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INDIAN DEAD AT
Modem Methuselah Ate What
He Liked, Drank Moderately
and Smoked Cigarettes.
\I STIX. TEXAS, July 29.—Further
substantiation of the report from Tux
,an Mexico, of the death a few clays
ago al that place of Jose Calvario, an
\ z tei Indian, at an age lacking only
15 years of the two-century mark, was
.-ontained in a letter received here to
,].,v from Frank L. Watson, an Ameri
ca mining man, of Colima. Mexico.
■| was at Tuxpan on the day Calva
rio died." he writes. "I had seen the
old man walking about the streets of
the town many times, and he was often
pointed out to me as being nearly 200
rears old. So interested were the state
..fticials in the report of the great age of
the man that a special commission was
to investigate the claim.
■The records of the parish churches
shirv that he was born in 1727. He left
several thousand descendants. He often
told his friends in a joking manner
that he had the largest family of any
man in the world. No one knows how
man.' times he was married, but it is
commonly reported that he took his last
wif. unto himself when he was past
the age of 150 years, and that he had
~ vi i al children by her.
Always Smoked Cigarettes.
"Calvario was an Aztec Indian. His
nr. -of living were simple, in fact, he
observed no set rules. He ate whatever
he liked, and. of course, his poverty
prevented him from faring very sump
tuously. He was a moderate drinker
nf native liquors for 165 years, accord
irm to his own statement, made many
dims to friends, and his memory did
not go back to the time when he be
gan -moking the Mexican hand-made
cig trette.
This Methuselah of modern time ■
was the walking historian for this pat
of Mexico covering the period of his
long life. He was born and lived with
in the shadow of Mt. Colima. He was a
witness to the destruction of Tuxpan
by an earthquake in 1886, when over
1.000 people were killed. The man was
of striking physical appearance. His
frame was large and his eyes deep and
piercing. During the later years of his
life he gained a livelihood by doing odd
jobs around town."
TITANIC’S OWNERS
DODGE PAYMENT
TO HERO’S MOTHER
LONDON, July 29.—Steamship men
are openly charging the White Star
Line with presenting false evidence in
Its effort to keep outside the pale of
the British workmen’s compensation
act in the ease of H. L. Barker, the
second purser, who went down with
the Titanic. Demand for compensation
has been made by Mrs. Barker, mother
of the dead man.
Barker saved the company’s money
when the liner Republic sank and l".-i
his own. His actions toward the pas
sengers rescued by the Florida were
such that they presented him with a
medal, yet the company by whom he
was employed did not even pay him foi
the loss of his clothing and money.
The company makes the claim tln.i
Barker ate in the first cabin and that
the value of the food, combined with
his salary, was sufficient to raise him
beyond the law, which provides only
'or compensation for men who receive
$250 per year.
FORSYTH PLANSS3O,OOO
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
FORSYTH, GA., July 29.—Forsyth
expects to have a $30,000 high school
building. As soon as a bend election
can be held, bonds Issued rind contracts
awarded, work will be begun on the
structure. In order that the council
might have authority to issue bonds for
’his purpose, an amendment was nec
essary to its charter. The legislature
hus just passed a bill giving Forsyth
this right, and the council has called a
Find election for Tuesday, August 25.
I hat the bond election will carry there
ls practically no doubt.
PICTURE ACTRESS IS’
FOUND TO BE HEIRESS
S 'N FRANCISCO, July 29. Just
hcf.'ie S he went on the operating table
I 1 'akland Vidah Bertram, leading
! n of a moving picture manufae-
II j ng company, revealed her identity.
' Adele Buck, Wellesley graduate
!1 , Boston society girl and a daugh
°f a millionaire, who left her fa
’s home to travel with the moving
:ure concern. Her recovery is
f '"Ubtfuj.
woman falls seven
STORIES AND LIVES
‘' ASHINGTON, July 29. —Mrs. Flnr-
■ Massey, wife of James G. Masses,
‘‘ the interior department, plunged
' the seventh floor of her apart
nts to an areaway 80 feet below,
!|, ing three somersaults, and lives io
11 r experiences. Mrs. Massey land-
!n a sitting posture. Her right leg
' rushed.
FIND AMERICAN MEN
CARELESS DRESSERS
x i;w York. July 29.—Mme. Chai
'!•' Szabe, widow of the chief jus
"f tlie Bulgarian court and mother
''Oder t j,. Szabe, Hungarian repre
, I ' !iv ' at the Philadelphia congress
I'.iigineers, says American women
( " best dressed in the world and
Ann clean men the worst.
McElreath ‘Orates' From Right Shoulder
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Kepreseniativ i Wpltpr McElre-itii, of Fulton, in action, using his emphatic gesture, “the Mc-
Elreath punch,” delivered straight front the shoulder.
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TWO BALLOONS STILL
MISSING; KANSAS CITY
SEEMS RACE WINNER
KANSAS CITY, July 29. — Members
and officials of the Kansas City Aero
club and representatives of the Aero
Club of America today are anxiously
waiting word from the Million Popula
tion I and the Uncle Sam, two of the
balloons that sailed in the international
elimination trials here Saturday. All
the others have come to earth and have
reported to the officials here. The I'n
ele Sam is a Kansas City entrant, and
the fact that it has not been heard from
has led many of the officials to believe
that it may be one of three gas bags
that will sail in the international races
in Germany.
Tile Kansas city II is certain to be
one of three international racers. It
landed at Belleville, Mich., after a flight
of 640 miles, outdistancing any of tin
others that have reported by 21.”, miles.
BLOOD TRANSFUSION
FAILS TO SAVE GIRL,
CLERK TO REP. LEE
WASHINGTON. July 29. -Blood from
her brother’s veins was transfused into
her own by surgeons yesterday in a
futile effort to save the life of Miss
Jean Searles, of Vicksburg, Miss., sec
retary to Represntativc Gordon Lee, of
Georgia,
Miss Searles was taken ill a week
ago, and during this time had lost a
large quantity of blood. The surgeons
determined two days ago that she would
be unable to live without a fresh supply
of blood. Her brother, Thomas Searles,
volunteered, and permitted th< sut -
geons to open his own veins.
The effect was only temporary, how
ever. and was offset by repeated hem
orrhages. She died a few hours later.
| ARMY WORM LOSS IN
GEORGIA IS $1,000,000
WASHINGTON'. July 29.—The aimy
worm wii do $ I,oo<t.i>o<) worth of dam
age to the corn, cotton and other crops
of Georgia, according to in estimate b\
the state entomologist of Georgia, in a
report to the department of agricul
ture. What the amount of injury will
be in the other Southern states which
the pest has invaded has not .vet 1 < . n
figured, although it is feared that farm
ers and planters will suffer heavily.
BARBER SUPPLY FIRM
IN HANDS OF RECEIVER
The Healey Barber Supply Company,
a long-established firm, was placed in
th'- hands of a receiver on the
petition of three creditors, the Theodore
A. Koch Company, of Chicago; the At
lanta Envelope Company and H. Wi
leliskv A- Co
The total liabilities, according to the
petition, were $181.7.'! II A. Kerris was
named reeeitet.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
l-'oRSYTH, GA . Jul,' 29. John Ab
ernathy. watchman at. the Trio t'otton
mills. of this place, was struck by
lightning and now lies at his home in a
precarious condition. The boll struck
his umbrella, knocking him unconscious
on the ground
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MON DA Y. JULY 29. 1912.
Fulton Representative Has Most
Unique and Emphatic Ges-
*
ture in the Assembly.
I
Representative Walter McElreath, of
Eulton. chairnjan of the house commit
tee on appropriations, is frequently on
his feet discussing things on the floor.
His fate tn this matter is merely the
. common fate of all chairmen of appro
priations committees;, for it Is to the
chairman that the house looks for in
formation in financial affairs, and
. many bills involve appropriations, of
: course.
Mr. McElreath is not a particularly
sonorous or eloquent speaker. He never
• make’s anything other than a good
| speech in substance and form, but he
[ does not impress one immediately as
an orator qualifying for the Demos
i thenian class.
It's His Only Gesture.
The gentleman from Eulton has one
'i gesture<—only one. It is unique and
I unusual, in it- way. and it doubtless
j gets on some people's nerves at times,
: for all the emphasis it carries.
Mr. McElreath’s only gesture is a
! punch—a punch delivered straight and
1 horizontally from the right shoulder, by
i the hand with the first and second
| tinge rs rigidly extended!
He separates si ntenees and periods
precise!,'.- and exactly with that punch.
If he irritates anybody, it generally is
i the party who dissents from what he
i says. It is one of the most insistent lit
tle old punches anybody ever saw.
How “the Punch” Works.
His speeches run about like this:
"Mr. Speaker. I wish (punch) to say.
as emphatically (punch) as I may, sir.
that this bill (punch, punch! is not
what it should be (punch) nor yet what
it is cracked up (punch, punch, punch)
to be! i think (punch) 1 am right
(punch, punch, punch) in my attitude.
Mr. Speaker (punch), and I respect
' fully (punch) ask -"
And so on, until the gentleman from
’ Eulton gets it all out of his system!
And what Mr. McElreath doesn't
; know (punch) about legislative finances
has been separated from the book, too —
i (punch, punch, punch)!
SUES MEN WHO SAID
HE COULDN’T PREACH
POUGHKEEPSIE. N. Y„ July 29.
Alleging that George W. Ketcham,
Wright Tabor and John A. Hana circu
lated reports about the village of Dover
Plains that be could not preach a good
sermon. Rev. George Ringrose, pastor
of the Dover Plains Baptist church, has
started suit against them to recover
’ SIO,OOO damages for slandi- .
COURT RULES A KICK IS
A PUSH OF THE FOOT
WASHINGION, July 29. -What is a
kick? Judicially determined, it Is a
"push of the foot with some force."
In the case of Robert Paym . a young
i man accused of cruelty to a cat be
' cause he kicked her out of th-- way of
his pet bull dog, Judge Pug l ', of the
Washington police court, put the of
ficial definition on record He lim'd
Payne slo for causing the cat pain.
HER LOVE FOR COUNT
NOT DIMMED BY HIS
UNPAID BOARD BILL
CHICAGO, July 29. Unpaid board
bills are not 'going to cheat Miss Mar
garet Lorenz, once a housekeeper, of
her romance. She prepared today to
wed Herman Karl Theodore Maria
Merbach Gelder VonEgmout. Miss Lo
renz declared that Herman is decidedly
German and. in spite of the fact that
he was ejected from the Blackstone
hotel when he failed to pay his board,
she still believes be is a count.
The Blackstone hotel is holding the
man’s grip and shotgun in lieu of the
payment of a five days bill, while the
manager of a garage haunted the foot
steps of the pair in an effort to collect
a bill of $148.75.
Edwin Wolff has come forward with
the assertion that the “count" and he j
formerly were employed in the same,
saloon as porters.
The count says his hill will be paid
as soon as bis servant, sent on an er
rand to New York, returns with Ills
I pocketbook.
MACON WOMAN, HELD
BY ATLANTA POLICE,
ADMITS SHOPLIFTING
A woman who says she is Mrs. H. L.
Wheat. of Macon, is under ar
rest for shoptlifing and placed in
the matron's ward at the police station.
Sh admitted having taken a number
of small articles from department
stores.
"I don't know why I did it,” she said.
The woman was detected in the act
of see)eting notions in one store and
was detained until Detectives Pate and
Rosser arrived. Other stores had com
plained of thefts.
YOUNG BRIDE DECLARES
THAT SHE WILL BE BOSS
NEW YORK. July 29.—" You bet your
life I’ll be the boss."
Mis Bess Schwartz, eighteen years
old, a prepossessing bride of three
weeks, flung this answer to her hus
band's complaint before Magistrate
Dylan in the Brooklyn police court,
and stamped her foot when she said it.
John Schwartz, exhibiting a cut over
the eye and one behind the ear, had his
wife in court on a summons to show
cause why she should not be charged
with assaulting him Schwartz said he
just couldn’t stand his wife's abuse.
She wants to be the boss, he said.
"Yes, and you bet your life I'll be the
boss," broke in Mrs. Schwartz. “I'll
not take'orders from you no any other
man. so there."
Magistrate Dylan placed the couple
in charge of the probation officer.
TOMBSTONE KILLS AT
ROCKEFELLER BURIAL
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y„ July 28.—A
' tombstone weighing a ton toppled over
in the Madeleine cemetery here while
the funeral of John D. Rockefeller, of
Tivoli, a distance relative of the oil
■ king, was in progress, and crushed to |
death Raymond Callender, aged four.
1 who was playing hide-and-seek with
his little sister
iFUERS SUED BI
FfIRMEHSINVAIN
Court Denies Injunction and
Grants Slight Damages to
One Only for Crop Injury.
PARTS. July 29.—The action by four
land owners against M. Maurice Kar
man has been followed with great in
terest by those Interested in aviation.
The. land owners each claimed $1,900
damages, and sought to restrain M.
Furman and his pupils from flying over
their properties in the neighborhood of
Buc. In addition, they asked for an in
junction forbidding aeroplanes to fly
over private property unless at a height
of 600 feet, and demanded that aviators
should fit silencers to their motors.
One of the land owners subsequently |
withdrew from the ease, as M. Farman j
had leased his land. The court found
that the land of M. Pertrand was sit
uated at a considerable distance from
the aerodrome, and that it had not been
proved that an aeroplane had descend
led on his property. His claim was di»-
■ allowed.
i M. Louis Bringantt. another of the
’ l.tnrilords. was non-suited because he
brought forward no proof of his con
tention that owing to the noise, of the
aeroplam s games had been driven from
his land.
Tin fourth ' indlord, M. Mauge. was
more sum - ; f :l. He obtained SIOO
damages iti r •> ~<>< t to descents by avi
ators on land ttnd< ;• cultivation. As to
the injunction demanded that the
height of aeroplanes flying over private
property should be regulated, it was
Irefasid. the court deci H ing that in the
lal.tsc.ice of any law governing aerial,
navigation the matter was outside its
j Tisdictioii. Only i-.implaints of actual
damage done on land by aeroplanes
could be dealt with.
GOVERNOR PUTS BAN ON
FIGHT IN NEW MEXICO
I'll. PASO, TUNAS. July 29.- Efforts
to give pi ire tights in Mexico having
pteved too expensive, because ol t.n
heavy tax for the privilege, the m...
moters turned to New Mexico at' 1 hu'.l
completed arrangements for a figb next
Sunday between Jack Herrick and
"Kid” Mitchell, of El Pa-o.
Governor McDonald, of New Mexico,
heard of the arrangements ami wired
today forbidding the bout. The New
Mexico line Is near El Paso, and the
promoters had planned to hold a .se
ries of tights just over the line.
TEARS DOWN $36,000
HOUSE FOR SCENERY
ASHEVILLE. N. July 29.—Be
cause it obstructed to a slight extent
the view of part of the Western moun
tains from Biltmore house. George W.
Vanderbilt has ordered the demolition
of a three-story, 39-robm residence
built by Mrs. Mitchell, sister-in-law of
Marshal) Field, at a < ost of $36,900.
Mail Carriers Will Fly.
This is an age of great discoveries.
Progress rides on the air. Soon we may
see Uncle Sam's mail carriers flying in
ail directions, transporting mail. Peo
ple take a wonderful Interest in a dis
covery that benefits them. That’s why
Dr. King's New Discovery for Goughs,
Colds and other threat and lung dis
eases is the most popular medicine in
America. "It cured me of a dreadful
cough," writes Mrs. J. F. Davis, Stick
ney Corner, Me., "after doctor’s treat
ment and all other remedies had
failed.” For coughs, colds or any
bronchial affection it’s unequaled. Price
59c and SI.OO. Trial bottle free at all
druggists. •••
IMPORTANT “CHANGE
OF SCHEDULE.
Effective Sunday. July 28th, Louis
ville <& Nashville Railroad train No. 4, I
for Knoxville, Tenn., via Blue Ridge,
will leave Atlanta at 7:47 a. m.. Instead
of 8:00 a m.
During the summer months mothers
of young children should watch for any
unnatural looseness of the bowels.
When given prompt attention at this
time serious trouble may be avoided.
Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy can always be depended
upon. For sale by all dealers. •••
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH
EXCURSION Via SEA
BOARD,
Saturday. August 10. $6 round trip,
six days. Special trains, sleepers and
coaches leave old depot at 7 p. hi.; make
Pullman reservations now at City Tick
et Office.
ANNUAL WRIGHTS
VILLE EXCURSION,
Saturday, August 10, $6 round trip,
good six days. Full information and
reservations at 88 Peachtree. Seaboard.
Diseases of Men
MY experience of 85 years has shown
me that more human wrecks are
caused by a chronic
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days and holidays 10 to 1. My mono- !
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Up and Down
Peachtree
Here’s a New Way
To Capture Votes.
A new aspirant for council, seeking in
formation as to how to get votes, was
given an illustration today of the best
political speech ever made in Atlanta by
a wise old politician at the city hall
During the city campaign last year the
candidates were all out to address a mass
meeting in the farther end of the Fifth
ward, a section where a man gets all
or none of the votes, for the citizens
stand together. All of them had ap
pealed to the voters in the same vein;
they had either been born in the Fifth
ward, had lived in the Fifth ward, or had
married in the Fifth ward. and. according
ly. were presenting themselves as true
Fifth warders.
They seemed to bp enjoying about equal
favor until George .Johnson, candidate
for recorder, declared that he had spent
all his life in the Fifth ward and had
become familiar with every inch of it run
ning over it as a barefoot boy. He took
the meeting by storm.
Walter Taylor, who was making a hard
light for city clerk, had been sitting in
silence. Each new cheer had been forcing
him into deeper dejection. He had no
connection with the Fifth ward and there
was nothing he had done for it to which
he could point. Then he was called to
fellow Mr. Johnson with a speech.
“Gentlemen," he began.'"! nor any of
my people have ever lived In the Fifth
ward. 1 have never given you any paved
streets or school Imuses or anything of
the kind. But I want you to under
stand that I am just about as barefooted
as Mr. Johnson was when he used tr
run over this ward, and I want your
votes.”
He got ’em.
362,710.18 MILES OF
RAILROAD OPERATED
IN U. S., SAYS REPORT
WASHINGTON. July 29. \ preliminary
abstract on compilations, contained in the
twenty-fourth annual statistical report of
th<* interstate commerce commission for
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, is just
made uublic.
It shows the aggregate mileage of rail
way tracks was 362,710.18 miles in actual
operation. There were 61,627 locomotives
in service, of which 14,300 were passenger
locomotives, 36,405 freight and the rest
unclassified. The total number of ears
used was 2,359.335. an increase of 69,004
over the previous year.
BROCK AND MOORE FIT.
CLEVELAND. OHIO, July 29.—Pal
Moore, the Philadelphia lightweight,
and Phil Brock, of Cleveland, are in
good shape foi their twelve-round bout
here tomorrow night.
NOT- A PINKERTON SLEUTH.
According to tht* Atlanta office of the
Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
Mrs. Sallie Wheeler, who was a witness
against Mrs. Ida Schmidt at Birmingham
this week, is not a Pinkerton detective.
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local disease than
by any other. No
disease needs more
careful or scien
tific attention to
effect a cure. I
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specific blood poi
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GRAND JURY HOLDS
OFFICERS TO BLAME
FOR LAWLESSNESS
MONTGOMERY, ALA., July 29.—A
sensational report was returned by the
Montgomery count}' grand jury which
declared that a “deplorable condition
of lawlessness" prevails in this county.
"Little legat'd seems to be held for
human life, and murders have been
committed upon the most trivial prov
ocations. in defiance of the laws of God
anil man." says the report.
The grand jury declares that “blind
tigers" have no fear of detection in
Montgomery, and that this city is in
fested with gambling places apparently
conducted without fear of molestation.
"The deplorable conditions enumer
ated," the report declares, "are due t»
the inactivity of officials In enforcing
the law, and the indifference and apathy
of the police department and sheriff's
office in ferreting out those guilty of
law violations and bringing them to
justice."
ENGLAND WILL ALLOW
CANAL PROTEST TO REST
WASHINGTON. July 29.—The Brit
ish government, content with the pro
test already lodged through Alfred
Mitchell Innes, charge d'affaires of the
British embassy, will make no further
or extended objection to the United
Etates' avowed Intention of allowing
American ships to pass through the
Panama canal free of toll.
This was the statement made by Sec
retary of State Knox by Mr. Innes.
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