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MTU QUITS TAFT ; JOINS T. R. Commissioner of 'Corporations Resigns to Support New Third Party. WASHINGTON, July 17. —Having decided to join the new third party movement and help Colonel Roosevelt in his campaign, Herbert Knox Smith has resigned as commissioner of corpo rations. Mr. Smith will go to New York for a conference with Colonel Roosevelt on Friday, when his political plans will be mapped out. He will probably take an active part in the campaign, discussing corporations, with particular reference to the Sherman anti-trust law. A close friend of Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Smith was a member of the “tennis cabinet" during the previous adminis tration. In his letter of resignation. Mr. Smith frankly advised President Taft of his intention to join the new party. In his letter Mr. Smith says he in tends to support the new party because, he declares, that movement includes the principles he believes in and which he has "earnestly endeavored to further so far as I could during my term of Fed eral service." I feel that the new party represents these principles more directly, and with more promise and power of perform ance. than either the Republican or Democratic party," says Mr. Smith. President Taft today named Luther < 'onant. present deputy commissioner of corporations, to be commissioner of corporations to succeed Herbert Knox Smith. The president also named Sherman Page Allem of Vermont, to be assistant secretary of the treasury, vice A. Platt Andrew, resigned. Tennessee T. R. Convention Aug. 2. NASHVILLE. TENN. Juily 17. Roosevelt leaders of Tennessee have called a state convention of progres sives on August 2 to name candidates for governor and railroad commis sioner, presidential electors and dele gates to the national convention at Chicago August 5. If you are a housewife you can not reasonably hope to be healthy or beau tiful by washing dishes, sweeping and doing housework all day. and crawling into bed dead tired at night. You must get out into the open air and sunlight. If you do this every day and keep your stomach and bowels In good order by taking Chamberlain’s Tablets when needed, you should become both healthy ana beautiful. For sale by all dealers. STATEMENT OF RALPH 0. COCHRAN H * gg * / ™ Candidate for the Legislature I | To the People of Fulton County I I As a candidate for the Legislature from Fulton county, I want to publicly I I acknowledge my debt of gratitude to the hundreds of fellow-citizens who have I I voluntarily and so generously and enthusiastically indorsed my candidacy. I I I will say that I haven’t the least unkind feeling for any of the four gentle- I I men who are making the race for the positions of representatives from this I I county. In fact, most all of them are my personal friends. I I In my business relations, I have always endeavored to be fair and broad- I | minded, and 1 have always professed to be a man who could see both sides of | J any question. I have lived in Fulton county for 14 years. (I was born and I I raised in the adjoining county of Campbell.) During these years, I have been I I identified in a measure with the growth and progress of Atlanta and Fulton I I county. If you elect me, I will ever stand for the material uplift and betterment I I of the people of Fulton and the people of the state at large. I I I furthermore pledge you my best efforts and thought as a business man to I I prove myself worthy of your confidence, and this compliment I will not forget. I Illinois Third Party Call Is Issued CHICAGO. July 17.—Calls for county and state third party conventions have been issued by the “provisional" state committee of the new organization. The state convention will be held in Chi cago August 3, two days before the national convention. The county con ventions will be held July 27. A proposition to nominate a third state ticket was voted down by the committee 14 to 11. and was followed by a bolt of five members of the com mittee. At the head of bolters was Charles E. Merriam, former candidate for mayor of Chicago, and progressive leader. Kentucky Elector Deserts Taft LOUISVILLE, KY. July 17.—Judge William Kreiger, nominated for Re publican presidential elector in the Louisville district, has resigned as a candidate. Kreiger is a staunch sup porter of Theodore Roosevelt and re fuses to recognize President Taft as the party nominee. NOTED PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER. FATHER OF ROME MATRONS, DEAD KNOXVILLE, TENN., July 17.—1 n the same house in which he was born and wljich at one time was owned by John Sevier, the first governor of Ten nessee. Dr. James Park, father of Mrs. B. 1. Hughes and Mrs. M. P. Howell, prominent Rome, Ga., matrons, died this week in Knoxville. His funeral was conducted yesterday’ afternoon. Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. Howell, Miss Phoebe Hughes and Mr and Robert Graves, of Rome, attended the funeral. Dr. Park would have been 90 years old on September I. He was one of the most noted Presbyterian divines of the South. He was the oldest living alum nus of Princeton university and the University of Tennessee. While on his death bed he sent a telegram to Wood row Wilson, former president of Prince ton, congratulating him on his nomina tion for the presidency by the Demo cratic national convention. Dr. Park retired from the active min istry in 1906, after having served the First Presbyterian church here contin uously for 40 years as pastor. Dr. Dun bar H. Ogden, now of Atlanta, suc ceeded him. BOY HERO GETS MEDAL. SAVANNAH. GA., July 17.—A hand some silver hero medal has just been awarded to Samuel F. Smith. Jr., the flfteen-year-old son of S. F. Smith, by’ the treasury department, for rescuing Miss. Mary Kelly Morrison, daughter of Dr. A. A. Morrison, from the surf at Tybee June 11, 1911. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.WEDNESDAY. JULY 17. 1912. URGES CURFEW ■ Lffl IN ATLANTA Newsboys Club Also Is Planned by Chief County Probation Officer Tindall. W. W. Tindall, chief county proba tion officer, seeks strict laws regard ing the public conduct of children. He began today a plan to obtain a curfew law and to effect a newsboys’ organi zation. "I am going to try' to have both the laws put into effect," said Mr. Tindall. "We need a curfew rule in Atlanta probably more than any other thing concerned with children. The news boys association might be made to co operate with officers in enforcement of the law and would certainly benefit the young boys now roaming the streets at night." Mr, Tindall’s plan is to have the newsboys organized into a club, and to get an order from city officials that no boy not a member of the club be al lowed to sell newspapers on the streets. The curfew law is planned along lines followed in other cities. “By the two laws we would be able to prevent a great deal of minor lawless ness by newsboys and could also keep children from running on the streets at night unless they have written per mission from their parents,” said Mr. Tindall. MYSTERIOUS FEVER TAKES NINE LIVES ON ILLIONIS FARM MOUNT VERNON’. ILL., July 17. Scientists today are investigating a mysterious fever that has claimed its ninth victim in the person of John Ackerman. The deaths have all oc curred on the Ackerman farm, which is known In the neighborhood as "death farm." Those who have died have suffered intense pain. The temperature of the victims mounts so an extreme height. After death th<= bodies are peculiarly marked. The disease has affected animals on the farm as well as human beings. At sunrise a peculiar mist rises from the land It has a smell like sulphur. Local physicians have been unable to* diagnose the disease. NEGROES HER NEIGHBORS, WOMAN TAKES HER LIFE YONKERS, N. Y„ July 17.—Because negroes had bought the house adjoin ing her. Mrs. Charles Hubbard killed herself last night by means of gas. NAME OF WOMAN IN WRECK PROBE SAME AS THAT OF LUNATIC CHICAGO. July 17.—Investigators of the wreck of the Denver Limited on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail road at Western Springs Sunday’ have today' discovered a strange coincidence which may have a bearing on the probe. Mrs. F. A. Wilcox, signal op erator at Western Springs, will be the most important witness at the inquest that will begin tomorrow. Investigators have discovered that a Mrs. Fisk A. Wilcox, former telegraph operator, employed as a station agent at Highwood, near Western Springs, was sent to the detention hospital at Dunning as insane and was discharged after a six months treatment. The woman held as Insane lived at La- Grange and had separated from her husband, a former railroad employee. The signal operator at Western Springs lives at LaGrange. Persons In LaGrange say that the signal operator’s husband was Fisk A. Wilcox. The wreck at Western Springs oc curred on the second night Mrs. Wil cox was on duty. She worked one more night, but was not on duty last night. HERE’S NEW VERSION! CHAUFFEUR IS FINED FOR GOING TOO SLOW CHICAGO, July' 17.- James Kelly, chauffeur, has met the oddest fate of all those who have been tak-'n before Chicago’s new speeders coi.t. H- was fined $5 for driving too slowly. Judge Beitler. who had listened to cos- 1 after ease in which men were accused of driving too rapidly, displayed sudden interest when the clerk announced that Kelly was charged with going too slowly. Kelly, according to the story of ,he policemen who arrested him, sorted down the car tracks in South Clark street. He was in no hurry. He drove very carefully. Before he had gone far he was the head of a procession made up of his machine and five street cits. He refused to leave the car tracks un til the policeman ordered him 'o drive to the station. CANDIDATE NEGLECTS TO DECLARE HIS DEMOCRACY ROME. GA.. July 17.—Because the small sentence, "subject to the Demo cratic primary." was left out of the an nouncement of Professor W. M. Ran som, of Menlo, a candidate for repre sentative from Chattooga county, a lot of misunderstanding has resulted and a number of people think Mr. Ransom is a Republican. He has been kept busy’ explaining that he has never been anything but a follower of the party of Jefferson, and has found it necessary to seek the public prints to straighten out the tangle. AT THE THEATERS FORSYTH IS DRAWING RECORD ATTENDANCE Attendance at the Forsyth is past high water mark. Standing room was at a premium at Tuesday night’s per formance, and the advance sale for the balance of the performances bids to make this a record week. Master Gabriel, in "Little Kick," is the star headline, and he is ably assist ed by Al Lamar and Vida Perrin. In cidentally, Mr. Lamar has always been the leading man with Gabriel, starting a partnership with him some fifteen years ago, and during all that time has never played Tige. The dog character in "Buster Brown" and other sketches was portrayed by another artist. La mar has always played the part In con nection with Gabriel, and tn "Little Kick" has his best assignment in a number of years. Aside from the Gabriel act, in which there is so much Interest, Tempest and Sunshine, stars In their particular line of work, have also scored a hit, and all the acts on the bill are being received splendidly. SUMMER COLDS COME FROM A TORPID LIVER Active Liver Keeps the Head Clear and the Smile Cheerful When the Liver Gets Lazy the Blood Thickens and the System Becomes Easily Susceptible to Cold and Disease. The summer cold is directly trace able to an inactive liver. You get overheated and cool off too suddenly, the pores of the skin become closed, the blood recedes from the surface of the. body and a congestion is produced. The same condition follows when you sit in a draft, or get wet. The liver finds Its efforts overcome by pressure of the blood, and food remains in the stoma,ch or bowels. The head gets hot. the, feet cold and the bowels constipated. Right then and there is the danger point. The bowels must be kept open. The system must be relieved of congestion. JACOBS’ LIVER SALT Is the great est known relief. It is better than calo mel. It will rejuvenate the liver, send the blood racing through the veins, dispel the congestion and make you feel as if life Is worth living. JACOBS’ LIVER SALT acts quickly and mildly, and never gripes or nau seates. Don’t take an Inferior substi tute. Some stores may offer other prep arations upon which they make larger profits, often similar name, but very different, in action. JACOBS’ LIVER SALT is 25c for a 1-2-lb. jar at drug gists, or sent by mall (postage 16c ad ditional). Jacobs' Pharmacy, Atlanta. ONLY PIECES LEFT OF MAN WHO QUARRELS WITH WIFE MACON, GA., July 17.—C. H. Smith, a carpenter, quarreled with his wife last night, left the house angry, went across the street and sat on the rail road track. Today a searching party found his body cut to pieces, three trains having passed over him. It is supposed that he fell asleep. The trag edy took place in East Macon near the city limits. “Odds and Ends” Sale of MEN’S OXFORDS Tomorrow ('Thursday) we place on sale about 200 pairs of Men's Oxfords, iu tans, patent leather and, gun metal ai $1.95 These are the left-over, broken sizes from our; entire stock. Many of them are finest quality. It’s, only a question of finding your size. Unreserved; choice $1.95. ummr— iii —i . tejam— r^T^rTwir^^,'| *,|,* l ' '* j\/T ADE-TO-ORDER GLASSES are more 1 • -L*-*- important than anything else you buy. BRING US YOUR PRESCRIPTION an<h let us make yours. Our Sanitary Clamps do not slip nor irritate the nose. If yours trouble you, see us. ATLANTA OPTICAL CO. 142 Peachtree St. Opposite Candler Bldg. BLALOCK OPENS HEADQUARTERS. FAYETTEVILLE. GA., July 17. Senator A. O. Blalock, of this city, can didate for commissioner of agriculture, has opened his campaign quarters here, CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought 5