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WANTED--A SUB FDR IN. 0. TIFT He Must Be a Reactionary and Run Smoothly in Presi dential Harness. By JAMES J. MONTAGUE. Washington. May 4. WANTED— A widely known and popular reactionary Republican. bom in the United States at least 35 years ago, who can speak like Daniel Webster, work like a horse and fight like a- wildcat, to take presidential nomination. APPLY QUICK to Penrose, Root, Crane & Smoot, Washington. D. C. Anybody who can ansn-er the fore going and qualify can have the job. If nobody applies the present incumbent will hold over. Just now, being weary from an unavailing assault on Massa chusetts. the said incumbent. Mr, Wil liam H. Taft, has gone to Georgia to re cuperate. While he is gone is a good time to apply, for there is real, honest, serious consideration of asking him to with draw from the race, and only the fact that there Is no other dark horse in the paddock eaves his managers the em barrassing necessity of doing so. Primaries Taft's Doom. Direct primaries have done for Mr. Taft. His managers were bullied into accepting them by Roosevelt. They fought them in Massachusetts, Illinois, Maryland and Michigan for a long time. Then suddenly, convinced that Roose velt had no real strength, they changed their tactics and invited and invited them. Now they know that direct pri maries furnish the people with means of voting not only FOR a man, but AGAINST him. Not enough people voted for Roose velt In Massachusetts, Pennsylvania or Illinois to help him much. Rut a suf ficient number voted against Mr. Taft to put that gentleman in a very deep hole. The Taft people are still hopeful, or were this afternoon. They say that ■with 123 more delegates they have got Taft nominated. They say that with their own delegate estimate before them. Rut that estimate is based on a loyalty in the South that does not ex ist. Furthermore, it is based on a bet that the national committee will seat only Taft delegates in case of con tests. Afraid of Steam Roller. Rut the national committeemen have had their ears as close to the ground as anybody else during the last few weeks, and they are going tn take no chances in starting a steam roller that may run over their own ambitions before they can stop it. As soon as Mr. Taft returns to Wash ington a grave and earnest conference will be held at the white house. It has been learned that the actual facta, as they present themselves to his man agers, will be presented to him, in plain language. He will be told that, while he still has a chance at the nomination, provided he can hold the South and keep the na tional committee in line, even this seems to Indicate that he will have very little chance at the polls. New Man Not Yet Found. He will be asked if he still wants to gtay in the game. If he does, he will be permitted to —provided the bosses be hind him can't find somebody else. If he says he is sick of the whole busi ness and wants to get out. his aid will be solicited in finding a substitute. Then there will be quick work. The new man will be boosted in every ad ministration newspaper, thousands of letters to political leaders will be writ ten instructing them to throw Tass delegates to him, the president himself will make a public statement, bespeak ing the support of his friends for the understudy. But the new man has not yet been found. Xou can take your pick among any of the following: Borah. Fairbanks, Nagel, Knox. Hughes -all reactionaries or near reactionaries. And if you don't like any of these you can suggest some body. 3 BURNED TO DEATH IN A WEST VIRGINIA MINE HOUSE BLAZE BEGK'LEY. W. VA . May 4 —Three persons were burned to death when five company houses of the E E. White Coal Company were destroved by fir near here today. The victims were John Maxon, a miner, his wife and child. Helps a Judge in Bad Fix. Justice Eli Cherry, of Gillis Mills. Tenn , was plainly worried. A bad sore on his leg had baffled several doctors and long resisted all remedies. -'I thought it was a cancer.” he wrote. "At last i used Bueklen's Arnica Salve, and was completely cured.” Cures burns. b !s, ulcers, cuts, bruises and piles. 25 cents at all druggists. Lame back is usually caused by rheu matism of the muscles of the back, for w'-inh viu will find nothing better than Chamberlain's Liniment. For sale by e dealers. • 4 performances daily at the Bijou -admission 10c. WINDOW BOXES FILLED. ATLANTA FLORAL CO., Call Main 1130. White City Park Now Open Sunday rate $1.50 Athens now on via Seaboard. Water Wagon Drives Chicago Saloonists Out of Their Business CHICAGO. .May 4—So popular has the “water wagon" become in Chicago that saloon keepers by the score quit business May 1. Never before In the history of the city have so many drink dispensers planned to throw aside the white apron at one time It was predicted by saloon keepers themselves that fully 500 out of’ more than 7,000 owners of drinking places nil! step out. Saloon keepers, especially those out side the Loop district, were unanimous in declaring that the “water wagon” was no longer a joke with them, but a serious proposition—a matter of bread and butter. Saloon men who have made a study of conditions gave it as their opinion that drunkenness was slowly but surely dying nut. because of enlightenment on the evil results of excessive drinking of alcoholic liquors. N. Y. POLICEMAN FATALLY SHOOTS BROTHER OFFICER NEW YORK. May 4,-,-Policeman M. Dowland, of the Far Rockaway station, was accidentally shot and fatally wounded in the dormitory of the sta tion house today. A. Atkins, an other policeman, entered the apartment where Dowland lay sleeping. In re moving his uniform, hjs revolver swung against an open door and was dis charged. The bullet struck Dowland in the mouth, inflicting a mortal in jury. DEATH TAKES COUPLE WHO NEVER PARTED NEW YORK. May 4.—ln Woodlaw;-, cemetery yesterday were burled Mr. and Mrs. Albert Knoche, who during their thirty years of married ‘life never had been separated more than twenty four hours at a time, and who both died within five hours of each other. ADEL VETERAN DIES. ADEL. GA.. May 4 T. L Wiseman died nt his home here suddenly He was one of the few Confederate soldiers liv ing here He leaves two children, A. T>. Wiseman, of this city, and Mrs <>. P. Juhan, of Macon. Mr. Wiseman was 75 years old. Minim CASTOR OIL UGH! Delicious “Syrup of Figs” best for their little stom achs, liver and waste clogged bowels. Look back at your childhood days Remember the physic that mother In sisted on—castor oil. calomel, cathar tics. How you hated them, how you fought against taking them. With our children *it's different. The day of harsh physic is over. We don't force the liver and 30 feet of bowels now, we coax them. We have no dread ed after effects Mothers who cling to the old form of physic simply don't realize what they do. The children's revolt is well founded. Their little stomachs and tender bowels are in jured by them. if your child Is fretful, peevish, half sick, stomach sour, breath feverish and Its little system full of cold; has dlar rhoe, sore throat. stomach-ache, doesn't eat or rest well—remember— look at the tongue, if coated, give a teaspoonful of Syrup of Figs; then don't worry, because you surely will have a well, smiling child ih a few hours. Syrup of Figs being composed en tirely of luscious figs, senna and aro matics sffnply can not be harmful It sweetens the stomach, makes the liver active and thoroughly cleanses the lit tle one's waste-dogged bowels. In a saw hours all sour bile, undigested, fer menting food and constipated waste matter gently moves on and out of the system without griping or nausea. Directions for children of all ages, also for grown-ups, plainly printed on the package. Ry all means get the genuine. Ask your druggist for the full name, “Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna.” prepared by the California Fig Syrup Co. Ac cept nothing else. ww IMaHßMgaO^W^K , 'w3&r •• j] | Dixie All Iron (Not Steel) Portable Garage Convenience and durability. Saves insurance, worry and temptation. Ab solutely fireproof. Easy to set up—by any laborer using ; a screw driver and pliers. Write for prices on garages. 8 ft. high, 12 ft. wide. Any de sired depth. . -41—U. —1- JJJW- X- JIMIIL . .* JJk... Heavy 65gallon underground storage ! Tank and Pump—s2s.oo. Made and shipped promptly by The Dixie Culvert & Metal Co. Atlanta. Ga. Pianos, Organs, Sheet Music, Violins, Guitars. Catalogue free on applica tion. CABLE PIANO CO., 84 North Broad-st. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS t SATURDAY, MAY% 191? FIGHT TO DEATH IN AN OLD H Kentuckians Engage in Des perate Duel With Revolvers. Relatives Find Bodies. TOMPKINSVILLE, KY„ May 4—Prop ped against the walls of a shack on Kettle creek, their lifeless hands still clutching their revolvers, and the last looks of defiance on their faces, the bodies of Albert Stephens and William Mayberry were found by relatives who had missed them. Each body was pierced by four bullets Stephens had sold the shack and Its contents to Mayberry and it Is believed they went to have a final settlement, quarreled and fought to the death with out anyone hearing the -shots TILLMAN ASKS TO STAY. SPARTANBURG, S. C., May 4—Al though broken In health. Senator Ben jamin Tillman has appealed to his state to retain him in office, saying he desires to, die in harness, for sentimental rea sons. SPIRIT SAYS CLARK WINS. TOPEKA. KANS, May 4.—The wid ow of Jerry Simpson, who is a. spirit ualist. says that her late Husband has prophesied to her that Champ Clark will be'the next president of, the United States. If I had on//had . mBRb that money in the »> O .X e-J&J# - 'T\ v Quit y/z/eZ Specu/a/ion How many times have yott said, or your friends saidt “I cannot,- because I HAVE IVOT GOT THE MONEY?” Ho w many good business chances have had to be passed up because you did not have the money? “Get-Rich-Quick” speculation is the worst thing a man can do with Ids money. If the enterprise into which some smooth stranger asks you to put your money were such a good one, he would keep it—not sell it to you. Do YOGR hanking with US. .4 per cent on Savings Deposits . sMiftMiiinrmjiiiM Lu F "" - sa.so Z/so<i\\ /WHILE THEY RahrProof | Sun Proof Sole-Proof Floor Finish, Varnish Stains, Enamels, Bronzes, Floor Waxes, Wall Tints. WE RETAIL Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. 56-58-60 W. Alabama St. ■—■l I ioiiiiil..JiinjmTrTrri —|— ——"tww——■ra—wrwrri rwnrwr-r iiumwiyaM ■ uni—rwwwKZ - ■ Saturday Night Club CL K/s Miss Ormond's Views on Suffrage After listening to an address by Miss .Alice Ormond, a former Atlanta girl, who has be»n an ardent suffragist since making her home in New York, the Saturday Night club unanimously in dorsed all that.the speaker had said at its meeting last night. ■The subject chosen for debate was "Resolved, That tho legislature of Georgia should pass a statute giving women the right to vote.” Miss Or mond was invited to address the club previous to the debate. Rhe took for her subject the many reasons which have been advanced against the ques tion of women’s rights and so thor oughly did she answer them that when the debate started the second speaker. J. XV. I.eCraw. leader of the negative side, stated that ail his arguments had been answered beforehand and that he had no speech to make. No other speaker rose to champion the negative side of the question and in the dozen or more speeches that fol lowed all advanced reasons why women should he allowed to vote. The leader of the affirmative was H. H. Wilson. What Texans Admire is hearty, vigorous life, according to Hugh Tailman, of San Antonio. "We find,” he writes, "that Dr. King's Nev. Life Pills surely put new. life and en ergy.into a person. Wife and 1 believe they are the best made." Excellent for stomach, liver or kidney troubles. 25 cts. at all druggists. A Talk on the Need of Laboratory Work by Doctors and the Cause of Failure in Many Cases of “606” T F you have any prejudice against an adver tising doctor or against an advertising doctor’s office, come and see me. take time enough to investigate me, my associates and our methods, bring your family physician with you, and all I will ask him is NOT to keep his criticisms for the “soap box brigade,” but to state them to me personally. If they have merit in them he can rest assured I will try to correct them. I am writing this espe cially for the reader who has been trained and educated into what I believe to be the erroneous idea that phy sicians should not advertise and that all advertising doc tors must necessarily be quacks and humbugs. lam writing this for the intelli gent man and woman. I am free to admit that much has crept into the ad vertising columns that might, with benefit to suffering hu manity, he eliminated. But at. the fw time there is not only a little, but a great big lot of quackery—yes, I mean quackery—among the so-call ed regular profession, or the "'*n-advertising doctors. I have believed always in science being the real foun dation of all that is best in - '’“ctor’s practice. The day has gone by when new and marvellous cures can be foisted, on an unsus- pccting public. I COURT INVESTIGATION. I might add, an ignorant public. For no matter how brainy or how well educated the layman may be, it is quite probable that when it comes to discussing physiology or disease, he is in all probability absolutely ignorant and may be deceived by statements that, to the man well posted on the subject, will be known to be arrant nonsense. What I want from anyone having doubts about this office or its conduct, is a thorough but unprejudiced investigation. For any of fice, any personality that bids for the public’s clientage and that docs not bear the closest scrutiny, is not worthy of the public’s confi dence. I have certain opinions that I believe have been pounded into me by experience—that have thoroughly saturated every fiber of my physical being. For instance, I believe that the study of disease and the practice of medi cine is so hard, and there is so much necessary to be learned and our responsibilities to our patients are so great, that it takes all the brains and all the good health of the best and ablest sort of man to keep abreast of the times. I believe it naturally follows that no man can, by dissipation, waste any of it and be a good doctor. So no man can ever be a drinking man and be a good doctor. I have heard of them, but I never knew one in my more than 35 years' experience in the profession. Recently a gentleman spoke to me of a cer tain doctor and said: “What a pity he drinks! If it wasn’t for that there wouldn't be a better doctor any where.” Now I happened to know this doctor’s abil ity as a physician and know that among those qualified to judge, his opinion would not be worth the expenditure of enough energy to snap your finger. Then, too, I am a firm believer in the fact— at least I believe it to be a fact—that true morality and true physiology are hand maid ens. Necessarily no true physician can coun-x tenance or encourage in his patients anything but the straight path physiologically or morally. THE IMPORTANCE OF DIAGNOSIS. I most earnestly believe that ’diagnosis is the most important thing to the invalid who has probably been in the hands of several phy sicians without benefit. I have found this il lustrated daily for the past four decades, and so I KNOW it is true. Only today a gentleman tn]d me his expe rience, bow be had. suffered with rheumatism, hew several doctors had treated him without success, how he went to Hot Springs, Ark., and took the baths for several months, how he went home and a doctor after examination (and the doctor was a celebrated nerve expert) told him it vas rest he. needed. Then he went to bed for weeks and hired an attendant to feed, rub and massage him daily, but after all he was unable to even walk. In desperation he consplted a young physician who, after an examination, found the arches of his feet broken down, or what is popularly known as flat foot, fitted him with arch supports. Then his “rheumatism” was gone and he has been walking ever since. Now I was not the Doctor who discovered the condition, so I do not tell this as a cure by myself, but only to illustrate the truth of what I have so long contended to be the most im portant part of a doctor’s education and prac tice —diagnosis. HOW THE SCIENTIFIC PHYSICIAN WORKS But diagnosis is not the easy thing it seems to be to the layman. The time was when all By DR. WM. M. BAIRD * .. W ll.; 1 KW - Oil *WI ; ' DR. WM. M. BAIRD, 56 Marietta Street. Brown - Randolph Building. Atlanta, Ga. that was thought necessary was to feel the patient’s pulse, look at his tongue, possibly listen to the breathing or ’he sound of his heart, and give a decision. The scientific physi cian of today knows there is much more than this. He knows that the methods of the laboratory are intricate and complex and can only be car ried out by one who has been thoroughly trained in the details of these methods. There lies before me an article by a doctor who ad mits the value of these meth ods, but says they are so ex pensive and so complex and often take so much time that very few doctors can employ them. I thought while read ing it that here was an argu ment in favor of advertising, for it is only in seeing and treating a large number that it is possible to do this at fees which can be paid by the average person. MY NEW SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT. Right now I am adding to the equipment of this office certain laboratory facilities that will cost several hun dred dollars. They will not make any great show. There will be nn brilliant display of electrical fireworks—no fake violet ray business. But they will be useful adjuncts which no doctor with an av erage practice can afford to employ. There are tests we can make here at a rea sonable price, because of the large number of patients we see daily. If, however, we were seeing only a few patients each day it would be so expensive as to be prohibitive. Bacte riological tests, examinations and laboratory methods are today revolutionizing medicine and surgery, and I can say without fear of contradiction that 90 per cent of physicians are not keeping up to date. When I was recently forced to move on ac count of lack of room I thought when I took 5 000 feet of floor space, subdivided into 12 rooms, with other space making practically 3 rooms more, that I was amply provided for. But I soon found that I had to give up my own consultation room in order to make room for increased laboratory equipment which I was determined should be the best in the South. Under the methods for caring for patients in vogue even 10 years ago, four or five small rooms would have been amply sufficient. WHAT I THINK OF “606.” That bacteriological examinations are nec essary has been very forcibly illustrated during the past couple of years in the history of Ehr lich’s Salvarsan, or “606.” I have been quot ed as being opposed to it and as condemning it which is not true. I simply told the public the absolute truth, and every criticism I made has been shown to be absolutely true m every respect. I have said it was only another one of the arsenic preparations, all of which we knew to be of value in relieving symptoms, and nearly all were dangerous. The methods used at first have all been dis carded on account of its danger, and every day wc see in this office evidences of the results of its use by incompetent physicians, who see m it only a means of adding to their bank ac counts But what the public does not fully understand as yet is that there are very few of the men who give it who are really compe tent to prepare it. Ehrlich pointed this out long ago and has always expressed a fear of this being the cause of had results that would follow its use. This has been proven to be the case, and then there are a few so unscrupulous as to use it and promise the patient that one, or at the most, two doses would be a cure, and they gamble on its relieving temporarily and long enough for them to collect their fees. Then, too, in the treatment of this disease, certain tests must be made to determine the result and here is where the bacteriological laboratory comes in. I NEVER HAYE SOLD CURES. BUT—come to see us —see whether I tell the truth in my advertisements or not. All ordinary examinations and tests are made free of charge. Go and see first whether or not you like the methods and equipment of others. Then come to me and use your common sense. We don’t promise you a cure for a certain sum, and neither does any honest doctor. And if there is anyone who does this I dare him to come out in print and deny that he is anything but a fraud and a faker. But YOU, who have been under the care of several physicians for a long time without success, come and see me, and the evidences of vour own sense will, I believe, convince you. The chronic invalid needs and has a right to demand not only the best that science can give, but the attention and conscientious service and intelligence of those who think of the good of the patient above all else. This kind of ser vice I have been giving and shall always be determined to give my patients. I am the public’s obedient servant for add ing to its health and strength (and that means happiness). WM. M. BAIRD, M. D.