i t tf f t Mrs Mn Asa G 1 Candler's IU t I S 'S twin twin daughters daugh- daugh ii f rl I l i m So r by a for for- former for S M mer e r mar mar- marriage rn marriage a r r i a g e now cheated of the bright future they they the had ex- ex expected ex es petted from their step fathers millions lanta many das days da s his hie hI gray head was ep- ep en enveloped eloped by clouds of of or trouble trouble through whIch the brightest of honeymoons could never have penetrated First came the disturbing realization 1 i that that hat the ilia members of o a his family were not going to forgive his marriage They re- re received re received his bride with cold cold old formal cour cour- courtesy courtesy tesy and made it plain that there was never to be anything more than this As Asfor Asfor Asfor for m introducing her into the he smart cir cir- circles cir Clr circles cles in which they move she was gIven td that sucha such a thing was quite out oat of the question The new Mrs Candler raged with in- in indIgnation indignation in indignation at this treatment When she married the old millionaire she had ex- ex expect ex expected d not only to nestle in the luxury or of his hig hi Druid Hills home with its Louis LoULS XIV IV furniture and Persian rugs rugs but to take tb the tha place in society which should belong to the wife of Atlanta's richest and most respected citizen Tell your high and mighty Candler relatives where they get off is said to have been the substance of the bride angry demand Mr Candler obedIently tried to do that very thing but his pleas yd 1 9 n N t f tf l 11 j and t threats h rea t s S brought no rc re rt- rt suits The faro fam PI PIh f il h lly lIy rc refused used to to- to budge from its pO position of hos hos- hostility hos- hos hostility hostility to the Mrs Candler Mr Candler yearning for the blissful bliss bliss- blissful ful honeymoon he had been antIcipating to 0 long gave his Ha brides bride's parents parent a hand band handsome handsome som some home and settled in 1 cash on her But even this financIal aim alm could not cot soothe Mothe her anger and reo re- resentment re resentment Then came the trial of the promise of breach promise suit brought agam against t thIm hIm by Mrs de dc For days he be had to endure the humiliation of listen lIsten- listening listening ing to the reading of the volumes of e lo e o e letters that passed pas sed between him and his before he allowed himself to be turned item her by what is alleged to have been his family family's opposition opposition The suit resulted n na in a victor victory for him but but it was a triumph that brought hIm little satisfaction as he turned back to what I he now feared was the hope hopeless ss task of f bringing his bride and his fame fam family fam- fam family ily int into friendly relations ns And then a afew afew afew few days later something happened which mad made him as lS bitter against his us De as his family I I 7 r One Saturday afternoon the telephone in the s office OIce of Atlanta's chief of police rang and some on one told Chief B Beavers Beaven ven that if he would send an officer to a certain certain tain tam ap nt bu building in a fashion fashionable able section of the city he would find cause for tor police action This tip as has since been revealed came from a private detective paid money had nad been trailing trailing trailing- Mrs Candled about for some ome time and Chief Beavers thought th the matter important im- im important enough to go himself to the apart apart- apartment apartment ment named and see what was going on There he alleges grouped about a table on which stood a partly emptied bottle of whisky he found W J Stoddard Stoddard dard dard and G W Keeling well known At Atlanta lanta business men Mrs and and Mrs Asa Am G Candler Whether Mrs Candler was drinking for a chaser the beverage that made her husband a millionaire the chief has bas not yet stated The three were arrested on the charge of being beins occupants of a dive and were held on bond for appearance in the po police ce court The arrest of his bide shattered old old Mr Candler's last remaining hope ot of anything like honeymoon bliss That night she was was barred from his marble manSIon and the old millionaire baffled In iii another of his many per persistent quests of love was vaS left as lonely a as he had been before his marriage last June There are other people in Atlanta be- be besIdes besides be besides sides the Candler family was Mrs Mis Candler's comment after her arrest arret Of Can diers course this 13 ms ery ery true but what hat can can- there ai 31 aie e a seem to be quite numer numer- numerous numerous ous ons enough h to present pre any woman who does docs not meet with their approval from living very long with the head of theIr family and aDd the founder of its fortune It is strongly suspected that the old children and other relatives ere nere quite quite willing to face the scandal of Mrs Irs Candler's arrest on the thence chance of its breaking off his relations WItha with a wife whom they hale haic found so distaste te- te distasteful ful If it doc does docs this and teaches leaches him to let romance alone for tor tho rho rest of hIs life lite they will feel will well repaid for the Injury to their they pride |